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THJE CONSTITUTIONALIST.
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[From the Mobile Examiner , August B.]
THE ELECTION.
The election returns so far as heard from will
b« found in our paper to-day. It will be seen
that the Democracy has been gloriously triumph
ant. We are the more rejoiced at the result, as
the contest was one purely of principle, and must
be regarded by all parties as conclusively indi
cating the opinion of the people upon the issue
now before the country. Persons at a distance,
can form no idea of the extent of the victory, for
they cannot imagine the difficulties which were
thrown in our way, nor the extent to which im
proper practices were carried. Here, however,
the people can see and judge for themselves; and
we candidly believe that were the trial to take
place again to-morrow, our majority would be
double. We will not particularize the objection
able measures of our opponents —it is sufficient
that they were unavailing; and we really hope
that they will learn from their defeat, the folly
of relying on any other than fair means hereaf
ter. The people have both intelligence and vir
tue; and when they are permitted they will in
variably sustain the cause of truth. Attempts
to mislead,when discovered, only operate against
those who make them.
FOR SENATOR.
Toulmin,{D.) Bates, (IT.)
Court Ho,use. 455 372
Mississippi Hotel, 193 241
Spring Hill, 1-5 104
Alvarez, 40 69
Fulton, 91 *£*
Wheeler's, 43 4 20
Mount Vernon, 26 r . G*
Bayi-u Batre, 66 lo
George’s, 52 6
Goff’s, 13 0
Total, 1134
Majority, 143
FOR REPRESENTATIVES.
Democrats Whigs.
Lipscomb. M’Calpin. Lang lon. Megginson.
C.House, 481 444 376 335
Miss. Ho’l 211 200 237 2*25
Sp.Hili, 135 125 102 til
Alvarez, 45 43 61 60
Fulton, 91 92 101 99
Wheeler’s, 50 54 14 19
Ml Vernon, 29 23 61 53
B. Batre, 86 85 16 16
George’s, 53 53 6 6
Goff’s, 13 13 0 0
Total, 1199 1144 974 912
JUaj. 225 232
ELECTION—BALDWIN COUNTY.
FOR SENATOR.
Toulmin, (D.) 197
Bares, (W.) 170
Majority, 27
REPRESENTATIVES.
Godbold, (D.) 196
Hall, (W.) 143
Majority, 43
[From the N. Y. Evening Post.\
There is one topic on which the presses of the
are beginning to maintain a prudent
reserve. Not long since the country resounded
with the cry, set up by partisans and speculators,
that the Government should do something “for
the relief of the people,” as the phrase went.—
That cry has grown fainter and fainter and has
now subsided into utter silence.
There was, it is true, a class in this country
which suffered great inconveniences. We had
over-traded —extravagantly over-traded—not in
the ordinary sense of the term, but with an im
impetuosity, a fury of extravagance to which the
annals of trade in this country furnished no par.
alcl. We suffered the usual penally ; the mer
cantile class were crushed by the reaction. Ad
visers stepped in who told them, that the whole
■fcVil was the act of government, and that the
government only could grant a remedy. They
believed what they were told, and besieged the
government for relief. The strangest nostrums
were proposed, the most desperate quackeries for
the cure of an evil which admitted but of one
remedy—time and patience.
It was fortunate that we had an administra
tion firm enough to resist these clamours. To
the credit of the present administration it will
stand recorded in history that it did resist them
• that it was proof against the madness of the
hour —that it quailed not when the outcry was
loudest and the assault hottest—and sturdily de
clined to lend itself to any scheme for distribu
ting the tosses of a class among the people at
large. For this it deserves and will receive the
public gratitude.
The government as Mr. Webster complains
has done nothing —yet how miraculous is the
effect of this simple remedy of letting alone—
this wise and prudent abstinence from throwing
any obstacle in the way of the healing and re
storing action of the laws of trade, and of public
opinion! The banks have resumed the pay
ment of their notes—the domestic exchanges are
coming into order —trade is reviving, enterpri
«es of every rational kind are resumed, and the
dawn of a bright and prosperous future irradi
ates and cheers the land.
What if the whigs had been in power—what
if they had possessed a majority in Congress,
and one of their number had filled the Execu
tive seal? What if they could have pul in prac
tice their mad schemes and empirical remedies?
The good sense of our readers will answer the
question.
I From the Globe.]
BRANCH MINTS AND SILVER CHANGE.
We have been under the belief, and have so
expressed ourselves, that the bill to authorize the
North Carolina and Georgia Branch mints to
coin silver change, had passed the House ot
Representatives, and had become a law of the
land ; but we find this to be a mistake. The
bill was not acted on in the House of Represen
tatives, but was one of the many which remain
ed untouched in the mass of unfinished business.
