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Legislative. AN ACT 'o amend an Act for rebuildin: the City of Charleston S cTIOX 1. Be it enacted by the Senate cxd House of Representatives, now met and .*itting in General Assembly, That the Act of the General Assembly of this State, ratilied on the firit day ofJu-ne last. etui tied "An -Act for rebuikdhng the city of ;Charleston," be, and the samte is anieud ,id in ihe'followinit particulars: r 1. The applicant lor a lout, may exe -cute a single bond, with a penalty suli 'cient to cover all loans which may be ;nade -to-him in virtue of the said act, and asitngle mort gage t) secure the said Uoud; -nd the said bond and mortage shall be so framed by the Attorney General, as to ,embrace all the luatns which may be made -under the said Act; and the mortgage so .executed, shall be deemed and taken as ele'fctual to protect and secure all such Ioans as are within the amount of the pen alty of the Boad, in the same mar.ner as ihough the whole amount which shall be subsequently Wated, had been loaned at :the date of the said boad and mortgage. T'he applicants for the said loan shall ite required to furnish the latk, inly with an abstract of their title. and with such ii tle deeds as way be ia their possession not ..recorded. They shall not be required to furnish copies of any evidence or muni nent of title, or tmesne conveyance, which has been .rocorded 'in the proper puhlic -elice. 3. 'The policy of insurance which shall be required from any applicant for a loan -shall be deemed suflicient, if taken for such amount as is customary for Iusurance Offices within the State to make, upon any .single risk. -4. Preliminary applications far the said loan, shall be received by the Bank front any applicant setting forth the plan, arid estimated cost of the buildin.g proirosed tio be erected, together with the situation nad dimensions of the lot whercon the building is to be placed; and the President and Di rectors of the Bank, upon receiving such application, shall, even before itformation -as to the condition of the title, direct the lot to be valued by the Ctimtnissiouers -appointed for that purpose; and the said Commissioners shall value the same, antd --certify their valuation in the manier pro vided by the Act of which thi% i4 an a 'enendmnot; and the President and Direc tors of the Bank, shall thereby inform the -applicant of the sum to which he will be reutided -0n comjAiTg waih The provit-ions -of the llaw; :but no loan shall actually he Anade. until the applicant shall fully have ,complied with the provisions of the Act above referred to, as amended by this Act. And be it further enacted, That the fees of each public officer, who shall furnish certificatesto be used in procuring the said floan, sha be as is.usual, twelve and a half -cents'for searches through their books for -each name. and sixty--two and a huilf cents 4b4heir certificate: But no public ,-Oicer shall demand or receive frotn any appli .-cant for the said loan,.more than two dol lars for all searches, certifieates and servi ces which may bo made, iven or render stilineiisaffce for thesaid applteant, upon -any --n -epplication for a loan: And .every public officer who shall demand or -receive more than two dollars for all such searches certificates and services, inclu -sive, or who shall refuse to perform the usual duties of his office, at the request of any such applicant, shall be deeied guil 4y-of a misdemanor, and upon rnotvictton thereof before auy Court of competent artsdiction, shall be subject to fine and ~ mprisoament, at t~he discretion of thte Court. 5. Bc it further enacted, Tlthat no charge shalt be made against any applicant-.for a loan, by the Attorney Genteral for the bond and mortgage required to Iee taken by the Banik, nor for any other profession -et services rendered by him in the arrange snents for a loan. Q. And be it furthzer enacted, T hat any .person owning a lot, upon which a brick or stone building shall have been coml mnenced since the fire of A pril last, shall he entitled to receive all the instalments of the' loan which he could have claimed una <der abis-or4beformer A ct, if lhe had ma~de npplication -before the commencement of the -work; provided he shall