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From the Baltimore Patriot*
THOUGHTS OX PARTING.
Come lei’s retrace the joyous Hours,
When Hope o’er Friendship's golden dream,
Smil’d sweetly; as the laughing flowers
That bloom beside some sunny stream.
For darker years may n'l their gloom
Around that Heart so happy n->w;
And ’lime may blanch the yrtuihtul bloom*,
That sparkles o’er that dazzling brow !
For, who can ope the Book of Fate
And read He dark, and mystic leaves?
What Eye*#r Heart dare penetrate
The web of wae that Sybill weaves?
Perchance, on some far distant shore,
{Whitherour wayward Fortune tends)
Again we’ll meet—but lose no more—
Forgetting that we once were Friends,
For mournfully the Poet sings,
That Friendship’s but an idle name;— _
And even the tint on Love’s bright wings,
Is never for an hour the same!
But no!— 'ils vain—our souls nrc one
Though Climes, or Fears or Oceans sever—
Hearts that have lov’d as our’s l ave done,
Like streams once met—roll on forever! C.
rover of Beauty —Laws were never
made for pretty women. A youthful fe
male, adorned wi li'grnre and loveliness,
like the Sovereigns of Europe, can do no
wrong. The Nfjmr York Courier and
Enquier states that a .fashionable dressed
female, only twenty years of age, was
FSTeTy-'M^mined by the sitting magistrate*
on achargeHTstoaling a worked cap from
the door of a dry good store. The theft
was fully proved. Bui her brauty and
a flood of tears procured her release ,
with an admonition that if she was ever
found repeating her offence, she would be
sent to the Penitentiary.
Among the prizes awarded oy the Paris
Academy of Sciences, at their hrst sitting
was 'he following To Israel Robinet,
workman, for the substitution of the ac
tion of a machine for that of ihe human
Jungs, in glass blowing, 8,000 francs* Bv
means of this valuable invention, the
health to the glass blower will in future
be preserved, and the product of his man
ufacture greatly improved, both ns regards
accuracy of form and the capability of ma
king articles of greater dimensions than
was formerly possible.”
The Great Canal of Goctha.— This
magnificent water line, which passed
through the heart of Sweden, and unites
the North Sea and the Baltic, was opened
wi h great solemni’ies 6n the 26 : h Sept,
lest. 1 1 will admit vessels drawing nine
feet and a half water, and two aud-twenty
feet in width, and they make the passage
wito the Baltic in eight days, with the. aid
of steam boats across the lakes, which oc
rur on its line. It has been two-and
twenty years in construction, and cosa
rather more than $lO 480,000 of which
$6,378,334 were contributed by the State.
. STEAMCARRIAGE.
S >me norice has been taken by the pub
lic press, of tHe arrival of a steam coach
n» Birmingham, from Southampton, on the
14 h inst. We have since been favored,
with some particulars by a gentleman,
whose zeal induced him to become i*ue pi
the party in this novel and successful ex
perimental journey. This coach is the
invention of Messrs. Ogle, & Summers, of
Southampton, who,, after a most serious
expenditure of time and money, have at
leng It accomplished the desideratum of a
jnoving power by which carriages can be
propelled on the common roads of the
country with speed and without smoke.—
The first attempt was from Southampton
to Oxford and Birmingham. During its
first progress there was considerable diffi
culty in regulating the speed down hill,
the mach’oe having at one time hurried it
down a declivity at a most enormous rate,
probably fifty miles an hour. Captain
Ogle, by his nerve and management,
steered it, notwithstanding, with petfect
ease. This has been amended, and the
vehicle was seen leisurely proceeding
down long Compton Hill, at a steady rate
of about seven milus an hour: a rate slow
er than that withjwhich it ascended Lev
eridge Mill. Through the twrtous wind
ings of Shipstone, too, ii proceeded at a
b«nt ten miles an hour with the greatest
precision.
Perhaps a finer sight has rarely been
soen than its s arting for Oxford. The
intention had been know previously, and
being the day of St. J lies’* Fair, the place
was thronged with thousands of visitors;
& as the ponderous machine was prepar
ing to start from the Star Inn,<hc descrip
tion of the car of Juggernaui rushing on
its votaries, was strongly brought to mind.
