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2 THE COURIER. BY J. G. MCWHORTER. „ vWesSfSbiSh^ cvery F * ,D ' v . a<t ?. r "*°", at »“ l “ adv ‘‘ UCC ’ ° r Ml>ir received for less time ‘'’fovKaTISEMfiNTS, not exceeding-* will first lima at T 5 cu. per and 31 1- wtn‘tS/'fc«ve standing advertisements of several wp nr e9 , special eontractß may he made. Uic£e KX No doOuc'wus will be mane iu charges ~ t i.„ number of insertions All advertisements mVst b»ve bo inserted till far marked on them; otherwise they wiunew»e bid, and charged uccoruinsrly. ... #fillkave 3 UEIUFrS,CI.KRKS,--*»<i oilier pithlicome ■~2S par cent, deducted tn their fw»- ~ love and friendship. Bt iKOOBT. The birds, when wintershades the sky, Fly o’er theffeas away. White laughing isles in sunshine lie, Ami Subumir breexeg play. , And thus the friends that flutter near, While FartUhe’t swn is warm, Are startled if a cloud appear, And fly before the storm. But when from Winter’s heading -plains Each other warbler’s past, The little snow-bird still rein tins, And chirrups ’mid the blast. I,ove, like that bird, when friendship’s throng With fortune’s suu depart, Still lingers with its cheerful song, And ncStles On the heart. ' 1 -»•" ■■ - ■' ■— #’ I’rom the Connecticut Observer, lit TE W PERAK C E. There sprang a tree of deadly name: Its poisonous breath, its baleful dew, Scorch,d thegreen eaTthJrky lava-flame, And every plant of mercy slew. fVom clime to clime its branches spread,. Their fearful suits of sin and woe; The Prince of Darkness loved its shade, And toil’d its fiery Seed to sowi Faith pour'd her pray Y at mi inight hoo>; The hand of zeal at noon-day wrought; The arm of celestial power The children of the cross besought. Behold ! the axe its pride doth wound. Tor j’us cleft boughs the sunbeams shine, Its blasted blossoms strew the ground; Give glory to the Arm Divine. And still Jehovah t aid implore, From isle to rsfe, from srh to sea, Front peopled Earth’s remotest shore, To root that deadly Upas Tree. LECTURES PHRENOLOGY. IV OR. SPORZBEtM. Gentlemen ,—l have to speak to you of Phrenolo<jv, a term derived from two Greek words phreen mind, and logos a discourse nr doctrine, hence it means the doctrine of the mind. As the essential nature of mind itself is unknown t<> us, I cannot speak to you of the%iind ; we can, however, observe its manifestations, and the conditions under which they take place', phrenology, then, it the doctrine of the manifestations of the mind, and the rela tions they bear to certain bodily condi tions. Unless you feel au interest in this science, you will not study it sufficiently to know its value. Some begin by in quiring is it useful.? Now i< is imposs bis to understand the application of a thing, without understanding the thing itself, and here I would observe, that the knowl edge of Phrenology is tire knowledge of the most important part of man—of his consciousness, bis passions, his feelings, and his intellectual part ; and of all studies, that of man is confessedly the most im portant. Phrenology is useful to medical men, because the moral part of man, which includes his affections aud passions, has a great influence upon his corporeal part, and is a g r eat cause of many diseases,and without a knowledge of this, he will find great difficulty in curing them. A knowl edge of Phrenology is found indispensa ble to physicians who treat the insane i far h *w can they treat the derangement of mental functions, witiiout understand ing first their healthy condition ; to know how to manage the one, it is first neces sary to know tho other. Little applica tion of any branch of philosophy can be made to praC'ical life, without, in the first instance, comprehending the subject to which it is desired to apply P- Philoso phy, therefore, is defective ! 1 also find fault with those who study philosophy in their Nomenclature. For it is not exact, nnd the consequence is, that they dis course fur hours and never agree ; and this shews, I think, that their knowledge is not exact, and therefore their nomen clature is inexact. Medical men are in terested in knowing Phienology ; so al so are those who have to join institutions of any kind, which ought -o be founded upon the nature of man, Tho system of education also should be fuunidcd upon the knowledge of the moral nature of man. The arts individually, especially those of painting and sculpure, aud abovo all historical and portrait painting, are in terested in Phrenology. Some painters pay great attention to tho face, but omit entirely the shape of the head, which ap pears to me of equal importance with the other. For example, here is the likeness of a person {(holding up a painting on jpasteboaid, so