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JAMES GARDNER, JR.
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LECTURE ON AMERICA,
By the Earl of Ca rlisle.
Washington.
Fiom Baltimore I transferred myself to
Washington, the seat of Government and
capital of the American Union. I never saw
so strange a place; it affords the strongest
contrast to the regularity, compactness, neat
aess, and animation of the American cities I
had hitherto visited. It is spread over a very
large space, in this way justifying the expres- j
sion of some who wished to pay it a compli
». ent, but did not know very well what at
t _ **'t>ute to select, so he termed it a “ city of
, Jfieant distances ;” and there it extends,
; it looks as if it had rained
-is at random, or like half a dozen in dit
fc*ent villages scattere l over a goose common.
l£ere And there, as if to heighten the contrast j
with the meanness of the rest, there are some
very handsome public buildings; and the
American Capital, the meeting place of the
legislature and the seat of empire, though
not exempt from architectural defects, tow
ers proundly on a steep ascent, which com
mands the subject town and the course of the
broad Potomac, which makes the only re
deeming feature of the natural landscape. In
short, while almost every other place which I
saw in America give the impression of life and
progress, Washington did not only appear
stagnant but retrograde. No busy commerce
circulates in its streets, no brilliant shops di
versify its mean ranges of ill-built houses;
but very few equipages move alone its wide,
. ipiashy, dTeary aveuues. I saw it, too, in the
«. ime of its season, during the sitting of
jjk Congress. When it is not sitting the mem
*bers of the legislature arid officers of the gov
, * eminent dispose themselves over the breadth
p of the Union, and leave the capital to the
clerks of the public offices.
When they are here, the members of Con
fess are mostly packed together in large and
1 very inferior boarding houses, a great portion
o$ them not bringing their wives and lamilies
over the immense distances they have to tra
verse. Hence it also happens that Washing
ton will appear to the stranger not merely
one of the least thirring but also the least
hospitable of American cities. I believe it
was the policy of the founders of the Repub
lic to place the seat of government where it
would not be liable to be distracted by the
turmoil of commerce, or overawed by the vio
lence of mobs; we have heard very lately of
speculations to iemove the seat of the French
Government from Paris. Another cause
which has probably contributed to check any
designs for the external improvement and de
velopment of Washington, must have been
the doubt how far., in a nation which is ex
tending its boundaries westward at so prodi
gious a rate, it will be desirable or possible
long to retain as a seat of government a spot
which will have become so little central.
CONGRESS.
What gave most interest to my stay at
Washington, naturally was the opportunity of
attending the sittings of Congress. The in
terior of the capital is imposing as well as the
' exterior. In the centre hall there were five
large pictures, illustrating the prominent
points of American history, which must be
more agreeable to Amsnoan than to British
eyes. There is also a fine colossal statue of
Washington, who is universally and not un
duly called the father of his country. The
chamber where the Senate meets is hand
some and convenient. The general aspect of
the Assembly, which (as is well known)
shares largely both in the legislative and exe
cutive powers of the constitution, is grave
and decorous. The House of Representatives,
-—the more popular branch of the Government,
returned by universal suffrage, assemble in a
chamber of very imposing appearance, arran
ged rather like a theatre, in shape like the
arc of a Dow, but it is the worst room for
hearing I ever was in ; we hear complaints oc
casionally of our Houses of Parliament, old and
new, but they are faultless in comparison. In
parts of the house it is impossible to hear any
body; in others it answers all the purposes of
a whispering gallery, and I have heard mem
bers carry on a continuous dialogue while a
debate was storming around them. Both in
the Senate and the House every member has
a most commodious arm chair, a desk for his
papers, and spitting box, to which he does not
always confine himseP. I went very of en,
and it was impossible to surpass the attention
I received j some member’s seat in the body
of the house was always given to me, and I
was at liberty to remain there during the
whole of the debate, or write my letters as I
chose.
The palpable distinction between them and
our House of Commons, I should say to be
this: we are more noisy and they are more
disorderly. They do not cheer, they do not
cough, but constantly several are speaking at
a time, and they evince a contemptuous dis
regard for the decisions of their Speaker-
They have no recognized leaders of the dif
ferent parties, the members of Government
not being allowed to have seatc in either house
of Congress, and the different parties do not
occupy distinct quarters in the Chamber, so
that you may often hear a furious wrangle be
ing carried on between two nearly contiguous
members. While I was at iVashingfcon, the
question of slavery, or at least of po.ints con
nected with slavery, gave the chief color and
animation to the discussions in the Ho«.se of
Representatives.
U&. ADA MB.
Old Mr. Adams, the ex-president of the U.
