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Cassvilhe, Oct. Islh, 1838 3
1 o the of Commissioners,
of the Western nml Atlantic Railroad.
ntntlemen ;
In obedience to your instruction da'ed on the
11th of July !a»t a n comio.ssancc on ! curt y
were instituted for the purp ol ascertaining the
most favorable route lor the extension of the
3V extern ami Atlantic R lilroad, from Lite Tennes
see line to the easterly inarg n of the Tonnes-ee
river. In ortlcrto accomplish these object* in the
most effectual nml conclusive in inner, nml with n
degree of expedition deemed requisite to their
timely performance, Mr. Whit well was directed
to a careful examinition of nil routes hav
ing ant’ claim to consideration on account of the
finalities nil irdod by them, for the desired exten
sion. and Brigailes No. 1. and Ko, 3, under the
direction ot Vr. Brown, and the latter under the
direction of Mr. Williams, assist ml engineer in
the Railroad service, were assigned to the execu
tion of all surveys necessary to n clear ilcvolopc
ment ol the reintivc merits of the several routes
in question, fa further explanation of the nature
and object of the duties assigned those gentlemen,
I take ioevc to refer to the instructions given
them, a ropy of which, marked A. is appended to
this paper.
In accordance with the instructions just refer
red to, the reconnaissance and surveys were com
menced at an early date in August, ami prosecu
ted with energy and ability, and with a direct view
to the attainment of nil the information culled for.
Mr. Whitwell's report on the reconnoissance
face document marked 11. herewith submitted) is
so lucid and replete with all appropriate intelli
gence in reference to the aspect of the country,
the general position, bearings, and relations of nil
routes having any claim to consideration, and so
conclusive, with respect to the several localities
traversed by the route most favorable for an ex
tension of the road from the Tennessee line to the
Tennessee river, that I forbear to enlarge, upon
these topics, except by signifying mv concurrence
with the views therein presented.
Agreeable to surveys heretofore made, which
have been suHiciently discussed in former reports
the point of which it has been deemed advisable
to strike the Tennessee line, is siMiatnl in that
line at the distance of about eight miles eastwardly
of R oust I lie. Accordingly this point was selected
as the place at which the surveys under considcr
ation should lie commenced. From this point to
•he Tennessee following routes, in addi
tion to numerous other experimental lines, have
been deemed worthy of an instrumental survey,
viz,: a route loading thence northwardly to Van’s
Ferry—a route loading wealw.irdly to the mouth
of the Chickamaugoe, and three rentes leading
was! ward ly and southwardly, two of them to
Ross’ Landing, and tho olh-r to Card naliire’s
Landing ; the distances on which rcspeetivly, as
measured from the us mined point to the Eastern
margin of the Tennessee river, have been found
as follows :
From the Tennessee line to Van's Ferry, the
distance is 12 miles 11120 feet.
From the Tennessee line to mouth of Ohicka
maugec, is 12 miles 432 feel.
From the Tennessee line to Gardenshire’s
Landing, 14 miles 3362 loot.
Do. via Kenan's mill to Russ’ Landing, 15
miles 4632 feet
Do. via. tunnel through Mission Ridge to
Ross’ Landing, II miles 3720 miles.
The foregoing are the re.sulls derived from
careful surveys, and exhibits in copious details in
the reports of Messrs. W illiams ft Brown, which
I herewith submit, and to which 1 beg leave rc
spoctfully to refer. (JS'ce docamenls marked C
and I>.)
The drawings a.-eeinp mving those documents,
which have been executed with a degree of skill,
n Mtnoss, and precision, highly credible to the
•draftsmen employed thereon, exhibit with snfli
clearness, the characters of several routes travers
ed by them, and tho relations existing between
them a id various important points on the Ten
nessee river, and in its vicinity. To those 1 also
take leave to refer for a correct view of tho several
Tho chart executed under the direction of Mr.
"VVhitwell, as an accompaniment of his report.
(S:e drawing marked IS.) has been prepared
from tho return, made in reference to the surveys
of the Cherokee lauds, within the State of Ten
nessee, an 1 exhibits not only a synoptical view of
'be several routes surveyed for the Railroad, but
rhows the positions and number of the Lots tra
versed by each route. Special care has been
taken to render this document as correct as rir
cum -lances would permit, especially in so far ns
it relate; to the route deemed most favorable.
In further explanation of the relative merits of
•the several routes under consideration, I subjoin
the following tabular exhibit in which are pre
cenlcd tho designation of each route, beginning
at the assumed point on the Tennessee line, viz:
a point on the north side, and about midway of
Lot N'o. 5, District SB and Section 3, of Chero
kee land District, in Georgia; the distance on
each route from the Tennessee river, and the
estimated probable cost of constructing a Railroad
on the several routes respectively, which is as fol
' lows :
Beginning at the assumed point and running
thence to—
Distance Cost
miles feel dolls, els.
