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AUGUSTA.
FRIDAY MORNING, JUNE 23.
Trial of Wm. H. Platt.
TSwrtrfay.
Andrew J. Miller, on the part of the State
continued the argument in a clear, concise and
logical speech, in which was combined a happy
and striking analysis of the testimony, and a
critical application and enforcement of the legal
principles involved.
■. , janni Ht,w 'Lumpkin, sos the prisoner,
■ succeeded Mr. M., and presented the case to the
jury in some very forcible and pathetic intro
ductory remarks. He then went into rather a
protracted explanation of the law, referring to a
variety of authorities, preparatory to his argu
ment proper. . It is to be regretted that under
the heated atmosphere of the crowded Court
room—and the arduous labors of eight days
consumed in this case, Col. L.’s physical pow
ers already weakened by disease, gave way,
and he was unable to proceed. The Court ad- ,
joumed until half past 2 o’clock for his accom- j
.modation, at which hour he was still unable to 1
proceed, except in a merely conversational j
tone. He presented only a few points of the 1
testimony to the Jury, when
Geo. W. Chawford, concluded for the State, ,
in a speech of more than three hours in length, 1
—conceded, we believe, universally, to be one <
of the most powerful and pointed efforts of that J
most gifted and favorite of our popular speak- ,
ers. Its eloquence was of that nature, which, ‘
it is much more easy to feel and i emember, than
to describe. .
After a briel and impartial charge from his
Honor Judge Schley, the Jury retired; and af
ter an absence of about 45 minutes, returned a
verdict of “Not Guilty.”
Upon which Mr. Platt was ordered to be dis"
charged.
Thus it is settled, so far as the verdict of this
jury can settle it, that in Richmond county, in
the city of Augusta, a man may, at mid-day, in
the principle street of the city, shoot down an
other without provocation, or without such pro
vocation as, the laws of the land recognise,
and be turned loose upon the country, with his
hands imbrued with the blood of his victim, “un
whipt of justice.” If such a verdict met any
other than the execration of the great mass of
our population, it would indeed be a deep and
damning disgrace.
But we will not now pursue this sibject far
ther ; yet, when we see in one of the oldest
counties of the State, one of its principal com
mercial malts, renowned too for its love of or
der and obedience to the laws of the land, such
an outrage of the law—rwhen we see corruption
stalking into the temple dedicated to justice,
’ and polluting the jury boxes, we should be
wanting in. our duty to have said less.
. OldTimes.—The Cincinnati Gazette copies
from its old files, the proceedings of a meeting of
the “Jackson Democracy" in that city on the 30th
of May, 1828, complimentary to Henry Baldwin,
then a member of Congress from Pennsylvania,
and afterwards elevated to the Supreme Court
Bench by Gen. Jackson. The notice reads thus:
“A public dinner will be given in this'city to the
Hon. Henry Baldwin of Pittsburg, by the “friends
of Gen. Jackson and Domestic Manufactures."
The dinner was accordingly given, and the Jack
son Democracy toasted as the only party which
could be relied' upon to afford adequateprotection
to domestic manufactures! And now this same
“Democracy” denounce the Whigs as the “high
tarifl” party, and the tariff itself as one of the
heads of the Federal hydra!
Among the conspicuous names embodied in
the Cincinnati proceedings we find those of Eli
jah Hayward, afterwards Commissioner of the
General Land Office, and the more notorious
Dr. Duncan, afterwards the Locofoco member
ofCongress from Cincinnati.— Dynch. Virginian.
Explosion.—On Monday, of last week, the
steam boiler in Rogers’ mill, in Fayette town
ship, Penn., about twelve miles from Pittsburg,
burst, killing a man named Wm. Parker, and a
German, whose name was not known.
Whig Nominations.
We this morning place at the head ofourcol
umns the name of George W. Crawford and A.
H. Stevens, Esquires, as the Republican Candi
dates for Governor and Representative in Con
gress. It is a happy circumstance lor us to be
able to present to our fellow citizens, names sig
nificant of such firm and incorruptible faith.
We know ofnomanin this State, cr in any other
Slate more entitled to a warm, enthusiastic, thor
ough support than Mr. Crawford. He is wor
thy the support of eveiy man who is a well wish
er of his state and who is not shackled by the
trammels of Loco-focoism. Perhaps no belter
selection could be made even among such men
as Clinch, Gamble, Jenkins, Dawson, Hui! and
many other worthies. Mr. Crawford has sacri
ficed his interest to his party. He has left a lu
crative employment in order to serve his friends.
He was no office-seeker, no politician bv profes
sion. He has not interceded and fawned and
entreated to be run for office, in order that he
might get a support, which he was earning by
hard labor. He has preferred the claims of his
fellow citizens to his own private interests. He
was nominated by acclamation. There were
no dissensions, no jarrings, bickering, jealousies
and strifes—no denunciatory speeches, nothing
which characterized the doings of the Democrat
ic assembly. Our opponents who have hitherto
been so confident in their unity and indivisibili
ty! may now, that their odious system has be
gotten and nurtured a whole host of scramblers
for office, learn a lesson from the Whigs, who
have seen such shameful abuses of power, that
they have at last waked up to a full sense of the
coming election.
As for Stevens he is also a great favorite, with
a clear, sagacious mind, and a soul much too
large for his body. They call him in the up
country, their “John Randolph.’” With the
same Republican principles which we maintain
and such men to carry them out, we have no
fears lor the issue. Such fantastic tricks have
• been played in Jhe name of Democracy, that the
word has lost its charm, at least so tar as it is
practised by those who style themselves the sole
Democrats of the day.— Sav. Republican.
Politeness on all occasions.—At a wed,
ding recently, which took place at the altar,
when the official priest put to the lady the home
question: “Wilt thou have this man to be thy
wsdded husband?” she dropped the prettiest
courtsey, and with a modesty which lent her
beauty an additional grace, “It you please, sir.”
Charming simplicity.
A Lucky Throw.—“ Heads, take a shave
tails, take a drink,” said a loafer tossing up his
last bit to decide.
Down came the dime upon the side walk,
heads up.
‘■No go, no go,” said the loafer, “it slipped.”
Up went the dime again, and down it came a
tail.
“There,by Jupiter, I’ll have to drink,” said
the loafer; “well fair play’s a jewel, here goes
for the drink—O, honor bright!”
Hyperbole — Most as good as new.— The
greatest specimen of “tall talking,” of which we
liave any knowledge, came under our observa
tion yesterday. Two noted horse-speculators
were boasting about their respective aillmals. •
“J our nag is fast,” said one of them, “but
he has no bottom.”
“No bottom!” exclaimed the other "you
must be devilish green. Take that bov of
your’n, give him all the dinner you can stuff in
to him, put him on my horse, and I’ll bet you
fifty dollars that the animal will run, at an eveh
pace from the beginning to the end, 'until the boy
u starved to death." J
Our Superior Court
, Says the Columbus Enquirer of the2lstinst.
will finally terminate its session during the
present week, after having devoted nearly six
I full weeks to the trial of civil and criminal
causes. Perhaps no term of the Court since the
organization of our County, has been antici
pated and the result of its labors awaited, with
1 more anxiety on the part of the people, lhan the
present. A great amount of business crowded
the dockets, and several of the trials pending
were supposed to involve consequences of vast
importance both to individuals and to the com
munity at large. Among the cases to be investi
gated, we may mention the writsof quo warranto
against the several Banking Institutions of the
city, (we mean the “old panel,”) requiring them
to show cause why their charters should not be
declared forfeited. These, as our readers have
been informed, were all decided against the
Banks, and tneir assets, of course, (it they have
any) are to go into the hands of receivers, lor
the benefit of creditors. A subsequent decision
of the Court has been obtained, the effect of
which is to arrest allproceedingslbrandagainst
the Banks, until receivers shall be appointed,
and new parties made. By these decisions a
great deal of litigation doubtless has been for a
time prevented, and the ordinary affairs of the
Court greatly facilitated.
But besides all matters of this sort, the crimi
nal side of the docket presented, of itself, an ar
rayof accusations sufficient to alarm “a looker ,
on at Vienna,” who had not, bya previous resi- '
dence in our city, become acquainted with the '
“manner of life” here common, even “from our <
youth up.” Os the results of the criminal cases 1
called up, we have kept the reader advised. Os s
the six cases involving life or liberty, four of
them have resulted in convictions,—three of
the Renders sentenced to the state prisnsc and
one-td the galtcws-—the other two acquitted, to
wit, Lewis, who was charged as "accessary af
ter the fact’’ to the offence of robbery, and John
McMurrain, who was charged with the murder
of Wright, in this latter case, the evidence was
very clear in support of the verdict of “justifia
ble homicide.” The testimony elicited in this
trial could not fail to have impressed the minds
ol those who heard it with a deep sense of the
madness and folly to which men are exposed,
who, like the unfortunate Wright, dethrone their
powers of reason by the excessive use of the in
toxicating cup.
