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From the KashtUlc Bdnncr.
SENTENCE OF THE MURDERERS, PAYNE, CAR-
. ROLL, & KlRRY.
Tj! e ,P®P erB which wi> present below will he read with
painful interest—thr first by an old and highly respected
member of tho bar, delineating the awful scene m the Su
preme Court rocm attendant on the annunciation of the
doom of the three above named murderers—the last the
impressive and solemn sentence itself pronounced by Judge
Green on the occasion.
To the Editor of the Republican Banner,
The room of the Supreme Court, this morning presehtod
a scene of unusual interest. The ordinary business of the
Court has no attractions for the crowd. The judges and
•ome half dozen lawyers upon sn average compose lire max
imum of toe persons to be seen in that ordinarily quiet tem
ple ol Justice. 1 his morning however, formed an excep
tion. Long before the court met. the room was crowded lo
overflowing. The murderers, Payne, Carroll, and Kirby,
were taken into the court house hv the Sheriff, and soon
after the judges appeared and took their scats upon the
bench, and the solemn and aw ful duty the court had to per
form, had produced a marked effect upon their countenan
ces - It was nothing less than as organs of the Law, to say
to three poor, w icked m< mbers of our race that their days
Were numbered; that the Jaw required their lives for llie
innocent blood they had shed. The cases of Payne and
Carroll had been previously decided, blit sentence had not
been pronounced. The argument in thp case of Kirby was
concluded on Monday; ami the opinion of the court was
nowlo be delivered. This was done by Judge Green, in a
lengthy and able review of the evidence in the rase, clearly
demonstrating the guilt of the prisoner—and concluding
with the expression of the unanimous opinion of the court,
approving oflhe vet diet of the jury, and affirming the judg
ment of I he circuit court. The Judge then addressed him
self to the prisoner, and reminded him of the atrocity and
enormity of the crime of which lie was convicted—the mur
der of an innocent and unoffending female, who had never
done him an injury, and that too for a pitiful bribe. //.- in
like manner addressed himself to earlt of the other prison
ers, briefly referring to the prominent ami lending farts and
circumstances of each case, and concluding with pronoun
cing the sentence of the Law, that they he hung on Friday,
file 10th of February.
The w hole scene was one of unsurpassed interest—in
deed it was sublime. The deep and profound sensibility of
the judge, inspired him with more than hi* usual * loquencc
and pathos. A death like stillness pervaded the large
crowd of hjieelators, broken only by an occasional sigh or a
sob from—not the prisoners—the spectators.
1 have been in courts for neatly 45 years—1 never w it
nessed such a scene before, and hope never to w itness such
another. Three fellow creatures, murderers, are brought
into court together nnd sentenced lo he hung on the same
gallows, on tlie same day. The court, in nty opinion, de
serves I be highest credit for their firmness in disregarding
the technical objections that were made in each case, not
affecting the merits. And it is to be hoped that the igno
minious punishment that awaits these unhappy men will
have a salutary influence upon society. Their doom is seal
ed. There will he no pardon or commutation of punish
ment, for the best of all reasons, there is not the slightest
ground for it in either case.
A MEMBER OK THE BAR
Jan. 18,1943.
SENTENCE PRONOUNCED BY JUDGE GREEN.
Archibald Kirby, you have been tried, and found guil
ty of I he murder of Polly Hunter, on the night of the 11th of
May last, b v a jury of the county of White. You have ap
pealed to this court and have had here the assistance of able
counsel. We have investigated your case as it is presented
in the record, patiently, and thoroughly. We do not find
that any error was committed in the proceedings of the eir-
eitil court; and upon a full view of all the circumstances trt
evidence against you, we are satisfied that you are guilty of
the charge.
Your victim was an unoffending female.—Stimulated
most probably, by a reward bestowed from some person'
w ho was interested in her death—you were induced to a -t
the part of a cold blooded assassin. Soon after dark ...i
Wednesday night the llih of May, you approached her
dwelling, armed with the deadly rifle. A light was in tire
room, nnd yarn saw her, in the midst of her female friends, I
sitting around the candle, engaged in cheerful conversation!
You approached silently, nnd stealthily, the window m ar
which sire snt, and fired your glut upon her through the
glass.—Your aim was but too sure. The fatal ball had
dupe its wurk ol death, and in a few moments, she was a
lifeless corpse. You have shown in this transaction that
3I0 u have a heart utterly void of social dote and fatally bent
on mischief. Asa terror to others, and a means of safely
to the rommunily, the law pronounces that you must die.
If you were permitted to go abroad in the community, no
man's life would be safe, whom you might be tempted to
destroy, or w hose destruction would benefit any person wil
ling to pay the price of blood. It is not, therefore, fit that
you should go at large, n terror In mankind; and the law
deems thnt it is fit that you suffer nil ignominious death as
a terror to evil doers who might he tempted to follow in
your steps. And the judgment of the law is, that yon be
hanged hy the nec k until you are dead.
Willis G. Carroll, you have also been tried, nnd
found guilty of murder. Y ou selected a minister of the
Gospel—amiable, inoffensive and credulous. You found
that he had money, nnd to make it yours, you thought of Ins
destruction Yon frequented his house—ingratiated your
self into his confidence, nnd induced him to believe that you
had hid treasures in the river bottom. After much prelim
inary management, you induced hint to buy your pretended
silver ore—and with litis view to take the money with
which he was to pay you, niul accompany you alone lo tho
place you had represented the treasure to be. While yon
were going through the riser bottom, in an unfrequented
place, as he rode before you, your deadly aim was taken,
your gun was firpd, and befell dead at your feet. You ri-
flt d his pockets oflhe money he had taken wuh him, to pay
for your intended silver ore, and yon fled. You went to the
verge of civilization in Arkat.sas—sold your gun, changed
your name—jiermitted your beard and hair to grow, nnd
went without a hat—vainly hoping to elude detection. But
‘your sin found you out,’ and you were apprehended, and
brought bac k lo the county of Sumner, where you commit
ted the murder, and by a jury of that county, you have been
found guilty. There is no error in the record, and such is
the strength anti force of the testimony, that your counsel
have not thought proper to urge a plea for your innocence.
The law pronounces that you too must die.
Zkbadiaii Payne, you have been found guilty of the
murder of W illinm Collar!. in f' •' county of Franklin, on
tin! lOih day of June, 1810.
Y our youth—just developing into manly benuty, your ap
parently ingenuous countenance, and yonr sensibility, are
ail ralcuiated to excite the sympathies of the court. 7Ley
would seem lo indicate that you were destined for better
tilings. Unfortunately for you, and for the country, early
discipline wus wanting, by which to restrain the luxuriant
passions of join It, and industrious habits, hy which lo sim
plify its wants, nnd fnrnish the means of lawful enjoyment.
Yonr dissolute habits required the expenditure of money—
nnd you were reckless enough to resolve upon obtaining it,
at every hazard. Willi this view, you joined yourself to
the deceased as n travelling companion. You found he
had money, and you determined lo take his life, arid make
the treasure your own. While journeying together, and on
his part, doubtless, in tbe full confidence of social compan
ionship, yon set upon him with the ferotity of a beast of
prey, nnd with your knife, mangled liis jaw, and finally suc
ceeded in cutting his throat, so that he died. Having pos
sessed yourself of his money, you fled. In the wilds of
Texas, where you supposed the murderer would find a se
cure refuge, you sought lo avoid detection. But justice
overtook you. Y ou were apprehended there, and brought
hack to the county where you did the murder, and have
been tried and found guilty. This court finds no error in
the records, and so plainly was your guilt made to appear,
I Lilt the evidence has not been certified to this court.
Yottrcrimr is of the dee|>est dye. Your victim a youth
like yourself, one would have thought that your natural
feelings of humanity would have rebelled against the horrid
temptation, and withheld your hand. The judgment of the
law it that you most die.
And now, in inch of Jour eases, the most deliberate and
cold blooded purpose was manifested; without the least
provocation or anger, and in every ensp instigated by the
cursed lust for money. To obtain sotno trifling sunt, the
one destroys an innocent female—the other an inoffensive
minister of religion; anil the last,* youthful travelling rum-
portion. Coinriding in the character of your guilt—tho
judgment of the law dooms you to a like punishment.
Before your execution the Court will appoint you a short
time for preparation. Let this lime be employed with the
most earnest solieitude Y'ou are soon to appear before a
tribunal, where falsehood cannot avail, and where justice
cannot be eluded. Let penitence and faith, prepare you for
that last awful (rial; for enormous as is your guilt, it does
not exceed the mercies of God, in Jesus Christ. Employ
all the means to bring your hearts in deep humility, and
hearty eonfession, lo his mercy sent. Engage the services,
advice and prayers oflhe Reverend Clergy of the city, and
let your remaining days, he days of penitence, and your
nights be nights of devotion and prayer.
And now, Archibald Kirby, YVtllis G. Carroll, anti Zeb-
a-.linh Pnyne, the judgment of the law is, that you be taken
to the prison Irom whence yon came, thereto remain until
Friday the 10th day of February, and on that day, between
thr hours of 10 o'clock in the morning, and ‘2 o'clock in the
evening, you be taken to the public gallows, w ithin one nnle
of this city, and hung by the neck until you are dead. And
ntny God have merry on your souls.
From the Mobile Herald
LOVE AND RUIN.
