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CONSTITUTIOiVALIST.
■LJ AM ES GARDNER, JR.
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The Cotton Crop.
We have been favored by Mr. H. B. Gwath
may with his circular of the 18th instant; and
as we have been publishing from time to time,
during the whole season, our own views in re
ference to the extent ol the Cotton Crop, to
gether with all the information of a reliable
character we could obtain from the cotton
growing region, both pro and con, we cheer
fully lay it before our readers. We still re
gard the estimates of Mr. G. as extravagant
and wild, and totally unwarranted by any
facts which have come within our knowledge.
But still we think it proper chat our readers
should see every thing on the subject that is
>syorthy of consideration. W§ adhere firmly
to our estimate of 2,050,000 bales.
New Orleans, Jan. 21, 1851.
The Editors of the “ Crescent” will oblige
me by publishing the circular herewith, witn
the correction of a typographical error, by
which I am made to speak of “ increased weight
of the bales,” instead of “ decreased.’' The
former obviously fails to convey the idea in
tended. H. B. Gwathmey.
New Orleans, Jan. 18, 1851.
Sir —I addressed my iriends in this form, on
the Ist November, from Richmond Virginia,
immediately after hearing i f frosts in the Cot
ton producing States, and then stated that,
“ for ail practical purposes, I consider an esti
mate of 2,500.000 bales will be sufficiently
near the result.”
Subsequent investigation of the subject on
ly serves to strengthen my confidence in the
correctness ot the opinion then expressed. By
reference to the tiles of the New Orleans Price
™ Current, for the last four years, I find that the
receipts at all the ports, were as follows :
Jan. 20, 1847, 822,000 or 46£ per ct. of crop, 1,780,000
“ 19,1848, 747,000 or 32 “ « 2,348,000
“ 20, 1849, 1,157,000 or 42£ “ “ 2,729,000
19, 1850, 1,053,0 oor 50$ “ “ 2,097,000
Total, 3,779,000 8 954,000
* The average proportion of the four crops
received, to the dates above noticed, was a
small traction over 42 per cent., and although
some plausible reasons are assigned m favor oi
a larger proportion of the crop of 1850 51 be
ing at hand up to this date, I do not consider
them sound, or that they will be successfully
tested by time. The post prominent of tnese
reasons is, that the price is higti, and that the
planters have been in haste to secure it.
To a certain extent X admit the force of this,
but it should be borne in mind that while the
prices, at the commencement of this season,
weie 25 to 30 per cent, higher than those of
the preceding season, the latter were about
100 per cent, higher than those of 1848 49.
The relative inducement then to hasten this
crop to market is not so great as it was with
the crop of 1849-50.
These, however, are speculations. I prefer
to deal with faet6.
It is well known that some of our rivers
from which laige quantities of Cotton will be
received, and which were in a navigable con
dition —some in October and all in November,
1849 —were not so in 1850, until December ;
and without going into a tedious enumeration
of them, I will here name ouly ti e Red River
and its tributaries, by which we receive Cot
ton at this place from the States of Louisiana,
Arkansas and Texas ; and the i'ombigbee and
Warrior, by which it is conveyed to Mobile
from ihe States of Alabama and Mississippi.
The total quantity brought down those riv
ers in 1849 ’SO, was, in round numbers, 250,-
000 bales. In the present season, I have no
doubt it will be 625,000 to 550,000 bales. Ol
the former , about 110,000 were at hand at this
time last year, and of the latter, there are in
cluded in the receipts to this date 140,000 to
150,000 baies. It follows, then, that from
those sources alone, there will be received for
the remainder ot this season about 400,000
versus about 140,000 bales last year.
I could give the names of other rivers, and
there are some which are not yet fully naviga
ble, and as a consequence the receipts are re
tarded.
Whatever, or how strong the inducements
may have been to bring the crop to maiket,
the facilities have not every where existed ;
but I remark further, that as the stocks at cer
tain inland depots, which have free access by
water or railway communication with the sea
ports, are very large, there is wanted the die
position to avail of the facilities, arising, no
doubt, from a lingering hope that pr.ces will
hereafter be higher.
This is not strange, when it is considered that
almost every thing that appears in the public
prints tends to encourage that hope, and in
this quarter, a gentleman enjoying a high re
putation for intelligence, recommends the
planters, through the columns of a paper hav
ing a most extensive circulation, to supply the
market steadily and moderately, limiting the
sale at 15c. for Middling, which he thinks can
be as readily obtained as a lower price !
It is idle to suppose that such publication
have no effect.
