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the times.
The union :f the states arvd ihe sovereignty of .he states
COLUMBUS, MAY 27, 1841.
General Thomas Glascock, a lawyer ofem
inSnee, find for a long series of years an active
atiil protainenf politician ih this State, died at
his residence in Decatur, DeKalb county,
Georgia, on the 18?.h of this month.
Alabama. election. —The e : ecLion for five ;
Members of Congress, to represent the State
of Alabama in the next Congress, was held on
the 20th 1:1st. We have seen some partial
returns, which indicate that the Democratic
strength is rather increased^ than diminished
in that State, although the aggregate vote has j
been a small one. i
Tn lathe. The Theatre in this city was I
opened on Tuesday evening last, under the j
management of Messrs. Field and German, j
Florida Delegate.— We learn by infer- !
nation direct from Tallahassee, that Official \
Returns had been received at the Executive i
Office, from all the Counties but one, anu that
Levy, (Democrat) has a majority of the whole
number of votes given in.
Indian Claims. —Can any one furnish us
with the Report of the Committee, and any
other papers containing information relative to
losses by Indian depredations In the Creek
War of 1330? We wish to look into the
matter,, and would be obliged for the loan of
any documents relating to the subject.
The following is from the money article of
the New York Herald, May 18 :—“lt is stated
that the United States Bank Directors have
s„.ld its New Orleans Branch, the Merchants’
Bank, to Edward Yorke, a nephew of Mr. Lip
pincott, for 8575,000 ! The Bank has little
or no circulation, and specie on hand to the
amount of $335,000, according to its last re
turn.'’
Charge d’affaires to texas. —The Lex
ington (Kv.) Intelligencer, May 14, says :
“The lion. Joseph Eve, of Kentucky, has been
appointed by the President, Charge d’Affaires
to Texas. This is a very important office, and
it lias been bestowed upon a firm patriot and
an honest roan.”
Whig meeting. —Why did not our Whig
friends hold their meeting, agreeably to the
notice inserted in the Enquirer of last week !
Or, if lie Id, why adjourn without settling the
very psrjdcxing business which prompted the
call ? If we are not misinformed, the prudent
course was adopted, not to allow little domes
tic bickerings about the spoils to go before the
public eye.
The Savannah Georgian of the 19th inst,
says that “In 1838, as reported by the taker
of the State census, the population of the
county of Chatham, was 20,956, an increase in
eight years of 6,829 !”
“The city of Savannah, in the same year,
contained 12,753, an increase in the same pe_
riod of 4,982!”
Bishop England of Charleston, and the lion
Charles Fenton Mercer, for manv years, and
until recently, a member of Congress from
Virginia, and at present Cashier of the Union
Bank of Florida, were passengers in the steam
ship Britannia, which left Boston for Liver
pool, on the 16th of this month.
MR. WEBSTER—FEDERAL IS M.
Is there now, or has there been at any pe
riod since the formation of the Government
any such thing as Federalism, and has the
Secretary of State, Mr. Webster, ever been
classed with the Republicans, as opposed to
the Federalists ? If so, we should be glad to
know the time and place.
Was there any opposition (not to the dec
laration of war in 1612,) but to its successful
and honorable prosecution, agreeably to the
views of Mr. Madison, and the patriotic party
which supported him ? If there was such
opposition, where was Mr. Webster ? Was
he sustaining the rights and honor of the
country, as they were estimated by the repub
licans of that day, or was lie acting with the
Federalists of ’9B and 1890 ; the men who sus
tained the odious measures of the eider Ad
ams, and were arrayed against the elections of
Jetlersori and Madison ? The answers to
these questions as full and explicit as the
questions themselves, will determine the pat
riotism of Mr. Webster, in times past, in criti
cal emergencies—that is, if the Republican
party of 1800 and 1812, were influenced by
patriotic motives. When facts are presen
ted in plain, unvarnished colors, they will
scatter to the winds such delusive arid hypo
critical statements as are going the rounds
the Whig papers, one of which, prepared with
great care, has been published in the New
York Express, and transferred to the column.’
of the Columbus Enquirer, of yesterday. There
is no disguising the tacts of the case. Have
there been two parties i:i the country from
the foundation of the Government—Republi
can and Federal ? If so. m which has Mr.
Webster adhered ? Plain and simple an
swers to these interrogatories will solve the
whole matter, and to this it must come at las*
• LEVI LINCOLN—TEIE LATE CHAS. OGLE.
Scarcely an individual acquainted with the
prominent incidents of the late political cam
paign, ;s uuapprieed of the fact i ha r Mr. Ogfc.
(recent’y decease.?.) a member of Congress
ireui Pennsylvania, made one of the most ex
traordinary speeches (to characterise it by no
harsher name) ever heard in ‘lie United Elates
House of Representatives, in reference to the
interior arrangements of the Presidential Man
sion iu V -Linyt-m City. That speech was
extensively circulated in pamphlet fern; and
ui the Whdg papers, and contributed undoubt
edly lo inflame and delude in the progress of
ihe excited political canvass—Mr. Lincoln, of
Mas;-., (now collector of Boston,) a Whig, but
a hign- maided man, was on the same comniit
■ee with Mr. Ogle, and as well acquainted as
ul ° latter, individual with the subject matter
of his speech, and at once expressed his dis
gtis‘, to coin the form am! substance of Ogle’s
tirade. The exasperation of party sustained
Ogle, and censured Lincoln for the .Ample
” ceiy Mrion of numerous ami aggravated mis
representations. Toe Ga
zette. a neutral and iiterarjr paper, in enumer
ating Slut many qua!fries of Mr.
Lincoln
iilica! life, thds notices Ins .• agency iu the
•• Ogle aflithv’ We tus certain the remarks
of the Gazette will be readily recognized as
mot by every i isrh-t-iindei —l.l ‘lOiiorabia.nnan
of whatever party —not excepting the Editors
of the Columbus Enquirer who, it we mistake
not, gave Ogle's speech a place in their pa
per. v
Mr. Ogle is dead, and with his speech, will,
we doubi not, sink into irretrievable oblivion.
