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CHRONICLE XST> SENTINEL, j
AUGUST a, 1
FRIDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY771. 1
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Election ol PriHter-Georgia Delegation. j
In eccoidancewith our promise yesterday, we
give thia morning the vote in the House of ep- j
re«entati.e*, on *.«•*» of which ,
i, will b. seen ih»t mo of the Georg.. 1
Mem.. Black and 'Cooper, voted for BU.r A.
RiTea. Notwithstanding the repeated assertions .
of Utter writers and the press, that these gentle
men would support Blair & Hires, we confess
that their rote has astonished us.
They were selected by the State Hights party |
of Georgia, and pkicedjn nomination, because of
their uniform opposition to the corruptions of the I
present administration, as well as for the high
stand which they have occupied in Georgia; and
not with any expectation however remote, that
they would thus early have enrolled themselves 1
in the support-of the administration by their vote i
in favor of Us prostituted organ. Had such an
impression existed, they could not have received
the vote of the opposition for their seats. That l
this is a candid and fair statement, no one will i
deny, is conversant with the wishes and
feelings of that portion of the voters in Georgia,
who supported Messrs. Clack and Cooper. In vo
ting, therefore, for the administration organ, they I
have misrepresented their constituents, and done ]
violence to the confidence which has been repos- 1
•d in them*
In speaking of this vote, we desiree to speak
frankly, for we think the occasion demands it at
our hands. If these gentlemen intended giving
in their adhesion to the administration, they have
certainly imposed'upon the confidence of the
people, and it was a duty which they owed no
less to candor end consistency than to their sup
porters, to have resigned the office which they
had been elected to fill. During the canvass
we supported them, and did so cheerfully be
cause we believed them “above suspicion.” We
have been deceived. They do not represent us,
nor do they, w| repeat, represent the wishes and
feelings of theil constituents; and we know little
of that portior of the people by whose support
they acquired heir seats in the House, if they do
not speak in aF.anguage which these gentlemen
cannot raistafc i, when their claims are again pre
sented.
We supported these gentlemen, with a full
knowledge of their predilections for the Sub-
Treasury, and have always felt content that they
should give to that measure, or any other pro
posed by the administration, an honest and inde
pendent support; but we confess our utter aston
ishment at the vote they have cast for the Editors
of the Globe as public printers! If there be
any one newspaper in the Union, more vile, hate
ful, and accursed in the eyes of the State Rights
party of Georgia than all others, it is the Globe!
We look upon it as a moral prostitution of the
high office of Representation, apart from all politi
cal considerations, to have cast such a vote! Wa
do not believe that there ere five hundred State
Rights men in all Georgia who would sanction
it! Even those of our party who lean towards
Mr. Van Suren, loathe and detest his organ.
For Blair <k Rives.—Messrs. J. Allen, H*
J. Anderson, Atherton, Banks, Beatty, Beirne>
BLACK, Blackwell, Boyd, Brewster, A. V*
Brown, A. G. Brown, Burke, S. H. Butler, W.
O. Butler, Bynum, Carr, Carroll, Casey, Chap
man, Clifford, Coiec, Connor, M. A. COOPER,
Craig, Crary, Cross, Th. Davee, John Davis, J.
W. Davis, Doan, Doig, Dromgoole, Duncan,
Earl, Eastman, Ely, Fine, Fisher, Fletcher,
Floyd, Fomanoe, Gerry, Griffin, Hammond,
Hand, John Hastings, Hawkins, Hill of North
Carolina, Holleman, Holmes, Hook, Howard,
Jackson, Jameson, Joe, Johnson, N. Jones, J. W.
Jones, Keim,Kemble, Leadbel li ?r, Leet, Leonard,
Lewis, I*owcli, ILucas, McClellan, McCulloh,
Marchand, Medill, Miller, Montanya, Montgo
mery, S. H. Morris, Newhard, Parrish, Parmen
tcr, Parris, Paynter, Petriken, Pickens, Prentiss,
Ramsey, Reynolds, Rhett, Rives, Robinson, E.
Rogers, Samuels, Shaw, A. Smith, Tho. Smith,
Steenrod, Strong, Sumpter, Sweeny, Taylor, F.
Thomas, P. F. Thomas, Jac. Thompson, Turney,
Vanderpool, D. D. Wagener, Watterson, Weller,
Wick, J. W. Williams, Hen. Williams, Worth
ington and Mallory- -110.
For Gale* & Ssaton. —Messrs. Adams, Al
ford, S. H. Anderson, Andrews, Baker, Barnard,
Bell, Bond, Botts, Briggs, Brockway, Calhoun,
W. B. Campbell, Carter, Crittenden, Jas. Coop
er, Corwin, Crabb, Cranston. Crockett, Curtis,
Cushing, E. Davies, Gar. Davis, Dawson, Deber
ry, Dillet, Edwards, Evans, Fillmoie,R. Garland,
Gentry, Giddings, Goggin, Goode, Graham,
Granger, Graves, Green, Grinnel, Habersham,
Hall, W. S. Hastings, Henry, Hill of Virginia,
Hoffman, Hunt, James, Jenifer, Chs. Johnson,
W. C. Johnson, Kempshall, Lawrence, Lincoln,
Marvin, Monroe, Morgan, Naylor, Nisbet, Ogle,
Osborne, Palen, Peck, Pope, Proffit, Randall,
Randolp, Rariden, Rayner, Reed, Ridgway, Rus
sell, Sergeant, Simonton, Slade, Truman Smith,
Stanly, Storrs, Stuart, W. Thompson,Tillinghast,
Toland, Triplett, Trumbull, Underwood, P. J.
