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If- , 1 J . . -. - ... -lS-ir NORTH-CAROLINIAN. Wtv. II. Baynf, Kdltor and Proprietor Saturday Morning, March 2S, 19 13 MARKET. But a very moderate business has been done tf is vretk. No alterations to make in prices. Flour i in good demand. ' . THE SNOW STORM.-The Madisonian notices a violent snow storm at Washington on Thursday the 16th inst. The mails were -all brought to a siatid lill. Tho snow was from 2 to 5 feet deep, ia drifts. It snowed ao inch or two here on Sunday evening last, succeeded by 'freezing, weather. ;3TUe Steamer Columbia from Liverpool, nrr'v ed at B iston on inn 13th. The news is still " de prss:on," of the mmket. Nji T I O NAL POUTUAIT GAL LER.Y. -The agent, Mr Hart, inow in this place,' tht work, and wtkvigd to perceive that he - has Deen successful, both here and iii Raleigh So much has been said, and by finch dis tinguished gentlemen, in praiso of this woik, that it were useless for us to do more than dimply announce the fact that the citizens of Fayetteville have now an opportunity of cb tainiug it. Mr I la. t politely left a copy of the work uhh us for examination ; and for beauty of execution and neatness of style, the taste must be fastidious indeed which would not be plea cd. Some of the faces are familiar to us, and those we think very good iik uesses. Hon. Ftlix Grundy's is very striking. r- We learn frcm the Salisbury Watch man that Button Ctaige, Esq., has been nominated by the District Convention, as the democratic candidate for Congress from the Lincoln DUliict. Success to him. BEAUTIES OF THE 17. S., BANK OF PENNSYLVANIA- w . . The Globe publishes a part of c tho report and evidence of the joint-comaiiileeof the Senate and House of Representatives of Pennsylvania, appojuted to investigate tbe charges of bribery and corruption, made against the bank of the IT. ! States aud other Banks iu their transactions with "members of - , - - . the Legislature, and others lii lS39 aud' '40, to prevent the resumption of specie payments,; and to procure the passage of laws, favorable to the Banks." The Globe's object in pub- El tl NEW DAMPSHUE.- i he election for Governor, Legislature, aud Congress men hns taken t lat o in this State. It has resulted sis u.-tml in the defeat of the vhig:ery, llotw ithstanding our qtt..ndau friend, Isaac Hill, done all he cu)!d to distract the riemo ciatic party. Gov. Hubbard, the present in cumbent, has been re-elected, by .about 2, (.00 majority. The Legislature will be democrat ic without doubt. New'Hampshire is a pattern State. There is no throwing her out of ihe path of politi cal rectitude. Isaac Hill, who formerly re presented her in Congress, and who edited one of the most influential papers in the TfaTeV' "!aI,'Ty"Mjercam'ar" soured 17 onT sort e cause, and tiiedto rule or ruin. Although before this the name of Isaac Hill " might have stood against tho world" with New Hampshire, yet immediately he shewed the eleven foot, his influence was gone. Weil may her democracy be called ' firm as her granite bills." By her example let the de mocracy of the Union walk. CO" Gen. A. G. Brown, has been nomina ted by tho Democratic State Convention of IVlisnisippi, as the Democratic candidate for Governor of that State. Messrs. Gwio, Thompson, Hammet and Stone, were nomi nated for Congress. tary of War, J. M. Porter, had his finger pret ty deeply into this pie cf corruption ; but our object in making-a few-selections-is toshew the enormity of the transactions.'"' .The report of the committee says : . . The subject of inquiry submitted: to the committee was of vital importance to th? character of the State, and the rights and libei ties of its citizens. It was re poited -and tht, too, iu an authentic Torus that large mjhis of money nad been ex prled. at vsu ioin timfls, by 4he offiwers ot J rtane Ur it ed iStat es,Vf -the poH tifilof whit-ft uo account was gSyen. It was charged, with great boldness and publicity, -that this money had been employed in whole sale bribery of the leyi-dative and executive departments of the Government. " ftlarch 4, 1S4U, the following resolution wart adopted in