It commenced at about ten miles an hour,
accelerating its speed at about 14 miles to
the utmost. o,u tfie whole line of its jour
ney it was delay ed fiom the badness of
q laljty, or actual rant of coke and the
time taken up in charging the t; nk-—mat
ter of detail, which a regular establish
ment will easily correct.
When the eountiy through whictf the
experiment has been made is considered,
as regards irregularity of level and variety
of omteiial of which the roads are compo
sed, it must be thought a most successful
attempt. 11 singularl v happened that i lie
coke was expended and the steam down,
at the very moment it reached Birming
ham ; the zeal of the populace, however,
supplied the warn, and i' was hauled with
cheering* to the Hen and Chickens where
its 22 inmates took op their quarters.
When its speed, rocuritj, power, and
freedom fioin smoke are considered, as
well as the road it has travelled, we may
boldly assert, that the invention of
Messrs. Ogle & Summers is worthy of
the highest support, and this, we trust it
will receive. It is a common observa
tion with Engineers, that "Steam is still
in its infancy:” and truly does this essay
corroborate the truth of it.
We believe that the patent boiler of
Messrs. Ogle Sc Summers, is the main
cause of their success, as containing the
greatest possible heating surface within
the smallest possible space, without any
danger,although worked at 200 pounds on
the squaro inch, and capable of bearing
294 pound*;. in fact, this boiler presents
298 feet heating surface, and the pressure
of two hundred lbs. to the inch, exhibit?
upwards of nine millions of pounds of
pressure, without the slightest danger !
The cylinders are 12§ inches in diame
ter, with metalic pistons; and the whole
of the machinery is carried horizontally
under the body of the carriage.
This information we thit*k worthy the
attentive consideration of machinists io
general, and particularly the great couch
proprietors of the United Kingdom.—
Bell's ( London ) Weekly Messenger.
Petersburg, (Vir.) Feb. 12.
RAIL ROAD.
Our citizen* have been for some time
past anticipating a visit fretn a number
of the numbers of the Legislature, who
were generally invited to make an excur
sion on the Petersburg Rail Road.
Yesterday we were gratified by the ap
pearance ot about forty members, who
with about an equal number of our Citi
zen* and of Traveller*, took their depar
ture from the Company’s depot on Wash
ington street, at 9 o’clock, on a train of
5 coaches and cars. The party reached
Bolfield s«>mo time before the dinner
hour and after a- pleasant repast, resumed
their seats on the carriages at 3 o’clock.
Tiie locemotive Roanoke, then partially
displayed its power and reUcity, by re
turning to the depot in Petersburg, a dis
tance of 41 mile*, in two hours and six
minntes—of which time 8 minutes were
occupied by two stopages to replenish
fuel and water. It is believed that the
same distance has never before been per
formed in the »ama time on any other
/fail Road—4l miles in aft hour and 58
minutes.
Not the slightest accident or interrup
tion took place, until on entering the
Town, a negro man attempted to run in
front of the Locomotive, which struck
him and lie survived but a few hours.
From the Petersburg Intelligencer.
THE TARIFF QUESTION.
In the list of the revolutionary wor
thies, of Virginia, few names are mere
conspicuous & imposing than that of Go
mono Pondleton. Mr. Wirt covers ii
in his life of Patrick Henry, with a pro
fusion of his most brilliant,superlatives,
lie represen a Mr. Pendleton as one who,
whether in the capacity of a lawyer or
statesman,had “few equals, no superiors.*
A friend has put iutu our hands a letter
of this eminont person,written forty years
ago, on a subject which is now under the
most earnest discuiion* throughout the U.
States*
Virginia, D-ecember 1 Hh, 1792.
Sir: By my friend, Col. Taylor, whom
I inentieocd to you at Richmond, I have
to thank you for the two pamphlets pre"
sented' me; which I have read with a ten
lion »nd pleasure, perha|M for the most
powerful of all reasons, that the sent!-
. naonts in general coincide with ray own.
