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TH E TIMES.
The union an J the sovereignty of ihe slates
COLUMBUS, APRIL 8, 1840.
From the Enquirer, of yesterday.
COTTON. Bales.
Receipts, week-ending April 3-- 1,037
Received previously .... 3-2.125
Total receipts - - 33 622
Total shipments - 29 .643
Stock on hand ----- 361!J
Received same time last season - - - 47 746
Deficiency this year ... - 14,454
Price 9 to I.OJ cents.
H3= We stop the press to inform our readers
of the death of William Henry llakriso:
President of the United States. The inform
ation was received by mail this morning. He
died April 4th—just one month after his inau
guration.
The Jeffersonian is disposed to think
there will be a “flash in the pan.” Let him
enjoy his repose—he will feel the fire soon.
The Magnolia has again made its ap
pearance upon our table, bringing along
its usual quantity of interesting and ably writ
ten articles. Mr. Pendleton, the Editor, cer
tainly deserves much credit for the high im
provements which is manifest in its appear
ance and contents. The Knights of the Gol
den Horse-Shoe, is continued in this number,
and we do not consider ourselves flattering the
author of this talented work, when we say it
would bear comparison with the best works of
our best authors. The fair daughters of the
South are also lending assistance—several
pieces highly creditable to themselves, make
their debut in this number. On the whole
we think the Magnolia equal if not superior,
in point of literary attainment, to any Mag
azine of its kind in the country.
governor McDonald.
His Excellency, Charles J. McDonald, ar
rived in town, on Saturday last. lie returns
to the seat of Government to day, his pres
ence being immediately demanded. The hos
pitality of our citizens have been tendered him,
as will be seen by the following correspon
dence. We like the doctrines set forth in the
letter of the Governor, particularly. The
patriot and gentleman exhibits itself in eve
ry line.
Columbus, April 6, IS4I.
His Excellency C. J. McDonald ;
Sir—The undersigned, a portion of your
fellow-citizens in this place, beg leave to re
quest the pleasure of participating with you
of a public dinner, to be given as a testimonial
of their regard and confidence. In soliciting
your acceptance, we feel that we are discharg
ing but an ordinary duty, when we assure you
that the solicitude you have expressed pub
licly and privately for the relief of the oppres
sed and sufferingportion of your fellow-citizens,
meets our cordial approbation.
At a time when the Legislatures of the
General and State Governments is ten
ding to strengthen and elevate wealth and
power, reckless of the interests of the poor and
and dependant, it has afforded us gratification
to find you, sir, standing forth, as Governor of
Georgia, recommending a system of legislation
calculated to sustain the weak and suffering
portion of the people. In thus tendering you,
in behalf of our fellow-citizens, this public en
tertainment, we earnestly request your ac
ceptance, and beg you to fix such a day as may
suit your convenience, that our citizens may
be enabled to testily personally the hearty
welcome with w T hich they greet your visit to
our city.
Very sincerely, your ohd’t servants,
Alfred Iverson, F. A. Nisbet,
J. J. Boswell, Joseph Sturgis,
Henry L. Benning, Seaborn Jones,
Alex. Robinson, S. R. Bonner,
Alex. McDougald, John Quin,
R. A. Green, Horatio Smith.
Columbus, 7th April, 1841.
Gentlemen—l had the honor yesterday to
receive your note in behalf of a portion of my
fellow-citizens, of this place, inviting me to
partake of a public dinner.
I thank you for this pleasing testimonial of
your partiality and confidence; but being
called home by important duties, I am com
pelled to decline your kind invitatiou.
I am gratified that you approve a measure
proposed by me to the last General Assembly,
to save the people from the consequences of
unforeseen misfortunes and Providential ca
lamities, which they could not avert. By a
concurrence of causes which could not be
guarded against, in most parts of the State, the
ordinary means of the people to meet their
engagements were almost wholly cut off, and
the daily sacrifices of property and the con
stantly accumulating distresses of the people,
shew that I was not mistaken in the necessity
of some legitimate constitutional measure for
their aid through the difficulties of this year-
I cannot conceive that in a Government where
one of the maxims of legislation should be,
“ the greatest good to the greatest number,”
without injury to the rights of any, the people
should not have been protected from evils next
in magnitude to pestilence or famine. But
those who represented the people more direct
ly willed it otherwise.
Accept, gentlemen, for yourselves and those
whom you represent, the assurance of my
high regard and consideration.
Charles j. McDonald.
To Messrs. Alfred Iverson, F. A. Nisbet, J. .T.
Boswell, Joseph Sturgis, Henry L. Benning,
Seaborn Jones, Alexander J. Robinson, S.
R. Bonner, Alexander McDougald, John
Quin, R- A. Green, 11. Smith.
TRIBUTE OF RESPECT.
Muscogee Superior Court,
April 5, 1841.
The Court having been organized, Major
Philip 1. Schley announced to the same, in a
pertinent and appropriate manner, the death of
David Golightlv, Esq., when after which he
introduced the following Preamble and Reso
lutions,-which were unanimously adopted:
When in the dispensations of an overruling
Providence, one of ordinary talents or acquire
ments, is swept from us by the besome of the
king of terrors ; though partial aifection may
lament the affliction, yet the void in society is
6c*on filled, and the waves of business or plea
sure close the vacuum. But when one whose
strong and vigorous mind, aided by an untiring
industry and perseverance, had raised himself
to an envied eminence in his professio .; whose
mental powers were not his only recommeu
dation; who with a vigorous and well cnltivated
intellect, possessed the social qualities of our
nature in a sufficient degree to temper the
cold reserve, which is too often the concomi*
tant of the student; who during a long and
arduous professional intercourse in our city,
won for himself, by his high sense of probity,
the universal consent of our whole community
!to the title of one of the “noblest works of
j God.” When such an one is arrested in his
bright career, by the ruthless sciinetar of dis
ease, we cannot repress the emotions of regret
and repining, which the unsophisticated aflec
tions of our nature prompt to action. Such
an one was our late brother and friend, David
Go’ightly, Esq., who was taken from us on
\\ ednesday, the 241 b ultimo, in the 35th year
of his age.
