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The months rolled on, nml cold Dect-mlior
catm* \> iili nil im cheering round of kindly
greetings mid merry hoH|iitnlilie8 ; mid with it
cnme n softened recollection of tl*o fate of poor
I'orteseiie ; eleven of the twelve assembled on
the Inst day of tlie year, and it was impossible
not m feel their loss ns they sal down to dinner.
The very irregularity of the table, five on one
»ule, and only four on tho other, forced the
melancholy event upon their memory.
Tliero are few sorrows so stuliliorn as to re
sist tho united influence of wine, a cirele of so
up the hours that wens wout to be devoted to
drinking, singing, nml riotous merriment. The
rubbers, u e.up of roflee, and at home hy 11
o’clock, wna (he usunl cry, when the filth or
sixth glass had gone around alter the removal
of the cloth. At parting, too, tliero was now a
Iring ceremony in the hall, buttoning up great
routs, tying on woollen comforters, fixing silk
handkerchiefs over tho mouth nml tin to the
enrs, and grasping sturdy walking canes to sup
port unsteady feet.
Their fiftieth anniversary cnme, & death had
indeed been busy. One hnd been killed by the
overturning of the mail, in which he had taken
leci friends and a season of prescriptive gaiety „
liven thoso pinching troubles of life, w hich his place in order to ho present at the dinner,
, ome borne to a man’s ow n bosom, will light up | having purchased an estate in Monmouthshire,
smile, in such moments, at tho beatnin
countenances and jocund looks of nil the rest
of the world j while your mere sympathetic or
.sentimental distress, gives w ny, like the inennso-
lahlo affliction of a widow of twenty, closely be
sieged by a lover of thirty.
A decorous sigh or two, a few becoming
ejaculations, and mi instructive observation
>ipon the uncertainty of life, made up the sum
oi lender posthumous oflereings, to the manual
‘poor George Forte-cue,’ ns they proceeded to
discharge,the more important duties fur which
they had met. My the time the third glass of
champagne had gone round, in addition to pot
Minns of title old hock, nml ‘capital madeirn,’
ihey bad censed to discover any thing so very
pathetic in the inequality of tho two sides of the
table, or so melancholy in their crippled num
ber of eleven.
The rest of the evening passed oil to their
hearts content. Conversation was briskly kept
up amid the usual fire of pun. repartee, anec
dotes, politics, toasts, healths, jukes, broad
laughter, erudite disquisitions upon the vintage
of the wines they were drinking, and an occa
sional song. Towards twelve o’clock, when it
might tie observed that they emptied tlieirglas-
scs with less symptoms of pnlaling the quality
of what they quailed, and filled them again,
with less anxiety oa to which bottle or decan
ter thev laid hold of, they gradually waxed mo
ral ami tender ; sensibility began to ooze out ;
1 poor George Fortescue !’ wiib once more re
mombered ; those who could count, sighed to
ilfink there were only II of them; nml those
who could see, felt tins tears come in their eyes,
as they dimly noted the inequality of thn two
sides of the table. They all agreed, ut parting,
however, that they hud never passed such a
happy day, congratulated each other upon bu
ying instituted so delightful a meeting, and pro
mised to he punctual to their appointments the
ensuing evening, when thny were to celebrate
the new year, whoseenirance they had welcom
oil in bumpers of claret, as the watchman bawled
* past twelve !’ beneath the window
They met accordingly; nml their gaiety was
without ntty alloy or drawback. It was only
thc^rst time of their assembling, after the death
of • poor George Fortescue,’ that made the
recollection of it pain till ; for, though hut
lew hours hnd intervened, they now took their
<a:uls ut the table, us if eleven hud been their
original number, uiid us if nil were there that
had been ever expected to ho there.
It is thus in every thing. The first litno a
man cnlors a prison—thr/rsl hook any uiithor
writes the first painting an artist executes
til efirsl ha'tie a general wins nay, th afrit lime
u rogue is bunged,(for u rotten rope may provide
n second performance, even of that ceremony,
with all its singleness of character,) differ in
conceivably from lho_/fisf repetition. There is
a charm, a spell, a novelty, n freshness, a de
light, inseparable from the first experience,
(hanging always excepted l-i it remembered,)
which no art or circumstance can impnrt to the
sfrom/. Atnl it is tho same in nil tiie darker
traits of life. Tliero is a degree of poignancy
A. anguish intlic/irdf assaults of sorrow, which
is never found afterward. As tho weeping
widow, who, ‘like .Viobe, ull tears,’ follows
her fifth husband to the grave, and she will tell
you that lUvfrst limn elm performed that mel
ancholy ntlice, it was with nt least five times
more lainontuiious than she last discharged it.
In every case, it is simply that the first tine
edge of our findings hue been taken off, mid that
it can never he restored.
Several years had elapsed, und our eleven
friends kept up their double anniversaries, as
they might aptly onougli bo called, with scarce
ly nuy perceptible change. But, nlns! there
cnme ono dinner at Inst, which was darkened
by a calamity they never expected to witness,
fbr on that very day, their friend, companion,
brother almost, was hanged! Yes! Stephen
Howland, tho wit, the oracle, tho life of their
circle, hnd, on the morning of that day, forfeit-
led his life upon u public scaffold, lor having
made ono single stroko ofhis pen in a wrong
place. In other words, a hill of exchange
which passed into his hand for passed
ont of It for .C1700 ; lie having drawn the im
portant littlo prefix to the hundreds, and the
bill being paid ut the banker's without examin
ing the words of it. The forgery was discovered,
brought home to Rowland, and though ilm
greatest interest was used to obtain a remission
of llw fntal penalty, (the particular female fa
vorite uf tho prime minister himself interfering)
poor Stephen Rowland was hanged. 13very
body pitied him ; mid nobody could tell why
bo did it. lie was not poor; lie whs not a gam
bler, bo was not n speculator ; but phrenology
KMtlod it. The organ of acquisitiveness was dis
covered in his head, after Ins execution, as large
(is a pigeon’s egg. lie could not help it.
