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(gommcrctni <?our(er. CAMDEN, S. C. JULY 22, 1637 The health of the regular Editor of the Coon- ( ier being such as to require travelling for its benefit, his duties, as intimated las* week, will be j attended to by another. It may be proper to state, hnwnvir. Umt thr? ^nornvemetits of the temporary Editor, arc such as to prevent his attention to any other department of the paper than that which is strictly Editorial- The selections which may be' made, and the final disposition of all communicalions will, of course, remain with the publishers, as they do not come under the eye, or within the. duties assumed by the Editor, pro tem. j We do not recollect ever to have experienced so long a drought, just at this season of the year, when above all others we stand so much in need 1 of refreshing showers. Jt is three weeks since we have had raii\, and not a quantity then; indeed the whole summer has been extraordinarily dry? 1 The corn is much injured, an 1 if we do not got relief speedily, the crops in ihat article must full far short of their usual quantity. We are happy to learn however, that the crops of wheat throughout the whole country, have been abundant; new flour is coining in, and we shall we hope, in a few weeks, be able to procure our supplies at a more - * * ? * * I ?V. ??. 1. n ma in out* rait.- price muii niut wuivu wc utiviv- | fore been compelled to pay. For some time past old flour lias been selling at from twelve to fifteen | dollars per barrel, and hard to get good even at that. | The low price, and limited demand for cotton | had induced us to hope, that our planters would . turn ther attention more to the cultivation o! corn and other provisions, and thus reduce the prices of the necessaries of life, but should the present, drought continue, " the pressure of the times" must become doubly severe. Yet one advantage will ensue from the dry weather, which must compensate U3 for all disadvantages, and that is the health of our town. We have never known a sickly fall to Succeed a dry summer. Since writing the above we have been visited with a most delightful shower, which, we hope, may prove the precursor of better times. Much good will no doubt result from the rain of Wednesday afternoon, but every thing in the shape of vegetation had been so parched and dried up, that it will require a great deal of rain to restore them. A letter now before us from a gentleman in Columbia, under date of the I8lh inst, says, " we are very dry about Columbia, crops are almost drying up for want of rain." _ We have received the first number or a new paper, published in Charleston, under the title of " the Charleston Examiner." We see neither the Editor proprietor, or publishers name, but from the tenor ot its contents we take it to be the work of the Rev. Tiieopiiii.us Fisk, a clergyman of the Universalist Church, who has recently rendered himself somewhat notorious in Charleston, on account of his fanaticism on the subject of Banks and Banking. FATAL ACCIDENT?Mr. R.J. Montgomery, cnly son of Dr. Montgomery, of Lancaster district, while bathinrr ?? ? '** ? miles 1>??o,v Rocky Mount, was unfortunately drowned, on Saturday last. The deceased wc are informed, accidentally, while wading about among the shoals, Gtcpped into a deep pool, and although an expert swimmer, it ia supposed, became so strangled as to be unable to exert himself. Every exertion was made by his companions to extricate hun, bat in vain. Thus in the morning of life has a promis* ing young man been cut off; truly may it be said that, " in the midst of life, we are in death." David J McCord, Esq. has been elected President of the Branch of the Bank of the State of South Carolina, at Columbia, in the place of Tiios. Harrison, Esq. resigned. The celebration of our National Anniversary, we perceive by our exchange papers, has been ' attended in different parts of the country, with the usual number of accidents from carelessness in the use of fire arms. Some have been killed and a great number injured in various ways. C. C. Cambrelf.ng and Jamf.s VV. Bryan, both natives of North Casolina, are tho sole candidates f Ar /WVAan */v MAMMnnnM* I ? ?