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£37 3© 30 27 76 25 100 130 38 40 3i 28^15 85 30 130 a JO<J 5 « 6 a 4 50* 5 JO 4 75 CARGO AND WHOLESALE PRICES CLRRENT IN NEW YORK, FOR THE WEEK ENDING JULY 12. Extracted from the New York Daily Advertiser, ASHES—The stock at market unsold is small, but the great fall in Liverpool annrunc d by the accounts per London Packet to 33d of May, induced the purchasers to hold off They of- fered 50/. for Pots, but thc holders were unwil- ling to meet them, except in one or two ir.ftan- ccs, in which sales were made at 50/. and 51/. A few bbls. Pearls were sold at 57/. Expert, from the id of January, 1823, to the id of July : — Pot and Pearl Ames 4,473 ton8 BE \NS, (cask) - - COTTON. Uplands, new n£ a ij j Alabama Il£ a 14J Louifiana 16 a 17 j Sea Island 14 « COFFEE—Havana, Porto Rico and Laguira, inferior - - 231*23' Do superior - - - 24 = a 2,5 St. Domingo 1%) a 23 | Java.nom. 24, a 25 CANDLES—dipped 10 «io : c j Sperm 25 a 28 Do mould 12 a 13 I Wax 60 CHOCOLATE—We quote 1 NewYorki6 alj Boston, - 12 a 20 \ Albany 15 « »8 COCOA Caraccas 2% a 28 jc I Cayenne 13 <* 13 50 Do Island 11 a 12 | Surinam 13 a 13 50 COPPER—Wc quote Sheathing 25 Brazien' 30J15PC. Pig 17 Bolts 29i4P-'h. Old 17 DUCK—We quote I American 14 Ru3sia, iftq. 18 50*19 50 | Dutch 25* Ravens 9 75*10 25 I Diap. bd. 3a Russ. Sheet'g. 13 a | Do nar. none DYE WOODS—Our rates may be considered as the fai' market prices. Very little is doing consequently prices are fteady Logwood, Campeachy Do. St. Domingo Do. Bay Do. Jamaica Nicaragua Wood Fuftic Haclie Camwood Erazillctto Copperas Alum Chalk Cochineal FISH—We quote thc store prices for this ar tide:—(July 5th) Cod Shoal Engl, cured * Mackerel, No. 1 Do No. 2 Do No. 3 Salmon, pickled, none Do Herrings, (Digby) Do faffamaquody, No. 1 Do do No. a FRUIT—Raisins, Malaga 7 « w Bloom(box)2 25 a \ Muscatel 2 50a \ Bunch 2 6lha \ Smyrna, (lb.) 4 < Almonds, foft shell, 13 < Do shelled 14 < Currants \ FLOUR—We repeat our quotations week ; the market continues dull, and the flip plies quite limited : — New York luperfine Do Western Richmond city Baltimore Philadelphia Petersburg, fine Fredericksburg, -\ Alexandria, and C Richmond Canal 3 Rye Flour Indian Meal in Hkd. Do in bbl. GRAIN—We quote Northern Wheat Virginia do North Carolina Rye Northern Corn, yellow Do white Southern do Oats £ x port, from the iff of January, 1823, to the ift of July:— Flour 52,8x7bbls I Indian Cornii5,79 obu8 - Rye Meal 7892 \ J Meal i8,582bbls GLASS—We quote this article as follows, per t<50 feet: Bristol Crown, 6X8 Do 7X9 Do 8X10 Do 10X11 American, (Briflol, 7 N.Y.) 7X9 J Do 8X10 Do 10X12 Do larger sizes, afforted GUNPOWDER—We quote English (*5lb.). 6 50 a 7 | American^ 8 * 9 o 50 a 1 5° 8 . a 9 9 a 9 25 16 a tl 15 9 5° a 9 a Mace 225 * 250 Nurmegs 156 A 160 Pepper 19 * 10 pimento 28 ? 3° H5 a 80 a 100 85 a 65 \ 75 31 a 86 a 90 a 50 \ 34 « 27 a 30 a SUGARS—Mutcovadoc* St Croix New Orleans, Eaft India Loaf Sugar Lump do SHOT—Buck, (cwt ) Patent afforted SPICES— Caflia,(lb) 36 a 38c Cinnamon 130 a 250 Cloves 100 a io6| Ginger, Race 4 a 4 Do Ground 5 a 6 SPIRITS—Brandy, Bord'x. H» « Do Seignette's - Jamaica Rum St. Croix Rum W I. Rum New Rum Gin, Schiedam Swan White's Gin Country Gin Whiskey Cider Brandy ST EEL— . *. German, lb. 10 a 14 I Crawley 10 a 12 7 . * P- Do.Swedish 5* 1 6 J Bliftered 12*15 V c y l TEAS-Hyfon 9 oaio6c. I Gunpow. I*5\I350 Young Hvfon 90a 104 Impend i*J aI 30 • Souchong 70 3 75 * 3 75 * smoked, 18c 1 50 a 1 56 60 a 70 S3 a 60 \ £ 34 90 92 39 28 32 Hyfon Skin 53' 60 I Souchong 7° Bohea 25* 28 j Pouchong 75 North Carolina TOBACCO— Richmond 4 a 8c Petersburg 5 a 7 Kentucky $\a 6 WINES — Madeira $J 75 a 3 50 J Port Teneriffe 75 a 1 50 | Malaga W < X—Bees' 34 a | Do White WOOL—American, merino full 7 blood, ift quality 3 half blood do - three quarter blood do Cuba r 2***4 St. Domingo i> * I 3 I 44 * * *5 6 a (>5 5o a 60 Skin wool, hatters ift quality Do do 2d Do do 3d Spinning Wool ift Do do ad Do do 3d uncertain do r 5 16 15 of laft $7 37'a 7 50 7 25a 7 37 7 37.