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after it occurred. Will ii *crve you to lUlo *h«*n
■ti'l • h«'nt it took pIsco, nnd tf there were any other
rorimi* present on the occasion, and who limy wen ?
You are in rnor in ioppo«in{ that 1 told you Col.
Da«k* wa* a graduate of Princeton. 1 octet knew
nny thing of hiscollrgintr life, nnJ hate ander*tooJ
for lira first timo from your letter, that lie it Inrliev
cd lu have graduated atllmt Institution. 'I he *tato
nrant in relation to the expenses of tho Ssr.du«ky
campaign, aro alto new to mo. I never hx>t *uch in
formation-derived either Horn an eaamination of
tho account* at tho War OlYicn or otherwise.
1 do not intend that this corrva|iondi'tire alrdl ho
marked hy an unfriendly apirit on my part, hut my
acarcb after truth ahull Ikj limited only by my m.-nn»
of pursuing it. 1 nak on rurly reply to the enquiries
of this letter—nnd
I am respectfully, youra, J. M. D.
To T. S.. K*q.
Copy of a Letter from T. Spalding to J. M. Berrien.
Dear Sid—Your letter of the i!0tli September,
wit received yerterday. It ro-|uircd no great oxer
ciao of lodgment to fnreaeo that the tone of our cor
leipomlcnce would undergoa cluing': what I antici
paled hna taken ploco. “**
You explicitly deny, nil and every port nfour con
vcraation.ondyal call upon me,to any where this con
venation took place, and wlint oilier peraona were
present at the lime. Thi* explicit denial would
liavo authorized a mc, perhapa may have required me,
to cluaa ullcominuiiicntioii upon the aubjerl, hut re
Doling without aolicitudc upon a diameter, which
ha* been for forty odd year# before the people of
Georgia, without cliango and without vacillation
of opinion wen, upon men uinl tiling*, I calmly «ny
to yuu, it wo* quito nuturiil that I should remember
important circumstances.communicati-d to me hy n
public man. in nlntion to an olTiccr of high rank,
and to the expenditures uf large aums of money,and
•the more ao, when these very expenditure* contri*
buted u largo item, in bringing upon uan heavy Tur
iff of du'ics, which was then agitating and dividing
tho American people, and which aoon afterward*
threatened to rend aaunder tho American Govern
mani. Nor wn* It to bo expected that tho dreum
stance* of where this communication was received
and who die might be listening to it, matters tmim
portent, cuuldbnake the same deep impression upon
the mind, or abide to long upon the memory. But
to allow that I shun no enquiry that my memory
givoi mo the smallest means t.f answering, I lay,to
tho best of my buliuf, 1 received this communication
while travelling with you iny-urown carriage, from
Milledgevillo to Mnj John Whitehead's, in Burke
County, I think, in tho ently summer of 1025; in
thU date howover, I may lie mistaken.
Tho statement mndn to you, in my Idler of tho
20th, was rnado in ull good faith, and for fear of un
expected death, or of sudiLnilli.css.hns horn sworn
to bofore the most rc«pcctuhl« nntliotiry wit “n my
reach. You will not bn surprised therefore, whan
I any to you. that this letter will close, on my part,
•II correspondence upon this subject.
And remain your
Very obedient servant,
Til OS. SPALDING.
Sapclu Island, 3d October, 1040.
t\
Recurring to Mr. Spalding's published state*
m«nt, the substance of it is found to bo, llint on
my return front Washington in ilia spring of 18*25,
1 had with indignant fedinge fluthed upon my
ekeik, denounced Gen. Harrison's unmilitnry con
duct nl the battle of T ppeennsra, at taring oced’
tinned the sacrifice of my friend and class male,
Col. Daviet of Kentucky. Let it bo remembered,
that in the]spring of 1025, when this conversation
Is represented In have taken place, Gen. Harrison
was not, as lie wasnt the lime when Mr. Spalding's
statement wns mnde, in nny prominent position be
fore the public, which would have prompted to tiro
aemtiny of his military conduct. Tlioso who had
suffered severely from it. might, however, at any
timo have given vent to ihclr feelings. Accordingly
tho motive fur my referenco to it in tho statement
which Mr. Spalding impute*to me,is accordingfr^
that statement to bo found in lire fact, that Col. Da
rin, my friend and class-mate, had Iracn sacrificed
by tho unmilirary conduct of Gen. Harrison. But
for this, I stood in the same situation as tho jrub'ic
generally, having no n»*ignublo motive for referring
to tills hygnnn event, in whirli I Ira i no personal
interest, and which was entirely unconncrtud with
mjr ordinary pursuits. (Especially, I coaid have no
motive but fur llm fact that Col. Davies was my
class male andjriend, to denounce tho conduct of
Gan. Harrison in those terms of flushing indigna•
lion,.which Mr. Spnlding ascribes to mo. Now,
ihn fact is, aa I have stated to Mr. Spalding (and
lie admits hi* error in this pnrticulir,) ‘'that Col.
Davie* was not my friend,timt ho wn* not my clair*
mate, that I never knew him person illy, nor oth
erwise. than as we know lho*e of whom action* wo
read." Mr. Spalding admit* that he most have
been mistaken in this, and of course, that hit imag.
(nation, not his memory, most have furnished tills
portion nf hi* atulomcnt. Ho udinha (lint Ira must
fiavo been mistaken In snying, thut my cheek
was flushed with indignation, when I mnde
tbit statement, and that this denunciation was
uttered under the influenca nf tho feelings of
wounded friendship, ami of indignation aeninst
a murderous wrong dono to my class- mate. Whnt
follows? Why that in the mere spirit of garrulity,
in a matter with which, I neither ha l, nnr could
liavo nny possible connection, nnd which was en
tirely foreign from all the pursuits of my life, I had
assumed the character of u military critic, nnd de
nounced Gen. Ilnirison for umni :ary conduct, in
strong and indignant terms. I appeal to the com*
nton sense of overy man, looking to this ns n mere
3 ueition of discordant recollection hot wren Mr.
pslding und myself, mid now that tho political ox*
citetnont bos gone by. in which the stulcnu-iit be
lts origin, doc* not Mr Spalding hy this admission
take from hi* statement, Ilia very corner stone on
which it is rested? strike from it, snfurus I am
concerned, every semldnnco of probability? Wlint
possible motive could I have had in the year 1025,
for denouncing the comlaet nf Gen. I (unison in ii
battle, which occurred many years before, ns having
occasioned tho sacrifice of nno of his officer*, of
whom I had never heard until ufier tho battle? Ad
mit that this olficer was my class-main, the assoc!
•to of my collegiate life, ilia cherished friend of my
youth, and llti'to was a motive for such a denunci
ation whettover the subject rrcutrud to my memory.
Teko away that admission—represent llio luct ns it
was, and os it is now admitted to liavo been, that
he was an entire stranger to me, ami the otter im
probability o the statein-mt, so far as •» applies to
mo, is obvious to cvniy mind.
On this subject, Mr. Spalding says, "I mnslhuvo
been mistaken in supposing you llm rlass-mnto of
Col Davis, but I must have been led into that mi*
taka by your telling mu he was n gradual»of I'rince
ton, where I knew you wore yourself educated,for I
learned in Savannah thu other day. the only circum
stances of Col. Davies' private life1 hud everhesrd,
that be really was • graduate of Princeton College.
My own feoliogs may liavo colored to myimugina
lion, yours, in thi* conversation; they could have
'dune nothing more,"&c. See. This ntplunution is
equally unfertuna’o. Mr. Spalding's statement
and letter gavomn the first intimation that Col. Da
tries was supposed to have been n graduate nf Prim*
ton. At inn timo of receiving them, I could neither
admit or duny llio fuel, hecauso I knew mulling
•bout it. I have since refmred to n cutnloguo of
tha graduate* of that 1 o'lego, which is now In-fere
me, and find tkot Col. Daeiet teat not a graduate
of tke College of Princeton. Mr. Spalding nd
mil* Id* mittukoln supposing that Iliad told him,
that Col. Davies was my clais-mnto—ho admit* his
mistake in the prominent fact, which gave m air of
I ni'-ability to hi* statement ,ly which even he might
, ve been misled—but lie rallies upon the inference,
licit hi* mistake must have originated from my hire
( C told him that Col. Davies was a graduate of
I'.-.itceton where he know I had been educated.—
This also is prove I to be equally fallacious. By a
re ermce I# tho catalogue it is (hewn thnt Col. D.»
viol wm »ol a graduutooftlint Co lego. With these
evidences of the fact, that he shares thu common lot
^rf mortality, ought Mr. Spalding to rely with such
confi-leoca upon the accurary of his momory?
