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j MONDAY MORNING, MAY 20.
Proceedings o( the Convention.
Wedxesda y evening, May Ift.
When the Convention assembled for its eve
ning session, Judge Berrien withdrew the sub
stitute wnich lie had previously offered as the
result of the conference. Mr. Dougherty, of
of Troup, also withdrew the one which he had
offered as a substitute for that of Judge Berrien,
Mr. Charlton, of Chatham, then addressed
the house in a short speech, and moved the inde
finite postponement of all the substitutes ottered
some days since, for the report of the Committee.
On this (question a division was called for, in or
der to take a vote on each substitute.
The substitute of Mr. Haynes, of Hancock,
was then ordered to lie on the table indefinitely—
only ten voting in the negative.
The vote was then taken, by yeas and nays, to
lay that of Mr. Bi'ahk on the table—and the
yeas were 172, nays 117.
The substitutes being all thus disposed of, the
report of the Committee of Thirty tame up fur
action, on the amendment made to it in Com
mittee of the whole.
Mr. Scbingeu moved to strike out 6000 as
the ratio for two members, and insert 5000—yeas
140 nays 148.
Several amendments were discussed, in rela
tion to the classification of the counties, but they
were all rejected.
Mr. Jenkins then offered a substitute for that
portion of the report which organizes the Senate.
This substitute was the same which Mr. J. hud
previously mid on the table and had printed, herc-
Itofore published in this paper.
Tins Convention then adjourned till 8 o’clock
next morning.
Thursday morning, May 16.
The Convention met according to adjourn
ment. Mr. Springer mov d to reconsider so
much of the journals of yesterday, as related to
'wo refusal of the Convention to strike out 6'.'00
as the ratio for two members—yeas 130, nays
160.
Mr. Dougherty offered a substitute for the
whole report of the Committee and the substitute
of Mr. Jenkins, which he advocated in a lengthy
speech, which we shall hereafter publish.
Mr. Stephens also addressed the House in an
eloquent appeal, in favor of the substitute. He
dep ocated the impatience manifested by the Con
vention ; denounced the report of the Committee
as unjust, unequal and of marked party charac
ter, and told the Convention that it had not tried
to do what ought to be done.
Mr. Jones, of Muscogee, also made a few re
marks on the same side.
Mr. Charlton, of Chatham, then moved the
indefinite postponement of the substitute—yeas
186 nays 99.
The substitute of Mr. Jenkins then came up
and was lost, but the yeas and nays were not taken.
The report of the 1 'ommitlee was then adopted
as amended, —yeas 181. nays 103.
A vote of thanks to the President and Secretary
—an order to print the journals of the Conven
t tion, «fcc., closed the labor of that body.
Another Fa cal S team Boat Explosion.—
The last Mt. Vernon (la.) Courier, says, “The
steam boat Avalanche, on Friday morning last
while descending the river, about four miles be
lown this town, collapsed a fine, killing three in
dividuals and scalding two others so shockingly
that no hopes are entertained of their recovery.
If we arc informed correctly, all the men killed
or wounded were firemen or deck hands. After
remaining at the landing two-thirds of the day to
bury the dead, she was taken in tow by another
boat and proceeded on her voyage."
Mississippi. —Times in Mississippi arc report
ed to be awful. No debts collecting—no writs
executing—the wheels of law and of business at
a perfect stand-still.
From the N. O. Bee, if the 14 th.
From Mexico.
By the arrival of the schooner Lone, from Tam
pico, which place she left on the 6th inst. wchave
been put in possession of interesting intelligence
in relation to the contest between the government
and tile federal parly, it seems that a prohibition
of all intercourse with Tampico lias been declared.
The port is now closed to commerce. A copy of
the decree had been sent to cat h of the different
» foreign consuls in the town. What course the
latter would pursue was not known.
A letter in the Courier of last evening dated
’ *■' the 3d instant, stales that general Mejia was on
his march to Puebla and Mexico, ami that the
government army under Bustamente. had taken
up its march from Victoria for Tampico. Their
ar ival was looked for in lo or 15 days. The
federal force at Tampico was inconsiderable, and
the troops destitute of money and resources.
The same ie.ter mentions likewise, that general
Inclain an 1 10(!U l oops had been stationed by
the government at Perole an I general Vasques
with Soon men at Huachinango, lor the purpose
of intercepting gene.al Mejia should lie attempt
to ascend the lalde lauds ol Mexii o.
A conflict between the troops of the two parties
is therefore evidently at band, and the next am- '
vals may be looked for with interest, as they will '
probably bringdittpfirttfiTFinformation in relation
to nisting hostilities. We shall soon ascertain
the real strength of the federalists, and how Ca
they will he enabled lo resist the power, influeiu e,
and force of the central government.
