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are ihf face of his mistress when it beam* op
him with thorn regards which brook no witness 1
To am her look for one moment so ujion him;
Would have raised the young sculptor to the
mouuth heaven; but to {mint her so, to show her
eo to the whole world, he would have counted a
treason. Nor could he have tiorne that even the
counterfeit presentment of her whom he worship
ped in the sanctuary of his pure heart should
look upon every gaze, upon every lounger, ami
every enomr ntte with that melting glance, as
if she were every man's mistress who beheld
hew
44 Well, my son,” said Volpato, after some
days, to his favorite scholar, “w hat progress art
thou making ? Art thou satisfied with thyself?”
“ Ah, father,” sighed Antonio, ** I am in de
spair; 1 have done nothing. See!” and he
nhowed the fruits of his battled endeavors—lines
that had an undeniable resemblance to Maria’s,
hut without character—without style—full of
constraint—!<etraying the mental perturbation
•nd the doubtful hand with which they had been
traced. “ This will not do any more than the
rest,” and be tore it down the middle as he spoke.
Volpato looked surprised and chagrined, but
endeavored to encourage the young man, and
told him, at all events, to jienjevere. That night
Antonio did not go to bed; he sat and mused up
on the first sight he had had of the engraver’s
daughter, tilt the scene seemed to live again be
fore him. ifeizing the pencil, he drew from the
picture in his mind's eye. His success aston
ished hhn. He did not go to Voi[>atos the next
day, nor the uext. He shut himself up in his
own chamber and painted, from an original that
knew no caprice—no mutations of humor—no
fitful veerings of mood and expression—from
that image of his beloved which he bore enshri
od, consecrated within hint, It was not the
daughter of Volpato—it was the goddess—it was
Hebe, under the form of Maria.
In the meantime, the old engraver, as well as
his daughter and her favorite suitor, believed
that Antonio had given up the contest in despair.
Volpato was sorrowful. Raphael and Maria
congratulated themselves on a victory so much
rasier than they had expected. At length, the
young Nepolitian announced that his picture
was finished. Volpato sighed; but as he sat in
the studio, musing on the overthrow of his
hopes, and giving way to all his discontent at
his favorite's faint-hearted withdrawal from the
field, Canova entered with a glow of happiness
ut his face such as the master had never seen
there. One would say he had won Maria al
ready.
“Well, boy,” said Valpato, somewhat less
cordially than usual, “I thought thou had’st giv
en up. Raphael is ready.”
“And so am I, father,” replied the young
sculptor.
“How! and thou hast taken no sitting these
three days f # *
“As if Maria were not with me, wherever I
am!”
“Well! I see an omen of victory in thy face,
my son. I never saw thy eyes shine so.”
The next day was fixed for the exhibition of
the pictures. Volpato had summoned aR his
artiat friends, though the judgment was left to
Maria herself Side by side the two portraits
stood, each covered with a linen cloth; and bc
aide each picture, ready to withdraw his cover
ing at a signal from the old engraver, stood its
creator. Raphael, who had expected an un
contented triumph, had not been able to suppress
an exclamation of surprise at finding that he
liad still a competitor. His countenance, never
theless, expressed uudouhting confidence; and its
joyous and radiant looks rendered Antonio’s
Sand agitated appearance more remarkable.
features of the young sculptor had lost their
unwonton gtow;'liis heart sank within him as
the decisive moment came near. Volpato
gave the word, and the pictures were exposed to
view.
And was it possible that these two portraits
were designed to represent the same person!—
that enamoured Italian girl, with the fire of
pawioa burning in her large, liquid eyes, and
the sigh of voluptuous languor on her half-closed
kps—and that spiritual creature, with the glad
bright aspect of eternal youth—without one
taint of earth—one trace of the fall, in its Eden
purity ! The old artist looked on this picture
and on that. Which was the most admirably
painted, he could not tell. As little could the
assembled crown of conoscenti decide to which,
m point of art, the pahn was due. As to likc
uca they were on a par—both equally like and
unlike. Maria stood irresolute.
“litrl!” cried her father, “thou art neither
what Raphael nor Antonio has made thee.—
Thou art neither a sensual wanton, pining for
for paramour; and thy choice this day will de
ckle which thou art to lie. Take Raphael, and
that will he a true portrait of thee ere long; take
Antonio, and thy likeness will be this. It rests
with thee to choose whether thou wilt be lifted
above, or sunk lielow thy actual nature.”
As her father sjxike, a veil seeuicd to fall from
the eyes of the young girl. She saw the dill'er
etire between the love with which Rapheal and
that with whibh Antonio loved her. She saw
which love was worthier of her; and her judg
ment was with Antonio, though her heart was
with Raphael.
“Choose!” said her father—“judge ! Who
has best portrayed thee 1”
“It is as thou hai said, father,” murmured
Maria, in a low ami broken voice. “Neitherof
these portraits is mine; but 1 know what is thy
will, and—l obey.”
Half an hour after, the young sculptor, as he
passed along the trrllised gallery leading ’from
the studio to the dwelling-house of Volpato, and
which, mantled with all maimer of southern
evdeu-plants, formed a screen impenetrable to
the eye, heard, from the oilier side of the green
partition, voices broken by sobs and choking siglis,
and murmured words interrupted by passionate
kesses. Involuntarily, he stopped—he trembled.
He heard the accents of Maria Volpato calling
cm heaven to shorten her life—to snatch her
from this haled marriage—to give her broken
heart neat in the grave—and such other phrases
of a maiden’s despair. He heard her protesta
tions of love to Raphael; and he heard Rapha
el’s low, deep tones, now assuring her that he
would no* survive her loss—that they would
soon meet iu a world where there were no des
potic fathers—no rivals to thrust themselves
between loving hearts—now again speaking
words of courage and comfort to her, and declar
ing that he would yet find a way to battle the
enemies of their love—that he would tty with
for to France to England—he cared not whith
er. His art wuuk! make them indepeudant,
wherever they were; and all her endeavours
•fofihtrr V diwgfaiil to the delaying of the
marriage unlit u an , ‘•><?
Antonio did ai aUnd e than 4 nuntite,
sfupilkd to stone; suddenly ine power of thought
flowed hack upon him; he passed noiselessly on,
and entered the studio.
“My m;” exclaimed the old artist—,‘nowj
truly tuy son—come to my heart! What peace
dors it give me to think that a spirit like thine is
to hare the guidance of my Maria’s future life.”
“Father,” said Antonio, after he had returned
the old man’s warm embrace, “I have something
to m to yon.”