The other criminal cases, which have been
looked to with much interest, are not to be tried
during the present term. McKeetfs trial was
put on; under a showing that his material wit
nesses could not be brought forward during the
present term. The leading counsel for Bass
(Judge Colquitt) is absent, and we understand
his case will be postponed; and Jackson’s trial
is continued by consent. Since Lewis’ acquit
tal, another indictment has been preferred, and
the Grand July have found against him a true
bill, as “accessary before the fact to the offence
of robbery. This step was not taken, how’ever,
until after Lewis had left the city; and of course
the “true bill” will do him no particular harm,
unless he returns voluntarily, oris brought back
“by’ authority.”
A “true bill” has also been returned against
Bass on an indictment for perjury— (the charge
founded upon the testimony given by Bass on
the trial ot Lewis.) But this case also will be
continued, as we are told on account of the ab
sence of Judge Colquitt
We have been thus particular in noting the
position of these cases, because we are apprised
that our distant readers, many of them, feel a
deep interest in these matters, and have no other
means of information in regard to them but the
press of the city.
Riots at Beauharnois.—The Montreal Her
ald gives us still further particulars of this un
fortunate riot. Theexcitementexistedasstrong
as ever, and the vigorous measures adopted to
quell the rioters, had not the desired effect.
They threatened to have the blood of all the
contractors, and slate their intention ol attacking
the mill to-nigln, ( Wednesday, 131 h.) The post
is a strong one and, if they are daring enough to
attempt it, they will surely be defeated.
An attempt was made on Tuesday to decoy a
party of troops, and destroy them, which happi
ly was frustrated by the prudence of the com
manding officer, Major Campbell. A woman
barefooted, came to the mill near mid-night, and
stated that she was the sister-in-law of Mr.
Brown, one of the contractors, that she had dis
guised herself like one of the laborer’s wives to
pass through them, and give warning that Mr.
Brown s house was about to be attacked, and the
lives ofthe family would be sacrificed if a body
oftroops were not sent to defend the house.
Major Campbell offered the shelter ofthe mill
but refused to divide his force. It was ascertain
ed today from the men themselves that 147 men
an armed wraigwus, ray~m xrait in’tne nn*n, Sn
both sides ofthe road, ready to rush upon the
men had they been sent.
The Irish Roman Catholic Priest stationed
here by the Government has fomented, and is
now fomenting the riots; he declares the men
shot to have been murdered, calls Mr. Lavioletle
and the contractors to their faces cowards and
murderers: he has made no effort to restrair. the
rioters, but is now taking depositions, and hold
ing a t-ort of inquest of his own; he asserts that
the men were passing peaceably on the road, and
were wantonly shot down.
The men who were taken say, that it was their
intention, when the soldiers fired the first volley
ot blank to have rushed in and surrounded them,
which could easily have been done; but the first
round fired was ball, and the discharges suc
ceeded each other so quickly that they had not a
chance. In order to lull suspicion to be able to
approach as near as possible for the accomplish
ment of their diabolical purpose, they came arm
ed with sticks only.
Mr. Crawford, the contractor, will leave here
al once and tor good—the men have sworn to
kill him and stay were but to awaitcertain death.
The works ofthe canal are suspended until the
first ol July. Some ot the contractors have been
compelled by intimidation, to employ men at 3s.
a day, but these are very few. Written promises
to this effect were extorted from others, two of
which were wrapped round the club of one of
the men shot dead. Another ofthe contractors
was forced into the river, where he was given
his choice to be drowned or sign the agreement
—he signed, and escaped.
St. Timothy, Wednesday night.
A Collision. —The Boston Democrat says:
—“Schr. Rose, (Br.) Fougere, from Pictou for
this port with a cargo ofcoal came in contact with
Br. brig Mary Ann, from Pictou, for Liverpool
nightol the Ist. and immediately sunk-one man
saved. The M. A. was spoken off Cape Jack
2nd, and reported as above.”
Seizure of the Sandwich Islands.—ln the
House of Commons, on the 30lh of May, Sirß
Peel stated there was no truth in the report con
tained in the papers of that day, ofthe cession of
the Sandwich Islands to Great Britain.
This shows, almost conclusively, (remarks the
N. 1. Commercial Advertiser) that the doings of
Lord George Paulet were not ordered or author
ized by the British Government. Sir Robert
would never have given so unqualified a denial
to the report if he had given orders for the sei
zure.
late Jamaica paper announces the ship
ment of 3000 pounds Sea Island Cotton, raised
in Jamaica, for Liverpool.
A. Lsiii on Fire.—The brig “Tartar,” laden
with ammunition, and bound for Vera Cruz, re
cently took fire near Southampton, England, and
burnt for a longtime, until she was sunk by a
party of military, who fired into her with can
non. Vast numbers of rockets and shells were
thrown up during the progress of the flames,
to the terror of the inhabitants ofthe town. Some
pieces of the iron fell a third of a mile from the
vessel. No lives lost.
Who are the Democrats ?—Are the follow
ers of Buchanan & Co., who go for a Protect
ive Tariff, Democrats? Or the Calhounites,
who go for Free Trade and direct taxation? -
Are the Democrats of Kentucky, who go with
Col. Johnson for incidental protection, the Reg
ulars? Or, the Democrats of the South. who de
nounce the Tariff as unconstitutional?’ Or, are
the supporters ot Van Buren, w T ho go with him
both ways, the real Simon Pares ? All these
lactions, differing so widely on an important
question, each call themselves Democrats. They
can t certainly-, all be the raal grit.— Rai. Reg.
, Boston Atlas say’s, that the proces-
sion to Bunker Hill on the 17th comprised a
bout ten thousand persons, of whom three thou
sand were attached to the mi'itary uniformed
corps. Among the venerable men present was
Captain Josiah Cleveland, a Bunker Hill vete
ran, who at the advanced age of eighty .nine,
performed a journey ot more than four hundred
and fifty miles, in two and a half days, to be
present on the interesting occasion.
Heavy Rains.—Accounts from neighboring
counties confirm former statements of an unusual
quantity of rain having fallen within the last ten
days. A letter from the Postmaster at Montgom
ery dated 15th inst. received yesterday states that
more rain had fallen within the previous twen
ty-four hotirti, than at any, previous time within
the last seven years. A’ gentleman from Bald
win county, informs us that in many places the
ground is covered with water from one to three
feet in depth—and that during the late rains, on
the bridges of some ofthe creeks in hisneighoor
hood, the water has been fifteen feet, by measure
ment. We are fearful that we shall receive
dreadful accounts by the mails within the next
tew days, of damages done throughout this State
and Georgia.— MMlc Herald ofthe Bth.
SATURDAY MORNING, JUNE 24.
. For the Chronicle and Santinel.
t Trial of Platt--A Mockery,
* Mr. Editor —For the remarks which lam
; about to make, I havenoapology to offer. They
, are on a subject which deeply concerns every
: virtuous and honorable member of this com
-1 munity—they involve principles of momentous
' concern to the whole country at large.
The trial of Platt lor the murder of Harding
occupied -he laborious attention of the Court, as
well as the valuable time of the jury, from
Thursday the 15th inst. until Thursday the 22d,
when the jury, after having withdrawn but a
few minutes, returned with a verdict of acquittal!
Supposing that the evidence in this case ought
to be, and will be, made public, I will not, I
need not, dwell upon the particular points of
testimony which mark the history of this mel
ancholy affair.
I candidly believe, and I doubt not that I
have the concurrence ol nine-tenths of this
community, that the verdict alluded to has been
rendered in violation of law, good order arid. the
welfare of society, as well as contrary to the most
positive, undisputed awl powerful chain of testi
mony ever presented in this country to the consider
ation of twelve men. What a mockery, what a
farce! What misspent time! what lost and mis
applied labor and toil does this trial present! I
would not seekjthe blood of him who has thus
Iteen twr loose With the La. sed al r< w ofgu'ilt'
rankling and festering in his soul—with the
brand of Cain upon his brow, let Aim go forth..
But who shall heal the rent in the sacred robe
of justice, or wash away the disgraceful stain,
the indelible blot which has been made upon
our statute book? Who or what can restore
the broken confidence of men in the protection
of their country’s laws; or prop the tottering
ruins of society when distrust is mouldering at
its foundations, and corruption gnawing at its
heart! There is an excitement, Mr. Editor,
which is too deep for utterance, too profound for
expression, when some vital interest or princi
ple has been suddenly and rudely violated. The
reflecting and virtuous mind semns half dispo
sed to commune alone with its own voiceless
thoughts, unassured and distrustful of itself,
whether its own fervid feelings may not impel
it to the commission of irretrievable error, if
permitted to reach the unbridled tongue or the
unruly arm. Such was the nature and charac
ter of the sensations with which the aforesaid I
verdict was received. An icy coldness seemed 1
to creep around the hearts of those whose re- ,
gard for the public weal had not been naturally
or improperly lost in solicitude for the prisoner. 1
Men gazed sternly at each other in many in
stances—at others, with a wild, unmeaning 1
stare they met each other’s look, and each in the j
other’s face could read a “tablet of unutterable f
thoughts.” The mournful traces of inward >
sorrow were more visible than the dark lines of
angei—the expressions of regret were written ’
in more legible characters than the deisire for j
revenge. But the tablet was still unutterable, !
for the thoughts of each individual ware un- '.
known to himself. The strange and unfamil- <
iar rush of commingling emotions deprived
each of his power to arrange, analyse or eon- !
centra te his thoughts. The evil minded man j
who cherishes revenge in his heart—whose <
bloody intents have hitherto only been restrain- (
ed by the strong arm of the law, from shedding j
the heart’s blood of his hated victim, may now’ ;
feel that the august presence of justice has been ’
withdrawn—that the dread majesty of the law is ‘
no longer frowning upon him, qnd that now is
the favorable hour to wreak his sanguinary j
vengeance. (
The man of peace, and good will, and good
order, on the other hand, mavL; struck with
the painful reflection, his- itte
secure in the independent of his
dearest personal righis—that he is now,more than
formerly liable to rail a victim to the false no
tions which are entertained by arrogant and pre
sumptuous coxcombry.
