Edgefield advertiser. (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, April 26, 1838, Image 2
Dmoasuc'Wetvs,.
Head Quarterisof theArmy,
Adjuti antGeneral's Oice,
WAN5U5 TOW, April 10, 1888.
OKNIAL OnIKas,
No. 7. 5
1. Major General JesupJ)aving reported
that the operations in Florida will have
terminated by the 1st of May, and that a
portion of the troops will be disposable, the
following arrangements will be carried into
effect as soon thereafter as practicable.
ii. The 1st and 6th regiments of Infantry,
the six companies of the 2f Infantry, and
four companies of the 2d Dragoons, will
constitute the regular force to remain in
-Florida, with as many companies of the
volunteers or militia of the Territory as the
officer in command may deem necessary.
The three companies of the 6th Infantry,
now in Louisana, will forthwith join the
Head Quarters of the regiment at Tampa
Bay
Ui. The fourth regiment of Artillery, the
4th regiment of Infantry, six companies of
the 2d Dragoonsi, and "the detachment of
Marines, will repair to the Cherokee coun
try by the most converient and expeditious
routes from the several points at which they
may be found ot the receipt of this order.
The troops, as far as practicable, will move
by regiments, and be accompanied by all
the officers belonging toench. Should any
of the companies ordered to the Cherokee
country, occupy stations in Florida fromn
which theyshould not be immediately with
drawn, they will continue in position until
they can be relieved by the troops designated
to remain in the Territory; after which rol
low their rekiments without delay, it being
important to concentrate the companies of
each regiment.
V I. Two Surgeons. -nd as may assistants
as the service may require, will be retained
in Florida, to be selected from those who
have served the shorcest period in the Ter
ritory. All other officers of the Medical
Staff will proceed With the troops ordered
to the Cherokee country.
V. Major General Jesup will take all the
necessary meastires for the prompt execution
of this order, and will then turn over the
command of the troops in Florida to Brevet
Brigadier General Z. Taylor, Colonel of
the 1st infantry; and on being relieved, lie
will repair to the seat of Government, and
resume the duties of Quarter Master Gen
eral.
VI. The officers at tihe heads of the sev
eral branches of the staff will make the
necessry arrangements for moving and
supplying the troops on their routes to their
destination, and for the service in which they
are to be employed
VI 1. Major Gen. Scott is assigned to the
immediate command of tie troops ordered
to the Cherokee country. and the direction
of afthirs in that quarter. The commanders
of regiments and detachnments ivill report to
his head Quarters at Athens, in Tennessee,
or whereevcr else they may lie established
at tie time.
By order of Alexander Maeomb,
Major General Commanding-in-chief,
R. JONLdS, Adjutant General.
SAvANNAr, April 13.
FRoM FLoRIDA.-The ateatmer William
Gaston, Capt. Freeland, n'rriVed yesterday
aflernoon from Garey's Ferry, (C[arksville)
E. F.
From Capt. F and a passenger in the
Wm. Gastou, we learn, that the planters
have abandoned tihe crops between Fort
Harlee, Miennopy and Ncwnansville, and
had gone into the torts for protection.
An Express rider, it is said, vas recently
shot in an arm withmin a mile of Fort Har
lee, on his way to Micennopy, and Newnians~
ville, but made his escape beck to tihe fort.
On Monday, two men named Snowdetn
atnd Tomwnsend, were murdered on New
River, 12 miles from Fort Hlarlee, by a par
ty of Indians.
Col. Sanchez, on Friday last, was driven
- frotn his plantation by a party of 18 or 20
Indians, tand had gone to Newnansville.
From our valued corresponident inm Florida,
we aiso learn thmat on the 4mlm inst. Alligator
came int to Col. Taylor at Fort Biasinger,
and stated that lie had buried the hatchet
forever. lie Jeft on the samec day fur his
fanmily.
It is thoumght that time prospect of termi
natinmg existing dillicuimiesis more fRivorable
mow than ever. More, however, will be
knownm in a few days.
A detachment of time 2d dragoons, left
Fort Brooko on thec 5th instant for Black
Creek.
The 4th inmfanm'ry tundmer commtand of Col.
Foster, arrived at Fort Brooke on the same
day, and three comnpanmies of 3d infantry,
under the comnmatid of Major Reiley, were
to have left Fort Brooko on time 19th inst.
for Micanopy.
