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lIIMIIWMMIIIIIi !!■!■ ■ >1 ■■■ ■ HUH I AUGUSTA AND GEORGIA ftWtrtt**** BY T. S. HANNON. TERMS. For th«» City nnprr, (thv’w'e a week.) S'X Dollars 1 per annum, payable iu ad van re, or Seven Dollars I if not paid before cUe end of the y»'nr. ! For the Country paper, fonre n week,) Three Pol- 1 b»r« per annum, payable in advnnee, or I our Dol lars, ifn.it paid betore the end of i*J»e year. Anv order from a responsible mUscviher to dis rontinue his paper will be* complied \vitb on a set tlement of dues, and not before. A Inert be units w ill he i nserted at the following rates For tbc first I wenion, per square, Rlxty two and a halt cents*, for each subsequent, J st/'rr«- sive, insertion, Forty three ami three quarter cents: In all other rases 02 1-2 cents per senare. When an advertisement is sent, without a speci fication in writing of the number of insertions, it will he puhlished'uiilil ordered out, ami charged accord inglv. LFTTEJS, (on business) must be poSl-pnUl—or they may not meet with attention. Tje Tn this paper the Laws of the United States are published. « ■■■!■■_■ !_i , i!! i - gl "- Tl ■ i 111 1"! iL-igy- ygau j From Porter's Travels in Georgia, Persia, Baby ■nia, if. BABYLON. tc It was nut till after the destruc tion of Ninivel) by the father of Nebuchadnezzar, that Babylon at tained its acme of glory under that great prince himself. And in ad vancing towards its prodigious re mains. it may not be disagreeable to refresh our memory of the subject a little by a clear view of the city, as it is represented in the descriptions of our best authorities. According to Herodotus, the walls wore GO miles in circumference, built of large bricks, cemented together with bitumen, and raised round the city in the form of an exact square ; hence they measured la miles along each face. They were 87 feet thick, and 350 high, protected on the out side by a vast ditch lined with the same materials, and proportioned in depth and width to the elevation of the walls. They wore entered by 25 gates on each side, made of solid brass and additionally strengthened by 250 towers. Within these walls rose the multitudinous streets, palaces and other great works of Babylon; including the temple of Helus, the hanging gardens, and all the magni licence which constituted litis city the wonder of the world. A branch of the Euphrates flowed through the city, front the north to (he south; and was crossed by a strong bridge, con structed at the foundation, of large stones fastened together with lead and iron. W hile it was building, the course of the river was turned into a large basin, to the west end of the town, which had been cut to the ex-1 tent ot 40 square miles, and 75 feet deep, for a yet nobler purpose ; to 1 receive the same ample stream, while the great artificial banks were erect ing of brick on each side of the bed, ol the river, to secure the country from its too abundant overflow.— Canals were cut for this purpose also ; one of these led to the immense, basin already described which, when > required, disembogued the fiver into its immense bosom; and always con tinued to receive its superflux; re turning the water when necessary by various sluices to fructify the ground. During the three great empires of the cast, no tract of the whole appears to have been so reputed for fertility and riches as the district of Babylonia;; and till arising from the due manage ment of this mighty stream. Hero dotus mentions, that even when re- i ditced to the rank of a province, it] yielded a revenue to the kings of] . Persia that comprised half their in-' come. And the terms in which the scriptures describe its natural, as well as acquired supremacy, when it was the imperial city, evidence the same facts. They call it “ Babylon.! the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of{ the ( alldee’s excellency. The Lady' of Kingdoms, given to pleasure; that dwelt earth-sly, and sayest in her I Be irt, I net, and there is none else! beside me/’ But now, in the same 1 expressive language, wc may say,l 'L'iie sits as a widow on the ground. I —1 here is no more a throne for thee, O daughter of the Chaldeeans.”