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Mobile daily commercial register and patriot., 1841-08-23

HEALTH OF MoBILE.-Our absent citizens will be glad learn that the health of this city continues uninterruptedly good lndeed if we may judge from aPpe1rances-rom the happy absence of those sombre vehicles of the dead which are wont at this season of the year to grope along streets, with their gloomy trapplngs of velvet and plumes-f we may judge from the inlequency of the sight of Doctors gigs and the dolce Jar Hieats of their owners might believe that the town was never more free from disease in mid winter. Yellow fever cases there are none, and of congestiye, bilious and the other younger levers of the same family, but few. The weather has been highly favorable to health. We have had succession of refreshing showers for several weeks. Yesterday the clouds gathered their vapours for general out pouring, and more soaking rain we have not seen for many day The two three thousand people who were caught in it, at the Spring-hll camp meet ing, will testify to the decided dampness of the day. This morning, the earth had another purifying show erbath, and the present indications are, that there is plenty more where that came from.
 We "bid fair" to have a very healthy summer But this climate is like Mr. Tyler's yeto-pry un- certain.
Mobile daily commercial register and patriot., 1841-08-23

At called meeting of the Phenix Fire Company No. 6, held at the Engine House this 2O;h day of August, l84l, the following Resolutions were unan- mousy adopted
 Resolved, That it with heartfelt sorrow, we learned that death had been in our midst and taken from whom highly esteemed, as a gentle man, friend an oficer-one, who, but a few days since was among us, with as bold heart and as rea- dy hand as the stoutest.
 Resolved, That be believe, that in the death of A L. Coan, we lost one of our chief supports Fire Company. He among those who first enrolled themselves under the banner of the Phenx; he lent his services and influence to add to the number of lhe company; he opened his purse to enable us to go in operation; and until the last sickness he was al ways unweried in his exertions to promote inte rests and those of the Fire Department generally.
 Resolved, That we deeply sympathize with the widow of the deceased, in mourning the untImely death of one who in his whole conduct elicted our respect and esteem.
 Resolved, That the President, and Messrs. T.. Hamilton and s. Walker, constitue a committee, who shall convey to the widow of the deceased copy of these resolutions and express our sympathy in her sorrows.
 Resolved, ,JThat as tribute of respect to the deceased we will wear crape on the left arm for sixty days; and that apparatus shall continue dressed in crape for 90 days And further, that the committee above named, have these resolutions inserted once in each of the city papers,
 CIiAS. s. SHREVE, Pre-.
 THOS. A. HAMILTON, Com. aug23 S.J. WALKER.
Mobile daily commercial register and patriot., 1841-08-23

RETAIL huge repeal meeting was held in Albany on the Ilth inst. The principal speaker on the occasion was Mr. Butler, whose address is cha racterzed by the Argus one of the most eloquent and effective of his forensic efforts" Col Young was to have been present. but was detained at home by illness. In a letter, he says:
 "The doctrine that chartered disease is intangi- be and ncurable; that enormous wrong becomes vested right, and that the curse of huge money ed power, like the plague original sin, be ire trevable fixed by Legislation, upon successive gene rations, should be exposed to the scorn and con tempt of mankind. There is appropriate remedy for every public evl otherwIse man is incapable of sell government. The Gordian knot winch cannot be united must be cut.
 of am not able to be with you corporealy to. morrow, shall be there d, least in feeling and in aprit and anticipate that the voice of the demo- cracy of Albany win find a cordial and audible ges- ponse throughout the state"
 A committee of seven was appointed sto make ar. rangements with the citizens Of New York and the river counties, for holding convention of the democratic party at some convenient point Kings. ton s suggested in the resolution adopted. The Al. bany Argus says of this meeting:
 "h rally not unlike in spirit, determination | and character, those which characterized the cam paign of 1892, when the ''Old fashioned bank" was in the field, in league with the old enemy of the de moeracy, and of the cause of public liberty and re preventative government.
 "We hazard no estimate of the number of elect tors of this county, (chieAy ofthe city) who the ground-for, it will be seen, that the meeting being three times too large for the capacity of the Great Hall of the Capitol, actually held in the Park in the open air. The cordial and hearty re. sponse with which the resolutions and the high toned and well directed appeal of Mir. Butler, called out from time to time, told in language be mista. ken, that the spirit of the democracy aroused and alive to the importance of the crisis.''
Mobile daily commercial register and patriot., 1841-08-23

