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the table is apt to have a dash of that pro
pensity — in those much given to other
languages, few English volumes are to be
seen : ami, if happily, a pious turn is pre
valent there, the religious annuals, and
other cognate works are niarki dlv pre
dominant. In all its forms, then, wheth
er priinpiegligent, literary, miscellaneous,
nice, sluttish, political, or r< ligiouv the
centre table shadows forth tiie spirit winch
dwelleth in that house.
Victoria. —The following is puLli-hed
as tlic lineal descent of Queen \ n toria
from William the Conqueror :
AJD. 10(50 William I.
1100. Henry I
Matilda, Empress ol Germany.
1154. Henry 11. %
* 11 99. John.'
1210. Henry 111.
1272. Edward 1.
I;M>7. Edwaard 11.
1327.. Edward 111.
Lionel, Duke of Clarence.
Philippa, Countess of March.
Roger, Earl of March.
Ann, (_ Lnuitess of < 'amhridge.
Richard, Duke of York.
I -It* 1. Edward lY r .
Elizabeth, Queen ’of Henry
vu.
Margaret, Queen of Jus IV .
of Scotland.'
.latues V. of Scotland.
Mary, Queen of Scots.
I(i‘d3. James I.
Elizabeth,Queen of Bohemia.
Sophia, Elcctrces of ll.mover.
1711. George 1.
i727. George ll.*
Frederick, Prince of \\ ;des.
17(50. George 111.
Edward, Duke of Ketit.
1817. Y ictoriii.
The Queen being twenty-seventh in
regular descent from the Conqueror, and
at the same time thirty-sixth Sovereign
in succession from the conquest, gives
nearly twenty-nine years to a generation,
and twenty-two years to a Reign, in re
speet of the seven hundred and set e nty—4
one years which have elapsed since that
period. The commonly received average
is thirty years to a generation, and twenty
years to a Reign; according to which il
appears, that the care's or luxuries, or D>t li,
ofa Crown .occasion a s.-u rilicc to the wear
er of it of one year of life,as compared w iih
ordiuary mortals.— [London paper.
CItARt.KS LaMli’s__ OI'IMO.XS Os I’ll.- 1
Tisiitfus and llooKsm i.r.its. — Writing to
UtynaTd Barton, he says ; —‘'Throw
yotirselfon the world without anv rational
support, beyond what tlu; chance employ
of booksellers would afford you ! Throw
yoursclfrather, my dear sir, from the steep
Tarpeiau rock, slap-dash headlong upon
iron spikes, il you have but five conso
latory minutes between the desk and I lie
he'd, make much of them, and live a cen
tury in them, rather than turn slave t >
the booksellers. 'They are Turks and
Tartars when they have poor author? at
their heck. Hitherto you have been at
arm’s length lrom them. Come not w ith
in their grasp. 1 have known many au
thors want for bread, some repining, oth
ers enjoying the blessed security of a
spunging house: all agreeing they had
rather been tailors, weavers—what not ! i
rather than the thins they were. I have
known some starved, some to mi m.id : one
dear friend literal!', dying in a work-huu-e.
You know not what a rapacious :et these,
booksellers are. Ask even Southey, who
(a single case almost) has made a for
tune by hook-drudgery, what lie Ins found
ilium. O, you Know not. imy you never
know the mist ries of subsisting by au
thorship! Vis a pretty appcu.l. ge ii a
situation like yours or mine, but a si;:-,
very, vvor.-e than all slavery, t.» hr a l ook
seller's dependant, to drudge your hraius
for pots of ale, and breasts of mu!:. ;:,
to change vour free thou ;hts an I volun
tarv nuiti!et; for tmgraci m- task-work.
