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Congrrssio/uil Election —Our correspondents
Cjta the up country inform us that Col. Rock
will, of Baldwin and Gen. M’Donalq, of Bibb
county, have declined being candidates for Con
*res at the October election. Previous accouncs
e
had informed us that Messrs Rhailsfokd and
Pocghep.ty hidbe n caucnssed down, had that
the ground was &lon© occupied by Messrs. Gil-
MtR; Lamar and Charlton Although Mr. Gil.
MIR had pretendediy declined, yet he appears
determined to lie elected any how; ar.d as, under
the caucus system, the people have but 1 1 1 tie voice
ju matters, it is very possible he may be—
Col iiA.MAK, of Bibb county, yet li lds on, and if
lie has independence enough to resist the veto of
the \thcns Junto, he will obtain a respectable
Uiiport. Our old friend Judge C harlton is yet
before the public; and with the caucus support, or
wi-liout it, he will command a strong vole. A
lew days, however, will give us the result of the
caucus deliberations.
SAVANNAH TEMPERANCE SOCIETY.
A meeting.of the. members of this institution
took place on Monday evening iast, at the Sab
tatii cei. >ol room in the Academy.
Mr Ganahl rose and stated that the President
of their society was absent from the city, and, on
a> lien, the Rev'Daniel Baker was called to the
Chair, and Joseph Ganahl, the Recording
Secretary, took his seat as Secretary of ifie meet
ing —Meeting was opened by an eloquent and
ikiiug address to the throne of grace by ifie Chair
man —Resignation of Homes Tupper, Vice I‘res
lileiil read and accepted. NR- Crabtree, the Cor
responding Secretary, stated to the Chair, that
the pnucipal object in calling this meeting, was to
Die.euse toe Executive force of the board—that in
consequence of absence and resignation, the di
lution of the concerns of the society devolved on
’•hitwo Secretaries.
/ tsoictd, That the Constitution of this Socie
ty he so far amended as to admit the increase of the
number Vice Presidents ■
‘felt wasujoved and carried, that four Vice Presi
'lrnts be added to the present board —The Resor
ts, then read some appropriate extracts
,rom the second annual report of the American
Society at Andover, tending princi
pal* to show tfie great increrse of temperance so
c, *ties in the United States—their growing nper
*':a and on the morals and religion of the community
—together with some calculations showing the a
wazing saving alroady accruing to the couimuni
m time, monc}’ and morals, ?nd a progressive
*k‘W of what may be expected, with no greater
ej (ertions than whit are now making.
l\e Rev. Mr. Jones then addressed the Chair
Patented the necessity of saying any thing in
•fpport of such a soc iely as this; adverted to its
important tendency in * icietv —enlarged with a*
K'V J j 9
‘•■tty and clearness on the long extroverted ques*
‘ h the practicability of the reform of the con
fined drunkard—illustrated the affimative of the
I'■- lion by iin ~r st.rikininstance.—
j. . v O
” Kotessed his willingness to encounter any per
.^ ria ’ teproach for the good of others. He sri4
* * w °uid not withhold the name of the individual
,l!ls r oft>rned ; no false shame should deter him
adding his feeble voice to the sounding ad
n‘ ri ‘tion that was ringing from every pulpit, and
ev ’ er / prp,ss --Ile gaee God the glory. He was
b -*e every drunkard, who would as candidly, and
as himself, and with the same eye to
*’ ‘ lne assistance, strive vvit.fi ids infirmity, would
‘ 1 e t witK the same success, lie touched feeling
uliU pathetically upon the ivrelcheness entailed
I'°° the connnuuity in regain to its temporal in
vests, tiie domestic relations ns to their peace
re , and upon both os to their fclet nal welfare*
s P°ke oj the necessity of the convert to tcin-
P ranee flying instantly his former haunts and his
‘'Seated companions—avoiding ©very liquid of
1 Uoxicatiug nature, however genlle iu degree,
e.ndihg tempiaion , espeeia ‘ij in the icuy of
acr -de dr if dec rs.—S uc h, he said, were far more
than abandoned drunkards: lie knew
f' !J -V m ou city, characterised as sol.er men, and
drmkeis, going rapidly down the pro
( *‘d g ilr; living without Gou i:i the world, and
of his favor in et:T4ty. lie felt eonfi-
Li *at by &u union of action among the truly
rt'ut firm iu our city—lo dung tq divine
the pestilence would soon v ani&h, and
‘nu* ie formation take place, of character and
among us : Mr. Joae3 was fallowed by
THE ARl?s.