We greatly regret this circumstance, as the bill
is one of those which belongs to the system of
measures for supplying the whole Union with
silver change, and for preventing, in all future
time, all pretext for another resort to shinplas.
tors. The value of the bill would be immense,
£8 it would supply that quarter of the Union,
fvhich has the least chance of being supplied
from the mints of Philadelphia and New Orleans,
where alone silver is now coined. It is not the
coining of small change alone which requires the
c*re as Government, but the diffusion of it also.
The States south of the Potomac are out of the
line of diffusion either from Philadelphia or New
Orleans. They have no chance to receive sup
plies of change'from either of those places, and
ft became highly desirable to obtain that supply
from the branch mints in North Carolina and
-Georgia* It-was shown by the report of Mr.
Wheeler, the superintendent in North Carolina,
that no additional expense would be incurred, as
the same machinery which strikes the half eagle
and the quarter eagle, will also strike the twenty
five cent, the ten cent, and the five cent silver
pieces. It was also shown that the silver ob
lainibl? from the gold ore would be considers-
towards supplying the mint; added to whish t
would bo the imperfect, lue clipped, and the i
worn coins of the country, arid the foreign coins. ;
all of which would be readily recoined at those i
mints, and entei into circulation ; but if sent 1
to Philadelphia would never return. It was i
also shown that those two branch mints, do- t
pending upon the mines of gold ore, would i
sometimes be full of work and sometimes idle ;
that there would be seasons when they would t
have nothing to do, accordingly as the seasons i
varied for working the mines; and it was deem
ed good economy to employ all this leisure time
in coining silver. Every body knows that work
ing mines is sometimes a long run without a
prize, and sometimes a rapid succession of
prizes. The facility of coining silver change at ,
these mints would alone recommend it ; hut it
is further recommended as a means of forever
preventing another recourse to shinplasters ! In j
lime of peace prepare for war. This is a wise
maxim, and, therefore, in time of resumption
prepare for suspension. Gel the silver change ■
ready in time, so that the shin-plaster party can
never have another pretext lor issuing their |
dearly beloved shinnies. The pretext for shin- l
nies is, that specie would be exported ; but no- !
body exports 25 cent, 10 cent, and 5 cent pieces, i
These small pieces are never exported, so tiiat i
there is no excuse for not paying them at all !
times. All we want is enough, and that the Ad- ;
ministration proposes to have. It intends to 1
supply the whole Union with silver change, both j
for the convenience of the people and to tsus- |
trate the shinplasler party. Vast are the pay- 1
rnents in the dealings between man and man |
which could be paid in silver change. A large |
part of the payments now made, require the par. |
lies to leave their own shops or houses, and :
run up and down, entering other shops or houses, |
and stopping or begging all comers and goers, j
begging for change! It is lamentable to see ;
what running and begging there is to get change,
and how many inconveniences are suffered lor
Uie want of it. Not only in dealings is this in
convenience experienced, hut in all the little do
nations to servants and to the poor, and in all the
charitable demands which so often present them
selves. Thus far, tlie whole United btates may
he considered as almost in a sta.e of nudity fur
silver change—especially the change of our own
coinage. No attention was paid to the subject
until General Jackson’s time. It was he who
first began the noble work of supplying the
whole Union with silver change, and his patrio- ;
tic successor will take good care to see that that
noble woik goes bravely on. Among the essen
tial means for the accomplishment of this good
work, is the authority to the branch mints in
Georgia and North Carolina, to coin small sil
ver; and this authority may be expected to be
extended to them in the very commencement of
the next session of Congress.
[From the Mobile Examiner.']
THE MERCHANTS.
One of the most remarkable circumstances at
tending the present political struggle is that tire
merchants as a body have arrayed themselves
with one of the contending parties—and what is
vet more singular, with the very party which
opposes all correct notions of trade. When Col
bert, the minister of Louis XIV, inquired of the
Chamber of .Commerce of Lyons, what he should
do to advance the commercial interests of the
country, he was very properly and pertinently
answered, “ Let us alone .” This has been the
true mercantile policy in every' age. Asking
from Government only the pro ection necessary
to secure their rights, the merchants have relied
upon their own energy and enterprise, to enhance
their prosperity. Tney have properly reprobated
. every interference of Government with the laws
of trade as impolitic and injurious; and have re
j qoired only to manage their own affairs. Is it \
not strange, then, that at this moment, when the |
Administration is straining every nerve to uis- |
connect entirely tiis affairs of the Government ■
; from those of individual and corpora , ions, when |
it is striving to put it out of the power of the ,
Government to interfere with the commercial
1 affairs of the country, that the great body of the
, merchants should be violently opposed to it—and
should adhere to a party whose restricted trade
. and high tariff notions are so utterly adverse to
true mercantile principles?
