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from the Denial raliv Hecieu .
Old Ironside* on a Lee Shore.
AN htK WITXWd.
It was at the close of a stormy day in the year
1835, when the gallant frigate Constitution, un
der the command of Captain Elholt—having on
board the Lite Edward Livingston, late Minister
at the Court of France, and hia family, and
manned by nearly five hundred souls—drew near
to “ the chops” of the English Channel. For
four days she had been heating down from Ply
mouth. and on tho fifth, at evening, she made her
last taek for tho French eoast.
The watch w as set at eight P. M.—The Capt
ain came on dock soon after, and having ascer
tained the hearing of Scilly, gave orders to keep
the ship “full and bye,” remarking at the same
time to the o/lieer of the deck, that he might
make the light on the lee beam, hut, He staled, ho
thought it more than probable that he would pass
it without seeing it. Ho then " turned in," as
did most of the idlers and the starboard watch.
At a quarter past nine, P. M., the ship headed
west by compass, when tho call of “Light O!"
was heard from the foretopsail yard.
“ Whereaway 1” naked the officer of the dock.
“Three points on the lee bow,” replied the
look-out-man; which the unprofessional reader
will readily understand to mean very nearly
alraighl ahead. At this moment, the Captain ap
peared and look the trumpet.
“Call all hinds,” was his immediate order.
“All hands," whistled the boatswain, with the
long shrill summons, familiar to the ears of all
who have ever been on board a man-of-man.
“All hands,” screamed the boatswain’s mates,
and ere the la -t echo died away, all but sirk wi r i
upon deck.
The ship was staggering through a heavy swell
from the Bay of Biscay ; the gale, which had
been blowing several days, hail increased to a
severity that was not to he made light of. The
breakers, where Sir Cloudeslny .Shovel and his
fleet wore destroyed, in the days of Queen Anne,
sang their song of death before, and the Dead-
Man’s Ledge replied in hoarser notes behind us.
To g i ahead seemed to ho death, and to attempt
to go about was sure destruction.
'l'he first thing that caught the eye of tho Cap
tain was the furled mainsail, which he had ordered
to lie carried throughout the evening—the hauling
up of which, contrary to the last order that he
had given on leaving the deck, had caused tho
ship to fall olf to leeward two paints, and had thus
led liar into a position on a “ lee shore" upon
which a strong gale was Mowing her, in which
the chance of safely appeared to tho stoutest
nervei almost hopeless. That solo chance con
sisted in standing on. to carry us through the
breakers of Scilly or by tt close graze along their
outer ledge. Was this destiny to he tho end of
the gallant old ship, consecrated by so many a
prayer and blessing from the hem tof a nation ?
“Wiiy is the mainsail up, when I ordered itsef!”
cried the Captain in a tremendous voice.
"Finding that she pitched her hows under, I
took it in, under your general order, sir, that the
officer of the deck should carry sail according to
his discretion,” replied the Lieutenant in com
mand.
•• Heave the log,” was the prompt command, to
the master's mate. Tho log was thrown.
" How fast docs sic go?”
“ Five knots and u half, sir,”
“ Board the main lack, sir.”
“She will not bear it,” said the officer of tho
deck.
“ Board tho main tack,” thundered the Captain.
—“ Keep her full and bye, Quartermaster.”
“ Aye! aye, sir! Ihe lack was hoarded.
“ Haul till the main sheet,” shouted tho captian,
and ail it went like tho spreading of a sea bird's
wing, giving the huge sail to the gale.
“Give her the lee helm when she goes into the
sea,” cried the Captain.
“Aye! aye! sir! she has it,” growled out the
old sea-dog at the binnacle.
“ Bight your helm ; keep her full sud bv«.”
• v r1 o-v'tast dues ahego ! ”
“ Nine knots and a half, sir.”
“ How hears tho light.
“ Nearly a beam sir,”
" Keep her away half point.”
“ How fast docs sho got”
“ Nine knots, sir.”
“ Steady so!” returned the Captain.
“ Steady, answered the helmsman, and all was
the silence of the grave upon that crowded deck
except the howling o( the storm—for a space of
tiim- that seemed to my imagination almost an age.
It was a trying hour with us—unless we could
carry sail so as to go at the rate of nine knots an
hour, wo must of necessity dash upon Scilly, and
who over touched tiro rocks and lived during a
siorrn I The sea ran very high, the rain fell in
sheets, the sky was one blaek curtain, illuminated
only by the taint light which was to mark our db
liveraneo, or stand a monument of our destruc
tion. The wind had got above whistling, it came
in puffs that flattened tho waves, and made our
old frigate settle to her hearings, while every thing
on hoard seemed to he crocking into pieces. At
this moment the carpenter reported that the left
holt ot tho weather fore-shroud had drawn.
“ Gel on tile hills, and set them on all the weath
er shrouds. Keep her ot small helm, quartermas
ter, and ease her in the sea,” were ther orders of
the Captain.
