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WILLI Am. E. JOXES. AUGUSTA, GEO., TUESDAY JflOßrVlfttt, SEPTEMBER 03 j as ~ ~
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CHRONICLE AND SENTINEL.
AIIO USTA-
Monday Maniing, September 2.1.
“Principles not inon. - ”
Whenever a political aspirant intends to aban
don his party for the sake of oilier, he mounts
the fence and commences to preach “principles
-not men".’ He vows that ho is consistent, has no
idea of abandoning his old friends, or his princi.
jdcs, and after persuading himself that his fiends
have abandoned him, still prating “principles,
not men,” he gets down upon the other side and
becomes the must abusive opponent of his form
er friends and principles. Whenever an Editor
has been bought up by a trip to some sea port city,
or with the promise of a few additional subscri
bers on the other side of the liver as the reward
of his apostacy, he becomes all at once very im
partial, very dignified, finds fault first with otic
thing, then with another, deal j a stealthy blow
now upon his former fiends, and smiles a gra
cious smile upon his former adversaries, and dtus
he too mnmils die fence with the honied phrase
“principles not men,” upon his lips! In duo sea
son he is down upon the other side, and quiets
Ids conscience with the self persuasion (hat his
old fiends have abandoned him and his old op
ponents “come over” to him, and that he alone of
all mankind has been consistent, firm and faithful!
We have been led into (liese remarks by the
recent course of the People’s Press, which has
become a full blooded Van I’urcn paper, and in
an article on Friday last, headed “ principles, not
men,” calls upon the Siaic Rights men ofGenrgia
to follow it. In order In show to the State
Ilighls’ men of Georgia w hat sort of a leader ii is
that calls upon them to rush with him into ihe
embraces of Van llurcnism, we publish the fol
lowing “Extra” from the office of the People’s
Press, dated October 3d, 1837, which alter an,
nouncing the result of the Election in Richmond
county and giving a stale of the polls, says—
“ Thus at Icnglh has principle triumphed !
and thus far have the people spoken in their
primitive purity again. We feel gratified at the
result of our Election, not as the success of a
Parly, hut as the success of a People contending
for the great ends of Principle. The issue has
been —Van Huron—and Anti. Van Huron, and
J Richmond has decided that she is not a Van Hu.
rcu County. Let us feel grateful then, not at the
overthrow of a parly, hut at thn success of great
National Principles Let us believe I hat those
who have differed with us in opinion, have done I
so conscientiously, and lot us at the same time,
endeavor to make them believe that wo have not
differed with them for iheit injury, but for (he I
good of our common country. —“Nut that we lov
ed Caisar less, hut that w'e loved Rome more.”
Wo do not wish any body to believe that the
Editor has changed or has been at all inconsistent.
We only wish to prove by his own wrillcn testi
_ mony that the result of that election was a “ tri
umph of principle,” ami in achieving dial triumph \
the “people spoke in their primitive purity.” Wc
have Ids evidence too that die issue then was !
“Van Buren and Anti-Van Huron,” and that!
Richmond then decided dial she was “not a Van i
Buren County !” Van Huron was llicn a Cic- i
sar, whom it were a virtue to kill—he is now he- I
come the brazen serpent in the wildcrncs: - , whom ]
iit is salvation to look upon ! Whence this
! mighty change in Van ? The Editor, we know
/ms nut changed ! Is it because Van recom
menced the sub treasury? Oh no ! he had
done that in his message at the extra session in
September, and that message had been published
in the People’s Press prior to that election, the
result of which was announced as the triumph of
principle over \an Burcnism! Speak thou sot
d sanl apostle ot “j riuciples not men,” and lel j
us whence this mighty change?
Fur the Chronicle ij- Sentinel.
Dear Con ; —Not having heard of you for a
long lime, and anxious to Know whether you
arc in the land of the living, and also, it you
can inform me whether I live in ihe present age
induces this epistle. Now if I understand rightly,
you and I weie once good Nullifiers. No, you
were on the other side of the river, and of course
a Stole Rights min. At any rale, wo wore op
posed to the usurpations of the General Govern
ment, and desirous that the monied and political
powers should not ho blended. So far we have
agreed, and I trust still agree. Cut really, when
I have observed the course of some of'our emi
nent statesmen and politicians, I am ala loss to
know where I am, what the latitude and tangi,
i tude, and on what coast I am to land.
