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“ CONGRESS
Mr. Calhoun moved that so much of
the President's message as refers to the
transmission of incendiary publications
by ihail be referred to a Special Commit
tee.
. <>u tin’s motion some debate took place,
in which the affirmative of the proposition
was sustained by Mr. Preston, Mr* Man
gum, Mi. Ciayton, Mr. Goldsborough,
Mr. Ligh, Mr. Ewing, and Mr. Davis,
and Hie negative by Mr. King of Alabama,
Mr. Grundy, Mr. Buchanan, and Mr.
Brown.
The motion of Mr. Calhoun was car
ried in the affirmative—ayes 23.
Un iim.ioa ol Mr. Calhoun, the com
miitcv was order, d io consist of five St-na
tois.
The Senate proceeded to ballot for the
committee, when the following Senators
wer.-elected; Mr. Calhoun, Mr. King of
Georgia, Mr, Mangum,Mr. Davis and Air.
Linn.
From the Secretary of the Treasury to the Col
lector at New York.
.Treasu r y Department, 19 h Dec. 1835.
Dear Sir: Your letter of the 17ih in
stant, communicating the disastrous in
telligence cone ruing the iate fire in the
city of York, has been received.
I hardly need assure you that, under
this great calamity,vour citizens shall have
extended to them, Irom this Department,
every indulgence which their misfortunes
require, and which the laws and official
duty will permit me to render.
I theres re aporove your course in furn
ishing temporary accommodations,for the
Post office, and have sanctioned the pro
posal of the Marshal to tender also for the
same purpose the use of the rooms in the
City Dall, now occupied by the United
States Courts.
in respect to delay in the collection of
bonds, or to remissions or reductions of
duties in certain c ses, they both deserve
favorable consideration.' But as you re
mark concerning your own power about
the former,it may be added ns to my power
about both, that the. acts of Congress now
give me no control over the subject. Ido
not doubt, however, that the subject will
be taken up by Congress on monday, and
some expression of its views soon given,
and in the meantime, I do not hesitate to
believe that you and the District Attorney
would be sustained and justified if in the
exercise of a sound discretion under this
afflicting emergency, you did not press
the collection of bonds in all cases, where
the public secui ity would not be impaired
by a short delay, and where the parties
are in a situation which would probably
cause Congress to ex’end to them some re
lief.
With much sympathy and regard, I am
your ob’t serv’t.
LEVI WOODBURY,
Secretary of the Treasury.
Samuel Swartwout, Esq.
P. S. The Solicitor of the Treasury
will be requested to write to a similar ef
fectto-day to the District Attorney, in re
gard to the bonds.
The Secretary ofTreasury having trans
mitted to the Committee of Ways and
Means a letter from the Collector of the Port
of N. York, giving an account of the late
disastrous conflagration at that place, and
representing the entire suspicion of cred
itand prostration of trade, the Committee
respectfully submit the following report:
Deeply sympathizing with the immedi
ate and several sufferers by a great
calamity, the Committee of Ways and
means lost no time in considering the com
munication of the Secret , ry of the Treas
ury. The disaster is of an unparalleled
character, and its consequences must be
fell by every interest and every quarter of
the Union. An exercise of all the consti
tutional powers of the Federal Govern
ment is in this instance demanded, not on
ly by the highest considerations of nation
al policy and justice, but prompt measures
are essentially necessary to the collection
of the revenue of every part of the Union
to the public interest in every branch of l he
national expenditure, and to arrest, or at
least to diminish, the calamitous effects ol
the late conflagration on all interests, and
in every section of the country.
