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IN SEN At
Tuesd.vt. Feb. 7,1343. j
l!r. McDtmi snlimitted the loi.oymg resolution*; j
’Which lip on tu- ta ! >V one day, under the rule, viz: !
Rssjlred. That it .« tlie solemn urgent duty of the i
present Congress to adopt. Without delay, efficient meas
ure* to revive the crippled and decaying commerce, re- j
plenish the impoverished exchequer, and arrest the a- !
lanuing accumulation of the public debt of the United
States.
Rtsolced, That a modification of the existing Tariff j
on foreign imports, such as will render it strictly and in
good faith a mere revenue, is indispensable to the ac-
coniplislmientof those objects; and that the recent meas
ures of the British Parliament, partially adopting the
principles of free tiade. the public indications of a dis
position on the part of the present ministry to extern!
those principles still further, and the .probability of the
speedy oganizatioo of an extensive system of smuggling
on the long line of onr frontier, furnish pressing motives
to congress for acting on the subjeot during its present
session.
Resulted, That a rigid system of retrenchment, econ
omy, ami accountability, shell as will bring the annual .
expenditures within the animal income of the Govern- i
nient. is not less indispensable; and that, while this is
rendered necessary by the deplorable state of the pub- i
lie finances, it rs rendered just, and not injurious to the I
public service, by the great reduction of the currency, !
nnd consequent appreciation of the value of money. |
PRESENTATION OF THE SWORD OF WASHING- j
TON AND THE WALKING STICK OF FRANK
LIN.
The following interesiing proceedings took place iri the
House of Representatives, on Tuesday the 7th in«t. Mr.
Gkorqk Washington Summers now rose, and addressed
the Speaker, w ho recognized the honorable gentleman as in
possession of the floor; and all eyes were at onee turned to
hint, ami the whole House was at ur.ee hushed into silence.
7’le-galleries at re densely filled with an anxious ami atten
tive auditory, wairli had collected in anticipation of ihc in
teresting proceedings which were about to Ire witnessed.
Marry Senators occupied seals amongst the members in the
House, ami some rtf the Representatives of foreign powers,
acerediled to this Government in diplomatic relations, were
ranged below the liar; and all listened wiilr profound still
ness while the honorable gautleman from Virginia, spoke as
follows :
Mr. Sneaker—I rise for the purpose of discharging an of
fice not connected with tit ordinary business of a Legisla
tive Assembly; yet, in asking permissiou to interrupt, fora
moment, the regular order of parliamentary proceedings, I
cannot doubt that the proposition which I haver, submit
will prove as gratifying as it may be unusual.
Mr. Samuel T. Washington, a citizen of Kanawha coun
ty in the rommonwealih of Virginia, ar d one of my eonutit-
uenr*, has honored mu with tiie rjimmssion of presuming,
in hi* name, and on his behalf, to the Congress of the United
Sures, arid through that body of the People of the United
Stale*, two must interesting and, valuable relics, connected
with ihe past history of onr country, and with men whose
achievement*, both in the fieJd and in the cabinet, best illus
trate and adorn our annals-
One is the sword worn by George Washington, first ns a
colonel in the colonial service of Virginia in Forbes’ cam
paign again&t the French and Indians, and afterwards du
ring the whole period of the war of Independence, ns com
mander in-chief of (he American army.
h is a plain eulleau or hang >r, with a green hilt ar.d silver
guard. Oil the upper ward of the scahhard is engraven “J.
Bailey, Fish Kill.” It is accompanied by a buckskin belt,
which is secured by a silver buckle and clasp, whereon are
engraven the letters G. W. and ttie figures 1757. These are
all of the plainest workmanship, but substantial, and in keep
ing with the mail and with the limes to which they be
longed.
7’he history of this sword is perfectly authentic, and
leaves no shadow of doubt us to its identity.
The last will and testament of General Washington, bear
ing date on the 9th clay of February, 1799, contains among
a great \ariety of heouests, the following clause: “To each
of mv nephews, William Augustine Washington, George
Lewis, George Sleplor Washington, Bush rod Washington,
and Samuel Washington, I give one of the swords or cut- i
lean* of which 1 may die possessed; and they are to choose
in the order they are nninecl. These swords are accompa
nied with an injunction, not to unshentli them for the pur-
pose «f sledding blood, except it he for self-defence, or in
chTcnre of their country and its rights; and hi the laiter case,
to keep them iinsli* athed and prefer falling with them in
their hands, to the relinquishment thereof.”
In the distribution <d the swords, hereby devised, among
the five nephews lherein enumerated, the one now present
ed fell to the hliate of Washington the devisee last
named in (he clause of the will, which J have just read.
'J his gentleman, w bodied a few years since, in the county
of Kanawha, and w fio was ihe father of Samuel 7\ Wash
ington, the donor, 1 knew well. I have nfieen seen this
sword in his potscFsion, and received from himself the fol
lowing account of the manner in which it hei ame his prop
erty, in ihe division made among the devisees.
//e mid that he knew it to have been the side-arms of
General Washington,during ihe Revolutionary War—not
that used on occasions of parade and review, hut the con
stant skRVICE sword of the great chief—that he had him
self seen General Washington wear this identical sword, he
presumed fu. ih« last time, when, in 1794, he reviewed ll e
Viigiiiia and Maryland forces, then concentrated at Cum
berland, under command of General Lee, and destined to co
operate wiih ihe Pennsylvania and New Jersey troops, then,
assembled at Bedford,in suppressing what has been called
“the whiskey insurrection.”
General Washington w*as at that time President of ilie
United Slates, nod, as such, wan commander- in-chc f of‘he
Aimy. ll is known that it was his intention to lead ihe ar-
mv in person, on that occasion, had he found it necessary,
and he went to Bedford and Cumberland, prepared for that
e\cnf.—The condition of things did not require it, and he
reiumed to his civil duties at Philadelphia.
Mr. Samuel Washington held the commission ofa captain
at that time himself, and served in that campaign, many of
the incidents of which he has related to me.
He was anxious to obtain this particular sword, and pre
ferred it to all the others, among which wns the ornament
ed ami cosily prisem from tlie Great Frederick.
At I lie- time of the division among the nephews, without
intimating what his preference Mas, he jocosely remarked,
“that, inasmuch as he was the only one of them who had
participated in military service, they ought to peunil him to
t..ke choice.'* 'this suggestion was met in the same spirit
in which ii was made, and the choice being awarded linn,
he chose i his the plainest and intrinsically the least valuable
of any, simply because it was “the hnttle eword.”
I am also in possession of the most satin factory evidence,
furnished hy Col George Washington, of Georgetown, the
nearest male relative of General Washington now living, as
to the identity of this sw ord. His information was derived
from his father, William Augustine Washington, the devi
see first named in the clause of the w ill which I have rend,
from his unde, the hue Judge Buslirod W ashington, of the
Supreme Court, and Major Lawrence Lewis, the acting ex
ecutor of General Washington's will, all of whom concur
red in the statement that the true service sword was that sc-
leeiod hy Capl. Samuel Washington.