We arc told that it is nccoaaaiy to disconnect
the government Prom all banking institutions;
that it is unconstitutional, impolitic, an* 1 corrup
ting; and that wo must have a Sub-Treasury
scheme independent of the fluctuations of trade,
and unconnected with all stock-jobbing, banking,
sic. Now, Ido not intend to go into the merits
of these questions, hut that our good State Rights
men should take up, and advocate a measure
originating with the last administration, and at
tempted to he matured by the present, is not what
I have been prepared for. It has upset all my
theories of government, and ns I said, thrown
mo out of my latitude and longitude. To sup
pose that such a measure, emanating from the
present administration, would he upheld and
supported as a fetatc Rights measure, is new to
me and totally unexpected. It may do to serve
party purposes, hut that it will advance the true
interests of the country, I have my doubts.
The advocates of the Sub-Treasury schemer
say that those who do not support it, are recreant
to the Slate Rights parly. Do you suppose that
Mr. Van IJuren, Mr. Forsyth, Mr. Poinsett, or
any of the old administration party, believe it to
he a Stale Rights measure ? Would they who
have so thoroughly advocated the Proclamation
and Force Rill have proposed it, if they thought
it would have been received as contradicting their
lornicr creed, which brought them into power ?
Do you suppose that they have any more respect
for Stale Rights now, than they had before; or
tint they would have hazarded so much, when
they had so little to gain ? Take rny word for it,
there is nothing like State Rights about it. I tel!
you what I think of it—l believe it to ho a bait
thrown out by Ihe administration for the' South
to bile at, and contrary to my expectation, some
of our leading men have greedily taken it, much
to the satisfaction of those who expect to profit
by it, a ltd doubtless will, for it is impossible that
a Southern candidate ran succeed under present
circumstances—tbougb I wish it were otherwise.
Some of the advocates of this Jackson, Van
Durcn, Consolidating Government, Slate Rights
Sub-Treasury hobby, (or in plain English, hum
bug*) I believe are honest in their views—but
that others use it to cover their somerset over to
Van Burcnism, I have little doubt. Witness one
of the regular toasts, at a dinner lately given to
the Hon. R. 15. Rhctf.
‘ The President of the United Stales—A Nor
thern man with Southern principles.” Now I
have always believed that lie had no fixed prin
ciples—but the boasted author of the famous
Walterborough resolutions, has suddenly dis
covered that this Northern, Anti-Slavery, Force
Bill, cut-throat President,' is a man of sound
Southern principles, and of com re a good Nulli
ficr.
If I knew how to express the war whoop, or
any other sudden exclamation, I would, after
this, let you have it 1 ! 1
But why proscribe the State Rights party be
cause they will not take the bait, when they
occupy so good a position, and by dividing them
we loose the only sttong hold which the Somh
possesses. I tell you as a Nullifier, which I am
and always will he, that I can never support, for
a high office at least, any man who believed that
the President and his minions, had the right to
cut our throats when 'hey pleased.
But the times arc out of joint. The ship of
Stale is at sea without rudder or compass, and
God only knows what will become of us.
Yours, |
TOM LONG.
Boil Shout, Esq,-
1 r nlisir Tot it Dissolutions.—A suit was
tried iu (lie N. \ . Circuit Court, recently brought
by a Mr. Bugler against Corning & Spence, to
recover $l3OO, the amount of a bill of goods sold
by plaintiff to Spence, and charged to the firm
two months after its dissolution. As no positive
evidence was adduced to show the dissolution
I had been published, the jury give verdict for
j plaintiff to the amount claimed with interest and
i cost.
From the Mont real Courier, of the Blh.
Canada.
Criminal Court.— I The trial of those ebarg.
cd with the murder of Chartrand, having uccil
pied the close attention of the Court for two days,
! terminated yesterday, in the jury returning aver
■ diet of acquittal. This lri.il has excited a great
deal of interest, though not more, perhaps, then
} its importance merits, —and we shall therefore
j take the earliest opportunity of laying as full a
detail of it as possible before our readers,
j The Montreal Herald, notwithstanding its hor
ror of Lynch law, openly calls upon the volun
teers ol Montreal to lake vengeance on the ac
quitted prisoners, and on the jury who acquitted
them- l'' ur example!—.
brother of the murdered Charlrand was
in court, in a slate of frenzied agitation, and we
do not wonder nt it. Define him were four men,
who. like savages, placed their victim at n tree
and deliberately killed him by a discharge of mus
ketry, not beenusu ho had any ties’ile feeling
against them,hut hecanso he. was honest and loyal;
and near him were twelve men who committed
what many call a most deliberate and wanton
|ioi jury, screening the murderers from justice. The
and nt law allowed a man to revenge his broth
er’s death, and, if ever there was a case in which
such a course was justifiable, it is the present.
