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rich will* ‘"l' 01 / He ditches those w hich are too moist for gram ; he ploughs onil fences them, and raises from seventy one hundred bushels of maize, or In* jj„n corn, to the acre, without ever hoe ing it- The Suited States owus thou- funds and thousands of acres of such land in the western States and Territorie which, for prompt payment, may be purchased for one dollar and sixty-two nm l a half cents an acre. One objection Jo these lands is, the want of timber for I „1 and other purposes ; and another is, tint they are unhealthy : but in many places there is an abundance of peat in the wet praiiies, and cultivation will every year render them more and more healthy. Soirite of them have been cul tivated for fifteen or twenty years past, with graiu, and are as fertile as they ever were. As M. Volney says “ They are the Flanders of America.” A destroying angel has passed over our \ <,md city, and left us desolate, and filled ,is with horror and dismay. A more hory.i- hle scene of destruction perhaps has nc\er happened in the United States, confined to the same extent of ground, which is now co- vered with smoking ruins. On Tuesday last, in the afternoon, a fire broke out in Col. ] (avis’s stable, which rgged with the violence of a volcano, until the wealthiest part of our town was laid in ruins. The extraordinary rapidity of tlte (lames, the frightful roaring of the conflagration, the appalling cries of tin* firemen, the wild and terrific confusion of this desolating scene, defies description, &. to those who witnessed it, the recollection is more like, the horrors of a frightful dream, than tin tnvful reality. The largest brick buildings seemed to crumble dow n and melt before the fervent heat like metal in a fur nace. From the moment a building took fire, it appeared hut an instant before it va nished. It is scarcely possible to conceive of such a perfect destruction by fire, among so many .brick buildings. Our possessions were blit loaned to us, tk. they arc no more. Many of us who believed ourselves in com fortable circumstances at 3 o’clock in the af ternoon, in a few minutes, were ruined.— Many of our poor citizens have lost their lit tle all, and are now fed by their more fortu nate neighbors who escaped from destruc tion. ‘ i Let it be recorded to the everlasting honor of our females, that hundreds of them were in the ranks, and labored with incredible perseverance in passing water to the engines. On Wednesday we were again obliged to light the fire in the ruins ; h again on Thurs day, and Thursday night until eleven o’clk ; and here again we saw great numbers of our ladies in the ranks, & neither did they leave until all were disinfcsed. A strong guard has nightly petroled our streets, and a vigi lant watch is still necessary. On Sunday, hundreds were engaged in digging from the mountainous ruins some articles of merchan dize, Sic. and others arc still extinguishing fires. Hundreds who come to sec our wretch ed situation and weep over our burning cin ders, see the once wealthy merchant, or the thriving mechanic, picking from the ashes a few useless articles of merchandize, or a broken implement of hi* trade, or the beg gared laboring man and bis houseless, unfed, naked little ones, seeking to find a spoon or a knife. Oh—it wrings the sinking heart with anguish. This is not fancy, it is a dis tressing reality'. Companions in misfortune ! although oppressed, let u» not be cast down, but look forward wtih a cheerful hope to the day when we shall resume our employments, our trades and merchandizing. Many of us are ruined in property, hut none complain. We trust all of us bear this great calamity wit!) the character, that our litile city has always possessed. Poor houseless people, support your forlorn situation with resignation and the fortitude of good men. and good Chris tians. He that “ feeds the young ravens,” ami “ tempers the blast to the shorn iamb,” will feed you also.”—Troy Post. TO THE AMERICAS PUBLIC. On 20til inst. a fire, unexampled in thejury of its progress, in the course ofa few hours,re duced the. fairest portion of this once flourish ing city to ashes. This awful visitation of Divine Providence, has in its desolating course, swept away an immense amount, of the wealth of our city, accumulated by the indusfry of years, and thrown a respectable and extensive portion of the community, hi therto in competent, if not affluent circum stances, upon the charity of tile public, for tile first necessaries of life. The peculiar circumstances attending this terrible conflagration, has occasioned a grea ter extent of individual ruin and distress than is usually caused by the most extensive fires. The extreme heat of the weather— the extraordinary dryness of every thing combustible—a strong wind, and the very- compact population in the vicinity of its commencement, at