The booksellers hate us. i lie re -on I
t ike to In', that, contrary to olln r t. ,dc
in which the master yets all tie- credit,
(a jeweller or silversmith, f.*r imtauce,) j
and 1 lie journevnan, \ lion d.as tiie
work, is in the back ground ; m our work
the world giv< ali the credit n> u-, vvliom
they eoiisid. r as their j uriiMiuen. and
therefore do tin v hate u~, and cheat u ,
ami oppress m, and uon Id v. ring the blood
oil of u to pm an aia ;' s; \. .. .ice in I heir
Mechanic pom-la I ' ' '* * *
Keep to your 1 and the hank will
keep to you. —Trim not to the pm.lie :
vou mav hail/, starve, drown yourself,
for any tiling that word ■. r-omig. -cares.
1 bless everv - tar, t'.iat i o.il. e. not
■reillg good to 1.l .l.e U.e .■ pet. !«•;•.
lias seen it next >.d to s me me e: ■.
the stable found ;i of Lead'
down, ;;ood B. 15 . m tint han!»n -ee,, , •
what! is there not from six to en uni.
M. six davs in tiie v.eok. an 1 ■ tm-ren •;
all f?mnlnv 1 Pie. what a -up' rtiuity ot
imn'« time, if vou could think >-.» I 11-
imii'.'li t >r relaxation, mirth, cemi cr-e. po
-1 try, good thought*. n'lict thoughts. O.
the corroding, torturing, tormenting
thoughts that disturb the hr.on of the un
lucky wight who unto draw upon it for
daily sustenance. Hence I >rt'n l reiraet
all niy-fond comph.nts of m« rcuuiiie < m
plovrnent: look upon them a-1 oi-rs q i u -
rels. I vvashut half in earn t W, !r-,. . _
dead timber of the desk, that _n es me lit
A little irrar;il,inig is a whole incih me I'.r
the spleen : but in my inner ii • art do 1
VJviTuve VI i 1 tid)" Iff till o*l r close hot
unharr »y ,( *' • !
lions."
pLOt I.IIINT. to SoMr. Purpose. Wc |
were presented yesterday w ith two French
silver coins, one issued in the reign of
Louis XIV, in 1(577. nud the other mtlie
reign of Louis XV, in 1722, which were
part of a parcel found on tlie farm of Mr.
.Nash of Goldsboroug h, (Me.) Mr. Nasi i
was ploughing in a field, assisted by two
hired men, brothers. ()ne was with him
at the plough, when the treasure was tur
ned up by the share. They slopped to
examine it, and on discovering its value,
Mr. Nash with noble generositv, order
ed the man who was with him lo cal! his
brother, saying they would all share alike
in the* good fortune. The brother, who
u:;s at work at a distance, was called,
when all three commenced search and
ioitnd French Crowns, half crowns, and
other fractional parts of a crown, to the
value of over 8300. Tire coins were all
iof the reigns of Louis 14th and Louis
15th, and bore the dates of the year 1073
—5 and (5—1720—'.’1 and 22, and were
in perfect per ervalioti. The coins of
Louis X V's reign appearing never lo have
been in circulation, and the impression
is as sharp as it just issued from the mint.
A tradition h :s long existed in the town,
that ihe place wu once settled by colo
nies from France who were driven away
by the Indians, and this money is suppo
sed to have been buried by them for con
cealment. We are told by the gentleman,
who gave us two of the coins, that the
goo ! people of (sold -borough (not so in
apt a name bv the bv) have all I uriled out
not a foot of ground in the town, Imt lias
been or w ill be turned up in search of
more of the treasure. [Boston 'Frans.