From the New Orleans Advertiser of the loth.
Texas.
The steam packet ship Columbia, Captain
Windle, arrived last evening in 36 hours Irom
Galveston; by her we have papers to the 12th in
stant. President Lamar, visited Galveston, on I
the 7lh—on the same day, the French lri;.a e Ne
riad, 64 guns; the steamship Phaeton, and Crudfi
der, an 18 gun brig arrived otl'tlie port. .-Uniii
tal Baudin, landed at Velasco, and proceeded to
the capitol by land. Salutes were fired from the
port and navy yard, as well as the steam ship
Zavalca—and returned by the fleet,—The presi
dent paid a visit to the Phceton.
President Lamar left Galveston on the Bth
inst., lor Houston. His return, it was believed,
was hastened out of courtesy to the French ad
miral. Balls and parties prevailed at Galveston;
the French fleet was still off the harbor on the
12th, and an interchange of good feeling is Slid
to lie kept up, between the gallant strangers and
tlicTexian national officers and citizens.
The frigate Ncriad got slightly aground, but
was got oft’ by the Zavalla. after the New York
failed in the endeavor. The weather must be
much warmer in Galveston than it is here, as
one of the papers says “ fifty bathers were at one
point on the shore lastcvoning,—a bathing house
is nearly finished—omnibusses and hackney
coaches are thronged with passengers for the Gulf
shore.”
From the New York Commercial Advertiser, \ ith
Upper Canada.
The Parliament was expected to adjourn on
Saturday last. Among the bills passed by the
House of Assembly was one authorising the re
ceiver-general to issue bills of credit, to the amount
of £250,000, for currying on the public works;
by another bill the receiver-general was authori
sed to negociate a loan of one million in England
at three and a half per cent, upon the debentures
of the province.
The Clergy Reserve hill, passed by the Assem
bly, would probably be lost in the Council. The
Assembly had thrown out a bill providing for the
expenses attendant on the safe keeping of the
prisoners taken at Prescott and elsewhere, on the
ground that those expenses ought to be defrayed
by Great Britain The following is from the
Kingston Chronicle:
We understand there has been a letter address
ed to the captain of the Telegraph steamer, that
he and Ids boat would he burnt if he continues to
visit this port. It is either the production of
some designing rogue interested in another boat,
or the same trade, or of some mischievous person
for a hoax. We can assure the captain and own
ers of the Telegraph that their boat is as safe in
Kingston harbor, from any violence, as good laws,
jirtly and promptly administered, can make her,
and, moreover, that the commandant, in conjunc
tion with the magistrates, has given orders con
cerning that boat while she remains here.
A bill has passed the Assembly, appropriating
£40,000 for payment of the losses sustained by
individuals, in the destruction of their property,
since the rebellion.
'The banks are to resume specie payments on
the Ist of August.
Homicide. —The Opelousas Gazette of the
4th, states that Hardin McNcw, of the Atchafala
ya, was shot a few days since, on the Courta
bleau by John De Priest, and died instantly.
McNcw was intoxicated, and proceeded down
the bayou with the avowed intention of killing
De Priest and bis brother, who were on their way
home in a skiff. He overtook them at Caswell’s
on the bayou, where they had landed. A con
flict ensued. While McNcw was in the act of
drawing, or after lie had drawn a pistol, John De
Priest who stood near, fired with ids rifle, and
McNcw fell dead. De Priest gave himself up.
and has been committed to await his examination.
The President of the United States has offi
cially recognised Frederick Rodewald, Esq.
as Consul of the Republic of Hamburg at Balti
more.
Chamfooing. —Sinclair says there are thou
sands who keep grooms to curry their horses,
who would add ten years to their own comforta
ble existence if they vi ould employ but one to
curry themselves night and morning with a flesh
brush. -
b n atii Travelling.— The Legislature oS
Michigan have passed a law prohibiting, under
severe penalties, the running of any car or other
vehicle, on any public, road on Sunday, unless in
cases of emergency, which must be certified to by
public, officer. m
From the Journal of the American Silk Society.
r Mulberry Pasture fob Cows.—lt is not
generally known that mulberry leaves are excel
lent food for cows—they are preferred by them
to every other kind of food when once they get a
taste of them. In the south, whore pasturage is
scarce, especially during dry weather, plantations
of mnlbcr y trees, particularly morus multicaulis
would be very valuable for this purpore alone.
