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Charleston, Feb. 3.—1 p. M. j 1
By tike schooner Amanda Mahi-j
na, xvc have been favored wii Mr-j
tunzaft papers to the ult. and a !
Price Current of the 24th.—Capt.!
Buckner brings n’ verbal uew*.
. Capt. Dr'e.v, of the ship Henry
Thompson, has favored us with !
Gibraltar papers to tiie 14th Dec.!
They are of very diniinutive si/e,
and made up almost entirely of ex
tracts from French and English pa-]
pors of November lust. Capt. D. !
■was on shore at Gibraltar hut a few!
hours, and did not learn any thing!
of the least interest whilst, sliere.
A letter by the ship Henry Thump- i
son, dated at Port Mahon, 20th of:
November, from an officer on hoard
the United States sloop of war Fair- j
field, Capt. Parker, mentions that ,
they were about to get under way ‘
far Marseills, and expected to leave
the Meditcrrunian for home, ?n the
course of the ensuing mouths of
.March or April.
West Indies. —VV r e have been fa
voured with the perivsal of a file of
the St. Johns (Autigua) Free Press,
trtrthe2sth December last reeioved
via St. Thomas. Some allusion is
made in these papers, to the Miiqui
ct state of the Island of Martinique,
occasioned by certain measures of
the new government of France which
had caused much uneasiness theie. j
The Free Press contains a cot res-
pondetue derived from Jamaica pa
peis, between the foreign merchants
at Rio llache and Capt. Clement of
the Br. frigate Shannon Capt. C.
followed the expedition against Rio
Haehe, and-arrived a few hours af
ter the vessels dropped anchor.
YVheu the attack was begun, Capt.
£, went on board an English schoo-!
nor, and stood close in, and on Var- J
dez’ troops getting possession, im
mediately landed, and demanded
protection of the lives and property
foreigners of every nation ex
cept those of Spain, in whose behalf!
he declined to interfere. General
Valdez, who was for the moment
flashed with victory, asked Capt. C.
♦•how liecould protect any particular j
interest during a storm, by soldiers
who deserve victory, and the fruits j
of it?” Capt. C. replied “General
if you do not protect the rights of those \
for. whom I require it, / shall; and j
I hold you responsible to your own ’
Government, ns well as to mine for
th'* consequences as ! shall not he j
trifled with.” The storming Gen !
oral became as pacific ns a lamb, and j
immediately placed guards fur toe
protection of the property wherever i
Capt. C. required it.
£♦ . !
’ from llie Columbia I'm Press St Hive.
COURT OF APPEALS,
Columbia , January 10, 1831.
, THE STATE, > Indictment,
vs - ( Murder.
Thomas crank.. )
The prisoner was tried at the la t
term for.Chestor District, before Mr.
justice Gantt, for the murder of his
father, Stephen Crank (deceased,)
and convicted. He appealed, and
moved the appeal Court, in arrest of
judgment and for anew trial on va
rious grounds. On Monday the lOili
iast. Uio opinion of the appeal Court
oyerruling the grounds taken in ar
est of judgment and for u new trial,
was delivered by Mr. Justice O’Neal,
who pronounced the following admo
nition to, and sentence upon the pti
* Liner.
‘Thomas Crank.
The painful duty, to which I am
called upon to discharge, is rendered j
doubly distressing, by your youth,)
•vour inexperience, the enormity of
the crime which you have commit-j
ted, the callous and haulened state j
pf vonr feeling*, and the utter rcck
h-smess wltidi von have heretofore
exhibited, as to shameful and
awful Into which aW you. My
purpose is not to give you one mo
ment’s unnecessary pain; X would
not, il I could plant one additional
t*iurn jn the short way of life, which I
you stilf have to tretul: but I would,
jf [ could, awoken you to a heti.er
*;:ite of fueling 1 Iwouid, if I could,
cal! your attention to join future
state; and to do so, J would array
oefore you, the deeds d*„ne in the
bod v , nod ‘or which you are to an
swer, when “mortality shall put on
ipjmortaliy.”
