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AVGUSTA.
' FRI DA (JwiU 1N G, MARCH 10.
Death or Com. Ballard. —Information
reached Norfolk that Commodore Ballard, oj
the U. S.Navy, died at his residence near An
napolis, on Saturday last.
An Island Partly Sink.—The N. I. Ex
press says:—“Capt. Matthews, of the schooner
Erie, from Port ait Platt, informs us that the
brig Clara, Capt. Dunham, arrived at that port
from St. Thomas the day previous to his sail
ing, and reported that an earthquake had taken
place at the Windward Islands, on the Btli Feb
ruary; and fears are entertained for the Is
land of Montserrat, which it was reported had
partly sunk. An English steamer had been de
spatched to ascertain the amount of damage on
that and other islands.
Landing of Columbus.
The Paris correspondent of the Charleston
Courier, written in January, says:
I had lately the pleasure of seeing Vanderly’s
picture of the landing of Columbus, destined to
adorn the walls of the Capitol at Washington.
And I think it really will be an ornament there
It is evidently the work of a very superior art
ist, and can scarcely fail to increase his reputa
tion, and satisfy the public. The subject did
not afford much room for originality, but the fi
gures are happily grouped, boldly drawn, and
so tar, harmoniously colored. It will take him
about three months more to complete it, and he
hopes that June may see it in its place.
Every week records some improvement in
the good city of Paris, such as the layingdown
asphaltum tor side walks, and the substitution
of gas lamps for oil lamps in particular streets.
By the way another new experiment has been
tried here in pavements. A small portion of
one ol the leading thoroughfares has been laid
down in square blocks of stone, with half inch
slabs of wood between each, in J ieu of cement.
It looks curious to the eye, but I will watch the
wear and tear, and report upon it.
I think I have already remarked in one of my
letters upon the falling off of taste herein the
designs for public buildings and monuments. 1
alluded to the redundancy of ornament, with
which every wort now executed is overloaded.
Simple grandeur, of all others the most im
pressive in its effects, is now-a-days lost sight
of. But herein, though public buildings may
lose, private residences greatly gain. Paris is
rapidly filling with the richest and choicest spe
cimens of domestic architecture. Scarcely a
house is built now in any quarter, that has not
some external embellishment. Many are ex
quisitely beautiful. The style of the time of
Francis the First is very prevalent, and affords
great scope for the ingenuity and fine tastes of
the artists, for such they may really be called
rather than architects, seeing that they cut and
carve stone as cattily and fancifully asa painter
works figures on his canvass.
in Connecticut are as follows:
Dist. Whigs. Locos.
I. Thomas K. Brace, Thos. H. Seymour,
11. Sam’l D. Hubbard, John Stewart,
HI. Edward Eldridge, George S. Catlin,
IV. Thos. B. Osborne, Samuel Simons.
An extract ofa letter received in Wilmington,
N. C., from St. Thomas, says: “By an arriva l
yesterday, in nine days from St. Thomas, news
respecting the Earthquake at Point Petre is con
firmed, 7 to 10,060 lives lost; the other islands
suffered but little.”
Survivors of Washington.—The follow
ing interesting notice of the distinguished survi
vors ot the administration of the Father of his
Country, is from the United States Gazette;
Although none of the early associates of
Washington survive, a very few venerable men,
his cotemporaries in the legislative and diplo
matic departments during the latter period of
his administration, still linger among us. Os
the Senators ot that time, the survivors are Al
bert.Gallatin, elected in 1793; James Ross, hi
immediate successor, in 1794, and in the same
year, Kenseyjohns, the present venerable Chan
cellor of the State of Delaware, father of the As
sistant Bisho]> of the Protestant Episcopal
Church in England, yet live, enjoying the re
spect and veneration of their fellow citizens;
the first of whom, it is hoped, to regret his op
position to the measures of Washington, which
so peculiarly marked Mr. Gallatin’s legislative
career. Os the Representatives, one only sur
vives besides Mr. Gallatin, whose seat in the
Benate having been vacated lor want of the
constitutional qualification of nine years citi
zenship, was elected in 1795. The surviving
Representatives are Albert Gallatin and Gen.
Andrew Jackson, the latter of whom was in 1796
and 7, the sole Representative of the State of
Tennessee.
Ofthe two surviving ministers and diplomat
ic agents at foreign courts, during Washington’s
administration, our venerable fellow-citizen,
William Short, Esq., is the oldest, having been
with Mr. Carmichael, appointed ou a special
embassy to Spain in 1792, and on the 28th of
May, 1791, minister resilient at that court. But
John Quincy Adams, although appointed 30th
May, 1794, two days after Mr. Short, as a min
ister ofthe same grade to the Netherlands, was
subsequently in 1795, raised by Washington to
the rank of Minister Pl-nipotentiaiy to the court
of Portugal. Mr. Adams is believed to be the
only public man now living who can justly boast
es having enjoyed the confidence of Washing
ton.
The Star Spangled Banner.—The fol
lowing is the concluding paragraph of a
speeeh (ti’Z. Collins Lee, before the American
Colonization Society, in which l.e gives a histo
ry of that national ballad “The Star Spangled
Banner,” and pronounces a brie[ but beautiful
tW|ogy upon [ts apthqr, th? late F. S. Key, who
yas % jueniber qf the Society:
It yas duriiig the late memorable war, when
a British fleet had penetrated lo the very Capi
t"s[lofour country, and while approaching the
oyt-works apt! fort which guard a sister city,
that young Key, then detained on board an En
glish ship of war, beheld, as the twilight closed
upon the invading forces, the flag ofhis country
wavipg above foe fortress of attack, and when
(he piltgf set in, yas taunted by the threat and
boast ofthe inyadpis, that ere morning that flag
you|d be struct; to the prowess ot its enemies.
4)P(d ti;e smqke apd storm of the battle, he
yatpheil yith throbbing heart and anxious
?yes the first approach of light, his fears and
hopes ailke agitating and oppressing him. The
dawp broke at last, and, through the smoke and
clouds he caught the first glance of that yet v.n
conquered ensign still there, waving over the
free apd brave—its bright folds unbroken by the
storm as battle, apd (ts ttnextinguishablp stars
yot shining pudimped. Il was, sir, at this mo
tnept of rapture that the patriot’s overflowing
heart gave utterance to the brighest gem of our
literature, and the watchword of victory. If
nothing else remained to rescue his memory
Irom oblivion, this, alone, shall preserve it in
every land and over every sea, wherever Ame
rican arts and American arms shall carry light
and liberty and civilization.
From the N. O. Tropic of .March, 4.
Very Important from the West Indies.
By the British brig Diadem, Capt. Grant,
from Kingston, Jamaica, last evening, we are
placed in possession of highly interesting intelli
gence from the West Indies.
Two days before the departure ol the Diadem,
pp«i ot the British mail sttamei's arrived' at
i«'t.’gstca, v> ;»h foe 'startling iPfqfmhtion that the
jsliflds of St. Kilts, St. Thoiiias and Nevis, had
been almost totally destroy-u by an earthquake.
According to the reports, these islands had al
most completely disappeaied. Gt St. Thomas
and Nevis, scarcely a particle remained to l ive
tun foe of their former localitv. This calamity
was probably the result ot foe earthquake, the
effects of which wei e slightly felt in various por
tions afihe United Sta'es.
llADii u. L h o Focoism.--The proprietor oi
one of die Lowell laciories, thinking that the
\va*»es ;h**v were giving were too high, detei
minedh» reduce them. The editor of a paper
printcu in that town, thereupon utters the tol-
Liwing paragraph, which the New York Ev.n
inn Pus copies without comment:
“A.sothkr ti rs of the Screws.—The male
kilM>rei> on the Middlesex Corporation, Mr.
Samuel Lawrence’s.) received notice on Satur
day, of another cm uown of their washes. Yet
Air. L. and his corporation associates pretend
to be the exclusive friends ol the laborer. See
his / Sunday circular." We understand the bu
iness of this company is successful and pros
perous. that they arc runningaU their macniiie
ry at highest speed, and even till late at
night. This same Air. Samuel Lawrence is
leceiving his two dollars a day, by the vote-; of
these men, whose wages he has reduced to four
shillings a day ! — l7trU Arr-.dwr."
Both liie Lowell .Lzr. /.in-/■ and the N. York
EvcHittii An-/profess to be thorough-going ad
vocates of free trade and free competition for
both wages and labor. Yet when men act upon
the very principles which' these papers them
selves pretend so zealously to advocate, they
vilify them for so doing, in language like that
of the above paragraph. The laborers in the
“Middlesex Corporation" are certainly free to
seek employment wl.etevey they please. If
they can do better elsewhere than in the service
oi the company, who hinders them from doing
so? If the wages offered by the company be
low-i than the current price of labor, they can
not command it. and they will lose their’labor
ers, and must either stop these mills or offer
higher wastes. If on the contrary their present
laborers insist upon higher wages than the cur
tent value ot their labor, the will
lie that they must either fall in their demands or
be thrown out of employment. The price of
labor, like the price oi every thing else, must
be regulated by the relation of supply and de.
mand; and he who would regulate it by arbitra
ry rules, if he is not a short-sighted simpleton,
is in principle a tyrant, whatever he may pro
less.