I have seen some very low estimates, say
625,000 to 650,000, for the crop of the Atlan
tic States, versus 751,000, for 1849-50; but
remark that all the rules which have governed
the movements of that crop for nine years
past must fail, or it will exceed 700,000 ; and
I think, in view of the greatly extended plant
ing in that quarter, that an increase as likely
as a decrease, but believe the difference will
be unimportant in one or the other direction.
I am looking for the great increase in the crop,
with which we nave now to deal, to be shown
at the ports of the Gulf of Mexico; where the
bales are ot a much greater weight than those
of the Atlantic estates, and hence infer, that
tne average weight of this crop will exceed *hai
of the crop of 1849 50.
I should probably not have noticed this cir
cumstance, but tor the fact that many parties
have been calling attention to the decreased
weight of the bales at particular points, which
believe in the end will turn out to be very
insigniheant; but while all, or nearly all, ad
mit-that there will be an increase m ine num
ber of bales to be received at the Gull ports, I
have not seen that any one has called attention
to the fact that such increase will be in the
heaviest bales comprised in our crop.
In my last circular I alluded to the condi
tion o our cotton manufacturing interest, and
estimated its wants for 1850-61 at 400,000 vs.
488 000 last year; but unless there be a speedy
Improvement in thrice ol 'ubrice, I th,„k t
uiii have over-rated their wants.
**l have again to remark that in the opinion
l hare now expressed as to the extent of the
crop, I am at variance with the expressed
opinions ot a very great majority, fori think
that estimates of 2,100,000 or 2,200,000 still
generally prevail and govern all proceedings
on this side, as I believe they do on the other.
1 might feel some distrust on the subject, but
lor the fact, that whenever I have deliberate
ly made up my own opinion on the subject, I
have found myself more nearly correct, in the
end, by adhering to it than by modifying it at
the suggestion ol other parties. The last oc
casion on which this subject (the extent of the
crop,) seemed to excite very particular inter
est, at a period so late in the season as the
present, was in 1843-4; and then I was dis
posed to call the crop 2,000,000; but on con
sulting with a most worthy gentleman, then
a lacior in this city, he expressed a decided
c ° nvic^on # ft od I doubt not in all sincerity,
that the receipts at this port would not exceed
700,000, with which I could not make out
more than 1,900,000, and I adopted that and
adhered to it—but at this season of the year,
1,650,000 to 1,750,000 were very current esti
mates, .as much so, I think, as 2,100,000 to
2,200,000 are now. The result was, that the
receipts at this place were 832,000, exclusive
of 18,800 bales Texas Cotton, (then foreign,)
and at all the ports 2,030,000, excluding, in
like manner, the Texas Cotton —or, in other
words, 280,000 and 380,000 above the current
estimates of January, 1844.
It is a remarkable coincidence that, exactly
seven years since, via : on the 18th Jan. 1844,
being then a member of a firm at Mobile, I
penned a circular, which may still be in the
possession of some who may receive this,
wherein I stated the great discrepancy of
opinion then existing as to the extent of the
crop, but still adhered to our estimate of
1,900.000. I believe the views of my firm were
considered wild and extravagant, as those of
myself may now be, when I say that, with all
the liglits on the subject, I can place no lower
estimate on the crop of 1850-51, than 2,500,-
OQO bales.
I have not the vanity to suppose that this
estimate is to be speedily adopted by the pub
lic, or to exercise other than a very limited
influence for some time to come. What I par
ticularly desire is, that what I have said and
written on the subject, now of so much in
terest, may be remembered, and I think it
will be.
Referring to the annexed for the state of
this market, I am, yours very respectfully,
H. B. Gwathmey.
Receipts to date 1,066,000 bales at 42 per
cent., point to a crop of 2,539,000 bales.
(Reported for the Baltimore Sun.)
Thirty-First Congress—Second Session-
Washington, Jan. 23, 1851,
SENATE.
Mr. Seward presented a petition from Sha
ron, Ohio, praying the repeal of the fugitive
slave law. Laid on the table.
Mr. Underwood presented the memorial of
the inhabitants of Georgetown in the District
of Columbia, praying that Congress will se
iect the great falls of the Potomac as the
source ot the water that may of brought into
W shington.and that the water may be brought
through that town. They also ask the im
provement of Pennsylvania Avenue, and the
extension of Gas lights to that town, and that
Congress will provide a more efficient number
of police. He also read a letter from a citizen
of Washington, showing the danger to public
and private property from an inadequate num
ber of police guards.
Mr. Walker presented ape ition, numer
ously signed, praying the incorporation of a
manufacturing company in this city.
A bill granting a pension to the heirs of
General Will s am Barton was reported and
passed.