A moderate impost on imports and ton
i page on vessels; may properly be made
part of every fiscal system, and 5 per ct.
see'tied to have been_fixetl on as a stan
dard of modderation by the general con
sent of Amcaica—but the object should
be merely revenue, uumixed with other
purposes; so that if summary laws or other
projects are to be tried, let it be by oth
er detached laws to stand or fall by them
selves: and let not the imposts be expec
ted to answer all. governmental purposes
however extensive; for that would be ru
inous i* trade and of course to the citi
zens, and they would yet be insensible of
it, not knowing they paid the tax,although
they did so, with large increase No, lot
them at least feel this increased burthen,
and they w ill then inquire of their rep
if sentatives why it is laid, ants how the
money is disposed of, as they ought to do,
Laws which interfere in the private
emplayment of citizens, and encourage
one kind at the expence of others by pre
mium-', bounties or prohibitions, are as im
politic as unjustphey violate private rights
not coded to society, and fetter occupa
tions as well as barter of the produce of
labor; both of which succeed best when
left free to the will and contracts of these
concerned. It is a fallacious argumeut
indeed, that the agricultural interest is
benefited by opening one new market
for their produce#nd supplies, when the'
acquisition is made by means tending to
exclude alt competition, and give a mon
opoly in both to the new agent —and is
the effect nf those laws, the weight of
which fall upon tillage; whereas when
manufactures are left to grow out of the
natural order of things, tfoey come to the
agricultural market as new competitors,
upon equal or better ternjr; and un*ill
they can afford to do so without the aid
of premiums, it is better fur them and the
community too, that they should remain
in tilling the earth. I cannot conceive
any reasoning, however specious, which
is less solid, ihau a kind I have frequent'
ly met withy "that the whole price paid
for imported articles, which might be
made here is lost to the community,”
which is fully refuted by n familliar case
put to prove iq A. is a farmer who has
produce to barter for necessaries: a foi
eigiter offers to allow him £lO for his pro
duce and to furnish the article* lie wants
at £B. B. is a neighboutmg manufacturer
who wants and will allow A. f*»r tlie pro
duce the £lO but must have £lO for the
necessaries in exchange, either for want
of skill or industry in his business—fur
want of proper hands or instruments to
carry it on—or most probably from the
superior value of labor employed in hi s-
Uandry to that of the other. If A. barters
with B. hew is the £3 saved to the c< m
uiiinity? Is it not obvious that trade with
a foreigner would have entitled A. to a
balance of 40s. in cash, clear gain to him
and the community too, (who are as a
body only interested in the balances pa id
or received in ‘cash in foreign trade.)
Now if the legislature add a tax upon ihe
necessaries, of 40*. to prevent the foreign
er from underselling B. they no< only im
properly intermeddle with the private
dealings of A. and B. but in plain English
tax A. 40s* a year to save B. from loss,
for he gains nothing, haring laid out the
sum in increased expenses. Is this just,
or consistent with the equal rights of bath
or for the interest of society! by no means:
let both alone, and B. will eithei improve
his system so as to save his 40s. wM-hovt
loss to A. or take up A*s. occupation and
gain 49*. and add that sum- also to the
gain of the community.
Signed, EDMUND PENDLETON.
Congress of the United States.
IN SENATE.
Saturday, Feb. 16.
SPECIAL* ORDER
The Senate proceeded to the consider
ation of the Special Order, being the bill
to provide further for the collection of
the duties on imports—
Mr Calhoun returned and spoke more
than nn hour in conclusion.
Mr. Webster then rose, and addressed
the Senate until 8 o’clock, when a recess
toek place until 5 o’clock, at which hour
Mr. W. resumed and *poke till past 8.
The press of the immense eoncourse of
both sexes which filled the galleries, tho
lobbies, and even the floor of the Senate
chamber, during the everting sitting, wa*
greater, if possible, than it was during the
forenoon. At the ciMiclu<i<*n of Mr.
Webster’s speech, the close of which is
represented as eloquent and impressive
beyond even his former great effort, there
was a spontaneous burst of applause from
the galleries.
Mr. Poindexter moved an adjournment;
but the President ordered the galleries to
be cleared, and would not receive the mo
tion to adjourn until the order had been
executed ; when.
