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WILLIAM E. JONES. AUGUSTA, Ga. TUSEDAY MORNING, JANUARY 1, 183*, if You. IlZ N « 157
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CHKONICLW AND SBNTINEL.
AUGUSTA.
'"MONDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 3«* ,
At 12 o’clock to-morrow, a splendid new boat
15 feet long and twenty-five feet wide, being the
Ingest that ever was built for the Savannah
till be launched at the Western Wharf. It is
|ic property of Mr. Jas. A. Fawns.
I A man answering to the description of Solo-
H , Step, one of the men who is charged with
1 murder of Martin Fraley, in Hardin county,
|enn., has been apprehended, and now in jail in
jahloncga, Lumpkin county, in this State.
| The General Banki ig Bill, wo learn, has been
’proved by the Governor, and a resolution was
I .pled by die Legislature to elect on Wednesday
l.ming last two Bank commissioners.
I - he resumption of specie payments by the Banks
■ ow Orleans, look place on die 2411 i, ami was
I ted without the least excitement. The Bulletin
I ,f the2ath states that from the Union Bank,
ft .f the largest in the city, only twet.ty dollars
[I rf.
I kvOgUStll,*- ——'Sf
_ "»• V
~~ IlarTisv. a.2, 1 s,„-
I BVPn t of moment seems to have transpired at
B sbtirg since the 2Ulh The Senate met on the
W and alter making nominations for Bank Di-*|
I rs, an I resolving to go into iheir election on
I .bllowing day, adjourned witlio it doing any
business. Both branches of the Legislature
Sua Saturday, pro forma, and adjourned until
iujHl •
Htlearn from the Mobile Chronicle that the ship
together with two hundred bales of
was entirely consumed by fire, on Monday
the 21th inst, while lying off Cedar Pointy
iter cargo. The fire originated in the ca
was so rapid in Us progress that the
Hijrand crew had barely tune to escape, witli-
any thing. The ship and cotton were
Hived at Nevv-York.
S[r anniversary of the battle of the 23d of Dc-
Hitier, 1314, was celebrated at New-Orleans by a
■ml military display. The presence of the vete
_Hgivlilier, Muj Gen Gaines, of the U. S. Army j
Jjfl.eaddmonal interest 1 1 tb; celebration.
|fljlt] individual was on the 26th inst. arrested in
Hiiile on the charge of rubbing the mail between
Htdiy and Montgomery. A presentation of city
Hauls, at the counter of one of the Mobile Banks
■ lnhisdeteelion ; as upon inquiry it was uscer-
Itted that the bonds bad been forwarded by eaaij
Hm Mobile on the 19th inst.
Wrom the Natchitoches Herald of the 6th inst,
■ilearn that Gen. Rusk, with about 100 Texians
ftjerossed the Sabine m pursuit of some Caddoes,
eto had been in the Republic, and alter disarming
an ami threatening the Agent, fur furnishing
Hem, as lie said, with the arms ami ammunition, lie
•tossed the river. Immediately on the receipt of
fte intelligence at Fort Jesup, Col. Many with all
W troops under bis command, proceeded to
wevepnrt, the scene of the violation, but the re
■tof the expedition was yet unknown.
I'feicurn from Columbus, that a dozen or moreof
B gang of counterfeiters, botse thieves, moendia-
Bt,&e.,that were arrested in that city, have been
Bd.fuund guilty, and are sentenced to the peni-
Bhary, from seven to twenty years.
Georgia Legislature.
HVtlearn by the Milledgeville correspondent of
■ institutionalist that the resolutions of Mr.
adopted by the House, were taken up
Senate on Thursday last, and passed by a
W < of 45 yeas to 29 nays, as follows ;
Ito^iEis —Mssrs. Atkinson, Bailey, Baker, Beall,
’uftlwick, Bradford, Brown of Heard, Camden,
fW "eland, Cockran, Cone, Dranc, Duncgan,
iols, Foster, Gordon, Graham, Green, Guess
™ of Wayne, Hendrick, Holmes, Hutchings,
P* ta, Jourdan. Lawson of Burke, Lawson of
BwUon, Loveless, Mattox, Mauldin, McDonald,
$ ;ley, Moye, O’Barr, Polk, Pryor, Rogers,
K. erford, Scarborough, Slone, Smith of Cowe-
K nrihger, Swain, Tilford, and Wilson.
irs—Messrs. Alexander, Billups, Black,
'ham, Bryan, Calhoun, Curry, of Decatur,
I yot Washington, Ellington, Floyd, Hansell,
| *" rrallson, Harris of Taliaferro, Harris of War-
Janes of Lee, Knight, Lamar, McFarland,
w Lennon, Miller, Morgan, Sayre, Shaw, Smith
Floyd, Spencer, Surrency, Tarver, William
*°n, and Wright.