substantially c omply with all the conditions reqtiired of .nu original apiplicant, who shall have tre -ceived the same number of instalmentts, ad shial substantiady -gie to the Bank, security egjnal to that which would have 6en.reqbuired of such original applicant. Ia the Senate Honuse,-thte ninetecenth day of Dcecsnbcr, in the year of our Lord lone- thousand eight hundlred and thirty- i -eight, and in^ the sixty-third year of ta Sovereigntyjand Independenco of the UI aited States of A merica.4.., ANGUS PATTERSON,i .Preuident-of the Senate. D. L. WARDLAW. - Speaker of tbe House of Representatives. -We regret to learn that the valuatile r enills erected at the liigh Shoal, Pickens h Bistrict, by Col. Joseph Grisham, nel at the time we beneve, in posse.ssion or his c son, Mm. ooka () Grimhamn, were entirely -t consutne'd: b re, on the 6th inst. It k --caught fron tthe Cotton Gin, which wvas e -. running, andsiras. no doubt caused by the- a~ -~friction of some of the machinery. i'he , stroyed, ogiehrg'rth twio or three hun- lI dred bushels ef wheat, ..any barrels of i 1Our, and the 'contents generauf~ of the - hensis. Abent twenty five barrels offlourd were geottenout and saved. WVe have-not I - earned whMaeutie Elf 'cotten was con -sumed. Theios s 'the owner mttst be e several thousand. dollars, and as the niills were a great -convemience to the neighbor- I1 ing community, they thay be regarded a :tusover, as a. public loss. * After-the decegoing-was in type, we re- a -caived a written accont of' the fire which 4 does not vary matert'ally. TIhere was no li insurance,and in adduitnto the loss abo-ve I< * tated, there was a thrashing mnaahine, a work shtop, lathes, ord.-all dlestroyed.- a Pedlto .fesenger, - A Western editor acknowledges the re e~eipt of a years subecription in advance. to. his hebdominal issue, under the bead of ~rerCakk events.. Domesticl News. Fronthe t Augusta Lonstitutionalist. W hat a strange stute of ufairs does the city ' Augusta ji this w.me present! e!veu aitianmg mUStiituious, with a capital 0; five iihona oft dollars, a circulaiion not two dollas s of pu per to one of coin, and. in a 41 iuation, as tar as their discountdl II)aper4 is concerned, better oll than any btaks in tihe United ' States, the nierchants cannot now obtain facilities to purchase cutton, and their late purchases, which nere tipmon thirty day bills (in Savannah, when said hills were renewed kr thirty days longer, cost'upwards of 25 per cent. per auum, anld ihe currency paid out actually at 1 to 4j per ceti, discount at the doors of t1lM baik. As bad as this state of things was, we are nsow worse. The wlwels of trade are stopped, aud our hoasted cotton hales cease to be for a timue gold and silver. Now the cause of all this is the want of concert of action.. TDie hanks, instead of acting together.-act exh for 4heir own pe cn4nir self-and the balauce on Monday morning appearsanong the mostimportant considerations of modera banking in Au gusta. So long as this state of tkings cou tinue, our condiLion must be frout bad to worse, until at last the merchaut-s -o1 the city may be, from circumstances beyond control, compelled to forfeit their now fair reputation, which is uot.ualy .amon.g tibe greatest of all misfortunes o themselves, but to the city also; and to avert which all and every means shotald be adopted, and a course of policy pursued, to remnove such results, uni I think the course to be pur stied, and the corrct oUC, is simply ats follows; To agree with the banks in Savannah as to hon the settleumeits for collections shiould be made. The resolves laid down by the banks ins Savaunuh, some time ago, prescribitmg those terms.,., I think wuowg, and have led to imuch of our present cn harrassiens. lu two such enlightened and commercial coinmIlitiities, will it be stid that this poiut cannot be arranged? To utitte Ln sending ho e ie cirbulation of all the interior banks for seitipment, or to settle the notes here, if the interior banks agree, otn the same terms as you set tle with each other. To pay out your own notes l'or all purposes, and freely take bills of Cxchange against the produce of the country, agreeing amiong yourselves as to the node of settlement, one with an other.: under which course of action, I