/> rt ^ f l? A vuw?itaa} iu irpiranu llic iiiwhoib v/i uiv wards in which they reside, in the city of New York. The emigrating citizens of North Carolina, may say with more truth than those of any other with whom we are acquainted, "that a prophet is not without honor, save-in his own country." Our exchange papers have been remarkably barren for the last week ; indeed we see nothing in them but articles under such heads, as "the pressure," "the remedv," and " tiie currevcv," none of which have we read, much less will we trouble our readers with our thoughts on these subjects, as they are, no doubt, well informed in relation to all of them, from the lucid views of our various correspondents on these interesting questions. FROM FLORID\. The number of statements about the Florida War are so numerous that it would be an endless undertaking for us or any newspaper, to publish everv tiling we see i * ? and hear. By the following account,' which we received from the Savannah Georgian, we arc informed that another engagement took place a few days since between some Mounted Floridians and a party of InJians. " We learn font a passenger arrived yesterday in the steamboat Santee, Capt. Poinsett, from Black Creek, that a skirmish took place, about ten days since, on the West side of the Suwannee, between a company of mounted Floridians, under the command of Col. Mills, and about 25 Indians, supposed to be Creeks. The bo-! dies of two of the latter killed were found and marks of blood were discovered of others wounded, or killed, that were taken , away by the Indians. Two ponies were J also taken. One of the whites is said to have been wounded. j Our informant derived his information from Col. Warren, at Jacksonville, who had just received a letter from Col. Mills,; giving the above information, as the San-; tee was about leaving the wharf, and may/ be relied on as correct. We have obtained no other information 1 by this arrival." A passenger in the schr. Samuel S.Mills, arrived here yesterday from St. Augustine, J has obligingly furnished us with the following intelligence: Information was received at St. Augustine,' from Fort King on Thursday, slating that a gang of Indians. 17 iu number, had surren-1 dered at the latter place. The Indians visit their friends freely, and say they have strict orders from their Chiefs not to molest the , whites. It is Gen. Jesup's plan to keep them quiet during the summer season, and in the mean time, he is endeavoring to post the troops, as far as is consistent with a due regard to their health, so as to hold them in readiness to act as circumstances may require. . We learn also that Capt. L. Gilliland, of i Alachua, was murdered at Jtelioluckney 1 Springs on Thursday last. His horse was found dead on the road from Suwannee to ' Newnansville, with his hat and blanket lying beside the horse. On the information reaching Newtinnsville, a party was sent out to search for his body, which was found scalped.?-[Char. Cour. Communications. For the Courier. Mr. Editor?In your Courier, of the 8tii inst., 1 find a communication, in reply io * i risis iNo 1., o\cr the signature of "An Old Farmer.' This writer contests the correctness of tny article throughout, at least, so lur as the Administration is concerned?hut in language respectful and gentlemanly, ills right to correct error is not questioned. Hut *'An Old Farmer*' says, he .agrees with me that the pressure began in England, and that "lie has no doulit" of the relation and affinity that exists between us. "it is a fair and reasonable deduction then, that, we might have caused it from our commercial connexion, as well in England, as in New-YorV. But " he says," he cannot concur in assuming that the administration is responsible to the country for the present .state of lllilias. for tin* fnllnwinf* O > ...0 av>i?^>wt?0. And first of all, '1 know of no policy in this government to drain specie from Europe, nor has it directly done so, except in that so justly exercised with France, and which, I h.-pe the ''Young Planter is not prepared to censure." Now, unless I have been grossly' misinformed through the medium of thej pu he prints, there has been a large amount of coin iivpnrti.j. "'.iloli o?i.?>.lo. lug our great indebtedness, might have contributed to "sh ke the ba-is of the cuironcy in England" and thereby cause n demand upon us lor specie. But to have produced a result of such startling magnitude as the present calamity, there are doubtless, various causes. The most of these measures have been enumerated itt a former number. And with my present information, it strikes my mind forcibly, that the removal of the Dcposilcs was the most potent, first cause. The deposite of the public funds in the Pet Banks, and their subsequent transfer and division nmnnir llin /I ifF.. >? .? W ?? l~.l < fe ?..w U.UVIVIIV UllllC^ Itiu l< 9 i| HUUO Ol things, which "An Old Farmer" so much depreciates, to wit: Inordinate Hank issues, and the great expansion of the credit sysiein, without an adequate specie hasis. And again lie says" (speaking of the f<?ur millions) "how is it invested in the most unhallowed speculations in the West, bare assertions are neither triumphs or proofs." Very true: but it