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following lyric is again going the rounds of the newspapers. It was written by George Canning, we think, when a young man, and must have been published in Eng land some fifty years since. We have great pleasure to see it again brought forward ; for it is now as then, a most appropriate sntifo up on those who sanctify by motives of philanth ropy, their injudicious and ridiculous endeav ors to aid those who stand in no need of as sistance. [EJ. Advocate. THE FRIEND OF HI'MAMTY AND THE KNIFE GRINDER. Friend of Humanity. Needy KnilVgrinder! whither arl thou going? Rough is the road ; thy wheel is out of order ; Bleak blows the blast ; your hat lias got a hole iu't, Sj have your breeches. Weary K nifegrinder, little know the proud ones Who in their coaches roll along the turnpike Road, what hard work tis to cry all day ‘Knives and Sciasr la to grind O.’ Tell me, Knifcgrinder, how came you to grind knives? Did sonic rich man tyranieally use you? Was it the 'squire? or parson of the parish? Or the attorney? Was it the 'squire for killing of It s game? or Covetous parson for his tithes distraining? Or roguish lawyer made you loose your little All in a law-suit? Have you not read the ‘Rights of Man' by Tom Paine? Drops of compassion tremble m my eyelids, Ready to fall as soon as you have told your Pitiful story. Kn fr^rindrr. Stbry! God bless yout I have none to tell, sir. Only last nigh! a drinking at the Chequers. This poor old hat and breeches, ay you see, were Torn in a scuffle. Constables rime up for to take me into Custody : they took me before the justice ; Justice Oldinixon put me in the parish Stocks for a vagrant. 1 should be glad to drink your honor's health in A pot. of beer, if you will give me sixpence ; But for uiv part 1 never love to meddle With politics, sir. Friend of Humanity. /g've time sixpence! I will see thee damn'd first, Wretch, whom no sense of wrongs ran rouse to vengeance ; Sardid, unfeeling, reprobate, degraded, Spiritless outcast. [From the Missouri Saturday News.] UP AND DOWN. “I shall go up, op. up, And you shall godoien, down, down-a.” [Old ft mg. Mu. Editor: — l take up my pen to put down my ideas on the propriety of abol ishing one of the words which head this article from the language—both being so often used to express the same meaning. From the time 1 first took up my resili ence in this country, (for 1 nm a foreign er,) down to the present time, I have nev er seen the necessity of employing both words, one of them being all Millicient for the purpose of conversation and correct expression. If I should compile a dic tionary, I should give the following defi nitions to the two words: "Ur— down. Down— up.” The following brief dialogue between a certain editor and myself, will convince you of my correctness. Myself. I have called to pav w> my subscription, as your terms require pay ment in advance. Most happy to receive it—we like sub scribers who pay cash down. There— there, sir, is a receipt up to the end of the year. (Here I laid down the money, which he put up, and drawing a chair alongside of mine, he took down the poker, stirred up the fire, and tiie dialogue proceeded.) Editor. How is your family, Mr. I’pdown? I was informed your lady was laid up with a bad cold. Myself. Yes, sir, she was taken down very suddenly. At first I took up the idea it was nothing serious; but,when I sent up to know if she would come down to breakfast, she said she was too ill to sit up a moment. When this intelligence came down I jumped up and sent for a physician, lie went down to his office, put up some medicine in a phial, and said she must drink it all up at a dose; so with a wry lace or two, she took it down. 1 was up with her nearly all night—the next day she was so much better she got up and came down to dinner. Editoj. V* ell, Inm right down glad to hear she is up again l hope we shaft have the pleasure of seeing her down at our house. Myself. What news have you from Florida and the Canadas? Editor I believe we may consider it all up with the Indians down in Florida: and in Canada the Insurgents, ! think, evdi soon give up, and lay tf own their arms. My self. Any Congressional news? Editor. The four Mississippi mem bers have been sent homo—the people will now take up the matter, and the two sitting members, it is thought, must go down. Prentiss has shown himself a whole team ot a fellow—his knock down arguments