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shout yon n'’ i ,iour iin vour life ! The
Bar, the Bench, the Jury, and the people
broke forth a.I ‘ogctlio.’, und Were just get
ting over it, when the xaniiniug counsel,
who Imd never smelt the rat, rose, and ap
pealing to the court and jury, asked
whether a fellow could ho worthy of be
lief, who was ‘capable of so answering his
questions—whether true or false!—under
the-solemnity of an oath!’ By this time,
the whole house was in another roar; and
von may depend upon it, the matter was
not helped much, when the witness, turn
ing to the judge, asked him if lie wasn’t in
the habit of leaving a good many wives
and children in every place he stopped in!
A curious TrialJ'or breach of Promise—
is now going on before the Circuit Court, in
New.York, in which the plaintiffis a man,
the defendant a woman—damages laid at
<#lo,ooo. The plaintiff, is named Willis
Culler, a Cartman by profession, and “a
speculator in barrels &c.’ as one of the
witnesses term, and him. The defendant a
widow Coles, now a wife named Oatman.
It appears that the widow, as widows are
apt io do, had fairly bothered the heart of
Cutler by tier languishing smiles and sweet
kisses. Witnesses testified that the widow
permitted his visits almost every flight—
that they used to retire to her room and pass
the evening together in pleasant tete-a-tete
ami fond endearments; that the widow used
to talk of him as a suitor of hers, hint know
ingly about a wedding on the tapis; suffer
him to put his arm around her waist and
kiss her, and then tell him not to do so ‘be
fore folks,’ &c. Notwithstanding all this
the wicked widow having suddenly came
in possession of $50,000 by the death of
her father, jilted her humble swain and
married a Dr. Oatman, who was inconti
nently smitten with her charms immediate
ly on the death of her father. The widow
discovered that Cutler was a low, vulgar
fellow, and that the Doctor was the ‘pink of
perfection. ’ So the Dr. was made happy,
ami the poor “speculator in barrels” found
his heart so much damaged by being thus
slaved off, that nothing short of SIO,OOO
would in bis estimation, repair the mischief
and cause him to Chime in with the lady’s
humor. The ease is is not yet decided.
“Oil, these vidders, Samivel.”
A LOVE AFFAIR.
Quite a romantic affair occurred recent
ly at New Orleans, arising out of the ten
der passion. A Dr. Mackay courted the
daughter of Judge Story of that city. The
lady gave her consent to the union, hut the
father said nay, and the pair started off in
a carriage, privately, to Lafayette, to get
“spliced.” On the road they met the la
dy’s brother, who attempted to stop them,
but was pitched into the mud by the driver.
The next obstacle with which they came
in collision was not so easily got over, be
ing a heavy dray—and they were pitched
into the mud. As one of the horses was
killed, the carriage smashed, and the Jehu
“ knocked into a cocked hat,” the lovers
had to take to their personal powers of pro
gression, and they trudged back to New
Orleans through mud and rain, ir. the hope
of finding an up-river steamhoat to bear
them tobliss. They found one, and em
barked ; but the family heard it, chartered
another boat, and at the last accounts the
two steamers were “ going it” up stream,
at a boiler gallop, while the citizens on
shore were giving and taking odds on the
result.
A lady entered a dry goods store in Chap
pel street the other day. and after inquiring
for a variety of articles, she requested the
clerk to show her some cambric of a ‘hay
color.’ Ho inquired with some surprise
what she meant by that color. ‘Why,’
said she, ‘cambric the color of your draw
ers.’—‘You are mistaken madam, I don’t
wear any.’ And it was some time before
she could make him understand that she
alluded to some store fixtures.
Which will you dol —One of two things
must he done in this country. Parents
must expend money to educate their chil
dren, or they must pay taxes to build peni
tentiaries and to punish crime. There is a
great mistake about what is called educa
tion. Some suppose every learned man is
an educated man. No such thing. That
man is an educated man who knows him
self, and takes accurate common sense
views of men and things around him.
