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«fc THOMPSON. AUGUSTA, GA. FRIDAY, JULY 14, 1837. VOL. XV.-XEW SERIES, NO. 5.
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• «lvro. i.. - public O-m.-t'., sixty .at. pr.-v...„,
th« il*v of Ml*- . .
VBCKOEd io„.t 1* •' Put.l.c auction, on inn ft"
'll' n il* month, ltnmn*n thn‘l.na l hnumnfißl ■
or public .all* in tlm county whom Urn M
*lan*nur». or Ailminiairano" or r.unnliaiinli !>■
’ b.*n yraiilml. first siTinc su rv p*ys
lio'public Gamtlnsofiliis Slain, bin, o'
door of llm Court-houcn whom sucl, sains an- to t>
in- for ch*- sain of IVrsonalProperty must b- »l»nn ii
*. roe rv otv. pr-vimu to day of sale.
wtll , h , ivbtorp ami rnslitoie of auErttue, wurtb,
Ifleem... sell LAVO.
lectorl-’arc[osnl! \F:(.itnßl«. muslbn|„ihn.hmlH «
OTTHS, before any order absolute nan b,- mad,- by ti e
•ft’. BI>AY MORNING, JULY 11. 1P37.
Y\Vp have been requested to state that ( hecks
\ eW v or k f at sight, may he purchased at the
nk of Augusta, with notes of the Central Bunk
Georgia, at par.
ft* We stated in the notice we took of the elec
i for a member of Congress in the 3d cli tnrt of
maylvania,that public feeling watolw*v» duc
ting m that district, and that if any victory has
, n won, it was by the democrats. To show that
were correct in our position, we gave only the
alt of the elections which look place in that dis
t in I S3l and 1836, which should have been pre
led by the result of the elec ions in 1830 and 1832,
i which we now lav before our readers. Col.
iimongh is a decided whig and Hankman.
n 1830, the majority of Watrauugh over Miller
*672.
n 1832, the majority of Watinough over Burden
Lewis was 93).
i 1831, the majority of Ash, the democratic can
ile w as 1159.
11896, the majority of Harper, the democratic
ididate was 93
i 1837, majority of Naylor over Ingersoll, ‘231.
GEORGIA BANKS,
he Globe, in giving the statement showint the
iilino of the banks located in Savannah, which
published a few days ago incur paper,observes;
le above condition of the hanks in Savannah i*
thy of nil imitation elsewhere. Specie pay-
Us would he resinned to morrow, over the whole
mry. had the hanks been generally as provident
hose in cCitannah. In laet, (lie hanks in the
le of Georgia lake the lend of nil others.”
he hanks located in Angustn, exhibit a condi
i which must hr gratifying to their friends, and
hose who feel un interest in the credit and repo
on of our Stu e abroad. According to state
its recently published by five of oi r hanks,
H»ly, the Bunk of Augusta, Mechanics' Bank,
nch of the Stale Bank, Branch of the Georgia
il Bond Bank, and the Insurance and Banking
npany, out of t x in operation in our city, their
illation in the hegirumig of June amounted to
BjjHlf, nr.d in the lx*» inning us thc/nomih io
343 555: showing n reduction of circulation in
• mofiih of $170,259. In the beginning of June,
se five banks hud in specie i *7os.5-<3, and in ihe
tinning of (hit* month $770,386; showing an in
ase of specie in one month of $l,BOl. In the
turning of June their promissory notes, hills of
•hange, Ac. amounted to $1,768,026, and in the
[inning of this month io §4,551,873: allowing a
(ailment of $217,053.
EXTENSIVE CONFL VGRATION,
lie Cliurlcstoti Courier of the 1 tli instant say*:
is quarter past 3 o’clock, yesterday morning,
citizens w ere aroused from their slumbers, to
ness a destructive couflauruiion. It originated
i Kitchen oo the promts' s of Mr. Clark. South
i*of Q.i en street,consumed tfie dwe'liog »»f-hat *
illeman, and extended both E-siunr v . .
•mwardly. The huildiPgs o il < ! ,i : i•«
ck. the Humes did no adv > > . tir in ih.ti direr- 1
i.althoouh the w nd wu» Westerly, hut those •» j
lout 1». ' . we e swept to the corner of King j
-i-i street to the Quaker Meeting j
-i tv which was blown up.”
‘’.’l. \MKL MACON.
I>«‘ • ;»t hos this unod and eminent man, is time
iced by the Richmond Enquirer:
'he whole nation will sincerely share in this
p regret.—Mr Macon was one of those Patriots
0 fill a vast spare in the milium eye.—He was
•ng lime a ember of ( (ingress from the Sia’e
°nl» ( arolin i He was in the House of Repre•
•■lives in the trying crisis of ’‘3B-98—and for
JY years afterwards.—He was once Speaker
ie House—and he subsequently served ns a
abend the Senate of the I idled States. At all
Ps hewm.a fern Republican—the pure Patriot
ie excellent Citizen—the honest man. No one
r mere completely rea'i/ed the elevated char
■r oi the Roman Poet, “Justum ft tenneem pro
>,} l,r «w ” Hut we forbear.—We leave it to
er pens to do justice to Nathaniel Macon,
le was <he bosom friend of Jefferson and of
di.mn—No one was more devoted to him, than
in Randolph— No one had formed a loftier j
niori oi him. than he di I upon the most intimate
luumtance. In the paper which he wrote lor Ins >
• wi.l in January, 1H32, ho h aves the following
morahle tribute in honor of his friend:
‘I o Nailianiel Macon I give and bequeath m' r i
e*t high silver candlesticks, my silver punch I
ie with whalebone handle, a pair of silver cans
in handle* and my crest engraved (hereon, my :
il metal uishes that have nty crest of J, R.ntold
gush letters engraved then on, also the phi e* j
h the sflrne engraving thfe choice of lot.r oi my j
t voting mares and gelding.-, and the gold watch
Routed, that was Tudor’s, with the gold chain; j
J m»y every blessing attend him, the best and
utand wisest man .hail ever knew."
NEW YORK BANKS.
' p ro PV from ihe Albany Argus, the following
cud aggregate statement of the condition of the
k« of the Stale of New York,on the Is: ol June,
*’ ,a *' en from their reports to the bank commis
iers,agreeably m law.
total resources of the 96 banks
counted bills and notes, 64,391,299
7 1, ; ,n «' 5,132,565
,[ SUUo > I.7JU, 16-)
rurawn accounts, 523,014
•ens s and personal estate, 291,979
*- fund . 623,533
'2 802 313
es of other banks, 5J8L889
‘ckb and other cash items, 1,492,76.8
| rrom ri, y Imnks, 6,044,209
' * r V m o'her hanks and corporations, 7,090,007
er mvestraenia, 3,219,12 4
$93,532,937
TOTAL LIABILITIES.