WESTERN ELEcTIoNs.-From Indiana we have the returns of fifteen counties. In these last year the whigs had 25 representatives; the democrats one. This year, the whigs have l3, and the democrats IF showing clear gain of Il members. The elec- tion is only for the legislature. A new apporton- ment of members has been adopted since the cleo. tion of l840 The Senate is henccforth to consist o 50 members, and the House 100. Last year the Senate comprised 32 whigs and l5 dems House, 7s whigs, anl 22 dems. whig majority in the Senate last year, l7; in the House, 66.
 The whigs so far have lost two Senators. The member elect of the Lower House for Hancock coun- ty, is Chapman, the individual whom the whigs so frequently urged to crow lost summer. He has been triumphantly acquitted of the false charges brought against him by his opponents.
 From Tennessee and Kentucky we have no returns satisfactory of the result. In the former no doubt Polk is defeated. but by majority greatly reduced from the whig return of last year.
 In Illinois the election s held for Congress- It is said that whig (Stuart), one conservative Ga. sey) and one democrat are elected. We have no re- turns to corroborate this information.
Mobile daily commercial register and patriot., 1841-08-23

TIE MURDER OF Miss RoGERs.-The brutal murder and violation of this beautiful young girl producing an extraordinary excitement in NewYork. The conclusion is that the horrId crime was per- petrated in New York; that the body thrown in- to the river and Aoated over to Hoboken, where it was found.
 meeting of the citizens was held on the llth to adopt measures in the matter, and to collect money as reward for the detection of the murderer Fsom three to four hundred dollars were subscribed imme- diately.
 The Journal of Commerce gives the following &C., count of the disnerment of the body of the poor girls
 "The body of this unfortunate girl was yesterday, at the request of city authorities, disnterred and brought from Jersey to this city, and deposited in the dead house in the Park. And difficult it would it be for the most imaginative mind to conceive a specta- cle more horrible or humlatng to humanity. There lay, what was few days back, the image of its Cre ator the oyeiest of his works and the tenement of an immortal soul, blackened and decomPosed mass of putrefacton painfully disgusting sight and smell. Her skin which had been unusually fair was now black as that of negro. Her eyes so sunk in her swollen face to have the appearance of being violently forced beyond the sockets, and her mouth, which ''no friendly hand had closed in death," was dstended as wide the fragments of the jaws would admit, and wore the appearance of person who had died from sufocation or stransulation. The remain- der of her person was alike of Futrefaction and corruption, on which the worms were revelling at their will And if nothing should be wanting to send the moral home to mems hearts, and render it more painfully impressive, the young man who was to have been, in few days married her ,now stood beside the rough box m which all that remained of her he loved, was lying. Her, whom but few days back he had seen "exuting in her youth filled with life, hope and animation, whom he SO ardenty wish ed to make his welded wife, to fold to his bosom to press to his heart ofhearts," lay before him an inanmate mass of matter, so hideous, horrible and offensive that the bare idea of coming in with it was almost sufficient make the gorge rise. The remains even of her dress, in which she had been bu red were already so discolored and half rotten, as to render it almost impossible to be identified, and was 90 impregnated with the afuva from her person that scarcely any person would vea,ure to touch or examine it.
