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South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1837-05-20
Important from the Coast Of Merieo.

Important from the Coast Of .Merieo.
We have slips from New Orleans Of
May 5. The schr. Climax, Combs
from Pensacola whence she sailed on
25th March, arrived at New Orleans on
the 9TH. She reports that she arrived
off the Bar of the Brassos st. Jago, on
the 9Th April, was boarded by Next
can Pilot, and informed that she must
remain at anchor until further orders
from the shore without attempting to
land any person on board, promising at
the same time that he would take her
over the Barton the day following. She
remained until the 10th, when boat
from the Mexican armed schr. Bravo
came off to ascertain if any wAite lead
was on board, but being answered in
the negative, the boat returned to shore.
On the 18th, message was sent on
shore by the U. S. sloop of war Nat
chez, demanding the release of the A.
merican schr. Champion, and if refus-
ed, the Mexican armed brig, formerly
the Farmer, then at anchor offthe bar,
should pay the forfeit, but the Com
mandant of the Port returned answer
that the Champion could not be releas-
ed, ordered the officers of the boat on
board with message to the comman-
der of the sloop of warto get under way
and leave the coast Immediately.
The Natchez remained at anchor
until the 10Th, when she despatched a
note to the Mexican brig ofwar, order
ing her colours to be hauled down,
which was positively refused to be
complied with unless fred into. The
U. S. sloop of war Immediately fired
shot over the brig, when she struck her
colors and was taken possession of by
the Natchez. The Mexican fort and
the armed schr. Bravo Immediately o.
pened heavy cannonading upon the
Climax and the sloop Of war, which was
continued for some time without how. I
ever, doing any injury, except by ens
l3lbs. shot, which struck the c., pass
ed through her deck into the larboard
bow, starting butt which caused her
to make water three feet per hour. She
then succeeded in making sail and
drawing piece of canvass over the
leak hole, hauled fand placed herself
under the protection Of the Natchez.
The U. S. sloop of war remained off
the Bar until the 18th ult., when her
commander made another demand for
the release of the schr. Champion, but
no answer being returned, the Mexican
brig was ordered to Pensacola with a
prize crew on board, got under way iii
company with the Climax and procee-
ded to the westward, leaving the A,
merican schrs. Leonidas, detainedl
Champion and Julias Cesar, capturedl
and three others, whose fates were un-
known. -
Foreign Papers in Boston. Pau.
pers admitted TO the House Of Indus
try from January TO April %, 1857
viz: Bostonians 52, other Americans
30, foreigners, and the children of tsr*
eigneFs, 1850; total, 2e4
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1837-05-20

A general suspension of the students in the
University Of Alabama, has taken place, says
the Tuscaloosa Flag of the Union, in eonse-
ouence of their characterization and unruly
conduct
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1837-05-20
Office of the Richmond Compiler, I
MAY u, 1897. J

RrcaMoNp.-The pressure bears heavily
upon us, and we have had failure or two OF
medium stamp, together with some small ones.
Some suspensions of payment have also taken
and there will not be more than two or three
that we know of who will be unable to liqui-
date every dollar of demands against them.
Our Banks are doing all they can in the way
of discounting, and every possible indulgence
is extended to those who are known to be en-
ergetic, enterprising merchants, yet from in
ability to make collections or dispose OF stoc'.
on hand cannot square off with them. All
that is necessary to pass the dangerous chan
mel, heavy laden as we are, with compare
tive ease, is to keep down panics; and for
our own sakes let every influential citizen do
all in his power to effect this The calm,re-
aecting part of the community may with ease
put gag upon the mouth Of every prying a
grarian and alarmist in the city, if they will
only try.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1837-05-20

