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CHRONICLE AND SENTINEL.
AUGUSTA.
Friday Morning, April 20.
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J The following communication is the first of a
W senes, written some days ago by a friend travell
ing in the country, and as some of the views con
tained in them may appear quite similar to some
contained in Mr. Uiddte’s letter to Juo Q. Adams
| it is hut justice to the author to say that they
* were all penned before he could possibly have
1 seen that letter. The numbers of Publicola
been in our office for three or four days.
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,*■.oll THE CHRONICLE ASH SENTINEL.
Itcsumption of Specie Payments.
NO. I.
Fayetteville, Ga. April 7, 1838.
v A/r. Janet ;—The anticipated resumption , f
Specie |iayments by the Banks, being now a
. subject of deep and increasing interest and spe
/ culation, I beg leave to present to the public,
Bthrough your columns, some views in relation
®‘to it which may perhaps not be found wholly
■ unworthy of consideration. To commercial men
■ they may bo familiar and valueless—perhaps
■ seemingly erroneous. I know not; Having been
S travelling for some months in the country,! have
* had but little opportunity of hearing their opin’
Lions, while, in my continual communication
with the country people, of all classes, I have
been greatly surprised at the delusion and misap
prehension which prevail, even among the re
flecting and intelligent. Nay, more ; even some
respectable newspapers I have occasionally met
i with, seem to look upon a resumption of specie
payments ns a matter of course, on the part of
the Banks, and fraught with no serious dillicully
| or danger, at least to the country, or the great
k- mass of the community. Like their readers in
3 the country, they look only to one side of the
r question, and view its difficulties and dangers as
1 Bank mailers, exclusively, and worthy only of
J the consideration and alarm c<f Ihe Banking in
-3 terest. None, that I have met with, seem to
1 comprehend or consider, the general consequcn
i ces of a struggle between the people and the
S Banks—of a run Upon the latter for specie—or
| of destroying or weakening that general spirit of
I mutual forbearance, confidence, and aid, which
J How so happily prevails and which I confidently
| believe is doing more for the general relief of the
| country, and improvement of the currency, than
t can any other stale of things whatever, and espe
| daily, any /'on i resumption of specie pay
| splits'. | ■
* . If I thought, with others, that the difficulties
t to bo apprehended would fall only where they
P eoem to anticipate, I would now be silent.—
Like (he great mass ot the people, with whom
my interests and feelings are Identified. I owe
the Banks no gratitude, respect, or regard. From
my earliest opinions respecting them, to the prc«
sent moment, I have been, thoroughly and deci
dedly opposed to them, and have never neglected
any just and proper occasion,, to weaken their
tremendous and dangerous influence. To pre
serve a rigid consistency of principle and prac
tice, 1 have tesisled all the temptdtidns of in
; terest and convenience which their forced anil
® I i ,
oppressive system occasionally holds out, more
oi less, to all ; and since I owe them nothing,
(or any one else,) have no favors to ask of them,
or any thing to dread from them, in any event,
| and can have no motive of interest for endcavor
i ing to avert present hostility on the part of the
I people. Were the great mass of the people as
| free from obligation to them, and thereby the
I consequences of such hostility, as I am, 1 would
* b® among the first, as 1 have been heretofore, and
shall be again, when the present difficulties have
■ passed away, to encourage and promote it. None
has labored more earnestly and industriously to
shew the people that they must of necessity suf
fer, and that severely, sooner ot later, for the re
gard ami confidence they have extended to them;
. and if the general ruin and desolation shall oc-
LA:ur which I shall endeavor to show will be the
consequence of the apprehended strug
gle 'for specie, between the Banks and the peo
ple, the latter will have none to blame so much
as thomselvea. Against the earnest entreaties,
arguments, and developemcr.ts of their disinter,
ested »n‘d sincere friends, they created and fos
tered th'ertl, and seized with avidity upon the
delusive “ jiiOmises" of wealth and prosperity
which thej-offered to them. Despite of all re
monstrances, they must needs set at nought their
true and tried faith, to run after false gods, who
•called upon them to barter all the good they,
bad inherited and proved, for the desperate
chance of something belter, which they prom~
ited.” The ••veiled prophet" became their idol
and their hope : If the dropping of the “silver
veil” begins to devclope bis true features in all
their hideous and disgusting deformity, what is
there in them more than they had every just rea
son to expectl And if, when driven to eilfrmitics,
he should tauntingly tell them, in their writhing
agonies,
"\ e would be dupes and victims, and yo are,"
i what can they answer in dania! '
Since, then, the present and probable slate of
1 things is the natural and necessary result of their
own folly, let them not (orget, in censuring or
pressing the Hanks, their own share of account
ability, and that, whatever may have been the
misconduct of the former, forbearance toward
them, under such circumstances, becomes a posi
tive duty. That it is no less their interest, too,
I shall presently show.