Charlode Jewell,a young hut emaciated and wild-looking
girl, in whose thin and wan countenance there could yet be
delected some traces of beauty, was charged yesterday
morning by one William Conde from New Orleans, with
hnving attempted to take his life. Conde had only been in
lhe city a few days, and it appears that lie bad seduced the
girl, in the town of Bayou barn, La., and afterwards eloped
with her to New Orleans, where he lived with her as his
mistress, and finally got tired of Lis victim, and trsprled
her, and in order to rid himself of her importunities had
come lo Mobile. Tite prisoner traced him lo this oily,
found out his boarding-house on Hamilton street, and on
'1 hominy evening while the fnmily were at supper attempt
ed his life with a Spanish dirk-knife. He parried the blow
and seized her, when she went off into hysterics, in w hich
condition she was taken lo the Guard-House.
’I lie complainant having deposed as above, said he would
decline prosecuting her if she would go back home to Bayou
Sara.
Prisoner. ‘I have no home or people to go to, William;
through your means my people are ashamed of me, and
have disowned me and turned me out of doors, and I would
Tather die of hunger or perish in some jail than to return to
them. Homp! The street and kennei have been my home,
•nd my companions the vilest of the vile, since you so inhu
manly deserted me."
Conde. ‘Why, you are crazy.’
Prisoner. ‘No, Willinm, 1 am not ernzy—though the
great God above knows that 1 have suffered and borne
enough to make me so. If desolation and misery he cruzt-
ness, I am crazy;—if utter ruin, hopelessness nnd starvation
be madness, 1 uin mad; hut not otherwise. Oh! would to
heaven that 1 was mad, that in madness I might forget eve
ry thing! Oh! William, William, lo think that you ol all
the world should have so deceived me, to think that you
who promised so mueh, nnd whom 1 looked upon almost as
«t angel—whom 1 prayed for night and mom—alas! I can
not pray now—should have acted so perfidiously, is
enough to diivp me mad, without your taunts and scorns.'
Conde. ‘Y’ott ought to be ashamed of yourself to talk in
this way, Charlotte.’
Prisoner. ‘No, William, 1 havegoteven beyond shame.
It is high time to give over being ashamed of myself when
all arc ashamed of me; oh, William, my heart almost tries
to break when I think of bow bappy I was but two years
ago, when I w as a gay blitl e girl, and you used to come and
ail the long cold nights by my old father's fireside, and tell
me how happy we should be when 1 was your wife. I ara
sadly changed now, and the tears which course down my
< hceks are scalding my eyeballs with their fire. I remem
ber when 1 could even have shed lean of joy. Alas! how
different were they from these.’
The Plaintiff refusing to swear, the case was discharged,
hut the prisoner detained in order to see if something could
not he done for her.
Alas, poor Charlotte! the hectic on thy cheek told too
plainly that all hitman caring for thee upon this cold earth
will soon cease, nnd that thy resting place w ill be a pauper’s
grave. Never since our visits to the Police- office, have we
seen such a harrowing and heart-rending scene as the one
w hich we have endeavored lo describe, and which we are
sure drew tears from every honest heart in the room. The
plaintiff', Conde, throughout the trial, preserved the most
hardened and unaltereJ demeanor, and seemed steeled
against the pangs of conscience; hut if he does not go down
to the grave as a wretched and despised scoundrel, then
heaven has forgotten its awful prerogative, and eternal ven
geance sleeps in its deep a lethargy as does human justice.
THE SAW AND THE AXE.
Early one morning, when the sun had scarcely melted
the hoar frost from the brown face of the wr nkled earth, an
old axe happened to fall in with a saw. There was a “cut
ting air” abroad, that threatened the newly shaven chin
with chaps!
“Ah! my oid hladi!’’ said the Axe, ‘how goes it with you?
1 come purposely to see how you do.”
“I really feel much obliged to you,” said the Saw, “but 1
am sorry to say licit my teeth are very bad. My master
has sent for the doctor who, 'tvvixt you and 1 and the post,
is no better than an “old file!” 1 was in the workshop last
night, w here ”
‘Where, no doubt, you—sawn great deal,’ facetiously
interrupted the Axe.
The saw showed his teeth in sort of grin betwixt melan
choly and mirth, and resumed;
“Why, 1 may say so with some truth; and I consider it no
more than a duty I owe Mr. Carpenter, to do as much as I
can, in spite of my teeth, for he is really liberal, in point of
board.”
“And do you ever grow rusty?” asked the Axe.
“Not uilh over work,” replied the saw, “indeed, I have
always found that constant employment best preserves our
polish: which, after all, is only a rtificial.”
“Y’ou are quite a philosopher.”
“Not exactly so; for I sometimes grow ticeedingly hot
and lose my temper.”
“And what says your master?”
“ VY hy, he generally desists a while, and I soon grow cool
again, and then I cut away like a razor through a piece of
motlled soap.”
“Y ou are a happy fellow,” said the Axe, “how different
am I si unted. Mv master is a “chopping hoy,” with a
thick block, which is tantamount lo saying he is a fat fool
lie is very sharp with me sometimes; and when he finds I
am inclined to ire blunt, he grinds me most cruelly.
“Alas,” cried the 8>aw; “it’s I he way of the world, my
friend; for 1 have invariably remarked that the rich always
grind the poor for the sake of tho chips.”
“Bravo!” exclaimed the Axe.
“Y ou see I’ve not lived in the world all this lime without
gptting a notch or two.” said tire Saw.
“Nor I cither,'' replied ihc Axe; “although in obtaining
the said notches I have not only lust my courage hut a por
tion of my metal too!”
“Well, I never saw!” exclaimed his friend, “how you
talk! I am sure your teeth do not give you any trouble, at
any rale.”
“I axe your pardon, old boy,” remonstrated the Axe, “for
although I do not complain of my teeth exactly, my chops
give me a pretty considerable deal of trouble, I can tell
you.”
The Saw grinned nil approval of the Axe’s wit.
“Peace!” exclaimed the Axe. “Here comes Mr. Carpen
ter; so “don’t show your teeth, until yon can bile."—1 be-
ieve that is a maxim of a relation of yours.”
‘'Not a relation,” said the other, “though they are the
w ords of a w ise old Saw.”
SCRAPS FROM THE TABLETS OFA LOOKER-ON.
The Washington City (Qtiere! Correspondent, oftlie Sonth-
THE PRESIDENTIAL QUESTION.
YVe would humbly and deferentially caution onr re?-
etn Recorder is, in verite. most gloriously quizzing that pected political friends of the South, especially in South
mi derate and dignified paper—there is so much bambooz- Carolina, who prefer .Mr. Calhoun, to keep cool, and
ling and balderdash in the last letter of the aforesaid cor- guard against the blinding influences personal partiality
respondent, m his very pictural sketch of Mr Calhoun, p re j„Hice. It wont do lo raise the startling cry of
no In mtlL'O fl'pn tlm m,1 ......orntP fYl ll I tlCIfl 11 SIPL' of linnet . * - °
as to make, even the most desperate politician sick at heart
—the correspondent of the Recorder has commenced pol
itics where Jeremy Bektham left off law!
But, is it not somewhat singular, that the Recorder should
endorse such wild, unmeaning, vet sinister nnd ad captan-
dum rhodomonfade letters? I should think so. If not so,
why does so enlightened a paper lend its aid in abusing Mr.
Calhoun, and in extolling Mr. Clay to the skies?—Dots not
the Recorder know, that Mr. Calhoun is a Southern gentle
man, indiginous to the soil—that he is a statesman, distin- i
gnished for an untiring and devoted attachment to the best w hich the New York* Plebeian and Evening Post
of
the South proscribed,” *3tc. «fcc., because one or two
obscure Van Buren papers at tbe North have objected
to Mr. Calhoun on account of his pro-slavery opinions;
nor to hold Mr. Van Buren accountable for such indis
cretions, any more than to bold Mr. Calhoun accounta
ble for tbe manner in which they are lepelled against
Mr. V. B. t and the unkind prejudices expressed against
him And we seize the occasion to express our grate
ful sense of the temperate and forbearing manner in
“ * Tis the star spangled banner, oh, long may it wave,
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.”
FEDERAL UNION.
inilA.FDREVIM.E, FEBRl'ABt 14, IM.'L 1
EF We call the attention of those interested in the
Cherokee I/tp.ds, to the advertisements of General Nel
son, in to-day’s paper, headed Cherokee Laud Agency.
A Violation of the Treaty.—Among the appellants for
justice at the Recorder’s office yesterday, was Damon
Dunfield.an old Ethiopian, whose wood-saw was Itttng
on his shoulder like the guitar of a tronbadore. ere the
day of chivalry had gone by. Damon looked about as
wise as an owl in daylight; he appeared In have borrow
ed for the occasion the dilapidated hat of Jacques Strop,
and the remainder of his wardrobe seemed made to
match. Ilis hair w as a grizzly grey, and his face w rin
kled ami puckery, like a postillion's boot.
”1 w ants to halt dis’ere business settled, masea ’Cor-
der, dosgreeable to de constitnslinn.”
“What business is that!” said the Recorder.
“Whoy. you sees, inassa 'Corder, dis ’ere nigga has
^violated de treaty alter de boundary line was ’greed to
’tween us.”
“Dis 'ere nigga.” to which Damon alluded, was a big,
burly black, with teeth enough to form the stock in.trade
of a dentist, and a pair of eyes that curvetted about in
their sockets like the revolving lamps of alight-house.
“And pray,” said the Recorder, “what has this negro
to do with the violation of the treaty or the tracing of
the boundary line!