He looked paler than usual, hut the constraint
of a great resolution was upon bis accents and
his gestures; he spoke lirmly and with apparent
calmness.
•: You will think me.” he proceeded, “ungrate
ful, capricious, undeserving of the treasure you
have been on the point of confiding to me : and
undeserving of the treasure I am; capricious,
perhaps, i am. too;” but ungrateful I am not.—
What-I owe you l shall never forget.”
“What is all this!” said Yolpato, looking be
wildered.
“Siooe the decision which seemed to promise
me a life of more than mortal happiness, I have
looked, for the first time, deeply into rav own
heart; I have asked myself, can I give to this
bcauAtiul being the love she merits—the undivi
ded heart she has a right to demand !
“Well !** said the old rasa.
-Father, the answer which, a voice from the]
depths of nay heart returned, is, No—thou cans!
net! Thou caust <lo homage to hut one divini
ty ; thou canst yield thy affections in all their
fullness and fewer hut to one mistress; aad that
divinity—that tmatress” i
“New then,” said the engraver, “that mis
txes^i”
“Thai mistres..,” said the voice, “is—thv art T
look. you. father —Maria's beauty lighted up in
xJj darkness the lamp by which the deeper ims-
-teries of art revealed thcmeelvcs to me. . Maria’*
beauty Hashed into my soul the inspiration of
the ideal. From that moment to this, I have
confounded the prophetess with the divinity.—
My eyes are now opened. In the moment in
which your hand laid the hand of an earthly
bride in mine, and I saw her cheeks—her very
lips—whiten with a maidenly tear, .the con
sciousness broke upon my mind that I was about
to renounce the goddess for her servant—the
immutable, imperishable ideal, for the woman;
with her dower of change and decay. I felt
then that my mistress—my divinity—must lie
one whose brow, age cannot deform with wrin
kles, whose bloom sickness or care cannot steal
away. In short, it is a Hebe that I love, and
not Maria Volpato.
The old man appeared confounded; he look
ed at Antonio in silence; his astonishment, his
indignation were too great for prompt utterance.
The sculptor continued, after a pause, while his
cheek grew more palid, and his voice, steadied
only by an agonizing elFort, sounded almost
sepulchral—
“Give—Maria—to Raphael. They love each
other. Rapheal will make both her and you
happy—l would do neither. I will give myself
up to the art I had nearly proved untrue to, and
shall be happy—iu knowing that they—father!”
cried he, his acted composure failing him, and
he threw himself on the old mans’breast—“l love
Maria too well, too devotedly, to break her
heart!”
And his tears flowed like the blood from a
mortal wound.
Volpato saw all, heard all, and appreciated
the sacrifice of his young favorite. Pressing
him to his heart, with deep emotion, he whis
pered :
“There is a divinity, my son, which thou wor
sliippest before art herself, and that divinity is—
goodness.”
What need to make a short story long? Ra
phael Morghen married Maria, and Vdpato’s
prediction was not fulfilled, for the hearts of the
two young people were purified and ennobled by
sympathy and admiration of Cauova’s divine
self-denial; and the Neapolitan, if he did not lift
up his wife to an eternal being, did not, on the
other hand, bring her down to a sensual one. In
a few years she was no longer a Hebe, but neither
was she a priestess of Paphos; she was a come
ly Roman wife and mother, happy and giving
happiness.
As for Antonio, his subsequent career belongs
to the history of his times, and to tliat of his art,
which is for all time. He shut himself up in his
studio, returned to sculpture, and it was not long
before his Theseus proved to the world that his
eyes, his soul, had not been opened in vain to a
sense of the heroic. To him the engraver’s daugh
ter remained—what she had ceased to be to her
husband—ever the young goddess of that Tras
teverine studio. No other love replaced that
which she had awakened in the sculptor’s heart;
and to the undying influence of this feeling we
owe it, that, in later years, when Canova could,
with a calm breast, throw himself back into the
remembrances of that time, a Hebe, worthy of
his genius, made known to all lands, and recorded
for all ages, what had been, in the days of her
beauty and her girlish joyousness, The Sculp
tor’s First Love.
AMERICAN OCEAN STEAMERS.
The new ocean steamers lately contracted for
by our government are to be constructed, we un
derstand, in a manner which will render them
superior, in many respects, to all previous steam
ers that have been built on either side of the At
lantic. Two of them, it is stated, are to ply be
tween this city and Liverpool, and two are for
Havre. One of the steamers is to be ready for
sea on the Ist of January, 1847, and another on
the Ist February, the other two on the Ist of
July and August following. It is said that the
two which are to run between New York and
Havre arc to he named Washington and Lafay
ette ; the two for England will bear the names of
Europe and America. The following are to be
the dimensions of these boats : Length of keel
230 feet; breadth of beam 38 feet; depth of
hold, 24$ feet. They are to be equal to 1,700
tons burden each; and to be constructed in the
most substantial manner, anil be suitable for rea
dy construction into war steamers or steam fri
gates. They are to be supplied with marine en
gines of dimensions as follows: cylinders, 75
inches in diameter; stroke 10 feet; boilers, 12
feet shell and 35 feet long, with return flues; ca
pable of carrying 20 inches of steam across the
Atlantic. They arc to have wrought iron shafts
and cranks 20 inches in diameter, with iron wa
ter wheels from 25 to 40 feet in diameter, and 74
feet face. It is stated that Capt. Hewitt, of the
Utica, and Capt. Morgan, of the Victoria, have
been selected to command two of these steamer*.
’ [N. Y. Globe.
AVAR PREPARATIONS IN CANADA.
Since the arrival of lord Cathcart in Canada,
the military force has been greatly increased, and
an unusual degree of activity has been observa
ble in the repairing and erection of fortifications.
Private letters received in New York, state that
the black troops, 1000 strong, which were dis
banded in 1841, have been reorganized; 1000
infantry have been raised at Toronto, and are
now fullj^organized: a battery of artillery has
been completed at the same piace, also a troop of
cavalry, under Maj. Gen. Jones, and 1200 troops
heve been armed within the present month from
the West Indies. The militia of the north east
frontier have been assembled and put under pay;
while the entire militia of both provinces have
been enrolled, and the number held liable to du
ty, ascertained to be 137,500. All the forts are
in the veryjiest repair, and arrangements have
been made by which forces for their defence can
be concentrated in twelve days notice.
It is very unpopular to apprehend war with
England. We don't anticipate war. But if
the British go on in the work of preparations so
close to our borders much longer, we think it
would be well for Mr. Polk to instruct Mr. Buch
anan to commission somebody else just to ask
them again what they mean to insinuate by such
proceedings.— West. Continent.
