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WILLIAM E. JONES & Go. AUGUSTA, Ga. TUESDAY MORNING, JUNE 1 1, 1839. Yol. lII.—No. 63
TiilO CHBOSItIB AND SKSiTISE L
PUBLISHED, •
DAILY, TRI-WEEKLY, AND WEEKLY,
At No. Broad-street.
terms:
JJtily paper, Ten Dollars per annum, in advance
Tri- Weekly paper, at Six Dollars in advance or
Seven at the end of the year.
Weekly paper. Three Dollars in advance,or Four f
. the end of year.
?C l'm\ir,l,K AND SKNTINHL.
AUGUSTA.
MONDAY MORNING, JUNE 10.
FOR GOVERNOR,
| CHARLES DOUGHERTY,
OF CLARE COUNTY.
Virginia Elections.
It is imposaible to ascertain from the Richmond
papers, the true and exact result of the late elec
tion in Virginia. According to the Enquirer,
parties will stand as follows ;
Senate. House. Total.
Administration, 18 G 3 81
Whigs, 11 65 76
' Conservatives, 3 3 6
\ Doubtful, 3 3
; According to the Richmond Whig the follow
ing will be the State of parties.
Senate. House. Total.
- Whigs, 12 67 79
Administration, 17 58 75
Conservatives, 3 9 12
Such are the estimates of both parties ! How
are we at this distance to determine which is
right and which is wrong. It is impossible and
we must therefore wait until the Legislature
Meets and makes a trial of strength.
, There is one thing however which we cannot
forbear to notice, and it is this—in all previous
party contests in Virginia, whenever the Admin
istration party has been thoroughly roused they
have swept every thing before them, carrying the
Legislature by immense majorities. For once
they have failed to do so, although they have
been stirred up to the most desperate exertion
jjiever yet made. The Whigs, apart from the Con
servatives, have elected more members of the
House of Delegates than the Van Burenites.
Last year was no proper test as there was no ex
citement and the Van Buren party suffered the
election to go almost by default.
In the Congressional election, the Whigs have
gained two and lost one. Lucas, one of the
Van Buren men is elected by only iwo voles ac
cording to the Richmond Enquirer. His seat
will be contested and it is said with almost posi
tive certainty of success. The following are the
Members elect.
Whigs. Administration.
Henry A. Wise, Joel Holleman,
Charles F. Mercer, Francis E. Rives,
Jno. Taliaferro, Geo. <Dromgoole,
K. M. T. Hunter, Jno. W. Jones.
Jno. M. Bolts, Wm. Lucas,
Jno. T. Hill, Green B. Samuels,
Wm. L. Goggin,—7 Andrew Beirne,
Conservatives. Lewis Stecnrod,
Jas. Garland, Joseph Johnson,
Geo. W. Hopkins,—2. Waller Coles,
Robert Craig,
Linn Banks, —12.
CjT* We are requested to state that Mr. Gay,
will exhibit his machinery for reeling silk from
the cocoons, and manufacturing it into sewing
cilk, also into warp and filling for weaving, this
evening and to-morrow evening, each day from
A to 7 P. M., at the Cocoonery of Mr. C. J.
•Hutchinson, at the Hampton Course. Ladies
and gentlemen of Augusta, and the vicinity, arc
invited to attend. No charge.
Boston the Victor again! —The N. York
Spirit of the Tunes says, that the Four Mile Race
on Friday, over the Trenton Course, for $l5OO,
($6 K) to the second best,) was won by Boston
in two heals, beating Decatur and Vashti. Time
slow; Ist heat, 7m. 575; 2d heat,Bm. 245. There
were 272 carriages on the ground, and conse
quently an immense concourse or spectators.
Wm. W. Arthur, late treasurer of Pickaway
county, Ohio, has taken the liberty of showing
the porkers a small specimen of tali walking by
“Swartwouting” with $6,285 belonging to the
school fund. He has probably " Priced” the
fare to Texas.
Treasury Notes.—According to the official
statement the aggregate amount of Treasury
Notes outstanding on the Ist of June, was
$6,062,288 18.
The Bank of Eso land. —A letter by the
last arrivals says that the specie of the Bank of
England was reduced, for the last month, to four
millions, while the average of the quarter was
six midions. The same letter mentions that the
determined to discount only regular busi
ness paper.
D ;spvTcii—The Baltimore Patriot says, “two
British officers of the Royal Artillery, were on
parade with their battalion on Friday two weeks,
at Wou.wich, some miles from London, and
dine 1 yesterd jy with one of ther countrymen
at Beltzhoover’s Hotel, in Baltimore. They
came by the Great Western.”
