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Supposa^he commuc' y three hundred j thousand instead of three hundred; as they j cannot meet in one body to any good pur- j pose, is not the plain course for them to ap- j point representatives, to do exactly what j they would do themselves if they met indi- i vidua! !y 1 The representatives, meeting for the com- 1 mon interest of the 300,000, would not attend | as the representatives of 1000 only, though ; it might be couvenient to appoint them each j by 1000 electors : but when met they would i be the representatives of the whole commu- ! nitv. * Now suppose the electors from division A should say to their representative, on a great and difficult public question, 44 We have met and considered this subject briefly, but with out the advantage of the facts and documents that you have examined, or the discussions that you have heard ; but we can do without them ; we know enough of the subject intu itively ; and we. instruct you to vote in the affirmative, whatever vour owu opiuion may ? " Very well," says the representative, " you shall be obeyed." The debate comes on. 44 Pray what is your opinion ?" says an uniustructed to the instructed member. 44 1 have no opinion but what mv constituents order me to deliver." * 44 Indeed! I thought you were sent here to afford myself and your other colleagues in formation on this question, after you had du ly examined the documents, evidence, and arguments on each side. Sir, I do not sit here to consult an oak post, devoid of intel lect- Your conduct, sir, is a fraud ou the house ; it is so on my own constituents, who have a right to call on you, not for the crude, hasty resolutions of your people, who have not consulted, and do not possess the neces sary lights to form a correct judgment on , this difficult subject. They have sent you,, ? to hear, to read, to think, aud after much j thought to decide. I am not sent here to I consult with men, whom none of my facts or ! arguments can make any impression ou. ? j Sir, it is your duty to give us, who sit with | you, the full benefit of your own real, delib- j erate, well-informed opinion, and noi. the j hasty determinations of half-informed men. j Sir. you have no right in this house, if you ; will not do your duty when you are in it ; j and your duty here is not that of a parrot, or | a repeating clock, but of an inquiring, anx- j ious, honest man, who gives us, his col- j leagues, the best opinion he can form for j himself, after hearing all that is said, or as j much as he deems necessary for his own convictions. Sir, I should be glad to know of what use to the public would a collection of oak posts be, to occupy our places in this house ? And what else are you ? A VOTER. / TO THE PEOPLE. \ < A few more plain words. My object is to show that by various modes of force or of manoeuvring, the design of Gen. Jackson was, and of Mr. V an Buren is, to seize upon the national treasury, and to keep the money taken from the pockets of the people, in his own. Increase of taxation, and extravagant expenditure follow of course. Gen. Jackson, not being able to bribe or ! overawe William J. Duane, who refused to bend to his purposes, turned him out, and ; 1 pat in the more service instrument, Mr. Ta- , Vney. < S I do not want to enter into the? difficult, question of a natioual bank : but because Gen. Jackson could not bend Mr. Biddle to his purposes, he made war upon Mr. Bid die's Bank. But he declared that he could devise a uational bank that would be free from objections, and answer the purpose of the treasury. No doubt it would answer General Jackson's purposes to strengthen his designs on that Treasury which he had boldlv seized upon; and strange to say, with the acquiescence of a degraded and pusil lanimous people. To the end of his Presi dential period. Gen. Jackson continued in possession of the treasury so obtained* &XC Mr. Van Buren has succeeded torthe pow er and the plans of Gen. Jackson : and by force or by fraud, by manoeuvring, or by the dextrous application of lucrative patronage, his design is to obtain and to keep posses sion and control of the public treasury. To make taxation and expenditure as high as j possible, and to place the custody of the cash within his own absolute command, for his own views and purposes; by the sub Treasury bill ? by the issuing of bills of cre dit under the denomination of Treasury 1 j notes. ^ ^ ^ ?