1 Northwardly, to Van’s
Ferry 13 1330 123,151 95
2 Wesnvardly. to mouth
of Chickttinaugee, 12 423 158,623 70
3 Via Chickamaugoe Gap
to Gondcnhirc’s, 14 3302 192,544 50
4 Via Chickamaugee, di
rect to Ross’landing, 16 4633 256,503 05
5 Via Chickamaugoe by
detour to Ross’ land
ing, 17 1913 221,215 00
6 Via Tunnel in Mission
Ridge to Ross’ land
ing, 11 3720 654,773 05
From the foregoing statements, which have
been derived from tho results presented in tho
documents already cited, it is manifest that route
No. 1, leading northwardly to Van’s Ferry, is
only a few Icet longer than route No. 2, and that
the cost of construction on the former, is very
considerably less than on any other route, even
less than ou the route leading wcstwardly to the
mouth of the Chickamaugce, which is about 900
feel shorter. But in consideration of the pledge
implicitly given that the Railroad should reach
the Tennessee River at a point as low down as
practicable, shortness of distance, facility of trans
portation, and cheapness ot construction, being
regarded as governing principles of the location;
and in view of the obstructions opposed to the
navigation of tho ronnessee, which occur in shat
river, between Van’s Ferry and the mouth of the
Chickamaugce—in consideration of striking the
Tennessee at a paint most lavorablc for a prolon
gation of the route beyond this river, and in a
direction towards Nashville, &c. Ido not hesi
tate to recommend the route to the mouth of the
Chickamaugce as preferable to that leading to
Van's Ferry ; while the comparison exhibited in
toe above table shows its decided preference over
every other route presented in the table.
In accordance with the provisions of the laws
of Georgia, under which I have acted, in prose
cu iug the survey and location of the Railroad, 1
have deemed it my duly to designate a point on
the Eastern margin of ‘the Tennessee, at which
the shortest and best route from the Chattahoochee
to that river should have its northerly terminus.
Iho trace of the route pursued by llic Railroad,
from the Chatlahoochoe river to the Tennessee
line, which, with the exception of a few devia
tnn ’.fwvl by subsequent survey; te be advisable
iu. ,iln .ul\ Lc« nde ..cn i-mI in u lornivr report to
Ills Excellency, tin late Governoi of < > -o.g ■< u i
dcr dale of Nov. 7th, 18 ; >7. The route thun tc
vised mill amended is still regarded as the shortest
an 1 h •■>l that run hr found, leailin g in an appro
; priute dire■•tion across the broken and diversified
. region that must hr traversed by the Railroad.
The distan r on the revise I route, from the t.'bat
tahoorhcc to the Tetmessze Linn, is 113 miles
1 47 foci. Accordingly, th : « dutl inm. added to
, the extent of route No. 2, which his been deemed
, as ahovn, the shortest an 1 liest r iutc from the
Tennessr.' line to the Tennessee river, gives for
. the aggregate extent of the shortest and best
I route from the Chattahoochee to the Tennessee
river, 127 miles 589 fee'-.
. The propriety of designating a single point
only, ns the northerly terminus of the Railroad, in
, inferred from a literal construction of the lawn
, cnaete lin reference to the Railroad. Wlicreas
the spirit of the law and the exigencies of the
case, seem to call, not merely for a point, but for
mi extensive area or Held, for the display of al|
t the abilities, capacities, and energies of (lie Rail
, road which must hereafter be had in requisition
fir the accommodation of the divers! lid and wide
ly extended business transactions that will sooner
( or Is'er, in all human probability, be concentrated
at this place. In such an event, an area of many
miles, instead of a single point, will he required
as the site of (lie extensive emporium which we
have in anticipation ; an area which will embrace
the entire district, bounded northwardly by the
L'hickamaugce, westwardly by the Mission Ridge,
, and extending downward in the valley of the
Tennessee nearly to the Lookout Mountain. In
anticipation of such an emporium, I venture to
suggest the method of affording it all the accom
modation that will be required, as far as they re
late to the W. and A. Railroad.
by extending the route onward from lire Ten
nessee line about St l , miles, which carries on the
route selected through Mission Ridge, we arrive
at the point in the valley of the ( hiekamiuigee,
and near Kenan’s mills, from which divergent
router may proceed in various directions, leading
to the month of the (Jhiekatnaugee, Oardenhire's
Lauding, Russ' Landing, and to almost every oili
er point on the margin ofTcnnossee river between
the mouth of the Chickarnnugeo and Lookout
Mountain.
The point of divergence above designated, is
situated in the route selected, within a few hun
dred feet of tile Chickamaugee, is said to he nav
igable for Steamboats in all stages, at which the
Tumbling shoals, Lookout and Ross' Island shoals,
ore passable for the same craft. Accordingly, hut
for the letter of the law, which calls for an exten
sion of the nmd. to the margin of Tennessee river
this point might he assumed as the northerly ter
minus of the Railroad, The choice of such a
terminus, however, should he "predicated on the
extension of the several embranchments above
contemplated, to the margin of the river, the ex
tent of the several branches varying from ten and
three-fourths to eight miles according to the par
ticular points on the river to which they respec
tively lend.
