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About News & planters' gazette. (Washington, Wilkes County [sic], Ga.) 1840-1844 | View Entire Issue (April 13, 1843)
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In summer will you say you have not time to read. You must now adopt anew system of far ming, if you have not al ready ; for the state of the market is such that you will not get enough to pay your laborers. You must think a little more and lav plans to raise something that will repay you. A part of the new system of husbandry, is to read and consider well in the winter season when you need not be in a hurry ; to raise your corn & potatoes on less land; and devote the surplus to grass ; to lay your grass lauds so that a man will rake an acre in halfan hour instead ofhalfa day, and with a rake that will pay for itself in a single day ; to turn to manure what grows on the soil rather than purchase ma nure from a distance—to enrich your fields by raising grass rather than impoverish them by raising grain.— Mass. P/oughi,ian. AGRICULTURE. We heard incidentally the other day a - suggestion in relation to the cultivation of LoAII go, which we would commend to Plant ers as a worthy subject of inquiry. It is said that Indigo can be cultivated, the leaves dried and packed close in boxes, and then sent to Europe or wherever there is a demand for the article in that state. This plan, which it is said can be pur sued to advantage, exempts those employed in the culture of this article from the dan gerous maladies which always attend the conversion of it into the state required for use, and thus removes one serious objec tion to its cultivation, for if we are correct ly informed, it is only while the indigo plant is undergoing this change, that its manipulation is prejudicial to health. We learn that there are establishments in Eng land where the leaves are converted into the form required for use. Perhaps some of our readers may be better informed in this regard than we are, and if so, we should es teem it a favor if they would impart wha‘ they know about it. Perhaps, during the present low prices of Cotton, some of the planters might be induced to direct a part of their efforts towards this culture. We noticed the fact for a long time since, that tobacco was grown to some ex tent in Floyd county, and sent to Mobile for a market. Experiments are now being made on a small scale at least, in the low country, to ascertain if tobacco cannot be grown to advantage. There can be no rea sonable doubt from the success that has at tended the growth of tobacco in Florida, that the results will prove favorable in the low country of Georgia. The Spanish to bacco for cigars, it is supposed, will be the most productive. For our own part, we do not see why Maryland and Virginia should have the fee simple right to be the sole producers of tobacco in the United States. Some time since, a convention of tobacco planters was held in Baltimore for the purposeof petitioning government to in tercede for the remission of a portion of the enormous duties which are now charged upon the article of tobacco in England, France, Prussia, Austria, &c. It has been asserted that abundant proof was ad duced, to convince the convention, that it was the part of sound policy to leave things as they were. The efforts of Mr. Wheat on aud others, are still, we believe, direct ed to the accomplishment of that object, but what we mean to say, is, that those in terested, had such conviction forced upon their minds, that their enthusiasm dwindled into indifference. The reason for this is said to be that they virtually had a monopo ly of the business, and feared competition. They were already making handsome prof its, and were apprehensive that the diminu tion of duties abroad, would operate to some extent in causing an increased culture in this country. SWEET POTATOES. Mr. W. McKinley, of Lexington, Ga., lie: mtributed to the “Soutlrern Cultiva ■- fc. trtielc on the culture of Sweet Po rn’ -.i Uv this plan, he says, time and la. “.re and two bushels are pro duced i-j ,: ■? old ay. The follow ing is an * x tft 1 his communication: “The old met;.’ of planting sw.-vt }. ;a toosiu hills and n. , in tin . dry clsma.-*-. and on our hard upper v.intry la- ’at- is i all wrong. Potatoes nr., t hav. moisture earth to do well. Lut th- v lack HB|r common culture. u iest forms in who . ■HHHH 1 fiat culture is the ■ ■HHHHB ■•'ii.