Instead of asking the Government to let them
alone, they now beg of it to become anaciive
. commercial agen!; they want it to embai kin the
, business of banking, and to establish a great
r monopoly which would be able at any time to
> crush them ali! Past experience has not been sui
. ficient; the connection of the Government with
• the banks, injurious to both, and so littic bene
. ficial to either, seems to have been thrown away;
the ruin which that connection is accused of
having brought upon the country, is now disre
’ garded, and the Government is most solemnly
entreated to turn banker—regulate the exchanges
lend money—and control the commerce of the
nation. Had any one proposed to vest such
I power in the Government by the Constitution,
’ who would have been the first to oppose it? The
merchants, and they would have done right.
These are powers which once granted might be
so exercised as not only to destroy tne liberties
of the people, hut concentrate ail the propeity
j of the country in the Government . We should
, then indeed be in Egyptian bondage; our goods
our lands our persons, would ail have their price,
and the sole purchaser would oe the hank
ing Government.
' r cal!y seems to us that the merchants arc
: in a false position—that they are acting directly
| against their own interests, and are attempting
to overthrow the long settled principles of com
. merce. The re is, however, some excuse for ma
ny of them. They are deeply involved in the
present banking operations; they see nothing
t but ruin to themselves if matters arc again re
stored to their proper condition; and it is natural
’ that general principles should be forgotten in an
immediate personal interest. But this slate of
j things cannot long continue. The merchants
’ will find that the sooner their reliance on banks
ceases, the better will be their prospect of pros
perity. They are learning fast that bank facul
ties are not the shortest or surest way to wealth;
tliat it is easy enough, and very pleasant to get
) discounts, but that it is not quite so easy to take
; up the notes; the banks are very good servants,
J : but they are most terrible masters, and when
f they once get a poor wight into their hands it is
3 all day with him. In short, we have great hopes
3 that tins very respectable and influential class of
- citizens, the American merchants, will ere long
- discover, that in opposing the Administration,
• they are opposing their own interests, and that
1 ihev will, like sensible men, return to the faith
f of their fathers, to the good old let us alone
i doctrine.
Whig argument and Whig victories. —The
, greatest of modern curiosities is a Whig argu
, meat, the next is a Whig victory. The former
1 seems to be constructed upon much the same
, plan that Dean Swift proposed to write a book;
3 some hundred or two words, such as “loco-foco,”
3 ••agrarian,” “ursurpalion,” “insane projects,’’
. “outlandish Government,” “ruin, distress, shin
-3 plasters. Sub-Treasury,” &c. are all put into a
r bag and well shaken and then drawn out, and
- placed in order; the whole is filled up with some
1 puerile common places, and then we have a
r Whiff argument! If any doubts that this is the
1 true Tnod'e of procedure, let him take a newspa
. per and convince himself—it is always tne same
thing the only difference, is in the order in
i which the words come out of the bag; it is like
J the fanner’s fare, pork and beans one day and
• beans and pork the next.
But the Whig arguments are only superior to
. Whif victories —whoever beats it is certainly a
. Whig victory —guns were fired for New Hama
blurc, and g*«m> are leading for Louisiama, «
though in the former tne gain wai moro than >
3,090, and in the latter the Whig loss is more £
than 1.000. Every petty election, though it <
have not the most distant connection with gene
ral politics, is heralded as a Whig victory— 1
should a Whig be elected, even if ho were run
ning against one of the same party; and Marlin '
Van Buren is called upon to tremble in the Capi
tol because a Lankite has been elected consiab.e
in Kentucky. —Mobile Examiner.
[From the Globe.]
FAMILIAR DIALOGUE ON POLITICAL
SUBJECTS. BETWEEN A MERCHANT
AND A FARMER.
Merchant. Glorious news, friend ; tho oub-
Treasury bill is defeated in Congress.
Farmer. I am sorry for it.
M. Sony for it! You are not a Loco Foco, 1
hope.
F. I am an honest man, I hope.
Jf. Well, as an honest man, do you not be
lieve that the Sub-Treasury scheme would vio
late the Constitution, break all the banks, des
troy private property, give the Executive the
control of the currency, and ruin the country?
F. What part of the Constitution do you think
this scheme would violate?
M. Why, that part which requires the Gene
ral Government to regulate the currency, and
furnish paper money for the convenience of the
people?
F. I beg your pardon; but 1 here is no such
clause in the Constitution. Did you ever read
that instrument?
ilf. Why, no—l believe not. Perhaps I did,
when a boy. But Mr, Webster and Mr. Clay
tell us it is the constitutional duty of the General
Government In regulate the cuncncy, by creat
ing a Bank of the United Slates.
F. Do they tell you there is a word about re
gulating the currency or establishing a Bank
in the Constitution ?
