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" THE herald. = ^ "frtpay, apkil ?1, ?37. "" _ "^ThTheTaLB arFlCtTvUl t/u^t mf Mm, to ho. '41 ASS STREET, on* door ft of **?*? ttrtti, and vPPotUe the VcHrv Ro<>*u of th? DuicH Wormed Church. ^ _ ?j Pro|(reM of Revolution. The general revolution in the social system, origin ating in tbe commercial revulsion, advances wit 1 a rapidity fearful and ominous to all those in power an authority. The disorder increase, every day, and at ?very point. Disorganization is breaking ou <> the country. In the southern status, stop laws are talked of-inthe west, the officers of justice are threa tened -ami even here in New York those w ho appeal lo the laws for the liquidation of debts, are beginning to be denounced by the Wall street papers, as if they had perpetrate I hen.ous offences. It is even recom mended to the mercantile community to refuse- obe dience to the laws, and to cheat the government out of th? duties imposed by the acts of Congress. At ather points, a general suspension of specie payments 18 deliberated upon? the issue of post notes by the hanks? and a general scramble through all ranks of society. s If we pass from conimcrcial to social life, w e will find the same spirit of revolution and disorganization madly marching onward. The failures in the mereantile world w hich have already taken place, have precipitated many hundred families from the heights of affluence to comparative poverty. Fashionable families ar? stripped forever of their plumage and gewgaws. Horses, furniture, car riages, all the appendages of extravagance, are rapid ly passing under the hammer. Beautiful and engaging females, hardly through the delicious honey moon, have the prospect opened to them of a long, cheerless and forlorn life. Never, perhaps, did such a radical revolution in society take place in any country, as is now going on in this fair, rich, and smiling land. Some of the private histoiiee growing out of the French revolution of 1792, may furnish parallel in stances to the sudden fall of pride, elegance, wealth, beauty and grandeur, U the lowest depths of despair. No whero else. Many families and persons of distinction, whose wealth was founded on < ur commercial system, are gone forever. Others preparing to spuul the next summer in Paris or Florence, under the smiling sky of France, or in the delicious groves ?f Italy, have to abandon their fashionable enterprises, and will soon be forced to wander to the prairies ?f the west in search of mere subsistence. The fashionable milli ners in Broadway, arc on the verge of despair. We learn that all the orders for the summer have been countermanded, or, as one of the most fashionable of them calls it, " the ladies what have given uvj orders for the werry latest Paris fashions, have protested th* most on them." Broadway is now almost destitute of gny equipages, and a person oh foot can cross that atroet without endangering his limbs. There never was tiuch a general sweep of the specu lators ? of the partenus ? of th< nobility? of the bcuu monde ? of all those classes of fashionable society, who have been figuring at all the watering places for the last five or six years. The route is overwhelm ing. If it were confined to that class of society, there would be something to njoice at and be glad for? but an fortunately the innocent and the guilty are in volved alike in the general wreck of the high credit ?ystem. We hardly have a throb of pity for the nv?b of speculators j but for (lie poor females, who, by the ties of kindred, love and affection, are involved in the general calamity, we are truly sorry? we truly regrt t. Rendered, by the atrocious system of fashionable boarding schools, recently introduced among us, ut terly useless for kll the household purposes of human life, their destiny is embittered with the consciousness of incapability to b^fTL t the rigid billows of the fu ture. We do not pity, therefore, any speculator, or any class of speculators who arc destroyed bv the existing revulsion, but we weep and mourn far the poor, blush ing, weeping, defenceless, innoccnt, beauteous fe males, who are involved m the general crash. Tluy have been deceived, betrayed, cheated, and sadly abu?*i, by the folly of the age?the pride of their fa thers and brothers? the vanity ef mothers? and the general laxity of a corrupt and wicked generation.? Thescare the wicked and unprincipled men, who inthe rising tide of speculation, looked with contempt upon their more moderate, sedate, industrious neighbors. ? Such men deserve utter prostration. They have led tbe world astiay? the men and women equally so. With the present terrible train <if evils before us, w< ^ust that all persons in this community, will pause lmd tnk? a lesson. I-et there be a general reform in oar social system. I. t education, manners, moral*, and life itself be ehang?l for the better. Instead o' I building gay and lordly church*, and nalarying empty and pompous clergy, let us plant religion in1 our