as sert without fear of contradiction, you can at oncerelieve all pressure-itis your du ty, a4d should be your desire so to act. Pursue this course, ac -ogether, aod you can do much good. You willeirculate an undoubted curtcincv, and obtaiti a cir cilation-give life to business-reduce ex. change-equalize the currency, and im prove your now fir-n positioi. AuuUsrA A Sirel Morsel for the Abolitioniss. We invite attention to the.fellowmug letter, addressed -to a gentleman of this place, by an ittelliuent free colored rne, a native of this city, and well -known here; who for a riumber of years past has resided in Phila delphia. It contaitts conclusive evidence of the mock plilanthrophy and real dia olism of the abolitionists, who while proclaiming the creed of universal eman ipation to the slave with their lips. yet leave the condition of the already freed, who live among them, so debased and iniserabie. that they sigh for a return to their homes in the slave-holding South. Charleston Courier. I ASaUNGTO, March 6, 1839. Respected Sir:-I claim the privilege of i S. Carolinianu to address you, atnd to be; Sir that you interest yourself in behalf of a !fnaty resp'ctabrle colored peopile: natives I f S.Carolinna.who are dragging ot a i-k :rahle existen~ce in the Northern cities; very I 'w of thema are comfortable, and most of a them are anxious to retur~n home, toc >ur dear Carolina, liut are prevented by I lie enactment of Ilaw. From careftal oh iervationt and facts not t) be denied. per nit me,. Sir, to state, that I believe it is, .he interest, as well as the dfictate of lhn nanity, that tho lawrs be repealed which j >revent the tnative Caroliuna, retucring f o their home, if they dlesite it. I am free t o say, that not one of us, who left Charles c on with high expectations tor improve onr :ondaition, in moral virtue or useful enter trisinig pursuits of inidusiry, hut have en- 1 irely failled in their ex pectations. In fact, ti o differenr is the living at the North from dj hat of the South, (I never had the most t listant idea of depraivity, in all its most e paried and complicated forms ofC wicked. I less, unti-i I settled in New York and 6 5hiladelphia-thiere is no sucha wickeadness it u Chaurleston,)-that Caroliaian< cannot t ive comnfori able at the North, far this very (, llaitn reason--the mannter's, habits anod b trsuits of te pceple are so) vastly dlilter- t nt. TheCaroliian, at home, is enigaged ~ ri pursuing sonme respectable -occupation, Ithough sonmetimnes axgrieved-thtmlio is not , uliciently protected by la w. lie removes e u P'hiladelphia or New Yofk.,-for the en- i >ytment of privilettes there, which are de- a ied him at home. But, alas, lhe fails- .o e does not find happiness in-these cold rc--. ions, where prejudice against the colored ~, omaplexion reignts triutnphntt. No mat- y re what a man prrofes'es himself to be, he o eeps far oilf frorm colored people. Most a C us are wit hotut employment ini winter, d od the spring and summner, however li areful iwe may be, are enitirely too short, a, ith the little business -wre have, for ni to al ye and provide against the lotug, tedious- n eleiment winters of the North. I repeat, e ir, that I humbly tik it becomes the o uty of every chrisatain, patriot and Phi. mthropist in South Carolina, -especially tthis particular imue,-when there-..is noq aus wateertoreject us h repent ing - g om.- I believe it ,is the interest, as well ~ s the dictate atf humanity, asi we have ti ot commtritted anyerime, that a4l whir arew oxious, should be encouraged. to return i ome. In this mtatter, I speak as a Caro- v nianawho loves the spot wvhere first he. - ained to lift tis his feeble voice to God a ud his -cotntry. Besides, it woulad di rmn the North of-u very powerful weapon ow wielded-against you, this very 'law rhich prevents your natives the privilege >return withini your borders. We, who t re your friendis, when any of us stand upa idefence of our State, are asked-if the ianncen and hn-hits of ynourah cit Chric on) are as you represent then tot e, why lo you noi go back'and enjoy the jrivile ;es you speak of! nhy doyou remain with is? WVheu you assist in repealing the a%%, which affects us, surely The world vill sing praises to your name. besides the lessiug