In consid. ring what measures were
best calculated to moderate the shock up
on the trade, revenue, and industry of the
country, three positions were suggested,
viz: the extension of the credit on bo-offs
due from ttu.se who have suffered by the
late fire, three, four and five years plac
ing the vast surplus revenue of the coun
try where they may be more actively and
extensively employed, in our cities, in ex
tending relief to the embarrassed and im
poverished debtors of Government, and re
mitting the duty on all merchandize des
troyed in original packages. The Com
mittee submit a bill embracing the two first
propositions. The first provision is in
accordance with the practice of Govern
ment heretofore—the second while it will
most extensively relieve the immediate
wants of.trade and aid in reviving ts e en
ergies of the commercial capital of the U
nion, cannot diminish in any manner the I
security of Government, or embrass the
operations of the Treasury. The ques
tion of remitting duties on property des
troyed was also considered by the com
mittee, but appearing to require previous
examination and more deliberation, and
not wishing to delay the proposed meas
ures of relief, it was not finally acted up
on. * //
A Hill tor the relief of the sufferers'by
fire in the city of New York:
Whereas, various persons are indebted
to the U. S. for duties on merchandize, for
which bonds have been given, withone or
| more sureties, payable to the collector for
the Disfrict of New York, and the said
persons have suffered a loss property
by the late conflagration al this place.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives of the Uniied States of
America in Congress Assertibled, That
the Collector oflhe port of New Y ork be
and he is hereby authorised, as he may
deem best calculated to secure the inter
ests of the United States, to cause to be ex
tended (with the asseMt of the sureties
thereon) the time of payment of all bonds
heretofore given for duties as aforesaid, to
periods not exceeding an average of three
four, and five years,or to allow the said
bonds to be cancelled upon giving to the
Collector new bonds, with one or more su
reties, to the satisfaction of the said Col
lector, for the sffins of the former bonds,
respectively payable, in average periods
of three, four, and five years, from and af
ter the day of payment specified in the
bonds to betaken uporcancelled as afore
said. And the said collector is hereby
authorized and directed to give up or can
cell all such bonds upon the receipt of oth
ers described in this act; which last men
tioned bonds shall be proceeded with in all
respects, like other bonds which are tak
en by Collectors, for duties due, to the U
nited States: Provided, however, that no
thing in this act contained shall extend to
bonds which had fallen due before the 7th
day of the present month.
Sec. 2 And be it further enacted by the
authority aforesaid, That the Secretary of
the Treasury be, and he is hereby author
ized and directed to transfer to such Banks
ar he may select any surplus moneys of
the Government or any part thereof,
which may not be required for the public
service, and to permit the same to remain
in such Banks for twelvemonths from the
passage of this AcC'
After the reading of the Bill, Wr. Cam
berling said there was another subject be
fore the Committee which was not de
finitively acted on, viz: the remission of du
ties on goods destroyed, which required
moreexamination and deliberation. The
subject was brought before the committee
by the letter from the Secretary of the
transmitting letters from the
Collector ofthe port of New York. He
would not detain the House by any re
marks on the subject now and merely re
marking that it was with infinite regret
for the cause of it that he found himself
called upon, asthe first act in his new sit
uation, to bring in a bill of this description
he would ask the indulgence of the House
to take up the subject tomorrow.
The bill was read twice., a: d commit
ted to the Whole on the state ofthe Union.
Fiom the Richmond Enquirer.
LOOK BEFORE YOU LEAP.
The Negroes—Fanatics— and Go
vernor’s Message.
It is a curious fact, that as soon as the
dissecting knife is applied to the famous
Message of Gov. Tazewell, and his
scheme for a dissolution of the Union is
exposed, the whole Nullifying party is
thrown into const< rnation. A short tack
is attempted upon the deliberations of the
Legislature, by their leader, and the Fed
eral Whigs, supposing the governor’s
scheme, to be a master stroke against
Martin Yan Buren, were easily whipped
into the ranks. Although the whole
of the Message, so far as relates to the
Negroes and Fanatics, was referred last
week to a Committee ; yet the Nullifiers
feared to await a full and fair investiga
tion of the subject, and proposed to-day to
authorize the Governor to open the com
munications reccoin mended. This, too,
without any reccommendation from the
Select Committee, and by a simple reso
lution of the House of Delegates, without
asking the concurrence of the Senate!
Executive Dictation, gross and palpable.
What can the Governor of South Car
olina or of any other State, tell, ns about
protecting ourselves against the Fanatics,
unless it be by the interposition of a South
ern Confederacy? Can any man in his
senses doubt that such would be the
weighland the burthen ofthe Governor’s
song? \\ hat friend of the. Union would
entrust him with a correspondence, that!
could promise nothing but danger to our!
unexampled happiness and prosperity?
The Federal Whigs may attempt to shelter j
themselves under the supposition of the
Governor’s scheme being a mere stroke
at Van Buren; but they will find that
such experiment will reach the integrity
of the Union, if entrusted to the discretion
of his exciting mind. The people ofthe
State are not blind, nor can they be blind
ed by the whippets in of factious partizans. j
1 his scheme in relation to the .South
ern States, is only another form ofl
ffn was proposed by the Committee of;
■igilance. of this city, last summer. The
‘*'<ts of that body pressed upon us a
. ftotnlie-, n Mercantile Convention; but it
w; s defeat’d by the good sense of thenier
chants of Kicv-uvrid. Now the Governor
proposes a joint Hnd scctiona] concert a .
mong all th.e slave-holding States.— Both
ol these schemes are perilous to the Un
ion ; and neither is required by the emer
gencies ofthe case.