The lulls wore soon put upon the weather
shrouds, which of course relieved the chains and
channels, hut many an anxious eye was turned
towards the remaining holts, for upon ilium de
pended the safely of the ship—for with one foot
of canvass less she could not live fifteen minutes.
Onward plunged the overladened frigate, and
at every surge she seemed bent upon making the
deep the sailor’s grave, and her live oak sides,his
coffin of glory. She had been fitted out at Bos
ton when the thermometer was below zero. Her
shrouds of course therefore slackened at every
strain, and her unwieldy masts (for she had those
designed for the frigate Cumberland, a much
larger ship,) seemed ready to jump out of her.
Aud now, while all was apprehension, another
holt drew ! —and then another ! —until at last, our
whole slay was placed upon a single bolt less
than a man's wrist in circumference. Still the
good irong 1 lung to the solid wood, and bore us
alongside the breakers, though in n most fearful
proximity to them. This thrilling incident has
never, I he i we, been noticed in public, but it is
the literal fact—which I make not the slightest
attempt t > embellish. As we galloped on—-for I
can compare our vessel's leaping to nothing else
—the rocks seemed very near us. Dark as was
the night, the white foam scowled around their
black .1 Mils, while the spray- fell over us, and the
thunder ofthc dashing surge sounded like the aw
ful knell that the ocean was sighing for the vic
tims that it was eager to cngulph.
At length the light bore upon our quarter, and
the broad Atlantic rolled its white caps before us.
Dining this time all was silent, each officer and
man war at his post, and the hearing and coun
tenance of the ( apt.nn seemed to give encourage
ment to every person on hoard. With a bare
pass; i ity of saving the ship and those on hoard,
he relit d on his n lulical skdl and courage, and by
carrying the mainsail when in any other situa
tion, would have been considered a suicidal act,
wrath-red the lee thore, and saved the Consti
tution,
The mainsail w ls now hauled up. hv light
beans and strong hands, the jib and spanker ta
ken in, and Irom the light of Scilly. the gallant
vers 1 im .or closed reeled topsails ,„d main try.
bids, tons her d parture and danced m rri!x over
tho towards the linked Suit's
I'ipa down." said the Captain to the First
Lieutcnsn , - andsph.- c the main brace.” -I'i,,.
down,” ic'o-’d tli* 1 First Lieutenant to the boat*
swain. “ Pipe down,” whistled the boatswain to
the rrew, and “ pipe dow n it was.
Soon the “ Jack of the Dust’ held his levee on
the main gun-deck, and the weather beaten tars,
ns they gathered about the grog tub, and luxuria
ted upon a full allowance of Old Uye, forgot all
their perils and fatigue.
“ How near the rocks did we go,’ said I to one
of the master's mates the next morning. He
made no reply, hut taking down his chart, showed
me a pencil Wne between the outside thuul and
the. Light H<rw Inland, which must have been
a small strait t>r a fisherman to run his smack
through in good weather by day light.
For what is the noble and dear old Irigalc re
served !
J went upon deck ; the sea was culm, a gentle
breeze was swelling our canvass from our main
sail to royal, the isles of Hcilly had sunk in the
eastern waters, and the clouds of the dying storm
were rolling oil' in broken masses to the north
ward and westward, like the (lying columns of a
beaten army.
I have been in many a gale of wind, and have
past through scenes of great danger ; hut never,
before nor since, have I cxpericncec an hour so
terrific, as that when the Constitution was labor
ing, with the lives of live hundred men hanging
on a single small iron bull, to weather Heilly, on
the night of the I llh of May, 1836.
Noth.— During the gale, Mrs. Livington in
quired of the captain, if we were not in great
danger, to which he replied us soon as we had
passed Hcilly, “you arc as safe as yon would he
in the aisle of u church ” It is singular that the
frigate Boston, Capl. MeNcal, about the close of
the Revolution, escaped a similar danger while
employed in carrying out to France, Chancellor
Livingston, u relative of Edward’s and also Min
ister to the Court of St. Cloud. He likewise had
his wife on hoard, and while the vessel was weath
ering a lee shore, Mrs. Livingston asked the
Captain—a rough hut gallant old fire-eater —if
they were not in great danger; to which lie re
plied—“ You had better, Madam, get down upon
yonr knees, and pray to Cod to forgive you your
numerous sins, for if we dont carry by this point,
we shall all he down in five minutes.”
CIIIUJNICLE AND SENTINEL.
A L C II H T A.
THURSDAY MORNINC, APRIL 11.
Concert.
The Soiree Mtisirale given at the Masonic Hal
on Tuesday evening last, by Madam Otto, Mr. T
Bishop, and Mr. Brough, delighted a numerous
and fashionable audience. We are pleased to see
a second Concert announced for Friday evening.
For Programme, see advertisement.
The largest steamboat on the Western waters,
is said to la’, the St. Louis, of eleven hundred tons
burthen, and DlOfeetlong. She has two engines
and eight boilers, and runs between St. Louis and
New Orleans.
