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[From the Richmond Enquirer.]
REACTIONr—VICTORY: IN MAINE!
All doubt it at an end. VV\; h;tv.o twxpl -Maine
l>v an overwhelming majority. Whal say the
Whigs now?. Is Van B iren to he so easily put
down? Is Clay s > certain of the sceptre? Are
the Whigs so sanguine about the establishment of
an unconstitotional, mammoth National Bank?
All eyes have been fixed upon Maine. The re.
■suit is glorious to the Democracy. Whiggery
reels under t|ie blow; and will soon lie pros’rate.
The people of this country will never consent to
have a fiftv million Bank, fastened around their
neck for 3d or 3) years! They will never lay
their liberties at the feet ofsueh a Lititn liuarian,
as the Champion of the Bank. Maine has struck
a strong blow; and it will resound in New York
and Pennsylvania—mlfiigre all the hopes and
predictions of the Whigs,. The panic has passed
—the pressure has abated—‘.he reaction has
commenced with resumption : and Democracy
will again-risewith renovated vigor, above tiie
Whigs and.the Whig Bank, and the Wdiig can
didate fui the Presidency, See the decisive de
tails of the victory in the fhar of the East—.ro.n
the Portland Argus of the I‘2’h instant:
THE GRAND RESULI’!
“ Unprecedented'Democratic victory,
“ Words are inadequate to express the grati
fication and joy we feel, in 1 ayinsr before our
readers the followi og part ieulars o{ I H E VIOS I j
SPLENDID POLITICAL VICTORY ON
RECORD. Maine stands forth “redeemed re
generated, disenthralled,” willi every branch
of her Government tor the. coming Vear, THO
ROUGHLY DEMOCRATIC. W have not
only beaten, but have OVERWHELMED the
enemy —driving them in dismay and confusion
from the holds of power, of which they bad be- |
come possessed by accident. The people have ,
more than ma le good our ‘ prediction l that j
JOHN FAIRFIELD would be elected by
THREE THOUSAND MAJORITY— they
have taken matters into their own hands, and
haves tiled them to suit themselves. They have
consigned the Federal parly to a position little
this side of absolute oblivion —a position from
which it can never a Ivaoce a step, unless by
vhc tacit, consent of that Democracy which has
only to be aroused by the encroachment of
Federal power, to place msurmou itwblc barriers
around it.
“ The Federalists went into this campaign
confident of success. They did not doubt that
the lavish expenditure of money, and the means
of oppression held and exercised by them, would
prove too powerful for the Democracy, and that
by tiie ai.l of those they could purchase and
they could intimidate, they would be able
to retain their ill-gained- and worse exorcised
power. The Democracy wont into tho contest
i qually confi ieiil, but relying alone upon the
goodness of thetf cause—the virtue and intelli
gence of the p.-dplu, an I’thcir known disposition
i ; sus aiii D, imieratie principles with II ireulean
i.rengih, wiiLMicwr ,tbu>y might be endangered
i-y Federal success.. -...-
" The vote is the largest ever given in -the
‘state, by thousands. Tue whole of both par
ties went Out—ami the vigio y is rendered the
more signal and decisive by this fact. Oar
l i-miph is not cn accidental one but, on the
eoniiarv, has been gained against efforts, tricks
h i . we- nms, uch as, wo .rust for the honor of
human natur ,■ wire n ver before used, to an
*. .pi ai extern. Wi h nearly every voter in the
.■ a’e a; (die polls, the D minerals have carried
. very branch of the Government by majorities
s > co iipleUdy overwhelming, that it may well
be duu »led whe her their opponents can again
i:.i!y in any considerable number for several
caning years.—There is scarcely a vestige of
i u: Fe-iernl party lef.—it has been rou'ed—
h-catcn—l in dished! — and that 100, in defiance
i f an effort and ’organization on their part of
unprecedented extent and exactness.
“We congratulate trie Democracy of the
Mtate—and of'lhe whole Nation —on this most
auspicious result. It is indicative of the rally
ing of the Democracy of the country in all its
vigor and strength. Maine,' was the first State,
to give way uuder the combined influence of
the pressure, and political lassitude on the part
ofthc Democracy. . Most nobly has she redeemed
herself I “ Dingo" upon her Anns is the voice
of her democracy!—they direct —they gov
ern—they dictate terms to a defeated, dispirit,
id, and scattered enemy! Lius Deo I —THE
RIGHT HAS TRIUMPHED!
‘•From tiie returns received—and they have
been brought in with unprecedented despatch—
we sum up the Grand Result, as follows :
JOHN FAIRFIELD.
Elected Governor by about Tour ’Thousand
majority.
Fix Democratic Congressmen elected, viz :
York —Nathan Clifford.
Cumberland Albert Smith.
Oxford —Virgil D. Farris.
Waldo —Hugh J. Anderson.
Peach, and Sam. —Thomas Davec,
Han. and Wash. —J islma A. Lowell.
-4 Democratic. Majority in the Senate.
A Democratic Majority in the House of Re
present ites,
“ The Federalists have elected their Congress
man in Kennebec (Evans; ; and probably in
Lincoln (Randall.)
“Where all have done so well, it would be
indivious to discriminate—but we cannot forbear
an allusion to. the immense majorities in Waldo
and Oxford. They exceeded our calculations
by hundreds—our friends there deceived us—
but it was a deception whose exposure filled, our
hearts with gratitude —an exposure honorable
lo them, and indicative of a spirit of patriotism
worthy of all commendation.
