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tile argument,” why the south should acqniese
iuaGuL du wines and silks; that in proportion
as sitk was pxpelled, the consumption of cotton
would be increused. This would undoubtedly
tie a hard argument in the mouth of a northern
manufacturer; but when used by a southern
man to the south, the reply is evident and con
clusive. To say nothing of the compulsion
upon which this additional consumption would
oe based, it would not only be destructive of
the advantages/esnlting from free trade, but it
would be '^.losing a profitable foreign market,
from. Whence’ our cotton is not returned to ns,
but it would be substituting therefor a less prof-
i table market at-the hdrt It froin which we shou ld
receive payment for the raw material in the
same commodity wrought up, being made to
the
pay’in the mean time, the profits of the maim
iaoturer. Is not this a 1 protection’ of northern
manufeturers at the expense of our constitu
ents ? And yet my colleague is willingJo lend
iiis aid to a measure which will surely fetfect it.
So-wesce that profession, at least in this case,
is oi.e thing, and the practice quite another.
Mr. Chairman, this tax on wines mid silks is
a blow struck directly at the South—at the cot
ton and tobacco growing Slates. By the trea
ty of Paris, concluded in JS31, a system of com
mercial reciprocity was established between,
the French aud this country, higly beneficial
to ls>th parties, and injurious io no one. Under
that treaty bur commerce with France, which
tietbre was comparatively limited, extended it
self rapidly, and vvas.iiuuutuined principally
by'the exports of Southern cotton. , For a pe-
tod of five years post onr ex|*or1s to French
ports have varied, in round numbers, from
ighteen millions to-twenty millions per aiiniun,
f which the'exports of cbltoii alone amounted
> between thirteen and seventeen million-* an-
nally, the balance being of tobacco nnd rice.
Wow, instead of sending back 10 us, as the Eng-
ish do,the greater part of this cotton, m wrought
goods, aud thus saddling us as consumers with
all the intermediate expenses accruing on the
ommodity from its production to its consump
tion, the French return to us only about one
million of cotton manufactures annually, near
ly llie whole balance being paid to 11s in silk?
and wines. They ’.hen consume among them
selves, one yea* w ith another, an average of
quite fifteen millions of Southern cotton, to say
nothing of rice and tobacco, for which, as I said
Indore, they pay us withlbeir silks and wines.
Now, put a tax of20 per cent, on these articles,
uud couple with it, as you must, if you main
tain the compromise act, cash duties and a home
valuation, and what do you effect ? YYhy, you
slose up this nutlet for our colion by taxing,
almost to prohibition, the very articles willi
which alone the French can pay us for our raw
material. What further do you effect ? Wliy
yon throw back annually upon the hands of the
planters §15.000,000 worth of their cotton.—
France cannot buy it; England is supplied
without it,and,moreover, is preparing to grow
her own cotton ; yon have stifled the foreign
market by your legislation, nnd the Northern
weaver steps in and buys it at five or six cents
per pound. A propitious state of affairs for the
iarnier! But,notwithstanding, my colleague
willing, not only to maintain the compromise
it to tax wines aud silks, at Ihe suggestion of
.ie of the rankest tariff men in this House.
Again, sir, in proportion ns you depress the
commerce of Frabce, the friend and supporter
of our colonial struggles for liberty and a na
tioual existence, you elevate that ofGreat Brit
ain. These two nations arc the only great
rivals for our trade; and while 1 would extend
the principles of free trade, upon the broad
ground oi justice aud equality, to our Saxon
forefathers, I would certainly do nothing to
swell her commercial importance over ihejust
claims of our first friend and ancient ally.—
England at this moment is prevailing the
whole enrth. She is stretching her grasping
and powerful arms over the four quarters ol
the globe. Europe, Asia, Africa nnd America,
are the objects of her towering nnd insatiate
ambition. She has colonized India; she is
pushing her trade with the Gelestiul. Empire,
41 by the grace of God nnd gunpowdershe
is dictating terms to belligerent thrones nnd
rebellious viceroy ; she is openly attempting to
dismember one of the sovereign Slates of this
Union, and she is silently erecting her standard
upon our territory at the mouth of the Oregon.
