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AUGUSTA.
FRIDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 7.
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Election ol Printcr—Georgin Delegation.
In accordance with our promise yesterday, we
give this morning the vote in the House of Rep
resentatives, on the Election of Printer, by which
it will be seen (hat two of the Georgia delegation,
Messrs. Black and Cooper, voted for Blair &
Rives. Notwithstanding the repeated assertions
of letter writers and the press, that these gcntle
; men would support Blair & Rives, we confes 8
that their vote lias astonished us.
They were selected by the State Rights parly
of Georgia, and placed in nomination, because of
their uniform opposition to the corruptions of the
present administration, as well as for the high
stand which they have occupied in Georgia; and
not with any expectation however remote, that
they would thus early have enrolled themselves
in the support of the administration by their vote
. in favor of its prostituted organ. Had such an
. impression existed, they could not have received
-1 the vote of the opposition for their scats. That
" this is a candid and fair statement, no one will
deny, who is conversant with the wishes and
feelings of that portion of the voters in Georgia,
who supported Messrs. Black and Cooper. In vo
ting, therefore, for the administration organ, they
- have misrepresented their constituents, and done
violence to the conlidencc which has been repos-
Js ed in them.
In speaking of this vote, we to speak
frankly, for we think the occasion demands it a 1
our hands. If these gentlemen intended giving
in their adhesion to the administration, they have
certainly imposed upon the confidence of the
people, and it was a duty which they owed no
’ less to candor and consistency than to their sup
. porters, to have resigned the office which they
' had been elected to fill. During the canvass
we supported them, and did so cheerfully be
cause we believed them “above suspicion.” We
have been deceived. They do not represent us,
nor do they, we repeat, represent the wishes and
feelings of their constituents; and we know little
■ of that portion of the people by whose support
they acquired their seats in the House, if they do
not speak in a language which these gentlemen
* cannot mistake, when their claims are again pre
< sented.
We supported these gentlemen, with a full
knowledge of their predilections for the Sub
| Treasury, and have always felt content that they
■ should give to that measure, or any other pro
posed by the administration, an honest and inde
pendent support; but we confess our utter aston
: ishment at the vote they have cast for the Editors
,of (he Globe as public printers! If there be
any one newspaper in the Union, more vile, hate
j ful, and accursed in the eyes of the State Rights
; party of Georgia than all others, it is the Globe!
J We look upon it as a moral prostitution of the
J high office of Representation, apart from all politi
\ cal considerations, to have cast such a vote! We
% do not believe that there arc five hundred State
. ! Rights men in all Georgia who would sanction
fi it! Even those of uur party who lean towards
Mr. Van Burcn, loathe and detest his organ.
> For Blair & Rives. —Messrs. J. Allen, H.
■ |J. Anderson, Atherton, Banks, Beatty, Beirnc,
.BLACK, Blackwell, Boyd, Brewster, A. V.
•. Brown, A. G. Brown, Burke, S. H. Butler, W.
O. Butler, Bynum, Carr, Carroll, Casey, Chap
man, Clifford, Coles, Connor, M. A. COOPER,
.Craig, Crary, Cross, Th. Davee, John Davis, J.
W. Davis, Doan, Doig, Dromgoole, Duncan,
ft Earl, Eastman, Ely, Fine, Fisher, Fletcher,
Floyd, Fornance, Gerry, Griffin, Hammond,
Hand, John Hastings, Hawkins, Hill of North
Carolina, Hollcman, Holmes, Hook, Howard,
Jackson, Jameson, Jos. Johnson, N. Jones, J. W.
Jones, Keim, Kemble, Lcadbctter, Lect, Leonard,
Lewis, Lowell, Lucas, McClellan, McCulloh,
Marchand, Mcdill, Miller, Montanya, Montgo
mery, S. 11. Morris, Newhard, Parrish, Parmen
tcr, Partis, Pay; iter, Petriken, Pickens, Prentiss,
Ramsey, Reynolds, Rheti, Rives, Robinson, E.
Rogers, Samuels, Shaw, A. Smith, Tho. Smith,
Steenrod, Strong, Sumpter, Sweeny, Taylor, F.
Thomas, P. F. Thomas, Jas. Thompson, Turney,
Vanderpool, D. D. Wagener, Watterson, Weller,
i Wick, J. W. Williams, Hen. Williams, Worth
ington and Mallory—llo.
