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From the Froze*'s Magazine for April.
Tin: syllabub.
“ Bui as 1 am in llie land of the liv
ing,” continued Mrs. M’Crie, ‘‘our
taupj lass* has a’thegether neglected
the syllabub. There it stands, in the
pride ol its beauty, in the aumry. { —
Purely I have been caiiied! inysell.—
Doctor, whenever von gae by the hour
and five minutes, § I'm clane done for
ony inair use that day—l cun mind
naetliing.”
‘‘Neither can I, Mrs. iW'Crie,” ob
served Mr. Josiali, innocently.
“ It’s a blessing for you Mr. Josiah,”
answered the old lady ; “if Iliad mind
td a’ I've heard, l would by this time
have been demented.”||
” Right, my dear,” replied the Doc*
tar, “ihp female is the weaker vessel—
a cracked pitcher, ns a man may say,
d| 'd in no “ay fit to be the repository ol
‘he wonder* ot ait and science.”
‘And vet,’ r-cloned Mrs. M’Crie, some
what piqued at the observation, “ there
arc some aim of the w liilk ye are as ig
norant as a dead dog—saving ih 3 com-
parison.”
“ And in vvliat, may l be permitted to
ask?” answered the Dobtor, with much
solemni'v. “In what? You see Mr.
Flourdew,” he added, “I in niewise es
chew the i lq.iiry.”
“Nue, then, guile nan,” exclaimed
the old lady, excitingly, “ l hae you
now on the hip-*-that is—excuse the
expressions, .Mr. Josiali; we are plain
folk.”
“ Madam.” answered Mr. Flo'var
dew. “mike no apology. The recol
lections of youth are delightful. I have
many warm remembrances ol ihe kind.
But pray M tdmi, dont let us loose the
advantage of knowing in what manner
of Ino you tianscend the Doctor. Pray
be so condescending.”
“ Nav, kind sir,'•s aid the old lady,
” it's a joke of my own; but, as it is
connected with that very syllabub that
our lass lias set before you, I shall a>k
the Doctor again. Ye that ken the
three wonderful iliings in the world yea.
the tour wonderful tliin.s and strange,
how mak ye the syllabub ?”
“ I ask the lass—”
“ Whist Doctor, gin ye begin that
gate,’’ll interrupted the old lady, “ I
maun be the expounder of the text my
self. So ye see Mr. Flowerdew”—
But, before the secret is disclosed, we
must inform our readers that there is a
certain jug or pipkin of earthen-ware,
used in various culinary and detergent
purposes in Scotland, called a 1 pig,’
and w'hieli from the tenacious kind of
earth, (laam or loam) of which it is com
posed, goes by the distinctive name of a
‘ lame pig,’ ail utensil, of which fifty
years ago to have been ignorant, would
have been a confession of stultification
great as if you thought the R*d Sea was \
rubicond.
*So sir,’ continued Mrs. Al'Crie,
* when 1 want to make a syllabub—its
grand for a cold, or a kittling** in the
throat’—
* M idam!’
1 Yes, its naj doubt of healing virtue,’
observed the Doctor, ‘ medicinal in all
matters, thoracical if I may use the ex
pression ! and, Mr. Flourdew, it has
the advantage of being divertive and jo
cund in the swallow. Sir, 1 hold in ut
lef execration your sennas and glob.trs;
the latter are. of a certv, an abomina
tion before the Loti. 1 once had a
dose thereof—gin 1 live to the age of
Methusalem, the day will be to me like
yestreen ; they tooli a good forty mi 11-
tiles to chow: my inside was curmiir*
ring like (loos in a dooket.ff It was
most special unsavory, Mr. Flourdew.’
* So,’ continued the oh! lady, after
the impatient pause, * I send to the mar
ket, and our Bell brings me a lame pig?’
* But why a lame pig ?’
* W’hv a lame, pig, sir ? w hat why no ?
Sir, naetliing but a lame pig will an
swer the purpose !’
* 1 cry your money ; my good l.uly.’
* So our Ilell brings me a lame pig.—
I aye tell our lass, (she has been wi’ us
thirteen years coine Martimas; she is
the Ott of her grandfather, asthn Doc
tor says, when he is facetious,) to pick
me out a clean ane.’
‘ Very right,’ said Mr. Josiali, ’ But I
am afraid you would have little choice
tu that repect.’
* Ye are wrang Mr. Floweidew,’ said
the Doctor, ‘ they arc aye wcel washed
outside and in.’
‘Oh, Doctor, no joking, this is a se
rious matter.’
‘ Na. there's no joking.’ observed the
old la ly. ‘ They ate well scraped wi’ a
heather ringe §§
■ A what, Madam !’