the Bank of the U. States, an' lheJ,l!ow ing procr.ediugs under it: " He-Solved,- That a coinmi'tee .cf. three directors be appointed, with antlvuity to pro ceed to Han isinKg aud generally to adopt such measures as they may find necessary to protect the iuteiests of the bank." W hereupon the ptesidftt appointed Messrs Price, IJandv, and Iewis, to compose said commitiee. The entry of expenditures on the permanent expense account, rjada under the direction of this committee, is as follows : 181 ', Maich 31 Yoinher of ft. Price, Goa. Handy, and Law. Le is, sj)ei;ial committee, 16ih Iviarth, 1S4U, $15,70b 31t " " 5J0 23d 'Apiil, t 22.70b 2 ih " " 59,3 .0 3d J " 1,000 Q. As far as you recollect, bt vpversa-r lion occurred at that interview vh' Ir Brod bead 1 '-. '"J . r' ; : jji- : . A. As far as my recollection j me K at this moment, it- was'on the subject ,l ppocur iug 4 legislation)-' and fhe?i probable cost There was a great deal , of conversation . be l wee n Mr. -'Brodhead and myself MJpon that subject; and he stated to me (there ' were " uo names meutifined) that he supposed forty or fifty thousand dollars would do to begin with-. I told him to come up toHarTuEurg wbkh he did and," after the passage of thex resolu tion, by our boardji'of the SdiVIrX Jcoiled on Joseji Sohns, repeated to hirh pretfy much the conversation 1 had with air lrdheau, lishinc it is to how that the present Secre-J aud requested him to come to Ilarrisbmg t Thrro also appeared to have been idlowed, on the v oi her. f this cofnuiittce. I)ut h;oged. to another account iu the bank : Voucher cfGeo. Handy, dated June 16, 1840 Vouchr of R. Pi ice, L. Lew is, and Geo. Handy, Oct. 17,'lSlU $99,20u see Biodhead, and make such arraOgemeut with Bri".dhead as to procure the Jegislation that, at the time, was cousideredimpQftaut to ibe bank, city, and State. t' - Q- l)i you know of any other persons, ex eppt the officer and comrhittee o tho bank, who knew that Mr Brodhead hamouey to expend at Harrisburg ? . t ' " . A. I believe I told Mr Woodland Mr Boyd, shd Mr Sobns. .J. - r js-- jTbe ; manner in whif Ju4 waonuecjsd t!rod'rfeav gested to Haudy, in Fifth sfreet'iii Thiladel phw, in February, i840, nd aoain at his ovn house jn lhesame month, thp 'necessity for the Bank of the U. States to eirploy Brod head to go to Harrisburg -to procJire legisla tion, and to procure it by the usial means with the fact :hat all was done' as ecommend ed that on the 4ih of Maich fulowing, Mr Handy, (to whom Porter tnadoi the reconv moudatiou) was appointed, ' with two others, by a resolve of the Bank, to proceed ao Har risburg to protect the interest of the Bank ; that he, took Biodhead w ith him, and $40,000 or 50,000 'to begin with;" all this testi mony of Handy so deeply ''.implicated Poiter, that the committee again caded him up, aud obtained from him substantial confirmation of Handy "a testimony,-with the further fact of a Lone moutved transaction'; between Porter a'hd Brodhead, through thts1 Be.'ks County Batik. . i -": T trite to the sun. T- The dense bart of the com et, which, both to the naked.eve, iftd when view ed through, a telescope J resemble ; much the-plauetary bodies, is called ' the nucleus ; tho faiuily Uitniuotis vapor ty which it is sni rouuded' is called the coma and tbe long lu minous train proceeding frpm the comet in an ppposifft,irectiontrom'lhe suu is called the m7?-"Betwee"aclhe7'nucleul'"ahd ' the' coma lies a'part fainter that the iorrner, but brighter that the latter, and -in. which the nucleus ?eemV involved this is called the JitcuL of the ciniet ;:;:; : ; -v 4The leiigth;of the tail is very various. Sometimes it VxteuUs - only a few. degrees in other cases it has been fouud to reach over more than a tomtb part of the heaveus If a comet does not come very uear tho sun, the coma' does' not shoot intoa tail, but 'le'.aius the oppenfance of a'T nebulosity round the comet during the whmV period :of its beiug visible. - The' tail sometimes consists of two ormore diverging streams of light, and is'al- u ways so transparent '' that J the smallest 'star s are seen " through 'it without any sensible diminution of their brilliancy." ; Nature or Comets- In ages of ignor ance comets have always, from their extra--liuary appearance, beai isou'ees of super- liiiou.