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From the N. O. Picayune. THE PRESENT CRISIS IN THE COTTON MARKET. The following observations upon the policy of cotton planters in the present crisis are entitled to consideration as coming from one who is himself a cotton planter, hut much more widely known to his countrymen, were at liberty to mention his name, in a different and itnre public capacity, la the present instance he has chosen that his opinions should he com^ 1 * ' - ' ? * ? ? ???! ?oer?rot liV' ! Kea 10 general aueuiiuu aim .v , intrinsic force, rather than by the weight thnrity of any name: THE COTQTON PLANTERS OK THE SOUTH, bough there is less concert of action g us than exists or ever has existed since reation of the world among any other class ot men having in common the same gi gantic interests at stake, 1 venture nevertheless to address you one word of invocation and warning. Whilst I subscribe to the maxim that combinations for elevating or depressing prices are generally as indefensib'e in principle as they arc unavailing in practice, yet there are extraordinary conjunctures in trade which require extraordinary remedies. 1 have paid some attention to the statistics of cotton. Although a grower of this staple I am no speculator in its J market. To the consideration of the important qties- ! tion of what we planters are to do in a crisis so I entirely unexampled, I bring the honest intention of only counselling others to do what I am prepared to do myself. ~ . - t. u:__ ir 1 believe our only salvation ism uuming. ? we desire to break down effectually the price fif the staple of our industry during the present reason, all wc have to do under an absurd panic, is to rush our Cotton into market as fast as -Our gins can deliver it. The result will soon be (hat cotton will be as valuless in Liverpool as dirt in her streets. This depression in its price will continue until the present panic subsides, and you who have transferred your cotton at five and six cents, after daylight breaks again, will find the holders reaping a prolt of 100 per cent?the result of a fatuity at once so prepos throjjs and insane. The present commercial paralysis in Great Britain will be as temporary in its duration as ? , it is in a great degree local in its character.? Our great staple has had notliingto do with this .. explosion, however much chemistry, by a process at once curious and exact, has discovered its applicability to the most explosive purposes of combustion. No. England is now paying the conjoint penally of her fanaticism and her folly. Her free labor sugar and free negro doctrines, with a popular mania for railroads,. "TwlBeli, by comparison, makes the old South Sea scheme a reasonable system of commercial policy, have "brought her to her present low estate." * But the sources of her prosperity are too gi. gnntic, her surplus and residuary wealth ton enormous to render this palsy any thing but iransient. Causes, inevitable in their operation. render a favorablo reaction in trade cer tain w thin a few months, possibly within a ftw weeks. When the tide does turn, it will msh like a torrent, covering all the shoals at present laid bare by her commercial desola- ! tions, with the rich currents of her industrial wealth. Do you think the trade in our great staple will not participate in the benefits ot this reaction? The mo?.t important in the arm of her mighty industry, it will be the first to feel its blessings. Do you thir.k you have made too , much Cotton? You have not made enough, unjjer a renovated mrd fnv-n' lr "tate of" trade? you have not reaped and will not reap while 303.000 hales of the sum total required from the 1st January, 7S-13, to the 1st January IS 19. , In healthy tone in commerce, the world has j now stomach for 3.000.000 hales American Cotton. Notwithstanding the exaggerated estimate of the present crop, it will be found when it is footed up, that 2.200.000 will be its utmost extent. What the worm and tin; deluge have done are yet in the sequel to be comput- , ed. In'many sections of Alabama and the Atlanlic Sta'cs they have devoured more than one , half of the orodnet of the cotton labor ol the present year. Every market in Europe and , America is scantily stocked?the manufacturers to a dinvnished decree, without any previons example. Suppose they do work at short ( time? Can they do so without relatively ditnin. fishing the stock of poods? Can they, if they i will, decree that people shall work long time | , in wearing out old cloths? No. People must and will wear clothes, and new ones too. A | renewal of the demand for goods will bring | with it a renewed demand for our staple? | buoyant, elastic and irrepressible. It is a sound rule in medical regimen to feed a defective degestion light, until vigor is rest <- i red to that function. It is equally an indisputablo axiom in political