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MR. CALHOUN
Seems desirou# to claim the credit of
being the great originator of almost even
political scheme or party that lie has been
connected with during his career. The [
honor of being one of the originators of
the Nullification Party was claimed by
and was conceded to him. He was in*
deed,, while it served his purposes, - the
great champion of States Rights, and no
one brought the aid of a more powerful
intellect, or qoutended with more appar
ent sincerity in the cause than Calhoun.
But the advances of that party to power
were too slow for his ninbition, and per
cciriug the State Rights party was still
in the minority, and knowing that his on
ly chance for obtaining more elevated
iK>no*§, consisted in seceding from his
former Trends, adopting anew creed,
end ...giving in his adherence to the Ad
ministration, trusting too that by his infln
enoQ in South Carolina, he would he en
abled to break down his old party through
out the Southern States, he has taken ad
vantage of a petty question, raised by the
Administration, to go over to the enemy,
mid is now battling as fiercely against us
as he did formerly against liis present
friends. With a view too of making him
self the champion of the New Party, he
is trying to form, he notv claims to have
been the originator of the "Divorce'' ques
tion. as it is called, thus depriving Col.
Benton of the hobbv upon which lie’s
ridden so long, and Condy Raguet, and
others, of the honor of its production, it
any honor appertains thereto.
Desiring, no doubt, to procure some
influence in Georgia, he also now says,
that he was the author of the plan for re
moving the Cherokees to the West of (lie
Mississippi. That plan has been general
ly supposed to have originated with some
of our own Governors, nmfrt is well known
to have been the policy of the United
States, ever since the organization of!
the Government; and so far is Mr. Cal
houn from having been the author of that;
plan, that had it not been for him and
tlie treaties ncgociated by him, the In-j
dians would have been long since remov-j
ed from Georgia. In the whole course
of the Indian affairs, Mr. ('. has shown a
total disregard to the interests and rights
of Georgia, and turned a deaf ear to her!
calls for the removal of the Indian popu
lation.—[Southern News.
FA MINK IN INDIA.
The upper province of the Bengal Pre
sidency, were (when the last despatches
reached England,) the scenes of the most
frightful misery and mortality. Owing to
the extreme poverty of the natives, occa
sioned by the impolitic and ruinous sys
tem pursued by the Government of India
towards the occupiers and cultivators of
the soil, tens of thousand- have been re-
duced to utter starvation. On the 4th of
April last, 78,000 pining wretches, men,'
women, and children, were fed by bounty
at Agra; and between the Ist and 17th of:
March, 71,523 infirm and sightless crea
tures were relieved in a similar manner. I
So great have been the ravages of death
that the air for miles is tainted with the of-:
tluvia from the putrifying carcases of men
and cattle, and the rivers of the Jumna
and Ganges clioaked up and poisoned by
the dead bodies thrown into their canals.
The water and fish of these rivers are re
jected as unfit for use. and men are kept
constantly employed in pushing the accu
mulated bodies down the torrents. From
the July number of the Oriental Herald,
we learn that starvation, disease and death
are doing their work at Guwnpnrc, Mut
tra, Gwalior and Delhi, while the weal
thier natives look on with listlessncss and
unconcern. Though a famine fund has
been established by the European public
of India, it is found impossible to meet
the necessities of the destitute and dying
multitudes.
A correspondent in Calcutta thus writes
on the 10th of April: “Since the despatch
of the overland mail for Berenice, which
left Bombay at the close of last month,
public attention in this quarter has been
engrossed by the accounts which daily
readied the capital of the horrid ravages
of famine in the provinces to the west and
northwest. It is impossible to compute
the numbers who die in their progress to
the towns w here food is procurable. We
hear almost daily of mothers dcsetting
their children on the highways; of infants
crawling around the granaries to pick up
the grains of rice accidentally scattered
during the process of distribution at the
doors; of the roads being lined witii dead
bodies, a prey to the vulture and jackall:
of the courses of small rivers actually ob
structed by the masses of bodies thrown
therein, by those who are employed to
clear the highways; of the inhabitants of
the large towns of Agra, Cawiipore, «Nc.
being compelled to abandon their evening
drive, from the impossibility, of encounter
ing the effluvia of the putrid corses n
roond! and the worst of it is, that two!
months more must elapse before a fall of'
rain can be expected, and the earth yield
fruit wherewith to appease the irresistible
cravings of hunger.