“I nint got nnffin at all,” said the fellow with the
mouthful of bones.
“But I says you hub,” said Damon, “and I II just
splain de w hole ting to massa Judge, in less time dun
I'd be sharpenin’ ray saw.”
“Well, then, let ttsltear yon,” said the Recorder.
“Y\ al, it's jus’ dis, massa,” said Damon, “you sec-,
dis chil’ is an old squatter and no mistake. I’s had whet
yon may call de preemption right to the ciittin’ ob all de
wood ’tween Canal and Customhouse streets and de
Lehee and Dauphin streets, I doesn’t know how long;
wal, dis ’ere nigga comes and he. cuts into my etts’o
OI<l fapl. Jimmy Thomas, of Hancock.
The assets of the Central Bank, notes, bills of exchange,
&c.&c.,have been turned overby the directors and offi
cers, to the present director, Col. Bailey The sixty-
seccn thousand dollars of the people’s money which oid
Captain Thomas’ speech and arithmetic charged as being
lost and unaccounted for, is found to be in Bank, just as
shown by tne officers in their report to the Legislature.
The items have all been entered and satisfactorily ex
hibited to the director, who lias, we understand, made a
more careful, minute, and thorough investigation than
Ins before been made of the various effects of the Bank,
but he does not find r. deficit against the Cashier, of the
sixty-seven thousand dollars, or any other sum whatever.
Perhaps we shall he able to lay before our readers next
week something more explicit, and which will satisfy
the old Captain himself, that his “big dogs and the pup
pies,” were all here at the sound of his horn.
“Large oaks from little ncornH grow.”
The Captain may learn arithmetic in time. He has
made a promising beginning.
ESigiit of Instruction.
The Hon. Mb. Berries.—How ridiculous it is to
hear the Y\ big slang upon the subject of instruction, in
relation to the Berrien case. There is a great deal of
knavery and lying about it, and a most palpable mis
representation of a contemporaneous incident, which is
a plain matter of legislative record. Tlic Legislature of
Georgia did not instruct Mr Berrien, neither did the Le
gislature, in the rase of Mr. Berrien, recognize the right
of instruction. On the contrary, Mr. Berrien, in a farm
ing and sycophantic style, that rrcu/il have disgraced a
I icar of llray, prayed and implored Ihc State Legislature
to interpose the rrry right of instruction about w hich the
YVhigs are num affecting so horrid and detestable an op
position!! The plain matter of truth is this, viz. Mr.
Berrien requested the Legislature to instruct him, but
the Legislature detected the little trick of the nisi pritts
lawyer, and instead of instructing the special pleader,
merely requested him to do that which they (the Legis
lature) refused to do. Will either the Journal or Re
corder deny this ?
Tlic Poor School Flint!.
For some years past about twenty thousand dollars
have been distributed among the several counties, under
I the miserable free or common school system, adopted in
I this State. By a calculation made of the number of cliil-
: dren entitled to its benefit under existing laws, the aver-
age amount allowed for each was about forty-five or
fifty cents a year. This twenty thousand dollars, there
fore. has been for years uselessly squandered without
; producing the desired object, an opportunity to the poor
j to receive the first rudiments of education. The
I sittn when divided out was not really sufficient to pur-
| chase the books required for the children, much less to
pay their tuition for a year. It is understood there will
| he no distribution made this year, the last Legislature
; having provided no fund for' the purpose. Some of
j tbe press, we notice, complain bitterly against the Legis-
j lature for not providing a dollar for the education of the
I poor. The last Legislature, if we mistake not, left the
! subject as they found it. and as it has stood for years.
The same means which w ere previously provided for
raising a poor school fund for 1843, remains as was pro-
j vided for 1 .—41 and 1842. If these means, so set apart,
i have failed to produce an amount lor distribution this
! year, such as would afford any benefit to the poor chil
dren of the 8tate. by way of education, and the resour
ces of the State were required from every means of re
venue, to sustain her credit and discharge the public
debt, where would those who complain of the Legisla
ture for not providing a poor school fund, have proctir-
nters wood, and cuts me out for he interferes wid nty j ed the funds to be distributed for this purpose. The
■sted rights. Wal, massa, yon sees I speak to hint like
a hook, or jus’ as massa Webster did to Lord Ass bnr’-
on, and 1 conwinces hint right up and down dat he aiut
no right lo ’irtide on my bound’ry.”
“Guess, ol’fella, I knows de science oh wood sawin’
well as you do,” said the big negro, “dere aiut notin’ in
the constitushun to purweut me, neider.”
‘ Silence, sir,” said the Recorder; and silence having
prevailed, Damon continued—
“Wal, as I was say in’, massa Judge, when I showed
him exclusib pribileges, he thought to come de dtplerma-
tics ober me, but he couldn’t shine, no how, so finally lie,
grees not to cut no wood within my limerts—no way, no
sontedevor.”
“I didn’t sign no dociirmeuts,” said the big negro.
“You pledged the word ob a wood-sawyer and a dar
key dat yon wouldn’t,” said Damcn, “and now I cotches
you at itebery day.”
truth is, thousands have been yearly distributed in Geor
gia for poor school purposes: and every one’s experi
ence is, (who have been conversant with the manner of
appropriating the money) that no good has resulted
from the expenditure of public money; and none ever
can result from it by our present system, if the amount
were ever so large, to he apportioned to the trustees.
To organize a new system, requiring a large amount
of money, in the present embarrassed condition of the
Treasury, or to have provided an additional sum to be
procured. God knows how, or where, to be distributed
as heretofore, without the hope of benefit to any. was
useless. And we suppose these considerations in
duced the late Legislature to leave the matter where
they found it. At any rate, they did so from some cause,
we think very properly; and if they have not required
twenty or thirty thousand dollars more to he paid out
this year, to lie distributed among the Poor School Com-
“Did he commit any assault and battery on you ?” said . niissiouers, without a possible benefit to one single poor
the Recorder.
“He didn’t.” said Danton, “hut you secs, massa Judge,
he s a strange nigga, and I calls on you to purtuct home
industry. I wants you to go in for what massa Clay
calls de ’Merican system,”
The Recorder assured Danton that he would do all
in his power to protect home industry, and to support
the American system, but that he could not interfere
with his rival in business, or prevent his sawing wood
within the imaginary boundary lines to which he (die
plaintiff) seemed to set up a prescriptive right.
The case was dismissed. Damon shouldered his saw
and pledged himself to bring the case before a higher
court.—Tie.
JUSTICE AND CHARITY.
Duty extends to all beings; for till have their place in
the universe; all discharge, according to the Supreme
Wisdom, functions which it is forbidden lo disturb; and
all have a right to the divine gift. To destroy one sin
gle being by mere caprice, or to inflict on him needless
suffering, is wrong, an act opposed to the laws of order.
Respect God in the least ol his works, and let your
love, like his, embrace all that live and breathe.
If, by giving intelligence to a man. He has made him
the lord of creation. He has not willed that he should be
its tyrant. His eye, which nothing escapes, has also
child—we see no cause of complaint. Every individual
who desires the credit of the State sustained, and her
debts paid, as well as to see some efficient and perma
nent system of education established, by which the poor
est of the pool might receive the ‘ foundation of an etlas
cation and usefulness in the world,” must admit that ici
the present prostrate condition of the State Treasury
and credit, no additional appropriation should have been,
made for this purpose. For the bert of reasons, then,
if one be necessary, there being no money, there will be
no poor school funds distributed this year. The Legis
lature provided none because they had no means from
which they could properly appropriate money to be thus
drawn from the Treasury.
Extracts from the letter of an occasional cot respondent,
dated
Wash ington City, February I, 1843.
I have just seen Joint Tyler; he is a fine Roman look
ing-like man. just such a subject as Canova would like
to study. It would delight yon to see how placid lie ap
pears under the heavy responsibilities of this great Re
public. which lie shoulders with more ease than the fabled
Atlas did the world.
“The man of the South,’’ as Mr. Calhoun is now em
phatically railed, at the "Capitolian Jove,” is the admir-
litical
paternal regard for the poor sparrow palpitating under ' e< ^ il '’ admirers. Clay is sneered at here as a pol
yonr hand. I poltroon—the merry wags say that Calhoun is the C
Without duty no society is possible, for without it
there can be no relations between men. As you have
seen, it requires justice and charity.
Y et to do to others that which you would not desire
others to do to you, is justice.
To do unto others, on all occasions, as you would
have them do to you is charity.
A man lived by his labor—himself, his wife and his
little ones; and as lie hud good health, and strong arms
and easily found employment, he met with no great dif
ficulty in providing subsistence for himself and those
who were dear to him.
But if happened that the country experienced great
commercial and financial difficulties, and the demand for
labor diminished, because it could no longer be profita
bly employed, and meanwhile the necessaries of life in
creased in price.
The laborer and his family began to suffer. Having
exhausted his moderate savings, he was compelled first
to sell his furniture piece by piece, and then articles of
clothing, nnd when all had thus gone, having no other
resource, hunger stared him in the face. Nor did hun
ger enter !tis cottage unattended; sickness came w ith it.
Now this man had two neighbors, the one very rich,
and the other less so.
He went to the first and said: We are in want of the
necessaries of life, myself, my wife and children; have
pity on us.
The rich man replied: What can I do in llie case ?
When you laboied for me, did I either refuse or defer
payment? I have never wronged you, nor any one;
my hands are pttre/rom all iniquity. Your sufferings af
flict. but every one must look out for himself in these
hard times: who knows itow long they will last ?
