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\OLimE m-IUMBER 13.]
MILLEDQBY1LLE, (Gl.) SEPTEMBER 20, 1S30.
EDITED by
jOII* A. C5J1HBE21T,
State- Print er %
Tt.c UNION is I"
lishcH every Tuesday at THREE DOLLARS
„. e< or Font, if not before the end of
, sg MU vv’ iync street, opposite the State Rank,
vtur. j ..p|n||'\TS published at the usual rate.-.
.All AR * ‘, (V u,.*. c. i ks of the Courts of ordinary that
N B- J- •' , 1( j | r It tiers of Administration, nm.-t Le
i«» - '' :,l \!!' 1 '.,^ilstraturt for I'cMnrs an.1 Cre.li.
N " l ' rL .„ I, r i.ilii'-.r . .-.'..ii.im. must Ik- published «l.\ \VEKh.H.
\ I'V DAYS Ik I
!. hr Executors ;
trator.
) of test itc and intes
i.i Administrators,
,f<u:TV DAY'
.A |'|.l ' dl»
Sheriff.’ **!rs uhcler ever
.mil-. he:idv,ili.ulTllIKl
p.,-1 l.i
v K erntor= Administrators end Guardians lo the
•y for leave UI .-'.II Laud, mast lie puhlishcd FOI'lt
Fvendors and Administrators for Letters Dis-
• inilil.she! FIX MONTltri.
i Korcrlo-'Ure of .Mortgages on real estate must
- mm ,th for FOUR .MONTHS,
r. o- \,\ Executors, Administrators and Guardi
..‘li i.p t i six I'Y DAYS before the day of sale.—
, i„- ole at the court hmi.-e doer between tlie
(1 , r ,,| | four in the afternoon. No sale
| >i. expressed in luo advertisement.
( \„, r , ,.t •» .nary, ( iccompanted with a copy of
.. t.i in .:-.- titles Inland, iuu»t bc advertised
minus regularly ^ranted hy the courts,
,• DAYS—under mor;gage executions
i>Ii;i i*i** Property under order of Court,
v. PEN DAYS before the day of sale.
wiil be punctually »Uei*ded to.
,, this office, or the Eluor, must be
ailcntion.
-uvOOl.V SHEHIFF’3 SALE.—On the first
8> Tuesday in Uelolier next, will, within the legal hours,
tw hoM liuloru llm euurl-liouso door in tlie town of fray-
toil Dooly cotiniv,
()nu lot of land, number one hundred and sixty-three, in
iliiril di.-irii I of Dooly t unniy—levied on ns the property of
(leor 'e W. Fallon, In satisfy one small fi in Iroin n jtwnro s
niurfol Tniggs eoiinly in favor of Samuel 1’ale: levy made
and returned lo inby a (-unstable. Aminat 23, 133d.
GILFORD KENT, rtyir.’v sheriff^
Tfyjt V SHERIFF’S SALK.—<>n tlie first
Ttiesil y in October next, will, within tlie legal
li i.ira, In- Mild, before the cottri.liouso dour in the town of
Jla- dunoiigh, llenry county,
'l’no liniidred two and a iialf acres of land, known as
P l niimlier two hundred and nineteen in the sixth district
llcnrv ciainty—levied nil ns the properly of William .Mar
shall,’ la satisfy a ft lit issued from a justice’s court of
Cltalliaia county in favor of captain Nathaniel Haynes and
owners of schooner Tlnirlnw vs William Marshall: levy
made and returned lo me by a constable. August 13, I33G.
Z.UMX'lv SAWYER, sheriff
Abo. will, at the ulna e time utalplane, he sold,
Two hundred tw-nnd a half acres of land, known ns lot
her one hundred and fifty-nine in the eleventh distriet
III llenry enmity—levied on as the property of Joseph Hub
bard, to satisfy a I! fa issued from the superior court of O-
jllelliorpc enmity in favor of I he justices of the inferior court
Ihr tlie use ul KrUaiu Stamps, guardian of Ward Hudson,
vs Joseph Hubbard.
A remnant of a stock of goods found in the hands of John
If. Ituseherry—lcvied on as the property of Arnuldus V.
Sillers, to saii-fy two li fas issued front the inferior court
of II,-my enmity in favor of the officers of court vs Arnul
dus V. :Seilers. August 13, 1330.
W il.1.13 FULLILOVE, deputy sheriff.
ASPKK SHERIFF**! SACK.—On the first
the legal
court-house door, in tlie town of
Moulici-llo, Jasper county.
One lot of laud, iimnln r twenty-five in the fifteenth dis-
tririuf originally iialdwin hut now Jasper county—levied
on to satisfy a fi fa issued from Chatham superior court a-
gainst I!. A .1. Holton, in favor of the l’lanters' Hank of
the State of Georgia: property levied on atal advertised hy
order nl plaintiff's attorney.
The west half of lot of land, number ninety-right in the
ninth ili.-trii t of originally llenry, then Newton hut now
Jasper county—levied on as the property of William Jaek-
ssi. to satisfy I wo fi fas issued front a justices' court of Bald
win enmity in favor of Aaron Searcy: property levied on
ami returned to me by a constable. Sepiemher 3, 1336.
WILLIAM RAMEY, sheriff.
.5
Tuesday in November next, will, witliin
ild, before llie
■MT \ S1II \ G TO X SlfKltKI FF’S POST—
IV ro\|]I> S A LK#—On the first Tuesday m Oc
tober next, will, witliin the legal hours, be sold, helore tho
riiun-lumbt* d-jur in the lutvn of Sarulirsville, Washington
count v’,
Ono at
re Ini iillh" to"
n of Sa
idersville, with a gin house
llitTt’OII,
adjoining Oavi
, one
vaggon and six tunics, one
»wy
, ono no-ro Itoy
naiwt
Henry, one quarter ol* an
nno lut
i Sandcrsvillp,
wish
lie unpiovemeiits thereon,
SV„rllir>Ti, ono
Immli
\\ and twenty-six acres of
land, inljt
ininn Simmons
anti oil
era, three yoke of ox. n and
two ran
-levied on as
ho pro
»erly of .Morgan Frown, to
satisfy a
li (ii in favor ol
i>. A.
II.‘Jones and W. W. Cul-
l<MIS VK.
Moreau »io«i
him! sundry oilier fi las vs. said
row it: prop riy pointed out bv said Drown. September
mc>. S11 i;uIU)L) SF.SSION'S, deputy sheriff.