“ The only .incident which has disturbed his
popularity among the mass of the people, and
whit h in is caused him to be blamed by rash
and hasty politicians, is his brief reply to the
I famous speech of Mr. Ogle, of Pennsylvania.
We may speak of this with more impartiality
from our not being engaged in the turmoil of
party politics, and from personal knowledge of
the premises which were the subject of the
speeches ; and we must say that we regard
this speech of Mr. Lincoln’s as one cf the
most manly ami honorable acts of his whole
public life. Those who run their eyes over
these paragraphs will smile as they recall the
grandiloquent descriptions by Mr. Ogle of the
‘splendid East R:dm,’ the ‘Elliptical Blue
Saloon,’ and the magnificence of the grounds
around hi; prbic-tly pal.ice! and when they
compare them with the reality —the patched
common glass in the White House, the
grounds not so well laid as fifty around Bos
ton, the apartments shabby when compared
with a hundred in our republican city, the un
: painted fine breakfast, table, &c. &c., they
may well wonder how the people in Washing
ton could send forth such a mess of stuff, how
a getiflconan coyld stoop so low for materials
for an electioneering document; ami may well
feel how a dignified, honorable man would
| turn, as Mr. Lincoln did, from such a:; exhibi
! tion with disgust.
We find in the August* (Ga.) Constitution
alist thy following extract from the money
article of tire New York Herald. Maks the
estimate for Veorgia, and see how she will be
affected by ike iniquitous and unconstitutional
proposition of the Whigs to distribute the pro
ceeds of the Public hands among the States!
“ The relief held out by the dominant party
is an absurdity. They propose to distribute
the public lands according to representation,
and then raise the duties on imported goods to
replace it hi the treasury of the federal gov
ernment. The proceeds of the public lands
are yearly $3,000,000. Os this the State of
Illinois would receive $37,000; She is then
to be taxed on imported goods, The imports
for the last ten years have averaged $127,-
000,000. This is $45 to each family in the
Union, yearly. Ia Illinois there are 70,000
families. Consequently they consume -$3,-
150,000 of imported goods. On these the tax
is to be raised 5 per cent, without increasing
the markets for produce. Illinois will there
fore have to pay $157,500 for the $37,060
received. This is the ‘ relief’ the citizens are
to enjoy under the distribution.”
Is kneeling in prayer then the only evi
dence—the true test of sincere piety I The
following article from the Boston Post ie in the
right spirit, and shows the folly, if not bigotry
ot the l’sv. Mr. Hawley, “the Episcopalian
Clergyman in Washington,” as well as that
of the reverend gentleman in Boston :
We are credibly informed that .an observa
tion was not long since repeated in a pulpit in
this city, said to have been made by the Epis
copalian clergyman in Washington, the Rev.
Mr. Hawley, in speaking to his congregation
of the death cl the late President, lie re
marked, as evidence of his sincere piety, that,
he was the only President, out cf the last six
that had attended his church, who prayed on
his knees. We believe Gen. Harrison was
an Episcopalian, and educated in its forms.—
It is mortifying to perceive, in this age of
general intercourse, and of common enjoyment
of religious light ar.d knowledge, that minis*
ters, who should be foremost in diffusing truth,
anil inculcating .the substantial and essen
sential requirements of religion, are disposed
to attach so much importance to its mere cer
emonies. That baptism is a saving ordinance,
a ceremony essential to salvation, and that to
kneel upon a soft damask cushion during a
short, prayer, instead of standing is a satisfac
tory evidence of piety—are, js we had sup
posed, doctrines of an ignorant and supersti
tious age, and, we had hoped, not recognized
by any educated person, at the present day.
Boston Pest
The following is the conclusion of an article
in the Savannah Republican of the 16th inst
giving an account of “some famous Cincinnati
hams which seem destined to rival those which
come from Westphalia.” The names of the
individuals by whom they were cured are
mentioned in the subjoined extract, as are also
such of the particulars relative to the curing
as the article contains :
“Those ot air. Lee, are protected from the
fly, by the white-washed canvass bag. Those
oi Mr. ! hifiield are smoked dry, neatly wrapped
and pinned in clean paper, thou tied up iu a
clean canvass bag. The latter mode of pre
serving the ‘ m when cured seems tons a
decided improvement. So done up, they are
clean to handle, and ihe bags uninjured, are
ready for future use. But one must be very
hard to please, who can line] fault with either,
v’ a recommend these hams to the attention
of house -keepers.”
The following relative to the proceedings
in the case of Semmes, of this Stale, is from
the Charlotte villo (Va.) Advocate, of the 15ch
inst:
Commonwealth vs. Semites. —This case
was continued in consequence of the severe
indisposition of the accused. He was arraign
ed, (being brought into court on a chair or lit
ter icr that purpose) and pleaded “not guilty”
to the indictment.
An application (o admit to bail on t he ground
of apprehended danger to his life, from con
finement in iii’ present condition, was, alter
the exhibit ion of testimony, the argument of
counsel, and due deliberation by the court,
overrule : the court suggesting an appeal to
the General Court, which wiilconvene in j une,
if the prisoners counsel should think the de
cision erroneous.
Extract from the proceedings of the meet
ing of SumUioMer? of the United States Rank,
held pn the 17; h inst. The resolution which
heads the extract was offered by M v Mont
s’ ornery:
Resolved.— Flint the Board of Directors
take the necessary measures forthwith to ham
thefarmer officers of tic- bank, who made those
Icons on stocks, c(.c. indicted for a conspiracy to
ilefra ml the stockhobbrs.
This created a terrible row, and applause.
Mr. Ai. deliberately withdrew his resolution
for the present. -
Mr. English rose and asked, “ I hope the In
vestigating Committee-asked the former direc
ors what become.ni that $916,0001 Because
i think they lfftrStknow something about that’
rur. Kennedy warned to know v. hether .Mr.