M. Nut exactly ; but. I supposed there was
something about it. in the C-institution, or they
would not say so much about it.
F. In this way you are deceived. Here is the
Constitution: I carry it in my pocket th- se times. ,
Here is what it says about the currency :
gress shall hate poicer to coin money, and re
gulate the value of foreign coins.” You know
wiiat coining money means, and you know
what are foreign coins. The clause refers solely
j to gold and silver, and such Qther metals as
i Congress choses to coin into money. Theie is
not a word about paper money, or regulating a
paper currency.
M. Why, yon make the Constitution in favor
ofthe “specie humbug.”
F. Exactly so—the Constitution says Congress
shall have power to coin specie-humbugs, and
regulate the value of foreign specie-humbugs.
M. Well, well ; I didn’t suppose that Wash
ington and the rc-1 of them who made the Con
s!iTution, were such Loco Focos and Agrarians.
But how do you got over that part of the Con
i slilulion which savs the public money shall be
deposited in banks ?
F. There is no such thing in the Constitution.
On the contrary, it virtually says the public
money shall not be deposited in banks.
M. You are joking !
F. Not at all. Here read for yourself : “No
money shall be drawn from the TREASURY,
but in pursuance of appropriations made by law.”
Docs not this virtually say, that the public
money shall first be pul into the Treasury ?
M. Certainly—l suppose it does,
F. Well, that is as much as to say that it
| shall not be put into the hands of private citizens,
j or under the care of corporations or hanks, is it
| not. ?
M. It seems so indeed. But if it goes into
| the Treasury, and cannot get. out until Congress
1 shall appropriate it, it will lie there or ro use
i to any body, and we cannot borrow it lo do bu
!si ness upon. This would bo as bad as the Suo.
! Treasury scheme.
1 F. Then the reason you are opposed to the
I Sub-Treasury is, that you want to borrow the
public money to do business upon ?
M. Not altogether. You know lam a stock
holder in tho bank, and when we get the public
money to lend out, it increases our dividends,
and then I speculate a little sometimes, and it is
quite convenient lo borrow a tew thousand dol
lars of it when a body wants to make a good
speculation.
F. So you are in favor of using the public
money for private purposes when the Constitu
tion declares that not a cent of it shall be used
but for public purposes, and in pursuance of ap
propriations made by law !
M. Why should not I and my batik use it for
our own profit, rather titan have it shut up in
your odious and infamous Treasury and bub-
Ttreasuries, of no use to arty body ?
F. So you care not a fig for the Constitution
when it contravenes your pecuniary interest.
M. I’il get Mr. Webster lo read the Constitu
tion another way.
F. No doubt of it. I have no time lo argue
feither now ; but I will sec you next time I
come to town. Good bye.
i M. (solus.) Tins fellow must have more sense
than I thought lie had. I think he is right
about the Constitution ; but— we must have the
money.
[official.]
TREASURY NOTES.
Treasury Department, f
August 1, 1838. $
The w hole amount of Treasury notes authorized
bv the act of October 12th, 1837, having been is
sued, viz : |T10,000,000 00
And there having been redeemed
of litem about 7,100,000 GO
The new emissions made in place
of those under the act of May
12th, 1833, have been 5,036,532 SI
This leaves a balance of all out
standing, equal to only $7,986,532 81
LEVI WOODBURY,
Secretary of Ike Treasury.
Notice. —The money bequeathed by the late
| Ja.tncs Smithson, Esq., of London, for founding an in
i slitute m the city of Washington, amounting t<» half
a million of dollars, will, it is expected, be receiv
jed during the present month By an act passed
July 7th, 1833, the undersigned is directed to in- ;
vest the same “in stocks of States, bearing interest :
I at the rate of not less than five per cent, per an- i
| mira." He is now prepared to receive proposals
from persons who have stocks ol this description
I to dispose of.
j LEVI WOODBURY,
Secretary of the Treasury.
Treasury Department,
August 6, 1p33.
[From the Tallahassee Floridian.]
The tbiiowiug letter, from our fellow citizen
Col. James Gadsden, gives an account of another
horrid murder committed by savages near Baily’s
Mills, a few miles from Col. G.’s, entirely within
the frontier border. An express to the Governor,
received on Thursday, stales that two Indian
arrows were lound in the breast of a small girl,
one of the victims. One of the arrows was
brought up by the express, which vve saw. It
is about three feet in length—the barb of iron
about inches long and one inch in width,
thin ann sharp at the point.
Wednesday Morning, Aug. 1, 1838.
To the Editor of the Floridian :
Sir: —The early part of last Evening Mr.
