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Kprcch of Mr. Whf, In reply lo Mr. Orv, (of New-York,) on the Rr*oluuon of Mr. Prentiss, loci nr I Alexander Duncan, of Ohio, from Ins •1W Mr. Hpeskcr ! I did not Intend to ontcr into this debate. I have sttnliotisly avoided being drawn intoil at all. But tne gentle* man from New-York. (Mr. Gray.) Ims ad dressed the House twice, and cadi time has gone out of his wav. on purpose, it seems, lo attack me. Why, I know not, I care not. This, I thought, was one oc casion, at least, on which I w as not involv ed in the strife, and I had determined not to he dragged in. But the gentlomun seems to he equally determined that I slmll not escape, lie has first condemned, or dis claimed a justification of, the conduct of his friend, (Hr. Dunrati,} and then gone a side to allude lo my conduct for its justifi cation, or its parrallcl, or precedent. When the member from Ohio snail be put on his trial, I will fully express my judgement upon him by my vote; hut i do not mean to do *o now. If, however, he has done wrong, how pan any previous acts of mine justify him, and why am I thus unnecessa rily and wantonly cited as an example to justify his wrongs by the gentlemen from New-York ? The gentlemen can say, and I pause for him to exjdaio ivlial his purpose w s. (Here Mr. Gray interposed, lie had confined himself lo a simple statement of Gets, without the least intention to offend or injure any one. If what lie; had stated was a fact, ami if it was legitimately intrp dured as an illustration of any position which Mr. Gray had taken, thu gentleman from Virginia was not warranted to infer any improper intention on the part of Mr. Gray in alluding to it.] Mr. Wise resumed. The gentleman said he was bound by his code of morals to condemn the member from Ohio, but then iinmiiliat* iy quoted my sets to justify what, according to his principles, was unjustiliu tile. The gentleman alluded to the Gilley affair. Hir, how does that matter stand I It is a case as yet to he cited until it is ad judged ! Is it especially fit and proper that u gentleman, who may be called immediate ly tu fit upon it in judgement, shall pre judge it, aim decide ‘he very issues of law and fact involved o,;!'ore a beurinp 1 Hir, this gives rue an opportunity which has, up tu this moment, been withheld —un- justly withheld from me—to sny a word n hout that affair. Hitherto I have been si lently awaiting a trial before my peers, whilst many ol them have been circulating slander, with ull ihe bitterness of malice, from one extreme of the country lo the other. They have withheld from me a fair trial—-any trial at all—and have, by the press appealed to a very passionate and prejudice, to condemn me without a hearing or the opportunity of defence. Hueli, in part, is the attempt of the gentleman from New-York now. If my raso is first on the calendar, as he has said, he should not al lude to it, exerpt to call it up for Iriul. I sin ready to be tried. I have been waiting anxiously for a trial. Put me at your bar, and I will plead instantly. lam ready to say on the spot, 1 did on that occasion just what I will do again under similar circum stances. Let Puritans shudder as they may —I here proclaim thut 1 belong to the class of the Cavaliers, not to the Roundheads ! The parlies met on a point of honor mid verusiiy—they fought—fought fairly—one fell—and his fate might have been that of my friend—it was a wonder it was not. I was present, a second—l am amenable to the laws of Maryland upon indictment; mid am ready to submit to sny trial by this House, for a breach of its privileges. 1 have aguin and again demanded a trial. I desire it, I seek it. I court the ecn'.mice of the House. I repent, tltst many of you have propagated the vilest slanders concer ning my conduct in inut affair. I have been vilified by every species of vituperation which malice here, among yourselves, could invent, I lihve been stigmatized ns a mur derer; and yet l ehalenge you, oh! just niul righteous judges! who have thus de meaned yourselves in your high seats of justice, to try me for what many of you have condemned me already. The gentleman has himself named the horrid word—mur der ! Murder I Hir, there are two sorts of murder. There is one description of that offence which deserves the hangman's knot. There is mother form of murder—murder by the law—nfilch puMic sentiment—"*— higher than the law, the great law-breaker defines to be honorable. Which does the gentleman menu ? (Mr. Gray subsequently said he meant that simply which was murder by the law, and did not impute any thing dishonorable in the Gil ley duel.] By the latter, life is taken by mutual consent —with notice—openly, fairly—by an equal mode prescribed, it happens in this ease, by the party .who fell—always prescribed, in a duel proper by gentlemen. Now, sir, by the latter mode was Gilley murdered— fairly, hon orably. Who here can gainsay ii I None— no, not one of Ins ow u friends, who were the guardians of his life, will uuj he fell foully.