Newspaper Page Text
THE (,’O.NSTITUT 10.N.A LIST
JAMES GARDNER, JR.
T E It .11 S .
p<*r annum, ipf. 00
If paid in advance, ... hOO
Weekly, p«r annum 3 Ou
If paid in advance, 2 5o
SCT All n«w •nhacriplionn must be paid in advance.
Adrrrintrnienfs inserted at the JolLowing rates :
Tri-Weekly, per square, go 5o
Weekly, per square, lirst insertion, 75
Each subsequent insertion, 5 *
Monthly, “ 81 oo
j£/*All advertisement* not marked, will be in*
■eried until forbid, and charged accordingly.
{tjrl’nsia-e must he paid on all Communicant ns
an<i Lefers of business.
[ From the Baltimore American.]
ADDITIONAL NEWS BY STEAMER BRI
TANNIA, AT BOSTON.
We received by the steamboat, last night
from Philadelphia, a copy of Wilmer and j
Smith’s European Times of the 19 h ulf.
from which we make up liie following sum- (
mary of news—principally Commercial.
Professor Dew of Wtliiam and Mary Col- i
lego, Virginia, died in Pans a few days pre
viops to the sailing of Ihe steamer. He ar- !
rived in that city only the day before bis
death.
Among the passengers in the Britannia,
are S. Lover, Esq. the celebrated novelist,
and S. Canard, Esq. the projector of the ;
Canard Lino of steamers.
The new iron steamer Sarah Sands, built
in Liverpool for Capt. Sands, of New York
was launched on the 11th nit.
Tbe anticipated almost total failure of the |
potato crop in England, Ireland, and Scot
land, has Caused the price of Indian Corn to
rise 255. to 325. a quarter during the last
three weeks. The quantity in the Mediter- i
ranean is said to be very small, h is expect- i
ed that America will be enabled to reap a ;
golden harvest in the sale of tins article in j
England.
COMMERCIAL.
The state of the weather during the last j
fortnight has given the greatest uneasiness j
lu the people of this country —more particu- !
larly to those engaged in agriculture. There I
have been frequent thunder-storms, with co- '
pious falls of rain, which have seriously in- '
jnred the crops. The sun at limes has been
brilliant; and, preceding the storms, the
warmth ripened prematurely the produce of
the fields, which it was found necessary to
cut wiihout delay. Any statement of the
average produce must, of necessity, be mere !
guess work; but there is great reason to ap- i
prebend that in various parts of the kingdom I
irreparable damage has been done to the j
grain. In the course of another fortnight, !
however, the harvest will have been com- I
pletely gathered, and then a more definite i
result can be arrived at.
The Colton market has been in a qules- i
cent stale. —lu the manufacturing districts |
business is the reverse of satisfactory, and i
some of the mills in Blackburn have already i
commenced working short time. The news |
which arrived recently from the United '
Stales respecting the tariff having passed j
the Senate, will, there is every reason to be- I
lieve, give a new fillip to trade.
The Produce markets are tolerably active, i
both for the home trade and for exports. The
depression which has long been existing in
this branch of business has comparatively
disappeared.
The Money market is easy, and, for legiti
mate business, cash can he had on easy 1
terms. The half-yearly meetings of some of j
the great railway companies are being held, j
and the accounts which the directors give of !
their positions and their prospects, are, upon j
the whole, favorable. But it is hardly ne- )
cessary to say that some uneasiness prevails |
as to the enormous quantity of railway bills ;
which have passed through Parliament du- j
ring the present session, involving an outlay ■
which must, in the namre of things, affect |
the currency of the country. A list has been
recently published, from a parliamentary j
document, of the amount of shares held by j
the leading capitalists in various parts of I
the country. The merchants of Liverpool, j
who have always been foremost in the pro- J
motion of railway undertakings, figure con
spicuously in this document.
The works on I lie Holyhead line of rail
wav are progressing most rapidly. Nearly
13,000 men are daily employed. When fin
ished it will form one continuous line of
railway from London to Liverpool. Holy- ■
head will then he established as the groat
packet station of England, at which place the j
Irish, the American, and most probably the I
West India Mail Steam Ships will arrive
at and depart from.
An effort is being made by the salt interest
of this country to abolish the monopoly which
the East India Company possesses to sup- j
ply that article to our Eastern subjects ex- !
clnsivcly. The case which the salt trade 1
makes out is-a strong one, and they have been j
materially assisted in their labors by a patnph- :
let recently published by Mr. Ayiwiu, who ;
is himself in the East India trade, and knows, I
from practical experience, w here the “shoe 1
pinches.”