hearts? modesty in our conduct? worship (#od (in simplicity and in truth? and shut up all the fash ionable boarding schools. They have been the hot beds of pestilence and corruption. These vain and empty pretenders, who, if the best man in the com mumiy would object to their extravagant charges, would say, M?hi he atnt gent* I? shan't have bis | daughter at my school"? orght to be taught a l-'sson of modesty, simplicity, rectitude, and tmc elevation of character. The present terrible revolution in every dr? wmont hfe, may be made a useful lesson, if we use it with j profit and discretion. Jackass** roa sat.k. ? The following list of Jack fumm are advertised in the Islington (Ky.) Obwrtif and R? -porter V Achillea, Blue Jim, Magnum Uonum, Mammoth Warner, Oeneral Jackson, <?eneral Gnince, Ulysses, General Scott, Colonel Johnson, Jim Crow, A<\'' Ry a n-4 by we shall see the following ndded to th? list of th?Hie gnat names? Ma tin Van Bonn, Aaao? Kendall, James Watson Webb, M. M. IVoah, James Gordon Hcanett, die. The latter breed will fetch a high price. |3r The Star, Times, and a few other old women m Wall afreet, in ban# petticoats, an1 very much (lis tarbod aboat Daniel K. Dclavan ? the last election and the coming one. Be easy, old ladiea? be easy. Mr. Delavan goes in at i he neit beat- the last race was too much of a acrub for him. The descendant of a revolutionary hero can never be beaten. He may take a flyer for amnsemcnl? but when he geta serious aad ia determined to be an alderman, the thing ia done. I r Jededmh Hurchard'a quaintneee and eceen tricity, ? only a revival of the taatea of the seventeenth ?entuiy, during the of Cromwell. In his time, a book waa published with the following title t? M F.gga of Chanty, laid by the Chickens of the Covenant, aad boiled by the water of Divine Love ? Take jre and eat." The Reverend Jededinh, and kia chickens 'in Chat ham atreet Chapel, are laying such eggs every day, tad many pretty women are boiling and eating them, iy June, hia converts will look fat, plump, and pretty. Halls, a very ordinary actor, is cracked up by ?me penny critic, as being at the top of hia profee <M. Oh \j Import* al from the South. The express mail furnishes u s wilh various letters and slips from our correspondents down to the 13th from New Orleans, and to the 14th from Mobile. The great revolution goes onward. The want of room compels us to postpone a long and important letter from New Orleans on the state of the commercial commu nity there, which we shall give tomorrow. We have now a corpn of private correspondents in New Or leans and Mobile better than any paper in the north ? those of the Courier and Express are trasL Who in Bullimore, Philadelphia and Boston will write to us for publication ? New Oblhans, April 12^-10, A. M. Deah Sia, ? Nothing of importance was done yes terday in business transactions. About 1100 bags cotton, prime Louisiana, went oil" at 10 "all for cash. Flour still continues at #7. In other articles no change occurred. ? I send you the proceedings of the presidents of our banks. Whether the boards will couie into the mea sure is doubtful. If they do, it will afford no perma nent relief. We must have immediately discounts to the amount I of 815,900,000, or we shall not be able to get on. The threatened run upon their vaults, and general mis trust, urged the banks to this measure. That it will be productive of no gencial good, is evident from the | immense deficit we are laboring under. In order to meet that deficiency, properly is forced into the mar ket, and hence the present ruinous prices of cotton. Should thiiigt run to the worst, and the manage ment of our banks become a matter of judicial inves tigation, strange secrets will be developed. It will be found that banks and prosperity have a wonderful tendency to destroy commercial honor, and to pro duce a correspondent laxity of morals in the trading world. Our great evil is, that the state banks were suffered to exist a moment after the monster was killed. The specie circular is not talked of here, nor in deed auyol' the measures of the government. We live and exist but in a commercial atmosphere, and are only alive to the changes that may be produced in it ? not to the causes of those changes. Baltimore, April 19, 12 o'clock, M. ? Cheer ing Prospects. ? In addition to the gratifying evi dence which is apparent in the streets of our city, that a most active mercantile business is going on in ihe sale of merchandize foreign and domtstic, we have (he pleasure to stale that the ri cupts for travel on the Baltimore and Ohio Kail Road during the pre sent mouth have far exceeded the amount in :he same period for any fo trier year .? (Juz. New Orleans, April 13. ? The failure of Comly of Phiadelphia has carricd in iis train two large dealers litre. Yesterday an extensive importing hotiss went I by the board. The fact is, if the banks do not come nut and discount to meet the wants ot the trading I community that can give security, merchants, banks, compan es, and all must be involved m general ruin. Ab low as cotton is, men cannot get money to pur chase it, and hence it may be considered a mere drug in the maiket. l)?