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•t-UiU&'JjU £ jjri J/IbU li BLBMJa The most perfect Government would be that which, emanating directly from the People, Governs least —i'osts least——Dispenses Juslieeto all, and confers Privileges on None.—BErslHA.'!. BY T. S. REYNOLDS. AMERICAN DEMOCRAT, PUBLISHED WEEKLY OVER OI D DARIEN BANK, MULBERRY STREET, MACON, OA. AT $2,50 FJSXI ANNUM, Paid in Adrance.XC Rates of Advertising, Ac. One square, of 100 words, or less, in email type, 75 cents i for tlie first insertion, and 00 cents for each subsequent inser i t'on. All Advertisements containing more than 100 and less than 200 words, will be charged as two squares. To Yearly Advertisers, a liberal deduction will be made, j T -ym u. u. Sales of LAND, by Administrators, Executors. Guardians, are required, by law, to be held on the first Tuesday in the month, between the hours of 10 in the fore noon, and 3 in the afternoon, at the Court-House in the Coun tv in which the property is situated. 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All business of this nature, will receive prompt attention, a the Office of the AMERICAN DEMOCRAT. REMITTANCES BY MAIL.—“A Postmaster may en close money in a letter to the publisher of a newspaper, to pay the .subscription of a third person, and frank the letter, if written by himself." —Aims Kendall. P M O. All Letters us business inustbeaddicsaed to the Post-Paid- MISCELLANY. Extraordinary Balloon Ascension. The ropes being cut \vc rose quickly into the air. The scene beneath us was beautiful, but not so beautiful as I had imagined. I threw some flowers towards iheearth —they seemed to be snatched out of my hand. Some doves came fly in" towards us; they attempted, iu vain, tolly over the balloon ; but we'rose moie rapidly than was in their power lo sur mount ; and so apparently terrified, they plunged beneath us. Presently there was a great silence, an awful pause in na ture. This Was succeeded b a sound like a distant gun at sea. I looked a round and saw a thunder-cloud approach ing ; or rather we were rushing* with ce lerity, to meet the thunder. We entered the cloud, and our frames were chilled with cold. The thunder cloud was com* posed of a conglomeration of smaller clouds, and in the thick darkness thereof there was a cylinder of ice , some 30 feet in length and 12 feet in di meter, in rap id revolution. Several smaller cylinders were revolving, some slowly,others with great rapidity. It was very cold and dry, and the cylinder, as it revolved, emitted streams of electric lire, very’similar to the exhibition of a glass electrical cylinder when the conductor is removed, but vast !\- more terrible. These streams of elec tric lire were received by clouds, which were first attracted towards the vast cyl inder in revolution, and after being satu rated with electric lire, were repelled, and passed otF into the atmosphere, and other clouds came onwaid to receive their por tion. Then they rolled away until they met other clouds, into which their elec tric fire was discharged. But when these were too remote, the fire was discharged into (or towards) the earth. In the clouds there was a continual crackling of small streams of electricity, exceedingly brilliant and beautiful. My coat was burned in many places, and the shocks I received were horrible, but not so destructive ns l had supposed. It is not until the charge is finally darted to the earth that it becomes irresistibly de structive. We were enveloped in the cloud, and, feeling grand and sublime, I broke forth into a prayer of enthusiastic gloiilying of the Deity; when a noise like the speak iiic- of a great voice burst upon my ears, and seemed to tear them out I And very soon a fierce wind, with great fury, rush ed out of the cloud, and it winded us tike a feather before its rage. My compan ion, with a scream ol terror, leaped out; 1 was so amazed, and at the same time so elevated with the grandeur of the Deity’, that I lost all fear. Indeed, at t his time, I took my pencil and paper and wrote a brief description of the scene, put it into a bottle, and corking it up, tossed it over towards the earth. The lightning sin ged my paper and cramped my fingers while 1 was writing. I never expected to see the earth again. There was no thing hut a sea of clouds beneath me, looking like the disturbed ocean sudden ly arrested by frost. I told the world that Espy’s theory of thunder storms was true, and then bade it “good bye !” Al ter this 1 kept exclaiming, “Glory to the Lord God, almighty !” And then I pray ed ; feeling as I suppose “ Enoch” did when he was “ translated.” The balloon was whirled like a feath er before the storm ; and it took fire, by the electricity of the clouds. It was cov ered with a coating of varnish, and burn r*d with violence. The fiery varnish dropped all over me, and the perspiration poured out upon my paper, so that wri ting was difficult. The roaring of fire and cloud was dreadful. The balloon plunged towards the earth. It either fell D'il-OCJBATIC; S NlT:.?.