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t ri'M tht Feu, tltulle A', C. Ol,server. ■ Intercepted C«>rie»piinde>sce. Ii is by no means inciunhrnl upon us to men tion liow the following lellct crime in um posses firm : but tu'ing in our possession, »« have an undoubted right to u-c it. Wo base an illustri 1 ous nuiliorily in iho “tltohc,” ssho-e editor once intercepted and published a letter from llio New York eimr-pendent u( lire Intelligencer, to lliC Editor oClhal paper ; and the an lon i 1 y i- i ndorv il by Iho Standard, f.r Mr, 1, ojng not only re pule lislnni thi' tenor, but indulged in some billot .nsee tiio upon tin; writer. JFrom /,♦<•<• in I" •** r.U •••*. Mr I)i;ah Sin : 'l'bo balllo has boon (might. The smoke has disperse I. Wo mo now onahleil to rotkon our Im to, anti In penclratu tins depths of out disaster. I snalt h the l*irt-1 opportunity sineo lurrying our dead, ami attending iti our noiiiuV.l, lo inf irm yon o! Iho ro-nll. Vou will not ho disappointed. I 1.0 ilisoomllturn of our advanced guards in Pill unil Craven, was ominous -»1 total tlofoal. My tloar sir. out II ag is trailing the dust. Our routed loreos nro hurrying into wintor nuurlors, and even (he chreks of , nnr om o. valiant loader, mo of tin ii.eh-eiil.e huo. (Strange, uho r, !; unit tho whole in in i< changi tl. “,J/r ,/miuhtm tnulnlus uh i In //ct/nc. Hnl In ihop iho r.iolaplmr—wo out ton had a figure jii“t n.w In vonluro on I Ins figurative,— ",o aie ilul llr.l! A olo.tr limjniiiy in hnlli lioiimm for those rascally Foderul Hank-Whig.Arisloera: . In vain did I ho. Stand.ml hoi o'V 1 1 m lit anathema upon mnithoiiia, in sain, vomit lorlli gill mid wormwood, in vain halloo irinriopoly, bank rag', uiislocniis, lodonilisls, no pmly, lluldb', llm Hank, and lint Devil!—all would mil do; evon tires lusi named allay could not sulfite us. As lo poor Hi am h “ Hut oh breathe not his immo, lot it ulcep,' ne■ W hat a ninny! liu aiiswoiod nil our ends in 11 sir f ir. Vou managed that matter niooly with yon. Yon would lias ii boon amused to have willi,ssed tho rapidity of his inosoinonM i'l'iv.ilu wan/.-- Ho would lint Imry iho iomili. I’nt oreatod a nausea, and Craven raiisod a vomit. 11 11 r to iho point—wo am in a ..llonillia ; wo mneh tear lirosvn and Strange will receive a gentle hint. Wu had tickled ourselves with iho liolion that lliee ii.- cally Whigs did not belli ve in lie right id nisiino. lion, lint find on reel ven sadly mistaken. On looks ing ha k lo lire Commons vole, when M nigmii was “spoken lo," sve a .ecr tain I hut Ini “s per: mis denie d the duo rino, not all id svirom worn Whigs anil id these (Siolnilii o( Orange ulnno altos a m at in tho nort Innse, and ho donhilos.s will ho in tho t 'hair. Now ii, lo liodfonl, wo would willing ly giro him tiro tfo !>y, could ono of “iho parly” lake Ins place. Im od not toll ynu ho has born much nr tho way. Wo mo sadly commirlcd.— Strange inshly plodged dial 1.0 and his oolloaguo would obey die slightest Din', big till ! here is hint enough already. Now tho object of this episilo is to ads iso with yon on lire mailer. Vou have, dear souls, ul Washington, sueh nil easy way In Kinonth things ns or,—w o mo not yet up In all your tricks in tho "old North.’' Han't you, or A*** K*• •»»• got up tin argument In prove the uhsnr tlily of iho doctrine'! It would serve valuable J purposes hero, and in Now Jersey, Nosy \oik, Coimcelient and olsowhme. I tidy persuade the ■lour people that Hamilton,or old John Adams, or , Johnny believed in tho doclrino, anil dm thing { is fixed. This suggestion occurred in ns immo- I dialely allcr our defeat, and svo forthwith issued I circulars to onr Mllmllorns, with orders to “lin k j about,” as per ropy Indow. Observe the style— I bow dlrliilorial we are gelling. The rogues swab, low every thing—wo have loariloil them to draw well in tho traces. [('inciil.ut | Sin: I labile bus been bm niiich (nr im.— , Ills agents Invo been nhrmid in lint upon day j I ribing i)nt faitlil'id, and hy moans ot Ins irro- i ilcernabloslrin plasters, »ml pend.eiiliary notes, , be bus cun Ujd i(Il be whole Indy id tiro lie- ji publican parly, mid retlu.eil Not - ' lt fiuoliini , In his swiiy. It in currently reporled llml, be win pre vent, in person, at an election precinct in Stir- ' 1 ry, and by bin nieiins we Imve.'o.sl tlml. wbolo ; i (-'minty. More ol ibis bereallei! We have 1 sent mi In Washington lor r.llulavits. Tbu ( Federal Whigs having new recured a innjnnly, I we fetrr for tbo tenure by wlticli Drown and [t Strange hold llunr sms. 11, becomes our t homtikm duly, l.horelore, to ebnitoeonr princi' 1 pies. Von will, tlierefore, hold the opinion I llml the right of inslrnction is ninimndiieal, ' urielnoruiicnl, kingly, foilornl, and Diddle like. 1 I Vou will nut hesitate to express lit s opinion ' at the Court J lonso, the X road-', the muster , grounds nml lux gatherings. Vou will oiulcn- ' vor lo propagate these opinions am mg the I masses. — Herein bail not. 1 Raleigh, August 14, 18.T3. |t VVlmt do you I bulk ol'ii/ I.el ns hear from ’ you soon. Dy the bye, wind. put. ii in vour | i lieittl lo send I) .1 to Florida. Thai > came near using us up. I'or certain;as Hope toys, “Vou have grasp'd an empty Jordan for \ n John.” Vours, faithfully, —— . Raleigh, August .0, IhDJ. I’. S. Tho exact Federal majority is 11. II is among the “.signs ni'lhe