* All experience proves, that evils of slow and
’ gradual accumulation can Only bo slowly and
gradually corrected, with any thing like proba
ble safety and success. Such arc the evils of the
1 Hanking system, which has regularly advanced
to its present bloated, enfeebled, corrupt and
tremulous condition, under a Jong course of po
pular and legislative stimulus. In that, as in
1 the human system, such excess cann abe aured
I by any forced or sudden action. Time, Alone,
with judicious aid, can remedy what lime has
effected ; and even the stimulus itself must not
be all at once discontinued, but gradually dimin
ished, lest the patient sink and perish from sud
den depletion. I allude, here, not to the Hank
ing system alone, as so designated, but to the
1 general pecuniary interest of the community,
which lias become so interwoven with it, in every
part, fibre upon fibre, as to form, as it were, a
part of it, so that both must, for a time, stand or
fall, prosper or fail, together. The Banking
system can survive its present difficulties only
by the forbearance of the public; and the public
interest can be saved from widespread ruin and
desolation only by the continued aid of Hank
discounts, poisonous and stimulating though they
may be, as a general principle. The circulating
medium and general business of the country have
been made too utterly dependent on such stimu
lus, to hear, without complete paralysis, a sud’
1 den and entire abstinence ; And what is to pre
vent such abstinence, of necessity, if the people
’ run upon the Banks, when specie payments are
resumed!, When the people press the Hanks,
the Banks must press the people. How can
they avoid ill
’ The Banks owe the people, and the people
the Hanks—a mutual indebtedness, to be re
, moved only by mutual aid and forbearance.
The Banks cannot pay the people, unless the
people pay the Banks, and vice versa. Hos
tility, on either side, must produce hostility
on the other, and mutual hostility mutual injury,
if not ruin. What would they struggle for, but
that which neither has got —specie >' The Banks
have not specie, at least in anything like sutfi
| cicnt quantity to meet their redundant circulation:
Nor have the people, with very few exceptions
t by whom it is hoarded up till the present difficul-
ties shall have passed away. Where, then, is
, the use, or reason, of such a struggle! What
s good can possibly bo derived or hoped from it!
j None seem to reflect, when they talk so care
lessly and indifferently of drawirg up„n the
( Banks for specie, when they resum°, that if they
do so, the Hanks will demand specie from them,
before the contest ends What! says A., the
Ba. n ks demand specie from the people! how will
. they do 1 hat, I should like to know ! Why, as
nothing but specie is a legal tender, when the
wai commences, nttd forbearance is at an end,
may not the Hanks, for want of specie to pay
their own debts, demand specie* Bom those who
owe them, and dt.cct the SheriiTs under execu
tion, to receive nothing else—and ev.cn, under
desperate circumstances, make fictitious transfers,
to avoid receiving their own bills, when greatly
under par, for want of specie to pay them. Hut,
. says A., what if I do not owe the Hanks ! No
! matter. You owe some one, doubtless—say H ,
; and be a Hank, which presses him for specie,
i and thereby forces him to press you for it. When
, a Hank presses ils debtors, their only resource
wiil be to press those who owe them, and so on
i till the pressure runs from one to the other through
tbejwhole debit and credit portion of society.—
Nolle will escape from it but the very few who
are most wealthy, and free from all debt, who
. will be made mere wealthy by excessive usury
1 upon the necessities of others. Thus, the very
> rich will be made more rich, and the poor more
poor—the latter, every where, but especially in
the country, suffering greatly from an excessive
, depreciation, and often entire loss, of the Hank
Hills in their hands.
I . .
> Under all these difficulties, law suits, execu
i lions, and sheriffs sales, will become tbe general
> order of the day, and many, very many, now
I comfortably situated, or seemingly rich, will be
] stripped of every thing. For though their debts
e may now seem very trifling compared witli their
e property, at present rates, yet when they are to
a be paid by forced sales, for specie, or at specie
'. rates, and perhaps under costs of suit, and when
. all want to sell, and none to buy, how greatly
i; reversed may seem their comparative amounts—
how large the debts, and how little the properly!
e To avoid, sir, pressing 100 much upon your
:- kindness in a single paper, I must defer a conlin
- uanco of the subject till your next.
» PUBLICOLA.
’> Nashville, April 7.
