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care of which sue relieved me. She gently j
reclaimed me from dissipation; she propped
my weak and iiresolute nature; she urged my
indolence to all the exertions that, have been
FEDERALISM AND DEMOCRACY.
The late of some of the old fashioned F ed-
eralists who are now new fashioned Deuio-
tlms figured in a recent speech of
crats, is
useful or creditable to me, and slie was per- Mr. Senator Lacv, in the New-York Legisla-
petually at hand to admonish my heedlessness j ture.
and improvidence. To her I owe whatever j The gentleman from the 4th (Mr. Young)
1 am ; to her, whatever 1 shall be. In her so- | had been very liberal and free in his charges
licitude for my interest, she never for a mo- ; against the party to which he (Mr. L.) belong-
rnent forgot my feelings or my character.— e'd. In his last address an observation had
E »-en in her occasional resentments, for which | fallen from his lips against the Whigs—a name
I too often gave her cause, (would to Cod that | 0 f which he (Mr. L.) is proud—in which lie
I could recall those moments) she had no sul- [stigmatized them as “the great federal pba-
lenness or acrimony. Her feelings were ; lanx opposed to Democracy.” He (Mr L.)
warm and impetuous, hut she was placable, , thought there was little in names, but every
tender and constant. j tiling in action. It was fair to judge gentle-
“ Such was she whom I lost; and I have lost mc n by the company which they keep ; and he
her when her excellent natural sense was ra-
improving, after eight years struggle
pidly
and "distress had bound us fast to each other,
should now show fche gentleman from the 4th
with whom he associated ; but not for the pur
pose of giving offence. He would give sitn-
when a knowledge of lier worth, had refined p] e facts; and liis friend (Mr. Y.) must consent
mv youthful love into friendship, before age j to be judged, in bis political capacity, by the
harl deprived it of much of its original ardor, i company in which he is found ; and to this end
I lost her, alas, (the choice of my youth and lie would proceed to show that there were
the partner of misfortunes) at a moment when j men in office—and high iu office, and notafew
I had a prospect of her sharing my better ! of them—who were of the old ultra federal
days.” 1 school
Who-
-what wife, especially, can read these
paragraphs without feeling a desire enkindled
within her to be distinguished in tlie world,
not so much in her own name as by her influ
ence ou her husband and family, and through
The first lie would name is Roger B. Taney,
an old and acknowledged ultra federalist,
who bitterly opposed the war from its begin
ning to the end, and all the acts of the demo
cratic administration of James Madison, and
th*
on others ? She thus becomes not so I who was identified with the federal party in
much the instrument of human amelioration,
as the moving agent.
Education ok Females.—There is a sea
son when the youthful must cease to be young
and the beautiful to excite admiration; to
learn how to grow old gracefully, is perhaps
one of the rarest and most valuable arts that
can be taught to woman. And it must be
confessed, it is a most severe trial for those
Women to lay down beauty, who have noth
ing else to take up. It is for this sober sea
son of life that education should lay up its
rich resources. However disregarded they
in ay have been, they will be wanted now.—
When admirers fall away, and flatteries be
come mute, the mind will he driven to retire
into itself, and if it find no entertainment at
home will We driven back again upon the world
with increased force. , Yet forgetting this, do
we not seem to educate our daughters ex
clusively for the transient period of youth ?
Do we not educate them for a crowd, and not
for themselves ?—for show, and not for use for
time and not for eternity l
A good story is told of Col. M’Lanc’s yield
ing a genen us “ liberty of action” to the troops
under his command, before going into winter
quarters at Valley Forge. They were suffer
ing for provisions and clothing, and Congress
bad been repetitioned for that relief which it
was not in their power to bestow. Under
these circumstances, Col. McLane paraded his
band of suffering soldiers, and harranguedthem
as follows :
“ Fellow Soldiers ! You've served your
country faithfully and truly. We’ve fought
hard fights together ag’instthe enemy. You’re
in a bad way for comfortable clothes, that’s a
fact; and it makes me cry, almost, to see your
feet bleeding on the frozen ground. But
Congress can’t help it, nor I n’ither. Now if
any of you want to return home, you may go.
Let them that would like to go, step out two
paces in front. But the first, man that steps
out, darn mi/ shin ! if 1 don’t, shoot him as quid'
as I would a red coat /” It is needless to add
that not a solitary “volunteer was to be found!”