economy, in the great poi<8 and counterpoise of supply and de. mand. We shali be the greatest Zanies on : i earth if we do no! heed the voice ot truth when j . she speak*, not only through a intelligible , philosophy, but in the familiar accents of a j | manifest common sense. i Planters of the South! I now address you, < who have the power to hold your crops; not those who are in the hands of their factors and | the sheriff until trade revives. Keep your cot- j ton under your gin houses until the present pa raivsis and panic subside in Ureal nrnain, anu thfii send it to market at intervals of thirty days between each shipment. A revival in trade j establishes a deficit on a crop of '3 200.00!) j bales, which must rarrv prices up to ten cenis , bylhe 1st of May, as surely as scarcity influ- i eneeg demand. AVill von hold a benefit in your ' ' own hands or transfer it to others? . Panics are contagious. ft is high lime one j i was manufactured in Wall str-et, which sha'l | * extend in its wide sweep from one end of this I . vast continent to the other. If it comes even | as the echo of the present convulsion in I^tiir- i land, let us stand firm and allow the chario | ? wheels of this Juggernaut to roll over other | | carcases than our own. If this tempest comes, j i let me say to you. as Cromwell said i<? his Com , monwealthers, "Pray to (iod and Keep your | powder [co'ton] dry." < A Shout Staplb Cotton Pbantku. i N. P.?As rhe foregoing warning n ntains i the words of soborne * and truth, the proprie- | tors of the papers in tlie several cotton States < are requested, in the absence of any thing .* more interesting, to give the above article an I ? insertion. | i The Speaker is about to abate one great j j nui?anco in the Uapitnl, tviitch should never i have been countenanced in thnt building. the i restaurant atta'dird to th?? House. Violent and disgraceful scenes have frequently occurred | on the floor, which would never have happened but for this resort. Mr. Winthrnp is entitled to the approbation of all who respect the pro priety and honor of Congress for his decision i and firmupss in this matter. It is also due to ; Mr. Dallas to say that he issued orders some < > -<* iifij. * * -f . time back, to have the restaurant attached to the Senate removed. Oil the first of January Congress will begin its legislation free from the disgusting odors of the these dramshops and and^lieir attendants.? Washington Whig. Tjjie War Office has rcrcivcd by the officers wl^o have recently ariived from Mexico, various trophies of the war. Among them, are two small beautiful brass wall pieces of ordnance, sent .by Gen. Scott, and brought to this city by ?-.i. \ ?.i v.111. ."liiuictta. The most curious of these trophies is the hla<4t flag of the gncrrilleros. i he material is bombazine. The ornaments and letters in the 'centre, upon the red ground, are worked with green silk upon black cloth pieces, except the squares, which are worked with white.? But-the most remarkable is a small pennant on top"made of black, 22 inches by 11 3-8, with various military ornaments. Oa the top and bottom are a death's bead and cross bones. In the centre, these ominous, words: %iXo doi cunrt 1 ?(jive no Quarter. The stafT and (lag was taken at La Mira Flores, on the 13th Aug.is^lS lT, from the guerrillas who attacked Lieul Hammond's party.?Ibid. From Noah's N\ Y. Times aiul Messenger. SOUTH CAROLINA. The "esolntions introdnred into the Legislusure of South Carolina fi?r organizing an independent government if the Wilmot proviso is forged through Congress, is considered by many here as a paltry threat, unworthy of notice, and often repeated without any intention of being enforced. Wo must not view it in this light: the pitcher may go to the well once too often. The Whigs of our revolution fir years before Independence was declared, earnestly prayed England not to oppress them. Despotism and persecution made us at length free. No State is more anxious to remain in the Union than South Carolina; but for the last twenty-five years England, fanatics in the East, political abolitionist, Whigs ar.d Democrats, have annoyed and assailed, vexed and endagered. the safety of the South by constant attacks 1 ^ on.their domestic institutions, ostensibly fro;n humane considerations, but actually to break down the power, influence and constitutional rights of that section of our country, until at length they have aroused a united feeling of resentment and resistance which may be fatal to our Union. The Wilmol proviso men of this State begin to be alarmed at the effect which this political attack on the South is likely to produce.? They propose to change their policy* Having set fire to the homestead, they are preparing to run away by the light of the flames, and now offer a substitute, which is: 1st. To submit the question to the people, whether they desire slavery in the new territories. 