It has been wisely observed, that it is not the
severity, but the certainty of punishment which
can effectually deter the commission of crime.
The wavering and unstable administration of
the laws, on the other hand, is calculated, and
it has the effect to encourage the prevalence
ol all manner of vice and crime.
On your “Temple of Justice” an emblematic
goddess stands, and vauntingly displays her
even-balanced scales. She stands with a pier
cing, steadfast eye, a serene brow’, her aspect
awful, noble and venerable—a mockery of the
doings which transpire beneath her feet. Better i
place the blind and fickle goddess, Fortune, in
her stead, who showers her favors upon the
good and bad without judgment or distinction.
PATRIOT.
New Books.
S. A. Holmes, ofthe Literary Depot, has laid
on our table, Nos. 18 and 19 of Harpers’ Libra
ry of Select Novels, being “The Lost Ship, or
the Atlantic Steamer,” by the author of the Fly
ing Dutchman; and a novel by James, entitled
“7Vie False Heir."
Trial of Platt.—The Sandersville Teles
cope of the 20th inst. says:—We will wager a
basket of Champaign that Platt who murdered
Capt. Harding some time ago in Augusta, will
not be found guilty by the jury. Indeed, how
is it possible to condemn a criminal, when, ac
cording as the law now stands, it is only his
friends who are likely to try him. If a man,
however honest, who hears the circumstances of
the case, should form an opinion as to the guilt
or innocence of the prisoner, he is at once dis
qualified to act as a juror. The law regulating
the trial of those charged with capital crimes,
must be altered, or there is no security lor life
in Georgia.
Let the panel from which a jury is to be ta
ken, be drawn from the grand jury box. Let
the att ndance of the jury be compelled by hea
vy fines; and let the accused be tried by a spe
cial jury; and in nine hundred and ninety-nine
cases in a thousand, justice will be done. Mur
derers will be hanged as they deserve, and there
would not be such vile mockery in the admin
istration of justice as at present.
More Cheap Literature.
We are indebted to Mr. T. Richards for co
pies of the following works:
The Days of Queen Mary—with engravings.
The Lost Ship, or the Atlantic Steamer.
No. 7 ofthe Family Library, containing Wil
liams’s Life of Alexander the Great.
Part I of McCulloch’s Universal Gazetteer—
a Dictionary, geographical, statistical, and his
torical, of the various countries, places, and
principal natural objects in the world.
To the Editors of the Savannah Republican :
Gentlemen:—l wish to call your attention to
to a nuisance which is becoming every day more
intolerable. I allude to the Rail Road Shin
Plasters, many ol which are so much mutilated
and obliterated as to be quite illegible. The
Bank refuses to give clean bills for the old ones,
hoping (it would seem) that the entire issue ol
small bills may be absorbed in this way.
As the adzocates of a sound currency, and
the castigators of all swindlers, high and'low, I
address myself to you, and ask you to point out
a remedy for this evil.
Respectfully,
A SUBSCRIBER.
We have no doubt of the ability ofthe Rail-
Road Bank to redeem these offensive issues.—
They can certainly do it with their own notes il
they dj not choose to .substitute fresh plasters.
Speak ot swindling is too harsh language, -be'-'
cause we are convinced there can be no such
intention, but yet it is virtual swindling. Some
one must be the final loser, when all marks are
obliterated, and all are unwilling in the present
condition of this money, to have any thing to do
with it. It is a gross, very gross imposition on
the public to perpetuate such a nuisance, and the
loss will fall chiefly on the more humble class
ot our fellow citizens. “ Who steals a purse" of
this stuff, “steals trash” indeed.—Eos. Rep.
AUGUSTA, GA THURSDAY MORNING,. JUNE 29, 1843.
From the N. O. Tropic.
Whig Convention in Mississippi.
The Whigs of Mississippi met in convention
at Jackson last Monday, for the purpose of nom
inating candidates for Governor, Treasurer,
Secretary of State, and Auditor of public ac
counts. A gentleman who was present, assures
us it was one of the largest assemblages of the
kind ever convened in the State. The utmost
harmony and good feeling prevailed throughout
its delibei ations, and every memberseemed to be
animated by one sentiment, a determination to
redeem the State from the grasp of the vampyres
who have wasted its substance and blasted its
character. Numerous eloquent and able speech
es were made by the Hon. S. S. Prentiss, and
other talented gentlemen present during the ses
sion of the convention, which lasted two days.
On Tuesday evening, an adjournment was car
ried after nominating unanimously the follow
ing candidates:
FOR GOVERNOR,
GEORGE H. CLAYTON, of Lowndes.
FOR SECRETARY OF STATE,
LOUIS G. GALLOWAY, of Holmes.
FOR AUDITOR,
LUKE LEA, of Hindes.
FOR TREASURER,
WILLIAM HARDEMAN, of Madison.
The ticket is as good a one as has ever been
presented to the people of that State. The gen
tlemen composing it are all men ot high char
acter, and as true Whigs as any State in the U
nion can boast.
No congressional nominations were made,
for the reason that the State has not been'district
ed in accordance with the act ot Congress. If
t ,e Legr daiure, which convener ,
fotmi its Aly and 'divides the state into con
gressional districts, each district will make its
own nomimUion. But if that body refuses obe
dience to the law of Congress, the Whigs will
take no part in the matter, but allow the election
to go by default.
Distribution in Connecticut.—The Legis
lature ol Connecticut, strongly Locofoco though
it be, has shown its good sense by voting to ac
cept the portion of the proceeds of the land sales,
which, under the Whig distribution law of
1841, falls to the share of that State. This
course was recommended by the Locofoco Gov
ernor in his message at the opening of the ses
sion. But the party press have so much to say
about the iniquity of the distribution policy, its
squinting at “consolidation,” its tendency to
corrupt the States, and other such bugbears, that
the Locofoco leaders in Connecticut felt bound
to resist the Executive recommendation, and
have striven most industriously to persuade the
Legislature to reject this money. Their efforts
met with a mortifying defeat last Tuesday. The
majority of the committee in the lower House,
to whom the subject had been referred, under in
structions from the party leaders, reported in
favor of rejecting the “bribe.” The minority of
the committee dissented ;nd introduced resolu
tions accepting the money. A short discussion
ensued, at she close of which the majority rdport
was disagreed to by the emphatic vote of nays
one hundred and eleven yeas sixty-two; and the
report of the minority was adopted without a
division.— Albany Evening Journal.
A Frightful Accident.—On Saturday night
the 3d inst., between eleven and twelve o’clock,
as the stage from the South was passing over
the bridge on the Chardon road, about a mile
and a quarter from Painsville, the timbers
reaching from one pier to the other, and on
which the bridge rested, gave way,and the whole
span of the bridge, about forty feet in length, to
gether with the coach, horses, driver and seven
passengers, were precipitated with a tremendous
■■rash, about twenty feet into the stream below.
Mr. Finley McGrew, together with his wife
and child, were among the passengers. The
child was instantly killed. All the other pas
sengers and driver were more or less injured;
some of them seriously. Mrs. McGrew is not
expected to live. One gentleman, a stranger, is
not yet able lo resume bis journey. Two oth
ers, though with much suffering, left Painsville
on Monday. We are unable, says the Tele
graph to give the names of any except Mr. Mc-
Grew and family. The wreck ol the bridge
and the shattered stage coach, crushed and sto
ven through by the massive timbers presented a
scene that was frightful to behold. — Phil. Sen.
Tea and Coffee. —A loud wailing was
heard from the Locofoco press throughout the
land, when the Whigs, in the adjustment of the
tariff', proposed to lay a duty on tea and coffee;
though a man with only halfan eye can see that
if the protective policy be wrßng, these are the
very articles, entering so largely and so equally
production,—upon which a duty should be laid,
and though under the “horizontal scale ot du
ties,” insisted upon by the Richmond Locofoco
Convention last winter, tea and coffee must ne
cessarily be taxed just as high as any other arti
cle, whether of necessity or luxury! The
Charleston Mercury, Mr. Calhoun’s organ, is
now paving the way for the advocacy, by that
wing of the Locofoco parly at the next'session of
Congress, of this tax —for it says, “a moderate
taxon tea and coffee would be one of thejust
est, because one of the most general and equal
exactions that the government could lay upon
articles of commerce.”—Prepare for somersets !