“Go ahead” The la.-t Picavunc says
that a “most astonishing circumstance is
said to have occurred yesterday at the Le
vee. A captain of a steamboat, which
was just putting out, thought he would iir-t
try some oysters that were lying handy.—
In the confusion and hurry of the moment
he mistook the one for the other—swal
lowed his steamboat—and jumping upon
the heap of oysters, sung ont "t?o ahead.” '
He never knew the difference till he felt
-the engine commencing its movements. ’
A fair specimen of a Sub Treasury
Operation. Four Clerks, and one
Thousand Dollars, appropriated to make
one remittance—and that amount insuffi
cient. Mr. Calhoun votes against the
Sub-Treasury, unless all its operations
are on the specie principle. That is one
of the -details of his plan, and such as the
following will be the constant and una
voidable results. The time has been,
when the revenues of the country would
have been insufficient to sustain the ex
penses of his experiment.
Practical operation of the Sub-Treasu
ry. A case occurred in New Aork a few
days ago, illustrating beautifully tlie ad
vantages of the “hard money currency.”
Shortly before the late election in Mis
souri a quantity of specie was taken by
the administration from the Atlantic cit
ies, and transported at the expense of the
government to that State, for no other pur
pose that could be perceived than to aid
the cause of the “great humbugger.”
(This, we acknow ledge,was proper enough,
as it is no more than fair that the father
of the specie system should enjoy its first
fruits.) The consequences were satisfac
tory, and as an election is approaching in
Michigan, where the ascendancy of the
party is in danger, it was deemed advisa
ble to brighten the prospect there with
the same glittering stuff’. For this pur
pose a specie draft was issued by the
Treasury Department upon a hank in
New York for £110,(5!}!), and was put in
charge ol four clerks to he executed.
These gentlemen went to the bank and
demanded the cash. The specie was
handed out of the vaults in marked hags
and boxes of SIOOO each. The Sub
i Treasurers opened one of the boxes and
began counting but soon found that the
| task would occupy several days; whereas
I heir ins!-, nctions w ere positive to leave the
City the same day to carry onward the
precious metals. In thisdilemma the expe
j dient was hit upon of weighing the boxes,
| allowing for the wood, and then calcnlat
, iug the amount accordingly. One box,
! that appeared to be too light, was found
(to lie filled with the latest i -ues from the
U. S. mint. So that the Administration
is liable to the suspicion of issuing light
coins, as well as irredeemable paper.
The money having been thus gauged off'
the sub-Treasurers then purchased an iron
sals', with holts and bars, into which they
put it, and set out for Michigan.
One ol the clerks being asked what
v. as the expense of transporting this spe
cie to Michigan, replied that a thousand
DOM. wis had been appropriated, but would
not be sufficient.
Thus goes the sub-Treasury.
Eastern Rail Road. The amount of.
travel on this road which is now complet
ed from Past Poston to Salon , as shown
by tlie Report of tlie Superintend int, has
greatly exceeded the expectations of its
projectors. In the tin ;;t . /-tiro daps in
which it lias been opened, the number of
j passengers was twenty-four thousand one
j hundred and si.efy-seven , the receipts nine
[thousand three, hundred and sir: ul ij-niii:
j dollars. By a vote of the Stockholders on
| Saturday last, it was determined to con
tinue the Road from Salem to Xiirburn
\porl, whence it will he carried to Ports
! nouth, Ni vv Hampshire, by another ('ont
i pany. The great travel of the country
Cast of Poston vviil thus come to that city
I by Past Poston, from which place passen
| gers are carried over by a Fern requiring
| only three and a half minutes to cross,
j which is also under the management of the
| Bail Hoad Company. The whole time
; required for going from Boston to Salem,
the Ferry included, and stopping at Lvnn
and Marblehead Depots to leave and take
in passengers, is tiltv minutes, the distance
; over thirteen mil 's. [N. Y. four.