Fifty years ago this day, as wc learn from
, one of the party, about sixty four persons lan
ded at the junction of the Ohio and Masking
-0 urn rivers, under the command of Gen. Kufi
f Putnam and commenced the settlement of tl
i- State of Ohio, in die presence of nearly three
r hundred Indians, who had assembled on the
opposite back of the Muskingum. The land
ing look place at 10 o'clock of a bright and
r > beautiful spring morning, What a change
e have these fifty years produced in Ohio, its
„ dark forests have been swept away before the
. axe of the settler—farms, towns and cities now
' occupy the site of the wigwam, the steamboat
r has taken the place of the canoe, and a pop-
II ulation of a million and upwards exists on the
B same territory that supplied but a scanty sub.
sistence to a few hundreds of roving savages, i
Such a rapid and entire change is w ilhoul a (
precedent in the history of the world I
- ——— - r i i i! i n —Tiniirß~i i»i i—tt —rT
The Burial of the Suh-Treasury Bill.
Letter from a Locvfuco in Washington tv his
political friend.
“ Not u drum was heard, nor u funeral note,
“ over the ramparts \vu Im.nnl."
Not a worJ was said, not a speech was iiv.uk’,
As the Hill through the Houno was hurried,
No kindly Conservative came tu our aid,
As our favorite measure was huried.
The question was taken in silence and tears,
Ur only disturbed by our sobbing.
While terrible doubts and awful fears
lu the hearts ut the faithful were throbbing.
No useless amendment enuumbered tho Hill,
No previous question upon ii, ..
’Twas laid on the table, deserted and still;
Precisely as't cam© from the Senate.
Sadly we counted the" nays” to the last,
And the absent ones strove to remember ;
Wesaid not a word of elections just paused,
Hut we bitterly thought of November*
We said nol a word in defence of it, there,
We were not (to tell the truth) ably;
Hut we rose front our seats in silent despair,
And left it alone on tho table.
• The month in which Congressional elections take
place.— l’rvv'nleiue Journal.
From Florida.
By the schr, Vesper, Gapt. Brown, we have
received the Jacksonville Courier of the I‘Jtli nisi,
from which we copy tlie following;—
Arrived at 4 o’clock, P. M. in tho schr. Exit,
in low ol the steamer Cincinnati, on their way
to Black Creek, Col. Illanhead, Lieut. Picked,
Lieut. Boss, and Dr. Byrne, Assistant Surgeon,
from Key Biseaync, which they left on the Bth
inst. 45 Indians had come in.
A military post is established there under the
command of Capt. Webster, a worthy and excel,
lent odicer, us we well know. The troops, say
our polite informants, are in good health. May
they remain so and do good service to the coun
try. Gen. Jesup is indeed goby to Tampa Hay,
according to the rumor mentioned in another
place.
Os the thirteen Indian murders, in our neighs
borhood, within the last twenty days, one was an
aged man, of nearly an hundred years, of the
name ofSmilh,in the neighborhood of Port Mills
The alarm was given by his grandson, who had
been wounded and 101 l for dead by the Indians.—
The old man urged the departure of the family,
hut said he could not go. “If they kill me, they
kill me,” said Ire, “hut I cannot run.”—The
wretches not only murdered but mangled the ve
nerable old patriarch!
OFFICIAL.
Head Quauteiis, Ahmi of tub, South. }
Port Jupiter, Fa., March ”1, 1638. J
ORDERS NO. 77.
Par. 1. The major general commanding,
returns his thanks to Colonel Twiggs and the
officers and soldiers of his command for the
admirable manner in which they performed
the duty assigned to them this morning. Col.
Twigg’s plan for surrounding and securing
the Seminoles was most judicious, and such
v as the prudence and judgement with which
it was executed, that more than five hundred
Indians, and among them about 150 warriors,
were taken and brought into the camp with
out the loss of a single drop of blood on ei
ther side.
Par. 11, The Sempiole negroes with Mica
nopy’s and Cloud’s families, and Tuskegce
and his family, will be taken immediately to
Tampa hay. The remainder of the Indians
will be sent to Port Pierce, whence they will
be sent to St. Augustine as sooh as practica
ble. Col. Twigg's is charged with the execu
tion of this order.
Par. 111. Col. Twiggs will detach a com
pany of artillery from his command to streng
then the garrison ut Port Piercer
Par. IV'. The 2d division is divided into
two separate districts or commands. Gen.
Ettsiis will command that part of the division
north ol Port Anne Hunlorce including the
posts on the St. Johns ; and Col. Twiggs, will
command the troops and posts south of tlue
district assigned to Brig. Gen. Ruslis, and not
included in the command of Col. Tavlor. Lt.
Colonel Bankhead will continue with his pres
ent command
By order of Mcj. Gen. Jesup.
[signed] S. A. CHAMBERS,
A. D. C. & A. A. Gcn’l.
Mr. V.'EBSTEU’S SPEECH—f Continued.
It was, then, to overthrow protection, ,wa?
it, that the honorable gentleman look so much
pains to secure Gen. Jackson’s first election ?
