About Savannah daily republican. (Savannah, Ga.) 1818-1824 | View Entire Issue (May 31, 1819)
'■ - ■'Daily paper 88—country g6, per annum., >'(0U1I II iWHCt. (XT'All .Vewriind »ic.* Ath erttcmrut* appear ir •both pspcri—and «opt bjr - #*ofer oniji«CD rauv wazna-ro* TlMul. .1 FJijrj.VBfi't. "iftn.le-ir war-paaeage to the tomb: But'doee/ao radiance (fierce the gloam? k M. chinks t mild • i".tf»verir.jr blase. Shed! day Tight -sm the dirkwime maze: On the lanrhcMl't roof it real*, Andwarm* the stiivtrlrrg irnfste'sfTjrtZStA Ths fc ng wfin feel* it at niahn.it. • Itrop^pff hi» tiro, the hravieat part; With tMa (heoteelelad bovom knows *3t« dear. st momenta of repute. iU.i, -Priendibipf since tliia world began HeavcnWirulest, noble,! boon to ir.am All other joys.- with meteor fire, ( •Quench’d in "the tniats of time, ezpirel But lAta, -unhurt by fortune’s bias*, 9fam'tt brightest, ciearc»;-at the last! rjihe dreary-heart oowarnird by nu, Broods o’er a-sullen dtstinj; Heiven’is fairest gifts Would fail to bleu i%,hat cold and wintry bean of sniiUbneas. civet' - ™ years worn mat penoc, nrcome a nia •gcn<b»!«f tlie army of the ITnited'Statrs: the*, j tt of ora.onc.-.l jianegv-ie: the theme of "American ore.-e. • V.'.-uul tie not have been vv. "Nineteen yean ago, general drown, with a wal ’. i.t 0 |, bs back, containing twelve or thirteen dry a’ provision, journeyed into the woods. »wu"g tk!B Mov ami tel,til ibe .first log tliat ever was ct • in Bra rri-' lie for the erec ian td'.a human lia'iita- tten. -The log hut is siltt standing We wil suppose tt at while he was thu* em/doyed in f.l' hv die troe. atime'unseen spirit had whirpere: i in bw ear.l lliat he Vnould. -at die' revolution of civet 1- ™ years from that period, become a major "le-nub of tbt{ i worse • tlim htly cruHilnec, if lie should have placdd any • con titmice in tbe oropln c) J \"i l all this and more baa happened to this- hardy adventurer, without ■ the - intervention of - *, nttrvnle. -These are sumo 'xinhup'inany ofj'he blessings guaranteed by our „w«iblte*n 1 form of govermr.ent. It affords an '•epponuu ty for the devslopeiner.t and display ot -native talent: and present* aim .at a sure p rug com tin tliar we base beroea,'patriots and statesmen, •.reretred, far whatever crisis may beiali us in the common all nmeht <if nation*; that the strength o' tte.-ve wall be augmented in proportion to the sttp-wincundicm weight. When,die cloud lovers - la* our-ticciajihrte, fraught with thunder and Km past, and eveiy heart is dismayed in the solemn -ar <1 oir.i.totis pan es-between the peals; it aud, iroiy oj - ens,.ar. 1 discovers to our view, our guar- dien augei. rmltent in h r glory, who rides upon -the wliiVhvind down the h-o.z n, and l-.ave9 cur ’firmaineni beautiful, luminous and serene.—Cam- uirn Xr.uz.iee. cji : tiles iu axd Tim s.nr.vn. 'In the reign o.‘ king tlharlcs the second, a sail or having received his pay, reunited to a house «: . ill-i'sirc ,i; Wappmg where he staid all night anti ’twid hi» whole substance taken from Idm. In the jc >vning be vowed revenge aga rs* the firtt h - bi-ouid mi'.' with, posfessed of Cash; a’td accord-" jqglj, nverteking a gentleman on Stepn.ct Fields, - *.e whom he related his mishap he insisted n hav ing bis loss made good. The gentleman for some tirr.e eap -- r.tol«icdwit!i l»rm on the atrocity ol *ut.l behavior,-hut to no ,,urpoac; tin tar was resolute. Tin' the gen: If men dreading worse cnnsiqtitncrs, - delivered his purse, but soon after had the sailor ' taken up, examined, and committed to Newgale f- .n. whence'lack s> nt a shipmate, with the fob liowiii-; atrio'ge epistle to the king: ‘■'‘Kuril CHsm.es—One of thy subjects, the oth- ■rr rap.iit, robbed me of forty pounds, tor which I robbed another of ike same sum, who has inlm- -midly sent me to Newgate, anil swear* I shall be 1 hanged: therefore, for thy own sake save mv life; ■ or oy -——thou wilt l .se the best -enimn in thy v navy. Thine Jack Snirroijr.” His majesty, on the receipt of the letter, imme- diatvfy wrote as fe llows: -‘Mack iKirfToar-iFor this time fit save thee 'from the gallows; but if, hereafter, thou art gull 'ly of the like, by I’ll have thee hanged, "tl-outlie best aeaman in my navy. Thine, CBAUCIS Rci.” at an - inn in a-little village; he