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ionowiag of the United 3he Solicitorof the ijis it for general infor (ciacus.Aa.) Soicier of the Treasury. February 23d ISM. 'MS the act to establith a uniform at bankruptcy is.now in operation, it proper to make certain sigges -nregard to debtors of the United States who may apply fr the benefit of By the 5th section thereof, the priirity ofahe Unitiod States is presorved. That this preference should be rendered availa. hIe to the full extent, it is necessary that the interests of the Government he repre seated and properly guarded. &s you possess the information, or can readily ob tain it, as to the names of those indelbted to the United States, and the amount of their liabilities, if any such debtor residing within your district apply for the benefit of the act, it will hecome your duty, under directions from thisofflee, to proteet she in. terests of the Government. To accomiplish this. I transmit the following general in structions: 1st. Ira debtorof the United States up ply for the benefit of the bankrupt act, you will immediately report his name and resi dence to this ofce. and at the same time bpply to it fat.sbch information in regard to the amoun'lend character of his indebt edness as y& may believc to be neceAsary. 2d. You will see that the aptalicalt includes the amount due to the United States in his schedule of detuts. and ir ie claims a credit, admitting or denying a ba lance, you will communicnte the facts to this office, that the accuracy of the state neat!be ascertained from thei proper offi cer. 3d. You will take caro, so far as you can, witbotsinfringinr upon the nrorpri ate duties of the Court having jurisdictietn of the matter, or the rights of the nssignee. that the sales. &c. to be matle loy hin aue discreetly ordered ant fdaihfully cindicteel, and that the proceeding ho terminated as soon as the rights and interests of all cos cerued will permit. These general instructions are not inten ded to exclude any other action on your part wbkb would advance tle intereas of the Government in these cases; nuch unttit he left to your discretion, and be depen dentuon your local informatiou, both or which, I am sat6fied, you - ill very cheer isly ezokeise. - Respectfully. yopr obediseat erat?. .CII8. B. PENRkOE, Solicitor oft he Treastiry. To--, Bsq. U. S. Attorney. Tb. awIag %istements in the last Gaek;.w nadeti hob what we hear., sad itm beno nore tha prudct. for awhoh a foreIneft a ?et toe teste before theduprem urt.-CAa'. Mercury. t4 BANKRUPT ACT. It wil,beseen by referesnce to the Sen at. proceedigs that the amendmuents proposed by .u1r. Blenton to this act, are made the special order Friday. ste 25th inst. and as several of the Senat~ors who voted against post ponemnent declared them - selves to be in favor of amendment, tt nmay be well expected that some of them w ill pass. Be this as it may. we can say that the opinion becomes stronger trom~ dayt to day that there will be nso final actton un der this bill for more thtan a year to eme -that the quegaioo of the validis y of the act will be made ina the differenat Di-trict Courts, and carried to the Suapremec Court of the United States. which will not ihld anothaer termf until Coangress shall he in ses sion, and agair. entertaint the qtuestioan of rpal. The progress of the act is excising th ulpattentin; creditors see the otahi gation of conatractsitmpairedl by the debtor wipicg out his debt withut their consent, when all bankrupt lawrs reqjuire sihe cnn sent of the mass of the creditors (two-ilhirdls or three-fourths isontnmher andI valne): and the friends of State Rights see the sover eignty of the States invaded auad overb.rne ins theaostinction of all the State iusialvent laws, (and in cases to which nt hantkrupt systems ever extendedt.) snd the assertion of a power by which all the great relations of debtor and creditor may lhe withdrawn from the $tates invaded and everaornte in the extinction of all the State insolvent laws, (and in cases to wbech no hbankrupt systems ever extended,) and the assertihn of a pwer by which all the great relations of debtor and creditor may