The Now Vnrlt Canal Commissioners have pre
sented to the House of Assembly their report in
relation to the enlargement of the Eric Canal
It appears that the whole estimated cost, inelu.
ding the proposed enlargement and improvement,
would he $23,402,803.
Public. Meeting.
A portion of the citizens of Madison and its
vicinity met in the Court House on the 9th hist.
to take into consideration the propriety of send
, . ...... ..no in v.iiurumun on me uuru mon
day of the present month—
On motion of Dr. Win, Johnston, Col. S. Floyd
was called to the Chair, and N. (4. Foster Esq.
appointed Secretary.
The object of the meeting being briefly slated
by the Chairman, a committee of throe, consist
ing of E. E. Jones, J. W. St ark and J. W. Por
ter was, on motion of Dr, E. E. Jones appointed
by the Chair to nominate suitable persons to rep
resent us in said Convention.
The Committee reported the names of John
Robson, William (). Solluld, John Wingfield,
William Johnston and T. 15. Rees, Esq’rs. as
suitable delegates, which report was unanimously
adopted by the meeting.
On motion ol Dr. E. E. Jones, Resolved, That
the delegates appointed, have power to fill any
vacancy which may occur in their number.
On motion ofT. 11. Rees, Esq.
Unsolved, That the proceedings of this meeting
he signed by the Chairman and Secretary, and
published in the Augusta Chronicle and Sentinel.
The meeting then adjourned.
S. FLOYD, Chairman.
N. (!. Fosri.ii, Secretary.
Communicated.
Frederick Hie Croat and the United States.
Frederick was never doubtful as to the issue op
the revolutionary war between this count.y and
Creut Britain, and openly declared his sentiments
in a treaty which he concluded with Russia in
1781, of armed neutrality. Franklin, Adams,
and Jellcrson, valued the fiieudly disposition of
the great monarch so highly, whose influence
over his age was great, that they invited him be
fore any other power to q treaty of amity and
commerce, which was concluded at the Hague
| 20lh September, 1785, and which was the last I
i national act to which the king nnexod his signa"
litre. Part of this treaty reads thus:—“lf one
of the two powers he ot war with a third parly,
the commercial intercourse between the said two
powers shall thereby sutler no interruption, and
their respective (lugs shall protect even the prop
erty of the enemy; and in ease this properly he
amunitions of war, it shall he simply kept in de
-1 o ale without being seized. If ever there should
j be any difficulty between the two countries them-
I selves, the contest shall he confined to the armies i
| ami commerce shall go on unmolested, and no
! letters of marc shall be issued. The prisoners of
war shall ho treated in the most urbane manner,
j and have the same pay, and enjoy the same treat
ment as their own soldiers of the countries accor
ding to their respective ranks.” Q.
Finn in Bbidgkpokt.—We learn that the
large carriage factory of Haight, Fairchild & Co.,
was destroyed by fire on Sunday morning las!.
I Loss *25,000 —insured 810,000—85000 at the
i Hartford office, and 85000 at Springfield. —Xiw
I Haven Palladium.
The palace of the Sublime Porte at Constan
tinople was destroyed by fire on the night of the
-Oth of J 11 ui is -loss estimated at >500.000.
i
i'ruin the Sew York ihi aid vj the 4th,
Money Market.
Walt street pres< nls an appearance of general
quiet ami languor—approaching almost perfect ex- |
haustion. Thu immense important o attached to
the new s expected on Hominy next, hy the steam
er Orc.it Western, occupies the mind of every one
with its probable results, Capitalists and gener
al operators therefore remain nearly inactive.—
Exchange and stock operations are very limited,
causing prices to remain w ithout material change.
The Block Market continues very inactive.—
The sales are to a limited extent, and prices do
not vary in any great degree. United Stales
Hank closed at a slight decline from yesterday s
rates. In some other cases more firmness was
manifest.—Delaware & Hudson improver! A per
cent; Kentucky 1 percent; Vicksburg J percent;
Paterson 1 per rent; Harlem 2 per cent; Boston
& Providence J per cent; Canton J per cent. ,
This is the day on which the hank of Com
merce was to go into operation, accordingly its
doors were opened, and some fewdeposiles made;
hut the event has attracted far less attention than
the trumpeting of its friends led me to imagine it
it would. The extreme scarcity of money causes
the instalment dun to-day to come very hard; es
pecially as no immediate relief can he expected
from its operations, and money is far too valua
ble to he allowed to lie idle in times like this.—
The public mind also, apart from the prospect of
unfavorable news from England, is becoming
alive to the fact that the Southern banks have re
sumed too noon, and men are inclined to recur
with regret to the letter of Mr. Biddle in April
lasi, wherein he warns the community against
too early a return to specie payments. Already
in the rise of exchange the depreciation of South
ern paper—the frequent explosion of Southern
banks and the stagnation of business we see a
verification of the fulfill;; extracts from his let
ter to Mr. Adams of last year.
