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the constitutionalist.
JAMES GARDNER* JR.
TO WHO! TO WHO!
The following very clever dun was written by
Ferey Howe, whilom editor of the “ Pine Knot.”
It is capital:
'Twas on a cold autumnal night,
A dismal one to view j
Dark clouds obscured fair Venus's light,
And not a star appeared in sight,
As the thick forest through
Muggins—as usual—“ blue,”
Beat homeward “ tacking” left and right j
When all at once he “ brought up” right
Against an old dead yew ;
At which he “ rounded to,”
And “ squaring off,” as if to fight,
Said witti an oath 1 shan't indite,
“ Infernal scouadrel you!
Light—an' I’ll lick you, black or white !
Justthen'above him flew
An Owl, which on a branch did light,
A few feet o'er the boozy wight,
Ai d then commenced “ To who —
Tc-who-tu-Who—Towhoo!"
Quoth Muggins—“ Don't you think to fright
A fellow of my weight and height
With your Teh Whoo, tee who,
You cursed bugab jo !
An' it you’re Belzebub, it's quite
On-necessary you should light—
For Muggins ain't your ‘‘ dues,”
For money matters are all right !
The Printer's paid up—honor bright !
Thereat the Owl withdrew,
And Muggins mizzled too.
But there are other chaps who might
be caught out late some d sm il night
Who haven't paid what’s due!
They know—to who—to who!
, ~ . » i J,'. J1 .. . » "JIH
(From the N. Y Evening Post.)
Cotton Politics and Cotton Principles-
The public attention is called to a hand bill
which purports to have been issued in this
city, and has been circulated, we learn, very
extensively in the Slave States. Merchants
and others here have received copies from the
South, the persons sending them being desi
rous, it is presumed, to keep us posted up as
to what is doing among us. In re-publishing
this hand-trill no design is entertained of do
ing service to the enterprising editors who seem
to have enlisted in their support a few ot our
mercantile firms who deal largely in cotton —
goods—and several prominent politicians, who
are “clothed in” Gotton, “and f <re sumptuously
every day but the object is to let the peo
ple of the North—mercantile, mechanical, pro
fessional and agricultural—see what strange
unions, combinations and amalgamations, are
made no v-a-days for the preservation of the
Unidn and the sale of cotton goods and cotton
principles!
“ A Southern Press in New Yory.
“ The Cheapest Business and Family Paper
in the World.
“The Weekly Journal.
“ A commercial and general independent
newspaper, with this title, is published every
Saturday morning, at 122$ Fulton and 2 Wall
streets, New York, (office of the Day Book,)
at the low price of
“Two dollars per Annum.”
(Here follows a statement of what the rea
ders may expect in the columns of this “ South
ern Press in New York.” Its columns “ arc
not occupied with romances and sentimental
fiction, &c., &c ” From this statement we
copy the following paragraph,)
“ The Day Book has taken strong ground
against the abolition movement in the North,
and in favor of carrying out the Fugitive Law.
It, was the first to suggest the calling ot a U
nionMeetin- of the Merchants, and has been
condemned and abased for taking the part of
the South, and publishing the names ot mer
cants in this city who live on Southern irade,
and at the same time are spending the profits
of that trade in publishing abolition tracts and
newspapers. There are a good many cf this
sort in the North, and this paper is pledged to
tell the South who they are. It will ‘cry
aloud and spare not/ as long as there is an
opposer of the Fugitive Slave Law in the
land.”
Underneath this prospectus is the following,
in large type ; the mercantile firms belonging
to this city :
“ We are subscribers to the “Day Book”
from which the “ Weekly Journal” is com
piled, and we recommend it to the public as
deserving of patronage, and worthy the atten
tion of country merchants:
Carleton & Co., Daniel Webster, Mass.
F. S. &D. Lathrop, Jefferson Davis, Miss.
Doremus k Nixon, Henry S. Foote, Miss.
Gilbert,Prentiss & Tut- Daniel S. Dickinson,
tie, New York.
Henrys,Smith&Town- George E. Badger, N.
send, Carolina.
Blackfield & West, Lewis Cass, Mich.
Woodbury, Hope & Co. F. Granger, N. Y.
Clark & Work, Wm. Duer, N. Y.
The disreputable sheet to which tne forego
ing alludes, has been widely circulated over
the Southern country, and mail afcer mail has
brought us copies oi the purporting
to endorse the most indecent print in our coun
try. But it was no affair of ours,and if for a short
period our Southern friends desire to be de
ceived and imposed upon, we were content to
let them have their way, well satisfied that
time and reflection would correct the evil.
