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Foreign. —To the politeness of our
attentive correspondent, the editor
of the New York Gazette, we have l
been furnished with further accounts, (
brought by thcßiilishßarque l)iuun,
at that port, although it is not so late
by one day ns the previous intelli
gence by her. The editor of the
Gazette obtained the Hull Adverti
ser of the 30th of April, which con
tains some items from the interven
ing London dates to the evening of
the 28th. The London editors were
nil speculating on the situation of the
King, and the cause of his illness.
From the extracts given on this sub
ject, it'will he observed that the gen
eral opinion was that lie was in a
very critical situation.
The Morning Chronicle of the
27th holds the following language:—
“The reports respecting the King’s
health aie very unfavorable. No re
liance whatever is placed on the bul
letins. First ‘the King is better,’ (
then ‘the King continues much tiie
same.’ And to amend the matter,
|he Court Newsman tells us that
Muring the day his Majesty appeared
to b£ rather better.’ We know that
thc.state of his Majesty’s health on
Sunday was very different from what
night have been inferred from the
communications to the public.”
A private letter from London, dot
ted pn the evening of the 28th, states
that the King himself had become
more alarmed at the ol’
the attack, and that Sir Astley Coop
er was to be called in, in addition to
tho other medical advisers.
The great extent of business be
fore the House of Commons, was,
on Tuesday night, the 27th put in a
Striking light by the difficulty of tind
inga day fofMr. Grant’s motion on
She occurrences at Tcrceita. With
every disposition to accommodate
Mr. G. the only alternative was, 4hat ]
bis motion should be brought on, on
Wednesday, although that day is in
general a dies non in regard to dea
lers.
India Question.—On Monday
eight, the 20th, .i thellouse ofPeers,
Lord Durham said he understood
Ministers intended to renew the
Company's charter. Lord Elleubo
roug.li said that no such inference
ought to be drawn from any thing
that had /alien from him or nil y of
his Majesty’s Ministers. Lord Dur
ham: “I’m glad of it.”
’ By an arrival at Boston from Cati
.tpUj-tbe Boston Commercial Gazette
lias been furnished with a file of the
•‘Canton Register,” from which it
gives a few amusing extracts. A
inoiig other paragraphs selected, we
notice one in which it is stated that
at a “theatrical exhibition in honor
of idol gods, a few days ago, in a vil
lage‘belonging to Canton district, a
fire occurred, cither by uccident or
dosign of incendiaries and according
to the acknowledgment of govern
ment, upwards of two hundred per
sons, men and women, were burnt
or troden to death.”
Among other extracts, the follow
ing curious paragraph is given, ns a
Specimen of the manuscript hills or
advertisements which is the custom
in China to stick against the walls,
for the recovery of lost children, run
away concubines, stolen propet ty, or
the like.
REWARD OFFERED.
“Chang chaou lai, who issues this
thanks gi\ ing advertisement, lives
outside tire south gate in Great tran
quility lane, where he has opened an
incense smoking mosquito shop.—
On the evening of the 12th inst. two
of his fellow workmen, in the shop,
Ne-olvung and Atik, employed a stu
pify ing drug, which by"iu-fumes sunk
all the partners in a deep sleep, du-
T ring which they robbed the shop of
all the money, cloths, fcc. which they
could carry away. Next morning
when- the partners awoke no trace
was to be found of these two men.
If any good people know where they
are, and will give information, u
thauks offering, in flowery red paper
of four dollars will bo presented. If
both the booty und the two men be
seized, and delivered ovei at my lit
tle shop, ten -dollars will be present
ed. Decidedly I will not eat niy
words. This advertisement is true.
Santa F'c. —The Missouri Intelli
gencer contains a letter from an A
inerican gentleman, resident in San
ta Fe, dated January 28th 1830.
lie states that on the first day of
that mouth, the principal Chief and
waffiors of the damanclirs came in
a body to the room of the Americans
stating that they wished to make
peace with the U. States. The A
rnericans had no authority to make
a treaty, but entered into friendly
stipulations as to tlnttitsdlves.
COLUMBIA,May 15.1830.
