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Mobile daily commercial register and patriot., 1841-08-20

THE FEvER.-The Board of Health (says the Picayune of Wednesday,) announces an increase of the acclimating fever since their last report, which was made up to l2 o'clock of Saturday last. The deaths reported of this disease amount toeght. The Board state that sufficient information has been derived from their inquiries and obser in pub lie and private practice, justify serious aPprehen- sions in regard to the future.
 The Bulletin of yesterday says that there were R deaths in the last four days, from of Saturday to the same hour Wednesday This is an ncreaf of about 25 per cent. last week. The d-atls from yellow fever. are ten This disease though not yet considered epidemic, nevertheless appears o be steadily on the increase.
 The Board of Health intends hereafter to retort daily.
Mobile daily commercial register and patriot., 1841-08-20


 lle whigs are accustomed to look on this bank as tlif very perfection of the system. Are the people "dling lo re-adopt such system by which they re- cene not dollar but furnish loth rhe means To se cwe to ia,urites monopoly of ns means, and the wealth and magni6cence of princesl
 II is caulnny 10 assert that the farmer will profit by such institution, that the mechanic and pro- trssonal man, or the legitimate merchant will be benefited in their business by it. Thy want to be secured in the fruits of their industry, and let alone IL IS the adyentlrer who needs bank-the relatives and dependents of bankers-such men as Messrs. Riddle & Co, who borrow money al 5 per cent. and loan it out at 10, l5 and 20 per cent to those whom bank revulsons and bank mismanasement have re. duced 10 the verge of insolvency.
Mobile daily commercial register and patriot., 1841-08-20
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Progyess of hsf."-Since our last the House of Representatives have passed an act to cons,ln- mate the relief of the people by taxing them 20 per cent on all the tea, coffee, sugar, salt, and various other articles which they purchase for their families.
 It IS an act to make five pounds of tea cost as much as six now cost.
 It is an act to make five pounds of coffee cost as much as six now cost
 In effect, it takes for the use of the Government every sixth pound of tea and coffee the farmer and mechanic buys
 How would the farmer or mechanic like to meet at the store door as he out a tax-gatherer who should take from him one sixth of all he had bought for his family, telling him it was necessary to enable the whigs te accomplish the '.rotrenchuent and re- form" they promised before the election
 This bll does worse than that It makes the merchants pay the duty in the first instance. To him the duty is part of the cost and he must have profit upon that well as upon the amount originally paid. Suppose the merchant's profit to be 20 per cent then, every dollar the farmer pays under this bill to his Government, he pays also 20 cents to the merchants.
 While it makes the farmer, the mechanic, and all others pay 20per more than the fair cost on all they buy, it permits the rich manufacturers to bring in the articles they use in their manufactores free of duty And while it permits the railroad compa- nies to bring in their iron free of duy it makes the farmer pay heavy tax every plough share, hoe, scythe, axe, horse shoe, and nail that fastens it on
 We shall trace the effects of this bill in it's various notifications, until our honest readers shall see Whg thief in every cup of and coffee they drink, and lurking around every bit of iron they use about their houses, their shops and their farms.
Mobile daily commercial register and patriot., 1841-08-20

quotations. Kentucky baggiug 26 3jc, and rope ls l3c each and time Iadi4 25 2sc cash and time northern rort l2c per b. quality. seek quite ample.
 BAcoS Tie srtek on hand continue, hea'y, prizes re- bofote quoted with ltle drmand We quote for csnvass'd hams 74 eci uucanYassed Sc sides 5ts shoulders 3t 4c perlb.
 CoFFEE.- Sales continue to be very light, only few bags being taken time supply tteir stocks prices ranging nom 2 l9i per b. The hudes of the princi- pal stock hand have advanced er asking prices Lul sales are making the prcs is entirely nominal
 FLouR.-Western flour continues mnintaln the high price noticed last week The New Orleans arket hi h. sles have besa made s5 50 per bbl for Perhns. The price in market has been advanced To s6 50 per bbl for best superfne The stock of flour issmall, but eqaal to the immediate demand.
 GRAN.-The demand for shelled has much pro- ed and price advanced Sc per bushs upon quotation of last week. Oats and will command from 55 to 6Oc corn 70 75c per bushe In New Orleans the rates for 4s Ste aud 42 45c for oats.
 HAYWe hear 1f no sales except by reail, and bul lt tie demand-price Sl 50 per 100 lhs from stores.
 LrME.-Ths article is very dull Wehear of small sales at @ per cask. Stock on hand quite large.
 MoLALsEs-Tbe demand i, very limited, small lots old for retailing 25 27c per gall according quality
 We hear of nothing doing in slgar-the nominal price is from 10 sc per b. The stock of prime sugar very 1 light.
 SALr.-Nothng done by wholesae-at retail lhe price has advanced to sl 75 per sack
 WHIsKEY-This article is very dull al % 2lc per gall | price nominal. Stork OH hand quite large
Mobile daily commercial register and patriot., 1841-08-20
We copy some of Mr. Appleton's remarks an ,he

