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FRIDAY MOftfUNOf JAXCATIiY 3!. "■
No null north of Chath-slon last n|;ht. Ihe
faft or# of the mail is at all times pcrr -xincr. but
° it IS ptovokingly so 311 st alibis time, w ,en we are
looking *v ; lh so much anxiety for th news by .
9 the British Queen. While on the su iect of the
mails me w ill take occasion to respr id to the
numerous complaint* which have n iched our
ears, of the n m-arrival < f our papers. We can
assure our subscribers that the faul is in the
Post Office Department, for until v* trday, our
pp ,* have Been regularly sent to ir Olf.ce in j
this city in due season ; and then oul a portion j
or <?ur weekly Mkbafcnbexv were not ser «1, owing >
to an accident which happened to |ur power
pres*, just as wc were beginning to w s rk off tho
impression. It will, however, be repaired in a .
day or two. when wc hope our usual punctuality
will be sustained.
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Lafayette Course. \
The race, over this Course, four mt.es, which (
come off yesterday was the roost in t|resting ot
any that Ins transpired at the present* meeting.
The*coiitest was animated throughfut. ihe
lime, however, was not good, in conc'jjuence of
the heavy state of the Track produce Iby the
rain in the forenoon. The following is the re
sult :
0»d, Hampton’s, Santa Anna, 2 I-l
Lovell’s, Gcrow, 3 2-2
Edmonson’s, Mary Elizabeth, 1 3-drawn
Complimentary Dinner.
The Bar tendered to the Hon. A 5. Long
street, a dinner In testimony of their 1 sped for
him, on his retiring from the Bar, to a tume the
duties of his station as President of En *ry Col
lege. It was served yesterday evening at the U.
8. Hold.
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Kuonr. Islajh).—The Whig State Jonvcn
tion of Rhode Island, assembled at J’n vidence,
nominated on the 17th lost. Samue 1 W (King of
Johnston, for the office of Governor, at 1 Byron
Diman of Bristol, for that of LicutenaT Govern
or.
The locofocos nominations for lliesafi : offices,
ere John Brown Francis of Warwick, Vr Gov
ernor. and Nathaniel B. Dulkick of B jivl, for
I.icut. Governor. i
G>;yeral Hatvk—The Char.’estor pou irr
of yesterday say-:—The remains of tbi. beloved
and lamented citizen, of this eminent a d gifted
patriot and statesman, were brought to iis city*
from As.ieville, N. C.,-on Monday last and im
ostentatiously interred in the cemetry .of i t. Mich
ael’s Church. Peace tolas ashes! [onor to
his racunory !
Congress.
Wo are not m ptfksssaion of any lahr dates
■from this body than were furnished in c ir paper
ot yesterday. I rom the correspondent 1 of the
Charleston Courier, of the 241 h instant, owevci*
we learn that another of those disgracefi scenes,
of which the House has so frequently bo n made
the theatre for some years hack, came of on the
afternoon of that day, in which the Hon. Mr. By
num, of N. C, as usual, rendered him *lf infa- 1
roously conspicuous. But as our indig ation is
aroused, we fear we may do tho honor a lie bully'
injustice, if such a thing were possible, ive on’y
when he is represented as a gentleman, we
tho language of tho reporter, who. it w I be re
collected, acts with the party to which r. B. is
attached: 1
Mr. Bynum resumed and concluded his long
speech on the subfect of abolition, and 1 endeav
ored to prove the identity of the Whig with the
abolitionists. In doing this, he trip'i 1 once;
finding his own name recorded as ha\| n g voted
in 183(5, with the abolitionists. But b°declar
cd, amidst an uproar of laughter, on sides of
til • House, that I Here must he some rnisiike about
it, as lie have voted in that.wav.
Mr. 8., in the course of his remarks! alluded
to Mr. Peck, ot N. \ as an abolitionist. Mr.
Peek, replied that he hud sold what Ivas not
true. |
Mr. Bynum said; “you a c a bl.xkjmrd and
. a scoundrel, a negro and an abolition .It.” At'- ’
ter some time spent in cirdeavojing, wittioul su*.
cess. to procure a retraction of the langtlige from
both members, the House adjourned. °
Mr. Bynum, however, nude an apol ;y so far
as the House was concerned.
VV isiiingtov, J ,i. 2.j.
The Senate did not sit to-day. In j - I louse
Mi. I «ck ot N. \ made some cue plan ion con
cerning Ins position ia regard to „bol ioniao;;
an 1 Mr, Cost Jolmson explained that i/heu ho
nfave f that Mr. Bynum be permitted t. proceed,
*T® that ho had,withdrawn hisfiffetis-ivo’
.w \ d-orderly remaps. Mr. .1. well i.bsCrved
' «t indqporaus and abusive language on this
floor, wax more calculated t . tmu.c iln who
umM It, man bun against whom it was Untried.
-Mr. Bynum went on with his anti tbolitiun
<py .u«j, .)• «1J I.r fixing Mr. Peek’, >o s iii
J) "W .Huta.,l.l 01 tl„, 11,
preh.nmary to a vote on - »ne rcsolutio for tho
ui>position of abolition p. titions, Mr. P remark
• that there were some Southern tugit e slave.*
who he m 1-, el to bring to the vote Itis stv '
m j»f ire to Mr. Peck., that hu sofemu Ind Z I
t!ve disclaimer of abolttioniem wffl i,r u |- him at
home, as the .1 olilioauls hold ance of
power in his district.
