Edgefield advertiser. (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, June 27, 1839, Image 2

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POLITICAL. CONSTITUTIO AL TFA surr TSTEM. Ertract from 1fr. Duane's late pu-'lication, entitled a -Nirrative and Correspondence conce--ing ihe Rieoral of ti Deposites, and occurrences connected thcrewith: P HiLIVLriIA, Nov. 3, i3% I need not fror my general purpose, stop here to coneider, whether the U. :. bank really wa-.s a regulator of thii paper cur rency; and yet, I will brien15 consider that point. To show, that it never did restrain the issue of paper as money, all that is needful is, to state undisputed facts; that, in 1791, there were but three banks; but there are now upwards of sis hundred: and then, duri-ig forty of the intervening forty-six years, the U. S. hank was in operaion. The proposition, that the U. S. bank vas an eflicient regulator. is, therelre, erro neous. It may have kep: out of circula tion, as much paper of other banks. as its own amounted to; but that portion wts in significant, when conpared with the mass. ]esides. the U. S. batk had no such pa triotic design as has been attribiteil to it. If it excluded local bank pa per, it was not because that paper mturiously allected the public. but because its cireuflation interfer ed with its own'profits. Instteail of inter rupting the mischievous issue of local bank paper as money, it added to the volume of the current, which ultinatelv Mwept us ott the breakers, n here we now are. .My design. however, is not to diseniss thiet point. I desire to keep your attention Iixed upon a more important one, amn1Mely-t hat, aecording tt the statement of the friends of the U. S. hank themselves the original and true source of existing evils, was the unre strained issue of paper money. And now. Jet me ask, who are accountable for this state of things'? We all pirofes< to revere thent and their labours! Loud are otir boasts of attachment to the constitution! Let us see; whether we reallN know n hat tile labours of the framers (f the 'ontuIti tion were. and wheiher we have not miost shamefully uceglected both precept and ex am ple. The franers of the constitttion declared their object to be, "to promote the gener al welfare." Were they wi-we and skilfil, as well as virtuous? Or, were they in cornpetent to execute what they tider took to perform? Afier laboutrin ;it oar public edifice, did they leave it unhiaihid! Did they suppose, that it would ttudb down, utnlcss supported byI i te pruvs .f chartered hauk4? Did they erouider 1 bankwiteel necessary, to keep in muotiui the machinery which they had made,un-'. that without it, tihe nin-hitery wtil stand still! Did t hey sut-poe, that inn gress would be cormipellud. to si il n par, ! the sovereign power over the curren-y, io private and irresponsible persons, antl it) give them tle puill~c none*y to trade ti I-i. inl order to keep that tonev* safely? If such'is the tri, characaterof or puhui cal edifiee. and ifour pu blic agrot~ are such knaves. that the public money annot I:, safely leti, Air a short time. iti the'r hfat:, the world has been sadly inposed uponi: and, ottrs cannot he a "metolel reputelie." But those, who built that erdifiee were - ful as well as honc;t workmen: and Iei none of the consequent shami- rest -upon dhem, if their stccessors, itn the publie er vice, are not as hotnest as theinselves. l'h frainers of our cot itution, I repeat. were wise. They well knew, how humati hap piness could be promoted. and tly tid :l, that it was possible for them to do. to in sure its duration. They were aware, that the soil, labiour anid money were eleme-nts of riches, or of those things whlivt' montri bmute to human welfme-thatt those. thiungs are increased, iu pro portioni to thle fac-iliti-s of exchtatges & exchanges are mutltiplii, accordling tot the confidence,that; for pirodnue .tionis,m~ouCy may be ha~d on dtemnd. l hiey were acquainted witht the miigty resontees oif their count ry,and. wvith the imitport ;tnce of the use of the~ precious mnetail. for their developmcnt. They ktnew tat aill wise states, by the regulation of commerce andc by treaties. sought to keep in cir-cubitiont an abundanice of coini; and they had every~ reason to su1ppose, that the metal< in cir culation th ouighoutt the wvor-ld wonhIdl b adeqtuate to all legimiate wvants. TFh:. knew, that a system of commniercial credit, prevailed in Europe, whicht, without 'lie aid of paper of banks of circulat ion. ati swered all the purposes of tradhe. Thtty knew, that bank paper.issuied ais loans, is a fictitious capital: that it swells the circ-u lating medium beyond the trite want oif trade-enhatices the price of commoities ...