of many who would returnAo:Lhe weet embraces of lung separated friend So far as regards myself, who was-delu led a.n ay fromt home by the offers of a arge salary ftr missionary service,alli has urued out to be an imposture and a cruel :heat. It is true, I had the advantages of ravelling, which I improved. carefully noking out for a home and reviewing :he :ouditsun of the colored people. In this ilso, I have been sadly disappointed ; al .huugh I have visited almost every city Ind town, between Charlessu., S.C. and Portland, Maine, I can Ead no such hnme. itd no such respectable body of colered Ieople as I left in Charleston. The -law itn my adopted city, Philadelphia. is not as ,o as at Charleston when, in opposition .0 4he white people, unless we have res pectab'le -white witnesses to sustain .us. .;olored peo pie of poperty.,generally trans met their husiness throtgh the agency of white peoj)te. They cannot rent a house in a court or square. uiless the white teighburs consent. They are sbamnefully lenied -the pri% ilege to visit the museums. &c- All the advantage th:it I cal -see by living in Philadelphia, is that ifmy family is sick. I-calt send f6w a doctor at.any time of the iight without a ticket. Respectfully, your obt. servt. P. S.-A good Reedy.-if you desire a Carolinian to have .an "exalted ardr ror his untiveState," :permit him to live a few years in Philadelphia, New York, Dr any other Northertt city, and depend on his daily exertions for his daily bread, and I wi!l warrant, if he is permitted to .return to Charleston, the procesa will make a perfect eure. 'JTON 31OUNTAIN IN MISSOURI. Aniong-the resources of the U. States which the present age is destined to call forith iuno xigormus and successful deve lopimeit is otte, the magnitude and impor ance of which is not generally known ind appreciated, except by those whose studies and pursuits have led them to re searches on the important sources of na tional wealth-Iron an" Coal. The fol lowing account of the Iron Motntain of issouri, is from the pen of Profossor Shepard. Hlavin! visited the Iron Mountain of Uissouri, its October last, 1 am happy to idd my testinony to that of numbers of >bservers by whot I have been preceded. -especting these remarkable deposites of ire. I an the more strongly disposed to :he task, both from the surprise with hich I was struck (on finding such vast tccuinulations of mineral wealth lying wholly unproductive in the heart ofa coun rythe richest by nature in tihe world and 'oim ihe regret -1 feel tha1 an.yrnnecessary inpediments should delay an enterprise, Vhuse execution can scarcely fail of af 'rding an atfluent reimbursement- to all :oncerned, und at the same time of great y promoting the orosperity of the West. The rock which hears the enormous i'on >eds of wtiich 1 am to speak,or rather the Iron Mountain, are in a certain sense va -ietiesof the formation under consideration. 'he Pilot Knob may he denominated a errunginous porphyry; or ;n aggregate of eldspar and specular iron, the latter oc urritg of a fine (steelgrained) granular tiructure, and containing imbedded cry tals and rounded grains of feldspar wvhile he fron Mountain is a homogeneous de osit or pure. massive specular iron, con aiaiue only, in a few exceedingly rare ages, sia:;le crystals .of feldspar. We ave, them in this extraordinary region, in he first place, hills many bundred feet ight, composedl entirely of a compact, herty red feltdspar, variegated with .veins f black. by oxidle of iron; in the .econdr lace, ths Pilot Kn,,l, a mountaia made p in large prop~ortion of specular iron,the elispar often scarcely exceedinag thme ore eiths which it is mixcd; and lasrly, the ron Mountain in which the whole mass so nearly pure ore, that the observer is irced to s'earch wvith the closest scrutiny a detect in it even a few solitary chrystals f feldspar! Desirous of being ale to say something oncerning the extent of the mountain as be result of my owtn admeasurements,1I ok pains to tpace its surface itn several irectionis; andi~ I do not hesitate to state, mat its circuit is at least two mles. Its levation has in my opinion, bee, corrett a iven as three hiundred atnd fifty reet. I eeil not add, that the experience of min ig operationis in other regions