 sThe chief object in bringing the body over this city, was that it might be identified beyond all doubt, which appears had been hitherto done, at least to the satisfaction of our city authorities until yester day. Amongst the strangest and most mysterious circumstances of the murder, is perhaps the fact that from the hour she last left her mothers door, the time when her body was found floating in the rrer,
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 ing, but in osaseqsehoe of the wind had put into Dunkirk. She lay there till nearly sunset, at which time she ran Oa and tsld proceeded as iar as baIce lona when just twilight, the fire oi the Ere vas discovered some 20 miles astern. The Clinton i- medately put about, and reached the burning wreck about 10. IL was a fearful sight. All the upper works of the Erle had been burned away. The en- zine standing, but the hull a mass of dull, red flame. The passengers aud crew were floating around, screaming in their agony and shrieking Tor help. The boats of the Clinton were instantly low cred and manned, and every person that could DC seen or heard picked up, and every p0ssaoe re- lief afforded. The Lady, little steamboat lying at Dunkirk out of that harb0f as soon as PossiDe' after the discovery of the fire, ahd arrived soon alter the Clinton. It was not 'OsgHt oy me s1's'so,s that she saved any. By l, A. M. all was still except the dead cracking of the fire. Not a solitary indl- sidla could be seen or heard on the wild waste oi waters.
 Origin ofths Ers-Among the passengers on board were six painters in the employ of Mir. w G Miller ofthis city, who were going to Erie 10 paint the steamboat hadi.oiR. They had with them demlloNns tiled with spirits of trrPentine and yarnish' which, unknown to Capt. Titus, were placed on the boiler deck directly over the boilers. One of the hremen, who was sayed says he had occasion to go on deck, and seeing the demiiohns, removed them. lhey were replaced, but by whom is not known. inme- dately previous to the bursting forth oi the nanes' several on board have assured us sllght eNpio- sion was heard. The demijohns had probabl, burst with the heat, and their nAammabe contents taking fire instantly, communicated to every part of the boat, which having been freshly vanished, caught as lift had been gunpowder.
 Not paper nor an article of any kind was saved. Of course Il is impossible to glve complete list oi those on board Of cabin passengers Capt. Titus thinks there were between 20 and 70, of whom 10 l2 were ladies. In the s.eerage were about 14O passengers, nearly all of whom Swiss and Ger man immigrants. They were mostly in families with the usual proportion of men, women and chil- dren. The heart bleeds al the thought.
Mobile daily commercial register and patriot., 1841-08-23