- :if4ir to, mankind. 1 his fear has it been '''disipateB bthirJtfsvieuce, whUmthafif all-ietrnl5g lat wereabo!isbl; 23,300 3,175 $131,175 " Insti umentation'' cays the Peuusylvanian, i not a new word, as supposed by the U. S- Gazette, bat has been many years in use by musicians tr dUtiugui-h the instrumental from the vocal part of a pertoi mance. - 3" The Madisouian seems to tako to heart ery much thu attack of the Globe, Penns) ivanian and other papers, on the new Secretary of War, Jas. Mad. Poller. It furn ishes a long account of Mr Po ter ; his early career, his services in the war, his democra cy, &c. There has been a long conepondence go ing on between Gen. Cass and Mr Webster, to which there seem to be no eud, iu tela tiou to the bte Ucity. 3 Da nl. Webster, in a letter to John Prentiss, of Kecne, New Hampshire, says: "The slander that I ever niude use of any such declaration as "take care of the rich, and the rich will take care of the pwor," is a base calumny and falsehood." Politicians have tharged this upon Mr Webster again and ngain, but we are now hound to believe that he did not say it, until some one shews to the contrary. THE SAT URUAY COUIUE R. This deservedly popular family newspaper, pub lished in Philadelphia, by Messrs. Mc.Makeo and Hoi Jen, comes to us much enlarged, and beautified in execution; embellished wiih several cuts one a bust of Stephen Decatur with new type, and us usual, with di-hes served up for all palates an nlrnost endless variety of paragraphs of news, jokes, tales, puzzle's, poetry, &c. $2 in edeance, is the subscription price. O- Ju le Belts i,rh U. S. Circuit Court nt New Yoik. his given the foli. nig decision in the case of Connnnder MeKeuzie : The Grald Jury ha- no a.tlhoritv to in quire into the homicide charged to have been confitted on board the brig Souif.rs, nor in thi off-Hi-e of mutiny, r mutiuo ia conduct, by any of the crew of that vessel." On the 2tl of April, Mr George Handy A'as exainined under th piotectiou of the nolle jiroseyui, and teatiried, among other - " l. r. Handy, you haveTieeri a director of the Uuited States Biiuk ; have you not, si,? A. J was dm iu the yeara 184 and '41 I went there at the request of :1jr Joseph Solms. Q. Did you, as one of the coimnitfee, re ceive any money from the bank ? A. As regaids that, I have no doubt that the large amount of it 'did pa.-s into my hands, but the whole oi it did not ; every cent that did pass into my bands was appropriated and paid over to tho agents ctr ployed to Daniel M Brodhead and George W. South. Q. Do you know how much you paid , to Mr Brodhead, and how much to Mr South ? A. My impression is having no receipts horn them, nor any written memoranda about $120,000 to Brodhead. Iu regard to the manner that that money was drawn, it vas this : when I was called upon for money, I went to Mr Laiduer; he handed me the amount I asked for; aud, in no instance, to my lecollection, did be ak of me a voucher at the time; but, at subsequent periods, he had the voucher drawn up, and I signed it, w ili the uiideistauding on his part that ho got the other membeis of the committee to sign; acd it is only within the last nix months that I did not know any of the vouch ers had not been signed ly eve-y member of the committee. 1 signed vouchers without taking any memorandum nt thh time; and I am not sine that I ieeeived indeed I know 1 did not receive the whole of the money r .. t. :. u i : . . j . m. lor inni i sigueu voucneis. x nere was an amount paid to Mr South ; but I can't sav distinctly how much. Q. Whom did Mr Biodhead tell you he paid tnat money to I .int. nni-in .. I It ' ."-l 11 M Mr Bp-d- hearl's woid that he never gave it to any of ficer of thy Government. ; never n.-ked Mr Brodhead any questions at ibe time ; but gave him the money, without desiring to know whom he paid it to. My impessious, geu tlemen, are, that the result of the whole, mutter was, that, in the event of legislation being procured, he was to receive one hundred and twenty thousand dollars. 