—•! And, for the abundance of the conn try, it has vanished as clean away, ms it the “ besom of desolation” had indeed swept it from north to south ; the whole lapd, from the outskirts of Bagdad to the farthest streatcb of sight, lying a melancholy waste.” “ After a ride of newly awakening inf est at almost every turn of our heads/ We arrived at 'the Khaim of) '• *'lg f ' Siiltein m.£ ttbogt eight miles ! from J.kanderia. ’ Here we halted to refresh our horses, and regale nur se!, es with coffee ; a bev rage much in flavour by our Arab boat , '■ ' I adding a few doves toils composition, n Close to "this place the road is inter- C seated by a canal, full of water in the a earlier part of the year; but when we h passed it not a drop of the genial fluid was to be seen. An hour more, how- d ever, brought us in view of something d like moisture and vegetation; the n date trees of the village of Mahowil v rose before us: and they were the ft first frees of any kind we had seen e sin;e we quitted Bagdad. Mahowil tl lies four miles from the Badge’s It Chaim; and is only separated from a the plain more immediately connect- o ed with the remains of Babylon, by; e the embankments of two once noble j v canals, very near each other, and running almost due east and west.— U< Tn the first, which we crossed by a i v brick bridge, we saw water. These r canals seem at present to be regarded j'! jas the boundary, whence the decided! o | vestiges of the great city commence: li ! —and we soon discovered their wide-1 d ]| spreading trucks. In crossing the I 1 bridge which leads to those immense j a tumuli of temples, palaces, and lut-id . man habitations of every description; b • now buried in shapeless heaps, and a; t , silence protun Jas the grave; ! could t not hut feel an undesrribable awe, in | r i thus passing, as it were, into the gales 1 1 of 4 "' fallen Babylon.” j r Between this bridge and Hillah' t | (something more than eight miles p distant,) three piles of great magni-[ ' tude, particularly attract attention ; | p but there ore a great many minor is objects to arrest investigation in the, i; vi a}’. * * * * j u An hour and a quarter more bro't a ■ us to the northeast shore of the Eu- g • phrates, hitherto, totally excluded 1; from our view by the intervening 1 p long and varied lines of ruin, which ti now proclaimed to us on every side, c that we were, indeed in the midst of v what had been Babylon, from the s point on which we stood, to the base tl of Mujdibe,large masses of ancient q . foundations spread on our right, more | c i resembling natural hills in appear-If ance, than mounds covering the re-j mains of former great and splendid la ] edifices. To the eastward also, c chains of these undulating heaps t were visible but many not higher s than the generality of the canal cm- a bankments we had passed. The! I w hole view was particularly solemn, 1 f The majestic stream of the Euphrates s wandering in solitude, like a pilgrim ti . monarch though the silent ruins of s< his devastated kingdom, still appear- 1 cd a noble river, even under all the i ti disadvantages of its desert-tfacked b course. Its banks were hoary with I s retd .3, oucl the grey osier willows li were }et there, on which.the captives ti of Israel hung their harps, and while, v Scrusakw was not refused to bo com-! c sorted. But bow is the rest of the a . scene changed since then! At that I time, these broken hills were palaces; f those long undulating mounds, streets; i this vast solitude, filled with the busy | u subjects of the proud daughters ot j a the East! Now, “ wanted with mis - 1 , cry,” her habitations are not to be J found, and for herself “ the town is a sjjrtud over her .” t FROM TICE LITERARY "GAZETTE. 1 I —1 THE DEVIL. Lc Dinhle print par liti meme, by Collin C de Planey, anllmr c f the Piclionnaire 1 | infernal. (From tbr Frerrh ) r Talent is not sufficient tn recoin-' j mend the historian. He must have i f a hero, and if possible a novel one.