States, occupied, without doubt, the most
prominent position; he presented a very strik
ing appearance, standing up erect at the age
of 75, having once tilled the highest post at
tainable by an American citizen, with trem
bling hands and eager eyes, in defence of the
* right of petition —the right to petition against
the continuance of slavery in the district of
Columbia, with a majority of the house usu
ally deciding against him, and a portion of it
lashed into noise and storm. He put one in
mind of a line old game cock, and occasional
ly showed great energy and power of sar
casm. I had certainly an opportunity of form
ing my opinion, as I sat through a speech of
his that lasted three days j but then it isfoir
to mention that the actual sittings hardly last
abowe three hours a day-about four dinner «
ready, and they go away for the day, differing
much herein from our practice; and on this
occasion they frequently allowed Mr. Adams
% ait down to rest. Ail the time I believe
toe was not himself fox the discontinuance of
district of Columbia, but
he contended that the constitution had acced
ed the tree right of petition. His brave but
somewhat troublous spirit has passed from the
scenes upon which he played so conspicuous
a part, but he has left behind him some words
of fire ; the sparks of which sre not yet ex
tinct. Nothing came of all this stir ; I used
to meet Mr. Adams at dinner while it went
on, very calm and undisturbed. After seeing
and hearing what takes place in some of these
sittings, one is tempted to think that the U
nion must break up next morning ; but the
flame appeared generally to smoulder almost
as quickly as it ignited. The debates in the
Senate, during the same period, were dignified,
business-like, and not ve-y lively ; so it may
be judged which house had most attraction
for the passing traveller.
MR. CLAT.
I heard Mr. Clay in the Senate once, but
every one told me that he was laboring under
feebleness and exhaustion, so that I could
only perceive the great man in the tones of
his voice. I think the most attractive quali
ty was still more perceivable in private inter
course, as I certainly never met any public
man, either in this country or in mine, al
ways excepting Mr. Canning, who exercised
such evident fascination over the minds and
and affections of his friends and followers as
Henry Ciav. I thought his society most ac
tiactive, easy, simple, and genial, with great
natural dignity. When the actual list is con
sidered, my respect for the discernment elici
ted by universal suffrage does not stand at a
very high point.
MR. WEBSTER.
Another great man, Daniel Webster, I could
not hear in either house of Congress, because
he then rilled, as he does now, the high office
of Secretary of State; but it is quite enough to
b am on his jutting dark brow and cavernous
eyes, and massive forehead, to be assured that
they are the abode of as much if not more in
tellect than any head perhaps you ever re
marked. For many, if not for ail reasons, I
am well content that he should be again at
the head of the American Cabinet, for I feel
sure that while he is ever intensely American,
he has an enlightened love of peace, and a
cordial sympathy with the fortunes and glories
of the old, as wail as the new Anglo-Saxon
stock.
MR. GALHOUN.
The late Mr. Calhoun, who impressed most
of those who were thrown in his way with a
high opinion of his ability, his honesty, and I
may add, his impracticability, I had not the
good fortune to hear in public or meet in pri
vate society. It is well known that his at
tachment to the maintenance of slavery went
so far as to lead him to declare that real free
dom could not be maintained without it.
MOUNT VERNON.
The last day of my abode at Washington
was spent becomingly at Mount Vernon, the
residence, and now the grave, of Washington.
It is well placed on a wooded hill above the
noble Potomac, here a mile and a half broad
The tomb is a sad affair for such a man; it has
an inscription upon it denoting that it was
erected by John Struthers, marble mason! It
is placed under a glaring red building, some
thing between a coach-house and a cage; the
Senate had once procured the consent of the
family to have it removed to the capitol, when
a bricklayer, a labourer, and a cart arrived to
take it off one morning, at which then indig.
nation naturally rose. There are * few things
remarkable in the house, except the key of the
Bastille sent by General Lafayette to General
Washington, and a sword sent to him by
Frederic the Great, with this address, “From
the oldest general of the age to the best." I
made a rapid journey, by steamboat and rail
road, through the States of Virginia and North
Carolina; the country wore a universal impress
of exhaustion, desertion, slavery.
(From the Savannah Republican, \Zth inst ,)
Thb Ship John Bryant. — We have been
kindly permitted to copy the following letter
from Capt. Dyer, giving an account of the ter
rible disaster to which weadvsrted Saturday:
Dublin, Dec. 20, 1850.
I regret to have to inform you, that the ship
John Bryant was struck with lightning on the
13th inst., at 10 o'clock, A. M. in lat. about
49 deg. 30 min. lon. 21 deg. 30 min. and the
cotton set on fire betwixt decks. Nearly every
person was knocked down, and the first mate
nearly killed, but he has recovered, and is now
nearly well. It struck the main royal mast,
shattered that and the main-top-gallant mast,
came down and went betwixt decks abaft the
pumps, passed forward and came out abaft the
force-chains on the starboard side, bursting
off three planks outside, and also came out in
two Other places. Smoke and the smell of
burnt cotton arose; we poured water freely
down, but found it did no good. My first
thought was to get the main hatches off, and
try to extinguish the fire, but on reflection
concluded to stop up every thing as tight as
possible. We reached Kingstown yesterday,
but finding no safe place there, came up to
this city last night, and got a tire engine play
ing in betwixt decks. This morning the ship
is quite cool, but I intend to fill her with water
to-day.