Times*’that [ Mr. Van Daren's partisans in \ ermont, have , concludctl not to have a Convention this sea son. livery day brings with it fresh evidence, (bat (he more discreet of Iris old political friends ssdll not follow on in bis “(outsteps’’ to public and individual ruin, llis pertinaci ty in urging forward the new measures, tend- , ing In a consolidation of all power in the fed eral government, will ho (eaisied by all men of whatever parts ulfmity, who bas ea spark of public spirit left. The best possible esi deuce of this is the fact that his party is now in a minority in nearly every slate in the Union, and in at least one, it appears, tires have re solved lo throw up altogether. Men who have been taught in die schools of the fath ers to regard with jealousy tho progress of Executive power, look with alarm upon his actual and attempted encroachments. They begirt to sec that in the progress of violent and unscrupulous partisan erm'es's, the ancient land-marks have been Inst sight of, and that has actually crime to pass which was so confidently predicted by Mr. \an Ibiren biinsell when opposing Mr. Adams in the 8,-- nate ol 1826. Tire report then made on rbe Kubject of F, vccirt'rvis encroachments b\ Messrs Hentun and \ an Horen is so much to lire pur pose tbit we arc templed to revive the follow ing passages. They were never so applica ble as at this moment— " The power of patronage unless chocked by the vigorous interposbiun of Congress must go on increasing, until Federal inllnenee, in many parts of tins confederal ion will prod,mi mate in elections, as completely as Hellish in fluence predominates in the elections of Scot land uml Ireland, in rotten borough towns, and in lire great naval stations of I’vrtsmouth and Plymouth.” “The King of England is the ‘fountain of honor;' the President of the United stales is the source ol patronage. He presides over the entire system of Federal appointin' nts jobs, ami contracts; In* has ‘power’ os. r the ‘support’ of the individuals who adiuiniste« the system. He chooses from the circle his f iends and supporters, ami mey dismi them, ami, upon all the principles ol human action, wilt dismiss them as often at. they disap point his expectations . Hi, spirit will animate then itrtiona in all tho electrons to Slut,- I r •«/ olllcos. There may be exceptions, but thri truth i>f .1 gi nri j| mlf n fumed by lilt! exception. I I lif intfii,lni rluick and control ol (be Senate wU/iout :ii lun.ililnliuntil or flalulerii /irovin inn v,i HI r,n -la oJli'Yale. J’nlreiinire w, II pin clrn/f tlu.i iiui/r. subdue ili capacity i 1 rc.-iM.tncc, ch illi it l i the cur of povvw, mid fiiihlc llio Pres ident in rule :i< easily and much more vrcnrely with ihaii without the Senate '”—Whal la thin i i hnl ilu* (muniment of one mm i ! and what i S the •iiivfrniiH’iil of onaman hula Mo.nmnr 1 Principles mu immutable, liowi n r men may change. if nil iliio wan line in 1820, how much : in ■ c emphatically to in ISIJB > Ami men ere I i fvc.y whore beginning to no it, mid lo feel it 100, 1 \\ o m'c untiling of itii! onlbnsinim ol pa t year*. ‘ --Dingo-led mid ili.i.itiifnil, hundreds and tlioU -1 simile nil over the find, hue inaidully (liiown oil , mile |i fitly tr iiiiiiieli, an I hundred* more, mill in . die r.ink«, are lojlung on with silent dooms* and • misgivings, pinte-ling mid inpostulating in sc , rn i, Inn irii'Milntii mid undetermined between unconditional -iibinis'dim or ingenuous, open op- , poMiion. Many douhtle a will he coCHtriiiin d through 11 to lone ol old mc-i ,c ill ioi n, lo hold on, t and malio i oniiiion cnune with die leaders in a i min <lie t lo curry on die experiment. Hot lin y I will ruo it at 1 1 I. Killing aside priiiriple, linn I or, and p Mrioli in, they will find lo their cost, as many have found before, that there is nothing lo | ga n horn n fclloW'liip which has no bond id i Union hnl die hist ol power. lake the (aided . div.nl, they may light (he bullies of die alliance, i but Ihe giant will hear aa ay the spoils (d victory , | —if, noli id, success should perchance crown the I , u 11 1 1 all •v id enlrrpnse. —-V. ./. Sent, «/ I'l-eeduin. I ’ A.n I ’.VDitvitt.oi'ia) (Jr.Nlun.-—The dfli ' cull, f s* in i he way of an “undeveloped genius” are liin.i Kiildoijuiz;d in Nettl'd "Charcoal Skeid.es.” “II iw,” said lie,‘‘how is it, 1 tan'l level down my expic sinus In the comprcln Tin on nt j the iulnar, or level up the vulgar, lo a coin ’ prehension of my expressions! limy is it I ean'l, get I lie spigot mil, so my versos will rim deal! I know what, 1 mean myself, hnl no- | body else does, mid die impudent editors say i | it’s winding room to print w hut nobody tinders j I stands. I’ve plenty of genius—lnis of it, lor I ollen want In cut my throat, and would have done it long ago, only if hull.'