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Athens, Mar. 15,1831.
In our history oftlie correspondence between the
■president and (lie* Vice President, we closed last week
•will, an extract from a letter of the latter, dated 29th
May. The remainder oftbeletter was devoted mainly
to Mr. Crawford—endeavoring to allow that Mr. C.
thrnhg'i forgetfulness, or anme other cause, had been
guilty of misstatements—that so far from opposing an
"infliction of punishment on theneneral/’nottritlistand*
ng he had seen the confidential letter before mention'
ed, Mr. Crawford had in several instances expressed
bis disapprobation of the decision of the Cabinet. To
prove this, he publishes a letter from Mr. McDuffie,
noticing a conversation which Mr. Crawford had with
f.ldred Simpldna, F.eq. of Edgefield, S. C. on his re.
turn from Washington. Mr. McDuffie says, “ He
(Mr. Crawford) spoke in tormsofdisapprobation oftlie
course pursued by Gen.Jackson, not only in Ins military
proceedings, but in prematurely bringing the grounds
•of Ins defence before the country, end forestalling pub
Pc opinion, thus anticipating the administration.” A n
Attract of a letter from the lion. Robert S. Garnett of
Virginia, it also introduced, in which Mr. Crawford
(during the investigation of Ccn. Jnckeon's conduct by
Congress, after the decision of the Cabinet,) is made to
ray, “ General Jackson ought to ba condemned.” Mr.
Calhoun farther attempts to prove Mr. Crawford’s as.
rierlion undeserving of confidence, by stating that the
latter had always manifested great hostility towards
' him, and that he had even gone sn far as to attempt to
influence the elector* in their choice of Vice President.
Hr concludes, however, by saying that he has no re.
• eentment towards Mr. Crawford, but has noticed him
merely that the motives which induced him to cause
• this correspondence, may be fully understood.
Next follows a letter from Gen. .larksnn, andanotli
er from Mr. Calhoun, which wc published entire :
General Jackson to Mr. Calhoun.
May 20ti, 183J.
Pm—Yonr communication of the 2tlth inst. was ban'
do! me this morning just as I was going to church,and
of course was not read until I returned.
I regret to find that you have entirely mistaken niv
nolo ol the 13lh inst. There is no part of it which
calls in question cither your conduct or your motives
in the case alluded to. Motives are to he inferred
from act ions, and Judged of by ourGod. It had beenjn.
'iniated to me many years ago, that it was you, and nut
Mr. Crawford, who had been secretly endeavoring to
destroy m) reputation. These insinuations I indig
nantly repelled, unonlhe ground that you. in all your
Tetters to me, professed to bo my personal friend, and
approved entirely my conduct in relation to the Semi
nole campaign. Iliad too exalted an opinion of your
honor and frankness, to believe for one moment that
you could bn capable of such deception. Under the
rnllucnce ofthesc friendly feelings (which I always en
tertained for you) when I wna presented with a enpv
>f Mr. Crawford’s letter, with that frankness which
over has, and I hope ever will charactcrite my conduct,
! considered it duo to you, ami to thr friendly relations
which had always existed between us, to lay it forth
with licforc you, and ask if the statement a contained in
that letter could bu true ? I repeat, I had a right to be-
•lieve that you were iny sincere friend, and, until now.
never expected to have occasion to so wot you, in the
language of Cesar, Kt tu Unite ) The evidence which
lias brought mo to this conclusion is abundantly con
tained in your letter now before me. In your and Mr.
Crawford's dispute I have no interest whatever: hut it
may become necessary for mo hereafter, when I shall
iiavo more leisure, and the documents at hand, to
■pinco the subject in its proper light, to notice the his
torical facts and references in your communication,
which will give a very different view of this subject.
It is due to myself, however, to state, that the kiiowl-
• edge oftlie executive documents and orders in iny pus-
session will show conclusively, that I had authority for
all I did, and that yuur explanation of my powers, as
declared to Governor Bibb, shows your own under
standing of them. Your letter to fyc of the 2‘Jtli, han
ded to day, and now before me, is the first intimation
to me that you ever entertained any other opinion or
vicw of them. Your conduct, words, actions, and lei-
Wcrs, 1 have thought allow this. Understanding yon
now, r.o further communication with you on this sub
ject is necessary.