Tne resolutions of inquiry in relation to the
cost of constructing the dry dock in the Paci
fic, and in relation to a suspension of sales of
public lands for a limited time, were taken up
and agreed to.
The Senate then took up the French spoilia
iton bill.
The vote In committee, striking out the 11th
section, was concurred in, yeas 29, nays 26;
and, after some debate, the bill was ordered
to be engrossed, yeas 30, nays 26.
The Senate then proceeded to the considera
tion of Executive business, and after some
time the doors were opened, and the Senate
adjourned.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
The bill to encourage agriculture, commerce
and manufactures, by granting to every head
of a family a lot of land, to the ex.ent of one
hundred and sixty acres, was read a first and
seco..d time.
Mr. Johnson, of Tennessee, spoke in favor
of the bill, and contended, that while bounty
lands were being given to soldiers, and was
appropriated for the benefit of corparations,
colleges, schools, lunatic asylums, and various
other purposes, those men who would receive
lands and cu.tivate them, and become useful
and efficient citizens, had hitherto been ne
glected.
Mr. Hilliard, of Alabama, followed on the
same side, who expressed himself in favor of
giving the public lands to the people, in the
largest sense of the term.
Mr. Carey of Pennsylvania, opposed the
measure contemplated in the bill; and thought
the proper course to be pursued, would be to
dispose of the public lands, and place the pro
ceeds in the U. States Treasury; with a view
to aid in extending public improvements and
in the discharge of the national debt. He did
not, he said, pledge himself to vote against the
bill; but he wished before he made up his
mind, to hear it fully discussed. His opinion
was, that in the first place a portion shall be
expended, as he had before said, in public im?
provements, and diffusing the blessings of
education.
Mr. Brown, of Mississippi, was not then pre
pared to discuss the question fully, but said he
intended to move an amendment to the bill;
which the Speaker stated would not be in or
der at its present stage.
Mr. Green, of Missouri, then addressed the
House, and the debate took quite a discursive
range, involying the claims of the old States to
the public lands, which it was now proposed
to give away—polit : cal differences, and other
subjects quite foreign to that, contained in the
bill.
The morning hour having expired, which it
was agreed to appropriate to the consideration,
of business oji the Speake, ’s table, Mr. Bayly,
of Virginia, moved that the Roijs? resolve it
self into committee of the whole on the state
of the Union, when the Deficiency bill again
came up for discussion.
Mr. Haymond, of V.rginia, took the floor,
and entered upon a defence of the conduct of
the Secretary of the Interior, and the head of
the Pension office arid itscierks Considerable
time was occupied in this way, and by repreat
e l attacks on the Pension office, which were
made in the shape of explanations, by which
the speech was interrupted.
Tne object of the bill, it may be as well here
to state, is to appropriate certain sums “to
apply deficiencies in the appropriations for the
service for t e fiscal year ending the 30th
June, 1851, out of moneys in the treasury not
otherwise appropriated.”
The discussion on the bill took the shape it
did, upon the section providing tor nin teen
temporary eierks in the office of the Commis
sioner of Pensions, required in consequence of
the resolution of the Senate of the 16th Sep
tetnber last, and the act of the 20th of the
stme month, allowing eachcWk three dollars;
the contemplated amount being $14,808 46.
The mam point at issue was, whether any
additional force would be necessary in the
Pension office, if that which was there was
properly directed and efficiently and judicious
ly employed; an opinion being very prevalent
in the House that such is not the case; al
though it was admitted, that there waa no
want of disposition on the part of the subordi
nates to perform th ir respective duties, and
that their demeanor was unexceptionable.
Mr. McClernand, of Illinois, submitted a
bill, as an amendment to that before the com
mittee, for reorganizing the Department of
State; providing for the appointment of an as
sistant Secretary of State, and four principal
clerks, and defining the duties of these as well
as the more subordinate clerks. The last clause
of the bill further provides for the suspension
and forfeiture of the salary of agents abroad,
during their voluntary absence from their
posts. He said claims to the amount of $14,000
are at present before Congress to defray the
expense of subordinate agents, who discharg
ed the duties of the principals during their
absence on their own private affairs; showing
that the object of the bill is retrenchment as
well as of reorganization.
He reviewed the duties of the Department
from the time when it was established, in 1789,
when the population of the U. States did not
exceed four millions, and which duties had
since been annually increased. He then traced
the increase of the clerical force which has
taken place, and which had neither kept pace
with the increase of business or that which
had occurred in other Departments.
After some further desultory discussion, the
committee rose and the House adjournd.
From Texas. —By the steamship Louisiana,
Capt. Lawless, arrived last evening, we have
Galveston papers of the 16th inst. We have
also our files from the interior.