— He dlrd on the field of honor; ami here I say in ihc face of Heaven, before the llmmeufilic Almighty—iU His dread presenee who sils thereon—that I can go, w ith the f.ds st or most faithful friends he felt on earth, and touch the bleeding wounds of Gilley with ns clear a con science ns any of ’hem, the basestor the best! Home of his pretended, friends have never yet been arraigned ; they have never yet been roiled to account, though the most deeply in volved in the guilt of Ins death, if there was guilt at all. I say it here rlHlily—to the pre tended friends of (Nile v—the y should he held responsible for his death. I did iny awful duty to my friend, and thank a graeioi’s Providence he lives, ami my eon science is al ease. For my vindication it was enough when the chair man of vour committee on that duel(Mr.Tou eey) emphatically declared on this floor that there was not a scintilla of proof that any thing dishonorable was done upon the field of that combat. When that was admitted, 1 was satisfied. Andi now defy any member of that committee here present io rise and say there was a dishonorable act by principal or second. Sinful, unlawful and 1 am read vto submit lo the laws, their trial and their < punishment; but let no man accuse me of mur der iu thilfar in any odious sense. If he i docs, he shall have the opportunity to commit such a murder himself. Duelling is abhorrent toevery feeling ofhu manity. I detest the practice. But, sir, your „ Wvvs will never prevent, or punish. or re term custom. Sir. I tell this House— av. ami ct and crow U J galleries, w here ii.u; > I” K-e. I.■ : i .ietn.> the most r. li n HHaßr v ‘ ■.. ■> •- id m-eds. ~’l ! III.: the IV! of passion on this floor, as did the ancient Ho i maos, 111 crowded amphitheatres, gaze on the l combats of the gladiators—that as long as I public sentiment is what it is, pass what penal ‘ laws yovi will, they will be dead upon the sta tute book. I shall never fceod them ! I do con- j dciun the horrible practice us murh as uny man ; but tin n are, in the present slate of so- ! ciety, but two alternatives. You must rely, ‘< for rcdiess of certain personal wrongs, upon arms or upon public opinion. I, in my unre- , generated state, ns long as I am a worldling, choose the bright steel; it is more faithful, more true, ssfer. and a lielter security than the opinions of mankind. And if, for refusing to . rely on the justice of public opinion, or on the j glorious uncertainty of the law, I must consent j to be branded with tbe mark of Cam, be dis i honored with the name of murderer, disgruee ( | with the character of duellist, I prefer it to that disgrace wherewith I am sure to be disgraced if I refuse to fight—disgraced even in the se cret hearts of those who preach loudest against due (s —disgraced iu tbe eyes of the fairest por tion of our race even in the Puritan land ; and, sir, I must be permitted to bequeath this legacy to my children, to vvri'e upon my tomb, if I die in single combat: ‘He would luke the al ternative to which honor pointed I” Enact, then, your ordinances which forbid the fair fight; what will Ire gained ton-orals or to public order? tine nee or another, one on spring or another of evil passions will reign. What evils, what legion usurps the place of the duet ? Invariably calumny, vituperation, black uardism, and evils innumerable, worse than those, inflicting wounds more fatal than flesh wounds, incurable by law or the good will of your fellow man, riot without restraint! Instead of the pistol or the cold steel, m fair and open field—instead of that sudden pass port to death which the flash of the duel gives to a miserably injured man, where the soul— “With one pang—one bound—escapes control;” you would have that murder which inflicts a living death ! by, and real death, too, by assas sination —by street broils with the ghastly Bowie knife —stabbing in your lobbies, cm this , very floor. And if these arc suppressed by , the penitentiary, still, what fellows in those lands where duels or street fights are not ’ known 1 The press becomes corrupt. That which should be the guardian, the palladium of private reputation, as it should he of public ’ liberty, becomes the vehicle of detraction, de • fumation, and abuse. It breathes upon charac l ter, and it is blasted. Its breath is poison, ■ which taints the moral atmosphere around. It . attacks all that is virtuous and good, and de stroys put riot ism itself—all that is high uml noble sinks before it as before the Simoon of the Desert. Ah! but you say the press injures 1 no reputation; its slang passes lor what it is ’ i w.' ,r *h, and injures no man. Then you have ’ lost i.hu real power and efficacy of this moral engine to punish the and base for i their crimes. (Scoundrels and tin!!’ crimes go ; unpunished—thrive with license, for the p.'** is nol believed —discredited oven when it does not lie! Who can look to the courts? Bad . men combine. It is hard to pick twelve men with character enough to value character.— Your antagonist, if base, can beat you in brib ing witnesses; go there, and he may prove the falsehood lie utters, and that public opinion upon which you would have me rely is gene rally charitable enough to take sides with the slander. Besides, what damage* can com pern sale for sorno injuries I And, at last, how can you distinguish m morals between public and private war All these things are to bethought of- -not to justify- —to account for duelling. When my nature is changed by tbe grace of God—when 1 learn to turn ouu cheek when the other is stricken—when 1 become fit for Heaven—l will no longer be tried by the World, and I will eschew the duel. It is abominable iu the sight of Christianity—but 1 cannot then trust to public opinion. 