We may not longer, however, neglect a no
tice of this scurrilious and disgraceful publi
cation. The article which we copy from the
Post, compels men who w mid s and well at
home, to separate their names from such a vile
publication; and we are requested and au
thorized to say, to the merchants, traders, and
gentlemen of the South, that the certificate of
endorsement having the signatures of Daniel
Webster, and other distinguished politicians,
and Gilbert, Prentiss & Tuttle, and other high
ly re-pectable merchants, is a GROSS and
DELIBERATE FORGERY. That it was
signed by Carleton & Co., and Henrys, Smith
& Townsend, we can readily believe, because
we find the Day Book filled with their adver
tisement and descriptions of their places of
business. It is doubtless in their employ and
endorsed by them to obtain Southern custom ;
but with some exceptions, this endorsement
is denounced as an impudent FORGERY.—
The Post contains the following ;
To the Editors of the Evening Post :
In a communication in your paper of the
Ist inst., entitled “ Cotton Politics and Cot
ton Principles,” is embodied the copy of a
hand-bill issued by the editors of the Day
Book and Weekly Journal, headed “ A South
ern Press in New York,” &c., purporting to
be signed by our own firm among others. We
beg to inform our friends and the public, that
our name is used entirely without our au
thority or approbation.
Gilbert, Prentiss & Tuttle.
New York, February 4, 1851.
Our readers will bear in mind that in Octo
ber last, this same “ Day Book,” acting no
doubt, under instigation ot certain silk mer
chants who desire to possess themselves of the
trade of Bowen & McNamee, openly denounced
that firm ag abolitionists. Whereupon that
firm published the following card :
▲ CARD.
*• The public, including the New York Jour
nal of Commerce, are informed that we are
eilk merchants, and keep an exclusive and
well assorted stock of goods, which we offer
to responsible buyers on reasonable terms. As
individuals, we entertain our own views on
various religious, moral and political ques
tions of the day, which we are neither afraid
vashatned to declare on all proper occasions,
ibove Ne*.
jan 31
But we wish it distinctly understood that our
goods and not our principles , are in the market.
The attempt to punish us as merchants , for the
exercise of our liberty as citizens , we leave to
the judgment of the community.
Bowen & McNamee.”
We considered this a manly and very proper
rebuke of those who attempted to injure them;
and in publishing their card, made the follow
ing remarks:
“We comply with the request of Messrs.
Bowen & McNamee, by inserting the above
card in our reading columns. All our readers
may not be aware of the practices which have
led them to publish it. There are two or
three newspapers in the city which have or
ganized a system of bullying merchants into
subscribing to them, advertising in their col
lumns, or lending their conductors money. —
The manner in which they operate is by de
nouncing them as abolitionists, and by taking
special pains to send these denunciations to
their customers in Southern States. Rival
houses in the same line of business with those
denounced, sometimes buy up large numbers
of these papers and send them to merchants
in the South, whose trade they thus seek to
draw off. Some of these papers openly de
mand advertising patronage or subscriptions,
as the fee for discontinuing these attacks.
They denounce merchants also for taking or
advertising in other papers than their own,
and exact a discontinuance of such patronage
and its transfer to themselves, as the price of
their forbearance.”
As iiluscratiag the purpose and object of
the Day Book and those merchants who use
its columns to filch from their neighbors their
legitimate business, we copy from the Albany
(Georgia) Patriot, the following foul libel
upon honest men, based upon the publications
made by this disreputable sheet:
“The New York Day Book publishes the
following names of New York wholesale Job
bing merchants as thorough goin ; abolition
ists, whose customers are chiefly Southern
merchants:
“ Bowen & McNamee,
“ Chittenden & Bliss,
“ Perrins & Warren,
“ Hopkins & Allen,
“ Simeon Draper, Jr.,
“ Hunt & Daniel.
“We learn from some of our merchants
that they have been large customers of some
of these houses, without knowing their char
acters ; but they are determined never to buy
another dollar’s worth of them, or any other
abolitionist knowingly.”
The infamy of this forgery, is only equalled
by its impudence. Mr. Webster, and others
whose names are thus qsefi to endorse a con
cern which no respectable person will suffer
to come into their houses, would as soon
think of setting at defiance every principle of
honor and honesty, as to be found guilty of
encouraging such a Press, or of gravely re
commending the establishment of a Southern
Press at the North, or a Northern Press a. the
South, He and they, have never directly or
indirectly, encouraged such merely sectional
proceeding. Mr* Webster knows that it would
be the surest mode of exciting sectional war
ware and prejudice ; and thereby destroy the
harmony, if not endanger the perpetuity of
the Union between the North and the South.