*.?. ^ ^ v j The suh-trea&ury bill enacts, that all the money raised in taxes, (now about 31 mil lions annually) shall be placed in the custo dy of receivers and collectors appointed and removable bv Mr. Van Buren at his own good O will and pleasure. Mr. J. C. Calhoun is charmed with this most effectual and patri otic scheme of LESSENING ! ! ! the pow er, the patronage, and the influence of the president and the federal government. Un luckily, about 23 States out of 26, are ofj opinion, that for LESSENING, we ought I to read INCREASING. However, the j Sub-treasurers need not mind these igno- I rant cavillers, for they have on their side the { enlightened caucus of the last short session i which met under instructions from Wash- ! ington. With such allies, who need be atraid ? All the opponents of the sub-Trea- 1 sury bill at Washington will be struck dumb at the deliberate wisdom of their proceed ings ? the refractory States will be convert ed, and we shall soon see the sub-Trea ^*ry, and the Treasury, and the 31 mil ltons of hard cash, safely and snugly lodg ed under the disinterested superintendance of Messrs. Van Buren, and the worthy gen tlemen whom he will please to nominate as his sub-guardians of the public money. But lest the sub-freasury bill should rail. j Mr. Y\?n Buren and his friends have resort- j ; ed to bills of credit, called Treasury notes. \ Congress may do what the Constitution express')* permits: Congress can do nothing j but what is expressly permitted, or by abso- j lute necessity implied. Congress is permitted by the Constitution, j ty raise mo ney in two ways: 1st. By impost j and taxation. 2d. Bv loan. Of course, these i I being expressly allowed, every other mode j I of raising money is forbidden to Congress, /f he Treasury uotes therefore, are clearly 'unconstitutional. They are a mode of rai sing money adopted by Congress by usurpa tion ; for the power is not to be found in the Constitution. Can you show us the clause Mr. J. C. Calhoun? But the rai sing of money by bills of credit is expressly forbidden in the Constitution. WhaJ is a bill of credit? O A written promise to pay a sum of mOney J at a future time, which proiniso is intended j to be issued as currency to serve y l\eu ofj Victual money now. Cj * f\ ^The Courts of Law have decided (in South i Carolina and Kentucky,) that such a bill is not a bill of credit, unless the Slate is liable (m~the~face~o7r the bill. It is not enough that the^ba'uk, or the officers of the bauk, or the officers of the State, appear to be liable ; the State itself must be so? and must be so on the face of the bill ; for the court can presume nothing but what it sees. It is,true, Judge Marshall is said to have dis sented from the Kentucky case, but I do not know this. There is no difficulty however, in the matter of the Treasury notes : no such objection lies to them; the federal govern met is made liable for their payment. If this be not a persevering plan to get j possession of the purse of the nation, and to keep it at all hazards and by all means, I know not what is. ^ I * *?- , I do not wonder at Mr. Van Buren's per severence in this gigantic plan of preserv ing his power, by having the purse of the nation always at his command ; but that Mr. J. C. Calhoun with equally determined per severence, should aid Mr. Van Bureu to carry this plan into effect, with the avowed intention on Mr. Calhoun's part, to cut oft, to annihilate, to paralyze the enormous in fluence, and patronage of the Executive, is past accounting for. But it is not for us plain people to understand the eccentric course of this strange but eloqueut and in genious man. I leave .his defences to his own K ^ ? QUERIST. > 'or theTelescope.] ? In all the discussions on the sub-Treasury ! scheme, it is taken for granted that the i Banking Institutions of the S'ates have been ! tried and found wanting in capacity to dis j charge the duties of fiscal depositories of the | United States Government. The truth on j the subject is, that the banks have been tried ; as meaus of promoting ministerial patronage, but not as agents to increase jthe convenience of the people, or to secure the safe-keeping of the public treasure. It is worth while to advert to a few historical facts. The Bank of the United States was found utterly deficient in the requisite degree of obsequiousness to General Jackson and his administration: it refused to interfere in elections, or to make use of its influeuce for f the purpose of