1 will nut, then, even rely on men. I will be resigned to suffer and bear nil things. I will then trust atone in God. ■ With my nuture unchanged, I cannot henrdis grace. Ilow far my conscience is affected as an offender ngntnst my Maker is known to Him. Inm no infidel; lam no hypocrite. This very llousoencourages chivalry, or, at all events, personal feuds—the gallery cheers thu rencontre—your very magistrates of tin law gland aloof to witness the scene, or keep out of ‘ho way Hint the combat may proceed ; and yet some of you circulate documents to brand me with murder, for being concerned in a duel! You even arraign me for a breach of privilege for which you never meant to try me. You will not enforce your laws either to prevent or punish. You should, then, be silent with shutnc yourselves, and have no right to condemn until you have tried, heard, amt ad judged. You shall not taunt me. What are ’ you doing now. You have just passed a peni tentiary act. You are then bound to take the defence of character into your own hands, ns you have taken arms from the hands of the • cavalier. Will you doit/ No. You areal this moment indulging members iit scenes of abuse and violence, from which more than one duel would, in my country, necessarily ensue. You now know what is likely to follow before hand! You forbid, under severe penalties, the challenge an’ ir.““'ing in this Ten Miles Square. You wit], I know it, fail to !!*kc pre ventive measures. You might, by your cen sure, deprive either party, for instance, iu the wrong, from claiming the priviledge of the code of honor elsewhere. lint you will not doit, and what will he the result 1 Hostilities will be suspended here, and the scene of blood will occur, perhaps, on tile deck of some steam boni on the Ohio river, or at some wood-yard where passengers may land ! Y'ou will do nothing lo prevent this—nothing. Y'ourpro ceedings will lead to it, in fact. You will give the on v i here the go-by ; and when it is too lab en two or three members have been manned or killed, shot or hewed to pieces by the BowiWknifc— oh, then,not until then, will you only preach and pray again over duelling! it is hypocrisy!—gross, rank hypocrisy! 1 scorn, 1 spit upon it! I call upon you, 1 call upon society, either to defend me or give me back my arms. In the faeoofanhpproaehing election, I say to my good constituents—l have many very good, truly good and pious people in tny dis trict—people who pray for me daily— l would obey their vv isbes sooner than your laws against duelling—l say to them how, -If yon are de termined I shall not defend myself when as sailed. like a true knight, do not send me to Congress, for l shall jus’ as surely fight, if oc casion is given,as you send me: and so 1 shall ever continue until the holy religion of the Cross takes pi xsesston of my soul—which may God gram right early!” I have been done great injustice. My friend from Kentucky (Sir. Graves) asked you only to print the testimony in the Gilley affair as you printed the reports of the committee, and you have up to this inoiucui, refused his re quest. On that testimony I take my stand be fore the world—l will transmit it to my chil- : dreu as a memorial of the fact that no dishonor can be mtarhed lo me. If lam guilty of mur- ] der, arraign me—tr_v me. 1 rnrried a challenge 1 from one gentleman to another —not from one ‘ member of this House to another. The House i ‘ had nothing to do with it, I thought then, and j i think so still. Ihi my oath I purged myself of j i all contempt to its privileges or authority. Ij t was reported, however, guilty of a breach of < privilege. Why do not you, then proceed to i give me a fair open trial, like men, gentlemen, - and judges, instead of taUnting me, ns the gen- > tkman from New Y’oik has done, with oblique t THU WOINTOSH COUNTY HERAI.J), allusions? Is it not cgn-giously unjust tha nny judge should pursue this course ? I de mand of hitu a trial. Come when it may. Ii will show who are the guilty. The most guilty were the very busiest in arraigning me—the most hypocritical in the hue and cry after the most innocent in that transaction— und the most bitter and unjust in theircontiniicd perse -1 eutioos. Put me on trial, and I will then drag front their seats here, and in the other House, j the real culprits. Tbe very wretches who in i stigaled that duel—who wept crocodile tears 1 j over the bier of poor Gilley—und who got up I excitement the most loathsome, for no end whatever of religion or morality, but for the vilest of political purposes; wretches who I would have dragged the corpse of tbe victim lof their machinations from Washington to Maine, with his heels to n chariot, and his head ! upon the flinty rock, if it would have served thu sinister and infamous designs of u party. ‘ And they • • • * may gild his grave.” The gentleman from New York seemed to insinuate that the cpithcl“liar and ocoundrel” j belonged not to his section of country. They are not known to the vocabulary of gentlemen, ! I assure him in mine. In the region I repre sent such words are never applied, unless he who uses them is prepared to stake his blood upon their import. Who uses them in tliecase be fore the House I l b< g pardon, I mn tres passing upon the intention I set out with. In reaped to the gentlemanly language ill speech ! or print, I am icudy to compare th< Cavalier with the Roundhead. No gentleman sues for slander in my section of country ; a blow fol- j lows tbe lie, and I have seen ministers of the law “clear the ring” for “a fair fight” when such offensive terms were used even by black guards. A black eye to an individual was not half as bad as false swearing to society j n eases of assault and battery were not gentlemen.