The Death Clock.—In the court-yard of
the Palace of Versailles is a clock with one
hand called, V Ilorloge dc la mart de Roi. It
contains no works, but consists merely of a
face, in the form of a sun, surrounded by rays.
On the death of a King the hand is set to the
moment of his demise, and remains unaltered
till his successor has rejoined him in the grave.
The custom originated under Louis the Thir
teenth and continued till the Revolution. It
was revived on the death of Louis the Eigh
teenth; and the hand still continues fixed on
the precise moment of that monarch’s death.
A great temperance meeting was held in
Philadelphia on the 22d ult., at which Mr,
Buckingham, an ex-member of the Biitish
Parliament, addressed the company for nearly
two hours. In the course of his interesting
remarks, (a3 we learn from tlio United States
Gazette,) lie brought forward an immense
amount and variety of statistical evidence,
going to furnish strong, if not conclusive data,
on which to form some estimate of the loss
sustained bv the fires, shipwrecks, and other
casual ities, originating in the use of intoxica
ting liquors. In support of this portion of
his argument, Mr. 13. mentioned, that while
officiating as chairman of a committee ap
pointed by the House of Commons in Eng
land, to make investigations on this subject he
had estimated the loss positively sustained by
the people of Great Britain at one-sixth part
of its entire productive industry; while one
sixth portion would amount to 50,000,000
pounds sterling, or 250,000,000 of dollars.
But the loss in time, health and in other causes
not enumerated, but proceeding and arising
directly from intemperance, would swell this
amount to a much more enormous extent.
all its prominent acts. This man was made
Attorney General: then a Secretary of the
Treasury in place of Duane, who was too hon
est, and too democratic to second the views of
the President in his arbitrary aud illegal sei
zure of the public funds; and then for his
base and truckling accommodation to the will
of the Executive, made Chief Justice of the
United Stales, in place of the honest and vir
tuous John Marshall, under President Jackson,
a post bought by an act of the most disgrace
ful subserviency.
Next comes James Buchanan of Pennsylva
nia, who ha? been a minister to Russia, under
President Jackson, is now an unscrupulous
representative of the loco focos in the United
States Senate, and by some is talked of as a
successor to Van Buren in the presidency.
This man has ever been known as an ultra fed
eralist, and made his boast that if lie had a drop
of democratic blood in his veins, lie would let
it out. But he had not, and therefore is quali
fied to be one of the purest “ democratic re
publicans” of tlie present day.
William YVilkins of Pennsylvania, a federal
ist of the old school, a United States Senator
under General Jackson, and by him appointed
Minister to Russia. No wonder this federal
ist ran along so fast in the course of prefer
ment in office when his “republican,” prin
ciples wore so fully in accordance with those
of the “democratic republican” administration
that appointed him to office, and now holds
him as one of its choicest jewels.
Next in the list of these pure “ democratic
republicans dyed in the wool,” comes Charles
J. Ingersol of Pennsylvania, a Jackson and Van
Buren politician, late loco foco candidate for
Congress in the county of Philadelphia, and
now a member of the convention for revising
the constitution. This man was a federalist
from the starting post, and has declared in tlie
most positive manner, “ that if he had been
old enough, during the revolutionary war, ho
would have considered it no disgrace to be call
ed a Tory.” No doubt of it; and so would
many others who hold offices under our “re
publican administration.” There are many
such ones now in authority ; hut these are all
“pure democrats,” under the present admin
istration.
James Vandcrpool, of Ncw-York, Circuit
Judge, and hi? brother Aaron Vandcrpool, late
member of Congress, both noted federalists of
the old school, and so continued until 1828,
when the present “democratic administration
came into power, which was also the signal
for them to step into the democratic ranks.
Henry L. Ellworth, of Connecticut, son of
Oliver Ellworlli, member of Congress under
Gen. Jackson, then a commissioner to the
western Indians, and now Superintendent of
the Patent Office at YVasliingion. He was a
violent opposer of James Madison and the war,
but be now bolds an office under tlie present
“ democratic” dynasty, and of course he too
is a pure and regularly trained “republican.”
Henry Hubbard, now a United States Sena
tor, sent by the democratic party so called in
New-Hampsliire. Will any man deny that he
was a roaring blue light federalist during the
last war ? YY’as he not an advocate of the
Hartford Convention.
George Bancroft of Massachusetts, a new
ly appointed collector of the Customs at
Boston, part and parcel of the same piece.
