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£ MISCELLANEOUS EXTRA< Public Opinion.-*-When Captain Cook landed at Otaheite, the Education of the na tives compelled them to seek the good opin ion of their fellows, by the observance of several painful and ridiculous Ceren^pnies. The idea, that tatooing their bodies gave them a title to general respect, Hvas so firm- his librar. turning round his head -saw sitting a woman in a red cloak.!!' And came you in here, man laid nothin|. \\ bat is your being here woman 1 No answer made. You have ho right to-fie here ; go out of the r#hm . She took no notice of him. He got up and rang the bell for a servant.' The servant came in. Turn this woman out. reading or writing, omVahd arrests attention; their very pauses are ■ n •'' n1 r expressive, and indicate gathering energy to be embodied ih the sentence that is to come. When fairly Animated, they are as impetu ous as the toBjent, brilliant as the lightning’s bdam, and overwhelm and take possession of feebler minds, impressing them irresisti bly with’ a feeling of gigantic power.’’ minds, that, to gain 1 What woman, Sir? Why, the woman in a s . ... V^tfjoy cheerfully sub-1 red cloak,—There’s no woman, nor any red mined to this painful .__ and hu . has b*e man nature is- and always lias .been, - where the same. There is scarcely an inconvenience to which mankind will hoi submit, to gain the Ifcfcpect and approbation of tb.eir fellows.— . And to give a right direction to this all-pow erful stimulus, should be the first object of rational Education. The present notions of anv individual can not possibly appear absurd to him ; but this generation can still recollect, when, among themselves, the Good Opinion of the com munity was obtained by the ridiculous cus tom of wearing a load of false hair, made stiff by white powder and pomatum,— when instances were known, of indi viduals, upon certain great occasions spending the night in an arm-chair, with their locks frizzled <n a fantastical manner, because the Hairdresser could not overtake the bu®5r»e‘ that lay before him on the fol low' ,-v. if- \ *•' individual any one uch pro ven offended uiey werenot act iures. r were produced . by the — oeen impressed! on their these ideas constituted their l up present Education of this Country hr the Ideas that are generally impre9se<j,p: m»nds.pf its. inhabitants, leadttariinl! the Respect* or Good Wjfti may be obtained, b# 4«Pj| of* money, and bv what i4 cmlea anfc joinQd with'g<?nteel-;niadners and awacj^mintanre with the cu?t-;.,'xs i<d|^d order M’f* il 11 is. .necessaryt- ttxs cloak Sir. Well go and fetch the doctor iw ujc i ;.eu min i am tiT, and I wish to speak to him. The man however, was not to be frightened by this, because he knew it was a delusion of his sight. Now I have had it so often, that it has been a matter rather of amusement to me, than any thing else. I have stood before a glass, and seen the upper part of my head, and eyes, and nose, very distinctly ; but I never saw that I had any mouth or jaw ; and I have seen uiy shoulders very well, but all was blank between my nose and shoulders. Wfiy, now I say, what can you make of this, hut that it is errors of action, or inactivity iti parts of the retina ?” ? ‘ ry to hiddimity, if anof ‘sthtoiop'Urt present E- '^^t'^' ^ call Civilized Society. ids were,pleased with the vari- rp.tatooed on their bodies jfrB9C gratification that they them- ^®*det>re d f roST , these figures. hut ta lar friends were delighted with their Mstflce. Our Fathers submitted to thei ^Pfatiens of the Hairdresser, not for the !ke of the pleasure that these operations afforded, (for they were really painful,) but because their friends were pleased with their ^appearance when so decorated. And jthe ■¥oung Men of our own day lace themselves •jttp in .stays, and have their dresses made in we' most fantastic manner, not for their own Bakes, but through the laudable desire of giving pleasure to others. They shun every appearance of Industry or useful Employ ment ;—or, if necessity compel them to- la bor, they do it in vocations that add little to the sum of human happiness ; and they act thus, not from the pleasure that they derive from a mode of proceeding so manifestly ab surd, but because it suits the ideas of the people ; because, by this manner of acting, they obtain the good opinion of society; and it is -merely owing to the prevailing system of'Education, and not to its own merits, that such a line of conduct meets with general approbation. Rank and money arc objects of ambition upon the same ground. They are earnest ly sought after, not for their intrinsic value, but because the admiration or respeef of the multitude is bestowed on those who obtain them.