— Puttee is not mere abstinence from blows, and socinl order depends more upon well-regulated tongues than upon disciplined arms. Anil the Scriptures themselves tells us you cutinol bridle the tonglto;ships of theses* have helm* —hor- ses have bits, but thu tongue is an unruly mem ber ! The law cannot restrain it—a pistols sometimes will. N ' r , !*'. me not be misunderstood. I repeat that I abhor duelling. My experience is pain ful on this mode of settling private feuds. 1 ■ have challenged and been challenged; three limes have I been upon the “bloody ground”— seen five shots exchanged—four balls take effect —three limb* wounded, two permanently disabled, undone life taken ; and, as 1 hope to be pardoned by Heaven, I had rather tie prin cipal at any lime than tile second. If a man of sensibility, he is never upon the field of ■ honor except by the side of a dear friend, and never then willingly and mull after he has ex hausted all means lo prevent the issue of blood. There are two gt-iulenten on tuia floor at this moment —the only men for whom I ever was second, (Hon. W. Cost Johnson of Maryland, and Hon. W. J. Graves of Ive.t'ucky)—who know what has been my conduct aim maod?r ■ cf discharging my duty to a friend on such an I occasion. It is enough for them lo know—l care not tv hut the ‘.‘■’orld thinks. 1 can defend my own character whilst ijVibg ; they ran de fend my memory when I atu no more, from any aspersion which would be likely to make my children suspect their father had ever been guilty eilherof dishonor or inhumanity. Isay 1 have seen enough, os many witnesses know, to make me desirous to prevent or lo mitigate the barbarous practice. Ido not despise the truly religious and moral sense of the commu nity. I have been taught lo revere both reli gion and sound morality. Hut what is a mate of the world to do ? It is useless to tell him to seek religion. The terrors of the Divine law cannot restrain many good men to fly even eternal wrath. How can humaflatatutes, then, bind the sense of honor ! What is the until of honor to do? If he fights and survives, he walks with the slow-muting linger pointing at him ; if he is killed, we are told ne “dies as the fool dictli,” and he goes down “unwept, uu honored;” if he refuses lo light, he dies the liv ing death, and lives disgraced ! Public senti ment is cruel —the statute is unjust. Hut sir if 1 ever fall on the field of honor whilst a member of this House, I now beseech my friends, whose “tears, though few,” will be “sincerely shed,” not to permit a political parade to be made over my body : to quietly inter my remains, as 1 should have buried my friend had be fallen,in becoming privacy, with out the gilded Congressional colli It —the silk velvet—the armorial bearings—the crape—the honorable funeral—the mock mourning—with decency uml without political efleet, w here no intruding hypocrite might ever tread upon the grass of my grave/ This much would be due to violated law, and would be consistent with an unfeigned abhorrence of duelling. Hut try, me 1 repeat. Send me home, if you condemn. What then ? I will tell you. If my constituents see nothing dishonrrable in my conduct, they will not think of your pre cious privileges—they will take eure that I shall be dealt with ns ull others have been. In six days after an election to fill the vacancy of my seat here, I will appear at that door aguin, ‘make you a polite bow, Mr. Speaker, und pre sent myself, ready to take the oath to support the Constitution of the United //tales. Ido not mean to boast. 1 mean only to Complain of your course. You who dare not try, should o'! taunt me. You shall not. The gentlemen from New-York says that, on one occasion, I refused to vote. Hits, also, is quoted ns another example t° justiiy hi* friend. I did refuse to vote. Why? Because you called on me to legislate where Congress itself had no constitutional power. It was a matter of conscience. I hail sworn to support the Constitution. A regaard to my oath for bade me to vote. Was this no excuse ? Was n regard of my oath disorder ? How will this justify his friend, if he has been guilty as charged ! He says the Speaker himself has been de nounced as a supple tool of the Executive. This too, is another example to justify bis friend. Yes, the Speaker has been told to his face worse than that. Y'ott and I know (Mr. Speaker) what 1 said. Another gentleman (Mr. Adams) in my own eye knows. When- j ever I bad been arraigned, I would have