Duane expected the stockholders to reform
ihe world by passing, such abstract proposi
tions. ff Mr. Duane would alter his resolu
taui.-, : iid say that the committee should pub
li-n those persons on the suspended debt* list
,v ijo no not pay up what they owe, up, would
vote tor it, _ But if you publish the deia ils of the
suspended debt. you'll diminish ihe assets beyond
Rm/ you hace any idea of. The Jnves!Rating
v vu:*i iletc© could not thus ruthlessly break njj
■: ‘ivaU conffilsnce, personal ixssoc rt iions,an
y,,;i relations, by publishing the list of
““ *s and amounts on the suspended debt ac
c mut.
,U 9 ; !” : y I,; y :i -A i will'not say,that iu former
wu tue press has not’ been bribed bv the
officer, of this Bank ; I will not say that tho
legislature lias not been so bribed, cr that pol
iticians had n>t been thus bribed. But Ido
say that the present Directors have had noth
ing to uo with such tilings. They have used
none of the money of the Bank since I have
been an officer of it, in any attempts to bribe
either the press, politicians,or legislators. If
they had, such a course would have been most
detestable, and deserving the execration of the
community.
The committee already commenced
against all those former officers of the Bank
whom they think liable in law; they have
picked out the most prominent, and those who
deserve to be punished first according to law.
They have engaged two of the best lawyers
in the city to aid the counsel of the Bank in
carrying on these prosecutions to the full ex
tent of the law, and they can do no more.”
Tlie wrongs committed have not been done
by the present Board of Directors—they are
not guilty of the guilty acts.
Mr. Duane was asked to withdraw hjs res
olutions.
Mr. Duane.—l shall not withdraw them.—
Every effort that lias been made to ascertain
how these large sums of money have been
expended has failed. Can any one doubt that
if those large sums had been expended hon
estly, that the records of the bank would not
have shown how they were expended? Certain
ly not. We have right then to infer that these
large sums were used for corrupt, nefarious,
and dishonorable purposes. That corrupt
means were used or attempted by the former
officers of this bank to obtain a charter. And
if you negative my resolutions it will be a
conclusive proof that this bank has something
yet which it dare not show to the light of day;
and that it could not stand formerly without
the employment of corrupt and dishonorable
means. (Great applause and excitement.)
FLORIDA.
By the mail of yesterday we received tlie
St. Augustine Herald, of the 14th inst. It
contains no later intelligence from the seat
War, than is to be found in another column 0 I
this paper. We copy below, however, all it i
has relative to the Seminole difficulties :
Indians. —We arc indebted to the attention
of an officer of the army, for the following let
ter from Capt. B. L. Beall, of the 2d Dra
goons :
Fort Brooke, E. F., May 2d, 1841.
“I have just returned from a scout in pur
suit of a party of Indians who killed the ex
press rider between tins post and Fort Clinch
on the 28th ult. f found his body about 27
miles from here, with the head and arms sev
ered therefrom and burnt; the mail entirely
destroyed, with the exception of two private
letters; several copies of the new Regulations
of tlie Army, with the leaves’eut and scattered
about; die woods for about a mile burnt in or
der to conceal the trail—which I am happy to
state they did noi effect. I followed their trail
about thirty miles, and at sundown came up
with two of tlie party, encamped near the edge
of a dense hammock. (1 say two, although I
saw but one ; but I took two rifles, pouches,
powder-horns full of powder.) Tire fellow en
deavored to get to the hammock, but I was too
quick for the gentleman—l shot liirr, scalped
him, and hung him.up to dry. He shot one
of my horses. Lie proved to be an Indian
called Kennihee, or Waxie-liadjo, a Micisoo
kie sub-chief. 254 Indians and negroes will
be shipped for Arkansas to-morrow. The Gen
eral is in good spirits. Upwards of two hun
dred men are sick of Col. Davenport’s com
mand at Sarasota. The General lias ordered
the post, to be broken up, and the regiment
will go to the Key near Cedar Keys. No fur
ther news here. will send you a piece
of Kannihee’s scalp. I hung the gentleman
up higher than Hainan, (whom we read of in
the good book) was hung.”
Y’our friend and ob’t serv’t.,
BEN J. L. BEALL.
Note —Lt. Lincoln goes out with 40 men
to bring in some of Ailack’s party, (where he
is Ido not knew.) 88 Indians came up from
Sarasota a day or two ago. Hospitarkee did
not come with them, as he had gene to meet
Sam Jones, who was to have had a council at
the Big Cypress Swamp about that time.—
Some Indian runners, on seeing the dead body
of the express rider, sent in a warrior to in
form the General of the circumstance.
By a letter from Newnanvillo we learn that
about 100 head ,of cattle, belonging to Mr. 1
Dell, had been driven off the Big Prairie by
the Indians recently.
A letter from Micanopy states that two ex
press riders had been killed. Thus it seems
that the “little” war has commenced again
with “vigor.”
From the Savannah Georgian, May 14.
MUR E Pit OSC it I h f ION /
We annex a list of changes in tile Custom
House of this city, announced yesterday.—
We leave it to the public to judge of the ne
cessity of this partisan “reform.” While we’
sympathize with those who have been deprived
of office, we doubt not that the test to which
their opinions have been subjected, will ex
hibit their purity and virtue.
Removed. —lnspectors of the Customs.—
Joseph George, 11. Knapp, Jacob Chadbourn,
John B. Davies, William I. Mr ore, John A.
Thomas, J. Elton St irk.’
Stoke Keeper. —Murdoch 11, McLeod.
New appointments. —lnspectors of the
Customs.—lames Roberts, 11. A. Smith, J. V.
Redden, Win. Patterson, John GuiJmartin,
V. m. C. Wylly, Anthony Bartow.
Stoke keeper.—John Postell.
Inspectors not removed.— William Starr,
W in. W. Wash, A. C. Davenport.
The following is the notice of the Collector
to one of the officers removed. Similar notes
were, as \\ e learn, addressed to the other gen
tlemen removed •
Custom House,
Collector’s Office, Savannah, May 13,1841.
W. 1- Moore, Esq.:
Sir—A list of Inspectors of the Customs for
the port of Savannah, having been forwarded
Lo this office, from the Treasury Department
ot the United States, it becomes my duly to
inform you that your'appointment as an in
spector of the Revenue of this port, will cease
and terminate on the close of business this
day. Resp’iy, your ob’t serv’t.