J OYEN SIIIJIUFF’S SALE. -On tho fi.«t Tues
day hi October ueit, uiJI, within the b g:»l liours, \tc
Hold, before tl»c conrt-ltuuso door in the town of Clinton,
Junes county,
Ten negroes, lo wit: Toney, York, Nathan, Windsor,
Isaac, (.'ullee, <«V»#rge, Cli/.a, Isabella and her infant child,
ind lots of land numbers forty-four, forty-five, forty-seven,
lifiv-scveii, fifty-eight, fifty-nine, sixly, seventy-three, ami
the lot that is bounded on the east or northeast by number
Hixty, and on I he west or .southwest by number €?ighty-six,
all of >:iid lots lying and being in the seventh district ofori-
goiallv Ihtldvuu but now Jones county, on the waters of
Swsti Creek, and each containing two hundred two and a
half acres iimrr- or less—(there is a saw-mill on lot number
fifty-nine or fifty l ight, known as Carter’s upper saw-mill,)
—and the east half of lot number eighty six. in said district,
bordering on number seventy-one, and tlu* half of lot num
ber eighty-five, in said district, situate on and bounded by
number seventy-two, and on the east side of a direct line
drawn from north to south through the center of said lot
kumher eipUly-liv**, and bordering on Swift creek; and all
that part of lot number seventy-two, lying parallel on the
line ( Tossing Swili creek dividing said lot from number fifty-
nine, extending said cross-line lromotie extremity of said
lotto tli.’other, so as to include tlie saw and grist mills
known as Carter’s middle mills on the creek aforesaid, the
hue to crossimiuediatefy below the mills so ns not to impair
the water privilege of th: saw mill immediately below on
haul cret k,— the said part of said lot to include the saw and
grist mills, the dwelling hows ', kitchen and out-houses now
occupied hy said Carter, said part of said lot. is supposed to
contain fifty acres he the same more or loss,)—and ail that
portion nr halanee of lot number seventy-two in said dis
trict, lying below tlie line last aforesaid, supposed to con
tain one hundred fifty two and a half acres more or less,
uUertxiii there is another saw mdl known as Carter’s low
er saw milk and one four-wheel carnage and harness, two
carnage-hors(-s, 'one a gray and the other a bay,) two yoke
own, one wagon and harness, seven mules, two carry-logs,
twenty head of lings more or less, forty-five head of cattle
more or Jess, forty-two bend of goals more or less, one cutt
ing knife, seven cowhides, two scythes and cradles, two
log chains, one<v t blacksmith's tools, one pair andirons,
one clock, two brass-bound water-tubs, four beds, bedsteads
and furniture, one secretary, one looking glass, two dozen
chairs, one dressing table, one randlesland, one pine table,
onelot plates, dishes and knives and forks, one bureau, one
folding table, three pails, two tubs, one lot cooking uten
sils am! one large jx»l—all levied on as the property of John
Curler, Jo satisfy the following fi fas, to nil: one in favor
of Horn Took vs John Carter and Virgil Walker, assigned
to James.U. tieorge, one in favor of the executors of J. I>.
Weathers, deceased, vs. John Carter, assigned to James II.
(ieorg'\ one in favor of I famerlal Johnson vs. John Carter,
John Harvey and Alfred Iverson, security, assigned to
James 11. (Icorge, one in favor of Armstead Kirhardson vs
John Carter, (the above issued from the superior court of
.Jones county,) one that issued from the inferior court of
#ibb cow»l x v in favor of Cooko <l Cowles vs John Carter,
A**s>ign«'d to James II. Ceorg»‘, and ope jn favor of William
J Howard, endorsee, \£. John Cpriiuijxd, and Tho-
,mas S. Dunbar, endorser, and which issued from the supe
rior court of Junes county.
Twenty acres of standing corn and eight arris of stand
ing cotton—lev ii d on as the property of Alexander I».
(Greene, to satisfy a ft fa, which issued from the superior
.court ol Jones county in favor of Alexander Cunningham.
C»l ol land number one hundred in the sixth district of
Jones cpynty, adjoining lands of Reuben Coir-—levied on as
the jvvperty of lliratn Mann, to satisfy a C fa issued from
tho jiiHtices of the five hundred and twentieth district of
.Georgia militia in Bibb county in favor of Ambrose George
•vs said lliratn Mann, assigned to Thomas Cheats: levy
gundc and returned lo me by Jsbam Ethridge, constable.
^August 25, 1m3G.
. _ THOM AS S. IirMPnrjS, deputy sheriff.
cottoy ‘
.¥ » 1 /wTi'r 1 ? l ,rkae lut t,f roal 11 MI* DUNDEE
warranted to ho a fir^t rate article,
'Which will be4ispose*l ol on verv iimderiite terms
, ... JAMES II. SlIAIIAN.
Mdle lyeiille, Sejitaidier fi, 1836.—3t-l 1
MEDICAL AOTICK.
D «. WILLIAM <;. LITTLIx Ikis remoredtu
Millmlgwillp. lie will pranifp Medicine in the va-
aarlipn of ilm iirofnssiou, in lhis uiui [lu: adjoining
r. January 22,1830.—30
X. II. I)r. J. |{. (JOIt.MAN lias left at ray
Wire, liia Notes ami Accounts for mllpi-uun; lliose in-
II pltTi.st- rnll ami make immediate payment.
(V. G
■nuns
6W:
idrhteil
March I
1630.-36
L.
KOCIiAVlKLL & liSa VX,
A TTORNE YS A T L A W,
MlLLEDaEVITsLE, OEOB.GXA,
H aving nuiteii itieir profknsiomIi inte
rests, ■will attend lo business entru.-ted to them
•'J l be Counti<(s of tlie Oemulgee Circuit, in tlie County of
Hancock of the Northern,. Washington of the Middle,
‘"iggHund Laurens of the Southern, and ffouston, Hi Id*
and Miinrocof tlie Flint Circuits: also in the Fed6rnl Court.
* heir oilier is 411 the second floor of the Masonic tfall.—
J, ‘jy 10, l«3fi. SAMUEL HOCK WELL,
5 M.J. KENAN.
ASU
T . COOf MISSION' BUSINESS.
MI. subscribers have connected themselves for the
purpose of transact ing a general Factorage am! Com
mission Business in the (_;uy of Savannah, under the firm of
* W. 11AUDEE, ami solicit (he patronage of lliPjr
Iriend* anil ihe pulilic, ami liope by unrcmillmg aiieuiioii
jl'ul auidniiy to mi-i-i t | ie approbniion of Ihose who may
'"'or tliPm with llieir biuinnn. Tlioy yfi'II make liberal
"dvanre* on cotion goods, or oilier property placed in tbeir
Mails for sale. NOBLE A. HARDEE.