A strange blunder has crept into the new ;
Corn Bill, by which the duty on beans, which |
is rising in price, is nearly as high under the I
new as it was under the old law. It is what !
is termed a clerical error, and one would
have supposed that it only required to be
pointed out in order to be remedied; but Lord i
George Bentinck, as the farmer’s friend, par
excellence, refused the correction, and the j
consequence is, that the farmer must pay an
increased price for provender to feed his cat
tle. The duty now payable on beans is 4s.
per quarter; f fie late Government intended it |
to be 2s. Under the old law the duty would
only have been 4s. 6d. Peas stand in the
same relative position. But the blunder
must stand as it is until the next session, for
all hopes of a remedy, w ith the opposition j
which it will encounter, are at an end.
The state of the potato crop has already j
influenced the price of grain. Yesterday, i
at Liverpool, wheat advanced from 6d. to
9d. per 70 lbs., United States and Canadian j
flour Is. fid. per bbi., and Indian corn 3s. to
4s. per 4SO lbs. over the rates of the previous
week. At these advanced prices considera
ble business was effected. At Mark Lane,
on Monday, the new crop of wheat advanced
from 2s. to 3s. per quarter above the previous
quotations. The duty on foreign wheat lias
advanced to Bs. per quarter, and on foreign
flour to 4s. per barrel.
The accounts from India last week to the !
10th of June, represent business as being
extremely bad without any appearance of ;
amendment. The crisis in the Money mar
ket continued, and more failures has taken
place. The Government had refused to make
any further advance on bills drawn against
produce, and the result of this determination
had been to increase the embarrassment.
Iron has already advanced in price, and |
nwr*n»w jw rwuiMi wwi i n i i ii*Jn.in-MPj«'H r c.
the woollen manufactures ot Yorkshire are
| firm and improving.
The appointment of Lord Elgin to succeed ,
Lord Gathcart as Governor General of Ca
nada, is announced.
The Sugar Bill presented by Lord J. Rus
sell, has peacefully passed through i’arha- i
ment. The Royal assent was given to the i
Sugar Duties Bill, and to 29 other bills, in the j
House of Lord:-, on ilie ISih tilt.
It is difficult to keep pace with the progress '
of the new policy in Rome. Piu* the Ninth
is said to have declared that he takes for his i
guide the New Testament; and thus fir his |
policy seems to be animated by the highest I
spirit of that volume. He has not only re- j
leased ail political prisoners and pardoned re- I
fugees, but fie has furnished the laiter with |
public money to return home, and has re- 1
ceived the more ab'e and earnest of the par
doned revolutionists into favor. The ex
treme popularity that he has attained on ihe
instant, appears to have provoked no serious '
counteraction among the Conservative parly :
in Rome.
1 Postponement if the Departure from Liver
; pool of the Steamship (iretil Britain. — in
i consequent eof the ‘Great Britain’ having |
| touched the ground during a fog, on, her out- 1
ward passage to New York, the Directors I
have determined to pul off her next, dav of i
sailing to the 22nd of September, on which I
day she will sail from the Coburg Dock, at ,
eleven o’clock, A. M.
EMIGRATION.
On Wednesday the 5.h inst., the Bafavier
Dutch steam-ship, came into the Thames i
with 340 emigrants on board, from Germany ;
i who intend to emigrate to the United Stales, j
They are an instalment of the 80,000 emi
grating from the German States during the
j present year. Next morning they proceeded
, trom London far Liverpool, for the purpos.e
l of embarking on board an American slop.
lIItXA.NU.
j The feud between U.d and Young Ireland
■ is now regularly consummated. They aredis
| tinct parties. Mr. O’Connell has denounced :
| their policy and disdained their aid. The
j “Nation” has been expelled from the rooms I
| ot Conciliation Hall, and the quarrel stands I
| liltle chance of ever being cemented again.
SPAIN.
Madrid, August 1U. —On the 29‘h July, j
Mr. Washington Irving was received in pri
vate audience by the Queen, to take leave as |
Ambassador from lho -Uuiied Elates. He j
said that lie was charged by the President to |
remit to the Queen the letter recalling him j
I from his post; and to assure her Majesty of j
i the President’s ardent desire to maintain the j
; amicable relations so happily subsisting be
‘ tween the two countries.
Two days later, Mr. Saunders, the new
! American Minister, was received by tho
: Queen.
INDIA AND CHINA.