Be it therefore resolved, That in the decease
of our late brother and friend David Golightly,
Esq, the members of the Bar of the Chatta
hoochee Circuit, the profession of which he
was so bright an ornament, and our communi
ty generally, have sustained a severe loss.
Resolved, That as a testimonial of our es
teem and regret for the memory and departure
of our deceased brother, the members of the
Bar and Officers of the Court, will wear the
usual badge of mourning for thirty days; and
that this Court do now adjourn for the day.
Resolved, That the foregoing proceedings
be entered upon the minutes of this Court; and
the Clerk transmit a copy thereof to the rela
tives of our deceased brother, with the sincere
condolence of this Bar.
Resolved, That the several editors in this
city be requested by the Clerk to insert in
their papers.
Georgia. Muscogee County, )
Clerk’s Office Superior Court. )
The above and foregoing is a true copy from
the minutes of the Superior Court of said
county, April Gth, 1841.
A. LEVISON, Clerk.
• ET The Greenville Mountaineer will pleas e
copy.
The following letter was received by a
young gentlemen of this city, somewhere a
bout the first of April.
Dear Nephew : I have not written to you
since my last, before now, because as I moved
from my former place of residence, I did not
know’ w here a letter would find you, but I now
with pleasure take my pen in hand to inform
you of the melancholy death of your only liv
ing uncle Kilpatrick. He died very suddenly
last week, alter a lingering illness of live
months. The poor man was in violent con
vulsions all the while, laying perfectly quiet
and speechless, all the while talking incoho
rently, and calling for water. I had no oppor
tunity of informing you of his death sooner,
except I had written by last post, which went
off two days before he died, and then you would
have had postage to pay. lamat a loss to
tell what his death was occasioned by, but I
fear it was by his <ast illness, for he was never
well two days together during the whole time
of his confinement. Be that as it will, as soon
as lie breathed his last, the Doctor gave over
all hope of his recovery. I need not tell you
any thing about his age, for you well know
that in December next he would have been
twenty-five years old lacking ten months, and
had he lived till then he would then have been
just six months dead. His property all de
volves on his next of kin, who dkd some time
ago, so that I expect it will be divided between
us ; aud you know his property is something
very considerable, for he had a fine estate
which was sold to pay his debts, and the re
mainder he lost in a horse-race; but it was
the opinion of every body at the time, that he
would have won the race if the horse he run
against had not been too fast for him.
I never saw a man, and the Doctor’s all say
so, that observed directions and took medicine
better than he did. He said he had as live
drink gruel as wine, if it only had the same
taste ; and would as soon take jalap as beef
steak, if it had the same relish. But, poor
soul, he will never eat or drink more, and you
have not a living relation in the world, except,
myself and your two cousins who were killed
in the late war. I can’t dwell on this mourn
ful subject, and shall seal my letter with black
sealing wax, so I beg you not to break it when
you open the letter; and don’t open it until
three or four days after you receive it, by
which time you will be prepared for the sor
rowful tidings. When you come to this place
stop, and don’t read any more until my next.
Your affectionate Aunt,
Polly Kilpatrick.
P. S. Do not write me again till you receive
this.
Well! I declare I have succeeded, and
made you an “ April Fool,” sure enough.
“ Off with his Head !”—The following, is
a copy of the note from the new Secretary of
the Treasury to Mr. Shaw, late keeper of the
light-Irouse at Lazaretto Point:
“ Treasury Department, )
13th March, 1841. £
Sir: Your services are no longer needed by
the Government in keeping the light-house at
Lazaretto Point.
I am, respectfully, your ob’dt servant,
T. EWING,
Secretary of the Treasury.
Mr. William Shaw,
Light-house, Lazeretto Point, Baltimore.”
This is quite laconic—much to the Point,
and no doubt, as Mr. Ewing thinks, “short
and sweet” But how far it comports with
declarations of the Whig party about “no
proscription,” the reader will see, when he ii
informed that Mr. Shaw has eleven children!
was born and raised in the Neck, not far from
the light-house—his father and his whole fam
ily were good patriots, and showed it during
the last war; and besides these, he has the
highest testimonials of the most recent date,
and that, too, from Whig gentlemen, who had
the best opportunities to know him. His sal
ary as light-house keeper was *s3so! This
is a sample of the course which is to be pur
sued by the “no party,” “no proscription”
Administration, by the party which has blus
tered so loudly and largely against removals
for opinion’s sake.—Baltimore Republican.
New York and Virginia. —By the resig
nation of the Govenor of Virginia, Lieuten
ant Govenor Patton is left to perform the du
ties of chief magistrate ad interim. The first
official act of that gentlemen has been to issue
his warrant for surrender of Robert F. Curry,
the fugitive from justice in this State, the sur
render of whom was refused by Gov. Gilmer.
The Richmond Whig states that Gov. Pat
ton has enclosed the warrant of Gov. Seward
in a brief letter, containing a strong and deci
ded remonstrance against the conduct of the
Governor and Legislature ol New York as to
fugitives from justice and fugitives slaves,
with an earnest but respectful appeal to them
to arrest the unhappy and dangerous collisions
which must ensue from a perseverance in
their assaults upon the rights of the State of
Virginia and the other Southern States.
