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-i U UWIOy.TJIE CONSTITUTION AND THE LAWS THE GUARDIANS OF OUR MBEBTyT frOO) the FbiWpbta WaiU fftdtiva. THE DRUNKARD'S WIFE. - .AS WM 1CTU., , , j. The gray morning u already dawning when a miserable wretch turned bin dirty alley, and entering low, ruinous Jjor, groped throo'h a Barrow entry, tod paused st the entrance of room vidua. jlt degraded being bad one beta a ' f i i ... - ...... ,,..,.....,. . at once; dead, dead. be continued in tone of horror that chilled the Mood, and advanced to the bedside, with eve tart. wealthy sua, respected by his neighbor! WZ fron their sockets, he kid hie hand . ii i . . . . Z:CZTAl!vTf M """I "' bis checks. ..J hi, lor weeks her only none, tsd long sioce'Bul he pla-ed h hied in Lis aotnet'c ucu wrfc lur nimrcu. ue ba-Jird and prsseed it - v. ,..v Def temptes. he cuafea ner limbs, ha ia voked her wilJlr to awake. Dead!' said the man, and he was sober .! surrounded bv friends. But alaa! that social glass had out lured him to indul grace, and then to inebriety, until be was now a com oio drunkard. The fMU of bis footsteps bad bees heard within, far the creaking door was timidly opened, and a pale emaciated boy, sbout nine yean old, stepped out on the landing, and aked ia mingled anxiety and dread Is that you, father?' Yes, wet to the skin, cure it, said die man; -why aiat you abed and asleep, you biat! The little fellow shrank back at this coarse salutation, but still though shaking with fear he did sot quit hi station before the door. What are you standing there gaping for! said the wretch, It's bad enough to hear a siek wife grumbling all day, without having you kept up at night to j hints' in the morning get to bed, you imp. do you heart The little fellow did not answer; fear seemed to hare deprived him of speecht but stilt hol ItH on to the door latch, with an imploring look, be stood right ia the way by which bis parent would have to enter the room. Ain't you going to mind!' said the man with an oath, breaking into a fury, give ino the lamp and go to bed, or I'll break every hone in your body. Oh! father, don't talk ao loud,' said the little fellow bursting into tears; you'll wake mother, she's been worse all day, and hasn't had any sleep till now; aad as the man made aa effort to snatch the candle, the boy, losing sB ptmonal fears in the anxiety for his sick mother, stood firmly across the drunkard's path and said, 'you raus'nt, you mus'nt go in. ' What does the brat mean?' broke out the inebriate angrilyt 'this tones of leav ing you to wait onyour mother Oil you learn to be as obstinate as a mule; will you disobey me take that, and that, ou imp, raising his hand he struck the ittle sickly being to the floor, kicked a side his body, snd then strode into the dilapidated room, ' It was truly a Siting place for the home f such a vagabond as he. The walls were low, eovered with smoke, and seam ed with a hundred cracks. The chimney piece bad eace been white, but was now, of the greasy led color of sge. The ceil ing had !ot most of the plaster, and the rain soaking through, dripped with raonotosous tick opon the floor. A few arokea chairs, a cracked looking-glass. and a three legged table, on wlutft we a upon her marble brow, then, oh, my Cod! 1 have murdered her! Emily, Em fyt you are not dead, sty so, da! speak and forrire Tour repentant husband' and kneeling by the bed-side, he chafed her white, thin band, watering it with bis bot tears as he sobbed her name. Tfctie efJoiU, si lnib, psrtiaTly res tored ttt, and tlie fiist thing she ssw ap es rrviving ss ler bntband weepies, by htr side, calling ter (Euiity It was the first lime he bad done se for years. It stiired eld eaeooiUs is her bran and cU led back ibe shsdery visions ol years long put. Sue wse bsrk is their vomit lul diy. before iuio had blasted Iter once nuLIe husband, snd wbea all wss j-tyous and blight as ter en happy be- eos. w oe. sbane. poverty , destruction, even bis brutal language was forgotten, she only thought ef him ss the lover of ber youth. Ok that moment of delight! She faintly