The same night and next day after the acoi
dent occurred, it blew a perfect hurricane, and
we hsye had very heavy gales ever since. We
got up the Channel within 60 miles of Holy
head, when it fell calm and I made a signal
for a steamer bound down Channel. She took
the ship in tow, and got up, as far as the
Skerries, when it came on to bloy heavy from
S. S. E.; parted the hawser. Friday the wind
had settled at E. S. E.; and blowing heavily,
all hands beat out, and I bore away for this
place.
This has been the hardest time I ever ex
perienced. The night of the accident, both
mates were nearly k4!ed by the fumes of bur
nining charcoal, and we have not been able to
sleep and seldom eat in the cabin since, you
may think my situation anything but pleasant,
when on the night of the accident, I had botn
mates laid on the grate forward of the house,
apparently dcadj three thousand bales of cot
ton in fire, and it is blowing a perfect hurri
cane. My purpose is to fill her to the decks-*-
extinguish the fire, break out a few biles
around the main mast to examine it, and pro
ceed to Liverpool without discharging. We
had to throw overboard the 24 bales shut out.
lam almost sick, but have stood it pretty
well; nov Shat the excitement is gone, how
ever, I feel badly.
In haste, BENJAMIN DYER.
Water Has in France. —A Faria letter of
18th December says—
The process of making pure gas from water
been discovered! The problem is solved.
We saw proofs in abundance that a most bril
liant white light, and intense heat, can be pro
duced from it with perfect ease and the great
est economy. Not to annoy your readers with
technical details, it is sufficient to say—that
by the decomposition of water by a simple and
cheap process, pure hydrogen gas is produced,
which can be cbvered in pipes and employed
in precisely the same way as ordinary gas—
Upon turning a stop-cock and applying a
mawh, jt burns instantly with a blueiah flame,
not unlike alcohol. This is its natural state,
and I behove Mr. Paine, cf lyhose failures we
have heard ? succeeded thus iar. The dame is
changed to'a wfyite color, by' means so simple
that it appears is id fact the crow
ning point of the invention.
Imagine a thin filigree hoop of platina, shap
ed like the wick of a mechanical or solar lamp,
about three quarters of an inch high, to be
fitted to an ordinary gas burner. When this
is in place, its whole surface is dazzlingly
white, and gives a light, it is estimated, equal
to fifteen candles. The height of this netted
tube cannot be increased, but its diameter can
be enlarged to any extent, and the light of
course in the same proportion. There is no
sensible flame—no smoke—not the smallest
odor. It does not flicker, and in all these par
ticulars possesses an immense advantage over
coal gas. There is no humbug about it. It
was before our eyes burning blue without the
platina apparatus—changing to white upon
contact with it. You can turn it on or off—
use little or much at your convenience.
—— l^ m*mmmm
THE CONSTITUTIONALIST.
2Utgusta, (Georgia.
WEDNESDAY MORNING, JAN* 15-
More Tribute from the South.
“ It is remarked by the Providence Journal
that while the manufacturing business is so
much depressed here that over one third of
the looms in the country are still, the reports
of the business in England are highly favora
ble. While Lowell and Providence are suffer
ing, Manchester is flourishing.”
When the people of New England learn to
respect the guaranteed rights of the Sou*h,
and to protect the property ot the South from
the insidious assaults of fanaticism, the South
will aid the North to protect its property and
labor from the ruinous competition of which
the Journal complains. “It is a bad rule
that wont work both ways,” and if the North
wants the aid of the South to enable her to
protect her machinery and labor against for
eign machinery and labor, let the North learn
to respect and protect the rights and property
of Southern men. This done, there will be
no difficulty in securing ample protection to
New England labor and capital. At pres nt
the South wants no such protection: she can
stand against the competition of the world,
and her cotton manufactories flourish, while
those of New England sink in competition
with England. The South will, therefore, be
slow in aiding the North to relieve herself
from this position, until she has learned, in
the school of adversity, a few lessons in hon
esty, and how to mind her own business. —
Chronicle 4r Sentinel , 14 th mst.