*alorsin eottonand tobacco seem to have forgotton there ;s any of their favorite staple hi tho city, so absorbed are they in looking to how they .shall meet their liabilities. '1 lie're must be no niggardly eo rse pursiu d by the banks, :i they would preserve the credit of New Orleans ? if they would pri vent gcnral bankruptcy. We have been walk ing on i ggs too loiii; in this city. It is t, me that some thing be done, and ihat too, promptly and ctlectually. Hill erlo the monopolists of cotton have only lelt tiie deiangvioent oi trade, because liiey were the first to produce it. But it nui?t rapidly extend to regular merchants and to the hottest and industrious mechanic, unless the banks come forward and grant facilities to the solvent. Already the manufacturing and domestic interests in the north begin to feel the weight of the catamit es in the foreign trade. How lony w.ll it be before our own hard-working citizens will beuin to yield to the pressure from without 1 .Not long, if the banks should pers.st in discounting only ten p? r cent, of their dnily income. Let them take a bold stand, mul they will savuthe community and them ? lvcs. It is new ascertained that Mr. Htddle has tricked New York into the measure of tin United States bends. He mak? s that city furnish the >pccte he m f'.nds to remit abroad, and has shaved her in the par i gain. The New Yorkers begin to feci incensed at the : affair. Banks are eoulless creatures, uiul like the j Massaroni, they attend to their own inter* *ts, let who may go to the wall. This is the nature of all cor|?o { rations. flour is dull at 67. Lard can be bought for 7cts. | Ordinary Whiskey will fcteh 31; i>?*t 3o. A small j lot of prune Sugar w*n disposed of at 6} cts. In molassi s a small sale at 32} cts. Coflee refus | ii| at 11 cts. ? no salt s. Corn ko< s nt 60c ts. Onts 15 cents. Rice is oilier e-J at 33 cents. Hay, is $23 a ton. Mr. Shelton, President of the Brandon mid Alibi ma Kail Road Company, in a letter to the'aditor w the Mississippi Free Trader, from \ lcksburg, under date thr 2d inst., asserta that the not? * of that institu tion wcru made payable only nt thr Merchants' Bank I .ml at the Josephs' house in New York, at the (?i* rnnl Bank in Philadelphia, and at home. 'Hie ar rangement vvom made in good faith, but the demand f'>r northern exchange forced theif bills to those points before tliey were enabled to transmit the regular funds. In sixty days every note will be paid. Bills presented at the counter of the bank are promptly redeemed. Thin information at once restored the pa per of this company to confidence. It is taken by ihe bank* at Vicksbttrg, on deposit and tn payment of { dues. The Mobile brnn?h of the Alabama State Bank has published a resolution, "that all persons under pro test and in suit for debts due that bank, shall have the liberty of renewing the same for undoubt<<] paper till I the 1st ol January next, on their paying 2B per cent ? 1 provided foreign exchange is not included in this pro posed arrangement ? and provided father that the re newal be made at any tune before the sitting of the next Circuit Court." Mr. Bennett states in his paper of the4tii, that Hunt, il*> gambler, has been acquitted nt New Or leans. This is a mistake. Randall Hunt is a lawyer of this city, and was counsel for a set of blacklegs and gamblers in a late trin^ befon the criminal court. By liia* extraordinary zeal in their favor, and the won derful display of eloquence in defence of these unprin cipled violators of law, he succeeded in getting thein acquitted. What ate we to think of the man who could put himself forward to screen the most direfal pests of society from the artn of tbe law. ? True American. A meeting of the Presidents of all the city Banks was held at tho t'mon Bank last evening, when the following preamble and resolutions were unanimous ly adopted, and will be submitted at an early hour this morning tor the approval of the several banks:? Whsreas, the present embarrassments in the mone tary ond commercial matters of our city require im mediate and effective measures of relief, and believ. ing that to restore mutual confidence among the banks, and throughout our community, will We found the first essential step towards the accomplishment of this relief, and beliering also that the actual bank ing condition of our institutes is wholesome, and that it m not the want of ability, but the apprehen sions and mistrust with regard to each other which unfortunately dcranire their oycrattons, and which at this time cause such general alarm throughout our community, and in order to correct this state of feet* i '"Si**5 ?