Knq.
Tin* Bank of the United States in New
York opened 2(ith nit. for business. Its
counters were thronged with customers.
By the way. if all the States imitate the
example of Now ’i ork, in her free bank
ing law, the Monster can put one of Ins
lingo paws in every Slate of the Union, and
tlu ii we shall have no occasion for a Con
gress-horn mon -tor. We feel aw full vb ul
about our litx ri s here, now Mr. ilium a;
has again got among us. If we can believe
the Globe, we arc gone, gone, gone! \>
he is digging a monstrously deep ditch in
Wall street to put anew bank over, (so
be says.) there may be cans ' for more
alarm, inasmuch as it looks big enough to
bury all our liberties in!
Ti e New York Express of Saturday
says: —Upwards of one hundred persons
have already taken passage in the Great
Western, and others are absolutely otier
ing to sleep on the door, if they can have
a passage."
The .Its: iugnisiied philosopher and
phrenologist, George Combe, of Edin
burgh, accompanied by bis lady, arrived
at New \ ork in tbcGreat Western.
Srnwi Factory for Rifles, Gr\s,
vkr.—W e are pleased to learn that it is in
contemplation to establish in our city, on
a somewhat extended scale, a steam lac
dory lor the construction of rides, guns
«Nc. From, tfie character of ihe individu
al. as a first rate workman who is to pre
side over the operative department, we
argue success to the undertaking. 'The
establishment of this factory is another of
the numerous indications recently offered
of the rising emerpri/.e and spirit of our
citizen? —[Savannah Georgian
BRUNSWICK ADVOCATE.
Mode of Settling on the Prairies.
The first improvements are usually
made on that part of the prairie that ad
joins the timber: and thus we may see at
the commencement, a range of farms cir
cumscribing the entire prairie, as with a
belt. The burning of the prairies is then
-stopped the whole distance of the circuit,
in the neighborhood of these farms, to pre
vent injury to the fences and other im
provements. This is done by ploughing
two or three furrows all around the settle
ment. In a short time the timber springs
up spontaneously on ail parts not burnt,
and tlit* groves and forests commence a
gradual encroachment on the adjacent
prairies. In breaking up prairie land,
etc., for cultivation, they usually plough
with three or four yoke of oxen, the shear
plough turning up about IS or ‘24 inches
of turf, a furrow in breadth, and from 3 to
4 inches deep, the sod turning entirely
over, so as to lay the grass down, and it
tits furrow to furrow, smoothly enough to
harrow and sow wheat. It is usual to
break it up in May, and drop corn along!
the edge of every fourth row. This is
called sod corn. No working or plough
ing is necessary the first season. 1 lie j
su'd is left lying for the grass to decay; and
after the next winter’s trust, it crumbles
and becomes light and friable. The sod
corn does not make more than half a crop,
and is cut up, stalk and all together, and
stocked up for fodder for stock. The
next year the crop of corn is most abund
ant, averaging from 5!) to 100 bushels per
acre.
A composition somewhat similar to that
described in the following paragraph from
a late English paper, has been made in
New York by some person concerned in
tlie Anthracite Coal business.