sustaining the President in his nefarious plan of appointing his succes ! sor. To the ignorance, the recklessness, ! and the unblushing dishonesty of purpose in ; this perverse old man, are to be traced all the evils which, for the last nine years, have af flicted the land. Of all the paradoxes with i which the country generally, and Carolina j most especially, have been cursed, since the I rage for President-making and man-worship first commenced, none has been more fatal ; in its consequences, than the attempt to re store the reign of constitutional liberty thro' the agency of a military despot, who united in his person the imperial will and blind fa voritism of Tiberius, with the ignorance and contempt of popular rights, and the fitful and irregular action, of Caligula. With this ominous reign came increased taxation, un limited and irresponsible expenditure, and a surplus revenue. When, after a good deal of opposition and delay, it was determined that this surplus should be distributed, no ? matter how great the violation of the consti, I tution by which it was to be effected, the ad ' ministration, formerly indeed the propound : ers of the plan, determined, as a rallying ^ point, to render the measure in its practical I operation as odious as possible. Indeed, ' there were enough of inherent difficulties in | the measure itself. The large surplus had [ been deposited in banks, who had loaned the i whole of it to individuals, under the expec | tation that a very considerable period of time j would elapse before they would be required 1 to refund. Iudeed, they had every reason | for this belief; for how could it be imagined ! that they who had denounced the plan of distribution, according to the population, when proposed by the President, would, in : an incredibly short space of time, become its most violent abettors and advocates. A large Giedit granted to an individual, and suddenly recalled, is most commonly at tended with the ruin of the party thus treat ed. Banks form no exception to this rule. The debtors of these institutions, although possessed of large properties, were able to afford them but little assistance. In the West the chief security was land, _ which, though extremely valuable naturally, was wholly unsaleable when suddenly forced up on the market. In New York, the great emporium of the country, fifteen millions of property had been destroyed in one night ; and this, joined to extravagant efforts and boundless expenditures in rebuilding and adorning the city, called for large supplies *t>f currency. Whether in the East or in the West, the ouly present aid was found in in creased emissions. Regarded abstractly, ! and with a bare reference to the quantity of ! the precious metals in the vaults of the banks, an increase of paper might have been pro nounced hazardous. Practically, however, ! the measure was sustained by what had a - | ways been found a safe criterion of the value of paper money ? the capacity of the indus try of the country to absorb the supply I point of fact, none of it returned upon the | banks for redemption. Every one acquaint ed with such subjects, or who will give t era I a moment's serious consideration, must per ceive that bank notes arc subject to the uni versal law of supply and demand; and that as long as they are briskly carried out of the market and thrown into the channels of cir culation, their value will be upheld. If in the face of so obvious a proof any doubt re main on tlie'subject, thete is the broad fact, I that the prices of cotton, that gieat staple, I which regulates the value of every thing else [lin the country, are not at all influenced by any estimate originating on this side of the Atlantic, but by the actual slate of the con sumption in Europe compared with the sup ply. Whatever our sins and omissic .3 on the subject of paper emissions may have been"; it is abundantly plain that they had not and could not have deranged our prices. The standard of these had been fixed by the impartial competition of foreigners, whose vital interests depended upon keeping the value of our products as low as possible. Up to the period when the Treasury Cir cular was issued, it is certain that we had, to say no more of it, a good and sufficient cur rency, yet emphatically resting upon public confidence. What was the effect of the Treasury Circular ? To create alarm in the banks ; to cause them to diminish their dis counts, as the only means of sustaining