The anglicized journals in this country,
particularly the National Intelligencer,copy with
an appearance of groat satisfaction the accounts
of the English preparations for war with the U.
States—while they do their utmost to render
odious the recommendations addressed by Presi
dent Polk to Congress to get ready for the war
which may ensue, and for which our adversary
avows that her preparations are intended. It is
natural that those who are gratified at the ap
pearance of strength in our enemy, should lie
displeased at <mr measures of defence. The edi
tors ol the National Intelligencer may have their
motives for such conduct—hut whatever these
Afcitot perceive what sympathy
they can have with the who I
wish well to the United States. -rt-p
% [A r . 0. Courier . |
“ -■ ■
Among the arguments employed in Congres |
and out of it, to reconcile the public mind to a
surrender to England of the north west coast
above 41) degrees is a disparaging reference to
its climate. “It is too far north, too cold for per
manent occupation, north of the most northerly
part of New England, and therefore unfit for
permanent cultivation, up to 54. 40.” The wes
tern slope of this continent is well known is he
milder in climate than the eastern, and said to
be even milder thrill the corresponding latitude
of Europe and yet the most considerable and ol
dest crites in Europe are north of 49 degrees.—
Vienna is nearly on that parallel, Paris is little
north ®f it, Antwerp is above 51 degrees, Lon
don about 51 degrees, Amsterdam above 52 de
grees, Berlin fully S3 degrees and Liverpool
north of 53 degrees—Edinburgh is nearly 56
degrees. In fact nearly all the ports
and most of the large capitols of Europe are
north of latitude 49 degrees. On the northwest
coast nearly every port available for comisercc,
or harbor for shipping, lies north of the same
parallel. The commerce and navigation of the
whole Pacific coast and the India and China
, trade hereafter, will all necessarily concentrate in
the jiorts of the northwest, about and above the
fme of 49 degrees, and this is exactly what
Great Britain foresees and requires in all her de
mands in Oregon.— -Mobile Register*
i Be not afraid of diminishing your own hap*
pincss by seeking tliat of others. He who la
bors wholly for the benefit of others, and, as ft
were, forgets himself, is far happier than the’ man
who makes hhxselt the sole object of all hi* af
‘ lections ami exertions.
DEBATE IN CONGRESS—MR. WEB
STER.
Mr..Yahce*. said that this question was of
no slight importance, inasmuch -as it involved
the hioney. power of the House. The resposi
bilities of a disbursing office to the appropriating
power involved a serious principle. He had yes
terday spoken to that point, and his argument
had not been answered either bv his colleague,
[Mr. Hilliard,] or by the gentleman from (Jon- i
necticut, [Mr. Dixon,] or by any other person
who had participated in the debate. The consti
tution (said Mr. Y.) confers upon this House a
power to appropriate public money, and it de
clares that all public money thus appropriated
shall be accounted for. The secret service
fund is public money appropriated by this
House. The resolution of the gentleman from
Pennsylvania calls for an account of its disburse
ment. The House has, therefore most unques
tionably the constitutional power to pass the res
olution, and it consequently becomes a question
of expediency only.
He would now, therefore, leave that part of
the subject, and advert to other matters. Yes
terday (said Mr. Y.) my honorable colleague
[Mr. Hilliard] said that he would make no
such attack upon a public man as that involved
in this resolution, or was contained in my re
marks; he would never make an attempt to track
down a great public man in that manner. Now,
I would ask of my colleague whether I did not
hear him, in the presidential election of 1840,
retailing to the people of Alabama the vile slang
of Ogteism. I heard the gentleman, with great
eloquence of manner, and to the great enter
tainment of his friends around him, tell how
many towels Mr. Van Buren used, and go into
many other particulars not fit to be repeated to
ears polite, or, even to ears as impolite as those
of the House sometimes scein to be. He went
into many interesting details about gold spoons,
and excited greatly the risibility of the crowd
who listened to him, and of myself among*the
number.
Mr. Hilliard did not hesitate to say that in
1840 he had taken some humble part in that
political contest which resulted so gloriqjisly to
the cause of sound principles. And, during the
presidential canvass, he did read t.cf some of his
constituents a portion of Mr. Ogle’s speech.
Mr. Yancet. My colleague confesses, then,
to ‘the soft impeachment,’ and therein confesses
that lie did try to track down a public man, and
that not in the manner in which, according to
the gentleman, I have helped to track down the
late Secratary of State. I did not, however,
follow that ex-Secretary into those filthy purlieus
with which he has shown himself to be very la
miliar. I did not state to this House liow many
towels he made use of, or how many gold or
silver spoons he had on his table; or go into any
exposition of any other of those unmentionable
luxuries which it is supposed the ex-Secretary
indulges in. My colleague, when he would
track down a great man, went into Ogleism; I
did not. If such a course is objectionable, then
I do not profess to know what is, or what is not
so. But my colleague defended the character of
the senator from Massachusetts with great
warmth, and zeal, and some eloquence. He
spoke of his high character, of his intellectual
power, his public services, and professed himself
to be proud to be classed with him as a whig.—
My colleague may have all that pride to himself.
For many gentlemen of whig principles I enter
tain great respect; but I should regret so be
classed with che party to which they belong.—
My colleague, I think, said that the name of
Webster stood next to Washington in the es
timation of Europe. I have never heard them
placed in that connexion before; a ß d the only
propinquity that I know of between the two
men is, that their names follow each other in
the alphabet. Washington was a whig in
whom I could glory. With the name of Daniel
Webster I loathe any connexion of a political
kind; not upon the subject of banks, for upon
uch subjects men may honorably differ, but with
reference to his course during the war.
But how did my colleague undertake to de
fend the character of this illustrious and god
like personage. I asked him if it was Mr. Web
sfbr’s opposition to the late war that gained him
the hearts of the patriots of the Old World?—
And how did he reply ? He said he knew noth
ing about that, but urged the plea of infancy as
an excuse for it, saying that Mr. Webster was at
that time a young man. I ace my colleague
shakes his head at this.
Mr. Hilliard said that he had declared,
when rising to address the House yesterday,
that he did not do so for the purpose of defen
ding Mr. Webster; nor should he have added a
word further to the debate, had it not. been for
the personal attack made by his colleague, when
he had observed that he should be happy, otter
the present storm had subsided, to see Mr. Web
ster still continuing to enjoy the same high re
putation lo which he had ever been entitled.
Mr. Yancey here quoted the speech of Mr.
Hilliard as reported in the Union.
“What he had to say was, that he had noti
ced with pride and satisfaction, when in Eu
rope, that the name of Webster was loved, hon
ored, and respected. He would meet the full
responsibility of this declaration, here and else
where.
