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ben. Hamilton's Address.
Delivered a! a public Dinner given him at the
S'at of Government of Texas, on the 21 st
F March, 1839.
After the reading of the third regular toast by
the President, which was in the following
words :
“ Our distinguished Guest, Gen. Hamilton —
The friend and advocate of Texas; we welcome
him to our shore.”
Gen. Hamilton rose, and addressed the compa
ny as follows :
Gentlemen—Allow me to return you my thanks
for the very flattering manner in which you have
responded to the kind toast just announced by the
chairman. I thank you cordially, likewise, for
the distinguished honor of this festival.
You do mo no more than justice in afnrfiling
that I was vonr early and zealous friend, i lie
circumstances of patriarchal colonization which
attended the first settlement of these mighty and
magnificent solitudes, under the wise and virtu
ous Austin anil his followers —the hardy enter
prize which, under the faith of authoritative char
ters, induced our countrymen to brave the trial
a id sufferings of emigration and the tomahawk
of the savage—the ferocious invasion of Mexico,
the almost unexampled gallantry with which,
against fearful odds, that invasion was met,enlis
ted my sympathy, and 1 paused not in the warm
pulsations of my heart, to emjuire with the cold
calculation of political arithmetic, what might he
the future relations your republic would bear to
our own. I felt that the men who had won the
battle ofSan Jacinto were entitled to the renown
they had so gloriously acquired. II a sympathy
for ifiesuffering and an admiration for the fearless
valor of your people, made my first impressions
in favor of your country more u matter ol impulse
and feeling than anything else, a little reflection
brought me to t ic conclusion, that a successful
issue of your struggle was about not only to snli
serve the cause of civilization and liberty, hut to
a I I strength and security to our own country, by
placing on the western side of the Mississippi a
papulation intelligent, civilized and enterprising,
p issessinginstitutions entirely in sympathy with
our own.
As to your title, gentlemen, to the land you
have won. it rests on the same tenure by which
most nations hold their empires, in despite of
those loss civilized than themselves. It is a
principle in ethics, (as it is a truth in history)
susceptible of the most rigid demonstration, that
the fair surface of the glorious orb we inhabit,
ought, and does of right belong to those who will
make the best use of the blessings of Almighty
God. and turn them by their virtue, industry and
intelligence to the host account. That knowledge
ami virtue, should exercise a super-eminent mas
tery over ignorance and vice, is a la v ns invaria
ble in its operation as that in mechanics a supe
rior power should predominate over a lesser one.
To you who arc so accurately informed of the
circumstances of your past history, it woulc ho
idle and superfluous in mo to recite the principles
upon which your resistance to that vast and ano
malous anarchy from which you have separated
yourselves rests—the charters she violated the
treaties sheimpunged, and the circumstances of
bloodshed and atrocity which attended your first
struggle.—These I shall leave untouched—l trust
1 sh ill ho restrained by another motive: I cannot
consent to violate the rights of hospitality to
wards the stranger, recommended to your protec
tion by the sacerdotal cloth which he wears, by
saying one word more than absolutely necessary
that might he offensive to his country or painful
to his feelings.* As a subject of Mexico, the ve
ry appearance of this Prolate in your country and
town at this board, is the highest compliment ho
could pay to your magnanimity, and the strong
est evidence of his intrepid reliance upon it. It
is true, he brings with him the passport ofhaving
protested against the sanguinary invasion ofyour
country, and of having in vain urged upon her
infatuated chieftain, councils which, if they had
been listened to, would have preserved his laurels
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pleasant topics, and proceed to a more agreeable
theme.
Texas has passed the crisis of her fate. If the
battle ot'San Jacinto was decisive ofyour indepen
dence, you have confirmed the glorious results of
this bright epoch, by the political, judicial, social
and moral institutions which you have established
faithful to the principles which you have received
from that glorious mother of us all, from whom
we derive in common the germs of civil liberty—
magna charts, a deliberative elective assembly,
and trial by jury. As to an invasion from Mexi
co, you hive as little cause to fear it as an inva
sion from the Great Mogul. Indeed 1 begin to
think that we, your neighbors on the north of (he
Sabine, would have to endure a row up the "Salt
River,” if we wore ever to attempt to dispossess
you of a teirilory which is yours by even a better
title than the sword.
It is sue, that you have to contend with difli
cuHica in your progress, almost of an unparalleled
character;—Rich in domain more fertile than any
over which the Roman Ragles ever flew, you
were nevertheless destitute of the material of war
—ol money, public credit, and a sound currency,
with all the force which a public opinion, ignor
ant of your real situation, could bring to bear
agiinst you.—Coming most of you from that
section of th • United Stales whom the institution
of domestic slavery prevails, 1 regret to say that
y in suffered all t ie odium with which an insane
and frenzied fanatic ism thinks proper to environ
this subject,—to say nothing of the deeply rooted
jealousy which the mere discussion of the policy
ol youi annexation to our confederacy so power
fully excites. Gentlemen, you have acted wisely
in deciding this question for yourselves. If you
had become allied to us, you ((might indeed have
“caught a Tartar.” You were right to come to
the manly derision to stand by yourselves, alone,
fearless and invincible, cultivntingfriendship with
all nations—entangling alliances with none,
emulating all that is excellent in our institutions
—avoiding all our mistakes either in the practi
cal operation, or in the speculative refinements of
politics.