We copy some of MT. Appleton's remarks on the subject of Domestic Exchange.
 Another argument must dwell on in favor of
 large national bank, Is its necessity equalize the exchanges. There is not much in this There ia difficulty with the exchanges where the banks nav specie. There lies the whole difficulty. Let that be reformed, and there will be no complaint on thai score. The exchanges soon regulate themselves where the currency is uniform, is the legal cur rency of the United States. large bank, with many branches, can manage the exchanges with more profit to itseJ, perhaps, than a local bank can do. The late United States Bank took care to charge the highest rates for exchange which the alternative of transporting specie would admit For several wears the exchange at New Orleans on northern bills was kept so high, that considerable shipments of specie were made from Boston and New York for the pur- chase of cotton. The change in our laws, which has made gold the basis of our currency, will have most salutary effect in lessening the rates of exchange whenever the banks resume their proper functions. The effect is already quite apparent on the exchanges between Boston and New York. Gold is constantly transported from city to another before the ex- change can rise to quarter of cent, which is consequently the maximum. When the hanks paid silver. transportatons would hardly he attempted with exchange below one per cent.
 MT. Appleton's position, as President of the Uni ted States Bank, must have afforded him the best opportunity for ascertaining what effect the opera tions of that institution had the regulation of ex- changes It may not be amiss to add, that he was member of Congress from Boston m the year 1892. and such voted for the recharter of the United States Bank. He cannot, therefore, be regarded as under the influence of prejudice against that si- milar insttution. of Banking.
Mobile daily commercial register and patriot., 1841-08-20

SPEAKERsHiP OF THE ALABAMA HoUsK or REPRBsEErATIvEs.-It has been customary for the press to indicate the feelings and wishes of the people around it, in relation the proper person occupy the responsible and distinguished position of Speaker of the House of Representatives. We have not yet the name of any gentleman mentioned in the democratic papers of this State in connection with this office. At uhe suggestion of what appears to be the general feeling of our party here, induced now to do, what we have had in our mind since the electon-that is. to propose the name of our fellow citizen, JOHN B. HoGAE, as a gentle man in all respects suited to the position-as well sa account of his known private worth, for his pe cyliar position s relation the democratic party.
 Col Hogan possesses the quick and ready talent and the legislative experience to qualify hlm for the sta
 lion. Mobile, too, which has never had the honor of the Speskership, may have some claim to the com phment, after the contest, in which by firm and patriotic devotion to the cause, her democracy have once more raised the banner of disenthralment and victory, in county overwhelmed by whigs last year.
 It s proper to say that these suggestions are made without the concurrence or even the knowledge of Col Hogan. We do not wish fo be understood as press- ing his claims against the wishes of the democratic portion ofthe legislature. We only the privilege of the press of making the suggestion, to be disposed of by our political friends they fit. We should be pleased to see Col Hogan Speaker of the House, although equally we'll pleased at the election of any osher gentleman of the party, well qualified for its duties.
 What say our democratic brethren of lhe presss
Mobile daily commercial register and patriot., 1841-08-20

Whenever was there State or National Bank ere ated, which did not become the tool of clique r. Whenever dld husiness men who had no influence in
 securing votes enjoy equally with politicians the be nefts of such institutions? Whenever did mechan
 ,c, small trader solvent merchant receive dscouns or assistance from hem if of influence in cleo
 tions was to be accommodated?
 Every body recollects how some few years since a few individuals monopolized the use of nearly the entire capital of of the branches of our State institution-hsw politicians got so far in debt to them that the people he burdened with taxes to make up the capital sunk by this means. It was one of these brapches, presume (which Mr. Clay allu- ded soe other day ia the Senate, when he said that essssohs had appropriated to their own use eight hundred fbousand dollars more than it's whole cap
 But, says the whig reader, these are not National Bank That institution is conducted by of integrityits affairs are subject the inspec- ton and control of Congress. Did not the old Bank although subject to this control, carry on secretly system of irresponsible and operations, which have rendere it and its chief officer the very scorn of honest men, and an unanswerable argument against the union of Bank and Statel
 Prom recent speech of Mir. Benton we learn that in two years lS3l--2) the firm of Riddle & Co. re- ceived from that Bank loans amounting to more than twelve millions dollars, exclusive of discounts of two millions, at interest of from four to six per cent. During this period accommodaljoRs wsrs rs- peaiedly refused to some of the best business men of Philadelphia.
 Thus broker or relation of the President oftbe Bank could get loans to the amount of millions, and for years while. at the dozens and hundreds of citizens, applying for small sums. the aggregate of the whole of which was only fragment of single loan to the comorant, were refused The persons so refused were in all probability driven to borrow what they needed from the same Thomas Riddle & Co. at two or three per cent mouth; and then the public would be entertained with story that the money market Aas "agh.' and that " tightness" would be attributed to some act of the government.
Mobile daily commercial register and patriot., 1841-08-20