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U. 8. Bask.— The Harrisburg lie no er. (aj.
IwniMatratfalHMl.) appears to be quite Onfideat
ti.atllie bill now bclhre the State l,egi« iture.tor
die repeal cf the charter of f. S. Bank :i\’n n .
*ylvama wilt become a law. The ive|ft»rtd „ in fact,
•ppean to Im? quite certain of this result' It says
bill w;’l pass both houses, and will n-; leive the
Hxecwive «gnature. £
Phc Ph.Uk-iptna North American :L> leans
o xamc optnioa. That is, u exprises the
opinivn 1 iai the attempt now making in *he Le -
* lu ' Bapitulot the I i.;on armed with U? _ °
a £ ,ce of ,he P 00 !’* 0 «f a great empire. en| ot v " n !;
Ihaaoxneriga mujmy of th, If w.-i;, crawled with
the duplet ot virtue, and bearing aloft thl end m
of Itheny, neo and the constitptim.—
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Fvr thi ChranitU 4- Sentinel.
Mr. Juxrs—ln your p*pcr of the 29lhinst. is
a communiaiuon, signed No. 2, respecting a pre
mium to the engine first getting to a fire. I mere.
ly wish to correct an impression which may ha%e
been made.
j We dcr.v :hat the author of the piece has any
thing to do with Section So. 2. ami farther, tha
we Jo not require any inducement to simulate
;ux Vfe always have been ready, ari lwe always
; are, to do our duty when called on, or occasion
! requires. Wc cannot be bribed by money to get
j to the scene of action quicker loan w„ a,ways
j have done. We would advise this sham No. 2*
I when he wishes to gain information of the kind,
; to appear in his own clothes and not in tne garb
of others. Ssctios No. 3.
From the Globe of the '2±>th.
Projected Invasion ot Tcxai by Mexico.
i Wc copy from the “Cosmopolita.” of the 4th
I pf December,* a paper published in Mexico, the
[ following communication from Scnor Almonte,
i the Secretary at War, to Ihe National Gongreso.
i He asks that extraordinary powers be gianted to
I the President for a military expedition against
! Texas ; and that he bo authorized to use politico
j ,>jj if ary measures for tl « reduction of that Ke
j public, as well as’in reference to the bordering
j States. The Editor of the “Cosmopolita” re
marks, tha*. there extraordinary powers might
ultimately cotnpromil the relit «ms of Mexico with
frbmdly nations.
“The Supreme Government has resolved to
prepare anoiher expedition, and to offer to the
! usurpers sf Texas, peace or war, pardon or pun
ishment, and at every hazzard. to compel them
to return to tl.e bosom of family.
The President earnestly desires the co-operation
of the Congress for this pat riotic object, by giving
him the extraordinary powers which are requisite
for its accomplishment.
“ The Government on 1 every citizen of Mexi
co wishes to prove to their enemies, their deter
mination and tlieir power to sustain the rghts of
the country. The criminal adventurers of Texas
have committed acts which merit the severest
punishment. Their views have extended be
yond what was expected; and now the whole
Mexican nation, desirous of promoting the inter
nal t anquihty of the hhate, demands a guarantee
for this repose in external security.
“To Texas we must chiefly direct our atten
tion. Its perfidious inhabitants seek to promote
their fortunes by the ruin of Mexico. The fer
tile and beaut fa I lands of that province have ex
cited their cupidity. These must be recovered
at every risk. With this view, the President,
with the ad vice of his council, has directed me to
submit to Congress the following measures :
“I. Thai the Government be authorised to in
cur any expense for the reduction of the depart
ment of Texas, to Iho National Union.
“2. That all po!,t. comil Jury measures be au-*
thorised, with respect to this province and its
limitrophe Stales, that may be deemed necessary
to effect i s pacification.”
The Mexican journals assert that the scheme
of the Texans is to support the Federalist party
in Mexico, and to encourage the separation ol
the States A new Uep iblic is proposed to be
established by the Federalists, to be called the
Republic of Surih M-.xtco. It will comprise the
departments Tatnaulipas, Z icatecas, Durango,
Sinaloa, Sonora, A uevo Leon, Coahuila, Nuevo
Mexico, and he Culifornias.
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RKSimxgUitUTS or Cahiiikus.—An in'rrest- I
ingcasv, involving ihe responsibilities of common i
carriers, was decided in Ba'.litn re County Couit, I
on appeal, during t le present term.
Certain cases of tools were shipped on board a i
wss. 1 belonging to the defendant, then lying in ■
the port of Boston, to be conveyed to the olain- j
tiffs in Baltimore. The vessel lost her anchors in '
Hampton Roads, and in endeavoring to make the |
port of Norfolk, was driven a-hore. It became
necessary to unlade tho cargo, to get too vessel 1
afloat; and the cases in question wore deposited |
, in a warehouse in Nbrfolk for about ten cloys, j
when they were taken on board and conveyed to |
Baltimore. On examination by the plaintifls,a defi- '
ciency was found in the contents of one of the !
cases, and suit was brongh. before a magitrate to ■
recover the amount.