A Great Petition. —The national petition
of the Chartists was at the last dates nearly three
miles long, and contained 1,250,000 signatures,
lx was carried to London in procession, with flags
banners, dec, * ’
We learn from lire Madisonian that Mr. J. L.
O’Sullivan, one of the editors of the Democratic
Review, has been nominated to the secretaryship
of legation at Paris, and waits only for the assent
of Governor Cass, for the consummation of the
appointment.
The Selma (Ala.) Free Press, says: “As far
as our observation extends, and from the accounts
in the newspapers in other parts of this State,
Mississippi and Tennessee, the growing crops are
unusually promising. The seasons for planting
has been much more favorable than those of sevc ■
ral previous seasons.”
An English paper says—"lt has been discov
ered that some of the best black tea imported in
to this country from < hina is grown in a climate
much colder than that of England, and experi
ments are in consequence now making near Bir
mingham to introduce the cultivation in this
country.”
From the New Orleans Bee, June 3.
From Mexico.
There were two arrivals on Saturday from
Mexico. One, the schr. Eclipse, from Vera Cruz,
whence she sailed on the 16th ult. The other,
the schr. Rolla, from Tampico, which place she
left on the 15th of May. The Rolla does not
bring intelligence as late as that received by the
Woodbury.
We have been unable to gather any thing of
interest by the Eclipse. The central forces were
still in the vicinity of Tampico; but up to the
latest dates no battle had taken place. The fed
eralists in the town were confident of success.
The Eclipse brought 5510,000 in specie, con
signed to various merchants in New Orleans.
AMERICAN VESSEL SEIZED.
The schooner Southerner arrived yesterday
from Matamoras, reports that the brig A.E. cap
tain Driscoll, bad been seized in the Brasses San
tiago by the Mexican authorities, for some alleged
violation of the revenue laws of Mexico. As the
brig is well calculated for a vessel of war, and
adapted for the shallow waters of the coast of
Mexico, it is supposed she will not easily get
released.
Col. B. F. Furnish, U. States consul at Maz
atlan, Mexico, came passenger in the schr. South
erner. He is the bearer of despatches for our
government.
Five hundred Mexican government troops left
Matamoras, 22d May, to join Bustamente against
Tampico.
Another soldier of the Revolution lias been
gathered to his fathers. General Lenoir, who
was prominent in many battles, died recently at
his residence in Wilkes Co., N. C. at the age of
89. He had an eminent rank as private citizen
up to the hour of his death.
Extract of a letter to the editor of the New
Orleans Louisiana!!, dated
Grand Gulf, Miss., June 1, 1839.
Dear Sir,—l hasten to inform you that yester
day the greater portion of the beautiful little town
of Port Gi son, about nine miies from Grand Gulf
was destroyed by lire, which originated by acci
dent, about 11 o’clock, A. M. The loss of pro
perty is estimated at not less than seven hundred
thousand dollars—by some persons at one mil
lion. Most of the principal merchants are utterly
ruined. The court house was totally destroyed,
and the whole of the principal business streets is
nothing but a heap of ruins The houses were
principally of brick. I have just returned from
the scene. Never in my life have I been more
moved by the sight of calamity than this. The
citizens and the strangers in town were in the
greatest agitation; some of the unfortunate inhab
itants were frantic with loss.—The Circuit Court
of Claiborne county was in session last week, but
this terrible calamity has caused the judge to ad
journ the court, the records and papers rescued,
from the burning court house being in too much
confusion to be arranged easily for several days.
It is to be hoped the sympathies of the whole
country will be for the poor unhappy people of
Port Gibson.
From the New Orleans Courier, June 4.
The Buckeye.
A commercial house of this city, has furnished
us with a letter detailing the accident of the
Buckeye, from which the following is an ex
tract:—
On board Steamboat Sultana, at Paducah J
May 31st, 1839. 5
\ ou have doubtless ere this heard of the disas
ter of the Buckeye, on the night of the 29th inst.
at about ten o’clock, six miles above Randolph.—
She blew up; carrying her boiler and all her up
per works forward of the wheels, overboard, and
killing on the spot three men belonging to the
boat and one passenger, and severely wounding
several others; one of whom, Mr. Crctzinger, the
pilot, died this day. While we have to lament
the loss of so many lives, we have reason lobe
thankful that those who are nearest and dearest
to us are safe. Charles has made a most extra
ordinary escape; although he was thrown into
the air, amidst the ruin, some twenty or thirty
feet, he has come off with a slight bruise on his
right shoulder, and his face is slightly bruised on
one side; he is doing well, and has received every
attention to make him comfortable.