Departure of Santa Fe Traders. —
For some days past tt large number
of our fellow citizens have been e
quipping themselves and departing
for Santa Fe. Tho goods of the ad
venturers are now almost exclusively
transported in wagons, dearborns,
&c. Some of the wagons are of the
largest class, with four horses or
mules, Many have proceeded from
this place and vicinity; and it is com
puted that the whole caravan will ’
consist of about 61) Wagons and 120
souls. They Were to rendezvous at
the Blue Spring on''the 15th inst.
where they would organize them
selves, and proceed ontheir final des
tination immediately, without wait
ing longer upon our dilatory and
speech making Congress for the long
and expected escort.
From. Ilio dc Janeiro The schoo
ner Elizabeth Jane*, Capt. Blooks,
arrived at New York in 35 days from
Rio de Janeiro. The U. S. ship
Vandalia arrived 25th, from Monte
video. The Duke of Santa Crrfz
embarked on the 20th, in a Brazili
an frigate forAntwcrp. It was stat
ed that 7000 slaves had arrived at
Rio from the 15lh to the 30th of
April.
Saovnc/jH c
THE VETO.
The friends of Mr. Clay Chuckle oil account of
the beiiciiu. which they expect him toderive from
the IVesHciit’s May sville Message, but calcula
tions Hie very various on this sUbjett**-'tye have
seen a letter from one of the most intelligent po
liticians of a northern State, who gives it as his
linn opinion, that in Maryland and in Pennsyl
vania—jn N. Hampshire and Maine—lndiana
ur.ii Illinois—in llthc Southern and.South-Wes
tern States, the firm and fearless conduct of the
President in ‘ saving the Constitution at its last f
gasp,” and securing us from a torrent of local I
and corrupting appropriations, w ill place him |
higher than ever.—but, if “the fate of Gen Jack
son is to be irrevocably fixed” by scuba meas-1
are—as the Cincinnati American so ridiculously T
declares it is to be—if there be “ingratitude cn- {
ough in this country to reward such a course by •
a deprivation of office,” w* trust there is not a ‘
friend ofGcn. Jackson, who would not say for I
him with I*. V. Harbour in his eloquent viudica- |
lion in the 11 of It. on the 28th May: “|]jdl the *
honor of filling the Chief Executive Chair if it
were revealed to me from Heaven, that such
would be the result, 1 would rather go down to I
posterity upon the historic page,-as one who, ijfcc j
the present chief Magistrate, had, with The moral f
courage, the ardent patriotism, and lofty disinter- j
cstedness of the ultuimns Roma norum , thrown j
himself into the breach and bt ousted the storm in !
doing his duty, than, by a different course contirt- 1
ue to be President through a long and protracted*
life ”
But we have no apprehension upon this subject.
The Cincinnati Ameican is like one of the Lying
Oracles of old. The laty u.'Geu. Jackson is not
irrevocably fixed, in its sense of the term, by his
May sville Message The flood of mistiiief, from
which it has saved us, will be seen by every in
telligent pel son whoconsiders the question—even
by many whose first impressions were against it.
The Frankfort Argus declares:
“\\ e hud no conception ol the immense amount
which applications of this soi t demand from the
public Treasury. Tb small appropriation for
the May sville Turnpike, seems to have been pas
sed as a pioneer to all the rest. We do not know
tha| the people of Kentucky would be willing to
consider so small a -benefit, as a subscription of
$150,000 in stock, confuted to a single section of
. the State, and that stock drawing a toll from the
State to the General Government, as a stockhold
er, and equivalent for a precedent which is to let
in nil the demands which it seems from the state
ment below, have been originated in a single com
mittee of the 1 lotise of Repr sentatives. If the
national Treasury is thus laid open to a common
scramble, It must soon become bankrups. The
whole public revenue will be constantly absorbed
ina variety of unconnected projects, and the go
vernmeiit will be compelled to fun in debt for it*
ordinary expenditure, instead of paying off the
debt in which it is already involved.”