—If it were otherwise, mankind would cease to desire them, farther than their im mediate wants require. Those who have examined this subject attentively, will liave perceived, that man kind have been long upon a false scent ; and that those who have been most success ful in obtaining these objects, are, in point of real happiness, little tatter than those who want them. Like the Indians, in the operation of tatooing, the Respect or Ad miration of their fellows is all thev get in return for their trouble and pain. This pain, or anxiety, is entailed upon them by igno rance, as the necessary consequence of a bad Education. Extraordinary Pine Tree.—-In No. IX. of Dr. Brewster’s Journal of Science, just published, there is an account of one most extraordinary species of pine trees yet known. It is contatnefl in a letter to. Dr.. Hooker, from Mr. Douglas, the Botanist: “ I rejoice to tell you. of ia new species of Pinus, the most Pincelv of the genus, and probably the finest specimen!of the Ameri can vegetation. It attains the enormous size of 170 to 220 feet in height, and 20 to 50 in circumference. The cones are from 12 to 18 inches long. I have one, which is 16 1-2 inches jn length, and which measures 10 inches round the thickest part. The trunk is remarkably straight, and destitute of branches till within a short space of the top, which forms a perfect umbel. The wood is of one quality and yields a large "portion of rosij)., growing trees of this spe- partly burned by the na- .•tiy«eSj*jLp' strive-the--'trouble of cutting other to which they are greatly k’ddic&w) ;e a substance' which. I and Jtyngst assured in saying, is sitvar.; but as isbmetofit, with the cones, will soon reach nature can be easily and The tree grows a- degrees South of St. Colum bia in country inhabited by the Umpt- qie , '*ti^lw4>ffnd?ahs. The seeds are,gath ered, by the-natives in-autumn, pounded, and baked into a-sort of cake, which is con sidered a luxury. ‘The saccharine substance is used in seasoning dishes, m the manner that sugar is ih civilized countries. I shall bring home such an assemblage of speci mens of this Pinus as will admit of a very correct figure being made, and also a bag of its seed. The second scholastic term of Franklin College, for the present year, commenced its session on Tues day last. Much promptness, we understand/ has. been observed in complyirig with the collegiate re quisitions, the major part of the students having al ready returned and resumed-their studies. The dif ferent classes embrace at present 120 students, a greater number than has at any one time belonged to the institution, except.during two or three month?, in 1822, when the above number was exceeded only by a few. ' At no period of its history, we believe,' has its prospect of usefulness been so much in ac cordance with the wishes of those fijendfy-to a mo-, ral and int ellectual elevation of the character of the state, as at tie present day.—We indulge the hope, while it maintains an existence unconnected with those political views which occasionally revolutionize public sentiment, enlists public prejudice, and de stroys public., tranquility— that its literary character will rise with the increase of confidence and patron-' age bestowed by those who associate with their ideas of usefulness, that of mental respectability. so long disturbed the political tranquillity of the State. The pretensions of Col. Campbell are ad mitted, and the qualifications, should it become'ne- cessary, of the two candidates, will no doubt be im partially, if not dispassionately investigated. In the vindication, however, of Col. Campbell’s credentials to confidence and approbation, their arts of politi cal sophistry Will even fail to convince a discerning public that the accusations of 1825 arc so soon for gotten by the party, to whose inconstancy he has become a willing victim. We cannot but mingle our iegret with that of others at the sacrifice of self- respect which must attend the station which Col. C. now occupies in the view of the public. Had atone- nl ent been made for tta^tier. with which his ho nesty and political characier has been treated, the ground assumed w.-uld be respects** and com manding. ' '■ \ "A; The miseries of the Editor of a paper have been often, and with deep sensibility, deplored as being almost too great for nature to bear. The weekly period arrives, right or wrong, prepared or not, he must be at his post; he cannot relax from-his efforts, for some olio must be gotten ready t.9 suit the palate of those who live only on his speculations, and woe be to him f if he fail in this weekly repast.