The wheat crop, in many instances,
has somewhat improved in appearance
within the last fortnight. If the seas
on should be favorable, the yield will
be much better than was expected a
few weeks since.-Hqg'erstotvn, Iad')
Torch Light.
m- we understand that the appearance OF
the growing Wheat has somewhat improved
in this section during the last Z or days.
LED INT.
0g~ Our exchange papers inform us that
the late severe frosts have done great injury
10 the peach orchards of New Jersey. To
such All extent is the peach cultivated in that
State that the Trenton Gazette estimates the
damages at "many hundred thousand dollars. :"
Pork was selling at New Orleans on the
18th ult. at five cents per pound, and good
sweat unsmoked hams for six and quarter
cents.
A prisoner by the name Of WILLIAM KANE
broke out of the Jail of Frederick county, on
Sunday night last. and has not yet been re-
taken.
AWFUL EvENr.--A Pennsylvania paper
says Mr.. John Mcclure, of Knox county Pa,
went into his cellar and shot himself while
his wife was lying dead in the house. He
has left nine children.
1t is stated the Hebrews in the city OF New
Orleans are making preparations. to erect
tabernacle for their religious congregation.
A St. Louis paper says that the anthracite
coal found lately in Missouri looks like coal,
feels like coal, and smells like coal; all the
difference is, that coal burns. but that will
not.
EXTRAORDINARY ewes belonging
TO Mr.. Ebenezer Cuttings, highly respec-
table farmer of Duanesburgh, N, Y, produ-
ced, the present season, SEVEN Handsome
time four and the other three-aA alive and
kicking.
The Cincinnati Evening Post announces on
the authority Of city officer, that no less
than ten infant bodies have been found IN and
around Cincinnati within the last 8 months.
A special session ofthe Court of Appeals
will be held in Richmond, in June, to decide
the ease Of John Randolph's win.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1837-05-20

under existing lave, Nor can a Bank. not
radasrains its notes 10 specie, be- uaed as It's
repository. ssYeu will, therefore, collect all
your hostages in specie"
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1837-05-20

y,no1StA ELEcrloNs.-Fromt the Rich
mond Enquirer it appears that the Political
parties stand in Congress, as they were at the
last session, Is Admire Wings. The par
tise in The House of Delegates, as far rs we
can ascertain by the returns already received
will stand 81 Adm'r.-47 Whigs-and in the
Esaata 20 Admir-. IL Wings.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1837-05-20

in word, the ''DnAn PropIr,' y to a.
muse whom the terrible explosion has
been fabricated Let us yet hope
much more danger is to be feared from
the disrepute and alarm of this event,
than from the event itself, bad as it's.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1837-05-20

Rsy- The Government OF the U. s, has or
dersd that the collection Of all duty bonds to
the U. States DO postponed till next January.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1837-05-20
= WrNcnrsrEn, May is.

THE TIMES.-The week which has Just
passed must henceforth be known, among the
records of those gone by, as THE week OF ca
lamty-of distress That it shall find its par
allel in those to come, may God toretend
Not a ray of light scarcely beam OF hope,
has been permitted to reach US, OF in any de-
gree to penetrate the gloom which has sur
rounded us-which has been spread over the
face of our beloved country. We have no
heart to enter into details, to trace out causes,
or to anticipate results; suffice it, that one
continual scene of misfortune and ruin has
every where been spread out before us-that
calanlities which could neither be toreseen
nor avoided have fallen thickly upon our most
hourishing communities-that the rich have
become poor, and the poor poorer-and that,
as yet, the ''peltings of the pitiless storm"
have neither subsidized nor abated. In this
state of things our pen refuses to administer
consolation TO the suffering, or to tender hope
to the responding. True,we live in country.
of indomitable energies, of vast resources, of
untiring and unconquerable enterprise-a
country which has ever heretofore overcome
all its difficulties, and which, arguing from
the history OF past time, will coon again re-
store things to their proper channel; yet, at
the present moment, we are too much hum
BLEED, too much bowed down, to recognize the
show of promise. % but find ourselves, like the
mourners in ancient times, ''going about the
streets, refusing to be comforted. "--Virg.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1837-05-20

'fts- OaAron SH1NN, we understand, in
Ids contrasting the election with Mr. Flow
a, the candidate returned as elected to the
5,ssmbly from Harrison county.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1837-05-20
NORFOLK RANKS.