A hundred acres of morus multicaulis trees could
be planted with less expense than it could be
well seeded in grass, even if grass would live
there, and the pasturage from them would be
fully equal, if not more than it would be from
grass, besides, the foliage would not be liable to
injury during the summer drouths, but would
rather be improved ivy the dry atmosphere and
hot climate of the south. If a planter were to
plant It),Dull cuttings in the sp ing of 1839, in
an acre, in the spring of 1840, he colild plant at
least ten acres ;• and in the spring of 1841, he
could plant one hundred by merely propagating
the trees in the ordinary way, and he would then
have one hundred acres of tne best pasturage for
cows that can lie produced, at the cost originally
of two hundred dollars for the cuttings, slid the
labor of propagating them three years, which
woulu not lie more tliau the labor of cultivating
corn. Besides all tins the trees may be planted
on his worn out lands, where they do well, and 1
111 me course of five or ten yearn they will im
prove the soil and make it fit for cot ten or cotton
crops. Where a large number of cows are kept, j
fitly to one hundred acres might lie planted lor I
the purpose; but generally, when only half a
diien cows are kept, ten acres only ne.d be
I planted. Whatever be the quantity of land, 1
however, it should lie divided into eight or ten
fields, so that the cows might be turned into
them successively five to eight days each, and
by the time they return to the first field, the Ib
liigc will become fully restored,and so on. The
I ,r<> es ought to lie two years old before the rows
I arc allowed to feed on them. lam satisfied that
i thin suggestion, if carried into practice, will a‘-
fird our southern friends sn abundance of the
finest milk and butter—articles now they are not
much acquainted with. I know from experience
that mulberry leaves increase greatly the quan
tity and quality of the milk and butter, and can
see no possible objection to the plan.
G. B. S.
’ The morus multicaulis can be multiplied fifty
fold, but I have taken ten fold as a very moderate
increase.
New York Etelnfirmart—The surgeons
of the New York Eye Infirmary, Drs. Edward
Dclaficld, Kearney Rogers, James Edw. Cornell,
and George Wilkes, have in compliance with the
law made their annual report to the Legislature,
for the year 1838, from which wc extract the fol
lowing.
Furingtheyear 1838, eight hundred and eighty
seven patients were Dented at the infirmary.
There remained under treatment on the first of
January, 1838, forty five; forming an aggregate
of nine hundred and thirty two patients prescri
bed for by the surgeons during the year 1838.
Os this number, 751 were cured; 49 relieved;
22 declined treatment; 16 were discharged us in
curable; the results of 38 cases were not ascer
tained, and 56 remained under treatment.
From IheN. Y. Commercial Advertiser of the I '6th,
It will be seen that U. States Bank Sock sold
this morning at ÜBj, which was the closing
price. This is an advance of lj( on the sales of
Saturday; and, wc believe, arises from the ad
vance of exchange on England. While ex
change is selling in this market at 9J, there is
very little probability of the stock of the United
States Bank being lower than 118.
General Bank Law. —Tire Albany Journal
of last evening contains a talde prepated by the
Comptroller, showing the rise and progress of
banking associations, formed and forming, under
the general law passed by the Legislature of 1838.
The forty three banking associations which
had been formed on the 3ttth April, have deposi
ted $2,137,090 in state stocks and $851,316.13
in bonds and mortgages, making a total of $2,-
996,406 13 as security for the redemption of their
notes. Up to the same period, the notes dclivci*
ed by the bank department, to these 43 banks for
circulation, amounted to $1,590,818. Os this
sum there were 67,500 notes of the denomination
. of one dollar—l 62 848, of the denomination o
two dollars—2l,6l4, of the denomination of three
dollars—l74,3oo of the denomination office del*
lara—2l,6lo of the denomination of ten dollars
—and 450 of the denomination of one hundred
dollars.
The amount of notes ordered by these 43 as
sociations is $4,251,111.
So far, it will he seen, only about a million and
a half of dollars have been added by the associa
tion to onr circulation. This moderate increase
will quiet tlie apprehensions of those who appre
hended an inflation of the currency.
Several of the associations mentioned in the
table, have since tile 30th April, deposited their
securities and received their notes for circulation.
Among these arc the Bank of Commerce, Now
York ; the Howard Trust and Banking Company,
. of Troy; the Itallston Spa Bank, the Fort Plain
hank, the Bank of Vernon, &c.
American D igukbroscofe.— -A discovery
similar to that of M. Daguerre, of France, and
Mr. Fox Tolbert, of England, has been made by
a gentleman of Cincinnati. The Republican
newspaper gives the following accounlof this new
mode of making pictures.
“Some experiments on the subject of photo
genic drawing have been made by 1 rofessor
Locke of tiro Medical College of Ohio, and with
entire success. He prepared paperchemb ally for
tlris purpose, placed it under some astronomical
diagrams, which were then exposed to the sun’s
rays. The now picture was in a few minutes
formed and removed, and a process used by which
the figures were permanently fixed. 'The speci
mens ■which the Doctor has left in our hands are
in every respect satisfactory. They look as though
they had been most carefully engraven. The
difficulty or mystery connected witli the matter
is to retain the picture which the light has formed
on the paper. Tlris has been overcome, and the
curious may satisfy themselves with what suc
cess. by examining a few small specimens which
we have left at Mr. Flash’s book store.”
