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Xhc Family kittling.
We are all here !
Father, .Mother,
Sister, Brother,
All who hold each other dear,
Kach chair is filled, we’re all at home
To-night let no cold stranger come;
It is not often thus around
Our old familiar hearth we’re found;
Bless then the meeting and the spot,
For om e by cvpry care forgot
Let gentle peace assert her power.
And kind affection rule the hour;
We’re all—all here.
We’re not all here.
Some are away —-the dead ones dear !
Who thronged with us the ancient liearta
And gave the hour to guileless mirth,
Fate, with a stern, relentless hand,
hooked in and thinned our little band;
Some like the night-flash passed away.
And some sank lingering, day by day;
The quiet grave yard—some lie there,
And cruel ocean has his share —
We’re not all here.
We are all here !
Even they—the dead—though dead go dear,
Fond memory, to her dm y true.
Brings back their faded forms to view.
How life-like through the mist of years,
Each well remembered lace appear-;
We see them as in times long past,
From each to each kind looks are cast.
We hear their words, their smiles behold,
•They’re round us as they were ol old —
We are all here.
We are all here !
Father, Mother,
lister, Brother,
You that I love w ith love so dear—
This may not long of us be said,
Soon must we join the gathered dead,
And hy the hearth we now sit round.
Some other circle w ill be found;
O then that wisdom may we vow,
That yields a life of peace below;
So in the world to follow this,
May each repeat, in words of bliss,
We're all—all here !
A Rosy Child went forth to IMay.
BV REV. JAMES GILBOUNK LYONS, L. L. U.
A rosy child went forth to play.
In the first Hush of hope and pride.
Where sands in silver beauty lay,
Made smooth hy the retreating tide;
And kneeling on the trackless waste,
Whence ebb’d the waters maiw a mile,
He rais’d, in hot and trembling haste,
Arch, wall and tower a goodly pile.
But when the shades of evening fell,
Veiling the blue and peaceful deep,
The tolling of the vesper bell
Called the boy-builder home to sleep.
He pass’d a long and restless night.
Dreaming of structures tall and fair—
He came with the returning light,
And lo! the faithless sands were hare.
Dess wise than that unthinking child.
Are all that breathe of mortal birth,
Who grasp with strivings warm and wild,
The false and fading toys of earth.
Gold, learning, glory—w hat are they
Without the faith that looks on high?
The sand-forts of a child at play.
Which are not when the wave goes by.
[Reported for the Baltimore Sun.t
TWENTY-NINTH CONGRESS.
SECOND SESSION.
Washington, Feb. 16, 1817.
SENATE.
Mr. Atchison presented a memorial of
the Legislature of Missouri, asking Con
gress to adopt measures for enabling the
owners of slaves escaping from that State
into Canada lo recover them. It was
referred to the committee on foreign rela
tions.
Mr. Allen presented a resolution of the
Legislature of Ohio, in favor of the ex
clusion of slavery from any terri.ory that
now is or may hereafter be annexed to
the United. States
Mr. Cameron presented a similar res
olution of the Legislature of Pennsylva
nia.
Mr.Corwin presented resolutions pas
sed by the legislature of Ohio, expressive
®f their confidence in the bravery, skill
and patriotism of Major Generals Scott
and Taylor, and in favor of their being
continued in their present commands.
Mr. Benton, from the committee on
Military Affairs, reported a bill making
provision for an additional number of
general officers and for other purposes.
The bill provides that the ten regiments
recently authorized may be organized into
brigades anddivisions —no brigade to con
sist of less than two regiments, and no
division of less than two brigades—and
the President is authorized to appoint,
with the advice and consent of the Senate,
the requisite number of major-generals
and brigadier-generals, who are to be
discharged immediately upon the close of
the war.
The President is authorized to accept,
if he deems proper, the services of such
of the volunteers now in Mexico as shall,
at the expiration of their present term of
Bcrvice, voluntarily engage to serve
during the war, atid to organise them into
companies, &c.., and commission the
officers thereof.