ordered sup per,-and entered > into conversation uvith two persons of respectable appearance, to whmn he incautiously expressed that 'his pogsc was well lined, do the .following morning, before it was perfectly light, he left the inn,and proceeded on h:s journey, lie had not gone far before he -was overta ken by his t wo companions of the proceed ing evening, v, ho acotrstvti him, and when they had prueeded toa very solitary plaoe, aeiretl and offered -him his choice, whether iie -wouId be stabbed to death, or'tlirown into the- riverTvoire, The tnerchant pray ed thcm to.bpj e his life, but in vain; tne robbers were determined, amt he at length preferred thrlatte; alternative. The-rob bers bound him, amfflurtg him into the ri ver, where he soon disappeared, ami - the .obbers carried offliin hoi se atfd his m - »ney. In the mean time tne ra -- rc?>ant was -col dead: lie vvasboinealong by theruneritvbu^ he contrived to keep his lio«d above wal-: aid at length, as day advanced, he vva discovered and dragged to sl^orc, when h - wanned himself, and dried his clothes.— Not far off was an inn; the master »f it wn at the door and-seeing a stranger in tears he enquind the cau*e. 'tin hearing tn mtrvi'-ilTts’ story, he doubted not that tli robbers-were two men who were at that moment drinking in the house The n, chtnt recog: iy,-d them., 'VUe genilirrmea were Mininianed, and the rou&eis tv« veiZ'-d at the very moment when, beli, mg their victim at the bottom of the riv they wi re dividing their booty. Proceed ings have been-commenced against them, ifount Uegnault de St. Jean D’Angely, (whose death \vc this day fe^ur-i in aimthm part of our p. per,) is said to have always exerted Ilia lidtueuce with Bonaparte in fa- ? >i of persons of merit and literary talent The" hostility nf Napulecn to Madaine tie Steal is well known: on the evenin' ol tin battle of Austeili*z, when the Emperor •ad gained one ot tne mos'.brill.antvicvto- i:s that history has to record, the coon' •aosght it a geoil opportunity «f speaaing to his.Imperial inast' i it: fiviir of M.Kivin.. de Stael, when, to his surprize, the Empc- lau seewd'to forget all about the batt!-. and tried for an hum to convince him liia she «Bght not to be recalled. They part-- - : at two in tne tin.ruing, ami ai six the cot - . *. was tailed up by an Estf.fattt, with a loi ter from the-Bmperor. H-. - thuugut all-was ver, and that it coiitaim-il his di-ioissioi : but on opening it, it proved io lie a letter of f ix pages, ill the hand writing ol Napoleon, i •ar.taining at lengtii his ieaso..s for.the ex ile ol Madame de Sica*. , tion until the 30fh-of June next: And the necessarv instructions not having been re ceived ns yet, although-the law is dated 3d March 1 last, we toke tt for granted that the treasury view the act as -inoperative until the Sbtb June next. ■HFmCthe London Examiner of March 21. .Poor Regnaultde St. Jean d’Angely of. -'^vhosen’.adneasduringliis exile in America t?-e.papers used • to say so much, has no '"Sooner obtained permission to return to •Stance, and arrived at his country house, ‘than he is dead. It now appears certain, otiwi-hts-reverses-of fortune took away his h-*acea (or a time. He came l:a k, went -directly to bed, and died tbe very r.exi morning, probably from the nervous-agita ct hisyoy. He used-to figure in tiie Jl-ropttrial Journals as one nt the most adu latory-of Buna [mile's -cratois; yet tin - >Frea>clx[tept rs give agn.ol account both ni ilils-cemjMiritive independence of opinion! -ev-rn imperial adviser, amt his natural -,goodness of he.nt. lie was habitually -pTrnaps what is called a nerv - :us man. At *|ty-rate his agitation ut mind appears to ;have been ve j ilr.uig at-the .commence- .- Btnttwf his master', downfall. •VlVuiiderstai'd that-whenever Mr. Car- t'in^ts -trial lakes place, for publishing 1 Jtauv;:'Ageo! Ueas<iu r it is likely tuocctipy Csmetii lime as even the most piotracteii -ssf t.vc-statetrials, when Hardy, I'ouke and *ji«.el-wall, were tried-at the old B riley.