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•The following lines by Moore, are from a
lute publication of . his.
AS love, out eutuißcr eve, --*•
Who should he see, at that soft hour,
But-young Minerva, gravely playing
Her fldte within ail olive bower,
1 need not say, ’tis Love’s opinion
That, grave or merry, good or ill,
The sftK all bow to his dominion,
As \v«mau will be wo.nun still.
Th ; Hgh seldom ygt the boy hath given
To learned dames his smiles or sighs,
So handsome Pallas look'd that even
Love quite forgot the maid was wise.
'Besides a youth of his discerning
.Knew well that, by a shady rill,
At sunset hour—what’ser herlearning—
A woman will he woman still
Tier flute he praised in terms extatic,
Wishing it dumb —nor car’d how soon-
For wisdom’s uo.es howe’er chromatic.
To L->ve seem ntways out of tune.
But long as he found face to flatter,
The nymph found breath to shake St thrill;
As, weak or wise—it doth not matter—
Woman, at heart, is women still.
*
Love chang'd his plan, with warmth exclaiming
“How brilliant washir lip’s softdye!”
And much that flute, the sly rogue, blaming,
For twisting lips so sweet awry.t
The nymph look’d down—beheld her features
Reflected in the passing rill,
And siarted, shock’d—for, ah, ye creatures!
tv’ii wheu divine, you’re woman stiill.
Quick from the lip« it made so odious,
That graceless flute the Goddess took,
And while yet fill'd with breath melodious,
Flung it into tilt glassy brook,
Where,as its vocal life was fleeting,
Adown the current, faint and shrill,
At distance long 'twas heard repeating,
• Woman, alas, vain woman still!’'
Anbcd >tk. —And how much sugar do
you calculate lo give us for a pound, since
the dilty has been reduced t Inquired a
Vann enter of a store keeper. “Why I
guess,” wa- the reply, “that we shall
have to let you havu a doliai’s worth
for about four aud sixpence.”
FRANCE.
to U ts Editor of the Paris Morning Chronicle.
Paris, Feb. 3, 1833,
Sir.—l am about to call your atten
tion to a grave subject—to a subject
which makes the blood run cold—which
excites the passions, sensbilities, and
strongest feelings and emotions of all
hearts at the tmuneu I am writing, which
is a minature civil war, knife to knife,
bludgeon to bludgepn.sword to sword; and
which is, in one word, nothing less than
the severing asunder the ties of human
society by party —ves, political party du
elling eu masse in the city most celebra
ted for civilization aud freedom on the
continent of Europe.
Rousseau has said, “Gatdcz yousdonc
de confondre lenom sacro de 1’ honueur
avec de ptejunge feroce qui met loutes
ies vertus ala pointe d’un epee !”
Rousseau was right ! But he said more
than this; he added that which I have
prefixed as a motto to my latter 'that he
field in such horror all Joels,that he con.,
sidered them as indicative of the last de
gree of brutality to which men could sink.’
The poltroon—the coward would pass
fur a brave man, and blusters abuut a
due!:
Mr verace valor, Iren cliencgletto
“E di se stesxo a se freggio assni chjaro.”
To add one word to tho protest of
Rousseau against duelling, would bo next
to impious. Read hfs letter ou the sub
ject to bis friend, and encouraged to op
pose a system repugnant to the true prin
ciples of morality, patriotism and reli
gion.
“He who feigns to regard death with
out fear is a liar ! Everv man fears to
die. It is the law of all sensible beings,
without which, a 1 (bat is mortal would
soon be destroyed.”