For Gales & Seaton. —Messrs, Adams, Al
ford, S. H. Anderson, Andrews, Baker, Barnard,
Bell, Bond, Botts, Briggs, Brockway, Calhoun,
W. B. Campbell, Carter, Crittenden, Jas. Coop
er. Corwin, Crabb, Cranston. Crockett, Curtis,
Cushing, E. Davies, Gar. Davis, Dawson, Deber
ry, Dillet, Edwards, Evans, Fillmore, R. Garland,
i gentry, Giddings, Goggin, Goode, Graham,
•Singer, Graves, Green, Grinnel, Habersham,
/ W. S. Hastings, Henry, Hill of Virginia,
Hoffman, Hunt, James, Jenifer, Chs. Johnson,
MW. C. Johnson, Kempshall, Lawrence, Lincoln,
Rlarvin, Monroe, Morgan, Naylor, Nisbet, Ogle,
JSpsborne, Palen, Peck, Pope, Proffit, Randall,
•Randolph, Rariden, Rayner, Reed, Ridgway, Rus
fsell. Sergeant, Simonton, Slade, Truman Smith,
ipianly.Slorrs, Stuart, W. Thompson,Tillinghast,
fFoland, Triplett, Trumbull, Underwood, P. J.
fWagner. Warren, John White, Th. W. Wil-
Ifiarns, Lewis Williams, Jos. L. Williams, and
HShorrod Williams—92.
II For Th. W. White. —Messrs. Wise, and
MHunter, Speaker.
| Foil Jacob Gideon. —Mr. Jas. Garland—i.
] Fur S. Stamrauoh. —Mi. Hopkins—l.
* For Duff Green —Mr. Mitchell— l.
SThe aggregate amount of losses by fires in the
ity of New York within the last three months is
aid to be at least three millions of dollars!
Congress.
From the National Intelligencer of the Ist in
stant we extract a brief sketch of the proceedings
of both Houses on the day previous.
IN SENATE.
The Vice President communicated to the
Senate a report from the Secretary of War, in
compliance with a resolution, containing ccitain
surveys of harbors, &c.
, Also, a petition from Jehiel Brooks.
Mr. Clat presented two memorials, one from
citizens of Pennsylvania, and another from citi
zens of Massachusetts, asking tho influence of
Government in the creation of a Congress to put
an end to war, which they regard as unchristian
and disastrous.
Mi. Clay said that one of the memorialists had
requested him to move to refer it to a select com
mittee, but he would not do it; if, however, any
other gentleman would do so, he would acquiesce
in it. lie very much doubted, however, in the
present state of human society, whether these me
morialists could attain their humane wishes. He
thought associations of this kind, temperance so
cieties, and others, very good when they confined
their influence to the judgments, the interests, or
even religion of individuals if they pleased; but
when they came to Legislatures to say what
should go into the mouth, and what come out of
it, they bounded out of their proper sphere, and
produced resistance rather than good.
Petitions were then presented by several Sen
ators.
Mr. Grundt, from the select committee to
whom their former report on Mr. Benton’s reso
lutions respecting the debts of the States had
been re-committed, returned that report to the
Senate having some portions of it which had
been objected to stricken out or modified, and
one of the concluding resolutions slightly a
mended.
The debate upon it was continued through the
day by Messrs. Clay of Kentucky, Grundt,
Kins, Hubbard, Merrick, Preston, South
ard, and Wrisht.
Mr. Benton asked that the usual number of
the report might be printed; but the motion was '
not urged, on the ground that it would cause de- J
bate. The subject being passed over informally,
The Senate held an Executive session, and
then adjourned. * |
In the House, the day was spent in an effort ,
to elect a committee of inquiry concerning the 1
mode of executing the public printing, without .
coming to any result, as the body adjourned in j
great confusion, after tho first ballot, without i
announcing the vote. i
Since the foregoing was in type, we perceive ,
by the Globe of the Ist inst., that three of the I
five members of the committee were elected, viz.
Messrs. Black of Georgia, Davis of Indiana, and J
Prentiss of New York, all supporters of the (
Kitchen Editors. An admirable committee, truly, i
to enquire into the mode of executing the public 1
printing. Quere —Would it not have been as
well to have made Blair & Rives the committee 1
The Philadelphia Inquirer of the 30th says :
We learn with pleasure that the difficulty between
the Baltimore and Philadelphia Rail Road Com
pany and the Postmaster General, is likely to be
amicably adjusted.
The Washington correspondent of the New
York Courier writes that the indemnity paid by
the British Government to our Minister in Lon
don, for the wrecked American slaves set free
some years ago in the Bahamas, averages about
SSOO for each.