1 commend itis candor, in now acknowledging
it. But, sir, the honorable member hud allies
and associates in that rally. They thronged
round him from all quarters, and followed Ins
lead. And pray, sir, was his object, as now
avowed by himself, tiie joint object of all the
parly ? Did he tell Pennsylvania, honest, in
telligent, staight.forward Pennsylvania, that
such was his purpose ? And did I'eryisylya
nia concur in it? Pennsylvania was first and
foremost in espousing the cause of General
Jackson. Everybody knows she is more of a
tariff .State than any other in the Union. Did
he tell her lliat his purpose was to break the
tariff entirely down? Did he sta'e ins oh
jocts, also, to New York ? Did he state them
to New Jersey I What say you; gentlemen
from Pennsylvania ? gentlemen from New
York ? and from New Jersey? Ye whosup
ported Gen. Jackson’s election, what say you?
Was it your purpose, also, by that election, to
break down the protective policy I Or, if it
were nut your purpose, did you know, never
theless—pray let us understand that—did you
know, nevertheless, that it was the purpose,
and the main purpose, of the honorable mem
ber from Carolina ? and did you, still, co-ope
rate with him ?
'Fhe present Chief Magistrate of Ihe coun
try was a member of this body in 18 JB. He
and tlic honorable member from Carolina
were, at this lime, exerting their united forces
to the aim > f J, in order to bring about Gen.
Jflck.-oi;’s t. i.tioti. Did they work thus zea
• !■; , r the same ultimate end and
pur,. -I■? or c; i they mean merely to change
tii 1 .: (i.iveriiii-. 1 1, and then eacii tu lookout
for himself ?
Mr, Van Buren voted for the tariff bill of
that year, commonly called the "bill of abom
inations;” but, very luckily, and in extremely
good season, instructions for that vole hap
pened to come from Albany I The vole,
therefore, could bo given, and the member giv
ing it could not possibly thereby give any of
fenco to any gentleman of the State-rights
party, with whom the doctrine of instructions
is so authentic.
Sir, I will not do gentlemen injustice.—
Those who belong to lariffStites, as they dre
called, and who supported General Jackson
I for the Presidency, did not. intend (hereby to
overthrow the protecting policy. They only
t ine:iiit to inulio Guneiul Jackson President,
and to come into power along with him ! As I
to ultimate objects, each had his own. All j
could agree, however, m the fir-t step. It was
difficult, certainly, to give a plausible appears
unco to a political union, among .gentlemen
who differed so widely, on the great and lead
ing question of the times—the question of the
protecting policy. But this difficulty was
overcome by the oracular declaration that
General Jackson was in favor of a “Judicious
Tariff.”
Here, sir. was ample room and verge
enough. VVjm could object to a judicious
tariff I Tariff men and Anti.tariff men, State"
rights men and consolidationists, thusy who,
had been called ptodigals; and those who had
boon called radicals, all thronged and flocked
together hero, and with all their difference in
regard to ultimate objects, agreed to make
common cause, till they should get into
power.
. The ghos'n, sir, which arc fah'od so cross
the Stynx, whatever different hopes or purpo
ses they in ay have beyond it, sidl 1111110,111.
the present wish to get over, and therefore all
a hurry and huddle mid the leaky and shatter
ed craft of Charon, the ferryman. And this
molly throng of politicians, sir, with as much
difference ol linn, object, and as lil'lo care (or
■ each other, made 11 boat of “Judicious Tariff
~ and all rushed and scrambled into it, mild
they filled it, near to sinking. The auiliyiity
1 of the master was uale, however, to keep them
f peaceable and in order, tor the lime, for they
> had the virtue of submission, and though with
. occasional dangers »t upsettingi he succeeded
1 in pushing them all over wiih his long set
lingxpolc.
1 “Ramonto to snbigit."
' Well, sir, the honorable gentleman tells
1 us that he expected, when Gen Jackson
1 should be elected, to arrest the tariff system
through the influence of the Executive Depart
’ meat. Here is another candid confession.