‘‘Ron Roy away rumi ms native
ui; \ i nrn.”—Old Ethan Crawford, who
for so many many years has cracked his
jokes and told his bear stories to the
mu eineiit of travellers to the White liillls,
is no more—uc mean no more the presi
ding genius of the place. The spirit of
imiov ~tion has crept through "the Notch,” |
and changed the aspect ol things around
the old red painted homestead of the
I mountaineer, since he cut his way to the
top of Mount Washington, and was "sole :
monarch of all he surveyed.” Competi
tion has rushed in, and erected new man
sions under Ins very nose—strangers
have scared tin- (h er lrom Ins door, ami
and tin 1 tioiil from his stream. This was
too much tor old Ethan, to the blast ol
whose horn the lulls and tallies had echo- •
ed and .-n:im‘!< and as Ins Luge frame cast it
sliadow along their sides, and .- >» lie lias 1
at last "picked up his duds,” and now
cultivates a little larin tit Guildhall, Yt. j
The hardy mountaineer, however, still
occasionally returns and lingers about his
old home, and, perhaps his relleetions mav
not he unlike those of Rob Roy, when
Osbaldi. tone spoke; to him of becoming
a soldier and leaving home—“ Tin heath
er that I have trod upon win ii living must
bloom over me when dead—my heart
would sin!; and my arm Would shrink and
wither like fern in the frost, wa re 1 to
lose sight ofmv native hills; nor has the;
world ti scene that would console me for;
the loss of the rocks and cairns, wild as
they tire, that you see around us.”
[Claremont Eagle.
(’iiiM.sE Literati re. The history !
of China, lrom tlu'earliest period to tiie
Mongol dynasty, consists of 3119 volumes, j
Si no pen a biographical work, tills 120 vol
umes ; 7>/(.</</g- •/.•tuug i-lie, a dictionary
of their art and inventions, 21U volumes;
ilie civil code, 21(5 volumes; a collection !
ol plays, 2dl volumes. The commenta
ries on tit'' work - ot Contaeius are iunu-j
nt<Table Statistical accounts ot the sev
eral provinces arc nearly so : compilation
of moral tales and aphorisms are without
end. it is stated (.//»./ site Its ('ii.'ntH?)
that the emperor Ixien-ltuig caused a re
[H in; to he made, the imperial press,
of ail the siandurd works throughout (.'lii
-11.1 ; that in live years the completed !<>”,-
odd volumes, and tint it was expected the
whole would extend to (i j volumes.
Filial rev i.hence or the Turks. An
ennui!v heautilul ieature m the character
of the Turks, is their r. vercnce and res
pect lor the author ot their being. Their
w i\es advice and reprimand are unheeded:
their words are Im.-.'i —nothing, hut tiieir
mother is ;n> oracle ; she i- com-tilled,
confided in, listened to with respect and
attention, honored to her I nest hour, and
ivmmenibered w till uliec.tien and regret
be;ond the grave. "My wives die, and
i can replace them," suvs the Osmunii,
"mv children pciisli, end others mat he
horn to me : hut who .-hall re.-tore me the
the mother who has pa sed aw av, and vv ho
i-.-cin no more [vhty of too Salt..:;.
Bvroti’s faithful domestic. Win. Fit tell
er, pr-, .la short time since through the
iii tilvent court. No one had the inikitid
licss to rq.po> via man whose fortune it
u..- to cio e the t t- of one of the gre t
c-n ot' modern s and a--wage v. it ii
his attention', in the distant I ml w tin
stranger, the tii mg moments o! t lie bngiit
est genius that Inis been struck out. n.
mir time, ol the lit ran In nii-phere. iiis
and. hi - were Fl 5 t He o id, I>r • mv true,
kept a I *dg mg i‘ e e and I hail v, i
- in ii i !.lt v s.pi uv. i’a II ei M i
ia ii. ■m, rii tt.e po< t. hel gr i n.n
’<opi r annum, hat it L ?.uce m, n
~m,q». .1 Sim pael however tin.* costs o!
me present application* here was
\da. sofr daughter of mv name and
•' "• t i -av icHi or of the irife —[N.
Y :
BRUNSWICK ADVOCATE.
THE JDTOeiTE.
BRUNSWICK,(<» a .)—OCTOBER Id. 1-37.