once spread the flames in every direction, with a rapidity, which not only baffled every effort to check its ra vages, but rendered the reniova of any thing within its desolating range, altogether impracticable. Wherever it came all was lost. From the vast amount ot property consumed, there is scarcely one of our afflu ent citizens who does not, either directly or indirectly, participate in the general loss. A calamity so extensive and general, at a time of peculiar pecuniary pressure, renders our own citizens wholly unable to aflord that relief to the distresses of those who have lost their all, which their necessities imperi ously claim, and which, under different cir cumstances, many would cheerfully bestow. Under the.se circumstances, the Common Council of this city, have felt it their duty to lav the distressed situation of their unfortu nate and needy fellow citizens betore the nublic, and in their behalf solicit such aid as those who feel for suffernig humanity may be willing to bestow. In making tins appeal, they ask not for contributions to reimburse the losses of the affluent, however extensive, but to mitigate the sufferings of the needy and relieve the wants of the distressed. Anil from the liberality and munificence for which Hie American character has ever been dis tinguished, they derive an assurance, that ctafms upon the public liberality so pressing and so grrat, will not fail to attract the at tention and open the hands of the chanlable and humane in every section of our^itry. Under this expectation diey have appointed arespectahle committee to receive and distri bute any donations, either in money or pro perty, which the public charity may; bestow of this committee Gurdon Corning is Chair man, and to him all donations should be di rected. By order of the Common Council ol the city of Troy. ESAIAS WARREN, Mayor. Troy, June 21th •■ < t20i * DahieV, July 8. 1 Init Yesterday about 11 o’clock our citizens were aroused by the terrific cry,0thre! which proved to proceed from the store of Mr. Geo. Street, and in the course ol GO minutes, the adjoining stores occupied by Messrs. Davis and Kelly, " Jeremiah Lester, and an out- building, were consumed, together with part of their contents. The loss of Mr. Street is supposed to be about $20,0110 he did not save a single article m the store, his books and papers not excepted, Mr. A. Bennett, wbo attended to the store of Mr. Street, has also lost upwards ol $2,000 in accounts, cash, clothing &c. The whole loss believed to be a- bout26,000 dollars. 'Filestores occu pied by Messrs. Hall, Cooke and Co. and Charles Dewitt, jr. were several times on fire, as also the store of Messrs. Hol- zendorf and Duds, and the hoarding house of Mrs. Fitzpatrick, hut from the great and meritorious exertions of the inhabit ants they were rescued from the devour ing element, wfiich atone time threaten ed destruction to the greater portion of our city. The wind at the time was a- bout 8. E. and continued with hut little variation. T he tire originated from draw ing of Spirits Turpentine from a cask in to demijohns, in sealing of which with sealing-wax it is supposed that the tire on the wax must have communicated to the Turpentine, for in an instant the w hole store was enveloped in d imes and these therein escaped, w ith great diffi culty, with their lives, the doors and windows all being closed and fastened We trust that the awful catastrophe will tend to put individuals on their guard a* gainst the like attempts with turpentine. We would advise the proper authori ty to have their lire hooks, ladders, kc. in good order and well prepared for such occasions ; ns the reverse was experi enced yesterday. It would be well also to have a fire engine and company estab lished : they have ever been found use ful in arresting the progress of tire—let us not say that a like calamity may not a- gain occur, but lake warning from the past—we can hope for the best, but let us prepare for tlte worst.—Gaz. HORROKSoF PIRACY. l'nu.ADELriiiA, June 23. Every day we must add something fresh —sonr* new variety of a hundred times re peated story—to tnq catalogue of marine barbarities. We have thought of pasting them in a row, in order to see, at the end of the year, their length, (which we imagine might festoon the whole demi-circle of the Legislative llall ;) blit the idea discouraged us from the undertaking. The extract which we now make, respecting the fate of Mrs. Ailston reminds us of another transaction connected with the New-Orleans’ pirates, which was lately communicated to us by a resident of New-Orleans, who had every opportunity of knowing the particular facts ; and which ivc do not remember to have seen in print. In 1012, a packet sailed from New- Orleans, bound, we think, to France, in which a number of ladies and fewer gentle men embarked. Among the former was a French lady whose known wealth was