The poor father answered not, but, with an aching
heart, was slowly returning to his desolate home, when
he met his other neighbor who was less rich.
Tile latter seeing that he was pensive and sad, thus ac
costed him: What is the matter with you?—there are
cares upon your brow, and tears in your eyes.
The father with a faltering voice, explained to him
Ilis unhappy situation.
When lie had finished; why said the other to him, do
you grieve so much for this ?—Are we uot brothers ?
And bow can I abandon my brother in distress! Come
and share with me that which I hold from the goodness
ol God.
The suffering family were thus sustained until they
themselves provided for their own wants.
After several years had pa?sed, the two rich men ap
peared together before the sovereign Judge of human
actions.
And the Judge said to the first; My eye has followed
thee in the earth; thou hast abstained from injuring oth
ers. from violating their rights; thou hast rigorously
fulfilled the strict law of justice; but. in fulfilling it, thou
lias lived only for thyself, thy impenetrable soul has not
comprehended the law of love. And now, in this new
world where thou entcrest poor and naked, it shall be
done to thee as thou hast done to others. Thou hast re
served for thyself all the goods that have been lavished
on thee; thou hast given nothing to thy brother; neither
shall any tiling be given to thee. Thou hast thought hut
of thyself; go, and in solitude live of thyself.
Then, turning towards the second, the Judge said to
him: Because thou hast not been just alone, hut charity
has penetrated thy heart; because thy hand has been
open to scatter among thy less happy brethren the
wealth of which thou wert the depository, that the tears
of them that wept might be wiped away—greater good
shall be given to thee. Go, and receive the recompense
of them that have fully accomplished their duty, th« <aw
of justice and the law of love.
who drove Clay, the Cataline, front the capital.
Y’ottr delegate, Meriwether, has made a party speech,
which you no doubt, have seen. Ilis reporter, who
wrote out the speech for Meriwether, has quizzed him
in superlative style. The speech was reported for the
National Intelligencer, and tlic cunning reporter made
the house laugh al Memrether. instead of laughing rrith
him. This will make the Meriwether Putnamites cry.
There will he an extra session, and it will be indeed
(not the detnigogical slang of hard cider, hut in the
sparkling purity of unadulterated champagne) a reliev
ing and reforming session. Vale.
Trial of Commander Mackenzie.—The Court Martial
for the trial of Commander Mackenzie, convened on
board the North Corolina at New Y'ork. on the iHtinst.
The Court consists of Capt. John Downes, President;
Captains Read, Bolton, Turner, Sloat, Smith, Storer,
i McKcever, Page, Gwinu, and Wyman, and Comman
ders Ogden, and Shuhrick. Win. H. Norris, Esq., of
Baltimore, Judge Advocate. Counsel for Mackenzie,
John Duer and George Griffin, Esqrs. The charges are,
first, murder on the high seas, in hanging Spencer.Crom
well and Small—second, oppression, in hanging them—
third, exceeding the limits ofhis authority, in so doing—
fourth, cruelty and un-officer-like conduct, in using
taunting language to Spencer a few minutes before his
execution—fifth, oppression of the crew, hy punishing
in an arbitrary and excessive manner.
BANK CIRCULATION,
OF FOUR STATES FOR A SERIES OF YEARS.
La.
Ala.
Ohio.
Ylfiss.
1832,
1,301,483
975,171
7,122,850
1833,
1,587.070
7,880,110
1834,
2,320,968
—
7,650,146
1835,
5,111,082
4,198.385
5,221,720
9,430,357
1836,
7,139.546
5,570,063
9.674 814
10.892,249
1837,
7,999,788
6,770,319
8,326,074
10,275,118
1838,
7,558.465
6,508,375
6,224,136
9,400,412
1839,
6,280.588
4,592,163
8,157,871
7,815,322
1810,
6,443,785
7,088,805
4,674,341
7,599,975
1841,
5,870.377
7,(Mil ,734
1,889,257
9,509,102
1842,
1,857,395
5,817,111
1,116,053
8,049,906
The figures indicate how utterly impossible it is to keep
the quantity of paper money on which the relative value of
labor depends, uniform in all parts of the country under any
circumstances.—In n mixed currency the grener the pro
portion of paper, the more difficult is it to keep it in order.
Specie regulates itself, because it cannot be obtained with
out labor.
The. Marrieige Tic in Texas.—Hundreds of petitions
have been presented to the Texas Congress, for divor
ces. The chairman of the committee to whom they
were referred, intendsto put them all in one bill, and re
port I- vorablv. A bill was introduced afterwards, pro
viding that when any married persons become dissatis
fied With their choice, on publication of their intention
to dissolve the matrimonial ties, for thirty days, the same
shall be considered as done.
interests oftlie South, and that he is now the only promi
nent champion who stands between the enemies of the
South and her roiislitutional rights? I should suppose that , ;
lite Recorder knows all this,as the Editor of that paper is
a very intelligent and liberal gentleman, and one who as a
public journalist, has scanned, critically, the poliiiral rela
tions of the two great parties, which have hpen struggling
for supremacy, ever since the passage of the Alien and Se
dition ads. Taking this for granted, as the ingenuous mind
oftlie Recorder must readtly and frankly admit, l am led
almost into a w ild ofobsrnrity, when I refieot how readily
that paper is imposed upon hy the political shufflers of the
day. "I he Recorder certainly knows that .Mr. Clay is es
sentially opposed to all the vital interests of the South—
that he is a hightoned Protective Tariff man—that he is a
National Internal Improvement man—that he is a Bitltlle-
hnnk Improvement man—that It - is a gradual Abolition-
ist-man.and that he is a constitution destroying man, the lat
ter of which has been very conspicuously exhibited in the j
vengeful and unmerited attacks which he made in the Sen
ate of the United Stales and elsewhere, until he was driven
from the Senate hy the mere force of public opinion, and
the over powering genius of Mr. Calhoun.
All tins the Recorder knows, or ought to know,—and in
addition to » Inch it should also know, that Mr.Clay, w hen
Secretary of Stale to John Quincy Adams, threatened the
State of Georgia with Federal Bayonets, when the Slate of
Georgia was prosecuting with patriotic forbearance her In
dian titles, which thei General Government had for a series
of years neglected to recognize, or was unalde to confirm.
This altitude of hostility to Georgia particularly, has mark
ed Mr. Clay as her particular political enemy. With these
facts staring the Recorder full in the face, can it support
Henry Clay without rcuipromilling nnd insulting the best
rights and the best feelings of Georgia? This is a question
to he asked.
A Looker-on has also observed that Ilenry Clay has so
far forgotten the dignity which surrounds the Presidential
Chair, as to make Ins merely rARTlZAN nomination to
it the cause of stump-orations and harhacne-orations—prob
ably this somewhat new expedient in Presidential election
eering might have been set him hy a tool-like predecessor
who now reposes in the “tombs of the capttlets ” This
catering and huckstering alter the Presidential Chair,consti
tutes an era in political science that was unknown to Tal
leyrand, Casllereogh, or Mettemich. Does 1 be Recorder
noticed these things. Neither will it do for Democrats to
reiterate old prejudices against Mr. Van Buren. if there
is to be peace in tho family, and they would not play into
the hands of the Whigs. Already these family bicker
ings are seized on by them, to throw distrust and doubt
on us and our success.nnd excite new hope, confidence,
1 and effort, ill their despairing partizans; at:d if Yfr. Y an
Buren should he the nominee of the Convention, they
will he industriously quoted against us, and the honesty
1 and sincerity of onr advocacy of him. It is high time to
. consider these things, and the consequences of disregard-
! ing them; and to take care that we do nothing toward
| Mr. Van Boren and his friends, that we should not have
j them do tons. As to the stale old prejudices against
j Mr. ; r . B., is it forgotten how nobly he falsified them in
! the last Presidential contest, so far as it was possible to
do so, by a hold, straigh forward, manly, and candid
course—utterly shaming the old cry of wily caution and
non-cornmital. and we trust he and his friends will now as
fully put to shame the imputations of secret management
wire-working. &c.
Be it as it may, however, we are hound to treat them
as friends, till they show themselves to he enemies—as
innocent till proved guilty: and foi our own part, we
would rather raise the foil war-whoop against them at
once, and treat them as enemies, than keep reiterating
unkind suspicions and prejudices against them, while we
acknowledge them as friends. If they wrong ns, or we
imagine they do so, let us appeal to them against it in
the kind and friendly spirit of brethren, and if they per
sist in it, take care to keep them in the wrong, by kind
ness and forbearance, and throw clearly upon than, all
responsibility for any dissensions or disruptions that ntay
ensue; trusting firmly in God and a good cause, and re
membering. always, that we may harbor doubts and sus
picions, till they rave all the influence on ns of certainties
and that “he conquers most, who forbears most.”
[ South Carolinean.
approve the political propriety of stumping it in this way
for the Presidential Chair? Does not the Recorder know
that such a course makes this boast d Republic, the laugh
ing slock of England, from which the Rotten-boroughs
OF THAT COUNTRY will he furnished w ith a Clay-republi
can precedent to justify their corruption? Certainly the
Recorder knows all this. 7’o suppose the contrary, would
be doing violence to the good sense and common observa
tion of the Recorder. Let, then, the Recorder reflect, that
Mr. Clay is now grinning nttlie Whigs with
“’i'lte fiends arch muck,
Which lips a wanton and believes her chaste.”
