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Correspondent* of the Chroni . le and Sent>nel.
Washington, Wednesday Evening,?
December 23, 1840.5
Thor* was a debate of very great animation and
interest in the House of Representatives to-day,
on the measure which attracted so much attention
at the last session, and known by the title of the
M bill to secure th« more faithful execution of the
lews relating to the collcctien of duties on im
ports.”
Last year the bill passed the House in a form
which could excite no opposition in any quarter. —
It was strictly and singly a measure to prevent
frauds on the revenue. But when it got to the
Senate, the Finance Committee there added thir
teen or fourteen sections byway of amendment,
professedly to give, by legislation, ibe true con
struction to the compromise act of 1832, which the
committee said had in several instances been erro
neously construed by the courts of the United
Slates. On looking at the last section, added by
the Senate, be wee er, Mr. Wise and other southern
gentlemen, bad di ;covered that duties had been
kid upon linen, worsted, and other articles in
which they felt an interest; that in fact the Com
lEoMitx bad been disturbed, a new tariff created,
and that the duties had been increased in some
cases from nothing to fifty per cent ; and, in other
instances, from a nominal amount to 25 per cent-
Ob its return to the House, the bill was lost—there
was not, indeed, time to reach it, as the session
was near its close-
Te-day Mr. Adams moved to refer this bill to
the Committee on Manufactures. He announced
his purpose to be not to report that part of the
hill which had been added by the Senate. He was
net for reporting a Tariff bill, or a Revenue bill—
hut a measure for the suppression cf frauds.
Mr. Wise expressed his wish that the bill should
go to the Committee of Ways and Means, and
Went into the history of its introduction and de
feat at the last sessim. He arraigned the present
Administration for having brought forward this
new tariff, through its Chairman of the Senate
Committee ea Finance (Mr. Wright.) All he
asked was, to leave this questioa where it was in
1813 g and when the TanT question should be
raised, he would meet it boldly, and he hoped it
would net be sneaked into a bill professing only to
he for the prevention of frauds on the Revenue.
The question oa the motion of Mr. Adams, hav
ing precedence, was first put and carried, yeas 109,
smys 10.
Re the bill was referred to the Committee on
Manufactures ; and we have the pledge of the
Dkimas, that hit object will be to strike out the
.features that conflict with the Compromise Act,
and make it simply and solely a fraud preventing
measure.
The Committee of Ways reported to-day the
biy making appropriations for the Indian Depart
ment, and for carrying into effect Indian Treaties.
The sum appropriated is upwards of $700,000.
The Navy appropriation bill was also reported ;
both were referred to the Committee of the Whole.
A call has been made on the Postmaster General
by tho House, for a Ist of all the deputy Postmas
ters that have been removed since the 3d of Marcb }
1839 ; and to state the causes of the removals, Ac.
Ac. This will show what grounds the men in
power have for raising the cry of PnoscaimoN in
advance.
The Senate spent most of the day in clearing
the table of the bills es a private oi local charac
ter which have been introduced.
The bill to abolish imprisonment for debt, was
passed and scat to the House.
The bill to prevent the counterfeiting es any
foreign gold, silver, or other coin, or bringing into
the United States aay such counterfeit foreign
coin, was passed.
Mr. Benton gave notice of his intention to bring
in a bill to impose a ur on bank notes and other
paper designed for circulation .'
As it is new generally understood that Mr.
Webster will be Secretary of State, you may natu
rally wish to know what are the feelings and
wishes es a person who is to fill so high and influ
ential a pest, as to the manner in which the other
high places of government shall be bestowed. It
ia known here, that Mr. Webster’s sincere desire is
that in regard to the other appointments, every
, section of the Union shall be fairly and fully con
eidered; end the South may be assured, that no
men will go farther than he, to maintain their just
constitutional rights—and their proper tights in
the Administration and in the public councils. D.
Washington, Thursday Evening,?
December 24, 1840. y
The boasted project es Benton, to lay a tax bill
on Bank notes, and oth«r paper intended as a cir
culation, was turned out of. the Senate to-day, in
the most contumelious manner. The door indeed
was shut in its face, with a promptness and decision
which, it is to be hope d, will prevent the author
from ever again submitting another proposition of
the kind.
He asked leave to introduce the bill, and there
upon made a long and characteristic speech against
Banks, and Bank paper. He avowed his purpose
to be, in the first place, to compel the banking in
•tetntioQs es the country, to contribute the revenue
from their sources; and secondly, to suppress all
notes under the denomination of S2O.