WVe were yesterdamy gratified to see a
hotse, with chimneiys standing. steadhily
moving up Southm Bay street, having alrea
dy proceedled upwards of 700 feet, atnd, in
time coutrse of the wseak, to lbe taken near
1000 feet further, to a new site. Tme liro
eess by which this removal is necomplished
is simple, but its practical exhibition, has,
we beiheve, never before taken p lace in
Charleston. We have freqtuently observed,
m tihe Northmerni papers, statements of tihe
removal of brick btuildings, chitmneys and
furmture standing, and time occupanits en
gaged in their musumal avocations; and on
mnentionmng the circumstanmce to the ingeni
ins, operator, engaged in this undertaking,
he in formed us that he had' frequently re
muoved buildings in that way. We woumld
advise our citizemns to take a view of this,
wmth us, unusual operation. Trho owvner
stattedi that te dmy and dusty weather'-only,
prevenited him from having the house paint
edi, inside andi outt, whmile on its toeyage...
Chsarleston Courier.
Moving Buildinga.-Mechanical feats in
time wvay of moving large brick biuildinigs are
constantly goimg on. The great house of
time Dispensary int Cenutre street, has been
some ten feet, without injury. A large store
ont the south side of Ftulton Market is now
on time screws, and is to be raised three feet.
T1here are a hmunmdred and fifty tonis oftobac
co in time lofts, whlichm it'was not thouight
necessary to take out.-V. Y. Jour. Corn.
The State of Ohio is said to have more
children in proportion to time numnber~ of in
habitats tihan any otme ,atitt:...ri.
Fei eWCrreappenee 0"s Chadrleston Mer.
WAsatRorot, April 10.
The Navy Bill and the Exploring Expe
dition were the principal topics of discussion
In the House to-day. Mr. Sergeant, of
Pa., made an animated und strong speech
in favor of the Expedition, and Mr. Wise
spoke in opposition to it. It appears to be
very certain that we have already spent se
ven or eight hundred thousand dollars in
the enterprise; and that, if we prosecute
it, we must spend as much more, and with
out any good results. Our navy is too
small and too factious, and too badly man
aged by Government to be efficiently or
useful in any undertaking. Were we again
to be involved in war, the Navy would, it
is feared, lose some of the laurels which it
formerly acquired.
APRIL 14.
In the Senate, to-day, Mr. Walker made
some enquiries of the C(hairman of the
committee of foreign relations. (Mr. Buch
anan,) as to the course of the Government
in regard to the outrage on an American
vessel by Mexico.
Mr. Buchanan replied, that the relations
of this Government towards Mexico were
of such a nature, that they admitted of but
one step, and that was a declaration of war,
or some measure akin to it. Such a step,
however, must be proposed only by the
House of Representatives, and he presum
ed that the Committee of the House would
make an early report in regard to it.
Mr. Clay of Ky., accused the Adminis
tration of some precipitancy in regard to its
demands on Mexico,and
Mr. Benton defended the course of the
Administration by a rererence to the nature
of our demands on Mexico. The conver
sation, which w as altogether informal, here
dropped.
'1 he bill to rednce and graduate the price
of the publierlands was taken up, and Mr.
Clay, of Ky., spoke at length in opposition
to it.
In the House, the motion to discharge the
committee on the District of Columbia,
from the further consideration of the resolu
tion to re-cede the District of Columbia to
the States of Maryland and Virginia, was
taken up, and on motion of Mr. Bouldin,
the whole subject was laid on the table.
But Mr. Wise earnestly protested against
this course, and appealed to the Southern
members 'particularly to support a motion
to re-consider, for the purpose of referring
the subject to the Committee of the Whole
on the Union. lie said the subject otaght
to be fully discussed, and that it should be
decided whet' -r the Abolition excitement
should be in titls way put to rest or not.
As long as the District remained in its pre
sent political condition, so long would Con
gress be harrassed with abolition memo.
rials, &c.
Mr. Bouldin remarked, that the question
would open the whole Abolition subject.
Mr. Adams said it would not onlv involve
the question of holition, hut the propriety
of the removal of the seat of the Federal
Government.
Mr. Harlin moved to reconsider the vote
laying the subject on the table, and
Mr Mason of Ohio, moved to lay this
motion on the table, which was agreed to,
Yeas 82, Nays 62.
CNIALLF.JGEs Dunrs.-The Senate took
-Op, on itshirdeaihobr~ iatob4PhMbWI
the giving and accepting of challenges to
duels in the District of Columbia, for the
punishment thereof.