1 have commenced my letter bv a
Protest against duelling, because vie are
Bound to inculcate right principles—to
take high ground when we attempt to in
struct others; and because it is our duty
not to condecend to other people’s mean
nesses—but to raise others to our eleva
tion. ! protest, then, in the name of li
berty, of civilization, of knowledge, of
morality, and of truth, against all duel
ling; and if, iu the subsequent part of my
letter, I shall at any time appear to lean
either to the men or the sys>em,!et your
readers remember that it is only appar
ently so and that if carried away by the
subject which to-day absorbs all attention
ami causes all honorable hearts to weep
and mourn, 1 shall eulogize i| le manly
courage and the noble daring of the Re
publican party in Fiance, it will always
be wi h the reserve, that I condemn
from uiy heart aud soul the deplorable
system of poiitic.il party duelling, ‘which
has been within the last few davs adopted
at Paris; and now lor the facts of this
lamentable and unheard of system.
Since the Revolution of Julv 1830,
lias been sold and disgraced by the Juste
milieu, the legitimisuia France have been
gradual y becoming taora bald—more au
dacious—more inveterate---more person
al- and more resolved to endeavei to
bring about wiih rapidity the restoration
of the cldeqttpranch of the House ot
Bourbon. Encouraged by the court paid
to the Rovalists by the Government—
encooiaged by Ore declarations ot ‘»re
Doctriommes in the Chamber of I eers,
that all which belonged to tho Revolu
tion was obnoxious to its system ; encour
aged by the daily prophesies of the Gaz.
de France,that it was inevitable ; encour
aged by the speech ql M. Roy in the
Chamber, of Peers, in favor of the finan
cial system of tho restoration , encoura
ged by the oration of the Duke of Bro
glie, who declared, that in order to con
duct the Duchess of Berry to the Lux
embourg, it would be necessary “to call
out 80,000 troops, as hundreds of thou
sands of tho enemies of he govern
ment wonld arise from all pan*
of France to rescue nnd defend her”; en
couraged by retrograde march oftbeGov
ernment,which has impiisoned, attacked,
and persecuted tho heroes of July iu
every form, and bv every possible man
ner ; encouraged by the events of June
last, when the republican's were shot in
cool blood by’ tho National Guards of the
Juste-Milieu in the streeis of Paris—on
com aged by tho retention., in place and
office of Cat list Ministers, Carlist Func
tionaries, Carlist Secretaiies, and Car
list Judges—encouraged by the foreign
6c domestic policy of a government, which
is evidently and almost avowedly march
ing towards a Restoration —the Legiti
mists in France have at length shown
themselves openly, and those who iu 18-
30 were Bot to be found, high or low, so
carefully weio they secreted in the cellars
or in the garrets; are ,uow parading the
streets of the capital, assembling in pri
vate aud in public,' rendering homage to
the chiefs of their own party, because
they have attacked the Revolution and
it* agents, aud have finally dared to take
up the cause of (be Duchess of Berry as a
persoual*affasr—and have called to ac
count (hose independent Journalists who
have either attacked the Bourbon en mas
se, or who have singled her out from the
rest of her family. Os the Duchess ol
Berry aud her caqse I have of late witteu
to you so distinctly, that it is unnecessary
for me to add more than two words; she
belongs to a hated and abhorred race
of Kings and Princes and between her &
the Republicans there is a fearful gulph,
a terrible abyss; and I counsel her not to
approach it.
Well,then,thus encouraged to insolence
and to confidence, the Cariists in Paris,at
Rouen, and at Lyons, have recently in
formed some of the editors of the patriot
ic journals published iu these cities that
if they should dare to publish any articles
reflecting on the Duchess of Berry, er
on her family, they, the Cariists, should
demand peisonal satisfaction; should treat
all who attacked ftcr as their own person,
al enemies; and should require them to
give that satisfaction which in France was
never refused by men of honor, fur per
sonal insults! I shall have neither tinfb nor
space to occupy you with the results of
this decission at Rouen, and at Lyons,
but I must confine myself w Paris, the
Capital ol Europe, and now the Capital
of Parly Political Duellists! At Paris
a little low Journal, an obscure paper,
called “Le Revenant,” bearing as a fron
tispeice'the form of the son of the Du
chess of Berry, with the device, “Fear
not, it is a Friend!” (what insolence!),
a paper having a few hundred subscribers
conducted by some Ex-Cuutlieis, Ex-
Royal Guards, Ex-Literati, and Ex-
Pensioners of Cbatles X. and his coterie;
I say this paper has taken upon itself lo
declare that it is the organ of the Royal
ists; the defender of the Duchess of Ber
ry; the avenger of all insults offered to
the Bourbons, and the political knight-er
rant of the dethroned dynasty! One Mr
Albert De Calvimoret has made himself
conspicuous; another, M. Menard De Ro
checave, is the Gerant of the Journal, 6c
has not been less so; and, as a third,a M.