-and drives coin out of circulation, it short, they had had a satd e xperience of'th mnischiiefs of a. pa per e-urreincy; amtI tdid till that they cotld do, to secure to posterity something more than a mere piromiise of an equivatlent. WVitht this view, and poseessed oif ihis knowledge, the framers of our coinstituttion conferred uiponi congress the power to reg itlato commerce, andI prohibit atny t-:x upon exports. Tolinsure the piresenice and pu rity of coin, they forbade the several states to issue bills of credit, coiin money, or make any thing but golil aind silver a le gal tendler. To maintain a metallic cur rency, and to protect the users of it, con grtess alone was authorized to coin money, regulte its value, and punish counterfi ing~ They also provided,that all duties, im pot and excises shouild be tiniform through out the Union. Int short, the framers of our constitution considered the guardian ship of the stitaidard of value, the univer sally received equivalent. thie measure of all commodities, atmong the attributes of the sovereiatnty of all states united; aiid they did allithat they could do, to prevent usurpation, or intefe'rence with it, ott the part ofany of the several states. So ioi tent were they upon making the currency of their own country: so -little inclinaution htad they, to imitate the parenteountry, in its establishment of the bank of England, that they refused to grant to congress the power to create a corpioration. - Such, try good sir, was the anxiety. the wisdom, anid the foresight of the fratmers of onir constittion. They never enter tained; nor has any person everentertain ed, the notion. that producetionis were to be carted from place to pltace, for the puirpo ses either of society oir oh governent. They niever supposed, that true credit cou sisted oh, or depended upon, paper issue as money. They well knew, that bianking, it trer signifient ina. w as not a tmodernu invention. hut liat it had existed in tie earliest ages, of which we have inturma tion; that exchanges had been at all times ellecied, through hankers if deposite; that notes of' banks of circul.ition are not the instrumtnts, for effeeting exchanges be tween the people of'one country and thlise of any other; and, Ilerelore. they well sip. posel. that all our excha.iges m ight be el fecled by neans of' productions, bills of* ex chanige, a;id coin. And, yet. inl titter cotempt of all that had been tihus done and forbidden, by the franers of our constitution, the very evil. and abuses, which they deprecated and guarded against, have been almost ever since i rank exi-tence and growit! Our country has presetited the unexampled. amd truly monstrou- existence of two so vereiitnties, each sellina to chartered com panies, p)owcrs, which the general sover Ei::tty alone can rightfully exercise itself. That is, eogIres5, to whoi the federal cott veniit ion absolutely reliSwed to arant a power to create a Porptiration, rievertheless erea te( tie, and sells to it, wha't it has no right to sell-a power to ikne pa per as tmoiev. The several states, ton, ihonih poeitively forbidden to issue hills of credii, or to coin, mtoniey-that i., to moeddle with the cur rency'-sell tochnirterel compa -nie a pow er todo. what they cannot lawfully do 'teelve.. that is. Issue paper money' Is it wonderfiul.ihen; that we hnve had ex tinrtsiots. revoliut ions, susieisiontS, and - c Itiquent distre'sses. Ci we look Gr. ward to an exemption from them. while the existiig anomalousstate ol' thingsnshall exist? Miscellaneous. Professor Espy delivered on Saturday even'n: the lUIh ins, at Clinton alll, ilhe first of' hi,, Ietitre on the causes and for' mation of l'nds and storms. A bunt two liidred persi we.e present, w ho listen ed Witlh great aItteiion ar.d intcrest liv co4 m1metnced his leet tire ly sine tlhe prin'i pes from w hiih his itery ofmitici eirolo2y is deduced. These, lie observed, were al reaiv well known to men of scietice. ilh' heircontseque'nces had tiot hiiherto hi-en traced out. le showed that hv c'oldi n tle amo.pherv, at the suroiloce of the earti down to a certain legree oi temperature, a l'e or vi- le Vap o, or whl in a highrt Trgioni of the atnosphet're is called clouid, is al.ways pro-luced. Tiis de::ree of tiem periture is en led by philosophers the dete iti, il it is higher or' lower necordin Is. Ite gII -ifiv (if moisture containied inl The .o phere. If' the atmatoQphere'e is hi' h-ly chitrel with mi inisture, n slilt die I ' t i l or th:: :eIpi'iraitre will e'le't the :hI mmQti nimlly drv, it mstt be -h :'abfl more. Prol'.sso i'.s py .hen *', d :1' Ihuw of temperatuires -.:d~F-:-o higt<of th atmonsphlere. At a liiui'-tr. as bive the surliee of the e."h, le .ir is innil to be a very little more ih m w.