Deeply will this verdict rankle in tha breast of
the volunteers, and, should the opportunity ever
arrive, it will ho avenged in blond. Yes, volun
teers, one of yourselves lias been lirtse.ly murdered;
your enemies, hy whom he was tried, have refu
sed atonement for his Mood, mid it calls aloud
upon you for deep, ample vengeance His late
might have hocn yours; the very men who com
milled the vilo atrocity are again nt largo on the
world, and the impunity with which they have
committed one murder, may induce them to make
a similar attempt on any of you. One foul out
rage upon society has been added to another—
unpunished murder and apparent perjury. If the
law is insufficient for our protection, wo must
protect ourselves, and if it is insufficient to pun
ish offenders against it, they must not be, on that
account, allowed to escape.
Extract of a letter from Detroit;—"Wheal has
become n drug; the season has been propitious,
and the hard labor of the farmer amply repaid by
a boumiful harvest. Hitherto Michigan bus been
dependent upon Ohio arid Now York for her
bread stuffs; sbe has now a sur/iliis of n million
mill n half bushels of wheat, which will |,e ready
for market in the spring of ’39. Agents, millers,
&e, are as thick ns hops all over (ho State, ma
king contracts at prices, varying from 0 shillings
per bushel to 7: much however depends upon
the situation, and the distance from a water com
munication.”
A merchant in Duffalo passed through bore a
day or two since from the interior of the State,
and the north portion of Indiana. He informed
me that he had made a contract at Michigan city
for 00,000 bushels of wheat nt $1 per bushel, do
livered in Duffalo! one half thii (all, tho balance
at the opening of navigation next spring.—JV.
r. .Slur.
Sen u.i no a Giiavu. —The editor of the Ifuflie
lonian, writing from Toledo, mentions n case of
theft which wc believe has the merit of originality
if no other. A lady of one of the merchants died,
and a grave wasdug in which to place her remains.
The procession came to the burial ground and
found an Irish funeral had been there before them,
who finding a grave untenanlcd had put in their
departed friend and covered him up. The other
procession had to wait till a new grave was dog.
Travelling Sketches.
Pictuue or Onrnox.—Thu following synop
sis, as it were, of the great Oregon Country, and
region of the Rocky Mountains, is la! e i from a
review of Parker’s recent woik in the last num
ber of the Knickerbocker:
"Spread before you, reader, a map of that por
tion of this continent which stretches westward
from a line with the Council Bluffs, on the Mis
soni! river, and with the above named work in
your hand, follow its author in all his j lurneyinga,
until you reach with him that bound coast, where
mountain barriers repel the dark rolling waves of
the Pacific, which stretch without an intervening
island, for live thousand miles, to Japan. What
a vast extent of country you have traversed; how
sublime the works as the Creator, through which
j’nu have taken your way! We lack space to
follow our author in the detail of his wanderings,
and shall not, therefore attempt a notice at large
of tiio volume under consideration, hut, shall en
deavor to present, in a genera! view, some of its
more prominent features. Mr. Parker was sent
out hy the American Hoard of Foreign to,dons,
and lie appears to have been eminently flhfnl to
his trust, amidst numerous perils, and privations,
which arc recorded, not with vain boasting and
exaggeration, hut with becoming modesty and
brevity. His descriptions, indeed, arc all of them
graphic, without being minute or tedious. Define
reaching the Black Hills, lie [daces before us the
prairies, rolling in immense seas of verdure, on
which millions of tons of grass grow up hut to
rot on the ground, or feed whole leagues of llanic;
over which sweep the cool breezes, like the trade
winds ol liie ocean, and into whoso green reces
ses bright eyed antelopes bound away, with half
whisiling snuff leaving the fleetest hound hope
lessly in the rear. There herd flu Imffiloe;, hy
thousands together, dotting the landscape, seem
ing scarce so large as rabbits when surveyed at a
distance from some verdant Muff, swelling in the
emerald waste. Suhlimcr far, and upon a more
magnificent scale, arc the scenes among 1 the Rocky
Mountains. Here are the visible footsteps of God!