It remnined in this gentleman’s possession until hisdenth,
esteemed hy him the neat precious memento of Ids illus
trious kinsman. Jt then became the property of his son,
who, animated hy that patriotism which so characterised
Ihe “Father of his Country.” has const nled that such a relic
ought not in tic appropriated by an individual citizen, and
has instructed me, his representative, to offer it to the na
tion, to be preserver! in its public depositories as the com
mon property of all; since its office has been, to achieve and
defend the common liberty of all.
He hns, in like manner, requested me to present this cane
to i he Congress of the United Elates, deeming it not unwor
thy of public acceptance.
This w as once the property of the philosopher and patriot,
Benjamin Franklin.
By a codicil to his last will and testament, we find it thu*
disposed of;
“My fine crab-tree walking stick, with a gold heao, cu-
tiously wrought in the form of the Cap of Liberty, ] give to
my friend, and the friend of mankind, General Washington.
Ii it were a sceptre, he has merited it, and wonld become it."
General Washington, in his will, devises this cane, as fol
lows :
“Item. To my brother Charles Washington, I give and
bequeath, the gold-heeded cane left me by Dr. Franklin, in
his will.”
Captain Samuel Washington w as the only aon of Charles
Washington, the devisee; from whom lie derived, by inher
itance, this interesting memorial, and having transmitted it
to iiia son, Samuel 7*. Washington, the latter, Uma seeks to
bestow it worthily hy associating it with the battle sword, in
a gift to his countrymea.
I cordially concur with Mr. Washington, in the opinion
that they each merit public preservation, and I obey, with
pleasure, his wishes, in here presenting them, in his name,
to the rial ion.
Let the sword of the Hero and Ihe staff of the Philoso
pher lie together*.—Let than have place among the proudest
trophies, and most honored memorials of our national
achievements.
Upon that staff once leaned the sage of whom it has been
said: “He snatched the lightning from heaven, and the
sceptre from tyrants ”
A mighty arm once wielded this sword, inn righteous
cause, even unio the dismemberment of empire. In the hand
of Washington, this was "tlic sword of the Lord and of Gid-
•on.”
Jl was never drawn, except in defence ofthe public liber
ty. ll was never sheathed until a glorious and triumphant
success returned it to the scahhard without a stein of cruelty
or dishonor upon its blade. It was never surrendered ex
cept to that country w hich bestowed it.
[Loud and long continued plaudits followed the delivery
of this address—in which members and auditors partici
pated ]
The Sergeant al arms advanced to the scat of the honora
ble genlliman, and received into his custody the interesting
relies. , .
Mr. Adams then rose to submit a resolution in relation
thereto; and he said:
Mr Speaker- In presenting this resolution to the Houso,
it may perhaps, he expected that I should accompany it
will, some remarks suitable to the occasion, and yet, sir, 1
never rose to address this House under a deeper conv.clion
olthe want of words to express the emotions that I feel. It
ia precisely because occasions I ke this are adapted to pro-
duce universal sympathy, thal little cmr be mid iy any one,
but whai, in the language of the heart—in tone* not loud,
but deep—every one present has literally said to uimaell.
My respected friend from Virginia, by whom this ottering
of patriotic sentiment has lieen presented to the Represent
ative Assembly of the nation, it seems to me, already said
all that ran be said sellable to this occasion. In parting
from him, as after a few short days we riitui all d», it will
on my part be Mtrrow, that in all probability I Khali me his
face ami hear his voic* no more. But his word® of this day
has been planted in ray memory, and will there remain til!
the last pnlsaiion of my heart. The sword of Washington!
The stafi of Franklin!' Oh, air, what associations arc link
ed in adamant wiih those names. Washington! the warrio.'
of human freedom! Washington! whose sword my friend
has «»ot was never drawn but in the cause of his country,
and never sheathed when needed in his country’s cause!
Franklin! the philosopher 01 the thunderbolt, the pruning
^ r What > nsnies P are*herein the scanty catalogue of theben-
-r. u^nkind-Washington and Franklin! What
live. iSong to the 18th «nturv of
^sSSsSsSK i 'SS?^rss
forUmfi«®doai of the .human roco--«ver man-
spirit of discord among his own countrymen into harmony,
an I giving t 0 f har very word now presented to his country
a ciiarin rn-irp . n u r;’ .r <1 j:i am* *nt t»»n ** i*j
ll»p iyre ol Orph us. F a ikiio, th tu chnnic of his own
fortune, (cochins?, in curly youth, under the shackle* of in-
iJiecncc, tl»p way to w»a!th; and, i i *h** shade of obscurity,
the na:li to ereairc ss: in the mrrnrity of manhood disarm
ing i he thunder of Us terrors, !lie lightning of its fatal bln-t;
ami wresting from the tyrant's hand the still more afflictive
sceptre of oppression: while descending into the vale of
years, traversing the Atlantic ocean; braving, in the d?ad of
winter, tin* battle and the breeze; hearing in hi* hand the
charter of independence, which he had contributed to form;
and tendering, from the self-created nation, to the mightiest
monarch* of Europe, tne olivebranch of peace, the mercu
rial wand of commerce, and the amulet of protection and
safety to the man of peace on the pathless ocean from the
inexorable cruelty and merciless rapacity of war; and, final-
ly, in the last stage of life, with four-score winters on his
head, under the torture of an incurable disease, returning to
his native land, closing his days as the Chief Magistrate of
his adopted Commonwealth, after contributing, by his coun
sels, under the Presidency of Washington, and recording
his nnm»*. under the sanction of devout prayer, invoked by
him lo God, to that Constitution, under the authority of
which \v t » are here a-smbled as the Repre.-rPtaJives of the
No th American people, to receive, in their name, and for
them, these venerable relics of the wise, the valient, and ihe
good founders of onr great confederated Republic, th°se sa
cred symbols of our golden age.
May they he deposited among the archives of our Gov
ernment; and may every American who shall hereafter be
hold them ejaculate a mingled offering of praise to that Su
preme Ruler of the Universe, by whose tender mercies our
Union has been Ii tfr rlo preserved through all ihe vicissi
tude* and revolutions of tins turbulent world, and of prayer
for the continuance of those blessings, by the dispensations
of his providence to our beloved country from age to age,
till time shall be no more. (Great applause.)
Mr. Speaker, I submit the following joint resolution:
Resolved, hy the Senate and House of Representatives of
of the United States of America, in CiMiffrchS assembled,
That ihe thanks of this Congress be presented to Samuel T.
Washington, of Kenaw ha county, Virginia, for the present
of the sword used by his illustrious relative, George Wash
ington, in the military career of his early youth, in the seven
years’ war, and throughout the war of our nations. inde
pendence; and of the staff bequeathed by the patriot, states
man, and sage, Benjamin Franklin, to the same leader of the
nrmies of freedom in the revolutionary war, George Wash
ington.
That these precious relics are hereby accepted, in the
name ofthe nation; (hat they be deposited for safe keeping in
the Departmet of State of the United Slates; and that a copy
of this resolution, signed hy the President ofthe Senate and
Speaker of the House of R< preservatives, be transmitted to
the said Samuel T. Washington.