be withdrawn from the State Courts and State laws, atnd brought under the jutrisdiction of the Fed eral courts and Federal laws. For these two reasons, not to mention otthers, she most serious oapposition so the constitution ahity of the law may be expected by the gablie. }Ve see a sad effeci of te law mention ed in several papers. that of creditors cotm poand ing deb's for msere triales, for fear of having the whole wiped oat. Tfias is a spe the more to be lamented because the a boli tion of the debt by the will ofthbe debtor, is so maanifestly unconstitutional, contrary to all *bankreupt'systems. and so immoral in itself, it must be altered, eithier by amend -. Indal decision, th. Mississipp free Trsder-. x Iant glad to perceive by hich I And in the columns of re Trader of the 13th inst., ionto as IniaCot by the seuators to bpalmned uniers. Such hyand profit terested ari p ibthosg 'k are inter- tl ;because they 'ntertaining pre- d as you express in regaw ti d objects of tbe presentpa- 9, o ben surprised-at the-silence of : ublic journals on this important sub- Ii and that none of them have come for- a before this to disabuse the popular mind oi#he numerous (alsehoods invent and propaugted. to aiedsigns and sus Win the.isurereuts of jie speculators and manufacturerm I trust you will follow up the attack you have commenced on the combinations againstus, and fully expse the wicked designs and artifices of the pa nie makers, The following facts, while they fully ii lustrate and corroborate your views. as ex pressed in the articles referred to, serve In e ,bow in a strong light, sie unscrupIuOus I means ewployed, to gull the country, and what false and unfrounled statements are made, to effect the end intended. ' The American Farmer, published in Baltimore. extracted last fall from an English paper, s atn account of she arrival in Englant, of a 4 saipment of the first cotton produced in the i East Indies, uniter the sup'erintendence of I Capi. Bayles. Acrording to this account. fthe cotion reached Liverpool ii the montih of Sepctmer last. Now, an ofseA to this absurd story. and is proive it a 2roSs fii brientin. I am credibly informed, that a gentletman in this ncighbsorhood, received a letter fron one of the 3obng men wit"? went out, from this nci!lborhood, to India. I with Capt. Bayles. stating that the expe dition only reached Calcutia about the 1at ter end of F-bruary Inst. The writer of , this article received a letter from another of the party, dated only t wo months pre Vioatillu that time, at the i-sand of Mlta so shat there is no doubt, that the planters who went from Alisi-isippi to tile Indies with Capt. Dayles, dids no0t reach their des tination un-til tise' beginnsing of last siring. Ifthen. the Fsiglish account, eopied by the Aierican F:rimer. be true, not wirhstani-I ing the expedition only reachei India the lazs of February-not wihslsanding it takesI an average of three monihs or ninety slays to performn the voyage from Calcutta Ill Li verpuool, vet a cotison *-rsop hail eestn madne-. gatiered, packed, shipped and landed safe ly at the luter port, soeic tune in tIhe' mouth sif Septetlmer following. At this rate, the cottin muss'havo been on board Ji.ip in about one intnilred nud twenty d4ys from tie arrival of thr planters. This. your readers will sy. is a rapid itusiness, and throws into the shadeo any thing ever done in these 'liggins." The whole vs ry is obviously one manufactured at the expense of evry thing like truth anti pro hability. and deservesto beirlassed with is kindred huniug. amut tie crop of half a Jillion of bales'that is to come fenm the gait lidies this a-son. But again, the same paper of the Sib December. publishes ansber and a very difierent accouant, co ~dfrm the Losndon A tlas of October 2d, kieb completely falsifies and coutra diets time Ist stoy in all i's parts ani par ii201uLi. The -Atlas copyind from tie Madras Uaited Service Gazette of ;he 25rb of June last, tells us on the authority of.that 'paf.;r ithat the government has ordered ibeirsasfer of the A merican cotton plasu. eri, sen to orgagize their plan. at that pec sidency, from. Tiunevelly to