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SATURDAY MORNING, JUNK 22.
FOR GOVERNOR,
< II A II LK S l» O|I«; II KItT V ,
or ci.aiik corNTY.
f all thi? attention of our citizens to the
following coll of his Honor the Mayor, of a pub
lic meeting at the City Hall this day.
Wc are informed that in addition to objects
staled in the proclamation of the Mayor, reso
lutions will he offered, recommending the City
Council to lend the credit of the city to the
Georgia Hail Hoad Company, for the purpose of
aiding it to raise funds to complete the Road to
the terminus of the Western and Atlantic Kail
Road,
The following is an extract from the minutes
of the proceedings of the Common Council op
the city of Savannah, in relation to the connec
tion of that city with Augusta, by a Kail Road
from the latter, to connect with the Central Rail
Road below Waynesboro. Our fellow citizens
of Savannah may rest assured of a disposition
on the part of Augusta, to do every thing in
her power to connect two si.ter cities, hound to
each other by the strongest ties of .interest and
state pride.
“Resolved unanimously, That his honor the
Mayor he, and lie is hereby requested to corre
spond with the Mayor of Augusta, on the sub
ject of subscribing for stock in the Waynesboro’
Kail Road Company, in accordance with the res
olutions of the recent public meeting of the citi
zens of Savannah.”
‘ktsnhed unanimously, That application he
made Id the City Council of Augusta, to unite
with this body in a memorial to the next General
Assembly, setting forth the advantages of the
proposed connection between the two cities and
praying that the State will lend to the two cities
each, $ 100,000, in the bonds of the State, hear
ing interest not exceeding 0 per cent., and re
deemable in not less than fifteen years, to ho in
vested by them respectively, in the said work,
the payment of the interest and of the principal
of su h bonds to he as runted and guaranteed by
said cities.”
True extract from the minutes.
JOSEPH FEET,
Clerk of Council, pro tem.
Savannah, June 7, 1839.
The last Federal Union contains a speech of
near four closely printed columns, which was in
tended to have been delivered in the Convention,
oy Mr. Springer, "the fat man of Georgia," hut
which ho did not deliver, ft hears about us much
resemblance to those which ho did deliver, as ho
himself dues to Calvin Edsun, the living skeleton*
3'he fj' City of Darien must he in a blue
way if we may judge by the following extract
from an editorial in the last Herald ;
“Provision, of all kinds, is very high in this
city at present. During the past week there was
not a barrel of flour to he had, and in fact, a
whole barrel could not he found in the city.”
How many barrels docs it take to supply (ho
city ?
M o copy from the New York Evening Star of
June 16, the following communication, which
we commend to the attentive perusal of our rea
ders. The condition of money matters in the
United Stales, and especially in the South, calls
aloud for some remedy—a permanent and effi
cient remedy. Wo want a currency—a national
currency. Wo had once, such a currency, and
all our troubles and difficulties in money matters
may he (raced to the destruction of it. But it is
useless to write upon this subject. The people
gocm determined to go mad about politics and
President-making, even at the sacrifice of all the
best interests of themselves and their posterity.
Demagogues, canting demagogues, with whom
office and its emoluments arc paramount and sale
exciting considerations, lead the people by the
nose—and what is worse, the people suffer them
selves to be lead !
We have merely glanced through the commu
nication published below, and cannot say whether
or not wo approve the plan of a National Bank
proposed in it. Wc give it for what it is worth.
From the New York- Star.
To the People of the United States.
“The undersigned addresses himself directly to
you—untrammolcd ami uninfluenced by any
“parly" consideration*—and sincerely hopes you
will read what he lias to say in the same spirit.
We have reached a period full of interest to
all of u* who have any thing at stake, or who
may desire to hold securely the fruits of his in
dustry.
Next to good government, good morals and
good laws is a good currency ; with the latter, we
are all afloat; for no man unless he he exclusive
ly a broker or money changer, can devote time
enough to the operations of a disjointed currency
to make any calculation regarding it; —hence his
contracts of to-day are all upset to-morrow, and
the labor of years annihilated by the change of
ex changes, whilst that portion of too community,
“nan-productive" in their character, battening
upon the industry of the "productive classes.” 1
appeal now to the experience of any man in
trade, for the truth of what I assert; they of course
know, and feelingly know, its truth; and those
whose position in life may not bring them direct
la in contact with tlie wasting injury alluded to,
may be assured that indirectly they sutler, and
must in the end suffer sensibly. Take for in
stance, any branch of trade. The merchant who
sells his goods to dealers ol another State, makes
his calculations that the expense of collecting his
money may cost say two per cent.; when by the
time the payment matures, he finds the differ
ence more than five, ten or fifteen per cent.—
Tali is a very limited dfj trice compared with
the fact. N ext go to the mechanic ; say the hat
ter, the shoemaker, or any other uusoful and in
dispensihh* branch ; he sells his goods to distant
prints, and finds the same difference weighing
upon him; besides, perhaps, a total inability to
collect at all. Fora tune, to he sure, Ills journey
men don’t f el it ; but they must eventually ; lor
if a man in cl with In so i, e ey one dependent
on him for woik must eventually feel it. Strike
d ran any man w o mpl »\ s others, and all alike
feel the blow i vuUuaily.