The Senate adj turned.
LATEST FROM EUROPE.
Sunday, Feb- 17, Half past one o'clock.
By the packet ship, Henri IV. Capt.
Cast iff, which left Havre on the 11th.
we, (the Editors of the Mercantile Ad
vertiser,) hive received Paris and Havre
papers to the 10;h ult.
Paris, Jan. B.—An extraordinary bus
tle prevailed in the Money Market yes
terday, and the different stocks experien
ced a rise of from to more than one
per cent, for which the only reasons as
signable are the improvement in the Lon
don Maiket, and the efforts of speculators.
No political news has been in circulation
that could exert any influence upon the
funds. For m*»ney, the Fives hive risen
70 , the Threes 1 fr. 10c.
Gen. Saldanha left Pat is on Sunday.—
He is supposed to be gone to Oporto.
Extract of a letter of the sth ins*, from
Atvwerp :
“Gen. Desprex has just returned from
Brussels, whither he had been sumtnoued
to be consulted as to the defence to be op.
posed to the Dutch troops, which still
threatened invasion.”—-“The Dutch flnet,
off forts Lillo and LiefAeirsh«ck, has re
moved, the apprehension of being frozen
in. This morning not a single mast was
to be descried. During the afternoon of
yesterday, the cannon was heard repea
tedly in the direction of Callao. The
cause has Bot yet been positively ascer
tained but it is believed that eur batter
ies along the two shores of the Scheldt
were fir ing upon the ships as they were
taking their departure. Every prepara
tion for war is still m-aking in the environs
ol Antwerp. Letters from Holland con
tinue to confirm the idea that this con
tinues to be the intension of our enemy,
and bets are being constantly made as to
the day on which he will make the at
tack.”
The Brussels Journals of the sth con
tain the following;—“ln order to prevent
the quarrels which mig'-j arise between
the Belgian and the Freuch soldiers, a
great many patroles are on foot through
out the day.”
The Handlesbald of Amsterdam, of the
3d, gives the following from a private cor
respondence at the Hague.
•‘The English steamboat l’Eclair has ar*
rived w ith, fresh propositions to the King
from France and England.—These pro
positions, however, are of a nature not to
be accepted, and you may consider them
as already rejected. A Cabinet Coun
cil Extraordinary will be held upon them
to day.” This Journal also contains a
letter of the Ist inst. from St. Croix, in
the proviuce of Zealand,say tog—“A skir
mish has taken place between the Belgi
ans and our soldiers, the former having
attempted to gaiu possession of one of
our kykes, in order to prevent, an inunda
tion. Our soldiers.made a brisk fire up
on thorn, and killed aod wounded several.
Two of our men were slightly wounded.”
HAVRfc MARKET— January 6
Cottons— ln-demand: Upland* have recovered
from the depression maintained prior to the 25th
of last month— fine qualities are most sought
The sales from the 28<h Dec. to sth Jan. amount
to 3936 hales of which 227 Georgia at 86 t« 98
cent*, 610 Mobile, at fo
and Tennessee, nt 83 a 94c; 2232 Louisiana, at
90a112c. Stock of all descriptions on 21st
Dec. 1832. 22 500 bales.
Rice —Without demand, and purely nominal.
Marseilles. Jan I.—Our sales of Cotton in
December amounted to 1652. bates against 327
bales that arrived. Our stock is now reduced to
2240 bales. Our importations in 1832, were 68,-
820 bales—in 1831 the import was 66,439 bales;
[By the York at New-York.]
Liverpool, Jan. 7—Upwards of 4000 bales
ere estimated to have{been sold to day at extreme
market ptices, of which 3000 are America* de
scriptions, from 6s<i. to Bd.
Jan 8 —Our cotton market has again appear
ed very animated, ttie sales to-day being 4000
hales, comprisin'6oo Pernams at 8$; Bahia? at
7|toßid.; 1600 Surats 4 5 Bd.to 5 3 Bd.; and
2000 Americans from 6|d to Bd.
Jan. 9.— We have had a very animated de
mand for Cotton to-day, the sales amount tonear
6000 bags, chiefly bought by the trade. This
looks well, and is* owing to the constant receipt
of pacific news.