We are gratified to learn that the German
girl, captured by the Indians some months
since, has been delivered up, and has returned
home, safe and sound. She was tolerably
well treated by the Indians, but did not relish
horse-meat for food, as well as she did goou
beef-steaks. t
We also learn that the Indians have agreed
to deliver up several more American and
Mexican prisoneis, whom they have had in
bondage for some time back. The Americans
captured the sou of an Indian chief sine vhere
in the neighborhood of Laredo, and to obtain
his liberation, the Indians are now delivering
up all American prisoners among them.
A party of Indians recently visited the
neighborhood of Goliad, and were pursued by
Capt. MeCuilocbs’ Hangers, when a fight en
sued, in which the Indians horses were all
taken, together with their trappings. Seven
Indians escaped, and probably two or three
were killed or wounded, so that the whole
number was about ten. The horses stolen by
the Indians were restored to the owners.
Lieut. King, of the Hangers, was wounded.
F. Moore, jr, has deen elected Mayor of
Houston; Cap ain J. B. Held has been elect
ed Mayor of Victoria.
We learn from the Western Texan, that the
b oks of the San Antonio and Mexican Gull
Hailroad Company have been opened in Bexar
; and stock to the amount ot $20,000 has been
; subscribed. Mr. S. A. Maverick has subscrib
ed SIO,OOO.
Mr. Clapp, mail agent, detected a mail
robber on the route irom Fredericksburg to
New Braunfels. The delinquent is a German,
named Nemhu z. Hj has fled to California.
The first term of the Supreme Court of
Texas, a, Galveston, commenced on the 6th
inst. Chief Justice Hemphill and Judges
Lipscomb and Wheeler were in attendance.
Hodgers, who was charged with the murder
of Henke, has been tried in Galveston, and
acquitted. Henke, it will be recollected, was
murdered a short time ago at the west end of
our island. He was a seaman on board a
schooner of which Hodgers was master.
The late rams have raised the Trinity
about nine feet. — N- O. Delta, 21 st inst.
Later, from the Sandwich Islands. —We
have received dates from the Sandwich Isl
ands up to the 16th November. The Poly
nesian of that date contains a report of the
proceedings of a meeting held on the 13th, at
Mauna Riliki, to hear the report of a commit
tee appointed on the Ist ins ant, to take into
consideration certain information in regard to
a contemplated invasion of the Hawaiian Isl
ands, by an armed force from California. The
good Hawaiians were doubtless the subject
of a well-concerted hoax.
The U. S. sloop-of- war Falmouth had ar
rived at Hilo on the 10th inst.
The capitalists of the Island are making
great efforts to bring out the agricultural re
sources of the country. *
The shipmasters and merchants of Honolu
lu presented Captain Cary, of the ship Charles
Drew, with a purse of about S3OO, as an ex
pression of their sympathy.
All the vessels up for freight at Honolulu
for the United States, are likely to fill up with
good freights and many passengers.
Declination of the “Ladies’ Candidate.”—
Dr. Cogswell, of the Massachusetts House of
Representatives, was among the four selected
by that body, last week, to be voted for, for
Governor. He, however, declined, on the real
democratic ground that if the people them
selves didn't choose to elect him he would’t
have the office. He was the “democratic safety
candidate,” and touching the party to which
he was wholly indebted ior his present politi
cal position, he said:
“Soon alter the State election in November,
when it was ascertained who were the consti
tutional candidates for the Governorship, one
of the Boston daily journals represented me as
the ‘ladies’ candidate,’ who had long since
hoisted the petticoat. Now, sir, J wish to avail
myself of the present opportunity publicly to
correct a material error in the statement of
that paper, and beg leave to say, that I did not
raise the petticoat, for the ladies kindly raised
it for me—for which they are entitled to my
heartfelt thanks and lasting gratitude.
Feom New Orleans. —A meeting was held
at the Merchant’s Exchange, Monday night, to
make arrangements for re-buiiding the St.
Charles Hotel, John M. Bell, presided. Mr.
Egerton, and Jacob Jiarker spoke. A com
mittee with Mr. F. A- Lumsden, as chairman,
was appointed to ascertain what arrangements
can be male with the present stockholders,
for the sale of their shares, and the disposal
of their charter, the site, foundations, mate
rials, &c.; also to enquire and report what
means are necessary to re-build the Hotel.
The Jury in the Cuba case, against General
John Henderson, are unable to agree. Eight
are said to be for conviction, four lor acquittal.
The defendant expressed his willingness to
have them discharged; but the U. S. Attor
ney would not consent.
