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COLUMBUS, GA.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 89, 1816.
* H Offir?” on Rautlolpli Street, in the
Oslrthorjr Biiildin;,iii rear of the Post Office.
THE SEJATE OX THE NOTICE.
The follow in” are the rcsolutionsofNotice, ‘and
\ utc thereon'to terminate the convention of joint
occupancy of the Oregon territory.
‘•Rrsttlcnl. 4~c. That by the convention conclu
de,! the twentieth day of October, eighteen hun
dred and eighteen between the United States of
America, and the kin” of the United Kingdom of
Great lirtla<n and Ireland, for the period ot ten
years, and afterwards indefinitely extended and
continued in force by another convention of the ,
name parties, concluded tiie sixth day of
til the rear ofonr Lord one thousand eight hun
dred and twenty-seven, it was agreed that any
country inav lie claimed hy either party on the
northwest coast of America westward of the Sto
nv or Rockv mountains, now commonly called
the Oregon territory, should, together with its
harbors, Iwys and creeks, and the navigation of
all nvers within the same be free and open’ to
the vessels, citizens, and subjects of the two pow
ers, but wit,nmt prejudice to any claim which
cither of the parties might have to any part of
* tid country; and with this further provision, ill
the second article of the convention of the sixth
f August, eighteen hundred and twenty-seven,
that either party might abrogate and annul said
convention, on giving due notice of twelve
iiioutlis to the other contracting party —that it
bad now become desirable that the respective
claims of the United States and Great Britain
übuutd be definitely settled, and that said terri
tory may no longer than need be remain subject
to the evil consequences of the divided allegiance
of its .American and British population, and of
the confusion and conflict of national jurisdic
tions, dangerous to the cherished peace and good
understanding of the two countries. And there
fore. that steps be taken lor the abrogation of
the 6lh August, 1827, in the mode prescribed in
ais id article, and that the attention of the gov
ernments of both countries may be more earnest
ly and immediately directed to renewed offorts
tor the amicable settlement of all their differences
and disputes in respect to said territory.
*-. Ind l>e it further Besot red, That the Presi
dent of the United States he, and he is hereby au
thorized, at his discretion, to give to the British
government the notice required hy its said se
cond article for the abrogation of the said conven
tion of the sixth of August eighteen hundred and
twenty-seven.’*
The vote oil the resolution is as follows:
Yeas. —Messrs. Archer, Ashley, Atherton‘
Bsgby, Harrow, Benton, Berrien, Calhoun, Cam
eron, Chaim irs, J. M. Clayton, Corwin, Critten
den, Davis, Dayton, Dix, Greene, Haywood,
Houston, Huntington, Jarnagiu, Johnson of Lou
isiana, Lewis, McDufiic, Mangum,Miller, More
bead, Niles, Peirce, Pennybacker,, Phelps, Rusk,
Sevier, Silymons, Speight, Turney, Upham, IFeb
etcr and IPdodbridge—4o
Nays. Messrs. Allen, Atchison, Brecse,
Bright, Cass, Tbos. Clayton, Dickins, Evans,
Fairfield, II aunegan; Jenncss, Semple, Sturgeon
and IKescott—l4.
Although the resolutions arc not in the shape
we should have preferred them, the main point,
to-wit: the purpose of this government to put an
end to the joint occupation—is to be accomplish
ed. This vote is full of pregnant commentary
on t!c immense amount of verbiage that has
Istn thrown away on this subject.
lot the reader revert to tlic opinions of certain
parlies and politicians, as expressed, when Mr.
Polk first recommended Congress to give this
•• Notice.” We all remember that the “ Notice”
was virulently opposed and denounced per sc.
It was an unwise and dangerous measure—it
would involve us in a collision with England and
it would lose a country which might be gained
by a “ masterly inactivity.”
This was the cry of the Whig Editors in full
chorus—and more than that, they appealed to
the iSeuate and vaunted their confidence in that
staid body to stand as a bulwark between an am
bitious President and a passionate House of Re
presentatives, and the untold horrors of a war.
They praised Mr. Calhoun to the uppermost
skies and told him how the country looked to
bun to nip the pernicious measure in the bud
•ltd thus to “ save his country.”
\Vc!I, the subject has been discussed ad
nauseam, in Congress—out of Congress, public
opinion lias bubbled at 49 and boiled at 54. 40.
Whig Ivlitors have boxed the compass with the
vaii iblencss of a hurricane, blowing hard which
ever way would kick up the greatest amount of
•lust—abusing every Democrat that was opposed
to them, without once condescending to “ define
their own positions”; until finally we have reach
ed the end. And what is it? Why, tlie “No-;
tice”—the “ Notice” sustained by the weighty
rotisi.leratkms set forth in the first of the Senate
resolutions, suid to be given at the discretion of
•lie I’n -ident, by the terms of the second. On
tln-so resolutions, 40 Senators, including Mr. Cal
li nm. the mass of the Whigs, and the 49 De
mocrats voted in the affirmative.
Thus lias the grave Senate, which was looked
to checkmate our Dou Quixote President, voted
40 to 11 to give this terrible “ Notice”—to do
in sb.Mt. what the President recommended—what
the W big Kditors black-washed him for recorn-
Kt ‘nding, and what the jn'ople have, do now,
mi l will in the sequel, more than ever, approve.
Hut tor two features in the resolutions of the
Senate, tJiey would be in our opinion perfectly
satisfactory and all that the National exigency
Itoth ohj-cti-Mi* go to the same point—an ap
parent want of unity of actlbn. The first is that
iln v leave it to the President to give the notice
.tt hi-. l:-*Tvtron,and thereby seem to evade res-
U'lbiluv on the j*arl of the Senate, and the se
>- >nd is that differing in form from those of the
H mk more tinre ha* to tie consumed in their
di>oU''ion and passage in the latter body. Con
in now about to do, at last, what it appears
.* us an enlightened and vigorous policy should
hive taught them to have done during the first
in >ath ot’ the session. Better late than never.
\nd w e congratulate our readers as a part of the
c.mnlry, that the American Senate, which was,
rein'll upon, to refuse to second and to give vitali
ty to the patriotic recommendations of the Execu
tive. have after the most ample discussion and
on tlw fullest consideration, stamped its policy as
wise, sound and salutary, by the heavy vote of
40 to 11.
Since the above was written, we have intelli
gence of the following further proceedings!
