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mt the pm?nn« wke, from such proceedings,
Would suffer nn»t severely, mill we »ll know
how far private suffering goes to influence a
ipnn’s pulilic opinion*. Besides, the very
principle upon which the advocates tor the
sacredneps of plicate property proceeds, is
altogether erroneous. 1 admit, that,in abso
lute monarchies, whore war is more properly
the pastime of kings than the desire ofaunjects,
Tioncombataiits ought to he dealt with as hu-
manoiy ns possible# Not so, however, in
Plates governed by popular assemblies.—By
■compelling the constituents to experience
the real hardships and miseries of warfare,
you will soon compel the representatives to
a vote of peace—and surely that line of con
duct is, upon the whole, the mo3t humane,
which puts tlie speediest period to the cruel
ties of war. There are few men who would
not rather endure a raging fever for three
days, than a slow and lingering disease for
three months. Bo it is with a democracy at
war. Burn their houses, plunder their pro
perty, block up their harlmrs and destroy
their shipping in a few places—and be.ore
yon have time to prorced to the rest, you
will be stopped by entreaties for peace.—
Whereas, if you do no mischief that can hr
avoided, if you only fight (heir fleets and ar
mies whenever you meet them, and suffer
the inhabitants to live in undisturbed trail-
quiiity, they will continue these hostilities till
they have worn out the means of one party,
and greaffy weakened those of both.
“ Should another war break nut between
Great Britain and America, this is the course
to be adopted by the former. Besides this,
1 humhly conceive, that a second attempt
should be made upon Nevv-Orlonns, since
the importance of the conquest would autho
rise any sacrifice for its attainment*—and,
when once gained, it could be easily defend
ed. The neck of land, upon which that city
is built, extends in the same manner above
it as below, and therefore the same advantag
es which it holds out to its present defenders,
it would, likewise, hold out to us. A chain
of works thrown across from the river to the
marsh would render it inaccessible from u-
4>ove—while by covering the lakes and the
Mississippi with cruisers, all attacks from
below would be sufficiently guarded a-
■gainst.”
AGRICULTURAL.
FROM THE AMERICAS FARMER
ON PEA HAY.
By Thomas Pinckney, Jun'r.Tsiq.
Altamont, Sept. 9, 1316.
Dear Sir,—A committee of this Socie
ty was appointed during the laet year, and
charged to discover & recommend some
mode of maintaining farm stock, besides
the incessant application to the corn crib.
This committee among other substitutes
and aid, recommended pea hay, as af
fording a rich food for horses and cattle,
and whose culture at the same time, was
easy, and its growth beneficial to the soil.
Believing the recommendation to be ju
dicious, I have adopted it, and now take
the liberty of submitting to the Society
the result of my first crop of pea hay.
The first of April 1 ploughed up an
old field which had been in corn the pre
ceding year, a stiff red clay much worn,
and of which about two ncres had been
manured for corn the preceding year.—
Across this ploughing I drilled in peas
with a shovel plough, three feet apart, on
the 6th and 7th of May. I ploughed
them twice ; the first time between the
1st and 3d of June ; the second time be
tween the 20th and 24th June ; 1 hoed
them once, the end of June. This is all
the culture they received. On the 2Glh
of August, I began to cut the pea vines,
and finished the 27th, cutting half the
field, which consists of 14 acres. In
most places the dry weather had injured
them, end they did not look as flourishing
as I expected. Four days after cutting
them, I turned them ; putting two rows
into one, and on the sixth day I turned
them again. Oa the morning of the 8th
<day, I began to haul them in, and fmish-
«d the next day ; and they have produc
ed me twenty-five heavy waggon loads
of rich good fodder. As this produce
may he best understood by comparison,
1 will state that 1 had a field of corn of
twenty-two acres adjoining, of new land,
only the second crap, which had heen
planted very early, and had not suffered
by the drought; the fodder was very good,
6i was carefully saved, and produced me
sixteen wagon loads.