Singletary, his wife and two children were
shockingly murcered in this neighborhood. But
one of tile family, a girl about 5 years of age,
miraculously escaped, to tell the melancholy ti
dings of her parents and sisters. She says the
deed was perpetrated by Indians accompanied
by one of two colored persons. Major Dearborn, I
with volunteers from the neighborhood, is in I
Marsh fur the murderers, betas they bad a <
,vhole nig!.l in advance to escape, it is not prob. i
able that their trail can be followed, or tno party
overtaken. Comments are unnecessary.
Tiia contest waging in Florida with the &em
inoles has assumed soer.alic and guerilla a cna
racter; as loTc-quire the vigilance and activity
of every individual to bring it to a close. iN o
one can anticipate whose house or whose family
may be the next victims. »ur*.
JAMES GADfcDEN.
AUGUSTA, GA.
" T1 EaUAY MORNING. AUGUST 14.1838.
UNION TICKET FOR CONGRESS.
J. W. BURNEY, of Jasper.
D. C. CAMPBELL, of Bibb.
BARZILLAI GRAVES, of Newton.
JUNIUS HILLYER, of Clark.
ALFRED IVERSON, of Muscogee.
J. S. PATTERSON, of Early.
R. VV. POOLER, of Chatham.
J. G. .McWHORTER, of Richmond.
C. H. NELSON, of Cherokee.
&CrWe again have the pleasure to state, that the
Bank of Hamburg will resume specie payments
on the Ist of September. We are w illing, on (lie
mght previous to the day of publication, to exclude
any matter, already set for our paper, in order to
notice the resumption of specie payments by any
of our country banks, should such notice Le sent to
us, or found in some other paper.
£s* A number of citizens of Edgefield District,
assembled at the Court House, on the Cth instant,
Mr. Belsher acted as Chairman, and Mr. M. La
bo rile, as Secretary, The following preamble and
resolution were adopted;
“ Whereas the attention of the People of the
United States is deeply excited upon the great mo
netary derangement which now exist and has ex
isted for some lime in this country, and whereas,
in lookt. g to the causes which produced it, there
is a party which ascribes the present state of things
so the want of a National Bank, and is determined,
if possible, to re-establish this dangerous Institu
tion.
“ Be it therefore. Resolved, That the Candidates
for the Legislature from the District be respect
fully requested to give their opinions through the
medium of the Edgefield Advertiser, upon the poli
cy, expediency and consti utionahty of a National
Bank, and that each and every Candidate answer
with a direct Affirmative or .Negative, the follow
ing Interrogatory :
“ Are you or not in favor of a National Dank ’
£5" We take the following imformation from the
Western Georgian of 7th instant. It shows most
clearly that all what Ross was aiming at, was the
receipt and disbursement of the money for the
purchase of the Indian title to the Cherokee territo
ry. lie has been cunning enough to obtain the
disbursement of $300,000, to the great objection of
the Indians themselves. And it is such a man with
whom nightly conferences were held, and to whom
a proposition was made to conclude a supplemen
tary treaty, by which Ross was to have had the
entire direction of the emigration of the Cherokee
Indians, with an increase of the purchase money.
[From the Western Georgian. j
THECHBROKERS
We have just seen a letter from Calhoun, Ten
nessee, slating the fact, that Gen. Scott, had con
tracted with John Ross for the removal of the Cher
okees. He (Gen. Scott) stands pledged to Ross in
the amount of three hundred thousand dollars, to
enable him to employ wagons and pay other ne
cessary expenses. We further learn that this ar
rangement t;as created considerable excitement at
the Agency, especially among the Cherokecs, a
great number of whom, having declared a decided
preference to be removed by the Government, and
are altogether averse to trusting their destiny in
the hands o. Ross ; perhaps but too well ac quaint
ed with his penurious nature, to anticipate a plen
tiful supply for themselves and families, white on
the road lo Arkansas.
ELECTIONS.
The returns of the elections in North Carolina
and Alabama, are coming in very slowly In North
Carolina several changes have taken place; in some
counties, whigs instead of democrats having been
elected, and in other counties, democrats instead
of whigs have been chosen at this election. The
gain and loss on both sides are nearly equal. Sub
sequent returns will determine the question:
we incline to the belief that the democrats will
have a majority in the legislature, but that Mr.
Dudley will be re-clecled governor. Mr. Branch
was too late in coming out, and many voters, who
would have voted for him, had already pledged
themselves to support Gov. Dudley, as he had dis
charged the duties of the office he now fills with
some credit to himself.
In Alabama there is very little doubt of a majority
of democratic members being elected to the legis
lature. 11l the city of Mobile, the democra ic tick
et was elected. In some counties we find that the
whigso( our slate claim the victory, on account of
state rights men having been elected in opposition
to Administration men. For instance in Russell
county Mr. James Abercrombie was elected to the
senate in opposition to Col. Crowell; but Mr. Aber
crombie is a decided sub-treasury man, and op
posed to a national bank. In a few days we shall
hear of the result of the election for a member of
Congress to fill the vacancy produced by the death
of Mr. Lawler. The candidates are Mr. Grabb,
a national bank man, and Mr. Ellis, a sub treasury
man.
