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OIIHONICL \ND SBNTINF.L.
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I'l KMUV MORNING, J! M |-j.
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<> I ‘ I lUK lor N IV.
W e commend to the perusal of our readers, tlic
articli in to-dey’s paper from the National Intel
ligencer. It hows the standing of the Snb-
I reasury with the V an Huron pnrly in Congress,
in 1831. Then it was not a jxtrty manure,
and they all opposed it save one man, (Mr. liealc
o( Va); now it ft a parly measure, and they
sll support it, and even excommunicate from
their ranks any one who does not. It will he
seen too that Mr. Folk, who is now the travelling
candidate of the parly, for the oflicc of Governor
ofTennessoe, then made a speech against it. In
that speech he made use of arguments in favor
of the Hanks, as the fiscal agents of the Govern
ment, which he now makes use of in favor of the
Sub-Treasury, and applied to the latter measure
denunciations then, which he applies to the
Hanks now. He then declared the Hanks to he
the safest depositories* and the boat agents, and
the Huh-Treasury the most unsafe and inconve
nient. He has now reversed his position on both
questions, swears to his own consistency and de
nounces as federalists every one who has not
kept up with himself in abandoning the interests
of his country, to sustain the interests of his par
ly-
We regret to learn by a letter from Milledgc
villo, received in this city yesterday, that Gov.
Gilmer lies dangerously ill.
From the National Intelligencer.
A respected subscriber of onrs, who has been
a Member of Congress lor several years past, has
-equesled us to publish the Speech of Mr. Tolk,
late Speaker of the House ol Heprrscnlalives,
against the Sub-1 reasury Scheme when proposed
by Mr. Gordon, of Virginia, and also Hie Veas
and Nays upon that proposition. He says that
he wishes the People to see and understand that
when an individual Member of Congress pmpo
sed the Sub-Treasury Scheme as a substitute for
a Heposito Hank bill, it was rejected by a largo
and overwhelming majority (only one Member of
the Administration parly voting for it)— though,
when the very same moauure was afterwards re
cuminciuled hy tin: Frcsident , it was and is sup
ported by the very same members and parly who
had before rejected it. “W hat, he asks, has pro
duced this sudden change of opinion and action ?
’/’he answer is plain. The power and patronage
<j| the President are omnipotent. He is the head
and leader of hit men, as the sun turns the sun
llowcr, Shall me wan, like the King in a Mon
urohv, rule tins country ? Or shall the People
rule, urn) make their own laws ! 'That’s the
great question to bo now decided,” Our subscri
ber, the former Member ol Congress, goes on to
say (speaking ofhimself) us follows ;
t ‘ I voted with the Administration against Mr.
Gordon's Sub-Treasury plan, because 1 thought
it injurious to tin Peoph and c iimi
tut VII w 111 tin; ■ iv.,« , arm-ally supported by
» uTlt (llie then b uder in the House ol Rcprc
-tentative*.) My principles are not made ofln
dia-rubber; and therefore 1 cannot follow in the
footsteps or fore!racks of President \ an Huron.
He and his parly-worshippers must excuse mo
Iron) surrendering my judgment and conscience
t» his keeping. lean reconcile parallel principles
blit 1 leave principles so at right angles with one
unetln r to he settled and rendered consistent hy
the magical influence of Presidential power and
(lovernmeut patronage.”
V\ e eoinply with the wish of our correspondent
hy publishing what he requests, as follows:
On the Huh day of February, 1835, when the
bill lor regulating (lie ileposites of public money
was tinder consideration. Mr. Polk delivered a
long Speech in support of it, which is reported in
the eleventh volume of the Hegislcr of Debates
beginning at folio 1200. From that report wc
make the following
xxtiiii r t'UOM tut; set;uni or mu, eox.it, or
TUN N KSSKI:.
\\ iiilst I am up, it may be well to notiee sonic
other propositions of amendment, which the
House have been notified will bo made to this
bill, especially as I may not have another oppor
tvinity to address the House. *\ gentleman from
Virginia (Mr. Gordon) has signified his inten
tion to move the amendment to this bill which
he presented and had printed by order of die
House some days ago. That amendment pro
vides that the‘collectors of the public revenue,’
when the amounts collected are small, -shall be
the agents of the Treasurer, to keep mid disburse
the a tine;’ and'lhat they shall receive an annual
compensation. It provides, tnrlhei, that, at
I'la es where the amount collected shall be large,
-receivers’ shall be appointed, -to be agents of
I rcasurer to k-op and disburse the public
moneys, and that loey shall be paid an annual
compensation for their services. The Secretary
the Tream \, in Ins report, has not overlooked
the description of personal agency here proposul,
but has sub nilled to Congress his views in re
l-xiion to it. He stales that -ibis kind of per
«ii a' a ;eiicy is in Ids opinion, to be avoided
in all practicable and safe cases, tinder our pre-
M-nl system of selected banks; because it would
render the system less eon-venient. less secure,
an I m ire complex, if not more expensive.’ • * i
•I'nlcss the States, and the Tinted states, should
both deem il proper gradually, and in the end en
tirely, to dispense with the paper system, and
which result is mi anticipated, the Government
cannot escape occasional losses from that quarter,
and can never hope to escape all losses from
bulks as fiscal agents, except by theemploynient
in their place, ol other an-1 individual agents,
wha will probably be foutl I less respond le? sate,
convenient, or economical.' He concedes that
it would be practicable to employ such agents,
but not recommend it, for the reasons slated in
the paragraphs of the report which I have read,
an I because it would not, -in the present condi
tion of things, be so eligible a system as the pre
sent one.’
