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Hornet, Capt. Lawrence, also under his com
mand, from whom, however, he was soon af-
ter separated. On the 29th of December of
the same year, while cruising about 10 leagues
from the coast-of Brazil, she fell in with, and
after a close -engagement of nearly two hours,
captured H. R, M. ship Java, of 49 guns, and
upwards of 400 men ; Capt. Lambert being
mortally wounded during the engagement.—
In addition to her full crew, the Java had
upwards of- one hundred supernumeraries on
board—officers and seamen—to join the
British ships of war on the East India station.
Besides these, were a number of land offi
cers ; among the rest, Lieut. Gen. Hislop,
Major Walker and Capt. Wood.
This was one of the best contested battles
that was fought daring the war—the Java,
indeed, only struck her flag, when every mast,
bowsprit and all, had one after another gone
by the board. « The great distance from our
own coast, and the perfect wreck we made
of the enemy’s frigate, forbade every idea of
attempting to take her to the United States.
I had therefore no alternative left but burning
her, which I did on the 31st of December,
after receiving all the prisoners and their bag
gage, which was very hard work, only having
one boat left out of eight, and not one left on
hoard the Java.” After blowing her up, the
Constitution returned to Boston, where she
arrived on the 18th of Feb. 1813.
Well do we remember being at the Fcde-
ral-st. Theatre, when the news of this victory
was announced from the stage by the mana
ger, Mr. Powell, and shortly after when the
gallant Commodore, together with some of
his officers, appeared in one of the boxes, the
whole house resounded for many minutes
with the cheering of the audience. The vet
eran Cooper, then in the prime ot life, was in
the second act of Macbeth, and although he
stood a little behind the scenes, entirely for-
. getting the gracious Duncan he had murder
ed, we saw him swing his cap round with as
much enthusiasm as any one.
In June, 1813, Capt. Charles Stewart was
appointed to her command: and on the 39th
of December, she proceeded to. sea, notwith
standing Boston was then blockaded by soven
ships of war, and safely run the gauntlet
through the whole of them. She returned on
the'4th of April; 1814, and was chased into
Marblehead by two of the enemy’s heavy
frigates, La Nymphc and Junon.
About the middle of December, 1814, she
proceeded on her second cruise under Capt.
Stewart, and on the 29th of February, oft*
' Madcria, fell in with, and after a severe ac
tion of 40 minutes, succeeding in capturing
his II. B. M. ships Cyarie of 34, and Levant
of 21 guns, and 325 men. A more perfect
specimen of nautical skill was probably never
witnessed, than was exhibited throughout the
whole of this memorable battle. The advan
tages of a divided force, or as the boys call it,
of two upon one, are well known to all, par
ticularly to men of naval science. A raking
fire is almost always very sure to be decisive
of the fate of a battle ; and to have avoided
this from cither of her opponents, and with a
leading breeze too, i* indeed miraculous, es
pecially when we recollect that thc'Constitu
tion succeeded in raking both of her antago-
nists more than once during the engagement.
After taking possession of her prizes, the
three ships made sail for the Cape de Verd
Islands,and on the lOthof March came <o an
chor in the harbor of Porte Praya,in the Island
df St. Jago. Two days after this, a squad
ron of the enemy hove in sight, consisting of
ther Now Castle and Leander,of50 guns each,
and the Acasta frigate of 40, the whole under
the command of Sir' Geo. Collier, and in
seven minutes afterthe discovery was made,
the Constitution with her two prizes had cut
their cables and were under way, being at
this time only about gun shot to windward of
the enemy. The Levant was re-captured.
The Cyanc had the good fortune to escape
and now forms a part of our navy. The Con
stitution continued her cruize, and shortly
after returned to Boston, where she was for
the.third time received with every possible
demonstration of joy and exultation. The
last news from her had been brought by the
Cyanc, arrived at New York, when the above
squadron was left in chase, and she had heard
a heavy canonading shortly after losing sight
of her, so that the most intense anxiety had
lor some time been entertained for her safety
Peace had now been proclaimed, and to
have lost this noble, vessel and her gallant
crew at this late hour, and after such a cat
alogue of glorious services, too, would have
cast a gloom over tho whole country.