- deree (if F;ir'ieheit's ther mome'er co'der than ;it the riir'e of the errth, two buiri.-d yntids at a little n-ore Ihlln iv:: ele cot lder. anid so oil, olle deIr'e' ow everbtundred yards that Von ri- the o i phiere. The air which is rartifil1 tid inde ht;er by the heat of hv sun at lie urfiwe of the earth, there for:.is Com led udowtn to t he dew point so soon as it ariis to the proper height from itha rund anid a clud i-- p'odulce'd. Ut there is :mhtwr emuse' " hieh operates to reui ee thie titiperat ire o rarifed nir as it mounts mo the hither regions of the altnosphere. Air sudilidy expandi-d. always hero'..:-s c'oih-r. II by mea';ns of' nn ::'. pumpl) yout ex ,u :.n ,'wr oft htalf the .'ir it cn iits. the retu~anmler will immedctiatelv ex-. p:mtdt so as to fill the receiver. and( aut the am te timte hrcomte iniety degrees codder. Aply this pirinc(iple to a ciolumnn of wvater :scendin,2 in thbe attmosph~ere. A< it iises, it becomties relievedci ofi a port ion of thbe at mitt-phe(rie pressui w hiich it stistainited at the --urface, an rd cons'quenit ly -x paindls int tot ai lariier space.,i tand bec~tomes ftpoportiont absly reducted in tempertu rc. P~romi these law's 31r. isy proceede'd to dedceiti his tteory of chlamls antd si ormts, whtichl he did!, so far as lit proceeed tar Sat triday eve'nine, withI mneh' intgenutits nod ile airne'. lIIe -hmved hv :t neat ex peirimient Itie l'o.miiti on of' a c'liud in a glaiss tubhe, lby thle mei re ex pan4in ol' n mosphierie ir. He' gave- brielly the oee mientis of enaeolationi by. w~ hiich tie hetighi of' the btase oif a c'iumulose cloud fi-ont thIt utrfnee of the ear t, mtay be at any'i tie ascerti nil lhv a .thtermi omteter' anrd a tumiler ofl wteir. 11' gave%' a hen nii'ti theorv of' hail stormtii, shint them to lb' prod need by uIeeni'ntg columi n tof ra ri Iii'd air,. whih ex patnil prodtigioutsly a< th~y ris in the a~itosphere' and thirow~ oll'the hail on cac h side', ti'om the edges of' the chotti and not froma its centre. It is owitng in this enuse that hail stirmns fall, as is observedl to lie the case, in tracts with intervals he tween thomn. Conc'erninu the relation til windis to storms, Mtr. Espy observ'ed, that it has bceen fully ascertained- that they hdgw fnomt all sides tuoards the tract of country w~here the storm is generated; whlile in that tract there is nmearly or al most a calm. He gave several examrples of storms extending over a considerahle tract tifcountry, in regard to which it hatd been fully ascertained that the winds blew towards them, from .every quarter of the suroundingh region where the storm was not fell. In 'his next lecture, whlich is deliveredl to night. Mr. Espy proposes to unfold his method of predicting storms, anid this atnd his subsequent one will be devotted to the priacticatl application of the principle laid down in 'he first. They will, there fore, probably lie more entertainting to aeneratl hecnrers. . scloua 'Professar Espy's manri oloua and clear, his entuneiation is a little too rapid at timeis, but never indtistiinet. lie is evidently ptrofotndhy acquainted with his subject, antd wye have n3o doubt hias made dliscoveries itt relation to a bra.cht of' natural phtinomenat hitherto ntot redultcedl to exatct prinlci ples'-discoveries valuablle to science, amti nseful in practice. He is no visionary weaver of faniciftul theories, hut a mnan of science, and a paitienit ques tionter of natur'e.-N. Y, Etve. Post. Bravely to contend for a good entuse is noble-silently to sufi-r for it, is heroicnl. WVonid a mian of rank estimtatte his real di;nty, let hint coneive himtself' itn a etate :., which all rnnk is aboihhed. FzisT A arIacaN NavaL AVcti t :vir.Ar -ir. Coopur', 1i-ti.r) ili trea:uv) ill 11e| U. -.just putishhed, tirings to niecu sim early deds of valor b) the Fia her's m I tie RevolntioU, on the water, hat are not e clipsed by the glory of fhi ir achievement [)n the land, and n Whel will non deserved ly rank with the noblms1 exploits of aifter tiimes. Thte firs voinle fIurnishes I he liI lowing account of in acition which ia welt caliet the -Lexamrton ol the seas;" the firsti lauticil enterprise thal v Ceeded lite battle of* LexiligIona, %s1.4 one purely of private ;iiventure. The inieli etetc of this conflict was hroughl to .1l at chis, in .iainei, o Satuarday. Ilh 6th 01 Mday, 177j. Ain aned schoner calie, the Ma iirgaretal. i lie service of the crown. was lying in port. witn two sloops undi-r her cotvoy, that were loanig with lum her oi helialf (of' the- King's (;vernini t Those who brought th- news were enjinin ed to lie sileni, a plain to enpiure the Mair gareta having heeu ianmedially projerle-I amoni some of' the more spiriied o( tn inhabitanis. The