completely knocked up his op ponents; be laid it down to them in first rate style, and completely used them up. Myself. Well, 1 must he up and do ing. Don’t forget to send my paper reg ■ularly. Editor. Depend[upon it, Sir—l have got your name down. Your paper shall pot op i n , strong wrapper and rent 'up to you with the utmost regularity. Good morning. Not wishing to take up too much of your valuable paper, I lay down my pen lor the present, scarcely believing you ! will think my up and down notions worth sending down to the compositor to be set up. Yours. Mr. Editor , up, down, and all over. Peter ITdovv.n. LOCK HAiTtsTuFE~OF~SJIt WAL TER. scjrrr. [Excerpts from the sixth volume.] Camfufli.. "I wonder often how Tom Campbell, with so much real genius, Inis not maintained a greater figure in the public eye than he bus done of late. The Magazine seems to have paralyzed him. The author, not only of the Pleasures of Hope, but of of t tohintinden, Jjochiel, \r., should have been at the very top ol the tree. Somehow lie wants audacity., fears the public, and what is worse, Jiars the shadow if /tis own reputation. He is a great corrector too, which succeeds us iil in composition as in education. Many a clever buy is flogged into a dunce, and many an original composition corrected into mediocrity. Toni ought to have done a great deal more. ilis youthful promise was great. John Leyden intro duced me to him. They afterwards quarreled. When 1 repeated llohenlin dai to Leyden, he said: “Dash it, mail, tell the fellow I hate him, but. dasii him, lie lias written the finest verses that have been published these filly years.” I did mine errand as faithfully as one oi Ho mer’s messengers, and hud lor answer: ‘Tell Leyden tint 1 detest him; but 1 know the value of his critical approba-, tion.’ ” ilvuoN. “Another o{ Byron’s pecu liarities was the loveoi mystiiying,. which, | indeed, may be referred to that ol mis chief. There was no knowing how much or how little to believe of his narratives.' Instances: William 11. Hikes expostulating with him upon a dedication which lie had written in extravagant terms of praise to) Cam Hobliotise, IJyron told him that Cam j had bored him about this dedication till he had said: “Well, it shall he so, provid-j ed von write it yourself;” and affirmed) that Ilobhonsc did write the high colored dedication accordingly. I mentioned this to Murray, having the report from ■ Will Rose, to whom Rankes had men tioned it. Murray, in reply, assured me. that the dedication was written by Lord Rvron himself, and showed it me in liis = own hand. 1 wrote to Rose to mention j the thing to Rankes, as it might have I made mischief, had the story gut into the j circle.” lion.}. “December !2. Hogg came to break last tins morning, and brought j for his companion that Galashiels bard, | as to a meeting oi'Am 7 'tridale pot Is. \ The honest grimier opines with ;t delight-j fill nulcttr, that Muir's verses tire far owrc sweet —answered by Thomson that | Moore's ear or notes, I forget wliicli, | were linelv strung. “They are far mvre } finely strung,” it plied he of tin* forest,) “for mine are ju.-t light.” It reminded: me of queeu Bess, when questioning Mel ville sharply whether .'Jury was taller than her, ami extracting an answer in the af firmative. she replied, ‘Then your queen is too till!, for 1 am just I he proper height.' Sot rtirv’s sorrow ior Scott, and Scott's account of ms own feelings. “Heard good news from Lockhart. M ife well, and John Hugh better. lie men tions poor Southey testifying much inter est for me. even to tears. Ii is odd—am Iso h ird-bn art Ia man! I could not have wept for him, though in distress / would have gone any length to serve him. I sometimes think 1 do not deserve good people’s opinion, I< »r certainly my feelings are rather guided by reflection than im pulse. But every body has his own mode of expressing interest, and mine is stoical even in bitterest grief. 1 hope lam not the worse for wanting the tenderness that ! see others possess,-and which is so ami able. I think it does not cool my wish to he of use when 1 can. Lint the truth is, that I am better at enduring or acting than at consoling. From childhood’s earliest hour, my henrt rebelled against the influence of external circumstances in myself and others —non est /anti.'’ Rouen s’ pm: as ant Breakfast, and Crokf.ii’s ruio/KN Dinner. “.November It). Breakfasted with Rogers: with my daughters and Lockhart, it. was exceed ingly entertaining, in his dry, quiet, sar castic manner. At eleven to the duke ol Wellington, who gave me a bundle of re marks on Bonaparte’s Russian campaign, written in lus carriage .during -his late, inission to St. Petersburg!). It is l’urions ’lv scrawled, and the Russian names hard to distinguish, hut it shall do me yeo man’s service. Thence l passed to the colonial office, where I concluded my ex tracts. Lockhart and 1 dined with Cro kcr at the admiralty au grand convert. No less than live cabinet ministcys were present —Canning, liuskissun, Melville, Peel, and Wellington—with sub-secreta ries by the bushel. The cheer was excel lent, hut the presence of too many men of distinguished rank and power always freezes the conversation. Each lamp, shines brightest when placed by itself; when too close, they neutralize each oth er.” The Duke of York. “Saw the Duke of York. The change on ir. n. u. is most wonderful. From a big, burly, stout man, with a thick and sQmetimes in articulate mode of speaking, he has sunk into a thin-faced, slender-looking old man, who seems diminished in his very size. I could hardly believe I saw the BRUNSWICK ADVOCATE. ■ same person, though I was received with his usual kindness. He speaks much : more distinctly than formerly; bis com plexion is clearer; in short, ii. r. h. seems, on the whole, more healthy after this crisis then when in the stall-fed state —for such it seemed to be—in which I remember him.” Mathews. “Dined with James Bil laiityne, and met ii. CadeJl, and my old friend Mat news, the comedian, with his son, now grown up a clcier lad, who makes songs in the style of James Smith lorColmaii, and sings them with spirit. There have been odd associations attend ing my two last meetings with Mathews. 'i v he last time I saw him before yesterday evening he dined with me in company ! with poor Sir Alexander Boswell, who was killed within a week. The time be fore was in ISLI, when John Scott, of Gala, and I were returning from France, and passed through London, we brought M athews down as fur as Leamiin'ton. l*oor Byron lunched, or rather made an early dinner with us at Long’s, and a most brilliant day we had of it. I never saw Byron so lull of fun, frolic, wit, and whim: he was as playful as a kitten. Well I never saw him again. So this man of mirth, with lit* merry meetings, has brought me no luck. I like better that lie should throw in his talent of mimicry and humor into the present current tone of the company than that he should be re quired to give this, that and t’other bit se lected from his public recitations. They are good, certainly—excellent; but then you must laugh, and that is always severe to me. When i do laugh m sincerity, tiie joke must be or seem unpremeditated. I could not help thinking, in tlie midst of the glee, what gloom hud lately been over the minds of three of the company. \\ hat a strange scene if the surge of con versation could suddenly ebb like the tide, and show us the state of people’s real minds! “No eyes the rock discover Which lurk beneath the deep.” Life could not be endured, were it seen in reality.” The last Snare Story. “I reckon this ere country of yours is pretty con siderable productive, stranger, isn’t it!” I said a downeaster, who had just arrived in one of the new Mississippi settlements, to a person whom he met, one of the reg ular meat-axe breed. “There’s not such another country be tween this and tho State of Buncombe, in North Carolina,” replied the Mississippi settler. “liaise a good deal of cotton, eh?” “I.its of it.” “All-krred quantities of game in tills section, Is pose.” “Considerable of a sprinkling, ’special ly snakes.” “What sort of snakes?” “Rattle snakes and copper heads.” “Oh! get out! du tell, 1 want to know it they’re so almighty thick!” “Rather. D.ui and I went out this morning snake-huuting—killed only ;i cord and quarter—lnit then it was had snake morning, and you must make some allowances.” “Old i'll make any ’lowancos and tracks out of the settlement at the same time. But say, jusF'tweeu ourselves, if it lud raly been a good morning, lio-.v many cords du you 'magin you’d a killed.’ “Five is about an average.” “Five! You don’t say so!’’ 1 os I do though.” “Which is my shortest wav out of this : 'ere settlement'. I'vc strong ideas ofelop ing forthwith.” "Kept right straight ahead.” “Well, I wish you a good day, Give I my best 'spects to your dad, and tell him I hone lie'll have better snake-weather next time he goes. I’m o-p-h.” [N. (). Picayune. Lottery Ticket Anecdote. In t he early part of the reign of King George 11., the footman of a lady of quality, un der the absurd infatuation of a dream, disposed of the savings of the la>t twenty years of his life in two tickets, which prov ing blanks, alter a few melancholy days he put an end to bis life. In a box was found a plan of the manner in which he would spend his five-thousand-pound prize, which his mistress preserved as a curiosi ty." “As soon as 1 have received the money ill marry Grace Farrers; but as she has been cross and coy, I’ll use her as a servant. Every morning she shall get .» mug of strong beer with a toast, g- and sugar sss A,<then ! will sleep till ten, after which I will have a large sack posset. My dinner shall be on the table at one, and never without a good pudding; I'll have a stock of wine and brandy laid in; about live in the afternoon I'll have tarts and jellies, and a gallon bowl of punch, at ten, a hot supper of two dishes; if I’m i;r good humor, and Grace behaves herseif, sire si)ail sit u©\vn with met To bed about twelve.” [Lounger’s Common-place Book. A Genti.kman Sweep. A crowd gather ed a short time since about the house of a chimney sweeper, who lives in Camden town, and has a small garden before the door. Cu riosity had attracted them, for tire dingy ten ant appeared with his every day complexion and a white smock frock thrown over his ha biliments, and hS was busily engaged in clip ping the grass with a pair of shears. When he raised his head to sneeze, tho crowd laugh ed hearty at the singular figure before them. “Why you warment,” said the sweep to the i vulgar people, “what are you looking arter? It a’nt no novelty for to see a gentlemen culti vate his own is it?*’ Poinsett and Kendall. The Dem ocratic Review for March gives us pen and pencil sketches of Joel R. Poinsett and Amos Kendall. It is the chief ob ject of this publication to make the per sons and histories of the present Loco Foco leaders familiar to their admiring fellow citizens; and for this only, to all J appearances, is it sustained. Mr. Poinsett, in the sketch before us. j appears in nn attitude under the Ameri can flag, in the act of haranguing a mob i trout the balcony of iiis mansion, while minister ;it Mexico. The memoir an-! r.exed is sufficiently entertaining, and op- i pears to he composed of materials furnish ed by Mr. Poinsett himself. From this jV.e learn that the Secretary of War is. now about .19 years of age—that be lias been a student of medicine, law and the art military, and at all periods of bis life a great traveller. In 1824 lie was the ad vocate of General Jackson’s election to the Presidency, but did not scruple to ac cept office under his successful competi tion, thereby indicating a degree of liber- - ' ality in bis political associations, which j seems to have distiuguislted him through-) out his career. Nothing but this extreme I liberality could have induced him to en ter a cabinet in which lie lias Amos Ken-I Hull for an associate—or to connect him-; self with an administration having Van ! Btiren for its nominal bead, and such men : as Biair and Benton for its efficient ad vis- j ) ers. Mr. Kendall is exhibited in a sitting) posture, reading the Richmond Enquirer! Tiiis act of courtesy should disarm the hostility of the Enquirer, and put a stop to the impeachment of Mr. Kendall’s ve racity, which have sometimes appeared in ! its columns. The story of Mr. Kendall j is another specimen of glorification, from materials, we presume oi' his own collec tion. Dunstable, Massachusetts, claims! the distinguished honor of having given ! birth to a Postmaster General; and it is a circumstance dwelt upon with no little) complacency by his biographer, that he belongs to a family eminently distinguish ed for its—longevity. His ancestry on ! both sides have reached a most formida ble old age. Like thousands of the hoys j of New England, young Kendall support ed himself through his collegiate course j by teaching school; and for this very 1 an-) dahle perseverance he is lavishly eulo-i gised by his biographer. From an anec dote of his college course, it is obvious that the demagogue and sycophant of fif ty was regarded by his companions as a “sneak” at fifteen. “The child is father of" the man.” . It is a common custom at till our col leges, on appointment