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HOUSE OF KEFKEisF.iVrATIVES.
Satobd-at, March 2, I83(b
VOTE OF THANKS TO THE SPEAKER.
Mr. Elmore, of South Carolina, moved the fol
lowing resolution:
Rank'd, That the thanks of this House he.
presented lo the Hon. James K. Polk, for the able
imp and dignified manner in which he has
presided over its deliberations, ami performed the
arduous and important duties ot the Chair.
Mj, PruuUss and Mr. McKennan inquired of
the Chair whether it was in order, at this lime, to
offer resolutions, and whether it could he done
without suspending the rules.
Mr. Prentiss said that he had come prepared to
expect a resolution of this kind lo he brought for
ward, and he now proposed an amendment, which
ho for one would endeavor to sustain, it no other
gentlemen did.
Mr. P. hereupon moved lo amend the amend
ment by striking out the word “impartial. ’
Mr. P. said he was not prepared, when he was
just about to depart from that hall, pro. ably for
ever, to allude to any thing which might excite
unpleasant reminiscenscs; and it this resolution
were a mere matter of form, offered simply as an
art of courtesy usual on the breaking up ot a
session of Congress, if it were hut the touching
of the cap, or the shaking of the hand, or the
wishing of a safe and pleasant journey, he should
not oppose its adoption, or oiler the least objection
to it. He was always disposed to encourage the
courtesies of life, and sure he was that they had
ah seen enough since the commencement o! this
sussion to show that this was necessary. His
only ground of objection to this resolution was,
that he did not believe that it'spoke the truth. It
was not a mere matter ot courtesy, it was not in
tended as a mere customary form, it was to he
used as a matter of substance. It was intended
to subserve a purpose; and though its adoption or
rejection might aectn a small matter, yet who did
not know that, in polities, the smallest and most
sttunu Red thread might be seized and augmented
till at length it was woven into a cable, by which
lo lead bodies of men, ami to influence and con
trol the acts of assembled Legislatures 7 ibo
present resolution was one that might be used in
tins way—that might he worked up anil made
something of in a great political contest. Mr. P.
would moU readily have touched his cup to the
Speaker, extended him his hand in farewell, and
wished him a safe and prosperous journey through
life, but he believed that this resolution was to be
employed ns so much political capital lo do busi
ness upon, and he was not willing to furnish it.
It was not true that the Speaker had been impar
tial, ami in proof of this it would bo sufficient lo
refer to the fact, that lie could not bo trusted by
that House to select the members of n committee
appointed to inquire into tho defalcations of his
owu party ; and though the debate on tlint ques
tion had roamed through the House, like an un
chained tiger, from subject to subject, there was
one point on which it had steadily fixed its fangs,
and which if refused to let go, and that was, to
refuse lo the Speaker the appointment of a com
mittee, and this expressly on the ground that if
ho did appoint it, it would be an ex /nir/c com
mittee. Alter this, to say that that same Speaker
had been impartial in his course, what would it
ho hut a lie ! Mr. I’. never could vote to say so.
He knew that it was considered necessary by tho
party to avail themselves of his high station, mid
of nil the influence derived from it ; il was there
fore deem -,I expedient, under the cover of an act
of courtesy, to pass a vote of thanks, expressive
of the sense of the House, not oflhe ability mere
ly, hut the impartiality with which he had dis
charged the duties of tho Chair. Hut Mr. P.
would not record a declaration which he did not
believe, more especially when the House itself
had so recently expressed, by its solemn vote, an
opinion directly the reverse.
Mr. P. well know wh it such a declaration ns
this would ho worth to the honorable ■Speaker,
and he would fearlessly speak out that which ho
believed to bo the true intent and purpose lor
which il was to be passed. The presiding officer
of that House was now playing a political game,
in which the smallest amount ofeapital might be
mule of use,ami, for one, Mr. P. was not willing
to furnish that gentleman and his political advo
cates with a missile which was forthwith to he
taken up and thrown back itUft. hit, .wv.v olrtllb
political canvass with a certificate from this House
in Ins pocket, lie would not consent lo tell the
People of tho United States a lie, that it might
be arrayed against him, and those who acted with
him, in the polities oflhe country. He was for
telling the truth—and the truth was, that, in con
stituting the committees oflhe House, (by far
the most important duty of tho Chair,) it was a
thing notorious that the Speaker had not been
impartial. Mr. P. would not he understood as
saying that it was blame-worthy in any Speaker
of that House, in the appointment of committees,
to place upon those most important a majority of
members of his own political way of thinking;
hut there was not a deliberative body o.i the face
of the globe where opposite parties were so near
ly balanced, and, at the same lime, on whoso
committees there appeared such a vast disparity.