The resolution was adopted unanimously and with loud
acclamation.
ifiwiing
: '“ l, srtfcs S'ssartfsas
[FOR T1IK FEDERAL LXIOS.]
Messrs. Editors:—In looking oyer the debates, in the
House of Representatives of Congress, it will he seen, that
on Wednesday, the first of the month, Mr. Thompson of
Mississippi, moved a reconsideration of the vote taken the
day before, by which the Army appropriation Bill was pas
sed. His object was to move a resolution if the House
should agree to reconsider the vote, to re commit the bill to
the Committee of Ways and Means, with instructions to
strike from it, every item which could be dispensed with,
without detriment to th«* public service, la support of his
motion, ihe gentleman from Mississippi, mentions that the
sum of Five Millions of Dollars, hy the bill which had pas
sed Ihe day before, is appropriated to the support ofthe Ar
my alone. The object of the motion of .Mr. T., now begins
to he seen; for since not only the Army, but the Navy, the
Judiciary, and every other branch of the public service, must
be provided for in the same way, the question very natural
ly arises, how shall the money which will ba required to
defray this great drain upon ihe Treasury be provided?
Since we have no direct l iation, the money raised for the
support of Government, is levied hy duties, imposed upon
importation* into ihe United Slate, from o’her countries, or
ns it is most usually called, by a Tariff. The ohject of Ihe
writer w ill be fo show, as concisely as possible, and in such
a way that the firmer, the working man may see, the work
ings of tins tariff, as also the identity of the great apostle of
IVfiiggery (Mr. Clay) with the tariff parly.
Fending ihe debate on the passage ofthe hill, the question
was asked, what amount of revenue was expected for the
coming year, (the political year 1843,) in answer to which
the estimates of the Secretary of the Treasury were refer-
ed to, from w hich it seems that he anticipates a yield of six
teen millions by the operation of the tariff, and a further in
crease of two million seven hundred thousand dollars, from
the sale of the public lands. Mr. Thompson says “that he
understood the friends ofthe tariff to say, at the time of its
passage, that independently of the lax on lea and coffee, it
would raise something like twenty six million of dollars;
and from the estimates of the Secretary of the Treasury, it
was evident that he had greatly erred. He had anticipated
sixteen millions from the customs, when it was evident the
sum could not rxcede, twelve millions, and by many not
more than ten million of dollars was expected. The Secre
tary of the Treasury had also estimated, that two million
seven hundred thousand dollars, would accrue from the
sales of the public lands, but in this (Mr. Thompson’s) esti
mation, that wes also a mistake, for lie did not believe, that
more than a million and a half of dollars could be realized
from the public lands.” Mr. Thompson is sustained in bis
position, by the Secretary of the Treasury, in bis Report
mode to Congress at the opening of the present Session, from
w hich it appears, that for the financial year, eighteen hun
dred and forty-two, there is an Hi-iual excess of expenditure*
over revenue of several million of dollars, and during the
continuance of th© same causes, it is fair to infer that like
consequences will follow for the present year. From this
exhibit ofthe Secretary of the Treasury, it is manifest that
if the Government to meet the appropriations made for its
support, cannot he defrayed hy reason of a deficit in the rev
enue, the remaining balance of unpaid debts, must be met,
either by negotiating loans at a ruinous sacrifice, (and this
hns been done,) or by the issue of what are called Treasury
notes, bearing an interest of generally six per cent, per an
num, from the day of their date, until redeemed hy the
Treasury Department. How then shall w :. account for this
falling off, of the revenue, every jear, leaving the Govern
ment in debt, hut hy the operations of this tariff, ostensi
bly laid for revenue, but really for the purposes of protect
ing the Northern Manufacturer, at the expense of every oth
er class of industry throughout the whole length and breadth
ofthe United Slates; a country unrivalled for the fertility of
its soil, and the variety of its productions. And with a full
knowledge of this fact, (the lessening of the revenue) has
any movement by the party in power to reduce the high du
ties fixed by the present tariff law been made? if any such
movement lias even beep spoken of, the country is yet to
learn the fact; and still Congress continues to make these
large appropriations, wlide there is no money to meet them,
without an effort even to retrench many useless items, which
might be dispensed wiih. Such legislation is in perfect
keeping with the principles of the tariff party. Since this
falling off in the revenue is seized upon as n pretext for a
further increase of taxes, to replenish an exhausted treasu
ry. “Retrenchment and Reform.” Who Joes riot remember
how many promises of retrenchment and reform, were made
in the memorable year eighteen hundred and forty, more
honored in the breach than the observance. Does not the
most unlettered of our people know, that an excess of debt
over the income of individuals, sooner or later, will inevita
bly involve them in embarrassments and inextricable diffi
culties? And what more than this, lias had a greater influ
ence in bringing upon the country at this time, such wide
extended ruin and bankruptcy? As with individuals so
with Government; and so long as the people ore taxed as
thev now are, by the present prohibitive tariff law, so long
will each sneceding report of the Secretary ofthe Treasury
show a failing off. in the revenue of the country, if the esti
mates are set down ol an high a figure as they now are. Is
proof required that a tariff for protection, diminishes the
revenue? if so, read the memorial ofthe hard ware merch
ants of New York City, recently forwarded to Congress, re
monstrating against the unjust and unequal operation of the
tariff, os appliied to the duty upon all ktnds of Iron, manu
factured and unmanufactured. What facts does this memo
rial disclose? That the duty paid on Iron, at the Custom
House in that City, in almost every instance, exceeds the
first cost of the article in England, and so high and oppres
sive is that duty, that without a modification, they will ne
cessarily he compelled to abandon the business, and leave
the market alone to the home manufacturer. If the article
of Iron, was taxed with a moderate duty, a duty laid for
revenue and not for protection, who doubt*, but that the rev
enue from this article alone, would be greatly increased? but
when the tariff is so high, amounting to a prohibition, the
importation must diminish, causing a falling off in revenue,
and the consumer is left to the tender mercies of the home
manufacturer, all competition being banished. The books
of the Custom House at New York, show, that the article
of Pint, before the passage of the late tariff law, paid to the
Government, a duty of several thousand dollars annually,
but under the existing law, only the sum of three hundred
and fifty dollars has been reolized from this source, and
what is the consequence? that the article of pin*, has advan
ced at least fifty per cent, and the several thousand dollars
of revenue, that heretofore was realized to the Government
is lost.
Will the reader believe that there is only two pin manu
factories in the United States? Yet such is the fact, and the
people are to be taxed on this one article alone, for the ex
clusive benefit of these two establishments.