We have copied the above paragraph as a
sample of the envenomed trash by which a cer
tain class of agrarian demagogues in this coun
try aim to poison the minds of the uneducated
and unreflecting poor, and to prejudice them
against their more prosperous neighbors.—Che
raw Gazette.
An up-countryman, at the Circus anight
or two since, remarked that he had heard a good
deal of such and such a man being “a whole
team,” but until he saw Muns. Paul he had ne
ver come across a sample. He was nut so par
ticularly certain but that the French Hercules
might have “and a horse to let” attached to his
title of “a whole team.” — N. O. Pie.
Washington.—The subjoined sketch of the
character of Washington is from Alison’s histo
ry of Modern Europe. The eulogium here pro
nounced is nut without discrimination. We
may remark however in ascribing Washington’s
militaiy successes rather to “the wisdom of his
designs and the perseverance of his character,
than tu any extraordinary genius for the art ol
war,” the historian appears to have fallen into
the common error of his less accurate observers.
When the circumstances as are considered un
der which the Revolutionary hero conducted
his military operations—Hie vast expanse of
country allotted to the movements of the armies
—the inconveniences which the enemy' were
subjected to in carrying on hostilities so tar from
home—the inequality of the respective parlies |
with regard to equipments desciplineand means |
—when it is recollected that perplexities and
embarrassments beset the American leader at
every step, resulting from the weakness of the
Confederated Government, a depreciated curren
cy, and the ineflieacies of new levies—it will
be seen that the system adopted by him in con
ducting the struggle was chosen not as a mat
ter of preference in accordance with his own
disposition, but as the only system adapted to
the emergency of the ease. That Washington
possessed all those high qualities of decision, en
ergy, quick despatch and teady invention which
characterized the first order of military heroes,
is evid* n: from his campaign in the Jerseys, in
cluding the passage of the Delaware, and the
battles of Trenton and Princeton, where boldness
became proper. His manoeuvre which deceiv
ed Sir Henry Clinton, and by which he concen
trated hjs forces at Ynrictmrn iishl th«
.surrender of Cur n wall is before any assistance
Ifhecoul.i be a Fabius in prudent circumspec
tion, so could he also show himself a Hannibal
in temLle enegry.
The admirable equilibrium of Washington’s
character, whereby the faculties ofhis great mind
were harmoniously proportioned and undue pre
ponderance allowed to none, has induced some
to suppose that because nostaitling prominences
were seen in particular patts, there was no ele
vation in such jioints. But let it be remembered
that the whole man stood, majestic, high above
the common level. His whole character was
one of massive grandeur. If one quality did
not tower aloft to overshadow the rest, it was
because all were exalted. The solemn earnest
ness of soul prehided all vain ambition—all de
sires fur mere show. There was nothing about
him that was not solid—substantial—gieat; in
him the elements of all noble qualifications w r ere
so mixed,
that Nature might stand up,
And say to all the world, Thi.f was n m..n !
ill the sketch which follows if will be seen
that the British historian takes pride in the fact
that the hero of our Republic came of the old
English stock. Weaie not disposed to deny
the claim of sympathy which he advances; for
we, on this side of the waler, also, claim a com
mon inheritance in the glory of British worthies
whose names are identified with the progress of
human freedom and with some of the noblest a
chievements of man:— Baltimore American.
WASHINGTON.
Modern history has not so spotless a character
to commemorate. Invincible in resolution, linn
in conduct, incorruptible in integrity, he brought
to the helm of a victor ious republic the simpli
city and innocence of rural lite. He was forced
into greatness by circumstances, rather than led
into it by inclination; and prevailed over his
enemies rather by the wisdom of his designs and
the perseverance of his character, than any ex
traordinary genius lor the art of war. A soldier
from necessity and patriotism rather than dis
position. he was the first to recommend a return
to pacific counsels when the independence ofhis
country was secured; and bequeathed to his
countrymen an address on leavingtheirGovern
ment, to which there is no composition of unin
spired wisdom which can bear a comparison.—
He was modest without diffidence; sensible to
the voice of fame, without vanity; independent
and dignified, without either asperity or pride.
He was a friend to liberty, but not licentiousness;
not to the dreams of enthusiasts, but to those
practical ideas which America had inherited
from her English descent; and which were op
posed to nothing so much as the extravagant
love of power in the French democracy. Ac
cordingly. after hav ng signalized his’life by
successful resistance to English oppression, he
closed it by the wannest advice to cultivate the
friendship of Great Britain; and by his casting
vote, shortly before his resignation, ratified a
treaty ol fi iendly and commercial intercourse be
tween th mother country and its emancipated
offspring He was a Cromwell without his
ambitioi; ;» fsylla without his crimes; and, after
having r.Lsed hi> country, by his exertion*, to
the rank an independent state, closed his
career by a voluntary relinquishment of the
power which a grateful people had bestowed.
It is the highest glory of England to have given
birth, even amid trans-Atlantic wilds, to such a
man; and if she cannot number him among
those who have extended her provinces or aug
mented her dominions, she may at least feel a
legitimate pride in the victories which he
achieved, and the great qualities which he ex
hibited, in the contest with herself ; and indulge
with satisfaction in the reflection that vast em
pire, which neither the ambition ot Louis XIV
nor the power pf Napoleon could dismember,
received its first rude shock from the courage
which she had communicated to her own off
spring; and that, amid the convulsionsand re
volutions oi other stales, real liberty has arisen
in that country alone which inherited in its veins
the genuine principles of British freedom.
Losing a Partner.—. 4 Slringof Dan
cers.—Some elderly geiulvman in Arkansas
sends us a in which he states
that some twenty years ago the natives of Mex
ico were in the habit of dancing in the streets,
and that frequently in those days lie saw lines
of people a mile in length, an I all engaged in
the dance. On one occasion a Frenchman lost
his parter in a centre dance, and never found
her until he had “crossed over” “down the mid
dle” and “up on the outside”/«/ ?A/cc days and
nights! We have seen some little dancing in
Mexico, but this story’ is a shade ahead ot our
experience. As the writer does not ask us to
believe it. we simply tell the story tor what it’s
worth.— Pic.
Kentucky.—The news from this State is of a
cheering character, and tells well for the honest
and upright feeling <»f her people. The Legis
lature have passed a bill,’6v a t- • majority
laying:! tax c>f fifteen cents, five to go to foe sink
ing ftuiil, which secures the punctual payment
ot the interest ou her' State dsbt. This is fog
right mode, and is in striking contrast with the
doings in Ohio, where instead of taxing, they
have issued §2,6>00,(KM) of relief notes, thereby
increasing foe State debt, and the amount of in
terest to be paid annually. Win never a State
pays her interest by the issue of fresh b mds,
instead of resoning to taxation, tl e downs ,11 of
hei credit, sooner or later, is inevitable.—
-■ ’i’an-a Inquirer.
SATURDAY MORNIMG, MARCH 11.
Mesmbrisic*
The Mesmeric fluid, from recent indications,
seems to be diffusing itself among live communi
ty very generally,—indeed it is occupying the
attention of almost all, and il the weather con
tinues to partially suspend business a few days
longer, there is no calculating the effect tube
produced, or the developements that will be
made in this strange and mysterious influence.
State of Parties.
Now that Congress has adjourned, and the
Conrrotiunseason i.s coming ruunc, we may ex
pect some new movements among the candi
dates for the Presidency- Among the rival
Democratic candidates, the fight is already be
coming interesting; and in it, Mr. Van Buren
seems to be rapidly gaining the advantage. The
prospect that Mr. Calhoun will get the nomina
tion of the Democratic National Convention,
grows daily less, and in consequence his barti
zans display even more bitterness towards the
Van Buren section of their party than towards
their common enemy, the Whigs. To such an
extent does this leeling extend, that it is hinted
that if Mr. Calhoun fails in getting the nomina
tion, (and he undoubtedly will tail, being no
match for the little magician in political ma
noeuvring,) he and his portion ol thc'p- rty will
come over to the support of Mr. Clay, a move
ment which can hardly be hoped for, although
it there is any the doctrine of affinities,
they a e much more likely to amalgamate with
the Whigs than with the Northern Locofocos.
In the meantime, Mr. Tyler is actively al
work on his own account. He is buying up
such freemen as are for sale, whose number in
this country, unfortunately, is n«t inconsidera
ble; he is subsidizing presses; almost every
day. we hear or read of some paper having hoi»-
ted the Tyler flag, and be is employing the
whole ofhis Executive power and patronage tu
secure a nomination. He has hithertd worked
rather in the dark* but we may soon expect some
developement of his designs;’ his hope is proba
bly that for the sake ol compromise between
Calhoun and Van Buren, the Democratic party
will nominate him. He can of course expect
nothing from the Whigs who are already deter
mined and united upon their candidate. ’ With
the influence of the station he possesses, and
an active at my of office-holders under his com
mand. the Captain is a candidate not to be de
spised by die Democrats; as for the Whigs,
they are accustomed to fight against official
power and ran do without him.
Cass, Johnson and the minor candidates of
our opponents, seem tube almost disregarded in
the very pretty fight which is going on between
the more important sections of the Democratic
army. Whether they will ever rise loan}’ im
portance in the contest cannot now be foreseen.
