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VFrom the Charleston Examiner.]
A PLAIN STATEMENT OF FAC PS.
The annals of mendacity afford nrf counter
part to the course that certain newspapers have
taken with regard to the public meeting, held
>n this city on the evening ot Saturday last.—
Every principle of justice, truth, and even com
mon decency has been violated. The most reck
less misrepresentations have been indulged in
with unsparing malignity. Distortions the most
gross, perversions the most unseemly, have been
crowded upon the public eye, with a zeal border
ing on ferocity. Contumely, vituperation and
falsehood, have each been invoked with a phren
zy almost amounting to desperation. We ask
the reader’s calm and unprejudiced attention to
a few plain simple facts recorded below. The
callofthe meeting, as published in the Mercury,
and in handbills, is as follows:
Public Meeting —Eag Muncy. —A public mee
ting of the citizens of Charleston will he held at
the City Hail, this evening, at 8 o’clock precise
ly, to devise suitable means for relieving the com
munity from the pondeious evils which are
crushing them to the earth. All who arc op
posed to the present worthless, irredeemable Pa
per Currency which is producing such disastrous
effects on the properly and happiness of the
country, its blighting, withering palsying influ
ence upon individual industry and public morals,
are earnestly invited to attend. The Bankers
have spoken; let us now hear the Voice of the
People ! Let the Mechanics show to the world
that they have Rights and dare maintain them!
Measures will also be adopted to establish an
Independent Press, devoted to the interests of
the People.
Charleston, July 8, 1537.
From the above it will seem that none were
invited to attend except such as wore opposed
to an “irredeemable paper currency;” hut no
sooner had the notice appeared llian the bank
ers took the alarm—held a consultation and de
termined to put down the meeting by force. Run
nets were despatched by Mr. Kcr Boyce, a Bank
Director, to drum up the “household troops.”--
Previous to the hour appointed the persons con
nected with the different banks, bad filled nearly
all the seats and avenues leading to the chair,
although they were not invited. The moment
the bell had ceased ringing for 8 o’clock it was
proposed by one of the batik advocates that Mr.
1 layne should take the Chair, Dir. Fisk arose and
begged that the motion might be withdrawn, as
another individual had been invited to preside
and bad accepted the invitation, and it might
tend to increase the excitement should another
person be called to the chair, under such circum
stances; he said lie was a man of peace, and wish
ed nothing to take place that might occasion dis
order. Mr. Ilaync, although uninvited to the
meeting, not being included in the call, took his
place as presiding officer. Mr. Fisk had taken
fiis seat but a few moments when a bank ruffian
crept up partly behind him, and while his head
was turned in a contrary'direction, inflicted a
blow with his whole strength, with the power of
vengeance and hate superadded. Mr. Fisk is a
clergyman—a non-com battant—was unarmed,
defenceless, and surrounded by men whose gla
ring eye balls seemed an illustration of the dark
fables of heathen milhology; but he quailed not
although yells were heard that would curdle the
blood at the heart.
Mr. Fisk stood nearly alone, most of his
friends having remained on the outside of the
hall. Although the indignity was inflicted in
the very face of the head of the police, yet in
stead of arresting the culprit, he gave a flatter
ing smile of approval for the heroic deed he had
performed. Several gentlemen addressed the
meeting, hut not one openly disapproved of the
brutal act of violence. The Mayor in his closing
remarks withdrew from Mr. Fisk the protection
of the law, so far as he was concerned, and
turned loose upon him the fury of the respecta
ble mob who had intruded upon a meeting of the
citizens, to which they were not invited. As
soon as the meeting adjourned, the Mayor went
to where Mr. Fisk was standing, and with one
of his blandest smiles, begged that ho might ac
company him home. The reply of Mr. Fisk
was:—“No Sir. Not five minutes ago you threw
me out from under your protection, and 1 shall
not again place myself there. I shall go homo
alone—if I am assassinated for my honest opin
ions my blood will cry from the ground.”
Mr. Fisk has becufalsely accused of calling
the meeting for the purpose of promoting riot
and bloodshed. It is a grave charge to make
against a minister of the gospel of peace—and
one tiiat ought not to be made without the most
satisfactory proof. The public should demand
that some evidence should be given of the fact
other than mere assertion and idle declamation.
So far from Mr. Fisk’s calling the meeting, that,
it was not until threats of assassination had
been uttered that he took any active part in get
ting up the meeting. The question then assu
med the aspect of liberty or slavery, and lie met
it like a man. His life is of trifling importance
when compared with die principles of freedom.
Other clergymen were present at the meeting
besides Mr. Fisk; one of the most popular Meth
odist preachers in the city had promised to be
there, contingencies excepted, and was expect
ed to deliver an address. This docs not look
much as if a mob and riot was the object of the
meeting.
The ferocity manifested towards Mr. Fisk has
been occasioned by his tearless expose of the
enormous corruptions of the banking system,
which has just been published in pamphlet form:
and also by his Oration delivered on the 4th of
July. He has put his hand to the plough, and
will not look back, although danger and even
death stare him in the face. He is not an aspirant
for the honors of martyrdom, but the daggers
point has as few terrors for him as most other
men. If the nath of truth and justice must be
crimsoned with blood, bis will be treely shed.
AN APPEAL TO THE PUBLIC.
It is one of the most painful duties I have ev
er vet been called to perform to bo compelled io
obtrude myself upon the public notice, under
the present disagreeable circumstances. Hav
ing been most unjustly assailed in the daily pa
pers of this city (the Courier more particularly)
I at last deemed it my duty to endeavor to repel
the cruel aspersions that have been heaped upon
me with an unsparing hand. The editors of
that paper after having represented me a second
Robhespiere, hut little if any better than a bandit
and outlaw, having done their best to make me
an alien from all the nobler sympathies of the
community in which I reside ai.cr impugning
mv motives and misrepresenting my ac,s ha\c
crowned their unholy work by refusing to allow
me the means of redress usually extended to the
meanest citizen of the land, with regard to the
unfounded and ungenerous libels they have cir
culated against me. It is what I little expected.
1 did not even dream that any press in America
had become so lost to every principle of justice,
as to refuse to allow a deeply injured individual
to be heard in his defence. My character is my
a li when my good name is filched from me, 1
am indeed poor. The value of an unsullied re
putation is not to be estimated; and he who
wantonly destroys it, is guilty of an offence that
even scalding tears of repentance can scarce ef
face.
The following article was written tnis mor
ning for the Charleston Courier in reply to its
ungenerous accusations, and it was refused an
insertion, unless I would erase all that renders
it necessary to have it published at all. Tiie
public will one day do me the justice to believe
that I am neither robber nor pirate ; neither ban
dit nor outlaw. T. FISK.
Charleston, July 14, 1637.
ERRORS CORRECTED.