—Wc, from a short editoral life, have riot suffered as much as our professional; brethren have'often done, but we are compelled at times to utter many a heartfelt sigh, an(i to hnng up a soul stirring groan, when the “folio of four pages” is at a ritand, arij) we feel aU most in despair at the wariti not, only, of words* but at times even Of the very thoughts, which thev should represent. Our files* it is^true, present us pubu ■ oftcj Important Improvement.—-A self acting stomach pump has been invented by Mr. Tinewell, surgeon occuiist, &e. of Chester. I whereby any poisonous or offensive rentier “* ““«'aong other msUima may be evacuated from that important or gan in a few seconds, and nutriment con veyed into it in the same space of time, when nature is exhausted or the power of swallowing impeded. It ronsists of a large elastic gum bottle, to which is connected a tube, of the same substance ; the air being pressed out of the bottle, and its return pre vented by a stop-cook, its contents instantly rush into the elastic bottle. Mr. Tine well intends presenting it to the Royal Humane Society, pro bono publico. Physiology.—The Hunterian Society is at present engaged in the performance of a series of experiments on the subject of the human blood, its properties, component parts, operation in the entire system, .and its co existence. with the vital priciple. . The ex periments am intended to discover the truth of certain doctrines with regard to the hu man blood, promulgated! by Doctor Barry. At the last meeting of the Society, on the 27th ultimo, the result of a very curious ex- neriment was detailed. The stomach of a subject just expired was opened, and the pulsations of the heart were distinctly per ceived for about twenty minutes after. This fact alone demonstrates, that the cessation of vitality was not in consequence of the termination of the circulation in the blood. Several similar curious experiments were detailed, and it is intended, when the result of all shall be ascertained, to submit it in an authentic form to the public. “ Without professing to be adisciple of Chesterfield, or, setting myself up as a censor Of public manners and morals, permit me through the medium of your paper to notice a few improprieties connected with attending public worship. The first I would men tion, is the habit many persons (principally young men,) axe in of parading themselves in front ofthe church they may attend, after the religious, services are over, to the great annoyance of every modest young lady wW is passing from the church.” The above article, from the “■ Boston Traveller,’’ is extracted for its applicability to a-custom but too prevalent in this placeoqe which some of our-rea- ders will recollect has already engaged the specula tions, and proyoked the strictures of a “ Cjierokee Sap-age,” and still more recently the attention-of, a fair correspondent. We revert to it in this' instance not as the professed “deeiplesof Chesterfield,” or as the willing “censors of public manners and irip* j als;” with the former we nave no direct fellowship, and the responsibility of the latter it is uot our wish to assume.-f As the suspension of a habit sometimes lessens, if it docs not destroy its force, wc are of the opinion, and suggest it with the hope that others will concur with us, that at this .particular juncture, the evil bf which many have complaiped, might be abandoned with lcsq sacrifice of inclination, and pos sibly oCfeeling, than after it is again resinned and re confirmed. We commend the sensibility or tender curiosity which so frequently prompts to agaze direct and a gaze intense at the beauty usually congregated on Sabbath fo)r devotional purposes, but curiosity and propriety are .sometimes at. variance, and this we Persons abroad have commented on the impropriety of such a course, and regard it as an aberration from politeness which should have no connection with the reputed refine- mens of the village. Wet confess ourselves some what surprised, that the custom of watching with lynx-eyed vigilance, the last foot-steps of retrqating loveliness, until the parting melody of their sound dies'gently upon the ear, should be‘so pertiniacous- ly persisted in when courtesy, if not civility, demands a suspension. The Bacred instructions of the sanctu ary cannot, we thing, if they have effect, be lasting, when the mind so instantaneously reverts frohi the contemplation of “nature’s God” to nature’s “last best gift to man.” with pages heavily filled with speeches of 4 6 rmv b ™ nd t 2» s . a PR b f t * ~ This *? certainly, a serious aceu- S-and 10 columns; but aftt, or bouring throiigh .thern for hours, jn hopes to catch one idea of such a nature that it shall serve our pur pose, and answer as a hook ori which to hang our original matter, we find our labour in Vain, and that we havrf toiled all night and caught ddibing, When it so happens, the only alternative, is to azray the vagrant opinions, and scraps of intelligence that may have accumulated beneath our scalp, which Will ac count for the desultory character it sometimeh vifea^s Apparitions.