The Mississippi Free Trader from Natchez, Mississippi • Page 2

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1st. Rain moderately all day. 2d, Clear an i brilliant day day overcast. 4th, Overcast very clear at meridian overcast ngni ram. Ail.

Rain mniforatolv nil daw 1th cumuli fleeCVCirrii OV 7th, Overcast; cumuli; fleecy cirri: Overcast; dense haze all day. win, uiear; cirri; smaii cirro-cumuii. ma, umm, 12th, Clear. 13th, very clear until evening overcast. 14th, Overcast all day drizzly at night.

15th, Rain heavy showers all day; rain all night 16th, Rain? dense fog and light rain all day and all night. 17tb, Overcast: cirri of every form. p. m. 18 Overcast; drizzly; light rain all night.

19th, Light rain all day and all night. 20th, Rain dense fog at merid. tight rain all night. 21st, Dense log tlrlzzly light rain; dense fog; solstice. 22d, Overcast: clears off at without a cloud; brilliant sunset! 23il, Cirri; large cumuli; distant thunder sprinkle of rain hail and heavy shower in the night.

24th. Clear; a bright and cloudless day. 25ih, Cirri of every form; overcast. 26th, Clear. 27th, Clear.

28th, Very hazv: no clouds. 29th. Uiear; Drilliant sunrise, win, 31st, Overcast; showery. RECAPITULiAriOW. clear days eiouayv; rainy ia.

v. S.W.5; S.E.6; E.8; N. 15; N.E.3; N.W.I; W.4. the lejisIatwattKfcy tS ffi sh-H be ready 1.uiul Id EXT DOTilOO iWtnil-rauiv bboaeilrBiiChemoerff Mve legislaturfad ihevahotprlay ihe tar ataeaiior snor and Jjicity: reeototlon without preng ways apd iMpA'' i and vYV) admire iof open; candid politicisoy we cilf'ivVkVif he isiibttt these prating to Meet the edition by the proper means, and then meet their constituents, deserve no mercy. We hope 0Qrtftierrt4 In both "houses will dispoae of this exeitiag queeiionina fair ag Jbonorable planner, without fo 16 beliere iheae bondi ahouM be paidtheycanhave no wr4nd(M obj( them, ta thai is thIyjraileu pay with.

ThVaaaetftortBe liable for ibese bonds; will Wtjhnf til per; centage on collecting; tlir uxea'beceaiarr to meet present are ifling can pe maae. oat otJipgJy mere i human fXJIo pekiog.pf State Con TeatiM te'iyit)1tf9iel9nTwc' dohtft' an aet of imtM4itt Uroetthla prompni deciaire hction epeoiea mat targe ToUr SfSdl'baaer fored in luch a body; then rIcu art Z'tU fXl4t ta atatfi in aoma of our exehansea. that Mr. C.zY, who told the Pennivlvinia anti-maaooe that hfferlwdji4uch' taatafor'the myateriei of npvaivj, raw ofgree a.wnye pe neiongea to me lodgodU2r77orcA we jiuppole4.tet aU dohi-throttgh HurajSU et jaya to flCat Ctl LaatauTOia. Nothing of import- ncrf hi peei done, (a, body 1 in the way of legUJitKi up to Tuetdey, the dar onwhloh we left tlaVt A hiH wti jbejtdin to sire iddi liooalttrna ia oofcectore make jhetr remrna.

Another bib to teriT iht oaataridlmpriaoanient fori.H TWe2loWoiiiurei will aurely noijtaia to tnwu.genioooy tegiuaiora aa eora-pof tltherhooae tTheyarf not demanded. by poblii nleeaatty or iottreat their revival may aerv 4d eraliff private malice or peraohal prque.ortrpdjtra at the aerillce of the liberty of Wone, for flebtlt v'A bfit i rrotije-for the 8 late warran'byi feteoue derived, by taxe'a on fine iatfoducid and tiottW lrObli ftatrobefVre time. be? tweeu tbe Of theirs ialatureU wh eh -faaaii of Reptesentatives iefeompoiedf: tUtOnatitaencv Cie eneral annearanee' to trant which itwooHHVti been irapoMible to htve done with a let ttnDrliirnntirv Praiidnt. war to mir;) and thf ftwijJitM-ip isf atch aajudtcicrua legist ifa Wl iibtVL :lK.aiowinttl IfWftik tt.Sitjdd,ol nit ww. ion Lie 3is ar LEGISLATIVE CORRESPONDENCE OF THE FREE 'W '--'rr'': Jaciwoii, Jan.

