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TUB SABBATH,
Sweet day of rest! 1 hail thy bright return.
And list with rapture to thy chiming bell,
Which brings *o sweet relieflo every breagt;
A solemn reverence lolls in every knell.
TVhnt heart bm swells with gratitude and joy,
When labour ceases and the world is still ;
The artisan forgets his late employ,
And songs of praise are heard on every hill.
The laborer lays his weekly task aside,
To join the Christian's happy jubilee,
Oa grid’s pale chock a rising smile is seen,
And mourning brightens In the general glee.
All nature rests, no sound of discord reigns,
A magic stillness rales each hill and vale :
The captive, only, drags his weary chains.
And mourns his bondage on the passing gale.
To him alone, the sabbath hnth no rest,
To him alone, it brings no pleasing joy;
ft strikes a dagger to his pining breast,
Which, though it rankles, never can destroy.
Sweet recollection comes to him in vain,
It brings no balm of morning on its wing.
In solitude still clanks his gulling chain,
Though labour ceases and the woodlands sing.
Each rural scene a calmer aspect wears,
A softer melody awakes the grove,
The jaded plough-horse ranges, unconfincd,
And unyoked oxen through the woodlands rove.
The grateful glebe, arrayed in waving green,
In new turned furrow, or in grassy mead,
Is resting from the rustic’s plying care,
Or paying buck, a hundred fold, his seed.
The huntsman’s horn reverberates no more,
The hound reposes from the weary chace.
Hosts in Ids kennel, or, before the door,
Looks wistfolly upon his masters’ dice.
The rosy maiden lays Iter distaff by,
Her only task to milk the lowing herd,
She marks the dawn, in gleeful haste to tly,
Before the matin of the earliest bird.
Her task now done, she lays her homespun by,
In finer robes to dress her lovely form,
And waits the lingering church hour with a sigh
That modestly displays a lovely charm.
The bustling city feels the soft t’epose,
The hammer’s hush’d, the merchant’s traffic's ceas'd;
A pleasing something on each visage glows,—
The sportive schoolboy’s fl-om his task releas'd.
All nature seems to feel the general joy,
And hail each coining with a new delight,
The old and young, maid, matron, girl and boy,
Look gladsome on the Sabbath morning’s light.
Who, in the stillness of this hallow’d day,
Remembers not full many a joyous hour,
Nnr thinks ofchildhood’s sunny moments, gay,
When happily he trod his native bower.
Melhiuks there Is a heavenly spell it brings.
Os pleasing sadness, intertwin'd with bliss,
To which tlie heart with fondest rupture clings,
As fresh and holy u* a mothers kiss.
Each by-gone hour of bliss, or grief, or love,
On tills blest day, commingles in the breast,
with mild religion sweetly interwove,
Whilst each rude passion sinks to peaceful rest.
Sweet day of real! I’ll hail each bright return.
With soft remembrance mid religious awe,
And seek from thee the pleasing Uisk to learn,
To curb fierce passion, and obey thy law. T.
FROM THE NEW’-YORK MIRROR,
REMEMBRANCES.
Remembered sorrow! darkly art thou sending
The weary spirit to the pangfiil past;
And foeiings crushed, and shaded prospects blending
Willi hopes that smiled but to deceive at last.
The pang, the throb, the thrilling sense of pain,
Come in their former keenness back again.
Remembered gladness! seraph-like, thou’rt flinging
Thy robe of light o’er the dark present hour,
Like the basis of the desert, bringing
Thy fiir-scen beauty, with its frcsh’nlng power.
And still green loveliness, the heart to blcsjs,
Through drooping 'neuth its load of wretchedness.
Remembered harshness! from the ft iends we cherished,
Fain would wc all its agony forget;
Alnsl though many a pleasant thought has perished,
The bitterness of this will haunt us yell
Unkinduess from the loved—oh! what can wring
The heart with such a pang us this doth bring!
Remembered kindness! dear the recollection
Os each sweet proof is to be grutefol heart!
The soothing, culm attentions of affection,
The sympathy that in our grids took part;
The cordial pressure of (he friendly hand,
The lip which smiled a welcome sweet and blond.
Remembered tenderness! tiie cyo that brighk'ncd
With joy at our approach, the conscious cheek,
Wliich with the sudden blush of gladness lightened,
Tiie Ups that faltered as they strove to speak,
Whose whispered tones oftenderness were dear
As music's mellowest breathings to the ear.
How sweet, though moumfol, Is the vivid vision
Which memory lingers o’er with fond regret!
Out ah'. how dark and chilling the transition
Wliich brings us back to all we would forget!
And forces us, oft sadly, to contrast
The darkened present with the cloudless past.
THVBZ.V.
THE FAIR SEX.
