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Intense oomompt a woman feels for you; i
and It lhat romi'inbrant'O cause you lo bo j
.act companioned in your secret sou! by ‘
vmir own utter contempt for yourself.”
She retreated into the adjoining room; 1
waiving her hau l as she disappeared she
sai \ K
•‘You may retire.sir.”
Mr. Hanbitrv sut fora moment, over- I
•vhultned wish lism iv and shame; lie then
dashed the papers upon the floor, and has
• red oul of the house.
From the blow lie never recovered.
In ■•nite of every effort lie made to make
head in his own mold against the sense
ofaeif contempt, and the consciousness of j
the thorough baseness of his principles,
nothing could stand against the rciuein |
lived look and glance of that woman,
lie fell likea d.mcted felon. He never !
could endure to see h r again, tie with- |
drew from society, and. giving himself up
lo the lowest occupations of what is called !
pleasure, has sunk into utter worthlessness, j
despised alike bv himself and others.
From the New Yuri; Courier Enquirer.
MANUFACTURES AT THE SOUTH.
Notwithstanding the very prevalent hos
tilitv ofihe South to the system of domes j
tie manufactures, <• perceive, through some
of their journals, that there is, nevertheless
u verv strong conviction in the minds of ma
ny of ner people that true National I tide- j
pendenee, as well as. her own permanent j
p’ .sperity, depend to a great degree on an t
aiiilitv to manufacture among ourselves the
great mass of articles needed for our own ,
consumption. Even in South Carolina the !
opinion is boldly anil ablv defended that do
nrostio manufactures may be profitably es
tablished there, and the welfare of that,
and of every other section of the country
demands for the subject the most consider
ate and favorable attention. Some of the
journals of the State express surprise, after
a chase investigation of the whole subject,
that the manufacture of cotton was not first j
ueblished in liie Southern, instead of tho !
He .hern States. They have an abundant
•• ter power, a remarkably mild and favor
able c'iinate, slave labor—the cheapest of!
all labor; and above all. the raw material
of their own growth, and upon the spot.—
Even Mr. McDuffie himself in his recent
speecli against the Tariff, made use of the
fact that the South is admirably adapted for j
manufactures, and able even to rival the i
North in that special branch of industry,
to warn the North against urging its estab
lishment as a portion of its national policy. ]
lie savsexpressly, that the South has steam ,
and~^vater-power, and every advantage;
that her slave labor is by far the cheapest
in the world, and that she can, therefore, i
manufacture goods cheaper than the North
can, and so undersell us in every market, j
.Mr. McDuffie, to he sure, is greatly mista
ken in supposing that the North is actuated j
by any sectional feeling in its course upon
this subject; and lie will, therefore, entire
ly fail in his attempt to frighten us into the j
support of Free Trade principles by holding I
up the prospect that the South will inanu
fucture as well as the North. But the fact
he concedes, that the Soutli can profitably
engage in domestic manufactures, is one of
decided importance, in which, morever, as j
we have already caid, lie is sustained by
the opinion of a very respectable portion of j
her own people.
There are no v/ fifteen cotton mills in S
Carolina, all of which have been establish- ‘
cd within the last ten years: and it is sta- |
ted on good authority that, notwithstanding 1
the five years of that lime, during which’
business of all kinds was seriously embar
rassed, there lias been no instance of fail
uro in any one of these establishments to i
produce fair returns'tor capital invested,!
where the business v. a properly attended i
to. The manufacturing system at the South !
is even better adapted to be permanent and
uni funnily safe than at the North. Expe
rience shows that it is less injuriously by i
commercial revulsions; for in 1837, and
the succeeding period of general disaster, ;
although many of the largest and finest es
tablishments nt the North were sold under
the hammer at immense sacrifices, it is sta
ted in the South Carolina Temperance Ad
vocate, that, out of 25 cott n factories in j
North Carolina, 15 in South Carolina, and
19 in Georgia, from the best information, :
only two have changed hands, and one of j
those was sold for three fourths of its origin
al cost. In Virginia, both the Carolirias j
and Georgia, it is said that only a single |
factory was closed or put under the neces- ■
sity of short time. Those facts
bear strong and striking evidence in favor i
of the possibility and probability, of a firm ‘
establishment of the manufacturing system ;
at the South. Tiie next ten years will ‘
doubtless witness still greater advance iri I
this direction than has yet been made. The !