Mr. Clay. of Kentucky, said that lie had
takei no part heretofore in the debate to
which this bill had given rise; but his silence
did not proceed from any indifTerence which
he felt to the laudable object which the
Senator from Vermont, (Mr. Prentiss) pro
posed to accomplishi by its introdtuction.
No man would rejoice molre sincerely than
he should, in witnessing the absolujte sup
pression, forever, of the unjustifiable p~ract ice
which the bill denounces and seeks to dis
countenance. But (Mr. C.) thought that
the object of legislation, on this st.bject,
shotuld be dereeted to the correction and
purification of public opinion. Jn sections of
the Union, where the practice was not tol
erated, it was public opinion that kept it
downi bp discouraging a resort to comblat to
avenge or settle personnl injuries. There
it was no disgrace to dcclinec such a comn
bat. The man who should decline it wvas
more, certainly not lcss, respected thtan if he
had engaged in it. But it wvas otherwvise
in those rcetions where the practice pre
vailed. In these, the man fights a due!, actsa
tinder th~e constraint of putblic opinion,
which- brands him with cowardice and dis
honor if _he does not resent, wvith spirit, a'
personal itsult or wrong. There the alter- I
native presetnted to a person of honor and
of nice sensibility is whether he shall live,
covered with disgrace, an object of repracli,
scorn and contempt, or encounter the haz
ard of death, without dishonor. Buit few
honorable anid high spirited men wecre reso
Itite enough to avoid the contest. Public
opinion. wvhich exacts the sacrifice, is as
censurable as those who fall victims in con
formity to its stern commands. It wvas when I
puhkle opinion should be rectified in this
respect, that we might expect to see the
abandonment of a practice which was con
trary to humanity, abhorrent to reason, and '
condemned by our religion. In the mean
time, it is the duty of the legislator to exert
all -his authority to bring about this desira
ble state of things. And he (Mr. C.) should C
vote with pleasuire, the passagv. of the bill.
before the Senate. under the anxious hope
that being the deliberate expression of the
judgment of Congress, it may contribute toP
sniighten the public mind; and that, if it
should not totally eradicate, it may tend
materially to diminish, a practice which all ~
aught to unite in completely destroying.s
The bill was then passed by the follow.
ig vote, and sent to the other House for ~
eoncurrence. s
Yeas, 34-Nay, Mr. Sovier,-1. s
flesumption of Specie Pat/ment.-T he fol
lowing letter from the Necretary of. the
'l'reasury .has appear "e in the Newv York
papers
WAssimovoN, Mancen 18, 1838. tI
Dear Sir:-In reply to yours of the 16th a
nst. I hasten to remove any erroneous in
erences from the rumor mentioned. The s~
ettled -policyu of the Department, and one et
which it makes known to all inquiries, i.. to ht
yromote the resumption of speeie payments t
)y the banks, so far as its limited powers
nay permit. t
C'onsequently, it has niot, & will not hero-. et
thor. patmchase Specie beyond. wht.. b
needed fuorsturnediate dlsbufteuentftna'6
that way will neither hoard it nor compe'
with others for its possession. -
All we receive, in any way, will ianei
diately be lpid out again to defray the a
propriations.
I make these stntemeuta explicitly ad
promptly, and have forwarded similar odes
to Boston, in order that no injurious-a
rehensions need he entertained as to the
nancial operations of the Govorument,..
Respectfully, yours,
LEVI WVOODBURYv'
EDGEFIE LD C. II
THURSDAY, APRIL 26. 1838.
By the last accounts fromr Liverpool, L-e
learn that the glut of the market by the pr
rival in one week of upwards of 60 vessEls,
at that port alone, laden with cotton, and
from other causes, prices have receded.
Tr SunLtar.-A Mr. Aaron Cloud of
DeKalb county, Ga., is building a tosfer
upon the top of Stone MIountain, which he
intends to ie 300 feet high. It is his design
to mount it with a Telescope, and make it
an Observatory for the lovers of nature Andi
science.
On the morning of the 21st, we were vis
ited with quite a destructive frost. We
know one gentleman who had 150 acres of
cotton killed. Our gardens have suffered
no little. We infer from the follon ing x
tract of a letter from a friend at Greenwood,
Albbeville District, that the up-county has
sustained great injury.
