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Mobile daily commercial register and patriot., 1841-11-04

The arrivals of Western produce lsrge but there material improvement either in the price de- mand.
 Exchange without alteration, and freghts were en- gagged to Liverpool for cotton at Ad Glasgow 9l6d.- Coaswise improved, quoted g per bale to New York; to Boston s25O.
 REVENUE LAws.-The Journal of this morning pub- fishes circular from the Treasury Department ang the dues chageable under the Revenue Act ed by the session. According to this document Bones, considered be included In the recent law under the classification of "ps of bone horn" Borax, composed of boracc acid and soda; Csmphor; Cologne Millstones Collars, of lace, millinery Dos and oth toys, except when the material Is wholly prnci- paly wood leaher cotton, &c; Lecches; Mohar coat ngs, pay od duty of twenty per
 Hubous roots to he exempt from duty Zinc also when manufactured in the form of plates or sheets.
 "Segsrs, formerly charged with specific duty of ss 50 thousand without reference to quality or cost, will pay, under the recent law, if the specific duty be less than twenty per the value, twenty per centum ad valOrem 1T the specific duty be twenty per centum the value, the specific duty of $2 50 per thousand is still to he levied"
 Palm leaf hats to pay s specific duty of twenty per centum.
 Ready made clothing hosiery and gloves. Of silk or a component part of that texure to pay ad valcrem du ty of twenty per cent.
 Ready made clothing, not silk, hhy per cent ad valo rem, less the reduction. Hosiery, not silk twenty per cent less the reduction Mitts silk, before Mii nery bindings, twenty five per cent less the reduc ton.
 The circular contains some directions guard against fraud, which only the officers charged with the collecting, &c ef the revenue.
Mobile daily commercial register and patriot., 1841-11-04

Pnnctaafin.-The London correspondent of a morning paper stated, some time since, that L. rd John Russell was marred ofthe second time to Lady Elliott.
 It was announced in advertisement that aP- peared in of the religious papers, that the Rev Mr. B. would deliver address the nature and extent of heathenism in the A. II. Church.
 A beggar London goes about with the following words writier piece of pasteboard "Please give your donations to poor old man small. They will be acceptable"
 An evening paper makes the following anHounce- ment. A little girl p,cked up in Canal street by watchman about three years old, who is not expected to live.
Mobile daily commercial register and patriot., 1841-11-04

on the ground floor of the building belonging to the Bank II is capacious, being 57 feet in length, and in all respects well adapted to the purpose. IL Will be well warmed, furnished and ghted-ihe entrance win be private, through the Commercial Register office, next door; and the object of the proprlct will be to make il useful and comfortable resort for visitors and reading of the city, and for the col respondents of business and other strangers who may be introduced by subscribers.
 A well ordered establishment of this kind can on ly be maintained by systematic enforcement of good rules and il will be the duty of the proprietor to es-
 blish certain fixed regulations tpr the protection ot the comfort and privileges of the visitors.
 The Reading Room will be opened on tle first of November.
 Besides the principal newspapers of the UnIon, the Room will be supplied with the best Commercial Periodicals, and few of the standard British and American Literary Magazines.
 Mobile Sept. 8. JOHN TORS Ill.
Mobile daily commercial register and patriot., 1841-11-04

4 Manufaetsying Cay-There are eleven corpo- ratons here with aggregate capital of l 900 ,0O0
 fifteen churches with settled ministers, also several literary associations of high character.
 The Lyceum, the Lowel Institute, the Mechanics Association the principal. The Mechanics As- sociation have large brick ediGce called the Me- chanics' Hail. It contains reading room, lecture room supplied with all the best periodicals of the day, also Librafy containing over 1000 vols., and min eral collection. There are 23 public schools. The buldnes for the Grammer Schools over 25, 900 each Last year this city raised $50 OOO for the purpose of her Schools--and about $l8,000 of 1t was expended for teachers and fuel.-Lowell (Mass) paper.
Mobile daily commercial register and patriot., 1841-11-04

MORE YILLAINY.--Sylyester Spencer, having charge of pension office attached 10 the Mechanics Bank of New York turns to be defaulter to the amount of $l ,OOO-nearly all of which is covered by his securities. The mode of this "defalcato4' (to use the ordinary now-a-days, for this kind of rascality,) was by drawing the names of per- sons not entitled to passions. He committed to prison, leaving a wife and eight children.
 "From Mr. Spencer's account, coroborated by other circumstance it would that much, if no, most of the money faudulently abstracedby him from the Mechanics Bank has gone into the Washington Bank of this city, and he holds their certificates for considerable part of the amount, which have been prot tested for non-payment ''-Com. Advertiser.
Mobile daily commercial register and patriot., 1841-11-04