‘ A riivefu’llH o’heather, wi’ the wli4k
you get even to the most extreme cornea
of the c mcern ’ l
‘ No doubt, Madam, if you aif p r
mtted.’
* Permitted, Mr. Josiah ! and gin I
buy a pig, may I no do what 1 chuse wi’
it ? or wi’ ony ither face of clay for
which I give reedy cuingia lUff Ye
hive, sir, great character in England for
cleanliness; and I am sure that Mrs".
Flowerjcw never has a pig in her aught
•••but she washes it inside and out, as
clean as the driven sna w.’
* Nay, in that,’ slid .Mr. Floweidew,
‘ I can assure you, you are mistaken.—
Befort the pigs reach us—
* Week weel, other folk do it, and
thatisthe same thing. Ho, when Bell
cornea home, 1 says, hand me down the
ran with die virgin honey, and I drap
twa desert spoonfuls into the pig’s
mouth’—
* Into It* mouth Madam
* Ay, to be sure, sir: where would
you have put it ? a pig’s mouth was na
gien to it for naething—or jelly will do
as well. Na. I've tried your large ber
gamot preserved pear; but whitest ft Ihe
pigs nvclt is no that wide to admit of a
pear of size, and its In.liiousjtl squeez
ing it in *
* Nodoirbt, Madam, and dangerous.’
‘ Yev, gin the neck tweak ; but when
ye mell and meddle wi’ pigs, ye maun
mind yedeal # wi’ slippery gear.’—
•Very true, Mndain.’
‘ Week then, my lass carries the pig
to the cow, and there she gently milks 3
pint and half of warm milk in upon the
honey, or jelly, or pear, as it may be.’
‘ Into tjje pig, Madam !*
•Ay, into the mouth n’t. Surely
that’s me kiti!e§§( matter ?’
’ Now, Mada m, as I am an ordinary
sinner, that is .111 operation that would
puzzle all Lancashire Into the mouth!’
* Weel! I'm astonished at you, sir, is
there ony mystery or sorcery %n Bell
handing a pig wi’ the tie hind, and
milking a cow with the titlier •’
* l really, Madam, in my innocence
of heart, thought that the pig might
| have run—’
* Rim o’er ? Na doubt so it wud ; gin
!ye filled it o'er fu. So hame comes the
l pig—'’
* Os itself, Madam ?’
* Sir, dear sir, you speaks is if the
) pi? could walk.’
‘I beg von a thousand pardrns, Ma
| and im, i truly forgot the milk and jelley.
It would be very extraordinary il it
| C Mild.’
‘ Very, Sir. So the lass brings me
1 my lame pig.’
‘All, that’s another reason. Well,
i may I he drawn to a thread if I could
i divine why you preferred a lame pig,’
* Ye need na goiag to Koine 10 learn
(hat: a lame pig is aye fendiest.|||||| So
i begin to steer and steer the milk and
jelly.’
* Steer and steer, Madam !’
‘ Aye, mix a’ weel up thegetlier.’
1 And may I entreat to know w itb what
you stir it ?’
* Wi’ a spoon, to be sure ; ye wadnn
hae me to do it wi’ iny fingers.’
’Goodness forbid, Madam ! I would
use, il ever employed in the manner you
mention, a spoon with a most respecta
bly hmg handle.’
* It’s better ot length, certainly sir.—
Xaeiliing ran escape you then. Week
the next thing we do is, to gently put
the pig afore the fire to simmer.’
‘ To simmer ”
‘ Yes, sir, and there stand or it reeks
again. 1i *1 U But von must not let it get
o'er (let ; it would burn the milk.’
* And the pig too. Madam ?’
‘ Oil l that’s naetliing. We dinna
fash*** ourselves wi’ the pig. What
u ere they made for ?’
* Why. truly, Madam, I thought until
this day. that I knew something of (heir
history, but find I have been wofully ig
norant.’
* We canon reach perfection at nnre,
asonr gndenian says, (who, by the bye,
is, and has been this last half hour, as
sound as a tap.) And so, after the pig
has simmered and simmered, ye in wi’
the spoon again.’
* Again, Madam ?’
‘ Ay, sir; ye wadna hae it all in •
mess at the bottom ?’
* Far from it; Madam, as far as pos
sible.’
‘ So ye niaun gie itanithcr stir or twa,
till it sings.’
‘Sings, Madam? And does the pig
make, no other noise during ill this op
eration ?’
* Scarce any other, gin it’s a good
pig ; But all dependson that. I’ve seen
a lame pig, that afore the heat had
touched it’s side 1 matter of 5 minutes,
would gane off in a crack.’
* I don't wonder at that in the least.