-s, or any tiling else, in Olid c ’ n our day lip- JHHHHHV be planted as flat. “v. ... ,'lanted af easily “First, break up the land well ; then lay ut rows four feet wide with a shovel plough , run deep in the same track with a renter; and then, if you want it perfect, deeper Still ia the same furrow with u com mon newground coulter. Next, list upon both sides of this in the same way ; that i, with shovel rooter and coulter ; one right in the track of the other. This makes deep work, and the deeper the better. It is soon done. Your ground is now ready—deep, loose and moist, and will keep so all sum mer. “Now for planting and culture. With a rooter draw a shallow furrow on the top of the list, just over the first shovel track, to guide you in dropping. In this drop the seed, cut roots, sprouts or vine-cuttings, 12 or 15 inches apart, and cover lightly.— Plough them a few times, just like corn, running close to the potatoes with a rooter, and finish off"each working with a cultiva tor, or some other plough to keep the mid dles fiat. “This mode of culture is not one fourth as troublesome as bills ; the crop is won derful. This is not theory, but is my con stant practice. By this mode the vines ne ver turn yellow ; the crop comes forward early in August, and the owner has no chance to talk about small potatoes. The improvement in the breed of our hogs, which the public spirit and enterprise of many of our farmers have undertaken, deserves to be encouraged ; but at the same time the native breed should not be neg lected. We have been informed by some good and experienced farmers, that hogs of the common stock, if well attended to, and properly managed, are equal and in many instances superior to the issue of any foreign breed. This is exemplified in a hog of the common native stock, raised on the planta tion of Dr. Albert Rees, in Sumter county, in tfiis State, the particulars of which are thus stated by the Doctor himself. Length from head to tail 7 feet 9 inches ; girth, or circumference, 6 feet 7 inches; weight when killed and cleaned, 932 lbs.; age two years. Augusta Constitutionalist. *6?slls. From the Pennsylvanian. Every one who writes letters, lias been puzzled at times, both at the beginning and the end of an epistle, to know exactly what degree of cordiality to assump, whether the party addressed should bespoken to as ‘Sir,’ or ‘Dear Sir,’ or ‘My Dear Sir,’ the embar risment often being still greater when a la dy is the person to be approached, as “Ma dam” is rather distant, while* “My Dear Madam” is almost equivalent to a salute. Difficulties of a similar character environ the mode of giving the signature. ‘Obedi ent Servant’ is formal; ‘Respectfully Yours’ is as cold as an icicle, while other phrases may bo’ der too much upon the familiar ; but in such cases, no general rule can be laid down. Every one must judge for him self. Still however, something may be gained from a knowledge of the practices of others in any matter that perplexes us, and the following anecdote relative to the graduations of epistolary address, may per haps be found advantageous. It is from the New York Sun. Legal Meaning of the Term “Dear.” — The following scene, which took place in the office of an attorney, is a tolerable good illustration of the different degrees of res pect which legal gentlemen are in tho ha bit of doling out to their clients, and of the cause of that respect. The attorney in question about to address a ‘newly-caught’ client in some matter of business, had cal led on his clerk to write a letter to his dic tation. Attorney, Take a sheet of letter paper, James. Clerk: Yes sir,—Attorney: Address at the top, Mr. D , and then say, “New York, March 28th, 1843.” Clerk: yes, sir. Attorney: then say, ‘Sir,’ but let me see: has Mr. D paid his ac count? Clerk: he has, sir.—Attorney:— Then address him “Dear Sir,”Clerk: l for got to mention, sir, that Mr. D called yesterday, when you were out, and stated that he wished to consult you as to raising an action against Mr. P . Attorney: Oh, did he? then you may say, “My Dear Sir:” Clerk: Yes, sir. AN UGLY CUSTOMER. Don’t put on no Extra’s.’ —A wager was made a few days since on board a steam boat, between a couple of Jokers, one of whom, pointing to an extremely ugly man, bet a bottle of wine that an uglier customer could not be produced. The other, who had seen one of the firemen as he passed on board the boat—a man whose face was screwed out of all shape—at once took up the bet and started down stairs for his man. The joker had an impediment in his speech, but he nevertheless soon made known his business to the fireman, and obtained his consent to show himself to decide the wa ger. When inside the social hall, the ug ly man whose nose was on one side of his face and his eyes on the other, began to screw and work them about, to give his face a greater degree of ugliness. ‘S-s-top,’ said his backer, ‘D-o-n’t put on n-n-o ex tras. St-st-and jest as tiie Lord made you —you can’t be beat]’ The other acknowl edged that he had lost and paid the wager. N. O. Pic. SECTS.—We know one Leonard Jones who got up a sect of ‘Live Forevers,’and actually had followers who believed they would never die.