On appeal to the County Conrt.it was decided !
that a common carrier is an insurer of all goods j
entrusted to his custody from all perils except !
those stipulated against in his bill of lading, or
arising from the act of God or public enemies.—
But that if, during the voyage, the carrier is
I compelled, by the happening of any of the ex
! peeled perils, to unlade his vessel and store the
* cargo, he will not continue liable, as an insurer ,
: for any accidents, injuries or trespasses, which
j may be su-tained by the cargo while out of his
I custody. He will then be acting, not as a car
rier, but as ogenf for the benefit of all concerned.
Vet so firmly established and so wise is the poli
cy of the law, which regards carriers as insurers
against all risks hut tho.-e specielly excepted,
that it will not be competent for the captain to
excuse himself from responsibility for goods lost
or abstracted during the course ot the voyage, on
the ground that they were taken from the wa e-
I house where they had been stored, unless he cast
adduce satisfactory evidence that the loss was
j sustained while the goods were so stored.
I C. W. Kidgely, Esq. for appellant—Wm. H.
I Domna and J. ii. Ulackburn, Lsos, for appellees.
Patriot. ‘ 1
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The Algerine and French War.
The organization of a powerful Arab army,
; under the Shtek Abdel Kadier, and the repeated
i an, l successful attacks on the French outposts,
have created great sensation in France and gen
erally throughout the array. The question is,
what is to be done 1 How is this outbreak to be
| punished and put down k The w andering Arabs
no doubt supported on the one
! by Morocco and the other by Tunis. If an
army is routed to-day, another is formed to-naor
j row; they are like our Seminoles, indomitable in
their hostility, craliy in their plans, and bold in
I their attacks; only, unlike our Seminoles, they
have no everglades or impenetrable forests; they
have to keep the pi .in—to hold on to the desert.'
What, then, is to be done ? Wtjl France aban*
doi. its conquests i 1 Africa ! Will the Citizen
King surrender Algiers, captured,as it was, under
the Bourbons ? By no means. His honor, his
I safety, his very crown, forbid it. No matter how
unprofitable the conquest may turn oui,o»ce
conquered, to be kept cs a French province, it
cannot be given up.—The Barha>y corsairs have
received many seve.e lessons from the Christian
powers in their time, but it was a mere bombard
mom, a flogging, a payment of the expenses, and
a new treaty, and here the matter ended; but
when I ranee, with a powerful army and navy,
attacked and captured Algiers, Bona, and the
I P rlnc 'H the kingdom, it was to be re
| tamer a- a I rerch Colony, and no objection was
mace p European powers to Franee con
querin,, 1 poss. 1e„ the neghboring provinces.
A.gters Wli s to receive the snrp! us population of
I ranee; it was a fine grain country; commercial
and manufacturing establishments were formed
and Algiers at this day looks hkea town in France’
The country cannot be given up. What folio* *?
France will send an army to Africa which will
drive the Arabs beyond .Mount Atlas, and which
hereafter will he the boundary line. Morocco
wdl be punished for its interference, and Tunis,
in all probability, wil l be annexed to Algiers. This
| Wlll ret l uirc a great array, great outlays but the
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; gmft nation can do it Instead of 15.000 men,
ijo »v dispersed over the kingdom, making treaties
with Emirs to-day to bo broken to-morrow and
having whole sacks of Frenchmen’s heads sent
in'o camp, obi Soult will be cn the spot with
100,000 men. something after the fashion which
France formerly exhibited in earn ing on her wars;
no heavy la'te’ring trains, mortars and howitzers,
but light infantry, cavalry and sharp shooters,
such as were with Napoiean in Egypt. } j 1 **
same people are to be met, the same sands ot the
desert traversed. Algiers is very near to France? -
no difficulty in transporting troops —no tliiT,culty
in rising and paying'or them. France is tired o
peace, and*this war will create no breach on the
Continent, and at the same time keep up the
esprit militaire. Volunteers and conscripts will
flock to the tri-colored standard; soldiers wilt con
tinue to shout “AUojis enfant de In Pa/rie •
ami over they will go with a light heart, and a
I thin pair of breeches, as usual, secure that if in
Algiers they have plenty of fighting with Mes
sieurs V. Turc , they will have, at the same time _
good brown bread and cheese, vin rouge, grapes,
and a dance at night on the green sward that
skirts the desert; and what is ot some importance
in these times of infernal machines, Louis I nib
lipp.-, contributing, as he really.does to the glory
of France, will be safe from the assassin s gun,*
or treachery from within. Abdel Kadir was rasa
to break the treaty. France required only the
seaboard and part of the interior; the Arabs could
have found a profitable market for their wheat,
barley, wool, goat skins, camel s hair, ostrich
feathers, mules, tallow, dromedaries, ivory, olive ,
oil, wax, and gold dust, and now they will get j
plenty of hard blows, and no trade at all across
the mountains to the southern coast of Africa.
From Cape Spartel to Tripoli, the whole line
cf soacnast will eventually be under the dominion
of Franco; probably erect into a Single powerful
kingdom governed by one of the sons of Louis
Philippe. Morocco from its position is the most
difficult to subjugate, and even that kingdom
nvght finally he conquered by taking Ceuta and
Tangiers, with in the Gulph, and Magadore on
the southern coast.