next day bAing Snohty, it was hoped that the -Ii *ers of the latter might tiv erized while in church, but the -C. (me11Cildii in, con.,ene- fthe pre ciplitationa of those enaged. Capt. moire, who commanded the M1ar"gareta, saw tile nalilants, and, wit i s flicers, esc aet through the windows of the church to file sh.re, where they were protected by the guns of the schooner. The alarm was uenow tiak'ten, prina uere got on the 31ar garetna's eahli-s, ai i few t'a ss sht were tired over the town, lay way of inl utmidaiion. A fter a Hitl. del v, however. the chooner dropie-d down below the ton D, ti) a disuitce exceeding leag ue. Ilera she wasfld, .tatomomined to sur render, and fired on li-om a hi2h bank, wfich her own shit colf not reach. 'hhe 3lar..nretta again weglbed 1and1 runni:ng into the tiv al tihie colfluence of the I wo rivers, anchored. The following nornina. which wasMon d.ay, the I ih of Man, fur young men took ismession of one of the lumber sloops, amI i nging heraulongsideo a whar, ihey gave f irce eteers n, a sigtntal flor volunteers. Oi explaining That their intentions were to nmke a atack oa the largaretta, ;I party ofabout thirty-five athiltie nen was s00on collected. Ariniig themselves with fire am,, pihorks, ard axes. and i hrow. ing a sia ok of proviionus into lhe silaop these spirited freemen nide sail on their cralt, n itlh a light Ibreze ait norib west. Wnen the Mairwigaretta obiried le ap priieN of tl:e sloa p she weied and crow (fed sail to avoid a coillit, that wasevery w ay undesirafile, as her c udiniuierlv- weas not aprised of a the fahe thut laid li curred near Beston. Iii ji!biui. thie chiaua ierr icil an ny her man-ooml, but con tititg in standi on, $ie rana into ifl1i mCQ. Bay, and took a spar ont of a vessel that was then lyin t here. W hil iliese reipirt were making. the sloip hove in iht, and fae MAurgarerta -tmod out to sen, in file hpe if avoiding her. The wind naw freshened, and the sloop proved to lie a:. hetter sailer,with the wind on the g tanearr. So atnxious was the largareiia ti avoil u coliiin, talt Capt. Mioore niow ct a way his bouts; bit finding this nirfectuhl, and that hik assai:nts were last closing witlb him,be opened a fire, the scinuer having an armaent iffmar light 2tnds, ai rhirteen s~wivels. A man wias kiijled onr board thle sloop, which iiimt-dia4-ly returned ihe fire with a aill piee. This di.eharge ki lele the it an at the Mair:artta' hlim, and cleared her :.'-t&ue. The -haoner laJ!ched to, when the ,laaj gave a g-im r nl discharge . hAlmo-st at thle insrat dhe twvo vessel-i clame li0l ofo ne oa ter. A shoraat conitIct now tuook place wiitha muskieary - C at. Mool re thrtowiin and~iti grenade ls wvit h counsideorab hle eflibei, ini persoti. Thisk oli c-er wvas ,timediratehv nilerwards shot'downa howewver, wh len theii people of I he s!:aoau huoardfeid and took poessession of thec Mar gaiiret ai. Tfhe luoss of life in-this ;tiTair was not v-er-. great, thiough twvetny muen tan baih slie are sahid to hia ve beena killed an id woundtaied Then force of the 3largrnretra, even in meni. wia aamneh the aimiat considerabile, t hough thei crew of tno reeunar enn evir egnal is pir it amnl ienergy, a boidy ,f vaotmeer< n, siael iin atn iaer asin hike this. Ther.n wats oiiniaally noi commaantader in thle slooti bt previontt~ly to engaigintg thle sehl ioaner. .Ii--emtiiah H~ie woast selectaed fair th I ,ta tioan. Tlhiisgifrir wais ihe L-x~inrgt- -it if the scat<, for, iake that cel-aleua td tam: uconfliet, it was thec rising~ of Ia pe~ole a -';titnst a3 regutlhar iaree, wn<' chharnaetsizned byi a oan'. czhase, a bloodyal strnagle, andil c inipha. It wia-s raluioiie first blow sainek itn the water, aftter the' w~iar the Attai (-an1 Rtevoilutioni hail ntily comimeniced. Ib:AUTtFU'L \UW \ftT--Mr. J1. F. H-la ve-I Iantd 3!,. WVihIuirea. (the entratve-r4)have bay couvieringt cla-n withI eichingi g-trad aitl te glas- ts expi-sed by~ thescrtcehe. the p'houtogenie paiper receives rte light. & the dle-igna which athe suna itany be saidl to prinit. mtay he amalt ip iced w-i al periercl ideiiny forever. Desnignis thits produced will pro-cb-. abhly becoame imnehI more commaron, and even imore geneirlIly aepplictalie thaii li iograplhy, hert'iase'1 althae mrelans nre more readily accessible-, whilst it will rececive its riank as ana art. and be excellenit ini Ipp tiont to the ski!. of the artist as a trafts man wvith the erchinag needle. The size ne'ed tno longer lie kept lay that of the primainag pa ess, as the size of the glass cain aloane limiit the size uof the design. Tlhis ii a rajl anda vailuable discovery, ap plicablle toa a :htoutstail putrposes. It is re ported thatr Mn. Hlavell aind his barother, the well known paainters, havo suicceededl ini givinag somei true coalors also, to th--ir prie atiains, lby the act iota iClight. U-aia a iful iitaatihons of i ashied histre dlrawinags mt ay be pra-idneed, by stopintg out? te light on te glaiss lay black vanisht, icha obt striacts thae tansmlissioni of light in propofr tin toa athe thic~kaes, withI hieh ihe var nish is laid oan; and speaicimnens like fiac mtezzeatinita print, have baeein produhtced hay this proictss.