A go >,l sound exchanging currency, and state
of exchanges, is as indispensihlc to all. as n gen
eral g" d can be; and depend on it, that any
man woo argues a contrary doctrii e is either a
knave, a selfish dealer on the fruits of honest in
dustry of others, or a bigoted fool.
Now, the question is how are we to reach this
dcArable state o a good, reliable and sound cur-
reney ii, such a stale of thing* thnt t
man full 1 11 tu , productions in tin* moat dislan
points of' the country, and get his money Iron
thence without being deprived ot any pint ul it
tiy “difference ofexchanges”—‘•extortion ol brok
era and money changers,” i r lows on i eprccialt-i
money ?
I know Imt mie way, and I defy any man t
show another or 1 letter way.
We inuat have a NATIONAL HANK. Sti
He the malt-r as we will—indulge our party no
tions as we will, to this course we must come, i
we h ive any regard for the good of the whoh
coun ry. “Parly opinion ” “partizun aniinnai
lies,’ “party committals.” may oppose, and tall
of party popularity, and old prejudices, and tin
like; hut the question is, e\vM honest industry
die by inches, till literally dra I, that parly policy
may triumph, and brokers and money-changcri
riot in the spoils? This is the simple question
for honest industry to decide ; it has the power
soto decide, if it but exercises that power.
Book at our condition ! Every day things are
getting from had to worse, and must from the na
ture of things proceed. We arc not only now
with a disorganized currency at hand, hut we are
completely at the mercy of foreign institutions.—
f£jr The Hunk of Fn/'lantl in now the ruling
Hunk of these Unit'd Staten. Every measure
of thnt bank is as sensibly felt here as if it wore
the ruling hank of this country.
Should this he so ? And I ask also if this is
not so? Five years ago we cared not, because
we felt not, the operations of the Bank of Eng
land; and now the first enquiry when a packet
arrives is, “What is the. Bank of England about—
is she holding in, or casing off! Formerly we
had a chaffing mill that defended ns from the
whims or policy of foreign monied institutions;
hut now wc ure exposed to the operations of every
change of Europe in its monetary mutations,
precisely as we would lie to the operations of
givcrnment, had we no organised government
and England had one,
I appeal then to Ihe good sense of the people
of these United Stales, east, west, north and
south, without distinction of parly —I say to
them in the language of truth and frankness, and
in the spirit of true patriotism, our position is
lamentable, and hut one course ran remedy the
evil. UV must hove n National Hunk —it alone
can retrieve us, and restore us to the sound con
dition which our resources and means entitle us
to claim. And with all due respect to opinions
and prejudices of others, 1 now give an outline
of one which I think will stand the test of scru
tiny and time.
Congress should charter a Bank with a capi
tal of Fifi/ Mi Hi mis of Dollars. Half of tliis
capital, or say twenty-live millions of dollars,
should he left o|>en to subscription, in such stale
stocks as skull have keen created in aid of in
ternnl improvements, within the States respec
tively, to an amount equated to congressional
representation ; and the other half of the capital,
or say twenty-live millions of dollars, to he sub
scribed in money, by citizens or others, us usual
in Bank subscriptions. The issues of the Bank
to he confined to sums not less than twenty dol
lars, and not to exceed in amount the capital sub
seriht d—(although practically it would not reach
half that amount. ) The Bunk to have the right
of establishing branches at any leading point of
trade in any of the Slates, unless prohibited by
legislative enactments, in which event the Bank
shall nut he compelled to take in subscription to
its slock any stock of said Stale, so refusing a
branch. And the issues of said Bank to he re
ceived in payment of all sums due Iho govern
ment of the United States; to receive and take
charge of all the public money jf the government
of the United States, mid tu transfer and pay the
same whenever required by the government, free
of charge or expense to the government.