— 1 ( | From Achilles down to Charles XII, 1 f ‘ and even to a later period, id I great : j, actions have been bo carefully re- i corded that the majority of ptmegy- { rists and poets have been obliged to j > extol vices for want of virtues ; and c the writer who is now required to•, bring a great character before the;, world, docs not well know where to | look for one. Distinguished men,, have in all ages been rare; and as!, ' soon as a little hern rises up, twenty ( historians rush forward to carry him j ■' off in triumph, and scarcely allowl. ■ j him time to finish his exploits. j M. Collin do LLncy, after the ex-1! 'ample of Dante, has descended to I, the infernal regions inquest of his I, heroes. In his Dleiumnnirr infer-• j nrri he made ns acquainted with the t j mighty deeds of spectres and phan-q | toms, and the gambols of fairies, I , gnomes, Arc. Now he presents ur. 1 ! with the king of all noctauiludarv i beings-—it is Satan, Beelzebub, Pluto. , i Annuities, Tentates, or Lucifer— , I finally, it is the Devil himself. Hitherto we have been enabled to | 1 form but very imperfect notions of j I the above singular personage: when , j we speak of him our language con- , I veys no definite idea. He is con jut - - f ed up on every occasion; his name is a continual source of contradiction , and absurdity» and all because we do not know him sufficiently. Thus. , a trank, obliging man is called a good mit 'tred devil; one of hold and do- , termin/d disposition is a devil of a ] man,; a person who excites our com j passion is a poor devil; an entertain-, j iug man is devilish witty ; whe n out of humour with ourselves we wish the devil may take its ; of a trouble- 1 some affair we say the devil is tn it; 1 a man who wants ins dinner says he. t is d‘si fish hungry jif he lias no mo* 1 1 ney lie says the Devil is ill his purse, i Cnsoquently, it is impossible to form s my precise idea of the nature of this 1 hero of the infernal regions, ; By some, Ids satanic majesty is 1 described as having bat’s wings, i duck’s feet, cars like mushroom, a i nose nine inches long, the tusks of a r wild boar, and horns which he can I turn back at pleasure, when he wish- i es to travel incognito. Others assert \ that he is a winged serpent, or that t he has an eagle’s beak, a cloven foot, t and is entirely black. '1 he natives s of iSigritia, however, for reasons equally good, maintain that he is I white. ,i But perhaps it is more interesting r to ascertain what form Satan assumes s when lie slips into onr houses, or r ranges through the fields at midnight s This is the inextricable difficulty : for I r of the many ingenious persons who 1 c have been favored with a sight of the i t devil, there are not two who agree. -f-1 He is said to bo capable of assuming j c any form be pleases. Sometimes ho v disposes himself as a goat, a haveJa 1 s black-bird, a toad, or a frog; at other! g times he transforms himself into tSeit trunk of a tree, a sollad, a coifs head,, t nr a hogshead of wine. Many ladies j i have seen him in the disguise of aI i monk, and monks have known him > to assume the term and features of a t pretty woman. i In India, where he is exceedingly f pompous, ho nevertheless corule- 1 seen Is to shew himself whenever lie is asked; it is merely necessary to utter a fervent prayer for his appear ance. There, if we may believe the good Jesuit who relates these particu lars, tie appears glittering in gold and f precious stones, attended by,a gay, je- , tinne, surrounded by young virgins,'] escorted by several regiments of ca- ] valry, and a vest troop of elephants ( superbly caparisoned. He grants to') the "mfort'iuate whatever they re-;, quest, recommends charity, and ] orders the rich Indians to give feasts j to the poog. 1 r But these are not the only good I ( actions recorded of the devil; he is j continually spreading Ids nets and j tempting holy persons to the commls sion of sin; he is occasionally honest j and disinterested ; and M. Collin de: | Plancy does his utmost to prove that! ( the infernal monarch frequently re- , stores the sinner to the path of salva tion. Sometimes, indeed, iie is ( severe through excess of goodness.— ; For instance, it was rather cruel to , transform a poor nun into a demoniac. , because, as Gregory the Great relates, j she regaled herself with a lettuce be- j fore site had said her Bcnedicite; or | to forbid a hungry man to eat some , veal, because it happened to bo part j of a descendant in the fifth degree of . a cow that bad been stolen. , On another occasion the devil , proved himself still more austere. — , He appeared under the form of an unknown knight to Count Macon, and carried him ofl in the piesence of ( his terrified guards and attendants.