(or which you arc to !
Witer, is the highest known to tiiej
law. But, it is not only a legal crime;,
it is one cxpVessly forbidden by the J
i *tiw of God! “Thou slniltDiot kill”
jis the divine mandate! Your’s how
lover, is not the common crime of
j tnurder ; it is the murder of your pa
] rent : he, —from whom von derived !
1 your being: he, who in your infancy,*
] clasped, you to his delighted bosom,
I as the heir id’ his name, his first horn
son: lie, who cherished and protec- j
■ ted you when you were unable to 1
protect yourself; and he, who watch- j
!ed over your progress from infancy
ilo boyhood, from boyhood to man
hood with a too partial fondness, was ]
cruelly murdered by your agency,
j Against him, your arm should have]
j been nerveless; for his protection, it j
I should have been strung with all the ‘
I nerve of y mg and generous man-;
! hood.
j “Honor thy father and thy mother, !
tin the days of thy youth, that tliyj
j (lavs may be long upon the land, I
j which the lord thy God givj:th thee,” ,
is the coimuiiiid of the Great and e- 1
ternal “I am,” before whose bar, j
you must shortly appear. Its viola- (
lion in small matters, lias led you’
on stop by step, until your lianri was
raised to shed, and did shed your fa- 1
tiler’s blood. By the act of bis son,
the child of his affections, he was ]
without one moment’s warning, or
preparation, cut off from this world; 1
ami plunged into that eternal stale, j
where eternal happiness, or eternal
misery awaited him! Have vou c-[
| ver reflected on the awful deed which ‘
you have committed? Have you e-j
ver thought .that by your parricidal
net you have consigned volir father
to eternal misery and wo? If you .
have, years of penitence, floods of
tears would hardly siiflicotoqu e your;
perturbed and guilty feelings? Add i
to your reflections on your crime, !
| that your associate in it, lire negro, ‘
] who was raised with you, the play- !
1 mate of your youth, by your means,!
consigned to the infamous death,
which must soon overtake you. Cur
ry these observations with you to
your prison house ; and during the
short time which will he afforded you
to prepare for your great change, I
I ponder, well on them; and if they !
should he tlie menus ol awakening j
j you, to a sense of your lout and ful- j
: ice state, my objeet will he attained; ;
| Notwithstanding the enormity oJ
your crime, you may possibly cling
to the hope, that executive clemency
may pardon you. It is my duty, to
to you, that hope is vain : cling not to
it: cast it from y ou: unit in cat ao.-l nos -1
prepare for death! In the language!
!of holy yvlit, “set thine house hi m-]
! der for thou shah die ami not live.” |
jln this world, for you “there is no]
j halm in Gilead, there is no kind
j i'hysiciau there.” it is to your fu
jilier and your God, that you should
! sue for pardon. In penitence and
j pray er, confess your sins before him,
and seek salvation. To the vilest
sinner he has promised forgiveness, if
he will forsake h:s evil’ ways, ami
yvorship him “i.. spirit and in truth.”
“Ask and it shall be given you, seek
and ye shall find, knock and it shall
be opened unto you,” is the promise
of the Saviuitr of the world, to eve
ry one who seeks in spirit and in
truth,” the wavs m salvation. That
you may reali/.e this premise; that
you may “lie down in corruption;”
and that although your body must
die, yet that your seal should live
and live, to range the mansions of
the blest, and sing the song of thanks- i
giving with the just lx lone the tlfl’onc ]
of the Most High, throughout all e
ternity, it- is my most anxious desire!
The sentence of the law is, .that
you be taken hence to the jail ol
Chester District, ami there he close-!
ly and securely confined until Friday
the fourth day of February next, on
) which day between the hours often
; in the forenoon, and throe in the af
i ternoon, you tvill ho taken by the
] Sheriff of Chester L'i -trict, to the
I place of public cxcetiijon, and ihen
and there be hanged by tbe neck un
til your body he dead! And may
God have mercy on your soul.