\ 7 50 7 7 25 3 50 a ij 50 3 25 « 3 37$ none do I 46 a I 56 63 a 63 56 a 58 60 a 61 a 35 XI 12 13 6 10 25 n 25 12 50 13 50 6 50 7 121 8 50 10 EXCHANGE. Bills on London 6od. Do Britifh Gov't. Do France Do Amfttrdam Drafts on Bofton Do Philadelphia Do Baltimore Do Virginia Do North Carolina Do Charleston Do Savannah Do New Orleans Guineas, heavy Gold, Portuguefe . - American - \ Doubloons Spanish Dollars fa a- 65c. 4 5 a 50 5<? o 53 35 \37 6<? \ 62] 4 c3 a a 28 35 \ 40 25 \ 3° %0 a 6 a 6% P rem ' none. 5 37 / 39-5 * par a par a i d j»' i dis. l O a ioj 3 <* 3* jO a IOA 104 1 ? a 105 101 a 10i h XOl « 101 15 70 * J 5 76 100J ««ooi a b 18 II 19c 15 14 a 15 7 « ?95 «I05 105 ali2c, 60 a 80c 18 a 22 25 « 37 25 a 40 HIDES—Buenos Ayres Weft India Brazil Green Hides Horfe Hides Calcutta, salted Do dry Goat Skins, Madras Do Curacoa Do Mogadore HEMP—Very dull at 165 a 170 per ton. INDIGO—Dull at our rates, Flotant 2 25 a a 50 Bengal . 2 50 a a 75 IRON—We quote J Swedes , 87*90 Pig, (ton) 30 a 50 [ Englifii, affort. 75 a 77 Country 75 * 80 I Sheet 6 a 7 50 Ruffia 86 a 91 I Hoop 6 a 7 50 LEATHER—Sole, infpected, best 25 a 28creport, Do do do good 21a 23 Upper, dreffed, (side) 2 2 j a 2 85 ? 30 per « undreffed j 73 a 2 103 cent. MOLASSES— Havana & Matanzas, j Eng. Bland 25 a 27 infer, to midd'g. 24 a c | Demarara 25 a 27 Do fuperior 25 a 17 J New Orl's. 28 a 30 Guadaloupe 25 a 27 | Sugarhouse40 a OILS—Whale 15 a % j c , j Olive 116 Sperm, fum. std.40 a 4i J Elephant 27 a 30 Do winter std 53 a 56 I Linfced 55 Cod Oil IQ a n I Shore (bbl) 5 9 a PROVISIONS-^ B 0t h Beef and Pork have ad- vanced, and become brisk. We quote an ad- vance :— Beef,prime 6 37 a 6 50 j Butter 7 a 17c mcis 9 75 a 10 I Lard 7*9 Pork,prime 9 75 a 10 J Cheefe in cask 7 \ 9 mess 13 50 a in box 7*9 Export, from the ift of January, 1823, to the ift of July ;— Beef 7,50ibbU. Butter 3346kegs Pork 7,88bbU. 9 Lard 10,89 ikegs Hims& Bacon 7 4 g. cwt . Cheefe 320cwt.5°9 R \GS—Foreign, cwtc 7 a 10o | American 4* RICE— - . - 3 5° a 4 SALT— Turks Uland ^ Liverpool, grd. 4 8 aa 5 D fine 44 Cadiz 4« * 4 French 20 and 40f. ps. nominal. NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS' There has been in our country, » £jreat deal of puling lamentation over (he encroachment of the white people upon the red, as \ the wave of popula- tion\ has rolled westward ; and the final disappearance ofthe Indians has ° <ten been spoken of, as an evrnt to be most deeply deplored. The humane senti- ments, which have mingled with this la- mentation, we unfeignedly respect j bul we do think the commiseration,* l not wholly misplaced, has generally beert . xtravagant, and strikingly inconsistent. The very projects, which hav<? been tormed for the behoof of the nati ves > b 5' those whose bowels have most yearned with Indian philanthropy, have usually iieen calculated in the most direct man- ner to defeat the end proposed. We have nowhere seen this subject more sensibly handled, than in the No. of North American Keview for January last, in an article on the state of the ln dians, from which we offer our readers an extract. In the forepart of lhp ex tract the subject ofthe ultimate extinc- tion of the Indians, is treated; aml ,n the latter part, the inconsistency alluded to, is forcibly exhibited. After showing that there is b ut ,lU le olid foundation for the compia int that our red brethren have been treated with injustice ; that their numbers have not been thinned by force and fraud, but that they have receded before the whiles, through the necessary and just operation of the principles of civiliza tion, the reviewer proceeds to a s ^ : Ed. «ent. St.Ubc* 52 a l»le of May, nori e Lisbon 50 SALTPETRE SEED— Clover, (lb.) 8 1 ^' erd8 . Gra« i»* \ 5© SUGARS-.Hava n ^ b >^ n °° vrhitc,new \Crude 8 a c | Refined 9 * J Timothy,csk.i7 a 17 9 75 a 10 25 13 a 14 Rut if riot an injured and opP resse( ' race, still is not their extinction dis- appearance from the face ofthe earth a great calamity, a subject ol mel anch ^V reflection? Dr. Morse, (whose book on the condition of the Indiands is the sub- ject of the review,) at the close ot his thus expresses himself- < \^ (! these circumstances, they become lated, among