FROM TAMPIco.-The schooner Doric arrived at New Orleans Friday, with dates frem Tampico, to the 9th inst conducta had arrived at that port with 1,6OO, 900 in specie, most of which was to be shipped to England.
 at Tampico. There was some talk of an invasion of Texas by Bustamente, who had issued decree for
 loan of sl ,5OO, 900 for the purpose of carrying hostities. It Is stated in the papers that Santa Anna was making vigorous preparations to quell the revolution in Tabasco, and that the duty of Is per ct will probably be reduced by the Mexican congress.
Mobile daily commercial register and patriot., 1841-08-23

FROM WAsHIreroK.-Alli interest in the pro- ceedings at Washington seems to be absorbed in the course of the President on the bank bill The gene ral impression gains ground that it will be vetoed, and the delay in doing is accounted for in various ways. One says that the moment the veto is re- ceiyed, Congress will break up, and, as the Pres- dent is warmly interested in the fate of the bankrupt bi he is waiting until the House gets through with
 that measure. Another asserts, that he is preparing a message announcing his reasons for the veto. A third thinks the bill will be approved, and that Mir. Tyler is mastering up arguments for violating all his previous opinions. A fourth ayers that Mir. Tyler is gone visit the ship Delaware, and that he deers his veto lest it mar the harmony of his party. A fifth thinks-but in short, the and opinions are endless and hardly wsrth repeating.
 This much, however, gains ground; either that
 the President the cabinet will resign in the event of veto. The first suppostion is silly; and the se- cond is very probable-except in the case 6f Badger and Granger, who, it is said, under consideration will resign or be dismissed. It is the first chance they have at office and they determined to hold on to it.
 Our own opinion, is, that the bill will be returned
 to Congress with proposed notifications and sugges- tons, which is equivalent to veto; ;-that no new bill will be prepared ;-that the whes proper will be very furious ;-that Wise and the impracticables will be very much ckled and-laugh in their sleeves; that the cabinet will be dissolved ;-that Congress will adjourn as soon as possible ;-that the whig party will divide at its numerous splits, and Laus Deo) that the democrats win enjoy the fun amazing ly, and turn out the reformers soon they get chance.
 From the Charleston Mercdry we extract the fol- lowing, which gives all the news of the doings of both Houses:
 NEWS FROM WAsHINaToN.-Tha Mail is still
 day behind, but it appears from our correspondent,
 that the veto of the bank bill might not be in till Monday (yesterday.) The press of both parties are agreed that the veto will come but it's effects there s some differences. Many of the whig papers urge Union and say it is worth while to quarrel about one measure when there are so many things in which they agree among which latter, the New York Post instances the dipision e fhe sos the consideration most likely to prevents m outbreak in whigery. Will inc cabinet disbandl The Madsonan which is crawl ing along for the place of"Orean" to Mr. Veto Ty- Ter, gives some awful hiRts that "Webster & Co.' may find unexpected help in making up their minds to the difficult virtue of resignation.
 The same paper also just discovered that Mr. Ty- lers whole life points irresstibly to the conclusion that he will veto the Bapk Bill
 Mir. Clay has been again beautifully checkmated the Distribution Bill, and the probability is that it will fail. Our correspondent gives hint of the
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thIng, but II requires explanation. We quote from Ihe Anal, sis of the Globe.
 "Mr Sturgeon of pensy yl,ania, after stating that he nstructed by hs State Legislature to support distribution ot the proceeds of the pobhc lands on certain conditions, moved an amendment oi the blll in compliance with the instructions. The amend nent proposed strike the per cent gwen to the new States.
 "Mr. Buchanan said he should yoe for the amend ments proposed by his friend and colleague hr' Sturgeon; and if they adopted, he should men for the bll in obedience the instructions of the Legislature of Pennsy ylVania. These instructions plain and explicit their face. There could be doubt about the import Of the language wnlch they employed. Mr. B. then read these instructions as follows:
 ''ResOlVed by the Senate and House oi hepre- sentaives of the Common wealth of PennsylSania, In General Assembly met: That our Senators m Con- gress be, and they are hereby, instructed, and our Representatives requested to resist any and all a- empts, under what pretence soeser the sane may be made 10 deprue e people Of ths State of theT JuSf proportions o ths nhertdncsiH e public idads and that they be- and are hereby further instructed and requested to introduce and advocate the passage of bill providing for the distribution of the proceeds of the among the several States the ratio of her federal representative population undsT e census o OHe toSsand sigh hundred aud forty"
 Mir. BUCHANAN then proceeded to explain the wide discrepaT ey between the distribution here de- scribed and that provided for by the Bill. MT. CLAY reted and scolded and undertook to instruct the Penn- syvania Senators to what he thought the instruc- tions meant-for winch they did moi show much grat. itude. Mir. STURGEoE's amendment was voted down, ayes ll-notes. 35. Of course every Western Senator, Whig and Democrat, voted against il. The Pennsylvania Senators thus not only left free to follow their opinions, but they bound by the instructions to follow them and against the Bill Mir. CALHOUN gave notice that he should bring forward his amendment, to give the management oi the Public Lands to the States in which they lie.
 The discussion of the House fingers ve,y inde- cisiNely on the Bankrupt Bill. Mr. PoPE Wing member from Kentucky spoke against it on Thursday and said the title of the bill should be bill to benefit leg commissioners, assignees, lawyers clerks, &c. It will probably pass-produce convulsion, do a great deal of good and evil, and be repealed in two years.
Mobile daily commercial register and patriot., 1841-08-23
COmMERCTAL LISTER
MOBILE:
MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 2s, isn