The hill was read, and the mere announcement
at the title, was sufficient te satisfy every body
that the Senator bed brought his wares to a wrong
market. It was a revenue bill which the Senate
had an right to originate; but the introduction of
which, under the Constitution, belongs exclusively
te the House es Representatives.
Mr. Huntingdon called the attention of tho Sen
ate te its character, and contended that at aught not
Who entertained for a moment. Ho would not go
into tho merits of the bill- He thought it improper
to $o to. Ho thought tho Senate had no right te
entertain it at all.
Renton endeavored to find n precedent for his
mntten in the Compromise Act, which ho said was
matured In the Senate, end then taken up by the
Bknso, m an Muadntlt to m original hiU taste,
He wished this measure of bis to be disposed of in
the same way.
Mr. Webster, in a few clear and strong words,
demonstrated the unconstitutionality es Benton's
proposition. The bill bore on its face the charac.
ter of a measure to lay a tax. The Constitution
absolutely prohibits the Senate from introducing
measures for laying taxes. Could there be a
clearer case of unconstitutionality ? The Compro
mise Act, be maintained* was an entirely different
case. That was a bill not to lay taxes, but to re
duce them.
An attempt was then made to lay the question
of granting leave for the introduction of the meas
ure on the table. This was strongly opposed also
by Mr. King, Mr. Calhoun, and Mr. Webster.
The latter again stated the grounds of opposition
in words of light. He said bis purpose was to as
certain whether the Senate would consent to con
sider the measure at all ? The introduction of it
ia the Senate, was prohibited by the Constitution;
and the motion to lay the question of granting leave
on the table, implied a doubt, which he, for one,
did not entertain. The proposition was altogether
free from doubt.
The motion to lay on the table was negatived.
Benton then rose, and said he had accomplished
his purpose, (that is, he bad made his speech!)
and said be would withdraw his motion for leave !
This fool’s-play was not to be endured. Mr. Web
ster objected, and a long debate arose, as to whether
he had a right to withdraw his motion. The blus
tering demagogue protested it was his privilege—
his prerogative. But he was taught better before
the discussion ended; and finding that the general
opinion went against him, he was obliged to ask
leave, not as a matter of right, but as a matter of
favor, to withdraw his proposition. Os course, no
body objected to this, and his bill was thus turned
out. The Senate adjourned then to Monday next.
The House was engaged during the whole day
in a discussion on the morion of Mr. Reynolds, of
Illinois, to instruct the Committee of Public Lands
to report “ a bill to grant prospective pre-emptions
to settlers on the public lands, and to reduce the
price to settlers according to the value of said
lands.”
Mr. Reynolds made a regular Western grabbing
speech. Mr. Wm. Cost Johnson, of Maryland, re
plied in a masterly speech, defending the old States
from the attacks made on them by the new, and
vindicating the rights of the old States to the pos
session of the public domain equally with, the new
States.
The debate was then taken up by Mr. Hubbard,
of Alabama; but the hour was late when he rose,
and on bis motion, the House adjourned. D.
We have been presented by Thos. Richards,
of this city, with a neatly executed work, and
one that must be very useful to all mercantile
men in this section of the country, entitled
“EXCHANGE AND THE COTTON TRADE
between England and the United States”—with
pro forma accounts on cotton purchased in our
markets and shipped to Liverpool, and tables
sltowing the cost of cotton at Liverpool, and the
net proceeds of Liverpool quotations, and calcu
lations of exchange operations between New-York
and the South and between London and the U. S.
By J. F. ENTZ, published in New-Y r ork.
The following extract from the introduction will
explain and recommend the work.
The cotton trade offers many questions which
are seldom fully or satisfactorily answered by
such publications, the variation of prices, freight
exchange, &c M being so great that il is no small
task to overcome the difficulties of so intricate a
calculation: this the author has however attempt
ed to effect, in as small a compass as possible, by
giving a ready answer to all these questions.
His tables show not only the precise cost of cot
ton shipped to Liverpool from six different
American cotton markets, but also the exact pro
portion of the Liverpool quotations with ours
at no matter what price, exchange, or freight and
whether the amount of southern invoices is drawn
direct upon London, or upon New York at a cer
tain premium, and from thence upon London.
They are also so arranged that they give a bird’s
eye view of the various markets, and enable the
speculator to find out the most advantageous or
lowest for his operations.
No hills advantage will be derived from the
use of the combined exchange, as it will offer the
southern shipper a great saving in the choice of
the most profitable mode of reimbursement, while
it enables the northern or the foreign commit
tent to regulate his limits accordingly, and to
make his calculations as precise as possible.
The tables for exchange operations between
the South and New York,show the exact propor
tion of the rates lor foreign bills in the respective
places, and will be found particularly useful for
the banks, brokers, and all those who have remit
tances to make to New York.