Wagner. Warren, John W’kke, Th. W. Wil
liams, Lewis Williams, Jos. L. Williams, and
Sherrod Williams—92.
For Th, W. W hits.—Messrs. Wise, and
Hunter, Speaker.
For Jacob Gideon.—Mr. Jas. Garland 1.
For S. Stam^augh. —Mi. Hopkins 1.
For Duff Greek.—Mr. Mitchell I.
'Congress.
From the National Intelligencer of the Ist in
stant we extract a brief sketch of the proceedings
of both Houses on the day previous.
IN SENATE.
The Vice President communicated to the
Senate a report from the Secretary of War, i n
compliance with a resolution, containing certain
surveys of harbors, dec.
Also, a petition from Jehiel Brooks.
Mr. Clat presented two memorials, one from
citizens of Pennsylvania, and another from citi
zens of Massachusetts, asking the influence of
Government in the creation of a Congress to put
an end to war, whhh they regard as unchristian
and disastrous.
Mi. Clay said that one of the memorialists had
requested him to move to refer it to a select com
mittee, but he would not do it; if, however, any
other gentleman would do so, he would acquiesce
in it. lie very much doubted, however, in the
present state of human society, whether these me
morialist* could attain their humane wishes. He
thought association* of this kind, temperance so
cieties, and others, very good when they confined
their influence to the Judgments, the interests, or
•van religion of individuals if they pleased; but
whan they came to Legislatures to say what
should go into the mouth, and what come out of
it, they bounded out of their proper sphere, and
produced resistance rather than good. \
Petitions were then presented by several Sen- j
store.
Mr. Grondt, from the select committee to j
whom their former report on Mr. Benton’s reso
lutions respecting the debts of the States had
been re-committed, returned that report to the (
Senate having some portions of it which had (
been objected to stricken out or modified, and (
one of the concluding resolutions slightly a- j
mended. ,
The debate upon it was continued through the
day by Messrs. Clat of Kentucky, Gbundt, ,
Kino, Hubbard, Merrick, Preston, South
ard, and Wright. j
Mr. Benton asked that the nsual number of ,
the report might be printed ; but the motion was
not urged, on the ground that it would cause de
bate. The subject being passed over informally,
The Senate held an Executive session, and
hen adjourned.
In the House, the day was spent in an effort
to elect a committee of inquiry concerning the
mode of executing the public printing, without
coming to any result, as the body adjourned in
great confusion, after the first ballot, without
announcing the vote.
Since the foregoing was in type, we perceive
by the Globe of the Ist inst., that three of the
five members of the committee were elected, viz.
Messrs. Black of Georgia, Davis of Indiana, and
Prentiss of New York, all supporters of the
Kitchen Editors. An admirable committee, truly,
to enquire into the mode of executing the public
printing. Quere —Would it not have been as
well to have nqade Blair & Rives the committee 1
The Washington correspondent of the New
York Courier writes that the indemnity paid by
the British Government to our Minister in Lon
don, for the wrecked American slaves set free
some years ago in the Bahamas, averages about
SSOO for each.
A letter from Harrisburg dated Tuesday, and
posted at the Philadelphia Exchange, says—“A
bill passed the House on a second reading, this
morning, by a vote of 67 to *B, directing the
Banks of the Commonwealth to resume specie
payments for all their notes and liabilities (except
such deposits as the Banks have agreed with the
depositors shall be paid in current Bank notes,)
on the 14th of February.”
The Philadelphia Inquirer of the 30th says :
We learn with pleasure that the difficulty between
the Baltimore and Philadelphia Rail Road Com
pany and the Postmaster General, is likely to be
amicably adjusted.
The Philadelphia Inquirer of the 30th, says :
“We have a letter from Capt. Pedrick, at Port
Penn., dated 27th Jan- Reports no new arrivals.
The only vessel to be seen below is the schr La
grange, lying in the mouth of Duck Creek. No
prospect of the vessels moving. Ice very heavy
and weather thick—wind west.”
I
The aggregate amount of losses by fires in the
city of New York within the last three months is
said to be at least three millions of dollars!
Norfolk, Feb. 1.
Schr. James Russel Abandoned. —Capt.
Besse of schr. Stranger, at this port from St.
Thomas, has politely furnished us with the fol
lowing account of the loss of the above schr.
“Sr. Piere, (Mart.) Jan. 13. 1840.