threw Ler arms around bis neck and st-bbed there for joy. "Can yoa forgive me, Emiljt I have here a brute, villain oh! can you forgive mtf I have sinned ae never man sinned before, an" J against such an angel as yon. Oh! God,annihilate oe forotv guilt" ' "Charles!" said the djing woman is s tone eo sweet snd low that it floated through the chamber bite the whisper of a ditembodied spirit I forgive you, snd ay God forgive yoa loo but oh, do not em'-ittvr ibis last moment by such so impious wish.' i The man only sobbed in reply, but his frame shook with the tempest of sgo ny eiihin him. Chstles." at last continued the dying woman, I hsve long wish d for this mo ment, that I mii'it say something to you about nr tit le Houry," God fergivo me for esy wrongs to him tool' murmured the repentant man. ' I have much to ssy, and I hsve but little time to esy it in. I feel thai I a hall never aee another sun,' A violent fit of cooghiog interrupted her. 0i! no, you mst not, will not die," sobbed ber busbsnd, at he supported ber sinking frsme, you'll live to esve your repentant busbsnd. Ob, you will'" The tesrs gushsd into ber eyes, but she only shook ber bead. She laid hst warm hand en his and continued "Night end day, for many n long year, have I prayed for.this hour, snd ne ver, evea in the darkest moment, have I doubted it wou'd come; for I have frit that within ms which whispered that as all bsd deserted you and 1 bsd no, se in the rimless cup, were fa different parts of,nJ T "'V,coro? JftT thm rAn n.n ih. .trikin miIv leelipes. lib! would it bad come . a. A .,wfnr ih nfflU.f On soooer some happiness then might hsve a ricketv bed lav the wife of his bosom, been mine again in this worldbut God's n ;-k ..t k....(;r..l Fmil, i.n. will be done! Ism weak I feel I sm guerre, who, throagh poverty, shame and J '''" fasi-Henry, gvs ms your band, sickness, had still clung to the lover of The little boy eilendy placed itia hers. her youth. Oh! woman, thy constancy j she kisaed it, snd then laying it within the world cannot shake, nor shame nor, hsr husband's continued. inisety subdue. Friend after friend had Here ie our chiUnur only born (leiteried that ruinad man: indimiiiv after: when I its cone he will have none to Pat. So anxious to heir the balance of my-Orange rerainiecencis. Hilly. Waist 1 did hear, pestered me more than what I was to bear, Pat. How did that pester you? ISMy. Why, it is evident from whst you have told, that you did not take eel!; and it only confirms me in what I have all along believed. Put. What is that? Jiilly. That there is no chance for your success, unless e'ecl you. Pit. You sleet me, indeed! Since I'te been among lbs people, I don'l find you such n powerful sutiliary as you pre tended , you, were. You are rather a clog than otherwise I could give you divers instances, r i Hilly. Well nowGive at one, will you! -' Pat. I ess do that readily. , When I found my attack en the Kaleigh and Gas ton Rati Road votes, did our friends as injury, I left that, and commenced an ae-' eault on the vote in favor of the other Rail Road; when erery body broke out in s down-right laugh in my face. And, afterwards, when I inquired what mads them laugh, 1 was laid that you were to blame for ths whole scrape that you, with the assistance of your Democratic Legislature in 1 830, after it wae evident that the StoclhnMete eould not build the Road, veated $600,000 ol the peoplea' money in actual stock in ibal Road. You ses this was not going security for that amouot, but actually paying out the chink, Billy. Well, if I and my democratic legislature did do se, didn't you and your Internet Improvement Convention in 1683, reeommend that the laat hundred and fifty ihouasnd dollars of the eame ehould be paid before the Stockholders complied with their term? Put. Yes. I did, but you were a mem ber of the Convention too, and voted for iu ' Jiilly. I know that; but it was then a Democratic measure, for Saunders and Strange, and all the leading Demociats were (hen in favor of it. Pat. Rut why ia it not a Democratic meavnre nowt Billy. There it raon enough for it, because it is now unpopular. Nothing is democratic, that is not popular. That moment a measure bseomee unpopular, it is a Whig measure, aod so continues until it becomes popular again, when it is again Democratic Pat. Why you had a well rail our prin ciples tuna tic principles, subject to the fulls and changes of the orb of popularity. f..