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About News & planters' gazette. (Washington, Wilkes County [sic], Ga.) 1840-1844 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 4, 1841)
table up u •£' vjf I ?*?^ft VBr- I'i'.'lit ;i ii..it ( l>a k parlor ! ’ dear, by eating ii ■one of lie would be noceseary 4o keep The iblding-doors closed a part of the day, •find also, furniture gets voTy much abused in an eating-100111.” Owing to the limited size of the apart ment. the high chair of little Harry had been placed against the door, which open ed into the yard, and us his parents were too much occupied to uttond to his wants, lie leaned it forward to help himself, when a man. tvlioui Mrs. Waters hud employed to assist in the removal, suddenly opened the i! >or, by v. hich the child was precipitated oil the table, his hand overturning his fa ther's cun, and then lodging in the butter. Mrs. Waters colored at this uncontrover tible argument against h#r cause, and when her husband, on leaving the table, repeated his wish that it should hereafter be set in the bach parlor, she acquiesced without opposition. A week or two from this, while Liddy was clearing oil’ the breakfast tilings, Mr. j Waters’ eye fell upon his wife, who bad o- , pelted the doors of the sideboard, and, in a stooping posture, was looking at the shelves, j w ith no ostensible purpose other than that | <>f admiring its contents. “ How did it happen, Eliza,” said he, that alter you had made up your mind to j lie so vorv fashionable, you allowed that huge side-board to come into one of your parlors ?” “ Because there is no dining-room to take it into, and as we have no closets in the house, it was necessary that I should have s micthing to keep my china in. 1 wish you to bo punctual at your dinner, my dear, I intend to treat you to a dish of your j favorite soup.” “ Am 1 to understand that you wish alone to gratify my palate, or is your object also to show off your dinner-ware in full opera tion ?” “ Nonsense, Henry !” you take such de light in teasing me! but don’t forget.” He complied with her injunction, and re turned in proper time. Mrs. Waters met ! him at the parlor door, as she was carry- J ing her vaunted tureen into the kitchen, and stopped to congratulate him on Liddy’s j success in concocting his favorite mess.— In a few minutes she returned, preceded by j Liddy bringing the soup, and followed by! little Phoeby bearing some requisite accom- j paniment. But before they had reached j the table, the triumphal procession was wofully deranged. The tureen fell from ! Liddy’s hand, and far and wide, the car- ; pet “drank in the genial moisture,” while ! a fragment of the china rebounded, and I cut a broad gash in Phoeby’s check, close j to the eye. “How on earth could you have been so careless, Liddy?” screamed Mrs. Waters, \ between fright and vexation. “llow could I help it, ma’am ?” replied Liddy, with becoming dignity. ‘‘lt was j all the fault ofthe tureen!” and she held 1 out the handles, which she still grasped, i They had been cemented along with the j other tilings, in such a manner as to be i imperceptible to the sight, and the heat of! the soup had melted them oft’. “Pray, Eliza, don’t let it disturb you so much,” whispered Jane, after endeavoring to quiet Phoebe, who was crying with the pain of her wound ; “think how easily this poor child might have lost her eye by tiie accident! if that had happened, our bar gain might have been a reproach to us all our lives,” and with this consideration, the lady allowed herself to be pacified. The removal had taken place in Septern- \ her, and the weather soon began to grow j cold. Airs. Waters went out one afternoon ! to lay in wearing apparel for the winter, I and did not return until her husband was ready to accompany her from his business in the evening. “Tea lias been waiting for you this half hour,” said Jane, when they had got home, ‘•come into the front parlor,—l have filled und lighted the pier-table lamp, as Henry directed me last night. Does it not burn beautifully ?—1 think it throws out more light than the other.” “Where are the children?” asked Airs. Waters. “In the back parlor, both riding in the large rocking-chair.” “Well, let them be—l wish to show you my new purchases, and my new present. See this elegant shawl. I had been deny ing myscitone for three or four years, be cause I thought we could not afford the cost, and it was very kind in Henry to give me.this now, when he has been at such unusual expense in fitting up the house.— lie says, however, that he has just made itn extra profit on a lot of them, and that therefore lie is able to Jet me have this without much disadvantage.’’ After Jane had sufficiently admired the shawl, Mrs. Waters folded it up carefully to make the room for her other acquisii’ons, when they were startled by a crash ai.'d scream from the other parlor. Hastily throwing down her shawl, she ran out with Jane, and found both the children scream ing on the floor. The arm had broken out of the chair, one of the bargains, and little Agnes had fallen with her face against an edge of the sideboard. “Mercy on 11s!—my child's nose is bro ken, she will be disfigured for life!” ex claimed Mrs. Waters, wiping the blood from the little girl’s face, while Jane picked her up, and Mr. Waters, whom the noise had attracted down stairs, could give her no better hope,—but at her entreaties, hur ried to call in a physician. “That abominable chair!—l did not think I could possibly have been deceived in it!” cried the disturbed mother, and while Jane was soothing little Henry, who also had been hurt, though but slightly, she continued to bewail the probable loss of her child’s beauty. By the time the doctor came, the nose was dreadfully swollen and discolored, but-it-was pronounced not bro ken. For better than two hours no efforts qould still the crietj of the little sufferer, till at length an opiate was administered, and af.er that she allowed hers dfto.be car ried to bed. Liddy made fresh tea, and liaviug taken n quiet supper, Mrs. Waters proposed retiring to calm herself after her agitation. Preparatory to this, she went into the front parlor to gather up her packages, and found that the lamp had gone out. She called for a candle, and conid hardly credit her sen ses at beholding the spectacle the pier-ta ble exhibited. Tho lamp, which I boy had never tried before, had leaked itself dry, und the shawl, which in her haste she had thrown directly beneath it, was completely saturated with oil! A rare instance the la dy would be who could bear a tiling of that kind philosophically, and such an instance Mrs. Waters had not trained herself to be. Now from her late alarm about her child, and the reflections cast upon her dearly bought chair by her husband, she was in a peculiarly excitable state, and throwing herself into a seal, she wept heartily. Mr. Waters and .sane tried vainly to comfort her, and for the night and the next day she laboured under a severe nervous headache. The winter passed through, and without bringing further mishaps, at least of a simi ! lar nature. The furniture began, how ’ ever, through use, to exhibit its true quality, j The sofas, for instance, croaked anil trem ’ bled so violently, that their occupants, not uiifrequcntly, thought proper to seek res ting-places less precarious, while their cushions sunk to half their former plump ness, pm] left the hair-cloth, which evident lv Lad been manufactured for sale rather than for wear, lying in wrinkles over them. The back-parlor carpet, also, from the washings to which it had been subjected, on account of the soup, and the dust set tling in die remaining grease, was in such a state that Mrs. Waters was ashamed to leave tho doors open when she had any particular visitors. But this last source of vexation, she consoled herself with think ing, could be removed in the spring by a supply of matting, and the time for this at last came. Mr. Waters sent home a piece of matting, and the front-parlor furniture was removed into the back room, until the upholsterer’s man should have covered the floor. A pair of small girandole, really pretty arti cles, and the principal ornaments of the apartment, had been placed by Mrs. Wa ters’direction on the sideboard, along with the vases of wax flowers, which Jane had manufactured to aid in concealing the de fects of the back-parlor mirror. The man got through, and while Liddy and Phoebe were replacing the furniture, ho commen ced at the other room. The sideboard re quired to be moved a few inches, and as he gave it a push to effect this, one of the feet broke off, and the corner of the cum brous machine sunk to the floor, while the valuables on top rolled down and were j shivered to atoms. The things which had given such an air of gentility to her rooms —poor Mrs. Waters! Meanwhile, Jane had been improving the time by captivating, and engaging herselfto a very worthy young gentleman, a Mr. George Somerville. He was her brother’s neighbor in business, and his intimate friend. Mr. Wafers was very fond of his sister, and very much pleased with her projected match, and as she was entirely dependent upon bis generosity, lie exerted himself to give her an outfit as liberal as possible. In this his wife assis ted him, with great kindness and assiduity. The marriage was to take place euriy in autumn—and Mrs. Waters, anxious to try an experiment at party-giving, insisted on ! having the ceremony performed in tiie j evening, in tiic presence of Jane’s acquain tances, of whom she hud now a pleasant circle. The evening came, and the bride expec tant leisurely arranged herself at an early hour. Just as her toilette was complete, a note was brought to her from Mr. Som mcrville, stating that the clergyman, who had been engaged to officiate, was unex pectedly obliged to decline, and asking whom she would prefer as a substitute, the Rev. Dr. D , or the llev. Mr. A j | . Jane had no writing materials at ; hand, and, as it was too early to be inter rupted by any of the invited guests, she ran down stairs, where ink and paper were to be found on the centre table. She began her note, and her brother stood beside her look ] ing on. As he did so, lie rested his hand with his whole weight upon it on the table, j which alas ! had never been intended for j such usage. The top tilted from the pedes tal, and, before she could think, the ink stand slid over the smooth surface into the lap of the poor girl, and discharged itself ofits contents on her white satin dress.