Nay, sir, pretending to suppress Ihe slave trade
on the coast of Africa she bus recently boarded
nnd searched, under circumstances of insult and
aggravation, an American merchantman, bear
ing “the brond stripes and proud stars" of these
independent and United Slates. Her Minister
near this Government has recently avouched
tlie net of a~ British subject which resulted in
the destruction of the lives and property, with
in our own limits, ofciiizcns of New York.—
Willi these facts staring us in ihe face, with
this long account unsettled between 11s and
this marauding |»ower, is there an American
statesman on this floor who is ready to lend
our legislation, however indirectly, to British
interests, at the expense not only of our own
people, but of the French nation, onr old and
well tried frietiHs^l Sir, I address myself to
ihe South ; Engiand-has taken her stand in
the ranks of the AboimtMjsts; the proceeding
of the YVorld’sCouveutioiv^Londoii, at which
Prince Albert, the persomurepresentative of
the Queen, presided, are proof sufficient for us
that she waits but a time nnd an opportunity
to invade onr rights, and rob us of onr prop
erty. The English are making strenuous ef
forts to supplant the great staple of the South
by settling cotton plantations in the East in
dies—if she succeeds she will glut tier own
markets with hep/own produce, nnd the main
source of oiuhjweallh aud prosperity will be
forever closed up. She is thus grasping di
Tectly at our slaves—if she falls in the open
attempt, she is stili endeavoring secretly nnd
invidiously to destroy the value ot our proper
ty by taking away from us the foreign market
lor our staple production. Are the country
men of 1 a Fayette engaged in such a crusadi
against us? Shall we deal a blow at the
Southern people, hy striking at the commerce
with France, when the comparison stands, as _
have stated it, between that Government and
England ? Let my constituents consult their
rights nnd iuteresis, and then answer the ques
tion. I ask no legislation in hehnlfof France;
1 only claim that our trade with that country
be let alone -that my constituents may he al
lowed to send the produce of t heir labor where
nnc' to whom they please. This they will do,
anti you had better save your credit nnd our
rights, by conceding what, in a certain event,
we will take, hy the help of “ the great conser
vative'prihciple. n
Mr. Chairman, I may not repeat the identi
cal, words .ofiny colleague, bnt the suhstance
of what he said about the Tariff will long
he remembered by top. It was noticed hy ev
ery one around me, particularly by the Demo
rats, as a most extraordinary speech for
especially in the presence of tariff men, nnd
Northern tramnfadiira^ i»WBTgr heardu
speech more thoroughly imbued, in my opin
ion, with the principles of protection and dis
crimination iUnt the remarks of that gentleman
as they were delivered- to this House. How
they will appear on paper, 1 cannot say—i on
ly speak of my. impression from what I heard.
He said substantially, if not in hee verba, that
formerly the people of Georgia were rabid on
the tariff question—that it had been a mad-dog
cry among ps: He remehil>ered the time
when any (him who ventured to speak ip. fa
vor of a tariff would t*e withered by the indig
nation of the people of Georgia: but, said he,
that day has past, “ thanks to .he events of the
last summer /” Now the intelligence of his
constituents enabled them to think and speak
calmly upon that subject.” Ah 1 the events of
the last Sjilanner— have they wrought Ibis innr-
vellons “ linage Have the events of the
lust summer c,'tt ’oblivion on the old anti
pathies of the Georgia? Sir,- in the
name of the i 1 of that State, 1 deny the
assertion, anf> .i tlie deductions that may he
drawn thereon. YVh.il changes those events
may have made in the gentleman, i cannot di
vine; but this much 1 can say, that, from pres
ent appearances, he has not only lost his hor
ror of a tariff, bit lie has ventured to walk bold
ly np to the monster. He can now look it cool -
iy aud calmly in the face’; nay, lie even dares
lo touch it, and handle it without any apparent
concern. Ere long, sir, he inav have “ his foot
in the stirrup and his hand on ihe inane.”—
Well, that honorable gentleman certainly has
a right to mount what fiohby lie pleases—pro
vided he rides in his individual capacity ; bnt
(11 his official character 1 protest against the
course fie has thought proper to pursue. At
this critical-juncture, when every thing is por
tentous of “ changewhen we have an evi
dence of change pefore us in the speech 1 have
just adverted to, is behooves no man from Geor
gia to be silent. Where are my colleagues ?—
They are shortly to lie my representatives, and
1 have a right,as it is my interest, lo know their
present position upon all the great questions
^particularly on thetanffqnestion) which have
been agitated in this debate. I therefore invite
thereto come out—to speak plainly and openly,
aud qpiet the hopes of those whose iuterestsare
confided to their hands.
Upon the tariff question^ the people whom !
represent “are now where they ever have been
and where they ever mean to tie.” -■ W luxuries
are lo be taxed let il Ire done indiscriminately,
aud if any ehange is to be made in our revenue
laws, let all the imports of this country lie taxed
equally—no discrimination—no prelection.--
If any imports must tie admitted duly free, let
the sugar, salt,-iron, inolnsses, coarse woollens
and coarse cotton— ihe absolute necessaries of
life, be relieved, and let the revenue raised be
sufficient only for an economical administra
tion of the Government- With this sort of a
tariff, and with no other, (notwithstanding the
events of the last summer) will the people of
Georgia be satisfied. If thfcy supported Gene
ral Harrison, aud iundvertently brought certain
of his friends into power, they assuredly did
not do so with the remotest expectation that 0
protective discriminating tariff, either open, or
disguised as a tax on luxuries, was to he fas
tened on them. And when they find that such
a result is likely lo follow il the events of the
lust summer,” another “ change” may come
over the spirits of my colleague’s dream.