The Resident is also authorised to ac
cept the services of individual volunteers
lofili up the ranksof the corps now in
Mexico, and also lo fill the vacancies in
the officers of the same by regular pro
motion, or by causing elections to he held.
The lien heretofore enjoyed by sutleis
upon the pay of the soldiers, and their
right to receive the same from the pay
master, is abolished.
On motion of Mr. Renton, the portion
of the President’s message of Saturday
relative to tea and coffee, was relerred To
the committee*
Tne naval appropriation bill was then
taken up.
The first question was upon agreeing
•to amendment proposed by the finance
committee, to limit the lime fur the com
pletion of the dry dock at Brooklyn to
three years from next October, and its
entire cost to 1,500,00. After some de
bate the amendment was rejected—yeas,
15, nays 29.
,ii ii i ~
The next question was upon agreeing
to amendment proposed by the same com
mittee to strike out appropriation for dry
dock at Philadelphia. After some de
-1 hale this amendment was rejected —yeas |
7; nays 39. The bill was then laid aside.
The three million bill was then taken
up, and Mr. Badger proceeded to address
the Senate at considerable length. Ihe j
I first portion of his speech was devoted to
j the recent case ofthe editor of the Union,
and he charged that it was the policy
adopted bv the administration and its or
gan to denounce every statesman who
i ;ght be presumed to be in the way of
j the re-election of Mr. Polk.
Mr. Badger spoke for upwards oft wo
hours. When he had concluded, Mr
Chalmers obtained the floor, and the Sen
ate then went into Executive session,
and afterwards udj )urned.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
The bill for the admission of Wiscon
sin into the Union was passed.
B Us were reported—making appropria
■ lions for naval pensions for the year end
ing 50th of June, 1918; tocreat the office
of surveyor general; and grant donation
rights lo actual settlers in Oregon; to au
thorize the appointment of an additional |
j judge of ihe United States District court j
in Louisiana; to authorise the marshal of ;
I the District of Columbia to serve supoenas i
! in certain cases, issuing from the courts j
| of Maryland read twice and referred, j
Mr. Dillard gave notice of a bill to
; regulate the diplomatic intercourse ofthe
! U. States.
i Mr. McClernand, from the cornmiteo
j on public lands, repotted an amendatory
bill, to graduate the price of the public
lands to actual settlers.
Resolutions were presented, from the
Legislature of Ohio,complimenting Gens.
Taylor and Scott, and recommending an j
increase of the pay of volunteers, and \
providing for the families of those in in- j
i digent circumstances.
Mr. Carroll, from the military com- ,
- miltee, reported back the joint resolution j
j of thanks to General Taylor, officers and
j men, and the amendment of the Senate, j
1 with a recommendation that the amend- !
meet be agreed to.
Mr. Thompson, of Mississippi, moved
to amend the resolution as amended by
directing the President also to present
gold medals, with suitable emblems, to
Generals Butler, Dendeison, Twiggs,
Worth.. Quitman, and the nearest relative
of Gen. Damer, and to express lo the lat
ter the deep regret of Congress at the
death of Gen. D. After considerable
debate the amendment was adopted, 151
; to 21, and the amendment’agreed to.
‘ [By an awkward error, the amendment
j of Mr. Thompson comes in after th e first,
| instead of the second resolution; that is,
j after the sentence expressing the regret of
I Congress for the death of General Damer;
! so that the resolution presenting the
thanks of Congress and a gold medal to
Gen. Taylor for the “splendid achieve
, menl” at Monterey, follows immediately
I after the expressions of “regret for Ihc
j dealk of Gen Hamer’ ' —making tin’s last
sentence the antecedent to the “splendid
f' nchievemelit!” And this cannot now be
corrected until the Senate shall again
: act upon the resolutions, as amended by
f I the Douse.]
; Mr. Ficklin presented the resolution of
the Illinois Legislature, in favor of an
amendment lo the Constitution, so as lo
change the tenure by which Judges ofthe
United States hold their offices.
Bills were reported—from the military
1 committee, to regulate enlistments in the
army and marine corps—and from the
naval committee, providing for anincreas
j ed number of surgeons in the navy.