It would he Injustice to the ten to say, llint
even w ine friendship, nml a merry season, could
dispel the gloom which pervaded this dinner.
It was agreed beforehand, that they should not
-allude to the distressing and melancholy theme ;
and having thus interdicted the only thing
which really occupied ail their thoughts, the nut
oral consomieneo was, that silent cnuiempla
lion took the place of dismal discourse ; and
’ihey separated long before midnight. An embar
rassing restraint, indeed, pervaded the little
conversation which grew up at intervals. The
champagne was not in good order, hut no one
liked to complain of its being ropy■ A beauii
1’ul painting of Vandyke which was in the room,
became n topic of discussion, lliey who thought
it wus hung in a hud place, shrunk from saying
so ; and not ouo ventured to speak of the eve
ration of that great muster. Their host was
having the Iront ofhis liouso repaired, amt at
any other time he would have cautioned them,
when they went awuy, as tho night wna dark,
to lake care of the scaffold. but no, they might
Lave stumbled right und left before he would
have pronounced that word, nr ml I them nut to
break their necks. One, in particular, even ah
stained from using this customary phrase, 'this
is n drop of good wine mid another forbore to
congratulate the friend who sat next him, and
who had married since lie last saw him, because
he was accustomed or. such occasions to em
ploy figurative language, and talk of tho holy
noose of w edlock.
Some fifteen years find now glided away
since the fate uf poor Ituwlnod, nod the ten re
mained ;hut the stealing bund oftime had writ
ten sundry changes in most legible characters
Haven locks had become grizzled—two or three
heads had not us mn'.y locks altogether as mav
be reckoned in a walk of half a mile along the
U ogam's t anal—one was actually covered
with a brown wig—the crow’s feet were visi
ble in the corner ol the eye—good old port and
warm mudeira carried it against hock, claret,
red burgundy, and champagne-stews, hashes,
ragouts, grew into favour—crusts were lure-
Iv culled for to relish the cheese after dinner
conversation was less boisterous, and it turned
chiefly on politics and the state oftho funds, or
rhe value of lauded property—apologies w ere
made for (mining in thick shoes &. warm stock-
dig*—the doors A. windows were more careful
ly provided with list Sc sand hags—the fire more
in rMttHbvgnd the quiet game of whist fillod I
N. Y.
and retired thither with his fumily. Another
hnd undergone thn terrific operation for the
stone, arid expired beneath the knife—n third
hnd yielded tip a broken spirit two years after
the loss ofnn only surviving and beloved daugh
ter, a fourth was carried off in n few days by n
cholera morbus- a fifth hnd breathed his last the
very morning he obtained a judgment in his lit
vour hy the Lord Chancellor, which hud cost
him his last shilling nearly to get, and which,
after a litigation of eighteen years, declared him
the rightful possessor of ten thousand n year,—
ten minutes after he was no morn. A sixth hud
polished hy the hand of n midnight assassin,
who broke into hits house for plunder, am! sac
rificed the owner of it, ns he grasped convul
sively a bundle of Exchequer hills which the
robber was drawing from beneath bis pillow,
where lie knew they were every night placed
for better security.
Four little old men, of withered appearance
and decrepit w alk, with cracked voice, and dim,
raylcss eyes, sat down, hy the mercy of Heaven
(ns they themselves tromuluusly declared,) to
celebrate, for the fiftieth time, the first day of
the year ; to observe the frolic compact, which,
half n century before, they had entered into nt
the Star and Garter nt Richmond. Eight were
in their graves ! The four that remained stood
upon its confines. Yet they chirped cheerily
over their glass, though they could scarcely
carry it to their lips, if more than half full, and
cracked their jokes, though they articulated
their words with difficulty, and heard each
other with still greater difficulty. They mum
bled, they chattered, they laughed (if a sort of
strangled wheezing might ho called n laugk)
and when the wines sent their icy blood in war
mer pulse through their veins, they talked of
their past as if it were hut a yesterday that had
■lipped by them, and of their future, us if it
were a busy century that lay before them.
They were just the number for a quiet rubber
nfwlnst; and fur three successive years they
sat down to one. The fourth cnino, and then
their rubber wna ployed with an open dummy ;
n fifth, nnd whist was no longer practicable ;
tiro could play only at cribbngc, and cribbnge
was the game, lint it was little more than
the mockery of play. Their palsied hands could
hardly hold, or their failing sights distinguish,
tho cards, while their torpid faculties made
them doze between each deal.
At length entno the last dinner; mid the
survivor of the twelve, upon whoso head four
■core and ten winters hud showered their snow,
ate his solitary nteal. It so chanced that it
was in his house, and ut his table they hud cele
brated the first. In his cellar, too, had re
muinod for eight and fifty years, the bottle they
hnd then uncorked, re corked, nnd which he
was that day to uncork again. It stood beside
him. With n fuelile atnl reluctant grasp ho
took the ‘ frail memorial’ of a youthful vow ;
and for n moment, memory was fuitliful to her
office. She threw open the long vista of buri
od years ; nml his heart travelled through them
all; their lusty and blithesome spring,—tlioir
bright nod fen id summer,- their ripe and tem
perate autumn,—their chill, but not too frozen
winter, lie snw, ns in a mirror, how one by
one, tho laughing companion* of that merry
hour, nt Richmond, bail dropped into eternity,
lie felt ull (he loneliness ofhis condition, (for
lie hail eschewert mnrrlngs, and in thn veins of
no living creature rail a drop of blood whoso
source was in his own ;) and us ho drained the
glass wliicli lie had filled, 1 to the memory of
those who were gone,’ the tears slowly trick
led down tho deep furrows ofhis aged fare.
