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VJtJTLP «TAT>.« SV..VIVL.
The Seneie chamber wee tilled this mottling
with the beauty, fashion, and intelligence of iht
rity, to see and hear the expected sally between
Mr Clay and Mr Calhoun—Mr Calhoun being
entitled to the floor. The debate commenced at
one o'clock.
*l'B TlruiUT BILL.
Mr Calhoun said he rose in fulfilment nf a
promise which he had made when he last address
ed the Senate, to reply in his own good leisure i
to the reply ol the Senator from Kentucky. I
am at a loss to believe, continued he, whether it
is most remaikable for its omissions or its mis
takes. Mr C laid the Kcnator from Kentucky
had misrepresented him in almost all that ho had
said in his opinions against the substitute of Mr
rivea—the bill before the Senate—and the Bank
ul the (-nited States. Mr Calhoun then specifi
ed those misrepresentations, as ho called them,
which Mr Clay had uiferod to his remarks.
The senator from Kentucky, continued Mr C,
Bujugdit proper to introduce certain putsonnl
remarks, which adverse as { am to all personal
allusions, I will not pass by unnoticed. VVc me
sent here, said Mr C., not to wrangle but to
attend to public business. But no caution on
my part could prevent me from being answered
in a personal manner.
•He has made a gratuitous and peis mat assault 1
'fn me. He asserted that I expected aid In mi the
opposite party, and this was the reason why 1
lisd gone over upon the opposite side or bll Ins
paily, i cannot, continued Mr C attribute a love
nf personal abuse. — for lint character of the
Senator forbids rue to do so,—an the reason why j
lie thought prqper to answer me in the manner |
ire did, I cannot believe he did il with a view |
to intimidate me. The senator knot's me 100 well j
to 1 eliovo'llial I can he intimidated. J represent
h const minify as respectable as ilto.-c represent
-ediby lire senator, and 1 can find but one motive |
why the senator referred tome in the manner bo
has done. The tSeoalor, despairing of u'ettbiow
ing by hit argument my argument, has resorted i
to personalities m the hope (bet they would,
answer my argument.
•Viewed in ibis light ho intends ilrern a« «m
answer in part to my argument. Tito Senator
lias imposed upon me a double rimy, and before
■1 have done 1 -ball place my character as (at
above the shahs of the Senator as my argument
was above his ability In meet it.
Mr. Calhoun heiu went on, us he said, to give
nil outline of the principal events in his past his
tory, to prove that he bad been a consistent man,
and m this part o! bis subject ho called tip - n the
Secretary of Ilia Senate to mid in a loud and
distinct manner |>url of a speech made by him in
IrtJ-l. Mr Calhoun also called upon the Semi'
tors as hit judges to listen to his speech, and to
his opinions of himself. Mr Calhoun was very
interesting, except when mad ng, and having
Test! columns of old speeches made years gone
by. Mr Calhoun, however said (bat all llrese
extracts were iiccosmiy, in order to prove that
he had not gone from one side to another. Mu
wished to clear his skirts from any such charge.
.The extracts wete the longer putt ul Mt Caltoun'e
speech.
The reading of old speeches having been gone
through, MrC went utt in continuation. Me
■averred Ural lie hail been consistent —always
consislcn —and no man had been more so than
•himself. <Hii rule of action hail been consistency,
and yet the Senator, when Ins consistency was
upon recotd, and had been proved by the speech
es which had been read—said he hurl gone over
—!t d changed sides. But Jmy course, ns has
been seen,< is consistent, and Ins charges tall to
the ground, from written testimony I have pro
ved my consistency, and -I think I have 0.-eaped
victorious. [The good opinion ol Mr Calhoun
•■concerning tnmselland bis speeches, hero excited
a general expression of meirimvnl in the Senate
Chamber.]
Mr < odhotin went on lo answer that pari of Mr
• Clay’s speech, which quoted from Ins Kdgelteld
duller in aiiawer (o un invitation to partake ol a
public dinner. In that letter, as you may remetn
b r.jho spoke of the susj elision of specie payments
ami the impoilant political events of (bo day
connected therewith. Mr Calhoun made a patty ;
qu stiotl of it, and made his remarks, sumo ul .
them at least—of a party character. Mr Calhoun ,
however, had one of the extracts rend, and then |
with a burst of excitement said, that the charge ,
•of tho Senator falls to the dust, and there I tram
ple it down with scorn. The dart thrown falls
bat miens at my feet, and 1 pick il up and tlvrow
it hack,
Mr Calhoun then wertt un and said lie had
not left the party of wjtich tha Senator from Ky.
was a distinguished member. Ho had not lull
that parly, for ho never belonged to it, although
die bad acted j with it. i belong to no parly ex
•cept the old Kepuhlicitn party ol '08 —to tins and
none other. J support all parlies who support
that parly, and oppose all patties who o|\po*u
tint.
Mr. Calhoun then addressed himself to the
friends of the Administration in the Senate. —
T >nr principles will tiiumph, said he, youi hill
will ho victorious and yougmuinphant, if von
have a careful eye lo the finances ol the annuity.