Some very learned men are the greatest
fools in the world; the reason is they are
not educated men. Learning is only the
means, not the end; its value consists in giv
ing the means of acquiring, in the discip
line which, when properly managed, it
gives the mind. Some of the greatest
men in the world were not overstocked with
learning, but their actions proved they
were thoroughly educated. Washington,
Franklin, and Sherman, were of this class;
and similar, though less striking, instances
may now he found in all countries. To he
educated, a man must be able to think, rea
son, compare and decide accurately. He
may study metaphysics till he is grey,
and languages till he is a walking polyglot,
and if he is nothing more, he is an unedu
cated man There is no class in the
country who have a strouger interest in the
proper education of children than farmers;
and the subject should receive from them
the attention it deserves.
One Way. —A lady in Paris recently
went to a store for the purpose of purcha
sing a shawl. After looking at a number
of shawls, she agreed to take a particular
one, and threw a 500 frank hill on the
counter, out of which she intended the
merchant to take his pay. At that instant,
and before the merchant had a chance to
pick up the money, a gentleman with mus
taches and all tile other extras that a
Frenchman usually sports, rushed into the
store, apparently in a great rage, and ex
claiming “Ah! rnadam, tlrjs is the way
you squander my money!’ he gave her a
smart box on the ear, which knocked her
senseless, he picked up the note, put it in
his pocket and vrolFH off.—The attend
ants in the store of course paid no attention
to the brute of a husband, but betook them
selves to reviving the fainting wife. After
she recovered they commenced condoling
with heron the brutal treatment of her bus.
bund, when they ascertained for the first
time, that it was not her husband but n
thief. It was however too lute, lie was
clean gone.
The Mechanic —What class of men are
more useful than the mechanics? To them
we are indebted for many of the necessa
ries, and nearly all the luxuries, and coin
foils, and ornaments of life. They are
generally well informed; because, as the
evening is, with many of them, a leisure
time, they have opportunities of reading
and conversing on scientific subjects; and
thus lav up stores of information, and ac
custom tliemseives to reasoning and inves
tigation. They are also hardy and strong
by the salutary exercise of their employ
ment. In the war of the revolution, and in
the last war, many of the distinguished
officers had been Mechanics. And for
love of freedom, ami for love of country,
they have always been conspicuous. A
temperate, industrious and frugal body of
mechanics, is the mainspring of a city’s
prosperity.
Knowledge of Fire. —According to Pliny,
fire for a long time was unknown to some
of the ancient Egyptians and when Eudox
us, the celebrated astronomer, showed it to
them, they were absolutely in raptures.
The Persians, Phoenicians, Greeks, atul
several other nations, acknowledge their
ancestors were without the use of fire; the
Chinese confessed the same of their pro
genitors. Pomponious, Mela, Plutarch,
and other ancient authors, speak ol nations,
who, at the time they wrote, knew not the
use of fire, or had just learnt it. Facts of
the same kind are also attested by several
modern nations. The inhabitants of the
Marian Islands, which were discovered in
1521, had no idea of fire. Never was as
tonishment greater than theirs, when they
saw it on the descent of Maggellan on one
of their islands. At first they believed it
to be some kind of animal that fixed itself
to, and fed upon the wood.—The inhabi
tants of the Pliillipine and Canary Islands
were formerly equally ignorant. Africa
presents, even in our days, some nations
in this deplorable state.— Park’s Chemical
Essays.
Queer action for Malicious Prosecution.
—A ease of this kind was lately tried be
fore the United States Court in’ Salem, ;
Mass., in mhich the jury returned a verdict
of $356. This action was brought by Miss
Sarah Blanchard, of Marblehead, against
John Lovett, of Beverly, to recover dama
ges for having procured a warrant and cau
sing the plaintiff’s house to be searched for
stolen money, which was taken from the
Salem Depot last spring. The case grew
out of some mesmeric experiments. The;
subject declared the property would be I
found in the lady’s premises, and for this
reason a search warrant was obtained.