J have the honor to be, vety respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
ANDREW JACKSON.
To the Hon. John C. Cauiotm.
Mr. Calhoun to Ganrral Jackson.
Steamboat Potomac, June 1, 1830.
Sin,—'Though you intimate in your letter of yester
day, that no further communication with me is nrres-
• carv on the subject to w hich it refers, I feel mysrlfim-
, pi lled to notice aomo of your remarks, li st my silence
• should be construed into an acquiescence in theirtrulh
or justness, I shall be as brief as possible.
Yon ray that 1 have entirely mistaken your letter of
the 13th May, in supposing that it questioned either
my motives or conduct. I am not an me that 1 have
'imputed to you an impeachment of iny motives—hut
1 certainly did understand that you questioned tl.c sin.
eerily ana frankneas of my conduct : and I must add
that your present latter, notwithstanding the most de
monstrative proof which I hail offered to the contrary,
nhows clearly that I understood you correctly, and of
onursc was not, as you suppose, mistaken.
I have no doubt that there are those, who, actuated
by enmity to me, and not friendship to you, have, in
the moat artful manner, lor years, intimated that I have
bean secretly endeavoring to injure you, however ab-
nurb this idea; hut I most espresa my surprise that you
should have permitted insinuations, as bate as the rare
false, to operate on you, when every word and act of
mins gave to them the hedirect. I feel conscious that
1 have honorably and fully performed towards you eve.
tv duty that friendship imposed, and that any iuipuU'
tian to the contrary it wholly unmerited.
You mistake in supposing that I have any dispute
with Mr. Crawford. That he bears me ill-will is cer
tain ; but whatever feeling of unkindnest I ever had
towards him, has long since passed away; so much so,
that instead of returning hia attacks on tnc, the line ol
■conduct which I had prescribed to tnyaelf was, to hear
patiently and silently all that he might do or say, leav
ing it to lime and truth to vindicate my conduct. If I
Itava apparently departed irotn the rule that I had pro
scribed u Ibis cate, it was not because there was any
disposition on my part to alter the line of my conduct;
but when you interposed your name, by placing in my
Iiands ■ copy of Ihia letter, addressed to Mr. Forevtli,
1 was compelled bv an act >f yours, in irfer that my vi
fence might not bo interpreted into an acknowledge
ment of the truth of Crawford’s statement, to correct
hismBatat«menta,eod to expose the motive* of enmity
which actuated him, and which sought to use you as
•n instrument of its gratification.
You intimate that, at aone future lime, when you
may hare non leisure, you will place the subject of
That Jr.n hoststiy thought that y,. ;' onleft authoris
ed you to do what you did, I have never qurrijonrd,
hut that you can show by any document, public nr pri
vate, that they were intended to give you the authority
which you assumed, or that any such construction woa
plicedon them at anv time, by the administration, or
mynelf in particular, I believe to be impossible.
You remark that my letter of the 29lli inct. is the
first intimntion thst you had, that I had taken a differ
ent view from yourself nfyour orders. That you could
conceive that you had no intimation before, is to ore
unseenimtahle. I had supposed that the invitation of
Mr. Monroe, in his letter to you of the 20th October,
1818, with the intention that the different views, taken
by vnu and myself of the orders, should be placed on
the files of the Department, and my letter to you of the
13th April, 1828, covering a copy of my letter to Major
I.ee, in which I refer to the public documents, and pii-
vale correspondence between you and Mr. Monroe, as
containing the views taken of your orders, and the of
fer which I made to present my views more fully, if not
given sufficiently explicit in the documents referred to,
were at least an intimation that we differed in tire con
struction of the orders; and I feel assured that neither
“ mv conduct, words, actions, or letters," afford the
slightest proof to the contrary.
The charge which you have made against me, of se
cret hostility and opposition, which, if true, would so
vitally affect my character for sincerity and honor, and
which has caused a rupture in our long continued
friendship, has no other foundation but that of a dif
ference between us in the construction of your orders—
orders isaupd by myself, ihe intention of which I, of
course, could not mistake, whatever innv he their true
construction in a military point of view, and the right
and duty of interpretioc which, belonged especially tr
me, as the head of the War Department. The inert
tatement of these fuels must give rive to a tinin of re
flections, the expression of which I cannot suppress.