When Eve brought tea to all mankind,
Old Adam culled her ico-suin ;
But When she uoo'd with love so kind.
Ho then pronounced it ieoo-man ;
Rut now, with folly and with pride,
Their husbands’ pockets trimming,
The ladies arc so fiill ofukimt,
The people call them tehim-vun.
‘ London N. AT. Hag.
The following- is an extract from a iet
us yesterday, dated ut
Philadelphia, dlay 30;
“I think the conduct of the President,
in regard to his veto, explains his mean
l«g, when he said in his toast, the Union
must be preserved, to be by acting con
stitutionally, and not by force. 1 think
ail these things are working well.” Ban
ner of th£ Constitution.
Hit fact from Mr. Speight's Speech on the suh
ject of the Tariff.
‘‘lt is said that we are deceived and that
the taiifl tends to promote our prosperity;
that it is the consumer, and not the pro
ducer, who pays the duties upon the mer
chandise imported. I propose to exam
ne these points. The operation of the
system, is as follows: A planter who
can raise one thousand dollars worth of
f U ", S f nd h to market; if he wants
nm-ta ie can £ et *n our own sea-
? rhe ?* n br,ng U fioi n abroad—
In that case he receives the value of his
22®?“ c ?? h ; So far, there is no op-
But, when he comes to use his
specie—every planter is compelled to ex
pend as much or nearly as much as he
receives—every one has or ought to have
the right to expend all that he honestly
obtains—say then, that he desires to lay
out his one thousand dollars with his mer
chant; will it purchase them one thou
• sand dollars worth of merchandise? It
will not; because you find that the mer
chandise is taxed first with $430 duty ;
and in most cases with $450 of profit; so
that instead of SIOOO worth of merchan
dise fbr his one thousand dollars worth
of .cotton, he Js compelled- to advance
soar hundred and fifty dollars in duties,
for the permission to exchange the pro
duce of his plantation for such articles;
as he may want, and this, too, when he
acts as his own merchant. If he pays,
in addition to the tax levied by the Gov
ernment, a profit to a merchant, it will
be found that he will be compelled to
pay at least $750 for the privilege of ex
changing his one thousand dollars worth
of cotton (or such articles as he may want.
Ills having exchanged his cotton for spe
cie in the first place, does not vary the
operation of the system. It matters not
to him whether this tax be levied on the
cotton itself, or on the article which he
purchases with its proceeds. It mutters
not to him whether the exciseman de
mands the tax when his cotton goes out,
or when the proceeds come in. Disguise
it as you will, it is a tax, and the planter
pays it. It is so much deducted from the
proceeds of his labor; and he is thereby
prevented from consuming the whole pro
ceeds of his own earnings. But some say
that he may purchase domestic goods, and
thus avoid the duty!! Does not every
one see that the tariff was imposed for the
purpose of raising the price of domestic as
well as foreign articles, &- that the effect
upon the planter is the same, whether he
buys domestic or foreign merchandise?
The document before me speaks a lan
guage not to be misunderstood. It slio ws
that the cultivators of cotton, rice, anil
tobacco, send abroad more than 31 mil
lions of exports; and that, but for the ta
riff, they would be able to consume 31
millions worth of imports; as it is, 45 per
cent, of that amount is arrested at the
custom house; and instead of 31 millions
we are permitted to consume less than 11);
and it is thus that about sixteen millions
of the twenty-four, or two-thirds of the
whole revenue is levied upon the cotton,
rice, and tobacco growing States. Is
such a system fair and honest ?”
Nf. w II ampshire.—The Legislature of
!V. Hampshire met at Concord, on Wed
nesday last. In the Senate, Joseeii 31.
Harper was chosen President, Samuel
Dinsmorr, Jim. Clerk. In the House of
Representatives, Jas. B. Thornton, (late
ly appointed Second CAhpt roller of the
United States’ Treasury, in the place of
3lr. Hill.) was chosen Speaker. He hail
136 votes—leu a hod Bartlett 36, ami J.
Wilson 2. J. Clarke was chosen Clerk
of the House.
“The President of the United States
will, us we understand, visit the North
during the present summer; but as his
private concerns in Tennessee may re
quire his presence before he returns to the
Seat of Government, be may probably
set off at an early period, and proceed
through Philadelphia, New*York, and
the New England States, cross Vermont,
and pass up the line of the Erie Canal, and
cross the Lake into Ohio and Tennessee.
By this route he would pass through the
Western Country at a healthy season,
and would be enabled to examine the
works of internal improvement, comple
ted by New York, Pennsylvania, and
Ohio, on their own resources. The Pre
sident, we loam, wishes to travel with
as little parade as possible. He will l>
welcome every where.”—.V. V. Com. $
Knq.
from the charleston southern patriot.