I
AMERICAN COPPER.
The Detroit Advertiser says:—“We are
informed by a gentleman of high intelli
gence, connected with the Government A
gency, that at the Ontonagon river, in the
vicinity of the locality of the famous cop
per rock, one hundred and twenty-seven |
pits or shafts have been dug—in ail of
which, with two exceptions, native copper
ore lias been found. At Copper Harbor,
one of the locations of the United States
Agency, several tons of ore have been ob
tained and sent to this city. The average
of these ores, as they came from the bed,
has been reduced here, and produced over
twenty per cent of pure copper. In the
neighborhood other important discoveries of
copper have been made but not worked.
At Eagle river, twenty miles above, very
rich veins of copper have been discovered,
and are now being worked. At Isle Royal
opposite Eagle River, fifty-five miles north,
a vein has also been found. J his has been
explored by the Government agent, and
several parties of citizens, and the ores
found to be as productive, as at any point.
These are but a few of the points which
have been examined. The comparison of
the ores of this district with those of Corn
wall and other mining countries, shows
immensely in favor of the ores of Lake Su
perior. The ores analyzed by Dr. Hough
ton produced a per centage of pure metal,
varying from 95 to 51.72, the average
stated at 21, 10. The average produce of
the ores of Cornwall, since 1771, has never
exceeded 12 per cent, of pure metal; and
from 1818 to 1822, only B.£ per cent. It
is but proper to add, that examinations of
other gentlemen place the percentage of
our ores even higher than the analysis of
Dr. Houghton.”
Cost of a Watch. —During the war of
1790, a sailor went into a watch-maker’s
in the city of New York, and handed out a
small French watch to an ingeniouss artist,
demanding how much the repair won Id come
to. The watch maker looking at it, said
it would cost him more in the repairs than
the original purchase. “Oh! if that’s all
I don’t mind that,” replied the sailor, “I
will even give you double the original cost,
for I have a veneration for the watch.”—
“ What might you have given for it,” inqui
red the watch maker. “ Why,” said Jack
twitching his trousers, “ 1 gave a French
fellow a knock on the head for it; and if
you'll repair it, I’ll give you two.”
Quick Thought. —The Edinburgh Cour
ant says that an Irishman having acciden
tally broken a glass in a window of a house
in Queen street, was making the best of his
way to get out of sight as well as out of
mind ; but unfortunately for Pat the pro
prietor stole a march on him, and having
seized him by the collar, exclaimed.
“ You broke my window, fellow, did you
not ?”
“To be sure I did,” said Pat, “ and didn’t
you see me running home for money to pay j
for it.
DEBT.
Debt is of the highest antiquity. The
first debt in history is the debt of nature,
and the first instinct is to put ofT the pay
ment of It till the last moment. Many
persons, it will be observed, following the
natural procedure, would die lie fore they
would pay their debts. Society is com
posed of two classes, debtor and creditor.
The creditor class bus been erroneously
supposed the more enviable. Never was
there n greater misconception. The debt
or has the sympathies of mankind. He is
seldom spoken of but with expressions of
tenderness and compassion—“tho poor
debtor!” “The unfortunate debtor!” On
the other hand, “harsh and hardhearted”
are tho epithets allotted to the creditor.
A debtor is a man of mark. Many eyes
are fixed upon him; many have an interest
in his well being; his movements are of
concern; he cannot disappear. Unheeded
his name is in many mouths; his name is
upon many hooks; he is a man of note—of
promissory note; he fills the speculation of
many minds; men conjecture about him,
wonder and conjecture whether lie will pay.