. I'm chock 101 l 1 . of genius und miming over; for I halo ail , i ! soils of work tny>elf, and all sorts ol peop e j , mean enough to do it. I hate jciuilo hod, i j and I halo getting up. My conduct is very i 1 eccenlric and singular. I h ivo the miserable i melanchidics all the lime, und I'm pielly ntar - , ly always as cross as thunder, which is a sure sign, (jeniua is nr tender as a skinned cal, i j and then ndoii passion whenever yon touch ; ■ld. When I condescend lo iiiiliiiz/.nin myself, 1 : (nr a little sympathy, in folks of ornery inlel— i led—und caparisoned In mo. J know very ; lew people flint ur’nt ornery us lo brains—and j pour lonJi the feelings indigguins lo a poetic J soul, winch hi always Idling/ they Indicinlo iiny si! la I inn, and say they don’t know what I the dense I'm driving at. Isn't genius always served o’ this fashion in the earth, as Hamlet, ; the hoy idler my own heart,says! And when the slights ol' the world, and of the prndt'iH, set me in a line frenzy, and my soul swells and swells, tdi it almost tears (he shirt oil' my hint- i znm, mid even fractures my dickey; when n I | exjmisnales and elevates me above the com- 1 , moii herd, lhey laugh again, and tell mo not to t lie pomnioos. The poor plelnnians are worse ‘ than Russian scurfs! It is Iho Cal eof genius; j * j dps Ii h'ii, or lallier 1 should say, her’n, lo go t I Ihroiigh life with little; sympath zation and less a I cpsh, Ado’s a field of blackberry and rasp- t berry hushes. Mean | "nplo stpiat down and pick I In; fruit, no matter how they black their lingers; while genius, proud and porpeiulicn ■ I' lar, s'rides fiercely on, and gols nothing hut h scratches and holes tore in its trousers;” a ~ . _ si The Peoria (lllionis) (Jazello, a paper which takes no part in politics, states, mi the T authority of “mi eye-witness,” that when gen- w oral Jaekson was about l<> leave the palace for the llerniilngo, Inking Air. Van Huron's hand to hnl him Inrewe'l, he said, in Ids most earnest manner, “Don't repeal the specie cir cular!” < >n reaching the door, Ifu turned, look ed Air. Van Huron full in the lace, and, raising . his finger with great solemnity, said “Re, * member my last words!” On being seated m s ' Ins carriage, ho said In those whoaccompuni- in ed him lo the avenue, “(Jo back lo Mr Van to jJmen. and tell him never In forgot my hist p 0 words!” If this statement ho correct, it shows that general Jackson had very little confi dence in the firmness of his illustrious succes sor; and it accounts lor the pertinacity with gII which Van stuck to the specie circular, even .. alter it had been nugatory, as h s own friends assert, by the suspension of specie payments. v il II is stated in a late Unglish paper that in lit- ° tie nine 1 Inni sixty years, 1 1 le inanul.iiTure of Iron a in (heal Hrituin has increased from twenty live p ihmisatul tons In tihnnt one million of ions per an num ! In the United Slates a new eia is dawn ing on the iron manufacture. The inteiiur of Pennsylvania, abounding in inexhaustible beds , of iron ore and bituminous coal, is now the seat of experiments eondueled by some of her most eiis teiprising and iniellignnl citizens, the successful issue of which is very | remising, and if complete- l ly realised will lie llio means of increasing the , maiiuhiciura of this important material many (old. Hullimure . Im -riruu, A number of Americans left town in llio Prin cess Viv"otin lor llio United Knili-s, among wlioin we observed Mr. Forsyth the (Secretary of the American ISovcrnment. Mi. 10. lOlliee, M. 1* late Pnvale Secretary lo the Karl of Durham, has proceeded to Albany, I’m the purpose, it is staled, of coming lo some arrangement with llio government of die Slate ol New Vork regarding the arrest ol I'apl. Davidson by an American na med Paddock, at Uualeutguny lour corners. Uernhl, . Ing. 2d. Mtuxni.ni's row nit or nonet,tv. —The I New Vork Morning News gives llio following ■ as the reported testimony of a witness In u | trial for manslaughter by the inj idicious use ' «>f lobelia. Thu witness was called for the defence. “I know mi important (act. A man ' was blown up In a powder mill. Two and twenty fragmenis weie cullectod in a basket; one leasponnlnl of tho seeds of lobelia was shaken n*to llio basket with them; this united | the stray particles, mid “roused up a healthy I action in the basket; the basket in fifteen mi- I miles, vomited out the man in one entire mass j i and he stood on bis logs; the third restored I j him to consciousness and motion, and a | i cup ot compos"ion enabled him to talk. He j : has been well over since.” , I Lord Di ukri.y.— Doctor, bow does my j Dick come on in Ins lurnin ! Doctor Pa mi loss. —Apt, very apt; defi, ! ciont in nolhingbut words, phrases and gram, mar.— ll ir ill haw. The aptness o! the Doctor's pupil was for. cible brought to our minds on reading a hand hill printed in New Orleans, announcing a ball, and concluding thus; “(lentlcinon will found to ibis establishment an ollieo for deposit their cloks, panes and weapons No person will not lie admitted in ' tho hall room with any anus." V ■ •;■-• 'iT^x CHRONIC!,E AND SENTINEL. AliwifsaTA. , .. ... - - I B»tnrdar Mnruluga Bej*tetu)»or I. STATJ-; RIGHTS TICK HT roil coyciusi, \VM. G. DAWSON, K. \V 11ABBR3HAM, J. <;, ALI UKIJ, w. r. golquitt, U. A, NISBBT, M \UK A. (.’DOPER, THOMAS BUTLER KING, ROW AHD .1. BLAGK, LOTT WARREN. After an absence of near two months, the Editor Inn returned to assume itie duties nt his office. During tfiat period our paper lias licen rather barren of editorial articles, hut we hope our patrons have heeu supplied with ad the news of the <1 ly and such other interesting matter, us to la nder the-iihrence of editorial paragraphs hut a trilling loss. Indeed, we have long been of opinion, that to a majority of the readers of newspapers, good selections, political and miscel laneous, were more interesting than long and ! fieoucnt