Newspaper Page Text
jjijj M-_, — 1 -■ ' U-E-i!! 1 ,
CUtIONICLK AND SKN’I I NHL.
AUUI S T A .
TUESDAY M IRNINti, JUNE 25.
FOR GOVERNOR,
(; ll AitL ic s do i u n i; it Tv .
op runK cousrr.
Some days ago, nr published an article from
the New York livening Star, over tlie signature of
Peter tSeriber, on tlie subject ola National Hank,
to which we called the attention of our reader*.
In this day'll paper will lie found a second ntiinher
from the name |ien, to wliieli we feel ournclve*
doubly constrained to repeal the call. These ar
ticles are written in so plain and temperate a style,
so free from any exhibition of party feelings, that
they arc entitled to the calm consideration of men
of all parties.
In the number in to-day’s paper a good sugges
tion is made—for the people in every city, town,
county, and village in the Union, to send a me
morial to Congress, praying the estaiilishme.nl of
a National Hank ! Such a movement would
carry with it great force. There is s’arrcly the
shadow of a doubt that a majority of tlie people
of the United States, ate in favor of such an in
stitution, and memorials hearing the signatures of
a majority of the qualified voters of the Union
could not fail to have a salutary effect upon ( 'im
press and the President. We hope lit. move
ment will be made, and firmly believe that suc
cess will sooner or later follow it.
In connection with this subject, we invite the
attention of our readers also to an article from
the New York Express, in this days paper, on
the subject of the currency. Uni it lie read and
pondered upon by the planter, the merchant, and
the mechanic. It unfolds in burning words the pre
sent, disastrous condition of our currency and llio
injuries thereby sustained by the people. When
the Hanks resumed specie payments, the oppo- |
nentsofa National Hank, predicted that all the
disorders of the currency would he remedied, and
that for the future matters would go on ns smonth-
Iy as they ever did, during the existence of the
U. 8. Hank. Hut what is the result 1 what is
our present condition I Worse if possible limit
it ever was before, and threatening to grow still
worse every day I
Wo seriously invite the attention of the people
to these things, for they are questions in which ,
they have o deep and solemn interest. The ling- >
hear stories about the dangers of a National Hank, '
gotten up during the reign ofJackson, are sensi
bly losing their cli'cct. The idea too that such ,
,m institution would he hostile to the peculiar in- jfi
crests of the South, i; losing its hold upon the
minds of thinking men, who begin to see that
die South above all other sections stands in need >
if a National Hank lo protect her great staple— s
hat most important and sensitive of all interests. jj
v
Mii.u;mir.v ii.i.k, dune 81,
I> •vr Sir:—Ucanvn; from several friends, t 1
hat misrepresentations relative to myself as the 1
ate President of your Hoard, are in circulation, ,
dlow me to appeal to yourself and to the gen- i
demon of the direction with whom 1 have been *
recently associated, for their refutation.
Very respectfully,
K. K. HINES.
id. J. t\iciiui.s. President,
i
Hank of Mieeehoeviee, y I
‘June 81, 1839. 5
Dear Sir:—Your note of this morning ha g (
been laid hcfoie the Board of Directors of this
Hank, in reply to tlie same, for myself and them,
without enquiring particularly into the character
of the reports alluded 10, wo have not the slight
est hesitation, in common justice, of saying, any
charge affecting your integrity as connected with
your lute official station in this Inf litulion, is to
tally without foundation.
Respectfully, your oh’t servant,
R. J. NICHOLS, Prcs’t.
K K. Htxr.s, Esq. Present.
From the JV. 0. Louisianian.
From Texas.
By the arrival ot the steam packet Columbia,
we are furnished with files of Houston papers to
the 15lh June, Inclusive. The “j Morning Slur,"
ol that dale has the following unpleasant intelli
gence. The Cuba was a very valuable and splen
did boat.
Steamboat Pisasii.ii. —The steam-packet
Cuba, from New-Urleans lo Galveston, in en
deavoring to come into the hay at the latter place,
on Thursday, missed the channel and got aground.
The cargo was almost entirely thrown overboard,
in order to lighten the vessel, and gel her off, hut
without success There were about one hundred
passengers on hoard, who cs, aped with the loss
of every thing they possessed. It was supposed
that the vessel would go to pieces in the Invok
ers. This is on I v another evidence of the folly
of endeavoring to run in without a pilot, particu
larly when the commander is not acquainted with
the channel. Captain Carson, wo arc informed,
had relinquished tlie command of the Culm, and
this was tlie first trip of the new captain. Wo
learn that a large proportion of the cargo was not
insured.
The Sun Augustine “Red Lund r" states, that
an express hid arrived from Major H C. Wade's
with the intelligence that the Cherokee Indians
had embodied near the Sabine, in Nacogdoches
count'", and were determined to make war upon
any troops who should, in accordance with the
orders of the secretary of War, attempt to build a
fort at that place. Major VN ado calls for imme
diate aid from the citizen* to carry this order into
effect, in which attempt, says the Red I.under, a
tight with these Indians ia inevitable. It is un
derstood that the war department lias taken the
proper step* to reptl all interference with the ex
ecution of its orders, in that section of the country.
