Alabama Planter from Mobile, Alabama • 2

178 UJttkln fjttalb axb Sributu. 03 A democratic meeting was held in Db1 county a few days apo. The resolutions de-dare that we are in favor of paying taxes to the State, and the speedy settlement of the debts of that, "while the democrat- ic party is opposed to the corrupting connexion of bank and State, are not opposed to a legitimate system of banking on proper principles, and, therefore, recommend ihe adoption of a free system of banking by our next legislature." These men have the sagacity to see that one may be opposed to the evils of banking, with out being opposed to all banks. In Cherokee county a democratic meeting was also' recently held. It approved of the official conduct of Governor Chapman-said that he is entitled to the warmest gratitude of the citizens at large for tha able manner in which he has discharged the laborious and responsible duties of his office.

On the subject of banks they recommend thai such "steps be taken in tho approachine state convention as shall secure the undivided action o' the democratic representatives in the ensuing legislature to procure a constitutional amendment of our state currency." The resolution, say, farther, that Ihe "principles of stock banks are recognised by the state constitution." We think the Montgomery Flag will be left alone presently in its opposition to this new bank movement. If it be honest, however, that is no reason why it should cease to say what it thinks on this subject. Tha Montgomery Journal says: A prominent idea with many is a compromise between the various systems. To repeal Ihe act, suspending the Planters' Bank at Mobile, whose charter the Supreme Court has decided has not been forfeited, which will ba an additional institution lo Mobil with capital of two millions and, further, charter an institution with a capital of five hundred thousand to be located at the seal of government, and furthermore pass a general banking law. These would be checks on each other, and mutually guard against abuses, and at the same time furniih the sufficient facilities." The Frost is Virginia.

The Norfolk Beacon learns from a correspondent who has just passed through the counties of Charlotte Cumberland, Powhatan and Chesterfield, tha1 tho recent severe frost has almost if not entirely destroyed the fruit crop, and seriously injured the wheat sufficiently forward to be joint- ed. Its' effects on gardens have been moat destructive. The tobacco plant has been nearly killed. So severe a spell of weath er at this season is believed to be without par, allel, even in our changeable climate. EF The Boston Journal of the 18th ult.

says We understand this morning that all letters intended for the continent of Europe by the steamer Niagara, on which five cents postage was not prepaid, were liable lobe retained in tha post-office here. This fact should be universally known, a il applies to letter received per mail from New Orleans to East-port, as well as lo those dropped into the posj offiife here." Col. Benton Col. Benton left Washington City on the 20th for St. Louis.

Il is his intention lo remain in St. Louis only a few hours, and to proceed at once to the frontier lo address the emigrants, now collected there destined for California. On hi return from the frontier, he will continue in St. Louis pro bably for some time. So says the St.

Louis Union. CiF A discussion is going on in the Norfolk, Herald as to the propriety of annexing that city to Ihe state of North Carolina. It is cons tended, that North Carolina, having no seaport of her own accessible lo ships of Iarge burden, has it in her power to make Norfolk were it annexed lo her, a city of the first magnitude. 13?" We are indebted to Mr. Boullemet, of tha Literary Depot, for a of Cooper's last novel, "The Sea-Lions: or tne Lost Sealers," a book which, we see by the papers, ha some admirers sad a good many detractors.

We think almost every thing Cooper doe i done well, and expect, therefore, to enjoy this last of his works. The pilot boat Wm. Gaston, which it was feared, was driven to sea from Savannah and lost, was found ashore at Hunting Island buried to the deck in sand. The lad who was on board of her was saved. The horses in the "apostolic stables" at Rome have been seized for Ihe use of th national artillery.

The horses so Punch, are expected lo be more lhan a malcb for the Pops' bull. TUESDAY MORNING, MAY 1. leara from the Marian Review 0f the 2Gih ull. that destructive fir occurred at Eutaw od Tuesday night, consuming the North aide of the public square, and occasion-in; a loss of property amouoting, perhaps, to thirty thousand dollars. The fire originated in a ten pin alley, about 1 o'clock.

Es? Gen. Wm. Taylor, formerly of our city, has taken the Florence House in New Orleans. This houie is delightfully located, fronting; oa Lafayette square and Camp street, and is fitted up in superb style. See his advertisement.