Your course, ns I understand it, awiimes for its
basis, that!, who, as Secretary of War, issued the or
ders, have some motive to conceal my construction of
them, ns if I had no right to form an opinion whether
the officers to whom they were given had transcended
them or not, wliiln the officer was at perfect liberty to
express and maintain Ins construction. My right, as
Secretary of War, was nt least nsperfect os yours, as
commanding officer, to judge of the true intent and lim
its of your orders, and I had no more motive to conceal
my construction ofthein than you bad to conceal yours,
The idea of concealment never entered my conception,
and to suppose it, is to suppose that I was utterly un
worthy of the office which I occupied. Why should I
conceal ? I owed no responsibility to yon; and if you
were not nl'rnid to place your constructions on your or
ders, why should I he afraid to place mine ? It was an
affair of mere official duly, involving no question of pri-
vale enmity or friendship, and sol treated it.
In conclusion, I must remark, that I hod supposed
that Ihe wont of sincerity and frankness would be the
last charge that would he brought against me. Coming
from a quarter from which I had reason to expect far
diflercnf treatment, and destitute as I know it to he, of
the slightest foundation, it could not fnil to excite led-
ings loo warm In be expressed, with a due regard to
the official relation which I bear to you.
I have the honor to lie, very respectfully,
your ob't serv't.
JOHN C. CALHOUN
General A. Jackson.
The most important part of ilic correspondence ends
here. The remainder of the pamphlet is taken up
with some seven or eight letters between Gen. Jack'
son, Mr. Calhoun and Mr. Forsyth, relating to some
minor points in the discussion, without changing the
complexion of the affair. A large portion of the pam
phlet is also occupied with the private correspondence
between Mr. Monroe and Gen. Jackson in 1818, be
sides sovernl other letters from different individuals,
illustrative of the facta heretofore set forth. Thcic, as
thoydnnot bear directly on the main question, wc
deem it unnecessary to notion,
Wc have now gnnn through with the pamphlet, and
in as concise a manner as possible, given all the im
portant facta it contains. Hut the controversy docs
not end hero. A long letter from Mr. Crawford to Mr.
Calhoun has been published; Mr. Hamilton of New
York, has laid before the public an account of the part
lie lias taken in it; which, wild several other lettera
ami newspaper paragraphs, wc shall have occasion
herraflor to notice. At present it is impossible to ex
press any correct opinion who has the right aide of tlio
question, or who is to bn henefitted by all theso disclo-
Dy the by, wo think that if the subject had
never tienn broached, it would have hern better for all
concerned. 1'he rupture has taken place, and the
breach is made so large that it will be a difficult matter
to fill it up—it now only remains to he eocn who will
sustain the greatest amount of injury by Ihia unhappy
c illisiun, for little go oil can come of it.
1hw correspondence hi a different light. I wish you to
be assured, I feel nay'confidence, that, whenever you
may be dispoved to controvert Ihe correctness of ci-
liter ray statement or conduct in this affair, I ahall he
prepared on my port to maintain the troth of the one,
and frankness, honor, and patriotism of the other,
throughout tbit whole transaction.
A few days since we received the following letter
from one oftlie gentlemen appointed to run the three
sectional linrs prescribed by law, fur the purposa of
enabling the remaining surveyors to proceed with more
accuracy. It will be gratifying to our citizens to Icnru
that the fears entertained for Ike safety oftlie survey
ors arc probably unfounded :
.‘It lti-htrance on tie tine hetreen Georgia tmdjf.
Carolina, t lli February, 1831.
Dr in Sia,—On last Monday .Mr. M’Gill and myself,
without surveying corpj, ascended the mountain at the
\. W. corner of Rabun county, and when reaching the
lop and finding the corner, we were unable to proceed
to the west on the line between Georgia ana North
Carolina, the mountain bring very steep, and almoat
■ nlircly covered with snow and ice on the North aide.