An act has passed the Legislature of Virgin
to prevent persons from carrying on business un
der fictitious names. It enacts that no person
shall transact business in tire co-partnership name
S.of himself and any other person who is not lia
ble for all the debts of the firm ; nor shall any
one sign his name as agent, without specifying
the name of the principal; and no one shall use
the words “ and company,” without an actual
.partner. It farther enacts that property in the
* name of any one trading in his own name with
the addition of the words “agent,” or “and com
pany,” who docs not specify his partner, shall be
liable for the private debts of the individual so
trading.
The Town Clerk in a aertain town, as the cus
tom is, having published the bans of matrimony
between two persons, was very aptly followed by
the clergyman reading the hymn commencing,
“Mistaken souls, who dream of heaven.”
Discharging Clouds of the Electric
Fluid. —M. A rago has proposed apian lor dis
charging clouds, in case of storms, of the electric
fluids which they contain, and thus preventing
the frequent occurrence of hail-storms, which as
is well known are generally produced hy twoeur
rents of clouds, charged with positive and nega
tive electricity crossing each other. It consists
in an improvement upon Franklin’s experiment
of the kite with which he obtained an electric
spark from a cloud, and afterwards Dr. Rornus of
Neras, and Messrs. Lining and < harles, of the
United States, produced electric flashes three and
four feet in length. Mr. Arago recommends, that
a small balloon, properly secured, armed with me
tallic points and communicating with a ripe co
vered with metallic wire, like a harp string; should
lie kept permanently floating in the air at a con
siderable height over the spot which it is wished
1 to preserve from the effects of lightning or hail; \
and he expects, that, by such an apparatus as this, 1
, a cloud might have its electric contents entirely '
I drawn off without any damage being eatised, or
1 that, at least, the intensity of a hail torm would ,
i lie greatly diminished. The experiment is so j
simple that it is well worthy of a trial.— Gali.g-
I nani’s Messenger. I
Stkimboats I v the West.— lt appears there
>are now S7B steamboats running on the western
and southwestern wafers. Os this number, ac
cording to a statement in the Daily Advocate, no
less than 130 were built in Pittsburg. But the
statement or enrollment of I o ils is for the Ist
of January last; and since that period, it appears
from the Advocate's paragraph, that 21 steam
boats have been built ami cleared, and 9 new
boats are in progress of construction, at Pittsburg
—thus making 1 GO steamboats now afloat Air soon
to be, on the western waters, from the shipyards
of the western Birmingham.—The whole num
ber of steamboats on the western and south-wes
tern waters, may then be stated at 409. And
within the memory of middle-aged rnem, there
was not a “solitary” steamboat on the western
waters !
A Splendid Booty —Tar. Horrors of
War. —One of the moat successful military ex
peditions ever made, if wc consider merely the
amount of plunder acquired by the conqueror,
was that of Nadir Shah into about
a century since. If we maybclicve the accounts
of historians who have written on the subject,
the amount of the booty which fell into the j
hands of the Persian Shah alone, was valued at !
£87,500,000, or very near $400,000,000! It
consisted principa’ly of money and jewels, and
the remainder was made up of rich studs and
furniture, warlike weapons Ac. The celebrated
“Peacock Throne,” on which the Mogul empe
rors were wont to sit in slate, and which from its
immense value and gorgeous beauty—for it was
literally made up of precious stones—was the
wonder of the oriental world, fell into the hands
of Nadir, who also carried with him, on his re
turn lo Persia, near 2(1,000 elephants, camels,
and horses, together with crowds of skilful arti
ficers, &.c. An amount almost as great as that
acquired by the Shah, is supposed to have fallen
into the hands of the Persian officers and soldiers,
or to have been wantonly destroyed hy them,
during their military operatic ns or while engaged
in plundering the unfortunatc^inhabitants.