Cj? The steamer Declaration arrived last evening from Tuscaloosa. We are informed by her officers that the Warrior river at that point hd risen four feet, nud was still rising when thejr leflL- We" also learn that the Little Tj igby1md men considerably. The J)eclara-tion brought down 229 bales of cutton, 94 bales of Tuscaloosa osnaburgs, barrels of beeswax, CP Our announcement seve'ral days ago tbat the "Keeper of the Forests" had been e-moved, is true. The district has been divided the northern portion given to Zeb. S.

Davis and the southern lo C.S. Bates, esq. of the Montgomery Journal. Our "good neighbor" may now halloo, for be is certainly out of the woods. We are more than half inclined to re.

pent for having given publicity to the emoluments of this Until we played off a little pleasantry upon our venerable friend when he received the appoiutment, it was looked upon as so worthless that no one troubled himself about it. Ourstatement, it ws8 worth 20 to $2500 per annum brought out a host of applicants on the advent of the new administration. KJ" Coroner Wiggins held an inquest on Sunday last, upon the body of an unknown white man found dead in an out-house, at Cot tage Hill, near the Paacaguuta road, in this county, and about ten miles below the city. The deceased was about the ordinary size, well proportioned, with black hair; but from the decayed state of the body there was no other distingishable feature or mark about his person, the body being entirely naked. The jury, after a careful examination of the body retured the following verdict: We, the jury, are unanimously of the opinion that the said deceased came to his death by a rifle or pistol ball, said ball entering the abdomen, about two inches below the naval, piercing through and coming out near the fP'me.

Mat Day. This will be a happy day for the young folks. The children of the Catholic Orphan Asylums and the schools connected with them, will eetebrate the day by a proces-' eion, after which they will proceed to the residence of C. LeBurun, on Dauphin way the coronation of the Queen, to take place at 11 o'clock. The Methodist free school will observe appropriate ceremonies at the grove on Springhill Road, opposite Mr.

Perkins' at 12 o'clock. The children of the Bethel free school will hold their pic nic at Holly's garden, also at 12 o'clock. To al these the public is invited. In the evening, the scholars of Mr. Merrill's female school will do honor to Flora.

The ceremonies will doubtless be very interesting. But it is not intended for the public. The dignified titles of pa and ma are tha only passports into this fairy region. 1-3?" Mr. A.

A Mt-elier, bookseller, on Dauphin strict, has sent us the following new 'publications: The Border Warfare of New York during the Revolution, or the Annals of Try on county, by Wm. W. Crawford. Auriforfino, or Adventures in the Gold Re-gisn; by Caolell A. Bigly.

Here a Little and There a Little, or Scripture Facts. We are also indebted lo Mr. J. Randall, 44 Water street, and Messrs- Carver 36 Dauphin strret, for copies of Mardi: and a Voyage Thither. By Hermann Melville." Those who have read those charming books Ornoo" and Typee," by Melville, will re-quire no other recommendation for these well-printed volumes, which issue from the press of the Harpers.

The New York Mirror, which is very good authority, speaks thus of Mardi: Mardi, frith all its fascinations, its unique style, its beautiful language, its genial humor, its original thoughts, its graphic descriptions, it poetic fliglf, its profound reasonings, its philosophic rederuions, its gentle religious teachings, its iniimtable whole, stretches be-lore uslike a new world, and the mental eye can never weary of gazing upon its strangely beautiful landscape." We have also from Mr. Randall a number of Franklin Illustrated," which contains a new and beautiful edition of tha autobiography ol the American philosopher, with a narrative of his public life and services. It is beautifully primed and illustrated, and ought to be put into the hands, of all. youths, as well as ndults. From Mr.

Boullemet of the Literary Depot, we have a copy of a new novel, tailed Ellen Warebam; or Love and Duty. By Miss Ellen Pickering" a very clever and voluminous writer. The New Orleans papers now-a-day come very irregularly. Yesterday we received the Picayune only. What's the matter? GP (Jen.

Wm. Trousdale has beeo nominated by the Democratic. Convention at Nashville, as their candidate for I- Domestic Hiatt-The practical benefits to be anticipated from a well directed system of domestic already been elaborately set forth.and certainly, if properly appreciated, the propriety of a local application must be apparent to every man having a thinking head upon his shoulders. But the difficulty with us, in this comparatively "deserted village," is, that the monied portion of the community exercise their brains with their hande'withio their pockets.The force of argument is measured by the arithmetical rule commonly called compound interest. The metises think right on practical matter', and their late prompt and liberal contribution to railroad, manufacturing and dry dock companies is evidence that they estimate properly the value of labor and recognise the necessity of doing something to revive Ihe energies of oar city.