This Baltimore Chronicle says there was
transferable "RuN" on the Norfolk Banks on
',e first days of last week. 1t commenced on
tuesday, and, according to the Beacon,en
some persons drawing out from six hundred
thousand dollars, and others paying in
sorn sixteen to twenty thousand dollars. Such
saux would have saved all the banks in the
5untry. The feeling of distrust was spread
Ia. and at the last advices the run had as
Amed a more serious character.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1837-05-20

CO. It appears from the Baltimore Patriot
that PHILANpER B. Broad, the man convict
cd at the December term ofthe United States
District Court in Mobile, of aiding and abet-
ting the Indians in robbing the mail and kill
ing passengers in the Creek Nation last sum
mer, and sentenced to be hung therefor, but
was afterwards reprieved for sixty days by
President Jackson, has now been fully par
aoned and set at liberty, BY President Van
Burefi.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1837-05-20

commentary does this present upon
this GLORIOUS attempt to provide the
country with safe, upchanging hard
money currency
We learn by an arrival last evening
from Tampico that an insurrection a
the Federal party occurred at San Lua
Potosi, about the middle of April. Iha
insurgents attacked the conductas COM
ing from the mines to Tampico, but the
attendant guards making successful
resistance the cenductas retreated back
to the mines. 1t is further stated that
a revolution had also broken out IN thI
States of Zacatecas. The schooner
Creole which brought the intelligence.
has on board 1922, 600 in specie. fof
merchants in this city.
y-1tis stated that upwards Of four thou
sand looms have been stopped in that part OF
philadelphia called the Northern Liberties
and all tho poor women and children who os-
pended upon them tor support are dspnved 81
livelihood.
TETrHsstt BANKs.-The Pennsylyania
Sentinel SAYS, that letter from Washing
ton correspondent Of the 9th inst. states Mas
adyices had baen received at the Seat OF Go
verament Of the stoppage of two OF the depo-
site banks in Tennessee.
One ofthe heaviest cotton shippers, in Now
Orleans, THEODORE NICOLET. Esq.
merchant of great ominenee, shot himself Oh
the srd inst. He was instigated to the deed
by tho present commercial embarrassment
his business being seriously affected.
ms. According to the Natchez Herald tbs
brokers of that place are lending money at
SEVEN FER eaSr A MoarH. on good sndors'
ed paper.
There have toen in Mobile, during the pre-
sent pressure. upwards Of ONE HUNDRED
FAILURESl
From indications in the Tennessee papers.
wo should not be surprised to learn that the
banks in that State and the Southwest gener'
ally have, before this time, suspended specis
payments. Int.
A BETTER CURRENCY.-The follow.
ing is among the small bills that are now 10
circulation in the city of New York. What
commentary on the policy of the Govern
ment
THE sHAaHn WILL BE ENTITLED TO
Is
CENTS VALUE IN REFRESHMENTS
AT THE
AUCTION HOTEL,
Nos. l2s and 1875, Water street, Now York.
The ship of the line INDEpsNDENcs'
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1837-05-20

irs. The citizens Of Staunton, in memory
ia honor of that profound jurist and states
on, Chief-Justiee MARSHALL, have procure
i his portrait, end intend placing it in their
6w Courthouse.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1837-05-20
CENTS VALUE IN REFRESHMENTS
AT THE
AUCTION HOTEL,
Nos. 1928 and 1875, Water street, Now York.

The ship of the Line INDEpENDENcsi
it is said, cannot sail from Boston for
want of specie. Are not Pet Bank
notes current in St. Petersburg? If so,
Mr.. DALLAS can 60 on his mission.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1837-05-20