The following bills have passed both Houses i j
'•To transfer the Insurance Bank of Columbus I
organize a new county out of the counties of
and Floyd, to be named Chattooga ; to
ft J!f )rporatc the Brunswick Insurance and Trust
.Napany.
; he House has passed bills, to amend the char*
f the Commercial Bank at Macon, to alter
institution as respects elections by the legis
r; to prevent frauds at general elections ; to |
jkit penal in certain cases, for pilots of boats j
drivers ; to incorporate a Medical Col !
1 jH&avaiiuah: to define the liability of rai
■vH ’1
'V Wnpanies, for the payment of damage and
Hpne to stock, &c.; to incorporate a com
■ the construction of a rail-road from Ea
the Georgia Rail Road; to_’proniote the 1
[■ silk in this Slate.
•Id has adopted a resolution, aulhori- i
j..'*jHpvernor to appoint three persons to j n - ■
j vestigatethe claims of Peter Trczevant, K. M. D.
J. Elliott, and others.
'The House has concurred to the amendments of
| the senate, to the bill calling a convention. One
| of the amendments provided that the senate shall
j consist of 40 members, and that the Convention
shall establish 46 senatorial districts, each of two
I contiguous counties, and if new counties arc crea
ted, to be added to a contiguous district.
Tlic bill to create a sinking bank fund, for the
safety and redemption of the notes issued by the
banks of this State, was taken up and on motion
was laid on the table for the remainder of the
session.
The Senate has passed a bill to incorporate the
Muscogee Insurance Company. Also a bill au
thorizing the commissioners of the Western and
Atlantic. Rail Road, to have a reconnuisance and
survey made for the extension of the road from
its present termination.
In the senate on Tuesday, the bill to relievo
and exonerate the several banks of the state from
the pains and forfeiture incurred by them by their
late suspension of specie payments, was ordered
to lie on the table for the remainder of the session,
yeas 46, nays 25.
Death of an Indian Chief. •***
While Path, a distinguished chief of the Chero.
kce tribe, died near Hopkinsville, Ky., a few days
since, aged 75 years. He was in company with
the first detachmontpf emigrating Chcrokees, and
had been for many yeatsa member of their coun
cil. As a warrior few Indians have been more
distinguished than White Path. He was interred
near the Nashville road, and a painted monument
erected to his meiuery; a tall pole was also placed
at the head of his grave, with a flag of white linen
attached to it—it being according to their customs /
honor.
Communicated.
Mn. Editor— We are pleased to see the ac
tion of the South Carolina Legislature, upon the
controversy now pending between the State of
Georgia and Maine. Since the adoption of the
resolutions introduced by Mr. Rhett, we we.rc
surprised to learn from high and undoubted au
thority, that General McDuffie, whilst acting as
Governor of South Carolina, pursued a course
similar to that of the Governor of Maine. The
facts we understand to be as follows: A citizen
of South Carolina, was charged and accused by a
Grand Jury of this State, of having feloniously
stolen and carried away a negro slave, the pro
perty of a citizen of Georgia, wherefore the Exe
cutive of Georgia demanded of the Executive of
South Carolina, the fugitive from justice, who
then resided in Carolina, which demand was re
fused by Governor McDuffie! If this matter
can be explained, none would more rejoice than
myself to see it satisfactorily accounted for.
Can the editor of the South Carolinian give
us any satisfaction upon the subject 1
JUSTICE.
Fatcr from Europe.
By the arrival of the ship Gladiator, from Lon
don, at New-York, London dales to the lltli,
Liverpool to the 9th, and Paris to the Bth of
November, have been received, being three days
later. The following items are from the New
York Herald slip.
Lord Durham’s Proclamation had been re
ceived in London, and caused a very active con
troversy in the newspapers, respecting the future
policy of Lord Melbourne and the Cabinet. The
opposition journals cut it up terribly—the Whigs
support it only. The London papers publish our
remarks on the document. From appearances,
there will be no rupture in the Whig cabinet,
unless Lord Durham is very savage. All the
British North American Colonics will probably
be united together, and bound to the imperial
state by means of steam power. Particulars
annexed.