I will put my linger on the facts which will show
this, and if the gentleman from South Carolina
can swallow them, he possesses powers ol deglu
tition to which 1 can make no pretence. There
are four committees of this House which may he
said to boos nearly equal importance In a political
paint ofview : the committee on Foreign All'airs,
the Committee of Ways and Means, the Commit
tee ot Elections, and the Committee on theJudi
eiary. And how stands the balance of polities in
tho Committee on Foreign All'airs ! It is six to
three That committee contains two Adminis
tration men to one Opposition member. I put it
to tho candor of gentlemen lo say whether this
is a fair representation oflhe balance of parties in
this House. Well, sir, and how stands the mat
ter in the Committee of Ways and Means ! There
again, the proportion is six to three. And then
we come to I lie Committee of Elections—a com
mittee, vitally important to the organization of the
House itself, and w hich, as it has continually tu
decide contested claims to seals in this House,
ought, of all others, to he the most impartial, be
cause there the demon of party is mast likely to
rear its Hydra bead. Heaven knows that a place
on that committee has been no sinecure during
this Congress. The acts and decisions of that
committee, like the heavings ol the blind Samson,
have shaken the pillars of this lioieminent to
their very foundation; and how stands the party
balance in that committee t Is it live to four,
sir 1 Is il even six to three 1 No, sir; It is sev
en to two. Tjiat is Mr. Speaker’s impartiality !
And is live state of things any better in the Com
mittee on the Judiciary ’ It was not, until the
distinguished gentleman from Virginia united
himself with the Opposition. As appointed bv
the Ch iir, the members stood seven to two, and
they are at this moment six to three.
Here, then,wo see that on the four most influ
ential comrtViUecs of this House, the very smallest
majority given by this most impartial Speaker to
his own party has been two lo one. Mr. I*, did
not desire to be understood as derogating in the
slightest degree from the honor and integrity of
the distinguished gentlemen who were members
of those committees. It was not of the selection
personal,hut political, that he complained. Hut
white this proportion was observed on w hat might
he called the political committees oflhe House,
how stood tout regard to those which exerted no
political influence whatever’ Oh! then they
found a toullv different stale of things. The
Committee of Manufactures contained eight wings
to one administration man. Had it been their
iluly to superintend the manufacture of politics
who could doubt that the constitution oflhe com-
miller would have l*.en far different 1 Then ,
there was the Committee of (toads and Canals,
a committee which had nothing to do with parly
politic* and exerted no influence at the elections:
how was the balance there ? There, again, it
* was seven to two; but the seven were Whigs, and
the two friend* of the Administration. A ext
B followed the Committees on expenditures in the
B several Departments ; committees of whose
H existence the House was forgetful. And how
15 were these constituted ? All Whigs! Did not
thisshow a pervading operative principle which
f governed ail these appointments? Was there
} no evidence of system and deliberate party pur
' pose ? The political committees two to one and
even seven to two, while so evenly was the House
* divided that that very Speaker himself took the
' chair by a majority of but thirteen out of two
1 hundred and forty-seven members. M ifh these
broad and notorious facts staring him in the. face
could Mr. I*, record hi* vote to declare that this
Speaker had been impartial ?
Mr. P. would barely allude to what had been
the fact in cases whercthc House had been equally
divided, and important questions had been decided
by the casting vote of the Chair. He would not
now descend into details; hut he challenged any
gentleman to point him to one single instance, to
one political question, smaller or greater, whether
ihe decision swept away the whole rights of a
fStnte, or only settled the official claims of the
(flohe newspaper, in which the Speaker’s vote had
shown the least degree of impartiality. Mr. P.