No wonder that her safe arrival, after so
many « moving accidents by flood and field
and after having escaped so many perils of
tho « waters, winds and rocks,” should be
greeted with such universal enthusiasm.—
Capt. Stewart not only received the thanks
of Congress, but of almost every state legis
lature then in session, and from many quarters
come more substantial marks of approbation.
After this, old Ironsides was taken to the
Navy Yard and immediately dismantled,
where she remained unemployed, we believe,
with a single exception, till the spring cf 1824,
when she was again fitted out, and sailed un-
der the pommand of Capt. Daniel T. Patter
son, to join the squadron in the Mediterrane
an.- Sho remained there about three years,
after which she again returned to the United
States, and as if to add one more to many in
stances of good luck that havo always atten
ded her—she was so fortunate as to arrive
and fire a federal salute in her native city—
during the celebration of the 4th of July, 1827,
and contributed not a little, as well by her
beautiful appearance, as by the delighted as-
sociations that are ever uppermost in the pres
ence of such a glorious vessel, to heighten
the splendor and add a zest to the festivities
of tho day.
We have now, we believe, briefly touched
upon most of the leading incidents in the
eventful history of this favorite sflip; doubt
less there are -many others well worth recor
ding, but which can be only known to those
yho at the time of Their occurrence were a.\
board of her. We have never been able tofind
any but very unsatisfactory accounts of her
operations before Tripoli, and-the other Bar
bary States. A complete and impartial history
of foe movements of our several squadrons in
those seas from 1602 to the present moment,
would not only prove extremely interesting,
but as a matter of record, would be invalua
ble. We sincerely hope some competent
person may be found who is willing to under
take it.
About twelve years since, the Constitution
was hove out and completely examined at the
Navy Yard in Charlestown, when her timbers,
&c. were found to he in remarkable good or
der, a fact which after twenty-five years
wear and tear and hard service, redounds,
not a little to the credit of the old fashioned
mechanics of Boston.
In her actions with the Guerricre and Ja
va, she mounted 54 guns, and 52 when enga
ged with the Cyanc and Levant, her arma
ment being 30 long 24 poundeft on the main
deck and 24 32 pound carronadcs on the up.
per deck. Her loss in the action with the
Gu rriere, was killed and wounded, 14 ; with
the Java, 34, and with the Cyanc and Levant,
14 more—total, 62. The Gucrriere’s loss,
killed, wounded and missing, was 103; the
Java’s 161; Cyane’s 38, and Levant C9—
total, 341, or in the proportion of five and a
half to one. The prisoners were nearly one
thousand.
The dry dock into which old Ironsides is
about to be taken, as well as the one which
has recently been completed at Norfolk, is
undoubtedly one of the most splendid speci
mens of stone masonry to be found ui the
world.
We have heard it spoken of by intelligent
travellers, who have visited most of the naval
depots in Great Britian, France and Russia,
as by far surpassing any thing of the sort
they had ever before witnessed. Indeed, no
Tabernacle chuck full, and there was more I took the- bell rope, and tied one cen’d on’t to
outside than you could count. ‘Now,’ says I the steeple, and carried tother eend over to
‘I spose you think there’s going to be preach- the Deacon’s chimbly more than 12 rods off;
in here to day, but that’s not the business.’ and every inch on’t was hung full of flags,
‘ The Gineral is comin.’ That was enough and where there want no flags he had got all
—‘now’ says I ‘be spry.' I tell’edthe Giner- the cloth out of the fullin mill and the gals and
al last winter he’d see nothing till he got Downingville boys had gin all their handker-
down here, and if we dont make him stare, chers and go^yns and flannel shirts, and it w is
there’s no snakes.’ ‘Where’s Capt. Finny V so high up and tlie wind kinder struck em all
says, I, ‘here I bee,’ says he, and there he I together so you could’nt tell a checked shirt
was sure enough, the crittcY had just come I from an old Continental. The Gineral w..s
out of his bush.pastur, and had his brushhook I tickled half to death: says he ‘Major tha‘
with him. Says 1 ‘Capt. Finny, you are to looks about right.’ ‘It does so’ says I, ‘if that
be marshal of the day.’ Upon that he jumps I aint Union I dont know.’ He’s as keen u«
right on eend. ‘Now’ says I ‘where is Seth I a briar to catch any thing cunniu; he dont care
Sprague the schoolmaster?’ ‘Here I bee,’ says where he is; he snorts right out.