“A corporation may I e safer than any individ
ual agent, however responsible he may l»e, he
eause it cniie.tls of an association if iiuf vidit
als who hare thrown together their aggregate'!
wealth, anti who a-e hound in th-ir corpnr: te
character, t • the extent of their whole capita /
stuck, for the d-uotlc. In addition to this, the
Secretary of the Treasury may require as heavy
collateral security ,in addition to their capital
paid in, from ,-ueli u corporation, as could Ironi
*u indiv ulual collector or receiver, w hich makes
the Government depos'-tes hi the ha uls of
il bunt, than il cold h w th an indr'dual ‘
It may In* w.l. questioned whether the hear'-
ul j curtly wh eh Ihi must wealthy individual
fill,l g.rr. , ~/,/ mut, public drpoeitc safe ’
at the. paint of large collection. In the city of
New I urk bill the revenue is collected. Sever
al millions ol public money may be in the bands
•’I s receiver at one time; and ifju be corrupt or
“hall engage m spe ulatiun „r trade, ami meet
with a reverse ol fortune, the lose sustained b\
Go'ernmeur’■■■-ujld l<- ine> i*aWc " i*h--mpi«
I
,! Hccurny, a* n wasfiuppo.a-d, Mir Government lost
1 a million or more in the tea rases, a few years
1 ago. The losses in three eases alone, as already
slated, in lb!i7 and 1628, when it was supposed
ample rare had been taken to secure the debt,
amounted to near two millions. As, then, be
i Iwitu Ihf responsibility of a public receiver and
j hunk Cur jo,rut ions, os hanks do exist and arc
; likely to exist, under Htnte authority, the /ultrr,
1 upon the ground of safely to the Public, are to
be preferred.
' Hanks, when they are saf., recommend them
selves to the service of the Treasury for other
reasons.
‘ I. The increased facility they possess over
individual collector t or receivers, in making
transfers of public money to distant points for
disbursement, without charge to the Public. In
deed. this is a service which individuals, to the
extent of our large revenues, could not perform.
“2. It may happen, in the fluctuation of the
amount of revenue and expenditures, that there
will ho at some times a considerable surplus in the
Treasury ; which, though it may ho temporary, if
it be withdrawn from circulation, and placed in
the strong box of a receiver, the amount if circu
lation will be Injuriously dir tat bed by hoarding
the d pirate, by which the value of every article
of merchandise and properly would he affected.
Ho that, inasmuch as wc cannot anticipate or es
timate what the exact amount of revenue or ex
penditure may he from year to year, there may
occur an excess of revenue in the Treasury, not
immediately called for to he disbursed, which it
would hr vi rtf inconm nirnt to abstract from trade
and circulation. Whilst the deposits in in a
bank, the hank may use it, keeping itself at the
same time ready to pay when demanded, and it
is not withdrawn from the general circulation, ns
so much money hoarded and withdrawn from the
use of the community.
“ it in the hands of receivers, they must either
/ward it by keeping it locked up in a strong box
or use It at their own rick in private speculation
nr trad", or they must, for their own security, and
on their own responsibility, place it at hist on
deposite in hanks, fur safe keeping, until they
are called on by the Government for it.
“ This temporary use of the money on deposife
in a hank constitutes the only compensation which
the hank receives for the risk of keeping it, and
for the services it performs. If receivers he em
ployed, they can perform no other service than to
keep the money, and must he paid a compensa
tion from the Treasury.”
From the same volume of the Register of De
bates (folio 1333) we copy the Yeas and Nays on
the question of agreeing to the amendment pro
posed by Mr. Gordon for substituting the Sub-
Trcasuiy plan:
VF.AS AND NATS ON Mil. (lOltnox’s MOTION.
V has — Messrs. John CJ. Adams, Homan Allen,
John J. Allen, Chilton, Allan, Archer, Barber,
Hcalc, Beaty, Campbell, Claiborne, Win. Clark,
Clayton, Amos Davis, Davenport, Deberry, Fos
ter, Gamble, Gholson, Gordon, Griffin, Heath,
I,etcher, Lewis, Martiiidalc, McCotnus, Pickens,
Kobe, Unit, Spangler, Steele, William I*. Taylor,
Wilde, Williams, Wise—33.
N ivs—Messrs. John Adams, William Allen,
Ashley, Hanks, Harringor, Mayhes, Bean, Beau
mont, Bell, Binnoy, Hoekee, Hoon, Buuldin,
Briggs, Brown, Bunch, Burns, Bynum, Cage,
C'umhrolong, Carmichael, Carr, Casey, Chancy,
Chilton, Chinn, Samuel Clark, (.'lay, Coffee,
Cramer, Crane, Darlington, Day, Denny, Dicker
son, Dickinson, Dunlap, Evans, Edward Everett,
Ewing, Ferris, Fillmore, Forester, Fowler, Wm.
K. Fuller, Fulton, Galbraith, Garland Gillet, Gil
mer, Gorham, Graham, Grayson, Grennt'.U, Jos.
Hall, Hilanjl Thomas H. Hall, Halsey, 1
Ifjuier, Hunnegan, Hard, Hardin, James Harper, 1
Harrison, Hathaway, Hawkins, Henderson, Htes
ter, Howell, Hubbard, Huntington, fngo, Wil- 1
ham Jackson, Khcric/er Jackson, Janes, Jarvis, 1
Richard M. Johnson, Noadi dt Johnson, Benjamin
Jones, Ktivanugh, Kilgore, King, Kinnnrd, Lane, |
Lansing. Luporte, Luke Lea, Thomas Lee, Lin- 1
coin, Love, Loyull, Lucas, Lyon, Lytle, Abijah 1
Mann, Joel K. Mann, Marshall, Mardis, John Y.