Coitbator. whichicour sb lt ed %pt, sie off ai e .rst cotton produced under the superintendeu'te of Capt. Hlayles," bein~i otinhe lIritish mar ket by the first of Sepmtetmber last, why it surgs out, that the Alississippi pitanters wdre shihisng about no late as the 2-5th of last June, to Gund a place 'suited to the pro jecl," arid that aiths'agh mny great andi smarvellous thinp. were to b~e done, yet n thing, as yet, kad bfrn done. Thme same paper (time iited Service Gaszet'e) itn forms us, that the cot'on seed ansi implae ments of husbmandlr, gent iout tromt A4 me-ri ca, had just reachel ioae. If sour planst ers allow thseimselvee, to ibe band arnd hutmugged by such lsisy takehood antd therebt~ly In b~e ir; hitenied inro the sate of teir cuttist as a s.erifice, sihey d~ev io be. tleeeed. Let ath who are attie to sli sop, hold ont unttil Apil or Alny, anid they will< find time speculators andtt mtanufacturers I ithles no lsmnster aisle to resist the proofs of i an enc reingly dimmbha~e-I crop, and whent. no0 iltnger able iso simose on te planters bsy thi-r dieceitiul fictson.. coimm int rwrd and git smg fniir rossund prics to hie iir cotio. A JE'FFER~UN P'LANizR. NE~W O(srL:Ss. Feb, 21. From. Tex.u-ly the N.-ptum-, 33 hours fron: Gaive.stona papesrs sof Thuwrsday, 1ith, are receivedi. Theim Congress ad-t journe-d on time ~th, and tt" Presidieat hadi arrived ini Ilou ston, Genm. lhamlitn had ai returned to Gulveston. Trhe governumen:I have decided not tocomnmence at present, an aggressionl on Mlexico, Twernty stou sand sd Ilari were appropriated for she de-' fence of tho Western fronmtier, Col. W. II. Dnmgerfid hmas received te appoint-e menit ot Secretary of ste Treasury, andsv Dr. Ashil Stmith that of Mlinister ina c France. hlalf a million of Texas promissary, notes were burant at Au~stin under she su pervision of a enmarmittee appointed for the purpse. P. Eudmonds, of Galveston, hsas be-sn ap - pointed Texian Consul for New Orleamis, Gee. K. Tenion, Esq., late editor sat the Aussin City Guasette, i. she bearer of des-( parchecs to Londion. Mlr. Navaro, who lately left San Anto nio to entdeavo~r 1o procure tihe liberation of his brother, taken at Santa Fe, was' eizedl soon after croassitag the Rtio Grande, roabbedl and imprisoned by the Miexican authori tes. Congress hmad passed a resolution extend- C ing the limnits of Ti-xas from the mouth of s tie Rio Grande to the Pacific Ocean, anmd along the coast fifteen miles in the sea, to : the Oregon Territory, so as to inelusde the ci California in the territory of the Republic. ~ Henry Castro has been appointted Con- ' sl General to France; ansd William Ken- " edy. Tezian ConsualGeneral in Englanid. ? General Hamtiltmn's proposition for a I Belgian loan-or 85,000,000, was not de- a ided on by Congress, but the question was indefinitely postponed,-Bmlletin. a ...- ft SPaying for his fun-A peso Insmed'i ,8mith wil o time nce, for b urpoeA best known 1d hoalself.lad nthe inWness to carry to eg of the papers in tiseilVa ralse accountof the.marriage of Ir. o1er to Miss Crowley. has licen'in. ictedby the grand jury, for libel. It is 0 be hoped that his: punishaneat, if fonud uiHty of so base a charge, %ill he 1, warn ig to others, and prevont the remptlion o milar distardly acts.-.bal. Pat. EDGEF ELD C.11 W orsvsnt a , Maaca., 184 . To Ddinquent Su&scvribrs-Hra *coin oneed otr mesenth volune, and us of making various improvementa otur eUAs alishment. we are in want of'unds; procute: ie n.-cessary materials to carry out oar deir. d object; aid to whom are we toilpply foir Fow funds but onr patrons. who inv.been utpplied weekly. with the various '~ and ,we of whon have not paid anegae -gfor the is two or three vears, for Suatbscript '. Ad ertising or Job Work. To those wJ ate in rrears for Subscription, and will rOite their ccounts by the March court. we -wl.eceive p per year, but ater that tiue wieOlin all afes exact $4. the terma of the paper. 'We .ave, at no time. since dipper hias a' ien ar hand., been %ery grci*dss., buand that he ecounts are becoming .