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THE FARMERS' REGISTER. 



for $100,000, and bought by (he James River and 

 Kanawha Company. 



The " Catholic Total Abstinence" societies of Phi- 

 ladelphia have had a grand display, in a procession of 

 7,000 members. 



" The legislature of New Hampshire, by a vote of 

 138 !o 99, passed a bill which makes the private pro- 

 perty of the stockholders in all the banks hereafter to 

 be chartered, liable, to a certain extent, for the debts 

 of the institution." This is something like a beginning 

 to correct the abuses of the banking system. 



The Bank of Darien, (Ga.) is confessedly hroken. 

 Four-filths of the stock belongs to the state of Georgia. 

 It is expected that the notes will not be paid. This is 

 a fine specimen of the policy and profit of a govern- 

 ment becoming a partner in banking operations. 



The minister sent by the Texian to the Mexican 

 government was not permitted to land. The Texian 

 papers intimate the renewal of war, by the invasion of 

 Mexico. 



The elections in Mississippi will turn upon the 

 question of paying the state bonds or not. There is 

 the " bond-paying" party and the " anti-bond-paying" 

 part}', each running its ticket. This is one of the most 

 deplorable results of the swindling banking system 

 fully carried out. The legislature of Virginia have 

 not as yet gone half way in furthering the great swin- 

 dling paper money system; but their course is onward; 

 and, if not checked, will lead to such results as have 

 already been realized in Mississippi. 



The village of Waterford, N. Y., has been almost 

 entirely destroyed by fire. From 70 to SO houses were 

 burnt. 



■'McLeod's application for discharge upon writ of 

 habeas corpus has been refused by the Supreme Court 

 of New York, and he is remanded for trial by jury, in 

 Niagara county. He may, however, previously ap- 

 peal to the Court of Errors of New York, and thence 

 to the Supreme Court of the United States. His es- 

 cape, through one of the many holes offered, will be 

 certain ; but it is a pity that it had not been eifected 

 without so much delay, fuss, and national discredit. 



The following passage from the " Money Article" 

 of the New York Herald, of the 13th, applies to all 

 other banks as well as those of New Orleans : 



" In New Orleans public opinion is taking a direction 

 which will, in all probability, soon drive the sound 

 banks into resumption. In May last we stated that 

 many of the brokers here were buying up the certi- 

 ficates and bills of the southern banks, and sending 

 them home and protesting them for non-payment; 

 then procuring judgment and attaching any funds of 

 the Banks that may be found in this city. In New 

 Orleans, by the charters of most of the banks, they 

 are compelled to pay 12 per cent, interest on protested 

 notes until they are paid. This has led to a very gene- 

 ral adoption of this process, in regard to these banks, 

 the standing of which is such as to render the ultimate 

 payment of the notes comparatively sure. This puts 

 them in a position that will make resumption more 

 profitable than suspension ; and of course those banks 

 that are able will do so. Those banks that are 

 sound, it is supposed would long since have resumed 

 if they could have procured a settlement of balances 

 from the other Banks. They have, during the past 

 month, been more limited in their discounts, and have 

 nearly ceased buying bills. This, with the demand 

 for their notes for protest, have caused a fall in the 

 premium on specie. There is nothing like enforcing 

 the laws applicable to the just claims of creditors, to 

 equalize the exchanges. In a few years' time people 

 will look back with astonishment at the absurdity 

 of " relieving the people," by authorizing the banks 

 not to pay them that which is due." 



The law of Ohio now is, that slaves carried by their 

 owners within the jurisdiction of that state are thereby 



entitled to be free ; and passengers in steamboats, 

 calling at Cincinnati, have thus been, and hereafter 

 will be, systematically robbed of their slaves, by an 

 organized association of abolitionists. The law is the 

 same in Massachusetts, and a case of its exercise has 

 just occurred, accompanied with circumstances of 

 great outrage. Mr. Ludlam, of Richmond, with his 

 family, was called suddenly to New Bedford, to see 

 his wife's dying father. Mrs. Ludlam being herself 

 in bad health, made it necessary to take along her negro 

 servant girl, who was a hired slave. AVhen in New 

 Bedford, two white ministers of the Gospel pro- 

 cured a writ of habeas corpus, and heading a mob of 

 negroes, searched the house, and seized anil carried off 

 the affrighted and reluctant girl to Boston, where, 

 upon examination, she was discharged by the judge, 

 and of course remained as free in the hands of the 

 abolitionists. The slave-holding slates must pi'operhj 

 oppose and put down this hostile course, or otherwise 

 submit to the rule of the abolitionists. For these and 

 other worse acts of the abolition states, the strongest 

 measures of redress not forbidden by the federal con- 

 stitution should be adopted and strictly enforced. 



Saturday, July 24, 1841. 



The Caledonia steam ship reached Boston on the 

 17th from Liverpool, bringing news 15 days later from 

 England. 



Parliament had been prorogued- The new elections 

 were in progress, under great excitement. In Liver- 

 pool and other places there was much rioting, and 

 several persons had been killed. In Carlisle, the 

 military had been called out, and two men were killed 

 in the afiray. The Conservatives are expected to 

 beat the Whigs ; in which case there will be no repeal 

 of the corn laws, or extension of free trade. 



The growing crops of England promised well. 



The French accounts are barren of news. Nothing 

 important in the accounts from Spain, Portugal, and 

 the north ot Europe. 



The insurrection in Candia was still gaining 

 strength. The spirit of insurrection spreading through 

 the Peloponnesus and other parts of Greece Proper, and 

 King Otho's rule is in peril. 



Another over-land mail from India had been re- 

 ceived, but which brought no later accounts from 

 China than before. 



The French loan to Texas has not yet been made, as 

 before reported. 



A remarkable case of " Lynch law" has occurred 

 in Kentucky, which for deliberation and coolness as well 

 as determination may compare with the celebrated Por- 

 teoHS mob. A drover named Utterback some time 

 ago had been attacked on the road, robbed, and his 

 throat cut, and was left for dead. But he was found 

 alive, though horribly mangled, and though never to be 

 restored entirely, it is now supposed may live. 

 Two men, Maythe and Couch, supposed on undoubted 

 testimony to be the robbers and intended murderers, 

 had been some weeks imprisoned for trial ,- but 

 would escape with comparatively but slight punish- 

 ment by law, if their victim should live. This con- 

 sideration, added to the general commiseration felt 

 for the pitiable condition and long continued suffering 

 of Utterback, caused the remarkable and unjustifiable 

 act of outrage which is stated as follows in the 

 Cincinnati Republican. Full and public notice of the 

 intention had been sent 36 hours in advance of the 

 attempt, and a clergyman sent, and who went, to ad- 

 minister religious aid to the prisoners. " On Satur- 

 day, the 10th inst., in pursuance of the notice, about 

 five hundred citizens of Bourbon, from which were 

 added some from Scott and Harrison counties, came 

 into Williamstown in solemn procession and most per- 

 fect order. They had chosen their sheriffs to act for 

 the occasion, and proceeded to the jail, and demanded 

 the prisoners, Maythe and Coucli. The sheriff of 