In the llou<e of Representatives the resolutions
from the Senate, which hail been substituted for
Ihe original resolutions of the House, were taken
up and amended, on motion of Mr. Owen.—
The previous question v\a then called, and car
ried. All debate was then cut off and no time
was lost in the discussion. The resolutions, as
amended, were then adopted by a vote of 144 to
41, in the fbdowiag form; the word* in ifrdi-cs
K ing the amendments pr oposed and carried this
in the House:
••JOINT RESOLUTIONS eor.ccn.iag the Oregon,
territory.
**That, bv the convention concluded the twen
tieth .lay of October, eighteen hundred and cigh-
Unj, between the United States of America and
the king es lac United Kingdom of Great Britain
M<i tee land. 6*i the period often years, and af
terwards indefinitely extended and continued in J
bv another convention of the same parties, ]
concluded the ‘-iiph dav <*! August, in the year of!
~>ur Jhpot one thoesinJ e*gbt hundred and twen- ]
. ty-lihee, it was agreed that any countey may be’
claimed hy either party on the northwest coast of
America westward of the Stony of Rocky moun
tains, now commonly called the Oregon territory,
should, together with its harbors, bays, and
creeks, and the navigation of all rivers within
the same, be ‘free and open to the vessels, citi
zens, and subjects of the two powers, but with
out prejudice to my claim whicli either ot the
parties might have to any part of said country;
and with this further provision, in the second ar
ticle of the said convention of the sixth of Au
gust eiahtecn hundred and twenty-seven, that
either party might abrogate and annul said con
vention, on giving due notice of twelve months
to the other contracting party —that it lias now
become desirable that the respective claims oi
the United States and Great Britain should be
definitely settled; and that said territory may no
longer than need be remain subject to the evil
consequences of the divided allegiance of its
American and British populaticn, and of the
confusion ami conilict of national jurisdictions,
dangerous to the cherished peace ami good un
derstanding of the two countries. And, there
fore, the steps he taken for the abrogation of the
said convention of the 6th August, 1527, in the
mode prescribed in its 2d article, and that the
attention of the governments of both countries
may be the more earnestly directed to the impor
tance of a speedy adjustment of all their differences
and disputes in respect to said territory.
“Sec. 2. And he it further resolved, That the
President of the United States he authorized and
requested to give to the British government the
notice required hy its said, second article for the
abrogation of the said convention of the 6th of Au
gust, 1827?”
It will be seen that the House has adopted the
preamble or first resolution of the Senate, which
sets forth in thfe clearest and most conclusive
manner the reasons in favor of terminating the
convention of 1827, hy the “notice” and have
substituted for the second resolution, which re.
quires the President to give the notice, at his
discretion, a resolution that the President “ be
authorized and requested to give the notice.”
It will he perceived also, that the vote in favor
of the notice is 21 stronger than when the ques
tion was taken in the House two months ago.
The following are the yeas and nays on the pas
sage :
YEAS—Messrs. John Quincy Adams, Ste
phen Adams, Anderson, Atkinson, Barringer,
Bell, Benton, Biggs, James Black, James A.
Black, Blanchard, Bowlin, Boyd, Brocken
brough, Brodhead, Milton, Brown, William G.
Brown, William W. Campbell, John H. Camp
bell, Carroll, Cathcart, Reuben Chapman, Chase,
Chipman, Clarke, Cobh, Cocke, Crozier, Cullom,
Cummins, Cunningham, Daniel, Dargan, Jeffer
son Davis, Do Mott, Dillingham, Dixon, Dobbin.
Douglass, Dunlap, Edsall, Erdinan, John H.
Ewing, Ficklin, Foster, Fries, Garvin, Gen
try, Giles, Goodyear, Gordon, Graham, Grider,
Grover, Hamlin, Haralson, Harmanson, Harper,
Henley, Hilliard, Hoge, Elias B. Holmes, Hop
kins, Hough, Samuel D. Hubbard, Washington
Hunt, James B. Hunt, Charles J. Ingcrsoll, Jen
kins, James H. Johnson, Joseph Johnson, An
drew Johnson, Geo. W. Jones, Seaborn Jones,
Kennedy, Lawrence, La Sere, Lewis, Ligon,
Lumpkin, Maclay, McClelland, McClernand, Mc-
Crale, Joseph J. McDowell, Jas. McDowell, Mc-
Henry, McKay, John P. Martin, Barclay Martin,
Morris, Morse, Norris, Owen, Parian, Payne,
Perriil, Pettit, Phelps, Pollock, Price, Ratlibun,
Reid, Relfe, Ritter, Roberts, Julius Rockwell,
Root, Ilunk, Sawtelle, Sawyer, Scammon,
Sehenck, Seamen, Severance, Leonard H. Sims,
Truman Smith, Albert Smith, Thomas Smith,
Robert Smith, Stanton, Starkweather, Stewart,
St. John, Strohm, Strong, Sykes, Thomasson,
James Thompson, Jacob Thompson, Thurman,
Tibbatts, Tiklen, Tredway, Trumbo, Went
worth, Wheaten, White, Wick, Williams,
Wilmot, Wood, Woodruff, and Yell—l 44.
NAYS—Messrs. Abbott, Arnold, Bayly,
Bedinger, Burt, John G. Chapman, Augustus A.
Chapman, Collamer, Cranston, Garrett Davis,
Dockery. Droingoolc, Edwin H. Ew’ing, Faran,
Foot, Grinnell, Isaac E. Holmes, Edmund W.
Hubard, Hudson, Hunter, Joseph R. Ingcrsoll,
Thomas B. King, Long, McGaughey, Marsh,
Miller, Moseley, Niven, Pendleton, John A.
Rockwell, Seddon, Simpson, Caleb B. Smith,
Stephens, Thibodeaux, Vinton, Winthrop,
Woodward, Wright, arid Yancey—4o.
The House has also taken another important
step in carrying out the policy recommended by
the Executive, in the passage of the following en
titled :
A BILL to protect the rights of American set
tlers ill the territory of Oregon, until the ter
mination of the joint occupation of the same.
•‘■Be it enacted by the Senate aad House of Repre
sentatives of tee United States of America in Con
gress assembled, That the jurisdiction of the su
preme court of the Territory of lowa, and the
laws of said Territory, so far as the sime may
be applicable, as they now exist, are hereby ex
tended over all that portion of the territory of
the United States whicli lies west of the Rocky
mountains; and also over all that portion of the
intermediate country west of the Missouri river,
and between the fortieth and forty-third parallels
of north latitude: Provided, that this act shall not
be construed nor executed in such a manner as to
deprive the subjects of Great Britain of any of
the rights and privileges secured by the treaty
signed at London, October twentieth, eighteen
hundred and eigthteen, and continued in force
by the treaty of August sixth, eighteen hundred :
and twenty-seven.