So with every other article imported from abroad, upon
which this duty amounting to a prohibition is laid. A cur
sory perusal ofthe present odious love for the “dear peop'e,”
so lavishly bestowed hy the office hunting politician of eigh
teen hundred and forty.—Since it was necessary lo impose a
tax for the support ol Government, where is the justice of
such heavy dmic8 upon the absolute and indispensable ne
cessaries of life, with the whole body of the people, and the
mere nominal duty on ihe luxuries of the rich? If any one
w ill lake the trouble lo examine the bill, it w ll be seen that
gems and precious stones, philosophical apparatus, books,
charts, medals, statuary, marble busts, paintings, drawings,
and engravings, are admitted duly free, whilst Ihe sugar,
salt, iron, cotton bagging; articles that enter into the daily
consumption of the yeomanry of the country, are saddled
with an oppressive lax. The present law has raised the du
ty (on salt,) from twenty per cent on the value, to eight cents
on a bushel of fifty-six pounds; which is above fifty per cent
on Liverpool salt, one hundred per cent on Turks Island
salt, one hundred and twenty per cent, on Spanish and Por-
tuguse salt,and near two hundred percent, on salt from Ita
ly and the Adriatic sea. Prior to the passage of the existing
tariff, the duty on soli was gradually coming down to ths
rate of duty fixed in the Compromise act, twenty per cent,
on the value, and this on its average cost nh^ad does not
exceed two cents the bushel, ll is believed llitt to pack the
cotton grown in the Southern and South western Slates, it
requires, eleven million of yards of bagging; ami to protect
the twenty three manufactories of Kentucky, and the othpr
Western States, who make up about three million of } arils
of cotton bagging, a tax of four cents on the square yard, is
imposed on the other eight million which is required, solely
for the benefit of a few monopolists. Would the fanner be
lieve, that the duty on nail*, is so high as to cut off tho im
portation ofthe article entirely? Yet such ia the fact, every
pound of cut nails being taxed three cents, and an addition
al duty of one cent lieing laid on wrought nail®. The cen
sus of the year eicht.en hundred and forty, estimates tho
population of the United States, at seventeen millions of peo
ple, and by a reference to the statistical tables compiled at
the same time, it appears that the number of persons engaged
in the manufacturing interest falls much short of one quar
ter of the whole number. And does it appear credible, that
there can be found any rational man, or party of men, who
openly avow a partiality for euch a system, operating as it
does upon the great body of the people, ami benefiting a few?
That there is a Tariff party in the United States, a high ta
riff party, a prohibitory tariff party, I shall endeavor to
show.—Mr. Thompson, an extract of whose speech, has al
ready been copied, was replied to by Mr. Granger, a Repre
sentative in Congres from the State of New York. He says
“that in voting far the bill, (the Army appropriation bill,)
he had not been actuated by selfish or local prejudices, for
the Army was more necessary to the frontier country in the
neighborhood of the gentleman from Mississippi, than for
ik«i fmi— mhifih ha (Mr G ) earner and on tho aub>
MMBHMflBliiilUlMlHihaRHI&MHH
! jeot of tlio tariff bill, he said he was a HIGH PROTECTIVE |
TARIFF MAX CP TO THE tlCB. and n' the last S-SSIO.I of l ml- '
gr-.fcs, Ii: .•Vuniaii in;. \ ,i, i,, favor j! u :a . u.i :o-* an 1 cot-
fv. Dui lb g’iilleiu-in from Mississippi, do as much? M.|
{ Thompson said to- bail not.
Mr. G.hjiger,—n i, ihognitleinan was oppos-d tom I L;h
protective tariff, bul that ihoy of the North, who went i *r
protection, .loud up in ihe.r prices and -upiiorted a tax, &c ”
i Does nut ilie render recngmze in this Mr. Granger, ( *ev -ry
I inch a Whig.) the former Font Master General, appointed by j
l General Harrison, and who was so cavalierly dismissed
from office by President Tyler? and who wiih ihe great ho- j
dy ofthe tariff wing of the whig party, will hear no one else |
mentioned as the candidate for the next Presidency, but Mr.
Clay. The extract from this gendeman's speech, that he
was “a high protective tariff man up to the hub,” echoes
faithfully thp principles, and oft repeated declarations of the
great body of the whig parly on this question.
Does any one deny the truth of the charge? If so, turn to
the vole upon I he present tariff law, and there see the whig
parly, with a majority in the House of Representatives
alone, large enough to have defeated any measure, with
great unanimiiy and good will, fixing upon the country this
obnoxious, unjust and unconstitutional la.v. Unjust, be
cause it :s in effect, a tax on I tie working man of th * conn-
try. w ho look to their own labor for a support, and b ing
forced to pay an extravagant price tiir every article thal they
are necessarily compelled to consume. Unconstitutional,
lor the reason ilia: Congress has no power to engourage any
particular iutticst at. the expense and injury of others Let
us run a parrallel, and see if Mr. Clay, whose anticipated
visit to Georgia, in hailed with such iiiaiiifcstations of joy,
hy his old enemies, but now sworn friends, the self-styled
Stale Rights party, is friend.y to this policy. In his cele
brated Virgin Heifer speech, as it is called, on the ninth of"
June of the last year, at Lexington, Kentucky, we find the
annexed declaration of Mr. Clay: “It would neither be fit
ting, nor is it my purpose to pass judgment on all the acts
of my public Ilf?, bul 1 hope 1 shall be exon-os] for one or
two observations, which Ihe occasion appears to me to an-
thoiize. I never hut once, changed my opinion on any
great measure of National policy, or any great principle of
national construction of the Constitution. Upon the ques
tion corning up in the Senate of the United Stales, to re-c bar
ter the first Bank of the United Stales; thirty years ago, 1
opposed the re-charter upon cunvicti jns which I honestly
entertained.” Again, in the same speech he says, ‘Ido not
advert to the fact of this solitary instance of change of opin
ion, as implying any persona! merit, but because ir is a fa t.”
We have the authority then, of Mr. Clay himself, for say
ing that he never but once, changed his opinion on any
great measure of national policy, and this solitary instance
ufehange of opinion, w as upon the question of rechnrtering
the first Bank of the United Stales. What said Mr. Clay,
at that time a member of Congress, when the tariff aet of
1832, was passed, which reduced the duties some four mil
lion of dollars: hear him! Mr. Ciay said “Kentucky was sa
crificed (alluding lo tho manufacture of cotton bagging;)
Louisiana was sacrificed (meaning that the sugar interest
must suffer;) the wolien maimfuiicturer was sacrificed, oth
er interests were only spared now, to suffer some other day;
and that the tariff of 1832, contained a clear, distinct, and
indisputable admission of the great principle of protection.
It consecrated the principle of protection, and that too, after
the payment of the public debt. The principle of protection
being thus sanctioned, when the nation was out of debt, fur
nish d well grounded hopes, that it would be adhered to,
ami if hereafter it should be found that the protection in any
blanch of domestic industry w as inadequate, the great prin
ciple of protection will carry us out lo afford further aid to it
If then, tins parallel which runs on all fours, does not
identify Mr. Clay with that party in Ihe United States, the
leaders of which avow that they are high protective tariff
men up to the hub, it were idle to talk of principles as land
marks to govern us, in the exercise of that inestimable
right, the right of suffrage, free and unrestricted. The peo
ple eanitut have forgotten that this tariff ot 1832, this bill
of ahomiualloiis as it was then called, was the parent of nul
lification. The crisis of thal day is too fresh in the recol
lection ofthe people, who well remember the fiery ordeal
through which this glorious union passed, nor would it notv
be joined together as the links of the chain, had lint the
friends of protection yielded to the clamors anil remonstran
ces ol the South.