Yonder, mounting peak above peak, ten thousand
feet heavenward, to regions of perpetual snow,
rise I lie Titans of that mighty region. Hero the
traveller treads his winding way through passages
so narrow that the lowering perpendicular cliffs
throw a dim twilliglit gloom upon his path, oven
at mid day. Anon lie emerges, and lo ! a
ealeract descends a distant mountain, like a
belt of snowy foam, girding its giant sides.
On one hand mountains, spread out into horizon
tal pianos, some rounded like domes, gnd others
terminating the forms of pillars, pyramids, and
castles; on the other, vast circular embankments
thrown up hy volcanic fires, mark the site of a
yawning crater; while far below, perchance, a
river dashes its way through a narrow rocky
I passage, with a deep toned roar, in winding mazes,
I in mist and darkness. 1 oiiow Ihe voyager, as lie
descends the Columbia, subject lo winds, rapids
and fails, two hundred miles from any whiles,
and amid tribes of stranger Indians, all speaking
a different language. Here, for miles, stretches
a perpendicular basaltic wall three or four hun
dred feet in height; there foam the boiling rd
dies, and rush the varying currents: on"one
side opens a view of rolling prairies, and through
a rocky vista on the other, the beams ot the
morning sun. Now llio traveller passes through
a forc-t ot trees, standing in their natural posi
tions, in the l>ed of the river, twenty feet below
the water’s surface. Passing these, he comes lo
a group of islands, lying high in tlie stream,
piled with tile coffin-canoes of the natives, tilled
with their dead, and covered with mats and split
plank. He anchors for a while at a wharf of
natural basalt, ami presently proceeds on ins way,
Riiding now in solemn silence, and now inter
rupted hy the roar of the distant rapid, gradually
growing on the ear until the breaking water ami
leathery foam arise to the view. Pausing under
a rocky cavern, l.y the shore, formed of semi
circular massess which have overhrowed the
stream lor ages.‘frowning terrible, impossible lo
climb,’he awaits the morning; I sliming during
the night watches lo hear the distant tilth
——‘icverberato the soim-J
Os | artod fragments tumbling from on high.’
Sut *i arc die feat tires of the missionary 's coni -e,
until the boundary of the ‘Far U’e-i' n reached,
and he reposes (or a lime, from ills lung and toil
some journey.”
’ ‘’bo following excellent remarks from tl.o
j'eti ol Iho editor of the New York Courier &.
le ijuirer, will be read with peculiar interest
. at t lie present moment, when public attention
t is so deeply engaged wit It thesnbject of Allan
| tic Stonm Navigation. Col. Wentt lias eros
, soil and recrossed the Atlantic in the Great
a Western, and is fully competent to give an
excellent opinion in tho pictures. The arti
cle will bo its own best recommendation :
| Atlantic Steam Navigation.
The annunciation that English enpita’ists
; have not embarked in the construction of
. i steamers for the navigation of the Atlantic
1 ; with the readiness which was anticipa’ed by
c: many, appears to rise a doubt in the minds of
. some, whether the experiment has ns yet been
a lair y tested; and consequently whether the
0 period has in fact arrived when the navigation
a el the Atlantic hy steam is to be continued,
• ami prove both secure and profitable.
As wo have experienced the advantage of
c i a passage by steam to ami from Europe,—and
1 feeling a deep interest in the subject, look cv
■ cry opportunity of informing ourselves m rein
turn to the practical opera!.on of ibis grand
“experiment” ns it was then considered—wc
propose briefly to say a few words on the sub
s jeet. Wo are nware that there exist a few
among the Packet Captains, who consider ev
il cry attempt to facilitate the introduction of
r steam in the navigation of the Atlantic os a
(l.rect assault upon their interests, hut we are 1
1 proud to add, that these arc hut exceptions to '
; the general rule, and that generally speaking,
j the Packet owners and captains, (I,ml all Um
s captains are owners,) not only lo ik with favor
, upon the success which has lima far attended
. the experiment, hut arc anxious to render
every aid m their power lo insure Us success.
, True, most of litem believe, and wc think
, truly, there wu 1 bo business enough m the
I way of freights, for both Steamers and Patk
i ots; but if this were not. the case such is the
spirit o( liberality and love of enterprise which
1 character ze this class of our follow citizens,
that they arc willing to lose sight of all perso
nal considciafions in their desire to advance
the cause of science, ami improve the means
. of intercourse between the Old ami the now
f World, ’f o the liberality and enterprise of
r our Packet owners, the energy, perseverance
, science and skill of our Packet Captains; and
. to the unequalled character of our Packets
1 their comfort, safety and regularity, added to
, the luxuries which they have afforded to all
who travelled in them—:s the city of New
York and the country at large indebted to an
• extent which is almost inappreciable. And
although the introduction of S cam will, bo.
yond all doubt, materially injure their useful
. ness in the conveyance of passengers and the
I carrying of news between the Old and New
l world, yet all who arc guided by correct feel,
mgs will forever be mindful of what wc owe
lo the Liners, and hold m gaatefnl remem
brance those who sailed and controlled them.