H>' disdaining any longer to be a suppliant at
Washington, from a condition of weakness, you
have vvaxed into a condition of bone and strength
and spared our union the agitation of a question
which never comes hut like the earthquake, to
convulse and to shake, Aou are, thanks be to
God, able now to walk alone. The young Her
cules, in the short span of a few year’s could not
stretch forth such n sinewy arm, ample bosom,
and determined port, as your infant republic—
Besides, the brawny bantling of antiquity had
not in his cradle that potent invention of modern
times called a rifle—a weapon essentially Ameri
can; through whose polished tubes, on the nliso
lute and rigid precision of a mathematical line,
you sent forth your visiting cards to inform your
friends you were at home at San Jacinto, when
they attempted so unceremoniously to take “French
leave.’ In using this common place phrase, do
not let me lie understood as easting the slightest
reflection on that great and gallant nation who
have recently afforded in their masterly assault at
\ era Cruz, the most resplendent testimony that
they never leave their visits unfinished, whilst an
honor or a laurel is to he won. But nil badi
nage aside ; L t me now detain you fora few mo
ments in a sum or two in political economy,
i our advancement has surpassed every ’expec
tation which could have been formed ofyour re
public. Astonishing as has been the growth of
taM J.’ 1 hs“KstoS’S Bish °P of was a, ,he
e t inprelieu-don of b”ngXiXd°'to "'i
Private affairs. Ite was treMed wbl. djU,t his
kindness and hospitality by the ueonle *of m'" 0 * 1
wherever he sojourned. ’ l eo P'e of lexas
some of our new states in the west, your progres
far transcends any thing we have to cxhi nt in
our almost precocious extensions of teintory set
demerit. On my arrival at Galveston, that ante
so admirably situated (in despite of the depres
sion of its level surface with the sea.) for a large
and prosperous maratime port, 1 found a city, rap
idly rising up of only a few months B rowth—-
twelve or fifteen sail of coasters, freighted with
rirh cargoes, laying at anchor, and a largei En
glish barque with the British ensign proudly boat
ing at her mast head, taking on board a full car
go of that staple which in two years is destined
to occupy, according to a mercantile phrase, 1 A
No, 1” in the Liverpool classification of ‘Manana
good fair, to prime”—aye strictly prime too, un
der the prominent and generic title of Texas Col
ton. . . ,
From this port is likewise opening a trade with
nearly nil the commercial cities ofourown Union
and from its ample harbor 4 splendid marine stea
mers depart and arrive weekly from and to the
the city of Now Orleans, crowded with passen
gers, bringing their enterprise, talents and wealth
as tributes to your growing country. On my
arrival here, what do I find 1 A town occupying
iinir'y half a mile square—densely built, fora new
count,y, with all the accommodations of life, five
steamboats constantly plying between it and Gal
v, s on—with an excel -nt institution of education,
a large religious congregation, i to id municipal go
vernment, a vigilant police —two papers in tins
city—six in other towns ot the Republic, which
for their typography, and what is better, their l
intellectual vigor and fe irless discussion, would '
do credit to any city in the United States. Yes, (
even two theatres, nt one of which last evening I
the old sterling wit of Congreve was illustrated r
by a talent and a force which have been wont to 1
cl ctri y old Drury and the Park. Gentlemen, j
what a vista does Ibis open ! When the lan- v
gn ign of Shakspcare and of Milton shall be spo- c
ken from the spot on which 1 niter these few and t
feeble words, to the Pacific, | e adventure in ae- e
centi such as they spoke, embalming the memo- o
rics of those who’fell at the. Alamo, and giving a y
fresh and enduring immortality to those who con- a
quered at San Jacinto. •>
If 1 have found so much to gratify and surprise
me in a city which lias been called scarcely two w
years into existence, I have been even more de- h
lighted in finding here all the attributes of a well lj
regulated political organization—a written eon- d
Btltution—a chief magistrate, (lie will pardon in w
his presence this reference) enjoying not alone n
the confidence of the people whom he serves, hut el
of those among whom he was horn and educated, n
We sent him to you, gentlemen, pure, chivalrous m
and exalted. His sword nt San Jacinto bore tes- !c
tiinony to the courage which placed him there— y
on that glorious battle field and in the van, whilst tl
his Roman integrity, moderation and wisdom will
alforil equal evidence, lam sure of the discern- t;
ment which has characterized ynur choice. He c
is surrounded by a cabinet which, with all onr h
self-love in the U. States, would do no discredit i
to our country, whilst a congress legislates here c
with a talent anil knowledge not surpassed by any e
State in the Union. v
The sacred JE gis of a judiciary already spreads j
its protecting shield over life, person and properly; ( ]
and in no portion of this continent arc these |
rights more thoroughly guaranteed, nor any i
where is the great elemental principle of social |
security—the obligation of contracts, better un- c
derstood.