21. If the peo. [ le vote against slavery, then Congress will be required to allow no State to be erected unless I slavery is prohibited. The Wilmot proviso men have by this changed the form without touchirg the principle. Few men will be found friendly to slavery in the abstract; and as the vote will lie on the abstract question, the j majority against slavery will be decisive.? Then, in obedience to this vote. Congress will be called upon to pass laws prohibiting slavery in the new territories. This is precisely the act which Congress has no constitutional power to pass. When a tract of country is conquered or purchased by the people of the U. S. if it has inhabitants it must ?I.. |.l;.i. have a government lor in en c.m t?in? <t social relations by mutual obligations founded on law. Congress tlmn law* ?.fl act erofitiug the tract into a Territory, and appointing the necessary officers to execute the laws and administer justice. Here ihf. power of Congress ends. They have no right to prohibit citizens j from coining into that territory, and bringing | with them their wives, children, furniture, slaves and cattle, from other parts of the Union. The people of the territory make their own i local laws; and when its population exhibits j that numerical streng'h which authorizes it to ; come into the Union as a Slate all that Con- i gress has a right to do is to sec that the Con. j stitution of the new State is based upon the in - ; stltutions of the country and to ascertain whether the population is sufficient (or a State; and here the power of Congress again ends. That body has no r'g'it to force any laws of a local character ution a territory; and after a State has been admitted into the Union, tio one eon. tends that Congress has any power over it at i all. These difficulties hare arisen from the origi j nal pertinacious adherence of the ivistcrn States j lo strenghen the power of Congress and weaKen the powers of the State?. The East. original- | ly in favor of a President and Senate lor life, i have always attempted to erect Congress into the Government, whereas the sovereignly and independence of the States are in the people. It has been the South that has saved us from a division of the I uion, by its devotion to the Constitution and its strict def'ttce ol State rights; and these rights would never have been endangered had it not loom for men in this State, who have lor thirty years lived upon the South, and now turn against it, having forfeited its confi. Jence. If the Virginia Resolutions are adopted in all the Slave Slates, then the Wilinot Proviso cannot psss without endangering the Union. THE RECENT FLOODS. The Legislature of Ohio is about to take measures for the relief of such citizens of that Slate as have been rendered indigent by the Jeslructive flood in the Ohio and its tributaries. Tim Cincinnati Atlas of Monday last says; The destruction <>t properly on all the bottom lands Id ween this and A heeling is -repreom. t'd as beyond all calculation. .Many farmers i have lost their entire crops of hav and giain, | inn if their live st ?ck is saved it is only to starve tie eaf r. The Louisville Journal of the 17th instant ?ays: There ar- propaldy not less than four or live hi.n !red h itises within the city limits now under water. These houses consist of e.xlen- 1 dvo foundries, warehouses, flour and saw-mills, |>ork.houses, uianuliietiiring esialdishinetits of rarious kinds, stores and dwellings. Some of ... i .1 hcse houses :ii?? entire!y sunniergen; mi outers fie wali'f is several feet t!ei?p on tin* second Honrs. It i< feared l hut J lie water will carry nil' ioiiir of I tie small buildings 01; Wafer street. I The Nashville H.timer of tlie 15th instant j ?ays: The ('timbcriand river was higher last j evening hy two or three feet than it was last spring; sleainhnats are moored in I'rnad-street. fit Stewart's corner, and the water is in all the houses from that corner to Yeattnan & Armis* lead's warehonse, II has been so long si nee a rise lias taken |ilare in ottr river, that many fine houses have been built on the low grounds at both ends oft he city, all of which are now tinder water 1 ?some into the fir*t storv, others into the sec- ' and story, and others; have almost entirely dis- ; appeared, (ireat sufiering must be the const;, j rjnence, as hundreds offtntilics arc necessarily ! . <*'* 'f'. < - # 1 . driven Irom their houses, in as inclement a sea. H son as we have ever seen; for it has been raining three days almost incessantly until Monday night, when it commenced snowing which had not ceased when our paper went to pr^ss last night. Tun river is at least sixty feet above low water mark. p The. Louisville Journal of Saturday says? Throughout nearly the whole of thN State the loss and damage sustained by this calamity will amount to hundreds of thousand* of dollars, and j the