The Sultana has the wreck in tow, and will
probably leave her at Paducah; but Charles will
goto Louisville with us. The captain and three
other persons belonging to the Buckeye, are burnt
ami bruised ; one of whom, a cabin boy, will pro
bably die.
1 bis catastrophe was,doubtless, inconsequence
of gross neglect on the part of an engineer who
was passenger on board, but employed by the first
engineer of the boat to stand watch in his stead.
It is said that the boilers must have been nearly,
if not quite dry, ns no one appears to lie scalded
—but bruised and burnt with steam. Two of the
boilers were thrown into the river, and the other
on the top of the bank where she was landing to
take in w ood.
Further Particulars. —We learn, by the
arrival of the steamboat Diana, the sufferers by
the explosion on the Buckeye, to be as follows:
Charles Gretzinger. pilot, [a young roan much
respected ;] Thomas Rogers, mate; and three
deck hands and firemen, all killed.
Mr. Randolph, pilot; and Capt. Thompson,
badly injured ; Mr. Starkey, clerk, slightly bruis
ed.
Neither of the engineers, nor any of the pas
sengers, injured.
Real estate in Cincinnati.—A lot was
recently sold in this city at the rate of f 940 per
foot.
. From the New Orleans Picayune, June !>,
Texas,
i Fhc steamer ffuba, Capt. Carson, arrived from
t Galveston yesterday, bringing H uston dates of
the Ist inst. ami Galveston dates of the 31st May.
Dr. Jas. H. Starr, formerly President of the
Board ol Land Commissioners ol Nacogdoches
county, has been appointed Secretary of the Trea
■ sury.
The President has notified the Treasurer not
to pay the drafts on certificates issued from the
Auditorial Court.
An individual had exhibited certificates for
land of the Rio Grande and Texas Land Compa
ny, which he had purchased in Illinois, but
which were not worth a farthing. He had been
the dupe of swindlers.
A fellow had been seen with $lOOO counter
feit change notes of the city of Houston.
J'hc merchants of Bexar cannot supply the
demand of the Mexican traders for goods. One
trader (rom the Rio Grande had arrived with
$17,000 in specie, which he intended to expend
for merchandise. It it believed that goods to the
amount ol $lOO,OOO could be readily sold at
Bexar for specie or bullion. Several traders from
Cuihualiua brought a considerable quantity of
silver in bars, directly from the mines of that
State.
Between Bexar andSeguin, a party of survey
ors, on the 14th ult, while on duty, heard the re
port of fire arms near their camp, and returning
to it, found that their companions, four in num
ber, had been attacked by a party of Mexicans
and Indians on their way from Matamoras with
• arms and ammunition for the hostile Indians.
The alarm was immediately given, and the| mur
derers were pursued by Capt. Andrews, who
however had to give over the chase in conse
quence of his horse falling. His lieutenant,
James O. Rice, with 17 men, overlook them about
15 miles from Austin, attacked and routed them,
although more than doubling the number of his
men. Three Mexicans were killed on the ground
one of whom was their leader, Manuel Flores.
All their baggage was captured, including about I
three hundred pounds of powder, and a large
quantity of lead, part ot which was in balls and
shot, and part in bars. One hundred and four
teen horses and mules were also captured.
Among the papers found with the baggage
were a number of letters from the Mexican com
manders at Matainoias, to the chiefs of the Kick
apoos, Caddoes, Cherakecs, Scminoles and other
Indians within our borders, offering inducements
for them to remove to Texas, and assuring them
that they shall hold it by right of conquest should
they be successful. The Telegraph says it is ev
ident from the tenor of these letters that Canahso
is ignorant of the character and resources of the
different hostile tribes of Texas, and of the situa
tion of the country claimed by them. His object
evidently was to incite all the disaffected Indians
to renewed hostilities, rather for the purpose of
annoying our citizens, than with the expectation
that they will be enabled to make any serious
impression upon the country. It does not appear
that he has cognizance of any extensive combi
nation of the hostile tribes against the country
The Hon. Janies Webb, late Secretary of
State, has resigned that, office and has been ap
pointed Attorney General, in the place of John
G. Watrons, Esq. icsigned. The Hon. David
G. Burnett, Vice President of the Republic, will
act as Secretary of State until a permanent ap
pointment is made.
Mrs. Pamelia Mann, convicted of forgery, and
sentenced to be hung by Judge Ftanklin of the
present term of the District Court, has been par
doned by the Executive and released from con
finement.
From the Macon Messenger.
The Union papers are earnestly engaged in
advocating the. cause of imnccTio.v. Labored 1
and elaborate statistical calculations arc made with
the view of showing to the people, that the Union
Parly, will not have quite the majority estimated
by the Stales Right papers.