Gentlemen, it is time that I’should conclude; j
hut before I take my sent, I cannot forbear making i
a brief allusion to my official relations towards t
you. You are aware that your President has
been pleased to depute to me, in conjunction with t
a highly esteemed associate, the important (rust (
of negotiating a public loan for your Republic, q
Hcforc undertaking this commission, I fell it my .
duly to pome among you to ascertain what sccu
rity I might promise those whose capital mid conft- (
donee I might seek. It is true your currency is
in an unsound condition. Hut do not he dis
heartened on this account, it is not within five I
UH Wi\\i” 1 'llldM/AfiWk r.ViUI,HW.TO* "America",
when the great and inimitable Franklin, like your
own modest, amiable and intelligent Henderson,
was wandering about supplicating recognition
from one court to another, from nations that are
destined hereafter to he proud of, and to profit
by your alliance. It is true, that with a want of
ability calculated to produce diffidence, I feel that
the task is one full of difficulty, and that much of
it results from the ignorance prevailing of your
true, condition, lint it is of no small moment,
even amidst the greatest obstacles, that we know
we have something to go upon, and that we stand
on firm ground.
In the first place, yon have come mil of a revo
lution with a less depreciation of your currency
and a smaller public debt, than any people in the
annuls of history, who have won the same extent
of territory as yourselves, opposed in numbers to
such fearful odds—The heroes of Thermopylie
against the army of Xerxes!!! In the second
place, you have abundant security to oiler—you
have a public domain of 150 millions of acres of
public land, of vast and exhaustions fertility, after
appropriating 6!) millions for private grants,
which, at the minimum price of fifty cents per
acre, will he worth 75 millions of dollars. You
have land enough, if the labor could 1 e found, to
make ton millions halos of cotton ; and with the
same amount of labor now devoted to the culture
of this staple in the United States, you could raise
three millions of bales for market, from the vast
superiority of your soil and climate. Your popu
lation is doubled every two or three years, and the
moment your Loan is negoeinted, and your cur
rency is placed on a sound basis, it will augment
in a still greater ratio. Your income from nil
sources, without the sale of an acre of land, can
not, during the current year, be less than one
million and a half of dollars, and by a law of sup
ply, consumption and distribution in its increase,
will keep pace with the growth of your population.
Already, by the enlightened forecast of your
Executive, arrangements are making to turn to
the shores of the Gulf of Mexico, through the
ports of Texas, a vast inland trade with the ad
joining provinces of Mexico through Santa Fe,
by which your commerce will he augmented and
your currency invigorated and kept in a condition
of soundness by the stream of specie and by
which this trade must he mainly conducted iii
its returns to yourselves. If all these favorable
auspices are considered in conjunction with lire
numerous towns which arc now springing up in
every important section of your country; and
with the immense emigration of citizens from
the southern and south-western states of the
United States, with their capitals in slave
labor, which from the most authentic sources, 1
know to bo in a course of preparation for the
next autumn, your future advancement will he
in a sort of geometric proportion to your past
progress.
Indeed, I should not bo surprised if in the
next five years, your Revenue from Customs and
the Government dues on land entries should bo
annually duplicated, without touching in fee sim
ple the sale of an acre of your public domain;
ami that in 184”, you should collect from five to
seven millions from these sources.
Rut the moment you can adjust all your land
claims, survey your public lands, and by a judi
cious laud system, bring them into market, at pre
cisely the same price th.u the Government torrid
tory ot the United States is sold.you will then I
am sure, he convinced of the policy of abolishing
tint contrivance of n.itiunul monopoly, called a
( as oai House; and by a peculiar distinction,
he the great F reo 1 rude Republic of the world.
Ne< yiur interests being homogeneous, and es
semially agriculiund, from the Rio Gr .nde to the
feahmc, and train the Red River to ,he Moun
tarns ot Coahula, no protective tarilfs, conceived
m s spirit of sectional selfishness, and
the injustice of a despotic majoritj. "“ „
your industry, or retard the. mat-use expansion
of the sources of your national wealth. Vour
destiny is onward. With that nch and hcauthul
staple, the vegetable silk of the word, win h God.
in the unbounded affluence of his h.csstngs, I
made almost indigenous to your soil, with .e ,
social, judicial and political institutions winch
you have derived from the glorious stock from
which you have sprung, you can unite, n you
will it, the wealth ofilindostan with the moral
power of the Roman Republic in the meridian of
her glory, and be a free, powerful, happy and in
vincible people. ,
What a country lies west and south of you .
A coi.nlry which by comparison dwarfs into in
significance the imaginary regions for which Al
exander may have sighed, and which stretches
over a greater number of degrees of latitude, and
through a greater variety of climate, toil and sur
face than the sword of Crnsar ever measured in
his boasted conquest of the world.
These, if I may so speak, arc the and
material sources of your claims to credit. There
arc others of amoral nature not to be overlooked.