—' “ if rev aoto Sutfrs, ito Debt, Separation from Santas, Economa, l&ctrrnciiracnt, ants a Strfct atffirrcnce to the Constitution. ’ into the sea or a pond of water, because I \ remember a struggle in the water to pre- j vent drowning ; but I also recollect some severe shocks on the ground, each one I seeming to take life. Yet I survived, to fear nothing but God ! It is singular : how very small, as a material, and how grand, as an intellectual being, I felt.— Truly “ we are fearfully and wonderlully made.” John B. Berby. Noie.—l aUo saw several circular plates of ice, in furious revolution. After revolving' a short time, with increasing rapidity, they burst into small pie ces, forming hail. [Boston Statesman. Circassia and the Russians. Caucasus and its intrepid mountain eers, struggling with Russia and its for midable forces, presents a noble spectacle. For fifteen years the autocrat has annu ally led armies into the mountain fast nesses of this brave people, and yet he has made no impression, or but little, up on them. The whole line of the Cauca sus, from the Black sea to the Caspian, is in arms against Russia. The last ac counts say that 200,000 men are to as semble in the Caucasian provinces; and the emperor of Russia himself is to ap pear among them to compel submission. It is even stated that for ten years past there has been no time when less than 100,000 men have not been employed on this dragoon service. In 1837 an official report to the emperor acknowledges 70,- 167 men employed on the northern side of the mountains, with 146 pieces of ar tillery, and on the southern side the force has been even larger yet. Among the tribes that have most successfully resist ed Russia are the Circassians. We find in the London Ilerald the following de scription of this country : “ It is difficult to say how far Circassia Proper may be considered to extend to wards the east, where the Circassians mingle gradually with the neighlroring nations; but the general rule is to as sume Mount Elbrouz as the eastern limit of their country, though some extend it to the Kazbek. The Kouban and Terek rivers form at present the northern boun dary of Circassia ; for the level country to the north of those rivers lias long been occupied by the Russians, and the own ers of the land have in general submitted to the conquerors, or been driven into the mountains. Into these principal riv eis fall a number of tributary streams, each of which has in its course fertilized some mountain valley. It is at the en trance to these valleys that the Russians have generally erected their small forts, from which, at various times, armed par ties are sent up the valleys to lay waste the harvests and drive away the cattle ; a species of warfare not perhaps more in human than that of the French razzias in Algiers, and certainly not opposed to the. habits of the mountaineers them selves ; still it is offensive to all our bet ter feelings to know that such a system of warfare has been persevered in for years, in order to reduce to servitude a gallant nation, who only demand to be allowed to live in the same freedom and indepen dence which their ancestors have enjoy ed from the remotest periods of history. Mighty empires have arisen, flourished, and decayed in Asia, but not one of them j has ever been able to exercise any real ! sovereignty over the Caucasus. These incursions into the valleys have often caused fearful sufferings to the in habitants, but have made not the least impression on the Circassians as a nation, ; except by exciting the rage of the people | against ihe detached forts, which have often been attacked and taken at a great | er sacrifice than they are worth.” Their population is 696,700. They have no king or prince—in fact but little government of a general nature. “ Each valley has its chief, and the chief rules his clan with patriarchal au thority. Since the war the chiefs have felt the necessity of meeting together to deliberate on their common interests, and thus has been laid the first foundation of a general government. Some of the chiefs, distinguished by their military prowess, have, during the war, acquired great influence over their countrymen, but this influence is sure to awaken jeal ousy, and must therefore be exercised with extreme caution.” Impulse. — We are rarely wrong wfien we act from impulse. By that I do not mean very rash, and wayward, and selfish fantasy; but by allowing its natural course to the first warm and gen erous feeling that springs up in the heart. *Second thoughts are more worldly, more cold, and calculate on some advantage. This is what theancientsmeant when they said that the impulse came Irom the gods, but the motive from men. Our eager belief, our ready pity, our kindly sensations—these are the materials of good within us. As one of our poets says, with equal truth and beauty, “The heart is wise.” We should