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Washinstpn. Feb. 1.
tfyou go into the Supreme Court
at 11 o'clock, you will soon «cc com
ing inn tall, Spare, slow-moving, an
tique dressed, patriarcli.it man, the
honorable relic of another age, dis
pensing corteous but dignified saluta
tions, ,to wliioh every eye is directed
I all, Methodist-JIfinhlerlockingdikt—
(pardon the phrus<, but it is express
ive and complimentary to the sect,
man is conversing will all animation)
and with one of the most agreablc
faces in the world—perhaps with Mr.
Calhoun. That man is Mr. Clay. In
another place. I point ray inquiries to
a pleasant, smooth haired, . youthful
looking, genteel, middle sized man,
often conversing with Mr. Webster.
■ ifuei - : This man has a graceful, quick air, a
Win is that. is the question that every | ace brightened t»y smiles, and indeed I many,
stranger puts into your car. “It is fu „ of huma ,. ^ inilnegg . That man is ! ’
Clue! Justice Marshall.” The eye Mf> [| ayne , He dot . g not la „ k ln ,| 1C
of every inquire, brightens at the l(ml Uke „ nu ||if ier . What! Mr.
answer, if he has any sensibility, «nd • Hayoe an(1 Mr . Webster talk togeth
er, alter rousing the whole nation by
strains itself for a keener look. One
feels a flush of pride that he has seen a pitched battle, that "has created as
this venerable man,whom insatiable : , n ,, c h sensation in this country as the
time must in the Natural course of
life, soon take to his grave. The
every look is a sort of intangible be
quest for posterity. Well, the other
Justi. es are in, and soon put on their
silk robes The members of the bar,
such members as Sergeant, Wirt.
Webster, Ogden, &e., soon gather
round.
My stranger by this time having
battle of Waterloo! Indeed they do
converse together, and shake hands
like the very best friends in the
world.
Prayers come r.ext. The Rev.
Mr. Durbin, a Methodist clergyman,
m kes the pi iyrs every other week.
Tlien, a man goes to the chair who
has a head of hair that looks like u
bird’s nesi. It is rough and bristling.
From the Baltimore Oazet te.
P&L'N'D.
As a kit.gdom, Poland is swept from
the map of nations; but when geo
graphically considered, is of no small
importance; it lies between forty six
and fifty-seven degress of north lati
tude, and between sixteen and 84 de
grees East Longitude; mid is bound
ed north by Russia, South by Hunga
ry & Turkey in Europe, East by
Russia, West by Prussia and Ger-
Poland is in general a very
level coutitry, (if we expect the Car
pathian mountains,) fertile in coin;
having long furnished Sweden and
Holland; its horses are some of the
finest in Eutope, and its salt works
are very productive; the towns col
lectively aie built of wood; the ap
pearance of the villages very mean
This ivus the country of the ancient
Vandals; it was made a duchy about
the end of the seventh century, in the
tenth, Christianity was introduced,
and Boleslaus erected it into a mon
seated liimseH in my neighborhood, j jjj s nioiious are quick as lightning,
proceeds-“And who is that man to | Hi8 words fl ow like a cataract. His
the right of the Chief Justice bald VJ j ce j 3 harsh and crackling. He
he uled, dodging his spectacles up and geera9 i 0 think with unaccountable
down, and moving in his chair to the r r . ip i t hty. But more of
S V.< .....t Ui -nh. I..I..
ly and who hates to sit still?’
•That
pidity.
suieni
the Vice Pre-
uilici U.IJ . 'I ^V>11
. T ,, .make a very goot prief of him in my
is J is ice btorv. At.d “who is that j ll0tc pook.”—■Portland Advertiser.
Oil 'us
man,
earthly spring. When wc rove along
tin- blooming fields, or into the fioivei
garden,*alter the sun lias gone flown,u
inhale its evt ning fragranec;tliose who
once walked with us there, shall not
he seen at our side. The atmosphere
id which the) once stood shall not be
lightened with their beauty; it shajt
he voiceless, and the space, in which
we might once have embraced them,
shall be thin air. They shall he rest
ing beneath the clods of the valley—
or perhaps on the summer clouds oi
heavenly glory, while we in our lone
ly walks, shall have r.o communion
with them, hut by the chain of mem
ory which reaches backward to what
they were, or ti e aspirings of faith
reaching upward to vvliat they may
be no iv.