Arrest the tanffby Executive influence! In
, deed! Why,sir.tins seems like hoping,
j from the first, for the use ot the Veto. How,
j but by the Veto, could the Executive arrest
1 the tariff'acts? And is it true, sir, that, at
j that early day, the honorable member was
- looking to the Veto, not with dread, but with
hope} Did he expect it, and did he rely up
v on it? Did he make the rally ol which he
; speaks, in order that he might choose u I’re
- sidenl who would exercise it? And did be
afterwards complain of it, or docs he complain
of it now, only because it was ill-directed—
because it turned out to be a thunderbolt,
which did not fall in the right place?
lit this reliance .011 Executive influence—
sir, i declare 1 hardly can trust myself that i
read or quote correctly, when 1 find, in what
’ I rend, or from whul I quote, the honorable
e member from South Carolina, by his own con
-1 Cession, hoping or expecting to accomplish
1. any thing by Executive influence; yet so was
£ it spoken, and so is it printed—in tins reli
h ance,.pr this hopfc, or expectation, founded on
h Executive influence, the honorable gentleman
d and Ills friends failed; and, tailing in this, he
s, says, they lull back on tho sovereignty of the
1- State-’, and brought the system to the ground
>* “through tho potency of! interposition;’j.by
which he nicaru neither more nor less than
' Nullification. So then, sir, according to tills,
e that excessive fear of power which was so
rj much clicrislied by tho nullifiers, was only
awakened to a flame in their bosoms, when
I they found that they could not accomplish
their own ends by the Executive power of the
/•’resident.
1 am no authorized commentator, sir, on
the doctrines or theories of nullification. Non
\ nostrum. But, if this exposition be authen
tic, 1 must say it is not calculated ,lo dinnn
ish my opposition to the sentiments ol that
school.
a But the gentleman goes on to tell us that
e nullification, or interposition, succeeded. By
.1 means of it, ho says, he dd bring the protec
e live system to the ground. Apr! so, in his
i pplflished letter of Noyember 3d, he stales
. that “State interposition has overthrown the
i- protective tariff, and, with it, the American
system."
Wo are to understand, then, sir, first, that
j the compromise act of 1833 was forced upon
Congress by Stale interposition, or nullifies,
lion,.
Next, that its object, and design, so far us
; the honorable gentleman was concerned in it,
1 was to break down and destroy, foroVer; the
1 whole protective policy ot the country.
; And lastly, that it has accomplished that
; purpose, and that the last vestige of’that policy
1 is wearing away.
i Now, sir, I must say, that in 18153, I enter
tained no doubt at all that the design of the
I gentleman was exactly what he now states.
On this point, I have not been deceived. It
■ was not, certainly, the design of all who act
ed with him; but, that it was his purpose, I 1
knew then, us clearly as I know now, after
his open avowal ofit; and this belief governed 1
my conduct at, the time; together with that 1
pfa gt-eat majority of those 111 both Houses of 1
Congress, who, after the act of 18-J4, felt 1
bound to carry out the provistiorjs of that act, (
and to maintain them reasonably and fairly. 11
opposed (he compromise act wfth all my pmv- <
cr. It appeared to me every way objections- t
hie; >t looked like an attempt to make a new
Constitution; to introduce another fundament- 1
al law, above the power of Congress, and t
which should control the authority and dis- t
crction of Congress, in all time to conic. This, |
of itself, was a conclusive objection will) me; 1
I said so then, have often said so since, and '
say so now. 1 said, then, that I, for one, \
should not be bound by tiiat law more than by \
any other law, except that, as it was u law t,
passed on a very important and og.luting sub- t
ject, I should not he disposed to interfere with 1
it, until a case of clear necessity should arise. 1
On this principle 1 have acted since. When a
that case of necessity shall arise, however, a
should Ibe in public life, J shall concur in
any alteration ofthat act, which such neces- . ,
sity may require That such an occasion
may come, 1 more than fear. F entertain some
thing stronger than a doubt upon tho possi
bility of maintaining the manufactures and
industry ot Ibis country, upon such a system
as the compromise act will leave us, when it I
shall have gone through its processes of re* r
duclion. All this, however, I leave to the fu- j
lure. ,
Having had occasion, Mr. President, to (
speak ofNulldication and the Nullifiers, I beg
leave to say, that I have not done so lorany b
purpose of reproach. Certainly, sir, I see no 1
j possible connexion, rnysoif, between their »
I I principles or opinions, and tho support of i r
1 1 this measure. They, however, must speak ' h
1 , for thetfiiehci- They may In- e intrusted'
llie bearing of their standard, for aught 1 know
lo the hands ol the honorable member from
i Jiouth Carolina; and I perceived last susion,
I what I perceive now, that in his opinion there
is a connection hutween these projecis of Go
vernment and the doctrines of Nullification.
1 can only sny, sir, that it will bo marvellous
tome if that banner, though it be said to be
tattered and torn, shall yet be lowered in
obeisance, and laid at the footstool of Execu
tive power. To the sustaining of that power
llie passage ofilus bill is of the utmost impor
tance. The Administration will regard its
success ns being to ihcin, whut Cromwell
said the battle of Worcester was to linn—“a
crowning mercy.” Whether gentlemen, who
have distinguished themselves so much by
their extreme jealousy of tjiia Government,
shall now find it consistent With their princi- j
plea to give their aid in accomplishing this
consummation, remains to be seen.