1 made this bar gain with him. Q. Y on stated in your testimony that Judge Porter had suggested to you the propriety of employing Dauiel M. Brodhead at I lavis hing. Do yoti remeuiber at what time, and where, that suggestion was made? A. It w.is s .me lime between, ihe 1st of February aud the 1st of March; aud, iu the first instance, was iu Fifth street, between Chestnut and Walnut : aud reiteiuled at my house, in Spruce sti eel. Q Can yoiitell us, a? far aa you are eti ibl d lo do, what ihe con vp: siit ion was y.ui b.M with Judge Potter, in Filin street, or at your bouse ? A. It was principally in regurd to the mon etary iiffai f the country or moie parlieu laily in regard to the Bank of the IT. S , and the desirableness there walhatthf institution j-hould le sustained, and the subject of some person to repieseut the interest of the Bank at Huiiiaburg. The Hon. J no. J. Piinglej of Charleston, died in that city, on Friday, '17th iut., aged 9J vears. ;' SrJ5" D n t fail to read ihe articles beaded " D.iff.lo wi bout Hans" and "Jlank Taxatinn." Air D. V. Lials.-y (says ihe V i uniitun IVlcs siiiigeO was fiu id dead on the road about 10 miles frein tiivvn, on Monday la.-t. Siipj-mscrt lo liave diel of appc p' xy on stooping uoiva to drink. He was h-!'ily repeced ; leltu fansily. 1 Jf ikrce. 1 l nas shown that the appearances of comets ar regulated by the same laws as other celestial phenomena. We are still, hoivever, almost euti'ely ignofant of the natuie of these bodies, though a great many hypotheses have been formed concerning them. They. were con sidered by some of the ancients, aud paitieu laily by . ristofle, as accidental fires or me teors geaeiated iu the atmosphere "fine eaith; but this opinion is obviously groundless. Il they were couuected with the eailh or its at mosphere, they would partake of the. diurnal motion on the axis, and could not theiefore appear to have a diurnal revolution in the heavens along with lie other celestial bodies. Besides," their having uo diurnal parallax proves that they ae at great cH -tance liom the eaith; while tne fact of their appateut motion being affected - by the anuui.1 motion of the eaith, shows that tney aie situated in the planetaiy regions. Observation has demon strated that, like" the plaints, they are peima ueui Imdies, and iu all probability, derive their light from the un. Froiii tho small pot lion of the orbit of any comet whi h we have an opporluuily of ob serving, we cannot ascertain with sufficient accuracy the elements necessary for determ ining the peiiod of ns retain ; but supposing thai their oibits are not disiuibed by any cause in those distatit regions of space through .which thegieatei poilioii of the paths of com ets lie, it is evident that by aeciuately obsejv iug all the comets that come wituin view, and caiefuiiy lecordiug the results, iu the course S rne ll I vL are not All i. lie never ioin me o: any tianje ; and I have, subsequently, -From the New Ymk Journal oft A CHAPTER ON-GUI It is a point much di? pheiiomeuou reci 'HI "tj ll Jf 1 1 IWHil whether it is only au e Jjight. Iu favor of the forme fact thai the phenomenon, or was first seen at noon-day ; and . t . i r r i I I I aware mat tne ouiacai ngni was ever seen at uoon-ciay. Comeis have fiequeutly been seen in the day time. On the other hand an essential part of a Comet is fx, ' nucleus; aud there is uot satisfactory evidence that the train recently seen, has a .'.nucleus. I u having its broadest end faithest fm the sun, it most resembles a Comet. Iu disap pearing while yet above the horizon iu the eveuing, it 'most resembles the Zodiacal light. But the Zodiacal light, (which pro'ceeds from the sun.) ought to e.xteud down to the boiiz ui the appeaiance the oiher eveuing did not. Without undeit iking to decide 'a -question which tieloiigs to a.