If the protective tariff Submissionists of
the South think the South will pay any more
than they have already paid the Northern
people in advance for staying their spoliating
hands, they widely over-estimate the gulli
bility of the Southern people. It was charged
by Col. Benton, that, a protective tariff was
stowed away under the boot, as a passenger
in the omnibus, and charged Mr. Ritchie with
complicity in the plot, which the latter indig
nantly denied. Doubtless the Submission
Whigs of the South are willing to smuggle a
high tariff through Congress, and fasten it
upon the people for the benefit of Northern
manufacturers, But Southern Democrats,
whether Submissionists or Southern Rights
men, will pay no such enormous tribute to
the North as an additional price for its compli
ance with her constitutional obligations. The
South has paid enough for the fugitive-slave
bill in giving up all the territory she helped
to fight and pay for. She will not, as a price
of its enforcement, be willing to bow her neck
to the yoke of a protective tariff. The South
- people are an anti-protective tariff peo
ple, are opposed to burthensome restrictions on
commerce, and desire the privilege of having
the markets of the world open to them, where
they can sell best, and in exchange buy
cheapest.
If a protective tariff be advocated in the
South by the Submissionists, it will be the
fruit of disgraceful and corrupt political bar
gaining. It will not have the excuse of its
being for the interest of the South, for it is
admitted, that the South needs no such pro
tection. If the North finds competition with
foreign machinery and labor ruinous, let her
try something else. The whole country should
not be compelled to pay her manufacturers
high prices for articles, because they cannot
make them as cheap as other people.
Georgia Sarsaparilla. -
Sarsaparilla has long bean a fatuous reme
dial agent, and old Dr. Jacob Townsend and
his medicine have been the theme of Senato
rial comment. In return for which he sent
to the redoubtable Col. Benton, who likened
the claims of Clay’s Compromise measures
to the advertisement of the cures Sarsaparilla
could effect, two boxes of the “ fluid extract
which the Missouri Senator is holding in re
serve to administer to his political opponents
after the next elections in that State, as he
thinks they will be troubled with coughs and
catarrhs.
Since Sarsaparilla has entered the arena of
politics, we see no good reason why Georgia
Sarsabarilla should not plsy its part. All
parties at she South, Clay Compromise men,
and fire-eaters, and ultras, Unionists at
all hazards, and Disunionists, per se, all agree
that Southern men should patronize Southern
products, Southern manufactures, Southern
made articles of all kinds. We therefore com
mend to thei" attention the Fluid Extract of
Sarsaparilla, prepared from Georgia Riots, by
Dr. J. Dennis, of this city. I: is highly
spoken of both by medical men and others, as
a genuine and superior article.
It is sold in (jniart bottles at $-5 a dozen.
Leon P. Dugas, E-q. t was on Monday last,
re-elected by the Justices of the Inferior Court,
Clerk of the Court of Ordinary.
New Patent. — We notice that a patent has
been granted to Mr. C S. Bulkley, of Macon,
Ga., for an improvement in Repeaters for
Electro-Magnetic Telegraphs. This gentle
man claims the manner of connecting two gal*
vanic circuits with the two eiectro magnets in
the repeater.
Crime in Ohio. —A report of the criminal
prosecutions and committals for the year 1850
has been made by the Attorney General of
Ohio. In 58 counties {there were 2008 pro
secutions, of which 1273 were convictions.
The number of offences committed under the
influence of intoxicating drinks is 441.
Naval —The Norfolk -Herald states that
Commander John L. Saunders has been or
dered to the command of the Pennsylvania, in
place of Commander S. Barron, now in com
mand of the Sloop of War John Adams,bound
for the qoaft of Africa. Orders have reaoheef
Norfolk directing the immediate departure of
the steamer Saranac, for Havana and St. Do
mingo. She was to have sailed on Saturday
last. j
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Forrest and Willis.— Another Card. The l
affairs of these gentlemen are ripening for an
other flare-up,and we should not be surprised
to hear soon of another cowhiding in the street
The following “card” is published in the
New York papers:
Mr. N. P. Willis takes this means of sug
gesting to E. Forres:, that the innocence of a
lady—(the vindication of the honor of Mrs.
Forrest) —is a cause now pending in the
Courts of Law; and submits this question to
Mr. Forrest, whether , in proper deference to a
woman, as well as to justice —both he and
Mr. Wiilis being flfecessary parties to the com
ing trials— the rights of the lady {should not be
Jlrst attended to , without the risk of being de
layed or defeated by lesser differences be
ween Mr. Willis and himself.
Mr. Willis suggests to Mr. Forrest that the
profane, abusive and low language, with
which he assailed Mr. Willis on meeting him
recently in a public street —the disturbance of
an audience of a crowded Theatre, on the
same evening, by loud and offensive bragga
■ docious and conspicuous gestures and head
; shakings —and the thus annoying and terrify
ing Mr. Willis’ wite (the only lady who had
accompanied him in the Theatre, or who was
under his charge at the time) —are needless
1 inflictions upon the public, and upon those
► innocent of offence against Mr. Forrest.