—Lynchburg Virginian.
The Bunker Hill Celebration.—The New
York Courier and Enquirer of Monday says:—
This celebration has gone off gloriously, and so
far as we have accounts from Boston, with an
eclat full}' equal to expectation, high as ii has
been raised by the well known character of the
Massachusetts Metropolis, for conducting such
a pageant with a taste and j udgment calculated
to give it the most imposing effect. The day
was asj fine as could have been desired notwith
standing the unfavorable auguries ofthe weath
er on Friday and the numbers who rushed into
Boston to witness the ceremonies of the occa
sion appeared to have exceeded even the previ
ous anticipation. The military portion of the
pageant was in the highest degree grand, notonlf
in numbers but in the drill and discipline of its
material; the arrangements civic and military
were equally admiiable in their design and jin
the steady and orderly manner in which they
were carried out. The address of Mr. Webster
was worthy of the occasion and of his own dis
tinguished reputation, and though we have not
seen or heard an opini n expressed of it as a
whole, there can be ro doubt of its entire char
acter.
Money Matters in New’ York.—The N.Y.
Express of Thursday says—
In relation to the Government loan, there are
many rumors afloat. One is that an offer for
two millions has been made at 97 four per cent
stock; at this rate five per cent stock should com
mand 104, and the six per cent 115. The lat
ter now’ sells at 113} to 114.
The New York correspondent of the Phila
delphia U.S. Gazette writes underdate of Thurs
day, 3, P. M.
it was expected by many brokersand capital
ists that when the accounts reached England of
the advance in our Stock Market, foreigners
would be induced to make investments, and that
large orders to purchase would have been receiv
ed by the last steamers. Such however having
not been the case, many who had purchased in
anticipation of a further advance have been com
pelled to realize, which has thrown an immense
quantity of stock into the market, and prices
have fallen considerably in consequence. Up
wards of 8160,000 State Stocks were sold at the
Boardthis morning. Ohio, which opened at 88}
tell off to 87, a decline of If; Kentucky declined
1; Indiana 3; Illinois If.
T-’We find the following “letter of recom
mendation” from Dr. Franklin revived in the
newspapers’’; and as an admirable illustration
of the boring which public men—and private
ones too, for that matter —have frequently to
undergo, we copy it. The story is, that while
the Doctor was United States Minister at Paris
he was so often importuned by persons unknown
to him to give them lettess of recommendation
that he prepared the followingform of one, which
in some instances he actually employed in cho
king off applicants:
Paris, April —, 1777.
Sir—The bearer going to the United States,
presses me to give him a letter of recommenda
tion, although I know nothing of him, not even
his name. This may seem extraordinary, but I
Assure you it is not uncommon here. Some
imes, indeed, one person unknown brings an
ither equally so to recommend him, and some
times they recommend one another As to this
gentleman, I must refer you to himself for his
character and morals, with which he is certain
ty better ucquainted than I possibly can be. I
recommend him, however to those civilities
which every stranger of whom we know no
harm, has a right to; and I request you will do
him all the good offices and show him all the
favor that, on further acquaintance, you shall
find he deserves. B. FRANKLIN.
The War Tent of Washington.—We
learn, says the Baltimore Patriot of the 19th
insL, that this venerable relic of revolutionary
time's, which has been carefully preserved by
our patriotic countryman, G. W. P. Curtis,
Esq., arrived in out city, at the Merchants Ho
el, this morning. It is on its way to Pittsburgh,
where it is about to be nitched on the approach
ing National Anniverstny, near to the field of
Washington’s earliest fame. Doubtless it will
awaken thrilling recollections ot the scenes that
occurred at Fort Du Gtuesne and Braddock’s
jelds, and other kindred spots where the father
of his Country acquired his richest laurels.
Free Trade—Dwect/I axation—At a re
cent political meeting tele in New Orleans, one
of the Locofoco speai^mJMr. John C. bmre.
in the course Us his reinaikS, aB W "I am opposes
to the cotUctidn of aUwfain Custom-house,
ami in favor of directYXXstion-—/ar to this wc
must conie al last.” -
tj- John Adams said is the most
selfish being in the He has no sense
of modesty, hatne or disgrace, lie has no
sense of duty, or sympathy tjf affect ion with his
father or mother—bis bi&h er or sister—his
friends or neighbors— or children; no
reverence for his God; nojjSense of futurity in
iil..i e up m the
inad selfish joy of the mo ijtnt.
Tur: Colossal Court Royale
was occupied on
arose outof the famousiflM cabbage that
some time back excited sorhuch interest in the
capital. A. M. Billandeauoriginally pur
chased this vegetable weiHer for 15tr. m the
arondissement of Melies,®ich is remarkable
for large productions of thfisjrind. The Royal
Society ot Horticulture fUlnted a committee to
report on the case, and this M. Billan
deau had distributed (hrduplfcbut France, with a
notice that the seeds <jf the cabbage
would be sold at the moderSg price of a franc
each. the journals an
nounced that the Ki , one hundred
seeds, and delivered tlieiv't®: Jaques, his head
gardener; and that the ;>«.r of Agriculture
had ottered2dOtr. to the ftCjHsiociety of Agri
culture to’try expeH>w»jEj'!\ new produc
_ As there were be def.v-
py of the report Nt Remont, an
honest nurseryman of the Seine et Oise, he has
tened up to Pan's, and proposed to M. Billan
deau to form a copartnership with him for send
ing the seeds to America. M. Billandeau lis
tened to the proposition, and having fixed the
value ol hiscabbage at 20,000 ft;., received3,ooo
tr. towaid their common expenses. A quantity’
of the seed was sent off to the United States
with a c rrtificate from the seer nary of legation,
properly signed and sealed, to the effect that the ,
seed had really been gathered from the monster
cabbage. (
M. Retnont, after doing all this, thought it
could not be a bad plan to make some experi- (
ments on the seeds himself; and after sometime j
he found that they' produced cabbages exactly j
similar to his own! This being the case, M. •<
Remont demanded his money back, but M. Bil- ,
landeau refused to give him back a sous. The '
matter was referred to arbitration, and M. Bil- ,
landeau xculpated himself from all intentions ;
of fraud; but on the appeal, the court reversed j
the sentence, proclaimed the dissolution of the (
copartnership, on the ground ot its not having (
been based on an object of legitimate specula- <
tion, and ordered the 3,000 fr. advanced by M.
Remonbto be returned.— Galignani'sMessenger
From the Philadelphia Inquirer.
The Tragedy at Woodford, Ky.
We recently noticed a quarrel which had oc
curred at Woodford, Ky., Jnd which terminat
ed fatally to a young man named Rowan, by
the hands of his brother-in-law, Mr. Dudley
Woolfolk. A correspondent ofthe Lexington
Observer gives the facts of the case thus :
“Mr. and Mrs. Rowan were spending a few
days at her father’s house on their way from the
South to their home in Lynchburg. After
breakfast on the morning of the 4th ult., Col. Jo
seph Woolfolk left the house on business, and
the ladies of the family engaged in preparations
to visit, with Mr. and Mrs. Rowan, the family
of a neighbor, Doctor Hall. About this time,
Dudley Woolfolk arrived from his plantation,
having some business to transact with Mr. Row
an. They were in the yard alone, when a shot
was heard which alarmed the family. Mr.
Rowan tinned toward the house, and had nearly
gained the door, when he.fell into the arms of
his mother-in-law’, at the very moment his hor
ror-struck wife peached the side of her wound
ed and dying husband. The only words he was
heard to'inter were, “Lord! Lord!! have mer
cy upon me !!!” And in a’very lew moments
he expired. The shock is said to have been so
severe upon Mrs Woolfolk, who was in feeble
health, that her life is endangered thereby.—
.There are conflicting accounts with regard to
the subsequent course of Mr. W., some stating
that he gave himself up to the Sheriff, and oth
ers that he immediately fled and has not since
been seen in the neighboihood,” . fe
The Observer adds:
No one 'w'fls pfesfiif Ttrine f i fnSTanKF'on It 5 ’ wft -
ness was young Woolfolk’s brother, who had
gone by his (young Woolfolk’s)request, to or
der a servant to saudle Mr. Rowin’s horse. In
a very tew minutes, he heard the shot in front of
the house, though he was not within view at the
time. At the time Dudley Woolfolk ordered
the horse, he was alone. Rowan came out of
the house, and must have joined him afterwards.
It is true, that Dudley Woolfolk went to Ver
sailles, and offered to surrender himself to one
ofthe Denudes of the High Sheriff, as we stat
ed, Without the slightest disposition to inflict
unnecessary pain upon the relatives or friends
of the deceased, we feel constrained, in justice
to our former statement, here to remark, that
there is the fullest evidence in this community,
from persons in nowise connected with any of
the parties, that the conduct of Mr. Rowan to
wards his wife was of a kind so exactly calcu
lated to exasperate a brother, as to justify the
very general impression here, that the act grew’
out of it, and to account for the sympathy al
most universally expressed lor young Wool
folk.”