-London Literury Gu:ette. The E.xploring E:rpedition.--Tlhe I S bariz Prpaise, Clitt. ln ilkie#ihns 51po ken ott the 25th of MIareba by thie Ameriennt shij'a II tassnt. The Paorpcaise w-as 28 th s froma Orangi' Hlarbort, Trerra dtel Fue-go, bosundi tio Pi-tmer's Lanad. in comtpanyv witha the Sen GullI. tendler. T1hae Peacock. aind tender Flying Fisuh.sailead fromn thant Hlarbor ., few damys ooner than the Piornoise-. Domeacstic A-cw,. MIA.sloN ,ISTUitCT, S. C. CAMP JAsP!t, April-25, 1Q.f: Tit:- Ollicers nud Sergatrs of tlie 811h Brigade. of Souii Carolina Miliia. con seted thIi day, fOr the purpose ol taking into cionsideration the expediey or petI ia mg tihe Le-gisinture to increrase Ite i ;try of tlie .\dltat anid Inpector Gener, fit. General Idward lI. W heeler was ealled tal lte lChair. andM.aj. R- i. Reave waIs appjoin'ed Secretary. Generad ilhiee iei then ..didressed tie- meetllineg exp;lttanator i the objects of assin I ing,a Iter n hich,w' imtilioU, it vat, res olved, liat a Coimmittie -.. tiirre he appointed to drnft t memorial to) ie Legilaure. The followina genatl. enen weI e appoiItedl:-Caonel Wmtt. W I 1.trtier, .\aljor .. F. Livingstoin, and Capt. Alex David. 'Tihe moeting i liten i lijourn - vd ttil hallf paStt two o'clock to-morron, P. III. APRIL 20, half past 2. P. M. The meeing heing organized, the Com minilee appointed fin yeste day tat draft the nemioriaI, %lhlrtitt< d tie tollowing, which was read. and after being ndvocatid by Col. lIarllce, Col. Carr, and Capt. A. L. Gregg, was atianimoisly adopted; TiE- STAT E OF SOUTH C4R1OL.NA. To the fonorabhc 1iw Senate and House of Ihpresentatices of the State of south-Carolina. The memattorial of the Ollicers and Ser enis It IcOf thle 8th Blriande of tihe Soulh Caroliata.Mi1ilitin present at anl encnmp miientl, ;at Camp .Iasper, near Golfrev's Ferry, on the Peedee river, respectftully .s e weth, hat tthey cordtally approve of tie princile assutmedi by tc tgiriatiire, Ihat tlie militairy organization of ite Slate shhilt lie reindered a, pierf'ect as the potpo latfioi art tle State and the tiursuits Of the eitizens will ndmit, and tihat for ihis patfr pose ;I competent istrtctor is necessary. No one, perhapp, col rendcr the State noore valuable service than a corlpeteit, scientific and ener.getic Adjutnnt and In spechor Geteral. We deem the ptr-ent AdjititatGene.ra, well suited for the offire, anl willingly hear testimouy to his zeal ai ;atbilitv. \Ve l ve heard t)ntiplaint rrom him. as regards the salary, nor are the sugges tionts we siall make intended for him per sonially, but for the oalice hae fills. We are saitisfiedt that the salary now given is whol ry d iproporaionate to rihe service, and con left. as Ie is, tn aravel rotnd the State. and tie a set from home the whole year, (with tile aexceptitna, perhaps. (at one or two mtaont ta.) enenmpment, dIrils orifoivers and reviews. his sal:ry is h arely sulheient to intAi riiid!y ecoiomient hill of expen ses. Ie ii reuired to pertroi a hard, bhmimt c:i oa v ainaale servie, consequent Iv i ..t ,firv the -omfor: f' a home n i Iaaill, nnt eceive nthing conparativeiv roar i t,* I ter drdin i! hi<; ex penseq. They I here'fo~re rejp;-ctfilli sugest to your hontr abile body*v, aite propricay and justice of increasinl the sainry fif the Atjatant Gen ernt, ind pray thait it tie raiked to the sum iahirtyfive hnaadrd dollars. And your peiiiioer< will pray. &c. Oit mo iion, it was tesolve-1, that iall thie nembers of the feisitre, fromi the Sth bri-.ade, he re qaest) t use their itaiactnce lor the en awl tatnt oh a law a.s prayed for in thle said memiorial. Iesolved, That Col. B. F. V. Allston, On the part of the Senate, antl Colonel ,amaes Beatv,on atie part h IanItiaouse. he rargnsfted hv thtis tmeeainit, to presenat the mietmorialt of the 8th briende to the Le~gis miire. Restolvead. That a copy of theste prt. eeedtingts he presente'd to Genteral, JamEs iNsEs, Adjntanttt aand 1 tspector Getneral, ,vhao is so ably im partin2 tmiliitary inastrtue tioan to ifficere and serge-ants or thme en-. Resoalved, Trhat the ptrnredoings of thain taeering the pultied ina thea Georgetoawan Uniaotn, thaa Ctirrtestont Meretary andi Co tthina Teltescope, anda atay other parers the Stnte friemnlty to the puarport of the -ntemtori