per haps the cause of a disaster, which in all its details is still left to be imagined, though there is little doubt of its nature. Soule months passed away and no intelligence was received from the vessel or its ill-latcd pas sengers ; but as a married daughter of the Inly whom w e have just mentioned, was one morning walking thetjtreets of New-Orleans, she saw (and fainted at the sight) her mo ther’s jewels on the neck ofa woman whom common fame reported to he the inistriss oi Gafilte. This man stoutly denied that In- had any hand in the deed by which they fell into these hands, but alledged that he won them by gambling with tin* pirates, whose seat was then at the Island of Barrataria Vessel or passengers were never seen or heard of ; and if their bodies were suffered to have a grave in the Ocean unpolluted by those ruffians, it is not huubted iri New- Orieans that they were each and every one. murdered. Whether .the fifteen recently eprieved, or any of them, were stained with this piracy wo know not; but we presume the facts can be. asertained ; and if mercy he allowed to them, it will he so much the great er, but if punishment be demanded, it will be the better deserved.—Union. Nested, Colton.—A villainous practice is spoken ofin the Virginia papers, under the above appellation, which is this : In Bales of Cotton sent abroad, large Hocks have been found imbedded in them. An instance is mentioned in which the En glish Merchants returned a Rock thus found in a bale of Cotton to the Petersburg Merchant, with the marks and number of, the particular Bale in which it had been deposited. The Petersburg Merchant knew from whom he had purchased the Cotton. He therefore carefully preserv ed the Rock ; and it was not long before the Cotton Planter ordered a Barrel of Sugar from him in which he placed this identical Rock. The Rock was pocket ed, and no more was heard of it! It is hoped the Legislatures of the Cot ton growing States will, at their next Sessions, pass laws making it penal to dispose ofa Bale of Cotton, without be ing marked with the name of the grower, kc. Besides preventing frauds, this prac tice will have the effect of raising the characters of those growers who use ex traordinary care in pulling up Cotton for market. Sports of the Forest.—A correspondent in Delaware county, gives us the result of two Squirrel hunts, which have late ly taken place in Hapersfield. On the 2d of June, a company in two divisions, one commanded by Captaiu \V , Bucking ham, and the other by Captain M. Day- ton, in all amounting to sixty-one per sons, took the field. They returned at night with two thousand three hundred and six Squirrels. On the 1 Ith, forty persons again took the field, in two divi sions, one under C.ipt. T. M.ixatii, and the other under Capt. I). 'I liorp. I hey returned at night with one thousand se ven hundred and twenty-two Squirrels Making, in all, four thousand and tzccidy- eif'lU,—*Y. V. SpstUipr, RECORDER. MILLEDGEVILLE, Tuesday, July Is 05"’ It appears from late accounts receiv ed from Gibraltar, that Mr. Forsyth, oiir Minister to Spain, has returned to Madrid from a visit to Mr. Gallatin at Paris, and was not on his return to the United States as was surmised a few weeks since. The message of the President of the U nited Status to Con gress in relation to the Florida*, is said to have I (ecu received at Cadiz, and gave great satisfaction. That city it scpins is in an un settled state, parties running very high. The Priests since the adoption of the constitution had heroine more opposed-to the King and unpopular with the people. Numbers of tuem had quit the country for France. C5* AfroTJiF.il Captuxe.—It appears by the late Savannah papers, that on the 2lUh ult while the United States Cutter Dallas was laying in the river St. Mary’s, Captain Jackson received information that a brig (called) the patriot brig of “ war” General Ramirez, supposed to be a piratical vessel, was hovering off St. Augustine. Captain Jackson went immediately in pursuit, and succeeded in capturing her. When he came up with her,she appeared to be prepared for action—all her hands at quarters, matches lighted and Artigas flag flying. He ordered the Captain on board the Cutter and de r inanded to see bis papers. He was shewn a paper he could not read, it being written in a foreign language. There were no oilier papers shewn to him. Capt. J. finding the brig had a number of Africans on board, put a prize crew on board of her and ordered her to St. Mary’s, where the prize arrived on the 1st inst The num ber of Africans were about 2ii0. The Cap tain and crew except two or three acknow ledged themselves to be American citizens. The name of the Captain is John Smith, of Baltimore. He and his crew were carried before the Mayor, and severally committed to prison for examination. f] j’ Season nf Conflagration.