and exhibition days j ; for the boys to engage in some slight fes-; ■ tivities, which are winked at very proper- j ! ly when they cannot be prevented by the' ! authorities. Now against this abomina-) i hie custom, Amos and a “few other reso- . ) lute young men” set their faces; and a! 1 “tremendous excitement” was the conse quence. Even at that early day, Amos, I had learned tlie road to preferment; and ) at college sought the favor of the Faculty ) by the same arts which have since secured 1 I him the favor of the Crown. The biographer of Mr. Kendall de tails the incidents of his connection* with the family of Mr. Clay, and rebuts the ■ charge of ingratitude, on the ground that !it was to the lady of tint distinguished j statesman and not to himself, that iie was; • indebted for relief in his poverty, and con siderate attention in his sickness. With ■out discussing the virtue of Mr. Ken dall’s present plea in bar, we would sug ) gest to him the propriety of further plcnd | ing the statute of limitations—for the one ; certainly would be about as credible as ) the-other. The gist of this' accusation j against Mr. Kendall, however, is not | touched by his biographer. It is not that : Mr. Kendall, was a personal ingrate in ! tiiis relation, that he lias been assailed, j but because he was branded as a political ! apostate. It is not that he was forgetful Jof past favors, but that he prostituted a ! venal pen in the basest calumny, and the most virulent abuse of Mr. Clay, be cause that gentleman did not sufficiently estimate his merits or bid high enough for his mercenary support. This is the point in the business, which requires elu ! eidation ; and one which the apologist of Mr. Kendall has scrupulously avoided. Mr. Webster Liable to re Impeach ed. —After listening to the forensic dis play made in the Senate on Thursday, by .’Mossw Wefeef?* »»«1. Calhoun, what wa,s our surprise on coming out of the capital, to hear a member of the House remark that lie contemplated moving an impearfl aunt of the distinguished Senator from Massachusetts ! ‘For what,’we exclaimed with involun tary and painful surprise. ‘For a violation of the Constitutirm of the United States !’ was the shocking* re j ply- J ‘ln what particular ?’ ‘ln respect to the Bth article, which provides that ‘cruet and unusual punish ments shed! not be inflicted.' Mr. Web- I ster has committed a palpable infringe ! ment of that article, in his reply to day : to Mr. Calhoun.’ ) We could not gainsay the trilth of the i charge against the distinguished Senator. The reception which this Hannibal gave to the invader of Africa, the Scipio of Af ricanus South Carolinaensis, as he called Mr. Calhoun, was certainly ‘cruelly and unusually’ warm. THE ADVOCATE. BRUNSWICK, (Ga.). APRIL 19, 1838. State flights Ticket for Congress. ELECTION FIRST MONDAY IN OCTOBER. THOMAS BUTLER KING, of Glynn. WILLIAM C. DAWSON, of Greene. JULIUS C. ALFORD, of Troupe. WALTER T. COLQUITT, of Muscogee. RICHARD W. IIABERSHAM. of Habersham EDWARD J. BLACK, of Scriven. MARK A. COOPER, of Hall. EUGENICS A. NESBIT, of Bibb. LOT WARREN, of Sumpter. AGENTS FOR THE ADVOCATE. tiii.b County. Alexander Richards. Esq. Telfair “ Rev. Charles J. Shelton. .Mclntosh “ Janies Blue, Esq. THE COMMERCIAL CONVENTION. We last week published the proceedings of the Commercial Convention at Augusta. The report of that convention, presented by Hon. Robert \. Ilayne of Charleston, has since come to band. Its length and its very gener al publication in other prints, forbids our inser- j tion of it. The strong and uncontrovertible! argument of the report consists in the partial-! lur statement of the following facts: The Southern States are the great) producers of the staples, with which i most of our foreign importations are purchas-1 ed. These same states are likewise great con sumers of foreign importations. They have,! therefore, every inducement to direct foreign trade, for they supply the products that for-, ign nations want, and they consume the mer chandize that foreign nations produce pnd manufacture. Nevertheless, they have, thus far, but little foreign commerce. This busi ness, which seems so naturally to belong to them, has been conducted in Europe, or by the ! distant Northern and Eastern States. While j the South sends forward about eight tenths oft the whole export of the Union,she brings back to her ow n ports only about one tenth of the [ whole iaijiort. This ought not so