was not going to deny the capacity of the presiding
officer, nor his full knowledge of Parliamentary
law. He admitted this; he admitted his diligence
and application to business; hut when it came to
impartiality, he took his stand upon the facts he
I luiii HtutCfi, and utterly denied it. Ho was not to
1 he induced by any considerations of courtesy to
endorse a tool of the Hxcrutivc, an instrument of
| party. The fact was notorious that the man lor
I whom this compliment was asked had been a party
Speaker in the full sense of those words. A pre
siding officer more disposed to hend the laws of
that House and its rules of order to the purposes
and ends of party, never pressed the soft and am
ple cushions of that gorgeous chair. To say he
had been impartial would he flattery, not truth ;
and Mr. P, had seen the effects of certificates too
often not to know for what purposes they might
he perverted. He should have been willing enough
to interchange the ordinary courtesies of a fare
well, but be would not let any man sit in that
chair, doing from day to day his party work, and
then march out with the honors of war. The
dutica of the (’hair were too important—they
were too influential; it was the hand of tbr Speaker
which cut out and distributed all the business of
the House. It was be who placed the materials
before its committees on which they wore to ope
rate; and in the selection of their members, and
the decision of their political complexion, bis
power extended over the affairs and the destinies
of this nation to a degree beyond that of the Pre
sident himself. And with these vast and sweeping
powers, what had this {Speaker been but the high
priest of party, who, bowing before the Moloch
in another building, immolated on the altar of po
litical subservie ncjr'fh i dearest rights of his coun
try ? It was well known that this gentleman wan
a candidate for the Chief Magistracy in hits own
•Stale, and this very vote of thanks would he used
in the canvass, and triumphantly held up,all over
the West, as a proof that he had discharged the
duties of the Chair with the most iinim
peachahlo impartiality. What did (lie House
think of his impartiality ? Did they trust him to
appoint the Investigating Committee ! ordid they
not openly snatch that appointment from his
hands and lake it into their own? Anil when his
opponents could refer to that fact as a damning
proof, not only that he was not impartial, but that
the House knew him not to be so, all ho would
have to do would he to tear from the records of
I this House the leaf on which was recorded this
vole of thunks, and thus give to the House the lie
from its own mouth. Let all those gentlemen
who in their heart and conscience did believe that
the Speaker hud acted with impartiality vote the
resolution.
Mr. I*. cherished no personal hostility, whatever,
against the Speaker; but he did cull upon all those
who did not and could not believe this, but, on
the contrary, wore satisfied that he had used his
high and responsible power with a strong hand to
alone, to vole against it. He called upon those
who know in their hearts that tills was tine,to say
so. If ever lie had seen the poised needle point
towards the pole, he had seen the occupant of that
chair looking with equal steadiness and equal cer
tainty to the interests of his party ashis polar star.
Gentlemen might raise their Te Deuin laudainus
to as high a note as they pleased.
Mr. P. called upon those, the expression of
whose free sentiments had, by this Speaker, been
fettered and crushed upon that floor, to say now
whether they would give the lie, and record it, to
the feelings which had then burst indignantly from
their lips, and vote a sugared certificate to help the
(inventor of Tennessee ? For himself, if he voted
this resolution, he should set his hand to a lie,
and should sanction, so far ns his example went,
a precedent which lie considered as a pernicious
influence in the country.
“A few days since an indiv'duul calling him
self Thomas Manning, called upon a slave trader
in this city and ofl’ered to sell him six slaves.
They were likely looking youths, mule and fe
male, hut suspicions weie excited whether the
salesman hud a proper claim on them. Those
suspicions induced Mr. Slatter. the trader, to applv
to officers for assistance, and they soon ferreted
out the aflitir. It seems that Mr. Manning, who
some limes acknowledges his real name of Will
Hatcher, belongs to Jefl'erson county, Georgia,
where he fell in with certain negroes, seven in
number, who, he says, wished to emigrate to a
free stale; but of that anon. He carried them
to Florida, where he sold one of them, a girl be
tween I:l and I t years of age, for ffiotl. From
thence he proceeded to St. Marks, with his inter
esting charge, and embarked with them on hoard
the schooner Maxeppu.of lloston, for New York,
at which city they arrived, and immediately passed
on through Fhiladelphiu to this city, where, as
above stated, lie attempted to sell the negroes.
There is proof, we understand, that the slaves do
not belong to the person who wished to sell them;
and that the Macks state, that so tar from their
having desired him to lake them out of the state
in which they lived, he had proposed to take them
to a “ free state," where they could do as they
pleased. Mr. Tom Manning, alias Will Hatcher,
was finally committed to prison.— liullhnore Sun.
/ The Snli-mm inn Explosions. ,
W This exhibition, on the day before
was \cry interesting. There were three several
explosions, the two first of kegs of powder pla
ced on the bottom of the river at about seven toet
depth of water. They each threw up a column
of walerloun immense height (at least three
hundred fuel) during the falling of which, which
lasted several seconds—very distinct rainbows
appeared to the east. The first explosion, though
about 250 yards from the battery, caused a heavy
shower to fall thereon ami we regret to s.iv caused
no trifling damage to the elegant dresses of some
of tin’ ladies. The hulk ol a vessel anchored
about hall'u mile from shore was then blown up,
by a keg of powder placed in the water about one
foot below her keel. tfiio was broken in two,
about the middle by the explosion, and fragments
of various sixes, some very large were flung up
with the column of water to n very great height,
among them iron bolls lAe., \\ Inch gave out a very
perceptible /lisaini' as they fell again into the
water :—a circumstance worthy of remark, as it
shews the heat communicated, notwithstanding
, the wiU i interposed between the keel ai J u
powder. A largo concourtc of spectators lint < •
scene much gratified. There is no doubt ol
efl'ieicncy of the contrivance, if used against a
blockading fleet. .