WILLIAM U. 1IAKHEE-
„ REFERENCES.
Messrs. Cowles & Wabii, Mifiodgcvillo.
Messrs. Coiikk As Cowle", Maeou.
Mr. Jon ii Uawles, Howkinsvillfli
■6aw»nuli, August 23, 133C.-3-6t
A CARD.
MRS. IIl SON informs tier friends, that she
is a-'aiii the owner of the EAGLE HOTEL,
i is in -nillcdgeviile—ibis bouse xvas formerly kept by
herself, hut more recently by Mr. M'Comhs. Her palrons
are assured, that nothing, on her part, shall be wanlingto
render them comforinble. February 3, 1835.-3J
[WHOLE YIHBER
JACKSON HALL.
The subscriber returns his thanks to his friends
and tlie pulilic for past favors in his line of busi
ness and hopes to merit and secure a continuance
of their patronage, by strict and undeviating attention on
tlie part of himsclt and family to the wants and comforts of
nis guests. Ilis Houses are very extensive and commodi
ous, with up wards of fifty fire-places. It is well known
that the best the country affords be will have on his table
, f . lf , SAME EL BUFFINGTON.
Mulcdg. viUe, Ga. September 26. 1835.—13
FIRE-PROOF WAREIJOiSE;
Comm ission linoi ness,
HFAIjTj 9 SIYIMONS Sc CO* tender their sin-
cere thanks to their friends and the pulilic, for the lib
eral Patronage conferred on them, in their WARE
HOUSE AND COMMISSION IH! 81 NESS, for
years past, and respectfully renew the offer of their servi
ces, promising their continued efforts, for the promotion of
the interests of their patrons. They are prepared to afford
tlie usual advances on COTTON", &r. consigned to their
care, as heretofore. Augusta, August 8, 183G.-yt-U J2i-7
G-L C
g? ^ PH *^5 T,
W mu bJ mum •
MIELEDGEVILLK, GA.
HIE SUHSCKIBEit respectfully informs her friends,
. andlhepublic, thatsl c has removed to that very con
venient stand aiid commodious ESTAIHjISIIMENT.
formerly known as the UNION HOTEL, and which
has been occupied for some time by Mr. Aaron Scarey.—
This establishment, including the ont-buildings, will be put
in a state of thorough repair, arid the subscriber is well pre
pared to ace,.mmodate HOARDERS, TK YXSIENT
CUSTOMERS, and TRAVELLERS. Sbesolicits
hare of public patronage, of which site will endeavor ti
render herself and her establishment worthy, by an amph
stock of the best supplies, and by the most assiduous alien
lion to the wants and comforts of her customers.
January 8, 1836.—28 NANCY J. GODWIN.
fie <*? -S? fi Q 2? W ® ^ £ »
DRUGGISTS,
MACON, GA.
I OIK SI’ ESCRIBE US (former partners of EUis,
Shot we 11, Sc Co.) have resumed their business
under the above firm, at their old slant! opposite the Brick
l’a verm and will keep a general assort mem of Drills. Me-
licines, Surgical and Medical Instruments, Faints and Oils,
of all kinds. Window Glass, assorted sizes, Glass Ware for
bop furniture, iVrfumory, Fancy Articles, Brushes of
very description, Eotiiuic and Patent Medicines, Car
penter’s preparation, also bis Essays on Materia Medica.—
Dyo woods and Dye stuffs, and a great variety of miscellane
ous Articles, of w hieli they have received a large supply, and
intend keeping their stock constantly replenished, so as to
be able at all times to supply Dealers, Physicians, Planters
and oilicrs, who may favor them with their custom.
Intending to In* permanently engaged in this business,the
subscribers, from tbeir long experience, hope to render it
worthy the patronage of old and new customers. Orders
by letter will meet tlie same attention as if made in person.
HENRY SllOTWKLL,
JACOB SHOT WELL.
N. B. G ARDEN SEEDS, a ssortcil, warranted Jresh.
A lilicraldiscount made to country dealers.
Fohruary 27. lS2G.-oo\vtf-36 IT. &. J. S.
CEXTEAL BAItK OF GEOEGM,
MIL L E DOE VILLE.
rrUIE iindcrsignnl oUiccrs of this Bank "ill hereafter at-
1 lend I.) ihe liEMiiVAh of all NOTES ll iat may
be eiitriistcd lo tbeir care, for the customary fee of ONE
DOLLAR for each renewal. Letters enclosing Note
and Money for the renewal of notes, post-paid, directed to
the “Officers of the Central Bank of Georgia,” or any one
of them, ''ill lo promptly atterukd to. 'fhe old Note, No
tice and blank Note, will, in nil eases, be forwarded by the
earliest mail. August FJ, 1835.
C.C. MILI.S, Cashier,
W. J. DAVIS, Teller,
L. D. BUCKNER, Discount Clerk,
8 B. II. REYNOLDS, Book-Keeper.
AGLiVUY.
T HE undersigned will attend to the renewal of Notes
in the Cenira! Bank, at the usual fee of One Dofar
. I. <
»l. 'lM.t-
,11 «l,o P r
>Kh!ln
offices and forward grants at one dollar for a single grant,
and fifty cents each where more than one is requested.—
Communications addressed to them jointly or separately,
(post-paid) will be punctually attended to.
JOHN G. PARK,
MiJledffccile, April 25, 1336 —14 PETER FAIR.
~
AXI> CIlLKOKEi; LAXI» AGKXCT.
rfllHE undersigned oilers his services to the public as an
fl Agent for the transaction of business in the Central
Bank, and in selling Cherokee Lands. His fees will
be for Agency in discounting or renewing each Note in Bank
one dollar; for effecting sales of Land, five dollars per tract
under one hundred dollars, and five per cent, for all above
that sum. Ilis Into residence in the < ’herokee country and
present station in the Surveyor General’s Office, pecufarlv
adapt hi n for this agency.
All eommuniraiions must come post-paid, or they will
not be taken from the post-office. MilledgeviBe, April 26,
1836.-44 JOHN BREWSTER.
POETRY.
From the Boston Morning Post.
ODE TO DANIEL OF TI1E NORTH.
BY IIORACK BROADBRIM.
God save thee from thy friends, thou mighty man!
While thou hast borne their burdens all alone;
Sustained their honor, since thy course began,
Hoping to sit upon the federal throne;
Behold, they honor thee—a grateful pack!