The arbitrations of exchange for London with
the United States, will present much interest fur
the merchant of every city in the Union having
business connections with Great Britain.
The balance of trade between England and the
European continent is so easily kept up by the
t ransfer of precious metals, and through the vigi
lance of numerous bankers, who ever watch the
slightest deviation in the rates of exchange, that
the fluctuations are generally slow and moderate,
and although a certain space of time must elapse
between the last quotations and the period when
our remittance can reach London, still we may
almost depend upon it that no great variation can
have taken place in the mean time. In the Uni
ted States, on the contrary, the balance of trade
is easily and sensibly affected by a thousand
causes, and the fates of exchange will even often
fall or rise one, two or more per cent, without any
ostensible reason. It is also a singular fact,
ascettained by a comparison of the rates at differ
ent periods, that perhaps Paris remains steady,
whils London, dec., may change considerably.
This shows very forcibly that notwithstanding
tho uncertainty of the rates at London, the irregu
larity us ours leaves us plenty of room for the
selection of the one or other, sometimes even at a
considerable advantage. For this purpose these
tables are intended, and they show precisely if it
is better to remit a direct bill on London, negotia
ble drafts on the continent, or sovereigns.
A Heavy Loss.
The Boston Transcript of Tuesday says, “the
British barque Westminister Mollison,from Sing
apore for London, with a cargo of 4600 chests of
tea, was driven ashore on the rocks about a mile
to the eastward of Daniel Margate, on the morn
ing of the 23d of November, and bilged. Crew
saved. About 1800 chests es tea were saved, the
rest loot. The cargo was owned by Daniel C.
Bacon, Esq. of this city, and the following ia the
amount of insurance effected there, viz:—
$30,060 at ibe Merchants* office.
20.000 at the Neptune “
20.000 at the American “
20.000 at the Boston “
20.000 at the Mercantile Marine office.
20.000 at the Washington office.
10.000 at the Treznont office.
130,900
Hon. J. J. CaiTTßirnEsr has been re-elected
Senator in Congress from the Slate of Kentucky
for six years from the 4th of March next.
The Recent Trouble in Maine.
The Philadelphia Inquirer says One is puz
zled to understand the exact position of affairs
in the disputed Territory of Maine. It is still
affirmed that a British Regiment has taken post
in the Aroostook, and that official despatches
were some days since forwarded by Sir John
Harvey to Gov. Fairfield, apprising him of the
fact; also that formal intelligence in relation to,
this matter has been forwarded to Washington.
Can the Globe throw any light upon the ques
tion 1 Or is the official too much engaged with
its valiant warfare against the Monster ! We
copy an article,from the Portland Advertiser of
Thursday last. It will be seen that our friends
“ down east” still see difficulty in the distance:
The Boundary Question. —Vague rumors
are now in circulation in regard to new border
troubles, but they are so unsubstantial and come
in so questionable a shape, that we know not how
to deal with them, and place little reliance upon
them.* But one thing we know, that the British
Government wiih a forecast that anticipated trou
ble, is taking precautions to secure her position
She means to keep possession of the country
north of the St. John ; she wants the territory,
and she is determined to hold it despite the clear
ness of our title and the wholly unfounded na
ture of her pretensions. She is consequently
amusing us wif.h negotiations, while she is
strengthening anil fortifying her positions. Bar
racks are erecting, roads levelling and making,
and troops marching and taking post in the very
centre of the disputed territory, while we sit idly
looking on, relying upon the faith of the paper
defences entered into for the protection of the
rights and properties of the parties.
The fact is, the British post on the Temiscou
ta lake is only 37 miles (rom the St. Lawrence ;
that they hate a well made road connecting it
with that river aud Quebec on the one side, and !
the St. John and New Brunswick on the other,
and this has become now the great thoroughfare
between tb* provinces of their empire. Troops
have been planted on n central point, are still
collecting there for its defence; and now Mr.
Fairfield and Mr. Van Buren, remove them if you
can. Yost wiM find them a harder customer than
the Seminole Indians.
We speak this with no view to create idle
alarm, but with a sincere conviction that after all,
we are to be humbugged out of the territory. —
Look at the report of Featherstonhaugh, a public ;
commissioner, by virtue of bis office entitled to
confidence, openly and solemnly making asser
tions that are wholly without foundation; affirm
ing deliberately in his report that the land at the
N. W. angle of Nova Scotia as claimed by the
U. 8., is elevated but 388 feet above the sea;
when the fact is disproved not only by the sur
vey of Bouchette, the public officer of the British
Crown, who makes it over 2000 feet, and by
our own surveyors who nearly correspond with
Bouchette, but by nature herself in the length and
descent of the streams which are thrown down
on every side from that point to the Bt. Lawrence,
the Bay of Chaleur and the Atlantic. Feather
stonhaugh’e report is one of the most ur.candid
and unfair documents which was ever ushered
forth by a public functionary.