* arp e)n otir ,ank,.. and money so scarce an arta that in eli justification. we shall have to pt the 'tnning, if not the rash system. W e hope our ddiaquent subscrilev lcome 'iward. oss and At.l., and save ,fsending. and themselves the mW'.I~beiug waited on by a collector. We thankfully acknowlcde the rneapt of a tmber of newspapers anal public doesnients, iom the lIon. F. W. Pickets. B7 We refer our readers to another column a thi day's paper for the remarks of te lion. F. W. Pickens. on the first or the series of re nlintions reported by the Select Conbatittee on Itetrenchnent in the contingent expensed oftie lonse of Represeutatives. which is ietbo'Fol owing words: . Baalesa. That the Clerk of the Hjme be, t.t he is i hereby. anthorized tocosam in Isis rffice thenaerv irets 4t thetth ree asxiaaiait derksau horia.ed hvy re.aluitions ndopted by tst-House, vsa the ith day of Marb.ijtfi. atd the'l th day [ October. 17. ina addition to the six amis ant clerks m,w antharated lby law. at the an ual salar notw received by them, respective y - and at he Cmploy no greatq. nuantrgr of islsiant clerks at ally time In iSefce. unles pertaited .o to do by an order tesolution of the Ilouase. - To which resolutiona 3r. Gordon lad hereto fore uficred the fullowing amendment: -- Anad ia addinon thereto, that Ise be'Uhor. ird to cnatinue tle t o asistatnt clirfs nou Lmaployed in, h;.. office. nd who have been eta 1lyed therein snace i . T& A sagusta Mirrr.-In another partof this paper will be funud the address of Mr W. T. Thanapsot. Editor of ahe late Augusa Mirror, to the patroan of that periodical , to -whieb we call the attentiona orour readers. - TA Mails.-WAe are forced once =ore to Bad ranal with the manner in which wbreceive the up conntry pipers. On. unday ie ought toreceive all or exciabages royjw bpper p-rt of the (mi. but generallyreceihti7 by please infdirmnai... Quer.-To Potmaste.-Does not the reg. i!tions wheich govema the Post Otikce Degcat. ue. equire Postmasterm to inform Prinaser, went a 1eraon, towhoma a copy oaf teir paper is sent, r,-fuses to tnke it out..ftheir ofiice f and ii ley do.'loe it eive to the Postmaster the privi eeof k.-epine suachapnpers to loan to Ihis awl'ehbo untii thecy get utafit for musc, before hey rUtr theta. Wil somae f testmaster splaain thai.a. or dao they wvish us to he amore ex licia. wichrl we shall I.-, in omar tnext, i ilae amekiage of p:apers returaed to outr uoffice thais *vek are .otregtularly accounated for. Mrdica) ('ulege of Georga.-Thae annamal -onanremen tt o.fthi, fti.nrishinug insttutionasa schi ait the Bapt~tibt Chlurch., on I'riday thte -*tth mat. Thaa l~axter of Dan 'tr of Medicine was 'nfarred son twe'ety S'our genatlenmen. among whom~a wete the falinwiasg from this State: Ieauai, WV dfsrd. It. A. Archer. T. S. G.ar Seraa Carolina Iron. .Vais. &r.-IsthseSoanth ~arolioiana lof h'rd inst., we- find the anneezed raiele. W~ee feel parocud at allitimes to ro unl acrotnut' of t:.0 rapaid strides our Union a making taow:ardm r-erfectu.n ian the Arts tasnd ci-eso un a to eable our citizenus to do and ea fair alaamaaalveu. as the people ofa (seeo sad udepenadenat 1:ernamnt oughtt toa act And specially, to -see withaiaa thec limits of owvn be. >vel State. also raw muateraalts parocuared, and an atalishmaenat rearest to muanuaf.actsure aan article, hi'h is so msucha watated. pairticularly in our wa marakets. 'The foun~d**r of such a Valuable atablisament. aoughat. .and we hope will be, re nred as iltn mrit of their entterprize deserves --South Carolina Iron. Narls, Etc.---We ecomamand attcutiaon tethe Adfver' cast f thaen Nes'aitt Maunafacturinag Cow1i y, ..d thes certificate of the principal Archsi. *a oat uhae. place, ini tavor of the Nailsand ramd.s tanaufactured hymbatt Company. Ve have sen also Iouers from the Nat y :rd rat W~alhingtou City; Where the Iron Sthis Comsapany lase tben scientifically stedl, declarinag it eqptal any iron tried :are. *The etnterprize is one of great valoue to to St ate, anal the countryvgenerally, and sattnot fail to elicit the kin'lly feeling and uppout of all whao take a prosper interest in ae dlevelopmnt ir otur native resources,l ndt the~ promsaotion ofl our domiestic pro ictions randa indusatry. Mtesuere. Poloch, latona & Co.. of Ctltumbia, are the Vholesale Agents of the Comtpany. and e feel atssuredl will furnish all kiads of ~aile, Irona, and I ron Manufactures, of as Isn quality ne any ina the c'outatry, and on a good or :ecter termas. They.have a large V arhnuse fittled upe expressly for this trade ud butadantly suppliec.l, which will he unad worthy the attenation, not only ofdea rs, but all who take. an inerest in our on, nrndner innt" Coagre.