I am extremely sorry I had not the
means of weighing a load of the pea fod
der, but I should think a waggon load of
it must weigh nearly twice as much as a
load of corn blades, and the difference
in quality is very great. Twenty-five
Toads from seven acres and a half in one
case, and sixteen loads from twenty-two
acres in the other. Less than two-thirds
of a load of blades to the acre, and more
than three loads of pea fodder to the a-
tre.
If it be true, as has been stated to me,
from the best authority, that a peck bask
et of these vines, chopped in a common
cutting box, twice a day, is good and suf
ficient food for a horse, with a small por
tion of blades, when not at hard work :
I should not hesitate to believe this pro
duce to be superior to that of a regular
corn crop, on such land, which could not
be expected to produce much bootc than
ten bushels to the acre. Indeed 1 know
positively from my memorandum book,
that its produce last year, under favora
ble circumstances, was but ten bushels
and a-half. At this rate my seven acres
and a half would produce me but seven
ty-eight bushels of corn,-and about live
waggon loads of fodder. Let us suppose
a heavy load of this fodder to be equal
to seven bushels of corn, (and l would
not exchange it for ten,) these seven a-
■eres and a half have produced me lhat
. which is equal to 175 bushels of corn,
in feeding cattle and horses j and l know
it would puzzle the best farmer to pro
duce halt this quantity front these seven
acres and a half, in their present state.
U to these advantages we add that peas
We an ameliorating crop, drawing very
little from the earth, and shading and
prating it from the powerful influence
ot the sun, that their leaves are mostly
*«t on the soil, to enrich it, and that
• J a fine preparatory crop for
wheat, as they may he got off the land
exactly in lime to prepare it for seeding,
I think that wc shall agree, that the com-
mittrr have been very judicious in rc-
commcndingthe pen culture ; and 1 hope
my success will induce some of my bro.
titer farmers, who have fields requiring
rest or shift, to substitute a crop of peas
for the common modes of sowing oats or
wheat which arc exhausting crops.
The Society will readily perceive the
error I committed in this crop : the peas
were sown, as 1 have staled, on the f>th
and 7th of May, when they ought to have
been sown as early as the frost would
permit. This circumstance and the late
dry weather ovidently injured them very
much.
I am, dear sir, very respectfully, your
obedient humble servant,
THOMAS PINCKNEY,Jr.
J. T. Lewis, Esq. C'orrc.t. Src'ryof the
Pendleton Farmer's Society, S. C.
FROM THE NORFOLK HERALD.
Abominable attempt at Fraud on Un
derwriters.—Mach excitcinont has been'
produced here for the last three days in
consequence of the discovery of a fraud
which has been attempted to bo prac
tised upon some of the Insurance Offices
in Philadelphia, by shippers of merchan
dize on board of the sloop Norfolk, James
Robinson, master, which put into this
port on the 5th inst. on her passage from
Philadelphia to N-ew-Orleans. The fol-
lowiog communication is from a gentle
man whose avocations are such as to
have made it necessary that he should be
acquainted with all the circumstances of
the horrid affair, at least so far as they
could be developed ; and, with the let
ter* annexed, which was received by
captain Robinson, on Tuesday, from one
of the owners of the sloop, (who is also
one ofthe shippers,) which we have been
permitted to copy, wc summit the whole
to the public without further comment
for the present:—
COMMUNICATION.
Hi c j loop Norfolk.—For particular
reasons silence has been preserved rela
tive to this vessel, but as these reasons
no longer exist ; the public will expect
an account of a transaction, extensive in
its views, and infamous in design.
The Nftrfolk arrived in this port on
the 15th of this month, under circum
stances stated in the following extract:
Arrived, sloop Norfolk, Robinson, G
days from Philadelphia bound to New-
Orleans, with an assorted cargo of for
eign and domestic articles, among the lat
ter a deck load of hay. On Thursday
morning last, lat. 3G, Ion. 74, 56, disco
vered that the vessel was on tire, which
burst through the deck cear the compan
ion way ; and so violent was the flainc
and so noxious the smoke, that it was
with difficulty it could be got under. On
examination, it was ascertained to have
been occasioned by the breaking of some
bottles of vitriol which had been packed
aivay in a keg, unknown to captain R. by
any other mark than “Glass—keep this
endup.” After the fire was got under,
capt. R. bore away for this port.