. Committed to the committee of the whole
on the stale ofthe Union.
A great number of reports, not of gen
eral interest, were made.
7 # i
The bill to regulate the mileage of |
members, was taken up, but without
action thereon, the Douse adjourned.
Bflic-f fo r CrtTaucl.
At the great meeting held a short time j
, since, in New. Orleans, for the relief of j
j the suffering Irish people, eloquent speech- !
es were made by Mr, Clay, Gov. Johnson,
and S. S. Prentiss, The latter, one
ofthe most beautiful specimens of the I
kind in our language, has been some days !
laid by for publication, without our being
able sooner to find room for it.
Mr. Prentiss’ Speech.
Fellow-Citizens —lt is no ordinary cause !
j which has brought together this vast as
j semblage on the present occasion. We
have met, not to prepare ourselves for po
litical contests, nor to celebrate the
achievements of those gallant men who
have planted our victorious standards iu
j the heart of an enemy’s country. We
have assembled not to respond lo shouts
of triumph from the West, but to answer
, the cry ol want and suffering which comes
; from the East. The Old Word stretches
out her arms to tiie New. The starving
parent supplicates the young and vigor
■ ous child for bread. There lies upon the
' other side of the wide Atlantic a beautiful j
island, famous in slofy and in song. Its j
! area is not so great as that of the State of
! Louisiana, while its population is almost
; half that of the Union. It has given lo the
: world more than its share of genius and of
i greatness. It lias been prolific in states
men, warriors and poets. Its brave and
I generous sons have fought successfully
i all battles but their own. In wit and
i humor it has no equal; while i:s harp, like
I its history, moves to tears by its sweet but
’ melancholy pathos. Into this fair region
j God has seen fit to send the most terrib’e
I of all those fearful ministers who fulfil his
inscrutable decrees. The earth lias failed !
to give her increase; the common mother
I,as forgotten her offspring, and her breast
no longer affords them their accustomed
nourishment. Famine, gaunt and ghastly |
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famine, has seized a nation will* its strang
ling grasp; and unhappy Ireland, in the
sad woes ot the present, forgets for a
moment the gloomy history of the past.
We have assembled, fellow.citizens, to
express our sincere sympathy for the suf
ferings of our brethren, and to unite in
efforts for their alleviation. This is one
of those cases in which we may, without
impiety, assume, as it were, the functions
of Providence. Who knows but what one
of the very objects of this great calamity
is to test the benevolence and worthiness
of ns upon whom unlimited abundance :
has been showered. In the name, then, .
of common humanity. I invoke your aid
in behaif of starving Ireland. lie who is
able and will not give for such a sacred
purpose, is not a man, and has no right
to wear the form. 110 should be sent back
to nature’s mint, and re is-ued as a coun
-1 terfeit on humanity oLnature’s baser ,
: metal.
j Oh! it is ten ible, that in this beautiful ’
world, which the goad God has given us,
j and in which there is plenty for ns all, j
| that men should die of starvation! In these I
j days, when improvement in agriculture
i and the mechanical arts have quadrupled
i the productiveness of labor; when it is
manifest that the earth produces every
year more than sufficient to clothe and
feed all her thronging millions; it is a
shame and a disgrace, that the word star
vation has n )t long since become obsolete,
i or only retained to explain the dim legends
of a barbarous age. You who have never
been beyond the- precincts of our own
| favored country; xou, more especially,
who have always lived in tin’s great valley
of the .Mississippi—-the cornucopia of the 1
world—w ho see each day poured into the
lap of your city, food sufficient to assuage |
the hunger of a nation, can form but an
imperfect idea of tlie horrors of famine;
of the tenor which strikes men’s souls
when they cry in vain for bread. When
! a man dies of disease, he alone endures
| the pain. Around his pillow are gathered
i sympathizing friends, w ho, if they cannot
• keep back lire deadly m rssonger, cover
his face and conceal the horrors of his
visage as he delivers his stern mandate.