al. t'slv'ect, Thtat the Ctuairmant and Se aretary dha signa thec sanme in behalf of the mecuntitg. EDWARD B. W[1EEL~ER, Chairnian. R. [I. R 'E:As, Secretary. Fronm the (Carlstn Mercry. Sir-I arrived here ona thte 6th. in the Frentch Steatm Frigatr Phiaaetnn, MI. Gou-. it, Commatndaaer. We wecre eight ays fromt Vrnr~ Cruz-hav.inr hiad haeiad winds lthe whaole vtornge. Aan arrivat fromt Newi rtetus yestn rtty btrougtht paper of that ity to t he 1st Jittne. They' contiin re amaatrks. tiatnndeid oni atha first ehlatlia tin of feeine e'vinced atI rta~t~ Crutz on hearing thait an neet'l fromu Texats was on hotird a 1. S vessel1? f War, itn tieir n aters. Bait it is dare thet citizenas of Vera Cruz, anti mre espeeially lki Excelleney Geni.Vic orina, Comatnantt of the' depaartmient, that [ st'ottlr cotrrect any im proaper i mpesn upon ahis potint-ns after beinitg a fe dayit oun hoanrai the' henrnitifual fiftv-twao gntn ship La GI- ire. Moinsieuar Le Comic Latine, Contons ri itea to w hose hoispitatlity arnd kindac esa I otn e'verlatstintalv indeb'ated- I handed nder the' snnetiont oaf Gen. Vicitoria, anad remained' int his city tena days, in the per. Feer enjtayme.t tofmy' liberty: and recieiv ing nit his hatids the motst distitneiishied cotrtesty. ft is trte, tat after severat (ommniatints with the antlhai-es at Mexico. it was dlecidted that I coti not he recived as the Rep1resettivec taf Te.xas IButr ter' wvas tat indlignmity aitretred -ahe' Rbele."' and unlike Kiing Dravid's Ambtaas saicrr, tat Nnhtm, I rernraoed on honrrtd the Frrtnch Fleet, wvt itout niyhead being It wans pterhaps expecting too mteh oaf Mexico to sutppaosae she waoutld receive mae -inheriting as t hey tan, atlihte pridle tf the Sanaianri -Miiexica herself havinga butt ra' eently beent neknoawtelege by Spain,. after vers of separaation-hntt Texas is efair wn'rc -'hnniltating" and I thouaght the sotiner' te mthter's i-ye was maet. the benela' - f she was to lie rejected wvith frowia-. hIe w~idol dleptare it-it' receiveda ii anies, lhe gratified. The restit is. (t. hs bieen) thatl I htave noat been received ha ea erer oft ha Oliive Brauacha fraina TI" as.~ Ilt, tti i. i broke--we hanve done our part, and I flatter myself the day is I not dibtant, w hen a definite I ruaty bsoin dary nll Ie estailished between Mexico-] d11 Texas, consecrated as it uiusL be by a lasting peace. I am, sirs, yours, and Charion's most ob't. serv't. BARNARD E. BE E. Fromn the N. Y Courier $- Enquirer. Tn1.: SLAVlE dSiIPs.-%ve Ntaived yester day tornion in a britef par agraih, that her liritanie al ajesty's ship of war Buzzard, Capi. Fia-zerall, had arrived in our har hour froms Barhadoes, acconpainaed by a prize ves-e'l. called the Eagle. which had been eniptured while cruising as a slaver. On inqairy, we learn that the Eagle, witha atother vessel, were both eaptured by I the Buzzard on the coast of Africa, while engaged in the piratieal trallic. It does not appear that any slaves have been ta ken oa lhoard lie vessels, but they .were founiad furnished with irons and all other imiplateaients of the trade, and that subie queat to' their capture, the officers and crew admitted that they were aml had been enuaged in the slave trade. The vessels, it appears, are loth American built, ani the olfic rs were all -Americans. Vhen taken, they had the Spanish flag flying. rie vessels were fitted out at Ha vana. One of the captains, (their nanes wa- hitave atL learned) is. ir seemas. a natave of New Y-rk, and the other of Philadel. phia. The other prize vessel is expected a0 arrive daily, she having sailed itn com pany with the Huzzard fromta Barbadoes in charge of a British Prize Niaster. Thie object of this visit to our harbor is, we learn, to deliver over the ofli-nders to our authorities for trial, and for this pUr pose, negorintions are now pendinz be tween the British officers and the magis arates here. ' 2 o'clock, A. M.-The other vessel cap tored by the Buzzard has arrived. She is called the Clera, andl was commanded hv Captain Hooker. She was taken on ihe coast of Africa, three months after the capture of the Eagle,comiianded by Capt. Leeting. The British offiers found that all the original officers and crews of the two vessels had idied of tle Const fever except two or three Spaniards and the two Cap. tains above named. Captain [looker, is very ill, and not likely to live more than a (lay or two - lQaptain Leeting is in i(ood health, nod has been lodged in the debtors' prison on a writ issued by Judge etts, at the in stane of Ciaptain Fitzgerald and Mr. Buchanan, 11. B. Al. Consul. Captain Fitzgerald will proceed imme dinly to Washington, to obtain there the necessarv intformtion in re;ard to the dis po.sal of the prisnaers. From the