10, 1844.v TTia Progrett of. Things at Plan-i Bank Bond Question Governor Brown' Inauguration "the immortal Povhatian Ellis. The delay of my last letter, sent via. Vieksburg and the river mail, has delayed this which is less to be regretted on account of the visit of the editor of the Free Trader himself to tbe capitol, and his participation so recent in. the stirring movements of the congregated democracy at the seat of the State government.

Whenever a new Governor of the Stale comes into office tbe opening scenes of a legislative season are somewhat broken in 'upon by ceremony, and the time-honored rites of induction into, office. Should any one aak me what the lower house of the Legislature have' done thus far in the ses sion, I should be compelled to say little positively, but much in prospective. They hare eut out work for half a century; but it lies in a formless mass, somewhat like the unlicked cubs of an Arkansas lady bear. However, the committees to whom neaily all the more important bills and matters have been referred, are now energetically at work, and we shall soon see the results. It is surely a talented and hard-working legislature.

There has been much playing with the Planters Bank bond question all parties apparently a little afiaid of it many fearing that a close examination into the nature of those contracts will give them as effectual a dose of repudiation, as has been administered to those of the Union Bank. To-day, the fire has broken out in another quar ter on the nrouosition to sell the half million of acres of land donated to the State by Congress for the purpose of applying the proceeds to the pay ruentof the Planters bank bonds. This is still before the House. The members from those coun ties where those lands are situated are very sensi live on that subject they oppose every approach to the gift of Congress as if the lands were their own special property. The ceremony of Inauguration took place at 12 o'clock io-day.

A large and very respecta ble-looking audience crowded the Hall of Repre sentatives. The procession entered after both houses had met in convention the governor elect taking his seat below tbe President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House, with Judge Clayton of the Sunreme Court on his risbt. and Judze Thacher and Chancellor Buckner on hi left. A number of the accomplished ladies of the city, the elite of fashion and respectability in the State capital, were present to grace the scene. Governor Brown arose, flushed with emo tion, and read his inaugural message, in a clear, distinct voice, with graceful manner while the crowd hung IB breathless sftence upon tbe accents of their chief magistrate.

Several times bursts of applause lung through the hall but, while he ex pressed his full conviction of the legality ol tbe Planters bank bonds, some hissing mingled with the applause and President Speight very proper ly prevented any further demonstrations of feeling either favorable or adverse to tbe sentiments of the Message. The Seraeant-at-Arms, Leech, has immortal ixed himself, to-day, by his talents at making pro clamations. Alter Judge Clayton, a pale, intellec tual-looking gentleman in spectacles, had, in low voice, and in a most solemn manner, administered the oath of office to Governor Brown, it became Leech's duty to make proclamation, that Albert Gallatin Brown waa the lawfully elected Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the army and navy of the State of Mississippi. He went and posted himself looking like a cat in a strange garret in the aisle, and commenced, in a voice like one in a night-mare or such sounds as a strangling man might utter, with yez! yex! yez! Then he stopped, and said in a meek voice, that he did not know what to say. Speight looked angry and mortified rose, and lined off the proclamation word by word and yet Leech managed to mis pronounce and pervert nearly every word.

The last syllable had scarce been whined out, when a loud, obstrepulous, irrepressible burst of laughter, rung through the hall. Ladies and all took part in it and had it not been Tor the aolemn position in which the Governor was placed, a good outbreak of laughter would, have relieved him of the embar rassing and mixed feelings of mirth and mortifica tion" at aeeing and being somewhat the subject of such official demonstrations of assinine and incura ble stupidity. As one of your corps editorial remained until af ter the Senatorial election, need say nothing that. The haughty north ruled out ex-Governor McNott, claiming the Senator from their quarter of the State. Gwin, from the same cause, had ho show bat it was truly laughable, when they found Speight was to be a candidate, to hear them argue that Lowndes county waa a far southern county away down a few bour'a sail ftoru De nend on it; the north will come up for the next can didate.