Now let us see the practical effect ui such an
organization—and hear in mind I discuss this
matter free ot “party considerations,” which arc,
in my opinion, very secondary, and very, very fur
below the notice of honest men in such discus
sions of general good.
Ist. Every Statenow in the Union, with, per
haps. two or three exceptions, are engaged in the
laudable wo U of developing resources by means
of goorf funds and ennuis, to accomplish which,
said States have created “Bonds," or loaned their
credit to obtain means to accomplish this desira
ble end. These “Bonds” are now seeking a mar
ket abroad—and, like other commodities, are ex
posed to all the vicissitudes of competition; and in
the strife to gain fame with capitals—and being
not always in ju liciotts keeping and management
— are blown upon. So much so now, that iho’
furnishing the very best security, they are daily
depreciating, and, in fact, can scarcely he sold at
al!—some at a ruinous sacrifice.
But once create a Bank as proposed above, and
thus opening a means of applying twenty-five
millions of dollars of such securities, and you
would at once see a very different state of things
in the “/tom/ market" al home and abroad. Bond
holders would, if they choose, thus exchange their
Bonds for Bank stock; and think yon that said
Bank slock would l«t “blown upon” abroad as
State Bonds are “blown upon ?” And twenty
five millions of dollars of State bonds thus con
verted into Hank slock, would show a very differ
ent state of things in the “Bond market.”
I know no belter way of effecting litis desirable
change even if this was the only good to come of
it; and I now fearlessly assert and challenge con
tradiction. that unless wc organize a National
Bank, with the powers indicated, we shall not
only continue exposed to the wasting effects of a
bad currency at home, which will yearly become
worse and worse, but shall also be exposed to the
additional calamity of the natural national selfish
ness of the foreign organization alluded to, which
has the power to control all our monitory plans—
and being opposed to our drawing more capital
from Europe, by means of our State bonds in aid
of our internal improvements, will cramp us in
every form, till our best securities will he as cheap
as Columbia scrip abroad, and we must cither sell
them at awful sacrifices, or submit to the greater
calamity of stopping midway in our works of in
ternal improvement.
This is the question, then, for my fellow citi
zens to answer, and 1 submit it to them in all
frankness and confidence—and in the spirit of
true patriotism. 1 despise alike the erroneous or
selfish prejudices of “parlies,” past or “ parties ”
to come, —1 have nothing to do with either.
This is a question of deeper interest than party
considerations of "the People of the United Stales,”
— the honest and industrious of all classes, who,
looking to their own interest as I do to mine, will
not be swayed or guided by the opinions of the
“ special few" who. whether in office or out of it,
are governed by selfish considerations, and thri
ving on the ruin of the great producing mass.
PETER SC FIBER.
Public opinion, says the Alexandria Gazette
amongst the opposition party in Virginia, seems
to he fast settling down into a determination to
endeavor to re-elect Mr. Rives to the Senate o*
the United States, and to make Mr. Tyler Gov
ernor of the State. Mr. Rives, it is understood,
does not hesitate to avow himself as in decided
ipposition to the present administration.
The New York Express of the 14th says :
Surprise is manifested in some quarters that the
United States Bank of Pennsylvania, has not ef
fected au equalization of the Domestic Exchan
ges. Surprise might as well be manifested that
11(. Bank yl Virginia has not effected the same
I thing, or the Manhattan Banking Company ot
New York, for what Bank unaided by the Revo
h | nue »ill lake upon itself llie cost and rfponsibil
** 1 My oi regulating the Exchanges us twenty-six
( confederated ."'lalc-H, particularly when there arc
K- no Branches, hut an actual opposition to the cs
lablishincnl of Branches ! The Dank of the
I United Htates, aw is the case of all the other State
Banks, has no power now for that unity of action
i- go essential for an equalization of the Domestic
!' Exchanges,—and, owing nothing to the Federal
| t . Government, it unquestionably cxercisesils Funds
ii- more profitably in other operations than that of
I* the Exchanges.
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y From Hie N. V. Commercial Advertiser, of the nth.
r '„ Later from France,
n By the arrival of the packet ship Rhone, Cap"
r tain Wotton, we have received a Paris paper o
the 16th May, one day later than the dates hrough
e by the Great Western, it does not, however*
t- contain an item of news worth copying,
v We have been favored by a mercantile house
e with the following—
- Extract from a letter, dated
g Haviik, May 15, 1839.
c We have now in Havre about 100,000 hales
e of United Suites cotton, an amount greater than
was ever held in this market before, and some
s forty ships with cotton announced us on their
c way hither.