Important Experiment in Woolwich
Dockyard. In the course of three succes
sive days of last week a series of trials has
taken place at the above principal steam
establishment for her Majesty’s steamers,
under the superintenilance Messrs. Kings
ton and Dennen. The grand desideratum
for sea-going steam vessels is considered
I the concentration of inflammable matter
in as small a compass ns possible, both on
account of tlie stowage of munitions of
war as well as provisions, combined with
as much economy as can lie attained.—
The invention under trial is termed pre
; pared fuel, and is a composition of screen
ed (otherwise almost uselessly small) coal,
river mud, and tar, cast into blocks of the
same size and shape ns a common brick,
j An em'ine was worked with this prepared
i fuel on Tuesday; tlie consumption for six
hours and forty five minutes was 750
pounds. On Wednesday the same engine
was employed for the same period of time,
and it required 1 ,I(>s pounds north-country
coals to keep it going, showing a saving of
415 pounds in favor of the prepared fuel.
On Thursday, Welsh coal was used,
and 1,04(i pounds were consumed; and on
Friday Pontop coals were supplied to the
engine, and I ,01)8 pounds were repiired
to work the engine for the six hours and
45 minutes: while on the Saturtliv 080
pounds of the prepared fuel easily perform
ed the same work, thus - showing a reduc
tion of expenditure of 4ls pounds ii favor
of the invention: in addition to whit li it is
highly necessary to point out that, un the
average of the consecutive days, it equir
ed about -V) pounds less of the prepared
fuel to get tlie steam up, which wis not
only better maintained by \erv litth feed
ing, but more readily obtained bv tlie in
flammable nature of tlm materia!, which
will no doubt be generally adopted tleongh
mi! tlie service, as, in addition to its ex
cellence of quality for tiie purpose resign
ed, it has the advantage of being Sowed
away in a compact state, and not liable to
act as a shifting ballast.
Beet Sugar. —The Hampshire Repub
lican says that the Beet Sugar Conpany
in Northampton are getting their Itiild
uigs ready to operate on a large ;cale.
“The manufacture will he carried m up
on tin* German principle of dr\iug, grind
ing, and making of the powder a strong
decoction of svrup for crystaliziug. Far
mers can get live dollars a ton for their
beets—contracts have been made at that
price, where twenty tons to the acre is
expected. This is doing well Ibr the far
mer, and if at this rate the mannf,tourer
ean do well too, the whole process will
sneered and drive out of use the cane su
gar entirely, which has been manufactur
ed m China since the days of Moses.”
Mom.r.x Chivalry. —A iateCourt Jour
tn! announces, that the young Erl of Eg
iiutoun will hold a solemn tournament at
bis castle of Eghuloun, Ayrshire, in Jie
course of the coming spring. The deco
rations, banners, arms and accoutreme.its
are to be those of the era of the Field of
the Cloth ot Gobi, and the list- cap;.ale
of accommodating ten thousand -nectatars.
We thought with Burke, that the age of
chivalry was gone forever, and little o\-
, pected to hear ot anv lists being opened,
more romantic than subscription j is ts in
this degenerate day. Little did we mng
ine that the young titled exquisite* who
bask in the sunshine of li.e e eirt—,r. ,n v
of whom, we presume, would feel mortal
home in rursits than corslet , j,, p u |
gloves than steel gauntlets —w ould venture
to enscone their delicate binds in the
cold iron.—[N. Y. Tunes.
If a man deceives thee, trust him not
again; if he insults thee, go uwav from
him; if he strikes thee, thrash him"
Identity Illustrated. We copy the!
following anecdote from an article in the j
Louisville Reporter, entitled “Sketches
of the Louisville Bar.” The writer, speak- j
ing of a member of the Bar, named Wil-j
son, who “occasionally indulges in face
tious illustration, particularly if sure of!
his case,” quotes tlie following instance. •
Wilson was urging the poinf of identity,’
which entirely rested on proof that the!
prisoner, on trial, wore a blue coat and
metal buttons:
“Why, sir,” said he, “I do not know
what the gentlemen want! if we identify
tlie coat, ive certainly identify the body
that was in it. But have we not given
proof as to the general appearance—the
whole man. I should be glad to know
how the gentlemen would be able to iden
tify an individual in a flock of sheep.
