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The Yazoo City Whig. [volume] (Yazoo, Miss.) 1844-1851, 1845-11-14

was here opened fora display Of thelFsWidely
extended philanthropy % which, We may
truly say, is not confined to their own sea-
girt island land wen had tie Times i'm
proved. the favorable opportunity. Horror
struck at the melancholy sights andasOunds
which his Imagination produced, he enters
into a long TRADE Of abuse against our coun'
try and It's Institutions, denounces d IS a
nation Of slave-traders, and holds US up to
the execration Of the world, as being so
per6dious as 10 send out ship of war un-
der the sanction Of the Stars and Stripes,
for the sole purpose of making traffic Of
those dGrlings Of English philanthropy,
the negroes. We are glad 10 learn that the
rest Of the English press treated with scorp
and contempt this foul SANDER Of the Times,
and had not that press been so blinded by
its bigoied preIudices, it might easily have
explained tire circumstance of handouts
being found upon the Missouri. For any
one at all conversant with the rules Of both
the English and American Navy knows that
each ship Of war, is supplied with a certain
number of handouts with which to. confne
any Of the men, should such thing be me-
cessary, and these handouts instead Of be~
ing forged for the wrists of the poor, Oppres-
sed and enslaved African, were intended TO
bring into subsection and punish unruly and
disOrderIy seamen. The Times could not
have been ignorant Of this regulation Of the
Navy, and we can only attribute its long
article Of VituPeratiOn and abusive SANDER
TO settled hatred and contemplate jeal-
ousy Of this county.-As has this, so may
the many other SANDERS against this country,
with which English journals so generally
TEEN, be easily explained and refuted.
The Yazoo City Whig. [volume] (Yazoo, Miss.) 1844-1851, 1845-11-14
The EDiscOnal Church.

The Episcopalians, with the energy so
Characteristic Of the denomination, have
erected parish in this place, in a very short
space Of time. They have rented a lafge
house on Main street, and in a day OF ItFO
the carpenters will have Transformed il into
neat and comfortable Church--they have
also sent for a ChuTch Organ, and have
raised among Ourcitizensa sufficient amount
Of money to meet,alI their exPensesz; The
conference.-the Is to preside over The paEisa
the Rev. Mr.. PREsBERRY,vOf Washington
county, is a talented and able.preacher, and
will prove quite an ornament to our pulpit.
We suppose the present arrangements are
merely temporary, and that a large and ele'
CANT Episcopal Church will soon be built
and be another ornament to our city. We
wish them all success in their undertaking,
for nothing can add more to the reputation
Of town, lhalrthat il has a large numbeE
Of Churches, especially il they are always
well filed.
The Yazoo City Whig. [volume] (Yazoo, Miss.) 1844-1851, 1845-11-14

market settled appearance Of dullnSSS. Still
we cannot make much change or reduction in the
quotations Of prices. Were parties determined to
sell, and close Gales Of any particular lot, no dOubt
they must submit TO lower rates. But il 20 hup-
Pens that for the most part holders are not prers
ing their stocks FOR sale, but, on the contrary, in
many instances are firm and determined holders,
waiting further accounts Grom America. Accord
ingly, our market, though dull and Fat, as above
stated, is pretty steady in Plice. The ezten. Of
the coming crop in the United States is utiII the
great point with US ell. $500 American has been
taken on speculation, and 500 American and 400
Pernam, for export. Total amount Of sales for
the week are $3.50 bales
The Yazoo City Whig. [volume] (Yazoo, Miss.) 1844-1851, 1845-11-14
English AbMse,