-. k,.i i, t.t monnliffhi iinon her. Father civs me strength lo en-; I thought principles ware immutable. -mw. The sight might have moved a' dure it!' , Bitlg. .Jey are while popular, but felon's bosom, hut what can penetrate the For a few minutes all wss still; and, no long-r. The Federalists committed eared and hardened heart of drunkenness! , noth-ng broke the a.hnce but sobs of the ; the rn0'ij againtt the Constitution The man besides was in a passion. father nd the boy, and the low, death' by the establiahrnent of the first United Blast it, woman,' said the wretch as he like ttrk of the rain dripping through tip Spates Bank. I he Repubhcans corn reeled i the room; -U this the wav you on the floor. The child was he Cr.t lo mitted the itcondal sin against it. by da receive ine after being out all day in thoj move. He seemed instinctively to feel, ing the same thing. And now, we. De rain to get something for your brat and, that guing way to In. gnrf pa.ned l. mocr.ts. a rare compound of odds and r," , .. ! i .-.-I' I mmii-r. ami tf-mlr i'ien(reinff himself, en?s. of Federalism, Republicanism, and -.. . & . : . ! . . i. - i liiit as his wife tittered a brutality, and fell back senseless bed, he seemed to awaken to a sense of his condition, he reeled a step or two forward, and put his hand up to his foreheid. stared wildly around, and then a - k gazing almost vacantly upon her, contin ued, but why what's the matter! His p.ior wife lay like a coipse before him, but a low voice from the other side of the bed answered, and its tones quiv ered n- it spoke, 1 Oh! mother's dea;!'.' It was the voire of his sou, who had stolen in, aud was indignity had been heaped upon him, and deservedly; year by year be had fallen lower and lower in the sink of infamy; and still through every mishap that saint ed worn in had dun? to him; for he was the father of her boy, and the husband of lake care of him but yoa, snd se God is above, as yoa love your own blood, ss you value a promise to a dying wife, keep, loe, and cherish him. Uh! re member that he ie young and tender it ie the thing for which I should care le her youth. It was a hard task for her to, live she paused, and struggled to eub- perform, but it was her duty, and when doe her feelings "will you promiss me, all the world deserted him she clung to, Charles!' him! She had bore much, but ajas! na- 1 il at there is a Maker over me, I t ire could endure na m-re. Health had ' ill. cobbed the man; and the frail bed fled from her choeks, and her eyes wereagiinsl which he leantd shook with his dim and nnlin Sim ra in the lasti tiuolion. . slaw of consumption, but it was not that! " And yon, Henry, will yoo obry your which was killing her jAewoirfymjojf'iher, sod be a good bjl at you love a broken heartt your mother you ill!" The noise made by her husband awoke j Oa! yea!" eobbed the little fellow, her from her terrible sleep, and she half flinging himaclf wd.lly upon his mother started up in bed, the hectic fire streaming net k. "but mother, dear mother, what along her cheek, and a wild, fitful shoot-! shall I do wiihouiyoul-oh don t dtel ing into her sunken eves. There wa a " This is too har V murmured the dy faint, shadowy smile" lightening up her. ing wimn. drawing her child feebly lo "Come eearer, my sen nearer ths candle want saaf&ag there. ay yer fats dew by mine; Henry, love, I cae'i sees has the wind blown est tha csa dler . .. ; , The bewildered bey giitd wUJly into bis moibct's face, but knew not whst to say. Us orJr preased her Lsad sgaia. Oh! God, naratred ths dying wo man, ber voice grew faialer; -ihii it death! L'hai!l!..,.l.... Tbe child fell s eaiek. elecuie shiver ' in the band he rUaped. and looked ep, I mmw mum -uutuci -tan isuei taes oeau ape the