The primitive Republican. (Columbus, Miss.) 18??-1852, 1851-04-10
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MONTGOMERY, April 18th, 81.
rhe Steamer Baltic arrived yesterday at
N York, having left Liverpool on the
hd ultimo.
The price of Cotton had advanced at by
bool one eigth of penny, (ad) per pound
80 the sales of the week were AZ, 900 bales.
No political news reported
NV YORK, MarcA 30-A scheme has
.sen discovered in the legislature OF this
.@l 4 now in session at Albany to bring
certain members of the Senate to OPP
and defeat the law for the suppression
Gambling. Charles ID. johnson, Senator
Ia the Thirtieth District; Asabel G. Stone,
in the twenty-ffth; and Stephen II. John
of the Eleventh, are implicated in the
knsaction. The person employed to tam
Is with the Senators is Geo. w. Bull, Ser
Hant-at-Arms Of the Senate. The Senate
IT, been engaged in the investigation of the
Inject in secret session, and facts have been
cited ineulpating Mr.. Bull so seriously
sat his arrest was ordered; but before the
sarrant could be served, he had taken flight.
New YORK March 31.-The house OF
Iessrs Austens & Spicer, which failed re
nifty for nearly million and quarter OF
ollars, have refused to make any statement
Id their assets and liabilities.
Forty thousand dollars in specie went out
IA the Bremen steamer Hermann; eight
ilIhdred thousand viii 30 in the Arctic and
rknklin. and five hundred thousand are said
ia be on the way back from New Orleans.
BosTov. 1pyH 1.-The grand jury haye
Hnd true bills Of Indictment against Elizur
Nlicht. editor of the Commonwealth news
Der, and Messrs. Scott and Hays, for being
sAcerned in the rescue of the Fugitive Slave
Hadrach Their trial on the indictments,
nes off four weeks hence.
New YORK, AprH ,, p. m.-The Cot
an market continues depressed, and prices
I've further declined &c. Corn has advan-
la cent per bushel. Pork has also adj
anced 129 cents per barrel since yesterday.
ioffee has declined. The stock of tobacco
ow remaining on hand is SOTO hhds
a destructive fire occurred at Erie, Pa, on
he 31st ult., which destroyed twenty dwell
Ags and stores The fire originated IN the
kelry store of VIM H. Lewis-but wheth-
Il by accident or design, is yet nnknown.-
Te loss is great, but the actual amount Is
ascertained, nor how much Of the proper
was insured.
.TUscUMBIA, 1pra, 3.-The Steamer
hntsville, which left New Orleans for Tus-
mbia some days since arrived at Eastport
sterday. On the way up, the crew mutt
ed, and killed the mate, who undertook to
ell the disturbance. When the boat reach
II Paducah, about twenty-five of the crew
Serted the boat The balance Of them,
bwevcr with the assistance of the passen-
Frs, succeeded in bringing her rs far as East
ort, where she now is.
FRANKFORT. March 2S-The State Eman-
patton Convention of Kentucky called by
assius NJ Clay, Marshal, and others, is al
cad failure. twill not be held. The OBJ
let Of the convention vas to nominate G.
candidate for governor and
bate officers, and tc organize an aRti-slayery
Rrty in the State
correspondence Of the Courier.
WASHINGTON, March 81.
sDuring the long recess of Congress, our
hblic men, and especially those connected
5th Congress and the administration, take
u opportunity of presenting themselves be-
lie the people; and we now learn that many
them are travelling or about to make tours
different parts of the country. Mr. Clay.
IS gone South; Mr. Seward is constantly
the wing; Mr.. Douglass IS about to re-
rn from the South and 90 to New ork; :
IN. Houston is soon to 90 North; Mr..
Eebster having accomplished his Maryland
kcursion, is soon to 90 to Harrisburg The
tesident Will 90 to New York in June.
en. Scott is under orders to go South on
Il commission to select asite for Military
ssylum. Gen. Cass is to visit Pennsylva-
and New York Mr. Corwin and sever
&of the members of the Cabinet are to leave
II city as soon as the state of public bust
Is will permit it.
RIr. Webster viii attend a festival to be
En- at Harrisburg, by the Pennsylvania
Bislature, in celebration Of the compro-
measures, of the principles of the
llzcman letter, and the invitation of Kos
"a and his companions to this country.
a protracted Cabinet meeting was held on
nrday, and, as it is said, upon the subject
some projected removals and appoint
hts. The late removals of Seward men
New York, and the substitution of Fill
Re men, have excited a considerable sens
bn.
'he E'sAig members of the Legislature Of
laware, have nominated Gen. Scott for
Presidency. So far as such demonstra-
ps 60, it is very certain that Gen. Scott
y takes the lead among the Wing candi-
les. The friends of the various democrat
candidates all look to the nominee-who-I
70 he may be--of the National Democratic
pnVention- The canvass appears to haze
mmenced.
The New York Express of the 9TH nit.
ablishes a full report of Mr. Webster's An
epolis speech. Mr.. Webster discloses, as
E Express presumes, the probable policy oil
administration in case South Carolina |