The Uritish government is taking a new step
in the history of nations. The establishment of
magnificent steam lines round the world, by the
way of the Isthmus of Panama, and the Modi- 1
terranean, will increase her power and give her '
a new lease of empire. England, by the appli- 1
cation of steam, is destined to be the greatest em- 1
pire the world ever saw—an empire embracing '
every sea and every ocean. Some curious par- '
ticulars will he found on this head among our *
extracts. !
The Cotton and money markets are in a good 1
position. Humphrey and Biddle, maintain their !
position ami the prices. It is calculated that the 1
deficiency in the corn crop of England, will be 1
equal to 2,500,000 quarters. Some of the Lon- 1
dim papers copy our remarks recommending the 1
negociation of a new commercial treaty with Eng- 1
land, on the principle of a mutual duty of 10, 15, '•
or 20 per cent., respectively on our corn admitted 1
into England, and their manufactures into the
United States. This proposition, first started by !
the Herald, will soon occupy the diplomatists of !
the two nations.
The position of things at present in England,
in relation to Lord Durham and the Canadas, is
very serious. Lord Brougham has been travelling
to refresh his mind and body, and to obtain strength
for the encounter which is to come oil' between
him and Durham. There will lie two squads of
speculators to this passage of arms between these
two celebrated men—the Whigs and the Tories.
They will not probably attack each other directly,
but through Durham and Brougham. The
Tories will back the one combatant, and the
Whigs will back Durham; and the probability
is that the Tory party will be defeated.
The “ Chronicle” the mouthpiece of the min
istry, sustains him cleverly. The latter journal
says :
“ The time, however, calls for decision. The
interests of two fine provinces and of the whole i
empire, compromised by delay, call for the speedy
adoption of efficacious measures. To conciliate i
the French Canadians is impossible ; to benefit t
them, as well as the inhabitants of British dc- )
scent, by measures suited to the crisis, is possi- 1
ble.” I
From this we may readily infer that the British i
ministry' on the arrival of Lord Durham, (and : t
even before it) will do all they can consistently i
to take the sting out of the wound they gave him, i
and to conciliate him. This done, (and this " ill j .
; be dons if any means in their power, short of re-1
signing, can effect it,) they will probably take
him into the cabinet, and then commence a series j
of sweeping measures in relation to Canada. I
They will doubtless declare all the recent execu
tions and court-martials, and violent measures !
adopted in Canada, to be illegal, and then remove 1
all those at present in authority in the two pro- i
vinccs.
The “ London Times,” the organ of the Tory 1
party, hits opened its batteries on Lord Durham, !
and abuses him and all his measures most un- ,
mercifully. Os his proclamation, it says:
‘•lt is impossible to throw aside tills Durham |
scandal in its present half worn state. The j
Lard H ifh Sedif loner has choked the coimuuni- i
ty with indignation. Use reconciles ns not to,
his offence against till decency. The oftener wi :
recur to the unprincipled manifesto “the more !
rank it smells.” We have never read or heard I
of a slate of paper which argued so entire a
want of practical wisdom, public honor, and in
tegrity, in the quarter whence it proceeded.”
The following from the “London Courier,” of
Nov. 9tli, may be considered indicative of the
feelings, desires and intentions of the proceedings
at. the opening of the next session of parliament,
fur which no definite day is yet fixed.
“Lord Melborne may have reason to regret tin
error committed by the Governor General of
Canada; and Lord Durham may have cause to
be dissatisfied with the course pursued in respect
to him, individually, by the ministry, and to look
with altered, even with angry feelings, upon some
of his most attached and long respected political
i connexions. But all this cannot, us wc conceive,
'affect the question in Lord Durham’s clearly see
ing and ever honorable mind, whether the gov
ernment of the country should be surrendered up
to the Lords of Misrule, whether the offices and
appointments about the Court should be filled by
the creatures of a corrupt and selfish faction, and
whether Ireland especially should he ruthlessly de
prived of the only positive good that has been
conferred upon her for centuries, and delivered
over, bound hand and foot, to the dominion of
bigotry.
Still retaining them, as Lord Durham cannot
fail to do, his conviction of the necessity of avoi
ding that calamity which Lord Brougham is so
unceasingly anxious to hasten and accomplish,
will not his Lordship’s approval of the Ministerial
retention of office suggest to his calm judgment
an argument that should have induced him to
stand firmly against the faction in the same way,
and retain the High Commissionership of Canada,
which, with a full sense of the natural difficulties
of such a position, he had so recently accepted !
With regard to the state, affairs between Eng
land and Russia, the organ of the British Gov
ernment says:—“ There will he no war this
winter. This is now our firm persuasion. And
this time next year, we trust, we shall have
the same consoling prospects before us, un
less the nation should meanwhile, be visited with
the calamity of a Tory Ministry.