—Many -are the stones that * ere told us of ghosts, and apparitions, and numerous the individuals who have believed them. Some of these stories have been re lated so circumstantially, and with such evi dent sincerity, that even the most sceptical have sometimes hesitated in their unbelief. Now the fact is, that the sincerity of the na- rator is no proof ichalever of the truth of the . narration. The following extract from the lectures of the celebrated Abemethy is con iirmatoiy of this opinion.—* l There is a cu rious case related, of a man who was a well Jcnown character, and a man of sense— ) where it is said, he used to see a number of | -people in the room with him. Now he him- |Si te l self has described the whole of the pheno- A^tenon, arid, all to it. ije has after taking a cup of coffee, or tea, or so on. they came into his room in great numbers; and as he got better, and less nervous, he has only 6een the arms or legs ofthe person, without overseeing any other part of them. Now this is all irregular ac- ' ftjonpf the riMina A gentleman sitting in Origin of Steals.—The seals of deeds, those important etiquettes which give va lidity nn effect to the parchment, were in the beginning ciphers, cut for the use of those who could not write their names, or badges of cognizance to identify the unlet tered individual, the prototypes of copts bf arms which were but hieroglyphics, stand ing in the place of ciphers, such as the North American savages still employ for the sam« purpose. The placing both seal arid sig nature to a deed is the consequence of that tendency to surplusage which is the beset ting sin of lawyers. Spots, it is said, may be distinctly seen on the sun’s disk, through the medium of smoked glass; possibly,, as in 1814, with the naked eye, should a peculiar state of tlc atmosphere so diminish the intensity of his rays us to favour such an observation. Some may find in this -superstitious omen of wars, earth quakes, convulsions, drought, &c. a natural cause for the intense cold which has so sensibly affected the animal, and so materially injured the vegetable kingdom during the past ten days. The prospects of the planter in some sections of the State at least, have * been nipped in the bud,’ by the severity of the cold, and the lateness of the frost, which have check ed, blasted, and finally destroyed the labours of premature spring. Such has been its influence upon vegetation, that replanting has in many cases been resorted to; and in others the necessity of such result is fearfully Anticipated.—The possibility of ef fecting suthia change in the habits of the vegetable kingdom, tib as to lessen the time required for their maturity, and remove their liability to destruction by frost, either early or late, to which all are subjected, but more particularly the cotton plant, is a subject which might, by experiment, interest a mind dispo sed to investigate the laws and operations of nature. Naturalists, we believe, are in favour not only of their susceptibility of such a change of habit, but an entire change of character; an opinion'which has in some cases been rendered as certain by experiment, as it appears plausible in theory. Powerful Minds.—Mr. Combe, in his ingenious work on Phrenology, makes a distinction between power and activity of the mind. The following is an extract from his eloquent remarks on powerful naiads : u There are other public speakers, who open heavily in debat<|:|^ieir faculties acting slowly, but deeply, like the first heave of a mountain wave. Their words faU like minute-guns upon jthe ear. and to fhe super ficial they appear about to terminate, ere they have begun their efforts. Bat even their first accent is one of power, it rouses told that M’Intosh was to B.c murdered,) and t are witnessed by Major Thomas P. JhulrciDs St agent, &c. who was sent to the Creek nation ta lect facts for the information of the President. Sun ly this is a humiliating piece of business, all aroW One is at a loss what to approve ii^it, least; the rl prehensible levity of the man who could curie tl President in a negro house; the officious loyalty 1 the agents who informed him of it; or the grave col duct of Mr. Adams himself in communicating ' fact to Congress. One thing is certain ; the p ' officer who listens to the tales of ear wigs, too.( becomes the dupe of their designs and the instr ■nent ot their passions ; and it is truly deplorable be compelled to believe that the arts of such pe informers, have contributed to produce the prese alarming state of afliiirs between the United St a’ and Georgia. : ; ■ - —JVb 4.