Messrs. Editors; —I have long hesitated as
to the propriety ofendcavoring to correct, through
the medium of the public press, the wide spread
and cruel misrepresentations of my motives and
conduct in relation to the public meeting on Sa
turday evening last. But for my being, as you
say, “ a stranger among ns” (having resided in
Charleston hut little more than a year) I should
not have noticed the articles which have appear
ed in the daily papers, but with silence and pity;
as it is, I very respectfully claim a stranger's
privilege in desiring to be heard in my defence
at. the bar of public opinion before which I have
been so rudely arraigned. That I was not born
in South Carolina is true ; and it was not until
the last few days that I learned that this was not
only a misfortune, but sufficient to disfranchise
meof the rights and immunities of an American
citizen. Our Constitution declares tiiat Con
gress shall make no law abridging the freedom
of speech or of the press; nor did the framers
probably imagine that it would ever become a
question whether a person not born in a particu
lar Cify or State, should he deprived of one of
the most precious of all Cod’s gifts, freedom of
opinion and freedom of speech. Those who
have fled from foreign lands to escape the accu
mulated weight of ages of bondage and oppres
sion, will, it tbi - new doctrine is sustained by
public opinion, be compelled to seek yet another
city of refuge.
Yon say that “ one Thcophilus Fisk, a Uni
vorsalisl Preacher, has thought proper to attempt
the part of a political demagogue in our commu
nity.” 1 freely pardon the language used, as it
was doubtless penned under the influence of a
i strong personal excitement; a little candid re
flection cannot but convince you that you do mo
great injustice. I have for years eschewed par
ty politics, seeing, as I thought, tiiat the struggle
between the leaders was merely for power and
place, while the great principles of political jus
tice were trampled in the dust. The great ques
tion that now agitates the community, has, as I
conceive, but little to do with party politics, or I
should he the last to lake any active part in its
disems.on. But so far from tills, it deeply, nay
vitally concerns every individual, high or low,
rich or poor ; it is a question of human happi
ness and human liberty, one that deeply in
volves the rights of man. If these do not come
within the province of a clergyman, 1 am at a
loss to understand what does. When the f. ight
f.ii pestilence visited our city last year, Clergy
men wore not only allowed, but in vited, to hold
public meetings, without the fear ot “violence
and bloodshed” before their eyes: and is not the
country suffering now a far more dreadful visita
tion th in was tiiat of the Cholera? And must
a clergyman he termed a “ political demagogue”
l for desiring to sec the community relieved trom
the ponderous evils under which they groan ?
Have they not an equal iutcicst in tiie prosperity
am! happiness of the country with that of any
other Mass or profession ?
Another error into which you have fallen, is,
that the aop*auso bestowed upon my humble ef
forts on the Ilfi of July, influenced me to pursue
tiie course I gave —so far from it tiiat I have ex
erted myself to the utmost of my abilities for the
last eight years .in favour of equal laws and
equal rights. It. was uot yesterday, or last week
that I espoused the cause of those who provide
all flic, necessaries of fffe, build all our houses
and fight all our battles; I have for years endea
vored to defend from the encroachments of mo
nopolies and incorporated we yl! h, th c flock whose
fleece keeps me warm, whose i.abyr supports mo
iu comfort, and whose sinewy arms defend the
fire-side from profanation in scasoi. s M peril. In
doing this I have subjected myself t o • 1 pitiless
storm of obloquy ami reproach ; I have .rtood in
the breach of almost universal public cetisu.c
on the part of my dearest friends, those whe'vn
most fondly loved and most, dearly prized, Hav
ing few to whisper a word of defence or palliation
to my op posers—bolt after bolt of malignant vi
tuperation has fallen upon my naked head which
n bared to the,storm. Those who accuse me of
having done ail this; of having sacrificed friends,
personal case and comfort, as well as the means
of wealth, merely for “ the acquisition of noto
riety and personal influence,” do me the highest
injustice. I seek no worldly applause or public
office, for doing my duty to my country—the
only reward 1 ask or expect is tiiat of an appro
ving conscience.
In your account of the meeting, published on
Monday, you make frequent allusions to “mob
spirit,” “ mob violenceyou indirectly hint that
“mischief and spoliation” was the object of the
meeting. I think this a most ungenerous and
unfounded reproach upon ail who were concern
ed in calling their fellow citizens together. Al
low' me to ask what evidence you possess, that
would justify such a startling and appalling con
clusion ? That “mob violence” was not the in
tention of the primary movers in the matter, I
hope to show conclusively in very few words.
The meeting was called for those, and those
only, who were “opposed to the present irredee
mable paper currency, which is producing such
disas'rous effects upon the prosperity of the
country, its blighting, withering, palsying influ
ence upon individual industry and the public
morals.” When those embraced in the objects
of the call, arrived at the City Hall, they found
it already occupied by those who were not invited
to attend, who by previous concert had deter
mined to monopolize the Hall granted for anoth
cr purpose; instead of resenting this, they quietly
and peaceably remained outside, to the number
of several hundred. Docs this look like a “mob
spirit?” Suppose when the Public Dinner was
given to Messrs. Calhoun and Preston, that some
hundreds had without invitation, rushed into the
hail and had taken possessions of all the scats
at the tables, and the invited guests had remain
ed quietly without; would this have manifested
any thing like “mob violence” on their part?—
The case is directly in point—the Mayor had
granted the use of the City Hall fora definite
purpose—it was therefore no more public on that
occasion, than was Stuart’s Hotel on the day of
the Public Dinner. I need not add that all the
“mob violence” that was manifested at the mee
ting, was on the part of the highly respectable
gentlemen who intruded themselves where they
were not invited—one of whom in open public
meeting, without provocation, struck with his
clenched fist, an unarmed and defenceless cler
gyman, while he was sitting down, and while
Ins head was turned in a contrary direction, with
his whole strength, and would have repeated the
blow, ha ! he not been prevented ; and yet this
brutal outrage did not excite those whom you
characterize as a “mob” to “mischief or vio
lence.” Ii was not on the score of fear that they
abstained from resenting it on the spot, but be
cause they arc the friends of order, the suppor
ters of the constitution and the laws. Although
this indignity took place directly before the eyes
of the Mayor, within a very few feet of where
he stood, yet, he manifested" no token of disap
proval of this broach of the public peace ; nor
did any of the respectable gentlemen who ma
naged the concerns of the meeting.
In your article, my veracity seems to be ques
tioned in alindingto my Slaving named “another
individual” without his authority, as presiding of
ficer instead ol the mayor. The * individual’
whom I named, was the Hon. Henry L. Pinck
ney, who had been waited upon by a committee,
and had agreed to lake the chair—he stated,
moreover, that he was opposed to the whole sys
tem ol banking, and unless the Legislature gran
ted the people relief, they would be justified in
having a revolution. It was not out of disres
pect to the mayor that I named Mr. Pinckney,
huf simply and alone to preserve the public peace,
and this I distinctly stated to the meeting.
Again, you err in saying that I came here to
defend the people against the proclamation and
force bill—l stated no such thing.
Have we not fallen upon evil times if the free
citizens ot a groat Republic cannot be allowed
to assemble peaceably ‘to devise suitable means
lor relieving the community from tjie ponderous
evils which arc crushing them to the earth,’
without being subjected to personal violence and
outrage? It was one of the causes of a seven
years war with Great Britain, because the peo
ple were not allowed this precious privilege of
assembling for a redress of grievances; and is
this unhappy state of things again to return in
these palmy days of our country’s pride? Why
this shrinking timidity on the part of those who
control our banking institutions ? If their cause
is founded upon a rock, why fear the rains and
the floods—let them come, if not built upon sand
their fabric will stand firm as the Andes. Why
then fear what a solitary individual could say in
a public meeting in the midst of an army of bank
directors, with a phalanx of fee’d attornies and
bank borrowers to back them? Let argument
be met with argument, not with brute force: let
reason do her work in refuting error, if it he one,
not brutal blows; which though they may pros
trate an opponent and destroy our individual lib
erty, vet will never convince any that paper mo
ney is not a withering curse to the land.