“If Mr. Webster’s course was unfortunate as
to the war, he (Mr. H.] had nothing to do with
it. He envied the feelings of no one who would
turn over the pages of filth and vile party defama
tion to rake up charges against any man.
“I do not give my own opinion only, but I
state the fact that, in all the glorious constella
tion of American names, none is brighter in
European estimation than that of Webster.
“Mr. Hilliard was, he said, going on to re
mark that among the most eminent persons in
Europe, no American name, next to the name of
Washington, was held in higher respect than that
of Daniel Webster.-’
I merely bring these to the recollection of my
colleague, to show that he did not undertake to
defend mr. Webster against any one of the char
ges I brought against him. And yet he bestowed
upon his character the very highest commenda
tion. On what foundation did this commenda
tion rest ?
Mr. Hilliard. I stated that the people abroad
did not look into the minute of our party divis
ions. They did not undertake to go into such
particulars, but regarded mr. Webster lbr his
great and shining qualities as an American
statesman.
Mr. Yancey. It is not to the estimation in
which mr. Webster is held in Europe I am now
directing my remarks, but to the high character
attributed by my colleague to his favorite sena
tor. 1 asked him on what ground he rested
these commendations? Was it on mr. Web
ster’s course during the last war ? He said it
was not —he knew nothing about that. Was it
on the part he acted in the Ashburton treaty ?
No; my colleague said he had nothing to do with
that suhject. Then I inquired whether it was
because mr. Webster had said that if the enemy
[■were thundering at the gates of the Capitol, he
Wi ti<t Rot vote a cent for its defence ? He said
I ties.', wtas tot the cause. I then inquired whether
U was because lie was at this hour the pension
ed agent of the maßiifitfdnrer* ? Thai. is the ru
mor in all directions- It is uncontradicted by
his friends ; I believe they dare not deny it.—
My colleague admitted that that was not the
ground of his praise. Then what was it? It
must be something.
Me - Winthrop said he should reserve expla
uation on such topics till he had a full and a fair
opportunity of going into the subject; but he de
nied thht rar. Webster was, in any just sense,
the.pensioned agent of the manufacturing inter
est, or of any other interest. He had been char
ged at one time with being the pensioned agent
of the United States Bank; at another w'ith being
the pensioned agent of the British; and now with
being the pensioned agent of the manufacturers.
Mr. Yancey. I will not try conclusions at
tliis time with the gentleman from Massachu
setts. He does not deny the fact.
Mr. IFintiirof wished to add that he had not
denied the charge, because he did not know of a
single dollar having been raised in the city he
represented. No such fact was within his knowl
edge. As to the peculiar circumstances which
the honorable member had found stated in a
newspaper, he should neither admit nor deny
them. If they had occured, they were not within
his personal knowledge. He would deny noth
ing about which he knew nothing,
Mr. Yancey. I give great credit to the honor
able gentleman from Massachusetts fer the can
dor of his remarks. The gentleman does not
deny the charge. And why ? Because it is not
within his knowledge. This in very proper. I
make a’ statement, upon public newspaper au
thority with which almost the whole United
States are conversant. I have been informed
that tlie &nm of SIOO,OOO liao been raised by the
friends of mr. Webster to pension him as a sena
tor of the United State*. It is raised, as I un
derstand, on manufacturing stocks.
Mr. Ashjhjn here rpse and asked the floor for
an explanation; but mr. Y. declined to yield it.
Mr. Yancey. I understand this sum has been
placed to the credit of mr. JVcbster, or in trust
lor his family, or the money pledged to him. If
the fact is not so, the statement can be contra
dicted. It is further said that at the beginning of
this winter he was not disposed to come onto
the Senate at all, because some $30,000 or $40,-
000 of the amount had not been raised. He is
the attorney of the manufacturers. They have
raised for him SIOO,OOO in manufacturing stock.
Here is shown the peculiar cunning of the Yan
kee. If the “godlike” shall succeed in preven
ting a repeal of the tariff, the stock will be very
high; but if he does not, then his income will
sink in proportion. It is so arranged as to re
ward him in proportion to his success. It will
be remajked that mr. JFebster, coming from one
of the towns which the gentleman from Massa
chusetts (inr. Wrinthrop) represents, mr. Web
ster being one of his own constituents, that gen
tleman denies that “in any just sense” Mr. W.
is the pensioned agent of the manufacturers;
now’ as to what is a “just sense” we may differ ;
our standard of justice may differ.
I heard it said in Baltimore, by a w r arm friend
of Mr. IFebster, both personal and political, that
he w as a man of expensive habits, and was poor,
and could not afford to represent the State of
Massachusetts, if his friends did not raise him
this money. Admit that he is poor—as poor as
Cincinnatus, who was forced to follow the plow.
Can he not, like Cincinnatus, leave his plow to
do service to his country, an.d then, Cincinnatus
like, return to his plow as poor as when he left
it? Cannot a poor man serve his country? Is
there not patriotism enough in mr. W.’s
to induce him to submit to the common priva
tions to W’hich others submit, and to do without
the extravagance and luxury to which his expen
sive habits may have accustomed him, and serve
his country at a critical period like this, without
being paid $6,000 a year, above what any other
senator receives, for occupying a seat in the
Senate ? Why are representatives paid out of
the treasury of the United States, and not out of
the State treasuries ? Because, did they look to
their own States for their pay, local influences
and local interests would exert too strong a sway
over their minds, and they would not be able to
preserve that personal independence of character
which alone fits a man to act on general views lor
the good of his whole country.
The tax for the .pay of a representative is,
therefore, levied freyn the whole nation of which
he is a legislator. It is a wise provision of the
constitution- If, then, it be a fact that Mr. Web
ster is pensioned for his public services by a
particular class of men at home, is not the spirit
at least, if not the letter of the constitution,
thereby violated? If he is paid, what is it for?’—
Is it that his eloquence may resound with
in the walls of the tsenate chamber? Is it that
he may adorn the public counsels merely, with
out any view to private and personal interests ?
That is not human nature. If it be true that the
manufacturers, who have already accumulated
enormous fortunes, are still asking for more and
more protection, that those fortunes may be yet
further augmented, and mr. Webster represents
these interests in the Senate, it is not hard to di
vine that the SIOO,OOO have not been raised mere
ly that he may bring Isis talents and experience
to the ‘public councils. If, by the force of truth
ably presented, a flash of flight should ohance
to beam in upon his understanding, and show
him that the constitution forbids his favorite
doctrine of protection, can he raise his voice
against it in obedience to his conscience ?