Ho is a man of consequence, for many are
running after him. 11 is door is thronged
with duns. He is inquired after every
hour of the day. Many a ma n who has for
years rejoiced in credit has fallen into
debt, and never emerged from it; but few
indeed that have ever tried debt have re
turned to credit. The practice is extend
ing, though the opinion is not vet shaped to
it. Indeed the example of the nation’s
debt, or the whole nation inextricably in
debt, expresses the aggregate custom.—
“The landlord,” says Sir W. Ingleby,
“lives in a lodging with his old woman and
his cat.” Who will hesitate to consent to
the robbery of a man who lives with an old
woman and a cat? Turn the old woman
into a wife, the cat into a child, and the
lodging into a humble tenement, with all
the decorums of a love of order, the pride
into neatness; and imagine confiscation
sweeping otfall the little gracings of slen
der circumstances, and the national debtor
might be compassionated; but these things
cannot lie imagined oftke generous credit
or. The creditor always figures in the
fancy as a sour single man, with grizzly
hair, a scowling countenance, and a pre
emptory air, who lives in a dark apart
ment with musty deeds about him, and an
iron safe as impenetrable as his heart,
grubbing together what lie does not enjoy.
The debtor on the other hand, is always
pictured with a wife and six fair-headed
daughters, hound together in afTeclion and
misery, full of sensibility, and suffering
without a fault.
A SPEAKING MACHINE.
The New-York American gives this ac
count of a Speaking Machine :
“ It is even so ; we have seen—we have
heard—a machine talk ! We heard it say
“Mr. Speaker,” in a tone so distinct and
startling, that no speaker could have failed
to be attracted by it; and then it went on,
now in German, now in English, then in
Latin ; and to its tongues there need be no
end—to utter whatever was desired.
We assure our readers that this thing of
wood and paint, caoutchouc and keys, did
distinctly articulate as though having tra
chea larynx glottis, and epiglottis, tongue,
palate and gums ; each acting as in the
living human subject. The tone alone was
not only natural, but the syllables and
words entirely so; and there beside it sat
its ingenious and patient German inventor,
Mr. Faber, playing as on a piano, on the
sixteen keys ; no more ; which cause the
utterance of all language.
For fourteen years this unwearied me
chanician has labored at this invention.
The letter E was that of which he found it
most difficult to give the sound. He devo
ted to the accomplishment of that one sound
seven years! and he has accomplished it.
By long continued anatomical investiga
tion, he first mastered all the physical mi
nutice of the organs of speech, and then,
j mainly out of India rubber ; prepared so as
■ to resist the changes of temperature ; he
i imitated all these organs, and by springs
moves tilt, parts as they are moved in life.
Happier than tiiO Titan, he has not pro
voked the anger of the gods, by endowing
this material creation of his hands with the
ethereal spark ; but so far as talking is
characteristic of a man, he has made a
man.”
Singular Mesmerical Effect. —The editor
of the Vicksburg Sentinel, corresponding
| with liis journal from Jackson, relates a ru
j mor afloat there of an extraordinary occur
rence transpiring in that place recently.—
It seems that a young amateur practitioner
in mesmerism succeeded in putting an Af
rican servant into slumber, and in the same
moment was seized with fever and chills,
which were communicated at once to the
mesmerised subject, and they are both ly
ing now in a pitiable state. The magneti
seris too sick to wake up his subject, and
there they lie shivering in company !—New
Orleans Picayune.
Shoemakers. —There are said to be 150,-
000 journeymen shoemakers in this coun
try, and 30,000 females who earn a liveli
hood by binding shoes. An exchange pa
per says, the highest wages paid a journey
man in Franee, is about 40 cts a day.—
The shoemaker of course, is much benefit
ed by the tarilf. The whole craft should
commit to memory, Mr. Van Buren’s fa
mous letter in which he deprecates this
Tariff, as wrong “in principle and in de
tail,” and act accordingly.
Singular. —On Monday evening week, a
gentleman called upon us to request the
insertion of a marriage notice. He gave
the names of the parties and the name of
the clergyman who was to perform the cer
emony, and added that the ceremony would
not take place until 7 o’clock.