“.4 ?cord of the Federal party— Tiie over
whelming defeat which they experienced has
eradicated every unkind feeling generated by
their dishonorable warfare. —Let us not ingla
riously trample upon a fallen foe--let us not
return the poisoned chalice to their own lips. —
>\ e recollect more in sorrow than in anger, their
< eailment to the democracy when they last fall
obtained an accidental ascendancy in the State,
gnd at each subsequent period when trifling and
unreal gains have disturbed their equilibrium,
and changed gentlemanly courtesy lo unjustifi
able rudeness. Let us heap coals of fire upon
their heads by our forbearance. Lot us enjoy
the victory like men— like men rejoicing more
lor tiie triumph of sound principles, than for
the gratification of any peisonai feelings. Let
us respect ourselves, now when our cup of joy
is full lolhe brim.
The victory in Maine has come upon the op
position, like a sudden clap of thunder. They
profess lo be at some loss lo understand it. Se
veral papers give several theories of the tinex
poulud phenomenon ; but the effect of the de
feat is tremendous, Whiggery is already reel
ing uuder the blow- It is dissipating ail their
cloud built castles into tiie air. is shaking
their own confidenceun all their visionary plans
and they already begin to cast abqut for new
evolutions to save them fro n utter destruction.
*“ c .-iOil remarkable of those devclupements
occurs in live last Bouton Atlas, (Mr. Webster’s
Uvortlc paper) -The palace «f Belshazzar is I
toll of portent?. Tiic knees of the favorite* of,
-• great Federal Orator arc other,
under the first, astounding news fiom Maine—
See to what leng hs the panic already extend .
The A'las recommends that Clay and Webs'-er
or both withdraw from-lhe P esidential cavass.
for want of popularity; and Harrison be suhslilu
ted in their place. Hear him!
“What, then, is the lesson which the Maim
election teaches T It is the lesson embodied in
the foregoing preliminary observations, viz ; the
absolute necessity, if we would secure the uhi
' mate triumph of the Whig party—of consulting
and yielding to popular indications, and to pop
ular preferences and prejudices.”
[What! arc the Whigs abo it to yield to pub
lic; Sentiment, by abandoning all their obnoxious
principles and measures ? Arc they about to
confi ic themselves to a strict interprets io i or
the Constitution ? Are they about, to yield up
their abominable National Bank —tbeir sectional
Tariff—their sweeping systems of internal Im
provements?— No; not at all—What then? No
such good is to come out from Nazareth — 1 heii
compulsory deference to the rising torrent o r
public sentiment is to show itself in a narrower
circle—Whilst, they a ihere to their obnoxious |
! measures, tl;,y are only to shift their Preside n-
I tial candidate.] -.
[ From the Western Georgian .]
h'rA'iTA, August 2b h, 1833.
j To IT’S Exccl’eucy, the G tcernor of Georg a, j
| ' and to the Hoard of C •mmissioners f-r the j
Western and Atlantic R til Rood.
Gentlemen Having in the month of Miy |
! last, received your joint letter of attorney uu
idolizing me to dispose of-State Scrip or Stock, j
not exceeding in amount, five hundred tbous. j
and dollars,! respectfully offer the following re
jiorl of my proceedings, in execution ol tiic
I agencies committed to me.
Neither the act of the General Assembly,
providing for the sale of S’ock, nor your loiter
of attorney having prescribed any tiring in re
spect to the time or place of sales, I was at lib
erty to seek a market, at home or abroad, as one
or the o lier might offer the greatest advanta
ges. The Banks, B inkers, and other capitalist?
of Philadelphia and New York, were known to
I be dealers in stock, and to them the half million
! committed to my charge, was first i ff red. Most
| of the American houses declined purchasing,
I and the lew that were willing to do so, proposed
! terms that 1 could not accept. Determined not
to sacrifiee slock which ought to command as
good prices as any in the Union, I had though!
of withdrawing from those markets and offering
it at home, or proceeding to Europe, where the
article was in higher demand. The lat er course
would have been advisable had I been in posses.
■ sion of Scrip or Slock adapted to tbe require
nieuts of foreign markets. Os this, however, I
had doubl?, before I assumed the agencies,
which were too fully confi. mod by subsequent
inquiry.
After spending three or four weeks in fruitless
efforts to effect a sale, I was fortunate in making
an acquaintance with European capitalists, and
eventually closed a contract with the agents of
a Banking house in L union, on terms not less j
favorable, than have been made by oilier Slates ; !
and which I trust, will be found satisfactory to !
the Government of my own. Most of the olli- j
er Slates have within the last year or. two, sold
six per cent, stocks ior moderate premiums, and
received in payment their own depreciated cur
rency. I negotiated a sale of five per cent, at a
small premium, and was to receive payment in
coin, or New York funds, which were worth at
the lime six to eight per cent, mure than the
currency of Georgia. The benefits of tins con
tract, however, I was obliged to relinquish, be
cause the enactments of tbe Legislature, by
which the Slock was created, did not permit the
• preparation of such Scrip, as the money market
required. But the article I had, could not be
sold without a sacrifice, and of course was not
sold at all, though by pledging a part of it, I look
, a loan of three hundred thousand dollars, as
I much as was deemed necessary (with other ap
■ propnalious,) for the service of the current year.