The “Slur" ridicules as preposterous the idea
ofan invasion of Mexico by Texas, at tlie prcecnt
juncture.
Further particulars relative to the 10.-s of she
Cuba, from tire Galvestonian of the lltth. We
understand the Cuba was insured in tins city for
about two-thirds of her value.
Til>: steam sai r rnu
Is a total wreck, on the middle ground of the
East Pass into (ialveston hay. She appealed in
the offing yesterday about tv o o'clo k. and soon
after was d scovcred to he aground. IShe made
the signal of a union down, an 1 fi r d -vveial guns,
when the steamers Columbia. Emblem and Unfits
Putnam went out lo her assistance. The fury of
he waves", however, rendered it too perilous for
j bonis of light draught to run along side of her;
| and her position was inaccessible to iho Columbia,
i which, however, came to anchor, ami sent her
boat for the Cuba’* passengers. The Putnam
and Emblem returned into port last evening, un
able to r nder any assistance to the sufferers. —
The Uoliitnhia came in tins morning with the
I ( 'ii'ia’s passengers, mast o whom were without
their baggage, owing to the a 1 most imposadi lily
of taking it into the small boats in so heavy a sea.
About one hundred passengers were probably on
hoard, hut the pass mger hat is lost.
The boat it is said, will be a total wreck; hut
the cargo, which is reported to he of great value,
miv possibly he saved for the most part, though
considerably damaged. Nearly every suitable ■
i boat has been pul in rctjuisilion, and a large num- 1
her of our citizens have gone out to the rescue, i
The Columbia, which was to have sailed to day. j
has put off her trip until Sunday, to improve ihe
interval in assisting the Culm. Every thing will
he done (hat car, he to save property; hut nl pre
sent tln* breakers run too Inga to admit of much
aid. IKfiits will he made to lake out the fnrni
lure and engine as soon as practicable. The
wind is high from a little to Ihe east of south.
The pilot of Galveston was not on board.
This a eident took place under capt. Pliillij s,
formerly first Mate of the Columbia, under eapt.
Wright, who was making his first trip with the
Cuba, as commander. Whether.the misfortune
might have been prevented by superior expe
rience, vve cannot judge, from the different opin
ions of passengers, and shall reserve comments to
he made upon fuller information.—The gloom of
many passengers is sympathis 'd by most of our
I citizens, and gives our city an air of dejection.
No lives have been lost.
P. B.—When the Columbia came over the
f’ar, evening of Kith iiisl., the promenade deck of
the Cuba was even with the surface of the water,
and her hull nearly filled with sand.
From Ihe New Orleiinfi Courier.
According to the Houston Telegraph of the fith
instant :
“A severe battle was fought on theUfith ult.be
tween a company of militia, consisting of about |
thirty-five men, under the coin iiand of Captain
Hird, and a large body of Indians, The engage
ment took place on Little river, about thirteen
miles above Fort Bmith. On the afternoon of
I that day several Indians were discovered by Ihe
scouts, and were immediately pursued by the 1
whole company. The Indians lit length disnp- 1
peared in a thicket, and the company, on op- '
preaching it, foundit was literally tilled with In- 1
dians, who opened upon them a destructive fire. 1
Nothing daunted, however, they fearlessly char
ged upon the enemy, and in a lew minutes com- (
pletely routed them, and gained possession of the 1
ground which they had occupied. The Indians, *
soon after, rallied again, and mode repeated at- |
tacks upon them—hut in vain. They were re- 1
peatcdly repulsed with great loss. This heroic r
hand sustained (heir ground for more than two 1
hours against (our times their number of the ene
my.—Towards sunset, the Indian chief, appa-
rently enraged to he thus held at hay by a force 11
so greatly inferior to his own, collected all his Jf
warriors, and made one desperate charge; hut '
when he hail arrived within about thirty steps, at ri
the load ol his men, and Ihe remainder of the "
enemy seeing him fail, raised a hedious yell and 111
fled, leaving him and forty of their companions 111
dead upon the field.” 111
Predatory hands of Mexicans and Indians have
committed many murders in the neighborhood of rc
San Antonio. The excitement was great in that vv
section. Four or live companies of Texinn I”
troops were concentrating on the Colorado, in ”!
the neighborhood of Unstrop and Austin, thereto
wait for marching orders. °
They experienced a severe gale at Houston on !"
the 3d. A large frame building recently erected 1
on Main street was blown down. Three work- ”
men were sleeping its it at the time, who were bu- I 5
ried in the ruins. Two were slightly injured— l!
the other was dangerously hurt, hut is fust rceov- ''
ering. J]
The President of the United States has writ
ten a letter in reply to one addressed to him by h
the Democratic (ienoral Committee of New York, tt
in which ho states that he will probably reach j!
that city by the first of July. ,]
The President intimates his intention tod.-- (
dine the compliment of a public dinner in New '
York or elsewhere, which it is understood will he ■
, J 1
ollerudto him, hut will be happy to interchange |
personal civilities with his friends without for- I
mality.