I can bear proud testimony not alone to the faith,
tint to the high sense of honor with which you
have fulfilled your engagements, some of them of
the most onerous and doubtful character. Von
know well the high policy of rising by a good re
pute. Wise nations are aware, like individuals
that a fair character is the best inheritance. Gen
tlemen you spring from a stock in which, in the
very elements and habitiludes of oiar familiar and
domestic morals, we are taught to respect the ob
ligation of contracts. Although the Anglo-Saxon
race have been the greatest Land Robbers on the
fice of the earth, yet we arc essentially a debt
pai/inff prnpl'. If on good cause bring shown,
with, or without a title, we will, by thcswoid, help l
ourselves to an empire in land, and although it is 1 (
the proud boast of our modest and demure moth
er country that the sun never sets for one moment 1
on the regions she has filched from other nations
yet we who speak hcr.tonguc and worship at her
alters, are taught her ethics, and scorn to avoid ,
by fraud, the payment a just debt.
But it is time I should have done. I know not
whether in our negotiation, my colleague and my
■cli will succccddnfullillingyourjustexpectations.
But of one thing you may be certain ; that if wo
Jo not make a reputable negotiation for you, we
will make none. Our efforts will he to elevate,
not depress yeur public credit. But he of genii
dicer, even if we should fail, with your paper mo
ney and your rifle—with yeur rich river bottoms,
md your grass covered prairies, you can "get a
long,” according to our American phrase, whilst
your cotton will ultimately buy you a credit from
the Euphrates to the St. Lawrence.
In the mean time, nourish your resources—es
tablish and perfect your institutions. Let Edu
cation hold up her bright light, and religion afford
her consoling balm, crush the hydra of parly spir
it, wherever it arises. Subdue all aspirations of
conquests—for you have land enough. If your
enemy in his obstinate and sullen hostility should
when you arc strong enough to "carry the war
into Africa,” not give you peace, then, if in the
dispensation of Providence, his finger seems to
point that way, let your single Star, bright and
unwinking, lake its Western course, and let your
banner float, as it must hereafter, if you will it,
over the once proud capital of the Montezumas.
In reiterating my thanks for the kind honors
you have paid mo, allow me to recite to you in
tile form of a toast, what seems to bo the best land
title a nation can put on record.
Thk Republic of Texas.—She lias the same
title to the vast mid magnificent territory situated
between the Rio Grande and the Sabine, that the
United States has to her domain north of that line
—>a violated charter—a victorious sword—free in
stitutions, and an unconquerable people to defend
them.
The Tuut Sparks.—ln whatever part of the
United Stales'll may bo your lot to travel, you
i W.”‘. .lie "Troy stages” advertised—ifiut is,
that flu- Htlttps 1,...*.- •- . are id
use on favored routes. The Troy Mail of Mon
day last, contains a graphic description of the
factory in that city, which sends out so many
.beautiful vehicles. Wo extract the following;
“ The factory belongs to Messrs. Eaton and
Gilbert, and occupies an area of 24,000 square
feet, the various buildings forming a hollow
square, with a spacious yard in the centre. The
buildings are built of brick, and are divided in
such away, that a perfect division of labor is ob
served throughout; each apartment being appro
priated to some one department of work exclu
sively.
The number of stage coaches and mail carriages
manufactured by Messrs. Eaton & Gilbert far ex
ceeds our former impressions. In passing through
the establishment we noticed in one corner a
cluster of seven elegant coaches nearly finished,
ordered from Virginia, and nine coaches, for Flo
rida—in another a different set, destined to Geor
gia—others to South Carolina. In fact, a great
portion of the Southern and Western States, as
well as those near home, are furnished with stage
- conches from this factory.
In addition to these, two of the largest horse
1 carriages probably ever built in this country, are
1 now nearly finished. They are omnibussos, dc
-1 signed to cany fifty passengers each, with their
' baggage, and to he drawn by six horses. One of
these omnihusscs is built for Washington city-
the other for Augusta, Georgia. The richness of
finish—the beauty of the model, and the strength
' and perfection of the workmanship, can only he
• estimated by a personal examination of them.
Wo cannot close this cursory notice without
1 referring to the great safety mail coaches, now
■ [ making at this factory, and which have received
' the approval and adoption of the Post Master
■ General. These safely mail coaches arc now
. building for Messrs. Stockton, Falls & Co, of
• Baltimore, and arc designed for tho national road
r from Baltimore to Ohio, &c. These coaches arc
> entirely water-proof. The principal portion of
’ the body is appropriated to the great mails se
• I cured by patent locks; and entirely separated
, from the apartment for passengers or guard, which
I is in front, and only adapted to carrying three
i 1 persons beside the driver. The strength, light
- ( nes< and security of (his mail coach, in onr opin
-1 ; ion, recommend it over any thing which has vet
’ I been invented.
i | The Medical Viutit.s or Cold Watkii
1 . Ihe Waldo (Me.) Gazette has a paragraph,
i which shows that cold water has more virtues
' i than has ever been dreamed of in one half the
- world’s philosophy. While a man was engaged
1 in blasting rocks, by an unexpected explosion,
■ I his face was literally filled with small particles of
■ | stone, one piece entering very near his eye, which
t was thought would destroy it. He was taken into
a House and laid on a bed, when a sheet was wet
■ with cold water, doubled several times, and an
-1 plied to his face. This covering was kept wet
and cold for two days, at the end of which time
suppuration had taken place around the particles
of stone and gravel, and I hey were eas Iy removed,
and in a short time the man was enable d to re
sume his labor without the appearance of a st ar
During his confinement he took warming medi
cine.
s OmtotHAL Awecdotb.—A few day. since, a
jolly tar, who had just returned home after a lone
cruise, employed a cartman, known about the
town as Dutch V iicuh, to carry his baggage from
on board ship to his hoarding house. A , u . r p
tlung was stowed on the carl to his satisfaction.