“The Atlantic cities, for instance, are credit
ors of the Southern and Western Slates for goods
sold to them, to he paid for cither in those States
or in the Atlantic cities —their currencies being
so nearly the same that the exchange would not
cost them so much us the mere transportation of
the specie. When theday of payment arrives the
creditor city suddenly makes an artificial scarcity
of its own currency—renders the only money it
will receive in payment almost inaccessible to its
debtor—reducing, at the same lime, the rate of
exchange, and the prices of every thing. This
rigor instantly recoils on the creditor. If pay
ment is made in the Southern and Western States,
the Atlantic merchant loses the whole deprecia
tion in exchange. If payment is to he made in
the Atlantic cities, and the debtor sends produce
to pay his debt, the scarcity of money obliges him
to sacrifice it—if he sends the hunk note of his
country, they sink to seventy-five per cent in va
lue, and he loses the difference. If he brings the
stock of his State the scarcity of money renders
their negociation impossible. Once disappointed
in this way, he sends no more produce—no more
bank notes—and the creditors in turn sufi'er more
than the difference hy the delay.
“So in respect to foreigners. Wo owen large
debt to France and England. Why should we
destroy the value of our only means of [laying if!
We can pay it only in cash or produce or stocks.
As to cash, this debt was contracted in an abun
dant currency. By this artificial scarcity of mo
ney, wo arc obliged to pay it in a currency more
valuable hy one half or one third. Even at that
rate, we can neither borrow the money nor raise
it hy sales, except hy ruinous sacrifice. We then
may pay it in produce or in slocks, hut the same
scarcity sinks the value of both. A debt contract
ed when cotton was twenty cents we have to pay
when cotton is ten cents a pound. Ifwe propose
to pay in stocks, these, too, have sunk perhaps
twenty-live per cent on their price last year.—
Our resources then arc diminished in value, while
our debt is increasing hy interest. The consc- I
quencc is, that the foreign debt is postponed.—
This eiier.itijooji-'""•' i'“7" I
mom—-to the foreign creditor by the delay and
hazard of his debt. It is true, if he could now
receive his money, lie could remit it homo at a
low rate. But then the same scarcity which low
ers the rate of remittance, prevents Ids receiving
any thing to remit—and so far from being inter
ested in the early resumption, it essentially in
jures him, because the forced preparation for it,
by crushing the resources of his debtors, renders
them alike unwilling to pay. What the foreign
creditor wants is payment—payment of the debt,
not in it hotter currency, and if, necessary, in an
inferior currency, because he can better support a
high rale of remittances than a reduced or a post
poned payment.”
Os the three modes of payment for our foreign
debt described in (his hist paragraph, ids favorite
measure was to make the produce of the soil, com
bined with economy in imports, the slow and
easy means of liquidating our debt. The clamour
of the present Bank of Commerce clique tempted
them into making stocks the medium of present
payment in order to force a resumption, while the
splendid success ol'Mr. Biddle's cotton movement
forced them into following up the measure in or
der to raise prices still higher, which has been
done in a greater degree than consumption war
rants. Thus their prematura resumption has ren
dered their lial ilities immediate. While their
policy of holding cotton Inis absorbed all their
means and prevented trade from re-organizing,
thereby clogging that demand for goods which is
necessary in order to perfect their cotton move
ment, and the crop must now be (brown upon a
falling market at a ruinous loss or a second sus
pension, and utter failure of the banks interested
will lake place. Already there is a caution ob
served in the exchange market towards bills drawn
against cotton. They sell at 9 per cent where
others will in some instances command 10 per
cent premium.
The inland exchanges which were so much
disordered last spring, at the time the New York
banks resumed, in consequence of the improved
currency in this city and the continual expansion
South, became gradually equalized as the South
ern banks contracted in order to resume, verify
ing (he following passage in Mr. Biddle’s letter;
“The state of exchanges in New York proves
nothing whatever, except the scarcity of money in
New York. The exchanges are even less depre
ciated than many other things. The bank notes
I of the Southern States are at a great depreciation.
I But store rent and real estate, in the very spot
where these notes arc sacrificed are much more
| depreciated than the notes themselves. So, too,
j in New York, the notes of Philadelphia are at a*
] discount: yet, at this moment. New York has to
j pay to Philadelphia not less than ton millions of
dollars, for actual debts to Philadelphia, and to
foreigners represented by Philadelphia. It is not,
therefore, the abundance but the want of means
tit is not strength hut weakness which causes tlilv
difference. By the same process bread and meat
may be reduced in price for the want of purcha
sers. You make an artificial scarcity of money
and then boast how much the little which remains
will buy—hut your superiority is punished by the |
debtor, who does not settle with a creditor so much
above him.
“On the whole, the course which, in my judg
ment. the banks ought to pursue, is simply this:
“ The Banks should remain exactly as they are
—preparing to resume, but not yet resuming.”