The amount of human suffering which the
Persians inflicted upon the country which they
invaded, was on a scale ns great as the plunder
which they reaped. For upwards of seven suc
cessive hours, the great city of Delhi, the capi
tal of the Mogul empire, was ravished by a hun
dred thousand barbarous soldiers, who had re
ceived orders to full on ami spare not. They
fulfilled their orders in the same spirit in which
they were given. Historians differ as to the
number of their victims but the I est informed of
them rate it about 150,00(1! Not all of these,
however, perished by the Persian sword; for
many of the higli-casle Hindoos, finding their
fate incvltaiile, rather than permit themselves and
families to he insulted by the ravngers, first mur
dered every member of their establishments, and
then set fire to their residences, and finally fell
by their own hands. The condition of Delhi,
during this lime, in the graphic language of the
eastern writers, “afforded an apf type of the
day of wrath and judgment at the end ol the
w >rld.” Nor were the cruelties inflirted during
the march of the Persians lo the capital of a less
fearful magnitude. Towns and villages disap
peared before them, as if they had been destroyed
by some sudden convulsion of nature. In col
fe. ting the subsidy wbiDi the Mogul monarch
r a '' agreed to pay the Kraian, as the price of
pea r tortures of the most horrid kinds were in
ti * ’e 1 upon Hindoos of etvyy rank and in great
numbers. Truly, there should be much in the
“pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war,”
to atone for its horrors, for they arc manifold.
Who would not be a Faiimer? —ln this
glad season, when the earth is all around bursting
into life and beauty, and nature is keeping holi
day—when winter is over, and vegetation is walk
ing again from its deathlike sleep—when the
birds sing their matin song from every bush, and
man himself wakes to new life amid the activity
around him who would not be a Farmer !—For
him, and almost for him alone, bloom the fair
flowers in nature’s field—for him the feathered
s ngster pours her sweetest note, and for him the
face of creation wears a constant smile. Not so
with the inhabitant of cities, or with the profes
sional man or the man of business, any where.
These arc shut out from the blessed influence of
nature. Their business is with men restless, am
bit ous, and oftentimes dishonest men—they them
solves are all engaged in the eager scramble for
wealth and distinction, sometimes caring little
whom they thrust down with their unhallowed
tread, so they mount upon the wreck, and they
I *so the salutary lesson of benevolence which roiy
lie learned from the ways of Providence in the
outward world. They must maintain a constant
struggle with temptation, or yield to its power,
Accustomedto so much of evil, they are eome
times almost templed to deny the existence of
goad. But the fanner pursues the even tenor ol
Ids way,” undisturbed hy the passion* of men.
His dealings are with nature, and he may, if he
will not shut his heart against it, learn true wis
dom from its teachings. In the springing grass,
the opening flower, and the ripening harvest—in*
sunshine and in shower—he may sec a token of
God’s love and goodness, and in the quiet of his
own home, he may almost forget the existence of
evil. Thus widely different arc the conditions ol
the two classes spoken of. Yet we sometimes
find farmers discontented with their lot, and eagci
to join with their fellows in the feverish excite
ment of trade and speculation. And very often
we see young men, impatient to leave their pater
nal acres, and to seek, as they vainly think, some
more honorable or genteel mode of earning a liv
ing.—They had rather show a lily-white baud to
a lady, as they measure off a yard of tape, than
exhibit a manly, muscular frame, with a band
which does not shrink from contact with imple
ments of husbandry. It has, indeed, beiome one
of the great errors of our time, that young men
are deserting the true nubility of the country, for
the sake of wearing a more delicate complexion,
or living, as they vainly hope, more at their ease.
Hence ii is that all trades and professions are
overstocked, that we have more lawyers than el,-
ents, more doctors than patients and more parsons
than parishes.
We hear men complain of hard times, mechan
ics cannot find situations, yet the country is actu
ally suffering, and very seversiy too, for a want of
proper attention to farming, and why is it? Be
cause many a man who should have followed tlia
plough, has become too proud for that, and in his
aspirations to lie a gentleman has undertaken to
wield a pen or administer Cataplasms and boluses.
To tiiis state of things, too, is to be attributed to
some extent, the presen' scarcity and high prices
of provisions. The production has been allowed*
to full below the consumption, and tiiis great pro
j du ting oounlsy, with its sparse population, lias
presented the strange anomaly of impi rtiug brs.wl
slud's from tile thick settled countries of Europe.
It is all wrong. Voting men should be taught to
i regard the employment of their fathers as one of
! tb* most honorable in the world.
Y .ur farmer is the independent man. What
I cares he for hard times, or high prices 1 Banks
mny fail—merchants' notes may hr protested, and
their <1 rails dishonored hut “Seedtime and Har- [
vest," that old and stable firm, shall never “fail”— i
drafts upon them are answered at sight, and the I
hank of tMittre. where the farmer makes his dc- .
p isites. is “good ns gold,” and always discounts
liberally. He laughs at, or more likely pities, I
those who are left at the mercy of the times, and ]
compelled' to rut the bread of carefulness. Beef
at twenty-five cents a pound, and other edibles in
propuilion, does not worry him. He takes the
favors Providence so bountifully bestows upon
him, and'asks few of his fellows. While want
afflicts the rest of the world, he may snap his
fingers in his face, as much as to say, “ Who cares
for you?”— Nashua Telegraph.