The Harrisburg Reporter states that th« Prosi
dent is expected to visit that city on Ins route. I
I
It is now rendered certain, says the Harrisburg!) 1
(Penn.) Reporter, that the Senate is determined *
to prevent the election of U. S. Senator in the
place of General Mi Khan. The Legislature will
adjourn on the Ssth instant.
From the New York Star.
To Iho People of the Culled States.
t
NO, 11. ]
When a good thing is required to ho done, the i
best way is to set about at once. I therefore i
propose, that in every town or county of every i
Stale in the Union, such citizens as may he in- '
teresled in securing to themselves (and to their t
children who are to follow them), a good sound t
currency —such a currency os shall he as good at i
one end of the country as at the other—at once to (
assemble and prepare a Memorial to Congress, i
selling forth the fact that the country is now, in <
regard to a currency, in a very deplorable eon- 1
dition, with every prospect of becoming more j i
and more so, t 11 its best interest* are submerged 1 I
in the general ruin. That Congress (unless it i 1
j can in its wisdom devise a hotter plan) should at J i
( onec charter a National Hank, with an ample \
I capital, and power to establish branches at all the
1 leading points of trade in the Union; one half t
! the capital of said hank to he opened to suhsrip- ! !
! (ion in such »S ale Bunds' ns shall have been j I
1 created in aid if inti mat improvements w itltin i i
1 the Slates respectively, (equaling some by eon- ( i
! griMsional representation); and the other half of i
i the capital to he subscribed to by citizens of each
stale in monev—(the amount of subscription in
each state being equaled as above.)
The issues of said hank not to he in hills less \
than 30 or 50 dollars, and the whole amount in |
no ease to exceed the amount of its capital.
\s the stockholders of the kink are its Icdiiti- j
| mate owners such of them alone as are citizens |
of the United Slates, arc' to he allowed the ex- (
clu-ive right of electing its director* and maim- j
gets; and Iwodhiidf of the number oT such
stockholders concurring, can at any time ask of
Congress, such amendments and charges in its
(h.uter ns (’ 'tigress may ho disposed to grant.
1 As a National Dank cannot effectually equalize
i th e currency of the country unless it has the col
-1 lection and paying of the public monies, it should
| b> charged with that duty, and perform the same
,if charge and expenses to the Government— j
agreeing to make all pay ments in specie, wherev
er ami whenever so demandqjl.
As the Treasury Department, by the law which j
Creates it, is directly responsible to Congress,
| (differing thus far, and wisely so, from nil the I
other departments of the government) let it he j
the duly of Bilid department by special law of Con- j
cress, to keep a gene ml supervision over said
| bank, and out iblish sueh rules and regid Hi n < in
r.eeordanco with slid laws, as shall keep (."outre •
1 informed at a’l 'hoes regarding the operations of
| Raid bank; that in the event o occurrences ten
ded ig the public money insecure in the keeping
lof >aid bank, that the name, by law of Congress,
may licremcv il from (he custody of said bank—
thus keeping the control ol the public money in
■ t lie hands of the peoples representatives —the.
only branch of the government that should be
entrusted with its control.
The practical operation of such a bank, llius
. | constituted, would he—
i | Ist. To give immediate relief to all the works
of internal improvement which the tStutes, by
1 their bonds, have attempted to aid, converting at
1 once twenty-five or thirty millions of dollars ot
j bitale bonds—now daily depreciating in value at
j home and abroad, into bank stock, that would
' command in the same markets the highest rate*
i that any securities bear; and unless some plan
I of Ibis kind is adopted, our railroads and canals
must stop midway, or obtain capital to finish
! them at most ruinous sacrifices.
-ill. The existence of a National Bank with
a capital ample for the occasion, (say fifty or
j sixty millions of dollars) subscribed to as above,
can alone shield ns from the mutations of Euro
pean money markets, or national policy oi foreign
institutions, and save us from the necessity of
conforming to every whim or caprice that the
monetary plans of foreign nations may impose;
for without a National Bank of our own, we are
as dependent flnancially on the action of those of
Europe (especially the Bank of England) as wo
would he politically dependant on the govern
ment of Europe,had we no national government
of our own.
3d, The issues of a National Bank being limit
ed to bills not less than 20 or 50 dollars, in no
way Interferes with the issues of State Banks,
but by a salutary control keeps all grades of cir
culation in a sound condition, and is the only
practical means of ridding the community of a
spurious currency which niw infests it, and
which spurious, and depreciated and disgraceful
currency can liml no favor, save among the. spe
cial few, who arc interested in palming it off up
on the community.
4th. The creation of a National Bank, whose
issues would he redeemable in specie at all points
of the country when demanded, would at once
equalize our internal exchanges, so that our far
mers and planters—our merchants and traders—
our mechanics and arlizans, can trade at all or
any point of the Union, and interchange their
commodities upon a sure basis, knowing that a j
dollar here is a dollar there , and thus relieve the
brokers and money-changers (those eatterpillars
of the body politic) from their ] r sent occupa
tion.