-srsigfitz-
Tho follow ing letter gives a pre
monition of another melancholy con
sequence of the late boisterous and
‘severe weather.
Ship Peruvian, Hampton Roads, ?
January 2bl/t, IHM. \
To thcEditors of the Norfolk Beacon,
Uciitleinci.—-The 6mull schooner
mentioned in my shipping report, al
ready ia your possession, which 1
supplied with all the water 1 could
spare, on the night of the 18th in
stant according t<? my chief officer’*
account, was the Suffice, of Great
Egg Harbor, from Philadelphia, with
j a cargo of Coal, hound to New-York,
nut! had been driven from her au
, chorage under. Cape May, with the
I loss of both anchors and cables, in a
j snow storm on the 15tji instant.; —
She had lost every thing off deck,
and all of hr;r sails. When they
came alongside, they informed me
that they had been without water for
llnec days, and had no boat to send
] for it. I its mediately hove too; the
night was very dark; a rough sen
!funning, and tlic wind increasing
fast. At a very great risk, we put
iiut our boat and sent them a fait
proportion of what we had—for there
: vas hut one cask on hoard oitCship
j i t the time, and were on a very short
| allowance. They informed tny ofli
: ci.r that they would make a southern
pu t, w bich I very much doubt they
’ would he aide to do, as they were
llien in the Gulf stream, lat. and
long, us before stated: the wind in
i’ creasing to a gale from N. W. and
i 1 hey apparently had little or no coin
iimuil of the vessel for want of sails,
['he sea rolling entirely over her, 1
my officer inquired if they w ould he
taken oif, or if they wanted any thing
more, to which they answered no.
I During the night we had to reduce
to close reefed topsails. For the in
formation f whomsoever it may
concent; you will please give this ac
<*>niii in your very useful paper.
\ eiy respectfully,gentlemen, your
obedient servant.
MICHAEL M’DONALD,
Muster.cf ship Peruvian, of Balt.
Mr . Editor. — The folloniuw i nn ax tract from
tlic (Jnriotifoi Aflvocnte amt Journal of Nov. 19ili.
!*♦ jo give U a place i:i lUr Arli<’iii:iu,
and oblige your riwrrc ; friend. J. [J.
MKTHODISM.
I f bavcifCcil tliiukiti& how very remarkable it is,
j (lint during- the last.three yeai s, wide there lias i
| l.een so Icat foi n cry so extensivelv uttered a- !
| gainst tlic A!el boil isi Church hikl her ministry— ‘
! n *’:y gI tyraiia) i;i hot pi inciplcs ui* government, !
j ami despotism in her atltninisf ‘ation—of heresy ‘
jin dociime. and no e|i“ht tincture of corruption •
! pei ii<* vvhole economy, and vitiating the j
nu fives i>l her minis'iy—and t ii<* pubiic has been j
Frtga.'n a*!t! rtg'nrn informed, lint whole droves of ;
the flock, pi lost-ridden ;md beaten just to dentil j
j * Iril, jailed, fleeced, hid luckily lor them, siili !
■‘hie to make fli -ir esetpr, neve fleeing from her I
niclosiiri'S to a bolter fold—ottr pnhlislied otlicia! t
documents slow, that her leal slate has been one j
t funparttUelcd prosperity, anti ter public minis- i
try never more succe-sf I. From these it np- 1
I peattb-al tli** inerr-ase of her for !
the yenr lcio, wy.a&i, idl for they car its-jg, in
i ease -.vis 2J). aOS. and l\yr the year ending An- \
! gnst, iK’VI, w e hare t!i* astonishing inerease of
‘if.y IV I'his la>t years increase, as it is exclu- j
! sivi vl lae returns in ( anada, v.here the Church- j
“S, by a.i net of the general eon former of I l
c iist on a separate anti iiidepcmb iit basis from ;
dial in IMe United Stales, is much the !a gest e\ei j
repot ted i:i America. WKSLEYN. |
MECHANICS. - I
Wo ha v c more than once had nnr ]
indignation roused ajrc.inst a certain
],:l:i?sof eomimmitr. who affect to
I despiee that .portion of their ncigli
| hours who obtain an honest. liveli
jiood in tneclmnicnl employments.