La Bone, jun, has now attained a very
fearful celebrity, by a duel to wihcli 1
shall presently refer.
The Henriquiuquistes residing in Paris,
and who are connected with the Journal
Le Revenant, commenced some ten days
since, by demanding satisfaction of the
editor of the Corsuire, for an article
which appeared in that Journal. Calvi
moret, as the Royalist, and the principal
editor of the Corsairo, as the Patriot, mot
on the field of battle. The latter was
wounded, & is still a prisoner in his cham
ber. Emboldened by this success, the
Cariists and Henriqu nquistes declared,
that if any one should dare to assert any
thing against the honor, character, virtue,
4*c. of their Dulciuea del Toboso—the
Duchess of Berry—that ihey, the cham
pions of the cause—the Don Quixotes
and Sjncho Panzas of 1833—would re
auire personal satisfaction—or would,
without hesitation insult and attack in pub
lic and inpr» ate> all who should tefuse
to give them the rendevous they should
propose. Unintiniidajed bysuch threats,
the National, which is edited by tire a
blest political writer in Europe—l mean
Armand Carrel-continued with the Tri
bune to express, without reserve, their o
pinioog—to examine iuto the question of
t..e Duehes of Berry, and her reported
state of health, without paying any atten
tion to the “Revenant,” or the Don Qui
zottes of the Rue I’Echeile—and thus
dared, as they were bound to do, the ene
mies of the Revolution to carry into effect
their insolent and audacious threats. The
Cariists and Heuriquinquistes having
wounded the Editor of the Corsaire, next
demanded satisfaction of the National.—
It was refused them !
This was right—this was wise—this
was honorable—this was patriotic! If
that resolution had been adhered to, hu
man .life would have been saved—the
laws would have been respected—the
principle of the Revolution would have
been maintained, and uob'e, generous
hearted Repoblic&us would out have tisii ;
ed their lives before tho daggers of cold
heat ted Royalists. The National pro
tested against such an insolent attempt to
control the liberty of the Press, and thus
to get rid of the principal benefit propos
ed to be attained by the Revolution of
1830. The National was right! Ar
inand Carrol, whose personal courage is’
not known-metely by France, but by the
whole world needed no rencontre with a
Heuriqumquiste to prove that he is not
afraid of risking his life for his principles;
and if there be any one man amongst the
33 millions of Frenchmen who live in
this country, whose personal valour would
admit of no two opinions, it was certain
ly the Editor of the journal of the people
—I mean tho National!
The Tribouo tlieo took up the ques
tion. The tribune as conducted by
Marrast—as brave, as gallant, as fine a
fellow as breathes on tho earth. He
consulted his coadjutors; he said to the
Revenant, “we accept your challenge,
but not as private individuals—not as
‘Marrast,’a private citizen; but as ;Re
puhiicans agacrist Cariists, and the sup
poiteis of the sovereignty of the people
against the ‘-sovereignty of despots. -You,
M. Calvimoret, have not offended me—
you M. Leborie, have not injured me—
to fight with you personally for a sup
posed personal affair, I Will not—but to
fight with your party, we not only are
willing but even desire to do—and more
ove., sard tho Tribune; we accuse you,
the Royalists of being‘cowards’—wo say
you dare ndt fight—we**dare you to the
combat—produce your lists—ours shall
be ready duel for duel—sword for sw.ird
—pistol for pistol—and either we will be
vanquished by you, in.which case we will
submit to the consequences of the van
quished, and write no more "oamst your
Duchess and your Dynasty—or you shall
be conquered by us—and then let os hear
no more against our Lady, which is ‘Lib
erty’ and our Dynasty, which i* ‘the pen
pie !’ And what said the ‘Revenant’ to
this? Why, it said that jy would send a
list of twelve names, composed of those
who would go out to meet the Editor of
■lie Tribune ; but that oulv one would go
out to fight, and that the Revenant would
not accept the more enlarged proposition
of the Republican Party. The National
then retui tied to the charge—proposed
also to supply its li->t—accused the Cjjr».