“My dear, what shall we have for dinner to
day ?” “One of your smiles,” replied the hus
band, “I can dine on that any day.” But I
can’t said the wife. “Then take this,” said
he, giving her a kiss, and he departed for his
office. He returned to dinner. “This stake
is excellent,” said he “what did you pay for it ?”
“A ‘ Mt I/"” gave me this morning,” said she.
“You did ! said he, “then vou shall have m- r
ket money the rest of the time.”
I Correspondence of the Charleston Coi rler.
WASHINGTON, March 30.
The President has been quite indisposed
and unable to attend to business, for the last
two days.
Mr. Webster has gone to New York to at
tend to his father-in-law, Mr. Leroy, who is
dangerously ill. Mr. Badger and Mr. Critten
den have not yet returned.
A number of diplomatic appointments will
soon be announced—for Eng'and, Austria, &c.
It. is now pretty certain that Col. Charles S.
Todd will be sent to Austria. lie is every
way qualified for the station by character and
talents ; but it will be a signal disappointment
to Mr. Jenifer, of Md., who had, with some
reason, fixed upon that post for himself, and
had accordingly declined a re-election to Con
gress. As the representative of the Tobacco
interest, not only in, but out of Congress, he
had generally been designated as a suitable
person for the mission.
Mr. Robert Campbell, formerly a member
of Congress from your State, but now a citizen
of Alabama, is to have the Collectorship of
Mobile. He was applicant for the Consulate
at Havana, but that place had been promised
to Mr. Calhoun, of Georgia.
Tne elections in Virginia for Congress and
the Legislature are looked upon with great
interest. It will be a close contest. The re
sult must be in the election of many conser
vatives or impracticable whigs, whom the
whigs denounce as worse than locos.
Mr. Speaker Hunter, who has finally con
sented to be again a candidate for Congress,
will probably lose his election A whig can
didate and also a loco candidate are in. nomina
tion against him, and the whig will be elected
by a plurality.
There is already much speculation on the
subject of the selection of a Speaker. Ido not
know that any person representing the north
ern whig interests will be elected. The signs
are that there will be a majority in the House
against what are commonly called the whig
measures, a bank, a tariff, &c. In any event
the whigs will be much divided from the start.
Before the termination of the late session, a
portion of the Clay whigs (so called) had
agreed to support Mr. John White, a very able
and worthy representative from Kentucky, for
this office. A portion of the Southern whigs
had proposed Mr. Dawson, of Georgia, another
very respectable member. Mr. Briggs, of
Massachusetts, as an experienced parliamen
tarian, lias also been named and will no doubt
command a strong vote.
But, of late, it has been thought advisable
by many persons, to take as a candidate, a
member from Maryland, Mr. William Cost
Johnson, who will unquestionably command a
more general whig vote than any one who can
be mentioned. He will unite the whole whig
vote ; northern, southern and western. To a
g-reat deal of experience in the chair, he adds
uniform courtesy of deportment, independence,
impartiality, decision and unwavering firm
ness.
In the stormy times that we are about to
encounter, we want, as a Speaker, one who
will have the energy and courage to enforce
the rules of order and decorum, many of wh ch
rules have, of late, become a dead letter.
The Principle on which the Proscrip
tion works. —We have felt it our duty to as
certain the manner and grounds on which
dismissions from office are made by the new
Administration. For this purpose, we inquired
of Judge Burchard the process of his removal.
He was sent for by. Mr. Ewing, the Secretary
of the Treasury. He was told, that, among
the arrangements determined on by the new
Administration, was that of putting a political
friend in the office of Solicitor of the Treasury
held by him ; and the Secretary gave him the
option of resigning, if he preferred it, to a re
moval.
Mr. Burchard thanked Mr. Ewing for the
courtesy of the interview, and availed himself
of it to inquire whether the course adopted in
regard to him proceeded from any distrust of
his fidelity, capacity, or any complaint made as
to the discharge of his duties. Mr. Ewing as
sured him that it was not, but was a compli
ance with the expectations of the friends of
the Administration.
There never was a clearer illustration of
the principle of proscription lor opinion’s sake,
than is afforded in this example. Judge Bur
chard, ail who know him can attest, is a man
of unblemished integrity—of unquestionable
capacity for the place he occupied—was in
flexibly impartial, and unweariedly industrious
in discharging its duties—always accessible,
and uniformly amiable to every one having
business with the department. He is, how
ever, an unbending Democrat, and maintained
in office the independence of opinion which
belonged to him as a man. Hence he was the
first man at the head of an office removed.
The crime of Judge Burchard is opposition
to Federalism. The virtue of his successor
(Mr. Penrose) consists in the fact that, from a
violent opponent, he became instantaneously
transformed into an ardent friend of the Bank
of the United States ; having been voted for
by the people of his Senatorial district in his
first character, and voting himself, in the sec
ond, as their Senator, for the Bank, against
the instructions of his constituents. He after
wards joined Tlnddeus Stevens in the attempt
to put down the will of the majority of the
people of Pennsylvania, and maintain the pow
er of Ritner’s friends in the Legislature against
the decision of the polls.—Globe.
McLeod —We regret to perceive by a let
ter of the District Attorney of Niagara county,
published in the Rochester Democrat, that m
consequence of an error of the Niagara Coun
ty Clerk in drawing the jury, the court will
go over, and that McLeod will not be tried, as
had been counted upon.
This is to be regretted, both as a matter of
justice to the prisoner, who, if innocent, as his
friends contend, ought not to be held in con
finement, and to the public interests and feel
ing, which cannot be particularly benefit ted
by the delay. It. is not to be disguised that the
subject is one of irritation between the two
governments; and there are few who do not.
desire to see it disposed of as early as possible.
We are told that the Chief j ustice has in
timated that he cannot hold a special oyer and
terminer until after the May term of the Su
perior Court. But we hope that a question so
urgent as this, may be brought to a decision
at the earliest practicable day.—Albany Argus.