Since the above was in type, we have received
returns from the Counties of Autauga, Lowndes,
Butler, Macon, Tallapoosa, Coosa, Dallas, and Ma
dison, from which it appears, fifteen of the Mem
bers elected are anti-bank, and five bank men.
THERMOMETER.
The following is the state of the Thermometer,
during the past week.
AUGUST. Ba.M.2p. M- 8 p. m.| weather.
Sunday, 5 79 84 82 (Clear.
Monday, 6 78 86 81 j “
i Tuesday, 7 82 83 86
! Wednesday, 8 82 83 87 “
| Thursday, 9 86 83 84
Friday, 10 81 83 87
Saturday, 11 83 SO 83 | “
The Philadelphia United States Gazette of the
6th inst. says: “We learn by a letter from London,
that it is proposed to form a Stock Company for the
purpose of establishing a line ofSteam Packets to
ply between London end Philadelphia.
A gentleman of Genesee, New \ork, .n d.gging
a well, has hit upon a bed of what he supposed at
first lo be Plaster of Paris, but which turns out to
be friable limestone, from the application of which
to the soil much benefit has been derived. The
material is represented to be easily dug with a
pick, and productive of great fertilizing effect, as
attested by a single year’s experience.
A FACTORY DESTROYED.
On Monday, the 28th ult. a large building in
Keene county, N. H.occupied as a Woolen lac
tory, and for a flour and saw mill, was destroyed
by fire. It belonged to Faulkner & Colony. Loss,
§12,500; insured §7,500.
30“ We copy the following from the Savannah
KBP “ b ÜBERTY COUNTY. July 30 1838.
To the Editors of the Savannah lie publican .
Gentlemen—You will propably confer a ben .
efit on the community at iarge, by P u *
city to the following, as a caution agaiasc a set
cf recurs w '.in arc prcwling about Savanna;. F
and the adjacent counties, for the purpose of
steaUiiff Negroes. One of the aforesaid gentle,
men came to Mr. E. McFale’d who Uvea in the
upper part of Liberty County, a lew weeks ago,
and agreed to plough for him : lie staid Lut a {
short time, and went to Savannah—promising i
to return in three davs; he staid a week, and 1
then came back. We have smee ascertained 1
tiiat. one of Mr. McF’s negroes had promised to ‘
meet him in Savannah to be escorted to a land of |
freedom, but failed to meet, which caused the (
villain to return. As soon as he came hack, he |
attempted to persuade one of Mr. Hines’ logo
with him, and succeeded in getting more of Mr.
McFales’ negroes willing to go; but one of them
betrayed the wretch to Ins master, who said
nothing to him, but allowed him to arrange every
thing with the negroes. Ills plan was that lie
would leave the neighborhood the day before;
and on Saturday night last, the 2Slh inst., the
negroes were to meet him on the Savannah road, i 1
9 miles below Mr. McFales’—from whence he ■
told them that ho would lake them, first to Sa- |
vannah, and after dressing them in style he would
carry them to a country where they would be as !
free as any one, and could have white women
for wives. On the night appointed for his meet- \
ingtlie negroes, two citizens of the neighborhood
went down a little below the place where the j
negroes were to rendezvous and laid in ambush
on the road where it was calculated they would
pass—and sure enough, about 10’clock at night
lie came along with one of ihe negroes in a high
talk, giving a description of the land of freedom. I
As soon as lie came opposite to where the men
were waiting, they sprang upon him, tied, and
led him about a quarter of a mile from the road,
where they stripped and laid him across a log,
and applied that most salutary of all laws for
ronraes, called Lynches, in the shape of 90 lash, s
on the bare back, and dismissed him, on his
promise to leave the Slate of Georgia in 21 ,
hours. He calls himself Wm. Louis, and is about ;
21 or 22 years old, over six feet high—very slen- 1
der. Louis is not. his proper name, but. we are '
hopeful that the blessings of Lynch will restore
him to it. Ho confessed that, one of his cousins I
is now in Savannah, and who is a chunky, j
heavy built fellow, quite stout and calls himself
James Garret, lias three negroes ready to start
with him from that city. The people would do
well to be ou the look ou', as there is probably a
gang of them concerned.
Respectfully, yours,
A CITIZEN.
RAIL ROAD MEETING.
In pursuance of previous notice, a meeting was
held at the town of Waynesboro, Burke county, ;
Georgia, on the Glh day of August, for the purpose j
of taking into consideration the practicability and
utility of constructing a Railroad from Augusta via
Waynesboro, to some favorable point of intersec
tion with the Central Railroad, when JOHN
WHITEHEAD, Esq., was called to ihe Chair, and
George W. Evans, appointed Secretary.