I For this loan, the stock-pays interest at the rate
p of ,five percent per annum., but it does not be
gin to run until bills drawn at my instance on
, Lnidon are accepted and paid, about three
:■ months atler the day on which I received the
money in New York. The use of these funds,
however, will actually cost the State little or no.
llimg the fi st vear, because sales of ex diange
on New York, varying from three to six per
cent, premium, will go far to cover the whole
interest, as well as the expenses incident, to my
agoncj’. Before leaving New York, I disposed
of one hundred thousand dollars at four per
cent premium, and have since placed the residue
ui the Bank ol Augusta and the branch of the
Darien Bank at Macon, to be sold for the high
est prices without commission o cost of any
kind to the Slate. These Banks having not yet
reporte*. entire sales, I cannot slate the amount
placed lo my credit : though it will hardly fall
snort of twelve or fifteen thousand dollars.
But a loan could not have been got on such
terms by a mere pledge of unmarketable boutis.
It was necessary that 1 should enter into en
-1 gagements that- the General Assembly would,
at iis next session, so amend the law on that
: subject, as to enable the S ate’s agent to pre
pare such Scrip as would have a ready currency
in the markets of Europe—and that out of the
proceeds of the sale, this advance made to me,
should be reimbursed. The engagement being
m strict comformity with existing provisions of
law, and the known policy of the Stale, I did
not liesiiale to make it—laking at the same time
reciprocal obligations of the oilier party, em
bracing, among other things, their promise to
honor my draft for about one hundred thousand
, dollars more (should the money be wanted) so
. soon as the scrip-should .be deposited at the Bank
. in New York. The written contract comprizing
. all the stipulations bet ween the agents of Reed,
, Irving dt Co., Bankers of London, and myself
. as agent of Georgia, is in my possession and
ready for inspection when called for.
r Tnis brief narrative contains, I believe, every
, thing worthy of note, connected with my laic
, agency and might be submitted without further
remark. But it impossible lo survey the works
of Internal Improvement now in progress or
- contemplation within the territories of Georgia,
. without a deep solicitude for their early accom.
plisliment, as well as a correspondent conviction
, that tiiis must depend essentially on a ready
. I and economical command of funds. Tuciucal
- culable value of these facilities of commercial
| intercourse, is no longer a matter of question or
doubt. All the experience and the unanimous
| opinion of the ci ilized world, concur in recom
mending them as a part of the permanent policy
of every people who can appreciate their own
. interest or rejoice in the growth and grandeur
of their own country. In this confederacy, our
public spirited sister, New. York, under the gui
dance'''of that resolute Patriot and profound
Statesman, Dewitt Clinton, took the lead. Pre
vailing at length over the vexatious opposition
of a perverse faction, and the timorous rnisgiv
in-cs of popular ignorance, she has carried into
triumphant consummation, an cnJerprizr, of
which any monarch of Russia, England, or |
France, ought well to have been prou 1. Mai v
land, Pennsylvania, and Massachusetts, s on
followed, and now there is scarcely a Slate in the
Union that has not some work of the kind on
hand; but they are every where carried on by
loans, foreign or domestic. New-York, ample
as her finances arc, numerous and opulent as
are her capitalists, did not make her canals
without incurring a debt of twelve millions, th e
most of which is or has been due beyond the
Atlantic. 'The old work, indeed sfcins to be as
necessary to the early start and onward progress
<f the new, in all that ministers to the happiness
and elevation of society, as the accuinuiaiee
wealth and experience oi a provident parent, it
o the education and outfit of their offspring-
Georgia, too, most subsidize foreign funds o
lag in the rear of her cotemporaries. Her go
vernment has indeed copious resources, though
hey are said to have been badly husbanded be
cause probably, her people have not been duly
alive to the great object to which they might be
nade subservient. Hut ample as they arc, the}
.vould soon be exhausted under a direct draught
for the millions necessary to carry on the works
ilready commenced —if, however, slie cannot
furnish tlie capital immediately from her own
•-offers, she ca.i arrange and cs ablish a system
>ffinance, that will give hera high credit abroad,
md procure at all limes, and on the easiest terms,
any thing she may want in the form of loans.
To this nothing more is necessary than adequate
provisions to pay with infailable punctuality,
he interest; for there is no risk in relying on
he tolls and freights accruing from rail roads
md canals, to reimburse the principal debt. —
I Nothing is more clearly demonstrable than that
| t judicious and economical ad.ninistra ion of
his Government and its fiscal means for the en
suing seven years, will enable tile fstate to pro- ;
are abundant funds, to .complete a thousand ;
miles of rail road, and to pay otf the entire debt
as fast as it falls due without imposing an extra
tax of one dollar on the people.
To what extent the introduction of foreign
capi'al, independent of its immediate objects,
would have the effect of stimulating indus'ry, !
and promoting generally the progress of the use
ful arts, is abundantly shown in 1 lie experience
ul'all c mnlries which have enj >ycd its benefits.
R spcctfullv submifed,
JOEL CRAWFORD.
[From the. Globe A
THE NORTH AND THE SOUTH.
Oi a.l the gnat interests of the country, agri |
cul.ure, whether to the North or to the South, ;
is that, which is most deeply and permanently i
injured bv the alternate expansions and contrac
tions of an irredeemable paper currency. The
business of the cultivator of the land is a staid
and regular occupation, dependent on industry,
economy, and experience. Nothing connected
with it is beyond his control, but the elements
and the operations of nature. ILs gains are slow
but sure, and the great advantage he enjoys
above the rest of mankind is his exemption
provided he keeps within his proper sphere— ;
from the scourge of those uncontrollable revolu
lions, which, operating on the interests of com
merce and manufactures, scatter dismay and
ruin.