Algiers, the Cisarienus of the Romans, was
always an important kingdom, as well as a
most productive one. It is the finestgrain coun
try in the world: onne the granary of Europe.
VJensis called it speciosfas fotious trrrve jhr
enfir.” It produces all kinds cf vegetables and
flowers, figs, pomegranates, plums nectaries, ap
p'es, pear--, peaches, mulberries, lemons, limes,
oranges, citrons, dates, cherries, apritofs, melons,
quinces, grapes, in every variety, almonds, pis
tache nut, sugar canc, tobacco, cotton coffee,
small bullocks, broad tail sheep, equal to our
chnvass backs in delicacy ; pigeons, red legged
pafridge, woodcock, snipe quails, gees ducks,
plover, teal, thrush,lark, linnet* Becca fi<r. hares
and rabbits, for the mere shooting of them; aro
matic herbs in abundance, roses, ranuncalus, nar
cissus, pinks, and all kind of curious plants and
flowers. To ask France to abandon such* a
country, once conquered, and within two days
sail of the Gulph of Lyons is rather asking
too great a favor in these peaceful times from
a nation of so nc celebriety at Austerlitz, Ma
rengo.'and sundry other places.
There really has been, but little hard fighting
in Algiers by land, since the lime of Hannibal,
Jugurt'na, and Massanissa. Charles the sth, af
ter defeating Hyraddin Barbarossa, was after
wards overtaken by a violent storm, and his whole
army beaten by Hassan with a very small force
at Algiers, la 1775, Charles t! e3d scuta pow
erful naval force and 20X00 men under the Condo
O’Reilly to attack Algiers, but it was miserably I
I conducted and ingloriously beaten. The city of
1 Algiers. Oran, Bona, and other ports on the Mc-
I dberranean. can bcersilv fortified and retained by
I the French. Constantine, the C'ria Ci tli on or mu
i of FI uy, dnee the most splendid of cities in Nu
i m'dt !. and even now a most important frontier
| town, is 160 miles from the Mediterranean, con
| taming 60.000 inhabitants. If a good road can
he made from A Igicrs to Constantine, and the
country between trie two cities cleared oft'ue w an
dering hordes, there would be no difficulty in hold
ing the entire kingdom.
Ternpo%a;e and determined as the Mus ulmcn
are. they yield readily to what they consider their
i destiny. If France is determined to send a pow
j erful force to Algiers, and to apprise Morocco and
< Tunis, that there must bo no interference, Aecicrs
| cm he easily conquered and tranquility retained.—
i New York Star,
i From the Houston /Texas) Telegraph, of Doc. 25/ h
Among the thousands of emigrants that are
j now constantly arriving in our country, we no
! lice with regret too large a portion of young law
yers, physicians, clerks and graduates recently
from the various universities of the United State s.
These y oung men come to our shores lured, bv
ihc brighest prospects and burning with high
hope. They heard* Texas described as an El
Dorado, where naught but golden visions cheer
the bold adventurer who has but to seek her fer
tile yrairies, bask in the bright sunshine, ot un
interrupted pro But alas what bitter dis
appointment often awaits them ! They have
found indeed a country unsurpassed for beauty
and fertility, and abounding in agricultural wealth;
but all this affords them no encouragement.—
They wander abroad from place to place, only as
Arabs wander amid the fertile fields of Goshen.
What is to the farmer a pa adise, is to them a
desert. The occupations which afford them the
means of support, are here either neglected, or
are ovetburthened and rendered sterile by compe
tition. Often have we seen young men of this
class, who have been nurtured in the lap of luxu
ry, and who. previous to the period of their emigra
tion, had never known the sting of want, but bad
been constantly fostered and sustained by wealthy
and indulgent parents, here bowed by disanp-int
ment, suffering under the most abject p’ovetry,
embittered tenfold by the recollection of former
and brighter days of happiness and of ease.—
Our country is yet quite too new and its popu
lation too spare and widely diffused to afford ma
ny asylums to individuals of this description.—
The population most required in Texas at pres
ent, is that derived from the farming districts of
the Llifted States, and not from the cities end
ia r ger towns, i hose publications and pnblic lec
tures therefore, tuat tend to urge emigrants from
the large cities o, that country, do injury, by en- •
ticing to our shores, a class of individuals that
are wholly unfitted either by habit or disposition,
to encounter and endure the privations and hard
ships of a new country. We have frequently
on former occasions alluded to this subject, and
endeavored to check this species of emigration •
but, nothstanding these efforts, we believe* the
number of emigrants of this Hass now con
stantly arriving is greater than it has been at
1 any previous period. To those young men who
have already arrived in our country and arc still
unemployed, we would say, waste no lime in idle •
expectation, nor loiter any longer in our towns :
but hasten at once to the “ Upper Country,” ami
engage immediate y in the business of farming
ing, the planters in ti.at section will recieve yfiu
with open does, and however iiksome may be
the change to this new occupalion.it will ensure
a competence and perhaps lie the means of se
curing the avenues to affluence.