"We had a most killing frost this morn
ing. The corn in this neighborhood. is lit
to the ground, and some cot tnh. The gar
dens are all ruined. Vegetalies of nearly
every description killed. We have com
nenced the second time upon our gardens.
It is thought by some ofour farmers that
wheat has suffered severely."
From all quarters we hear of the re-ap
pearanco of that new, but dreadful enetny
to oats, wheat and corn, whom we lonored
with a short paragraph during the last sea
son. It is a species of fly, known here by
the nameofthe Chinch ly, fron the resem
blance of its odour to tiat of the celebrated
little animal whose whole pleasuro consists
in pouncing upon the weary pilgrim, whea
seeking "nature's sweet restorer, balmy
sleep," and boring him wiith its probscis,'as
if to draw the last drop of blood out of ham.
List year the Fly was confined to huta
few neighborhoods in this District, butso
:..pidly has it multiplied, that the enuro
District is now threatened with its ravagd.
The oat scoms to be its favorite element *
fiance it is always found frat upon i
other grain. From this fact we infer,-that
its generation is somehow dependent upon
the culture of oats, and it ii probable that
the speediest and most effectual remedy will
be found in a discontinuance of that crop for
a few years. Without this, it seems to us,
that no one can limit its rate of increase or
its ravages. $'everai of the most intelligent
plantters of t he District have told us, that al
ready their ont crop is destroyed, and that
ltheir young corn is attacked. An old Vir
Iriniatn now residitng amnong us, 'says, that
manty years ago, a similar F ly made its ap
pearance in Virginia, and that it was dIriven
mff'in the way which weo have suggested.
The article below is from tile Mountain
eer. It is a fact that we have beeni too little
:oncerned in dlevelopintg the resources of
>ur own State. Our mountain regions
abottnd in mineral wealth, and we are too
azy to gather it.
We are proud to believe that the dawn of
new anid more glorions day is bursting up
in tus. A spirit has gone forth from the
Jonmercial Convention, wichl we fondly
rust will emancipate our whole people rrom
he degrading thraldoms under which theye
ave so long suffered; a thraldom which
nakes them look elsewhere tor every thing
ut cot ton, andl forces them even to pay otih
rs for carrying that to market, when they
an do it cheaper themselves.
"BL~acK ElAD AND BLAC K SAND.-We
resume it is not generally known, eveni to
he citizen's of .the upper cotuntry, that this
)istrict contains aI minec of Phtumbngo, or
Ilack Lead Such is the fact; but we un
erstand there has never been an attempt
rind. to convcrt it to any valuable purpo
es. At some future period, we have no
oubt but it will he a source of parolit to the
wners of the latnd.
"Black. Sand, such as is tused for drying ~
ik in wnrting, is also fouand in our vicenmty.
'his article can be furnished at a very lmw
rice; and wve have tno hesitation in saying
mattit is fully equal to that which is brought
Urm the North. If this Sand-banik wvasin
nime sectione of the world, it would be con
dored very valuable; but here, we are in
me practice of paying more for foreigsi comta
lodities of all kinds, thtan for those ofa
tspenior quality parodneed at home. Such
state of' things should not. and will not
much longer exist. .t
SPECIE PAYMENT'S. 0
Mr. Biddle, President of the United ti
tates Bank, has written a long letter to n
me Hon. J. Q. Adams, in which he takes tc
me Strongest and boldest stand against a re
Imption. This certainly but poorly ac
irds with his former declaration, that bad g
consulted his owvn strength and condi- a
mn, he never would have suspendedl; hut re
at he made the sacrifice for tho sake of the an
Pt
haer banks, which were 6o mnech Worse off d
an himnclf. and for the goodno ate c--- a
r}. We pretend not to give his words, but
we believe that we state the substance.
Kow, when a large and respectable portior
Df these other banks. representing the mosl
commercial State in the Union. propose
in obedience to a resolution of their Legis
lature, to resume specie payments, he telli
them, that they don't understaud the inter
ests of the country; that they are fools
rushing blindly to the consumtation of at
act, which must plunge the dear peopli
into still deeper distress. Mr. B. pledge
himself not to follow the other banks ii
their oad course. What will be the effec
of this proclamation, we know not. It i
not to be believed, however, that it wil
have the elTect of making the New Yorl
banks recede. As desirable as it woutl b
to get the co-operation of the U. S. Banlt
burely Air. D. is not so perfect an Autocrai
but that tile others may get 'ong withot
him. Sorry would we be to know the foc
that a return to specie payments depend
entirely tpon tile nod of any one Ban!