Madam.’*
* You would wonder if your English
pigs had half the value of the Scotch.’
’ Possibly, Madam.’
‘ Ola verity,’ continued Mrs. M’Crie,
‘therewas a played me ance a insist
mischancy trick. Ye see, I expected a
party of our Presbytery to dinner, and I
had sent our Bell out for the maist ca
pacious pig she could grasp ; and I had
poured in the quantum stiff, as the me
cincrs say, of hot milk on the gooseber
ries, (l was making a grosxet posset) and
a’went weel, but when I thought it was
done to a hair, out lap a bet aizle ;• our
Bell (the hizzey !) sprang to the tae
side, the pig gacd the tither—a’ was
ruuined.*
‘And the poor pig—what become of
it.
* Puir, indeed ! it wnxnn worth the
minding; its head was dung m,f and it
gat a sma’ fracture on the side ; but as
it was bonnv in its color, and genty in
its mak, Bell it out in clear wa
ter, then rubbed it up wi’ ,1 duster, and
clapped it on the shelf in the kitchen,
it lies to this blessed day, in peace and
quiet, as I may say. In mv opinion, sir,
tiie pig tiadna been rightly made.’
‘ Nut lightly made, Madam !’
•Not rightly-made, sir. You look
surprised. Think you ony body can
make a pig ?’
* Far from it, Midam.’
‘ It would sarelv sash you and me,
I'm jealonsing,§ Mr. Flowerdew.’
* Admitted, Madam, admitted. But,
my dear Mrs. M’Crie. I have just one
other thing to ask. You have told me,
(here Josiah gave a shudder) ‘how the
milk and honey gets in. Now, Madam,
may I he allowed to ask how you get
this syllabub out ?’
* How we get it out ? Dear Sir, you
surprise me! Just the way we put it in
How would yon get it out ? Suietlicre’s
Via* magic in that!
‘ Nay, M idam, I don’t pretend to ven
ture upon any speculation on the sub
ject. There are many reasons, no
doubt, why the pig would easier let it
out than in ; and I am quite willing to
prefer the mouth. But after it is out,
pray Madam, who rats the syllabub?—
or pray, Madam, do you also eat the
P'K>’
* Ha, ha,! Weel, that's gitde. Sir,
the pig's as hard as stone !’
* M iilain, you are light; 1 had forgot
the frying. Hut as to die milk and jel
j Icy. or the bergamot pear, after the
pig’* for whose intestine* are they tie-
I voted ?*
| ‘Sir?’
‘Pray, Madam, who devours that?’
. pointing with his finger to the horrid
I potion before him.
‘You, Sir, it you will do me that
honour.’
‘Me, Madam! Mo! Good night, Ma
dam. Pray don’t waken the Doctor
I I am particularly engaged. Nay, Ma
i dam, not a morsel ! (i would as soon
hold a barbacued toad, or mouth a cur
ried hedgehog) I do entreat you to keep
it for the next Presbytery. If they re
semble our clergy in the South, they
are more familiar with pigs thao I am.
i • Well, well !* Mr. Flowerdew was
I heard to exclaim as h. in a manner,
! tumbled down in haste, from top to hot
tom of the staiis, *| have often heard
that the Scotch were dirty; hut, by all
l he stripes in a yard of ginghitn, they
are horn barbarians!’
•Mr. Flourdew,’ exclaimed the Doe
tor,awakening, ‘where tire you? Here’s
my wife with the syllaVih. Where are
you. M-. rica-^esik.
‘l'm off!’ answered Mr. Josiah, and
it is said by his friends, that during a
long life ol some seventy years, no per
suasion could induce him ever again to
visit Edinburgh. • The lame pig,’ he
would mutter to himself, ’the jelley
and the milk 1 Heaven save mv from
such a calamity!’
* Taupy , awkward, careless,
t Aumry. housekeeper’s press,
t Curried, crazy, light-headed.
§ Cat by the hour and Jin minutes ;
preach longer than the hour and live
initiates.
|| Demented, deranged.
U That gate, in the way.
** Kittling, tickling,
ft Curmurring, like dnos in a douket,
cooing like pigeons in a pigeon house,
tt U, grandchild. §§ Hinge, syringe.
1111 Sivefu', handful.
1111 Cuinzie, cash. *** Inker aught,
in her possession,
Iff Whiles, sometimes,
it? Fashions, troublesome.
§§§ Kittle, difficult.
HUH Fenditsl, handiest.
IIITII Or it recks again, till it smokes
again.
p a Jh, trouble.
* Het aizle, hot cinder,
f Dung in, driven in.
t Sylined washed.
§ Jfulausing. thinking.