— It will be recollected by those who.have paid SO attention to the Georgia Controversy, tliat the 1 of dispute between that State and the:Fed«rai L cutivu, is the won-execution ofthe treaty of the Ir an Springs. The President alledges that he Q faithfully labored to prevail on the Indians to fuL that Treaty—and the Georgians assert that all his i gents have exerted themselves to defeat it. ThaG the Georgians are correct in this charge, so far as i lates to Crowd,^Triplett and Andrews, has been su.„ ciently shewn ; that they are also correct in making it against General Gaines, can likewise be shewn, and that upon the authority ofthe same Official Do cument which has been already quoted from Gen« eral Gaines wa9 avowedly sent to the Creek Nation to accomplish the purpose which the President pro fessed to have- ini view. His orders were, as we learn from Mr. Barbour’s letter of instructions, “ To PRevxit. oil the Indians to acquiesce in the Treaty of the Indian Springs and theconvplaint against hint is, that he disobeyed this order, inflamed the Indians whom it was his duty to liave soothed, and contribu ted to the overthrow of the Treaty Which he was FROM.^Ua RICHMOND ENQUIRER. THE GEORGIA CONTROVERSY—No. 3, It hasbeen shewnthat Crowell fa morally, if-not legally responsible for' the murder of M’Intosh ; of course that he fa h&f*!fentitled 46'the confidence arid protection of the President, ‘it remains now! tb be shewn that in another essential particular, he has v& ofated his duty as an agent, and deserves to be-dis missed from ms station.- It is- a well known rule of the Indian department, that no agent .shall be enoa- jed in trade, effher directly or utdireefly with die Tribe tip which pp js- appointed. This rule is as old as the establishment of Agencies, and is founded,in reasons ofthe most obvjopsjustice and propriety. Iri the first place, the agent having ihe annuity, of the Tribe uE hfa own hands, and possessed ,of great pu- tTu)rity,iWouIdbe able, to impose upon improvident savages, and, transfer all, their money to himself, by iving th'em credits before hand.,’ In the next place, avjng the authority to grant licences to trade with his tribe, he would be tempted to fafu$&them to oth er traders for the purpose of keeping the busipess. fa his own hqnds. Yet in violation of this rifie, it is j iroved. by the.Document before referred to, that; Mr. .lohn Crowell was engaged in trade with the Creek fadians, covering hfa* operations with the name of his brother, and that he has been guilty of both-, the of fences above designated. The letter of Sam. Haw kins, heretofore published, proyes tbat Crowell made it a practice, in defiance ofthe remonstrance ofthe' Indians, to pay' them-their anuities, (930,000 per annum) in bank bills of $100 and $?0, and directing them .to fas brother Thomas to get change, with a caution that others wpuld client .them; ami that his brother usually gave Jive dollars, silver in .ohange, and the "rest, in good? at dpuble tfie price that Stinson and M’Intosh sold the same articles for. Itriow remains to be shewn that this brother and the agent were in partnership ! ii c “ Deponent further states, that, some time sine?, he believes in the year 1822, in conversation that the Agent had with him, the Agent told the deponent that himself and Thomas Crowell, his brother, had failed for a large amount, he believes between the sums of thirteen thousand and seventeen thousand dollars ; that he had placed-his brother, Thomas Crowell, at Fort Mitchell, to^make. what money he could to pay off the debts afthghrnE; that, at that time, Thomas Crowell had a conslfictahle stock of goods in the na tion at Fort Mitchell.” ’ Page 348 contains the deposition of John jJ. Peck, clerk'to Thomas Crowsll; who testifies that John Crowell, the agent, first spoke to him to come to the agency And act as clerk, and although he said, at the same time that he was not interested in the store, yet deponent thought otherwise, and has sometimes thoiight so ^ince; that while be was acting as clerk, “ the^agent was pqrticular in looking over and telling him how things ought to be done.” But the testimony of Henry Finch, found at page 340, is the most pointed, full and convincing upon this point. He swears that in the year 1821 he arri ved in the Creek nation with a waggon load of goods, having previously been informed by Crowell the a- gent, that lie would be licensed on giving\the bond and Security required by law. Deponent swears that he offered the bond and the security required, but agent, to his great surprise, refused to give nim the licence, and recommended him to sell his goods to his brother Tom. This the deponent refused to- do, and with much difficulty got a licence for thirty days. At the end of that time, seeing nothing was to be done except under cover Of the Crowells he propos ed a partnership to Tom, who referred him to ins