be not only hap pier, but better, if we attended more to its dictates. Half the misery in the world arises from want of sympathy. We do not assist each other as we might do, because we rarely pause to ask, do they need our assistance? And this works out the moral of suffering; we need to suffer that we may learn to pity. MACON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 10, 1844. < anal across the Isthmus of Pnnt.mr. The following very excellent notice, is from a paper of the Island of Cuba : Canals through the Isthmus of Suez and Guatemala are two of the necessi ties of the age we live in. Mehemet Ali has become aware that the glory of his dynasty is centered in the connexion of the Red and Mediterranean Seas. If, as we hope will be the case, he opens a ca nal passable for barques of seven and eight hundred tons through the Isthmus of Suez, India, thanks to the important advantages of steam, will be only 26 or 30 days travel from Europe, mid the pro- j phecy ol the Maccedonian monarch will be more than realized. The junction of the two oceans through equatorial Amer-1 ica imports not less to the progress of civilization, and no one combats this idea except from ignorance of the true inter ests of humanity. True it is that at one time it was doubtful if a canal sufficient ly large to permit the transmission of goods without a change #f bottom was practicable, but this doubt has disappear ed before the light cast upon the subject by the investigations of Humboldt, whose authority in an affair of this kind is de cisive, and he has declared that such a work may be constructed at five different points, all of them in central America.— But a selection among these five is at first more difficult ihan one would believe.— As in common parlance we usually say in speaking of this work, the Isthmus of Panama; we have adopted this phrase and not because we wish to say that it will absolutely pass through that Isth mus. This route, it is true, has the ad vantage of being the shortest, but a suf ficient supply of water could only beob ; tained by immense labor and without | thisexpenditure, for large vessels it would I be useless. The Isthmus of Darien is not the route winch should be selected. First,because its breadth is but 100 kilometres. Sec ondly, because the canal must in that case be constructed for almost its whole length along the bed of the river Saint Moory. Thirdly, because it would be necessary to cut down or tunnel an im | mense mountain range which traverses 1 the centre of the Isthmus; and lastly, be ' cause it is almost certain that the laborers employed would fall victims to diseases generated by the peculiar climate of the country. A route through the Colum bian Province of Choco would only give a passage to vessels of very small bur -1 den. The first opinion of Humboldt was, that the union should be effected ■ through the Isthmus of Tehu mtcpec, be I having foreseen the difficulties which i Mr. Pettmau experienced in his deten tion for a whole year, by the unhealthy ; climate. The best route seems to us through the Lake of Nicaragua, which 1 possesses both the advantages ot depth of water, healthy atmosphere, and vicin ity to one of the best cultivated and most densely populated States of South A merica. Guatemala has a population of 119 in habitants to the square league, Mexico has 89, New Grenada 29, Buenos Ayres 15. Guatemala is in importance the second state in South America. It has a population of two millions of inhabi- I tants. (Os course we do not speak of Brazil, and refer but to the republics for i ined from the old Spanish Colonies.) The Lake of Nicaragua if 180 miles long and about 100 broad, (the mile con j sists of about 1810 metres.) It has every where from 3 to 8 fathoms of water, and I though liable to storms, is never of dan gerous navigation to vessels ot any size. The practicability of the river St. John is not absolutely established, but it is known that the Royal Government, to deprive their colonies of all intercourse with foreigners, concealed its absolute depth, and as the yet more ancient Lords had done, prohibited the navigation of this Lake under the penality of death— from which circumstance we may con clude that it is practicable and easy of access. Besides the river St. John, the river of Guayaqnail is to be gotten over. Now when Lord Cochrane appeared with his squadron at the mouth of this river, all the English and Native charts said that for large vessels it was imprac ticable. This the pilots of the coast denied, and the events showed that they were correct. Therefore, if this be the! case, it is only necessary to fix upon some ; point of the Pacific for this canal to de-1 bouch. This problem nature has solved ; for us. Much has been said of the difference of the level of the two oceans—of the ne cessity of overcoming this difficulty by locks, which if used at all must be ot im mense size. Let us make,relative to this, a quotation very apropos from El Uni verse. “The Lake of Nicaragua on the northeast communicates with that of Maragna and Leon, which is more than 50 miles long and SO broad. They are connected by a navigable stream 30 miles long, which is called Riotipitaca. In Lake Leon there is water deep enough to admit vessels of heavy burthen.