I his is the age of improvement, and what was
I invaluable but yesterday, is too often rendered
uttolCHS iii n few hours hy the (lovelopcmcnls
, ol'science and its practical application lo the
, every day occurrences of life. If, tberef >r-,
, the march of irugrovt.lll nt .-not.in iiiroot «. in..
I our splendid liners, even those most interested
! in them are prepared to submit with grace,
t and will conceit 11 portion at least, of their
magnificent cabins into hold— and tints change
the character instead of d.mnlehing the
amount of the business.
In considering the feasibility of navigating
the Atlantic by steam, the public have doubted
the practicability of carrying sullioictil suel —
the comparative safety of steamboats—and,
finally, whether these diffi.Millies being over
come, they could be rendered jinJUahle. For
ourselves wo never entertained any doubt ex
cept with regard lo the quest on of profit, and
even on this point there is no longer a ques
tion in onr mind.
, The capital, enterprise, and public spirit of |
I the enlightened Directors of “The Great
Western Steam Ship Company'’ were never
, more usefully employed than in demonstrating
. through the medium of their noble steamer,
< the advantages of steam in navigating the At
lantic; and richly do they merit the approba
. tion and gratitude ofevery liberal mindi d man
. both in England and America, for their public
' spirit and tearless perseverance.
• | Ol the Great Western, wo can with truth
1 j say, that in our opinion, sheis unrivalled as a
- { sea boat; and we are warran'ed in adding that
’ j every sailor who lias made a passage in her.
' j considers her safer and more comfortable than
• | any sail vessel possibly can bo. In the first
* 1 place, she is of sufficient power to make bead
> j way directly in the teeth of any gale of wind
’ 1 that she may meet with, and we tnink would
* he perfectly safe, even when caught upon a
lee shore in the worst of weather; secondly,
1 her great size necessarily renders her less sm
( slide to the motion of the winds and waves;
and thirdly, the absence of sails, rigging, &■;.
j aloft, in a gale of witid, the width ol her pad
. die wheels constantly in motion, and the
I counteracting, self operating power, of slcam i
, within herself, not only destroys the greater I
, | art of the usual rolling motion, but renders [
, the rolling which is inevitable, so entirely dtf- j
fercht from the rolling of a sail vessel, that it j
, almost censes to be an inconvenience All
■ who are familiar with the Ocean, nro well I
> aware, that when a sail vessel rolls, she brings j
, up with a jerk which generally sends dishes,
! glasses, tables, and every thing that is movea
* ble, from one side of the cabin to another
■ sans ceremonie. But not so w.th the Great
Wes'crn, or any large Steam boat. From the
! causes just enumerated, or sofne oilier, when
1 rolling with the heaviest sea directly abeam,
* she rolled so easy that it was impossible to
1 determine when she ceased her roll to one
' side and commented her roll back ngain.
' The consequence of this peculiarity was, that
1 in the heaviest weather wo were quietly seated
j tillable without the slightest, protection to dish
( cs or wine glasses; and rarely if ever did it
j. happen lha’ a wine glass well filled with wine,
was in danger of being upset. On our pus,
j sage to England wc bud three officers of the
/ navy and several masters of vo.-sels pa'sen
-1 gers vv itli u>, and on our return one officer oi
r | the navy and two masters of vessels, and we
. j are authorized to say, that each of these re
el peatedly declared, that the Great Wes’crn
„ j was the easiest sea boat limy ba I ever be, n
:■ 011 boa'd of, and in ihi:r estimation, as safe
las any vessel in the world. Wo Will take
; tins occasion load*!, tbalhercaptain is n?gen
tlemanly a commander ns eoofd possibly be
i desired, nnd well qua died lor the important
1 station ho holds.