W ho docs not recollect the anathemas and curses heaped
upon the head cf Mr. Clay at that day, by the very party
who are now content lo follow in his train? Has Mr. Clay
changed? he positively asserts that he has not; who then is
i hirgeahle with such on tiller abandonment of all principle?
Will the people of Georgia, suffer a few designing and ambi
tious politicians, w hose only motive is self-aggrandizement,
lo transfer them, like a thing of bargain and sale, into ihe
hands of Mr. Clay and other politicians of like kidney? in
the language of Mr. Webster, on a recent occasion, it is to
he hoped that they are not quite “soft enough for that.”
We have reason to believe, that upon the coining in of a
Democratic Congress, in December next, the burthens of this
tariff law, will be taken off, that this bounty which is now
levied on its for Ihe support of the Northern manufacturer
will be abated, when duties will be imposed honestly for the
purposes of revenue to support an economical administration
of the Government, and not the further aggrandizement of
monopolists.
How much mure in accordance with the Due policy of ;'ne
South, is the doc rine contained in tf’.e remarkutile speech of
Mr. Calhunn, delivered on the bill of August last, in the Sen
ate ofthe United Slates, ir, opposition to this very tariff law?
The concluding paragraph, embodies in a nut shell, the only
true inensnr;- o! Democratic principles. Mr. Clay’s sympa
thies are enlisted on 'he side of high protective tariff men,
Mr. Calhoun is devoted heart and soul to the principles of
free trade, as is evident in the concluding remarks uf the
speech just alluded to. Reader, hear win! lie says anti de
termine for yourself: “The great popular party is already
rallied, almost en masse around the banner which is leading
Ihe parly lo its final triumph. The few that still lag will
soon be rallied tinder its ample folds; on that banner is in
scribed, free trade, low duties, no debt, separation lrum
hanks, economy, retrenchment, and a strict adherence lo the
Constitution. Victory in such a cause will be great and glo
rious; and it its principles be failhluliy and firmly ndhered
to, after it is achieved, much will redound to the honor ol
those hy whom it will have been won; and long will it per
petuate the liheity and prosperily of the country ’
AG RICOLA.
As Capt. Mackenzie has asserted that all actsof mu
tiny have for their object either murder or piracy. I beg
leave to correct the mistake. In the year of 1798 I was
a boy on board of the Buisonable, 04 guns, then station
ed at the Cape of Good Hope; Capt. Charles Bayl com
manded her, and Mr. Skinner was 1st Lieutenant. Ihe
last named gentleman was born in Virginia, and was a
smart seaman, but a severe disciplinarian, which made
him very unpopular with the crew. The news ot the
mutiny ill the fleet was communicated to us by the out
ward bound fleet to India, of St. Helena. The nexvs
was received with joy by the greater part of each ship’s
crew, who had often been compelled to live upon what
is commonly called “six upon four,” and that two out ol
twelxe ounces to the pound. All arrangements neces
sary lor opening the mutinous campaign were now a-
greed upon as soon as the fleet should arrive in poll.
No "murder or piracy ” was ever talked about, or even
dreamt of by any one on board. It was a clatm lor
just and honorable rights—it was for an increase of wa
ges. and also for provisions, as well as for a representa
tive from before the mast, to see the men should have
their proper allowance, and that which was good served
out to them by the purser or his agents. W e at length
arrived in Table Bay, and the lime for action had now
come. The morning was clear and beautiful; the cap
tain had gt'tie on shore, and the command of the ship of
course devolved on the first lieutenant. At eight A. M.,
the crew were piped to breakfast. All was still as death,
but many a heart throbbed at the coming event. A shott
space, and the boatswain and his mates were ordered to
call “All hands ahoy!” This was the time for action,
and a rush was made for the fore riging. The lieuten
ant ran forward, begging the men to desist, and assuring
them at the same time that the captain would soon be on
board aud grant them all they demanded; to this the sail
ors turned a deaf ear, and hoisted a bine jacket at the
fore royal inast-head, which was the signal agreed upon,
and gave three cheers. To our disappointment and
mortification, only two out of the other five ships res
ponded to the signal. Captain Bayl soon came on
board, and being a man possessing strong feelings of hu
manity as well as priideuce and forethought (to prevent
any one of the ship’s company from assuming to a high
er station than another, and by so doing bring themselves
into trouble,) be selected two men who were favorites
with the crew, and gave up them to the command ol the
ship.
Captains Walters and Crawford, (these were the names
of the two selected,) being now in authority, walked the
quarter deck, carried on the duty of the ship as usual,
gave orders, enforced discipline, etc.; but no officer on
board was ever suffered to be insulted. Captain Bayl
had liberty to leave and return on board the ship at pleas
ure, and the side ropes were manned for him as usual.
A day or two after he came on board with two or three
other captains, bringing with them two delegates to re
present, as they said, the peaceable ship s com
panies. Our sailor captains ordered all hands to be
called, to hear what the advocates for His Majesty had
to say. They commenced by telling ns iu plain terms
that we “demanded more thau any other ship’s compa
ny, and asked wore than we were justly entitled to.”
The speeches were hut short, and at one time 1 had
au idea that their thread of life would be shortened
too, for the word “hang the traitors” was pretty geneial,
and heard throughout the ship’s company. The cap
tains had brought these unthinking men into danger, and
it was necessary to adopt some plan to get them out a-
gain, by some means or other. A parley now took place
between the captains and the ship's crew. Captain
Bayl pledging his honor in case the two officers should
be set at liberty, that no man on board should be held
responsible for any part he had taken or might take in
the existing mutiny. The articles being agreed to, the
two officers were suffered to depart without being
injured
A few days, and ail the sailors asked for was granted.
The ship was again given np to the former captain,
and all was restored to peace and quietness. Captain
Bayl redeemed his pledge, and the only punishment in
flicted was on a mad bruiued feliow, named Doley; he
was sent in the launch to get water, and the crew aud
officers were ordered not to let him come on board a-
gain. That was the last time I saw or heard of poor
Tom Doley.
I was at that time about seventeen years old; and
though I. like many others of my age, scarcely knew
the meaning of a mutiny, I thought mvseif as big as any
sailor on board. Fifteen of us agreed to send a citen-
lar on board the other ships, urging the youngsters to be
firm in defence of their rights. The Idler was inter
cepted, and handed to the captain, and as we were all
minors, and not included in the terms of agreement,
(at least the captain construed so) we were to be hung
to expiate the sins of all the adults. To deny our parti
cipation was useless, for there were our names attached
to the mutinous paper. A court Martial was to be our
doom, Rtid the yard arm was surely to become our fate.
The tragedy was here ended, and then came the farce.
In the place of being hung at the yard arm, each of the
young mutineers was to be married to the “gunner’s
daughters.’' This was accordingly done, with this dif
ference, that in the place of the chaplain performing
the ceremony, it was done by the boatswain’s mate. A
week had scarcely passed away when the other ships
who refused at first to join in the mutiny, broke out
in open revolt. They having deceived ns once, and we
having no complaint to make, refused to interfere in any
wav or shape.