divided that tha head might be separated from the face.) Now I will let the same face remain, and change the figure of the head (painted on another pieco of paper.) Would you not say that it is quite another mao 1 In poetry too it ?t -a-pfil, and artists of imitation should v.foi’ow poets j for in speaking of the dif* fereat rtioral powers, you Would' not wish to contradict yourself Ity describing a con figuration inconsistent with thafettiibuie you wish to describe. Youwodld not say that a mao had a villainously high furo liead, falthoogh you might decribe him with a forehead villainously low ,’ —Here are two skulls, oue high aud targe, the o ther small aud very low. (Exhibiting thorn to the meeting.) Would you not •say this, (the smallest) represented the ignoble sentiments 1 Which form would ■ you say was the most desirable, meroly by intuition, so to speak,without knowing any thing of organization ? There is not a koubt which you would choose. It will be my desire to give you pfaimfe simple facts to compare them; to rctlUce, as correcilv as possible, the 'filths ;o prin ciples, and then draw inferences from them. Now ns to facts, 1 cbosider there can be no difference of opinion, as re gards them between us •ifeour opponents; but as to inferencesT sUnil piopose some. But every one must judge for himself as in Terence',the snmo facts exist,but the in ferences drawn from them are many; I shall draw inference*, and I hope I shall be able to verify their propositions. I slpll, now, ebtfcv thto a few genera! con siderations on phrenology,’ admitted by ail to be incontrovertible; I shall next come to sifeh as are disputed. The influence botwoen the mind and body is an ancient doctrine, but the defin ition of the word temperament is not 'known to all. The ancien.ts admitted .that the tem perament of the body originated individ ual feelings; that a man of a bilous tem perament is disposed to anger; that such a man might have good penetration and a sound judgement, but not a good mem ory. That, oil the other hand a man of sanguineous temperament, having fair hair, a fair skin, blue eyes, and a florid countenance, haring proofs of a strong aciivity in the circulation of the blood; that such a person might have great live liness, great sensibility, a very good memory, but not deep judgement. Va rious other sentiments were ascribed by them to the influence of the temperaments The influence of the whole constitution, or of what has been called temperament must be admitted to extend to 'Phrenolo gy: but with some restrictions. It is cer- tain that the individual systems of digest ion, nutrition, circulation, ——-uaswwwwrTipmTim powers and activity of the whole body; in phre nology we do not admit that the whole constitution of the body produces tho de tejmijjflte feelings, hut we admit its in, fiuence as far as the different uegi cess of activity depend upon the temperament. If we see a man of lymphatic tempera ment, without activity in the external sen ses, the motion of the muscles being very slow; and if we see another man of the same general temperament, with groater activity of th‘6 muscular power and the external senses, We conclude that there is a greater defFtfo of activity in the 4 brain of One than the oilier. This is im portant for you to recollect, and, I hope you will not forget, that although tire constitution does not produce the deter minate feelings, yet it has a very great influence on tho different degrees of acti vity. So that when you examine the peculiarities of the head, you must always bear this in miud. In illustration of this proposition I refer you to the muscular power ) this does opt depend upon the constitution,but.the greater activity of that power is influenced by ii; hence we see it is less active in the lymphatic than in the bilious constitution. It is an aucient doctrine that the vis cera have a great influence on the feel ings, and eyery one knows the express ions—a bad heart, a good head, and so oik The ancients ascribed certain feel ingsto pertain viscera; they placed joy & grief in the heart; anger in the liver; ha tred in the spleen, and so on; but this manner of preceding is not physiological, and it seetn3 strange that such opinions should have continuedjsince physiologists know that these several parts have par ticular functions; and 'if we speak of or gans, wo know that they ha e functions If we go into the study of riattire, we knojy tliat animals have hearts, and man y of the mammiferous animals have lar ger hearts than man, more perfect orgaos, larger livers, and larger lungs, but you cannot ascribe moral feelings to them. This “doctrine would seem to have been propagated on this account—when man is the subject