—They had an establish merit in the lower part of Kentucky, and were getting along quite well until an op ! idemic thinned ofT the believers. Jones af j aids tried to form a sect of “Non Eat and got some disciples to this school, i hey -■ to eat less and less every day I anti; t.k ntirely lived upon nothing. Hi- made :. I effort to conform to his own | creed, u .- happened to stop at the Galt House, in Louisville, two years ago, where a roast turkey “■ moved his bowels that he fell from grace into the grease of the sauce pan, and subsequently turned Mo-mon, and perhaps Miilerite, since.—JV, O. Bee. A SURGICAL BLUNDER. Many years i ;o, a hale old sea captain resident in this city had the misfortune to break both his legs, and the accident was accompanied with many wounds of the limbs; so that both fractures were supposed to be what is termed “compound,” or in oth er words, the wounds were deep enough to ooinmunicate with the fractured bones; which renders such injuries peculiarly dan gerous. Several of the most eminent stir geonsof the day all of whom, however, are at rest with the patient, met in consultation, on the case; and it was universally deci ded, that one of the limbs must be sacrificed, as it was impossible for the vital powers of the patient to accomplish the cure of so many complicated injuries. One of the limbs was broken in a single spot; the other was absolutely crushed, and of course the surgeons decided on the amputation of the latter. But the condition of the patient compelled them, after dressing the limbs, to delay the operation till the succeeding day; when they met, by appointment, at an early hour. Arrangements being completed, without removing the envelope, the attend ing surgeon proceeded with the operation, and when it was completed with all thede licacv, rapidity and skill for which he was justly celebrated, he discovered that he had amputated — the wrong limbi The patient was vigorous; and in due process oftime, the task ofhealing the more severely fractured leg; with which alone liis constitution had now to contend—was successfully accomplished. The grave had long covered this surgical blunder, when the busy tongue of fame at last whis pered the truth in the ear of the fiery tem pered old man, who was not in the first in stance aware of the error; and he—very naturally though erroneously, concluding that, if his constitution was adequate to the cure of the worst injury, it could not have been embarrassed with the healing of the lighter hurt—immediately had the bonesof liis leg disinterred, and preserved them ev er after, in a parlor closet, whence, in very early boyhood, I have repeatedly seen him take them, shake the dry relics while re peating their unhappy history, uttering scarce utterable anathemas against the whole honorable fraternity of surgeons, past present and to come! I have already alluded in a former essay, to the facility of healing wounds displayed in the inferior animals, as in the case of the salamander or w ater newt; but the subject is so immediately connected with the ar guments of our next essay that it maybe proper to offer some further illustrations.’ The power of healing extensive wounds appears to be enjoyed by animals in de grees of perfection inversely proportioned to the complexity of their structure. If we cut a human being in half, both pieces must die: but it is said that when an earth worm is treated in the same manner botli pieces live, and become perfect animals. There are many other animals that per ish w hen their heads are stricken off yfe't live for a considerable time. Every child is aware of the propensity of the hind legs of the bull-frog to “jump out of the frying pan into the fire” when being prepared for an epicurean palate. The head of the snapping turtle will bite severely—many days after it is severed from the body. It will not die—as the popular faith errpne ously teaches us that the tail of a small snake will die—‘at sunset.’ I w'as once dining upon a delightful dish of soup, made from the body of one of these rep tiles, when my favorite water-spaniel com menced howling most piteously in the yard, when a servant rushed into the dining room, pale with fright, exclaiming “Oh! Mr. ! Caesar’s mad!” A glance from the window convinced me that there was ‘too much method in his madness’ to be symptomatic of hydrophobia; and going out, I used every endeavor to seize him and examine into the cause of his suffer ings; but in vain. Tossing his head in the air, and then thrusting liis muzzle violently against the ground, he careered many times most furiously around the yard veiling, and eluding me at every turn. At length the race was suddenly arrested. With his feet thrown forward, his nose signifficantly pointed to a spot on the ground immediate ly before him, and an expression of coun tenance in which bewilderment and pain were rapidly giving way to a knowing, but very dogged look of satisfaction, he stood motionless and silent. The mystery was explained. In smelling about for a dinner, he had encountered the amputated head of the turtle, upon which we had been making our repast, and he had beep in stantly caught in the trap. There lay the head dissevered from the trunk more than twenty-four hours previously, and in the viee-like jaws was seen the end of the dog’s nose—completely bitten off!