Mr. Chairman, I have no vain regrets for the
past; but let ns look to the - future, and watch
closely the shadows which ever precede com
ing events. Precaution is the safeguard of our
rights and liberties; in this spirit only, as one
of the people, aud as a representative of the
people, 1 sound the alarm. In doing so, I have
jrdancj
bers of t
I*. Govern
s ‘ the-Pfe
correspondence. He had examined if with
care*and would uow frankly state the imprcS-
sion which it had made, on his tniud. Altho’
he would not prefend tqsay that there werend.
omens of war in‘the qbiidu^|f4>fthe British
Government on our Northern'frontier, y& this
he should assert, with much confidence; that
in the negotiation itself relative to our North
eastern boundary, nothing had occurred ip-
consistent with tne sincere and anxious desire
which had always beefi' professed by mat* Goy-
ernmenrto preserve the peace which row so
happily subsisted between the two countries,
and to*bring the question to a final -and satis
factory conclusion. Probably Ihwexpri&sibn
might be loo string, and he ought to huve qual
ified the general terms he had used,by except
ing the delays We had experienced from (lie
tardy movements of the British Government
al every stage in the progress 'of the‘negotia
tion. Still he lelt himself justified in using,
at the present, moment, the language of the
President in his message at the commence
ment of the session; that, “ from the character
of the points still in difference, and the un
doubted disposition of both parties to bring the
matter lo an early conclusion, 1 look with en
tire confidence to a prompt and satisfactory
tentnnation of the negotiation.” lie had rea
son ti> believe that such were stiff the anticipa-
lions of the President in regard to the North
eastern Itonndary question. ’ •
Mr. B. said that on the present occasion he
should purposely refrain from the oxpr$ss ; on of
any opinion hi regard to thecase oi Ihe steam
boat Caroline. This was rendered unnecessa
ry by the fact that all the correspondence itr
rclaholi to this subject, of any general import
ance, had already been published, and each
Senator bad the same means of forming an opin
ion which be himself enjoyed. There was no
truth whatever ill the minor now so current,
that there had been an angry correspondence
between the British Minister and the Secretary
of State since the date of the last correspond
ence between them, now before the public.—
There was no foundation for this rumor. It
was true that, since that time, a single note,
bearing upon -this subject, had l»een addressed
by Mr. Fox to Mr. Forsyth, which thi’latter
had answered; but this note and answer Were
of so little importance, that he, Mr. B; did not
deem it necessary to call for their publication!
and their loue was far from being ot au angry
character. ,
Mr. Clay of Ky. said, the mosv. important'
point related to the adjustment of the- North- 1
eastern Imundary, and in order to produce a
definite settlement of that question, there, had
been proposals made for its reference Jo arbi
tration, as had been stated by the chairman,
and the principles which should regulate a,
matter of that nature had been agreed fd, with
the exception of some comparatively utinnpor-
trtnrpJHnts. With respect to the case of tfye
Caroline, there had been some delay; and tqe
Government bad not'received any satisfactory
answer cfe to the fact whether that capture
'within our jurisdiction was by order of the
Government of Great Britain. As to the case
of Myljeod, lie was not very well informed p
about it. Whether there had beet
Washington, March
st, fit| c&locfehp. tn. in un
ions arrangement, the me m-
atic Corps accredited to the
ted States,.wailed upon
nt (ffieir ufiited arid offi-
his approaching retirement
cial respects, on
from office,
Mr.,Fox, as the senior of the*diplomatic bo-
.dy, delivered an address in iircii name 10 ttje Miss.
'President, which, with the reply, we publish
below.'—Globe. ■< .«>b Jjk»t
who are missing is Mr. Colqnlqn, cashier of a considerable party of troops of the 3d Artil-
the Branch of the City Bank ut Natchitoches, llery.
Capt. Vinton, 3d Ari’y.. has recently made
| an examination of the country for a considera
bly distance around "New Smyrna.* He has
just returned from Tomoko; reports no recent
sighs of the enemy.
Lt.Col. Harney, we learn was at Shark riv-
a child of Mrs. Cuney's, anotherpf Mrs. Nor-
mau’s. and a French cigar maker of Natchito-
ra-l elms whose name we have not been gble to ! h
lepr ~ v ‘ M II
learn. One^of the crew, a Spaniard, together
w|th'^ome eight or ten of the passengers, are al
so supposed to have been either drowned or ,,
burnt*hut in the confusion it is imjmssibleio er scouring the coast in that vicinity,
get their nariie?', as theregisternndalltheclerk’s | Lt. Col. Gates,3d Artillery, arrived in Gas-
papers
irs are lost. A. M. Davenport of Rddmw~i ton
s., broke lus le^wmie Jumping ashore. Al I 1
frnm'n tmir of inspection.—Herald.
the passengers who were saved lost trunks,! An unfortunate occurrence took place, at the
Mr. Fox's Address.