A cause so bad which requires such disengen
uousness advocates and such false representa
tions, can only be supported by force. We cau
tion our State and National Governments, even
I st this late day, to beware ol further procrastina
tion. They must assume an attitude that wiil
not bear denial nor submit to delay. We want
no more of Lord Melbourne’s commissioners nor
Lord Palmerston’s argument in the shape of In
fantry and Light Artilieiy gathering upon our
borders and establishing themselves in the heart
of the contested soil.
We learn from the Georgia Journal, that Jef
ferson J. Lamar, Esq. of Stewart County, died
cn the 15th inst., in consequence of a wound re
ceived from a Mr. Reynolds, on the evening pre
ceding the election in October last.
The Boston Atlas states that the mystery which
recently caused some excitement at Roxbury.rela
tiva loan inexplicable knocking heard in a house
in that town, has been satisfactorily explained.
It was the work of no unearthly agent, but was
produced by a clock, the weights of which, at a
certain hour, striking the bottom, caused the
sound which has made so much idle conjecture.
Explosion. —The New Orleans Bee of Mon
day last says:—The Towboat Post Boy, in tow
ing the ship Bt. Luc is >ver the S. W. Bar burst
one of her boilers- killed the first engineer, Mr.
Ward, and scalded the second engineer and one
fireman. She was towed up to the city by the
Mohican.
Boundary News.—The Woodstock Times
states that Mr. McLaughlin passed through that
place on Thursday the 10th inst. by express, en
route to Quebec, with despatches for (he Gover
nor General. The Times says “it has not been
able to ascertain the purport of his mission, but
only surmises it to be relating to the sudden and
important movements that have recently taken
place in the Madawaska.”
The New York Courier mentions that a slight
advance took place in stocks on Tuesday, and
that the news from England is generally con
sidered favorable.
Gen. Harrison has resigned the office of Clerk
of the Court of Common Pleas of Hamilton
county, Ohio. 8. W. Platt, Esq. has been ap
pointed Clerk, pro tern.
Libel—A suit for damages laid at SIO,OOO,
has been commenced by Jona D. Stephenson,
against Charles King, Esq. editor of the Amer
ican, for certain statements published in rela ion
to the recent “Poor House Court” investigations.
The New York Herald contains a letter, which
states that the “patriots” are again organizing at
various points along the Canada frontier.
The Acadia brought 14,000 letters.
Hard to Get.—An editor down East adver
tises for “a devil of a moral character.”
The jury in the casetof Robert White, tried
in New York for petit larceny, were unable to
agree, and were discharged.
It appears, from official returns, that the num
ber of houses destroyed by the late inundations
on the banks ot the Soane, in the department of
the Ain, amounts to 1094, without including 106
bouses seriously damaged, which makes the en
ure number amount to 1200.
Wo are informed .that the steamer Cherokee, a
few days ago, burst her boiler near Lewisburgb,
on (be Aikansas river, teaming off all her upper
works, and killing 14 persons. Those who saw
her say that she was a dreadful spectacle.—Lou
inilk JmtrruU.
A Law Case.
In the Supreme Court of Louisiana, on the
7th inst., the following case was decided :
Merchants’ Bank of New York vs. Exchange
and Banking Co. of New Orleans. Suit on a
check altered from $214 50 to $5014 50. This
check was altered and sold to defendants* endor
sed and remitted by them to the Merchant’s Bank
in New Yoik, where it was payable for collection,
and by them paid They sue the defendants for
the difference, $4,800. Judgment against the
defendants confirmed.
Specie. —There is a falling off in the exports
of specie; still there is constantly a good deal
shipping. The export since the Isi of Octobor,
a little more than two montns, has been over
three millions.
Silver. Gold.
241 hto 30th Sept, to Europe, 503,614 6,137
30th Sept, to Bth Oct. “ 150 019 18,928
Bth to 15lh Oct. “ 256,901 28,097
Istn to 21st »‘ct. “ 374 006 11,566
21 si to 28th Oct. « 256,901 28,097
28th to 4th Nov. “ 255.000 2,570
4th Nov. to 11 th’, “ 286,092 791
11th to 18th Nov. “ 166 951 19,931
18th to 25th Nov. “ 78,195 29,700
26th to 30th Nov. “ 538.355 2.345
Ist to 9ih Dec. “ 169,501 19,908
$3,024,805 $170,000
Export of Specie from 10th to 16th Decern
her : Silver.
