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n ■——**—>»*——W— wVj—|j THOM TUB WASHINGTON «lodr. Through Mr. Calhoun’s organ, ( he Tele graph) the public is informed 4 that if Mr. “ Calhoun and hi* friends desired the elcc-\ “ tint of Mr. Clay, th re. would be no ne-l *' eessity for bringing the. question before] “ Congress, The influence, of Mr. Calhoun ** and his friends, cast into I he. scale of Mr “ Clay's parly, would elect Mr, Clay by the. “ people. ” We dispute the power which Mr. Cal-) hi>uri seems inclined to arrogate to limisell. It is true he found himielf able locon'rol' the v ttos of some of the S lulhcrn States in (he Senate, and did lr,under what has been design ated by public opinion, the CalU >tm interest in that body, to wage the confede rate ho <l l li!i<-k against the President, which had be n concerted by Mr. Chy and hitp self; but we deny (lie power of Mr. Calhoun to (i ariiler the people ot the States them selves, or induce them to subserve his pur poses, hy b ing “ cast into the. scale of Mr, Cloy V, party " —No—" Che influence of Mr. Calhoun's and his friend* is egregioudy mis cdculaied, if predicated upon the array in oleos the Southern States under the standard of opposition in the Senate. Mr. Poindexter represented Mississippi —Mr. M core, Alabama—Messrs. Miller Sr, Hayne, South Carolina, in discountenancing and dishonoring the President in the eyes of foreign nations, and in the effort to bring disgrace on the measures of his admimstra tra’ioo at home. In this they tepresented the feelings of Mr. Calhoun towards the President, and advanced the purposes ot Mr. Clay; but did they represent 'he feel ings of the people in their respective S ales? If we remember rightly, thase gentlem-n were noi elected by the several 3’ate La gislatui ei because they proposed in swell "the influence of Mr. Calhoun and were "Ins friends V The tlnee first named gen tleinen obtained their election by giving the most solemn pledges of their support to the President.—ls either of them had given the slightest indication of the hostility whit's they have now manifested, and which no doubt they then «»cre(iy entertained against General Jackson, they never would have bad it in their power to thwart his measures, and the most important ineres'g of the country, bv a league with Mr. Clay in the Senate.— These gentlemen, therefore, said nothing to the R presents ivea of the people of Ala bama, Mississippi, and South-Caiolina, of their preferences for Mr.. Calhoun, when they sought their votes. They were J ick son-men and nothing but Jack* m-men—bu now whnt are si ice they have received the trusi which their constituents cannot ie cal ? They arc more bitter in their animosi ty to the President, if it be possible, than Mr, Clay himself. We cannot, therefore, be too thankful to 1 Mr. Culouuu (or the intimation which ho 1 has vouchsafed, through his organ, • that the' “ course of the Globe if sanction'd by Gen 1 " Jackson and persevered in. will tail in an entire separation of Mr. Calhoun's' •' friends from the support of the re-election "of General Jack-on.'' II ne President is* always to receive such maiks of friendship as Mr. Calhoun has hnherto given him, he must surely hi made happy, by any circum stance which may re ieve him from it. Mr. Calhoun was his friend, when he heard that General J ickson’s soldiers were bringing heir leader at the point of dead), <n a lifer hrougti the swamps of the South, on he termination of his Seminole Cam-j paign; but he seized the occasion to escape fcll tespon>ibili’y for the conduct of the war P| as the Hoad nl the War Department, by lodging in secret Cabinet Council, a nudum tor a Court ol Enquiry on a General, who! he expected was m his grave, for hiving violated his orders and the Constitution. He was his friend when he first availed himself of the General*) popularity to reach ths Vice Presidency, and yet it is now known that he wag secretly understood by Mr. Websier, to be pledged to the interests and support nt Mr. Adams, in opposition to! him. fie was his friend when he came into 1 power with ihe President, as the second of ficer of the government, and yet if is now known that he insiduously arid industriously exerted tuembanass the administration, to divide the Cabinet, and even to blacken the character ot the Chief Magistrate by misre presentations which he had conveyed to the Governor of his native Stale. And we are to suppose he is still his friend, after he has openly leagued with die opposing candid ite fur the Presidency, (or the direct purpose ot defeating