It is contested that Northern and Wes
tern labour concurs in augmenting the
whole value of the Southern exports by
the amount of the imports into the tSouth
and South-west, from the other divisions
of the Union. Let us illustrate our view
by a few suppositions. North-Caroliua
exports to foreign countries little more
than half a million of dollars. Should
we estimate the extent of her consump
tion of foreign articles, aud the powers of
her labour by this criterion? Suppose lur
corn admitted into England free of duty,
would not the sum of her exports to Eu
rope be augmented by the amount of her
consequent exportation of this commo
dity to that quarter of the world ? Sup
pose the Hour of the North admitted
into England on the same terms, would
not the attendant effect be the same'—
Would not the amount of exported corn
in the one case, and exported Hour in the
other, be the measure of the effectiveness
of the labour of that section of country
which produced these articles! Now, if
instead of sending that Hour and corn to
Europe, it is sent to South Carolina, first
to obtain her cotton, and then to obtain
her foreign merchandize as the ultimate
return, does the intermediate exchange
vary the real character of the transac
tion? Should not the capacity of North
Carolina to purchase foreign commodi
ties be estimated by the whole of her ex
ports, and not by a part —and is not the
rum of her exports the measure, in this
respect, of her powers of production?
Again, suppose South Carolina to cut
offher intercourse with the North and
- West, so as to import nothing from those
quarters, we ask—could she send abroad
L as great a value in cotton as she is now
able to export? Could she raise horses
, and hogs, and produce corn and flour,
and manufacture shoes & saddlery, with
i the same amount of capital by which she
is now able to export a value of eight
: millions?
There is no analogy between this ease
and that of an intercourse with a totally
different climate and country, as is sup
■ posed. The climate of South Carolina
admits of her growing corn and wheat,
and raising hogs and horses; but she
cannot grow tea, codec or spices, nor
has she coal mines, the great source of
stealn-power, to manufacture cheaply.—
When neither country having commer
cial intercourse possesses the natural ad
vantages of the other, it is not proper to
compare such a description of commerce
with that carried on between parts of the
same country where entirely different ele
ments enter into the character of the in
tercourse, and where accident has, in a
great measure, given it its peculiar direc
tion. The commerce between the differ
ent sections of our country anil Europe,
would not be so circuitous as it is, if the
bread stutfs of the North were admitted
into that quarter of the world, and if the
value required as the commercial equi
valent did not consist almost entirely of
cotton.
Hut the drift of our argument, as Is pro
perly conceived, is to show that the North
and West suffer in a corresponding de
gree with the South, in having their pow
ers of production curtailed by duties on
imports. This is done, not to lessen the
odium which should be attached to the
expedients of monopoly, but it is design
Cttnwtifdt awn
etl to obtain a co-operation between the
i North, the West the South, in throw
ing off the burthensome system. It is
pressing on the resources of our Northern
anti Western brethren in a manner that
they cannot realize, because it is disguis
ed. And here we beg to enter a protest
against the doctrine that would detach
seven millions of the Northern and West
ern people from four millions of Southern
population, having a common interest
i with them, on the supposition that those
; seven millions receive nn equivalent for
s giving a monopoly to one-eighth of their
! number. Where can be the equivalent?
; On the contrary, the interest of the seven
■ millions is identical with the four millions
, which furnish the staples of exportation,
s They are as one community of sutterers.
• There is no real line of separation be
s tween them.
Mr. McDuffie estimates the sum which
- the people of the Union pay for protec
r tion of Manufactures at twelve millions
I of dollars. We do not think the amount
r overstated. It appears then that without
; duties higher than would cover the na
i tural differencial price between the home
t and foreign manufacture, the people of
» the Union would have twelve millions of
? dollars in their pockets to expend on va
rious objects of consumption, if the gov
s eminent had permitted those twelve inil-
I lions to continue with them. Mr. Mc
- Dulfie estimates that there is a diminish
- ed demand for the Southern Staples to
I an unequal amount. But it must be re
p collected that a tax-payer does not di
i minish his consumption of the taxed com
-9 modify to the precise amount of the fax.
; He reduces his expenditure in different
i quarters to meet the- diminution of his in
; come. If cloth is highly taxed he rc
, duces his consumption of cloth in part,
i and distributes the burthen of the impost
over the different branches of his expen
diture, more on luxuries of course than
f necessaries. If excessive duties are
- laid, ther fore, on woollen and cotton
. goods, and on iron and manufactures of
. iron, the relative expenditure on these
I’ articles is diminished in the degree that
■ their consumption admits of being com
s paratively abridged. We do not think
r we exaggerate the proportion/)!’ domestic
I articles of necessary consumption, when
. we estimate them at an equal value, and
: of equal necessity with foreign commo
dities of the same chai aeter. If we sup
pose, therefore, that the means of pur
? chase of domestic and foreign goods are
1 diminished, by the duties, to the amount
* of twelve millions, if this is divided be
■ tween the two species of commodities, it.