They have all w hite \yoo! coats and every
lace is alike: yet I could do it. When I
was a shepherd boy minding my father’s
sheep, I knew every individual in the flock
by some particular characteristic that I ,
could not well explain, nay, I could iden
tify tiie descendants of any of the flock
even though on another farm. But this
is nothing to what may he done in the
way of identity. Y’our honor knew old
Mark Harding, of Shelby county; every
body knew hint. Well, Mark was the
greatest game-chicken fancier in the State.
He kept a prodigious flock of cocksYind
hens, and strange to say, he not only iden
tified the brood ofeacll rooster,hut he could
actually take an egg out of it large house
basketful of eggs and name the very lien
tiiut laid it!”
A.NF.cyoT”. of Jerome Bonaparte.—
“He was. one day, lie said, absolutely in
want of t wenty-five louis, his purse being
empty, although General Murat, governor
oi Baris, and who vvas very fond of him,
often assisted him with his: but this time
the latter resource failed him; and the
quarter’s allowance which he received
from the Consul had been spent in ad
vance. What was lie to do? To whom
address himself? to Ins other brothers?
they were absent. Joseph and Louis com
manded regiments at a distance: Lucient
was on an embassy to Lisbon or Madrid.
As to Ins mother, she could not see any
reason for giving money to a young scape
grace like him, whom she loved tenderly,
hut whose morals she was more anxious
; for than liis prodigality. What could he
think of! It came into his head to pay a
i visit to a holy man, his uncle Fuse It (iie
i come a cardinal.) He presents himself,
I and is well received by this worthy rela
tion, at w hose house a numerous party is
.'assembled. He is invited to dinner; after
.dinner they passed into tlie saloon to take
coffee. At this moment Jerome watches
iho cardinal entering another room; he fol
lows him thither, draws into a corner this
dear uncle, whom he had already «o often
j wheedled out of money, and requests the
same favor again: but the other is immov
able, and refuses flatly. Cardinal Fescii,
it was well known, was always a great
lover of now tlie room in which
they were, formed the commencement of
. his iine gallery, which has become so re
markable tor its collection of the master
pieces ol all schools. When Jerome
! heard this positive refusal, he turned ab
; riipilv round, ‘Seel’ said he, ‘there is a
rascal who seems to he laughing at tlie af-
Iront I have received. I will lie reveng
ed.' At the same time he draws his sabre,
and directs the point against the face of a
line old man (painted by. Van Dyck) whose
eyes lie threatened to cut out. It may he
imagined what n fright the cardinal was
in at seeing him ready to transpierce a
master-piece: lie attempts to stay his arm;
but the young man will not hear reason,
till the twenty-live louis have been promis
ed him. The uncle capitulates, peace is
made, and they embrace.—[Mademoiselle
Cochelet. !
Ladies Riding Sideways. The hon
or ol the introduction of riding sideways
by women, in England, is attributed to
Anne ol Bohemia, consort of Richard the
Second. She it was (according to StdwJ
that originally showed the women of this
country how gracefully and conveniently
they might ride on horseback sideways.
Auot)icr«>h! historian, enumerating the
new fashions of Richard the Second's
reign observes, "liken iso noble ladies then
used high heads, and coronets, and robes
with long trains, and seats on side-saddles
on their horses by the example ol the re
spectable Queen Anne, daughter of the
King ol Bavaria, who first introduced the
custom into this kingdom; for before w«-
tiion of every rank rode as men do.” In
bis beautiful illustrative picture of Cftau
cer s Canterbury Pilgrims, Stotli ird ap
pears, to have committed an anachronism
in placing the most conspicuous female
character ot his fine composition sideways
on her steed. That ihe lady should have
been depicted riding in the male fashion,
might, it strikes us, have been inferred,
without any historical research on the sub
ject, from the poet’s describing Iter as bav
in.' on her feet “a pairc of spurres sharpe.”
[ Pite \ oung Ladies Equestrian Man
uel.