When information of the vessel being
here reached Philadelphia, some alarm
was excited, which was increased by
finding that upwards of $ 30,000 hud
been insured in the offices of that city, on
the cargo, Si that goods k specie stated to
be on board to a Very large amount were
uninsured, or elsewhere insured. A
confidential agent residing here was re
quested to look into this business, on the
part of the Insurance Companies, who
reported his opinion. Meantime the In
surance Companies, having collected
some material evidence, sent on a spe
cial agent, who, in conjunction with their
agent here proceeded on Tuesday last to
go into a full investigation, by an exam
ination of the cargo, when n plan oi un
exampled villainy was developed.
-The first examination took place at the
Virginia Sank offourkegs, which instead
of specie contained LEAD IN BARS !—
About sixty packages were then opened,
and found to contain two or three piece*
of PIG IRON, and filled up with HAY !
According to the invoice these packages
should have contained goods to the a-
mouut of g 35,000. On deck stood a
case which was stated to contain the bos
of a carriage, invoiced at $ 900 ; upon
opening it, nothing was found but hay,
and some hoops and staves which had
bound the hay in bundles. It is but jus
tice to state here that Messrs. Watson
and Son, merchant tailors of Philadel
phia, had six or seven package* in the
vessel, which were found to contain what
they purported, and these were the only
packages on board which were not ship
ped with a fraudulent intention.
The other shippers, according to the
hills of lading & manifest, were J. Hulme,
Humphrey Green, Daniel Scull, and E.
J. Ilollingshcad ; for the three first, In
surances were effected ; the latter does
not appear to hare been insured in Phila
delphia—by bills of biding, he appeared
to have shipped seventeen packages of
merchandize and five kegs specie : Scull
appeared to have shipped and insured al
so two kegs of ppccis, but only the four
kegs of bar lead were found on board.—
Yesterday the agent from Philadelphia
with the master left here in the steam
boat for that city by the way of Balti
more, where a full investigation will be
made, and the guilty parties, it is hoped,
be punished.
Various Opinions arc entertained up
on the occasion, and it is not a little dif
ficult to arrive nt a correct conclusion of
the origin of this abominable transaction,
and perhaps at present it might be well
to hazard no conjecture, The mate and
crew, (with the exception of the black
cook who deserted on the 17th inst.) re
main on board, but from them nothing;
parljculkr bft be-q* collected.. It may
however he slated, that the destruction
of the vessel by Finn, and by that way
only, was planned in Philadelphia !
The property represented to he on
board, was between fifty and sixty thou
sand dollars.
*“ Philadelphia, June 2Dt, 1821.
“ Capt. James J'obinsnn,
“ Sir,—1 am extremely sorry that you
should have been so unfortunate with the
sloop Norfolk. My desire is that you
leave the cargo on board and sutler no
one to steal or take it away from you, or
have any part of it landed on any ac
count whatever. But let all remain as
it is, and I will come on ns soon as I can
and direct what shall be done and pay the
expenses.
“ 1 nm respectfully jour obedient
hurrible servant,
DAN FEE SCULL.”
Nf.vv-York, June 25.
The new Telegraph.—On Saturday, in
company with a committee appointed (or
the purpose, wc visited Signal Hill, at
the Narrows, to witness the first experi
ment on the new Telegraph, recently
constructed and erected under the di
rection of Capt. Read. The result was
satisfactory. A lad who had only one
hour’s instruction, was stationed at the
Flagstaff, on the Battery, to note down
the telegraphic communications : six dif
ferent ones were made, understood, and
corectly recorded by him. Thus ive
have, at last, arrived at the mode of ma
king communications from the Narrows
to any extent, with a cheap and durable
Telegraph, which may lie attended bv a
lad of 12 or 14 y ear* of age. It is un
necessary to dwell upon the advantages
which must result to the great commer
cial interests of (his city, by the use of
this machine. The keeper on Signal
Hill, with a good glass, reaches an ex
tensive part of the ocean, where he lias
a complete view of vessels approaching
as well as those bound out. Any vessel,
therefore, whose owner or consignee is
a member of the association, may be an
nounced, when 30 miles from the city,
in one minute after her signal is disco
vered. Disasters, kc. and any other in
formation that may bo received, will al«o
be announced, avd regularly recorded iri
the Gazette, under the head of Tele
graphic Communications.—We have no
doubt the merchants will rind- it to their
interest to patronize this infant, but high
ly important establishment, vvbirh, we
understand, will go into immediate ope
ration. ‘--Gazette.