pillow, lie knew it all at eace. He gave tae shntk and fait senseless across ber body. That sbfik sreased the drunkard.; Starting up frost hie knees, be gased wildly eo tbe corpse. He reuld not en- J dure the look ef that still sainted face. Ue covered hie face with bis bands snd buret into so sgny of tears. !0g years have passed tines then, snd thai man is ones mtre a useful member of society. But el! the fearful price at wbirb hie reformation was purchased. From Ibe Sa!eigb Register. Sans Scans ss ttcfvre. Coeaia Billy Cam kerland discovered reading a Neaapaper. Eater Conai PJ. BWy Good morning I bops you rested well. Pat. Not the beet in world, bot better tbsn yea did, I presome. Jiilly. Wby do yen think I rested bad V1. I faint cry at his from her, he hosed his a.ibe. and leaning; all other iw a perfect Salmagundi of enselcss on the'on ihe bed, gating anxiou-ly into herj polmcs aeeommitlheferiaf ein by de nartiar face. Her evea eie closed, out ner tip curing every inmg vncnneiuiuionsi, un- ' 1 I :r . ........ I ! il ia nnmilar. A ml that tha Irna due Ilenrv, where tie you?" naked the. trine. Ours is a government ! op-njop dvire mother. The boy answered in hie low mourn ful vo-ce. . . , T Henry; Henry." she said in a louder I ne, and then 'after a eecond, added, poor babe, he does not hear me. The little Irllow linked up amazed, lie knw not jet how the eeneea gradu illy f 1 the dj i g; he was petpIeseJ; the and populr opini'tn is the Constitution and is immutible as long as that opinion is immutable, but changes with u. The immutability consiits in always going the way popular opinion goes, Pat. What a rope of snd you mtke us live undoi! Billu, li's the richt sort of s rope U t never hangs a Demagogue alias a IMrutt, sad always afford the means if threw iegdaatia the people's eyes. : Pat." 1 like your notions they seem lo maks seas ef what might be deemed a body's iaeoneiateecies, consistent; but we are getting eff the track. Tbe ex cuse of tbe list LegUlamre for lending its credit to ibis Road for 1300.000. was be came it owned already 500.000 of its S'eek, and to save that, it was necessary to help ibe Rod; and they asy, that you helped to gtt the bill tbroegh-Hsw's thai? - ;-. , . BUly. I dnni think ths stork ought lo be lost, and if it, was in danger, it was right to aid. ... Pat. So I thiak; bot how it ill to be reconciled lo Democracif Billy. Don't try to reconcile it by any means; pour it into Wbiggery, fur aiding ths Road damn them for doing right as well as for doing wrongall answers our purpose. One-half of our M liege subjects sre such getec, they don't knew the dif ference between righi and wrong, snd the ether half are imereated I keeping them in Ignor.nce, a thing not bud to do, as ws leaders laks the labor of thinking for them upon ourselves. " Pat. Well, they say that Company pas sed an order to ride yon on the Road grstis. ia consideration of your services in gel ling the people's money lor iu I that so! Billy. I sever examined their Jour nals. Put. Dut you know, whether yoa pey when you travel on that Road, i Jiilly. Certainly, I do. Pat. Well, wbai doyen pay for? Billy, Why, I pay for ri ah! for ri hem! for my breakfatt and dinner. Pal. A plseue with your breakfal snd dinner! Do they charge you for riding, I ett? Billy. I never examined my secounts to see if they charged, Pa;. You nnderttand me welt enough. Did yea ever psy any tiling for tiding there! Billy. Is that tny reason ! never should! Look herd You nesd'ot trou ble yourself to renovare my dotorevi, but tell us about your own finish your Hills brough narrative. Pat. Well. I found I got along so bad ly with the Kail Roada, and hurt our par ty rather woraethan the others, thought it bsst to drop them and take up the Rsnke. Here, 1 confess I hsd some twinge, to which 1 am not aecuatomed. To assail those old friends, to whom I sm indebted for much the larger portion of my worldly eubstsnco was a tsak eo psinful, eo full of ingratitude, that I conld acareely conceal my emotions. I sal down on the table, and talked to the crowd as if 1 waa in some pain; but remember ing