— Hu.toe selection and arangement of his ma ■terufo; Mi---Carlile is voluntarily assisted -bysmoneuf tlteb-st le^a! characters and' Huerary mm in this country. His papers arcveij voUimi<ious,lroni the multiciplici- ■•‘ty naid variety ol his-autlioriti -s, both a:i- *o - ent and modern, to supp irt the right nf jj>utrt:oatii*n and a free pr .ss ti|mn religious cepiutoni. A-ml is he lias very wisely rc- o-S iived ta-be lu, own advocate, the court i, -iikc.y to be kept sitting much longer than tiie most ilisiotrrest.d Counsel would ven ture loyfetam it. .’fire noted Henry Hunt had an action, *8o-«tt lime since, brought against is m by ;hi» lanoiord, die rev. -L. Williams, ot V« l.itcivurch, Air breaches of covenant, iu snot leaving the premises in -sufficient re- ipan j for uut keening any, instead of 200 ai.c, j,; for ci osr-cropping,selling the straw, atK>touaehire, bjv-. b|‘c. He h«d -auffarod. jjwi,'u.ent tc-go by default, and |he clama- were assessed before the sheriff at the AV rochrster assizes; -when, after a very pa- -'tirot h.-airog nf about 14 hours, the jury -^warded ljJZ *10s against Mr. Hunt, •Woo-was bis own counsel.— Taunton Cou- icisx xr.OM -rut T.OXUOX -nsirs or ara-.i. 8 1 We confess mat we. fc.i.dij know vvha - to make of the statement of the finances lor the la.-t tjoarterr it comes out in st- garbled ami imperfect a stain, tact w.. think it rath.er calcolatcii tn excite f.usiii- cloti than to afford gratification- Hi is still, however, asserted, th,i>.the excess o the quarter just terminated above tl e co responding one of last year, is 240.000/. (a sum that might be easily raised by tin surcharges which has been of late so relent foss’y levied)-ibat we still are not favored with the particulars iu the usual way.- The ministerial prints are made to fly of] from the subject before them,—namely the comparative produce of the quart" just closed,—to statements of a more get eral nature, producing apparently mor lavorable results. -Whether the felicity of the nation be of recent or of long stand ing, we shall rejoice: Hut at present the argument of our affluence derv -tl from' whatever source—we lev! no-convictiui ul its truth,—indeed, nor do the minister! al prints: for while they have convince us, by figur- s and official returns, so la as these are convincing arguments.-(tl we are more wealthy than we were eve Known to be, they still hope that we slia rouse from our torper; and, “that the met cantilc world, which has been pausing fo the last two months,” (two thirds of -h last very productive quartri) “has beei cheeking its spirit of enterprise during th important deliberations of die bank coin initree, will now” (that is, before result tho*e tielibers'ions is known) “again g forth like giant9, refreshed,” etc. etc I'his, it will be observed, is acknowledg mg the truth, arul asv.rtmg the direc contrary. We hiave stated the suppos'd general iuciease of the quarter. Among the spe- < ifted articles—lor all are not given—are “animal duties to pay off bills.” and foi qiartcr ending last-year, !S,46<i/. wherea <i» ‘»e for tire quarter .just closed, are 5i6.89l/. "Ihis increase, it it exist, is evidently owing to some t-mpui-ary cause: for-sve otiscrve t“iat the quarter nebire that quoted fui the last year, pr> - duc» d 595,434/ nr rff.000/ more than the quartet just end ed. Tliese, therefore, are tluctuatingdu- ties, end not-to be advanced as a ci iteriun- But, at all events, if ui.tfor any statement such as-uiinistcrs pleased to send forth,ol either increased or diminished revenue, we could find ourselves easy ami Comfort able, we should be content; bet in on hieathto acknowledge, as they .do, that tr .de is oppressed,commerce languishin L etc. and to prove by the quarterly returns I revenue, that both are flourishing absurd. Having said thus much, we can lo little more than copy the accounts which they have published. From B grand’i Bs.lon Berfiy Befer:. DRAWBACK. An iaipressioo has g‘-ne abroad that our custom-house had lately received the i, e cessary instructions to cause nine and -pirits transported coastwise, to be entitled to debenlort*. We have in onr-powerto sfate, from an ‘‘fficul source, that no such instructions bare btwn received and that the law is to bfrcniwiifored of no efface as. yet. As this.privilege is so important to the mercantile interest and as it carnot be ub- tainrd’until the treasury instructions are received) we have been led to examine the rxoif-Ssr WATioxoa-advocatz. ‘Cubs*is certaraly a desirable possession —not -so'mach'from