How many of the merchants whose signatures
appear attached to this endorsement of the
vilest print in this city, actually signed it, we
will not pretend to say. We do not doubt
but Carleton & Co. and Henrys, Smith and
Townsend, signed it. But Gilbert, Prentiss
8s Tuttle are incapable of such an act; and we
know that others have indignantly denied
tha they ever saw or heard of it, until it was
sent to them from the South. Whenever they
pursue the course adopted by Gilbert, Pren
tiss & Tuttle, we shall be happy to lay" their
denial before our readers.
It so happens that we never, by any acci
dent, have seen a copy of the Day Booh , except
when brought to us by a party assai ed in his
business, complaining of the merchants who
are evidently sustaining this vile concern for
very unworthy motives. We hear, however,
that very frequently, this and the wri
ter, have been assailed in its columns in its
peculiar style of Billingsgite. This is not of
the slightest moment; but we feel it incum
bent on us to say to our Southern brethren,
that a viler press, or one more dangerous to
the peace of the eoun'ry, has never been pub
lished; and they owe it to themselves, to good
morals, and to the love of Union, not only to
resent the vile imposition winch has been
practised upon them, but to mark well the
names of the northern merchants who are wil
ling to continue and encourage such a Press,
in the desperate hope of thereby obtaining
Southern custom. Such conduct is not com
plimentary to the intelligence of the South;
while it is a gross insult to the North ani
West, and will most certainly be resented by
them. We do not believe—now that the good
sense of the people ot the whole country is
rapidly doing away with all sectional feel
ing, excitement and agitation—that the digue
of northern traders who haye demeaned them •
selves by denouncing everything northern
that was not ultra in regar J to Southern feel
ing, will reap any advantage from their con
duct. Their motives have been too apparent
even to tjhs South; while both the North and
the South, cannot fail indignantly to denounce
and punish such disreputable trafficking in
those feelings of brotherly affection which
should e?ist between brothers of a common
ancestry, bound together by every tie which
consanguinity, fraternal relations, patriotism
and a love of country, can create. The perils
and privations of our revolution, were shared
alike by our fathers; they snared together the
blessings of civil and religious liberty which
the establishment of our independence secur
ed; and we their children, have not only en
tered jointly upon the enjoyment of that rich
inheritance, but jointly and indissolubly do
we stand pledged to the whole civilized world,
to transmit them united, undivid-d, and un
impaired to our posterity.
One word more in regard to the Day Book.
The loan of thirty dollars to itc promisors
would have saved Bowen and McNamee from
its assault !
Again, we are authorized and reque-ted to
assert, upon the authority of one of the best
known gentlemen in our city—a gentleman
whose name is known in every S ate of the
Union—that one of the proprietors of the Day
Booh, formerly a c erk in the employ of Arthur
Tappan & Co.—staled to the gentleman refer
red to, that it was his intention to attack the most
distinguished persons in this City to make his
paper known ; and he attempted to extort money
from him under a threat of being denounced ! !
Do our Southern Bretnren desire to have
anything further to do with a Press which
couid forge endorsements of character and
avow such abominable principles as these?
And what think they of the merchants who
sustain this press and figure in its columns?
Newspaper Assurance —We understand
that the editors of the Day Book have refused
to withdraw the name of Messrs. Gilbert,
Prentice & Tuttle from a circular which they
have been distributing through the southern
states, containing a card purporting to recom
mend that print to public patronage, notwith
standing the public denial by those gentlemen
of ever having lent their names to any such
purpose.
Since Messrs. Gilbert P. & T.’snote appear
ed, we nave learned that six out of the eight
firms whose names appear on the Day Book
hand bill, are alike the victims of Messrs.
Stimpfon and Foster’s assurance. They do
not choose to follow Messrs. G. P. k T.'s
manly example, because they do not wish to
become subjects of newspaper discussion, but
they hold in proper contempt the impudent
liberty taken by those mercenary journalists.
We have also learned, within a day or two,
that at least one of the Washington dignita
ries, whose name figures on that handbill,
never recommended, subscribed for, nor coun
tenanced the Day Book, nor either of its edi
tors, directly or indirectly. In fact we have
great doubts whether there is one genuine
signature to the recommendation referred to,
except that of Mr. a. b. c. Carleton’s,which we
presume and hope is genuine.
We have also undersood that Mr. Stimpson,
one of the editors of the Day Book, has de
nied that he was in the habit, while a clerk
of Arthur Tappan’s, of carrying refreshments
to George Thompson, the abolition lecturer,
during his concealment in the lofts of Mr.