lie had thus fulfilled one part of his vow, and
ho prepared himself to discharge tho other, hy
sitting thn usual number uf hours at his desolate
table. With u heavy heart ho resigned himself
to the gloom of his own thoughts—a lethargic
sleep stole over him—liis head fell upon Ins
bosom — confused images crowded into his mind
—lie babbled to himself— wna silent—nml when
his servant entered the room, alarmed hy a
noise which lie heard, lie found Ills master
stretched upon the carpet at thu foot of the eusy
chair, out of which lie had slipped in un ivpo-
pletic fit. lie never spoke again, or once open
ed his eyes, though thu vital spark was not ex
tinct till thu following day. And this was the
I. AST DlMNfctl. M.
Joua.NAi. or Commerce Ultra. I
Friday, 2 o’clock, P. M- (
LATEST FROM ENGLAND-Important
The Willimn Byrnes, which sailed from 1.'-
erpool Hth March, is below, nnd although our | Canal
papers are not yet up. we have hntrthc good
fortune to come into possession of (he London
Courier of the (hit, which contains the outlines
of the
1‘lan for Catholic Emancipation,— It was in
troduced in the House of Comindn* on the 5th,
hy the Right lion. Secretary Peel, one ofhis
Majesty's Ministers, who accompanied it with
a brilliant speech, which occupies more than
thirteen columns in the London Courier. Tiie
follow iug nrn the outlines of the plan :
1. Its basis is ilia removal from the Rotnnit
Catholics of civil disabilities,'and the equaliza
tion of political rights.
2. Roman Catholics are to be admitted into
both Houses of Parliament.
There are to lie no restrictions as to mini
hers.
Catholics becoming members of either House
arc to take nnoHlh, n. support and defend the
succession ofthe Crown ; abjuring the t.enti
nient that Princes axeomtnunicateil by the I
tul murdered bv tlicit !
iug works that were desirable, but not of so ur
gent a nature ; and the third referring io un
dertakingskcpt back till a mure distant period,
nod made contingent on the spread of civiliza
tion,'lie wants nml exigencies of the country.
—A «utn of £!MJ0,000 would have been required
to contple the whole of the undertakings con
templated, exclusive of £600,000 for the Kidaol
For £1,500,000 we should he able to
place our colonies in such n stale of defence as
might he considered complete; but he stated
that no more than £330,000 would ho usked
from the house. The Ridaut Canal would
most undoubtedly answer every object und in
tention which government had in view when it
w«< first eouteinplnteil ; and, according to the
latest reports ofthe surveyors, there was no
season of the yenr except when thn waters
should tin frozen in which it would not ntford
n perfect water communication- With respect
to the Kingston and Halifax, it was ofthe ut
most importance whether or not other works
were to lie carried on ut Montreal, Islc-au Noix,
See. nnd that the undertakings noivin progress
should he rornpleted.
“ Mr. A Baring thought the Rideau Canal not
a useless waste, Imt an extravagant application
of the public money. It was nn improvement
certainly, but one which, though we might
make it. here was little doubt would fall into
the hau l of others.”
Pope, may lie deposed . .
subjects; denying tho rigb' ofthe Pope to any j LATEST FROM ENGLAND
Civil jurisdiction in thn Britivh Kingdom dd-i y cw York, April'M. The packet ship Will-
claiimng, disavowing, and solemnly abjuring. j;(m Thompson, Capt. Maxwell, arrived this
any intention to subvert the preseM Church | in(l . nilIJf from liverpnnl. By this nrrival we
Establishment as settled hy law, &
3. Roman Catholics are to lie incapable of
holding the office of Lord Chancellor, or of
Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.
4. They may hold all Corporate Offices
may lie sheriffs and Judges.
5. But they are not lo hold places belonging
to the Established Church ; the Ecclesiastical
Courts, or Ecclesiastical foundations, nor liny
office in the Universities, the Colleges of Eton,
have . ' reived our files of Loudon papers to
the 1(5 h o'Mnreh, and Liverpool ofthe 17th.
Catholic Claims —Qualification of Electors.
Hoi’sc or Commons, London, 10th March.
Mr. Peel appeared at the bur, witli the two
bills for which Ini've was given on Monday ;
one for the relief oF fbe Roman Catholics, ami
thn other for the regm 'lion of the qualifications
j for the electors in Irnlai. '!•
The first hill was brougiV »|>. and, when the
Winchester, and Westminster; nor a t> School s k(ir Bnnol|llcwI i, H .ith,This is a bill
of Ecclesiastical Inundation. The laws rcla fiir the reliof of bis Majesty’s Rot*»n Catholic
t.ve to Roman Catholic right to presentations, subjects,” the atmnuneemeut was revived with
arc to be retained. In cuaes where any Homan
Catholic ahull hold an office with which Church
patronage is connected, the Crown is to have
the power ofIranafering the patronage. No
Homan Catholic to hold any office to advise
the Crown in the appointment of Offices con
nected with the Established Church of England
nnd Ireland.
(». The existing IVnuI Laws affecting Homan
Catholics are to be repented.
7. Roman Catholics are to he put, with res
pect to property, on a footing with Dissenters.
ti. Catholic Members of Parliament are not
to be obliged to quit the House upon any par
ticnlar question. (Mr. Wilmot Horton’s suit
gestion upon this subject is held to be objection
able.)
f). There is to bo no Declaration required
against Tnmsn list initiation
10. Upon the subject of Kcclesiuatienl Secu
rities, the Roman Cutliolics are to be placed on
the footing of all other Dissenters.
11. There is not to he any Veto ; nor is there
to be any interference with the intercourse in
Spiritual matter** between the Roman Catholic
Church and the See of Home.
12. The Episcopal titles and names, now in
use in the Church of England, are riot to he ns
sinned by the members of the Roman Catholic
Church.
13. When Roman Catholics arc admitted to
corporate and other offices, the insignia of such
offices are in no case to he taken to anv other
place of worship than the Established Church.
No robes of office are to be worn in any other
than the Established Church.
14. The Jesuits nnd Monastic Communities
—The Names and Numbers of the individuals
belonging to tho existing Communities are to
be rogistcrod---Cumiminities bound by religious
or monastic vows are not to bo extended, and
provision is to be made against the future en
trance into tliis country ofthe order of Jesuits
—Tho Jesuits now are to he registered.