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We cull from the Washington Correspond
ence of the New York Star, the following com
plimentary notice of one of our Members to Cotv
gross , a compliment by the way whicfi seems to
be quite a* just, as it is fl ittering:
‘ Hon. Win. C. Dawson done an act on Sat
urday last, which has won fur him the most ex
alted praises. It will be recollected that he was
placed by the Speaker at the head of th? Com
mittce ot Claims. This was an unexpected ap
pointment to him ;it was a disappointment t.» !
the friends'of Mr. £as*oll. of ymjr State. Mr. K.
hsd long t>e£ti one of the most useful members ol
, that Committee, scarcely inferior in any respect
jto Mr. 45. Whitllesy, who was long its able chair
man. Every body expected that he would be
• designated in theagpointnent of the Committee
as its Chairman. It was left to be due to him as
a matter of courtesy, vastly more so as a matter
jncrit. No one foil this more than Mr. Daw
son, though he kept his thoughts to himseif.
I For the first time the Committee rrtet on Saturday
j last, and without consulting a single person, Mr.
I Dawson imam mediately offered a resolution,
i which he enforced with a tew appropriate remarks,
eminently creditable to him, that Mr. Kussell be
appointed Chairman of the Committee, and it
j passed unanimously. I have never known an.
act of similar disinterestedness; and yet, when
I we consider whence it emanated, our wonder
's ment ceases, for Mr. Dawson is all magnanimity ;
j< he never allows a selfish feeling to approximate
| him. In this instance his course was no less
I creditable to himself than it was to Mr. Kus
| sail.”
During a debate in Congress, which origina
j ted upon a motion to print some thousand maps
i of Florida, at the public expense, and which
! was resisted* by the opposition members, many
striking points and of much interest were stiuck
out in the cducse of the discussion. Among oth
ers is the extract below, making a dislinct issue
of veracity in relation to the late message of the
President. As the truth of the position of the
i President in relation to the public losses, is dc
i nied, and that denial founded on docu
| mrnts, from the Departments themselvg*, and as
1 those documents have been published and are in,
| the hands of the people, they are a wed qualified
j jury totry the issue. That issue is a seriousonc,
1 ami ought to be fairly decided by the people, as
between their public agents. —Southern liocor
der. * .
“Mr. Wise said that he was very sorry (being
at this time unwell) that his colleague (Mr.
Banks) had upon this motion made an attack
upon a motion of his (Mr. W s) submitted at the
last session of Congress. He (Mr W.) made
the motion to’print an extra number of document
2.97—which document would show, and had I
shown to many thousand voters in the United-j
States, that the Message of the President of the j
United States sent in this session ot Congress
was not true. In ihat Message the I resident
had stated the fact that, independent of the defal
cations of Swartwout, only sixty odd thousand
dollars had been lost by public defaulters. I bat
very document 297 (continued Mr. W.) togeth
er with document 111, (extra copies of which I
moved to have printed, and would again move to
have printed, to contradict the statement of the
President of the United States,) will show that,
bv the Land Officers and Collectors ot the past
and present Ad i.iuistmtions, nearly one m;l ion
of dollars have been lost by means of your pn>-
lic defaulters. This does not rest upon my state
ment. The documents of the Secretary of the 1
Treasury himself, transmitted officially tons, an !
which disprove, the President’s Message, show
cither that he is disposed to cover up these mat- |
tors, or, as I rather believe of the Fresident o! the
United States, that he has been deceived by his 1
own Secretary. And I say—believing Martin
Van Buren to be a gentleman—that it he had
read document 297, he never would have made
the statement he lias made—in the face of ihe fact
—in the faceof truth —in the face of official doc
uments. If he had read it, he would not have
i been as ignonmt as I fear the constituents of my
j colleague have bci n kept ignorant ot these start
ling facts.
Permit me to salTfto my colleage that that doc
uindni was better calculate 1 to subserve the pur
poses of pnblic economy than any other that I
know of amongst all the files ot tiv.* Government.
It is a drummed which shows how the pnblic mo
ney has been lost and squandered—and I will at
any time, on principles of economy, vote to pay
! ten dollars out of the public Treasury, to show
' bow one dollar has bwn lost or stolon —cither by
| fraud, by ignorance, bv vice, or hicompetcncy.
! It is economy todo it. And will my colleague
i here permit mo to sav. not to him personally,
I that 'here may have been other motives, ho dues
! that of economy, prevailing at the last session oi
1 Congress against the printing of this document !
; If I coVkl g«ft a vote of the Home to do it, in the
1 face of the Message sent tons, I would to-day
! move to print the official Report oi the Secretary
! of the Treasury against the Message of tbe Pres
ident of the United State*. 1 would print five
thousand more copies of that*document—and if
my honorable colleague annul circu’ale that doc
ument in his district, his constituents would hold
him accountable for voting against printing the
truth—for failing to hold up torch-lights to the
: People. We are in darkness : and I will take
the I tile remnant of two or three millions—the
! wreck of a Treasury that \vas*fu!l when this paS
; ty came into power—full, ay, full since this Pres
ident came into power—full, overflowing with
forty otl l millions of dollars—l say I will take
these two or three remaining millions to enlighten
the People upon the fact h nv the other thirty odd
millions have been squandered. /
Remarks of Mr. Kisbct,.
OV GEORGIA.
Friday. December 27, 1839.