The prospects of our success, under the ban
ner of HENRY CLAY, are brightening daily.
Every whete unanimity andenthusiasm pervade
the Whig party, good omens of a victory as
great and more perfect than that of 1840
Gluiet and seeming inactivity now reigns a
inong i hem, but the Whigs and
when the time comes lor action, will come to
the contest with an energy and in numbers
which will overwhelm their adversaries.—AYwji
4’ Pkii.'ers Gazette.
St iuct ion •—Another Horrid Tale.
The Philadelphia Gazette of Friday evening,
gives ike following horrid story of seduction and
its com equences:
In Bradford county, in this State, as we learn
from th? Bradford Porter, a clergyman by the
name < f Lefevre, was guilty of this outrageous
crime ti wards a young woman ot his congrega
tion, inio whose family his holy office had been
his pas- port.
The unfortunate victim has since become in
sane, and her mother is also a maniac. The
tragedy is rendered the mote thrilling by the
death of her father, who, it is stated, fell a corpse
at the feet of the person from whom he received
the fatal intelligence.
So horrid a tale ahnost exceeds belief. Here
are xuw.urrencasin leal life, wheih fiction has
haplly e.-ei dared toTijralkl ~ -
TtiS -.orhb desolation that' the villain who
caused :11 this misery, is in jail. It is to be re
gretted. that the law takes no proper cognizance
ofhis crime.
U"A bill has passed one branch of the Phil
delphia City Council, directing the Mayor to
borrow on the faith and credit ofthe city §300,-
obo a( 6 per cent, interest, towards the comple
tion ot tlie Girard College.
Gold Coin—We learn from the managersof
the Min', there were coined in the proceeding
ni ntii, 12,893 quarter eagles, amounting to
§32,235,50, and one hundred and threedeposites.
—Aloun'arii Tinies.
Red itiviiß.—The Red River Republican of
the 23d ult. states, on authority irom above, that
foe alarming accounts of foe late rise were ex
aggerated. The river is no higher now than it
was in 1840, and not more than two or three
lives have been lost. Col. Milam and his fam
*ly have not perished, as was reported.—The rise
was mote sudden than ever it was before, but
not as great.
55" A minority report of the Committee ofthe
Pennsylvania Legislature recommends the im
peachment of Gov. Porter and goes farto estab
lish fraud, bribery, and acts unworthy ofhis of
fice.
To what base use do we come at[last.—Tlie
'arge poik house at Cincinnati, u Inch was des
troyed by the late fire in that city, was originally
erected for the banking house ofa branch of the
Bank ofthe United States.
Sperm Oil.—The government closed a con-'
tract at I'oston on Thursday for 29,(XX) gallons
spring, and 20,000 gallons winterstrained Sperm
Oil, at 50 cents per gallon foi the former, and
58 cents for the latter.
M>«. Vin 81-hen.—An Albany letterto the
New Yo:k Ainerican -ays:—“Mr. Van Buren
has been here far a week past. He has grown
enormously fat since the people turned him out
to gras.-, it is understood that his friends are
busy in rooking up a Legislative nomination
for him. He himself is prodigal ot his bows
and saiil to the influential men in the Senate
and Assembly.”
Inter, sting Relics.—A correspondent of the
Boston American sta es that the Penobscot In
dians ha ve ;.i ttreir pos.se>: i >n several autograph
letters p.uo Washington, addressed to them, ur
ging tnei: r.rttlralily, while the contest for our
independence was t aging.
Mr. Walsh, in a letter to foe National In
telligencer, dated Paris, Jan. 7. says—
“A ludicrous scene occurred in the royal court
of justice yesterday. La Presse had issued ap
additional sheet tor law and police cases; the
attorney general claimed the pecuniary deposile
as security, for a distinct journal. La Presse
and was exempted by the inferior tribu
nal. The royal court was employed with the
crown appeal. Pail let, lawyer ofLa Presse, de
livered unfolded the largest of the American
monster hebdomadals, stretched it out, with
both arms extended to the utmost, so as to ren
der it a complete screen from head lo foot, anti
from behind it, exclaimed to the bench: “See !
the Americans are not a people who dread quan
tity of matter and paper; they recoil from no
dimensions—they aftow all scopelo the freedom
of the pen and scissors, Our prosecutors are
niggards—the court will be more liberal and
broad-sighted. The spread of letters can no
where do harm.” All the auditors of Paillei
(judges not excepted) were convulsed with
laughter. The decision sanctioned the supple
ment of La Presse.”
The present gold .digging campaign has
opened with the most flatleting auspices. The
miners genet ally prepare their mines much bet
ter than formerly, and the result is ofa most en
couraging nature.
The winter has sustained its character for
changeableness in this section 3 s well as in
other parts of the B'a'.c, yet tlie miner has been
abundantly compensated for his labor. And
i.may be truly said ot the Chestatee bank -the
more it is broken foe better it pays.’—Afoi'ataiz*
Times.
Desthi'ctivh Shot.—Experiments were.tried
at Albany on Wednesday, in tl'(e nrekenoo of
Gen. Wool anil Major Baker, ol the army,
which satisfied them of the final success of the
hollow shot or shells, invented by Scott and Bur
dick of that city. The shells are loaded with a
composition designed to explo le them at the in
stant ot striking any object at which they may
be aimed. The Journal says the effect ofa sin
gle shot upou a large ship would be to sink her
almost instantaneously, and exploding in or near
a body of troops it w ould prove awfully destruc
tive.
AUGUSTA, GA. THURSDAY M®NING, MARCH 16. 1843.
'Die Berrien Ke»o:i.lions.
We firn.! in the Baltimore American and Pat
riot, Uiu following sketch of the proceedings in
the Senate, on the 2d instant, on the presenta
tion, by Mr. Culhbett, ol the resolutions of the
Georgia Legislature, at its last session, con
demnatory' of the course of the Hon. John Mc-
Pheison Berrien. When the sketch of the de
bate, promised by the Intelligencer, appears, we
shall endeavor to lay it before our readcis:
Tile Georgia Resolutions.
MES3IU. BERRIEN AND VOTIIBBBT.
Mr. Uullibeit rose, and remarking that as his
colleague (Mr. Berrien) was now in his place,
he begged leave tu submit a series of resolu
tions recently adopted by the Legislature of
Georgia, which he sent to the Chair.
They were read; —and Ido not exaggerate
when 1 say that of all the papers 1 have ever
know nto have emanated iroin the Legislation
of any State, they are immeasurably uie most
undignified in conception and language. The
expressions, indeed, were exceedingly coarse in
some parts. They not only declated their op
position to his opinions upon the questions ot a
National Bank—Distribution—the Tat iff—and
the Doctrine of Instruction; but they comment
harshly on his Addre.-s to his constituents, re
nounce all connection with him, declare him
unfit to represent Georgia in the Senate, and
proclaim that they will r:ot receive any thing
from hire.
After the reading was finished, Mr. Beirieu
rose. The Senate and auditors in the galleries
satin the most profound silence; and’there
seemed pictured on every countenance a sente
of the ottensiveness of the document.
Mr. Berrien sent to the Chair the report of
the minority oi the Legislature; and asked that
the resolutions appended thereto should be read.
Mr. Cuthbert asked whence they came ? His
health had prevented him from knowing much
about recent events in Georgia.
Mr. Berrien said that the resolutions were re
ported by the minority of the Committee on the
State ot the Republic, and sustained by the mi
nority of the Legislature.
They were read; and were the grand contrast
of the first resolutions in manner and matter.
They express in graceful terms their continued
confidence in Mr. Berrien, and their concurrence
in the leading principles of his poliical life, and
in the measures tor which his adversaries con
demn him.
Alter they were read, Mr. Berrien rose, and
said the humiliating spectacle just presented to
the Senate, was not his own lault. A portion
of the Legislature of Georgia—not the majority
—send a series ot resolutions, not instructing
him as to the discharge of his duty here, but
making nietely a personal wanton attack on
him.
He had, however, no embarrassment in reply
ing to them: but to characterize them, as his
feelings would prompt, would be to throw dis
credit upon the State which he had the honor to
represent.
It was perfectly manifest to the Senate that
this is a mere controversy between the two po
litical parties of the Slate. One arraigns and
condemns a Senator of the United Stales; the
other approves of his course. A portion of the
Legislature going beyond the limits of political
controversy, make a personal attack on itim;
and he begged to say lie held it in perfect con
tempt, whether coming from one man, or one
million of men.
When ordered to retire from his present sta
tion, he would refer those who gave the instruc
tions, to the latest demonstrations of the People
ofGeorgia, when this very controversy was in
issue before them. The decision at’ the last
election, held throughout the State, shows that
his principles are in consonance with those of a
majority ot the people.
.XJr. Cuthbert followed, and said that Mr.
Berrien had commenced the assault by ehaig- i
lug, in his speech on the Bankrupt Bill, thattlie
resolutions he presented did not originate with
the Legislature, but with others, fi his was an
aggression on his own pal.