XVe have known many worthy young
men mortified and pained to the
heart, by. the nurerimoninus and
purse-proud haughtiness oft heir stt
penouis; in ivcnl!li and impudence,
only—•crowded into the hack ground
togivo. place to idlers, and gentle
men at laige, merely been use they
happen!'d to he vul. r enough to
choose iiidiist'rv, rather than idle- i
ness and dependence. But let not ,
the mechanie relax his praise-wor- j
thy exeitious. He can nive hack ]
the sneer of the conceited lop with!
interest.— He can stand up in the
strength of an independent spirit—
in the proud sense of superiority and j
real worth over tinsel and borrowed ;
ornament. He fills an hone < place]
; in society, <fc ii is time the true merit
of his services were appreciated. It
is time for republican A mei tea to cast
ult those fetters of prejudice, forged
by the aristocracy of’ the old world,
and awake to her peculiar legili
| mate interests. The industrious
| mechanic may he rauke.d among the
firmest supporteis, uud the time is
not far distant when he shall ho pla
ced in Ii is j ust station in the scale of
society.—Sat. Even. Post.
G ivernev Hamilton’ ofS. Carolina, uflVrsftrr*
* artl of three hunnrod dollars for flic apprehen,
aloii ot’ James Cusac, of the into der of
•i uiiN Luce, on thcTtli ult., in Darling ion dishict.
f•* is described as aboul nine < r ten inches high
ttvemy -two years of dge, black hair and •'yes, fail
complexion litciing and reserved in society.
The Legislature of .’S. Caroling have imposed a
fine on lot the non-perforiKjance of mili
ii a duty.lt, TUuir religion forbids them lo bear j
Arms.
Puiitig service on Sunday, in most of the nor- j
them cities churches are permitted by law to
xfeiid chain** across the streets, to prevent the J
passage of vehicles, &tc. A bill has been intio-j
duct'd in the Foimsy Ivania Legislature to abolish .
Ihe custom. A letter say s—“ Petitions against 1
•he chains blrfore churches are pouring in every
day, with sigi.atuies both iiUQuerous and respec
table. Th’ public sentiment in Fhll-jdejpbia an
pears to be so §tronglj prommneed, that the bill, ‘
present circuittstanccs, must ofcutflarily (
<Tf)c
WASHINGTON, FEBRUARY 12, 1831.
Messrs. Charles Smith, and Abner Reeves , were,
ou Monday last, elected District Surveyors, from
this county, for the purpose of running offihe
teritory now in the occupancy of the Cherokee
Indians, and included within the chartered lim
its of this stale.