A letter from Harrisburg dated Tuesday, and
posted at the Philadelphia Exchange, says—“A
bill passed the House on a second reading, this
morning, by a vote of 67 to 28, directing the
Banks of the Commonwealth to resume specie
i payments for all their notes and liabilities (except
i such deposits as the Banks have agreed with the
i depositors shall be paid in current Bank notes,)
i on the 14lh of February.”
The Philadelphia Inquirer of the 30th, says:
“We have a letter from Capt. Pedrick, at Port
Penn., dated 27th Jan. Reports no new arrivals.
The only vessel to be seen below is the schr La
■ grange, lying in the mouth of Duck Creek. No
prospect of tho vessels moving. Ice very heavy
and weather thick—wind west.”
I
Norfolk, Feb. 1.
1 Schr. James Russel Abandoned.—Capt.
’ Besse of schr. Stranger, at this port from St.
1 Thomas, has politely furnished us with the fol
-1 lowing account of the loss of the above schr.
■ “St. Piere, (Mart.) Jan. 13, 1840.
> “Please report that on the 26th Dec. last, on
my passage from Washington, N. C, to this port
I fell in with the wreck of the schr. James Rus
sel, 14 days from New York, bound to Rich
’ mond, Va. She was in a sinking condition and
1 without provisions—took from her Capt. Dennis
and four men.
F. F. MEANS,
Master of schr. Compeer, of Ellsworth.
I
Correspondence of the National Intelligencer.
' New York, Jan. 30.
As a proof of the depression of business here
, the Times to-day states that the auction houses
i have already had applications for the sale of the
furniture of over three hundred families prior to
May Ist, and the Times has no doubt that a thou.
, sand families at the least will then break up
< house-keeping. February Ist is the day in this
city on which, by custom, all tenants are called
, upon to decide as to the keeping or abandoning
■ of the premises they have.
j There has been, to-day, a curious and a novel
sale, at auction, viz: of U. S. Bank notes protes
-1 ted, and security for the payment of the same
having been given in execution. The sales were
of—
-538,000 bills marked 18th October, at 97
10.000 do do 18th do at 96$
i ■ 5,090 do do 19th Nov. at 96
! 2,000 do do Bth Jan. at 96
10.000 do do 15th do at 96
which is only about 4 per cent, less than specie
or New \ ork funds, and higher than tho current
rate ol exchange on Philadelphia. The sale has
attracted a good deal of attention, and it was sup
posed in some quarters that it would show a be
lief, on the part of bidders, of great weakness in
the bank.
The sky is so clouded to-day, and tho air so
r °sgy, that wo can hardly see to read or write
without a candle. The January thaw is upon us,
and our snow is all gone. Such is the condition
of the streets that there is but little out-door busi
ness. The stock market is yet on the decline.
U. S. Bank stands at 77. There is nothing new
in the money world.
Extract of a letter received in Charleston, dated
“ New-York, January 30.
“We have never felt confidence in the arrival
of the British Queen, as we think but too few pas
sengers would offer, to induce the Company to
incur the certain loss of a January voyage. We
must, therefore, depend upon sails’ until the Stea
mer Liverpool’s turn, which was the 20th instant
from that port.— Char. Cour. Ath instant.
Tough Weather. —ln Franconia, N. H., on
Friday, January 17th, the spirit thermometer fell
to thirty-seven degrees below zero, and the mer
cury to forty degrees below zero. In Spring
field, Mass., the thermometer, on the same morn
ing, was thirty degrees below zero.
From the Baltimore American.
North Eastern Boundary Question.
In the correspondence which has been pub
lished between the official agents of the American
and British governments, in reference to tho dis
puted boundary on the North East frontier of
Maine, the first complaint is made in a letter
from the British minister, Mr. F ix, to the De
partment of State at Washington. As the issue
of the controversy is yet uncertain, it may be well
to recapitulate the chief items that go to make up
the sum of the matter in dispute, that in case the
termination should be serious we may not be un
informed concerning the first steps of the progres
sive difficulty. Mr. Fox, in his letter of Novem
ber 2nd 1839, to Mr. Forsyth, complains: Ist,
That the armed posse stationed by the State of
Maine for the protection of the public property
in the disputed territory had extended its opera
tions from the valley of the Aroostook to the
mouth of Fish river into the valley of St. John’s,
and thus into a portion of the Madawaska settle
ment.—2ndly, That the establishments formed
by the armed parties on tho banks both of the
Aroostook and Fish river had assumed an aspect
decidedly military, indicating the intent of a per
manent national possession, being fortified with
entrenchments and cannon and garrisoned by a
number of armed men far greater than the occa
sion would warrant. 3dly, That a permanent
State road was under construction leading into
the valley of the Aroostook with the view of con
necting that portion of the disputed territory with
the towns of Augusta and Bangor, and other ac
knowledged parts of the State of Maine. 4thly,
That land surveyors under the authority of the
State were employed in marking out lots and
townships within the same portion of the dispu
ted territory; that sales of lands were made with
deeds regularly drawn under the authority of
Maine.