By riding Harrison upon thy back!
They think, that since across the Marshpee stream,
A gray-haired sire was on thy shoulders borne,
Thou art a mighty strong and willing team;
And since thy prospects have become Ibrlorn,
With wealth begotten impudence, they dare
Make thee a horse—a rival’s weight to bear.
Arouse thee, Daniel—shew thy warlike spirit;
Be thou no longer ruled by ihy inferiors;
Tell them their wealth and pride is all their merit,
And that thou knowesi among them no superiors.
Tell them ail sense of gratitude they lack—
And shake that Harrison from off thy back.
Now, thou art as a bird yeleped decoy.
Used to draw flocks into the fowler’s net;
Thee do thy friends with the same art employ
To draw the people in the snare they’ve set;
Or rather—to amend my las! comparison—
I hey bait with thee, in fishing votes for Harrison!
3I1SCELLA1VEOIJS.
MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA.
T ’HIE fifth course of lectures in this Institution "ill be
commenced on the third .Monday (17(h) of October
next, and continue as usual SIX MONTHS. The Col
lege edifice is completely finished. Many valuable addi
tions have been made to tie* Museum and Chemical appara
tus since the la-t course. The Lectures will be delivered by
L. A. Duuas, M. D. on Anatomy and Physiology.
A. CcN.NIngham, M. D. on the Principles and Practice
of Medicine.
Joseph A. Eve, 31. D. oil Therapeutics and 3Iatcria
Medica.
31. Antony, 31. D. on Obstetrics and dicascs of women
and infants.
Paul F. Eve, 31. D. on Principles and Practice of Sur
gery.
Lewis D. Ford, 31. D. on Chemistry and Pharmacy.
In addition to the above each Professor will, in rotation,
deliver Clinical Lectures one month.
The terms are—31 itriewlation Ticket, to be taken once,
five dollars. Ticket for the full course one hundred dollars.
T ; eket for PiaetieuI Anatomy, to be taken at least once, ten
dollars. Diploma fee, ten dollars.
JOHN \V. WILDE, President,
L. I). Ford, Secretary.
A Uifnsta, A tig us 12'J, 1S36.—4l-9.
LAND FOR SALE.
rpHE Subscriber is desirous of selling a valuable SET-
X TLEMENT of LAN JL consisting of One thou
sand Acres, with two hundred and seventy-five acres
cleared and in good order, with a goood Gin-ho use and
other out buildings. This land IDs in Talbot county, about
two miles from Talbot ton. Any one, desirous of buying,
will call and examine for themselves.
.MICHAEL HARVEY.
September 10, 1836.—12-tf.
NOTICE.
P ROPOSALS will be received for making a Canal in
the State of Georgia, from ihe Altamaha river to the
Harbor of Brunswick in Glynn county, for the distance of
twelve and a half miles, thirty-five feet wide at the bottom,
and nearly i-’t the following proportions, viz: three miles in
marsh or creek, seven fect deep; two and a half miles in
sandy lands, covered with some pine timber, from fourteen
to twenty-eight feet deep; and about seven miles, twelve feet
deep, in swamp land, covered with timber ami brush. Pro
posals will l^e received fur the above work to he commenced
this fall, and any person who wishes to form contracts is re
quested lo call on T-Umxws A. Dexter E.-q. City Hall, for
more particular information.
Also, proposals will l>e received, after this week, on appli
cation to Alexander Parris Esq. architect, for tl/e erection of
a Hotel, witU w ooden frame, forty feet square and three sto
ries high, in the City of Brunswick, near the end of the
Canal, with a stable and outhouses, according to the plan
3Jr. Parris will show, which is to be framed here, and sent
to Brunswick by the 10th day of October next.
As to the health of tlie country, and the districts through
which the canal "ill pass, any one may apply to honorable
Thomas Butler King (at the Tr^nont House.) President
of tlie Brunswick Canal and Rail Road Company, who will
readily furnish all desired information on this point.
LOAM MI BALDWIN, Engineer.
Bostou, August 31, 1836. 12 ______
HROFL1HT TO J AIL,
jr\ Emanuel county,Georgia,on tlic21:h instant,a N*»gro
fi 31 an named JOHN, who says he belongs to David
KaLton of .Macon. He is about twenty-five years of age,
dark complexion, has a scar on his right hand, five feet
four inches high ami says he left Macon on the 18th instant.
Tlie ow ijcr is requested to come forward, pay all exj*cnses
and take him away. July 29, 1836.
7 JOHN K. DANIELL, Jailor^
TIIOJISONIAN lAFHHIARl.
/VIHE Subscribers respectfully inform tlie public that
JB_ they have established an I.VITRMARY, in King
street, nearly opposite Ihe Ciiuilct, ami arc now ready to re
ceive those a filleted with disease, who rnny feel disposed to
give a trial to Simple VEGET ABLE It EM EDIKS,
may depend on receiving every attention which experienced
Practitioners and careful Nurses can render to make their
situation a • comfortable as their eases will admit. Persons
in ihe CitV, ns well ns those from the country, rari benreom.
modeled with Board at I ho Infirmary, on moderate terms.
Private apartments, with Female Attendants, ior the La
dies, and a separate Establishment for Blacks.
It is useless to say any thing here concerning the merits of
ibis system, ns it bids fair to supersede every other yet known.
Infirmaries conducted upon Tliomsoilian I*riliciplfe«
have long been established in most of the principal Cities of
the Union, and hy their unexampled success in the Remo
val of DISE ASES, have succeeded in establishing their
popularity on loo firm a basis to he shaken.
K. U. TIIOMSOSl’S Family Rights, Robin
son’* Lectures on Medical Botany, the Tliotnaoiban Record-
er, hound; and a general assortment of Genuine Thoitsonian
Medicines kept constantly vn hand, al their old stand o|>|k>-
sile ihu new Guard House.
NAKUIN, WOOD & SIIECUT-
CJuiilcilun, South Carolina, April C, 133G.-I5
Make way for the Sea Serpents.—Tlie Ban
gor Advertiser gives us the following account
of the Sea Serpent which a week since made
his appearance at Mount Desert Rock, which is
near Bangor. As will be seen, he underwent
a phrenological examination, though nothing is
afforded us but a general description of his
bumps.