the hading measuies of the ad , ministration cm! the country—of destroying the influence and character of die Head ol the R public in the eyes ot foreign powers,j «nrt‘of crippling and enfeebling the support, in both branches of Congress, which the people and the States intended he should have in their Representatives. After all this, Mr. Calhoun threatens that il the Globe persists m its course, lie will absolutely separate from the support of th* 1 President ! His followers will give, no doubt, the same excuse. But, have they no principles ? Is the course of a newspaper to drive diem from the support ot dial to w ueh they are pledged to (heir constitu ents f I’hero is one comfort which wc shall have when the instruments and partisans of Mr Calhoun renounce their Jacksonism. It is liui they will then be no longer able to get m o public trusts, upon the popularity 0 f the President, the power of which they ne ver t«,l m employ against him. Henceforth v'e hope it will be understood that the Cal Vnm Jjcksiiomen—that is. the professed Xacksor.-inen under the influence of Mr. Cal-i boon—are convened in o Calhoun-Clay I men, or, a* (he organ would have if, «• cast .into the scale of Mr. Clay's party." From tho U.tiled st>t«i Ttl«jr»pK, 1 EVEN HANDED JUSTICE. Ihe following inciileni is related of .fudge Brackeruidge, of Florida, and shows the prnpric y of Waiting for the proper mo ment, which most usually comes soon or ,1a e, of visiting upon tho wrong dour the consequence ol his improper conduct • A man of violent temper and quarrelsome j disposition was plaintiff’in a suit before ths Judge, while the defendant, a man of op posite dnracter, was sued for having cut oil a part of the tail of the others ox. The evidence was somewhat contradictory, but, in summing it up, the -fudge seemed to lean on the side of the plaintiff, but observed that it was the province of the jury to de cide. It, however, they were of opinion that die defendant was guilty, the mere a mount of the injury was not the sole crite rion of the damages, but they ought to take into consideration the malice of the defend ant, and add such sum us might operate as a punishment, and thus deter others from perpetrating similar ac's. The jury, per . haps inclining ra'hor more to the defendant! than was consonant to strict justice, found f a verdict in his favor. ;j The plaintiff now appeared in a perfect fury ; moved (or a new trial, aid employ- 1 ed the whole bar to plead for it. The Judge listened with great patience to their learn •d, earnest, and eloquent argument!, but decided against the new trial, on ttie ground that it was (he province of the jury to de termine the question of fact, and lor other! reasons which it i» unnecessary to repeal. O.ie nit the reasons mainly relied on, was 'hat the verdict wa » given against the> charge of his honor. Alter having decided, tne question, the Judge, unexpected to anyi •me, and io the surprise ot all, requestid the attention of the plaintiff and the bar, 1 tor a lew in'imeuts, while he proceeded as , iolloWS,, . . rV - . V | ' " An opportunity now offers to do jus ice to the Court, which has been hitherto delayed, Three years ago, the plaintiff in the case which was just argued, was a party to a suit io this cut brought byway ofi appeal from a justice ol the peace. On that occasion, under a plea of set ff, his de mand was so reduced that (ho jury, were left to their own judgment, without any ■ Inection from the cour, brought in aver diet for two dollars instead often. A (no tion for a new trial was made by the pre sent plaintiff and ovenuled. The day as t«r the adjournment of the court, this let-' ter was handed to the Judge: s * 4 Sir, your partial and -wicked conduct! in my trial, ha* been such that I had de termined to inflict personal chastisement mil you, but 1 though' it would be sufficient to| |let you kuow what I think of your base and jeorrupt behavior. You are a disgrace to vour species and to human nature. Ymis, &c. n i “As (he law* of this territory have taken from the Judge the power to protect his au thority, except in cases of contempt, com mitted in the face of the court. I was com pelled to pocket the affront, together with the letter, trusting in the just ways of Provi dence, to bring about a lit season and time ol retribution. You now claim a new trial because the jury have refused to follow my .directions, thus placing a higher value in 'the integrity and intelligence of the man by you, than i,i twelve of your, i neighbor*. I shall say no more, but leave you to your reflections.” 