It is good to think of. the dead.—
They only are the wise, they too
have tasted the bitterness of death,
they- too have inhaled the breath of
anolheh existence. Knowledge, high
er than mortal li'e can attain, is theirs
they
Fi s Great Cause swept the com
pass of creation and compounded its
engi ips
ighl-the young looking
wuh a bony figure, a projecting nose, ! * The task to which these Judges sub-
a marked countenance, with ungrace- I je_ t themselves would appal much young
ful and rather rustic motions, fea-1 erm * n * They meet at 11 o’clock. A. M.
lures indicating a strong rough mind hcarcounset incessant hand patiently HU
iiii • , .1 > i 4 o'clock, P. M., then at 7 o’c’ock rn the
and high passions, and with a look c.veninjg meet in counsel to gave their oi>kn-
*he had rather be somewhere ions on the ca.es submitted, where they
else than thereV “That is Justice i often continue, I am told, till 11 or 12, P.
M'Lo.m.” Ard who is that on ,he! A1 * Besides this, th* opinion on the case
loft of the Marshall, with a “head | “f the^udgei' “ l ° b * ° Ut bj '
sil'.e.’d o’er with age”—motionless
-thoughtful -with features indicating
a mind well disciplined rather than
mighty by nnture-with a round face
and a retreating forehead’ ? “That
is Justice Duval ” And “who is ihat
grey headed iriau on his left, whom I
cann l see distinctly, as Ihe light is
s<> reflected by the window in the
re tr”? “It is Justice Thompson.”
And ‘•ivho is that middle aged man on
the extreme left, with a large figure,
o< -1 iv/» eye. a contriving countenance,
and a sort of questionable face”? ‘Ml
-is Justice Baldwin.” Here the In
quirer finishes, as the six benches
hive been run over, the seventh be
ing vacant and yet owing to the indis-
pr.si * ion of Justice Johnson. *
Nexi a lawyer rises to speak. Per
haps it is a man of 6mall
Execution of tke Nottingham Riot
archy in 999. The form of govern-j—and, perhaps, love too, that bight
incut was here very singular; it was overbalance the accumulated oceans
the only elective monarchy in Eu- j of human affection. They are, at
rope, and the choice ol a kind, did | will, higliot than the topmost or out-
no* always confine themselves to a j most slnr; they may stand where the
countryman; at one time all nations
were eligible. The kiiig was elect
ed by the whole body of the nobility wonderful engi ips. The dead only
and gentry in the plains of W arsaw,! know what life is—what time is—&
un.t b<»foro this choice they obliged vvliat eternity shall he.
him to sign whatever conditions they ! Wc may spy, farewell to the de-
thouglit proper. The Polish at rnics parted-hut we should not forget them
were not paid by the king; every no- Forget 'he living lather than the
blcrnan or gentleman gave his attend- | dead. They n eihe nobility of a bel
aud) in time of wa> ■ the head of ’ ter world They may he spirits of
his vassals, and re i ed from the fa- \ light and power to sweep their utisopn
ugdO of Ui>, caii.Oi'i-,u when it suit- ■ circles of protection around our path,
etl his ow n inclination* j 1 hey rn.ty he those w hose gentle
In the year 1779, n smgnlariy bold . pfinV *;,**«aiu our souls when
partition of this country was affected they are struggling; in fit0f!!ti* n *H-
by Russia, Prussia and Austi n ; Itfantile weakness, into anolhoi mod'
sia laid claim to part 01 Lilhuic.ma, of being. Forget not ihe last looks—
Polesia, Poduliu, Polliini.', and p 11! the •d.-u.-—lie virtues of the dead
of the Ukraine. This emmeuso tract! and let all their frailties rest unre-
ers.— On VVeduesd y as three of the of country, containing 8,OUU,OUO souls i membered.
wretched convicts underwent the aw
ful sentence of the law. Their names
were Beck, [Jearson and Armstrong.
Two of their companions have been
icSjU c . 'Ihe wretched men had
meditated escape by making a rope
ot their blankets but they were de
tected & pul in irons. In expectation
of a reprieve, the execution was de
layed until aftci the arrival of the
mail at ten o’clock.