Advertising.—ls you wish to accomplish
any purpose you must advertise. There is
nothing like advertising. Dry Goods and Gro
ceries are sold by means of advertising; so
are pills, and a thousand other “ life-preserv
ing” antidotes. But the utility of advertising
does not stop here. Wives, and many other
little household necessaries, are obtained
through the same medium. We will give an
example, just remarking that in order to be
successful, it is neccsssrv to advertise in the
Hartford [Columbus!] ‘Times, that most exten
sive ot all vehicles for the dissemination of in
formation. A short time since, a man in Mas
sachusetts, advertised for a wife; the notice
was published in the Times, and the result
may be seen in the following letter, which the
man received immediately after the paper con
taining it was issued:
East Hartford, Feb. 27ih, 1841.
Sir—having just now seen in the Times
Paper of Hartford an advertisement reading as
Follows, Wile Wanted &c. Sir I Possess
All the qualifications that are specifido in the
Advertisement I have just entered my 19th
year I have no property Except Pursonal
Which is clear from Incumbrance An excel
lent Husband is what I should Like And
Should endeavor to make An Excellent Wife
you can find me in Eashartford 2 miles North
of the Post Office By Calling On B. C.
my father
Or F C my name
Y’ours with Es-eme
From the New-Hampshire Patriot.
THE EXTRA SESSION.
The proclamation of the President, calling
an Extra Sessioid|iiCongress on the last Mon
day of May next, tffll belfound in this paper.—
We have frequently stated our belief to be
that an extra session would be called; not
fiat the interests of the country required it,
but because a few unprincipled, headlong and
daring schemers in the trade of politics, con
ceived that delay would be fatal to their de
signs. They tremaled lest the victory, most
disgraceful to the American people, v hich
they won, or which, by some strange, unac
countable freak in the moral world, or dispen
sation of politics, fell upon them, last Novem
ber, might not be half secured ; and lest, its ex
pected advantages might be lost, this session
is called to make tilings fast—to fasten an o
dious, intolerable yoke upon this nation—to
pave the way for an ambitious, reckless and
pefligate man to the Presidency. All other rea
sons which may be assigned are mere pretence.
There is no truth in them. It is however, a
fitting begining for such an Administration of
the General Government as we now have.—
Harrison was elected by pretences, by shows
by disguises, and the absence of truth. His
Administration is erected upon pretence, ne
gation, and racuity.
W e are tdd in the proclamation that ‘sundry
important and weighty matters, principally
growing ou! of the condition of the revenue
and finances,’ render it necessary to call
an extra session. There is to be sure, noth
ing very tangible in this, considering the du
plicity of the writer and his associates and the
signer; but we suppose it is meant to convey
an impression that the Government is or will
be embarrassed for the want of money. That
this is without foundation, and destitute of the
color of plausibility a few facts will most effec
tually demonstrate. The receipts of the
Treasury for 1841 are estimated by Mr.
Woodbury, in bis last annual report, at $24,-
723,473, and the President is authorised to is
sue $5,000,000 of Treasury Notes in addition,
making $29,723,473. The expenditures for
1811 are estimated, in the annual report of
the Secretary of the Treasury, at $23,899,200,
including the public debt and redemption of
Treasury Notes, which would leave about
$1,000,000 balance in the Treasury at the
end of the year. The Democrats succeeded
at the last session of Congress in keeping the
appropriations w.thin the estimates. The es
timates for ordinary purposes amounted to
$19,250 ,000, but the appropriations made by
Congress for ordinary purposes amouuted to
only $17,943,573, as admitted by the Intelli
gencer—sl,3o6,427 less than the estimates,
which is so much gained to the Treasury.—
The amount of appropriations $17,943,573,
deducted from the receipts, $29,723,473,
(which includes $5,000,000 of Treasury
Notes under act of 1841,) leaves $11,779,900
to be applied to the redemption of Treasury
Notes and the payment of the funded debt.—
For the latter purpose only $149,200 will be
required, and the whole amount of Treasury
No es to bo redeemed cannot exceed, if ail
have been and be issued that the laws of
Congress authorise, $9,500,000; and to the
above must be added, perhaps, $300,000 for
charges rendered permanent by the laws of
Congress. The balance, about $1,849,000,
although it might not, according to federal no
tions he thought “a suitable average balance ,”
would do very well for a democratic adminis
tion. The probability is, that nearly half of
the Treasury Notes will be outstanding at the
end of the year, and, if, so, over $5,000,000,
or a sum more “akin” to a suitable average
balance will remain in the Treasury at the
close of the year]
The new administration commenced with
$5,000,000, in Treasury Notes—one million
of others means on hand and another million
of pensions, payable in March was anticipa
ted aud paid by the last administration. We
believe that no Democratic Administration,
since the distribution of the surplus, ever be
gan the year with such ample means ; but a
lederal Administration cannot go along with
out more for barely nine months !
There is no necessity for this call of an ex
tra session, growing out of the state of the fi
nances. Harrison said at Richmond, before
his inauguation, that it had been his opinion
for months that there must be an extra ses
sion. He then knew nothing about the con
dition of the Treasury. This shows that the
called session was predetermined upon with
out reference to the wants of the Government
and the country. The federal leader, Mr.
Wise, stated in the House in the debate on
the Treasury Note bill, after his amendment
was adopted, that ample provisioiflfcvas made
for the Harrison Administration. The called
session was fixed and resolved upgji by Clay
as soon as it was made certain tlfat Darrison
was elected. It is called to establish a Bank
—to raise the Tariff—-to distribute the.proceeds
of the public lands, and, as far as this goes, to
assume the State Debts —and to do other like
outrageous and unconstitutional acts.