Jack seated himselt on the top of his , best and
lor want ot better amusement, splieed the ends of
the cart rope together. When they arrived at ihe
stopping place, Va< ub attempted ‘to cast off his
rope prepaiatory lu unloading. A tier searcbiug i
in vain ibr Ihe end ot it li threw Ids hat on the i
pavement in a rage, and exclaimed: •'Mine geot i
Got, some tarn Yankee’s cut oil bote do ends of i
mine ropes and put dem vero dir luyvcl hinislt ' i
vonlflndi am.”—A*. Y. Wlilg * 1
(JUIU)NICLE AND SENTINEL. J
AIJ GII ST A .
TUESDAY MORISINII, APRIL 23.^
The New York Evening Star remarks tha t (
it has been assured by intelligent gentlemen "ho ,
arrived in the Great Western, that, among the .
People of England, the Government, and all j
classes, the idea of going to war with this country
is deemed preposterous, that, rather than it should (
lake place, they would see the whole territory f
sunk into the ocean; that they look upon it as a
border dispute, in which the feelings ol the two
countries arc not involved; and that, as it is a
mere question of land, and not of honor, it may
be easily adjusted, and cannot in any way lead to /
hostilities between two great and kindred nations,
whose hearts and interests arc so indissolubly
• i (
united.
Two Steam Vessels of War. —1
The New York American mentions that the a
Board which have been silting in Washington, c
to devise and recommend plans and models for
sea steam vessels of war, have determined to build 1
two steam frigates of over ICOO tons burthen, to \
carry 10 guns each, viz, two humh cannons, and (
tight 42 pounders, i
. One is to be constructed at the Brooklyn Navy i
Yard, under the superintendence of Mr. Hart, i
The other supposed at Philadelphia / ,
V - - ■ ,
We have been requested to publish the follow- f
ing Circular. ,
Liverpool, March 21. (
The transactions in our Cotton Market Ibr the
last six weeks from the 2d ultimo to the 15th 1
lust., inclusive, were large, the sales amounting 1
to about 228,000 hales, of which 104,000 were
pur based by speculators. Our price during the ,
first three weeks varied little, during the lourlh x
week we gained jd per lb. in the first week in
Mareh we advanced three-eighths of a penny and
last week fd to Jd per lb. making the entire ad
vance in the price of short stapled American
Colton from the 23d ultimo to the 15th instant,
fully one penny per lb. the advance in the lower
qualities about |d more than in the better sorts.
The detail of last week’s sales as follows:
70 Sea Island 2i a3s; 50 stained do. 11 a ;
24,890 Upland, ba9s ; 19,100 New ( ileans7 a l()Jj 1
2,850 Alabama and Mobile, 7j| a 10£ ; 3,320 Her
nambueo 9jj a 10|; 1,020 itahia and Maceio 7| a
10; 2-120 Maianham a 10; 1,780 Carthagena
5| a6J; 80 Smyrna Gj a7; 20 Peruvian a—;
840 Egyptian 12 a ICj ; -150 Madras 6£ a 6,f; ,
4,420 Surat 5g a 7s—Total 60,710.
The import of all soils of Cotton into the
kingdom since the Ist of January, amounts to
217.000 bales, against 300,000 received up to
this time last year, and of American the supply
amounts to 156,000 against 310,000 hales. The
stock of this port on the 15th Inst, appeared to
be about 224,00() bales against 282,000, the stock
at the same time in 1838, and of American we
appear to have 175,000 against 180,000 bales.
The heavy speculation above mentioned has
been entirely grounded on the belief in s short
crop in the United States, and should the
deficiency be as great as many suppose it to
be, our late advance is by no means too great,
! on the other hand it is true, that several mills
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follow in the same traek should our prices get
higher ; this may counteract the effect of defi
ciency in the supply, nevertheless a crop of 1,-
300.000 bales (as some wilt have it) must in all
probability be followed by high prices.
We remain,
Yours respectfully,
Wainwhiuht,Sheils & Hiboix,
Upland, ordinary to middling fait 8 a 81 fair
to good fair 8$ a9, good to line 9j; Orleans,
ordinary to middling 8 a fair to good fair 9 a
9i, good to fine ; Mobile, ordiniary to mid
dling fair 8 a BJ, fair to good fair 9 a good to
fine 9;} ; Tennessee, ordinary to middling fair 7J
a8 j, fair to good fair a BJ, good to fine 9 ;
Sea Island, 20 to 27d., and extra fine up to 3Gd.
The sales of Cotton during the last four days
do not hill much short of 30,000 bales, about one
third perhaps on speculation all at full prices, and
in some instances a small advance lias been ob
tained.