What a pretty pass have we arrived at! when
such a momentous question as the amendment of
a State Constitution has been avowedly decided
by reference to parly ascendancy. Men elected
for the exercise of Ibis high prerogative, the high
est that could be committed to them by the peo
• pie, and sworn to the faithful discharge of their
duty, instead of discharging their sacred bust,
conscientiously with reference to the good of the
entire State, and for the benefit of posterity—
shamelessly and perfidiously avowing that their
main and principal object was to secure a party
ascendancy.
The great leader of the Union party Mr.
Springer, with more candor than judgment, avow
ed this to be his object, and his tail, the rank and
file men, faithfully to a man plumbed the line,
and did his bidding. The papers may say what
they please, and strive to the uttermost to re
move these impressions. The Editor of the
Constitutionalist, zealous a parlizan as he is. pos
sesses too correct a sense of moral honesty, to
justify such dereliction of duty. He therefore
labors industriously to inculcate the notion, that
the proposed distribution is not as exceptionable
as represented. His endeavor is for the public
to lose sight of the principle itself, and by reduc
ing the quantum of evil to diminish their appre
hensions. But the designs were too palpable to
be mistaken. To say nothing of the remarkable
unanimity of party, with which their projects were
effected, the complete training and subordination
which after the first two or three days character
ized all their manoeuvres, it was time after time,
again and again, avowed by party leaders, that
the main object was, to secure the ascendancy of
the Union party.
We find fault ourselves with the plan of reduc
tion. not because such consequences will ensue,
but because it was the moving consideration with
those who first proposed and accomplished it.
Party domination is continually fluctuating, a
county may be of one politics one year, and of
another, the next. Such power is 100 ephemeral
to be of much consideration.
Were there no other objections, so desirable do
we consider reduction, we should not have a word
to say in opposition. But when we see that this
I principle has been advocated, and with the appro
j val of the people is to be established upon the
| professed consideration alone that it is to main
tain party ascendency, and for which object every
I thing like fair equitable equalization, is to be
i sacrificed, every honest man whatever, may be
his politics, who regards the public weal, and the
interest of posterity before party aggrandizement
should oppose it.
The Boston Stsam Packets via Hali-
I fax. —A Halifax correspondent of the Median
tics'News Room, writes: Mr. Cunard has five
packets building. Three to run across the At
lantic, one to ply between Boston and Halifax,
and one between Picton and Quebec. 1 hear he
| has disposed of one half of his contract, but do
j not know the terms. It is said, however, to have
j been for a handsome advance on the estimated
: value.
From the Boston Ci urter.
Seisubk of Fisiiebmkn..-—Our oorrespon
dentat Castinc under date cfiMay 29, writes:—
Arrived this day, Mritish schooner Emily, Hilton,
tivc days from Varmouth, N. Scotia, having
cloven passengers, erews of schooners Java,
of Jonesboro', and Magnolia and Independence,
of Vinehaven, their vessels having been seized
by the authorities of the province of Nova Scotia,
for an alleged breach of the law. being in the
harbor of Tuaket Iple, Hay of Fundny. The
fishermen state they were under the necessity of
making that harbor for the purpose of procuring
water, and while there were taken by a cutter
from Halifax, and their vessels hauled up and
stripped.
“Ought not our Government to have one of
our armed vess Is stationed on the ground for the
protection ol our fishermen while the Boundary
question is pending—as that is probably what has
occasioned this trouble I”
[Another letter from Castinc stales that the
schooiws were seized for setting herring nets at
Tusket, in violation of the treaty stipulations
between Great Britain and the United States.]
Miciitoan Feoub.—The Detroit Free Press
estimates the number of barrels of Hour shipped
from Detroit this season at 100,000. From To
ledo 35,000. making the exports from jhe eastern
side of the Peninsula worth $l,OOO 900 ! The
amount sent down the St. Joseph. Kalamazoo and
Grand Rivers, and conveyed otherwise, to Lake
Michigan, is estimated at equal to 70,000 barrels,
worth $5,000,000. The Free Press thinks it a
safe estimate to say that the surplus of the last
year’s harvest may be valued at two.million a of
dollars /
A special agent of the administration ha* Olsen
appointed to go to England to purchase sealing
wax, penknives, paper, carpets, tapestry, <fec. for
Ute use of the Government. This is as rank a
piece of jobbing as tlij-.grjtnt to Mr. Price,of an
extravagant commission for the purchase of
swords and trinkets fjr some of the barbarian
“kings, princes, and potentates,” with whom,ac
cording to Ex-Senator Hill, General Jackson was
such a prodigious favorite,— N. Y. Courier and
Enquirer.
