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COLUMBUS, MAY 6, 1941.
From the Enquirer, of yesterday.
COTTON. Bales
Receipts, week ending April 17 • 37
Received previously - 34 971
Total receipts ..... 35,341
Total shipments .... - 32, c -3
Stock on hand - - - * - 2.&13
Received to April 4, 1840 - - * 4 ‘ ‘
Price 10 to K)J cents.
The Editor Is still abeentT but will return
in a day or two, when our readers may expect
amendments for the jrast.
We call attention to the notice given by the
Mayor, in accordance with a resolution ot the
City Council, setting aside Friday, the 14th
inst., as a day of Fasting and Prayer. The
occasion is a solemn one, and should not be
neglected by the Christian or the Patriot —
The notice will be found among the proceed
ings of the City Council.
The Democratic Young Men’s Convention
assembled in Milledgeville on Mondy last.—
We have not yet heard any thing of their
deliberations, but have no doubt that they are
all that the Democracy could wish.
The annual celebration of the Female Be
nevolent Society of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, will be held on the 13th of May, at
the Lyceum Hall. At which time an address
by Mr. F* Nisbet, answering to the occa
sion, will be delivered. It will, perhaps, be
requisite, that all may come prepared for the
festivities of the evening, to mention an im
portant requisition, which is, that admittance
money will be demanded at the door, when
each and all will, without further restriction,
be admitted to partake of a sumptuous colla
tion, and enjoy as they list, the abundant plea
sures of the occasion.—Argus of yesterday.
VIRGINIA ELECTIONS.
CONGRESSIONAL RETURNS.
Linn Banks, Dem., is.elected in the Spot
sylvania District, over Wm. Smith, also Dem
ocrat
John M. Botts, re-elected in the Richmond
District.
Thomas W. Gilmer, Whig, elected in the
Albemarle District over Jas. Garland, Cons
Richard W. Barton, Whig, elected in the
Frederick District, over Wm. Lucas, Deni.,
the late representative.
Cuthbert Powell, Whig, elected in the Lou
don District, to succeed W. M. McCarty, Whig,
declined.
John Taliaferro, Whig, elected in the North
ern Neck District.
Francis Mallory, Whig, re-elected in the
Norfolk District without opposition.
Henry A. Wise, Whig, re-elected.
William L. Goggin, Whig.
A. A. H. Stuart, Whig, elected to succeed
a Democrat.
G. W. Summers, Whig, re-elected.
R. M. T. Hunter, Independent, re-elected.
Lewis Steenrod, Dem., ro-olected without
regular opposition.
John W. Jones, Dem., re-elected.
George B. Cary, Dem.
W. O. Goode,
Walter Coles, “
•E. W. Hubbard,
J. L. Hays,
A Democrat is also elected from Shenan
doah District.
This makes, in all, a gain to the Whigs of
two members of Congress.
We copy the following from the Richmond
Enquirer, of the 27th ult.:
“The work goes bravely on.”
VIRGINIA ELECTIONS.
With a variety of difficulties to contend witli ;
a President elected in November last by an
immense majority of the Whigs; with the
sympathy produced by his early and melan
choly death ; with a Vice President from Vir
ginia to succeed him; with all those plausible
appeals that have been urged upon us to give
him the support of his own State ; with a par
ty flushed with victory, and armed with the
whole patronage of power—we have gone in
to the late contest under every disadvantage.
But we have trusted to our own good cause;
to the devotion of Virginia for her principles ;
to the indomitable energies of the Republican
party. Our friends in distant States feared,
that we could not maintain the ground, which
we had won in November last. But we have
dene more. We have gained stronghold upon
stronghold from the Enemy ; and we are stron-
Eer than we were at the last session of the
egislature. We started too under this dis
advantage, that we had some leeway to make
up. We were in a minority of Borlo in the
last Legislature ; but as far as we have already
heard, we have extinguished that majority;—
and if the counties yet to hear from should
vote as they did last Spring, we have carried a
majority on joint vote. It is too early, howev
er, to calculate with certainty on the final re
sult, as a variety of returns have yet to come
iii.
So far as we have heard, we have gained
Petersburg 1, Powhattan 1, Caroline 1, Buck
ingham 2, Prince Edward 1, 1 in Frederick,
Nelson I—B.
We have lost Fairfax 1, and Southampton
1, and Stafford 1. (Mr. Richard L. C. Mon
cure, or Dr. Fitzhugh, could have been easily
elected in Stoflbrd ; but Mr. Hedgman, though
highly respected and respectable, is a gente
ma i of retired life, and did not turn out among
the People.)
Nett Gain so far s—equivalent to 10 votes
in the House.
The defects of the Constitution have again
operated upon us. That corrupting system of
double and treble voting, which dispensing
with residence as a qualification of the right of
suffrage, allows a man to vote in as many coun
ties as he pleases to purchase a small freehold
worth 25 dollars, has enabled the towns to
dictate Delegates to the counties. Richmond
has elected the Delegate of Ilanover—Fred
ericksburg has controlled Stafford—and Alex-j
andria has elected the Delegate in Fairfax.—;
Take the vote in Ilanover for example ;
At the Courthouse, White (Dem.) had a !
majority of 5
At Negrofoot, a majority of 7
12
At Cold Harbor, Thompson’s majority 22
Thompson re-elected by a majority ot 10
Cold llarbor is the Precinct where the
Richmond voters poll—and they have given
more than 10 nett majority against us. Syd
nor’s Tract alone has made 25 or 27 new
votes—a small tract of land which has been
carved up into little Whig freeholds, some
what like the night-caps submitted to Sanco
Panza’s inspection.
An old man as he walks looks down and
thinks of the past: a young man looks forward
and thinks of the future; a child looks every
where and thinks of nothing.—Lacon.
the races.
Tiie Spring Racesover the IV cstem Course
came off’ last week. Ihe weather, though
veiv windy for a few days, was generally fine’
and the track in good order. The following
is the result of each day’s race :
Monday —Mile Heats—Purse S3OO.