The persons engaged about the wreck of
the Steam Ship Missouri, which was some
time since burned TO the waters edge at
'GIBaftef, Have lately brought to light some
hundred pairs Of hand cuffs, found in her.
Tb6lalOresaid fact coming 70 The ears Of
the editor Of the London Times, one of the
leading journals Of England, Immediately
s'ihastouels Of bis compassion are moved
within him'', and in pathetic, long and
dolefuI article, he bewails the fate Of the
many poor sons of Africa for whom these
shackles were forged. Yes--start not reader
his heated imagination has conjured the
Missouri into mammoth slave ship, and no
doubt Ger whelmcd with grief at the sad
picture, be fancied he saw the poor, oppres,
sed negro, restrained from any exertiOns for
self preservation by the handouts, running
wildly 10 and Gro upon the burning deck, or
madly plunging into the wateFy abyss, and
no doubt he heard their miserable death
Shrek as they sank beneath the dark blue
wave, borne Ear upon the night winds. and
heard lond above the IOar Of the ocean!
What thsme was this for the pen Of IN
English journalist, and what q wide field
The Yazoo City Whig. [volume] (Yazoo, Miss.) 1844-1851, 1845-11-14
English PhilanGhrOpy.

II is truly sickening and disgusting 10
read the distorted and exaggerated accounts
of slavery and the condition Of our sslaves.
with which the English papers almost cons
stantly TEEN. To judge from their state.
ments Of affairs in this. country, the slave.
holding PARTON of the community are Tie
most .tyrpnical and hearlless set Of people
that ever, had an existence upon the face Of
the. earth They would have. lbeif ,seadsls
logbslexe that our slaves ars bali staEved,
lhiRly clad, and lodged in open and exposed
novels, and are most inhUDanly beaten for
mere sport, that their masters pay no atlenN
riou TO their moral or physical condition, but
make them perform their daily task whether
sick OF Nell, and after old age has united
them for labor, they leave them to exc out
their miserable existence in the best way
they can, and care not in what manner or
how soon they end their days. To disprove
such absurd statements as these, we only
ask the personal examination By The most
bigoted abolitiOnist among them, and We
care not how strong his Preiudices may be,
We dare assert that they would be entirely
overcome BY such an examination. That
our slaves are not. half starved and thinly
clad, is easily proven by the aet that gen
orally speaking, they are the most healthy
portion Of our population, their houses are
tight, warm, aud provided with every con.
Venience, such houses as an English peas
ant would consider palaces. As a general
thing the masters are kind and humane.
which is proven from the happy and COM
tented appearance Of the slaves and the
warm affection which they cherish for their
masters.--That their moral condition is
much cared for, witness the numbers of
them that weekly thrOng our churches, and
see the neat chapels erected on many fOur
plantations, and still more TO dispel all pre-
JUDGE, witness the care and attention be-
slowed by their masters. upon the sick, the
aged and the infrm, and then ask theon
groes themselves il they wish TO change
their condition, and ninety. nine out OF every
hundred will answer NO! But we did not
commence this ARTICLE for the purpose &c
inditing a defence Of slavery, the institution
contains within itself its own vindication,
we intended TO have pointed out the incon>
sistenCy of such articles coming from such
iOurnals.-They viii gil columns in dilating
upon heart-rending picture of the low,
degraded. and miserable condition, and the
barbarous and inhuman treatment which the
darling objects of their philanthropy receive
from the Unfeeling slave. holder, bat their
ear is deaf and their heart unmoyed, when
The distressed vail Of the poor miserable
panpefs, with which their country is filed,
ascends from their dirty novels, they take
no notice Of and sympathise not with the
many hundreds who annually perish from
mere starvation, before their eyes. o,nol
they never reflect upon The miserable and
The Yazoo City Whig. [volume] (Yazoo, Miss.) 1844-1851, 1845-11-14