Advocate states that a Company of English !
gentleman, possessed some millions of cap- !
ital, have recently purchased large water
privileges in the upper part of South Caro
lina fir the purpose of establishing manu
factories, and it is said that a wealthy and
enterprising gentleman of Charleston, is
now having estimates made in Patterson,
N. J., preparatory to erecting a large cot
ton factory, to be located in Charleston,
driven by steam-power. Thesefacts shew
what is the opinion of intelligent capitalists
upon the subject, ar. 1 what is likel v to be
come, ere many years, the direction of a
good portion of Southern Industry.
DISTRESS IN ENGLAND.
Wo find on looking over our London
files, occasion to note the painful extremi
res to which persons are driven for means
of living. Parents throw in a small sum
of money into a society, for providing de
cent burials for members of the family.
Some parents belong to many such. It is j
now ascertained that, with feelings that
few in this country can comprehend, these
parents aid in producing the death of their
young child en in order to procure the sum
payable as funeral expenses. It has come
be a common remark, when the child of a
parent who has thus contributed becomes
sick, “Aye, aye, that child will not live, it
]is in the burial club.” An instance is J
i mentioned of a child’s dying, and u verdict j
; living rendered died through want of nuur. j
| ishment; and then Iho parents enforced the’
(payment of burial fees from ten Clubs a- j
mounting to £3l 3s.— Ph. U. S. Gas*
‘■Two similar cases oamn under the no- I
j tice of Mr. Coppoch, the Clerk and super- j
1 intcnJnnt Registrar of the ,Stockport Union, !
in both of which lie prAsecnjfetl the parties j
lor murder. li. one case, where three cliil- !
Iren had been poisoned with arsenic, the
father was tried, w ith the mother, and con- j
vieted at Chester, and sentenced to be trans- I
ported for life, but the mother was acquit- ;
j ted. In the other case where the judge ■
summed up for n conviction, tiie accused, i
! the father, ;\vas, to tiie astonishment of every
: one acquitted.
It is remarked on these dreadful cases hv
I the Supcrin'.t mlant Registrar, that the chil
dren who were boys, therefore likely to be i
I useful to the parents, were not po snied;.
: the female children were the victims. It ;
! was the clear opinion of the medical ofli- j
! oers that infanticides have been committed j
in Stockport to obtain the burial money.”
ATTACHMENT OF A DOG TO A
CHILD.
“ A near neighbor of mine, about six
months since, had a little boy of four years
old, who had a spaniel of which he was ve
;rv fond. One day during the absence of.
\ the father, the child was taken ill with the j
j croup ; the mother was alarmed, and it so
j happened that the servants were away and
i she had no one to send for a physician. —
The poor woman was in great tribulation, ■
for in spite of all her efforts the child grew i
worse. In about an hour after the child j
was taken ill, her father’s carriage stopped j
at the door, and her mother made her ap
pearance- Her father’s house was about j
two miles distant. The grandmother said
that Cairo, the sick child’s dog, ‘came run
j ning into the house all bespattered with i
| mud, and flew about and acted so strung ly
i that she knew something must be the mat
1 ter with little Billy her grandson, anu she
i came to see what it was.’ Until then, the |
! the mother of the child had not noticed the
j absence of the dog from the room, for the
boy was playing with him when lie was ta
; ken sick. The child remained ill three or |
| four days, and then died ; and during the j
i the whole time the dog never left his bed
| side ; he watched by the corpse until it was
: buried ; an then took possession ofthe little
J boy’s chair, which he would allow no one
|to touch, not even the child’s mother. Ev- j
! cry dav he absented himself three or four ,
j hours; and the father one day going to
look at his child’s grave, found that the dog ,
had almost scratched his way down to the
! coffin. He was after this kept within doors; j
| but he refused to eat, and in a short time :
died in the chair of his little master. If 1
; had time, 1 could tell you a story about hs
| touching, in relation to a pig, an animat that
i phrenologically speaking has generally
i been looked upon as somewhat deficient in i
I the region of the sentiments.”—linickcr
! bockcr.