. AUGUSTA.
WEDNESDAY, FEB. 2T.
COTTON.—Liverpool dates to the 9*!» Jan.
with flittering accounts of the Market have had
a tendency to advance the price here full
on the purchase? Os Saturday. The qunntity
arriving, very limited, inferior to fair 9, a 9.J ;
good 10 cents, prime 10i| a 11 cents. Freight
to Savannah, 50 cts.—Charleston sl.
A correspondent of the United Stales Gazette,
who heard the first part of"Mr. Webster’s Speech
says, ' that in the course of it, he drew a beauti
ful picture of the efficient protection which a
citizen of the U. States receives from the gov
ernment of the V States, wheneverhe goes forth
into the great society of the notions of the earth.
On the eea he h protected by the stars & stripes,
and goes abroad in the great family claiming
and receiving more iespect th in he could ever
claim and receive if lie went under the fl ig, or
the single arm of any State, even if he had the
blue cockade and the palmetto button to exhibit
as his passport.
We perceive that the Rev. James
Weatherby , «f Washington, N. C. has
been appointed an Agent of the American
Bible Society, for the States of North
Carolina, South- Carolina, Georgia, Al
abama and Florida.
The Revenue Collection Bill passed to a third
reading in the Senate o» the 19th inst.—Teas
and Nays as follows :
YEAS—Messrs. Bell, Black, Buckner,
Ohambeis, Clayton, Dallas, Dickerson,
Dudley, Ewing, Foot, Frelinghuysen,
Gtundv, Hendricks, Hill, Holmes, John
s'on, Kane, Naudain, Prentiss, Rives,
R"bbins, Robinson, Ruggles, Sillsbee,
Smith, Sprague, Tipion, Tomlinson,
Webster, White, Wilkins, Wright.—32.
NAYS—Messrs. Bibb, Calhoun, King,
Mangum, Miller, Moore Troup, Tyler.—
8. The Senate then adjourned.
FOR THE GEORGIA COURIER.
Rril-Way System vs. Sleam-Boat System.
There is something so utterly tepng
nant to the introduction of New Inven
tions, that the authwr has hesitated for
some time to state his views on the adop
tion of the Rajl-Way System into Cities.
It is a well-known fact, that whatever an
imal labor is saved in the transportation
of goods and in their manufacture and ap
plied tn agriculture not only increases but
cheapens the means of subsistence to
mankind. One horse will c msume a
peck of corn per diem, and the same will
support a negro oneweek, thus the ratio esta
blishedin subsisting a horse and human be
ing is as l to ?, and it is hence evident
that if the work of a horse is performed
by a machine that there will be a saving
to the proprietor equal to the subsistence
of 7 negroes. In this city there are about
40 licenced drays whose horses consume
10 bushels of corn per diem, which same
corn would for the same time feed 280
negroes.—To the person win* cannot per
ceive how much moral and physical im
provement w<»uld result to humanity by
• ibstituting machinery for these4o horses,
I would not envy the scope of hi* reason
ing ability. I consign this pert of the
subject to the political economist, while I
proceed with the calculations : Augusta
is said to be 2 miles in length, and to lay
a double track of railway it would require
abaut 5 miles for the business part of the
city, which with the care, would cost
$6,500 per mile, taking the Charleston
Rail R o»d estimate and the 5 miles $32,-
000. The question when I have gone
thus far is not how much corn can you
save, but what profit can you pay on this
investment T By way of illustrating that
in most projectors astounding qnere, I
will suppnsa that each drayman, horse,
dray, license and feed cost S7OO and in
toto $28,000. There can be no objec
tion to the statement stoat they realise 30
per cent, on this $28,000 whieb is equal
to $8,400. —Now if we are allowed the
same on the $32,000, I answer that the
profit will be per cent, which is not
to be hooted at where capital goes a beg
ging at 10 per cent. But there is another
analogue, the Charleston Rail-Road is
stated to be 150 miles in length and the
estimated cest per mile $6,500, equal for
the whole to $975,000. Now, in these
high-pressure steaming times, a good
stealmer can We produced for $15,000 —
making the rail-road- investment equal to
65 steamers, which are to do the work of
7 steamers and save no corn. The regu
lar traders are the stanch boats Edgefield,
Augusta, Caledonia, Chaileston &> Ston
ey and the packets Seabrook and Mon
gin, 7' to 65,—.R0t t observe the Rail
Road Company by their advertisement in
the Charleston Mercury wish to borrow
$60,000; and. if, they succeed they will
have invested an amount, sufficient to pro
duce 69 steamers, and establishing the rd*
tio of 10 to 1 nearly. II they shave them
selves at 8 per cent, the interest on sl,
035,000 will be about $82,000 per an
num, while that on the 7 boats and 30 per
cent, is $40,000 nearly, & not quite half
that on the rail-road investment. The
average cost of the steamers is assumed
as before at $15,000 each, for the 7
$105,000. Now, if these facts do nol
prove that a rail-way through Augusta
would turn out a profitable speculation,
then I will not say what they do prove
but leave them to the consideration of
Capitalists who may obtain the privilege
»f monopoly, &c. from the Citv Council.