John H. Prentiss, of Cooperstowu, now a
member of Congress a violent federalist dur
ing the war, who rejoced at the defeat of our
forces and exulted at the success of the Brit
ish—but now an unadulterated “ democratic
republican,” a worthy supporter of our demo
cratic administration, and a very fit person
age to deal out denunciations against federal
ism.
Louis McLane, of Delaware, a Minister
to England under the Jackson administration
and tlie Secretary of the Treasury. Does any
not take upon himself to send the militia
across the line, but was willing to let them
stand ou the opposite side of the lake, where
they could do no good and look on. 1 his man
was then an ultra federalist; but the wheel
has been turned over, and he is now a full
straight-waisted regular built democratic rcjnib-
lican of these times.
Mr. Lacy said he might, give 70 or 80 more
names within his acquaintance, but he thought
he had given a sufficient sample of the “ demo
cratic republican” leaders with whom the
gentleman from the 4th (Mr. Y oung,) was now
in full communion.
From the Chickasaw (fontitor, Miss.) Union.
NORTH MISSISSIPPI THE CHICKASAW COUNTIES.
The Couriei Jc Enquirer while urgii
whigs of the city of New-York, to activity in
regard to the approaching charter elections,
says, that the whole machinery of patronage
aud corruption will be put in the most active
motion buy the administration party to ac
complish its ends. Among other tilings it
mentions the following startling facts:
The recent appointment of Mr. Ilovt as
Collector was made with express reference
to this election. The more simple and
sincere of tlie party make no secret ot tlie
means on which they rely for success. In the
Custom House of this city there are no fewer
than three hundred and thirty office-holders,
THE RECORDER.
MULEDGEVILLE:
Tuesday, march 30, 1838.
, with incomes varying from 8300 upwards to
M e are pleased to learn that the tide of j 400 . More tban'half of this number
emigration from the older States to North j
Mississippi, which it was feared had been se
riously checked by the general pecuniary em
barrassments of the country, is beginning to
revive. Many families have already arrived
and purchased new homes for themselves,
while others are daily coming and forming set
tlements, some in one county and some in an
other. Having passed through the most trying
season of our monetary troubles, our Indian
population being removed, there is every rea
son to believe that the settlement of the coun
try, will continue, and that with increased ac
tivity.
At the Governor’s election two years ago,
there were less than fre hundred votes polled
in the whole Chickasaw nation, now subdivi
ded into twelve.cquntics. At the late election,
the returns so far as received, disclose four
re
ceive more than 81,095—several 81,500—a
small number of 82,000—the measurers and
markers from 81,300 to 84,330—and the col
lector 84,400! Here is a formidable phalanx
of the King’s own. Here are three hundred
and thirty eleciioneerers by profession—men
whose vocation it is to hunt up and buy up vo
ters and carry them to the polls. It is a part
of their public duty. They are paid for it.—
In the present wretched dearth of business—
The leading article of the last Standard of
Uuion is a most singular medley of truth and
error. The abolition question is presented, in
all its importance to the vital interests of tlie
South—the danger of our position is fully set
forth, and a call for unity of sentiment, and
action is made upon the whole southern peo
ple.
YY c fully agree with the Standard, in regard
to the vital importance of this matter; our
cotemporary is just now arriving at the posi
tion that we have maintained for years, that it
behooves the South, as the first of all measures,
to take care of herself on this ominous sub
ject. But while we maintain that the only
safety for the South, on this matter, rests on
is to stand by the powers of (], e
States and the people, as the surest safeguard,
of our rights of liberty and of property.”
they have nothing else under heavens to do
These men are all kept in doubt whether or : her own energies, our cotemporarv has made
not they are to be retained in their places.— | t ho notable discovery, that all our safety lies
This puts them on their good behavior. If
they do not buy their salaries by tlioir exer-
lions, they will be dismissed. Of this they
are well aware. They will spare no pains.—
They must give proof of their fealty. They
must show in black and white what they can
thousand six hundred and eighty-seven rotes (jo AU the time l )e fo re this and the election
polled for Governor, m nincot those counties,
showing the astonishing and unparalled in
crease in our population of one thousand per
cent., in two years! We do not believe there
is, in the history of the United States an in
stance of the peopling of a country just
emerged from the dominion of the savage,
with the same rapidity: ‘ We attribute this to
a climate unsurpassed on the American conti
nent—to a soil of universal and inexhaustible
fertility, well wateied and presenting the
means of enjoying all the blessings of life in
as great perfection and profusion as can fall to
the lot of man. These advantages are so ob
vious—that they are seen by the visitor from
the old worn out States, who comes to explore
the country, in such striking contrast to what
lie is accustomed to see, that he becomes con
vinced at once—purchases anew home, returns
for his wife and children, goods and chatties—
and rejoicing in the prospect of abundant anti
ample returns for his labor, he settles down
among us. Y\ r e have never heard of an indi
vidual who travelled through the Chickasaw
cession on a tour of examination and left it
dissatisfied, or believing the country overrated.