The mail to-day brought New York dates oi the l4th. Col. Dayton has resigned tue Presidency ol the U. s. Bank and James Robinson, formerly Pres ident of the Bank of Richmond, has been elected n his stead.
 We have farther retsrns from Indiana. So far the House of Representatives stands AZ democrats B whigs. Last year in the same counties il was s4 whigs, g democrats. Eighteen members to be heard from In the House we shall have majority In the Senate doubtful We have gained iu this branch 6 the whigs one. This is a most astonishing change and shows that the people are beginning tc recover from the fumes of hard cIder.
 The Postmaster at Grahamville. 6, CD writes as follows;-
 "The Bridges between Savannah and GrahamVille all swept away, and in consequence there wall be Ho mail for several days. The water in the Salt fletcher is rising at the rate of six inches per hour"
Mobile daily commercial register and patriot., 1841-08-23

Iateresfng 10 the LadieI-It is said that Mir. Clay is about to introduce compromise bill into the senate which will provide that if any bachelor shall publish hs intention 10 get married, the silence of any lady of his acquaintance. for six months thereafter shall be taken as an assent on her part to his proposal and he may publish the bans without asking her leave But if within the said six months, any lady he may fancy, shall declare her determination not to have him he may then proceed force her into marriage against her consent. This law is designed by Mir Clay expressly to guard the rights of the ladies about which it is said, that President Tyler is supposed to have constitutional scruples. It is understood thar all parties, and especially the ladies, delighted with the compromise.
Mobile daily commercial register and patriot., 1841-08-23

The Rev. Mir. Pierpont, of Boston, has been u- umphanty acquitted of all the charges agains, him. The report of the committee of the Ecclesiastical Council, says
 "The proof offered, in the opinion of the Council, was altogether insufficient. On the contrary, it ap- peared from abundant evidence, that few pastors could come out from scrutiny 80 severe, extending over period of twenty years or more, where SD much found to be worthy of praise, and little deserving of censure.'
Mobile daily commercial register and patriot., 1841-08-23

ALABAhA-In a few days, we shall be able to furnish official table of the returns of the election in this state with the of the members elected designated by their politics. In 43 countless the vote for Governor stands thus Fitzpatrick 3o,755; Nc CluRg 2l,62S-belng majority for the former of 9,l37.
 The democrats have 20 Senators: the whigs l3. In the House Randslph not included) the democrats have 64; the whigs 45-makins joint ballot, ma jority of l6 for the former.
 The General ticket so far is about 1900 behind the district system.
Mobile daily commercial register and patriot., 1841-08-23

Distributios B,n.-This bill takes ten per cent of the moneys arising from the sales of public lands and gives it to nine of the states, and then divides the remaining ninety per cent, among the whole twentysx states in the ratio of the federal popua ton. We have heretofore shown, that the effect of thls gratty to give the nine states about forty per cent. average, more than would be given to the other seventeen.
 We proceed now to exhibit another of the beau. ties of this measure.
 By an official report made to Congress, it appears that the 90th of September, lS40 the quantity of unsold lands in each of the nine favored States was
Mobile daily commercial register and patriot., 1841-08-23

The Rev. Dr. John Breckenridge, died at Lexng- ton, (Ky.) on the 4th inst.
 Wm. H. Simmons, the popular lecturer on Shaks- peare, and brother of the gentleman who used to off, ciate at the Unitarian church in this city, died in Boston on the 10th instast.
Mobile daily commercial register and patriot., 1841-08-23

The Patriot of Lafowche states that there is much sickness among the negroes in Terrebnnne and also in parts of Bayou Lafourche, bu the whites are generally quite healthy The crops present rather a favorable appearance. The Bayou Iafourche is ex- tremely low, ndpackets now run; we miss much the lively steamers, and we will rejoice to behold once more our bayou sufficiently high to admit their en- lrance.-New Orleans Bee
Mobile daily commercial register and patriot., 1841-08-23

An affray took place in the streets of our town on Tuesday last between two brothers of the name of FRIou, aad a Mir. B. JENNINGS, , hich ended for the time being, without much injury to either party. In the evening of the same day, Mr. J. M Friou and MT. Jennings again met, when pistols shots were ex- dangerously, and it is believed mortaly wounded. Both parties armed alike, and fought with similar weapons. As the whole matter will probably undergo legal investigation, we forbear any comment at this time, to the causes which led to this unfortunate affair. Wetumpka Times.