Mr. Spald ag has pr sented'one oth. r tangible
point, In reference to which, the accuracy of Ids re
collection may bn tested. Hu says, "To the best of
my belief, 1 received ibis communication, while
travelling with >oo in your owne-irrisge, from Mill
adgeville to Maj John Whitehead's In Burke County,
I think in ihn early sun mer of 1825. In this d.iiu
however I may Ira inUtakoo." Now, | mn and
have been fur manyyu.ns in llm hsl-it of vi.iting
Mr. Whitehead, but II. avo not the sl>(hte*t iku|
lection ofavar having don* so m company with Mr.
Spalding; and eiieunistauces which must U within
Iho roeolloellon of two gciub-m-ii iifiliU city, who
art vat in Ufa, would mska It highly Improbable
that l had dona *o, after lira year Itiltf, which wl*
b«for#| kaawdan. Harrison—before I wentmll*
H.-nsts (/.Stairs, sad sia years before n o lime
wtilcli Mr. Hpslding a*signs for tin* juurosiy. Bui
nawi|lin|tri rest »■• luslv-ly rut lliesei-.ru-.ni.laoee#
or aa my >•• recdUrttm, I wrote to kit. While
liaad, aad hasa is so oimb of Ins suswsi saiafait
| la that •ubjeett
'* Y'»Uts «f llm I Oil. iiitlsnl | hsre this liiolii'M I
reived, sad '« rrpl) to your enquiry. I am vrO'uu
tata tiitV I b*4 u h tlsv Isvtsai ot » suit, vnU» (tout
yourself »-r Mr. Spalding In the summer nf 1825—
nnd hi Burlte, it was imporeih e foi the thing to have
happened, si | was railed to Mdlnlgrvd'o in May
to attend a celled session of the Iwgrelnfare, where
I was detained, I think, until the middle of Jane,
mid iH-forn my return, my family had removed to
Bath, nor lures 1 any. recollection nf having aat’it
you, or Mr. Spalding, at rnlilledgevlllc during tits
session. I am perfectly rotdi-lcnt, I ilk I not In
Burke. 1 do not remember to have teen yow and
Mr. Spalding together since 1810."
I loro then is nit additional nvidenceof tho inneru-
recy of.Mr. SpjIJing's recollection, which will ke
concluslvo with those to whom Mr. Whitchoad's
intelligence and the integrity of his character, are
known.
Mr. Spalding it equally in error as to the state
ment which he supposes me tohnvenmde of wlint
ho denominates tho expenses of Gen. Harrison's
Sandusky campaign, nnd in relation to which be
thinks I said that 1 hoi myself examined tho ac
counts at thu war oflico. This information also, Mr.
Spalding must liuve obtained from some other source.
I never examined an acra mt in the war oflico in my
life The ex|*cnses of that campaign were never a
subject of enquiry with me, and 1 do not know to
what thoy amounted. On tny first mission to the
Senate, it sat only for a few duys.nnd I had neither
time nor motive for an enquiry which was alike for
eign to my habits and go my inclination.
I have fell myself constrained tossy thus much
In reply to the statement which Mr. Spalding 1ms
presented to the public. I repeat, that thu task
would at any timo have been unwelcome, and that
at this moment, it is painful to me. But believing
ns I relemnly do, that this »tniFmerft,so far ns it re-
lutes to me, i* entirely unfounded inflict, I feel that
I owe it to truth, thus to duclure thut belief.^ In
doing so, I hope I have not departed either in
language, or hi spit it, from the courtesy of a gentle
man, or from tho charity of a Christian. I have al
ready snid that 1 Ho not doubt the sincerity of Mr.
Spalding’s belief in tho truth of his statement. I
know my own, and 1 think I have satisfactorily
shewn Aiat his memory has deceived him. His
oath was not neceseary to attest the sincerity of
hit belief and it can do nothing more, for ha can
only swear to the bfott -of hi* rocollootion nml
belief. How Tar, In relation ton long ky-cono
tranaadlion, of comparatively liula importance at
Jvotimo. when this conversation it alleged to bavo
occurred, such a degreo of confidence in the trna
tf y of recollection, lielongt to Mr. Spalding’s ago
or mine. I will not undertake to judge. How far
that confidence is justified hy the circumstances of
the present rare, the public will decide.
Respectfully, your*,
JNO. MACl'HERSON BERRIEN.
Messrs. Locke & Davis:
Gentlemen—1 certaialy never expected to ob*
trudu upon yout columns In any matter relating to
myself, hut I presume you will see the juitico ami
propriety of publishing this note in reply to Judge
Berrien’s commentary upon hi* ami my correspon
dence, which 1 found in your paperet my bouse lust
night on my return from Sopelo Island.
I am nu special plaudor, nor shall I tnkofivo
month* to medaate a rejoinder to Judge Berrien's
commentaries on our correspondence, but hero
with remit to you a copy of an afliJavir, sworn to
before Dr. Tro'in. the Mayor of Durien. When
Judgo Berrien shall mnko oath before- the Mnyor
uf Suvannah thnthonovrr did inko mein his car
ringo from MilledgcvfllM to Dr. James Wldls
* "ad’s in Burke, where I met Major John White
head, that he, (Judgo Berrien,) in tha courso of
that long ridn, did nnt converse with mo upon tha
subject of tho battlo of Tippecnnoo, or upon thu
subject of tho expenditure* of tho Sandusky
campaign, why then, I shall suppose myself
dreaming or mad, but until Judge llertim makes
tbit affidavit bofore ruipociablo authority, 1 shnll
kaliovo thut 1 wus tiwvku undin my toucrtenses
—and I shall cuntinna"luispose. without solicitude,
upon a character, which list been forty odd years
before lira people of Georgia, without a vacillation
-of opinion, oven upon mrYi or thing*." And I now
cull upon Mitjor John Whitehead to say on his lion
or, whether ho did or slid not tuko me from Ills
brother's house, where Judge Berrikn left me, to
Iris own house in Barko, end Whether he did or did
nut the next morning take me in hi* gig to Mrs Bur
cell's houioon the Augusta toad, and remain with
me there until the stsgo arrived, nnd I took my tent
for Savannah. If Major John Whitehead,decl ire*
on biahooorbe did not, why then, Imuusuppose
1 was dreaming or madi—but nntil on his honor
U« declares he did not do this, I ahull Slit? be liavo I
wos awake and in my sober senrts.
I have said I believed all this wss done the sum
mer of 1825, "but I was not poalitvo a* to date."
I believe alill that I was correct in time, but thu timo
I* of little consequence, It most certainly wab sold,
und done, nfior thu nflulr of Tippecanoe, and after
tho ex|K*nditures of tho Sandusky campaign.
Major Whitehead says bo was attending a called
aca.ion of tho Legislature at Millodgeville, but dots
not recollect seeing either Judgo Berrien or myself
there in 1825. Now, my buing there wns a mutter
of public record. Tim Bank of Darien sent me there
a* their agent to the Legislature, who passed • resu
lutiiin. moved by my friend Col. Joseph Lumpkin,
instructirg llio Trer*nrcr to receive Darien bills fur
taxes, &c. To Col. Troup, wlmdailred mu to draft
a remonstrance to the General Government, which
wnt Introduced hy Col. Lumpkin, adopted, and
is now to be found in the British Annual Register,
in the account given of the contest between Georg iu
nnd tha United Statos, under tho administration uf
John ii. Adam*. Now, if Major Whitehead was a
mcm'ter of tho Legist iluro in 1025, bo must have
gene home before all these thing* occurred, which
uccounl* for ld« not seeing rue at Milludgcvillc, nnd
fur my finding him at homu. Who tlinlremembers
1825 will not remum'-ior that it wus n scuon of
grout excitement, in wiiich every mar. that felt, or
appeared to feel fur I lie pub ie interest, was pouring
out complaints upon pa*t or present wrongs.