At the meeting aforesaid, the bankers turned '•
out in their undivided strength—their ablest de. :
fenders were on the spot prepared for action. <
Could there ever have been a more favorable op. i
po.tuiiUy to have refuted our errors upon the
banking system ? Inste ad of meeting the ques
tion with the boldness of fearless honest}', they
immediately moved an adjournment without the
objects of the meeting having been stated by the
chairman or any one else. Should any one offer
}o.i a oank note, but refuse to let you examine it,
would you not suspect it to be a counterfeit ? If
a merchant should keep his goods in the dark
and refuse to allow them to be taken into the
light before you made a purchase, would you nut
suspect that ail was not as it should be ? After a
lawyer had staled his side of a case in court,
shouid he beg ot the judge and jury not to hear a
word upon the other side, and should even resort
to “ mob violence” to prevent it, would not the
general impression be that his cause was too j
weak or 100 corrupt to bear examination?,
I submit these few remarks to a candid and
indulge! t public, in whose sense of justice I have
unlimited confidence; they will judge of my
motives by my acts. If I sutler it is better lo tto
so “for well doing than for evil doing.” I have
not a doubt that they will vindicate the right of
freedom of opinion and freedom of speech, at
all lisks and at every hazard.
Respectfully,
TIIEOPHTLUS FISK.
[From the Charleston Patriot .l
GOVERNMENT AND BANKING.
NO, 5.
There is one truth which the history of Banks
establishes beyond ail denial, which is tiiat du
ring excitement, in periods of apparent, commer
cial prosperity, they sympathise fully with the
wants of Merchants, and during war with the
wants of Government. This is as applicable to
a National Bank as to all other similar establish
ments. In fact a Bank connected with Gov
ernment sympathises more intimately with its
j wants during war than other Banking lin tiiu
j lions. Let the history of all such banks as have
been allied io the State in any manner or degree
he consulted, and it will be found that the public
has experienced the evils of this connexion. VVc
need only advert to the history of Banking es
tablishments connected with Government in
Europe, in proof of this position. In every
country on the Cont inent, in Austria, in Russia,
in Denmark, in Sweden, the alliance has resul
ted as well in loss to the bank us injury to the
people. In the case of the Bank of England the
fact is not loss striking. That institution was
compelled to suspend specie payments in 1797,
in conscqaonStrof liio large advances made to
the British Government from 1704 to 1707, on
account principally of 1 lie Austrian loans; and
at a subsequent period from 1890 to the end of
the war, the return to specie payments was, it. is
well known, prevented, front ■ the fact that the
Government found Ihe Bank ton convenient an
instrument for its financial plans to dispense
with its agencyl
Now on what principles which arc known to go
vern human nature can it. bo alleged, that a Na
tional Bank in the UniteeWS tales would not du
ring war lead to similar evils. The connexion
between Government and a Public Bank is cer
tain to produce evils in this country of a greater
magnitude than in other, when the public ne
cessities arc urgent. The imposition of direct
taxes has always been an unpopular measure in
the United States, and instead of its being t,iie
first, it is always the last resort when supplies
are wanted during hostilities in which we may
happen to be engaged. This was strikingly
shown during the last war, when the aid of the
uaper system was sought to carry ns through
l.i - at conflict. The banks lent themselves freely
po ,’he Government, and those who made loans
to the Government, by borrowing of them. It
offin i mo great a violence to probabilit y to sup
pose t.’at a National Bank would not have sym.
pathisea with all the wants of Government, in
even a ore airv degree than did the State insti
tutions. li’ sgch an establishment had been in
existence dun ng the last war in what manner
would it have c./'phn'cd a large capital, exedpt
through the publiG expenditure, in advances to
Government. Tiie-vr had thrown out of era
ployment those largo capitals which It ad filled
the channels of cornmci ce. Unless there had
been an adequate system of internal taxation es
tablished at the commencement of the war, as a
support to public credit, by wi. ic h the monied
resources of private capitalists vfo.’hi have been
drawn out in loans'to Government, the resort to
a public bank, for the aid of its credit, would
have been inevitable. The same eons q 'unices
would have followed as resulted from the hpavy
advances made by the State Banks. An ft
depreciation of the currency would have tak m
place, accompanied, as then, by a suspension of |
specie payments.
We are aware that the authority of Mr. Gal
latin is in opposition tons, in this view of the
subject. In his pamphlet on Banks and Cur
rency published in 1830, lie affirms that a Na
tional institution would have prevented the sus
pension of specie payments in 1814. If wc were
to give any faith to the reasons alleged at that
time for the suspension by the banks, we are
unable to understand in what manner or by what
means t his result could have been prevented
by such an institution. From the rigorous
blockade of the ports of the United States by
the enemy, foreign supplies could not he paid
for by the exportation of our produce. The im
portation of those supplies through the Eastern
States having been large, produced a continual
drain from the banks of the Middle States for
specie to pay for them, while a considerable
commerce in British Government Bills of Ex
change further contributed to exhaust them of
their specie. These were the ostensible causes
set forth at that time for the suspension, and as
they were produced by the laws of trade, we
cannot conceive, if the explanation be correct,
by what system of checks a National institution
could have counteracted them.
The fact has been much dwelt upon, that be
tween 1811 and 1816 the number of banks in
the United States has increased from 84 t 0242,
and the notes in circulation from $28,000,000
-to .$66,500,000,,which increase would not have
taken place, it is alleged, if the control of the
former Bank of the U. States had not been ro
removed. Now here was a period of five years
that elapsed, during which this increase of bank
issues bad taken place, and down to 1814 there
had been no considerable augmentation of banks
and bank capital. It was in March, 1814, that
Pennsylvania chartered 41 banks. Why should
the power of increasing the State hanks, by the
the non-renewal of the charter of the former ‘
Bank of the United States, have lain dormant
for between three and four years, while in
antic:potion, of the non-renewal of the char
ter of the last national Bank, there should 1
have been in lb3i and 1835 so great an increase
ot oanks. The only rational explanation of ,
which this admits is, that therd was no conside- i
rablc augmentation of banks at the first period, i
the demands for the government expenditure I •
called lulo existence an additional number; !
while at the last period, commercial excitement '
and tiie demand for capital for internal improve- !
meins, v.cic causes ox disturbance that operated
anterior to the expiration of the late charter.
We find from Dir. Gallatin’s statements that 1
the amount borrowed by thcrgovernment du. 1
ring the last war in the -Middle States, was, in- ;
eluding the funded and floating debt, about 45 S
millions, which sum corresponds von* nearly J
wit h the in creased issues of the banks ’between
1811 and 1816. There was very little borrowed ? <
out. of the Middle States.