Mr. Calhoun then spnke of his own intellectual
powers iiii answer to Mr. Clay, who had called
Ms. Colheun ■ metaphysical man. Mr. Calhoun
said he could not accuse Mr. Clay of possessing
tins high power. In the absence and in the want
•f it he acted iimler the influence ol lighter and
rooio flighty qualities wf mind. He chose ihe spe
cious lo the true—the apparent to the teal —the
fanciful to the sound.
Mr. Calhoun said that ho had been nearly
twenty-seven years a public man, and he hah
been consistent and utnlorm from that lime to the
pi strut. He came into public bio at tin early
age, and had continued in public life over since.
He came into public life when Mr. Madison was
Chief Magistru'o, and during Ihe war, and h s
apevchca then were proof that he was a practical
and consistent and sound man. From Congiess
I passed to the War Department, and 1 lound
that Department embarrassed and disorganised,
and soon I put it in good order ami placed it in
a flourishing condition. From tins Department
J was made Vice President, and then I tallied lo
the only man whom 1 thought could ai rest the
abates of the country. 1 was mistaken, and
since then 1 ha» - e hcfme proved myself a consis
tent man.
1 ha»e now rcprlloj the charge, and as I think
cancelled the debt between me and the Senator
front Kentucky. Mr. Calhoun Iters concluded,
and all eyes were immediately turned upon Mr.
Clay.
Mr. Clay at onra rose, and said, that but for
the present interesting occasion, lie should not
have appeared in his place. His health was not
good, and he was much indisposed. But as 1
am, 1 am—self-prepared ami self poised. Ido
not ask two or three weeks to ptcpaio and
concoct any speech in reply lo the Senator from
Mouth Carolina. That Senator began his re
marks by referring lo '.he omissions in Ins written
speech.
Here Mr. Calhoun interfered, and said that he
shoo'd like to interrupt him, tor be did not mean
to say that the Monitor had omitted any tiling,
Mr. Cl ay said he had not interrupted the Sen
ator, and lie wished net to be inletrupted. Mi.
Clay went on and complimented ihe unques
tioned talents ami ability of the Senator.
Mr Clay then said, that all the complaints of the
Senator in regard to his speech vvere in lact not I
that he had misstated Ins arguments, but that be i
bad not given all the circumstances sia'erl. Well, 1
co itinued Mr. C. he compiains that I accuse him ]
ol tncuiioisicncv when he says that duties should
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Ueeivvd *j>n geld krul -ilver and ill nothing eUe,
I and yet consents lo receive Hank paper fur six
I roars. A National Bank is inn unconstitutional
| vtiofi yon gi*e it a charier foi six years, ll is
not unconstiißlions) whan you give it a chsiler
fur more than twelve years, for that would lie un
constitutional! Mr. (Jltiy then enumerated Mr
Ualhou ti s specchee, votes, opinions pro and con
upon tlio subject of a National Bunk.
Mr. Clay then spoke of the Edgeftelil letter,
and said, when I raw this letter I could defend
the Senator from Houth Carolina no longer.—
Even after hts change, I did defend his motive,
but when the Senator says that ho neither con
ft lea “in our firmness, 0.. r wisdom, nor our
patriotism," an.) yet after doliharslely sending it
away—alter declaring that he neither confided in
our wisdom, our firmness, nor our patriotism, and
yvl acting with us who wi re so unwise, and so
weak, and so unpatriotic, for the long period he
did, he goes home and denounces us. But, con
tinued Mr. Clay, the Henulor is always right,
and every body eUe is always wrong. His (hurt
dcr is always light. Every body’s thunder but
his iu always wrong.
Mr. Clay continued,andaniiriadverted in streng
terms upun the position of tbe Senator—triced
I his watideiing course through all his political
I labyrinths, and said he should leave all compfcrj
, son between the Senator's speech and Ids r. ply
j by inferring those who chose to see them to the
j speeches themselves. They were both before tho
public—deliberately put llturo—anil those who
eho-e lo be arbiters might judge for themselves.
No man, said Mr. Clay, is more averse to per
sonal controversy than lam Tho duly I had
to put form with him was a painful one, and even
alter Ins extraordinary summerset from one pmty
j li* another, upon moie occasims than one, when
■ attacked 1 defended Ids motives.
The senator from South Caroline, continued
I Mr. C. like some other prophets, ptedicls very
I well after the occurrence lias happened. In
I sumo ol bis la'ii speeches foretelling futuic
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events, ho lias forgotten what he said, lie has
lorgoltcn that he onct —and in 1814, violently
opposed the sub treasury, and was willing to
give a twelve years’ cllar.er lo llto United Sla os
Hunk. Tbe Senator says also that lie has quit
our parly. Now said Mr. Clay, I put it to the
Senator himself, and a>-k him if it is not too
mui>h to ask of the public lo believe that all tho
VVltigs have led him, and all the supporters of
the administration have gono to him, while ho
has stood unmoved where ho was, without
change of position or ol principle, and yet he
would argue here that he alon i has not changed
while every Unly else has changed. Wo, he
says, are unwise, nopal iolic; and without firm
ness, while he is wise, linn and patriotic.