to be. We ; maybe sure this state of things will not con- ; tinue much longer, and the facts which prove ‘ the necessity of the South to engage in Corn-' meree cannot be too strongly stated or too! widely circulated. Until we cultivate our commercial ad vantages, we can in no sense be said to he independent. No nation is indepen dent that does not, to the extent of its a bility, develop its resources for Agriculture, Commerce and Manufactures, and for the most obvious reasons. For, whether a collision a rises with the source of its supplies or a third party, in either case these supplies will be cut off and the most galling dependence will be proclaimed in tha domestic distress and ruin that must ensue. What is true of a nation is true of a state. No State of our Union is in dependent, that does not, to the extent of lie-l ability, live within herself and cultivate her commercial resources. No State is indepen dent that entrusts to foreign control, its domes tic interests. In the deep sense of this truth the recommendations of the Convention will be thoroughly considered and faithfully acted upon. The youth of the country will be train ed in the knowledge and habit of business.— And for the most extended commerce we have ample assurance, not from the recommenda tion of the Convention alone, hut from a con sideration of the interests of tho people, and the natural advantages of the position of tlm 'Southern ports. Let us consider a moment what these ad vantages are, and the reasons that they have not heretofore been practically appreciated and developed. The advantages are briefly these. I lie Southern ports are three htmured nines nearer than any others to the West, w liich is now rapidly becoming the heart and centre ot our country. While the Northern ports tire, for nearly one fourth oi' the year, obstructed more or less, by frost,and the Northern coast is always dangerous and difficult to approach in tl le season of winter, the South suffers no such obstruction. Moreover the West, always con nected to the South by proximity, feeling and interest, is soon to be united to her by the iron bonds of Internal Improvements.— There c m be no mistake in the public voice on this question. The rapid payment in these troublous times of the second instalment of the Charleston and Cincinnati Railroad, and tho unanimous voice of the press in Georgia, proclaim that no delay will be allowed in com pleting at least two lines of Railroads from the West to the South. When these shall bo com pleted, what amount of commerce may xve not expect? While the Canals of the North are yet frozen, w hile her harbors are yet locked in the rigid bonds of winter, the Western trader will imvc enjoyed the balmy climate of a South ern port, and w ill have rapidly and seasonably returned with his purchases. If these tilings are so. and of their truth every intelligent and reflecting man must be convinced, the questionarises, why we have not already availed ourselves of these advan tages and opportunities ? The answer is, that until now, the time has not come to use them. Till now, the South has been engaged and ab sorbed in rapid and profitable production. With this, her attention was engrossed, and did not admit of the division of labor necessary for the proper cultivation of both Agriculture and Com merce. But now, production has become ex cessive. Against a Cotton crop of 700,000 bales in 1827, we have one ofI,SCOJH)O in 1837 an increase of more than one hundred and four teen per cent in ten years—and this too, when tiie production of this staple in other countries has been vastly increasing. In view of these facts, can we hesitate to respond to the call of this Convention ? The ) crisis has come, and the time is ripe for new enterprise. The success which has thus far j attended the South, will not fail her in this. j The bark of Commerce invites us on our ! shore*. Shall we hesitate to enter for the prosperous voyage ? No, “The sails are spread, the oars are ready and away to the dark blue sea.” = j MR. BIDDLE’S LAST LETTER. I Under the date of the sth April, Mr. Biddle : has written a letter to the public, via (as the stage advertisements have it) Hon. J. Q. Ad ams. The letter is interesting and masterly, and w e regret that our narrow limits do not permit us to reprint it. His apology for xvrit ) i* l " that he is at the head of tho institution that effected the last resumption of specie pay ments. lie goes