bro- ther the agent. The doponent accordingly applied to the agent, who immediately arranged the terms of partnership with him, drew up the arthdes, signed Tom’s name to them, and advanced his portion the monet. This partnership continued three Tho second edition of the first number of the * American Quarterly Review,’ was to be published^ in Philadelphia on the 18th ult. Two thousand co pies of the last edition of this work will be barely sufficient, it fa said, to supply the increasing demand. Its reception affords a favourable prospect of re warding the taste and enterprise ofthe editor. —-—r . Some of the administration pnnts appear to be highly incensed at the faereilulity of tjie public in not believing that Col, Campbell seriously intends an opposition to Mr. Forsyth for the gubernatorial chair. As far as’ we have been able to judge of pub- fic opinioirirt is .decidedly in favour of such an interir tion on jthe part of Col. Campbell’s friends, though vacillating between doubt and certainty, whether the authority on which hfa name was first announ ced, was not assumed, instead of being delegated. It fa now well understood by the republican party, that however settled their, views may be upon the ques tion ofthe gubernatorial succession,an effort will be made to rekindfo tha flame of party strife, that has years, and during that time the agent gave them de cided assistance in their trade. An instance fa men tioned. One Drury Spain, a trader in the time of Mitchell, former agent, had a claim upon the Creeks for $2,600 for goods credited to them. Tho agent, Crowell would give him no aid towards the recovery of this debt, in consequence of which he sold it at a discount of $600 to the partners, Finch and Tom Crowell, to whom the agent, John Crowell, imme diately paid the full amount, out of money in his hands belonging to the Indians! Thus the fact is es tablished, that the agent was the real trader, and the name of his brother was only used as a fraudulent cover to his operations, and that all the evils intend ed to be avoided by preventing agents from engag- ingin trade, were the ready results of this violation of law and duty. Yet the Agent hasthe approbation of the President, and of a Committee of the H. of JR. The same document, pages 400, and following, contains a curious specimen of the kind of informa tion sent to the President by hfa agents in the Creek nation, to rouse his resentment against the people of Georgia. It is the sworn affidavits of a certain John Winslott, and his two compurgators, Lemuel B. Nich ols and John B. Campbell. This trio of informe rs, certify that being in a cer tain “ negro house,” which they describe, on Saturday (night?) the 2nd day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundfad and twenty-five, they heard a certain Geoman, of the name of’Williamson call the president °f tho united States, “an imper tinent rascal and also at the same time and place, they further heard the said Georgian, further call the aforesaid President, “ a damed inssnificant rascal.” These importantaffidavita are duly sworn to, upon the Holy Evangelists ofthe Mmighty God, be fore Thomas Triplett, Esq. sub-agent to the Creeks (the 6ame gentleman who laughed when he was sation againsf the General, and ought not to be ex hibited‘before the public, without strong proof* to sustain it. These proofs, however, seem to bc%at hand. The Document referred to contains four sworn affidavits, which go the whole length of sus taining the accusation. The first is that of the Rev. lvcson L, Brooks, (page 373,) who’testifies, that be ing in Bailey’s Tavern j at the Indian Springs, on tho nineteenth of July, 1825, he was introduced to, Ge- v nernl Gaines, who entered into a conversation upon 4 Indian affairs, in the presence of several white peo ple and Indians, and said that the Treaty of the In dian Springs w-as a heels-over-head piece of busi ness ; that the U. States had promised, in it, to give the Creeks land to the west of the Mississippi for the lands they relinquished in Georgia, and that they had none there to give, also that the Treaty was founded in the deepest fraud and treachery, ana that every individual concerned in it was damned— politically damued; and turning to the Indians who were present, said to them, l tell those Indians the white people will cheat, them out of their lands, get all tfatf money, and then kick.tkem to kdl. Of the Gear- j gians, he said they were;under the influence of iii-^.. « txiguing politicians, and that Crowell wasH pure anfil upright man. Michael Watson sWears (page tfiat he heard Qe.neral Gaines say, in a, public qom- papy, at tho Indian Springs, that if Gov. Troup. at* te?iroted to survey the lands acquired by the Treaty .made at that place, “ that he wouldbe tried for treason, .and hwigiV also that Troup and his friends were in triguing demagogues. Christopher B. Strong sweats, (page 375) that he, heard the General Bay, at the same place, that Troup and his partizans were de magogues, unprincipled demagogues, and that he himself was guilty of treason. Joel Baily swears, that he heard the General say, at the same place, that the. United States had promisetf more than they could, comply with, in stipulating to give the Creilor lapd west of the'Mississippi, for they had nose there tq givej aod that he, General Gaines, would get j hold of the Governor of the little demagogue state of Georgia, ifhe,,did;not mind.