Lssss Nstuyae.--The Richmond (va.) Compiler says the clerk of the circuit court, J. T. Mason, Esq, owns a negro boy, about fifteen years of age whose skin is as black ebony win the exception of the greater part of the right arm, the entire part of the right shoulder blade, and nearly all of his right side and back, which are as white aabaster! the spots on which have been increasing in size for years, and will, in all human probability, the whsle body before they cease their growth.
Mobile daily commercial register and patriot., 1841-11-04

CABINET CnANGEs.-The Journal of Commerce mentions the following rumors in regard to changes m the cabinet:-That Mir. Webster will ere long leave the cabinet, probably for some other post and that Judge Upshur will take the chair of state, and Mr. Cushing of Massachusetts, that ot the navy
Mobile daily commercial register and patriot., 1841-11-04

THkATRE.-It will be seen, by the advertise men of the manager this evening, that the Theatre opens on Saturday the 9th inst. In consequence of the nonarrival of the company, and the labor spent on altering and adornine the house. the opening is several days later than was intended.
Mobile daily commercial register and patriot., 1841-11-04

General Hamilton did not come in the steam ship Columbia. Il is now stated, on authority, we pre- sume of news brought by that vessel, that the Tex as loan is not yet negotiated, and, so many borrow being in the market, that the prospect of success is rather clouded.
Mobile daily commercial register and patriot., 1841-11-04
PAS ENG FRS

Per ship St Lawrence-Mr Gore and lady, Miss Gore. Jumey
 Per steamboat Caroline-Mr Chapman and lady, Mrs Duver, Miss Jones' Mrs Manley. Messrs Jones' Holland, Jones, Morton, Peyton, GOstenhoer BOoth Rice Bull.
 Per steamboat Norma-Capt Hagood. Messrs Field, Tilk, Mccullough Roberts. Rahbe, McRea, Kelly, Mm- row, Hawkins Backman, Diggs.
Mobile daily commercial register and patriot., 1841-11-04
MOBILE IMPORTS AND EXPORTS

IMPORTS NeO Oriedns-Steamboat N Norma: 400 ps bagging, 325 coils rope l3 casks bacon, 50 bb ou 28 do moasses 25 hxs rasins 25 drums figs. NeU OriednS-Steamboat Caroline cask Lacun 3Z pes baegng, IS bbs flour, 10 do pork do fu 6g bags coffee, 245 bxs raisns and mdse.
 EXPORTS. Nep York-Brig Sarah Brown: $50 bales cotton Hauand-Schr Belle: 2ll hales cotton. HGuana-Schr 8 .rah Brown: l46 bales cotton.
Mobile daily commercial register and patriot., 1841-11-04

The whigs still call John Davis honest John. We knew boy who cried hof in the streets from morning tell night. If any bought an ear, and pronounced it, as it really was cold a dead man g nose, the little rascal would reply 50 yes; know il, but the of it is hot corn. ."-Boston Post.
Mobile daily commercial register and patriot., 1841-11-04

ltappears that Mr. Jaudon has managed somehow to raise the wind to pay the interest the London debentures of the U. $. Bank. The New York Conn mercial says'-
 The fact of Mir. Jaudon' having paid this interest continues excite surprise here, where the complete bankruptcy of the U s. Bank is now known. The on- ly mode in which the money supposed to have been raised, was by the sale discount of the of the bank in this market, and that of Philadelphia. Of the morality of such mode of raising the wind, we suppose there cannot be much difference of opi. non that it is profitable is certain, since the noes sold at average perhaps of 20 per cent. dis count, can now be bought back at 45 per ct. discount a clean profit of 25 per cent.
Mobile daily commercial register and patriot., 1841-11-04