The Louisville Advertiser comes out before it
bad heard the fate of the bill, w ith the following
impressive declarations:
“There can be no doubt as to the character of
the bill. Jt assumes, in the broadest possible
shape, on llie part of the general government, the
power to appropriate the national funds to pur
poses of interim! improvement. It is also true,
that the measure possesses no trail of nationali
ty, except that to found in the consideration
that the proposed turnpike, as it will be made o
m a portion of the principal western mail route 1
will facilitate the transput lotion of the great wes
tern mail This consideration may induce he
President to approve the bill; or, he may arrive
at the conclusion that the proposed improvement
will be essentially local in its character, and that
he advantages u> be derived from it by the gen
eral government would be insufficient to justify
thy subscription contemplated ly the bill.
“It was without doubt, ov ing to the fact, that
the passage of the bill would tie a broad and bold
assumption of the power denied to Congress by
V irginia and the Southern States, that we saw the
federalists (allies, of the National Republicans) of
the north voting in’solid phalanx jn its favor.
The measure was calculated to give strength to
the opinions advanced by£Mr. Webster, in favor,
of an omnipotent central government; and, for
this simple reason, it found fovor in the eves of
his northern followers As advocates of an un
limited government, they voted for the bill—not
because they desired to promote the interest of
Kentucky, but in consequence of the power it as
sumed. They believed it would tend to give
weight to the opinions they had advanced in fa
vorof u splendid central power, by which they
hope to wield our. national destinies and to regu
late our local and Individual interest*. It was
not love for Kentucky? but love of the power as
sumed by the bill which rendered it a favorite
w ith northern statesmen. We owe them nothin'*
for w hat they have done, because those who were’
influenced by their love of power voted to sustain
their ow n principles—not to promote western iu
tt^CSts.”
The Lexington Gazette vindicates the cdurse
of thfe Chief Magistrate, and calls bpon the Citi
zens of Kentucky, to put their own shoulders to
;he wheel, and prosecute the Majrsvillc Road
with “renewedenergy.”
The llamihiu'g Reporter* one of the ablest
and most influential papers in Pennsylvania, de
clares, that “the rejection ofthe appropriation
to the May sville Road; will cause the people to in
vestigate the subject, and they will soon discover
i hat he was right, not only on constitutional prin
ciples of expediency and interest. The people of.
PcunsylvAui* will applaud him for if, and hail it
as one of the best acts of his eventful life. Why
-.hould Pennsylvania life made to contribute her:
portion out us U. States’ Treasury, to make
roads for other States ! Pennsylvania has made
her own Turnpike Roads, without aid from the
General government, though we confess some of
her citizens have paid dearly for them. She is
now inakhig ht*r canrU m the same way. Why’,
then, should not other States do likewise?”
No—the people of this country are roo w ise not
to perctttve flie maty mischiefs w hich Gen Jack
son has averted, if they give up him, whom will
they take? Will they take Mr. Clay? What can
his friends, in this State, say in regard to the
principles which hr holds? Doefi he hold one
great Constitutional principles in common with
Virginia? Andean they, who have boasted so
much of their attachments of State Right?; and
have once professed tu “hang out their bailncrs to
the outward wall,” y ield up all the principles they
have professed, and take 11. Clay rather than A.
Jackson?—Will they prefer the “Father of the
American System,” to one who declares himself
in favor of a ‘temperate Tariff?” Will they pre
fer the open and active friend of the Bank oftlic
U. S.—the. laiitudinarinn Advocate of Internal
Improvements, ofthe Maysville Road, and all ci
thers whatsoever, whether general or local, whe
ther t3O or 500 miles long—w hether confief! to one
State, or rtmniiiing from one State to auother?—
Bring out Hr Clay upon these grounds—and
upon none others cun he he supported, and what
will the friends of a limited Constitution say to
him? Can they support’ him?—An intelligent
friend writes us, that in his opinion, such a con
test for the Presidency, would he “of more mag
nitude to all the friends of free. Government, than
this country has ever seed. Upon it, hangs the
question of limi ed and constitutional Govern
ment, or one of undefined powers—id the other
words, despotism. Is there any impartial, reflec
ting inau, w ho helices, that if this Administration
is to go down, for the principles it has professed, 1
and anew one is introduced, with the fifinciplts
they will act upon, that the Union can stand ten
years?” —Richmond enquirer.
MASONIC ADDRESS.
The following Address was delivered at the In
stallation of the Grand Officers of the General
Roynl Arch Chapter ofthe United States, in the
City of Washington, on the 3d ult. bv the Hon.