The next exposition of the honorable gen- I
llcmaH’s.Sentipjento and opinions in his letter '
of November «3d.
This letter, sir, in n curiosity. As a paper,
describing political movements, end exhibiting
political opinions, it is without a parallel. Its
phrase is altogether military. It read# like a
despatch, or u bulletin from headquarters. It
is lull of attacks, assaults, and repulses. It
recounts movements and counter movements;
speaks of occupying one position, falling back
tilioii another, and advancing lo a third; it has
positions lo cover enemies, and positions to
hold allies in check. Meantime, the celerity
ot all these operations reminds one of the ra
pidity of the military actions of the King of
Prussia, in the seven gears’ war. Yesterday
lie was in the South, giving battle, to the. Au
strian—to day he is in Saxony, or Silesia; in
stantly he is found lo have traversed llie Elec
torate , and is facing the Russian and the
Swede on his Northern frontier. If you look
tor his place on the map, before you find it ho
has quitted it. lie is always marching, Hying,
lulling back, wheeling, attacking, dumnding,
surprising; lighting every where, and lighting
all the time. In one particular, however, the
t campanula, described m this letter, differ from
the manner in which those of the great Fre
derick were conducted. I think we nowhere
read in .the narrative of iVc.d'crlpk’s achieve.,
incuts, ot Ills lukiqg a portion lo cover an
enemy, ot a position to,hold an ally in check,
These refinements, in the science of tactics
and of war, arc of more repent discovery.
Mr. I'resident, public men must certainly
be allowed lo change their opinions, and their
associations, whenever they see fit. No one
doubts this Men may have grown wiser, they
may have attained to belter and more correct
views of great public subjects. U would be
unfortunate, if there were any code which
should oblige men, in public or private life,
to adhere to opinions once entertained, in spile
of experience and bc'ter knowledge, and
against their own convictions of their errone-,
ous character. Nevertheless, sir, il mnsl .be
acknowledged, that wlmt appears to boa rud
den, as well us a groat change, naturally pro
duces a shock. I confers, for one, 1 was
shocked, when the honorable gentleman, at
the lust session, espoused this bill of Iho Ad
ministration. And when I first read this loi
ter of November, and, in the sliovf space of a
column and a feu If j run through such a suc
cession of political movements, all termina
ting in placing the honorable member in the
ranks of our opponents, and entitling him lo
lake Ins scut, as he has done, among them, il
not at their head, 1 confess I felt still greater
surprise. All this seemed a good deni too ab
rupt. Sudden movements of the affections,
whether personal or political, arc a little out
of nature.
Several years ago, sir, some of the wits of
England wrote a mock play, intended lo ridi
cule the unnatural and fi)lse feeling, llie.sen/i.
mentality, of a certain Gerthftn school of lite
rature. in this play, two strangers are brought,
together at an 'tin. While they are warming
themselves at the fire, and before their ac
quaintance is yet liv,o minutes old, cue springs
up and exc'oims. l<3 the oilier, “A sudden
thought strikes me! Let us swear an eternal
friendship!”
This affectionate offer was instantly accop'
ted, and the friendship duly sworn, uncliuiige
able and eternal! Now, sir, how Jong this
eternal friendship lasted, of in what manner it
ended, those who wish to know, may learn by
referring to the play.
Until seemsto ino (i 6ir, that ; be. honorable
member has carried his political sentimentali
ty a good deal higher than the 11 gill of the
German school; lor lie appears to have fallen
suddenly in love, not with strangers, but with
opponents.
Here wo all had been, sir. contending I
against the progress of Executive power, and
more particularly, atiJ most strenuously,
against the projects and experiments of ihoj'
Administration, upon the currency. The ho- :
norahle member stood among us; not only us ,
an associate, but as a leader. Wo thought i
we were making some headway- The People 1
appeared lo be coming to our support ami our 1
assistance. The country had been roused; j j
every successive election weakening the I (
strength of the adversary, and increasing our I I
own. We were in this career of success cam
ried strongly forward hy the current of public | 1
opinion, and only needed to hear the cheering i \
voice of the honorable member, i
“Once more unto the breach, dear filends, once ' 1
more!” ~ If
and wo eliotild have prostrated, forever, this j
anti-constitutional, anti-commercial, anti,re. j!,
publican, and anti. American policy of the Ad- ' t .
ministration. Uut, instead of these encoura* j a
gmg and animating accents, behold! in the ; 1
very crisis of our affairs; on the very eyo of
victory, the honorable member cries out —to J
the enemy—not to us, Ins allies—but lo the I |
enemy—“Holloa! A sudden thought strikes ! a
me! 1 abandon rny allies! Now 1 think of 1
it, they have always been my oppie.-sors! I ! |
abandon them; and now lot you and me swear | |
an eternal friendship!”