The subjoined table will exhibit the position,
relative extent, and cost of the several routes al
ready surveyed from the point of divergence to
the Tennessee river, which are as follows, viz;
beginning at the point of divergence mid running
thence to—
Distance. Prob. cost.
No. miles, feet dolls, els.
1. Mouth of Chickamaugee, 3 3440 23,12130
3. Oardenhire’s Lauding, f) 1100 (53,302 73
3. Via Deep Cutto Rross’
Landing, 6 2370 120,700 30
4. Via Detour to Ross’
Landing 7 4921 90,063 25
It should be further observed in reference to
route No. 1, as exhibited in the above table, that
it pusses on very favorable ground, and by a re
markably direct course, which it pursues along
the margin of the Chickarnnugeo valley, and in
the vicinity of the stream itself quite to the margin
of Tennessee river, which it reaches at an eleva
tion beyond the reach of the highest I'rrnhri*.
w/th nmpcct to the business connexions that
may he found between the Railroad and the Ten
nessee river, at the several points above designa
ted, us also at numerous other points, both on the
bank of the Tennessee and those of the Chicka
nmugee, conveniences and facilities on a scale
commensurate wi.h any demand that may here
after be made for such accommodations, are un
doubtedly to bo found.
I have the honor to be,
Gentlemen, very respectfully,
Your most ob’t. serv’t.
[■signed] M. 11. LONG, Chief Eng'r.
From the N. O, Picayune, Nov. 29.
Latest from Western Texas.
by n passenger arrived yesterday in the schr.
Messenger from Galveston, wo gain the following
particulars in relation to the Indian disturbances
which at present agitate the Western portion ol
Texas.
Our informant states, that while at Houston
he received « letter treat San Antonio, dated the
14th inst., which mentioned that the inhabitants
in that place, both Tcxians and Americans, were
in the greatest alarm in consequence of a threat
ened attack from the Comanche Indians, who had
openly avowed their intention of exterminating
them, in case Man Antonio was not given up
peaceably; if they made any resistance, neither
age, sex, or country was to be spared from
massacre.
Many of the merchants and traders were leav
ing for the Colorado and brasos, fearing that those
threats would he carried into execution before a
force could be raised sufficiently large to repel
them. The conduct of the land surveyors is as
signed us the principal reason why the Indians
are placing themselves in this hostile attitude ;
while many of the Cumanches think that it is
the intention of the whites to drive them beyond
tho San Sabo mountains, w here is situated their
“Grand Council Room,” around which, for many
hundred miles, they have for years hunted the
butfalo without interruption or molestation.
Large drafts were being made throughout Tex
as to repel this new attack, and every individual
ot the proper age, who had applied for the rights
of citizenship although he might not have been
in the country a week, was compelled to shoul
der his musket, and hold himself in readiness to
march against the Rod men, who appear to be
threatening the young Republic on all sides, and
who are much more formidable enemies than any
they need expect from Mexico.
The gentleman who brings this information has
been some four months a prisoner among the Cu
manches, and states that although they number
in oil something like 10,000 fighting men not more
than 1000 are able to concentrate at any one par
ticular point on account of the great difficulty of
procuring provisions. He states that buffalo have
become extremely scarce among them, and that
this circumstance will materially help the Tex
iaus in repelling any attack they may threaten.
The next arrival will probably bring us full par
ticulars.
Goon N>:ws.—One of the most agreeable
items of intelligence that we have met with, states
that a loiter has been received in this city from
Liverpool, stating that it is intended to establish a
Imo of British steamers to this port. Rejoiced
as wo are to hear that this ardently desired good
is likely to ho realized at last, we cannot but feel
regret that our citizens continue so supine—so
dead to their own interests, that they permit them
i sc,ves to bc outdone in energy even in that which
moBt concerns their own advantage. .V»it* Or
/•a,n T' c American,
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• CHUuNKJJ.H AND SENTJNgL.
A II G IJ S T A .
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I TV EMUV morning; DHCKMBEB 1.
.-> I Our remarks in reply to the strictures of tho 1
0 People’s Press to-morrow or next day, as wo
( may find time.
,1 We regret to learn from Miilcdgevillo, that on
c Saturday last, the Dill for the organization of the
Supreme Court, was finally lost. It had beenre
s jeeted on the day previous and came up again
» on a motion to reconsider, which the House rc
-8 fused to sustain. /i >■ <
1 In our remarks a few days since upon the re
- cent nomination of Mr. Forsyth for the Vice
11 Presidency, hy the Union meeting at Millcdgc
r 'ilk, as “ the candidate of the South,” we put
d the question, “if the South is to he benefited and
y honored by a nomination, why not nominate a
southern candidate for President V’ To this the
~ Constitutionalist replies, that the South cannot
c find a candidate that stands any chance of sue- «
ceoding, better fitted to fill the office of President
| than Mr. Van Burcn.