The Attorney General, Mr. Grundy; is-onl in
vKe official organ with nine columns of docu
mentary evidence, f o<>rovp that Mr. Van Bnren
was* supporter of die war of 1812. Mr. Blair
receives some $200,660 per annum for sustaining
Mr. Van Huron, right or wrong; Mr. Grundy
some five or six thousand) with perquisites. Mr.
■Croswell, who receives $30,000 a year for the
same service, will probably copy this documentary
evidence into the columns of tlia Argus. All
these gentlemen would be quite as ready to prove
that Mr. Van Buren ivas not a supporter of the
war of 1812, if they were paid the same amount
of money on the other side. What dependence
can the people place on these paid advocates ol
the President!— N. Y. Courier and Enquirer.
The Conviction of Da. Dvott.— The jury
in the case of Dr. Dyolt. the “free banker” re
sumed into Court on Saturday, after an absence
of three hours, with trrerdlct of Ou.lly on ah
the Counts ! In ibis, we believe that they have
but responded to the facts of the testimony, to a
sense ofjustice, and to public opinion.— Phila
delphia paper , 3t< imf..
Abctic Land EzrEinrioN.—Letters have
been received from Messrs. Dease & Simpson,
dated at Fort Confidence, Great Bear Lake, Sept.
16, 1838, giving a narrative of their unsuccessful
attempt to explore the residue of the eastern pan
of the coast of the Arctic sea. The season was
‘ cold and extremely unfavourable, and they were
able to advance with their boats only to a point
three miles from the site of Franklin’s farthest
encampment, in 1821. Mr. Simpson, with a
part of the company, advanced, on foot, 100
miles farther, to kit. 08, 43, 39, lon. 106, 3.
They propose to renew the attempt the present
season, in hopes of finding a more open sea.—
Boston Patriot,
Brougham’* Portmit «*< Franklin.
The following admirable sketch of the Ameri
can philosopher, is from a new work by Lord
Brougham, recently published in London, entitled
—-Statesmen in the time of George 111.” It
has not yet liccn published- in this country :
One of llie most remarkable men certainly of
our times as a politician, or of any as a philoso
pher, was Franklin, who stands alone in com
bining together these two characrersi-thc greatest
that man can sustain, and in this, that having
borne the first part in enlarging science by one
of the greatest discoveries ever made, ho bore the
second part in founding one of the greatest cm
pircs in the world.
In this truly great man every thing sect’s to
concur that goes towards the constitution of cx
alted merit, f irst he was the architect ot Ins own
fortune. Born in the humblest station, he raised
himself by his talents and his industry, first to the
place in society which may be attained with the
help only of ord.nary abilities, great application,
and good luck; but next to the loftier heights
which a daring and happy genius alone can scale;
and the poor Printer's hoy who at one period of
his life had no covering to shelter his head from
the dews of night, rent in twain the proud domin
ion of England, and lived to he the Ambassador
of a Commonwealth which he had formed, at the
Court of the haughty Monarchs of France who
had been his allies.
Then he had lieen tried by prosperity as well as
adverse fortune, and had passed unhurt through
perils of both. No ordinary apprentice, no com
monplace journeyman, ever laid the foundations
of his independence in habits of industry and
temperance more deep than he did whose genius
was afterwards to rank him with the Galileos and
the Newtons of the old world. No patrician
to shine in eoi.rtr, or assist at, the Councils of
Monarchs, ever bore his honors in a lollly station
more easily, or was less spoilt by the enjoyment
of them than this common workman did when
negocialing vvith Royal representatives, or caress
ed by all the beauty and fashion of the most hril
j liant Court in Europe.
Again he was self-taught in all he knew. His
hours of study were stolen from those of sleep and
of meals, or gained by some ingenious contrivance
for reading while the work of his daily calling
went on. Assisted by none of the helps which
affluence tenders to the studies of the rich, he
had to supply the place of tutors by redoubled
diligence, and of commentaries, by repeated pe
rusal. Nay the possession of books was to be
! obtained by contriving what the art he himself j
exercised, furnished easily to others.
Next, the circumstances, under which others
succumb he made to yield, and bent to his own
purposes—a successful leader of the revolt that
ended in a complete triumph after appearing des
perate for years; a great disvovererin philosophy
without the ordinary helps to know ledge; a wri-
I
ter fumed for his eliustc style without a classical
education, a skilful negociator though never bred
to polities ending as a favorite, nay, n pattern of
fashion, when the guest of frivolous Courts, the
life which he hud begun in garrets and work
shops.