Mr. CJjAV continued and said, I shall anim
mlvuil and comment, and reply to the public
acts ol llto senator from Houth Carolina, and I
shall do it under all the responsibility of my
station. When he dues as he has done; speaks
us he lots spoken; he must and shall be tebuked
lor the course he .pursued, lie deserves it; for
I no man bus been more bitter in his denunciations;
| more variable in Ins enur.se, or laid so much
I claim lo consistency of diameter.
.'peaking ol Mr. Calhoun’s patriotism, Ml.
(flay said, 1 am aliatil the political geography of
the Senator from South Carolina does not mean
much. 1 am afraid that his patriotism means
tho (south; that his Sunlit means Carolina, and
that South Catuhna is no more then Fort lltll
|in Houth Carolina. When a man lays claim to
| no much, he generally has but little; nnd when
| a man questions the want of patriotism nnd
| linnoess ul a whole parly; the inference is fair
I that he has not too much himself.
I Helen mg to some ol Mr. Calhoun's remarks
, about bribery and corruption; in ended as n
I personal insinuation; Mr. (day said diet if die
Senator from Houth Carolina wished lo rake up
the old story ol George Kroner, lo cover hi? own
' nakedness, lie Was welcome. Mr. Clay then at
j length explained anti defended Ins vote upun that
occasion. [Mr. Adams, the venerable Ex-l’resi
deni, was beside Mr. Clay, and Mr. Tope who
I eomes from Ins district sal before him.] Mr.
Clay said that he had never regretted the vole
he then gave, it was one of the proudest reflec
tions ol Ini life that he hail contributed in no
way to elevair the lute executive of the United
H.ales. Tho vote he hud given tor the lespccted
and venerahtu man beside him, had the approval
of Ins own conscience, and the approval of the
people he in part [(’presented. They had lime
and again sanctioned It s vote.
Mr Clay continued, ami said that when the
Hcaator Irom Houth ‘Carolina undertakes lo prove
hts consistency, he will undertake, to prove totne
thitig which cannot he proved, lie hat nut
been consistent as I have proved and can prove
again.
In conclusion, Mr Ciay aaid that the Senator
had allowed ivimsell to use some epithets ndwch
are net custmniny in deliberative bodies, us
•scorn’ vlkc. In answer I have none of them lo
hurl, and 1 can assure the Hewutar that 1 recipra.
cate all he has said.
Tbe debate was futliter continued by Mi. Cal
houn in repealed retorts and rejoinders, and hy
Mr Prealon to teply some remarks made by Mr.
Clay in regard lo Nullification.
Mxneti Ilth.
After aome trttsovMsncoua business the orders
I of the day,—the Sub Treasury Bill, —ware call-
I ed.
Mr Webster was entitled to the floor, and com.
rnenccd hts remarks by saying—
The functions of this Government affecting
its most impiulunt interests, were those connect
ed with bade and commerce. Identified as these
were with the peace and prosperity of the coun
try, it was well to consider things as (hey were.
From nothing the country had become great and
magnificent. Our exports were $129,000,000,
our Impotls $128,000,000,—53,000,000 was the
amount of our tonnage. Its manulaciuros most
important, and (tie country was not only vast in
its trade but vast in its extent. Our Foreign
Debt, —not our Commercial Debt, which was
now more than $13,000,1K'D —but onr loans
amounted to nut less Ilian $100,000,000.
Mr. Webster, slier staling in a conscise man
ner, what was and what is the condition of the
country, physically and historically, entered upon
a revision of its financial prosperity —its curren
cy, and the peculiarity of Us monetary system.
Our currency was a mixed currency, part paper
amt part specie. Our country, half a century
old, iiad proved and tried this mixed currency and
found it sufficient fur all the pul poses of hie—for
all the wants of the country —tor all the business
0 tiro cot air’s
This system of currency was identified with
the credit of the country. Mr. Webster then
j uttered upon a lucid and eloquent review of the
j credit system of the country. It was identified
with the happiness of the country. It aneoura
! gevl labor, ll united labor with capital. It
1 ! made generally the laborer tbe capitalist. There
were exceptions to this, but as a general remark
it was true. Where is this capital now I said Mr.
Webster. In your banks, —in your canals—in
your rail-roads—budges—turnpikes—and public
works—not 111 uso but idle.
In England, continued Mr. Webster, the capi
alu s increase their capital by dividends upon j
the public debt of Ciioat Britain. As capitals, it
1 favored no industry, it encouraged no industry, it
was identified with nothing tlist was active, or
that gave activity to the eouniiy. Could the
debt of England be paid off at once, the capitalists
who now invest their capital in the debt, and who
iicvivo their interest hum dividends made upon
the puo.it: debt—could this, said Mr. Webster
jbu paid oil UMtu-rrow, the EnglUh capitalist I
| would inve-1 Ins capital in works of Tuhii:Jin-l
, provement, and the hi in li’ would he immense t >
■ 11. tV*gi* would iucrca-k, u‘i>d • revolution
would be seen in ev- ry pari of England.