-; . Now, it mifat b,e admitted, tliat-these decimations, on the part offGeneral Gaines,-were, as directljtto-, posite to lifa orders, as human understanding c-itlqj make them.. - The wholeS^i ries of them was callo?\ fated-to influence the Indians and to confirm and x-J strengthen their opposition,to that indenlical treaty " which he,was*ordered to prevail upon them to ac quiesce in. But there fa one * of hfa declarations whichxtjquires a morc particular notice; that which denied, tfiat the United States owned any land west of, the 'Mfasisgipph - It will be remembered that by the Treatviqf thefifidjan Springs, the United States, -besides paying24nur hundred thousand dollars to the Creek Indians for'thC*laiid which they ceded, enga ged,, to give theiri; an equal quantity of other land* west of the Mississippi,ijto wit, about 4,000,000 of acres, and one, of the main objections made to the treaty was, that the U. States had no lands in that quarter to comply With, this promise. It was upon this story that tile opponents to the Treaty continu ally harped; on Gen. Gaines’s arrival among them, whatever might have been his own opinion about the fact; it was his duty to soothe opposition, and not to inflame it, and therefore, to have advised the Indians to rely upon the justice and good faith ot' tha U. States to obtain for them the land as promised, or to make them a suitable and adequate compensa tion. Such was his duty, but his conduct was dif ferent, and at the very moment that the U. Slates had twenty times as much land beyond the Missis sippi as they had promised the Creeks,. Gen. Gaines was employed in telling them that they had not an acre! Let dates and facts decide between him and his country. The General’s declaratiobB were made in July and August 1825; in the month of June pre ceding, Gen. Clark had signed a treaty at St. Louis, with' the Kanzas and Osages, for 100 millions tf acres. See the Treaties of that year published at the end of the pamphlet which contains the Acts of Con gress for the session 1825 -6.—Doubtless Gen. Gaines was ignorant of this fact when he was making his declarations to the Indians; but it is equally certain that the effect of hfa declaration upon their minds Was nothing the less on that account, and it remains to be shewn how the President could approve a con duct so repugnant to his orders and professions. This is the point of the complaint of Georgia, that all the President’s agents counteracted his policy and disobeyed his orders; yet he approved of what they all did, and supports and protects every one in total disregard of the repeated and solemn appeals ofthe legislature and Governor of that! State. Yet the committee'bf the House of Representatives jus tify the President in all that he has done, or omitted to do, in this business. But the affair is not yet over. The prospect of a civil war rouses a spirit of inquiry ih all good citizens. The Document just, published, is throwing new light upon the conduct of all the parties conc erned. The public ear, so long abused by one-sided statements against Georgia, fa now opening to hear the other side. Several news papers will do her the justice to publish what is now appearing in her favour; and at the next session of Congress, her own talented delegation will confront with stubborn facts and severe logic that posthumous Report, which was brought in at the last moment of' an expiring session, and so hastily approved Ay a bare majority of a bare quorum of the House. * The Republican Party and thc r National Advocate.—The Philadelphia Democratic Press having accused the National Advo cate of being the “ organ ofthe Opposition,” and, of course, opposed to the progress of Internal Improvement and domestic industry that paper defends itself-by ^ very-gravely calling for a Shadow of proof that the Re publican Party are [is] opposed to any of the great national interests!” Was ever any thing more modest than this identifi cation ofthe Advocate with the Republican Party ? Should Mr. Binns venture to ac cuse the National Advocated using bad grammar, no doubt the editor would defend himself by demanding, with the utmost gm*