To Europe $803,672
N. Y. Express.
/
The French Government has determined on
raising a loan of 600,000,000 francs, Three per
Cents.; £24,000,000 sterling.
From the Alexandria Gazette.
The members of Congress who subscribed so
largely to the Extra Globe have probably reiur
ned to Washington with the opinion that it was
a very poor investment. On the principle of re
wards, there is no man who deserves more of the
Whig party than Amos Kendail—The slanders
of the Extra Globe, the falsehoods, as barefaced
| as they were malignant, which filled that sheet,
did more than any thing else to open the eyes of
the people to the character of the administration
and the means on which it relied for support.
The following account of an attempt, made
during the Bevolutionarj War, to blow up the
British vessels of war in New York harbor, may
be of interest to most of our readers. It is cop
ied from a New York paper of November, 1821,
and is an obituary notice of the gallant soldier
who mad* the daring attempt:
Dikii.— At Lyme, (Conn.) on the 29th ult.
Captain Ezra Lee, aged 72. a Revolutionary
I Officer. When the British fleet lay in the North
River, opposite to the city of New York, and
while Gen. Washington had possession of the
city, he was very desirous to be rid of such
neighbors. A Mr. Bushnell ofSayorook, (Conn.)
who had the genius of a Fui.on , constructed
such a marine machine, of a connical form,
bound together with iron bands, within which
one pers >n might sit, and with cranks and *-ku!is
could navigate to any depth under water. In
the upper part was fixed a vertical screw for the
purpose of penetrating ships bottoms, and to
this was attached a magazine of powder, within
which was a clock, which, on being set to run
any given time, would, when run down, spring
a gun lock, and an explosion would follow. This
Marine Turtle, so called, was examined by Gen.
Washington, and approved ; to preserve stcrecy,
it was experimented within an inclosed yard,
over twenty to thirty feet water, and kept during
daylight locked up in a vessel’s hold. The bro
ther of the inventor was to be the person to navi
gate the machine into action, but on sinking it
the first time he declined the service.
Gen. Washington unwilling to relinquish the
object, requested Major General Parsons to se
lect a person, in whom he could confide, volun
tarily. to engage in the enterprise ; the latter be
ing well acquainted with the heroic spirit, the
patriotism, and the firm and steady courage of
the deceased above mentioned, immediately com
municated the plan and the offer, which he ac
cepted, observing that his life was at Gen. Wash
ington’s service. After practicing the machine
until he understood its powers ol balancing and
moving under water, a night was fixed upon for
the attempt. Gen. Washington ;.nd his asso
ciates in the secret, took their stations upon the
roof of a house in Broadway, anxiously awaiting
the result. Morning came and no intelligence
could he had of the intrepid sub-marine navigator
nor could the boat which attended him, give any
account of him after parting with him the first
part of the night.
While these anxious spectators were about to
give him up as lost, several barges were seen to
start suddenly from Governor's Island, (then in
possession of the British) and proceed towards
some object near the Asia ship of the line—as
suddenly they were seen to put about and steer
for the Island with springing oars. In two oi
three minutes an explosion took place, from the
surface of the water, resembling a water spout,
which aroused the whole city and region ; the
enemy’s ships took the alarm, signals were rapid
ly given—tne ships cut their cables and proceed
ed to the Hook with all possible despatch, sweep
ing their bottoms with chains, and with difficul
ty prevented their afrighled crews from leaping
overboard.
During this scene of consternation, the de
ceased came to the surface, opened the brass head
of bis aquatic machine; rose and gave a signal
for the boat to come to him, but they could not
reach him, until he again descended under wa
ter, to avoid the enemies shot from the Island,
who had discovered him and commenced fireing
in bis wake. Having forced himself against a
strong current under water, until wi hout the
reach of shot, he was taken in low and landed
at the Battery amidst a great crowd and repor
ted himself to Gen. Washington, who expressed
his entire satisfaction, that the object was effected
without the loss of lives. The deceased was un
der the Asia’s bottom mote than two hours, en
deavoring to penetrate her copper but in vain.
He frequently came up under her stern galleries
searching for exposed plank, and coulJ bear the
sentinels cry. Once he was discovered by the
watch on deck, and heard them speculate upon
him, but concluded a drifted log had paid them a
visit—he returned to her bottom and examined
it fo;e and aft, and then proceeded to some other
ships ; but the impossibility of penetrating their
copper, for want of a resisting power, saved the
lives of hundreds. The longest space of time
he could remain under water was two hours.