0 Wo have not objected to the nomination of Mr
- Forsyth, or the score of qualification, or as the
candidate of the Van Burcn party. If they
. choose to support him, they are free to do so—for
e whatever reasons may urge them to it; but we
K shall not stand by passively, and witness our own
j degradation in making a mockery of southern
r rights and interests, by putting them in the market,
s to buy votes for the Vice Presidency—an office o*
but little responsibility, and power, and from
j which the South can derive no benefit. Much
has been said of lute about the paramount impor
* tunce of southern rights, and southern interests*
and the necessity of supporting men devoted to
3 them, and now we arc called upon to enact the
, poor force of staking them all upon the election of
1 an officer, scarcely secondary in power and im"
r portuncc. We object not to Aan Buren merd.y
. because he is northern or to Mr. Forsyth because
1 he is southern, but every southern man sho aid
reject with scorn, the proffered flattery of elect J g
. (he latter as u southern man to the second office,.
I while the same vote elects the former, a northern
man, to the first office. If it is necessary and
important that the South should unite and rally
in a body, in the approaching election, for tint
benefit as southern interests, is it nut folly, con
temptible,servile, and disgusting folly, to talk
about rallying upon the Vice Presidential elec
lion, and at the same time supporting « northern,
man for the Presidency ? W c feel ashamed that
any Georgian, could so far debase himself, by thus
debasing the South, by offering to purchase the
vain flattery of electing a southern Vice Presi
dent, by selling his vote fora northern President.
If the offer had come from the northern friends of
Van Buren, to put Mr. Forsyth upon the Vice
Presidential ticket on the ground of his being a ,
southern man, it would then have bcenbadenough
to have accepted the proffered bid upon that con
sideration, but to offer ourselves the voluntary sub
jects of sale in tbe market, with the label on our
' foreheads, “ six-pence for our votes," is sinking
ourselves to a point in the pit of degradation, at
which every southern man should hide his face
for very shame. If we con elect a candidate /of
the. south, to the Vice Presidency, wo arc equally
able to elect a candidate for the Presidency; and if .
there is any benefit derivable from having a south- 1
cm President, we would be foolishly throwing ; ;
away the opportunity, and staking the whole i
value of our strength as a people, upon a
profitless contest for an office, the incumbent of
which has not the official power to do us any
good in a struggle for our peculiar rights and in
terests. But the South has not the power to
elect either a President or Vice President, ami
Mr. Forsyth must get votes from other sections in
order to secure his election; if so, he will be ns
much the candidate of those sections as of the
South. That he would make a good Vice Pres
ident wc do not doubt—but if his sensibility i»
equal to his capacity, we should feel sorry to sup>-
pose that lie will not be mortified with the roller
tion that his own friends held up his election to
the Vice Presidency, as the consideration and
, purchase price which the Van Buren party elsc
• where must pay for their votes ns Southern men.
1 The Constitutionalist is right in supposing that
we desire to see the administration of Van Bu
, ren broken down. Opposed to him from the be
i ginning, we have seen nothing to induce a change
' in our opinion, and we are sure that the opportu
, nity of supporting a Southern man for Vice Pres.
; idenl, is not a sufficient inducement for us to do
1 so, when that support will enure to the benefit of
; Van Buren. The object of this nomination of f
Mr. Forsyth, is 100 plain to be misapprehended. !
■ It was not that they thought to honor him, or tha t
his election could be of any advantage to the
j South ; but it was intended solely to influence
, Southern votes for Van Buren—to buy them up
with the idle delusion of supporting a “candidate
|of the South”—as a sugar plumb for the people
. of Georgia to take at the same time with the bit
-1 ter pill of Van Burcnism to deprive it of its native
nausea and to render it sweet and palatable.
It is wrong to support or oppose any man for
. the Presidency purely upon sectional grounds—
r nothing short of extraordinary circumstances can
; justify such a step. We know not how soon such
t - circumstances may make it a duty of the South to
t l ' as t l>er electoral votesonly for southern men, but
t how infinitely ridiculous and contemptible shall
wo look in the eyes of the Union and the world,
. to support a candidate for the Presidency upon
general or party grounds, and at the same time
make a sectional question of the Vice Presidency 1
3 So bright an idea is certainly well worthy of the
s source from which it emanates—from a party
1 whose sole object is power, state and federal, and
[ who hesitate not to put up in market overt, the
I highest rights and interests of the South to pur
-1 chase it.—The Constitutionalist may, if it chooses,
* become the herald and advocate of this humiliating
| proposition—but as for ourselves, our flag has
. long since been floating at the mast-head with the
1 motto “ Anti-Van Burnt,"and we now add “For
' - vlli or not Fon.y th, Mill, Ant.- 1 an Bitrtn !. !