— - 'I he pious historians who relate the . above anecdote, fake rare to add, that | the Count had many sins to Answer ( (or; that he was ip the habit of rob ( bing convents, and that he paid hut , little respect to the clergy. In all ages the f evil has rendered j great service to the learned, for whom , lie has always evinced particular re- , gat'd. ISealiger was said to have en tered into a compact with him. .So- | crates, Apnleius, Agrippa, Cardan, . Gagliostro, arc reported to have had , familiars who inspired them wilhi) knowledge, linger Bacon was prisoned because the Devil taught him mathematics. 'I he Knights t 1 emplars, and .toan of Arc, were ac cused of holding communication with the demons ; ami M. Collin de Plan-j j cy himself would have been burnt a l( hundred times over, had he lived in j j former times and known till the fine 1 things which he now ventures to dis- j [ close. I ( Cur ancestors had so mean an o-l. pinion of the human mind, that they! deemed it incapable of producing L any tiling without the aid of the De, 1 ' il.—John Faust, one of the inven tors of printing, was suspected of holding open communication with the Prince of Darkness. In Swit- ( Zet land the common people entertain so high a notion of his talents, that they attribute to him the construction J ot several master-pieces of architec- | tore. Denis le Chartrciix says, (hat i the devil is a. great geometrician ; ] Milton asserts that he "excels in the ; building of bridges ; and Tertullian informs us tlrat the Devil is so good a natural philosopher that he can (tiny a sieve full of water without spilling a drop. I‘or more ample details we must refer the reader to the work. It doubtless contains some few pages 'vhich timid eyes might-wish to pass over : but it is nevertheless very u musing* and M, Collin de rinncy’j Item is ;ts good as most others. 'i hi Times Round the (Hole Henry Sleeper, stage driver, well known to many of the citizens of T hilacle.pliia and Germantown, who travel in stages between these places. For three and brenty years he has followed his present employment of; t stage driving, most of which time he < has been occupied 5u driving the («er- . mantown stage; during this period I he hits passed over a space daily, '■ including Sunday, of thirty miles — ■ consequently he has rode tun hun dred and Jiffy-one thousand eight j hundred and fifty miles, equal to go-; ing ten times round the glebe ! And 1 what is worthy of remark, lie was never overset hut once, and that when I turning a (bur horse stage in a narrow j street in Philadelphia. Henry is a man of temperate ha-! bits, cheerful disposition, obliging 1 and kind, and those who knew him, 1 always prefer riding with him; and 1 such is their confidence, that young; 1 children are frequently placed in the stage under his care, without parents or friends. He has a wife and five 1 children, whom he supports comfor tably. —[ Village Record. We wish there were more stage drivers like Henry Sleeper. If there j were, we should not hear so often ofj stages being overturned, and passen- 1 gers arms and legs broken. It seems to us, that the owners of Macks, par- j ticularly, employ a very bad class ofj men to drive their vehicles. 'I here i is not a day passes, but we hear ofj some complaints against them : ofat-| tempts made nt extortion, and of the j most shameful abuse from these low fellows, a compliance is not made-, with their villainous demands, [Tew- I ark Doily Adtei liter. FROM THE S. V. AMFIIICAN OCT. FT- By the arrival of (he ship Howard, rapt. Hohlredgo, at thir port last evening in 29 days from Havre, the Editor of the New-Vork American hits received Ins regular files of the Constitutionnel and Journal des De bats to the 14th of September inclu sive, from which we gather the fol lowing items of intelligence:— 1 lie most interesting news furnish ed by this arrival is the following ac count of an unexpected disaster of the Greeks in the Morca. An extract from the Austrian Ob server of the id of September is con tained in the