— Philadelphia Literary Age. NAPOLEON AND WELLINGTON. Napoleon and Wellington were not mere ly individual diameters; they were the types of the powers which they respective, ly headed in the contest. Napoleon had more genius, Wellington more judgment; the former combatted with great energy, the latter with greater perseverance. Rapid in design, instant in execution, the strokes of the French hero fell like the burning thunderbolt; cautious in counsel, yet firm in action; the resources of the British cham pion multiplied like the vigor of vegetation after the withering stroke had fallen. No campaign of Wellington’s equals in genius and activity those of Nrpoleon’s it) Italy and in Fi ance; none of Napoleon’s ap proaches in foresight and wisdom that of Wellington’s at Torres Vedras. The. ve hemence of the French Emperor would have exhausted in a single campaign the whole resources which duringthe war were at the disposal of the English general; the caution of Wellington would have aliena ted in the very beginning the troops which overflowed witth the passions of the revo lution. Ardor and onset were alike im posed on the former by his situation, and suggested by his disposition; foresight and perseverance were equally dictated to the latter by his necessities, and in unison with his character. The one wielded at pleas- j ure the military resources of the halt oi Europe and governed a nation heedless ot consequences, covetous of glory, reckless of slaughter; the other led the forces of a people distrustful of its power, avaricious of its blood, but invincible in its determina tion. ■ I And tho result both, in the general war i and final struggle, was in entire conformiiy | with this distinction. Wellington retired in the outset before the fierce assault of the French legions, but ho saw (Item for the first time since the revolution recoil in de feat from the rooks of Torres Vedras; lie was at first repeatedly expelled from Spain, but at last he drove the invaders with dis grace across the Pyrenees: he was in the beginning surprised: and well nigh over powered in Flanders, but in the end he bas- I fled all Napoleon’s efforts; and rising up j with the strength of a giant, crushed at once his army and his empire at the battle of Waterloo. The personal and moral character of the two chiefs were still more strikingly op posed and characteristic of the sides they severally led. Both were distinguished by the unwearied perseverance, the steady purpose, the magnanimous soul, which are essential to glorious achievements; both possessed personal intrepidity in the high est degree; both were indefatigable in ac tivity and iron in execution; both possess ed the rare qualities of moral courage and fearless determination. But in other respects, their minds were as opposite as the poles assunder. Na poleon was covetous of glory. Welling ton was impressed with duty: Napoleon was reckless of slaughter, Wellington was sparing of blood: Napoleon was careless of his word, Wellington was inviolate in faith; Treaties were regarded by the former as binding only when expedient—alliance va lid only when useful:—obligations were re regarded by the latter as obligatory, though ruinous; conventions sacred even when o pen to objections—Napoleon’s wasting war fare converted allies into enemies, Wel lington’s protecting discipline changed en emies into friends; the former fell be cause all Europe rose up against his op pression; the latter triumphed because all Europe joined to share in his protection. There is not a proclamation of Napoleon to his soldiers in which glory is not men tioned and duty forgotten; there is not an order of Wellington to his troops in which duly is not inculcated nor one in which glo ry is alluded to. Singleness of heart was the great characteristic of the British He ro, a sense of duty his ruling principle ; falsehood pervaded the French conqueror, thirst for glory was his invariable motive. The former proceeeded on tho belieflhat the means if justifiable, would finally work out the end; the latter on the maxim that the end in every case would justify the means. Napoleon placed himself at the head of Europe and desolated it for fitteen years with his warfare; Europe placed Wellington at the head of its armies and he gave it thirty years of unbroken peace. The one exhibited the most shining ex ample of splendid talents devoted to tem poral ambition, the other