We remarked that our paper would be
halfworked off by that time. “Never
| mind,’ said he, ‘p ut jt in advance—the par
ties are all ready, and all agreed. We
advised him to wait awhile, lor paradven
tuic some accident might befall someone
of the three, who were to be the conspicu
ous actors in tho ceremony—if so the no
tice would be false, lie saw the force of
the suggestion and left us.
A few hours afterward wo learned
that, while the clergyman was shaving
himself, preparatory to his attendance at
the wedding, he accidentally cut his arm
with his razor, so severely as to render him
unable to perform the ceremony.—Hud
son Kepiib.
POLITICAL.
[From the Winchester Republican .]
BE IT REMEMBERED.
That the party claiming to be Democrat
par excellence , have declared their willing
ness to sustain for the Presidency, Martin
Van Buren, who supported De Witt Clin
ton, in opposition to James Madison, the
candidate of the Republican party, during
the gloomiest period of the late war, while
Mr. Clay was cheering the country on to
glorious and energetic resistance of the en
emy!
Be it Remembered, That the same party
have declared their readiness to support
James Buchanan, who declared in a public
speech on the 4th July 1812, that “if he
thought he had any Democratic blood in
his veins, he would let it out.”
Be it Remembered, That the same party,
while they clamor for principle, declare
their willingness to support any sort of a
politician bearing the name of a Democrat,
whether the nominee be a Proclamationist
oraNullifier; aTariffiteor a Free Trader!
Be it Remembered. —That the same par
ty, professing to be hostile to internal im
provements by the General Government
iiave passed over without rebuke the decla
ration of Col. Benton, that amonst the first
objects to be accomplished by the restora
tion of the Jackson policy,’ in the person of
Mr. Van Buren, is the improvement of the
great western rivers.”
Be it Remembered, That the same party,
while professing to be the special champi
ons of the People, arc al ways to be found on
the side of power, and have uniformity sus
tained all the vetoes upon the action of the
People’s Representatives !
Be it remembered, That the same party,
while professing to venerate the memories
and services of the Fathers of the Republi
can Church, are daily in the habit of de
nouncing, as‘among Federal, measures,’ a
Bank of the United States, although this ve
ry measure was passed by large majorities
of Republican Congresses, upon the reco
mendation of Republican Presidents!
Be it Remembered, That the high Tar
id’s which have been passed bv Congress
since 1816, were voted lor by Andrew Jack
son, Martin Van Buren Thos. 11. Benton,
Rich’d. M. Johnson, and other distinguish
ed men of the Jackson Van Buren parties!
Be it Remembered, That the tariff bill
commonly known as the “Bill of Abomina
tions-,’ was passed in 1828, by the votes of
Martin Van Buren, James Buchanan,
Thomas H. Benton, Richard M. Johnson,
&ic.\
Be it Remembered, That the bank bill of
1816 was reported by a committee, of which
John C. Calhoun was chairman, and pass
ed by the aid of the vote of Henry St.
George Tucker, and other distinguished
members of the Republican party; and
that Judge T. (who they dare not read out
of the Church,) to this day insists upon the
constitutional power of Congress to pass
such a law!
Be it Remembered, That the tariff Bill of
1832, which led to Nullification in South
Carolina, was passed by a Jackson Con
gress, was signed by Andrew Jackson, and
was about to be enforced by him with the
bayonet! And that the evil.-, of civil war
were averted by the timely interposition of
Mr. Clay.
Be it remembered., That the tariff bill of
1842, which Mr. Van Buren’s friends in the
North supported, and which that gentleman
now declares in a letter to the South, he ‘ut
terly disclaims and denounces,’ was voted
for by James Buchanan, and by Silas
Wright, Mr. Van Buren’s Lieutenant*
We shall in due timehave other remem
brances for the People; taken from the re
cords of the country.
From the Richmond Whig.
DEMOCRAT—FEDERALIST.