lisis of beiag cowards—again dared these
Don Quixottes, who 48 hours before Had
been so valiant, to come to, the contest,
and said “Let us now finish the question,
and decide who are entitled to write as
they will, the Cariists or the Patriots.”
The Revenant revisited the bureaux of
rh-e National —required M. Carrel to lake
up the glove which they threw down
dared him to a personal contest—and in
an evil hour got the better of his judgment,
bis firmness of purpose, and his character,
aud prevailed oa him, by their tone of
defiance, to fight a duel with M. Roux
Laborie, a Royalist wrii6r. Arman Car
rel should not have done this. There are
some men who ought not to be overcome
by the age in which they live. There
are some men who ought to rise superior
to the prejudices of their state and situa
tion. There are some men who are
bound to preserve their lives for the sake
of their country, and who have no right
to put them into peril. To such men be
long Arman Carrel, who yesterday, how
ever, engaged in a personal duel with M.
Laborie, one of the Editors of the Reve
nant, and who received a wound from
which, if ho shall recover, we shall feel
as much surprise as we shall satisfaction.
But here the matter did not, can not {
and will not rest. If the Government will
iioi defend the Revolution, the Revolu
tion will defend itself. I told you ii would
come to this sooner or later, 6c the com
mencement Iras arrived.
Last night lists of the Republican com
batants were eent to tho Bureaux of the
Gazette de France, La Q jotidienne, Le
Revenant, Le Renovateur, Le Courier,
del’Europo, and the other Royalist pa
pers ; and if the Cariists shall not imme
diately supply other lists, aud proceed im
mediately to fight the duels they have
thus provoked, the Republicans have de
clared, that whereever they shall find
these cowards, in public or in private,
they will attack them, until they shall a
vow themselves vanquished, and submit
to disgrace, retirement, and silence. To
day this capital is in a stale of almost uu»
paralleled excitement. The Offices of
the loyalist papers are protected by sol
diers. They have been s > during the
whole of the night. The Quolodienne
calls on its friends to coma forward and
do their duty, and declares that, whilst it,
deplores the necessity of duelling, yet it
must and wilt answer tho appeal which
has been made. The Republicans full of
life, soul, courage, and high principle,
(but, alas ! sadly mistaken in this question
of duelling,) are organizing their combats,
and preparing for the rc.-ults. The Go
vernment says it will interfere. It can
do but little. It must prevent duels c
peoiy .announced and published before
hand. It may arrest the combatants whoso
names have been sent from Bureau to
Bureau in written lists; but in a popula
tion of 800,000 souls it can do but little.
If the Royalists and Republicans are re
solved on having party duels, in support
of their political opinions, the Govern
ment can do scarcely any thiug to prevent
them. And who, indeed, can look for
preveufion from those who, by the deplo
rable and anti-national system of policy
thav have pursued since tho month of
March, 1831, have given vigour and ani
mation, confidence and insolence, to the
Legitimist party ; and who have, in like
manner discouraged to their utmost all
that belongs to the Patriotic Party in
France. *
At the moment at which I write, report
reaches me of twelve duels to take place
to-day. The Royalists will then engage
in # tho contest j—poor creatures !—the
day will come when they will resemble
the chaff before Ihe wind !l Wbat chance
is there for oue against too thousand t
Your obedient serv’t, O. P. Q.
FIRE AT APALACHICOLA.