Savannah, July 10.
HORRID MURDER!
About midnight on Sunday last, n white
man named Saunders, living I? miles up tlir
Augusta road, was shot dead in his house by
a negro fellow supposed to belong tp a Mr.
Brown, in or about Augusta, and known by
the name of Essex. Mr. Saunders was cal
led to the back door by tiie fellow, and as he
opened it received the contents of a musket
or fowling piece into his head, and dropped
dead on the bed from whence he had just
risen, and where lay his wife and three in
fant children.
On Mrs. Saunders screaming, the fellow
who had entered the house seized her by
the throat, k srating her on a bench, threat
ened that she should share the fate of tier
husband if she stirred or made the least noise,
and in this situation was she forced to remain
for a quarter of an hour while lie was search
ing for plunder, lie first secured well the
outer door, opening into tins public road,
then lit a fire from a smoking pot which was
in the house, and with the greatest coolness
and deliberation proceeded to his search for
money. Finding hut two dollars, lie became
enraged against the terrified woman, and
threatened her with instant death, if she did
not discover more, or tjJl him where the
pocket honk was. Tic however found that
empty, k, then demanded “ the two watch
es” and with these and the two dollars de
parted through the back door. The poor
woman, whose agony for her husband's me
lancholy fate had been absorbed in the ter
ror that was incessantly excited for her own
life and that of her sleeping children, was
now left a prey to the dreadful fecliuys
which the scene before her was calculated to
inspire.
The murderer is well known on the Au
gusta road, and it is believed will soon he
apprehended. The circumstances must sti
mulate to extraordinary vigilance in pursu
ing him. ID is a stout made man, and is
supposed to he the same who knocked' a
hiack hoy off his horse and robbed him oT his
saddle hags the afternoon before. He. is said
to have been recently employed on the mid
dle ground roadof Effingham county in creel
ing a house for Low, Wallace, k Co. The
distressed widow says that she had seen him
before, and that he slopped at her house not
long since, when she supposed lie discover
ed the. watches iianging over the chimney
piece.
So horrid a transaction has seldom occur
red in onr community, and we sincerely hope
before this time, the murderer is in the hands
of justice.—Republican.
AMERICAN~HISTORY.
It is one of the most exhiliratmg circum
stances of the present day, to behold the at
tention of Americans turned so generally to
our revolutionary times. There was a pe
riod in tlie short history of our Republic,
when tlie great events accomplished in for
mer days, almost seemed to iiave been for
gotten. Wc were then rolling on the down
of prosperity, and *.ve could hardly deign to
ca*t an eye to that period of republican sim
plicity and truth.
The Declaration of Independence now
makes a component part of school educati
on ; and children, from their infancy, are
made familiar with the. history of our coun
try. TVc would suggest, for the consider
ation of onr literary gentlemen, whether a
plan so laudable is not capable of still further
extension.—What we immediately refer to,
is this, that short biographic sketches should
be written of those Heroes who fought dur
ing the revolutionary war—that the style
should he plain and simple, and adapted to
the comprehension of boys. Nothing is
more delightful than biography—it presents
scenes peculiarly endearing to the youthful
mind, such as the family hearth, all the sanc
tities of domestic intercourse. The object
would be to impress on the ardent minds of
youth a proper estimation of the country in
which they were horn, and in whirh they
will soon be called upon tp play a conspicu
ous part. Nor would Wo slop even hero;
we would enlarge the youthful studies we
would present to our youth the history ol
America; written in a plain hut popularBlyle;
the contest between their onceilors and
prowling savages—the reason of their emi
gration—their flight from religious persecu
tion—their dangers, their privations, Uieir
sofferings—our revolutionary history the
haughty demands made by tlie English par
liament, all those events which led to the lu-
depondcnco of America. It is equally asto
nishing and mortifying to sec how much our
countrymen Iiave neglected their own histo
ry. Many of «ur youths have quitted the
walls of our universities good Grecians and
good Romans, but very poor American*.