Those arc the considerations that should at !
once occupy Ihe attention of honest, industrious |
and patriotic citizens. Every where, and as lie. I
fore said, they should at once set about it, and be
prepared by memorials, I won’t say pel'll ions, for |
it is our duty to direct, not petition, to their rep
resentatives in Congress to tell them what is re
quired to secure the prosperity of the country.
I know no other mode of effecting this object.
It is infinitely more important to the great indus
trious mass than “who is to be President.” A
good President is a gi o I thing and a had Pre:i
drat is a bad tiling; but the best President is not
equal to a sound ami good currency, nor is the
worst President as had as a disorganized currency,
ind such we have now, and if we dout look to it,
nid look to it at once, we shaii have worse. (I j
ilcan currency not President.')
Tito last parenthesis induces me to make one
einark more in regard to Presidents, and with
viiieli 1 elosc my present communication ; Our |
iresent executive chief I sincerely believe, to be j
me who knows enough of the laws which govern
liin in Ihe dalles ofhis office, as to lie, incapable j
if doing otherwise than the laws prescribe—he
mist do his duty—knowing what his duty is, and
ins no escape on the score of honest ignorance
ir headstrong inflexibility; be is a lawyer— i
knows the laws, and he knows that \vt know he 1
is thus instructed. Like most men in office, he
will naturally do, for his own purposes, what he
thinks best would permit him to do—even if he
trenched upon what lie believed to be legal.
It is our duty then, as masters, for “we the
people,” arc masters or principals, and our office
holders are hut our agents) to let them know that
wc know what I liny ought to know, and that is
to do what vve think is best for the great mass,
for to this end is the Constitution and Laws un
der it made and enacted, and short of this, the
Constitution and Laws are a enrse instead of a
blessing. PETER SCRTBER.
N. B.—l shan’t trouble you again on this sub
ject or any other subject. The late and present
hard times have taken from me pretty much ail I
had laid aside for my old days; and my cornfield
and potato patch now need my own labor for mv
own support. If wliat I tell you above don’t
prove sound wisdom, lam mistaken; but, if on
the contrary you deem it folly, then all I hope is
that, like myself, you will, at least, lie able to savo
from llie ruin, as I have, a cornfield and a potato ,
patch, and a good constitution to work them.
P. S.
From the New York Express.
The Di-orders of the Currency.
The wail over a disordered currency now conies
wilfully from the South, ami the South West,
and West. The sacrificed property in Missis
sippi, the ruined estates, the bankrupt and broken
hearted Planters—the picture of society more
agonizing than even that of the worst times of
the Suspension of the Specie Payments here,
attest the Ruin run Expkiiimkxtkhs have
wrought in abandoning the Guide-Post of Wash
ington, Hamilton, Morris, and tile Father of the
Constitution. Alabama 100, with no money at
nil, —with a dearth, —a famine in the circula
tion,—rich in resources, but without tbo power
to touch them, cries aloud in her misfortunes,
over a disordered currency. Tennessee, Illinois,
Indiana, Michigan attest in their rates of Ex
change the enormous taxes the consumers pay
there, for want of that currency in which a dol
lar on the Passamaquoddy shall boa dollar on
the Mississippi also. At this moment the tax
which the People of the South West and North
West pay upon every article imported, from the
tea or coffee on the morning breakfast Table to
Sunday hahihnents in which they resort to
Church, is ten-fold overall the cost of their Slate,
or County, or Town Taxes. Not a man. unless
it lie the savage or he whose proximity to the
savage is such that ho has liis habits of life,
now lives in the Great Valley of the Mississippi,
orin Michigan, or Wisconsin, who is not heavily,
—enormously taxed, because there is no curren
i cy. —because the Federal Government refuses to
j discharge its duly of providing one, —because a
i dollar in New York City is worth a dollar and
twenty cents in Natchez, a dollar and live cents j
]in Cincinnati, a dollar and six or seven cents in |
Nashville.
The ruinous rates of the Exchanges upon I
1 some part of the Confederacy, the utter non
| availability of tome of the Pouth Western, so
I called Currency,—the loss of the credit even of (
the Banks, the sacrifices over their Post Notes to
I turn them into cash, attest the losses the People
; sutler, which it is the purpose of our Money
Article to explain almost eviry day. It is now
1 as much the Business of the Atlantic. Merchant
to count the cost of the Domestic Exchanges,
and to add that cost to the Bill of sale to the
Merchant of the Interior, as to add the freight*
Ike primage, or any other outlay. Ten percent,
it is stated to us. is about the average addition
I now to all goods sold for the Interior of the
Union, so as to make up for the ruinous Rates
of tiie Exchanges, which ton per cent, it is clearly
i S( . r „, must la-paid by the Tennessee, the Missis
sippi. the Michigan, the Kentucky, or Alabama
Consumer of these Goods. Thmson every dol
lar’s worth of Tea or Coffee drunk,—on Wool-
len r , or manufactured Cottons worn, or Ha d
Warn, or any thing of the like, the ten per cent
tax is paid for want of a Currency !