Judgo Berrien hnrps upon Col. Da** e» not being
hi* cla«« mute,nnd hi* nnt being n graduate ofl'ilncc*
ton. In courtesy to Judge Berrien, in my first let
ter, I supposed 1 might have b- cn mb - ken iu the
first point; in five months Judpe Berrien might have
got n certificate, denying that Col. Davie* evor was
a student at I'rinceton; some student* of high chnr
ncler never graduate. My friend, Mr. Joseph Cum
ming, of Savannah, told me in September, that he
knew Cid Davies find been a student at l’rincetnn.
Why then cavil upon word*? On my honor, and
before tny God, 1 km w nothing of Col. Duvint ns a
private man, but what I had learned from Judgo
Beirien, uni I Mr. Cumming mentioned that lie
knew Col. Davies hud b *u a student at I'rinceton.
As 1 mn ouxiuii* to transmit thi* note hy to mur
row's mud, 1 will puuie lire the present, perhaps al
together.
An-J remain gentlemen,
Yuui obedient servant,
T SCALDING.
Darien, 18th Fob. 1041.
Biiv&srxriiui'
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1041.
Flag nfllie free I still hear thy swny,
Undiinni'dthrmiidi sees vei untold ;
O'er earth'* preu.1 realm* uiy starsilisulay.
Like inoming’r radiant cloud* unrolled.
Plag of die skies | still |*er rlrss thine.
Through ether's nzure vault unfurled,
Till evety hand oml heart entwine,
To sweep opptesakmfnHii die world.
This Institution hone nf die most dendly hostility ex
Isling ngnlmt the principle* and form of our Consiltu-
don. Tha nntlon is ot tills lima, in • tong and united
in it* »endment*,that h cannot lie shrken at this mo
ment. But suppose S scries of uninwbnl events should
occur sufficient to bring into doubt die v-omreteorynT*
Republican Government to meet a eriaiiorgreat dan
ger, or to unhinge die rnnfideneo nr die people In the
C ublic functionaries? nn institution like till* penetrating
y its branches every • rB o'the union setmg by com
mand and in phalanx, may in a critic-! m* sent unset
the government. I d* *m no government safe, wnv-.h
isumtcrtlio vssvnlacoofanyicifconsiii jted authorities,
or any other authority tlinn dint of tho union, nr It* reg
ular tune binaries. Wlint sn obstruct ion could not this
Bank of the Unit'd States, with all ksbranch liauka, be
in time nf war? It might dictate to us the peace wq
should accept, or withdraw iu ski. Ought we then to
give futdier growth in an institution to powerful, so
hostile.—TAow«* Jtjtriffn,
07 Hon. J. M. Berrien, the new Senator from
this State, ba* reached Washington.
GEOLOGY.
Mr. Cotling the late State Geologist, is In tho
dty. We published his prospectus some time sinee in
our ro'itmna. Tho valuable work contempbimd by
him should bo pationitad by all Georgians.
COL. HARNEY.
A ridiculous story hns found a plnco in a
papers, that Gen. Armlitand ha* arrested Colonel
Harney for hi* gallant foray into llio Everglades
and hangingtrearheniu* hostile*. We ran't credit
{t. If Gen. A. withes to make a great boro of tliO
Colonel, let him do so, nnd tho people will take him
up and run him against the great Gciirrals Scott,
and Gainosfur the Presidency.
FLORIDA.
David lavy,of Alnchuu,h sheen unnnimontly
nominated nt a meeting of Citizens from die difT r*
ent distilcts of the Territoiy as s cati-lidalu fora
Delegate to Congress.
Col. Dawning and Mi^or Ward, aro also lit llio
field.
Tbnma* Spalding, on hisusth, states that die cir
cuRutsnco ho mentioncJ in his note, written soma
months post, to Thomas Uutlor King, in relution to
thu Butrin of Tippecanoe, nnd the demhofCol. Du
vies, are to llio best ol' hi* belief, substantially such
as h« received them from Judge Berrien many year#
•£U, Old! (Iwt Ju-lgn Ueiltcu itu-u sild-ul wtui I* not
contained in his noto to Mr. King, that Gen. Kniri
son spent on hit Sandusky cnmpaign, tnn or twnmy
millions (be thinks twenty million.) ufdollais—iluit
much ufihofl-iur with wh cli hi* troops woie fed
cost llm Government onn hundred and sixty duller*
a horse load, to wi>: one hundred for the horse, and,
sixty dollars fur iho load uf flour,
T. SPALDING.
Sworn lu before me this Sib day of October, 1840.
James tuoup.
Dank tf Danrn, May 10,1035.
Rctoloti, That the President ka authorized and
requested to proceed to Milledgeville, there to at
tend the called session of the Legislature, to answer
•m li charges, if any, and give such information ba
furc dint body, a* circumstance* muy require,
Extract from the minute*.
EDEN. S. REES, Cash'r,
Tho President returned between lh«* 7th and 14th
Juno, 1023. EDEN. S. REES, Caib'r.
Tin. above ceitifirate from Mr. Rras, dm Cashier
of the Bank uf D*iien, will prove that I was at
Miil-*dgnvilla during die called session nf llu* year
I0*.'5, in discharge of • public trail, and if Major
Whitehead did not see mn there, it was leiaiise
be had gone home, where I found him.
But JuJge demon, fur the first lime in Ids life,
in dm year Idii, cjotliad with the high public
trust, charged with thu vital interests of llm
dtsio uf (inurgia, belma llm Senate ol tlm U.
Kietas, reiNained is tire year 1825, without eacita
muni and wiikuul motive, to vsumrae into |w»t rs
p.-ii Inures, or dm military glury of uur military
ill' u.
If ildi ho philosophy, Failier nf IJcovrn and
Karri*, guard me aad guard ralar, fuiMi winding m
•ism-Msd- TIIUN. il'Al.DlNH,
Man Harrissm aar# fitVmnlmg tin* moralag
lie willnHurnTlrwirdaynt Friday,Mid* way to
Wa*hia|l<M| kaviaf ahaadattod Ida arigla.1 imr ariou
«-(a nip iswu thaiim -Cray Q Jd la*I,
THE NEW SECRETARY OF THE NAVY
It given us ploniuro to hn nliln to itnic that Mr.
Badger of North Carolina, ha* accepted tho efler of
tho post of Sectetaiy of the Navy, under die Admin
iatration whore doiie* begin on llio 4rb uf next
month.—Nat- Ini, 22d iutt.
[The ebuvu flatly cuntrudiel* ihn n-port* uf «nmo
letter writars for our exchange papers, as well as
Oifreirn correspondent's statement.—Ed. Geor.]
Wo liavo professed mnny and various croud* nf
philosophy, for wo have been denned philosophic
in our time, bat wo particularly admire the eclectic
—a feort uf vagrant sect building nn die foundation*
of other*—a cuckoo laying it* egg* in other blids’
neats—n mUletoe drawing it* support from the very
tree among whose branches it flaunts its green
shoots.
Wo mid wo had triad many sect*, and had Atttled
down (an clcctic—thnt is following no particular
sdu-ol, but selecting and combining everything that
(s good In all of them. We tried the stoic first, foi*
a contempt of pain and npolhy under oil misfortunes,
aoandud wondrous well, hut lliut would not do for
us; we did not liko the premises; we tried llio epi*
eurenn with its pleasure*, and that did lor us, and
we did not particularly admire the conclusion, to
wo gnvo them both op for tho onu wo now huh!.—
Not being exclusive and deeming it a saciod duly to
give to all one's friend*, from Id* Sat. MajiMly up
ward*, their due, wt aio willing to divide the honor
of this noble creed with nil of thorn, for U It vuiy
generally held hy mony, even who liavo aiippoaod
ihcmwlves guiltless of nny such thing. To an kite
man there is no plea-uie to lie compon-J with that
of pacing tho streets of sorno busy city, ond loading
in llio faces of llio 'pnuurs-by thu history of their
lives, uf speculating upon their character*, better
known to one who will read litem by the traces
thry Icavo upon the tull-tulc, truili-telling fi aluics
thuu to themsdvui, of resolving thu in into diflVronl
classes, and assigning in each hi* creed of philoso
phy. It I* doubtful which reel number* the most
adherent*. Of peripatetics, or vagabonds, there
enough in all conscioiico, hut we aro inclined to
the lielluf that oven theso are outnumbered hy the
follower* of the sceptic, the beginning ami the end
of whose creed was doubt, and who recommended
llio having nosettlod opinion* on nny aul»jnri ( *iiico
thus wo should bu above nil iho change* of life!—
Could • master of tbUfodiionabh* creed again arise
be might nnmber all of us among Id* disciple*. Tim
study of human nature meets w ith a rich reward,
and tlioio who liavo pursued it diligemly, whrlhor
authors, poets or peinlrr*. givo as pictures of men
which seem to live and breathe before aa.
