THE FARMERS- REGISTER. 



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tribes on the other side of the Missouri, to eno;at>;e 

 in a war of extermination anjainst the Sioux. They 

 have sent the wauipum to the Sac and Fox villages 

 on tlie Des Moines, and the prospect of soon receiviiii; 

 their annuity only prevents them from joining the 

 coalition. Gen. Chambers has promptly taken mea- 

 sures to put down hostilities between the tribes. 



The Harrisburoj (Pa.) Inteliiejencer states that there 

 are at least 200 acres planted with tobacco in York coun- 

 ty this season. The crop is said to look well, much 

 better than any between Baltimore and Washington. 



Important from Havana. — The correspondent of 

 the Philadelpliia Gazette, writing from Havana on 

 the 2ath of August, says that a rumor was circula- 

 ting that England had ilemanded from the Spanish 

 government a fulfilment of the treaty of 1828, for 

 the suppression of the slave trade, and required the 

 government of Cuba to give up all slaves imported 

 since that date. Also, that 6000 troops were to 

 embark immediately at Cadiz for Cuba, and that the 

 fortifications of the island were to be put in a state 

 of efficiency. It was reported, also, that the Canary 

 Islands had declared themselves independent of Spain. 



The " Extra Session" adjourned on Monday. The 

 Senate was occupied the whole day in the considera- 

 tion of executive appointments. In addition to the 

 members of the new cabinet, given above, the follow- 

 ing important appointments have been confirmed : 



Edward Everett, to be minister to Great Britain. 



Wm. Hunter, (now charge d'atfaires,) to be minis- 

 ter to Rio de Janeiro. 



■ Wm. Boulware, of Virginia, charge d'affaires to 

 Naples. 



James D. Doty, Governor of Wisconsin. 



Bela Badger and Mr. Ritner have been rejected by 

 the Senate. The appointment of Isaac Roach, as 

 treasurer of the mint at Philadelphia, has been con- 

 firmed, vice Joseph Ritner, rejected. 



Friday, September 24, 1841. 



News of the arrival from England of two steam- 

 ships, the Great Western and the Caledonia, has 

 been received since our last week's publication. 



The new parliament had met, and the Whig minis- 

 try had been defeated, by a majority of 91, and had 

 consequently resigned. The forming of the new 

 Tory ministry was confided by the queen to Sir Ro- 

 bert Peel, who will of course be its head. 



A debate had taken place in the house of Com- 

 mons, on the case of McLeod, in which it ap|)eared 

 that the British government were content to let things 

 take their course, being assured of the ultimate dis- 

 charge of McLeod. The previous rumors of war 

 impending, on this score, had no foundation. 



The prospect of the harvest in England was much 

 more favorable, and of course that of continued high 

 prices for wheat here less so. 



The cotton market has been getting worse. Great 

 losses are expected to fall upon the buyers, and ship- 

 pers from the United States. There is great distress 

 among the manufacturing population of Great Britain. 



The war of Russia against the Circassians is push- 

 ed with vigor, but with very little success to the arms 

 of the former power. 



"The Stuttgard Gazette states, under date of Vienna, 

 that the finances of Austria were in a most embarrassed 

 situation, and that all commercial enterprise was com- 

 pletely paralyzed." [Austria is a paper money coun- 

 try.] 



A German commercial firm, Essenwein and Co. 

 which had houses in New York, Philadelphia an^ 

 Liverpool, lately failed for $900,000 and the principal 

 had absconded and gone to Europe before the explo- 

 sion took place. We are sorry to learn that many 

 tobacco dealers in Virginia will lose by this bankrupt- 

 cy, and particularly the tobacco manufacturers of the 



smaller towns, who had trusted principally to this 

 concern. 



The executive of Virginia are in a diiTiculty, or 

 have created one, about the Wheeling Bank notes 

 (which had depreciated as much as 15 per cent, or 

 iDore,^ for taxes, and have the matter now under de- 

 liberation. Tiie executive have no power in the 

 c\se. The law has declared all the notes of the banks 

 of Virginia receivable for taxes to the state — and so 

 it must remain until that law be repealed, even if the 

 depreciation of Wheeling notes were 50 per cent., 

 and the sheriti's were to pay in the whole revenue (or 

 its nominal amount) in those notes. We trust that 

 the present lesson and loss to the state will be severe 

 enough to compel the repeal of this general security- 

 ship by the people for all banlc notes of Virginia, 

 even if it should be of broken and totally discredited 

 banks. 



"The public are cautioned by the Buffalo papers 

 against issues from the Butler County Bank and Ha- 

 milton County Bank. They are represented as not 

 worth a cent." 



A New-Orleans paper says — " Intelligence has 

 been received here that an individual calling him- 

 self John P. Caldwell has forged a letter of credit for 

 $25,000 from the house of Maunsel White & Co. of 

 this city, upon the banking house of Brown, Bro- 

 thers & Co. in New York, which latter firm is a 

 branch of the English firm of that name in Liver- 

 pool." He obtained the money. 



" The New York American states that Caldwell, 

 the man who committed the successful forgery upon 

 Brown, Brothers 8t Co., of that city, also operated 

 upon another house in the same way, and for the same 

 amount. The agent in New York of the Liverpool 

 house of Fletcher, Alexander & Co. was induced by a 

 letter of credit similar in all respects to the one re- 

 ceived by Brown, Brothers & Co. to advance to the 

 same man Caldwell precisely the same amount, 

 $26,000, upon the same number of bales of cotton. 

 The rogue has succeeded in getting already about 

 $52,000, and perhaps may have repeated the operation 

 in other quarters. Both letters of credit were receiv- 

 ed by the same jpail." [Qne of these amounts of 

 $25,000, the financier chose to receive in southern 

 paper, and had regular and correct checks on the 

 Richmond banks which he drew in person.] 



The Havre packet which sailed Sept. 16 from New 

 York took out $240,000 in specie. So writes the 

 New York correspondent of the National Intelligencer. 

 And the New York American, another ultra bankite, 

 reports that the whole amount of specie exported from 

 New York to Europe during the first two weeks 

 of the present month of September, was $718,443 — of 

 which $267,736 went toHavre, and $456,704to London. 



The following extract is from a letter from a gen- 

 tleman in Baltimore who is well informed as to bank- 

 ing operations. It was written September IS, 1841. 

 " There is probably no point in the United States, 

 where there is such regular and systematic effort to 

 depreciate its currency as in Virginia, considering the 

 extent of the trade." 



It has been ascertained, by a steam expedition sent 

 by the British government, that the Euphrates is navi- 

 gable more than 1000 miles ; and by using that river 

 for steamers and the Orontes, emptying into the 

 Mediterranean, and only 45 leagues of easy land car- 

 riage between, that this new route to India will be 

 greatly the most to be preferred. This information 

 must have important effects on the interest and com- 

 merce of England, and the world. 



The news from Canton (to April 20,) adds nothing 

 material. Negotiations were still proceeding very slow- 

 ly. No more warlike operations since the previous 

 accounts. 