ths wstchword Rule or Ruin" and fired with the bold thought of ruling over near a million ef People, ambition mounted the Car and drove Jehu-like, re gtrdleaa of friends or fops, crushing them indiscriminately, to srrivs at th desired goal. ' ' Billy. That was done a-la mode-de Napoleon. Pal. I had Mm in my eye, when I turned my battery on ths Hanks. After blazing away upon them awhile, seme fellow cried out, M Ain't you a Stock holder!" This rather' disconcsrted me; but collecting myself, I told him yes, I had s I'rtl stock, taken in payment of s bad debt that 1 had swapped away all I could lor Rail Road Bonds, and that 1 could not get rid of the balance on any terms, though very antioua to do en that I would treat any body Tor a long time but that I was lied to the dog' tail aod could not get loose. So you want lo get loose, and tie somebody elio to the dog's tail, do you!" cried a fellow from the crowd. Jiilly. I don't think that the dg'a tail mtt.a-Ja-mode-de Napoleon. Pat. I then thought I would try my hand on Nat King. I belabored th l.it erary Board soundly fir making his secu rities Billy Barbs and Lem. Morgan pay hi debt to thorn, and as old Morgan hsd to sell some of his negroes at Court, to pay hie share. I was sure I should save htm. But what do ou think? The old coon raiaed hie tall form above the crowd. and he seemed to me ten feet high, and says he ''Look here Miner, f.rmmy Morgan went Natty Kings security ol his own accord, free-will and coiiacnt, and he is able and willing to pay that debt don't trouble yourself about l.em. my Morgan, be don't ask, nor need your aympathy." Hilly. You might have sworn he waa a Whig from that aentimrnt -no repudi ation there. Pat. In olden times, when men ued to work for their living, and felt bound to pay their debts, this aentimRt might have been expected; but in the present advanr ed stge of civilization, 1 little expected to meet such a r-buff as this. Some nl the Whigs said, that the uttering rf such a sentiment ought to immortalize a man. Billy. It ought to immortalize htm for a fool. 1 should like to know what the world would come to, ifecry body could pay their debt. If it had not been for this silly Whig notion of honesty, out State could hae been three millions bet ter of than it is; if hey had followed your advice, and borrowed that ameoat fro a -BrOiah Bankers, and new rntdiale. leu tee that is genie to be aaite repu table doctrine, aad it is the use Loco rece faith. ' In this wy, scan swindle them eat ef the mi lions, they have swin dled ss out of, by using as eaormeualy, while we scarcely tax these at all; aad, ali the time, they p resell ap Free Trade, and kailors Right." Put. Yee, sad they will submit to it rather than maks a fuse, if we wilt keep the Tariff dows. They ran afford to loss iliions every year, if we wdl 11 theot auck se a they base don for soma year pa at. But w are getting aeailv tiLaust- ed. How much longer do you think we can atand this depleting operation! Jiilly. II the present course of paltry don'l bring as into power shortly, I em j for s change forthwith. I shall go th j for tb good of ths country, snd no lon ger for oor party. Well, but whst did yee say about Old Santee-Ann! rat. Ufa! I oiled, and toaprd, and alick- ed up th old fellow; o much so, that 1 sot surs be bad to tell who he wa, whan he went home. I called bim my file leader, told 'cm if ihcy wanted to know my principle to go to Gen. Allison, ths old democratic bellwether, who eould tell cm who and what I wae; sad may be, it did'nt tickle bim. The tobacco disappear ed with a rapidity that would have put a tobacco worm to the blush; but confound ihatSantee inn, it appeared lo me I could not keep the woid in. Wbra 1 went to epeak about him, it was always oa ths tip of my tongue. Billy. It wtt a good thing yoa did at let it out yen snd be would have been o people, if yoa bad. How did the people eeem to take it? fat. 1 thought I could ses them look ing over their shoulders st tbe old man, at mueb ss to say Mind bow you learn him to laks a leaf out ol ths book now. we shall hsve that reu'ion brought