These, it is true, he feels through that clectri
cal sympathy which pervades every vein and
artery of the social system; but he feels the e
lightly in comparison with others. They Wound,
but. they do not, kill. They produce, perhaps, a
necessity for temporary economy; hut they do j
not make him a beggar and an outcast from his j
home, unless lie has been seduced, by that fatal |
facility for running in debt afforded by the pa- S
per system, into the vortex of speculation. Then,
indeed, ho pulls himself up by the r ots, and pre
pares the certain way for extirpating himself
i.orn his native soil and his native home.
Os ail the adventitious sources of prosper! y
that tempt the landed interest from its true pa li
of prosperity, whether to the North or the South,
hank credits, when they become easy and acces. !
sibl ■, are the most delusive and pernicious. It
is the road to ruin; and though now and then a
rare example may present itself of a planter r
a farmer laying the foundation of a permanent
accession of fortune on such a basis, we Imre
appeal to thousands, hundreds of thousands of
these classes, to say, if they have not plunged
themselves into inextricable diffi ml lies, anden
i tailed on tjieir posterity a mountain of ciebi,
I solely hv being templed into the lotls of bank
! credits and speculation.
| And it cannot be otherwi.e. It is the result
of experience, that loans of money for short
periods are always pernicious to him whose
means of payment present themselves at a dls.
taut intervals only, if he employs these loans
f»r sixty or ninety days, in improving his lan i
and increasing laborers, he must at least, wail
a vear before he can realize the ben< sh of i s in;
creased production. In Iho mean lime, lie is
called on from four to six times, eh her to pay liis
debt, or the interest on (iis debt, or, finally, to,
add to it the principal, and give his note for the
whole, at sixty or ninety days the usual period of
bank loans. In such a process, nothing can
screen him from ruin but a su iden and unna ural
rise in tiie value of his property, or the price of
its products. And what a basis is this for a ra
lional being to rest his prosperity and that of
iiis children upon ! The basis of speculation,
run mad; of delusion pushed to the uttermost
verge of si ark-staring insanity ; of presumption
pushing his dark lantern into the obscurity ot
the future, and fancying every shadow he sees
is a living substance. He lias only established
a “sinking fund,” which will sooner or later
sink him into irretrievable auin.
Still worse, if possible, is it for the planter or
farmer when he borrows of a bank for the pur
chase of laud, not for cultivation, but in the anti
cipalion of a great and sudden rise in its val ie.
Tais process only suits two classes of people—
the man of m >ney and the man of none. The
foimer can afford to wail patiently, for he lias
no interest to pay 5 and the latter having no li,
ing to lose, can stand the brunt of disappoint
ment, wuile he solaces himself with lamenting
the loss of what he never possessed, and railing
at the Government for robbing him of ines
timable anticipations.
The plain, honest farmer, and high-minded
planter, are lost when they attempt to cope with
the mysteries and mystical ions of the great paper
system and its thorough-bred adepts. Can they
expect to enterthe lists in the inextricable laby
rinths of brokering with those whose lives have
been spent in directing and taking advantage of
its endless ramifications? Are they masters of
the art of blowing bubbles, and of growing first
rich by their expansion, and next by their burst,
ing? Can they scent afar otf the first trained
gale of bankruptcy and suspension? or foresee,
by uneinng indications, the precise moment to
buy in and sell out, and become a bull or a bear ?
Most assuredly not. A man must be either
brought up to this from his youth, or nature
must h-vc superintended his nativity far this
express purpose. In saying this, we mean not
the slightest disrespect whatever. There are
honest men in all professions; but there arc some i
professions in which it is more difficult to be
honest than o hers. We only say that the far
mers of the North and the planters of the South i
had belter keep clear of this sort of people. I
Tneycanno - share their gains, hut they will pay
for them. They will not grow rich themselves, I
but they will contribute to the wealth of (.tilers.
They may increase their products and extend j
• heir nominal possessions by borrowing of the j
banks, but more than that iucraese will go to pay
the debt and interest.; tney may build new hou
ses, beautity their fields, and every bright sunny
morning look out on a rich smiling domain ; but
it will be as Adam gazed on Paradise after his
! fall, when he felt that, he must soon leave it for
ever. Nothing in our opinion, is more certain
than that it is impossible for land and labor to
Hourssh under a system where imaginary value
iiccomes a substitute for the reality. Land and
labor constitute the real, and irredeemable paper
the imaginary, wealth of a country. You can
create thousands and lens of thousands of ima
ginary dollars while earning one real oue. How,
then, is it possible, to prevent the votary of labor
from being swallowed up by the manufacturers
of paper money ?
AUGUSTA, GA.
Ai Oil XING, SETT. 35, 1838.
UNION TICKET FOU CONGRESS.
J. VV. BURNEY, of Jasper.
D. C. CAMPBELL, of Bibb.
BARZILLAI GRAVES, of Newton.
JUNIUS lIILLYEK, of Clark.
ALFRED IVERSON, of Muscogee.
J. G. MoWHORTER, of Richmond.
C. H. NELSON, of Cherokee.
J S. PATTERSON, of Early.
R. W, POOLER, of Chatham.
following ticket, containing the names of
candidates for the State Legislature, at the ap
proaching election, is respectfully presented to the
voters of Richmond County for their suffrages, by
the Union Party.
FOR SENATE.
VALENTIN E W ALKER.
FOR HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
ABSALOM RHODES,
GEORGE SCHLEY,
RICHARD F. BUSH.
; _ JJCrSEE FIRST PAGE.