The usual extraordinary express, in ant : -
I cipation of the long delayed overland mail I
| from India, readied London on Tuesday, the |
! lllh inst.. bringing advices from Bombay of
' July Ist; Calcutta, of June 10th; and Mad
| ras. of June 22d. The only news of any po
i iitical importance they convey is that of the
I surrender of Kote Kangra, which was given
I up unconditionally on the 28lh of May. The
i British troops arrived before the loriress on
the 28th of May, with 6000 men and 30
pieces of artillery, and have returned home 1
under difficulties which have rarely attached* |
j to such an expedition. No sooner had they ;
arrived at their destination, and manifested
j their intentions, than the garrison threw i
| down their arms and surrendered at discre- |
I lion; nay, followed up their submission by i
! the most anxious desire for the protection of j
i the British authorities.
[ From the A. O. Delta, Sept. 3.]
FROM HAVANA—FOUR DAYS LATER.
By the Spanish brig Paquete.de Vera Cruz,
I arrived in Mobile, we have received tiles of
j Havana papers to the 26t.h ultimo, four days
later than the dates received by the Hayne.
The local news is of little importance.
El Diario de. la Marina , of the 2511 i, says
\ that Ihe Spanish 11 ig was for tho lirst time
; hoisted on board of the Mexican steamers
I Montezuma and Guadalupe, on the morning
[•of the 24th, and that Captain Don Jose Mo
; rales de los Rios had been appointed coin
! mander of the first named, and Captain Don
Manuel Sibila for the latter.
The Bril ish ship Alice Jane, and the Span
ish brig of war Habanero, arrived from Sac-
I riticios on the 22nd and 25th, and also the
1 British schooner Sealby, from Tampico, on
I the 241 h, all three with very long passages;
; the shortest being lira?, of the Habanero in :
Ifi days.
The Diario de la Marina of the 26th, pub- !
lishes at a late hour, a short extract from
tiie Indicator ot the b’th, there being no time
j to gel their correspondence in readiness for
( publication that day.
I By the information jjiven through the In
; dicalor we see that the pronunciamienln of
Jalapa, Perote and Mexico, is confirmed,
; which took place on the -4th August, as it ap
pears by a notification signed by Don J.
I Mariano Salas, Acting President, and Don
Valentin Gomez Farias, Acting Counsellor,
i stating that General Don Juan Morales had
1 taken possession of the citadel, and that they
, would in a short time take possession of the
| whole city of Mexico.
El Indicador adds that one of the brigades j
1 marching before General Paredes towards
tbe northern frontier, had pronounced in
; favor of the Santa Anna party on its arrival
I at Querelaro.
At the time the Habanero left Vera Cruz
there were only two or three U. S. vessels
ot war at Sacrificios. The others had left
on different days to cruise about.
The new Spanish b r ig of war Juanita, ar
rived off Vera Cruz on the olh August, only
7 days passage from Havana. This has been
her first trial since she has been made a man
of-war.
Lnca a State. —The State constitution has
been adopted by a majority of 600, and lowa
is now a Slate. To consummate this work
it only now remains to elect the State offi
cers. For this purpose it is the dutv of the
Governor to issue ins proclamation fixing a
! dav of election, and which it is supposed will
be in October Then a Governor, two repre
sentatives to Congress, and other minor offi
cers are to be chosen, together with the mem
bers of the Legislature which is to meet within
four months from the time of tiie adoption of
the constitution. It will devolve upon this
j body to elect two Senators to Congress and
| the Judges of the Supreme Court, The
District Judges are to be elected by the people,
i at the township election in April. A District
Judge of the United States Court is also to j
be appointed by the President and Senate ot
the United States.
A Handsome Fortune. —Mr. Smith the
razor strop man, is said to have made 30.000
. dollars.
[From the Portland (Mr.', I'antem Argxts.]
THE 20TII CONGRESS.
‘'Look here upon this picture, and on this.”
Hamlet.
As usual, the panic makers are at work.
The federal press f(mnighout the Union—
'Tray, Blanclie and Sweetheart, the little d< gs
and all—are barking at the hie ('oppress
j for doing too much or too lint —and nobodv
! knows which! Why this complaint? Is it
i not a notorious fact, that no session of Con
j press, for ifoe last thirty years, has accoin
• plished so much (or the lasting benefit and hap-
I piuessof the country, as the session just
j closed? And yet the federal cursare yelping
; although Congress had hern turned into a
i slaughter-house to butcher them all.
Let us lor a moment compare what the
I present Congress has done, with wlmf was
I enacted at the hard-rider Congress of 1841
•Id. 'The comparison may l e odious to the
federalists, hut it will he gratifying to every
true democrat who thinks for himself.