Journal des Debats of the 13th, which represents iiie state of the Greeks to he in a very unfa vorable condition. Chourscbid Pacha hud been nlrea-'j dy tea days in Libadia. A corps ofl 3000 men have been transported to 1 Corinth, wlnse appearance hasp spread consternation throughout the I peninsula. Many of the most im-i port ant families in the Morca have I lately arrived at 'Lante. The onljkj three strong p-laces in the peninsula, now in the possession of the Greeks, I are Corninth, Napoli de JMalvoise, and Navarino, which are in the worst condition for defence, furnished nei ther with provisions nor ammunition. “ AUGSBURG,SEPT. 7- The catastrophe apprehended by the friends of humanity and of the | Greeks, has arrived. The Turkish army has penetrated into the Morca,, both by the Isthmus of Corinth and the Straits of Lepanto.—The Aus trian Observer gives accounts of the j march of Chourscbid towards Co rinth, by Thermopylae. AVe have a I letter from Trieste which gives an account of the manner the invasion j was effected. “ TRIESTE, AUG. 27 . j Letters from Corfu of the 16th Aug. I announce that the Turks had already made an incursion into the Morca fifteen days before the arrival of their fleet. European (Austrian) vessels transported them from Lepanto toi the Southern shore of the Gulf, and Jussuff laclm had advanced fromi i'litras towards Argos. The G reeks armies acting against Chourscbid Pa cha, in Thessaly, are thus threatened in their rear: and if the news of the, defeat of Chourscbid Pacha is not confirmed, the Morca is in great dan ger. The plan of Turkish operation appears to have been designed by; Europeans, and its execution is sup-1 ported throughout by the agents ofj European powers. august 28. Letters from Cephalonia of the 14th August announce the capture of ol A ostiga and Xilomstro by Jussuff Pacha, who was seeking to form a junction with the Turks arrived fromi Lepanto. These two towns have! been burnt, and the inhabitants pul tothe sword. Accordingto thesame letters, Chourscbid Pacha is march- 1 ing upon Corinth, the senate of which 1 has fled and dissolved itself.’’ MEXICAN CONSPIRACY. r l he Philadelphia Gazette of Tues day. contains the Proclamation of the Mexican Emperor, relative to the conspiracy against the Government, 'vita the official orders for unrest ing die conspirators. The project is | dated to have been, either to establish a republic, or place a foreign dynasty on die throne. The autlirrities, by order of ihe Emperor, in pursuance of the law of September 11, 1820, are required forthwith, to arrest all sue.) as shall seem to be accomplices, and institute process against thorn.— ■* he proclamation, signed by Herre ra, states the necessity of taking sum mary measures against riiose concern- i t ed in the conspiracy, and avers the v Idfcperor’s determination to aohere 1 to (he “constitutional representative i i system.”— [Nat. hit. a —.. . .i-.—-™ a — —-t- = ( THURSDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1«2?. , For the Chronicle and yldvertiser j I TO SOCRATES. J Sir—l hardly know in what man- i ner to commence my address to you, j so that it may at once contain those j equal portions of admiration and awe ( that you inspire your readers with. ( The English is certainly deficient in s words adapted to such feelings, and t it is with considerable diffidence ihat, t 1 presume to do it in terms dial must ( appear dull and hicmnpnhensi .e, t when speaking of your great merits. f if, then, you should think me want- ; ing, 1 beg of yon to impute it to the c unexpressiveness of my native tongue, ; and not to any deficiency of console- J ration or respect on my part. s Your exertions have not been un-' t noticed in the great and arduous j struggle tor powi r and supremacy lie- r tween the two parties that now di t vide the State, nor sb til your • florts in the cuuv? of “ r. l-tot republican 1 prl.u pi: s,” and itlr Secretary Craw ■ i ford i synonomies, pass unrewarded t by dm people, h shall be my task i to remind them of the benefits deriv- 1 ed froia your labors, an!) then, if, as 1 ter I awaken them to a sense of their j duty, they should be so ungrateful as . to neglect you and suffer you to sink > into obscurity (and contempt,; you < will have the satisfaction to know that j one of the people at least, has justly j appreciated you, and that your ad- 1 dresses to the “moral and religious’’of ( this State, has met from that one the : attention they deserved ; and “ 1 sirs” ] (to quote your original and expres- i sivo sentence) “tender you the hearty 1 thanks of the humble writer of these . lines.” j I Unknown as you are to the greater 1 1 part, if not all your admirers, and i others, you of course cannot but cx- t pect that there are many who arc ; anxious to ferret (probably f ought to have said trace : ferret is a vile word) you out, and while your friends re cognize in you some great man, it cannot be concealed that your ene mies have already identified you w ith ; a little, busy, meddling, -apostate priest, whose national impudence has led him to what they call officious interference in the p .lilies of a conn try he ought to be grateful to, for not having long ago taken le ;al cogniz- . ance of him i hese sir, are the overflowings of that spirit which, ’ while it poisons itself with its own 1 .splent, would exult and glory in the ( thought that its opposers inhaled its contagion. I'ut that inexhaustible and imperturbable fund of Socratic gravity that runs through your essays, . has, I am persuaded, rendered you , incapable of being affected by such j attacks, and lam equally convinced, ■ that by long use to such displays of 1 opinion, both personal and in your ( anonymous character, (ear shot and „ eye-shot)your feelings have at length ( attained a sufficient firmness and con- < sistency as to make them impervious 1 to the point of the weapons you have 1 been assailed with. The arrows of j their vindictive vengeance may hur- i tie around you, but they fall harmless I at your feet, or recoil to the bosoms ; whose maliciousness first hurled them ‘ toward you. Such, sir, is theopinion I have form- < ed of 3 r ou in your anonymous char acter, for I am entirely at a loss as to who you really are, and such are the 1 feint outlines of your supposed quali ties; humble as the language may be in which they are couched, 1 believe they will be found to contain some thing of likeness whenever wo shall be blessed with a knowledge of you iin person. Should that event how- , ever not happen in your life time, _ those papers you may leave behind as ' a valuable legacy to the one who may be so fortunate as to possess your es teem, will shed their light over your name, when the‘head that conceived, i and the hand that wrote -them, shall \ have crumbled into dust: let then this i : public testimony bo published with i : those invaluable documents, as a ( | proof of my discernment, and we ( may descend to posterity together, ■ yon as the worthy disciple of the i doctrine of Socrates of old, and I, - your humble admirer, pinned on the ■ sleeve of your immortal immortality, i 1 have, in imaginative perspective, : reviewed the scene, and fancied the i remark, annotations and commenta- i lions of your Editors, and I conceive i it but just that you should also parti- i cipate in the pleasures of my illusory i vision, as you are the great original j cause of (he idea. However, that I ; may not take up too much of that valuable time which you have so of ten gratuitously devoted to the im- i provement of the public, moral, & po- , lilical, Ishall restrict myselflo a single i train of renlarks at this time, which I i have presumed as coming from the i pen of your annotator. It may be i added as a note, which shall include 1 the piece to which H a ll,, des , B which n comments on l H| _ “'1 here are won.ieriu i re S e.„ ; . I;ilif H in nature i have read s, M and one of them is between j„ ■ I This public testimony of the esie 'B (wind, he is forced to confessj f or u'B character of“ iho Honorable (1,,-: B tcipher B. Strong, of the Courts of the Ocrr.ulgee district ‘ ■ manner and idea, is a polished JB beautiful likeness of tho.t t licitod In H Junius to Lord Chatham ;*ihe s , ,'g I ments is so much the same,that thm.