But wc ’nave frequently seen the smile of joy
and contentment light up the face of the new
comer when discoursing upon the productive
ness of his farm, the abundance of his stock,
and the salubrity of the climate he enjoyed
here, and compairing all these with what he
has exchanged for them. \Y r e have just now
entered upon the first month of winter, and
during- the Autumn we have had a constant
succession of sunshine—Italian weather-—
with scarcely any interruption by frost.
Another bilious fever and ague season lias
passed over the country, and the Chickasaw
counties and towns, and more particularly
Pontotoc, continue exempt from those dis
tressing visiters ; the accompaniments of all
newly settled countries, bilious affections
have been few and far between. YY'e trust
that all far and near in our country who desire
to improve their condition and change their
abiding place, will first visit and examine the
Chickasaw cessions before choosing a settle
ment elsewhere.
they will spend in the most industrious effort—
for their livelihood depends upon it.
Besides tlrcse three hundred and thirty res
ident officeholders—men who are acted upon
by the plea of losiug their places—there are
some eight or ten applicants for every office, , , . , .
, . 11 £■ i . .7 ft 7 i powei to abolish slavery at the capital, and
making an aggregate ot about three thousand j * 1
expectants, who are kept active by their hopes! 1 lut tie on v safeguard of the South upon this
This body of men must display their activity j subject, in the District of Columbia and the
in supporting Martin Van Buren. Let us put
the idea in a clear point of view. The safety
of the South, upon the subject of our domestic
institutions, rests upon the support of a man,
who stands committed against slavery by the
most important acts of his life : a man who,
as a State senator, instructed the United States
senators to exclude Missouri from tlie Union,
unless she abolished slavery; a man who be
lieves that the Federal Government has the
and exertion in the election, in order to en
force their claims. It is a matter of bargain
and sale. What service can you render to
the administration? What are your preten
sions \ How many votes can you command?
YVliat evidence can you give of your ability to
render a quid p>ro quo to tl|b party?
FOREIGN EXCHANGE.
New-York, March 7.
Foreign exchange opened yesterday with a
degree of firmness in price, but little spirit in
the amount of transactions.
This state of the foreign exchange may he
influenced by the course of the foreign trade.
A large proportion of the goods imported are
shipped, not to order, but on English account.
The revulsion last spring, and the continued
depression up to the close of 1S37, caused the
British merchants and manufacturers to en
tertain the opinion, that few orders could he
expdefed from this side of the water. This
opinion has been correct to a certain extent.
The recent packets indicate a revival of the
foreign trade, but it is principally confined to
the action of British capital. YVe have heard
of several English houses, on tlie other side,
recently in the South American trade, who
have this spring opened a correspondence with
this city. Considerable quantities have al
ready arrived, and although the goods were
laid in on thespot, at the lowest prices, yet the
profits, arising on the sales here, will hardly
pay expenses—perhaps G to 10 per cent, to
the full amount.
territories, is merely matter of expediency; a
man, whose leading organ in his own city, and
one of his most efficient sustainers, is a rauk
abolition press—the New-York Evening Post;
a man, otic of whose supporters in the present
United States Senate recently introduced
solutions, which were universally consider
as the manifesto of the abolitionists. That our
colemporary should find, in the support of
such a man, the safety of the South upon the
subject of slavery, is, indeed, the most won
derful discovery of the age.
But our cotemporary, in continuation, as
serts “ that the next Presidential election will
mainly turn upon this point.” Y\ r liilc we
agree fully with our neighbor in Jtliis, and as
fully agree that the South will on no account
support even a doubtful man on this vital ques
tion. we would at the same time remind the
Standard, that the last Presidential question
mainly turned in Georgia on this point, and
that only a year ago, she very distinctly told
Mr. Y'an Buren that he was not to be trusted.