! Thk I’kfsknt UoNontsg has settled the all
■ important Oregon question, which has been,
1 for half a century, a hone of contention be
twixt us and England—a controversy that
! has heretofore baffled the ablest diplomatists
| of both countries, and one which had nearly
| involved the civilized world in a long and
j bloorfvwar. Ithasgiven the country a belter
I t drill - than that of 182 I. ‘2B, or ’42; a law that
■ is calculated to extend equal rights to all
I classes of labor, preventing one class from
j oppressing all other classes, by withholding
I special tariff privileges*. It has re-enacted,
| with important modifications, the sub treasury
; law for the safe-keeping and disbursement of
i the public moneys—a law which was the
i crowning glory of Air. \ an Boren's admints
j iration, but was repealed by the wings. It
; has established the ‘•Smithsonian Institu
i lion,” for the increase and diffusion of kiimv
i ledge among men; an institution destined to
I he of great an.l permanent benefit to every
j common school and seminary in New Eng
: land. It has proved to the world, by the pas
sage of the Mexican war bill, that we “know
our rights, and knowing, dare maintain them.”
It is true, that for want of time, a few un
important public acts failed of a passage, but
these were not of urgent necessity, and can
be better acted on at the next session. Among
them are bills estabMshing a territorial gov
ernment it) Oregon, for the reorganization of
| tlie State, Treasury, Navy, and Lost Office
j Departments; to provide for the sale of mi-
I neral lauds in Michigan and Wisconsin; to
i establish a board of commissioners to ex
i amine claims against the United States; for
j the construction of a dry-dock at Philadel
! phia, and certain fortifications in Connecticut,
! Massachusetts,and Rhode Island; and to pro
: vide for completing, at the expense of the
; United Stales, the everlasting Cumberland
I road, which passes from Ohio to Missouri,
: through Indiana and Illinois. Resides these,
| and a few others of like character, the private
; bills to remit duties on certain goods de
! stroyed by fire in New York, and fur the pur
chase of the manuscript writings of Hamil
ton and Madison, failed of a passage for want
of time. At. the next, session of Congress
these mailers (none of them of pressing im
portance) can he properly disposed of. We
should rather, however, that every one of
those measures should be indefinitely post
poned, if need be, than that one of them (the
bill for completing the Cumberland road)
should be passed. Often lias Congress de
cided against these interim! improvements by
the general government; and even at ilie pre
sent session, President Polk vetoed -toe river
and harbor bill on tbe simple ground that t nese
rivers and harbors lay within the western
States, and were such works of internal im
j provement as the States benefited should con
struct at their own expense. Enough has al
i ready been accomplished by the present Con
: gross to extort the thanks of every well wisher
; of his country; and I trust the coming elec
j tions will prove that the people are fully
! satisfied. But let us compare notes with the
; hard cider Congress of 1841- , 42, bet er known
: as the
| Harrison Congress. —lt came info power
| bv fraud and deception, was composed of the
j most incongruous materials, and continued in
I session ton lung by over six months! During
i its existence, calamity after calamity hefel it;
I and nobody has ever attempted to explain the
| reason, for nobody could. For instance, it
I Inst, by the hand of death, a President in
! Harrison, an acting Vice President in South
; ard, and thirteen of its members; by resigna
i /ion, it lost seven senators, several heads o<
! department*, and twelve representatives! One
whig member bad bis leg broken, another re
i reived a caning, and yet another had his ear
| bit. off! At the close of the session, those
i who survived the “wreck of matter, ’ went
info private life, never to emerge from it.
Compare the doings of the Harrison Con
; gress with those of the 29th Congress, and
! what do we find but shameful extravagance
I in the one, and prudent economy and patriot
| ism in (fie other? Let us see what the whigs
i did in Congress.
1. They voted a “funeral benefit” to Gen.
Harrison’s friends or relatives of $3,000.
2. They voted a pension to his heirs of
| (£25,000. ‘
3. They voted to furnish the White House
j (though well enough for Van Buren) with
furniture worth (£6.000.
4. They pissed a United States bank bill,
' which President Tyler promptly vetoed.
6. They promised “t£2 a day and roast
beef,” and thus coaxed thousands of office
seekers to assemble at Washington, to beg or
to starve.
6. They passed a distribution law, and af
terwards strangled if.
1 7. They passed a tariff bill, for which nine
of their senators and thirty-six of their repre
sentatives refused to vote!
8. They passed a bankrupt law—after
! wards repealed it—and reduced the country,
in two years, to the verge of bankruptcy, ruin,
i and disgrace.
The whole history of the country cannot
j point to a democratic Congress so imbecile
and weak as the coon Congress of 1841- 42.
} It sought distinction y but it acquired notoriety
; only; and happy will it be for the country, ti
■ the lessons of 1840 are never forgotten.