‘ is a fair division of the tax. It amounts
to a diminished demand fur foreign and
I domestic articles, in equal proportion, to
the amount of twelve millions. It must
i subtract from the powers of production,
I by the diminution of demand, of the pro
ducers of horses and hogs, of corn and
other articles of necessity, as much as of
i cotton and woollen fabrics of European
importation, which arc of equal necessi
ty. Now what is the proportion of this
diminution of demand or tax on the’pow
ers of production if divided on fair prin
ciples between the different sections of
tiie country? The power of purchase is
1 to be estimated by population, in this as
pect of the subject. If these twelve mil
lions of value are taken from twelve
millions of persons, and their powers of
production arc lessened in this propor
tion from diminished demand, eight mil
lions must sustain two-thirds of the bur
then as producers. The conclusion is
inevitable. If it is a tax on the ability to
consume in this proportion, it is a tax on
the ability to produce in like proportion,
for it lessens the power to purchase in
the some ratio. When we say eight
millions we should deduct one million
who benefit by the tax, which is a boun
ty paid to that number—in other words—
a monopoly in favor of this one million
against the other eleven.
FROM TIIE NEW-YORK AMERICAN,
The DUKE OF CLARENCE who
succeeds to the Throne of England, in
the event of the death of the* present King,
must be now in the 63d year of his age.
The princess Victoria, daughter of the
' late Duke of Kent, who, after the Duke of
! Clarence, is the heir presumptive to the
crown, is in the eleventh year of her ago,
1 and is already nearly as great u favorite
’ with the English people as was the la
; monted wifi; of Prince Leopold. Her
i acquisitions and accomplishments are
saiil to be quite uncommon for such n
’ child, and her temper and manners have
been highly extolled. The present heir
i is represented as being of a haughty and
■ morose disposition—“neither seeking nor
- obtaining from those around him, admi
‘ ration or respect.” If so, he must differ
'* very much from the rest of his family.
who, whatever may he their personal
i character in other respects, have never
I been charged with n want of urbanity of
‘ manners. There are those in this city
i who recollect the Duke Claience when
a midshipman of the British Navy, as
* a lively and frolicsome boy. At the
> very time that his flirtations here with
1 some of the belles of that day, were as
* suming so grave a character that the Ad -
I tnirul under whom he sniled, thought it
necessary to interdict the ladies of the
city from dancing with his royal high
' ness: The brother to “the first gentle
- man in the world” was skating with the
i boys of the city behind where the hospi
> tnl is now situated, with a sergeant’s
1 guard as an escort tagging nt his heels.
■ coo —
I Arrival of the U, S. Ship Vincennes.— This
• beautiful ship Win. B. Finch, Esq. Com
• mander, sailed from New-York on the Ist
■ Sept. 182(5, having been absent three years,
i nine months and eight days—the greater
s portion of this time was spent in the Pa
■ cific. After a voyage of eleven months
from Calao, five of which were spent at
the Marquesas, Social, Sandwich, and
other principal Islands in the Pacific,
thence to Manilla and Canton, from which
port she sailed on the 22d January last,
, and proceeded homeward, touching nt
i Macoa, the Cape of Good Hope, and St.
Helena, and arrived here yesterday
morning, the officers and crew all in good
health. At every place she touched,
Capt. Finch, his officers and crew, were
received with kindness and hospitality
which was reciprocated in the warmest
manner.
List of officers on board the Vincennes:
—William B. Finch, Esqr. Commander:
Lieufs.C. K. Stribling, John M. Sullivan,
Thos. Dornin, and George A. Magruder;
Master, James L. Gardner, Pursur, Mc-
Kean Bhctuman; Acting Surgeon, Sami.
B. Malone; Assistant do. Frederick
Wesscls; Chaplain, Chas. S. Stewart;
Midshipmen, Wm. T. Irving, Chas. S.
Renshaw, Timothy W. Hunt, Lewis G.
Kieth, Thos. W. Melvill, George N. Haw
kins, Alfred H. Taylor, Mathew F. Mau
; ry, Simon B. Bissel, Stephen C. Rowan,
Melancton Smith, and Wm. A. Wurts;
Captains Clerk, John G. Anthony: Acting
i Boatswain, Edward Hanna; do. Sail Ma
, ker, Peter Meyers; do. G unner, John Pick
i ey; Purser’s Steward, John W. Harby.
In her absence, the Vincennes has sail
• ed round the world, and from her depar
ture till her arrival she has sniled nearly
i seventy thousand miles.—JV. Y. Courier
i Enquirer.