Extract from a private letter, dated
Rodney, 17th June, 1843.
“I am sorry to say that the prospects of our
river planters are gloomy and discouraging.
For the last 12 hours, it has been raining in tor
rents, and plantations that are protected by le
vees are coveted with water, and the river con
tinues to rise at the rate ol one half of an inch
every twenty-four hours. The newsfrom above
is that all the rivers are rising. A runner came
in from Lake Bruin last night with word
that the Levee at Hard Times, had given
way, and the report is that more than 100 yards
had been washed away, and if so it will be im
possible to stop the water. The whole country
opposite to this place must suffer more or less by
the breaking ofthe Levee alluded to.
I have no hesitation in saying that more than
50,000 bales of cotton have been lost by the over
flow, and if the river continues to rise for a week
to come, as it has done for the last few days, but
few places, if any between the mouth of the
Arkansas and Red Rivers will escape. Planta
tions above this that were injured in 1828, are
now almost entirely inundated. The little creeks
in this vicinity were all impassible yesterday.—
The crops on the hills both of corn and cotton
neve, looked more promising.”—.V. O. Bee.
UrThe New York correspondent of the Phila
delphia American writes—
One ofthe reports brought by the steamer Co
lumbia is that J. Hope &, Co., of Amsterdam,
are in treaty for the seven million five per cent,
loan just advertised, and that an agent has been
sent here to conclude the bargain.
Dei id: dly Rich.—The Lexington (Mo.) Ex
press rec-i.u.s a piece of Tylerism, which is de
cidedly rich, and which exjabjMttbe Method nec
essary to be pursued to secure die favor of his
Accidency—in short, the direct road to Nosey’s
favor:
A short time since the citizens of Platte coun
ty desired the Land Office located in their dis
trict, and believing the quickest road to Tyler’s
notice through the pockets of John Jones, the
court jester (Whigs and Locos) clubbed together
and subscribed for a few copies ofthe Madiso
nian, and accompanied their petition with the
amount of subscription—the scheme was de
cidedly successful for a few weeks after the Land
Office was located in that county, and entirely
without the bounds ot the Platte purchase, to the
prejudice and manifest inconvenience of the set
tlers.
In noticing this fact, the Lexington Express,
knowing that efforts were making to remove the
Land office from that town, recommended to the
citizens of the town adjacent, the method pur
sued by the citizens of Platte county, not dream
ing that the advice given in jest, would be so
successfully followed.
They were surprised a few days since at re
ceiving the intelligence that their advice had
been acted upon by the men of Clinton, and the
land office accordingly located in their midst.
Accompanying the Madisonians subscribed foi
by the Clintonians, the notice that the Land of
fice for the Lexington District would be remov
ed u Clinton, Henry county, as soon as the nec
essary arrangements could be made.
Preventive of Hydrophobia.—The follow
ing paragraph, which we cut from an exchange
paper, corroborates remarkably- the views es a
physician of Louisiana, which we published a
lew days ago, as regards his method of preven
ting the dreadful disease of hydrophta:
New Remedy fop. Hydrophobia. Dr. Hel-
ler, member of the'Roytrl A'eademy of Medicihe.
Paris, lately communicated to this society tha'
in Greece it is a practice to observe the tongue
of those persons who have been bitten by dogs,
because at the end of eight or nine days there
appear on each side of the tongue, and near the
upper part, pustules, called Zysses by the Greeks.
These pustules contain the whole rabid matter,
and immediately they are cut out and th
wound* cauterized, hydrophobia will be pre
vented.”
MONDAY MORNING, JUNE 26.
Death of Mr. Legare.
The Eastern mail of this morning, says the
N. Y. Courier and Enquirer of the 22d, brought
us the melancholy intelligence of the death ol
the Hon. Hugh Swinton Legare, Attorney
General of the United States and Secretary ol
State ad inlerim.This is an event as unexpected
as it is lamentable, and will be mourned thro’-
out the country as a national bereavement. —
Mr. Legare was unquestionably one of the
ablest members of the administration, and oc
cupied a place in which he would have won ad
ditional honor to himself and conferred credit on
the country. We copy the following announce
ment of his death from the Boston Mercantile
Journal:
“In the midst of festivities, while the bells
were ringing, the guns were firing, the flags
were waving, and the people were expressing
fheit joy and gratitude in the celebration of an
act to commemorate one of the noblest deeds
recoided in the historic annals—while the Pre
sident of the United States and distinguished
men from all parts of the country were our
guests—and every countenance seemed radiant
witli smiles, denoting forgetfulness ot care, and
indulgence in joyful anticipations—the angel
of death came among us— and has given us a
mournful and impressive illustration of the sub
lime truth that "m the miusl of Use we are in
death." Hugh S. Legare, of Soutli Carolina,
the eminent scholar, the poet, me orator, the |
o’clock, at the mansion of George Ticknor, in
Paik street. He had complained of indisposi
tion soon after his arrival in the city, ana was
in consequence unable to participate in cele
bration of the 17th of June. The immediate
cause-of his death is said to have been the in
tlam mation of the bowels. He was attended by
Dr Bigelow, and it is unnecessary to add eve
ry thing which care, attention, kindness end
medical skill could accomplish, was done to al
leviate his sufferings and preserve his life.
“Mr. Legare held the high office of Attorney
General of the United States; and since Mr.
Webster’s retirement from the Cabinet, has al
so exercised the duties of Secretaiy of State.
He lias been taken away in the very prime of
life, in the midst of a career alreauy signally
brilliant, and promising to be in the highest de
gree honorable to himself, and sei viceable to his
country and mankind. His death will be uni
versally regarded as a national calamity’, and
must be every where regretted; for he enjoyed
in a remarkable degree the respect and es
teem of all his lellow citizens, without regard
to section or part, in every portion of the Un
ion.”
More of the Abolition Insult to the
Acting President.—The Boston Atlas says;
“We are informed that the petition to President
T} lei, adopted at the meeting of Abolitionists
in Inis city, during the anniversary week, has
been forwarded in a letter by Wendell Phillips*
Esq., chairman of the committee. The letter
in d hick it is enclosed, requests an interview
for the purpose of conferring with the President
upon lhe object of the memorial. The commit
tee have received no answer to their communi
cation.”
JlTThe Springfield, Mass., Republican of
Saturday says, Mr. Ferre, a filer ot the Revolu
tionary War, left here in the cars this morning,
in good spirits, to attend the Bunker Hill Cele
bration. His old file was seen sticking out of
his breast pocket. We are thankful he is yet
able to blow it. Mr. Edwards, another Revolu
tionary veteran of this town, accompanied Mr.
Ferre.
Tut Treasury Note Robbers in New Or
leans.—On Tuesday last an examination was
had in the Supeiior Court, which resulted in the
discharge of Rynders on his own recognizance;
and it was thought Jewell would be discharged
next day. The only persons connected with the
affaii originally, were Breedlove and Holliday,
who are awaiting their trial. The Tropic ol
the 20th says, the voluntary confession of Breed
love, a principal in the crqne, cotnpletel v exoner
ared-ihvltccusedj with lhe exeeptfofiWt’Marshall
ItoiulcvJ wbo’fepWybtid ddm’i. lhe nTiistcr s pf rii
of the stupendous fraud committed on Uncle
Sam’s unsuspecting finances.
The Influenza.—The New York papers
continue to give accounts of the prevalence of
this troublesome disease in that city. Whole
families are prostrated with it, and in many ea
ses it has proved fatal.
Speaking of the President’s journey and
his reception by different communities and gath
erings ot the people, the New York Express
says that»"not one of the numerous speeches
which have been addressed to him from the lime
he set out from Washington until he left New
York made the most distant allusion to his re
election; not a shout from the member of any
crowd, nor a banner nor inscription of any kind,
from any quarter has been heard of, which had
a tendency to convey the slightest indication to
fire President that there was a voter who intend
ed to support him at the next contest.” This is
certainly a remarkable fact, and the Express
says that it has reason to believe, upon informa
tion from a variety of sources, that the fact has
not escaped the President’s notice. “The sole
object,” says the Express, “of the extraordinary
attentions of our Locofoco city rulers was to ob
tain possession of the few remaining offices
now in the bands of the Whigs; but the they did
not dare bid so high as to offer him their sup
port.”
Specif..—The last return ol the Bank of'Eng
land shows the enormous sum of more than 850,-
000,000 specie in the vaults of lhe Bank.
O’Jacob Collamer of Woodstock and one of
the J udges of the Supreme Court of Vermont has
been unanimously nominated as the Whig can
didate for Congress from the district lately rep
resented by Horace Everelt.
O' The crop of Indian corn in the United
Stales the last year is estimated by the Commis
sioner of patents, Mr. Ellsworth, to be a fraction
le.-s than 442,060,000 ol bushels.
O’Mr. Dickens’visit to the Five Points is
now i erpetuated by a street sign, “Dickens:
Place,” on one ofthe most noted corners ts that
pandemonium.