J. lIUIST'ER, Collector.
More seizures of slavers.— Captain A*
Ward, of Salem, who came passenger from
Manilla, in ihe ship Grotius, bound to this
pert, reports that when the skip left St. Hel
ena, there were seven vessels, with seven
hundred slaves, at that place, prizes to her
Britannic Majesty’s cruisers. The last of the
seven arrived on the 2d of March, and had
throw n overboard sixty dead slaves, in ,sigL !
of St. Helena.
Office Hungry. —A waiter in the Boston
Post, proposes a body guard for the Collector
of the Port of Boston to protect him from the
multitude of office seekers, who not only
throng the Collector in person, but when they
think their chances of suoces slim, they send
their-wives; daughters or sisters to intercede
for them. One iackless wight who had no
wife or near relative to intercede for him, had
recourse to his washer-woman, who, with sound
eleven borrowed ragged children, made their
appearance at the private lodgings of the Col
lector, and demanded audience ; which having
obtained, they on their knees implored and
begged an office for this office-seeker, as die
husband and] aih.er of this numerous family
Natchez Tree Trader.
•
Absconded. —By the late English‘news,
we learn that Mr. Abbott, one of the official as
signees ot the bankruptcy in London, and al
so a large stockbroker; has run on wi Lh, millions
in Ills hands.
For the Times.
Mr. Editor : Dxl you never observe how
very smart men are generally, as individuals,
in matters of private interest touching their
own pockets—but in arranging and fixing
things “ pro bono publico,” they are oftentimes
as stupid as asses. The great fuss about re
lief, hard times, short crop, and so forth, and
the variety of wavs and means,” modus op
erand!—State Bonds, and so iorth—all put up
together are not worth a blue-bean. It is all
talk and no cider. While talking about help,
the sheriff is down upon us and “away goes
coaler.” While crying out lustily for relief,
the waters close over us, and we are gone
forever! One set say—relief, or we are ru
ined. The other set say, we go for relief, but
how is it to be none ? So, between thorn, it is
all smoke and no fire.—Sir, there is a right
way and a wrong way to arrive at any given
point. In this matter there is but cub way
under Heaven whereby we can be saved—
and that is, the right way. Every body ad
mits that unless we are saved we shall be lost.
Weii, if we don’t find the right way and go
ahead in it, we will be lost. Now the right
way becomes an object, and it is vital. Ift he
right way is found and pointed out, and the
1 eopie will not use it, then they deserve their
fate.
I call upon the people of Georgia to answer
this question, if they can —Why is Alabama
State Credit, in the form of Bank bills, worth
a premium of five per cent. I If you should
say it is because she is redeeming her bills of
credit with specie, you would be mistaken, for
she does not, nor indeed does she intend to do
so for live years to-come, bv the law. If you
say it is because of her Cotton crop, by which
she has Northern Exchange, and sells it low,
therefore her bills arc worth a premium to
purchase this Exchange; vou would not be
right, for we too raise Cotton and have Ex
change, and can sell it as low as she can. Sir,
in Alabama the Banks belong to the State,
and I believe the State belongs to the People
—therefore, the People, the whole l’dople,
own the Banks. Well, if the People own the j
Banks, it becomes no less their duty than their
interest to sustain them. How do they sus
[ tain them so as to make their bills of credit
equal to specie among themselves, and above
the currency of our Slate ! It is the easiest
thing imaginable—and what is singular, it is
done by the imagination. They suppose that
they, as a State, are perfectly able to redeem
the circulation df their own Banks whenever
they want to do it; this being the case, the
bills p ss at par among themselves and pay
their debts, and this is all they care for, or
should care for, on that subject. Now tail
me the difference’ between the State Bank of
Alabama and the Centra! Bank of Georgia;
and if _ ou please why, both being State insti
tutions and owned By the people, the bills of
one should be good to pay debts and the other
not. Sir, -if tho bills of State credit, in which
we all as a people are alike interested, cannot
be used by the people to help themselves when
in trouble, in the name of sense why have any
such institution at, all ! If the bills of State
credit would pay our debts one to another,
why not issue them, and that quickly and sut
ficientlv'!
As to the selling cf State Bonds, it would
not do, and for two reasons. Ist. They could
not be sold. 2d. “ Ought not, if they could.”
Sir, the People are the State. The State has
a Bank. The Bank has on hand, plenty of
bills ready to be issued. Tho people, the
whole people, are bound to redeem these bills
when they want it done. The people are
abundantly able to do so. The cry is, we are
ruined if we don’t get something to pay our
debts. The State’s credit will pay these
debts. In the name of God ! why stand we
idle, gazing upon the chains that are riveting
upon us, and wasting in apathy and talk the
season for action ? When Philip and the Eu
nuch were travelling together, and Philip was
discoursing about death, righteousness, and of
a judgment to come, they came to water, when
the Eunuch said, here is plenty of water ; what
hinders baptism? So say 1. We are travel
ling to ruin ; the Central Bank is the water;
what hinders baptism 1 Let us have a shower,
and that quickly, for it is our own and no
power on earth should keep us from it. Cen
tral Bank bills loaned to tlie people for five
years, will save our property from a cruel and
ruinous sacrifice. The people can and will
return the loan, with interest; and confidence
in the ability of the people to redeem the bills
will make Bcate credit as good as Columbus
1 Bank. Mechanics’ Bank, Chattahoochee Bank,
or Mister Any-body-else’s private shaving
shop credit! Ned Scatterblessing.
From the Washington correspondence of
the’ Philadelphia North American, a Whig
paper:
“The disclosures connected with the man
agement of your gve >t Bank struck every so
bermindedman here with amazement. There
is bur, one opinion on the subject, and that is,
that the funds of this Bank have been reck
lessly squandered—that the unsuspecting
stockholders have been betrayed and outraged
in rHeir rights. The wonder is that they bear
these flagrant wrongs with so much patience.