it* contiguity - to the UiiHed-tStates^as from its grtat agricultu ral and commercial -adv-a. ttge*,-*:id is ■worth all the British West-Indies combin ed. There can be no doubt, then, that its possession I* nu object of some-moment to the British, and yet it is ssinewhjgdifficuli lo rec n-.iie-tllat the belief that Spain is so mad as to part with tlii-, the most valuable and most secure pos session it* "Hie neighborhood of this cou tinent. -Certainly nothing but-thegrea J"sl pressure ead most abject poverty could in luv« h™ toresign this island, -whidi, if peit ol South Aiik<ica continues*Spanish province, is ind'spenssblc toiler commerce and convemcnte. .The question then pre sents ilsclf—How are w. tube affected by the transfer ,of Cotu, and what course is most safe amt prudent "for the 'Unit d States'to pursue? CV.taihly it-is nettie- siralde to havi a ne g .lior-so - tie»r us, pos- esvirg facilities and resources - like ■ the; Bulisii; yet it is hy no means desirable mat w> should po-acss Cuba: onr territo ry is at present mjrf than sujjicientty ex- tensive for nil the s:fe purposes required by a republic, ae-2 any transmarine posses , sio s will neces-ur'Uy involve us in great expenses, hy compelling us io support a navy ar.i army commensurate vcilh their protecttort, ar.i1 thereby we maybe involved in disputes and wars. L t die British possess Cu !- s, and uar vigilance ai d nava defence will have-to be encreased. W> can see co additional cause of-alarm than from her possessing Cana - ia and Nova Sco-i tia. 'If,'however, tiie report be-true, vve- rannot prevent it, ajiti have only to observe* that the British vrillluve a d.Jficult time in/ taming the S(»aniai-tls, and giving a ne« direction to their habits and pursuit,.—- We question whether they will [lennit the tracsIVf to be made—and any evil wnicli may experience, must be lightened by limely precautions. From the A". T. Evening Post of .ifay t9. At a court ol sittings, held in and for the city and county of N. York, at the City Hall, on the 10.h Apiil, 1819, before Ills huts or .judge Yates, etc. came uu for: trial, Therase of ElixaMc Fonal'd xs. (Tho ins Me Conn, for u breach of promise of an iage, a- d same vs .same for money ail and lectivcd. The faits given in evi de ice were these: .,!)r> 'if evening of the 51st of Dec. 181-1, the (i!aint:ff, having a considerable .gill money, on a treaty for tn expect mtrnage on the following day with the defendant, advanced him the sum o!’S207 He agreed to go with her the next day to Ka.l*in,id»out 8 miles from this city; and ma. i V her. At Ins request,-several wit- iiCvses tn the contemplated marriage, a- com; a'ied (he pl-.iriiitf and-the d fendant to that ^lace. Alter their arrival there, after hiving dined together, the defendant laid, that he was engaged to a lady in Ire- and, aivi that lie oud not then marry tl plaintiff-o-but that in about 5 weeks Ins promise would be out, wlw o he would mar ry her- lie desired that i should not be known,but tl*t the msriiage had takei o'.ace, aid requested those present, if ask d abou| it, to s.iy that die marriage had been consummated.— The pl.-.- itifl" agietu to this a-iangemeuf. and the parties re turned io this city. Afterwards the de- lei.da.itl distributed the w hiding lavors, look ihelplaintiff" to his h -- u,e, as h:< wile, and iivef with her as S'Ji h, about 6 weeks, jjt -ias ante r fused to marry her. “On tire trial of the action for a bread of pi - inile til marriage, on the production ■ it tnis testimony, (except as respected (Iu payrfent ol Tne inoio-y,) the counsel r o.- the defendant moved for a non-suit.— I Ji-judie-thereupon stated that lie thought die d'.