In battle, in the fullness of his pride
I and strength, little recks the soldiers
O’.
u bother the hissing bullet sing Ids sudden
1 requiem, or the cords of Jifo arc sever
i ed by the sharp steel. But he who
| dies of hunger, wrestles alone, day after
i day with In's grim and unrelenting ene*
: mv. lie lias no friends lo cheer him in
| terrible conflict; for if he had friends iiow
could he die of hunger? Me has not the
I hot blood of the soldier lo maintain him;
j for his foe, vampire like, lias exhausted
' his veins. Famine comes not up like a
brave enemy, storming, by a sudden on
j set, the fortress that resists—Famine be
sieges. He draws Ids lines around the
j doomed garrison; he cats off his supplies;
; ho never summons to surrender, for he
| gives no quarters. Alas! for poor hu
! man nature, how can it sustain this fear
ful warfare! Day by day the blood re
cedes; the flesh deserts; the muscles re
lax, and the sinews grow powerless. At
last the mind, which at first had bravely
nerved itself for the contest, gives way
under the mysterious influence which
i govern its union with the body. Then
j lie begins to doubt the existence of an
overruling Providence; he hates his fel
low' men, and glares upon them with the
longings of a canibal, and it may be, dies,
blaspheming!
Who will hesitate to give Ids mite, lo
! avert such aw ful resul s? Surely not
you, citizens of New -Oi leans, ever famed
for vou deeds of benevolence and charity.
Freely have your heart and purses open
ed, heretofore, to the call of suffering
humanity. Nobly did you respond to
oppressed Greece and struggling Poland.
Within Erin’s borders is an enemy more
, cruel than the Turk;more tyrannical than
' the Rus ian. Oread is the only weapon
i that can conquer him. Let us then load
I ships with this gloiious munition, and in
| the name ofour common humanity, wage i
! war against this despot Famine. us, !
I in God’s name, “cast our bread upon the ;
! w aters,” and if wo are selfish enough to
j desire it, we may recollect the promise,
i that it shall return lo us after many days.
If benevolence be not a sufficient in-
I centivc to action, we should be generous
: from common decency; for out. of this I
famine we are adding millions to our
fortunes. Every article of food, of which
we have a superabundance, has been
I doubled in value, by the very distress we
are now called upon to alleviate. We
i cannot do less in common honesty, than |
to divide among the starving poor of Ire- i
land a portion of the gains.vve are ma
king out of their misfortunes. Give then,
generously and freely, llccollect that
I in so doing you are exercising one of the ,
most god-like qualities of your nature,
| and at the same lime enjoying one of the
I greatest luxuries of life. Weougiit to
thank our Maker he had permitted us to
exercise equally with himself that no
blest of even the Divine attributes, bene- j
i volence. Go home and look at your j
family, smiling in rosy health, and then
j think of the pale, famine-pinched cheeks j
! of the poor children of Ireland; and 1 |
know vou will give according to your
! store, even as a bountiful Providence has
given to you—not grudgingly, but with
an open hand, for the quality of benevo- I
I lence, like that of mercy.
“Is not strained,
i It droppe-th like the erentle rain from Heaven
j Upon the place beneath: It is tw ice blessed, j
It blesses him that gives, and him that takes.” j
Let me now refer to the words of one '
to whom Ireland lias given birth. With
a genious prolific as her own luxurious
soil, in whom ail tiic fine atnibules ofthe
soul are blended in harmony; a rich silk
j of varying dyes, show ing some new color
in every tint of light and shade, and un
| der every hue of heaven. Music, elo
j qucnce. and the sweet tide of song flow'
from his soul in quick succession, in some
new- beauty, some new melody, in each
caprice of fancy, and under every change
of circumstances. That son of Ireland
has said—
“ The baby was sleeping.
It’s mother was weeping.”