Congrcft. —We have excluded much
■ other matter to make room for the Mes
sage of the President, on the subject of
his refusing to sign the Maysville Turn
pike Road Bill. His decision regarding
■, the constitutionality of the bill, has done
i him immortal honor. It is well for the peo
t pic of the United States, that we have a
- President, who knows, and dares to per
> farm his duty. The message is worthy
[’ of a careful perusal. The opposition ore
f raising the cry of its being the production
of some friend; —wo think Mr. Adams
very unfortunate in not having possessed
n friend capable, or willing, to asssist
him in as able a manner.— Hart. Times.
'■ AUGUSTA:
SATURDAY, JUNE 19, 1830.
“Be just, and fear not."
The Savannah papers received since the letter
noticed in our last, announcing the death of the
King of England, say nothing on the subject.
The statement may therefore be considered pre
mature, though, from the last accounts received,
of the health of the King, there can be but little
doubt that he is dead ere this.
“Quid” is unavoidably deferred, for want of
room, till our next No.; in which it certainly shall
be chewed, notwithstanding that vvq, do most
decidedly eschew the taste of it.
Case of the Pole Boat New Jersey . —The com
munication of our correspondent “L,” on the
subject of the Arbitrators’ award, in this case,
is highly important to shipping Merchants and
Boat Owners, generally, and will be found well
worthy es their attention. The writer, who is
a highly intelligent merchant, has evidently stu
died his subject attentively, and made himself
intimately acquainted with the rights and inter
ests he discusses.
Fire-Proof House-Covering. —lt will bo seen
. by the advertisement of Messrs. Burd &, Til
boh, in a subsequent column, that these gen
tlemen propose to introduce into our city a new
style of Fire-proof House-covering. From the
statement of its nature and advantages, contain
ed in the advertisement, it would seem that the
plan is a judicious and valuable one; and we
have heretofore heard it highly spoken of, but
have no personal knowledge or experience on
the subject. At any rate, at the present moment,
when so large a number of fire-proof buildings
are erecting, and about to be erected, in the city,
it is important that its merits, in comparison
with the other modes now in use, should be care
fully enquired into. It will be perceived that
Mr. Philip Crump, a respectable and long ex
perienced master builder of our city, is appoint
ed the agent of Messrs. Bard &Tildon.
Museum of Foreign Literature and Science.—
Amid the number of interesting and valuable
periodicals we receive, wc have lately inadver
tently omitted to notice this, which is one of the
most valuable and interesting of all. The May
No. received sometime past, is more than usually
entertaining, and contains a most beautiful and
richly executed engraving of Mary, Queen of
Scotts, with a notice of her death. This work is
comprized ofliterary and scientific selections from
the most popular foreign periodicals of the day,
and consequently, may be expected to contain,
as it does, the very elite of foreign periodical li
terature and science. Each No. is embellished
with a beautiful engraving. The May No. a
bovementioned may be seen in our News Room.
The terms are very low : 12 Nos. of about 100
pages each, for six dollars.
The New York Mirror.—We have had fre
quent cause to notice the continual rapid im
provement of this highly valuable periodical, and
are confident that those of our readers who have
been induced thereby to avail themselves 6f the
richly interesting and polished amusement and
instruction it affords, have been not a little gra
tified by the result. The unwearied industry,
ability, enterprise, and perseverance of its edi
tors, are worthy of all praise. It has been difficult
for us to keep pace with his determined and
successful efforts at improvement; end it will be
seen by the following notice, which we copy
from the last No. and the prospectus of the
eighth Volume, which we ahall give in our next,
that highly important and interesting ones are in
• progress for the future. The contributors to the
work, as mentioned below, comprise a galaxy of
talent of the highest order in the various depart
ments of the Belles Lettres, and one which we
believe is tar more brilliant, extensive and popu
lar, than that of any other periodical of the kind
- in the country:
“The Mirror.— For the fact that the merits and
1 character of the New York Mirror have been
steadily progressive, we refer to the past. Our
i arrangements for the future are far more advan
tageous than any we have hitherto been able to
[ effect, and wc therefore feel confidence in as
serting that the eighth volume will bo much su
perior, in every department, to its predecessors.
It gives us great pleasure to state, that this
[ periodical will hereafter bo occasionally enriched
- with original communications from the pens of
John F. Schroedor, D. D. Fitz-Grceno lialleck,
Charles Sprague, William Leggett, John Inman,
1 Prosper M. Wetmore, James Lawson, Wm.
, Shea, C. C. Van Arsdalo, Guiinn C. Verplanck,
. Robert C. Sands, James G. Brooks, Theodore
• S. Fay, William Cox, Mrs. Emma Embury, Mrs.
■ Mary E. Brooks, Mrs. Harriet Muzzy, Miss
Elizabeth Bogart, Miss Sarah Aikin, Miss A.
Woodbridge.