It is somewhat remarkable that so little I
! attention is paid to the clearness of express- ‘
! ion. Every body remembers the geogra- |
I piler, who, in describing ancient Albany, |
represented it as having “two thousand
j houses, and ton thousand inhabitants, all
j standing with their gable ends to the street'.” j
I A similar error was inaue not long since by j
j a Western journalist, who in publishing a |
| clever poem, remarked that “it was written i
I by an esteemed friend, who had lain in the I
i grave many years, merely for his own a■ j
j musemctitV’ A scarcely less ludicrous ;
! misstatement occurred very lately in one of j
; our popular daily journals. In describing \
I the explosion of a brig near the Narrows, I
| and certain accidents which resulted from
i the disaster, the editor among other items j
j had the ensuing: “The only passengers j
were T. IT Nathan, who owned three thou- !
| sand dollars’ worth of the cargo, and llic
’ Captain’s wife 1 .” — Knickerbocker.
j j
Here is a clever and characteristic anec
j dote of “Randolph of Roanoke,” related by
| Mr. Ilarvev, aspirited (and he must allow I
j us to add improved) raconteur : Robert Ow i
! m told John Randolph that he should see i
j the day when mankind would discover tho |
i principle of vitality, and of course Irani to
j live forever. “Are you not aware,” said |
i;“, “that in Egypt, by artificial heat, die ;
| people create thousands of chickens?” \
‘• “Yes,” replied Randolph; “but you forget
ito tell us who furnishes the eggs. Show;
I me the man who can lay an egg and I’ll a- !
j gree to your “parallell case.” The prop. j
I osition was a poser!— lhid.
-
j Rich.— At a Locofoco convention recent- j
! ly hold in Tippecanoe county, Indiana, a i
\ friend of Mr. Cass moved a resolution to 1
the following effect:—“Whereas, General
Lewis Cass emigrated to the west from
New Hampshire iu early life with his
knapsack on his back, and unsheathed his
sword in repelling the Indians from our
Northwestern frontier and in fighting a
gainst the British during the last war.
Therefore, resolved, that he ought to be
supported by the Democratic party for
President of the United States ” A broth
er Locofoco moved to amend the resolution
by striking out the name of “Lewis Cass,”
and insert the name of “Martin Van Buren;
which motion, after an animated discussion,
prevailed. Someone called for the read
ing of the resolution as amended; whereup
on, the secretary, in a loud voice, com
menced reading—“ Whereas General Mar
tin Van Buren emigrated to the West, from
New-Hampsiiire in early life with bis
knapsack on his back, and unsheathed his
sword in repelling the Indians and fighting
against the British!” By the time the sec
retary had got tiius far, the absurdity of the
thing became so manifest, that tiie same
Locofoco who moved the amendment
sprang to his seat exclaiming “Tut, tut,
tut, Mr. Chairman, that’ll never do!” I
move to lay the affair on the table,” and
there it was laid accordingly.— Whig
Standard.
From the Democratic Review.
I THE ENGLISH TENANT AND THE
AMERICAN SLAVE,
j A*l co mmuuications from lord to tenant
are received with the most degrading ser
vility. The poor man is halt annihilated;
i with cap in hand, body bent, and down-cast
I eyes lie articulates unceasingly, my lord ;
j yes, my lord ; no, my lord ; your lordship;’
i with an awe duo to divinity rather than
i man.
The slave in the Carolines is not so hum
ble in the presence of his master, lie sfin
j ply replies, yes, sir; no, sir ; often indulges
| in the tree expression of opinion ; and, in
: many families, his communications are on
terms of equality. He is, indeed, the prop
; erty of a master, hut is well fed ; and even
: his dogs, Jowler and Trowser, often devour
more flesh in a day than an English labor
i er eats in a week.
lie cultivates a paicli of sweet potatoes
land other esculmt plants for himself;
; keeps fowls in his yard, sells at market,
I and in the smoke of his chimney hangs the
joint of a hog Iron: which he cuts a slice at
:he calls of appetite. He wears a smile on
his countenance, is fat and saucy among
his fellows, laughs with a vacant heart,
j can dance to the banjo, and freely indulges
iii his talent for music.