harangues from the editorial chair. During our absence, wo have made arrange ments to pi hit the Chronicle dt Sentinel on en tirely new type, and have also purchased a new power press, which wi 1 he Ihc first ever brought to lliir city, and which will enable as to work old’ the paper more easily, more rapidly, and in a handsomer style than heretofore. Health of Augusta. The number of deaths in this city doting the month of August, as reported by the city Sexton, ‘isSO whiles IS, blacks 8. No contagious dis j ease reported. ! Thu first bale of new cotton received by the Georgia Kail Hoad, this season, and the first from Hancock county, was yesterday received from ! the plantation ofUol. John Bishop, of that county, : and stored at the warehouse of Stovall, Simmons «Sc Co. Tie iptality is fine. Sold to Truvor Cuveii, Rsip at lit els. The firs t hml of tiexv cotton received in lhi s city, t liis season, was brought in yesterday from the plantation of Col. Samuel Dowse, of Burke county. Quality prime. I'm the Chronicle A Sentinel. Aildnt.su of Hit! Southern Convention. There is a singular mistake in the address of the Southern Convention, which so far as I know, has entirely escaped a public notice, but which lor better reasons than the rcatb t wiJ perceive, J would have corrected. The aggregate amount of the revenues received from tho customs and pnfi|i c land.-, are slated, upon the authority of the Committee of Ways and Means, to have boon £1,053,000,000 ; that is, •me thousand andffty threc millions. So it is considered throughout tho address, and the items that con-d' ,u,u 'bis amount are given ; and yet, tho gross sum is tw ice referred to, ns being one billion and fifty three millions. Tho cause of the mistake is plain enough. The sum total appearing first and n figures, was carelessly and erroneously read ; mil the writer being entirely occupied with re mils, did not notice the plain correction of his irst impression, which the details presented.— ['hose papers that have published the address, vill please publish this correction. TUB WHITER. Athens, 27th August, 1838. from England. The packet ship Sheridan, arrived at, New fork on the UVlh tilt, from Liverpool, whence ho sailed on tho 21st July. The only item of Merest is the complete account ot Col:on sales or tho week closing on the 20lh, which will he ound under its proper head. Health «1 Charleston. The Charleston Mercury of Thursday lust, ays;—“From cases which wo have seen, and Vo in all wo can learn, we believe that the pre. railing fever has assumed a much milder typo ban when it commenced—and is more under the ronlrol ot medicine. If tho weather continues us pleasant as it was yesterday, we may hope for its gradual disappearance.” Texas. The National Banner, published at Houston, contains the official annunciation of the conclu sion of a commercial arrangement between Texas and limit Britain, from which it appears that vessels and goods under thuToxian llag, and with Tevian papers, are to ho admitted into the ports of the former, in the same manner as the vessels and goods ol .Mexico, under the scope and stipulations of the Treaty with that Government and the vessels and goods of Great Britain to he admitted into ports of Texas upon the basis of the same Treaty. Illinois Elections. Tho St. Louis Republican of tho I'ith ult.', gives returns (mode up from such sources, it says, ; as may ho relied on) from all the counties, hut four in the third Congressional District of Illinois, which exhibit a majority of about 300 for istuari the Whig candidate. Tho Republican says, tho majority for Douglass in tho lour counties to ho hoard from will be very small, if any. The chances ate, therefore, that Stuart is elected. Tho Republican further remarks—“ Thus far there is every indication that there will ho a de cided Whig majority in both branches of tiie Illinois Legislature. Ohio Hunks. The resumption of specie payments by tho Banks ot Ohio, took place simultaneously on the 13th ult., and appears to have been effected with out any unusual demand for coin. On the con trary, in various cases, the deposiles of specie since the resumption have keen larger than the calls for it. The Cleveland Heiald remarks— " The resumption has done much to restore con fidence, and to lessen the demand for specie. It woiks well thus fur, and will continue to do so if the people tv cl the hanks sustain each other.” An extract of a letter, dated Beaufort, ft. C, August 3'Jlh, slates that the Cotton crops on the strong and low lands are tolerably good—but those on the high and sandy lands, are almost destroyed by the drought. Missouri. The Whigs in Missouri have itiiuccd lU' N on ' Buren majority severai thousand in that fc»:ate | and have gained double tin* number of Kepioscn j lative-i in ibc Legislature that they bad las* year, land slid the Loco Focus hail the result as a gicul v ictory. | _ _ ! The last Army arid Navy Chronicle fH'jit: We a nnouneed us a rumor, a weekor two since, that tlie Ohio ship of t lie line was to be tilted out | las (lie Hag ship on the Mediterranean station* j under the command ol Commodore Hull. We ; i have since learned, hut give it as a rumor only, ; that the frigate Constitution was to be immedi ately prepared for sea, to return to the Mcditer’ ■ runean, and thut the command of her had been tsndcrcd to Commodore Hull, and declined. It > : ’ is rather a poor compliment to oiler to a veteran , like Commodore 11. the same ship he commanded . twenty-six years ago, with no higher tank than i lie then enjoyed; while his then conquered ad versary is now enjoying the rank of Hear Ad p njiral.” f For the Chronicle <y Sentinel. An Jlnigtua. 