The fire was communicated to the powder >y a
rope, prepared with a composition which own*
underwater.' —Charleston Mercury of yeslermy
*SjHKONlCLE AND SENTINEL./
AUG U STA.
SATURDAY MOKMWi, APRII. 6.
Klection of Mayor and Council.
On Monday next the annual election for May
or and members of Council, for this city takes
place. ’The following is a list of the candidates
as far as we know. !f there are names omitted,
or any improperly inserted, we should be glad to
he corrected. We give them alphabetically. —
Those marked thus * are members of Council
at present.
For Mayor,
ALFRED GUMMING,
WILLIAM W. HOLT.
For Number* ok Council, Ward No. I.
RICHARD F. BUSH,
•PHILIP CRUMP,
1). L. HOLLIDAY,
• WILLIAM E. JACKSON,
• GAREY F, PARISH.
Ward No. 2.
JNO. BONES,
• M. M. DYE,
• JNO. HILL,
SAM’L M. THOMPSON,
• B. 11. WARREN.
Ward No. 3.
BENJAMIN BAIRD,
•JAS. B. BISHOP,
WM. KANKIN,
U. W. Sr. JOHN.
Ward No. 4.
• LEON P. UUGAS,
JAS. HARPER,
MATTHEW NELSON.
Theatre.
Mr. M’C'lurc’s henclit to-aiglit, when tlie new
Tragedy of Velasco will ho performed; to con
clude with the favorite afterpiece of Uncle John’
Mr. M’Chire is too much of u favorite to ho neg
lected in Augusta. A full house may he an*
ticipntcd.
Wc had intended making some remarks in
relation to the statements of the condition of the
Bunking institutions of this city, contrasted with
previous reports of the same institutions in Oc
tober last, and the relation which they bear to the
present pecuniary distress, hut want of time and
inability to procure some documents, will delay
them until another day. In this morning’s paper
will be found the report of the Bank of Augusta.
Stale of l/ic Hank of Augusta, j (Jeorgiu , on
Monday, April 1, 1839.
mi.
To Capitol Stock, 12000 shares
$lOO each paid in $1,200,000 00.
Notes of this Bank is
sued $1,730,172 33
“ unhand 1,475,439 08
“ in circulation
Amnirn* Depositors, 123,059 74
“ “ Stockholders of this
Bank for Dividends and distri
bution of Surplus Profits un
claimed, 7,682 02
Checks drawn on Time not matured, 20,260 00
Surplus Profits, 38,541 84
$1,812,105 03
cu.
By Real Estate including Banking
House, $45,185 00
“ Stock in the Georgia Rail Road
and Banking Company, 196,560 00
“ “ Savannah Insurance
and Trust Company, 6,030 00
“ Bills and Notes run
ning to maturity pay
able at Augusta. 810,105 50
*■ Bills and Notes lying
over payable at Au
gusta, 161,236 22 971,341 72
Amount of Investments
at Augusta, 1,219,116 72
“ Bills and Notes ly
ing over payable at
other places, 98,251 41
“ Bills and Notes run
ning to maturity
and payable at Sa
vannah and the
North, 87,361 13
“ Bills and Notes run
ning to maturity,
payable at other
places, 43,375 47 229,188 01
Total amount of Invest
ments, 1,448,304 73
i The discounted paper is
all considered good
except this amount, 14,066 42
By Protest Account, 112 00
Amount due by Indivi
duals, 1,388 99
Amount due by Banks
in Boston, Philadel
phia, Charleston,
and agent itt Savan
nah, 81,321 06
j Amount due to other
Banks and Agents, 39,822 02
, 1 121,143 08
Os the amount due by
Banks and Agents,
this much may be
denominated specie
funds, 64,421 06
Notes of other Banks in
good credit, 100,144 00 100,144 00
do. of the Bank of Da
rien and Branches, 1,877 00
: Bank of the U. States
and Branches, 4,370 00 4,370 000
| Treasury Notes bearing'
interest, 4,340 00 4,340 00
Specie belonging to this
Bank in its vaults, 121,898 23 121,898 23
Total amount of Specie
and Specie funds, $895,173 29
i Incidental Expenses, 8,327 00
$1,812,105 03
ROBERT F. POE, Cashier.
i Another ItichmonC. —Gen. VV infield Scott ha*
i been nominated, at Rochester New i ork, as a
i candidate for President ol the United States*
| The New York American, one of the most in
fluential whig papers of the city of New \ orlc
has also come out in his favor. Gen. Scott, we
f believe is a friend to the administration, but some
what of a free-thinker in politics.
We find the following paragraph in the New
| Yorker, of March 30lh.
The Madisonian intimates that Hon. John P.
| King, of Georgia, will soon be called to the head
j of the Treasury Department.