“Please report that on the 26th Dec, last, on
my passage from Washington, N. C. to this port
I fell in with the wreck of the schr. James Rus
sel, 14 days from New York, bound to Rich
mond, Va. She was in a sinking condition and
without provisions—took from her Capt. Dennis
and four men.
F. F. MEANS,
Master of schr. Compeer, of Ellsworth.
Correspondence of the National Intelligencer.
New York, Jan. 30.
As a proof of the depression of business here,
the Times to-day states that the auction houses
have already bad applications for the sale of the
furniture of over three hundred families prior to
May Ist, and the Times has no doubt that a thou
sand families at the least will then break up
house-keeping. February Ist is the day in this
city on which, by custom, all tenants are called
upon to decide as to the keeping or abandoning
of the premises they have.
There has been, to-day, a curious and a novel
sale, at auction, viz: of U. S. Bank notes protes
ted, and security for the payment of the same
having been given in execution. The sales were
of—
-538,000 bills marked 18th October, at 97
10.000 do do 18th do at 96$
5,090 do do 19th Nov. at 96
2,000 do do Bth Jan. at 96
10.000 do do 15th do at 96
which is only about 4 per cent, less than specie
or New York funds, and higher than the current
rate of exchange on Philadelphia. The sale has
attracted a good deal of attention, and it was sup
posed in some quarters that it would show a be
lief, on the part of bidders, of great weakness in
the bank.
The sky is so clouded to-day, and the air so
foggy, that we can hardly see to read or write
without a candle. The January thaw is upon us,
and our snow is ail gone. Such is the condition
of the streets that there is but little out-door busi
ness. The stock market is yet on the decline.
U. S. Bank stands at 77. There is nothing new
in the money world.
Extract of a letter received in Charleston, dated
“New-York, January 30.
“ We have never felt confidence in the arrival
of the British Queen, as we think but too few pas
sengers would offer, to induce the Company to
incur the certain loss of a January voyage. We
must, therefore, depend upon sails until tbeStea
mer Liverpool's turn, which was the 20th instant
from that port -Char. Cour. 4 th instant.
Tough Weather— ln Franconia N H o
Friday, January 17th. the spirit thermometerVell
to thirty seven degrees below zero , and the mer
cury to forty degrees below zero. I n Spring!
field, Mass., the thermometer, on the same morn!
mg, was thirty degrees below zero.
From the Baltimore American.
North Eastern Boundary Question.
In the correspondence which has been pub
lished between the official agents of the American
and British governments, in reference to the dis
puted boundary on the North East frontier of
Maine, the first complaint is made in a letter
from the British minister, Mr. Fox, to the De
partment of State at Washington. As the issue
of the controversy is yet uncertain, it may be well
to recapitulate the chief items that go to make up
the sum of the matter in dispute, that incase the
termination should be serious wo may not be un
informed concerning the first steps of the progres
sive difficulty. Mr. Fox, in his letter of Novem
ber 2nd 1839, to Mr. Forsyth, complains: Ist,
That the armed posse stationed by the State of
Maine for the protection of the public property
in the disputed territory had extended its opera
tions from the valley of the Aroostook to the
mouth of Fish river into the valley of St. John’s,
and thus into a portion of the Madawaska settle
ment. —2ndly, That the establishments formed
by the armed parties on the banks both of the
Aroostook and Fish river had assumed an aspect
decidedly military, indicating the intent of a per
manent national possession, being fortified with
entrenchments and cannon and garrisoned by a
number of armed men far greater than the occa
sion would warrant. 3dly, That a permanent
State road was under construction leading into
the valley of the Aroostook with the view of con
necting that portion of the disputed territory with
the towns of Augusta and Bangor, and other ac
knowledged parts of the State of Maine. 4thly,
That, land surveyors under the authority of the
State were employed in marking out lots and
townships within the same portion of the dispu
ted territory; that sales of lands were made with
deeds regularly drawn under the authority of
Maine.
A statement of these charges being communi
cated to Governor Faiifield by the Department of
State, his excellency answers that the armed pos
se complained of in the first instance consisted of
twenty-five labourers, with muskets, who had
been despatched to Fish river and the St. John’s
to disperse a body of trespassers who had been
engaged in cutting timber on those rivers; that
this region was not within the Madawaska settle
ment, but twenty-five miles below it; but that
whether it were or not, there was in this act no
violation of the compact of last Spring, which al
lowed to either party the right of driving trespas
sers from the disputed territory. In the second
place, that the party on the Aroostook, though
somewhat larger, had been despatched for a simi
lar purpose; they had extended a boom across that
river to stop descending rafts of timber; and they
had constructed a fortification for their own de
fence which was guarded by two small pieces of
artillery. If this were any infringement of the
compact, the complaint certainly came with a bad
grace from the British Government, since this ve
ry detachment had been attacked in their fort by
a party of men, bearing the Queen’s arms and
commanded by a veteran militia captain. With
regard to the third and fourth allegations, the
Governor replied that Maine was only doing
what she had hitherto been accustomed to do in
that part of the territory over which she had al
ways exercised authority. The State road was
begun in 1826, and had been in progress ever
since. It was necessary as a means of access to
the timber country, in order that trespassers might
be reached and held in check. The surveying
and selling of lands south of the St. John’s and
upon the Aroostook had been going on, more or
less, for the last thirty years. The compact en
tered into last spring by the meditation of Gen.