I.i. Elective franchise—Forty Shilling Free
holders. The Elective franchise is proposed
to he raised from Forty Shillings to Ten
Rounds.
Freeholds are to be registered, and the regis
try is to ho taken before the Assistant-Barrister
ol the Irish counties, with power ofnn appeal
in certain cases from his decision to a higher
tribunal.
The House adjourned nt a quarter to one
o’clock on Friday morning : ami yet so inten
se was the interest excited, that, mingled with
the calls for adjournment, was hoard “ (io on,
goon.” At 1 o’clock on Friday afternoon tho
House again met, nnd after a great number of
petitions hnd been presented for atnl against
thn emancipation ofthe Catholics, Mr- Agar
Ellis moved “the Order of the Day, for the re
sumption ofthe adjourned debate of last night,”
which was carried— Ayes ‘JO5, Noes 75 ; ma
jority I HO. A long debate ensued, in which
Mr. (.. Grant, Mr. Brougham, Mr. lltntkisson,
Mr. Reel, nnd others look part. Mr. Grant
said, it was a great day for England —a
great day for Ireland —a great day for In- Right
Hon. Friend (Mr. Secretary Reel) -n great day
for freedom and common sense throughout the
world —when a British .Minister proposed to a
British House of Commons concession to the
Catholics of Ireland.
The Decision — At a very late hour, the Gal
lery was cleared for a division. The Ayes
went into the lobby.
Mr. Reel then addressed them, bro lly uli«nrv
mg, that it was bis intention to move the Retm-
lutions in Committee, und requesting, there
fore, they would not separate. The intimation
was received with loud Cheers. The numbers
were ns follow :—
For Mr. Reel’s Resolutions 348
Against them H>0
Majority in favour of Ministers 188
Thu House having resolved itself into u Com
mil tee of the whole llmise, in conformity with
the decision above mimed, the Resolutions
were moved and agiee.i to, nnd the Report or
(lured to be received on Monday. The House
at three o’clock on Saturday morning adjourn
ml.
[These particulars m e from the Third Edi
tion of the Courier, dated Saturday morning
(March 7th) at l o’clock.
In the debate in tho House of Commons on
the 21st ult Mr. B .ring made an inquiry as to the
amount of expenditure which would prolmhlv
be incurred for public works and fortifications
in Canada, and how far their construction had
advanced. The estimates were £o7,3B8 for
Canada, and lor Nova Scotia, which he
considered email, when compand with tin
probable ultimate expen
loud cheers. The hill was then rcn.'l a first
time.
The Speaker, in announcing the contend 8
th • hill, said, “The hill enacts, all acts or p'arts
of tirtH now in force, disqualifying his Maje^
tv’s Roman Catholic subjects from bolding ci-
vil offices, or from seats io Rarliament, shall he
repealed, with such exceptions ns are hereinaf
ter mentioned.” The bill was ordered to be
printed.
Mr. Reel then brought up the bill for regula
ting the elective franchise in Ireland. The
Speeaker rend the titlo of the bill—“ A bill to
alter nnd amend so much of an net of the 33d
Goo, HI, as related to the qualification of elec
tors for knights of the shire in Ireland.” Mr.
Reel accordingly moved that it ho read a first
time. It proposed to enact that so much of the
act of 33d Geo. Ill, as related to the qualifica
tion of electors for knights of shire in Ireland,
arising Irom 40” freeholds, should he repealed.
Mr. Reel moved that the hill he read a second
time on Tuesday next. The right honorable
gentleman (after a pause of a moment,) said, if
that day (which is the festival of St. Patrick,)
should he found inconvenient to some honora
ble members, he should have no objection to
name an other day. However, he should now
name that day, with the understanding, that,
if it should he found inconvenient to discuss tho
second bill on the same evening, another ami
more convenient time would then he fix**d.
DOMESTIC.
From the Charleston Mercuuy.
P»r>MoTiow OF Tf.mpkrascr —A Society consis
ting of many highly respectable and intelligent citi.
znna, has rocently beon established in this city, un-
d *r the title of the “ South Carolina Society for the
Promotion of Temperance.'' In compliance with n
request to that effect, wo subjoin the Constitution of
thu Society, and also a sories* of Resolutions adopted
by it. In doing this,however, whilst wo appreciate
tho motives and objects of the Society, we cannot re
frain from saying that although drunkenness may ex
ist, in certain quarters, to a degree much to be doplor-
ed, the character of provailing intemperance by no
means attaches to the community of Charleston,
than which there is certainly none in the union more
generally exempt from that degrading vice.
FRIENDSHIP.—It is quite surprising to
obaorvu the process whereby friendship, like Jonnh'i
gourd, springs up in u few hours, and withers as soon
Set before a man a fine cold ho in nnd a bottlo of wine.
4,- lot it be understood that ho is not to pay for it, and
lie becomes on that instant your firm friend. Chargo
him foi the same, and adieu lo his friendship.
J ONES Sheriff's Sulcs-—Oil the firstTues-
tluy In JUNK next, will be sold at tho court-home in th<
town ol' Clinton, Jones county, between the usual hours ut tale
the follow in* property, to wit:
;>() acre* of land, iu possession of Joint
I* Pocne, adjoining Ji.be* Moody and l.evi Kills in tub] county
les ie.don a* ihe propprt/ of linger Harkins mid Win. tiring*, t >
natisly lour executimis iu favor of Juhu Cliu.it and Levi Kllis
front a justices court.
50 acres of land, more or less, adjoining
Ward, Wilder, D.imel Clifton, and Rased Lipsey, levied on ■
the proi'erty “I Richard Adams, to satisfy eight executions, t\»
of the administrators ol John Sunnier, dec’d. one of John Hl.i-
ker.ooeol Win. Hudson, one It. (louden, one John Fietclier. one
ol Samuel Taylor, and one ut J. H. WAck Xl Co. all ugatn*t Rich!
urd Adam*, issued from injustices court.
