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About News & planters' gazette. (Washington, Wilkes County [sic], Ga.) 1840-1844 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 1, 1844)
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