Fiom this \ icw of our subject wc arc led to S
conclude, that nearly tiie whole of thc angmen
ted issues of paper by the banks, be twee n° 1813 f
and 1816, were made to meet the increased pub- 3
lie expenditure, and that the same causes, in the
absence of an adequate system of internal taxa
tion, would have induced augmented issues by a c
National Bank, if, at that time, there had been i
one in existence. The circumstance, that from f
Isal to lbl4, three years atter the expiration of r
the ciiarter ot lac former hank, there had been 1
no material increase of banks and bank issues,
is conclusive to show that their multiplication in 1
1814 and 1815, resulted from a demand by gov- 0
eminent, for bank accommodation. That de- t
maud, as we have shown, arose out of tire public d
expenditure, which not developing itself until o
1813, was not followed until the succeeding year
by the creation of many additional banks "and °
by any considerable increase of bank issues. On
the same principle of explanation of an increa- £
sed demand for bank credits, a large number of Sl
banks were created in 1834 and 1835, two years a
before the expiration of the late charter of the
U. Slates Bank, in consequence of commercial v '
speculation, which had begun to developc itself
at that period. This explanation is in accord. u
ancc tvilh the history of an increase of banks 01
and bank issues all oyer the world, aud with the p.
received principles on the subject. There must
L»e an antecedent or nearly contemporaneous de
mand for bank credits before a sufficient induce
ment is presented for the creation of additional
banks, which arises, during peace, in times ol
great apparent commercial prosperity, from an
extension of mercantile transactions, and during
war from the demands of government for public
expenditure.
It may however be said that a public bank
contributes to the convenience of tbe Treasury,
in the transmission as well as safe keeping ot
the public money both in peace .and in war. 1 his
service is not performed without an equivalent.
The equivalent is the use of the public deposilos.
Now as we conceive that a large share of the
evils vve arc at present enduring have arisen from
the use of these deposits, we shall next enter on
this branch of our subject.
BY EXPJRESS MAIL.
rFROJK OUR CORRESPONDENTS.]
Offices of the TV. Y. Courier 4' Mercantile )
Advertiser, Times, Post, and Herald, >
July 24. )
TEN D AYS L \TER FRO.M EUROPE—IIIGII
LY IMPORTANT INTELLIGENCE.
Yesterday we bad quite a flood of arrivals. The
Louis Philippe from Havre the 18th, the Westmins
ter from London the Uth, and the "Virginia from
Liverpool tlie Bth June, bringing us copious files of
French and English papers.
The Europe arrived at Liverpool on tbe 10th of
June, carrying out the news of the suspension of
specie payments. An express was immediately
posted off for London. The news created great
excitement and alarm on ’Change and in the money
circles.
’the r i imes of the 12th of June contains thaw hole
account of our suspensions and the movements of
Mr. Swartwout. In our next edition we shall en
deavor to give a clear and succinct statement of
English opinions in relation to this country.
The Europe is said to have carried out but 820,-
000 in specie.
'Pile Times has the call of Congress by tbe Pre
sident.
Information had gone out by the Europe, in pri
vate letters, that money would he plenty here at 7
per cent., in consequence of the suspension. Who
were the financiers that, made such a prophecy?
In the Tirads of the 13th, we find it stated that a
rumor was abroad to this effect: The house of
Browne, Brothers & Co. had applied to the Bank of
England for assistance, and that it was determined
to give it.
Wells & Co ,of Paris, had applied to the Bank of
France, lor four millions of francs, and received the
requisite aid.
In Manchester, the firm of Rarasbottom & Co.
had gone by the board for an immense amount
This looks ominous for the manufacturing districts.
Telegraphic despatches at Paris on the 15th, an
nounced that on the evening of the 9th of June the
troops of Oraa were in possession of Tamarite and
its environs. The Carlists were between Bene
vave and Ager. Cabrera had notpassed the Ebro
at Caspe.
(hi the lflth,Ezpartero had arrived at Lcrin,which
be found deserted.
On the 1 Issi of June, Don Carlos was at Alas.—
The defeat of Osorio had thrown open the access
of the mountains to the rebels.
The Stock Exchange at Paris was closed on the
Pith of June.
Two o’clock tbe 15th, Five per cents were 103 f.
BCc.
The Journal des Dchafs is decidedly of opinion
that the course, of Jackson against the currency,
and the attempt to substitute gold and silver for cre
dit, ruined our country. It approves ofthe suspen
sion of specie payments as a measure by which wo
can pay our European debts.
Did wo not prophecy that ibis would be a conse
quence of ilio scheme?
Meunier is going to embark for New Orleans in
the La Pey rouse, from some port of Brittany.
On the Pith, his Majesty of England passed a
good night, 'flic 18th, his disease took an unfavor
able turn. His life is insured for £BO.OOO. The
Times of the 13th says that ho was better.
Money was easy.
( ottou had gone down, and was almost a drug.
! nited States post notes, on the 13th, were 931
to 941 on ’Change in London.
A new ministry has been formed in Lisbon. Oli
veira is President of the Council.
Twenty-five millions of francs were appropriated
lo the improvement of the rivers in France, at the
session ofthe 14th of June.
LIVERPOOL, JUNE B.— Coflon. —The Cotton
market continues very steady, with a fair demand
fir all dcstriptions. The sales on Tuesday wore
2590 bags, and yesterday 4000 bags were sold, in
cluding 209 Pernams, 8i lo 9d.; and 500 Surats, 3i
to 41. 800 American were taken on speculation.
LIVERPOOL, JUNE 10.— Cotton. —The unfa
vorable a< count received here at the close of last
week, announcing the stoppage of three London
houses extensively engaged in the Ameriran trade,
produced less effect on our Cotton market than was
generally anticipated, though it appeared, for the
moment, to have a very unfavorable influence,crea
ting a want of confidence, and inducing buyers to
ac t '•actions':-; in consequence of which, prices of
Amer. ean gave way id to id per lb.; the demand,
liovvev or, soon revived, and we have had a heavy
week’s hn’iness, the daily sales increasing as the
week adVcact’d, so that, since Tuesday, we have
recovered ti.s depression previously quoted, and
the market closes without change from the prices of
last week. In Bi.az'l there has not been mucudone,
and the 'common qualifies of Pernams a.'i 4 Maran
hams are id. lower. Egyptians arc in limi/od de
mand, and sales have been made in them at in de
cline. Surats continue in demand, and is without
change in price. VVe had a very good attendance
of the trade yesterday, who bought freely at enr
rentrates. 2700 Surats and 300 Demerara are an
nounced for public sale on Friday next. 6500 Ame
rican have been taken on speculation, and 4CO A
raerican, and 1250 Surat for export.
90 Sea Islands, 17 to 27d; 7640 Uplands, 35 to
7id; 4440 Mobile,&c.4i to 7id; 8300 New Orleans,
4i to Sd; 200 Egyptians, 8 s to lid; 800 Pernams,
&c. 7f to 9£d, 730 Bahkis, <tc. 55 to Sid; 350 Ma
ranham, 7i to 81d, Sawginned, 5i to 7d; 30 Dema
rara, &c. 12 to 12sfd; 2ooLaguayra, 5 to 7id, and
2830 Surat, &c. 3i to sd.
The market remains steady, though less active.
Only a few buyers being in the market to-day, and
plenty of Cotton offering, there may have occurred
irregularity in sales, but no change can be noticed.
The-sales amount to 2500 hags, and include 530
Brazils, 100 Egyptian, and 30 Surat. The arrivals
arc 7 vessels*from Mobile, and 5 from New Orleans
with Cotton.
LIVERPOOL, JUNE 13.—Tn consequence of
very large importations from Egypt and the Linked
States, during the last few days, the market to-day
has been more inactive, still former prices are sup
ported, and the market has closed firm.