to light which Mangura told ue about." Jiilly. How do you think be can make your Internal Improvement notion go down in Orange? j : , Pal, 1 don t know he is lo wheedle, and palaver and ctjols, snd tell 'cm ibsv sre my private and not my public epiniuns and when h can't do any better, hs is to taks a Loco FoC'i pestle, sad ram them down tbe throats of Democracy, snolus bolus. . i - . ZWV Well, what else took place! Pat. A Wsogner cams along over that rocky street, and bie horses balked. and the crowd all laughed at the fun, and at Ihe fellow trying to gel sway without being seen. - J hollow d out to ihesj, sod told them to attend to me thai, that wss always the way with them Whigs like lbs wsgooer's horses, they would always baulk when there ws sny woik to do, Some of our folk thought that was pow erful witty and roared. The wagoner got away through, snd some body wa good enough to tell him what 1 said, I did'i lik hit reply it reminded me of an interview you bad once with one of these fellows. Billy. What wa it? Put. ' Darn that fellow," said be, that' what a man gate for being civil to a gen'Uman, I aeed the peopl all liken ing, and 1 aeed a gentleman epeaking, snd I did'nt want lo interrupt 'em, so 1 got along by miking as little noise as I could over. that rough pavement; my horaea' shoulders wers sore, and as I didn't whoep and hollow, and crack my whip at the critters, it hurt 'era so, they stopped. But I got away aa quietly aa I could with out interrupting the gentleman, and was sorry I draw'd any attention; but, if the gentleman cornea about m making (un, I'll show him how to make baulky hones pull. Ilsps'sin two or three times between the ears, wit'i the butt of my whip, snd brings em to their knees, and when they rises, if you want to see traces fly, then gil away. 1 always tries to be rjil to every body, but darn my old (Utinel shirt snd morcaain to boot, if tny gentleman cracks hie j ikee upon me, unless il is in the way of civility, if 1 don't crack my whip opon him; and I guess, I can atand il as long ss he can. My old leader, Ball, deaf aa he ie, can hardly tell it from thunder when my mettle'e up." Billy. 1 expect the dirty scamp' a whip would be as dangerous aa a Chain shot cut a man in too. Pat. Worse, for you could aee it com ing.. Enter Valet-de Charobre. I'ultl. Breakiuss ready. Sir. Billy. Very well come. Cousin Pat, walk in. Exeunt Omnes. greater than thst of th Rome Entire in iu palmy day. It ia t tbe Esst. and not Is the West Indies, that I er skill tad capita! ie now directed. Ia the former colonies, mare than 160 million ef pee- pie sre dependent on Ornish power. cs ' pable too of producing every article that -is brosght from lbs Wat ladies, and at much lower price. A field band can be ' hired la this Eaat. for less money tbsn il would cost to feed lbs same f.barer in ' 4 the West-Iodiee. Men at the Esst csa be hired for from sit t tea cents per day, snd support ibem-elvea. Hew csn the Isbor ef this continent stand wp sgtintt - such odds? " --' ": Such is the competition between ibe prodocte of the Eaat sn J West ladies, tl at ; s discriminating dory has been maintained ,' aad mtst be continued; for example: Coffee from fi-'iia'i AaaerWa fata Ite per Cefi- from B-itiab poseesetoas ia Cast Isdiee I8j per poua. - .-.,. . Sugar f'm U' treat ladies, t 1 els. de. . Sugars from tbe Eaat Indiea, $3 4 eta. do. de So it is with many other articles; yet t with theee bountiee upon the products of, ths West Indies, eves Cuba, ths richest 0i of thero, are languishing and becoming worthless .from the chespet labor el the East ladies. ' ; My obj-cl ie to glance merely st the history of th cultivation of nlew of the great articles oreonsumption, anctoshew that not on country ha yet beta sbl to " retain the exclusive power of producing ' a singls important arjicle of gtnrel(cn- ': sumption, from th soil or th loom Tea only excepted, and thst article is likely" to bs produced in any quantity by the " Encnah at Assam. The cheap labor of the East Indiea is at this moment competing with the labor , of our Southern country. A