Communicated.
Mh. Jones. —ln this neighborhood there are
j several subscribers to your paper who feel a deep
interest in the culture of silk. The matter has
been discussed amongst us to some extent, and
we arc prepared to say, that now in the recess of
Congress and our .State Legislature, and in the
scarcity of political matter of very great import
ance, you could not interest this community more
than to devote a column or two of your weekly
paper to the subject of silk growing in our State.
It is either, sir, a subject of paramount import
ance to us or it is one comparatively useless.—
If the former, and if so important as to entirely
change or modify our system of agriculture as
some assert, producing fertility for barrenness,
and all these kind of things, then every patriotic
editor as we believe you to be, must feel the
deepest solicitude that our people should imme
diately engage in it, and would consequently do
all he could to promote this desirable end. But
if on the other hand, all this hue and cry of silk
,aising, and Morns Multicnulisisonly a humbug,
and the effect of knavery for speculating pur
poses; then must you and every honest editor
feel an honest indignation at the trickery, or pity
the infatuation of the well meaning, and in either
case, seek to expel the delusion. In short, Mr.
Editor, we look to you in part to he set right in
this business.
The editor of the Washington News caution B
the public against being duped by the Morns
Multieaulis, and asserts, if we arc rightly informed)
that white mulberry is far preferable. The firs 1
knowledge of this plant in this country, was re
ceived from the Hon. 11. A. S. Dearborn, who
obtained his information while in France, from
“Annales d’Horticulturc,” and the “Annales
Horticulture de Fremont,” and other sources, and
he unequivocally asserts that it is not only supc.
rior to the white or Italian Mulberry in every res
pect, but superior to all other varieties, &,c. Intro
duced by M. Perroted for the first lime into France
in 1821 ; its cultivation wits confined to the royal
gardens, where a full and complete experiment was
made and pronounced to be superior to the white
or any other mulberry, the cocoons being larger
and heavier, the silk finer,more lustrous and strong
er and far above every other consideration, the
leaves gathered nearly ten times as easy as from
any other species and ten times as easy raised.
M. Bonifoux, Director of the Royal Gardens at
Turin bears testimony to its decided superiority
in Italy, (to the samceflectus above) having tried
them thoroughly and extensively. M. Dupont,
of Chambcrry in France, asserts that the worms
fed on this plant make less waste of litter and
food, arc not so subject to disease, finish their la.
I hours in three days less time, and the quality c-f
1.1,, silt, f. - • 0,1 onier
i trees. To the same amount is the testimony op
Dr. Dcslongchampcs, in his report to the Academy
| at Dejoin, in 1634, also the testimony of M. Poi
‘ teau and others, and lastly M. Tclloy in his ofli"
cial report. In the North of France, the Go
vernment have established a silk farm, under the
direction of M. C. Beauvais, and from the extraor
dinary experiments otherwise made, it was ascer
tained that in addition to the advantages above
enumerated in favor of the moms multieaulis.
that ho succeeded in producing 13 lbs. of silk’
j p om the same number of worms which when fed
on the olher varieties, and especially the white
mulberry, only produced 5 pounds, and in Italy*
! 7 lbs. Besides all this, in our own country, we
i have such a mass of evidence in favor of the vast
superiority of this tree, that it would fill a volume,
| and this testimony from Governors, Generals,
I Members of Congress, and down to the humble
but honest farmer. Indeed so great was the en
thusiasm of one, that ho cried out that he verily
| believed it an especial boon of Providence sent to
| us in the most auspicious moment that it could
have been sent. Now Mr. Editor, will you please
j to tell us who is right, the Editor of the Washing
| ton News, or all these folks in Fiance and the
; Northern .Stales 1 We backwoods people don't
know, and want to be informed.
Yours, LOG ROLLER.
Postscript.— Beat this Mu. White Mul
hkhiiv if vou can. — In the village of Penfield*
Green County Georgia, in the last week of March’
1839, silk worms were feeding on the fresh and
green leaves of the Morns Multieaulis, planted
this piesent year, and in an open unprotected
situation, high and dry, weather cool and frosty.
j From the Army and Navy Chronicle—March 7.
Obkoon- Tkuiutouv.—On the 4th of January
last M r. Cushing, from the Committee on Foreign
relations, submitted to the House of Representa
tives a Report, in part, in relation to the territory
of the United States beyond the Rocky Mountains
This Report displays much research, and enters
into a history of the discovery of the Columbia
river, the conflicting claims to the adjacent terri
tory, and quotes the recommendations of I’resi
| dents Monroe and Adams, for the establishment
of a military post at the mouth of the Columbia.
| It concludes with a Bill, authorising the Prcsi
i dent to employ such portions of the army and
j navy r.s he may deem necessary for the protection
: of the persons and property of such ci izrns of
the United States as may reside in the territory of
Oregon, or as are employed in commerce on the
Columbia river, its tributaries, and on its marine
I coast. The second section provides for the np
! pioprintion of a sum of money (blank not filled) :
j to carry into effect the first section.