Yesterday morning wc attempted again to start our
survey from the same point, hut could not, for althnogh
it was cloudy and not very cold in the valley, two miles
south, the flag-staff could not be discovered at thedis-
tance of one chain ahead ol'ihe compass fur fog, and
also the rain for a few minutes fell and sleeted, and
soon followed a smart snow. So we were compelled
to return to our packs in the valley. This morning we
proceeded down one oftlie folks of llighwassee about
seven miles, then we turned to North about three miles,
until we reached the Georgia boundary at an old Indi
an’s called'*’the Snail,” on Dell Creek. Here wo di
vided our-company; Mr, M’Gill with the one, run to the
east for the corner of Rabun, and myself with the other
tun to the west, ami found the line plainly marked to
this place, a distance of four miles. The 'Indiana arc
entirely friendly, and we learn that Ihe head men
suiting them have been travelling to and fro, (since
they have heard oftlie arrival ol the Surveyors in thia
quarter,) urging rite Indians t n treat the Surveyors well,
ami to Iiavo no difficulties with them whatever. We
liml some trifling while men near Ihe N. W. corner of
Rahim county, that ate endeavoring to confuse the
poor Indians. They have been loo bad to live in North
Carolina; they don’t like the Georgia laws, and not
good enough to live among the Indians.
EDWARD LLOYD THOMAS.
tionory tr.aascrca, wbi hr.w to for consult thtiroa a in
terest. and their duty to society, as to set themselves
seriously about it.
From the Charleston Courier.
Tho following extract front those highly re
spectable Physicians, Mitchell and Bell, on
Variolous Diseases, meets,we understand,tho
views of Ihe Faculty in this city, at thu pre
sent day, and must therefore be interesting to
our readers :
A careful perusal of the preceding history
of the eruptive fever in Philadelphia, during
the years 1823, and 1824, will, wo think, lead
our readers to join us in the following inferen
ces.
1. That the fever, followed by an eruption
which underwent the several stages, papular,
vesicular, nod pustular, and occurring duting
the above years in persons who hod never
been vaccinated or inoculated, or had small
pox, was, in its train of symptoms, genernl
physiognomy, and results, precisely similar Ip
tho natural small pox, as it has prevailed and
been described in former years, and in other
countries.
2. That this disease, distressing to the per
son laboring under it, and disgusting to all
those in attendance, is usually violent, never
without danger, and always in large proportion
of any known treatment, is of fatal termination.
3. The unsusccptibilily of persons who
have once had the small pox to a second at
tack, though of general notoriety and truth, is
not universal, and that with us, ns elsewhere,
persons, thus apparently protected, were sei
zed with the disease, of which some of them
died.
4. That inoculation of the small pox, though
in general conferring on the person subjected
to this process, immunity from the effects of
variolous contagion in after life,does notncces'
snrily or infallibly guaranty him against the
disease, nor prevent death when it has made
its invasion.
5. That vaccination cannot now, any more
than on iu first introduction, be received as a
certain preventive to the effects of the vario
lous poison, though now, B9 formerly, it must
bo considered as the best and safest with which
we are acquainted.
G. That occasionally under all circumstan
ces of exposure, but more especially during
the epidemic prevalence of small pox, its con-
tngion will affect the inoculated and the vaC'
ciliated, and produce in them n fever and erup-
lion, differing in no essential feature from the
primary variolous disease, except in the ge
neral mildness and speedier subsidence of the
cutaneous disorder, and the more common
exemption from secondary fever.
7. That, of the inoculated and the vaccina
ted exposed to the variolous poison, the for
mer will more probably escape its influence
limn the latter : but, if both bo affected by this
contagion, the chances of rocovory are in fa
vor of the vaccinated.
8. That the protecting powor of the vaccine
virus on persons who have been duly subject
ed to its influence, is not diminished or de
stroyed by the length of time from its ■first in
troduction into the bodies of such persons ;
and that no proportion whatever exists between
its efficacy, and tho recency or remoteness of
tho epoch, when the constitution was pluced
under tho influence of this virus.
9. That there is no renson lor believing in
tho deterioration or alteration of the vnccine
virus, which is used nt (his time, from that
which was in use during the first years of the
practice of vaccination.
Liberty, Lincoln, Madison, McIn
tosh, Meriwether, Muscogee, Pike,
Pulaski, Scriven, Talbot, Taliaferro,
Troup, Twiggs, Upson, and Wilkin
son, 29 counties,
To 1 member—Appling, Raker,
Bryan, Bulloch, Dooly, Early, Ef
fingham, Emanuel, Glynn, Irwin,
Lee, Lowndes, Marion, Montgome
ry, Rabun, Randolph, Tattnall, Tel-
fair, Thomas, Ware, Wayne, Heard,
and Stewart, 23 counties
58
23
161
Jasper, Jones, Putnam, Twiggs and Witkea,
will lose each one member.—Geo. Journal.