TRADE AT LEEDS, JUNE 7.—The demand
for goods at this market, on Saturday, was rather
better than for some market days, but the improve
ment was so slight that it was only of importance
as showing that business was not getting worse.—
The recent failures in London, in connexion with
the American trade, will, it is feared, have an in
jurious effect upon this market for some weeks to
come.
HAL RE, JUNE 15.— Cottons. —There has been
a continuation of good demand, and at steady pri
ces, on the part of the trade, during the last eight
days.
The sales embrace 6470 bales, consisting 0f3277
bales New Orleans, of which 20 bales of very low
quality at f. 55; 25 bales do. at f.SS; 85 bales at f. 65
t0f.70; 293 bales at f,72 50 to f. 80; 2517 bales at fBl
to f 92 50; 294 bales at f. 95 to f 100; 25 bales at f. 102
50, and 13 bales at f. 114—1520 hales Mobile, of
which 505 hales at f. 79 to f. 88; 153 bale.- at f. 90;
f 5 bales at f. 90 50 to f. 95 50, and 34 bales at f. 97
830 bales Upland, of which 9 bales at f. 80; 223 bales
bales at f. 90; 567 bales at f. 95 to f.IOO, and 31 bales
at f. 105.
The arrivals hnye been, on the other Hand, 9295
bales, of which 7054 bales I nited States, 680 hales
Bahia, 1263 bales Bengal, 288 bales St. Domingo,
and 11 bales Guadeloupe.
Stock May 31, 91,530 b. of which 77,331 b. U. S.
Arrupto June 14, 11,0G9 8,010
102,6 s 9 85,950
Sal. up to June 14, 16,678 13,561
Stock June 14, 83.971 72,339
HAVRE, JUNE 1/.— Cotton. — t he demand still
continues active. The actual stock is 23,000 hales,
against 50,000 bales at t He same time last year.
ONE DAY LATER.
We received early ihife morning, a Havre paper
containing one day later news than any published
in the morning papers. It was brought up by our
famous news schooner Celeste, the Teazer. and the
rest of the fleet, remaining outside lo catch any ,
thing further.
The commercial revulsion is spreading over all
Europe. 1
At the sitting ofthe Chamber or Peers ofthe I6th
of June, the minister of war demanded a credit for
the army of Africa of 14,652,307 francs. The or- ■
der of the day was then taken up—the discussion
ofthe bill to regulate weights and measures.
In the Chamber of Deputies, same day, the order
ofthe day was a general discussion upon railways. c
.Mr. Jauhert was in favor of extending them in every ,
part of the kingdom, but objected to"the plan of dis- .
cussing the subject in open chamber. After a stormy
session, the Chamber adjourned without coming to E
my decision. ?
The Duke of Orleans is in great favor with the /
workmen of Paris. He is going to establish a pen- *'
don list for the widows and children of those
,vho w ere trampled to death in the Champ de Mars
in the occasion of the late military fete. ~
M Haussey, the ex-minister of Charles X., is at 5- 1
’aris publishing his memoirs. 1(
At the./eie miliiaire in the Champ de Mars, 27
persons were killed and 150 wounded by the rush of
the mutitude through the narrow gates of the en
closure.
The Chamber of Deputies, at its session of the
15th of June, neglected the proposition to make a
canal joining the watersof the ocean with those of
the Mediterranean byway of the Garonne.
A new steamboat is about to ply between Havre
and Hamburgh.
Pontic Funds. — Paris, 1 Qth June .—s per cents,
10Sf. 70; 3 per cents, 77f. 30; Bank stock, 2377 f. 59;
Spanish actives 23J a 23L Complete stagnation
reigns over railway stock. Exchange on London,
30 days 25,37 it Haraburgdo 185; Amsterdam 57.
Havre Colton Market. —Sales of 16th June, 93
cales Louisiana, 100 f.; 43 do. 94.50: 35 do. 94; 18 do.
90: 35 do. 88,50; 52 do. 87,50; 21 bales Florida, 102
50; 105 do. 100; 96. do. 92,50; 93 do. 89; 48 bales
Mobile 95,50; 51 d0:95; 103 do. 92; 41 do 84 : total,
1030 bales. The stock on hand is 25,315 bales,
agaidst 52,5C0 last year.
LATER PROM EUROPE.
DEATH OF THE KING OF ENGL AX D.
By the packet ship St. James, Capt. Sebor, w e
have received London papers to the 20th alt.inclu
sive. The King of England is dead. The news of
this event is thus announced in the Morning Chro
nicle ofthe 20th.
His Majesty expired about twenty minutes past
three o’clock this morning. The Archbishop of
( 'antcrhnry was present, as were also several mem
bers of the King's family, immediately after the
decease, the Archbishop of Canterbury left Wisul
j sor Castle for town.
LONDON, JLNE 19.—The proceedings at the
I Stock Exchange continue wholly devoid of interest,
1 and the quotations scarcely vary. Consols left off
I at 91? to f; Exchequer Bills and India Bonds, 33 to
35, premium. United States Bank Post Notes are
93 to 94.
“SAN SEBASTIAN, JUNE 13, 1837.
“The theatre of war is transferred to Catalonia.
Shame to the Spanish Generals for it! Nothing
can excuse them for having allowed Don Carlos
and Don Sebastian to have progressed so far. —
However, what can you expect where treachery
and incapacity are the sole attributes that guide
their conduct?
After all, 1 should not he surprised to sec Don
Carlos on the throne ol Madrid, not that I think lie
lias the slightest chance of remaining there, thanks
to the republicans for it, not to the constitutional
army ami the Queen’s Government.
LIVERPOOL, JUNE 17.— Colton. —Or.r Cotton
market Ims been very steady to-day, and in some
instances higher prices have been obtained. The
sales amount to 4000 bags, of which about 1000 A
nwrican, and 200 Surats, were taken for export. —
There has been little inquiry for speculation.
NEW YORK MONEY MARKET.
Monday Evening, July 24, li o’clock.
Up—up—tip—things have gone. A livelier and
better fbeling pervades all classes. Every body is
pleased that the intelligence of our disastrous sus
pensions has been received in Europe with such a
good fee'ing.
Money is plenty in the street on available securi
ties at 51 per cent, per annum. 4 bis shows an im
mense contraction in ike business of the country,
for the banks have not been extending —as was con
templated by the London Times.
L nited States Bank shares opened, the second
call, at 114, and closed at lISL Every other stock
has experienced an advance. Five franc pieces
have receded three per cent, from Saturday. Other
coins are about the same.
Treasury Drafts are held at 104 a 107.
The whole tenor of our Emopean intelligence is
highly calculated to beget a new confidence on this
side the water, and when they shall receive the hea
vy remittances from this country in specie and in
cotton, American credit will rise to its old point.
Mr. Biddle Ims sent out an agent to get an exten
sion of credit for his institution, so as to enable him
lo command the exchanges on the resumption of
specie payments.
NEW YORK, JULY 25.
STILL LATER FROM EUROPE.
DEATH OF WILLIAM IV., KING OF K N’t; I, A NO.
The packet ship St. James, commanded by Cap
tain Sebor, has arrived from London, bringing pa
pers of the 20th of June. They announce the
death of the king of. England on the morning of
that day.