Mr. Willis suggests also, that, although
( the term for which Mr. Forrest was “bound
over to keep the peace” has just expired, yet
1 the above mentioned unprovoked hostilities
i are steps very close upon crimes punished by
s the Penitentiary—out of which, it is impor
tant to Mrs. Forrest that Mr. Forrest should
be kept, iif possible, till his accusations against
her have had a fair hearing, and her innocence
a fair defence.
January 8, 1851.
- Mr. Forrest has published a card in reply
| to the above, in which he says:
It is false that I used towards him, in the
street, profane, abusive, or low language. It
is false that the audience at the theatre was
disturbed by any loud talking of mine—for I
, spoke in an ordinary tone of voice—or by any
gesticulations on my part. But it is true
that, on Monday afternoon last, I met N. P.
1 Willis, on the Filth avenue, and there ad
i dressed him in these words —“You infernal
scoundrel, liar, and coward, this is the first
time I have seen you since the horse whip
ping I gave you in June last. Don’t turn
pale; I will not lay violent hands upon you.”
And be sneaked away, without making a re
i ply. Conscious that he was the violator of
my domestic hearth, and had desecrated and
desolated a once happy and cheerful home,
he could not utter a single word.
On the evening of the same day,l again met
him in the lobby of the Opera House, and,
repeating the just epithets applied to him the
same day, I expressed my astonishment that
one so degarded and infamous should show
himself in a respectable assemblage. Mr.
Willis then walked into the dress circle, and
then, for the first time, I knew he was accom
panied by ladies. I did not speak to him af
ter.
As to the absurd allusion of Mr. Willis
with regard to tho penitentiary, 1 have only
to remark, that no one of mv family was ever
a sentenced felon, and which, unfortunately
for him, the criminal records of a sister State
too plainly show was the merited fate of one
“whose veins bore blood like his."
Volunteer Return op Abscond ei> Slaves.
—The last fugitive slave who escaped from
Mr. Toombs (the distinguished representa
tive from Georgia) has returned to her master
in Washington. The Union says.
She went off with another female and two
male slaves belonging to him, some months
ago, about the time the famous Chaplin was
arrested with his colored companions in the
carriage. Both of these males are now in the
possession of their master; and one of them
insisted upon returning after his master had
ordered him off. One of the females has re
turned from Pennsylvania, where she had
found her way and been very well treated; but
Gqch was her attachrpep :. td the family she
had deserted, that she has voluntarily return
ed, home-sick, determined to devote her life
to their service. Since .she has seen the ele
phant she will no doubt remain in the con
dition in which she was brought up. Such
are the fruits of kind treatment on the part j
of the master, and of gratitude on the part of i
I the slave.
The New York Fugitive Case. —The
“Journal of Commerce” has the following
upon the case of the fugitive Henry Long:
We presume that an effort will be made by
some of the “pro-slavery” men to redeem
Long, and set him at liberty. There is, how
ever, a reluctance on the part of claimants to
dispose of slaves in such circumstances, even
for their pecuniary value; because, they cay,
it defeats the principal object of the law, which
was, to prevent slaves from running away.
Now if the slaves who escape are to be made
free at any rate, either by the decision of a
Judge or by purchase if that decision is un
favorable, the motive for running away is as
strong as ever.
pie Mobile Herald of the Bth inst., states,
that they had at last succeeded, in New-Or
leans, in empanneling a jury in the Cuban
Invasion Case of Gen. Lopez, which had been
me days before the United States Court.
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ARTICLES. Per. Wholesale. Duty.
OILS —Sperm,W.Strained ® . . 0 free
Fall strained il 30 ® 1 40
Summer do jl 00 ® 1 12
Linseed .. bbl. 874® 100 20pr Ct.
Tanners 00 @
1 00 ® 1 12
POTATOES. bbl. 4 ® 4 JJJ
PIP VS •••••*••••••• •••• 1 UU
porter ~ doz. 2 25 ® 3 50
:pe?/er.. ft ;?®y
RAISINS —Maiaga, box.;2 26 .® 275) 4Q t
Muscate... .... ® ) *
JIfCE— Ordinary 100 ® 4
Fair.............. .... 4 25 ® 4 50
Good and Prime ®
fFrencn Brandies gal. 150 ® 2 100 pr. ct.
Leger Freres 2 75 ® 3
05 Holland Gin 125 ® 150100 pr. ct.
American Gin 38® 40
*2 Jamaica Rum 150® 200 100 pr. ct.
“3 I N.E.Rum, hds. &. brls 36 ®3B
§3 Whiskey ,PhU. & Balt
Do. New Orleans 16 @37
Peach Brandy .....100® 1 25 100 pr. ct.