-tiouomers lather lhan to ourselves, we proceed to give u hapi.er on comets from Murray's Encyclopedia of Ge ography. . But we will firt premise thai Prof. Nichol, of Glasgow Uuiveisity, iu his Au hi tecture of" the I lea veus, as w e as iu his woik ou the Solar System, regards Comets as meie nebulrje, of the most ether ial nature, and iheie fore incapable of doing any mischief, though their nucleus hould come iu contact with the earth or sun. He says " A Comet is a vast mass of nebulous or purely etheii.il . mat ter, so light and filmy that uoihieg ou this earth rati be compaied to it. It was cal culited of one, that its whole immense volume, ifcompiessed into a density equafto our atmosphere, would uot occupy more than a cubic iuch ! Eveii the denser part of these bodies their apparent nucleus is altogether filmy ; or Ihiough the very heart of a comet of considerable biightness, e.iars.ot" the 16m m-iguiti-Je have been described.", And again, "Comets are nothing but nebulosities. Even their nuclei Hi..lv ij'jtfi tyrin''r the iusectiou of a telescope.' Thiotignthe heail of oue, Sir John ' II erschell ouce de scried a cluster of stars of ihe l6lh jnagni tude." Murray, on the other hand.'or rather Prof. Wallace, who wrote the Astronomical part of the Encyc lopedia, is quite eloquent (see below) in describing the diastuus con sequent es which wouid result from a collision of a comet with the eaith, aud hints a conjec- tme that Noah's Flood was occasioned by such a collision. M. Arago appears to oc cuby a middle ground between the two He, however, couies to ihe conclusion lhat a com et cannot sensibly change the course tif the eaith's seasons, or modify its', temperjjture. Also, that there is not one chance in tZSl. 000,000 of a cornel's coming iu collision with the eaith or any other planet, withju a long (ires considerable) period, but that such an event is not absolutely impossible. From the Bnevc!o en t f G- craphj COMETS. The comets differ widely from the panels iu their appearance, as well as in the figme. anrl position of their orbits. Wheua comet isfiist seen, it is usually sufrouuded by a faintly luminous vapor, which becomes more bright as the comet approaches the " sun, and at length shoots out into a Ions' luminous aud transparent train, veiy much resembling a J streamer, and extending in a direction oppo- of gt-.s the leturn of many comets may be tie tected and their pei iodic times ascei taiued. Hence the gieater axis of the oib.t of each may be determined by Kepler's third law; aud the comet's least distance from the suu being found by bei vatiou, the less axis wiil also i i i. . i . . e; .i ; a:.. u j otcoint; itiiuMii. u una iimii uri 111c pciioun 4iieor some counts has. bee u . found, and ib cmi!s has. bee u . found, iyj Metic'i'' -ftartS predicted a return in the end of" 1 75SS ti ihe beginning of" 1759. It Buffalo without Banks. It seems. from the accounts we ' bear, that some new ideas are. breaking upon the minds ' of the Buffalo people, while thev have no banks a- mong them. . They rind that they can now obtain at home, with ease, drafts on the east' for three-fourth per cent, at the very time when the banks of Rochester, Cauaudaigua, and utica, are cnargmg one per cent, lor drafts on the same poiut. They can re.dily niake loans lor seven per rent., aud uo questions are asked respecting the use to which the mouey will be applied. Their circulation of rrwiuey is equal to their wants, aud some more f it is specie ibau formerly." f At the 'same time, we are told, that quite a majority of the business meu of the place are opposed to the establishment, J a bauk of auv kind there. Indeed, theywonld consider it a creater evil than beuefit to them, if a safely fund iustitu- tion were located in their midst; and in full operation. "Free trade in money affords ibem greater facilities and udvantage.st and at a cheaper rate, ' lhan 4can be obtniued from in corporated institutions. The taunt, it is said, is throw n in ihe faces of some of ihe officers of the Rochester banks that,' iu spite of all their privileges, private individuals iu Buffalo can undersell them on eastern diaft.