“ Sec. 2. And he it further enacted, That all
the country described in the first section of this
act shall constitute one judicial district, and a dis
trict court shall be held therein by the judge to
be appointed under this act, at such times and
places as he shall designate; and said court shall
possess ail the powers and authority vested in
the present district courts of said Territory of
lowa. An additional justice of the supreme
court of the Territory of lowa shall be appointed,
who shall hold his olflcc by the same tenure, re
ceive the same compensation, and possess the
same powers and authority as are conferred by
law upon the other justices of said court, and
who shall hold the district courts in said district
as aforesaid.
“Sec. 3. And he it further enacted, That the
President be hereby authorized to appoint the re
quisite number of justices of the peace, and such
ministerial officers as shall be necessary for the
due execution of the laws: Provided, That any
subject of Great Britain who shall be arrested
under the provisions of this act, for crime alleged
to have been committed within the territory of
the United States west of the Rocky mountains,
while the same remains free and open to the
vessels, citizens, and subjects of the United
States and of Great Britain, pursuant to stipula
tions between the two powers, shall be delivered
up for trial, on proof of his being such British
subject, to the nearest and most convenient au
thorities having cognizance of such oflence by the
laws of Great Britain.
“Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That pro
vision shall hereafter be made by law to secure
and grant to every white person, male or female,
over the age of eighteen years, three hundred
and twenty acres of land, and to every white
person, male or female, under the age of eigh
teen years, one hundred and sixty acres of land,
who shall have resided in the said territory des
cribed in the first section of this act for five years,
to cemmence wirhiu three years from the pas
sage of this act. PiDcided, That said land shall
be located in said territory.
“Sec. 5. Aiutte it,further enacted-, That there
shall be appointed, in the manner provided by
law for similar officers, a superintendent of In
dian alFairs, and such Indian agents and sub-a
gents as shall be necessary to the public inter
ests, to whom may be intrusted, under the Pres
ident, and in accordance with the existing laws,
so far as.they may be consistent with the purport
; of Bus act, the regulation of trade and intercourse
with the Indian tribes, and the execution of the
laws herein extended over tltc countryq described
in the first section of this act.
“Sec. 6. And be it further enacted', That the
President be, and he is hereby, authorized to
cause to be erected such block-houses, stockades,
or military posts as shall be necessary to protect
emigrants, settlers, and traders on the route to
and in the territory of Oregon, against Indian
depredations and aggressions,, and to furnish,
such ammunition and supplies as shall be ne
cessary to their defence.
“Sec. 7. Be it farther enacted, That a post
route be established from-Fort Leavenworth, via
(krand Island, on the Platte river, Fort Laramie,
the South Pass of the Rocky mountains, Fort
Hall, Fort Boise, Fort Hallawslla, and Oregon
city, on the IFillamette river, to Astoria, at the
mouth of the Columbia river, on the Pacific
ocean.
“Sec. 8. And be it farther enacted, That it
shall be the duty of the Postmaster General to
cause the United States mail to be transported on
the said route, from Fort Leavenworth to Asto
ria aud back, (at least once, a month) by such
means of conveyance as he may deem most ad
vantageous to the public service, and on the best
terms that can be obtained by contract, in the
mode now provided by law for the transportation
ofthe United States mail: Provided , That if, in
the opinion of the President of the United
States; it be expedient to cause the mail on the
route aforesaid to be carried by detachments of
mounted men in the service of the United States,
he may order the"said mail to be carried in that
way, instead of having it transported by contract,
as above’ provided.
“Sec. 9. And be it further enacted, That the
sum of one hundred thousand dollars be, and the
same is hereby appropriated to carry the provis
ions of this act into effect.”
The vote on this bill were yeas 144—-nays 40.
PROGRESS OP THE “ NOTICE.”
In another column we have recorded the action
of the two Houses of Congress on the Notice
question. On the 20tli, the Senate resolutions as
amended in the House, were taken up in the Sen
ate, when the latter lioily refused to concur.
On the same day, the House again took up
the joint resolutions of Notice returned by the
Senate, with a message, that it disagreed to the
amendments of the House. The House having
refused to recede from its amendments, insisted
upon them. On the motion to recede, the ayes
were 85, nocs 95. So the House refused to re
cede. On the motion to insist, the ayes were
101, nays 82.
On the 21st, a message was received from the
House by the Senate, announcing that the House
“ insisted” upon its amendments, and that it had
appointed a committee of conference consisting
of Mr. C. J. Ingersoll, Mr. Owen, and Mr. Hil
liard. On motion of Mr. Allen, the Senate pro
ceeded to vote on the question of receding from
its disagreement to the House amendments; and
by a vote of 31 to 20, resolved not to recede.
A committee of conference was then chosen by
ballot, consisting of Senators Berrien, Haywood
and Carwin.
CONGRESS.
The President of the United States has sent a
message to the House, declining (and giv
ing his reasons therefor) to lay before it cer
tain information in relation to the disbursement of
the secret service fund during the Secretaryship
of Mr. Webster. Wc have no space for the
message. The reasons will satisfy every reason
able man. On the reading of the message in the
House, Mr. Ingersoll rose and distinctly repeated
the charges against Mr. Webster and pledged
himself, that they were susceptible of the clearest
proof.
It is to bo hoped and presumed that Mr. Web
ster will have the charge silted to the bottom.
mkyioo.
The last news from Mexico is to the effect,
that Gen. Atnpudia, had arrived at Matamoras
with a re-inforcemcnt 0f2,000 men, making the
Mexican army 7,000 strong. On his arrival he
sent a prereniptory order to Gen, Taylor to leave
his post and fall back from what he called the
Mexican soil, accompanied with a threat, that if
he did not comply within 24 hours, he should use
the forec under his command to compel a compli
ance. Gen. Taylor, replied briefly, that he was
there by order ofthe President of the U. States,
and acting under the authority of the American
Government, and that ii was his purpose to stay
there. Gen. Ampudia, thought better of it, and
communicated the correspondence to his Govern
ment at Mexico.
Gen. Worth has resigned and is on his way
home on the steamboat Hunter. The cause is
the old complaint about brevet rank.