1 Ihe piaiinitl retired in silence, and a bashed, and it is said did not utter a word Until he had mounted his horse, v/hen he involuntarily exclaimed, •• Well, ’may be the Judge is right.” The audience was deeply impressed with die scene, and an apprnbatiou, stronger than words, would be read in every countenance. - i <*he Charles'on Evening Post, in noticing the fact of the Ktulesnake swimming a cross arms of ihe sea s-iys The habit is common to other snakes, as well aa to ihe i rattlesnake. I hey have been met in (he midst ol their passages on bays five or six miles wide. There is a fact in ihe habi's - »l the deer on our hunting islands, wh'ch is, we think, as worthy of record as 'his of the irattlesnake, and which wc have never seen in print.— It j* that when pre-s d by the dogs they will plunge into the sarf—and swim in a direct line entirely out of sight. The huntsman has only to wail for a half hour or so, and he is sure of his shot—for dhe animal always returns 'o the very spot where he entered the ocean, or within a hundred yards of it, to the direction of the tide ; and whether from exhaus'ion or con tusion, it wid, in making for abort, neither change its course nor turn back, though it see* the sponsmsn waiting at the water’s 1 j •* '| The abandonment of the use of ardent '|Spirits, on boaru of our National vessels, appears to be viewed with increasing favor hy those who are the immediate obj-cs.of the benefit (bus intended to be ( fleeted. Ihe Washington Globe states that in seve ral of the public vessels on foreign stations, mur# than hall their crews have voluntarily 'elinquished ardent »pinfs, ,-nd accepted the cost of their custom, U y allow ice in the small sum substituted by the Sec.etary oil the Navy. Late letters from the J »hn Adams and Potomac, repicaent that this change in 'he habits of t he sailors had taken place to a great,asd most exemplary extent. IFctm ".»• Ck»rlcnoo Countr Mr. Editor, —In the numbers of your va ; luable paper arrived this week, I am sorr-. to see you, wi h others, ad vocation the con lagious character of the Cholera Morbus which has been raging in Europe fur th« past eighteen month* —Fully convinced that the systems now in force for its pre tended prevention of introduction into this coontiy are useless and injurious, and hop ing that it may be proven satisfactorily, not to he contagion*, and that it cannot be corn municuted by inanimate objects. 1 trust no lapology is necessary for ottering this corn i munication to you or your numerous rea ders. 1 am perhaps, »,r, the only American who has had an opportunity of treating the Spas . m °d r Cholera Morbus , anil having expe rienced more than one attack of it in the i city of Warsaw last summer, I may froml ,these circumstances alone, be entitled to at! i least the expression of rny opinion on this' subject, vhich now interests the civilized; ‘vorhl. concise history of its progress its mortality, &r. in Europe, was published in some of the daily prints upon my arrival , m this country from the wreck of unfortun i a,e Boland— the enclosed is a copy of that communication. In epidemics, we believe the animal e- Conoitiy is exposed to a predisposii g and an exciting cause, in certain districts, we are predisposed to intermittent fever, from what s termed miasm, a supposed change in the : i A'r, °f waich we are still ignorant, and get- 1 ling wet. exposure to cold, &c. excites or iHumin ites the attack. With respect to the pietiisposing cause of ihe Cholera Mor-! ,aus as it exists in Europe, we have no posi-i ,tive information. What change takes place in the atmosphere, or what is-its virus vbe\ know not, and cannot therefore either de .stray or prevent if. Neither are we be ter! informed as to the predisposing causes of | ither j pidnnics the Measels, Yellow Fe ver lull i i 2, i, The analogy still con i inues when we consider the exciting caus ■ es • luj y «'« generally well ascertained and ( le fi.ied in «11 prevailing disease*. L-ioisl ’’ ,lle t. e ting of c Id slaugh, sour ernut,! i * c ’ cou * we' fe*t, &c. are known to have produced Cholic, or common Cholera Mor-! bus ; much greater then must b - the effect! j°t •hege cause* when there i* a predi-posi ! tion from atmospheric ii liuence We see' at once by this the ditimeuce between the I ! co,nn,ou Cholera Morbus which we have I every year more or less in his country, and the Asiaiico Europe n Cholera. In the lat ter there exists a cause t 6 which we are all exposed—the glufton Diebifsch and the im poverished Pole, (he passionate aud feroci ous Constantine, a« well as the drunkon Englishman at Gateshead. ) Hiat the disease under considerat.on, however, is not contagious, that it ha* not I been cornmunicai“j»—Lom person to person, jor even by a certain sumething generated by an individual laboring under it, can, I ttnnk.be most satisfactorily proven. In support of (his doctrine, we have negative and positive facts. If contagious, why has it not been im pelled long ere this in n England and other countries by their frequent in ercourse with the East Indies ? All agree that it is the Asiatic Cholera. C"uld the s u a arrest or | destroy its progress ?