-, oue quarter per cent. v. e are disposed to believe ' - V,. - ' - and the privileges5" restored -to the community, which have beeu taken From them aud given t' the banks, private ; enterprise .would give these insiiiutioiis some such compeiitiou as private :. presses have giveu the Post Office Department. -A. F. Eve. Post. 1 "r INTERESTING TO MERCHANTS. Vr " From t he Ctiarletoti Courier. Messrs. EiiT0rvS : As every thing that can iu auy degiee, tend to prtmiote trade, between our neighbors and us, must be interesting, 1 would beg tho publication of the following ex tract of a le-ter from a friend iu. Hills borough, N. C. After acknowledging the icceipt of goods sent hence, by steamer to V ihmugtou, he -ays : "I am not without hopes that this purchase made iu Chai lestou, may lead to further busi ness with your city from this section. It has denioustiated that about a week s time is sufficient for laying down here at home any aiticle bought there. This is vastly belter, iu point of lime, than we could do by pmchasiug northwardly. Ihe southern innket is a bet ter oue lor our piovisions and crops than the noilhern, aud I should suppose fbieigu goods fnight be imported and furnished at Chut lesion till as good terms as at New Yoik. I have long wished to see our trade take this direc tion, aud I do think that if suitable efforts wete made it might be accompliihed. A ,Nw Crusade. rYfe translate the fol lowing from the N. York "Deutsche Scbnell- i! 1 A: curious association has been formed among the lower classes of. the inhabitants of - Berlin, with tbe object of oure more inarcb- ; ing to fake possession of the. Saviour epul- , cbre ami ibe iioiy Lauc1, ,.'i:Ae ossociauoii is -called the Loic'cnburebuntl : reach member ....... . . M .- on joiumg, leceives a metai;baage stampea ; with the figure oi a lion, aud makes ;Vowioi be ready, when the hour Tory marching'.1 shall souud. The Cord himself is to lead ou Ihe host, and appearing in the body among hi people, is to brtug back the. kingdom of God. The association already, to the knowledge of the public authorities, nnmbera SCO members." K- The follo'wiug table shews the slate of parties in the next House of Representatives so far as the elections have taken place ! Louisiana, Missouri, Georgia, . Arkansas New York, Delaware, r MftssachuteLJ Sooth Cardhua7 Si '."..1 - JTM-Cong. iOld 'Cong. W D. W. D. 2 v 1 2 - I 0 15 0 2 0. 8 r " 9 0 0 1 0 1 10 24 19 21 i r T. 0 1 0 16 4S. . 43 34 Several vet- to be elected." F.oai the Wilmington Chronitle EXPORTS, irr.m ihe port of Wilmingtn, N. C. lor tiie ib.e; months e.idiii, 31st J..n.ur, ld4 (. Foreign. Coastwise appeared about tbe end of December 175S, aud made its nearest approach to the sun on the 13th of Marc h 1759, differing not many days from the time expected. Again it made its appearance, as piedieted, at the comple tion of its period, toward the end of August, 1S35. Though there can be uo doubt of the iden tity of the comet o! 15-31, 1607, 1 G82, 1759, and 1S35, the appearances were considerably different. Iu 1531 the comet was of a bright gold color; in 1C07 it was daik and livid ; it was bright again in 16S2 ; aud obscure iu 1759. ' A comet remarkable for its beautv appear ed in 1S1I. 'I he tail of this comet was com posed ol'two divetging stieams ot faint light, slightly colored, whith made au angle of hum 15 to 2 J degrees, and sometimes much more, aud were bent outwards. The space bet.veen was comparatively obscure. When at its greatest length, the tail subtended al an angle of at least 16 degrees, and was then com puted to extend about 23,J0U,0u0 miles iu length. Besides Dr. Halley's comet there are two others whose returns have beeu obseiv. d, and the elements of their oibits detei mined, with such certainty as to enable astronomers lo ptedict their ie-appeai ance. One of these was recognized for the first time in 1S19 as a periodic comet. Eueke, a German astronomer, has determined the lime of its revolution about the sun, t be three years and three mouths nearly. The other was last seen in 1S32. Its periodic time was determined by Bella, a Bohemiau astronomer, to be 6 years a id 3 quarters. Altogether, then, there are only three comets whose pe riods are certainly known. Danger from Comets As the comets tmnsvere ihe planetary regions iu all direc tions, it is natural to inquhe whether there is not a possibility lhat some one. of iham may approach, so near to the earth, as greatly to disturb its motion, or by au actual contact lo produce the most disastrous effects." Upon this subject there is no reasonable ground for fear. If" it is not absolutely impossible lhat a cornel may come in contact with ih-? eatth, the prottability against such au eveut happening are as millions to one. furpL-rilin '3 barrel", 1i i ar, tu P tcb, . do 11. :? n, do Sp i its Tu-pentuie, d j V ariiisii, har c-ls, Co-tO'i, lal Iticicasks ,A: ., . . rtirT".rr.n-rr,"1)flyTJ, Lumber, steam mi f, f e, do river, fet, ' '. Siii.i5.Ios StaVi s, led na!;, )o v.