Or Mr. Howard’s bill for the entertainment of
President Tyler and his suite for the two days
during which he remained in New York,amounts
to upwards of twelve hundred dollars. The
Courier says that the total expense of receiving
and entertaining that functionary in New York
will not fall far short of three thousand dollars.
A. Holmes, has received the New
World edition of Blackwood’s Magazine for
June.
Something New.—At Cincinnati they are
’manufacturing a neat and very useful article of
floor and hearth cloth from hog’s bristles.
Correspondence of the Courier <f- Enquirer.
Boston, Tuesday P. M. —4 o’clock.
The Western trip of the Acting President has
been abandoned in consequence of his own bad
health, and the death of the a ting Sec. of State.
It is now his intention to leave here to morrow
afternoon via Providence and Stonington. This
1 think it is doubtful if he can do; as 1 have it
■rom pretty good authority that Mr. Tyler has
not left his bed since 9 o’clock last evening—at
my rate he has not been out ot his room; and
has seen no company. One of the members of
the Cabinet said in my hearing this morning,
that he should not be surprised if Mr. Tyler did
not live forty-eight hours. You may depend up
on it he is a very sick man
P. S. The Herald tells how Webster was
cheered in the procession—he was not in it at
all.
NathanTGreene, (former Postmaster) yesrer
'day received his commission as Postmaster of
•this city, vice Geo. Wm. Gordon resignej, an’d
who goes Consul to Havre.
Robert Rantoul also received the documents
for Collector of this port.
We learn since the above was published in
our second edition of yesterday, that letters have
been received at Howard’s Hotel, stating that
he Acting President will be there this morning
o breakfast, and will proceed South by the 9
o’clock train.
TUESDAY MORNING, JUNE 27.
Jj-The President of the United States re
turned on Friday unexpectedly to Washington
from his Northern tour. He left Boston on
Wednesday evening; the afflicting death of Mr.
Legare having induced him to relinquish his
proposed extensive tour through the interior to
Albany, etc. etc.
With the President returned the Secretary of
the Treasury and the Secretary of the Navy.
The Secretary ot War and the Postmaster
General are on the way hither, aud may be ex
pected very soon.— National Intelligencer.
S3rTbe trial of Mr. M. Cooke, Jr., charged
with killing Mr. Melsar Gardner, in an affray
at Norfolk on the 30th March last, was brought
to a close on Wednesday. The Jury rendered
a verdict ot “Not Guilty.”
The Mackenzie Case.—The vote of the
members of the Court Martial appointed to try
Commander Mackenzie stood, nine for acquit
tal, or “not proven,” and three for “proven,”
but without malice. The fact is developed in
the friendly libel suit instituted against the Jour
nal of Commerce by Commander Mackenzie
to find out the truth.
Incidents or a Tyler Meeting.—The fol-
I lowing proceedings, which were not “in the
I biU,” took jilaceatthe meeting field in Buffi’o
- es P * ce r t on lor.c.m
Mr. B. Wilcox offered a resolution nomina
ting John Tyler for the Presidency, in 1844.
This resolution the Chairman refused to put to
vote, whereupon Mr. W. offered another that it
might be entered upon the minutes cf the pro
ceedings of the meeting, that a resolution nomi
nating Mr. Tyler, &c. was refused to be enter
tained by the friends of Mr. Tyler himself, and
even this resolution, strange to say the meeting
refused to consider. We understand there were
about twenty persons present.
O’The New York correspondent of the Na
tional Intelligencer says:—The late improve
ments in daguerreotype (by’ the united chemists
and artists who form the company ol the “Na
tional Daguerreotype Gallery”) are really mos
wonderful. Mr. Hite, the best miniature pain
ter of New York, has abandoned his pencils for
sunbeams, and, a branch of this company, has
gone to establish himself in Philadelphia. By'
regulating the pose of the sitter more aristically
and by some chemical improvements, they take
as complete a likeness of the subject as ispossi
ble in a mirror—color only excepted. They are
daily improving, however, in coloring also. It
must soon completely supersede portrait paint
ing.
The Quickest Passage frosi America on
Record.—The Hibernia steamer, at Liverpool,
made the voyage home in the short space of
nine days and ten hours, which is the quickest
passage ever made by any of the Atlantic steam
ers. She is a newly built vessel. The Colum
bia also made a very rapid trip home, her pass
age having occupied but nine days and twelve
hours; and the quickest passage made by the
Acadia was accomplished in nine days and fif
teen hours.
U" The Baltimore American says :—The
first arrest of a supposed criminal flying from
justice, under the provisions of the late treaty
between Great Britain and this country, was
made at New York on Wesnesday. The per
son arrested is a young woman named Christina
Cochran, whois accused of having muidered
her husband near Paisley, in Scotland, by ad
ministering arsenic in his food. She arrived at
New York in the brig Excel from Liverpool,
and was immediately secured, in compliance
with a demand made by the British government
through an agent sent to this country in the
steamer Acadia. The facts attending her case
The gentleman to whom the prisoner was
married was a man of wealth, who settled x:i 000
or JJSOOO upon her on the day of their marriage,
and her father settled .£IOOO more; thus placing
at her immediate disposal, nearly SIO,OOO. In
three weeks from their marriage day the hus
band suddenly died. The wife, previous to her
marriage, had been attached to a young man
named Spear, and, we understand, afterwards
left the neighborhood in company with him,
which caused the suspicion, and led to the dis
covery of the husband having been poisoned.
Van Bureu and Woodbury.
The Madisonian says, that tie statement
which has been published in some <4 the news
papers, that the Convention recently held in N.
Hampshire, at which the Hon. Levi Woodbury
presided, had declared a preference for Mr. Van
Buren, as the next Democratic candidate for the
Presidency, is incorrect. A resolution to that
effect was introduced, but was voted down by a
decisive majority. Mr. Woodbury opposed" it,
and suggested the propriety of not declaring a
preference for any particular man. His sug
gestion was adopted.
From the Richmond Whig.
O-The Democratic party have abandoned, il
they ever occupied the platform, of genuine Re
publicanism. The “largest liberty" notions—
which they hold and inculcate, and which in
their tendency are subversive of law and liberty,
were unknown to the lathers of our Republic.
They spring not from old English stock of iree
dom. They come from another and very differ
ent source. They are of French extraction.
They are, under a changed name, the identical
piinciples which Robespiere and Danten prac
tised upon, and which deluged France in blood.
Their introduction into this country was in a
great measure attributable to Mr. Jefferson.
That great man animated by an intense hostility
to England and sympathising in the first trans
ports of the French Revolution, brought these
doctrines hither, and finding that they could not
be made subservient to his anglo-mania and his
own aggrandizement, exerted all his talents to
give them currency among our people. They
were chastened and modified and rendered com
paratively innocuous for the time, by the cnar
acter of our people, and the Anglo-Saxon love
ot law and regulated liberty still rife in the coun
try.—But the seeds ot Jacobinism were sown
broad-cast through the land; and now that the
population has become denser, and “the cankers
of a calm world and a long peace,” have multi
plied, and loafers and dreamers do greatly abound
—these seeds are sprouting forth, with every
promise ot an abundant harvest. “Universal
equality” and the “largestliberty"— unrestraineu
by decency, morality or law, are the populai
catch-words of the day—the counters with which
Demagogues seek to cheat the people and make
them lhe \ ietims of their mercenary arts. It is
becoming as fashionable and popular now, as i
was in lhe days of Robespiere, to hold up to pop
ular reprobation the man, who by a life of in
dustry and economy, has accumulated a fortune
and to teach the populace that such a one is a fit
subject for plunder and depredation. He (they
say) lives in daily violation of their great f unda
mental rule of equal rights; he lives in a splen
did mansion and fares sumptuously every day,
while we 100 free to labor, have no superfluities
—which constitutes an odious distinction—ab
horrent to nature; —away with him— a la lanter
ns — pull down hishouse and distribute his goods
and chattels among us the sons of freedom and
equality!
To this complexion the doctrines of the De
mocracy ofthe present day are rapidly tending.
First we have an habitual disregard of law—a
violation of the rights ol property—then succeeds
anarchy, and close in its*wake, despotism.
This is French liberty— contradistinguished
from the staid, sober and regulated liberty of the
Anglo-Saxon race. For our parts we desire no
better liberty than that for which Elliot andPyrn
and Hampden fought, and which Washington
and his compatriots bestowed upon this country.
That was Republicanism enough for us; and il
we could preserve it in its purity, we should be
content. Others may pursue lhe ignis fatuus ol
French Jacobinism; Freedom in a milder and
less tempestuous and more durable form is more
congenial to our tastes.
It is this destructive tendency of the modern
Democracy, which has as we know, alarmed
many sagacious men, who, on several of the
party topics of the day, agree with the Democrats.
Whigism, they see, is conservative in its ten
dency. It is content with the liberty and repub
licanism of 76—in its pure and unadulterated
state, and without any admixture with Frencl
Jacobinism. Locofocoism threatens the subver
sion of the social, moral and political fabric.—
The Whigs may be wrong in supporting a Bank,
ora Tariff’, or the Distrit ution ofthe Land money;
but supporting ,as they do, Liberty regulated by
law—a Republicanism alike removed from li
centiousness and despotism—they are far prefer
able to the political enthusiasts, in whose foot
steps follow the destruction sfprivate rights, ana
the establishment of anarchy and tyranny.