SI7GL2R-Cuba Muscovado ft 64® 8
P R. 6c St. Croix .... 74® 94
Havana, white ® Un nr ct
New Orleans. 64@ 8 «.
Loaf. U ® 124
Lump 10 ® 11
SALT— Liverpool sack l 20 @ 1 25 J 20 ,
Loose bus. ® 40 j pr- Cl *
iiOAP —American, yellow ft 5® 6 30 pr. ct.
SJYo7’—All sizes 162®1 75 20 pr. ct.
SEOARS— Spanish M 20 00®30 00 40 pr. ct
American 8 @lO
TALLOW—American 10 @OO 10 pr ct.
lb £g M |3opr ct
:::: S 3 IS i 3o *
TE^S—Pouchong 50 ®75 )
Gunp'der & Imp 75 @ 1 00 l
Hyson »•• 70 @BO j free.
Young Hyson 70 @75 j
WlNES— Madeira gal. 2 00 @ 2 25 30 pr. ct.
Claret, Mars’lles caskj 25 @6O 40 pr. ct.
Do. Bordeaux doz.;3 00 @ 3 50|40 pr. ct.
Champagne |9 00 @ls 00,40 pr. ct.
Malaga ' 50 @ 62 |4O pr. ct.
Marine Disasters. —Tfie C. L. brig Emily,
[ Nichols master, from this port, arrived at
New York on the 10th inst. with Capt. Mun
roe and crew of the schr. Lily, from Camden,
(Me.) with a cargo of Line, bound for this
port, which was lost on the 4th inst. in lat. 35
40, long. 74 30, having been on Are three days;
it was blowing very fresh at the time, and a
heavy sea running, when descried by Captain
Nichols, but notwithstanding the Emily’s boa r s
were lowered and succeded in getting along
side of the burning vessel, rescuing all hands
with difficulty. The captain and crew saved
nothing but what they *tood in. When the
crew left the vessel, the smoke was issuing
through the seams of her deck.
The Br. ship Lady Sale, Tulloch, which
sailed for this port from Liverpool on the 12th
Nov. last, put into New York on the 9th inst.
to land passengers, In towing up to New
York, she got ashore above the Narrows near
Fort Diamond, and it was expected she would
be got off on the next tide without receiving
any damage.— Charleston Courier, 14th inst.
Commercial Insurance Company. —The
oooks of subscriptions to this new Insurance
Company were opened yesterday, and 10,900
shares were subscribed for; which is 900 over
and above the whole number called for by
the charter—but the books will, nevertheless,
be again open to-day for any additional sub
scriptions that may be m-de. — lb.
( Correspondence of the Journal of Commerce.')
Boston, 11th January. ,
Governor of Massachusetts. —The Senate ■
this A M. proceeded to vote for Governor, and |
Lieut. Governor. Geo. S. Boutwell.(Dem) had all
the votes thrown, 32. Six Whigs voted for him.
The rest threw blank vote*. H. W. Cushman was
chosen Lieut Governor by 29 votes—all that were
thrown.
All the avenues o? the House are crowded by a !
dense mass of people. The coalition are enaea- i
voring to go into an election for U. S.Senator, and (
the YVhigs are endeavoring to stave it off. There
is a considerable excitement throughout the city
relative to the election.
Boston, Jan. 11.
Senator for Massachusetts. —The House
have postponed the election of Senator to Tues
day next.
St. Louis, Jan. 9th.
Senator for Missouri. —The anti-Bentonians
of the Legislature have nominated the Hon.
James H. Greene as a good candidate for the
tl. S. Senate. The Bentonians hare made p.o
nomination, they having determined to stick
to Benton to the last.
There are strong prospects of & row at the
Rotunda to-night, between the Benton and
Anti-Benton parties, both having called a
imeeting at the same time and place. The po
lice have been ordered to be on hand in case
of difficulties.
The U. S. steamer Monmouth, Capt. Free- ]
born, arrived here Saturday night, from In
dian River, via St. Augustine. Company F, •
under the command of Major Woodbridge,
has been removed from Miami, Fla., to the
post at Indian River; and Company L, under
the command of Major Loud, from Indian
River to St. Augustine. The schooner Caro
line, from this port, had arrived at Indian
River previous to the sailing of the Monmouth, j
There is no further news by this arrival, every
thing being quiet on the Southern coast when
the M. left Indian River.— Savannah Repub - 1
lican, \2th inst.
Dutch Women.— -Colraon, in h ; s European
Life of Manners, gives the following descrip
tion of the Dutch women :
‘I think some of them the fairest and hand
somest creatures I ever looked upon, and
made of the finest unmixed porcelain clay.—
Before I left England, I thought the English
women the faitest I had ever seen. I ntow
consider them as belonging to the colored race.