“lie was seen,” says the Advertiser, “in the
inlet between Mount Desert Rock and the main
and, on Saturday, by captain Black of the
fishing schooner Fox- of Sedwick. Captain
Black is an elderly man of intelligence and
veracity. lie says that he was within fifty
yards of his snakeship for an hour, that at least
sixty feet ol his body were exposed when in
motion, and that he must be at least twenty feet
longer. The head was only two or thee feet
above ihe surface—it was prccisley like the
head of a land-snake, and the neck was smaller
just below the head, in this particular resem
bling tlie snake family—Ins color was perfectly
black and looked like a porpoise. When in a
state ol quiet, about one third of his diameter
was exposed, and capiain B. judged that the
exposed part was about the size of a half bar-
rel. 1 here were no proturberances, hut when
in motion it answered the description of the
bumps. The captain attempted to near him,
but the noise of the boat alarmed him and he
sunk and arose at some distance off. If he had
had a gun, he thinks he could have killed him.
He is going again immediately, prepared to
give him battle. lie has never believed in the
existence of the monster before—but is now
cudy to make oath to the above statement.—
There were with him at the time, a man and
woman.
At the Bucksport Hofei is an old woman who
was in the boat with Parson Cummings in the
revolutionary war, when he saw the Serpent,
ind her account coincides with his. Our infor
mation comes from a gentleman of this city,
who conversed with captain Black at Bucks
port.”
Still Another Monster.—From a distant quar
ter of the Globe, the Bay of Bengal, we have
the billowing description of another kind of
monster or Sea Serpent, which has been fur
nished by lieutenant^ Fatly. It will be found
ntercsting:—
( “On my voyage to Madras,” says lieutenant
T ally, “in May last, [ saw a most extraordinary
fish, and which had never before been seen by
:iny seaman on board, although some of '.he of
ficers and crew, had been employed in the whale
fishery. It was of the size of a whale, but
difibring from that animal in shape—spotted
like a leopard, in a very beautiful manner. It
came close under the stern of the ship, during a
calm, and we had a magnificient opportunity for
iuwing it. It had a very large dorsal fin,
which it moved about with great rapidity, when
made angry, in consequence of the large stones
that we threw down upon it rashly, for it poss
essed sufficient strength to have broken the rud
der and stove in the stern of the ship. Several
large fish, seemingly dog fish, about a cubit in
length and upwards, were Gamboling ubout the
monster, entering its mouth at pleasure, and re
turning to water again. The following will
give you some idea of its shape:—The mouth
very large, dorsal fin, black or dark brown—
tail also—both covered with spots like a leopard;
head lizard shaped. May it not he the Plc-
siosaures or a species of that fish, known to
have existed formerly in the waters of the
ocean? Having given you this statement, it is
proper that I should also give you the names of
those who were eye witnesses of tlie existence
ol this extraordinary animal. The are as fol
lows: Captain Tingate, at the time commanding
the ship Cashmere Merchant, now commanding
the competitor; Mr. Smellic, Mr. Pike and Mr.
Landers, officers of the vessel. The above
gentlemen will corroborate my staiemont. Cap.
tain Tingate and Smellie were old sailors, and
had never before seen the fish or one resembling
it. There were also several Europeon sea
men on hoard, not one of whom had ever seen
it before.”
Adventure in the South Seas.—A man nam
ed O’Connell has just returned to this country
from one of the isles of the South Paciffic,
where he was shipwrecked and made captive
some years since. The following sketch of his
adventures is taken from the Boston Galaxy;
“He was seized, with such of his companions
as survived the wreck, by the Islanders, and all
expected to be immediately slain. O’Connell,
in this dilemma, with ready wit, (which his
conversation shows him to possess) being light,
footed, commenced an Irish dunce, which amus
ed the people mightily. He thus saved himself
and friends, who were distributed among vari
ous chiefs. Nutt is the native name of the is-
land on which the wreck took place, and there
O’Connell remained. He was soon made a
chief—and then it was necessary to give him
easle by the process of tattooing, which is not a
useless proceeding, but is a history of the various
chiefs of the nation. This is corroborated by
the appearance of tlie tattooing, of which every
portion is different from the rest. It was exe
cuted by females, who pricked in a blue liquid
with little thorns. The operation, as maybe
supposed, was exceedingly painful, but O’Con
nell being a healthy man recovered from its ef
fects. He was then married to the daughter of
a chief, and has left two children on the island,
lie tells us that Ascension Island is not as has
been saiJ, one island, but a group of thirty.—
He says that a trade could be carried on with
the islanders, which would produce immense
profit. For old iron, spikes, nails, trinkets, &c.
turtleshcll and bcachlemar, could be procured,
which are exceedingly valuable. The natives
arc very kind if well used—but wili steal iron
from the vessels which visit them—and their re
venge for the punishment of this theft, has gene
rated the idea that they are very savage. There
is another important fact, which we should
disbolicyc, were it not that O’Connell’s explana
tion is so concise, clear and minute, and his ad
herence to his own statements so uniform, that
every hesiration is removed. He often wont
off from Nutt to explore the islands around,
many of which were uninhabited, tie found
on some of them immense walls, fifty and sixty
feel in height, one within another, so arranged,
as to form the the most complete defence. Ho
describes his wonder at seeing them—that he
concluded they could not be the work of man;
but pulled out little stones from the joints, which
convinced him. He has been ail over New-
Holland, gives an accurate statement of the
English criminal settlements. He has also been
a slave in the interior of Asia, and has been into
the heart of the Celestial Empire, and within a
few miles of the capital, Pekin. Should he ev.
er return to his savage home, his tattooing would
be a free passport.”
A new mode of draining swamps, r^-c.—Mr.
Jean Blanc, a modest, ingenious young French
man, on Thursday last, exhibited an operative
model at the intersection of North Capitol and
D street North, on Tiber creek, for draining
swamps in the vicinity of running streams.—
The invention is beautifully simple, and the ex
periment was completely satisfactory. He uses
an artificial basin placed in the swamp to he
drained, considerably below the banks of the
river; in this is placed a siphon, with its longer
leg extending into the running stream; the
weight of water in the longer leg, immersed
in the running stream, draws out the water
from the swamp; nor can the current be broken
by the entrance of air tiltthe whole is drained;
because the running stream itself acts as part of
the long leg of the siphon. This discovery will
bo very important to the State of Louisiana in
draining the low grounds along the banks of the
Mississippi. Mr. Blanc will make another ex
periment this morning, at 10 o’clock, in the
running stream on Pennsylvania Avenue, near
the Capitol.—National Intelligencer.
Execution of Alibeau.—By the Paris papers
of Saturday and Sunday, we learn that the trial
of Alibeau took place on Friday and Saturday.