From the Knickerbocker.
The Vale «f G1 enc oe.
About noon, one claar day in the month ol
February, 1792, news reached the quiet vale ol
Glencoe that some of the King’s troops would
soon arrive, to make tor a short time that vale
their home. A circumstance so unusual caus
.•d no slight alarm; for, in those days of rebel
lion and dissatisfaction, tew who rose in the
morning to comforts, knew where at night to
rest their heads. The soldiers, on their arrival
being questioned as to their intent, declared they
came but to be quartered peaceably among them
for a few days. They were well received and
billettcd in the usual way. All now wore a
different aspect. The lasses sought out their
best attire, to honor, and it may be towin, the
brave soldier lads that brought mirth to their
quiet vale.
Merry hearts had assembled at the dwelling
of the chief. The old piper, his while hair
straggling over his furrowed cheeks, for he had
seen the snow of seventy winters cover his na
tive glen, seemed to renew his youth as he gaz
ed with delight on the happy faces and light feet
of those who did full credit to the wild spirit
stirring pipes.
Among the group assembled was the fair
haired Edith Campbell, with a heart full of hap
piness, even to running o’er; for that night she
had listened to a tale of love from lips that knew
no guile. And well hall the glance of hermild
eye fold the secret of her own heart, as she look
ed confidingly in the face of Duncan Macdon
ald, the youngest son of the chief.
Edith had attracted the attention of Pierce
Cameron, one of the officers. Heartless, uure
■l^l'feß^jSaigb :
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fair girl for a dance and twice he had been re
fused. His look of hate fell upon them unheed
ed; for happy in themselves, tney saw only the
bright suns of joy, and dreamed not of sorrow’s
stormy cloud. He was leaning on the back of
a huge chair that had from time immemorial
stood in the old wainscoted hall where the joy
ous laugh went round, muttering to himself:—
“She smiles on him: Curses on her smiles !
Ay, ay, birds of happiness! Smile while you
may. ere long that smiling lip and love dimpled
mouth will be as cold as the worm that will
banquet on its beauty! Yet, he added after a
pause, “I would have saved her. 1 would have
taken her to my warm heart; would have risked
the honor of a soldier, to save her from the
slaughter, and make her, for a while at least,
my own. But she has scorned me; spurned me;
and, heedless of the pang she might inflict, be
fore my sight smiled on another. Ay, smile
on! that I may be nerved for the work that be
gins with morning’s dawn.”
At this moment something touched his foot.
Thinking his dog had followed hn>, he stooped
to drag him from beneath the chair. He laid
his hand, not upon a dog, but upon the rough
head of an idiot boy. The vacant eyes met his
angry gaze as he dragged the listener forth, ex
claing, “Villain, what brought you here?” The
boy gathered himself up, shook his shaggy
head, and said in a piteous tone: “Davie’s daft!
Davie’s daft!” (foolish.) He then kicked the
poor idiot till his cries attracted the attention of
some of the guests, some of whom came imme
diately to the spot; amonglhe first was Edith: the
poor boy the while crying in the same piteous
toaes: “Davie’s daft! Davie’s daft!” Shetook
him by the hand, saying, as she cast a look of
scorn on the officer: “This, Capt. Cameron, is a
poor, inoffensive idiot boy, who has a home in
every house in the vale, and the sympa
thy of every heart that beats in it. It were, me
thinks, unworthy’ the valor of a soldier and the
feelings of a man to treat with cruelty’ one to
whom God has denied the power of redressing
his own wrongs.”
“Nay, fair Edith,” said Cameron, “I meant
not to harm the boy. I thought it was my dog
beneath the chair. To show you I intended not
to harm him, I will be friends with him and ask
his pardon. In earnest of which 1 give him this
broad crown.”
But the b“y, as the officer advanced towards
him with the piece of silver in his hand, shrunk
behind Edith, still piteously whining: “Davie’s
daft! Davie’s daft!”
“Go, Davie,” said Edith, “go and set by old
Allan. You will there be in no danger.”
“Ay, come here, come here, ye daft loon I”
said the old piper, “ and dinna be troubling the
gentles wi’ your havers. Do ye no ken ye hae
nae business at that end o’ the ha’ ? Little cred
it ye are to me for a’ the pains I hae ta’en to gar
ye behave like ither decent folk. Sit ye down
there, or deil hae me gin I dinna break your
head wi’ my drone.’’
Thus say in'g7 honest Allan blew up his pipes;
Davie sat down quietly by his side; the lads
and lasses resumed iftetr places on the floor;
and when the piper struck up “ The wind that
shakes the barley,” the circumstance ot Davies
disaster was instantly forgotten. On went the
dance, and merrily passed the laugh and jest,
till it was announced Jiat the banquet waited;
then up rose old Allan, and taking precedence
of the rest, played as he went the gathering tune
ol the clan. Soon all were seated at the festive
board; and well did the old thieftan play the
host. High filled he the cup of welcome, and
gaily passed the time, till the “ae short hour
ayont the twal ” warned them to depart, the
chieftain cordially shaking the hand of each
guest, while old Allan played the well known
air of “Guid night, an’ joy be wi’ you a’ 1”
W ith happy thoughts Edith sought her pillow;
for she had listened to a tale that gave joy to
her heart, and hai made a promise that was to
join her fate forever with that of him she loved.
Edith was parentless. A mother’s care she
had never known; and three years previous to
the period at which this tale commences, her
father had fallen fighting in what he thought a
good cause. Her dwelling was only a short
distance fiom that of the chief, where with a
maiden aunt she lived, if not in affluence, at
least in jcomfort and content. Edith was the
idol ofthe vale. With spirits light as thistle
down, that floated o’er her native hills, and a
heart in which was garnered every pure and
noble sentiment, in her the erring found an ad
viser, the sick a friend, and the aftiicie ! a sooth
er. Her heart yearned for something on which
to lavish its devotion. She had found all she
wished in young Macdonald, and she was hap
py-
It was with bright hopes then that Edith pre
pared to press her pillow. But, never unmind
ful ot her duty to ihat Being who guardsand
guides the good, before she sought repose she
meekly bent t..e knee. As she thus knelt in
humble prayer, she heard footsteps under her
casement; and presently a voice in low’tones
sung the following words :
“The moon is shining clear, ladye ;
The moon is shining clear :
Oh, dinna close your e’e in sleep,
For danger hovers near, ladye,
For danger hovers near.
“Then dinna sleep to-nfoht, ladye:
Oh, dinna sleep to-night;
For Death will soon be busy here,
Altho' the stars shine blight, ladye,
Altho’ the stars shine bright.
Edith rose from her knees, and opening the
casement, saw’ by the light of the moon Davie,
the idiot boy beneath. To her question of what
brought him there, he held up a feather, then a
secret token much in use to warn friends to fly,
and again sung, in half-whispered accents:
“Up and awa’, ladye;
Up and awa’!
I’ll guide ye frae danger
Before the cock craw.
“Death’s 1' the vale, ladye ;
Death’s i’ the vale!
I hear 1’ the night wind
The coronach and w ail.
“Dinna bide here, ladye;
Dinna bide here!
Why linger ye, lady,
When death is sae near?”
The strain so wild, the words so fearful, that
Edith sinking with fright, yet determined to know
the worst, hastily wrapped her plaid around her.
and descended with noiseless step to learn from
her mysterious visitor something more than his
wild song imparted.
On reaching the spot where Davie stood, tin
only reply she eouldget to her question of wha:
was the meaning of his w’ild words, was: “Death'’
i’ the vale, ladye!” And seizing her hand, he al
most dragged her along the path that led to the
old chieftain’s dwelling.
“I cannot go there,” said Edith, “the family
are all asleep!
"Sae muckle the waur,” replied Davie; “bu
we maun wauk them. Gin ye lo'e the youn,
eagle, gang till his eyrie and wank him whil<
ye may.”
They had now reached the door of the dwell
ing. At this moment a blue light was seen It
ascend, about a quarter ot a mile from them
Davie on perceiving it clapped his hands in ago
nv. “It’s ower late!” he cried wildly, “it’s ow.
late! In, ladye, in; and dinna stir till Davi
comes back again!” So saying, he fled swiftl;
up the vale.
Edith had now no alternative but to knockan
gain admittance. Soon she heard footsteps; an
a well known voice asked, “who knocks?” “I
is Edith Campbell,” was the trembling reply
Instantly the door was thrown open; and her lot
er, in alarm, asked the cause of her visit. —Soo
the tale was told; but before voting Macdona!
could reply, a wild cry was heard, and Davi;
breathless and covered with blood, rushed ini
the hall.
“Come!” he cried, “the pass is no guarded!
The bluid hounds are out, but ye may yet rit
free!”
VOL. VII.-NO. 26.