53"\Ve would call attention to the eommunica
i tionof Major Joel Crawford pub'ished in this day s
: paper concerning the funds ohla-ncd by h;m for
1 the prosecution of the Western and Atlantic Kail
| Road, and other matters tonn?cted with internal
j improvements.
JU*Had we received sooner the rep'y of Mr.
Thomas Butler King, a candidate on the State
Rights ticket, to the call of citizens of Taliaferro
and Franklin Counties, we would have inserted it
in this day’s paper, in as much as tlie e'ections
I lake place next Monday : it shall appear in onr
| next- In the mean lime, to give to Mr. Butler all
i the hem fit of his reply, in this paper, w e give sub-
I stnntiuliy .his.opinion of the great topics of the day.
I First, Mr. Butler declares to have ever been oj>-
| posed to a national bank, and firmly believes that
I Congress lias no power under the constitution, to
j incorporate such an institution. It is his opinion
that the two banks of the United States which have
j existed for forty years, were the great instruments
| which controlled Southern commerce and direct
i ed it through northern channels, to the incalcula
i hie injury of the interests and prosperity' ol the
South. He is, therefore, opposed to a national
hank, on the ground of constitutionality and expe
diency.
Secondly, It is his opinion that the sub-treasury
hill, disc-urged at the last session of Congress, con
tained several dangerous and most obnoxious provi
| sions Nevertheless, he declares himself to be in
| favor of a divorce of the government from hanks,
j Thirdly', Neither of the candidates for the next
| Presidency, namely, Messrs. Van Boren, Clay,
1 Webster, and Harrison,can he his choice. Ifelect
i ed to Congress, be .will give his vote in accordance
with the will ol the people of Georgia.
£s* The banks of New Orleans have agreed to
resume the payment of specie for all their obliga
ti.ms, on the first of January next.
The sale of two thousand tuns South Carolina
Rail Road Iron, which was advertised to take place
j on the first of next month, has been postponed to
I the first Monday' in December.
MAINE.
The success of the Democratic patty' in Marne,
has thrown dismay' into the rank's of the whigs and
abolitionists, especially' when the result of the
election in Vermont is taken in consideration, and
in connexion with abolitionism In Vermont, 31 r.
Fletcher, the administration candidate, was re
elected; notwithstanding the denunciations of the
anolitionists, and their exertions for his opponent,
Mr. Upham. In Maine all the democratic candi
| dates elected, are against the abolitionists, and
| friends of the South; and Mr Fairfield is elected
j Governor, by a large majority, notwithstanding Ids
j vote for Pat'on’s resolution, and hi; decided hosli
j lity to the abolitionists. It is therefore with plea
j sure, that we find such a State as Maine once more
I in her true position, and ready to co-operate with
! the South, in all measures calculated to promote
1 the best interests of the country, and to preserve
! the peace and harmony ol the union. The noble
I stand taken by the people of that Stale, will be itn-
I Staled by those States which, owing to untoward
I circumstances, have momentarily deviated from
I the right path.
A friend now travelling in the north, writes: “I
j have to inform you, that the democracy of Maine
: have drawn a hill of exchange on the democracy
j of Georgia, dated September JO, 1838, for a Go
vernor with a democratic majority of 3000 votes,
and six out of eight members of Congress, which
bill of exchange the democracy of Maine hope will
ne duly honored by the democracy' of Georgia on
the Ist of October next.” We can inform tlie wri
ter, and, through him, the democracy of Maine,
that live bill of exchange alluded to, has been ac
cepted, and that on the Ist ol October, every exer
tion will he made to pay die principal with the high
est rate of usance.
WESTERN AND ATLANTIC RAIL ROAD.
We give the following information from the Ma
con Telegraph, us wort hy of consideration.
Central Kail Road. —We notice the arrival, savs
| the Georgian of Tuesday, of the Shannon, witn up
j wards of 300 tons of iron rails for this road. W e
i understand that another cargo of about the same
quantity is on its way and may be expected here
|in a few days. These parcels, with the iron now
| at the depot, will lay upwards of 00 miles. We
I learn that the contractor fur laying superstructure
. j is now’ at work on the forty seventh mile of the
, road In the course often d iys, passengers to Ma
con will be carried on the road 4‘J miles.—and c >t
ton will be transported on the 15th day of October,
from the Little Ogechee, 40 miles from the city.—
'The work has been going on briskly during the
; summer, and we nope to see. in the course of the
ensuing month, from JSOU to 2UOU -additional lubo
i rets on the road.
[ Fhe belief is gaining ground in this city, that
Savannah entertains the notion of slopping her
Central Riil Road sh irt of Macon 1 Tim Ibesi.
dent of that Company was here a few days ago,
I and left an impression corroborating ike above.
We understand he said, “that an effort would
j be made in the next Legislature, (by or with the
I consent ol' the Cnaiiiam Delegation,) to have
| tfie Stale continue the Main Trunk ol the West
j ern and Atlantic Rail Road from the Tennessee
\ down to Millcdgcville, (instead ot slopping at or
: near the Cnaliaiioocfiee;) and that the Central
Rail Road would meet H there," instead ot coming
< to- Macon !
We could not believe the above, did it come
from a less respeclaole source. As it is, we have
no room to doubt it, strange as it may appear.
Tue strongest affection has been iiiiltt-i to fell
in Macon for our elder sister Savannah. Her
interest lias been onr interest, and her prosperity
regarded as our own. To this end we have eo
couraged and pa ionized her merchants, her
hanks, and Iter Riil Road—the latter, especially,
not that it was to benefit Macon, (many believ
ing it will injure her,) but because it will benefit
Savannah; hence we are loth to believe that Sa
vannah w'ould he so treacherous, as to think of
changing the direction of the Road.