A statement of those charges being communi
cated to Governor Fairfield by the Department of
State, his excellency answers that the armed pos
se complained of in the first instance consisted of
twenty-five labourers, with muskets, who had
been despatched to Fish river and the St. John’s
to disperse a body of trespassers who had been
engaged in cutting timber on those rivers; that
this region was not within the Madawaska settle
ment, but twenty-five miles below it; but that
whether it were or not, there was in this act no
violation of the compact of last Spring, which al
lowed to cither party the right of driving trespas
sers from the disputed territory. In the second
place, that the party on the Aroostook, though
somewhat larger, had been despatched for a simi
lar purpose; they had extended a boom across that
river to stop descending rafts of timber; and they
had constructed a fortification for their own de
fence which was guarded by two small pieces of
artillery. If this were any infringement of the
compact, the complaint certainly came with a bad
grace from the British Government, since this ve
ry detachment had been attacked in their fort by
a party of men, bearing the Queen’s arms and
commanded by a veteran militia captain. With
regard to the third and fourth allegations, the
Governor replied that Maine was only doing
what she had hitherto been accustomed to do in
that part of the territory over which she had al
ways exercised authority. The State road was
begun in 1826, and had been in progress over
since. It was necessary as a means of access to
the timber country, in order that trespassers might
be reached and held in check. The surveying
and selling of lands south of the St. John’s and
upon the Aroostook had been going on, more or
less, for the last thirty years. The compact en
tered into last spring by the meditation of Gen.
Scott, allowed each patty to hold such portions
of the territory lying between their respective li
mits as each had exercised authority over before.
The course of Maine had indicated no disposition
to go beyond this limitation. The British Gov
ernment had erected barracks and stationed troops
north of the St. John’s and was in the habit of
transporting armed men and munitions of war
across that portion of the territory, at its own
pleasure.
The next step in the matter is the stationing
of two companies of British troops at Temiscoun
ta Lake, which Gov. Fairfield remonstrated
against; and he gave official information of the
same to the President of the United States. Our
readers have been put in possession of the partic
ulars relative to this part of the subject. Here
the whole controversy stands suspended for the
present. As the issue now lies between the Gen
eral Government and the British Cabinet, rather
than between the State of Maine and the Provin
cial Authorities, we may reasonably expect that
less irritation of feeling and more of circumspect
and calm proceeding will mark the future course
of action on both sides.
The New Orleans Bulletin of tho 28th inst.
says;—ln the city of Sabine, recently, three hun
dred and sixty-five lots were offered and sold for
the sum of $250,000. Improvements were pro
gressing rapidly. The steamboat Putnam was
running the Sabine, and had engaged to bring
down 4000 bales of cotton. The proceedings in
the Congress of Texas were devoid of interest,—
The bill closing the land office, and stopping the
location of land, was lost in the House of Reprc
resentatives—so tho matter is put at rest for tho
session. The treaty with France has been rati
fied by the Senate.
Texas.— The steam ship Neptune,
from Galveston, arrived last night, bringing dates
from that city up to the 26th January. The N.
has performed the voyage with a large cargo in
the short space of seven days,
Mr. Saligny, minister from France, arrived in
Galveston, on the 24th, Congress is expected
soon to adjourn— N. O. Courier, 30 th ult.
Louisiana—Another Vacancy in Con
gress Supreme Court.— The nomin&lion of
tho Honorable Rice Garland, to be Judge of the
Supremo Court, was confirmed by the Senate
yesterday.
We understand Mr. Garland will resign his
seat in Congress immediately on being notified
ofhis appointment. There will then hare to be
a special election for Congress to fill the vacancy
early in the spring. It is also understood that
the Whig party throughout the district, have
united on the Hon. John Moore, of Attakapas,
as the Whig candidate to succeed Mr. Garland.
—A. O. True American.
fYom the Baltimore Post.
Talley randiann.