Bulow wc give a letter which we have
recurved from that place, containing an
account of a ffre which occurred there on
the 30th uli.
We hope that this evil which the citi
zens of the place have thus suffered, at
this eaily stage of its existence, will warn
them to take such piecautionary measures
in laying out the town and constructing
their buildings as will give them as much
security as possible against this dangerous,
and relentless enemy.
The town at Apalachicola must ulti
mately, and iudeed before any great lapse
of time be one of very considerable im
portance—many of the difficulties which
seemed to stand in the way of its growth
and importance have been obviated, and
others have been found not to exist, A
mong the latter is the impression that,
vessels of heavy burthen could not enter
the haibor—recent experiment has proven
that this is a mistake. We are informed
that there is now in Port a vessel called
the Elisha Dennison, which will leave in
a few days for New-York, with 1200 bags
of cotton. We understand that the Cap
tain reports the entrance into ,Ap a^
-cola as better than at Mobile, and enter
tains no doubt that upon his return from
New York, a trade will bo opened from
Liverpool to that place direct. Should
these things be correct all must see the
advantages which will occur to this place
from it.— Columbus Enquirer.
Apalachicola, March 30.
Half past 11 o'clock P. M.
Dear Sir—At about half past 7 o’clock
this evening, we were alarmed by the ap
palling erv of “FIRE.” On proceeding
to tho spot, it was found to have origina
ted in a building occupied by Win. Pea
body 6c Cos, as a Dry' Good Store. When
diseoveied it had already made such pro
gress that any efforts to save the building
or those immediately adjoining, were
deemed wholly fruitless; and in less than
20 minutes from the time the alarm was
first given, th’e whole Block of Buildiogs,
thirteen in number,were enveloped in one
entire mass of flame. Fortunately at the
time the wind prevailed from the East,
and to this circumstance are we greatly
indebted, for.the preservation ot any part
of the town*
, To the officers and crews of the sever
al vessels and boats in the Harbour, and
also several strangers, <§’ the several mem
bers of Yeaman Circus, much praise is
due for their prompt and efficient aid in
the preservation of property Here, we
cannot omit to mention an instance of
praiseworthy iotrepidity and determina
tion which must ever command the grati
tude and approbation of all who witnessed
the transaction. A largo two story build
ing, immediately opposite the fire, from
the narrowness of the streets was much
exposed, and at a time when every other
person had been driven back and had a
baudened all hope of saving the building,
on the preservation of which the safety of
the whole lower part of the town depen
ded, a young man, Allen Siiaw boldly
stepped forward and by frequently im
mersing his head in the buckets of water
that were handed to him, succeeded in
maintaining a position that enabled him
to contend successfully against the threat
ened dangers. The loss of property in
dependent of buildings, cannot at this time
be ascertained. Messrs. Shannon and
Bailaugh, Norton and Mitchell and VVm.
Peabody & Cos. ate supposed to be the
greatest sufferers, though others have sus
tained losses. Such eo event l?a? |opj
been predicted, and by many anticipated.
Yet the suddenness of the alarm called
out many who were unprepared to act
with decision, though all have done their
duty. The further progress of destruc
tion for this time is happily arrested.
P. S. Since writing the above the loss,
in buildings and property, has been esti
mated at $15,000 a $20,000, a small part
only of which was covered by insurance.
COBBETT.
Tho following is an extract from tfle
Address of Wm Cobbett to the electors
of Oldham, from which county ho is re
turned a member to the British Parlia
ment.