The procession was now formed to
ascend the, scaffold. Beck ascended
first, with great seriousness, but with
a firm .and unfaltering footstep.—
He n son, who had joined with great
fervor in all the devotional exercises
six feet, who has so lit* l/'buVk^’that i of ^©morning, ‘""prised «H «*ad
s has no right to be in this 8eP " hi " P^vious conduct by the raan-
-ur * „f n 1 ; **er 111 which he behaved after moun
air and manner snimnol ‘‘ ,e . 8caffo, f. . He took >»• ‘M’ off
vom fancy he
great Areopa
wtio has an air and manner
lug, with an eye speaking,
flu expressively curved
every b'dv to inquire hi
“ That is John Sergeant.”
so 101(108
& a mouth
his head, waved it in a sort of triumph,
1 1 an d began to dance, like a maniac in
°^ ro '°_ e ' his chains. .He recognized some in-
“VVI dividual who was seated on a house-
th.it li llo man J„h„ Sergeant, (be ‘“ P ?PP 0,i,e 11,0 "afl’olcl. nml inline-
cwlklnte for V1.1* Piosideut”'/ ‘-Ye. “ w <>« *»•
nod if you bear bi.n „p.e hi. ca.t I I'i
» .i,ae his e,e kindle, and mark Iho ” C ”'ley,” o.ld:essmg
e. asp of his iowllMt, you will -- ■ b > lhe namc ol Which lio was
gi asp oi ms intellect, you will goon i. j ... . . . J
Icum .h a , mi„d is oot proportioned to T ' n P'|S" 8 "° c,rcle9 t of which
body.” But. there i 8 one face here, if he t wd A ^ 8,r °^ were g, ; e . al
V l uso pliyeiognomical indications puz- ,?“?■*"* T “ 8
: ' ,e 8n«vo».ly. I see o larga'-siz- d^^Tr'umf"H.""™
is become a part and parcel ol tiie
Russian Territory. Prussia cliiiiried
Great Poland, tiie other parts of
Lithuania, and Polish Russia. The
only part of Poland retained ny Prus
sia, is the grand duchy ol Posen, con
taining 588 geographical square
THE INDIANS.
Where can tie found a higher theme
for the pen ol the philosophic histo
rian, iliac is presented by ihat pecu
liar race which once roam, d ui sav
age u ildomess over this vast con-
miles, and 1,051,137 inhabitants. Its tincut, and within the cu-moiy ot many
chid towns aie Biuinherg ami Posen, i hero present, buiii iht-ir wigwams
Austria seized liuie Poland and Red \ and strung their hows, on the spot
Russia, leav ing to l tie umg of Poland | where we now are assembled. But
on.y Samagoiia, Muscoviu ami Pola-{ he who would seize puon this theuie
chia, even tins small territory was ; must hasten to the task. The power
wrested from him, and in 1795, he ' ot the pale lace' has driven the In-
was obliged to resign his crown j dians from bill ioli.lt, from praire to
ThCjp. it ..f Poiatid which is suhj.-cl J prune; their council fires are almost
to Austria bears the designation of | extinguished; tin ir traditions are
the kingdom ot Gailitia and Lodomira. | nearly forgotten; the last ectio ul their
Its population amounts lo 4,370,000 j war song is but faintly heard along
80 “*®- . Jibe re-ecimg frontier Like the
lhe present kingdom of Poland is j while mist of the morning ou their na-
hei iiiitarv in persou of the Russiau I five hills, they ai« melting away, ami
also os ho4ty ohd ill-advitcd.
sliders,nod here, that if Cougren]
iiol essentially niodily the tariu
special session o the Legb|J
will he called immediately aft
adjournment, who will adopt
urus to render it a nullity; thougli (
war, disunion, s^c. &c. may lol
Depend upou it, the crisis is at|
and the efficiency of Nullifi
will probably shortly be tested,
following, the concluding para
of an address to the people of
ter District, South Carolina,
committee appointed to draw i
show8 the high state of excitcmcj
the public miud:—
“Fellow CiTiZENs;-Yourcoiij
is in danger and the subject
no iongur disguised. It is apd
that there are men in the midsti
who are urging the State iuto aj
tile contest with our own
inent, and who aie looking to fin
for assistance to rescue them
the dilemma consequent upon su
consent. Yes, to the degenei:
corrupt Government of Old Englsi
against whose wicked misrule thtl
ble army ot religious martyrs ii[
hearing testimony; a Govern
which, in its unrighteous and
lowed lust for domination, has |
the blood of men lEOtn the
Scandinavia to ihe plains 9?