For a particular description of this sub-marine
curiosity, see Silliman’s Journal of Arts and Sci
ences. — Com. A avertiser.
The Mubdereb of Ellen Jewett.—Robin
son, the murderer of Ellen Jewett, whose trial
and acquittal left a stain upon the tribunal be
fore which he was arraigned, went to Texas,where
be has since lost bis right arm—that arm with
which he planted a hatchet into the forehead of
a frail, but to him am unoffending girl, and with
which be then applied an incendiary torch to the
bed where she lay Weltering in blood, thus at
tempting to conceal the murder by committing
arson—that right arm, we say, bus been cleft from
his shoulder, in a fight with the Mexicans!
Nor is this the only retribution that has visi
ted the guilty. It will be recollected that Fur
long, the infatuated Grocer, who went into court
and committed voluntary perjury by swearing
that Robinson was in his store on the evening of
the murder, became a maniac and drowned him
salJmtr.
Rousseau. —Ono of the roost extraordinary
men that ever lived was John J. Rousseau. This
man, in his origin, rise, and whole career, was a
most astonishing man. The son of an humble
Geneva watch-maker, who passed the greater part
of his life in poverty and misery ; at one time a
servant in a family, while, although not disgraced
by his situation, he disgraced himself by charging
upon an innocent girl, to her ruin, the theft of a
piece of ribbon which he had purloined himself;
at another time the miserable tenant of a miserable
garret in Pans, copying music for a subsistence for
a crown a dav ; living a life of licentiousness in
a loose sexual connection with one !o whom he
was not married; and putting all the children
she had by him from the moment of their birth
into the Foundling Hospital; disowning them as
his own through all his after life; depiiving them
of the knowledge of their father, and leaving them
destitute of that natural protection, to which they
were entitled from one of the first and best laws
nature, and deserting even the mother, the wo
man with who n be had adullerously cohabited,
and who was entitled to his care, depriving her
in her old age of protection, and leaving Iwr to
the miserable mercies of a cold, censorious and
heartless world, by the voluntary termination of
his own existence. And yet this man was the
preat expounder of the moral and social principles
of society. He was eminent as a writer on mor
al philosophy ; he was distinguished as a politi
cal economist; skilled in music : a good botan
ist; profound in many sciences; with a mind
and faculties so finely attuned to the harmony of
sweet sounds, as to make his writings the most
smooth and delightfully harmonious to read in
the language; he was without a rival in the age
in which he lived, and has left behind him a name
and a fame as deathless and imperishable as the
land which he so fondly loved to call his own.
And yet, this is but comparative fame for a
man like Rousseau; for whatever subject his mind
dwelt, on, or his pen touched, he ornamented and
rendered of intense Interest, And with a mind
and heart oveiflowing with wild emotions that
could not brook restraints but that bore down all
before them, like the overflowing bunring la'a—
this man sets out as a teacher and re-organizer of
civil society. The world was not his friend, nor
the world’s law ; and, therefore, with the feelings
which he possessed, it was but natural that he
should desire to see ail society return to the pri- i
mitive social compact. He possessed a command
of words and imagination, and a dialectic scarcely
inferior to any human being before or since his
day ; a temper burning with the strongest and
most varied passions that ever centred in a hu
man breast; a power of sarcasm blasting, and
swiftly hurled as thetl underbolt; a degree of irony
frightful to the timid sense to contemplate ; and
those were his combinations which he wielded
with the power, the the fervor, and the per
severance of a gigantic butfallen angel,struggling
to assail the better and brighter regions of the
sky.— J. Q. Adams.
Weight of Militauy Men.—The following
memorandum was found a number of years ago
in the pocket-book of an officer of the Massa
chusetts line:—
August 19th, 1793 ; weighed at the scales at
West Point:
General Washington..... 209 lbs.
General Lincoln 224 “
General Knox -...280 “
General Huntngdon 132 “
General Greaton 166 “
Colonel Swift 219 “
Colonel Michael Jackson 252 “
Colonel Henry Jackson 238 “
Lt. Col. Huntington 232 “
Lt. Col, 186 “
Lt. Col. Humphreys 231 “
It appears from the above, that the average
weight of these eleven distinguished Revolution
ary officers, was 214 pounds. The heaviest
weight having been General Knox, who weigh,
ed 280 pounds, and the lightest General Hunt
ington, who weighed 132 pounds. It is some
what singular that the biographeis of eminent
men, never, unless under circumstances of a pe
culiar character, record the weight or dimensions
of the clay tenements, which were the abode of
their immortal spirits.