distress and suffering, particularly of people ^ residing along the river liank, is truly appalling. (j The same may lie said of other States hounded by the. Ohio. The highest singe reached by the water at l' Louisville was only nine inches below the high water mailt of 1832. p From the Sumter Banner. * fallowing is a complete list of the names ol .nose of the Sumter company of Volunteers who died from the time of their leaving Sinn- j; terville till the first of November last. Tt will ^ be seen that there have been so ue deaths of ^ which we have not till now heard: t Scarborough Drake, died at Island of Lobos. ^ M. J. M. Murphy, died on ship-hoard, Vera Cruz. Samuel R. Drake, died at Ptiebla. Marion Black, died at Vera Cruz. Thomas Black, at San Augustine from wounds . 1 n j] received at Chiirnbusco. F. G. Britten, died at Ptiebla. Thomas Glenn, died at Vera Cruz. , Thomas J. McKenzin, died at Puebla. It. J. Moodv, died at Puehla. !j John Sjott, died at Vera Cruz. Laurence Scott, died at Perote. Thomas J. Wilder, jr. died at Vera Cruz. v Eugene A. Wilder, killed at Churubusco. Robert B. VVilder, (lied at Puebla. r James J. Wilder, died at Jalapa. a Joseph Carter, died at Jalapa. o L. M. G. Cokcr, died at Vera Cruz, of M wounds. tl Joseph Groom, di?d at Puebla. It. P. II (field, died at Puebla. o A. T. Logan, died at Puebla. Robert McCoy, died at Vera Cruz. Samuel 1). Spann, died nl Jalapa. r( David Scurry, died on ship-board, returning home. " Thomas B. Wells, died at Perote. G. W. Yates, died at Mexico, (a prisoner.) Win. S. Smith died at Perote. \lirnn /llofl :lt I . Corrmlius Monday, died at Pueb!a. l^' U.S. Ko!l?, died at Veta Cruz. J Thomas J. Jones, died at Pernio. ; James Goodsil, died at Perote. j John C. DuBose, died at Perote. Jaini'S Dean, died at Puelila. Richard Cane, died at Jalnpa. " Henry Ammons, died at the city of Mexico. From the North C rolitia Standard. Nothing js dearer to our mind, than that the } course oTthe Whig party in this coiin-rv in re- " gard to the Mexican War, has contributed, more t! j than ail other causrs, to prolong that War and tr put otT the day of peace. Evidence of this start- a ling and huinilitatirg truth continues to pour in 5 J upon us f.om all quarters. Wo have it from P j the public prints in .Mexico?from the tone of ' i the speeches and writings of her leading Gen- n i orals and statesmen; and, what is m ?ro conclu- P j >i.e and important, we are told, over and over l< i again, by gallant \Vh:- OJlxr.i in the Ameri- ' c I can ser-i:.-; in Mexico, that the "arguments nnd i ll sympathy"' expressed in this country in hehalf | of the Mexican cause, and "the spirit of treason" '* which characterizes the "leading Whig jour- v' nals," have had a greater influence than all li j things else combined, in preventing Gen. Scott ,r ?"commanding as he does, the whole. City of al the Aztecs, with his powerful battery"?troni K j "elo'eling an honorable peace."! \\ e ailuJcd, some lime since, to the nob!e I" stand which was taken on this vital subject, by d Coi. Doniptian, of Missouri, and Col. Curtis, of o| Ohio?ho'h Whig*, and both brave and ineri- ?' torious Officers; and to-day we invite the serious >? attention of the people to the following letter j n-r.,,, r,il. Wvnheon. oft lie Pennsylvania Rogi- | meat. This letter first appeared in Philadel. pliia Pennsylvania!!, and hears date Perole, 9lh Sept.. 1S17. Col. Wynkono says: lc ' It is, as 1 have before remarked, a hard ser- l' vice, full nftoii, privations and danger?h?it it CJ is willingly encountered and bravely endured. * Judge, then, oft he cllect upon our good men c' Iicrn, when they look over the* distance which ' I" separates thein from their friends an olfirt to find ill at home soni" proper appreciation of their self. p< sacrificing conduct! It is hitter and humilin- hi ling. I tell yon; sir. there is a spirit abroad w among the coon Americans engaged in this war "< which will not sleep during futurity?a spirit le which awaits hot tiieir retina to thunder down I w upon tlie mouthing, serihhling sycophants of a lii grossly un just paity, the full measure of an lion- Hi lest indignation. It is the same tint brooded fii over our land during the war ol the devolution it and the la?t war; and men of the present day, ov palsied with age, h tve lived to curse, with tears ol'repentance, the hour when she, with scornful linger, marked them as the lories of their country. We, here, can see no difference he. fri 1 .u.. i>! r, [ I\V?