Exchange are now again rapidly falling into
confusion, not from the comparative but from the
j actual depreciation of the currency. As an in
stance of which we will mention the fact that the
bonds of the Vicksburg Bank, (Miss.) recently
suspended, were otiered in Wall street to-day at
! -1A per cent per month, equal to 44 cents in’ the I
j dollar, without finding buyers.
Money lias boon exceedingly scarce to-day.
| The old banks yet show no disposition to increase
>• /
their loans. Perhaps one reason lor tire conllli- |
nance of this extreme caution on tiieir part, may , ,
be the uncertainty of the action of the legislature |
on the question of renewing the charters of the
old Banks. To relieve this anxiety, wc would
suggest that the legislature pass a law autho
rizing the old banks on the expiration of their
charter, to merge themselves into banks under the
general law, wiihout being obliged to cease their
operations. Such an arrangement would have a
very beneficial influence on the market at this
time.
From the New York Commercial Advertiser.
The Kingdom of Canada*
The two great questions now before the Legis
lature of Upper Canada are the disposition of the
Clergy Reserves, and the union of the province
with Lower Canada. The latter is strongly in
sisted on by a large portion of the members, as
w*ll as of the people, who believe that it will form
a principal ingredient of the panacea which
distresses of the province so urgently require.
But such is not the opinion of Mr. Hagerman,
the attorney general. His eyes are lixed on a
higher mark, and nothing will satisfy him short
of elevating tho provinces to the dignity of a
kingdom.
We have only a brief sketch or outline of his
speech in the House of Assembly, on the 21stof
March. Wc copy from the Toronto Patriot,
where Mr. Hagerman is reported to have
Proposed two questions to the House, which
opened a new and important view of our future
relations with Great Britain. Ho asked First —
Whether it was the opinion of the House that the
people preferred a constitutional monarchy as' a
form of Government, to a democracy,—And, sec
ondly,—lf the answer were in favor of the former,
as no one could doubt would be the case, he
would next ask, whether in the course of events
it was not certain that these provinces would as
sume that rank among (he nations of the worM,to
which their vast extent of country—commercial
importance—natural resources, and increasing
population entitle them to look forward.
In commenting upon these propositions he
contended that all schemes for meliorating the
political condition of these vast possessions of the
British empire, short of erecting them into a
kingdom, would be more expedient for a tempora
ry purpose—and that no plan, in his opinion,
could so effectually and certainly perpetuate the
connection with Great Britain, or advance their
general prosperity, and remove (lie evils by which
they were oppressed, as raising them to thatdigni
ly—giving it representation in the British Parlia
ment, and governing it by a Viceroy, as Ireland is
governed. Mr. Hagerman pointed nut many ad
vantages that in his opinion would result from
the measure; which, when published, will deserve
and unquestionably will receive, the deepand anx
ious consideration of tho people of this province.
P. tS, Since the above was in type, we have
received tho Montreal papers ofthe Ist instant, in
one of which wc find it stated that a resolution in
favor ofthe legislative union ofthe two provinces
has passed the House of Assembly of Upper Can
ada, by a large majority.
Tho resolution also declares the importance of
despatching agents to England, to advocate the
measure there.
Execution in Cannda.
The course of justice in the Canadian provin
ces appears to give great dissatisfaction in Eng
land. It has been spoken of in Parliament with
strong expressions of disapproval; and the press
denounces it with extreme severity. For exam
ple, the following paragraph, from a leading arti
cle in the London Morning Herald.
The government which deluded the ignorant
multitude into acts of violence and insurrection
by courting, flattering, and conciliating Papincau
| in the very rage of his agitation—the government
that promoted some of his co-agitalors to the judi
-1 ci-.il Ucrw-V, 'on agitation, is the
same government under whose orders acts of cold
blooded civil slaughter are now pcipetrated in the
Canadas, which shock and disgust the hearts of
Christian men, and will be productive of fresh ca
lamities hereafter to that society whose human
blood is thus lavishly and revengefully shed, after
rebellion has been punished with the triple
scourge of the sword, and flame, and famine !
Did not the Canadian journals of the successful
party contain triumphant accounts, not long ago,
of the slaughter of rebels in the field, followed by
the wide-spread devastation of their dwellings,
given to the devouring flames, whence thousands
of helpless families of the insurgents and suspect
ed insurgents fled into the woods, in the depth of
a Canadian winter, to die of cold and hunger in
the midst ofthe howling wilderness 1 Was there
not hero punishment and suffering more than
enough both for revenge and example ?
The liritisli Steamers.
The Boston Patriot says,—“Wc learn from
good authority, that the Liverpool and Great
Western arc the only steamers which arc expect
ed to ply between Great Britain and the United
States.— J lie British Queen, heretofore expected
to leave in April, wouldnot he ready until autumn,
some mistake having occurred in her construction
which would make it necessary to raise her deck
before she could receive her boilers. The Presi
dent, of course, will not lu ready before the Brit
ish Queen. The Royal William has been with
drawn from tho route, and now piles between'
Dublin and Bordeaux.”