Nothing transpired on the investigation to im
plicate any other persons in his detestable
scheme; nor was any thing made known by the
trial with which the public is not already ac
quainted. He calmly throughout admitted that
it was his design to kill the king, and he ascrib
ed his determination to the manner in which the
government had, in his opinion, trodden down the
liberties of France and suppressed the insurrec
tions.
A gcat number of witnesses were examined,
who in general spoke well of Alibeau in other
transactions, giving him a character for genero
sity and honorable feeling; which did not, how
ever, seem incompatible with sometimes living
on others. He evidently wished to play the
hero, and claimed a right to kill the king be
cause Brutus slew Caesar. There does not seem
to have been one extenuating circumstance
brought to light by the trial, and the court sen
tenced him to be beheaded, and treated as a
parricide.
From the Correspowlcnt of the London Courier.
Paris, July 11.—I have just returned from the
harrowing spectacle of the decapitation of this
great criminal, who met his death with all the
coolness, or rather carelessness, which might
have been expected from his whole demeanor
since the moment of his arrest. Having been
made acquainted late Inst night, with the fact
that the awful ceremony was fixed for this
morning at a very early hour, and being rather
curious to sec and judge for myself whether the
utter indifference to death which he professed
during his trial would accompany him to the
scaffold, I reached the spot, or rather the
vicinity ol the place appointed for execution, by
four o’clock; but even thus early every avenue
leading immediately to the Barrier St. Jacques,
(on which the fatal engine had been erected at
midnight) was occupied by troops who had re
ceived orders to prevent all access on the part of
the populace.
A little expostulation with one of the officers
of police, added perhaps, to. the fact of my be
an Englishman, however opened a passage
for me to the semicircular space in which the
machine of death was placed, whence notwith
standing the unusual array of military and mu
nicipal guards who surrounded the scaffold, a
tolerable view of ihe proceedings could be ob-
tained. As the time appointed for the execution
approached, several persons were admitted past
the troops, but always upon application to tho
police, whose great strictness, coupled with tho
vast military force a foot gave something like
a color of truth to reports abroad that some
attempt at disturbance, like that of the 6th June,
1S32, was in contemplation.
About five o’clock, the arrival of a body of
municipal guards, proceeding from the direction
of the prison, gave notice that the culprit was
at hand, and immediately afterwards the vehicle
appeared in which was Alibeau, a priest, and
the executioner. On his descending it was per
ceived that the forms of the sentence were liter
ally being carried into effect. The head of the
convict-was covered with a large black veil, and
he was led barefooted to the scaffold. Then a
delay of a few seconds took plrce, the clergy,
man retired, and Alibeau mounted the steps of
the guillotine. The officer, in audible voice,
here read the terms of condemnation, after
which the veil was instantly drawn from his
face by one of the executioners.
He was deadly pale, but with this exception,
his features bore no trait whatever of appre--
hension, or expression of any kind, which might
have been expected, even in the most courage-
ous, in so awful a situation. He looked towards
the few persons assembled, and the most perfect
silence prevailed, seemingly in the expectation
that he intended to address them. He merely,
however, said, Adicux vies 'raves. Then re
signing hims'.'lf with the most perfect sang froid
to the hands of the executioner’s assistants, he
was placed upon the plank, with his head be
neath the fatal axe. Here he once more call
ed out, in an audible voice, Adieux vies braves,
and the words were scarcely finished, when the
machine fell, and he was no more.
While the assistants of the scaffolds were pre
paring him for the block, ho said a few words to
them, which were inaudible except to those im
mediate around him; they were, “[ die a ro.
publican. The peers who condemned me were
base and cowardly.” In a few minutes, people,
military, and scaffold, all had disappeared, and
the Barrier St. Jacques resumed its usual aspect.
Homoeopathy.—It is said in one of the
English journals, that the doctrine of
Homoeopathy, which teaches that what
causes illness in the healthy, will, if ad
ministered in small doses, cure the same
illness in the sick, litis been disproved
in Russia. Hospitals have been given to
the professors of the several medical sys
tems, and it was ioconteslibly proved
that the infinitely minute doses of the
homoeopathists produced no effect, and
that the viz mcdicatrix natures was to be
thanked for all the success their treatment
met with- _______
ASSASSINATIONS IN OAJACA.
The same tragic scenes arc again being
enacted which marked the despotic reign
of Bustamento. Canalize after having ob
tained a triumph over the Pronuiuiados of
Huajunpan, a triumph which is rather to
be attributed to the number of his troops
than to military talent, has informed the
government officially, that he has had sev
eral of the prisoners of Etia executed.—
The atrocity of those assassinations are
such that they must irritate till parties.—
Tiic minister at war declares his intention
of submitting all the circumstances to the
body whom lie denominates congress.—
But some of tliose to whom the tide of
representatives arc given are opposed to
that course, alleging that it it be better at
once to finish with the federalists, it is ne
cessaiy to keep silent upon the subject, in
order to save the government from the ha
tred ol tlie nation and the odium which
might attach to such proceedings. We
need not be astonished at such conduct
on the part of those who are called to pro
tect the fate of citizens, when it is notori
ously known, that a general, a member of
congress, has had the hardihood to de
clare, that he will never give his vote to
avoid any responsibility consequent upon
shooting the sans culottes (the designation
he gives to the liberals.) But what will
irritate the public mind more, and which
gives a closer insight into'the motives of
those who follow for speculation the eccle
siastical state, is, to see the priesthood
making the greatest exertions to put those
arrested, to death, and push to the great
est extremity all measures tending to de
stroy the party which abhors their excess
es, and religious interference. Those
gentlemen, however, are great'y mista
ken in supposing that a reign of terror
will give stability to the present or
der of things. Let them remember that
the guillotines of Robespierre, Marat and
Dan ton, could not save those monsters
from the punishment their odious crimes
merited, and that the torrent of blood sited
by such assassins and enemies of the hu
man race, brought a fatal retribution in
its train. In a moment of terrorism, ty
rants may seek to cast under foot the laws
ol a government, but there is an mmm
to strike terror into the hearts of such
who availing themselves of a power un
justly and wickedly acquired, (or even
when it be legitimately acquired,) seek fb
retain it contrary to.tlxe unanimous wishes
of the people.