I, But oor object is not to write an article in
- favor of either the Great Western or her
Couun-iiiik'i'. We commenced these remarks
- U' *~ ■ nui« ww-nrw - ~, ~ „, n , || , , lL| ,
under a conviction that our f, How citizens
, i exhibited a lukov, armness m regard to
lb s question of Atlantic steam navigation,
w 11 c 11 ernes rot become tlic commercial cm *
(lornim o( the Union; and having had more
than usual rxpenem the matter, wo deem
it. onr duty frankly to report the result id’
lliot-f' ob.'U'i vufinns, in Iho liopo of nronsnf
ourmcrclinntH to tin- imc.ossilv of making
f.mio prompt and efficient. efforts to retain in
their hands the carrying and passage trade be
tween England and Ameriia.
\\ hat we have sh d therelure, in regard to
the good qualities of the Great Western, wo
doom still more applicable to steam vessels of
a larger chos She is of the burthen of I.’MO
tons, we believe; ami the result of our obsor
vations and reflection is, that site is of the
smallest tonnage that can ever prove jmfitahle,
and that all well built boats, will bo secure,
comfortable and profit .hie just in the ratio of
their tonnage.—taking three thousand tons
as a maximum. We arc of opinion that it
would not cost more than (illy per cent addi
tional to navigate a steamer ot three thousand
tons than it docs the Groat Western while
she would be able to accommodate with per*
feet comfort, 250 instead of 75 or M) passed
gets, and instead id being able to carry only
about, lot) tons ot increhand ze, would, with,
out i (convenience to her passengers, very
j eas I,- carry seven or eight bundled tons—
possibly more.—The great size ot such aves
sol would very greatly increase her safety, ns
j it is well known that when clear ot' land and
I rocks; the safety of it vessel from the action
of the winds and the waves, is in proportion
to her size. And with regard to steam power,
two engines ot three hundred horse power
each would propel a ship ol three thousand
Inns quite as rapidly as two of 22 0 horse pow
er would propel one of 11140 tons Thus the
il ilish Queen, although live hundred tons
larger than “the Great Western,” has two
engines of only 250 horse power each, and
she being of 1800 tons bin then and upwards,
pio ably engines of less Ilian 1500 horse power
ui tli, would he sufficient for a Steamer of 15000
lons. Jsut we take that power as the maxi
mum, and argue that under the circumstances
would the expenses of running a boat, of 15000
inns be fifty per cent, greater than are the
present expenses of the Great Western.
It then, wo admit the security of the Groat
Western, and of this llieie can be no doubt,
and also her ability to carry sufficient coal to
make the voyage across the Atlantic and back
— which ire know to be the sact —and if, not
withstanding the comparatively small size and
inability to accommodate us many passengers
as offer, or to carry more than 150 tons ol
freight,—if wo say, under all llieso disadvan
tages, she is still doing a more profitable bu
siness than any vessel ever did before, cun
there be a doubt of the far greater security
and far greater profit in a vessel of three thou
sand tons or more, at but a slight increase of
expense?
One ol the groat objections on the part of
many to si earn boats and stea.ru slops, is the
apprehension of the constant jarring motion
which all have experienced on our River boats.
But nothing of the kind has ever been felt on
board the Great Western, or ever will be on
any steamer properly built for navigating the
, A ’ft, , ' |,,m o'"* 1 ” 1 Instead ol
l>ci nSlightly consimctod for Kivor navigation
and speed, as are all our boats, the Great, Wes
tern is built as strong ns wood anil iron can
make her. One half of her eul re length in
I lie centre, is a solid nm-s of sixteen inch
timber, corked, brased and stayed with wood
and iron in every way that, ingenuity can do
vise; and this effectually prevents the usual
tremulous motion of out steam bea'a. Then
her engine works perfectly envy as good en
gines should, and the engines and boilers be
ing in mi iron-cased room to guard inninsl
fire, nether noise nor any disagreeable odour
is experienced in the cabins rom this source.
In tdior , it was very justly sa d by her passen
gers on o:;c of bur trips, that it is impossible to
j determine when sitting in the silicon, whether
bur engines are or are not. in moduli.
Bn', say mine id onr capital sis, if the nav
igation of tiie Atlantic by steam is as profiia
bio a a is gciieraffy reputed, bow is it that En
glisli capitulistqgvince an unwillingness to em
bark in the en'crprisel The answer is at
band,and waknow from capitalists then solves
that, it, is the line one: —They am laboring
under the full conviction that’ wherievet* we
commence building steamers on ibis side ol
the Atlantic, they will be faster, belter rrr/ij
latod, and belter navigated ; and consequent
ly, that we sha'l monopolize the business as
wo did the packet business, and English bouts
will become unprofitable. This is certainly
a high compliment to American enterprise;
but it is richly merited ; and wo repeat that
w chime tins was too only reason why the or.
ganizalinii of a company in Liverpool failed,
and why the Grenl Western Company have
j not commenced the two ndd.lional steamers
some months since determined upon. It the
capitalists of England had nothing to appre
hend from our enterprise, t he keels of a dozen
steamers of not less than t a enty-live hundred
i lons, would be laid within ns many weeks.