those who despise them as an inferior race, tit companions of those only, who have the capacity and dispo- sition to corrupt them. In this degrad- ed, most disconsolate and heart breaking situation, in which man can be placed, they are left miserably to waste away for a few generation-*, and then to be- come extinct for ever ! This it n° j»*> cied picture. In a few years it »™M be sad reality, unless we change P 0 ' 1 - cy toward them; unless effectual meas- ures be taken to bring them over this awful gulf, to the solid and safe ground of civilization. How many tribes, once numerous and respectable, have in suc- cession perished, in the manner describ- ed from the fair and productive territo- ries, now possessed by and giving sup- port to TEN MILLIONS.\ In confirmation of these feelings of his own, the Doctor quotes the following impassioned passage from a sermon,e ofthe), Uev. Mr- Clarke, of Amherst (Mass. \ I hearg too the voice ofth savage soundin f rora lhe bosom of the trackless forest And there is in that cry a wild and native elo- quence. ' You have stripped us of our hunting ground, all in life that we held dear ; you have corrupted our morals ; our tribes, already incalculably dimin- ished, have nothing before them but the dreary idea of being swallowed up, un- less it be the more fearful apprehension of perishing for ever in our sins Once w<- were the heirs of your soil; we now only ask to die the heirs of that salva- tion wich is revealed to you in your bi- bles ' A cry like this has been uttered and is heard. Already the heralds of salvation have gone to look up the rem- nants of their depopulated tribes and point them to a Saviour. Their sun is setting in the west, and we should give evidence that we had their unpitying nature as well as their soil, were we wiliMQg to see it go down in total dark- ness. Jfthe few that remain may live for ever',- it alleviates the retrospect of their wroi>gs, and creates one luminous spot in the Egyptian cloud, that hangs over the place of their fathers' sepul- chres. I would\ give any price for their forgiveness and bJessing ; and it cheers my heart, that my country is beginning to pay the long arrears, that are due to that injured people.\' We shall presently hav'e an opportu- nity of saying that we wisN success as heartily as any one can, to f/Ue efforts making, particularly among tho Chero- kees and Choctaws, for the instruction and civilization ofthe Indians. We have made these quotations for the sake of making a remark on the supposed mel- ancholy fact of the disappearance and extinction of the natives of this country. We are much mistaken, if it be not one of those confusions of ideas, which re- sult from rhetoric turned into logic. Has any thingfd happenedsts to, thee nativeaso inhabitantst o thi countryet which h no happene a the sam tims t thed whites, which ha no alway happene in all ages and to all the tribes of men ? The natives driven from the soil, de- stroyed, extinguished! What then, would they not have died ; is it the Eu- ropeans, that have made them mortal and their generations transitory ? To hear the language sometimes used, in this connexion, one would suppose it to be thought, thai but for the arrival of the Europeans, the aborigines would have been imnwrtal on earth ; that it was the discovery of Columbus, that Brought death alo the land and all their woe. If this is not the melancholy event, that is deplored, if itis gran'ed that the In- dians would haTe died in the course .of nature, then nothing is left to lament but that, in proportion as the Indian gene- rations passed of, civilized generations have come on. And is it a real subject of complaint that hunting grounds are turned into cornfields, that their vast forests which yielded a precarious sub- sistence to wangling savages, are the seats of prosperous and civilized villag- es ? Had not tlie Europeans come, the Indians would have died in the course of nature as be tore, and been succeed- ed by other generations of Indians, to lead a barbarous and wretched life, and die like their fathers. The Europeans came; and—hj causes as simple and