The following is copied from the Raleigh
Register, an old respectable paper, which is
not supposed to have for either Mr. Crawford
or Mr. Calhoun any strong prepossession
Southern Recorder.
“ Since our last, the friends of Mr. Craw
ford have published a letter written by him to
Mr. Calhoun, and referred to in the corres
pondence, as having been returned unanswered
by the Tice President. After having read
this letter, wc are not surprised that Mr. Cal
houn pursued the course he did. It is in vain
that we recur to it, for tho evidence of decay
ed intellect. It is characterised throughout,
by a vigor of thought and force of reasoning
worthy of his best days. It is certainly ns
severe as language could make it, but this is
not to be wondered nt, when it is borne in
mind, that Mr. Calhoun established the Wash
ington Republican (as Mr. Crawford soys)
for tho express purpose of vilifying his charac
ter, and when ho has good reason to believe
also, that the AVntan Edniards’ plot origina
ted with him. Most persons will, wo think,
be apt to coincide with us in opinion, thst tin's
letter of Mr. Crawford’s places his conduct
with regard to the revival of this obsolete
matter, in a moro favorable point of view than
it before stood in. Though he may yet be
mistaken in his recollection of some minor
facts, bis letter contains internal evidence
that he aims at the truth, the whole truth, and
nothing but the truth.”
From all the information ore can obtain on the sub
ject, it appears that the suull Pox is spreading all
•round us-in North and South Carolina, and Tonnes-
me, it has existed to an alarming degree, and some ca-
aea have occurred in this Slate. In thia time of danger,
when the contagion is spreading far and vridc, we know
not that we can offer any thing more acceptable to our
readers than the following on the subject of the Variolous
Diaease, and the effect of vaccination. After all that
hat been «aid and writtenon this subject, the numerous
and well authenticated fact* of tho efficacy of vaccina*
tion, and the fallowing opinion, sanctioned by a late*
body of respectable pliyniciana, it doc* appear manifest,
that those who have hitherto neglected taking precan.
Census of Georgia—Legislative Represen
tation.—According to Iho federal census for
1880, which the directors of the Central Bank
havo adopted for tho apportionment tu tho
counties of disposable funds, tho State con
tains a population of 618.335. By deducting
two-fifth* of the coloured population, tho re
presentative population amounts to 429,909.
The State census is to bo taken this year, and
it will be according to this census tbnt a new
apportionment of representatives among tho
several counties of the State, will be made by
tho next Legislature. The increase of popu
lation, since ihe census of 1830, will be very
small; therefore, the statement we make of
the prohablo number of tbo House of Repre
sentatives of 1832, will not much vary from
tho apportionment tr.ado bv the legislature.
Tito counties of Glynn and Thomas may have
so increased their population, oa to be entitled
each to two representatives.
The number of senators at the last session
of the legislature was,
Add two now counties organized,
Tho number of representatives was,
140
Two members for Heard and Slew-
art Counties, 2
Number of members in the next le
gislature,
-142
220
The legislature of 1832, if no new coun
ties are organized, will bo composed of
senators,
Representatives,
Increase
Counties which will be entitled to 4
members, Gwinnett and Monroe
To 3 members—Burke, Chatham,
Clark, Columbia, DeKalb, Elbert,
Franklin, Greene, Habersham, Hall,
Hancock, Henry. Jackson, Jasper,
Jones, Morgan, Newton, Oglethorpe,
Putnam, Richmond, Walton, War
ren, Washington, and Wilkes, 241
counties.