Wiiat then is to be done on this s ; de of the
' water? Where is the first Steamer to be built?
j Is the Commercial Emporium—the city of ali
others most interested in this great movement,
to be first in Ibe field, or is she to sink into a
[dace of secondary consideration and give way
j to the superior enterprise of the sister of Bro
therly Love ? J-’or Hie honor and the interests
•of New York wo hope not, —nay, when we
know that the principal Packet House in the
! City has come forward with a degree of liber*
j nlity which is only in keeping with Us general
| character, and offered to take one hundred
thousand dollars oflbes’ock of a boat of three
thousand tons, wo cannot doubt but other
houses will promptly respond to their offer,
and the keel of a vessel shortly bo laid, which
slia'l be unrivalled in size, strength and beauty.
That wo can build a more perfect bull in tins
city, both for strength and beauty, than jn any
other pert, in the world, we believe there is no
earthly question ; it is equally certain that with
the great experience of our packet owners and
builders, wo can arrange the accommodations
of such a steamer as we refer to more jndi
cioe.s'y ; and lardy, we do not lies late to say,
licit whenever the proper order is given fur
engines in which strength, beauty, and perfec
t on of machinery is to ho consulted, and not
the wsfy.vc can construct quite as good en
gines as I'■ e world ran produce. We have all
the materials —the very host of foreign and
native mechanics —abundance of science—and
even more experience in the budding of en
gmiH thn.il they have abroad. Wo are aware
that at p.e ent wc have no works nt. which
sle/t 1 :' ol t lie size of those in the (£nec:i nnrl
the Western cun be made ol wrought iron, but
tins dlliculty is now m procots ol being ub-
• 1 * ■ * ilUl Is M \fm
1 —
via(od by Iho construct,on of a Irip-hammer
I’.v Mr. Kr-MB'.K nt hs VVfst Point Works,
oincli will be the heaviest on either 8 ;d ' ot
I Ik; water.
1 host! rernnrlts have already hccotfio crlotul
(■(I (nr beyond what wo proposed when wo
commenced (hern; and wo shal therefore
conclude hy an earnest appeal to the mcr
clittaiiK of this city to nuno immediately in this
11,1 'miKiriantlnjpinow.. We ate satisfied Iron,
oor own observations, that any merchant of
lair standing who will take the trouble of de
\",mg one day to the subject, can raise more
Ilian sufficient lands for this great enterprise.
, snit what, is every body’s business is imbo
dy s, ami thus an enterprise of such incitlcu
lahlo importance, of which every body is in
favor, and which every body advocates, con
tinues to ho lathed of only, from week lo week
without any thing being done to secure its
accomplishment. This should not be; New
\ ork owes it to herself—her merchants owe it
to hcmselves—io cease lulkinx and commence
ar,lr 'n- We should no longer be schieclto the
reproach ol bemg wanting in a proper spirit of
enterprise; hut we should take prompt meas
ures to demonstrate that notwithstanding i(, e
crusade which has been carried on against our
merchants, they are still as fearless, as liberal,
and ns enterprising as they ever were. Let
theorem Western then, when next she re
turns to England, take with her the informa
tion that New \ ork has commenced the great
work, and the consequence ivi'l he, that wo
shall hear of no other keels being | a!( l on ,| IC
other side ol the water.
Hut 'Telay acting, and boats will be Milt in
England,* Inch snhseqnently miutt came in
competition with ns, mid more nr less inter
lore with our profits. Our true policy is, to
evince a determination at, once to Secure to
ourselves this trade, and thereby discourage
every attempt to increase the number us boats
on tlio other side n| the wafer. I,ct there be
action—and let tin; (j rst , news conveyed to the
(.rent Western or. her arrival here on Simla„
morning iheWd ins/, lo the intelligence „f
onr having determined lo build a Steamer of
three thousand tons, which shall, in every re
spect, he worthy of continuing and securing
to the world, the benefits of itn enterprise
winch she bus so nobly demcinstrated lo ho
expeditious, sale, comfortable and lucrative.