Mr. C. then proceeded in his customary style
of declamation, to contend that the late election
did not demonstrate tfie people to be in favor of
his colleague’s principles and measures; but
that the Congressional election previous did de
cide the matter; the whole strength ot the State
not having bean called out at the one, while it
was with the other.
lime with his otatory, which is of the loot
laughter-moving description, especially when
he attempted to be fine, pathetic, or eloquent.
Mr. Cuthbert endorsed the resolutions, though
he said perhaps he might have put them in dil
ferent language. Mr. Cuthbert became person
al as he advanced.
Mr. Crittenden raised a point of order, but
withdrew it alter a general request.
Mr. Cuthbert denied that he hail been person
al. He had only been political, and in this
sense lie reprobated the course of his colleague.
Mr. Berrien said lie was not disposed to take
up much time. He was well aware that the
Senate could better employ its time, and he was
aware, 100, that the subject ought to have been
introduced here. Mr. B. went briefly into reply.
He wae dignified, but severe upon the people
who had insulted him, and upon the Senator
from Georgia (his colleague) had regretted the
-xposure of the domestic concerns oi' Georgia.
Mr. Cuthbett rejoined, and Mr. Berrien left
his colleague to hitnself to give the Senate an
bpporttinity to proceed to more important busi
ness. The Senate refused to print the Resolu
tions by the following vote:
Yeas—Messrs. Alien, Bagby, Benton, Buch
anan, Calhoun, Cuthbert, Fulton, Henderson,
Linn, King, McDultie, Mcßoberts, Sevier,
Simmons, Sturgeon, Tappan, Walker, Wilcox,
Woodbury, Wright, Williams—2l.
Nays—Messrs. Arcliet, Barrow, Bates, Bay
ard, Clayton, Conrad, Crafts, Dayton, Evans,
Graham, Huntington, Kerr, Merrick, Miller,
Motehead, Porter, Phelps, Simmons, Smith, ol
In., Sprague, Tallmadge, White, Woodbridge
—2l.
The Washington correspondent of the Balti
more Patriot, alluding to this scene, remarks:
The real friends of State Rights would have
felt great humiliation, at the spectacle presented
in the Senate this morning. A portion of that
Loco Foeo majority of the Legislature ofGeor
gia, against wliuin the sovereign people have
recently made so dwisive a demonstiatioli, took
it upon them to promulgate a scries of most of
fensive resolutions against the able and distin
guished Senator Berrien, who, with so much
firmness and patriotism, resisted the absurd doc
trine of instruction. He had evidence sufficient
to satisfy a jury ofhis country, that this move
ment had its origin in the malignity and vin- |
dietiveness of a tew individuals. At their in
stigation his political opponents got up the con
temptible farce of passing legislative resolves,
certified by the presiding officers of the two
houses, and the Governor of the State; and then
with a view of mortifying, and, if possible, dis
grace him, they sent them to Hie Senate of the
United States. lam sure 1 express the senti
ment ofeveiy person td judgment and offeeling
who listened to these extraordinary resolutions
as they were read to-day, when 1 declare that
they excited general disgust and scorn, and the
eminent Senator at whom they -were aimed
never ap p-er red to better advantage, than when |
he repelie ! them with :■ calm and conscious !
dignity, -s disgraces ul only to those who origin- I
ated them. I regret the part which Mr. Cuth
bert took in these proceedings. He has thu repu
tation of being an amiable and inoffensive gen
tleman; not over burdened with tact or sagacity
—but he cannot have forgotten that the friends
of his colleague had frequent opportunities,
within the last few years, of instructing him out
of his seat, and their forbearance might have
suggested a more courteous and friendly course
towards Mr. Benien than be exhibited in be
coming the advocate of this vituperative docu- i
ment, on the floor of the Senate. The majority’ I
branded it with the most decisive mark of their I
reprobation which they had it in their power to
apply, by the refusal to print. If, therefore, the
sage gentlemen of the Legislature of Georgia
wish to have their invective circulated in inis
this quarter, they must do it a 1 their own ex
pense.
I'roni the Savannah Republium.
Important from St. Domingo.
Authentic Intelligence of the Reroll in that Islinul.
By the arrival at this port yesterday, of the
Il’owZs/oc/.’, Capt. Baker, direct from Aux Cayes,
we have authentic intelligence of the revolt
which recently’ broke out in St. Domingo, a re
port of which has already reached the U Stateis 1
by the arrival of a vessel at l('Ji;tes’ Hole, I
bound to Boston, f rom th-g same port. No par- ,
ticulars of moment were given, however, as I
the vessel in question left immediately on the j
breaking out of the revolt.
The American Consul or Commercial Agent
at Aux Cayes, sent despatches to Hon. Daniel
Webster, Secretary of State, by’ the Hiw/xfiy/r
—they were forwardevl to Washington, by yes
terday’s mail.
We refer Mi the foytta: efi the American Com
mercial Agent at Aux Cayes, Mr. Gooch, att
i dressed to Capt. Baker, and published below,
for the particulars of the revolution so far as it
had gone forward up to the time of Lis depart
ure. Several desertions had taken place to the
force oi the insurrectionists, and we learn ver
bally front Capt. Baker, that in arming the
whole population of Aux Cayes, the govern
ment was in all probability placing anus in the
hands of a large number who were disaffected
to it. A very hostile feeling was manifested
towards the in many quarters. The
soldiery were badly paid, and lived in great part
upon plunder." President Boyer is supposed tu
have a large sum of inoncy'at his command,
and it is presumed that if thgiJriiurection suc
ceeds, he will leave the island <>nd sail for
France. Otherssuppo.se he is JtSdy to call to
his aid the intervention of FraWte, which will
be but a preparatory step to a suf render of St.
Domingo to that power. It will be seen by the
statement of the Consul, that town has al
ready opened its gates to the re>’<jti!ionists.
U. S. Commercial Agents’ ,Ro< m-, i
Aux Gayes,jiWht 4>, 1843. y
Capt. Wm. Baker—
Dear Sir—l would inform ySu, agree tide to
your request, that a revolution; Irtts commenced
on this island. From the 2tifh fi> the 30th ult.,
fears were entertained for the sarljy of this city.
A botiv of revolutionists bad rZdleeteu lour
leagues Rom t!ii ■ place, and evening of
the 2«ib, they had marched witimi five miles oi
this city . '1 lie commander ol foe ibices, Col:
Reviere, sent a coiiimiiiucatlOu w Hie General
commanding this A n ndisseu^^^ tl-.at it was
not his intention to take life, dt JmUge the city,
both would be avoided, but to new Con
stitution to the af fl»yidaud, which
they now deinaiiiied. At that fii-«Jhe received
a letter from one ofhis friends, sl’afig that the
Geiifial '..oil'd make i oiue oW*.'t:<-’, in the
looming. He then marched camp.
On the 30th, die city by
several regiments from abroad, tl-.i> tygiments
were sent to attack the revolifoig:' rests. When
they arrived at their camp,taken up
the line of march for Jeremp^^Bf..’’'d> p news
arrived here yesterdav/duit 'J^^B^ti -i '' ,! *i | enl
of Jm.-mie was i«i
ists, rrtid Hi.!! a large 'Lach
place. Several regiments of Government Hoops
have lef t this part of the Island to attack the re
volters. All the South part of the Island is in
a state of civil war.
This evening, news arrived from Port au
Prince, that that city is in as great a state of
excitement as at Aux Cayes—that they are un
able, so great is the excitement, to send any
troops to Jeremie. Three Delegates from Jaci
mel, arrived in the city two hours since. They
have been arrested by the General, and are now
in prison. Ji is impossible to state how large a
force the. revolutionists have, but it is reported
from 4,tttKl to 5,1)00,men: No doubt there will
be hard fighting before either party surrenders.
By what I have heard this evening, I believe
the whole Island is now in a state of revolt
Business is almost suspended. The mercantile
houses here know not what to do—God only
knows what the event will lie. I have written
in great haste and with continual interruptions.
I am Sir, respectfully, your friend anti servant.
' WM. B. GOOCH.
Capt. Wm. Baker, of brig Woodstock, Port of
Aux Cayes.
Rrom the Mobile Herald.
A iiettcr from A San Antonio Prisoner.
We ate indebted to the kindness of a friend
for the following letter, lately received fora one
of the unfortunate prisoners taken at San Anto
nio, some time ago. It will be read with deep
interest, coming as it does from a reliable source,
and giving a faithful account of the entire al
fair. The epistle was brought to this city by
Mr. Southall, the bearer of despatches, and is
dated “Castle Perole, January 29th, 1813," and
we copy it entire omitting such parts only as re
fer to private affairs.