1 / dm composed of Sixteen Letters, Mj l 3 4 11 38, name of a liver in Europe. ■ 3 10 t) 1 3 10 4 8, name of a Cape. 10 7 0 5 8 0 4, name of a city in the / United States. t 11 13 10 H 15 13, an article much used t hy ladies. i 17 0 5 8 1, a month in the year. 8 5 0 10 10, an article much used in Hotels. '■> 3 10, a pleasant beverage. 13 15 11 3, an ancient city. 10 5 8 I 14 13 4, a kingdom in Europe' 0 3 3 10 1 3 13, u place of amusement. 3 15 9, is often found wild in the woods. 14 3 13 14, one of the United States. 1 j 8511 9 3 14, is a county in Georgia. 1 j 3 10 13 3, name of a Lake in the U. Slates. ’ 9 13 3 3, namo of a distinguished Actiess. 8 I 19 11, is often used hy Seamen. 3 15 13 8 3, an animal easily lamed. My whole is the name of a Literary Journal now published in the United States. A solution t!, is requested. > limn the Tullahaatsec Watchman July 25. More Indian Murders. We learn that on Sunday evening, 19l!t inst., a parly ul Indians attacked the house of a .Mr. Maker, on the East side of the Oscilla river, and I murdered three out of a family of seven. Mr. , (hiker was quite aged, and on attempting to client ( his escape from the hourv, with two of his grand children in his arms, and while crossing the yard, ’ he was shot down. Early I lie next morning a 1 parly of volunteers from San Pedro, went to the 1 place, and found Mr. linker, lying dead, also one , of the children, the other was lying asleep on his arm unhurt. Air. Maker’s wife, was the third 1 j person killed. The others made their escape to ' a stockade about a mile and a half distant. Two L of them, daughters of Mr. Maker, were badly . wounded. Mr. Maker's house was burnt to the ground. Another party also made their appearance sopjo days since near the Apalachicola river, where a family named Ihivvan, resided. They met a negro, belonging to Mr. Rowan, and en. quire,! of him, for Iris master; on being answered that ho was at home, they immediately pursued j their way towards tl.o house; the negro, taking j another and nearer direction, and on arriving at ■ the house, told his master the Indians were com- ■ ing. and hud enquired for him ; Mr. Rowan ini- \ mediately put bis family on hoard a canoe, and pushed across the river—ho hud just crossed, when the Indians made their appearance at the house and hailed him ; he held some conversation with them, they being disappointed at the negro’s giving information of their approach, liicd the house. We also learn, that (wo houses on the Apalach icola river, have been burnt I y Indians. Col. C. 11. Dupont, in command of four line companies, from I.con and Gadsden counties, left on Friday of last week, since which lime no intelligence has been received from hint. From his well known charactci, as an able and effii cient officer, we hope, and are inclined to believe that some good oiled will arise fiom this expedi tion. Gen. Taylor, with a force of 350 men, is ma- I king active operations for tho defence of residents 1 on the frontier. Extracts fiom tho correspondence of the j I Chat lesion Courier : “W.uim Sen in os, (N. C.) Aug. 18. “While at Asheville, I witnessed a practical ( exhibition of die operation of tbo much boasted sub-treasury system. The North Carolina troops, i who had been engaged in removing the Chero kecs from the Stale, were assembled, at that place, to receive pay for their services; and in- ! stead of being paid oil in gold and silver, in the constitulioiuil currency, which they had a right ! to expect from a hard money government, with t the sub-treasury in actual operation, or even in treasury notes, they were put elf with drabs on I the Manhattan Mank of New York, doubtless ' much to the profit of such speculators as know how to turn things to advantage. In this all.dr. , I learn that the U. 18. Paymaster was wholly f blameless. He received the necessary amount in treasury notes, in sums too large lor transfer in tho way of payment. Tbo North Carolina banks refused to receive the notes on deposit, to bo cheeked on by the Paymaster, and be was ■ obliged to make bis arrangements with a bank in , New York. This is a practical commentary on t the sub-treasury policy, tending to shew its impracticability, and that the government cannot ’ evert pry its troops without tiro aid arid agency > of banks. t I am on the cvc of departure for Lev ingtou, ICy., 5 to be present at the meeting of the Directors of | tho great Mail Road, at that place, on the 37tb inst. ; There is now u fair prospect of a quorum of Di j rectors. Gen. Hay no will be there, via New r York, the four Kentucky Directors are on the spot . Mr. Humes of Tennessee is said to be there al ready, Messrs. Ma.ing and King went on ibis morning, Dr. Hardy and Gol. Elmore are here, on their way, and Mr U. G. Mills and Dr. Dutto vant, (the latter appointed to till a vacancy) arc ! also on tbo toad. 3 Several gentlemen, not directors, who feel an interest in the great enterprize, are also go ing on from this place. During the session • ofthe Hoard of Directors, the great stock fair, j it is said, will he held at Lexington, and form , a spectacle of no common interest to the stran . £ cr - A very intelligent gentleman who has trav elled through a consider.hie portion of the upper part of South Carolina, informs me f that tit.'promise of a corn crop is ir.ostabun. 