* Resolved, That the banks here represented shall ?n tomorrow revive the regular daily exchange of bank notes with each other, and in future continue to return and charge in account on every day all note* held of tho respective banks, and in no instance whatever to pay fram the counter those of other banks. That an immediate settlement of accounts shall be made between all the b?nks e ther by checks on th e north or bills on Karate, or by specie or bills receiva ble, having no longer than forty daya to run, that are held under discount by the debtor bank ? no balance shall be peremptory demanded m specie before the first December next. That a prompt settlement upon these terms shall be made eneea week? and should any unwdhngneae be shown or difficulty interfere in such, it shall be left to the arrangement of a majority of the Presidents of the several banks, who agree to undertake the duty. That we further agree to begin at once tks increase of discounts in our several Banks, on each discount day, to ten per cent above the income on such day? until the increase shall amount to ten per cent of the present line of bills and notes discounted? excepting where the charter of any Bank will not allow of the enlargements of the discounts. That, in order to secure the continuance of confi dence, each Bank agrees to furnish through its Presi dent, a weekly statement of its condition and of the operations during the week in discounts and exchange ? such statements to be submitted to a meeting of the Presidents, to assemble every Sunday morning at 9 o'clock, at the Union Bank, to devise proper modes of action to the Banks, and more fully to know their re spective condition. G. Buhkb, Chairman. By the Kxpress Mail yesterday, we have New York date* to the 3rd. The accounts appear to be some what contradictory as to the state of the money mar ket in that city. The Nrw York American states that it was easier ? that negotiations were more prac ticable, and confidence increasing. But the Hvrald j docs not corrobate in full, this pleasing intelligence, j We are rather inclined to be sceptical, and suffer our : fears to get the better of our wishes. The measures j of relief that have been adopted, ure limited in their operations, and necessarily public confidence will be restored only gradually. There will still be failures, | and this should not alarm the public, as the very 1 houses which may be compelled to slop payment by i the derangement of credit, are competent to meet ail j their engagements. Courage and self-confidence are I virtues particularly essential at this moment. ? liee. New Obieans, April 13.- The accounts from the northern cities brought by yesterday's express repre sent the state of affairs as still very bad, notwith standing the measures adopted by the banks. These measures, it is believed by some of the papers, can only afford temporary relief, and will only put off to a later period difficulties and disasters which are cer tain to occur. The New York Herald proposes that a bank of fifty millions shall be immediately established by the legislature ef New York, to regulate the exchanges at home, and to take the place of individual credit in foreign exchanges. We doubt, however, whether a project of this kind would succeed. There would be much difficulty in the first place in selling the stock, even with the faith of the state pledged for its securi ty, and if sold we cannot perceive what advantage the institution would have over those already established. The very fact of the bank being a new one and un tried, would operate against it at home and probably abroad as an agent suited to the existing embarrass ments, and without the most entire confidence in its ability to accomplish all for which it was created, but little could be accomplished. We have banks enough now if the faith of the community in them will only remain unshaken, to extricate us gradually from the pressure which is at I present experienced. ? Bulletin. The Time*. ? We do not rcccollect a period in j which the commercial horizon of our country was so j threatening ? Bankruptcies, failures, and suspensions i of payments, like the mighty Mississippi, when she ! bursts her embankments, spreading ruin and dessola tion every where. It behoves our citizens to meet the pressure in a becoming manner. To be alarmed and quietly submit without an effort, wou'd be crimin al; while mutual forbearance and a spirit of accom modation and confidence, will restore business, and prevent the evils which a contrary course would in evitably brnig about. The depreciation in the price of our great staple, cotton, is chxfly owing to the want of confidence, which pervades the buainess men in this lountry and !? urope. A reaction for the better must take place; for come what may, men will dress as well this year as last, and the manufacturers, consequently, pro duct as much goods. Wo would, iherelore, impress on the minds of the planter, the merchant, the me chanic and in fine all classes, the imperious necessity of colid'.nce and union; that is all that is wanting. ? Courier. Kxtka Session of the State Legislature. ? The derangement of the currency, and the total prostra tioa ol f>u'?iic credit, call loudly lor some adequate means uf relief. Then' is no blinking tlie question of d: stress, and the concomitant evils, which shod their baneful influence aver the land, the result of over trading. a*;d the facility with winch money haw been obtained from our Banking Instimtio.'