Mason, Moses Mason, M >y, McCarty, Me.lnlire,
Mc.Kay, McKennan, McKim,McKinley, McLene,
MeVcne. Miller, Milligan, Miner, Henry Mitchell,
Robert Mitchell, Moore, Morgan, Muhlenhurg,
Murphy, Osgood, Fuge, Parks, Parker, Patton,
Patterson. DuleeJ. Pearce. Phillips, Pierce, Pier
son, Pinckney, Plummer, Polk, Pope, i’otts, Kam
say, Reed, KevnoJde, tSehenek, Schley, Wm. B.
Shepard, Augustine if. Shepperd, Shinn, Slade,
Smith, Speight, Stnndefer, William Taylor, Fran
cis Thomas, Thomson. Trumbull, Turrill, Twee
dy, V aiuT, Van Houlen, Wagoner, Ward, Ward
well, Watmough, Webster, Whullou, \\ bite,
W ilson—1(11.
From the Tall dws see Slur.
The Semiaoles.
We arc opposed to a treaty with this people
upon any other ground than that of their removal
as soon as possible, to their destined home west
of the Mississippi. If there is faith in contracts
—if the law he binding, and if a treaty he hut the
oilspring, the legitimate issue of law, then must
the treaty of Payne's landing hold good, and re
main binding upon both whites and Indians. In
all negotiations with the Seminolcs, this Treaty
should form the Istsis.
The arrangements entered into between Gen
eral Macomb and an Indian called by various
names—at one time Clrllo t'nstr Migge, at an
other Tuslentiggf, ami again Chillo A ninth h. —
allow to the In linns the privilege of ‘remaining
in the country until further arrangements can he
made.’ This is eontraiy to law ami nullities the
Plenty of Payne’s Landing; for it sutlers them to
remain in the country, instead of taking them out
of it; so that the general government have acted
in had faith towards the people of Florida, and
Major General .Macomb has waltzed all the way
to For'. King and hark \tepjnil it to the Metropo
lis to do that, which General Jesup would have
done two years ago, if he had not hum forbidden
hv the Government.
The arrangement is furthermore supremely
ridiculous. What were the circumstances!—
The ('otnm uider-iti-Chief of all the armies of the
I tilled Sta'es holds a talk with two or time tri- j
thug Indians, who are utterly unknown to Semi- !
note fuar —tells them how ‘sorry their great j
Father (the President) is that there had been so j
much lighting between his white and red children,
and that for their good, he recommends them to |
cease firing on each other, and make peace ’ — (
| When lo! the Indians jump mi l whoop, the J
1 s pimvsdance and theofficorsdnucow ith them, and
peace is proclaimed I 1,1 de rut, dalde ral, dry.
Now who believes for one moment, that these
1 restless, dissatisfied, hloodlhirs,y savages will
I abide so shadowy a trace as this! They are a
naked, half starved set; and no w onder that they 1
should dunce for very joy at the thought ofhav- i
ing time afforded them to plant their com, and I
lay up stores, ammunition and clothes, with
which to begin anew their fall campaign. They
will no more remain below Pease Crock, than
i they will voluntarily hid adieu to their native
wigwams, and walk olflo Arkansas. \in they.
And thus arc our worthy fellow citizens, who
reside in the oust, doomed still to suffer ail the
fears and horrors of savage incursions! In the
name of pity, is it not enough, that the people of
Fust Florida, have lost their most valuable pro
perty ; have seen their dearest kindred full n prey
tollic scalping knile ; have groaned under all the
oppressions of a warfare unequalled for its cruel
ties. in the min ds of barbarous history I Must
j they heat proclaimed in the f gmd language of i
peace, that the same diet Iful nun dermissli ges j
i are to remain as llnir m gldiom, until • further |
1 arrangements can he made! " oh! shame, where
jis lIIy blush I” If there he any pity in the
■ clouds, it should he rained down freely upon op
pc J ..I,| bleeding Florida. P• ■ a r \ r b
| and lovely land, but it must remain blighted for- i
ever, it'the Indian* are not removed.
General Macomb close# his communication to j
the Secretary of war, which wo publish to-day,
1 with the following paragraph:
| "There is every reason to believe, that when
r ' the Indians, remaining in Florida, shall learn the
prosperous condition of their brethren in Arkan
i ■ sas, they will at no distant period, ask to be per* 1
' milled to join them.”
Aye my I,ord, but “now ur never," should lie
■ I the watch word of one ‘horn to command’—one
r ■ whose pride ol life is to brandish the sword, and
llio eiiivalric daring of whose good Toledo blade,
the tragic muse, has been ‘wooed and won’ to
f sing.
r N'o doubt, whin they hear of the prosperous
• condition of their brethren in Arkansas, they will
■ be willing to go; but news of quite a different
character lias readied them since that time. The
■ Chief of the Tallahassees who was in at Tampa
> on the 22d of April, explicitly declared that some
i of his friends had travelled hack from the West,
f and brought news as to the situation of their
i brethren, who had emigrated, altogether unsatis
factory in its nature; and tlirref ire he had visited
■ Tampa in the night, and taken off a party of
friendly Indians, who were therein wailing for a
favorable opportunity to emigrate.
In brief, these chit-chat sort of Treaties, w ith
a handful! of vagabond savages, are the supreme
humbugs of the day; and should ire scorned, and
despised, by every Floridian, as we believe they
arc or will be.
Wo arc hiphly gratified to notice, in addition
to the large and respectable meeting held in our
city, upon the subject of the .treaty, that both at
Bt. Augustine, and Appaiaohicola, similar meet
ings have been held, and spirited resolutions of
disapproval passed. There should be meetings,
in every county.
From the N. Y. Courier h Enquirer.
The Slave Ships.
We statial yesterday morning in a brio para
graph, that nCTPtitannic Majesty’s ship of war
Buzzard, (’apt. Fitzgerald, had arrived in our
harbour from Barhadocs, accompanied by a prize
vessel, culled the Eagle, which had been captuveil
while cruising as a slaver.