For want of time, this bill was not taken up. i
but the day is not distant when the question of
protection to the settlers of that now remote and
uncultivated territory, will force itself upon the
attention of Congress. 'Flic tide of emigration
will be in advance of legislation, as the spirit of I
commercial enterprise has hitherto anticipated
national or government expeditions, by discover- ’
ing for itself new countries and new markets.
1
' I i.f year- [last tins this measure been urgui up
! mi the attention of Congress; and yet, to the
shame of that hotly ho it spoken, to this day lias
no answer been made to the call. It may be of
some interest to freshen the memories of our read
ers and the public with the recollection ol what
has been heretofore done—or recommended to
be done ; and in our columns of to-day " ill be
found a Report of a Committee of Congress, pre
sented nearly fifteen years ago. This Report is
very short, and the committee adopt, ns a part of
it, u letter from Quartermaster General Jessup,
giving ins views of the measures necessary to be
pursued. In a military point of view', this is as
much as the army and navy are particularly con
cerned in.
From the New Yerk Commercial Advertiser , Ist
From the Canadian Frontier.
Extract from a letter dated
Mooku’s, Clinton Co., March 22nd.
An unhappy state of things is existing on this
frontier, on account of the frequent burnings of
burns, outhouses, &c. Some twenty have been
burned within a few days, and great excitement
exists on both sides ofthc line. Most of the
burnings have been in Champlain and Odletown,
but it is feared they will extend all along the bor
der. This state of things has been brought about
by a few of our citizens and a host of Canadian
refugees who have takan shelter on this side of
the line, and by a number of plunderers and war
characters on the other.
The story ofthc 400 Indians employed by Sir
John Colhornc is all a hoax, although the radi
cals would be glad to have it true.
[Moocr’s is just on the Canadian border, ten or
twelve miles from the line, and about the same
distance from Rouse’s Point. The adjoining
township of Canada is Hcmmhigford.]
James 11. Hart, one of the State Fund Com
missioners of Michigan, and a furious loco foco,
has been found guilty of loaning $lB,OOO of the
public funds to his political friends. There is no
chance for (ho Slate to recover a dollar of it.—
The money has gone to the devil, and Hart to
Texas.— Louisville Journal.
Thkasvht Department, }
April), 1839. 5
The whole amount of Treasury notes author
ized by theactof October 12th, 1837, has been is
sued, viz: $10,000,000 00
Os that issue
there has been
redeemed the
sum of 8,520,136 50
Leaving outstanding of the first is
sue the sum of $1,470,863 50
In lieu of those re
deemed there
has been is
sued under
the act of 21st
May, 1838 $5,709,810 01
Os that issue
there has been
redeemed 1,671,166 50
Leaving of the second issue, out
standing the sum of $4,038,643 51
5,509,507 01
The amount issued under the
provisions of the act of 2d
March, 1839, is 2,080,985 14
Making the aggregate outstanding $7,590,492 15
LEVI WOODBURY,
Secretary of the Treasury.
The Last Wad. —We took from England in
the last war 62 national vessels, carrying 870
guns, and 2300 private armed vessels mounting
8000 guns; many of these were taken by priva
teers. The British had 31 ships of war wrecked
during the war; their total loss at sea by this war
with us amounted to 2453 vessels and 9679 guns.
rnuuiji uvifoKTANF,-(T)
Nervous diseases, liver complaint, bilious dis
eases, piles, rheumatism, consumption, [coughs,
colds, pain in the chest and side, ulcers, all deli
cate and mercurial diseases are successfully treated
at Dr. EVANS’S Office, 100 Chatham-street, Ncw-
York.
I)It. WILLIAM EVANS' MEDICINES,
Arc composed of vegetable substances, which exert
a specific action upon the heart, give an impulse or
strength to the arterial system ; the blood is quick
ened and equalized in its circulation through all the
vessels, whether of the skin, the parts situated in
fernally, or the extremities; and as all the secre
tions of the body arc drawn from the blood, there
is a consequent increase of every secretion, ami a
quickened action of the absorbent and cxhalent, or
discharging vessels. Any morbid action which
may have taken place is corrected, all obstructions
arc removed, the blood is purified, and the body tc
sumes a healthful state.