.s. All th? modes that have been prescribed to avert the darker which manaco commercial ofidit, arc but partial re medies, incapable of affording that permanent relief which thu malady demands. The crisis would jus tify tome legislative action, ami we know of nothing that would be better calculated to restore confidence, and provide for the emergency, than n convocation ot the State Legislature. Too enlightened and combined wisdom of that body would suggest some plan which would meet public wants, and restore the equilibrium of trade. We trust that our governor w ill act with prompitude, in responding to what we believe to be the general wishes of the community, and that at an early day our embarrasament* shall be submitted to iho representatives of t lie people, for tlv ir considera tion and advisement. ? Ibid. Mobile, April 14. Got *ip. ? There is a rich rumor in to wn for the jtjs sipers to feast upon. It Bennett, of the New York Herald, W< re here, how fat the fellow would grow. We roav yet work up an article after hisfasluon. The materials are lich and rare. ? Mercantile A<lc. |A private Utter tells us what this gossip is: ? An exchange broker, whose name we hnve, committed an act of affection on a poor, but of course a pretty Irish orphan girl, as all orphans are pretty, whilst her master and mistress were at the theatre. He was afterwards blockaded in his office, and his meals were daily sent to him, as the gentleman from Mont gomery, whose family the girl resided in, threatened to maim hi in the moment he caught hirn. It is said the broker is an agent tor a bonne in this city.] There is no business, wh ch may be called busi ness, transacted in maiket. There is a little trade to be seen going on here and there, but it is mournful even to lo<*k utxin that, as it leads to comparisons. Where mnc-tcntns of the merchants of a cit; , which until re cently flourisln-d and prosp< red, beyond all others of its population, have suspended payment, it isenough to despond the stoutest hearts. But there is one gleiim of consolation after all. We can scarcely *?<? worse tunes for money, and if we are fairly at the bottom of the wheel, it may turn, and we may go up. But our fnends abroad may rely upon it we have * tight" times here. Cotto*.? The article is almost too flat to be writ ten about. The oatrcme highest price now maybe set down at 13 cts. Wc report the sale of 79 bales to day. It was the first quality cotton in market, and brought 11 a 12) cts. Yesterday, wc reported the ssleof 360 bales at 5 a 10|. There is no inquiry, no interest scarcely s:nce tbn receipt of the last newsfrom Liverpool. There is considerable Cotton now on hand, and which had better remain here for sometime to come, rather than it should be sold for tha highest prices now given. The amount is in the following paragraph : There have been received, since our last, 4207 balea ? exported in the same time, 9833 ? and there now re mains on hand, 0l,9fV7 bales.? Ibid. Impobtawt to Mechanics.? Most of the builders in this city have declined contracta? and those build ings under way, are to be covered up till better times want ef money is the csuse. Thousands of carpenters, masons, laborers, stone cutters, and plasterers, must necessarily be thrown out of employ. It ta with pleasure we are able to state there is abundance of employ for good mechanics in the in tenor of the oountry, and we earnestly recommend to those out of employ, to embrace the opportunity without delay. Auburn, Trenton, Stonington, New ark, are at present in want of mechanics. We shall be happy to announce othes plaees want ing men, as soon as we are informed of the earns, through the medium *f newspapera or otherwise. fir The grocers gsnerally are very costive in the reduction of prices. Now we advise them tkat there is no use in hanging back? they must come to rsaaon. Sugar, coffee, bread, every thing hae fallen more or lees by wholesale? eo must thsy by retail We shall give them a tow days' grace? bat only ? few. Mb. Jambs O. Bbnnbtt, Sir? Our venerable friend Butler of the Mercantile, in an article of some length, in his paper of the 13th, undertakes to refute the doc trine advanced by me, that to the partial repeal of the Tariff, connected with the want of a National Bank, are to be attributed onr preaent disastrous state of Commercial affairs. Towards the close of his article he calls apon me to discard my erroneous views, based, as he says, on ex Sloded hypotheses as to exports.and imports;? and e advises me to draw my conclusions from experi ence, and not from books. All this is very well. 1 seriously recommend Mr. Butler to read, it not what 1 have written, what he has written himself. He admits almost as much as I could desire, the position I assume; and