♦ s A • ♦
“San Antonio is an old Spanish town on the
river of the same name, and is the most west
erly settlement witliin the limits of Texas. The
nearest settlements towards the east are those of
the Guadaloupe river, distant from 40 to (10
miles. The American population has never
been large in San Antonio, but the jurisdiction
of Texas lias been perfect and undisputed in
this place, and cou ts have been held without
intermission, until the expedition in March last,
under the command ot Gen. Vasquez. At that
time, the place being abandoned by the Ameri
cans, it was entered and pillaged by the Mexi
can army, who immediately retreated beyond
the Rio Bravo, into their own territory, in
.September last, being the regular fall term, the
district court, Judge Hutchinson presiding, was
opened and continued in session five days, with
out interruption, when reports were circulated
of the approach of a Mexican force. Rumors
had been frequently circulated during the sum
mer, that it was the intentions of certain rene
gade Texian Mexicans, who had gone off to
Mexico, to return and plunder the town, and
more than such a band of depredators, whose
numbers would not be very large, and against
which it was believed the town could be defend
ed. The Americans in the pla eattlie time,
including those from a distance in attendance
upon court as lawyers, suitors, witnesses, &c.,
numbered about seven y. Uncertain as to what
course they should pursue, they determined, to
ascertain, if possible, the truth of the rumor,
and the character qf the approaching force, if
any, sent out scouts to reconnoitre the roads
leading from the Rio Bravo into town. Sever
al Mexican citizens also prepared to act as com
missioners, and to go to the camp, if to be found,
of the reported enemy, and ascertain their ob
ject and character, assuring the Americans that
if it should prove to be a regular force, they
would be permitted to return; if not, they would
be detained, and this detention inigh! be consid
ered pretty conclusive evidence that only a ban
ditti were approaching. Neither scout oreom
missiuners returned —the former pursuing the
roads saw nothing—the latter, finding the camp
of Gen. Wool, were detained as prisoners. All
information was thus cutoff from those in town,
who became satisfied from the failure of the
scouts and the commissioners to return, that
there was either no enemy or but a party of two
or tine hundred robbeis. During the night that
succeeded, the place was surrounded by Mexi
can cavalry and allied Indians, and at the dawn
of day, in the midst ot a dense fog, the main
fiody of the Mexican army entered the town.—
The citizens of the town aroused from their
beds, assembled atan appointed place of rendez
vous and lire.! upon the advancing bony asthey
entered the public square. A contest of some
minutes ensued, each parlj’ directing their fire
at that of their atfoetsary until the fog disap
peared, when a white flag was sent to the Ame
icans, announcing Gen. Woll aftlie head of
two thousand Mexican tioops, anddemandinga
surrender in half an hour. Several gentlemen
of the company were despatched to wait on the
General and confer in relation to the demand.—
After a short interview, in which the General
pledged bis honor that we should be treated not
only with kindness and humanity, but as gen
tlemen, and that our private property, arms ex
cepted, should be respected. They then return
ed to their companions in arms" and reported
what had massed. A surrender was agreed on,
and our arms were delivered up. No demand
was made on the part of the A met leans that the
terms ot sin render be reduced to writing, for
two reasons:—lst, Il the [Mexican General
should nut ba disposed to carry out the terms of
surrender, a [taper guarantee which could be eas
ily taken away and destroyed, was no guarantee <
at all. 2d. Because the Americans, having re
sorted to anus as they believed against a band
of unauthorised plunderers, and not a regular
force es the government, and having assembled
to attend a court and not a camp.fbev were not
acting as a temporary qr regular soldiery, and
therefore b. Iteved ;hit they would be treated as
private <: : ii',«.'l;s, and would be released in a
short tint •. After the surrender copies of Gen.
\V oil’s urdeis to make war upon those w ho were
found in amis against the authority of the Goy-,
eminent of Mexico, were exhibited to the pris
oners. The Texians had been lulled into a
false security by the efforts wj|ioh were making
by the governments of England and the United
States, to mediato between the two countries.—
England had stipulated in a Treaty with Tex
as to use her exertions to procure a truce within
forty days from the ratification of the treaty, la
consideration that Texas would assume one
million sterling of the national debt as Mexico.
The exchange of ratificatioas of the treat;’ hail
taken place in th? tnonthof June, and the intel
ligence of this fad had reached Western Texas
ogly g few days previous to the affair at San
Antonio. About the same time also, a letter
was received by the Government of Texasfrom
the United States’ Charge’d Affaires, announc
ing that the government of the United States
had tendered its offices as a mediator, and re
questing a suspension of military on
the part of Texas, until the vd the prof
fered mediation should be. Vwwn. All this,
added to the fact tha’, intelligence had reach
ed Texas of q„y preparations on the part of
Mexico, for a campaign, was calculated to put
;fac. Texians off' their guard. The Mexican
l General, too, approached San Antonio by a cii- I
cuitous route through the wilderness—j.o cryug ■
by no travelled road, but cut a ne\p
Such are the facte in r?'all9R t. 9 the.fiaputre of
it.-, the unfortunate raisonej’s, no,w in the hands
' of foe Mexjcafofi- Tlip. number consists of the
; J udge qf ’"he Dtetticf au amiable man, of much
' oruditiqn, past the middle of life, and of deli
cate health and constitution,—some six or seven
lyenxbers of the l>ar, who were in attendance
upon lheetmrt,parties, jurors, witnesses, andciti
jams of San Antonio, and the adjacent counties.
Deluded into a false belief that we were on the
eve of peace, we have been ensnared, captured,
nay, kidnapped, for no milder or more appro
priate phrase fully meets the case, and dragged,
under false and hypocritical promises of kind
treatment and speedy release, into a wretched
and cruel captivity. After travelling three
months, we arrivedat foe Castle, or prison cl
i’arote the great receptacle of convicts of every
grade, and v. e are here tiirown into chains like
f-lons, and driven rtu labour at foe point the
[bayonet, like slaves,—fed upon hahrations of
. bread, beans and potatoes, (withpuj ineatj cook
'■ ed in large kettles, out to us twice a
day, with a little coffee made of parched beans—
sleeping upon a cold stone flooi, with no bedding
but our aiinost thread bate blankets. Such is
the pt esent condition of titty-five of us —many
of whom are men raised without work or hard
ship, and having at home property sufficient for
comfort and ease.
The policy ot foe Mexican government appears
to be tii.it oi a savage instead ola civilized na
tion. She persists in asserting her right and
bility u> re-conquer and subjugate Texas, and
her determination to do so, but despairing to do
so by a regular invasion she hasadopted the pol
icyof in secret parlies to thefrontiers
anti kidnapping such ciizens as may unwarily
fall into her hands, and dragging them more
than a thousand miles from their homes, only to
throw them into dungeons laden with chains,
and worked like felons and slaves. Promises ano
pledges of the most sacred character made to
prisoners, by the officers to whom they surren
der, ate wholly disregarded by the Government.
In fact it would seem that the government does
not feel itself bound to respect the terms oi
surrender agreed upon by its own Generals.
'The all-important point appears to be to get
prisoners, anti because she cannot re-conquer
the country, she wreaks her vengeance upon
such individual citizens as unfortunately fall in
to her hands. She proses-es to have abandoned
the savage policy of shooting prisoners, as i t
Goliad, and proclaims that she will carry on
war according to the usages of the most civiliz
ed nations. Lite is spared it would seem only
to be tortured and rendered quite as horrible as
even death itself. Prisoners t<s whom humane
juott'- '-s arc made, to indue? a surrender i
c>.ai>k<Hua- ft-uiWi like iiiklettrfot's, sMffiw
side with convicted felons, and are looked upon
as no better. It would appearthenthatnegoiia
tions of Texas with the United Slates, Fiance,
England anil other nations of Europe have been
and are of no value, if such a mode of warfare is
permitted and winked at I That negotiation,
tr,’ placing Texas on the list of nations wipes
away from her citizens the taint of treason and
rebeilion, and makes it not only the right but the
solemn duty of those nations to compel Mexico
to carry on I lie war in a civilized manner, or
force her into terms of peace at once, which,
cither by success or defeat, shall settle the ques
tion ofright to the country. Entire conquest a
lone can restore toMexico her supposed lost right.
The capture and torture nfa few citizens cannot
add any thing to her prospects of ultimate suc
cess. The march of an enemy to a remote fron
tier town, only to retreat upon the first appear
ance of one fourth of their number of Texians,
as the two last expeditions did—abandoning
whatever foothold they gained—is wholly unlike
to lead to conquest. The truth is that Mexico
has no hopes of a recovery of Texas. The
war is continued onlybecause it gives an excuse
to her rulers to keep up a large army, which will
facilitate and make certain the march onward of
a Dictatorship or a Monarch).
A New Bishop.—The Rev. J. T. Johnston,
rector of St. Paul’s Church, in Alexandria, lias
been elected Bishop of the Episcopal Church in
Alabama.
The Ashburton Treaty.
In the debate in the House ot Lords, on the
answer to the Queen’s speech, Lord Brougham
referred to the treaty between the United States
and Great Britain—as indeed nearly all the
speakers did—and said concerning the bounda
ry adjustment:
“As to the terms of that settlement—as to the
territory which is affected by the line of bounda
ry that we have heard so much talked of to
night, and so much more and so less wisely talk
ed of out of door—l profess myself to be of this
opinion, (a heresy, I doubt not, that will be
questioned by some, perhaps of my noble friends
behind me) —I so infinitely over value, perhaps,
the importance, the vital importance, to the in
terests of this country and of mankind at large,
of a good understanding, of a cordial friendly
footing, being restored between this country and
our kinsmen of America, that I care not how
this line of boundary is drawn. lam utterly
indifferent what direction that line takes; leagues
or miles to the right hand or left, even let it af
fect Cape Rous, even let it affect the navigation
of the St. Johns river—welcome I take it all I
Give it up! Give me peace between America
and England.”