Erriuoi.niNAaif Tm u ,-'A uhTl catiio on *
lately ul the Criminal Court, at Cork, Ireland,
ol an old hag, for Miming to dispose of a child
lo no apothecary, lor dissection, and proposing to
put the child i„ death. The she devil had made
'he fluid drunk with whiskey, it was no relation
ot hers, hut had heen in her possession for sorno
time. She was sentenced lo death.
Dr . Priestly, in one of his works, stales'that
I he had often, in a fit of abstraction, perused a
l>ook almost through, without discovering that it
whs one of his own works.
y
T'or the Chronicle ij* tScntifitC
[ To Miss Aim.
i . vou re call that promise then.
You freely gave to me 1
, Will you make void the only pledge
i That binds rny cause to thee I
il Mm I all l!ir boons whh-h ymi r.neufM,
II Be sunk iu deeper gloom 1
M "«‘ arrow’s Might slill on m • press,
i To rob my life of bloom 1
I Shall love’s soft smile and fire-side joys
I He banish’d from my breast ?
I I Shall slighted love and cold disdain
( Be mockers of my rest ?
Must grim despair coil round my breast
And ranker ev’iy bloom 1
Yra poison with his loathsome breath
Each flowrct’s soft perfume ?
Must all I live and have liv’d for,
Be lost for want of aid ?
Wilt thou reluvc, e’en now, (o plead
•My cause, sweet, gentle maid ?
Ah no! melhinks I hear thee say,
Bet grim despair depart;
J II plead Illy cause, bring in return
A fond and loving heart.
No more shall sorrow ’numb thee with
Her cold and withering breath ;
But Hope shall crown thy aching brow
With Hymen’s nuptial wreath.
Bui if, alas ! you will revoke
I ha».promise freely given,
Thcm welcome sorrow’s chilly grasp,
1' or life and hope arc riven,
SELWYN.
COMMERCIAL.
CHARLESTON MARK KT, SEPTEMBER 22.
Colton Jhe market for IJf)lnruls, this week, pre
sents the same dull uniformity which distinguished
i be preceding ; there is no new fen turn of interest to
vary the languid monotony. At present, the very
h*w purchasers in market pick up occasionally, a
lew bogs for manufacturers ol tlm North, hut finding
very little to suit their purposes, touch the article
very sparingly.
i here have hern hut-a few hundred hales of new
( oil' »n arrived 111 is week, mostly ot good to fair qual
ity. Our rivers being low, and dekness preventing
iho regular wagon trade, iho rail rood pres nts the
(,| dy medium oI communication for receiving the
staple. Our quotations* will not he varied lr mu Inst
report, until wo report a fair business transacted, hy
which to form n criterion.
In Long Cottons we have heard of no operations.
'I lie aales were 350 hags old, nt Irom 9*- to 13 cents
perlh.
liice. —Very little of this staple remains on hand.
The operations were extremely limited, and will ne
cessarily ho go until the fresh beat arrives in mark
et, when the prime, as u-ual, must recede. Wequolo
inferior to fair at §3l lo §1 ; gond,sl to ; prime,
Hour.—A trifling husin'ss has been done this
week, mostly for city wants. We quote new Flour
at 80 a ( .L per barrel.
drum. — Our market remains without much va
riation from former rales.
Groceries —'l hoextrt mely limited operation* since
our former re} on. render quotations nominal.
Uncon —Soles are worth 12 cents, and Hums are
Beilin-* in small lots «i 18 cents per lb
Sail. —lso sacks brought §1 75. We quote-S’!
C 2l aBl 75. v
J'reighls.— -To Liverpool, I to L’d.
Exchange. —()n I oudoii, ‘J a 10 percent premium;
on Fra net, sf. 15; Spanish Doubloons 8i 7 ; FalrP
•»l do. lb ; So- creigiiH, §5 J.7 f American Gold, 5 per
cent premium ; specie, 2 percent.
■n.% ij—iiiM-wi.. ’n-*wwr- —-i-iiiwi « -i •■■■■«
MA KING jpfTBLLIGISNC’E.
CHAItI.KSI.ON, rC j>i -’2.—Air yisli iduy, Lr Corn,
l iinr.. i i.< i Gov I>ntli. y, Ivy. V\ ilminMoi-!
< 1 hr l.q^rangi. ilurw. ml. ,% A; .tuna pin,ki t Go*
I>tni.* > . Ivy, * iliiii)i„toii.
H rnt;iosi:i yc.tirtl.y, steam nachitUor Dm!lev Ivv
Wilmington. 11 ’’