themselves against the sudden assaults of the Government, and, as a necessary conse quence, to cripple the industry and resources of the whole community. It will be asked, what, could a requisition of eight or ten mil lions of specie in a year cause so much dis tress, when the currency is represented to have been sound ? Undoubtedly. In all such cases, the deficit raises the value of the article, not in direct ratio to the want felt, but in the constantly increasing ratio of competition amon^hose who must obtain it or perish. The dWe#demand for ten mil lions caused an incidental demand for 'at least fifteen or twenty millions more. We were obliged to seek for it abroad, and then fell upon us the great mass^evil. Our fl&stomers, who had calculated on^aying for $fur commodities by an exchange of their own, took the alarm. Gold was sud-lenly enhanced in value, and made the standaid 111' the transfers of our great staple, suddeuly j depreciated fifty per cent, in price. Had that been sustained, the industry of the country had already supplied a fund amply 1 sufficient to meet all its engagements. As ! it was, we were left one whole crop in debt, ' with interest simple, compound, and usuri 1 ?us accumulating upon it. To the knavery | and quackery of the weakest and most cor | rupt administration that ever cursed a suf j fering and unoffending people, may be traced j the desolation that has every where over | spread the land. No swarm of Oriental lo custs, in their noiseless progress, ever scat tered far and wide the same amount of wretchedness. Shall these ventilators of disastrous experiments yet wield their necro mancer's wand? consult the horoscope anew, and gravelv pronounce that the last effort of empiricism shall- prove the crowning glory of their reign ? Shall we have a system of sub-Treasunes, when one dose has prostra ? ted the patient and so shattered his constitu | tion as to render recovery precarious ? Over j fraud and folly like this, does the chivalrous ? Carolina stretch the mighty bosses of her ?buckler? Shall her children cry for food | and she present them with a serpent ? How I are the mighty fallen!" "Tell it not in j Gath, publish it not in the streets of Aske lon, lest the Philistines triumph;" lest the " uncircumcised," of every name and hue of corruption, triumph over her departed glory ! OBSERVER. SUB-TREASURY AND DIVORCE. It is not pretended that the Pet Bank scheme is a divorce of Government and Banks; and we would not have it under stood that we are in favor of that system, in any shape that it has yet assumed. But is the sub- Treasury plan a divorce of ike Gov ernment from the Banks? This is an impor tant question, and ought to be iuquired into. The friends of the sub-Treasury scheme re present it as a divorce, and speak of the two as identical. Mr. Calhoun goes entirely up on this presumption, and assumes, with all the confidence of a self-evident proposition, that the sub-Treasury plan is absolutely a divorce of the Government from the Banks. The Hon. Dixon H. Lewis, in a late pam phlet under the signature of 44 A Nullifier," has made a strong argument in favor of the sub-Treasury project, founded solely upon this baseless assumption ; and the whole party who advocate it take it for granted that the sub-Treasury system is a divorcement. But is this the fact? Or is it not an adroit assumption, very like to Dr. Franklin's as sumption with regard to the fish in the ves sel of water ? Wherein, and by what ima ginable legerdemain, is it a divorce ? Its advocates have never pointed it out ; and if our lives depended upon the issue, we can nor perceive it, or conceive of it. What con stitutes a divorce between the Government and the Banks? Mr. Calhoun has given us a plain answer. In his speech of 1834, which he has often repeated since, he says: "To brin,g up the question fairly and legitimate ly, yon must go one step further ; you must divorce the Government and the banking 3vstem. You must refuse all connexion with banks. You must neither receive nor pay away bank notes ; you must go back to the old system of the strong box, and of gold and silver." And Mr. Lewis contends upon the same premises. Now we would simply ask if to " neither reccivc nor pay away lank notes" ' cons.itutes the essence 6f a divorce, | wherein, and how, does the suf>\Treasury bill befoie Congress promise or affect to ac- j comphsh any such result ? As that bill has i passed the Senate, by a sweeping majority