Col. Cross, acting Quartermaster General, be
ing absent from the army unattended, was captur
ed by a party of Mexicans. He is said not to be
in Matamoros, and it is unknown whither lie
lias been taken, but in the camp no alarm, is felt
for his personal safety. •
STOCKS.
We find the following paragraph in the Charles
ton Courier.
The following is an extract of a letter received
in this city, dated “New-York, April 19—after
’change”:
“ The news of the passage of the not ice by the
Senate has just reached here by telegraph and is
well received. Stocks have gone up 2 a 2j per
cent, since the first board ; and it is thought that
money will now become more easy.”
If wc remember aright, when the House pass
ed its resolutions in favor of the “ Notice,” stocks
tumbled down, and a panic was drummed up.
Now the Senate has done the same thing, with
the single variation that the time and mode of
giving the notice are left to the discretion of the
President, and 10l stocks jump up. This proves
how little stocks are to be relied upon as sensible
exponents of a truth. Yet stocks arc constantly
appealed to as arguments for or against the wis
dom of a public measure. Whenever, in Mr.
V r an Buren’s time, a party move was to be made
against any measure of his policy ; an express
was started to Wall street, and stocks were set in
motion by the double springs of political and
money speculators, and whenever a fancy bubble
exploded, or a stock fell, the country “ was ru
ined” and Mr. Van Buren’s administration was
damned as the “ fell architect of the ruin.” Il
stocks go down when one House of Congress
passes a bill, and go up when another concurs
in it ;. either stocks are poor indices of things, or
those who move them up and down from igno
rance or to serve a political or money-making
turn, are fools or knaves. After this, we hope
we shall hear no more of these “ stock” argu
ments. They have lost their power, not only
the men, but the hoys of the country understand
the silly game- It has lately been brought to
bear upon the Independent. Treasury Bilk It is
pretended that a law, which has yet only passed
one body and which may never pass the other,
and become operative, has caused- a tightness in
the money market of N. Y. The Banks which
have been doing too large a business for their
means, anti were greatly expended in their issues,
seize upon the “ Sub Treasury,” as an excuse
for contracting, and while they pinch their bor
rowing customers, they enjoy the luxury of lay
ing it upon the “Sub-Treasury” as the odious
cause. Now, it the Banks had not over-issued,
they would not have been obliged- suddenly to
call in their loans, Sub-Treasury or no Sub-Trca
suiy.
But say they, as soon as the Bill becomes a
law, they will be obliged to disgorge the public
deposits upon which they have been banking and
hence the necessity to contract; while the truth
is, tliat the Law itself most benignantly provides
against the occurrence of this inconvenience to
them..
No measure, in our opinion, rests upon more
impregnable grounds of prudence, right, wisdom
and necessity, than that of separating the Gov-
and the Banks. In no other way, can
the Government, always adhere to and uphold the
constitutional standard of value in its fiscal oper
ations. The public revenues are raised for the
public-use, and not for the use and convenience
of private corporations; therefore they have no
right to them..
Deposited in Banks they operate as au inces
sant stimulant to paper expansions, the conse
quence of which, when the bubble bursts are al
ways disastrous to the community.
LADIES FAIR.
On the evening of the first of May, the Ladies
of the Presbyterian Church will hold a fair in the
Council Chamber, the proceeds of which are to
l>e directed to the liquidation of the debt due on
the new church building. The industry and be
nevolence of our Fair ciloyennes, is always
worthy to be rewarded By the liberality of our
gallant citizens, eveti where the system of fairs
is not altogether approved. The object is a good
one—the charitable spirit unquestionably genu
ine, although the means may be objected to by
some.
CONGRESSIONAL ELECTION.
Wc publish the following communication in
compliance with a request from a respectable
source inCuthbert. It is well for the pedple of
the District to be thinking on this subject, and de
termining in their own minds, who is their
choice and who, taking all the circumstances of
talent, qualification and character into view, will
be their ablest and best candidate. We always
like to see the people settle these questions for
themselves, and always feel a confidence that
the selection will he wise and judicious, in propor
tion as the popular choice is unbiassed and unin
fluenced by the directing hand of interested parties.
The communication below is the first popular
breath that has readied us directly. We shall b e
happy to hear from our friends throughout the
District. For ourselves wc have no personal pre
ferences. All wc ask is for a good and strong
man—one that we can support, warmly, with an
honest conviction of his worth.
Cwthljert, 35tlx April, 18 46.
Gentlemen—Wc notice the last Enquirer has
placed before the people of the 2d Congressional
District, divers names as suitable persons to re
present the citizens thereof, in the next Congress.
We have therefore thought proper to suggest to
the Voters of the 2d Congressional District the
name of Col. James M. Mitchell, a man unam
bitious, save in that which is laudable, blending
with ability, stern integrity, an active partisan,
bland, candid, open, generous and willing to yield
only when right demands ; able to resist oppres
sion ; always willing to aid his country ; a zeal
ous friend in aid of our republican institutions,
and able defender of the principles in which they
arc based. His youth might cause him to with
draw from a station so responsible. Yet wc feci
if made our standard bearer, none could carry it
with greater triumph, and liis patriotism wc feel
would cause him to yield to his country’s call.
In him, we feel our people would have an active,
vigilent, yea, truly a sentinel upon the watch
tower ot Liberty. A Georgian by birth, one in
heart, we know the man and fear no power when
our rights he holds.- In a word, we fear no dan
ger and go for MitehelL
Manx Citizens and Voters.
STEAMER EMILY.
In company with some hundred of our fellow
citizens, we accepted an invitation to partake of
a collation on board this fine new Boat on Sat
urday last. The occasion was the christening of
the boat by her new owners—Capt. James B,
Hall having just purchased the interest of Capt.
’John D. Roland. Business prevented us from
staying long with the party ; but wc learn that it
became quite gay at its close—we say gay, in
no offensive sense; but such gayety as brisk
Champaigne and Music are apt to provoke, when
New York and Georgia gentlemen (no ladies be
ing present) lead each other out to dance on the
banks of the Chattahoochee.
The party broke up w ell pleased with itself, with
the hospitality of its owners, and with hearty wishes
of “ good luck” to the craft, and success to those
vvlio sail her. If any body had a headache, af
ter it, we are sure it did not come out of the
Champaigne ; but it was due to over-violent exer
cise in such warm weather.
A STORM.