— Fortunately, Mr. Waters caught the lamp before it had so far lost its perpendicular as to follow. The scream of Jane and the furious ejaculations of her brother, brought the w hole household into the room. Mrs. Wa ters exhibited as much horror on behold ing the black puddle and its outlets, as the most physical actress could have done at the sight of imitation life-blood on the robes ofa tragedy heroine, while Liddy shook her brad ominously, and hoped that such an accidrn! on the wedding night, might not boa bad sign. A seamstress, who had been employed to assist in preparing Jane’s wardrobe, was the only person who had composure enough to think ofa remedy. She examined the dress, and finding that the front breadth alone was injured, she proposed runningtothe stove, at which the material had been purchased, aid getting a piece to supply its place. Jane threw her arms around the young woman’s neck in gratitude for the suggestion, and disro bing herself, helped to rip out the ill-fated part. The satin was obtained, and basted in, and the dress re-adjusted on its fair own er before the arrival of the bridegroom. “I am glad to see all is righted again,” said Mr. Waters to his sisteras he accompa nied Mr. Somerville to the apartment where she was waiting; “I had no idea that a misadventure of the kind could be so speedily repaired. It could not have | happened at a more appropriate time to be a lesson to you—that is, ifj among your to- I flections, you recurred to tho original cause/’ Mr. Somerville inquired what ho allu ’ ded to. ■ Mrs. Waters shook her head dcproca j ringly at her husband, but without heeding I her, lie laughed and continued— “ Jane will tell you the story, from be- I ginning to end, when you have more leis- I are to listen, but, ns all the parties con cerned are drawn together, with a marriage in perspective, like the characters at the iend ofa play, 1, as being the greatest phi losopher ofthe group, will point out the moral, that you may lose nothing whilst waiting to hear the incident :-novcr attempt | to do as other people do, unless you have the means to imitate creditably and with J safety.” j INDIAN NEWS. From the Savannah Republican. IMPORTANT NEWS FROM FLORI DA. We are indebted to Capt. Nock, of the ! steamer Florida , arrived yesterday, from Garey’s Ferry, for the St. Augustine |“Neus” and “ Herald” of the ‘-’2d inst., | from which wc annex extracts. We always are satisfied to give good | news from Florida, and considering the al ] most hopeless nature of the warfare, it lias j been in our power tocomriiunicatc more re. j | freshing intelligence lately than could have ! been anticipated. If tho news continues to conic in as it lias done, we shall be convin ced that either through fighting or treaty making, the war will soon end. The re capitulation ofour information is, that since our last advices, eleven Indians have been i killed, forty Indians and six negroes taken ! prisoners, making a total of fifty-seven. j “ Now by St. Paul, the work goes bravely on.’’ From the St. Augustine Herald. MORE GLORIOUS NEWS. The seltr. Frances, Capt. Cooper, arri ved this morning, bringing the glorious news of additional success in tho capture and destruction ofthe enemy South. On the Bth, Col. Harney captured and killed, in the Everglades, 12 Indians. On the 10th : j at Indian River, the command under Major j Childs, Lieuts. Taylor, Stepioc, Van Vliet J and Dr. Simmons, captured 31 Indians and negroes, killing 4. On the 11th, on tho St. ; Johns, Lieuts. Taylor and Van Vliet cap tured 5 Indians, killing 1. Col. Harney had to return for additional force, and is a gain in pursuit of the enemy. The news from the South is truly cheer- | iug; the successes ofCol. Harney, and the j prompt and gallant conduct of Major Childs, j and olYieers of 3d Artillery, are entitled to i all praise. Major Childs is a brave officer \ and already distinguished for good conduct j at Fort Drane. We say God speed sucli men as are operating Soutli—they have j large claims upon the gratitude of the \ country From the St. Augustine Hera/d. To the politeness of Lieut. Col. Gates, ( :Jd Artillery,we are indebted for the follow ing important report. Major