-h | it will, to some appear a palpable pbi ff gensm, (theft) we must declare «■„ fl differ somewhat in opinion. r [| l( B conceptions though decidedly iB same, are conveyed in language II think, of so infinitely superior a qvl to that writer, that we must think it E original. Nor can we think it apmcfß to (lie contrary, because that lived Lc E fore him. r l he minds of great men fl are every where the same, and we fl consider it a proof of the genius of fl Socrates, that he should have Can-1 knowingly) produced so great :> re-1 semblance, and this is not the only I one ; we hourly in looking over the I pages, discover an infinitude of idea > I and sentences nau . .vedinthe very I words of tha - - ..i nglish writer. I Vet we cannot t n tor a moment I harbor such asm ■ ;ic.n. We cannot I believe it possible that Mr - I would descend to take from another I what he so abundantly possesses in I himself Beside that, we can provn I from good authority, that we have as I great a right to retort the charge upon I Junius and accuse him of having I stolen from our friend, though thev I did write in diflerent ages, and Junius I first.—Vide Salmagundi Edition I volume page.—lt is there- I fore idle to make such observations I or assertions.” I This is about the amount of what I 1 have conceived would be the coni- I inent on your admirable address— I “ To the Honourable Christopher li. I Strong, Judge of the Superior Courts I of the Ocmulgee Districts' ’ !n mv I next, I shall continue my remarks, | and shall probably favor you with H what may be the opposite opinions n at length. I One of the People. * SOCRATES. JUNIUS. To tiv Mo;'. Chris- Eulogiura on LikJ I ti.-peer li. strong, Chatham. ] J ofilie Snpe- 1 did not intend to I c..v e ojrts of the make a public de- I (i eiulaccdistrn t. tl > ration of there- I ii t.O - iiied an a- aue .i I bear to Lord I , ology of co-jury for Chatham. ** * * I my rriii'uks in my But lam tided I la 4 number, as they upon to deliver my ■'ated to Judge opinion ; and sunly daytou, how much it Is not in ti.e littlu unco is one due to censure of Mr Monte you ? In your con- to deter me from duct, i confess my- doing signal justice self wholly disap- to a man, who 1 pointed, li the des- confess has grown ondenco wliicb 1 upon my esteem.- expressed as to the As lor the < ommon, I idiciol department, sordid views of ava nad all ision to any rice, or any purpose individual Jndge, - ol vulgar ambition, y.m v'pre the.t Judge. I question whether 1 did despair of your the Mfilan-e of ,lu active interference, nius would he ol ser -1 did believe it was a vice to herd Chat responsibility from ham. which you wonl 1 My vote will hard shrink. —But 1 was ly recommend h in mistaken in your to an inrreafe ol character. You have bis pensio., r r to a met the question of seat Jn the Cabinet. Hammond as one But if his ambition should do, who lover he upon a level with the constitution of his understanding, his country and the if he judges ol what liberties of his couu- is truly honorable tryraen, and who had f«r himself, with been appointed guar- the same superior dian ot tjo;h. If sir, genius which ani yon think liicm wor- mates and directs •hv es vour accept- him to eloquence in .•■iC', I tender yon d ’hate, to wisdom tii-s hearty thanks of in decision, even thshnmbi . the pen ot Jnniu' shall contribute to reward him. Recorded honors shall gather round his monument. Information lias been received from Lexington, Kentucky, of as late dab' as the 6th inst. which represent Mr Clay to bo convalescent. [J Vat. Ini. The Capitol.— lt gives pleasure to see the steady progress whic t b made in t!ie building of the ( ap ,to . 1 ’ the United States, now nearer to ifj completion than, at one time, we i^l - expected to see it. I l> e sl J’ n ( work which forms the base, or '• er part, of the dome, is a much hen vier woi •k than we had suppose l i would be, and the brick-work great extent, forming an impostOo mtiss of building. Alreadj is done to insure that the inn< r cr tral dome at lei.st, (there being * ' an interior one and an exterior <>• > the one being, as it were, the ce.hrn., the other the roof) will be conv before the close of the pfcsent sou. Enough is seen also to us that the building, w .ien pe ' ’ will equal the most sangumc • tations which have been ell 1 | j of It. After the done » the only great part ol thedeMk will remain to be comple »- , the grand portico, whic | s the front -f the centre -