400 acres of land, more or less, whereon
Alexander Robinson now lives, adjoining Sebastian Harry
fltakry and other*, in said county, levied on «s the property of
UeujiuuUA Lakey, Alexander Robuiiun nmi J.ntn-s s. Frierson in
satisfy one execution iu lavurol Charles |*]\ an*, one ol Micajab
Martin, and one ol Thomas Napier against said Lakes, Robin
son and Frierson.
205 acres of land, more or less, whereon
l .cv IT urner’s milt now stand*, adjoining John Kashin nnd others
levied on us the property of Julius Turner ami Levi Turner, t >
satisfy II executions In favor of John H.’Kennedy nnalnst Julius
Turner and Levi 1 .truer security, issued from ujuMiees court.
100 acres of lund, more or less, the pro-
pertv of William Ford, on the waters of Hurricane creek,adjoin-
me Anderson and others, also 40 acres of laud, more or less, ad
join* Coxs,ni and others on the waters ol Caney creek, Ids pro
perty, to satisfy one execution in favor of Benjamin .Merntt. one
of W.k C. Pope,one ol l^tudou .Alsahrooks, one of Amos Msa-
I rook, and one ol Wiley Franks, ult against said l\iid, issued
from a Justices court.
202 1-2 acres of laud, more or less, lot No
•t, In ih** MHlidist of said county, adjoining Peter Kolb and Ben
jamin Burron, taken as the property of Lewis Burton to satisfy *»
emcutlon* in favor of Futon He we licit against, -aid UurUm, is
sued by a justice of the peace.
H0 bushels of corn, mere or less, 301) Ills.
fodder, and 2*tack*ot oats, and pair of saddle bags, in tin* pos
session of I sham Hammond, undur bushels of corn, more or less,
in the pmse*tUm of Peter Kalb,levied nn by attachment in favor
of Stephen Pollard against Lewis Burton.
One negro woman slave, named Cituln, ultimatr* expeiiM-s. H. Harding
the propertvnf I’tja McPherson to siiti«fv n» executlen in favor ■ replied, that these Items \> ert* fur the (*o M11 f) 11.1 -
wife McPherson and T«,dey | io .i ol the works commenced last year. Th,
Two nejrro slaves, a woman named Bulev I £ rt)i!s 811,11 'f nt h Rarliament was culled upon
years < !d, and u l>oy named Archibald 3 years old, to wit all ' °t p * 0,1 VVOlllU of these Works, amounted
the interest of Zachariah Johnson in vaid two negro* . to satisfy to 41330 OOlM'or (’itiuol.i • imt i.t'cmir-..
an execution in favor of James Smith against said Johnson amt J * , , , U ’ 1 1,1 OI L0,,r8e U,al ’ - v
Jame* Prewett, issued by a justice ut thepeucc. petMiHure ti id not lake place tins year.
-02 1-2 acres of land, more or less ini “ The vote* for works nt HuIiIhx ami Kings-
'joining Stephen s.h- toil were tiie principal which were included im
snid county, whereon Mr*. Smith reside*,
terwhite. Mild five ne*toe*.one fellow, two women nnd tw
dren, tSi.'U i* to say, ail the right „nd inter* >t cf John Snmh in
*a*d lunfi ami nerroe., being nneuual heir ol the estate of John
Smith, tlec’d. levied on to satisfy four executions iu lavor of \
W. I uiiTdou agatn*( said Smith.
One negro man slave named Hnrrv about
2l» years - Id. levied on as the property of Frederick ‘Tucker to
sati*fy6 executions,one of Shatlrick F. Slatter.'one <>f James R.
lorn's, one of Mathew Burk, one of Allen V I'owar*. one of John
Barnard und one of Ifezekir.h Howe, nl] said Tucker.
100 acres of laud, more or less whereon
James Adam* li* e* in suid county, w ith a grivf mill thereon, ndjoin-
; 'U O.uFt: i c.iand oibei.*, taken o> the property ut Matlous
II Heard b ‘ttlisfy nn execution iu favor of Barsheb t Beard
against liiiu.
Seven ncjro slaves, tunned Fed 25 vears
<*\ ixwv. S'sue y about 22, Missouri l<\ Louisa io, Caroline J, Are ta
* ai.d V..t) J year* old. One grey horse, one tail und *t» ad,,». ,•
• w .miyearling, and running gen ol a »ott n gie.nndone *te* r,
i* the pm;.eity of llenry A. Candler to satisfy nn execu-
our or4ieoig»* Hargravn]acuiuit snid Candler \ Join:
■ndi'i.u.xc.oh rrv« vmjn rit ut n. w
CONSTITUTION,
Of the South Carolina Society for the Promoti on of
Temperance
Art 1 This Society shall ho called, “ The
South Carolina Society for the Promotion of Tem
perance.”
Art. 2 Thin Societv nhnll consist of such por
sons as may now, nr shall at any future time sign this
Constitution, and contributa annunlly to this Soci
ety
Art. 3 Any parson may becomo a Life Member
on paying Thirty Dollurti.