should the Hon. R.J. Walker advanced to the, bench of the Supreme Court, in, place of Judge" Thompson, deceased, and ahould become neeetsary to elect for hi unexpired termty i here fs delighted with the'gentleman-ly, Qmaading manner in tfbJHEpiiowha KleiicC and one of our Aamcbuntydeleiiuion. ldttoW iH delibsajfof oar great State SSoHoiwhUoA tws vesaet: snags a reroai repori aprara Miisan Ctrtlioutu: rfHthaiJflrhat lfrwi tarfo aava the eoisl.oaeraof Yucatah prominent men Ja Beaite; and indeed it'amaa-teririta. iherilMman'ottienf'of ahilitv and theriir younger merobere and not ao WU veraedJhJegialali6n.il-: I iUittTap STATta Tueaday, the 9tlhatn' thVaay previoualy fixed upon by both hpaaeaforbatpurpoae, the lifgiplatuie of the State met ia the hall of the Houae of Repreaenta Uvea proceeded to the, election of a United Sjatej Senator, for aix eara, from the fourth of Liownaei, wa aeciarea auiy ieuieu Thlareeult, though unexpected to thSae at a dii tance, waa anticipated' at the teat of government, frofu the.

ponient of Gov. McNutt'a declining to cioTiii igr me oucr. Gen. Speight it a democrat of the itricteit aect a gentleman of plain, Hunt mannera of a frank, generoua and candid disposition. His personal ap-pearance is imposiog countenance open and pre.

possessing; and he will make a useful member of the Senate, being well versed in the legislation of the country, having served with distinction in Con gress and In the Legislatures of his native and aooptea etatea. Thb DaiiocaATio State Convention. This body met in the hall of the House of Repreaenta- tiyes, on Monday, the 8lh of January instant, and waa temporarily organized by calling R. H. Boone, of Tishemingo, to the chair, and appointing T.

A. 8. Doniphan and Wm. Barksdale, secretaries. On calling the it appeared that forly-iour counties were It was then moved and unanimously carried, that the Hon.

Powhatan Ellia be appointed President of the Conven tion;) the same. Secretaries, with the addition of Mr; A. B. Bacon, of Marion, were also elected. Several Vice Presidents, whose names we do not now recollect, were also chosen.

The first busi-neas of impartance, was the choice from among the several distinguished gentlemen whose names have been mentioned in connexion with the Presidency, of that one whom the democracy of Mississippi preferred. The vote being taken by Martin Van'Buren received sixty-two, and John C. Calhoun twenty. The announcement of this result waa received with loud applause, when it was moved by a Calhoun democrat, that Martin Van Buren be unanimously nominated, which waa dohe by acclamation. James Polk and Col.

R. MJ Johnson were then put in nomination for the Vice Presidency and on a call of the counties, Col. Ifolk received Jfty-one, and Col. Johnson twenty-nine, votes, i About fifty delegates were appointed to the Baltimore Convention, and an electoral ticket, composed of the following gentlemen, were formed: Marshall H.Boone, of Tishemingo li4l Henry 8. Foote, of Hinds; 1-t Jeflersoh Davis, of Warren; and 7.ih-f'l Arthur Fox, of Lawrence.

Hon, Robert J. Walker would have ie-ceived the nomination for the Vice Presidency, had not a letter been read from him, addressed to Coir Robert E. Harris, declining that honor. i' The utmost harmony and good feeling prevailed throughout the entire proceedings, and every one seemed willing to forego his own preferences and take up those of majority, whenever any opinion, Upon any was expressed in the THe' Con vent ipn adjourned at 11 o'clock, P.M., sifter listening to an eloquent speech from Jefferson DavisJ' one of the electors, all perfectly satis fied with its. act ion upon every aubject brought be- for 03" The Rev.

George Potts, formerly of this place, has challenged the Rev. Dr. Wain wright, of New York, to a religious controversy, upon the expfeiaipn of the latter, that there cannot be a j--jytboat a Bishop. Mr. Potts affirma that tneri.

cln be. and telle the Rev. that he ia e3 tc) iebite tliej queation in any. form he may 3' frS Q.HitB an amnaincr dnhatn in ih TfnnA nf Repreieatatlyea, is Congress, took place on the JJTih between Mr U. J.

Ingersoll and John UUtney Aaams, upon tn subject ot reducing ex penaiiures tvir. Auams oeing in lavorot reducing th navyand Mr. Ingersoll in favor of curtailing the exprasei the debate, Mfg the patriotio that1 should England jinterfere with Cuba, he would be Jor.wart lie also declared, that hiwthted latgiaavy to tthahle us to burn London; in, Mr. Adams tk British steamera lhaJaat aepaion, of Thia excited great mughter. FouBtcataM.