THOSE friends of the Administration who,
1 Senators or Representatives in Congress,
bed for the Deposite, or, as it is more com
snlv called, the Distribution Act, will be
sased to take notice that the Government
'seial designates that measure as "the pRox-
Arx cause of the present disorders in the
changes, and in some degree in the money
$rket." And this, the official adds, sis
ybwn to every man Of sense" How are
u, Messrs. RIvEs and TALLaApoR'-Balt.
striot.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1837-05-20

ng- We have given to-day all the intorma'
hon of any importance furnished by our ex-
change papers from our cities, in relation to the
currency, the suspension of specie payments
| by the Banks, and the general embarrassment
throughout the whole of the commercial in
terests ofthe country. The difficulties which
the large cities are passing through, are now
spreading beyond their limits, and reaching
the interior portions Of every state. They Will
be felt here--they will be felt every where
The Banks of Virginia may be able toredeem
their papsr, but if SO, they must draw heavily
upon their dealers. The people would do well
70 inform themselves of the TRUE CAUSE Of
jthis state OF things. The more intelligence
we possess, the more correct will be our bear
ling upon the political interests Of our eoun-
fry.
All the Banks in New York, Philadel-
aphia, Baltimore Except Cohen's) and the
in the District of Columbia, Except
'khe Bank of Metropolis and Bank of Wash
fngton, and the Farmers and Mechanics
Bank Of Georgetown,) have suspended specie
,ibayrnents. From the Baltimore Chronicle of
Monday, we learn, that the Banks at the fol-
lowing places have also adopted the same
Rneasure-at Annapolis, Frederick, HageTs-
I}own, Chambersburg, York, Carlisle, Harris
Burg, and Cumberland. In the State ofNew
Work, the suspension of specie payment has
been adopted by the Banks SO far as we have
SAeard without an exception.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1837-05-20
, went on Saturday.

-, went on Saturday. -
and to-day. So they
90. The alarm is great and confidence
almost entirely gone. There is no tell
ing who is safe, when houses that have
stood the storms of 30 years are oblig-
ed to succumb to the times"
Correspondence ofthe National Intelligencer.
PHILADELPHIA, Saturday, May Ii.
The immediate reasons which indu-
ced the Bank Of the United States to
suspend have been made known. 1t
is because of the suspension ofthe Go
ve,nment! The bank holds some large
claims upon the Treasury, and on pre-
senting them for payment, the Treasu-
nv of the United States refused, by its
agents, 10 pay its liabilities in specie !!
In consequence of this virtual bank
ruptcy and actual suspension OF the
Treasury, the United States Bank felt
itself obliged to suspend and thus pre-
vent its specie being withdrawn for OBJ
iects foreign to its institution.
Yesterday the following transaction
on the part of the Government officers
took plase in Philadelphia: Some mer-
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1837-05-20

The Communication of"N." will be at
a to in our next number.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1837-05-20

re following order 10 Posr-MAsTEas has
sissued by the head functionary of that
,ltment at Washington;
! otes Of the Banks which do not pay on
I'D, can neither be received, nor offered
4 fnents Of the Post Once Department,
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1837-05-20

TErnEssft BANKs.-The Pennsylyaaia
Sentinel says, that letter from Washing
ton correspondent Of the 9th inst. states Nhas
adyices had baen received at the Seat OF 60
vernment Of the stoppage of two Of the depo-
site banks in Tennessee.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1837-05-20

,y- Accounts say that the InfuenIa in En-
Ia is extinct.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1837-05-20

4 letterreceivedi in Washington city on Fri
Z week from TAMPA BAY, of date the 20th
April, says: "Above three hundred Semi
Us are now drawing rations at this post.
Ere is no doubt oftheI sincerity; but they
fso much scattered and frightened that time
b be granted them"
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1837-05-20

EorutArrox or TExAs.--The pop
ZION in Texas, as given by II. M.
Mt, in his correspondence with sec
F.y of state, is $4,000; of which, &c.
bare Anglo Americans, from the u.
tes; $500 native Mexicans, OF
fsish descent; 10000 Indians, and
No negroes. The additional terri
u claimed since the declaration of
tpendence, will increase the pop
,Bon to 65, Geo. Wheel. Gas.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1837-05-20

One ofthe heaviest cotton shippers, in Now
Orleans. THEODORE NICOLET. Esq.
merchant of great ominenee, shot himself Oh
the srd inst He was instigated to the deed
by tho present commercial endorsements
bis business being seriously affected.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1837-05-20