A few weeks since wo published the marriage
ot a Mr. Dill, stated to he 14 years ofage, to Miss
Langley, aged 13. The Augusta Chronicle re
published the article, from which it was copied in
to the Charleston Courier. The Editor of the
latter paper censured the parents of the parties,
and the Parson who officiated upon the occasion,
in very severe terms. The Clergyman in ques
tion culled upon us the other day, and requested
us to slate, that the perron who furnished the no
tice was mistaken as to the age of the parties,
theyoung man being 17, and the lady upwards of
14 years of ago; that the parents of both gave their
consent to the union, and they were married at the
house of the young lady’s mother, (she being a
widow.) We trust that the papers above alluded
to will correct the error which wc and they have
innocently been lead to commit. Wc are satis
fied that the gentleman who handed us the notice
was not correctly informed of tho ages ofthe par
ties himself, as wc believe him incapable of wil
fully misstating that or any other fact.— Green
ville Mountaineer.
Loniion Men. — London mud is unlike the
mud of any other city or town in the empire. The
paving stones ofthe metropolis, for perhaps near
ly half a century, have been imported in the little
blocks from the granite queries of Aberdeenshire;
this is ground down by the everlasting roll of wa
gons and other carriages, and the abraded parti
cles of the metal, when moistened by a shower,
i assume all the adhesiveness cf Roman cement.
To remove it rapidly would require a brush with
bristles of the strength of “heckle teeth;” and wc
have the authority of a commercial traveller for
stating, that the London raud is well known and
cordially hated, by the “bootc” of all the inns
within 200 miles of St. Paul’s. An article which
is comparatively worthless elsewhere is of much
value here; and the sweepings of the streets are
farmed out to contractors, by the parish authori
ties, often at a high premium. The mud is sold
for many purposes, but chiefly to he used as an
ingredient in the process of brick-making, and
thus a large sum of money is turned over bv
means of the very dust we tread beneath our feet. '
—London paper.
>
The At v. \ ork 'Slur ul the bill stales tliat ru- |
mors arc again rile that Amos Kendal is appoint
ed Secretary of the Treasury. We still doubt it.
The trade and commerce of the country v.oulj
buy him oil’cheaply from accepting the office by
a bonus of two millions of dollais.
Laugh Cargo.—The Br. ship Columbus,
Gapt. Pcntrieth, cleared on the 6th inst. at Sa
vannah for Liverpool, with 1871 bales of Cotton,
valued at $151,000.
This is the largest cargo ever taken from that
port.
Correspondence of the N. Y. Commercial Advertiser,
Habtford, April 5.
iThe result of our state election you arc now
acquainted with. We have accomplished all that
*\c dared to hope for—all that our most sanguine
wings anticipated.
We have elected six whig members of Con
gress.
In District No. 1, Trumbull elected by plu
rality of 1080 over Toucey.
District No. 2, Storrs elected by plurality of
134 over Ingham.
District No. 3, Williams elected by plurality
of 90 over Billings.
District No. 4, Osborne elected by plurality of
300 over Whittlesey.
District No. 5, Smith elected by plurality of
510 over Phelps.
District No. 6, Drockway elected by plurality
of 576 over Cleveland.
Whig plurality, 2690.
In 1837, in No. 1. Toucey was elected by 76
plurality. No. 2, Ingham was elected by 1201
pluiality. In No. 3, Haley was elected by 115
plurality. In No. 4, Whittlesey was elected by
365 plurality. In No. 5, Phelps was elected by
102 plurality. In No. 6, Holt was elected by
304 plurality. Loco foco plurality. 2163.
In Connecticut a plurality of votes elects mem
bers of Congress, bat for governor a majority is
necessary.
Matrimonial Balance. —Not long since a
reverend Clergyman in Vermont, being apprehen
sive that the accumulated weight of snow upon
the roof of In barn might do some damage, was
resolved to prevent it, by seasonably shovelling it
off. lie therefore ascended to it, having first, for
fear the snow might all slide off at once, and him
self with it, fastened to his waist one end ofa rope,
and given the other to his wife. He went to work,
but fearing still for his safety. “My dear,” said he,
“ tic the rope round your waist.” No sooner had
she done this than off went the snow, poor min
ister and all, and up went his wife. Thus on
one side of the barn the astonished and confound
ed clergyman hung, but on the other side hung
wife, high and dry, in majesty sublime, dingling
and dangl.ng at the end of the rope. At that mo
ment, however, a gentleman, luckily passing by,
delivered them from this perilous situation.
“Putting in mind.”— This common phrase
was used by a Hibernian, a day or two since, in
rather a ludicrous connection. Pat was driving
pigs in Lowell street, when Barney met him, and
after the usual interchange of “How d’ye do,” and
“ Sure it’s myself that’s glad to sec you,” Barney
pointed to one of the quadrupeds, with—“lt’s a
tine pig that sow, Patrick.” “It is that same
Barney, which puts me in mind of asking for
your wife, thecrathur, is she well !”