Wfould he not be derelict to his engagement if
he did ? Might not the manufacturers turn upon
him and say, “You are our paid attorney; did we
not give you SIOO,OOO for the very purpose of
defending this doctrine of protection; and are
you now going to betray us?” No, sir; he is
bound, hand and loot;, so that when the tariff
somes up in the Senate, and lie shall rise and
argue for the constitutionality of protection, it
will be easy to retort upon him, tliat his thoughts
receive their coloring from the bribe which is
roiling like a sweet morsel under his tongue !
Is it, then, on this, that the high estimate of
his character, as alluded to by iny colleague, is
founded ? It is not. Before he went to Europe,
it is said, his debts were paid. When in Eng
land, it is also said, the Barings, those shrewd
and far-seeing bankers, paid him a thousand
pounds sterling for his legal opinion on the sub
ject of the Btate debts. Did those experienced
and able moneyed men invest two or three hun
hundred millions in our State stocks without first
knowing whether the American States had or
had not the power to contract debts ? J-Fould
they give mr. IFebster five thousand dollars for
his legal opinion merely as to that power ? If!
may be permitted to understand that transaction
in “any just sense,” it would be that that money
was advanced him for a purpose very far foreign
from that which appeared on the face- of the
matter. IFas it on this tliat my colleague based
his estimate of mr. IFebsters exalted character
—'an opinion given to a foreign Jew money-len
der against his own countrymen ? If not, on
what then ? lie has not given us a single item.
If all this is “tracking down” of public men,
then I fear I must occupy as fearful a position as
any of those who have presumed to attack the
‘•godlike.” 1 may prepare lor as terrible a
“scarifying” as ,my friend over the way from
Pennsylvania. And of what did this scarifying
and this rending actually consist? IFas it any
thing more that “false” heaped upon “false”
“creature” upon “thing,” and “thing” upon
“creature?” The eagle soars into the blue vault
of heaven, and darts upon Ills prey like the bolt
of Jove; hut the mujpovy duck loves to dip his
foul leathers into the mud, and scatter about the
dirty water on everything around- as lie shakes
himself free from it!
It is said that the gentleman from Pennsylvania
got a “scarifying.” I think that the gentleman
from Pennsylvnnia gave the senator an emetic,
and its operation has thrown off his stomach an
immense discharge of bile, with which he has
plentifully bespattered the gentleman from Penn
sylvania. Yet he still survives, and does not
seem much the worse for the infliction. It might
be a just conclusion, from the vast amount ol’
bile thrown up, that the senator’s system could
not have been in a healthy State. My. colleague
envies the feelings of no one who would turn
over the pages ot’ vile party defamation, to rake
up charges against any man. Let any man read
the debates of 1842, and see what the senator’s
whig friends said of him. If it was half true, it
placed him so low, that it was impossible he
should get any lower. I do not say that the
charges of the whigs were true—(God forbid
that I should be answerable for the truth of what
they say)—but I say, let any man look at what
they then said of him, and then say, if his triends
said such things of him, surely the gentleman
from Pennsylvania may; and I may refer, too, to
his public acts, to show that he is not entitled to
that high place by the side of Washington,
which my colleague awards to him.
I will now pass to my friend from Connecticut
over the way, [mr, Dixon.J He says that the
charges I made were gratuitous, and not suppor
ted by any authority. I have not heard one of
them denied. It has indeed been said that mr.
Webster is not, “in any just sense.” the pen
sioned agent of the manufacturers. Till it is
denied in other terms than these I shall believe
it. But the charges, he says, arc gratuitous. 1
have drawn them from history. If by this he
means that they are not matters in controversy
with the gentleman from Pen ifsylvania, I agree
that in that sense they wore gratuitous. But the
gentleman should remember that I was answer
mg my colleague, [mr. Hilliard,] who had lau
ded the character of mr. IFebster so highly. I
pro!--tad agaiyst those commendations, ami in
that point hi’ Jew my cfthrgto • gratuit
ous. I had a right to go for them to history; ftild
to use them.
The gentleman from Connecticut said that, be
fore I brought these charges I had his high res
pect. I trust his respect is not diminished. I
should greatly regret it. The gentleman and I
are old acquaintances and ohl frier'*’ - vere stu
dents in college together. I remember with the
greatest pleasure those days of our early life ;
and I think he has no cause to consider himself
aggrieved. If, however, I have lost anything of
his good will, piust e’en bear it as I may.
Mr. Dixon said mr. Y. still had that respect.
The gentleman thinks the history of the last
war has nothing to do with the character of mr.
Webster, and he thinks I was unfortunate in allu
ding to it. Why ? because a relative of the
gentleman from Pennsylvania was a tory.
Mr. Dixon. I did not ask tire gentleman from
Pennsylvania whether his relatives were tories,
but whether he had not said, that if he had lived
in the days of the revolution he would lumself
have been a tory; and lie said he would.
Mr. Yancey. Very well; then it seems to me
the only difference between mr. IFebster and
the gentleman from Pennsylvania is this: the 011 c
would have been a tory if he had lived in the war
of the Revolution, and the other actually was a
tory in the last war. One would have bees a
tory on centuaency,- and the other was a try
outright.
Why do I say this ? If the case had been that
mr. W. opposed the policy, and the justiee, and
the expediency of the war*up to the very hour
when war was declared, but afterwards support
ed and aided his country’s cause in the war, the
charge of torvism coijjd never have attached to
him. But, alter the war was declared,, if he re
fused to aid, but on the contrary only eiubarassed
and thwarted his country, then I say that he was
no better than a tory or a British whig. So on
this question of Oregon; the. gentleman from
Connecticut and I may differ,, but if a war shall
grow out ofthe question, sure I am that the gen
tleman and I shall differ no longer.
But how was it with inr. Webster? FFhenwe
were actually engaged in the struggle, and
things looked dark, and the result seemed
doubtful, (and in point of fact we did fail of at
attaining the end of the war, which was a re
linquishment of the doctrine of impressment,)
he refused to vote, to arm, or clothe, or feed our
suffering soldiers in the field. So low did he
then stand in the eyes of the patriots of this laud
as not even to deserve the epithet of “creature,”
unless the word “wretched” should be prefixed
to it. Nothing, sir, nothing can ever justify a
patriot in refusing to lend his aid to his country
in her hour of need.
But for the influence of Mr. W., and those who
acted with him, the war might have been pressed
with so much vigor and success, that this question
of impressment might at this day have been put
at rest, and not avoided as it was by him in the
Ashburton treaty, and left an open question still.