of 37 to 9, (the administration party voting for it,) the hard-money feature is wholly strick en out. And with Mr. Calhoun's clause re tained, only one sixth of hard money is re quired in payment of debts due to the Gov ernment, whilst five sixths may be received j in bank notes. Now wherein, we again ask, | is the divorce of Government and banks to be found in this vaunted sub-Treasury mea sure? If it contains a shadow of power to wards effecting this object, we profess we have no powers of mind by which we can perceive it. And we are persuaded that it is entirely owing to a general credulity, with out examination, taking for granted on trust, that the sub-Treasury project is in fact a di vorce, that the measure has received so much favor in this State as it has done. And the people have been misled for want of a due analysis of the subject, and a proper discus sion of the question. If to " neither reccive nor pay away bank notes " by the Govern ment be of the essence of a divorce, then we must say the sub-Treasury bill, in every shape it has yet had before Congress, is the very essence of a remarriage between the Government and banks; instead of a divorce. The only novelty about it is, that it is a re marriage a la mode Van Buren; and whe ther any better or more indissoluble than the old form, remains to be seen. Call it what you please, it is to all intents and pur poses, if carried, a firm and binding remar riage, according to the law of the land. And it is worse than mockery to attempt to pass it off as a divorce. Thus stripped of its di vorcing virtues, then we would be glad to know on what other merit it is entitled tpour approbation and warmest embraces ? SIMPLEX. [For the Telescope.) The Chronicle of Washington is sorely chafed because the Columbia Telescope charges him 44 with using abolition for politi cal purposes." And yet, in vindicating him self from this charge, in the same article he reiterates additional proof of the fact, and says 41 the public records prove that the Northern Nationals, as a party, in Congress and out of it, are essentially abolitionists." Not a word about the Northern Van Buren party ; but he goes on to ask, " And are we to be denounced ?.s a betrayer of the South because we publish the facts to the world ?" Certainly not, Mr. Editor. But if you are not using the question for political purposes, why is it that for mouths past you have been sedulously endeavoring to spread abroad the impression that fh? Nationals at the North are exclusively abolitionists ; and that the Northern Van Buren party are the natural allies and exclusiv<Sfriends of the South on this question ? If you have no political pur poses to subserve, but are alone actuated for the good of the country, why is it that you publish only half the truth and suppress the other half? Why, indeed, do you try to mislead the people to believe that the North ern Van Buren party are the natural allies and exclusive friends of the South ? Do you not know that there are thousands and tens of thousands of the Northern Van Bu ren party who are as rank abolitionists, and quite as rancorous against us, as any among the Nationals ? You do know it. Then if you have no political purposes to answer, we again ask, why are you eternally harping against the abolitionists of the Nationals, and trying to convey a palpably false impression in favor of the abolitionists of the Van Bu ren party ? This is not the conduct of an honest patriot. He will disclose the whole extent of present and impending mischief and danger, on all sides, as far as he knows it. Your veil, sir, is too flimsy and thin. We see through it, however well you may fancy you have disguised yourself. You have attached yourself to the car of Van Bu ren, fas et per nefas , and therefore all decep tions and frauds are fair. And until you give impartial and ungarbled expositions of this alarming evil of abolition, which you are wont to depict in such formidable and fright ful colors, we shall steadfastly continue to entertain the opinion that you are using it as a stalking horse for political purposes , rather than for the good of the country. As to your allusion to the 44 Washington Editor of the Columbia Telescope," you must be conscious that you are both disin genuous and malevolent. You know your insinuation to be- unjust and untrue. If it is the fixed purpose of yourself and those who employ you to ruin and crush the gentleman to whom you allude, as it is