given j the reasons why I took the Speaker by the arm as he was leaving the chair, and said to him. “Y'ou are the petty tool of a tyrant! Did 1 mean merely to instill him * No, no. The Speaker was not toy man. No l discharged a high and solemn duty: I defended the free dom of debate, the forms intended to preserve it. When 1 found the Executive presiding every where —when I found the President sit ting there, (pointing to the chair.) as well as j upon the throne in the White House—over-j stepping the constitutional walls of partition between the co-ordinate departments of Gov ernment —encroaching by silent corruption, upon the province of this House—l spoke out as Brmus didin Home, or us Sydney would in England. I w ill speak or die on all such occa sons. It is a duty and lawful iu a Republic. What shall the Representatives of the Peo ple. when they witness corruption or usurpa tion here, fail to speak out their indignation, or speak only in honied phrases, lest their words be unpalatable to Court taste, or greate upon the ears of the palace ? Must we not call defaulters thieves—those who connive at ! their dishonesty, corrupt—minions and pan ders of power, tools—servile, crouching syco phants. whobarter every thing for place, slaves —because, forsooth, the terms are not gentle? when patriotism demands always the plain truth ? The gentleman from New-Y'ork and ’ I have been trained in diluent schools. Id” , not admit there is “sound.ilntn inagnaiiutn in ■ this land. \S ben I see the daring orinsidious , invasions of the freedom ant! independence “f ; legislation attempted, I ill derMmtlP tluln-,; vader and denounce the principle ofimasion. j Why 7 Because I love the Government, and prefer its preservation for my children, better than I love uny man who breathes. I forget ! persons, am heedless of personalities iu the struggle to maintain our institutions: and of-j 1 ten feci the necessity imposed on me “call , things by their right names.” lam responsi- i bit- always, personally and legally, for the lan , guage I employ. I bow the law and the judge me lit of tny peers. (Here Mr W ise said he was very sick, and suddenly sat down, j From the Ne York Herald. Great numeral Hie City Hotel The City Hotel ha* lately fallen into the hands of Messrs. Gardner At Packard, and into better it ptobabfy could not have fal len. These gentlemen, desirous of doing well in this life and making their fortune J before they fall into the “scar and yellow 1 leaf,” have adopted the only course .to cf- . | feet that object; that is, they have set to j work ill earnest to cultivate the good will of the gentlemen of the press, not the loaf- j ers. In accordance with this resolution, wc j received on Monday morning the following graphic and jtiquant billet;— City Hotel, Monday. | Sir :—The favor of your company is j 1 ‘ respectfully solicited to meet a few friends, ! at the City Hotel, including the gentlemen ; ’ of the pres*. Dinner on the tabic at half- . past 5 o’clock. Yours, Gaudner At Packard. To refuse so polite an invitation would j have been anything but the act of a gentle man, and between 5 At 9 o’clock we found ourselves sitting at the cross table, two re moves from the Mayor—an immensely long table running down in front of us, loaded ! with elegant cut glass and plate, and itn i mediately before us the bill of fare. The Mayor of course was in the chair; supported by the President of the St. George's Society and n gentleman of the press ; all the talent, decency, and iittpu ’ denre of the city were there except Webb, Noah, and Booby Brooks; that is, at the dinner ; and could they hut know w hat rich i “food for the body and mind” they lost by absenting themselves from this dinner, they j would curse their stupidity that induced i them io stay sway. It was a rich treat; the can! 1,8 duck and venison steaks would have mao.’ even Bill Price’s mouth water; tbe hock was recherche: the rhampaigne superb,'* the Burgundy delicious ; nothing could cx | reed the splendor of the whole affair. The i Mayor made a short speech, cempliinen* I ting the gentlemen of the press, which was : responded to ably and eloquently. Mirth ! and harmony prevailed until a lair hour ; when the smoke of the cigars became very ’ thick, a little noise occurred and we thought we discovered at the lower end of the room, a form resembling Webb's and sounds proceed front it something like the following : Mr Chairman and Gentlemen . — This jis a great, a glorious meeting—l am a great ! and glorious man, aud we live in a great : and glorious country. (Immense cheering.