It is only thus,by extending this eclectic doctrine
by muking the most nrtd best uf whatovor 1* nliou 1
us, that wo can walk through this world without *uf
fering from loneliness, when away from our fellowi
or from coming in contact with the elbows of those
who are crowding along with u*.
"Bo then thino own home, anJ in thyself dwell,
Inn anywhere.
Ahd seeing the Hnail which every where doth roam,
Carrying Ins own home still, I* still at home,
Follow (fur be is ossy paced) tills Hnail;
Be tby uwn palsce,or the world's thy JaiL"
Truly I be qoaUl old* |m»i wm in the tight, i»td
ho who follows hi* advice, will prove its truth snJ
soundness.
There are those who, soured hy tho salutary
pains and ills of life, retire from mciriy altogether,
not having spirit enough to be even stoics Tlmy are
wise in their generation, but they aro nnt children Of
light. Change o f place U of no uso, for "thu carh.
nun varietk* of hurtian character will be fotlnd dis
tributed U rmlcb the same proportion eveiy where,
and in molt place.* there will he a sprinkling of the
uncommon ones." The collision, sympathy, and
external excitement of society ere nrcrs.ary fur us,
•nd every men Of sense, from the days of Diogenes,
the lamplighter, to theio dsys nf darkness, when
•ueh nn office U a siuecura, has looked for men, has
lived in tho *oild soliciting what Was good both of
men and things.
That mysterious, undescrilwJ, end indescribable
thing, styled toddy, is founded nn this prlnclptaof
•election from discordant tiiulrriitU. To lie sure,
woful mistake* are so.neiime* made, ami nine of
•i* ere pul in, end some left oet, to llm rust of oth
er* and ourivlvrr; end, e* nn old emlior any*, "It Is
•nmetimu* lurid that one who rarely slirrelli ahiuod
when he I* tempted by lotto uf converse, m rnlx
those shout Idm, should find converse none la any,
*ml so lie led to conclude, that lack dfrtimpvny Is
Utter far than lack of brain*.'• Craving his pshlmi
he was winng—for he might find, and *e (nigh;
find, tlml by keeping et Urns, we kicked not one
i king ual), bet I a a—both company ami I,rains,
lie liter will*"'»"« Inin the world, without any • rrrd
In |.bdo«opby, save lid* rrUtlk one, being of
m*u's reined and reeking iu make no tnsn
efbt*. will fuel himself in e b-dejsy scene,
mty s»j"> ell tlisi •*| U*#SH,en-i laughm all ibst It
said, and be emused at lb* long fare* of oile rs,
(atibest lU kstviv, m malAe^vetkiitadet,) wbUb
will acna to korp Ida owa Uage tntuml father
than rlongatrd, and llghtnm nf tho; cart bring In*
verscly a* thrdLtaaco from iliefinulm id to^iliecliln,
m iy preserve bis good hamnr an I mnt -aimcet an.
dcr all circumstances. If it a«» plrsred us, we might
hy postponing our sorrow* til they g« t cold, (liko
a child's *up|mr of dry bread reserved to tempt Id*
fsii id ions apprtita neat moniiaf,) f<*r then ••
would not touch them again, wo might, we say,
pus along ipiitdly and cheerfully, as wo have seen
many a man, however sad his liontt, or huwrver ur
gent and piessing hi* hnsmese, stop in n crowd, lie-
getting all rise, and li-ten to some houseless mu» c-
grinder who is delivering himsulf o' 'Sweet Home.'
Or we might enjoy what wa* still left to us, at
we havo sten n man whose business felled Idm,
rush into all manner of plrasutc—in llm words of
the Junior Weller—"entiug oysters In shoer despe
ration." Thi* t* the into world-philosophy, tvhuu
crashing times come, when cutli*clions full, because
there is nothing to collect,and paper thrawn Into
bank seem* only preparatory to being thrown into
jail, luugh, dm ce nr listen tn
11 — —llie musician
Hovering with nmd.lc stick o'er sqOeakingcrowd
Tickling dried sinews of a fnewing cat.*' '
Do anything, do everything, hut give not up in
despnlr. Make ihn licit of everything, Ituigh Vtidlu
you can, and while you have lungs sing,
"I have set my lieartnn n-sldng. hurrah I
And so the world goes well with me.” •
Occailonsl Corro*|Hindonce nfilm Savannah Georgian.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 10.
Dsn Dan wns a Yearn men,
Tim records clearly attest,
lie vutrd to pay
Our monoy nwny
To frauduluat claims in the West;
D*n Dsn was a Yazoo man.
Let iho Whig* deny ihat ifthvycan.
"fef til at hotle doeeri," is an old mnxim to
the troth of which, <hugreslc*t Cnptidn* of andoii;
end modern times, have borne llieir testimony.
Wiilmui stopping id enunirrate tho long list ofiL
lustrious warriors who have aveile d themselves of
tho privilege ofihi> apophthegm, wo muy at once
cite the gentle reader to that Vctrathahln Instance,
of a renowned General, who sluill ko nameless now.
taking counsel of hi* wily fiie, whereabouts lie
might bivouac III* fvar-worn troopi for tho night-
thinking, of cuuraet that according to tlm litora 1
tranilatbm, it was lawful to bo tauylit by an enemy
And aball we not learn of tho enriny too? Do wc
not know that our political adveriaiin* havoheutrn
u« wlih lira power of Sima, and thnt they have actu
ally warbled tlmtr candi-lsto into the I'reskb-niinl
Chilli? Why, before the late eb-clion, not only the
graves, hut ihn cities nnd villages, noith and east of
this, worn vocal with
Van Van i* a used up man—
Blessed bo the mime of the Lord!
and a large and popular district in the Key*tm»*>
Stuto, I* luid to liitvu burn totally converted to llie
causa of lira modem reformers, ly the following
clstiicol and cuphunkiu* distich:—
"Cuobl'nt cornu it over Tip,
Cnold’ntcnmo it nn how ;
Coiild’nt cornu it over Tip,
Because tliuy did'ut know bow."
Willi lid* example before uf, and the authority of
nur Inlln quotation, wr have ventured to introduce
uur subject through thu medium of a brief landdek
Ir.l for If, one only excepted, Il«a* contended, lie
knew, that tho present claimants lisd purchased
without knowledgn of lira fraud, and were tlwrefore
not lidite to iu consequences. The q'iesri»»a turn
eJ, howover. on the vali.Uiy nftheyazuo act of 1705-
If the pioient rlslmunt* had tony claim, It was a
claim derived from the otiginsl gmahv*; If those
grantee* had a just elelm, dr any claim, it was da-
rived under the corrupt act tf 1793. If ilia second
pifreluMur* hml noclaim, it was because tha gran
tee# bud none. Wa* it nnt plain then, he asked,
•lint ihu question turned on the valbliiy or invalidi
ty of iho act of 1795? If Congress should deter
mine thnt a thin did vest In llu* grantee* under that
act, they Would dotcrmlno that it wa* rump* tent to
the corrupt representatives of a virtuous people, un
der lira influence of the most dctcstahlo bribery and
corruption, to IwiteraVray their right*. Was lid*
House prepnrod to in no lion such a principle? He
eallod on the majority nf the I louse to recollect how
tliey ctome into power. The people had br'eomo
alarmed,kit lira purity of republican principles
should bo contaminated, and tha present majority
c»mo into power under ilia well grounded expecta
tion that they would preserve tho principles of tho
government, pure and tncorrnptcd. Would it bo
snid, that they hnd done so, If they established a
principle like this? This government wss founded
exclusively on the basis of virtue and morality. If
auch an act as tbito were to pats, there Inundations
wutiljl bobrultun up,overturned, uprooted, and de
stroyed, and with them thu best hopes of man fur
ever blasted. If such a principle should be estab
lished, as lie bed described, there could no longer
Ira in lira community either virtue or morality. Mr.