In some communities the sensation would
pass the bounds of restraint. If there ever
was occasion for the most overpowering cen
sure, it is found in the traasactfcns connected
with the recent history of this bank. We are
not only wronged at home, but we are dishon
ored abroad. Wo are not only defrauded, but
we are defamed. The presses in your city now
“begin to wake upon the subject. Why have
they slumbered so long! They have long
known that all was not right; and yet they
have been as silent as the grave. Yours
may have spqken out: but vrhat spell lias
chained ihe rest ? The alarm should be giv
en when the wrong iu doing; it comes foe late
when it has been consummated,
A Tremendous Storm. —On Thursday
evening, about t unset, a heavy lowering cloud
hung in the southern horizon; with every ap
pearance of bring heavily charged with elec
tricity and wind. At about dusk, it began to
manifest itself by a constant flash of lightning,
heavy thunder, a sarong wind, and torrents of
rain. This storm lasted, without intermic
siou, until about nine o'clock, when the wind
calmed oil but the rain continued to fall in
copious showers during the night, accompa
nied with frequent and vivid flashes of light
ning and deafening peaks of thunder. At 3
o'clock, a. id. yesterday, precisely, wo were
aroused by a tremendous roar of thunder and
very heavy wind, which proved to proceed
from a black . ioud lying oil'to the south, cov
ering the whole southern sky, tinged with a
bright rcdd.ra streak around the lower part of
the cloud, and just above the horizon. This
storm was soon drawn upon us with almost
the fury of a tornado, and being the morning
of the anniversary of that terrible scourge
which visited dur city, produced'the belief in
many, that we were about to witness a scene
similar to the Tib ol Mav, 1640, which caused
considerable consternation among our citizens,
particularly the ladies. Tins second storm
raged wild unabated fury until alter 4 o’clock,
ami the rain continued to pour m torrents un
til near eight. \Ye do not recqUect ever to
have witnessed a more incessant rain or seen
a greater quantity of water fall in the same
space of time. The streets presented the ap
pearance, daring ihe whole of the lore part of
the morning, and indeed throughout the great
er r-art of the night, of immense mountain
torrents. The whole scene was sublimely
grand, although a unique, and at times, an
awful spectacle. *
We learn from Dr. Tooley, that the quan
tify of water which fell during the night, was
4 <sl-100 inches, an amor :nprecedented,
and which ihe venerable tor informs us,
exceeds in quantity, during the same length
A time, any ;all since August, 1819-, auu pro
bably yes beyond even that.—Natchez (Mi.)
Free Tr- and r, May 13.
JUDGE ANDREWS—COMPETENCY OF
TESTIMONY.
Public attention has been recent!” directed
to a decision of the Judge of the Superior
Court of tiie Northern Circuit of this State,
whereby Uuiversalists are declared incompe
tent witnesses in a Court of Justice, on ac
count of their religious belief. The following
opinion of the late Chancellor Dessau sure, of
South Carolina, on the same point, (confirmed
also by the Court of Appeals,'of that State,) is
taken from the “Southern of the
19th inst. It is the case of “Elizabeth Fer
nandis vs YV m. Henderson, in which Charles
Jones, a Universalist, was a witness, and was
objected to on tire ground of his denying the
doctrine of a future state of rcwares and pun
ishments.” We find in the Constitution of
Georgia the following: “No one religious
society shall ever be established in this State
in preference to any other; nor shall any per
son be denied the enjoyment of any civil right,
merely on account of his religious principles: ’
We do not see how the decision of Judge An
drews can be reconciled with this clause of
the Constitution of this State. If the reason
ing of Chancellor Dessausure be correct, as to
“civil rights,” and what constitute them, the
decision of Judge Andrews is a direct violation
of the clause of the Constitution quoted
above.
“The question of the competency of this
person to be a witness has been fully and in
deed ingeniously argued and I am now to de
cide upon it. it is one of great importance to
this citizen and tire others who think like him,
as well as to the community at large. For if
he and they are excluded from giving evidence
in courts of Justice they would be a .proscrib-
ed and degraded class; they could not prove
their books of account in Court as merchants ;
they could not support prosecutions for injuries,
and violences committed on their persons out
of sight of other witnesses. Women, enter
taining these opinions might be exposed to
lawless violations in private without protec-
tion—murders might be committed on other
persons with impunity in the presence of this
excluded and degraded caste; and above all
tiie exclusion of these persons from being wit
nesses might be the commencement of a sys
tem tjf exclusions and distinctions of classes
among tiie citizens, entirely at variance with
our liberal institutions and cur republican gov
ernment. These were the bane of the an
cient republics, as well as of the modern re
publics of Italy, aryi engendered those hatreds
and civil feuds which ruined them all. They
deeply ■ injured the Swiss republics. These
evils ought to bo avoided if possible.
“The object of testimony is the attainment
of truth. It is the apprehension of obtaining
falsehood instead of truth which has induced
human tribunals to require the highest sanc
tion which can be obtained. An appeal to the
God of Truth in the manner deemed the most
sacred and obligatory on his conscience by
the person offered as a witness has been uni
versally held to be the highest sanction. Jews
and- Gentiles, Europeans and Asiatics, an
cients and moderns have resorted to and relied
on-this as the test of truth——the highest dis
covered by human wisdom.
“In the case before ub the person offered as
a witness believes in a supreme being, a God
who is the ruler of the uni verse and who is the
avenger of falsehood. But :n his creed that
vengeance is poured out on the foresworn wit
ness in this life and not in another state of ex
istence. He believes tiie impious wretch can
neither escape detection from the eye of Om
niscience nor punishment from Ornnipo-.
tcuce. It does appear to me, that this is a suf
ficient sanction to guarantee the attainment of
truth from a witness. It is said bv very learn
ed men that, the Mosaic dispensation did not
look beyond rewards and punishments in this
life, ami even in our Saviour’s time, the Saddu
cees did not believe in u future state. Yet
oaths were required abundantly under tha!
system as well as under all the heathen sys
tems. There is yet. another sanction drawn
from human laws. Every witness knows that
he gives evidence under penalties provided by
.human laws’ to punish falsehood in testimo
ny-
’ “What has made a great impression on my
mind, is that the objection is of vast extent, the
limits of which I cannot perceive, it might
exclude all those from being witnesses who
tlo not believe in the eternity of punishments,
it may exclude Roman Catholics, who believe
that punishments in another world may be a
voidedaltogether by absolution, or diminished
by masses and prayers. In short I know not
where the objection would stop in its opera
tion, and it would be more mischievous in this
country than in any >lher, because the un
bounded iiberty of conscience enjoyed by our
citizens leads to many deviations from the stan
dard of belief which others think correct.—
The business if (he Court is not with opin
ions.