Art. 4 The Society shall moot annually on the
Tuesday before tho first Wednesday of April, in
p.toh year; at which time, a President, Vice Presi
dent, Secretary, (who shall also he Treasurer) and
mi Executive Committee of se> on members, shall
be elected. Tho President, Vico President, and Sec
retary, shall he ex-officio members of the Executive
Committee:
Art. 5 The President, Vina President and Secre
tary, shall ho vested with the matomary powers, and
be charged with tho ordinary duties of such officers
The Executive Committee shall have power to fill
vacancies
Aitr. ti It shall he the duty of the Executive
Committee to carry into effect tho orders and resolves
of the Society . And, independently of such in
structions, it shall be their duty to rovise and carry
into effect tho best measures for increasing the num
ber of members, for making known the purposes of
the Society, for keeping them suffi iently before the
public, and for attracting the attention and engaging
the co operation of men of character and influence
It shall be their duty, to etideav iur, in such inodo, as
may seem to them desirable and expedient, to sug
gest and promote the establishment of similar Soci
eties in other parts of tho State. They ehall like
wise be authorised und hound to adopt such meas
ures as may appear to them most desirable and offi
ciant, to discourago intemperance and rcstoro the in
temperate to safe nml virtuous Inbits
Art 7. The principle of this Society is ami shall
he, tliut intemperance cannot bo permanently nnd ef
fectually banished, except by a i hunge in the cus
toms of Society, that nothing hut the use of spirits
by the temperate creates and keep up tho demand
for them; that without the example of the tempe
rate, the drinking uf spirits would of itself be dis
reputable— that total abstinence is the only rernody
f*r intemperance, nnd the only security for temper
ance : that sut h liquor* aro never necessary to health,
but are on the contrary, according to the judgment
and experience of Physicians nnd Medical Societies,
injurious, however moderately used : that they are
rarely indispensable, even as medicine, anti should
never he used as such, except in obvious cases, or un
der professional advice
Ai;t. 8 The members of this Society do there-
fore, engage not to use. spirits themselves, not to p«t-
init the use of them in their respective families, ex
cept as medicine, and never to offer them on any oc-
A' a meeting of “ The South-Carolina Society for
tho Promotion of Temperance," at tho Citv-l!a!l,
• n the 14*.11 April, the following Officers were elect-
THOM AS S GRIMKE, President.
Hon THOMAS LEE, V.« e President.
JAMES CARROLL COURTENAY Secretaiy
and Treasurer.
Other Members <*f the Executive Committee : —
Jniix Robinson, Dr I A. Johnson, Dr S. Hkn-
ry Dickson. Jaspkk Corning
The following Resolutions were adopted, and or
dered to be primed under direction of the Executive
Committee : —
Ft sol rrd, That a Memorial he piLsented to each
oram h ol the Legislature, at its next session, on be
halt of tins Society, suggesting the expediency umt
n« cessitv ot passing laws to punish the vice of drunk
odnness ; to placo :h<* • states of such as are the suit
jects of habitutial intoxication in the charge of a com
. missmner, us in a rase lunacy ; to prohibit under
ry ig the whole into execution. I lie works ' heavy penalties, ihe sale of spirituous liquors on K;
w ei e t.i\uletl into three classes the first cm- action, days, by any person or persons whatever, in tin
bracing what was urgent; tint second itielud-. city or town, village or other place, where an election
the pieseut estimate. For these purposes
about JCI5.0UU was to ho expended at HalilV.x,
anil jC20,(KK) ut Kingston. Phis was .0,000
more than was taken last year. These works,
w Inch were lo be continued on the scale of jC3o,
UOOuvear would he finished next year,-when
that branch of expense would cense. The Rj-
tlaut Canal was nut contained in this estimate.
r.'timaU’s to a large amount fur works in Ca
nada, wore brought forward ami laid before the
Finance Committee ; hut at the same time it
whs slated that there was no intention of ear
is held, or within five miles of such city, town or
village, or other such place, and to pun sli hy fin** an t
imprisonment, anv person, or persons, who shall b»
concerned, directly or indnertly, in selling, giving,
or otherwise furnishing spirituous liquor to any per
son entitled to vole nr to any voter, at any election
within five miles of tho Rolls, on the day before,
during, or on the day after an election
Resolved, That in the same Memorial the Legisla
ture be requested to place rcginctions on licences fir
retailing spirituous liquors so as eventually to abn!
ish thorn altogether, and that us speedily as pus-*'
bte
Resolved, That a memorial be presented to the
Ciiy Council also, requiring them to place such res
trietions on the granting of licences to retail spirit
uous liquors, as may eventually abolish them ullogeth-
or : and, if necessary, that a Memorial be presented
to the Legislature to pa^s the necessary laws, lo en
able tho City Coun* ii to accomplish this object.
Resolved, That the Medical Society of South Car
olina tie respectfully requested to take into consider
ation the efforts of spirituous liquors, when used
either rarely as medicine, or habitually by tho tem
perate, and to express an opinion, 1st. Whether
their use may not bo dispensed with altogether as
medicine, hy the substitution of other stimuli 2d.
Whether tho habitual temperute use of spirits con
tributes to health ; or is necessary to the labouring
class at any season of the yeur. 3d Whether wa
ter be not the most wholesome bovoruge for persons
of every age and condition throughout the year —
And 4th Whether spirits, though,used ever «<» tern-
poratoly, bo not more or lets tn <jvery case unfriend
ly to hen Ith.
Resolved, That wo view with indignation, the use
that has b*-en made of spirituous liquor,s, ut promo
ting the mte esta of candidates at citations, that it is
an insult to a free, intelligent people,^und a dc#p dis-
gruco to any community which tolerates it And
that, we will not vo u for or support in any nlannor
any candidate whose friends or bimseif, may have
resorted, or may hereafter resort,th such means, with
a view to promote an^lectmu
[From the Free Trade Advocate, April 11.]
TIIE TWO P^.NK.MVKS.
“ Tell me which wcipim (he most, ihn( pen-
kniTc, or (hose rlirco silver half ilollnro,” sai l a
gemlemmi (o us (he other <!ny. I (nok (Icm in
iny hands ami pronounced them to he of equal
weight. “ That penknife,” snid my friend,
“ was made in I’lttslmrff. It cost me otic dol
lar and a hnlf, und is tho product of American
industn/. which you see lias given ton hide piece
of iron, and a small piece uf a buck’s horn, a
value equal to its own weight in silver.” All
the company present were struck with this ii|>-
purcntly irresistible argument in favor of the
“American system.” Tliut iron ore and Imro
shou.hl he made as valuable a. silve- hy dunes
tic indufry, appeared to he almost nu-redi hie,
nnd yet l!>e veracity of the owner of the
penknife admitted no doubt nn the subject.-
Could there he any question as io tin* belief!
which the nation would derive IVmn making its
own penknives? seemed to he a.-ked by several
of thn listeners.