President.
Air. B. concludes with the following ad
vice to tle ltanks:
"The bunks should remain exactly a
they re-preparing to resuine, but not ye
restumtg.
"They should begin, as the Batik of Enn
land did, tinder sinilar cirruistances. b
paying tle small notes. so as to restorecoi
to all the tiior channels of circtlation
btt tint mnie any general resumption unti
they sertain wlint course the governmen
will purste, employing in the neantimn
their whole iower to forward the crops i
market. 'Tlie Americati baiksshould (1oi
short n hat the A merican A rmy did at Nei
Orleans, stand fast behind their cotton bale
until the eneny has left the country."
Thus it will be perceived that the perio
is indefinite, and tint lie holds out the ide
that they never should resuine, until the
can control Mhe gocerinmnt.
We conclude this article by a short cx
tract fron a recent messnge of Gov. Mar
cey to the Legislature of New York, ii
which lie denounces the settled purpose c
she United States Batik to continue "-tlh
issue of an irredeemable currency."
"I am confidently persuaded that a vas
majority, if not almosi the entire niass ofou
constituents, are opposed to, and will ex
pect their representatives atd public fune
tionaries to resist tie policy put forth by th
United States Bank, of continuing the issu
ofuan irredeemable ctrrency. In the divi
sion wlici will spring f1romn the extraordi
nary position taken u pon his subject, th
people of this State, and its btanking insti
tutions -ill, I trust, lie fotul amiong th
friends anl( supporters (if a sound currite
-a curreney equivalent, in value, to the Ji
gal stlandard; and vill lie arrayed again
the policy of continuing the issue of irre
decimable paper. To carry out their view
iml ielatio to this subject, to sustain our in
stitutions in the measure oflresuiption, ant
to put an end to the pvils of a debased cir
will tiipri-ovb '
gisluture, in the manner I have stggested, oi
it any other mure eflicient manner whicl
may be devised.
"Viewing this subject in reference to the
present posture of our pectuniary alrairs, t(
the eimbarrassment in which almost all
branches of business are involved, atnd es,
pecially in reference to the attempt, by
formiidahiie moneyed poweir, to prolong tie
us~penIsionl oh specie payments bieyomd the
pe iodl impocsedl by necessity, I believe rh<
prtesentt crisis mutst lie generallhy regarded a:
11me' i which it is -the dutuy of te State ic
standl forths in its strength, atid b'y the use
if its credit rind the santetion of its name, t<
rhieldl its instituitiotns atid its citizens~ from~
liartm.' I iam r.cadly to co-operate with tie
ither departmnents of the govertnmentt ir
avery proper eilort that shall piromnise such
r result.'
The Legislature of South Carolina con
isiss of l68 miembers--45 Senators, andi
123 Representatives. As a matter of curi
>sity, we have looked at the constitutiotn oh
he Lonern louse, atnd find the various itt
erests oh the coutitry reptresented as foillows:
?hanters 53, Lawyers 32, Physicians 22,
blerchantts 13, anid Mec-hatnies 3. The
31ergy, it n ill be remembered, are excludl
d utnder rte Constitution.
Mitsccelancons.
NEw-.OnLEASs, A pril 13.
Te.rrs.-Bly thle steamt packet Columiiibia,
rota Gamlvestotn, we have rece-ivedh files ol
lie Iloustotn Telegraph in the date of.March
list. TIhte listrict Court was ini session at
houston. Of its ptroiceedintgs lie Telegratph
emtarks, thle decorum tha~t hans utniformrtly
ecen observedl, the cordiality and even oili
inousness, n~ hichi have becn evecry where
hown .mi sustaining the officers of justie
i the discharge of their dutties, the initelli
ence anid respecrtbility of the jurors, the
eorous andl getletmanly depiortmeiit of
lie several attorneys enigaged, anid rte r
ility, initegfrity anid dhecision of te piresi
itng Judge, haveC comtbined to render this
,our one of the tmost nunugist and interest.
ig spectacles, n bich out- city has ever af
mrded.
Ott the 28th, at Houston, WV. C. Quick
ud D.aval Jones were executed for mrurder.
'he confession andh dying speech of the
armer was forwatrded to us, but there is no
pace for its pubtlien-tiomn. On the frontiers
ere was no distutrhance except an occa
onal skirtuish between wanderleitng hands
r savages. A party of suirveyor-s, fromt
te head wvaters of the Guadatlotipe, repot
n engagement, it wvhich a troop of Shiaw
ees fought the Carnanches atnd put iliem
> flight with the loss of 8 mcen killed.