The world has probably never witnessed
so gross a perversion of the original mean
ing of words, as these terms have under
gone in the hands of those who claim to be
the True Democracy. The first meant
originally people. Government, and in this
sense is contradistinguished from Monar
chy, which is the government of a single
individual. The latter is applicable only
to the politics of this country. , In its ori
ginal meaning it embraced those who were
in favor of increasing the strength of the
J?ederal Arm. and giving the Government
more the appearance of a Monarchy than
it is entitled to. This party, overthrown by
the success of Mr. Jefferson, yet retained
strength enough to embarrass the Demo
crats for many years. It was found in ar
ray against all the measures of Mr. Jeffer
son, and transferred its hostility to his suc
cessor, Mr. Madison. During the war of
1812, the members of this party endeavored
by all means in their power to clog the
wheels of Government, and even to over
throw Mr. Madison. De Witt Clinton was
the man whom they pitched upon to effect
this purpose, and prominent among his
friends we find the name of Martin VAN
BUREN ! There is Democracy for you !
Endeavoring to overthrow the head of the
Democratic party, and throwing all obsta
cles in the way of his Administration !
During Mr. Monroe’s administration
parties seem to have slumbered. That
gentleman literally followed the advice of
Gen. Jackson, and threw the offices of the
country open to merit without regard to
party ! The administration of John Quin
cy Adams was entirely Democratic, if we
I are to regard the definition of Mr. Van Bu
ren as of any value. That gentleman
seemed to think that the true line of distinc
tion between the two parties, had its origin
in the very nature of our government; the
one (Federal) always seeking to aggran
dize the strength of the Executive, tho other
(Democratic) seeks to rcduco it as much
us possible.
Taking this definition to be true, there
had never been any government so highly
Federal as that of General Jackson. The
elder Adams was a patern of Democracy
compared to him. lie annihilated the Sen
ate, reduced the lower House to a mere
[ band of tools, took all the offices into iiis
own keeping, seized the sword of the nation,
and finally took possession of its purse.—
lie literally governed this country during
the last four years of his administration
without Congress. According then to Mr.
Van Buren’s own showing, he was the most
thorough Federalist that ever had any thing
to do with politics in this country, since no
man ever took such infinite pains to
strengthen the arm of the Executive !
Mr. Van Buren himself came next. He
promised, and no doubt desired, “to follow
in the footsteps,” &c., hut when it came to
the trial, he was unable to do so. VVhy,
then, do these men presume to call them
selves “Democrats” according to Mr. Van
Buren’s own understanding of the word ?
MR. VAN BUREN AND THE SHEEP.
“If we and thousands ofour readers sup
port Mr. Van Buren cordially, it is because
we regard him as pledged to a commercial
reform and to the laying of duties simply
for the sake of a revenue. If we believed
him a friend of the protective system, we
should no longer feel any wish to sec him
a candidate.”— Evening Post.
This is a curious comment on tho opin
ions of Mr. Van Buren. “If,” says the
Post, “we believed him a friend to the pro
tective system we should no longer feel any
wish to see him a candidate.” Mr. Van Bu
ren has been in public life nearly forty
years ami yet the Post is uncertain as to
iiis opinions on the great question of protec
tion to American Industry. During this
period he has voted several times directly
for the Tariff, and several times indirectly,
as in the case of the New York Legisla
ture when he was a member. He has writ
ten at least twenty letters on the subject as
in reply to the Indiana Legislature of last
year, and also in the more recent letter
published in the Richmond Enquirer. The
Post is one of his organs and expounders,
and yet the Editor has to say ii i on
all occasions when any cardinal point of
public policy is under discussion.
We have a remedy for all this, and will
suggest it to the Post asa method of settling
all doubts both with that paper and with its
readers : Let some Democratic Commit
tee, or the Editor, propound the following
question to Mr. Van Buren and if he will
reply specifically we will engage that the
public will know more than they have
known during the whole life of the Ex-Pre
sident.
Are you in favor of a duty of 30 per cent
ad valorem, and three cents per pound on
wool ? (the present duty.)