— then it differs wide jly from known contagious diseases, Ihe hmall Put, the Venere-I, which have never! yet been interrupted by land or ocean. If contagious, why has it followed in a I most regular mannet (he general laws of all , .epidemics? progressing from east lowest, and governed by toe state of the weather. I D .e* not the fact of fowls and cattle hav ing been aff-cted by an epidemic in Poland the year previous to the arrival of -he Cho lera, prove an atmospheric ageuav ? Were not even fish destroyed in the same manner i It lakes of Prussia ? Has not the Intluei za, then the Cholerine, and final l y 'he Cholera M irbus, appeared succes sively in many, if not ip all the large cities |it Europe ? And if really contagious, , oughi not ns rapidity to be increased, ought tun iig extension to be greater, ought not ihe number of cases have continued to au»'- i me “' m Sickly populated places, & towns, i Itß numerical increase of foci or points of contagion ? Bit in Praga and Warsaw for the first ten days, there were 1180 ea ses. and thirty days afterwards there were only 40, That ths number of cases varisd wnh 'he state of tne weather, in Poland as well as elsewhere, is certain and positive; from ail the information and reports which have been made. These, Mr. Editor, are • s. me negative sac s little known, or at least little commented upon in America, For positive facts, we ought to rely upon the testimony of those individuals of the . medical profession, and upon them alone, : who have studied and Treated the disease ; , and not upm'ihe assertions of an Editor of a London Qiartedy Review, neiiher upon the decrees of Sii Henry Halford and the (Council of Heal’h of London. They are m-'ii who have never seen a case of Cholera, 1 nor have ever visited a place wheio it has ' existed. 1 hey are men too who contend tor the contagion of Y. How Fever, without (ever witnessing it, and in opposition to the direct positive proof well known in the U. States, that an individual labouring under this atf.'Ciioii in New- Oilcans or Charleston [taken into the country, never communicates a simil r disease under any circumstances ! whatever. 1 he information derived from Etst Indi: jP ra c’Tinners, and ihe reports made by coin missions of physician* sent out to Ruisi ami Po and, certainly afford the best ami most correct, (I must say the only) way to .decide this queition. Can any one deny list (he great majority of East India phy sicians arc not nou-contsgionists ? Thece ebraied James Johnson has ever been sup porting this doctrine in the public papers •f London. And of all the medical gen- Icrnen attached to the commissions se;ii by Governments expressly to study the Cho lera, I know of but Dig. A berg, (Prussian) and Walker, (Englishman) who entertain : even suspicions that it is contagious ; and they ate unanimous in declaring it not to 1 be communicated by merchandize, cloth ing, &c. Os the commission, civil and mil itary from France, they have reported wi ti out a dissenting voice that Ihe disease was not contagious. Out of about 150 physici ans of my acquaintance, (including Dr. Searle, who hid practised 13 years in (lie .East li,dies, Dr. Antomnsarchi tatephjsici |an to Napoleon,) who were attached to the [hospitals.of Warsaw and the late Polish Ar my. I know of but one or two excepiions to the belief that the Cholera was not con tagiuus. Can all these men, Mr. Editor, be deceived on a subject with which they were so familiar, and to treat which many ; had been expressly commissioned? if so, then let ihe following positive facts speak for themselves. When the Persian Prince quitted the city of Tabriz, the Choleia was earned along! with his attendants, and continued to attack five or six a day, for ten days; still nota ! [person of the villages through which they passed or where they slept, took the disease. [When the epidemic was raging in Moscow, 40,000 individuals left the city without per forming any quarantine, and yet not