State of the Weapers.-The wretched condition of the in Sptafelds is represented in the Lon don Chronicle folows
 There are about 900 looms in Bethnal-green, Spitalfelds, Shoreditch, &c.,; about 5000 are quite out of work, and the II 900 work only three- fourhs of their time employed, which causes great distress and prlvation among those who are consid- cred the respectable portion of the district
 The average earnings, when at work, are about Is. Cd. each loom from t,is is to be deducted As. Sd. per month, or Is. lad. Der week, for expenses of turning in and twisting in, which leaves the misera- be starving income of 6s 44d. per week.
 There are about 800 souls in the Bethnalgreen poor houses and about 1900 receiving outdoor relief.
 Meat, tea, sugar, milk, butter, beer, Sc. are lux uries very seldom tasted by those who have work.
 There are hundreds without bed to lie on, having parted with it for food. Cases occurring every day, that weavers are parting with their looms and tools to obtain food for their starving f,miliesthose being the only things eh of any valuc that they can dispose of; and when they gone, they are quite destitute not bed to lie on-not chair to rest on, nor tools to work with. This is the heart breaking situation of many hundreds of the useful, industrious Spitafeld weavers.
 Pawnbrokers and furniture brokers are so stocked with goods that they have grea; difficulty to find room to put them in their warehouses.
 Three fourths of the shop keepers are insovent- rents cannot be got into distrain is of no use. All that could be sold is gone for food.
Mobile daily commercial register and patriot., 1841-11-04
VI ARlNE INTELLIGENCE
PORT OF E-Nov. 4.

CLEARED Brig Sarah Brown Norton, for New York, Ryan. schr Sarah Brown, Luher, for Havana, C Wesfeldi & Brother. schr Belle, Moore, for Havana II H Raymond.
 ARRIVED Ship Admittance, Smith, l4 ds i'm Boston, in ballast to master. Ship st Lawrence, Hagerdon, IA ds fin New York; to T B Church. Barque Bostonian, Gichrist, F ds from Boston II Rivers Schr Mary, Drummer, i'm Boston. Steamboat Norma, Bickerstaff. fin New Orleans. Steamboat Caroline, Sutton, from New Orleans.
Mobile daily commercial register and patriot., 1841-11-04

0o-At the suggestion of number of friends, the undersigned proposes to establish in this city on the first of November next, a COMMERCIAL and GEN ERAL READING RooM, should sufficient encourage ment to the project be given by the business men of the city. The want of place of general resort and reunion, for gentlemen engaged in commercial and professional business, has been fully supplied in Mobile-the post office corner or the bar-roons of the Hotels being the only place approaching to the character of business " Exchange" To supply this deficiency ina measure--to open convenient, comfortable and respectable place where merchants may introduce their foreign correspondents and
 friends when in the city, and where the citizens who fond of reading, may pass quies and profitable leisure hour two every day, will be tho object to be accomplished.
 TERMs-Ten dollars per annum, payable half yearly in advance.
 One subscription by business House, or Firm. to entle all the partners in the to the prvie- ges of the Room. The rule to apply to all the young men acting as clerks in one counting room.
 The room selected ar the purpose is on Conti st., next below the Merchants' and Planters Bank, and
Mobile daily commercial register and patriot., 1841-11-04

The Madisonian attributes the defeat of the wings in the elections to the intention which many oi the presses of that p,ry have expressed of supporting Henry Clay their candidate for the Presidency. IL says ''hs pretensions have been already passed pon and that he can never reach the goal of his anlbi- tinn. =
Mobile daily commercial register and patriot., 1841-11-04

divided into absractionixts and distructonists with sprnklng of pipelayers. The distractionsts refuse to support the abstractionsts, and the absiractonsts refuse to sustain the pipeayers Thus the house is divided against itself and cannot stand.
Mobile daily commercial register and patriot., 1841-11-04

Geruine Woman Hater.-"Pray sir, will you nev- CT marry" said fair girl to brown old bachelor. "Ahem! why-I don't know-yes, madam might get married, perhaps, if it possible get red to anything but uoman.-[Richmond Star.
Mobile daily commercial register and patriot., 1841-11-04

"Hesd him or die."-This was the resolution upon which Capt. Bolts and his party left Congress for the election fields. What is the result2 They have sshsaded" themselves, and if the elections are to he taken ia evidence, they are "dead. d."-Madisonian.
Mobile daily commercial register and patriot., 1841-11-04

The number of abolition voles boiled in the recent Pennsy ylyana election is 662. BuIney, the candl- date of this faction, lo the presidency received last year 3l3 votes.
Mobile daily commercial register and patriot., 1841-11-04

4 Delicate Compliment. .-Fontenee, being asked what difference there was between a clock and wo- man, instantly replied, "a clock serves to point out hours, and a woman makes us forget them."
Mobile daily commercial register and patriot., 1841-11-04
NEW THEATRE