Shouts of murder were now heard amid the
lash ol arms. They had barely time to close,
■olt and bar, before a party of soldiers were heard
_it the door. Macdonald woke his father and
bejgedhim to fly.
-'ll ,' said th old chieftain. “I will not fly
ili 1 know wherefore 1 fly. My son, place Edith
io safety, and if flight be necessary we will
hrough the pass and join you. I cannot think
bey come with ill intent. I have taken the oath
of allegiance and nave a letter of protection. I
am therefore safe.”
The knocking still continual at the door.
Davie, who had been absent a few minutes, now
returned. He had unfastened the casement of a
large window at the back of the house, and seiz
ing Edith’s hand, he said: “Dinna stay, ladye,
linna stay. The pass is no guarded, and death’s
i’ the vale I”
Davie now led the way, Edith and Macdonald
following: the wild cries of murder and death
ringing in their cars as they fled toward the moun
tain pass. The massacre had begun. Men,
women, and children were seen flying in wild
disorder, while the fires that rose from the bum
i ng dwellings ot the doomed c’an gave noon-day’s
light to the gray dawn of morn'ng.
The boy slackened not his pace till he had
piloted them safely through the pass: then sud
denly stopping, he said: “Ladye, Davie can
gang nae farther. 1 kenn’d I would die; for he
struck hard wi’ the braid-swod, and then fired.”
“And who, prior lioy, could have had the
heart to strike ' ’ as she looked in his pale
face. " ,
“Capt. Cameron.” replied Davie, “and I nev
erdidhimlll.*’. ”. o
war/' eMi' An' v
I will avenge‘ the
dier cross my path ’
“Oh, try Duncan, try to bear him to some
place where he can find help!” said Edith, as
she bent over the poor boy.
“Dinna mind me lady; and dinna seek help
on this side the border,” said Davie, as he pres
sed his hand to his wounded side. “There’saae
langer a hame for the Macdonalds nang the
yellow broom and blooming heather. Davie
will never rnair see the muircock r se whirring
free its nest, nor watch the bowe plovers flee
ower the muirland. Davie’s lace is run; but ye
are sale, ladye, gin ye can c~oss the border; and
Davie may as well die. The bonnv briggins
are a’ burnt down that used to be his’bield; and
the kind voices that bade him comepen, are a’
hushed and still!”
It was by this time broad day-light. On the
left of the road was a thicket, and so nothing that
bore the appearance of a rude shed, wl ich had
probably been used by hunters, when chasing
the mountain deer. Ibthisthey bore the woun
ded boy. Edith spread her plaid, and on it
Macdonald carefully placed Davie. All fear
of pursuit was lost in anxiety for the poor lad,
to whom, in all probability, they owed their
lives; and who had risked his, without a mur
mur, to save them. They could perceive, as
they occasionally cast a glance toward the road,
those who had escaped the slaughter flying to
seek safety and shelter among the neighboring
clans. Duncan, anxious as he was for the fate
of bis parents, could not leave Edith alone with
the dying boy. Dreading to hail from their
sheltering-place their flying clansmen, no alter
native remained but to rest content, and trust to
that Providence who had hitherto protected
them.
Edilii sat resting poor Davie’s head upoh her
lap, endeavoring to staunch the blood that flow
ed from his wounds. “It’s nae use. I maun
gang the lang gaet. I wad hae liked to lie i’ the
vale amang the kind hearts that aye welcomed
me with a smile, and whiles pitied me with a
tear; but it maunna be. A stranger sod maun
cover Davie’s breast, and stranger’s footsteps
press it. And may be, ladye,” he continued,
while his voice trembled, and a tear stood in his
eye, “may be ye may pass the spot; and gin ye
but say ‘Puir Davie!’ 1 think I’ll ken your voice,
fcr my heart has aye loupt at a kind word; and
1 dinna think I can ever sleep sae sound, or be
sae cauW, that I canna feel kindness.” He
He strove to raise himself on his elbow; it was
nature’s last effort. He fixed his glassy eyes on
the face of Edith; endeavored to speak again,
but utterance was denied: and in a few minutes
the spirit of the idiot boy had winged its way to
a brighter world.
As Edith and Duncan bent in sorrow over
their departed friend, they were start'ed by a
deep drawn sigh; andon raising their eyes,be
held Pierce Cameron with folded arms gazing
on them.
“Cowardly wretch!” exclaimed Duncan, as
he sprung to bis side, “behold your work! You
wrenwtnw'iwrr■>:>! rest one who would have
turned aside to spare the worm that was fn his
path! Bm I have sworn to avenge him!”
The officer momnliilly shook his head,«while
he replied, in a voice of deep sadness: “1 le is
already avenged—fearfully avenged. I have
witnessed a scene ot bloodshed this morning
that will live in my memory while memory re
mains ; and my last moments will be embitter
ed by the part 1 have taken in the deed. Butno
time is to be lost; I sought you here to save you.
1 have sent the soldiers on another track.—
There,” said he, handling a paper to Duncan,
“there is a protection that will enable you lo
pass unmolested.”
“But my father ?” said Duncan.
“Alas!” replied Cameron, “there lives not
one in the vale of Glencoe to tell of the dreadful
slaughter! And now,” he added, as he threw a
cloak to Duncan, and fastened his own round
the neck of Edith, “go while you may.”
Edith ]X>inted to the corpse ot poor Davie.
“Leave that to me, fair Edith,” said Came
ron. “He shall have a giave in the vale he lov
ed; and the tear of regret shall bedew it from
eyes that have seldom wept. And now,” said
lie, taking a hand ot each, “farewell! We may
never meet again. But in after years, should
you hear of Pierce Cameron as one that good
men love, think, lair Edith, that you were the
light that shone on his patjt and guided him to
virlutL”
The Brotherhood of Mercy.
The following account of a “secret society"
in Florence, is taken liom a very pleasant book
of travels in Italy, by M. Dumas, a French au
thor. He says.
“Sometimes at Florence, in the midst of a
cavatina or a pas deueux, a bell with a sharo,
shrill, excoriating sound will be heard—it is the
bell della misencorda. Listen—if il sound but
once, it is for some ordinaiy accident; if twice,
lor one of a serious nature; if it sound three
times it is a ease of death. 11 you look around,
you will see a slight stir in some of the boxes—
and it will often happen thattl.e person you have
been speaking to, if a Florentine, will excuse
himself for leaving you, quietly take his hat and
depart. You inquire what that Lcll means, and
why it produces so strange an effect? You are
told it is the bell de/la miscricoraa, and that he
with whom you are speaking is a brother of the
order. 'lhis Biotheihood of Mercy is one of
the noblest institutions in the woild. It was
founded in 1244, on occasion of the frequent
pestilences which at that period desolated the
own—and it has been perpetuated to the pre
sent day, without any alteiatfon except in itsre
tails—with none in its purely charitable sjirit.
It is composed of seventy-two brothers, called
Chiefs of lhe Watch, who are each in setvice
four months in the year. Os these seventy-two
brothers, thirty are priests, fourteen gentle men,
and twenty-eight artists. To these, who repre
sent the aristocratic classes and the liberal
arts, are added live bundled laborers and
workmen who may be said to represent the
people. The seat of the Brotherhood is in
the Plaza del Duomo. Each brother has
there, marked with his own name, a box en
closing a black robe like that of the penitents,
with openings only for the ey's and mouth, in
order that bis good actions may have the furthei
meritof being performed in secret. Immediate
ly that the news of any accident or disaster is
brought to the brother who is upon guard, the
bell sounds its alarm once, twice or thrice, ac
cording to the gravity of the case—and at the
ound of the bell eveiy brother, wherever he
nay be, is bound to retire at the instant, and
fasten to the rendezvous There be learns
what misfortune or suffering has claimed his
pious offices—he puts on his black robe and a
broad hat, take- the taper in his hand, and goes
forth where the vo’ce of misery calls him. If it
is some wounded rran they bear him to thehos
>ita); if a man isdead lhe chapel; the nobleman
:nd the day laborer, clothed with the same role,
tipport together the sai.ie litter—and the link
vbich unites these two extiemes of society is,
omc pauper, who knowing neither, is praying
anally lor both. And when these brothers of
nercy have quitted this house, the children
i hose father they have carried out, or the wife
chose husband they have borne have but to look
round them, and always, on some worm-eaten
iece of furniture, or other object, there will be
pions alms, deposited by an unknown hand! —
The Grand Duke himself is a member of the
•atcinity—and I have been assured that more
han once, at lhe sound •( that melancholy bell,
e has clothed himself in the uniform ol charity,
nd penetrated unknown, side by side with a
tv laborer, to the bed’s head ol some dying
■retch—and that his presence had I een detect
ion ly by the aims he had left behind.'’
Fire.—A lire b.ok-out in Lexington. (Ky.)
n the 6th inst. which destroyed the Bagging
'actory ol Mr. Samuel Bedd, at the upper end of
Main street.
. pretty r ib, sauntering on the sands at
baton, with her sm'imental swain, was so
locked by h:. indelicate allusion to the 'bear
ng bosom’ of th? ocean that she discsFd«d him