of certain passions, he certain affections about the viscera. If a mat! bp much elated by feeling, the cir- is somewhat delayed, the heart palpitates, and there is oppression of the respiration, nnd pain in the head and n ther parts: and it is possible that these sensations, produced iu individual organs ■by excitements or depressions of the mind, induced the ancients to think that these organs were the seat of their sensa tions. VVe know, indeed, by physiology, that the different parts have a great com munication, and that derangement in the functions of one causes derangement iu those of others. There is great commu nication between the brain and different parts of the body; and every one has experienced that after too much fond and drink a man cannot reflect, he retires to rest, and in the morning his mind is stron ger, and ha can then reflect; yet you would not say that a man thinks by his stomach? Oh! no, it is by the brain we tbiok. I u animals we see the same visceraifc the various kinds o.f temperaments, but without any manifestations of mind; but have you overseen* any being showing mental powers without any brain? Througout all nature, if you admit the existence of seme intelligence, there you will find brain. I come npw to the most perfect class of animals—to man. A person having a very small bruin does not and eannot display much meota) power. Here are two models, (shewing casts of two very small brains' indeed) taken from persona who were complete idiots; the one died at the age of ID at Cork; the Oiher at 25, at Amsterdam.— Would you expect that such a develupe mont of brain Would manifest superior talents!—lmpossible. On the othtsr hand, you will never find that those men who excel in meuial power’s have vety small braifis. Lold Bacon had not such a brain as that idiot’s, ns ybu may now see (showing a mask and forehead supposed to be his Lordship’s,) that'fie bad an im- nienso organization «»f hr«i«. Moteover, if we cdtho to the feelings, we observe a difference in the feelings of women and those Os men. Females ofteii say to us that we tlo not feel like them; aud we reply that they do not think like us. The powers of both sexes, however, are great ly modified by circumstances. Now if we look to the configuration of the heads of each sex, we find that the heads of men are thicker on the sides, and longer front the ear to the top of the lorehead; whilst the head of females are flatter on the sides, and there is a larger portion of brain from the ear to the occiput or hack of the head, than in males. Seeing those great differences, we admit the influence cri the brain on the manifestations of the mind; and admitting this influence it has been attempted to ascertain how far the development of particular- parts of the brain rise to particular feelings.— Munife’'siblions of the mind never take place without brain; and the fact that in juries of the brain aid «em yal of part have not prevented the manifestations of the mind, -is no proof to the contrary, un less it can be shown that the same parts have been taken away on Both sides, and that the functions assigned to these parts by phrenologists have been destroyed; for the brain being (fusible, would admit the removal of a part, on one side, with out destroying the function of the other. We may lose orre eye, and yet see by the other; we may lose one ear and yet not be deaf. Tire question to he an swered is, will the function of a part con tinue when that part is removed on both sides of the brain? Unless this be affir matively answered, thftPfe is no force in the objection. It has been metaphysically objected— how can vou speak of the- influence of bodilv conditions on the mind, since the mind does not know them? We may reply, that the mind certainly in this ,11| H" | **— ** lf. eye sees, and is tho organ of vision; there are two optic nerves yet the impression on the mind is single: now I should like to know Whether the mind has any know ledge of the instruments which it makes use of. So we admit that the mind floes not know the individual parts of the brain, but they are to the mind as the eye and ear—they are the instruments of the mind. Since no manifestations of the mind take plttco Without brain—since idiots having sfoall brains cannot manifest the mental powers—and since men of great talents have larger Heads than idiots, can not we manifest the powers of the mind by the size of the head; and cannottMhis be done by Phrenology?