And here we would express our surprise that
the subject which now, it seems, is to absorb
all others, should only a short year ago, have
been so little thought of. Only a short year
ago, a son of the South, himself a slaveholder,
and who, upon this all absorbing question, was
wholly with us, aud who, if there is any thing
CHEROKEE AFFAIRS.
Having on a former occasion troubled ftlJr
cotemporary of the Augusta Constitutional^
m pointing out tlie misgovernment of
had been done by tlie late Executive in refo
tion to this matter, we take greatly more pl ea
sure in calling his attention to the very efficient
and proper course of the present able E Secu .
ti\eof the State, in relation to the same m a .
ter. YVe say “ efficient”—for the disposing
which our Governor has brought alnjut, wit],
out entailing an enormous and unnecessary ex
pense on the State, or uunecessorilv harassing
our citizens, will we presume he deemed amply j
efficient by his opponents themselves : and « e
add in regard to his action “proper,” becau*,.
he has brought his efficiency to bear just at tb
proper and suitable moment. Through tb ff
correspondence with the War Depart men; i
and the clear exposition of what both justly ■
and policy demanded, Col. Lindsay lias, Wf .
understand, been entrusted with authority to
call from the several States of Georgia, Ten
nessee and North Carolina, any force he mar
deem necessary, for the entire quiet of tlie
Cherokee country, and the peaceful removal
of the Cherokees at the proper period in Yf ar
next.
Eleven Companies have been called f or
from Georgia, nine of which have been organ,
ized, received their orders, and we presunn,
are ere this at their appropriate stations in the
Cherokee territory. Of these Companies tiro
are from Gwinnett,commanded by Captain*
olle
Garmany and Tug*le, two from Hall, com-
manded by Captains Buffington and Dorsey
one from Franklin, commanded by Captain
Bond, from YY'alton one, commanded by Cap;.
Means, from Habersham one, commanded bv
Capt. Cleveland, with two others, commanded
by Captains Derrick and Faris. Two other
companies we understand, will in a few dav s
i T\ ^ H
ed t * 1 ° se already in the service.” jW*
Vjrher'' : :i1 ■- - '^ ™
^ ~ " . i one deny that he was a federalist ?
The Snake 8tone.- I hat poison should be ; Mr. Lacy said lie might furnish many ad-
exti acted from a wound inflicted by the bite ditional instances, but he would only name one
of the most venomous reptiles ami rabid ani- 1 inore
mals, and the sufferer restored to health, by j H " is Excellency, Martin Crittenden, late
the simple application oi a stone, such as one Governor of Vermont during the late war,
might pass by every minute in his life without j who Wft3 a Jackson man, and now a Van Bu-
ob3ervingany peculiarity about it to distinguish , reil n jan. Does not every man recollect the
it from the millions upon millions of others j p ar i h e took during the struggle with England ?
v. hich do not possess this virtue, is something JJ e was given to be troubled with constitu
tional scruples when his country in her neces
sities
Life Boat.—We were yesterday invited to
examine an improved hydrogen life boat, in
vented and built by Mr. Joseph Francis, of
this city, for Captain N. H. Holdrege, of tlie
Liverpool packet ship United States. The
boat is 28 feet long and 5.4 feet beam is of the
best material, clinker built, and copper-fasten
ed throughout, and lias a double ceiling—
within the boat are 14 tubes 13 feet long,
placed from the keel to the gunwale, contain
ing 52 cubic feet of hydrogen gas, which will
buoy up 4000 lbs. of iron while the boat is
filled with water. To the sides are attached
20 life ropes, which, with the boat, are capable
of giving support to 100 persons in case of
necessity. In the bottom of tlie boat is it plug
hole, through which the water escapes as fast
as six men can bail it into tiie vessel; and the
experiments tried, have convinced those who
have examined her, that it is the best invention
for tlie preservation of life, in case of ship
wreck, that has ever been offered to the mer
chants and masters of vessels for their patron
age and support.—N. Y. Mcr. Adc.
To this policy of British capitalists may he
attributed tho tendency of exchange to ad- to be gained to the South upon this question,
vancc, and as the season ripens, we may ex- | by having the President wholly on our side,
Agricultural YVf.altii of Ohio.—From
the tables attached to the report of the Board
of the Public Works, politely forwarded us by
Mr. Foot, we compile ati exhibit of some of
the principal products of Ohio, in 1S37, clear
ed at the several Collectors Offices on the Ohio
and Miami Canals.
pert the movement of trade will increase its
influence upon the exchange market. The
import of specie will have a like tendency.