; Whigery then had full sweep, having a Pre
! sident. Senate, and House, of its own choice;
I and, with all these appliances, it proved itself
a by-word and reproach. Even the whigs
i themselves admit that disaster marked their
progress. But to escape the indignant voice
{ of the people, the whole blame is thrown upon
President Tyler, who, seeing their corruption,
j veioed the bank bid, and left them to their
own destruction. It was to his firmness that
I the country is indebted for its narrow escape
from a mammoth bank—one of the most cor
rupt instil utions that ever was invented to
I control the ballot-box and overawe the people.
EfDismal Swamp, in North Carolina, fur
nishes good specimens of granite, which is
• coming into general use in that section of
i country.
AUGUSTA.' GEO."
WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEPT. 9, 1846.
Eighth Congressional District.
DEMOCRATIC >O3ll N A TIO >
F O !i C O N GRESS,
R. W. FLOURNOY, ESQ^
*JT “ Pro Bmo Publico,'” a writer in the !
Chronicle and (Sentinel of yesterday, calls
the attention of the proper authorities to“thc
rank vegetation in many of the gardens and
lots of absentees and others in almost every
part of the city.”
O’ The editors of the National Intelligen
cer on the 3rd inst., were favored by an of
ficer of the army, with a communication nar- j
rating particular acts of gallantry and other
interesting incidents which occurred during
j (lie Bombardment of Fort Brown, on (he Rio
i Grande. We extract the following compli
mentary notice of our fellow townsman, .
| Lieut. Lafayette McLavvs, who was one oflhe
; brave defenders of that Fort. Detailing the
1 .. 0
incidents of lhe 9th of May, this writer says :
“Shortly after 2 o'clock P. AL, we heard
the re-engagement of the armies, which i
caused the most pleasant excitement in our
command,as we could distinctly perceive the
advance of our artillery and musketry. Our
I operations, however, still went on. This af
ternoon Lieut. McLiws was sent out with a !
party to cut away the chaparral bushes, draw- I
iug the fire ofthe enemy, but working with
out any regard whatever to their imminent
danger. The efforts of the enemy at their :
: batteries seemed now to be redoubled, and i
I the bombardment and cannonading were at
• Ibis lime heavier than we had yet sustained,
1 and was kept up constantly until some time
| after we had heard of the total rout of the
I enemy at Resaca tie la Palma.”
QUrOur neighbor's eyes must be affected
: with what the little boys and girls call the
twididdles. He could see clearly enough in
1 the foreign news, where iron had advanced j
in price in England, but the iwididdte came
over his vision, whenever the news of the
advance in the price of cotton intruded itself
before him. How unfortunate for tiie whig
parly, that cotton will not fall. Do you think,
: neighbor, you can see, by this lime, that the
I price of cotton has improved some little in
1 England, in consequence of the passage of ;
; the tariff of 1846?
EFThe whigs of Pennsylvania are cir- i
dilating secret instructions advising their ;
friends to “operate privately.”
ELECTION LN CHARLESTON.
There were 1511 votes polled. The result was !
not given in the Charleston papers of yesterday.—
| The Schnierle and Hutchison parties were both i
sanguine of success. It is supposed that the ma- ;
jority ofeither will be small.
YELLOW FEVER IN NEW ORLEANS.
One case was reported on the 29th ultimo.
A few sporadic cases are met with in New
Orleans, every year, and even when it does
not prevail as an epidemic.
THE WESTERN CONTINENT.
This is about the best family Journal pub- 1
li-shed in the country. It comes to us, this I
week improved in appearance, and tinder the
conduction of Air. W. T. Thompson and Mr. |
; S. Smith. It is a very large sheet, printed
■ with new type,and sent to subscribers at two
| dollars per annum. It is well worthy, of
i what we hope it may receive, twenty thou
| sand subscribers. We shall find a place for
j its prospectus in a few days.
I .
GEORGIA ELECTIONS.
The political campaign has already opened
in this Stale. The election for members of
| Congress takes place on the first Monday in
! October. ‘J be Democrats have nominated
their entire ticket—and who can doubt their
I success, when they present such formidable
; names for their standard-bearers as Cohen,
‘ Flournoy, Iverson, Towns, Haralson, Lump
kin, Cobb and Turner? Let the Democracy |
| of Georgia put forth their whole st rength in j
; support of these tried and faithful champions, I
; and their triimyihant election will vindicate j
; Georgia against the charge of being in favor
i of a. protective Tariff and the other heresies !
| of the Whigs. —Richmond Enquirer, Sept. 4. ;
What response will the Democracy of j
i Georgia make in October, to their friends in |
i other states? What efforts will they make |
! to sustain the integrity and triumph of their !