Now, aye or no, Mr. Van Buren. No
dodging! No long yarns! No Indiana
Letters! Tell us about the wool and the
sheep.
We put the question in this particular
form, because “sheep” are very much in
Van Buren’s way. There are in Herki
mer, Otsego, and Deleware, overwhelming
Loco Foco counties in this State, a great
many Loco Foco sheep : and Mr. Van Bu
ren can’t pull wool over their eyes, if he
will only answer this question in a public
way. Aye or No?
Otsego County gave Mr. Van Buren, in
1840, a majority of 1349. There are in
it, 489,000 Whig and Loco Foco sheep.—
If Mr. Rliett & Cos. can get an answer to
this question, it will scatter “the sheep.”
N. Y. Express.
Pipe Laying.
It is an old expedient of the thief, when
he is endeavoring to elude his pursuers, to
raise the “hue and cry” against some in
nocent individual, and thus divert attention
from himself. The Loco Foco party first
introduced into the country, the shameful
practice ofcorrupting the purity of elec
tions ; and finding that the Whigs were a
bout to detect and expose their ma!-practi
ces, had the adroitness to shift the odium
upon them, in the manner attributed to the
thief mentioned above. The famous “Pipe
Laying” charges in New York have not
been forgotten. We said then, that the
Locofoco party was really guilty, if any
person or party was. Mike Walsh was,
at that time, a rabid Loco, and deep in the
secrets of “Old Hunkerism.”
The following is his experience upon the
subject, asset forth in a late nnmber of the
Subterranean :
“The cant about pipe laying during the
last Presidential election is all froth and
clap trap ; and it is indeed about every oth
er election. We laid as much if not. more
than the Whigs ; and every man in the
Democratic party who knows any thing
about the matter, knows that we did.”
Tlie Right Spirit. —The roof of the Whig
Clay Club House at Richmond, Va., gave
way a short time since, while they were
raising it. A large number of persons were
onitatthe time, who were precipitated
some twenty feet to the floor. Several were
severely injured, and many slightly. One
person, we are sorry to learn, hassince died.
A meeting was held by the Club, and some
five or six hundred dollars collected in be
half of the sufferers, and a Committee ap
pointed to solicit contributions. The Dem
ocrats also have held a meeting, at which
they resolved to assist their unfortunate fel
low citizens.
The Whig, of the 22d inst. says, Mr.
Samuel D. Denoon, who brought forward
the resolution at the Democratic meeting,
“led the way by laying down S2O! We
want words to express our sense of this no
ble and generous deed ! May he be rewar
ded by prosperity in this world, and happi
ness in that to come ! But while we thus
express our sense of tho munificence of
man, we do not inian to be unjust to tltoS
rest. Our brethren have acted like men. .
They have shown that we all belong to the ..
same family ; and, that, though political
views may separate us in one sense, yet,
when suffering is presented to our eyes, we
ure ull united. They merit our warm Bc .
knowlcdgements, and we make them in the
name of the Whig party. We hope they
may never stand in need of our assistance ;
hut if they over should, they shall find that
the Whigs have not forgotton the proceed,
ings of Friday night.— Savannah Republi
can.
South Carolina—Mr. Clay. —To tho
question so often asked, “ Will South Caro
lina vole for Mr. Clay,” the “Hamburg
Journal,” a zealous advocate of the claims
of Mr. Calhoun, answers in the following
paragraph ; and wc doubt not that thou
sands of Mr. Calhoun’s friends will respond
in the same strain.— Augusta Chronicle.
Will South Carolina support Clay ? This
is a question that has been asked over and
over again, and yet no definite answer has
been given. And why? Because those
interrogated were afraid to commit them
selves, and were unmindful of the dignity
and unsullied pride ofSouth Carolina. We
did look with fond anticipation to the nomi
nation of our worthy and gallant son,
recent events have cast shadows ahead*
that plainly give us to understand, that”
South Carolina must stand alone, or sup
port Clay—the next best choice to Calhoun.