THE LOOKER-ON.
55" The following is on extract of a letter we received
the other day:
“During mv smy nt Marietta, I took a ride, in company
with some oflhe citizens of that place, and Gov. Lumpkin,
upon the Western nnd Atlantic Rail Road, as faras the Ter
minus, in DeKalb county, nnd returned. The locomotive
is the Florida, formerly belonging to thp Georgia Hnil Road.
The passenger car was constructed at the Penitentiary, and
is strong, comfortable, and neat, and will hold from 50 to
75 passengers. The road is an excellent one; the ear runs
Aery smoothly and steadily, and made ihe distance, say 20
miles, in 61 minutes, including slopping for wood and fuel.
There is an extensive simp in a state of forwardness cuing
up at Marthasvdle, the name of the Terminus, about 100 feet
square,of granite and brick. The place appears to he well
selected for the connecting of other roads with it. Suitable
tracks and plats of ground, for the erection of depots lor the
Georgia and Monroe roads, were pointed out to me The
grading of the Monroe Road connects with the State Road
about one and a quarter mile from the Terminus in an au k-
ward manner; hut I presume that company will change it
so as to connect at Marlhasville. 7’here is some magnifi
cent scenery along this State Road, natural ns well ns arti
ficial. Tit see a steam car walking like “a riling of life,”
through these mountains, and over rivers nnd creeks and
ravines, is grnml to look upon. At one of those bridges, the
conductor kindly had tbe locomotive stopped, and tlic com
pany got out to taken view of the work. We descendi d
the mountain side, until we reached a bridge, heretofore
us(d lor travellers, 60 feet above the small rivulet running
beneath ns; 60 feet above ns tbe ear was gliding over tbe
bridge like a being oftlie clouds—without giving the slight
est perceptible motion to rt pnrlicte of lbo fUrurture. The
sight was to me sublime. 7’lie bridge is called Vining’s,
after one of tbe engineers, was built by llie Messrs, Den-
mend, of Baltimore, upon Col. Long’s plan. A visit to tbe
line of the Nlate Read, during the summer, would be highly
gratifying to yon.
[Augusta Constitutionalist, Hth insl.
HIGHWAY ROBBERY'.
On Sunday morning last, onr quiet and orderly citi
zens were thrown into a great uproar on the appear
ance of a .Mr. John P. Loyd, who stated that, while on
his retttrn from the cantp of some of his fellow wagon
ers, he had been attacked, about one mile from town, by
a body of men, six in number, and robbed of all his
money-—A warrant was immediately obtained, and a
number of citizens, headed by Mr. Sheriff Graves, start
ed in pursuit of the robbers. After a hard day’s chase,
they succeeded in capturing the individuals accused,
whom they brought to town and lodged in jail. On
Mot day they were examined before a board of Magis
trates, and, in default of bail, were remanded to prison
to await their trial at the approaching term of the Supe
rior Court.
YVe were unable to attend the examination, hut learn
that their names are Anderson North, Sr., Anderson
North, Jr., Preston North. James North, William Hen-
ro and Jacob Tipton, and that they hail from Tennessee.
A. A. Overton, Esq. and Col. N. G. Foster are engaged
as their Counsel.—Southern Miscellany, 4th inst.
CONGRESS.
In the Senate, February 3, the hill for the occupation and
seltb meet of the Oregon Territory, which created much
excitement and dehule, was passed. On ordering the bill
lo he engrossed and read a third time, the yeas were 24, and
the nitjs 22, as follows: Messrs. Cuthbert, Crittenden, Kerr,
and Morehead were absent.
YEAS—Messrs. Allen, Benton, .Buchanan, Clayton, Ful
ton, Henderson, King, Linn, McRoherls,Maugtim, Merrick,
Phelps, Sevier, Smith of Connecticut, Smith of Indiana,
Sturgeon, Tnppan, Walker, White, YVilcox, Williams,
Woodbury, Wright and Y oung—24.
NAY 8— M essrs. Archer, Baghy, Barrow. Bates, Bayard,
Berrien, Calhoun, Chcate, Conrad, Crafts, Dayton, Evens,
Graham, Huntington, McDuffie, Miller, Porter, Rives,
Simmons, Sprague, Tallmadge, and YVoodbridge—22.
On ihe same dny the Committee on the Judiciary made a
report on the hill of the House of Representatives for the re
peal of the bankrupt act. an entire new bill establishing a
bankrupt system. In this new hill, two great points are
yielded; first, voluntary bankruptcy is given up; next, the
conscntofn majority of the rmlitors, in number nnd value,
is required to release a debtor from his debts. These are
two important concessions, both in a moral and a constitu
tional point ol view. Whatever may he the reasons of the
committee, the belief is wide and deep that the present act
is unconstitutional, and all the certificates granted miller it
null and void; and the concession of the committee corres
ponds with that belief, (he their reason what it may,) and
will powerfully contribute to establish it in the public mind.
The day w ill come when this act will rank with the alien
and sedition laws, the unconstitutionality of which is now
so universally admitted."
’Ihe following arc the proceedings in the Senate on the
subject:
Mr. Berrien, from the Committee on the Judiciary, (to
which hail been referred Senate bill to repeal the bankrupt
law, and a similar bill from the House of Representatives,
and memorials and resolutions on the subject of the repeal,)
made a report, recommending the indefinite postponement
of the Senate hill, and reported haek the House bill with an
entire substitute for it. He asked for the printing of the re
port and substitute for the hill which w-as agreed to.
Mr. Tallmadge moved that 1,500 copies additional to tho
usual quantity of the report and bill he printed.
Mr. King inquired w hether it was a detailed report.
Mr. Berrien remarked that the report ami hill were of
great length. The committee had gone into an examination
of all the questions connected with the subject which had
been presented for the consideration of the Senate, through
the report of the Secretary ol Stale, of the decisions of the
judges of the district courts under that law.
Mr. King could not perceive why they should print an
extra quantity of this report. The object of the report, he
presumed, was for the benefit of those who had to legislate
upon the subject. Ifil was intended that the report should
be printed for circulation, with a view to base the response
of the country upon it, before the action of the Senate on
the lull, ho would only say that it must fail of its ohject; fur
the action of the Senate will, no doubt, have taken place be
fore such response could he received. If the report was not
a very voluminous one, it would find its way into die news
papers. and be circulat-d much sooner than it could he hy
the other modo. He did not presume that, al this short ses
sion, any return of public opinion could he had before the
action of the Senate; the expense of printing would, there
fore, be uselessly incut red. Ho hoped it would not be
printed.
Mr. Tallmadge remarked that the expense of printing rite
additional quantity proposed would he very trifling. After
it was printed, he had no doubt lltere would be calls for it
front every part of the country. As to w hether there would
be time, before the aelion of the Senate on the bill, to have
a response from the people on the report and hill of the com
mittee, he would only say that there was a possibility, at
least: and he might express tho hope that, after the report
shall have been examined, Senniors on the other side, even,
would he convinced that the law should remain on the stat
ute book.
Mr. Woodbury said tliat if the report was not long, he
would like lo hear it read.
Mr. Berrien replied ihatllie report wasa voluminous one;
and there was a long Dili accompanying it, which the com
mittee propose ns a substitute for the hill which passed llie
House. Mr. II. then stated, in substance, that the substi
tute proposed to repeal so much of the voluntary clause of
the previous Jaw as allowed any person, on his own appli
cation, to lake the benefit of the law; that it proposed lo
make the declaration of insolvency ronfosm to the provi
sions of the act of 6 William IV.; that it leaves it to Ihe op
tion of Ihe creditor to suspend action after a declaration of
insolvency, or to proceed to close up the affairs of the debt
or, under such declaration of insolvency; that the remaining
part of Ihc law was so amended as to confine its provisions
lo what is technically called traders; that it proposed to
make tho consent of a majority in amount of the creditors
necessary to the granting of a certificate to a bankrupt. lie
said there were other important alterations which he could
not cite from memory.
The question was put onthe motion to print the addition
al quantity, and derided in the aflimative—ayes 16, nocs 14.
INCENDIARIES AT WORK.
On Tuesday night of last week about dark a stable be
longing to Mr. Shippv was discovered to he on fire; it and
an adjoining stable belonging to T. A. Brannon, Esq was
consumed. On Monday night of this week another fire
was discovered in a stable on the lot occupied hy Dr. Bil
ling, although two houses stood very near it they were saved
hy the exertions of our citizens; the stable was destroyed.—
On Sunday morning just before day a fire was discovered
in the house oil broad street occupied hy Air. Clapp ns a
tinner shop. This inst was evidently the work of an incen
diary; the house bad been entered by a window nnd a dfsk
broken open for the purpose no doubt of gelling money
Fortitnati ly the fire was discovered before it had made,
much progress and was extinguished find it go’ fairly
started an extensive conflagration must have been the re
sult.
Destitute as we a re of the means of contending with fire
it behoves onr citizens lo he very careful with their fires
and not only the city authorities hut the citizens ougluit to
keep a sharp look out upon all suspicious persons. Men
who won’t work in these times are dangerous to the com
munity in w liiclt they live.—Columbus Argus.