' “Many as are the years, that have rol
led over my head, I have not fprgotteu
the timo when, in my blue smock-frock
and clumping nail shoes, I trudged along
beside the pleugh-horses, each leg ol
which horses was pretty nearly as big os
my body. I have not forgotten tnis; and
as the present Prime Minister said that
he would stand by “At's order"—the or
dor of ermine robes and coronets,— so, be
you assured, I will stand by "my order
the order of smock-frocks and nail shoes,
and hard fingers. How often have the
insolent wretches said, “Let him—let
Cobbett—come here, and we will soon
make him find his level.” While they
exclaimed, "Let him come," they lied and
they bribed and expended hundreds of
thousands, nottolet him come. You have
now taken him into your hands; you have
noiv given the answer to theso insolent
pretenders to superiority. You have ta
ken up the Surrey Plough-boy, you have
tossed him in among them, saying—
" There he is! now make him find his
level!" I feel gratitude towards you, on
more accounts than I havo now time or
presence of mind to state; but the feeliogs
which predominates in my breast is that
of delight; far beyond all expression; that
you have now vindicated not only the
rights, but the character of the working
people of England. You have set an ex
ample to « lie whole country; and that ex
ample cannot fail to be attended with
consequence of the greatest importance
to us all.”
National characteristics. —Some pains
taking observer has remarked that an En
glishman is tievm; happy but when he is
miserable, a ScWbman never at home but
wbao he is aboard, aod aQ Irishman nev
er at peace bot when ho is fighting. —
We wonder what description of man he
is who found out those national charac
teristics how would he describe himself X
from the New York Standard.
Rat Story. —For the satisfaction of
some oi your readers who may be curious
iu collecting facts in natural history. 1
will state to you a fact, which to me is ve
ry surprising, indicating a nearer approach
to reason in the brute creation than any
thing that 1 have ever met with before e
qually well substantiated.
Living in the upper part of the city, I
have been in the habit of keeping fowls;
since the warm weather commenced we
have not had the usual supply of eggs
which we had reason to expect; the coni,
plaint was made to me day after day that
the boy could find uo eggs, the hens
cackling as usual, indicating that it was
not their fault. 1 asked the boy if the
dog took them ; he said be could not get
at the nest. He, however, determined to
watch, and if possible detect the depreda
tor on my properly, considering it an un
fair business transaction. On my return
home yesterday, he told me as follows:
Hearing the hen cackle, bo went to the
fowl-house, and on opening the door ra-
■ ther suddenly he saw some rats run a
wayto their holes ; suspecting them to be
theaggressors, he closed the door 6c silen
tly watched. In a few minutes they again
made their appearance, and after looking
cautiously about, and discovering no ene
my, they set about providing themselves
supper at my expense. There were three
of thent;oue climbed to the nest whilo the
others remained below.-—The nest is 28
inches as I measured it this morning from
the floor. The rat in the nest immedi
ately began to dislodge the egg, by roll
ing it with its hind legs, much as you of
ten see a certain kind of beetle in the coun
try roll their balls ; he rolled it “vera ca
nilly” as the boy expressed it to the edge
of the nest, when it fell; the two other
rats io the meanwhile had placed them
selves directly under, and sitting tip as
squirrels do-, face to face. They held out
their arms, or fore paws, and thus caught
the egg as it fell without its breaking.—
Tho whole then common
ced rolling it to the hole, where in a
short time it disappeared together with
with the rats. It appears evident that
the rats knew that the egg would break
in faliog2B inches,if they did not catch it.
How near this apparent ratiocination may
approach to what in ourselves we dignify
with the title reason , I leave others to
judge.
The facts as related to me by tho boy
I have no doubt ate strictly true.
IV. W. B.
Rats. —ln no country is therea creature
so destructive of ptoperty as the rat is in
Jamacia ; its ravages are inconceivable.—
One yearwith another, it is supposed that
they destroy at-least about a twentieth
part of the sugar canes throughout the is
land, amounting to little short of £200,000
currency per annum. Tho sugar cane is
their favorite food; but they also prey up
on Indian corn, on all fruits that are ac
cessible to them, 6c on many ofthe roots.
Some idea will be formed of tho immense
swarms of those destructive animals
that infest those islands, from ’he fact,
that on a single plantation thirty thousand
were destroyed in one year.