well understood here it ;s your deliberate and concerted de j sign to do, why not show your purpose in a manly and independent manner at once ? Why do you not come out with a bold and open attack, exhibiting his sins and offences i publicly, instead of pursuing the unworthy plan ot sly insinuations and obscure inuen does? Why is every thing enacted covert - ! by dark allusions, on the part of your ; piess, and secret letters of advice and instruc tions on the part of your coadjutors ? Is it ingenuous and worthy of a lofty ambition to attempt the ruin of a man covertly whom I you dare not venture to assail openly and in the face of day ? The designs and manoeu vres of you and your cirque have all along been perfectly well understood, but, from motives which neither you nor they are very capable of appreciating, they have been borne in silence* There is a point, howev er, at which forbearance ceases to be a vir tue, and where resistance in self-defence be comes an imperative duty ; and that point has noio arrived- Intrigues must no longer be carried on in the dark. All masks and disguises must be stripped from those who wear them ; secret belligerency must cease; and if crimination is to be the order of the day, it will be met? if not by recrimination, yet it will be met and resisted, not slily and in ambush, but in open dny and in the open field. We have always deprecated such a contest, and every measure of prudence has been resorted to. on our part to avert and avoid it. But our forbearance and spirit of conciliation have been misconstrued into a sense of weakness or fear ; aud the sly ag gressions leading* to assassination of charac ter have beeu reiterated aud multiplied. Let us now see who fears the contest. Let the assailant and the assailed appear openly upon the stage. This will insure fair play to both parties, which is all we ask. Give to each an equal chance to defend himself, and let the public decide which of the two is most justly deserving of denunciation and proscrip tion. We on our part will most cheerfully abide the award of this tribune, be it what it may. against any further decisions formed iron) ex parte misrepresentations and secret insinuations, we, in the name of a just aud honorable public, most solemnly protest. PHILO FKESTON. BARBECUE MEETING. At a meeting of the citizens of Newber ry and Laurens, at Daniel Cannon's store, (Liberty Hill,) on Saturday the 16th of June; on motion of Daniel Cannpn, Capt. John Epting was called to the chair ? and on motion of Capt. John Epting, William Gallegly was appointed secretary. The object of the meeting having been briefly explained by the chairman, it was, on motion of Jared Smith, 1st. Resolved, That the citizens of New berry and Laurens furnish a Barbecue on the 4th of July, proximo, at Daniel Can non's store, (Liberty Hill,) for the purpose of celebrating the day. 2nd. Resolved, That said Barbecue shall be free, and no precedence be given to any person or persons except the ladies and aged gentlemen. 3rd. Resolved, That the ladies are here by very respectfully and particularly invited to partake of said Barbecue. 4th. Resolved, That we extend a friend ly invitation to every person in the adjoin ing Districts to partake of said Barbecue. 5th. Resolved, That Cape Z. Carwile and Company are very respectfully and frieudly invited to partake of said Barbecue. 6th. Resolved, That Major H. K. Boyd, be appointed reader of the Declaration, and that Col. Simeon Fair and P. C. Caldwell be appointed Orators of the day. 7th. Resolved, That S. L. Davis appoint a committee of 7 persons to carry the above resolutions into effect. Mr. Davis proceeded to appoint the fol lowing gentlemen, as required by the 7th resolution, viz: Col. John P. Neel, Daniel Cannon, David W. Mitts, Capt. John Deen, William Gallegly. Capt. John Epting, and Andrew Turner. 8th. Resolved, That the Secretary have the proceedings of this meeting published iu the Telescope. JOHN EPTING, Chairman . Wm. Gallegly, Secretary, MARRIED, In this town, on the 9th of June, by the Rev. T. Birmingham,' Mr. Owen McKiernan to Miss Eli zabeth Victoria Duput, both of Columbia. ipjuassa ?Tinaffiffisrts COLUMBIA* June 23, 1838. BACHING, Hemp, 18 a 25 BALE ROPE 12 a 1$. BACON, Round, 1* BUTTER, Country COTTON, 7 a MACKEREL, No. 1, $13 a 16 No. 2, 10 a 11 No. 3 74 a 8 FLOUR, Counirv, 850 a 10 CORN, 100 a 106 OATS, 62 a 75 PEAS 81 a 112 IRON, Swedes, 6 a 7 " English, 5 a 12 LARD, New .