On inquiry, we learn that the Eagle, wit’j an
other vessel, were both raptured by the P uzzard
on the coast of Africa, while engaged ir, the pi
ratical traffic. It does notappear that a’.iy slaves
have been taken on hoard the vessels, but they
wereffound famished with irons ami ail other
implements of the trade, and that subsequent to
their capture, the officers and crew admitted that
they were and had been engaged in tire slave
trade. The vessels, Tt appears, are both Ameri
can hnilt, and the officers were all Americans.—
When taken they had the Spanish flag flying.
Tin: vessels wore fitted out at Havana. One of
the captains, (tiieir names we have not learned}
is, it seems, a native of New York, and the other
of Philadelphia. Tire other prize vessel is ex
pected to arrive daily, she having tailed in com
pany with the Buzzard from Barhadocs in charges
of a British Prize Master.
The object‘of this visit to our harbor is, we
learn, to deliver over the offenders to our autho
rities for trial, and for this purpose nogocialions
are now pending between tire British officers and
the magistrates here.
2 o’clock, A. M.—The other vessel captured
liv tire Buzzard has arrived. She is called (ire i
f lera. and was commanded by ‘RrfaViVffifrokcr. I
Sire was tekan bn tire coast of Africa, three J
months after the capture of the Ragle, command- |
cil by Captain Lcting, The British officers found
that all the original officers and crews of tire two
vessels had died of the Coast fever except two
or three 'Spaniards and die two Captains above
named.
Captain Hooker, is very ill, and not likely to
live more than a day or two. Captain Looting
is in good health, and has been lodged in tiro
debtors’ prison on a writ issued by Judge Betts,
at the instance of Captain Fitzgerald and Mr.
Buchanan, H. B. M. Consul.
Captain Fitzgerald will proceed immediately
to Washington, to obtain there the necessary in
formation in regard tu the disposal of the prison
ers.
fn reading “-4 Visit In Texas," we were struck
with flic account of an adventure, from which
many a politician might draw a useful moral.—
The story is of a young traveller who loses his
way in i n’cf th l> »un< 1 ss prairies of that region
Ho attempts to extricate himself by stretching
'orwnrd in an unbroken straight course; end,
when he has pushed on his horse in this mat mar
for many hours, he is at last cheered by coming
on the fresh traces of another wayfarer like him
self, whose track lie hastens to pursue with the
hope of speedily finding guidume and food—of
the latter of which he had by this time begun to
have pressing need. The night overtakes trim
and he sleeps upon lire trail; but, rising early,
pursues it with renewed vigor, uutikat last, after
a long and severe ride, ills hopes are excited
afresh by the appearance of another recent trace,
which joins that which ire was following. He
keeps forward, though much exhausted, with
augmented speed, but is still unable to overtake
those after whom he is toiling so hard. Hr per
severes, however, like one whose last hope is be
fore him, and, once more, when the sce.oiuS Jay
is near its close, finds a third horseman's trail, that
has joined the route of Lire two former, lie is
astonished, but still goes on, till lie comes wynn
some object which ho thinks he had already seen;
and gradually discovers that tire first, as well as
all tire subsequent, tacos were his own uncon
scious wanderings in tire same continued circle!
—Cufymbia Tcleseupe.
Loss nr run Hnuxr.T.—A correspondent of
the National Intelligencer, Who says, that, at
different and distant periods, the fate of the Hor
net has been, with him, a malterofinvcstigation,
near the place of her destruction, furnishes a
long and interesting article upon the subject.—
We give a thrilling extract;
It was after the lapse of several years that, in
the city of Tampico. 1 was repeating to several
of my countrymen—sea-captains and others—the
statement of Hr. relative to the Hornet.
The relation being ended, one of the persons
present, Captain . well known as having
been many years in the trade between Tampico
and New Orleans, informed us that lie was in
command of one of the schooners whiph lay off j
lire bar of Tampico, and put to sea with the Hor
net that evening. Ho staled that the wind com
menced Mowing violently from the north ; hence
it had been considered merely a norllu rof imusu- I
al violence. Such, ho said, was not fact, but
that it partook more of the character of the West
India hurricane; for that, h, tween eight and
nine at night, the wind suddenly shifted from
north, or north north west, to southeast; and the
change was made with such violence that his
vessel, being in ballast only, was instantly thrown
on her hoam-end.-, when he was in imminent
daiigi r and momentary expi elation of miserably
perishing. With the closing of night he hud lass
sight of the Hornet and other vessels. On that
awful night, while clinging to the rigging of hot
capsized vessel, whii li it required the utmost ex
ertion of his strength to effect, the sea having
been lashed into fury by the opposing winds,
an,id the roar of the tempest and rush of waters,
suddenly arose above the storm tire shrill sound
of the boatswain's call.
He was instantly aw are of the proximity of the
Hornet, and suddenly she hurst in sight, scud
ding north or quartering before the gafe ; fora
moment it appealed to him she was lent on his
annihilation, to run him over and down ; lie es
sived to hail. li, o’lr s iff. it! Before his stiffed
w 'rJ< -vcre halt uttered, unheard and unccet’.
i he was passed within twenty feet by the. Hornet, I *
tin; last time, probably, that ever human eyes, (
| outer than those fated to perish with her, beheld |
i her. She came and went like a phantom ship. I
i He could have almost touched her. ao’close did ,
1 the approximation seem. I asked, did he or j
i eonld he note at such a time the appearance ot ;
j the vessel 1 remarking that any recollection ol j
■ his might tend to elucidate the loss of the vessel. ■
I He replied, her top-gallant masts hail been sent ,
j down, that her lower yards were on the gunwale, |
I or hanging by the gears, and that she was scud' j
1 ding without a stitch of canvass set. He sup-I
i posed, and 1 think truly, that she either plunged |
beneath the heavy sea, which had been got up
j by the north wind in the first part of the hurri
-1 cano, or was swamped hy thn toppling of the
cross sea before which the fatal attempt was
made to scud, but probably not until an attempt
had hern made to lie to, which the change of
wind, and the Hornet being a low single-decked
vessel, made impracticable. The Captain stated
that he was relieved the following day hy one of
the schooners which sailed in company, and had
i triumphantly rode out the storm.