The moatarialocrstis sentiment ever uttered iu
thia country, mid Mr, Webatcr, was that which
■aid that ‘thus* who traded on borrowed capital
ought to break.’ And wliat won!d he the effects
of this? eaid Mr. Webster. Capital would be
boaided and made a dead rnasa, and nut as Ire
loro a living and active principle. The elf'Cl
Vvaa to make ibe laboring classes of this country
but little belter llmti the serfs of Hussm. It was
tliis borrowed capital that gave prosperity to the
new Staler, and tin: icpregentfirtvei of the new
Slates nhonld be the first (o foster and encourage
it—(Mr. Webster piVrsued this inquiry at some
lengili and with great interest, showing the ma
gic and beneficial power of a wholesome credit
System.]—Much, said Mr. Websier, has Ireen
said by the Senator from Souih Carolina
of the interests of the cotton growing Staler.
And What is this interest more than that of
the grain-growing man if Indiana,—of
the weaver ahd shoemaker of Philadelphia,—of
the nianufacluies ol ihe North,—of the producer
of provisions,—of any interest equal with it in
oslrm—of the $00,00(1,000 which is lha annual
noiooo'of die Co tort prod a ditithe South'
And it is » fair calculation that ol this tC’O.UOO,-
I 0(70, $'15,000,000 are spent among the producers,
among the employer and the employed.
Air. Webster went on to illustrate the in
tcrcata oftne own State, end untbT ilia head
of M isriclniseile an array of startling facta
was staled to the Senate*
With 700,DU0 people, and O,(JW square
miles, M ssaclnueite, ■ small Slate, lias an
annual product of $lOO, to every man, woman
and child m the iiiuic, and her annual mm*
ufn turus amount to $140,000,000. Tin* too
whs fur boote, and tdtoes and leather, and
books and wool, nod woollens, and f»r like
imelul articles. Tne enure iwanufnciure of
jewelry umounted only to 15 or 100,000 dol
lars of ibis whole sum.
And yet with these facts before us, on fX
ampiu tifii mulninde of such lads in many ol
the SialOa—against tins system a cry or ••mo
nopoly” was made- It m ole “the rich richer*
ami the poor poorer,” was another contemp
tible and base and unpatriotic declared opin
ion upon this subject—a cry inlended to have
an effect on the worn* and baser passions of
men. Betides, nu lling was more false o»
mo'c unjust.
Mr, Webster then entered upon nn ex
amination ol the Banking system of the Uni
ted Stales. There were, he Haiti, in the
United States 700 banks—between II mid
400.000,000, dollars of capital—soo,ooo,ooo
of specie, and §lOO,OOO 000 ol bank noiss in
circulation. Mr. Webster commented upon
these statistics in relcreucu to Lhcir arrange
ments, benefits, evils, &o. <Scc.
Mr. Websier then said dial if there had
been an expansion of tlm currency,—and he
did nut doubt but I here had been, —the Guv
eminent was the cause.— Here Mr. W.read
a Idler from llie Secretary of the Treasury
written just after the removal of the Dcpos-,
lies, 'i'liu letter instruct'd! the Deposite
Banka to discount to the lull amount of their
ability, and to the lull mean* which the dt’-
pos.tes allowed, giving as large discounts to
the merchants ns possible, consistent with
oilier claims. And yet lot acting under
and carrying out tiiese instructions, llie bill
before the Senate had introduced a section
of pains and penalties. Tire Government
commanded a thing, the doing of winch
was to be punished with pains and pcimfs
tics.
Mr. Webster enlarged upon this branch
of his argument, and proved that for all un
due excess the Government alone was res
p m.-ible.
Air. W. then made an argument to show
the I'ffct of contraction and the necessi
ty ol a liberal circulation of notes among the
people. With hut one exception, and that
a recent one, he said there had not been a
time when onr circulation was 100 large for
the wants of the country. The country
would have got along, Mr. Webster said,
without a suspension <>t specj£ payments
had it not been for the Treasury order of
July and the manner in winch that order
was executed. There would without tins j
order, no doubt have been suffering dis
tress, but Hie Banks he thought wou d not
have been compelled to suspend specie
payments.
The paper circulation between the Uniicd
States ami Great Britain was like next topic
discussed by Mr- Webster. The difference
between the two countdes, ami the causes of
this difference, were stated at length, and
with great ability. Mr. Webster proved that
we had been twofold more rigid and severe in
•stir dealings with Banks and monied institu
tions, and had suffered two fold evil for sn do
ing. In our intercourse with the Banks the
interest of the Bankers is os 100 to 1000.
The interest of the people in the Banks is as
5000 to 1000 The Banks bcivufited the conn
try as much as the country benefited the Banks
Between the People and the Banks, the favor
shown to the People was as four to one. The
cry against the Banks was a chaps' dy, un
meaning and erroneous—and but for effect.