“Amos Ke-;dall.”—This name is not so familiar to
the public ear as it was w ont to be when its owner was
Fourth Anditorofthe Treasury, or Post Master General
—yet the memory ol his never tiring zeal for the aggran
dizement of the Democratic party, occasionally brings
out his name in connection with poverty, prison bounds,
and all that. It is a fact that Mr. Kendall is. and has
been for st veral months past, restrained within the jail
limits of YY’ashington city; Inn it is on account ofdebtsdne
hy the Government. In form they may he due by him,
(for the Court has so decided.) lint in fact they are due
by the government. The case is this: Mr. Kendall, while
Post .Master General, withheld from Messrs. Stockton &
Stokes, mail contractors, certain amounts which they
claimed; believing that they were not justly entitled to the
same, and the faithfulness to his Itust. forbade him thus
to expend the public money. It was of no advantage to
hint personally to withhold the payment. If the claim
was just, it was just not against himself, hut against the
Post Office Department, i.o. against the American peo
ple. as represented in that Department. Y’et it is pre
cisely for this claim, or these claims, that Mr. Kendall is
now in durance. As against him. it is a ease of rank in
justice, and requires the immediate interference of Con
gress. YVe trust there are no YV ltigs in that body, so un
reasonable as to be willing that an individual should he
compelled to pay the debts of the nation, or in default
thereof, he subjected to personal inconvenience and dam
age. If any such there are, they are more to he pitied
than Mr. Kendall. He are glad to see that he has pre
sented a memorial to the Senate, praying for relief. It
has been referred to the committee on claims.
[Acic York Jour, of Com.
Coffee from Sicect Potatoes is warmly commended.
The potatoes are pared, sliced, roasted, ground and
steeped, like the coffee berry, it is said to be very palpa
ble, has the flavor of cocoa, and requires little sugar.
The ladies of Hingham, Mass., have introduced the
fashion of knitting stockings while listening to evening
lectures. There's industry for you!
Resisting the Sale.—The citizens of Mariot: county,
iYI issouri, have held a meeting and resolved that no pro
perty belonging to a citizen of that county should In; ex
posed to public sale.—The members of the meeting
probably intend to pay the citizen's debts for them, with
out the necessity of such a sacrifice.
A Female Bishop.—Ylargaret Bishop, a large bony
woman, is preaching at New Y ork to crowded congre
gations. She goes for a speedy termination of onr pres
ent undone affairs, hut scorns to follow - in the wake of
Mr. Miller. Her theory is, that every tiling is to he re
stored to its original stale, as it was before the fall of
Adam: people are to live in gardens, eat fruit of all
kind, (except apples,) and to dispense with all kinds of
tailor’s work. The climates are lobe so modified as to
make this last measure expedient.
Michigan Copper and Lead.—Mr. Haughton, State
Geologist of Michigan, has made bis first report to the
Legislature. Of the abundance of copper and lend in
Northern Michigan he has the fullest confidence. In
openiug a vein, he threw out, with u single blast, nearly
two tons of copper ore, and with it numerous masses of
pure copper, from the most minute speck to masses
weighiug forty pounds. The purity of the ores exam
ined, proved to be from 51 to 21 percent. The great
mines of Conwall. do not, at present, produce over 8
per cent.
Congress.—Onr Washington letter of this week has
failed, (as well as the New Y’ork one,) but nothing of
material interest appears to have been done in either
House, except the passage oftlie Oregon hill in the Sen
ate, on the 2d inst. bv a vote of 24 to 22, after Mr. Cal
houn had again spoken against it; and the report, in the
same branch, from the Judiciary Committee, as an a-
nteudment to the House bill to repeal the Bankrupt Act,
of an entire new Bankrupt bill. In this new bill, says
the Globe, “two great points are yielded; first, volunta
ry bankruptcy is given tip; next the consent of a ma
jority of the creditors, in number and value, is required
to release a debtor from his debts. These are two tn-
portant concessions, both in a moral and a constitutional
point of view. YVhatever may be the reasons of the
Committee, the belief is wide and deep that the present
act is unconstitutional, and all the certificates granted un
der it null and void; and the concession of the Commit
tee corresponds with the belief, (be their reason what it
may,) and will powerfully contribute to establish it in
the public mind. The day will come when this act will
be ranked with the alien and sedition laws, the unconsti
tutionality of which ia now so universally admitted.”
Exchange.—It is now eight years since the government,
directly or indirectly, has had anything to do with regulat
ing the exchanges. The result is, that during the past year,
< n ail specie paying points, exchange has been lower, more
regular, and more easy to he obtained than ever before,
even under the best days of the late national bank.
AFikst Rate Notice.—7’he Editor of the Boston At
las gets a “first rate notice in the Boston Fust,” thus;—
“Why is tho Editor oftlie Atlas peeuliary exposed to colds?
Because he is given lo lying in damp sheets.”
A Goon Appointment.— We see it stated in the Charles,
ton Courier, that Edward Ruffin, of Virginia, the able and
talented editor oftlie Farmer’s Register, has been appointed
by the Governor of South Carolina to conduct the Agricul
tural Survey of the Stale, ordered hy the Legislature at the
late session.
The Execution of Cromwell.—The widow ofCrom-
well, who was executed hy Captain Mackenzie, has made
the third application fir arrest of the latter. The applica
tion this litne was made to Judge Lynch, who refused to
grant it for the same reasons which influenced Judge Bet is.
As art evidence of the hardness of the times, and the con
sequent depreciation of property of nil kinds, a correspond
ent of ours Matos, that he understands from i source entitled
to credit, that on the first Monday in last month a very like-
ly Negro woman, 25 years of age, ami seven fine looking
children, were sold at Sheriff’s sale at Barnwell G, Ji. for
81250—being an average of $156 25.
Horrid Murder.—A most shocking murder was com
mitted on the body of John Rea, residing in the vicinity of
Greeneville (Tennessee) on Thursday of last week, by his
Negro man. It seems that the deceased and two ofhis
slaves were engaged in covering a coal-pit, when some alter
cation took place between the master ami servant about his
manner of working, w liiclt instigated the servant to commit
the horrid deed, 11 ith a coaling shovel. The first blow re
ceived entered al the edge oftlie hair, passing down to the
ear, severing all the flesh from the bone. ’1 he second blow
was just above the eyes, across the forehead, penetrating
hslfthrough the skull. The third blow (after .Mr. 1{ had
fallen) was across the throat, severing both arteries ofth-i
neck, and t inling the throat from car lo ear. The demon
in human form finally t <ok up a mattock and stuck it
through the neck hone, leaving the corpse fastened to the
earth. The murderer was immediately arrested, arid a
Special Court has been called to investigate the ense. Mr.
Rsa was an honest, industrious and most inestimable citi
zen.—Greenville Mountaineer.
Thieves of Time.—“Procrastination is the thief of lime,”
and so is he who steals a “time-piece.”
Editors’ Troubles.—Persona unconnected with Ifct
press are little aware of the trouble experienced hy an edi
tor, who is subject to the calls of those who consider it no
intrusion to enter Unhidden the precincts of the sanctum.
The Boston Times thus happily hits at some oftlie annoy
ances:—
Leaf from the Editor’s Diart.—8 A. M. Loafer en
ters ami disarranges mail papers under pretence of assisting
in netting out second edition.
10 A. Al. Loafer criticising paper while we are endeavor
ing to pen leader.
12 31. Loafer insisting on telling us something funny
while we are endeavoring to get at the cream of the Con
gressional debates. Says our cigars are not worth a d-n
that it is a penance for him to smoUe ’em
1 P. 31. Loafer getting affectionate—embraces us a la
Francais while we are endeavoring to write.
2 P. 31. Returning after a temporary absence, discover
by the loss of our pet papers that loafer loves us too well to
leave us for an hour without a keepsake.
4 P. 31. Thanking our stars fora partial solitude, when
loafer reappears—we are sorry to say rather drunk. Inso
lence superadded to ihe ainiabie qualities of the morning.
A quarrel and fight, in which we are worsted. Loafer
leaves to hoa*t Ins prowess.
f» P. 31. Reappears to demand concert tickets. In des
pair we give them up to get rid of him. then, as \vt wend
our way homeward with a sigh of regret for the loss of a
musical treat wo had been locking forward to for four
months, see loafer
“With his nattiest togs, so spruce and so knowing,
And on his arm his prettiest blowing,”
entering the Melodeon, exulting in tho success ofhis unpar
alleled rascality.
12 midnight. Aroused from onr bed by furious ringing,
kicking, and knockingat the street door. Hurry down ori
ihe supposition that the steamer is in. It is the loafer, who
has been locked out of his hoarding house, and demands a
night’s lodging. Who would be an editor?
O v r Tr .^ in SfcertfPs Sale.
N the first Tnesduy in April next, will be « u
before the Court Home door in Ihe t OW n „r^
wmvtiie. Irwin county, within the legal hours J ! r
the following property, to wit: 01 *«e,
Ten bags of cotton more or less; levied on a- a.
property ol James Y. McDuffie, to satisfy two fi <■
from Irwin Superior Court, in favor of Elijah V 1 ‘ as '
and Otis Johnson vs. James Y. McDuffie and »>- <0 ~
McDuffie, security.
Jan. 30, 1843.
Aba.;j
J. C. SUMNER, Sheriff.
35
A LL persons indebted to the estate of the late \V;i
Parker, deceased, of Irwin tounty, are hereby"” 1
quested to make immediate payment; and all perso*
having demands against said deceased, will render t], !
in agreeable 10 law, to
JAMES C. FUSSELL, Adm’r
Jan. 26, 1843. . i
A LL persons indebted to the estate of Benjamin F ,
sell, deceased, of Irwin county, are hereby re.';.:"
ed to make immediate payment; and all persons! jj !"
demands against said deceased, will render them ; a *
greeahle to law, to
JAMES C. FUSSELL, Adm'r
Jan. 26, 1843.