for the re mainder, he wanders round and round in that sort of tangible darkness in which so many ?f our statesmen, Bank directors and Merchants are wandering. He admits that " the excessive importations of last year n semble those at the close of the (last) war, when British manufactured goods came upon the country like as a flood, and wire such a drug in the market that they were shipped back for the benefit of return duties." What are the facts of the two cases ? By an act of Congress the high or double duties on imported mer chandize were to cease at one year afterwards (by a I plundering act of Congress) made two years, from the date of the treaty of peace; and, under this repeal i of half the duty, the country was flooded with foreign [ merchandize; every branch of home industry.paraly zed ; the Banks drained of specie ; and no effectual relief aflbniel, even by a United States Bank, until the extra Tariff of 1824. As to the shipping back of merchandize for the be nefit of return duty, that was only done in the ease of some goods imparted in the expectation that the dou ble duiies would cease at the end of one year ; they were shipped to be ro-imported after the double duties had ceased, under the second act of Congress, at the end of two years. Oar excessive importations now, are also a conse quenceof a diminution of duties ander the "compro mise act," and the Indemnity Treaties, and the pres ent shipments by the ship Republic, to which our friend of the Mercantile alludes, are made with a view to reimport, in 1838, when a further reduction of duty takes place under the compromise act. But, in the moat direct, and plainest terms Mi. But ler admits all that I contend for; ? he says, "we agree with the position that a diminished tariff", resulting in part from the compromise act, &c., has led to exces sive importation." The two longest paragraphs in the Mercantile are of that kind of stuff which is pre-eminently calculated to shed additional darkness over midnight. The fir*i intending to show that our cotton, tobacco and rice, cost freight, commission, insurance &c. &c. to get them to forugn .iiarkets, and when there, they sell for a profit additional, and that these costs and profits are so much addtfd to custom house val nation. This may be all very true at times, but this yeur, I am apt to think, tho shippers of cotton, rice and tobacco would gladly compromise for custom house pricea. But the paragraph intended to shew how we must make up the value of our imports, ? that 1 must request you to r -publish a part of. It is one of those mysti fications by which men first bewilder themselves, and then attempt to bewilder thrr readers. It is thus, printed upside down, for in that form it will claim mast attention, and West represent the standard of in tellect that can comprehend it: ((\ioauj iiio at oq oj UA\ot|s aq ijim BOUBfBq oi|l pUB 'tiuodxa ino no a^iBiuao jod juiu* ,;qj puo Swu -np pua sjjodun jo luiiouiu aqi uo 'iuao jod ijuo si iijuip 'luatnn&JB jo o>|Bs atjj joj 'dunuec 'jdA9*oq '|I!M *)U9d J)d Xjjij puu iuoj oj junouiu ojudoaSJlB aqj ui A[qaqOJd ||!M uotifM 'ia|iB(ai pus toqqof 'jaiiod -uii )t|i ptnd Biyoudjo iimoiuu aqi aju|tio|ua o; OAuq ? OA 'qoiq.w jo junoinu .>i?SuSiic jqi uo ? ju.HUUJJAOfj jo uoddns aqj joj piad so|jnp jo juiiomu aip 'jsoa [u -uiHuo oi ppa oj OAOq no \ -guodiui oj kit utvSy n Can you tell, sir, why we are to add forty or fifty per cent, to the original coat, or invoice price of our imports, in order to know how much we owe abroad I I was content to take net co?t or invoice prices, and thought that large enough. What has the duties paid at custom house, or the profits made by | merchants and pedlars here, to do with the first cost of those goods abroad I Nothing. Absolutely noth ing. Again,? Although our imports for three or four years pant have exceeded our exports by thirty or forty millions a year, we are gravely fold, that it wc | will add just 33J per cent to each of the sums, it will j so change their relative amountsi ?>s to make the ex ports tho largest ! ! ! Mr. Bennett, wfcen such stuff as ibis is admitted into so old and respectable a |?api r as the Mercantile, and that, under the inspection of so good, worthy i and amiable a citizen as Mr. Butler, I am no longt r aiton;sh? d that our systems ?f finance, and hanking, I and commerce, have fallen into such wild disorder, | and are spreading so far and wide, such dire calam ity.? I am frequently asked if it will not he better time* in ?? or 9 or 12 montlia, ? what is to make 11 so ? All our ho rap manufacturers are now fulling like nras< bo fore the mower's scythe. Next yeartwenty percent, more of the duties, ?n imported goods, is to be taken ofl'; in 1S40, twenty per cent more, ami in 1342 all duties are to he reduced to a mere twenty per cent. ? Those that fall now, will not rise under these reduc tions of duties, ?and no new men will einhark in ma nufacturing. To save our country, we must, revise oarTaril, so as to lessen our imports; ? and establish