the Rev. Mr. Wynn, who urged in general terms
the folly and danger of the vice—its disgusting
and nauseous effects -the expediency, in a world
ly point of view, if fiem no other, of avoiding ar
dent spirits and all who use it—its turpitude as a
breach of God s law’—the denunciation against
drunkards in the sacred scriptures—none such
cun inherit the kingdom of heaven. Joseph Cum
mmg, Esq. then arose and addressed the meeting
through the Chair. He deprecated in a very penn
ed and energetic manner, the vice of drunkennesl
-it was easy enough lie said to appreciate and
despise the wretch who could inebriate upon the
mere common trash ot‘ whiskey and npw yum—
every one could cry out shame upon him, and
point the finger of scorn and Reproach —lt was
easy enough to approach the poor victim, poTTuTctl
and in his blood, and even wring from him the
bitter tea*3 of penitence and self reproach, altho’
the next moment he might return to his wallow
ing in the mire ; but here lay not the difficulties
ot the case was a class he said, entrench
ed behind their respectable character ; their high
reputation, their unimpeachable, name for
aiUnefy, whom it was more reach with
the voice of warning or of reproof—they drank
no a: dent spirits, perhaps—nav, they even loudly
deprecated the practice, and denouncod it alto
gether but what were their habits? anjl what
tnc ctfect ot these habits upon themselves, and
their families, and their occupations ? where were
they on hours generally devoted to business ? wer e
they at their counting houses, ready snd active in
tlu ir attention to their concerns ? Where were
they on the sabbath, at hours generally given to
devotion ? YVpre they not rather sitting at the lato
board indulging in the juice of the vine-taking a
temperate glass, and making merry with their
friend??, pr perhaps their families, to the suspen.
si.rn, at least the temporary suspension, of clear
and cool headed reason.—Such coolness, and such
self-possession as every man would wish to have
about him in the execution of some important pe
cuniary transaction : break through the entrench,
ments ot these sober drinkers, said he ; first fer
ret wine out of the list of indulgences, give the
fashionable, polite, and highly gifted advocate for
vinous exhileration no more quarter than the com
mon tippler in whiskey, and your work is {lone.
The goejety, he said, though small and despis
ed, and r niiculed, \yas powerful aqd a giant rising
in its strength—the guißy intemperate, dreadod
its effects—they quailed before its virtue
—it is |lie tribute which vice must ever pay to
the upright advocate of truth—he predieted the
tidy was not far distant when temperance societies
would pervgde the whole land—when im false in
dulgence would he shown to the great tranrgres
sor or the little one—the rich wine bibber, or the
contemptible and despised frequenter of tippling
jiouses and dram shops.
The Chairman added a short and pithy appeal
to the religious and moral feeling of the meeting
and of the community, in favor of entire absti
nence—a religious abstinence He dated the
cause of religious apostuey, in nine cases out of
ten, f. o:n small indulgences in intemperance—il
lustrated his position by an affecting circumstance
to the point, of which he was eye witness He
assumed not, he said, the character or office of a
prophet, but every one might predict, with the
assistance ot certain apparent indications. He
predicted, he said, that a great and glorious revo
lution in the moral, religious, and, perhaps, the
political world, would be brought about by tem
pei auce societies, 110 prayed to God the day
might be near at hand.
I IjQ society then received an accession of seve
ral new members, and proceeded to ballot for four
vice presidents, corfo.mably to resolution—oil
counting the votes it appeared that the following
gentlemen were elected, viz.-—Rev. Daniel Ba
ker, Rev. Cn vs. B. Jones, Joseph Cym>j|NG,
Esq. and Mr Horace Blair.
Officers elected at the first meeting of the soci
ety, and still holding their situations are—James
S. Bulloch, Esq. President , Joseph Ganahl,
Esq. Recording Secretary, Mr. William Crab
tree, Jr. Corresponding Secretary.
Salisbury, (N. C.) July 2\.