Judgment was rendered on Saturday last,
in favor of the Louisiana State Bank against
the Second Municipality, for two hundred
and thirty nine thousand dollars and ninety
cents, with eight per cent interest.
Mr. L«Hrand Smith, private Secretary to
Barnum, arrived in the Philadelphia, Tues
day, from Havana, to make arrangements for
the reception of Jenny Lind, who having closed
her engagement in Havana, is about leaving
for New Orleans.— Mobile Advertiser, 2 ld inst.
Shipment of American Dimes from Hono
lulu to the United States. —The Polynesian
(Honoiuia) of the 23d November, has the
following paragraph;
“ American Dimes . —We are glad to know
that a considerable amount of this kind of
specie is being shipped to the United States
around Cape Horn. People abroad should be
informed that the dimes are not current here,
and that it is with great reluctance that any
amount can be passed off, even at their full
value. Many thousands ot dollars have accu
mulated in the hands of some parties here, and
the only practical mode of disposing of them
is by shipping them to the United States.
This may occasion some loss to consignees of
goods, but there seems to be no remedy where
commission merchants have been obliged to
take them, and in whose vaults they have ac
cumulated, because they could not pass them
off again.”
The Steamer Atlantic.— A Disappointment.
The New York correspondent of the Ledger,
writing on Wednesday, says :
The detention of the Atlantic is now the
common topic of conversation with every bo
dy. If she has put into Fayal, or Galway,
about the two only ports she could make, un
der any circumstances, it is not likely we shall
hear any news of her for some weeks to come,
and it is an impression therefore, entertained
by many experienced shipmasters, that those
who expect to hear of her by the Arctic, the
next steamer due here, will be disappointed.
The list of passengers on board, published in
the newspapers a day or two since, is said to
include not one-half of those on board.
The steamship Alabama, from Savannah, in
coming up the bay, this morning-, fired a guu,
when off Castle William. Most people with
in hearing, took it for granted that it must be
the missing vessel, and accordingly there was
a general movement towards the wharves, on
the North River. But it was only to behold
another disappointment. The same scene was
, witnessed when the Cherokee and the Prome
theus arrived, yesterday. And it will be re
peated, on every such occasion, until we have
some tidings, good or bad, from the Atlantic.
In reference to the Atlantic, a gentleman
who says he has been connected with steam
ships for twenty-five years, states—First, her
boilers being made with double tiers of fur
naces, the consumption of coal is much in
creased, without deriving proportionate ad
vantage in heavy weather, when half the rev
olutions of the wheels are performed in the
air. Secondly, her stock of coal taken on
board at Liverpool would be more likely to be
lessened, than increased for a winter’s voyage,
owing to the pressing importunities of ship
pers, many of whom had been shut out from
previous steamers. Thirdly, bein- so lightly
sp an ed, all the canvass she could spread would
noi drive her through the water at a greater
rate than three knots, impeded as she would
be by her wheels, and having on ooard in car
go. machinery, &c., a dead weight of probably
3000 tons. J
But if the wind was foul, she would have
great difficulty >n beating up against it, being
encumbered with her wheels and deficient of
a bowsprit and head sails, consequently she
would drift with the ga e, and is now perhaps
in the neighborhood of the Azores, from
whence we shall hear from her by the London
fruit schooners, who make average passages of
nine days Irom Terceira to Cowes; therefore,
until the middle of February, we cannot ex
pect news from these Islands.
The Last Advices from Washington I ! !
The “ ancient sage philosopher,” who leaped
frantically out of bed at midnight, in his noc
turnal garment, and rushed down the streets
shouting “ Eureka ! Eureka /” (“ I have found
it! I have found it!”) must have excited some
little astonishment. His annunciation of his
discovery, however, was not more startling
than the following revelation from the Macon
(Ga.) Journal & Messenger, in relation to
that
“ Lost Pleiad
Seen no more below ” —
The Constitutional Union Meeting to have cul
minated in this city on the 22d of Februarv ;
“We have advices from Washington, (says
the Journal & Messenger,) that the proposed
Union Meeting in that city on the 22d of Feb
ruary, will probably be postponed in consequence
of the scarcity of accommodations there during
the session of Congress, and the general inclem
ency of the season at Washington about that pe
riod of the year. The meeting will probably be
held iater in the season, either at Baltimore or
Wheeling, (Va.) The latter place is more cen
tral, and will probably be selected.”
While men here were marvelling at the
sadden and disastrous eclipse of the star of
hope to the Southern submissionists—and or
gans and sub-organs here were all in the
dark—the Georgia Journal had “advices,”
which pointed out the path taken by the lost
Pleiad.