Yankee ’Cuteness.—Some time since, the
Yankee schooner fc?ally Ann, unuer command of
one Capt. Spooner, was beating up the Connecti
cut river. Mr. CoLislock, the male, was at his
| station forward. According to his notion of things
the schooner was getting rather (do near certain
flats which lay along the larbored shore. So aft
he goes to the captain, and says he,
‘ Captain Spooner, you’re getting rathar close
to them are flats ; hadn’t you better go about?”
Says Captain Spooner—“Mr. Comstock, do
you go forward and attend to your part of the
skuner; I attend to mine.”
Well, Mr. Comstock marvelled forward in high
dudgeon. “Boys,” says he, “see that ere mud
hook ail clear for letting go.” “Aye, aye, sir—all
clear.” “Let go,” says he. Down went the an
chor, out rattled the chains, and like a flash, the
Sally Ann came luffing into the wind, and then
brui’glit up all standing. Aft sails Mr. Comstock
and touched his hat, very cavalierly, “Captain
Spooner”’ says he, "my part ol the schooner’s at
anchor.” —Nttv York Herald.
Independence.—Some men are greatly envied
for what is thought by others, and perhaps by
themselves, to be a state of independence. But
it may well be questioned whether such a being
as an indepnedent man ever existed. The opu
lent gentleman, who dwells in a princely man
sion, furnished with costly equipage, and who
fares sumptuously every day, is even less inde
pendent than the beggar at his kitchen door, who
petitions for a bone or a crust. Against the hos
tile assaults of the elements the latter needs lar
less human protection, comparatively, tnan the
former. Tne mendicant has no ship at sea, to
b • lescued from peril by sailor’s tod—no palaces
or storehouses to be saved from conflagration by
masses of men commonly considered dependent
—no stocks in danger of depreciation—no hoards
of precious metals exposed to plunder—no loans,
or speculat ons, or adventures at stake, that pre
vent his “sleep o’nights.” In the abstract, there
is neither independence nor abject helplessness in
the moral and social world, whatever there may ;
be in the physical. Ail men are dependent on
their fellows. All men are in some sense beg
gars. To the forgetfulness of thu truth are to be
imputed the growth of pride and the absence of
humanity ; but in its contepla ion,the great prin
ciple of the NATURAL EQUALITY OF MAX is most
clearly Realized. — Nantucket Inquirer.
Popular Reading.—Tell me what a people
read—give me a fnll account of it, and I will
give you a faithful sbetch of their moral and in
tellectual character. Du these books and litera
ry periooicals which are filled with tales and fic
tion, constitute their inte.lectualrepasts? Their
reading, will be light. The views of human na
ture presented in such works, are generally erro
neous. They do not incub ate the great princi
ples essential to promote individual and pnbl.c
prosperity. Their philosophy Os life, and ot so
cial interests, is erroneous, and in its silent influ
ences, injurious to the cause of morals, truth and
religion. Tne great detect of the light literature
of the day, is its levity ; it is too light. It is like
chaff which the wind bloweth away. It neither
disciplines the mind of the reader, nor enriches
it with any valuable knowledge or principles.
it merely excites sympathy and curiosity—and
then seeks their gratificatiun. The reading of
such works will never make the mind vigorous,
or the judgment sound and discriminating, oi
nerve the soul with sterling principles, and pre
pare it (9 meet the stem realities el life.
If the popular reading f|
elevated—if , be i nfloen “ f * K
are to be counteracted, ,t mu*lTr iro «'>i U
people. They numiiulividuallv i*,,?' “J it, I
tronage on such periodicals as disse lk, “u. I
and valuable information, and cuto?"* 1 ' u «i I
j P les «»«ltlal to the welfare of the c 0 ‘* 1
trom the Wabash C ouriei IP
The Rejection, j
Ve], the long hagony is over
And Harrison’s elected * I
AndtheLokeypa ■ ers vun and all
Seems vundeiful dejected • 1 1
They say their hearts iswerrv,.!
And their eye, with i .
And their noses.as a con^eken, “ Wu ‘’.
Is werry red vithblowin’. ’
They say that the Vhig* J
Past human calculatin’ ’•tt -
And beat ’em in a vay that’s m ost I
Pertickler aggravatin',
Foolin the peopl.wcoaxin’ them
To wote agin Wan Buren •
And teliin’ them his conduct’vos
Past oearin’ or enduiing’. I
The oflre holders too has got
Onkumlbrtabe feelins,
A leavin’ of their salaries
Vith perkisits and stealins •
And being flung again upon ’
This vide world’s tender mercie,
Vithout the pub ic Benton diops * I
To till their silken purses. f-
Oh ! it is most distressing and
Enough their hearts to sicken
To see “Uld Tip” give Martin Win
Sitch a most on human lickin’-
He’s tore his wery hind sights off
He’s scarcely left a rag on, *
And Wan has hardly got a wote
Tocalkilaie or brag on.