NEW THEATRE.
 o[s NOTICE.-The Ladies and Gentlemen engaged u al the above Theatre for the ensuing re- quested to the stage al Il o'clock on Fri day, 5h Nov, preparatory to opening the Theatre on Saturday the 9th inst.
 nova ]. II. BARTON, Manager. n7sAn adjourned meeting of lhe Mobile School Com uF nssioners will be held on Wednesday, the 10th inst. at o'clock, M. st my office. punctual attendance of the Commissioners is requested.
 noy3 67f E. RUST, Sec'ry. n~Ts The Brig J. COHEN. Jr, from Philadelphia, uT will commence dischArgng on Monday morning lst Nov. Government st. wharf. Cnnsignees hre notified to attend to the receipt of their Goods
 nov GARDNER X SAGER. nS We requested to announce the name Of T. B. VF TUNSTALL, Esq, as \ candidate for the Clerk ship of the House Of Representatives, a the approaching session of the General Assembly. aug 70 n~@ PUBLIC BATHS.--The Commercial Bathing uS Rooms in EXchangest open every day from a. m 10 p. m. for Warm and Geld Bathing. On Sun days they Close at 10 o'clock Price reduced to 90 cents decl4 l35ti
Mobile daily commercial register and patriot., 1841-11-04
From the N. Y. Evening Post.

From the N. Y. Evening Post. Curing the Currency -The Old Merchant whu sends us the subl0ned article rpearks sensbly: The Exchanges and Cuuenoy.-lf merchants will condescend to understand the true principles of trade the hue and cry for United States Bank will cease It is not wanted either to correct the currency suate the exchanges. have long done busims ss here and at the south, aud know what say. Let the merchants themselves resume, and all the dfi- cuy yanishes. Let invoices for the south and west be made out the prices based specie, notes of specie paying banks. Let all bills be drawn as payable in specie or bills of specie paying banks all purchases of produce in specie or specie paying banks; and my life it, the whole currency Is at once corrected. It is the merchants, and not the banks, who are to resume. The moment men offer depreciated pay their bills and have to pay the discount, they will turn the banks, and compel them to redeem their notes. The law is open to the citizens, and every suspended bank cin be made to shut up by a creditors bill; but long the chants receive and pass their dshonored bills, no one is induced to fall back upon the banks. If merchants will receive and pay away the notes of suspended banks only a their specie price for twelve months, and there a bill of suspended banA in circulation, I will turn whg and vote for Henry Clay, and na- tiona bank to regulate the currency-absurd as it is regulate gold and siver except by the demand and supply in the market of the world. The merchants of Macon, Georgia have hit upon the true expedient and they will succeed.
 again repeat, that the merchants must resume, and the banks cant help it. That is the true regulator of the currency-never to receive or pay bank bills except at their specie value. Cotton has specie value it is sold for specie the European SO is rice and tobacco. Then buy and sell it at spe cie prices and the hanks finding their paper will not buy cotton, &c, at par, unless they resume, must do so, or be sued 10 insolvency The moment the banks sued, they must shut up. The Great United States Bank had to make an assignment the moment judgments were past. Now, sir, have told you all that is wanted to regulate the currency; and let me add. no solvent merchant will object to it,
 AN OLD DEMOCRAT.
 P. s. In Savannah, Georgia, where the banks suspe..ded, the whg ticket has succeeded. In Char leston South Carolina, where the banks pay specie there no whigs. Why?
Mobile daily commercial register and patriot., 1841-11-04

Singular Arithweficai Fact.-Munpy the figure g by any other single figure, and the two figures com posing the product, added together, will make g. Thus, 9 multiplied by makes S6, which two figures added together make g. and SO with all other figures
Mobile daily commercial register and patriot., 1841-11-04

Damages for twenty thousand dollars have beer awarded in Cincinnati, against the steam boat Pilot for running into and sinking another.
Mobile daily commercial register and patriot., 1841-11-04

ooh, Mamie, wilt thou gang wi me, |" as the fells said when he was trying to steal the goat.
Mobile daily commercial register and patriot., 1841-11-04

GeA Cadwalader died at Philadelphia the 26th alt. He was aged sixty-one
Mobile daily commercial register and patriot., 1841-11-04
HJ TO-DAY. CAPITAL PRIZE 10000 DOLLARS. Tickets only Three DoliarS. ALABAMA STATE LOTTERY.