Scott, allowed each party to hold such portions
of the territory lying between their respective li
mits as each had exercised authority over before,
i The course of Maine had indicated no disposition
to go beyond this limitation. The British Gov
ernment had erected barracks and stationed troops
north of the St. John’s and was in the habit of
transporting armed men and munitions of war
across that portion of the territory, at its own
pleasure.
The next step in the matter is the stationing
of two companies of British troops at Temiscoun
ta Lake, which Gov. Fairfield remonstrated
against; and he gave official information of the
same to the President of the United States. Our
readers have been put in possession of the partic
ulars relative to this part of the subject. Here
! the whole controversy stands suspended for the
present. As the issue now lies between the Gen
eral Government and the British Cabinet, rather
than between the State of Maine and the Provin
cial Authorities, we may reasonably expect that
less irritation of feeling and more of circumspect
and c tlm proceeding will mark the future course
j of action on both sides.
Texas. —The steam packet ship Neptune,
from Galveston, arrived last night, bringing dates
from that city up to the 25th January. The N.
has performed the voyage with a large cargo in
the short space of seven days.
Mr. Saligny, minister from France, arrived in
Galveston, on the 24th. Congress is expected
soon to adjourn.— N. O. Courier , 30 th ult.
The New Orleans Bulletin of the 28th inst.
says:—ln the city of Sabine, recently, three hun
dred and sixty-five lots were offered and sold for
the sum of §250,000. Improvements were pro
gressing rapidly. The steamboat Putnam was
running the Sabine, and had engaged to bring
down 4000 bales of cotton. The proceedings in
the Congress of Texas were devoid of interest.—
The bill closing the land office, and stopping the
location of land, was lost in the House of Repre
resentatives—so the matter is put at rest for the
session. The treaty with France has been rati
fied by the Senate.
Louisiana—Another Vacancy in Cos
‘ GRESS Supreme Court.— The nomination of
the Honorable Rice Garland, to be Judge of the
Supreme Court, was confirmed by the Senate
yesterday.
We understand Mr. Garland will resign his
seat in Congress immediately on being notified
ofhis appointment. There will then have to be
a special election for Congress to fill the vacancy
early in the spring. It is also understood that
the Whig party throughout the district, have
united on the Hon. John Moore, of Attakapas,
as the Whig candidate to succeed Mr. Garland.
—i\. O. True American.
From the Baltimore Post.
Talleyrandiaua.
A needy fellow, as a last excuse for some pal
try action, by which he had obtained a supply of
money, said, “At all events, I must live /”
“Really I don’t see why," was the cutting an
swer of Talleyrand. Another person who had
enriched himself by every species of fraud ex
claimed on some occasion—“ upon my honor
‘Oh!’ said the wit, very dryly, ‘let us not talk
of such small matters /* Being asked if a noted
blue stocking was not somewhat tiresome, ‘No !’
said he, ‘she is perfectly tiresome.’
A certain Mr. Sourches, a little, ugly, dark
looking fop, was always endeavoring to insinuate
that he was very acceptable to the ladies, and in
variably successful in his gallantries. One night,
as he was leaving a brilliant soiree , he said—'
“This was the first time for two years’that I have
slept at home.” Talleyrand after glancing at the
owl looking figure before him, exclaimed ‘ per
haps, sir, you go to roost /’ On am-ther’ occa
sion, the same ungainly person was annoying a
company with a zealous eulogy of defunct
mother’* beauty. Talleyrand cut him short by
saying—‘lt was then your father who apparently
was not over-handsome 1” 3
In a literary party, during the directory, a rich
and stupid fellow, equally ignorant of literature
and good manners, began a violent tirade against
wit, saying it was the cause of all the evils in so
ciety, and wound up by exclaiming that wit had
ruined France. ‘ln that case,’ said Talleyrand,
with a very grave face, ‘why don’t you try to
save the commonwealth 1 ?’
Napolean’s Consular Guard was composed of
tall and strong-built men, more remarkable for
their courage and fidelty, than for the elegance
of their manners. Some one was praising the
beauty of Madam de Luchesini, (lady of the
Prussian ambassador,) a colossal, rough-looking
and very masculine dame. ‘I could select a per
son of equal charms from the Consular Guard,’
said our caustic wit.
When Madam de Stael published her delight
ful novel of ‘Delphine,’ she was thought to have
painted herself in brilliant and the dauntless char
acter of the heroine, and that of Talleyrand in
that of an elderly lady. ‘I am told,’ said he, the |
first time he met her after the publication, * that
we both figure in your novel disguised an wo- 1
men!”