These medicines after much anxious toil and re
search, having been brought by the proprietor to
the present state of perfection, supersede the use of
the innumerable other medicines ; and are so well
adapted to the frame, that the use of them, by main
taining the body in the due performance of its
functions, and preserving the vital stream in a pure
and healthy state, causes it to last many years long
er than it otherwise would, and the mind to be
come so composed and tranquil, that o'd age when
it arrives will appear a blessing, and not (as too
many who have neglected their constitutions, or
had them injured by medicines administered by ig
norance) a source of misery and abhorrence.
They are so compounded, that by strengthening
and equalizing the action of the heart, liver, and
other visera, they expel the bad, acrid or morbid
matter, which renders the blood impure, out of the
circulation, through the excretory ducts into the
passage of the bowels, so that by the brisk or slight
| evacuations which may be regulated by the doses,
! always remembering that while the evacuations
i from the bowels are kept up, the excretions from all
1 the other portions of the body will also be going
on in the same proportion, by which means the
blood invariably becomes purified.
Steady perseverance in the use of the medicines
j will undoubtedly elfect a cure even in the most
acute or obstinate diseases; but in such eases the
j dose may be augmented, according to the inveteracy
of the disease; the medicines being so admirably
j adapted to the constitution, that they may be taken
| at all times
In all cases of hypochondriacism, low spirits pal.
! pitations of the heart, nervous irritability, nervous
j weakness, fluor albus, seminal weakness, indirec
tion, loss of appetite, flatulency, heartburn, general
debility, bodily weakness, chlorosis or green sick
: ness, flatulent or hysterical faintings, hysterics,
; headache, hiccup, sea sickness, night-mare, gout,
; rheumatism, asthma, tic douloreaux, cramp, spas
modic affections, and those who are victims to that
most excrutiatiog disorder, (lout, will find relief
from theirsufferings, by a course of Dr. William
j Evans’s Pills.
Nausea, vomiting, pains in the side, limbs, head
I stomach or back, dimness or confusion of sight'
j noises in the inside, alternate flushings i f heat and
chilliness, tivirtovs, watchings, agitation, anxiety!
liad dreams, spasms, will in every case be rcliev e «
by an occasional dose of Dr. Evans’s medicines. &
One of the most dangerous epochs to females
at the change of life; and it is then they require
medicine which will so invigorate their circulation!
and thus strengthen thcr constitutions as may en , 1
blc thorn to withstand the shock. B
Those who have the care and education of Fe-l
males, whether the studious or the sedentary paql
of the community, should never be without a sup.l
ply of Dr. Evans’s Pills, which remove disorders I
in the head, invigorate the mind, strengthen the I
body, improve the memory, and clivcn the imagin. I
ation. I
When the nervous system has been too largely I
drawn upon or overstrained, nothing is better to I
correct and invigorate the drooping constitution I
than O'ose medicines. I
Dr. William Kvans’s Medical Office, 100 Chat- I
ham street,New York, where the Doctor maybe ■"
consulted. - ■
lyj' A Case of Tic Doloreux. jpO, I
Mrs. J. E. Johnson, wife of Capt. JosepV John- I
son, of Lynn, Mass., was severely afflicted for i en I
years with Tic Doloreux, violcntpa in her head, I
and vomiting with a burning heat in the stomach, I
and unable to leave her room." She could find no I
relief from the advice of several physicians, not I
from medicines of any kind,until after she common- I
ced using Dr. Evans’s medicines, of 100 Chatham I
street, and from that time she began to amend, and I
feels satisfied if she continues the medicine a few I
days 'onger, will he perfectly cured. Reference I
can be had as to the truth of the above, by calling ■
at Mrs. Johnson’s daughter’s store, 389 Grand ri. l)
N. Y. I
A REAL BLESSING TO MOTHERS. K
Da. Wm. Evans’ Celerrated Soothing Syrvh ■
for Children Cutting their Tee'-i. V
This infallible remedy has preserved '• 1
children, when thought past recovery, Go a . I
vulsions. As soon as the Syrup is rubbed oa i I
gums, the child will recover. This preparation I
so innocent, so efficacious, and so pleasant tb . I
child will refuse to let its gums be rubbed with it. I
When infants arc at the age of four months,though I
there is no appearance of teeth, one bottle of the I
Syrup should be used on the gums to open the I
pores. Parents should never be without the Syrup I
in the nursery where there are youngchildrcn ; for I
if a child wakes in the night with pain in the I
gums, the Syrup immediately gives ease by open- I
ing tho pores and healing the gums ; thereby pre- I
venting convulsions, fevers, Ac. I
Sold by ANTONY & HAINES, Augusta, I
J. M. St T. M. TU UN ER, Savannah, I
P. M. COM KN Si Co., Charleston. I
ap (i I
rffij' The friends and acquaintances of Mr. and I
Mrs. Nelson Carter, are respectfully invited to at
tend the funeral of their daughter, Sarah Jose- i
phine, from their residence, This Morning, at 10
o’clock. ap C ,
j.