A man-of-war has been seat to Sir. C. Paget
with despatches, ordering him to take all the dis
posable force he can muster to the coast of Mexi
co to protect British merchant vessels during the
continuance of the blockade.
The Queen, it is thought, will not visit Brigh
ton this wintci.
Pacific Stf.am Navigation.— A new com
pany has been formed in London, with a capital
of one million of dollars to establish a continuous
line of steam packets between London and the
western coast of South America, byway of the
Isthmus of Panama. This association is to be
called the “Pacific Steam Navigation Company.”
No part of the world is better calculated for steam
navigation than the shores of the Pacific. The
distance from Valparaiso to Panama is about 3,-
500 miles, the coast embraces a population of up
wards of four millions; land communication is
everywhere difficult, and in many places imprac
ticable ; and navigation by sailing vessels is tedi
ous and uncertain at every season, notwithstand
ing which the number of persons travelling along
the coast amount to nearly annually 9,000. On
the other band, a bold and clear coast, numerous
and always accessible harbors, (lie prevailing
south wind generally light, with frequent calms,
producing un almost invariably smooth sea, arc
all circumstances in the highest degree favorable
to steam navigation. Voyages now occupying
20 or 25 days may be accomplished by steam in
40 or 50 hours.
The “British Queen” may probably be ready
for sea about the middle of the month. We should
not be surprised to see her here about the Ist of
next month.
From the Hankers’ Circular.
Advantages of Steam Communication be
tween THIS COUNTRY AM) THE UNITED STATES.
“We find that it has turned out as was to be ex
pected, that the advance in the prices of cotton in
Liverpool has led to large sales of twist in Man
chester on somewhat better terms than could have
been obtained two or three weeks since. The
more favorable accounts of spreading activity in
the trading concerns of the United States which
were brought by the Great Western steamer, con
firmed as they have lieen by other arrivals from
that country, had tin’ effect of inducing buyers of
y arn for fabrieks to be consumed in England to lay
in considerable stocks; and there has been some
speculative demand for foreign countries. These
combined operations have certainly relieved the
spinners very opportunely, when they were fall
ing into a state of great depression, with very
gloomy prospects for the winter. If the intelli
gence had been received a month earlier, the
amount of business which it would have stimula
ted would have been much greater, because it
would have excited the merchants or agents who
supply the continent of Europe to purchase larger
stocks for their correspondents. They had been
restrained from doing this by an apprehension,
which almost universally prevailed, that a materi
al fall in die price of cotton would take place at
Liverpool. The intelligence arrived too near the
winter season, when all commercial intercourse
with the northern ports will be closed to afford
all the advantages to the manufacturers which an
earlier arrival would have given them.
“ \Ve have been led rather astray from our suli
jeet by the introduction of the exciting and in
teresting subject of the effects of intelligence
quickly brought by the Great Western: but the
bearings of this change in our communications
on the manufacturing interest of the country are
so important, as to force themselves upon our no
tice whenever we allude to the state of trade in
the densely peopled districts. The woollen and
silk trades received a corresponding impulse from
the same source, and some of the stocks, which
were beginning to accumulate, were moved off in
consequence. In the former it was not sufficient
to cause any remarkable difference, because the
production has been great, and the market is too
large to be greatly effected by a minor cause;but
the silk being a much more limited trade, is more
immediately operated on. We understand that
stocks of silk goods were increasing and were be
ginning to weigh down prices; but the sale of a
comparatively small amount—say to the extent of
X 100,000 or Xl2o,ooo—to the American buyers,
after the arrival of the Great Western, relieved i
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tfUvmarkot. and had the effect of sustaining prices.
1 iiertt is no doubt that all the
f>f metal goods in Sheffield and Birmingham, and
I 'the Potteries, were relieved in a corresponding
manner; mid wc anticipate that every arrival from
the United States will contribute to keep up the
stream ot trade, without leading, tor a long time
to come, to a large and brisk business.
“ Wc imagine that facts, some of which we
have now alluded to, must have removed the im
, pressiou from the minds of the Liverpool mer
| chants that the great stocks of cotton held by the
power ot the banks caused the gloom and stagna
tion in business. \\ e said that the cause lav
j much deeper, and proposed to submit our reason's
, tor this opinion, and as those would, it we an 1 right
i in onr views, tend to restrain manufacturers from
I producing so largely without an adequate prosper
j live demand, we shall advert to the subject on
j occasion. The temporary briskness that
j flus prevailed in Liverpool during the last ten or
twelve days, shows that ue must look to soiiMil
other source than the one alleged, to account for
the want ot general animation si ill prevalent.