Commodore Stewart’s letter, which our rea
ders will find on the first page of this paper,
contains enlarged views, and correct reason
ing, which do honor to this distinguished offi
cer. The importance of Pensacola as a Na
val Depot has been acknowledged, and Con
gress has made large appropriations for a
Navy Yard and Fortifications at that port. —
l!ut equal appropriations for similar purposes
on some point in Georgia or Carolina, while
yielding protection to the coast, and the com
merce of the Atlantic, would also do - much
for the defence of the Gulf. With Naval
Depots at Pensacola and Brunswick, connect
ed by a Rail Road, the entire South and
Y\ c.-t could he easily guarded from an ene
my* ihe facilities afforded by such r. com
munication for the speedy transportation of
troops, provisions and all the munitions of
\\ ar, would be of more* practical benefit, than
m fori, at every little harbor on the coast. The
I Army and Navy Chronicle, which by the way,
is one ol the most valuable periodicals in the
country, some months since contained an ar
ticle illustrating the advantages to be derived
lrom Rail Roads ill a lime of War, and en
forcing with great ability, the principle that 1
the General Government ought to aid in their
1 construction, under certain circumstances.—-
The only assistance which is asked in this in
stance, is to establish !l Navy Yard at Bnuis
i wick ; and a Rail Road will lie constructed
, l iv’ private citizens, which will afford a soft,
spu.ly and certain communication with Pensa
cola, converting the present dangerous obsta
cle ol i Ape Florida into an additional de
fence, and connecting New Orleans with the
I Atlantic cities in the most perfect manner.—
Vv e can safely assert that no other port oilers
such prominent advantages as this. Setting
aside the superiority of our harbor, admitting |
that BavauuaJi or Charleston are equal, yet;
our pii.sitianin regard to the Gulf, and the 1
means of internal connection so far excel them, j
that they can hear no comparison. The letter
of Commodore Stewart hears out the remarks ;
of Mr. King, as to the saving of time, in a
voyage to Europe, from any port ill the Gulf, ■
or Brunswick. It - (.’engross in selecting a |
port lor a Naval Repot acts with sole refer-;
cnce to public pool, Hiiimcrick can leave
nothing lo fear ; should some other [mint be
chosen, bur city, though not progressing so
rapidly, possesses all the elements of great- ;
ness—the idea is incorrect that she depends on !
Treasury pap and Federal patronage tor her
rise. A Naval Repot would confer on her the
advantages that oilier cities would draw from
the stinie source, and no other. If Congress,
with all the information now before it, sees fit
to select one of the other Southern harbors,
Brunswick w ill not complain, nor will she be
materially injured, the public will be the (
greater sufferer. But we cannot believe that
Congress will commit such a mistake, as to ’
pass over the claims of Brunswick, and lavish
the public monies on any port loss adapted for
the purposes of affording protection to the
commerce and the country.
‘Public Rights’ it will be seen lias again '
come out. As t lie last word, is an old woman’s
privilege, we shall not encroach on vvliat so
fairly belongs to him. We will just remark
that ‘the thread of iris verbosity exceeds the
staple of his argument,’ which is constructed
from a Hi/nidal Statute. Had lie not better
petition the legislature to relieve him from the
position into which he lias been forced by
‘■erroneous legislation ?’
To tin Unitor of the Brunswick .Idvocitle :
Tis re is u.o maxim which appears to be
nioie generally received than that tastes are
not to he disputed. 1 shall therefore not enter
1 int.» any quarrel with you for the manner in
which you have noticed my termer communi
cation; and having myself no taste for the
bandying of e; idiots which have neither orig
inality, point nor application ; and confessing
Liyseit'd. -iitiite of any skill m the use of such
jii.-tiuaieiits. 1 readily concede to you the un
d.spilled possession of a field, in which v ictory
can colder no hollers. 1 w ill therefore pass
over the phrases, “solemn witticisms,’ ‘dolor
mis jokes,’‘play the lool,’'grotesque exhibi
tion',’ 'until tricks,’ ‘Harlequin feats,’ Ac.,
which are equally novel in the conception and
tv:.nod in taste, and leaving you to cull alone
su. a tx.iK' and choice flow ers of rhetoric, 1 will,
after a few remarks on some olTho mistakes
.and misrepresentations of your replv to my
communication, which require r correction on
my [tail, do a diseus-.oii, winch i have now
no further object in continuing.