(£j= RESIDENT DENTIST..—Ur. Munroe’s
operating rooms, second door from liroad treet, on
Mclntosh-st., opposite the Constitutionalist office,
march 13
DIED,
On Monday morning, the Ist inst., after a short
illness, Am eh a, youngest chid of Wm. H. Hobby,
Jr., aged 4 years and 5 months.
On Wednesday morning, the 3d instant, at the
residence of Mr. John Winter,Mrs. Anne Powers,
aged 83 years. She was a native of South Carolina,
where she suffered greatly from the lories during
the revolutionary war, her father, husband, and
brothers, were all the time with Geneial Marion.
Shoitlv after tbe she became a widow, her
husband’s death was caused by the severe wounds
be had received in the war. She had resided in
llm place upwards of DO years; her virtues are
well known to the old inhabitants of this city;
her work on earth was well done. She was for
many years an acceptable member of the Metho
dist Episcopal Chu.rch, and when death called for
her, she was ready! A few hours before her
dissolution, she seemed to rejoice in the prospect of
death, and would frequently cry out “Come Lord
Jesus, and come quickly”—and again she would say
to us, “O how long to be gone, I want to be gone,”
thus she died in full assistance of heaven and im
mortal glory.
Consignees per South Carolina Rail Road.
Hamburg, April 5, 1839.
Clark, McTeir & Co., D’Antignac & Hill, B.
Leeds, W. Rattier, Baird A Howland, J. Bridges A
Co., King, C. & Co., A. Frederick, Stovall, Sim
mons A Co., W. E. & J, U. Jackson, W. Cla^ett,
J. Johnson, It. W. Force & Co., Reese A Beall, H.
Holsey, J. F. Cleveland, Haviland, Risly & Co ,
Hand A Scranton, R. Armstrong, L. Richards, A.
Sabal, A. Sibley, Porritt & Young, J. F. Henson.
H. L. JelFers, (leo Parrott, Anderson & Adams.
COMMERCIAL.
By the F rancois I. at New York.
~ Havre, March 1.
Cotton —l he cotton market remains excessively
flat, and sates are confined to a few small parcels
at a decline of sc. We are now on the eve of a
general c'cction (which takes place to-morrowl
and cannot expect much activity in business until
the respective strength of the Ministerial* and op
position members is ascertained, a majority of the
lurmer would resto re confidence to the commercial
community, as being a certain guarantee of the
duration of peace, uninterrupted by any warlike
demonstration on the Belgian frontier. Our Minis
terial Deputy Mermillia, is sure of being returned
by an overwhelming majority.
February 28.
Colton —The transactions in this art'c'lc have
continued on a very limited scale, since our last
report of the 23d inst, having been confined to the
most pressing wants of the trade; and the prices of
United States short staple Cottons have n ' ■ •inj
a further decline of 2a 3 centimes; fmahy , re
duction incur rates for these descriptions'in j now
be estimated at fully five centimes per A Ic, fr' || lo
highest point at which they were at the brain,
of this month. The sales noticed on ’Change, lias
been only BG7 bales, consisting of 243 bates"
Orleans, of which 20 at 1 lOf; I2S, 112 a ! •
15, 12 4f; SO good, 132 f 50; 231 Mobile, lloal
IIS Upland, of which 15 at 11 Os; 133, 11 if 50
119 f; 190 St. Domingo, 105a II if 50; 55 Cu ! 1
loupe, 120 f—the whole duty paid. The arrivals i.
the other hand have amounted to 7,773 bates of
whi'h 7,7lSbales United States Cottons a '
bales other sui ts. Stock, 59,843 bales, of w.,ic.t
05,390 bales American.
marine intelligence.
Savannah, April 4.
Cleared. —ShipMilledgeville, Porter, Ncw-York
Armed yesterday.—Brigs Wm. Taylor, Hocy
New-York; New Hanover, Carty, New-York •,
Steamboat Lamar, Lyon, Augusta; licnnoch’s two
boats from Augusta.
Charleston, Aprils.
, Arrived yesterday —Line ship Catherine, Besher,
N. York; barque Arethusa, Baxter, Boston; hri»
Octavia.Oxx, N, Orleans; line brig Langdon Cheves
Baker,Philadelphia; sr hr Oak Hill, Norton, To
baseoischr Harriet Smith, Brow, N. York.
In the Offing— nine ship Congart e, Duane, Bos
ton.
Cleared —Brig Hunter, Bouncy, Matanzas; U L
brig Star, Hull, N. Y ork.
JYent to sen yesterday— C L brig Cordelia, Sher
wood, N. Y'ork.