* *II Ill * till'I) Who II) to Sliccori o IIIC wim.su, | ? and those who in '76 give arguments and sym- j ar pathv to the Mexicans. This kind o! language j a! from a 111:111 who c.unc into this campaign a di Whig in policy, may sound strange to you, hut t"< I have again hepii compelled to listen and to ( ?f stifier thut which would have changed the dis- rit position, and alienated the affections oflhe most determined parli/an. Kven now I do not oh. ject lo the loading and main principles of my old paily, so much as 1 curse and deprecate the one ofils acknowledged leaders and supporters. , ,n Il'lhere is any reason which will prevent (Jen. Is" Scott from efleeiing an honorahle peace, coin- 1 mamiing, as he does, the whole city of the Az- m l-cs, wiili his powerful hallery, it is llie spirit of 1 w'< treason which I unhesitatingly say is proinulged ' * hy the leading Whig journals at home. In a j xortic upon some Ladrones of Jalapa, a short | time since, I possessed myself of all the late j newspapers published in that place, and, upon j m examining them, I tun! thai, in that place, the ! Kf same as in Mexico, the strongest arguments cr published against our army are selected from Whig papers in llie United Slates. I send you ltr a late copy of llie ''llnlclin de Motieias," in j ox 1 1 " ?Ki,f lt>i? first !irlir*lr> is I WHICH Villi will |Hm ? ail extract from the N'ifional Intelligencer. "Your friend, I\ HI. WYNKOOP*" r,i ' You may imhli?h litis if you please. ] have become so disgusted with what 1 have seen, P that I have no care flir the consequences which ! ^ this kind of truth may produce." j D Distressing Casually.?We learn that on j Wednesday night last the house of Mr. James i 15rock, of this District, a Revolutionary soldier In aged neatly one hundred years, was consumed in liy fire, and, horrid to i elate, its owner with it. d< Mr. Hrock hud no family living with him ex- I hi cop! his negroes.?Chcraxc Gazette 21 st nil. [ T I " r * ^ - -v\1* *- '* *' .? *". - % V / "3^ *amBmemammBKBmmMBawmaammma?mBmcmaamummK^aK0mmmuam I'llE C AMD E N J OUR NA L, Wednesday Morning, January 5, 18-18. ivrLUAivfB.JOHNSTON, EDITOR. j Wanted at this Office. A Journeyman Printer. To one who understands 'ress Work, a permanent situation will be given. 1 The Markets. Our cotton market lias not opened since the holi jifc A few biIps have heeru effected at 7A to 74 J' 4 - * i 'orn 45 to 50; Flour 4^ to 5; Bacon 10 12; Foil- 1 er 75; Salt 2 to 2}. The highest quotation for cotton in the Charlcson market is 8 cents. The Telegraph. Several messages were interchanged between Ibis luco and Columbia on Saturday l ist. From some ause, further operations are su ponded for a few days. O* We tender our acknowledgements to Col. Sumier of the South Carolinian, for a beautifully printed ook, containing the "Rules of the House of Representatives,'' and other valuable matter. The exocuion of Ibis book is superior to any thing we have ccn issued from a Southern pris-. We hope Col. S. ot remunerated for his labor. 0"Wc nro under repeated oblig'lions to the editors f the Evening News and Mercury, for slips eontainig the earliest intelligence of foreign arrivals. From 3Iexico. By the steamship Nciv Orleans, later intelli;once has been received from the city of Mexico. 'he news though interesting, is unimportant, and lie late hour at which we received our papers, preents us from copying any portion of it to-day. The Delta says: "We observe, in the list of the eturned officers, the names of Captains Blanding nd Sumter, and Lieuts. Culp, Mellett and Moye, f that Spartan Band, the I'almelto Regiment; of ~ illicit we heard it said by a gallant oinccroi ano- . icr regiment, that it Iiad never learned to counterlarrh or retreat, and in going into battle, knew no tlier step but the quick Hep." '! CTlie Charleston Courier seems to disbelieve, from i iliable authority, that the r mainder of our gallant igimcnt will ho discharged, or at least that Gov. John>11 knows anything of It. as it has been rumored. Hon. I. E. Holmes?The Speakership. It is known that through nn act of Mr. Holmes, 10 representative from Charleston, Mr. Winlhrop of lasacbuscUs was elected Speaker of tho House of leprescnlutivea. It ought to he as well known that Ir. Winthrop is a decided Wilinot Proviso man, so tat South Carolina has the distinguished honor of lacing in such an important and influential position ne of the ablest opponents of southern institutions: Vhcn wo recollect that the people of South Carolina, i their public inectingi and through the press, and y legislative declarations liavo met Ireely and loudr proclaimed their unalterable position on this subject, is truly beyond c ur comprehension, why one of ioir dclcgites to Congress, ?iiould so act as to elevate > such a place of power, a man who is the avowed nd firm advocate of the obnoxious measure. With ood reason may some of our neighboring presses ex. oss their oxtunishmerit at the courso pursued by Mr. [olmcs, for the man would have Ikjcii set down for a innyhainincr who, a few months, since would have reilictcd that tho election of a Wlhnol proviso man > the Speaker's chair would bo secured by a South Carolina member Our attention was latterly called s this subject b; an aiticlc in the Mercury last week, lough we liau