A MODE OF DETECTING COUNTERFEIT CoiN.
—The following simple experiment, which has
laid the foundatisn of one of the most splendid
of modern ......i,i
Take a clean slip of common sheet zinc, about
two inches by one half, and lay it upon the tongue,
place a genuine silver coin under the tongue, and
on bringing the silver and zinc together, a pung
ent and disagreeable taste will be perceived. Sub
stitute, now, a coin suspected to be counterfeit, in
the place of the genuine coin, and a very slight,
if any taste will be perceived. The false coin of
half dollars, quarters, dimes and half dimes, is
made mostly of German silver, and produces
scarcely any galvanic action with a piece of zinc.
The above test is almost infallible, and recom
mends itself from its simplicity.
An American Citizen Murdered.—A
letter from Mcxibo dated Feb. 14, states that “Mr.
A. Dubriellc, of New York, was barbarously
murdered on the 29th ult. by a gang of robbers
who attacked the mail coach, on its way to the
Puebla, half a mile from the Garits (gate) of
this city. He was shot dead, and several other
persons in the coach were wounded. These hu
man demons are daily committing spoliations and
murdering travellers in some quarter. The moral
and political condition of this country is constant
ly retrograding.”
The English will have a hard time of it if they
fight with the down-easters, for some of them are
so strong that they squeeze tar out of pine knots
with their hands.— Huston Statesman.
jAfnd so “cute" that they make first rate pump-.
|kin seeds of the knot after the tar is squeezed out. S
[ Lyons Argus.
Dr. Duncan is a genuine Buckeye.— Ohio
Statesman.
A Buckeye by nativity but a Sucker by prac
tice. — Louis. Jour,
A Steam Navigation Company, with a capital
of $500,000, and the privilege to increase it to
$1,000,000, was incorporated by the New Jersey
Legislature, at its recent session.
John Smith—Still Further We are
pleased in being able to contradict the many inju
rious reports which have recently been in circula
tion relative to this individual. In a late Mobile
paper we see his name among the list of passen
gers on board a steamer from Tuscaloosa; so that
the story of his having turned Mahometan in
Ceylon, and that of his being taken up in Phila
delphia for stealing eggs, are both utterly desti
tute of foundation. As wo aided in giving the
above reports circulation, wo now, as an act of
justice, hasten to contradict them.— Picayune.
“ What is your business madam I asked a
counsel recently of a witness on the stand. “ I
keep a seminary for the destruction of young la
dies,” was the answer.
MARRIED,
On the 2nd inst., b the Rev. C. W. Key, Doctor
A. A. Cullens, of Sandersville, Ga. to Miss H \r.
riet H. Bussey, of this City.
On the 22th ult., by Wm. Fowler, Esq., Mr.
M ASIIINGTON D. Holsonbake, of Columbia county"
to Miss Lucinda, daughter of John Kcllebrew of
Warren county.
Consignees per South Carolina Rail Road.
Hamburg, April 9, 1839.
D’Antignac & Hill, T. H. IPant, T. Barrett & Co
J. B. Bishop, R.C. Baldwin, P. A. Scranton. J. \v’
Houghton, T. Dawson, Reese & Beall, L Dwelle
A. Cuthbert, B. W. Force, J. De Bow, T. Glascock’
Davis Grimes & Co., Stovall, Simmons t Co.’
Clark. Mcleir & < o , Nelson Carter, I.S. Beers
C 0., Baird & Rowland, J. S. Hutchinson, D. L.
Ciof™’ o’^ 0 ’^” 0 * 1 ’ H * L * Jeffers > J ' F » Benson, E
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| designed to ex tend and encourage the growth of Silk
i throughout the United States. Ed.ted by Ward
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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 Ur. EVANS’S Office, 100 Chatham-street, New-
York.
DR. WILLIAM EVANS’ MEDICINES,
Are composed of vegetable substances, which exert
a specilic 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
ternally, or the extremities ; and as all the secre
tions of the body arc drawn from the blood, there
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sumes a healthful state. A
These medicines after much anxious toil and re- I
search, having been brought by the proprietor to . ,
the present st ile of perfection, supersede the use of I
the innumerable other medicines; and are so well y
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, II r, and
other visera, they expel the bad, acrid o, .....rUJ I
matter, which renders the blood impure, out ol the
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passage of the bowels, so that by the brisk orslight
evacuations which may be regulated by the do:
always remembering that while the rvacunt
from the bowels are kept up, the e; c-1..,. - free -'I si*
the other portions of the body wi. a; „
on in the same proportion, by whidq| i..i..
blood invariably becomes purified.
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adapted to thejeonstitution, that they may Lc taken
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ness, flatulent or hysterical faintings, hysterics,
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from their sufferings, by a course of Dr. William
Evans’s Pills.