By way of improvitig the cutreitey, some
igenious phersons have suggested that the
>vertnmient of Trexas inste:,d of sisuing
-omisory noles, should issue hills, each of
htich, mnay be art immediate title to land,
presenting somte specified ptortion, dhesig
trod in advatnce, and numbered on a map
eparedh for rte purpose. The scheme
es not seem to take, and will scarcely be
tempted,
The Mexican fleet hal disappeared from
the Texian coast, whether driven off by the
fright they received from other enemies
equally formidable, has not been revealed. i
Recent arrivals from Tampico. states that i
the blockading squadron hod returned to I
that port and sailed thence for Vera Cruz.
From this it would seem, that all the parade
of this blockade was got up more as bravado
than from serious intention of shutting up
an enemy's ports. Perhaps the prime me- 4
tive of this excursion, wgs the hope of booty,
of which a rich harvest might have been
gathered from unarmed passengers, but for
the rencontre with the Columbpia.
FROM JAMAICA.
We have files from Kingstwn to March
I51,h inclusive.
The iti policy of giving an extenvinn of
liberty to negroes where they live ina com
3 mumity with the whites is deplorably illus
trated by the had use the Jamaica slaves
make of the privileges conferred upon them
by the apprenticeship. This species of se
mi-emanepation has only tentded to make
t them more dissolute and reckless, and em
s boldened them to make further demands
though by that apprenticeship they only
work 9 hours a day, and have a day and a
halfa week to themselves, besides Sunday,
- also land to cultivate, besides lodging, clo
thing, salt provisions.and medical attend
ance gratis! Many of our own white people
would like such an apprenticeship.
The U. S. sloop-of-war Ontario, Com
mander Breese, sailed from Kingston for
Havana, March 24.
A Vice Admiralty Court was formed in
Spanish Town. 5th March.
Sir Wmll. Colebrooke, Governor of the
Leeward Islands, haid called n general as
seinbly of the islands. The legislative bo
dies of Antigua and St. Christopher, hail
protested against the.convocation, but Sir
William would not yield to their remon
strances.
s St. Domingo, as the Kingston Chronicle
well remarks, is a beautiful illustration of the
I effect of negro emancipation:
I "Once the garden of lte West Indies, the
I grand emporium of sugar and coffee to sup
ply Eturope, and from the nett profits of
which six millions of French subjects were
- supported in Europe, exclusive of the inlia
- bitants of the Colony, which then amounted
a to 36,000 resident whites, 25,000 free peo
f ple of color, and 250,00 slaves. A nd the
coinmodities produced in the island paid,
in 1788, for export duty at the Custom
House orSt. Doming. $835,535 which dis
t charged the expenses of the executive gov
r ernment, of the administration of justice.
- and :3000 men in garrison. We ask what
- has caused the loss of this revenue derived
Srom the cultivation of the Colony of St.
Domingo? And we are told the en)ancipa
- tion of the Blacks, and their aversion to
- agricultural labor, whereby the country,
once a garden, has become a wild. Tile
- beautiful plantations are destroyed-the
3 palaces are reduced to ashes"
- The followiug is a condensation of the
t most important statistical information, re
- cently made in a report to the legislature of
Massachusettq, by the Lunatic Hlospital of
the State. It will he interestig on marny ac
I counts; particularly, as showing a renmark
able diffirnce (oa the popular opinon re
and as evmeuig most clearly the immense
destruction of intellect, made bv the rava
i ges of intemperance. It may- also show
that love, if it do not break hearts, plays the
deuce with men's brains.
Of the whole number of cases, 91 were
remales, laborers 76, manufacturers 21,
shoemakers 32, seamen 21, merchants 21
carpenters 17, teachers 14, blacksmiths 10,
machinists 7, printers 8, tailors 4, paper
makers 3, clothers 4, millers 3. calico pr in
ters 3, cabinet miakers 8, bakers 3, steve
dores 2, stone cutter 1, comb makers 2, coop-.
crs 2, harness maker I, tanners 2, pedlers
,currier 1, brickluyer I, clergy 3, lawyer
1, broomtmakers 3, painters 2, watchmneni I,
drover 1, coppaersmiithis 2. coachmenc 2, stu
dents 5. sail mnakers2, news collector I, va
grants 19.