lie: and there he stood with his pitch pipe up As soon as we got down to the meetin
in the gallery just as if he was going to give I house door, Zekial Bigelow gin him the a!-
out the salm for him—‘you just pocket your I dress. It was stifek us full ot* L itin words
pitch pipe,’ says I ‘Seth, and brush up your here and there as burs i t the wool of a stray
iarnin, for we’ve pitch’d on you to write the sheep ; and Zekial, who knows e.uiv most ev-
address—’ ‘Why Major,’ says Zekial Bige- cry thing, doat know Latin yet—he keeps
low, ‘I thought I was to do that, and I’ve got the packing yard, and silts down more h$ii
one all ready. But says I, you dont k.:ow than -any man in the 3 counties round; and
nothing about Latin; the Gineral can’t stom- it was real curis how he got along. He’d
ra ick any thing now without its got Latin iu throw in the salt, and then the pickle and the
it, ever since they made a Doctor on him nitre, jest a leetle’t a time—and when he come
down there to Cambridge tother day, hut how- to tulii to the Giucra! about preservin the Uu-
soever says I, ‘Zekiel you shall give the ad- ion and the Constitution, it was jist the tiling
dress after all, only jest let Seth stick a little I —and when he talk’d about them are Nulliti-
Hog latin into ft hwe and there.’ ‘And now’ ors—he cut, and shaved and nude the scales
says I ‘all of you be spry, and don’t stop stir- fly, I tell you—every hair on the iineral’s
riu till the puddeu’s done. j head stood strait on eend—and there stood
Then they began to hunt for hats and down j that critcer Zekial'right afore him, talking
the gallery stairs they went. Aud if there’ I
been 40 thanksgivins and independence days 1 and every hair slicked down with a dipped
comin in a siring, I don’t believe there could candle, aud that are kew of his wo’d tell the
be more racket than there was in Downing- folks behind which way his eye turn’d jist as
villc that afternoon and uight. well as tho’ they was lodkii strait in his face
By 10 o’clocl^next morning all was ready. | —caze it kinder lodg’d on his collar and ev-
would have found it impossible to have home
up so long under the fatigue, but for the in.
spiring animation imparted by the enthusias
tic kindness of his countrymen.—Washington
Globe of the 4th.
The ceremony of laying the Corner Stone
of the Capitol of the State at Raleigh, was per
formed with great pomp on Thursday last
the 4th of July, by the Grand Lodge of North
Carolina, assisted by the Governor of the
State, the building committee, and superin-
fondant. An address was delivered on the
occasion by Dr. Simmons J. Baker, the Grand
.Master, another by Judge Scawcll, Chairman
of the committee, and another by Gov. Swain,
a id a prayer bv the Rev. W. Hooper, of the
University of North Carolina.
The foundation is laid on the site of the
old State House, and is 50 feet longer by 16
feet wider than the old building. It has al
ready been raised about 3 .feet, and is built of
the most beautiful Granite, obtained from the
S ate <’u rrv about I 1-4 miles from tho Cup-
Atlxm CUdsc and A. M. Msbct, Editors.
B&'ttiraKMra. awjss asaa,
To Correspondents—Several communications of
considerable interest have been crowded out this
wcqk—wo shall endeavor to givo them early attea-
tion. •
Ah Appeal.—It was with much pain we learned a
few days since, from a source to be relied upon-,
from one who professes to be in the confidence of
the nulliliers of Georgia, that that party, or a few of
the leading men who profess to belong to it, had de.
itpl, by means of the R til Road running from - ! t,!rin *ncd to bring out a candidate in opposition to
one point to the other. Jt is supposed that j CrawforOn this subject we haveawordto
the catire building will be composed of this
most durable and beautiful material, if the
Legislature will s motion the small increase
of expense which will thus have to be en
countered—as we sincerely hope it will.—
Whilsi we are erecting an edifice for such a
purpose, let it be one that will l ist as long as
her liberties are preserved. We believe that
r, u i « ■ - , j . i I if the work is completed in the style in which
like a book, and his head was ns smooth, and . , , " , . ,, ,
1 it has been commenced, it will be excelled
I had them all stationed, aud I went out and
come back 3 or 4 times across the brook by
the potash to try em. I got a w-iite hat on,
and a shag bark stick; put some dour on my
ery time lie look’d up, it would’ut stand still
i minute and poiut ri .lit strait up in the air.