Nor do vve believe the proposed change would
benefit Savannah. We arc pretty confident it
would have a contrary tendency. She would
<rain less by that rov.c, thin she would Idsp.j
TheU. S. ship Pennsylvania was easily ’gotten
itff Friday night (says the Norfolk Beacon of the
17th inst.) without starting a cask or touching a
gun, ami without the slightest injury.
A gentleman w ho arrived at Norfolk, from Eliza
beth City. N. C. says that information was receiv
ed there, of the w recking of fourteen vessels at
Ocracocke, during the late gale.
[From the Charleston Courier.]
TO “AN ADMINISTRATION MAN.”
Sir—ln reply to the question, “whether I am
friendly to the present administration, and, if
elected to a scat in Congress, whether I will
give it a hearty and zealous support,” I answer,
that the principles professed, and the conduct
heretofore pursued, by the administration, ap
pear to me so admirably adapted to promote the
interest of the Stales, and preserve the Federal
Union, that if elected to Congress, I will give it
my support, while it continues to act upon tiie
same principles, and pursues the same conduct.
Respectfully,
1. E. HOLMES.
[ From the Hartford (Conn.) Timex.]
The following aiticlc from the New Haven
Register, has saved us the labor of preparing a
similar statement. I’ should he read, examined,
and dwell upon by every business man, for they
have been made the dupes of Biddle and the
Hoeo Poeos. The rate of exchange in 1826,
! when the United States Bank was in the zen
' ith of iis fame —when it had been in operation
I ten years, and had then ten years to run—when
I the federal administration of the second Adams
had, like the charter of the Bank, but half cx
j pired—the rile of exchanges at that, day, was
I higher than it is in 1838. under the Democratic
A Iministration of Mr. Van Buren, and without
a National Bank. Indeed, the exchanges have
i never been loss. What have the “Hoe.o Pocos”
to sav in explanation.
REGULATING TIIE EXCHANGES.
'i'lie federalists have insisted all along, that.
1 the exchanges never could he equalized till we
had a national hank to regu ale the Stale insti
unions, and bring their paper up to par. The
Democrats have on the other baud insisted, that
the exchanges would he equalized without any
other regulator than the laws of trade, as soon
as Mr. Biddle would allow the banks to resume
s; e ;ie payments. Nov let us see who was
j rigb , for one f’ct is worth a thousand theories.
I The hanks generally have resumed, and we have
j no national “Regulator,” we will, therefore, see
■ how their notes stand on the exchange table
now, compared with what they were under the
administration of the national hank. It would
not perhaps be fair to make the comparison be
tween the present rates and those of 1817, ’lB,
and T 9, because the friends of the “Regulator”
will say that the national bank, though, then in
full operation, had not been long enough in the
field to befell, as it afterwards was. We shall
therefore, take i he year 1826, when the national
bank had been in successful operation ten years,
and was of course just half through its charter,
ed life; in the midst of its power, and capable
of doing as much good in the way of regulating,
us it ever could do. We have placed the list
side by side, taking the bank note tables of Now
York and Philadelphia, for 1826, and the ex
change rates of the same cities for 1838.
DOMESTIC EXCHANGES.
Dee 1826, with a Sept. 1838, without
National Bank. a National tank.
On New- England, 2 to 24 i
Baltimore, 4 i
Richmond, 21 11
Charleston, 11 to 2 21
Cincinnati, 4 to 6 2 to 21
Augusta, Ga. 21 to 3 3J
j Savannah, 21 to 2 34
j Mobile 10 to 15 81
| New Orleans, 5 to 6 5
i Nashville, 10 to 20 81
I Nat dies, 10 to 16 10 to 11
| Kentucky, 55.t055 21
1 1. should be remembered also, that we are as
( yet but just recovered from one of the severest
1 revulsions occasioned by over-trading, specula
j ling, and the political management of Mr. Bii
i tile’s bank, that ever was experienced in any
: county. The exchanges are every day becom
ing belter than they now are, and as the hanks
in the south and south-west resume, which they
will do shortly, we shall have nearly a smooth
list of exchanges, from one end of the country to
j the other. Thus vanish the delusions of whig
gery, and the impostures of panic-makers.
[From the New York Express, Sept. 19.]
The operations in flour on Foreign account
have been much mo e extensive than was at first
supposed—nor have the operators done purcha
sing—3 )181 bhls. are engaged to goby the Sheri
dan lor Liverpool at 2s. 3 I, sterling freight,—
j This was all puschascd at 9 dollars. There are
1 I other orders in market that cannot be filled.
Tiie general anxiety on account of t he Brit ish
• i Grain Market is caused, not only by the fact that
, 1 the price of flour and corn in this country is to
i be affected by a failure of the British corn inar
[ ket, —hut by a more extended and philosophical
, manner of reasoning.
If Great Britain is to he under the necessity
of importing a large amount of Foreign Grain,
’ she will be so nething in the condition we were,
i (though in a far better position to sustain herself)
i when such large imports of grain look place from
| the North an t South of E irope. Exchanges,
(money being called for in England to buy grain)
I must of course go against England.
Already, indeed, vve see signs of a turning of
i the exchanges at the great points, Amsterdam,
Hamburg and Paris. These admonish us, that
• if crops fail, the Bank of England will be called
upon for Bullion, and must of courtC, contract ot
' strictly guard its circulation.