We lime no confidence in the man or his incus- j
i arcs—the people of Georgia have none, and an |
■ they have ore e already put the seal of their rep
robation upon him, we do not doubt that they are
ready and will do it again, even at the expense df
i sacrificing John Forsyth. \
/ Terrible Steamboat
jr ’/’he steamer Tiber, which arrived at New Or
j leans on the 29th reports that she passed the
1 week of the steamboat (Jen. Brown at St. Helena
' where the latter had collapsed a flue. Ihe eapt iin
I pilot, one of the engineers, and tiuktt other
! persons on board the Gen. Brown, lost their lives
by the calamity. Wo have not, says the Bee,
learned any further details, nor the time at wdiich
i he accident occurred.
I The Tiber also reports the Cummanche to be
sunk below Salt Kiver, and the Ozark aground at
Cumberland Island.
j
I More Indian .Hinders. «•»
On Monday 17th ult. a family of twelve per
, son, of the name of Zippar, were murdered twen-
I ly-onc miles from Black Grie'c, in a northwests
'Wiroction. /
1 Cotton Yarns, manufactured atLebanon, Ten
nessee, by Messrs. Muirhead, Mastnrson & Co.,
are ottered for sale at Nashville. The progress of
the cotton manufacture in the South and West,
although comparatively slow, is nevertheless
steady and sure.
The Nashville Banner of the 21st instant states
that the steamboat Native, while on her way up
the river to that city, exploded her boiler, by which
two negro men were killed, and several other per
sons were severely scalded. A number of horses
and cattle on board were blown into the river and
lost.
Notes of the U. S. Bank, altered from §5 to
J2O, with great skill, have been put into circula
tion.
The schooner Potomac was capsized in Long
Island sound on Sunday last, and all on board
perished.
The N. Y. Express says—“A letter from the
United States’ Legation at Bogota, dated 20th
September, to a gentleman in this City, gives no
tice that all claims against the late Colombian
Government must be presented on or before the
22d February, 1839, to the Commissioners ap
pointed to liquidate claims, now sitting at Bogota -
The Commission consists of Commissioners ap
pointed by the respective Governments of New
Grenada, Venezuela, and Equator.”
Communicated.
Mu. Joxks.—By means of some imprudent,
not to say foolish scribbling in the newspapers,
between two writers who signed their effusions
‘ Caution” and “ Augusta,” you and your read
ers have been troubled with complaints on the
part of myself and the Richmond Blues, whils 1
1 some of the members of volunteer corps in the
city, have been by those effusions, drawn into a
state of excitement and unpleasant feeling which
may suit boys, but which men must deprecate,
f have regretted that it was necessary for me to
appear before the public in this matter, but from
ihc circumstance of my having recently been a
member of the Blues, having left that corps by
n isignatlon, and joined another volunteer com
p any in the city, and being frequently asked by my
aequaintaucesaflerthc publication of “Augusta’s’’
communication, if I was not alluded to—l thought
with many others, that the offensive expressions
used by “Augusta,” might be intended to apply in
part to me. As you was not in possession of the
name of the author, I could not obtain it in the
usual way of application to you, and, therefore
was obliged to apply to him through the columns
of your paper. He has responded to that call,
and stated in your paper the meaning of those
expressions, which I thought, might be intended
to apply to me; he has besides, in an interview
which I have had with him, in which I stated my
reasons for believing that he alluded to mo—he
disclaimed any such allusion. A reply by me
now, therefore to the uncalled for invitation which
the Blues through your paper have given me, or
“my friends,” (I say uncalled for, because I did
not charge the Blues with the authorship,) to>
state my reasons for believing I was alluded to by
“Augusta,” is unnecessary, and in conclusion I
take pleasure in confirming their certificate that
he is not a member of their corps, and regret the
injustice that has been done them by a supposi.
I tion on the part of any one, that he was so.
/ E. BARKER.
Communicated.
Mb. Editor —ln the Augusta Mirror, of last
i Saturday, a small error in the signature to one
of its articles has escaped detection. It was ow
ing, probably, to the bleared state of the man us.
cript copy, being written in lead pencil mark.
The signature was mistaken—a circumstance, in
itself, indeed, too trifling to be noticed, but from
the belief that, as it now stands, it infringes upon
ground previously occupied. It will, therefore,
doubtless, by the Editor of the Mirror, be es
teemed no unneighborly act to give it as early a
correction as may be ; while, by the writer of the
article in question, it will be regarded as a special
favor, if, through the medium of your useful
paper, you will simply state, that, to the article
“ Random Hint, &c„ page 125, of the Mirror
instead of Amicus, the original signature is,
ANIMUS.
Frontier Movements.
The Buffalo Commercial Advertiser of the 22d,
mentions the seizure of a “long, suspicious-look
ing box, marked “mill-saws,” which came up
from the F alls, by the rail-road, the evening be
fore, and which the deputy collector took the lib
erty of opening.