Then comes tho Giucr .l’s turn—Ids heart
was so full he cou’d but jist speak—and I was
expense has boen spared by the Government J head, and got on mv sorre! horse, aud looked I jist agoin to begin for him; when out he came
to render these magnificent public works as I just as much like the old gentleman as l I “My friends” says lie, “ tho’ 1 toll’d ’em
omplete and perfect in every respect as pos- | could. Artcr tryi.i them 2 or 3 times I got I down South, my father was an Iris' mau aud
cm all as limber as a with, and the last time j my mother too
I tried cm, you’ve no idee, it went oft* as slick lie turn’d and
as ile. I hand on my shoulder.
‘Now,’ says I “tenshon the hull!” ‘Stand says iie, “ and he knows it.” “So 1 do,’’.says
at case till you see me "again,’ and then 111 Gineral, “ I tell’d ’em til so often enough
sible. They were planned and have been con
structed under the superintending care of Col-
Loammi Baldwin, a gentleman who, for skill
and science, has no superior in the country.
Should the President arrive here to-day, as
it is expected he will, the Constitution will
probably be hauled in to-morrow, or at the
farthest on Monday next.
by no Legislative building in the Union, the
capital at Washington excepted.
We take this occasion to express our grat
ification at noticing the substantial and hand
some style in which the improvements are
progressing upon most of the lots from which
buildings were swept by the fires of January
and September, 1832. The foundations and
fronts of the buildings are of Gra .ita, and in
the fashionable style of the New York stores,
viz. the entire front of the first stor y compo
TIIE DOWNING CORRESPONDENCE.
Providence, June 20.
Dear Uncle,—We arc safe and sound,and
allSshore, and I am requested to answer your
letter; for Major Donelson has so much wri
ting to do that he can’t find time. You can’t
think what an impression I and the President
make as we pass along. The women and
^irls are all crazy to see us. Perhaps they
think wc want to get married. But it’s no
such thing. As for me, I have no office to
support a wife with, and I don’t know of any
vacancy which will happen very soon. And
the President has pledged himself not to be
engaged till he has seen our Downingville
girls. I thought it was all over with us the
other day when we heard they were going to
turn out five thousand girls at Lowell to try
our tempers, When I was reading the news
paper to the General arid come to “ five thou
sand,” says the President, says he, “Major
Downing,” says he, “have you read that
right?” “Yes have I,” says I, “ five thou
sand—and in white too—and handsome and
neat to boot.” The President laughed, and
says he, “ that’s a hard one.” « Major Down
ing,” says he, « that beats all—but the battle
of New Orleans. I must sec those Lowell
girls. And if you and Mr. Van Buren and
Cass all stay in Boston, or where you please,
streaked it down to old Miss Crane’s Tavern,
about two miles off, and waited until the
Giner.d come alo.ig, and after 1 had mixed a
2d gl .ss of switchcl up they came, and the
Gineral loo’#J as chink and" lively as a skip
per.
‘Now” says I “General we are going right
into Downingville, and no man here is to give
any orders but myself,” and I said this loud
enough for Mr. Van Buren and Governur
Woodbury and all on em to hear me, aud they
was all us hush arter that, as cows in a clover
lot. Then we all mounted, and on we went
—I and the Gineral a leetle a head on em.
And when wc crossed the Brook, says I “dont
be afraid of the string pieces here Gineral—
we aint in York now.” “I’ll follow you Ma
jor,” says he “thro’ thick and thin—I feel
safe here.”
“I will presarve the U nion, I’ll be bang’d and
choak’d to death if I dont ; and when I want
pickle I know where to find it. I am glad to
hear you say that salt petre once in awhile is
good—I always thought so—and if the con
stitution spiles in my hands for the want of it,
I wont 3tand another election.” Here the
Gineral was goin to stop, but says I in his
ear “you must give urn a little L i*.tin, Doctor.’