If we look over the school hooks usually put
into the hands of children, we shall find ex
tracts from Grecian, from Roman, and from
English oratory, in abundance—hut " hy do
we find so few specimens presented of A-
merican oratory ! Will nothing do for Re
publicans to study but monarchical exam
ples ! Wc know what powerful impressions
arc made in infancy. Even the fairy tales ol
old Mother Bunch—the history of Jack the
Giant killer—Torn Thumb—Gaffer Giles
Gingerbread, and all this trash of the nurse
ry, are never forgotten, mrrelely because
they were taught us in onr hoyish days.
[Rnlt. Morn. Chron.]
rnOM TITE CHARLESTON COURIER.
Who shall rejoice in his country, if it
be not tlie American Citizen ? W ho shall
fill tlie temple of tlie Almighty with
praise and thanksgiving, H it be not the
People of the United States ? hat land,
if it be not the territory cl our Republic,
exhibits sinless monuments of national
prosperity, and unalloyed sources oi ex
ultation and joy ?
To he exempt from the superstition
of rank, the superstition of power, and
the supurstition of bigotry—to be blest
with a country reserved for thousands of;
years from the knowledge and the grasp
and the contamination of Europe—pre
served virginal and pure, that it might,
in one happy moment, develope at once
all the beauties of history, and form in'
political infancy the sweet model ofthe
universe—to have acquired all the re
verence which belongs to antiquity, with
out the sins, or tlie weakness, or the de
generacy of age—to start, like Minerva,
from the cradle to the throne of wisdom
and empire—to he known only as an ex
ample—to have displayed in the wild
woods of America, the know lodge of go
vernment, the noble enthusiasm, the free
spirit, the undaunted firmness, which tlie
Greek® and thq Romans, in the days ot
their glory, poured on the astonished
vision of mankind, dazzling and con
founding them, and leaving them in tiie
irretrievable obscurity ofthe dark ages :
to be, in a great measure, exempt from
tlie dangers which assailed and destroyed
Greek ind Roman liberty : these are
some of the sweet and consolatory char
acteristics ofthe American Republic.
What period of modern history, down
to the era of our Revolution, was calcu
lated to remind the world ofthe fine spir
its, the superior legislators, the devoted
champions, and the eloquent advocates,
of Greece and of Rome ? Where, in that
long interval, weve buried these mighty
models of mandkind ? Where was the in
fluence of their actions, and their lives,
on feudal savages and cloistered monks ?
It would seem as if the Reformation and
the discovery of America, and of tlie art
of Printing, had been designed as con
temporaneous indications of a new go
vernment, renewing and restoring, and
exhibiting again warm to the life, the
beautiful images of ancient liberty.—
Here, if any where, would Plato re
cognize his republic, and Socrates his
country—Solon k Lycurgcs would be
hold the spirit of their laws in our own—
and the expansive benevoh ace k glow
ing oratory of Cicero, would iiud themes
of delight in our Republican institutions.
Nf.W-York, June 20.
INTERESTING t'EHEMO.\ V.
It will lie recollected that Col. Marl;/.
commander of the 2d regiment of ,\ ■ -V ■ • „
State Artillery, recently, in a » r; ;• r q,
manner, tendered to ;lu Corporal ,, (hr
Colors in his possession, that were ,, ( J „n
the occasion ofthe first inauguration of i.
Washington as President of the U. States,
for the purpose oMiaiing them pies<rv< d
the Picture G t.'lery of ihe City Hall, [’he
Corporation having gratefully accepted Ihe
offer, appointed yesterday ilfi noon at live
o’clock for receiving tlie present. The ce
remony accordingly took pi re at that hour.
Cok Manly’s regiment was drawn up in front
ofthe City Hall, when the Col. handed the
colors to His Honor the Mayor, addressing
him in the following appropriate manner.