“W e see no reason to alter the impression
which we had received that the advance in the
price of cotton, say from three to live eights per
pound, is likely to be maintained, hut any specu
lation for a further advance beyond this appears to
us dangerous.”
ITance.
1 he Paris Journals o( Nov. Blh, do mil contain
a syllable of domestic news of any interest, with
the exception ot a Royal Ordonance convoking
the meeting of the (’handlers on the 17th of De
cember. The question of Electoral Reform takes
precedence ofall others in the columns of the Lib
eral Journals. There is no doubt that the de
mand of the National Guards to be included
among the electoral body will, if persevered in
with firmness, throw a great and dangerous stum
bling block in the way of the Ministry. Had the
Ministers the magnanimity to concede to the
wishes of the Reformers in time, the solution of the
question would be equally popular and safe ; but
it is the fatality of weak Governments, by the re
fusal ot just concessions, to provoke the enforcing
ot the most outrageous demands. What would
purchase the gratitude of u nation, if conceded one
year often excites derision when withheld to the
next. I’hc perfection of statesmanship consists
in appearing to load the people, by always antici
pating that expression of the popular will which
reduces compliance on the part of a Ministry to
the mcagrcncss of a necessary, or rather inevita
ble act. Another question which will give Min
isters some trouble is the reduction of the Five
per Cents. A rumor prevailed on the Hoarse on
Thursday, to the effect that the King had consen
ted to the reduction of the interest and that a para
graph in the forthcoming Royal Speech would
recommend the measure to the Chambers, which
had the effect of producing a decline in the prices
ot that description ot Stock. Such a rumor, how
ever, is more likely to be ill than well founded.
'l’hc following appears in the Constitutionncl,
in the shape of a letter from Toulon :
We understand, for certain, that (he project of
the federation ot the Uutiaii States under the pro
tectorate of Austria, of which the Legitimist pa
pers first revealed tin’ existence, is going to tic ac
complished. The journey which M. de Mcttcr
nich made recently to Turin was solely in order
to obtain the adhesion of Clias. Albert. The,
most recent news from Naples announce that the
Lombardo Venetian kingdom will have 7 votes ;
Sardinia and Piedmont, together, 5 ; Naples and
Sicily, 5; the Papal States.:); Tuscany, 3; Tar
ma, I ; Lucca, 1 ; —in all 24 votes.
The Journal des Debats has an article on (he
state of French railroad companies, and attributes
their depression not only to the throwing 200,-
000,000 of shares on the market, but to the too
sudden demand ofinstalmcnts. “The instalments
already paid up,’ says the Debats, “are sufficient
to carry on works for next 18months,until whielK
period none will be called for,” This alludes to 4
the determination of the Havre company to exe
cute at first the road merely to Pontoise, and even
open it, ere they proceed farther. The journal
recommends a revision of tariffs, and an allevia
tion ot the terms imposed on companies. A min
imum of interests even may hereafter he guaran
teed to future companies, i. t. no doubt to the
Belgie line, but not to those at present existing.
Government, however, is nut likely again to follow
the recommendation of the Journal des Debate,
which so strongly advised the two simultaneous
lines to Versailles, which have turned out so dis
antrous.
Spain.
The meeting of the Gortcs is looked for with
great anxiety. The present ministry it is thought,
will lie dissolved. A battle lias been fought and
the Garlists have been victorious.
London, Nov. 9.
American Securities have been rather exten
sively purchased by the public since Tuesday last,
and the market for them is good at the following
prices:
Five per cent, pound sterling Alabama, 84.
Five per cent. Alabama, 83 to 84.
Five percent. Indiana, 93$ to 94 j.
Five per cent. Louisiana, (Baring’s) 92 to 93.
Five per cent. Louisiana, (Lizardi’s) 95 to 96^.
Six per cent. Mississippi, 93 to —.
Six per cent, Ohio, 1850, 100 Jto 101 J.
Five per cent. New-York, 94 to iK>.
Five percent. Pennsylvania, accordrng to dates
92 to 93.
United States Bank Shares, 241. 17s. 6d. to 251.
Five per cent. New York City, 90) to 91).
Six per cent. Virginia, 95 to 96.
Six per cent. Camden and Amboy Railroad,
102 to 104.
Six per cent. Illinois, 95 to 90.
Five percent. S. Carolina, £, sterling 95.