This monarch is to be succeeded by the Princess
Victoria, daughter of the late Edward, Duke of
Kent. She was born on the 21th of .May, 1819,
and her arrival at her eighteenth year was late
ly celebrated by dinners among the vvhigs and ra
dicals. The Princess has been educateffwitli great
care by Her mother the Dutchess of Kent, and be
ing constantly surrounded by the whig friends of
her surviving parent, will learn, it is supposed,
strongly to the side of that party. She was not, it
is said, on the best terms with her royal uncle.
One effect of this event w ill he the severance of
the kingdom of Hanover from the crown of Eng
land. That principality does not admit the female
succession. It will descend to the Duke of Cum
berland.
LONDON, JUNE 16 —The stock of bullion in
the Bank is w e are glad to say, progressively ac
cumulating; and amounts at present we believe to
about 5,300,C00/. It is a fact, that while bullion is
being imported generally from the < eminent, from
10,060/. to 15,00Uj. a week goes to Holland, as pay
ment by the gulls who have bought Dutch Stock.
Some of onr contempoaries seem to he surprised
that gold should come here from Russia, but it is
quire as much in the natural course ofthings-as that
sugar should come from Jamaica. Russia bids fair
to bo the Mexico of the Old World. Last year the
produce of her silver mines amounted to about
608,000/., and that of her gold mines to about 335,-
000/. Not having, notwithstanding- he rapid in
crease of wealth and civilization, a demand for so
large an amount ofbullion, the supplies necessarily
finds its way to the best market, which at this
mu merit happens to be England.
LONDON, JUNE 19—The accounts from the
manufacturin'? districts generally are very flat, but
we hope soon ,*o see an improvement, as the most
serious cause of uneasiness has been removed;
however, it cannot bo denied that the early pros
pect of a general moumitij," t ends to aggravate the
stagnation of trade, which originated with the sus
pension ofthe American orders, the discredit
resulting from the embarrassments o»" that branch
of commerce. In Liverpool there was a much
better feeling in all departments on Saturday.
STILL LATER FROM ENGLAND.
The arrival of the packet ship Roseoe, Captain !
Delano, just ns we were going to press, has put us
in possession of London papers to the 23d of June,
and Liverpool papers of the 24th.
We copy the declaration of the new Queen,
made to the Privy Council on the 20th.
She was proclaimed Queen of England on the
morning of the 21st, at the Palace of St. James, in
presence of a great multitude which assembled to
witness the ceremony. Standing between Lord
Melbourne and Lord Lansdowne, in their state
dresses, and accompanied by her mother and oth
ers of her court, she appeared at one ofthe windows
and received the cheers of the people. The prin
cipal Herald advanced and read the proclamation,
finishing with “God save the Queen,” when the
cheers were deafening. At a quarter past ten a
procession formed, which moved through the city,
proclaiming her Majesty in different places.
The accession of Queen Victoria, appears to give
the vvhigs and radicals an increase of confidence.
The packet ship Mediator had arrived at Ports
mouth with intelligence from New York to the 2d
of June. The English papers take occasion to
sneer at the revolutionary tone of some of tlie A
mencan presses on the subject of the payment of
the duties in specie. They remark that the “bark
ofthe Americans is worse than their bite.”
Lord Melbourne stated in the House of Peers, that
Her .Majesty the Queeti-would send a message to
botli Houses. It was thought the message would
refer with regret to the late King’s demise, to the
condition of the public business, and recommend
some temporary provision for the public service,
with a view to the speedy prorogation of Parlia- !
ment. After the prorogation, a dissolution will fol
low in the course of a month or six weeks.
A subsequent date informs us that the message
was delivered >o the House, expressing the grief
the Queen felt at the death of the late King, recom
mending tiic House to proceed with the business j
before it, and advising that no new measures should I
be introduced.
An address was agreed lo by the house.
An address was also agreed to be presented to
the Queen Dowager.
The death of the King has given rise to strong
party feeling. An article in the Liverpool Chroni
cle describes an attaekxif rhe London Times on the
young Queen and her mother, as calculated to ex
cite disgust and reprobation from men of all parlies.
The packet ship Columbus, arrived out from New
York on the 22d June. She brought accounts from
the first of June.
Letters from Lisbon of ihe 11th of June, say that
the new .Ministry is unpopular, and the National
Guard much wearied with their labor and discon
tented. The Cortes had decreed that the Ministry
must evacuate their seats in the Cortes.
London, June 20.—The following Declaration
appears as an extraordinary Gazelle this evening ;
At the Court at Kensington, the 20th day of June,
1837, present the Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty
in Council, her Majesty being this day present in
Council, was pleased to make the following De
claration, viz. :
“The severe and afflicting loss which the nation
has sustained by the death of his Majesty, my be- ,
loved uncle, has devolved upon me the duty ofad- •
ministering the government of this empire. XHis
awful responsibility is imposed upon me so sudden- i
ly, and at so early a period of my life, that I should i
feel myself utterly opprest by the burden, were I •
not sustained by the hope that Divine Providence i
which has called me to this work, will give me' t
strength for the performance rs it, and that I shall <
find, in the purity of rny intentions, and in mv zeal i
for the public welfare, that support and those re- t
I sources which usually belong to a more mature age,
and to longer experience.
“Iplace my firm reliance upon the wisdom of
Parliament, and upon the loyalty and affection ol
my people. I esteem it also a peculiar advantage,
that I succeed to a Sovereign whose constant re
gard for the rights and liberties of his subjects, and
whose desire to promote the amelioration cf the
Laws and Institutions of the (’ountry, have render
ed his name the object of general attachment and
veneration.
“ Educated in England, under the tender and en
lightened care of a most affectionate Mother, 1 have
learned from my infancy to respect and love the
Constitution of my Native Country.
“!t will be my unceasing study to maintain the
Reformed Religion as by Law established, secur
ing at the same time to all the full enjoyment of
Religions Liberty; and 1 shall steadily protect the
rights, and promote to the utmost of my power, the
happiness and welfare of all classes of my subjects.
“ Whereupon the Lords of the Council made it their
humble request to her Majesty,that her Majesty’s
most gracious Declaration to their Lordships
might be made public, which her Majesty was
pleased to order accordingly.
“ C. C. GREVILLE.”
Her Majesty was at the same time graciously
pleased to continue all the members of the Privy
Council, and to declare, as she was required bylaw
to subscribe to two copies of a declaration to sup
port and maintain the Church of Scotland, that she
was willing to do so.
United Slates Bank Post Notes are quoted nomi
nally 93 to 94.
The Liverpool and Jlanchester Share Markets
are better than for some time past.
SUPPLEMENT TO THE LONDON GAZETTE
OF TUESDAY, JUNE 20.
Whitehall June 20.
On Tuesday morning, June 20th inst. at. 12 min
utes past 2 o'clock, our late most gracious Sove
reign King William IV. expired at his Castle of
Windsor, in the 82d year of his age, and die sev
enth year of his reign. This event has caused
one universal feeling of regret and sorrow to his
late Majesty’s faithful and attached subjects, to
whom he was endeared by the deep interest in
their welfare which he invariably manifested, as
well as by the manly virtues which marked and
adorned his character.
; Upon the intimation of this distressing event, the
1 Lords of the Privy Council assembled this day at
Kensington Palace, and gave orders for proclaim
-1 ing tier present Majesty,who made a most gracious
! declaration to them, and caused all the Lords and
: others of the late King’s Privy Council, who were
then present, to be sworn of her Majesty’s Privy
■ Council.