Suit against Charles X.—The Scots
man states that 9 carriages of Charles
X. alias Mr. Capet, have been arrested
in Edinburgh, and are still held in du
rance vile, for a debt of considerable
magnitude, contracted under circum
stances, according to the Scotsman’s
statements, w hich ought to have ensured
its discharge long since. After thedes
tiuctionof the Baslile, in 1793, while
the Bourbon family were flying from
France to Germany, the whole of their
baggage wagons were arrested on
route for debt. Louis XVIII. & Charles
X. were both of the party, and prevailed
upon Count de I’lafl'de I’afafienliollen,
&o. to become seenritjf to their credit
ors. Several years after, the Count
was sued for their debts, and compelled
to pay about £40,009, for which pur
pose he was obliged in 1801, to sell his
estates for half their value.
After the restoration of Louis XVIII
the Count applied to Ills Majesty and
the dauphin for the pay ment, w hich they
agreed to make by instalment, and has
since received in three payments, 150,-
000 francs (6,200) Alter Charles X’s
accession, the Count applied again, and
received ot plenty of promises, but |no
money. When Charles fled to Eng
land, the Count’s claim became a des
perate debt. He did not hesitate to take
legal advice how to proceed for its re
covery. The consequence was the sei
zure of the royal carriages, upon which
a summons was raised and executed, ci
ting King Charles X. alias Charles Ca
pet, to appear before the Lords of
Council and Session, on an early day
in December, £50,000 of the Royal
properly has since been arrested in the
hands of an eminent banker in Edin
burgh.—
The following table is extracted from
the transactions of the Royal Society of
Loudon, and shews the precise propor
tion ol alcohol in different kinds of
wine. Each of these articles is sup
posed to be divided into 100 parts, and
the number opposite each shows the
number of parts of alcohol:
Madeira av’ge 22 Champagne 12
Sherry do 19 Vlll de Grave 13
Teneriffe Hock 12
Lisbon nearly 19 Tokay 94
Malaga 17 Cider 7
Claret average 15 Ale 64
Burgundy do 14} Porter 4}
Sauterne 14 [Small Beer lj
Louis Philippe /. King of the French,
it will be seen, by the following letter
from the Councillor of the State, has
not been insensible to the compliment
paid him by the owners of the Philadel
phia packet in giving her his name.—
The Souvenir referred to is an elegant
Equestrian statue, w hich will remain on
hoard the ship, a memento of tire good
feeling which exists between the two
countries, so nearly united in sentiment
and manner. Capt. Benedict has not
less reason to he proud of the attention
paid him in this instance than the en
terprising owners, The incident will,
no doubt, be a source of pleasure to eve
ry Frenchman and every American,
who peruses the letter.
•Palais lioyale, 2fA Nov. 1330.
* Sin,—The small case of Snuff sent
from Philadelphia by the ship which
you command, has been received by the
King, who orderswne to thank you tor
it in his name; he desires also, that 1
should express to you the satisfaction he
feels In your owner having given the
name of Louis Philippe Ist, to a ship
bearing the American flag.
‘ Messrs. Dela Roche and Arm. Be
lesserte have been requested to hand you
a c.is- containing a Souvenir, which his
Majesty desires may always be kept on
board your ship.
‘Accept, Sir, the assurance of my
most distinguished consideration—The
Counsellor of State, principal Secreta
ry of the Xing’s Cabinet.
(Signed) LH BN. FAIN.
Mr. Ch. .1 ■ Benedict, ('apt. of the ship
Louis Philippe I. dr Philadelphia, and
Havre. * — Southern Pat.
CHEESE.
“| cases GOSIIKN CHEESE re
-M.™” ceived and lor sale, by
HIJNGERFORDS & STODDARD.
Dec. 4. 39
CANDLES.
I4fe 4 jjk l* n x e ” of Mould Can-
manufactured and
for sale bv
ELLIS. SHOTWELL, &Cos.
Dee. 8, IBSO. 4|
Oranges, Cheese, Meal,
AND RICE.
IfPHRLS. St. August ilie sweet
Oranges, largest ever seen in tliu
Market,
12 Goshen Cheese in Boxes lor fam
ily use.
25 Bushels of Corn Meal,
2 Tierce of Carolina Rice,
Just received and for sale at
J- PHILLIPS*
Dry Good and Grocery Store, on Cher
ry-Street.
January 32 40
DOMESTIC.
From the United States Telegraph.
Sih; My attention has been called,
by the kindness of a friend, to a publi
cation in the Georgia Journal, signed
by the Hon. A. S. Clayton, which I
led constrained to notice. The fol
lowing extract from that publication,
contains all that has any relation to me:
“ Messrs. Editors. —While my lie
view ol the Bank Report was publish
ing, I received an anonymous letter from
one of our commercial cities, informing
me, among other things, ‘ that scarcely
a particle of the report on the Bank of
the United States, was penned by Mr.