“There was another ground on which it is
mv duty to express an opinion, R. was con
tended ’for the defendant that the witness was
entitled to be sworn because the constitution
of this State guaranteed liberty of conscience
which would be violated by excluding citizens
from being witnesses on account of their re
ligious opinions. The Ist Section of the Sth
Article of the Constitution, is that relied on.-
That Section provides that the tree exercise
and eiiioympnt of religious profession and wor
ship without discrimination or preference,
shall forever hereafter be allowed within this
Slate of all mankind, provided, that the liberty
thereby declared, shall not be so construed as
to exercise ads if licentiousness, or justify prac
tices inconsistent with the peace and safety of
the State. On the argument of tike case it
was contended by the counsel who opposed
the admission oi Mr. Jones as a competent wit
ness that the inouiry into his religious opinions
did not contravene this article of the Consti
tution ; that he might still enjoy ins religious
profession and worship notwithstanding such
exclusion, and that the exclusion would mere
ly operate on bis civil aau not on Lis religious
rights. T have considered this sul ject with
attention, and I am net satisfied with this ar
gument. If a man’s religious opinions are
made a ground to exclude bun from the enjoy
ment ol civil rights.. then lie dee.- not enjoy
the freedom oi ins rciig’.o:-* prffics-ion and
w orship. . His exclusion from being a witness.
in. Courts of. J usbcc, is a serious injury to h:m ;
it is also degrading to him, and others who
think with him. If set may be excluded for
their religious opinions from 1 rang witnesses,
they may be excluded from being Jurors of
Judges, and the Legislature might, enact a law
excluding fetich persons from h. Umg any eth
er office, or serving in the Legislatures, or be
coming teachers of Lc bools, and pro lessors of
Colleges.
“In my opinion this won in be m the very
teeth of the Constitution and would violate
the spirit of our institution?- Jdo not -know
in what that state of things would tidier from
tiie galling restraints on the Irish Roman
Catholics which have sc long kept that beau- j
tiful country and that high spirited people in j
at state of degradation and misery, of discon- j
ent and rebel lien. It would seem to me to
be a mockery to say to men you may enjoy
the freedom of your religious profession and
worship: but if you differ from us in certain
dogmas and points of belief, you shall be dis
qualified and deprived of the rights of a citizen
to which you would be entitled but for those
differences of religious opinion.—The proviso
in tire rat Section of the Constitution states
i
and worship. The restriction is upon ads
and practices and not upon opinion. Now the
belief in this case cf Mr. Jones, who is object
ed to as a witness, that there win not be re
wards aud ptiiiisiiiucxw in another state of
existence for deeds dene in this life, is neither
an act nor a practice—it is merely an opinion,
a religious profession. He does believe in
the punishment of evil deeds, but it is in this
world, under the superintending providence of
the omniscient God, who can never be de
ceived as to the import of human actions, or
their motives. This [ think gives a sufficient
tie to his conscience. Upon the whole, lam
of opinion that on principle as well as on the
provision of the Constitution, Mr. Jones is a
competent witness.”
From this decree there was an appeal and
the following decision made therein :
The.Courf concur in opinion with the Chan
cellor in this case and the decree is therefore
affirmed. Abraham Nott,
David Johnson.
The following table shows the valuation of
ihe taxable property of all the Stales of the
Union, except Delaware. In the slaveholding
States, the valuation runs high on account ot
the slaves being included in the value:
States. ~ Valuation.
Vermont, 29,000,000
Maine, 28,000,000
i New Hampshire, 31,000,000
M assacliusetls, 203,000,000
Rhode Island, 32,000,000
Connecticut, 97,000,000
New York, 941,000,000
Fenny v Ivania, 294,900,000
New Jersey, 70,000,000
Delaware,
Maryland, 100,000,900
Virginia, 208,000,000
N. Carolina, 130,000,000
S. Carolina, 200,000,000
Georgia, 180,000,000
Alabama, 200,000,000
Lo u i si an a, 150,000,000
Mississippi, 230,000,000
Tennessee, 203,000,000
Kentucky, 217,000,000
Ohio, ‘ 110,000,000
Indiana, 95,000,000
Michigan, 95,000,000
Illinois, 89.000,000
Missouri, 100,000,000
Arkansas, 90,000,000
V $3,700,000,000
Boston Evening Gazette.
From the New York Herald.
ARRIVAL OF TIIE HON. CHARLES F. MTTCHELI
THE FORGER, FROM MONTREAL. YosterdaV
afternoon, police officer JBowyer, who, has
earned justly the name of the Young Yiilocq
of New York, arrived in this city in company
with the honorable Charles F. Mitchell,
charged with forgery and fraud of no small
magnitude.
On tliursday last the requisition for his de
livery, addressed hy Governor Seward to Lotd
Sydenham, Governor General of the Canadas,
arrived in Montreal. Bowyer, to whom it
was addressed, delivered the document to Mr.
Daly, the Secretary of the Canadian Governor.
At this time Mitchell was heavily ironed, and
confined in prison. His behavior had been
insolent and overbearing, and be was ironed
in consequence. Lord Sydenham on Thurs
day addressed an order to the Sheriff'of Mon
treal to deliver the prisoner to the requisition
from N. Y., and on Friday night, Copt. Com
eau oi the Montreal police, took possession of
Mitchell. On Saturday morning last, with
great secresy, Capt. Comeau, with Mitch
eli in irons, and accompanied*by Bowyer, em
barked on board the steamer for the New
York line. Mr. the counsel of
Mitchell came on boad the bo:i1, and it was
supposed that some attempt would be made
to get out a habeas corpus to prevent his de
■ livery. But the rapidity of Comeau and Bow
| yer entirely put a stop to such proceedings.