Important Chemical Discovery,—One of
the most valuable improvements in modern times
has lately been achieved in the manufacture of
soda from common salt, by the use of carbonate
of ammonia, instead of the pestiferous method ]
| hitherto employed in the production of that alkali, j
j The inhabitants residing in the vicinity of the 1
I soda i tanufactorics at Birmingham, Liverpool, j
1 Newcastle, Glasgow. «Scc., owe the inventors of j
j this invaluable improvement a heavy debt of gra
j titude, as by this discovery they have put an end
il° dreadful nuisance which the public have so
long endured. The necessity of decomposing
the chloride of sodium by sulphur no longer ex
ists, the newly discovered process being perfectly
free from all noxious vapor. Another important
advantage is also secured—namely, that the im
proved method cun with little additional outlay
be adapted to the manufactories at present in ope
ration. an 1 the workmen, who have hitherto been
frequently thrown out of employment, and subject
to the loss of their wages in consequence of the
j numerous indictments that have been laid against
their masters for nuisance, will no longer he sub
jected to this evil. This process, when submitted
to an eminent chemical lawyer for his opinion,
was pronounced by him. to be one of the most
brilliant and ingenious discoveries’ in modern
chemistry.
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The Cleveland Herald states that within nine
miles (at the nearest distance,) from Lake Erie
is a Lake whose waters are elevated seven hun
dred and twenty feet above those of Lake Erie
and on this elevated body of water, a steamboat ol
one hundred tons burthen plies. This is Chau
taasjao Luke, in Chuutauque county, N. V’.
Fi.oi'r.—This article seems to be going down,
down. wars. Superfine at Rochester f7 per
bid ; lower than for two years before. With pre
sent prosp els for an abundant harvest, we fear
that those of our growers who have held on for
$2 per bushel, will hardly realize one hundred
rents on thedollarof their expectations.— HuJ/ulu
N. I - '. Journal.
A new vegetable has been introduced in Lon
don which bids fair to outdo the Chinese corn,
Morns Multienulb), Rohan pot a toe mid cotton
seed at fifty cents a kernel. It is u species ot
clover from Bukhara, which glows to the height
often or twelve feet, can he cut every month, and
multiplies at the rate of 300,11(10 seeds for each
grain sown..
My Native Hume.
' -w.. ana fvowwmg beautiful uno spirited
apostrophe to the South, in the “ American Muse
( nm,” written hy Alexander H. Aleck, Ksq.,of Tus
caloosa, Ala ama.
Land of the South ! —imperial land. 1 —
flow proud thy mountains rise,—
How sweet thy scenes on every hand, —
* flow fair thy covering skies 1
; Bnt not for this, —oh, not fur tine,
1 love thy fields to roam, —
Thou hast a dearei spell to me,
Thou art my native home I
Thy rivers roll their liquid wealth,
L nequalled to the sea, —
Thy hills and val eys bloom with health,
And green with verdure be !
But not for thy proud ocean streams,
Nor for thine azu.c dome,—
Sweet sunny South I —l cling to thee, —
Thou art my native home I
I’ve stood beneath Ita ia’s clime,
Beloved of tale and song,—
On Helvyn’s hi Is, proud and sublime,
Where Nature’s wonders throng ;
By Tempe’s classic sun it streams,
Where (lods, of old, did roam, —
But ne er have found so fair a land
As thou—my native home !
And thou hast prouder glories too,—
Than Natuie ever g ive, —
Peace sheds o cr thee, her genial dew,
And Leedom’s pinions wave, —
Fair science flings her pearls around,
Religion lifts her dome,
These, these endear thee to my heart, —
My own, loved native home I
And “ heaven’s best gift to man” is thine, —
(tod b css thy rosy girls I
Like sylvan flowers, they sweetly shine, —
Their heaits are pure as pearls ! ,
And grace and goodness circle them,
Wher’er their footsteps roam,
How tan I then, whilst loving them.
Not love my native home !
Land of the South ! —imperial land !
Then here’s a health to thee, —
Long as thy mountain barrier stand,
May’st thou be blessed and free !
May dark dissention’s banner ne’er
Wave o’er thy fertile loam, —
But should it come, there’s one will die,
To save his native home !
M A R R I E D,
On the 16th inst. bv the Rev. I) Barry, Mr. N.
lUaruoLEMv, to Miss 1 iiillih Piquet, all of
this city. ■»
D I E D,
In this city, on Sunday 19th inst. Helenor Eli
zabeth, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Biochon, of
this city.
iky The friends and acquaintances of Mr. and
Mrs Hroehon, are respectfully invited to attend the
funeral of their daughter, Helenor Elizabeth, this
morning, at ft o’clock, fiom their residence on Ellis
street.