Tube causes are thus classifzed:-..210 of
the inmnates have or have had acestors or
near kindred insatne; 112 are periodically
insane, and the principal causes are as fol
lows, as near as can he asceruainedf. In
temperance 129, ill health 122, miasterba
tion 72, suicidal 60, religious 63, loss of
property 48, disappointed affection 34, dis
appointed ambition 10, homicidal 16, actual<
homicides 11.t
ABottion DisTUaBAscF. AT NORFOLR,
(VA .)-The English birig Charity, Captini
Ilumbert, arrived at Norfolk it appears, a
bout six weeks since. anid was on the eve
ning of her departure for Bamrbadoes with s
slaves, but four or her crewv having desert- f
ed after she dropped down to Hampton
Roads, the Captain, with the owvner, Mr. s
Wma. MtcCannan, of St. Johns, New Bruins- f
wick, together wirh a Police Ollicer, broke 'l
into a sailor lodgitig house in WVater-st., Ontt
Friday night, for the purpose of a pprehend.
ing themt. Oue was capt ured anudhorne of1' ri
to jail. Mr. McCannian himself was on the c
enusuimg morning committed to jail fur the g
act of forcible entry. and obtained his re- e
lease by paying *112, as a compromise.-.
Meanwile the sailor who was apprehend
ed, informed that a runaway slave was se- i
creted 0n board thme brig A posse went on I
board and found him secr.eted among the tI
slaves. He was brought up to town anad SI
the Captaim then placed in custody. The ht
ptresenut law is very severe on the Captain, r<
whether lie knew the slave w as on boar:Lor d
not. Also, on the owners of the brig,which
is now attachedl, and in the Sheriffra hatnds.
Thtus the exciting matter rests.
E
From the Baltimore Republican.
The Hartford Times confirms what wet
have all along bteen endeavoring to impress e
upon our readers, that Clay-Whigism and i
A bohitiotmim have ent red into a political -
tnlliance in opplositionr to ithe Adtministration. ~
The thing i" beyond doubt. In regard to
the New Ilampshire election, we gave the
franik avowanl of a Whig press, tumat Gov=
erntor Hlill htad the coticentrated abolitionn
vote arrayed against him. So has it prov- '
ed in Connecticut. The Times says:
"The secret abolitiont movements have
been extensive, and a large portion of the
federal members of the Legislature are
elected undor open or secret pledges on this
question, and will vote for abolition resoln
tions. In some lnstances there were coali- t
lions between tho, federalists and abblitiont- ri
;sts to elct one and one to the Le ~,;a.......
Feem tAe Wseskingt->n Chre nuichr.
PRINCELY MUNIVICk.NCE.
The excesses of the "credit system," at; it.
scalled. hive produced many &great evila
rm this countr;-hut anmotig isc slumber is,
erhaps, none which works more insidiously
d fatally against our social and politiei
Isitution, than thitt which arises from the
nequality of wealth produced by this incl.
maunted system. We are no enemies i, iii
ustry, frugality and enterprise. Neither
ire we disposed to wrest from them the re
vardts to which they are justly enited.
Jut we are opposed to any and every sys
em which tends to accunulate wealth in the
lands Of the fert at the exipnse of the many.
)neof the naist profound Historians of mo
lern tines, attributes the decline and full
>f the Roman Republie. chiefly, if not ex
lusively, to the inequality of wealth, which
ad been produced by an abuse of legisla
ion ;-and which engendered, and must
nevitaibly engender, under any form of
aovernment, meanness aid servility on the
une side, and imsolence, profusion, amid cor
ruption on the other. Mr. Jefferson early
saw the effect of this evil, and in striking
at the system of Entails, removed oneof the
main causes which promised to contribute
to it Bit vain is every effort to restrain,
the wits of men in devising schemes of self
aggratidizement, and concocting means to
live withom labor. The science of life con
sists in the knowledge and practi.e of such
devices-mind it is remarkable how success
fully they are played off oi the public.
Take for example, the Pennsylvania
Bank ofrtie United States. The applicaits
for the charter, proffered to pay into the
coffers of the State, a million and a half of
dollars, for the privilege of using it as the
means of advancing their individual wealth.
Tickled with the sound of this enormous
sum-or, it may be, operated upon by some
more substantial reasons, the Legislature
grants the charter.-Large capitalists rush
in and buy up the stock, and the mighty en
gime commences its work.