KrlfMiller’s conflagration should not happen to come
off, there « ill he fifty-three Sundays in the present year.
The Charleston Courier, in calling attention to a concert
says, “any one can obtain admission hy dropping a tear of
sympathy in the shape of a quarter of a dollar at the door.”
Adsniuistt-afrix Post5»oiic«I Sale,
W ILL be sold on the first Tuesday in March i r
at the Court House door, in the town of ,M ar ,
1 Twiggs county, within the usual hours of sale, a p v ”.
I the personal property belonging to the estate of
Loy less, deceased; sold for the benefit of the heirs '
LAVINAH LOY LESS. Ad, nr ,
February 9,1843.
C AUT ION.
T HE public are hereby cautioned againttradingf 0I
a certain bond given by William Boyles to me, f M
a lot of laud in Cass county, some time in Decern!^
1837, and transferred by me to Joseph Kitchens; a j
notes to the amount of $150—given to me bv Jos*-s
Ce.light Again.—Van Ness, Fitzgerald and Hancock, Benjamin Kitchens. The said notes I p'roncrj™
who belonged to the Santa Fe expedition, and after he- . „„|| and void, and of no effect, as the said laud hi- 1 ...
veleised hy the Mexicans were again captured by sold for said Boyles’debts.
•neral Wall during his recent invasion of Texas, have
been sentenced to ten years’ imprisonment in the Cas- DeKalb county, Jan. '
tie of San Juan de Ulloa, at Vera Cruz.
Uiiitfil States LMstrici Court.
DISTRICT OF GEORGIA
IN BANKRUPTCY.— In the matter of CbcnothPe.
teet of the county of YVilkes. late merchant, and one
of the firm of Lawrence & Peteet. now firmer.
The above described Chenoth Peteet, having, ffa
day filed bis petition praying that he maybe declared*
Bankrupt, and tbe Court having assigned the fifteenth
who had for some Snte been making evening calls upon I ^ °f February next, at 11 o’clock. A M., at tie
_“Rvfr.b Court House m
Arrival of more Specie.—The steamship Caledonia
brought into Boston, it is stated, from England, eight
hundred thousand dollars in Specie. This article appears
now to he arriving into this country from every direction.
This is highly favorable. s i,
‘Frank, ’ said a young w oman to a diffident suitor,
JAMES SCAfiGS
1843. 3t—35
her without fully declaring himself—“Frank, if you
wish to marry me, I wish to know it, so that I may make
preparation.” A long pause ensued—at length Frank
broke silence and exclaimed. “No meat, no corn, and
fishing almost over! Good Lord!—Nell, I can’t!”
Frank’s answer was at lest a frank one.
Husbandry.—A man with eleven daughters was lately
complaining that he found it hard to live. “You must
husband your time,” said the other, “and then you will
do well enough.”—“I could do much better,” was the
reply, “if l could husband my daughters.”
THE STARS.
CV GEORGE D. PRENTICE.
7'hose burning stars!—What are they?—I have dreamed
That they were blossoms on the tree of life—
Or glory flung back from Ihe mighty wings
Of God’s archangels—or that yon blue sky,
With nil its gorgeous blazonry of stars,
YVas but a banner waving on the w inds
From tbe for wall of Heaven!—And 1 have sat
And drank their gush of glory, till I felt
Tltt ir flash electric trembling with a deep
Arid strong vibration down the living wire
Of ehainless passion—and my every pulse
\\ as heating high, ns it a spring were there
To lift me tip wjtere I might ever roam
Mid the unfalhomed vastness oftlie sky,
And dwell with those high stars and see their light
Poured down upon the blessed Earth, like dew
Ftorn llie hi ighl urns of naiads!
Beautiful Stars!
Wliat are we?—There is in my heart of hearts
A fount, that heaves beneath yon like the deep
Beneath the glories of the midnight moon!
And list!—your music-tones are floating now
Around me like an element—so low,
So w ildly beautiful, I almost deem
That we are there the living harp of God,
O'er which the incense w inds of Eden stray,
And wake such tones of mystic minstrelsy,
As well might wander down to this dim world
To fashion dreams of Heaven!—Peal on—peal on
Nature’s high anthem!—for my life hath caught
A portion of your purity and power.
And seems bill as a sweet and holy lone
Of w tld star-music.
Blessed—blessed things!—
Y’earein Heaven, and Ion Earth!—my soul,
Even with a whirlwind’s rush, may wander off
To yonr immortal realms, hut it must foil.
Like your own ancient pleiad, from its height,
To dim ils new-caught glories in the dust!—
This Earth is very beautiful—I love
Ils wilderness el spring-flowers—its bright clouds—
'I'lte majesty of mountains—and the wild
Magnificence of Ocean—for they come.
Like visions »\ r mv heart—hut when I look
On your minding loveliness, 1 feel
Like a lost inlnnt gazing on ils home,
And wee p to die, and come w here we repose
Upon yon boundless Heaven, like parted souls
On an eternity of blessedness!
DEPARTED this life, on the morning of the 23d
nit., at the residence of Dr. Samuel Boykin, of Colum
bus, Ga.. .Miss A DELIA R. COOPER, daughter of the
II on. Mark A. Cooper ol this State, aged fifteen years
one month and twenty-three days.
Ah! who could see that lovely flower,
So beautiful and dear,
Go down to the grave in her morning hour,
Without a hitler tear ?
But the fairest flowers must pt rish here—
The fondest hopes must fad;:
And those the loveliest and most dear,
Must in the tomb he laid.
But kind was the voice that call’d her home
To a land of joy and peace,
YVI tore the hand of dentil can never come,
And tho mourner’s sorrows cease.
Died, near this city, on YVednesday the 1st inst.,
James M. Collins, youngest son of David and Susan
M. Collins, aged one year two months and fifteen days.
Died, at his residence in Abbeville Dis., S. C. on the
the 31st nit.. Capt. James Calhoun, in the 64th year of
his age. The deceased was an elder brother of the
Hon. John C. Calhoun.
in the city of Savannah, for the he»rin:ot'
tho same; notice is hereby given to all persons interest-
ed, that they may appear at the time and place aforesaid,
and show cause, if auy they have, why the prayer of the
petitionershould not be granted.
GEO. GLENN, Clerk.
Savannah, December 13,1842. 35
United States Distriet Court.
DISTRICT OF GEORGIA.
IN BANKRUPTCY.—In the matter of Alfred V.
YV’ooden, carpenter, of the town of Madison. Alorgaa
county, Ga
The above described Alfred YY r . Wooden, having tliisdir,
filed his petition praying that he may he declared a Bank
rupt, and the Court having assigned the thirtieth day
of March next, at 11 o’clock. A. YI. at the Court House
in the city of Savannah, for the hearing of the same;
notice thereof is hereby given to all persons interested,
that they ntay appear at the time and place aforesaid,
and show cause, if any they have, why the prayer of tae
petitioner should uot be granted.
GEO. GLE, Clerk.
Savannah, Feb. 7, 1813. 3>
United Slates District Court.
DISTRICT OF GEORGIA.
IN BANKRUPTCY —In the matter of YY’illoiigh-
by Jordan, of Cuthbert, Randolph county, Georgia, far
mer, one of the late firm of Lewis J. Jordan. A Co.
The above deso- bed Y\ illonghby Jordan, havingthisduy
filed his petition, praying that lie may be declared a
Bankrupt, and llie Court having assigned the thirtieth
day of March next, at 11 o’clock, A. M.,at theCourt
House in the city of Savannah, for the hearing of the
same; notice thereof is hereby given to all persons in
terested, that they may appear nt the time and place
aforesaid, and show cause, if any they have, why the
prayer of the petitionershould not he granted.
GEO. GLEN, Clerk.
Savannah, Feb. 9,1343. 35
U nitrri States District Court.
DISTRICT OF GEORGIA.
IN BANKRUPTCY —In the matter of Joseph J. Hoi-
letnan, clerk, late merchant, ol the county of Bibb, in tho
Slate of Georgia.
The above'deserthed Joseph J. Holleman, having this day,
filed liis petition praying that he may he declared a Bankrupt,
and theCourt having assigned the twentieth day of May nen,
at 11 o’clock, A. M., at the Court House in the city of sa
vannah, for the hearing of the same; notice is hereby given
to all persons interested, that they may appear at the time
and place aforesaid, and show cause, if any they have, iv;iy
the prayer oftlie petitioner should not lie granted.
GEO. GLEN, Clerk.
Savannah, Feb. 10, 1843. 35
• Ia Bankruptcy.
United States District Court.
District of Georgia.
J AMES C. STARK, of Henry county, Georsia,
late grocer, a Bankrupt, having filed his petition
praying that a full discharge from his debts may he derreel
and allowed, and a certificate thereof be granted to hint—
Notice is hereby given to all creditors who have proved
their debts, and other persons irt interest, to appear at the
Court House in the city uf Savannah, on the twentieth day
of May next, at eleven o’clock, A. YI. to show cause why
such discharge and carlincate shall not be granted.
GEO. GLEN, Clerk.
Savannah, Feb. 7, 1343. 35 lit
' In Bankruptcy.
Uvnfi'iii Batik ol Georgia.