Tappan’s store. We have not seen the de
nial, but if it has been made—as the story or
ginated in this paper—we feel bound to say
that the only authority we had for it, was Mr.
Stimpson himself, who boasted of the achieve
ment to an acquaintance of ours, who com
municated the tact to us after it had already
reached us in one of the veracious epistles of
John Brown.
Whether Mr. Stimpson told the truth then,
or subsequently, when .he contradicted his
own statement in the Day Book, if he has
done so, can be better judged of, by those
more familiar than we are with his general
reputation for truth and varacity.
By the way, willthe Editors of the In
eependent please to inform us how many
weeks have elapsed since Mr. a. b, c. Carleton
ceased to be subscribe to their journal?
[A r . Y. Evening Post.
(From the N. Y Journal of Commerce.)
History of the First Steamship that ever
Crossed the Atlantic.
To the Atnerioan steamship Savannah, built
by Crocket and Fickett, at Coalaer’s Hook, in
this ci'.y, is universally conceded the honor of
being the first steam propelled vessel that ever
crossed the Atlantic Ocean. From the mem
ory of one oi those who formed her crew, (Mr.
A. Thomas, th n fireman,) and believed to be,
with one exception, the only survivor, we are
enabled to give a succinct narrative of her
voyage. According to his understanding of
the facts, she vya§ built by a company of gen
tlemen with a v.ew of selling her to the Em
peror of Russia. This company was organiz
ed through the agency of Uapt Moses Rogers,
afterwards her commander. The Savannah
was a vessel of 380 tons, ship rigged, and was
furnished with a hor aontal enguie. This was
placed between decks—boilers in the lower
hold,
The Savannah sailed from New York fin the
second year of the Presidency of James Mon
roe,’ to u»e the words of our informant, or in
the year 1819. She first went to Savannah.
The passage occupied several days, four of
which she was under steam. There she was
chartered by the corporation, as an act of cour
tesy, to proceed to Charleston for the purpose
of affording President Monroe, who was then
on a travelling tour thiough the States, a
pleasure excursion. For some reason he fail
ed to go, and the steamer retqrned to Savan
nah. While there, forming an object of much
attraction, she took out a pleasure party to
Tybee Light. From Savannah she proceeded
direct to Liverpool, where she arrived after a
passage of eighteen days, during seven of
which she was under steam.
When about entering St. George’s Channel,
off the city of Cork, she wa9 descried by the
commander of the British fleet, then lying at
that city. Seeing a huge mass of smoke as
cending from the vessel, enveloping her rig
-1 ging, and overshadowing the sky, he naturally
j inferrei that a vessel was on fire or in distress,
j and with commendable promptitude dispatch
ied two cutters to her relief. After passing
j near her a few times, taking a full survey,
and firing a few guns across her stern, the
steamer was boarded. Finally, being satisfied
that all was right, the cutter bore away. The
news of her approach having been telegraphed
to Liverpool, as she drew near the city, with
j her sails furled and the American colors flying,
the pier-heads were thronged by many thous
| and persons, who greeted her with the most
enthusiastic cheers. Before she came to her
; anchor, the decks were so crowded, that it was
! with difficulty that the men could move from
! one part of the vessel to another, in the per
! formance of their duty. She was afterwards
visited by many persons of distinction, and de
parted for Elsinore, on her way to St. Peters-
I bqrg. She next toq.cb.ed at Copenhagen,
| where she remined two weeks. During her
| stay, Mr. Hughes, the American Consul, went
| out in her on a pleasure excursion fourteen
| miles, accompanied by the King, and other
j note i personages. From Copenhagen she went
ito Cronstadt and St Petersburg. Not being
| able to ge. over the bar at the latter place she
! lay opposite the city, six miles distant. Here,
too, she -was visited by the American Consul,
Mj\ Campbell, and by the Emperor. Here, as
at ether places, she was an object of much
wonderment. She, however, was not sold, as
had been expected, and sailed for home, put
ting into Erhngton, on the coast of Norway,
!on the passage From the latter place she
| was 22 days in reaching Savannah.—On ac
! count of the high price of fuel, she carried no
j steam on the return passage, and she wheels
| were taken off. A similar course was adopted
j during a portion of tr.e time occupied by the
passage out from the U. States. As it was
! nearly or cjuite impossible to carry sufficient
fuel for the voyage, during the pleasant weath
er the wheels were removed, and canvass sub
stituted. On entering Liverpool, the more
effectually to ‘astonish the natives,’ the wheels
were restored. At the completion of this
voyage the Savannah was purchased by Capt.