—When you speak of different individuals of different capacities, you must not judge of them by the absolute size of the head; for by this you cannot judge of the qualifica tions of the mind. Smaller people of the of the sanguineous can fight larger men of the lymphatic tempera ment, althbugh the Muscle) of the latter are much larger* yet ’hey are not so ac- tive; it must be admitted then, that the constitution has considerable influence. You see this in the muscular power and you may see it in the brain; hence, it would be impossible to judge of the men tal qualifications from the absolute size of the bgttim Besides, all elephants and whalCs have, if this doctrine weie admit ted, larger capacities than men, because their brains are‘ lay* or. Site must be c»*iderod in the exami nation of tho head, (t is really edrious to see that the ancient artists gave differ ent configurations to the head for diffei oot talents. If you look at (He busts of the gladiators and to thb bust of Socrates, your attention is immediately drawn to the different configurations; in tlie one, the head is mote developed before the eat; in the others, the greatest pdttibn of brain is situated behind it. A series of wild, rhapsodical essays have lately appeared in the Richnioud Whig, under the signature of‘a Friend of State Rights because, a Friend of Union, 1 the authorship of which is attributed to Randolph of Roanoke. We extract the following elegant similes which we do not believe ever came Yioin the pen of so chaste a writer of English as Mr. Randolph has always beefk Referring to some of the speeches on the Revenue Collection bill, he writes—“ When one had snarled and bayed and gnashed his teeth at poor South Carolina, like a rich man's dog at a beggar! when another had squealed like a hog in a high wind !! and a third yel led like a cat when her tail is mashed !!! We have alwjfys been acruirers of Mr. Randolph, for his keen wit, his biting sar casm, and his polished and elegant lan guage, derived from &n extensive and in timate acquaintance with the English 'Classics, and we are unwilling to believe any thing derogatory to his character as a wit, or his elegance as a scholar.— Sav, Georgian. From the Boston Centinel , 27 1 h nit. SHIP HELLESPONT.. From an examination of the accounts published yesterday, relative to the arti cles picked up at seaj and which it has been supposed might have belonged to the above vessel, we have reason to be lieve that it wasin ot the Hellespont which was burnt. Mr Reed, the owner, states positively that there was no workbench on board of her, and the assistant* sieve dore says the same. Letters from New York have been received, which say that the trysail mast picked up.by the Martha, measures ten inches in diameter Copt Pratt.who formerly commanded theHelle spoot, state* that she had but dne trysail mast and na mast for her spencer. The trysail mast originally made. for the ship | was but five and half inches in diameter |at the upper end, six and half inches one third from the top, and four and half inches at the lower eud, where it rested <m an iron brace. An intelligent mechanic has observed to us that the work bench could not have been of Amercan manufacture, from having a poplar board in it—such boards being so scarce as to ho rarely, if over used in common work. So groat ceufi derw.e has the whole of the above account given in the city, that we learn insurance could be effected on property on board the Hellespont from 10 to thirty per cent less than last week. From the above circumstances there is great reason to hope the wreck was n<u the Hellespont—the size of the spar (>f a trysail mast) was sufficiently large for a ship of 800 or 1000 tons, aud may possi bly have belonged to an English East- Indiamau.-Capt Pratt, we learn, will pro ceed immediately to Ne'W York to make a further examination of the articles pick ed up. Prom the Baltimore Patriot, March 29. - . + A largo public meeting was recently held at Danville, Virginia, at which res olutions aer mad opted, highly applauding Mr. Clay’s ffiurse on the'Tariff question. This comes from a quarter of the Slate, says the Richmond Whig, w hich we dare say, at one time, never imagined it possi ble that any state of things should arise which Would demand such a tribute from its patriotism nnd justice- The magna nimity is honorable, which yields long cherished hostility to the persuasion that it has been undeserved. The proceedings of the meeting were ordered to be published in the Richmond Enquirer, Washington Glebe, National Inteligencer; and the pricipal papers in Virginia. They were also ordered to bo transmitted to Mi* Clay, hv the Chaii man, W. It’ Chaplin, Esq. to whom Mr. C. returned the following answer. Washington 14th March. 