Lastly, combinations of faculties, in others
deemed impossible, appeared easy and natural in
him. The philosopher, delighting in speculation,
was also crninetly a man of action. Ingenious
reasoning, refined and subtle con ultation, were
in him combined witlbprompt irsolutinu, and in
flexible firmness of purjHMMt. To a lively fancy
he joined a learned anil deep reflection; his ori
ginal and inventive genius stooped to the conve
nient alliance of the most ordinary prudence in
every-day affairs ; the mind that soared above the
clouds, and was conversant with the loftiest of
human contemplations, disdained not to make
proverbs, and leign parables fop the guidance of
apprenticed youths and servile maidens ; and the
hands that ohelnhad a free constitution for a
whole continent or drew down the lightning from
heaven, easily and cheerfully lent themselves to
simplify the apparatus by which truths were to
bo illustrated, or discoveries pursued.
His discoveries were made with hardly any ap
paratus at all; and if, at any time he had been
led to employ instruments of a somewhat less or
dinary description, he never seemed satisfied un
til he had, ns it were, afterwards- translated the
process by resolving the problem with such sim
ple machinery, that you might say he done it
wholly unaided Iry- apparatus,- The experiments
by which the iudoutity of lightning an<Jelectricity
was demonstrated, were made with a sheet of
• brown paper, a hit of twine, a silk thread, and an
iron key.
I pon the integrity of this man, whether in
public or in private life, there rests no stain.-
•Strictly honest and scrupulously punctual in all
his dealings, he preserved in the highest fortune
that regularity which he had practised as well us
inculcated in the lowest.
In domestic life he was faultless, and in the in
tercourse of society delightful. There was a
constant good humor and a playful wit, easy and
of high relish, without any ambition to shine, the
natural fruit ol his lively fancy, his solid natural
good sense, and his cheerful temper, that gave
his conversation an unspeakeahle charm, and
alike suited every circle, from the humblest to the
most elevated. Willi all his strong opinions, so
often solemnly declared, so imperishable recorded
in his deeds, he retained a tolerance for those who
differed with him which could not be surpassed
in men whose principles hang so loosely about
them as to he taken up for a convenient cloak,
and laid down when found to impede theii pro
gress. In his family he was every thing that
worth, warn affections, and prudence could con
tribute, to make a man both useful and amiable,
respected and beloved.
In religion he would he reckoned by may a lu
titudinariiui, yet it is certain that his mind was
imbued with a deep sense of the divine perfection,
a constant impression our accountable nature,
and a lively hope of future enjoyment. Accord
ingly, his deathbed, the test of both faith and
works, was easy and placid, resigned and devout,
and indicated at once an unflinching retrospet of
ho past, and a comfortable assurance of the fu
ture.
If vve turn from the, truly great man whom we
have been contemplating, to his celebrated con
temporary in the DM World, (Frederick the
ft real.) who only affected the philosophy that
Franklin possessed, and employed his talents for
civil and military affairs, in extinguishing that in
dependence which Franklin’s life was consecrated
to establish (he contrast is marvellous indeed,
between the Monarch and the Printer.
“'GosrtxiNo jettons.”—This ancient mode
of operating on'iuries, is pretty generally com
plained of; hiring frequently productive of ill ef
fects.. Av/ritcr in one of the Georgia papers,
gives the following laughable* amount of the con
fining of a jury, in the room of one of the county
courts of that state; the bailiff being appointed
to guard the door, and see that none of them
bolted, or “ liquored,” was assailed by curses :
oaths and sounds proceeded from the. interior;
some were roaring like lions—some erylng like
children—mewing likccats—neighing like horses,
See.
At last, he says, a consultation was held at the
jury room, between the foreman and the bailiff;
whereupon, the latter, putting his hat one side on
his head, came into the court room and addressed
the.fudge thus:—“ Mr. Tom Jukes says the jury
can t agreoabout this here man, and If you keep
him (i. c. Pom Jakes) without any grog any
more, he'll lick you on sight!” The Judge ap
pealed to the Bar, if this was not a contempt of
court, and “Green and Lumpkin's Georgia Jus
tice having been consulted, it was finally decided ;
that as it was a threat addressed to the judge us
a private individual, and was to whip him “on
sight,” and not on the bench, it was not under
the free, enlightened and democratic principles of
Georgia legislation a contempt of court. This
being sett ed, the Judge directed the bailiff to say
to Torn Jakes, the foreman, that they should agree
if they stayed there through eternity !”—Louis
iana Advertiser,
Like Navioatium. —The Detroit Post states
that there aro now on Lake Brin fit) steamboats,
twenty-eight of which are modern, and of splen
did finish.
Consignees per South Cnrolinn Itnil Itoad.
llawiiobo, June 5, 1539.