“ Sir—Conformable to a resolution of the
officers of the regiment, I am charged with
the duty of presenting this Standard to the
honorable the Corporation of our city. The
service, sir, is as grateful to my feeling* as it
is honorable to the officers whom 1 have the
Honor to command. These Colours are
those which wavedhver the head ofthe late.
Gen. George Washington, at the time of his
inauguration ns ihe first President of the. U.
States. Their intrinsic value, sir, is trifling,
but the occasion on which they were raised
—tile recollections which they are calculat
ed to awaken, and the circumstances con
nected with their history, have given them a
claim to he considered among the memori
als of those. great events which, after hav ing
given Girth to a nation, perpetuated the Inde
pendence of an Empire, hy consolidating the
interests of every individual that composed
it.
“ The time will come when every thing
connected with our revolution, and him,
who, under Providence, guided the destinies
of this now happy country will he held to
he inestimable, and it is therefore that this
regiment have requested tiiat this memorial
he placed beyond tlie reacli of ordinary ac
cidents—Its acceptance will confer a lasting
obligation.”
On receiving the Standard, (lie Mayor re
plied as follows:
“ Colonel,
The Common Council accept Ihe proffer
of tliis Standard Gy the officers of the 2d re-
giment of Nevv-York State Artillery, and I
am instructed to inform yon that they re
ceive it as a gift of much distinction, and lhat
it will be deposited among the archive* of
the city. The adoption of the Federal Con
stitution, which consolidated the interest*
and combined (he energies and resources oi
11.P Republic, and the Inauguration of the
immortal Washington as the first President
of the United Hiatt *, connected with (hr
happy results of our revolutionary w ar, are
events of tlie utmost importance to our be
loved country—anil ns these colours were
displayed on one of those memorable occa
sions, and waved overthe head of him w hose
fame is dear to every American eitir.cn, they
have acquired a vtdde that must ensure their
preservation— both Vis a memorial of the
grent arid good men who bore so conspicuous
part in lliose events, ns well ns ofthe e-
vents themselves. Permit me, Sir, in behalf
ofthe Common Council, to tender you their
thanks for the handsome manner in whirh
you Iiave brought this subject to I heir notice,
and at the same time to assure you of their
sincere respect for yourself, and tlie brave
men under your command.”
Burlingtoh, Vt. June?®.
Marc Counterfeits.—Five several plates
have recently been engraved for a fellow call
ing himself Doctor Charles James Stewart,
from Lynchburgh, in Virginia, at the coun
terfeiting establishment in Canada ; four of
which are of the following description and
denomination, via:—a $50 hill on the Rank
of Kentucky ; a go bill on the Bank, or Stale
Bank of Tennessee; one other bill, on the
Savannah or Augusta Bank, the one how
ever, of which Mr. Moore is Cashier ; and
a $100 on tlie Bank of Louisiana. This
Doctor Stewart lias probably assumed this
name, among others. lie is supposed to he
r}:> to 40 years of age, sandy hair almost red,
round faced and much freckled, blue eyes
and rather round shouldered, sometimes
well and at other times meanly clad. Doctor
Stewart had with him, it is supposed, a large
amount of counterfeit notes on other Banks,
and a rush is probably intended to he made
in the southern and western states with a
new description of counterfeit hills.
SUGAR.
It is estimated that about 3G,000,000
lbs. of cane-sugar were grown in the U-
nitnd States in the year 1810—19.—
That produced from tlie maple proba
bly amounted to about 15,000,000 lbs.
more ; together 51,000,000. Now ac
cording to the logic of those who are op
posed to the protection of domestic, in
dustry,the consumers paid a tax to those
who produced such an amount of sugar,
of no less a sum than 1,530,000 dollars.
At any rate, the sugar would have bro’t
so much less in (lie market if there had
not been a duty of 3 cents per lb. on the
foreign article. This handsome “boun
ty” is for the benefit of a few persons,
Gut lias not been complained of as being
a “ monopoly,” though it is well known
that the people ofthe United States can
not generally make it, if they would.
[Niles's IVeckly Register.]
