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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