Sir-^-I have tire honor to address yon in the
name of the diplomatic body accredited to the
United States of America. YVe are anxious,
sir, to express to you the high resp ct and es
teem winch we entertain for your character, as
well ns-lli© gratitude that we leel personally for
the kindness and courtesy we have always re
ceived at your hands. YVes*lniH all remember
with satisfaction die period during which otir
respective public duties have placed us in com
inutncution with- yonr GovernYiKlit: and in
now taking leave of you officially* uc U’g to lie
allowed to assure you of the sincere n.teresl
WO shall ever feel f«»r lire continued weiihre aud
happiuess of yourself and of your family.
V y 1'he President's Reply.
I reciprocate, sir, cordially; the expressions
of respect and esteem which you have made to
me ill behalf of the members of the diplomatic
body accredited tojthis Government. /
1 would have regretted deeply the occurrence
of a single circumstance in our ofllcial inter
course to interrupt those relations of mu
tual inspect and personal kindness, the main
tenance ofwh.ich between public functionaries
is always agreeable, and which seldom fails to
exercise a salutary influence upon the transac
tion of public business. Your obliging ex
pressions have satisfied me that my utmost
wishes in this regard have been fully realized,
and 1 derive great pleasure from the conviction.
The members of the diplomatic body, will
please to accept my grateful ackowlcdgement
for the interest they Jake in-the future happi
ness of myse|f and family ; aud I beg them to
be assured that l will always cherish a lively
solicitude for their -individual welfare and for
the welfare of those whose happiness is depen
dent upon theirs'.
man to save the.lives and prevent unnecessary ! Hsh trap, in a batteaux, which, nnfortmiatelv
confusion on board. The steartterSul.tan^ and iwhen some distance from the shore upset.—*
Gen. Gaines came along shortly'afterwards aud ! Mr. Jennings clung to tlie Loot for a time when
brought the uiifnrlnnat^ sufferers to this city, - thinking to reach the shore, by swinunuin- he
We could not ascertain \lie manner in which abandoned it. He was seen by several per-
the fire originated.
V Since writing the’above we Itevejearned t’vat
there was $2U()p in specie on board the Creole,
belo’ngiiig to the Exchange Bank,.
more Indian Troubles.
YYTe learn from the Little liock Gazette, on
the authority of a gentleman, recently from the
Indian country, that great excitement lias been
created among the Cheiokees, hy tfie exccu-
tion of an Indian named Aclrlla Smith, one of
the treaty .signers, who h|id been'tried and con
victed of murder. Previous to his execution
he had asked nnd ohtqjucd leave to have a per
sonal interview with the chief, John Ross, with
a view to obtain a reprieve. YVh.ile before the
chief he was earnest in his protestat ions of in
nocence ql the crime of which lie had been con
victed, but stated that be bad killed three or
four other men. Ross refused to grant a re
prieve, and Smith was executed. After tins
event the excitement became intense amongst
the party to which.Smith belonged. Threats
were,made agipnsf the life of Ross and bis
triends, and he thr<itgh,t it prjidet< to surround
sons, who were on the river banks, to strode
for a while, when lie sunk. Efforts have Iwr
made to recover the body, but have proved un-
successful. Indeed, it is hardly possible that
it will be-found in the neighborhood, nt least,
of where the body stink, for we have bad heavy
rains since, and the river has risen considera
bly. The rapidity with which the wan-ts
move, must, eh; this, have floated the body to
a greuf distance below.
M r. Jbnx 1 nus, we learn, was a nati voof Y'ir-
ginin, and he has'left four small children to
mourn his loss.—Geo. Journal. 1
Foreign Iniottigiitre.
\Yithan extra force we publish all tl:e ex
tracts we can crowd in, and have lo leave over
some we have on file.
The NteamerePresideirt was to sail on the
lOtli with full freight, aud a large nun.her of
passengers.
The packet ship Sheffield, carrying out the
President’s Message, arrived at Liverpool on
the 14th Januarv.
mtinicalion between the Executive auff the,
Governor of New York, he knew not; but his
o|>inion was, that there ought to I ave been a
request front the Secretary of State to the Gov
ernment of New York, if they persevered in
tryiug this man, that he be brought to a place
where heenn Imve-a fair and impartial ,trial;
and whatever should be the result of that trial,
that his personal safety should be put beyond
all question. But without any such request,
a sense of propriety would prompt the Gov-
done my duty: aud come what may ol it, l j eminent ofNew York tojake that course witli-
shall always be consoled by the recollection
that 1 have suffered no personal feelings to de
ter me from my post when 1 had nought to face
but a victorious and overwhelming enemy.