On motion, it was Resolved , '1 hat the Chair ap
point a committee of five to report to this meeting
the measures best to be adopted_for the purpose of
carrying the intention of this meeting into effect;
whereupon Major M. Marsh, C<>l. A.J. Lawson,
Dr. J. P. Garvin, of Burke, Col. John Me Kin ne, of
Richmond, and Mr. Reynolds, of Chatham, were
appointed, who, through their Chairman, presented
the following resolutions, which were unanimously
adopted.
The Committee to whom was referred the subject
of the measures propel to be adopted at this meet
ing, respectfully report the following resolutions:
Resolved, That a Railroad communication from
this place to some point on the Central Railroad,
and also from this place to the city of Augusta,
would be of benefit to the inhabitants of this
county, and the public generally, and that so far as
a judgment can be formed, without a scientific ex
( amination, the face of the country offers uncommon j
facilities fur such an undertaking.
Resolved, That a committee of seven be ap
pointed by the ChaT, whose duty it shall be to col
lect information on the subject, by means of cor
respondence with the Central and Georgia Railroad
Companies, as well as with other personsjnteres
ted in the undertaking. To have a survey made
of one, or both of the above Railroad routes, if
they shall judge necessary. To raise by subscrip
tion a sum sufficient to defray the expenses of such
survey.
To ascertain as nearly as possible the sources
from which a support would be derived, to the
improvements in question—in trade and passen
gers.
To petition the next Legislature for a charter
for the same.
Resolved, That the said committee have power
to call another meeting whenever they shall be
prepared to report their proceedings.
The following gentlemen were appointed by the
Chair to compose the Committee: Major M. Marsh,
Col. George W. Evans, Col. A. J. Lawson, Col. E.
Lester, Hon. J. W. Jones, Dr. J. I’. Garvin, of
Burke, and Col John McKinne,of Richmond.
Resolved, That the proceedings of this meeting
be published in the Augusta, Chronicle and Senti
nel, with a request that the Augusta, Savannah and
r Athens papers give it an insertion.
JOHN WHITEHEAD, Chairman.
Geo. W. Evans, Secretary.
[From the Charleston Courier, Aug. 13]
RESUMPTION OF SPECIE PAYMENTS.
It is with pleasure we announce to our readers
' and the public, that all the Banks of this City, have
' come to the rcso'ution of resuming specie payments
on the first day of next month. '1 he following is a
copy of a circular which has been handed us for
publication, bavins been drawn up to be forwarded
lo the Presidents of the several Banks represented
at the Convention held in this city in May last.— j
There is little doubt that they will immediately
come into the measure.
CHARLESTON, (S. C.) AUG. 2,1338.
To ,
Sir —All hough, at the lime the lute Convention
of the Banks of Georgia and South Carolina was
held in this city, the Banks of New-York had re
sumed specie payments, there was no satisfactory
indication that the resumption would soon extend
to other States. The resolution adopted by the
Convention of Banks recently held in Philadelphia,
* to resume on the 13th inst. has therefore, produced
, a very important c hange in the circumstances w liich
’ governed the deliberations and deed ions of the Con
' vontion held in this city. Under the belief that this
’ change of circumstances would render a correspon
ding change of policy an important duty on our
pari, a conference was held on the Ist and Mm
r stmts bv Committees from the following Banks
; CUV Viz —The Bank of the State of South
Carolina, ihe Bank of South Carolina, the Union
* Bank the Planters’ & Mechanics Bank of South
1 Carolina and the Bank of Charleston, at which
. the preamble and Resolutions subjoined, were
i unanimously adopted, and have received the sanc
, tion of the said Banks.
The first of September ensuing, you will see, has
been fixed on as the day for our resumption of spe
cie payments; an earlier day was proposed and
w ould have been preferred, but lor considerations
of courtesy to the other Institutions represented in
our late Convention, as it was deemed proper that
they should have time to consider the subject, and
to resume simultaneously with us, should they ap
prove that course. lu the hope that the calls made
upon us by the action of Banks in so many of our
sister States, our resolution will have your appro
val,
We are, respectfully, your ob’dt serv’ts,
JOHN S. COGDELL, Chairman.