Tinup huro entered into nn aigurosniAlive end
legal view of tho subject. Ha undertook to prove
that the Legtslatoio of Georgia hid no power to
dispute of the pdhlio territory) that even If they
hnd the power, tney had hot llm power to dispose
of It frnudulehtly Ami corruptly; Thai If by a
fraudulent and corrupt sale they could transfer nn
right to lira land, tbn claimants, havisg notice of
the frond, were parKeept eriminit; they had pur
ciiasud of tho gi union with their eyes open; they
were not innocent, bet guilty purchasers, And were
mu entitled to tho interforeaca of Congrats in their
bcliulf. The first position he supported hy various
urgiimonts drawn from tint nature of the cnie, by
the authority uf Burlauta^ui, Groliut, Tufftk
dorf, «ml other publicists, all tending to th*i
point, that the power of di*|iosing of the public do.
muln rested with iho |ienple, unless expressly dele
gated. This doctrine was recognized hjr the Con
ttitiiiimiorilm U. State*, in which the power of lira
disposal of such property was given ta Congress,
nml In tho nnnsiitotlon of aovernl of the Slates
the power of thu people on this head waa expressly
recognized in sn many wtrid*. It might Uo mid,
ho added, that instances might be ritr'J in which
lira Stuto l.rgislntiiios hnd ainmici? iliVs power
wilhoul uxprus* grant from the people; lint in nl|
such instances lira I^-gistaturcs so acting, lies been
quilly nf a flagrant nnd flcgiiious breech or trust,
upon tho wlioln, lie concluded his argument on this
point, hy observing that tho Legislature al GoorgU
which preiende«l lo^nell lira land, had plainly, obVi’
oo«ly and demonstratively ho constitutional |>owcr
to do so. But suppose thry had such n power,
cuuld thoy toll tho Und ur thuState fraudulently and
end If the grave verity of snmo of those wtio ro I corruptly? No, certainly. It was an universal rule
sort tn yuur columns for their dally edification In* I that fraud ami cnrupiiun vitiate every act, invali
dities lham to censure us fur lira license wo liavo 1 date evety grant. Bui supposa any instrument of
taken, nur apology I* to bo found in llio poollcull trust contained n declaration thot tho powers there.
Ila Nt uadertho eloquent voice of Geo. M. Troup,
lie waa tuld upon authority which Ira could not quti
t'en that Georgia bad been robbed ami defrauded
of her public domain—that the second puicharera
waa ymrUttpt eriminit, and bonghtihelr land till#*
from the grantee* with a full knowledge of the rot
ten foundntioifon which they atood. And yet with
all rhasa things Iwfore him, with ju*ll«» End
thundering, nay f in bis ear, he voted to pay com
promise money to tho " Yatoo elaimante /" Com
mom on this to llie people of Georgia I* unnece*ia
ry, 1 had thought I would co|iy for iho people of
yuur Slate Id* apeoeh on tho proposition to enable
Gen. Jackson to assert our claims oathe French Go
vernmont, which wore, however, happily conceded
hy the juitico of that Government. But a* I havo
extended this letter loo for already, I will not, a t
lids time, tax jrour patience further. Thnt speech
I* froth in the momory uf ovory man I it wa* to a,iU
American, that ft route I up tha ire of even John
Q. Adams, who denounced him for it In tho House
of Representatives In a bitter and writhing reply.
If Gen. HniVltnn was tho purest mnn under hcevciV,
what con tha peuploof Georgia expect from an Ad
minittratien, at the head ami front of which aland*
a man, who, In 1814, recognised by hi* vote, llio
Yatoo claim* t
preredunts to which wo huvo alluded.
In 179G a majority of lira legislature of Georgia,
false tn their constituents, ami the great principle*
uf morality nnd religion, seduced by tho devil, and
instigated by the barest motive*, sold their vote* to
tho corrupt and corrupting "Land Companies.’
who, at that timo, thronged tho lobbies of our Gone,
tul Assembly with the design of rubbing llio Stat 0
ol hnr valuable domuln. The result of lira bribery
which these unprincipled a|Mcutators eflaoied upon
6ur Yrgitlntora, Was lira passage of the celebrated
end ever memoruldo "Yazoo Act," by which tho
legislature fraudulently sold and conveyed to tli (>
aforesaid compnniol ah iAimcnio territory, compre
hended wiibin the limit* ef the present Slates of
Alabama end Mississippi, for iho mere song of
$ 011,000. Tiio wlndu people of Georgia struck
dumb with amazement at lira perfidy of their agent*,
were staggered ami bewildered at tho extent end
boldness of their venality, and many were seized
with a supernatural lenr that corruption In it* luu'-st
form was about lu pervade lira universal Innd. Yuu r
oldest cilixens, 1 havo no doubt, well r« member llm
panic sim I const erne.-ion with which all men braked
at that extraordinary transaction—lira K-gUlaior*
corrupt, bought up wiili lira gold of s|iei:u|ntor«—
and thoStslo betrayed, nnd defrauded of her prince,
ly domain! Tn tills surprise succeeded an outbreak
of popular f« cling ami indignation which wn* never
before, nnd, I mn iuro,!m* never sinco Irannwilnast
ed in Gaorgia. The people rose up in ■ sol d mats*
and began iho w«nk of subjecting their fslse agent*
ton trrrildn retribution. Tlmt work ilxy acrom
plithed hy consigning the memory of overy mnn who
wos engaged in tho fraudulent transaciion to ctvrnJ
infamy, and ns if In obliterate forever lira record o;
the fraud, recti cd their favorite servant General
Jumvs Jackson from llie public council* ot I'hiludul
plila to assist them in erasing us far os practicablu
tha foul stain from tho reputation oi lira State. A
new legislature wo* elected, and Gun. Jack nn, ilran
Goveinor of Georgia, in lira presrhee nf lira Gene
rul Assembly, nnd ofu vast concourse of people, ut
Louisville, committed llio "Y'izoo Act" itself to fires
which vies kindled by lha ray# of Ura sun—thus c>>n
turning, with is flarno from Heaven, tho last vestige,
as liohopod, uf tho fraud which had tarnished the
escutcheon Of his Siato.
Your old men rememtrar tlrase things, I a ill ren-
lure to say, os though rimy hnp;>cncd yesterday, but
in order that lira yuung men who havo risen up sinco
those exciting times muy form sumo bit a uf ih<
“Yazoo Fraud," I will copy for tbeir benefit, ami
•II oilier* whom it may concern, the substance <>f n
speech deliver d in tho Homo of Itcpraii'fiioiivu*
of ills United Stale* hy (JunrgO McIntosh Troup,
then, as now, the favorita sen of Grorgi*. This
<!•«' cli, which was highly applauded al tl.at lime*
was dehvurud wlrano bill to comproniisotlicio fraud
ulent claims wss on its pnssngc in lira lluuso of Re
preiontutivL-t, ami will explain far better than 1 can
die circumstances nr that »iu|>cndoii* fraud. "Mr.
Troup, of Georgia, said time the bill proposed to
give fivo millions of acres uf land, by way of cmn<
promise, to Certain person* usually called‘Yazoo
Claimants.'