It is a frenzy, a delusion to suppose
that the government can at this day be
consolidated, by resorting to measures
similar to those adopted during the ad
ministration of Bustamento, and which
led to his fall. The present administra
tion has discontented all classes of the
nation; it cannot procure the necessar}'
funds to carry on a single campaign. In
the cabinet there is not a single states
man, nor is the army as it was, for not
withstanding the pompous promises which
have been made in its behalf, it is kept in
a state of abject poverty. The very men
who have boasted ofbeing the protectors
of the army are the very ones who have
contributed the most to its destruction.—
Let the generals who decided in favor of
St. Anna in 1832 and ’33; and those who
contributed with the permanent militia in
the memorable campaign of Guanajuato
contradict us if they can. Upon what do
those who seek to establish a reign of ter
rorism base their hopes of success? In
place of those veterans, those financial
resources which the government of Bus
tamento possessed, an impoverished treas
ury and recruits enrolled by constraint is
all the present government has to sustain
it! The general distress litis compelled
the government to increase its circulation
of copper-money; this money is in such
discredit that it is proposed to substitute
paper money in its place.
But more than all the signal of exter
mination which has been declared will
arouse the fury of the people and end in
the downfall of the government! The
ministry can no longer, as formerly, count
upon the impunity of crimes of so dark a
hue. What laws were observed in the
judgment and sentence of those condemn
ed at Oajaca. What authority had those
who ordered their execution. Let tliose
ecclesiastics who promoted and approved
such iniquities answer those questions!-—
Let the government explain this most a-
trocious'conduct! Let the editors of the
Diario themselves, answer, they who
played so distinguished a part in the revo-
ution of the Accordada. All they can
say. shall not prevent us from array ing our
selves in the armor of reason, and defend
ing the sacred character of the laws and
of oppressed innocence. We shall say
that if there was justice in putting to
death upon the scaffold the individuals,
whose names we will not mention, that
same justice appeals lor a chastisement of
a similar kind upon the assassins of the
victims lately sacrificed at Oajaca.
The sad results of the murders com
mitted in Tampico and the colony of Tex
as have been severely felt; but notwith
standing the lessons of experience we
have been taught, the same horrible sys
tem is not the less pursued. The exam
ple of St. Anna, his defeat before San Ja
cinto, his imprisonment; and even the
death he so richly merits, is not all that
a sufficient avant-courier of the future to
warn those who follow the same degree
of crime?
The animosity excited by these arbi
trary acts is changing into fury. " hen
there exists no legal title to compel the
people to obey the constituted authority,
or submit to the established regime, how
can the government claim obedience?—
The people have their constitution and
laws, and it is alone by violence and force
they are constrained to adopt an admin
istration which they never sanctioned and
an order of things of which they ever
have complained. In 1833, many ol
those who now figure at the head ol af
fairs, were opposed to the national party,
and attempted to destroy it. Among
them was General Canalijo; and although
at that period the power was possessed
of punishing fhe conspirators, not oncyrf
them has ever suffered the capital pun
ishment which is now applied to those
who desire die restoration of the govern
ment, such las it was established by the
free, spontaneous and unanimous voice of
tlie nation. ’This is a fact which is to the
perfect knowledge of every Mexican, and
which none will refuse to certify. The
government itself admitting then the prin
ciples of justice and equity, decreed an
nndnrv-sty in HiVor of the pmininriadp* ot
Jalisco. Is not the present constraint up
on the liberties of the people sufficient to
justify their indignation against a fnlmin-
ating proscription with which it would
seem they arc to be enveloped?
The revolution which threatens the re
public has not yet burst forth. It may
yet be commanded by mild measures.—
Injustice will not accelerate it, because
when despair is at its heigth, it produces
heroic actions. The sliglttest spark has
often produced the greatest conflagra
tions. The debauch of Appius Claudius
after the ambitious acts of which he had
been guilty, put an end to tlie power of
Decimvers in Rome.—Mexican Paper.
POIrlTICAI*.
MR. VAN BUREN’S OPINIONS.
Having beeu informed tliat Mr, Van
Buuen had been applied to by a citizen
of Kentucky, lor his opinions upon sever
al prominent public topics, and that ho
had replied to the application, wc have re
quested a. copy of his letter for publica
tion, and art. enabled to lay it before our
readers today. We do so, with the con
viction, that it will lie re;ul with avidity,
and will meet with a cordial approval from
the Democracy of the country.—-Albtmtj
Argus.
COKRESPOXDEXCE.
Washington City, April 7, 1836.
Hon. Martin Van Burcn, Vice President:
Sir—I consider it the right of every
citizen of the United States to ask and
demand, and to be fully informed of, the
political principles and opinions of those
who are candidates -for the various offices
in the gift of the people, anti the impcii
ous duty of the candidate, to frankly mid
fully avow and disclose the opinions
which he entertains. I therefore, (as a
.'oter, a citizen, and an individual feeling
a deep and abiding interest in tlie welfare
and prosperity of our common country,
and an ardent desire to seethe perpetuity
of our free and happy form of govern
ment,) take the liberty of asking your
views on the following subjects:
1st. Will you (if elected President of
tlie United States,) sign and approve a
bill distributing the surplus revenue of the
United Stales to each Stato according to
the federal population of each* for inter
nal improvements, education, and to such
other objects as the legislatures of the se
veral States may sec fit to apply the same?-
2d. Will you sign and approve a bill
distributing the proceeds of the sales of
the public lands to each State according
to the federal population of each, for the
purposes above specified?
3d. Will you sign and approve bills
making .appropriations to improve naviga
ble streams above ports of entry?
4th. Will you sign and approve (if it
becomes necessary to secure and save
from depreciation the revenue and finan
ces of the nation, and to afford a uniform
sound currency to the people of tlie Unit
ed States,) a bill (with proper modifica
tions and restrictions,) chartering a bank
of the United States?
-5th. What is your opinion as to tho con-
titutional power of the senate or house
of representatives of the congress of the
United States, to expunge or obliterate
from the journals the records and proceed
ings of a previous session?
A frank, plain, and full answer to the
foregoing inquiries is respectfully and ear
nestly solicited. Your answer is desired
as soon as possible. I intend this and
your answer for publication.
I have the honor to be, your humble
and obedient servant,
SHERROD WILLIAMS.
Washington, April 20, 1836.
Sir—I have the honor to acknowledge
the receipt of a letter from you, asking iny
opinions and views upon a series of pub
lic questions. Y ou have accompanied the
submission of your interrogatories with a
reference to the existing relations between
us of voter and candidate, and a declara
tion of your sense of the rights and duties
growing out of the same.
Concurring, as I do, in the principle
which inculcates and secures the most lil>-
eral interchange of sentiments between
the elector and the candidate, I think it,
nevertheless, just and reasonable to pro
tect myself against the inference of hav
ing assented, without limitation, to.the
general proposition you have advanced.