We learn that the cotton spinners on the
other side, are transmitting funds here to be
invested in cotton on their own account. In
30, or 40, or GO days, they will be able to get
their own supplies, and thus abstain from
taking any quantity out of the Liverpool specu
lation market, until the present prices recede.
The mere cotton shippers, either here or on
the other side, are not fortified sufficiently with
capital to hold cotton at a venture. They
must realize rapidly, and hence tho movement
of the spinners may precipitate these specu
lators upon a falling market. There is a strong
imptession here that cotton will fall heavily in
Liverpool in April.
wonderful indeed, and leads us to the conclu
sion, that nature has formed nothing to shorten
the days of man, that she has not benignly
counteracted by placing within his reach the
preventative or antidote. That there is the
virtue in “ Snake Stones,” which has been
attributed to them, there can be no doubt;
thousands of instances attest their efficiency;
aud the man who is so fortunate as to possess
one of them is in duty bound to publish the
fact far and wide, as an act of benevolence, in
order that he who has been doomed to a wretch
ed death, may know where to apply to obtain
a happy release from his pestilence. Thomas
l3. Grisham, Esq. of Princess Anne county,
is the only one that we know of who has per-
tormed tins henevoleut duty, (soe his adver
tisement in our last paper,) though there aro
others, we are informed, who possess this in
estimable antidote. He lias had many cases
under his care, of persons bitten both by rep
tiles and dogs known to he mad. and never
failed, as he informs us to mako a thorough
cure.—Norfolk Herald.
Ancient Locofocoism.—Erasmus’ advice to-
Ammonias for advancing his fortune.—In the-
first place, says he, throw off all sense of
shame—tbrnst yourself into every man’s busi
ness, and elbow out whomsoever you can—
neither iove nor hate any one—measure every
tiling by your own advantage—let this be the
scope and drift of ull your actions—give no
thing but what is to be returned with usury—
be complaisant to every body—have always
• Vo Etrings to your bow.
needed the prompt aid of every worthy
son. This modern and pure “ democratic re
publican” could find no warrant for sending
the militia beyond the Y ermont State line,
when the British attacked Plattsburg. His
> ! sense of duty and patriotism was bounded by
| state lines, ami he could not think of taking the
i responsibility, of aiding in driving a foreign
| foe from our soil because that it was in a neigh-
l boring State. Not so would it have been with
Jonas Gallatin now by a revision of the order
of politics, a federalist. He felt no trammels
of “Stale lines” upon his patriotism. But
the “ Green Mountain boys,” were awake.
They did not follow the example of their
scrupulous Governor and modern democratic
republican. They turned out singly and in
pairs, in squads and in rogimeuts, and hasten
ed to the scene of action, and did not stop to
enquire where thcline between Vermont and
this State was, which proved such a formidable
obstacle in the march of Martin Crittenden.
It is true they arrived too late to bear a part
in the discomfiture of the foe. The British
flag was beaten dawn by Macdonougli on the
lake, and the laind troops had no time to tarry
for leaders compliments.
This “ democratic republican,” (said Mr. L.)
no doubt acted as he thought right; he believ
ed and asserted that it was wrong to declare
war against Great Britan ; he did all he could
to prevent it and believing our government was
in the wrong, lie could not think of doing any
thing to encourage it. He therefore could
Barrels of Flour,
283,179
Bushels of Wheat,
733,799
Pounds Bacon and Pork,
3,879,274
“ Bulk Pork,
2,953,2 IS
Barrels Pork and Beef,
82,188
Pounds of Lard,
2,408,340
Kegs of Lard,
31,954
Bushels of Corn,
358,979
“ of Oats,
99,599
Barrels of YYHiiskey,
34,319
Pounds of Butter,
544,706
“ Cheese and Grease,
649,598
“ of Feathers,
18,121
“ of Dried Fruit,
99,807
Bushels, “ “
1,742
“ Apples and Seeds,
20,470
Dozens of Brooms,
3,607
Pounds of Brooms and handles,
30,208
[ Cleveland Herald.
TO POOR PEOPLE AND LOVERS OF GOOD LIVING.
One pound of well cooked white beaus will
go as far to support strength of body as three
pounds of beef steak. The one will cost six
cents, the other three or four shillings.