-ltndant justifiable in refusing to .nairy tie.plaintiff: and that, notwithstan-. ling .utj further prool she might offer, lie, the judgp, should feel hiuiseif bound to barge tie jury t.at she was not entitled to recover tny damages. -i The plaintiff", in this action, therefore, submitted to a non-suit. In t!" - progress of the other trial, some additional facts in relation Lu the reci-ip; f the money, were provetl. It appearea that previbus to the time the mo: ey »a* paid, the defendant inquired of one of the witnessevintroduc'd on the trial,a wo man, huvr much money she thought the; plaiutifhad—and on being told by tiie wit less, that she thought the p.'miitift" had about a thousand or twelve liunured dol- ars, he said, timt he would marry any woman for her money: und that he was t*. bt-mairied to tin-plaintiff", and said, that (he wnness should be present at tne niai- nage. It was further -proved, tliat several years ago, and alter the receipt of the mo- ey, the defendant left this city, and on ins return, in Hie y-ar 1816, a person hav aid to Inin, “Why Thomas! what are you g-'ieg to do witli-fiiiaa, would you rob her, ai d then turu her off": ’—He replied, that ht would pay the plaintiff the money :ie had of her, but would not many her. The defendant's counsel moved for a non-suit, on the ground that the money ai.icfc had been ad vanced by the plaintiff was but a free gilt, in exj eccation of a con teinplated marriage—and tiie declaration to thu witness, before mentioned, did not inovnt to a promise to pay the plaintiff, the r.unty. The judge having over-ruled the mo-- tiondbr-a ■oil-suit, the defendant’ll coun sel lien offered to prove, that the .plaintiff hed'vhusband l.ving in Ireland, at the timt" of tte payment of tin’s money, and at the : tim^of the commencement of this suit.— counsel for thedeferidant.'iii the negative but that they expected'taprove the cover ture opffie plaintiff with'her husband in Ireland by general replrtatfon; he, the j'jrfge.-deciitel, that such evidence of co- vertore would -not be eufficieiit. Under his direttions, the. jury rendered a -verdict in favor-Of the plaintiff fo" ^308-43. “Ir. each cause a case" was made by the respective counsel,- to be argued before "the court at tbe follow ing term.” * Jn the case df Wm..i. Coffey,-au attor ney, indicted Tor obtaining money by a false check on a bank, it was held that “In a case nf forgery, it is not necessa ry that the witness who is produced to prove the hand writing ot another should have-seen him write. It is-suffieienl if lie swear he has corresponded, by willing, with the party,-and believes it to he his hand-writing—or, il the-witness be an ofii-; cer of a bank, and swear that he had cfteis seen his bank-book, and was iu the habit of receiving his checks, and paying them, in the ordinary-course of business, this is equivalent to the-evidenco of hard-wri ting by means of foreign correspondence. -‘•On the traverse ot an indictment for uttering a forged check, knowing it to be forged, the public prosecutor, for the pur-, pose ol show ing ihe scienter, will be allow ed'to prove that the prisoner had passed a check, not laid in the indictment, put por ting to be drawn by a person who had no, ur.-.cour.t at the bank on which such check was d awn.” The prisonerwasHoundguilty.but-judc- meut suspended till the opinion of the su preme court could be obtained, relative to the admissibility ol the evidence. In the case of Jumest&nt.jr. for assault and battery and false imprisonment. T he defendant who was a turnkey of the bride-, well,-was fined 825 and co»ts, fur-first de manding 35 to let a counsellor into the rooms of tne prison, aud then leaving him. there for half ail hour under-pretence of forsetfulnees,-though he was told he wan ted to be let out in six minufoa. - Jn the case of tPiUianisepfi -a watchman,: for using indecent language! in the -pres ence uf ladies, and afterwards taking ar. inoffensive citizen to the - watch house, 1 wln-re he was soon dismissed, a fine of.850 and coats. Case of William Davis for obtaining money under false presences. It was de-- cided in this case that “To sustain an indictment for cbfain- mg money mulct false pretences, it is in cumbent on ‘the -prosecutor to shew that the false piefonce, laid in the indictment, 1 was the sole inducement to the parting-with the money or geo Is.” In this ease, g2000 was-obtained; §1500 in consideration ol a check lor that sum, endorsed by a'tliird.party aud g500 hy a false pretence. The court determined, that as the whole was not obtained under a false pretence, the indictment could not be supported. The law is as nice is a new laid egg, saith St iyens. Cose nf Tamer Smith, for burglary—■ the court decided that 1 “Removing stick of-wood from an in ner cellar, door, and turning a button by which the (four was fastened, in the night,- with a felonious intent, is a sufficient- breaking of a house to constitute burglary, though the outet cellar door may not have b en fastened.” The prisoner wa£ convicted, aud senten- ed to the stateiprison for ll/e. 