Some few months since, $50,000 were promptly subscribed for a cotton factory, but yet the preliminaries are not arranged. Tell the people, Messrs. Directors, if the cholera has had any effect upon the enterprise, or if you are not deferring prompt action in apprehension of another French revolution. We venture the assertion, that the above amount placed at the disposal of an active, energetic Yankee.the building of capacity for an increase of machinery could be completed; at least 100 looms and 2500 spindle could be put in above all the whole would have been, in the event of auch delegation, successfully at work while our go-ahead directory have been talking the matter over. It is gratifying, however, to notice an individual effort now being made by one of our citizens.

On St. Joseph street it may not be generally known there is actually a cotton factory in progress. It ia the more interesting because it ia directed and sustained by one man. John Bloodgood, esq. has in this given evidence of independence of thought and a degree of public spirit worthy of imitation by many others occupying a similar position.

This is the way to make an impression upon the community and proportionably upon the age in which we live. This ia a legitimate expenditure; and the position of that man who thus gives direction, by action, to public sentiment, distributing the means of profitable labor, is a little more enviable than the usurer who swells his purse at the expense of the unfortunate. By the sweat of the laborer the rich accumulate their we are glad lo see that at least one man ia about to distribute it back. As the truth- should always be told, your readers may be troubled with a few more Home Truths. "EST'A meeting of the stockholders and friends of the Mobile and Ohio Railroad was held in Macon, (Miss.) on the 14th ult.

Dr. James M. Cunningham was chairman, and Dr. W. D.

Lylea secretary. The resolutions declare that the road is necessary to the people of that section.of Mississippi that the country is favorable) for the work, and the prospect of a good dividend from it cheering that it will very materially enhance the value of the lands contiguous to it that the member of the meeting will grant it the right of way that if the "planters, according to ihe present cheering prospects, will with one accord come forward and take stock, to such an amount as they believe their lands will be enhanced in value, we believe we shall be able to break ground on our northern county boundary, next and ere three years elapse, shall see the first car on the iron arms rolling our cotton lo market, and the passenger-car speed her way to Mobile, in the short space of seven hours." The Hon. G. 11. Foote addressed the meeting, and the resolutions were adopted unanim-mously.

Western Emigration to California- A correspondent of the St. Louis Republican, writing from Independence, Missouri, under date of April 10, giveB a stirring description or the immense tide of emigration that is now flowing from the great valley of the West to ihe shores of the Pacific. The steamer from the river below are loaded with emigrants, who are congregating by thousand at the head of navigation on the Missouri, preparatory to their departure by the overland route to California. The transportation from Independence is by mules and wagons, and as soon I as the grass on the (Srairies aball have advanced sufficiently to afford forage for the stock, caravans, composed of companies from many states, with their families, wives and children, will be on their march to the El Dorado of their hopes. The writer in the Republican says that Independence ia full lo repletion, and that for miles around companies are encamped, ready lo lake titeir departure at the proper season.

Rumored Defalcation. The rumor that a public officer in New York was a defaulter to a considerable amouit, arose from the fact, that the U.S.Slarsbal.ftlr. Ely Moore, had taken from a vessel supposed to be a slaver, $20-000, which he refused place in the hands of the clerk of the U. S. district Court, alleging as a reason, that the clerk would charge a per centage on the amouti.

He placed the sum on deposit in Bank, bit aubeeqently transfer, red it to his private atcount. Mr. J. Prescott Hall, U. S.

District Attorney, moved the court to require the Marshal to pay the money into court; which motion via granted; but on applying to the bank it fas found be bad only the sum of $1500 on deposit. 1 The Washington Inblligencer calls tli Union "the new book ofaiartyrs." WEDNESDAY MORMNG, MAY 2. received some days ago the Southern Quarterly Rview for April. The titles of its articles are as follows 1'olitical Econ omy; Modern f'i Fiction; Origin of the War with Met iimieracy in France; Slavery i Railroad and p. to California; and Critical The publishers state that Mr.

Clapp has the editorial control of the work; and we learn that he hue been succeeded by Mr. Wm. Gilmore Simms, one of the best-known of our southern literary men. We have only read two of the articles in litis number.thst on Slavery and lb Abolitionists and the essay on Modern Fiction. The former is a capital paper, and embodies a great deal of novel and quite interesting information.