on to show the difference be tween that resumption, and the present Public Credit, says lie, was then under the patronage and protection of the Government, and the Banks were sustained in their endeavors to as sist the community. Their notes were taken in payment of public dues, and the Government, being then much in debt, could not hoard the currency of the country, and withdraw it from circulation. Now, according to Mr. Biddle’s statement, iii the opposition between the Ad ministration and the business interest of the country, the Banks cannot resume without fur ther preparation, in justice to the prosperity of the community. He thinks as yet sufficient time has not been allowed to contract and con clude old business transactions. The debts in curred in our days of expansion and prosperi ty he considers good, but thinks we should have more time to meet them, as xve are obliged to do it, not xvith the fatherly assistance and countenance of the Government, but in spite of its earnest endeavors to harrass and embar rass us and contract our resources, by hoarding our immense revenue in specie, and thus in effect, xvithdraxving not only a large amount of specie from circulation, but the larger a mount of paper currency, of which it should form the legitimate bases. We do not concur with Mr. Biddle in the above views. The commercial distress caused by resumption has already in a great degree passed. In the expectation of resumption, the Banks have already contracted their issues, re fusing the best paper, and causing the most extreme embarrassment, and now-, are xve to have gone through all this for nothing, and to have the date again deferred. We trust the resumption will take place on the 10th May, as proposed, believing that, at the resumption, loans cannot be more contracted than they afe at present, that confidence xvill soon be restor ed and circulation expand, and that, in the face of the public indignation it xvould excite, the Government dure not hoard the silver of the nation. FROM WASHINGTON. During the week preceding our latest dale, April 9th, —Congress has been, as usual, much occupied with business of a private and local character. Os the subjects of general interest that have come up before it, xve note the fol low ing. The appropriations for the army and for our foreign missions and diplomatic ex penses have passed and received the signature of the President. The time of the Senate lias been much occupied in the discussion of the anti-duelling bill, w hich has finally passed the Senate 31 to 1, Mr Sevier of Arkansas, alone voting in the negative. Mr. Clay announced bis cordial support of this bill. It provides that all engaged in a duel, whether as principal, second or surgeon, shall be punished with im prisonment in the Penitentiary for not more tiian ten, nor less than five years. The bearer of a challenge also incurs the same penalty. Mr. Grundy, of Tennessee, reported an amendment to the Land Bill, against any fixed valuation of the public brands. This matter will lie over for the present, and will probably excite long discussion and argument. In the House, Mr. Patton has resigned on receiving an appointment to the Executive Council of Virginia. It has been proposed, and will prob ably be carried, that the amount of all Pensions unclaimed for eight months, shall be remitted by tiie Pension Agents to the Treasury. The adoption of tiiis measure xvill secure the public against one of the many Corruption Funds of tlie.Government. As yet xve see no report on tiie Ruggles bribery case, though it xvas prom ised a week since. Amos Kendall fights thi> Supreme Court to the last ditch, all his out works being driven iu. His reply to the Man dannis of tiie Court, xvas an endorsement on (lie writ, that lie had caused the proper credit to Stockton and Stokes, without any alloxvance of interest. The Court xvill probably decide this return insufficient, and xve may hope4o announce his unconditional surrender in our next Mr. Secretary Poinsett has been dangerous ly ill with the cholic, prevalent at Washington, and the unfounded report of his death created great sensation at Washington. .We are hap py to learn, that the accomplished and popular Secretary, is considered in a fair way to recov er. The discussion upon Mr. Wise’s proposi tion to convert the exploring expedition into a coast squadron has commenced, but the proba bility is small that its destination xvill be changed,