The Dutch women exoeed them. Take
the fairest rose that was ever plucked, with
the glittering dew drops hanging among its
petals; take the fairest peach that ever hung
upon the tree, with its changing, hleuding
tints of red and white, and they are eclipsed
by the transparency and beauty of complexion
of the faitest Dutch women, as I saw them at
Broeck and Saardam. If their minds are as
fair, and their manners as winning as their
faces, then I can easily understand the history
of Adams fall. It was impossible, poor fel
low, that he should resist. Then their cos
tume is so pretty and elegant. A sort of thin,
gold helmet, fitting close tq the head, leaving
enough of the hair to part gracefully over the
brows i a thin, but wide band of highly
wrought and burnished gold, extending across
the forehead; at the ends of this some rich
and elegantly wrought filagree ornaments of
gold, with splendid ear-drops of gold or of
diamonds sat in gold, with a beautiful cap of
the finest Brussels lace, covering, but not con
cealing the whole head, and all the resf of the
dress of vestal {fiirity, white, tasteful, transpa
rent, with short coats* shoes aq bright as mir
rors, and stockings, of the purest white, and
utting tae ancle as if they were knit upon the
tmb j while with no drabbling train to sweep
the pavement, and no over sized shawl, and
ioose and ill-fitted sleeve snd skirts, hanging
about the person, like clothes upoq an old
tree on a washing day, and youm have some
faint notion of wfiot one of these creatures are.’
Lusiq.—The stolid sons of St. Nicholas,
have occasionally, a very singular method of
expressing themselves. One day last summer,
one of them who had been at work in a corn
field,came limping up to the farm- house,grasp
ing the calf of his leg, and his face expressive
of the greatest pain.
“Vat ish de matter mit you Hans?” exclaim
BANK NOTE TABLE.
Augusta Insurance and Banking Company, par
Bank of Augusta, “
Branch State of Georgia, Augusta, “
Bank of Brunswick, “
Georgia Rail Road,
Mechanics’ Bank, *
Bank of St. Mary’s,. ......
Bank of MilledgevilJe,. • - „
Bank of the State of Georgia, at Savannah,. # • •••••
Branches of ditto, •*••••* * * „
Marine and Fire Insurance Bank, Savannah, <t
Branch of ditto, at Macon,
Planters’ Bank, Savannah tl
Central Bank of Georgia, ..
Central R. R. and Banking Company, Savannah,....
Charleston Banks,.. „
Bank of Camden, 4t
Bank of Georgetown, „
Commercial, Columbia. tt
Merchants’, at Cheraw, tt
Tennesee 4 **
NOT BANKABLE.
Merchants’ Bank of Macon.*
EXCHANGE.
On New ¥ork, Pf 1 *
Philadelphia, tt
805t0n,...
Charleston and Savannah,. Pff
Lexington, Kentucky,
Nashville, Tennessee......
STOCKS.
Georgia, 6 per cents
*Nottaken by our banks, but redeemable at the Plant
ers’Bank, Savannah at par.
Savannah Chamber of Commerce.
ROB’T. HABERSHAM, President.
C. GREEN, Ist Vice President.
EDW’D. PADELFORD, 2nd Vice President
OCTAVUS COHEN, Secretary ant' Treasurer
» ed the good natured host, who sat at the door
smoking his pipe.
“O, mine cot?” exclaimed the sufferer —“I
pit minesef very pad mit a snake, out in ter
field.” And he pressed the wounded part
with a tighter grasp.
“You pit youself mit a snake!” exclaimed
the terrified and humane proprietor. “Den
mine cot-a-mitys, vy you don’t m ke fase and
tie a bantagemit your leg, else yoi will get a
coffin in your pody de next ting.”
MARRIED*
At the residence of Mrs. Carolina Battle, by Rev.
Otis Smith,Mr. Cullen A Battle, of Eulaula,
to Miss Georgia F. Williams, of La Grange.
Also, at the same time and place, Robt. J. Mor
gan, Esq , to Miss Mart H., youngest daughter of
Mrs. Caroline Battle, of La Grange.
In Abbeville, S. C., on Tuesday evening 2nd
instant, by ihe Rev. Mr. Reid, ot Edgefield, Col.
Samuel McGowen, and Miss Susan C. eldest
daugher of the Hon. D. L Wardiaw.
In Warren county, on Sabbath morning, the stfe
inst., by Jeremiah Perryman, E q.,Mr. Little
bury W. Carter to Miss Mary Ann I). Seales,.
daughter of William A. and Eliza Seales, all of
said county.
Departure of Atlantic Steamers
CUNARD LINE.
FROM LIVERPOOL. FROM NEW-VORK. FROM BOSTON.