Slavery is a national evil which the A
mericans deeply, deeply deplore. It is
\ against the spirit of their institutions ami
i must have an end. But there is no redemp
tion for the English peasantry, they lie at
tiie bottom of the fabric of society whose
! pressure like that ofthe pyramid, is in pro-
I portion to its height. They have not the
strength to throw off the incumbent mass,
which, like the structure to which I have
j compared it, seems destined to outlive ina
I ny generations of men.
The nobility are intrenched behind here
ditary wealth and privilege, and are more
! over the best educated class of men in Eu- i
rope More like potentates than subjects, !
■ they Imve much to lose and nothing to gain
by change. Tlv y are affable and comic- i
tiding without loss of dignity ; study to
i conciliate, and at tiie same time to inspire j
a respect for themselves which forms the |
! secret guaranty of their power. Tlrr 1 are !
I always orators and statesmen among them, |
j well read and practiced in the mysteries of j
j legislation. Wisdom is power ; and it is!
the power of parliament that has raised !
England to such a pitch of greatness and j
upheld a constitution which in any other!
I country, would have long ago fallen into;
I ruins.
I
Learning in England is confined to a !
few ; knowledge is taxed and cannot be j
! bought by the poor. A single newspaper :
: costs six pence, which would give bread to
I the hungry. The light of the press unlike
j the rays ofthe sun, shines not upon the cot
| lge, that shed with straw. There are mil
lions of poor laborers, operatives and me
j chanics, who feel the weight of government
j without comprehending its policy. Their
■ rulers practice upon the system of Mamie
i ville, and think it would be unsafe to in
sirui t such formidable numbers who might
become inquisitive, and ask why they were
’ fed on potatoes and salt in sight of a park
• containing three thousand doer to glut the
appetite of a single man. Hence there are
! no public schools for the instruction of the
I poor ; this is the work of charity and the
! church, and not of the law. It was not un
i til.six years ago, that parliament appropri
ated thirty thousand pounds for this pur
j pose—hut little more than is given by the
J state of Connecticut, with less than 300,-
j 090 inhabitants.”
A Rare Character —A correspondent of I
tiie Lynn Washingtonian gives the follow- I
; ing account of one of the Marblehead re
j presentalives:
One person now living among them is
worthy a passing notice—Samuel Chinn,
; one of their representatives elected to the
Legislature of Massachusetts. lie is 35
vearsofage—a strong healthy man—and
! to use his own language—he ‘has neither
i ache nor pain.’
For the last ten years this man has lived
i on a simple vegetable diet, causing not the
! voice of mourning among the herds and
flocks which graze peacefully upon the
mountain side; and during the last four
) years he has lived on nothing—nothing but
j dry unground wheat and fruit. He makes
bis breakfast of fruit—the other two meals
of wheat patronizing neither burrstone mills
i nor French cooks.
Last year !. was elected a delegate to
| the Worcester Democratic State Conven
tion, a.... .vttli a true democractic spirit he
filled his pocket with wheat, walked to
: Worcester in one- day (a distance of 58
| miles)attended the convention, and the next
] day returned home by the same democrat
ic express, having patronized no hotels.
He is now ready to walk 75 miles in a
day w lienever interest or duty may require
it.
Maine. —Returns have been received
from 00 town, about two thirds of the 7th
district, in which Robinson (Whig) has a
gain of 425 votes. In the sth district, re
j turns from twenty towns in Waldo, give a
majority against White the Dem. candidate
of 420 votes, being a loss from the last e
lection of 225. So says the N. Y. Tri
bune of the 29th ult.