The state of the Domestic Exchanges on the
principal Towns of the Union is wc kly report-,
el in our Saturday’s Review of the Market,
which, inasmuch as it is there, more exclusively
attracts the attention of the Merchant, we now
bring to the attention of the general reader.
Exclunure. Bank Notes,
New England, A
N. York Country, J
Philadelphia, Adis. Pennsylvania, par a 2
Baltimore, J do. Maryland, Aa $
Richmond, 1 a Ijdo. Virginia, I j
2A a 3 do. IV. Carolina, 3 a
Savannah, 2j a 3 do. Georgia, 4a 5
Augusta, 3 a 4 do.
Charleston, 2A do. S. Carolina, 2a2j
Apalachicola, 15a20 do Florida, 15 a2O
Mobile, 10 al2 do. Alabama, 10a 12
N. Orleans, 2a2Ado. Louisiana, 2A a 2
Louisville, 3a3£do. Kentucky, safi
Nashville, 7aB do. Tennessee, 7aB
Natchez, 10 to 30 do. Mississippi, 15 al7
St. Louis, 3 a do. Missouri, 5a 6
Cincinnati, 2A a 3do. Ohio, 5a6
Detroit, 4a 5 do. Michigan, no sale
I Indiana, Safi
Illinois, 4 a 5
Such is the disordered picture of the currency
|of one Government, —one People! Here, we
! are one nation, and a dollar in New Y ork, is
i worth 115 cents in Apalachicola, a part of that
| nation, and 110 cents in Mobile, the chief com
j merrial City of the great growing State of Ala
i baran, —and in Nashville now near the home of
| that great Experimenter who set in motion this
ball of Disorder, a New York Safety Fund Dol
] lar is equivalent to one dollar and six, or eight
j cents of his own State money. Thus London,
I Paris, Hamburg, Amsterdam, or Rottendam, is
[ in closer commercial union with New York,
i than these towns of onr own Republic, and
j though wo have not one currency, and all the
I operations of the inter-changes of a business
| life arc making us a discordant People. What
is often worse than even the ruinous stale of the
exchanges is the impossibility at times of the
transfer of money at any price,—so that he who
has thousands and thousands in Alabama, say,
may actually fail in New York, because his
money there avails him in nothing at such times
1 here. There is thus no confidence, and hut little
j credit, with reproaches, and distrust growing up,
j so that the peace and good fellowship of the Union
I itself actually sutler from the disorders of the
currency.
The Sub-Treasury is the remedy of the miser
j able Tinkers in Washington for these disorders !
j Our “Favorite Son” proposes the exaction in the
Custom House, in hard money —to he deposited
| in Custom House Vaults, —with “hydrostatic
j balances” ami “patent levers.” He conies to
New York to intrigue in his own State for the
fulfilment of his schemes, which would beggar
our City ! O, thou preposterous Genius of Hum
bug, thou art sublime in thy audacity 1
Peyton Gay, late American Consul at Mar
tinique, was removed for gross, and, if true, dis
graceful conduct, enticing a crew away because
the vessel was not consigned to him, &c.
Marsaud, the pirate, suffered death by the guil.
lotine, at Brest, on the 11th of May.
Miss Axtkrica Vf.suxci is at present at St.
Louis, where she has been received with great
favor. At a public meeting of the citizens, held
a few days ago, resolutions were adopted as fol
lows;
Resolved, That in co-operation with the gen
j crous movement at New Orleans in favor of
! Mademoiselle America Vespucci, a pecuniary
subscription he set on foot in this city and coun
ty of St. Louis, and ns far as practicable, that it
be extended throughout the whole Stale of Mis
souri.
Resolved, That a committee of 24 citizens he
appointed to collect the sums of money that shall
he subscribed for the above purpose; and that said
committee shall lodge the amount so collected, in
the Bank of the State of Missouri, to the credit of
Mademoiselle America Vespucci.
A Failure. — The Philadelphia Loan Co.
| The Philadelphia Inquirer say.- :—We learn that
the Directors of this institution met yesterday and
made an assignment of the Institution, for the
benefit of the Depositors and other creditors, to
Michael Pray, Esq., Register of Wills of this city,
who has accepted the trust. The Depositors, as
I we understand, arc preferred in the assignment.
I The immediate cause of the failure is attributed
( to recent and heavy losses. Wo arc authorised
to state that F. Coinlev, Esq. the President, ac
cepted the office in the hope of being able to re
vive and restore the confidence of the Institution,
and that, although a stockholder to a considerable
amount, he never obtained the loan of a dollar
from the concern. All the difficulties were in
curred before he accepted the Presidency.
I Fhom Halifax. —The packet brig Oeadian,
j Capt. Jones, arrived at Boston from Halifax on
| Tuesday, brings dates from that port to the 11th
inst., from which we learn that the seizures of U.
i States fishing vessels, found carrying on their
j trade on British grounds, continued actively cn
, foteed.