Childs will he remembered in Florida for the persever ance and energy which so happily resulted in the capture o’ Indians that we announce to-day. FoBT I’IBECE, Fi t ) January loth 1841. ) Sir : I have the honor to report that I ar- j rived at this post with a reinforcement for A. and F. companies ofthe 3d Artillery, on the I 1 20th ult.” Learning that Indians had been seen at Gilbert’s liar, I immediately fitted out six 1 boats with thirty-five men, and on the 23d at night, left for Gilbert’s Bar, and from thence to Jupiter Inlet, searching the shores during the night for Indian fires, and laying con j ecaled during the day at certain points j where it was most probable Indians would I pass. Having failed in discovering Indians bv scouting at night, and being satisfied by a stay of near two days in the water near Ju piter, that Indians no longer even visited the vicinity. 1 closely examined the coast and mainland on iny return, and am confi dent that the Indians seen at Gilbert’s Bar came from St. Lucie. On my regaining this post, I forthwith made preparations for a more extended scout to the North for the purpose of rout ing the Indians supposed to be in the vicini ty of Cape Canaveral and Merritt’s Island, and on the 4th inst. started with 42 men in seven boats, accompanied by Lieuts. Tav lor, Steptoe, and Van Vliet, together with Asst. Surgeon Simmons, who promptly vol unteered for duty in the line, as well as to act in his official capacity, piloted by Messrs. Ashlock and Bayard, both of whom were of essential service. On the 2d day, discovered a large field on the coast side, and opposite the southern end of Merritt’s Island, cultivated last year and preparation made for another crop the coming spring. Here I took the passage between the coast and the Island wholly unknown to any one on board, examining the shore where a landing could be effected without discovering any signs of Indians un til the 4th day, when we came upon a camp of several palmetto houses and one board house situated in a hammock, several miles to the North of the cape, and fields under cultivation to the amount of seven acres, a large crib of several hundred pumpkins, signs of a horse, and evidently an inhabited camp within a week, and the residence of a large party for many years. I burned the buildings, destroyed the vegetables and proceeded up the coast about 9 miles, when 1 came to another lately inhabited camp, & signs of cultivation, and the same horse track, seen the day before, and the signs judged to be from five to'six days old. On ■ the sth morning, soon after starting, rowing ! with muffled oars and in a fog close to tho , shore, discovered two canoes in u creek ; leading into an Island at the head of Mer ritt’s Island, landed, and finding a truil,pur sued it for half a mile, when wc surprised a camp capturing an Indian woman und child a negro by the name of Friday, his wife and two children ; he says he belongs to Maxy Dell, Esq. and was taken with his ! family some four years since between j Black Creek and Newnansville. From the negro I learned that I-was on the trail of the party Whose village I had destroyed the day before—that they had been gone live or six days, part of them by land and part of them by water, on a fishing excursion to Mosquito Lagoon or to the I Countie Ground and Orange Groves in the Big Swamp. Having destroyed a quantity of corn und vegetables at this place, 1 pro ceeded on and arrived at the Haulovcr at l!) o’clock at night, discovering no signs of Indians until 2 o’clock in the morning, when the horse whose signs wc had seen for tiie last 3 days came to the place where we lay concealed. Having secured hint, I took his trail at day light with a party ofthirty one soldiers, Lieut. Van Vliet and eleven men to guard the prisoners and boats. At 9 oclock we came upon a camp of 34 men, vemnen, and children, just embarking to re turn to their late residence. They took to the water with as many of their boats as they could easily reach. We followed, some wading, others in canoes which had been left, and finally succeeded in capturing all their boats hut one, not, however, without a stout resistance by one boat pursued by Lieut. Taylor, and two soldiers ; one warrior keeping up a steady fire, while the other, with the women pro polled the boat; the warriors were at last shot, and in the course of two hours we found ourselves in possession of seven boats, twenty-four prisoners, two dead warriors, and one woman and child accidently kil led. The prisoners were three warriors, two hoys, 12 and 15 years of age, seven women and twelve children. Learning from negro Fiiday,that on a creek leading into the St. Johns, about 10 miles from Indian River and seven from Fort Mc- Neil, resided three warriors, two children. I determined to visit thorn, and on 1 lie 7th day dropped down about 7 miles from the Haulover and to the Southern termination ofthe