To meet this cogent fact, which to my friend
was so conclusive as to the soundness ofthe re
strictive policy, that he proposed to Imrn the
hooks on political economy, Adam Smiili &. all.
I also resorted to a fact. I took out of toy pock
et all English penknife, of the same weight as
the American one, which had also cost a d r liar
and a half; and hoving the two before me, ex
pressed myselfsomewhat in the following Ian
gttage.
“ In the Pittsburg knife, I see the reprnseuta
live of a certain portion of American indiistrv.
I see the product ofthe labor of the liiniicr. tiie
miner, the coal heaver, the smelter, the wagon
er, the iron-innster, the steel-maker, and the
culler. I see that (lie knife is the result of the
combined labour of these and perhaps many
others, nnd I also see, tliut the knife has cost
what is precisely equal to the wages ofamanfor
three days, estimating this at fifty cents per day.
In other words : I see, that in order that the
nation should possess tlint penknife, one man
must labour for three days,
“ Now io the English knife, I nlso soe a por
tion of American industry. I see in it the pro
duct, of the labour ofthe ploughman, the sow
er, the reaper, tho thrasher, the miller, the
wood cuttor, the cooper, the wagoner, the fac
tor, the merchant, the ship-builder, tho rigger,
the sail-maker, the ship smiili, the ship joiner,
the plumber, the drayman, the stevadnru, the
mariner, and n dozen other’s who are employ
ed in producing wheat, converting it into flour,
and in transporting it abroad. All this is
American industry, nml is only another mode of
making a penknife. It has, however, the ad
vantage over the first mode. If it were not for
the protecting duty, the English knife would
cost hut one dollar, or in other words, the on
tion could procure it hy the labour of one man
for tico days, instead nfthree, nml if it is for the
interest of every individual, that he should pro
cure what he wants with the least possible
quantity of labour, so must it he for the inter
eat of all individuals, tlint is, the nation.”
“ But,” rejoined my antagonist, “ your nrgn-
mailt is good applied ;o your commercial cities
where wheat is one dollar and a half a !iii«hrl,
hut it does not apply to an interior town where
wheat is only worth half that price. For, you
enn perceive, tlint whilst your knife has cost
you the equivalent of one bushel of wheat, mine
has cost the equivalent ufltco bushels, and it is
therefore clearly our interest to make our own
penknives.”
“ That may he so, or it may not he so, necor
ding to circumstances. Ifyoiicnn procure the
foreign knife with lens than n*o bushels of
wheat, or, what is the same thing with less
than the price of two bushels of wheat, which
you could do, were it not for Ihe protective duty,
and, ifthe American made knife would cost
you quite two bushels of wheat, or the price of
two bushels, it would lie tor yourinterest, ns well
os for the interest of your nation, that you should
resort to the commercial mode of procuring ih-
knife ; because hy that mode a knife is brought
into existence,at a cheaper rate, or what is the
same thing, hy a less sacrifice of labour, than
by the process of manufacture, If, however,
you have nn foreign vent for your agricultural
productions, then the manufacture of your own
penknives conics round from tlie necessity of
the case, and you make them yourselves, he
cause you have not the means of buying them
from others. If this lie tho state of things in
regard to Pittsburg, why do you wish protec
tive duties ? Why do j on, in order that you may
make a few penknives for your own us.*, call
upon congress tn enact a law, tint every hoik
ill the whole United Stales, shall pay fifty per
cent more for their penknives, than the price
at which it is possible for them to procure
tin’ll) .* This is vvliat the advocates of free
trade have so much reason to complain of.
They are. told that England will not buy the
productions of Pennsylvania, and that, there
fore, there should In* laws enacted to prohibit
tho people of Pennsylvania, from buying the
productions of England Now we say, no such
laws are necessary. Il Pennsylvania cannot
sell, she cannot Guy, and the best possible pro
teetioti for the manufacturing industry bf an
inland town, is her limited ability to send the
rude produce of her agriculture to a foreign
market.”
I n man of Im.sy lilt* f
.Vote. The above is not intended ns a litera
account of the conversation referred to, and ns
wo have had an opportunity of amending our
argument, wo wish to afford to the gentleman
referred to nn opportunity of amending his.
We, therefore, respectfully invite him to favour
us with a communication upon tins important
point, as it will enable our readers to form a
judgement, as to whether the manufacturing
mode of procuring a penknife, is to be preferred
" 'he agricultural and commercial mode of pro-
• iring the same tiling The argument in re-
• ion to penknives is equally apjdirahle to all
‘‘her foreign commodities, & although the duty
upon them is not so great as wo have assumed
for the sake of round numbers, vet upun iimny
other articles it is much greater.
MIL LEDGE VILLE, MAY 2.
(ty* Read “ The first and last Dinner,” com
mencing on (lie fir-t page 0 f this paper. It is
fiction—but such fiction u** is not to he met with
every day’s rending.
CEXTlut/lIVNK.- —The Directors have
ri*eeiv**<l information that timr v\orktr» Phila
delphia, has h^Ki delayed, l»y the sickness of
one of the Engravers^They have however
‘ived n \tilm)T6T their hist plate, and hope
long, though it hus been delayed far be
yond their wishes, to announce the opening of
(he Batik.
—m
CREEK hVbl \ \S.---\Ve copy the fol-
lowjng important injur.nation from the Alaba
ma Jotirnul. Intlip important movement we
are not disappointed in the President. He con
cedes the whole ground for which Georgia has
always coijtVndod. Let him persevere ; and
apply the same rules to the Cherokees. • *
“CoRme! John Crowell, the lute Agent iu
the Creek Nation, we are authorised to say, has
been directed to remove his *?g , e»ici/ west of
the Mississippi, to the country allotted to tho
emigrating Indians. He has very lately retur
ned from Washington City, ami has, we under
stand, a talk from the Executive to tho Creeks.