»ial stock 34,351,460
notes m circulation, 14,910,498
»»■ Uj the hanks, 3,495,682
1 canal fund, 2,052,588
' Treasurer, 2, 1A2,950
! I j Trea * ure r, 4,143,389
«Individual depositors, 14,526,813
toeads unpaid, 136J6«
’ city banks, 4,926,287
• outer banks and corporations, 7,595.78:
" 6,329,726
ler labilities, 2,941,59*2
$98,582,937
e foregoing stauraant embraces all the banks
e state, with the exception of the Manhattan
pnny, the Delaware and Hudson Canal com pa
ny, the Pry Dock Bank, the Brooklyn Bank, the
>nekett’s Harbor Bank und the Eockport Rank
The charters of the l\v# named hunks are re
pealed; the Brooklyn Bank, not having suspended
specie payment, * not required to make monthly
statements, utuf the Dry Dock Bank is under an in
junction.
LATEST*FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
(>»c slips received on Sunday morning, contain
ed later news from England, brought by on arrival
ut Boston from Liverpool The following extracts
are the mo>t interesting :
(From the London Time* y Mnv 26 )
Money Mirket. —The abundance ol money at the
Stock Exchange induces the npprehen.-ion that we
may have n new influx of foreign securities, and
the exchanges once morn turned against us. Th«
remedy is easy and obvious enough, but il is not
so easy to induce who have me power to ap
ply it. The hanks should bring the dead-we ght to
market. This is so clear a policy under present cir
cumstance that, were ihe directors not deterred by
the paramount consideration with them of keeping
up the amount of the dividend, there could be no
doubt of their to resort to it without de
lay. especially, b »un.l ns they are to give all the
a- •v-iane- that may he required to the American
houses. They cannot make money scarce by any
arrangement out of doors that would not hen breach
of such implied engagements on their part, and they
could not reach the Stock Exchance by any other
process whatever than that of selling public secu
rities.
•If any prognost c f'nn he formed from present np
pearances. they will soon he driven to such a mea
sure, which never could ho a tempted at a more
favorable period Ai a full price the dead weight
annuity would find ready purchasers,and its intro
duction would check at once the introduction of
foreign stock, and probably in some degree of the
American hank paper.
The letters from Liverpool speak rather more
favorably of the Mate of business there. Some to
lerably large sales of cotton had taken place, chief
ly of American description, and ul previous quota
tions; but they observe, that without some improve
ment in the prices of codon, the large holders will
experience considerable difficulty in meeting their
obligation*. Prices are still much below the rates
at w hich the goods were purchased
There has been very little money business of any
k'nd done to-day; indeed, the Stork Exchange, the
Royal Exchange, Lloyd's, Ac. have been compara
tively deserted. I very fling wears the appear
ance of a holyday, and there was no topic to arouse
speculation or activity.
In English funds there were, therefore, very few
transactions throughout ihc - i!ay. Prices have not
been effected. Consols closed at 9i4 sellers, and
for the July account 911 to k. Exchequer hills
have quite recovered from the slight depression
which the rumored idon of reducing the interest
had occasioned, and they and the India bonds ar.
once nv»re nearly equal in price. Exchequer hills
left fffirm at 3lsto 36 s premium; India bonds are
35s to 37s premium: Bank stock, 2064 to 7.
The Liverpool < hronicle says that the letters
from the manufacturing districts are more sattslac
lory.
In Spain, the Queen’s troops hud had a battle
with the Carlists at Isun, and were victorious. The
Uarlists were on the retreat at the last accounts
The Portuguese Ministers hud all resigned, in con
sequence ofl lie decision of the ( ones yoi io allow
them under secretaries of state.
Letters from Toulon, state that Gen. Dugeaud
had mar* hed against Abdel Kader.
LIVERPOOL, ny 26.—C0/.on —We have had
a good extent of busines doing this week, and on
the w hole, a firmer market at about id advance on
New Orleans, .Mobile, and Bowed—Mnrnnhams
h vc be* n sold at id to id under our quotations of
last week, but good PiTiiants and Babins maintain
the rules ibeii quoted. In t-mrut, Ate. there is not any •
cIIIIOL'P
LIVERPOOL May 26.— Cotton. —A good extent
of business doing this week, arid on the whole a
firmer market, ut about id advance on N ew ()r
leans, Mobile and Bowed. Mnranliams have been
• old .1 i a id under our quo'ii'ions of last w*»rU, Inn
go*>d Pernnins and Baliias maintain ihe rntrfcihen
quoted. In Surals, Ate. no change. There was
very little inclination to hid at the Sen Island off r
ed by auction to d.iv.nnd only three loti w ere sold,
and lluee at 3d per Ih. under the low est sale of last
week, and at vvhn h decline business has since
been done. There has been a very good attendance
ol buyers to day, and about -I*M 0 hags of all kn.ds
sold, speculators have taken 45( 0 hales American,
and exporters 900. One vessel from t harlcston has
yet to report. I upon this week 18,755 hags, sales
2J,96it. Sales 7<) .'fa Island, 18 a 2Jd; 5 ) >1 anted
5 a 71,5 120 Upland 4 a74 18,080 New Orleans li
aß;.|isoAl bam i, Ac II a 74.
The Livcrj >*d Journal of die 27th says, the busi
ness oi the 26ih was large, and the market i loses at
an adv ;.nce oi Jd on last week, in Brazil no change.
I .gyp'ian* of common qu . it. are about id per Ih.
lower I as: .tiilia sn ail,
I l.nV t as I. Very little business doing in
.• nv i (■ruin to-day. it being considered us a
, > Prices may he quoted nominally us on
THE WEST.
We have received two new pap rs, printed in
j the new territory of Wiacnnsin: one at Hu Buqne,
; in lowa county, colled the lona News, and the
other ut .Mineral Point, in the same county, called
the Miners' Free Press. Both papers arc neatly
printed, and, judging from the specimen before ns,
ably edited. We are w ell pleased w ith an exchange
with those papers, us we will derive much Useful
information from that remote hut interesting and
important section of the Lilian. We give below a
few exiruns from them.
[From the lowa New.*, of June 10.]