We copy the following judicious and sen,
sible article upon this subject, from the Bal
timote Republican!
1t is mistaken idea which appears TO be
entertained BY the editor Of the Union, that
the vote given at the recent election in this
city, was designed TO favor the reduction Of
the Tariff 10 what is called the revenue
standard, which seems TO have been fixed
by the Secretary Of the Treasury at twelve
and half per cent. When the duties under
the compromise act had fallen to twenty per
cent. the effect was so ruinous to the citi.
zens Of Baltimore, that there was a unani..
nous voice in favor Of an increased tariff
and we venture 10 say, that the member Of
Congress elect, from this district, will never
give vote TO replace the citizens Of Balls
more in the condition in which they were
in 1912. Unjust be apparent TO every man
who has paid the least attention to the sub.
ject, that duty of twelve and half per
cent. would not afford half the revenue re-
quired for the ordinary expenditures Of gov.
eminent; and as a necessary consequence,
loans or direct taxation would have to be
resorted to in order to supply the deficiency.
A writer in the National IateIligencer shews
cOnclusiSely, that ruin would result from
such reduction. he ~
wWill not reanefioo oC the tor;ar -
twelve and a half per cent. Cess than has
ever been thought of or seriously suggested
befo.e) eaectually rum every mechanic,
manufacturer, and farmer in the United
Statesl AT twelve and a half per cent.
what viii become, sir, Of
The ShOemakers, who are now protected by
The Yazoo City Whig. [volume] (Yazoo, Miss.) 1844-1851, 1845-11-14

OF We have before this accused our
neiRhbOr Of the Democrat, Of being rather
dull Of comprehension, and We must reiierN
ate this charge, and cite as a proof Of the
fact, an article in the last number Of his
paper under the head Of "COnsiStency".-
Our neighbor calls US inconsistent, because
we had said that the Tariff would not be re-
duced, and then in our last paper we quoted
from "leading Wing organs" proving that
il would be reduced. Now, If our neigh
bor had read the article, he would have seen
that we quoted from "WdshingtOn letter
vriterS'', giving their opinion Of the com
pexion Of the next Congressional be would
also have found that they differ somewhat
in their views, some said that the Tariff
would be reduced, and others sustained our
assertion, that "Mr. Walker t0ould hare TO
raise The Tariff to the repenue standard"
We gave the opinions of "WGShingtO" let
ter sDriters," not of "leading Wing organs"
Donot be so fast in charging US with incOn-
sisiencV, neighboF.
The Yazoo City Whig. [volume] (Yazoo, Miss.) 1844-1851, 1845-11-14
COMMERCIAL
Yazoo City, Friday Morning. NOV.

Y0zOO City Friday Morning, Nov. ~.
We have no especial remark to make on the
the features Of our market. Our market, how
ever, continues we'll supplied with staple and
fancy dry-gOOdS, produce, groceries and plantation
supplies. The YazOo river continues low, the
late heavy rains have caused no rise whatever,
but still there has been a.large amount Of cotton
shipped during the past week. The weather is
now cool and pleasant, although up TO Tuesday
last, the roads were very heavy FROM the rains
Of last week.
Corrosive noticed in our last weeks report
that heatiness prevailed IN the Cotton market.
From ell the Information that we eah get, the
same remarks win still apply, the market cOntin-
uing rather dull and heavy. The European news
received here on Wednesday last. and also advi-
Gee from New Orleans, showing decline and
dullness in those markets, has contributed good
deal to maintain the heavy condition of the mar
kert, and decline of fully ct. has taken place
since our last report. A'rather limited business
has been done during The past week, the sales
ouIy amounting TO $40 bales, at the following
rotes:-I0 bales at 3-I05-l2O at 81 90 at a; 70
att; % at "A; Is at St 27,at6 1916; 64;7at
44lO; 80 at 81; IA at Ga; SO at 81.
The Yazoo City Whig. [volume] (Yazoo, Miss.) 1844-1851, 1845-11-14
NEW oRLEANs MARKRT.