It is onpleasant for ’em, and
No doubt they feels quite sorry
But they needent try to make a fus,
Nor git into a flurry.
They’d better learn to bear their ute
Vithout so much complainin'
For the more noise they make tbemor*
The thing r ill keep a painin'.
Like naughty boys,vot’s vhippUtheyourtt
To bear :heir stripes in silence 1
Not make mouths at us-shake their fiats
And threaten us vith wi’lence; ”
Sitch conduct is redikilus, and
Provokes us to a smile,
For it's like the wiper that got md
And bit against a file.
And us Vhigs musn’t crow too much-
Cur shouts i* like rank poison, *
Co-opeiatin’on ’em vith ’
Effects most agonizin’.
For charity vould teach us to
Abridge their orful torments,
Unless ve rant to slay ’em and
Exterminate the warmenls.
HARRISON NOMINATIONS!
JUDGES OF THE INFERIOR COURT.
Judge B. H. WARREN,
Jud e VALENTINE WALKER.
ROBERT ALL UN, E<q.
James harper, Esq.
WILLIAM P. BEALE.
TAX COLLECTOR,
Rev, WM. KENNEDY.
tax receives.
COSBY DICKINSON.
CCT We are authorized to say that Mr. LEO!i
P. DUGAS declines being a candidate for the olfici
of Receive: of Tax Returns. dec 29-3 t
CCj We are requested to announce JOSEPH
BUR.CU as a candidate for the office of Receiver
of Tax Returns. dec 9—ts
(C7 We are authorized to announce ANDREW
MACLEAN as a candidate for the office of Re
ceiver of Tax Returns dec 10 Id
Cj’ff F- RUSSELL, Esq., will be supported
fiir the office of Colonel cf the 10th BegimeatC
M., oy many friends. dec il
(jjr’The friends of Captain M. P. STOVALL will
support him for the office of Colonel of the ICtb
Regiment, at the ensuing election. dec 12
(Xj 3 We are authorised to announce ROBERT A.
WATKINS as a candidate for the office of Th
Collector of Richmond county. dec M-tcl
RT We are authorised to announce GEORGE
M. WALKER as a candidate for the office of Re
ceiver of Tax Returns. dec 12
T)r. W. S. JONES tenders his profesnonii
services to the citizens of Augusta and its viciuty
He may be found at bis residence on the North
side of Green second door below Mclntosh etreet,
or at the Chronicle and Sentinel office.
ANDREW J. II AN SELL,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
nov 25-ts Dalohnega,G».
W. R. CUNNINGHAM, & Co.,
GENERAL COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
oct 31 Savannah, Ga. 2m
JOHN R. STANFORD,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Jyl?3 Clarkesville, Ga. _
L. PENNEY,
MINIATURE PAINTER ,
Masonic Hall-
Specimens may be seen at his room, or at the Book
Store of H. A. Richmond. nor 18-trwif
House Painting,
Paper Hanging,
and Glazinf.
R. P. S PELM AN, Jr.
Shop near the Upper Market, Broad-st., Augusts.
QT7 ECONOMY, NEATNESS, AND DESPATCH.
declO ts
W . G . NIMMO.
COMMISSION MERCHANT.
Office in the lower tenement Masonic Halt
nov 9 ts
JOHN »~J • HY RD,
NOTARY PUBLIC,
Will be thankful to bis friends for any part oi bu
siness in the above lines which will be attended ts
witn rectitude, die.
HOLT & GRIMES,
A TTORNEYS AT LAW,
Eatonton, Ga.
The undersigned have associated tbejn*e| vei *
the practice of the LAW, in the Ocmulge.* Circuit,
and the adjoining counties.
Pulaski S. Holt,
dec 23 w6w Geokqe S. Gnwxe.
THE READING ROOM
Attached to this office is open to subscribers, and
strangers introduced by them, every day and
ning (Sunday evenings excepted] until 9 •’ckica*
Subscription ijjo ; fur a him oi two or more ?
DAVID A. V ASON,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Palmyra, Lee county, Ga.
Will practice in the adjoining counties of the Chat
tahoochee and Southern Circuits.
UFEICitCH t
iion.7 AU,e “* f EY &
Col. A. Reese, J Madiso a4
Johnston & Robson, 3 aLL| a
J. W. Jones, Augusta. tX9)