The other is common place in both thought and style. hardly reaches the level of a review Its style is inexcusably de-fcerive. This number of the Review is accompanied by an appeal from ihe publishers to its subscribers, or, mora properly, we. should suppose, to the people of the South. It is the old etory oyer again; namely, delinquent subscribers, embarrassment and consequent inefficiency lo the work.

There are now, according to this appeal, thirteen thousand dollars on the books due for subscription. If this were paid and the subscribers be punctual in tha future, there would be a sufficient sum to give the work a solid, unembarrassed standing. It is idle to talk of the value of auch a publication. Its value is inestimable. It fashions the higher intellect of the country and promotes its vigor by exciting it to investigation-Its opinions are purely southern, which can be said of no other magazine now published in the country.

It seems to us that this ought to be a sufficient motive for the south. It is vain to look for resolute and devoted defenders of its peculiar interests while the public turns to them so cold a visage and an ear so deaf. Besides this, it is a fraud of the grossest kind to subscribe for a work and not pay for it. On the strength of his subscription, the proprietor lays his plans, and if Ihe pay fail, he is not only defrauded of the net sum so owing, but of all the expense he incurs by relying on its punctual payment. While we make these remarks, however, it appears obvious that the newspaper press is gradually assuming the functions the heas vy quarterly- That kind of literature first started as a substitute for books; the change is eoinarlhex-d it itself is now yielding to Ihe universal mania for the aaatspapa suspect the change is not an unwholesome one.

Mostly the newspaper by successive small essays embodies all tbat can be said on a popular subject, and it is said in them in such a way that it assimilates itself with our thoughts food does in the physical system-it is an operation seen more in ita effects than its mode of action. We cannot also help thinking that our reviews are exceedingly dull dull in the topics chosen for discussion and the modes of discussing them. To produce their proper effects they ought to be a higher kind of newspapers formality should to be avoided in them. The long prefaces which precede email subjects ought to be shunned by writers for them. They ought to dart off into the middle of things and say what iliey hava to say with soul and spirit.

One writer of the Sidney Smith stamp in a southern quarterly, with article so brief and so striking as his are, would effect more good than a score of the ordinary sort. It is, too, just Ihe sort of. writing which is calculated to seize ihe attention of the south and mould its opinions. This however, may be considered easier to recommend than follow but practice will bring an ordinary writer up to the standard. At all event this show of learning of saying common-place things in a dry, recondite, affected way, is growing intolerable both in reviews and newspapers, and we wish it were quite abolished.

XW Individual effort is taking the lead here of associations. John Bloodgood, Esq. is now erecting a building in the upper part of the city for a cotton factory. It is in a considerable state of forwardness, and by fall every thing will be in readiness for operations. The building will be 36 feet by 100, and three stories high.

The machinery will con' sist of 1000 to 1500 spindles, looms and all tha necessary fixture for spinning and weaving coarse cotton fabric. Mr. Bloodgood has la-ken this enterprise in hand with a determination that it shall suoceed, end. to illustrate lo our citizens tbat certain descriptions of good can be manufactured here more cheaply than at the north. The Wheat Chop.

The Greensborough Beacon gives a gloomy accountof the prospect of wheat in its section of Alabama. In addi lion, it remarks, to the destruction by the 'rosts of last week of all tha cotton up, and most of the early corn, we regret to learn that ihe wheal was aUo measurably destroyed. In the black lands, we understand that the crop was entirely destroyed. This is quite a heavy loss, as the wheat crop in this section was not only larger this spring than remarkably promising. We have heard of one crop and we presume thai there were many others quite good thai promised a yield of 25 to 35 bushels to the acre.

07 On the 21st ult. Mr. Cooper, the well-known actor, died at Bristol, in Pennsylvania Arrival Steamer Cambria. The Advertiser of yesterday morning pub lished a telegraphic despatch, announcing the arrival of the steamer Cambria at Liverpool dates to the 14th ult. The following are the particulars Cotton has been dull during the week with a further decline of Jd.

Closing quotations are, Upland fair 4g; Orleans fair 4j; Mobile 4J; Sea Island good fair HIS lid. Resumption of hostilities between Germany and Denmark has caused an improvement in breadstuff's. Ohio flour, 24325; wheat six and four to six ten pence; corn, 28 Tt 2. Corn meal 13 14. t.

Pork is in limited demand, with receding prices'. Tnrpentine 31s CJ. Roein 3a to 3a 6d. Money Consols at J2. Terrible suffering in Ireland.