AUGUSTA.
From the Mechanics (London) Magazine.
RAILWAYS IN PROGRESS.
per utile:
Columbia 84 miles long.
cos> estimated at $15,000
Alleghany 38 do. 25,000
Baltimore II Ohio 340 do. 22,000
Charleston &l Hamburg 150 do. 6,500
RAILWAYS COMPLETED.
Quincy 3 do. 11 000 single.
MiiUnch Chunk 9 do. 3 050 do.
Schuylkill 13 do. 7,000 double.
LackaWaxen 16 incl eng.&ic 12.001) do.
the whole length of Railway in prog
ress is stated to be 974 miles, and that
completed 110. au rusTA.
fob The Georgia courier.
Athens, Feb. 19.
In reviewing the transactions of the
few past weeks, I deem it necessary that
the public should be correctly informed
w : th regard to the various report* in ch cula
lion relative to Nullificat’oii in Fiaoklio
College. lain inffienced to such, a course
of conduct solely by the consideration
that such reports are well calculates! tu
injure ihe college in the estimation of the
community at large.
As to the resolutions which were pub
lished in some of the papers of this State,
and which purported to have been passed
by a majority of the College-—I shall at
tempt briefly to give their origin : In (be
first place a meeting of the Students was
called by some officious gentlemen for the
purpose of adopting Resolutions, Sec. —
After a Chairman had been appointed
and (he House called to order, it was pro
posed that a committee be appointed to
draft resolutions and to report on the and .y
following at 1 o’clock, as (bat was the on
ly hour in which such discussions could
be carried on. This motion was debated
for some time, until finally, the Nullifiers
perceiving a large majority opposed to
them, the meeting was broke up in a row
and all attempts to do business, proved a
bortive. The Nullifiers were then re
ques'ed to remain ; ano'her Chairman
was appointed and then the Committee
was also appointed. The next day when
the meeting assembled again, out of 3-
bout 100 students about 45 or 50 were
present, a bare maj >rity of whom voted
for the Resolutions. Thus originated
the Resolutions which purported to have
been passed by a majority of the students.
It his since been ascertained that there
Bre 35 in favor of the Resolutions, and
65 against them, and yet it is asserted
that alt the students are Nullifiers. Dur
ing all this time the Faculty made the ut
most exertions to put down every thing of
the kind as far as the law authorized.
As to burning General Jackson in efli
gy, w hich has been so authoritatively an
nounced in some of the patriotic papers
of this State, 1 consider it necessary to
say a few words, fu the first place, it is
stated that he was ** hung and burnt amid
shouts of applause” from all the Students
Now this is absolutely false, as a g>eat
many of the theories of the author of that
letter are. It is true, that a few upstarts,
ambitious of distinction, like Erostratus in
burning the Temple of Diana, hoping to
make themselves known in some way or
other, did hang and burn Jackson in efli
gy. When the effigy was hung out ofeue
of the windows of College, which happen
ed immediately after prayers in the even
ing, there were indeed considerable
shouting, but it happened to result from
a large majority of the students who were
playiugai ball in the Campus immediately
in front of the College, t state confident
ly that not more than 12 or 15 were in
favour of hanging the Effigy and of them 2
have since been dismissed. When the
burning took place (which was at night)
not more than 3 or 6 were present, and
they were so bold that they skampered
in all directions as soon as the fire was
leeched to it, for fear that tire light shin
ing upon their countenances, ixrignt make
them known and the Faculty should ex
pel them, and yet it is asserted that Jack
son was burned by the students “ amid
shouts of applause.”