The schooner Shetland, Capt. Chase? of and
j from Boston for Labrador, hut having on hoard
i tea, gin, oil, cloths, &c. was seized by Mr. Fortes
j ter, one of her Majesty’s officers, for a breach of
I the revenue laws, and taken into Halifax on the
j sth inst. Capt. Jones also states that three
American fishing schooners were brought into
< Halifax on the 12th inst., prizes to the British
j Government schooner Victory. He passed, like
t wise, four others, hound up the harbor, whom ho
j supposed wore also prizes to the Victory, and one
j of which hailed from Dresden, Me. Those
! which arrived first were the Eliza, (of Bristol,)
I Morton; Addle, (of Boothbay,) Brown, and
‘ Bartol, Miller. A schooner arrived at Halifax on
1 the 9;h, from Magdalen Islands, reported that
{ two fishing vessels had been seized there, and ta
i ken into Gnyshoro; they nay have been among
1 those mentioned above. The American sehoon
j ers Java, Independence, Hart, and Magnolia, hc
j fore reported ns having been seized by the Vic
-1 tory. and taken into Yarmouth, for alleged en
| croaehment on the fishing ground, were hauled
i up at the warehouse wharf at Yarmouth, and
I ! stripped of rigging, pending the decision of the
j ( Joint at Halifax.
Interesting Extuact.—“And this is the
1 lead Sea, and below these daik waters are the
i > ates, perhaps the ruins of Sodom and Gomonnh,
i )uch ns when the smoke of the country went np,
I as the smoke of a furnace. There is a tale, that
\ nothing living, not even a bird, can ever cross this
j sea, But there is no need of imaginary stories,
| to heighten the desolation of the scene, and we, as
: well ns other travellers, can testify to its inaccura
| cy,by our own observations. We believe, how-
I ever, that its waters arc unfavorable to animal
I life; and. though a shell or two may be occasion
! ally picked up upon the shore, yet these have
j been probably brought down by the Jordan. The
| water is excessively biiter and nauseous; and if
| additional evidence were wanting, we also could
I testify to its great gravity, and to the buoyancy
j ofthe human body, when immersed in it. It is
j only by much exertion, and fora very short time,
i that any one can get and remain below the sur-
I face.
We went from here so the Jordan, and struck 1
the river, where tradition says, the children of Is I
rael passed over, when they first entered the Land
of Promise. On the west side is a low bottom,
and on the east a high sandy bluff, and the shores
I of the river are covered with aquatic bushes. The
water was thick and tuibid,and the current rapid,
and too deep to be sounded, 'for Jordan overflow
ed all his banks, all the time of harvest. And
here did cross the Jewish nation, over this turbu
lent stream,‘on dry ground, until all the people
were passed clean over Jordan.’ —And we follow
ed their route to Jericho, the frontier city of the
Canaanites, where 'the people shouted with a
great shout, that the wah fell down flat, so that
the people went up into the city, every man
straight before him, and they took the city.’
There is no city now to take, nor are there any
walls now to fall.—There are a few miseral lo
hovels, made of rude stones and mud, and the ru
ined walls ofa building of the middle ages,where
the wretched Arabs burrow, rather than live.
Jericho has disappeared as completely as her rival
c ties, which sunk lx so e ti e wroth oft! e A Hi gh
ly. And it requires an effort to bo satisfied, that
here the great miracle, which attended the en
trance of the Jews into Canaan was performed
though the truth of the denunciation is before the
eyes of the traveller; ‘Cursed be the man before
the I/ord, that raiseth up and buildeth this city
Jericho.’
Thus speaks L. Cass. American Minister at
Paris, who, in August, 1838. stood upon the
shore of the Dead Sea, traversed the track-way of
the Israelites through the wildernes, and noted
the place of their passages across the Red Sea.
There is a sweet and simple custom prevalent
in Iceland, which marks the habitual devotion of
its inhabitants. Whenever they leave home,
though for a short journey, they uncover their
heads, and for the space of five minutes, silently
implore the protection and favor of the Almighty.
Dr. Henderson, from whom this fact is derived,
and who observed it in the Icelanders who often
attended him on his exclusions, also remarked it
in the humblest fishermen when going forth to
procure food for their families. After having put
out upon the sea, they row the boat into quiet
water at a short distance from the shore, and bow
ing their uncovered heads, solicit the blessing of
their Father in Heaven. Even at passing a
stream, which in the country of precipices is often
an operation fraught with danger, they observe
the same sacred custom. This affecting habit of
devotion has been imputed to the fact, that from
their isolated situation, and modes of life, tiic
mother is almost the only teacher, and her instruc
tions seem to have become incorporated with their
very elements of being.
Population- i.k the U. States.—The Bos
ton Times facetiously says:
Editors are making estimates of the population
of the U. States at the next census. One puts it
at eighteen millions, another sixteen, and so on,
a cording to their various notions of addition and
multiplication. We set it at seventeen millions
four hundred and nineteen thousand and five
hundred and sixty-three and one-third. If any
one can get nearer than thrt, it is because they
don’t know any tiling more about it than we do.