The Crops. —Our liar vest is finished as
heretofore mentioned, the wheat turns out
about half an average crop; the bearded, or
red wheat, has g ut rally yielded pretty
well; but some of the spring wheat, will
barely compensate tiie farmer for cutting it
—all of it is bad. A correspondent in Ru
thetford county, lemarks: “We have been
greatly injured iu tjiis part of the country,
by the laie freshes, thp waters, overflowing
the low grounds. Wheal was hardly worth
rutting, being ruined by thg heavy rains iq
the spring.”
P its, generally, are very good: their
growth was most too luxuriant; iu many
fields they were so badly beaten down by
the rains that it became necessary to use a
scythe instead of a cradle, to cut them.
Cotton and Corn, have had a very rapid
growth; unJ, iu genera!, lock remaikably
well. Iu much ot the luvy ground, howev
er, where tiie fields were fur a long time
flooded, the crop looks quite unpromising.
And vyy are sorry to perceive, that with
some of our farmers who pitched their
crops pretty largely, the grass and weeds
have got the mastery: we have heard of one
gcutltmaa bring obliged to abandon 20 a*
c.es, pr more, and sum nder to the grass:
others h ive been obliged to turn out less
quantities.
But upon the whole the labors of the hus
buid'iiau will he pleiili.ully crowned with
the fi uits of the tin ills ; and he lias cause to
bo grateful to the G >d of NUluie fur these
and innumerable .other blessings, which
i have beeq vouchsafed to him th.s season.
Dlsa- tfous SA piprccJcs —We published,
not long since the account of the h>ss of the
barque Gianiens, from Quebec, ot) tho
Magdalen Islands, and of- the miserable
death of her crew bv cold and famine. Wo
have nokv somewhat similar, though appa
rently less hoftible disas'er to record, as
we find it ia tbt Quebec Gazette, ofthe 9th
S4 VANN AH, THURSDAY MORNING , AUGUST 6, 1829.
instant.
Shipwreck and loss o; the whole crew of
the Bet.sy,ot V\ hitehaven, Carrol master,
on the Labrador coast, on her voyage
from ijie port of Quebec to Tralee, ( Ire
land,) in fal! of the year 1827.
The foil owing information, which has
been coimnunicateo Jo us by a geqtjetqan
who arrived yesterday from the Labrador
const, may be entirely depended upon.—
The suggestions which are tedded are mJdu 1
at the desire of the same gentleman, and on
Ins knowledge ot the whole coast, ai.d may
prove useful to the ship captains in ihis
trade.
The brig Betsy, of Whitehaven, was ’
at cleared Quebec on tho 15th October,
1827, with a full cargo of pine, deals, &c. j
by George Symuies, Esq. The further
particulars ot her voyage and shipwreck ‘
have been obtained from her log-book and
from the Indians. She sailed from Que
bec on the 17th, was off Magdalen Islands
on the 23d October, and meeting there with
strong southerly gale, she bore away for the
straights ol Belle-Isle On the 14th she
shipped a sea which carried away her bul
warks and deck load, and she became |eaky
and strained very much, steering N. E. by
E. and N. L. by YV. On the evening of
tfie 25ih, by the number of miles she was
running hourly, she must have been near
the place where she was wrecked, hut no
one has survived to tell the tale of her go
ing ashore. It happened that t;ope of the
inhabitants of the coast that way the
same autumn, but, the next spring the first
boat which passed reported having seen
sorpe pieces of pine timber on different isl
ands. Shortly afterwards a report was cir
culated by Ameiicao and Nova Scotia fish
ermen that thp hull of a vessel burnt to the
water’s edge had been seen on St. Mary’s
ig?e, with the place where two ntep had
been newly buried ; but this report was ne
ver verified.
On the 6 h of November, 1828, all doubts
were raised. Sume Esquimaux hunting on
he coast, seeing a piece of rope on shore
near the big islands of Walawistick, landed,
and found a small wooden compass and a
scraper ; on examining farther, well trodden
piths in the moss showed that persons had
been living thereabout for a considerable
time. After searching for some time longer,
ono of the Indians asccqded a hill and saw
in a hollow among small trees something
like a shelter, to which they went. The
skeletons three men were lying outside
the door and three others inside;* on the
top lay a box containing the log-book of the
Betsy, a work on navig ition, the register
of the brig, and some other article, nearly
destroyed by the weather.