On Monday night, we were visited by a tre
mendous rain and thunder storm. At about 8
o’clock in the evening the elements set in for a
regular frolick. The rain commenced pouring,
not in sheets, but in blankets—and continued to
conic down in torrents all night, accompanied by’
incessant thunder of deepest vass, and lightning
of most vivid brilliancy. Vcry soon after the rain
tlie river began to rise, and swelled in about six
hours to the unprecedented height (in the same
time) of 15 feet. While wc write it is still ris
ing, and if the rains above have been as heavy as
. at this place, we shall have a great freshet.
We regret to state that the gin factory of
Messrs. Taylor & Beckwith, on mill creek, oppo.
site this city, was washed away and carried down
the Chattahoochee river. This was a large es
tablishment plentifully stocked. The loss, we
learn, will be several thousand dollars, though it
cannot, at present be correctly estimated, as
much of tlie machinery, materials, &c., may be
recovered,, when the water subsides to its usual
channel.
The Company have already made arrangements
to continue their operations, and will be prepared
to fill the orders which they have received, or
may hereafter receive for cotton Gins.
We fear we shall hear of many disasters in
the country on the water courses. The wheat
crop must suffer greatly. The kitchen chimney
of the Editor of this paper, was struck by light
ning—no damage done except shattering its
top. The fluid must have passed down the chim
ney, several negroes asleep in the building were
unscathed.
THE FOREIGN NEWS.
Wc consider, pacific. While some of the
British papers indulge in their usual strain of va
poring—a strain which they cannot tolerate in
the American press ; it is evident that more tem
perate views are prevailing in the British public
mind. The 49th parallel Is beginning to be spok
en of, generally, as a proper basis of compromise.
When we remember that Britain has rejected
this line four times , it must be admitted that there
is a change for the better. Indeed it Is announc
ed positively in some circles that the British Gov
ernment has determined to re-open negotiation ß
with the offer of 49 as the dividing line. Some
: say that the Caledonia lias actually brought out
the proposition. If so, the crisis has arrived, and
the President of the United States has a most im
portant question to decide. While as an indi
vidual we should be willing to see the dispute
finally closed upon that basis, giving us the juris,
diction of the Columbia River, we are not sure
that as President of the United States, acting un
der all tlie grave responsibilities of that august of
fice, we should accept it.
The reader will be struck with Sir Robert Peel’s
speech. He denies what the Whig papers ol
this country have charged (theChron & Sentinel
of Augusta among others) that the American Go
vernment has shown a disposition to bully Eng
land, or has proceeded in this affair on the hypo
thesis that that great and proud Power could be
Hectered into measures. That it has been
made sensible of the firmness of this Government,
wedonot doubt. Nor do we doubt, that this
question would have been put to rest., long since,
had the Senate passed the Notice resolutions two
months ego.
THE NOTICE RESOLUTIONS PASSED
BOTH HOUSES OP CONGRESS.
We have only time to refer to the interesting
letter of our Washington Correspondent, for the
latest, & very important news from Washington.
As the “ Union” announces “ The deed is done”
and we may at last ejaculate, “ Laus Deo.”
J. J. Hooper, Esq., of “ Simon Suggs” mem
ory, has become associated with Messrs. Bates &
Sayre, in the editorial management of the Ala
bama Journal. The Journal is to appear, short
ly, in anew dress.
LITERARY DISCUSSION.
We have received the proceedings of a very
interesting literary debate, which came oIF near
Whitesville, in Harris county, on the evening of
the 18th inst. in which Messrs. W. W. White,
W. J. Mullens, M. P. Slaughter, W. E. Slaugh
ter and Elisha Mullens, participated; want of
space, alone prevents us, from giving it a place in
our columns.
We have written a reply to the Augusta Chron
ical A Sentinel, which is crowded out with other
editorial matter this week. Recent events have
perhaps sufficiently re;died to the rambling dis
quisitions of the Chronicle on the Oregon ques
tion, and it may be that we shall throw what we
have written aside. We shall see what a week
may bring forth.-
BULL FIGHTS.
Regular Toreros are to be introduced into New
Orleans from Cuba, by the managers of the
Plaza at Havana. We have seen Bull-fights,
but could never perceive the amusement of these
cruel sports of the shambles. We once saw,
13 horses killed by one ferocious animal, in the
presence of 3,000 spectators, and while the Span
ish ladies waved their Handkerchiefs and Man
tillas, and the men shouted, we must confess it
made our boyish heartsick, and forced us to avert
our eyes from the brutal pageant. We hope
the civilized taste of New Orleans will revolt at
this amusement.
NEAV YORK AND CHARLESTON.
We learn that the new sterner Palmetto,
built expressly to run between this port and
New York will start on her first trip between
the Ist and 10th of May. She is to be under
the command of that experienced and efficient
seaman, Capt. Rollins. The Palmetto is simi
lar in size and arrangements to the Galveston
with 10 per cent greater power. Her days of
sailing will be, from New York, the Ist, 10th,
and 20tli of each month; from Charleston, the
sth, 15th and 25th. It is scarcely doubted that
this enterprise will succeed.— Ch. Mercury
Correspondence of tlie Times.
Washington, D. (J., April 23, IS4G.
Dear Sir: —The “agony is over”—both houses
have agreed to the report, made to-day by the
joint committee appointed to confer upon the’
disagreement of the two houses touching the
form of the resolutions authorizing the President
to give the notice to England.
The report does not vary, in any way requir
ing comment, the resolutions as they passed the
Senate. It consists of the oft printed preamble,
followed by a resolution, authorizing the Presi
dent “at his discretion to give notice to Eng
land of the abrogation, at the end of twelve
months, of the convention &c.
You will have seen by the Washington papers
;of yesterday and the day before the proceedings
[Upon the resolutions of notice, and I need not
refer to them. ,
; To-day, soon afiefr the journal was read in the
Senate, the committee of conference on the part
of that body made their report, which was, on
-motion- laid on the table until one o’clock.—
When the hour arrived, the report was taken up,
and after some brief remarks from Mr. Cameron,
of Pa. in whicn he “defined his position-'’ upon
the Oregon question and upon the notice, the
question on agreeing to the report was put and
decided on a call of tire ayes and nays as fol
lows :
Ayes —Messrs. Archer, Ashley, Atherton,
Barrow, Bagby, Berrien, Benton, Calhoun,
Cameron, Colquitt, Th. Clayton, J. M. Clayton,
Corwin, Crittenden, Davis, Dix, Evans, Greene,
Haywood, Huntington, Houston, Jcrnigan,
Johnson, of Md., Johnson, of La., Lewis, Man
gum, McDuffee, Miller, Morehead, Niles, Pearce,
Phelps, Penney backer; Rusk, Sevier, Simmons,
Speight, Turney, Upham, Webster, Wood
bridge, Yulee—42.