Statistics of a Mmir.itx D;t »m.\. Six
teen pounds of p iwdereil brtm-t me, for
lightning! Twuni\-f m: o • !-oftiruulrr!!
A dozen t ups, wit t jt- '' ; ;i ~ ( | v
daggers!!!! A- knit tid cr-.., hones!!! !!
4't b iitle ixc-!!!!!! ti t. r ,t> :{
of them double li ;n.!<'ij!!!!!.'! g vml;-
t toil-' ! 1 ! ' 1 !! ** ttturders ''''!!!!! •’ en
sanguined s, trts !!!!!!!!!! I cimic
snug !!!!!!:!••• 3ilo d—ns, ami tii pages
of Mt j>h"riv '!!!!!!'!'!!
The following letter from Gen. Hamil-
Loudon, which we find in the Rich
mond Enquirer, will be read with interest:
SCENES IN LONDON.
Mr. Stevenson and Mr. O'Connell.
“Long’s Hotel, London, Aug. 15, 1838.
“Dear Sir. —Knowing the deep inter
est -which you fed in every thing which
concerns the American Minister? 1 has
ten to enclose you by the packet of to
morrow from Liverpool, his correspond
ence with Mr. O’Connel.
“You will of course have seen the re
ported brutal outrage, which this Irish
Caliban made on both our countr- and
Mr. Stevenson, on the first of August at
Birmingham, where the abolition of the
negro apprenticeship in the British West
Indies was celebrated with very extra
ordinary manifestations of blackguardism
and abuse.
“l’he moment Mr. Stevenson read Mr.
O’Connell’s speech, he hastened to my
lodgings, and requested me to convey i
such a message to Mr. O’Connell, as!
should leave no doubt of its import.—As I
was perfectly aware, if he placed himself!
in the hands of this patriot, (who is as false I
to his friends, as he is mean and treacher
ous to his enemies,) some unfair advan
tage would he taken, and that if Mr. S.
and myself were not handed over to the;
police, a message would only irritate a
fresh cataract of Billingsgate from the
most copious fountain of low vitupsra
tion any where to be found in her Majes
ty’s dominions—in this stage of the pro
ceedings, 1 was so fortunate as to have
tlie counsels of that gallant and intelli
j gent officer of our Navy, Capt. Matthew
jC. Perry, and of Dr. M’Catiley of Mary v
I land, a gentleman who is also so highly
esteemed and so advantageously known
by us all at home, who both happened ac
cidentally to be in London. These gen
j tlemen suggested to me, from a much bet
ter knowledge of Mr. O'Connell’s charac
ter than I possessed myself, that he ought
i to be approached in the form of an enquiry,
in tlie first instance, whether the report of
his speech was correct—and if lie avowed
it, that then I should wait upon him with
j an open letter, to ask whether he held him
self responsible, according to the sense in
which such responsibility is ackuowledg-1
: ed, for an outrage unprovoked and mon
strous upon the feelings of a gentleman
hearing so high and distinguished a per-!
sonal and official relation to his own Gov-;
jernnient, as the Minister of the IT. S.— If!
| he did avow such a responsibility, at once!
;to tender him a peremptory challenge,!
without an “it” or “but” in the whole con-1
text, in strict d%formitv to tlie instructions :
of my principal.
“As Mr. O’Connell, however, had pub
licly avowed, from the fact of his once i
having accidentally killed his man, (free.
; doubtless of even tlie crime of homicide,
as I question Irom.liis valor, whether he
ever took sight at his opponent,) that he
; will not fight, whilst he claims a special
immunity and impunity to abuse every
man, not alone in the United Kingdom,
1 hut the whole world: I was satisfied that
!no satisfaction could have been obtained
'even by this course. I therefore readily;
! consented to a plan which enabled Mr.
O'C. to lie himself out of the difficulty—
which he has successfully accomplished,
at an expense, which considering the small
I amount of character which the Rim Mas
ter of. Ireland has left, lie could ill af
ford.