Now, take the other aspect ofthe Gov
ernor’s scheme and of the proposed reso
lution, to wit; the application to the Gov
ernors of the non-slave-holding States
How can their Governors know what
their respective Legislatures intend to do?
Suppose Governor Marcy were to write
to Governor Tazewell about the intentions
of otirown Legislature, could Gov. T. in
fo/m him? Would he not rather say,
“Sir, lam not the Legislature of my State;
And how can I undertake to say what they
mean to do on any given proposition?”
Gov. Marcy might belter be able to in
form him, what was the number and
strength of the Abolitionists: But this is
precisely what we all wish to know, and
what the resolution does not call for. It
is much more in Gov. M’s power to tell us
this than the other, inasmuch as it is easi
er to tell what has been, or what is, than
what is to come.—Yet this is precisely
the point which we are most anxious to as
certain, inasmuch as a knowledge of the
magnitude of the evil ought always to pre
cede and direct the species of remedy to
be applied.
But, if the emergency were so great as
to require such a State interposition, I
would not give it in this form.—l would
not employ Gov. Tazewell as my agent;
for, I have no confidence in his calmness,
discretion, or thorough devotion to this
Union. If need be, I had rather employ
a special commission of cool, impartial
and enlightened citizens to see for them
selves and report the facts to the Legisla
ture. We employ Benjamin Watkins
Leigh, as our Commissioner to South
Carolina. Why should we not resort to
the same measure now, if the emergency
be great enougfftd require the acquisition
of facts not now before the public? But
who can help doubting the necessity of
, such a measure wh» has witnessed the no-'
ble conduct oflhe North against the Abo
litionists? For one, I propose to state in
the form of a report and resolutions frank
ly and respectfully, the rightful claims
which we may have upon the non-slave
holding States. Lay down the great
principles which may, in a great emer
gency, call for legislative enactments.
Pursue the same course in relation to the
movements of Congress. And if the evil
should unfortunately grow to that gigan
tic magnitude which may render it neces
sary, then stand by our rights and follow
out our principles.
Let us save the South from the violence
and passions ofthe Nullifiers, as well as
from the mischiefs of the Fanatics—and
stand upon the great and patriotic senti
ment of Andrew Jackson—“ The Union,
it must be preserved. A. B.
Extract from the address delivered by
Edward Everett, at South Deerfield, in
commemoration of the battle fought at
Bloody Brook, in King Philip’s war,
Sept. 18, 1785. We select a passage
which immediately follows an account of
the manner in which that aboriginal
monarch was killed,
“Such was the fate of Philip, which
was immediately followed by a termina
tion ofthe war in every quarter, except
the eastern frontier, It was a war of ex
termination between h<s followers and the
whites—happy, if the kindred tribes had
learned wisdom from the fata 4 ! lesson.
Thus fell King Philip! The ground on
which we stand is wet with the blood that
flowed from the Tomahawk ofhis young
menjand thedarkness of night in these peac
fill vales was often lightened up, in days of
yore by the flames of burning villages,
kiniled by his ruthless warriors. But
that blood his sunk not forgotten but for
given, into the ground. Havoc and dis
may no longer stalk through these happy
fields: and as we meet to day to perform
the simple and affecting rites of conitueni
oration over the grave of the gallant vic
tim of the struggle, let us dcop a compas
sionate tear also for these the children of
the forest—the orphans of Providence—
whose cruelties have long since been ex
piated by their fate. It could not be ex
pected of them to enter into the high
counsels of heaven. It was not for them
—dark and uninstructed even in the wis
dom of men; to comprehend the great de
sign of Providence, of which their wild
ness was the appointed theatre. It may
well have exceeded their sagacity, us it
baffles ours, th it this benign work should
so often have moved forward through
pathways dripping with blood; Yes, the
savage for his native land; for the ground
that covered the bones ofhis parents;
fought for his squaw and papouse.no, I
will not defraud them oflhe sacred name
which our hearts understand; he fought
for his wife and children.