Here he oft* hat again—“E plnribus unitin'
says he, “ my freends—sine qua non.” “That
will do Gineral” says I; and then we turned
to and shook all the folks round till dinner
time—and then we made the baked bfeans
and salt pork fly, and the cider too, I tell you.
The folks had’nt eat nothing since I got, on
the ground. Arter dinner I tell’d the Gineral
about that arc blasted rascal Enoch Bissel,
who tuck’d i t the gross waddin. “That’s the
of the handsomest towns in the Southern
Country. We must not omit to say, that the
walls and rear of the buildings are of brick
and that some are already covered with Tin
and Zinc. We trust that they will thus
provide against a recurrence of such desola
ting scenes as they have been called so fre-
quently to witness.—Fayetteville Observer.
From the Charlottscille (Vis.) Chronicle.
Attack on Mu. Rives A good deal of
sensation was produced among the people on
our lost court day, by a very unexpected and
violent assault, which was made on the person
of our Senator, Mr. Rives, by Thomas W.
Gilmer, one of the Representatives of our
county. It seems that some correspondence
had existed between thefti as to the character
of their relations. Mr. Rives having frank
ly told him of the circumstances, wiiich had
induced a reluctant mistrust of his friend! v
professions, and Mr. Gilmer requiring him to
acknowledge the injustice of that mistrust.
From the correspondence, which was read in
court, on the pendency of the. question, wheth
er they should be bound in recognizances for
keeping the peace, it appeared that Mr. Rives
had written the last letter, which expressed
in very temperate and unoffensive language,
his determination to close the correspondence
on his part, as Mr. Gilmers previous letter
was, independent of other evidence,alone suf
ficient testimony of his unfriendly feelings to
wards him, and particularly as he had no right
or intention, to complain that he was not his
.... ... , . , , .friend—that having thus ascertained their tru.
considerable. If the Gineral dont keep a Daltons and divested their intercourse of those
sharp look out, Mr. Van Buren will go clean de , usive appeariinces which might prove as
ahead on him on that tack-for he is the per-1 injurious to ‘ him as they certainly were re-
Just as wc got on the nole, tother side of same fellow” says I, “ Major B *rrv turn’d
the Brook, we came in sight of Downingville out of the Post Office ; I knew lie was a scamp,
—and says I there’s where I live, when I’m aud if he was’nt then lie is now”—“ why Ma
to hum, and the sight of our house makes me jor” says the Gineral, “ it w.is jist so with
crawl all over, I’m sick of Washington and if that infernal rascal Rondolf—if he did’ut de-
Downingville folks only know’d half what I serve what I gin him afore he attacked me, he
do about one feller you’ve brought along with sartiuly did afterwards; and where’s the odds?”
you, they’d want to take him like a streaked “ Plaguy little,” says I, “Gineral.”
snake by the tail; and snap iiis head oft*. To night we’re goin to a quiltiu at Uncle
Aint that a snug farm ?” Says I. The Gin- Josh’s. Miss Willobv the Deacon’s eldest
eral riz up in his stirrups, and says he “ I’d j datcr is sprucin up for it—She is rather too
go, east of sun rize any day, says lie, to see old to be handsome, but she is a keen criter,
sich a place.” I thought I should go right I and always has something to say. The Gin-
through my shirt collar, for the Gineral was | eral and Mr. Van Buren both talk about her
I’ll go and see those girls.” “ Major Down! I tick,ed ‘° P icces * Nothin S has held a candle
ing !” says he, and he struck his cane on the to diat kc s secn * ....
floor hard enough to break an inch board in I has put his children all on
two——“ I was always in favor of the tariff.” th . c sch ° o1 house—you could at sec an atom litest cretur amongst the women you ever see. | ' Iiant to his feelings, he had accomplished
I’ll tell you what it is uncle, the President ot thc 1°°?—‘ v, * h 8™" boughs, and singing The Gineral says he must have some of our , object which he ha(1 in view . ge
ls a tender hearted man as any in the world. »«*,?* P»j ces hc had made ; and when land Yankee gals in the Cabinet next winter—and fore thc J recept[on of Mr . Gilmer’s last letter.