I principles? *
I And how stands the democracy of the Bt.b j
I district? Shall it be said, that wo remained I
' inactive with a whig majority of 1356 votes
i against us? Does it, comport with the spirit
; and principles of our party, to quietly sub
i mil to whig misrule and misrepresentation,
1
I without efforts, worthy of our cause, to elect
| a man who will faithfully represent our prin
ciples? We hope there is no democrat, in
this section of Georgia, who does not feel
: the importance of securing the election of
Mr. Flournoy, by all worthy means—of see
ing the pennant of democracy floating over
this whig regulated Bth Congressional dis
trict—and of sending a man to Congress
properly imbued with southern principles.
I What care we about the whig majority of I
: 1356, or ten times that number? We shou’d
enter the canvass determined now to sue
ceed, if possible, and if compelled to yield in
defeat, then to rally with renewed energy at i
a subsequent election. W r e should do our
utmost now, and victory may perch upon our I
banner in October; or at least sucli a victory ■
as will carry terror and dismay to the ranks
of whigery in this district.
Let tiie democrats of Georgia, and particu- j
larly of this section, verify tiie language of
the whigs, “that tiie democrats, in sunshine
! or in storm, sick or well, rich or poor, high
or low, are always at the polls,” and the re
sult of the election in October, will be ano
ther proud and glorious triumph for tiie de
mocracy of the country.
Baltimore. —Col. Jacob G. Davies, has ac
cepted the Democratic nomination of Balti
more city, for the Mayoralty. i
«HaEO*rP** \MU^LUL^Mm wijwt«
O* Alter some very learned speculations
and statistics about the value of nig iron, in
England, the Chronicle and Sentinel of Mon
day morning last, concluded will* the follow
ing “lip-toe” philippic, which was ably sus
tained by nine perpendicular notes of admi
ration !
‘•What a great market England was to be
for our provisions and bread stnfi-! !
Yet, according to the last accounts, wheat
had declined from 2d to 3d per bushel, and
flour 5d per barrel! What a glorious result
for our count rj-, our manuJaclwiTrs and farm' \
ers! Wheat and Hour going down and Eng
; lish goods goitio up! American labor going
, a begging, and Engli-h pauper labor stepping
upon tiptoe with gladder heart and a brighter i
: face ! American laborers becoming paupers,
and British paupers laying aside ineir rags |
; and poverty for the comforts and blessings
| ot competency !
What a glorious change FOB TllK British!!”
Byway of an addenda to the ab we we
hope our neighbor will allow the following
brief statement from a late number of the
Brooklin Eagle, to accompany it. The peo
ple m«y then have an opportunity of seeing :
“what a glorious change for the British” lias
been effected.
“It may serve to show the nature of (he
sacrifice to which American industry will he
j doomed, hy tlie policy which does away with
1 tiie heavy restrictions imposed upon our com
mercial intercourse with England by the ta- :
rilfof 1842.”
j “England as a customer. —The amount of
i the following articles exported to England |
j from New York, in one week, shows the ex
i tent of the trade to that country: ] 7,4:2 1 bar
rels of flour; 22,377 bushels of wheat; 300
barrels of corn meal; 31,360 pounds of to
bacco; 172,492 pounds of cheese; 12.150
pounds of hams; 108,682 pounds of lard; 350
tierces beef; 64,728 pounds of butter, and
over 2,000 bales of cotton.”
The editor of the Chronicle and Sentinel
was truly unfortunate in his “ tiptoe ” article
j which v\*e publish above, lie says “accord
j ing to the last accounts wheat had declined
i from 2d. to 4cl. per bushel, and flour sd. per
| barrel!” But, we have now some accounts !
| later than his last, and they represent “that :
| the English wheat trade was firmer on the |
17th August, and prices were two shillings I
I to three shillings higher than on the lOifj.
. j
1 Several sales of bonded wheat were effected tit ;
i improved prices. There was an improved de- I
mand for flour, at full prices, m\(\ foreign flour I
obtained an advance of one shilling per bar
rel.” We could have furnished even higher
quotations, of (lie advance of wheat and flour
in the Liverpool market, if we had felt, dis
posed. We refer for more extended details
to our commercial column.
Let our readers notice, the above extract
from the Chronicle and Sentinel and com
pare it with the following, which vve copy
from the same paper, published on yesterday
morning. In their extracts of news, per
Steamer Britannia, in the Chronicle and j
Sentinel, appears the following:
Yesterday (tlje 17th August) at Liverpool, ■
wheat advanced from 6d. to 9d. per 70 lbs.,
Coned States and Canadian flour Is. 61.
per bbl., and Indian corn 3s. to 4s. per 480
lbs. over the rates of the previous week. At
these advanced prices considerable business
was effected.