Mr. Webster then came to the Bill before
the Senate, and said he should consider it, first,
as to its mode of keeping or guarding the
Public money v and secondly in reference to
its effects upon the 'community. Mr. Webster
asked if the bill was to be succeeded by other
measures ? Was the bill intended to do away
with all paper Circulation ? Was it intended
to have a gold and silver circulation exclusive
ly ? Mr. Webster thought not, and yet that
was the out-of-door clamor. Down with the
Banks—down with these 700 little monsters
was the cry out-of-doors and sometimes here*
while, however, it was generally acknowledg
ed here that there must be some banking in
the country.
What, said Mis Webster, is to he the con
sequence ol this } Suppose we anticipate the
passage of the six years which allow the pay»
incut of some portion of the public duet in pa
per. Suppose this lime now come, and an ex
clusive specie payment to be legalised. It
will venture the prediction, said Mr. Webster,
let such a measure be authorised to-morrow
morning, and your bill to go into operation to
morrow morning, and before five o’clock to
morrow evening there will be 300 private
banks in the community. Every broker will
1 become a banker—every body will bank, and
I people will do among themselves what the
Government will not allow to be done.
In four and twenty hours, said Mr. Webster,
we should go back three hundred years to
j the old Bank of Hamburg—making this retro
i gressive motion in the brief space of one day,
Speaking farther of the impracticability of
! this bill, and the payment of specie, Mr. Web
i stcr said that the daily payments made in the
I City of New York from Bank to Bank, and
from the People to the Banks and Ihe Bank*
I to the People, was not less than $80,000,000,
and that of the whole country not less than
$950,000! And this to lie carried on in spe
cie ! How could it be done, and how can It
be done ’ Impossible.
The effects of this Bill formed another pro
minent part of Mr. Webster's speech. The
lax-paver was to count out his specie t» the
receiver—the receiver to the disburser—the
j disbursers to depositors—and depositors to
1 disbursers—and the $30,009,000 received for {
| the revenue nuttl be counted five times, or to I
life •mount of f 150,000,000 and thus we *1
were to become a tinkling, jingling genera- tl
tion of men—a nation of bell-ringers —symbol ( ]
linker*—a hard money government.
Its effect on the business and commerce of
the’tfrfimtry will be that $21,0 •!', 00 willal- »
ways on an average, tinder the operations of j
this Bill, he hoarded ami kepi from public use. (
You cannot resume specie payments —never
—never,. —l arti will.ng to risk my reputation *
upon this assertion. You can never resume t
specie payments and continue the resumption, „
unless yoit contract almost all the issues nee
esiary for the business of the community.
Business crwld not go fill, and the beginning 8
would end m another suspension. The effect v
was inevitable and undeniable. Contractions t
must be made to a ruinous extent under this (
Dill and the country distressed and destroyed. ,
The constitutional Question formed the next 1
r subject of Mr Webster’s speech, and tills, was I
followr d by an eloquent and powerful reply in
answer to Mr. Calhoun. Mr. Webster began
with the beginning, and took Mr. Calhoun ujJ
where Mr. Clay on Saturday had left hint. f
Mr. Webster read catracts from Mr. Cal- ■
houn’s speeches, proving that he had chang
ed his policy on constildiional Questions, and s
, directly denied now what ho had as directly oh
sertod years gOne by. The p&wera ilf C&n- 1
great wa» another part of Mr. Webster's an- f
iwer to Mr. Calhoun. Here, 100, Mr. W. j
proved from written and printed testimony #
that he asserted now what he had before de
nied, and denied how what he had before as- *
serted. •
[I must close rrtv report here, without giv- u
ing you the tlcsc of Mr. Webster’s speech.]
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expenses, instead of devoting it to his paper, is
the very cause of what they themselves com
plain 01. If a paper is worth having, it ought to
be paid tor; it not, it ought not to bo taken. An
Editor is frequently greeted with letters from
Post Masters, informing him that some of his
subscribers who arc in arrears, have removed, of
refuse to lake out their paper, and ha is thus
compelled to slop them, and loose perhaps the
labor of years.
In order to remedy these evils, wo have adop
opted the regulations below, in relation to subs,
scriptions and they will be rigidly adhered to.
Equally imperative has been the necessity of
adopting regulations in relation to advertising.
Advertisements ate frequently sent to editors
without specifying tho length of time sot which
they must be inserted, and when the bill is pre
sented, the advertiser complains that the into unt
is too large, or that he only wanted it published j
lor a lew limes, and not unliequently refuses to i
pay for them, thus compelling the editor to loose I
the debt, or resort to a vexatious lawsuit. If'
wen will sutler their advertisements to run with- j
out limiting them, they must abide the cotise- !
■ queners, for it is an easy matter to specify the 1
i i number of times it is desired to publish them.
In relation to yearly contracts, it is sufficient
1 to say, that their indefinite character is a para.
mount objection to them, giving a latitude which I
. we tannot easily control, and yielding a profit
. in some instances, wholly inadequate to the
■ labor performed. We have therefore determined
‘ to male no general contracts for advertising to \
an indefinite extent, after the first day of Jan
r j uary next.