Col. Robertson’s b h Duke 1 1
T. C. Grimes’ c h Corydcm 4 2
Col. Campbell’s c f Modern Honesty 2 3
Stapler & Smith’s b c Giinbiet 3 dist.
Tuesday, —Sweepstake 3 years old—Two
Mile Heats—Purse S3OO.
T. B. Howard’s b f Martha Raney 1 1
Col. Ciowail’s c f Enuna Crowell 2 2
Col. Campbell’s c f Letty Floyd 33
Time. 3 51—3 51.
Wednesday —Two Mile Heats—Purse S3OO
Col. Crowuli’s gc Nat Bradford 1 1
Thomas C. Grimes’ b h Dr. Hossack 2 2
Col. Campbell’s c f Letty Floyd drawn.
Time, 3 51—3 53.
Thursday— Three Mile Heats—Purse S4OO
G. B. Roberson’s b h Duke 1 1
T. C. Grimes’ c h Corydon 2 2
Col. VV. S. Campbell’s c f Letty Floyd (list.
Stapler & Smith’s c ni Miss Andrew dist.
Time 5 57—6 m.
Friday —Four Mile Heats—Purse S6OO.
A. Iversoi’s c h Count Zaidevar 1 1
Kuberlson & Harrison’s b h Henry Crowell 2 2
Time, 8 U 2—7 53.
Saturday —Mile Heats, best three in five—
Purse $250.
Col. T. B. Howard’s b f Martha Rainey 111
T. C. Grime’s b h Dr. Hossack 2 2 2
From the New Hampshire Patriot.
BELA BADGER’S APPOINTMENT.
The appointment of such an infamous tool
of frauds and corruption as Bela Badger to be
Naval office at Philadelphia Has equally exci
ted the wonder and disgust of all honest men
in every quarter. The correspondent ot the
Journal ol Commerce, writing from Philadel
phia, untler the date of April 14, 1841, says:
“l’fieie is now much dissatisfaction that Ty
son did not getthe Coileclorsliip, and, as much,
or more, that Badger got any thing.”
The New York Post calls him “one of the
veriest party hacks in the country, one of the
least scrupulous of his class, notorious even to
iniamy, the Philadelphia associate of Glent
vvotfr in the election frauds of 1838 and 1839.”
He is the the same creature, who said to Sie
venson, Looney was a good fellow and could
be depended upon ; that lie (Looney) had often
furnished him ( Badger ) with men ’ —that
“Benjamin Bowue and Mitchell Graham might
be registered in every ward aud then swear
through if necessary Badger is the practi
cal adept m crime, who procured and sent to
New York City fraudulently lo vote the fed
eral ticket a gang, composed as he said “0/
the most daring , desperate fellows in the State ,
who could iclnp their weight in wild cats, and
if properly managed would vote in every ward
in the city .” He is tire same who wrote to
Glentworth, signing his name “George W.
lihmwn.” —My partners are not icilliug to
serve you oil any better terms than what th'y
charged you before , and the same credit .”
Who were his “partners?” — Glentworth,
Swint, Looney, Bowne, Graham,Tyson, Gove
and such worthies—federalism’s hope. The
facts of his connection with, and that he was
one of the main instruments in carrying on the
New York election frauds, are given at length
in Stevenson’s affidavit, published in the Pa
triot, October 31, 1841. It should be recollec
ted that a federal Grand Jury of New York
city, has voluntarily certified to the world that
the character of Stevenson for truth and ve
racity is unimpeachable. In the Naylor case
a witness tenth]t><l that Badger offered him
S2OO, if he ‘■‘■would vote the whig ticket and e
lectioneer it.”
And this is one of the first men, whom Vice
President Tyler appoints to offices of trustj
It has been well asked if Badger was worthy j
of office, for what did Mitchell abscond ? He
had nothing to leer from our present 1 tilers in
the General Government, but the bestmvment
upon him of some responsible office ! It is ini- j
possible that Mr. Tyler was ignorant of Bad
ger’s character, and he cannot p'ead ignorance
as an excuse. How can he justify to the A
merican people the countenance and patron
age, which he has in this instance, perhaps un
advisedly, extended to crime of the blackest
dye? He must remember that he fills the
station of Chief Magistrate, not by the will of
the people, hut by the operation of the Con
stitution. He owes his present election to ac
cident; to a freak of fortune. It was not ex
pected at the time of the election, that John
Tyler would act as President nearly four years,
and of course no such expectation, or consid
eration, had any influence in ihe election.—
The weak and degenerate offspring of the en
ervated and Witless monarchs of the old world
succeed to the government hv the accidt nls
of their own birth , and the death of the reign
ing monarchs. John Tyler was not elected
by the American people to occupy the place
in which he now acts. He comes to it hv the
death of Gen. Harrison. And from the char
acter of one of his first appointments we should
infer that he holds himself to he as little bound
to regard the feelings and wishes of the peo
ple, as the Kings and Queens and Emperors
of the old world do. We hope, however, if
he does think that he is not lo he controlled hv
the people, because they did not elect him
President, that lie will nevertheless pay some
respect to justice, riirht and virtue in his ad
ministration of the office of President. If the
most responsible offices within his gift are to
he filled by such men as Curtis, Draper, Bad
ger, Blatcliford, Penrose, Ritner, the Looneys
and Swints.then neither fists nor thanksgivings
can save our Nation. With such men for ru
lers, the prayers of the righteous will only con
tribute to sink us to destruction.
From the New Hampshire Patriot.
DANIEL WEBSTER’S DEMOCRACY.
It is but a few yfears since that Daniel
Webster prided himself upon the consistency
and antiquity of his federalism. The “ Essex
Junto” counted it his chief title to their lavor
and to political distinction in Massachusetts.
The Boston aristocracy pronounced it one of
the noblest qualities, which entitled him to
the appellation of “ Godlike.” But strange
to say, this man now claims to be a democrat.