From the N. 0. Picayune Of Nov. 9, I845.
We commence this week with moderate de-
mand for Cotton, the sales having reached 5000
bales. On Tuesday, the demand fell of. and moi
over 200 bales changed hands, principally owing
to the nonsarriVal Of the Crest WesVsrn's- news
which was due. On Wednesday, the papera con.
taining the news Of the expected steamer came
through, but not the lstte; being unfavorable fol
Cotton, parties preferred waiting for the letters
and transactions only reached 1900 bales, On
ThuTaday, the letters were received, and ss fac.
tors gave wSy to 4c. the purchasers took full
10, 900 bales-the largest transaction in one day
,Eis season. On Friday, 1000 bales changed
hands; and to-day [saturdayl 5,OO6 bales. includ-
ing one list Of good middling of 100 at &c and
500 bales fair at 7ac. Pieces continue frm.
LIVERPOOL CLASSIFICATION
The Yazoo City Whig. [volume] (Yazoo, Miss.) 1844-1851, 1845-11-14

The Vicksburg InteIIigencer, won't Jet
our peculiar favonte alone. Dub him hon
OrGble Jacob Thompson and let Miss Jones
pass.
JACoB THoMPsON.-Wo understand that
the husband Of Miss jones, Of Georgia, has
answered DR.. OWNS Gard, which was TO
have been published in the Mississippian Of
yesterday. We con6dentIy hope Mss Jones'
young man will be more direct in his states
menls than he was about that lost commits
sion. We never had the honor Of an &C.
quaintance with Miss Jones, but presume
MIR. +. must have obtained her consent 10
marry. not by directly asking her, but by sin
sinivatiOn."
The above has benin type for some time
but like that ''lost commission, was stow
ed away, so that in making up our form we
overlooked it; but being desrOus Of giving
our friend Thompson favorable notice &C.
casionally, We insert it nov, on the principle
Of shelter late than never" By-the-way,
as Jacob is no doubt reelected to Congress,
and has few months salary at So 90 day
secured, wonder If he won't fork US over
that ten! we'll knock of the two years ms
terest.
The Yazoo City Whig. [volume] (Yazoo, Miss.) 1844-1851, 1845-11-14
IndicinI EIec1f0n.

Below We give the vote Of the different
counties composing this, the Fifth Judicial
District, BY which Il will be seen that ROB'1
G. PERRY, Esq.,, is elected by majority oil
$40 votes over Hon. M. L. Fitch, and a
majority Of 1909 votes Of George Calhoun
ESQ.
The Yazoo City Whig. [volume] (Yazoo, Miss.) 1844-1851, 1845-11-14

SUGAR PLANTERS CoNvENT1ON.-We
see BIZ the N. 0. Picayune, that Corven.
ton Of the Sugar Planters Of Louisiano, was
to assemble at DOnaIsOnviIle, on yesterday
week, the 9Th inst.
The Yazoo City Whig. [volume] (Yazoo, Miss.) 1844-1851, 1845-11-14
'ERPOOL CLASSIFICATION

LIVERPOOL COTTON NARkkI-Oct. 10.
(FrOm The Circular Of Mss1TO. Geo. Holt q Col
We are now passing through quiet time il
our Cotton Market Last wsek he Gales were
only toa moderate exiens, with IoaBof "a. -
The prices Of American. The business Of shis
week, however, has been more limited, giving the
The Yazoo City Whig. [volume] (Yazoo, Miss.) 1844-1851, 1845-11-14

A few days. later information has been
received at Boston flOm Buenos Ayres.-
The news received give some promise of the
restoration of peace amUng the Republics
on La Plata.
The Yazoo City Whig. [volume] (Yazoo, Miss.) 1844-1851, 1845-11-14

MARRTED-In this city. on Tuesday morn
ing last, BY J. Lamkin, Esq, JOHN LrPscOHB, Esq.,
Of Madison county, to Miss SUSAN s. GARRETT.
The Yazoo City Whig. [volume] (Yazoo, Miss.) 1844-1851, 1845-11-14

W. s. CoOdY, Esk., has been chosen Pre-.
sident Of the Cherokee Council now in ses,
sion at Tahlequah.
The Yazoo City Whig. [volume] (Yazoo, Miss.) 1844-1851, 1845-11-14

FORREaS NEWs.--The news from Eng
land, brought by the steamer Great Western
IN Jfbut little interest, other than the report
Of the Cotton market, which Intelligence
will be found under our Commercial Head,
The Yazoo City Whig. [volume] (Yazoo, Miss.) 1844-1851, 1845-11-14
ADVER-TISBMENTS.
Cotton Seed.