Can we not, from the magic mirror ofthe
imagination, conjure up the fair young
infant hashed in sweet repose —the hag
gard, anxious, tender gaze of the poor
mother o’er the smilling face of her child,
with squalid misery before her ami guant
hunger stalking around to tear it from
n o
her love. ’Tis said that in tropical climes
a lovely flower sometimes springs from
the ruined and withered trunk of a tree
blasted by the lightning from Heaven;
tenderer and dearer is that flower to those
who look upon it, and observe in its open
ing petals the signs of a premature tie
cav, which it caught from the source of
| its existence; and may we not apply in
* that beauteous fancy of the poet, the An-
I gel’s w hisper to the sleeping babe, and
assume that it is telling it of this been
i teous land, of the love and charity of its
people, the rich productions of its teeming
valleys, wafted on the internal waters of
the country lo the mighty marls of com
; merce —that it whispers, too, of noble and l
generous souls collected here to-night to
chase that haggard hunger from the weep
ing mothers of “poor old Ireland.” Then
it will be realized in fact as well as fan
cy, that each of them may—
“ While closely caressing,
Her child with a blessing,
Say,
! “1 knew that the Angels were whispering to thee.”
[CorresponJence of the Charleston Mercury.}
Washington City, Feb. 15, 1847.
You will perceive by the report of Con
gressional proceedings that in the House of
Representatives the Wilmot proviso bad been
attached lo the Three Million Bill, by a vote
of ayes 115, noes 106, and the bill was then
passed by a similar vole, i. e. 115 ayes, lUG
noes, though some who voted No on the pre
vious vote, voted Ay on the second, and n’ce
, versa.
It had been.thought for some days past in
this city that this mischief-breeding proviso
would have been defeated, so that considera
ble surprize was manifested at the result.
It is w orthy of remark that the South was
true to itself on this question, with one ex
ception —and that was John W. Houston, of
Delaware, who voted for tiiis Wilmot provi
j ho, although representing a Slave State.
Every other representative from the South
ern States piesent toted against the provi
so. and but one was absent from his scat—
William F. Giles, of Maryland.
The following is an analysis of the vote on
1 agreeing to the proviso.
For the proviso. Against it. Not Voting.
D. W. D. W. U. W.
Maine j G 1
New Ilampshirc,3
Vermont, 1 3
Massachusetts, 10
Connecticut, 4
Rhode Island, 2
New York, 20 13* 1
New Jersey, 2 3
Pennsylvania, 6 12* 5 1
Delaware, 1
Maryland, 3 2 1
Virginia, 14 1
North Carolina, 6 3
South Carolina, 7
Georgia. 5 3
j Alabama, 6 1
Florida, 1
Mississippi, 4
Louisiana, 3 1
Texas, 2
Arkansas, 1
Tennessee. 6 6
Kentucky, 3 7
Missouri, 6
lowa, 2
Illinois, 2 13 1
; Indiana, 5 2 2 If
Michigan, 2 1
Oaio, 8 8 5
55 CO 82 24 6
Native, fThe Speaker.
RECAPITULATION.
Dem. Whigs. Total.
For the Proviso, 65 60 115
Against it, 82 24 106
Not voting, 6 G
Vacant,(New Hampshire,) 11 ,
144 84 228
The following are the members from the
free States who voted against the proviso:
New York —Strong.
Pennsylvania—Black, Broad head, Erdman,
Charles J. Ingersoll, McCJean.
Michigan—Chipman.
Indiana —Owen, Wick.
Illinois —Douglass, Ficklin, McClernand.
Ohio—Cunningham, Morris, Parish, Saw
ver, St. John.
Total seventeen —all Democrats of course.
Those who did not vote were,
Hastings and Leffler,of lowa, both present
in their seats.
Leib, of Pa., in the city but not in his seat, j
Robert Smith, of 111., not within the bar
i when the vote was taken, and the House re- ;
fused to allow his vote to be recorded, had :
he voted it would have been in the affirma
tive.
Giles of Maryland, absent.
The vote on the passage of the bill, al
though in numbers precisely as that on the
i proviso—ayes 113, noes 106, yet differs in its
constituent parts. I have therefore made a 1
similar analysis on the passage of the bill, j
which is as follows:
For the Passage. Against it. Not voting.