[The editor ofthe Register is exactly
right. The bounty he states is in etfect
really paid to the sugar-manufacturers,
(for such the planters really are.) What
is the amount of the bounty ? Say twen
ty per cent. The duty on course cot
tons is live times that much, and yet
those are stigmatized as “ opposed to the
protection of domestic industry” who
doubt the policy of increasing that duty.
What would be the effect of raising tbe
duty on foreign sugars ? To tux the peo
ple ofthe'United States—for the consu
mers pay the import duties, as we have
lately been informed ex cathedra—to tax
the whole people so much more for
the benefit of the sugar planters only,
and answering no other beneficial pur
pose whatever, if this be true of sugars
paying only 20 percent, duty, how much
more true is it of woollen & cotton goods,
some of them already paying 100 per
cent ? Already is (lie duty on them so
high that raw wool is not grown in our
country sufficient to meet the demand for
it ; and we have heard that tlie cotton
manufactures here are so improved, that
American manufactured cottons have ac
tually been smuggled into Manchester !
[National Intelligencer. J
from THE NATIONAL OA7ETTE.
SELECTED HINTS.
Cato finely observed, he would much
rather that posterity should inquire why
no statue were erected to him, than why
thev were !
Editors have gained more pounds by
publishing Milton's works than he ever
gained pence Gy writing them ; and Gar
rick has reaped a richer harvest in a
single night, by acting in one play nI
Shakespeare's than that poet himself ob
tained by the genius which inspired the
whole of thorn.
Men will wrangle for religion ; write
for it ; fight for it ; die for it, any thing
hut—live for it.
There is but one pursuit in life which
is in the power of all to follow, and all to
attain. It is subject to no disappoint
ments, since lie that perseveres, makes
every difficulty an advancement, and e-
very contest a victory ; and this is the
pursuit of virtue.
Then are two modes of establishing
our reputation—to be praised by honest
men, and to be abused Gy rogues. It is
best, however, to secure the former, be
cause it will invariably be accompanied
by the latter. His calumniation is not
only the greatest benefit a rogue can con
fer upon us, but it is also tlie only service
he wili perform for nothing.
An act, by which we make one friend
and one enemy, is a losing game ; be
cause revenge is a much stronger princi
ple than gratitude.
There is one passage in the Scriptures
to which the potentates of Europe seem
to have given their unnnimous assent and
approbation, and to have studied so thor
oughly as to have it quite at their finger’s
ends. “ There went out a derree in the
days of Claudius Caesar, that all the
world should be taxed.”
MARRIAGECONTRACT.
Woodstock, Va. June 20.
On the 13th instant, (Wednesday last)
the cause pending in the court of quarter
sessions of this county, for a breach of
marriage contract, between Catharine
Dellinger vs. S. Sticklnj, came on before
tl.r justices present composing the court,
G. Mottle, I. Overal, M. Eflmher, nndS.'
Ilarre, esq. The cause was opened ably
by the plaintiff’s counsel, and argued on
both side* with unusunl interest, every
art being displayed to enlist the jury to
pity the one and be generous to the o*
tlirr. The examination of witnessef
commenced about 0 o’clock A. M. and
from tbe time taken by each counsel in
“peaking, the jury did not leave the box
until 8 P. M. • The jury retired for a few
minutes, being late, and could not agree;
they were accordingly discharged by the
court, with instructions to meet at 8 o'
clock on the following morning. The
jury as directed, accordingly met at the
appointed time, adjourned to their room,
and about 1 o'clock, brought in a verdict
of $ 1,200 damages. For the plantiff,
Messrs. Lovell and Grey ; for the de
fendant, Messrs. Barton, Strother and
Field.
RECORDER.
M1LLEDGEV1LLE, TUESDAY, JULY 17.
A gentleman who left Pensacola the
first of this month informs us, that the Spa
niards still had possession, nor was it known
when they would surrender it to our officers.