Latest from MexLo. —Tho sclir. Two
Brothers, from Tampico, arrived at New-
Orleans 24th tilt, whenco she left on the
14ih. The election for ProVident and
Vico president of the Republic, to serve
for four years fiom the Ist April, has ter
mined. General Santa Anna has been
elected President, and General Gomez
Faria*, Vice-President, General Lor
enzo de Za'ALA has been elected Gov
ernor of the State of Mexico. Tranquiliiy
continued to reign undisturbed.
From the Northern Star.
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The advantages, says Lacen, derived
from reading well conducted newspapers
are more than double what could be gain
ed by book reading among the working
cia.ses, both as to cost and informatioo.-
They con ain such a variety of accounts
front all quarters of the globe, and on all
branches ol business, inventions, improve
ments, discoveries, revolutions and their
aauses, both in physical and moral worlds
—■all mixed up with poetry and entertain
ing scraps, &,c. <s*c. S .mething for every
man and woman—from a of child 6 up to
the age of eighty. See the merchant,
statesman, philosopher an i moralist, anx
iously await the arrival of newspapers—
lay aside every other book an i business,
and with avidity turn over and road its
contents. If the newspaper 4$ considered
by the affluent and learned of the first im
portance jo them, what would it be to the
working man?—Tt wou.d bo to their mind
as food to the body— as the circulation of
the blood is to the health of tho body—it
could cheer and exhilirate the mind—it
would be a school, an academy, and a col
lege.—ls reading newspapers sharpens
the appetite, refreshes the memory,- and
extends the knowledge of a scholar, then
certainly it would do as much tor the
working man. Ye, it would do more. It
would place him on an equal footing in
point of useful knowledge with the schol
ar. Witness thousands of readers that
never were at college, who have learned
general knowledge of things superior to
(he narrow and limited stujies of learned
theologians and otheis.
The arrival of a newspaper among me
chanics excites their curiosity io'read
without tiring—instructs imperceptibly,
without retrenching labor. Among chil
dren, it strengthens their memory on what
they learn at school* It does more. It
habituates their mind to reading its conse
quence*, in place of talking about ghosts,
and witches, attending frolics, swearing
and lying, and their consequences. It
excites the readiog of otbci hooks, anff
study of geography.sc.
In my late visit to Glasgow, ScotLn
in the city and suburbs, nnd in large fi
lages, were book ciubs existed and new!
papers were read, tue mechanics woul
talk on history, geography, astronoro;
chemistry and politics with consideteh
intelligence. Iu more remote places wet
no papers were read, they could talk <
nothing but the tenets and history of th
sects, sins of the land and its punishment
bad trade, p. ices of cattle and product
&c. These things seemed to be the lim
of their knowledge. Here I saw a ya
difference of intellectual improvemet
between those books and ne.vpaper read
ers, and those who did not read* Th
same or similar causes here produce th
same effects. In vi.lago or mail tout
those who take liberal papers are by fi
the most intelligent and liberal.
AUGUSTA.
FRIDAY, APRIL 12, 1833.
COTTON —Continues in brisk demand, 9J
10 cents ; for middling fair lots 10| a 10$ ; so
good fair IQg a 11, for prime, which i
scarcely to be had. Owing to the wretched con
dition of the Roads and the commencement of
busy seasot with Planters, we do not calculat
no any accumulation of Stock here, which i
now daily diminishing.
We regret to learn, that Mr. Lloyd has r
signed the Cashiership of the. Merchants' 1 ai
Planters’ Bank. Mr. Campbell's resignatio
of the same office in the tiank of Augusta, wt
an equal loss to that institution. Such office
cannot be picked up every day.
We bear that Dr. Poclmis has lost, by th
flood, his valuable Mills on the Ogeechee, est
mated at sls to 20,000.
The mails have been so irregular, that w
shall in future only notice their arrival. Thu
Will be the only news to this community. W
must notice one exception. While every mai
has failed, the Savannah mail is as sure as th
hour of its limitation.* Nothing daunts Mt
Shannon in expediting his contract. The othe
day, when the water courses were swimming b:
low us, he did not stop, like others, to wait til
they would get a little lower, but brought hi
mail through on horseback within his time.-
His enterprise and activity deserve a more ex
tensive contract. We hope Mr. Post-maste
General, whoever lie shall be, will remembe
that at the next distribution of mail contracts.