The wind blowing strong into the bay, and they be
made their escape if they had been so inclined, tbongh I
ant tint :t , :tro that anv thin? of the kind was it tended.
A gnu iv i- tired from the fort, and at the -ame time a
signal was hoi-ted. warning them to submit within a giv
en time. or. on a refusal to comply, thev would be des
troyed from the fort with red hot'sho'-" The ships in a
state of tn ttiny now each hoisted a white flag, in token
of submission. The rigleaders were tried by a Court
Martial, and three or four were hung- This points out
the necessity of doing things right, and at a proper time,
for had they been united and have acted with modera
tion and justice, not a mau would have been hung.
[ Altzt:r.der's Phil. Messenger ] RATLING.
Stale Rights oad United .•Mates Rights.
“'^Tis the star spangled banner, oh, long may it wave.
O’er the land ol the free and the home of the brave.”
FEDERAL UNION.
Itlll.l.GDCETll.I.E, EEBltl’AHV 31, 1843.
Agricola.
\V e commend to the perusal of onr readers, the able,
clear and conclusive arguments, presented iu this days
paper over the above signature. Let no one be detered
from reading this article from its length.
Executive Appointment.
CCF Major FRF.DK.nicK II. Sanford, of Milledgeville,
Aid-de-Camp to the Commander-in Chief, with the rank
of COLONEL.
Oconee Bridge.
The inconvenience suffered by our citizens, and by
travellers, consequent upon tha want of a bridge over
the Oconee, calls loudly for some action on the part of
the people. It is not unfreqiiently the case, such is the
throng of carts, wood wagons, and the lik:, outlie ferry
bank, that for hours they are kept waiting the slow pro
g-ess of a flat to take them across: and the traveller who
happens to he in the rear, finds it often difficult to get
into the town till he has waited hours for his turn tocross.
So with many of the citizens of the county. who reside
on the olher side of the river. Is there lio remedy for
this? Have the Legislature, or the city authorities, di
vested themselves of the power to have the bridge re
built, or to grant to some one the privilege of an addi
tional ferry here. Let our citizens enquire into it. It
is high time that the people should examine into this
matte. Our own opinion is. that an application to the
proper authority would afford the desired relief, and we
could again have a bridge built over the river.
The IfEilledgcville Kail Road.
We regret to see so little interest exhibited by onr
citizens in relation to the Rail Road authorized to be
constructed from this city to the Central Rail Road, a
distance of only about sixteen or seventeen miles. The
advantages of this connection by Rail Road with Savan
nah, cannot he questioned. That it cun be accomplish
ed, needs only the efiorts of a few of the enterprizing
and wealthy men of Baldwin and other counties around,
to take it in hand. Have the property holders here and
in the adjoining counties, reflected upon the immense
benefit which must necessarily result to them in every
point of view, from the construction of this branch road.
\\ ithout it, Milledgeville is destined lo become a place
of even less commercial interest than she now is. With
it, when put in operation, she becomes a place of busi-
ness ~' a depot for the produce of several of the middle
counties. Capita! maybe expected, and men of busi
ness will Grid it to their interest to concentrate here for
the purchasing of thousands of bags of cotton, annually
dragged through mud and water, hy wagons, over the
roads passing bv us to the depot in the swamps of the
Oconee. Dilapidation and decay, desertion by liter-
dlllllli* nn«i trtt«lo.’Uion from hor ic inoviutUo, if nxstliitfg
be done to secure this desirable ohject. Every one
seems to give readily into the admission of these facts,
vet all appear to be as willing to believe that there is not
public spirit enough to carry the undertaking through.
Our public spirited citizens, and those who are so
deeply interested in this work, should evince a proper
zeal to advance the^indertaking and completion of it.
Milledgeville should surely not remain isolated, while
every village and place around her derives the advanta
ges of Rail Roads. She would not. like many of them,
be left merely to look on. while ears passed from the
seahord to other points. She would be the starting and
ending point, and would have all the advantages of the
trade naturally consequent upon such a position. Soon
the connection of the Monroe and Central Rail Roads
will pass the trade to a point far distant above Macon;
and the Georgia Rail Road will he extended beyond
Madison, leaving an extensive fertile cotton growing
section between the two terminuses, with every interest
and natural advantage to bring their produce to this
place. Wc sincerely hope that efficient measures will
lie put in progress at an ea. lv day. to connect the seat of
Government with Savannah, by tiiis branch road, to the
Central Rail Road.
Earthquakes, Ac. Ac.
Old Terra has certainly got an ague. Its shakes are
becoming so common, that we think it useless to make
mention of them. Our citizens were again slightly and
modestly rocked a few evenings past.
One of our exchange papers notices a rare phenome
na. in tne appearance of three 8uns.
If these things don’t begin to make some ofonrpeo-
ple believe in Millerism. then we shall be deceived.
A few eclipses,a shower or two of stars, and a good
moon hoax, would afford material for Miller to delude
hundreds.
Henry Clay’s Political Tour.
“Where are ye ganging Sawney? Whybockagiumon.”
“When 1 left my residence in November last.” saysMr.
Clay, in his Iptler to the Macon Committee, “I thought it
probable that I might return hy the southern route, and
have I be Gratification of steins Geortphot the contin
gencies on which it DEPENDED HAVE NOT
BEEN REALIZED, and I feel OBLIGED to re
trace the voyage which I made in coming here.”
But the contingencies on which it depended have not
been realized ! Ah, are you there Sir Reynard ? Of
the nature and character of those contingencies it does
not require a ghost from the grave to tell ns—the ambi
dexterous policy which has so long marked the political
career of Mr. Clay, is all sufficient to unravel his ambi
guous giving out. and delphic responses, and there is
not a political Tyro with horn book in hand, but that
can readily read the cunning AshSander.
Mr. Clay certainly pays but a poor compliment to the
discrimination of the people, when he says it was his
“wish, since his journey to the South-west had been un
dertaken without the most distant connexion with any
political or public object, that his reception in Mobile or
elsewhere, should be quietand unattended witli any pa
rade or display of any kind!” Such a declaration eman
ating from such a source exudes too much of the efflu
via of the hacknied politician to deceive any one. Did
we not know how violently opposed Mr. Clay is to Mr.
Calhoun, and how deadly hostile In is to Mr. Tyler—did
we not know that we are on the e re of a great Presi
dential election, and that Mr. Clay s a bold, reckless as
pirant after the glittering seals of the Chief Magistracy,
we should theu he iuduced to believe that his arrested
tour of the Union, was a lour of Lore, and not an elec
tioneering tour for the purpose of canvassing his own
pretensions. These considerations when taken iu con
nection with the time selected, and the nomination of
Mr. Clay to the Presidency by the modern Whig Party
of Georgia, leave his motives and his object so palpable,
that it needs no political analysis lo detect the deleterious
ingredients which fumes from the pointed crucible of
Heury Clay’s system of corruption. From all this we
make the following infallible di iluctious.
1st. That Heury Clay projected a tour of the Union
for the purpose of drilling the Pipe Layers, and canvas
sing sub rosa, bis unwarrantable claims to Ihe Presiden
tial Chair.