There was no appearance that the peo
ple had been able to muko a fire, and it was
manifest that, instead of seeking to find in
habitants, they had hid themselves. This
is always the case with English sailors who
are wrecked on this coast; they take it for
granted that there are no inhabitants but In
dians, ready to munler them without mercy,
while in truth there are few or no Indians
either on iho Labrador coast or on New
foundland, and these far from being crutfl
aro the most inoffensive people pn e rth,
who would perform any office of humanity
to persons in distress Under this impres
sion, the unfortunate crew of the Betsy, no
doubt, died of cold and hunger, almost at
the door of ready assistance, being witin a
mile of a hunting stand attached to the post
of Itamamion, iu which were a stove and
other articles which must have shewn them
that houses were not Gross.
. It would be very necessai v that all the
captains of vessels trading to Quebec should
be informed, that Inhabitants are scattered
along the whole North coast of rhe Gwlf of
St Lawrence, and that in case of shipwreck,
on wh iteVer part of the coast, it is only ne
cessary, when tho crew has got ashore,
immediately to piocetd along the beach,
either to the right or to the left, no matter
which, and they cannot go far without
meeting houses and people, who wpuld not
only render them every possible personal
assistance, but might likewise often be
conducive to saving the vessel and cargo.
Shipwreck. —The biig Topaz, Capt.
Dubois, from Cape Huytieu; for this port,
with a cargo of coffee, cocoa, &e. to A. C.
Rossier and James Bath, is lostonChin
coteague Shoals—crew saved, and arrived
here yesterday in a coasting schooner. A
letter from the captain to the owner, states
that the vessel struck on the oqter shoal at
12 o’clock on Saturday night, tiie 11th Inst.
As soon as day broke, 180 bags of coffee
and every tiling on deck were thrown over
board in hope of getting her off, but with
out success. After remaining a few hours
in this situation, and the vessel thumping
very hard; 100 bags more were thrown o
yer, when she flouted with four feet water
in hor held, and in order to prevent her
sinking, and to save the lives of those on
board, she was stranded on the beach. —
The cargo will all be lost. Passenger, Mr.
George Brefin, of London.
[iV. Y. Gazette,
fur . ,
| FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.
Office of the Gazette. )
Philadelphia, July 24 f
LA TEST t non EUROPE.
By the packet ship Monongahela, capt.
Dixey, we have received Liverpool papeis
* The Betsy on her last voyage outwards
to this port had a crew of 13 or 14 men
and boys. It is probable she had as many
on her return voyage. The }og-book.
have beep brought to Quebec.
It appears that the brig Integrity, Capt.
BaDks, of WorkiDgtoD, which sailed hence
on the same dav as the Betsy, has never
been heard of. ‘
to the Stil of June.
Berslv, May 30.
VYarlaw, May 26. — J\etcs from the
Theatre of War. — The campaign on lne
Danube has commenced with the invest
; went of the important fortress of Sdistria,
wfiich lias been executed with signal energy
and succes.
The head quarters were removed some
time ago to Czernowody; Count Ditbitach
having collected many troops there, advan
ced on the 13 May, at the head of 21 ba
(afi'ons, 16 squadrons of cavalry, and some
regiments of Cossacks, by way of Kuzgoun,
towards Silistria. The great road by way
liasserai was still under waterr'in conse
quence of the overflowing of the panube,
and the troops bad difficulties of all k:hJs
to overcome, iu consequence of the badness
of the roads; but theidpaof marching against
the enemy caused them to bear all hardships
with the greatest zeal.
Ou the I7th May, at 3'o’clock in the
morning, the corps reached the village of
Almaluq five weits from Bu!istria, without
having fallen in with the enemy on their
Here the Commander-in-Chief
divided his corps into three columns, the
right under Lieut. General Bartholomey,
the center under the Major-General Las*
and the left under Lieut. Gen
eral lyrassowsky. The first fell in with
the enemy, about 5.9QQ strong, occu
pied §ome entrenchments which he erected
last year t\yo werts from Silistria.—A biik
attack made by a regiment of Cossacks,
under the eye of the Commander-in-Chief
upon a mass of Tuikish cavalry posted up
on the heights was the signal for a general
battle. The infantry, wh|ch quickly fol-
attacked with equal ?ual.-—The en
emy was broken, and in less than a qurter
of an hour driven from all the works whicii
he occupied on that point. The centre co
lumn followed this example; but the left Co
met with gfeat resisteuce, apd as it
ii id a longer march to majie it did pqt ar
tive till two o’clock in the afternoon.—
General Krnssowsky having givep his
troop s an hour’s rest, led them against two
strong redoubts, which were very auvtma
geously situated, and winch were taken in
a moment, The Turks, tyho were driven
back at every point, now thought of only
getting back into the fortress. Qur |jotii|a
on the Danube commanded by flear-Ad
miral Patinjotli, supported these move
ments, so that the investment of the very
extensive fortress of Silistria was not only
effected in a sjngie day, but the troops ad
vanced witfiin the distance of cannon shot
of the walls. In the following night onr
Cossacks took a Turkish courier sent by
Pacha of Silistria, to the Qrand Vizier at
Shumla, to inform him of the investment of
the. place, fnd earnestly begging assistance.