Big Swamp, and at 12 M. despatch ed Lts. Taylor and Van Vliet with 20 men, and Friday for a guide. At 2 o’clock A. M. Lieut. Taylor returned with two wo men and two children prisoners, lent ing one dead warrior on the field, destroying two splendid canoes, and burning their camp— having marched through swamps and ponds upwards of twenty miles. I could learn of no other party of Indians and my boats being encumbered with prisoners, and the men ex hausted from excessive labor, I determined to return, and arrived at this post last eve ning, after an absence of ten days—having rowed upwards 0f250 miles, and scouted on land 50 more. To attempt to speak of individual officers and soldiers, when ali lent the entirecner gies of their minds and bodies to tho success ful accomplishment of the object in vi ‘iv, would he invidious. Each and every in | dividual endured privations and fatigue ; without a murmur, worthy of a more glori j ous cause and more lasting honor. RECAPITULATION. Warriors. Women. Children. Total. Killed, 3 1 15 Prisoners, 3 10 17 30 Negro man 11 2 4 Aggregate, 39 Captured, two four oared boats and 8 ca noes. Amongst the prisoners 1 find the wife and child ofa brother of Co-a-coo-chee, and a boy 12 years of age who is his brother-in law, they were on a party of pleasure to the camp of these Indians. The husband of the above named woman was badly woun ded in the back, hut escaped in the bushes. Two warriors belonging to the Cape party, and one negro belonging to Mr. Forrester of St. Augustine, escaped in a canoe. 1 have however, as prisoners, the father of one, & the wife ofthe other warrior. Respectfully, Your most ob’t. serv’t. THOMAS CHILDS, Major U. S. A , Commanding. To Col. Wm. Gates, Command’g Atlantic Dist. St. Augustine, Fla. On the 7th inst. Gen. Read captured 3 squaws, one Indian lad, and a warrior, and two negro boys, near the Suwanee. The warrior, though chained, and his hands tied, escaped in the night, while his’ guard was asleep, and by giving alarm to the neighboring camps has, we fear, frustra ted the object ofthe expedition. Col. Harney possesses the only “patent right” for securing the Indians—he docs not tic them by the leg, but by the neck Ibid. Col. Dancy was at Fort Franke Brooke on the 13th with his command —all well in good spirits. It was intended to direct their course homewards in about ten days— scouting the country as they return.— lbid. The following very singular narrative we copy from the St. Louis Republican, ofa late date : A singular incident occurred during the holidays on the opposite side of the river. Two ladies who resided in Illinois canie to the city to make purchases. A well dressed man followed them into several stores, at one of which one of them got a ten dollar bill changed, receiving the change in small bills. In the evening, on their return home, when a short distance from the Ferry, in the prairie, the same man they had seen in the city rode up to them and demanded their money. The one who had the money drew it out, and in at tempting to hand it to him, the wind caught the bills and carried them off on the ground. ! The man dismounted to pick them up, and as soon as ho was down, the ladies put whip to their horses and made off as fast as pos sible. On their way they heard the clat ter of a horse’s hoofs following tin in, but were too much terrified to stop or look hack. When they reached their own gate, behold the robber s horse was with them, a fine animal, with an elegant saddle, and a pair of saddle-bags, &c., hut the man was no where in sight; they suppose his horse escaped whilst he was picking up tho hills. On examining the suddle-hugs, a large sum of money was found and sever al articles of wearing apparel, hut nothing by which his name could he discovered.— Up to Saturday last, no one had appeared to claim the horse or property. The above facts we have from a respectable gentleman ofthe city, who assures us, that singular as tiie circumstances may appear, tliey arc strictly correct. CONGRESSIONAL. Correspondence ofthe Chronicle Sp Sentinel. Washington, Tuesday Evening, i January 20, 1841. $ The President elect was to have left North Bend this day, in a steamboat which was put at his disposal, and lie will arrive here about tho 7th of February. The rumors that have been in circula tion with regard to Mr. Ewing declining the Post Office Department, and intima ting that it was probable he would go to the Treasury are without foundation. Mr. Ewing will certainly he Post Master Gen eral, and the public will hear with great satisfaction—that the Hon. Elisha Whittle sey for so many years a Representative in Congress from Ohio, has consented to take a suliordiate situation in the General l’o.-t Office. He will probably be auditor of the Treasury for that department. This post is at present filled by one of the most suppliant and servile tools ofthe spoils par ty, a man who never had any qualifica tions for the office, and whose only recom mendations were devotion to the Kendall clique, and a.ready compliance with what ever party task was imposed upon him.