I
Protester Post Notes. —Post Notes ot the
Mississippi Planters Bank to the amount of three
or four hundred thousand dollars, payable at the
Bank of America, are now running to maturity,
but there are no funds to meet them, and they are
of course protested. This is a new feature in pe
cuniary disorganization and bankruptcy, and one.
of the most alarming. These post notes were
given a year ago, for the purpose, generally, of
redeeming the issues of the Bank, which could
not then he met; but it was understood that these
notes would certainly he paid. They were issued
with the unction of a sort of doubled distilled oil
of honor. The Bank though it broke its other
promises abundantly, did, in this case, promise
to keep its promise. But doubled and twisted
promises, it turns out, arc “attenuated threads”
after all, and perish like a spider’s web, at the day
of reckoning. The Planter’s Bank is a great in
stitution, and one of the most respectable in the
Stale; though wo believe there are one or two
that have been less before the public, which have
not nor will not break faith in this flagrant style.
One of the most unpleasant features about this
new defalcation is, that, these post notes were
most of them taken by our merchants, as the pro
ceeds of their debts collected in Mississippi, and
were then sold in the street at a heavy discount;
and now the men who by that process had obtain
j ed a pittance of their dues, are notified ns endor
sers upon the dishonored notes of the bank, and
holden to take them up at the face, or sulfer a
[ degree of dishonor which the bank in a measure
avoids.—jV. V. Journal of Commerce.
The llou.\et.— The New York Despatch has
the following additional statement, in reference
to the supposed survivor of the Hornet.
We arc now indebted to our informant for fur
ther particulars, and present them to the public
as oli’unng an opportunity to judge something of
the probability of the statement made by us, that
such a person still survives. That gentleman
who gave us the material for the first paragraph
is well known in Boston, and in this city, and to
him we shall refer, whoever may make personal
application to us. Ho informs us that there wg? -
a slight error in our first para“r;nitr. The Hornet,
( when struck hy the hurricane, was driven near
I Cuba, and an effort had been made, but in vain,
I to gain the protection of a bay, or the lee of a
point. The vessel struck,and immediately sunk,
with near 300 souls on board, and the few who
escaped (if any beside the man now in Illinois did
escape) wore carried ashore by the surf among
the rocks.
■So far for the sailor’s story. His name is John
David Read ! he is hy birth a Scotchman, and
on board the Hornet belonged to the carpenter's
gang. If there was such a name on hoard the
Hornet, it is to he found in the office of the Se
cretary of the Navy ; to whom we shall cause i
to be forwarded a copy of this day’s paper. Mr.
Read has a farm near Bellvillo, St. Clair county,
! Illinois; but works occasionally at his trade over
! and about the Prairie.
The gentleman to whom we are indebted for
the information, tells us that while in Illinois, he
was for some months acquainted with Mr. Read,
and that he has full confidence in his statement.
He says furthermore, that Mr. R. is well known
in the section of country where he resides. The
reason given hy him for preserving silence upon
the subject, is as before stated, that his term of
I service had not expired, and ho had no wish to
i complete it.”
Great Fire at Antwerp.—An Antwerp
paper, April 17, has (ho following paragraph.—
Yesterday (April Hi.) about 3 o’clock,afire took
place at a baker’s house at Stockholm, Idmbutg,
and in less than an hour and a half, 190 houses
were a prey to the flames, and 113 families were
thrown into misery. The fire was not entin
guished when the accounts left.
A witty Bun her. —Burin"- the late elec
tion in Connecticut, a violent Tory, went into
the shop of a Whig butcher. “What is your
pleasure 1” demanded the knight of the cleaver.
“I want a calf’s head,” was the reply The butch
er having two. inquired of his Tory customer,
which he would prefer—a Tory one, or a Whig
one. “A Tory one to he sure,” rejoined the cus
tomer. Very well, sir. 111 send it home for you. i
When the cook proceeded to dross it, the brains I
were missing, and the master was speedily made j
acquainted with the circumstance, when he re
turned to the butcher, and indignantly inquired of
him what had become of them. “Are you not I
aware, sir.” replied cleaver, “ that Tory heads j
do not contain brains ! And did you not choose \
a Tory c dfs head in preference to a Whig onel” i
N inonr.—Everyone’s experience must have I
convinced him that there is no such arrant rascal
in existence as Nobody! The fellow is never
easy but when in mischief. Is a street door left
on the jar at midnight—a plate chest ransacked
—a jewel box stolen or mislaid—a window bro
ken—an orchard robbed—Or a slander spread
abroad, ten to one Nobody is tire guilty party.
Ofall the offences that are daily committed against
society one half at least are committed hy this in- ‘
corrigible scamp.— Blackwood’s Mag.