1833. Sir: I duly received your favour ol the 25th tilt traosroi'ting certain Resolu tious adopted bythe citizens of Danville. PittjflVania county, Virginia, in which they have done me the honor to express their approbation of my conduct, in res pect to a certain measure, brought for ward by me in the Senate of the United Slates, to recoociie aud transquilize (he country. Fully appreciating the gener ous motives which have prompted this ex pression of thej.r feelings and sentiments, I receive it with lively and grateful sensi bility. it appeared to me that the worst possible rolatioi s were getting up between the various parts of the country; that men in all'sections of it were accustoming themselves to think and speak freely of a terrible event; that ultimate if hot imme dlaie civil war was seriously to be appre hended; and there was great danger, if we escaped that calamity, of the sudden over throw of a system of policy* which would have spread ruin far Rod near. It was under these circumstances that I present ed the measure to which you refer. Hav ing been finally adopted bv large major ities of both houses of Congress* I sin cerely hope it may every where be le ceived in the amicable spir it in which in was offered aud passed. Os all the mis fortunes that could befall our confederacy, there is none equal to that of a separation of its parts; for in its train, every other would follow. It is sometimes said that liberty is preferable to union, nnd so it is in the absttact; but what possible guaran ty is there for liberty without union? I pray that all our fellow citizens may be sensible of this undeniable truth; and that, in social intercourse, and the public coun cils, its influence may be forever felt. With my thanks for the obliging man ner in which you have communicated the Resolutions of the people of Danville arid with assurances of high respect and es teem, I am Yourobedient servant, 11. CLAY. • FROM THE/ WASHINGTON GtoBE. The New-York Journal of Commerce of tJje 25:h ult. contains the following paragraph, which is founded altogether upon a misapprehension of the subject to which it relates. As the subject is in teresting to the commercial community, and as the paragraph may otherwise do harm, it is worth while to conect it. “ No small surprise was experienced herß on Friday in consequence of an or der from the Secretary of the Treasury directing that the payment of certain de bentures on woollen, &c. should be sus pended, and the documents in the cases transmitted to Many a man may thank-the tardy mails for allowing him to pocket Ifts money bfefote the mail was opened. It is said that the amount of debentuies has been so very great that a little time is desirable to recruit fi nances.* The facts are these. Congress au thorized the difference between the du ties payable before the Tariff of the 14ih of July last, aod those payable under that Tariff, to be returned on such goods as should be deposited in the public stores in the manner provided by law. Where the duties on the deposited goods had not been paid,l>ut had been secured by bond, debentures frere to be issued for the dif ference, payable when the bonds never paid. These debentures atepayable by the Collectors ; and no order has been issued by the Secretary of the Treasury for sus pending them or for transmi'ting the do cuments to Washington. Where the du ties had been paid, no debentures were to be issued ; but the Secretaiy of the Tiea sury was authorized to refund the differ ence out of money in the Treasury ; and as no moneys can be drawn from the Treasury, but by a warrant from the Se cretary, the Collector* Werot.itistrcicieti. to give a certificate to thl pony for the amount of duty to be retvned ; and on such certificate being Iraosnitted to the Treasury, the 1 amount is mitted to the parti/. Y Y Mr. Blocks, the talented Washington' Letter writer for the Portland Ad vertiser, has recently given some Sketch* esof Congressional characters. Tire fol lowing is from one of his last letters 'Mr. John Davis. —This gentleman is among the most ready and best debaters in the House of Representatives. He » about six feet in height, or pethups a little over. His voice is none of the best in the huge Hall of the House, for it is comparative ly weak, and in a degiee soft, so that it caunot be heard but io the silence of all the members. Mr. Davis almost always commands that silence, and hence is al ways heard—and with attention nnd in terest. Mr. Davis is mild and unassu ming in his mapners. Ho makes no pre tensions on tho floor of the house or off of it. In conversation he is polite and a enable. Iu debate hols courteous, but can he exceedingly severe, and yet that sevi rit y is so softened, that while it cuts it does not give pain.