Coiigrcs-iounl.
In the Senate 011 Monday the following in
teresting communication from the Chairman'
of the Committee ou Foreign Relations was
made. '
RELATIONS WITH GREAT BRITAIN.
Mr. Buchanan said lie was instructed hy the
Committee on Foreign Relations to move to be
discharged from the consideration oflhe resolu
tion which had l«en referred to that committer,
requesting the President to communicate to the
Senate, if not incompatible with the public in
terest, any correspondence which may have
taken place between this Government and that
ofGreat Britain relative to the Northeastern
Imundary, not heretofore commuuiciited to the
Senate.”
He would state, with ns much brevity as pos
sible, the reasons which had induced the com
mittee to believe that it would lie inexpedient,
at the present moment, to publish the corres
pondence to which the resolution referred.
It would be recollected hy Senators who had
directed their attention to this subject, thqt in
consequence of the correspondence already
published between the two Governments, and
to which lie need not particularly refer, it be
came Ihe duty of Great Britain to* submit to our
Government the project of a con vent fort for the
settlement of this long disputed boundary ques
tion. This duty httd been performed by the
British Government in the month of-May,
1839. The President did not approve of this
proposed convention chiefly because it con
tained no ultimate provision which must in
evitably and finally determine the controversy
between the two countries. Indeed, from its
character it was quite probable that, had it been
adopted, it would not have produced this re
sult so much to be desired’. Aud the Presi-
oiit suggestion from any quarter. He [Mr.
Clay] was ill hopes the man would hove a fair
trial; and he ho|»ed, as he always did, that the
result *f the evidence of that trial would lie
such as would satisfy the jury of the epontry
of the innoceuce of tlie.man, and that he would
be acquitted. With respect to the captures
on the coast of Africa, he took it lliat satisfac
tory explanations could be made, (or the Gov
From ihe Globe, Ftb.QOlh.
, Judge P. P. ESarbour.
JrhGB Bakuour, of the Supreme Court of
the Untied States, who retired to liiscimmlier in
his usual health, on Wednesday night, was
found dead in his lied on the morning of Thurs
day. He appeared to have died without a
struggle. His sudden decease is ascribed to
an affection of the heart.
The last rites were paid to the remains of
this excellent man to-day, at the Capitol, in the
chamber ol th.e'Supreme Court,
i The service!avas rendered most impressive
by hie exulted worth of the deceased — the dig
nity of the presence—the President, Y'ice Pres
ident, Senators, Representatives, and Jt .’ges
any conjv attending—the solemnity of the place, and the
simple but eloquent, and most appropriate ad
dress of the Chaplain who officiated.
There was never a higher or more deserved
tribute paid to the dead than that awarded to
Judge Barbour front the very tribunal iu'wltich
tie himself once sat. It was bnt the echo or
that which Mr. Roane had just pronounced in
the Senate Chamber, and Mr. Banks in the
House',' and to which every heart responded
that surrounded his bier.
Judge Barbour bad, from youth’ to age, been
versed in the busy scenes of life—the polemics
of the bur—the politics of Stute nnd National
assemblies—the high trust of the judicial station
—in all that ir.volves the interests and’pas
sions of the world, and yet he passed from it
unspotted of the world." In every social and
domestic relation, tlie current of his life ran
pure, and diffused happiness on all around him.
He was, in his principles, talents, ajid attain
ments, his pfobity and benevolence, a fine ex-
Death of the American Consul in Fiance.
himself by a body guard of some forty persons. | Died on Sunday evening, January 31, in Paris,
He was shortly'to leave tlie Nation for the'' ll l,!t! y ear of bis age, of typhoid exit,- ms-
East. ^ 1 lion after gout,-Daniel Brent, E>q., Consul of
It is further stated that Ross despatched ap ,ie United Slates of America for Paris, and
message to a distinguished member of the Ridge a c el . ,t of American claims,
party, a relative of Bnudiqot s who had (ills ! ,,c s,p ainer Caledonia, Captain Clelaud,
said,),expressed scene threats against him to "'Inch letl Boston nt 2. P. M. ol the 2<l, and
know what his intentions were; The-reply * Halifax at 8 P. M. of the 4th nil., arrived at
was characteristic of the man, and ol course * Di verponl at half past 5 P. M. of the IGiii Jnn-
unsatisfactory to Ross. Thus the matter stood i ,,!,r V. afl,?r « passage of fourteen days and thice
when the informant oft he Gazelle left. j boms, including a stoppage of several hours
The people of Arkansas with good rotsou j ;i1 Halifax,
implore the Federal Government lo send to the j Gore’s, Liverpool Advertiser of Hie 2lst
frontier a force sufficiently large to keep in ' January, says, “ the improvement in the A:iu r-
check the numerous hostile tribes that it has ! ' cnn trade continues, and the. packet ships b-ave
con con) rated 011 the boraers of that State. j every week with excellent freights. On Tlmrs-
day last, tlie Roscius sailed lor New Y’erk
. j From Florida. with a freight amounting, in the aggregate, to
By the arriral yesterday of the steamer Isis, | little 'css than All SOU.
himself at
Capi. Pitcher, from Pilutkn, we are in receipt ! Scott, the American diver, hunt
of the annexed letter from one of our valued! Waterloo bridge by accident.