We have conversed with a gentleman, wh
has succeeded in reaching this place on th
Northern line. The discription he gives of tin
difficulties of passing w ill exonerate Contractor
for failures iu the delivery of the Mails. Thi
waters are as high on tiie road he recently pass
ed as they have been here’ On Sunday last a
3 o’clock, P. M the i iver was rising at Cherav
at the rate of 18 inches per hour. At Carodei
there is no p >ssibiiity of getting across with thi
Stage fiQtu the high water and injured Budge
Mr. M’Lean was there doing; all he could to for
ward the Mails. Oa tne day before yeslcrdaj
he gave S3O to carry the Mail from this city qa
ly 5 miles and then ferrying it across the river
at great risk. The intermediate Creeks have
lost their bridges and our informant ciosscd
many of them on the naked sleepers ant
swam thro’ the water at their eud* So that the
implied censure of the Contractors beyonil
Camden by our correspondent Quid Nunc, is
rather premature.
The Drawing of the C!ol t Lottery, sajs the
Times, which is yet progressing, will be conclu
ded on the first of May. Before that time, some
splendid prizes will be distributed. The famous
105°-! and the equally valuable 1031. besides
many others, which are as highly prized, are
not yus drawn.
REDUCTION CONVENTION,.
DELEGATES elected.
Baldwin—Paik, Fort, Join dan
Butts—Lindsey, Hendrick, Speak
Carroll—Springer, Bown, Adair
Cherokee—Taile, Lumpkin
Columbia—Lamar, Crawford, Rnntay, Mc-
Craven
Crawfofd—Crowell, Mont ford, Garrett ■
Claik—Paine, Hull, Ligon, Gerdine
Dooty—Key, Roberts
Effingham—Powers, Waldour
Elbert—White, Oliver, Tate, Thompson
Franklin—Anderson, Martin, Farmer, Morris
Gilmer—Quillinn, BrainleU
Gwinnett—Park, Worthy, Strickland, William*,
Brewster
Hall—Underwood, Garrison, Clark, Wilson,
Sims
Harris —Barnes, Wellborn, Jones
Heard —Wafer, Levingston
Jackson—Thomas, Bowen, Singleton, Btory
Jefferson—Holt, Connelly, Wigham
Laurens— Blackshcar, McCall, Allen
Liber.y—Waldhour, West, Flemming
Lincoln—Remson, Jones, Barksdale
Lumpkin—Parker, Matthews
Madison —Adair, Groves, Pittman
Merriwether—Tignor, Hall, Kendall
Monroe—Pope, Wootan, Watson—2 tied
Morgan,—Stokes, Wittick, Jones, Nesbit
Muscogee—Camp, Watson, Iverson
Oglethorpe—Crawford, Gilmer, Cox, Youirg
Pike—Adams, Ncalr, Maugham
Pulaski—Bracewcll, Dennard, Taylor
Randolph—Hamilton, Henderson
Stewart —Smith, Disunities
Talbot—Flemming. Rilev, Powell
Troup—Hamilton, Fannin, Bailey
Twiggs—Crocker, Welch, Fort
Upson—Sturges, Cox, NoJan
Walton—Gresham, Pnrk, Harris, Willingham
Washington—Sessions, Brown, Tennille, Schley
Wilkes—Wootan, Hay, Audrews, Kendrick
Our friends will perceive, how the good cause
prospers in Georgia, from the eleetion returns,
which we publish to day. The agitators are
defeated in their strong holds. Look at Muscos
gee and Monroe returns. The administration,
either State, or General, shall not be put down!
Burn and shoot the effigies of their friends as
much as you please—the,disgrace and defeat
will rest with the perpetrators. The agitators
will soon ting out—“Oh! this election is no test.
How could it beT” We know, it has been a
test, and (hat in the hot-beds of she dUorgani*