He would have been, not a savage, he
would have been a thing whioh language
has no name, for which neither human
'nor brute existence has a parallel, if he
had not fought for them. Why the very
wildcat would spring at tha throat of the
hunter, that enters his den; the bear, the
catamount, will fight for his hollow tree.
The Indian was a man,a degraded ignor
ant savage, but a human creature, aye and
had the feelings of a man. President Ma
ther in relation to the encounter of the Ist
of August, 1676, the last but one of the
war, says, “Philip hardly escaped with
his life also: He had fled and left his
peage behind him, also his squaw and his
son were taken captive, and are now pris
oners at Plymouth. Thus hath God
brought that grand enemy into great mis
ery, before he quite destroyed him.—lt
must needs be bitter as death to him to lose
his wife and only son, (for the Indians are
marvellous fond and affectionate towards
their children,) besides other relations and
almost all his subjects, and country also.”
And what was the fate of Philip’s wife
and his son? This is a tale for husbands
and wives, for parents and children.—
Young men and women, you cannot un
derstand it. What was the fate of Phil
ip's wife and child? She is a woman, he is
a lad. They did not surely bang them.
No, that would have been a mercy. The
boy is the grandson,his mother the daugh
ter in-law of good Massassoit, the firstand
the best friend the English ever had, in
new Eng’and. Perhaps—now Philip is
slain and his warriors scattered to the
four winds, they will allow his wife and
son to go back, — the widow and the orpti- It
an, —to finish their days and sorrows in'lt
their native'wildness. They were soldi'
into slavery!—an Indian princess and her j i
child, sold from the cold breezes of Mount 11
Hope, from the wild freedom of a New ’
England forest, to gasp under the lash h
beneath the blazing sun of the torpics!* (i
“Bitter as death;” aye, bitter as hell! Is i
there any thing animated, that would not
struggle against this? Is there, I do not.
say a man, who lias ever looked in the,
face of his sleeping child, a woman,
That has given suck and knows
How tender’tis lo love the babe who milks her; I
is their a dumb beast, a brute creature, a
thing wholly devoid of that mysterious in
stinct which binds the generation of be
ings together, that will not use the arms,
which nature has given it, if you molest
the spot where its fledglings nestle, where
its cubs are cry ng for their meat?
Then think of thecountr.y for which the
Indians fought! Who can blame them?
As Philip looked down from his seat on
Mount Hope, that glorious eminence,
that
Throne of royal state, which far
Outshone the wealth of Ormus or ol Ind,
Or where the gorgeous east, with richest hand,
Showers on her kings baibaricjximp and gold.
As he looked down and beheld the love
ly scene which spread beneath, at a sum
mer sunset; all the distant hill tops blaz
ing with gold, the slanting beams stream
ingalong the waters, the broad plains, the
broad plains, the island group, the majes
tic forests, could he be blamed,if his heart
I burned within him as he beheld it all
passing by no tardy process, from beneath
liis control into the hands ofthe stranger ?
As the river chieftains; the lords of the
waterfalls and the mountains ranged this
lovely yalley, it cannot be wondered afif
they beheld with bitterness th j forest dis
appearing beneath the settler’s axe; the
fishing place disturbed by his saw mills?
Can you fancy the feelings with which
some strong handed savage, the chief of
the Pocumtuck Indians, who would have
ascended the summit of the sugar loaf
mountain, —(rising as it docs before us, at
this moment in all its loveliness and gran
deur,) in company with friendly settler,
contemplating the process already made
by the white man and marking the gigan
tic strides, with which he was advancing
into the wild wilderness, should fold his
arms and say, ‘ White man, there is eter
nal war between me and thee. I quit not
the land of my fathers but with my life.
In these woods where I bent my youth
ful bow, I will still hunt the deer; over
yonder waters 1 will still glide unre
strained in my bark canoe. By those
dashing water falls I. will still lay up my
winters store of food ; on those fertile
meadows I vvi.l still plant my corn.—
Stranger, the land is mine 1 I understand
not these paper rights. I gave not my
consent, when, as thou sayeth, these broad
regions were purchased for a few baubles,
of my fathers. They could sell what
was theirs; they could sell no more.
How could my father sell that which the
Great Spirit sent me into the world to
Jive upon? They knew not what they
did. The stranger came, a timid suppli
ant—few and feeble, and asked to lie down
on the red man’s bear skin, and warm
himself at the red man’s fire, and have a
j little piece of lnn<Lm raise corn fox his
women and children—and now he has
become strong, and mighty’ and bold, and
spreads out his parchment over lie whole,
and says it is mine. Stranger! there is no
room for us both. The Great Spirit has
not made us to live together. There is
poison in the white man’s cup : the while
man’s dog barks at the red man’s heels.