-CLAss No. 133, FOR lS41- Authorised by the Legislature of the State, for the Benefit of the Wetunpl-, Lodge, No. 39. To be drawn at Mobile, THURSDAY, Nov. 1, l841, at 2 o'clock D. m. at the Mansion House Exchenge, Royal-street.
 s. DAVIS CO.,, Managers.
 90 Numbers-14 Drawn Ballots.
Mobile daily commercial register and patriot., 1841-11-04

THE MAcoN SPEcIFIC,' as it is called, which receiving bank notes at par value, is nothing more than the old had money currency! It is war on bank notes in disguise which the lOco-focos are pursuing with great pleasure. 1T to come to the Cuba and the Greek and Chinese systems of cur rency, may well understand that we have not gold and silver enough in the whole country act the business of New York alone; and that in de- stroying all the banks, at destroy the credit system under which we have prospered.-[Time & Star.
 Surely it is not making upon banks to require them to fulfil their engagements. Especially, after an indulgence of four years dishonor, (we of course speak of the suspended banks,) it can be no great hardship, if, like individuals, they compelled to toe the mark and either pay wind up. This is the way to regulate the currency and it will do it efec- tually, if permitted It will clear the refuse banks of the market, and give us sound currency all the country, equal to specie, because always convertible into specie at the option of the holder The bilterest enemy of banks could desire nothing better for his purpose than to have them go year after year, dealing rags redeemabe only in other rags. There is a great difference between the Chi nese Cuban system of currency q. e.) specie and rredeemable paper; and if we must have one or the other of them, prefer the former. But there is medium in this case, in most others: and we see it exempfed now, in this city and state and through out New England. better currency could scarcely be desire than that which have. It is not specie, but it is just as good specie, because convertible into specie dollar for dollar, at option. Having fdence in this fact, the holder doest not ordinarily wish to convert II; for the representative dollar is much more convenient than the real dollar, being less cumbrous and equally safe. We speak of sound, well conducted, specie paying banks. Sueh banks will always, we presume, be sustained by public timent, because they are, in reality. public benefit But your rickety, spavned, ring tailed banks, which pay nothing but rags, and to if they can avoid il, will be put down in spite of fate; and it is better to do it at once, before the odum winch they dsserue becomes attached to those which do not de- serve it. We must get rid of the rotten limbs, or the whole tree will fall in due time.
Mobile daily commercial register and patriot., 1841-11-04
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showing falling of of 4,s52 votes. There are six counties in which there contest. Allowing for these the average falling of of the whig vote and the poll will show that Harrlsons majority of ,S2s is more than doubly overcome. or such stuff are ,vhio yictnries madeq
Mobile daily commercial register and patriot., 1841-11-04

We have the full returns of the popular vote in New Jersey except in the counties where there was n palty contest. IL stands thus
Mobile daily commercial register and patriot., 1841-11-04
Nrw ORIFANs Noy 9

The yellow fever has almost entirely disappeared. The last official bulletin announces only two deaths It has also abated in ycksburg The Courier har some interesting statistics relative to the history of this epidemic. From these, it appears that with in twenty years that disease has prevailed ten years and the cholera two. The mortality of these ten years it estimates at ten thousand from yellow fe yer, and ten thousand from congestiye fever and cho lera, and thirty thousand five hundred from all other diseases during the twenty years, making an aggregate of ffy-seven thousand. The aggregate of the population between 1921 and 1881 it estimates at
 fifty ihousand for the latter years till A. at sev- enty-fve thousand. The present year has been the most fatal of the twenty. Nearly the entire amount of this fatality from yellow fever. it is stated is con- fined to strangers, who principally young men of the ages of eighteen to twenty five.
 Monday observed by the Catholic population as All Saints Day. The Picayune give the follow ing notice of the touching and beautiful ceremonies observed on the occasion:
 ' Yesterday the time -honored ,hoy and wholesome custom of bedecking the graves of the dead with ever greens, ornaments and flowers observed in the Catholic Cemetery. Lamps that told of undyinR friendship burned around many a tomb; ornaments of spotess wheness, emblematic of the souls purity, bedecked many grave; and myriads of fresh pluck ed flowers sent up their odor to heaven, which com mingled as it went with the feIyent prayers ofriend- ship. The whole scene presented picture in which the hearts holiest feelings were portraed-a painting in which the coorngs of affection, piety and reyer- ence for things holy were beautifully blended.''
 Mir. N. F. Comfy (says the Picayune) has been ar rested on n bail writ at the instance of the Canal Bank of New Orleans, for sum exceeding $3O, 900.
 The Bee says Mir. Comfy voluntarily went into court, and gave bail of 000 for his appearance
Mobile daily commercial register and patriot., 1841-11-04

"There is town that dreams every night he's the Veto; waking up, he finds he's fiscal poration. Richmond Palladium.