— Twelve miles from its extremity is the river Tosta, which alter flowing 30 miles empties itself into the Pacific. To effect this union, it will only be necessary to construct a broad canal for the twelve miles which separate the Lake iof Leon from *h? river Tosta. The city of Leon will offer every facility possible to those engaged in the enterprize, and a 1 most important consideration is that the climate of this part of Guatemala is al ways salubrious. For these various rea sons, it is very manifest that the union through Nicaragua has great advantages which far more than counterbalance for its rather greater length and the increas ed cost of the work by this route, for it is the only one which would admit vessels of any great burden. Through the Isth mus of Panama an expense nearly as great would only admit very small craft. In the enumeration of the advantages of this route, there is one very important one. The Belgian Colony established in Guatemala adjoins Nicaragua. What inestimable advantages might be drawn from European civilization ? The B<*!- ! gians are laborious, economical, docile, j and capable of becoming teachers of I good husbandry to the population of j Guatemala, and moreover are scions of a small nation which can never give any jealously to the Sovereigns of the sot!— a matter not to be neglected : for, if to effect the union of the two oceans, Gua temala should part with a portion of her territory, she would do herself a great in jury instead of advantage. She should have control ol the work and open it to ! all her friends. That this is the case we have but to look to the Dardanelles at present, on which, to our mind, rests the true solution of all the difficulties of the East. Dia o§ue. SCENE I. “ Long time ago." Democrat.—Deacon, who will be your whig candidate for the presidency? Deacon.—Well, I don’t know, but hope it will be some good man. I never can conscientiously vote for a duellist, or slave holder. SCENE II [“ How false are all things here below."] Democrat.—Ah, is that you Deacon? Good morning; glad to see you. The nomination of Clay came last night.— The whigs round the exchange are full of glee. Deacon.—That is capital ; thank Heaven ! We can beat you now ! Democrat.—Hey ! what! Why, dea con, you told me you could never con scientiously vote for a duellist or slave holder—didn’t you ? Deacon.—Why yes—no—that is not exactly—you misun—that is to say, to speak plainly—l meant—hem—it is fine weather—good bye—l have an engage ment. Sneezing. —This was a customary mode of salutation with friends and ac quaintances among the ancients and ex isted as far back as the the time of Aris totle. When two friends met by a mut ual sneeze they ol course extorted a mu tual bow from each other. Pleasurf. and enjoyment.—Plea sure iasls forever, but enjoyment does not; the reason is, that the one lies a roimd, and perpetually renews itself; but the others lies within, and exhausts it self. Balaam's Sword. —A celebrated clown once produced on the stage a rusty sword. “This,” says he, “is the sword with which Balaam smote the ass.” One of the audience replied “ I thought he had no sword, but only wished for one.” “ You’re right,” rejoined the clown, “and this is the very sword he wished for.” A Barrister, once dealing in pathos be fore one of the High Courts of justice, was, or pretended to be, so overcome by his feelings, that he actually blubbered and declared to the jury with great tragic effect, that “ like the crocodile, he must pull his handkerchief from his pocket to wipe his eyes!” Reason for Drinking. —A gentleman having used some argument in favor of drinking, concluded with, “ You know, sir, drinking drives away care, and makes one forget what is disagreeable. Would | you not allow a man to drink in that j case?” “Yes, sir,” replied Johnson, “ if; he sat next to you 7” The following from one of the old Bri tish poets is exquisite. It is tho very es sence of the aroma of fancy it is address ed to a lady upon whose bosom a flake of snow fell and melted : The envious snow comes down in baste To brave thy breast less fair, But prieves to sec itself surpassed And melts into a tear. The spell of Song. — It is given to Song like the Sun, to throw its glorify ing light upon all human circumstances, and to lend them beauty at least for a moment. “The spinners” and “ the aged man by tiie road side,” are led by song into the kingdom of beauty, even as they are by the gospel into the kingdom of Heaven. It is proposed by Professor Morse to extend his magnetic telegraph to New York, 1 under ground, the wires to be laid al! the way in pipes. POLITICAL. Prom the Richmond Enquirer, 23th