:■ ‘ln the face of such an enormous supply on the
t one hand, and the deplorable slate ot the manu
facturers in England, Belgium, and this country
e on the other, it cannot be a matter of surprise to
e any one that our prices should be feeble, and the
; disposition to si 11 by no means restricted.
y Cotton is certainly one to two centimes chca
i. per than it was last week, and the more general
d' expectation seems to be that the gradual sinking
1 in the value of your great staple in this market
is likely to receive no check, under the pressure
e of our immense stock, until some notorious ini-
J provement shall lake place in our manufacturing
0 districts, or unt I the article shall fall low enough
1 to open some favorable chances for speculation.
s For the present, therefore, we see nothing
c which cun justify us in anticipating rates much
e higher than the present ones during the remain
■ dor of the season ; not are we, as yet at least, ap
s prehensivc of their going much lower.
B
5
. We are indebted to President Dew, of Wil
liam and Mary College, Vu., for a catalogue of
the officers and students of that ancient and ve
s
nerated Institution, for the session of 1838. It
s exhibits the College to he in a prosperous and
’ flourishing condition. A table of the expenses of
I a regular student is appended, and also u state
ment ol the course of studies. The expenses are
• less than those of our more Southern Colleges.
' Appended also to the catalogue is an abstract from
the law of the State of Virginia, concerning the
extending of credit to students of Colleges in
that Slate, which we think so wholesome and
proper that we publish it below:—
“All merchants and dealers of every descrip
tion, all tailors, shoemakers, and other tradesmen,
taxern-kcepers, and keepers of carriages and
horses to hire, are forbidden to deal, byscllingor
hiring, with any student at any college in the
State, or with any person (except the parent or
guardian) for the use of such student, for any
commodity of service whatever, except for cash
paid at the lime of sale or hiring, or service ren
dered; or unless the person so offering to deal
with the student, shall have in his possession the
written authority to do so from the President
or other officer of the college, duly authorised by
its laws to give such written permission.
And all persons are forbidden, unless in pur
suance of such authority as has just been men
tioned, to lend to any person (except his parent
or guardian) for his use, any sum of money ; and
to give him or any other person, (except as before
excepted) for his use, any letter of credit; and
in any manner to authorize the student to con
tract any debt.
The penalties for a violation of any one of
these provisions arc, that the person shall have
no means of recovering the debt from the student
or h s parent or guardian at any time; that the
offender shall forfeit to the College of which the
•Indent is a member, the whole debt or value of
the thing sold, or hired or service rendered—and,
moreover, $2O for each offence; that the offence
shall be considered a misdemeanor, punishable
ns at common law, and a breach of good beha
viour cognizable by a single justice of the peace,
who may bind the party to his good behaviour
and to appear at the succeeding Superior Court
for the county or corporation, having cognizance
of the offence; or before such court then in ses
sion, to answer for the offence; and finally that
if the offender be a person dealing under a li
cense granted under the laws of the State, his
license shall be forfeited from the time of (he
commission of the Offence ; and he shall be dis
qualified for one year thereafter from carrying
on the same occupation under any other license.’,
SwiNtiLiNn ExTHxonniKAßT.—We were
yesterday shown a very beautiful engraved Fifty
dollar note of which the following is a copy,—
“Mobile, Ala. June 10, 1838.
“The President, Directors and Company of
the CITY BANK OF MOBILE, promise to
pay John Gayle or bearer, on demand, FIFTY
DOLLARS. Wx. .1. IxuKiisoL.Oash'r. Wm.
R. Hallkt Pres’t.
The above note came from Mississippi; and
the gentleman who sent it to this city, we learn,
gave a hundred dollar note on the Tombigby
Hail Road Bank, and a twenty dollar Union
Bank of Miss, note, for a hundred dollar of (he
above, as he thought Mobile money. We are in
formed that the swindler from whom the above
note was received, has a very large amount of the
same kind of paper on hand, and is buying up
with it, all kinds of uncurrent money. He. must
be doing every thriving business. The people
of Mississippi might to know that there is no
such Bank in this city os the CITY BANK, and
that the Bank of which Mr. llallet was President
and Mr. Ingersoilis Cashier, is smply the BANK
OF MOBILE. The way tlie tharpers are using
up the good pople of Mississippi in the way of
j paper money is a caution to the country. We
think their eyes must soon be opened, and we
hope such swindlers as the above will be dealt
[ 1 with according to their deserts. We think such
a case as this, would clearly come under the juris
diction of His Honor Judge J.yneh, — Mobile
Adv. ___ J
A Ssto Ai.lowaxce,—The Hereditary Grand
5 Duke of Russia is said to l>e allowed by the Em
peror $204,600 a month during his tour. The
( Duke is now in England, where he was received
| with all the honours usually paid to royalty.