It was found to contain muskets, bayonets,
shovels, pick-axes, &c. The deputy seized the
articles, but was immediately assailed by a gait"-
of ruffians who had collected round, and while
they kept him employed, the munitions of war
were earned off.
On the same night there was a gathering of he
roes, about 150 in number, who had a captain.
1 and weur intending to go up (u I.'elif.ii, borw>
i bout left Buffalo, on account of llic
and they dispersed.
| They appeared to he Canadians, and carried |
no weapons.
John G. Parker.-—' The Kingston U. C. Her- |
aid states that this gentleman has at length been
sent oil’to V r an Diemnn’s Land, for having writ
ten and spoken against the Colonial Government.
The Montreal Transcript says that two of the
Patriot prisoners in that city have been already
hung.
[The Montreal Courier of the 32nd makes no j
mention of the fact, and we are inclined to think
it is premature.]
From ihc X. Y. Herald, Nov, 2D.
Important I’rcisn the Canadas.
We have received some very important private
intelligence from Kingston and Montreal, in the
canadas, affecting to an extraordinary degree,
the reputation of -certain parties in this country,
and throwing a shade on the honesty of the re
cent Proclamation of the President.
It is well known that a number of the persons
taken by the British and Canadian troops in the
recent outbreaks at Prescott, and in L’Acadic,are \
native born Americans, young men, from the in
terior and border counties ot this State. Soon
after their capture they were examined privately
by the British authorities. In their examination,
.’some facts of a very extraordinary nature came
forth.
The leading points arc now given, hut wo pre
sume the. details will not be revealed till the state
trials are held in Canada.
Among the prisoners captured at Prescott,
■ there were forty or fifty young Americans, na
tives of this State. They assert positively in
their examinations that they were engaged to in
-1 vede Canada, by certain respectable and influen
tial citizens of this State, residing in Cayuga,
Onondaga, Oswego and Jefferson counties. They
1 were promised $3O per month, a supply of arms
1 and ammunition, and one hundred acres of good
j land, when the conquest of these two provinces
were completed. It also appears in evidence
that the funds to fit out the expedition, to seige
t Prescott and overrun L’Acadie, were procured
[ by discounts at certain banks in Ncw-York, and
on the borders. Persons standing high in the
confidence of Mr. Van Burcn, and his party,
j were the indorsers of that paper, discounted by
the banks. It is now well known that not three
Upper Canadians joined the expedition, and but
few of those in the Lower Province. The whole
affair was planned in this State, by a hand of the
I same land speculators, connected with our Gov
-1 eminent, who have been ruining their country
and destroying its commerce during the last five
years. We are even persuaded that the Presi
. dent knew very well the existence of their dan
gerous intrigue, in all its details. It is true he
1 came out with his Proclamation of neutrality, hut
■ not the slightest symptom of this document ap
i peared, till both the expeditions against Canada
, had failed entirely. The rascally refugees, such
as Kelson, Cote, M’Kenzie, and others, wore used
merely to forward a land speculation, similar to ’’
■ that by which Ex-Collector Swartwout, used the
. funds of his office to forward his speculations in
Texas lands. Even Col. Ming, Rioll, and others
in our Custom House, wore in part of the same
manoeuvre. It. was also connected with the boun
dary question, about which so great a fuss has
been made in Maine. A revolution, leading to
1 the Independence of the Canadas, would settle
, at once the disputed boundary, and leave the land
; speculators a fine field for their operations.
What a dangerous precipice the country has
been standing on! In order to destroy the re
membrance of his foolish measures, the President
has been intriguing to create a war feeling in the
country, and thus to put in jeopardy nil our com
merce and foreign trade. The trials about to
take place in Montreal and Kingston will reveal
matters that will astonish the people of this coun
try.
How came the “ poor patriots” to collect to
gether three or four pieces of artillery, 20,000
rounds of ball cartridge, more than a dozen barrels
of powder,seven hundred muskets, rifles, &c.,
under the very eyes and nose of Van Burcn’s in
defatigable office without their cognizance! If this
was not done, without their knowledge, why was it
not prevented. Let Van Burcn choose which
horn of the dilemma he pleases to rest upon till
wc take him off.— lb.
From Buenos Ayres and Montevideo.
By the brig Edwin, Capt. Varney, at NV
A ork. Buenos Ayres papers to Sept. 29th, at.
a Montevideo letter of Oct. sth have been receiver
i The posture of affairs in that quarter had n
, materially changed since the date of the previoi
. advices. The city of Montevideo still held oi
against the outside or revolutionary party, Tli
blockade of Buenos Ayres continued, and it wi
• supposed would result in war. The probabilii
, is that a French expedition, consisting of tl
, Diadcme razee 74, and two corvette transport
with an aggregate of IGOO men on board besidi
* the crews, is now on its way to Buenos Ayr.
. from France. The Buenos Ayrcans were ah
making preparations for war.