And there an’t a single widow or girl of twen- thc . G, ¥ neru l ,asscd by they made it all ring I kinder have a notion there will be «om«* fc is tree that Mr. Rives propsed to converse
ty, in. all Connecticut, where wc have just a g a,n 1 tel! you; whether it was his facing hichen teems do.ine here about afore we quit. with him Qn the sub j e ct of their difference,
been, that believes any thing about shooting 'j 0 sun or w, } at » hut lie looked as if he was We shall go strait from here to Saratoque but tbat | etter an( j espe ciallv his reply to it
thc six malitia men, or killing Arbuthnot and « ,J ,st a f° ,n S tocry, (for he is amazni ten- and wash inside and out tnere. I expect we su dcd the necessity of any such confer
Ambristcr, any more than you or I, or the d( ; r haa ? cd cnttcr *) then Sargent Joel shall all need washin afore we get there. cn l ce Th however, met at one of our
best democrats that ever voted for Sam. Smith, | * ho had char 8® hi the field piece in front of Tins is the longest letter I ever writ in all tayer and V e , ired to a room for the purpose
the meeting house, touched her off; and didn t my life, but I m to hum now. It would cost of talki over tho sub j ect of their correspon-
she speak? Tins compos d the Gineral in a | you a good many of your odd mnepcnccs I dence the close of the conV ersation, Mr
. .. ,. . f „ , , 5 ,C8 ?» to P a y th ; P? Sti! R e ’ ,f was ut f ° r Gilmer demanded that Mr. Rives should ac-
nothmg better than a dozen of them guns to President—he tranks all my let era—and that
k my words" it will be a hard thing to find I change the boundry line along here jest to ain’t what he docs for most folks
rv cy2< ° suit you;” “ but look Majur what on earth has I may tell you about the quiltin frolic, to-
Betwecn vou and me, there is one thing I - ot hitoMr. Van Bupn’s horse?”sure enough day, in my next—but won’t promise, for I
don’t like in this journey, and this is, I don’t Sargent Joel had put in a leetle too much wad. have jist as much as I can do here, to do all
like the notion of having that little New-York I .din, if any thing, and Enock Bissel, as sly I the chores for the Gineral—and write near
Dutchman with us. He is always getting us I 03 a _ weazd ™PP’ d in 3 wad of grass, that | about fifty letters a day for him.
say to those of that party, who are from principle jt.
tachod to the doctrines of .Mate Rights. For such
men as Ncwnan, Pemberton and others, who wc bn.
lieve at the bottom of the project, wchavc not a word
to spare—’.ut to those of tho good oh! republic^
party, who have adopted the doctrines of Carolina,
wo make this appeal, confidently hoping that the?
will attribute good intentions to our motives, if noth,
ing else. YVo, then, call upon you as tho friends oi
the Republican State Rights Party of Georgia, to
pause licfore you are led into the ruinous measure a
contemplation. If you aro really the friends of that
party, you will look before you leap—you will wei-h
well the consequences, and if you find the inevitable
result will lie destructive to the party, you will not
only pause, but you will frown indignantly upon any
scheme calculated to produce it. Can you fora mo-
nient hesitate between the party with whom you have
acted in days gone by—a party which has supported
you—and your old enemies, the consolidationists ?
Are you willing that the sccpire should depart fron
Judah ? that it should be wielded hereafter by you-
enemies for your own destruction ? These questions
you have to decide—upon your heads rest thc con.
sequences ! For disguise it as you will, the fate of
the Troup Republican Party is sealed forever, if you
bring out an opposition candidate at the present
crisis.
YVhat have you to fear from the Troup Party?
When was it ever recreant to the great cause of State
Rights? YY’ns it in 1825 ? ILas it before or sir.ci
that time ever shrank from their maintenance? >'o
—it ever has and will always be ready, “ after Lav.
ing exhausted the argument” in their defence, “to
st md by its arms,” should stern necessity require it
M ij. Crawford m iy not go with you to the full ei.
tent of tho South Carolina doctrines. He may loo!,
upon them (as do thousands of others of the party)
as a dangerous heresy, because, if successful, they
would set a constitutional example to tho States to
declare any and every law of the General Govern,
nient null and void, which might conflict with their > J
interests. He may with Troup, say that “ the ballet ' j
box is the only constitutional remedy for unconstitu- ' |
tioal laws”—yet our lives upon it, he will be as rcrcy
as Troup was inl825, to interpose the sovereignty o:
the State, should necessity require it, in the dcfcnc; ■ j
for Governor down cast. We shall all go to |
Lowell, every one of us without, may bo, Cass .
and Woodbury, who have wives and children I m,autc sa >* s “ e “ Major I should nt want ]
at home. And when we corns away, you
mark
a dry ey:
into some scrape. lie pretends to be a very
great friend of me and of the President too.