E3iv4.RD*,irii>£iro>i of Louisiana :
Companions and Brethren:
To have been deemed by n delegation from nil
the States of the Union worthy of filling tho
highest station if* the highest order of regular ma
sonry, and of succeeding in it a man w hose life
was an ho.ijor to bis country, arid whose death
was bewailed as a public calamity, cannot but
eXcite the most grateful emotions.
But there is a period in life when all honors
lose much ofthe value at which they were before
appreciated. When popular favor, the glided
bnble wh*ch danced before us, and which we pur
sued with so much childish eagerness, vanishes
into air; and, when feeling the approach of that
event which must plit ftn esid to ell onr hopes and
fears, our projects of fortune, and pleas of ambi
tion, the mind looks back with only
on the remembrance of good deeds, and can find
no solid hope of future temporal happiness, but in
promoting that of others, receiving ns otir reward
the esteem of the worth}’ and the wise.
Arrived at this period of life, and having for
, n „y f. „. any p.i rtiaiputio s in HR:
labors ot the craft, it was with great surprise that I
I received the notice of this unsolicited distinction
which bad been conferred upon me. Grateful
for the honor, l should have declined it, but for
the consideration that tt refusal might be ascribed
to an unmanly fear of encountering the clamor
raised against our Institution, or a consciousness
that the vile and absurd accusations against it
were well founded. Either of these suspicions
would have injured, not my character only, hnt
that of the whole fraternity. I therefore deter
mined to Undertake the duties of the place into
which 1 have just Been installed; but it was not
‘without much reluctance, suggested bv the consci
ousness that iny long retirem -it had rendered me
10-ss fit to fill the station, than many others, quite
ns well qualified in every other respect. But this
was removed, u hen 1 learned the name of the
most worshipful companion who was enacted to
the second, although more worthy of the
place in our Institution. Ilis high masonic at
tainments. the know ledge l have long had of his
worth, enabled nwi to rely on his aid in such du
ties as my hflt ;•**•<,aid enable me to pet form; and
on his kindness'to replace.me in all others.
Companions and Brethren.* For the first time
in the history of our country persecution has rais
ed itsefi against our honorable fraternity. It does
indeed, ujCin other countries, incarcerate uni
bodies, strain*-them on the wheel, or consume
them in the flames of the Inquisition; but its at
tacks are to an honorable mind, as unjustifiable.
It assails our reputation with the blackest calum
nies; strives, by the most absurd inventions, to
deprive us ofthe confidence of fellow citizens; be
lies the principles of our order and represents iik
as hound to each other by obligations subversive
of civil order and hostile to religion.
What shall we say to these imputations? Shall
we recriminate / Shall we challenge a compari
son between the characters, services, and virtues,
of those who have been and now are. the orna
ments of the craft, and of society, with the char
acters, services, and virtues, of the proudest of our
accusers ? Shall we point to wretches relieved
from misery by our charity, the deadly enmities
reconciled by onr. interposition, the disconsolate
st: anger comforted by masonic kiudn.es iu a for
eign land, the fejr of widows and orphans dried
by masonic affection and the broken spirit healed
by masonic consolation? Shall we condescend
i to justify ourselves against imputations, too atro
| ciqys to be preferred but by malevolence, too ab
| surd to be credited but by the grossest ignorance?
or ask whether any American can doubt about
ibe purity of principle in a society over which
Washington and Warren, and Clinton have pre
sided—to which Franklin and Montgomery and
so many of our revolutionary statesmen and he
roes belonged, whose fives were passed in the ser
vice of their country, who honored it. while living
by their virtues, and who died in it3 defence, and
of which Jackson and Lafayette, and o> thousand
others whom the people have delighted to honor,
are actually members?
Shall we use these, and the numerous other*
conclusive arguments, to repel the accusations
that are made ; Not, my brethren, by my ndvice.
Calumnies so absurd as are uttered against us,
lire best met by dignified silence An intelligent
and enlightened community will not be deceived
by them. And we should be just, and reflect that
cause for high excitement has begn given, by .the
outrageous adduction of a citizen, dragged from,
his family and friends, in the midst of a populous
State; followed up, most probably by the perpe
tration of a most atrocious murder.