To the important bearing ivlnch this ques
tion ii ,s on vain due public ml* rests, a nu the
imc.-vcsiou that its agitation was witu the*
km v.-i ’.!go of the v'ntlem in. v. i.o<e conduct
■ 'ii !; vc d0:,,:.! l T"ard , r . c discus
sion. von are to if mu'c t >v lucieo of v,itir ar
of the IFh ol Sept. !> ; fi >se rea
-on*. M® it; -ii •!. r insm i0; m-* a ■ ,: iv those,
v i' spy: vel of thit geo -.un's course,
v ii'.i been a'.one.i to p ■. -s without no
. S;a> 1 the public ition of t r.umuiii
i iti";it • you, I nave been gratified in finding
from your declaration that the impression, that
your article was written with the knowledge !
oftlu.it gentleman, was erroneous. The whole
responsibility therefore devolves on you. of i
j having agitated through the question,
which it was every way desirable should be
left entirely to a legal tribunal for adjudication,
without any further excitement of public or in
dividual feeling. And you are also alone an
swerable for having forced on those—w ho con
ceding to that gentleman pure motives, and
| acquitting him of intentional wrong, vet dis
approve of the course lie has pursued,—the
! necessity of presenting, through the same
channel, the grounds of their condemnation of
it, or of appearing to admit, by their silence,
the correctness of the imputations publicly cast
on them of erroneous opinions unworthy
motives.
5 our attempt to cast ridicule on the proofs
adduced by me of the commons having been
appropriated by tiie State to public purposes,
is unfortunate. Either through intentional
misrepresentation, or gross misapprehension of
my incaniiiL', you niako mo shy the reverse ot*
what I do. The “preposterous” and “mon
strous” doctrines which you attribute to me
are figments of your own brain. You will find,
by a reference to my communication, that
mere naked possession, and traditionarv evi
dence arc not considered as proofjkin them
selves of a title to land, hut that they are re
garded as a valuable confirmation of that de
i r i ve, l from “a specific grant, or in such admis
sions in the statutes of the State as clearly ex
press the understanding and intention of the
| Legislature as to the appropriation.”
I equally disclaim the imputation of assert
ing that public opinion creates a title to land.
The very sentence on which you found this
charge begins with the expression that i/the
lands are not vacant, then the burden of proof
rests on the party attempting to run them up.
fn the concluding sentence ot the paragraph.
| die proof of the appropriation is distinctly stat
ed to he—not public opinion, but a specific
grant or the admissions of the statutes,&c.
My meaning was simply, and I think obvious
ly, that when a public body is in possession of
i lands, held under the colourable title of the
j admissions of the Legislature as expressed in
its statutes, the party attempting to eject is
hound to furnish proof of the vacancy; more
particularly when the impression is general
that the title to that body is good. The gen
eral impression is no proof of title, but it places
the new claimant in the position of one who
acls in opposition to a received opinion ; and
therefore in vindicating that claim, before the
public, the burden of proof properly rests w ith
the party attempting to eject.