-...12 a 18 MOLASSES, Cuba 50 a 55 " New Orleans, 50 a 56$ For Sale, A VALUABLE NEGRO, about thirty years of age ; has worked four years at the Carpenter's trade. For terms apply to T. if. WADE. June 23 26 3t Gun Stocking. THE Subscribers would respectfully inform their friends and the public, that having employed a first-rate workman, they are now prepared to stock GUNS of all descriptions in a superior manner and at the shortest notice. Also Double and Single Guns and Rifles made to order. Just received, an assortment of rxtra KEYS, suit able for door, trunk, desk, drawer, and cabinet lock*, which will be fitted to locks of any description. ? Country Gunsmiths can be furnished with every ma terial necessary for repairing or making Gun?, at their old stand in the Masonic Hall. PECKH AM & GEORGE. Columbia, June 23 26 Public Notice IS hereby given, that a special Court for the de spatch of the unfinished business of the Court of Common Pleas for Barnwell District, (South Caroli na,) will be held on the second Monday in July next, being the 10th of said month; at which time and place all persons anywise concerned, Attorneys, Plaintiffs, Defendants, Witnesses, and Jurors, are no tified to attend. By an order of the Honorable John B. O'Neai.l. OKSAMUS D. ALLEN, Clerk June 23, 1838 26 td Fitly Dollars Reward ! RAN AWAY from the subscriber, living near Cullodenville, Geo., on or about the first of May, a negro man named DAVY. He is about 27 years of age, about five feet 8 or 9 inches high, his teeth open in front, having the appearance of having lost one. The above reward will be paid to any person apprehending said Negro, and lodging him in any jail, so that I may get him. WILLIAM A SKINS. June 23 26 It T1 To Builders. IHE Plan and Drawings of the Library of the South Carolina College are left with Color.el Blanding, at the Commercial Bank, where all ne cessary explanations will bo given, and proposals for its cons- ruction wiU be received, till 20th July, when the contract will be mado. ROBT. W. BARNWELL, Chairman of the Building Committee. Columbia, June 23, 1833. 26 JYotice to Sp&rtsmen. THERE has been a great deal of ta.k about shoot ing on the wing, and at flying targets, i&c. with double-barrelled guns. J do banter tor world for $500. J. W. June 23. 26 3t Folock, Solomon, Sc Co. HAVE on hand the fallowing articles, to which they invite the attention of their customer and the public generally, aod offer them for Ittle the usual terms. 600 sacks Liverpool Salt, large sixe 15 hbds. Sugars ; ' ' 120 bags Coffee; - 10 hhds Matanzas Molasses ; 20 bbls New Orleans do, fine \ New Orleans clarified Suijar ; Loafaad Lump do; Crushed do ; Rice, middling and best qualities ; LIQUORS. Champagne Brandy, choico brand ; r ognac do, very old ; Jamaica Rum : Holland Gin ; Peach Brand)', iiuperioj ; N E Rum ; North Carolina and Cincinnati Whiskey. WINES. Baskets and boxes Champagne, choice brands < Madeira and Tenenffe ; Sherry, Claret, and Muscat * 40 quarter casks Malaga, good article; With an assortment of Cordials, Spices, Pickle** Mackerel, Salmon, Soap, Tallow and Sperm Can dles, some extra fine, Stirch, Water and Butter Crackers, Almonds and Raisius, Nuts of various kinds, Spanish Cigars, &c. ALSO, A very superior article, SPERM OIL, (bleached.) BACON SIDES, prime quality, and a variety of other articles, too numerous to particularize. Columbia, June 23, 1838 26 T Fresh Family F lour. HE subscriber has just received 30 barnls of Baltimore superfine fresh family FLOUR, se-. lected by himself, expressly for this mprket J. R. CUNNINGHAM, At B. L. McLaughlin's old Grocery Stand. June 23 * 26 J Fresh Oysters ! ! ! UST received 50 G*lkms of Baltimore OYS TERS, put up in jars of one gallon each. These Oysters are put up air tight, and warranted to keep during the summer ; and moreover have a Havor su perior to any thing of the kind heretofore brought to this market. Apply to J. R. CUNNINGHAM, At B. L. McLaughlin's old Grocery Stand. June 23 26 - ?? ? i ? ' + JLand for Sale . WILL be sold at Auction, on the first Monday in July next, at 10 o'clock, before the Court House in Columbia, a tract of Land, containing 7-1 Acres, near the town? being the iractofland known as Stilman's Land, bounded on the north hy Benja min F. Taylor, on the west by Col. John G. Brown, on the south by John A. Crawford, and on the east by Mrs. Harrison, Colonel F H. Elmore, and Dr% Marks's land. Conditions of Sale : ? On a credit until the first of January