His Lordship went on to say, however, that
he was not left to that in defending the treaty,
paid compliments to Lord Ashburton for the
happy success of this negociation.
T’.'C By a recent order of the Emperor, the pun
ishment of a convicted incendiary in Russia, is
decreed to be running the gauntlet six times be
fore 1000 soldiers, and, in the event of his sur
viving (!) twenty-one years labor in the Siberi
an mines !
Noses. —A late number of the Vermont Assy
lum (Insane) Journal, contains some humorous
remarks on noses. The mad writer says, 'that
the nose lias been placed by Providence, directly
over the mouth, to pass judgement on the food
—a sort of sanitary sentinel—a kind of quaran
tine officer, to prevent the entrance into port ot
all things that are unsafe or unfitting.' Very
ti tie.
Ship Ashore.—The ship Rosalind, of New
buryport, from Havre, for Charleston, went a
sliore onThursday night last near Stono,during a
dense fog. The steamer JCtiwan and several
smacks left the city Friday afternoon to go to
her assistance. The 11. had a pilot on board at
the time of her going ashore.-. C/inrfe.tfwi Coa»-
ier.
Mr. Webstbk. —The Washington correspon
dent ofthe New A'ork Courier writes—
When the nomination of Mr. Cushing was
under advisement in the Senate, Mr. Archer re
marked that he was authorized to inform the
Senate, that Mr. Webster was about to retire
from the Cabinet, and therefore there could be
no objection arising from the fact, that he and
Mr. Cushing were from the same State.
An Inti’.reni'ino will Case.—Tire Village,
(Penn,,) p.ecord notices an interesting case,
which was recently decided by the Court of foat
county. U seems foat in 1829, a man named
Taylor then about 70, and a resident of Nvw
York, visiteil Chester county, and solicited a fe
male named Phofoe Chalfant, a distant relative,
to return with him, aid in managing his affairs,
and provide fur liis comfort. H’iis property
was e.sti’ni'ted at sixty or seventy thousanu dol
lars.
As an inducement sorter to go with him, it
was [ toved that he. promised to remember her
in his will—to give her a plantation in Schuyl
kill township, Chester county, She con
tinued la reside with him, and’ attend on him lor
tits: pace of seven years, when he died suddenly,
intestate. The properly of the deceased fell in
to the han Is of foe .ulmiuistratitf, and suit was
brought for compensation for services. The
claim w: fixed at s>2(l,W>». The dial occupied
three d.o. The jury awarden §5,090. Amo
tion was made »-'< a ,! ew trial.
Tua C Mtrr.—A writer in the New Bedford
Mercury, who had noticed, the new comet at
mid-day, sap’s:
“Its brilliancy was almost equal to that of Ve
nus. Its situation is very near the limb of the
sun; its tail appears about three degrees in
length. It may be the comet announced some
three months since in Europe; it was then tra
versing the constellation Draco ; be it that or
another, it is of rare brilliancy. There are but
three on record of sufficient brilliancy to be seen
in the day season. The first was forty-three
years before Christ, and is called ’a hairy star;’
it was seen with the naked eye in foe day time.
The second was in the year 1402, and was so
brilliant that foe light ofthe sun, at the end of
March, <lid not hinder people seeing it at mid
day > both its nucleus and its tail was, to use the
language of the day, ‘two fathoms long.’ The
third appeared in Feb. 18th, I“U> and nearly
equalled Venus in splendor, and. many persons
saw it in mid-day, without glasses. It may yet
prove that the come, of lorday is the same as
that of 1402.”
Brouggoas in Danger.—The Boston Mer
cantile Journal gives an account of a new rem-
Qty Which damsels of a particular age have of.
f. Ptosnriflg, it not a husband, a generous equiv
f lent in money for that deficiency. It appears
that a fair damsel lately brought an action ag fonst
a laithless swain in a neighboring State, to recov
er in the shap-e oi dollars and cents, con solation
for a breach of promise of marriage, she evi
dence of promise having been given., was not
clearly proved, but foe court very r aoperly de
cided, that if he did not promise, Ar. ' UU glatv have
dune it. And the jury agreed w fth foe judge,
and the unfortunate man was c< .impelled to open
his purse strings, and pay for hfo ungalla nt omis
sion.
Jefferson’s Opinion of .Ardent Spirits.
—The habit of using ardqo* spirits by men in
public office, has occasxsicj mo re injury to the
public service, and ium»tro able to me, than any
other circumstasqe which has occurred in the
internal ccmcAfasoi the rountiy during mr ad
tamWraAp -*and were I to commence my ad
* tofo.v'i'mtiuii again, with the knowledge I have
”, acquired from experience, the first question I
I should ask, with regard t.> every candidate tor
public office, would be, “Is he ’addicted to the
I use ot ardent spirits?’
March 16, 1893
MONDAY MORNING, MARCH 13.
Promotion in the Abmy.—Among the re
cent appointments made by the President, with
the consent of the Senate, we notice the fol
lowing,
Jj-Firat Lieut. George H. Talcott, of the
Ordnance Department, (late of the 3d Regiment
of Artillery,) Ist Lieutenant, September 15,183 C,
to be First Lieutenantby Brevet,for gallantcon
duct on several occasions in foe war against foe
Florida Indians, to date from December 31,
1835.
The Case of the Somers.—We learn from
New York that the Grand Jury of the United
States District Court, now in session in that city
have refused to find a bill against Commander
Mackenzie.
It is further stated that the examination ol wit
nesses in this case before the Naval Court Mar
tial is fast drawing tu a close, and that the trial
may be expected to terminate in a few days.
Office-Seekers.
The National Intelligencer of Thursday says:
“We understand that there is a great press upon
the President, just now, of persons seeking, un
der professions of personal devotion to him, to
procure the removal of persons from official
employmeais who are suspiciously suspe«<i4 <>f
not being quite so abject in their idolatry of
power as those who want their places. This
affluence of suitors for Presidential favor does
not surprise us much, because, for some lime
past, intimations have been rife in foe newspa
pers that a very extensive sweep from oflioe of
suspected persons was to take place soon after
the adjournment of Congress. We sincerely
trust, for the honor ofthe Executive, as well as
from a regard for the interests of the public ser
vice, that these hunters after the spoils of better
men are destined to much disappointment. The
public weal sutlers w hen a conqietent arid faith
ful officer is discarded from the public service,
for whose removal no stronger cause exists than
the nature of his political opinions, and their
tolerant and proper exercise.”
The National Intelligencer oi Thursday says
—Mr. Spencer, foe newly appointed Secretary
ofthe Treasury, entered on the duties of his of
fice yesterday. We think it due to truth to say,
that, whatever objections mayjustly lie against
Mr. Spancer politically,his intellectual capacity, ,
promptness of decision, and untiring applica- ,
tion, fit him in a more than ordinary degree lor
the arduous duties of the department to which he
has been appointed.
James Madison Porter, of Pennsylvania, has
been appointed by the President Secretary tor the ,
Department of War, in the place of Mr. Spen- ,
cer, and yesterday entered on the discharge of :
his duties. ,
Maine Senator.—On the [3rd Inst. John 1
Fairfield, Governor ot the State of Maine, was ■
elected to the U. S. Senate by the Legislature of 1
that State, in place ofthe Hon. Ruel Williams, 1
resigned. The Whig vote in the House was 1
cast for AVm. P. Fessenden. The term for
which Mr. Fairfield has been elected expires on !
the 4th of March, 1845. 1
Massachusetts.—At a Convention of the 1
Democratic members of the MassachusetLss 1
Legislature, assembled on Thursday evening, ’
the 2d, several resolutions were passed; one of 1
them expresses a preference for M artin Van Bu- 1
ren as the nominee of the Democratic party for !
President ofthe United States—f übject, however 1
to the decision ofthe National Convention. 1
Jury of
sented the Aidermen of the c ity and county of
Phila. as a very dishonest set of officers, in fore- ,
ing upon the Court so many trifling matters in or
der to obtain fees and witr.ess money!
John C. Calhoun.—'The New Hampshire
Gazette, Portsmouth, the oldest Democratic
journal in the State, ear ries at its head the names
of John C. Calhoun for next President, and Levi
Woodbury for Vice P resident.
Mr. Wise.—The. Madisonian states that Mr.
Wise, since his rejection as Minister to France,
has concluded to become a candidate for re-elee
tion to Congress.
Pennsvi.vania.—The taxable value of the
real property in. Pennsylvania is above nine
hundred million, dollars, and the public debt is
about forty million dollars.
As a fad, illustrative of the abundance of
money in New York, foe Express states that one
bankin Wai) street has one million six hundred
thousand dollars in specie on hand, and is a
creditor bank to the amount of four thousand
dollars. The same bank has a cireulatioti of
oiil)' a little over three hundred thousand dollars.
This liank could extend its line ofdiscount, if it
could find the securities, to two million of dol
lars.
Connecticut. —The Whigs off Connecticut
have nominated Thomas K. Brae e, Samuel D.
Hubbard, Edward Eldridge, an>d Thomas B.
Osborne, as candidates to represent the several
districts of that State in the next Congress.