What we have done in the way of embellish
ments, is before the public; what wc intend to
■ do, wc now submit to their notice. During the
year, four fine engravings will bo published.—
■ Subjects as follows:
I.—Street view in Now York, embracing
Park Row, the Park, a portion of Chatham street,
the Brick Meeting, &c. with all the life andbua
tlo incident to that part of the town.
If. A view of the Bay and Harbour, studded
With islands, and covered with shipping, steam
boats, small craft, Ac. including a distant sketch
of Staten Island and the Narrows, taken from
the Battery.
Hl.—The City of New York, from the Bavj
the North and East rivers, Hoboken, Wcehawlc,
Brooklyn Heights, Village of Brooklyn, &c.
IV.—Wall street, about the hour of three;
the Exchange, the various Banks, and other pub
lic Institutions.
These drawings have been taken expressly for
this work, and will be engraved by eminent ar
tists.
In addition to the foregoing, several wood en
gravings, executed in the best possible manner,
representing old Dutch edifices, will be given;
both as a matter of curiosity, and from a desire
to preserve from oblivion, traces of the dwellings
of the early Dutch settlers.
Each number will contain, as heretofore, a
popular piece of music, arranged for the piano
forte.
The praise which the Mirror has obtained for
its typographical neatness will continue to be
deserved.
From the above it is obvious that our expen
ses must be very materially enlarged; and we
had contemplated, at one time, advancing the
price of this paper to fire dollars; but in conse
quence of tne unprecedented increase of our
circulation, we are induced, in preference, to
trust to a still further patronage for an adequate
remuneration of our labor.”
The tuo Dromici.—Oh, the burthen of greatnesswhat
miseries and perplexities it is subject to. The highly cel
ebrated, and justly distinguished Representative of our
county, Mr. William B. Davit, whose extraordinary tal
ents, and wide-spread fomc arc only equalled by his ex
quisite modesty, is troubled with the strange miseries of a
great name. It seems, that '■ a person calling himself
William B. Davit," (what rigid had he so to cull himself)
which, strange to say, is the identical famous cognomina
tion of our worthy and wcll-helovcU Representative, and
who, still more strange to say, lias hud the temerity to
connect the said name with the plcbean occupation of
Painting and Glazing, lias lately taken up Ids residence in
lids our good city of Augusta, and, (whether with malice
aforethought, this deponent saltlt not,) has advertised the
said famous name, and the said vn-fhinous occupation, in
the public papers, to the uo small annoyance mid mortifi
cation of our said worthy Representative. Nor is this
all) for, independently of the fact, that the said worthy
Representative is in tlie habit of writing to divers great
men of the nation, who on seeing the said advertisement
may unfortunately take him for a Painter and Glazier,
sundry envious and evil disposed persons, to the further
mortification of the said worthy Representative, have a
vailed themselves of the same horrible cause, to propose
to him various degrading contracts in the way of the said
plebcan or mechanic occupation. Tills was not to be
borne;
“He called them untaught knaves, unmannerly,
To bring sucli lieggarly unhandsome tilings,
Betwixt the wind and his nobility;’’
or, at least it may very fairly be presumed that he did so,
in the justly excited indignation of the moment—and forth
with hied bimselfto the primer, setting forth in a suitable
bulletin, the unbearable grievance above-mentioned, and
declaring among other tilings, be undeniable fact, mat he
is not a Painter and Glazier. Unlike the two perplexed
wights of Euphcsus and Syracuse, or the honest clodpole
wlio cried out in the simplicity ofhis heart, “ Am I Giles,
or am 1 not,” he did not suffer himself for a moment to
entertain the humiliating idea of a two-fold existence,
coupled with the possibility of no existence at nil; or the
non-existence ofhis own great and unpurallellcd indenti
ty, which to him is precisely the same thing. No, snlisfl
od that he was himself alone, and that “ none hut himself
COUld b« til* parallel ,»» but above all. that tic was not a
Painter and Glazier, he “deemed it due to himself and
his friends,” and to the honor of the county of which lie
is the worthy Keprescutatvc, to assert his right to his
name, and disclaim at once, the degrading occupation of
which he had been so unjustly suspected. This disclaim
er being highly important, not only to his own some, hut
to that of the county he has so worthily represented, and
would again so worthily represent, we subjoin it, as fol
lows, for the proper advisement of our readers;
ST A CARD.—A person calling himself‘Wil
liam B. Davis,’ having recently came to this
city from Charleston, and having advertised in
the Newspapers the business of-‘House Sign
and Ornamental Painting, &c.” over that signa
ture, tlie citizens generally have taken it for
granted, that lam the person—in consequence
of which, applications are daily and constantly
made to mo to take contracts, <&c. or for infor
mation upon the subject: I have therefore
thought it proper, least any ftirther mistake
should bo entertained, inconsequence of the a
hove circumstance of there being two distinct
persons in the city of the same name, to inform
those gentlemen who may wish work done in
the above line, that 1 have no doubt but they will
find it executeih-to their satisfaction by applying
to the above Mr. Davis from Charleston.