Hence follows, if not a pressure upon the mo
ney market, extreme caution, —great limitation*!
i upon credit, and an indisposition to make invest
meuls out of the country.
Tiie Packet ship to day carries out 3,590 biffs,
of F.our lor Liverpool.
DIED, in this erry on Sunday morning last, nftei
an illness of a few d xysffOHN WILLIAMS, in the
! 22d year of his age.
At her residence, in Columbia Countv, on the
i 23d instant, Mr*. SARAH WHITTING I ON, in
j the 74th year of her age. She was the wife of the
laic Harnett Whittington, and daughter of Loveless
' j Savige.
South Carolina Kail Koad.
Consignees per Had Hoad, September 22.
| Ilavilaud, Hisley As Co. F 11 Cooke, Stovall &
i Ha mien, W E As J U Jackson, T H Plant, Snow
i den At Shear, J & J Mcßryde, J Hnhbard, G T
I Dortic, J S Hutchinson, Rankin, Boggs As Co W
Alien, J M & W Adams, Gould, Bulkley & Co.
McKee As D, T J Parmclee, W & J Nelson As Co.
G Lott, C & H Ives, JOB Ford, E Snyder, Mrs,
Brochon, S Kneeland, T Dawson, E B Beall, Sto
vall, Simmons >s Co., J F Benson, H L Jeffers, G
Parrott, Bones As Carmichael,C Hoffman, Latimer,
Whiting As Co. J P Seize, J Googin, T W Freeman,
J At D Morrison, Silcox As Brother, H C Bryson As
Co. E DCoo.ie, J R Shine, J J B,Mrs H C Brochon
As Hackett, A Cnmming, Clark, McTeir As Co. L
M Churchill, A I Huntington As Son, R C Baldwin
As Co. W L Mitchell, W Smith, J Richard, N Smith
As Co, C Batty, B W Force, P Carrie, W Duffie,
P Golly, Treadway As B, S Buford, A B Mallory,J
Norton, A G Marshal), V Roll, S As Smith, L As
R Levy,and Dendy & Key.
S3r* Mrs. C. A. SA BAL, will resume the prac
tice of instructing the FRENCH LANGUAGE, to
which she respectfully invites the attention of the
public and her patrons. 10 6 Sept. -0
COMMERCIAL.
LATEST DATES FROM LITtRPOOL,;;;:::;:: A UOUSTl I
LATEST DATES FROM HAVR AocuaT 11
HAVRE. August 11. Cof/ojT—The transactions
took a start on Monday, w hen the sales amounted
to 6-03 hales, all American; since then the daily
iransactions have amounted to about 1000 bag*
with an advance of from 1 to 2 centimes, »nd in
some instances of 3 ceniimes upon the rates of
last week. The market is very firm
The whole amount of sales, since our last has
i been 10,322 bales, as follows; 3038 Georgia uplands
t and Florida, 7('-f. a 10-1; 773 Tennesse 79f.; 3297
I Louisiana 94f. a 115. 2-150 Alabama 72f. 50 a 119-
463 Pernambuco 113 f. 50 a 117 f 50.
The receipt has been 4953 bales, 4575 of which
vverc from the United Slates.
Si’k on h - d July 31, ’38,83,237 li. of u’ch 89.487 v.s.
Arrivals to August 10, 7,950 “ 7,220
[ Sales to August 10, 11,623 “ 14,160
Stock to August 10, -6,574 “ 73,547 *
H AVRE, August 11.— Cotton —5O bales Louisi
ana at 1()6: 20 do. do. 1014; 42 do. 98; 20 do. do 93-
46 do. do. 844; 24 do. Mobile 97; 38 do. do. 85; 4l'
do. Georgia 38i.
M ACO\,Sept- 20.— Cotton— A few loads are
received daily, and generally of superior qualities.
, » esierday three lotuts were sold at 104 els , which,
wo believe, is the highest price ihnt has been paid
and quite as high as the markets abroad will aulho
■ rize, and perhaps a lill’re-higher.
From all that we can learn of the Cotton crop
throughout the country, ii w ill fall short of that of
last year one-third or One-fourth. Owing to this,
it is reasonable to anticipate belter average prices
throughout the season.
COLT MBUs, Sept. 20. —The Crops. —ln nff ihis
region, the crops will not yield, we are told, more •'
than one-half their original promise. The late
! Corn.Colton, and Peas, are entirely ruined Plant
ers should look toitbe prices for Their Cotton par
ticularly. The Failure Bs nol pariial—it is serious
and extensive. —Enquires *
CH A RLEs ION Sept. 22.—1 n going the route's ’ ll
yesterday, and making the usual inquiries of our
friends relative to the business operations of the
week, we came to the conclusion that the past, so
far as actual sales were concerned, has been the
dullest week, even at this season of inactivity, that
has ever come to our recollection. With the ex
ception of the city retail business, (and even that
has been light,) ilfere is u complete stagnation in
the produce market.
Colton —A small business continues to engage -
the dealers in I plain! Cotton, chit-fly for shipments
to the north The orders have been for lino Cot
ton, but there is little of this description to be had.
1 be sales of the week arc a few hundred bales of
the old crop, at from 10 to 124, together with seve
ral small lots of the new, at 124, 13, and 134 cents
per lb. 'i lie stock on sale is 100 light to induce
purchasers to enter the market, unless to complete
positive orders. It should be borne in mind by the
growers of the short staple, that in relation to the
quotation of 134 cents, we cannot vouch for its con
tinuance, as it seems to be the general opinion that
when new Cotton comes more freely to the city,
the prices will depend solely on the texture and
quality of the article. In the present state of the
market we have erased our quotations, until the
commencement of the fall trade.