And 2d. That Henry Clay, was duly apprised by
•“Express Riders” from Georgia, that he conlu not
REALIZE contingencies—that his new political ma-
ncett'. re was detected—that it would be fatal to him it he
attempted to -pass the Rubicon,” and that it would be
better for him to go back to Ashland, and project ano
ther Coffee House Correspondence in conjunction with his
dear friends, Mr. Berrien of Georgia, and Mr. Bottsof
Virginia.
This is a plain and fair expose of Mr. Clays’ projected
tour, which has been arrested in “ maid valley.” It evi
dently shows that Mr. Clay is the first man in this Union
who has disgraced the dignity and independence which
surrounds the Chief Magistracy, hy becoming a com
mon huckster, for the high and distinguished honor it
confers—and that the signal defeat, and rebuke which he
has just received, will, it is hoped, be a warning to all
ambitious demagogues, who would raise their “great
ness on their country’s ruin.”
i£rDemocratic victory.—Hon. Edward A. Hanne-
gan, a member of Congress from Indiana, and a sterling de
mocrat, has been elected U. S. Senator for six years, in
place of White, whig
OCT The Democrats of Rhode Island have nominated
Thomas F. Carpenter as their candidate for Governor,
and Benjamin B. Thurston for Lieut. Governor.
Mr. Aodubon, the celebrated Ornithologist, inlends, in a
few weeks, starting on an expedition to the Rocky Moun
tains for the purpose of collecting specimens.
Be slow in chosing a friend, and alower lo change him;
courteous to all; intimate with a few; slight no man for
poverty, nor esteem nny one for his wealth.
Imprisonment for debt abolished in Missouri —
The bill to abolish imprisonment for debt, has passed both
Houses of the Missouri Legislature—signed by the Gov
ernor—and is now placed among the statutes of Missouri.
A bed is a bundle of paradoxes, we go to it with relnc-
tance, yet we quit It with regret; and we make up our minds
every night to leave it early, but ws make up our bodies
every morning to keep it late.
Catching at Straws. J
The editor: of the Chronicle and Sentinel seem to |
take it hard that Governdi ^cDouuld exercising tjie I
feelings el' anv one vvt.o would lid himself of the vulgar
abuse of" a paper, has seen proper to order the sheet dis
continued to ihe Executive office. Having exhausted j
all other resources, they fling about to s^e what may be
gathered from the reports, showing to whom money has
been paid by the Governor, for printing; and finding
an account has been paid to old friend Miner, of the Fay
etteville Advertiser, of about eighty dollars, for a year’s
work, they have pounced upon it as a delicious morsel
to roll under their malign longue. The littleness of the
attack, and the unfeeling assault upon a poor cotempo
rary, tieeds no comment. The truth, however, is that
the account was incurred in publishing such proclama
tions, and other things, as the Governor had the right to
order into the Advertiser, and became necessary to give
notice of in the section ot" the Stale w here it is publish
ed. But we give the article of the Chronicle and Sen
tinel, and the reply of the editor of the Fayetteville Ad
vertiser, v hteh does up in a proper light, their pitiful
slang and contempt offered the old \ derail of the Ad
vertiser:
Prom the Augusta Chronicle.
f'di/etlccillc Adrertiser.—The Comptroller Generals
report to the last Legislature, shows the disbursement of
over eighty dollars to tins paper, in payment of adverti
sing and subscription. We- have therefore suspended
in our counting room the lust number of the paper, that
those of our citizens who have any curiosity, may see to
what purposes a portion ofthe Printing Fund has been
appropriated, and the character of the paper with which
his Excellency is vv out to regale himself, to the exclusion
of such papers ns the “ Savannah Republican,’ the
“Southern Whig, ’ and “ Georgia Argus”—all ol which
he has recently ordered to be discontinued. “There is
no disputing about tastes,” and his Excellency, like every
other man, has a rieht to read whatever paper he pleases,
yet it may serve to show something of his mental cuiibre,
if not corruption, in ordering adv ertising to be done in
sucii a sheet.
From the Fayctlccille Advertiser.
The manner in which the Editor of the Augusta
Chronicle meddles with my business, is such an act of
gross infamy, that I would hardly have thought a man
would he guilty of it, especially one boasting of some
wealth and consequence. Rid that man of his niggard
ly jealousy for a few dollars, and he will confess, that al
though my apparatus are old and much worn, 1 have the
same right to make money by their use, that he has to
make it with his new. I was not alone in that wt>rk—
the Federal Union hud it—not the Augusta Chronicle
of slanderous memory. If our worthy and amiable
Governor has the righttoemploy a rich printer; lie has the
same right to employ a poor one—and it he uses it, he
exhibits that fine benevolent trait in the human character,
which belongs to it; but which the man of the Chronit -le
is destitute of. If the Chronicle gets lio State work; he
has to thank his dirty abuse, for being excluded with those
he has mentioned—he merits no indulgence.
Extracts from the letter of an occasional correspondent,
dated
Washington City, Feb. 13,1843.
Mr. Clay’s defeated Southern tour has occasioned
much amusement here—even the hoys who sport about
the Pennsylvania Avenue, are heard to cry aloud. “Har
ry, our dear Harry, has gone to old Harry !” Mr. Clay’s
“demonstration” upon the South, and its recent “splen
did failure,” has left the impression here that his ‘ pri-
mum mobile," instead of being the “first cause of motion,”
has turned out to be the last effect of motion—tins pun
upon the citv of Mobile, is attributed lo your new repre
sentative. Crawford By the hy, when Crawford pre
sented his credentials, the other week, and was about
qualifying himself, he made a significant shake of his
head, as he looked up to the Speaker. “Did you si e
Crawford shake his head at the Speaker?” said an old
chum to P. “ Certainly I did,” said P., “but then, don’t
be alarmed, there leas nothing in it.” So much for the
capital witticisms of the Capitol.
The on dit of the day here is. that Mr. Clay is the au
thor of the new exposition of Martial Law, which some
time since emanated from the ( .ress of the notorious
Prentice, of the Louisville Journal; and the correctness
of the whisper seems to gain strength from several inn-
endoes which have been thrown out by Marshall, who
had an affair of honor, you will recollect, with Webb, of
the New York Courier. Should this turn out to be
true, it will “damn” Mr. Clay “to everlasting fame.”
The exposition was. no doubt, got up expressly for the
purpose of tearing from the brow of Andrew Jackson,
one of the imrtt npIcntiHi tiiut over tird the
brows of a patriotic Statesman or veteran Warrior.—
You will recollect that Ihe “ prince of liars and black
guards,” as Benton calls Prentice, was the biographer
of Henry Clay, when he most indecently and uncere
moniously thrust himself, on a former occasion, before
the people of the Union, as a candidate for the Presi
dency. How little does this comport with Mr. Clay’s
appreciation of General Jackson’s patriotism and capa
cities, when Mr. Clay won some thousand pounds from
one of the British commissioners to Ghent. (Lord Gonl-
borne, 1 think.) upon the result of the glorious battle of
New Orleans!