The old respectable and high feeling federal
party has become reduced, and it is now ne
cessary to seize hold of the name of democra
cy and prostitute it to hide and sustain fede
ral principles. Daniel Webster, the pupil,
teacher and practicer of federalism, in the
Patchogue speech, after making bare his arm,
proclaimed himself to be a democrat. Web
ster’s early speeches, his opposition to Madi
son and the last war, his votes in Congress,
and his .acts during hie whole life, stamp him
as a federalist and an aristocrat. Yet, with
these staring him ; p the face, known and no
torious to all, he still lays claim to the virtue
ot being a democrat. If his old or recent
speeches are quoted against him to show his
real political character, he denies that they
are correctly reported and denies that he ever
uttered sucn sentiments as are cited as his
practice, w hen he is unable by twisting and
miserable sophistry to explain away obnoxious
passages. Sweeping denial is resorted to in
such cases. This he and his friends have
done in relation to the views he expressed in
the Massachusetts Convention upon the ques
tion ot requiring a property qualification os
voters and the influence that property ough;
to have in government Although his speech
was published at the time and parts of it re
published in the N. A. Review and commen
ted on in the same year, and, no question
ot the truth and perfect correctness of the
speech made at that time and no denial by him,
yet it is now denied that he entertained or ex
pressed the material sentiments contained in
that speech. But we now happen to have be
fore us the July No. of the North American
Review for 1820. in which we find an article
written and furnished by Daniel Webster
himself. The article was written in reply to
remarks in the Quarterly Review for May,
1819. The sentiments, language and forms
of expression in the article, where property is
mainly considered, and precisely similar to
those of his reported speech in the Massachu
setts Convention, and establish its fide'i'y and
correctness beyond a doubt. We extract the
following passages as well to show this as to
exhibit specimens of Webster’s democracy.
Let any man, prejudiced as he may be, read
them and then say, if he can, that he believes
Webster did not say that it was the part of
political wisdom to found government on prop
erty.”
“ It is not less the language of reason than
of experience, that property should have influ
ence in the State, whenever such a state of
things exists, as that military fame is not su
preme. If the tendency of the laws and insti
tutions of society be such, as that property ac
cumulates infew-hands, areal aristocracy, in
effect, exists in the land. This not a merely
artificial, but a natural aristocracy : a concen
tration of political power and influence in few
hands, in consequence of large masses of prop
erty having accumulated in such hands.—
There is not a more dangerous experiment
than to place property in the hands of one
class, and political power in those of another.
Indeed such a state of things could not long
exist.”
“It will be disastrous, indeed, for this lat
ter country (Great Britian,) whenever a sepe
ration shall take place between the influence,
the indirect, but natural and salutary influence
of property, and political influence of property,
or political power. They would not, and as
we have already observed, in the absence of
direct military despotism, cannot be long sep.
erated. If one changes hands, so will the oth
er. If the property cannot retain the political
power, the political power will draw after it
the property. If orator Hunt and his fellow
laborers should, by any means, obtain more
political influence in the counties, towns and
boroughs of England, than the Marquis of
Buckingham, Lord Stafford, Lord Fitzwilliam,
and tne other noblemen and gentlemen of
great landed estates, these estates would in
evitably change hands. At least so it seems
to us; and therefore when Sir Francis Bur
dett, the Marquis of Tavistock and other indi
viduals of rank and fortune, propose to intro
duce into the government annual parliaments,
and universal suffrage, we can hardly forbear
inquiring whether they are ready to agree
that property should be as equally divided as
political power ; and if not, how they expect
to sever things, which to us appear to be inti
mately connected.”
“ Whenever the people are not subject to
military rule, the goveromei t must in a great
measure be under the guidance of that aggre
gate of indiiect but salutary influences, of
which property is an essential ingredient.”
SENATOR CUTHBERT.
The Republican may rest assured that
while we feel that Mr. Cuthbert needs no de
fence for his open and manly course in the
Senate in regard to the constitutional opin
ions of Mr. Webster, on a subject in which
the readers of the Southern press, such arti
cles, and Congressional debates, as will, bv
vindicating Mr. Cuthbert from the aspersions
cast upon him by presses which are inimical
to him, do him that justice which we would be
unwilling to withhold from one politically op
posed to us.
The controversy between Mr. Cuthbert
and Mr. Webster, grows out of the tortuous
curse of the Federal Premier on a subject on
which the people of Georgia desire no special
pleading or evasions.
The opinions of an officer so high in the
Government as Mr. Webster, cannot but ex
ercise a powerful influence, whether iorgood
or for evil, to the National Confederacy. One
of our principal objects in noticing the contro
versy is to prevent afaithlul Senator from be
ing condemned without a hearing. There are
others also.
Could we believe that a knowledge of the
course of our esteemed Democratic Senator
would redound to his discredit, we might, as
a personal friend, overlook his claims to be
sustained by a press whose political course,
we trust, will never be less manly than the
course of our honorable Senator.
But we believe that his conduct defies the
cavils of those who would from political feel
ing deny him every thing that makes manhood
honorable.
We thank Heaven, Mr. Cuthbert is to be
judged by constituents who never yet convic
ted without a hearing, and by jurors too, who
will require more than the ipse dixit of the
Republican to make them feel that he had
“ disgraced our State”—that he had exhibi
ted a “ want of manliness,” &e.
If the Republican was so anxious to draw
a veil over the scene, why did lie give vent to
expressions, which all Mr. Cuthberi’s acquain
tance, not to say his numerous friends, know,
are founded on party hostility to the Demo
cratic Senator.
Neither Mr. Webster, or any other officer
of the Government, is precluded from sat is
fying the Southern people on certain points.
Let him meet the questions put to him by Mr.
Cuthbert, and he will reap the reward. More
anon.-—Savannah Georgian.
Unequal partition of Punishment.—
Wo read in a New York paper that Oliver
Majors yvas sent to the city prison for thirty
days for stealing one boot; Cornelious Sulli
van to Blackwell’s Island for three months,
for stealing three Guernsey frocks; J e
Thompson lor sixty days for stealing one ham.