In the lowa Idstrict, lliui is, ihe pari of Wiscon
sin west of the .Mississippi river,) the Government
have yet sold none ol die land, hut the inhabitants,
numbering more than I l.Mkt, arc, according to (lie
old nomenclature, ca b d tipwlier*. fcdnce the Ist
day ol June 1833, when the I nited Nates first ob
tained possession oi the lands of this district, which
is commonly known ns the Bnlck Hawk purchase,
every person emigrating lo die country lias s* tiled
U[H>n and improved any piece of land lie could find
unoccupied, we may will suppose that, us each
new-comer has such avast field o fertile land, from
, which to choose Ins farm, he would lie s, inewii.it
fastidious in Ins choice, and such has been tin*
; fuel. None hut the choiseM spots arc settled on and
improved. So great is ilie niciiity of selling Ins
| produce lo the neighboring miners, that the tanner
; in die nor,hern part of tins district vv in undoubted.y
be hie to realize I rum his ullage, with ordinary in
dustry, more than sufficient to pay lor the land
when it comes into market. Os course, .and specu
lation has not iitii cit'd the lowa Histncl which has
; thus been taken pussCHsionol by the actual settler,
while lands on the east side ol the river have iieen
purchased during the late munin % in large quantities
by persons who never intended n> live upon or im
prove them in consequence of which, sj rious in
jury has been done to those part* of ihecountiy
where the land is subject to sale and entry at land 1
offices; and emigrants of small means, driven '
across the dississi pi where better land can he oh- I
tnined by mere occupancy and cultivation. This I
cause alone is sufficient to throw die weight us i
population and political importance in our territory, I
upon the w est side of the Mississippi.
Notwithstanding the existing embarrassments in
every part us the country, our town continues to
flouri h—a great many buildings are in progress,
and enterprize, which lias lately received so great
a check in all parts of the I moil, seems with us
to have lost little of its energy. Messrs. Engle,
Booth At Co. are now erecting a large Steam > s bw
Mill in a corner of the town near the river, w here
they intend lo carry on an extensive business—
their Steam Engine has lately arrived from Pitts
burgh, and they expect to get into operation in a-
Ik>ui tw o months. We wish them success in their
undertaking.
Egypt against the World. —We have been in
formed that Mrs. Elizabeth Ivnoles. wife of .Mr.
Ephraim Knolcs, living in Egypt settlement, in this
• Ross) county,on Monday last, was delivered of
FOUR living children ! nil of whom are females.
1 hey are ail doing w ell.— ChiUicvthe Advertiser.
Wisconsin against Egypt —Mrs. Ount, near
Plaltcville, lowa coun'y, was delivered of lour
children alone birth—two sons and two daughters!
[From the Miners' Fret Press , of June 7.]
Thepapers from every quarter teem with no
tices of the pressure and distress in the commercial
world. The banks in all, or must, of the Eastern
cities have suspended specie payments, and great
derangement in the currency of, the country must
be a fiecessary consequence. We have copied
largely from the leading prints on this subject, em
bracing the views of both the existing politic*! par
ties. By one party all this difficulty and distress
has been attributed totlie famed Treasury Order—
the odious specie circular, hut they have wmitte*
to state in what manner and by what means thi?
evidently prudent intention of the (.merriment t<
suppress speculation in the purchase of the public
lands,and to preserve the depositories of the pub
lie moneys from the rum, that would inevitably re .
suit to them by lending its countrnanc and facili
ties in affording dangerous and excessive credits,
to he used by avaricious speculators in o monopoly
of the public d main, lias off eted the embarrass
ments which have overtaken the commercial,
manufacturing and hanking interests of the coun
try. lias the Treasury orde , simply requiring
payment of gold and silver in exchange for the pub
lic lands, done till this? Why, the monetary affairs
ol Etigand arc not less set led than ours We
leave it however to the impartial examination ofthe
people, divested of all bias in favor of any political
opinion,to determine how far this statement is en
li led to credit, in the spirit of speculation and ex
travagance, in rhe rave of over trading and over
banking which hns beset the country from one ex
trente to the other, we ore of the opinion, the right
ful cause is to be fbuiid. W ho. among us that have
known aught of the immense spent aiiom* in
price'* which have ht imjvnd for paper cities and
towns, for the lost eighteen months, hu lias pre
dicted just such a state of things! The only sur
prise is that the storm has been averted to long.
VERMONT.
At a democratic State convention, held at Mont
pelier on the 21st of June, at w hich 400 delegates
ass* mbied, the following resolutions, among others,
were adopted:
Resolo d, That all laws should bo framed with a
solo regard to the general good, and should embrace
such provisions only as operate upon the interests,
wants, rights and immunities, common to the whole
people;—
Resolved, therefore, That nil laws forprivnto be
nefit and emolument—-confering exclusive privileges
upon a few. and calculated to operate upon the
business and property of men, arc a departure from
the theory ol our instituions—a direct attack upon
the social principle »*| republicanism and a triumph
of the selfish spirit of monopoly and aristocracy.
Resolved , r l hat as a political party we will lie
known by no other name hut that which is expres
sive of our principles, as democrats, and ihnt we
wilt carry out those principles particularly in oppo
sition to monopolise,secret societies, special legisla
tion ami evety species ol encroachment upon the
great fundamental doctrine of equal rights.
Resolved, ’I hat we will give our cordud support
to the National administration, so far as it shall car
ry oul ihe principles of democracy, in recommend
ing, protecting and defending the great mid general
interests of tin* nation.
Resolved. That in all our elections to political
official slat o is, we will select and support such
men ns will publmly avow these our political sen
timents.
Resolved, That in the opinion of this Convention,
the present wide-spread and disastrous derange
ment of tfie currency, is not the result of any mca
su eu ofthe general government, hut has grown, us
an inevitable consequence,out ol (he incorporations
ih ouglioui the country, whereby the < urrem-y of
the nation has been made too exclusively a pa
per currency, liable 'o constant and dangerous ex
pa isions and contractions, w Inch necessarily bring
wnh them the evils under which the community is
now laboring.
Resolved , That until the currency of the country
is I rought hark to the standard contemplated by
the Constitution,and the bunking system divorced
from politics and legihlation, there will ho no safety
f.»r the mass ol the people, upon whom fall ike
evils ol a deranged mid depreciated paper system.
R '’olvd, 'I hat no remedy is to he found lor ihe
defects mid dangers of our present hanking system,
in the incorporation of a I uiu d Stales Bank.
Resulted, That the chartering of a national bank,
with power sufficient to control ihe State Banks,
would he in ellcei establishing the supremacy ofthe
monied,over the political, power of tho nation, and
j hi mg the people, ibeir rights and their imprests lo
the nn.i usu rewduiu* nionoriolv
Re olve.tl , I hnt we will oppose every effort fur
the establishment of a I oiled Males Bunk and ihe
increase of State Banks, and will endeavor, as far
ns possible, with a due regard to the public interest,
m reMnre the currency of the country lo a proper
itieiulic basis.
Resulted , That while we reverence the name of
Whip, ns under* nod and applied in u former period
of our history, we run have no fellowship with the
no dim use oft hut term, connected as it is with the
support of principles ol an mill-republican charac
ter and tendency.
Re o ve l. That we, ns democrats, cannot justify
slavery, either political nr domestic, and that we
look with confidence and hope to the day when I lie
principles ofthe Declaration of Independence will
he universally carried into practice, and all men in
ih** I idled Slates ho horn flee and equal.