N. Holdredge, divested of her steam appara
tus, and used as a packet between Savannah
and New York. She subsequently went ashore
on Lons; Island and broke sip.
Although CLpt. Rodgers was offered SIQO,-
000 for her by the King of S weden, to be paid
in hemp and iron, delivered at New York,
Philadelphia and Boston, the offer was npt
accepted the cash being wanted. It is said
that $50,000 or $70,000 was sunk in this
transaction.
Capt. Rodgers, the commander of the Sa
vannah, died a few years ago on the Pee Dee
River, N. C. He is believed to be the first man
that run a steamboat either to Philadelphia or
Baltimore. The mate was named S.ephen
Rodgers, and now resides at London, Ct.
The Self Constitute® Leaders of the
Union Party.— The pretentions put forth by
a few of the would-be leaders of the Union
party in Georgia, are per ectly ridiculous.
These men talk as if the Union party was
formed for their accommodation—belonged to
them,and cou.id|beused for their special bene
fit;and they tinea en with their vengence every
man who is not willing to cringe, and bend
the knee, as they have done, to Northern fan
atics, or political demagogue-. Have these
men yet to learn that the real Union party is
not a political party? It can only be created
by necessity, and cannot be kept together any
'longer than the events which created it, exist.
Tnere is but one bond that binds together the
honest Union men. When the Union was
believed to be in danger, man of all parties,
and every creed combined to save the Union.
When the danger passed by, the necessity of
the combination ceased—the only bond that
united them is severed, and the combination
is resolved into its original elements.
But there happened to be a great many
broken-down politicians in Georgia; these
men, like drift wood upon the water, float
which ever way the current runs, and it is not
surprising that a large portion of them floated
off in the great Union freshet; and now be
cause they went with the crowd, and was car
ried along by the current, they demand that
they shall be rewarded with office, and pay,
because they went with the great Union par
ty. It might be interesting to examine, what
claims these self-elected leaders have upon
the confidence and gratitude of their fellow
citizens. Have they ever served their country
faithfully in the field, or have they battled
manfully for the rights of the south in her
councils? Neither! far from it. Many of
them during the wars with Britain and Mexi
co abused their own Government, and gave
aid and comfort to the enemy, and when the
South is assailed, they boast of what they will
do, until they can get the promise of an office
—then they are willing to acquiesce. Let the
Union men throughout the State mark these
men. They had lost the confidence of the
people, and now they wish to use the great
Union p rty to help them to office. Was the
Union party formed for their benefit? Is it
held together only to help political mounte
banks to obtain office? Months ago these men
proclaimed to the world that the Union was
saved; but for fear that their services will not
be duly appreciated, some of them are hinting
that the Union saving again. Is the
of such brittle meterials that it
will not hold together a moment without the
aid. of these political tinkers?
‘As if the Union was intended,
For nothing else but to be mended.'’
The people are satisfied that the Union has
been hammered upon enough for the present,
and are quite willing to dismiss these tinkers,
and let them return to their former employ
ments. When they want their services they
will call upon them; but they are determined
that the great C nion party shall never be used
asja ladder by which political jugglers shall
climb into office.
THE CONSTITUTIONALIST.
ilagttsta, Georgia.
THURSDAY MORNING, FEB. 20.
IdF* See first page.
New-York Day Book-
This little sheet, of huge pretensions to zeal
for the South,, and hatred to Abolitionists, has
provoked from a portion of the New York
press an awkward exposure of its real claims
to the support and confidence of the Southern
public. It struck us as very marvellous that
a Northern paper, even in the great city of
New-York, which derives so much of its
prosperity from the South, and from slave la
bor, should display such disinterested devo
tion to the South and her cause. Such a
phenomenon required a solution in conformity
to the ordinary motives that governed men's
actions. The mirvel is explained, and our
readers need no longer be at a loss to compre
hend this new experiment on Southern gulli
bility.
Some who have subscribed for the Dag
Book may, perhaps, come to the conclusion
that it is “rather too much pork for a shil
ling/ 1 *
New Publications-
We have received from the publishers, A.
S. Barnes & Co., New York, the following
school books for the use of children. “ Juve
nile Philosophy,” “ First Lessons in Botany
“ First Lessons in Natural Philosophy .”
Also, a work, 1 vol. duodecimo, got up with
much neatness and seemingly well calculated
to interest the mathematical student, entitled
The Logxo of Mathematics, by Chas. Da
vies, L. L. D„, For sale by Richards & Son.
Westminster Review. —The January num
ber has been laid on our table by the Agent,
Mr. Thomas Courtney,
Mechanics’ Ball*
This Ball will come off to-morrow evening,
at the Masonic Hall. Already a large num
ber have purchased tickets.