Tltis explanation is deemed duo to myself and
friends. W. B. DAVIS.”
It is rumored, with what truth we know not, that the
Painter and Glazier aforesaid, has it in contemplation to
come out with a bulletin himself, setting forth that “ a
person calling himself William B. Davit," has recently
advertised in the Augusta papers, under the head of
“ Grand Project)," sundry wonderful and invaluable
schemes—such as draining the Western Lakes—Huron,
Michigan, Superior, Ac. Ac—blowing up the Falls of
Niagara, and cutting a canal round the same—making a
Kail Road to Great-Brilain, and cutting a cniinl through
North A South America, across Die Alleghany A Hie An
des; A above all, completing bis Legislative plan of Inter
nal Improvement, by setting on fire all the Rivers A tribu
tary streams in Georgia, and making Roads thereof—and
that he, the said William B.Davis, the Painter and Glazier
aforesaid, having received “applications daily and con
stantly, to take contracts,” to carry intocficct one or other
of these “ Grand Projectt," has “ thought it proper, least
any further mistake should be entertained, in consequence
of the above circumstance of there being two distinct per
suns in tho *ity of the oauic iianji-, 10 liidinu ihaai; gen
llcmen who may wish work done in tlie above line, that he
has no doubt but they will find it executed to their satis-
Cicllon by applying to the above Mr. Davis” of Augusta.
Lunatic Asylum of South Carolina.— lt is re
presented that there are now in that asylum 27
patients, of whom 20 arc males and 7 females.
Out of this number there are 4 from this State,
1 from North Carolina, 2 from Richland, I from
Malborough 1 from Kershaw-, 2 from Abbeville,
1 from Georgetown, 1 from Newberry, 3 from
Fairfield, 5 from Chester, 2 from Greenville,
2 from Laurens, I from Lancaster, and 1 from
Darlington;
Dvrino the first days of the week there was a
very interesting Examination and an Exhibition
of the Pupils of the Richmond Academy. The
first was not well attended—but the last attract
ed a vast concourse and the Chapel was exces
sively crowded, so much so, that many persons
—some of them, parents of the performers
were deprived of the pleasure of witnessing the
exercises. Wo advise, that in future, Tickets
for only such a number as the Chapel will hold
bo placed in the hands of the young exhibitors—
to bo distributed by them. The performances
were every way creditable to the scholars, and
to the assiduous and amiable Rector, Mr. J. P.
Waddel .—Constitutionalist.
Appointment by the President.—Joan Ran
dolph Clay, Secretary of Legation to the Court
ofSt. Potcrsburgh.
“A letter received in Charleston on thellth
inst., states that the Hon. W. D. James, late one
of the Judges es South Carolina, died at State
burg cn the-Ith inst,"
TOB THB CHRONICLE AND ADVERTISER
“ Audi alteram partem.”
The award made by three respectable ni
chants, in the case of the Boat New
wrecked on her passage from Macon to
in January last, having been introduced to 'Ju
public under high encomiums—being draw
with great ingenuity, and in an elegant 8,.,i" Up
composition—if permitted to pass without °'
ment or examination, may be expected to b e
come a leading precedent, in the settlement of
similar cases, in future. But “all is not gold t (,°
glittersand an examination of the principle'
on which the decision was made, will show tha!
if the gentlemen had authorised the owners of
the cargo, in tlie case in question, to say to th e
boat owners, “ you pay all the expences, and we
, will reap all the benefits, or we will reap allth c
1 benefits and you pay all the expences,” the p ro
, position would not have been more specious or
unjust, than the adjustment of the case by t),J
award. In making this examination, there is no
intention to impugn the motives which led to the
decision, nor to interfere with the private inter
eats involved in tho case, which, whether right
| or wrong, arc presumed to he settled forever'
but the sole object will be to expose the errors
(as they arc presumed to be,) committed in
making the decision, and to confine the injustice
1 done to tlie Boat owner, to this single case if
possible.