Five percent. Harrisburgh and Lancaster Rail
road, 88) to 89).
From the N. O. Pkajune, Dec. 26.
From Texas.
By the Columbia, arrived last evening from
Galveston, whence she sailed on the evening of
the 22d inst., we have received dates from Hous
ton to the 20th Dec.
The papers announce the melancholy news of \
the death of the Hon. John A. Wharton. His |
loss may well be considered a national calamity to
Texas as he was identified with all those great
events which have raised her to an elevated stand
among the nations of the earth.
From the Telegraph of the 19th inst. wc learn
that some of the most respectable and influential!
Mexican citizens living near the borders of Texas i
had arrived at Bexar. They stated that the
Mexicans residing in the states of Coahuila and |
Taraaulipas were desirous of contracting friendly i
relations with the citizens of Texas and had ex- '
pressed a desire to unite with them in an expedi- j
tion against the Camanches. The Mexican troops
have all been withdrawn from the Texas lines and
some of their generals, among them Filisola, ap- j
pear to be disgusted with the Mexican govern- i
ment and have expressed a determination to quit j
the country for good.
The utmost tranquility appeared to exist in the
neighborhood of Bokar. The Camanches had not
'been seen in that neighborhood for some length of
liifW, and Mexieans Irom the Kio Grande were ar
living daily and all mnnilcsted the most pacific
disposition toward the Texians.
1 lie above are the only items of importance we
could gather from the Texas papers.
From the Charleston Courier.
By the sehr. Homer, Capt. Fisher, arrived at
this port yesterday, we have received a file of N as
sail papers to the 15th inst:
We learn from Capt. Fisher, that the schr. Jo
seph Ashbrook, Burrows, 5 days from Baltimore,
for Mobile, with on assorted cargo, was wrecked
on Elbow Reel, Abaco, on the night of the 37th
Nov. vessel totally lost—crew and pa.it of the ear
go saved and taken to Nassau, and sold.
I lie schr. Caruhoo, Delesdemicr, from New
Vgfik, tor Mobile, with an assorted cargo, was
ipxrt'cked about 12 th Dec. on A Wo—vessel will
he a total loss—crew, passengers and cargo were
taken to Nassau, where the cargo was sold.
The Hr. brig Emetine, Wilson, Irom Bt. Jago
do Cuba, tor Liverpool, with a cargo of Copper
ore, was wrecked on the Hogsties, sth Dec.—ves
sel and cargo lost—part of the materials and
crew saved.
Capt. Fisher, tell in with on the 17th inst. 14
miles N. E. of Stirrup Key, with a small sloop
boat, having on board (‘apt. I’honipson, vvho had
sailed same day from Nassau for Key West; the
final must have sunk had she not been fallen in
with at the time.
(-' a pt. Burrows, late of schr. Joseph Ashbrook,
and one seaman, came passengers in the Homer.
Nassau, Dee. 15.
i Oatlie 7th inst. Her Majesty’s brig \\ anderer,
Commodore Bushby, entered this port, from a
cruise, having in company the Portugese brig
Scorpion, with about 250 Africans on board.—
Phis is the third or fourth vessel which has been
captured by the Wanderer and brought into
Nassau.
From thv Haiti more American.
Proceedings in Congress.
Washington, Dec. 22, 1838.
united states senate.
The Vice President laid before the Senate, from
the Secretary of the Treasury, a Report relative to
the relief of the insolvent debtors of the United
States.
A bill was reported granting to State and in
corporate Rail Road Companies the right of wav
through the public lands.
Mr. Williams, of Maine, brought in the follow
ing resolution, which was adopted—
Resolved , I’iiat the Secretary of war be request
ed to communicate to the Senate such information
as may be in his possession in reference to the
defence of the frontier of the Stale of Maine —the
number ot troops at this time employed within
the State—and the posts at which they are sta
tioned.
The resolution was adopted.
After the presentation of some unimportant
memorials, the (Senate adjourned over to Wednes
day jioxt.
ROUSE OF RECItESKNTATIVES.
The House continued in session last night
Q’’rid ay) till near 9 o’clock.—Mr. Wise keeping
>e floor till the hour of adjournment, concluding
the speech begun by him sonic days since in rcfPt
cnee to defalcations. I
The resolution from (he Committee of Ways
and Means for a Select Committee was before the
House.
Mr. Wise, during his speech, examined into
every particular relative to forty defalcations—
giving names, places, dates, sums of defalcation,
and every fact in relation to them. Two hours
were passed iu consideration of the defalcation of
Samuel Swartwout.