The duty ol a candidate lor the suffrages
of the people to answer fully all inqui
ries made by an elector, undetermined as
to his course, and seeking, in good faith,
information as to the opinions ol the can
didate, touching the appropriate duties of
the office to be filled, is one which I cheer
fully acknowledge, and will, upon all pro
per occasions, faithfully discharge.
The rights of an elector, on the other
and, who has already determined to op
pose the individual to whom his inquiries
arc addressed, and who makes them with
the sole view of exposing, at his own time,
and in the mode he may select, the opin
ions of the candidate to unfriendly criti-
ism, and the candidate himself to preju-'
dice in the estimation of portions df his
fellow-citizens, stand, in my judgment,
upon a different footing. To such inqui
ries, I hold the candidate to be at liberty
to reply or not, as justice to the country
and to his own character may, in his opin
ion, dictate.
My personal acquaintance with you is,
as you know, very limited, and, without
stopping to inquire as to your objects in
this particular, I cheerfully assume them
to be such as I have first described. I do
this the more readily, as your character
and situation assure me that if this im
pression is erroneous—if your course in
regard to the presidential election, so far
as I am concerned, is settled, and the in
formation you seek is not asked with a
view to your own conduct—you "ill say
so frankly.
Acting upon this assumption and belief,
I will cheerfully give you my “opinions
and views” upon the subjects which you
have submitted to my consideration. In
your list of questions, I find several which
at e now under discussion in congress, and
upon which it rriey become my duty to
vote, as president of the senate, before
the termination of tlie present session.—
My reply to your letter will, therefore, be
delayed for a short time; but I will em
brace an early moment, after congress
rises; and in abundant season for the pur
poses of your inquiry, to scud it tb you.
I have the honor to be, very respect
fully, your obedient servant,
M. VAN BUREN.
To honorable Sherrod Williams.
Washington, June 9, 1S-36;
Honorable Martin Van Burcn:
Sir—I addressed you a letter on the 7til
ol April List, asking your opinion in rela
tion to the several subjects therein speci
fied. I did so in good faith, for the pur
pose of knowing your opinions on those
points, awl for the purpose ol' determine
ing upon tho course that I would take in
the oonsngcorttgst for the presidency! I
had ihe honor on the 20th of _ilu'
month, to receive u letter from you, ac
knowledging the receipt of mine, and in
which you say you will answer the ques
tions propounded in my letter, but that
that answer would be deferred until after
tho adjournment of the present session of
congress, because sumo of tlie subjects
upon which 1 asked your opinion, were
pending before the senate, a ml perhaps
you might have (in tlie event the senate
was equally divided) to give tlie casting
vote. I must be permitted to sav, that
tlie reason given by you ior not answering
any questions is wholly and entirely un
satisfactory. I have always considered
it the duty of u candidate lor office in the
gift of tlie people, to inform those whose
suffrages he seeks, of his views and opin
ions as to the constitutionality and policy
of those measures in which they may be -
intercsted, and particularly when the can
didate slmll be called upon by tliose who
have the right to ask his opinion, and not
to decline giving his opinion before his
election, because, perhaps and perchance,
lie might have to vote upon those subjects,
or some one of them. If the people knew
in advance tlie opinion of the candidate,
they might not place him in a condition tot
vote.
It the reason you assign fiir not answer
ing my questions until the adjournment of
the present session of congress be a good
one, tlie same reason will continue to ex
ist and apply witli equal force Until the
fourth of March next; for, at the next ses
sion ol congress (whether you shall bo
elected president of the United States or
not,) you may be called upon as presi
dent of the senate, to vote upon all or
some of tlie subjects mentioned in my let
ter. I am in good faith anxious to obtain
your opinion upon the points submitted in
my letter, and therefore, again most ear
nestly and respectfully solicityour answer
as soon as practicable.
I have the honour to be, your obedient
and humble servant,
SHERROD WILLIAMS.
Sir—I find nothing in your last letter tor
change my decision in respect to tlie time
at which I propose to reply to your first.—
It is liowevcr due to both of us that I
should correct an error into which you
have fallen.
I have already informed you that I
would embrace an early moment after
congress rises, and in abundant season
for the purposes of your inquiry 7 , to send
you my answer. That determination re
mains not only unchanged, but is confirm
ed by the statements you have now made.
You may therefore dismiss from your
mind all apprehensions of not receiving it
in full time for the object you have in
view.
I am, sir, your obedient humble servant,
M. VAN. BUREN.
Htm. Sherrod Williams.
Albany, August S, 1836.
To the honorable Sherrod Williams, repre
sentative in Congress from the State of Ken
tucky:
Sir—I embrace the caliest convenient
moment, after the adjournment of con
gress, to give you “my opinions and
views” on the various subjects to which
my attention was called by your letter of
tlie 7th of April last.
Tlie first of these subjects relates to
the propriety of a law fur the distribution
of the surplus revenue of the United
States among the States, according to their
federal population, lor internal improve
ments, education, and such other objects
as the legislatures of the States may see
fit to apply the same.
In my opinion, congress does not pos
sess the power, under the constitution, to
raise money for distribution among the
States; and ii" a distinction can be main
tained between raising money for -uch
purpose, and the distribution of an unex
pected surplus, (of which I am not satis
fied,) I think it ought not to be attempted
without a previous amendment of the
constitution, defining the authority and
regulating its exercise. Apprehending
danger to the Union from the course, of
federal legislation upon the subject of in
ternal improvements, and fearing that it
could not otherwise be arrested, 1 was in
clined, at the commencement of Presi
dent Jackson’s administration, to favor
the idea of a distribution annually among
the States, of the surplus revenue, and an
amendment of the constitution conferring
on congress authority to make it. Presi
dent Jackson, entertaining similar appre
hensions, submitted suggestions to this ef
fect to the consideration of congress.— ;
They met with approbation in some quar
ters, but were denounced in others, with
extraordinary severity, as encouraging a
policy particularly unjust and ruinous to
ji portion of the bnion, and £:ub\ crsi\e of
the principles upon w hich it was founded.
Time and circumstances have worked
ch anges of^jpiniou on the subject, from
which my own mind has not been ex
empted. The intelligence and patriotism
of the people proved adequate to the de
sired reform, in the legislation ot congress
upon the subject of internal imprcvemeRts,"
without resorting lo the proposed distribu^
tion: and tlvc experieu' c of the hist srs*