Cold Weather. —At Albany, N. Y., on
the 25th ult. the mercury stood at 14 deg.
below zero. At Berthie, about 45 miles
below Montreal, in Canada, on the 6th ult.
the thermometer stood thirty six deg. be
low zero. At Sorrel about the same dis
tance from Montreal, on the south side of
the St. Lawrence, the Mercury stood a
shade below forty.
“British Gold.” —A correspondent of the
N. Y. Express says that certain persons in
England are ready to contribute any a
mount of money iu extending Free Trade
doctrines in this country, by buying up
presses and individuals.
From the Christian Index.
AN ATROCIOUS MURDER.
It become our painful duty to communi
cate intelligence of one of the most cold •
! blooded murders that lias ever been com- I
i milted in this region ol country. On Sul- |
j urduy last Mr. j'. Craddock, a peaceful, [
i respectable and inoffensive citizen, of about
I 00 years of age, walked over to one of his 1
! neighbors about noon. As evening np- [
i proached, lie did not return; fears were i
I consequently excited that some‘accident I
j bail happened, and search was made for i
I him. He was found in a -skirt of woods, on
i his own premises, a mangled corpse. He
[ had been to Ins neighbor’s, was returning,
I with a handkerchief tied close around his
ears and over his head. The murderer ap
proached him behind and shot him between
tho shoulders. He was so near that the
wadding entered the wound and the coat
was apparent! v rent and scorched with the
explosion of the powder. It is said he was
I slim with 15 slugs, nine of which have been
| extracted.
Mr. Craddock was originally from Vir
-1 ginia. lie has been living in this section j
; some 7or 8 years. A few years since he j
; returned to Virginia and married a young ;
girl, about 16 years of age, by whom he I
had one child. Mr. Craddock was in good |
circumstances. The parents of his wife
are in very dependent circumstances. —
They followed their daughter to this State
i a year or two since. Last year they lived
in a house on Mr. Craddock’s premises and
! were principally sustained by him. Mr.
C. thought they were not sufficiently indus
trious, and they moved to a small house at
the Woodville Depot. Suspicion has fixed
upon a son of the parents, a brother of Mrs.
Craddock, about 18 or 20 years of age.—
The grounds of these suspicions are princi
pally these : 1. The crack ofthe gun was
heard by the overseer and the servants in
; the field and was, at the time, recognized as
( the crack ofthe gun that had been given by
Mr. C. to the young man. 2 ‘(’lie young
man was seen by some of tho servants going
towards the place where the murder was
| committed, a short time before the report
I of the gun, and seen subsequently rcturn
! ing. 3. Tracks were seen in the direction
j in which the young man was said by tbe
’ servants to have passed, w Inch correspon
ded with his. 4. Tli-.’ young man had ut
tered some expression which evinced his
j antipathy to his brother-in-law. 5. Neither
!th e young man nor his father went to sec i
; the corpse. These and some other circutn
j stances led to the arrest of the young man
‘on Sunday. On Monday and Tuesday he
was examined before a Justices Court, and
| committed for trial.
Wc forbear the expression of any opin
ion relative to the guilt or innocencey of
tin’ accused. For Mrs. Craddock our most
tender sympathies are excited. Her afflic
tion is peculiarly severe ; —a husband mur
dered ! a brother arrested as the murderer !
and a father suspected for being privy to
the foul deed ! May kind Heaven support
her under lier affliction and sanctify it to
her eternal good—forgive and save the !
murderer too, whoever ho may be.
The neighbors generally say of Mr.
Craddock, they did hot suppose he had an
enemy on earth, as he attended closely to
his own business and let other people’s
alone.
From the Dahloncga Times.
A BLOODY AND A FATAL REN
COUNTER.
ft becomes our painful duty to record one
jof the most bloody tragedies, with which
i the Newspapers of the present day are
1 crowded. On Friday last a difficulty oc
| curred at a grocery store belonging to a
Mr. James R. Long, situated on the road
side, about half way between this place
and Auraria, in which Mr. Long, Peter
Trammell, James Helton and Laudawick
Dobbs, were engaged ; and which resulted
in the stabbing of the three latter by the
former, and the death of Dobbs, which en
sued the following evening. The other
two, Trammell and Helton, are still alive,
and it is supposed will recover under prop
er treatment and attention.