LIVERPOOL, JUNE 20.—The failures yester
day and to-day arc three. All the persons who
have failed were engaged in the American trade.
This was market day in .Manchester. There
was a good demand fur goods and yarns, and the
market more lively than it had been for several
L weeks previously.
LIVERPOOL, JUNE 24.—There has been a
very decided improvement in the cotton market
since the worst has been known relative to the ex
> pectations from the United States, it is some satis
faction to be assured even of the worst When that
is known, doubt ceases, and the springs of enter
prise obtain a new elasticity. Trade is a thing
governed by fixed principles, and of these the lead
’ mg one is a certainly of the grounds on which it
acts. In this place, the assurance that commercial
affairs in America have passed their crisis, has
caused the re-aefionhas created therebound w hich,
' with ordinary care, will probably eventuate in a
’ wholesome and, at the same time, an extended re
newal of the enterprise which, discreetly worked,
1 causes general prosperity and individual success.
The improvement in tlie cotton market has been
followed, of course, by a like improvement in other
produce, for as the chief staple sinks or rises in
1 price, there is a corresponding decline or increase
in olliers. This improvement will c-rend itself'of
course, beyond Liverpool, because what causes the
advance here, must produce good effects else where.
The increased demand for cotton Acre leads to the
conclusion that lite manufacturers of Manchester,
Stockport, &e will resume their full tide of work;
—and, indeed, the latest reports from the manu
. factoring districts already show some of the fa
vourable results we mention. But, it is not alone
from what wo may call “ the cotton dis tricts” that
. such reports may be anticipated.
Trade, although a much extended and delicate
complication, has its various details mutually de
pendent upon each other. The same causes which
gives life and spirit to I lie Cotton market of Liver
pool, leads to an improvement in the demand for
hardware from Birmingham, for cutlery from Shef
field, wvollen cloths from Yorkshire and the West of
England, printed calicoes from Manchester, and
china from the potteries of Staffordshire, Worces
ter, and Derby.—J fail.
Let ns hope with the reviving energies of trade,
the spirit of over speculation may not revive also,
ft is a wild and delusive sport. It has led to many,
if not. most of the evils under which the country
lias for some months boon suffering, and from which
it is only now beginning to show sirnptoms of re
covery. An awful lesson has been taught.—may
the merchants and manufacturers of England pro
fit by it.
LONDON, JUNE 21. —The pressure for money
has continued in the commercial discount market,
but it has been got over without producing any
casualties. The greater part of the American bills
afloat must now, it is conce'ved, be disposed of.
At the Stock Exchange.great inactivity prevail
ed. A trifling advance occurred in Consols, which
closed at. 914 to 4to f. Exchequer bills are rather
lower, and left off at 31 to 33 premium. Bank stock
is 206 to 207.
LEV ERJPOOL, .*i. > c. 23.—Cotton.—We have
had a large extent of business doing this week, in
the course of which from id to id advance on A
raericun descriptions was realized; but during the
two last days, the market has been Less firm, with
more inclination to sell at id to id improvement on
the prices of Friday last; Brazils are more sale
able at the current rates, but Egyptian and Sea
Island are lower. Speculators have taken 8500
bales of American, and 100!) Surat; and exporters
1800 American, 800 Surat, 310 Madras, 350 Bengal,
and 100 Pcrnams.
The sales to-day are about 4000 bags ofall kinds.
Tho imports this week is 48,725 bags, and the sales
are 3(5,410 hags, among which are 70 Sea Island, 15
! g 28; 7750 Upland, 44 a 8; 11,300 New Orleans, 44
a 5'?, : 8160 Alabama, &c. 4-4 a 71; 1430 Fern am bu-
I co, 7 a 94; 1010 Bahia, 5} a 74; 950Maranham, 6 a
8|; 70 iJemarara, 74 a 32; 230 Laguira, 5 a 74; 590
Egyptian, 7?a 10; 3320 Surat, 2} a 54; 350 Bengal,
24~a34. __
LIVERPOOL, JU NE 20.—We believe wc may
congratulate ourselves «.n a more sound and heal
thy state of'.tie business of this great, mart than has
existed for several months past. Confidence has
been, in a great measure,restored by the announce
ment that the Bank had resolved to bear Messrs.
Browns through their difficulties ; and as the sta
bility of many houses both here and in the manufac
turing districts depended upon Ibis, we cannot but
consider that the Bank directors, uninfluenced by
any hut a good feeling for the welfare of all, but
particularly of the class dependent on the manu
factories for their bread, have come to a wise and
judicious resolution.
Although the import of Cotton during the last
week has been unusually large, 54 vessels having
brought notless than 80,(X?0 to 90,000 bags, the mar
ket has been very brisk, and the aspect of 'Change
cheerful and encouraging ; an advance of id. to 4d.
her lb. was obtained yesterday, and has been fully
established by tho sale of nearly 6.000 bags to-day,
which, being the .Manchester market day, is usual
ly a dull day here. 1,000 bags of -Surat to-day, have
been taken by speculators.
Extract of a letter dated,
“HAARE, Ji NE 22d.—-Cotton in good request,
and gradually increasing in prices, particularly for
ordinary sorts. In other articles-we have no change
to notice.
Office of the Mobile Chronicle, }
July 25. £
We have been politely favored with the following
extract of a letter, dated
Lackaxge, 20th July.
Tho troops under command of UoJ. Brown had an
engagement with the Indians yesterday, on Alaqua
Creek, about seven miles below the old Court
House, and after an animated fight of twenty min
utes, the Indians gave way, leaving five of their
number dead on the ground, the loss of the whiles
was one killed and five wounded. Captain Haw
kins displayed great courage, led his men 'calla,ult
imo tho midst of the enemy. c ‘ J
He received three wounds, though none thought
to be danger- us. His first Lieutenant, Mr. .Myers,
is also wounded. The individual killed, was a Mr!
Clark of the Franklin Volunteers, as arc all the
wounded. The foregoing statement of the fight of
yesterday, is from Mr. Jesse Evans, who was in
hearing and arrived a few minmes after the firing
ceased, and I believe it to ho substantially correct.”
—Pensacola Gazette.
MOBILE, July 28.— Cotton. —Arrived this week
211 bales, and exported during tho same period 534
bales, leaving now on hand and on shipboard, not
cleared, 7696 hales.