Grain. —There have been no arrivals during the
week of Grain. \\ e have therefore eraced our
quotations, as it is impossible to give a correct state
of the market. Os Corn there i* but a fair supply
on hand. Hay is in demand, and is at present re
tailing at $2 per 100 Jbs.
Flour. —Although the sales in Flour have been
■ confined to tlie city trade, holders are stiff in their
demands of $74 a 84 for old, wb le new lias been
run off at SBJ a 9 per bbl.
Bacon —The article is scarce, and in demand.
Lard. —There is but a limited supply of Lard in
market. Present rates nominal—l3a 1 lets per lb.
Salt. —Liverpool has been selling ftom store at
$ H a 14 per sack.
Groceries have become a drug daring the week.
We have no w holesale transac ions to record. The
| arrivals of Sugar since our last have been about 170
bhds. Wlndia, and 200 half tierces ISOrlenns. Os
Mola-ses, 37 casks Wlndia, and 121 bbls NOrleans
have come to hand. The importation of Coffee
his been about 1.5-i bags Cuba. Present quotations
1 for these articles nominal.
Exchange —Bills on England 10 a 101 per cent,
i prem.
j Freights —Dull.
II MM.
MARINE INTELLIGENCE.
SAVANNAH, Sept. 20.—Arr slop Georgian,.
Eldridge, New Orleans; Rrem'schr Anna Johanna,
Bellrnar, do ; steamer Cincinnati,.Brooks, Garey’s
Ferry. . ; • ■ . -
i Went to sea, ship Trenton, Brown, New York;
) Tantivy, Johnson, do,
CHARLESTON, Sept. 22.—An brig Cora, Cur
tis, New Orleans.
Went to sea, steam packet Gov Dudley, Ivey,
Wilmington. N C. .
SEPT. 34.—Arr sellr Jim Crow, Smith, Malan
* zas.
I Went to sea, ship Anson, Sinclair, New York;
brigs Lagrange, Harwood, New York; Mary Helen,
Hamilton, Boston; schrs Ontario, Condon, do.; Os
car, Southwick, St Augustine; Magnet, Brewster,.
1 Duxbury; Breakwater, Cormerais, Baracoa; Ran
| dolph. Goldsmith, Philadelphia; sloop Jackson,
: Morris, Savannah.
I iw»i«miin LJI ""
1 i JK7" We are authorised to announce DAVID
j ! W. ST. JOHN, Esq., a candidate for Colonel of
. j the 10th Regiment.
| | Sept. 11 36
1 Wc tire authorised to announce SAMUEL.
r ! C. WILSON, Esq. as a candidate for Major of the
I 75th Bat. G. A4. Sept. 4
’ | NOTICE. —Mr. A. READ, is my duly nu
) thonzed agent during my absence from the state.
.1 | Aug. 23 28 WILLIAM CLAGETT, Jr.
• | ENGIN E No. 5.
AN Election for First Lieutenant of this Com
pany, will he held on Saturday evening,,
f j the 29th inst. at 7 o’clock, at Mr. J. Danl’ortli’s, up-
I per end of Broad-stroet. By order of
J | Sept 22 41 Capt. M. WAGNER.
d Georgia Insurance and Trust Company, 4
| Augusta, September 18, 1838. $
A N instalment of TWO DOLLARS & FIFTY
XjL CENTS per share, on the new slock, is pay
*■ aide on Friday, 21sl instant.
s Sept. 20 40 WM. T. GOULD, Sec’ry.
POST-OFFICE, /
Augusta, Sept. 13, 1838. $
NOTICE —The time for which BOXES nre
| rented in the Post office, will expire on the Ist
* October Persons having rented Boxes lor the last
■r year, and do not w ish to retain them, will please
e give notice of the same previous to that. time.
Sept 18 3 39 EB. GLASCOCK, P. M.
e 1
n Offices. C. C. & li. li. Company, I
e Hamburg, Sept. 12, 1838. $
s I^TOTICE. —Freight on Cotton to Charleston^
I xw 50 cents per one hundred pounds.
» A. B. STLRGES, Agent.
September 13 ts 37
: 1 Office S C. C. Ac li. li. Company,/
Hamburg, September 14, 1834.
i OTICE —Shippers of Cotton to Charleston by
- the Rail Road, are notified that the Books
p are open to receive Cotton.
r | A. B. STURGES, Agent.
Sept 15 if 33
‘ TENT J REGIMENT, <4. M.
Augusta, Sept. 10, 1838.
ORDERS —An election will be liolden at the
City Hall, in Augusta, on Monday the first of
» October next,at lOo’clock. A.M. fora COLONEL,
to command the Regimen*, vice CoJ. i einbertoii,
’ resigned. _
- F. 31. ROBERTSON,
i Capt. Richmond Blues,
n WM.T. GOULD,
Capt. Augusta Artillery Guards.
' Sept. 11 36
i 75th BATTALION, G. M.
Augusta, Sept. 3, 1838.
J —An ELECTION will be holden at
1 the City Hall, in Augusta, on Tuesday , the
1 25th instant, for a .MAJOR, to command the Balal
lion, vice Lt. Col. Bones, resigned.
WM. T. GOULD,
Captain Augusta Artillery Guards.
EBEN’R. STARNS.
Captain Clinch Riflemen.
Sept. 4 33