The petition presented by Mr. Adams some
1 .days since was in order, and came uji fur discussions
Mr. Dromgoole called lor a division of the njMN
lution, and that part of it proposing a
the Committee of Foreign Affairs was carried.
The proposed instructions next came up, and on
this question a lengthy discussion arose, at the
conclusion of which, the instructions and report
proposed by Mr. Adams were laid un the table by
a large vote.
The House then adjourned over to Wednesday
next.
From the Mobile Gazette, Sf General Advertiser.
Texas.
If there is any country in which the people of
the United Stales feel more than a common in
terest ; if any one in whose welliire their feelings
and sympathies are more warmly enlisted, than
in all others, it is undoubtedly Texas. Every
thing that relates to this young and growing na
tion, is interesting. Its climate, its soil, its pro
ductions, its geography, its internal condition, and
foreign relations, are all matters which recom
mend lliemselves to the serious attention of the
people of these United States. With its inhabit
ants we have a strong fraternal feeling; their cus
toms are similar to our own, the nature of their
institutions very nearly resemble that of our own;
they have been educated like us, have learned like
us to prize enlightened liberty, and like us have
learned to appreciate science, morality, and reli
gion.
In those dark liours when they were struggling
for freedom, we regarded them as our brethren
bravely contending for what we deem the birth
right of all ; their cause we looked upon as kind
red to that for which our fathers had, in the same
way, contended ; and from tin: first our wishes
and our expectations pointed to that glorious re
sult which has finally crowned their efforts. Now
we look upon them in a different light. We re
gard them as a people no longer needing onr sym
pathy, for we see that they have passed through
the experimental stage of their national existence,
and that they have nobly won a footing, and earned
a reputation among the empires of the earth.
Those dark portentious clouds that cast a mo
mentary gloom around their early morn, have now
disappeared, and they are rapidly rising to an ho
norable station among nations. There is already
a degree of vigor and earnestness apparent in all
her movements, an evidence of skill and wisdom
seen in her councils, which give the assurance
that our sister Republic is destined, at no distant
day, to maintain an honorable competition with
our own country.
Such being our feelings towards Texas, it is but
rational that we should feel somewhat impatient
to see her internal arrangements permanently
completed. That such is not the case at present,
must he evident to every one, who is at all famil
iar with that country. Her finances arc yet un
settled ; and while they remain so, must be a
source of perplexity and anxiety, not only to her
own citizens, but also to all others who have oc
casion to deal w ith them. There is no good reason
why the currency of Texas should be at such a
ruinous rate of discount iu this country as it now
is. It is true, much lias already been done by
Congress, perhaps as much as is required of that
body to do ; hut it appears to us that something
besides natural causes have had an influence on
their currency wltich has tended to its greater de-
precision. Wc cannot discover lor it a sufficient
cause in the balance of trade, great ns that is
against them, when we consider the immense rev
enue which they arc constantly receiving from
public lands ; much more, in our opinion than
sufficient to supply the deficiency created by the
balance of trade. Wc arc therefore constrained
to attribute it to some other and extraneous cause;
but what that cause is, is beyond our knowledge.
Her I'aritl, too, is on my thing but a perma
nent fooling at the present time, unci until there
is something like stability imparted to it, it must
operate seriously against her commerce.
There is still another matter, which thongh ap
parently a domestic one entirely, has nevertheless
a serious influence abroad—and that is the pres
ent location ot the scat of Government. Persons
emigrating to, or acquiring an interest in a new
country, always regard us a matter of some con
sequence the location of the seat of government,
and their movements are always more or less in
flueneed by it. In looking upon the map ofTcx
as. the first consideration is, that Houston is not
the permanent seat of government. .Some more
central point must be selected before any confi
dence can he felt in its permanency. No one
doubts that it will soon he removed to some place
further west, as far at least as the Colorado; and
many individual plans and private purposes are
held in suspense until such time us its location
shall he definitely fixed. It is a matter of sur
prise in this country that the population of the
West have so long submitted to the inconvenience
to which the present site must subject them. It
is not however the fault of the people, that this
matter has not been already settled; for if wo
mistake not, an Act was passed at the last session
of Congress, fixing upon some place on the Col
orado as the future site ; but it was the misfor
tune of the young republic, at that time, to have
at the bead of her atlairs an individual whose pri
vate interest was of more importance than the
public will, and the measure was consequently
vetoed. It is however supposed the matter will bn
again brought up at the present session of Con
gress, w hen the will of the people will no doubt
prevail.