( Gentlemen, (Cries of hear Ij—as this room is agitated by the rattling of glasses and the 1 drawing of corks—Cheers, and three glas ses knorked over by thumping)—You all know my disposition, gentlemen —I am for a tight—war to tin knifr, and a knife to the hilt—and I think I have flow a Very good chance to git into a fight. I have been in many rows, and inv bravery has been ques tioned by some, who are beneath my no tice, and whom I will convince, if there is a war, that lam not to be trilled with. I repeat, I have been in several rows, but never was in one good fight. I was throw it down stairs at Tamney Hall, and almost lost my breeches. I challenged divers in dividuals, and twice walked the whole length of Pennsylvania Avenue, hut could ; not git up a fight. I have been arrested in Bristol, and I have been half seas over more times than a few. I have said this much, gentlemen, because 1 knew that some thing like either a speech, a song, a fight, or a challenge, was excepted from me ; and I now yield the floor to abler and better men. ,! A curious, cmiuiuft looking character, l i with the nose of a jjnrrot and the eye of a rogue then rose to speak ; we could not see , him very distinctly because of the smoke, but he bore a strong resemblance to Noah, 1 as did his speech to the opinions of that ‘! philosopher, lie began— Mr. Speaker and gentlemen.—l am not [ : altogether unaccustomed to public speak- ■ ing or blowing mv own trumpet, but the 1 , fart is that I have done so murh for the , Whigs and have got so little for my pains i that it is time to speak plain. I, as you all know, organized the Whig party ; 1 have 1 more wisdom than any of you—for am I not a defendant of Soloman himself. 1 have more receipts for curing old maids of the cholic, making all sorts of curious old pies and puddings, taking grease spots out ‘ of old clothes, making pewter look like sil ver and brass like gold, and one of the great test schemes for gathering together the Whigs on Manhattan Island and jdacitig myself at the head of them, than my friend Webb ever dreamt of. I can’t fight like him, nor eatt I run ; but I frequently walk i twice the length of Broadway and I can talk and tell lies faster than any friend to j the party. This speech was received w ith a strange i voeiferious mixture of noises, not unlike what we conceive of the confusion at Ba be). The company however, did not seem ; to consider these the happiest efforts at speech-making, and dispensed with any more. Then. “The night drave on wi’ songs and clatter, And aye the wine was growing better.” The company broke up at a reasonable J hour, highly pleased with the successful efforts of the worthy host to cater for their comfort. Txlent Rewarded. —We see it stated that professor Ingraham, who is now in Natchez, has obtained the prize of e>3CM for a tale railed ; j Uncos or the Rival Sachems, written tor one of ] ! the literary papers iu Philadelphia. , 1 DK.STRI'CTIN KjC* >NTyj jtW. ! 1 About lour o’cfhck yo*t< rtbi iiiicriunm. a fire broke rul in the yardofUMKuYannah -Steam Saw Mill I'otii|my, oq ih o ihcr j side of the river, oppueiit* the yard of the 1 i Steamboat Company of Georgia. It pro* ’ reeded from an ohlDuiltfing from one to ! two hundred yards below the> mill, and about 100 feet long bv DO wide, tbcjcoofof . which ignited from a spark from the mill! j pipe, the wind al the time blowing stroll” 1 from the North West. The dniilding was ! immediately In a Ware, and the (ire com municated in ten minutes or less to the j schooner Mcdora, of Providence, lying at! i the wharf near. The fire was by the wind i rapidly extended to a eargo of white jiim | board* on the u hurl, ow ned by Captain ! Win. Crabtree, jr., to which gentleman and : George liall, Ksq., Intlh of this city, the I tuniflim* in which the fire originated also I 1 belonged. In this building (on wnut- W ns : ; some insurance, not yet ascertained, tn trre Howard Insurance Company of N. Y'ork,) j ! there was anew engine intended lor anew ! (Steam Saw Mill about to be erected, which ! w:i* owned hy the same gentlemen, and-* which we are happy to learn is bn* paiiialU injured. This engine was not iusured. | The flames also extended to another old i j building, of iutne dimensions as the former,! ine property of the K*tate of (he hue Ho i dert Isaac, which was also totally consumed, I as also a portion of a pile of -00 chaldrons [ of Liverpool coal on the whurl, (he proper ty of Messrs. Crabtree At Hull. The wharf heads have also been more or less injured. The Hehoonet Mcdora was the property Jof Col. 11. J. Arnold, of Bryan County, J valued about tjd.OOO,und we reirretto learn, i not iusured. Two men on board at the I time endeavoured to loose her tron) lit r • moorings, but before she could begot adrift, : they were compelled by the liames todeaert i her, in one of the boats. Hhe was after* i wards scuttled and when our informant left her had been burnt to the w ater’s edge. The mill was fortunately preserved. While the second building was in flames, I and before engines conld be carried across : the river, the alarm was again sounded and ! when we reached the scene, the old build . ; ingon Reynolds square, on the lot know n ! as the old filature lot w as in flames, the roof : having caught from a spark waited several hundred yards across the riter, which j igniting like tinder threatened a serious i conflagration. The engines were however !on the spot, and though the clement was 1 very obstinate, by the timely aid of water well directed by the Firemen, and hy: the exertions of many citizens, the lire was . nr rested, after destroying the double tene- I me-it, wooden building orrupied by Mis. l Russe H. as a boarding house; and by Mis. Austin, aud extending; to a small double . tenement also of wood on St. Julian Street, . occupied by Sue- Joiinsami Mr. P. Cartier, , which was totally consumed with out build i ings on