j A real tragedy occurred a few days ago at the
; theatre in Louisville, in the case of a performer
named Lowe, the particulars of which are thus
related:
On the evening in question ho represented a
~ principal character in the drama of “The French
Spy.” During the first act he was required to
discharge a pistol at another character, and retreat
• in haste. —The poor fellow fired his pistol, and
; drew a bayonet at the moment he commenced a
retreat, looking back at the person upon whom he
1 fired. With his countenance turned to the rear,
he ran against one of the scenes, the bayonet was
- forced into his body, he staggered from the stage
ami expired within twenty minutes. The seme
is described as one oi the must ptiitilul which
could possibly be witnessed. 'J'be unforluiiatc
man, witlt the dross, disguise nnd ludicrously
painted face of low comedy, in the aemnics of
death, the frightful group gathered arSml him
and the play slill proceeding upon the stage,
formed one of the most singular spectacles which
pen ever attempted to describe.
For the Chronicle If Sentinel.
To the Botanic fraternity of the Southern
Slate*.
The misfortune of entertaining views, upon
a question involving consequences of paramount
importance to the gustentation of your principles,
materially differing from those which have been
presented to you through the independent and
impartial pages of the Southern botanic Journal
—and having been flatteringly excluded from ad
dressing you through a medium perhaps more
directly communicating with you, than through
the columns of a commercial, literary and political
journal—l hope you will pardon me for adopting
the latter channel.
I should, perhaps, here premise, what but few
of you perhaps know, that a Convention com
posed of Thomsonians, culled from the States of
South Carolina, Alabama, Tennessee, Mississippi’
North Carolina and the Florida Territory, inclu
ding Georgia, met at Milledgoville in May last,
and the “whole assembly” of botanies amounted
to about a dozen.' This immense assembly—this
truly august representation of six Slates and one
Territory,— self-appointed, and self-constituted
delegates—organized themselves, and appointed a
committee of five, only, to report upon the objects
of the Convention, and lo! and behold! it re
quired the aid of the Chairman and Secretary, to
compose that committee. They made their re
port, and appointed themselves Trustees of the
College they reported in favor of. 1 might here
turn a vein of deserved ridicule upon these pro
ceedings—but I proceed to the further action of
this grand Convention.
This great body of botanies appointed persons
of their own number, to receive subscriptions and
donations, from the public, in the different states,
for the purpose of erecting the Southern Botanic
College! And it is staled that the Convention
obligated itself to pay near five thousand dollars
in the event of the failure of the College, but it
is not stated to whom this amount is to be paid—
what purpose it is to be applied to in the event of
the failure of the College humbug/ or why such
an unnecessary flourish is made at all.
Previous and subsequent to this climacteric
Convention, appeals were and have been made,
time after time, for help to build the College.—
Even the Ladies arc entreated to bestow perhaps
their very pin money, to foster this fondling bant
ling College! Every means that could be con
ceived, calculated to bring a cent into the coffers
of the College fund, have been industriously en
couraged.
In my observations to the editor of the South
ern Botanic Journal, these were some of my rea
sons for dissenting with him upon the project of
a College, which he declined the publication of,
but ho lias since stated that my objections were ill
tirned, —he should have said, rather, that they
■were incontrovertible.
Is/. 1 object to the construction of the contem
plated College, because it will cost an immense
sum of money to establish such an institution—
provide the necessary buildings, museum, appa
ratus, library, &e.
I feel satisfied that a contemptible building, and
as indifferently furnished, would be of more last
ing injury and degradation to the Botanic cause
than any event that could reasonably be expected
to befal its principles.
2nd. I question the right or authority which
the Convention assumed to appoint themselves
trustees of an institution which they had no au
thority from the people to create—and which was
not chartered, or likely to be chartered by this
State, or the several Southern States.
I know full well that the, Thomsonians did not
appoint delegates to the Convention, but that it
was an assumption altogether—in other words, it
was a measure to promote the interests of those
concerned.
3rd. I object to the right of any individual to
collect money for the purpose of building such
an institution as the Botanic College, without
proper responsibility for the forthcoming of such
sums of money in the event of a failure of the
project, or even in the success of it.