If I should leave the land of my fathers,
whither shall I fly? Shall I go to the
South and dwell among the graves of the
Pcquots? Shall I wander to the West—
the fierce Mohawk—the man eater is my
foe. Shall I fly to the East, the great
water is before me. No, stranger, here I i
have lived, and here will I die ; and if I
thou abidest, there is eternal war between
m 3 and thee. Thou has ttaught me thy I
arts of destruction ; for that alone I thank j
thee ; and now take heed to thy steps, the
red man is thy foe. When thou goeth I
forth by day, my bullet shall whistle by j
thee; when thou liest down by night my
knife is at thy throat. The noon day’s
sun shall i ot discover thy enemy, and the I
darkness of midnight shall not protect thy •
rest. Thou shall plant in terror and I
will reap in blood ; thou shalt sow the j
earth with corn, and I will strew it with
ashes ; thou shalt go forth with the sickle, i
and 1 will foil ow after with the scalping
knife; thou shalt build, and I will burn,
till the white man or Indian shall cease ,
from the land. Go thy way for this time l
in safety, but remember stranger, there is j
eternal war between me and thee!”
* Morton’s New England Memorial, Judge
Davis’s edition, P. 353, &c.
LEGISLATURE OF GEORGIA.
The General Assembly adjourned on
the 22d inst,. after a session of fifty-one 1
days. It passed many important acts ; a
mong which are several for incorporating
companies to construct rail-roads over
some ofthe most thronged and commer
cial routes in tlie state. If a sufficient
number of individuals shall now be found,
willing to embark a portion of their cap
ital in these enterprizes, the face of the
state will rapidly undergo a beautiful
transformation ; and the members of this
legislature will be remembered with hon
or by a prosperous and grateful people.—
i here is a feature of doubtful expedience
in several of these charters—the grant of
banking powers and privileges to the rail
road corporations. There is no natural
connexion between objects so different in ;
their character,and in their mode of opera- , (
tion, as a bank and a rail-road ; and we ! <
fear that, under the authority es these «
charters, banking capital may be imprn- I
dently increased, and an unjust monopoly i j
improperly extended. There were pecu- 1
liar reasons dor granting such privileges I
to the corporation which should construct 1
a rail-road from Savannah to Macon.}
The withdrawal of the branch of the U
nited States’ Bank from the former city,
must leave a vacuum in its banking capital’,
which, if suffered to remain, might prove
unfavorable to its business, and injurious
to its prosperity. It had also been ascer!
tainod, by the experiment of a year, that I
a sufficient amount of capital would not'
be vested in the mere rail road stock. By
the new charter, the banking capital
will be supplied j and an inducement will
be held out to subscribe for rail-road stbqk,
by connecting withit an equal quantity
of bank stock. And privileges granted to
this corporation could not'be withheld
from others.
The General Assembly has consumma
ted two very important changes in the
constitution of the state—adding t o its ju
dicial tribunals, a supreme court f or the
correction of the errors of the courts be
low, and abolishing that aristocratic prin
ciple, which required a certain amount of
property to qualify a citizen to represent
bis fellow citizens in the legislature.
The poor man is no longer disfranchised
and degraded; and the people have the
right to call talent and virtue to their ser
vice, although clouded and tested by pov
erty. It remains for future legislatures to
carry on this democratic reform ; and to
annul that odious provision, which de
clares that a poor man is not qualified to
discharge the duties of chief magistrate of
the r public. The General Assembly re
fused io organize the Supreme'couit, leav
ing the amendment to the constitution
which they had ordained, to lie as a dead
letter in archives of the State,until a future
legislature,fulfilling their constitutional du
lies, shall call it into life. This delay a
rises, not from any hostility on the part
' of the majority, to the creation of such a
court; but from unfortunate discussions,
in relation to its details and its officers,
which sprang up after the constitution had
been amended. The next legislature, by
orgnniz ng the court, will divide with
that which has just closed its session, the
honor of creating this most impoitant tri
bunal.—Federal Union.
From the National Intelligencer.
THE STETHESCOPE.