It was natural, from all the circumstances ol
this most extrnoidinnry, and savage act, to hi
lieve that it was committed by masons.
If was in human nature, unenlightened and pr
jtidiced human nature, to impute the cause of tlm
oflfcuce to gome secret tenet of the fraternity, anti
to involve them in the criminality of their guilty
members.*
It was natural that ambitious meti should keep
up the excitement, and direct it against political
adversaries for their own elevation.
And -it was quite natural that men slityuld be
found simple enough, not to sec through their
views, credulous enough to believe their sibsurd
tales, or sufficiently unprincipled to propagate
them, knowing them to be false.
All these considerations should make us indul
gent to the feelings of others, and severe in re
pressing our own. IndignsftSon is nuturul when
we hear the Society to which we belong accused
of prompting by its doctrine a detestable crime ;
and we are, on every occasion, tempted to
with Warmth, How is it, that even supposing a
foul murder to have been committed by Masons,
and that they were incited to it by masonic enthu
siasm and a mad perversion of its principles ?
how is it that you can, on this account, entertain,
the absurd idea that such are the true tenets of a
society, among whose members were men who
have forages been distinguished for every virtue,
for patriotism, disinterestedness, and charity—
and which now contains some of those most cele
brated for relit: ion, morality, mid worth, pious
ministers of the Gospel, upright Magistrates, men
of all professions exemplary in their lives and con
duct? Might you not as well ascribe to our holy
religion the crimes of those who in nil times,
liUve, by their mad bigotry and enthusiastic zeal,
committed murders, and spread devastation in the
name of a God of Mercy and Feace? Let us, my
brethren*. render Him our most grateful thanks,
that, in the annals of our order, this is the first in
stance ot a ci ime that could be, by any probabili
ty, ascribed to imaginations heated by a pervert
ed sense of duty—let us bend iit humble acknow.
lodgement of His divine .goodness, which has in
spired the brotherhood with a sense of their duties
as masons and men, that they challenge n com
parison w ith an equal number from any rank and
profession, for obedience to the laws; the perfor
mance of all public duties, and the practice of
privv virtues. Let us pray for the continuance <
of His aid, that we may be strong in faith, rich
in hope and abundant in charity Let the cir
cumstances of the times be an additional motive
for us to watch over our conduct, to improve our
lives, give no cause for suspicion; and, disdaining
any other defence, let our answer to our calumni
ators be— OUR LIVES.
Companions and Brethren. When I shall have
become better acquainted with the affairs of the
General Grand Chapter, and with the situation of
the several State Grand Chapters under its juris
diction. 1 shall make such communications as 1
think the good of the fraternity may require.
Adding now only this exhortation, not to be tempt
ed By the example of out enemies, to the slightest
interfereiice iu the political pai ties; using your
privilege as individual citizens, without contami
nating your Lodges and Chapters with matters
that may interfere with their great duties, or dis
turb their harrriony; or convert them into theatres
for the exercise of political intrigue. I need not
urge obedience td the law?—it is the first lesson
of our fraternity i
From the Athenian.
THE GOLD DIGGERS
On Saturday last William Robbins 1 and other*,
to tlie number of nine persons, were brought be
fore Judge Clayton, on a writ of Habeas Corpus,
the return to which and the decision thereon
published below, will show the nature ofthe Case,
and will perhaps bd of some interest to the public.
GEORGIA, CLARK COUNTY.
In obedience to the withi a fiat, l have brought
before the Court issuing this Habeas Corpus, the
poisons therein named, and for causes of their
caption and detention state, that 1 juu a Lieuten
ant ofthe 4th Regiment ofthe United States’in
fantry, acting under the command of one Captain
ITam-is W. Brady, who has been ordered by the
General Government, with a detachment of
froopx, to remove all intruders from that part the
Nation, lying within the limits ofG.cor
gntT That in pursuance of said orders, said Capt.
Brady is stationed in said Nation, nnd that on the
lfitli inst. the within named persons came into the
Nation to a place called the Pigeon Roost, said to
be in Hall comity in said stale, hut a part of the
Indian Nation, to where a man by the name of
Bean, a white man, though enjoying the privile- !
gcs'pf an Indian in said nation, was, or had been
digging gold; that they ordered oil'said Bean, as
he, or persons through him, informed Lieut.