As (lie collectors of subscriptions arc to re
ceive a salary, and have all their expenses paid'
out of the money they collect, what hope can bn
entertained that any money will be returned to
contributors, in the event of the College not go'
ing into operation ? And as many may be in_
duced to subscribe, they will bo BOUND to pay
up their installments, even, perhaps, to sustain a
most worthless and contemptible institution, and
one which they will be ashamed of.
4th. I object lo the establishment of a Botanic
College, because it is well known there is nut a
Thomsonian in the Southern States cnpiiile of
performing the Julies of n single Professorship.
Tins is a lamentable truth, and one that I will
not attempt to disguise, however much I may
regret the existence of it. And most supreme
ly ridiculous would be the attempt to establish
a College, when some few popinjay Lcctureis
upon “ heat being life , and cold being death,"
were to fill the high places.
slh. I object, further, because there are no’
seven Thomsonians in the United Slates with
sufficient capacity to act as Professors, who co
incide with Samuel Thomson in all his notions
about vitality, diseases and their cures, and wdio
would come to the south to Lecture upon the
sublime principles of steam doctoring .'
Men of intelligence and candor every where
know, that to Thomson belongs the credit of in
troducing into notice, the many virtues of the
Lobelia plant, but they likewise know that the
balance of the system is not original with its re
puted Ibunder. It might bo termed, perhaps, a
system of medical practice founded upon the
sthenic principles of Dr. Brown, which were
quite popular about the time Thomson be.
gan bis practice in New Hampshire. And the
reason why there are so few talented men in the
'
Boisuie ranks, may be nuiritv altribulrit l* toe
fact, dial they arc ashamed of the ignorant coni_
pany they would have to keep.
Glli. 1 object to a College being creeled for
the purpose of expounding Thomson’s Guide to
Health—lt is written in plain language, and
needs no Professor to elucidate a single sen.
tcnce of it.
How absurd, to think of establishing a Col.
K-gc to expound the contents of a little volume
not half as extensive as Robinson Crusoe !
7th. I oppose the College, if it is for the pur
pose of imparting instruction in anatomy, phy
siology, «Sce. and in the principles of the rc
g ilar practice of medicine—because, if these
branches are necessary to the qualification of a
Thomsonian practitioner, they can ho belter ac
quiied, in those old school colleges, than from
ignorant and prejudiced commentators upon the
doctrines of the old school practice.
Not to lake ittlo consideration the absurdity
of an attempt to impart knowledge that an in
dividual is not in possession of, it is highly cri
minal to attempt to impose upon the credulity
ol others.
Bth. I further oppose the College, upon the
■ ground, that very few parents and guardians
would allow their children to receive instruc-
in its walls, even though it were given
gratuitously.
The popular objection against Botanic practi
tioners is, that they are not educated—hut the
education they arc most in need of, is to be ob
tained in the common schools, not in medica*
schools—they should he educated in reading,
writing, spelling, ami arilhmolie--ind 1 am in
clined to the opinion that IManual Labor schools
would suit many of them exceedingly well.
Although opposed to a Botanic College, yet I
should be very glad to ace an extensive Infir.
mary established, by a company of individuals,
and the Thomsonian practice fully tested in the
treatment of all cases that might offer—wherc
cvcr the practice succeeded, praise it; if other
wise, condemn if. Medical practice of every
school is very uncertain, and wherever a parti,
cle of genuine inductive medical philosophy can
be found, it, should be justly prized. But away
with the Botanic College humbug—it is an in
volition to shave honest industry out ofits hard
earnings, to pamper the indolence of a few, who
are 100 lazy to t cork for the “ daily bread" lha*’
they so ofien pray for.
The foregoing reasons have induced me to op
pose a Botanic College. And 1 do not doubt,
hut they will be considered sufficiently strong
to induce every reflective individual to coincide
with me.
In giving my opinions so frankly, I may in
cur the displeasure of some of my old Botanic
friends—but I cannot help it. Friendship that
is so easdy lost is not worth having. I never
sought to obtain their good wishes or favors,
and 1 will not endeavor to retain them, when I
have to compromise my own views of right and
prudence to conciliate them. Unsought they
came, and I can lose them without a single
sigh. My opinions in relation to medical prac
tice, if they are worth any thing, are the same
now that, they have been for years.
As I have no interest in the prosperity or de.
slruclion of the College, and no pride of opin
ion in relation to the consequences which may
follow, other than an ardent desire to see the
Botanic cause flourish, only from the intrinsic
merit I thick it measurably possesses, I hope
I may he regarded as being candid in the cx.
pression of rny views.