Resulted, That while) we concur with John Q
\diirns in I lie sentiment that every human being
Ini' ihe right of petition and prayer, we, necessari
ly, disagiee with the Hon. Win. Slade that H is
wrong o do right and in the exercise of that privi
lege.
Resolved, Thai while we deplore the moral and
politic.devils ol slavery, wccannot but recommend
to our brethren of the North, that in all their ex
pressions ol sympathy for the solfi-rings, and all (heir
exertions lor tin* liberation ol the slave from servi
tude, they shoind not forget that the Masters ofthe
slaves are our political, constitutional brethren, nod
that :tll their labors should he tempered with wis
dom, and prudence, and love.
SHIP OP*THE LINE PENNSYLVANIA.
We copy the following particular* from a Miila
dclpbia paper
As considerable interest I.as been awakened in
reference to the ship of (lie line the Pennsylvania ,
about to he inunrhed fmm the Navy Yard of this
city, the following particulars in relation lo her di
tto ns ions, received from an attentive friend, may
noi he nninleresiing to our reader*
Length on main gun deck, ft. 212 10 in.
Ho of keel, 195
Breadth of heum, 58
Depth of bold, 52 6
Length of main mast, 132
Diameter of do 4 5
JOEL K. POINSETT.
At the celebration of the 4lh July in Charles
on, by the Washington Society, the Secretary
o War wa. present at the dinner. On his being
misled, he returned Ins thanks in an appropriate
address; the following are extracts from if;
11 sai l that he w'a* deeply sensible of this
<natk of the continued kindness am) good will of
his fellow- it izens, that il was particularly grati
fying to him at this lime, when il might be re.
gaived as an indication of their approval of his
oiji’se. Ha i ciicuinstances permitted, he would
| have consulted them before he accepted the ap.
I p,liniment he now bolds, for to their favor and
1 par iafi’y he was indebted for whatever of dis.
! u c.ion lie had been honored with through past
I life, an l lor every opportunity he had hitherto en
i joyed of being useful lo his country. Owing all
j lo their generous support, it would have been
pleasing lo him to have said, on resigning into
their hands the last high and responsible office
which they had conferred upon him, that in the
step he was about to take lie did not abandon
the principles which had ever governed him, nor
wander one step from the path they had hitherto
trodden together. They had stood shoulder to
shoulder, in the struggle to maintain the Union
and the Constitution; and he was firmly persua.
ded, that the administration in which he ban
been called to take a part would never itself vio
late them, nor permit them to be violated by
others:—he had felt too an intimate convietioi
that the |N)euliar rights and inferm’s of Ih*
•South would he sustained by this administration:
and was happy to add, that those convictions o
his mind were fully borne oul; and his only r«
grel at the step he had taken was, that his di
lies sepera’cd him ftotn the long tried and vail
ed friends that now surrounded him.
He would not ask those friends to unite wit
him m support of the administration ; but h
would exhort them to aid in vindicating the run
jcsiy of the laws, in preserving the Union, an
in protecting the Constitution. —When tho>
great landmarks of Democracy shall be disr
gtrdcd ; when the laws shall be trampled upoi
and the Constitution violated,-they will need n
voice to warn them lo do their dot v lo their com
try ; and they knew him too welf not to he ass.
red that he would again be found in their ranks
But of this, there was no danger—and unlcsL (
South-Carolina is to s'amJ aloofplitary, and la.
ung no part where she has so grill a slake, there
lever cun ne a more lavorable icmcnl for her
'Oiis to sacrifi c all former feuds n the altar of
heir common country, a d oncunore to place
I heir beloved Slate in the forennl i auk, where
he formerly slooi proudly preeminent. Let
i hem, sai i Mr. Poinsett, a» parat the post from
the present, and lend the aid of thir talents and
their influence in support of those*vho equally
with themselves are animated will an earnest
desire to promote the happiness all prosperity
of the whole country, ami are firm! determined
to maintain its honor abroad, anil preserve ns
institutions and its peace at home.
Ii may he expected, said Mr. P., lljil he should
speak ot the ail engrossing topic sf the day.
I’hc signal distress which has lallei upon the
country, which alllicts indeed all tto world :
on this so ject ho would say, that tin feelings of
the government had been n»i*undnvlood, and
strangely misrepresented* The fttVeNiinetU
regarded with the deepest concern the
hlight which has fallen upon the p t «wpcritjf of
ho country, and have been UnCAMingly and
anxiously occupied in devising ineajpsof relief
all such measures as the law allowed were
promptly adopted fur present relief, aid they
are sicking with the most earnest solidude to
devise the me ns of restoring the credit nd pros,
pol ity of the country. The result of thir anx
ious deliberations will be submitted toOngreus,
in the fullest reliance on the wisdom, pariolism
and co-operation of that branch of the lovern
meni; and in the fullest assurance that laying
aside all parly views, they will apply thuisclves
zealously to relieve the country from th evils
which now alllict it in common with tin whole
commercial world—evils, which all mnt now
acknowledge, have their origin in call's far
o per, mightier and more general than joso to
which they were at first attributed.
(From the Globe.]
A YEOMAN.
A correspondent, who represents ; class
which has ever done goo i service in the ausc of
freedom, is not wanting in spirit and purer to
the character he has assumed. He diw/ a
strong bow, and sends a keen arrow wit uner
ring aim.
Those who read the first column of th com.
miuiieation on the preceding page, and rad no
more, may set it. down in their note boas that
they arc devoid of taste for fine wriliij, unu
are dead to the feelings of patriotism.
For the Close.
“ MONEYED ARISTOCRACV*
Mr. Editor : Tnero is a hollow cant* sickly
fastidiousness prevailing, which fibrins from
calling things by iheir right names. Due of
the objects of its peculiar aversion islh< phrase
prefixed lo this letter, the use of which has cal
led down upon your devoted hea l sum bitter
denunciations. Despising this hypouriical de
licacy, as much as 1 do that winch it wmldfain
shield and protect, I shall, without scrude, em
ploy the obnoxious term, as cbaraclurizng dis.
liueily and emphatically this spurious excre
scence, which is spreading itself over tie body,
politic and social, of our young and risng Re
public. The thing umpiestionanly cxiss. Why,
then, should wc mince an I falter, or hesitate to
call nby its appiopriato name? Yes, ar, a mo.
nei/rd aristocracy (that is the w mi) isiol gra
dually, hut rapiniy, growing up, iieneah whose
overshadowing influence, it we take nil. timely
heed, our young and yet vigorous iißtitutions
must sicken, wither, and die. A ling., parasiti
cal plum is clasping our noble tree W/:h ns fatal
v.nmaccs, winu., • ••wu. . .u
drink up lie wholesome moisture, aid poison
the very juices of its life. A class, strung in
numbers, but still more powerful in oeaus, is
striving lo bring all Olliers in suhjecton to it,
that it may establish on the ruins of virtue, lib.