To 2 members—Baldwin, Bibb,
Rults Camden, Campbell, Carroll,
Coweta, Crawford, Decatur, Fayette,
Harris, Houston, Jefferson, Laureoa,
78
161
239
19
72
It is rumoured that efforts are making to
bring Col. Troup out as a candidate for Go
vernor at tho next election. We know not
the motive which may actuate those who wish
to bring about such a thing, but .whatever
they may bo we hope the attempt will be on
successful—Col. Troup is now in a situation
where he can probably reodor the State moro
service than in any other, and to place him in
the executive chair would deprive us of tho
services of Mr. Gilmer. We are not apprt
sed that Mr. Gilmer feels any disposition to
decline being a candidate, and if he does
not, we see no reason why he should not be
elected for another term. So far as we have
been conversant with the acts of his adminis
tration and are capable of judging of them,
they have had in view tho promotion of the
interest of the country,and have been success
ful in affecting that object. In thia, as in all
other situations in which tho confidence of the
people has placed him, he has shrunk from no
duty which his situation required of him ; nor
has he forgotten ur neglected the interest of
the people. As a member of Congress he
stood among the foremost in zeal, fidelity and
ability; as Governor, wo have marked no
change in his conduct But we understand it
is proposed to call on Gov. Troup as n candi
date, for the purpose of healing our divisions
and uniting the party. If divisions have grown
up amongst us, we hod as well pul down at
once thoso who are disposed to create them.
We cannot always call upon him to assist us
when discontented men mny attempt to create
divisions, nor do we think that he ought to be
called on to run against every man whoso
overweening vanity may whisper to him that
his claims are such as entitle him to be Go
vernor—and besides, if our pnrty has no long
er energy and firmness enough to discounte
nance such attempts, and to put down those
who make them, it is no longer worth preser
ving. Let those who will thrust themselves
forward uncalled for, and to tho injury of the
party, be thrust down without ceremony.—
Columbus Enquirer.
Indian Affair.—It is reported, on authority
of a gentleman lately from the south eastern
part of Alabama, that the inhabitants of Pike
county, in that State, dissatisfied at the length
of road they had to wagon their cotton to the
Chattahoochee opposite Fort Gaines, deter-
mined to remedy the difficulty by cutting from
the eastern line of their county, a road of
twenty-five miles, direct through the Creek
territory, to a populous Indian village on tho
banka of the Chattahoochee, (thirty-five miles
below Columbus) and there lay off a town.—
They went to work accordingly, and had pro
ceeded with their road to a stout brook within
three miles of the Indian village, when their
operations were arrested by the Creeks. The
cutters went back to Pike county, and. having
obtained there an armed force, returned to the
Indian lands, opened the road to tho river, and
laid off the village into a town. The Indians
are said to be highly exasperated, intend to
apply to the Gen. Government for redress,
and declare that they will, in the meanwhile,
destroy any buildings which tho Alabamians
may erect on the site of their village. Such
is the report, and as such we give it.—Macon
Telegraph.
Coal.—Wo learn that good specimens of
this mineral fuel havo been obtained from a
bluff on the Chattahoochee, in Ihe thirty-third
district of Randolph county, about twelve
miles below Columbus. We have not henrd
that the extent of the stratum has been ascer
tained. Should it provo large, it will, from
the facility of transportation, be, at no distant
day to the proprietor, a source of wealth less
precarious th in any gold mine hitherto worked
on the continent.—Ibid.
It is Stated in a letter received at N« w y,J
from Illinois, dated at the Man,re s«u| tr) . ''I
about twenty miles north of 6t | l0UlN
the weather lias been intensely coid, and itT
quantity of snow that had fullen was vp'*I
great. The letter was written on the last^il
January, at which time the earth had
covered with a deep coating of snow fur
than six weeks. The difficulty in g f „ '■
mast was so great, that the wi'd game car I
around the tetllements in great numbers. t ,!|
herds of deer and flocks of wild tnrkiea ,
prairie fowls, impelled by hunger, venter,i|
quite within Ihe enclosures of the farmer,..I
so that it was n common thing to shoot ti,,' 1
from the doors of the dwellings.—Sat. R t p
Mr. Hayne’s Speech—Vie have read iv,,), I
much satisfaction the able and cnnrlun, a L
speech of Mr. Haynes of Georgia in favour ^1
the reduction of the duty on brown sugu f
Mr. H. hns investigated this important sul.j-rj I
very thoroughly, and presented a mass of i n .|
formation to Congress which is highly <-reditx.|
hie to hts industry and talents, and inlerettin»|
to the community.—Boston Statesman. 0 *
Washington, Feb. 22.—The Choctaw Tre;.
ty, which has been for some time before ii, e |
Senate, was yesterday ratified by that bod* |
ayes 35, nocs 12. The injunction of secr c .I
cy was removed from the proceeding* on th e l
Treaty, and if, on examination, they shall ap-B
pear In possess sufficient interest, wc will ,',*1
them before our readers. 1
Tn Philadelphia, on the 22d ult. a child, thcl
son of n dentist in Second-street, met hjl
death in a manner somewhat extraordinary,!
and which merits notice by way of monition,!