n NHE sale of MAsrODAN Corrrr SrxD
at the price heretofore sold at, is sus-
pended. There is a few hundred bushels
yet on hand, chiefly ungined, at Two Dollars
a bnshel. r ARPFY
YazOo city, Nov. IA, le45. 1885,.
The papers which copied my former adj
vertisement, will please COPY this 3 linz
The Yazoo City Whig. [volume] (Yazoo, Miss.) 1844-1851, 1845-11-14

e. We are indebted to our friends, Mr..
f. B. GIaysOn, and Mr.. S. V. Mitchell, for
late New Orleans papers. Thanks, gentle.
The Yazoo City Whig. [volume] (Yazoo, Miss.) 1844-1851, 1845-11-14
1857 POLL 1854

Edgar, A. NJ. Gray, Esq, Of Madison
county, is elected District Attorney for this
District, by a majority Of about 100 votes
over A. P. Hill, Esq.
The Yazoo City Whig. [volume] (Yazoo, Miss.) 1844-1851, 1845-11-14

Or Being unable last week to give the
official vote Of this county for State officers,
we do so to-day. The result will be found
below.
The Yazoo City Whig. [volume] (Yazoo, Miss.) 1844-1851, 1845-11-14
The NV ORLEANS COMMERO1AI TIMES

The New ORLEANS CoMMERCIAL TINES,
is the title Of a new Commercial paper just
started in New Orleans, the FIRST number Of
which we have received, edited by Messrs.
T. B. TnROPE, j. AFFLEcK and J.HAwKINs
The Commercial Times is neatly printed
and edited with much ability, and in our
opinion, is destined TO be Of great advantage
TO the Commercial portion Of the communi-
~. The Agricultural insterests Of the South
will also be attended TO in the columns Of
the Times, Mr. AfFleek being the AgricuI-
tbral Editor. Our old friend, 7. B. Thrope,
late Of the 'ConcOrdia Intel,igencer.' is the
Oslensible editor. Gentlemen, we wish you
success.
The Yazoo City Whig. [volume] (Yazoo, Miss.) 1844-1851, 1845-11-14

The Catholics Of Louisville, KY, are
about taking steps FOR the erection Of spa
cious and magnificent Catbedralin that city.
The Yazoo City Whig. [volume] (Yazoo, Miss.) 1844-1851, 1845-11-14

Reduce these protective duties 70 twelve
and a half per cent. and will not ill these
be sacrificed and ruined tOgetbeFl"
Il is perfectly ridiculous to talk Of thus
reducing the duties, and no administration
will dare 10 undertake the measure. The
party in power will be held responsible for
all acts Of the general government, and we
venture to predict, fhal they will have the
discretion to leave the existing tariff pretty
much 10 its present condition. We hope
that they will be permitted 10 adopt their
own course, without demonstrating the ses-
sion by an useless opposition; and il they
think proper to reduce the tariff as prOpOs~
ed. or to repeal it altogether, be it SO, they
were elected BY, and are responsible to, the
people.
The Yazoo City Whig. [volume] (Yazoo, Miss.) 1844-1851, 1845-11-14

degraded condition Of . large portion Of
their citizens, but'oxpend all their sympathy
and theiE tears upon our slaves, who could
not be tempted BY any consideration TO
change situations with the peasants Of Eng
land. Let these journals remember that
"chaFisy begins at hOme'', and when they
have drawn public attention to the situation
of their own Paupers, and have aIIeViated
their miserable condition, thea it will be
time to turn their attention TO the poor and
distressed Of other lands. At present our
slaves ask not their assistance and scoTE
their pretended and interested sympathy
Cor they they had much rather be American
slGUes than SO called English apprentices.
The Yazoo City Whig. [volume] (Yazoo, Miss.) 1844-1851, 1845-11-14
ARTTCLES.

st11OU OINy HA,IC0S CuFFemU.
CORRECTED wEEKLY BY MEssRs. ALLEN B1RTsO1IE
The Yazoo City Whig. [volume] (Yazoo, Miss.) 1844-1851, 1845-11-14