But, we again unequivocally sav, that if
Van Buren is to be the candidate of the
Democratic party, Ilenry Clay will be sup
ported by South Carolina. Politicians may
say whatever they please in tho matter, but
the people will have a voice that will ring
from the sea-hoard to the mountains. If
we are forced to haul down our colors in
defence ofCalhoun, we will rally under the
Banner of Clay. The friends of Van Bu
ren may hold as many conventions as there
are letters in the English Alphabet, and
meet in caucus in every hole and corner
of the Union, still it will avail them noth
ing.
To use the words of “A Carolina Whig,”
“a fair race between John C. Calhoun and
Henry Clay, would have been a noble
struggle—the two loftiest in their pitch of
flight of all our statesmen —but the coun
try has been robbed of that gallant conflict
by undue manceuvering.” And we now
candidly ask every true-hearted Carolini
nian, if they can support Van Buren under
such circumstances ? Will they willing
ly bend their necks to the yoke of such a
man ? We hope not. Let us, if all hopes
has fled for Calhoun, rally around the man,
whom we know to be open and candid in
his course—a man nearest to the heart of
Calhoun of any one that lias yet been
brought forward- Let us keep in good com-j
pany at least, though we differ in opinion.^
General Jackson. —There is a rumor
from Nashville, that General Jackson is
extremely low. 1 heard an anecdote yes
terday which strongly exemplifies the in
domitable will and iron constitution of the
Ex-President. It is said he is now suffer
ing from the effects of a wound received in
his celebrated duel with Dr. Dickerson. I'Jt.’
will be remembered that after the Doctor
had fired, the General reserved his shot and
took deliberate aim at his antagonist. The
Doctor exclaimed, “Ah ! General, now you
tiave me !” Jackson fired, and the Doctor
fell. The Doctor’s previous shot, however,
had taken effect, hitting the General under
the heart, and breaking two of his ribs;
notwithstanding the pain, the wound was
concealed at the time, as its nature and ex
tent have been for years, until recently,
and it is said the frequent hemorrhage to
which the General is subject, are the re
sults of this injury. It will be remembered
that the ball lodged in his arm by Benton,
duiing their savage rencontre, was extrac
ted during his Presidency. He was opera
ted upon in the morning, and came down
to dinner as cheerful as ever. — Cor. Phil.
Forum.
The Pensacola Gazette of the 13th inst.
contains the following account of an Indian
outrage, which it says was perpetrated at
the head of Choctawhatchee Bay :
It appears that Messrs. Nunes, Larri
more and Sears, were conveying the barge
Emperor to Apalachicola. That, in the
Choctawhatchee Bay, near the head, she
ran aground, and those on board were com
pelled to go on shore and make a camp.—
That they soon discovered an Indian camp
occupied by seven Indians, viz : two war
riors, two women and three children. The
Indians appeared friendly at first—but,
while the whites were out fishing, they were
suddenly attacked by the red men. Mr.
Larrimore was killed, Mr. Sears was se
verely wounded, and Mr. Nunes with a
black boy, succeeded in escaping to La
grange, where he hoped to raise a party to
go after the Indians, capture them and re
take their property.
There does not appear to be any very ev
ident motive for an outrage of the nature a
bove, unless it were a suddeft wish of the
Indians to get possession of the barge in pos
session of the whites.
The New York Courier Sf Enquirer says
—The Abolitionists are constantly com
plainingof the harsh language used towards
them by this and a hundred other presses
in the country, and to say the truth we
not very much in the habit of bestowing any
unusual flattery upon them, for.they do not
deserve it; but neither we nor any other
press opposed to their mad career, has ever
abused them half as bad as they abuse each
other. The following moreeau from Lloyd
Garrison, in one of his late Liberators, isj
pretty good proof to this point. Garrison
says—
“ Morally speaking, I am more and more
convinced by inquiry and conversation, that
the Liberty party, as such, in New Eng
land, is utterly unprincipled, and the most