“ The meeting was postponed,” in consequence
(not of the squabbles of spoilsmen,) but—
hear it, ye landlords and doctors! of the
scarcity of accommodations—and the general in
clemency of the season about that period of the
year l”
This will be news here—for not being in
the secret of thoie “ advices,” most people in
this borough thought that other Generals,
than “ General Inclemency,” had much to do
with the postponement—and no one who vis
its Washington at any period can fail to be
taken in,” if he desires it—this elastic city
ever filling, and yet never being full.
We do, however, concur in the peculiar fit
ness of one of the places designated by the
Journal for the adopted meeting--it will suit so
well the tactics of its Southern projectors —
Wheeling l—Southern Press.
How to get into “ Society.” —The editor
of the New York Mirror—one of the exclusive®,
we suppose—gives the following hints on
A New Feature in Upper- Tendom.— There
was a large ball given at the private house of
a wealthy hatter last evening, to which, we
learn, some BQO invitations were sent out.—
This is probably a little larger number than
has ever been extended on any similar occa
sion, and affords encouraging proof of the
elasticity of our fashionable circles, which
are capable of “ indefinite expansion.” It in
reported, with how much truth u e do not say*
that certain diddlers, ambitious of social dis
tinction, have adopted the following plan of
entering the magic circle of fashionable Par
venudona. For instance: Mr 6. Jones announces
a ball, and for weeks all Japonicadom is on
the qui vive. Mr. Snooks, a bachelor without
associations, except those of the most humble
nharae.er, is anxious to attend—to see and to
be seen —among the choice selections of Mrs.
Jones’s drawing room. But bow to get thgr e
is the problem*
A luckly thought strikes him—and that is,
to bribe Brown, who directs the invitations,
to address one to him. It is done, and Snooks
is a made man, for one night, at least. But,
the same Brown is employed by all the fash
ionable ball givers of the season ; and a small
donceur in the shape of “ bribery and corrup
tion”- say a hundred dollars- will secure
Snooks an entree to all the tip-top soirees pf
the season.
And sq he mingles as a sort of social “ dead
head among the parvenues of Uppertendom,
who, of course, are not supposed to be ac
quainted with ono-tenth of their guests ; and
who seldom penetrate beyond ihe cut of the
coat, or the altitude of the shirt-collar. Thu
is indeed a great country ; and New York is
the very paradise of Snookses.
True Heroism Some acts of great oouragt
and disinterestedness have been pqblished as
having been exhibited during the great con*
fiagrgtion of the St. Charles Hotel on Satur
day last. But none, we think, is entitled to
more credit than the conduct of Mr. Boyd
one of the clerks in the office. His confiden
tial position gave him the control of a great
amount of deposites made tor safekeeping, and
when it was found that the hotel could not
be saved, he applied himself entirely to secur
ing those which had been placed in the safe.
Ihe amount in money and valuables was im
mense,and it a'as all saved. He neglected his
own effects, and lost everything of his own
even every article of his own and wife’s cloth
ing on the premises, while he saved for their
owners at least two hundred thousand dol
lars, which he succeeded in removing to the
vaults of tne Picayune office until next day.
There were sums of five thousand to fifteen
thousand each, belonging to various parties,
drafts and bank notes of uncounted value,
jewels and ornaments, all of which—which
was merely trust property—was saved, and
with it the hotel cash that was in the drawers.
Every scrap, shred and dollar of his own was
destroyed while he was performing this du
ty.
Such conduct, we think, deserves more
than a public declaration of thanks. It should
be acknowledged by some liberal tribute of re
spect, which while it does honor, will restore
at least what he lost by his fidelity and
courage.— N. O. Picayune, 22 d inst.
THE CONSTITUTIONALIST.
(Georgia.
TUESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 28
IdP* The Northern mail had not arrived last
evening when the Post Office closed.
Admissions to the Bar*
On Thursday, 23d inst., Louis Delaigle and
Samuel J. Hay,Esqs. after examination in open
Court, in the Superior Court of Richmond
county, were admitted to the practice of Law
and Equity in this State.
The examination were highly creditable to
these young gentlemen, and to the Augusta
Law School, of which they were students.
During this term Col. J. C. Martin, of Ab
beville, S. C., a member of the South Carolina
Bar, was admitted to the Bar of Georgia, up
on certificate.
Wyman, the Magician*
Is exhibiting nightly, at Concert Hall,
his remarkable feats of Legerdemain and Ven
triloquism. He is very dexterous, and his
feats excite much applause.
His philosophical bottle, which pours forth
a great variety, and apparently, exhaustless
quantity oi wines, cordials, and liquors, which
are served up to the audience, is a truly won
derful affair. This alone is worth the price of
admission.