1 dant, but that the Cotton is even less advanced ! than it wast’d this time last year, and nothing but a very late winter is likely to prevent a • : very short crop. M o are told that it is so hot in New Orleans j that, standing at tiny corner, von can sec whole ' suits of clothes walking along, the occupants hav i ing incited entirely gtvov. Opium trade of India. The Liverpool Mailed' t Lie ~0l ii July, extracts from a Scraoapore paper of lire I‘Jih of April ihc following able ai tide oil iho Opium Trade. Thn accounts which aie received from China hy every fresh arrival, regarding the prospects of | the opium trade, arc of so gloomy a east as to take 1 away uhnisl every hope of auieiuiineirt, 'J'lio i opposition of tiro Chineso to iho trade begins now . to assume so permanent a character, through the steady vigilance of the local authorities, to con vince the most incredulous, that the measures I which theyJiave adopted, do not spring from arty i avaricious desire to throw obstructions m the way | of this trade, in order to draw laigct profits from ] connivances at it; hut from a settled detcrmnra ■ lion in the court of Pekin, altogether to prevent the introduction ol rhe drug. The exertions ot the Chinese police—one of them so efficient in lh<‘ world, —have hrekrn i.p the establishment of : native smuggling vessels, and dispersed the opium ! brokers. Thn pons on llio north east coast, into which tbe drug had been clandestinely introdu ! ccd, tiro now watched with the greatest jealousy, and all access to them has been rendered piccu rious. liy these stern measures, the prospects ot . | this commerce are reduced to so low an ehh, that in iho apprehension of many, the price of the ar ticle will probably full to 500 rupees u cheat, a price which must infallibly dissipate (heir golden : dreams of an opium revenue, on whic h the public | authorities of India havu been accustomed to dwell so fondly. s As a last desperate resort, in this unprecedented crisis, it appears to have been determined to in troduce the drug into tbe empire by the force of arms The efforts which have been already made by moic ( ihan one armed vessel in the port of (Jan* ton, have been rewarded with partial success; and we now learn from die Uurkarn that several other vessels arc lilting out. at the ptesenl moment in Calcutta, which will bo manned by Europeans, and so completely armed as to bo able to resist the vessels employed on the preventive service by the Chinese government at Canton. The Eng lish arc, therefore, about to enter into hostilities : with the Chinese Custom house, for Iho purpose \ of finding, under the protection of their cannon, | tin article of which the introduction is strictly prohibited by the laws of the empire. Such a procedure is unprecedented in the an nals of commerce. In fact, tdl the circumstances connected with the opium trade, are so strange ■ ami anomalous as to stagger belief. Wo see tbe . civilized, the enlightened Christian government of If riluiti in the east, straining every nerve to increase the cultivation of opium in India, for the express purpose of drugging the Chinese urns 1 pire. Un iho other hand, we see the half civilU 1 | zed government of China directing all its efforts 1 to the exclusion of an article whicli cannot fail to sap the foundation ot all social, political, and manly virtue in its subjects. We see these ef forts crowned with success to a certain degree, and the price of thediug reduced 30,40 and 50 per cent. And we are now to seo vessels, bus -1 j fling with cannon, and loaded with the intoxica- I ling drug, traversing the port of Canton under [ : lirili-h colors, resisting the local authorities, and I i discharging their cargoes at whatever sacrifice of fives. Whatever vve consider rhe poisonous na ture of the article which it is intended to force on the Chinese, or the agents in the trade, at the hear) of which stands Iho liiitish government of India, iho mainspring of this enterprise, or the means by which it is now proposed to carry it on, by overawing the Chinese ofltecrs, there is no thing Comparable to these transactions in any other quarter of the globe. 13ut tho most inconio I prelien.-.ihle circumstances connuctcJ with them is that those who are embarked in an under igk'ng destructive in its dice's beyond every trade, in which men have embarked since the abolition of tho slave trade, and who are prepared to pursue it by the most violent means, should deny that the Chinese are warranted in treating them as tho outside “barbarians.” The. employ merit of these vessels cannot he i viewed with indifference by a government so jcal- I ouaofits independence as the Chinese. This I squadron of armed smugglers, will, therefore, Ining matters to a point. In vain will the If i iiish superintendent disclaim all connection with these guiliy enterprises, or deny his power to interdict them. The Chinese government wielding as it does so despotic a police, will never believe that lire vessels of the English barbarians could not put down the smugglers which ‘ sail under his national flag,” if he had an inclination to do so. And his disposition they will guess by tho (act, that Iho IJntish government obtains the lion’s share of Iho profits upon every chest which cun bo smuggled into China. Tho Chinese govern, merit will admit of no delicate distinctions, hut lake up tin" question as one between China and Eiilain. Unable to resist the armed smugglers, they will adopt the only remedy in their power ; they will slop the supplies of lea, and proceed to lay a general c.’