The President tells them that nn Agency will
no Luge-* he retained in their present nation;
that it is his wish they should remove, and Ihh
determination to have their lands surveyed;
that inasmuch ns the State of Alabama has ex
tended her jurisdiction over them, they will bo
thrown without the protection of the General
Government, nnd that the only course left to Ijr
pursued is for them to remove. He also in
forms them, that sui It as are disposed to remain,
shall have a strip of land s* t apart for them,
hut that they will he subject to the jurisdiction
of the State in which the land may Iu:: hut that
such ns remove will hn\e continued to them
the protection of Government. Capt. Walker,
from whom we derive this information, further
informs us, that a meeting of tin* Indians is to
he held on the 28 It inst. for the purpose of de
ciding on the President** instructions. Capt.
W thinks the) v\ »il emigrate en masse, and that
they will never plant another crop in their pre
sent country. He furl her states, that the ex
tension of jurisdiction over them has hud a
most salutary effect, nnd that previous to tho
arrival of Col. Crowell 1000 had enlisted.**—
Thus we are in n fair \\a> of speedily acquir
ing ilit: Indian country, the acquisition ofwhich
promises the great* st advantages to Montgom
ery”
LOUIS McLANE, of Delaware, has been
appointed by the Rreaidmi ofthe United States, Min
ister to Great Britain, in place of James Barbour.
RHODE IS LAN D.—The Jackson Tick
et for Governor and members of the Legisla
ture has succeeded hi that S'ate, at the recent
elections, b) a majority of 280.
GR VTIFYING.— rim following para
graph we copy from the United States’ Tele
graph ofthe 2iftt ulfo.
“ A fact which we have learned, casually, nr
the Department of Suite, is worthy of attention,
viz: that among the numerous applications
made to that Department for important diplo
matic nr other appointments, with the excep
tion of one or two of minor note, not one has
been presented from tin* States south of the Po
tomac and east of the Alleghany ridge. This
fact speaks volumes for the disinterestedness of
tho original patriot States ; it shows conclusive
ly, that these States supported the lute chaugo
of administration on principle, and only on prin
ciple.”
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT,
Tito citizens of Geor. ia will bear in mind that an act
was passed at the lust session of the Lt-gisluturo,
changing tho meeting of members and tho meeting
of the Legislature, which, should it recoive tho con
stitutional majority of tho next Legislature, would
then become a part of tho constitution. Before tho
election in October nexi, it is of groat moment, that
this subject should be thoroughly investigated, in or
der that the members Hooted may bring with them tr>
the seat of government, the sense and wish of their
constituents, respecting this alteration in the consti
tution of Georgia
The more experience in Legislation is acquired in
Georgia, the more it is apparent that the number of
numbers, ot both branches ol the Legislature, is too
great for the dispatch of business, ami for the enact*
mont of well matured laws The members of the
last Legislature, aware of this fact, and sensible that
the people received no adequate compensation for
tho expense incurred for so numerous u body of Lc-
gisliitois, resorted to tho plan of biennal insioad of
annual meetings of the Legislature Tina plan re
ceived tho sanction of man) members, under the be
lief that a reduction in the representation of each
county, could not be carried through both houses,
because the small counties, In placing themselves in
nn attiiudo of opposition, to any mode hy which
their influence could Im curtailed in toe Senate, would
defeat the passage ot any bill having for its objoct a
reduction ol Representatives iu both branches ul tho
Legislature
At tho first view, it would appear that biennal
meetings of the Legislature would save to the Treas
ury a large expenditure. B it tlrs would not be the
case. ^ It must be considered that tho population of
the State is increasing, and, consequently, that the
business of tho Legislature must increase. Legisla
tive business increasing, more time will be required
to attend to it in a proper manner. With annual ses
sions, the Legislature sits generally two months.—
With an increase of population and business, tho Lc-
gislatuie will have to sit four months, if not more,
with biennal meetings So that the expense will bo
j tho same as ii the Legislature were to sit annually.
We say that the Legislature would have to sit moro
• ban four months, with biennal meetings, if the mem
bers wish to discharge their duties faithfully and pro-
fitnbly to their constituents ; for at every past session,
the^ Legislature, after sitting nearly two months, left
unfinished a great many imimrtant hills, reports A. re
solutions, besides f lie loose & hurried manner in which
bills are passed sent lo thu Governor for his assent.
Ibennal meetings will occasion a complete chango
in the operations of the government, and in the local
transactions and concerns of the counties Tho np-
pioptiations <if money will lnvn to he made for two
vears, and the provisions for a icvenue, by taxes of
otherwise, will have to be made for two years also.
Should any circumstance occur in tho interval to ob
struct or retard the operations of tho government,
which will he more likely to happen with biennal
than annual meetings, the Governor will have to call
t ic Legislature logo her, if the intervention of that
body is indispensable, or to transcend his constitu
tional or legal powers, to meet the exigencies of tho
times. Ever since tho Stuio has heroine free and in*
dependent, the operations of the government have
been carried on with annual meetings of the Legis*
I nure 'Hie local concerns of tho « ounlies have been
managed with lie anticipation of such annual meet
ings The organization of new counties ; the ne
cessary changes for holding the superior courts; tho
arrangements for the maintenance and support of
bools and Aeademiis ; and a variety of other mat
ters, cannot well lie attended to with hienn - l meet
ings of the Legislaluic. A change in those meetings
may produce u stagnation in the local operations of
the counties, and the people themselves may materi
ally suffer, in whatever they may undertake*, to pro
mote their individual welfare, and tho best interests
of their respective counties. Considering the pres
ent condition of Georgia, we believe that the amend
ment iu question would he inexpedient and highly
injurious to the Stale. Georgia is \ot a new country,
vvliero largo portion of her Territory is unsettled,
and another portion in the possession of Hie Indians.
This territory may be soon obtained ; it will have to
l»o surveyed and disposed of, and organized Such
operations w II require immediate and constant atten
tion. With biennal meetings of the Legislature, it
will be impossible it* pay that attention lo the new
territory which the best interest o» Georgia will de
mand. und which cannot admit of nny delay Ono
year of postponement may hoof vast injury to her
luturc j rosperitv. Moreover, theie arc at least ten