Harrison says in his Inaugural that the
President constitutes no part of the law-mak
ing power, which he also said in his Dayton
speech, and ho seems to think that the tra
iners of the Constitution did wrong in enjoin
ing upon the President the duty ot sugges
ting and recommending to Congress such
measures as the interests of the country may
require. When Congress assembles, we sup
pose that he will recommend no measures,
propose no laws, and refuse to explain the rea
sons why Congress was called together. He
is no part of the law-making power!
But we are vastly mistaken, it the country
does not hold th? presen* administration to a
strict account, and demand good and sufficient
reasons, and a full justification, for loading the
people with additional and unnecessary bur
dens and expenses. The charges of a session
o‘ Congress amount to no slight sum; and
this called session will probably add a million
of dollars to the expenditures ot the Govern
ment this year.
Another proof of the consistency of
the Hard Cider President. —Descanting
on the monarchical tendency ol our Govern
ment, the Inaugural says:
“ There was wanting no other addition to
the powers of our Chief Magistrate, to stamp
a monarchical character on our Government,
but the control of the public finances- And to
me it appears strange, indeed, that any one
should doubt that the entire control which the
President possesses over the officers who have
the custody of the public money, by the power of
removal, with or without cause, does, for all
mischievous purposes at. least, virtually sub
ject the treasure also to his disposal, i lie
first Roman Emperor, in his attempt to seize
die sacred treasure, silenced the opposition ot
the officer to whose charge it had been com
mitted, bv a significant allusion to his sword.
By a selection of political instruments for the
care of the public money a reference to their
commissions by the President, would be quite
as cfi’ectual an argument as that oi Caesar to
the Roman Knight.”
Stephen Allen, the Receiver General at
New Turk, was one of u lhe officers who have
the custody of the public money ’ —the first ever
appointed to the trust—a man who has so en
tirely” the confidence of all parties, that even
Gov Seward appointed him, although a politi
cal opponent, to act as commissioners to exe
cute a most delicate duty” in the city” ol New
Y'ork. And yet this upright, sternly incorrup
tible Receiver General, is turned out as if it
were simply to make an exemplification of the
utter hypocrisy of the sentiments so ostenta
tiously paraded in the Inaugural against
the monarclnal tendency of the Executive
power, when exerted in the removal of officers
who have the custody of the public money.—
We have tiie case of Csesar and the Roman
Knight exemplified in the first month of the
new Federal dynasty.—Globe.
despotism.
We once had an era in this country, under
the Government of the elder Adams, which
the Democrats significantly termed “the reign
oi terror.” Why! Because a law was put
in force restraining the liberty of speech and
ot the press. If that was a “reign of terror,”
the present administration commences very
fairly for a “reign ol despotism.” If that ac
quired its appellation for an act of tyranny un
der the sanction of law, how much more de
serving the present when acting in defiance
ot law! Are we mistaken in our position!
Let us see. Under a joint resolution of Con
gress it has been the practice for the last twen
ty years, for each Senate previous to its ad
journment to elect a printer for the succeeding
Senate. That resolution required the printer
elect to give a bond for the faithful perform
ance of the work, under a heavy penalty, thus
entering into a sacred contract, the United
States being one party, and the printer the
other. All this has been done in the case of
Blair & Rives. The last Senate duly elected
them printers for the next Senate, and they
gave the requisite bond for the discharge of
their duties. Well, we should suppose then,
after that, every thing was fairly bound up in
honor and in law, as much so as if I had bouo-ht
your land and you had given me bond for titles.
But what do we see! No sooner were the
new Senators sworn in on the 4th of March
than Mr. Mangun offered the following reso
lution, to wit:
“ Resolved, That Blair & Rives be dismissed
as Printers to the Senate for the Twenty
seventh Congress.”
This high-handed resolution was passed, the
very first among the acts of the new Senate,
and Blair & Rives accordingly dismissed.—
No exception was taken to the election, none
to the bond ; the face of the resolution admits
that Blair & Rives were the printers of the
Senate, and yet, without a charge against them,
without the slightest plea, the Senate resolved
that they bo dismissed ami their bond cancelled.
Why, the sedition law was a trifle to this na
ked, lawless act of tyranny. Mehemet Ali
has more respect for his obligations. And, if
the Senate can thus cancel a bond at their will
with Messrs. Blair &l Rives, why may it not in
future time be pleaded as a precedent to can
cel any obligations of the Government!
This is in the Senate. Let us see what
Gen. Harrison is doing in the public offices.
The Spy at Washington, wiio is the corres
pondent of the New York Courier & Enquirer,
a Whig journal, says, that “all payments by
the Treasury have been stopped, lor the pre
sent, by an order from the President.” This
information is confirmed by the Globe. What
do you think of that, Master Brooks ! Gen.
Jackson was censured for meddling with the
currency at all, when in the hands of the Sec
retary of the Treasury, but Gen. Harrison
thinks nothing of locking all up and putting
the key in his pocket. The financial system
of the new administration, if it does not com
prehend a sub-treasury, certainly embraces a
sub-treasurer. Below will be found one or
two other cases. Are the people prepared for
all this ? If such stariling movements be re
sorted to at the commencement of the new
administration, what are we to expect after
they become hackneyed in the ways of tyran
ny ! —Georgia Jeffersonian.