—It is well wor thy of remark, that during the present year there lias been more destruction of property by fire, llinn during any antecedent one ; but a few months ngo, it became the painful duty of our public, journalists to record the desolation of the commercial metropolis of our stale by fire. A few weeks since, this destructive ele ment spread its ravages through a part of the city of New-York, and desolated the fairest por tion of the cily of Troy. Indeed, scarcely a mail arrives, but some detailed account is bro't of the conflagration of public edifices or pri- vnto dwellings, occasioned cither by casually, or by the torch of the incendiary. Our town lias not as yet been visited by so dreadful a calamity—perhaps it is owing to the scattered situation of the buildings, or the more than ordinary care and vigilance of the inha bitants. fiat is it not time to enquire, arc we prepared with engines, hooks, ladders, and o- ther necessary implements to check the pro gress of the flames in the event of fire ? Are our public wells in order? Are they able to afford the necessary supply of water on such an ocr.n- ion ? The obvious answers to these enquiries liould rouse us from our apparent security— liould induce our town council to take the matter into their consideration. This subject lias hitherto been passed overes not requiring immediate attention ; but wc humbly conceive, it is of the utmost pressing importance. The fate of other towns nml ci ties should warn us of our unprepared situation : of our impending danger, and should incite us to action. The procrastination of a week or month, and it may be too late. The expense of procuring one or two engines, the necessary number of buckets, honks L lad ders, would be. comparatively trifling The public w ells and pumps could, in a very short time, be fmt in order—and thus by a little exer tion and a trifling expense, we should be. pos sessed of the means of preventing any serious injury resulting, in eases of fire. FOR THE RECORDER. To ROBERT WtlSH, Jun'r, F.sq, It is a reasonable tribute, and to which perhaps you are justly entitled, to own that from causes not now necessary to lie ex plained, you have been able to give great in terest and importance to a subject which an hundred inferior witlings could never have effected. And it not unfrcqnently happens, that while thousands of the pony tribe of political malcontents are sending off their feeble and harmless squibs against public men nr measures, the eruptions of whose spleen fc: envy serve only to consume them selves, as fney pass away from a conscience iigitated by every vicious passion, some A- jax in strength ot character, and some Chat ham in weight of talents, w ith an arm that no force can oppose, and a stride that no oh stacle can repel, surmounts the harriers of a nation’s repose, and desolates its peace by all the horrors of uproar and tumult. You may proveto be this last-character, I con less that while we laugh at the hypocritical cant of Mercer of Virginia, and the still more disgusting puritanism of Governor Wolcott of Connecticut, your systematic designs, home along by the most seductive arts, an becoming portents of the most serious im port : because you offer yourself as a nucle us, around which the whole corruption of the government is to settle, and wlicrf it has there sufficiently rankled, <t is to ulcerate c- very extremity of our political system Some, corrective must be applied! and per haps the most efficient, save that which usu ally closes the scene of treason, is to expose the machination,and then appeal to the good sense of the nation. To this clid, pursuing the order already employed, I shall proceed to shew that you are either faithless to for mer opinion, or treacherous to the present well being of your country. I asserted in tile beginning of these letters, that you had heretofore “ mainly labored to prove how il lusory were the speculations of England with ivterence to the Instability of our union, and how unjust were her strictures on the cha racter of our si aver I/.” On the first point, I have sufficiently adduced facts indicating the unsteadiness of your opinions, when a pri vate purpose is to lie answered or a public trieiid is to he served, and am willing the world shall take the case. On the last head sometliing now remains to he said. Y'ou have lately in so matiy words, round ly declared that Congress have, the right, und it would now be expedient to-exercise ,t, of prohibiting slavery in all that region of country beyond the .Mississippi, and to make it the condition of its admission into the U- nion, as it comes in the character of states to claim that privilege. On these positions of right and expediency 1 will answ er you, and I choose to do it from your own mouth, mor tifying as it may be, you nnlst again face some of your own arguments; for while I bey will abundantly serve my purpose in refut ing your present time-serving