-i.i e oak, Tiaiti! r, f tt, -Tobacco, I. lids, to iiianiif ic! nrrd, boxe3, G .ound pt:as, bushels, L3!ack eve Pf'a--", bus-hel-, H itiiD, OU :d-, l'':otir, batr. li Latl, do do Ut:s, Po k, h Ts, Co'.toa y; in, b lcs, t!o jj'ooJa do Lea I. pi x F scMnrs baija, l'ilffS t.'o Kl.i&s ed, casks D -t-swax, casks, Ura uly, d aV'ru -i, firietl, ba: re's, l ine oi', do Woid, bas, 911 .S3 C ; 1 12 i 5 1 2 . 33 1 "I 315 4,304,000 Si'l.U'iU 15 i'0U 1 ,6 S.O iO 13,00.) 152, 1-0 10 83 1,570 35,47u l.li.S 7,3 " 3.73G C63,0"0 sy.ouo 1 1 3,000 223,000 135 8J27 1 IC 15,000 35' 2 I5h 125 .417 ssi; 122 3i 37 7(J 32 2 LG a 2 MES.ntntsM. Messrs. Fik aud Johnson will lecture tn mesmeiism, and peiform a series of interesting experiments, on three different subjects, at the Masonic Hall, King street, ibis evening. These gentlemen aie decidedly ihe most successful operators iu this mystic art that have yet appeared among us. We attended their experiments ou Fii day evening last, and they established clair voyance to our entire satisfaction. They continue lo attract crowds, aud have reduced tne sceptics to a mere handful in number, al-ihoiii-h plumed with science and scientific honors. I ncredulitv or infidelity, in this mys lery .f nature, as well as in ieligi n. may be the very acme ofciedulity. Charleston Courier. -Head him or die. -The Picayune, allud ing lo Mr Bolls'' declaration that he would head the President or die,' says : " When a man pledges his honor to die, he ought to die or perish in the attempt." - To Ire sure. He ought lo defunct nt the specified lime, ick or well, dead or alive, ac cording to promise. Neither ill health nor previous 'arrangements should excuse him. Where is Mr Bolts? . It is necessary for him lo cut a Jie-d.' i TheMempbis Enquirer states that' a huge Cake,. which graced the table at a late fashion able soiree in lhat place, embellished with the name of Henry Clay, beautifully carved upon the crust, remaiued uutouched, hallowed by its dedication.'' Peihaps the company thor.ght the cake was dough ! To the Editors of the Courier : , Gentlemen . hu Dr Lardner, recently lectuied in this eity on Astronomy, he dis tinctly said, that thf? tail of a come, was always opposite ihi suu, consequently, when passing from the sun to the regions of space, the tail must precede ihe nucleus. Olher learned men have said that the tail of a comet is al ways behind the 'nucleus, whether approach ing or depart wig from the sun. So great a difference of opinion, ought not to exist on a subject of so great importance. Charleston Courier. ' From the Fennfy'ynnian. IMPROMPTU, On the Court of Errors at Washington. With Washington, her favorite son, The 'country went most bravely on, And raised her name in story ; With Jefferson and Madisor And Jackson down to Harrison, Slill oj, on, on, to glory. With Tyler she began lo err, Called Webster, Spencer aud Upshir, Whig-Tories, to support her; Echo returned no souud to her From Congress walls, save err, err, err, And now she calls for Poter, ' From th-5 N. Y. Evening Fo?t. y - BANK TAXATION. s - Few" persons are aware of the immeirtff amount- of taxation the banking, system im poses. 