It seems that Helton and Dobbs, with oth
ers, whose names it is unnecessary to men
tion, had called at Long’s about twelve or
one o’clock of that day, and had purchased
a small quantity of spirituous liquor, with
which they had been indulging their appe
tites for this beverage, for an hour or more,
when Trammel! came in—that soon after
liis arrival a quarrel ensued between him
i and Long, in relation to some real or sup
posed injury, or indignity offered to Long
or his sign board on the previous evening,
by Trammell and others then with him.—
The quarrell cc-ased for a short time, but
was again renewed, when Trammell at
tempted to strike Long with a stick, blit the
blow was wajdea offbv one of the joists of
the house. Long had a large butcher
knife in the meantime, with which he repel
led the assault of Trammell by stabbing
him in the left side. Helton and Dobbs
were both in the house when the fight took
place, but what part they took in the affray
is not definitely known. Long it seems,
however, continued cutting with his knife
until he had inflicted a stab on all in the
house. A pistol was fired during the fra
cas bv Helton, as it is supposed. The shot
from which struck Long n?ar the eye brow
on ’.lie left temple, and penetrated to the
back ofthe head, where it lodged under the
skin. This was the only serious injury
done to Long, who has been arrested and
recognized to a bond of two thousand dol
lars to appear at our next Superior Court
to answer the charge of murder.
VVe forbear any comment on this melan
choly and truly unfortunate occurrence, as 1
it will again have to undergo a judicial in
vestigation. But we cannot withhold the
deep mortification we feel at the frequent i
occurrence of these bloody scenes in our :
country. The News-papers of the day are i
burdened with the recital of horrible deeds j
of this kind, which argue a bad state of i
morals among our people, and a want of
-and efficiency in the judicial arm i
| of our government to bring offenders to jus. I
tice, which can ulono deter tho vitious from I
the commission of similar deeds of blood.
-
Drowned —The melancholy intelli- I
j gi-nce of tho drowning of George YV. B. j
! Heard, a son ofthe late Barnard Heard of
Elbort County, in the Savannah River, a !
j few miles above the city, on Wednesday
j the 24th January, has just been coiiijmuni
| cated to us. \
The facts are these. Young Hearil, who
j was about eighteen yeurs of age, had do.
; rermineu to come down to this city, on hoard
j the boat of Dr. Bourne his guardian, rath
er as a trip of’pleasure—or perhaps as a
scene of adventure—when in the shoais,
above the city, three or four miles, the
boat lodged on a rock, and in his efforts to
get her off he tell, and was washed imme
diately under the boat corning up on the
other side, he swam off toward a snag which j
was near the boat, and as ho was known i
to he a very superior swimmer, no one sup- I
posed there was any danger, and therefore I
offered no assistance, but just before reach
ing the snag, lie sunk and was drowned be
fore any aid could be extended. All off
orts to obtain the body have thus far been
unsuccessful.— Augusta Chronicle.
From the Savannah Republican.
WHIG POLICY—LAND DISTRIBU
TION.
A Northern opposition paper says of the
Whig law of Distribution—“ The scheme
never had an inch of constitutional ground
to stand upon, or a particle of vitality, as a
question of policy, except what is derived
from appeals to the most lamentable igno.
ranee.” Suppose now, we should, withouf;
going back to the history of the cession of
these lands, without referring to the cer
tainty that the ‘■•Old Thirteen” will soon
he deprived of their rights by the prepon
derating influence of Western votes, copy
the following extract from the Constitution,
which reads that “Congress shall have
power lo dispose of and make ali needful
regulations respecting the territory or other
property ofthe United States.” How emp
ty and vain, how worse than contemptible
the vaporing pfa party piess opposed to the
solemn language of the Constitution. If
lie latter deserve respi ct, the- fortmv merits
nothing but contempt am! derision.