doctrines, they will accomplish the double, object of discre diting your testimony and detecting your sophistrv. On the question of right I refer you to tiiis clause of your “ appeal” in w liieh you say “ that but a slight degree of blame attaches to the colonists respecting the exis tence of slavery in this country; und that their descendants were in no measure cul pable, as far down as tin* declaration of inde pendence. They wen-nio’more so than they would have been, for an hereditary gout or leprosy, ascrihable in its origin to the vices of the parent state, and which the authors of it should have studiously prevented them from curing.” This quotation precedes a decla ration of your’s,which l shall presently no tice, and serves as the reason for the deduc tions you have therein drawn ; for it requires hut little sagacity to discern that, as slavery was chiefly confined to the southern states, and w as a scourge not of their own creation, not chargeable either to their .folly or ava rice, over which, in its commencement, they had no control. They would not, upon the formation of the general government, have given themselves and this disastrous calami ty up to that section of the country tlpit could neither weigh their.difficulties or fuel for their misfortune, to he dealt with as they in their discretionynd most ineffable morali ty might dictate. Hence j on assert directly alter tile above extract, “ It was more than a practical moralist could expect or exact, that the southern states, retaining sovereign governments of their own, should trust the federal councils with the determination of such a question, as the emancipation of their slaves, on which their highest interests of property and safely were immediately de pendent. No power to decide for them on this, question could be communicated, ac- eording to tire drift and nature of the Union, either to the revolutionary confederacy, or to the actual government.” These you must confess are strong terms, and obviously suggest these enquiries. If this question was one of private “property” and local “safety” and which the southern states would not trust, the federal councils with, it no power to decide for them could be communicated, “ according to the drift and nature of our 17- nion,” to the general government—whence' have they lately derived it? Is it by impli cation, tir is it by Judge Marshall s magic doctrine of “ necessary,fit and proper means” to carry into effect some of the other dele gated powers of tile Constitution ? 1 under stand you explicitly to say that the southern states, for reasons before repeated, retained the right to determine the “ question of c- ■lancipation,” for they would not trust Or comma nicatfit any where else. Now if part of the states retained it,' all have done so, for there is no instance ot one state’s yielding a right and another reserving individually the same—and if all the 3tatc.s have yet that right in their separate sovereign characters, independent as you acknowledge of the “ac tual government,” I should like to know bow the “ actual government" without any right can force a new stale to give up its right to the rest, and they severally retain theirs in their original state. Do you sue the conse quences, I ought to say the absurdity, of such a position ? At some future day there will he a set of states, perhaps greater in number than the old ones within tlte same Union, professing to be. governed by til. same Constitution, and yet when they come to compare powers with each other tney are unequal, Some Slavs: greater than the rest, and what is still more woirtl ful that which is constitutional on the west-side of the Mis sissippi will be unconstitutional oil the east. But it is contended these are not slates, they ire territories—this is a mere fetch, a ridicu lous quibble: Docs not every one see they do not offer themselves in the character of territories for admission into the Union, do territories make Constitutions ? They are ihliged to lose every feature of a territory, before, they can expect or even hope for ad mission. Suppose, a territory should seek a place in the Union without a Constitution, would it not he laughed at ? And suppose it were to apply to Congre...» to make one for it, would it not be equally ridiculous?— Away then with the mongrel idea that it is half state and half territory, and that Con gress can do for it, in part, vvliat would he supremely contemptible to attempt in whole Away With the insulting pretension of u right, to partial legislation u;«iii a subject that you have acknowledged Was totally exclnded from tire general government? Mill you aitti to do that in one state, which you dare not attempt in another? But perhaps the subtlety of your genius and the refinement of your reasoning may discover a difference between “ emancipation” in an old state, and prohibition in a new one ? The force of which idea would amount to this, that if you can not emancipate the slave, you will the state, and thereby accomplish indirectly that, which in positive and direct terms you were forbidden to do. 1 should like to learn what is to hinder the same supple whale-bone doc trine from being applicable to all the states, and after prohibiting not only the transfer of slaves from one southern state to another, it will he hut a moderate stretch to prohibiti the subjection to slavery of all those who may be hrpught into a state hy birth. 