Murder’s “ Miraculous Organ.”—
“Murder,” says Shakspeare, “though it hath
no tongue, yet speaks with most miraculous
organ.” Among the numerous accounts of
homicides which have made so prominent a
feature in the newspapers of the Union, in the
last twelve months, we call to mind scarcely
one, which it was intended by the perpetrator
to conceal, that it has not, by means oftentimes
the most trivial, been laid open to the eyes of
the world. A most striking instance was that
of the murder in New Jersey. Alter the deed
was done, and no human eye had seen it;
when the body of the victim was buried be
neath the floor, and even an explanation of its
anticipated decay prepared for, the perturbed
spirit of the murderer beheld in every man an
accuser, and in every eye a witness. Blood
had been spilled, and the damning dye “would
not out.” So he must needs purchase two
rabbits, and go round with them in his hand
to his acquaintances complaining that they
had bled upon his person, and on his floor, and
offering them for sale ; and in the “black and
dark night” he dared not go near his own
dwelling alone, but oftered artizans extrava
gant terms to sit up with him all night, for
“he could not sleep.” Conscience was in
this case the “miraculous organ” that ulti
mately plucked out the heart of his awful mys
tery. So too of a recent murder in Virginia.
It occured on a Friday night ; all day on Sat
urday the body remained ; and the wretched
prisoner says lie endured all the agonies of hell
during that day. lie drank deep, to keep
down the feelings that agitated his bosom.—
He dared not flee, for fear of the pursuer; ho
was afraid to look his fellow men in the face,
lest his guilt should stand burned in charac
ters of tire upon his forehead. At night be
essayed to remove the body, but Jjie appre
hension that he was watched, prevented him :
so moving a few things out of his house, he
set it on lire, thinking thus to destroy all evi
dence of the murder. But after the last rafter
had .fallen in, and the dying embers had begun
to pale, there, in the midst of the fire, lay un
burned the headless trunk of his victim ! He
next bethought him of conveying away the
body; but alter he had raked it from the ash
es, it was so hot : hat he was compelled to leave
it to cool, before he could remove it. The
day was dawning, and his work was not yet
accomplished ! He then dragged the corpse
up beside a rail fence, where it lay about 20
steps from the road all day, a frighful wreck
of mortality; the arms burned off, the legs
calcined to a cinder, and only a small portion
of the head clinging to the trunk ! “At night
he took the body and buried it in a potatoe
hole; but still the fear that it would be discov
ered, tormented him sore, and he again took it
up and carried it in his arms about two miles
through the dark old forest, and buried it in a 1
hollow tree. In the course of Monday, he
again went to the spot where the body was in
terred, terrified lest the dogs, in ranging the
wood, should discover his crime. But mere
was upon him an Eye from whose glance he
could not hide ; and Ins own conscience haunt
ed him with its terrible thunderings!”—Knick
erbocker.
The trial of George W. Lore, for the mur
der of Henry Blake, (mentioned in our paper
| of the 18th inst,) was commenced on Tnuri>
| day last at Clayton and occupied the balance
of the week. We understand the trial was a
very laborious and fatiguing one, and managed
with great ability and ingenuity on both sides.
The testimony and argument of the counsei
were submitted to the jury about three o’clock
P. M. on Saturday, and after receiving the
charge of his Honor Judge Booth, they retired
and returned a few minutes before l i P. M.
without being able to agree upon a verdict—
consequently the whole matter will have to be
examined into again at the next Circuit Court
for this county, in September next.
The Judge admitted the prisoner to bail in
a bond of SIO,OOO, which was procured on
Monday last, and he is now at liberty. Shield.
The Oseo: a. —This valuable river steamer,
through the vigilant attention of Cap*. Cliris
tain, her skilful commander, was floated on
Sabbath last, near Martin’s terry and brought
to the harbor, on Monday night. Ihe neces
sary repairs are being done and in a tew da\s
the” boat will be again on ‘he river.—W inyah
Observer, 31st ult.
An old man as he walks looks down and
thinks of the past; a young man looks for
ward an I thinks ol the lulure; a child looks
i every where and liiinks ol nothing.
Why is a broken rope like an dJ maid !
Became it wants to be spliced.
Extract of a letter from “Washington.
“I cannot attempt to give you an account
of the ludicrous on and its of the “White House’
ceremonies. Throngs are pouring in constant
ly and preferring their applications for office
personally, butall we learn is that the old Gen
eral will do things in his own way. One
thing I think very certain, that lie is destined
to be the last of the dynasty of “Military Chief
tains ” Mr. gave me an amusing ac
count of the official visit of the diplomatic |
corps ; and I heard the same through another of ;
them. Mr. Webster apprised them of the i
time when they would be presented to the ‘
President; and in due form they assembled at
the prescribed hour. After his introduction
of them he hastened to a door, through which
the peeping eyes of ladies had been discover
ed bv the attaches , and brought forward the
ladies of the family, and Mr. Curtis following
(in a frock coat), with the lady of the Secreta
ry of State on one arm and on the other,
attended by a retinue of other ladies, “maids of
honor,” as the foreigners designate them:
presuming, they say, that the Secretary and
his lady were imitating the ceremonies of
Queen Victoria’s court, which they so lately
visited. This unlooked for presentation of la
dies on an official occasion—so out of charac
ter with the usual practice and proprierty, has
led to not a little laughter among the Diplom
atiques.’
Henry Clay—Recklessness of the
W Hies. —The disgraceful conduct of Mr. Clay
in the Senate, and the attitude in which he
stands before the country, affords a lesson
that will furnish a climax to the hard cider de
baucheries of the “Whig” party. For the
purpose of extorting a written challenge from
Mr King, he applied language to that gentle
men disgraceful to the American Senate. In
deed, from the time he came on to that floor,
Mr. Clay has made it the arena cf the dema
gogue and the blackguard. We regret that
Mr. King should have noticed him at all, or
been provoked or driven into a challenge, al
though Mr. Clay is virtually the challenger,
having applied language to a man living in a
duelling State which he knew must have re
sulted as it did.