The New Orleans Bee publishes the following ac count of the explosion of the boilers of the steam. boat Swan. The destruction is not SO great as was reported in our last paper.
 The towboat Swan, Captain Limbert, while com . ing up the river on Monday evening, having in tow brig Hebsr and schooner Alexander Washington, when opposite Ylleres plantation, ifteen miles be- low the city, burst her starboard boilsr by which ac. cdent four persons were killed, and large number wounded. One boiler was thrown upwards, and the greater part of Ii lodged on the hurricane roof, and the outside boiler was forced the schooner along side and lost ip the river. The accident happened about half past four o'clock F. and Captain Linn bert immediately left the wreck and came qp to the city for assistance. The Swan and her tow were brought up yesterday morning by the Prairie, which had been despatched to their assistance.
 We subjoin the names of the sufferers as far as has been ascertained.
 Wm- Andrews, pilot, killed.
Mobile daily commercial register and patriot., 1841-08-20
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 IMPORTANT TO MEDICAL AUrHoRs-It is dis covered by the Mobile Conmon Council, and |" con cured in by the Mayor and Aldermen' that " it ia conducive to the health of the city that the wild weeds be pulled of the vacant and other lots It is be- lie,ed by the great fathers of medicine and chems- try, that wiid iung wseds and srubbey eoaducpe 10 heahh, and that the pulling them up conducive to disease suppose they will be into some pool hard by, aud by immersion, placed beyond the pow CT of doing further injury. If the Board of Health also in the views of these other Boards that vegetation is productive of malara and that it's de- cay will promote the health of the city, it is an m- portant discovery, of which Chapman, Dung linson, should be immediately informed, that they may burn their works and begin again. N
Mobile daily commercial register and patriot., 1841-08-20

WESTERN ELEcTIoNs.-To-day's mail brings returns rem the West which show strong reaction in the prominent places in favor of democracy.
 Mir. Henry Clay's own county, in Kentucky, has thrown of his yoke-Wickliffe beating c. M. Clay by sne hundred votes. In the same county, McCana and R. s. Todd (dem.) also elected. Col. John has carried his county by an unprece dented ma jorty.
 From Indiana we have the same kind of cheering For the House, in twenty-four counties, we have elected twenty two democratic members the whigs thirteen. All these returns not off, cia, but it is stated that they may be relied nearly correct.
 In Dearborne county, E. A. Brown (dem. is elect ed to the House by 600 majority. In Franklin coun- ty, which gave Gen. Harrison one hundred majority, the entire democratic ticket is elected by 200 mao rity.
 letter from Indianapolis states that have gain ed two State Senators.
Mobile daily commercial register and patriot., 1841-08-20

Meeting of Clsrks ia ~. Iork.-The Baltimore Patriot says'--A meeting was held by number of the Dry Gnods Clerks m New York, Monday evening last, prelilninar, To general The ob- ject ot this meeting 'to confer upon the exped- ency and plan o better regulating the houis Of atten- dance In those stores keeping in view not only the desired iicaton, bus the better interests of ther employers andt the oi public morals all of which sdtler under the present system of late hours, winch gre injurious alike to mInd and constitution. A more general meeting wall be hed on Monday eve ming next" The city of New York, il ls stated, numbers no less than four thousand clerks of dr, goods stores
Mobile daily commercial register and patriot., 1841-08-20

WHAT IS THE WORLD COMING TO 1.-The whole Georgia delegation, with one honorable ex- cep,ion, Mr. Aord) voted for the tariff bill winch lately passed the House of Representatives.
 One of these Representatives is the Whig candi- date for Governor of Georgia. We should like to know what Mir. Dawson thinks of the people of Georgia? Surely that they stultfed asses. It IS but few years since that Georgia was with diff culiy restrained from raising the standard of civil war by the side of South Carolina to put down "A RIFT. Mr. Wm. c. DAWSON was one of the most rampant nulifers of that day-he was ready to des- troy the Union, and sacrifice peace, life and proper ty to put down the hateful tariff. Now we find him voting for farf bill putting duty of 20 per cent every free article-and those articles include tea soassss, coffee, salt, sugar, aud otv c e while precious stOaes, gold aud siper epauetss ses eagra,ag statuary and other uxures left free of duty.
 Let this be remembered as one of the measures of " reiig'' of the Whig Congress. The bill did moi receive one Democratic vote-one hundred and six teen federalists voted for it.
 The following, from the Augusta Consttutonalst, shows the the tax laid on the people by the " relief' and " retrenchment" Whig congress at Washington.
 By statements from the Treasury Department, and laid before Congress by the committee of ways and means, the increase of by the new tariff is estimated about millions o dollars The arti- cle of tea, which is free of duty, will produce 0S3 5l7, and increase the value 5i cents per 10. The article of coffee, which is free will produce
 l 709 244, and increase the value nearly two cents. The article of blankets cost not exceeding seven tyfve cents, which used by the poor and negroes and which pay duty of per cent, will have to pay duty of 20 per cent. Wines, which produced during the year ending 30th September last accord ing to existing duties, $l96,O73. are estimated to produce, according to the tariff revenue of on- $14l 1885, while the articles of tea and coffee will produce a revenue of s2, ,792,74l.
Mobile daily commercial register and patriot., 1841-08-20
t.ober, Elliott, bar-kesper, killed.