The gentleman said, that, when the compromise
act was adopted we had a constitution. That
was in the days of old Jackson’s glory; then the
democracy was triumphant and the constitution
was safely preserved in their hands. It it is now
mutilated, “broken down, destroyed, gone,”
the gentleman may look to the extra
1841 for the cause, when it was so grossly v
ed at the suggestion of his party leader
Clay.
The gentleman said it was mr. Clay who saved
the honor of the uullifiers. If he intended that as
a hit at me, he was mistaken, for I was not one
of them; I was a State-rights Union man. I
agreed with General Jackson that they were car
rying their doctrines too far, and if carried out, it
would destroy the Union. 1 might
however, in my own behalf, as
pleaded it in behalf of mr.
not disposed to do so, (tiiough
age.) But did Henry Clay save
uullifiers ? mr. Hayne had pr very
principles on which the compromise wms after
wards founded, at the session previous to the en
actment ofthe promise, mr. Clay did propose
the compromise ; but it was to save; not the hon
or of the nullifiers, but theprinciples of the pro
tective tariff. His farseeing ken per
ceived that it wjyi in danger H- e saw Verplanck’s
bill introduced mtotheJjrlouse,. reducing duties
15 per cent. Jackson to be in
favor of that saw the House was
about to pass the if that bill passed,
that he might American system.
He has said be strangled- by
that giant liercures ; the infant
from the cradleof its life, gave jt a
platform on which during nine-years, to rest and
.recruitits vigor.
The candidate ofthe wings, in the election of
IS4O, said during that canvass that he was oppos
ed to the repeal of the compromise act; but no
sooner was he in power than he cut in sunder
those bonds which ought to have been held sacred.
The compromise was violated by the tariff of
1842. The people became indignant, and hurl
ing these usurpers from their seats, and sent here a
democratic majority of sixty votes. VVeare now
pledged to repeal the act they forced upon us;
and, if we do not repeal it, we shall prove our
selves utterly recreant to good faith, honor, and
justice.
Though I did not belong to the nullifiers, and
though my party and theirs were arrayed in hos
tile battalions, and prepared for civil war, yet I
will say of them that a band of more honorable
men never existed. They never forsook one of
the great principles on which they had united.—
But never was such mutual rage and animosity
more nobly obliterated, and replaced by the most
perfect concord and brotherly harmony. They
agreed to modify the oath of allegiance, so that
Union men and nullifiers could take it, and every
trace of ill-will passed away like a cloud from the
clearface ofthe heavens. They sent to the Sen
ate one of the most gallant men that ever drew
the breath of life—the very quintcsccnce of all
that was to be loved in human character the no
ble, high-souled, chivalric Huger —the finished
and accomplished gentleman—the leader of the
Union party : more than this—they have since
that compromise elected two leading Union men
to the office of governor ofthe State ; and one of
them now fills that high office. In that gallant
■ little State there is heard no such appellation as
Union men or nullifiers. The people of that State
are unanimously united in tiivorof the great con
. stitutional doctrines of the country under the name
of republicans. Sir, the honor ofthe nullifiers
lias been in far better keeping than it would have
been in that of Henry Clay, Had it been in his
keeping, and been kept no better than hekeptliis
own, as conneeted with this compromise act, that
honor instead ofshiningasnow so brightly, would
have been a by-word in the mouth of man.
The gentleman from Connecticut, [mr. Dixon,]
errs thenin supposing tliatthere isany “rankling”
in iny bosom, because mr. Webster may have
interfered between the nullifiers and their object.
Their object, sir, was accomplished in the enact
ment of tiie compromise act. I have no cause
for any peculiar “rankling” in rny breast. 1
have not risen to interfere between mr. Webster
and the representative from Pennsylvania, whom
he has so grossly attacked. I should have been
content to have given a silent vote; and was in
hopes that the House would have done so, on the
resolutions introduced by that representative.—
They were merely of inquiry ; and as such did
call for debate. Discussion would have been
more appropriate on the information which those
relations may elicit. But as the friend of this ex-
Secretary chose rather to throw.the character of
their favorite into the debate which sprung up,
without my aid or instigation ; and as the whigs
have been warned not to permit the arm of their
champion to be thus struck down, while it is
dealing such mighty blows ; and as they have
carried their commendation so far as to place
him by the side ofthe loved and revered Wash
ington, and to claim that he brought love and re
speetto the name of an American citizen abroad,
by its association with his own, I could not sit
silent. Os Daniel Webster I know nothing, save
what the public records disclose. That history,
thus disclosed, has given me a loathing of Ins
public character, which I cannotand will notun
dertake to conceal. It richly entitles him to be
considered what the world said, and said truly, of
another great intqjlcct —it'not the “wisest,” at
least as “basest, meanest of mankind.” And yet,
sir, his infatuated admirers have styled him —pro-
fanely styled him, as was well said by the gentle
man from Pennsylvania [C. J. IngersollJ as “the
Godlikb.” Bir, he bears another familiar appelki
tion, and I must think a true one—“ Black Daur’
And his friend from Connecticut [mr. Dixon] has
given an illustration of what he thinks.this other
appellation means.
That gentleman said that mr. IFebstcr’s phi
lippic against mr. Ingersoll had remindedffiitn of
an anecdote he had heard, which was this: Du
ring the revolutionary war, or just previous, a
inr. Ingersoll held the office of Commissioner of
Stamps, the people made* him promise.to resign
it publicly and to swear never again to exercise
its duties. They placed Ingersoll on a white
horse, led him to the town house, and followed,
hooting and shouting behind ! my friend said
that the scene reminded him of Death on the
pale horse, spoken of in scripture, as followed
by Ilell! I presume that he designed us to
draw; the conclusion that mr. Ingersoll caught
h—ll in the castigation mr. IF. gave him. Per
haps, sir, he did. It at all events shows to us
that mr. fFebster has two characters, which,
Proteus like, he can assume, as his interests or
necessities demand —the “God-like” and the
“HelHike”—the “God-like Daniel,” and
“ Black Dan.' ” At all events, sir, no matter
what character he bears abroad, that character
,y ■•’ or. enviable one.—
For myself, i acknowt -V- • <-- ’ ‘ in
tellect ; but Ido not award luj to gicai
men for mere intellect. And when a great intel
lectual name is not associated with public integ
rity, I wall leave his praise to the hangers-on of
courts and the sycophauts of the palace. Such
names are unworthy of commendation from the
lips of a virtuous American.
mr. Cobb said he thought the debate had
gone as far as the House was disposed fb indulge
it. lie would make an effort, at all events, to
bring it to a close; and with that view he moved
to lay the motion to reconsider on the table. A
majority could dispose of the motion as it thought
proper.
mr. Bayly asked mr. Cobb to withdraw the
motion for five minutes.
mr. Cobb declined, remarking that the House
could decide it.