As respects your comments on the statutes
quoted by me, it might he sufficient to observe, »
! ml I perceive in them nothing to change the |
opinion w hich I had formed, —that, construed
agreeably to their true meaning and intention!
the various laws of the State in reference to
tin' commons ol Brunswick, unanswerably
prove that these lands have been appropriated
hv the State to public purposes; and have thus!
been withdraw n from the class of vacant lands,
subject to be run up under head-rights. To
present this in a point of view, which can be |
comprehended by any one, I w ill observe that, |
although, the original grant is not now to he
found, yet when the act of I7!»(i, says that the
Commissioners shall “cause the commons of the
said town to he resurveyed," and the town to be
“laid out as nearly as possible to the original
plan,” what candid investigator can doubt that!
sue!) a grant had been made by the State, and
for the purposes to which commons are usiiallv
applied. \\ hcrever else did these commons
derive their existence—by what authority, hut
that of the State, where they laid out with
definite land marks and designated as com
mons.- That they had been so laid out, what
other proofs can lie required than they are di
rected to lie re-surveyed (a term which means i
to go around boundaries which have already
bn n istablislud;) and the fact that the boun
daries are known and w ell defined. The ap
propriation ot these lands to public purposes,
requires no oilier equitable proof than the
constantly recurring designation of tilt in as
commons : —that islands set apart by the State
for the use ofa public body, and no longer in
cluded in that portion of the public domain
w hich is subject to be run up. It is true that
the Legislature lias exercised, from time to
time, the right which belonged to it of sanc
tioning such dispositions of these lauds, as the
community interested in them has requested :
but which not being in conformity with the
original intentions of the grant could only he
made under the authority of the State. Such
acts of legislation are now grants of privileges*
hut no proof of the assertion of a right to con
trol, as absolute owner. Such an exercise-of
power, as far it is consistent with the rights
vested by the original appropriation, the State
is competent to assume : hut I utterly deny that
any course of legislation, made at the request
of the other party to the grant, and not militat
'ieg against the rights* conveyed, as a proof that
“the State ii is ii. ,c relinquished its title” or
that it is an evidence of the “ownership of the
State.” If the State has, in anv instance, de
viated from these well established-principles,
it -a t coot of orron-MU''legislation, an 1 not of
tin v '■ ancy ot the cum nous.
i a > act of l7:iii, contains another strong
P" a pro >f of the public character of
t'm - '.if . 'its. the preutnbl" • , y,,. (psi s vtion.
“Where is several persons have at sundry times
made attempts to run up. the commons of the
saul towns, bid have bee a as often deflated in
the caveat Courts of the said County.” Defeat
ed —an wlnt grounds? Because they were j
; vacant lands ? or from the then existing proofs
that they were not vacant ?
You maintain that the (sth section of the act
of 1790, which declares all grants obtained for
; the commons to be null and void, as merely re
trospective. Messrs. Marbury and Crawford,
in their Digest, seem to differ from you; as in
j the marginal reference they say, “Penalty for
, surveying the town common—such surveys
void,” and not that part surveys are void. The
eminent counsel whose opinion on this point
was inserted in my last communication, gives
jit also a prospective character. The public
must decide on the preponderance of authori
ty. You admit with reference to this section,
that the “statute furnishes a right of action for
tiny individual who may be injured by the act
of running and entering upon these commons.”
Rid it not occur to you, when making this ad
mission, to inquire into the intention of the
provisions of tins section? Did the inquiry
in vrr present itself to you, why any individual
is to be punished for attempting to run up the
commons ? If the lands are really vacant,
what offence has been committed in running
them up? Has not every citizen a right, with
in the legal restrictions, to run up any vacant
land.- Why then inflict a penalty fordoing
, what every one has a right to do ? Is itneces
; sary to anser for you ? Tiie penalty is exact
i ed, not because the commons are vacant lands,
but because the State lias appropriated them
for a public purpose; and is solicitous to guard
from trespass the rights it had com eyed. If
i the statute was merely intended to “redress
1 private wrongs,” will you be pleased to show
how any individual can be wronged by the
i running up of the commons if they are vacant
If vacant, what right has any one in them that
j can be violated ? I w ill ask you one question
more. It there were sufficient reasons in 1790,
for declaring the grants obtained by individu
; als for the commons to be null and void, do nut
the same reasons now exist? Was not the
| necessity for a prospective operation of the
j act stronger than the retrospective one; inas
much us the act says that the previous at
tempts to run up the commons had been defcat
! ed, and therefore the presumption is that no
' grants could have been issued.