slan, and which is now denying,
own citizens ihe in«-siiraal‘ , i g '
an equal represents**/! f ^
eminent wo a; e lo bok for a.siiJ
m the cv>nt of a struggle xvittil
^^Vc.riiment of the United Sll
To those of our opponents ivnol
retain their American feeling,!
who have been deluded into an n
sition to their own country, wei
come out from among them, mi
-separate. By the eternal princij
liberty, therefore, by the
inemoiy of Washington, and b)|
blood ol your fathers.' which|
poured out like watet tor the
•ishmentot the American Unioil
American Independem^e, and \|
' rios to Hetwen against very pi
disorgai;,2»iioi,, we conjure yoal
’•P t»;.»d doing. If other disirictil
f'.-r the black and piratical aml[
torous banner ot Nullification, arl
bloody flag of Old England, let]
known, that when the standardo|
erty, the broad stripes and
slurs of the American Union sli;-lH<
unfuried to the breeze, the pcopf
(^hestes w ill he proud to ackno i
themselves among its most slid
suppo-rteis.”
StlOlll
set him
om sud-
*». with a concavo-lookbg, good 3, «« ‘ u ''\ ed !'°'* nd
natmed phiz, tearing a brother low-' J,® T c / >,n P*a , ne t lJhul
yer’s arguments all to pieces—and
ed in
pouring lorlh a profundity of learning
jmkI lui 'rtphiysical law. And all this
t.00 tom a man w hose countenance,
ion ton-head except, indicates any
thing else bur intellect—but, perhaps,
I ought also to except a little uneasi
ness in the eve, often expressive of
acute powers. Bui this man is the
great Mr. Ogden of New York. One
case more, a ml I leave the Court, for
the great questions of constitutional
he had not an inch of rope. “Give
me rope enough that I inav be the
autocrat and ins successor, and com
prises a superfices of 6340 square
leagues, having a population ot 3,-
860,000 souls; it is Utvjded into eight
waiwode.mps, namely Warsaw Lan-
douair, Lalish, Lublin, Platzk Mus-
cuvia Bodoia Ilia and Augaioivo.—
Rivers are the Tistula Waite, Bug,
Dnieper, Nivmcn, and Dvvina. The
national revanucs amounted, [pi ior to
the present contest] to 2,280,000/.
sterling, about the seventh part ot
which was assigned to the civil list.
Its military force during the despotic
government of the grand duke Con
stantine, was 30,000 infantry and
sooner out of my misery.” He then 200,000 cavalry: at present it is es
broke into a scries of ejaculations for
mercy to his soul.
Armstrong, who was brought last
upon the scaffold, was much distress
ed on seeing the frantic gestures of
Hoarsen. He said to him ‘None of
that, George, it is not sense, I must
say.’ At twenty minutes before
twelve, the hangmen drew their caps
law,
11mated at 70,000 infantry, 20,000
cavalry, and 50,000 men armed with
scythes. Warsaw with 125 433 in
habit ijts, is its capital, and next stand
in succession Lendoutir 50,000 in
habitants; Lublin, 14,000, and Kales
8,5000. The Calhol ie religion pre
dominates, but the number of Jews
and Socinians is great. There
over their faces, and that ceremony j mote than 2,000,000 Jews disperse.,
" ctt tnoil In Iia Hia H tl ^1. T>..1 t * i . A .
seemed to he the signal for a thou- through Poland, indeperdant of those
t!ie «igh‘s of States, corpora
tions—vrlien discussed in technical i • ,
jarjou, beginto wear an incoinprehcn- i r m V T* S to , u, * c '’‘ he , i f earful ciy , resident as merchants in the prsne.
sidle aspect, and make one seek the ° , rd or I aml ofB, °od! This cry; pal towns. Soeinius resided many
noisier forum over heaff, where the ,, r been r,n gmp '« Hie ears of tyears at Cracow, and married tlu-
Seiintc locally trample Justice under " ft “ n,0 . p,una 1 te U,CI1 ^ ‘Lot very mo- daughtej of a Polish nobleman. Ac
fool Ml, Roger B Taney,*the”At- .* ? d "V* ° f fa ’
Imney General, nrgues fluently and h,Lu nf / Wm ^ ‘d® tn :
coloquially. but forcibly-is about six ' * .° f . rnal ? ,0 B nT pf,r nt th ®' b »r of
feet in height, with a fine face and
figure, wears spectacles—and looks
young. What more can 1 say?