The question being on a motion to reconsider
the vote of the House concurring in the resolu
tion of the Senate for the appointment of a Chap
lain—
Mr. N»s bet, of Georgia, rose and addressed
the Chair as follows: Mr. Speaker —Convinced
that the motion before the House involves matter
of serious moment to Chr stianity and the coun
try, I beg leave to offer a few reflections. I con
fess, although informed of the opinions of my col
| league, (Mr. Cooper,) I have been taken by sur
i prise by the debate now in progress. I certainly
i did not expect it this morning. I mus t say that
i I differ with my honorable colleague in the views
he has exhibited. And although his searching
: and accurate mind, in its investigations after and
j elucidations of truth, rarely errs, yet I believe
| shatf hat he is now wrong. I know full well and
: justly appreciate his motives. No one is to Chris
, 1 lia ‘*‘ t y a more sincere friend than himself, and no
j onft illustrates its precepts in practice more fully
j than he does. He, by sustaining the n otion, in-
I tends to maintain both Christianity and the Con
j stitution, Suc h are my own wishes. We differ
| in ihe mode of accomplishing the same ends.
| ft cp ftainly would be to my mind a melancholy
: result should the House ot Representatives of this
| 5, reat na J ion revive certainly tlfat it would not
CTect a Chaplain— a minister of the gospi 1, called
to throw around the legislation ot the country the
hollowed influences of piety—a result which would
. strike with alarm and apprehension the whole
People .»( the I a:o;i ; apprehension, not so much
for religion or the Constitution as for that conser
vative influence which it exerts upon the princi
ples of free government.
What, sir, does not liberty owe to Christianity *
Phe history of the Colonics proves that we arc
indebted, m a great degree, for those noble princi
ples of tree government engrafted upon our Con
stitution and m our laws, to that freedom of
thought and action which broi-ght our PiUri m
and Huguenot ancestry to our shores. They°fled
from the religious bigotry and political intoler
ance of the old w. rid for conscience sake, Thev
came hither to worship God in freedom And
upon the shores of a new world they planted the
standard of religious and, with it, 0 f civi i ju®
That independence of mind which they asserted
in matters ol conscience made them alike inde
pendent as to ah rights. Freedom of service to
Heaven, by a very necessity of our nature, con
- strains men to think and act freely in matters of
lest consequence. The free spirit of the pilgrim
' j impressed itself upon colonial governments, *nu
some of the best features of our most admirable
: system are tiaccd to colonial parentage- I make
j these remarks to show, sir. that civil liberty is too
1 largely indebted to Christianity to permit us to
! endanger the former by abandoning S'cn the
forms of the latter. Its influences ought to por
|*vade, aud do now pervade, all the departments ot
I Government, more or less. Into our courts ot
1 justice, our executive olncos, and our halls of leg*
islation, it ought to send, atid does send,its sana
tive power. It gives a hcalthlul tone to pub.ic
sentiment, and purifies the fountains ot legisla
tion, the external ceremonials of religion. VV hat
though it is sometimes desecrated, and its minis
. ters false ? What though it seem to sumo to be
but part of Congressional pageantry,empty, vain,
and a lie 1 Yet still the very form of service
maintains the ascendancy ot morality. tost,
forms are the emblems of its essential puuiy-
Blended, as they are, with the procedure of Con
gress, they themselves become vitd. Destroy,
sir, the external manifestations ot Christianity,
and you weaken its influence and endanger Jt a
vitality. You should observe even here, sir. the
form of prayer. The voice of praise should hush
for a brief moment, at regular intervals, the noise
• of parly war, and say to the troubled waters,
! “ Peace be still.”
The appointment of a Chaplain to this House
is a declaration, by the nation itself, that the Bi
ble is true. It is the practical recognition of its
obligations. I? this no advantage ? Is this not
bearing evidence to Christianity I Is it not the
voice of the Confederacy ? Docs not this act
proel.una, through the length and breadth ot the
land, that, according to the belief of the American
Congress, God reigns in Heaven and upon earth J
The statesman, therefore, should not withhold
jbis evidence. In all we do, it seems to me, we
should recognize the sanctions ot Christianity,
and should maintain the purity both of the Church
and the State by a decent regard, in our public
acts, even to the forms of piety.
The manifestation of regard to religion, in the
election of a Chaplain to this House, is due (o
th* convictions and moral sensibilities of the con
stituency of this body. It is a just response to
{ the requirements of that moral feeling which per-
J vades the States. No than this, I will ven-
I ture to a-sert, is required by the People, whether
i professors or not. It is a tribute of respect to
that religion which makes sweet the homes of the
thousands who dwell beneath the fostering care
of American legislators, and in the peace of an
unobtrusive yet sustaining faith. Let it not he
said that the 261 h Congress has declared of re
cord that it will dispense with the services of the
ministiy. Conceding, for the argument’s sake,
that the power to appoint a Chaplain, under the
Constitution, is doubtful yet I know it w.ll not
he denied that a fa Hu re to appoint would shock
the country. It will do violence to that fervid
piety which lives and breathes and bums in the
great heart of the nation.