Nays —Messrs. Allen, Atchison, Broesc,
Bright, Cass, Dickenson, Fairfield, Jenness,
Sample, Westcott —10.
Four Senators were absent—Messrs. Chalmers.
Dayton, Hannegan, and Sturgeon.
It wouhl be a difficult, perhaps a useless task
to attempt to account for the reasons or motives
which governed the Senators in this vote. —
Those who voted in the negative, with the ex
ception of Mr. Westcott, doubtless believed it
would be a departure from consistency to vote in
favor of the report after having adopted and ac
ted upon the opinion that it was the duty of
the Senate to assume the responsibility of direc
ting or requesting the President to give the no
tice, Mr. VV estcott, in Ids speech, declared his
intention of voting against giving the notice in
any shape.
If any of the Senators who voted for the report,
expect to escape the responsibility of the results
of the notice, (and it is believed that tire Presi
dent will give it soon) whatever they may be,
they must have great dependence on the force of
sophistry. Those democrats who assented to
the report, and who have in good faith agreed in
favor of giving immediate notice to England,
were governed by the conviction that they
couid get no resolution through the Senate of a
different cast. Mr. Cameron, in his few remarks,
said he preferred, first, a plain notice destitute
of any qualification—in the second place, he pre
ferred the resolutions of the house—and lastly,
he would vote for the report of the committee as
the best form that could be got. Several other
democrats entertained similar view's.
Judging front the speeches and action of the
whig Senators since the discussion of the ques
tion commenced, I am led to believe that with
two or three exceptions, they would have been
pleased had the resolution of notice been lost;
and perhaps some hoped that the majority of
the house would take umbrage at having return
ed upon them the form which they had so recent
ly rejected by a very large vote, and resolved
to aditere to their own views.
In the house, however, when the report of the
committee of conference came up for considera
tion, there seemed to be a pretty general under
standing, to disappoint any hope that might have
been entertained in the Senate of getting up a
•state of things which ■would defeat or protract
the measure of notice. All debate was stopped
;by a resort to the previous question, and the re
port was adopted on a call for the ayes and nays
—ayes 142—nays 46.
You will perceive by the latest news from Eng
land, (brought by the Caledonia) that the Oregon
subject has been before the British Parliament,
andthat the speeches of the Lords who gave their
views were for the most part, rather pacific. It
is to be hoped they were honest. Some of the
■English Editors also, and among them the noted
Dickens, takes a course widely different* from
those whose lucubrations have so much alarmed
our “Wall-street” gentlemen. Dickens argues
that Oregon is worth to America a thousand times
more than it is to England; and that it was sheer
nonsense to have supposed that our government
would have listened to a proposal to arbitrate,
when it is determined to have it, right or wrong
—he advises that England close witJi the proposi
tion, to make the 49th parallel the boundary; and
decries a war with the United'States as a most
wicked thing—as horrible as a civil war—the
50,000 emigrants who yearly leave the Ignited
Kingdom for America, would be arrayed in arms
against their brethren of England—and to the
crime of shedding each others blood would be ad
fded the destruction of the commerce of both na
tions in all partsof the world, &c., &c. lie will,
;not, however admit that war should be avoided
by yielding up to the American government all
that is demanded.
Several newspapers, misled by their corres
pondents in this city, have announced the arri
val here of Mr. Slidell. This isnot true —atleast,
I have made inquiries this evening of several gen
tlemen who ought to know, and they say ’tis all
a mistake.
The disciples of Abbot Lawrence are “going
ahead” with much energy in the erection of their
big shed, where they mean to display all the rich
es of their shops, by which they intend to con
vince our representatie vs that a protective revenue
is a very beneficial thing for the country.
Yours, Z.
FOR THE TIMES!
CATHOLICITY NOT INIMICAL TO
REPUBLICANISM.
The Kingdom established by Christ was not of
this world, its existence was to be separate from
that of any form of civil government, and its
character such, as that subjects of any govern
raont may conscientiously enter into it. Gov
ernment, I understand to be that state of sooiety
in which the possession of life, liberty, and the
pursuit of happiness, is secured to the subject.
That form of government which carries out these
ends more fully, and bestows the greatest amount
of personal freedom, may, I think, bo considered
the best.
Every system may wield a theoretical or prac
tical influence —now if the Catholic religion be
hostile to our form of Government, it must be
owing to her teaching, or to her practical exercise
on society. Her teaching is truly republican ;
though she respects the distinctions drawn by
society, still she declares to her children, that
with God there is no exception of persons. In
those countries where kings and nobles profess
her faith, where is tha American, who, on enter
ing her Cathedrals, will not kindle into admira
tion, when he beholds the peer and the peasant
kneel side by side !—no pews to carry into the
house of God the distinctions drawn up in the
world by aristocracy. Is not this carrying out,
to the full extent, that perfect equality in which
we are all viewed by the impartial eye of our
Constitution 1 Our form of Church government
is a democracy without a faction. Every well
informed man amongst us, whose character is un
blemished, may be eligible to the first ecclesiastical
honors-—the greatest number of our sovereign
Pontiffs have been chosen from the humblest
walks in society—our Bishops are elected from
the ranks of Priests—and every matter of moment
whether of discipline or controversy about faith
are decided by general councils or assemblies.
These, none can deny, are the boldest features of
democracy.