Thia transcendental community aaaociationiaeema lately have taken a new start in US' nbrittj and apro.uted forth aa yigotously. aa (11 Prophet goutd, and Is nadoubt destined to as tona im Thrs'ia lif; imparted to the dream- lajpi) wea kriht about by "the aotive exartioha of Al- vrfCetlea Greetf, of the wYorli -t ml-'ti. Bv ob oDn vonn a. Aiouins, tw Jivtc opem in of 52 taMtM'sttillealam s'fn Wifl DO Iff' ttt and tfif itiftU Ui JameA KA Utee )ecV Sanatoria tne vonffcaa qi' -rwnin pxw-jm Mcaerai Assembhfol ys of Jlr. J.

waosaerm ia expireu -p. I vaej 1 Very clear; fleecy cirri 5th. Overcast all day a dark day. Overcast. 8ih, Cirri overcast.

9th, uvercasi; ugm rain an any; ram in me uigm. Steamboat Princess Aunv. The steamboat Concordia arrived at our landing yesterday, bringing intelligence of the sinking of the steamboat Princess, long a popular packet in the Natchez and New Oileana trade. On Tuesday evening about half past nine o'clock, while running in a dense fog, about 20 miles above N. O.

the Princess struck a log which projected from the shore. She was immediately mn into shore. Her. stern went down, while her bow, when the Concordia left her, was on drv land. The cargo was'saved though the boat is reckoned a total loss without any insurance.

We learn that the Princess was the property of Captain Sanford, the Clerk, Mr. Leathers, and the The, Concordia brought up the freight and passengers of the Princess. Natchez Courier. The Hon. Albert Smith, of Portland, Maine, Commissioner on the part of the United States, for running the northeastern boundary line of the United Stales, under the treaty of Washington, is now at the seat of government.

Itarge Mail Contract. The Cincinnatti Gazette states that the firm of Neil, Moore Co. are very large mail contractors, and with the branch under the management of D. Talmadge cover ever 620,000 milea of mail service per annum in the States Ohio, of Pennsylvania, New York and Mi-chiean oneratina 290 teams and 100 coaches and employing 25 agents and 290 drivers. The capital employed by the company in their stage business is estimated at about $250,000, and their annu.il expenses at about $300,000.

Terrible Tragedies.The London Times thus sums up some of the latest murders, etc. in the "There is something "wholly appalling in the series of murders, or rather slaughters, through which the revolution in thv Punjaub hasbet effected. A Minister conspires for the death of his master, and employs a ruffian ally toexecute it. In the space of about twenty-four hours the Prince is killed, cut to pieces, and his head paraded on' a speare through his metropolis. All his sons, (one of them only botn theprevious evening,) his grand children, and his.

sows "wives, are olso 'attacked and or 'brought out and The assassin then proceeds, apparently in the" most gartuitous and cold-blooded way, to murder his own employer, and is in this turn beheaded with some of his associates, by the son' of -his ijast victim, bis body into the bazaar; his head exposed in front of the city. Finally, a child of ten years old an alleged brother of the late monarch is placed upon the throne, under the Viziership of the last and least culpable of this series of butchers, the executor of justice upon the assassin of assassins, Ajeet Stng.wi' iT Extraordinary (Surgical Operation. Tne Liverpool Mercury, a journal of gieat respectability, of the 24th of November, gives the following aecouatf a most xtraordinaiy operation, performed a short tJme since ai Rochdale i A The person who; underwent it IC a married -woman, thirty year of age named Esther Han-ley, Toad lane, Rochdale. vThe Operators were Messrs. Geotge Morrisr- of Rochdale, and a professional gentleman from it appeere the patient ha beenamicted With thedroosv for upwards of, two veafs.

The latter end of Jasdntbalie aa warus oi pouutis weiga owwater was laaeu from lier ana although reueved of thla xuadi-, nary quantity of matter the eonceived.thau some- ining wneosne removed from, one aide of bodvtd the otherf How vcrtfln the day mentioned i cohsented anperatioa and taabound -bps itablecuit opea araf reaat ne tb 4hV cottomot btr ber weratiiatJ, Ihdabswnwaf -ouwli. fflfT" I ni.st- i ha average or these ores, as they came has been reduced here, and produced percent of wire copper. Intheneich- I other important discoveries of copper have 1 been made, but not worked. At Eagle river, twen- wm wt aisi wrt r-aiakiwsi uavauBTb-ajB. i.j- I a V9 I II- i rv 1: ia Bsc- as possible.