W e suppose that the first yvas barefooted, the
second bareback, and the third hungry. In
the same paper we read that the Newbury
port Bank, in Massachusetts had failed with
about one hundred thousand dollars of imme
diate liabilities, and about thirteen thousand of
immediate means, that its notes were offered
at a discount of fifty per cent, with no buyers ;
that one poor man, who had been saving mon
ey to pay his rent, had S3O of its notes, for
yvhich he could not obtain more than $8 ; that
another poor and old man had just been paid
$lO in its notes, which yvas his all: that ma
ny widows and orphans were holders of its
notes, on the very afternoon before its failure,
in sums of from $3 to sl2, to the amount of
S3OO. Here are the beauties of the promise
banking system ! Theft and robberies by
who'esale!
Now, if either of these poor men, or of these
hands, had stolen one boot or one ham, what
an outcry justice would have made, and how
promptly she would have sent them to prison!
But when a bank director, who employs many
hands whose daily labor is all their means of
daily bread, deliberately swindles them with
the notes of a bank which, as he well knows,
wiil explode in a few hours through his own
management, he is still allowed to strut thro’
society, followed by no curses, excepting from
the poor whom he has plundered, and greeted
with the adulation of all who found respecta
bility upon wealth.—Philadelphia Ledger.
According to the A Lie He du Nord, M.
WeschininkofF, of Sainl Petersburg, has dis
covered anew combustile matter, which he
calls Carbolein, giving a stronger heat and
occupying much less space and the best
coni. It will, it issaid, he of great advantage
n steam navigation,j having been used on
hoard theSirus on a passage between Cron
stadi and Copenhagen, and produced the All
owing result; In an hour only lour pounds
ind a half of Carhalein were consumed, the
paddle-wheels turning thirteen times in a min
ute. and giving the vessel a progress of seven
miles within the hour, being half a mile more
than she would have gone with a coal fire.
Fiom the Richmond Enquirer.
LET VIRGINIA SHEAR OUT!
The N. Y. Herald says, that “ Mr. Tyler |
himself is unwilling to act on any of the pro- j
jected measures of the Cabinet, until the State
of Virginia has spoken on the subject. ‘ I
must have Virginia with me before 1 can go
for a Bank.’ This, we are told, is the Presi
dent’s private opinion.”
If there be any truth in this assertion, then
it becomes more important than ever for \ ir
ginia to speak out. We publish a communi
cation below which breathes the true spirit.
We are for action, action, action, before
they fasten upon us their mischievous and ne
farious measures. Action every where —in
May and in June—or, it will be too late. If
we have carried the State at the Thursday's
polls, still let us act, and press on our victory
to its legitimate fruits. If we are beaten, still
let us act, and rouse up our friends, and try
to save the country and her Constitution.—
Let us put forth our creed, speak boldly, and
crowd the tables of Congress with our vigor
ous remonstrances. Let us tell Mr. John
Tyler, that it he goes for a United States
Bank, he will not “have Virginia with him.”
We again warn the Democracy of the State.
Trust not the Cabinet. Beware of the vague
generalities of the Acting President. Your
strong, clear, united voice, (the voice of every
State Riglrts man in Vrrgiia,) may have some
effect upon him. If you do not stay the tor
rent at Washington—if Virginia does not speak ;
trumpet-tonged into his ears, he will be swept j
off’ into the Federal cataract. Webster and
Clay, and the Federalists, and the Bank men ;
will have him to themselves; and a National j
Bank will be fastened around your necks and
the necks of your children,
Be warned in time! Do you not see that
the Chamber of Commerce of New York have
appointed a Committee to petition Congress
for a National Bank ? Have any of our rea
ders seen the April number of the New York
Review? It gives a most portentuous plan
of a National Bank, to be located in the City
of New York, for fifty years—or a charter of
indefinite duration, subject, every ten years, to
the prospective action of Congress, to take
effect at the end of the ensuing ten years—
the Mother Bank to have a “ board of Gover
nors,” who shall determine what supplies of
paper currency to allow to the branches, and
the State Banks to sink and degenerate into
the mere re-issuers of this National Bank pa
per. Thus, the whole exchange, commerce,
&c. of the whole counlry, are to be controlled
by a board of governors in the city of New
York ; and the whole South to be ruled by a
great, irresistible, centralizing influence in
New York ! Aud this is the change that the
New York financiers sincernly propose; and
this is the Reform that they would bring us !
See too the movements and resolutions of
the Whig members of the Legislature of New
York. These men (who back Gov. Seward
in his unholy aggressions upon the rights
of Virginia) met at the Assembly Chamber of
their Capitol on the 21st inst. (John W. Tay
lor in the chair,) recognize John Tyler as a
determined Whig, and pledge themselves to
stand by him. They resolved, “ that President
Tyler, by promptly adopting as his own the
cabinet which had been formed by President
Harrison, declaring to the Heads of Depart
ments his desire and request that they would
remain in their places, and his confidence in
them, has left them no room to doubt that un
der him the administration will be conducted
on the same general principles, and with re
ference to the same general policy and mea
sures as if President Harrison himself had
lived to conduct it;” and they “cordially ap
prove of the just, dignified and Republican
sentiments of the recent address of President
Tyler to the People of the United States.”—
And will the Republicans of Virginia see these
proceedings, and slumber in inglorious, deadly
repose ? Will they not counteract these sin
ister designs by speaking their own State
Rights, manly sentiments, in the bold language
of I ruth ?
The Washington correspondent of the New
York Herald writes:
“With respect to a National Bank, Presi
dent Tyler will assent, to a national charter, if
it shall be carried through Congress. The
only doubt is respecting ils fate in the Sen
ate.”