Trcno*, the commanding officer at, or near that
place; and he further informed him, said persons
had the working tools usual for the purpose of
digging gold and had declared they would dig
gold in said nation, iu defiance of the laws of the
United States, the Governor’s Proclamation or
the troops. Whereupon the said Lieut, ordered
affirmant with a detachment of troops *o proceed
to their apprehension, and he with another de
tachment wen* lor the same purpose another
route, and arriving at the place w here they were,
first apprehended said person*, and gave thdtq
over to affirmant to report the case to Capt. Bra
dy at Scudders, which was done, and the said
Capt. Brady ordered affirmant to take said per
sons before the civil authority, to be dealt with
according to law for a breach ol an act of Con
gress, passed to regulate trade and intercourse
with the Indian taffies, and to preserve peace on
the frontiers; ami for said purpose, and by said*
order, affirm ml bus laid persons in custody.—
Given under my hand this 19th June,’ 1830.
’ JOSEPH CLAY, Lt. 4th lift.
DECISION.
The StATE, )
vs. > Habeas Corpus.
Wm. Robbins and others. }
The return is objected to by counsel for Prison
ers on. the follow ing grounds :•
Ist. It shows no offence committed against the
act of Congress to regulate trade and intercourse
with the Indians.
2nd. The Officer shows no authority for his ar
rest; he does not show Capt. Brady's orders from
the government, nor his own orders from Capt.
Brady, and that his bare unsupported statement
of these facts are not sufficient evidence of his
authority.
3d. J hat if there was an offence committed bv
these individuals, the arrest was illegal, for it was
not done upon the view ofthe military force, but
derived entirely from the hearsay testimony of an
individual unsupported by oath, and one not con
nected in any way with the force sent to remove
the intruders.
4th. Thai Congress have no t ight to pass a
law making an_v act an offence which does not
immediately relate to the regulation of commerce
among the Indian tribes, nnd that the digging of
gold in tbe nation actually commuted, much less
the declaration of an intention to do so without
cariying that intention into effect, is no act which
comes within the right of Congresss to punish,
under saltl power to regulate commerce.
And 6th. That the Teriitory is Georgia’s al
ways was, and over it she has exclusive jurisdic
tion, ami having from the Ist day of this month
“iganizi'd said territory, by extending lier laws
over the same, the authority ofthe United States
ceases, if it ever had any in this particular case,
and the slate now possesses jurisdiction of all of
jenccs committed on sai.l territory, and if anv has
. been committed by said individuals, they are u
lone amenable to the stale laws.
Without being reduced to the necessity, at all
‘imes painful, ot disputing with the General Gov
ernment the extent of its powers, in relation to iu
•lsdiction within the territorial limits of Georgia;
e court thinks that this point can be settled"by
ptoper cuusideiation ofthe Ist objection. The
.cts in the return do not shew any crime to liave
been commuted even against the act of Congress
to regulate trade and intcrf&ursc frith t'uc India*,
tribe*, lhc law on that subject as well as every
other penal law, requires the act declared to be
illegal, to have been actually perpetrated. Tho
declaration of an intention to coramiti a crime
docs not amount to the crime itself; there nntst *
be ft “union or joint operation of art and intenti
on ” The mere declaration to Bean thdi tncjr
would dig gold, and this constitutes the intrusion
if any,-docs not offence, and if it
did, the information unsworn to by Bean, is not
sufficient evidence of the fact to authorise an ar
rest. It would be dangerous to the liberties of
the citizens, in the very highest degree, to suffer
Mich information to he the foundation of an arrest
for the commission of supposed crime. It is a
boasted principle of our laws, that the military
shall be subject to the civil authority; *uit what
can be more opposite to such a valuable privilege
than to suffer the military to atreßt the citizen,
upon much l#*s evidence than the civil officer,
and which, if done by him, would be considered
false imprisonment. A magistrate dare not ai.
rest upon such information, much less would lie .