England and France all quiet. The cholera is in Fari. The King of Prussia has refused the imperial crown and all is confusion. Denmark baa blockaded a number of German ports. Rome is quiet.

The Pope is still at Gaeta. Hostilities recommenced between Germany and Prussia. Rumor of Gen. Bern's defeat by the Austrians is unfounded. The town of Briscia has been destroyed by the Austrians, and all its inhabitants slaughtered.

The Governor of Canada has signed the Indemnity bill, which has been the cause of a great riot at Montreal. The Parliament house burnt, together with the library and public documents. Moffil, a distinguished member of the house, has been arrested for treason. Railroad Movements. The people of our state ere becoming aware of the importance of internal improvements.

Almost every day gives some evidence of the awakened spirit. We stated some time ago that the citizens of Marion, Perry country, had determined upon completing the railroad from Cahawbato that place, a work which was abandoned during revulsions of 1837. This road will certainly be built within a few years, and no doubt extend to Centerville, Bibb county," when the immense mineral resources of that region will be brought into more prominent notice. The Marion Review of the 26th ult. contains a call for a meeting at Uniontown on the 18th inst.

The object is to take into consideration the propriety of building a railroad to connect Cahawba and Demopolis by Union-town, in Perry county, so as to constitute a. link in lite treat southern railroad from West Point, Georgia, to Jackson and Vicksburg, Mississippi and at the same time to unit wi(h the Mobile and 10 to rujr directly through from Cahawba and interme diate places, to Mobile by railroad. We are glad to see that the people of Selma are bestiring themselves on the subject of thoirjong abandoned railroad. They have appointed lo hold a meeting on tha 5th inst. The citizens of that place, it is announced, are determined to engage in the work, and have therefore invited the co-operation of Wl persons interested in such an undertaking, especially planters, adjacent to Selma.

This road, as we have before aaid, would be of immense value to Selma and the whole country through which it will pass. The entire route was surveyed and located in 1835 36 and a portion or it graded. Beside the large amount of Tennnessee and North Alabama products which this road would bring lo the Alabama river, it would develope a large trade in lumber and naval stores betwen Selma and Mons levallo. Thence on to the Tennessee river, the Cahawba valley would present a succession of orchards, fields of small grain, pasture lands, dec. tFSome of the interior papers of this state are lampooning each other about the low prices at which advertisements are inserted.

One is charged with publishing two columns and a half for (25 a year, and another asserts that every column of the paper pays $25 per annum. The Wetumpka Guard thus speaks of this matter "It is a fact that ihe propria-tors of newspapers in this state are loo anxioas to obtain advertising at any price stipulated by the person desiring advertising done. We would be much gratified lo see a disposition evinced on tha part of publishers to starve without work rather than to starve with work at such rates as some of them are now doing." Stewed Cklert The editor of the Hors ticulturist gives the following mode of cook-, ing celery, and from long experience of its merits recommends it as a delicious dish: "Cut the blanched or white portion the celery stalks in pieces about an inch in length, and put them in a saucepan over the fire with milk and water in equal proportions, barely sufficient to cover them; add a little salt, and let them stew gently until perfectly lender. Then take out the celery, add a piece of butter to the liquid it was boiled in, thicken it slightly with flour, pour it over the celery, and serve it up." Dickens has started a new novel and has commenced publishing it in monthly pieces. It is called "The Personal History, Adventures, Experience and Observations of David Copperfieid, the Younger, of Blunder-stone Rookery." Gold News.

A gold digger has arrived at Boston, with 20,600 dollars' worth of the precious metal, which ha states was dug out by himself in five months, besides paying the expense of living. Why is a lean monarch tike, a studious mant becaus lie is a thin kin. The Cholera in Paris. The postcript to the Paris letter in (he Courrier des Etats Unis, announces that on the 5th instant, there were a number of deaths from cholera among ihn representatives of the French assembly. A New Paper.

The county seal of Mine -sota Territory i called St. Paul. A naw paper is about being started there, to be called "The Epistle of St. Paul." Madame Augusta, the celebrated danseute has been blessed with a fine, fat, bouncing sua much to the daliglit of iter husband, Count de St. Jdiiies, who i an old man of at least sixty seven.

The event was belter late than ner decidedly. Some one, looking at a rich man, said, 'Peor man, be toiled day and night until he was forty, to gain bis wealth, and he has been watching it day and night ever since, fur his victuals and Seventeen millions of passengers bave been carried over tbe Massachusetts rail road, within the past three years. Fifty-six killed and 65 injured..