One loaf of good home baked bread will
feed you as long as a leg of mutton, and an
Irish potatoe is better for you than a pound of
pork. The Editor is requested to ropublish
the following list of aliments, that you may
see the relative value and expense of different
articles of human subsistance. It is as fol
lows :
100 lbs. YVheat contains S5 of nsatoritibus matter
“ Rice, 80 “
“ Barley, S3 “
** Beans, 89 to 92: “
“ Peas, 93
41 Lentrlfcv 94 “
Meat (average) 35
Potatoes,
Beets,
Carrots,
Cabbage,
Greens,
Turnips,
2G
14
10
1
6-
4
[Newark Sentinel.
Working of the Experiment.—Suffering
of the Poor.—The disclosures made at the va
rious YVard Charity Meetings, in relation to
the sufferings of the poor, are of the most aw
ful character. YVe learn from one of the cen
tral committees, that at the present period,
not less than forty thousand persons in this
city are dependent on the hand of charity for
their daily supplies of food and fuel. Amongst
these are found not only the vicious and im
provident, but thousands of the most industri
ous and, hitherto, laborious of our population,
but who do not work merely because they can
find nothing to do—labor being at present out
of the question. There is not a day passes in
this city in which there are not more or less
deaths from want of food, and fuel. Tn one
ward, there are two hundred and fifty German
families entirely destitute; most of whom
cannot speak English, aud who can only make
their wants known through an interpreter at
the depots of the committee. One poor family
who applied for relief were visited by a gen- j
tleman, who on arriving at their dwelling, ■
found the last piece of their little children’s )
bedstead on the fire, to prevent them from
freezing.
The poor that throng the Alms House are
increasing to an alarming exteDt, aud at the
rooms of the Committees of the various
YVards, the crowd is so great that many of
them have been compelled to wait from ten
o’clock in the morning to eight at night, shiv
ering with cold, and famishing with hunger.—
At the place for the supply of fuel, one of the
Committee slates that lame numbers of little
ought most assuredly to have been supported
by the whole South—only a short year ago,
with such a candidate before the people for
this high office, the Standard opposed his elec
tion with all its might, and threw the whole
weight of its metal in favor of a man who, to
say the very best of liim, could not be half so
much identified with the South on the subject
of our domestic relations. -If there is anv
thing to be derived to the South on this vital
question by President making, then was the
time to put forth all our energies to effect it.
A southern man, a slaveholder, and who is as
much identified in feeling and interest, on this
subject, as any man in the Union, this man
was presented for the Presidency, and vet,
with all this, our neighbor exerted all its in
fluence against him.
Under such circumstances, it is very extra
ordinary that the Standard should attempt to
make this the only question in relation to the
next Presidency, and more astonishing still
that it should select Martin Y T an Buren as the
only protector of southern slavery.
YVe candidly believe that the people of
Georgia never rendered a truer judgment than
when it declared Martin Van Buren not trust
worthy on this subject. For ourselves, we
hardly know a public man whose principles
are more thoroughly opposed to us, than are
his. Not only a Missouri restrictionist; an
advocate of the power of the Federal Govern
ment over the subject of slavery in the Dis
trict of Columbia and the territories ; not
only are his warmest friends and most efficient
organs violent abolitionists, but as a Procla
mation man, even were the South driven, in
self-defence, to the extremity of secession,
he has declared by that' document, that she
possesses no such right, and the further doc
trine, that the Federal Government may use
the bayonet to keep us within the lines. And
this is the man to whom the South is to look up
as her champion and defender in the hour of
her extremity !! Mercy save us from such de
fenders ! Desperate indeed is the condition
liese eleven Companies will constitute the
quota to he furnished by Georgia. About the
same time, Tennessee and North Carolina
will have, under similar requisitions, their ser-
eral quotas in the field. These, with the force
now under the command of Col. Lindsay, saj
some G or 8 hundred rnen, ought surely to he
quite enough for all the objects in view, both
as it regards the removal of the Indians, and
quieting all apprehensions on the part of our
citizens, in regard to them. YY’illi the white
population of the Cherokee counties, under
these arrangements, there cannot possibly lie
any reason for apprehension, in the minds of
even the most timid. Now we ask our cotem
porary, if this is not tlie right way to do thing*.