I'i.vi no. — The steamboat Swallow, Capt. Me.- ,
j Bean, made her trip up from New York last :
i night in nine hours and a half, landing leisurely j :
at the usual places and without seeming to ho j ,
| pressed. She came to Sing Sing (39 miles) in ,
• an hour and fifty-five minutes. She was at
| West Point just after twilight, and at Newburgh j
(62 miles) in less than four hours.— Albany ; 1
I Evening Journal. i 1
i : —: ( —* _ i
Sales ot timber tor six weeks ending with (he ,
! 29t i ult. in Maine, reached 14,990,964 feet. It |
is estimated that the operations of the season will
>• amount to 50,000,000. (
Ire Effects of Steam. —lt is said that a 1 |
person can now go from New York to Jerusalem !
in thirty-three days! From the former city to •
Bristol, England, in thirteen days, from there to j
Paris two. to Syria in thirteen, from there to t
Julia in four, and in one more to the sacred city, i
I Pitilad Ini/. ' i
.MAHINK INTELLIGENCE. ‘
Charleston, June 17. j
Arrived ye-tertian —Hr barque Shakspearo, Hen- o
' dorson. Liverpool; HI, brig Planter, Smith, New i
York; C I. brig Cordelia, Sherwood, do. t
In the offing —3 square rigged vessels.
Cieuet— Sihr \ iiginia Antoinette. Place, \V'--t
Indies: ?■ hr Panic! Webster, Austin. Boston.
Consignees per South,Cnroliim Rail Road.
Hamuurg, June 17, 1839. •
Rankin, Boggs ft Co ; T. H. Plant; J. P. Fct/c;
K. Lain back; Haviland, Rislcy & Co.; Latimer,
Whiting ft Co.; A. Gumming; S’. Knccland; J. At S.
Bones; S. Simmons; Jeffers i lioulwaic; J. Gonld
smith; J. F. Benson; (». Parrott.
NOTICE. —The Hail Hoad Passenger Train
between Charleston and Hamburg, will leave as
follows: —
UPWARD.
i Not to leave Charleston before 700 a.m.
“ “ Summerville, “ - -S 30
“ “ Georges’, - “ - 10 00
“ “ Branchville, “ - 11 00
“ “ Midway, - “ - 11 30 m.
“ “ Blackvillc, - “ . 100 p. m.
“ “ Aiken. - - “ - 300
Arrive at Hamburg not before - 400
DOWNWARD.
Not to leave Hamburg before 6 00 a. m.
“ “ Aiken, - “ - - 730
“ “ Blackvillc, “ - ■ 930
“ “ Midway, “ - - 10 30
“ “ Branchville, “ - - 11 00
“ “ Georges’, “ - - 12 00 M.
| “ “ Summerville," - - 2 OOp. m.
Arrive at Charleston not before 300
Distance —I3(imile». Pare Through—slo 00.
Speed not over 20 miles an hour. To remain 20
minutes each, for breakfast and dinner, and not
longer than o minutes for wood and water at any
station.
To stop for passengers, whm a white flag is
hoisted, at cither of the above stiffions; and also at
Sineatbs, Woodstock, Inabinct’s, 41 mile T. (),,
Rives’, Grahams, Willcston, Windsor, Johnsoils,
and Marsh’s T. O.
Passengers up will breakfast at Woodstock and
dine at Blackvillc ; down, will breakfast at Aiken
and dine at Summerville. may 21
tfff RESIDENT DENTIST.. — Dr. Monroe’s
operating rooms, second door from Broad trect, on
McTntosh-st., opposite the Constitutionalist ollice
march 13
(£jr 'THE AMERICAN SILK GROWER AND
FARMER'H MANUAL —A monthly publication
designed to extend and encourage the growth of Silk
throughout the United States. Edited by Ward
Cheney and Brothers, Burlington, N. J.,and pub
lished in Philadelphia, at the low price of One
Dollar a year.
£>" Subscriptions received at this office. ap
(O' BENEVOLENT SOCIETY, for the benefi
of the Side Poor of Augusta and its vicinity. —
The Visiting Committees for the ensuing month are
as follows:
Division No. I. —Mr. P. H Manta, Mr. D. Bland;,
.Mrs. Meredith, Mrs. Charles Jones
Division No. 2.—Dr. E Osborne, S. B. Groves,
Mrs. Trembly, Mrs. J. W. Stoy.
Division No 3.'—Mr. E. \V. Collier. Jas. Tan ton
Mrs. J. C. Snead,'Mrs. A. Whitlock.
Any member of the committees may obtain fund
by calling on the President, (W. W. Holt Esq.) at
his office,(Jumming’s Piaza.
• may 22 C. I’. STURGES.-oecretary.
EVANS’ FAMILY VEGETABLE APERIENT
AN'XT-BILIGUS PII IS.
Being composed of ingredients which exert a
specific action upon the heart, give an impulse or
strength to the arteral system ; the blood is quick
ened and equalized in its circulation through all
the vessels, whether of the spin, the parts situated
internally, or the extremities; and as all the
cretions of the body arc,drawn from the b'ood
there is a consequent i'lcTease of every secretion,
and a quickened act joy »f the absorbent and exha
-4*lol -ef-thSfiUTglhg vessels ; any morbid action
wliich may have taken place is removed, all ob
structions are overcome, Hie blood is purified, and
the body resumes a healthful state. The circula
tion, that important function, was not known to
the great Cclsus, Galen, or Hippocrates ; therefore,
their deficiency of knowledge led them to extract
the vital fluid as a curvative means; but upon the
principles of the circulation of the blood, the prac
tice of bleeding is proved to be fallacious.
It has been left to the .this society
to bring forward Dr, Win. Evans’ Medicines,found
ed upon the important knowledge imparted to the
world by the discovery of the circulation of the
blood.
Evan's Family Vegetable Aperient Anti-Bilious
Pills, are sold in boxes of Twenty-live cents each.
THESE MEDICINES
after much anxious toil and research, having been
brought by the Directors to their present state of
perfection, supersede the use of the innumerable
other medicines; are so well adapted to the frame,
that the use of them, by preserving the vital strength
in a pure and healthy stale, and consequently
maintaining the body in the due performances of
its functions, cause it to last many years longer
than it otherwise would ; and the mind to become
so composed and tranquil that old age when it ar
rives, will appear a blessing and not (as to many
who have neglected their constitutions, or bad
them injured by medicines administered by igno
rance) a source if misery and abhorrence.