seen other presses notice the rcmarka. Ic psoceeiling, I . c were of opinion that soinc dcelopcmenls would lake place, which would justify .n nnnJ.ml nf Mr H Tll? MerCllfV ilaS flt ICIIfTtll " J ? i behalf of his constituency requested an explanation, nd wo sincerely trust, with our leading political oran, that ho will see the importance of explaining the difficulty in the cause," and that the explanation will s satisfictory. One of the evil effects of Mr. Winirop's election, is already nppaicnt, in the reception f a petition front Mr. G.ddings, for the uholilton of avery in the District of Columbia, which would have >cn laid on (ho table had it not been for his casting >t0. Mr. Calhoun's ltesolutions. Tlieso resolutions were the order of the day, for ves rday and we wail with anxiety, to hear what our dis- ; ngiiisln d Senator has to say, with regard to the poli. | p of this Government towards Mexico. One thing | o believe, th it the people of South Carolina would . iccrfully sustain the ndmiuislration, in the vigorous , 'sccnlion of the war without regard to the ot.j> el i [r. Polk may h.ve in view. Trie results, when the j sople ot Mexico arc subdued, are not in Mr. Polk's | inda exclusively; tiro Senate of tlhc United Stales j ould then say, whether we should or should not nri. j 5X Mexican territory. Until Mexico is lirought to } ruts, we feel assured that the "voico of the people," ' ill l?o "still for war," and we trust that South Caro. | la through her representatives in Congress, will not , row any obstacle in the way ofthe speediest mode of j J ilshirig this "bloody war" as a Columbia press calls ( It really looks as if Soulli Carolina was going | 'or to the whigs?we shall sec. Foreign News. Tito Steamer flibcrnia brings dates to the -ltlt ult,, ( ain Liverpool. The news is regarded as being more j vorablc with regard to tnnncy matters, as spccio was ( riving in largo quantities. Cotton had declined tout 1-8(1., since the la?t news. Flour also rather ? ill. Ireland is in a s id condition, muidcr, nssnsina. \ )ns and robbery licit.g on the incroaso, the attention of , parliament is directed towards its prevention. Va. | jus other failures have occurred since the departure ( the previous steamer. I t DcBow's Commercial Review. I We have received the Dcco ubcr number of tins | ily valuable publication; it is a good opportunity to ^ hscribe now, as the 'icw volume commences with f c next number. This large and comprehensive j onllily deserves well of the South and West, and e would insure the subscriber the full value of his r 'o dollars. .? t The Western Continent. ? We beg to remind our friends that the commence- ^ cut of a new year and n now volume, furnishes a >od opportunity to subscribe to this excellent Southu Family Journal. We will vciduro lo say, that | o two dollars expend :d in thid way, will not lie re- | f cited. It is a paper which ivc would be glad losce ( . Ui..,l At'linivtij' kiibumivMi ^ ., - 1 The Gallant Dead.?The New Orleans j ro!i<rht over the remains of Col. Bottler, Col. , [artin Scott, Lient. Col. Dickinson, Col. T. B. t ansoin, Lieut. Col. Graham, ('apis. Thompson, , /illiams, Clark and Adams, Sorgt. Madison, i ( 'r. Slade, Privates Trezevant and Kennedy, j. i\. O. Delia. j < > A lahama.?Unanimous resolutnins passed t nth Houses of the Legislature, on Saturday, i iviting Gen. Taylor to visit this Stale, and ten. I ring him its hospitalities. Thero is a rumor I ere, we know not how well founded, that Gen. J t avlor will pass through this State in nhout j two weeks, on his way to VVftfihrngMha should prove true there will he sucfr&mUp^HH among the people to greet the as the world has never witjiqjpsetl served that both Gen. Shields aotvGpHBH. man spoke in enthusiastic tiwm*rirjj|*! rt" a|J| lor. Gen. Quitman styled hirn tfw ''iloljflHf glorious veteran of the Rio Grande^ and GoJJJ Shields remarked, in his speech atllhfi Hi a lilt ''that there was no dyibt but it wnilhej rM||fl pie set-by General Taylor, in hisTOf?frjttfl?/p]p victories 011 the Rio Grande, \vhic9 g?'ive thy high tone ofgallantjy to our troops which insjM red the subsequent victories in Mejflco. jjm Montgomery ^Joarna^m1 Jackson Lodge, Lancaster. The following brethren have beouelected ofnccr"4f^ this Lodgo for tlic ensuing year: "rv P. T. IIA M A ON D, W. M. *|J FLI C. BISHOP, S. W. \V. G. COXE, J. W. J. D. JOHNSON, Treasurer. i A. MAYER, Stcrelary. SIMON BENNFTT, Tyler.: STATEMENT Of Monty received by South Carolina from the Fed , j al Government since 1815. j, The Comptroller General, in pursuance of the Rcj |? lution of the Senate, requesting him ' to report to Jk Senate as soon as practicable, the date and aiuounllid all sums received fioin the Federal Government January, 1815, whether the same been actMljl for services arid advances made during the this Slate, or on any other account whatever,'' A, the following