the noblest in stance of moral influence directed to exalt ed purposes. The former was in the end led to ruin, while blindly following the phantom of worldly greatness; the latter was unambitiously conducted to final great ness while only following the star of pub lie duty. The struggle between them was the same at bottom as that which, anterior to the creation of man, shook the powers of heaven; and never was such an example of mortal government afforded as a final re sult of their immortal contest. — Allison’s History. MESMERISM. As this new science is attracting great attention in our city, and indeed the entire country, we lay before our readers some account of its discovery : ANTHONY MESMER—THE DISCOV ERER OF MESMERISM. Translated from a late German Encyc/opee dia published under the auspices of Ger man Literati. Anthony Mesmer, the discoverer of the animal magnetic cure, was born on the 23d of May, in the year 1733, in the town of VVeif, in the Canton Thur, Switzerland.— Though needy in circumstances, he pur sued the study of medicine at Vienna, where he graduated and soon after marry ing a lady of fortune, was enabled to settle there as a physician. He had been early attracted towards what is strange and mys terious in nature, and on taking his degrees in 1766, published a treatise on the “influ ence of the Planets upgn the human body,” which, howeve, only resulted in his univer sal ridicule. Not disheartened in his own peculiar views of things, he in 1773, com menced experimental cures with the miner al magnet, being furnished with several a dapted to his purpose by his friend the as tronomer, Maximin Hill. By friction with any afflicted part, he soon became convin ced of its healing efficacy. Several per sons of rank cured in this way, now soun ded his praise, his professional bretheren however raised great opposition ; detrac tions and prosecutions pursued him contin ually, and he resolved to quit Vienna for Bavaria and Switzerland, where he again resumed his magnetic cures. Subsequent ly, however, returning to Vieqa, he erected there at his own expense, a Hospital for the Poor, where he practised his peculiar mode of treatment. Up to this time he had continued the use of the magnet, but now soon discovered that without it, and by the simple process of ma nipulation, remarkable phenomena were developed, which led him to conclude, that in the human body itself must be secreted a fluid of the same nature with, or similar to, that in the magnet, which he called the animal magnetic fluid, aud for which the iron magnets he used, had only served as conductors. Instead of publishing his dis covery,, Mesmer continued to shroud him self deeper in his mysterious sec ret aud belt . gan now to be universally looked upfin as I a swindler or mere visionary, which an oc currence at the time tended to confirm ; he claimed to have cured the celebrated vo calist, Miss Paradis, of blindness, which was by no means the case. Harassed on all sides, he again quitted Vienna in 1777, and turned towards Paris. Here his first de but was a small work entitled: “Remarks on the discovery of animal magnetism”— Memoir sur la deeouverte du magnetism animate,” Paris 1779, inwhiuh he set forth the principles of his system. This was at once treated by the Doctors of Paris, as a mere “cobweb of the brain,” —d’Eslon a !one, a member of the Medical Faculty, be came his convert. Louder on the other hand was the applause ofthe public, who dazzled by the charm of novelty as well as by fortunate cures, and the mysterious co lorings which Mesmer well understood how to impart to them, raised him into an idol of wisdom ; and so great were the numbers of the sick that sought his relief, that he in a very short time acquired 400,000 francs. Astonished at his sudden success, the French Government offered him an annu ity of 20,000 francs on condition ofimpar ting to them the secret of his treatment. — Mesmer, however declined, and was in consequence, so bitterly persecuted by his adversaries, that he changed his residence for Spain. Hisabseuce however, was but short, he returned principally to counteract d’Eslon, who was also practising on his principles, adopting with eagerness the pro position of liis zealous disciple Bergasse, to deliver lectures under a subscription of 188 Louis. He likewise erected a secret Society, under the name ofthe “Harmony,” in which under the severest vows of secre cy, his scholars were initiated into the my steries of his art, by which means lie again became possessed of upwards 150,000 dol lars. Animal Magnetism, however, now was fast losing its mystic charm, falling gradually into the hands ofignorant quacks, ■ which laid it open the greatest abuses.