[To bs continued,]
« —mm sssa {
I'O.'U.fIEUCIAL. ;
MOBILS MARSKT, AFRII, 10.
Cotton. —Arrived during the week G,340. ex- ;
ported during won# time, 11,90!?; as follows •. i
Havre, 4899; Marseille*, 838: Liverpool, 2700; I
New York 8840 ; Providence, IS2 : Baltimore', '
130 ! Portsmouth, 81.; New Orleans, 78 : Phil-’
adplphia, GO; leaving a balance on hand of about ‘
83,000. , ,
The dome-tic market* generally are, ifpossi. c
ble, duller than they were Inst week. There is fi
not tho slightest change indicative of t return to c _
activity — The exchanges are so deeply embar- 1
rassed, that the moot gloomy apprehension can -*
hardly make them worsq.
Our own axarket is Isuu active.thin et cur last
'-.r;-r: 1 < i —iisgja
report. In the early pail of the week there war
a (faction (lodine on the better descriptions. Tho
prices, with tins exception, have maintained con
siderable linn ness. 'l'ho sales of the week are
about 3,500 bales at the annexed quotations ;
Liverpool Classljiculion.
Good I me nominal Middling 10 a Good Fair
Uta 13J, Ordinary 8a 0; Fair 11 L U 11;,'.
(Several hmited lots ot a very superior qu .lily
have sold at U a MJ eerrls.
ihe provis on market is in a dull stale, and
tho price ot exchange on New Orleans has fallen
within u lew days. It may now he quoted at 17
it 19 per cent.
UAVHK MARKET MARCH 4
dll,ooo hales ot (,'ulloii arrived at Havre from
the I . IS. during tiro week ending 3d of March.
Ihe decline from lire Ist to the 4th, was !2 ceils
lin.es per lb., with a dull and falling market, and
general discouragement.
niosPßCTirs of the
I A. i;,G US T A Ml llt It O It,
I A semi-monthly journal, devoted tu Polite Literature
mid useful intelligence
fjp ME suhseribrn oonlenijilale publishing in the
.11. eily n( Augusta, n paper under the above title.
It is customary, un such• occasions ns the press til,
to (mulish to liio world a ll’ll history in udvHheeui
the coming publieulion, in w hich all tliat could ho
desired by its pul runs is promised, and by which
expectations are raised such as are seldrm realized
lint we trust Iho public have experienced the iruili
e t this remark too ulten, In regard a diseusrsiuli
of the merits ui mu journal, by us, ns any induce
merit tu its support. Taking this view of the mat
ter, we shall content ourselves with a brief mi la
ment oI the intention and design of the Mirror,
preferring miller to rest our claims to patronage up
on the merits of the paper Used, than upun tho
strength o( large promises.
'1 lie Mi It no It is designed In he exclusively a i.it-
KRARY journal, and will eoninin Popular Tale*
p.ssaysrnHetcct, Moral Headings — Agricull-.rnl
dad Hacntifw JnU II igeuce-^-Poetry — Music, (Jc. d'>'
It will he the aim of (lie publishers to rnrldtT the
Mtuiton, neccptahlo ns a jaunty paper, by excluding
from its columns every thing like Polities, or tSee
inrinnism, and admitting nothing that cun give al
ienee to any class ot society.
Thu flit it non will he printed in a quarto form, on
a fine, medium sheet, and new neat type, each
Ao. w ill contain one page oi Music, arranged cither
fir the piano-lurtc or guitar.
The columns of the All r iton arc tendered ns n
medium lor the publicationol all approved lilcrnry
compositions,and we are not wi.hom. cimfidonco
in the belief lent there is literary lalenl and taste
enough among .air own citizens, to furnish it* pages
w ilh a goodly portion of matter of home production.
As it is contemplated to issue the first Me. early
in May, wo would request those who led disposed
to contribute to Iho Mirror, to send in tlreir eum
inimicaliiim before the first of lieu ni nth.
TERMS.—Three Dollars in advance, payaldo on
the delivery of Mite second Nu
ICr.lny of our friends furnishing us with a list ol
(Jen suhsi fibers will he tntilllcd tu u copy ol the pa
per free of charge.
W M. T. THOMPSON.
JAS. McCaFFERTV .
npril ‘2O, 1838
F.ditors will •on for a favor by giving the above
prospectus u few insertions.