'Velocipede, or Accelerator, or Draisenc, or JJracena, or Traeer.a, or—what d'ye call it'd "TronTthe Philadelphia “Union.” "Walking round Washington square on Saturday evening, about half past 10t>’- clocki waiting the arrival of Velocipede, at legth this curious machine made its ap pearance. "While in pursuit of the same, my ears were assailed with the cry of here cames another; and before I had time to look round.it paesed like lightning, and wliat is more extraordinary the rider seemed to sit with as much ease as if in an elbow chair, using only one foot. Having a great desire to -examine "thi9 curious ma chine, I exerted myself to overtake it, and Iuckily-as I was almost exhausted the rider stopped, but the crowd collected around him so that I could only get a faint idea of its construction. It seems to differ entire ly from the Velocipede: it appears to be more manageable, and can turn in a smal ler space 'than those constructed here.— This machine, I am told, was first intro duced into the United States, and was made upon the original plari-from a draw ing, furnished by a gentleman in Baltimore where this identical machine was con structed about six months ago. We hope the proprietor will comply,with the public wish, and gratify the citizens of Philadel phia with an exhibition of this curious ve sicle. -SPECT-VTO*. The hon. Morris S. Miller, of Utica, has. been appointed l-y the president of the U S. a commissioner to hold, a treaty with some of the western ’tribal of Indians.— X. T. Paper. The ship Voltaire, captain Bowen arriv ed here on Monday last, from Li-bon, dollars, in specie, for her owner, Stephen Girard, esq.—.imericar. Daily Advertiser, \9thinst. ’nox T4S ACS.SHA The Evening Post is determined that genera! Jackson’s name shall not be for gotten, and that he shall not only be ac countable for defeating ‘■'beauty end boo ty," bat for'detecting and punishing the- foreign assassins-who instigated the batch- ery of-our frontier citizens: any man not lost to shanre, Would consider this a* the last-effort of any of the vilest passions: but,. the evening post musi.go-f*—-her, as gen eral Jackson wars made accountable for the ausefc ob EovlJbwit, and the.raasss- .-«?• 'St liedirsyttt^atf tiia -aiekMuto v «**- 1id party," in- consequence-hf 1 th< order* <K -gen. Gaines, and which/took;place fight months before .general ?Ja6its*n ‘took the fiefdt so tie t$tK»w charged by the ’Even ing Post with the responsibility *f an of fence imphtrd to - col -King, who - cbm' - manded in' Pensacola, -between the-cou- quest and the'surrender—in Jan. or .Fe bruary last. The story that the>£nvening( Pott'tells, is," that colonel King" whilo in coutmar-d of Pensacola issued out ait otkjer ttrehoit deserters, -ami that one deseitrr -was shot Without •* :previous ’ trial, ‘ondcr the order of coltmsi :King. 'Tins act-xve should supposewas an affair bclwe*o the military laws and cuIrKing; but the New- York Evening Post sees-in it a ctirne im putable to gen. Ja/Tson;—this is indeed tlteperfectioiiof impudenee,- and coiitcoipt fur the; public understanding. If -we - arte not much mistaken, it is not many ycare ago since a-deserter was shot under simi lar circumstances, not a thousand mildk from New-York city; it is not quite - ten years since a similar occurrence took plaete on'the'-west frontier of New ‘Yotk state, and the deserter was pursued-into Canada and there-shot;—perhaps there-is tint a military post in the union where -seine- oc currence of shouting at deserters has writ taken place; we can recollect seven dt/Kte- ent instances at fort Mifflmg near -Phila delphia; no lives indeed wete lost by the shouting, though four out of the sevefc were -wounded by the fire ol the cetitinels; and two of them were afterwards bang'd. VVnv not attribute all the desertions that have taken place within seven years to - gen. Jacksonvillecli.irge would be in c\tt- ry respect as just and leasonahleas to im pute Hit-order issued t - y col.