The operations of the past week have been ne
cessarily limited, and sales are bat 300 bales, at
prices ranging from Bto 11 cents. There is no cot
ton above fair in market, and the principal portion
of our stock is even below this grade; the whole •
amount on sale does not exceed 500 hales. About
1500 bales are laid aside, as under limits beyond '
the market value. Although the demand is good, '
and lame transactions might be effected were there -
a stock"to operate upon, there is somewhat of a <
failing off in the request for the purpose of remit- 1
lance's. Checks can now be obtained on the north- <
ern cities on more easy terms and with less risk, of ]
which facilities our merchants arc availing them- :
selves. i
Frights are entirely nominal. Three or four
vessels are waiting to fill engagements at former
f rates. To Liverpool, Cotton, per lb. 4d nominal;
f New A ork, 4c. do.
nggrox-aiamwmmi , | | |
- AUGUSTA, ha.
e TEEM) AY 6i Ol! AIX ffTlX.r ST 171 837
1 b-Our Letter Sheet PnceUme^ wfll bc rea
dy for delivery Tins Afternoon. Those wishing
■■ ex ra copies must leave their orders at the office i
1 before II o'clock, as only a sufficient number to
supply orders will he worked off J t will contain
; the shipments, receipts and stock of cotton remain
ing on hand on the Ist. inst.
f :
2 s£r The communication of Mr. JohnG. Winter I
; is received, but at too late an hour for this morn- '
ing’s paper. Wc will give it in our next. fl
' 55“ The opposition to the administration of Gen
-5 era! Jackson ; the exertions made by that opposition
to prevent the election of .Mr. Van Bnren to the
presidency; the commercial disasters which have
been experienced ; and the political movements of
every branch of the opposition to enlist popular feel
ing under its banner; all combine to show to the
3 republican party the necessity of union among
themselves ; the necessity of concentrating their
forces at all elections; and the necessity ofehoos
s sing men for office, who will have given pledges of
an undeviating adherence to the principles and pol
icy of tho party. If, under present circumstances,
we are divided: if we support opponents for office ;
if we disregard our principles and our policy; wo
- will lose the fruits of our exertions and toils; we
wih ha\ e the mortification to see our opponents in
power, and our principles and policy in the dust,
i and abused as vulgar and worthless. Are the re!
s publicans of Georgia prepared for such n state of
5 things? Wo believe not. If not, they will then
‘ keep united, and at the elections in October next,
1 they will vote only for such candidates ns have been
selected from their own ranks, and not from the
i ranks of their opponents,
1 The republican party in Georgia, as well as in
! ,he °ther States of the union, arc opposed to a na
-1 tional hank. Our state legislature, as the ormui of
■ P ublic option, has repeatedly expressed opposition
r t() tlle establishment of such a national institution.
If wc lose our ascendency in the State, and if, by
divisions among ourselves, wc place our opponents
j in power, they will certainly recommend the estab
lishment of a national bank, for the purpose of
- equalizing exchange, and checking the operations
i Os the local banks. We say they will certainly re- I
commend such a measure, because some of the
i nullification presses of the State, the organs of our
1 opponents, have already made the declaration that
; a national hank was necessary to tho financial op
t orations of the country. If then the republican par- ,
. ty are desirous that such an institution should ho
> established, they must place in power our oppo
nents. If they still are opposed to a national bank,
I they must exert themselves in preventing any of
i o,lr opponents from being elected to office
i * bc republican party in Georgia are opposed to
1 nullification, consolidation, protective tariff, monop
olies, and internal improvement by the federal gov
ernment. Iho party must remain united, and at
i a,! elections must concentrate their votes on candi
dates from their own ranks, if they do not wish nul
| lification to predominate by the choice of Mr. Cal
f houn as President of iho United States in 1810; if
, they do not wish the “American System” to pre
side as the policy of tho federal government, by
the elevation of .Mr. Webster, Mr. Clay, or Mr. Har
-1 risen, to the presidency.
■ he republican party in Georgia have given an
efficient support to the measures of Gen. Jackson’s
administration, and have expressed a decided ap
probation of the course Mr. Van Buren has so far
pursued, and intend to pursue, while President of
the I ni.ed States. Any member of the republican
or union party of Georgia, who will vote for an op
ponent, virtually condemns the administration of
General Jackson, and expresses, < isapprobation of
the course Mr \an Bnren has declared he would
pursue in the administration of the Government.—
By voting for the opponent of onr present Govern
or, any union man will vote for one who is well
known to he among the most zealous and inveter
ate enemies of Gen. Jackson and -Mr. Van Bnren.
If any union man ad in this manner, can he here
after pretend to belong to the republican party of
Georgia ? How will he bo able to reconcile the
principles which he pretends to profess, with the
vote ne will have given to the enemy of Jackson
and .an Buren, and, consequently, to the enemy
of tiie very principles which ho pledged himself to
support and cherish when he htfeame an associate
of the union parly? Certainly such a union man,
after acting so inconsistently and censurably, could '
not complain should he be discarded by the union ’
party, considered as a renegade, and unfit to hold
communion with his former union associates ?
The fact is we arc in critical times. Our oppo
nents arc making strenuous efforts to acquire povv- j
er, by destroying the ascendency of the union par- i
ty. We can easily thwart all their machinations
and their movements, by union among ourselves.
The welfare of our State, and the good of onr coun
try, deti « id from ns the abandonment of all per
sonal considerations. Let us then show ourselves
to he true and disinterested patriots, and let us at
the polls vote only for men taken from our own
ranks.
DEPARTURE OF THE VOLUNTBBRSi
By a prospectus published in this Morning’s pa
per it will be seen, that Messrs. W. T. Thompson
& Co. propose issuing, in a few days, an elegant cn
gravtngfrom Headden’s Painting of the Departure
of the Volunteers far Florida from this city. Wc
have not seen the engraving, but from the price we
understand it cost the publishers, it will take a good
subscription li>t to remunerate them. This we
think they will notfin-J much difficulty in procuring
among our citizens —at least we hope so.
SNA RLEYYO W.
We have received from .Messrs. Richards & Stoy,
the second volume of Capt. Marryafs new novel,
Snarleyyow, or the Dog Fiend, and were much a
mused in reading its contents. Those who have
read the first volume, we know will feel some anxi
ety to read the second.; and to such as have not I
read the work and wish to spend an idle hour or
two, we can recommend it.
.MARYLAND.
The elections took place in Maryland on the 26th
of July. A slip from the office of the Baltimore ’
American, gives us the following results, so far as
heard from.
In the 4th district, comprising the cities of Balti
more and Annapolis, and Anne Arundel county,
the election for two members of Congress, resulted
in favor of the Van Buren candidates, Messrs. How
ard and M’Kim. The whig candidates were Messrs.
Kennedy and Ritlgeley. The average majority of
the Van Buren ticket was 251. In a day or two wo
shall hear of the result in ether districts. k
FOREIGN NEWS.
The foreign intelligence published in this day’s
paper, is interesting and of some importance. We
copy the following remarks, on the relative position
of parties in England, at the present time, from a
slip of the New York Courier & Enquirer of the
27th July:
Although the demise of the King of England will
not. in our opinion, cause any change in the foreign
policy of that great country, yet will it be followed,
m airprobabihty, by one ot the severest struggles
for political ascendency, between the parties into 1
which the people are divided, that has been wit
nessed for a long time past.
A dissolutionofthe existing Parliament six months
after the King’s death, and the issuing of w rits by
his successor, for the election of another, is a ne
cessary consequence of that event. From an ob
servation made by one of the present Ministers, it
is probable the present House of Commons will
merely clo.-e the business it has already began,and
vote the supplies necessary, when a general elec
tion will immediately take place.
There are irreconcilable differences enough be
tween the Conservative party and the Whigs to
make the contest a severe one, hut to these may
now be added the fact, that on its result will pro
bably depend the choice the Queen will make of a
husband, as this choice will, it is to be presumed,
be materially influenced by her Ministers, and these
Ministers she must select from that party which can •
command a majority in ihe popular branch of the
legislature. The German families who have be
come allied to the British crown have generally
professed high Conservative principles, and have
always been considered auxiliaries by the Tory
party. It was, therefore, not without astonishment