erty, and independence, a degrading pseeinlaii
cy. lie must, indeed, be a poor obscjver of hu.
man na.ure and the progress of events who lias
not detected, in the political conldts which
have agitated our country lor some yfais past,
the evidences of this sonlid aspiratidi. Sir, a
war lias been carried on, and still rlges with
augmenting violence, between woalll and free
dom—between the power of money of one side,
and the power of principle on the Mher—the
issue of which, if not doubtful, is sill undeci
ded. 'flic battle between the Rank aid the Go.
vernment, for it yet iages, is, murf properly
speaking, a war neUveuu the banked and tin
people, and believe me, there is moreiit slake in
the contest than the triumph of a min, or the
existence of an institution* li is I common
mistake to look upon political events** isolated,
occasional, accidental, or entirely ((dependent
upon cadi other. The seminal priiciple, the
ctli icnl cause, the moving tliolgh secret
springs, are not detected by the nieriy superfi
cial ouserver. This mistake lias ten made
with regard lo the political events that have
lately agitated, and are now puntilsing the
country, —which have been attribut'd to certain
men, to uncertain accidents, and 1 d> not know
what oilier causes or influences, equjlly unsatis
factory, and inadequate lo explain hem. Fuo-|
pie forget that men are but insli umi.ils, even s
out opportunities, and that the esscihal prim i
pies of things lie deeper, and are imfo vital and
enduring. Let us seek to trace efThs lo their
causes to reduce mere phenomena lot heir prin
ciples.
There has existed in all ail free
countries, at least, a feeling which fenders the
producing or agricultural class jeahiis and dis. j
trustful of those engaged in comnieffial and pe.
cuniary pursuits. Perhaps the first and most
natural division of political parties a into those i
of town and country. Ry some, tlis mistrust- <
ful feeling has been characterized at unworthy,
illiberal, and dangerous. TJio.sc wlb so deem \
it are but shallow observers; mere |i*eleiidcrslo ;
political philosophy. Thisscntimcij.—founded, I
like all those which are universal aid enduring, |
in human nature—is of instinctive ligachy. and i
offers to a nation one of (lie strongest guaran- i
lies for tlic preservation of its libert’ and happi- I
ness. 1 assert, without hesitation, hat the pri- t
vileges of a free people are not safe n the hands I
of the financial classes. Without neaning any i
personal disrespect lo merchants, nnny of whom «
I esteem biglily, and whose fiouishing cxis- r
tence I deem indispensable to the (rosperily of I
a great nation, I affirm, without scnplo, that, as i
a class, they arc not so profoundly and pernia- t
ncnlly attached to a country as lime who arc, i
in a manner, fixed and rooted in thcsoil. They I
arc not absolutely identified with tin land which t
they inhabit, hut are, to a certain extent, cili. t
zens of the world. They live on ho oulskirt, |
the mere edge of the country, andean readily i
lake to water on the first danger or .larm. The i
commercial world, which cinhracesin one vast ;
empire the four continents, with thur tributary t
islands, is co-cxtensive with the domnion of the I
winds and the waves. Its capitals ue London, fc
Amsterdam, Canton, New York—no Washing- i
ton or Harrisburg; its thermometer, o use the *
jihrase of one of its own orators, is hoig up in *
■ lie English stock exchange, “W» owe our i
first duty to foreigners,” exclaims Mr. Rid.lie, i
who avowedly lakes his cue from ‘.lie Barings 1
ind the British bank parlor, lam not surprised t
it the distrust of the simple countryman, when ;
le hears foreign sympathies and stranger influ
ences so oslcniaiiously proclaimed.
The overgrown fortunes, too, wljch arc accu
nulated in the lottery of trade and speculative 1
idventure, are destructive of that equality, tha
iappy mediocrity, which it is the iiiercst, an
hould of course be the object, of repaidican in
titutious to cherish and promote. The exten
ive connections and in. Recriminate foreign in
ercourse of merchants are fatal, oral least uu
avorabio. to Ural exclusive feeling of country
hat fixed, local attachment called patriot ism
vhich, however the cant of modern philanthro
phy may decry it as but a more expanded sel
fishness, L the only safe upon which to
erect the c nfljo of national freedom and happi.
ness. A man should love ills family first, then
Ins country—with an equal ardor if possible; as.
ter which, if lie have any tenderness to spare, he
can bestow it upon the world at large* This is
tho dictate of common sense, the lesson of uni
versal experience teaches, which, after all, in
mailers of • his sort at least, it will ever be found
safer to trust than to the crude speculations and
misty glimmerings of the vieionaiy theorist.
Neither arc the pursuits of commerce and mo
ney-dealing favorable to the growth or preserva
tion of those simple habits, those homely virtues,
those masculine qualities, which nourish liber,
ly and promote true and lasting happiness. The
country, sir, the country is the true home and
proper domain of liocriy. That the edifice of
freedom may endure, its foundations should be
deep y laid in tile soil, its ample base spread
widely over the land. In peace, or in war, in
adversity as in prosperity, in all the fluctuating
tides ol time and fortune, lljahappiness, the glo.
»y, the safety of the coiJhny must rest chit, fly
Upon its houeat yeomanry; must look for protec
tion and support to the simple, true, honest, un
comipled and incorruptible cultivators of the
land. This is the law of its destiny, the condi
tion of its existence.
But, sir, this useful, and therefore justifiable,
distrust which I have described and defended, is
amply repaid by the affected contempt of the an
tagonist class. It has grown quite the fashion
with those men of the counter and interest table,
to arrogate to themselves a proud superiority;
to assume airs, as of high birth and patrician
distinction ; lo talk of the people, in fine, as of
an inferior eiassor caste , a mob, a populace, a
conn lie. Mr. Biddle, the prince and idol of
money cha igers, in an oration delivered before
some college, which, by-the-by, with singular
want of delicacy, he made the vehicle of his
in potent spile and disappointed political rancor
thats ings itself to death, like the scorpion with
in a eircl • of fire, talked about a vulgar despo
tism, a servle route , and very mildly and de
cently consigned the whole domociaey of the
country, or its representatives at least, prospec
l.vely ..o \ ever, lo the penitentiary. Ry what,
right, I ask, does this arrogant money monger
parade such insolent contempt lor the majority
of his ftillow-citizcns 7 men, in every noble and
estimable quality at least, upon a par with him
self. When he talks of the peiiiten iary as a fit
place for his betters, does he not recollect that,
like them who are destined to belts inmates, he
actually lives by the turning of money; and
that the protested avocations of those of whom
he is thu bead, of brokers, usurers and money
changers, are much more akin to the actions
that consign men within its walls, than these
are lo the simple, honest, industrious pursuits of
those whom he so iuipolcnlly stigmatises 7
•Sir. 1 am made sick, when I hear these people
arrogating to themselves aristoeratical preten
sions, or patrician honors. A pretty idea they
must have of an aristocracy, who would com
pound it of such sordid materials. There is
much room here, indeed, fir the “pride of her
;t LI ry, the pompot power.” “A little civil, good
apothecary, to sweeten my imagination!” Let
me tell these gentlemen, that if an aristocracy
were lo he established to.morrow, its elements,
its materials, would not be sought for in I he sloc k
exchange in Wall street, or even in Mr, Riddle’s
bank. The cadets, the youngest branches, the
most distant offsets of the new institution, would
instinctively shrink naso adunco , from such pla
ces, such associations, and such pursuits. Re
lieve me, they arc not a* all parlrician.