‘file whole truth is, that the distribution
policy is Whig policy, and therefore it is
scouted at by our opponents. Were it their
policy nothing would he so fair and just.—
Indeed, a more objectionable scheme than
this has been broached by them, for it con
templated the surrender ofthe lands almost
without an equivalent. Certainly, unless
the measure had “an inch of Constitutional
ground lo stand upon ”
General Jackson would never have re
commended in tho conveying away
of the public lands to the Slates in which
they lie, nor would the graduation and cos.
sion bills of Calhoun and Benton, the sole
I apparent object of which appeared to be to
| exchange Western lands lying in the pub
| lie domain for Western votes, have been
brought forward, had there not been “an
inch of Constitutional around to stand upon”
at least wo are willing to suppose An
equi'ahle disposition of the public lands by
the Whigs, retaining an interest in them
for the “ Old Thirteen'’ who gave thprn to
the Union, lias no “ Constitutional ground,”
but the giving of ilipm away to the States
iri which they lie, if possible by a Loeo
foco, lias ample “Constitutional ground to
stand upon.”
General Jackson, in his veto of Mr.
Clay’s bill, passed in 1833. did not contro
vert the constitutionality of an equitable dis
tribution of the public lands. lie regarded
the proposition to give the new Slates 12£
percent, ofthe lands unconstitutional, and
recommended lhat the whole of the public
lands should be given to the States in which
they lie. Such a recommendation is of it
selfa clear recognition of the unlimited
power of Congress over the public lands.
The question may well he asked, which
is the better policy, the entire alienation of
the lands of their distribution. If Benton,
Calhoun, or for ought we know, if Van
Buren should he President, they might be
snatched from the old States forever.
Mr. Clay, always judicious, sensible
and statesmanlike, speaking in 1832 of the
power of Congress over the public lands,
after quoting the language of tho Constitu
tion, given above, which may he found in I
Sec. 3, said, “the power of distribution is
plenary, unrestiained and unqualified. It
is not limited to specified objects or to de
fined purposes, but left applicable to any
object or purpose which the wisdom of Con
gress shall deem fit, acting on its high res
ponsibility.” “The uniform practice of
the Government hasconformed to the idea
of its possessing full powers over the pub
lic lands. They have been freely granted
from time to time to communities and indi
viduals, for a great variety of purposes.—
To States, for education, internal improve
ments, public buildings, to corporations, to
the deaf and dumb, to the cultivators of the
olive and the vine, to pre-emptioners, Gen.
Lafayette, &c.”
Short, but Pithy. —The Yazoo City Whig
published at the city of Yazoo, Mississippi,
has the following pithy paragraph. It sets
forth in a few words, and in a very happy
manner, a portion of the advantages which
have resulted from the Whig TarifFof IS
-42, and we are the more pleased to copy it
as it comes from a part ofthe country where
erroneous views, with respect to the effect
of the effect of the protective principles,
have uliappily too long prevailed :
“ Wiiat has it done ?— The Whig prin
ciple of Protection has made us exporters
instead of importers of manufactured cot
tons; exporters instead of importers of cal
icoes ; exporters instead of importers of mix
ed cloths ; and importers instead of expor
ters of Specie. Why then should hard
money men oppose a Protective Tariff?”
| IIENRY CLAY; 1 DID AND I D ‘
NOT.
“ 1 voted for the Tariffs of 1816, 1824, an ‘
1832.”
See Mr. Clay’s letter to Gen. Bledsoi
j under date of July 28, 1843.
| “ You arc right, so far as the record is con
ccrned, that 1 DID NOT VOTE for th
Tariffs oj 18J0 or 1824.”
See Mr. Cluy’s letter to Mr. Merriweth
er, ofGeorgiu, under date of October 24
1843.
We find the above In thirty or forty Lo
oo-Foco papers. It seems incoriceivahlo
that Human Nature should be guilty of the
baseness here perpetruted, for the sake ofa
very paltry partisan advantage. Mr. Clay
was Speaker of the House in 1816 and
1824, and of course did not vote ori the
final passage of the Tariff bills of those
years, but lie was their ardent, effective
j supporter, as every body knpws ; and in the
I very letter to Mr. Meriwether, last above
quoted, says, when reminded that his name
does not appear on the list of Yeas for those
Tariffs,
“You are right so far us the Record is
concerned, that I did not vote fertile Tariffs
of 1810 and 1824, but I supported their
principles, and have always admitted that I
was in favor of them.”