McDuffie, but pinned by those immedi
ately interested in , or employed ly the
bank,’ and that ‘the following individ
uals can tell who penned that document:
Langdon Oheves, N- Biddle, Mr. In
gersoll, &.c, &c.’ Now, concerning
this matter, [continued Judge Clayton,]
I not only know nothing, but believe
nothing. I give the fact as 1 received
it. If true, it speaks voi.umes. If not
true, the honorable chairman of the
committee, or the gentlemen above
named, should promptly disabuse tlie
public mind as to the alarming suspi
cion which such a circumstance is cal
culated to inspire. For the sake of the
purity of their deliberations, Congress
ought to inquire into it, if there is the
slightest foundation for such a belief.”
It is equally due to myself, and to all
coiicci ned, that I should state explicitly,
that in the whole of Vile foregoing state
ment, of Judge Clayton’s anonymous
correspondent, there is nut a ‘particle’
or shadow of truth* The entire report
of the Committee of Ways and Means,
to which refeience is made, was compos
ed and written by the chairman of that
committee, and of course, not a single
sentence of it was * penned’ by nay other
human being. If the reference made
to Mr. Cheves. Mr. Biddle, and Mr.
Ingcrsoll, was designed to convey the
idea that these gentlemen, or either of
them, 4 penned’ any part of the report
in question, they ‘can tell’ Judge Clay
ton, that his correspondent is a random
and reckless calumniator.
I am not disposed to complain of the
course pursued by Judge Clayton, be
cause I do not ascribe it to an unfriend
ly, and much less to a malicious motive.
I cannot but remark, however, that he
has permitted himself to he drawn, bv
an artful and insidious libeller, into a
situation of extreme awkwardness, at
least, involving all the legal responsibili
ty, without any of the moral guilt, of
publishing a false and malicious libel.
That this is a base and infamous libel,
the Judge will now doubtless perceive
and admit. It is apparent also, that he
is the sole publisher, however inoffen
sive his intention ; and he lias been too
long at the bar and on the bench, not to
know, that his legal responsibility for
this publication cannot be evaded*hy
stating that he received the information
from an anonymous correspondent, and
neither believes nor disbelieves it. Ido
not make these remarks for the vain and
idle purpose of reading 10 the Judge a
lecture upon the law of libel; but to
admonish him of the extreme impru
dence, of publishing a grave charge a
gainst a Committee of the House of
Representatives, deeply affecting, in his
own opinion, the purity of the National
Legislature, on an irresponsible authori
ty, stamped with suspicion upon the ve
ry face of it.
II this charge had been published by
an anonymous writter, I should have
had too much self-respect to notice it;
hut coining hefoiethe public from so
respectable a source, even with a very
equivocal endorsement, I have felt that
I must either give countenance, by my
silence, to a false and disparaging impu
tation, or adopt the suggestion of the
Judge, and “disabuse the public mind as
to the alarming suspicion,’ which his
own publication has been the sole and
exclusive means of producing.
geo. McDuffie.
From Paulson's Philadelphia Advertiser.
To the Senate and House of Represen
tatives of the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania, in General Assembly
met, the Memorial of the subscribers,
citizens of the said State,
Repectfully represents, —
That your memorialists would not
have approached you on the present oc
casion but from a deep sense of the im
portance of hearing their solemn testi
mony against a system of measures,
which in their opinion threaten the most
cruel wrong ever attempted to he inflict
ed by the powerful upon the feeMe, by
an enlightened Christian government,
against a comparatively ignorant, con
fiding and heathen people, who are in
nocent of any injury toward those who
in this manner meditate evil toward
them.
You memorialists do not hesitate thus
to deserrbe the conduct of the State of
(iem gia, a ml die act of Congress, w hicli
coinbineto violate the faith and honor of
the United States, pledged in several
treaties made with the Cherokee In
dians, not only in the infancy of our
national existence, hut at subsequent
periods of our history. The undeniable
facts upon which these assertions icst,
are familiar to ever y citizen of our com
mon country, whohns had access to the
ordinary soutces of public information,
redering it unnecessary now to repeat
them, or to consume your time by argu
ments to increase the conviction that the
success of the effort to remove those ab
original people can yield only the most
perniciaus consequences to them, and
will forever tarnish the character of this
Republic for integrity and justice.
With these impression* your memo
rialists conceive it to he a duty to pro
mote the use of all lawful means for ar
resting the progress of such formidable
wrong, and consequently to defeat the
schemes of iniquity, which will assuredly
flow from its consummation.