A clergyman, not quite a hundred miles from
Edinburgh,preached a most edifying discourse
on •* come and draw water out of the wells of
salvation, without money and without price.” On
the following week some of his parishioners took
the liberty of drawing water from a very fine
spring well in the parson’s garden at which the
learned divine was not a little nettled. Ueing re
minded by the intruder, of his text and sermon,
the reverend gentleman replied, “you may draw
as much water ns ye like from the welts of salva
tion, but it you come here again and take my wa
ter, I’ll send a bullet through you.”
; COMMERCIAL.
1 Liverpool, Nov. 9.
Cotton. —During the heat of the demand on Satur
day amt Monday last, extreme prices for all kinds
were obtained, with a firm market; hut the ac
counts received by the Royal William on the latter
day, from New-York, not bearing out those pre
viously brought by the (treat Western, the inquiry
has since become less animated, with a more settled
market, closing at last Friday's prices, with a dis
position rather in favorofhuvers than otherwise. —
; The sales to-day arc about 0000 bags ; speculators
have taken 2000 bales of American and SOU Su-
rats, and exporters 200 bales of American.
Manchester, Nov. 9.
Cotton. —The business done on Tuesday was cx
-1 tensive, both in hand and powerloom clotlis; and
though the last arrivals from America brought more
. favorable accounts of the cotton crops than has
been previously entertained and though these ac
eou s< have operated a little on the cotlou market
in Liverpool, still purchasers of grey cloth to a large
extent have since appeared, and at decidedly higher
rates. Many large manufacturers have not a piece
on hand, they therefore anticipate a good trade. —
Though the winter yarns are saleable to a fair cx
| tent at a shade above last week’s rates, the advance
is not sufficient to induce some spinners to work
full time.
Marseilles, Nov. 3.
In Cotton there is a good inquiry. Sales of the
week 2500 bales. The stock on hand 26,300 bales,
of which 11,000 arc U. States descriptions.
Antwerp, Nov. 7.
Cotton is in demand. Salc s have been made of
100 bales Georgia at an advance on former rates.
New-York, Dec. 24.
Colton. —This market remains much the same as
at our last report. There has been a light specula
tive demand and rather less inclination, ship prices
remain nearly Hie same, except for good and fine,
the tendency for which is still upwards. The
weeks sales reach about 3200 bales, at 14aHI for
Florida, and Haltii for Mobile and .New-Orleans,
Upland 11 fa 10}. The arrivals have been 2000
hales. The export from the United States since
October I, 65,000
Same time last year, 120,615
Short bales 61,615
Charleston, Dec. 29.
Cotton. —Our details of the Upland market tins
week, on account of the holydays w ill necessarily
be brief. Operations were confined mostly to the
middling qualities ; hut last week’s prices on all de
scriptions have undergone alteration. The sales
of the week amount to 3282 hags, at from 9to 14.
Macon, Dec. 27.
Hut little Cotton has been received this week in
consequence of the Christmas ho ydays. There
has been a tittle improvement in prices since our
last —sales are from 10 to 13cts —Principal sale*
from 11 i to 12} —choice cottons will readily bring
13 cents.
Savannah, Dec. 28.
Cotton —Arrived since the 21st intt. 9243 bale*
Upland nnd 66 bales >S. I. Cotton, and cleared at
the same time, 7934 hales Upland and 25 boles 8.
1. Cotton ; leaving a slock on hand, inc usiveot all
on shipboard not cleared on the 2 si in«1.0f23,099
holes Upland and 131 bales .Sea Island.
The business of the week in upland has been very
moderate in extent, and prices barely supported*
The scarcity of money has probably had some influ
ence in checking the demand —the sales amount
only to 1841 bales, at ftom 12 to 11 cents. A few
small parcels of Sea Island have changed hands at
the full previous prices.
DllY GOODS.
WM. 11. t KANE, has lately received a variety
of new goods, which makes his assortment
as good as can he found in this city, he wit! dispose
of them either at wholesale or retail, at a very
small advance. Country merchants will do well
to call and examine his assortment,
dec 21 wlm
HU N AWAY NEGRO.—Kana
way from the subscriber, on the
13th of September, a negro man
by the name of WARHKN, abrupt--
25 or 26 years old, having lost
ome of his fore-teeth. It is pre
sumed that he has shaped his
couise for Charleston, S. C. A
liberal reward Will be paid for
his apprehension end safe keeping
so that I get him again. UYRD M. GRACE,
dec 20 w4t
P. S. Letters will reach me cither at Columbus,
Ga., or Henry Court House, Ala.