We say, then, to the Republicans of Virgin
ia—Rouse, rouse, before the Philistines have
shorn your hair, and bound up your limbs with
their gigantic withes. Would that our voice
could reach to every log-house beyond the
mountains ! In the name of the Constitution
—in the name of the South—in the name of
Liberty itself, we call upon Virginia to be up
andadoing. Prove themselves worthy of the
confidence, which your brethren in the other
States are willing to repose in you. Let us
show ourselves, by the energy we now
display—by the measures we may now adopt
—entitled to the compliment, which is paid to
us in the following cheering note from the
Nashville Union:
“Stand by the Old Dominion,” is the rally
ing cry. “She is our natural leader,” says
the Mercury. So say we. There are many
reasons why the entire South should recog
nize the lead of Virginia. Orthodox to the
core, she cannot, while the lights of Republi
canism burn so brightly upon her altars, de
sert the principles of her memorable resolu
tions of the other century. Firm and unyiel
ding when principles are at stake, she cannot
be shaken from her Jeffersonian foundations ;
and confidence in her course may therefore be
safely reposed.
“Stand by tho Old Dominion,” and let the
principles of that law meet with a hearty sup
port from the Tennesee Legislature. They
are the sheet-anchor of our safety—the main
chance of the South —the cement of the Uni
on. We have every thing to fear from apathy.
“Up and onward!” are the words. Inroads
are constantly being made upon Southern
rights with apparent impunity, and we” ought
not to regret that an issue has been made by
Virginia to test an important point of the great
question.
“ Stand by the Old Dominion,/’ and Democ
racy will triumphantly rise again in 1844.
“She is our natural leader.”
The Office-Seeker. —The following ex
tract from a humorous s’ cry entitled “ The
Politician,” written by Paulding; is forcibly
brought to mind by the unprecedented rage
for office that. now pervades all parts of the
country. It represents a conversation between
a member of the Cabinet and a hanger-on for
office.
The Secretary was called from his bed one
cold winter morning, to attend to business of
the “ utmost importance.” He found a queer,
long-sided man, at least six feet high, with a
litle apple head, a long queue, and a face criti
cally round, as rosy as a ripe cherry; and the
following conversation ensued:
“ Well, my friend, what situation do you
want 1”
“ Why-y-y I’m not very particular: ‘out
some how or other, I think I should like to be
a Minister. I don’t mean of the Gospel; but
one of them ministers to foreign parts.”
“ I’m very sorry, very sorry indeed ; there
is no vacancy just now. Would not some
thing else suit you ]”
Why-y-,” (answered the apple-headed
man,) “ l would’nt much care if 1 took a situ
ation in one of the Departments. I would’nt
much mind being a Comptroller, Auditor, or
some such thing.”
“My dear sir, I*m sorry, very sorry, very
sorry indeed, but it happens unfortunately,
that all these situations are at present filled.
Would not you take something else ]” My
friend stroked his chin, and seemed struggling
to bring down the soarings of his high ambi-!
tion to the present crisis. At last he an
swered :
“ Why-y-y, ye-s-s ; I don’t care if I get a
good Codectorship, or Inspectorship, or Sur
veyorehip, or Navy Agency, or any thing of
that sort.”
“ Really my good sir,” said the Secretary,
“I regret exceedingly, that not only all these
places, but every other place of consequence
in the Government, is at present occupied.—
Fray, sir, think of something else.”
He then, after some hesitation, asked for a
clerkship; and finally the place of messenger
to one of the public officers. Finding no va
cancy here, he seemed in vast perplexity, and
looked all around the room, fixing his eye at
length on me, and measuring my height from
head to foot. At last putting on one of the
drollest looks that ever adorned the face of
! man, he said:
“ Mister, you and I seem to be built pretty
much alike : haven't you some old clothes
you can spare J”
From the <iloLe.
UNITED STATES MARSHAL.
Our information from Washington leads us
to believe that Silas M. Stihvell will be ap
pointed United States Marshal of the South
ern district. Those who know and appreci
i ate the political services of Mr. Stihvell, and
duly estimate his active benevolence, togeth
er with his sound political character and abili
ty, will feel gratified that this Republican of
the old school has been designated for that
| office.
The marsh alsh ip of the city of New York
is a very valuable office. It will be seen that
the Tallmadge Journal, the Times and Eve
j ning Star, distinctly awards this office to Stil
j well as a price for Iris “ political services.”—
The editors “appreciate the political sevices
of Mr. Stihvell” to the full amount of the
Marshal’s office, it seems !
What a capital paymaster Conservative
principle would make the President. Arnold
was duly paid his pension by the British Gov
ernment. Why should not the deserters and
betrayers of the Democracy each have their
pension ! If Whigery pays Mr Stihvell, it will
show itself possesed of both the attributes of a
good paymaster. It would not pay him before
hand, Mr. Stihvell asked a nomination for
Govenor as the pr ice of ills desertion. Whig
ery would not .rust him, but made him serve
first. In paying off his political services now,
it makes it apparent that tins duly impressed
with the double caution of the proverb ; “lie is
a bad paymaster who pays beforehand, or who
never pays.”
Ever since that honest man, Andrew Jack
son, caused the public money to be taken out.
of the keeping of men who are now provoked
and acknowledged to have cheated the stock
holders of their Bank out of about “ nineteen
Millions of dollars” and the people of this Re
public out of many millions more, we have
heard a constant din about “ Executive usur
pation” and the union of the purse and the
sword.” Many men have been deluded by
this cry, and Mr. Tyler may be or.e of them ;
but the real object of its cunning authors, is to
get the public money back into a position
where it will have no responsible keepers at
al', that it may be used and plunderd with im
punity. To whom would the President and
other officers of the United States Bank have
been responsible, if they had squandered the
ten millions of public money General Jack
son caused to be taken away from them, as
they have done the funds of the Bank I—Ken
dall’s Expositor.
More Loans to the Devotees of the Tank.
—Joseph ltitner, the Anti-masonic Govenor,
under whose auspices Mr. Biddle’s Bank was
rechartdred in Pensylvania, has received from
the General Gvernmont, the appointment of
Treasurerof the Mint. Daniel Webster takes
good care to provide for all those who have
been faithful to the “monster”—Albany Ar
gus.