The blockading squadron off Buenos Ayres ha
sent seven prizes into Montevideo, five of thei
> Buenos Ayrean, and the other two bearing the fla
. of the Oriental Republic. The French Const.
[ at Montevideo having made arrangements for tb
sale of those vessels by auction, the Oriental go'
1 ernment interposed objections, and a sharp cone.
. pondence ensued. There was also a sharp co.
. respondcnce between the French and British Con
suls, in consequence of the latter having cxpressc.
an opinion (in answer to inquiries from a pcrsoi
who expressed a disposition to bid for some of thi
prizes) that they would not be safe from subse
quent attachment by the original owners.
Correspondence of the Journal of Commerce.
Montevideo, Oct. sth, 183 S.
There is no change in the political state of th<
Banda Oriental. This city is effectually besiege
by the Revolutionary party, and provisions ha'
become enormously dear. ‘ The Government ai
■ determined to sustain themselves to (he last nn
i ment. We have received accounts from Buen<
i A . vres announcing the intelligence that the diffc
j encas between that Government and France wi
in all probability result in a war, (the Buen.
’ Ayreans are busy in building fortifications,) ti
effect of which I am of opinion will be, to haste
a settlement of the disturbances and troubles whici
agitate the tranquility of these provinces.
The brig Ames, Nash, master, of New Vorl
was totally lost at Bahia Blanco, Coast of Pats
gonia, in July last. Crew all saved, and lande.
hero in a destitute condition on the 3d inst., 19 i.
number. The American Consul here has pr.
vided the necessary relief for these unfortunate
and will send them to the U. S. as opportunity
may otter. This vessel was a “ Whaler,” belont
ing to Silas E. Burrows, Esq. of New York. ,
'Buenos Avbes, Nov. 29th We have n
ccivcd the Montevideo journal Universal to 25t'
instant. Affairs were much in the same state s
it regards the civil war in the Oriental territon
. hose in arras against the government were sti
in considerable force in the vicinity of Monte vide
but no fresh encounters had taken place. Pr.
visions (especially beef,) were scarce and dear i
that capital.
We give the following reports from Montevidi
without vouching for their authenticity. Tha
Admiral Brown, having by permission of the gov
ernment of Buenos Ayres, entered into the se
vice of the Oriental Republic, was employed ,
Montevideo in fitting out three vessels'to a.
against those of the rebellious.—’That the Frencl
Admiral Leblanc, has given notice to the goven
ment at Montevideo, that ho shall not suffer tl
other light than ;y c
have heard other particulars upon this subject, but
forbear to mention them until we have more po
sitive information. “
From Uio dc .lunciro.
The. following extracts of a letter, furnished the
Editor’s of the Baltimore American, dated
‘•Uio m; J.tMiiun, Sept 30, 183 ft.
| The market has been very dull this month as
| regards imports—heavy supplies have arrived, and
prices generally have given way. For the most
part they may bo now considered nominal.
Owing to the Government taking up large sums
monthly on interest, in preference to selling stock,
i money is unprecedcntly scarce in the business
■ market, anil while the necessities of the Govern
! ment seem daily to augment, and require legisla
-1 tive authority for further issues of stock, the .Min
ister of Fazenda gives a preference to temporary
loans, while at the same time he exposes his wants;
I and as every body sees ho must ultimately resort
j to a sale ol stack, holders have pushed it on the
| market, and thus added to his embarrassments by
reducing the prices to 76 per cent, from 87 u 88
per cent at which he once refused to sell that au
thorized last year.
This necessarily impeded the current of bust
ness, and these difficulties have suggested expedi
ents to increase the revenue by augmenting the
duty on imports, which will soon be fixed on ar
ticles under the name of duty, storage, &0., to 20
per cent. On the other hand, a revision of the
Tariff is going on, by which the valuation on ma
ny articles will be raised. On Flour, I understand
it is proposed to make it equal to a duty of 21 |j 500
instead of 10||872 per barrel, as it is now to be
carried into immediate operation.
The imports of Flour this month are 14.760
barrels from the United States, and 3,633 bid?,
from Europe and coastwise.
From the La Plata or Uio Grande we have
nothing lute or interesting. Things at last dates
were in disorder and confusion at both places.
The Blockading Squadron had prohibited the ship
ment of hides, &e. previously carried c a from
Buenos Ayres to Montevideo.
From the A "to Orleans Bee, Nov. 28.
Attempt to Rob the Post Office.
Yesterday morning an individual named Smith
appeared at the Post Office, and asked the clerk
for a letter which he had thrown into the box, an
he wanted to pay the postage and correct a mis
take. The clerk ns is customary, requested him
to write his address which he did, and imitated
the s uperscription of the letter so artfully that, the
counterfeit was not at first detected, The letter
being handed to him, he altered the address and
opened the letter, abstracting a hundred dollar note 1
which it contained. He then pretended to wri.V
something in the inside, folded and returned it.