sou must permit me to assume my own
grounds of argument, and not ask of me to take
those which may suit your purpose. I have
before said that it did not affect the argument
whether the Academy or the town had a right
to the commons, it is sufficient to sustain the
! position that I have assumed, that I prove that
the lands are not vacant. I therefore willingly
; repeat w hat I said in mvformer communication
that the counsel of tiie Trustees are of opinion
that the title is not in the Academy, hut is vest
ed in the town.
With these remarks on some of the positions
taken by your reply, which seemed to require
a notice of ine, I shall now conclude a discus
sion already too much protracted. Before do-j
ing_so it is proper here to observe, that the wri
ter has never intended lo enter into a techni- !
cal discussion of the mere law of this question,
as he makes no pretension to the necessary
professional knowledge. Such an investiga
tion is more appropriate to the counsel who
must argue it before a legal tribunal. He lias j
only aimed at sustaining his opinions, on the j
broad principles of right and wrong ; and by I
those views of the laws bearing on the case,
w hich are to be obtained by the light of com
mon sense. On the equity of the case, lie be
lieves them to be correct, but he is not prepar
ed to say, how far what he deems to be a right
founded in justice, may be defeated by the
absence of technical form, or the confusion of
conflicting or erroneous legislation.
PUBLIC RIGHTS.
P. S. Since writing the above article, I
have seen the communication of your well-bred
correspondent “Brunswick.” As he has taken
the liberty of borrowing all his ideas from you ;
and can only claim originality for his epithets,
my answer to you will apply also to him. To
his sarcasms on my legal ignorance, in main
taining that the commons of Brunswick are not
vacant and that the grants recently obtained are
invalid, I must how with tiie deference due to
such authority. I have the consolation, how -
ever, of holding the same opinions with the
counsel of Trustees—gentlemen w ho are justly
the pride ot their profession ; and who are not
generally reported very “stupid,” or suspected.
, when giving opinions on points of law, of
“meddling with a matter they know nothing
about.”
I use the opportunity of this passing notice |
of “Brunswick” to say to the whole of this class
ot writers, that “Public Rights” is 100 true a
sportsman to kill such tiling's for game. They .
will therefore in vain attempt to draw his fire.
'File St. Joseph Times publishes some re
marks in relation to Gen. Clinch extremley un
just, but which certainly cannot injure that
officer where known. The idea of contrasting
iiis courage w ith that of Gen. Call, is perfectly
ludicrous. The different conduct of these
officers at tiie battle of Witlilaeooehie settled
the question of their valor very conclusively ;
and the friends oJ Gen. Call do him great injury
by calling the attention of the public to the dis
cntion mumit'-leii by him on that occasion.
Ri el. A duel was fought at Amelia Island
beach on the sth inst. between Gen. Charles
Floyd and Edward Hopkins, Esq. The form
er was slightly and the latter dangerously
wounded.
Just as our paper was going to press it be
j came necessary td withdraw three columns of
original matter, and as the publishers have not
at this time the usual number of compositors,
' we have been obliged to fill up with advertise
ments. Such an accident, we trust, will not
* again occur.
j Academy Lauds. Our readers at a distance
i can feci no interest in a question so local as this,
and we trust that hereafter we shall be able to
furnish something more suited to the taste of
; general readers.
Ru ssian Trade with the United
j States. —The Commercial Gazette, of
i St. Petersburg, contains an article which
shows that the commercial crisis in A
j merica and England lias considerably di
minished the export of several of the na
tive productions of Russia. It states
that in the first five months of 183(5 about
345,000 pounds of iron were exported, but
this year, the quantity amounted to only
202,000. The hemp in IB3G amounted
to 271,000; in 18:17 to only 90,000.