Mr. Clay and others have long made it a
point to assail &. defame individuals who could
have no opportunity to reply in the Senate.—
In the present case there was an overflowing
of gaul towards his old friend, associate, sup
porter and confident, Mr. Blair, of the Globe.
At a former period Mr. Blair and Mr. Clay were
intimate personal friends. When Clay voted
for Adams in 1823, he wrote to Blair, then
living in Frankfort, Kentucky, explaining his
reasons, and trying to get Blair's influence to
reconcile the Kentuckians to his vote. Blair
was then President of the Commonwealh’s
Bank, in Kentucky, and held one of the most
important offices in that Stale—was of the
most distinguished families in Kentucky; anear
relative to the late Chief Justice Marshall—
and in close intimacy with Clay. But having
disapproved of Clay’s course at that period,
the latter gentlemen has poured out his denun
ciations unceasingly since.
There is no man who knows the two, that
will deny that Mr. Blair is in moral worth the
equal of Henry Clay. Mr. King but uttered
an admitted truth when he made the declara
tion for which Mr. Clay insulted him.—Hart
ford Times.
Statistics of the London Post Office.
—We gather the fol owing from a report re
cently made to our Government by Mr. Plitt,
who was sent out sometime ago to Europe, by
the direction of Mr. Van Ruren, for the pur
pose of collecting information relative to the
post office and mail arrangement of the Old
World.
The average number of letters received
| daily, for delivery in the London post office, is
75,350.
The average number of newspapers receiv
ed daily, for delivery in the London post office,
| is 11,400.
The average number of letters sent, daily
j posted in London, is 80,370.
j The average number of letters daily distrib
! uted and forwarded, is 22,310.
j The average number of newspapers daily
posted in London, is 83,510.
The average number of newspapers daily
1 distributed and forwarded, is 3,000.
In the London district post, the average
number of letters received and delivered daily,
is 68,000 ; number of newspapers, 3,500.
Besides the letter carriers that are also at
tached to the General Post, ninety five bell
men, who call at every house in their walk for
letters to go by the evening despatch. They
carry a locked bag, with an aperture large
enough to drop in a letter, which can only be
opened at the post office. Any persons having
letters to go by the mail may drop them into
the bag himself, pay the bellman his fee or
penny for each letter, and then may rest as
sured that they will be despatched by the mail
of the same evening.
The number of post towns in the United
Kingdom is 3938; the number of miles upon j
which the mail in the United Kingdom is an- j
nually carried by mail coaches, horse, and foot
posts, is 7,404,250; by railways, 936, 570.
The annual cost of which, for the former, is
.£302,959; for the railways, is £19,940.
Each mail is accompanied with a guard,
armed with a blunderbuss and pistols. The
business bas increased imrnensly, since the in
troduction of penny post system.
A Chapter on Square Bales. —We wish
our planting friends could fully appreciate the
advantage of packing their Cotton in this shape
rather than in the round bales, so generally the
custom in this State. Their Cotton would al
ways be more saleable at least, and generally
command a better price. For i ound bales, the
rate of freight also is higher than for square,
which is a disadvantage, while the expense of
loading a cargo of the former is much greater.
The Cotton goes to market in better order in
square than in round bales, and the loss in
weight is less. Then again in most continen
tal markets round bales are unsaleable alto
gether and we consequently have fewer mar
kets for our Cotton than our neighbor Charles
ton, and tlio Gulf pnrtu For nil these consid
erations, we take the liberty to urge upon
planters to send in their Cotton in square bales.
Their press may cost them something more at
the outset, but they will find it cheaper in the
end, and they will confer a benefit on them
selves, as well as on all concerned. The Rail
Roads, Steamboats and Ships will carry square
bales, cheaper and better, and there will be
less complaint from all quarters than at pres
ent.—Savanah Republican
Indian Intelligence.— We understand
that Wild GW(Chacochee)has gone in at Tam
pa Bay, and expressed his desire to emigrate.
He will be among the chiefs who are to pocket
SSOOO, for past services.
Extract of a letter received by a gentleman
m this city, from his friend in the country:
“It is rumoured here, that Capt. Iver has re
turned with his command to Pilatka, having
captured, during his excursion, twenty-one
Indians (men women and children) and four
negroes. The latter said to belong to Col.
11umphrevs. They were all left at Fort King
in charge of Captain Casey.”
‘I he St. Louis Pennant, says, in speaking of
Brandeth’s pills : —“They have been used in
this section for the purpose of purifying steam
boat boilers, and it is said with complete suc
cess. W onder how large a dose of them it
would take to purify the times —reduce the
rates of interest, make money easier —set the
banks to discounting/ree/;/—and rim the Mis
sissippi clear!”
A young gentlemen on the eve of marriage
said he was certain that two persons could
live more economically than one. An acquain
tance asked him if two persons could live more
cheaply than one, how much might twelve live
for!
W TIIE IRISHMAN AND THE INDIAN.
We extract the following from an article in
the St. Augustine News :
“ Asa relief from our weekly task of record
ing the blunders of what we have long been,
and we fear shall continue to be, the victims,
we feel pleasure in dwelling on events of a
more agreeable character. This contest has
beeu barren of incidents of personal daring
and courage, which reflects high credit on the
actors. The pursuit and destruction of Cha
kika in the Everglades, by private Hall of the
2d Dragoons, to which we before alluded,
ought not to be forgotten. But even this a
chievment is surpassed by a deed of daring
performed by an Irish Sergeant in the 2d Ar
tillerv, at the late capture of the Indians under
Maj. Childs at the Howlover. We received
the particulars Jrom an authentic source.—
When the Indians were surprised in their
fishing operations by the troops, those who
escaped immediate capture or death, made oft
in various directions in their boats. Most ot
them were taken in the pursuit of the troops.