— Mr. Whittlesey was for many years Chair man ofthe Committee on Claims, and his reputation is known to the whole country for vigor of intellect, honesty and integrity, and for indomitable industry and perseve rance. Those qualities, joined to itis ex traordinary business talents, will enable him to render essential service to the new Post Master General in settling up the books ofthe old concern, and setting that establishment upon anew track. There is no station under the Government to which Mr. Whittiesey would not do honor, and it is creditable to Ins patriotism and disinte restedness, that he should agree to take a subordinate office, from the consideration alone, tiiat lie can render most useful ser vices to the Administration and to the count ry. Air. Bell of Tennessee, is generally spoken of here, as well as in many other parts of the country, for the War Depart ment. Probably illnu-tenths of the VV’higs would prefer him to any other man for that office. Nothing will prevent his nomination, unless it may he considered necessary to designate another distinguished gentleman, in order to facilitate arrangements for oth er departments of the Government. Air. Bell has also been spoken of in some quarters as a suitable person to pre side over ihe Treasury at this juncture; his talents and acquirements and long ex perience in public; affairs, fit him for any station, yet the War Department would ap pear to those best acquainted with him, the most proper sphere for tiie exercise of his peculiar abilities. There is little reason to doubt, that the Navy Department will he oiiiicu to sonic Southern Statesman, and I believe the unanimous wish of the southern Whigs here, is that it may be tendered to Govern or Gilmer, of Ga.; should that gentleman decline it, it will probably he offered to Mr. Preston, of S. C. or Air. Thomas But ler King. It is understood tiiat Col. Dawson of Ga. has positively intimated that lie would decline any Cabinet appointment. Should there ho an extra session of Congress, this gentleman would undoubtedly he elec ted Speaker ofthe House. But he has al ready accepted the nomination of Governor jof his State, and I feel assured that he j would at once surrender any post under the Federal Government to become the Chief I Magistrate of his own State. ! The Senate resumed the consideration of the pre-emption hill to-day ; and Air. Mangum of N. C. made a most animated and eloquent speech on the different topics that have been brought under consideration in this desultory debate. Though opposed to the pre-emption policy, he was willing to compromise the matter, and go for a pre-emption right to settlers on the survey ed land, provided this distribution policy should he united with that act. He oppo sed Air. Calhoun’s project of Cession as unconstitutional, and also unequal to the States in which tho lands lie. He advoca ted at length, the distribution scheme of Mr. Clay, and the raising of an adequate revenue by taxes on silks, wines, and oth er luxuries, which arc consumed by the wealthier classes. In conclusion, he gallantly defended Air. Webster from the charges which have been at different times brought against him by the Globe, and which were yesterday re peated in the Senate by Air. Allen of Ohio. These charges are designed to prejudice the Administration in advance, by attack ing the man who is designated as a leading member ofthe Cabinet. Thoy are repell ed with an energy and eloquence which produced a strong impression on the Sen ate and the galleries, Mr. Benton followed with one of his long winded rigmaroles, attempting to show that the late election had been carried by Foreign money and the influence ofßritish stock jobbers. Air. Tallmadgc replied in a spirited, but short speech, in which he showed that the results which had so much mortified the spurious Democracy of Locofoeoism, had been brought about by a free people, who were disgusted with tiie abuses and corruptions of their rulers. In the House little was done to-day.