— Mesmer’s reputation was lowered in the eyes ofthe well informed and scientific, par ticularlv when he refused to impart his se cret to the Government and rather prefer red to make it known to the ignorant. He still continued to withdraw his school from the scrutiny ofthe learned, and even re fused communication with a committee ap pointed by “the Academy of Sciences,” considfcng of such men as Franklin, Jussieu and Lavoisier. There were continued contests arising on the subject of Animal Magnetism, until the breaking out ofthe French Revolution turn ed the attention of the public to more im portant events.. Mesmer finally left Pari and lived for many years at Morsburg, oil the Boden lake, where on the sth March, 1815, he died at an advanced age. He had the satisfaction, however, in his latter days, to preceive that his merits were more duly appreciated. Without seeking to excuse the secrecy in which he enveloped himself, it must be conceded, that lie was the first who turned the attention of the learned to the examination of the nature and effects of animal magnetism. His system was pub lished by K. Chr. VVolfart, at Berlin, IQI4, under the title: “Mesmerism or a system, theory and application of Animal Magnet ism as a general means of cure, sor 1 the preservation of mankind*” POLITICAL.. LET IT NEVER BE FORGOTTEN, That the country was in a very prosper ’ ous condition, when Gen. Jackson was e ’ lected to the Presidency, and that neither party then found anv fault with the cur rency cr ‘i IV.. i States Bank, which had . . . . for the Government for /ears, aud ;■ r lost a dollar of the Public Money. That G i Jackcn assailed the Bank be. cause its Directors refused to make it a po- Teal in .••..blue, enJ.be took ftqm its > cults o Public money, and out It ion ;h. vaults of numerous Pet rt/.olcs, telling them ■/ / ! h.3 Secretary,’ to discount freely upon it. That these Pm U- . h<t did as they werp required, aud there! ;- caused other banks to loan frgelv, and hundreds of now banks to be chartered, which made paper money so plenty that it began to be issued for spe ■ eulating purposes. That these speculations wore so numer ous and reckless, that the sales alone of the Public Lands rose from Un average of a bout three Millions of dollars a year in val ue, to twenty five millions in the year 1836, and imports increased even in greater pro portion, and all trade and commerce was driven forward into the most reckless and ruinous excess of speculation. That in this same year, 1836, the last of Gen. Jackson's administration, he referred in his message to these ruinous specula tions in the Public Lands as an indication of public prosperity ! and his party througii the country called on the people to sustain his administration on account of the higli wages and high prices which they obtained ! Now, o the other hand, let it never be Forgotten, That the present exhausted and depres sed condition of the country is the effect of the reaction of the speculating times of Jack son and Van Buren—that, when the specu lating fever left the country in 1836, the country fell prostrate and palsied with debt —which has brought on the long train of evils predicted by Whig statesmen, such as Repudiation, Bankrupt laws, Slay laws, &c That Mr. Webster in 1834 predicted as follows —“ 1 have already endeavored to j. warn the country against irredeemable pa i per ; against bank paper when banks do not | pay specie for their own notes; against that . miserable, abominable and fraudulent po licy, which attempts to give value to any paper, or any bank, one single moment lon ger than such paper is redeemable on de mand in gold and silver. And I wisli most solemnly and earnestly to repeat the war ning. I see danger of that state of things ahead. I see imminent danger that more or fewer of the State banks will stop 6pe , cie payments. The late measure of the i Secretary, and the infatuation with which it seems to be supported, tend directly and strongly to that result. Under pretence, then, of a design to return to a currency whiclt shall be all specie, we arc likely to have a currency in which there shall be no specie at all. We ore in danger of being overwhelmed with irredeemable paper— mere paper, representing not gold or silver; no, sir, representing nothing but broken promise, bad faith, bankrupt corporations, cheated creditors, and ruined people.” That Mr. Clayton in 1832 predicted as follows—“ The loss of confidence among men—the total derangement of that admi rable system of exchanges, which is now acknowledged to be better than exist in any other country on the globe, overtrading and speculation in every part of the Country, that rapid fluctuation in the standard value of money, which like (lie unseen pestilence, withers all the efforts of industry, while the sufferer is in utter ignorance of tho cause of his destruction; bankruptcy and ruin, at the anticipation of which the heart sickens, must follow in the long train of c vils which