-King to .gin. Jackson. ’ " Besides this, there is another impropri ety to agitating the question-—as theic is a pro'iuuiiitythat the matter thus injputetl to general Jackson, may come once bt loiv) a court-martial as a charge against cdloiisl King. The affair took-place in January last, when general Jackson-was-m‘this pari of the-union; we were infoimed ol.llie pai ticulars as ea-lyas the-20th.February, and that some officer of the army, had.pre ferred charges; but-^^the preferring charg es is not itself a proof; it is the evidtu-u ’ and the law that must determine; nor - is even the decision-of a courtmartial a I way* moie infallible than any other couit-—but ut least "it is no mure than reasonable, it a trialbe-to take place, that -it should nitt under the color ot.a calumny uu general Jackso.-i, have an e.rparte or.prematuio judgement. As it has been stirred we ^ shall state the-facts ®s they otcurtd:-— " Colonel King was placed in command if Pensacoila, not by thenar-ticulai- choice- <ff general Jackson, but being tlie-senior offi cer present. In the army it is well known that colonel King is au advocate ol.thc old discipline and its.penalties—tliat he is se vere, austerce and unbeiidinu;that his ideas - d discipline are those of inflexible-and-se vere [lUuislim .-nt; this is education acting on human character, not crime, for lopuii similar,principles L J. Brutus and-FrrJtr. ic If, -instead -of being -immortalized, would be infamous- We say this .at the came time that we abhor and deem the old system d- testable, not at all adapted -to the institutions of a free nation; fur'terror and fear, are not the.proper-feelings which should be. brought to act upon minds'wlioxe first sentiment should be a-contempt -df fear or danger. Colonel King entered tins army when that system-of rigor was fash ionable, and there are few persons now-in the army who have not fallen into it, from the neglectof the department to enforce the system of self-respect and honor, 'in stead uf cruel punishments. In ithe caste of deserters, the practice under our mili tary institutions,has always been the same as in.other nations. In an enemy’s coun try, no practice is more universal than to _ consider the act of desertion as thedeatf. warrant; and all deserters know it.— Was.Florida an enemy’s country? Thik will be a question for the Court martial.-A*- We shall now state .the facts, as wei ob tained them. v Colonel King being in 'command dz Pensacola his discipline was severe; it ws* a critical situation for a man of more mul'd and experience than that gentleman. -The severity of the discipline was, it "is said, extreme, and the -situation of-thr troops-to wretched that the>inen deserted in smdU squads, almost every night; the uncertain ty whether Pensacola would -be retain'd! or surrendered, reudered these desertions a serious affair to the commanding offices, whose misfortune it was nut to su>petS that the only principle of-aupport and con fidence in such a case, is conciliation anti kindness, and that to share hardships -iu co.innon and volunteer privations, is the true avenue to the heart and the love -if} ^he sofdieiy. Tt was colonel King’s mis fortune not to have studied in tnat school. he hoped to succeed by severity, ai.d^lm tail'd- "Thedesertions continued to iin crease along with the severity. .He-issu ed an order-for the pursuit - of-desetters, and by way ofopr^vention or example that whenever th - -y were overtaken, tln-.y should he shot. A private of the name of Neil Cain<-ron deserted; a party under sergeaiti Childers was s--nt in pursuit of him, over took him aud shot him, 17 milesiwiin.Petr-' brought one hundred and fifty thousand » aCo - a - Some other transaction?, under The same order, took place at other points, which we do not Innk it necessary un der the present c'rcumstauces, to nolicu, as we understand major -Dinkins,.and another officer whose name we have -ndl heard, had .preferred charges against co lonel King, and against one of the -sdb- alterns acting under his orders. AV*. state these -facts in such a way as foe preveift any bias 'for or againit'tlrcipartie# implicated;—aud we apprehend tliat tt would be .preferable to leave the.investiga tion to the proper tribunal—he .can hav* vary iittfo -understanding or'must think conumptable of thejpubiic, who -couit! make this matter a cause. <Jf calumny against general .Jackson—it may obtain