next; the purchaser to give his note, with, good personal security, and a mortgage of the prop-i erty. Undoubted titles will be given. JOHN A. CRAWFORD, Attorney for Stilman, June 23 26 T Hem oval. ISAAC C. MORGAN has removed his Printing Office to the rooms in the rear of B. D. Plant a Book Store, at the corner of Taylor and Richardson streets, where he will, as heretofore, attend to oB work in the Book and Job line which he may be 1*-. vored with. June 2o , Fourth of July . HE YOUNG MEN'S SOCIAL CLUB </ Columbia intend celebrating our 63i Natiuna* Anniversary, by an oration and other am>roprif}ie ex< ercises. His Honor the Intendant, the Town Cona-i cil, and the citizens in general, and all those wba may wish to attend at the Baptist Church at 12 are respectfully invited. The members and hoop- - rary members of the Club are requested to meet at the library Room on the morning of the 4th, at 111 o'clock, to form a procession to the church. Punc tual attendance is required. P:M. KNAPP, President. A. L. Kline, Sec'y June 23 26 2t Company Orders. AN Election is hereby ordered for First Lieuten ant of Beat No. I, upper Battalion, 23d Regi ment, to be held at the Market Honse, on Saturday, the 30th instant. Ensign Heise, Edward Brant h* waite, and B. Cousins are detailed to conduct the same, and to make their return as the law directs. T. H. WADE, Captain. June 23, 1838. 26 2t Til Equity. LEXINGTON DISTRICT, Sarah Howard and others ) vs. > Bill for Partition. Wm. Howard and others. ) - , . W>Y virtue of a decree of the Court of Equity in JlB the ahove case, I will expose for sale atpnblio outcry, at Lexington Court House, on the first Mon day in Joly next, the following tracts of land, vis : one tract containing four hundred and eighty-five acres, more or less, situated on Lightwood Creek, in "* Lexington District, bouuded by lands belonging to John Ruext, John K. Johnston, Walter Gantt, and others. One other tract, containing four hundred and ninety-six acres, more or less, situated on Light wood Creek, bounded by lands belonging to John Quattlebaum, Banks Gnnter, and others. Terms of Sale.? Cash enough lo pay the costt of the suit, and the balance on a credit of twelve months from the day of sale, without interest? the purcha ser to give bond with security, and a mortgage of the premises. J. A. ADDISON, C. E- I*. D. June 9, 1833 / ' >24 4t Y1 Negroes Wanted. IIE Subscriber is desirous of hiring 50 or 60 ? . first rate Negro Men to work on the Louisville, Charleston and Cincinnati Rail Road, in tbe vicinity of Columbia Liberal wages will be given. Per sons wishing to hiro will call at the Roil Road Office back of the Commercial Bank. WILSON NESBITT. Columbia, April 7, 1838. 14 Caution lo the JPublte . COMMERCIAL BANK, ) Columbia, Jons 6, 1838. ) IHKRE has beennresented at this bank ft TEN DOLLAR NOTTS, made up entirely of seven pieces cut out of other notes. Some of the note# from which these pieces have been taken have at*> been presented. As the validity of The notes may be destroyed by this fraudalent mutilation, the pub lic are cautioned against taking them. .They are ea sily detected. The bills from which the pieces have been cut are about one inch too short, and ;he place where the piecc has been cut out is readily discov ered on inspection. The bills made up of pieces are of the usual size, but can be detected on theslightest examination. 4t A. BLANDING, President. T' B E stray. ?ROUGHT to mv stable ou the morning of tbi# ? > 12th insi. a BAY MARE, about fourteen handa high, nnd six years old, which the owner n&y get by proving property and paying expenses. MARY G ANDY. Columbia June 16, 1833. Administratrix' Sale* BY permission of Jamis S. Gcicnard, Esq., Or dinary for Richland District, will be sold before the Court House in tbe town of Columbia, on the first Monday in July next, at 10 o'clock A. M., seven and a half shares in the Columbia Bridge Company. -~ Also, a lot of Cast Iron Wheels, being part and resi due of personal estate of William J. Myddelton, de ceased. Terms cash. MARY MYDDELTON, Administratrix of Wm. J. Myddelton, dee'd. By her Agent, PETER J. SHAND. June 16, 1838. 25 General Orders, No. 7. READ QUARTERS, ) Columbia, 1st June, 1838. $ TOffALACHI FORD, Esq. having been elected if JL and commissioned Major General of the 2d Di vision of South Carolina Militia, will be respected and obeyed accordingly. By order of the Com mander-iH chief, /AMES JONE3, Adj't. and Jnspt'r. General,