“That Mr. O’Connell not only used the
language reported and attributed to him
in the London Sun and Spectator, but
was more offensive, there cun (m no
doubt.
“I shall not leave England without 1
going to Briminghain, investigating the
facts, and fixing the Lie upon his brass j
in indciibic characters.
“Indeed it is said that he made, liko-|
wise, in his speech, an outrageous attack;
on the character of the great Parent of
our country —a man, the purity of whose
memory is outraged by the very approach’
of sucli a vulgar miscreant as O'Connell
unquestionably is.
“Many very worthy persons in our own
country, who are ever very sensitive on all
subjects connected with a delicate sense
of honor, may share with the universal
sentiment of England, that a man, who
like O Connell, lias been voted by a large
majority of the House ofCommons a pub
lic calumniator, is beneath the notice of
a gentleman; and I assure you, this opin
ion is beginning to obtain such general
authority here, that no member of Par
liament would any more think of calling
the Great Begger-mnn out, than the shab
by mendicant who stands at the door of
B>t. Stephen s. ami begs “your honor for
a penny." But, both Mr. Stevenson and
myself, know vvb.it Virginia a»ks and
>rp, t. of her'soiis. At least, that they
should at all tunes show a w illingness to j
resent any indignity offered abroad to|
t lii'ir conntry in their own person.”
“If Ihe correspondence had taken a
turn which would have rendered it nec
es*ary for me in person to have borne a
tnes> ige to Mr. O'Connell for .Mr. Steven
son, I Ind determined to have taken Capt.
Perry with me as a witness; for O’Connell
is, I .untold, always surrounded by a good-'
It portion of hi, tail, in the -Inpe of rul
ti ins, only inferior in biut.ihty to their
great prototype. W lliiout provoking the
slightest aggression in our feelings or per
sons, we should nevertheless have been
nr pan (I to have met it. We should have j
eii leavored in tins contingency to have
m ice ourselves as np/i/ turturners as pos
sible, to lite immaculate patriot and his'
ill.copies—to which we could have held;
some claims, as both Captain Perry and
myself have in.avoirdupois, about as much
Irish blood in our veins as the august Mi
lesian himself.
“If, however, in an Irish scrimmage, I
had accidentally stopped his -wind?! feel
satisfied my escape would have been con
nived at by the English people; for I should
have entitled myself, by this act, to their
everlasting gratitude, for expelling in self
defence, one of the greatest pests with
which, in Ilis inscrutable wisdom, the Al
mighty has been pleased to inflict on the
British Empire—a man, who, having ex
torted rint money from the poor deluded
paupers of his own country, is selling for
a large sized lump of Whig patronage in
Ireland—the interests of a people he has
dishonored and betrayed.
“I feel that I owe you an apology for
using such abuse against this man. But
is not our country and countrymen the
theme of his perpetual, unceasing scandal,
more foul and audacious than the civiliz
ed world has ever yet witnessed ? If
Ishmael strikes, shall we not strike too?
No: Christian charity itself would pardon
retaliation so and so justifia
ble.
“I need not say u that [our’friend has, in
this, under all the circumstances of the
case, acted in all respects in a manner
worthy of the old Commonwealth from
which he came.
I remain, dear'Sir,
With sincere esteem,
Your o’bt servant,
J. HAMILTON, of S. C.
Titos Ritciiie, Esq.