64 fTYIIE attorneys appointed lor the collection of all
_L dues to the Central Bank of Georgia, will take
notice, thnt an agent of the Bank will attend the Superior
Courts of the several counties, to receive from them tho
amounts collected. It is expected that each attorney
will have in readiness the fi. fas. and other papers of the
Bank, to he exhibited for settlement.”
A true extract from the minutes of D. J. BAILEY,
Director of the Central Bank of Georgia.
A. M. NISBET, Cashier.
February 13, 1843. 35—3t
New Bakery.
T HE subscriber respectfully announces to the Citi
zens of Milledgeville, and public generally, that
he has opened a BAKING ESTABLISHMENT, cn
Hancock street, opposite the Hotel, recently occupied hy
Ylr. Godwin. lie will keep on hand a complete assort
ment of Bread, f'akcs and Crackers of all kinds, which
will be sold on reasonable terms for Cash. If attention
to business and a desire to please, will insure him pat
rons, he assures them, that no pains will he spared ou
his part, to accomplish that object. Parties furnished
with cukes, &c., at short iioties.
WILLIAM YVALLACE.
Milledgeville, Feb. 14, 1843. 35 It
Gotiilioii Part}'.
IXT R. JOHN WORD, announces to the young Ladies
and Gentlemen of Milledgeville, and its vicinity,
that his first Cotillion Party, will take place at the State
Rights Hotel, next Friday evening, 17th inst. Tickets
at the State Rights Hotel—for gentlemen at$l 00. Gen
tlemen are requested to procure tickets before entering
the Dancing Room.
February 13th, 1843. 35 It
United States District Court.
District of Georgia. ,
E DWARD F. KNOTT, of the town of YIcDonongh,
t Henry county, Georgia, physician, and on; of the late
firms of Crew, Sec nr A Knott, and of Bund A: Knott, anil
of James & E. F. Knott, of McDonough, a Bank
rupt, having filed his petition praying that a full dis
charge from his debts may he decreed and allowed, ami a
certificate thereof he granted to him: Notice is hereby given
to all creditors who have proved their debts, and other per
sons in interest to appear at the Court House in the city ol
Savannah, on the twentieth day of May next, at eieveo
o’clock, A. ill , to show cause why such discharge and cer
tificate shall not be granted.
GEO. GLEN. Clerk.
Savannah, Feb. 7, 1843. 35 i' L
United States District Court. ? /jf Bankru tn ,
District of Georgia. S
J AYIES KNOTT, of YIcDonongh, Henry county.Geor
gia, Inn keeper, &one of the late fi.m of James & E. F.
Knott, of YIcDonongh, a Bankrupt, having filed his peti
tion, praying that a full discharge from liis debts mav tie
decreed and allowed, and a certificate thereof be granted
to him—Notice is hereby given to all creditors who have
proved their debts, and other persons in interest, to nppar
at the Court House in the city of Savannah, on the twentieth
day of Ylay next, at 11 o’clock, A. YI., to show cause why
such discharge and certificate shall not he granted.
GEO. GLEN, Clerk.
Savannah, Feh. 7, 1843. 35 l!i
In Bankruptcy.
United States District Court.
District of Georgia.
TTWTILLIA.M L. GORDON, of ilenry county, Gi argil,
w w clprk, formerly merchant, of the firm of Bean 3
Gordon, in said county—and also of the firm of Gal'iniih
& Gordon, in Coweta county, Ga., a Bankrupt, harm?
filed his petition praying that a full discharge from his debts
may be decreed and allowed, and a certificate thereof he
granted to him: Notice is hereby given to all creditors «lu
have proved their debts and other persons in interest to ap
pear at the Court house in the city of Savannah ,on the t»™-
tiethday of May next, at eleven o’clock, A. YI., tos. ’-v
cause why such discharge and certificate shall not be graPc
ed.
GEO. GLEN. Clerk.
Savannah, Feb. 7, 1813. 35—ifi_
> In Bankruptcy-
BLACK EYES AND BLUE, CONTRASTED.
Black eyes most dazzle at a ball;
Blue eyes most please at evening fall;
The black a conquest soonest gain;
The blue n conquest most retain;
The black bespeak a lively heart.
Whose soft emotions soon depart;
The bluen steadier flame betray,
That hums and lives beyuttd a day;
The black may features best disclose;
In blue may feelings all repose;
Then let each reign without control—
The black all Mind—the blue all Soul.
Chinese Cement.
I jYOR mending Glass anil China Bare, Marble, Slabs,
Stone, Delph and Earthen Bare, Sfc.
This IS a very convenient article in rol s,and can be ef
fectually applied by any one in ten minutes.
9'aints, Ac.
White Lead dry, Y’cnitiar. Red, Spfi. Brown, Yellow O-
cltre, Chrome Yellow, Chrome Green, Terra de Sienna,
Prussian Blue No. 1. Gold Leaf, Silver Gcal', Smalt, (fee.;
Copal Y’aruish p"r gallon or botl'e, Japan Y’arniah do. and
Leather Varnish do.
Window Glass. Puffy, Ac,
8 hy 10, 10 hy 12, 12 by 14, 12 hy 16, 14 by 18; ditto for
frames, 15hy20, 16 hy 20, 20 by 24; potty per lOOlbs in
bladders; Spanish Whiting per barrel.
g))C Stuff's &c.
Sph. Float Indigo, Madder, Logwood ground. Camwood
; round, Alum, Blue Vilroil, Copperas per barrel, Arnatlo,
(fee.
To bo had at Little’s Drug Store, Milledgeville.
WE G. LITTLE.
Milledgeville, Feb II, 1 843. 2t—35
BARGAIN TO BE HAD.
The proprietor of “The YVktompra Argus,” not
having effected a sale of that establishment before the
commencement of the present (the seventh volume,)—
and the term for which he lias leased it, expiring on the
23d March next, again offers it for sale, upon such great-
lyrednced terms, as must he acceptable to any one wish
ing to embark in the business. Its patronage (advertis
ing. Ac.,) is believed to be on the increase; while its lo
cation in a place of as much growing impoilance ns We-
tutnpka, with a country trade of two hundred miles in
extent, ensures iLs permanent success.
If not sold, by the 1st of March, it will be again leased
for the term of one year. 0
Address postpaid.
W. L. YANCEY.
United States District Court.
District of Georgia.
Tj) OBERT P. GUY’ARD, of the city of Savannah,
fk. merchant of Burke county, and one of the
of Gttyard &. Jordon, and of Joint Dillingham, A ho-, 5. 1
of Columbus, YIttscogee county, Ga- n Banktochhav
ing filed his petition praying that a fu'i discharge from W
debts mav be decreed and allowed, and e certificate I'’-' _
be grant' d to him—Notice is hereby given to all ere. ’
who have proved their debts, and other poisons in Hilt , :
to appear at the Court Home in the city of Savannah,
the twentieth day of May next, at eleven o'clock, A. afe
show cause why such discharge and certificate shall no 1
granted. GEO. GLEN.Ckrt,
Savannah, Feh. 8, 1813.
35—Ik
United States District Court.
DISTRICT OF GEORGIA.
IN BANKRUPTCY.—In the matter of John Tottr. ,,f . '. *
Clark county, Georgia, merchant, late of the firm of 1* ■
The ab <vc (Icscriho.t John Totty, havin z this day, flic.! his
tion praying that he maybe declared a Bankrupt, ami the 1 0 >.
having ns-u.-ned the thirtieth day of March i.ext, ate ,
clock, A. M..at the Court House iu the city of Savannah- 1 _ ...
hearing of the same; notice iheicot is hereby give., to ao.l L
interested, that they may appear at the time and ! p ,ir '.’.....a-
and show cause if any they have, why the prayer of the F e[
cr should not he granted „ .
GEO. GLEN, Clerk-.
Savannah, Fcii. I, IS43.
United States District Court. I j,. Bankruptcy-
District of Georgia. ) . .
f AMES J. BROWN, of the tewn of McDonough. Henry ( J* ■ •;
clerk,;i Bunknipr. havinc tiled his petition j»r.i> ■»- ; u \
discharge from Ins ilehts may bed cree l m\ 1 al "we 1. 1
ficate thereof »»** irranted to him—Notice is hereby
ditors who have proved their debts, and otner pfi>’"*-- ::i ' t },e
to appear ;it the Court House in the city of > i v.imi i; • ( ,
fw .ntiih day of May next, at elcY-en o'clock. A- /
show cause why such discharge and certificate shall not vs - •
" ' GEO. GLEN. Clerk-
Savannah, Feb. 7,1843. —-
Usited States District Court. \ j n j} (in l:rn]>tnj-
District of Georgia. \ r . in -.
4 LLEN WARWICK, of Habersham county, P Ia "‘
rupt having filed his portion, praying that a n i ' .hereof
i.i--, .i.». • b3,decrcd|anu allowed, and acertitlc* ‘ w j.(j
~ ‘ rehj given to all rr ^ i * appear
from his deb j
be granted to hint: Notice is hereby given to ^ .
have proved taeir debts and «ther persons in interest
at the Court House in the city of Savannah, on tho t' Sl 1 , v sUC h
of May next, at eleven o’clock, A. M., to :kw caus
discharge and certificate shall not be granted
Savannah, Feh. 3,1843.
'geo. GLEN,Clerk.
OLIVER H. PRINCE,
Attorney at l*aNV,
MACON, GEORGIA.
Office oter the Commercial Bank.
tf—5”
Febrnary 13,1843.