He was about to leave the. office when the clerk
having observed his couefestand suspecting some
f one before, that the enclosure had been removed
and that it must be returned. The clerk added \
that he could not permit him either to take away
the enclosure or to alter the letter, as he could rea
dily perceive that he was not the writer.—Smith
upon this, left the office saying that he would re
turn in half an hour. The suspicions of the Post
master being confirmed by this equivocal conduct,
he ascertained by examination of the letter, the
real name of its author, sent for him and learned
that Smith was a hoarder in 1 lie house, and that
having some previous knowledge of the epistle
and its valuable contents, he had watched the
young man who had brought it to the office, and
had shortly after made the attempt we have rela
ted.
A statement of the affair being made to the
District Attorney, Smith was arrested and is now
safely lodged in prison.
Latkst from Tampa Bat.—By Express, at
Black Cn-cekon the 20th inst. from Tampa Bay, J
we IcaPTfthm MRlMMlui; with/
his family, in nil about fifteen persons, were es
corted into camp. This number, it is said, con
stitute the whole amount of those disposed now to
emigrate.
' mauriedT”~
On Sunday morning, Dec. 2d, in the Presbyterian
Church, by the l!cv. Mr. Cunningham,Mr. Charles
J<OS3 - formerly of Rahw ay, New Jersey, to Mrs.
Moore, formerly of New York, both now
of this city.
COMMERCIAL.
Savannah, December 1.
Cotton. —Arrived since the 23d inst. 47 16 bales.
Upland and 13bales S. I. Cotton, and cleared at the
saruc-time, 5260 bales Upland Colton; leaving a
stock on Trsnd, inclusive of all on ship board hot
cleared on tile 20th inst. of 16446 bales Upland
and 64 bales Ska Island.
The desire of holders to effect sales of Upland
adverted to in our last report, continued until Wed-,
nesday, enabling buyers to purchase at i a j cents
decline in the middling qualities, yesterday there
was an improved feeling and sales were effected at
I cent, advance on the previous offering prices, at
tributable to intelligence brought by the steamer
Liverpool. The sales of the week amount to 4352
bales, at from llj-to 13J , cents. In Sea Island we
hear of no transactions of any importance.
" "* -i i. i 11
marine intelligent e.
Savannah, December 1.
Arrived —Ship Potomac, Gorham, New York;
ship Chatham, Gorham, Boston ; Bark R H Doug
lass, Collins, Baltimore ; steamboat Oglethorpe,
Dillon, Augusta.
Charleston, November 3.
Arrived on Saturday —Schr. Ursula, Davis, St.
Augustine; steam packet North Carolina, Davis,
Wilmington.
Arrived^yesterday —BrJbarque Enterprize, Deme
raia, via Antigua; Br. brig Fame, Figgett, Barba
does.
Cleared —French ship Nouvelle Deux Nanette,
Reboyer, Africa; brig Delaware, Ross, Havana;
brig Washington, Bishop, Philadelphia; schr. Co
tone. Brooks, Mobile ; steam packet Gov. Dudley,
Marshall, Wilmington.
Went to sea on Saturday —Line brig Cervantes,
Kendrick, Boston ; U. L. brig Tybee, Herbert,New
\ ork ; brig Washington, Bishop, Philadelphia; schr.
State Rights, Phillips, Wilmington; steam packet L Y
Gov. Dudley, Marshall, Wilmington.
Went to sea yesterday —Brig John C. Calhoun, | |
Smith, St. Jago and a market; brig Levant, Nick
erson, Boston ; brig Borodino, Cooper, Boston; Line ja
brig Solon, Forrest, Baltimore; brig Christiana,
Cox, W ilmington ; schr. Patrick Henry, Hudgins,
Norfolk.
CT Tuesday the 6th inst.,having been set apart
by the Mayor of our city, in conformity to a lieso
lution of the City Council, as a day ofPublie Thanks- jg
giving and Prayer, and praise to Almighty God for »jf
the numerous manifestations ofhis kindr.essand j
mercy towards our citizens the past season, there I
will he Divine service in the Presbyterian Churc’.i ,’S
on that dav, commencing at half past 10 o’clock,
A. M. ' dcifo,
(fj 51 We are authorized to announce
COSBY
DICKINSON as a candidate for re-election to the
office of Receiver of Tax Returns for Richmond
county, at the election on tire first Monday in '
uary next. deed td*
RE, MARTIN, DENTIST, has returned to
• this city—Room No. 45,in the private part
j of the U. S. Hotel. ts nov_27__
RICHMOND ACADEMY'.—The Trustees ft
this institution will, on the loth day of De
cember next, pi-orc c-d to the election of a Rector,
and first and second English Teacher ; also, for 1
Teacher fur the Branch at Summerville. App l1 *
cants for either of these situations will please ad
dress the Prcsidcntof the Board of Trustees.
AL EX. CU NNI NO HAM.
nov 20 td President.