.JKU ook T". a
nance. Conscientiously, and from reason, pic
f iring our own institutions, as more consonant
to nature, more just in principle, and more con.
ducivo to the happiness of all, I ran still see in
a properJy constituted aristoc aey, much to ad
mire and to approve of, much that flatters my
taste, and appeals to my imagination. There
is a poetry and pageant ry about it. to resist the
fascination ofwhich requires no little strength
of principle, no little firmness of opinion. Il
lustrious uirtli, historical name, lilies derived
from deeds of kniglrly enterprise,personal tradi
dilioiiH interwoven with the annuls of a nation,
associations which awaken in the mind all that
is proud and glorious in recollection, an eleva
tion from birth above the necessity of sordid pur
suits and considerations, a splendid slate, a no-
Me hospitality, a high sense ofhouor, a refined
tone ofmanners, a grand representative dignity
—these and other kindred things are made to
influence us, and wc ore made to be influenced
by them. They would, indued, constitute real
Miles, just claims, to our uumingled admiration,
were they not accompanied by correspondent
evils, which more than merely overbalance their
charm and advantage. Rut, sir, this is not Mr.
Riddle’s aristocracy. That is a thing of fresh
and fungous origin; springing suddenly out of
the dirt, like a mushroom from the dfmgliill; vul
gar, coarse, and repulsive, with nothing to adorn
to dignify, or even to palliate it; a spurious pre
tension, a degrading ascendency, which no man
of honor can tolerate with patience, to which no
man of spirit will submit without resistance. “If
am to have a master;” exclaimed the late Mr.
Randolph, “let him he one whom 1 can respect;
let him have epaulets upon his shoulders, a
sword by Ins side; let him he nn Alexander, a
Cffisar, a Napoleon; 1 cannot now how down be
fore a man with a quill behind his car.” I his,
Mr. Riddle, is what / would call a vulgar des
potism', and a servile route is one that would
rather suceomb lo silver than to steel; which
hugs a chain of gold as less degrading than fet
ters of iron which Would sooner march to the
clinking of coin than to the tap of the drum.
Sir, there is something in this sordid spirit, this
pecuniary dependence, which is destructive of
ail manliness, all true dignity, all genuine no
bilily of character. It debauches the princi
pics, it perverts the taste, it withers the imagi
nation. In the eyes of these soul-bought pen
sioners, who live from day to day, from mouth
lo month, upon the charity doled out to them, in
the shape of what arc delicately called facilities
the president of a bank, or some overgrown usu
rer, is a greater man, a being more worthy of
applause and admiration than the illustrious he
roes and benefactors of mankind. Ii is lo him
they sing pmaiis, and shout their acclamations;
it is lo him they oiler their sacrifices, their ora
tions, their triumphs, of a form and degree un
recorded in tlic annals of antiquity. What
honorable man can read without a tinge upon his
check, for his fellow-moil and for his country,
tho vile flatteries, ami degrading adulation, hea
ped usyue ad nauseam, upon a mere bank pres
ident, an agent of money changers/ And when
Mr. Riddle the other day deigned to visit his
good city of New York, was it not revolting to
sec his parasites and pensioners precipitating
themselves upon his passage, thronging his per
son as if to touch the hem ofhis garment; watch
ingeugerl} to catch an encouraging smile, or
anxiously soliciting a glance of recognition.—
Nane. dimittis, 1 dare say, was chaunted by
more than one ardent worshiper on that event
ful occasion, and when the great man opened
Ins oracular mouth, mcihoughl I could hear the
enraptured audience exclaim, “Tis the voice of
a go-! tis the voice of a god!” or at least,
Peace, ho! Casar speaks!” Like the Roman
Emperor, Mr. Riddle has had his apothesis in
advance. 1 think I see him, with proud humil
ity, making bis progress through Wall street,
ilmust borne up oy the pressure of the admiring
lirung; affable and yet arrogant; bending to
me .with a graceful sweep, and bowing to an
itherwith a protecting nod; yet, like Maivolio.
quenching Ins familiar smile, with an austere
ogard of control.” Oh for the pen of a Chun-h.
nil, the pencil of a Hogarth! This, again, Mr.
Riddle, is what I would call a vulgar despotism
iservile route. “I thank tboc, Jew, for leach
ing me that word.”
When too, a few years since, the bank, slung
to a pitch ofiury by the withdrawal of the public
funds, determined to extort from the fears of the
Government and the agonies of the country,
their restoration, and its recharter, wantonly
crushed its miserable dependents, by recalling,
suddenly and capriciously, those facilities which
had been to them as the breath of life, without
which they could not exist, was not the self-im
molating enthusiasm with which the poor dupes
and victims threw themselves before the crush
ing wheels of the great financial Juggernaut,
eager to snatch the palm of martyrdom, and to
seal their faith with their blood, worthy of a bel
ter, or at least a nobler cause/ I can partake
in imagination ol the rapture which kindles the 1
eye of the Chirislian at the slake, when his
sense of mortal suffering is lost and swallowed
up in the high apd holy consciousness, the sub
lime conviction of the unspeakable glory that
awaits him. I can read with admiration of the
noble devotion of Curlius, when he leaped into
tile fearful chasm, which lhe(u>ele had declared
could not be closed ex :cpl by ru-di a sacrafiec.
I kmdle with the patriotic fervor ihatglowi* in
tlic bosom of (he illustrious Swiss shepherd,
“Who gathered, with a wide embrace,
Into lus single heart, a sheaf
Os fatal Austrian spears.”
Yes, sir, it is glorious io softer for religion or for
liberty. “ Dalce el decorum est pin pair i a mori. u
Rut to bleed lor money s sake! to on lure martyr
dom in the cause ollhe bank! to die for Mr. Did.
die! this passes me! I had rather, if any thing,
go to the death with Major Hamilton for his
suga.!
Mr. Editor, I foresee that tlic grand question—
which for Home years to come will absorb ail
others in this country —is the contest between
the people and this formidable money power.