natural, as the* are innocent—the bar barous population, as it has passed off, has been replaced by one much better, much happier. Does any one doubt that m^n, the human mind, the human soul, stands higher in a civilized, than in a barbarouHountry ? And is it a cause of melancholy, that these dreary \vildernesses, a '(>ur fathers found them, have been turned into the happy abodes of ci'vihzed christian men ? But' the In dians are disappearing, wasting away !' So are we, ; woree no more permanent,n than they w >te all disappearing ande wasting r3ut ,,hi, e we do abl(k ' lt ,S better that wc* k civilized tha savag ; and it is no just cause of melancholy re- flection, Miat so much barbarity, heath- enism, and moral degradation, have been succeeded by so much improvement aud civilization.— u How many tribes once numerous and respectable have in sue cession perished, in the manner describ ed, from the fair and productive territo- ries, now possessed by and supporting ten millions of people /\ W e can scarce persuade ourselves that it is really in- tended as the climax of a mournful case that ten millions of civilized men, pros perously cultivating the arts of peaceful life, and governed by its laws and prin ciples, have succeeded to perhaps th' twentieth part of that number of wan dering, abject barbarians. When we wish for the progress of knowledge, Christianity, and happiness, it is not surely red and black men alone, that we wish to have them; and we would ask what plan or device of benevolence act ing upon the Indians could, in ages, have brought forth the glorious result often millions of a population like ours Lei others then mourn over extinguished Pequods, and lament the vanished tribe of Naticks and Narragansetts ;—for onr selves, while we would not insult the inferiority oftheir savage races, we re joice in the memory of the pilgrims Ample experience has shown that the contemporary existence of the Europe- ans and savages was impossible, and the natives of Pennsylvania, under the mild influence of the principles of Penn, have vanished more rapidly than those 0 Mexico and Peru, under the merciles oppression of Mitas and Repartimientos. Since then it was not possible that the savage races could be perpetuated and the civilized settlements Hourish, we see neither matter of regret nor commise- ration in the course which events have taken.fd Somewhereee hs the coursee, ofthe.e work beforn us, it isr in substanc said- that i th governmente in N\nv England ha take th prope measures th In dians would have existed there to the present day. We T profess ourselves un- able to comprehend the advantage of such a result It is a very plain alter- native of an Indian and a civilized pop- ulation. For ourselves, we like our neighbors and fellow citizens so well, amfhave derived from history ami ob- servation such ideas of the Indian char- acter, that we are thankful our forefa- thers took no effectual steps (supposing there were any such) to perpetuate it. At the same time, however, the truth ought to be told. Our fathers really miitted nothing which seemed practica- le for promoting the welfare ofthe In- dians. At one period there were thirty Indian churches within a small circuit of Boston, all built by private or public charity,—some served by pious white men, -some by natives, on whose edu- cation no pains had been spared ; while an uncommonly vigilant police watched over tho rights and property of their race If tl is was not all that could be sked of men, who had their own chil- dren, their own community, their own interests to work hard for, we are much deceived; audio short we regard the. disappearance of the natives in New- England as ful! and final proof, that t ir preservation, withiiri tho; limits of a white population, is impracticable. We beg leave then to repeat, that the commiseration, of which we have been speaking, seems founded on a figure oi speech^ badly applied to real life. Men have talked ofthe melancholy vanishing of the native tribes, as if but for the Eu- ropeans, the successive tribes would net have vanished; and forgetting that the hunting ground of