D. \V. D. W. D. \V.
Maine, 6 1
}N. Hampshire, 3
Vermont, 1 3
Massachusetts, 10
Connecticut. 3 1
Rhode Island, 11
New York, 21 12* 1*
New Jersey, 2 3
Pennsylvania, 10 12* 2
! Delaware, 1
; Maryland, 3 2 1
i Virginia, 14 1
I N. Carolina, 6 3
S. Carolina, 7
Georgia, 5 3
Alabama, 6 I
Florida, 1
Mississippi, 4
Louisiana, 3 1
Texas, 2
Arkansas, 1
Tennessee, 8 5
Kentucky, 3 7 j
Missouri, 5
lowa, 2
Illinois, 1 4 11
Indiana, 71 Ilf
Michigan, 2 1
Ohio, 11 3 2 4 1
66 49 72 34 5 1
*lncludinor Natives. fThe Sneaker.
RECAPITULATION.
Dein. Whig. Total, i
For (he Passage of the
Bill, 66. 49 115
Against it, 72 34 IU6
Not voting, 5 1 6
Vacant, 11
144 S 4 228 |
All the Southern members present voted I
against the bill. Whig and Democrat —the
: only one absent being Mr. Giles ot Maryland, j
With them the following members trom the
Northern States voted against the bin,
(Whirrs in italic, Natives in small caps,
Democrats in Homan characters) ;
Rhode Island— Cranston.
(Connecticut —Truman Smith.
New York —NN OODKUFF.
Ohio — Harper, Parish, Sawyer, Schenck,
Vance , I inton.
Indiana — McGaughey.
Illinois —Ficklin, Henry , lloge, McCler
nand, Robert Smith.
Total 16.—Eight Whigs, one Native, and
seven Democrats.
; Those not voting on the passage of the bill
i were
Douglass of Illinois,
Foster and Leib of Pennsylvania,
1 Giles of Maryland,
Tiiden of Ohio.
It can hardly be doubted but that the Sen
| ate will strike this proviso from the bill.—
Whether the House will then recede or dc
: feat the bill remains to be seen.
parjg tnx mamsaa m—— -m g mi m mammm taaaaren
; ' AUGUSTA, CKO..
SUNDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 21,1847.
Kr Only one of the Northern Mails due last
j evening came to hand.
The «4<! Ftbriiarr.
We have heard of no preparation for the
celebration of this dies J isli in our city.
It is melancholy, not to say' ominous, to see
into what neglect and contempt the few
i days acknowledged as national festivals have
fallen among u». It. is not for us to lecture,
j We have no time for pumping up public
emotions. The Americans cannot be rea
j soned into social cheerfulness, and it’s of
no use to throw away good whistling, on
any of your stiff refractory molestions.
W e won’t argue. It won’t pay. Ay! there's
the rub with our fellow-citizens. Be
cause the celebration by a social, happy
cominglement of all hearts on a day when
: “domestic feuds, foreign levy,” and all re-
I ligious and party strifes are forgotten—don’t
j pay, why the whole thing is passed over.
1 a? they say in the Senate—informally.
Let us ask, should it be, that the day
i that gave birth to the good, the great—
| to him whose memory “lime cannot wither,
j nor custom stale should be passed in com
-1 mon working day-drudgery ? Can’t the
i laboicr forget bis toil, the merchant his cash
book, the speculator iiis next Liverpool ac- I
counts —to give his heart for one day, in re
verence to him who lived to bless his country
by the exercise of every virtue that adorns
humanity ? But some prim grave man, who
; comes “so smug upon the mart,” will turn
sharp upon you and ask, what is the rise
i of these celebrations ? And will run you a
i parody upon Fallsfaff’s reasoning of honor.
| “Can it set a leg—Xu; or an arm—No. Can
it pay losses on Cotton ? No.” A celebration
i hath no skill in figures then, No—but “man
does nut live by bread aZcme,” and the argu
ment might do if we lived in a warehouse in
stead of a great Republic. The truth is that
it is with nations as with individuals, the hab-
I it of outward observance of respect for virtue
will beget something of the sentiment.—
j The ceremonial which tons may be dull and
unimposing, becomes in after years an honor- ,
ed custom, and gives to fame its true uses— !