Over the Court Room is the Scn-
heavcnly justice. They were clasp-
cording to a distinguished Polish his
torian, M. Cliodzko, ihe populntion
of the different provinces of' Ancient
ing each others hands nt the moment
they fell, hut the suddenness of their
(all severed the association, and the
agonies of death prevented them from
Poland amounted in 182*, to about
nte.H/JI. a q„ ar(er before 12 j renewing it. They struggled, but not
you find almost all the Senators as-1 violently, for five minutes.
Certni
k JMi it is, that about
she first m.in that comes in will as
fpon /i#,he is seated on the sofas out
Flay? | people, behaved with great propri-
.***Mr. Hayue?-Mr. Webster?” A j oty and decorum.—-Lenc/on Paper.
After (lie cry of murder had sub
sided, the multitude, which must
have consisted of 8.000 or 10 000
19,000,000 of inhabitants.
THE DEPARTED.
The unusual number of sudden
deaths during the late autumn and
present winter, has put far from us
many of our m6st gifted and beautiful.
The-blast of winter has been death
to them. They heard its hollow roar
and shuddered—and died. Never n-
long, n is tenred, before the piohiuui
ol their origin is solved, the record, of
iheti final extinction - w ill have been
made.
The moulds and fortifications oi
ihe. Mississippi valley together with
the bones, implements oi wai and oili
er relics entombed within them—still
the unselUcd Iheme of conhoversy-
sliall be carefully studied and describ
ed. 1 Ilb loo is a work winch adniits
of no delay. Civilization is already
around them, and within the lapse ot
a few years, these extraordinary
monuments of a half-civilized race
w:*o in distant days, kindled tlioir
fires over this vast region, will be
totally destroyed.”—Darke’s address
belore the Erodeiphiun Society of
Miami University.
south Carolina.
Wo feci it to be our duty to lay
the following belore our readers, cor
responding as it does with information
which has reached us from other
sources National Intelligencer.
From the Savannah Georgirn.
Extract of a letter, dated
Charleston. March 3,1831.
The state of public feeling here,
and probably throughout South Car
olina, is, to say the least of it, alarm-
THF. EMIGRATING CHOC HI
1 hi- party oi Emigrating Choclf
noticed in our last, as being cilci
ed i» this vicinity, left for t
homes in the Red river counlr]
Wednesday evening last, unde|
charge of Col. Samuel M. I
s’uitD, Special Agent in the Ren
a-nd Subsistence of Indians,
party coi sists of about 200 souls,I
ts the Last party that is expects
pass through-' this place during!
present season. The emigration!
rc-comtnence next autumn.
A gentleman who arrived here
terday morning, from the vicim
Cantonment Towson. in the
or section of the Choctaw coin
informs us, that the party of
•grants who left here on lhe
Dec. I^st, in charge of Lieut
had reached their destination, ai
peared to be well pleased with
country, so far as iliev had se
The party w hich left here, in cli
of Col. Rectcr, on the 28th
were passed on this side of the
do, waiting for a res ent rise in
stream to subside sufficiently
them to cross jt. And Col Ri
erkord’s party was paued in
Spring county, about 30 miles on
side of Col. Rector’s party, proj
ing very well.
T
HE Proprietors of the Nath
but Nnlli. | fc. sceommodaling „ni»'
Journal, of Washington City,
beat ion and its probable consequence;! valuable establishment. Its" locatin'
and the excitement grows since the the Sent of Government, its extcn&ivr j
manifesto of the Nullifiers, adopted ' 8c,l i ,r ' 0 » itseomplete printing;a]
• » il • . <* . rattUH. Anri ilk annrnirml cifnvnrt ffQl
present]
nt the Convention, was sent fortli on ! ra ^ tus * and its approved support
r v r A „,i, „ i ! i , . , 'j origin to the present ttme
Monday. I do not know what will he , held !,y the opponents ofthe
tile upshot of this business, but the \ ministration, present t« any adv>
party does seem determined to pro-! |ho* e principles advantages* in pawn
eeed to do the very worst it has of V? e most ^active character,
tlirealenpd. The is, i '£i
mviw
I , v - | ■ ' i •■■mial a|r|iiiLatlu|| f* ILLIAlil JK B
people, particularly the moderate Washington City, who will give aojl
part, look in with dismay, and .Mis th**r information on the subject thalj
iwwifiiKU . C <L. . a. • •. nn I
THE NA TIONAL JOURNARl
gsiin slmlI they open their eyes on an, possible some if the violent view It jdesired^