Florida correspondents. I EGYPT.
Copt. Pitcher reports that on Sunday, a se- J The following shows the state of tlie Egyp
vere.hail stofm passed over St. Marys, (Ga.)! question:
erqment ofGreat Britain should understand emplar of that character which raised his na
dpnt was firmly convinced, considering-the
long delay—Ihe high state of mutual irritation
existing along the border, and the imminent
danger of actual collision, that the interest of
both parties imperatively demanded the adop-
non of such treaty stipulations ns must neces
sarily make an end of the question. The
British Government had since unequivocally
coincided with the President in these senti
ments, nnd the two Governments had already
agreed upon the essential points of a conven
tion based upon these principles, and alike ad
vantageous and hounrnble. to boih. There
were still some provisions of this convention,
of comparatively minor importance, and. in
volving detail rather-than principle, which had
not yet been agreed upon; hnt if it were the
sincere desire of both parties, as lie believed it
was, to arrive loan amicable conclusion, the
negotiation must soon lie successfully termina
ted. Under these peculiar circumstances, the
committee believed that it could do no good to
either purty, whilst it might lieetnbairassing to
both Governments, to publish to the world the
that this country will uot submit to the right
of search, which was the cause oflhe last war.
But the general character of our relations was
such that, aud from what we Imd heard and
seen out of doors rather than from what had
occurred in this and the other branch of Con-,
gress, his opinion was that they wouldjiotre
quire ainy special mission whatever -The or
dinary minister accredited to Great Britain,
would be quite competent to the discharge of
all.the special duties that would devolve upon
him. He would add further that in reference
to the state of the relations between this coun
try and Great Britain, he had not begua tn
think of the possibility of any immediate.war
with Great Britain. But while he said this,
he hoped he would not |»e understood assay
ing thut he hoped to avoid any preparation
which might be necessary in the event dT Ihe
assertion of our rights, or any pretensions,
whatever quarter they might come from abroad;
No; he looked upon the condition of out riavy
and the want of steam batteries, nnd the ab
sence of nil those floating means of defence, ns
matters of just and-deep concernment; and he
did hope they would have n very early and'
constant attention, that the country might be
prepared lor any possible emergency; " He
would close hy repeating the expression bf his
hope, that there would lie no immediate cause
of war; and he lielieved l»oth Governments 1
were animated by a desire to preserve peace,
which was so cssentiul to the happiness of
bpllu
The question was then taken on discharging
the committee from ttie further consideration of
the subject, and it wits agreed io.
cmrespnndence and the different projects aud
counter projets of treaties which had passed
^ eithcrn man to make any where, but more ! bet ween diem.
live State to such deserve^ distinction among
her sisters of the Union.* -
Tiiese .considerations, .which must make
sharper and deeper the-first pangs fell in Iiis
death by his family, will, in time, lie their great
est consolation. . He will survive to them in
his character and in the history of his country.
Appoint merits by the President,
l By and with the advice aiuLconsent oj the
Seriate.
JUDGES.
Philemon Dickerson, to be Judge of the
United States for the District of New Jersey,
lit the place of Mahlon Dickerson, resigned.
Peter V. Daniel of Virginia, to lie one ofthe
Associate Justices of the Supreme Court ofthe
United States, in the place of Philp P. Barbour,
deceased.
John Y. Mason of Virginia, t.> be Judge of
the United States Iqr the eastern district oi Vir
ginia, in the place of Peter V. P»mi, i.
From the N. O. Picayune of fhei ith.
Burning of the Creole.
DrSASTuous Lqss of Life.—By passengers
arrived yesterday afternoon, we have tlie inel
uncholy particulars ofthe burning of the steam
er Creole nnd'tlte loss of some twelves lives in
consequence. ..
The Creole was bound- to this city from
Natchitoches with a cargo of 965 bales of cot
ton, and about 70 passengers besides the crew
On Monday morning about 5 o’clock, when
near ‘ ‘
which, with the severe frost, it is supposed,
must have severe,y injured the orange trees
in that vicinity.
Correspondence of the Sitrannah Repvl/lican.
Florida, Feb. 27.