— Mr. Duncan finished Ills omnium gatherum speech. Mr. Davis of Kentucky, followed with a speech, in support of the grounds that have been taken by the Whigs generally, in favor of making permanent provision the wants ofthe Treasury. D. Washington, January 27, 1841. Tho speech of Mr. Mangum, of North Carolina, yesterday, on the pre-emption policy distribu;ion, taxation of luxuries, &c. &c., is spoken of in the political cir cles, as one of the finest efforts that have distinguished the Cheat Debate now going on in tlie Senate. It is regarded as particu larly valuable, corning from an eminent Southern man and anti-tariff statesman, in full communion with the great State Rigtifs party, und, expresses the real opinions and wishes of the enlightened and patriotic and consistent among the anti tariff men of your region. The gallantry with which Mr. Mangum came to the vindication of Mr. Webster’s just character and just fame, n-i gainst tlie envenomed assaults ofthe parti zans ofthe Administration, is also tho sub ject of much conversation. Mr. Webster never indulged in personal warfare himself and he has forborne to allude in any manner to the illiberal and acrimonious treatment lie lias experienced from the official organ of the Government, and from such party tools as Benton, Allen, of Ohio, Duncan et td omne genus. The attack of Allen, how ever, on the course of Mr. Webster, in reference to the famous “Three Millions Amendment,” called out Mr. Mangum, who had acted with Mr. Webster on that occasion. The proposition was not as ho falsely asserts, to raise an appropriation for the defence of the country. It was a proposal to surrender to President Jackson tho entire control of the Purse and Sword, to place in his hands three millions of dol lars, and along with that sum tho decision of the momentous questkmof Peace or War with France. In the latter part of the ses sion of 1834, ’35, our affairs had reached a crisis. One portion ofthe Administration party anxious to run General Jackson for a third term, wanted to plunge the country into war, believing that in such an event the cry would be general in favor of the “Old Hero,” to carry us successfully through a contest with a leading power of Europe. Another portion desirous of nomi nating Mr. Van Buren for the Presidency, was opposed to hostilities. There was great solicitude in Congress and in tho country as to the course of events. Henry Clay was a member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs ; and to his wisdom and moderation was the country in a great measure indebted for the preservation of Peace. But notwithstanding the decision of the committee and the Senate, against any belligerent proe- eding on the part of the U. States, the Ki’chen Cubin’ ? so pres sed their designs and plans, that on tho last night of the session the partizans ofthe Executive brought in a proposition, by way of amendment to another hill having no connection with it, to place three million of dollars at the disposal of the President, to be used according to his sovereign will and discretion , thus surrendering to one man the constitutional authority of Con gress over the Treasury,- and over the is sues of Peace and War, Mr. Webster de nounced tiie amendment in a speech, which Mr. Mangum characterized as the greatest that ever came, from human lips. The Senate sustained Mr. W’s.course, and senti men* and language, which arc now so ferociously assailed. Mr. Mangum ap proved. them, and so did every true patriot, and every lover of l!;c Constitution. Mr. Calhoun himselfstpod beside Mr. Webster on that occasion. Mr. Mangum said he had no doubt, from the gigantic talents, tho comprehensive patriotism, die national spirit, the truly American Aoart of Mr. Webster, tiiat in the practical administration of the Govern ment, las would he a part which would secure the just rights, and prosperity of ever; section ofthe Union. The debate in the Senate to-day on the Pre-emption Bill fell off in interest. Mr.Lumpkin, of Georgia, took occasion todefine his position as an unshackled Sena tor. Referring to the statement of Mr. Clay, tiiat Senators from nineteen States were instructed by tho people to vote for tho re peal of the Sub-Treasury. He said he, for one, iiad not been so instructed —he had been left free to exercise his judgement, and vote accordingly, on that question and on ail the great measures of policy, whicli had been brought under consideration du ring the course of this debate. This was about the substance ol Mr. Lumpkin s speech on the pre-emption hill. Mr. Anderson, of Tennessee, followed. He entered upon a solemn defence of Gen. Jackson, from an alledged imputation which he thought Mr. Mangum had made upon his character and fame. He denied that President Jackson wished to get the country into war with France, in order to secure his re-election fora third term. Mr. Mangum rose, and explained that he made no such charge against Gen. Jackson personally, but he had accused the lower Cabinet of that day, of the design to precipi tate the nation into hostilities, with tho hope that they would promote his re-election thereby. Air. Anderson in this case resort ed to the old trick, so common a few years ago, of thrusting every accused member of the party behind General Jackson, so as to have the culprit covered by his broad shield. After Mr. Mangum’s explanation he took his seat. Mr. Wright occupied the remainder of the day with a long argumentative exposition of Ids views against the distribution policy. Henry Clay has the floor for to-morrow. During the morning, several memorials and petitions were presented, asking for the