They therefore most earnestly solicit
your immediate interposition, by the
passage of resolutions which shall in
struct the Senators and request the Rep
resentatives front this State in the Con
cress of the U liter! States, to employ
their utmost exertions to accomplish
the repeal ofthelawof the last session,
which empowered the President to re
move the ('herokee nation tv) some re
gion beyond the Mississippi,
In conclusion your memorialists can
not forbear calling to mind the history
of'.lie magnanimity of the uativc Sove
reigns of this soil, towards their defence
less fore-fathers, the mutual kindnesses,
justice and good faith which subsisted
between those Indians and the tounders
and first settlers of Pennsylvania, who
sought refuge here from the persecutions
and miseries heaped upon them in Eu
rope. They find in those precious and
grateful recollections, high motives for
imploring the dispensation of mercy,
and right, to the last remnant of that no
ble and generous race of men, wherever
scattered on this continent. And they
believe if the influential commonwealth
which you represent shall with a moral
courage worthy of such acauseand crisis,
utter her voice in behalf of those, whom
avarice and injustice have appointed for
destruction, it will prove availing to pro
tect, and to save them.
The following is the answer of the
President to an invitation from the city
of Charleston.
Wasiii.voton City, Dec. 4.
“Sir — l have received, through
Col. Drayton, your polite note of the
10th inst. written agreeably to a Iff
lution of the City Council of Charles
ton, by which 1 am invited to visit that
city when it may be most convenient to
me.
“For this evidence of the kind re
gard of those who represent the wishes
of Charleston, I pray you to make ac
ceptable this return of nay sincere titan Its.
Although it will be most gratifying to
my feelings to avail myself of so favor
able an opportunity to visit the empo
rium of my native State, I tint vet pre
vented by my official engagements, from
designating tile period wheu lean seize
it.
“ \\ ith the most anxious solicitude
for-the prosperity and happiness of the
citizens of Charleston. I beg you, Sir,
to be assured of the high respect I en
tertain lor that portion of their authori
ty entrusted to the City Council, and
also ol tlie sentiments of personal re
gard which are due to the politeness
you have manifested on this occasion.
” Your most obedient servant,
“ ANDREW J ACKSON.
“ J- R. Pringle, Esq.
Intendant of the city of Charleston.”
From the Correspondent of the Charles
ton Courier.
Washington, Jan. 12
“We have been expecting that the
present week would produce some warm
discussions in Congress; but as yet, no
thing has been done to excite warm feel
ings, or warm words.
A subject of w arm discussion, is the
contemplated Report of the Judiciary
Committee, in the form of a bill, to lim
it the power of the Supreme Cotnt.—
There are strong feelings among mem
bers of both Houses in consequence of
the recent acts of the State of Georgia,
and they will find a vent on the very
first occasion which may offer itself.—
The Indian subject, too, is destined to
introduce discord into the Legislature
of the Union. There are Representa
tives from various tribes either in the
city, or approaching it—all charged
with complaints, and all rendered des
perate at the prospect of being ejected
from their lands and dwellings. It is
thought to be the desire of the War De
partment. to throw every impediment
in the way of the Cherokees, in their
attempt to bring their case before the
Supreme Court.
Since the Cherokee delegation arri
ved here, they applied to the War Of
fice for the annuity, in order to enable
them to meet the engagements made by
the nation with the Counsel employed to
bring their case before the Supreme
Court; but have not been successful in
their applicant ns.
It is expected that the trial of Judge
Peck may occupy another week.”
The trial of Judge Peck was suspend
ed on the 1 Stli, in consequence of the in
disposition of Mr. Wirt, the leading
counsel of the respondent. The exami
nation of the witnesses is completed, the
argument it was anticipated would con
sume a week. It will be seen that the
claims of Mr. Munroe have been reject
ed.
Washington City, Jan. 14.
In the Senate yesterday Mr. Benton
submitted a resolution, directing the
Secretary of the Treasury to report to
the Senate, at the commencement of
the next session of Congress, the annu
al amount, in quantity and value, of the
importations and exportations of sundry
articles of drugs, medicines and dye
stuffs, with the gross amount of revenue
accruing upon the importation of each
article, and the licit revenue received
into the Treasury, and to give his opin
ion as to the time at which the duties
upon ihe same may be abolished, with
out affecting t!|e payment of (he public
debt; and to state whether any of tin
said articles are of the grow th or pro
duce of the United States, and, also to
what amount compared to the wants
and consumption of the Union. A
short debate took place on the hill mak
ing an appropriation to pay an annuity
of g B,OOO to the Seneca tribe of Indians,
in which Messrs. Forsyth, Dudley,
Smith, of Mil. and Sanford, participat
ed. The bill was finally laid on the ta
ble.