Like Aaron’s serpent, it will for a time swallow
up all the rest. It has been already, for some
time past, at the bottom of all our political agi
tation. Let the people be assured of this: that
there is no peace, no safely, no honor, no lasting
prosperity for them, until the money .changers
arc driven from the political temple. If they
are true lo themselves, 1 have no tears for the
issue; bullet them persuade themscives that
they have no common enemy to cope with.
erre a snort, n (war to the knife,) must be their
watchword ami their battle cry. Their advor
nary is strong, sleepless, insidious, unrelenting,
unyielding, ami wields, besides, the most power
ful sinew of war* He is at this moment ela cd
beyond measure With hope, at the difficulties
and dismay which agitate and alarm the country.
He derives his consolation and courage from the
lucl that the hero under whom the people first
mustered lo this war, and who led them on con
quering and to conquer, is no longer in the field.
An lre\v Jackson, the last President of the revo
lutionary age and school, whi.se sagacity of soul,
singlenessot aim, and sternness of resolve, earn
ed for him justly the proud title of Roman; who
is, indeed, a man after the “high Roman sash,
ion,” has retired to his peaceful Hermitage, amid
the blessings ofhis friends, and the cuiWs, loud
as well as deep, of his enemies. Let us profit
by his precepts and example, if wc no' longer
have his lead and his presence. L-I his retire
incnt be a signal for renewed energy, as it cur
tainly is avails*' oi increased apprehension. L t
his name, like Ziska’s drum, arouse all our at
dor, and call forth all our courage. It cannot
he that this young Republic, the hope and adini
ration of the world, which has already achieved
such great and glorious things, is destined thus
noon to assume a yoke so vile and humiliating.
It cammi be that the sun which has risen with
such dltfttfnir splendor upon an ndmhimr uni.
verse, is Unis curly dComcd to undergo flu dark
aim oisni.il an ecliptic. No,sir: 1 have gcratcr
faith in Heaven, in man, in freedom. ! will not
thus criminally despair ot* the Republic. I see
in the vista of coming years a brighter prospect,
a more exulting vision. The young giant shall
not he strangled in his cradle by the poisonous
embraces of the loathsome reptile. No!
“ He shall flourish,
And, like nmountain cellar, reach his branches
To all the plains about him. Our children’s children
Shull see this, and bless Heaven.”
A YEOMAN.
Correspondence of the Charleston Courier.
LETTER NO. 111.
NEW-YORK, June 22, 1837. |
Messrs. Editors :—The prompt reduction of
expenses by the citizens here, is equally wise
and praiseworthy. It shows an elasticity which
will soon enable them lo recover. Rut corn
mercc still awaits its final doom. Whatever it
may be when known, the people nro ready to
meet it. Suspense alone is intolerable—hun
dreds are now “hanging by tlic eyelids.” If tlic
European accounts show any advance in Colton,
and promise a fair price for produce, they will
goon; if not, they will stop with the n>t. So
that no man can toll where he is safe. There is
much distress, or rather inconvenience, in the
city for the want of small bills. The Legislature
forbids the Banks from issuing bills less than five
dollars. Specie is a! 13 1-2 per cent, premium, I
and the result is, we aic obliged tore jrt to the
small bills of other States, and no one a>ks
whether they are of solvent or insolvent Banks.
I have suggested a contrivance lo obviate ibis
difficulty. Thus, a man has a thousand dollars
on deposilc in a New York Bank, and wants
small hills—he has a plate for checks of one or
two dollars, and draws, say a thousand checks
of one dollar, payable when presented in sums
of five dollars, or any other amount equivalent
lo the current Bank lulls—on the face «»f each
check, the Cashier of the Bank writes his name
opposite lo the word good, so that they thus ho.
come equal in value to the notes of (he Rank it
self; and these checks, neatly engraved, will an
swer all the purposes of small Rank notes, aud
the issue being limited by actual deposit*! of an
equivalent in Bank lulls, is perfectly secure. It’
the Charleston R ink*, which are not authorised
lo issue small bills, would adopt t*» s plan, their
customers might thus split up a sufliment am
ount of their notes to answer oil the purposes of
city use. The form may he thus—
CHARLESTON. July 1, 1837.
Cashier of the STATE RANK
Pay to Samuel Wraoo* or Bearer,
One Dollar, when presented in sums of Five
Dollars, in current Bank Rills of this city.
(Signed) SAMUEL WILSON.
This check is good Sam. Whacg. Cashier,
As these certificates are signed only on depo
sile of city bills, Ihe Bank is secure; and when
the chocks arc paid, they may he received on a
similar deposi'.c, or paid out to any person willing
to receive them, and thus constitute a currency,
as over i-sue is guarded against l»y the deposilc
of a similar amount. The expense of a plate
will not be much, and the labor of signing will
be well repaid by tho facilities it will afford ; and
being drawn by well known dealers, forgerier
will not be likely to be attempted. Like all first
impressions, this plan may he improved upon.
Rut 1 think it will be found a practicable mode
of bringing out a sound currency of small notes,
whose value being certified, is equal to Rank
notes. lam persuaded it will he the only re.
sort here, lo prevent our being flooded with small
notes from irresponsible Ranks.
Foreign trade is not exactly at an end, but it
is carried on so sparingly, that this great market
can he glutted hy importations, which would, in
good times, have had no effect. Money is so
valuable, that it is only parted with from actual
necessity—all mere luxuries have fallen fifty
per cent., and those who deal in them, and had
stocks on hand, must be ruined. The value of
our Southern market to the mechanics of the
North, i» being felt and appreciated. Abolition
is noW abandoned* Like all fanaticism, it is
feasted on the abundant means and time of its
dupes. There are few contributions collected,
and tho intimate connection between the ability
of the South to buy, and the absolute livolihoor
of th* Northern mechanic, ic felt in that mert
seneitirc organ, the purse. When Cotton fell
well might the laborers of the North, say “you
and I, and all of us fell down.” This community
nt interest, is a sure and effectual check to a dan
gerous attempt of fanatics. Men have some*
thing to do besides listening to “ addresses” on
abstract tights. Women must now stay at home,
and do their domestic work—they cannot afford
to lislon to the ravings of young clergymen, who
know nothing of tho world but what they have
learned from their books. The storm which is
ravaging the country will blow away many a
pestilent congregation of folly and fanaticism,
and severe as the suffering may be f>r a time,
the end will be good. The fatal influence of
political manoeuvring is already felt. There
will benoconcerl; no concession? no cornpro.
rnisc of opinions in Congress—each party will
abuse the other, and all measures will be shaped
to suit the next election. Already Mr> W*b.
HTEais nominated as the available'candidale of
the opposition. I!« is to be identified with Mr.