Gentlemen—Since writing you last, no
thing lias transpired materially to change the
aspect of affairs in Florida. The General, it
is hoped, will stop the mouths of the grumblers
by sending olf some 400 Indians the first of
next month, under Mnj. Belknap, They are
strongly guarded and well taken careof. Two
treacherous warriors'in attempting to force
Ihe duplicate guards have been emigrated
to their , celestial hunting grounds; 'which
seems to have induced the balance to submit
quietly to tl.*e treaty,vOtid try those of Arkan
sas first. ll’Congress will give Gen. Armisteud
money, I think lie will end the war, and that
too in the cheapest and most expeditions man
ner. : .
Yours truly,
'We have also received the St. Augustine
News of Friday last. 26th lilt, for which we
are indebted to Capt. Cooper, of the schooner
Frances, arrived yesterday from that place.—
ThaNews appears to be alarmed, lest the trea
ty of Gen. Armisload will prove like all the
others that haye been made, nnd that after the
Indians have been furnished wjth the money,
clothes and rifles promised, they will again be
let loose to continue their reckless butcheries.
The News says Authentic information has
lieen receiv ed that Tiger-Tail has taken
“French leave,” and that the 300 Indians re
ported at
indications
der. From the letter of our correspondent
above, it will be seen that rtvo of the treach
erous warriors have met their fate in attempt
ting to escape, and that the balance are strong
ly guarded, and we have no doubt, ere this
they are cm their way to their new homes' in j
Arkansas. " j
The following items are extracted from the !
Neics:
“Thesteamer Wm. Gaston arrived hereon |
Wednesday, from Southern Posts. No Indian
news. Harney was on a cruise of pleasure
when tlie boat left, having ceased operations
against the enemy.” . .
“ The schooner Empire floated on Satur
day last, mid we are happy to state that she
has sustained no injury; except the loss other
rudder, which .is how neatly replaced. She
Extraordinary Express from Paiis.
Tlie Times office, Feb. 2. )
Half past two o’clock, A. M. v
THE IIF.UEIHTAUY LWE.-TiTt KK (,i
EliYPT UUANTED TO MElLEMEi All
We have ibis moment received by extraor
dinary express, the Paris papers of Sunday
levelling.
The Mouitctir publishes the following:
“ We have received Ibis evening, bv means
of the Austrian Embassy, intelligence of impor
tance from the East.
‘“On the 12t!i January one of (be offi
cers ofthe Sultan left ('onstniilmople for Alex
andria, tlie bearer of a firman, by vvbi'h iiis
Highness officially accords lo Mchctnet All the
hereditary possession of Egypt.
‘•‘Oil the llih ofthe same month Melicmet
Ati restored the Turkish Fleet.”
- Upon the important intelligt nrc tlie Moni-
teur comments in these terms:—
“The simple mention of the dates is suffi
cient to show that this act of the Pasha lias
been entirely spontaneous on his part, since be
was then ignorant ofthe definite inl -iil 1011s ol
the Sultan with regard 10 him.
O11 the other side, the despatch of tlie firman
by tlie Sultan preceding by two day?the res
toration of the fleet, proves that nt^constauti-
nople they acted with sincerity and good
faith.
“ It is the character of the t^n ev ents we an
nounce which given them /hove all import
ance. We can conclnde^om them, that all
the difficulties which di* ,,1 *'b the peace of the
East are definitively setud, and ns the peace of
l ntnpa Bay, havo also given strong j t[ie w |, 0 |e of Europe >' as connected w ith the
s of a'disposition to follow their lea- solution of these diflVhlties, the news which
has arrived will ho/ceived every where with
the greatest inleresi
The Messager
“'Pile Sultan/
js the following :
as granted Mchemet Ali the
hereditary inve** ,,,re oftlio pashalie of Egypt.
On the 12/of January the Ottoman Steam
er Tairi-Bul/* left Constantinople, bringing to
Massldnrn-jcy the Envoy of tiic Sultoii at
A|exandr/i s, ippl cm - , i ,nr y iustructions,logeth-
cr with jnattischeriff, dated ihe same day,con
ferring/** , l |< ‘ Pasha the hereditary possession
of E")“- This vessel probably reached Al-
cxaur a 0,1 tI,e l^* J a ‘*wn r y”
/ A War Sig:r.
/be f.ondou correspondent of Ihe New
y>rk Signal, writes in a postscript:
“I have just* learned that the Four Powers
will resume lu*r regular Trips to <7harlesion,are so indignant at the extensive warlike pre-
011 Monday next.” \* ./pnratioris-vvdiich France continues to make,
^ —=—- /Inoivvilhstaiiding all their remonstrances against
Sr. Augustine, Feb. 26./ (Thiers, and -in the teeth oil the pacificas-
Feom the South.—The Steamer Gas/b surnnees given both by Louis Pbillippe and
Ktef's'^SnUaraliiliS’Skfeib. Cup.. GrMB,.,.u,nvt.do„ WuJ.K-sdny j M. ifphu pu.uiMu mnoh I...*.. ...