"How would posterity be able to account fur lira
•ppoar inco of ildi translation, *110014 it receive tint
sanction of Congress? Tho Legislature of Georg i
originally sold tlwUni in q>ie*tinn for foOD.OUOi
lira United Stale* shortly aftrr purchased it lor $1.-
230,000, and it il now prupoiud to give 5,000,000
acres of Land, equal to more than f5,000,000 tu
lira Yatoo claimants to Compromise tl*ir claim
Posterity mutl lay that tee ounetm kaxe lets
corrupted to conn nt to eurk a tarter nf principle;
lliallhrsa Yftto•claimants, Ii eil.eGodlufMllum,
carried mo-jntah.s in llmir band*, and, menacing
you with claim* to the amount nf 50,000,000 nj
acre*, under iho dreirion nf ilw Kupieura Court,
carried ovary thing before them. As luckwyuli
liavo it, raid Mr. Troup, this wa* ono nf tlm plain-
rat caso* in lira wwtkl. Kulnr lira Y«.z<w caimt
•tola havo, or they hare not a claim. If llray liavu
no claim, you h*v« noriglil tn i ompcnoiir tbemfir
• claim they iuia md. If lira) baso a rUiui for
50,000,000, )u« still taka ndtaaisge uf )vur
superior powma tn 4i |rjM*l|rn to tlrara im|>«»*
lam IndlvblosL. If llray hnva ii rlnlm *t a *
lhay base a claim to lira a bole, ami il U-rranot
)«rulo givo il ilmtn. ami nay m«
It. Mr. Troop adsrrled !*• lira mH>Mtou»ly fraud'
wluni rtisracmr of tbny«r»» act, and lira In lira*
• bk.lt warn prevrd |.» irate I ten fit tn lo sn I am
toaptad by ovary ttMatUr U lira LagUlatorv srbu vo
ill givun shoti'd be fidrly rxecutad, ur tlial lira con.
sthutinn nf any community were to contain a cbmso
that lira Legislature of tbn State should not frx min
imi ly or corruptly *ell lira property of tho State,
would not auch provision* Ira ridiculous? Certain
ly, and llray would bo so bccauro llray would bo
directly contrary to the trait itself—lha great God
of Heaven could nut convoy tha right to do o cur.
nipt or rroudiilentoct, boctuia It would be inconilt
tent with Id* divino attribute*, and therefore a pow
or Impossible to be conferred. And yet this Legis
lature (Cungrrfa) wero cnlhxl upon to do what It is
notln tho pnwcri.ftho Almighty—to ssnotifyearrup
lion. Tha lira between tho reprevontalivo and bis
constituent ore sundered when he is corrupted. A
reprrsrniativo body was therefore obviously iiraapa
Ido of binding its ronsliiuontw by the pnttogo of a
notoriously corrupt Act. All*. Troup then proceed
ed lo straw that lira »mind purebs-er* having bad
notice of lira fraud nf lira original grant', purchased
com onero and Wore nut i-rililfed to llm equitable
Intitrlerenca ufilioNallonnl Logisluline. Ho told
that lira fact tlial timo giunices bad givenonly
Fil)il,00fl for SO.^OO.OOOnf urres of land, wav of
itself sulfici.’iil to liavo dat.-rrod honest purchasers.
Tho rnpid Biioceavion of events, Ira suit], which ful
Ilwi'J the passtiguof that net in tho Statu iifGunr
gin, portoi del a revolution—lira peoplo in a fi-rrneni
—(Sen. Jnckton, nn wbnso clinractcr Ira pronounced
n very anhnati'd euh glum,railed from ihn Senate at
i'hiliidelpliin by the commotion of iho times—a
man, who threatened tu disclose lira corruption,
waa murdered In hi* house, and theso events pre
sented to llm public through nil the papers, even a*
Hatton in the midst nf tketc purchaser!; llm
public message of Gen. Washington to Congress
announcing the lr*n»nriinn, wlioso warning voice
was, on that occasion, no more Imeda l by theso
cluimnnti.lhiiti lit* purling nddress has since been*
the form of lira deed, conveying theso land* from the
grantres to lira present clsimallis, in which tlraro
was not only an absence of a genera I warranty of
titlu, but nn oxpres* clnusn, securing tho grnntens
from all future responsibility, on account thereof.
Mr T. super-adde.1 ilr? information ho had obtain
ed from an lionmshle rnemlrar of this House, from
Mussnchuictts. who nssuri'il him that tlm present
r.lnimants had fill notico of tlm fiuud, and that they
wore acquainted with all the circumstanceaof tho
original traasacikm, as wall, and as aoon as tbo ur.
iginal grantee*."
From the foregoing abstract of (Jov. Troup’s cel
ebiatcd sp-radi, yoor render* may form sonw opin
ion of iho magnitodo nf the fraud, which tainted
and spotted theso claim*, nnd instead of keeping
H-'iii longer iu suspense, I will shew them otnncu
'ho "yea* and nny*," by which they will seo, to
their astonishment, that Daniel I Vet Her, General
I larriron's premier, and chief confidant, actually
recorded Id* volu in favor ofilio<o rotten and fraud
ulent cluims.
"Saturday, March 20,1014.
"In lira House of Ki-pre**-ntaiives, U. al.—Tlm
question wns tiran taken nn ihn pasaage of the bill,
iti.d ilecidetl in lira nlliimotive, asfollowst
Yeas.— Mr»»n. Avery, Ibiylies of.Mass .Digr*
|*iw, Boyd, Bradbury. Brad ey. Bn-ckemidge, Brig
lam,Butl--r,Cb-impion,Cilb-y, Clarke, Cumstnck,
C-raper, Cna, Oi |>epp«:r, Davenport, Davis, Riy,
Findley, Fisk of Vi , Fisk uf N. Y„ Gaston, Oed
dc*. G'iurdin, Grosvonor, Hole, Hanson, Has*
hioole, llowrl, I lofty, Irvine, Jack tnn. I(. I., Jock
son Va , Kent of N. Y., K- rshsw, Kelboura. King
i.f Mas*., Law; Lovett, Imwis, Miller, Molfiit,
Montgomery, Mutely. Marked, Oakley, Barker,
I'earson, Pickerinr. I'llkin, I'uar, I'oiter, J. Read,
W. Read, Rich. Rirliaid«on, Rulge'y, Robertson,
Rogeirs. Sh-iwirad, bliippoid, Skinner, Sidi li, N.
II.. .Smiili, N Y , St urges, Taggart, Talmailgo,
Taylor, Tlramt'«m, Vu»e, Ward, Mn**., Wurd; N.
Joitey, (□•WKB8TER.J3 Wkr-flinn, White, WII
cox. Willi sms, Wilson, Mn#«., Winter, Wood,
Wriri t, Yan->—83.
Mays.—Mwssrs, Alesandrr. Alston, Andersen,
Archer, Bard, Unita-l, ll.sll, Bowen, Brown.
Il.rwell. C'aldwoll, B7CAUIOUN,xfl Condlct;
f. nnd. Crawftwd. Cirigbli.ri, Crouch, Cuibbort,
D*«is, I’-*., Dcno)rlkrs,De»a. Doviil. Daily, Kj'pcs,
Evens, Farrow, FORhYTII, Glmlroo, Goodwin,
Gr llin, Grondy, Hall, Harris, Hawes, Humph
reys. Ingei •oil, Ingraliaru, Irwin, Julinson, Va.,
JobasiNi, Ky. Kern, Ml. K««r, Kin#, U-ftrrts,
1,1 Ie MACON. MeCny, Mr Kim, Mclraaa. Mo-re,
Mu plot w, Nelson, Nasi Ion, Oimsbrj, Pickaa*,
I'qw-i, I’b'Niwttt*, lUn of Va , Ringgold, lloano,
Hag,-. tirs>M'it,Hnarpo, Hmlili of I'n., Hmitlinf Va.,
huni.4'1. Hinrag. T-wranil, (I j’TIIOUI’^rfl
| EI.F A III. I'dire, Wbi'abiH, Wilsun j I's.—16
fbi lira h II • «* pasted, awl **••« tu llm Hunara."
Your rrad.il* will paintolvr by lira farrgoing llwl
Mr Wsbsitr wa* fully togulMiri m tlm fwul Barisae
Ilut* Wr •lii.li lira*# Yatoo Mm knta«4 Ui«lr claim*.
(Corretpoudencaef the Savannah Georgian.)
WASHINGTON, Feb. 20.