in -connec on with ro-e of the class here found, lly justifies us in the belief, that the nitoom of te present mountaint mass lies to leep ever to be reached by human ex loration. All ittelligent metallurgists mtust be a rare that the specular iron ore is a species f the highest value for the productaon of on. Mohis, (the late professor of mniner laogy at Ft-eyburg and now royal professor 'the same scienice at Vienna) who is the rst authority on subjects of this nature, msrks itt his Natural History of the lieral Kingdomu, that specular iron, is an re di the highmest imaportance, and yields considleratie proportion of the iron pro uced in the ifferettiquarters ofthleeGlobe. is ohvinns thet the avatitagest possess i bty the ore of th is region are very great, rising out of the absence of all foreign nterials, which .eilsewvhere render ste neting of fl-on ores often extremely tedi us and difficult-demandir for tbem the reliminary process of reasting, to dissi ate volatile ingredients, and the ,m'bse ent addition of large doses of flux, to ef et the withdrawal of other impurities. ere is an ore in inexhaustahle quantity. gniiring for ages tio blasting, and but fling labor -to -prepare it for the furnace; hile it is so pure from foreigns sulstances, at its t-eilttion must he easy. and its ield not less -thait seventy per cen! No one who .,'isits the locality can for moment dotnht, situated as it is tn , rie on of singular advantages (or -charcoal sci mining supplies, and at no great re ove :from the most remarkable channel 'inlatid water communication known,. at it must at a very early day become 2 iron producing and miantufacturing ne on, second to no other on the face of thme lobe. !n n.Ri.ra UirtJA SUEPARDa. EDUEFIELD V. i T''UKSDAY. APRIL 18. 1839. Q?'Da. Mims will deliver a lecture "on the Sun," this evening, in the Court House. The Madison Papers.-The National Intelligencer, says, that the resolution for the distribution of these papers, which passed both Houses of Congress, and was presented to the President for his appro val, on the last night of the -session, has not received Is aipuwre. The Secretary of the Treasury.-The Whigs are ex&edingly asixious for the re nioval ofthis officer. We hear constant rumors uf his reeirement A shart time since, it was -reported that the great finan - cier, Mr. fiddle, was about to .4uoceed him. The enemies of Mr. Woodbury, en tertain for him a peculiar hatred. 1'hey utter at.-inst him "curses loud and deep." We Anot intend to pay him a compli ment, but we think that he is certainly as honet and as capable as a number of jiis acensers. Massachusetts.-In the fourth Congres sional District of Massachusetts, after the fourth trial, Mr. Purmenter, the Demo cratic candidate, was elected on the 1st instant. His opponent was Mr. Brooks, a Whig. Safety of Rail-Roads.-We have heard it said, that travelling by rail-roads, i. more safe than by any other way. The following facts prove -the justnoss of the re umar.k. The returns of ten rail-road .companies in England, for the last seven years, as quoted in the last Quarterly Review, show that more than forty millions of pas sengers have been carried, and during the same period, ten persons were killed by accident, and but.four of these were pas sengers. Destruction of the Palace of the Sublime PerIe.-The Palace of the Sublime Porte, -at Constantinople, was dcsiroyed by fire on the 20th of January last. The loss is estimated at halfa million. . Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Ckurch.-The Baltimore Annual Confer ence, of the Methodist Episcopal Church, adjourned on the 30th uIt. The subject of Aholition was brought before them by a communication from the New% England Conferenc". It was indefinitely postpo ned by an almost unanimous vote. Election of City Ofcers in Augusta, Ga. On the 8th instant, MIr Cumming was elected Mayor af the city of Augusta. His opponent was Mr, Holt. The times at New Orlean.-The Pica yune of April 3d, says, that "the times are harder than they have ever been in thiscity, and no prospect of a chaaige for the better. Our Stores are full -of all kinds .of roods. ~produce and provisio.ne, but no-body to buy them; thiousandls of indhividuals in the city, bunt no business :for them to do--roperty of all descrip tdon; sellin~g att -low prices, but no money to purchase with-lots of banks in the city; hut all of themn afraid to discount.