-Thbe CorrenpuldenLt th char'- p leston Courier, under date of Feb. '27. says: i "The Board of Conmissioner under the ti treaty with Mlexico, have closed thOe labours, if 412 ison isterminated. The whole e amotiu4 nAwged to claimants by the board and it the umpire -(Reuve) is twenty-one hundred thousand dollar%. . any claims were not acted b on, not having bWenepresented in tine. The c 'Olaimsnts.4 eenil,''are much dissatisfied b with deio a~The scrip in which tiey ar '1 paid, is selliinaboo' fifty cents in tho'dollar. I "The House proceeds slowly with its busi- a ness-if it has any busitness. After a debate C of somae weeks on the Retrenchment Report, v tSe have passed one of the resolutions cutting I off'two clerks; at the expense of forly thousand to iniebate, they have saved three thou "Takiag Time by iheforelock."-Thc Wash ington Correspondent or the Charleston 31er cury, under date of Feb. 26i, says: "Rumors were rife sometime since, that ludge Noah, of New York. who has been on a visit to this city, was entrusted by the Execu *ire, with a mission to the prminenat penny pa pers of the country. This rumor is daily being confinned. The New York Sun, the P1hiladel phia Ledg1er. and the Baltimnue Sun. all here tofor" neutral papers. are gradually taking ground in favor of the admiristration." APericall Nary.-The N. Y. Sunday Morn ing News of the 27th nit. says: " Commodore Sloore. of Eie Texan Navy, has captured the Mexican schooner of war Engle. one of die two beautiful vessels built in New York for Santa Anna. The other, it will be recolIlected. was lost on one of tte Bahamas. Thus in about six months the Mexican Navy, was built, organiz ed and destroyed." Whig Nomination.-At a Con vention held at Drayton, Ohio. by the Whigs. on the :2 tilt., Thorns Corwin:. Esq, tie present Governor. was nominated for re-electioin. Ohio Bans.-The Wheeling (Va.) Times, of the 22d ult. says: " The Bank of Chilicuthe. Bank of 3arietta. the Cleveland and the .an. castet Banks. all of the State of Ohio, hase made assignments of their effects to Comnis. Pioners." Mississippi.-The House of Representatives of this State, have passed instructions to their Senators to vote for the repeal of thie Bank rupt Act, of the Distribution Act, and of other measures of the Fxtra Session. Massaseutts.-A bill (says a Boston paper) is now before the l.e-islaturo of Massaclhn'aes. to repcal all laws against usury on notes of short date, without colatteral secenurity. Silk Boeunty.-The Tennesseo Legislature at their late session. passed an act authorising a bounty of fifty cents per pound upon the pro duction'in Tennessee. of reeled or raw milk, capable of being wrought into a subtantial fa. bric, and of ten cents per pound upon cocoons. Fraad.-The New Orleans Bee of the 10th uil.,says: "A young man named Thomas D. .ire'r,a Clerk in the employ of Ar. vdisam .Mure of that'city, was sent to the Commercial Iank,o the day previous, with dms ofabout is uspposed itbeconded with it, asha has not sInce been heard of. Tyrer iu'represented as 20 years of age,5 feet 7 itsches higth, having an oval face, glossy blacit hair, A c., S500 is offer ed for any information that will lead to his ar rest." For Ihe Adv~ertiser'. FIR E' '-In time of peuce, prepare for war :" andl while the embers of an exhausted fat e, '.re dly. ing in the ashes of our fire-plaice, let uts be pre pared to quench its consuming flam,--. wheni fire shltl rage tupon your house-top. From the earliest period of our history, to the present timu--thaanks to an 'veranlhint Pr"m ance ouar floutrishing little townu, e-aanparately, as never beena tmolested h, the deb:ru tise visits of thie fe"arful elemtenat. 