In perilous times that are passed I stood for.
ward in the defence of your principles—and at a
time too, when the heavy artillery of public
opinion was scattering your ranks, and dealing
destruction to you in every quarter—and if my
feeble voice can now be heard, and the danger
ous position into which you are about being led
averted, I shall felicitate myself at least, with
the happy reflection, that, my labor in thus ad.
dressing you has not been in vain.
Your old friend, A BOTANIC.
IT E liters in the South, particularly in this
Slate, and in Alabama, will confer a favor, and
perhaps save the money of many of their sub
scribers, by copying the above.
The Boblink.
A most interesting and sweetly told account of
the bird which bears the above soubriquet, recent
ly appeared in the Knickerbocker, from the gift
ed pen of Washington Irving, Wc copied it.—
We now extract the following very amusing
paragraph about the same feathered songster, from
the National (N. H.) Eagle.— Nashville Ban
ner.
“Our old friend, Robert Lincoln, the celebrat
cd musician, better known by the abbreviation of
Bob Lincoln or Bob link, is on Iris annual visit,
1 and just now making the reeds, bushes and trees
vocal with his rare and comical melody. We
saw one of those “feathered voluptuaries” on the
! topmost hough of an apple tree the other morn
ing, shaking his variegated aides with laughter at
| the idea of a rat on the ground below, making
1 very improper advances up the trunk, as much
as to say—“ Your hand, stranger. I’ve seen you
. afore, but cant call your name.”—“Boblink !
, Boblink! I see-ynu-wink-toueh-your-foot-up
here and-I-m-olf-sqnizzy-zing-yer-lie-yer-lic-go to
' grass-puss-ski.” Puss bit her lips, and seeing a
dog approaching, who seemed to desire her fur
-1 ther acquaintance, gave three or four graceful
r twirls with her hind legs, and was off in a tan
gent. The songster then varied hisnote—“Bob
link— Boblink ! link, link-hi-hi-butter-mc-if
i next-wcek-aint-eleetion-day-Boblink-cleetion-dav
, he-he-oh-dear-Im-ott-sweet.”—As the little musi
, cal fellow floated merrily away, we could not hut
recollecMhat in old times it used to lie said that
f Boblinks near Boston always announced the an
nual election day in June as regularly as the day
i came round. The Massachusetts “election day ”
being now in January, the boblinks, it seems, are
' at this time flocking in great numbers from that
- state into this, and every where announcing in
) their comical way that “election dav” is at
5 hand.” J
Axctkxt co ix—A reverend gentleman of
this city, some weeks since, exhibited to ns a sil
ver coin about the size of u bit piece, which was
extracted from the bottom of an excavation in
, middle Tennessee, some years ag'. On one side
is a raised head, with the inscription. “Aurelius
Cesar, (!on. III.” The characters on the other
1 side are too dim to lie decyphered. This is, surc
• ly, a Roman coin. But how came this relic of
. antiquity in the new world ? There are a thou
sand facts which tend to prove the utter impro
priety of terming America the “new world.”
1 There exist here incontrovertible evidences that,
i ere the present race of Indians were known, a
. nv
povrrrfnl nali.mf people, highly civilized ,„ a
warlike, ol whom history speaks not, lived alI( a
died upon these shores. Who they were or
ivhencg they came, perhaps will never he known
t) any degree of certainly.— Miss. Sun.
English Slavery at Home, or the Factorv
Girl’s Last Day.
The following is an extract from the evidence
given before a Commiltee of the British House of
Commons, on the subject of limiting the periods
of young persons working In the factories.
“There was a girt of a poor man’s that I Was
called to visit; it was poorly; it had attended a
mill, and I was obliged to relieve the father in the
course of my office (that of assistant overseer of
the poor,) in consenuence of the had health of the
child; by and by, it went hack to its work again •
and one day he came to me with tears in his eye*!
I said, “What is the matter, Thomas I’’ He said
‘My little girl is dead !’ I said, ‘W’hen did she
did’ He said, ‘ln the night; and what break*
my heart is this, she went to the mill in the morn
ing, she was not able to do her work, and a little
boy said he would assist her if she would give
him a half-penny on Saturday; I said I would give
him a pennyhut at night when the child went
home, perhaps about a quarter of a mile, it
down several times on the road through exhaus
tion. till at length it reached its father’s door with
difficulty, and it never spoke audibly afterwards;
it died in the night. I judged she might be ten
years old.”
In connection with the above, we extract the
following pathetic stanzas from “The True Sun,”
(London paper) of the 6th of April.