Now would the villian who could cut off
this'last sentence from what preaeflSs ij •
and publish the rest so as to make au ap. “
parent contradiction with w hat Mr. Clay
had before written to Gen. Bledsoe—when
there is in truth a perfect consistency be
tween them—hesitate to forget Mr. Clay’s
name to an entirely fabricated letter, if it
would serve his purpose ? There is not a
particle of moPai difference between what
is done above and an entire forgery, though
the latter is the less cowardly. Yet men
who pretend to deplore -the licentiousness of
the Press will countenance and acquiesce
in such frauds when their party is served
by them.— N. Y. Tribune.
Womans Rights in Tennessee. —The Bill
introduced by Mr. Nicholson and after,
wards digested and amended by the Judici
ary Committee, to whom it was referred, “to
secure to married women their own proper
ty,” has passed its final reading in the Se
nate almost unanimously, the vote being
21 to 4. It will doubtless pass the House
and become a law without much opposition.
The provisions of this bill are so just and
humane; anil the wonder is, that it was not,
long ago, placed on our Statute hook. It
secures to married women the use and en
joyment of all the property they possessed
before their coverture, whether it accrues
to them by purchase, distribution, or by
deed of gift, holding it exempt from execu
tions on account of the husband’s debts; so
conditioned as to impose a liability for such
articles as arc necessary to the support and
inaimainanceof the family, with a provision
that the wife may by deed duly acknowl
edged, proven and registered, transferor
property to satisfy her husband’s debts. It
isalso further provided that should the wife
die without issue, or the descendants of
such, the husband shall be tbe sole heir;
hut should she die, leaving children or the
descendants of such, being also children of
such husband, he shall be entitled to letters
of administration, on giving bond and secu
rity, to distribute the property equally a
mong himself and such children.
The law is similar to that now in force in
Louisiana.
[Columbia ( Tenn ) Observer.
U. S. Mail. —The Postmaster General
sent to the U. States Senate on the 18th inst.,
a statement of the various matters which
passed through the post office of the U.
i States during the month of October last and
an estimate for the year based thereon.—
Tiie following is an abstract of the state
ment and estimate.
In October The year
Number oflettcrs
subject to postage, 2,022,290 24,267,552-
Numbor of free
letters 234,641 3,015,692
Number of drop
letters for deliv
ery, 85,542 1,026,504
Regular newspa
pers subject to
postage, 3.027,879 16,334,558
Free, 597,760 7,161,120
Occasional or ir
regular, 518,67 e 6,224,112
! Pamphlets and Ma
gazines, periodical, 134,646 1,615,752
Do. not periodical, 24,588, 295,056
From a statement transmitted to i n
ate with the above, it appears that there
were mailed at the city post office in Wash
ington, for three weeks during tho session
of Congress, in April, 1840, 466,345 free
letter, and 4 3i4,948 free documents,
weighing 359,579 pounds-
An honest recantation of error. —The
Huntsville (Ala.) Advocate of the 24th ult.,
says: At a Whig meeting in Campbell
county, Tenn., Col. John A. Aikin came
boldly forward and declared himself for
Henry Clay—he stated that he was “a
member of the Legislature of Tennessee, at
the time the resolutions were adopted*,
charging Henry Clay with ‘bargain, in
trigue, and corruption,’ and that he had
voted for them. He had lived to see that
he was then in error—had done that great
and good man injustice—and as an honest
man he took back that vote. If he were now
in the Legislature he would vote to repeal
that vote of the Legislature.” He said “He
was a Whig in the fullest sense ofthe term,
and from a conscientious belief that Whig
principles were correct; and that in pub
lie or private station, his bumble abilities
should be exerted to promote the cause of
Henry Clay.” Last year Col. Aikin was
a Locofoco and a candidate for Congress.
His conversion points the way the current
is running. 0
Hon. Henry Johnson (YVhig) lias been’
elected IT. S. Senator from Louisiana, in
place of Judge Porter, deceased.