one case [was transferred by them to other places. In no quarantine whatsoever; has the disease occurred. Ships at sea without ever having touched at ih« ports where the spas jfnodic Cholera has existed, have been affect ed by it. Nurses and physicians in daily attendance on the Choleric have still con tinued to enjoy an immunity from the dis ease—neiiher was their visits to families or other patients marked by the appearance of ,it. One individual id a numerous family, a few on ! y of a large city, have been sffeted. [Washerwomen to the Choleric Hospitals have been exempted from it. Dissections: [have o’sn made wnh perfect security; nay, [more wounds made While performing this unpleasant, but all important investigation, [hav® heau-d and without producing any sne-l ctfi.c iff ct. My friend,Dr. Foy of Parisl exposed himself in every possible manner to tire Cholera while in Warsaw; he inhaled the breath of the dying suff-rer, he put on th# shirt and got into the bed of the dead pa tient, he drank the matter ejected from his stomach he even infused in o his own veins the blood drawn from the Choleric—and all this with only a .-light nausea and head-ache. These experiments were in part repeated by another friend Dr. Pinec, and with a simi- Ur result,*' If Facts Mr. Bilitor which I have hastily drawn up since perusing vour paper id the 28th, will not cff'ct the object for which they are written, the abolition of all restrictions oh commerce, and a change of public opinion ; I conclude with the convic tion of having performed a duty and claim ing charity to b- lieve what I have seen and what I have experienced —that the Asiatico! European Cholera Morbus is not contagious | and I defy the world io produce one authen tic case where it has been communicated !fr, m one individual to another, and still less |t° have been transmitted by inanimate ob jects. | PAUL F, EVE, M. D 1 Late Surgeon Major. 15 h Regiment < f the Pwlish Army. , Augusta, (Geo ) Feb. 24, 1832. baronT^enck. The famous Baron Trenck, it is known, had an amour with Ihe youngest sister of Frederick the grea*; and to this the unre lenting barbarity of the king is commonly! attributed. He escaped from Gla x, and[ took service successively with the Russians and Austrians. Many years afterwards in 1755, as he was passing through Dantzie he was treacherously given up to the Prussian government, and was sent to the fortress of Magdeburg. Here he was confined fur near ly ten years, with circumstances of the most aggravated cruelty. He was placed in a damp dungeon, loaded with irons of sixty ,cight pounds weight, almost starved to death, and finally, tortured by being waked during his slumbers every half hour. This overwhelming misery did not however break his spirit: assisted by the pity of the soldi, ers who guarded him, he contrived to send letters to the Princess Amelia, and to others of his friends. By these means he obtained! money, with which he bribed the soldiers, to' procure him files and other tools, as well a* lighis, pens and paper. His various attempt to escape are very curious, as well as the herculean labors he w nt through in the' progress of them. Suffice it to say, not one! of them was successful; but that he wa3' finally released, towards the end of the year 1763, partly from the representations to her brother of the Princess Amelia, and partly in consequence of his having succeed tl in bribing the imperial minister at Ber lm, who demanded his liberty as an officer d the Austrian service. He afterwards passed a turbulent and discontented life; rl ways engaged in law-suits and discussions respecting the succession of his cousin. Francis I’renck; which ought to have de scended to him, but was by treachery and chicanery, usurped by others. He became at different times, a wine merchant, an edi tor ot a newspaper, and an author of Ger i man poetry. At ths commencement of |ho French revolution he came to Paria, whrr» he wa» guilotined during (he rt gn ot tenor, Lord Dover's Life cf Fndrruk the ■ Second, New Vohk, February 25 FIRE ! About half an hour after midi ight the in. I habitant of the lower part of i,be city, wem i sro.used by the appalling cry of fire. I waa. 1 soon ascertained to be in the ex aosive five » story Type Foundry on the corner ot John ■ and G ild street*, and owned by Messrs. ■ Hager (k Pell. The wind at 'he time was ■ blowing a gala from the North Eist, and the i night one of the coldest we have had during^ • the winter. The fire companies were soon . ■ at work, and drawn gan abundant supply i of water from the hydran's on