statement: j{\ 1815. Interest, 4 qrs. received on the 6 per / T cent, and lato deferred U. S. stock, $72 3B/ j, Do do on the 6 per cent, and late do. 1/ ferred U, S, stock purchased by Treasu * j*i<\ rcrs, 1,1I ?rB Do do on U. S. stock purchased for. I^ttr Strickciihcisen & Lusemburg, 8(?r"* : Two per cent received from the U. S. o on the foregoing stock, SJ.TMniPtll 181G. Interest, 4 qrs. received on 6 per "MP*, i cent, and lato defemd U. S. stock, 72,c ^ 1 ? r " nor /.I nnr t*A. 5|ln tlj Ltn, O" UII v p?;i ow. |/w< w. w r.. , and late deferred Lf: S. stock purchased ' ^ by Treasurers, 1 Four quarters received on U. S. clock whirl pnrcliascd for Slrickenlicisen 6c Luxem. obscr burg, ^ rt>n ( Two per cent icccivcd from U. S. on popuf tbo foregoing, 5 tciitic 1817. Interest. 4 qrs. received on G pit ct ^ ''ie and lato deferred U 13. stock, ^ Do. do. on 6 per ct. 3 per ct. and 11 aa,,;'t late deferred U. S. stock, purchased by P i aCA; Treasurers '< Do. do. on U. S. stock purchueed 'Of ri(*ri.] for Slrickcnlieison 6c Luxemburg " Two per cent, rccoivcd from U. S. on "fi c,t,z<-' foregoing stock, ill 1818. Interest, 4 qrs. on U. S. C per cent and deferred slock, (jJ J nior" Do. on U. S. clock purchased byy'.-jj Tro surers, the off Da on purchased for Strickciihcisenfj,/" .. t 6c Luxernbhrg. ^ J shall Two per cent received on above 6tocj.y^ .i 1819. Interest on U. S. clock, .it I ail t Do. on do. purchased by Treasurers!fi|) |j| Do. on do. purclinscd' for Stricken.*!^ ' b font h licisen & Luxemburg, . ? fit 27 Two per cent received from U. SI j |)[J7 Loan Oflico, ih reimbursements, f I j^oven 1822. Amount recovered from tho U. Sr | ^jrg . the claim of the Stitc against tlic UnJ p led Sla'cs, for cervices and advance^ Meek If made during the l ist war, f j r 1832. Amount recovered from the U. r j on tlic claim of the State against tho ? States, for services and advjnces maj Sum during the last war, 1 I '''s 1837 AnDorliomnenl lo the Slate of ^ | curplus revenue, Hurler the Act of Cos| Varolii grrss, passed June, 1836, I unhurt, 3 09 valioii^, J NKY Rf Rospcctfullj submitted, 88 52 his age WM. C.I In th Cnmpuf W'i'iifji Comptroller's Office, Dec S, 1817. 'j n?0. 'J !5 Kor.sha' Serious Affair n! Yale. CoUcoL. 'he last lffnir nmirred at Yale College,fv?Ui j, [' Ml. on Wednesday ni<?ht, as ^"* thr? oo J he telegraphic dirpatcli in the NVv'" an iline lid. between two of the tutorxLa' 1-otN r?,lci?S in ll,? .laMrfJJ cin.);^ iifors Willi :i sword raw*. I lie ? is not likely to prove fatal. Ij ,r' <noekeil down with a bar of iro* wA!> t is feared, will prove fatal. Scrs he tutors are Emerson and (tondj ? 'jfWIE ] - ' r> r i . , _< (alter A hold, i win oi rroiPKMir uoourtcn, ?? i, ~ . , Hie names cf ihe students are 'If a ' ^'0 adelphia, and F.won, of Tt*1] ?j?j}J Undents wore arrested rind ho.. 51,000 each; they found l'(|j'?" 0O~TI barged. The aflair produced! t.ls" LOR an ilCltC- i i nent. Geodiich is not expected^ net at th ioi. j (?7- V Touching Incidents.?Tin T JOHN 1 tal rente* the following touchin! ?(')n ne nt 1 iccted with the burning of ''1(kFpj)a; 03"We : "x: J Des.vuss "Two \ run J ladies, returnB ^ Brnf lt school, were in sight of thi'K j'Jipy ?? Avro roused from their sleep, ajLri (1j elfpossession, seeing that pv||(T)p ?Cy~*M es?, rnlmlv directed ili<*ir-#run^ 'j1? I Me A IT! I iver, that it at least might i for Lanct each their home. Ono|?jft ' ihnt office wisted oft* hy a friend, "j^cr .tn(| ' s,a1"' cissing each other and ,alii|TVr(.u'cll n^!l'"s^ f' l.-y ...a.].- O.o filial trap WE ?n|j vere never heard of aft^1!-V was .. ,, iaind afterwards by their tJi*t!t*i * H:v* ng floalad on shores 1\A "Another: a man, his f_er."in' ?ach other's hands, and lenjtift^Nl' i W carcelv less merciful thn^B^jM^ i LIIUM \l hem into it, and were in^H^v^ I ^heriffof I'lie man was saved hy sN'f" tion. vile and child were lost. * ; |i3=* \y ? -rbaskin. A WORD TO CuH;Ix+n^?^i*L, IXIMOIl 1<>SI. UIl (](T U.lj , .'^"V pouters o| a mlumn $?v*\ 0^7"'I'll tir, Mi Mima Pii.es, or ^QRUIIL (vor ho calls himself, hu^^^^H"0, xVX VrifF of ho editor of the Coniin^^^^^HX' ,^\\\y ion. some of his impu-lct^^^^^Bv'*^ 'a\^Td, Intra South," cy5FIRt riekenry htimlinjrgerie^^^^^^^Bc^ \vs \ 1 "AvV% v\\? \.e ahi ago \VvV^a?'ju yon ? to think that \>'vC\\v hrough the world, c I: e\ ^ ry body, slanderin \ and if anyone \o * of the way, he \ $^>\ Well, thor's all sorts of l&opls iH ;his ?orl(l, and F sposft tlieyV alt jsagPfrBut If d'?e? seem to t"mcthVMf tha? the world would git on jest I \^[j\ if grr'nie uf 'em wasn't in it. I can t 5jyear!_b!y u*i> for fticb fuiil-rnonlhod liipeds ^mpljr Piles,-npr.aicli odurifierfttj* qundru. /as the Prenelnim(?irt'leelle. rabbeet" iinloa?. ;just to mark tfrP^xtrrmes of meanness in f.sJ!csP''CtivR species. The^Post rpan aes 1 iii a w.iir of^n Kas*..