These are plain and stubborn facts
which cannot be denied, unless it be by
some such a visionary as the ■■■ ■■■■ who
comes up to Athens on a mission now &
then to preach Nullification. I hope,
then, that every one who has the interest
of the institution at heart—who fee s for
the prosperity of his Stare—who knows
the successive attempts which have been
made to put down Georgia’s only and be
loved institution, will be active io contra
dicting any of these injurious reports.—l
can say that the few who were engaged in
his ridiculous scene, incurred the dis
pleasure of their fellow-students—that
they were warned of the consequences of
such a course of conduct—that the faculty
and especially the President used all the
means in their power in prevent any
thing of the kind—these facts I have from
good authority. If, then, there remains a
single spark of State-pride among uur
citizens, let it be shown in maintaining
their institution, and never notice the silly
freaks of boys for “ children will be chil
dren.” Ii Plurihus Unum.
fff* The papers of this State friendly
to truth and to the College wilt please in
form the public of these facts.
By the judgment of the Supreme Court
of the United States, delivered yesterday
by Mr. Justice Story, the discharge of
Thomas Watkins from imprisonment was
decreed. The ground* of the decision.,
we believe, areerioror iuformality in the
proceedings in the Court below, which we
shall be careful hereafter to state more
particularly than we now can. Mr. Wat
kins was brought into Court Sic discharged.
On leaving the Court he had not passed
the threshold of the Capitol, befu.ro he
was arrested by the Marshal, at the suit
of the United States, on three Ca Sa'i.
issued under the judgments upon which
he was originally confined, and carried
again to prison* This proceeding created,
as might have been expected in such a
case, great sensation in different pans of
the building. A motion for another writ
of habeas corpus was immediately made
by Mr. W. L. Brert;, and is to be argued
on Saturday next.— Nat. fat. 20 th inst.
[ Correspondence Os the Charleston Courier ]
Washington, Feb. 18.
"This has been a day of much talking,
but of trivial action. It was expected on
Sa’urday Evening that Mr. Poindexter,
who had obtained the fl u>r, would make
a speech, learned, poteut and long ; but it
was bruited about early this morning that
he bad a pain in his breast, and that the
bollows of his lungs w.ould not be able to v
perf um their functions so efficiently, as to
enable him to aarest and fix the ear of the
Snnato for any length of time. Tlie re
poit was confirmed when, at the hour fur
calling the special order, Mr. Poindex or
himself declared his uiifrucss to perform
the task he hid coveted, courted, and got
within his grasp. A variety of amend
ments were then off-red, all «f which m-t
the like fate, being voted down by lart>e
majorities, producing no other effect than
that of enabling certain political leaders to
dttteucumbei themselves of a considerable
load of sciimonious matter. AM the e
motions will be found in tne ree.,rds of the
day. Mr. Forstth n ade a long, and what
is somewhat strange in the annals of his
efforts, a rather dull speech, in which lie
went into a history of a j the difficulties
which had arisen between the U. Sand
the State of Georgia, on account of the
Indians ; and of the adroit part which ho
had played in removing -„|| these did’ reh
ces. lie was ful.owed by Mr. Millet,
who Bssailed him in return, and afterwaids
Messrs. Kane, Smith, King, & Mangum,
made speeches pro and con. As th-re arc
but eleven days for Corgre s 'o sit, it is
a generally received opinion, that no Ta
riff bill can bo p issed during the present
session. The lasi hope of ill >se who have
dreamed or deemed that the b II introdu
ced by Mr Clay would give relfol'to the
South, and peace between tlmm and tho
other sections of tho Union, ik fading a
way, as the few days between os and tlia
termination of the session rapidly dimin
ish.