And the question having been then taken, the
motion to reconsider was laid on the table
Concealed Treasure —• Shortly after the
death, a few months ago, ot the Marquis de
Saint Leger, at Limoges, France, there was
found concealed in various parts of his house a
sum of £120,000 in silver. The heirs, ten in
number, resolved therefore riot to sell the house,
but to pul! it down, in the expectation of finding
more coneeahur treasure. The demolition is
row going on in presence of one or more of the
heirs. £60,000 in gold have already been found
concealed in various parts ol’ the building, un
der beams, dec.
COLUMBUS, GA.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 33, 184 G.
: “ Times Office” on Randolph Street, in the
Oglethorpe Building, in rear of the Post Office.
| SENATE VOTE ON THE NOTICE.
We have only time to announce the passage
ofthe “Notice” in the Senate, 40 aycs—l4 nays.
The resolutions passed, were offered by Mr.
Johnson, of Maryland, and are the same as Mr.
Crittenden’s with an immaterial alteration.—
They leave it discretionary with the President
to give the notice as to time, &c.
They will have to go to the House, and the
they will be acted on imme-
body.
AND MR. INGERSOLL.
papers have rushed to the rescue of
Mr. and throwing up their caps, at
against Mr. Ingersoll, have pro
r glorious.” terrible,” “crushing.”
to question Mr. Webster's
and we will not now, although \\<
at philipic against Mr. Ingersoll,
them off to the best advantage..
But tfcgiecstacies of the Whig press will not an
nihilate the fact, that Mr. Webster possesses a
very’ questionable reputation as a public man.
Fm a quarter of a century’ this distinguished man
under a cloud,- and were we his parti
cular friend, personal or political, we should re
joice at the controversy into which he is now
launched, as the means of clearing up the mists
that have settled upon his great name. But his
friends should not halloo before they are out of
the woods. Mr.Webster may have made a “crush
ing speech,” and the grave charges brought
against him, be nevertheless true. Mr. Ingersoll
has pledged himself to prove them and the House
ol Representatives have, at his request, passed a
resolution of enquiry for papers, by which Mr.
Ingersoll promises to sustain hit*charges, which are
nothing less than a corrupt use of the public mo.
ney while holding the high station of Secretary
of State.
To show that it is no time lor Whig papers’ ter
cry out “ victory,” we copy to-day the remarks
of Mr. Yancey ori a motion before the House, con
nected with this question.
As Mr. Webster’s great name is the property
of the country, we shall rejoice to see it cleared
of all taint of suspifcion.
NSW YORK CHARTER EJECTION.
We learn from the N. Y. morning neWs of
another Democratic victory in New York city—
.the News says:—The election resulted yesterday
.in a splendid triumph for the Democracy of
New York, in spite ol’ all the prognostications of
evil which so many had drawn froto the local
dissensions dividing our friends in several ofthe
Wards. Wc have clected our Mayor hy a ma
jority of about 7000 over the candidate of Whig-
Nativism, and about 13,000 over the candidate
of the naked Nativismyjerse. Both branches ol
the Common Council remain strongly Demo
cratic. In each Board wc shall have fifteen
Democrats to two Whigs and one Native. It
is last year’s Waterloo over again. Few words
suffice to announce such a victory, and the sim
ple figures best tell their own story. We have
made the most full and accurate collection of
the returns that was possible, and we leave
them to speak for themselves. Wc have not the
•returns of the vote in the Bth, 12th and 14th
Wards on any ticket, but we have no doubt that
we give the result accurately, except, perhaps
as to the members elect from the 14 th Ward.
The aggregate vote was as follows, Mickle
(Dem.) 18,365 1. Taylor (Whig) 12,835 ; Coz
zens (Native) 7,027; Smith (Nat. Re.) 523.
CONNECTICUT ELECTION.
Who would have thought it 1 Connecticut
gone for the Democrats! A Democratic Legisla
ture is elected, which will result in the election of
a Democratic Governor and State officers.
One hundred guns were fired in New-York ci
ty in honor of the victory.
GENERAL TAYLOR.
We published a report last week, that this offi
cer had retired from the Mexican guns pointing
across the river, four miles fr om the original site
of his camp. Letters published in the N. O. pa
pers and in the Savannah Georgian, written from
General Taylor’s Camp, deny this, and say that,
on the contrary he was throwing up a field work
where he was and had sent to Brazos Santiago,
for six eighteen pounders.
INSTRUCTION IN GEOGRAPHY.-
We invite the attention of parents to the card
of Air. Hard, a gentleman who has invented a
novel and simple system ot instruction in Geo
graphy. We had the pleasure, on Monday, of
hearing a recitation from one of his classes at Mr
Slade s school, and have no hesitation in pro
nouncing his system, highly ingenious and use
ful. We do not doubt, that he can perform his
promise of imparting a greater and more thorough
amount of geographical knowledge in 15 lessons,
than can be learned by the usual process in a
year.
dj* Mr. Mills is astonishing the citizens of
Augusta with experiments in Mesmerism. Our
friend of the Constitutionalist seems to be as
much staggered as we were two weeks since.
And this reminds us that the Editor of the En
quirer had something to say about Mesmerism
last week. When the Editor will condescend to
go to witness some experiments and unwrapping
from himself the cloak of perfect knowledge
exhibit a teachable spirit, and admit that there
“ are sonic things no! drbamt of in his philoso
phy,” it will be time enough to the ques-
VhirtV. ‘Th*-phenomena exhibited defy
reason, criticism and philosophy, and that person
whose senses arc not staggered by them must be
more than human or less than man.
Gen. Houston, Senator from Texas, has made
his debut in a speech in favor of the notice, and in
vindication of the Administration on the Oregon
question.
Warlike Preparations in Canada.—
The following we find in the British Canadian,
a leading Government paj>cr, published at To
ronto :
“In consequence of the present unsettled
state of the relations between Great Britain ffiid
the United States, orders have been forwarded to
Woolwich for a powerful armament, consisting
of various pieces of ordinance of different cali
bres, gun-carriages, aqununition, &c., for the va
rious ships of war and steam vessels at present
stationed or. the coasts and rivers of Canada, and
the lakes that form the boundaries between it and
I the United States. The number of pieces of or
dinance that will be required for this purpose, is
estimated at mere than 300. Toronto is to be
fortified similar to Kingston, together with other
projects of a like nature —so that should -'broth
er Jonathan” precipitate matterr, he will find a
warm reception here no i\cll as eUcwhere.