Mortality on Shipboard. — i’he ship Co
lumbia, from Liverpool via Fayal, which ar
rived at New-York on Friday evening last,
has had seventeen deaths during the voyage
and has now several cases of sickness on
board.
Scarcity of Silver. —The export of specie
from New-York for the t\yo weeks ending
Saturday, was $577,008, of which $445,813
were in silver coin. Os American half dol
lars alone $245,841 were exported.
A Self loading Gun.— Mr. Porter, resid
ing at or near Memphis, has constructed a
most novel and curious ’.fire-arm, called the
“self-loading gun,” in which the simple oper
rtion of to shoot, by the assistance
of valves or equivalents, separates from the
magazine attached to the gun the materials
for each load, and loads the gun.—lt is capa
ble of being discharged forty times in a min
ute, and shoots a ball with tremendous force,
and with usual exactness. The editor of the
Memphis Enquirer, after careful examination
and repeated experiments, is satisfied that
nothing which can bear comparison with it
in efficiency, has been discovered, and that no
“revolver” of any kind approaches it in de
structiveness, or in the adaptation of the means
of safety against accidents in their use.
(Telegraphed for the Charleston Courier .)
Baltimore, Feb. 18.
Arrival of the Crescent City —The steamer
Crescent City has arrived at New York from
Chagres, bringing two hundred and eighteen
passengers.
Savannah, Feb. 18, 12, M.
Arrival of the Phrida. —The steam ship
Florida, from New York, arrived this morn
ing, at 8 o’clock, with 40 passengers and a full
freight.
(From the Charleston Courier .)
Delegates to Stato Convention.
Yorh District. —W. A. Latta, Rev. R. Y.
Russel, J. S. Moore, Rev. A. White, Dr. R. T.
Allison.
Darlington District.— Geo. W. Dargan,
E. W. Charles, J. J. Evans, E. A. Law.
St. John’s Colleton.—Hon. W. B. Sea
brook, Col. E. M. Whaley, Hugh Wilson, Jr.
St. Luke’s Parish.—J. G. Hugenin, R. J.
Davant.
Inquest. —The body ot Mr. Wm. Griffith
who was drowned from the Dry-Dock about
three weeks since, was found yesterday in the
river about four miles below the city An
inquest was held by Coroner Eden, and a ver
dict returned of accidental drowning.
\Savannah Rebublican, 18fA inst.
( Telegraphed for the Baltimore Sun.)
Farther Per- Africa•
We received, at a late hour Saturday night,
the gratifying news of the safety of the steam
er Atlantic, and of all her passengers, and the
arrival of the latter in New York. The At
lantic, it will be seen by the annexed account,
has survived a tremendous storm, and, as we
have predicted from the first, reached the
shore in safety.
New Yobk, Feb. 15, 1851.
The Royal Mail Steamer Africa arrived
here last evening, bringing the gladsome in
telligence of the safety of the steamer Atlan
tic, so long missing, and her passengers, about
whom there was so much anxiety.
It will be recollected that the steamer At
lantic left Liverpool on the 28th December.
She was then in fine steaming condition and
without any apprehension on the part of her
officers in regard to the voyage. It was blow
ing a strong gale from the W. S. W. at the
time oi her departure, so much so as to render
it impossible to land the pilot. On the 29th
Dec. at 9£ P. M., she passed Cape Clear and
fairiy commenced the voyage for America by
plunging at once into a heavy head sea and
encountering stormy, strong western gales,
which continued without intermission from
that time up to the day of the accident, which
occurred on the 6th January, at noon, when
in latitude 46 12 and longitude 41 West. It
blowed a strong gale from N. N. W.
At 6£, P. M. the engine was stopped, as it
was first supposed, by the engineer, on ac
count ol the breaking of an eccentric rod to
the starboard engine. On examination it was
determined to go ahead again, working that
engine by hand, but another turn of the
wheels proved that the accident was ot a se
rious nature. The main shaft was found to
be broken completely, though in a diagonal
direction, tearing the starboard tiller biock.
An additional revolution after the first stop
page caused one part of the shaft to lap over
the ether, thus fracturing both tiller blocks,
and rendering the engine perfectly useless.
The steamer was at once hove to under strong
canvas, the wheels lashed, and all hands em
ployed during ihe night and the following day
in sending up her square yards and stripping
her wheels of the fleets, a task at once difficult
and dangerous in a gale of wind. The decks
at the time were covered with ice. Fortu
nately this was accomplished without acci
dent. On the 7th and Bth she lay to with
hope of an abatement of the storm and a
change of wind.