No blustering, no imposing upon the State
hundreds of thousands of expense, in short
no electioneering in the business; lmt the
calm, quiet energeticaction of the Executive
of a sovereign State, requiring the Federal
Government to perform its duty, (a duty alto
gether and wholly her own,) at the proper
time and in the proper way. YY’e think our
cotemporary must in candor, most heartily
answer our query affirmatively.
B
Y\~e have obtained the permission of tlie
Governor to publish the subjoined letter from
the YYar Department, together with the ex
tract from the letter of the Cherokee Superin
tendent. \\ e trust the solicitude expressed
by the Federal Administration on tho subject
referred to, may add to the effic iency of the
Executive Proclamation, which will be found
in another part of the paper.
Department of YVar,
March Gih, 1838.
Sir—1 have the honor to invite your Excel
lency’s attention to the accompanying extract
from a letter from Gen. Smith, Superinten
dent of the Cherokee emigration, dated the
14th ultimo. The time fixed in the last treaty
for the removal of these Indians, is so rapidly
approaching, and its peaceable and prompt ac
complishment is so important to them and to
our own country, that 1 respectfully request,
that all the means that can he legally employed
may be applied, to prevent the alleded prac
tices, which cniiDot fail to delay so desirable a
result, and that the government may have the
aid of your official co-operation.
Very respectfully your oh’t. serv’t.
J. R. POINSETT.
His Excellency George R. Gilmer,
Governor of Georgia, Milledgcville, Ga.
children have come daily with bare feet, on |
the ice and snow, and with scarcely any gar- i of the South, it the perpetuity of her domes-
ments to cover them from the inclemency of tic institutions is to depend on the political
the weather.—-[iYcor- York Express.
Operations of tiif. Mint.—The Director
of the Mint has made his annual report to
Congress, which shows that the coinage for
1837, was:
81,035,910, in half-eagles.
112,700, in quarter-eagles,
1,814,910, in half-dollars;
63,110, in quartei-dollars.
104,200, he ten cents.
113,800, in five cents.
55,583, in cents.
In Gold,
Do.
Ih- Silver,
Do.
Do.
Do.
In Copper,
Total, £3,299.89S
The whole amount of coinage which has ta
ken place since the establishment of the Mint
in 1793, is :
In Gold, 823,250,340
In Silver, 48,830,102
In Copper, 795,915
Total,
872,881,448
success of Martin \ T an Buren, and desperate
indeed will she have become, when she can he
brought to look up to him as her guard and
bulwark.
If, however, our neighbor feels the solici
tude upon this subject which is intimated in
the article under review, and is disposed to
look to a truer source of reliance than- the
broken reed, which will only pierce us, we will
tell him where the South must look for safety.
Under Heaven, she must look to herself, and
not to New-York; in her own firmly express
ed determination to defend herself and her in
stitutions, at all hazards, and not in the miser
able buckler of a politician by trade, who has
heretofore betrayed the friends that mostly
served and trusted him. It will find our safety
in the words of wisdom of the last inaugural
address of the Governor of Georgia,—“Our
Extract of a letter of Gen. Nathaniel Smith,
Superintendent of Cherokee removal, to the
Commissioner of Indian Affairs, dated Chero
kee Agency East, February 14th, 2838:
“ The course that many of the whites pur
sue in the Cherokee Country, has also a ten
dency to prevent emigration and to bring on
difficulties with the Indians. They are in the
habit of selling every thing which they can in
duce them to buy, and not attempt to collect
until the Indian enrolls—then they arrest and
harrass them in an outrageous manner.”
©iiaui.es D. Hammond, Esq., of this place;
has been appointed Marshal of the United
States for the district of Georgia, in the place
of Peter Solomon, resigned.
CONGRESS,
Mr. Bell, from the select committee on the
subject, has reported a bill to secure the free
dom of elections. He has also before the
House a proposition to reduce the salaries ot
public officers, ou which a warm debate is an
ticipated.
YYTien the pension appropriation bill w* 13
under discussiou iu the House of Representa
tives, Mr. Curtis, of New-York, made a speech
exposition of the system of .corruption
which might bo practiced, if it was not, through
the use of the public money, by pension
agents. He demonstrated that they held, at
all times, from one million to one million f re
hundred thousand dollars of public money m
tbeir hands, to be used when, and as they
pleased. He remarked, that he had called at
the YYar Department for the purpose ot ex
amining the state of their accounts, and that
he was politely informed that it was not usual
to permit members of Congress to make such
examininations. He referred to the case o