JjrThe triangular warfare i»> New Hamp
shire is waged with gieat spirit. Isaac Hill is
on the stump for his own side, and Hon. Frank
lin Pierce (late U. S. Senator) for the ultra Rad
icals.
yv Rev. Hosea Ballou lias been elected to the
vacancy in tlie clerical part otthe Board of Over
seers of Harvard College, created by the death
of Dr. Channing.
?3"The President ofthe United States has re
cognized Anthony Barclay, as consul of Her
Britannic Majesty for the state of New York.
O* A few days since a boat left the Canada
side ol the river, to cross to Niagf.ra with a The
atrical corps, consisting of ten persons, among
the m a man named Mercer; thi; boat was cap
sized in a squall and every so’ al on board perish-
Gov. Dorr.—We lear.i from the Boston
Courier, that the Democr a tic Convention held
at the Stale House in Bcr jton, on Thursday even
ingthe2d,passedareso’ lotion recognizing Thos.
W. Dorr as foe rights U 1 Governor ofthe State of
Rhode Island, and » ppointed a committee to in
vite him to visit ti e State, and meet the demo
cratic members o', the Legislature, and the dem
ocratic citizens r ,f Boston, in Faneuil Hall.
Jj’Mr. K<» dall, ofthe N. O. Picayune, in
one of his Jr etches, states that at the town of
Jerral, in afli xico, there is an immense slaugh
ter here something like one thousand
sheep atfe. "killed daily, for their hides and tal
low.
New Notion.—Tierces of flour have arrived
at St. Louis containing just two barrels—put
’■ ip in that way to save the expense of one barrel
and freight—an excellent idea, and a great sav
ing to bakers, tavern keepers and shippers.
Flour at Cincinnati on the Ist, §2,50; Whis
key 14c.
A Soap Currency.—Mr. Kendall says that
cakes of soap are sometimes used for currency
in Mexico. One of his co; npanions had 64
cakes tied up in a handkerchief, returned to him
byway of change for a dollar.
Bankdestroyedby Fire.- —The Cumberland
Bank, at Yazoo, Mississippi,, was wholly des
troyed by fire on the night of the 20th ult. The
contents oi the vault and iron .safe were preser
ved with very little injury.
Powhatan Mansion DtERTitoYED. — 1 his
venerable mansisn, situate about a mile irom
Richmond, Va., was recent, y entirely
by fire, together with its cot <ent«. There was
an insurance ol §7OOO on the Mansion, and
§3OOO on the furniture.
TUESDAY MORNING, MARCH 14.
Meunerlsm.
The great interest which this mysterious in
fluence, science, o rby whatever name it may be
designated, has excited in this community for a
few days past, will render the communication of
Dr. Robertson, highly interesting to ereiy
reader, whether he be a believer or not, in this
strange and mysterious phenomena. It is not
eur purpose on this occasion to express an opin
ion, whether or not there exists such a thing as
Mesmerism or Animal Magnetism, but we
have alluded to the communication with no
other object than to assure those of our readers
to whom Dr. Robertson is unknown, either
personally or by character, that in this city
where he has been long and- favorably known as
a Physician, bis character for veracity is un
questioned, and his statements are therefore en
titled to the highest credence.
Jj-General H. A. 8. Dearbon, who lent the
State amis of Massachusetts to Gov. King, of
Rhode Island, during the troubles in that State,
has been removed by Gov. Morton from the post
of Adjutant General.
OOaptain Rice, of the brig Caroline Pratt,
accused of willful murder, in permitting a man
w )»> bad jjiplen i>eertxianl to drown, witliout
rendering assistance to him, nas been tried in
New York and acquitted.
To the Editor of the Chronicle and Sentinel:
The following circumstance, connected with
the subject of Mesmerism, came under my per
sonal observation on Saturday morning last.
I was called to visit a son of Mr. F. Spears, a
merchant of our city, who, I was informed, had
received a severe injury of the elbow-joint, from
a fall while gunning; it was supposed to be a
fracture or dislocation. The lad is between
twelve and thirteen years of age.—When I saw
him, he was suffering excruciating pain; the
joint was very much swollen, particularly about
the internal condyle ofthe humerus. He could
not suffer the slightest motion, without crying
out with pain ; and the arm could only be mov
ed by being supported in the uninjured hand. I
made several attempts to make the necessary
examination to ascertain the state ofthe injured
join t, but all my efforts were fruitless, so intense
and insupportable was the agony whenever I
touched or handled the extremity. 1 finally told
the buy, in a jocular manner, if he did not hold
still and let me examine his arm, I would send
for the gentleman at foe U. S. Hotel, and have
him mesmerized. His father replied that he
had mesmerized him himself on the previous
evening, and carried him through most of the
experiments performed by Mr. Learned. I im
mediately determined to test the matter in this
case; and, without making any further effort to
ascertain the nature of the injury, requested Mr.
8. to place- his son in the mesmeric state. Af
ter considert tble hesitation—in consequence of
doubting his power to succeed while his son was
suffering so [intensely from pain—he consented.
The boy was placedin a convenient posture,
and the opera tion commenced.—ln the course ot
fifteen minuti -s, he became drowsy, and all ex
ternal evidem :es of pain disappeared. In thirty
minutes, sot? mesmeric sleep was complete;
and, in three q uarters of an hour, we commenc
ed our experiz nents. I first desired the father to
try the effect -of the mesmeric attraction on the
sound arm; he did so, and the limb immediate
ly ascimded, and followed foe hand oi the mes
merizeit in every direction. I then requested the
same experiment to be made upon the injured
dulity”ais to the result—and, to my utter astonish
ment, with only two deep-drawn sighs at the
commencement, the arm, that a short time be
fore, could not be elevated witliout the assist
ance of the other, ascended and followed th.
hand of the mesmer.’zer, as in the former case.
I then took hold of the injured arm myself, ex
amined it in every way necessary to satisfy my
self that it was neither a fracture nor a disloca
tion, but a severe contuskm oi the whole joint,
with considerable extrava. tation oi blood. A
satisfactory examination in such cases, as eve
ry surgeon well knows, mut t require the arm
to be turned and twisted in ’arious directions
before the diagnosis can be reli. td upon; but du
ring the whole examination, he e\ 'inced no symp
tom of pain or consciousness wh. Uever. I then
placed the usual bandage upon the: .injured joint
without disturbing the patient in tfn' slightest
degree.
Mr. S., his lady and myself, were- -foe only
persons present during the operation f but the
circumstance was so astonishing to me, that I
could not consent to have the boy aroused with
out his being seen by others. Several g-ent'e
men were then introduced; and other experi
ments, confirming those already related, were
performed in their presence. When aroused, he
was perfectly astonished that his arm was band
aged, and immediately placed the limb iu the
uninjured hand as before.
Without attempting to account for the pheno
mena, I have given you a plain statement ofthe
facts as they occurred.
As several contradictory versions of the oc
currence have been circulated, I have deemed
this communication proper, that the actual facts
may be known.
Yours, very sincerely.
F. M. Robertson.
t-Ymn the New Orleans Picayune of the Ith.
I-ate from Texas.
Yesterday afternoon the steam packet New-
York, Capt. Wright, arrived irom Galveston,
bringing uates to last Saturday, the 4th inst.—
Below we give a brief summary ofthe news
found in our files.
The Houston Star of the 23d ult. states tliat
Mr. Navarro, brother of the gentleman of that
name attached to the Santa Fe Expedition, and
now a prisoner in the Accordada, in the city of
Mexico, has arrived at Bexar from that city,
and states that the Congress recently broken up
by order of Santa Anna has reassembled at
Jalapa and resumed business, having formed a
new constitution, containing articles declaring
that neither Yucatan nor Texas shall be inva
ded. but that negotiations should be commenced
for the purpose of inducing them peaceably lo
return to the confederacy. Two thousand sol
diers and fourteen thttusand citizens had assem- I
bled to protect the Congress from the Central 1
troops, which latter are greatly diminished in.
numbers from desertions resulting from foe
want ol pay and provisions. The influence of
Santa Antia is said to be greatly impaired, the
countiy is in a disturbed state, and strong indi
cations of another revolution. Mr. Navarro
says that there is not in foe eastern provinces
21XX) Central troops, of whom only 121)0 ate fit
for service.
The same paper of the 25th says that a Mex
ican has arrived at Bexar, who reports that Gen.
Arista has declared in favor of this Congress,
and that he will be supported by a majority of
the people of the northern provinces. For our
selves we cannot credit the intelligence in rela
tion to the Congress.
Wm. H. Daingerfield, Esq., who a’few weeks
since resigned the office of Secretary' ol the
Treasury, has been appointed by President
Houston Charge d’Affaires to the Netherlands.
Louis Grousset has been appointed Consul at
Marseilles, and Joshua J. Crooswyck Consul
at Rotterdam.
The Galveston Civilian states that Mr- Janies
Dennv, of that city, has entered into a contract
with the government to “repaii and fit lor ser
vice immediately the brig and schooner belong
ing to the navy now in that port. Ihe schoo
ner is aground, but it is said that she can be
easily gotten off, and will be put afloat fortb
' The commissioners appointed to meet the In
dians at Waco village left Washington on the
6th ult., but were detained some days by the high
waters’ofthe Brazos and its tributaries, ft is
reported that nearly 2500 Indians had assembled
at the village on the Ist of February. The buffalo
were so numerous in the vicinity that they easi
ly obtained an abundance of food.