What will the Chronicle and Sentinel say j
now? What kind of a philippic will he write
about the advance in the price of wheat and j
flour! Vamp up something, neighbor, about i
rags, poverty, paupers, and the Bkixish, with
a flourish of admiration points and lei us see it.
R. W. FLOURNOY, Esa.
We copy the following complimentary no
tice of the democratic candidate of the Bth
Congressional District, from the Richmond
Enquirer of the 4ih inst., into which paper a
large portion of Mr. Flournoy’s letter was
published.
A BRAVE AND ABLE GEORGIAN.
R. VV. Flournoy, Esq., has accepted the
nomination fur Congress from the Democratic
party of the Sih District, hi opposition to
Toombs, Whig. With a whig majority of j
1356 at the last ejection in this district, suii j
the champion of the Truth has the courage to j
\ fakethe field and siruggle for the right cause. !
: We mike liberal extracts from bis strong I
I and'Beautiful letter of acceptance, not only
| to show his patriotic and tearless devotion i
| to the principles of the Democratic party, hut ;
i because he sketches with a master’s hand 1
i the remarkab'e inconsistency of the Georgia j
I Whigs, at least of many oil hem, on the great ;
1 question of the Tanfl*. From prejudice and
; party associations, they have utterly shifted
their ground. The sketch will apply forcibly
to a large portion of the Whig parly of Virgi
nia, who a few years since, applauded to the
ec.ho the proceedings of the Philadelphia
Free Trade Convention, and went to the very
extremes of Free Trade.
Though defeated now, the bold positions
of Mr. F. will “leii” upon the people of the
District, and hasten the period of a revolution
of sentiment on the vital question of restric
tive laws.
O’The Franklin Democrat, published at
Tuscumbia, Ala., on 3rd inst. thus notices
i the course of the whig press, throughout the
i country:
“The Whig papers seen to have adopted
the motto ot the bloody Murat or the French
revolution —‘(Depose every thing done by the
Government.’ ’ Let the administration move
in any direction and the whig editors pro- j
non nee it wrong.—lt Air. Pot k moves direct
ly forward they say he should turn aside; it
he turns to the right, he should go tothe led; |
I no sooner does fie incline to the left, titan
fie should move on m his original course.
They take up an idea that the administra
tion is in favor of a certain measure, and 1
they denounce the President as recreant to j
the trust confided to him; ‘but soon a wonder |
comes to light,’ and they find the.adminisl ra
j tion opposing the mea.-ure; then they assail
; the President for opposing a measure that
j was destined to shower innumerable bless
ings on the country. Really, Mr. Polk would
I find it difficult so to shape his conduct as to
| meet the approbation of the whig editors.
! ‘Oppose every thing’ is the rule upon which
I the whigs act.”
TTGen. Duff Green has commenced a Cot
i ton Factory in Falmouth, Va.
the DEMOCRACY OF NEW.YORK.
A large and enthusiastic meeting of the
democracy of the empire city, was held at
Tammany Hall, on Wednesday evening, the
“nd inst., the late Mayor, William F. Have
mever. Esq., in the Chair. The utmost har
mony prevailed, and a!! the principles of the
democratic parly, met with a hearty response.
The New \ ork Globe says :
“All tin* great measures oi the democratic
party have nobly triumphed. The mighty
: voice of the people lias been spoken through
! their representatives, and the people them
selves respond, and say,‘well done thou good
! ami faithful servants.’ The independent
treasury, the modification of the tariff of
1842, the annexation of Texas, the settlement
ot the Oregon question, and a justification of
I the Mexican war, with a de-termination to
prosecute it with vigor loan honorable* peace
these, and ail of these, have the democracy
of this citv approved. The policy of the
administration ot James K. Polk has been
approved of. The vote of George M. Dallas
on the tariff has endeared him tolhe demo
j cracy of the Union.
“Ourdistmgmshed statesman, Silas Wright,
was warmly eulogized, and limj-afler there
will be no divisions or in our
ranks. Democracy will hereafter 1* united,
and victory will bo ours. With our 'forces
united, we may defy all opposition, ami from
tins lime forward we look loi a I«• ijcareer
ot ascendancy—a long period of democratic
triumph, in which our opponents will be
I powerless.
I “To conclude, let us say that we are proud
of our principles, proud u! our party, and we
honor and respect those great men who have
nobly and honestly carried out tue measures
(or which we -o ardently contended in the
election of 1844, But one feeiing now ac
tuates tlie democratic family, hoih in this
Elate and in the Union; but one object is had
in view, and that is to maintain our ascend
ancy, and secure tiie passage of other meas
, ures ot democratic policy.”