— He is peifectly cool arid collected in his remarks, rather elegant than forcible iu his gestures, and general manner. For retort or >eply he is ever ready. His criticism, his argu ments, his answers, while they serve all the purposes of the debate, are yet so kindly tempered as seldom or never to he offensive. But they have no cringing, no scivility, no qualification io them, they ate heavy, well-balanced, but well polish ed .holts. The same remarks made by him, Mien said by another member, would be offensive and painful to an advorsarv. The manner, rather than the matter, pro bably, creates the difference. Mr. Davis is admirably ‘calculated to manage the Southern gentlemen. Mr' McDuffie, impude it and bold as he is, never gains any latnclk from a conflct with Mr. Davis. He matches Mr. J/<> Duffie’s impudence, though mure genteel* He throws back his liaid words in well rounded sentences. And white he cools and allays.the fever which Mr. difcDuffie may have created, "he Compels his adver sary to he cautious in his essays and as saults. Ho is almost the only man that can lame Judge‘Clayton, of Geo., who by the way, is one of the most uninanftge able wild Hoises that fever drove into a deliberative assembly. In true hunter style, Mr. Davis will catch him and tic him, and tame him, and ride him last, so that the old man who starts in the de bate with a -most furious passion, be comes most submissive and apologetic be fore its close. I saw this done last win ter, when Judge Clayton would see “the Union blown into ten thousand atoms,” the day after the decision of the Supreme Court again-t Georgia in the Ihdian case, before he or his State would pay the least attention to (hat decision. A certain errtnom leading counsel is celebrated at the bar lor the following inode of examining a witness:—“Now pray listen to the question I tun going to ask you. Be attentive, remember you will answer as you please, and remem ber, 1 don’t care a rush what you answer, &.c. &c.” The learned Lord now nu the woolsack, somewhat weary of the monotony of his perorations, one day ac costed him in the street. “Ha! is it you C ? Now pray listen to the ques tion I'm going to ask you. Be attentive Remember you Will answer as you please and remember I don’t care a rush what you answer. Uou> are youV ’ Horse Marines.— At the time of Pich egru’s irruption into Holland (1793, the frost was unprecedentedly sfe-Vere, and the Texel so completely ice-bound, that he ordered some squadrons of c#Valry to charge across the frozen element, and cap ture the Dutch fleet lucked it.— They accordingly clapped spurs to their horses* sides, surrounded the ships, and made a capture of them at the first sum* ntons, though their whole means of de fence against a broadside were a few hundred Sabi os and horse pistols? VVe believe that the occurrence stands with out a parallel in ancient or modern story. Cucumbcrs. —A new way of raising cu cumbers i$ a follows ; Take an empty flour barret, with one head otit; bore a hole through every stave near the bottom ; fill the barrel full of manure ; dig a hole m the ground & set it in* say half way up; make a bed of light soil all around it and plant the cucumber seeds outside of the, barrel, to a dry time pour a bucket of water every day into tho barrel, which will ooze out through the holes you have bored in the staves, and thus reach the roots, carrying with it the strength of the manure. Xke advantage of this mode is, that the roots nre kept sufficiently moist, without being too wet, as hap pens when they are planted inside of the barrel; or without having the surface of the ground crusted, or is the case when planted in hills und sprinkled with a wa tering pot. Bed Buggs or Chinches may be de stroyed by quicksilver beat .up with the white of an egg, d&applied with a feather to cracks and crovices infestod by them.— Corrosive sublimate dissolved in spirits will have the same effect. But as it is a deadly poison, groat caution is necessary The best contrivance wa» have seen for ridding houses (especially ceiled ones) of these disagreeable vermin is a small portable steamer, invented we believe by John Schley of this state. Its cost is not over two or three dollars. To destroy Ants in Gardens. Open their nests With a hoe, and pour in boil ing Water from a lea kettle. Or, pour a little spirits of turpentine into their holes, from a vial, or the nose of a lamp filler. Sufch as are not killed by ce tiling in comact with tbospiriu of take to their heels. A f«w drcH closet or pantry are sufficient H against ants. AUGUSTAI VBIDAV. APKIL 5. ire |p» vVe received tint one paper from ■■ ton Today, the Mercury of yesterday Nothing new in that quarter.. A jp=> Our Senator, th# lion. Jobs f returned last night in the N'orthorn Stog« |p“ We ate authorised by Mr. Hale to guy, that he will again scire the City ■ or' if