One yawl boat containii g three warriors, lour
squaws, and two children, were chased by Lt.
Taylor, two privates, and the Sergeant.—
When they had got within rifle shot of the In
dians, their boat got aground. ‘They all jumped
out to pull the boat into deep water, and in
doing so, got so suddenly beyond their depth,
that-they were completely immersed—arms
and ail! The Sergeant was the only one who
escaped immersion. The Indians now fired
upon them from their boat, but without eft’ect.
The Sergeant returned it, and one ot the war
riors was seen to fall back in the boat. He
then threw down his rifle, and, armed with a
Bowie Knife, he started alone in pursuit of the
Indian boat! lie ran, and swam, and waded,
as circumstances demanded, till he got his
hands on the enemy’s boat A desperate
struggle now ensued between the Indian and
the Irishman. They were both powerful men,
and were not interrupted in their duel, for one
oi’ the other two warriors jumped out of the
boat and made his escape as soon as the Ser
geant approached, and the other was too badly
wounded to light. The squaws remained pas
sive spectators of the battle. It was short and
decisive. The Indian had no weapon but his
rifle, and that was no use at short quarters.—
II is object at first was to beat out his adver
saries brains, but finding that impracticable,
his next aim was to prevent the enemy from
boarding him, in which he succeeded for a
short time. But as soon as the white man got
a footing in the boat, his Bowie Knife soon
ended the struggle. It passed three times in
rapid succession into the breast of the savage.
The brave Sergeant having now scalped the
Indian, called out to the officer at the top of
his voice— “Liftinant, will I scalp the rist of
thim!” meaning the warrior and the squaws.
On receiving a negative answer, he paddled
up to his admiring comrades with his prize.
Persecution of Democracy. —The gree t
persecution has began, and edicts issue and
inquisitors are appointed, to destroy Democ
racy. New ofi'ences are created by Websteriun
receipts; new officers are appointed by IVeb
sterian mandates; domiciliary visits are institu
ted by Websterian authority; legions of spies,
informers, table-bearers, eaves-droppers, are
spoke into exis'ence in order to report to parti
san Secretaries whatever is nescessary to jus
tify the persecution of a Democrat. The work
commenced in the Senate with the persecu
tion of the Public Printer; it has been follow
ed up proinply with organizing a system of
persecution which has no parallel in modern
times. We say modern ; for we wish to ex
cept tiie times of Tiberius CYesae, when
the imperial palace was one vast whispering
gallery, in which nothing was heard (in the
intervals of luxurious indulgent.a) but the
stealthy tread of the informer, and the deadly
whisper of his breath. In the time ot Ro
bespierre, the denunciations were public.—
Every denounced citizen had at least an open
accuser. But here, in our country, under the
restored reign of Federalism, with Daniel
Webster to issue Edicts, and to appoint In
quisitors and Executioners all publicity is
at an end. Secrecy is the soul of the new
persecution ; and the first notice that a Dem
ocrat lias, that he is in danger, is his sentence
of condemnation.
What a time we live in ? Daniel Web
ster invested with supreme power to perse
cute Democracy!—Giobe.
We regret to learn that President Harrison
still continues in a very precarious situation.
His disease is billious pleurisy. A consulta
tion of t lie attending physicians, Doctors May,
Worthington, Hall, and Miller, was held at
the President’s House this afternoon at 2
o’clock.
Since writing the above, we have been in
formed by one of his physicians that the Pres
ident is somewhat better.—Globe.
Removals and Appointments. —The guil
lotine is still at work at Washington—and
the extracts from the National Intelligencer
enlarge our Black List. Read, too, what the
Globe says of Allen, Gardner, and Morgan—■
the removees. They tell a tale which ought
to sink deep into the heart of every freeman
Richmond Enquirer.
A Second Freshet. —The rain of last Sat
urday night and Sunday, raised the water
courses so high as almost to put a stop to trav
eling for a day or two. Asa consequence
we have had several more failures of mails.
—Enquirer.
Death of a United States Marshal.—
The. Albany Daily announces the death of
Nathaniel Garrow, Marshal of the Northern
District, New York.
A Foreign Call. —The Churchman states
that the lit. Rev. Bishop Duane tias been in
vited to preach the consecration sermon at
the opening of the Kev. Dr. Hook’s church,
in Leeds, Eng., ami that lie will sail lienee
for that purpose in July.
“It was the remark of a Roman Consul, in
an early period of that celebrated republic,”
that rich cheese was generally lull of mag
gots ! lb.
Despatch. —A case has recently been
brought to an end in the Court of Chancery of
this state, after a litigation of twentyone yearsl
Poughkeepsie Telegraph.
Man. —A creature brought into existence
for the purpose of getting property.
Pump — A machine set up in the streets lor
the accommodation of milkmen.
One day after marriage —The begin
ning of sorrows.
Christian Urbanity. —Shaking hands
with your antagonist before blowing his brains
out.
Street Inspectors.— Persons whose duty
it is to practice retirement, and keep out of
the streets. —Atlas.
Gen. Harrison —during his late visit to
Richmond, lound out the place where ne once
was a medical student. Upon entering what
is now a dram-shop, much to the surprise of
his friends and the keeper of the establish
ment, he exclaimed, “Here fifty years ago,
(suiting the action to the word) I worked the
p PS (| e arid mortar in compounding medicine.”
The General is a remarkable man, and the
most remarkable fact in his history is, that he
should have been chosen President of the Uni
ted Stales of America. —Boston Post.
The whig gentleman who left a bottle o
whig hard cider at our house, is invited to cal
and drink a tumbler full of it; we will provide
crackers and cheese. —lb.
Alderman. —A moving sepulchre in which
are deposited, dead turkies, chickens, pigs,
and turtle fat.