The affair of Messrs. Pickens and Stanly remains
In statu quo. 1 heard the mediator (Mr. Evan*, of
Maine) ask Col. Sumter, of South Carolina, lira
collesguo and "friend" of tho former, whether "all
was right," to which the Colonel responded that ho
did "not know." Soma ekpoctailon* aro entertain*
ed llist tho affair toil! bo settled according to the
usual honorable mode, bat, fur myself, I Tear that
it will ba suflirred to pass olTaa auch things usually
are, bet wren members tif Congress, if a private
Individual had said half ii iducli ofanmher a* these
two thembers hare, onu would certainly be disposed
to believe that something would come out of ii) but,
according loth* present rules nnd law# of the nation,
it temtts thtol as toon al to cltlfcon baentaoa a mem
bar of Congress, hq loleto a II chance of beiog classed
as a gentleman. If tho present subject it settled
"honorably to both peril**," tot tho seconds gener
ally say vvWo nobddy It h'Airt, I Will bo Inclined to
believe, in reality, that "tbo days of chivalry are
gone." I mult nnt bo considered a* expressing
self ia favor of dualling, but l would say that tho
pou'rest Wagoner in tho south waitarn States, would
liavo been scuffed ot by hit brethren if ho suffered
half tho expression* osod by tflembeV* of Congress
tn bo opplhnl to him by any one. It Ito a notntinu*
fact that tho mombor from North Carolina has
taken ovory occasion to insult the member from
South Carolina, and whatever may be their npin*
Ions of dm another privately, tbo honor of thoeq
Who srnt them here demand* a reparation for an}
insult. HucliHfoucault says somewhere, that’'rlill-
culo seems to dishonor mure than dishonor itself,"
and as nno of lira parlies (Mr. Pieken*) states that
lilt remark* were mado in "ridicule," I should bo
disposed lo agree with niy text. Tho fact is, that
slnro the pasiago of tho antl-duolllng law, neitlier
order or decency hare been preserved In tho tlouso
ofhrprosontativos, and ovory blackguard of ovary
party, feol* hlmiolf qualifiml to axcrctio Ids calling
ad libitum. Am I Wrong, then, In lidpfhfc, that tho
present affair will be m ado a lesion \olhc»e{ par polf
true) gentlemen of Congrats. A Nottborhmtn may
budisposed to look upon It with callsus feeling*,
but if lira** thing*, continue, yuhr readers will find
that tho "asplanatlon" In Boa's Pickwick Club
Is but a true caricature of "honorable" members of
Congress, and that FaltUff has been read and prac
tised hy moil of them,
1 do not make theso remarks In unkindness lo
any of lira parties concerned, but Rorcly put them
forth as tko unpremeditated thoughts of a Caroli
nian and • 'gentleman, formed from a candid view
taken of tho couno of -Congress men during the
present session. Ol cettrte, J intend nothing "per
sonal," Paddy said when ha kicked tha fallow
down still*#, but If, any one i# hull, why "l#t the
galled jado wince.." ......
Tbo Senate, to-day, elected Blolr St Rives, Print
ers, from lbs 4th of March nest. Nona of tbo
Wldgs voted, and but n bore quorum (27) ansWor-
cd to tlivl'r names. It wss onn of those usual sjio-
icimens ofFodvralmallgulty that Wo boVn boon ac
customed to. A secret teuton was bold after
wards, for tho puipoto of appointing petty officers
throughout tilto country, Whoso tenrt uf acrvfcn had
•Sfdredv .
Mr. Clay^s tnotloo to repeal tbo Sub Treasury
railed. The vote to lay it on tbo table was 27 lo
25—every Senator being present.
In tho House, the Civil and Diplomatic Appro
priation Bill was taken up. and ditevtsed by Un
der* oo.l, of Kentucky, and Snrgrant, of Pennsyl
vania, two good old Federalists, Who scorned dls
posed lo cat nno another up; hut at lira Houio ad
journed about 2] o'clock,ao opportunity was.aflord*
ed thorrt to coermanditc.
In thn Supremo Couittlra "1/Armlstad" onit
wns coiled op, nnd Mr. Gilpin, Attorney Gvneral,
opened it inn very good speocli. J. Q. Adams
is the counsel of lira negroes.
Budgnr has refused to rrcrivo the office of Secre
tary of lira Navy, ami It Is now said that Preston,
of South Carolina, lias lira reftisa! of II—non# ver
•tkor Directors began to M empty -aad that tl *ir
toppriliea might bo Nlltfiod, thoy conrlralrd to
■wallow tin $20,000 nolo, aad no negative bring
interposed, all went on smoothly till pay day trad
eonra, and the maker nf tbo lergo not* lo now ere
tide red Insolvent, llowrttaohoflt I# paid orato*
pa'«l is uot know n In thebe parts.
I on* afra' I ibtro it too much of "you tickle mt
and ril tickle you" In the Banka—and that may
bo the reason why *|iecle payments come so d 1st re*,
blngly hard. Oh for aomo grand Panacea,calcula
ted for all such cases. Tlra Sob Treasury won't dn
it Is too slow, and tbo Harrison man mean to repeal
it. A National Bank I# proposed—but whence are
tho 50 millions gypliol to como from? Lot tlram
just begin to coil half of that sum Into owe ma*s to
•tart upon, and the panic under tbo distribution
actof 1837, will bo acted over with tan lime* iu
force. *
I boliovo with Mnj. Downing, that Industry and
economy will prove tho best, though they are soma-
times slow remedies. *
HARD TIMES.
(Correspondence of the Charleston Courier.)
WASHINGTON, Feb.20.
Mr. Wire visited Richmond Iasi week, ami Mr.
Rives went also, In order to insure the appointment
of a day to go into the olrcihm of U. S. Senator.
It is sniil tlmt Mr. Wise is anxious to obtain lira of
fice for hi-nu-lf, but ho must bo unsuccessful, os
Judgo Upshur is understood :o bo iho regular party
candidate.
(Correspondence of the Charleston Merrary.)
WASHINGTON. Fob. 20.
On Mr. Cloy meeting Mr. Rives lira other day.
he observed, "I wont no more experiments, Mr.
Rivo*." " No sir," replied Mr. Rives, " nnr I nny
more United State* Banks." I only hoard this an
redoto.
Mr. Dawson, of Georgia, it is said, Is to bo mado
speaker of the House at lira extra Session. He pm
fer* it tq being Govnrnor Georgia, nnd the party
here too; forGeorgin it is fonrethnny mouth ul soma
of Mr. Clay's Pills—particularly, a protective Tar
•specially, since Air. Alford has turned up his
nose at lira whole Box.
.APPOINTMENTS BY THE PRESIDENT.
By and ultk tke advice and consent of tke Senate.
Amory Edwards, to bn Consul of the U. States at
Bueno* Ayres, in tha platen of Alfred M Slade, do
cea*rd.
Jolih L Wilson, to bo Al'tornrV of the U. States
for the Western District of Fleridto, in the place of
James T Archer, resigned.
Jame# H nclfo. tu Ira Martha? of lira U. States
fi^hejIlstric^o^Ml^iirl^tMipnnlntad^^^^^
BY THIS DAY’S MAIL—Vi M.
, [ron the axoRotAN.]
The Editor of tlra Charleston Mvrcury relates a
most distressing ami heart rending cue of the Di
rectors of tha Georgia Rail Road Bank/Wbo were
•orrly praised by noteholders—and saw their apt-
do and exchange, honestly passing into (other
hands ami could not atay the current, bocauso the
President of the Bank was thUsinf. and could not
bo found—however, tlra worst cases find relief in
some shape or other. They managed lo suspend
specie payments with nr without their presiding
officer—but whether with or without any specie on
hand is not kuuwm ll is said there was much di«
tics* nnca arising un a similar occasion, iti a city
founded near Augusta! Tho hill holders wero pirat
ing and clamorous lor specie, and kogskeaipfnfi
vf it bad been seen a day or two before!! But
tho founder and bankrr hod gone and carried tin
key of tho "inner vault," and no ono could bo paid,
lira distress In that Case was all <m the aidoof the
b II holders, and wos hot so readily known—but
like neglected wounds bad to cure of themselves—
for from that day to this, iho colli fidm tho Innor
vault was never found.