Birds of Passage. —We cannot refrain from
once more^nitting our fellow citizens upon their
guard, and urge the necessity of setting their fa
ces against the encouragement of a set of stroll
ing unprincipled men who visit us annually and
by every artifice in their power endeavour to
filch from the honest citizen his well earned
spoil. 1 hat theie are some exceptions we will
not positively deny,—but how often hayc the un
suspected been induced to contribute to northern
jor eastern Agents, lor this or that society, re
presented as iutciuled to promote either some
religious or benevolent purpose, and before their
loot steps* upon our soil were defaced, found these
same hit clings vociferating their ungenerous,
and gratuitous abuse upon southern men, and
southern policy ? In some instances they have
not hern content with palming their catch penny
productions upon the but have viola
ted every principle of gratitude, (for the hospi
tality bestowed upon them.) by impudently de
claring their high toned federal principles, and
their anxiety for federal usurpation to triumph
over republican equality, that the interests of the
south might be made to tremble beforfhr throne
•of some would be tyrant. If a subscription be
presented—ascertain first whether it look its
I flight from beyond the Potomac; if so—have no
| thing to do w itb it. We have in our own slate an
| ample fold for the distribution of all the chariiv
i we have to spare, ami it is our duty to supplv
’ the wants of our ow n household, before we con
j tribute to others. We are impertinently told
j that the south is indebted to the north for talent
and genius, and that we of the south are a set of
j inhuman beings, whose feelings are averse to
! i-very principle of humanity; that we are endoa
j vouring to create a dissolution of ihe Union, and
; that we are no better than traitors. After hcap
| ing all ihe invective upon the south, that those
j norihcrn philanlhropisls arc capable of disgorg
! >ng from their reservoir of gall, they have the
j unblushing impudence to come among ns, throw I
| themselves upon our charity, obtain our money. I
1 and then return and redouble their exertions to
1 create mi undue ami improper prejudice against i
] ns. Fe.low citizens spurn those hawks as you ;
• would the upas. Treat them with hospitality sc •
long ns th;y comport tb mst lvrs as gentlemen— ]
j but contribute not one cent either by subscription, !
;or in any way. Wlmt you have to spare, deal
; out liberally lo tbe poor, destitute, and needy,
t within yc-jr own neighborhood and stare, and
| voti will act wisely. \\ hoof you ever heard of
j these sensitive north cm tics, contributing to the
promotion of any object in Ihe south ? This is
; not tlicir gnmc—they w ish to filch you of your
money, and then ret urn to the soil of their native
ly doubly charged wit Ii false impressions and in
the abundance of their spleen pour fourth upon 1
you abuse without measure. In conclusion, we j
sny to you have nothing to do with them.
The Gold Diggers. —We understand that many )
unprincipled persons upon (lie frontier, bordering j
i on the Cherokee Territory, os it is called, have’
been quite busy in mLn piescntint the affair that
took place at I.ealh n’s f*rd t (not long since.) be- ;
tween a small detachment of the State Guard, l
and a paity of vagrants who attempted to refecue j
some ten or a dozen prisoners, arrested for dig
ging the gold mines without authority. It gives!
us much pleasure to say flint we have been inform
ed by unquestionable authority that the Governor I
highly approve* the conduct of the detachment |
in that instance and l.'.at he lias complimented 1
I those engaged, for the firm stand they made.
From the (icorgia Journal.
FEDER AL COURT-GEORGIA. ’
; All I lie in;, venom, uud ill-will of]
! the Clay papers—of tlic supporters]
hiftlie American System—ofconsoli- !
Idatioa—of a public debt—and of a I
sjdtuulid government, have lattcrk i
lillen upon Georgia in showers. No !
epithet is too gross, no language too j
violent, wlien employed in Speaking !
of Georgia, bice the report and re- !
solutions adopted by the Eogisla
tuie, upon the writ of error issued
by Chief Justice Marshall, lmve
made their appearance in the news
papers. We published last week,
the comments of several prints, in
cluding the remarks of the National
Intelligencer und National Journal,
in order that the people of Georgia
might judge for themselves, of the
length the Clay or consolidation par
ty would go, if, unhappily, they had
the power; for according to these!
j prints, Georgia has been guilty of
‘treason, and for this she should be!
] placed under the bun of the empire,!
treated as a rebellious and conquer-!
jed country, and LV States troopsi
i quartered in her territory to keep I
| (lie inhabitants within proper'sub-!
Ijection. We published also, as a
] counterpart, art icles taken from clh-
Jer papeis approving the course!