The Captain and all hands were exceeding
ly anxious to reach some port on the Ameri
can coast. On the 9th the wind hauled to
the northwest and became qui r e moderate ;
sail was immediately made and her course
shaped for Halifax, 890 miles-distant, and
New York 1,400 miles. This weather con
tinued until meridian of the 10th, when an
observation placed the ship 180 miles south,
and 70 miles west of her position at the t me
of the accident. A gale now sprung up again
from the southwest, and it became necessary
to heave the ship to ; for even with moderate
weather it was evident to all that she could
do nothing by the wind adverse under canvass.
At 3 o’clock, A. M. of the 11th, a large ship
passed bound to the eastward, but she either
did not see the Atlantic, or, if so, took no no
tice of the signal of distress.
At 10 P. M., afier taking an account of the
stores on board, and considering the apparent
impossibility of reaching America with the
ship in her disabled condition, the captain de
termined, with the assent of his officers and
passengers, to bear up for the coast of Europe,
and. on the 22d day nothing occurred of im
tance. She had strong gales and high seas,
and the ship made an average distance of 150
miles per day, and in that interval run 1,400
miles. At 3 o’clock, P. M. f on the 22d Jan
uary, to the great delight of all, she anchored
safely in the harbor of Cork, Ireland, which
sacs alone, when considering the immense
size of the ship, her small spars, light canvass
and heavy machinery, is sufficient to prove
her a splendid sea boat, and must add in no
small degree to the reputation of her Qom
mander for prudent and superior seamanship.
In regard to the conduct of the passengers,
under such trying circumstances, too much
cannot be said. They bore the misfortune
with becoming and commendable fortitude
and cheerfulness, and testified on leaving her
at Cork their highest regard for her noble
Captain, and expressed a lull conviction that
no better steamer could be placed upon the
seas. They all declared a deep interest in
the vessel, and expres ed a degree of deep
gratitude for their safe return, to which, in a
great degree, they were indebted to the supe
rior management of Captain West and the
surpassing strength of the noble steamer.
The Atlantic had on board 550 tons of
freight, and a considerable quantity of specie,
which the steamer Cambria was chartered to
bring over, and probably sailed from Cork di
rect for New York on the 4th instant,
Before the Africa left, arrangements were
making to tow the Atlantic to Liverpool, for
the purpose of having her repaired.
STILL LATER.
New York, Feb. 17, 1851.
The royal mail steamer Africa arrived at her
wharf last evening, alter a passage of four
teen days from Liverpool. She brings dates
from Liverpool to the fst of February, and
from London to the 81st ult., being two weeks
later.
The most important intelligence she brings
is the return of the Atlan’ie to Cork, and the
safety of her passengers, most of whom came
over in the Africa. [An account of the disas
ter to the Atlantic will be found in another
despatch.]
The Cambria will leave Liveipool on Mon
day, 3d inst.
The steamer Baltic arrived at Liverpool on
Monday, lfth ult.
The City of Glasgow arrived out on Thurs
day, the 30th ult., at 7, a. m., after a passage
of 13 days and 6 hours.
The Niagara arrived out on Monday after
noon, the 27th ult.
France.—A prolonged debate has occurred
in the Assembly, in which the conduct of the
President and Ministers was severely handled.
The debate was concluded on the third day"
with the following resolution :
Resolved, That the Assembly declares it has
no confidence in the Ministers, aud passes to
the order of the clay.
The vote for the order of the day stood 417
against and 278 in favor. Majority against
Ministers, 139. Immediately on the re of
the Assembly, the Ministers went to the Ely
see and ptaced their resignations in the hands
of the President, and their resignations were
accepted.
Paris, 21st January.—The Constitutionnel,
or tne 20th, says: A new Ministry will be
toi med of those who voted against the above
resolution.
Sixty-one members oi the Socialist Society
have been arrested for a conspiracy against the
administration.
Alter the resignation, Leon Fauchier was
entrusted with 'he task of forming the gov
ernment. At first he apparently succeeded;
since then it has been declared he was una
ble to do so.
Louis Napoleon, finding it impossible to
compose a ministry, had recourse to the for
mation ot a ministry from the public function
aries, as follows: Minister of war, Gen. Rau
den; minister of interior, M. Waise; minister
offinance, M. Germiny; minister of public
works, M. Magrie, foreign affairs, M.Bragrier
justice; M. Royer Valient; public instruction,
M. Jar and; minister of commerce, M. Shein
der.