I. S. Beers; W. H. Battier, S. 11. Peck, A. Mc-
Kenzie, Clark, McTier 8c Co. P. A. Scranton, Sto
vall & Simmons, Hccsc Sc Beall, CJeo. Parrott, K.
Delino, J. K. Benson, and M.AcC,
jim.i. i ■■ in. .... .
COMMERCIAL.
Latest dales from Lluerpvol, Mat/ 17
Latest dates from Havre, Mai/ 15
Ciiahi.eston. June S.
Cotton. —The Upland Cotton market, on Satur
day last, and for the first two days of the present
week, continued in the same dull and languid state
as noticed in onr last; for, although there were
buyers willing to operate to a moderate extent,
their offers were at prices which holders won dnot
accept, believing, as they generally did, that the
recent arrivals had given us the worst aspect of
the European rnaikets. 'I he sales of these three
days were 713 bales, at very unsettled prices, viz:
10b at 15 ;50 a* 15 J ; 100 at 15$ ; 10.7 at I 5( ; 92
at 1(1; 143 at 16j ; and 117- bales at Hi t, eenls pet
lb. The advices, however, per the Great Western,
on Wednesday last, showing a still farther decline
I in the article, has shaken, if not destroyed all eonfi-
I deuce in our principal staple, for the present, at
least, as there has not been a sale since the receipt
of her accounts. We have erased our rates, as it
is impossible to give quotations. Our market for
long Cotton has also been quiet throughout the
week. AboutSl bags stained Sea Island have been
taken at prices ranging from 23 to 35 cents per lb.
Hat —Our Rice market has also been dull, and
i has gone down about s, per HX>. The transactions
of the week are 607 tierces at the folk,wing pr «s,
| —2B at 4i40at4};24 at 4j ; 3SI at 4(j ; uO at
4 7-10; and 124 tierces at 4J. The stock on sale,
i it will be seen is ligh„
('rain —The receipts of the week of t'orn have
j been about 6200 bushels Virginia anil North CalO'
lina. The former brought 80 and the latter 11)0 cents
per bushel. There has been no anival of eitl er
Oats or I’cas since our last —the latter article is in
much request at present. Hay has been selling at
I a I} per 100 lbs.
FI air. —The city bakers have been purchasers to
a limited extent Gallcgo in small lots brought
Sj ; 300 bbls. super. Richmond, fresh ground, 8};
Virginia H ami S| j and at auction about 3'o Ibis.
Western was ©tiered, of which but 60 bbls. were
taken at 6# a fljj ; the balance was sold by private
contract at 6$ per bid. There is very little Balti
more at present in market.
Coffee. —A fair business has been done in Coffee
during the week —both on speculation and to the
grocers
A large lot of Porto Cabello in bbls. and bags has
changed hands at or about 12 a 12j|. A lot of 1 orto
Rico brought 12 • and al out 4CO 1 ags gietn (. üba at
an average of from 10} to 12 cents per lb.
■ Molasses. —Two lots West India > classes were
taken at 29 and 291, and 40 hhds do at 30, with
two small parcels Cuba Muscovado, at 32 cents per
gallon. In New Orleans, we have nothing to report.
Sugar. Alout 90 hhds. inferior to middling
quality Muscovado Sugar, sold at prices ranging
from 6} to B,'c. per lb.
Sail —About 700 sacks Liverpool, from on ship
baard, brought slj per sack. We quote flj a 2
per sack.
Huron. —The sa'es of the week have been light 1 ,
and confined chiefly to Western Sides at 12}; and
Shoulders at 10 a ,1} cent per lb. We quote Balti
mme and Western Hams 12 a 16 cento per lb.
Lard. —The operations since our last have been
chiefly in Western barrel Lard, at 13 a 13} ; Balti
more and Western in kegs is he d al 14 a 11} cents
per 111.
Domestic Liquors. — A small lot of Baltimore
Whiskey brought 43 ; and a lotN. K. Rum in hhds.
and bids. 40 a 42 cents per gallon.
Exchange. — There is very little doing in foreign
Exchange, Hills on England—we quote 9} a 9j
per cent prem.; on France .01 10 aOf 15 perdollar,
nominal, Sight Checks on New York, 1J al} per
cent prem.
Freight —Thurc ate a number of vessels in port,
waiting Freight. We quote to Liverpool j a }d,
nomina'. To France, nothing offering. To New’
York, lust engagements 50 a 62} for cotton.
Savannah, June 7.
Colton. — Arrived since the 31.4 nIL 1091 bales
Upland and 2 bales Fen Island Cotton, and cleared
at the same time, 1099 hales Upland and 000 ba'cs
Sea Island Cotton ; leavinga stock on hand, inclu
sive of all on ship hoard not clearedon the 7th inst.
of 12973 bales Upland and 359 bales Sen Island
Colton.