would be necessary to send for "persons and papers" to substantiate the charge to conviction, against any of our public functionaries, and having no such power, I dismiss this branch of the subject with the following remarks: some of the Agents of the (Jovernment have been directly charged with such speculations? and I ask, if certain questions proposed by Mr. Wise, before the investigating committee, raised by I'ougress; and the answers to the same being objected to by the friends of the Administration, does not lead one to believe that there is something "rotten in Denmark " And furthermore, the disbursement of the public funds by the Pet Banks, led 10 an unoue facility to procure money. And 1 muot concur with "An Old Farmer" that there has been rninmi? Bnnnilatmnu and some overtrading"?hut when that is urged as the cause of the dis ress, I mnsi1 record my dissent. 'J'liere is a primary j moving Ciiiise tor eveiy thing?let us probe the matter, and see if the government had no agency in it. And I think it would appear, that it was not simply the forty millions employed i? the West; but actually- that, sum multiplied. To enforce this view of the j subject, I will suppose B. to draw $5000 from the Bank to-day. Tomorrow, he may go to the Land OlFtce, and enter his loca lions paying up the money. This sum is transferred lo the Bank again, perhaps in a few days, and by this transaction, it becomes: public deposites, to be loaned out to C. or I any other applicant. The Banks could thus ' encourage adventurers in speculation, and j by this short process, in turning over the public funds, augment them to an incredible , amount. Arid besides, it is probable1 that they might have issued paper upon | the faith of these depositea, but of that, I cannot speak in the affirmative. Am! neither, is it material, whether they did or not, as the Pet Banks, had a fund not easily, exhausted, ns exemplified hy the above. These Banks, by their lucili ties,and exclusive power of multiplyin theg deposiies, perhaps created two hundred millions of dollars of imlividuul debt. And this was putting as it were, so much I lictitious capital ailnat, beyond the actual wants of the community. And its influ- < cnce was felt throughout the United Stales and even in England. Money seemed for a time to have lost its value ; property went up to a price beyond all former example. In South Carolina. we Km! to iriv#. * ~ b* * Alabama priced, or not buy at all. And ( it " was bay day with us ; wc thought we were going on swimmingly,'* as 4< An Old I Farmer" very justly remarks. But lo ! this wealth was artifical ; the currency of! England and American credit had received a shock, and it became necessary for us to remit specie in payment of our debts our inability to do so creates a panic?our j great staple, cotton, declines. And the j government, as if bent upon our destruction, instead of coming to the relief ??f our sinking credit, issues the treasury order, which was the application of a match to the train, expl jding in the ruin of our credit abroad, ami the circulating medium at home. But again he says, *( has not the administration done all that could be done, to prevent these unhallowed speculations in the West; was the specie circular calculated to favor them, and how!" I answer no ; but I suppose it was intended as a check. At.d to adopt an old adage, 44 the remedy is v.orse than the disease." The doctor's mode of treatment counteracts the intended good ; his corrective has. killed the patient. But again " A \ Old Farmer" says, "was ..I IT. ?_J C . t, t * I urn iiiu uii.icu o nies naiiK an unconstitutional, arislocra^eul monopoly, in diameirira! opposition 10 the rights of tho states and the very genius of our free institutions. I hope the Young Planter will answer these questions, and show us the constitutional right of any such monopoly." I do not conceive that there is any express grant of power in the constitution for a National Bank. But, the power is explicitly conceded to Congress, ' to coin money, and to regulate the value thereof, and to pass all laws to carry the same into ellect." And the right to charter a Bank was claimed as incidental, and sanctioned from the necessity of the ease. We have had an institution of the kind near forty years, approved by former Presidents, and sustained by the supreme court. And in my opinion, the country must come to it again by an amendment of the constitution or otherwise. The attention of 44 An Old Farmer" is invited to the following extract, from the report of a Jackson committee in the Senate. 