The conferences have already commenced, and it is probable that Yucatan will speed ily be reunited to the republic. The Chief Minieier of Santa Anna, Mr. Joseph Maria Tornel, who unfortunately lost his wife a short time ago, has expressed a desire to retire from public affairs and offered his resignation. The Mexican journals, particularly the Dinrio del Gobierno, publish with great care' the articles which appear in the newspapers of the U. States on the subject of Texas.

A lie same juuiuoio uiwuts.nt givat icugiu, uic tipulations of treaties establishing the right of loreisners to carry on commerce by retail. A I 1 .1 Accoraing to an arucie in one oi inese papers, an attempt has ben mad to mate General Santa Anna, which is attributed to the 1 exuns. The paper teters to the Mexican journals ot tne 8th December for the details of this affair. We have, seen nothing relative to it in any of those heretofore received bv us. The general commanding at Oajaca informs the minister of war, that on the 29th November, lieut.

Col. Jose Maria Munoz captured and destroyed the principal fort of the rebels on the Cajon mountains, near ine village oi vocuuiu. n. j. Clay vs.

a letter written July 23, 1843, to Messrs. Branham and Bled sop, Henry Clay says "I voted for the Tariff of 1816, 1S24, and 1832." In a letter addressed to tbe Hon.J. A. Meriwether, of Georgia, who voted in the last Congress against the present tariff, Heniy Clay say a You are right, so far as the record is concerned, in your statement that I did not vote for the Tariff in 1816 and 1824." This letter is dated October 2d, 1843. This is an awkward fix for Mr.

Clay. In July he asserts positively, that he did perform what he admits in October he never did. Truly. Mr. Clay intends to be the Proteus candidate "all things to all men." St.

Louis Reporter. Clay's Hypoeracy. Since the publication' of Mr. Clay's Gi oigia letter, in which he took great credit to himself for not having voted for the tariff of 1828 for the very good reason that he was not in Congress the Globe has been overhauling "the documents," and recapitulating the course of Mr. Clay on this subject.

Among a host of other facts, exhibiting Mr. Clay's extraordinary efforts to sustain the protective system, it shows, that though he did not vote for the high tariff of 1828, yet that he exerted himself most strenuously and even violently, in 1832, against the slightest abatement of the nigh duties imposed by that law. He voted to maintain, in defiance of the recommendation of a committee of Confeience, all the excessive, aggtavated imposts engrafted on the bill of the House by his amendments, v. He voted in a minority of ten for keeping the high tax upon cottons, with minimums doubling it on the inferior aorta. He voted in a minority of 14 to hold fast to the monstrous duty on sail duck.

He voted in a minority of 19 to keep four cents tax on the aquare yard, to prohibit cotton it being about one half the coat of making the ar-' -rt jtjt He voted with 15 others to maintain the amendment raising the duty of two and a half cents in favor or augar, to three and a noir. He voted in a minority pf-7 for the increase of the duty on salt, from 35 to 30 cents ad valorem. He voted in a minority of 19, to keen up the duty on woollens to 57 per with the fraud of minimums, raising it to more than an average of 75 per and agslnst the concession of the House, which only reduced it to 50 per i And he Voted 'aniastihe aroootiiionof Mr. Porsyth to revive the tariff of ls24, thit of 1823, or the bill: abovaaBudedo? rW These tacts, wun msay otnera iae same na expos )hhypnsjf of Mi LtroWi -a ar bibs a --i; 2ir TfP-. Mr it rVWAf? I iew-iMM awLtpl JUWi 1 tom rnreeMtfttrilew lillitlialpiritttat cobbV PrownffipSwS ttiltT.

1 -a A yabo, tovity of their tWbate.eldom jioafy'hf4 'ifiVa; MtjbtwaorMar- jtr Sot. Bell of AT. 1 -5 J'S lftkarfocalttpnaa rsjeVone hon- iWiwiK or nbaftl have been I Sfin witi two tseeptioM. iatfv eonnerfiM Im. tonA.

At Omim Harbor. A -tions of the United Stius agency iYtf hive been obulbed and sent to neslinored and pursued. 1 orlveau Mexico oB i he 11th, Un tha lSth thet vi who directed then 1 nftT ta thr'ina tKIs affair aa lummniliH ni ter c. hi KtaVgt this aCair aa promntlyi.