A needy fellow, as a last excuse for some pal
try action, by which he had obtained a supply of
money, said, “At all events, I must live—
“ Really I don’t sec why," was tho cutting an
swer of Talleyrand. Another person who had
enriched himself by every species of fraud, ex
claimed on some occasion—“ upon my honor /”
‘Oh!’ said the wit, very dryly, ‘let us not talk
of such small matters !’ Being asked if a noted
blue stocking was not somewhat tiresome, ‘No !’
said he, ‘she is perfectly tiresome.’
A certain Mr. Sourches, a little, ugly, dark
looking fop, was always endeavoring to insinuate
that he was very acceptable to the ladies, and in
variably successful in his gallantries. One night,
as he was leaving a brilliant soiree, he said—
“ This was tho first time for two years that I have
slept at home.” Talleyrand after glancing at the
owl looking figure before him, exclaimed, ‘ per
haps, sir, you go to roost /’ On another occa
sion, the same ungainly person was annoying u
company with a zealous eulogy of his defunct
mother’s beauty. Talleyrand cat him short by
saying—‘lt was then yonr father who apparently
was not over-handsome ?”
In a literary party, during the directory, a rich
and stupid fellow, equally ignorant of literature
and good manners, began a violent tirade against
wit, saying it was the cause of all the evils in so
ciety, and wound up by exclaiming that wit had
ruined France. ‘ln that case,' said Talleyrand,
with a very grave face, ‘why don’t you try to
save the commonwealth?’
Napolean’s Consular Guard was composed of
tall and strong-bailt men, more remarkable for
their courage and fidelty, than for the elegance
of their manners. Some one was praising tho
beauty of Madam de Luchesini, (lady of the
Prussian ambassador,) a colossal, rough-looking
and very masculine dame. ‘I could select a per
son of equal charma from the Consular Guard,’
said our caustic wit.
When Madam de Stael published her delight
ful novel of ‘Delphine,’ she was thought to have
painted herself in brilliant, in the dauntless char
acter of the heroine, and that of Talleyrand in
that of an elderly lady. ‘I am teld,’ said he, the
first time he met her after the publication, ‘ that
we both figure in your novel disguised as wo
men!”
M. d’ Estoormcl was one of those who thought
with Falstaff, that ‘the better part of valor is dis
cretion.’ He was however forced into a duel,
and received a ball in his belly. Some one rela
ted this to Talleyrand, who exclaimed, ‘What!
he has a ball in his belly ! he must liave swallow
ed it then 1’
‘During my whole life,’ said Rhulhieres, ‘I was
only guilty of one ill-natured thing.’ ‘And when
will that end?' said Talleyrand. Speaking of
some female bore, he said, ‘she is intolerable !’—
but, as if he had gone too far, he immediately ad
ded—‘but that is her only fault !’
The Prince was intimate with a diplomatic per
sonage of vast pretensions but of very shallow
intellect, who was always tormenting him for an
autograph letter, which he wished to present to a
young lady for her album. At last our wit, to
punish him for his importunity, wrote him the
following billet: ‘My dear sir—l have invited to
dinner some very witty persons. Will you favor
us with your company ?—in which case I will not
be the only imbecile of the party 1’
A person who had been a great reprobate, was
expiating his crimes by a dreadful deathbed
‘Oh!’ he exclaimed, ‘I suffer the pains of hell!’
‘What, already /’ whispered Talleyrand.
Louis Phillippe is said to speculate very large
ly in the funds, the operations of which are car
ried on at the Royal Exchange. Talleyrand, ri
ding through Paris with a stranger, was asked by
him the name, of an extensive building, pointing
to the Exchange. ‘That is the King’s Palace,’
said the Prince.
The New Orleans Bulletin says:—A rumor is
afloat that Gen. Armstrong, Postmaster at Nash
ville, is to succeed Amos Kendall as Postmaster
General. Gen. Armstrong is spoken of as an
honest man, and very capable public officer.
We heard a rumor yesterday, that evidence has
recently been discovered, of the purchase some
time since, by Levis, the fraudulent Cashier, of
English hills of Exchange to a considerable
amount.— Phila. Inq,
From the N. Y. Commercial Advertiser, Jan. 28.
Dcnth of Commodore Chnuncey.
Another brave heart beats no more. Commo
dore Isaac Chauncey, one of the senior officers
of the navy, and President of the Board of Na
vy Commissioners, died at Washington on Mon
day last.
We have not the means directly at hand for
sketching the life ot this brave, patriotic and tru
ly estimable man. He has passed his life in the
service, having in his boyhood served with the old
commodores in the navy, Our first personal ac
quaintance with him was formed during the win
ter of 1812-13, at Sackett’s Harbor.