44 We are satisfied that the country is ill lllf? II I t \ V 111 /> It f ill' ?1 II I, i I*. ? f. nuli.inol I currency not only sound and uniform in i itself, and perfectly adapted to all the purposes of the government, and the community, but more sound and uniform than? that possessed hy any other country." I There is, however, superadded to this! currency a general currency, more known,: more trusted, and more valuable than the | local currency, which is employed in the exchanges between different parts of the country. These are the notes of the National Bank. lit no other country can a merchant do what every citizen of the United S ates can do. Deposite for instance his silver at St. Louis, or Nashville, or New Orleans, and receitc notes which he can carry with him 1000 or 1500 miles, to the Atlantic cities, and there receive for them an equivalent amount of silver, without any expense, and in no possible event, an expense beyond a quarter of one per cent. This seems to present a state of currency as near to perfection as could be desired, &.c. &c. In 1833 the deposites were removed, and the war commenced with the United States Band?and subsequently the Benlo-1 ii i a. n project of the " gold htimbuji*" We] have the issue, present and palpable?a deranged currency, the precursor of general bankruptcy. A YOUNG PLANTER. LETTER FROM RED RIVER. SiiREvtPORT, June 30, 1837. Dear Sir?Since mv letter to you from this place, I have made a visit to the raft, crossing the river into the parish of Ulai borne, proceeded about fifteen miles, having to swim my horse over some half dozen bayous, which are outlets from the river into lake Uistencati. The country on this side the river to a considerable extent is overflowed at an ordina y high stage of water; ihn however will be obviated as soon is thr 'imber from the raft can be floated in the oayous, so us to create dams, thereby force the current of the river into its old channel. Some extensive | plantations heie present themselves, o ?cn-| ed recently by South Carolinians, who give to the Red River swamp, a preference to uplands of equal quality. Planters accustomed to r'ncr lands will not bei convinced of advantages attending upland j CUI II VU IIUII. The raft represents a body of timber wedged and piled together in a singular chaotic state ; trees of the lirg'-st stature stand erect, buried to a great depth in the alluvial ; in many places masses of timber for thirty and forty feet deep, the arcumu* lation of ages, with large trees grown up, firmly rooted in the di composing mass. The enoi mons quantity of timber cut out in the distance of five miles exceeds credibility. The body of logs floated, hauled and piled to form a dam over one out let only, would have required, without the aid of steam, the labor of an army for years ; dead trees of solid timber ten to fifteen feel in circumference, are torn oui of the beds in which tliey have been resting for ages sawed up and disposed of as though they were but walking sticks It is supposed that the raft will be sufficiently cleared out to admit small steamboats through, a few weeks after ilie work is rngaged in next fall. This however I much doubt?the great freshet of I&33 will be found to have knit the accumulation of the last 10 or *^0 years into an ex-! cceding compact body. The removal of the raft was a prodigious undertaking, it extended for a distance of neai ly one hundred and fifty miles. Some years previous to Capt. Shreve's report on the practicability of making Red River navig-ilde through the raft, the government made efforts to open a barge1 navigation, and expended considerable sums of money. A canal v\ ascnt connecting j two bayous in the Caddo nation, bv which I " " means u large body of water from the river above the raft, found free access into Caddo lake; this lake being sui-winded by low lands was greatly increased in extent, it may now be two hundred miles or more ' in circumference, it is divided under dif-. fcrent names, for instance. Black, Soda, Cassa and Ferry lake, all counected by inconsiderable straits; they err.pty into; the river through two large bayous immediately above Shreveport. The land surrounding these bodies of water, is of the first order. The surveyors of the government are running the section lin* in the north part of Louisiana ; ihey have recited the 33d degree of not h latitude on the SabnC river; a north line from that point touches the west< rn extremity of Ferry lake, and in continuation will run to Pecan Point. For some time past apprehensions have existed on the part of the settlers in Texas near the line, that the Caddo Indians were unfriendly, and from the circumstance of the late Indian agent, having in a i'tiv-j merit on account of the United States, passed on them, instead of ten thousand dollars in cu-li, some fifteen hundred dollars worth ol