M. d’ Estourmel was one of those who thought
with Falstaff, that ‘the better part of valor is dis
cretion.’ He was however forced into a duel,
and received a ball in his belly. Some one rela
ted this to Talleyrand, who exclaimed, ‘What!
he has a ball in his belly ! he must have swallow
ed it then !’
‘During my whole life,’ said Rhulhieres, ‘I was
only guilty of one ill-natured thing.’ ‘And when
will that end?' said Talleyrand. Speaking of
some female bore, he said, ‘she is intolerable !’—
but, as if h i had gone too far, he immediately ad- J
ded—‘but that is her only fault !’
The Prince was intimate with a diplomatic per
sonage of vast pretensions but of very shallow 7
intellect, who was always tormenting him for an
autograph letter, which he wished to present to a |
young lady for her album. At last our wit, to
punish him for his importunity, wrote him the
following billet: *My dear sir—l have invited to
dinner some very witty persons. Will you favor
us with your company ?—in w hich case I will not
be the only imbecile of the party !’
A person who had been a great reprobate, was
expiating his crimes by a dreadful deathbed.— {
‘Oh !’ he exclaimed, ‘I suffer the pains of hell!’
‘What, already /’ whispered Talleyrand.
Louis Phillippe is said to speculate very large
ly in the funds, the operations of which are car
ried on at the Royal Exchange. Talleyrand, ri
ding through Paris with a stranger, was asked by
him the name of an extensive building, pointing
to the Exchange. ‘That is the King's Palace,'
said the Prince.
The New Orleans Bulletin says:—A rumor is
afloat that Gen. Armstrong, Postmaster at Nash
ville, is to succeed Amos Kendall as Postmaster
General. Gen. Armstrong is spoken of as an
honest man, and very capable public officer.
We heard a rumor yesterday, that evidence has
recently been discovered, of the purchase some
time since, by Levis, the fraudulent Cashier, of
English bills of Exchange to a considerable
amouut. — Phila. Inq.
From the N. Y. Commercial Advertiser, Jan. 28.
Death of Commodore Chauncey.
Another brave heart beats no more. Commo
dore Isaac Chauncey. one of the senior officers
of the navy, and President of the Board of Na
vy Commissioners, died at Washington on Mon
day last.
We have not the means directly at hand for
sketching the life ot this brave, patriotic and tru
ly estimable man. He has passed his life in the
service, having in his boyhood served with the old
commodores in the navy. Our first personal ac
quaintance with him was formed during the win
ter of 1812—13, at Sackett’s Harbor.
When, during the war then waging between
the United States and Great Britain, the British
were increasing their navy on Lake Ontario, un
der the command of Sir James Lucas Yeo, Cap
tain Chauncey was detached to the command of
the American navy upon that lake, and his win
ter’s rendezvous was at Sackett’s Harbor, It was
there, that under the direction of Chauncey, the
skilful and patrioiic Eckford, caused, as if by
magic, the transformation of the adjacent trees of
the forest into a gallant navy, embracing ships
brave and large.
The service of the lake was arduous ; but hap
pily was almost bloodless, since it was a war of
tactics between the two inland admirals. The
opposing navies could never be brought into fair
fight—the growth of the American navy having
been too rapid and large to suit the British com
modore. But there were several beautiful cha
ses, and some elegant maneuvering. Both offi
cers were exceedingly vigilant; but the Ameri
can gained his purposes, by victories of skill, gal
lant, though bloodless.
After the war, the commodore served upon the
Mediterranean and other stations, and was subse
quently for a long time in command of the New
York station. His death will be mourned by all
who knew him.
Dennie.— The Louisville News Letter says
the following amusing anecdote is related of a
meeting between Dr. Dwight and Mr. Dennie,
the former of whom was then President of Yale
College, and the latter Editor of the “Port Fol
io,” a monthly literary journal commenced in
1800.
“Some few years since, as Dr. Dwight was
traveling through New Jersey, bechanced to stop
at the stage hotel, in one of its populous towns,
tor the night. At a late hour of the same, arriv
ed also at the inn Mr. Dennie, who had the mis
fortune to learn from the landlord, that his beds
were all paired with lodgers, except one occupied
by the celebrated Dr. Dwight. Show me to his
apartment, exclaimed Dennie; although lam a
stranger to the Reverend Doctor, perhaps I may
bargain with him for my lodgings. The land
lord acaordingly waited on Mr. Dennie to the
Doctor’s room, and there left him to introduce
himself. The Doctor, although in his night
gown, cap, and slippers, and just ready to resign
himself to the refreshing arms of Sornnus, polite
ly invited the strange intruder to be seated.
Struck with the physiognomy of his companion,
he then unbent his austere brow, and commenc
ed a literary conversation. The names of Wash
ington, Franklin, Rittenhouse, and a host of dis
tinguished and literary characters, for some time
gave a zest and interest to their conversation, un
til Dr. Dwight chanced to mention Dennie.
“Dennie, the editor of the Port Folio,” says the
Doctor in a rhapsody, “is the Addison of the U.
S.—-the Father of American belles letters. But,
Sir,” continued he, “is it not astonishing, that a
man of such genius, fancy, and feeling, should
abandon himself to the inebriating bowl?”