It is asserted that our allegiance is divided be
rween the State and the Pope. Allegiance is
due alone to civil authority, and ours is perfect
and undivided. We take the oath required by
the Constitution, to be entitled to citizenship,
without any mental reservation, whatever ; and
to accuse us of divided allegiance, is to fling the
stigma of perjury (the deepest of insults) on at
least a million of citizens ! But is there no link
which binds us to the Pope 1 Yes: we ac
knowledge his Presidency over the spiritual king
dom established by Jesus Christ; hut this juris
diction extends only as far as teaching, adminis
tering the sacraments, and the conduct of minis
ters is concerned. As there can be no govern
ment without a head, we believe that Christ made
St. Peter the Preaident of his Church, when he
gave him power to feed the sheep as well as the
lambs of the entire flock—and that the Pope of
Rome is his lawful successor in this spiritual
presidency. Should he attempt to claim any
temporal authority over us, or endeavor to estab
lish any civil jurisdiction in this country, we
should resist to the peril of our lives—resist
equally as we would England, and join our fel
low citizens heart and hand, as we have done in
many a well fought field before. The power of
the Pope is not despotic—it is restrained by gen
eral council, by the force of precedent.*, and the
objects, for the promotion of which it was
established. In short, the Constitution of
the Church, —though spiritunl, is a type
of a civil Republic. Then the teaching of the
Catholic Church, so far from being inimical to
Republicanism, is calculated to promote it. In
testimony of this, I adduce Sir Robert Filmer,
who, in his Patriarcha, holds us up, to the jealousy
of European kings, as being enemies to monarchy
and the warmest friends of republicanism, De
Toequeville says, that Catholics constitute the
most democratic class, of citizens in the United
Stales, and bo proves this to be the necessary re
sult of Catholic principles.
But as theory may be deemed delusive, I will,
at once, come to the great criterion—the practi
cal influence of Catholicity on republicanism.
At the very outset, lam opposed by a popular
objection—the deposing power usurped by the
Popes. Since its exercise was, confessedly, in
every instance, aimed against tyranny and feu
dal despotism, it may be adduced rather as a
strong argument in our favor. It arose from cir
cumstances, and never was an article of Catholic
faith. This influence, for a long time upheld
the empire of the West, when tottering beneath
the feeble power of its kings. St. Leo, by his
eloquence, curbed the onslaught of Atilla, sur
named the scourge of God, and thus rescued
Rome. His meek demeanor, on a future occa
sion, awed to partial mercy the conquering Gen-’
seric. The people learned, by experience, that
no security was to be expected from their impo
tent rulers, and looked only to the chair of St.
Peter for protection. Pepin, in gratitude to the
Pontiffs, for aiding, by their influence, to resist
the destructive inenrsions of the northern barba
rians, made a present to Pope Zachary, of the
papal States,’ Ou this little possession is ground
ed the imaginary structure of an extensive tem
poral dominion. In proportion as new countries
were entering into the pale of the Church, her
representatives were daily gathering additional
influence. National and i fibre flees were'referred to
the sovereign Pontiff—-the number of appellants
increased, and ultimately the appeals were con
founded with his right, ante from’ being chosen
their umpire he was regarded as the disposer, of
their crowns. The Popes never extended their
possessions, on the plea of this specious claim, atjd,
never exercised it until their own rights .vvcik
invaded. The cause of the difference betweer*
Gregory the 7th and Henry the 4th, was the in
terference of the latter in Church affairs ; lie in
trude immoral men into ministerial functions,
murdered the Archbishop of Magdeburg, and
usurped ecclesiastical benefices. This may be a
digeression, but will explain how it happened
that Popes did interfere at all in temporal af
fairs. The evils introduced by the northern
barbarians into the more civilized countries, were
diminished by the interference of the Church.
Under the feudal system, a great body of people
called serfs could be sold with the land on which j
they lived. Pope Alexander the 3d, banished j
this crying evil in 1179. ‘The ordeal by fire and
water, also the tournament, were abolished by
the Church. When the Mahomedans, now
masters of Asia and Africa, subdued Spain and
Sicily, ravaged Rome, mastered the Mediterrane
an and menaced Constantinople, who ultimately
checked them, and rescued Europe from Islan
ism ] The Catholic Church ! and that by a mas
ter stroke of policy, in carrying the war into their
own country, and thus giving Europe time to
prepare for coming struggles. The victory of
I.cpanto over the Turks, in 1571, is mainly to be
attributed to the exertions of Pius the sth.
France and England offered no assistance—there
was no longer a sainted Louis or a Lion-hearted,
to lead catholic hosts to victory. The Popes i
were never enemies to republicanism—liberty
was no where more full} - enjoyed than under
their immediate protection. Tile city of Alexan
dria was built by the grateful Italian cities in hon
or of Pope Alexander the 3d, for his activity in
securing to them their liberty by the treaty of
Venice, against the German Kings.
Ifthe Catholic religion he hostile to republican
principles, it must follow that there were no Re
publics until the establishment of Protestantism,
in the 13th century. Now there was more free-j
dom and more Republics in Europe before that,
period than after. Genoa, Pisa, Milan, were i
Republics, and under the protection of the Popes, j
The catholic Republic of Vienna lasted 1100,
years; there was Florence and a Rienzi to de
fend her against the tyranny of her nobility. l
The catholic hero, William Tell, establislied the j
republic of Switzerland which exists these 600 !
years past. The two oldest Republics in the
world, are—the one Andora, founded a- 1,000,
years since, by a Catholic Bishop, the other, San ;
Marino, established 1500 years back by a Monk
us the same name. It is ruled by the Popes, and ;
during the lapse of so ’many ages, has withstood,
unimpaired, like some stately monument, all the
vicissitudes and revolutions waich aro ever
sweeping over the face of the universe. Heaven
grant that the same may be said of this our own
dear Republic.
Ifthe spirit, of a system may be dircovered by
the general conduct of its profcs3ors, then indeed
can we be convinced that Catholicity is not inimi
cal to our Republic. Who does not recollect the
unprecedented skill and bravery of Sobieski, who,
at the head of 30,000 Poles in 1685, saved Vien
na from the Turkish armv I Were the French,
Italians, Hungarians and Austrians who crushed
the bold and haughty Saracen and saved Efurone
from barbarism, enemies to freedom or liberty ?
Yet, there was not amongst them a protestant 1
To Whom is England indebted for her Magna
Charta, of which site so proudly boasts ! To the
Catholic bishops and Barons who wrested it from
the tyrant John, in 1215, and was drawn up long
before by Edward the Confessor.- The names of
Werner, Furst, Wallace and Bruce, who gener
ously shed their blood in the cause of libertv,
will be ever dear to the hero, the patriot, and
the Christian. All were Gallflies! Yet front
one end of this country to the other, men pro
fessing to be ministers of the meek Saviour, call
on the people to crush Catholicity, on the ground
of its being the direct enemy to our republic. It
is a fact that there were more republics than mon
archies in Europe down to the time of the refor
mation—and then Monarchy triumphed through
out. Such is the admission of Guizot, who, it is
well known, is no Catholic.