1I the'ra is a s'tund more aw'uly -tarlling -aa the car than 'heecry of " Fire'," "r a sight mu re appalling than that of a hou"se in thames, it des ntot strike my humble imaiagin::atietn. If hairrer ceald be added to such a scene as a town, in tkames, it sutrely w~oauld rise fenmu a kno~wledte offthe fact, that the whole town was b'eint con. sumed by the ruthaless ravage, of tire, without a single etlicienut meanis of a rresting its pr rcNs. Such trould be ottr awfu l'ittuationi. it lire rahonal bi-e'1l out in any public part of our inwn. c. cidentt oft frequenat a'curr'ne"c-fno mtn'ter huw dis::st otne itn natur-alre too nften looked "pon n itha caompiaraive tanditferenc. hicance thte d,f tent:ty inl preparing a defence :;raiit lire, at - othe~t disasters whiich may never occur. Thai. we are often thrawtn into the meost dietressin exigenicies, and of'ten suffer the most disastrous consequzences from being totally unprepared to This in the precarios situtntioni ofoair towtn, as it regards " fire t" nit's. in the estimation of I e'nr :catfsl and president Town Coiuncii-a short ladder and, nbiucket of wre'r is all sutfi cienat. It needs no lang course of arguamenat to onince the minds of onr citiens of the imi-I tent danger, to'whicha they nre exposed inl this respect. It is evident, that if anty uric of the buildings, strrounding the paublic square. shotuld take fire, the whole block mttst inevitably beij burnt "en masse" to ashes. And wvhy ?-would n&t each and every citizen, in an event of this kind, lend a helping hand to e.xtinguish the fames? Would not the most robust and portly of them fly ueuogAfally to the wvuerpail and ine hisi anxiety to quench*' the flames upon the "housetop" dash its contents furiously uplon ?lae ground ?-wonld notthe mast disinterested inhabitanat, while all wvere crying "fire" call t: loudly upon his neighbor to bring hin -'the aedu" s that he might pesr all its water npon the flames, e and instantly extinguish the ravages of fire ? Each and every one no doubt would do is ut-' most, and yet the whole square in the space of * twety-fourhoars might be sunk in ashas- And why is this?-Simply, because we ie totally unj repared for the event. The. object of' the foregoitng retmarks, is sim .5r yhi eir own' possible . ly, and to s most destre First: lAt an E purchased, either itizens. according to y voluntary stbscript. 1.s pump be constructed ALlia square for public use, ma additicual expense in the 'If xtra hosing for the engine which might rorked to greater ads antage by receiving its rater is the middle of the square. Thirdly. ad lastly, lit the nuoiber of twenty-five men e organized into a fire company. which shall irn out nonthly. or oftener, iftley choose, and rork their engine unatil they becoure perfect in It might be well here to rentark, that mem. era of fire companieta are generally iexnpt rom military and patrol duty. The ezpedict -y of these saggestions, and the ttrgent tneec rity of such mi. ttrasire need no additianol re. marks to give them claim uipot tlte atention of oar citizens. If rcm tlhe foregoing we cannot perceive the policy of so ceal and eflicient de. ence against fire. we must still longer fold our IMs in indiafference. -ind leave the awful con. equence., which musAt he the resxa is fa tire it our town, alone to adv.cente the nea-aure. I eaon fails to effect our minsd on a subcject of uch vital importance. ifwe still re'hi-bly ci s - otr eyer to danger so immtoinetaly destruc!ve. vbetn our town is covelopel in fl:..mes. though ve may not even. then ieoe the utility :awl expe iency of this men-nore. w, will --urredly see, rhen alas, t is too late. the utter ineficiency of short ladder aind a Luchtf of WATER. Merico and Teras.-We learn (eays the qew-Orleans Ike of the. 24th th.) front ,apt. Andros . sof the schooner C. C. Za priskie, 7 dayes front Natanoros. thai a. he vats about le-tving iltat ciav. an express ar -ivel. 'saing that a body orabout five liun Ired Mexicanis hail croecd over irto Tex s nnl fallen in with a Texiao force. when. trer a short engagemcnt, the fericnns vere completely rouated Such wcas tie asnlahter reported, it vaw4 seiil that but two %lexicans escaped with their lives. Cap. A. did tot remaito to obtain ite part-ildars f the engagtiet. We apprehewl that her- e sotne exag2erationi in this tatter. houigh wte doult not tla gereral truth of he ostatenent.