When an important invention or dis
covery is made irf any science, the public
at large should be enlightened so far as to
be able to comprehend its general nature
and use. The recent publication of a
work, “On the Diagnos s of Diseases of
the Chest, by Dr. W. W. Gerhard,” of
Pennsylvania Hospital, affords an oppor
tunity of noticing the most valuable and
memorable improvement which the art
j of Medicine has received daring the pre
sent age. This is the more proper, be
cause the great majority of the profession
have not qualified themselves for its ap
plication; and when society discoversthat
a most essential requisite for the treatment
of disease has been neglected, self-interest
will afford a motive to exertion, which
ambition has failed to supply. Il is an
awful fact, more than one-sixth of our
population perish of consumption, which
every well informed and candid physician
acknowldge with pain and humiliation to
be altogether incurable, except in its in
cipient stage. Means, ‘hen, ty which
tills foe to human iife’<rud happiness le.ny
be delected in his first treacherous step,
ere his relentless grasp is fixed, or, a test
by which a dreadful suspicion of his ex
islance may be removed, mustbeofiin
mense value to the whole community.—
These means, and this test, are found in
Percussion and Auscultation, discovered
by the immortal Lae: nee, and described
and explained by Dr. Gerhard.
Percussion is practised by striking
with the tips of the fingers upon the Chest,
and, Auscultation, by applying the ear
I directly to the same part, or to a simple!
cylinder of wood (the stethescope) inter
posed. As these terms are frequently
1 heard in general conversation, a few ana
; tomical remarks necessary to their com-!
prehension, may not be inappropriate, e-l
j ven in a newspaper.
The Chest, which is all that part em- ?
‘ braced by the ribs, may be represented as j
a boxentiiely filled with the j
heart, which do not however adhere to
any part of its cavity, and are often push-!
ed from its walls by fluids that may be
effused by disease. The lungs consist of
an infinite number of little cells, all com-:
municatihg with each other and with ma
ny tubes, which, like the branches of a
tree, centre in one trunk, the windoipe.
Du ring every inspiration aud expiration,
the air passes in and out of these little
cells, and a murmuring sound, dis
| tinctly heard by applying the ear to any
part ofthe Chest. By Auscultation, then,
! we can determine when and what part of
the lungs has become solid, or excavated,
or filled with fluid, or under any change
: that may suppress or modify the natural
•sound. To aid the car, an acoustic tube,
called the Stethescope, is used, which col-!
1 lects and concentrates the various sounds. ■
Percussion determines the degree of!
resonance in the chest, and depends on !
the same principle by which on striking 1
a barrel we know whether it be empty or
. full. These signs of the condition and
functions of the lungs are addressed to the '
senses, and are ascertain as the physical
law, on which they depend. The values
of the information thus gained is im
mense; birt, in what way, it is not possible
or proper to explainto the unprofessional
reader/
Tlje wr'ter of this is not competent to
venture a judgement on the work of Dr.
Gerhard, but know) ng as he does, that he
richly profited by the private instruction
and lectures ot M. Louis, at the Hospital
de la Pitie] that he has, since, aided by
every advantage, devoted himself to this |
subject, and that, in intelligence and tact,
he is deemed second to none, an assur
ance is felt that his labors will confer
honor on American literature.
MEDICUS.
AUGUSTA,
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 3 0.
Cotton. — The business doing is very limited,
and the quantity arriving second to none. The
few sales at the ware houses are at an advance
on the prices of last week. We quote ordinary
al 10—good a 13| —prime 14.
The river is again navigable for steam boats.
Freights to Savannah $1 and scarce.
We are informed and requested to say, that
theie avill be a Fair, given by the juvenile La
dies of Hamburg, on'the Evening of Friday
next, at the house next above the Carolina Cof
fee House, for the benefit of the Baptist, Pres
byterian and Methodist Churches.
I he Rev. Bazil Manly, has declined the
Professorshp of sacred Literature, and Evident
ces of Christianity, in the South Carolina Col
lege, which had been tendered him. and the
Rev. Stephen Elliott has been elected to fill the -
vacancy.
The Anti-Masonic Convention of Pennsylva
nia have nominated Gen. Harrison iot Presi
dent, and Francis Granger for Vice President.
We learn that Dr. David fell down
in New-York, on Friday morning 18th, inst
in a fit of apoplexy ( and is not expected to sui
vive.
Shad— in time for Cristmas.— A shad,
the first of the season, was sold in our market
yesterday, says the Georgian of the 25th, for
one dollar.
Extract of a letter ~Saied~H^^nfft on City,
December 2\st, 1835.