.uhargo on all firilish commerce. They have already threatened to adopt this i sharp but efficacious remedy ; and llio war estab lishment upon which the .merchants arc about lo place the opium trade, will probably lead lo its immediate adoption. If this calamity supervene, 'wo shall have only ourselves to Maine. It will have been brought on by Iho unbridled cupidity which has pushed the supply of opium (torn four to forty thousand chests a year, an J by the san guinary measures lo which wo shall have resor ted, in order to force the diog on tho country- — The stoppage of die tea trade will decide the opi um question. The interests of tho Indian revt'- i nue will then he put into tho scales with those of i the English exchequer, and they will be found as I light as a (rather. Tho company will ho called | on to sacrifice the opium profits lo preserve the revenues ol England; and the morals of China may yet Is, preserved through the ten drinking propel.shies of England. When tho Chinese 1 shall have once discovered that the most effectual ’ mode of preventing the import of opium is to pro j vent the export ol ten, tiro they likely soon to ! foigct tho lesson ! I i Accidkkt.—One of the operatives working j on the railway near town, was unfortunately I killed yesterday morning, in attempting to pass , lire road, whilst the train was passing. Jli.s body was brought up on the passenger ears last, even i ing, to abide the Coronet’s inquest.—■ Charleston 1 Mercury, 31 sf nil. Storm. On Tuesday evening lust, a storm of wind and rain, accompanied by hail, passed over uur chy. j —Tho brig Falcon, at Telfair's wharf, broke from ! her mooring- and drified into tho stream. Her i anchors were thrown out, these she dragged and I was brought up upon her beam ends on the op . j positc side of the river. She was righted yester j day, with little or no injury. Wo fear some itr , lo tho crops in Iho vicinity, as tho storm, . | though brief in duration, was violent.— Savannah 1 Uvorginn. Ey toe recent arrival from Canton, wo learn that tho exports of Teas lo the United States, from the 10th of July, 1837, to the Ist of April, , 1838, were 212 piculs Congo, 23,122 do. Souch ong, 1,718 Pouchong, 1,100 Pccco, 3.756 Hyson, 34.U05 Young Hyson, 4,770 Hyson Skin, 171 Twankoy, 5,103 Gunpowder, and 3,530 piculs Imperial. The exports lo Great Eiilain for the same period, were 171i.42t( peeuls, or 23,523,733 lbs. of Elock Tea--, and 40,835 peeuls, or 0 214, Clio lbs. ol Green Teas. 1 vttixti it Coouv.—On the occasion of ll.e recent earthquake in Missouri a eonp:e who were qniftly sk-cpiiio in their bed were somewhat disturbed. “What's thai?” said the wife. “Only an earthquake,’ returned the husband, as he drowsily turned over, and resigned himself iigam to the army of M,, r . ( idrcii 1 ;, I‘utri■ '. New Cottofu J lie lust !.u!o ol new cotton was receive,l this city oil Tuesday last, by Messrs. R, jP King & Co., from the plantation of Mrs M, r Porcher, of Bt. Peter’s Parish, S. C. ’f ile V ' is eald to 1.0 good. — Savannah Georgian} Business ol the City. our wharves. The recent winds from the v^p 1 have brought ho.o several ‘-rich laden a l?Use ,'. an. (he discharge of their cargoes simul.anel; ly, h.ue converted our late quiet wharves i„, scene „t hustle and activi y. % far the g, e l“ jHtrttun ol the goods are for the up country One tiling wo were struck with particularly 1 and that was, that most of the goods were dire, tal ■j to new houses, whose names were heretofa, 9 ' 1 f nknmv ""*• This (act is to he accounted f,! I hy one ol two reasons; either the number of j n I tenor merchants have increased, or the places of , 'hose who havo been driven out of the trade l,„ recent cml.arrassinet.ts, arc followed up l.v o th«,. I 01 this fart, we ha ;.o duubt.it having particul larly struck us.—. train the /#,/, tun.irc American. The J’lilnsbi. V.'e published a few days ago the communi-* tiou ol the owner and male of the schooner Mer cliant, ot Elizabeth City, JV. C. denying in n o sj. uye n.rtMs the statement originally published at I Inladelphia, that the said schooner had fallen in with the wreck of the Pulaski, and had refused to render the passengers any assistance. Wo are now called o;i to publish,—which we do below the affidavit of the master of tho schooner 'j,, which he denies in equally explicit terms the truth ol the Philadelphia statement. Llizaiictie Cri’Y, JV, (J. A tig. 21st, IS2B To the T.di lavs of the Ualtimove American- GESTt.BMB.x-I have just seen the publication m year paper ol tho Bth August, relative to Hu, schr. Merchant, of Elizabeth City, N. (J,, then under my command, which publication demands of me a reply, which reply I herewith annex, im, dcr the sanctity of an oath: State of S. Carolina, / D , Pasquo auk Co., S Pott of Elizabeth City, Personally appeared before me, James M. Pool, a justice ot the peace in and for the County of Pasquotank, Samuel