The corner-stone ofa new Methodist church
was laid in Houston on the 2d inst., with appro
priate ceremonies.
It is said that the citizens residing on the
Guadaloupe have derived great profit this sea
son by gathering pecans. These nuts have been
so abundant in that section that many families
have picked enough to purchase all the corn,
, breadstuff* and groceries they will need for the
VOL, VII -NO. 11.
whole year; they are thus in a measure com
peasated'fjr all the losses they have sumioaeJ
irom the drought and incursions oflbe enemy.
Eight of the prisoners captured at Mier, and
left at that place to recover from wounds receiv
ed in battle, had escaped and arrived safebr M
Victoria. _____
lutereetlug Vhenemeuou,
Those who take pleasure in viewing the pba
nomena of the heavens, will be much interested
in a phenomenon visible, on a clear evening, in
the southwestern sky, from 7 to 0 o’clock, which
has elicited the following speculations from the
editors of the National Intelligencer and the
New York Commercial Advertiser.
From the National Intelligencer.
Zodiacal Light.
This interesting phenomenon in the heavens
was noticed here on Monday night, and also oo
Tuesday and Wednesday nights.
Zodiacal light appears in the morning before
sunrise, and in the evening after twilight. It w
a pyramid, with the sun for its basic. The sides
are not straight, but curved, as those of ale»
when viewed edgewise. It is generally seen
about the period of the equinoxes, when there is
the shortest twilight. This light resembles the
milky way, a faint twilight, or the tail of a com
et. The intensity of the light, its shape and
tints, may be varietl according to the condition
ofthe atmosphere, which is now remarkable foe
its clearness.
The zodiacal light was first described about
two centuries ago, andjhe variousaheories re-
Speett-g it’may he se>#fi,y releixiug tu worksou
astrofiomy.
The subjoined description of thia light, which
we copy from the Encydopadia Amencana, wUL
we dare say, be acceptable to our readers, and
especially to those who have alarmed them
selves with the apprehension that this atmos
pheric phenomenon was a eomet, sueh as—
Terror sheds
On gttzing nations, from Ms fiery train
Os length enormous.
“Zodiacal Linin'; a triangnlar beam of light
rounded a little at the vertex,’.which is seen at cer
tain seasons of the year,before the rising and af
ter the setting of the sun It resembles the faint
light ofthe milky way, and has its base always
turned towards the sun, and its axis inclined
to the horizon. The length of this pyramidal
light, reckoningffrom the suti as its base, is some-.
tuues[4s deg., and at others 150 deg; and the ver
tical angle is sometimes 26 deg., and sometimes
lOdeg. It is generally supposed to arise front
an atmosphere surrounding the sun, and appeals
to have been first observed by Descartes and by
Childrey in 1659; but it did not attract geusrai
attention till it was noticed by Dominique Cat
sini, (q. v.) who gave it iLs present name. U
we suppose the sun to have an atmosphere, as
there is every reason to believe from the lumin
ous aurora which appears to surround hiadisc in
total eclipses,it must be very flattened at its poles
and swelled out at the equator, by the
centrifugal force of his equatorial porta.
When the sun, then, is below the horizon, a por
tion of this luminous atmosphere will appear
like a pyramid of light above the horizon. The
obliquity of the zodiacal light will evidently va
ry with foe obliquity of the sun’s equator ta the
horizon; and in the mouths of February and
March, about the time of the vernal equinox, it
will form a very great angle with the horizon,
and ought, therefore, ,to be seen most distinctly
at that season of the year. But when the sun
is in the summer solstice, he is in the part of
the ecliptic which is parallel to the equator, and
therefore, his equator, and consequently the zo
diacal light, is more oblique to the horizon. La
place, however, has made some objections to
this theory in his Mecanique Celeste; and Reg
nier is of* opinion that it is owing merely to
the refraction of foe solar light by foe earth’s az
mosphere.”
From the New York Commercial Advertiser.
The Comet.—On Tuesday evening—or pe»-
haps ft was Monday—happening to look out M
the front door of our residence, which faces the
South, we observed in the South Western sky a
straight line ot light, extending from the
honzon diagonally toward a point about corres
ponding in the Southern hemisphere to that «o
cupied by the pole-star in the Northern. It was
clearly defined, perfectly straight and nearly ae
brilliant as the ligh: of the Moon in her second
ofthe Eastern papers, but we had not time to
give it more than a hasty examination.
On the next night we forgot to look for it; and
last night it wa-> not visible through the eloutfs
that obscured the sky.
There is now no doubt, we believe, that It h
a comet; and by some it is supposed lo be the
same that appeared in 1402, as that was seen in
the day time, and the one now blazing athwart
the heavens was first noticed at noon on the 2fth
of February. It is visible almost immediately
after night-fall, and disappears soon after 8 o'-
clock. In appearance it is said to rewwble the
eometof 1680.
JJ" A District paper mentions the case of a
man who has been terribly trounced by hl*
wife, because he took his surtout and boots
out of her bustle, just as she wanted to put it
on. Next time, he’ll mind his own business.
A Heavy Verdict.—Eight thousand dollars
damages has been rendered by a Jury of Tomp
kins county circuit (New York) for a breach of
marriage. The parties to the suit were Mary
Conrad and Josiah B. Williams, both of the vil
lage ot Ithaca.
The Somers Case.
It appears that the Civil Courts are not yet rid
of this case. The correspondent of the United
States Gazette, writing from New’ York under
jlate of Thursday last, says:
“A great argument is to take place to-morrow
bet ore the U. S. District Court. Two questions
are .to be discussed, one as tn whether the Grand
Jury .have cognizance of Mackenzie’s caw at
all- the other, whether it can be acted upon by
adivil Court during the progress of the Court
Martiak- B. F. Butler and Charles O’Conner
tor the Hon. Mr. Spencer; John Duer and Bev
erly Robinson tor Mackenzie.”
In connex ion with this subject we also observe
that the New York American ofThursday con
tains an Opinion ot Chancellor Kent, in which
he maintains—
First. That crimes and offences committed
on the hi gh seas by a person in the actual ser
vice of tt.'e United States, on board one of their
veeselsofu ’ar,and duly commissioned and claim
ing to act un*ier that authority, are not cogniz
able under th « jurisdiction of the courts ot the
United States- -the fitting and peculiar cogni
zance of such c.’imes and offences being is tte
Naval Courts A partial, instituted under the act
of Congress of A P*‘il 23d, 1800, which created
a Naval Code of .Martial Law lor the trial and
punishment of crimes and offences committed
in the naval service ot the United Stales.
Second. That if t.ke Federal Civil Courts be
admitted to have concurrent jurisdiction in the
case of such offences, iMy low that jurisdiction
if a Naval Court Marti. <1 had previously taken
cognizance of the char. V So that, in cither
point of view, the Ciicuit Court ot New Yotk
cannot lawfully take cognizance of the eaee.
Counterieit five dollar no tec purporting to be
issued from the Tradesmen'.’* Bank in Mew
York, have been put into c weulation fa ibM
city.
Shipwreck.—The ship Ratal i’ul, Bray, 'row
Havre, sailed 19th January for this port, iii bal
last, went ashore on Stono break era at 3 A. Al,
10th inst., with a pilot on board. She continued
to drive nearerthe beach; parting ail her
until Saturday morning, lying then iu eightlo«
water al high tide, with her ballast . sb.ilkd, Me
on her beam ends, the surf breakingo
from the weather side. Her Y, J
cutaway. The waler at thus tuneup to ha
lower deck beams. Four smaeks were m the
vicinity, saving such articles as could be had
In the afternoon Ca pt. Bray left and proeceded
on board steamer E: iwau. The mates and crew
were left on board the smacks. The smacks
Dnnicl Hnter with part of the wrecked materi
als, and Chart? MaJlont, were seen on Sunday
morning in the breakers, the C. M. bottom up,
the other with loss of mast. Fears are enter
tained for the safety of the crews of the smacks.
Three of the Rosalinrfi crew lett the D. Haven in
a boat about ten o'clock on. Saturday night, af
ter she struck on the breakers, and succeeded in
reaching the smacks at anchor in Su no, about
one o’clock the same night. The pilot and Capt.
Bray, reached the city yesterday afternoon in
the steamer Etiwan. Caph B. thinks the ship
cannot be got off", and will be a total loos.
Charltsfim Courier.
Caught.—A clerk named Kelsy, recently in
the employ of aNe w Orleans house, who de- •
camped last week with a large sum of money
belonging to his employers, was overtaken by
its agemlsnear this place on Sunday night last,
and compelled t« disgorge his ill-gotten gains.
He cnxncup to Selma oil the Jefferson, and took
the stage there for this place. His pursuers st
rived there soon after on the Formosa, heard ot
him, and succeeded in heading the stage at
Washington. The property in his possession,
belonging to the house, in amount about S~,00"
cash, gold watch, &c., he gave all up, and wie
allowed to proceed, as nothing could be made at
it but a breach of trust—his captors generously
paying his expenseson.—Awendt.