WILLIAM E. JONES,
1 Editor Chronicle & Sentinel
j GUIEU & THOMPSON,
i : Editors Const ilutionalisl*
H. KAIFURD,
Editor People's Press
1. Alter the Ist day of July ne xt, no subset ip*
lions will be received, out of the city, unless paid
in advance, or a city reference given, unless the
name be forwarded by an agent ol the paper'"
After that date, we will publish a list of those
who are one year or more in arrears, in order to
• let them know how their accounts stand, and alj
of those to published, who do not pay up their
arrearages by the first day of January, 1830, will
lie stricken iff the subscription list, and their
names, residence, and the amount they owe. pub,
I.shed until settled; and when settled, the account
will be published, paid, which will answer as a
receipt.
3. No subscription will be allowed to remain
unpaid, after the Isl day of Januaty, 1639, mote
Au, «w
V,
uxHutio year but tb« name will bo strict*® off
is hat, and published ai above, together will»
io amount due.
4. From and after tbia date, whenever a sub*
criber, who is in arreara, shall be returned by a
’oat Master, as haring removed, or refuses ts
ike his paper out of the Post Office, his noma
ball be published, together with bis residence,
re probable place ho has removed to, and the
mount due; and where » subscriber himself
rdera his paper discontinued, and requests his
ccuunt to be forwarded, the same shall be forth
with forwarded, and, unless paid up within a rea
onable lime, (the facilities of the mail* being
ikon into consideration, and the distance of his
esidence from this place,) his name, and the
mount due shall be published aa above.
6. AnrtßTisKMfßTa will bo inserted at
Charleston prices, with tbia difference, that tbs
irat insertion will lie 75 cents, instead of 65, per
quare of twelve Hue*.
6', Advertisement's intended Vbr tbs country
hduld be marked “inside,” which will also secure
lisir insertion each time in tbe inside of the city
aper, and wilt be charged at the rate of 75 edit*
>er square, for the first insertion,and 65 cents for
rich subsequent ihsbHfon, If not marked “ in*
irfe,” they will be placed in any part ol tbe.paprr,
fter the lint insertion, to sail thd convenience
f tbe publisher, and chrtrged at the rate of 75
cuts pnr squire, for the first insertion, and 43J
unts for each subsequent insertion.
7. All advertisements not limited, will be pub
lished in every paper until forbid, and charged
ccording to (tic above rales.
8. Legal advertisements will bo published as
allows, per square—
Idirt'rs and Ex’rs sale of Land or Negroes,
60 Jays, $o 00
** '• Personal property, 40 do. 3 25
to Drs. and Crs. -weekly, 40 ilays, 3 25
Citation for Letters, . . . . 100
H " '* Dismisaory, monthly, 6 mi. 5 00
months' notices, hrontlUy, 4 month*, 4 00
Should any of the above exceed a square,
hey will be charged in proportion,
0. From and after the first of January, 1339.
to yearly contracts, except for specified advci
isernernts, will be entered into.
10. We will be responsible to other papers for
ill advertisements ordered through ours to be
opted by them, mid all advertisements copied by
is from other papers will Ire charged to the office
torn which tho request is made to copy, and wo
viil receive priy for the same according to their
ates and be responsible according to our own,
11. Advertisements scnthii uo from a distance,
vilh an order to bo copied by other papers, roust
re acco upanied with the cash to the amount it ia
lesited they should be published in such papers,
ir a responsible city reference.
The report cf the death of Gen. Scott doe>
rot seem to be confirmed. We have received
milling further on tho subject, but the Press of
restesday evening, soys, that a letter from San
lusky, Ohio, of March 6th, announces the Gen
ilal’s arrival at that place.
Wo have received no letter from our Wa.h
ngton Correspondent for several days, and in the
bsence of his Communications, we extract the
liters of the cornM-porident of the Baltimore
tnveriCan,
[ron Titk cHuostrlK and bestinkl.]
To a Ytmng Lady of Cnrollimv
Even (rom my earliest youth I’ve been
An unloved-, solitary tiling,
UmrsoJ fro n hitman hearts to win,
That love that flies with eager wing.
To thobO who by a happier fate,
Have beauty written on their brow,
Nor ever feel the galling weight
That sinks my darkened spirit low.
But lb endure the bitter scortt
Os one whom t love most dear,
To feel my spirit made forlorn
By the quick blight of friendship’s sneer ;
To have my heart with anguish rent,
And not a soul that heeds my wuei,
All these are intimately blent
With desolation’s deepest throes.
But’tis in vain to (ook behiml us*
When the prospect lies in gloom •.
Memory comes in chains to bind us,
Hope alone can pierce the tomb ;
Hope, thou smiling form of beauty,
Gaily wreathed with summer flowers;
Lead me on my parh of duty.
Far from Carolina’s lovely bowers-.
A. I: W.
MAUINK INTKLLIGiTnCL. "
SAVANNAH, Alarcli Id.—Ck-4i ed,| Bv- tliip Hul>y.