goods, such as gun?, powder and lead; they may have reason for apprehension. The Indians sold their land in good faith, and when informed that half dozen boxes of goods was their j pay, and ail that they would get, suj.p is- d themselves compelled to take them or jc i nothing. A gentleman informs nic thai ; the whole transit lion has been brought lo the notice of the proper department at Washington; if it has n??t, it should hi. and see what this may produce ; Indians incensed ; wronged they know they have been ; they cannot understand that the in dividual, the agent, is the on'v one in j fault; they charge it to the while men. and will probably wr^ak on the frontier | settlers their vengeance ; and, we forsooth must then turn and < xterminate them. It was had enough to take from them their country, hut tho man >vli?? w-ull <]* prlit* .hem of the paltry sum tvh i ll was ea 1 d oaytneul, and gitc them instead, a few, guns, power Jind lead, must be unli. for a government agent. It is not astonishing that the Texas executive shotdd e\press] surprise at the United States giving munitions of war to a tribe of Indians provcr bially hostile ! Yours, &<\, Lady Scott.?Loeknart gives the following description of Ludy Scott in her youth. 41 Without the features of a regular beauty, she was rich in personal attractions; a form that was fashioned as light as a fay's; a complexion of the clearest and lightest olive ; eyes large, deep-set and dazzling, of the finest Italian brown ; and u prolusion of.silken tresses, black as the raven's wing ; her address hovering between tin tescrve of a pretty young Englishman who has not mingled largely in general society, and a certain natural arci ness and gaiety that suited well with the accompaniment of a French accent. A lovelier vision, as all who remember her in the bloom oi her days have assured me, could liar .ly have been imagined ; and from that hour the late of the young poei was fixed." Coisg thk 1100. ? There is nothing like keeping cool in such times as these. A man that is melting with the heal of the sun, and swea ing under the thousand calamities that llesh is h< ir to, in these hard and moneyless ti nes, if lie yields to his natural impulses, and gives way to the feelings that beset him, will very soon fi.ul himself totally evaporated. The thing is bad enough in ail eouscieme, but wh\ make it worse by indulging in unavailing ami useless repinings? The causes of the present suffering are known to every one that will open his eyes wide enough to look truth in the face. But for the present this knowledge does no kind of good. The cure is the thing. A drove of hogs once broke into the corn field of an acquaintance <f fins which, when discovered created quit* asensation. The old man, his wife and children hastened to Mw> fenro?;? <1 way commenced a di pute as to how the quadrupeds had got i i. From \vor Is a id mutual recrinii iations, they soon ca e to blows, and while engaged in this sport the hogs destroyed the whole of the grain. N??w, it w as important to find the break in the fence and rebuild it, but it was first of importance to drive out the hogs. Well let us keep as eool as possible, look this present calamity in the face with as much philosophy as possible, drive the whole Hogs out of the field, put up the fence, and in future guard well the corn. 1 .. * 1 This will not b* well done, if we fly into ' a thousand passion*, and because we are ? oppressed, run to more severe and lasting evils in search of a <fcure.?Columuus ?ff* puirer. Oflice of the Baltimore American, 1 July 13. i , T;vo immense Russian merchant ships? the burtiieu of each being nearly one thousiud tons?entered our harbour on Tuesday from Mremen. ; They have oil board bout 40,000 bushels of wheat, and 12,000 to 15,000 bushels of rye, besides seven linn Ired and foilv passengers. The New York correspondent of the National 1 l-eiligencer, estimates the import of foreign wheat into the United States, within the year at five millions of bushels. loiiiiaBCS'cial. l.ntesi dates from Liverpool, ... . June i. Latest dates from Havre, June 7. BALTIMORE MARKET, July 16. Howard street Flour ?The receipts continue to he very light. With the exception of a parcel of 300 bbls sold in the earl; part of the week at $8 f>0, the sales have been roe fined to retail lots at $9. The wagon price is a b 2f?. Corn.?In the early part of the week rales of whrte corn were made at 5?3 a "'fie and yellow at 97 b 100c Since then the i.upplies have fallen off, increasing the value of the parcels which have occasionallv arrived. Sales of white were made yesterday at 100c. and of yellow at 103c. To-day sales of white were made at. 10<ic, and of yellow at 10oc. There is none now afloat in murket. NEW YORK, July 16. Cotton.?A fair business continues in cotton, chieflv for exportation at a 1-4 ct reduction, on account of the news from llavry. LONDON, June 2. Cotton.?Dull as for rome ?iuie pact. The transactions lor the week are only 2 )0 bales mitfdling to fair Sural at 3 3-bd to 4 l-2d, and 170 bales good Madras, at C U-tfd per lb. HAVRE. June 7. Cotton ?There has been a 6teady demand throughout the last eight days for this article, on the part of the Trade, and we have to no; ce an advance on the worst qualities of U. S. short staph*. 