You will have seen before this reaches you,
through the papers that a memorial was pre
sented a few days since, from sundry citizens
of Maine praying the abolition of Slavery in this
District, and that it Was laid on the table with
out discussion by a vote of 180 to 31, and refus
ed to be printed by a vote of more than 3 to 1.
Yet, notwithstanding this, Mr. Jackson, of Mas
sachusetts, presented on the next day, another
memorial of the same character, but more ex
ceptionable in its language, which induced
Mr. Hammond to move its ‘rejection, upon
which motion a most interesting debate took
place. It may be attempted by some to insin
uate, that some of the Northern men are dis
posed to dodge the main question, as was in
sinuated by Hammond and Wise of Virmni?
and solely for political effect; but I can assure’
you it is not so, and I can confidently say, that
there is scarcely a Northern Democrat in the
House, who will not go with us against any in
terference with slavery even in this District;
but there is an honest difference of opinion as
to the best course which ought to be pursued
and many will vote against the rejection ofthe
Petition from constitutional scruples alone,
who aie heart and soul with us. J’he question
is still open, and as the House adjourned from
Friday until Monday, I suppose we shall have
some cut and dried speeches, which I assure
you are in bad odoi here, and generally not
■ well received. The remarks of the northern
Gentlemen will speak for themselves, and from
their open and frank avowals on the subject, it is
to be regretted that their motives should be im
pugned without any earthly ground to do so.
Read the proceedings, however, and judge for
yourself.
Relative to a French war, every thing is in
a state of uncertainty: my^own,opinion is, that .
the money will be paid, and all difficulties
adjusted, yet, many think differently from me.
The course which the Editors of the Intelligen
cer have pursued in relation to the Message,
should be condemned by every American citi
zen and esppciallj’ those who desire peace on
honorable tcriM; their remarks are well calcu
lated to keep alive the f“elir nn W exist
on the part of France, and to prevent, if pu.
! ble, an adjustment .. c "’ir existing
and I am truly fearful so inTggAgd. j
i Judge Longstreet :
Sir—N our severe, though good-humored and
facetious, philippic against my brethren of the
Turf in general, and myself in particular, de
mands some reply. When I wrote my commu
nication to the Courier, I really expected never
to hear irom or of it again, but your remarks,
, and those of your “ Subscriber,” shew that I
I have been misunderstood, and, moreover, that
; you both a little misunderstood the subject,as well
1 asrny communication. I did not intend to repre
sent the Sports of the Turf as a “religious
amusement,’ neither did 1 intend to insinuate
j that it was approved of or encouraged by pro
fessing Christians generally. I did say, and
. still maintain, that it has received the assent,
; ii riot the decided approbation, of many of that
. class, and, in my opinion, it is equally clear that
they therein show a spirit of liberality that is
, worthy of the truly religious. It proves to me
that they are disenthralled from that puritanical
spirit which actuated our New England forefa
thers, who prohibited ncarlyevery speciesof pas
time, and even went so far as to make it crimi
nal for a husband to amuse himself with kissing
his wife on a Sabbath. Many intelligent men
look upon the Turf as the only accurate test of
the extreme powers of the horse ; and if that be
the case, which I think none who are acquaint
ed with the subject will deny, it must be the
best mode of improving the animal; for unless
you know which is the best to breed from, you
are as likely to breed from the worst as the best.
Your “Subscriber,” therefore, is mistaken when
he says that it has not a tendency to improve
the breed of horses,- which error, 1 presume,
may be attributed to his want of any practical
knowledge of breeding or running horses.
I will candidl}' admit that the practice of ra
cing on the Sabbath is reprehensible, and one
in which I hope never to indulge. But Iby no
means admit that the practice generally is crim
inal. That there are evils attending it, I regret
to say, is too true. The same, however, may
be said of camp meetings. We all know that a
camp meeting has a tendency to collect together
the evil as vfell as the good. Not only nearly
all religious persons in the neighborhood attend
there, but the dissolute and abandoned also. I.
can say with truth, and I presume you are ac
quainted with the fact, that I have witnessed in
the vicinity of the camp ground, such a scene of
debauchery as I never heard of on the race
ground. Although this is the fact with regard
to camp meetings, I think it would be extreme
ly illiberal to hold responsible those who visit
them for pious purposes. Neither would I con
sider it as conclusive proof that those meetings
ought not to be held, or that the author of that
discipline of worship was corrupt.