1 put it to your understanding, for I con fess i can neither trust your candor or inte grity. Do you believe the framers of the Federal Constitution conveyed to Congress through that justly admired instrument, any latent or secret powers to affect what is ei ther not expressed or openly withheld? Yet this you must believe, if the general govern ment can get around our term by using ano ther which brings about precisely the same result—if it can for instance, substitute “ re striction,'" and attain tile very object of “ e- rn ones pa i ion." Do you believe that the le- i gislahve power conferred on the general go vernment were intended to be constant, uni form and Universal over the federal sphere ? Then wlial it can do to day it can do to morrow—what is right in Georgia is right in Missouri, and wlial is operative in one state is equally so in all; and a state must come under those principles tin- moment siie en ters the Union. Do you believe that there «, any one power granted, which, when acted upon hy Congress, finishes it, and it departs forever from the Constitution ? Y et Ibis yon must believe, if Congress, in giving or withholding its assent to a common defined object, distinct from its known general legis lative powers. shall he able to ingraft a con- stitution-making provision upon (hat simple act, which they nor their successors fan ne- ver alter reucli; and w li.it is Wonderful in deed, which Ylicprop/r themselves either in a statu or federal capacity, can neither alter or extinguish but by u revolutionary convulsi on. Can any tiling be more rcvoltingly ab surd, than that a body, with confessedly li mited powers, subject not only to tlte con trol of a written constitution, but the revision of their successors in ull.ee, shall, hy a sim ple legislative act, fix a certain principle be yond all regularly organized ana constituted power ? And if they can do litis, it follows that there are certain secrete powers in the Constitution, which, when mice acted upon, can never after he exercised, and that instru ment, Upon the accession of new states, is actually wasting away in some of its vital functions. But if Congress acknowledge any su preme authority in the government, they must art and lie governed by it, nml I will defy you or them to shew any powers con fer* d on them hy tiiis aidhority, in relation to the transportation of slaves flora state to state, llicir emancipation, or the restriction of states. I will go further, 1 challenge the complying ingenuity of Chief Justice Mar shall, with ail Ins wonderful machinery of implied powers, to start the one that can bear upon these objects. And suppose for a moment it could lie done, 1 cannot for my life see what would he. gained hy it, certain ly it could be nothing more than a mere power of legislation, for Cnugress can “ have no other than legislative power?, they would be obliged to exercise it by law, and could do so as well after a new state should lie ad mitted ns before.’’* It could lie exercised upon any of the other states as well as a new fate, for if it be drawn from that inventory of powers, designed and intended exclusive ly to govern the confederated states, it must lie applicable to all the states, and no-exten sive with the Union. 1 have been drawn further into tiiis sub ject than I had originally intended, for 1 feel that the acknowledgment is due to the able defenders of the Constitution, that it is not in my power to add any thing new to their splendid exertions. 1 ought to adhere to the object with which I set out, namely, to shew tin* complete conjjjidictlnn between Mr. Walsh as a critic, and Mr. Walsh as ,\ tool, tiiis 1 know I caii do, and will therefore pro ceed. It will be well, however, to bear in mind that vve are discussing the right of the general government to interfere with the question of slavery, which you have lately and boldly affirmed belonged to it. Now compare tiiis assertion with the following, which you have made on a former occasion and may lie found at the 3l!7th page ot your “ Appeal.” “ The question (you say) of the existence of slavery is not, as I have intima ted could not be put within the jurisdic tion of the present government of the United Shites. The condition of things assuring for a longtime, to the part of the country ex empt or soon to lie exempt from (lie evil, a numerical majority in the federal