are assuredly before us.” Composition or the Tyler Party. This country presents al this time a spectacle, which, except for its effects on its prosperity, would be pronounced as the most ludicrous and most laughable since the foundation of the Government. When General Jackson attained the height of his power, he had about him the basest and meanest of all creatures that he could muster out of all the moral filth of thecoun try, but the Kitchen Cabinet of his time had at least the merit of possessing talents of no mean order. Blair and Kendall et id genus omne were masters in political knavery, hypocrisy and cunning, but they were no fools. They went for the greatest amount of pi under, just asLocoibeoism always goes, for the greatest good ofthe greatest number when it is about to adopt some new scheme of rapacity to pick the pockets of their op ponents on a large scale. The aspeot of affairs is changed at Washington in one respect. Tho advisers of President Tyler are, a groat many of them, most insigniffioant in point of talent, and as worthless in point of character as were Blair, Kendall & Cos. An enumera tion of a few of the appointments recently made by the President will serve to illus trate our meaning. In one case a notorious-gambler who had been arrested once for obtaining goods un der false pretences, and who after the re-- ceipt of a commission as bearer of despatch es to a foreign court, and while on bis w'ay, was arrested for a perjury committed about the time of his appointment, was renomina ed to another responsible office. In another instance a member of the Le gislature in one of th? largest Western states, who had been publicly and notorious ly expelled from the body to which he was elected, for perjury or forgery, or perhaps both, was nominated as reoei.ver of public moneys. j Avery notorious instance oV a not less aggravated character.has ocCured in the ap pointment of a travelling agent ofthe Post. Office, who stands publicly accused of cheating a poor widow out of her pension while lie was at Washington procuring his own appointment. This man is a daily frequenter of the White House and one of the prime advisers and movers of Tylerisin in a neighboring state. He procured the appointment of a Post Master who stands charged with a similar crime. A similar office has been conferred on a man who in the year 1885, at the time of the great fire in New York, acting in the capacity of Magistrate in a neighboring city seized a parcel of goods knowing them to be stolen, and instead of restoring or attempting to re store them to the owners in this city, put the proceeds in his own pocket. In this State, in an important village, a 1 Master was appointed who had been ti -tected in a forgery of large amount. In famous at home and held in utter contempt by both political parties, John Tyler, with*a certificate of the facts of the case before him still retains him in office. The Cash ier of a Bank in one-case has given notice to the correspondents of the institution to which he belongs to send their letters to a Post Office in an adjoining village, as he could not trust money in the itands of the new Post Master. We at the Express office receive similar intimations of chan ges in the direction of the papers of our sub scribers to neighboring places, when the parties do not reside where thoy receive their letters, because they dare not trust them in the hands ofthe new appointees. In Philadelphia, one or two ofthe promi nent Tyler men are serving out their time in the penitentiary. One favorite Loco Foco, who had been dismissed as a default er, and who has been loitering at the. White House to be reinstated, has been publicly charged with obtaining money under false pretences, and will soon be brought to trial for the crime. We might extend this catalogue to el iViost any length, but our limits will notal low more at this time. Independently of the notorious fact, that ‘ in the political world President Tyler has j selected men for office who have been uni formily cast offby both parties as unworthy of confidence.—men ofthe day, mere Swiss, who go for office, but who fortunately, do not often obtain it because they are mere Swiss, who fail of fastening themselves on either party because they are well known and universally despised by all parties, —IS; added a list, which, is here presented, of men appointed to office who should be, and more of whom are likely to be, in States Prison.— N. Y. Express. Keep it before.the people, that the ave-; rage annual appropriations'under the Van Buren Administration, were $26,155,790 : whilst the appropriations by tho last Whig Congress for one year and six months werj $21,499,255 —which would make sons year about @16,833,000. Andris tion was made, too, under the adverse circumstance and difficulties thfcw/t in 1 way of the Whigs. ’J . M