The receipts from the customs was consider
able, and this it was thought inclined the
Spanish authorities to hold on as long os
possible. From the Montgomery Republi
can of the 7th instant wc copy the follow-,
ing:
“ A relation of Gen. Jackson’s, who left
Pensacola a few days since, informs us, that
the General was within fifteen miles of the
town, waiting for the completion ofthe ne
cessary arrangements to take possession.—
Tlie transports intended for the conveyance
ofthe Spanish officers and troops not having
arrived, one of them having been wrecked
on her passage to that place, and the pre
vailing winds having been unfavorable to the
others.”
ron Tint recorder.
“ THE PROSPECT BEFORE US,"
A* seen through the “ Signs of the Times.V,
By the Trio.
No. V.
“ It will be remembered that a frequent re
currence to fundamental principles, is solemnly
enjoined by most of the State Constitutions,
***** ns a necessary safeguard against the
dangers of degeneracy to which republics are
liable, ns well as oilier governments, though in •
less degree tlinn others."
Madison, in the Virginia Report of 1799.
Much as we could enlarge upon the im
portant topics on which we iiave already
touched, it is high time lhat we should turn
our attention to others, almost equally im
portant, which distinguished federal from
republican principles. We have seen that
the federalist* were accused of wishing to
destroy the co-ordinate sovereignty of the
states, and to reduce them to a blind subor
dination and quiescent obedience to the go
vernment of the Union. The assumption
of powers by construction and farfetched im
plication, was not the only circumstance by
which this wish was proveable. There were
a variety of others, mo3t of them coming
within the range of the constitutional exer
cise of powers, yet all of them having a ten
dency to the same end, as appeared from
the time and manner of their adoption.-—
The splendor and grandeur ofthe measures
proposed, marked the manifestation of tliijt
desire. Among those which more strongly
than uny others, -hewed tlie intentions of
the ruling party were the establishment of a
permanent and cxteiultd system of internal
taxation—of an army and a navy in a time
of peac e—and the extension of patronage in
the federal government generally, and in tlie
executive branch of that government parti
cularly, by the creation of offices both de
pendent upon, and independent of the two
measures just mentioned.
An overweening anxiety to destroy the
simplicity and economy of the state govern
ments, and upon their ruins to erect the su
perstructure of a great national government,
wasearly foreseen and vehemently denounc
ed at the moment ofthe adoption of the fe
deral constitution.^!)) In the front ranks of
those who thus raised the warning cry, stood
Patriek Henry of Virginia, always,theretofore,
pre-eminent as tlie great advocate of human
liberty and human happiness. While tiro
constitution was yet before the people of lh8
stales for their consideration and sanction,
lie declared that the plan of the confederati
on of ilislincland independent state sovereign
ties, would be swallowed up in one great na
tional consolidated government. So, too,
then thought Mr. Monroe. In vain did ma
ny who were afterwards attached to the re
publican party, but who were friendly to tiro
instrument, (and among others, Mr. MadU
son,) declare that the dangers which Mr,
Henry pictured thus in “prospect,” were
imaginary.- That the general government
was too closely limited and circumscribed to
the exercise of delegated powers, whose only
objects were the common defence and the re
gulation of commerce and foreign affairs—*
that experience had demonstrated, that un
der tho articles of confederation, its power*
were insufficient for these objects, because
of the want of means, or the power to raise
them—and that tlie new constitution did lit
tle more than to bestow such a power.—
These arguments, plausible and persuasive
as they were, did not allay Henry’s terrors..
“You are not to enquire,” said ne, “ how
“ your trade may he increased, nor how you
“ are to become a great and powerful people^
“ hut how your liberties can be secured—tor
“ liberty ought to be the direct end of your
“ government.” That, “ those nations who
“ had gone in search of grandeur, power, and
“ splendor have fallen a sacrifice, and been
“ the victims of their own folly." That
“ this new p/aniwhich brings us the acquisiti-
“ oil of strength, an army, and the militia of
“ the states, was extremely rediculous.”—
“ This acquisition,”he urged, “ will trample
“ on your liberties.” That“ifweadmitedthis
“ consolidated gnvernmrntyit will be because.
“ we like a great splendid nne.(DO) Thecon-
stitution was “ horridly frightful ! Among
“ other deformities, it has an auful sauinlf
“ ing l—it squints towards monarchy