Toe Morning News adds: “Each and every
measure recently ratified was honored by
me loud and enliuis astic applause ot the
i honest assembly comprising the meeting,
and it was with the republican frankness
characteristic of 4ho mass that every man
i present inanifestpfi his joy over tiie many
! triumphant achievements of the general gov
; eminent under the banner of'equal rights
j and equal ju^^.e,’”
PENNSYLVANIA.
We have cheering accounts from the old
Keystone state, that the democracy are uni
j ted and unterrified. The York Gazette, savs
• the democrats every where, are putting for
ward their strong men, and evidently intend
that their opponents shall not gain one foot
of ground without a hard struggle. That pa
per. in remarking about tlie candidates for
, the districts of Pennsylvania, says:
“Mr. Wilmot, the able democratic repre
sentative of the 12th district, Bradford, Sus
quehanna and Tioga counties, lias been
unanimously re-nominated, and will carry
the district with a rush. 11 is opponent, if in
deed there he one mustered against him, will
. never be heard of alter tiie first jump.”
fITFT.be Lehigh Bulletin, In speakingofthe
1 great Democratic meeting recently held in
ilia; county, says;—The resolutions approve
i and sanction the course of the national ad
ministration upon the great questions of na
tional policy, which were passed upon hy the
people in 1844. In that campaign the voice
j ofLehigh county was heard, and now, when
; the administration is attacked, the same
| voice is heard sustaining it.—The Demo
| cracy fling to the breeze the banner under
1 winch they are ready to meet the enemy, cm
1 which is inscribed the principles of Jefferson
penned when the country was striking tor
liberty. “Little Lehigh,” with her 2700
Democratic votes will be hoard from, and we
(or them pledge her whole strength fur the
country and Democratic principles.
O’There is no division in the Democratic
party here, worth consideration. A ticket in
opposition to the regular nominations lias not
been formed, and (here are but
disappointed individuals who have even sug
gested such a ridiculous tiling, and they are
too well known to be heeded. The Demo
cratic party will poll an unanimous vole in
Philadelphia in October. There will he no
dispute—no difference of opinion —no hang
i ing hack. More than that, we shall triumph. —•
| Phil. 'Limes.
| UNITED STATES SENATE OF 1817.
The New York Globe has the following
; statement and estimate of the probable po
i litical standing of the United States Senate,
] commencing alter the 4th of March, 1847:
i “Os the whigs whose terms expire in 1817,
| successors have been elected- to Evans, ot
Maine; Gilley, of New Hampshire, and Bar
row, ot Louisiana. Tiie gentlemen c fee-fed
are James W. Bradbury, John P. Hale, and
Solomon U. Downs, all democrats, though it
is doubtful how lar Hale will act with (tie
democratic party. ’The legislatures that are
! to choose senators in place of Simmons, of
: Rhode Island; Mangnm of North Carolina;
| and Archer, of Virginia, have been
1 elected, Simmons and Mangnm will he mjc
| ceeded by whigs, by a democrat.
VVorflJßnjge, of and Jarnagin ot
: Tennessee, vviil in all probability be suc-
I ceeded hv democrats, though it is said that
local causes may give VVoodbridge a chance
for re-election. Davis, of Ma-sachuselts;
Clayton, of Delaware; Miiler, of New Jersey;
Morehead of Kentucky, whigs; and Calhoun,
ot South Carolina; Lewi-, of Alabama; Chal
! rners, of Mississippi; Semple, oi Illinois; Ash
iev of Arkansas; Houston, of Texas, demo
crats, w ill be succeeded by senators of like
politics; and tiie chances for re election ot
i Berrien, of Georgia, are about even.
“li the above statement prove correct, and
: the whigs carry Georgia at the next election
| and lowa and Wisconsin come into the Union
with democratic senators next winter, tha
Senate wd! stand on the 4th of March, 1847,
40 democrats to 20 whies.”
Springfield Armory. —The following sfate
-1 meiit shows the number of Arms and Appen
dages fabricated at the Springfield Armory
during the year ending June 30th, 1846.
12,265 Percussion Muskets complete. 12,630
Wipers, 12.204 Screw Drivers, 3000 Half
; Screws, 2544 Spring Vires, 108 Ann Chests.
iHTlmmr-nse bequests have been made in
England, Ireland, and Scotland, to the Pres
byterian Church. Tiie late Mrs. Magee, of
Dublin, left SBB,OOO lor a College, $lll,OOO
for foreign missions, and $22,220 for home
missions in Ireland.