The party thus accoutred then proceeded
with steamboat and railroad to St. Johns. At
the head of Lake Champlain they again took
boat and on board of this boat, before their ar
rival at Burlington, Captain Comeau, “in the
name of Queen Victoria 1, Queen of Great
JJritian and tiie Canadas,” doii\ered Mitchell
into the hands of Bowycr, the r -nv York Vid
orq. At Burlington Capt. Cornean took his
departure, after many sweet pa!iic- with
his charge. Bowycr, before their arrival at
Whitehall, took off’ Mitchell’s irons, and put
on him a neat handcuff’. In this way they ar
rived at Albany, on Sunday night, where Bu\v
yer made his returns to Governor Seward.—
Yesterday morning they embarked in the
steamboat and arrived here safe iasf evening,
when Mitchell was placed in the Centre
street prison, to await Ins indictment, trial,
and consequences.
.We have learned several curious facts rela
tive to Mitchell, some of which we may tell
now-—others hereafter.
It seems that .Mitchell walked about Phila
delphia in a state of disguise four days hi:-:r
ho left the Astor lions*'. \t I’hiladekffii* ho
wore an iron grey coat.—a broad brimmed hat,
a pair of spectacles with his eye-brows plucked
out. None of his acquaintance know him.—
His two “ contingent friends,” which were a
dagger and-a pill of prussic acid, were'.nth
him all the time. Qn Saturday, aft<
gene?, he travelled in the fame disguise, from
Philadelphia, to New York—and in the cars
he fell in with overal persons that .be knew
intimately, but wno did not knew hirn. On
Sunday he went up to Albany in the steam
boat Utica, and was side by side with Thar
low Weed the whole passage. Thurlow did
not. know his old friend. From Albany, Mitch
ell leisurely travelled to Canada, and took up
his residence in Montreal. The sequel’ has
been previously told.
Mitchell ha kept a journal of hie life for
sometime, which is m the hands cf the
thorities. IPs private papers, which’ contain
some curious political and nuanciol secrets,
are also in the same hands, but we presume
they will be concealed, or spirited away from
the public eve.
Mr. Riddle.—Tins gentleman : s out wY;
another letter, (a fifth experiment upon the
credulity of the American people.) in the
shape of a vindication of Mr. Juudon. His
object, he says, is to defend Mr. J. from the
attack cf the investigating er.-i.miittee. Tiie
whole of it may, we think, be summed up in
the following short paragraph :
Mr. Jaadon, while Cashier of the T". States
Bank, like tiie rest of its officers-and directors,
wished to speculate in stocks of course, ami
to enable him to do so, the hank lent him the
. amount of 8510,000. Finding after some
time, that this debt would be likely to be lost,
unless some means were provided for Mr.
Jaudon to pay it, the bank concluded to scud
him as Minister to the Court of St. James,
witn a salary averaging seine! lung over 1,-
OdQ per annum, and hi.-, brother as Secrctarv
,
less on the sale of Mr. JY. furniture, and gi>, <■„:
‘he whom legation an outfit of FLOMJ and
pays the rent of office, fee. more than SII,OOO
per 1 lie wnole of those i urn?* c-x
----eept s:N,000, Mr. Biddle infers K- paid V-n
account of his .liability to the bank, which be
makes a matter of great credit to Mr. Jau
■ don. Where is the man that would not pav
| Ins debts to his creditors, if they would em
ploy h : the same or half the - n<
j Ben llathbun would do it even and not make
any merit ol it either, it does appear to
us that these letters are characterized by as
cool impudence and as unblushing oiFronte.-",
as the* conduct of tiie foot-pad who takes
your money, and then argues it right, becau.
he possessed the might—Natchez Free Tra
der.
As Elopement. —We heard it reported
yesterday that one of tire young ladies :rt the
Convent of the Sacred Heart, fifty miles above
this eloped on Teusday night with a young
man, a former lover and ere this they probably
are man led. The part.es are from TeauCces.
I icayanc.
The TRANSACTIONS of THE U. STATE*
Bank. —We have received several explana
tions from the parties interested, of the recent
statement we gave from the Private Ledger
of the U. S. Bank, an extract from which vre
gave,'as given to us.
First, of Dudley Leiden, Esq. It seems
that after the refusal of Congress, to give a
charter to the U. S. Bank, the Branch in
Washington wanted to sell a parcel of real
estate which it held there. Mr. Selden, in
conjunction with John S. Crarv, W. W. Cor
coran, Mr. Riggs, and others of this city,
greed to make the purchase ‘on speculation,
and gave their notes payable to the cashier, on
the sale of the lots. If the prices of real es
tate had kept up, it is probable the purchasers
would soon have effected sales, and made
some profit —but as the general suspension
and revulsion succeeded, there was no possi
bility to get riu of the lots, except at ruinous
prices. Tiie cashier of the branch was em-
powered by these gentlemen to transact the
business—and the thing has remained in this
stale ever since. Mr. Selden never had any
discounts of the U. S. Bank. The note ap
pearing in the list was given in purchase of
the real estate, and has teen transferred,
without his knowledge, to the assignees of the
United States Bank.
Os the of her transactions, in which the
names of Daniel Webster and Edward Curtis
appear, tiie facts are these, as far as known.
About six months ago, Mr. Curtis endorsed a
note for $ 1090, drawn by Mr. Webster, It
was for 60 or 90 days. Since that period Mr.
Curtis has never heard of it, not even that it
way protested, and he always supposed that
it had been paid at maturity. This is the only
monied transaction in which Mr. Curtis ever
had anything to do in conjunction with Mr.
W ebster, Whether Mr. Webster owes tiie
bank that amount we know not, but it cer
tainly’’ is in the list of assets assigned.
The truth is, vve want, a full copy of the
“Private Ledger,” and must have it.—N. Y.
Herald.