The Cotton Crop.*
We publish this morning for the informa
tion of our commercial friends, another circu
lar from Mr. H. B Gathmey, of New Orleans.
He sticks to 2,500,000 as the amount of this
year’s crop. We give his circular for what it
is worth, and with a view of keeping it on re
cord, for future reference.
Death of a N aval Officer.— Sami. Ham
bleton, Esq , the senior Purser in the United
States Navy, died at his residence in Talbot
county, Maryland, on Saturday week, at the
advanced age of 73 years. Mr. Hambleton
was the Purser of the brig Lawrence, the ves
sel bearing ihe pennant of the gallant Perry
in his memorable action on the Lakes. He
served with the Commodore himself ac the
last gun fired from the brig, and was despe
rately wounded by the discharge from the en
emy, which dismantled the gun and left the
vessel powerless.
Hoe’s Last Printing Machine.— Compli
mentary Dinner.— The Messrs. Beach, of the
New York Sun, announce the completion of
their eight cylinder Monster Printing Ma
chine, and state that it if in thoroughly suc
cessful operation in their establishment. This
printing machine is unquestionably one of the
greatest triumphs of mechanical genius eve.' f
accomplished. We learn (says the Balt; imore
Sun) that the Messrs. Beach will or, Tuesday
next give a grand entertainment at the Astor
House, New York, in honor of Col. Richard
M. Hoe, the inventor an£ maker of this won
derful machine,
The Army. —Among the promotions in the
Army, made by the President of the U. S. du
ring the recess of Congress, we see the name
of Brevt. 2d Lieut. Alfred Cumming, of the
Bih Infantry,to be second Lieutenant, July 16,
1850, in seventh Regiment of Infantry, vice
Van Bokkelen, promoted.
British Post Office.— The gross revenue
of the British Post office for the year ending
Jan. 5, 1850, was £2,213,149, cost of manage
ment £1,307,248; the net revenue, £840,787.
The number of money orders issued was 4,-
248,891. The number of letters transmitted
between 3 and 400,000,000. The cheap pos
tage system in England has worked admira
bly.
Freight Cars.— The “Delaware Chicken 5 ’
states that the Wilmington and Baltimore
Railroad Company are building at their manu
factory in Wilmington, Del., fifty freight cars
to convey freight from Philadelphia to the
terminus of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.
At present freight intended lor the West by
this route has to be unloaded at Baltimore,
and then-re-loaded in the cars of the Balti
more and Ohio Railroad. This arranegment
will prevent it, the cars going right through.
— A « ——
Handsome Increase.— Aa an illustration of
the progressive rise in the value of real estate
in New Yok city, the fact is stated, that the
house and lot 359 Broadway, which was pur
chased twenty years since for SII,OOO sold
the other day at private sale for $60,000.
The lot is twenty-eight feet wide, by one
hundred deep.
Quben*Victoria. — Mrs. C. M. .
writ., from England, for S.rtainV M,' “
uonoerning the Queen, -that ah , „ well "
.toodtobeapor.onofvery limited intelleo ,
not wholly sane at present, and liable to oom
plete aberation at she grows older,”
Steam Carriage for Plank Roads.— It is
stated that Capt. Errickson, of “ steam pro
peller” oelebritv, is constructing a steam car
riage for use upon plank roads, by which im
mense bodies may be transported, at a good
speed, with small cost.
13 i) filagiwtit (ieltgrapf).
tot tii« Constitutionalist.
One Week Later from Europe.
ARRIVAL.
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A RCTI C .
Charleston, /an. 27. 10—p. ra.
The Steamer Arctic has arrived from Liver
pool with one week’s later intelligence.
Cotton Market.— The Cotton Market wbi
dull and prices drooping, especially for the
Middling qualities. The - sales "of the week
reached 28,000 bales, of which speculators
took 15,000 and Exporters 1000 balies.
New York, Jan. 27, P. M.
No intelligence of the steamer Atlantic.
Cotton Market. —The market is dull and un
settled, and prices drooping. Sales to-day
400 bales.
Bice unchanged.
Charleston, Jan. 27, P. M.
Cotton. —The market is depressed—prices
nominal and in favor of buyers. Sales to-day
1100 bales at prices ranging from 12£ to 18|
cents.
Interesting Chemical Discovery.—At a
recent meeting of the Natural History Society,
Mr. Wells, of Cambridge, announced that Mr.
Francis H. Storer, a student in the Cambridge
Scientific School, belonging to Baltimore, had
recently discovered at the Cambridge labora
tory, iodine in the ammoniacal liquor from
the Boston gas works. It was the first time
that it had been detected here, and the obser
vation was interesting as showing the proba
ble existence of this substance in the waters
which had supplied the plants which made up
the coal formation.