Asia Jan. 4 Jan. 29
j Canada.... Jan. J? Feb. 12....
j Africa Feb. 1 Jan. I
j Europa... .Feb. 15 March 12....
, Asia March 1 March 26
i Canada.. March 15 April 9...*
| Africa... March 29 April 23...... *’»•..
I America ..April 5 .........April 30...]*
Asia April 12 .May 7
COLLINS LINE.
FROM LIVERPOOL, FROM NEW-TC,r K .
Saturday Jan 11 Wednesday...* j an q *
Saturday .Feb 8 Wednesday... Jan 22
Saturday Feb 22 Wednesday Feb 5
Saturday March 8 Wednesday Feb 19
Saturday Mar h 22 Wednesday March 5
(Saturday. April 5 Wednesday..... March 19
NEW-YORK AND BREMEN LINE.
LEAVE NEW TORE. LEAVE BREMEN..
Washington Jan 20 15....
Hermann..... Dec 20 . .. Jan 15*.*.*!.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
(BY SP £CIAL request. ]
PANORAMA OF CUBA
Will remain on Exhibition a few days only, at
the M VdOnio Hall—that all may witness this spien
di.i and gigantic work.
IT COVERS 50,000 FEET OF CANVASS,
portraying in vivid and faithful colors, the beao -
ful and opulent cities, country,.and estates of that
Island, with its luxuriant Tropical Vegetation.
HAVANA and its lorts are seen in minute de
tail; MATANZAS and CARDENAS, with the
steamer Creole and Gen. Lopez and his followers.
The familiar scenes are true to the life, descrip
tive of the social customs, their dances, their
games, love scenes, and the grotesque
AFRICAN FAN GO
{U* Doors open at 6£, P. M.—to commence at
7 2 precisely. Admittance, 50 cents—Children
half P ri <> e - jan 14
DRS. J. E. & 11. A. BIGNON. ~
Office on opposite Bridge Bank building .
QCjr’Offer their pro essional services to the cit
izens of Augusta and its vicinity. jau 14
LF" DR« JAS* D. MACJKUE tenders re
spectfully his Professional Services to the citizens
of Augusta.
Office on Jackson street, between Broad and
Reynold >treets. 6mos jan 12
—Having w itL
such liberal encouragement, takes pl easu-e i n in
forming his friends and the public Vaa* he hasneT
manently located himself m P o ,
ot the Piano Forte, and c om "nn T
Iff p VltmC ,, C u. Baoic of Messrs. Geo. A*
Oates & Co. will be punctually attended to.
jan 3 *
! oißffiftf? lODUVBR
, CANDY - rhjs unnvaiied cur live for
I Roughs, Colds, Asthma, Influenza. &c., we have
tned, and found it 4o be all that the manufacturer
| c,ainas so? It. It is a most agreeable confection, and
I e ® ectu , a for the diseases that attack
I *“® I thr oat and chest. Ii combines all the virtues
! a * p. bot is entirety free from its re
i pulsive taste. In all the cases in which we have
an :wn the candy to be used, it has been success
j lol| and we eheerfully recommend it. with a cau-
I P° a *«"“•* counterfeits. Inquire for Bliss’s Can*,
ay. and receive no other.
! Jnr d °, nly by B - K Bliis > Duggist, Sprint
I ** \*l™. Inventor and Sole Proprietor, and foj t
f sal « b y , PHILIP A. MOfeSL
4n Drugs and Medicines, 195 Metcalf
mnge, Augusta, Ga.
Country Merchants asd Druggists supplied on
liberaHerms. do2w jan 7
(CPReynoid street Classical, mlt
ica,;. ard Mercantile School.—Mr. POPE
iakes pleasure in announcing that he has’enteretf
mto arrangements with Mr. O, D. Oliver, a gr*.
dua e of the South Carolina Military College ar.d
for the last two year** a Tu or in that Institution
to take charge of the department of Highe.r'jVta
thematics and Civil Engineering, for he j.
eminently qualifled. Young gentlemen of
qualify tag themselves iu the latter i mpo rtan
so doing. “ 6XCeileQt °PP° r tuni<y offered so
Mr. Pope will continue to take charge nf the.
Classical and Mercantile Depart ments,and belieies
hat his arangements are such as to afford as sound
tainml can be obi
tamed m this btate. Early application is i eouest^
?d, m order that the classes may be duly organic
ceive S d bUt 4 imUed Uum berof pupiD will be re-
MONDAYNEX^K B .t“L«T. m " eS "” ed
I erms made known on application to Mr. Pope.
J«n q
REMEMBER
***?«»*«*> tkat ttr.
, ' HOMbON is still in Macon, Gea,,aM
W t r |! Uento i ßena^ i>ledlcines b y mail tow
part of the country. Don’t give up all hone vrit /
i*m 1 ’ *»-