UivEUi March22d, 1839.
Sin—Our Cotton report of the Ist instant ad
vised a firm market and an improving demand
from the Trade. The succeeding week ending
the Bth March witnessed a very great change from
the dullness of the preceding 9 weeks. The
Trad l ami the Speculators vied with each other
to carry the business to the highest point attained
yet, it wound up with 88,900 bags, viz. 67,000
bags American, 14,000 bags Brazil, 6300 bags
Surats and Sundries. Import only 5700 bags.—
Speculators took 35,000 bags American, 2400
bags Brazil, and 2300 bags Surats. Prices ad
vanced id a id on American and id per lb. on
Brazil and Surats.
1 lie week ending the 15th instant opened with
a fair demand, but after the arrival of advices by
the Great Western to the 25th February from
New York, the demand was renewed and’the bu
siness was cairicd up to 60,700 bags, viz. 46.000
bags American, 6800 bags Brazil, 1800 bags
Carthagena, 4900 bags Surats and Sundries.
Speculator were reported to have taken 35 000
j bags American, 4700 bags Brazil, I6“0 bags Car
thagena, and 2300 bags Surats, lint it may be
] presumed that a good many of the parcels returned
I as taken by Speculators consist of re sales made
j *’. v Manchester Dealers of former purchases, and
j that consequently the quantity taken by the Trade
j is greater in reality than would appear from the j
I above returns. Amc.iean Cotti 11 experienced a
further advance of id agd per lb. Brazils the
same, and Surats id per lb. The import was
11,500 bags.
- The Manchester market lias in so far benefited
: by the improved demand that the Spinners have
] been aide to soil their old stocks of Yarns without
I loss, perhaps even to some profit, but their prices
j still keep below the present cost of production,
j There has been more business doing for some part
of tile Continent where the fairs that have been
i held, had a good result, but the demand for Russia
which takes about 20 millions pounds of Yarn
i S, T. languishes. The Petersburg market is over
stocked, in consequence of wnicii several heavy
1 failures have occurred. A money crisis had driven
| the discount to 12 per cent per annum.
1 lie Havre market revived simultaneously with
; our own, the transactions ending the 15th instant I
amounted to 8500 bags, viz. 4100 bans Orleans ,
, 600 bags Mobile. 1750 bags Uplands and Sum ,
> at an advance which carried prices to the ,
1 u ' sl P olllt ,lle y h ad attained at the end of
-fair Oiieans 119 a !20, Mobi'e 118 a ,
119. Uplands 117 a 118. Sunk 53,500 hags
against 43.800 hags in 1838.
Ihe increasing deficiency in tb e receipts of <
Cotton into the shipping ports of the United
Nates, and in the shipments to Europe, is enleu- I
ated to confirm the confidence whieh has hitherto j
been displayed m our maiket. It j* understood f
that the ot Bank CuWn .it-lust )'*• ' ,
import arc now cleared oil’, the rereivl imports are ,
not placed freely or. the market except such us ,
tan he realised at a profit. The future march ol ;
our market must in a great measure depend upon
the operations on the other side, and il the ag
greg te export of the year fall oil to the extent
of 200,000 hags as compared to last year, thete
is no doubt that high prices must continue to
prev il.
During the present week we have had a very
good demand from the Trade aided in part by
speculation, and we have to report a further ad
vance of yd to J-d per lb, on American; our p i
ees rate now Id per lb. higher than at the begin
ning of the month, since which time the sales
amount to 200,000 bags. Several Spinners
alarmed at the falling off in the imports are now
stocking themselves for a month.
The events which have occurred on the bor
ders of the State of Maine have produced a vety
great sensation, but it is strongly hoped that this
delicate question may be still settled amicably.
We arc, sir,
Yours, very obediently,
CoLLMAXN & StOLTSIIFOHT.
/ Expedition to Oregon.
The St. Louis Republican of the sth instant,
says;—The steamer Antelope, owned by Pierre
Chouteau. Jr., Esq. and under the command of
Edward F. Chouteau, both of this city, left this
port yesterday, with several scientific gentlemen ;
among whom arc Mons. Is icolct, of the Academy
of Sc once of Paris, and Lie it. Frccraorc of the
Topographical Engineer Department at Wash
ington ; also about 13 clerks and 120 hands, laden
with articles for the supply of the trade. The
corps will bo couveyt d simo distance above the
mouth of the Yellow Stone river, as far ns the
water will enable the boat to ascend, probably n
distance exceeding 2,000 miles above the mouth
ot the Missouri. The boat is expected back in
about three months. The company left in good
spirits and trust, the fatigues, trials and sufferings
attendant on such an expedition, will not be en
dured without a fair recompense. This whole
company is in the service of the American Fur
Company, which sends a like number to the
Mountains about once in two years, 'be lime
required for the excursion. y
Mississippi Rml-Road Hank.
The Vicksburg Sentinel asserts as a fact, that
the Railroad bank, or at least the president thereof,
had engaged half a million of Texas bonds, and
had paid over the whole amount in Railroad bank
paper, payable on demand, and checks at 90 days
on the north. The Sentinel intimates that the
paper payable on demand was deposited in tlie
Merchants hank of New Orleans, and that Mr.