New Post Offices in Georgia.—The fol
lowing new Post Offices have been recently es
tablished in this State:
Medway, Burke county, S. H. Littlefield,
Post Master.
Walnut Grove, Walton county, J. C. Brew -
er, Post Master.
Spread Oak, Jefferson county, J. J. Brown,
Post Master.
Census of North Census
of the State of North Carolina has ‘ oe en fully
ascertained, with the exception of the county
of Mecklenburg; and assuming the number in
that county to be 16.00 Q, the total Dopulation
of the State is 870,637, of which 288,000 are
slaves.—The increase in the entire population
since 1840 is 117,268, of which increase about
43,000 is of the slave population.
Plurality. —The Massachusetts House has
passed the plurality bill to a third read
ing. The bill provides for the election of
Representatives to Congress and of Electors
of President, by a plurality vote, after the
first trial.
Fatal Affray.— We regret to be called to
record the occurrence of a difficulty
Mr. Scott, the Marshal of our town, ar j j^ r
Rea, a carriage-trimmer, formerly fr r jin \jorth
but more recently from South n .•
which resulted in the death of ♦' ‘’i..,.. M *
Rea had previously threaten-,, We of Mr.'
re C newed n ?he , 'th“e e a e . tI , n n g d -' S^ da >’
renewed the tnr eat presented a pistol to
hu-Scott s breas-.. Scott reil.onßtr«ted
»n^h P *T> Soott the pistol,
, . , ,ule inflicted several wounds,
which cau; B6d his ; nßtant death. No one
t he affray, but these are the circum
stanrsß as given by Mr> Scott> w ho immediate
ly gave himself up to the Sheriff. The Cor
oner’s Jury decided that it was a case of justi
fiable homicide, and Mr. Scott was liberated.
( Madison Visitor , 2 5th inst.
Loss of the Steam-hip Palmetto. The
steamship Palmetto, Uapt. Smitn, hence for
Matagorda Bay, while crossing the bar at that
place, on the afternoon of the 9th instant,
struck on the bar and bilged ; and during the
night was forced over on the beach, where she
went to pieces, with the exception of that por
tion of her hull which was secured by th»
engine. No lives lost—the boat and cargo a
total loss.
The following account of the loss is from
the Galveston Journal of the 16th :
“ We have conversed with some of the offi
cers of the Palmetto, who returned to this
city by the Louisiana this morning. They
state that the Palmetto, in crossing the bar at
the entrance to Matagorda Bay, struck in
eight feet water, about 3 o’clock on Thursday,
the 9th inst., and afterwards drifted towards
the shore, despite ail attempts to get her off.
The wind was blowing from the South at
time and a heavy sea rolling. Finally,
the vessel became fast on shore, a j lne
passed from the lee side to the and the
crew and passengers were safely landed to
gether with the lighter portion of the baeea<rp
On Friday the Palmetto went to pieces leavl
ing the machinery, and that portion of the
hull supporting it, standing. The engine will
probably be saved. The place where°the pas,
sengers landed is about six miles South of
Saluria. The beach was strewed wi h portic .
of the wreck and cargo. The Palmetto Y a /:
pilot on board at the time of the ar t
but whether it was attributable, as so "Vu T
to hfa want of skill, we have no
whereby to determine—N. O. 21j<
n r “ oCK — Ye ? tßr na“the General
Clinch, after having und> ne repairß in , h
Dry Dock, wag retur Iled to her natiTe e,e
ment. 1 here was n' a difficalty Bhatever and
only about halt j[loUr was re q U i re d to do
ta* US “ a9 1 first experiment of the Dry
Dock been perfectly successful, and we can,
therefore, confidently assure the owners or
masters a ll vessels either visiting, or dsss
b’y our port, when in need of repairs, that
th Vy will be amply accommodated by the Sa
vannah Dry Dock Company.— Savannah Geor
gian, 25th inst.
Exfloringfor Gold —The Stockton Jour
nal, of December 11th, gives the following:
“ A gentleman recently down from Burns*
Diggings, informs us that very active ex
plorations are at present in progress in that
vicinity. He says that from a hill overlook
ing a large tract he could see more than two
hundred men, in small parties, with hammer
in hand, exploring for gold in quartz ; and he
thinks they could be compared to nothing bet
ter than a party of boy* ‘ out on a hickory
nut expedition.’ All were hammering away,,
and examining with glasses the quartz ex
tracted. It is the opinion of all who havv»
been exploring in that neighborhood, thai
Burns is an exceedingly rich deposit of me*
teliferous veins.”