MALL BILLs.-Councils last evening pass
IN ordinance to issue bills to the amount
1130, 900, Of small denominations, such as
Vents, 30 cents, rs cents, 81, So, 81 and
Il This will furnish our citizens with the
Agful change for marketing, Sc. Again
lay, let no man take "shin plaster" is
\; by an individual. There is no necessi-
|gr individuals to issue their notes for the
II of change, and they should not be coun-
lAheed in doing it.-Phil. Gaz.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1837-05-20

There have boon in Mobile during the pre-
sent pressure. upwards of ONE HUNDRED
FAILURES
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1837-05-20

BETTER CURRENCY.-The follow.
ing is among the small bills that are now 10
circulation in the city of New York. What
commentary on the policy of the Govern
ment
rpx sEAaEn WILL BE ENTITLED TO
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1837-05-20

sz-Itis stated that upwards Of four thou
sand looms have been stopped in that part OF
Philadelphia called the Northern Liberties
and all tho poor women and children who de-
pended upon them ser support ara deprived 81
q Livelihood.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1837-05-20

DO. According to the Natchoz Herald tbs
brokers of that place are lending money at
SEVEN rBR eaSr a aoarH. on good endors'
ed paper.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1837-05-20

From indications in the Tennessee papers.
wo should not be surprised to learn that the
banks in that State and the Southwest gener'
ally have, before this time, suspended specie
payments. -Nat. Int.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1837-05-20

Foreign Paupevs IN Bostoa.-Pap.
pers admitted TO the House Of Indus,
try from January ] TO April %, 1857
viz: Bostonians 52, other Americans
I52, foreigners, and the children Of tars
eigneEs, 1850; total, G4.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1837-05-20
THURspAy. IL o'clock A. n

The Hagers-town Torch Light says
we have Just been shown letter
from a gentleman in Baltimore dated
Monday the 9Th inst, which says
"Last Saturday was an awful day here.
We had three large failures, and to-day
The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1837-08-29
THE DEATH BED.

How sad and lonely the couch where the ehia-
ciated form is stretched, uncheered by the dawn
ings of the eternal day Over the poor, unhap-
by, wasted clay, no starlight brightness, no cheruo
wings are lowering. In vain are the arms OF
friendship extended, and the bosom OF love open
ed. The rays of hope may CLEAN brief mo-
ment on the mind, but they are cold and cheer
less. No vivifying influence passes over the
Ceverish brain no holy gush of ecsatic JOY fills,
SUPPORTS and entrances the soul. Oh, it is hard
diving, when the consultations Of religion are
wanting when the past, the present, andthe ~ =
ture bring in the dreaful sentence, that all rs
lost; when no upfted arm makes strong the
inner man, while the outward man falls into ruins
But oh how soft the bed of death what easy,
pleasant dying, when the comfortable assurances
Of Gods word are brought home to the stricken
one, in languag that cannot be misunderstood.
When the soul, feeling after the promises, cling
ing to the Rock of Ages and rising up in tho
strength OF the Lord of Hosts, grapples with the
monster on ground consecrated hy the Son Q!
God, and prevails, and triumphs! Its then that
man looks upon the fallen pillars in which he
had once glored, with smile, and beholds, I'M
moved, the sublime tabernacle s. while, new
fedged, he breaks his bonds, and flies away to
dip his pnions in the font of uncreated light.
.Natchez Herald.
The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1837-08-29
N Office.

HNHOSE indebted to the subscriber, or to the late
Il firm of Bracket T. Bacon, are informed that
he will be at the Store of John Bacon at Passumn
sic Village on Tuesday and Friday of each week
until the first day of October for the purpose of
closing his business.
The time has arrived when said demands should
be PAD, and farther extension than the above time
must not be expected for necessity compels him to
say that it cannot be granted
Those that do not avail themselves of this Cd.
Portunity to make payment may find their de-
mands in possession of Charles Davis. ESQ If
Danvile. s. G. BRACK ETlr "
Waterford, Lower Village, Aug. 1, 1887. l-tf