Robins had succeeded in sequestrating the funds,
and thus blown up the speculation. The Senti
nel styles in one of the most monstrous transac
tions that the most degenerate days of hanking
and financiering ever produced.
A Tennessee paper “gravely entertains the pro"
jeet of making all that western portion of Kentucky
and Tennessee, west of Tennessee River, to
gether with the northern part of the State of Mis
sissippi, a new State, which with the Mississippi
river for its western boundary would be almost
entirely surrounded by a well defined water line
of river navigation. Mutuality of interests and
| tlxo argumonts used,”
Whig Victory in St. Louis.— The Whigs
of St. Louis at the late charter Election, elected
their candidate for Mayor, and carried four of the
five Wards.
Melancholy. —We arc pained to learn, says
the Ntw-YorkStar, that Charles G. Dewitt,
late Charge d’Affairs at Guatemala, continued
committed suicide on board the steamboat hound
up the North River. He was formerly an Editor
of a paper at Kingston, also a Member of Con
gress, and a man of very respectable talents and
character. He had been superseded in his office.
Boston Steam Packets.
The Boston Contiricl says:—“We understand
that Boston is in a fairway to have a line of
Oeoan Steam-packets of her own. It is stated
that a contract has been entered into by a Brit
ish mercantile firm of high standing with the Bri
tish Government, to transport the mail by steam
from London to Halifax, and thence to Boston.
The trips are to he twice a month, commencing
on the first of May, 1840, The British govern
ment is to pay for this service an annual sum of
$55,000 and the contract is to last for seven years.
The persons lately incorporated by an act of our
Legislature, as the “Ocean Steam-packet Com
pany,” are to have a share in the enterprise.
From Liverpool or Bristol to Boston, via Halifax
is as near or nearer as from the same places to
New York, so that in this matter of Atlantic
Steam Navigation, we stand a chance to com
pete with our brethren of that city. This may
serve as an answer to the question asked some
time ago in relation to this matter, — Where is
Boston
Silk Bounty in Massachusetts. —From
an official document, published by order of the
Legislature, we find that since the passage of the
act of April, 1833, to encourage the Culture of
Silk, there has been paid from the State Treasury
the following amounts of bounty, viz:
For 1830, ’ 5 20
1837, 187 51
1838, 350 52
1839, to Ist March, 397 99
Total, ’ 551,081 22
The largest amount paid loan individual was
$159,35. The amount ot cocoons raised in the
same time was 7 60$ pounds. The amount of
silk reeled and thrown, on which the bounty was
paid, was 823$ pounds— New Bedford ' Mer.
“Perils op the Sea.”— The schooner Pearl,
which left New York, on the 291 h ult. for New
bem, N. C. was run ashore on the 31st, about
four miles from Hatteras, for the purpose of sa
ving the lives of those on board. She had pre
viously shipped a sea, which washed a sailor
(William Bird of New Jersey, overboard, broke
the captain’s leg, nud bruised the mate and one
of the men so severely that the former had to be
carried below. The same sea stove both boats
carried away the main boom, stove the lee bul
warks. weather quarter, &c. leaving the vessel a
complete wreck.
At tliis time the condition of all on hoard was
indeed pciilous—the vessel on a dangerous lee
shore, almost unmanageable, with but one man
of the whole crew left capable of duty. Remem
her ng the old adage, that “while there is life there
is hope, and trusting in the assisting merev of
an ail ruling Providence, the pas engers after
k
*ou.,ur£hr»' J Ttic officers anJ crew,exerted them
selves to run the vessel onshore as a last and
lie-iterate chance for escape. This was happily
accomplished about half past eight o’clock at
night, under the encouragement of the Captain
and directions of tlie Mate, who, bruised and in
jured as they were, exerted themselves to the ut
most of their power. At day break they found
they were near Cape Hatleras, and soon after
wards alt reached the land in safety.— Baltimore
Ameaiean .
/ The Boundary Question. _
' The New \ ork Commercial Advertiser of the
17th says, “We arc enabled to state, on what
wc believe to he good authority, that such instiuc
tions have been transmitted to her Britannic
Majesty’s Minister at Washington, by the Great
Western, as will obviate the necessity of send
ing a special minister to London. The seat of
negociations or the final adjustment of the boun
dary question is transferred from London to
Washington; and those negociations will le
■pressed to a definitive conclusion.
V.
The Madison Courier of Monday fi ays that
the steamer Robert Fulton arrived at that place,
from s>t. Louis, on Saturday, and departed fore
Pittsburg, working only one wheel, having broke
the coupling slide of the other, previous to her ar
rival. When near Warsaw, her fly or balance
wheel gave way way, tearing up the floor and
interior of the cabin in a most fearful manner,
and severely injuring several passengers who, as
the boat was crowded, weie sleeping upon the
floor. Several deck-hands were also injured.
Cincinnati Jifpulil can,
ifT BENEVOLENT SOCIETY, for the benefit
if liie Sick Poor of Augusta and its vicinity.