WittcuU,, LivetJVjol: brig Win Tell,.Foigcr, Marini-
In.
Arr, K-hr llichnrd-, Baker Button; Grecian.Stußbs
Bsltimure.
r.'HiHl-K.S rO.V-, 'larch 10.—Arr yesterday, U 1. brig
Junet, Hull. N Y;iciir Humbler, Cal k, dot
i I’d. Br King Philip, llumphr. y, Havre, Hum brig
Elite. Mycr, AiuAterduiit; brig Charletton, nurriett: Man
MMilii: c L bng Ji ueiiot Arret, Stew ait, N Y; tebr Geo
H We-Ue-i• L< mon, Baitiinure;
Went to tea yelterday, atrip polacre brig K< Uino.
Maig, Corto Kieo; brig John . Calhoun,/hut, Havana;
aehn Megunticooh; Mayo, St Markt; I’eniaeoia. Holt,
riiiladd|iliia; Uavirf Rogera; Hunt, Apaiachicuia.
(O* The following gdntlcmCn Will be »Up
porlcd for. rncmhfef* of Council for Ward No. 3,
by Many Vo+t»i.
B. B. KIRTLAND,
F. Hr COOK,
A. G. BULL.
Please announce the following gentlemen at
Candidates for Ward No. 3, at the approaching
Election in April next.
b. w. Fonct:.
THOMAS Kit HARDS,
B. B. KIRTLAND.
(£/• The following gcnlleroen will serve an
members of Council in Ward No. I, if elected
on the first Monday in April next:
PHILIP CRUMP,
R. F. BUSH,
MITCHELL NELSON.
Mr. Jones, vve should be gratified to he repre
sented in Council by the following gentlemen viz -
A. GUMMING,
MARTIN M. DYE,
JOHN BONES,
and hope they will suffer their names to he ana
nounced as candidates utthe approaching election.
Manx Voters or 2u Ward.
Mr. Jones —Please announce tire following
vonilernen as candidates for Council in the first
Ward at the approaching election in April
GAKEY F. PARISH,
PHILIP CRUMP,
WILLIAM E. JACKSON,
v .x r -
*■ \ i * %
-. *0
THEITRE,
IV. U. FOItBE.i, Lessee.
Mr. Hill’s Benefit and last Night
SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 17th.
Will be perform**! the Comedy of
SPECULATION;
Or Mqjor Wheeler in Europe.
Major Wheeler Mr HILL.
To conclude with the Farce of
Old Times in Tljrgiuia;
Or the Y ankee Pedlar.
Iliran Dodge Mr HILL.
{Gr Messrs Coney and Blanchard, with their cel
ebrated Doga, Hector md Brum, ure engaged,and
will shortly appear.
Doors open at 01, performance to commence at
7( o’clock.
PURE RUM.—2OO bbU on consignment, for
sale by It C BALDWIN,
march 17 60 d6t
RINCIPEE SEGARS.—3t) r UOU genuine
Psinripee Segura;
SO,OOP Spani.U do. choice brands.
Just received and lor sale by N A’.Bfril,4 Co.
march 17
Ct EORGTA NANKEENB.-A few bale s
' T of the above article made from cotton grown
in Elbert county, can We had hy making early
applirntion nt Baird and Rowland's ware
houae. tl U U.tlLl, dt Co
march 17 60 d2w
JUST RECEIVED—ISO bagi prime Greta
Coffee;
100 bag]Java do;
10 tierces prime Cuba do;
35 hhds Sugar;
50 bbls New Eng. Hum;
5 pipes bast 11. Gin;
35 baskets line Champaign Wine;
30 boxes Sperm Candles;
35 do mould do 1 11 ill it Sons)
For sale low by CLARKE, McTIER, dt Co.
march 17
Notice to Contractors.
SEALED proposals will he received by th*
Board ol Trnsteee of Oglethorpe Untveraity
at 4 the office of their aetretary at Midway, Geo.
n\ here a plan and specifications may be seenf
unlit the first ol May nest, lor thi erection of the
main College edifice of Oglethorpe University,
l ire building to be of brick, three stories high, in
cluding the hasement story, the main pan of life
building rutirting buck bl> feet by sd; the wings to
be 34 by 30.
One lenih of llio contract to be paid when th«
eame is entered inlfi; one tenth when ths base;
rtbnl ttory i« raised; one tenth on each succeed- V
ing story; one tenth when the building is covered
in, and one tenth when the building is completed.
The lime lor the pin merit of the remaining four
tenths, to be specified in tin proposals.
The undertaker, if ho would prefer, WOnld ha
permitted to make the bricks On llie lahds of the
University. Necessary wood for burning the
brick and timber fur the building, standing, will
Ire furnished. The proposals must distinctly
stale the tune within which the building is to be
completed.
The undertaker will he required to give bdnd
ani security lor the faithful performance of the
work. The board of trustees will give the like
security, if required, for the payment oflheieveial
instalments as above spec. Tied.
A’AML K TALMAGE,
■Sec of Board o! Trustees Og. Uni vers ty.