a National Bank . Am Out Km ham. .V. J. April, 1HS7. The Camemia ? ' Tea Plant. A correspondent, whose letter wc published yesterday, assures us we are in error 111 classing the tea plant and camellia as one and the same ; and says " a faint investigation in any recent botanical woik will oonvince you th<' tea plant is Jcfinod thus: ? Then vindus ? Then ho hea." In what " recent botanical work " our correspon dent obtained Ins information we know not, and should like to ho informed ; it is, however, strangely ly erroneous. The Camellia and tea plant are one and the same ; but as assertion joes for nothing un less substantiated by testimony, we sutuuit the fol lowing authorities in proof of our proposition. ? Dr. Abel, a very learned man and diligent botanist, who in.Klea voyage to China on purpose to inspect its tea dist nets, makes no hesitation in classing the tea plant among the tribe of Camellia. Hibbcrt and Buiat, pract.cal as well as theoretical botanists, in th*ir " Flower Oardea Directory," Philadelphia edition, 1834, page 69, declare them to be incontestibljr one and the some species. John Lindly, professor of botany in the university of London, in his work, "Introduction to the Natural System of Botany," edition 1831, page 42, substan tiates the same opinion. The great French botanist Mirbel is also with as on this subject. We could greatly extend our quotations, but con sider those given amply sufficient to decide the question. Our correspondent seems to have mistaken the ge neric term Theacrm for the names of the plants them selves. Thea viridit and Then btthea are barbar isms similar to Hymn skin, snd other commercial jtrgon. TaiAi roa Mmnv awo aTTSurr at MeanEs.? On Thursday, the 13th inst., in the U. 8. Circuit Court, at Baltimore, Lewis Willctt, manner, was tried for wounding with an axe William Glass, first mate of the Lafayette, as also David C. Landis, Copt, of the aame ship. It sppears that on the 8th of No vember the prisoner, for some trivial offence, was or dered to be setwd up for punishment, in resisting the execution of which order by the mate, the assault took place. He also attacked the captain with the nxe, and wounded him with a knife He was finally overpowered and placed in irons. After a long ex amination of witnesses, he was found guilty on both indictments, and sentenced to three years imprison ment in the penitentiary for each. Thb Fox with his tail cut orr in Coitn cil.? The editor of the Courier & Enquirer calls upon the merchants to refuse paying their bonds to government ?that is, to do as he did in his stock contracts, wad dle away with the cash in pocket. Bah ! Messrs. Sill & Aabon. ? In another column will be found a number of affidavits from these gentlemen and others, setting the affair of imposition as assert ed by Mr. Adolphus to have been practised by them on him in a different light. Audi alteram partem. ? hear both sides ? is an old and just maxim, and which should be strictly followed on this occasion. How to be Economical.? Eat meat in small quan tities. Touch no butter? it is unnecessary. Burn a single light. Sell yo?r horses. Use as little flour as possible. Take care of the fragments. Advice the Lad'es ijc hard times. ? Wear neat, clean, plain cambrics. Abandon high priced silks. Use neat kerchiefs, with no expensive em broideries. Advice to Young Men. ? Wear your old coat a week longer, and your old hat a month. Old hats feel best ? se do old boots. Mountains in New Yohk. ? The Cattskill niiDi>n tain is 3S04 f?et above the level of the sea. White * Face, in Essex county, 4865 ? a pretty long face, wt* should say. The scenery of White Face is sublime. New York Nullification. ? Importing merchants refusing to pay their bonds to government. Hydrophobia. ? Look after dogs. 3dr Some of the Philadelphia papers are very wrathy because three of their citizens have been sent by government to Russia, with $30,000 each for the jo!>. We have a hundred here that will go there, or even to old Nick, for half the price, and thankful. Cr Dont you take a newspaper? No, never. Oh! I cant talk with you then. You know nothing. An old woman in a new petticoat ? T!ie New York Gazette. O* All the fashionable Americana in Europe are returning home to look after their assets. If they don't, they will be saved the trouble before a halfyear shall have elapsed. *3rA full history of Mrs. Cox and Mrs. McManus's affairs in a day or two. Rich and racy. %~V Finn is punning in Cincinnati. Jj* Power has quarrelled with the players m Rich mond, and broke his collar bone in Baltimore. Both unfortunate events. J~jf The Journal and Star say that no respectable lawyers will bring suits against debtors in the pn sent crisis. The thing is ppposterous. Because specula tors and overtradcrs have been whelmed in their own folly, is that a reason to stop the order of society, or let lawyers starve ? Zoolocicai. Institute. ? This delightful exhibition will positively close tomorrow, preparatory to their departure frein the city and the