’Twas on a winter morning,
The weather wet and wild,
Throe hours before the dawing
The father roused his child,
Her daily morsel bringing,
The darksome room he paced,
And cried, “The bell is ringing,
My helpless darling haste 1”
“ Father, I’m up, but weary,
I scarce can reach the door,
And long’s the way and dreary,
O carry me once more!
To help us we’ve no mother,
V ou’vc no employment nigh,
They killed my little brother,
Like him I’ll work—and die.”
Her wasted form seemed nothing,
The load was at his heart;
The sufferer he was soothing
Till at the mill they part.
The overlooker met her,
As to her frame she crept,
And with his thong he beat her,
And cursed her as she wept.
Alas! what hours of sorrow
Made up her latest day ;
Those hours that brought no morrow
Too slowly passed away.
It seem’d as she grew weaker,
The threads the oftener broke,
The rapid wheels ran quicker,
And heavier fell the stroke,
The sun had long descended,
Hut night brought no repose;
Her day began and ended,
As crui 1 tyrant’s chose.
At length a little neighbor
Her half-penny she paid,
To take her last hour’s labor *
While by her frame she laid.
At last the engine ceasing,
’I he captive homeward rush’d,
Site thought her strength increasing—
’Twas hope her spirits flushed ;
She left, but oft she tarried,
She fell and rose no more,
Till by her comrades carried,
She reach'd her’father's door.
All night with tortur’d feelings,
He watched his speechless child,
And close beside her kneeling,
She knew him not nor smil’d.
Again the Factory’s ringing,
Her last perceptions tried ;
When from her straw-bed springing,
“ ’Tis time !” she shrieked and died’
That nightacharriot passed her
While on the ground she lay !
The daughters of her master
An evening visit pay—
Their tender heatts were sighing
As negro wrongs were told;
While the white slave was dying,
Who gain’d their father’s gold !
Extraoudixah r Cows.—Great efforts are
made in some sections of the country in improv
ing the breed of horned cattle and horses, but too
little attention is paid to prime milch cows. Why
a farmer or any other person should he willing to
keep an unproductive animal when a far more
productive one would cost no more for its support,
is a wretched species of political economy. The
value of a piece of ground is in proportion to its
products and the actual worth of a cow, is pre
dicated upon the quantity and goodness of the
milk she yields. Therefore it is the worst folly! 1
to feed a poor animal at the same expense re
quired to support a good cow. The original out
lay may be more, but in the end the increased
yield will greatly augment the owner’s profits.—
Mr. Coleman s second Report mentions some su
perior cows in Berkshire, some of which probably
cun he equalled in Hampshire. Mr. S. D. Colt,
of Pittsfield, has a cow whose milk yielded 193
pounds of butter in 148 days. Mr. Merrill has
one which gives 30 beer quarts daily. Mr Fenn,
of Stockbridge, has a cow 8 years old. which has
produced in one week 12 pounds 9 ounces of
butter, besides milk and cream used in the family.
Wm. Dewey, of Alford, has a cow which has pro
duced for sometime, 14 pounds of butter a week*
Mr. Stephen Willard, of Stockbridge has a cow
which produced in 321 successive days, 331 lbs
of butter. Mr. Ashton, of Ashfield, owns a cow
whose product for less than eight months last year,
was 303 pounds of butter. None of these had
extra feeding.— Northampton, Mass. Courier.
The New York Commercial Advertiser, in
referring to Waiidle’s edition of M’Cclloch's
Dictionary of Commerce, (now publishing in
numbers) says: “The value ol this dictionary
is too well known to require observation; it is the
intelligent merchant’s vade mecum, and the man
ufacturer’s common-place hook. The additions
by Professor Vetiiakf. comprise all such correc
tions, 6cc. as are rendered necessary by the vari
ations in commercial law and usage between this
country and Great Britain, and also the recent
discoveries and improvements in art or science.”
Coffee.—The use, or rather abuse, of coffee,
is said to produce feverish heat, anxiety, palpita
tions, trembling, weakness of sight and predispo
sition to apoplexy. The quality and effects of
coffee, however, differ according to the manner in
which it is roasted. If under done, its virtues
will not he imparled, and its infusion will load
and oppress the stomach; if it be overdone, its
properties will be destroyed, it will heat the body,
and act as an astringent. Musgrave and Perci*
val recommended its use in asthma; indeed, most
persons laboring under that distressing malady
seem to derive benefit from its use. The princi
ple of coffee is the caffein, discovered by Robiquct
in 1821. and it is to this active principle that its
beneficial or baneful effects can lie attributed. Re
cent experiments tend to show that it is possess-