“Even from the body’s purity, the mind
Receives a secret sympathetic aid.”
A pamphlet with general directions for taking
the Pills, always given in at the store of the agent.
DR. WILLIAM EVANS’ SOOTHING SYRUP,
ren CHILDREN TEETHING.
To Mothers and Nurses.—The passage of the
I ceth through the gums produces troublesome and
dangerous symptoms. It is Known by mothers
that there is great irritation in the mouth and gums
during this process. The gums swell, the secre
tion and saliva is increased, the child is seized with
frequent and sudden tits of crying, watchings,
starting in the sleep, and spasms of peculiar parts;
tue child shrieks with extreme violence, and
thrusts its lingers into its mouth. If these pre
cursory symptoms arc not speedily alleviated,
spasmodic convulsions universally supervene, and
some'cause the dissolution of the infant. Mothers
who have their little babes afflicted with these
distressing symptoms should apply DU Will
EVANS’ CELEBRATED SOOTHING SYRUP,
which has preserved hundreds of infants when
thought past recovery, from being suddenly at
tacked with the fatal malady, convulsions.
Sold by ANTONY & HAINES,
Sole agents in Augusta,
J. M.St T. M. TURNER,Savannah,
!’. M, COHEN St Co.. Charleston,
SHARP <fe ELLS, Millcdgeville,
C. A. ELLS, Macon,
A. W. >IARTIN, Forsvth,
BENJAMIN I>. POORE, Athens,
MARK A. LANE, W ashington.
June 7
ORE A T ARRIV A J, !
I'if leva Bushels, oi' 270,000 bojees of
PETEK S’ PILES.
The subscribers have made arrangements with
Dr. Peters, of New York, to be supplied by the
quantity with Ins Pills. All dealers can now
be supplied at factory prices. Os all the Pills we
have any knowledge of, these are the most valua
ble. In no instance have they failed to accomplish
every thing they promised, and thousands who for
years have been lingering with some chronic or ob
stinate disease, nsw add their testimony in behalf
of this va liable medicine.
One great quality of Ills Vegetable Pillsis, that !
they have the alternative principle combined with
their cathartic, or operative qualities, so that they
not only cleanse the stomach and bowels by purg
ing, but they regulate the liver,change the morbid
secretions, sticngthen the digettive organs, purify
the bleed, invigorate the circulation, and give tone
and energy to Hie nervous system.
'They have no rival in curing and preventing
Bilious Fevers, Fever and Ague, Dyspepsia, Liver
Complaints, Sick Head-ache, Jaundice, Asthma,
Dropsy. Rheumatism, Enlargement of the Spleen,
Piles, Cholic, Female Obstructions, Heart-burn,
Furred Tongue, Nausea, Distension of the Stomach
and Bowels, Incipient Diarrhoea, Flatulence. Hab
itual Uostivcness, Loss of Appetite, Blotched or |
Sallow Complexion, and in all cases, if 'Torpor of i
the Bowels, who 1>; a Cathartic or an Aperient is ;
need d. They are exceedingly mild in their oper
ation, producing neither nausea, griping nor debility.
Dr. Peters has sold more than live millious ofboxes
of these celebrated PR's, in the U. Mates*, e Cana
das, Texas, Mexico and Hie W'est Indies, since
Jan. I s3o. All persons who have used the Genuine
Peters Vegetable Pills, recommend them in terms
of Hie most unqualified praise, which is proof pos
itive of their extraordinary and beneficial effects'.*
these ustlv celebrated Pills a’e for sale hv
,J HOMAS BARRETT A Co., and
HA i IL A NIL RISLEV A Co., Agents,
junc -> m
SALK, a splendid pair of CARRIAGE
' HOUSES, perfectly matched i i color, size
and gait—sold for no fault. Apply soon to
June IS 3t STOVALL, KIMMUNs &, Co.
INUII SALK, a first rate Northern HARNESS
1 HOUSE. Apply to SAMUEL BONKS.
I J lme 1S ts
MAS« N I C NOTIC K •
ST. JOHN’S DAY.
The members of the Masonic Institution "of this
city will mectat their Hall on MONDAY next, the
24th instant, at 10 o’clock, A. M. A procession
will be formed at half past 10, and proceed to thu
Presbyterian Church, where an appropriate address
will be delivered by Hie Rev. Mr. Key. Visiting
and transient brethren generally arc invited to at
tend. By order of E. W. TOLMAN, >
Chairman Com. Arrangements,
junc IS 2tw
Mr. Uuckingham’g Lectures on Palestine
or the Holy /..anil,
Tft/MLL be continued THIS EVENING, (Tries
f day) and the succeeding evenings of the
Wn?K» m ’*he Presbyterian Church.
Tickets, 50 cents each, may ne had at Mr. Rich
ards’ Rook store, or at the door.
Ea-’h Lecture will commence at 8 o’clock to a
rninuV- ar »d con« 1 ide soon after nine.
juntlS ■ ■ 1,
TO TMB FACULTY AND HEADS OF
FAMILIES.
DU. MILES’ COMPOUND EXTRACT OP j
TOMATO —a substitute for Calomel, and
docs,not belong to the family of quack medicines;
for ’the reason that the component parts are made |
kn/Swn to the faculty, or any one else that may
Wrsh to know, hy any of the agents keeping them I
.for sale. Since this discovery so long and anx- I
’ ionsly looked for, some one in almost the extreme I
North lias advertised a Tomato Pill, purporting to I
be made from the stalk, a thing not more absurd m
than for one to offer meal from the corn stalk, to I
say nothing of the difficulty of raising the Tomato ”
so far North.