The Ijavh or Steady Habits,— Connecticut
must forego her claim to this title. A Hartford
paper says that the Legislature of that state, have
granted more divorces in the last three years than
any other six states in the Union. In South
Carolina, not one has been granted since the
Revolutionary war. This though falls short of
the example of R' me, where for the first four hun
dred years after the building of the city there is
no instance on record of a divorce having been
authorised.
In April 1770, the following lines written in
a large hold hand, were posted up conspicuously
on the walls of St. James’ Palarc in London ;
propheoß.
A rold winter —iftnild Spring—
A bloody summer, and a dead king !
A thousand pounds reward wore offered for
the discovery of the author, in vain.
Close Rubdinii.—The Tallahassee Star
says: The official returns are from Alachua
Court, which make complete the entire vote of
the Territory. The Constitution is defeated by
eleven votes. Try it again, speech-makers.
COMMERCIAL.
Latest dates from Liverpool, May 17
Latest dates from Hnrre, May 15
New-Dri bans, June 19.
Cotton. —Yesterday’s operations comprise a sale
of 1,400 bales of Alabamas at 11| cents ; and some
very small lots within the limits of the quotations.
Shipments are making pretty freely, mostly on
planters’ account —thereby reducing the stock
daily. We place our quotation at the reduced rate,
so as to represent the present state of the market.
Corn. —Owing to the reported prevalence of epi
demics in the city, and to the recent heavy arri
vals, the holders of corn on the levee are pushing
1 their stocks into the market, and as a consequence
1 a material decline has taken place. In the early
1 part of the day yesterday, sales to the amount es
more than KfiOOOjbushcls were made at 55 cents.
’ We are informed it has since been offered at even
less rates without finding purchasers.
Flour. —Tha market is very dull, stock large,
and sales in small lots at So 25 a $5 50.
I —‘ Jf 9SSS SSSHSK BSBSB JJ JL •
1 THE AMERICAN SILK GROWER AND
' FARMER’S MANUAL —A monthly publication
■ designed to extend and encourage the growth of Silk
' throughout the I’nitcd States. Edited by Ward
3 Cheney and Brothers, Burlington, N. J.,and pub
i fished in Philadelphia, at the low price of One
1 Dollar a year.
2Cr Subscriptions received at this office. ap
NOTICE. —The Rail Road Passenger Train
' between Charleston and Hamburg, will leave as
! follows: —
I UPWARD.
I Not to leave Charleston before 7 00 A. >l.
, “ “ Summerville, “ - -S 30
. “ “ Georges’, - “ - 10 00
“ “ Branchville, “ - II 00
“ “ Midway, - “ -1130 m.
<• “ Blackvillc, - “ -100 p. m.
“ “ Aiken, - - “ - 3 (10
Arrive at Hamburg not before - 400
- DOWNWARD.
- Not to leave Hamburg before 6 00 a.m.
\ “ “ Aiken, - “ - - 730
j “ “ Blackville, “ - . 930
“ “ Midway, “ - -. 10 30
“ “ Branchville, “ - - II 00
“ “ Georges’, “ - - 12 00 m.
“ “ Summerville,“ - - 2 00p. m.
e Arrive at Charleston not before 300
e Distance —130 miles. Fare Through—§lo 00.
Speed not over 20 miles an hour. To remain 20
'' minutes each, for breakfast and dinner, and not
’’ longer than 5 minutes for wood and water at any
‘ station.
s To stop for passengers, when a white flag is
, hoisted, at either of the above st *ons; and also' at
a Sineaths, Woodstock, Inabinet’s, 41 mile T. I).,
. Rives’, Grahams, Willcston, Windsor, Johnsons,
and Marsh’s T. O.
■ Passengers up will breakfast at Woodstock and
1 dine at Blackville; down, will breakfast at Aiken
and dine at Summerville. may 21
I CHARLES COSBY WUITELY left TriT
j- land in the autumn of 1533, and it is believed he
, went to New York. Any information that can be
given respecting him will be thankfully- received
’ by his wife, who now lives at Augusta, Georgia.
5 June 24
, The New Orleans Picayune, Louisiana Adrcr
- tiser, and Louisianian, will please copy the above
11 few times.
! rrp BENEVOLENT SOCIETY, for the benfi
• of the Sick Tear of Augusta and its vicinity.-.'
The Visiting Committees for the ensuing month at
a ollows:
Division No. 1. —Mr. A. McLane, Mr. C. Pike,
Mrs. Smith, > iss Marshall.
Division No. 2, —Dr. 11. Harris, Mr. Wm, Tuft,
Mrs. Trembly, Mrs. Co'c.
Division No 3. —Mr. J. Csshin, Mr. M. Wilcox,
Mrs. Berryhill, Mrs. MeKinnie.
Any member of the committees may obtain funds
by calling on the President, (W. W*. iloit, Esq.) at
his office, Curmning’s Pkiza.
June 24 CJ. f. HTURGEH, Secretary.
GREAT ARRIVAL!
Fiftem Bushels, or 270,000 boxes of
PETEIIS* PILLS.
The subscribers have made arrangements with
Dr. Peters, of New Vorlt, to be supplied by the
quantity with Isis Pills. All dealers can now
be supplied at factory prices. Os all the Pills we
have any knowledge of, these arc 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 valuable medicine.