the lot. The large building owned by Mr. Thomas (dark, aud hy Mr. Autos Sc udder, wus under insurance, ns we learn, i umnOO, made by Mr. Clnrk. Mr. Srudder , was not insured on this building or on the I other tenement which belonged to him. His loss, we regret to state, is therefore ! heavy, as two other dwellings (not insured) i j on the lot, one double tenement on Lincoln i! Street, were more or less destroyed by the i , Axemen to arrest the conflagration. The j dwellings of Mrs. Ilourke, Mr. Schley, aftd i Mr. Titos. S. Wayne were with other conti . | gUOU* buildings repeatedly on fire, but pre . served by great exertion. We regret to I learn that nmrh furniture was lost by Mrs. r Russell and Mrs. Austin, and that two of their hoarders Messrs. Roberts’ lost cottsi ) th ruble, as also a Mr. Gardiner. , We congratulate our citizens that it prov . cd not more serious in its effects, and would . urge upon Council the (necessity of procu j ring more hose, some of w hich proved very [ j deficient, and of keeping in good repair t the cisterns, from two of which iu tbe , vicinity material benefit at this fire was [ derived. From the Troy Mail. Kill Johnson and his Daughter. Batavia, March 3d. I fill a spare moment by communicating to 1 you some slight account of Patriotism, as it has ■ fallen under my notice. Upon our arrival at . (Schenectady, we discovered that one of the I cur* contained Bill Johnson aud his daughter. ■ Being agreeably occupied, however, we gave ourselves little trouble about tbe hero, and but for the next day’s journey, when we were | I fellow passengers iu one singe-coach. 1 should ‘ ; have been unable to identify him again. But j I found myself ehrek-by-jowl with him when 1 ! daylight appeared the next morning - h and, as my sympathies are not slow to appear when ■ (here is good cause. I prepared to hear admir ingly, and weep pathetically, at the proper places. But “ what a fall was there, my eoun i irymett ?” If Bill Johnson is not a pirate, he “ swears I like one,” at any rate, and wears that sunk- n. j degraded and cunning look, which would I condemn him any where, whether justly or | otherwise. “The Queen of the Thousand Isles” was but j little more to my taste, as you may fancy when ! . I say that when daylight appeared, she com-j ’i ntenced quizzing freely about “Bill Johnson.” : —spoke of her own exploits, and ended by I jocosely calling her father “Uncle Bill.” She i appeared sincerely attache# luhitir, however, i and I both hope and believe is rather the victim of her condition and circumstances. Bill dropped expressions in regard to the Prescott affair, which, if they arc to fie trusted, indicate him to be a villain of the deepest dye, and his deportment aud remarks on our ap proach to Syracuse, (where preparations has been made for a fuss) furnished all the addi ! tional evidence wfiTch I needed. I will not truble you with any further parti ! culars of the hero, but content myself with | remarking that, so far ns I have observed, but ! one common feeling and sentiment prevails j throughout this section, both in regard to him j and Mackenzie, (whom I also fell in with on my route to this place, ‘‘agitating.”) and .that is. of detestation and disgust. That such a sentiment is alike honorable to the good principles aud good sense of the peo i ph’- you will fully comprehend when I say ! that he and his companions virtually admitted | that the tnen at Prescott might have been I brought off that they wished to ive, and were kept there by false assurances that they should be reinforced! Woodruff. Van Shocltz an! Abbey, who were undoubtedly of the stuff of which heroes are t made were victims, not of British cruelty, i but of their friends’ premeditated treachery! j As I may remain some time in this vicinity, j and knowhow to pass or? either of the i line, at pleasure and with stfelv, I oiav communicate something that will interesting^ to jlbr wider At ha'#*| ha\e uow leisure toelo i U baHNjßO'.c. YotMi cite. T ANARUS.„ .1 ..tL -tTn.l:at#W>v a gnwa* pot. >n’ nlik . that B’ sha, !|„ .ri ofl'fi.rtnrr Governor of Kentucky, who itutnb- M n' an imu,, a D ? ker ’ T ‘,’ I reprieved, on* who afterward, n'urdered a 1 man in Texas, but died in prison before the day of execution i ante, is since discovered to be ! alive Hi* existence accounted for b> flip posing that he did not absolutely die in prison, uud that ulugof wood, acouiiterieiitwdy’Was buried insteua ofhim. The N t t— ib “ “ w ‘ >of , , K C . 1 Tisputcd Territory, from which w< barn that it emlimcc* 10.750 sqmfre miles-nearly one j mth as !< as the enure slate of Georgia—or •JtijJuqmue milthi mwre than tbe entire elate j of MtsSactulseUa. ;.■* ?** GrvrtNE Ghatiti te.—The humane and iKWornble remdnCt ofCapt. Unwell, of Boston, iin s.tMOC the crew of it ll Eoglish vessel from j the noi i,-f shiuw reek, lut* met with its just * ’ reward at the bauds ol tUC lord mayor and ■ aldermen of London. At a meeting of their I body, it was resolved that the most suitable j tcstimbmtrt thrv coo'd br-toW on Capt. It, ’ u ouid bt to prew ttt him vUh anew and •well I appointed ship. This is really substantial gra titude. and dot * honor to the good feelings of j our English Uuns**tUuUic brethren. Fi oßin e.