The \ idling Committees for the ensuing month are
as follows:
Division No. I.—Mr. A. McLane, Mr. C. Pike,
Mrs. Crump, Miss K. Marshall.
Division No. '2. —Mr. Jno. W. Stoy, Mr. George
Cotke.Mrs. Cole, Mrs. Boggs.
Division No 3.—Mr. E. \V r . Doughty, Mr. J. B.
Hart, Airs. B. McKinnie, Airs. Berryhill.
C. !•'. STURGIS.
The President and Vice President being ab
sent these committees will call upon the Secretary
for funds. ap 23-lt
(ry- HIGHLY IMPORTANT. .TO
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-strect, New-
Vork.
DR. WILLIAM EVANS’ MEDICINES,
Are composed of vegetable substances, which exert
a specific action upon the heart, give an impulse or
strength to the arterial system ; the b oed 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 tlie body are drawn from the blood, there
is a consequent increase of every secretion, and a
quickened action of the absorbent and oxhalent, or
discharging vessels. Any morbid action which
may have taken place is corrected, all obstructions
are removed, the blood is purified, and tlie body re
sumes a hea thful state.
These medicines after much anxious toil and re
search, having been brought by the proprietor to
the present st ile 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 lung
er than it otherwise would, ami the mind to be
come so composed and tranquil, that old age when
it arrives will appear a h essing, 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 had, acrid or morbid
matter, which rendeis the blood impure, out of the
circulation, through the excretory ducts into the
passage of the bowels, so that by the brisk orslipht
evacuations which may be regulated by the doses,
always remembering that while the evacuations
from the bowels are kept up, the excretions from all
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 medicine
will undoubtedly elici t a cure even in the most
acute or obstinate diseases; hut in such cases the
dose may bo augmented,according to the inveteracy
ol the disease ; the medicines being so admirably
adapted to the constitution, that they may be taken
at all times
In alu-ases ofhypochondriacism, low spirits, pal
pitations ol the heart, nervous irritability, nervous
weakness, lluor allius, seminal Weakness, indiges
tion, loss of appetite, flatulency, heartburn, general
debi ity, bodily weakness, chlorosis or gieen sick
ness, flatulent or hysterical faintings, hysterics
headache, hiccup, sea sickness, night-marc, gout’
rheumatism, asthma, tic doulorcaux, cramp, spas
modic alfections, and those who are victims to that
most excrutiating disorder, Gout, will find relief
from theu sulferings, by a course of Dr. William
Evans’s Pills.
Nausea, vomiting, pains in the side, limbs, head,
stomach or back, dimness or confusion of swht
noises in tlie inside, alternate flushings of heat and’
chilliness, tremors, watchings, agitation, anxiety
bad dreams, spasms, will in every case ho relieved
by an occasional dose of Dr. Evans’s medicines. <j.
One of the most dangerous epochs to females'll
at tlie 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
ble thorn to withstand the shock.
Those who h ive the care and education of Fe
males, whether the studious or the sedentary par
of the community, should never be without a" sum
ply of Dr. Evans’s Pills, which remove disorders
in the head, invigorate the mind, strengthen the
body, improve the memory, and eliven the imagin
ation. , ”
When the nervous system has been too largely
drawn upon or overstrained, nothing is better to
correct and invigorate the drooping constitution
than these medicines.
Dr. William Evans’s Medical Office, 100 Chat
ham street, New York, where the Doctor maybe
consulted. J
C "j" A Case of Tic Doloreux. JfQ
Mrs. .1. E. Johnson, wife of Capt. Joseph John
son, of Lynn, Mass., was severely affiicted for ton
years with Tic Doloreux, violentpa in her head,
and vomiting with a burning heat in tlie stomach’
| and unable to leave her room. She could find no’
relief Loin toe advice ol several physicians, nor
from medicines of any kind.untilafter she commen
ced using Dr. Evans’s medicines, of 100 Chatham
street, and from that time she began to amend, and
eels satisfied if she continues the medicine a few
days onger, will he perfectly cured. Rcfercnc;
can he had as to Die truth of the above, by callim
at Mrs. Johnson’s daughter’s store, 389 Grand st
N Y.
A REAL BLESSING TO MOTHERS.
Dr. Wm. Evans’ Celebrated Soothing Syrup,
for Children Cutting their Teeth. /
This infallible remedy has preserved hundreds o
children, when thought past recovery, from con
vulsions. As soon as the Syrup is rubbed on the
gums,the child will recover. This preparation ,fi
so innocent, so efficacious, and so pleasant that no
child will refuse to lot its gums be rubbed with it.
When infants arc at the age of four months,though
there is no appearance of teeth, one bottle of the
Syrup should he used on the gums to open tlie
pores. Parents should neverbe without the Syrup
in the nursery where there are young children ; for
if a child wakes in the night with pain in the
gums, the Syrup immediately gives ease by open
ing tho pores and healing the gums ; thereby pre
venting convulsions, fevers, &c.
Sold by ANTONY & HAINES,
Sole agents in Augusta,
J. M. & T. AI. TURNER, Savannah,
P. M. COHEN & Co., Charleston.
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