i “P. S. I have negociated my South
i Carolina Railroad Loan for two millions
j with great despatch and on the most ad
vantageous terms, aud have been treated
j with the utmost kindness by all persons
i with whom I have had any thing to do,
in this great and glorious country, from
j which we have every reason to be proud
that we have sprung.” • ••
No Party Men. The celebrated! Dean
! Swift, in a passage in one of his essays, thu3
felicitously hits off the true character of a “no
; party man:” / [Nat. Int
! “A Man of no Party. Whoever gives
himself this character, you may depend upon
it, is of a party; but it is such a party ns he is
: ashamed to own. For even while he says he
is of no party, you may observe from the whole
drift of his discourse that he is plainly prejudic
ed in favor of one party, and that, too, always
the worst. And the true reason of his not de
claring is, that he thinks the party not yet strong
enough to protect him. The justice of the
cause or tlie goodness of. tlie intention seems
to be wholly out of this gentleman’s scheme.—
The only distinction he goes by is to be poli
tically of no party, that he may be occasionally
iof either. Others there are, who are really of
a party, and don’t know it; they ’carry on de
signs, which are kept secret from them; and
, these indeed are^uch,insignificant toolsfiof a
party that they may properly-enough he said to
be of no party; they are machines purely pas
sive, and, without any will of their own, obey
the impulse of the wheel that moves them.
But you sir II never hear a man of true princi
ples say he is a man of no party, he declares
he is of a party, if resolutely to stand by and
defend the Constitution must be called of a
party. But the other party, it seems, must be
divided into two sorts: those who are of a party
and those who are of no party at all. With
the gentlemen who apply this latter expression
to themselves, I would beg leave to reason thus:
either they are of a party, or they are not; if
they are, they prevaricate grossly (not to use a
more unmannerly expression) while they give
out the contrary; if they are not, they ought to
be ashamed ol such an infamous neutrality,and
ot deserting that cause which they are bound
in honor and conscience to defend.”
in Abatement.— ln "one of the
Quarter Session courts in Tennessee, one
Joe Phillips was indicted for an assault and
battery. The solicitor called him to the bar
anil addressed him thus: “\ou are indicted for
a misdemeanor, and stand charged in these
words: ‘I lie jurors, upon their oaths, present
that Joe Phillips, late of the county of ,on
the 10th day of August, 18—, with force and
arms, in and upon the body of one Joe Scrog
gins an assault did make, with guns, pistols,
swords, dirks, and clubs, with malice afore
thought’”—
‘•stop, Mr. Lawyer,” says Joe, “there wa3
something of it, but you’re making it a
deal worse than it was.”
“VV ell, how was it Joej” says the solicitor.
u \\ by, I and John met one day on the road,
and says I to John, ‘this is a bad day for snak
in.’ 1 lien says he to me, ‘Not very bad neither,
for I killed one near upon a rod long.’ Then
says I, hat’s a lie, for there’s nary snake in
tins country half so long.’ Then, after a good
many' such compliments passed between us,
says John to me, says he, ‘I doesn’t milk my.
neighbors’ cows as some folks do.’ And then
I bit him a lick with my fist on the side of his
head, and then we had real scuffle: a fair fight;
then just so. And vve hadn’t no gun, nor pis
tol, nor club, nor dirk, neither; so you needn’t
bo talking all that nonsense over to the Court
when there’s no such thing; and John says he
is willing to fight again, if I’ll let him strike
first.”
Sale of V\ i.ves.— 'lhe following are some
of the prices for wines, at a late sale by the
Messrs. Pell: per doz.
J doz. Madeira, vintage of 179 G S7O
4 doz. do. do. do. 3 plbot 82 50
10 bottles do. 50yrs ok], 3 pts sl2 50 each 150
50 doz. do. . <jg
These prices arc equal to about 20 to 55 cents
a glass.
1 ayino for a bad Dixnf.r.— An amnsing
story is told ot a traveller, who encountered a
remarkably scanty dinner ct Cheltenham, for
which he was charged enormously, when he
threatened that the landlord should have cause
to remember this extortion ns long as he lived.
Accordingly, whereVer the gentleman wan
dered over the habitable globe, he invariably
disguisedjus hand writing and directed a dou
ble loiter to the hotel. The contents were al
ways one single sentence, “I slidl never for
get the excellent dinner you gave me on the
'~ctn oi August.” The unfortunate landlord
was at last nearly mined, and even from China
tins pertinacious correspondent contrived to
forward Ins usual epistle.