The transactions in Upland this week comprise
only 19 bales at 14 and 110 at 15; until the sales
become more extensive we omit quotations. In
Sea Island the only transaction we have to report
is 10 hags at 45 cents.
tiice. —The sales of the week have been con
fined to a few small loti ats4}. Holders are asking
s4ft. Stock very light.
Flour. —Continues dull. Sales of Howard-strcet
at $8 a B},
Corn. —One cargo arrived this week has been
stored. Retails fiom store at 90 a 100. ,
Groceries. —ln olfec, Sugar and Molasses, we
have no change to notice, cither in demand or price,
Ituy. —Sales us 500 bundles, on the wharf, at 87
cents a $l.
Spirits. —ln domestic liquors, sales of N. E.
Rum at 45 ; din at 50 a 55 ; Whiskey at 46 a47.. >
Exchange —On England, nominal. Drafts on
New York, at sight, 1} per rent prem.
Freights —To Liverpool, nominal, at }d.; to New
York, $1 per bale".}'
Statement of Cotton. June 7.
Upl’ds, S. I.
Stock on hand, Ist October, 3rC4 35
Received this week, 1091 S
Do. previously, 133161 4792
187410 4329
Exported this work, 1099 00
Do. previously, 173344 4470 174443 4470
Stock on band, including all on ship
board not cleared on the 7tb June. 12973 369 >
New Ori.eans, Jvmt-5,
Cotton- —We have received by the asl few ex
pros- mai’s gloomy accounts fiom Europe of the
situation of trade and prospects for cotton, also re
ports of the bills of a large speculator being under
protest, which lias put a stop for tire moment to all
transactions in this city, and buyers and sc lers are
further apart in their ideas of the worth of i lie arti
cle than at any former period this season. Ihe
sale or shipment of a crop of 1175 bales was
talked of, but no correct information could be ob
tained about it. Several shipments by factors are
nodoubt going on to some exlcnt, and buyers say
they can pick up small lots from needy men at } a
1 percent per lb., decline oi, prices current before
the receipt of Liverpool accounts to 27th Arpil and
Havre to 2d May.
The weather continues fine fgr the growing
crops and the receipts at this port,wUJ reach CtO,-
000 bales by Oct. Ist.
STATEMENT or COTTON.
1833, Oct. I, stock on hand, 8900
1839, June 4, total receipts to date, 561804
670704
I June 4, total exports tod. Britain, 241170
do France 111636
do Continent, 6210
do Coastwise, 126411 433383.
Leaving a stock on hand of, includ
ing all on ship board not cleared, 82341
Mobile, May 6.
Colton. —Arrived this week, 299 hales, and ex
porlud in the same period, 3604 bales, as follows:
To Liverpool, 1559
New-Vork, 2061
Philadephia, 44
Reducing stock 3366, and leaving on hand and on
shiphoaid not cleared, the stock of 19,717 bales
against 48,015 same time last year.
The sales sincu our last notice, will not exceed
1600 bales, at such rates as- show no apparent va
riation from those of last week A succession of
gloomy accounts ha ve conic to hand within the week
which have impart ad some uneasiness to the marl et,
hut, as far as wo can discover, has not shaken the
confidence of holders, who look foiwagd to thecr
rival of the next steamer with considerable san
guinity. All who are able to keep out of the mar
ket until thejnteiiigenoe per this vessel is received,
will do so, unless their terms are acquiesced in/
1 The light stock, advancing rates of exchange, (al
ready up to 16 per cent, for ster mg,) with the re
duced rates of freight, are ait favorable to the in
terests of sellers. Shipments 011 planters’ account'
continue to go forward. The subjoined quotations
are varied a fraction in fair and middling.
Lh erpooi. classification. —doodand Fine, 17}
a 18; Good Fair, 17 a—i Fair, 16 a 16}; Uidlling,
16} a 15#; Ordinary, 16 a—; Inferior, 14 a 14}.
MARINE INTELLIGENCE.
Charleston, June 8.
Arrived yesterday— Ship Elizabeth Bruce, Rus
sell, New York; ship Denmark, Frost New York;
ship Leonore,Graves, Boston; ship llurmah, Web
ster. Havana; LL L brig Lawrence, Cobb, New
York; brig North America, Pendleton, New York;
brig I’ilgim, Wade, Philadelphia.
Cleared —ShipCopia, Knight, Ncwburvport; brig
Charleston,Childs, Baltimore.
Savannah, June S.
Cleared —Schr Eagle, Wylie,Newport.
'Arrivalyesterdny —Schr l’e(cr«burgh,role. New.
York,