Prearableand Resolutions adopted at the meeting
of Committees of the following Banks, held on the
2d of August, 1838, at which John S. Cogdell, Esq.,
President of the Bank of South-Carolina, presided,
viz.—
Fron tic BANK OF THE STATE OF SO. CA. M
- “ R»NK OF SOUTH-CAROLINA. 1
“ “ UNION BANK OF SO. CA. 1
“ “ PLANTERS’ BTC of SC I
“_ “ BANK OF CHAULESTON. f
Whereas. The resolution adopted by the Conven- I
tion of the Banks of Georgia and South Carolina
held in this city, on the22d and 23d days of May 1
last, to resume specie payments on or before the 1
Ist January next —whilst it ensured a general re* I
sumption iu the two States on that day, was also
designed to meet such changes in the policy of
Banks at a distance, ns were then deemed possible <
or probable. And, whereas, the course adopted
by the Banks of New York, in May last, in resu
ming payments, is now about to he pursued else
where, and recent proceedings in Philadelphia,
which resulted in an agreement, by the Banks rep 4
resented in the Convention, recently held there, to
resume on the 13th instant, leave no doubt thntthe
important work is now in actual progress. \\ here
ns, it is (ho bonnden duty, and the true policy of
the monied institutions of the country, to promote
by all means in their power, 'he desirable objects
of an early general resumption. And the change of
circumstances above relerrcd to, leave the Banks
in this city, as we think, free to act w ithout a vio
lation of courtesy to the other Institutions, repre
sented in the Convention, and we trust without
the hazard of undue pressure upon our communi
ty;
Therefore, Resolved, That the several Banks
here represented, do agree to resume specie pay
ments on the Ist September ensuing.
Resolved. That a copy oftlie foregoing Preamble
and resolution he torw arded to the several Banks
represented in the Convention held in this oity irj
May last, and that they be respectfully invited to
unite in the measure above adopted.
Tbe Presidents of the several Banks were ap
pointed a Committee* to carry into t fleet the second
resolution, and John S. Cogdell. Esq. named Chair
man of the Committee.
The Stale Bank came into the measure.
CO MME K.CI AL.
LATEST DATES FROM 1.1 V F.RPOOL,I;::;::::;:::::JULY 20
LATEST DATES FROM HAVRE,:;::::::::::JULY 13
i CHARLESTON, August 11.—We have no
1 change to record in the aspect of affairs since our
i review of the -Itli inst. The general features of I
j the market remain unchanged I
Cotton. —'Flits article continues in the same dull '
; and inactive condition as last reported. The limit
ed stock on sale, and (he high prices asked, parti
cularly for prime, (for we understand that there are
several lots in marker, which ere held at 1 a cent
advance on present rales) togeiher with the recent
unfavourable accounts from Liverpool, showing a
very dull, if not a declining market, have kept pur
chasers aloof; hence the stagnation which per
vades the Upland market. The sales are—2 bales
at 94; 31 at 10; 4a at IC*; 28 at 104; 33 at 11; 30 at
114; 275 at 12; and 73 at 124 cis Os ISea Island,
several small lots sold at prices ranging from 38 a
44, with some shamed do. at 13 cents. Just before
the closing of our report yesterday, 50 hales, short
Cotton very choice, brought as high as 134 cents
perlb.
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—The Rice market is firm, with a tenden
cy to an advance in price. About 700 tierces
brought from 41 a 44 per JOOJhs.
Groin. Several parcels of Corn have been re-
I ceived since our last—sales at 78, 78, and 82 cts.
We quote 75 a 85, according to quality. Oats 35 a
37 Peas nominal. We have no change to notice
in our rates for Hay—Bs a 90 cents.
Flour. —This article continues nominal.
Huron. —The market is firm at quotations, the
stock has been considerably reduced.
Turd. —We quote 94 a 104 cts. Holders are ask
ing an advance on these rates, but we have heard
of no sales.
Sail. —Sales have been effected this week at
from SI sf-4 a 1 094 per sack for Liverpool.
Groceries. —The demand of the week for Gro
ceries have been principally confined to Sugar, in
which above 240 hhris. Muscovado have been sold
at from 64 a 10. r l he operations in Coffee have
been confined to the retail dealers. Molasses has
become very scarce, anti is in request.
Liquors.— The sales of the week comprise—100
hbls Baltimore Whiskey at 30 cents; and 60 bbls.
N. E. Rum 41 rents.
Exchange. —Foreign and Domestic Exchange as
last quoted.
SAVANNAH, Aug. 10.— Cotton. —Arrived since
the Ist instant, 1622 bales upland and 10 bales sea
island, and cleared in the same time, 4168 bales
upland and 4 bales sea island, viz : to New York,
3610 bales upland and 4 bales sea island; Ports
mouth, 179; Philadelphia, 615; Baltimore, 214;
leaving a stock on hand inclusive of all on ship
board not cleared on the 10th inst., of 5397 bales
upland and 114 bales sea island. Our market du
ring the week has been unusually quiet, but 239
bales having changed h»nds, lor which rather low
er rates were accepted. The sales are 10 at 9, 58
at 91,87 at 11,81 at Hi. In sea island we report