Dreadful Shipwreck. —The brig Francis,
Captain Chamberlain, which arrived this
morning, thirty-two days from Pensacola, re
ports the loss of the brig Opulence, Captain
Hawkins, in latitude 34 10 and longitude 7d
50. It appears from the statement of Cap
tain Ilawkms, that the Opulence saiie.l on the
26i.h of March, bound for Apalachicola. On
the day she sailed, she experienced very heavy
weather, which continued with more or less
severity until the 3J inst. About ten minutes
before four o’clock in the morning, the vessel
was struck by a squall from the south-west,
which threw her upon her beam ends. She i
was then sailing under topsails and coursers,
but such was the violence of the gale, no
sooner had the topsail halyards and sheets
been let go, than the brig filled with water
and sunk. As she was sinking, the sea
washed off the upper part of the cabin deck,
on which Captain Hawkins and the second
mate sncceeded in fastening themselves; but
there were two of the crew in the forecastle,
and the steward, a hand, a’d a passenger on
ueck, who went down with the brig.
In addition to their other sufferings, they
now began to feel tiie pangs of hunger. They
had been three days without a morsel to eat,
every hour growing weaker, and the prospect
of instant death pressing .upon their minds.
Asa last resort they were compelled to put
the dog to death, and cut the body up in pie
ces, by which they were enabled to subsist
two or three days longer, until the 6Ji inst.
when they fell m with the Francis. They
were then unable to stand, but Captain
Chamber: Lin, by his kind attention and the ;
timely aw ilication of remed.es, restored them j
to life.
The persons lost by this disaster were H.
Thompson and Isaac Hicks of this city, Peter
of Manilla, Robert Truxton, the steward, all
blacks, and George Miller, a passenger. N.
Y. Post.
A new Musical Instrument. —A Rock
Harmonica formed of stones, found in the
neighborhood of Skidd aw, (king.) and played
upon by the discoverer’s three sons, is now
performing at Liverpool. The Whitehaven
Herald says : “ The inventor of this strange
work of art, is a plain Cumberland yeoman,
from near Keswick, and the rude materials
from which he contrives to extract the must
enchanting harmony are nothing more than a
collection of slates or stones from the more
unfrequented part of the mighty Skiddaw. —
These are arranged in such a manner as to en
able tiiree persons to beat upon them at the
same time with small wooden mallets; and
this is accompanied with so much dexterity
and skill, as to distill from the rudest possible
materials the richest and most delighllul mel
ody of sweet sounds that the ear ever heard,
or the imagination conceived. The effect is
perfectly magical, and the listener stands en
tranced and wonder-struck. Men of undoubt
ed musical science have inspected this novel
instrument, and have given the most flattering
opinion of the work which the inventor has
achieved, and also ot its vast capabilities.
Shakspeare talks of finding sermons in stones,
and why not music l
Lake Michigan. —Low Water. —At no
I period since the spring of 1333, has the water in
Lake Michigan been so low .. as a the
present time. The past winter has been ex
cessively dry, with a clear sky a greater por
tion of the time—in fact, there has been no
rain in this region since November last. This
doubtless, has had some influence, though
the lake appears to have been declining from
other causes for the last two The
I weather is now quite warm. So says the last
I Milwaukie Advertiser.
Anecdote.—A parishioner complained to
his minister that his pew was too far from the
pulpit, and said that he must purchase one
nearer. “Why,” asked the clergyman, “can’t
you hear distinctly I” “O yes 1 can hear well
enough.” “Can’t you see plainly ■ ’ “ies, I
can see perfectly well.” “W ell then what
can be the trouble 1” “Why, there are so
many in front of me, who catch what you say
first, that by the time your words reacli my
ears, they are as flat as dish water.”
During the services of the 46th regiment
in America, Gen. Washington was initiated
into masonry in their lodge. Wlien war broke
out between the States and the mother coun
try, he became divided from the brothers of his
adoption, in feeling—in communion of soul,
he was their brother still. The masonic chest
of the 46ih, bv chance of war, fell into tiie
hands of the Americans; they reported the
circumstance to Gen. Washington, who di
rected that a guard of honor, under the com
mand of a distinguished officer, should take
charge of the chest, with many articles of value
belonging to the 46th, and return them to the
regiment. The surprise and the feelings of
both officers and men may be imagined, when
they perceived the llag of truce that announced
this elegant compliment from their noble op
ponent. The guard of honor, with the Hates
playing a sacred march—the chest containing
the constitution and implements of the craft
borne aloft equally by Englishmen and Amer
icans, who lately engaged in the strife of war
—now marched through the enfilated ranks of
the gallant regiment, that, with presented
arms and colors, Hailed this glorious act by
cheers. When in Dominicia, in 1805, the
46th was attacked by a French force, which it
gallantly repelled ; but in the action had the
misfortune again to lose the masonic chest,
which the enemy succeeded in securing on
hoard their fleet, without knowing its contents.
Three years afterwards the French Govern
ment, at the earnest request of the officers
who had commanded the expedition, returned
1 the chest with several complimentary pre
i sents.
Indian Battle. —The recent Indian en
gagement on the Perdinales, resulted as such
meetings have always done in Texas—the In
dians.were routed oil the first brush. Only
18 minute men left Austin on the 2i)th March
under Captain Dolson, in pursuant of a small
body of the enemy, who were reported to
have left a trial near that place. After 3G
burs of hard riding they overtook the Indians.
They were Tovvaccsnies, 84 in number, who
immediately opened a (ire with titles. The
gallant volunteers fired and charged, lead by
l Heir determined Captain, who though severe
ly wounded in the breast and thigh, could
not be kept from the melee. The natives
fieri; and though attempts were twice made
to rally them, they were ineffectual. Seven
savages were slain, but their wounded were
carried off by them, and their number could
not be ascertained. The volunteers received
no injury except that infleted upon Capt. Dot
son. We are happy to learn that he is in a
fair way of recovery.