In the House of Representatives.—
Mr. Buchanan gave notice that hr should
this day call up the bill for the relief of
I insolvent debtors. The further consul
| oration of the resolution of Mr. Haynes,
i for the reduction of the duty on brown
j sugar, was deferred until Monday the
24th of January. After some hills of
minor importance had been disposed of,
the House took up the consideration of
the general appropriation hill. A long,
protracted and animated debate ensued
on the motion of Mr. Stanberry, on the
preceding day, to rvpunge from the lull
the appropriation off 9,000. for the sala
ry of the Minister to the Court of Rus
sia, Messrs. Carson, Archer, J. S. Bar
bout, Wayne, Cambrelenf, and Coke,
opposed the proposition; and Messrs.
Stanberry, Mallnry. and Burges, sup
ported it. On motion of Mr. Chilton,
who has possession of the floor on this
question, the House adjourned.
‘January 15.
rite House w ent into a Committee of
the w hole, Mr. Findley in the chair, and
took up the bill respecting the claims of
ex-President Moure. It was debated
by Messrs, SpUncer. of N. York. Coke,
•I‘fie, Burge*, and Mftrcr When Mr
Mercer concluded, at half past 4 o'Jed
the question was put on Mr. Chiltort’s
motion to strike out the enacting clause,
ol the hill, and it was decided in the af
firmative, ayes 78, noes 67.
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The Legislative Council of Florida
assembled sit Tallahassee on the 4lh
itist. (Jov. Duval, in his communica
tion to them says;—“ The success of
our Planters will bring a flood of popu
lation into every section of our Territo
ry. Although the most skeptical in
former years, could not deny that the
samples of sugar manufactured in Flo
rida, were equal in colour and brillian
cy of granulation, to the general crop
of Louisiana, the profitable manufac
ture of sugar, on an extended sr.t'c, wjs
considered problematical. The enter
prise of our planters has dissipated ev
ery doubt—Extensive works have been
erected, whieft for beauty and solidity
of construction, equal the best establish
ments in the Southern country. The
results of the past season hate demon
strated the equality of out lands with
those of Louisiana, both in regard to the
qu lity and quantity of the r,ar man-
ufactUfed. With t'nese advantages an a
profitable as may be the culture of ‘th*
Cane—the culture of Sea Island C ot
ton, and Cuba Tobacco, have been con.
fulently maintained, by some of o iir
most intelligent planters, to yield ’
greater profit. It is evident from the
abundant crops, and the increasing
length and glossiness of fibre, clearly
distinguishable in each succeeding y ea j
that our climate and soil are particular
ly adapted to the growing of the y fca
Island—as well as every other descriu.
lion of cotton : but this fact will excite
no surprise when w e recollect that this
plant is indigenous to the Islands : , ni j
shores of the Gulf o| Mexico, and was
manufactured bv the Aborigines j ulo
clothing and defensive armour.
\\ lien the quality of our Cotton and
Tobacco becomes known in the home
and foreign markets, they will be pro.
perly appieciated, ami not requiring a
fixed capital, as iu the
sugar, they will eventually yield a rich
return, not only to the opulent planter
but also to the industrious yeomanry ol
Florida—Various aod profitable as are
these sources of independence, kind
Providence with bountiful hand has
poured out other blessings on this fa
voured land. We can number not only
the rich productions of Indigo and Silk
but this is, also, the country of the
Almond, the Olive, the Fig and the
Vine. The Orange, the Pine Apple
and the Banana, which have hitherto
been considered as appertaining almost
exclusively to the Indies, have been
cultivated successfully in Die vicinity of
.Tallahassee. Blest with so tnanv sour
ces Irom which ws may derive pleasure
and profit, it depends upon ourselves
alone, by a wise comse of legislation,
to perpetuate to our posterity, the full
enjoy merits of these choice gilts of
heaven.”
COMMUNICATION.
; Krismust Desembur the twenty 5,
1 thousand la himdrul an 30.