The loss of the enemy on the 27th May,
may be about 400 or 000 men killed and
woqndeti; our loss 13 about iqen killed
aud wounded. The bridge built at fCalar
asch the completion of which was delayed
by the overflowing of the river, will’be fin
ished in two or three days, and as well the
bridge at Hirsowa, will ficiiitate the com
munication with the left bank of the Dan
ube. The comumnjqiion of the besieged
corps with Bazirdjik, sosJudji f arid fradi
are fully secured, and the detachipeuts sent
out to scour the country, have only met
with a few Struggling parties of the enemy.
Admiral Greigl) having been iuformed
at Sizobol', of the appearance of the Turk
ish fleet in the Black Sea, hastened, with
the squadron under his command, t,o go Jo
ipeet it *
London , June 6.
YV© are informed fjjaj the wea/ers of
Spitafields have at length a wil
lingness to return to their work at the pfi
ceg offered t y the manufacturers. Many
of theoi'took out work yesterday, and oth
ers are expected immediately to do so.
The (jreat Seal is immediately to pass I
into new hands. Wlietljef yojqptarily or
otherwise. Lord Lvndhurst most retire
forthwith. Mr. Peel will retire also, but
perhaps, not so soon. Who is to succeed
Lord Lyndhurst we are unable to say; Mr.
Brougham, we suppose, in compliment to
the King aud the tory party. Mr. Peel’s
removal will make room for some other
Whig, Earl Grey perhaps, or perhaps some
Major General.— Standard.
Little belief attaches in the city to the
accounts in the Prussian State Gazette of
the success of the Russian army before Si
ii stria, which are also at variance with in
formation contained in leters of the 23d ult.
received this morning from Yienna. |n
these a different version is given yf that en
gagement with the Turks \yljjcl) is describ
ed in the account first referred to as having
taken place in the attempt to form the re
investment of Si istria.. If the least de
pendance is to be placed on Vienna letters,
the advantage then gained has cost the Rus
sian army extremely dear.
They state, that the circumstance which
brought on tfie action was the determina
tion of the Turkish general to throw suc
cors and provisions, if possible, into Silis
tria, previous to the investment by the Rus
sians. For this purpose a suitable number
of men, with 1,500 head of cattle, were
collected, and they all succeeded in getting
into Silistria during the action, which was
most obstinately fought on the'part of the
The loss of the Russians was very
severe, not less, according to the Vienna
letters, than 3,000 in killed and wounded ;
md a great proportion of officers, it is fur
* The reports inserted in various pqpera of the
occupation of Baldshik and Kowarna, and the re
taking of Sizeboli by the Turks are sufficiently
refuted by the above account.
ther affirmed, fell in the action. To ine
Turks tne event is considered as little less
important lliau a victory, both on account
of ihe diminution the Russian force hassus
tamed, and its having enabled them to
throw succors into Silistria, and thus to
lengthen the probable period of the
Times.
We have received a letter from our own
correspondent, informing us that ©n tho
BHI jjlt. the garrisons of Rudschunk and
Giergovo attacked tho Russians before
those places, and a very severe engageui ?i:t
took place, without any decisive success on
either side. One hundred wagons of woun
ded Russians weie sent to Bucharest. Our
correspondent also corroborates tiie accouat
ol a Russian corps winch had crossed the
Danube, near Hirsova, having been attack
ed and defeated by the Turks; 2,60 Q
wounded Russians srere sent to Billow
and G illaeZ. He adds that some serious
events have takeu place on the shores of
the BiacK Sea, but that ajj persons coming
from that quarter are strictly urohibited
from speaking upon military and political
events. It is supposed that the Russian
general will leave aljciut 25,000 men before
Siiistrfa, and advance with 50,000 men to
Servbi,. which has not, as yet,*felt the mise
ries of war. This movement is described
by our correspondent to be neoessarv tim
principalities aud Bessurabia having been
totally es haiAted.— Cour.