nil. Sir. McUclSe•» speech. In spite of the appeals of one of the whig presses, urging the whigs not to ap proach the democratic meeting—in spite of the publication and zealous circulation of handbills, warning the people, that Messrs. Mangu in and Archer would, ad dress the whigs at the Club House, (tho’ they did not speak, through courtesy, we presume, to their brother Senator,)—in spite of the untiring efforts of some of the whigs to reduce our meeting to a mere shadow, Mr. McDuffie was received at the Old Baptist Church, on Tuesday evening, by all audience of about 13 to 1400 citizens, listening eagerly to his impressive eloquence. Though the I whig (who a did not har it. or wish to hear it," and he might have added, “did not wish the whies to hear it,”) may pro nounce it, “from the general account,” not less false in doctrine, than bitter in personal bearing, exasperated in temper and feeling, tr asonable in meaning and intention, and impotent in style and exe cution; we shall not hesitate to character ize this speech as one of the most power ful efforts ot human genius, and, iu this opinion we are borne out by thetestimony of all the whigs we have seen, (and they are many, of the first standing and intel ligence of this community.) Though his physical frame is much worn out, his mind still burns with a bright and pure light. His powers of analysis, and with ering sarcasm, are of the highest order. The subject he chiefly discussed, was the groat question of the Tariff—and most clearly did he portray to the humblest mind the oppression and injustice of the od.ous Tariff bill oflß42—in many re spects twice as oppressive as the bill of 1832, against which some of the then “nullifiers” of the South, but now the wannest advocates of protection, raised a flagof “interposition ofState sovereignly.” Most severely, but elegantly, did he casti gate the *States Rights men of the former period, who ore now hurried, by man worship of Mr. Clay, into the vortex of federal usurpation. Never shall we for get the ridiculous light, in which he presented one of the favorite notions of the modern political economists, that “high duties make low prices.” He ex pressed his utter astonishment, that “grown men,” in the city of Richmond, the capital of a slate that had given so many patriots to the Union should, in their ultra Tariff notions, propagate a theory not worthy of a schoolboy of 15. But we can give no idea of the lucid ar guments, the accurate illustrations, the brilliant hursts of eloquence, with which Mr. McDuffie demolished the protective system,- stating, among other things. that the south lost annually forty millions, which went into the pockets of the north. On the Texas question, he presented some beautiful and conclusive views.— He refuted the argument, that the ratifi cation of the treaty would produce war with Mexico —proved that Texas was independent and would remain so; ns be had the authority of Gen. Thompson for saying, that Santa Anna iu his own tot tering tyranny, could not afford an army of 500 men to send into Texas. He de precated the rejection of ihe treaty; ns it was established that Sania Anna, when he heard of the negotiation, was at heart in favor of it, and, inhisavaricious spirit, had coolly asked “how much he was to get ?" But, when a few daysalterwards, the depatches of Almonte arrived, he (Santa Anna) was bound to yield to the views of the old Spaniards around him, and to refuse his assent to the treaty— though he was really anxious, to get rid ofTexasonany terms. It was feared (said Mr. McDuffie,) that, though the interposition of France and England, tiiis fine country would be lost lorever: and this agrees with our information from W ashington, contained in another arti cle of to-day. He contrasted beautifully , the moral and physical qualities, customs j and habits of the Mexicans and the Tex- i ans, and satisfied the most skeptical, that I the former never could subjugate the lat- j ter. He treated the wdiole subject iu a \ masterly manner —and, we doubt not, | shook the obstinate resolves of many of the anti-Texans present. Mr. McDuffie noticed at some length j the charges of “disunion,” which had i been thundered by Mr. Botts and others in the Clay Club house and elsewhere a-; gainst himself and his state. He show’-, ed that the first cry of disunion, iti case of annexation, came from John Q Adams i and his northern friends, and he asked, j whether Mr. Botts had then raised the cry of disunion ? Mr. McDuffie assert ed, that the meetings in South Carolina had merely declared that disunion u’ould be the effect of non-annexation—as the northern fanatics had raised the cry ol “Texas and disunion”—but, at all events he was not responsible for what his con stituents might do; for they were too proud, too patriotic and enlightened, to be under the dictation of auy man or set of men. Mr. McDuffie wound up his splendid mental effort, with a brief explanation of a matter “personal to himself.” He had been charged by Mr. Botts with “cower ing before the attacks of Mr. Benton,'’ in VOL. II—NO 8. a late scene in the Senate chamber, “that Mr. Benton had shaken Lis fist in his face, and that he (Mr. McDuffie) should have at once thm;!; .:d' ’r Benton.” Mr. McDuffie said, that 1." Mr. Botts wished to see a dog-fi;*ht, he would have to go and perform ;t himself. The scene in the senate, Mr. McDuffie admitted, was an exciting one; and lie proceeded to give the details. Mr Benton was in the highest mood of acting, and used much vehement gesture; but neither he, (Mr. McDuffie.) nor any senator present had regarded the affair as at all personal.