JFDIIMTURE—AT GOSTT"
K. IF. TOLMAtVS Cabinet Fiirni
'b lure Ware Unonis, No 127 Broad
\f*\\ street, near the l.owur market, Au
gusta, <(a. The suhicriber returns
his Rdicore lliiiiiks to the citizens of
Augusta and its vicinity lor llic lih
crulilv already bestowed upon him,
-d ■ .' inil hopes by Ids exertions (hr Iho
accommodation of his customers to merit a coniiu
iiauce of the same, lie is ibis day receiving a
now supply ol Splendid Furniture, direct bom
ibo manufactory of Bartholomew, Al press, A. Co.
warranted to boos the best mnienals and’'work
manship:—Consisting in part of Secretaries, and
Hook Cases, superior center and pier Tables, wiib
Egyptian and Italian marble tops; elegant card,
breakfast mid lea Tables; ladies work and dres
sing Tables; Union a s with mirrors; wiib and
without marble lops; U'nsli stands wiib Egyptian
and Inrliuo rnaiblo tops; Chairs of various pailurns,
rocking chairs, Ac.; high jurat and French
Urals toads, die. Ac.
Ho bus also a grind snjiply of Mrittrasscs rib band.
The above slock is well w orth the aiiemionof
purchasers, who pro .must respeclfu'ly invited to
cull arid examine for themselves.
CLOCKS.
Tho largest Assortment ol Clocks in the south
ern country; brass eight day and wooden lill hour
clucks of the latest pullers. Looking glass plain.
A variety of Lithographic prims, in frames, iu
clutl tig full seta nl nil tho Presidents.
A largo lot of mahogany spool stands;
do ib» • .knob ;
The above articles are obered at wholesale or
retail.
N. 11. Dealers in the above articles, nnJ all
kinds of Cabinet Furniture, Clocks, Ac. will bo
(urn is lied on as good terms us con bo bad all be
North. April iiO
I.IC AIIV A Co’s. HAT W All E.ROOMS,
4&!% "I No. 3 l!road street, and 1 Arlor House*
I Broadway, New York. The subscri
hers, lor several years print, have hud
aKjjSSjjfr many and urgent sole ilulcins In supply
orders at wholesale, and have been
obliged, almost uniformly, to decline, in consequence
of the demand at retail being ns much,and in many
instances more, than they could meet,
lll.establishing n branch rales room at the Aslor
House, it became necessary to enlarge tluar (bush
ing establishment, and in doing s) lltey liuvcrnarle
such urningf merits ns w ill enable them to supjdy to
a limited extent orders at w holesalo.
Their sales must ill a measure bo limited in con
sequeiiee oftlieir determination to adhere strictly to
lire principle heretofore pursued, ol keeping no stock
ahead, which regulation lias been one means of
giving them the advantage over the large and res
pectable lames , in being in advance with the l.ob
inns, having no old stock on band to deter them
from anticipating (be wlsbesofth luabionuhlo pub
lie lorn change when called tor.
Each and every but w ill be finished expressly lor
their reruil trails, and orders at wholesale w ill be
taken from them, without any selection, except ol
sizes. By ibis means Ibo retail dealer will receive
the full benefit of our facilities end exertions in
bringing forward the latest and most ajij,roved
fashions.
Having attained their eelebr ty riot only by' fur
nishing a superior article at a reduced price, but by
a strict adherence to a system peculiar lu them
selves and novel in Ibis country, ihey would avoid
any thing in making tins arrangement that should
inlerlere with that sy’sleir .
Selling but one quality of bats, and lltegrenur
pari ol our customers being couimoissours ol' the
article, whoso tii-c discrimination can detect Ibo
least defect in its quality, beauty, or general char
acler for true taste, we propose supplying that part
ol die wholesale dealers u till an assortment intended
for their most particular customers. VVe shall not
take orders lor bats varying in qual ly or style from
those retailed by us at the timu the order is received. .
LEAKY A cV
For the information of those unacquainted with *
tho reputation of their establishment, they aJITIWr*
the following editorial remarks bum ibo London
Morning Herald ;
“The progress which the Americans have inado
in si voral branches of manufactures is really as
tonishing. A fovv years ago there was not a butler
in tho I liited Slale.v who could nviKua hat fit to ho
worn hv awell dressed man,and consequently all
hats of a superior quality were imported fruit! this
country. A great change has taken place. VVo
have seen n specimen ol gentleman's hats manii
laetured by Lo rry A Co of New York, which lire
equal, if nut superior, both ns respects shape and
quantity, to the very best made in any part ofll is
country Although tire materials are chiefly scot
from England limy are sold, retail, about aim-third
cheaper iharr in London ” march 28. svy tin
L.NTUCK V ii AC Xb
113 I’v. Kentucky fbigging
7 Boxes Tnrrms pound Lump Tobacco
On fomugniuout. For hale by
April I,'lh Ot \VJ|. fiOSTIHCK