-\So. | Extraordinary Circumstance.?:VVe . I the particii'ars of an extraordinary circum- V \t> which lately happened in Glasgow, and *tji may almost he denominated a romance^? > Jile. A person in business died Ittfrly. . *1 life was insured for j?:JO.OO0. fmmedi- . flfter hrs death this.sum was laid clairfj^Cp ?t]less thin |?ree families, consisting earn ~ jjlfo and-childrcn; and what is singular the >a illnily seems not to have been cognizant * J* olhnre^WUicli family is the legitimate , ^ p hoffy tit present can say untjl further in- t^aj p rmade; l:nt it seems that each marriage wm '1 lehrated by a clergyman in this city, and81 J ? re.s liave heen maintained in a re.sperta- r.??g ^ anner. It appears that he was in Uie^ d >l i living a fortnight at a time in each house. ? ii ve ly.?Htlitsgoir (Scotland) Journal. . '<3 yg Nroroks.?The Washington.. C%, fcmtains a list of the convictioi^ii^Jje Court of that city at its Iast p jH^elve persons convicted ""jl j a negroes of the riisTiict. We menthivfart merely to show that what hefe-e stated in reference to the profl gacy ] vicinities* of the free hlnrk population^# Slave^States i< true. That they are no "I >r in l\v? fn'c Slate?. ih" prison statistics of I Kfirliu*u cities will abundantly prove.? 1 have *>fi*ii thought tliat one of the best I is of lir'iirinp the Abolitionist* to theirsen. 1 vnulil brio send the fie* black population of I >!uvp Si'\es to their affectionate embraces. I is way tl.Vy would hare an opportunity of I i?X t;.r? ppctica'ilily of placing them in I Dosition of social an I political equa'ity. for I li they c?if,e:id the negro is fitted. Wo ved recent!; that the grand jury of War. I '.otitily, Georgia, presented the free negro I ation of th:l county as demanding the at. I in of the nutikirities. From other sections I i slave Statertwe hear constant complaints'. I do not the hgMatiirPs take the matter in B and ad >pf mVnsiires to remove the free B t to to the fitte Slates, where, if there is nceril v in the, professions of their peculiar I s, they would be received with open arms !l the privileges r.n-l enjoyment of free (H iship??Wcl V,n Continent. I :idedly Rich!-?Two quaker* in Ver- H bad a dispute; they wished to fight but it H igainst their principles; they grasped H ither. one tlirev? and sat on the back of ler, ana squeezing his head in (he mud fl 'on thy belly shall thnu crawl and dust fl thou eat all the tiny* of thy life!" The soon gained the victory, and when he had d the same position, said,?"It is writ- ^B e seed of the woman shall bruise the ser- fl ID?In Lancaster Dislrct, on Tuesday B iber 9th, in the 56th year of her age, H Elizabeth Rossijs, wife of Isaac Ros- ^fl Uq. The deceitful was a natire of |H uiburg county, ?j. C., but had resided ^B castor Distiict t\L la ; years of bec;,^^^R e time in Noremier hst, at Ptiebla, on y from the City; ot Mexico, whpre he ^H mi with the Palmi'tto Regiment of South 1a Volunteers, nud where he had shared - ^H with that heroic hand, in all their pri. -^B , dangers, and glories, James Pinckisser, of Camden, in the 2Sth year of Bfl is place on Sunday t ight the 26th nil., ^B .u Rossf.k 1 vn. in the 36thyearof his ^fl 'ho deceased was formerly Sheriff of iv District, and hud resided in Camden fl^R twelve years. i? residence in LancaKer District, on ^^B nit., Jekcmiaii CckeEon, Esq., afler ' ^^B ss of several week*, in the 81st year of ^^B leaving a son ami dang iter, and a large ^^R 'friends to lament his <it*ath. ^^B ??* ODo CQo haw Zjcd^c.Kumbor9 flfl Regular Meeting of this Lodge will be fl I at thcirnew Hail in Fridy eveninginurt, fl H irder of the N. G. w T. J. \VARRET, Secretary. he friends of Maj. VVILL'AM J. TAY* flfl mounce him as a candiute for Colo* H e ensuing election. ^^R ?1 t\> arc authorized to aniounce Cant. 1. MICKLEns a candicAte for Colo* 0 ensuing election. JflB are authorized to announip Maj. J. M. flH run, as a candidate for H igadierGenie 6th brigade, at the ousting election, Voter* of LaiifW'c District. I H e arc authorized to anntincp L. R. P'.Ilns a Candidate for Tlx Collector ister District, at the ne.xlrlection f??r And Let no voter doul the result; up lor him like David di| fir Inliah, the champion of thnPhilistines. are authorized to animate Col. S. vnr,r:u. as a candidate fc Brigadier of the ruh brigade, at- tie ensuing H^9 o aro authorized to annonjce Capt S J. WARREN, as a cndidafe for K"rsha\v District, at llm ousting eleco arc authorized to announc TH03. , as a candidate for Sheriff tithe ?n> (i friends of WILLIAM !pDET MB Esq., announce him as a candjatc for Kershaw District at the hsuing Ju!^9. I : AND MARINE INSURANCE * I nsnrance Company, of lYew-^rsey. CHARTERED IS 1832, \ scriber having received the Agteyof tion for Camden and vicinity, \Il recations, and issue Policies at tl|cor11; r? x.nntcrV i/. jauu ??ijju A To Rent, T~ I | ^otyjse on Broad street, now occijied ^\%k!?y. rosscssion given imil-'dU JcvVV^ Cr. BASKl|} Hj I * I