Cloth, in 1830, to 50, 014, pieces, and a .
bout 1,800,000 archies, but, in 1837, p,
no more than 33,100 pieces and 300,000
archies. Flax in 1830 to 22,200 poods;
1 but this year to no more than 82 poods.
In the imports there lias been but very
little difference, and indeed, they appear
to have increased, and more particularly
|in silks, cotton goods, and Champagne
wine, in which last article the importa
tion in 183(5 amounted to 0,311 bottles,
while this year it has been augmented to
19,401 bottles.
Mr. Riiett.— We have been puzzled
to know how Mr. Riiett became a mem
ber of Congress from South Carolina.
We thought we had “kept the run” of
all the members elected, and were sure
there was no such member in the list.
But the mystery is explained ; the name
of lliiett, by permission of the Court of
Equity of South Carolina, has been assu
med by Robert Barnwell Smith,(that was,)
for'the purpose of reviving an ancient and
honorable name which hadbecome extinct
and of inheriting a legacy, to the posses
sion of which the assumption of the name
was made obligatory, lie is now the
; Hon. Robert Barnwell Riiett.—N. Y.
Jour, of Com.
From the Sandwich Islands.—A
letter dated Oahu, May 20, says—“ This
place is in an uproar in consequence of
■ tin insult to the British Hag recently per
: petrated by the natives, in the seizure of
; two Catholics upon the Island on relig
! ious grounds. The flag was publicly
burnt in the street.”
Thomas Wilson, Bishop of the Isle of
Man from 1089 to 1775, was a particular
:ly benevolent Man. To supply the poor
with clothing, he kept in constant etnploy
| meat at his own house, several tailors and
; shoemakers. On one occasion, in giving
orders to one of his tailors to make him a
cloak, he directed that it should he very
plain, having simply a button and loop to
keep it together. ‘But, my lord,’ said the
tailor, ‘what would become of the poor
button makers and their families, if every
one thought in that way ? They would
|he starved outright.’ ‘Do you say so,
John,’ replied the Bishop, ‘why then, but
ton it all over, John.’
Female Duel in Paris. On Mon
day the 24th ult. six young ladies entered
a fiacre at the rue Royale St. Honore
Paris, and ordered the coachman to drive
to the Bois de Vincennes. In addition to
the fare agreed upon, the coachman re
ceived a handsome gratuity, which seems
to have led him to believe that there must
be some mystery in the proceedings of
this femenine conclave. liis suspicions
were not unfounded. Madame Stephanie
! L—, furious against her ex-intimate friend
! Madame Adele M—, who had abstracted
her lover, had challenged her unfortunate
rival to mortal combat. The invitation
; had been accepted, and it was to settle
this affair of honor that the two ladies,
each accompanied by two seconds of her
of her own sex, had repaired to the Bois
dc Tinconnes. A pistol having been
placed in the hands of each, the two ri
vals fired in turn. The murderous en
gines, however, had been loaded by in
experienced hands, and were discharged
by hands equally unaccustomed to the ar
! ena of duelling.—Neither of the fair
combatants, accordingly, was hurt, and
though they were themselves by no means
desirous to retire from the affray, the sec
onds severally declared that their princi
pals had done all that honor called for,
and insisted upon withdrawing their wo
man from the field.
Laconic.— A remarkable example ot
the laconic style has recently taken place,
w hich would j)Ut Leonidas and his coun
trymen to shame. An Edinburg Quaker
sends to a brother Quaker m London a
sheet of letter paper, nothing whatever in
the writing way, save a note interrogation,
tints (!) his friend returned the sheet, ad
ding for a sole reply aO. The meaning
of the question and answer is as follows:
“What news?” “Nothing !”
A committee is forming at Paris, with
Marshal Soult at the head, to raise a mou
ument for the French who feel at W atcr
loo.
The study of man is the doctrine of
unions and discords between ourselves and
others.