The $25,000 lost by A. Brigham, Esq.,
while Treasurer last spring, was found a few
days since by Mr. John Green, near Austin,
and immediately returned to the the owner.
—Houston Telegraph, 14th inst.
Poverty. —We too often complain of pov
erty —and yet it is one of the greatest bless
ings that the world at large boasts. Distres
sing for the individual—of immense benefit to
the community at large. There are number
less souls whose intellect is more precious than
the mines of Golconda, and whose rich ore is
only discovarable when worked upon by ad
versity. In a state of continuons prosperity,
these mines would never be worked—adversi
ty calling into action all the noble attributes
of the soul, bid it unbosom itself to an admi
ring, delighted and instructed world. Won
derful dispensations of Providence!
“You OUGHT TO BE ASHAMED OF YOUR
SELF.”—How very common, and at the same
time how very absurd it is for a girl, after she
has been kissed by a chap, to turn round, pout
her pretty lips as though she was mad, and
say, “you ought to be ashamed of yourself,”
when every one must know she means noth
ing by it. It is all nonsense, girls, to make
remarks of the kind, and you really “ought to
be ashamed of yourselves” for using them.—
Why don’t you “come right out,” like the
Yankee girl who was kissed by her lover, and
tell him “you darn’t do that again !” That’s
the way.
If devil should lose his (ail, where should he
go to get another ? Answer—To agm shop ;
uecause there they re-tail bad spirits.
Ephriam says, that ladies with long tongues
are liable to indictment, under the law against
carrying concealed weapons!
‘My dear,’ said a lady to a little girl, ‘what
is the matter with your mother V ‘She’s got
the rebellious fever, ma’am.’
“I was terribly put out about it,” as the fel
low said who was kicked down stairs for mak
ing a row.
A Race for a Husband.—A curious scere
occuredon Friday morning week, in Robert
street, Chelsea, illustrating the old adage,
•• There’s many a slip ‘twixt the cup and the
lip.” Between ten and eleven o’ch k, a well
looking young couple, gaily attired and ac
companied by several male and female friends,
were seen wending their way along the st reet
in question in the direction of Chelsea New
Church, for the purpose, as it was supposed,
of being joined together for better or for worse.
For some time before they reached the church,
the future Benedict was observed io keep look
ing behind him in a strange manner, and ap
peared to regret that he had proceeded so far
on the ma'rimonial road, and was evidently
desirous of beating a retreat. Just before
the party arrived at the gates the faint-har
ted young gentlemen took the opportunity to
unlink the arm of his “intended” from his
own, and then ran back down Robert street
into King’s road as fast as his legs wonld car
ry him, and refuged i:i a public house. The as
tonisinent of the wed 1 n g party, at this extra
ordinary conduct, can be better imagined than
described.
The grief and disappointment of the damsel,
who was about to exchange her state of sin
gle blessednsss for matrimonial felicity, knew
no bounds. When she first saw her faithless
swain bounding off with the fleetriess of a grey
hound, she burst into tears, and implored some
one to fetch him back, but as her wishes were
not complied with, she scampered after him
herself, and was followed by the rest of the
party, and they found him at the public house
above alluded to. Upon being asked to ac
count for his strange behaviourthe young man
said he had changed his mind on his way to
church, and was determined to wait a little
longer before he got married. The party en
deavored to persuade him to proceed to the
church then, but he resolutely refused to do so,
This strange proceeding excited a good deal
of laughter amongst those who saw it. The
parties, whose names did not transpire, ap
peared to bd respectable.—English paper.
The Thames Tunnel. —The English pa
pers contain an intesting account of a meet
ing of the proprietors of the Thames Tunnel
Company. From the report, it appears that,
this stupendous work is now nearly finished,
the tunnel having been brought to within
twelve yards of Wapping High-street. The
footway descents to the tunnel on the Wap
ping side are expected to be finished by the
the middle of the present, year, and by its temi
nation it is expected the cnmpny will be in
the receipt of toll trom passengers. The
length of the tunnel at present completed, is
1140 feet, and the foot passengers’ shaft is
sunk to a depth of 23 feet, 50 feet being the
depth require ‘. The number of visitors last
year was 34,000, being 3000 more than in the
year preceding; and the amount received from
them was £I7OO. Tiip balanoe sheet seowed
a sum in hand of £14,009. It appeared that
the total cost of this undertaking to the pres
ent time is about <£400,000, induing the gov
ernment grant and that it islikely to be finish
ed for less than half a million.
From the New York Herald.
TETER ‘ROBINSOn—HIS CONFESSIONS.
New Brunswick, April 12.
I have just lett Peter Robinson’s cell. His
father was with hon, and cried bitterly. Pe
ier said, “it’s no use to show so much sorrow,
father; 1 don’t deserve it; can’t feel it; and
it’s all thrown away on me.” After his lather
left, he said, ‘what an old fool my father makes
of himself; lie comes here and cries; he goes
home and drinks ; and if he had bro’t me up
properiy 1 should not have been here now.”
i observed to him that he ought to show less
levity, and be thinking of more serious mat
ters if ever lie meant to.
lie laughed, and said, “oh you know I’ve
got four days to live yet ; and tiie parsons tell
me that the thief on the cross didn’t begin to
repent till ail hour before he died, and yet he
went to heaven they say ; so I’ve got plenty
of time. But old Judge Hornblower ought to
have given me a little more time ; l ought to
have load a couple of months. However, I've
settled all my wordly affairs now ; 1 was a bit
worried about them tools; but that’s off my
mind, and l shall be serious now and prepare
for death. 4 ’
Here lie paused, and mused for a few mo
ments, and then burst out laughing.
‘What are you laughing al, Peter !’ said I.
‘Why,’ said he, Tm laughing to think what
a terrible hard head old Snydani had ; lie had
an uncommon hardhead; 1 had to hit three
tunes with tiie mallet as hard as 1 could before
I cracked his skull.’
‘Why did you kill him:’ said 1!