-Charleston Couricr. General JaMes llamillon.-A letter friom Galveston (Texas) s;ayu: --General Hlamilton and site Belgian Minister arrived in the la-t Neptune. awl procceded immediately to Austein. having sent an expresu in advance. with despatch es forour Government in relation to the long looked for Ian. General lamilton itiorans me he has nade arrangemenrs to lixpose of 5.000,000 of dollars f Texa-s Iotites. at 94 cents. provided the endorse ient or the King of Belgium is obtnined: and that ihe endorsement can be had ifour Congress will grant certai.i eXteijsive con nercial privileges to Belzium, the nature af-which General llamilton did not tell no." A carrtaaswnlnent af tha ismtan PeI of ers to ,het a hat that Mr. Clay's resigna lion is all a humbur-hsas Mr. Clav wrote no the Governor of Kenturkv befare hte re 'ignedl. not to accept thec resignaatiosn: that it will not he accepted, and that 3Mr. ('lay will re-taan his sent, and glorify haimnel- hyv iversinag that thc people of Kentucky will iOt stafer himn to retire "-Chaar. Mecrcurg The MIail.-The .'l.,bile Josarnal <av's: in sill our editorial experience. whtich ex tends shbrotagh a good muany years. we ha~ve iiever kntown t so much irregtularity withI so itilea excuse it. Fair weauthe-r nwl' foual mainyv and dry, sunashine arnd s'orm, it i all the samte. Once itn a while, the mail a' ill corne throtngh, a lien tnoboely e x pects t, frorn't the - an e of the rna.ds;; arnd ttheti for a eck it wilt bie irr-e-gubir. t,abhugh a fotit passeunger einih ctrte aIll the way wvithou~et oilisng hisi h-anr Ielet of A uguiea.-Tlli held atlhs among te na bite popla:jitn eof thaI city. dusrin:: lai ye-ir I ,8-I , amotedtr to fifly-one nly. -icluidintge t'. se ill horn, atndl sso whro di.-d iy asccidets occuirreingei oon th-'- 'ityv. ri'te prmoporttean< of de,sts. a he-refore it o a si x-rrO on:, andl e xhibiit. :r de.rer of aiea'lh unsur passed by~ any other city in the' [,,nion. Of the deaths: t s were Iro- con umlpttn. ti t.TMti.Acs:, 2 aldl ag,-, 1.d1 3 otnly fromn fvuer-of the:,e hats, 2 vere ehfldrenr. Of the 51 deasth<, 22 wecre IFremthlie .\ O. ker. of 2l1 uit. .91ON & LO)SS OF LlIE! The steast towboat .lohbigan. Capataitn leaton, oan Sautiay eveninag. the 19th of "ebruaary, whilst engng~ed with the touw eiaut Star. in sowvinc, the Briti~lh ship El. h'lorn, (inaward hound.) acrts thre bhar. orst all her boilers. lby a htich, we regret i radeI, that fruom twelve to foturteeni live's rre loss, amoingst whsom are the iwo en in-e'rs, two tiremsena sawl threedek htandl. .ienst. lDokup. eane of slaheio Rev eu ofcers tthe Hlalize. was blown fromt the boat oin ourd oef the Star and wa, kiled nra the pot. The msate of ste Ed. Thorn was illed by the explosiona and the captain , dangernusly n osndeed.-The latter, and aptain hlteaton, who is like-wise badly urt, were brouagha ta ithe city yerstelav on eardl of the Star. and mnedicual aid was nmediately procuredl to riender thetm ev ry possibile assistance. Capt. hlason, of to Star, (a brother of thre cimantder of te Mohigana.) did every thing in lis pow. rto alleviate the sutl'eriugs of the wounatdedi rd with a promipitude worhy eferedit, re rned forthwith to the cis s =irh ra ve w os curing iminediate remnedies fur thteir re vory. The Msohican canacht fire immed' tely ier the ex plosion, and was entirely cont tmed-.The deficiency oaf water its th ile-s is said to have been the or*ino. is afflieting accient Yankeri Futerp :s and ls y~.-The Nantucket Ingq -)~'K av this fishe good effeet, royal grants ^ ..howered upon of other rnaions, der these lavish New South WhaI' for their own conso The same paper giv meration of the qnantitie:N oft of foreign and domestic prodne in the outfit of whale ships w duriu tie year 1811: Flour. 45.240 ha Park and Beef; 460.50 '6 Mo'lamies. 2114.5M02 gallons Coffee, tG-480) pounds. Sugar, 2d.7t00 -- Tca, 90.560 Rice. 201500 - luck, 2'2,620 pierces. Cordl, 2,530 ng Iron [loops, 2.716 -3t.ives, 550.tkJ barrels. Copper. 