The service with which it is now proopsed to
d spense has been maintained here for years.—
The wis * and virtuous and patriotic of other days
■ exercised the power, and believed in its expedieu
|<• y. It is hoary v> ith accumulated years. The
i» first Con'ress that assembled under the Consti
tution elected a Chaplain. We are scarcely wi
j ser or better than that august body of men. They
mingled worship with politics Most of the State
Legislatures, I believe, sir, do the same.
It has’been objected that the worship conduct
ed here is insincere—a form and a mockery. Ad
mitting this to be true—and I lament that, in
j part, it must be conceded to he true—yet, still,
the general good is accomplished, and toe gene
ral evils averted, to which I have before referred.
And these general ends are paramount; they out
weigh particular objections. In all assemblies
j there are insincere worshippers: me i will bring
j the cares and thoughts and reelings of the world
j into the sanctuary. Ido not know that this body,
j being professedly political, is, on that account, the
i Icssdevout. That distraction of mind awaits him
l who mingle' in the stormy strife of this House,
; i-rtrue; and on that account it is well to ! ring
| hither the soothing, softening influences «f chari-
Ity ami loro. Rut I think. Mr. Speaker, that there
j is in this Hou r n t only a sacred regard lor
Christianity, but also a strong feeling of piety.—
j Beneath the surface of ordinary emotion lie irn
j bedded Jhc fountains of moral sensibility. There
i flows through this assemblage of men an under
current. of piety, invisible it is true, under ordina
ry circumstances, but which occasionally flashes
' and sparkles in the light o day. This is obvious,
f in the eloquent-words and thoughts of the gen
- tleman from Virginia, (Mr. Wise.) He gave ul
! terancc to the irrepressible feeling of respect for
• moral livings, which, doubtless, he imbibed in his
: earliest formation of character. Nor can I pc-
J nait myself to doubt that there are many here who
5 meet thr-se services with all that solemnity of man
- nrr and feeling which becomes the occasion.
• My colleague and also the gentleman from Lou
i isiana, (Mr. Garland.) fi/rd a reason against elect
-1 ing a Chaplain, in this, that they are paid—that
i they pray and preach by contract, and that they
1 make this temple a place of merchandize, selling
alike their consciences and their services. I find
myself nothing wrong in religious or political
principle in rewarding the minister. It is a vol
untary contribution by the House to the necessi
ties of those whom they invite to officiate foi
them. It is not a pension for the clergy, by law
r or from constitutional necessity, but a donation
. to the man. Reward, to my mind, docs not ne
cessarily demoralize and secularize the preacher
. else there were no ministry—no temple—no vvor
j ship. Shall not the priest live by the altar?
j And is not the laborer worthy of his hire ? Thai
r . some who wear the priestly robe hav e corne hith
. er, trading upon the stock of their ministeria
. character, and vending for a consideration the sa
. c,ed ministrations of our holy religion, is perhaps
. tr,JC —but not all have so come. It may be con
r ceded at once » without weakening the obligation
to elect a Chaplain, that there are false professors
j ° r religion. In its purest and earlie t state
r among the twelve who listened to the words an<
] saw the wot ks of God himself, there was one trai
; tw
-1 I connot concur, Mr. Speaker, in the appre
• benson expressed by my hono: able friend and
> colleague, that the act to which he objects may ul
i h m ately lead to a union of Church and State
- I think that our whole political system, as alsc
. the state of the church in our country, makci
r such a union an utter impracticability. Such -
thing could not be without an entire change i‘r
f l ' le <; ssentlal elements and actual organization o
s the frame of government. The very freedom oi
t religious opinion and action guaranteed to tin
] 1 eople must operate an insurmountable bar u
j such a union. I shouhj as, nay sooner, look foi
] a despotism in place of our constitutional hberty
? as the result which gentlemen apprehend Thi
» of the past, the interest of the pre
. sent, and the expectations of the future—reli
. gion, which sepks Us own perpetuity in tin
maintenance of jts purify— a l! forbid it. Ou
| dcnom.nat.onal divisions constitute a system o
; sleepless and enterprising vigilance over the en
. croachraents of the church. Protestant Christian.
- m n » ngo ascertained, from history written in th«
f the matrydom, that their, rights of conscience de
, pend upon free government. They are committee
| to maintain the separation of the Church and th.
. Stale by the instinct of self-defence, and by th.
- precepts .of their own faith. I think I am no
| mistaken when I say that the Church her«el
s w °ul d be the last to seek an unholy an.
. self destroying alliance with the State
! Piety, would die in the embraces of govern
■ men V , N r °b Sir ’ Christianity mus
• stand aloof from political associations, by the lav
of her own existence. A loss of liberty mmh(
r perhaps would, necessarily corrupt the church
| ■ whilst liberty remains the church will mil :
■ j its purity. Keep pure the church in our i. ,
5 I and the Constitution is defended with i.m, r
! ; ble bulwarks. c ® n **
' j In England we know, Sir, that the ch Ur h -
’ ! part of the Government—that the articles r li
5 ! established religion are held to be p urce ) die
* i common law—that the sacrament is a C 01 ° '
\ precedent to the tenure of office—that rich* 011
1 vernmental revenues sustain the sacred arb
cy—that lands and franchises and political °° ra '
er, by the very principles of the British C.v*' 1
1 tution,) if Constitution Britain has, which
much doubt,) appertain to the church
* Christianity, Sir, but to our form of church 10
ization. Not so here. That aid which the o°*
* vernment can here give the church is alon ° •
’ freewill ottering to the principles it professes
2 tearing all creeds and names equally by h s j *f°’
ant and equal legislation. For myself I cau Uer '
teive of no abomination more offensive!- p° n *
rent than a union of the Church with the S
* and I would resist the very first approach
* wards it with the sternest and must . t0 ‘
* hostility. But, sir, there is a union which!* T
J ready, in some degree, consuraated, which Ihr
1 I shall not live to see dissolved: I mean ■°P
? union of religious principle with *
> duct. n>
* Th u ’rT" of . m ;’ ra l l p™"!''" *<«m
the whole lump ot the body politic. We should
be cautious lest we divide things so happily an!