7 to 10 centimes per 1 2 k, from toe lowest rates at which these sorts had fallen. The other descriptions of the same cottons have experienced utile or no rise; hut their ptices have become mere regular. n&Uilcn Price Current. SATURDAY, July 22, 1837 Cotton, - - - - - - 7a 10 Corn, per bushel, - - 110 a 1 GO Flour, country, per Larrel, 12 00 Northern, do - - M a 15 00 Sugar, per ib. - - - - - ci> a 12 GO Coll' e, " - - - - 14 a 16 Brt'on, " - - - ? - 12 1-2 o 15 SaO, n*r sack, .... $3 n 3 50 Fodder, per cwt. - - 1 25al 37 Whiskey, - - - - - -40 a 50 Chickeus, - - - - - 18 a 30 19 Buv.er, - - - - - 18 a 2;> Beef, - - - - - - - 8a 10 REMARKS i COTTOJY.?There is but little doing in the Cotton market. I Cony.?This article is scarce and in demand. We quote $?1 40 a ?1 50, out of the wagons. Bacov.? We qu.ne ihis article tiom the wagons : nl 10 1-2 a 12c pn pound. ; Flocu?Couutrv.?ThiB article in very eca'ce, ' ami in demand. We quote from the wagons ?12. Two or three loads ol ihe new erop have come in this week and was sold at the above quotation. Laud.?This article ranges ironr 10 to 12i-2ct3. per lb. raMlE ORATION of JAMES CUE" NUT, is. 8 is just printed, and for sale at Mr. Alexander I1 Voulie's Book Store, at Mr. J. L. Jones' Store, and at this Offie.c. : ^"^OTTON SAW GINS.?The subscriber con! Unites to manufacture the above article on the most upproved plan Old Gins carefully repa red \c die. Early applications best suit tho ! interest of the planter and manufacturer. July 22, 12 tf JOHN WORKMAN. , ITEW FLOUR B \ RRELS FOR SALE?100 New Flour Baucis made at Carter s Mill. For sale low, by I*. F. V1LLLP1GU E. July 22, 12 2t (1AMDEN MADE NEGRO SHOES?The j subscriber having purchased the Shoe establishment of J. Bishop v Co is now ni. nutacturing a superior article of Negro Shoes which Planters will do well to examine hplnn. n.nlrin.. gageinents for their I-nil supply. Any number of pairs wil be furnished deliverable on the 1st Oct. July 22 12 ti GEO. ALDEN. T1 iE suecessof the SOUTHERN TONIC is unprecedented. It lias neen anxiously sought aher by ail persons in evi rv pari of the United Sla e-, and its widely ex'cndcd distribution lias been owing to the man, requests received Irom every section of the South and South West Alt.i ugh n or ginatcd in an > b>cure p rt ol the country Lot a tew years since, it is now fuind in all tho priiu ipol towns and vil'iges in the Union, and its v.rtius as a cure for Ague and Fever, and on a gener ?1 Tonic, are appree at? d by all who have Used it Being as it professes a compound of Southern Vegetables, it is needless to otter the assu-anee that there is no Arsenic,Mercury nor any thing in the least hurtful to the humnn constitution in it It will be found a valuable Medicine in all cases of Dyspepsia and disorganised Stomach and ttowelsl and patients convalescing from Eillioui. Fever, will derive the most important benefits from the use of the Southern Tonic. It may be administered to children and infants of the most | tender age with the utmost safety. Prepared by . Coster audCoxc at their Labratory, at MonlgomeI rn Alulinmsi' Pnr nnle Ki? llioii1 onnnini?/l ?nmr,t J AM ES" 'fir M K AfN." ' June 3 1 tf ? ? . I ? Stale of South Carolina?Kershaw district. C. C. Campbell & Co. vs. J. G. Clark. Ca. sa. in case. J. G Clark, the defendant, who is in custody of the Sheriff of said distri t undei a ca. sa. issued at the suit of C. C. Campbell 4* Co., having, in order to entitle himself to the benefit nj the act entitled "an act for the more effectual relief ot Insolvent Debtors," filed n schedule of his whole real and pe.sonni e tate in the clerk s office oi the said dia* trict. N tice is hereby given to the said C. C. Campbell <Jfc Co. und all singular the creditors of the said J. G. Clark, personally or by attorney to appear at the Court of Common Pleas at Kershaw Court House before one of ihe Associate Judges of the said State, on the fourth Monday in Octobef n* xt, at which time and place the sn d J. G. Clark will apply for his discharge under the said act, to shew cause if any they can, against the said discharge. J.W.LANG. July 21,1837 12 3m Clerk c. c. y.