Now, who pays this million and a half?
The stockholders ol tie bank? No-no-it
is flMly to say so. I'le PEOPLE pay it,
-pay it in the shape of intere.st oi the loans
ol'crdit, which they have authorized these
stockholders to make to them. This is the
whole of the matter. By the workiig of
the machine, money is taken omt of the
hands of The industrious and acitulated
b ands of the rdileicapitalists an d le
is regarded as tie most profound finan
cier who can best manage the nmachine so
as to produce these rcsults, lie is held
up as a man nmighty in expedients; and
worthy of adulation and reward. In proof
of this read the following article which has
led to these remarks:
MAONIFICENT COMPLUMENT.-The share
holders in the late Bank of the United States
are about to present Mr. Biddle with a
service of plate, now exhibiting at the man
facturers in Philadelphia, 'Fletcher 4- Co.
It is thus described by the Philadelphia In
quirer
"The noble present is a splendid dinner
service, which, with all its nminor details,
contains no less than 360 pieces-the whole
weighing 7000 ounces. On the lirg r and
more massive dishem the following inscrip
tion is engraved:
THE SHAREHOLDERS
OF THE
--NANWPI OFE'm'11E1ATES,
TO NICEIOLAS BIDDLE,'Esq.
THEIR PRESIDENT,
[n taken of their gratitude for his fraitifuil,
zealous and fearless devotion to
their interests; and for his ser
vices to the country. iii
esta li shing~ the bmest
currency in thme
womrldi.
February 19th, 183G.
Tme ornamenital part oif the entire service,
ms wecll as the <design, is mamssive anid hand
ome; but none of' tihe specimnent, in our
>pinmion, display so much beauty anti taste
is the enndl~elabrta, constructed fur the ctre
>f tihe table."
Anid this is all dlone in time year of ruin,
[838! time year in which silver and gold hid
hemsealves behind time bliwarks of paper!!
A e mnarv'el nt that M~r. Biddle is opposedl
o resutmption,-. and in favor of the '-credit
ystem," of fourteen paper dollars to ne of
piecie. No wronder that fie, amid his as
ociates iin Congress, are such dev'oted nil.
'ocaites of~ paper. Why mnot amelt up tihe
old and silver of time cotmry in vessels of
irnament to tickle the. fatncy anid minister
o tihe pride of our wonihi be nobility!
['here would be paper' enough heft to fill time
'ockets of tihe people,-anmd that, we are
ssured. is time very best currency.
Sharp Shooting.-Tr here resides in Front
reet, a gentleman, who ini castle Garden,
red a hall from a rifle at sixty yards dis- {
mnee unto the cen'mtre, and in a successive
hot, another bamll n to the other. so as to
isten them together. The same at time
.hatched Cottage, Jersey City, madie a
'iling wager of 16 to 1, that lie wouldl with
duel hng pistol, shoot in to the size of a
ollar at 15 yards distance. lie bit the exact
entre. drove the nail, amid had a six pennmy
iece been placed on time centre, and its
dige traced writhm a penknife, the cenitre
suld not have beeni cut out more perfectly
le has also hit a v'isiting card 13 times iii
5 shots at 10 paces, lie has killed at sea
2 stormy petereis in 14 shots; tihe ize of
me body of this bird is so small that it i.
pposed by many that it is imipossible to
t it.. The sailors are very sunperstitionis
garding this birdl, and nmany viewedl their
ustruction with fear.--Krw-York Ga:.
Death of Old Bertrand.--..T he Turf Reg
ter for Apr-il, contained a report ouf time
enath oftis renowned'horse, copied fronm
to Spirit of the Times, but at time same
me, doubted its correctness. We regret
say that time report proved to be trtue, a
tter fromi the owner, dtated Lexington, :3r I.
ist., having been shown us yesterday, sta
ig that he died the preceeding day of hotts.
ism losa will be deeply regretted by all those
mgagedin the raising of good horses. Inm
ie same parngraph, wve fitnd the announee
ent of the death of 1.anee, andi imported
aientine,--Char. Cour.
IMPORTANT it!tsrATy JNTE.LLioE.NcE:.
-WVe learna that the P'residient of time U.
mates, by amnd with the advice of time Semi
e, has conferred the Breret of IBrigadier
emneral on time gallant Colonmel Tavl~r, of
a F-irst Retimewnt of Jnfattry, fr'his tme.
oious conduct jm the last- a. ...;. wit -