s usefully united. We should he careful lest ' 1
invite into our legislation, and adopt us rui Cs *f I
‘ conduct, the philosophy of a merely human
* faith. No gentleman, I know, would give his j
5 vole directly or jfndirc tly to unhinge Christiani-
I % ty, or in any way lessen its influences. I
not to be understood as so charging. I on £
‘ mean to say that the rssult at which they now
aim may, in my opinion, produce that else-t
’ The politicians of France desecrated the temple 1
| ot God—burned the Bible—endowed the goj. |
dess ot Reason with the attributes of the Deity—
and soon, very soon, the foundations.of society j
were broken up, and anarchy reigned triumphant, j
} vine-clad hills and fertile plains and crowd,
cd streets ot France flowed down with blood. To '
a public relaxation ot moral obligation, I have no I
doubt, may be traced those startling horror,
which preceded and followed the French Revo
lution.
i
!
„ Ax Impoutaxt 'Astronomical Ivvzvtios.
Mr. Russcj, of Georgetown, has invented and tor.
, st: ucled the most ; erlect apparatus for the easy anj
practical attainment of Astronomy that we ha. (
. ever seen or heard of. It is in the form of an|
woiking on the same principle as the terrestrial
j globe; hut instead of the heavenly bodies bei r ,j
transcribed, on the surface only, they are redeem I
I kewise on the ceiling of the room, in all the (j.
| gurcs of the heathen mythology, large as life,am
. so simple and plain that‘ he that runs may read,'
and in a few lessons understand thoroughly ti> e
( whole principles of this neglected but vastly fa.
pirfant scincc.
, The app iratus is about sixteen or eighteen feci
’ in circumference, and formed of brass rods, ami,
, when divested of the transparent covering which
represents the stars and figures of heathen an
thology, shows, by reflection on the ceiling a mii
i iatnre resemblance of the rising and setting of the
, s-tn, moon, and principal constellations, as well a.
the variat ions which cause the change of the sea
son. In fact, the whole action of the heavenly bo
dies is here represented as plain and simpleasit|
it were possible for man to bring the heavens with
1 in so narrow a compass.
The plain of the ecliptic, as well as the causer?
eclipses, are beautifully illustrated, ami even th.
I motion ot a comet in its course around the sun i.
plainly s,-t forth.
M c understand t.iat several scientific senile
* men have examined and greatly admired the ap
paratus in all i'licre are vet manvoth- ;
ers in the Distrct who. though they have been in- I
vited. have neglected to nil and examine it. Wc
1 would, therefore, remind them to call at an early I
day if they wi-h to sec this important in-enfri’, I
? i feeling confident, that they will he pleased, while
at the same time their opinions will be of mvia
2 to the*invcnior.
Mr, K. resides on \Vashington street, m-ar tbi
canal —Georg-'//>/<•« .1 .• tncutc.
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, r In the Offing —Br ship Helena, Drenning, Liver-1
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n between Charleston and Hamburg, will le» ve 1
)f follows:
>1 * UPWARD.
o Not to leave Charleston before I
o • “ “ Summerville, “ - -S 30
)r “ “ Georges’, - “ - 10 00
“ “ Branchville, “ - 11 00
0 “ “ Midway,* - « . ]I3O M
16 ‘ “ Blackville, -« - 100 .*■
'■ ■ “ “ Aiken, - - « - 300
i- Arrive at Hamburg not before - 400
ie DOWNWARD. I
, r Not to leave Hamburg before * 600 a> I
5 p “ “ Aiken, -« - . 730 I
, “ “ Blackville, “- . 9 30, I
“ “ Midway, ** . -10 30 (
18 “ “ Branch vill « - - 11 DO
e « « Georges’, ** -' - 12 00 tf
-2* * “ Summerville,“ - - 2 Off- |
d Arrive at Charleston not befare 3 .
iq Distance—l 36 miles. Fare Through—. jj
l 0 Speed not over 20 miles an hour. To remain
t minutes-each, for breakfast and dinnei,
if longer than 5 minutes for wo' ’ and watc; at
J station. i
ld To stop for passengers, when a u‘hte
hoisted, at either of the above stations; and an m
t- Sineaths, Woodstock, Inabinet’s, 41 mile ■
st Rives’, Grahams, Willeston, Windsor, Johns 1 -’- ■
w and Marsh’s T. O.
t Passengers uo will breakfast at Woodstock I
* dine at Blackville; down, will breaKlast al *.{, 1
1 * »nd dine at bummervilic. ® a X * I