arrest an individual for trial who had merely s**’ \
it was his intention to commit a crime, wit
having perpetrated it. Upon Biis ground there
fore, the piitoners must be discharged,.and I am -
glad that I am relieved from the decision of the
other points, because it is extremely desirable that
there should exist the utmost harmony between
the state and general government, and no act
should be done which will endanger that object,
and I must take this occasion to say, and 1 wish
the remark hereafter to be recollected, that the
going into the nation for the purpose of doing any
act, which will injure the property of the state,
or disturb the permissive possession of the Indi
ans, is calculated to produce that tdhly unpleasant
result, and as against the states interest is highly,
illegal, and contrary to the proclamation of t!>6
Governor in this regard, which must be respected.
I hope the citizens ofthe state will be warned by
the circumstayes of this Case, to forbear in future*
from trespassing upon that territory, and by no’
means to consider that the discharge of these in
dividuals, will-be-a license to future intrusion*
upon the public property of Georgia. It will he
a very delusive idea, and one which may involve
them in great and seriqus misfortunes.
A. S CLAYTON.
Fire Proof House-Cove ring.—rlt will be seen by
the advertisement of Messrs. Boro & Tildon, in.
a subsequent column., that these gentlemen pro
pose to introduce into our city anew style of
Fire-nroof House-covering. From the statement
■of its nature and advantages, contained in the ad
vertisement, it would seehi that the plan is a judi
cious and valuable one; and we‘have heretofore
heard it highly spoken of, hut have no personal
knowledge or experience on the subject At any
rate, at the present moment, when so large .*} num
ber of fire-proof buildings are erecting, ancbaboi.it
to be erected, hi the city, it is important that its
merits, in comparison with the other modes now
in use, should be carefully enquired into! It will
he perceived that Mr. Philip Crump, a respecta
ble and long'experienced master builder ot our
city, rs appointed the agent of Messrs. Bunl fit
Tildon.— Augusta Chronicle.
MR. M’LANE’S despatches.
It has been aseertcii by site •!'.'• w
York Daily” Advertiser and r
prints, that letters from Mr. Hi
not only did not support the opin. a
of the President favorable fa art ear
ly adjustment of the West India
question, but stated that iiotliiuj hud
been or Was likely to be eheefed in
the objects of the negotiatien of our
minister—that tho packets had ar
rived, hut had not furnished the an
ticipated intelligence, &e. The Al
bany Argus, however, a paper t* hich
docs not usually speak confidently on
slight foundation, states oij the au
thority of several members of Con
gress, that the despatches which did
arrive after the.message of the Pre
sident, and after the whole subject
had. been disposed of by Congress, so
far from conveying tbe impression
that nothing will be effected in rela
tion to the Colonial Ttade are pre
cisely of a contrary tenor, and .shew
that the question is in a train of sj;ee
dy adjustment; and Mr. M’Lane’s
private letters, so fur from.being of
the tenor stated are the reverse of
that, and express the conviction! in
direct terms, that the issue of the
negotiations will be fovorable ; a:d
at an early dRy.”
The Legislatuic of Massac osetts
were to adjourn on the sth ir t., af
ter an industrious session of tv. lavs.
On the Ist the Governor sent t> mes
sage to that body, in which he in
formed them, with expression; *
lively pleasure, that Congress i
passed the bill for scttlin- theClaii a
of Massachusetts on the General go
vernment.—Sot. Georgian.
The following act, securing ft. *he
citizens of the state of Co:-"erticut
freedom of opinion in matters ct reli
gion, passed the Legislature of that
state at their late session.
To secure to the Citizens ofthe State
of Connecticut freedom of opinion,
in matters of religion.
Be it enacted, Hyc. That no person,
who believes in tho existence of a
Supremo Being, shall, on account of
his religious opinions, be adjudged
an incompetent witness by any Court
of Judicature in this State. (Signed
and Approved.)
The Georgetown, (S. C ) Intelli
gencer, mentions that the Rice crops
in that section of country probably
were never known to look more pro
mising in their present stage. That
the corn is also very goad, and the
potatoes have not recovered flora
the effects, of the dry weather. Ge
nerally speaking tbe prospect is flat*
tcring, and under other circumstan
ces might go far towards relieving
the pressure of their difficulties