Dier Mt/slur Prmlurs,
Its liotrg kilim an Krismust times
hear, an I doant keer ipli all thee kovrs
was ded. Bi tha Lawd Harry thins a
Massvsippy sorter hear cleen plirum
“oal Kentuck,” pedlin live hakim, an
bee sez lice goze thee “ hoal hogg”
phur llenta Ivla an infnrnal improve
ment—butt az wee ar oil for > al Ilickra,
auntu taiipli, an without muima, we
have inkluded to prefur bring (well a
moar coinniogeous conveuviiiiec prea
zents itsselph. I spose as hou yuve
beerd hou mi bruther Jo ov thee bigg
Norrod kum out offrinfura kandydate;
hi thee Lawd Hurra iliats thee iva wyth
wee Stricklands, wee olwaise wur a
ramsnoshus try be. Ambislius a/. Seazor
wee wur olivaise expiiin to this hi sta
shjin an too tliatt, an kickin up a hel
ova “ rumpus and a ryotting.”—This
is whot emus ov givin loax hi larnin, an
cranmiin tliur pcrrykrannyiuns wyth
Boanypart and EJickzauder. Now
Mvster I’remtirs eye rite yew iheas phu
lyues tu sho yew as hou i no a leelle ov
Eddykashun niiselt—As phur voar out
landish gibridge, sitcli as Creak an lE—
bru, an Alatliy niattux and sitcli like üb
stropalosities, I never bothurd mi branes
wyth uni, butt putt mec upon year plane,
ole Dilworth, an yewl line mee at boani.
I sea Mystur Pienlur yew cant git a
clew to whot I'm arter twell i cum out
phlat-lootid. Wei then too bee onest,
I want to git too bee Trustea to the
\ewny varsity—its sitcli I'yne plum tti
lieer thee boise tawk Spanish and lu
jurn, and dispewt about conunicle sek
shunj an tangunts an siteh like anty
spusmodix. I liadd a slym noshun like
mi Irwyternal bruther Joe ov the “ bigg
Norrod” ov liinnniin out “Bawlaginst
the feald” (ur Guvvener, but as Gilmoar
is uuuty-tai iph, mi frenuds toal me it
wus a pitty to beet so f\ ne a plieller and
so i inclyned. hike oil theeiest ov thee
bigg fysh ov the Nashua, I hadd to goe
too thee sect ov gincrnient to sea mu
ma.k lauze, but darn li e iph i hood sea
furder intu the lorniakin biznis than a
blynddogg can sea intu a milstoan.—
I spose as lion the w a tha doo iz to
quorrel all da abowt tliur lau/.e an go
doun to the Guvverment wheal and lor
■nannyfactory at nite too gilt, tlmr liills
past. ] went i.ito the I.ous uhur tha
keep tliur guvverment wheal, to sea inn
curry the lauze thru—an hi the Lawd
Harry tha kum wyth a yetk—the guv
verment wheal wood turn won a, an
thee bawl, | spose tha caw I it the. bawl
ov the Revvyliisliun, wood turn nnnutli
er. \\ mi feller 1 spose liewaz a mem
bnr ov the Lcdgislator, nxed me iph i’
didd not wont to no sumthin about nia
kin lauze, ail seal iph i did i must put
down mutiny, anil so kordiuly I down’d
wyth a dollar an “no suner down than
skinud”—the Giivvcrner or Sccrytary
ov State, or wliHtsminver lie wus that
turned the wheal ov Guvverment, cum
down iipiin it wyth his tatiir grabbers,
like a duck tipiin a June bugg, an I was
oph in a tangunt. As i jumpt owl ov
the doag, wuii feller bulled out, an sed I
wood make a good member of the Gin
rnll Assembly, I gott mi Hill past so
slik—l spose Dials ilicc wa tha git muti
ny into the Treasure too pa oph the
momburi. I umlerstau sent* I cum
aw a as how tha liar past a lor to let the
Cherokee land lie wlmr it is. The gra
test kewrvossity I put my opty'cal or
gan iz at ions upon w lieu I w us in Mi Hedge
wuz a grate bigg tiling the (email ladys
(Gad bless ttm) woar on thtir Itmi*
kaw Id llarnstablei, ah Barnstables tlta
wur too bj the Jtiinpin Jingoes ilia wood
hoal corn nnuph too fend a drove ov
mules from Oal Kentuck—l spose as
lion you liav liccrtl hou ilia Imv gott
nu preechcrs in oal luglunt, an tnrml
oph passou Wdlinlon an Peal | Now hi
iheo Lawd ILirra, iph Dekon Amariah
Bigelow that inairid ant Nnbby Malm
as wnz, wits thar, lice knod preach *
blew luiicral fur them—an doo it lor hall
the munnu. Now mistor prentur doant
I'ale “to go the hoal liogg’ forme <
bee Trustea to Die Yrwuvvarsetny— an
I m i] rrmane yoars twell tliee koute knm
hoanie and forever arter.
NI.I) STRICKLAND.
TO REMTT.
MTIIF. HTORE-HfU-SE
recently occupied by A. S'-
Bennet t. & Cos. on the Last
side of the Ocmulgee riser.
For terms, apply to
U.F.X.
Maeort, January 15, HSI-