Augusta Srntinlof J(utne 19. FIRL-TIlE PLANTI:L'S HIOTEL BURNT DOWN Yesterday inorning. about half past two #iClock, a fire broke ot in aihe P'lamier' Holel itn ibi city, and the building being entirely of wood, except the basementsto ry. it was quickly wrajipe in flames anod constited with astonishing rapidity. With it also, all the buildings standing on the saie square were burnt do". n, except one wing ofan old ware boniset htr thtese were inconsiderahl, consisiing chieflv or haoutses attached to the hotel, and some old ware houtses formerly occupied by John Reese and more recently by C. 51iner, as a live. ry stable,at present ued in pait by Messrs. H . & A. Woadley for the purpose of sto ramg carriages. One wing of this. as ta ted above, is left standing. One or two small builinags west or the hotla, and a. cross a smtall stre. t, were burant doawn. All the property butrnt, except otne small and unaimotrtantt hata bling, belongedl to Samuel'HF ate, Esiq., anal, we unaderstand. wais coavered'lhy ina~nrance to the anmoutt of $14,000. on ahe huibalings, and $G,O00 on thte futrnitrnre. Ihis loss mnay he stated int the w hole, a t albout $253,00, being S5,000 mrore than the taotnt of hits inasurance. Although the amortning wa~s paerfeeliv calm, yet there was a greatiffiealty in prevenat ing the fire fromn extending both east and wecst; tandt had there been sa strong wind. the conseriuences mtust have been dis astronas to the eitf in thte extreme. As it was, nothaing baut t he isolated sit un tiona of the htotel, mta a square to itself, and at a adistanace from Broad street, prevented a very getneral conaaration. Being a very large and extensive hntilding, foaur stories high, atd the wenthler having been for some times past very dlry, thte miagni tr~de anad heat oaf th- flatmes will readily be conceivead by the distanat reader. Whether the fire was the result of ae cident ort desigtn, hats ntot been ascertained anad autr enq(uiries itnto the matter are al together nnatisfactory,. antd do tiot justify u< in expres-itag oaur oapinioni either wvav P S. Since the ahoaare was in type, w.e have bteena favoredl with the fellowitng at at emaent of thte itnsurance on the Planter's Hotel. 8,000 on the Charleston Insurance and Tra;st Co. Rohe't MclDontal. agent. 8~,000.at the Hart ford Insnrance Office W. Catlitn, Agent. 85,000 at the Phenix Ollice, London, Robert Hahershaam, A gentt, Savannah. No inasuranice ont the warehotuse, int which, however, there wvas um property of any value. From the August. Conutiftutionalist, June 20. WVe have becen infoarmed that amng the famiilies who were staving uat the Pltater's IHatel, n hetn it Was destraiyed by fire ott Mat (lay night, w.as that of Mlr. Buckinghtam, the Orienatal Traveller, his lady, anad sotn. He had retuarned late from the dleliiers tar the first lecture on Pates tinte itt the Preshavrerian Church. andl sit tiegnip reaudinag 'sotme timte after, he had noat long retiredt tat rest hen the alarnm of fir-- wvat first givetn, tatt the flames then burstinig taut itt a remoate- part of the bul ing, he w as enabedl tat barinag ttt his fam-. ily itt perfect safety. jiis faithful man ser- i v.-ant, hatow.evcr, a native of Irelanad. in re aa-aining toto ltang to asstst in saving as .,.rba nf the goodas a< conhall bte resenteda fratm thec flamtes, bhad to lower down, thei ertanks lay a rope oaf bted shteets 'ied togeth-t "r fi-om the bted raoom windaows, antd throw ing outt after these, all thte mntrasses una fenther [ eds at hatid, lhe la-aped on ,lthem front a hieighlt of naearly t wentty at, every passage out of the house~ being a -aenilockedl tat by alto itmes tfad re(civ- I a a stight intjinr' y vlthe fatl: huta moedical attenidancc !tciniimmecdinrtey nmrorvd lie is expected speedily to rccover. Mr. Buckingham' nmanhscrii.ts and papers ivere all saved, and a good portion ol his personal efects, thougli frot. the sudden lessof the alarm and rapidtityof the llames, iany valuable artiulcs of apparel and property were u 1nvoidal, consumed. Th family were kindly and Locspilbly re ieived by Mr. mnd Mrs. liraydon, nearly ippswite to the hotel in I5road-street, at whose house they still remain. From the Charleston iMercury of June 22. FRoM ST. AUGUSTUNE.-BV the 'arrival yesterday afternoon ofthe packet schooner Enpirr. Capt. L. Southnick, we have received fromr our correspondent the fol lowing: HIERALD OFFiCE, June 19, 1839. Information has reached us thai t itum her of indians have gone in nt Fort King, and aniong them the party who murdered Brockenberry, at Picolata a short timo since. They admitted the murderand al leged that they were ignorani of the treaty entered into %ith Gen. Macomb. Since then. however, the treaty has re ceived another bloody seal. Two men were killed last week at a place called fort cross. The sixty dayb allowed for the In rlians to go South, have not expired. It is said a number are going South, but it is sispecied it is for the purpose ofhold ig the "green corn dance," which takes place about the first week in July. The Drought and the Heat.