London, June 6-1-2 past 7.
Business at the Slock Exchange, has
been in a torpid state, and, jm. , -*::d # -almost
suspended, tiu/ing the word© pf the day.
Prices are, if any thing, more firmlymai n*
Joined than yesterday. Consuls for the
accopnt left off at 88 I 2 buyers.
A report has been very industriously
circulated in this city, that immediately af
ter the rising of Parliament the Duke of
Wellington jntenda to proceed to Vienna,
thefg Jo arrange iu person the final settle
ment of tfie affairs of the E Ist; but the im
probabjiity ol such an event has prevented
its obtaining even partial credit, and it has
not beeu traced to any quarter calculated
(o impress the least value, or at ail to over
come the doubts to which it is liable on the
score of its impi ovality.
Joseph Lancanter.-~ l he publication iq
our papers ol tbe letters of this individual,
complaining of the usage he received in
Colombia, and of smaller grievances met
with by him ip Now Jersey, has given rise
to an exposition ot the Caracas papers, a
translation of which has appeared in the
Journal of Commeice Wp learn from it
that Lancaster remained in Caracas line©
years, ancj (reeeiyed for his set vices iu su
perintending a model school during that
period S3OOO per annum; half of which was
allowed him by the Corppration of the
tpw’u, and hall by the National Govern
ment.
.“ Moreover, the L berator actuated by a
desire to naturalize and extend a system of
Instruction so well adapted to the necessi
ties of the people, sent to Mr. Lain aster
from peru, a draft of 20,000 on the 1,000,-
00Q wbiqh the Congress of Peru had urged
him to accept for tbe benefit of his native
town, and which not having been paid by
the Peruvian agents was supplied by the
greatly reduced, but once splendid pan imo-
of the Liberator.”
’ That jLapcaster eventually received the
sum is proved by his own admissions. He
received it by drawing five orders, at dif
ferent times, in favor of different persons.
The exposition adds that— -
*•* 1° addition to this, Mr. Lancaster re
quested His Excellency, the Liberator, to
grant him 3 sum sufficient to pay tho pas
sage of his family cousistiug of three adults
apd three children. The liberator then or
dered |iim to render an account of the man
ner in which lie had expended the $20,000
rcjejved. Lancaster replied that he had
expended it jn tq rming a library, p tying an
interpreter, apd purchasing a educa
ting a professor, purchasing philosophical
instruments and globes, paying other deb;s
contracted since the commencement of the
institution, and n making certain remittan
ces to Philadelphia, lie then commanded
him to delivejr up to the political chief,
whatever prpperiy remained on hand, and
to give a formal statement of the expendi
ture. Mr. L incaster instead of doing thb,
find from the country.
“On collecting the articles which he had
in the school’ there were only found threer
great square tables; three steps for gaining
access to them; seven pair of book shelves;
twenty writing tables for children; ten ben
ches to sit on while writing; ninefy-nino
slates, either whole or broken; twenty -se*
ven board sheets for reading; seventy-seven
cards; eleven frames for maps; all of which
agreed with tfie inventory which we have
before us, signed by Mr. Lancaster ”
At the time when this individual was
most ejamorous for charity here, we took
the liberty of suggesting our doubts as to the
extraordinary cldims set up by him on our
national gratitude. We know of nothing
useful in the system of instruction some
times called Lancaster):!!), for which tho
present generation are not indebted mainly
to Dr Ball. The course pursued by Lan
caster since his arrival on this continen',
has been uniformly that of arrogating u*
himself a title to the substantial expression
of gratitude, for services which we believe
to be purely imaginary. When the fathers
pf this city, in their wisdom, and Catholic
benevolence, gave him SSOO, wo could not
but think that it might have been better
appropriated to empiying the jail. Oiw
remarks were thought illiberal by some of
our friends. On reading the foregoir?
statement, they may perhaps change their
viowg on the subject.— JV. Y , Com. Adc.
[No. 12—VouL. JL