— Mr. McDuffie, closed hy a severe denun ciation of the author of the report. The house re-echoed with applause, when the distinguished orator took his seat, nearly exhausted. Th? who’? u dience, whig and do moral, <?--vnnd chained by the wonderful effvt o' - ius. Prom lh‘ ’As i ! ] If any of your readers wi refi.-c. ora moment they will call to mind tiitf fact that since the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and one, there has been only one President of the United States of the fed eral or money party elected hy the people ol this country. Thai one president was an officer of a high grade during the last war. and claimed to be known and call ed a democrat. It pleased Providence to remove him by death in the brief space of thirty days from the lime he took the oath of office. For forty three succes sive years then with the exception of thirty days only the democracy of this country has had and maintained the as cendency; for the choice of John Quin cy Adams a minority candidate by the House of Representatives effected by the bargain with Clay forms no exception. The democrats were not then beaten — they were sold by Clay who accidental ly hadthe power to make the transfer—to what party then doe3 this country owe its unparalleled prosperity 2 If any leg islation, whether in reference to the tariff of duties or to any other matter has been beneficial to the country, by which of the parties has it been accomplished ? For thirty days out of forty three years the whigs have ruled this country. And du ring those thirty days more removais from office were made without any causa except for mere opinion’s sake, than du ring nearly as many years of democratic | rule. And yet these whigs are the men who promised to proscribe proscription. The struggle has al ways been, and always will be, between the money party, and the people’s party No man doubts tho result if the democrats unite. Their con vention at Baltimore have now united. The members of this convention have done all their constituents could ask or expect of them. They have agreed with an unanimity almost tirtpnrallel-d upon candidates for the offices of president and vice president. No democrat has right to ask anything more; no democrat can ask anything better. It is unity of ac | tion which the democracy want. They ; have the numbers. Os this there is no sort of question. If these numbers act in concert, victory is certain. Whenthere : fore, we see all the delegates from all the ! states unite upon James K. Polx for 1 president, end all the delegates from all thestotes uniteupon George M Dalt as for vice president, what more can any democrat ask or desi re ? i My word for it Mr. Editor, they do not , ask more. 1 have been in four of the New England States since these nom inations have been announced; I have 1 had conversations w ith hundreds, Ido not know but I may say with a thou'r.i,a dem ocrats, and I assure you I have not yet met the first member of the party who will not most heartily support these two names of Polk and Dallas. All are rejoiced at the prospect of electing again den ocratic rulers: and whoever lives tosre the No vember < ec'ionvi a . -in e ’ r: ofd«ci CJ to triumph tor tho h« t ci : Allow me to congratulate yu. Mr.Ed itor, upon the part you acted personally in effecting this glorious result. To the delegates of that convention the country owe a debt of gratitude. You have resto red peace and produced harmony in our ranks. It will be our fault if we do not reward your efforts with the most perfect and overwhelming victory for the de mocracy of the land. At all events, “ We will try.” The BRIDGEPORT BON’D CASE. —Tile great question whether private property can be taken for city debts, was argued be fore the court of’Errors, [the whole bench of supreme judges) ol the s’ale of Connecticut at Fairfield on Thursday last. The decision is expected to be an nounced at New Haven tins week, l*or the city appeared Mr. senator Hunting ton, and Joshua A. Spencer of Utica, tor the bond holders, Messrs Hawley, of Stamford, and Dutton of Biigeport.—JV. Y. Jour, of Commerce. George E. Badger of N. C., now a fart friend o~f Clay, was one of those who de nounced the bargain w’lth Adams, spoke of the ‘embodiment’ as a man “ot intrigue, of eloquence, ar.d of unbounded ambition ’