When, during the war then waging between
the United States and Great Britain, the British
were increasing their navy on Lake Ontario, un
der the command of Sir James Lucas Yeo, Cap
tain Chauncey was detached to the command of
the American navy upon that lake, and his win
ter’s rendezvous was at Sackett’a Harbor. It was
there, that under the direction of Chauncey, the
skilful and patriotic Eckford, caused, as if by
magic, the transformation of the adjacent trees of
the forest into a gallant navy, embracing ships
brave and large.
The service of the lake was arduous ; hut hap
pily was almost bloodless, since it was a war of
tactics between the two inland admirals. The
opposing navies could never be brought into fair
fight—the growth of the American navy having
been too rapid and large to suit the British com
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, modorc. But there were several beautiful cha
ises, and some elegant maneuvering. Both offi
cers were exceedingly vigilant; but tbeAmeri
can gained his purposes, by victories of skill, gal
lant, though bloodless.
After tho war, the commodore served upon the
Mediterranean and other stations, and was subse
quently for a Iqng time in command of the New
\ ork station. His death will b« mourned by all
who knew him.
Dennie.— The Louisville News Letter soys
thq following amusing anecdote is related of a
meeting between Dr. Dwight and Mr. Dennie,
the former of whom was then President of Yale
College, and tho latter Editor of the “Port Fol
io, n monthly literary journal commenced in
1800.
“Some few years since, as Dr. Dwight was
traveling through New Jersey, hochanctd to stop
at the stage hotel, in one of its populous towns,
for the night. At a late hour of the same, arriv
ed also at the inn Mr. Dennie, who hud the mis
fortune to learn from the landlord, that his beds
were all paired with lodgers, except one occupied
by the celebrated Dr. Dwight. Show me to his
apartment, exclaimed Dennie ; although I am a
stranger to tho Reverend Doctor, perhaps I may
bargain with him for my lodgings. The land
lord aceordingly waited on Mr. Dennie to the
Doctor’s room, and there left him to introduce
himself. The Doctor, although in his night
gown, cap, and slippers, and just ready to resign
himself to the refreshing arms of Somnus, polite
ly invited the strange intruder to be seated.—
Struck with the physiognomy of his companion,
he then unbent his austere brow, and commenc
ed a literary conversation. The names of Wash
ington, Franklin, Rittcnhouse, and a host of dis
tinguished and literary characters, for some time
gave a zest and interest to their conversation, un
til Dr. Dwight chanced to mention Dennie.—
“Dennie, the editor of the Port Folio,” says tho
Doctor in a rhapsody, “is the Addison of the U.
the Father of American belles letters. But,
Sir, ’ continued he, “is it not astonishing, that a
man of such genius, fancy, and feeling, should
abandon himself to the inebriating bowl?”
‘‘Sir.’’ said Dennie, “you are mistaken. I have
been intimately acquainted with Donnie for sev
era! years ; and I never knew or saw him intox
icated.” “Sir,” says the Doctor, “you err. I have
my information from a particular friend; lam
confident that I am right and you are wrong.”
Dennie now ingeniously changed the conver
sation to the clergy, remarking, that Abercrombie
and Mason were among the most distinguished
divines; nevertheless, he considered Dwight, Pres
ident of Yale College, tho most learned theologian
the first logician, and the greatest poet that Amer
ica has produced. But, sir,’ continued Dennie,
‘there are traits in his character, unworthy of so
wise and great a man, and of the most detestable
description; he is tho greatest bigot and dogmatist
ol the age!’ ‘Sir,’ says the Doctor, ‘you are
grossly mistaken; I am intimately acquainted with
Dr. Dwight, and I know to the contrary.’ ‘Sir,’
says Dennie,‘you are mistaken; I have it from an
intimate acquaintance ofhis, who I am confident
would not tell mo an untruth.’ ‘No more slan
der !’ says the Doctor; ‘I Dwight, of
whom you speak ! ’ ‘And I, too,’ exclaimed Den
nie, ‘am Mr. Donnie, of whom you spoke !’
“ The astonishment of Dr. Dwight may bo bel
ter conceived than told. Suffice it to say, they
mutually shook hands and were extremely happy
in each other’s acquaintance.”