-A true puctutrc!" A late qpgmher of the New Y'ork Times, says, "that the Money Market should he cramped, does not appear to us strange, when we know that The banks of this city have within a month past, contraected their loans neai!v'feor millions of dollars." Blections in C'onnecticut --The W higs have succeeded in the election in this State. They 'have elected Mr. Ellsworth, Gover nor, an d the following gentlemen, memt hers of Congress, wiz: Messes. . 2rumfrnff, .Sierra, Williams. Smiuk, Brockway, and Osberne. They have also elected a ma jor'ay of their own -candidates, members of the legislature. The latter however, are said to have been elected b~y a .reduced majority. On the 21st nlt., a Dinner was given' in Houston, the Lapital of Texas, to Ex Governors Hamilton, and Butler, of South Carolina, and Col. White ot Florida. Go vernor Hamihon was toasted, and deliver ed a lony and complimentary speech-.upon the Repuhlic of Texas. He gave a highty gloiwing picture of the present cotnditiotn of Texas. His pencilseemed to be "dipped in the hue of the ramnhow, and made of a feather hemn the Peacock's wing." More Troubles on the B~rder.-The Correspondent of Hale's News Room, (N. Y.) wider date of April 2d, says: "I[t is reported that a special messenger has this morning passed through this town towyards Soco, to the Governor, and that he carries information of the treturn- of trespassers, in consideratle numbers, for the purpose of resrmtng their timber by. force. Another report is current, that they have taken our mupplies, and carried them of beyond the disputed territory. Whe ther these things -are true or net, I cannot vouch,'but there is gootl reason to fcar A Subscriber a short time since, sent us an extract from the reply of Daniel Web ster, to General Hayne, of Souith Carli na, in the United States Senate, when the latter gentleman was a member of that body. We were requested to publish it, when we could do so conveniently. We accordingly give it a place in our columns to-day. Ploride.-A resident of Florida, wri ting under date of April: the 8th, at St. Augustine, says that "General lacomb has anived at Black Creek, it is said for the purpose of buying out the Indians. I do not know what is the prospect of sue cess; the general impression here is, that that the Indians will not come to a talk. It is reported that Tom Jones and Wild Cat have de4aed their intention to kill airy .one who comes to them, with even a proposal to talk with the whites." Cheap Knowledge.-A late numbei of the Journal of Belles-lenres, says thal -a Mr. Brevert was about delivering lee tares in Philadelphia, on Phrenology. The pric was twenty-five cents for She course, .or Ten cents the single lectue. This s" rate of instruci-im will certainly .ring knowledge within the reach .of all-yea, of the very loafers! Fanmn this school of Mr. Brevoort may issue, at ie distant day, a hungry swarm of Phrenologists, who will doubtless wend their way to our sunny clime, and grow sleek and fat on the gosd things.tharcof. The publication of the Florida Talla. hassce Watchnan ' was discontinued a short time since. The Tallahassee Siar has succeeded it. It is a large and very neafsheet. In consequence of a fire :last fall,.at Mneugomuery, Ala. the Alabama Jownal was discontinued. It has been late. so vived. The typographical execution -is very good. The editor is anti Van Buren to " the core." His molto is. " Anti Van Biuren: Bank or .no Bank, anti Van Bu ren.: Sub Treasury or no Sub Treasuy. anti Van Bure.1 The Greuada Bulletin, Miss. is no 3eeg er published. " The Bowie Knife" hias succeeded it. The editorsare of opposite political opinions, and 'have formed a uni on for their mutual benefit. This plan of conducting a political paper is something new under .tbe ,o-at least zo us. 'he return of Srring.