Dr. Miles, of Cincinnati, is the. proprietor of the jj
Tomato Pills (proper) for the great benefits of I
which, he holds himself bound, and in honor pledg- m
cd to prove by their use. that they are all that they I
profess to be, and will do for othcis what they I
have done for such as may have used them ; as |
this is a vegetable of great use, and value, it will Isl
doubtless be valuable information to families to ■
know that the Yellow arc just doubly as valuable a
as the Red Tomato, and produces twice as much 9
of the hapatine, or active principle', and when used a
as a daily vegetable will be fomld to keep the
system in much better condition than the other 9
kind ; many will recollect with what trembling 1
anxiety calomel has been given to children, and j
how they then wished for a substitute. It lias 9
long been known that the Tomato contained ca- 9
thartic principles, but not until of late was it 1
ascertained that they contained alterative and diu- |
retie properties. The Faculty embrace and use 9
the preparation most cheerfully, for the reason that H
they knosv what it is . Were it a patent mystery, I
they would be bound to reject the medicine, as they s
justly do the one thousand and one cure-alls of the j
day. If you wish to cleanse the system with a ‘
mild, safe anti-bilions medicine, use the Tomato
Pill, of which a supply, we learn, will soon be ,t
this city. We all know something about this,
june IS__ ts a
TO THE AFFLICTED.
ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS PREMIUM. M
IN ME Proprietor of the Virginia Sampson, or II
$l,OOO Premium Vegetable, for the cure off 9
Syphilis and Scrofula, will he in town fora few jj
days. Should there be any old and unmanageable iH|
cases, or recent ones, either of Syphilis or Sciofula, jH
the person may rest assured that they may be re-9
lived in a very short time.
Any servant under forty years of age, with
Scrofula, will be bought, if such is willing to 9
change owners.
A letter directed to the Proprietor of the Samp- -H
son, to the care of Messrs. Antony & Haines, or .yj
Haviland, Rislcy & Co., with the person’s address,
will be regarded as confidential, and attended to. j
june IS ts Wm
CROCK EH Y BUSINESS.
DO. HAVILAND, late of the firm of Haviland, I
• Iveese Sc Co, and I). G. Holland Sc Co.,||S
Druggists, begs to inform his friends that ho has ffl
embarked in the CROCKERY BUSINESS, with iPI
a brother, under the firm of I). G. ,5- 1). HA VILAXD , j |
at No. 75 William street, New York.
1). G. & D H. are importing a large stock 01
China and Earthenware , and will be able to oiler 1 ■>
a full assortment to merchants from the south who f>-j
arc solicited to call.
New York, June 12, 1839. 2w |
CHEAPER STILL.
TIN I IE subscribers beingnearcr to market thaivtk
JL most of their cheap neighbors, flatter them- *¥
selves they can sell tlieir goods still cheaper, (as i- 9
is the order of the day to sell off at cost). Tluw SI
wishing bargains for cash, would do well to call Saß
and sec for themselves.
-june 7 trwUt THOS. H. WYATT & CO. J
FRESH DRV GOODS, DUTCH HO-IN’ *
I\t; CLOTHS, *C.
TIN H. WYATT & Co., have just received*! #
, 206 Uroad-strect, a splendid assortment c; 9
FANCY DRY GOODS, consisting in part of F.m
broideries and Laces, Fancy ilandkfs. and Scarf,9
Printed Muslins and Lawns, Fancy Silks for Smn-pH
mcr wear. Artificial Flowers,&c. &e.
Ar.so, '
DU TCH BOLTING ( LOTUS of the Hot Anchor
brand. Umbrellas and Parasols, Paper Hanging,
Fire Screens, Travelling Baskets and a very mil (
assortment of Men’s Stocks, made to order and cal
narrow, all of which will be so'd at reduced prices. s
ap 11 wSt 'J
M UNITED STATES HOTEL.
Broad-st. opposite the B ink of Auguste- {
= The subscriber, (recently from the dole y
Hotel,) begs leave to inform his friends and the
public generally, that he has taken possession,and sc
is now the proprietor of <hat well known stand .. , K
called the UNITED STATES HOTEL, situat-J gj
on Broad-street, where lie hopes, with strict ntten- % tQ
( ion to business, to receive a liberal share of pa*
patronage. I) MIX HR.
N. li.—For particulars of the order of this hou« J
viz •• bed-rooms, table, servants, &c. &c., he Lave fell
wholly for his guests to decide. \
march 19 s»aw3m •
„ ...
N^rnTlCE —The subscribers intending to rl«n» Wi
IN their lusiness in this city by the IstDctohf® wl
next, offer for sale their extensive and well assort-Oli
ed stock of Dry Goods, together with store li.vture‘9 »ea
and furniture in one lot on liberal terms ; and coI:
such a purchaser is found their goods will be offer- "if $1
ed by wholesale or retail at very reduced pri«S|‘ 2 K
for Cash or approved paper only. net
All persons having claims against the concen pier
are requested to present them for settlement, anl cali,
, those indebted will be required to make pay mcr c tos
1 with the least possible delay. Apply to
JAMES ANDERSON,* CO. s
june 1 No. 260 Broad-Street M la . r
I,
!LE SUFFLEERS COLOGN E W ATER MA.
] T wore but labor lost to enumerate the wonde. n *cy
fill properties of this admirable article.
1 putation rapidly extending over all the kno*
world, has made all praise superlloiis, all 'Jfr j
ration impossible. To the ladies our recommf cpnta
dation will be useless. It gives the rosy Mw m ‘ hous<
health and youth to all who make it the consW-? liber,
companion of tlieir toilet. flee
„ , ai.so, AM.
Farina’s Cologne Water, genuine.
Prentiss’ do. do.
And several choice varieties of our own an l ,Ba
future, for sale bv 1
HAVILAND, RISLEV S-',v
-1 apri! 1? ts Druggists. A’lcui”