Society and Morals in London.— The
Rev. E. Bickersteth, u learned and pious divine
of the Church of England, preached a sermon in
May last, before the London City Mission, which
has been published. In touching upon tho great
spiritual ignorance in London, Mr. B. was drawn
into the statement of some facts that arc not
without their value. It appears that in tho great
metropolis, whore, in the language of the author
of this sermon, “all human attainments are car
ried out to their utmost perfection, where every
thing may be had to instruct the mind, gratify the
taste, or adorn the person,” there is an amount of
ignorance and crime truly appalling. Among
other evidences, it is stated that there are
1500 houses, known publicly as such, of ill-fame,
tenanted by about 80,000 females. There are
annually 30,000 charges of drunkenness entered
on the public books, and it is computed that 30,-
000,000 of pounds are expended every year for
gin only. In 14 gin-shops, 269,438 entries of
men, women and children were made in one
week. In 1837,217 suicides were attempted, of
which 117 proved successful.
About 30,000 persons rise every morning with
out knowing how they shall be supported through
the day, or where they shall sleep the ensuing
night. There are about 700,000 persons who arc
in health, and have the capability ol attendance,
that habitually neglect all kinds of public wor
ship. The London city Mission visited 121,000
houses, inhabited by 700,000 persons, and of
these 35,393 families had not a page of either the
Old or New Testament Many persons were
found wholly ignorant of what the Bible meant.
Much of the vice and crime of London may be
traced to the destitution of all moral and religious
trainings among a large portion of tho population.
Mr. Bickersteth states that there arc between
80 and 100,000 Romanists, and about 20,000
Jews in London.
Lafitte, the Pirate. —Tho last number of
the Galveston Civilian contains an interesting
sketch of this during fellow. The editor says
that nearly all the stories told of Lafitte are put
down as fabulous by those who knew him, and
many think he is still alive, no authentic account
having been published of his death.
Lafitte, according to tho Civilian, was a
Frenchman by birth, tall, finely formed, of highly
polished manners, and in his pleasant moods no
one would ever take him for a bad man. When
conversing upon a serious subject he would stand
for hours with one eye shut, and at such times
his appearance was harsh. He stated that he
had spent one winter in fashionable society at
Washington City, and that he had expended
$60,000 during the time.
This distinguished leader and his gang built
quite a village upon the present site of Galveston
as early as 1812. His own hiuse was two stories
high, and a very good one. The others were
only one story, and of plainer construction.—
They procured their building materials from N.
Orleans, with which place they kept up a regu
lar intercourse. In fact, Lafitte boasted that he
had made half the merchants of this city rich.—
He uniformly alleged that his depredations were
committed alone upon vessels sailing under
Spanish colors, and he is known to have hung
one ofhis men for having robbed an American
citizen.
He lost four vessels and many men in a storm
in 1818. Three of the vcssebi were lost at sea,
and one went ashore on Virginia Point, on the
opposite side of the hay. When ho left the Is
land he went to embark in the Columbian ser
vice, having received the tender of a commission
in their Navy, eince which no authentic account
of his movements has been published. A true
history of this bold and extraordinary man would
bo highly interesting.— New Orleans Picayune ,
Bonaparte’s burial-place The solitude
of Napoleon, in his tomb, has thrown another kind
of spell over a hriliant memory. Alexander died
not in sight of Greece ; ho disappeared amid the
pomp of distant Babylon. Bonaparte did not
close his eyes in the presence of Franco, he passed
away in the gorgeous horizon of the torrid zone.
The man who had shown himself in such power*
fnl reality, vanished like a dream; his life, which
belonged to history, co-operated in the poetry of
his death. He now sleeps forever, like a hermit
or a paria, beneath a willow in a narrow valley,,
surrounded by steep rocks at the extremity of »
long path. The depth of the silence which pres
sed upon him can only be compared to the vast
ness of the tumult which had surrounded him..
Nations are absent; their throng has retired.—
The bird of the tropics, harnessed to the car of
the sun—as Butfon magnificently expressed it—
speeding his flight downwards from the planet of
light, rests alone, for a moment, over the ashes,
the weight of which has shaken the equilibrium
of the globe. Bonaparte crossed the ocean to re
pair to his final exile, regardless of that beautiful:
sky which delighted Columbus, Vasco do Gema,.
and Gamcus. Stretched upon the ship’s stern,,
he perceived not that unknown constellations were
sparkling over his head. His powerful glance, for
the first time, encountered their rays. What to
him were stars which he had never seen from his
bivouacs, and which had never shone over his eim
pire! Nevertheless, not one of them has failed
to fulfil its destiny; one half of the firmament
spread its light over his cradle; theolher half was
reserved to illuminate his tomb.— Chateaubriand.