T. Gaylord, late master of the schr. Merchant, of Elizabeth City, on her voyage from Elizabeth City to Wilmington, N. U-, who being first duly sworn, deposes and says, 1 that he, with the said sohr. Merchant, on the lBlh . day of Juno, ’3B, made sail from Ocracock Har, i and at about 1 I o’clock crossed said liar—Wind 1 N. W. —Steering our course to clear Cape Look Out shore—at 6 P. M. IS miles S. by W. from Ocracock wq saw a wreck or something like one —lacked ship and stood to the E- tor her, endea voring to fetch her, byt it being rough and calm, night came on before we could.get to her, bein ' about ten miles from her. We continued ding oil until 7 o'clock, that we might, if possi? bio. I.iing her, when we found tbe schr. Union within 200 yards of the wreck—which wreck as the Captain of the Union told me, proved to bo the schr. Allas, which vessel had dragged to sea the day before with no person on board. And the said Gaylord docs further depose and say, that ho never came within sight of the wreck of i tho Pulaski, neither was he distinctly or other -wise hailed by any one during the said voyage lor assistance, and further this deponent faith not. S. T. GAYLORD. Sworn and subscribed to before me this 21st day of August, 1838. JAMES M. POOL, J. J*. I am compelled hero to say that I do not be lieve {.ho Captain of tho Henry Camerdon of Philadelphia ever received the communication ns ho stales fram his pilot —if so why not give tho -name of the pilof, and I now demand of ({apt. Davis his name. L believe the whole statement is a vile fabrication of the Captain of the Henry Camerdon. Dy publishing the above in yuor valuable paper you will confer a favor on your obd’.t. ser’vt. S. T. GAYLORD. 1 at-. Set oi.it A Puck Otuut.—Them are many wonderful (ales related of the sagacity of the spider in providing itself with food, hut there arc none that we ever read or heard of, that equals tho following which look place at a pork house, on the canal in this city the day before yesterday, and was witnessed by a number ol persons from one of whom we received tho account. A small common domestic spider, had extended his web from the floor up about fifteen inches, it was made fast. It was wove thick and strong at the bottom, when a luckless MOUSE, for whose destruction it had been purposely prepared, got. entangled in it, and to work went the spider with the greatest activity, and soon succeeded in lamL ini' fast the legs of his victim. When the gentle man our informant was called to look at tho ex tiaordinary scene, the mouse was alive and ma king every effort his forlorn situation permitted to tree himself from his bonds, hut without the least prospect of success, JIo was laying with his head and tail a little elevated in the web, which his tormentor had succeeded in raising about four inches from the floor, and was then busily enga ged, near one of Ins oars, in bleeding him.—Soon after as vye are informed, some one who had more compassion for a mouse in distress, than curiosity ' to see the entire dovelopemcnt of one of tho most wonderful phenomena in natural history, severed tho weh and liberated the miserable (quadruped fn-.'u the merciless fangs of his insect enemy. Whctiii‘ r 'he mouse recovered or not, we did noV learn — -Post. i in: ki nst law os’ Nature.—The Leving' ton Observer says, it is tilts Undoubted right ol postmasters to destroy ilond’s speech. Self-pres ervation is the first law of nature, and if they can t destroy it, it will destroy them. Jefferson Improved.—A Yankee school master m Canada set a copy tor his writing | scholars, thus: -‘All tnon aru created equal— except niggers.”— Picayune. y - -rn-d-Wrrw— COMMERCIAL. NEW ORLEANS MARKET, AUGUST 27. -Since our review of tho 20lh hist, the market lias imt been sip Jed to tiny material change, and so low transactions have come to our knowledge, that our qnotati ms must be considered nominal. The low stage of llie ri\t-rs above prevents arrivals of hoars uuh produce, which has caused u reduction in the slock of some articles, nrid holders are in cease ijueuce asking an advance. Oar accounts from tho Interior of tho growing crops are Haltering Thu weather continuespleasant and I he city remarkably healthy. Colton —Deceived from the I'Jih to 25; h instant, ■l5l bales—exported IGS7 bales—slock on band, in cluding all on shipboard not cleared, 21,019 bales. I la* past week was a dull one fortho article, with a tendency downward on qualities under fiiirjitoso above being scarce and wanted, are held for mir t"l> quotations,—the sales do not exceed 500 hales ot all kinds at about former rates to 'complete ship ments to Ibo no'Ltu-rii nod continental mark- ts- — The steamboat Natchez, from Natchez for New Vork, lias on board three bales of the new crop, reported of good quality, we look lor several small lots tbio week, the weather having been fine fur picking. Fair, Mississippi and Louisiana, 11 ict-s -lair North Alabama UJets. Liverpool ('lasaifieations.—Louisiana and Mis sissippi—ordinary 7 a 8, middling U a 9i, lair Hi. good mir 121 a 13, good and fine 131 ; Tennessee and Alabama—-ordinary 6 a Os middling 8 a 81, lair '.lf, good fair I Os. Sneer.- Louisiana*—the market remains will:- out any particular change : holders of the stock an firm at ourqnutatlons, transactions are confined en tirely i - Iry ns e . Havana Sugars - the supply has