THE ENQUIRER.
Our neighbor surprised us last week with a
Volley of Editorials, aimed at us after a fortnight’s
intermission. Wc had supposed as wo were let
off the week previous, that we should be spared
altogether f hat it seems the Editor was only ta-
Eiug two weeks instead of one, to load. We
hope the gun did not kick at his end of it, as wc
are happy to assure him wcS feel quite well at this
end.
A few words is all 1 that is Accessary in reply—
First of Oregoil: The Editor thinks otir fault
finding with the dilatory action ofthe Senate on the
“Notice” goes to the extent of aft argument
against the Senate itself, as a Constitutional co
ordinate branch of the Government. In short,
.because the Senate sometimes errs, ergo, the Sen
ate ought to he abolished.
The Enquirer may jdmp to that conclusion if
it pleases, but wc do not approve of the logic,
and therefore decline to take the leap. And we
think we might put sohie eases in the form of his
syllogism, which would astonish him into a halt.
4 or instance our neighbor we take it, disapproves
of many things done by General Jackson', Mr.
Van Buren and Mr. Polk, and indeed of all the
Presidents for the last 20 years, except during the
brief incumbency of Gen. Harrison. Docs the
Editor, therefore, think that the Presidential of
fice ought to be abolished I It is enough to state
the question; without arguing it.
This is the only point made by the Enquirer,
.and upon this it predicates- the following solemn
conclusion of its article.
“It surely can not be, article of the
Times was duly considered before it Was submit
ted to the public. The’ general adoption of such
views would be the death-kuell of our Constitu
tion, as it is. How then are we to account for
that extraordinary editorial ? unless we give our
neighbor the credit of being under the influence
of the iron ‘ Will of the magnfctizer.’ ”
Wc don’t 1 know whether to laitgh of to cry.
The “ Change Bills” is the topic of another
paper pellet. The Editor becomes sententious
on this subject; and lets us have it in this wise :
“'sound currency.”
: “Every species of “Humbug” is in the ascen
dant just now, and with them our patience is ex
hausted, notwithstanding we had in store, as we
thought a very abundant supply.
The war .against Change-bills is-to be tortured
into a “defence” of a “sound currency” —the
Sub-Treasury system—the veriest party humbug
in a gullible age.*
lit January laid, as a a Grand Juror, wc based
our opposition to an unauthorized circulation
chiefly on the ground of public wrong—a violation
of Jaw—and recommended the proper authorities
to take ofthe matter.
Now that we do not sympathize and act in con
cert with those who desire to use the* question,
;as we apprbhcnd, for ulterior purposes,"and stated
the fact that the “fever” was abating, it it regar
ded by theTimesas “tantamount ton defence of
the ehinplastefs.” This appears t is irf t6be a ve
ry queer conclusion. Ours was, and’is, the plan
•to abate'the nuisance. The Times, it would seem,
prefers the mad party rftvlngs of a burning fever
—We, the quiet results oflogaj suasion.”
Here’ is the shell—det us see if we can find the
kernel of the argument; First, the opposition to
Shinplasters is a “ humbug.” Yet the Editor as
Grand Juror in January last, condecended to soil
his fingers with this “ humbug”—or may-lie, it
is only gotten to be “ humbug” since lie dropped
and other people hire taken it up.’
But the “ Grand Juror” it appears “ based his
“opposition to &n ! unauthorized- circulation
“(we quote the Enquirer)) chiefly 1 on the
“ ground ofa public wrong ■ —a violation of law—
“ and recommended the proper authorities to take
“ cognizance of the matter.” This is what the
Grand Juror did; and now what niOfc have wo
of the Times done 1 What other grounds have
wc, and what stronger grounds could wc, put the
suppression of this “ humbug” upon, than “pub
lic wrong,” violation of law,” etc. etc. etc.
But the Enquirer throws out dark and myste
rious hints about “ ulterior purposes’’ in those
who are “ using this question.” If the Editor
has seen or can see any such purposes, he can
pierce farther into a millstone than we can. We
know of no such purposes—we have heard of
none in others—wc have of our own. We
war upon Shinplastcrs fron/an instinctive horror
of their shocking immoraufy and injustice. Our
experience, our our com
mon sense, hav<s*'all taMght us that they were a
dangerous instrumental fraud upon the commu
nity in the hands of jftny man—that they possess
none of the sanctions, nor the intrinsic charac
teristics of genuine money—in short, that they
.are—what more condemning epithet can we ap
ply so them than to say they are —Shixpustebsl
With all respeef, wc must say that we have
much better reason (if we those) to suspect the
Enquirer ot piAioses” in giving llicse
pestiferous a ! yuujlielpiiig hand, than lie
to suspect is really so natural a
thing with all nfHfcnlcd ‘and straight-forward
men—opposing tl^Mlf
Now the Shinpla'slcrs or again:!
them—which jgS lor’ them, why, sink the
“ Grand J say If against them, what
was-more to us, in reply to our
articlo upon this subject, that we were mistaken
in supposing-him (the Editor) to intend a defence
I Enquirer takes two
and then pronounce*
its to be an out/age
and throws out (to
ibout “ ulterior pur
“ pick his flint and
ts, we repeat—“ Lc
I ,
.ouii.
liberty” taken-by
ote, bat thank them
r as wc have ever
. It gives us great
2 evidences of skill
l industry. Every
ffort of mind that is
i of cotton growing,
:ment in the useful
e to the Southern
ural advantages for
irts, wo arc far be
lted country m m of
step taken in the
race of competition at the South deserves well
of the country.
Harris County, April2o, 184$.
John Forsyth, Esq.
Dear Sir: —Pardon the liberty xve take of send
ing you a sample ofthe Flour wc make at our
new Mills. We flatter ourselves that we have
made some advance towards the quality of I“How
ard street” flour, and hope you will enjoy one
good loaf made of Soother a manufactured, flour. —
If the sample we send you prox-cs as good as that
we have used ourselves, you may tell jrwir up
country fricuds as you equally meet them, that
they can have good flottr made at the Kacfa/a
mills, 16 miles from Colrimbus, between the
Hamilton-and the Wlritesville roads. And no
matter how much sinut may be in the wheat, tin
flour cannot be distinguished from that made of
the cleanest i|dmatf
Yews respectful Iyw :
lILAI. KOIWRTSQN & (so.
Tolly Bodine ajjfady been tried upon
three several the murder of fa r
, hu banj, is tojptaud Ural at Touch
kcep.dc. N. V# m ■