Gov, Owsley, Of Kentucky, hai issued a
proclamation appointing Thursday next, the
Goth inst, 10 Be observed as a day or public
Thanksgiving IN that State.
The Yazoo City Whig. [volume] (Yazoo, Miss.) 1844-1851, 1845-11-14

And the Farmers, WHO are protected by
the following duties
On Wool rs 40 per cent
Wheat 80 do.
Beef and Polk 80 do.
Spirits r. 40 do.
Cheese ga CEcd
Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1845-08-14
Import Of Iron,

Perhaps there is in the whole range Of products no
article with the merericous Importance of which the
public ear has long and pertnacously dinned, as
that of iron. No article has drawn so heavily upon
The public purse for its support, and set Of men
are so rapaclous as the iron masters. The Harris
burgh Argus published recently an incorrect table of
the quantity imported remarking follows
"For so large quantity of this most useful and
necessary article dependent upon foreign gov
ernHents Millions of specie, its equivalent, are
annually drawn from the resources Of country TO
pay for the foreign supply"
This is the argument applied to nearly every arti
Gle OF import, viz that it drains the country OF spe-
cie." Now If we compare the import OF specie with
the import of iron for few years, have results
follows:
Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1845-08-14

FIRE-PRooF BUILDNes.-The New York News says
that the recent great fire in that city arrested in
its approach to wall street, by the buildings
that prevented the great fire of 1885, from reaching
the Mechanics Bank and other buildings adjoining,
when the stores between Garden street, Church and
Broad street were burned Furnaces buildings, for
merly Is Wall street, and the building extending
towards Broad street, and in the rear of the Mechan-
les Bank, arrested the fire of December, 1S35-and
the same building, together with his Stores ID and 10
Broad street, have arrested the progress of the second
great fire. On observing this fact gentleman was
induced to examine the buildings to ascertain how it
that they escaped the general ruin adjoining
them and he found that they have solid II inch walls,
without "wall strips and without the beams being
inserted into the wals-nor is there an anchor pass
ing through the brick work. and made fast to the
beams as usual, by which many building has been
set on fire. The walls are built in such manner as
to stand alone, and the beams rest projections in
the walls by which means the interior may be entire
ly burned out without making holes in the walls when
the beams fall, and thus allowing the fire to commu
nicate to the next store. This fact is worthy of the
serious attention of our builders.
Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1845-08-14

Is IT RfGHT To ENFORCE WRONG The doc
trine that 1t is right to enforce law which wrong
for the Legislature to make, approaches very nearly
to making wrong right. Itassumes the principle that
1t Is right for agent to do what it is wrong for the
principal to enloin II sanctions the highest prerog-
alive set up by despotism for if the people are
always bound to enforce the will of their rulers with
out respect to right wrong, the public conscience
is at shrunk any form and pressure corrupt
or weak rulers may fit to give it, in statute.
The practical test of all laws and all forms of tyan-
ny, is how far the people will bear them. The fear
of resistance to arbitrary will, to unjust laws,
the only thing, in the history of man, that sOf
tened desposm or modified cruel and wicked egisla-
ton. Abandon this right of wholesome reaction in
the people against their rulers, and the will of sin
gle man, the caprice of majority Of one in leg
islature, becomes Interchangeable law to bind the
people The law is always tested by expediency,
where the protested end is supposed to be good and
the expediency can be shown only by the practical
submission to it by the people. If they make the en-
forcement of the law difficult, expensive and doubt
full it will be abandoned by the rulers, as mpractca-
Bile; whereas if the people will take hold and enforce
a wrong law the very act establishes its supposed
expediency and practicablity. The rulers have only
to co on making such laws, and the doctpine be
preached up to the people that it is their duty to force
all wrong laws, and how long will it take to make
wrong legislation right! VIII any thing be left to
the people, on this doctrine of passive obedience but
sufferance, until it becomes intoerable and then
dress by revolution!