One great quality of his Vegetable Pills is, 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, hut they regulate the liver,change the morbid
secretions, strengthen the digei live organs, purify
the blood, invigorate the circulation, and give tone
and energy to the 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 Costivcncss, Loss of Appetite, Blotched or
Sallow Complexion, and in all cascs-.if Torpor of
the Bowels, where a Cathartic or an Aperient is
needed. They are exceedingly mild in their oper
ation, producing neither nausea, griping nor debility.
Dr. Peters lias sold more than five millions of boxes
of these celebrated Pills, in the U. Statcs,tbe Cana
das, Texas, Mexico and the West Indies, since
Jan. 1835, All persons who have used the Genuine
Peters Vegetable Pills, recommend them in terms
of the most unqualified praise, which is proof pos
itive of their extraordinary and beneficial effects,
these justly celebrated Pills are for sale by
THOMAS BARRETT & Co., and
lI.VVILAND, RISLEY & Co., Agents.
june 6 2m
EVANS’ FAMILY VEGETABLE APERIENT
ANTI-BILIOUS PILLS.
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 skin, the parts situated
internally, or the extremities ; and as .all the se
cretions of the body are drawn from the blood
there is a consequent increase of every secretion,
and a quickened action of the absorbent and exha
lant or discharging vessels; any morbid action
which may have taken place is removed, all ob
structions are overcome, the blood is purified, and
the body resumes a healthful state. 'The circula
tion, that important function, was not known to
the groat Celsus, Galen, or Hippocrates ; therefore,
their delicicncy of knowledge led them to extract
the vital (iuid as a curvative means; but upon the
principles of Hie circulation of the blood, the prac
tice of bleeding is proved to be fallacious.
It has been left to the directors of this society
to bring forward Dr. Wm. Evans’ Medicines, found
ed upon the important knowledge imparled to the f
world by the discovery of the circulation of the
1 blood.
Euan's Family Vegetable Aperient Anti-Bilious
Pills, are sold in boxes of Twenty-five 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 state, 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 had
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 Fills, always given in at the store of the agent.
DR. WILLIAM EVANS’ SOOTHING SYRUP,
FOR CHILDREN TEETHING.
To Mothers and Nurses. —The passage of the
Teeth 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 fits of crying, watchings,
starting in the sleep, and spasms of peculiar parts;
the child shrieks with extreme violence, and
thrusts its fingers 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 DR. WM.
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,
3. M. h T. M. TURNER,Savannah,
P. M. COHEN & Co., Charleston,
SHARP &-ELLS, Mlllcdgevillc,
C. A. ELLS, Macon,
A. W. MARTIN, Forsyth,
BENJAMIN P. POORE, Athens,
MARK A. LANE, Washington.
june 7
Xj' RESIDENT DENTIST.. —Dr. Munroe’s
operating rooms, second door from Broad treet, on
Mclntosh-st., opposite the Constitutionalist office
march 13
FINE SHOES.
G1 ENTLEMEN’S line Gaiter Boots,
I “ “ Morocco Brogan Pumps,
“ •* Walking Pumps,
“ “ Dancing “
and Ladies’fine kid and morocco Slippers of all
kinds, jnst received and for sale low, by
ALDRICH & SHOVE,
juneB ts
aT 0 RENT—A commodious dwelling
on the Sand Hills, with convenient out
.buildings. Apply at this office,
april 15 ts
]NOR SALE, a first rate Northern HARNESS
' HORSE. Apply to SAMUEL BONES,
june IS ts
Georgia, Richmond County, January Term, 1839.
I fINHE Sherill having returned the following per
| JL sons as defaulting grand jurors at the January
j term of the Superior Court for the county afore
j said, to wit: WilliamC. Dillon, John P. Seize, John
Moore, James A. Faron,John W. Houghton, Sam
-1 uel Wilson, A. 0. Parmelce, Amory Sibley, John
j I '. Snead, F. A. Morgan, Adam Johnson, John M.
■ Adams, A. J. Huntington, C. E. Latimer, Robert
Walton, Henry McCullough—and r.s defaulting
petit jurors, Jacob Inglut. Richard Mooney, John
S. Randell, Britton Mims, Hiram Grubbs, Samuel
J. Anderson, Charles Martin, Wiley Barron, J B.
Burnett, —it is ordered that the lirst mimed as
grand jurors,be lined in the sum of Forty Dollars,
and the last named as petit jurors, in the sum o
Twenty Dollars, unless they and each of them file
a satisfactory excuse in writing, and on oath with
i the clerk of said court, on or before the 11th day
i of June next, and on failure to do so, execution is
i ordered to he issued.
A true copv frem the minutes,
JAMES McCLAWS, Clerk.
May 11, 1839. 4tw
N'OTICE.— All persons having claims against
the estate of James McGovern. deceased,M ill
please present them within the time prescribed by
law, and those indebted to it arc requested to make
payment to WM. HARPER, Executor.
Augusta,May 28, 1839. 6tw