"At midnight the Judiciary Bill was
ordered to be engrossed and read a thin!
t me. Ayes 32. Noes 8.”
*• White the union lasta, we h ive I ijh. .exci
ting gratifying |>ros ( >ectS spread out hefore us,
for us and otr children. B yond that I »e< k
not to penetrate the veil. God grant that in my
days at least that curtain may not. ri*e. God
grant, that,on i»y vision never mty he opcne l
whnt lies Behind. When my eyes shall be tur -
ed to behold, for the last time, the sun in heaven,
may 1 not see him shining on the broken and
dishonoured fragments of a one.' glorious union a
on states dissevered, discordant, bclligernot ; on
aland rent with civil feuds, or dcfcnrhed. it may
be, in fraternal blood! Let their last feeble and
' lingering glance rather behold the gorgeous, en
sign of the republic, now known and honoured
throughout the earth, si ill full high at! varied, if s’
arms and trophies streaming in their original
lustre, not a strip*, erased or pulluled, nor a siii‘
git star obscured— bearing tur its motto no such
miserable interiogatory as, what is all this
worth I Nor those otli-r words of delusion and
folly, Libertyflrst, and. Uu'on afterwards; but
every where spread afl* uVeit in ebarffeters cf
living light—blnz'ng on ail its ample folds as
they fl <at over the sea and over the laud, and in
every wind under the.whole henvens, that other
sentiment, dear to every true American heart
LIBERTY AND UNION, NOW AND FOR
EV EK, ONE AN DINS F. P AIU BL K ll’ebsltr
“W ie •an iticny says Mr. Jefferson, impose*
high duties on our pro luciiois, or prohibits them
altogether, it may be proper for us to ilo the same,
by theirs—first burdening or EX ’LL'DINtF
THOSE PRODUCTIONS WHICH THEY
BRING HERE IN COMPETI HON WITH OUR
OvVN OF THE SAME KIND; selecting next,
such mnnufurturrs as we. take from tlitin in great
est qaantity and which at the same time we evu'd'
soonest furnish to ourselves, or obtain from ot her
countries ; imposing on them duties light at fi> at,
but heavier and- heavier afterwards as other
channels pf supply open.”—lefl'erson’s Report
on the Pi ivi’eges and Restrictions of the Cnm
mnree of the United States in Foreign Countries
“ Such duties, having the effect of indirect eu
couiagemnnt to-dbmestic manufactures of the
same kind, may induce the manufacturer to come
himself into thtse statts. where cheaper subsist
ence, equal laws, and a vent for his wates, fr>e
of duty, may insure him the highest profit* for*
his skill and industry. The oppressions of 'due
agriculture in foreign par ts wan'd thus be mads,
the occasion oj rtliering it fram es dependence on
the councils and conduct of others and of promo
ting arts manufactures . and population at home ”
And let it be observed, that at the period when
Mr. Jefferson pronounced the abeve, as Secre
tary of State, the prohibitions and exclusions of
our productions in Europe, were not so perni
cious as they are at present. Our flour anil
bread stuffs generally were not subject to the
rigorous exclusions that have so frequently pre*
vai’ed since that period In consequence we
exported more wheat and flour in 1791 limp
1792. wbpn our population wn» only a little more
thaa 4 000 000 and when we were excluded'from*
the Spanish Colonies, than, we did in 1828 and;
1829, whea it was above 12 060.000, and when
those Colonies were apen to us.
Philadelphia Rubicon.
Mobile, Feb. l6tb.
Cotton.— The receipts, since «ur last
review, amountto4,274 bales, and the
exports 2 662, leaving the s’ock on hand,
including all on ship-b'>ard net cleared
33,911 bales The transactions of tlbo
week amount to about 4,000 bales, and
generally at a small advance on our last
quotations. The higher qualities partic
ularly, hare gained about c.—The lose
foreign advices have added to the conli
dence of large holders, who as yet. keep
out of the market; though the buyers ma
nifest no disposition to advance en the*
quotations of this raoruing— indeed pur
chased a shade under them., There is
however a good feeing in the market,
all that is offered for sale is readily de
posed of.