Biddle's Bank. The South will look on, and if
\aM Burln adheres to his promises, end carries
out tho democratic principles ofSmt'e Righto, as
understood by the Madison school, he whl secure
the South, where there is little personal predi.
lection for either of the available Whig randij
dates,but a great sensibility upon questions invol.
ying the rights of the States to the most perfect
independence in relation to her domestic insti
tutions*. The tide of emigration is setting West.
The North-west will settle fist, as full grown
laborers arc coining in by thousands, so that
land speculations will yet be realised in a few
years; at the South-west the successful speed*
lation will be in laborers. Every settler in Mi.
clugan, Illinois and Wisconsin is a new custo
mer’ to New. York. Tho foundations of her pros
perity arc untouched—it will rise every year
higher and higher. OBSERVER.
SAVANNAH, July B.— Fire.- —We have re
ceived from Mr. William White, Pilot, the fol
lowing particulars of’a fir oon board the bare no
Mary Kimball, of Marblehead, Capt. Freeto,'
which was cleared for LivcrnooP last Wednesday,
with a cargo of 1051 bales Upland and 268 bales
Sea Island Colton.
A smoke was discovered by the Steward, on
Thursday morning about seven o’clock, issuing
from the side of the vessel, forward of the main
hatch, lie immediately reported the same to the
Captain. The Barque was at the time under
way for sea, and near Long Island. She was
brought to an anchorage at the lower end of tho
Island by Mv. While, the Pilot on board.
Mr. Wlme, at. the request of the Captain,
came up to the City to inform the Consignee
and lo procure the necessary at-sistance to extin
guish the fire. The steamboat South Carolina,
with a Lighter and an Engine, was despatched
to the Barque, and reached her in the afternoon.
—With the exertions of about sixty men, (in.
eluding the crew,) all under the direction of
Mee-rs. Thrower and Coles, who worked all
Thursday afternoon, all that night, and yesler
day until about four o’clock, those on hoard sue.
cceiicd in extinguishing the fire, by baring holes
in the upper deck, and forcing water through
them. About eight o'clock yesterday the
decks were thought sufficiently cool lo take off
the main hatch, when they were able to get out
a number of bales of cotton, or forty of
which being, more or less, on fire, were thrown
overboard. On Thursday night the barque was
towed up, while on fire, by steamboat, lo Five
Fathom, abreast of Fort Jackson, to bo nearer
the city, the engine playing all the time into the
ship. When the fire was extinguished the ship
hint seven o* feet wa**- , ** ,J ••*—*
sequently the cargo is much damaged.
The snip is still lying at anchor at Five Fath
am, and as soon as she can be pumped out she
will bo brought up to the City.
Both the vessel and cargo arc insured, the for
rncr in Boston, and the latter in London. Un iI
the cargo is discharged, the damage cannot, be
csti mated.- -Georgian,
[Fi hin the Baltimore American.]
We are indebted lo the politeness of it. mer
canlilc friend for the following extract of a let
ler, dated
“RIO DE JANEIRO, 17th May, 1837.
“ Since our circular advice of 2J)th ultimo,
business has been inactive, and whhin a few
days advices from Europe and the United Slates
are of a character so alarming as lo bring things
lo a pause wherever confidence is implied. No
one is disposed lo trust another, if lo be avoided.
“ Our Exchange on London lias declined to
27 1-2, but liie rate is almost nominal, as many
of llie remitting houses have orders not lo take
any Bills whatever, and all arc restricted to very
limited discretion ; as in fact no one seems to
feel confident of the standing, or safety of Hou
ses, on whom they may be drawn ; some Hou
ses have refused honor to Bills drawn against
un-rcstricled Credits granted by their agents in
the United .Stales in violation of positive hono - ,
moral and mercantile, the want of confidence
in Exchange business rovers almost the whole
surface oflransaclions.”
\From the Savannah ticorgian o f July C.]
FROM FLORIDA.
A gentleman who mine passenger in the steam
packet Florida, Cnpt. Ilebburd, from the Si. John's,
states (hat (Jen. Joawp and Staffnrrived at Black
Crock on the 3d just on a lour ol inspection, and
it was supposed that two posts would be establish
ed on the Suwatmeo and one on Lake Ceorge at
Silver .Spring.
The Indians were still peaceable and exhibit no
oviont disposition to renew hostilities.
About ten days since a party consisting of C’apt.
Hanson’s mounted Florida volunteers and a com
pany of U. S. dragoons under Flout Way wore on
a scout from St. Augustine to Fulaiku.
Near I’alatka they came across u party of three
Imlions and a Negro in a small camp. The Indians
were captured. The Negro escaped.
The Indian*- stated that the puny consisted of 11
Indians and 2 Negroes. The oilier Indians were
out cutting down a bee tree and the negro who es
caped gave the alarm and prevented thoir capture.
The three Indiana captured wtfro taken to St.
Augustine.
About the same date a party of V. S. soldiers
under the command of Cupt. Allen, were on a scout
from Tempi Bay. 1 hey look fort Foster (for
some lime abonduncd in consequence of unheal
thy position,Mwemy miles from Turn pa in their
route,where they came across Old BoW Legs,ii de
scendant ofa celebrated Seminole Uhiefof the same
mv -e, quietly sooted in the deserted Fort. '1 ho old
fellow finding his former enemies approach
ing, thought it better to depend on Ins heels for sc
e rty. A regular race look place and he was run
down like a tired racer. On being captured, lie so
licited very strongly not to he taken lo Tampa Bay,
but tho command being from that Post, lie uas con
ducted there without further parley, lie, the Chief,
(as well ns the Indians found near Palulka,) was de
tained as lie was north of tho lino specified in their
late Treaty.
(Jen. Jestip is on his way lo St. Augustine.
The statement made that Mieanopy had been
executed is, we are informed, otuJly without fisan
daiion. „ . *. ~
Not the least provoking feature of tins /lonoa
war to an Editor is, that we uie compelled in In©
exercise of our vocation, to give current# to every
rumor that reaches the public ear—or-Ae charged
with withholding the latest
readers. , ,
We would not however ho surprised to hear ere
long that Mieanopy has fallen b/neuth the knife of
ins ambitiAus Chieftains. /' . ,
Indian., although eharartepSed for ferocity, cher
ish the .nine ambition wWfch often prompts the
white man sooner lo Hell than serve in
Heaven."
Bui “sufficient for th/day,
University of Georgia, ?
Athens, March 23, 1837. )
AT the Commencement, the Ist week in August
next the fruslecs of this Institution vvul elect
a Professor of Moral Philosophy and Belles Lettres,
to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of 1 rot.
Pressley—salary 81600 per annum. Applicants
mfiv nddrees the President or Secretary of the
Unfverrhy ASBUKY HULL, Secretary.
March 30 11,n16 ]7J