I an example to revere and imitate.
Charleston Kacc».
Friday■ - Purse SGOO —two mile heats.
There were five entries fur this purse, and the
race resulted as follows :
O. I’. Hare’s ch. f. Marietta. 4 years by
Priam, dam Canary, by Bir Charles 3 11
John Singleton’s h. f. 4 years, by G.mo, 5 4 2 j
J. R. Han Lon’s ch. f. Rosalie, 4 years
by Boston, data imported Emily, 12 3.
John 31. Bryan’s gr. f. 4 years, by Hard
luck, out of Vashti, 4 5 4
W. Lowndes’gr. f. Della, 4 years, by
Pacific, dam, by Sir Richard, 2 3 5
Time—3:l9*; 3:51); 3:52*.
The second race was won in two straight heats
by 3lr, Harrison’s Bellamira, beating Aurora, —
Time—3:s'Jl; 4:08.
1 The following horses were handi-capped fur
j Saturday’s Purse S6O0 —3 mile heats:
Maid of Lodi, 6 years; Castanet, 5; Patsey An- j
| thony, 6; Revenue, 3; Shark Colt, 3; Rio Grande, j
3; Rosemary, 3. Singleton's b. f., 3; Anti Tariff,
:5; Protection,4; John Alexander, 4; Marietta, 4;
Gano, filly, 4; Rosalie, 4; Delta, 4; Bryan’s gr.
f» L ’
Health of Elixoa El. hcwli.
The Washington correspondent of the
j Charleston Courier, under date of the 15lL
I inst. writes :—“lt is very doubtful whether
{ Mr. Dixon H. Lewis will be able to attend to
his Senitorial duties again at this Session, if
ever. His health is in such a condition that
he may linger for some time, or may die at
any moment.
It is not generally known that Judge Mc
j Lean is entirely a self-made man. His fa
i ther was an industrious Irishman, who came
to this country just before the war of the
! revolution. The son John, was born in New
Jersey. Thence his father removed to Virgi
nia; thence, again, to Kentucky, and finally
to a farm in Ohio, where the present Judge
worked as a laborer. By industry and fru
gality he saved«fcnough to pay for a tolera
ble education. He I lien studied law, held
| several state offices, was elected to congress
I —became postmaster general, and finally
| was transferred to the the supreme
i court of the United Slates.
Mexican Privateer*.
The .Boston Advertiser says of the thre -
Mexican vessels at London, that they were
reported in Lloyd’s list as steamers, and as
having arrived from the river at Deal, on the
1 jib, and sailed on the same tlayHbr .Manil
la. The London Shipping Gazette states, in
i addition, on the authority of a telegraphic re
port from North Foreland, the pas&ii#|' of
“three men-of-war brig steamers'to the south
ward.” On the 15th, two American vessels
sailed from Deal for the United States.
The New York Express says the under
■ writers there are in suspense in relation to
| Mexican Privateers, said to have been fitted
j out al London. Private letters, from the best
sources, are entirely silent on the subject,
j The steamer to arrive in a few days will,
however, settle the question, whether priva
teers arc out or not; it is the impression that
these and similar reports, which have proved
groundless, have been put alloal to injure
American vessels, and to benefit those of
foreign nations.
[From the Macon Messenger.]
Bu;il'cuic Court.
At the sitting ot the Supreme Court, in
this city, the following among oilier deci
sions were made ;
j P^ vu > ( Libel for Divorce in 3lonroc Superior
Head,) Court>
The Libel charged that the wife had
left the bed and board of her husband,
without cause or provocation on ihe part
of the husband, and prayed for a Divorce,
a venculo matrimonii. Held by iheCouit
below insufficient.
The Supreme Court in delivering their
opinion in this case said, “The words”
Legal principles, signify ihc principles of
the common law, as ruled in the Ecclesi
astical Courts of Grent Britain, adopted
by our statute. And by the common law,
abandonment nor even adultery, was a
sufficient ground to authorise a Divorce,
a venculo matrimonii. Judgment below
affirmed.
Hun. A. M. D. King, for Libellant.