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UFA If I\ K INTELLIGENCE.
Savannah, May 17.
Cleared. —Bark/enobia, Remington, No.folk.
Arrived yesterday. —hr ship tourtnay, Kills, Li
verpool,
Sailed. —Ship Trenton, Rennet, New York.
May 18
Arrived yesterday. —Steamboat Hamburg, Wood,
Augusta ; steamboat Lamar, Creswcll, Augusta.
Went to sen. —Ship Trenton, Rennet, New York.
Departed . —. Steamboat Ogauhsipe, Williams, Au
guila.
Charleston, Mav IS.
Arrived yesterday —Schr Patriot, Spooner, New
York.
Cleared —U L brig Star, Hull, N. York.
Went to sea yesterday —Ship Liverpool, Bantow,
Liverpool,
COMMERCIAL.
Latent dates from Liverpool , April 19
I Latest dates from Havre April 13
Savannah, May 17.
Cotton —Arrived since the 10th insl. 1348 hales
I Upland and 61 bales S. I. Cotton, and cleared at the
same time, 412 S bales Upland and 292 bales 8.1.
Cotton; leaving a stock on hand, inclusive of all on
ship hoard not cleared on the 17th inst. of 16989
bales Upland and 761 bales Sea Island t otton.
Since the receipt on Saturday of Liverpool advi
ces to the 20th and Havre to the 17t.i ultimo, the
business done in Upland has been very limited, at
a decline of fully 4 per cent per lb.—the sales are
668 bale*, viz; 76 at IS; 110 at 15J; 271 at 16; 47
at 16j;24 at 17, In Sea Island no change in prices?
the sales are 99 bags white, viz: 31 at 45; 31 at 46?
35 at 48; I ai 60; and 7 stained at 12a 23.
Rice —The market since our last has been quite
dull and the sales ight at from s4i to 4j.
Flour —Continues dull, with a fair supply. Small
I sales of Howard-street at a SBA ; Canal at 4,9
I »8i
Corn. —Xo arrivals. Retails from store 90 a
1 101) cts,
Duron.' —Wo report sales of 20,000 lbs. West
ern as follows: Hams at 16, Sides 12 a 12J;
Shoulders 10£ cents ; 70 kegs Baltimore Lard at 16
cents.
liiy —Sales of 700 bundles, on the wharf, at
from $1 a $1 25.
Salt. —Sales of 12,000 bushels Liverpool, re
ceived this week at 40 cents.
Spirits. — In domestic liquors, sales of JV. E. Rum
at 11 a45 ; Whiskey at •!.> a 46; (Jin at 48 a 00
cents.
E.'.rkaitfre-~i]u England,9l a9j percent, prem.
Draft on New York, at sight, 1* percent prem.
Freights —To Liverpool, 716 d. a Jd.; to New
York, 75 cents per ba c.
Charleston, May 18.
A number of country dealers and several mer
chants from Georgia have been in the market; and
a good business h: i been carried on throughout the
week in most articles of produce. In relation to
Cotton and Bice, it will be seen that the foimcnar
tide is on the decline, while the latter has advanced
in price.
Cotton —The operations of the week in Upland
arc 4297 halos at the following price:—ss at 14$;
164 at I4J ; 61 at 14| ; 1142 at 15; 151 at 15j; 755
15.! ; Ki t at 15g ; 364 at 154 5 322 at 15J ; 444 at
15j ; 362 at 16 ; 247 at I6|; 74 at 16J ; and 22 bales
at 17 cents per lb The following is the state of
the market, which is fully half a cent lower than,
last week. Liverpool classification, —ord. and in
ferior 14 a 14.'; middling to middling fair, 14j a 15;:
fair to fully fair, 154 a 6; good fair, I6J a 17;:
strictly choice IS cts. per Ih. „t f Lung Cottons, 192
bales white Sea Island have boon taken within our
quotations ; 70 Stained do. from 20 lo 27 ; DO San
tees from 42 to 47 ; and 20 Stained do. Lorn 20 to
to 25 cts. per Ih.
Hire. —There has been a fair business doing in
Rice during the week, and an 4 per 100 advance
has been obtained on the low and midd ing quali
ties of this article —in prime anil choice, there has
been no inquiry. The market closed firm yester
day at our quotations. I'hc sales since our last are
about 1000 lierees at the following prices: 51 tier
ces at 4 j{; 25 at 4 7-16 ; 756 at 4J ;74at 4 9-16 ;
90 at Ijj; and 16 tierces s4jj per 100.
Grain. —The receipts of Crain during the week
amount 10 only about 345 bushels Western Corn,,
which was disposed of at 85 cents per bushel Wo
have erased our quotations for Corn, Oats, and Feas,
fur the want of arrivals. Hay has been taken at
$1 per 100 lbs.