And says if he is the next President, I shall
be Secretary of State or a Foreign Minister,
just as I please. But then I understood him.
I ain’t such a fool but what I know what be
came of Berrien and Ingham : and I know all
about Eaton too. I haint lived so long in
Washington for nothing.
Wc shall certainly jfo to Dawningsville.
Get every thing readj^ Pick up all the loose
rocks in the laue—4hrow the appletrec brush
over the fence, and shut up thc hogs ; and
knowledge the injustice of his mistrust of
his friendship, which Mr. Rives refused
to do,. as he said that lie could not do
so without falsifying his conscience. Upo.i
this, Mr. Gilmer rose as Mr. Rives supposed,
to leave the room, having failed in the object
of its legitimate rights. Yes, he would act, unde:
the same circumstances, us Troup did; but be would
not deceive the people by calling it a constitutional
remedy : he would place it on tho high ground of
natural right—the right to resist at any and every ha:,
ar-l, tyranny and oppression! Piace nullification
on this elevated ground, and wc arc all Nulliliers. It
is a high and commanding position, but one that will
not and ought not to be assumed by a State only in
the last resort. Claim for it the protecting shield of
the Constitution, and in this way make it a success-
ful precedent, anil what would be the result ? Why,
every law, whether constitutional or unconstitution
al, passed by the General Government, that might
conflict with thc interest of iny State, could be resis-
tod. Am! why? Because they would claim the
right of judging for themselves, and resisting suca
laws under guaranty of the Constitution. Ciaimir."
the right uuder tlie Constitution, what urould rcstraa
the States from the exercise of It at pleasure, and
(judging for themselves) from resisting the most le
gitimate and wholesome laws of the General Govern
ment? They would hazard nothing in doing so.—
But the extra constitutional right claimed by Troup,
of resisting at all hazards, tyranny and oppression—
a right no one can doubt—presonts none of those dif
ficulties; for a citato before assuming this righ.
would be aware of the magnitude of the responsibili
ties she was {.bout to incur, and never wou.d incur
them unless her wrongs were insufferable the very
hazard of the position would always confine he:
action to the resistance of laws plainly and palpably
unconstitutional—but givo to tho estates this right
under tho Constitution, and there would be nothing
to control or check them in the excrciso of it. The
hit Mr. Van Burcn’s horse and set-him ca
pering, till .he kinder flung him. I was as
wrathy as murder—says I “ where is he ?”
and I artcr him full split—he was clippiu it
across tlie orchard, so that you might put an
egg on his coat flap, and it would’nt role off.
Yours to sarve,
J. DOWNING, Major, Downingville
Militia—2.1 Brigade.
of the interview, but after suddenly using Gover^t would be dissolved, to dll intents and
some offensive language towards him, which
Tlie President, accompanied by the Vice-
President and Secretary of the Navy, his pri-
I streaked it round tho corner of the stone I vate Secretary, and Col. Earl, arrived in this
fence to head him—but afore I got to him he I city at 10 o’clock this morning. After re:
had ketch’d the horse, and "was clearing out ching Concord, he found that his strength
of thc County-and afore this he is slick would not enable him to undergo tho fepeti-1 “ re ’ u ‘. "° uiac ’. ,u “ u >
cough in the Province. tion of his labors, which would be required in [ rom th,a ;. but
They tell different stories nbout it, but Den. j complying with the vurious engagements he " 1Ve 1 1,8 e one w lc we tnc e after
can Willoby seen the hull on it, and he says had made. And it was feared, further expo
of course,ivasquickly returned in kind, hefrie 1
to iaflict on Mr. Rives the. Lieut. Randolph
outrage, which he followed up by a blow whih
Mr. Rives was still setting on iiis chair, to
tally unsuspecting such an attack. There
upon ensued a conflict, in which Mr. Rives
was a little worsted before they were parted.