“Sir.” said Dennie, “you are mistaken. I have
been intimately acquainted with Dennie for sev
eral years; and I never knew or saw him intox
icated.” “Sir,” says the Doctor, “you err. I have
ray information from a particular friend; lam
confident that I am right and you are wrong ”
Dennie now ingeniously changed the conver
sation to the clergy, remarking, that Abercrombie
and Mason were among the most distinguished
divines; nevertheless, he considered Dwight, Pres
ident of Yale College, the most learned theologian
the first logician, and the greatest poet that Amer
ica has produced. But, sir,’ continued Dennie
‘there are traits in his character, unworthy of so’
wise and great a man, and of the most detestable
description; he is the greatest bigot and dogmatist
ot the age! Sir, says the Doctor, ‘y OU are
fTriLXX? I r inu ; ma i el * with
Dr. Dwight, and I know to the contrary.* ‘Sir,’
says Dennie,‘you are mistaken; I have it from an
intimate acquaintance of his, who I am confident
would not tell me on untruth.’ ‘No more slan
der !’ says the Doctor; ‘I am Doctor Dwight, of
whom you speak !’ ‘And I, too,’ exclaimed Den
nie, ‘am Mr. Dennie, of whom you spoke /’
“ The astonishment of Dr. Dwight may be bet
ter conceived than told. Suffice it to say, they
mutually shook hands and were extremely happy
in each other’s acquaintance.”
Society and Morals in London. —The
Rev. E. Bickersteth, a learned and pious divine
of the Church of England, preached a sermon in
May last, before the London City Mission, which
has been published. In touching upon the great
spiritual ignorance in London, Mr. 13. was drawn
into the statement of some facts that are not
without their value. In appears that in the greet
j metropolis, where, in the language of the author
I of this sermon, “all human attainments arc car
i ried out to their utmost perfection, where every
thing may be had to instruct the mind, gratify the
taste, or adorn the person,” there is an amount of
ignorance and crime truly appalling. Among
other evidences, it is stated that there are
1500 houses, known publicly as such, of ill-fame,
tenanted by about 80,000 females. There arc
annually 30,000 charges of drunkenness entered
on the public hooks, and it is computed that 30,-
000,000 of pounds are expended every year for
gin only. In 14 gin-shops, 269,438 entries of
men, women and children were made in one
week. In 1837, 217 suicides were attempted, of
which 117 proved successful.
: About 30,000 persons rise every morning with
out knowing how they shall be supported through
the day, or where they shall sleep the ensuing
night. There are about 700,000 persons who are
in health, and have the capability of attendance,
that habitually neglect all kinds of public wor
j ship. The London city Mission visited 121,000
houses, inhabited by 700,000 persons, and of
these 35,393 families had not’a page of either the
Old or New Testament Many persons were
found wholly ignorant of what the Bible meant.
Much of the vice and crime of London may be
traced to the destitution of all moral and religious
trainings among a large portion of the population.
! Mr. Bickersteth states that there arc between
80 and 100,000 Romanists, and about 20,000
Jews in London.
Bonaparte’s burial-place. —The sollt'ide
of Napoleon, in his tomb, has thrown another kind
of spell over a briliant memory. Alexander died
not in sight of Greese; he disappeared amid the
1 pomp of distant Babylon. Bonaparte did not
i close his eyes in the presence of France, he passed
| away in tho georgeous horrizon of the torrid zone,
i The man who had shown himself in such power
j fnl reality, vanished like a dream; his life, which
j belonged to history, co-operated in the poetry of
his death. He now sleeps forever, like a hermit
| or a paria, beneath a willow in a narrow valley,
; surrounded by steep rocks at the extremity of a
long path. The depth of the silence which pres
; sed upon him can only be compared to the vast
| ness of the tumult which had surrounded him.
Nations are absent; their throng has retired.—
The bird of the tropics, harnessed to the car of
the sun—as Buffon magnificently expressed it—
speeding his flight downwards from the planet of
: light, rests alone, for a moment, over the ashes,
the weight of which has shaken the equilibrium
of the globe. Bonapa. te crossed the ocean to re
pair to his final exile, regardless of that beautiful
sky which delighted Columbus, Vasco de Gema,
and Gameus. Stretched upon the ship’s stern,
he perceived not that unknown constellations were
sparkling over his head. His powerful glance, for
the first time, encountered their rays. What to
him were stars which he had never seen from his
bivouacs, and which had never shone over his em
pire ! Nevertheless, not one of them has failed
to fulfil its destiny; one half of the firmament
spread its light over his cradle; the other half was
i reserved to illuminate his tomb.— Chateaubriand.
I
Lafitte, the Pirate. —The last number of
j. the Galveston Civilian contains an interesting
sketch of this during fellow. The editor says
that nearly all the stories told of Lafitte are put
’ down as fabulous by those who knew him, and
many think he is still alive, no authentic account
. having been published of his death.