Spain.— Queen Isabella has refused to ac
cept the reisgnation of Navaez, but accepted
it on his declaring he would blow his brains
out if retained in office. A new ministry was
accordingly formed, with Bravo Murialvo as
President. He promises to administer the
laws with strict impartiality.
Belgivm. —Accounts from Brussels to Jan
uary 20, state that the ministers resigned en
masse, in consequence of difficulties spring
ing up between the Minister of War and the
other Ministers of the Cabinet.
Schelswio Holstein.—On January Isth a
patrol was attacked by the Danes at Wend
bye.
The Conference at Ham between Danish
Austria end Prussia has adjourned.
The Holstein troops have continued to re
treat into Holstein, while the Danes are
steadily retreating into Schelsw’ig.
Advices from Hanover state that the Aus
trian coiumn has come to a stand.
The cities of Rendsburg, Altonia, Lubee and
Amburry are to be occupied by French troops,
and it is stated that Frederick will leave the
Danish gerrison.
The official journal of Denmark states that
the King commands that no measures be ta
ken againet the Schleswiegers who have taken
up arms against him. From this act of cle
mency all officers are excluded who were in
service before the 24th March, 1848.
Austria and Prussia.— lt is now positively
stated that no Congress of Continental Mon
archs will take place at Dresden. Dresden
papers state that the govern aents of Austria
and Prussia havq given notice of their inten
tion of forming the Ger nanic contederation
with all provinces subjected to them.
Italy. —Letters from Rome state that the
Papal Court looked forward to the opening of
the British Parliament with great anxiety.—
The persecution of Protestants still continue.
No religion tolerated except Papacy.
Some agents had landed near Rome and
circulated revolutionary documents.
The Markets. — Liverpool , Feb. I.—Cotton.
—At the beginning of the week Cotton was
under much depression—at a £l. decline pre
vious to Tuesday. Since then the market has
recovered its usual tone. The resuit of the
week is a general reduction of |d. from last
quotations.
(Reported for the Baltimore Clipper .)
Thirty-First Congress—Second Session.
Washington, Feb. 15, 1851.
SENATE.
The chair laid before the Senate several ex
ecutive communications in response to re
solutions of the Senate; in regard to the
Mexican instalment under the treaty of Guh
daloup Hidalgo; the correspondence concern
ing the seizure of a Bri ish vessel in Oregon
for a violation of the revenue laws; ana in re
lation to the proposed transfer of the Coast
Survey office from the Treasury to the Navy
Depaitment.
The bills from the House authorizing the
Legislatures of Minesota and Oregon to take
charge of the School laws in those Territories,
and to appoint additional clerks while in ses
sion, were taken up, and passed.
A bill granting a pension to P. B, Walsh
was also passed.
Several resolutions of enquiry were agreed
to.
The Senate then took up the bill to regu
late the fees of marfehals, clerks, attor
neys in the United States Circuit and District
Court.
And after debating various amendments, the
Senate, at 4 o’clock, found itself with, ut a
quorum, and then, adjourned.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
The Hquae met at 11 o’clock this morning,
and resumed the consideration of the River
and Harbor Bill.
Messrs. Featherson, Toombs, Clingman, and
Gorman opposed the bill, and Mr. Taylor
spoke in its fa^or.
The last named gentleman, in the course of
his remarks, alluded with approbation to the
settlement of the questions which agitated the
country last year, and eulogized the President
for his recommendations in relation to the
subject, and said that they were characterized
by moderation and patriotism, and, above all,
by wisdom, and that he should be sustained
by the country. In fact, it was his belief that
nine-tenths of the people would stand by th*
Compromise. All the members of the Cabinet
acquiesced in the recommendation.
Mr. Giddings asked whether his colleague
had any authority for making the asserUon
that Mr. Corwin was in favor of th.u Fugitive
Slave Law.
Mr. Taylor replied, no other than the au
thority of Mr. Webster’s letter to citizens of
West Chester county, New York, in wnieh it
is said that th? members of the Cabinet un
animously sustained the Compromise.
Mr. Giddings was informed by a colleague
on his right that Mr. Corwin stated distinctly
that Mr. Ewing voted as. he (Mr. Corwin,)
would have voted, had he been in the Senate.
Mr. Schenck undertook to say, so far as the
th§ Cabinet from Ohio was con
cerned, that whatever might have been his
Vote on the Fugitive Slave Law, he is entirely
satisfied with the recommendation of the Pre
sident, and under ail the o.rcumstances, pro
per to be made tQ the country.
Mr. Taylor aaid that he was glad that his
colleague had made the statement, as it might
be relied on from a personal interview.
After further proceedings, without taking
tx,e vote, the committee ro*e, and the House
adjourned.
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