-The heat iluring the last week has been exceedingly ippressive. The theroometer ranging lietween 93 and 98. The surrounding country too, as well as our city, is suffer ing under a droughtorseveral weeks. In the city, garden vegetables are literally parched and dried up. and in the surround ing country, the corn is almost in the samo situation, and ye, there are no prospects nf rain. We understand that some 10 or 12 miles north of this place,on Friday night last, there was a cevere hail storm which - like the one that fell in te same direction, a few weeks pastt has done a great deal of diamage. Without there is an early rain, the planters in this vicinity will lose their erop of Corn and the Cotto'n will he mate rially injured. A e trust however that the 1BENEFICENT B.Ixo," who in the exer. ?ise of his wisdom, orders all things for the best. will vi..it our parched soil with a few 'f those "genial showers," wohnut which lhe industrious Farmer toileth in vain! Milledgeville Jour., June 18. The Circular.-The President of the Bank of the United States, both in conver it ion and by letters, denies allogerher any ,onnexion with the famouas circular. .P. S. We have this moment received the following communicatiOn. To the Editors of ite Journal of Commerce. I perceiveth nt.in commron with the other 'ewspatpers of hibi city, you have connec ed my tiame and the Bank of the United Siates with the Cotton Circlar recently ssucd in this city. You will therefore termit me to state explicitly; That the Bank of ithe United States has inihing whatever to do with it, so far as I mow or believe. That this measure didyot emanate from lessrs. Hiiphreys & Biddle. That with tihe view of facilitating tho ?xport of the Cotton now in this port, I of ered to make the advances named in the ircular alluded to. That the reasons assigned for making hipmeuts to Messrs. H umphreys & Bid lie, are those of some of the holders of :ottoun ini tIs cotuntry; who seek to pro ect their own interests by cotcer; of ac ion. S. V. S. WILDE R. New York. Jane 11th, 1839. Acquited.-lt ia stated in the National ntelligencer, that lthe trial of A. WV. Good. -ih ho was indicted for a coalition with Dennis G. Orime, the ;eller of ihe Bank >f the Mert ropotis, at Washington City, to -ob he Batik of a large stnm of money, ~ame Ott Tutesday last, and afrer a patient nvestiaaution befrbre an inuelligetnt jtury, he vas acquiitteil. The jury were absent but afew minutes. The defence set til wvas hat in receiving the money from M2r.Ormec, e dlid it with ito eriminal intent, hul the athter to preserve it, and he kept it for the ime he did, in order to screen M r. 0. from &homi be had formerly received favor and cinness. The trial of Orme was, by con ent of the cotunsel on both sidesu, posit poned mtil the ensuing term of the Criminal 'ourt. Immense Robberies.--Steamboat Rob her.-T1he Johni W. Richmond, on her rrival fromt Providence this mnorninlg, wvas etatineti some hours in the North river, in :orisequenice of a passetnger (J. WV. Frgrris, Esq of Boeton,) having been robbed of papers valtued at 830.000. Part of the money was found, but the thief was not ound. Big.ger yet!-. The Cashier of the Batnk > Uiea was robbed last nigh;, on board he steamboat Swallow, otn her way front Aany, of the snm of $400,000. The rogue ias not discovered-N. Y. Times. r This statement is contradicted.] A letter, from Watrretnton, Abbeville District, state< that although the spring vas a dry one, the corn and cotton crops ook well, and will yield gooxd returns on es some disaster occurs. -The Districta s generally heaihhy.-C'har. C'our. The oldest town in the United States,it a said. is 8t. Atiguustine, lorida, by more han forty years. It was founded forty .ears before Virginia was colonized. Somo >f the hotises are yet standing, which are aid to have bteen built more than threo :enturies ago.-Jbid.. Connectient --The Whig members of he Conntectient Legislature, have passed . esoitions expressing their preferentce for leitry Clay as tnext Ptident of the~ Uni i, but pledgitng thetmsehves to support he nomiinee of a National Convention. bid. Lctters from Brazil mention that the overnimenit ot Portugal had resolved to co pIerate cordially wiih that of Great ih-it in in breakintg'up the Slave trade on tho oast of Alrica, nu that the.Governiorsof ~ngola anid Mloznambique had received .,sti - erest that eTet.-Jid.