The statement of the facts of the case, nicer
. tained from the protest ot the Patroon of the Netr
i Jersey, and of the expenses claimed, asgtvcnhj
r tho gentlemen, are as follows :
“ The boat left Macon on the Bth of January
1830, bound for Darien, with a cargo of 650 bain
, cot t°n. On the 14th, arrived at Hartford, &i( )Me
landed 30 bales,the river being too low to proceed
with the entire cargo. Loft Hartford on tlie 15th
1 and about 3 o’clock of that day, had a hole knock'
! ed through near the bows, by a stump, or snag m
1 tj l6 channel of tbo river. In about two minutes
i tho boat sunk, and the deck load floated off. Th, ;
patroon sent part of the hands about three miles
i up the river, and purchased a ferry flat, to col
oct the cotton. By the 20th, lie picked up, and
i landed on the bank of tlie river, fill bales On
i the 25th, having repaired tlie boat, lie took on
board 450 bales, which, under the then state of
- tho river, he conceived was as much as she could
, safely carry, and having left the balance of tlie
. cargo onshore on good skids, lie proceeded on
1 his voyage, without any difficulty, until Saturday
the 30th, when the boat ran against another snag
whic h stove another hole in tlie bottom of the boat
and caused her to sink. By means of a rope and
windlass, the boat was brought near the shore;
322 bales were landed that day, and on the neit|
the balance of the cargo. The boat was so se
cured by the snag that she could not be raised. I
, The patroon then went fifteen miles up the river, I
, and purchased a cotton flat, for which he paid I
$140; he placed on board of her, 400 bales of the I
, cotton, (leaving 50, which were very wet, on I
[ shore,) and started on the 3d of February, for Dt-1
rien, where he arrived on the 13th: I
The expenses claimed arc at follow -. I
’ Wagesof 19men, for ton days, engaged I
in saving cotton from the boat and riv- I
er, drying and rc-loading tho same, at I
75 cts. per day $142 (01
- Provisions for same, 25 cents each per I
day 4730 1
f Patruon’s ten-ices same period at $2 50 I
i per day, 25 001
1 Hire of ferry fiat to collect cotton cirif- I
tod down tho river, 8 days, at $1 per I
i d «y 8 001
r Paid crew of boat Henry, for assistance, 20 I
men, at $1 per day, 2GOoH
Wages of!9 men 5 days, saving cotton I
[ from tho boat on her second disaster, I
at 75 cents each, /,■
■ Provisions for same
Patroon’s services at $2 50 per day, . J2,30l
, Paid B. B. Smith for a flat to transportllje ’ I
, cotton to Darien, 140 (10l
1 Feb. 4.—Paid M. Lumkin for a box flat, 140 00l
, Wages of 14 men, for ten days, in bring- I
ing down tlie flat to where the cotton I
was on the river, at 75 cents, . . 105 wH
, Provisions for the same at 25 cents, . . ,15wH
■ Patroon’s services for same period, . , 2501)H
jaiiJoH
In tlie first plaeo, it is proper to
distinctly, the nature and conditions of the con-H
tract between the parties, which will be founfll
;n the law regulating Carriers, and in the Bill
Lading. By the former, the Carrier is bound tiH|
furnish a good and sufticent boat, equipped willH|
every necessary implement, well manned
provisioned, and under the care and direction
a skilful pilot or patroon:—by the latter, Ins codßj
tract is in terms, which can neither be
or extended without the consent of all
By it, ho acknowledges to have received at
con, from certain shippers, certain quantities (Hi
of Cotton or other merchandize, on board laBR
boat, which lie agrees to deliver to tiieir
signees, at the port of Savannah, (the
and perils of the navigation excepted)
tain rate of freight therein stipulated. By
however, he in no wise binds himsclfto hearttHl
of tho extraordinary expenses which may be
currcd for the general benefit, in consequence h|
. any one or more of those accidents to which
excepted in his contract, any more than be doeitH|
; pay the damages which may arise thereby,
■ water or any other cause; for it is the same
whether the damage arise front expenses
aarily incurred, or from depreciation in lhc™“BS
of the property. If lie be liable for the one,be
be for tho other; and to make him pay either, 11 W|
violation of his contract, by extending h
making him, nolens rolens, an underwriter
surer, & that too without apremium—
tract allows him nothing more than his ("Ml
If tho accident occur from negligence, or '
fault of the master or any of the crew, or the
sufficiency of the boat, the owner will clearly
liable for ail the damages. In the present
no such allegation is made, and it may be
med, therefore, that the accidents whichdi
■ pen, arc admitted to be aonte of those
1 to in the Bill of Lading.
The example of the gentlemen, in appl
1 principles of Maritime Law to cases of
1 navigation, may be safely admitted as 1
| proper guide; and their definition of
Average, as “ a contribution by oaelt ‘ nkr ‘ JKs
■ proportion to its value, for all losses whic
1 in consequence of extraordinary Mcrl
• . - - r,C Ul€
injuries, incurred for the preservation
and cargo,” may bo taken, as far as '* *
which, for a more proper understan
may be added a part of tlie definition %
Stevens, page 8:—“A claim may ar ‘*® 0
ces incurred, or services performed, )
(e. g., the ship master) for the genera
and for this, he has a right to claim teco
Tlie principal error of the gentlemen,
first in order, arises from their const j|H