Hitherto we have been viewing the question in
its influence on the liberty of remote shores, and
men who long since passed from the busy scenes
of life; but now we will bring the subject nearer
home, when it must be doubly interesting, and
after a few details, dismiss it.
We alt feel a pleasure in lingering over every
incident connected with the regeneration of our
country, and are often loathe to withdraw out
enchanted attention from that noble band of pat
riots, banded to break asunder the chains riveted
for our enthralment. Many were the Catholic.",
who, in those trying* times, established thcii
claim to a prominent place amongst our Penates ;
they proved themselves nojenemiesto republican
ism—for they wore neither traitors in the camp
nor cowards in the field. Lafayette, DcKalh,
Pulaski, and many others, were always foremost
in the rude edge of battle. O’Brien was the
first to raise our flag in triumph on the deep, al
ter the victory, at Margarctte. So unshaken was
the confidence of Washington in Catholics, that
he entrusted the honor and dignity of the youth
ful republic on the seas, to John Barry, whom he
appointed the first commander-in-chief of the
American Navy. He was well convinced of thn
fidelity of the Catholics, at a time when despair
fell thick and heavy on the path of the soldier,
and the chief, could not, with confidence, point
to any brilliant prospects beyond the dark hori
zon. He saw how nobly the Pennsylvania lino,
composed chiefly of Irish Catholics, rejected the
bribes offered by the emissaries of Gen. Clinch.
Though Arnold was not a Catholic, notone] ol
those poor, half hungry soldiers would act the
part of Arnold. When the militia reiused to
follow Washington that dreary night across the
Delaware, this same body oflrisli Catholics, un
der Gen. O’Sullivan, did not even besilale to
obey—and in doing so, (hey brought him victory
at Trcnlon and Princeton Were these enemies
to civil liberty ? I omit instances of heroism al
most as striking as that at Thermopyle, perform
ed by Catholics in our revolutionary struggle.—
All are acquainted wit h the dating of McKcon, at
fort Niagara—with that ofyOung Croghan, when
he defended fort Stephenson against 1500 men,
with only 150 at his side ! He slew 1,000 —and
received a vote of thanks from Congress. Was
Lynch or Carrol—the man who risked the most
in signing the Declaration of Independence, ene
mies to republicanism ] It cannot be forgotten
that the Rev. Mr. Carroll afterwards Catholic
Arohbishop of Baltimore, accompanied Chase
and Franklin to Canada, to persuade that people
to remain neutral during the struggle. Ireland
and France, both Catholic, aided America by
their influence and many a hardy soldier. All
bear testimony that Catholics are not enemies to
civil liberty. Do we forget that so late as 1821)*
the greatest objection advanced in Parliament
against Catholic emancipation, w as, that 16,000
Irish Catholics fought and lost many of them,
their lives, in aiding to achieve the independence
of'tbis country. Gen. Washington, in his letter
to the Roman Catholics of the. (Jnitecf States, in
178!), says: “ I presume your fellow citizens will
not forget the patriotic part u/licit you took in
the accomplish men lof their Revolution, and in
the establishment of their government, nr the im
portant aid they received from a nation in which
the Catholic religion is professed.” —See Sparks,
vol. xii. p. 177.
Yet, unhappily, many do forget those things,
and in the face of these facts pronounce the Catho
lic religion hostile to the interests of our count rv?
In short, many arc so blinded bv prejudices aris-.
mg from a difference of belief on some points of
Christian faith, that they can believe any state
ments that maybe made against their catholic
fellow-citizens. But an occasion may not be far
distant, when all maybe brought to the test; and
should such be the case, I am confident, that it
will form an additional link, to the long chain of
facts which I have adduced, to show, that Catho
licity is not hostile to Republicanism, either iir
theory or in practice.
J. J. O’CONNELL.
Columbus, April 24, 181 G.
AUGUSTA AND SA VANNAH R. ROAD.
The Savannah and Augusta papers are dis
cussing with nunih zeal and ability the importance
of the itmv'i i a Rail Rood frq/n the lat
ter city station on the Central Road.
Every Georgian, who feels an interest hi the ad
vancement of Ids own State, will readily second
any effort thaV may secure to her
wfucFi Jjflongs
to it. position of Jpgusta, and its fa
cilities oM access to Cbarleswm, have in some
measure, unade the former trmutary to the com
mercial prosperity of the latter city, and have,
originated the suspicion in certain quarters, that
ini the n®thern section of the State, there is not
Hich devotion to all of her interests as
Were shoffd be. These suspicions have frequent
ly been expressed on the floor of the Legislature,
and never perhaps with greater freedom than du
ring the last session.
We wish to see the day arrive when every son
of Georgia, will feel that be is identified with
every thing that belongs to her. Whatever shall
be instrumental in accomplishing this result, will
be of immense importance. The completion of
this contemplated road will have this tendency,
and if it were followed by no other consequences,
this alone should secure to those who may engage
in the enterprize the approbation and cordial co
operation of every Georgian.—[ Fed. Union.
WELL DOSE.
In the last list of appointments confirmed by
the Senate, published in tlx* “Union,” thou
sands of readers will notice with peculiar gratifi
cation that of Hawthorne—the gentle Haw
thorne—as surveyor of the port of Salem, Mass
achusetts. It is a credit of which any adminis
tration may he proud to have the opportunity of
thus conferring a portion of its official patron
age upon such recipients. The author of “ Twice
Told ‘Tufas.” the Elia of our country, returns
more honor than he receives in bis acceptance of
such a favor. This is the only mode in which
onr system of government permits the patronage
ot literature and men of letters—and we only
regret that where it can be done with due regard
still laid to political character—it is not more
often resorted to for that purpose. Hawthorne
is and has always been a demoeriU, while never
engaged in active jjolitics; so tMt we have his
name, too, one of tlmbrigbtesUp the young an
nals of our national grace the partV
which, pretensions
the talents and all. theJPtcation,
numbered in imfanks first nov
elist, and the first fan/Vur country lias
produced. How whigs’^xplained this
“singular coincide!* J”— New York Morning j
News. J /’
•
j A si'iExmn puesext to the PnESini.x'T. —
j We have been shown a splendid Duplex gold
j watch manufactured entirely in this city—the
i first American made watch we have ever seen— l
intended as a present from the manufacturer, J J
jY. Savage, J9sq,, of Fulton street, to James Ki
North Carolina, the Stale in which Mr. Polk wfc
born. —New York C!lobe.
A Canadian paper speaks of the “ dehniii
tremens'” as the “dance of death.