Nausea, vomiting, pains in the side, limbs, head,
stomach or back, dimness or confusion of
noises in the inside, alternate flushings of heat and
chilliness, tremors, watchings, agitation, anxiety
bad dreams, spasms, will in every case be relieved
I by an occasional dose of Dr. Evans’s medicines.
One of the most dangerous epochs to fcmalesjis
at the change of life; and it is then they require a
medicine which will so invigorate their circulation
and thus strengthen tlier constitutions as may ena
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ply of Dr. Evans’s Pills, which remove disorders
in the head, invigorate the mind, strengthen the
body, improve the memory, and cliven the imagin
ation.
When the nervous system has been too largely
drawn upon or overstrained, nothing is better to
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than tuf.S 0 moJioim .'
Dr. William Evans’s Medical Office, 100 Chat
ham street, New York, where the Doctor maybe
consulted. J
(Tj A Case of Tic Doloreux. <£2o
Mrs. J . E. Johnson, wife of Capt. Joseph John
veare with n r n’. WaS seve .'«b’afflicted for ten
years with lie Doloreux, vnslentpa in her head,
and vomiting with a burning heat in the stomach,
reilf f“ b 6 I? leave her 100 - She cou! d find no
rehcl from the advice of several physicians, nor
from medicines of any kind, until after she commen
ced using Dr. Evans’s medicines, of 100 ( hatham
street, and from that time she began to amend, and
feels satislied il she continues the medicine a few
days longer, will he perfectly cured. Reference
can be had as to the truth of the above, by calling
at .Mrs. Johnson s daughter’s store, 359 Grand st.
A REAL BLESSING TO MOTHERS
Du. w„ Vv.\rro' CELEURATED SOOTHING SYRUP
T, • Foll f n I l L 1 DHEN CUTT,KG T «e« Teeth. ’
This infallible remedy ha, preserved hundreds of
chi dren, when thought past recovery, from con
vulsions. As soon as the Syrup i s rU hh er . "
gums, the child will recover. This’ D repLtL
so innocent, so clficacions, and so ple«i nt „
child will refuse to let us gums be rubbetlifi! ,
When infants arc at the age of four months,/" ‘
there is no appearance of teeth, one bottle of “n
Syrup should be used on the gums to open th,
pores. Parents should never be without the Syrup
in the nursery where there arc young children ; for
if a child wakes in the night with pain in the
gums, the Syrup immediately gives case by open
ing tho pores ami healing the gums; thereby pre
venting convulsions, fevers, &o.
Sold by ANTONY & HAINES, Augusta, \
■ J. M. & T. M. TU RNER, Savannah,
P. M. COHEN & Co., Charleston.
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COMMERCIAL.
New Orleans, April 6.
Cotton. —The receipts since our last weekly re
port of 30th ult. are 27,218 bales ; exported 2G.735
do; stock on hand 130,480 do including all on ship
board not cleared to date. r
The sales in our market since Tuesday last, have
been much smaller than for some time past,' they
do not exceed 4,000 bales of all kinds, and generally
at a decline of I a I cent per lb ; this falling off in
price and demand has been caused by the unfavo- !
rable accounts received on Wednesday from Liver
pool and Havre to the 18th February l-n -id I with 1
the receipts of the week being unexpett ' large, 1
owing to the desire on the part of the pl.n'.ers to 1
hurry the remainder of their crops to markc t f-arin 1
a collision between this country and Great Jlri’a u 1
arising out of the boundary question. We do i, *
alter our quotations, since the demand is not sub" p 1
milled to generally, and the sales arc not o ' I- *
eient magnitude to fix prices. The safe- >" •’ . 1
week amount to 9,000 bales, viz; Mis r • I
a 18$ cents, N. Ala. and T e nn. 13$ a ij
Texas cents, “ 1
Liverpool Classifications. —Louisiana a-
Mississippi, Ordinary 12£ a 13$; Middling 14 '
14$; Fair 15$ a 16; Good fair 16$ a 17; Good . > '
fine 17$ ; Tennessee and North Alabama, ( . m, ~, 1
Middling, Fair, 12$ a 16$, extremes ;Gy , .
Good and fine, fair crops, 15 a loi. '
STATEMENT OF COTTON. I
1838, Oct. 1, stock on hand bales 8900 •
1839, April 5, received since 2d 12787
“ “ “ previously 436372 449150 ‘
458109 *
“ “ exports since 2d 9147 '
“ ‘ previously 318132 327079 * l
Leaving a balance of stock of 130480 S
including all on shipboard not cleared.
Coffee —The demand remains quite limited to
city use and former rates are continued. ]
Molasses. —The enquiry for the last three days J
has rather improved,and moderate sales are effected
at quotations, the present supply is quite ample for
the demand. The receipts since Tuesday are 181
hhds. and 792 bids.
Sugar. — We continue our rates for sugar ; trans. j
actions however have not been so extensive, and J
the demand more limited. The receipts since 2d
inst., are 89i hhds. with a fair supply on levee.