26,170 pounds. Tar, 4.520 barrels. White Lead, 174,61XI pounds. Painit Oil, 11,98t0 gallons. Cotton and Calicoes. 673 00 wards. lutter, 226,453 'pounds. Vinegar, 2.113 harrels. Hlans, P's and Coru,29.542 bushels. Cheese, 45.240 pounds. flamr, - 44.9-540i pounds. Dried Apples, 21.1680 lried Fb4, 2> .:40 Tobacco. 452.000 Sisap), 4.520 boxes. Mr.. PICKE X-.S Remarks on the Re. trenehmnent Resolutions. Mlr. PICK ENS said fie was in favorof tihe ge neral principlrl-s of the resolution re ported by the committee, anti alad of the opportuity of lending it his support. As to the merits of the ltil it propopsed he w as uninformned and inicaprnble of(jnrding. as he di.l riot know the state of the facts. These lie was willing to leaie to the com mittee. It mnight he tln tire reforms they proposed nirrild o..erate haril) in paric lar cases; hu!, at to the general scorpe and aim of lite re port. it had his most cordial approval. lie na alad so fird that at last something was likely to be lone toward reform in the cxpendrturms of the Ilouso itself. It was dte to the hornor oftlicady; it wvas due to their stair-h befure the country, iit: refortu should begin as near to tlemselves as possible. [A voice : "But nlot to touch ourselves, eh!" A iaugh.] fie hc-ped, in arrangr, itn.e details of the ieasure, the comtmitee would act judi ciously, so as to occasion as little personal -ardship as possible. If there was one in divitd al onwbi thlt-relormn would ope rate hardly, it was probaliy the gentle man who had cbarge of lhe Congressional stables. A, to the details, however. it must in a greet mranner be confided to the discretiou of the comzmi:tce. Yect, whrile giviug his cordial assnt to tire p'ropjosed retot mt, as far as it wseat, it was, afterrill, liut au smtall cotmmencement; it was but a frst step. He was aware that thart Iliuse had lost must of that reputa tiOu attn intlurence iu the country which it hrad once errjoyed; ire readily admitted the f.,cr; but. as toi the causes whlich had led to it. Ire could nt agree with thre hentleman from Virgrma. (.Mr. Wise;) he believed it wa is tot attribunt--d imaitnly to the prractice of adopting, unithiuti due dlelibecratin and de bate, merurar. s wvhich i.adl beenr previously p reprared itt caucus orti rf the louse. ft ws a-. thius that ano irrespro sile bodyh of n dividuals ex~ered a control over the inde Iperndent actionr of rh:- iouse, and imea sure. were foirced througrh the formts of Ie prsljtin tr a single' dayv which ought to re'Ci u'der'' ne a lull aind n'tihrerate coa srdermriern aund the amtl'eskt docutjsioni. Thesrce were thre c:.uzss nch had so lamntavne i~ ukelnJ. thre im-ral intiluence ol thIis Iliouse ma th-- public inid. tic tinste to itfutre'r grim pnublic measures o'ntuld ire dictus.,d. ' hr. ly anud luirly in thre lu, 'u here tirey ou;;t~lt t e discus se.w i nlly indhseealet of thre iufllncce of c k s es hl r.lthre. These had al w a v, teen ar. jr. s,-irimtenits. lie had o'ten avcw.'ed therm both ina andI out of rho I louse. The-y wrere hi setimentts rill; .-adl he hoped to see rthe day ns hen they would Ire adopted ad. acted upon by ;;ereral consenrt. M~r. P. was forr atnother reform in the arrangements o1 thre Ii uuse, and thut was the remroval of these vile dtsks, which sep crated miembiters fruom eaSch oi'er so as to prreven'tt their seeing or hecarintg each other. 'rhey interrupItedl all soutnd delibreration: awny withr ttrem; atnd let genitlemren be brtought togerlher face lto fnee, eye to eye. These esks were fat onrly for, lazy loun ger, whro came up here trot to do tire duty of he;islaiiotn. but toi get their ci;tht dollars a dlsy. Tor remrroie tnecm wo euld Ire 0n inm porrtanrt practical reform: it would greatly reduice thre expenditures of the lHouse: it uwould lessen them at least one thiri: t nsouldl shorten the duratin of the sussinni-s and dirtninish the amnount of pa statlirnary consumed. Let where they counldi ace and and where deliberation tsarf the time. There n as another rifi lueved would1 exert a yrast It iignity and true indepedn Thre framiiers oif the~puh diat the Legislatout nate brauch theh andswdns' lln