Legisla ture, tiiis domestic interest of thr southern members nf the Union, vital and pre-emi nently delicate in its nature, would have been placed at the mercy of men incapable like the Edinburgh Reviewers of under standing it thoroughly: liable to an undue bias from the action of good principles ; and who, w hntever their general spirit of forbear ance, consid'ratencss of character, warmth of political friendship, mig'.t, from Ignoranei and prejudice combined, through a mistaken patriotism and philanthropy, or in obedience to a sentimental clamor of their constituents, seconded by a generous zeal in llicir own breasts, hastily take a step which would sooner or later involve both master slave, in the south, in one common ruin. As re gards then the ezistunce of slavery within the limits of the Union, the federal government lias no responsibility such as that of the Bril isli parliament, in its omnipotence, with re spi c.t ttr the whole internal economy of the British possessions. The eleven of these American hiatus, in which slavery is now a- bolished, ate not implicated in the demerits of the question. To break louse from the confederation, and thus to risk their own po litical independence g because the other members do nut perform that which is im practicable ; because these happen, without their own fault, to be afflicted w ith the curse of negro slavery, or to attempt to enforce by arms, an abolition ? is what no seivc person will consider as incumbent upon them, and what would hardly lie advised by England, w ho neither coerces nor discards tile West- (ndics ; and who would not ‘give tile law’ to Spain, Portugal, or France, with respect to the slave trade—infinitely the more detesta ble crime and dr (tractive evil—when those powers were at her lieck.” Can words be more fcxplicit! cun language be more forci ble ! can arguments lie more conclusive ! !— Without stopping to enquire whether these reflections sre not as applicable to new states us old ones—whether tin y are not as well suited to the wist as the south. 1 will barely ask if enough is not admitted to prove that the general government lias nothing to do with the question of slavery, either as re spects its existence or emancipation, and if not In these particulars, in what shape can it assume jurisdiction ? Mark the language— “The question of the existence of slavery is not, could not be, within the jurisdiction of the general government.” “ Vr TO Tire PUBLIC. As the public may justly require an fnrrt- tigation of the conduct which I am about t* pursue, and the reasons which have influent ced it, the following is respectfully sulutm- ted for its consideration. It frequently hap- peift that men are solicited to accept ot pub lic appointments, U In the discharge ot there official duty, their qualifications are fauna not to merit public expectation: whilst their long continuance in office proves burthen- some to their friends—lest this shdtdd be my situation, and distrusting my own'qualifica tions, and being utterly opposed also to the jeopardizing of principles for the sake of mf promotion, I conceived it to be prudent to retire aiul Icavu my friends unshackled to decide as to their approbation or disappro bation of my public conduct. But the fre quent &. pressing rolieitatious of my friend* from different sections of the slate lor me to become n candidate again, amount to incon- testible evidence of their anpmbatian, and which I accept of as an ample reward for all ■ the sacrifices and privations which I have cxperienci d in the discharge of my official duty. I also flattered myself with superior enjoyments in private life, hoping that as public responsibility censed,! could in some degree divest myself of the interest w hich I have long since taken in the preservation of republican institutions. But in this 1 am ut terly disappointed ; my interest is the sume, but my official power to contribute even one mite to the furtherance or defence of the cause of liberty has ceased. In this situation I am unhappy, and the experiment which I have made (las only qualified me to return to public life with unusual cheerfulness, should it meet the approbation of the free men of this slate. The public will therefore please to consider me a candidate for repre— sentalive in the seventeenth Congress. ZADOCK COOK. Extract of a letter, dated at Cnoss A.x<- ciioR, (Union,. S. C.) 29th June. 1 We. had a very severe Hail Storm, on Sunday evening that did n great deni of damage ; some of the Hail Stones were considerably larger than n Fowl's Egg ; every pane of glass that was exposed to it was broken ; very tunny holes broke through the shingle roofs ; nearly every Tree stripped of their lenves. Fortu nately it did not extend very far—but a few miles. Many jX'rsons, however, have lost their whole crops—they have planted again. It was too late for Colton, and almost so for Corn.” Rhode Island.