Flour. —Our Flour market continues in a very
unskilled state. The operations of the week have
been confined to the baker , who have taken small
\i.t» 4A<% <..\\>.<wVw W t >A. . . - J n.*’
1 timore, 7.J aM ; Ninth I arolina, 7a7 J, and 50 bbls.
Itallcgo at $9 per bid.
( uj)ee. —About 200 hags Cuba, common to fair
quality, brought tsj all; 200 hags do. from Hi a
11 j ; and 270 bags do. from 10 a 12 4 ; and a laige
lot Porto CaUello, in bags and bbls. at 12 and 12$
cents per lb.
Slip; rs —This article has advanced about i per
lb. on the business of the previous week. About
80 hhds. Muscovado, inferior to stri tly prime lias
been taken at 74 a 10 cents per lb—the latter quo
tation foi tiic Victoria brand, and about 60 hbds. al
so Muscovado, at prices not made public.
Molasses. —A lot of IS Obis., 10 Ics. and 20 hhds.
West Inlia has hern taken at 30 cedts per gallon
round; Muscovado is held at 32 a34 cents per gal
lon. We have no operations in New Orleans to
report.
II icon —The following rates is the market value
of this article, viz: Hams, 12 a 16; Shoulders, 9 a
9j and Sides 11 a 11$ cts. per lb.
Lard. —Baltimore and North-Carolina have been
sold in small lots at 13 a 14 cts. per lb.
Salt —There is none afloat or in first hand*. At
a sale of an assigned estate, about 3700 sacks Liv
erpool were knocked olf at SIJ asl 76 per sack.
From store small sacks have been sold at 1 j a $1)1.
Domestic Liquors. —A lot of 100 bbls. N. E. Rum
brought 41, anda small lot Whiskey 39 cts. per
gallon.
New Orleans, May 15.
Colton. —Received since 10th instant 4;988 bales
exported as follows to Liverpool, 11,529 do. Havre
2,95 m do, New York 1,444 do. Hartford 140 do; in
ail 16,068 bales; making a reduction in the
stuck of 11,080 bales, and leaving a balance
on hand including all on ship board of 117,-
144 bales. In our market there has been nothing
done since Monday morning—in fact, we have
rarely known it to be in a more fiat and torpid state ;
the unfavorable tenor of the accounts by the South
America, together with the great solicitude which
is felt to he put in possession of the news daily ex
pected by the steamer Liverpool,having complete
ly checked all disposition to operate. Such being
the slate of allairs, it is impossible to say at what
rates the market will again open—our quotations
which we continue without change, must cer
tainly he regarded as entirely nominal. The sales
made previous to Monday morning, were at the full
prices before current, and amount to about 3000
bales—we notice them particularly as follows, vizi
150 at 14j; 27, 14j;75 14 a 144; 1500, 164; 40,13;
4HS, 15i}; 262, 15J; 150, 15| cents; all La. and
Miss, cottons.
- Liverpool Classifications.—Louisiana and
Mississippi, Ordinary 13 a 134; Middling Tlj? a
14j ; Fair 154 a 16 ; Good fair 164 a 17 ; Good and
fine 18 a—; Tennessee and North Alabama,Or
dinary Middling, Fair, Good fair, Good and line, 12$
a 164, extremes ; fair crops, 154 a —•
STATEMENT OF COTTON. ~
IS3S, Oct. I, stock on hand hales 8.900
1839, May 14, recM since 10th 4088
“ “ “ previously 527504 632492
041392
“ “exports since, 10th 10068
“ “ ‘ previously 408180 424248
Leaving a balance of stock of 1,17144
Smear —Louisiana. —Sales of strictly prime ih
small lots, are occasionally made in the city at 7
rents, hut transactions, for the most part, continue
to be within the range of previous quotations, in
ferior to common 4 a 54, fair to prime 6 a 6 j cents.
There is a fair demand for prime, which continues
scarce, hut for other descriptions the inquiry is
limited. On plantation,, there are hut few opera
tions—lots which have been taken on speculation,
are generally held at 6$ a 64 cents, but our quota
tions, 5 a 6 cents, will embrace most of the sales.
In Havana sugars we have no variation to notice,
the demand being limited at former rates. Arrived
since 10th instant of La. 1072 hhds; cleared for
Baltimore 250 hhds Florida 5 hhds.
Molasses —A very fair demand continues to be
ex; erienced for molasses in the city, at from 34 to
to MScts. per gallon, and the stock in market, al
though it has latterly increased a little, is stiUiight.
( n plantation the current rate is 25 cents per gal
lon, and the inquiry fair Arrived since 10th ia,*S
14 hhds, 401 bbls; cleared for F,o*ida, 40 bbls.