There are, of course, many versions of this
purposes.
These are the old doctrines of tho Troup Party—
they ore the .ioctrines of Jehcrson and Madison, and
the assertion that they are tho doc-
Then why oppose hU
have vour committee of arrangements. and Mr ‘ Va f‘ , Bur . en hun 8 on liko hamper .eel, sure to the North-Easter.) winds, might prove
“ I till nn l.'itwlnr mvl/M 1,1-n n tw/\nnAan I nnwmn.innHif nntmmnnfnl 1.Z*.
your archers ready.
Your neffu,
MAJOR JACK DOWNING.
till he kinder jerk’d up like a trounced toad, I permanently detrimental to his constitution,
and he came down on the horse’s rump jist after his indisposition at Boston—He was
as he kicked up behind, and that sent him therefore,'under the necessity of giving up his
clean over thc fence into the Deacon’s pota- journey, without going to Portland, fu Maine,
toe patch. He turned over so fast in tho air which he intended to have made the termina-
you could not tell one eend from the other; | tion of his tour at the North.
To the Editor of the N. Y. Daily Advertiser.
Downingville, 29th June, 1833.
Dear Sir—This is going to be rather a but his feet struck first, and he stood there,
lengthy letter. We’ve had real times. I be. I the Deacon says, and made as iiansomc a bow I ton on Monday, the 1st instant, after break
hearing tlie different statements. There was
ao person present at the i^ammcncement of
•he combat, in which Mr. Rives was found
quite spiritedly engaged, considering that he
was neither by practice, or theory, as much
celebrated for his pugilistic powers as his as
sailant.
. . Improvement of Candles.—I steep the
The ^President left Concord tor W ashing. | common wick in lime wuter, in which 1 have
dissolved a considerable quantity of nitre or
ble taken about that crowner’s lie down in arter the Gineral, that all I and Capt. Finny ges, relieved by the repose obtained in the The wi
York bay. There was nothing at all going on. I could do,’ we could’nt keep the line .strait; steamboats and rail-road cars, was found light I ] ow j s |
I went full drive down to the meeting house and they all got into such a snarl that you in comparison with the personal exertion ne-1
and got hold of the rope, and pulled away I might as well try to-straiten a sheep’s wool. I cessary to sustain him throughout a succcs-
like smoke, and made the old bell turn clean a ' u “ K “ n verna .11 il.o tvKllo Jnm 1 oinn aC <] n . M 1 J « . i? —
wicks must be thoroughly dry before tal-
put to them.—Farmer's Reporter.
Broken Wind.—Broken Winded horses,
The bell was ringing all the while—two j sion of days, in exchanging "salutations and I it has been discovered, may be entirely cured
over. The folks come up thick enough then people was up there with stone hammers poun- greetings with the immense number of his fel-1 by causing them to drink lime-water exclu-
to sec what- was to pay, and fill’d the old j din on her, caze uncle Josh bad gone and j low citizens who thronged to meet him.* He J sively for a few days.
wo might uazara
trines of Maj. Crawford,
election, when you must be aware that such opposi
tion can only consummate thc distraction of a party
with which you have acted, and one so nearly allied
to you in bonds of political prosperity and happiness.
Wc are confident you will not make the sacnfice -
You will unite with us in the last eflbrt to preserve
the ascendency ol correct principles in Georgia, by
Giving your undivided and hearty support to the
election of Joel Crawford. You certainly cannot.
will not, listen to the machinations of those inter op-
ers who, without one feeling i» coaunoe.with the
honesty left, woulu . of a COI1)punc tion of
without one tehn|,ot" ‘ confidencc of either
conscience. Not h-Jf“ iron , Uie wrecU of
T y - 'S.’EfiSw—. « k-p™ 1
them. LA frjcn(] an d foe. They would lead
alike to ^ professions of friendship: but be.
you into amboA dogUuctio n done they expect
ware it*• Th ^ only intcre sted in
*° int0 fragments the party with which y iu
breaking whilst it preserves its power
juid^scendoncy* their chance for plunder, they know,
is hopeless.
ousr
uncalled for—nay,even pert, do mow