‘Why, sir,’ he replied rather sorrowfully, ‘I
made up my mind to kill that man entirely tor
that $75 on that note, and nothing else. It
was the first note I ever give in my life, and I
did’t know how to meet it, and I was worried
to death about it. and so 1 resolved to get it by
killing him. The fact is, I've been m hell’s
kitchen ever since I begun building that house;
1 sunk all my money tiiere that I’d saved; 1
knew 1 could never get enough to finish it;
every body kept seizing and selling my furni
ture for debts 1 owed ern’ ; and at last 1 got
the horrors. But if I’d known that things
were a going to turn out so, I'd have played
the rogue on a big scale ! why I’d have laid a
dead man at the corner of every street in New
Brunswick.’
As he said this, his eyes flashed fire. I then
• aid to him, ‘Peter,f didn’t you intend to lay a
trap for old Mr. Edmonds, and murder him too,
if possible }”
He smiled bitterly, and hissed out between
his hard set teeth, “It I’d known that he was
going to have me arrested, ‘‘l’d have made him
show his manual strength,” and here he burst
out laughing, and rejoined, ‘ 1 wouldn’t mind
selling my body to the doctors, only I should’t
iike my boy to know it. I wonder what they’d
give for it. Tiiere isn’t much llesli on the
bones.”
At this moment the jailer and one of the
judges came into his cell; they said a jfew
words to Peter, and as they were both very
bald, Peter laughingly said, -judge as you and
Conover are both pretty bald, and 1 have a
good head of hair, I’ll give you my scalp after
next Friday ; you can divide it between you ;
there’s enough for both.”
“Peter,” said the Judge, “you ought to
have more anxiety about next Friday than
you have.”
“Well,” said Peter, with a provoking sang
frnid, “4 do think about it with a good deal of
anxiety; I’m to be hung that day, and if the
Sheriff don’t fix the rope right, 1 shall have
more anxiety ; I hope lie wont tickle me with
the rope; it lie does I shall lie sure to laugh,
i hope he’ll grease the rope, so that it’ll come
well down under my ear, and then put a 56
pounder on to my feet, and so pull my head off
at one jerk. But it’s a shame to coop me up
and hang rue in this little place, where nobody
could see me. 1 expected, at least, to have
20,(M)() people to see sue hung.”
1 then asked him whether he didn’t feel sor
ry that he had killed Mr. JSuydam.
“ Yes,” said he, carelessly, “ but not on my
own account, nor on his; but I feel sorry for
his wife and children.”
“ B-ut, Peter,” said I, “ they charge you with
other murders.’ 4
“Oil yes,” said lie sharply, “but I didn’t
kill the pedlcr. And though I might go on
and tell a whole lot of crimes that 1 never did,
taint, a going to make myself out a greater
rogue than I am. I’ve lie on had enough.”
“ Did you never think of escaping !” said I.
“Oh yes,” said he brightening up, “and if
I was to get loose y >u’d see the prettiest fox
chase you ever saw in your life; but they
havn’tgot hounds enough in New Jereey to
catch me though.”
Here the jailer, who had gone out, again
returned. Petar cried out, “ Here, Conover,
this snow storm makes it dreary and feel
cold ; pile on the coals, make the stove tire
red hot; l’in going to a warm place in the
next world, and want to get used to it,”
“Peter, i’eter.” said the jailor.
“Oh, well,” said Peter, “I know I must
put on a sober face, because we’re going to
have a prayer meeting here presently; and
they’ll ask me if I’ve thought seriously about
ie latter end ; and 1 shall say, Oh, yes.
deeply ! deeply!”
Here I lelt him, as a Quaker lady entered
the cell to pray with him. It is a little singu
larthat the bank on which he slept in this
cell he made last April, being hired as a car
penter to do the job. One prisoner has since
hung himself on this bank, in this cell, and Pe
ter lias attempted to do so; he has made three
different ropes, of his blankets, tore up and
twisted hard, and hid them away ; but the
jailor detected him and found them, lie once
hid the towel to make a rope of, and begs for
a cravat or handkerchief, but they allow him
one none, and have taken away his bank, so
that he sleeps on the floor, lie scorns afraid
to hang himself at night, and always hides his
head under the blakets the whole night long !
Charles V.— When Charles V. returned
from Tunis, he travelled by land through Ca
labria and to Naples, and did much good by
(he road. At La Cava, the town council met
to consider what present they should give the
Emperor. Some were lor pine-apples, the
I kernels of which are of a vast size; but the
i majority carried it in favor of a kind of fig,
I winch they cover with mats in winter, and in
March, (the lime of the Emperor’s passing)
the fruit is very ripe and delicious eating.—
The E nperor received the deputies very
graciously, and expressing great surprise at
ihe fineness of the fruit at that season of the
year, inquired whether they could preserve
any quantity of them, and whether they were
in abundance. ‘Oh!’says the wise mayor,
“we have such plenty that we give them to
our hogs.” “ What,” said Charles, “lo your
bogs?—then take your figs hick again and
so saying, he flung a ripe one full in the face
of the orator. The courtiers, following the
example of their Sovereign, the poor deputies
had their faces all besmeared and their eyes
bunged out with the fruit. As they returned
from i lie audience, one of these sapient sena
tors, taking ihe whole to be part of the cere
monial of a reception by an emperor, ob
served to his brethren how lucky it was they
had carried the point in favor of figs; for,
had they presented pine apples, they would
undoubtedly have had their brains knocked
out. —Swinburne’s Courts of Europe.
It is stated, whether waggishly or not we
cannot say, that a Farmer at the North re
cently had his Apple Otchard cut down, “lest
the Apples might he ground into Cider, the
C ider be distilled into spirituous liquor, and the
liquor make somebody drunk!” It reminds
us of the old story of a girl who, while baking
with an Oven, stopped and burst into tears. —
On being interrogated as to the cause, she
answered—“l was thinking that if I should
get married, and have a pretty baby, and the
baby should gel into a chair, and should climh
into the Oven, and get burnt to death, \vhal
should I do—Oh! Oh!”