the corner®- of John and William-streets, and William street and Maiden lane, succeeded, contra-• ry to the expectations of many, in confining, i the flames to the pile cf buildings in whuii they originated. The loss of propery nius have been great, as very little was got out from either of the stores, except the one above the basement. From this room a large quantity of new type in pages, was removed, together with account books, &c. ) Since the above was prepared, wo have learnt the following particulars : The fire commenced in the stereotype, ifactory, in the third slory.it is believed from a stove pipe. It was fi'st discovered by three person* who were at wwik in the fifth itory, casting letter. These persons found the smoke in creasing upon them *o fast that two made their escape with much difficulty, rolling themselves down (he stairs—one we are in formed, fearing the retreat by the st was cut off, made his escape out of a w dow to (he adjoining building. We learn Uiat the damage to the ster. type plates,, ai d other articles on the sai floor is estimated at 210,000. Mesrs. Ha er Ik Pell were insured. The second story was occupied by M Haight, as an embossing establishment. The loss of property on this "oor is large. We have not been able to ascertain the amount*, but understand it was insured. The steam engine in the basement, waa not injured. By ibis accident, one hundred and fifty persons are deprived of, present employ 'i aaenf. ,( We regret to learn that several person* , were, injured by the melted lead from th» upper lofts fulling on them. About 5 o’clock this morning a fire brolc* out in that den of infamy called Catharine t Lane, running from Broadway to Elm . street ; and it is wuh no regret that we aiat* that almost every building on either side is now a heap of ruins. The number of front dwelling houses destroyed is from twelve to sixteen, chiefly three story frames. Perhaps noons can tell how many families ,'or individuals resided in this wretched lane, ! but we p.fsume that not less than one hun . dred and fifty, of all ages and color, hava been driven into (he streets. One or two men, belonging to Hook and Ladder No. 4, were severely injured at the. fir* in Catherine Lane, by the breaking; of a ladder. 6 ,| A store at Whitcsboro’, Oneida, was de stroyed by fire on the 13 h intt. •Another tire— About six o’clock thi® morning, before the Engines had left Calhe , r > n c Lane, another fire broke out in the old two story building corner of Duane and I Rose-streets, occupied by Peter E mp. as » Grocery and Dwelling, which in a few min utes wag enveloped in flames. It was en tirely destroyed, as well as the adjoining i two story house in Rose street, No. si, occupied by the families of Messrs. Benson and Pickering. The arrival of the engines prevented any further damage. Boih build ■ jugs were the properly of the Dutch Church iu William-street. Philadelphia. February 25, The Centennial Anniversary.— Y *t*r day will be ever m -morable in the annals of nuc city, and was indted so (bserved by the Philadelphians that it deserves to be aiway® distinguished—as it was here marked, in the annals of the nation. The civic and mili tary procession in honor of it, to which war particularly refer, was the most imposing and altogether (lie most curious and res pectable, that has taken place, perhaps in modern times. If the remains of Washing ton had been the prize in a competi'ioo of , effort throughout the land, to pay ihe rn st zealous and signal homage to his memory, they would, we think, have been alloted te > this community. I'he procession embraced :nearly twenty thousand persons; it was be i tween three and four miles in leogih; it con i sumed upwards of 2 hours in moving steadily i past any particular spot; it must have march-' i ed about 8 miles; it drew forth to the streets, Jor attracted to the windows, nearly the i whole population of Philadelphia; and many i 1 thousands came in from the country to wit ness the extraordinary spectacle. The i full march began at abuat 11 o’clock, A. M. and continued until half past fiva in the af ternoon. Pei feet order waa observed. N*. accident, to our knowledge, occurred,' National Gas. FRIGATE PHILADELPHIA. ' Ihe bill appropriating one hundred thout ' and dollars to the widow 0 t Decatur, as ■)Commander rs the United States schooner | Intiejjtd, and to the officers and crew of the -jSrtme, for the capture and destruction of the ■|l"gate Philadelphia, in the harbor of Tri - poll, has been .aken up by the House in a s manner which indicate* Us speedy pamgs.