Lafitte, according to the Civilian, was a
’ Frenchman by birth, tall, finely formed, of highly
polished manners, and in his pleasant moods no
!. one would ever take him for a bad man. When
conversing upon a serious subject he would stand
for hours with one eye shut, and at such times
his appearance was harsh. Ho stated that he
had spent one winter in fashionable society at
Washington City, and that he had expended
$60,000 during the time.
This distinguished leader and his gang built
quite a village upon the i resent site of Galveston
as early as 1812. His own ht use was two stories
high, and a very good one. The others were
only one story, and of plainer construction.—
They procured their building materials from N.
Orleans, with which place they kept up a regu
lar intercourse. In fact, Lafitte boasted that he
had made half the merchants of this city rich.
He uniformly alleged that his depredations were
i committed alone upon vessels sailing under
, Spanish colors, and he is known to have hung
one of his men for having robbed an American
j citizen.
He lost four vessels and many men in a storm
i in 1818. Three of the vessels were lost at sea,
and one went ashore on Virginia Point, on the
i opposite side of the bay. When he left the Is
, land he went to embark in the Columbian ser
vice, having received the tender of a commission
in their Navy, since which no authentic account
of his movements has been published. A true
history of this bold and extraordinary man would
be highly interesting.— New Orleans Picayune.
Newspaper Patronage.—Of all trades, pro
fessions, or callings, none are so poorly paid as
publishers of newspapers. This may be set down
as a truism. Many patrons, (Heaven save the
mark !) in other respects, worthy, punctual men,
think it no sin to let the publisher of a newspa
per wait year after year for his dues ; and, at last,
if he is compelled to pay, he does it with a very
bad grace.—“ Mr. Typo must have his money,
must he—the ungrateful scamp—l subscribed for
the paper merely to patronize him, and now he
has the impudence to be importunate for his pay
But if he must have it, he must. But, do yin
hear! Stop the paper! There is no such thin<*
as gratitude in this world.” If any body believes
this picture is overdrawn, just let him ask the
opinion of the nearest Printer. —Raleigh Reg.
)
i Box Hill Tunnel.—The Box Hill Tunnel,
1 on the Great Western Railway in England, will
be when completed one of the most stupendous
' works of the kind ever accomplished. The tun
nel will be one mile and three quarters in length,
• forty feet in height and thirty feet in width
' The work wa « begun in 1836. and for the most
i part it has been carried on by boring through sol
id masses of free stone. This great undertaking
was projected by Mr. Brunei, and the execution
! thus far has been carried on under the direction
I of Messrs. Brener and Lewis, the contractors.—
• The tunnel is so far advanced that the whole is
i expected to be finished in 1841.
In a portion of the work between two shafts
, Messrs. Brener and Lewis commenced their op
-1 erations at each end, working towards a common
• centre; and when the two cuttings closely ap
proximated, much anxiety was felt lest a straight
line should not have been kept, and the union of
the two portions of the work should not have
been true but on breaking through the last in-
tervening portion of the rock, the accuracy of the x
headings was proved— to the great joy, says an
English journal, of the workmen, who took a
lively interest in the result. The junction w as
perfect to a hair as the level, the two roofs form
ing an unvarying line, while at the sides, the ut
most deviation from a straight line was only one
inch and a quarter. — Baltimore American.
Extraordinary Competition.— Three gen
tleracn, well known in the fashionable world
have made a wager, the oddity of which is likely
to give rise to considerable amusement. The
first of the parties is to drive a stage coach ; the
second is to walk through the country as an itin
erant melodist; and the third is to perform four
principal dramatic characters, two tragedy, and
two in comedy.—The greater part of the money
obtained by these eccentric adventurers, in their
several pursuits, is to be devoted to charitable
purposes. The competitor who obtains the
larges! sum by his exertions is to be the winner
es the wager which is to the amount of several
thousands. We have not heard the “where
abouts” of the Jehu and the Apollo but it is said
that the dramatic aspirant is to make his debut at
Edinburgh, and that he will afterwards appear at
other provincial theatres. If the report we have f
heard of his talents prove correct, he will proba- |
bly complete his career in London, by perform
ing a few nights at one of the great winter thea
tres — London Post.
Duty on SitK.—Mr. Buchanan, in the Sen
ate, after examining the progress of silk culture
in this couutry, thinks that the issue of the pro
ject will he entirely successful; and believes that
a duty on foreign silk, as much or more for reve
nue than for protection, will be deemed advisa
ble.
We took off the duty on French silk, and ma
terially reduced the duty on wines, in order to ob
tain the indemnity, and we have thus paid back
to France four times the amount ws have receiv
ed, of what in reality was our own; and it was
always found that whatever we took off in the
way of duty the foreign manufacturer added to
the cost, so in reality we lost the duty, and the
consumer gained nothing in reduction of price.
Articles of luxury should never be admitted free
of duty; on the contrary, should every bear the
highest duty. It is a hard casejp make a poor
woman pay 25 per cent, on a cadco dress, while
a lady pays no duty on hes silk one. In short,
revenue is wanted, and we must raise it in the
least oppressive manner.—Jf. Y. Star.