Robert Elliott, bar-kesper, killed.
 Peter Ames, stPersman killed.
 fireman (colored) of Mobile, killed.
 Mason Altage, first engineer, slightly scalded. tieo. BlawLy, second engineer, dangerously scala ed
 Theodore Barney, passenger, slightly scal1ed, The steward (wh,tt) slightly scalded.
 The cook (whiGe) dangerously scalded.
 One fireman and one deck hand slightly scaled Captain Limbert was standing on the boiler deck at the time ot the explosion, were also Messrs. John hollane and John Perrin Louisiana pilots, and Capt Conkln, of the brig Heber. Their escape was truly miraculous, as the whole of the butler deck pilot house, 6c. IS demolished
Mobile daily commercial register and patriot., 1841-08-20
The steam ship MISSISSIPPI, now building at Philadelphia, is of the following dimensions:

The steam ship MISSISSIPPI, now building a, Philadelphia, is of the following dim .nsions:
 Length from the end of flying jb boom to
 end ofspanker boom, 329 feet. Height from water to up ofmain truck l92t
 Length on deck 229
 Breadth ofbeam 70
 Depth of hold 23t
 Tonnage ls00 tons.
 She will carry six Paxhan guns, all on the upper deck. Two will be of 10 inch bore and of inch, and will throw hollow shot. Her complement of men will, in all hands, amount to about POO and she will carry provisions for four months. She will make use of buminous coal, and carry 750 tons or enough for 20 days. Her engines have been manufactured by Messrs. Merrick & Towne, at thelr extensive iron foundry, in Southwark, Philadelphia, and to this description, they will appear the most extra says the Philadelphia Intellgencer, " who happen ed to be examining them while we were present. forcibly, and somewhat poetcaly, described them as iron earthquakes. At nasty glance, indeed, one would suppose them heavy enough to sink the ship, the principal frame work being so huge, and their general appearance immense, when compared wit the frame work of ordinary steamers. The cylin- ders look like iron wells, and are feeI inches in diameter, with foot stroke. She carries two en- zines, each of 25O horse power and 500 tons in weight. The boilers are of copper, of great thick ness, and are rvetted together by bolts, clamps and other similar contrivances. They look large enough .o hold small town meeting. Indeed, the iron york and all the machinery connected with the en- ,ipes is caculated to cause sbudder p the inexps- fenced, and as to the management of stupendous conirivance, especially when the idea rpshes to 'ne's mind efa possible explosion."
Mobile daily commercial register and patriot., 1841-08-20


 The remains of Mr. A. |. coan were yesterday brought up from Pascagoula, and attended by large concourse of military, fireman, and other citizens, were conveyed lo the burial ground on Government street.
 Mir Com was we'll known to our population as an industrious, public spirited citizen, who engaged warmly in all enterprises for the welfare of the clty and his loss will be keenly felt by large circle of friends and acquaintances.
 While the funeral moving up Government st. in solemn procession, and the mutied drums were beating the dead march, the alarm bell was rung The whole body of fremen immediately left the ranks, and clothed in all the ensgna of mourning, hurried To the spot win their engines.
 The fire was in the kitchen belonging 10 the dwell ling of the Rev Mr. Lewis, who is al present absent from the city. The building of wood and in a few minutes II, with the adjoining stables com pletey consumed.
 The time and circumstances attending this confa- I grafton, induce the belief that il vas designed by some of the evil disposed williams who lurk aboui the city. The kitchen unoccupied, and the fire originated in the second story. It was too, the most conbustibe section of the city, surrounded b, large wooden buildings, that exertions could save if once fairly lighted. Happily, the wind was low at the time, and the fremen were promptly on the spot to render their valuable assistance Otherwis, the destruction might have been incaculable.
Mobile daily commercial register and patriot., 1841-08-20

We are requested to state that patrol has been organized at Spring Hill; and all negroes found abroad after half past ten o'clock at aigh, unless with specific permits from their owners or agents, will be dealt with according to law.