-Winter with his snows-his sleety showers-his bleak winds, hjas &d awa to the regions orfle North-and Sprir.g, beautiful Spriag, has burst upon us. The streamlets lave bo ken their icy fetiers, and run joyful in their course. The tender young grass springs from tihe earth, covering it with a mantle of verdure. -The forest trees have put forth their buds, and give the promise of abundant foliage. The Honeysuckle, ibe wild Orange, the Lilac, the Woodbine, dazzle the eye with their rich-colored blossoms, and scent the -air nith their fragraure. The wild flowers. "The rich garniture .f fields" ife up their modest heads fr-om the earth, regardless of the chill breezes which yet remain among us. How dolightful to him, who has been long "In pop'lQus city pent," and has heard men "babble .ofgrees Uelds,' to fly away from -the din-the exciting has tIe, and walk forth a freeman on the open highway! lie breathe. the free; the health giving air of the countr3y! How the blood dances in his veins! flow the color deep ens on his cheek, as be mounts the upland, and looks abroad -on the glorious prospect! Naturehbath reaumed her rights over him. He is no longer the-cold, wordly-minded man, but a hoy-a very boy! and- gives himnself up to the fullness of pleasure! As he bounds along, he makes ihe woods ring wjtb his 4tlad jbalee! Whaat% frusiness to him? Whanitio him is ambition? He cares for none of thtese things. H e is in the cot1rr ar! lie is a .denizen of the open field! He breaks asurider like a freeman as he s,t he bondsiof heartles-mnvention at socety, which have so long~onchained him. How delightful to him, to bear the carol of spring-birds, and the chirping of insects awakening from the long torpor of winter! It rejoices him to behold the husadman scattering the grain in the bosom of the earth, hoping in Autumn to reap an abun dant harvest. To him, earth is a vast scene of beauty-ha glorious panorama. To him, if he lhe thoughtful, narure bath charms utfkaown to the sensualist immer sed in enervating pleasures-to the man absorbedl in thipursuits of gaintor to the proud spirit led astray by the vain chime ras of ambition! Leti all rejoice at the retern of this season of promise ! Let all with thankful hearts, and re ne wed er'orts, labor to promote their own best interests and the common weal! Hard times in the South- Wea.-Our exchange papers from Mississippi, and Al abama, give a melancholy account of the great commercial pressure- ana'd ia pending ruin in those States. They'rep resent the times as worse than they were in 1837- It is. sickening to read of this. Will prosperity never revisit these youti~g afl the 'elements of agreatness? Howlon will a bad system.of bankingesit like an in cubes upon these States, and drain out their very life lilood?. How long will-lieen-,. iies extravagance charAeterize a1 portion of their populatidn, and retard their ad-' vantement to wealth andmoralgreatnesb? We copy the following fram the Vicks burg Whig: . ' IARD TIMES.IN MIISSISSIPPI. - Never in the history of Alississippi .ias there been such a pressure in monetary affairs as at the present moment-and never, we imagine, has; the future -eien shrouded iu a deeper and wore po'rtentous gloom than at this time. Here ins the city or Vickshurg, and the county of Warren, the darkest daysof 1837. presented but a faint picture of what is-now exhibited, anl from every town and county in the State we have the same melancholy prospect. Tile whole community i6 literally on the rack, & it isimpossibleto raiseanyamounrdf money except at the most ruinous sacrifices. We are entirdly destitute of a circulating me dium, while thousa.nds'upon thousunds ate pressing for the collection of their claims quits are instituted until the docket is bc oming swelled beyond any former preced dent.Property is sold dailyin our streets for one-fourth its value. Men give up all they possess to satisfy their creditors, see their property knocked down under the ham mer of the sheriffE or the marshal at one fourth or'less of its value, and find them. selves beggars, so far as present want of menus, can make them so, and still hope..' lessly involved. We can mention a case that has come .to -ear knowledge, -which, will illustrate the truth of what we have, said mnore forcibly than language .can. A portrion -r a stek of gotids was sold 'last week -o satisfy an execution from Ihe Fed eral Court-the goods cost in New York $9,000, independent of freight, ehbrges, in surance, &c. they were all ncw,.aeasona- ' ble and well selected, and when seld brought only $2,800, or much less than half of the original cost. Scenes such as this are daily exhibited. A gentlemna informts us 4hat a lot of pond is this city, which one year ago brought' 5,000 was sold last week for less thanjtve hundred dollars. And yet horrible as affairs are beioming here, they are comiaratively trifling to what we hear from Yazoo, Holmes,Hind-s, &c. We are informed that land and ne grocs are selling under executions far a fifth of their .eal value. Negroes, irst late field hands, that will generally, com-. mand a thousand dollars have been. sold for leas than two hundred, while some of the best plantations in the State are being sacrificed at 'one tenth of their value. Where or when this is to stop. God only knows. When, or fron whence relief is to come we know. not, but unless relief does coine and come speedily, this country" wtil present a soene of wide pread ruin and desolatiet4 such as has never been witnessed before. The prospect is abso lutely frightful to contemnplate-we .are. told that there are sotne plantationsin Yao zoo, the owners of which have made ever arrangement for planting, who within ar few days last have had their slavesdriven. off by the sherid; and sold at ensppus sacrificesand who in consequence will not be able to raise a single bale of cotton this year. Already we hear of resistance toh execution of lawsspokenof in that county, and should judgments be rendered at the May Court upon half the suits brought, there is no telling what people, with rin and beggar.y staring them in the'iface imtay ant be driven to.- Vicksburg Whig. We extinct the following account of' the timzes, and the bauuks sat Montgomtery, Alabuama, from the Alabama JouroaL. . "We now believe thtat we are begin ning to feel the trials atnd consequences of the .pressure of 1837. Then we -could . only anticipate thems. Never in our recol lection, or um nt of the oldest inhabitants, hasMonzgomery experienced sucha' perfect stagnatin of business of every kind, as at tfe present time, a season -too, when here tofore business has been animated: and from tlhe.accounts which reach us of other places,we perceive that it is the same with all our southern cities and towns. Wo are daily hearing, of tne suspension of Banks in other places, and where, de may ask, are the difficulties to end?. Tho State of Alabama 'and the pcople have .a - heavy debt hanging over them. }etween hilis and the Arst day of August ueit', an enormous amount of the suspended debt awill fall due to the banks, and hiow are -these debts to lbe, paid? TWhete is the mo ney 40 be obtained that is to cane diem? The Banks are refuasitng all discountr and if' we are rughtly informed,e the huank at this place wit have a larger amount of pa per due and spayable to it besweeni this and August next, than it has ntes is cir culatiot-if thien thbeotber solvent Banks in the State. should be ina a similar eoadi tion, the 'payment of Itbis debt by the peo ple in Alabama c'urrency would 6e' a p& . aical impossibiliy.. Thbis condition et he Banks and the people, is .the chief if Dot -the only cause of the present-stasteof thingr amongst us, and this must .eentiane just so lons long as di~e ptesent policy is pur suied. We see the strait in whieis those. who dire'et the affairs~ of diese institutions are placed, and it butiroves to us the cor. rectness of our views, when we asserted some months since that the Bunks were . resuming too soon, They have resumed bef'ore themselves .and the people were prepared for it, and a complete suspen sion (not indeed of4 speciepavments) but of all banking business,.and alf'other busi ness for which they furnislied'ie-medium ofexchange, has beeushe conseiquence. A Led account of Budicer.-According to the N. York Wh g Bulwerthe gi-eatno velist, is charged' with not. only with having separ~ated from his wife, - and now living openly i ith a mistress, b;.t with having meanly notified the public that ho. would not be ret'ponuible for his wife's" debts thongh she'does not contract any! It is added, that so far is Lady Bulwer' from annoying hiuniwith debts, that she is actually ann~oyed hei1self with bills incur red by her husband's mistress, who 'impu- ' dently assumes the title 'to w~hich she is s infamousiv destitute of leiauini .