‘Georgia has pursued m this business,
land acknowlediug that (bis State
i has yerforttfetl nothing mote than a
1 sidipic act of sovereignty, with the
j solo) view of defending aid mnin
; mining her rights and the powers
j she reserved to herself when she en
tered into this confederacy of repub
j lies. .
i The insinuation of the National
Journal, that “this act of Gcorgirt
maybe connected with the wicked
and dangerous scheme of a political
missionary having keen, as ii'is ru
moured, despatched to England
ft°m the South,” is as inSlilting,
diabolical, uud atrocious, as rt is de
void of foundation. We would n t
have believed that the perversity of
the human mind could have been ea -
tied so far as to invent such charg
es, merely for the pleasure of pro
ducing mischief, of exciting- angry
und hostile feelings, and of mortify
ing a whole community. The wri
ter of the editorial in the National
Journal deserves the reprobation &,
contempt of ever/honcst man in tho-
United States.
Shall the State of Georgia, ;t
State which once assumed the title
of “The State of Georgia, by
the Grace of God, free, ■sove’-
REIGN AND INDEPENDENT,” be ar
raigned, like a private citizen, be
lore a court which she contributed
to create? If the interposition of
Georgia, as in this instance, be
tween the rights of the States, and
the assumption of arbitrary arid un
constitutional powers by any one of
the co-ordinate branches of the Ge-
neral Government, is to be cobdem
ned by the other States of the Unirf
j on, it will be the better policy to
consolidate nt once the several mem
bers ol the confederacy Into one*
State, and to clothe with sovereigns
power, full, unlimited, and abso
lute power, the government which
would become national by the act of
consolidation.—But a large majori
ty of the people of the States arce
opposed to consolidation. . There
fore, Georgia, in disregarding the
mandate of the Supreme Court of
t e I nited States, acted most wise
ly. She will have destroyed in itsc
; birth a most dangerous political hy
dra, which when full grown, and
j with its twenty-four heads, would
! have swallowed without meeting
! much resistance the sovereignty of
!t he States. If Georgia hnd yielded,,
‘she and all the other States of the
Union would have had to bend ,o
the yoke which the Supreme Court
of the United States would have:
been pleased to impose upon them,
all. The time is not lac distant:
when Georgia will receive (he ap
plause and thanks of her ‘sistcr-
I States, for the stand she has takem
in behalf of their rights and sove
reignty.
| il is perceived that the editors of
the National Intelligencer, in th> ii*
remarks, abstained from quoting thos
] 11 til article of the amendments of
the federal constitution: This con
i stitutioual provision overthrows all
: the arguments they r:-Ivanre to prove
] that Georgia acted precipitately nntf
against the acknowledged laws of”
the land ! The .disengcnuoiisuess of
| the Intelligencer is not surprising.
Thu article of the Constitution re
ferred to, is—
“ The Judicial power of the United
States, shall not be const lut'd to ex
j tend to any suit in law ot equity
commenced or prosecuted against
one of the United States, by eiti
zens of another State, or by citizen®
or subjects of any foreign state.”
i The Richmond Enquirer says’
j that the government of the United:
] States as well as that of Gepigin B
| ought to bear arid forbear. Wecem
answer that we have borne enough:
the loud we have sustained so lung
is pressing us down to the earth.
We must get rid of it, if it he oust
wish to walk erect like freemen. -
We demand of (ho federal govern
ment but exact just ice and a true in
terpretation of the federal Constitu
tion. Certainly this is not requir
ing too much.— Wt) wish to enjoy
no other benefit lint wlmt can be
enjoyed at the same time by the rit
izens of onr sister states. It is (,u
----< ing to forbearance—abject and im
politic forbearance— that Georgia
j has been reduced fw the ulterniuTve
l of passiv e obedience or active resist
ance to federal usur|mtioim.
j Tim Richmond Enquirer ma y rest
i assured, t hat Georgia will never en
croach on nor resist the powers
constitutionally delegated to the lcd
] err.l government.
Ihe National Intelligencer de
lights in quoting Mr. Webster as
mUjhoritj. As M e belonged