I fear there may Ira some distress existing In
someplace* tovrii now—nrising from somewhat
•imilorcause*; Coul lnnl some JJetlvo, energetic
people, lovihg agltators.be employed to rrmovn It*
by getting up public meeting* iu recommend ano
ther suspension of specie pajmcnU—in defiance of
all law and all honesty.
07 Tlra people of Athens hdd ono, but I boliovo
il same loo late for the Georgia Rail Rood Beak—
it had suspended beforehand
By lira bye, Who informal three worthies of tho
tousponilon tit all place! btolwvon Now York and
Clou lesion, upm Which they basa their argument?
The banks in Now Joitey, Delaware, Tirgiala-
District of Columbia, and all North and all 8outh
Carolina, contiuuo lu pay spacla— while tho*a of
Pennsylvania and Maryland only Mvo suspended—
to pretty considerable difference for lha fouadatioa
of an argument—but drowning Man catch at
straw#. There k a story told uf Gaorgia Rail
Rotod Bank Direction, which msjr give sumo light
lit regard ta Us pmoat CMulilloe. Il##em# there
was a rule of lira Hoard that ana negative would
reject any paper offered for dUcoum. Ono Dlroo-
•or had • (rivrd wlui wanted lha •mall •«« •»'
$90,0tNl, aad offered a auta, whWk rejftolod—
oao gentleman gate notice ibtot b* ••f*** f#
•vary n*»ta till that uf hi# frirod U
nd—and to*|uod •• M* word, Ire dutk la II. Y/m
•lift wesk •udiMtoto!tod»Rtt«bM*»
DISASTROUS FIRE.
Wo Mincoroly regret to hear of tlra calamity which
has befallen tha flourishing town of Washington,
in this State. Ever ready to sympathize with Ka| '
vsnnoh In lira—of similar visitation, wodoobl not
that ntor citizens nre prepared to extend any relief
in tliolr poWorto thobnfortunato sufferers.
CnrrcijHjndence of the Savannah RcpubficSn.
Chronicle and Sentinel Offer. >
Augusta, 25th Fob. 1841-0 P. Al. t
Disastrous Fire.—Wo nre Indebted to a gsmlo
mnn direct from Washington, Wilke# county, fur a
partial account of a most disastrous fire that occur
red in that town on Wednesday night, the 24th
insu Tlra Sro broke out about 8 or 9 o'clock at
night in tho store or Alossrs. Burton & Pullot, nr
a small hnuto near hy, communicating rapidly to
the adjucani buildings, and continued ita ravages
until 2 o'clock this morning. Tito #tore of Bui ion
StPoflot, the store aral dwelling of A. A. CitnO
land, Uio itore i*f Willis & Calloway, tho dwelling
of Dr. F. Willis, tho store of Mr, Sbohan, and
several other stores and dwellings, together with
the most of tbo good* and famituro ware all con
■untaJ, tho fall particulars of which obr infonnant
could not obtain, ns ho left soon after tho progress
or thu flames wore arrested. It extended south,
crossing tho street loading to Lexington, to Alexan
der a Hotel and north to iho Ureuch of iha
Stato Bank, destroying avary building on tbo
west side of tho public square.
Our informnhl child givo usrradefinlto idea of tho
extant of the lots, but It was no duubt considerable,
on w'jich bo thinks tlra insurance was small —
Scarcely any thing was saved but in a damaged
state. Several other buildings with tho Court House,
Alnxandor's Hotel, Lano’s store, and Mrs. Robert’s
dwelling wero several times on fire, but were form
irately rktinguished with but liula damage, seta to
tbo furniture and good# by the removal.
Wo have just learned from a gentleman In this
city, that Messrs. Cleveland, Lono, and Burton Sc
Pollott, Were insured to somoosletn.
No time to s«y more. In great haste, youra.
Tlra Correspondent of tho Charleston Courier ua
dor data of 22d Inst, writes— 1 "Tlra difficulty be
tween Mr. Pickens and Mr. Stanley, I am happy
to say, has been adjusted.
(Correspondence or the Southern Patriot.!
. . « ..* . ' v AS III N NTON, Fob. 22.
In Uio Sonata lira whole dny wns taken up in a
ry nnimaied debate onUiobill of Mr. Crittenden
for securing tlra freedom of electors.
Mr 07 «poko at length, showing the object of tho
bill in nuostiun. When tho doboto wos further con
tinuud between Messrs Nurvell, Crittenden,Wright
Clay, Calhoun, Buchanan, Culbbett, I'raaton, and
or Iters.
Tho duhate became Very animated, so much in.
that, when Mr. Preston cloned, there Was n strong
burst of apnlauM from tbo galleries, and sumo iodi
cation* in the lobby. Immediately there wore cries
of "Cloai roo galleries—clear lira galleries."
Mr. Clay, of Alabama, with much oarnastness:
Clear lira galleries.
Mr. Anderson, atriking hi* hand on tho do*k: I
insi : that iho galleries bo cleared.
Mr. Benton: Clear the galleries—clear tbo black
gua'd:.
Mr. Calhoun roio also, and eallod forthegallo-
ries to bo cleared.
Mr. Cla|; Spare iho ladies—ibry have not sinned.
I hopo tliey msy bo suffered to remain.
The rout gallery was soon cleared, though crowd
cd to suflbclitiun—the citizens retiring as speedily
at the nature of the care would admit.
Mr. Calhoun closed lira debate on Mr. Crittrn
dwo’a bill, and, on tho qirastioo of granting leave to
introduce it being taken, il was decided in tbo nega
live: Yeas 14 nays 20.
Tha Vico President laid before the Senate tho fol
lowing Setter from Mr, Webster:
" lion. II. 31. Johnson, Vice Presideot U. S.
' Silt: It it tho nhjrcto! this letter to make known
tu tha Sunofe the resignation of my teat as ono of tho
Senators from Massachusetts, having alrcndy inform
ed tho Executive of that State that from this day my
plac* would bo vacant.
“In retiring from a sit cation in which to cuntidera
bio a port of my life has been passed, I hope I msy
be pormltted to etpress my high respect for lira body
of which I have boon a member, tbo iataivsr I shall
•ver feel in tha preservation of iu character aad dig
niiy, -nd my ctmlial wishe* for iho health and bap
pitraisufall those with whom I bare been as soda
lid.
" With much personal regard, I have lha honor
to b« your obedient servin', D. WEBSTER."
Aa aoon as the letter waa read—
Mr. C'uthbert row to express hit regret that tbo
aonatur from Mnsuchutetts waa not prasant to an
•fter Mttaio questions which ba bad to propound.
On this annunciation ky Mr. C. a very spirited
discussioa aiooo, la which Messrs. Clay. Prestoo,
Cnthbart and Rives participattod. And then tha
Sonata adjourned.
In tho Housa of Represtontstivei, Mr. Thompson
from tbo cornmlitao on Military Affbira, repotted to
bill Making appropriation for eorufa fortincstiooa,
which bill was read twka and refer ed to a commit
too of «ha Whole. It wtos reported under tbo In
•truciiona of tbo Huun adopted on Monday last.
I .presume it will bo eallod ap toward# tha • tad of
the present week, when wa may expect more war
•poNubse.
Tbo bill appropriating $75,000 for eoathiulaf
the survey or lira North Eastern Boundary lias, was
next taken up. Doetor. Peirikin moved to raooM
Mil It, with instructions for tha Committee tsta
port bow muchcurraai jslly, • wcotmrets,ret., •odd
(ra necemsry to'comploto tha ssrvsy. On thi* mo
lieu tha Drctor made u aperch letting forth that
the survey bad coat tobmit twice as much at It ought
to have done, that tlra ffreatc eras Mi bouad la fur
nish aasb dolieaclM la mUltfoa to the liborelmlaiWa
paid to the ffutveyor# and Cutmalsslondrs.
Tha motion to reoommU waa Anally rvpoatod,
aad lha kill aaaaod*
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aww.l An-arUwU. kU.wk-.llMtUUMi.u—•
m i mSm la illUr.-u i pfatlM,r—r-lMl>,lk.
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sod KoiMi