re elected. , H It V, reporteiTthat the President will ■ tour tluough Ncw-Euglasd this suinmß will celebrate the 4th July in Boston. ■ Who says Nullification is looking up said sol Somebody. Aye, itays a wagl elbow, ‘jit t* because il is thrown on its bar. l Green Peas were served up at Diunn ■ City Hotel oo Saturday last (says the nrpubliran ) being the first m market this H The bad weather has delayid the of Corps longer than peeled. We are requested, to say they * To-night anti To morrow night, the last nights this season. The Entertain®; of To monow*night are specially for the of Miss Smith, who was so in Selina in the Taie of Mystery, and the Poor Soldier, ami as agieeably heard Conceit in the Songs—Draw the Swoid, isl land; The Arab Steed, and The Dashing UH Sergeant. The Jacobins still continue their denttneiatfl of our Executive for pardoning the Music® ries. It is a horrible stain, says the LLtotiM on the State. “Who will wipe it out I" rVe I Vise those,who attempt Jt, to employ a cleatl paw than the Chronicle’s, We copy the account of the Courts from tlj Constitutionalist of this morning. We presum] it has been carefully compiled. We shall kee it in type, and obliged for the detecuc of any crt;or, that we may correct it. REDUCTION CONVENTION! delegates ELECTED. I Chatham.— James M. Wftynf, Joseph \V.I Jackson, W. C. Darnell, and T. U. P. Clutilton.l Warren —Dennis L. Ryan, Henry Lockhart,] Daniel Dennis, nnd William Ilill ■ Bibb.—W'm B. Cone, Richard \V. E * M. Bartlett. ♦ Joius.— T. MtVughorr, W. [fourd.tn, S. T.owtli cr, and J, Gray. BdUtc in.—Tomlinson Fort, E E.-Park, and Green Jourdan. By a in the Gone nil Appropri ation Act, the privilege of franking let ters is givpo to Members ol Congress from 6® days before Member takes htj seat, [or ought tn take his seat,] lo tho end of the term for which lie is elected, and to the meeting of the Congress fol low iilg. Wp should '• very much like to know,” what danse In arty law gave members the right of franking 3o volumes of Books by one mail, or any number of mails. We have heard also ol a member’s sending home his breeches to tie “renovated," as n Mtlledptville Tailor says—of * anew gown to wife or sweetheart—a hag o> j Irish potatoes, be. be. ‘' he transitiission of Books is not so objectionable, as we suppose, the Great West, where these ivprfr going, wants lipfht and knowledge The following is the list of them copied from the Globe. The Stage made out to gel ns far as Afaysvrlle, Kentucky, whclis the books were disonba ggfd. Eight vn|<. in 4, Rollins Ancient His tory, duodecimo. Fifteen Vols. Conphr's N-ivels, octavo, Eight vols. Pelham's Novels, octavo. One vul. Arabian Nights, large octavo. One vol. McKenzies 5000 Receipts large octavo. & * * One vol. Burns' Poems, large octavo, One vol. Dorsey’s law of insolvency, large octavo. While oil this subject, improper usurpation of the rnail-hags and stages, we might ask, (what u great many say, they could answer) if the Con tractors are not in the habit, when passengers osier, Os throning the mail bags, into their rta bles 1 ftfo said, wc appeal to the common sense of the Public in nil the measures we advocate. You know what a hillnbulloo is raisad against what the enemies of the Administration call the ‘Force’ or “Bloody Bill.” We have told you over and over it is all talk—all rnanceurreing to cheat you ofyodr reason and blind you to your interests. Now see, what there is, that is strange or extra ordinary, to this abused law. The fifth section is the one to which your attention has beeo par ticularly called, as so abeminable. Now what is ill Nothing but a verbatim et literatim copy v>f the laws of 1790 and 1807, with the honored names of Washington and Jefferson to them. “ And be it further enacted, That whenever the laws of tho United States shall be opposed, or the execution there* of obstructed, in any State by tho or* dittary course of judicial proceedings, or by any powers vested in the Marshals by this act, bo lawful for the Presi dent of the United Stales, to call forth tho militia of such State or of any other State or States as may be necessary to suppress such combinations,' and to causo the laws to be duly executed ; and the use of tho militia so to bo called forth may be continued if necessary until the expiration of thirty days after the com mencement of thfc next session of Con gress.” An act to authorise the employment of the land and naval forces of the Uni ted States in cases Bf insurrections. ” Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assem bled; That in all cases of insurrection or obstruction of the laws either of the Uni ted States, or of any individual State or Territory; where it so lawful* for !hef