fifty savage families^ would Teed and does feed a large city of civilized christians. Had the Indian! been murdered to make way ihesej Ai angers, it would have been a deedof. undying infamy; and such deeds, we know, were done in many parts of the continent of America. But among the | alleviations, which Providence has con- nected with our mortal nature, is this, that it provides a way for happy im- provements, without cruel substitutions. It is not necessary to kill a bad man un- ' less the case be extreme ;—he will die. It is not necessary to exterminate a sav- age tribe ;—place the germ of civiliza- tion in their soil—and such is its living- principle, such the vis conservatriz ofthe arts of civilized life, that it will strike root, shoot up, and spread. Place a set- tlement of civilized men on a barbarous shore, and extend to them reasonable political muniments, and they will be sure, in the course of ages, to super- sede the barbarous population, and by necessity ;—for if barbarity were mere. enduring, more permanent, more con- lucive to the increase and stability of -.Mipolation, more congenial to the \hu- man nature, as it would in this case be proved to be, t en it would be better than civilization. One more remark and we close this portion of our reflections. The incon- -iderateness of the commiseration of the supposed disastrous lot ofthe natives is in nothing more apparent, than in the suggestions made for the benefit of the savage tribes, which still subsist. We lament that they have vanished : we would^take measures to preserve the present stock. But what is it we would preserve? Their languages ? that first great bond and symbol of national iden-| | tity, curious as many of their languages • ire in their structure, and perhaps the ^l only historical monument of their an^'| cient emigrations, affinities, and for- tunes? Would we preserve these ? 0m io. It is recommended at once, to hast- en these into oblivion. Dr. Morse, in • his appendix, expressly says, \ as fast as possible, let Indians forget their own;: , languages, in which nothing is written, and nothing of course can be preserved, and learn ours, which will at once open to them the whole field of useful know ^ll ledge.\ Is it their mode of life, tenure :.| of property in common, their mannersM| —that which makes them in all extefMl nals to be what they are :—is it these;, which we deplore as lost, and would fix and perpetuate where they still exist? No. The whole drift of Dr. Morse's speculations on the subject is to gather tlie Indians all into convenient settle- ments, wean them from the chare, teach them individually to hold a farm in fee}! | and plough and dig it. Is it their na- tional faith, the religion oftheir fathers^, tieir traditions, that we would cherish and perpetuate among them? Far fmrfl it. Ifeeir religious conceptions are no- toriously of the grossest and most dc- -; grading kind, their traditions mere, bloody recollections of prisoners scalped]: and tomahawked. Is there any thinj? left then (hit we wish in fact to pre- serve ? Nothing, in the hst analysis, but • the copper colour ; and why a civilized,, christianized person, speaking our lan- guage, subsisting: by regular labor. I s I any the better for being copper colored, • we cannot see. But some will not leave | them even this. Dr. Morse quotes a respectable Frenchman, who strongl)' recommends intermarriages, and is evi* J lently not unfriendly himself to the sug' > gestion ; and the advantages are that d will ameliorate the manners ofthe « a ' lives, andayef, the offspring be nearly whtt^ All thiss m bee.r well, but.s whate.se become*ynne meantimtivemanners ofths Indianse, Thf verr e*\ ficacyreliifion.They o thi courss i tod haste lhei f disappearance This theo shrewde na-;\ themselve understand I'he know that thei identity consist i the» languages m o life, a know that to chang these* to thake them speak Engli-h, live 0 farms, and practise the civilized a f would be most directly to annih'l 11 ^ them a« Indians ! If this is the ten« e £ cj of their civilization, Bnd if, on a la f ^ stale of bene volence, we wish the P r