While at school, the tutor discovered that niv I
ny of his children were chewing Gum Elastic,!
(f .ndiari Rubber) and issued an order of chus.l
tisement against those who were detected,!
The boy in question having n piece in hit|
month, immediately swallowed it to avoid dts.
covcry. It swelled in his abdomen, or when I
ever it lodged, with such rapidity as to eausi
his death a few hour* afterwards.
concuss.
In the Senate, oo the 26th. the bill granting
the assent of Congress to an act of the Genoa!
Assembly of Ohio, for creeling toll gates, Sic. I
and otherwise providing for Ihe preservation I
and repair of the U .S. road within the itmitt I
of that State, was rend the third time, and [
passed, 29 to 7. Mr. Hay tie from the select I
committee, to which was referred sundry me.
morials, praying for a reduction of the duties
on imported iron : nnd others, remonstrating
against the reduction, made a report in favor
of reduction, which was subsequently ordered
to be primed.
In the House of Representatives, Mr. Huff,
man from the committee on Naval Affairs, to
which was referred the letter of the Secretary
of (ho Navy of the 7th of January upon the
subject of Live Oak Timber in Florida, tnudo
a report thereon,accompanied by a bill to pro
vide for Ihe punishment ol offences in cutt'ng,
destroying or removing live oak and other
timber, or trees reserved for Naval purposes:
which having been twice read, Mr. H. moved I
that it be ordered to bo engrossed and read
a third time to-morrow. The II. resumed tho
consideration of the resolution moved by Mr,
Haynes of Georgia, on the 11th January last,
to reduce the duty on Sugar. Mr. White of
Louisiana addressed the House against tho
resolution and in reply to Mr. Hnynes. untit
12 o’clock, when the hour having expired for
discussing resolutions, the House by a vote of
two thirds, suspended llto rule till nuo oVIurli,
and then for half an hour longer, to permit
Mr. W. to continue his remarks ; hut he had
not concluded, nt the expiration of the time,-
nnd the House proceeded to other businesr.
The engrossed bill making provision for a
subscription to a compilation ofCongresstnual
documents, was rend a third timo, and passed.
In the Senate, on the 28lh, Mr. Hendricks
of Indiana rose and announced the death <>f
his colleague, Iho Hon. James Noble, who
for Ihe last fifteen years has been a member ot
(lint body. After the usual resolutions weto
passed, the body of the deceased, was brought
into the Chamber of the Senate, and placed
in front of the Secretary’s desk. Soon after
which, the House of Representatives, prece
ded by their Speaker and Clerk, together with
their Sargennt nt Atms, entered the Chamber
and were immediately followed by the Presi
dent of the United States, the Heads of De-
partition s, and the Judges of the Supreme
Court, who respectively took the seats pre
pared for them. The Chaplain to the Senate
(tho Rev. Air. Johns) then rose and delivered
an eloquent nnd very impressive addresf,
which was followed by a fervent prayer by the
Rev. Mr. Gurley, the Chaplain to the House.
A procession was then formed, nnd proceeded
to the Eustern Branch burial ground, where
tho remains of the deceased were solemnly in
terred. At half past one o’clock the Scnsto
ngain assembled. Mr. Dickerson then pre
sented a paper, which ho stated to be the
views of tho minority of the Select Commit
tee ; but tho Chair declared that it could not
bo received ns such. Mr. D. then presented
it as an individual Senator. The General
Appropriation Bill, as amended, was read the
third time, and passed. The Senate met
again at six o’clock, and continued iu session
till 11. A great number of bills was passed,
hut nothing of material importance was trans
acted. The Rail Road bill was passed with
an amendment conformable to the resolutions
of the Corporation of Washington, publithed
a few days ago.
In tho House of Representatives, after tho
Journal of the preceding day had been read,
Mr. Test, of Indiana, announced to tho
House the death of Mr. Noble, a Senator
from that State, and moved the usual resolu
tions for attending his funeral, and for wearing
crape one month, as a mask of respect for tbt.