—At the late session of llir Legislature of this state, the amend ments lo the Constitution of the United tales proposed by I’ennsylvauia, Ohio nudlndiaua, were rejected'. The King of England's coronation is estimated at 100,000 sterling, alioat $ 444,>144, near 18 times ns nineli >s the salary of the President of the United States.—And this, while England is over run with paupers ! “This is a mail w orld, my masters”—and a farcical one too !—Rut “ strip majesty ofits externals, and what is it ? A jest.”—Rich. Inq. DEATH WARRANT. The Death Warrant of the mail rob bers and murderers. Hutton and Hull, arrived in Baltimore on Saturday even ing last : the time appointed for the ex ecution is Friday the 14th instant. VILE HOAX. ' The article, which we extracted from the Baltimore Fed. Republican, (touch ing a duel between Messrs. Stuart and Dade,) turns out to be a shear fabrica tion. Letters have been received at A- lexandria from both these gentlemen four days after the rencountrc is said to have taken place.Enquirer. A mo-t odd advertisment appeared in the Berbice Gazette ofthe 25th inst. The Rev. John Wray, a methodist preacher in that Colony, informs the public, that, on the Sundays of the 26th inst. and 2d prox he will prefich two Funeral Ser mons—the first for his late M. George III. and the second in honor of the ac cession 'of his present .Majesty George IF!! /--Is this treason.—Guiana Chroni cle, March 29. [CUMMCSICATF.I*.] ■ Died; on (be 8th inst. at the residence of bis fattier, in consequence of a full fron. Ins horse, Hesky Walker, E»q. of Jusper couiiiy, former ly a representative in the btale Legislature. In the deutli of Mr. Walker, his county has snstiin- ed n great loss—be was u useful citizen, a faitli- ful public seivant,and an honest man. O' Me arc requested to announce Richard W. Ellis, Etq. of this county, as a Candidate for a sent in the Representative branch of the Legislature at the ensuing; election. ithin the lim its of tile the Union the federal government lias no responsibility” over it—It is not like the British Parliament having power to re gulate the “whole internal economy of the British possessions,” and remember these are territorial governments. But it is a “ do mestic interest vital and pre-eminently deli cate,” that eleven stales having discarded, could not “ understand,” and not under standing, it was a “ curse” “ afflicted with out fault,” they could lint feel for, and nei ther properly understanding or rightly ap preciating, they were liable from “igno rance and prejudice combined” as well as “ through a mistaken patriotism and philan thropy, to legislate concerning it very inju diciously. Will you vet attempt to reason down this reasoning—l own if candor will stand by, modesty keep ofl", and hardi hood remains faithful, you have no mean prospects of a successful experiment. But your victory will lie that of Pyrrus, for as long as moral honesty has a votary ; or con sistency can raise, its head, such shameless prostitution of sincerity mns( meet its just reward. ATT1CU8. * Mr. McLane's incomparable speech in Cow gresj WILL BE SOLD, O N lire first Tuesday in September next, in the town ot Dublin, Laurens county, be- " twcori the usual hours of sale, the following pro perty, to wit: 200 gallons Whiskey, 30 gallons Rum, 160 gallons of Gin, 50 gallons Cherry Bounce, lu gallons Cogniac Brandy, 16 gallons Wine, 25 gallons Apply Brandy, 1 hogshead and 3 barrels Sugar, 300 wt. Codec, 200 gallons Molasses, 2(H) wt. Tobacco, and an excellent assortment of Dry Goods ; 3 Shot Guns—to satisfy a fi fa in favor of John Tanner, against Fuqua and Coleman ; properly pointed out by Fuqua— iih nian security. 400 acres of pine land, adjoining Mrs. Gray- ham and others, on the waters of the Oconee ri ver, pretty well improved ; to satisfy executions in favor of Archibald M.D. Wilkinson, against William .-Spivey; proprrty pointed out by the defendant. One half of lot No. 161, in ttje second district i Dry Creek; levied on as the pro|ierty ofTho- llsroy, to sali-ty an execution in’ favor of David \t illis ; property pointed out by the (Van- tiff—levied on by a constable and returned to ne. Terms cash. CHARLES'S. GUYTON, Sh’fl'. July 14, 182t) L / IlOcGlI r to Baldwin county Jail on the J 16th inst. a negro man who says his name s JOHN, and that he belongs to the Widow Lions of Greene. He is 5 feet 10 inches high— black complexion and well made. He says bis mistress lives within three miles of Grants- ville. Said kfflow had in his possession a free pasi, signed by John Williams of Columbia, county, dated on the 6lh inst. in wbich he is called John /f earer, and slutes that he has li berty to go to the Alabama. This pass has evi dent minks of forgery. ALSO—on the 17th inst. a negro girl named SALLY, who says she belongs to the Widow \\ lii'ebcad of Futuain county. FREDERICK SAN FORD, Jailor. July IS 2J—3t.