Midway, Geo. March 17 Co w3t
T>VEm Fiy]E no y-
JP lars Reward. Kan away
iM|/ from my plantation near
■p. RL*r Louisville, Jefferson county,
/ Da. o.i the 27th of Feb. last,
nj |f.l j * negro man by the name es
wrnSesiseHm ALECK, about twenty
five years oi age; o leet five or six inches high, of
n dark complexion, stout and heavy built, n round
and humpy face; speaks quick when spoken to.
■S’aid negro may be lurking about the neighborhood
or Savannah, as he is u tolerable shoemaker. The
above reward will be given for the apprehension
and confinement of said negro in unv sale jail so
that) get him, or for lus delivery to mo «t my res
idence. WJI. WHIGIIAM.
inarch J7. 60w3t
Snrvcreyors, Optical and iUathinmtical
Instruments, &c.
*3 UST receiver! per rail road and feraale i t the
•If Auction store of
SANDIFORD & COLLINS,
Consisting of Barumetars; I’arlor and fancy Chron
oinniers; Siurvoyors Compasses and Chains; Tel
escopes lor Astronomical Observations, with extra
powers; night and day Telescopes; Pocket do.;
■Spirit levels, with and without homes; n variety
of Opera glasses; single and compound Microscopes
with extra powers; linen and cloth provers; and
a large nssonment ol Religious and Political pic
tures, in Irames and glafced <fcc. Also
A large and newly improved Fantasmagora er
.Magical Lantern, with a great variety ol Copper
plate slides, which will be shown to those wishing
to purchase.
'J ho above w ill he open far salo only a few days
and will be sold at reduced prices.
A liberal discount allowed to those who pur
chase by the quantity-.
The above Goods are warranted to be of lbs
best Lnndcn aho N’ttW York manufactory. 1
March If>
\ ,Is. GOODMAN’S AMERICAN ANTr.
JLe Gonorrhoea and Gleet Pills.—Established for
ths raditdtl fcure of Gleet and long continued ure
thral discharges, which ultimately embitter the
life, inervate the mind, and produces a casting of
ihe whole body. These pills have a peculiar tonic
and asningent effect, different (and infallibly cer
tain,) from all other remedit a. ,
DrG's connection lor 30 years with the London
Lock Hospital,os its physician, has afforded him a
rameample scope for not only investigating but
experimenting on those hitherto obstinate diseases,
which but lew olh»r medical men have enjoyed,
if’otir treatment having not on y bo filed and per
plexed the present race of medical practitioners,
but even the ancients allow their inability to erad
icate, and thus millions have been compelled to
drag out a miserable existence, shunning socie y
and all the pleasures of lile, from the debilitated,
nervous, and inactive stale ol their bodies, and
alter fruitlessly, and at enormous expense, trying
the inert, painful, and irritating plans recommend
ed and laid down by nied.cal authorities, who
themsehes candidly say that they have not been
able to succeed in many cases, have over and
again in dusgust and disappointment, discarded
ntedicnes altogether, and made up their mind to
allow such diseases their own course, and thus
ninny able, have been last abode.
The countless number ol individuals’Abut have
been cured after having been given up by the rt.-onl
able surgeons of the day, is uuly gratifying to Doct. r
Goodman, and the universal success of hie pills iu
acknowledged by the heads of the provision in
Europe,as wellas in every state in this country,to
form a new era in the radical cure of Gleets and
other long continued analogous diseases.
-(A\ hen the Gunurrhae lasts longer than a month,
it is then termed gleet, which will be effectually J
removed in a few days, which, until the introduc
tion ol these Pills olten were of years duration, and
even till death. The following is from one of the
most discerning and talented surgeons ol the pres- . «
enl day, some years ago received.
London, June 23, 1h33—"1 have much pleasure
in subscribing to the efficacy of Dr Good man's
pills, as 1 have experimentally tried them in ups
wards of 500 rases, auU always with the same
result; viz: perfect euro C A BABINGTON,
Senior Surgeon, Lock Hospital, London.
For sale hy appointment at the Infirmary DO I
Church street, Charleston, S. C Jy March 16 ,
Horse for Sale.
Aft ne Tennessee Poney 4 years old; i
, sound in every respect and in fine
it) or dcr, for sale cheap.
Enquire of a
» I r’T* ANTONY M HALVES, f
march 13
f'iTOBACCO.-On consignment 80 boxes To- ,
■ bacco, manufactured by Tench «k StahgaTl, M
fcr>ula low by JOHN M COOPER, & Son. I
C'URTIS’ Superior Bine Black Ink*
' —This Ink is ready made, highly concentra.ed,
entirely soluble, free from sediment, and may be eo
dbuod without impairing its color as to prevent its
furring the pens and inkstand; it has;no copperas
or mineral acid, will n< t injure lh« pen, flown free
ly, tnakea a clean delicate mark, retains its quali
ties, and is the best copying Ink. A supply of the , ’
above just received and for sol thy ,
march 14 ANTONY * HALVES.