There must be an entry by the proper
officer, once in every seven years on a
fi. fa. or the judgment becomes dormant.
Judgment below affirmed.
Hicks, Sh’ff of Crawford, I RULE MSI.
as. ' To pay over money in
Moore and others. ) Crawford S. Conn.
The Sheriff in answer lo the above
stated rule showed fur cause, that he had
legally accounted for all sums ot money
received from defendants property, ex
cept the sum of 61100, or thereabout,
which he claimed for the per diem allow
ance of certain negroes, levied on by vir
tue of sundry attachments.
Issue was joined on the answer of the
Sheriff.
The Circuit Judge charged the jury in
substance, that if they believed the Sheriff
hud hired out the negroes, and collected
the hire, or used them on his farm, and
hud the benefit of their labor and that their
services were reasonably worth their
; board, that then the sheriff was not en
j titled to the usual per diem allowance for
j board.
i Judgment of the Court below affirmed.
Ifu ke, I Prom Monroe Superior Court—
Flf.wellen. ) motion to dismiss appeal.
it is not absolutely necessary that the
appellant should sign the appeal bond.—
He must give security for the eventual
condemnation, money and costs, and if
the security sign the bond, it is sufficient,
provided the Court can be otherwise sat
isfied that he intended lo appeal within the
time allowed by law. h is, however,
more regular that the appellant should
sign the bond, that the appellate court
ipjav see that it lias jurisdiction.
; Judgment below affirmed.
| e are requested toslate that there will lie
| a collection taken np after service al the Catholic
j Church, This Morning, for the relief of the sufftr
j ers in Ireland.
; Feb. 21 2 120
CELEBRATION OF THE “BIRTH
DAY OF WASHINGTON.”
The Convention of the fcth Congressi* nal dis
trict Temperance Societies will meet in tins
i city on Monday, the 22d instant,
j The meeting will be held at the Presbyterian
: Church, commencing at half past 10 o’clock,
j Jn Ige O’Neal, of South Carolina, Hon. Jotin ii
H. Lumpkin and H<#i. Mr. Nf.seit of Georgia,
| are expected to deliver addresses appropriate to
ilie occasion.
Delegates of the Washington Total Abstinence
Society of Augusta, and other delegates from So
cieties within the district, are desired to assemble
al the Lecture Room of Presbyterian Church, at
10 o’clock of that day.
The friends of the cause of Temperance, and
; the public generally, are respectfully invited to
i attend.
By order of Committee of Arrangements.
IN M. IIAINES, Sec’y.
Feh. 20 • 2 119
SFT The following gentlemen have been ap
pointed DELEGATES to represent the Washing
ton Total Abstinence FocieCy of Augusta, at the
Convention to be held on MoaJty next, 22d inst.,
viz :
Rev. Wm. J. Hard, Dr. Daniel Hook,
I Rev. Wm. T. Brantley, Dr. J. A. Eve,
Rev. Mr. Evans, Dr. L. I). Ford,
Wm. 11. Pemberton, Dr. H. F. Campbell,
W in. II nines, Judge W. W. Huh,
. Hawkins Huff, Robert Campbell,
James Harper, E. E. Scofield,
! James Godhy, Daniel B. Plumb,
j M. 31. Dye, Lawrence -Minnas,
• James V\ ado, O. Danlbrth,
'J hos. S. Metcalf, V. LaTaste,
John R. Dow, James McCaflerty,
Jesse Kent, Henry Reeves,
Benj’n. Hall, J. H. Crump,
J. Whitlock, Porter Flemming.
By order of Committee.
Feb. 20 2 120
RELIEF FOR IRELAND.
Mayor’s Office, )
February 13, 1817. y
At the suggestion of the Committee of Five, ap
pointed under resolution of Council, for receiving
subscriptions for the sufferers in Ireland, that their
number is inadequate. 1 hereby add to that Com
mittee the follow ing citizens, with the request that
they will serve:
John Kerr, Daniel Hand, John C. Carmichael,
John Foster, William Walton.
Feb. U L. D. FORD, Mayor.