revolution ie in progress, which, at rie distant day, is . to buret upon ths heads of our cotton growers, and will change mtsriaily'our . ' domestic, a well as our foreign, relatione. After s careful examination ol the feasibi ty of producing the abort staple-cotton in ' Indi. there can be no longer much doubt, and aa an evidence of the opinion enter- ' taiaed in England, I submit aa extract or ',' two from let British papers; selected from many other in my posassaion; and also, a eisteroeol ef the quantity of "cotton,- grown in and about Bombay for a fsw i ' s " '- ' " - ' Ealract from the Bambay Mercantile Begiaterj .; . of l940, it, - .:, -I n i . Corroif. Several contracts bsvs beeijlt mads st lower prices for dejtvering in November and December nxv when, ' i . - i i i . e a mairriai reuueuon may oe ioo for ward 10 in hie market, as a considerable stock ie likely I sceimulste hers by thai I .l rtj :! il idc, anu ma account irom .ngianu win probably bs very discouraging th ex- port from hence, this vest, to Grsst Bri lain, having been greatly in excess of last !l year's, aa will be seen from the fellow ing comparative table, viz:, V EXPORTS, 1819 Bilea. &a'e. 1 ' From the Richmond Whig. AMERICAN INTERESTS. -No. 3. The queation of free trade, which hae been eo mueh diseutsed in England, has no validity and not the alightcat ingredient of sincerity, from the time ol Mr. Hus kisaon to the election which look place last autumn. Not a measure baa been, or will be, adopted by the British Parlia ment. that will affect a single British in terest. It is epoo her colonial possession in th East, that Great Britain reata her hopes of sustaining those mighty interest which are the foundations of her power; a power in point of territory, population. wealth snd phytioaj. fjtce, innnreiy fanoary, Kebruaiy, Match, AM- ; June, July, August, SS71 169 15,36 5,478 15,071 15,938 I5UJS 7,433 September, 1.97t 5.0GS S43 103 , 140 301 405 ' SU( . 600 . 80 . 7 9,360 1840 1 " Bales ' bates,' 5,414 90S -,7,95 fc, 977.1, 4,(519 155 99 031 6'1 17.775 ' 948 (ia: 94S - 101 19,047 I1.S09 , 91.813 4 806 136 911 - 85,069 - 3 884 .SC0 . .j I 524 sV aTtiol " : ..... s Extract from the B mbay Timea af July, 1841, , "CoTTo-J. In ihe article of cottony alone, it appear w have received a sup ply exceeding that of ihe same period tn tbe previone year by 39.533,303 pounds. ' or assuming a screwed bsle to average 3k ewt, equal to 105.874 bales, which, il . we take the actual increase at fifty-six ..; Iscs, as already stated, would give sn : average price for each bale of K. 53, a rate, as every merchant will acknowledge, not very wide of the truth, W state ihi ; as confirmatory of the general accuracy of t the etatements, the eame reaulla being de- . duced from different data. . On carrying out our inquiries further. and examining into the aupplie of cotton , brought to market during the 12 month , ending th 31st May, we find thai result, is well calculated to astonish those who have not been marking progressive in crease of this product, but have been dwelling with fancied security on their ; recollections of what urea to constitute n large supply, via: 200.000 to 250.000 bale. It appear, then, that from th 1st June. 1840, to 1st dune, 1841. ths impotta , of cotton into Bombay have amounted to 174,212,755 pounds, or, en th previous , average of 31 ewt. to the bale, 478 60S batea. little short of half million acre wed balee. This isalargerquautity than Ame rica produced up to lb year 1828. and ; mors than was consumed in England dur-, ing the same year. - . ..,,; "In 1825, the entire production of the United Slates amounted to only I69.8GU, 000 pounds, though twelve yeare after, m 1837, it had reached 4 11.21 1.537 lbs. fJVide, McCollock. article - Cotion." ; Aa a further encouragement to rulti-, vatora, we may atate that th consumption of East India cotton in Great Brttain baa. tneretted in a grealat ratio than that 4 V
The Durham Recorder (Durham, N.C.)
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June 23, 1842, edition 1
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