Pleasant Route to HAVANA.--Signora
America Vespucci left New Orleans for Havana,
in the steamboat Natchez, Dec 31. The boat
was crowded with invalids for the fine clime of
Cuba. When we can get by steam from New
\ ork to New Orleans in seven days, this will be
a pleasant comfortable tour f< r northern pulmo
naries, also. They will traverse the great Atlan
tic seaports of their own country, every hour get
ting into wanner latitudes, and sojourn at Charles
ton, Savannah, Mobile, Pensacola or New Or- |
leans, if they find those places sufficiently agreea
ble and temperate to induce them to tarrv. To
vary and extend the scene, however, we would
commend them to take the trip to Cuba from
New Orleans per the Natchez. When the great
line of British steam packets commence, we shall
have a direct speedy route from New York to
Havana also. Lovers also of tropic fruits will
then feast upon them throughout our seaboard in
all their perfection.— N. Y. Star.
“ The Epicure puts his purse into his belly, tb#
Miser his belly into his purse!”
From the Louisville Journal.
The harp of “Amelia,” so long mute, has at ji
length been awakened to melody under the influ- I
ences of the blessed starlight. Its unforgotten i
sounds will fall upon the ears of her many friends,
1 laden with a thousand sweet memories:
THE STARS.
Ye snow-white clouds, whose fleecy wings enfold
The stars thatlightyon boundless breadth of blue,
Roll back your edges tinged with deepest gold,
And slowly let the peaceful wanderers thro’,
As, one by one, they burst upon my eyes, r pr se. *
O’ertaking my young heart, with sudden sweetsur-
Celestial lights, lit by the power divine,
lhat bids ye roll thro’ yonder azure plain,
Ye startle thoughts within this heart of mine,
1 hat I must breathe or it will break in twain;
Companions of the twilight and the dew, [anew.
Smile on the minstrel girl, who strings her barp ft
I am not one, whose eagle-eye can reach
The mystic things within your golden spheres,
Yet better thoughts than science e’er can teach
Are softly brimming my young eyes with lean,
For e’en the simplest heart at times may scan I
What years can scarce unfold, or wisdom teach to
man.
How oft when but a child in wildest glee,
I’ve climbed the summit of some breezy hill,
Whose mossy sides went sloping to the sea.
Where slept another heaven serenely still,
W hile from the mighty strong-hold of the seas
Ihe dead sent up their dirge upon the twilight ||
breeze.
And there beneath a fringe of dewy leaves
That drooped away from many a bended bough, .
I used to lie on summer’s golden eves,
And gaze above as I am gazing now,
Thinking each lustrous star a heavenly shrine j
For each immortal soul, and wondered which was I |
mine. i
But now the moon beside you lonely hill
Lifts high her trembling cup of paly gold, i
And all the planets following slow and still V
Along the deep their solemn inarches hold,
While here and there some meteor’s startling ray ft
Shoots streaks of arrowy fire far down the milky* I j
way. I
The milky-way ! ah, fair illumined path, I
That leadest upward to the gate of heaven, j
My spirit, soaring from this world of scath, j
Is lost with thee amid the clouds of even,
And there upborne on fancy’s glittering wing [sing' I
Floats by the golden gate, and hears the angeb I
Oh ! who can lift above a earless look [g a £ E ft
While such bright scenes as this his thoughts en- I ||
And doubt, while reading fro n so fair a book,
That God’s own finger traced the glowing page*
Or deem the radiance of yon blue expanse [Chance [
With all its starry hosts, the careless work si 1
Oh blessed stars ! whene’er ye softly fling
A silvery trembling down by lake and bill,
’Tis then that sweet Religion’s holy wing I
Broods o’er the spirit, and doth softly till
Its silent depths with that pure heavenly bliss,
That we so seldom feel save at an hour like this- p.
For ne’er since love’s sweet raptures I
As first its young existence dawned in sighs,
Have I e’er felt such fulness in my soul, ■:
Such depths of softness at my heart and , 1
As 1 now feel upon this dewy sod,
Pondering with holy awe the wondrou* works o
Ye bring the time when happy lovers maot
In some lone spot, when not a sound is heard
Save their own sighs, or the unequal beat
Os their young hearts to tender wishes stirreu,
As hand seeks hand, and meeting glances tell , P
The unuttered tale of love,too sweetly and too * ei -
But all in vain to thought’s tumultuous flow
I strive to give the strength of glowing won- 5 ’
The waves of feeling tossing to and fro j
In broken music o’er my harp’s loose c , ! r0 u. 1
Give but their fainting echoes from my soul* ! . ,
As thro’ its silent depths, their wild swift curte I
Yet thou, who art mine insoiration, thou I
For whose sweet praises still I strive to siflg'
I will not murmur once, when bending low g
At thy dear feet my broken harp 1 ihng, 31
Weil p eased if others think this song 1 send
(Tho’ all unworthy praise) too simple to ouen_ m
Amelia B. Wh» t r Hi