'on ibe country. To estimate it pro perly, it should be borne in mind thai interest ou loans is taken by ihe banks in form, of discounts, and then interest should be added ou imerest, from the time tho system com- menced up to the present period. The latu Hon. Cadvvallider Coldon, of this city, made .ni estimate ofwW.it Ihe Bauk of ihe U. Sta'es would gain by adhering to ihe, established practice of charging interest for sixty-four days, on bills having but sixty-three ' days to run, including days of grace, aud re ceiving tii interest in advance, iu the form of discount. The resu't was that the gain of the Bank would, in the 20 years tho chaiter had to run, ba equal lo the' whole capital of 35 millions. . Paper nvuiey b. inking being, h'wevc", es sential gambling, what was gained iu one way, was fist iu another. Iu th-. f o! low ing etimmunication, a cor- . respoiuletit gives a lucid expose of tho princi ple of disco i!it. We have not leisure at this moment t follow him through his calcula lions : hu'. the principle is cptiectly stated by him. Usury is eating up the people. Fcr the Dady Morniag. Post. On e late i n-relaiion to discounts, find why u'Orliing men cannot earn money at fust as bankers. It can hardly be denied that the early deci sions hold the mrt correct doctrine on thi subject, and that Jtf'all the -depii true spirit tf tne frstiry laws which have -Crept into ajipioval, none is so dangerous iu princi ple or leads to such alarming results as this. Upon small loans for shott periods Ihe execs ssems unimpotlant in point of a.uouni; but if extended, to a sufficient length of lime, it is clear that the nominal amount of': Ins loan oiav be entirely absorbed by ihe discount. Li order to illustrate the principles, let il be sup posed a note for $U'U0, payable in fourteen yeais, honld be disentailed at seven percent. The borrower would receive but !s2.), and is liable to pay at the end of ihe lerm the whole sum td' 81030, whet ens it is the intent of tho law lhat he should pay interest only for the money he has received, ami actually enjoyed and used, which beiug but 20, aud addiug $19 CO for the inlet est of lhat sum for four teen ears,the amount whit h he ought to pay at the end of ihe term, would be $:19 CO, so that the borrower sustains a loss, or in other words, pays a u usurious c.Ces of$9GU 40 upon his Joan of 31 000. On the other hand, the lender has the use of the discount of $9SJ, during livj lemi ; ihe interest of which is $t)6J 40, and which is a clear profit to him for the loan and forbear ance of 20. But lo do jusli e to the princi ple as it is carried out in practice by ail batiks and money lenders, the discount of $9Sd should In? also loaned upon the same terms, which would prod ire a discocnt of $930 40; aud this again loaned would pioduce a dis count of $841 19; and by continuing tho process down until the last dollar ofthe origi nal loan of'SKft-O has aclu dly passed from the hand of ihe louder, it will' be. found lhat at tie end of fomteeu years he will teccive the enormous sum of more than $19,900 Lor the loan o! $1000, or more lhan 350 per rent, per annmo for the whole term. Let the pro duct of this original loin be agiin put out in the s.tme manner for uahe pei iod of i years, and il will produce the incredinle a mount of neatly 125 millions of dollars as the aggregate leefit aiising from$lL00, in thi space of 2S years, al seven per ceut. per an num. If the rate of i-iterest be increased, the ac cumulation i increased in a corresponding ratio. At the rate of 12 per cent, per annum" ivhich is authorized by ihe laws of some of the States, the same results exhibited in the above example will 'be produced in a! little more th in one half the respective periods a bove mentioned. - . f VERITAS. .. . V i H f-. .V -u4, I hope I have given satisfaction," ns the pistol ball said to the wounded duellist. "Two-third-., if not Three-fourths of the people of ihe United States, in our opinion, are iu favor of winding up the bauks as fist as Iheir charlers expire. It is most certainly ascertained thai .this can - be' doue without creating any more oppression lhan has al ready been created by ihe rottenness and corruption of the banks themselves; and if ihe work is lakea hold of in right good earn est, by the people iu iheir sovefeigu capacity, there cau be no doubt as to the result. Not many years will roll around until the United Slates, freed from the shackles of a degrading bank influence, will have a currency more permanent and stable than any o'.her country in the world. Quirtcy (.) Herald. - ji I r
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