Cultivation of tue watermelon. —The
best, soil lor tho V> atormelon, is a piece of
meadow, or the old sod land, ploughed the
August preceding, as deep as possible ; left
to be in the rough all winter ; early in the
spring cross ploughed ; and, if not pretty rich,
had best have a good coat of old well-rotted
stable-yard or chip-manure, scattered over it
previous to the second ploughing. This is
better than putting the manure in the hill ; as,
on examination, it will be found that the roots
of this plant spread over the whole space-from
hill to hill, and moreover are always to bo
found within three or four inches of the sur
face. About the third week of April (I speak
of the vicinity of Cincinnati) Jet the ground bo
marked out, by running light furrows with
tiie plough twelve feet apart, crossed by
others at tiie same distance. Where these
intersect, form a flat hill of 15 or 18 inches
in diameter, net over three inches in height.—
Immediately, if tiie weather is mild and favo
rable, plant 6 or 8 good sound seeds at one
side oi die hill. As soon as these appear a
bove the ground, or on that day week after
they were planted, put as many more of tho
same variety, at the other side ; and it is even
good practice, to make a third planting urn*
week after tiie second. You thus secure a
sufficiency of good stout plants in each hill.—
When tiie plants are yet in the cotyledon or
seed leaf, go over each hill, and with* the fin
ger gently withdraw the earth from about
each plant ; nearly to where the rootlets ap
pear. Lins will in a measure prevent the cut
worm’s attack ; will harden the stem, and
prevent its damping off if a cold, wet spell
come on. Leave at leasl Bor 10 good stout
j plants in each drill, thinning them out gradu
al]}’. as they seem to require room, until when
they begin to vine out, all may be removed
but. two. in the mean time, tiie ground must
be kept clear of weeds by die use of tho
plough or cultivator, and hoe. When tho
plants have wired out about a foot, go over
them iortiie Inst time; levelling olftiio ground,
and forming a neat flat kill of two feet and a
hail round the jdants, but taking care not to
draw any earth up to tiie stems. After tins
j t hey require no farther attention. A few weeds
j scattered about, of a trading growth, will bo
oi advantage rather ban otherwise.
J’itc cut-worm is the great enemy to our
watermelons, sweet potatoes, and early corn.
| The best cure is tall and winter ploughing;
j but where this has been neglected, muches
, the picking by hand, I have been assured by
j a gentleman of experience, may be rendered
• unnecessary, by scattering a little sait round
i margin ot each hill; that the worm in its
. mghf. journeys in search of food, will never
i cross the idle thus drawn.
It has often been attempted to grow the
watermelon in a hot bed, and transplant, but
never to cur knowledge, with success. It
might, however, be done, by planting in small
po-;s, taking care to harden ihe plants before
.-et-iiig them out and carefully turning tho
eai: of earth, enclosing the roots into the hill.
The t . S. Brig, Consort, is now at anchor
I n our hart r, and her office re, w hose names
| a y e atlacii('d io this no? ice, are engaged in a
j survey cf the East Pass, with a v;%w to ascer
’ tain correctlv, the quantity of water on Beg
Island Bar.
j J,. M• Powell, Lieut. Commanding :N. IT.
Harrison. R. Sennues. Jno. 1,. Ring, John F.
Borden and Ceorge L. Selden, Lieuls.; i)r.
Miner. A:-cY. Surgeon ; R. Wninvvright, W.
P. McArthur, Passed AlidU-Jpmen, ami F.
Bfolle, f.UptaiVs Clerk.—Apalachicola (Fla.)
Journal, May 2 -■
President Tjfier gave his first official dinner
on Thursday last. There were present the
member:- .-f the Cabins'', (except Mr. Web
ster and Mr. Crittenden, who are absent from
the dry) the .Mayor V> .isbmgffin, the Com
• wander iu Chief, the Adjutant General, the
; Senior Uommodord in the Navy, Morris—
CoriUiiar.uer Wan ir.gton, and General Jessup,
two or three tnembers of Congress, and a few
gentlemen of the city—including every Whig
editor. There were no ladies except those of
: the” family.—N. V. Signal.
ISocN’TY ox Sii.k. —The Legislature of New
‘fori; has passed an act aliening a bounty of
fidc-t.-n cents pur pound for all cocoons produ
ced in the Slate, and fifty cents per pound for
i tiie ‘reeled silk. The act u- to continue iu cf
j feet until June, 1, lixith
New Vloygii.-—We have examined a sin*
I guim- and highly approved Plough, manulac
! tured :..! the shop of Mr. Quarles in this city,
; of a inoJc-i invented and patented by Marshall
| Jiamuif-, Esq. and his son Seaborn J Minims,
j both d’ < taktibbeba county, Mississippi, it
’ >.•< resists wholly of iron;—handles, beam, helve
| bract.-’ and all, and is put up with great
; strength and neatness. Its weight is not
’ rni re than the average of ploughs on wooden
j stocki ■ and one of its great excellencies, be-
I sides its durability, is that the helve is so
I contrived that bv the aid cl two or three
w t- • j'i; different kiaus ct hoes may be a,-
1 ‘;c■ i” used the inert cccnvcmonce anti
Uucec-re Itr. Tire shovel: 2d. half shovel:
i ;) ( j. tVi n jin-'’ M reel: 4th. scooter or bull tongue :
■ : 7th: sweep: Bth. cut
ti,--,..- or jumping coulter.
ft ia indeed quite a curiosity, and shows.tho
1",',. >of 5,11 Ingenious. mechanical mind. Mr.
j .Siinmt. v. v that his son mostly perfect e ‘ the
• improvement. The patent right is sold for
one dollar each plough, when taken rcpnraie
,'v, and quite a moderate sum fer a v refy rigid.
We wish indeed that the en : < rpr'.xf .may prove
successful, and that the \rcr by mvoffiors may
be well rewarded, and aU; the : übiu by its
general use.—Tuscaloosa j.;p er.
Loos at this! — U. S. Ban.-; N • r::s •—As
signees of the assets of the - the ] *
8. ‘Branch at Pittsburg, re.Yi-r U- rc-. ewe ihe
note', of the Bank iu oi (L'O'e
iranticriod.