—The legislature of this terri tory have before it a hill to prevent gaming of every kind,by imposing a tine of not kss . than two hundred dollars, and imprison i incut thirty ilavr, for every offence. Such laws arc oflituc force, uulcss enlightened pi,blii o|fiiiiou i'-milt*led against bueli vices and immoralities. Pjut.Attf) ph. a, March 19. TTc reCPti v ‘ Uh deep regret the death of Mr. J. R. rK;iilaudq§ the Principal of the institu .; won for the instruction of the Blind of this city, i lie died ou (suttdftv at bailspnat two o’clock. - I Mr. F. wasnyonng man devoted lo the good work iu which Ih* was engaged; “and was be loved by those who knew him best. Hi* whole attention seemed to be* given to the unfortunnts 1 children under his care—we had therefore less 1 j opportunity of judging of his w ortb than those I I persons who were much with him in the dis • | charge, of philanthropic labors. 1 1 I'| A* accident occurred at tWff Walnut street | | theatreon Friday evening,during the reptt s n , tatidh ofthe magnificent spoctacle of the “Ca taractofthe Gauges.” Dining the. performance, the horse in ascending the cataract; missed his fooling fell and block hi* tu ck—The noble animat w c learn, cost five hundred dollars. A lew nights previous another accident occurred m thenerfofinme* of the stone piece,by which • Mro. Hield mid Mr. Pickering were considera bly injured. Mrs. 11. we underetand is still in sensible from ihcY’tTectsofthe injuries received. —Soituwl, Tlte man who was put in Toronto jnil for ’ whistling Yankee Doodle, a short time sittfo. ’ is learning God save the Queen, in hope* of ■ whistling himself out again. 1 ; -= Books and Stationary. 1 ! Isaac Show, fij WAS just itcei vul iVoui New York. X 9 atorum id us Book* ami btutumary, itinong which arc ill*’following sc Lo >1 kook#, mostly of ihe > latest und most unproved kaid ; M Irvittjr'* coluiuouj*; Kmeraon's spelling; do orith* 1 I in*tie,‘2d and ml j>url; Smith's grammar; :* I null pUilo.i.[>hy; Adau's lauu grammar; Mount r YYinoit 1 -dr; Roiibin soulUncc; Comstock's chem j Utry ; Hi. k; s astronomy ; Cooper's virpil; Leverrti’s (Vua r; Purl y s geography; do nr it hint tic; Web sur’.s opcUiui:; Olmy’s geography and atlas; Cum - j flu; WiUeU’sdo; Adam's do ; Sroilluy’s do ; j j Wi Hard’s do. Bonny castle** algebra; Conversations i on tfkemiatiry; Botany facbeginners; Lock’s j anthion; *] Life of Washington (French); L)aboil’* arithmetic ; • ; Colburn’s umMmual do ; Murray’s reader; Smith’s - 1 it.u.leutuul grammar ■; Rudd;mow s lsiin grammar; Angtl's grammar; Angels srries. No. H and -5; Lt ssous on eriunciiilaofk by Russel; ColU*ftion of col . j loniol phrases in Italian and Knglish: Parker’sexer- cisfs iu eoo)|>osiuon; Unestkmion the biblc hy Mr. -j Do well; Moral class book; Amenuan first class f ! book, American reader; Gnui's geometry; Gallic r| u vt on mythology ; School bibb sand testaments; j Wr*vug and copy lxx>ks; Mutuullanrous books ; 1 I tAuarlo bibles ; Pocket do plain and gilt; Polyglot > do; Psviluis ami hymns, (Presbyterian); Mercer’s clu ut; Watt s *2 siaes; Village Hymns: Methodist Lynms; Lion’s songster; Camp Meeting hymns; BoadileU'a navigation; Irving’s columbus, V vol. ec;.; American Chesterfield; Italian method of book kc.'j) Hitchcock's do in *-2 parts with key; Merchants’ companion; Rural philosophy, a ii'tm; Gouper's task do ; Pollok’s course af time; Preston's cubrial j esiumufs : Toy banka, and a variety of Ju s vcurie books; Blank Iraoks; Ledgers; Record; t Day hooks; Pocket ledgers and inemorandunis of , various kinds. Cap Paper, No. 1 and *2: Letter paper, plain and j rul'd; Butlers superior Writing Fluid; Longworth’s Writing Ink; Ink Powder, Uuills ; Steel Peas; Wa -1 fees in boxes, &c feb 12 i do no v ‘steam saw mill, t WILL ktrfp on hand a large supply of t LI MB EH of all descriptions. Cargoes < wifi be sawed to order. Five wharves are at i inched to the Mill, and the Lumber will be de livered within reaeh of the vessel loading. Apply to ’ I>. R. YONGE & SONS, Agents. Darien, January 22, 1839. NOtiCE. A LL persons in arrears for PEW RENT, in ~®- th< Presbyterian Church.are respeetfntiv witched to call and settle the same without ; delay as the funds are particularly wanted; ; discharge the obligations of the Church. By order of the Board of Trustees, 11. A. CIIANE, Secretary and Treasurer. Darien. Jany. 22. 1839. SOAP, t A\D I KS, <Nr. BOXES Dawa, Sauger ut Cos.” No. 1 Extra SOAP 10 boxes MOULD CANDLES 10 half bbls. Fulton Market BEEF 5 kegs superior ‘Gosham Dairy’Butte. 5 kegs New LARD 19,0)9 superior Old Havana CIGARS For sale low bv ROGERS & CRANE. Darien. Jany. 22.1839. Notlee. -cxjps—THE undersigned intends keep fjy 1 1 g a complete and general as- it of =*®SS®Sh DRY GOODS, GROCERIES, HARDWARE, CROCKERY, BOOTS, SHOES, &e. athts store ia Darien, Persons wishing to make pnrehat es will do well to call and ex amine for tiiemseiv"*. SAMUEL M. STREET. Darien Jan I, 1889. j. 22 if. Notice, ” * THE copartnership heretofore existing under the firm of \V. & &. STREET is this day mutually dissolved. Ail persons bare ing claims will please hand them in and all indebted to make ptvrtterf to either of the for mer partrerr ‘ W. C. STREET T ANARUS, S. M. STREET ttarma. Jan. 1, JS39. j. 22 j j