Newspaper Patronawe. —Of all trades, pro
fessions, or callings, none are so poorly paid as
publishers ol newspapers. This may be set down
as a truism. Many patrons, (Heaven save the
mark!) in other respects, worthy, punctual men;,
think it no sin to let the publisher of a newspa
per wait year alter year for bis dues; and, at last,
it he is compelled to pay, he docs it with a very
bad grace.—“ Mr. Typo must have his money r
must he—the ungrateful scamp—l subscribed for
the paper merely to patronize him, and now bd
has the impudence to bo importunate for his pay.
But if he must have it. he must. But, do yeu
hour! Stop the paper! There is no such thing
as gratitude in this world.” (f any body believes
this picture is overdrawn, just let him ask the
opinion of the nearest Printer.— Raleigh Reg.
Pleasant Route to HAVANA.--Sagnora-.
America Vespucci left New Orleans for Havana,,
in the steamboat Natchez, Dec 31. The boat
was crowded with invalids for the fine clime of
Cuba. When wo can get by steam from New.
York to New Orleans in seven days, this will bo
a pleasant cotnlortablo tour for northern pulroo
narins, also. They will traverse the great Atlan
tic seaports of their own country, every hour get
ting into warmer latitudes, and sojourn at Charles
ton, Savannah, Mobile, Pensacola or New Or
leans, if they find those places sufficiently agreea
ble and temperate to induce them to tarrv. To
vary and extend the scene, however, we would
commend them to take the trip to Cuba from-
Ncw Orleans per the Natchez. When the great
line of British steam packets commence, we shall
have a direct speedy route from New York to
Havana also. Dovers also of tropic fruits Will'
then feast upon them throughout our seaboard in.
all their perfection. — N. Y. Sian.
Extiiaoudin art Competition.— Three gen.,
tlcracn, well known in tho fashionable world,
have made a wager, the oddity of which is likely
to give rise to considerable amusement. The
first of tile parties is to drive a stage coach ; the
second is to walk through tho country as an itin
erant melodist; and the third is to perform four
principal dramatic characters, two tragedy, and
two in comedy.—Tho greater partof the money
obtained by these eccentric adventurers, in their
several pursuits, is to be devoted to charitable
purposes. The competitor who obtains the
largest sum by his exertions is to be the winner
of the wager which is to the amount of several:
thousands. We have not heard the “where
abouts” of the Jehu aud the Apollo but it is said
that the dramatic aspirant is to make his debut at:
Edinburgh, and that lie will afterwards appear at
other provincial theatres. If the report we have
heard of his talent* prove correct, he will proba
bly complete his career in London, by perform
ing a few nights at one of the great winter thea
tres —London Post.
“Do not Pluck the Flowers;.
THEY are sacred to the dead.”
An inscription similar to the foregoing is seen in,
many parts of the Catholic Uurying-groundi.
Botanic gardens, Cork..
Oh ! spare the flowers, the fair young flowers,.
The free glad gift the summer brings;
Bright children of the sun and showers,
Here do they rise, earth’s offerings.
Rich be the dew upon you shed, —
Green ue the bough that o’er you waves, —
Weariless watchers by the dead,
Unbundling dwellers ’midst the graves!
Oh, spare the flowers ! their sweet perfume
Upon the wandering zephyr cast,
And lingering o’er the lonely tomb,
Is like the memory of the past.
They flourish freshly, though beneath
Lie the dark dust and creeping worm;
They speak of Hope, they speak of Faith,
They smile, like rainbows through the storm !*
Pluck not the flowers—the sacred flowers !
Go where the garden’s treasures spread,—
Where strange bright blossoms deck the bower*,.
And spicy trees their odours shed.
There pluck, if thdu delight’st, indeed,
To shorten life so brief as thoirs j
But here the admotion Heed —
A blessing on the hand that spares!
Pluck not the flowers I In days gone by
A beautiful belief was felt.
That fair y spirits of the sky
Amidst the trembling blossoms dwelt.
Perhaps the dead have many a guest.
Holier than any that are ours ;
Perhaps their guardian angels rest
Knshrined amidst the gentle flowers !
Hast thou no loved one lying low—
No broken reed of earthly trust ?
Hast thou not felt the bitter woe
With which we render dust to dust?'
Thou hast! and in one cherished spot,
Unseen, unknown to earthly eyes
Within their heart the unforgot
Entombed in silent beauty lies !
Memory, and faith, and love, so deep
No earthly storm can reach it more—
Affection that hath ceased- to weep.
These flourish in thy bosom’s core !
Sparc, then, the flowers 1 With gentle tread,
Draw near, remembering what thou art,—
For blossoms sacred to the dead
Are ever springing in the heart 7