Wabash'Treaty.
The Senate yestetdnyv ip Executive session,
as we are informed, ratified, with some slight
amendments, the late treaty made nt the Forks
of the YVnhasb river, in the Shite of Indiana,
with The Miami Indians. 'This was nniosf iin-
portant measure to the State, ns well as to the
Indians, as by it the title to the remaining lands
of those Indiatrs lying i if that Stute, being about
5U0.00H acres, has been extinguished, and the
removal of the Indians at an early day to the
lands set apart for them beyond the Mississip
pi river has been seen red.—Globe, Feb. 26tft.
• Virginia IT. S. Senator. ; d / ^ ,
"W. S. Archer, (whig) of Amelia, has.been
elerte^Senator in Congress, hy the Legislature
of Virginia, to sifpply the vacancy • caused- by
the expiration of Senator Wm. H. Roane’s term.
First ballot, Archer 81, Roane 76, Scattering
6.. Second ballot, Archer 82, Roane 50, Scat-
teritig 31; . -f. c
: * r - * /'* '
The latest .expression for “ caper sauce" is
- “Elsster impudence? „ /k
mouth of Red River, a fire was discovered aft • Souffieni Ppsts.-
of the wheels and near the ladies (Nibiu. The
pilot was the first to notice u as-tlie fire had
consumed the tiHej; ropes which hqd prevented
his steering. . The boat .took a sheer and run
into tlie lunik, when two or throe passengers
jumped J^hore ; but os she immediately fell off
again into the .current the balance were oblig
ed to throw over the cotton and save them
selves the best way they, could us il was found
impossible to extinguish the flumes. All jump
ed from their births with such clothes they
hud on, but fortunately there were hut three la
dies on lioard. The engine continued to work
and in a fcw minutes, by another sheer, the
Creole struck the bunk on the opposite side.-—
St]?lL of the passengers and crew us had not
jiimped overboard previons.to tliis, now clus
tered to the bow of the bont and'niade out to
reach the bank, the.last of whom was Capt.
Dalntati, the commander. Fortunately the
steamer Baltic now made her appearance nnd
succeeded in picking np those who .were float
ing and swimming in the river.
The boat, together With the citfgo and ri large
amount of money in packages, belonging to
merchants' of this city, is lost. Among those
We are indebted to Ca[/C.-| her present course tlie consequence will be an
for the’following memoranda. It has hi.w,ex-; open rupture vviiii llie.otlier powers.”
.ceedihgly cold at the posts. At'Fort /alius j It should be remembered that in the sfrcrli of
all.tiie Banana aud Flan.itain trees wenfonm 1 the Queen of England, no allusion whatever
to the ground. At New Smyrna the i/rcurv , is made to the relations between Great Britain
md France. The Journal des Debats urns
itbc J alludes to the omission :
“ This is a fact which we have not Ihe slicbt-
slocd at 25.
Th©-Steamboat on her passage
coast touched at New Smyrna, F<yt P*.
Lauderdale, and Dallas; reports from Mi© test intention of dissimulating; We accept Hi is
commanding officers thereof wenfto state tMat irilence without exaggeration, as also without
no Indians or signs of Indians luid bom ffls- jdiminishing its signification. This kind o
covered since the scouts in Jaunty. A latge* international courtesy oughtto be entirely Iree;
fire was seen from the Steanffiertt, in the neioh- iwe have no right to claim it, and* we have
borhood at Ca|>e Carnaverab supposed toVAieiiher the right nor the temptation to com-
on Merritt’s Island. Col. Gates ordered scows plain of its omission.”
to be made frequently from each post, to c0- ~~~ 7 "7“ rtiIllt l
sist of one half , of the command. J Another Outrage by a British CrufttW.
It is supposed bv the officers generdv, r i he editor of the Salem Observer lies been
that the Indians had abandoned the favored with a perusab Of a letter, written nt
ride ofthe nctiinsulo, ns the Ares were outT om sea, on board of brig Cherokee, Capt. WeMiot
C-me Cornaveral, to Key Biscayue. LtCol. .fhat-port, dated Dec. 27, 1840, which Mates,
Harnev with the guides- and a small p/ty of that a few days before this readied the ( ape,
Dragoons, had on the 10th inst. gone tWnrds.the brig was ovcrlim.led hyher Britannic Mnj*
Cape Sable, he was heard frotfi on thEOth 5 [esty’s brig of war t unew, and aftera fnlI ex
reports no signs ofthe enemy.* - f j amination of the Cherokee’s papers, her hatch*
Mai ‘Childs will immediately mqkdi scout es were torn open, under pretence of searching
towards The head waters ofthe St. Jolrij with for slaves !