inhabitants of New York be deprived for a season of one of their pleosant esi sources of amusement. Mr. Van Amburghvill exhibit for the last time, his astonishing command over the wild denizens of tho forent. Mr Van Am burgh's talents as nn actor have been seen and ac knowledged by thousand?; but the performance is perhaps more striking, when divested of all the ac companiments of stage effect and viewed as an oc currence of sober reality. Those who neglect avail ing themselves of this last opportunity will much re gret it. The Slave c**e. ? The Kee ?r<kr aini the lawyers seem disposed to moke this business list for ever. Much troubli hos already grown out of it, anu we fear there is more behind. Yeeterday, the examination of witoesf-i s was re sunied. TliomnsJ. Mai/.ick, deposed te having married a daughter of Dr. Allendar, arid to the fact of Ellis or Dixon, then culled Jsque, haviny driven a carriage at the wedding. This was in 1830, and 111 the summer following, Jaqiie absconded. Has no doubt that the prisoner is the slave referred to. Dr. Jain. - B. A lendar, a sou of Dr. Allendar, who claims the slave, testified that h< was well acqea;nt< d with the man Jiiquc, who wasa slave ot his lather's, having been raised together on tin- snme t.lanut.un. Has no doubt thut Kiln or Dixon is die same slave Janue. This witness further te?? lied that there was a pecu liar formation about the nance of Jaque, which he had often observed when swimming with h m, which would Nt the matter at rtM. (The Recorder has examined the prisoner touching this point, but his honor has not, us yet, made the re-* suit of Irs investigation known ) T. Pries testified, that he knew the slave Jo que;, that he worked in the tannery with him, and is ssro tiiat the man in eourt, called Kllis ur Dixon, is the same man. This was the principle evidence uflered today, after which, the Recerder eiijouraed the Court. At the conclusion of liiese proceedings, as the negro was being conducted to jnii, a serious tumult was raised by the colored mob collected in the I'ark. ? Cries of M Down wih the officera" ? "Down with the dealers in blood," were banded from one to the other. A rush was then made? the slave seized? and an attempt to carry htm off by force made. The o - fieers, however, succeeded in lodging their prisoner in Bridewell, though not wnh?ut considerable risk and difficulty. Police oflieer David Waldrsn wag seriously injured by one of the assailants. The blow, which was given with a brush used 111 whitewashing, severest hie ear '? two, causing a great etfuiuon of blood. No serious consequences are, however, likely to proceed from ifj Several other officers, also, were very roughly handled* The nejtro who committed the assault, has l>een ap prehended with some others, particulars ef which are given under sur bead of police. Police ? Negro ffot ? Abraham Griffith and Jame* Parn, were hronght up, on a charge of cresting a riot, assaulting the police officers, and endeavoring h? rescue s slave from their custody. Gr.ffiih was first and foremost in the flyht. He struek Mr. Waldron, one of the police officers, a dread ful blow on the side of Ins head, with a whitewash brash, which completely severed his esr, and which would, had it have been given a few incheis higher, ?** evitnbly have killed him. Mr. Wjlhain H. Wilder gave svidenceoi the negro's violence, who was Ailly commited for trial. James Parn, the other segr* apprehended, was also very conspicuous in the tumult. He made every ext ortion to encourage and induce the mob of negroes to violence. Officer Bowyer was attacked by him.and he wa? not secured until after a hard struggle. Parn was also fully committed fintrft MARRIED. Os Thuraday mormn*, JSlh w?t . at HI. OoorwTa Chapel. Be*lr m?H mirert Ceor?? H Ration, to Anna ?l?l**t dauchterofthc R? ?. Dr. Milnor. _ On Tirtrtif, ISth iast. , by t^? Rev Dr. Eiilhwn, Murray Hoff man. to Msry M . daughter of the lata Win. Or* jj. CHi W?iIu^*<4h> , isih mil . ky iho Dr. Crifcfca, Mr Mwari Wl<it?,u? Mi?? klis* Hh: rp, kwh afihi* '?ill Os Mo?>d.iy, ITlh in-l , by the vwr ?? J Df Pow.f . Arthur E? ?k?<>. to Mm Mary Twa, toithtar ef Bernard (tmhmm. Bw ? ail or thfe eitf. DIED. On Wnlneoday. ISth Kwl.sf a illneaa, Mis Msry A. nodwt, wifeofC. 8. Bynediet. In the Wd r. ar?fhera?. Tholrtend* of the Amdy.o* h?r l.ro h?r d D. HkiMen, and ff W. N 9'ymo*r.are related to attend h*f fWril thfe afWim? at 4 o clo k, from h#r late rMiglenco, 31 Emi Rroadway. On Tartday, ISth inat . of a ? I tort illno*s. Rliraboth Ha?wa'f, umI ST y<Mtra. On Wedoe?dn y. IMh ia?L, Mrs Krheoan Baton. w?<owo < CapC Mwm Hie.'- K?too. end <!au*litrr of Samuel Kofora, of Sheridan, Cliautnuqne c<? .NY. ? 1 i try RAOR A CO H FASHJONARt.R HATS, IM Broadway, are the lulHeet, the rooat durable. the hmm! fnaltifinaW? and 'hj S?at If ruu don't t*?li?v? II, (<i and kv*k at tham TVr ar? aft (hangs. _s wmF try Why wSk tka t?mpersnc? maolinf aHjontned on Mondar rvfntnr laa( at Rom Hill i Im?un the atoakor, Mr. 8.. was MS sssearad. tSI-M*J