You tnav tell your democratic friends ill Georgia, that
there is a determined spirit at work, which will secure to
the South the many rights that hav e been so long denied
her; the extra session, which trill he called, will effect
this. The Clay Whigs know it. and are now agonizing
in soul and body, as you would readily believe, could
you see how significantly Crawford shakes his head, and
how heartily Meriwether’s reporter laughs at him.
VALE.
DEATH OF COMMODORE HULL.
The Hero of the Constitution Frigate is no more!—
Commodore Hull died at his residence in the city of
Philadelphia, on Monday the I3tli instant, at twenty min
utes past five o’clock, aged sixlv-eight years.
Commodore Hull received an appointment as Lieu
tenant in the Navy ofthe United Stales, in the year 1798,
hav ing been in the service of his country forty-five years.
In the words of one of his physicians, “in his last mo
ments he was true to his character—calm, collected, and
cheerful, fully prepared to make that change which will
bring him to his God.”—National Intelligencer.
Melancholy Occurrence.—We regret to learn that
Elijah 31 Amos, Esq , of Knoxville, Crawford county, was
killed on Wednesday morning of last week. He was on his
way to this city, in a sulky or buggy, and when from two to
three miles from home, his horse became frightened and ran
—he vvaseither thrown or attempted to jump from tho vehi
cle, when he became entangled and was dragged near a mile
before he was disengaged. He was taken op immediately,
but was dead and his head horribly mangled by dragging
ever the ground. 3lr. Amos was probably about 43 years
old, and bad been a resident of Knoxville since ihe early set
tlement of the county. He was a highly respected and in
fluential member ofthe community, and for many years was
Clerk ofthe Superior Court of the county, and Post .Master
at Knoxville at the time of his death. In tiis rareer in life,
he was a signal illustration of the reward that awaits a
course of industry, integrity and perseverance. He arrived
at the nge of manhood, inured to labor, without property, or
even the advantages ofthe first rudiments ofeducation. An
opportunity presenting itself, he soon acquired a respectable
education, engaged in mercantile pursuits, nnd was reward
ed by the acquisition of a considerable fortune.
[ Macon ( Ga.) Messenger, 9th inst.
Letter from Mr 3Iii.ler.—We have been requested
to publish Ihe following letter from 31r .Miller, whose opin
ions concerning 'he speedy physical destruction of the
Eerth nre now promulgated with so much zeal and so wide
ly believed in different portions of the country. As its
statements relates to alleged misrepresentations in the
newspaper press, we readily give them an insertion:—N. Y.
Tribune.
Dear Brother Hines:
At the request of numerous friends, I I erewith transmit
to them, through you, a brief statement of facts relative to
the many stories with which the public are humbugged, hy
the pulpit, press.and bar-room declamations, concerning tho
principles I advocate, and the management of my wordly
concerns.
My principles, in brief nre, that Jesus Christ will come lo
this earth—cleanse, purify, and take possession of the same,
with all his Saints, sometime between 3Iarch SI, 1813, and
March 21,1814 1 have nevtr for the space of more than
twenty-three years, hnd any other time, preached or publish
ed bv me. I have never fixed on any month, day or hour,
between that time. I have never found any mistake in rec
koning, summing up, or misealrulntion. I have made no
provisions for any oilier lime. I ant perfectly satisfied that
the Bible is true,and is the wordof God, and I am con
fident, I rely w holly on that blessed hook for my faith in
this matter. I nm not n Prophet; I am nut sent to prophesy,
hot to read, believe and publish; what God has inspired the
ancient Prophets to administer unto us, in the prophecies of
the Old and New Testaments. 7’hesc have been, and now
nre, my principles; and 1 hope I shall never be ashamed of
them.
As to worldly cares, 1 have had hut very few for twelve
years past. I havea wife and eight children; 1 have great
reason lo believe they are all the rhildrc-n of God, and believ
ers in the same doctrine w ith mvseif. I own a small farm
in Low Hampton, N Y. My family support themselves
upon it, and I believe they are esteemed frugal, temperate
and industrious. They use hospitality without grudging,
and never turn n pilgrim from the house northe needy from
their (huir. I bless Got) my fiunily are benevolent and kind
to all men who ne<d their svmphnthy or aid. I have no
cares to manage, except my own individual wants. 1 have
no funds or debts due me of any amount. “I owe no matt
any thing ” I have expended more than 2,000 dollars of
my own properly in twelve years, besides what God has
given me th'ough the dear friends in l.us cause.
Yours respectfully, Wm Miller.
Philadelphia, Feb. 4, 1843.
Good humor is Ihe clear blue sky of the soul, on which
every star of talent will shine more clearly, and the sun of
genius encounter no vapors in bis passage. “Tis the most
exquisite beauty of a fine face—a redeeming grace in a
homely one. It is like the green on the land scape, har
monising with every color, mellowing the glories ot the
bright, and softening the line of the dark; or like a flute, in
a full concert of instruments—a sound, not at first discover
ed hy theear, yet filling up the breaks in the cord with its
bewitching melody.
State of the Country.—The able writer of the Money
articles of the New York Herald, says: The currency
of the country is becoming daily more sound—business
is purifying ilselfof all that which destroyed confidence.
Tbe exchanges were never so uniform and regular. The
aggregate wealth of the country is immense, and trade
must undoubtedly rapidly advance in prosperity with the
opening of the spring. Nothing is wanting bat to re
peal the late prohibitory and destructive tariff, and im
pose duties at tbe highest revenue rate. The assurance
that nothing more than this would be done by Congress,
give a great impetus to tbe returning buoyancy in com
merce.— South Carolinian.
“ Papa, the temperance men say they pat logwood in
port wine. Is that what dyes your nose sored?”—
“Nonsense,my son—goto bed.”
From the “Vulgar hero.’’—Gen. Baez, the President
of V. ticztiela. is perhaps th" most remarkable man now iiv-
iiiL ; r-;iut!i \!:":ira Th * revolution foetid him n trie pie
I am v. r herdtinan on the v.:>; plai..s ofthe son: Ii of Vec-
»Zii. ia ignorant of ihe verv alpha 1 ' I. and a* siiuph' ac t »u-
p: rstiti u- asanv around him. Me wot a grown man when
h • entered n cor;ot irregular cavalry as a private lancer.
He soon dirjilgii shed himself hy lire addresi ai.d desperate
bravery, attrai l J d the attention of Bolivar, was rapidly pro
moted, ami in a few years found himselt commander of the
horse. As»u< It, hy an unauthorized eharge at the hatlle of
Carnhobo, he gained the day. and set Ihe seal to his tniliiar.v
reputation.—He is now the Executive chief of the must
hopeful of South American republics, with the higher rep
utation for wisdom as a statesman, and moderation as a pol
itician, with manners and address that would grace any
court in Europe. He has remedied all the defer.!* of early
education. He has not only read much, but is one of the
best w riters of his country.
John M. Butts.—It is supposed thal litis individual
will commit suicide before the close of this session of
Congress, he having sworn to “head Captain Tyler or
die.” From all that lie or the whole pack of Whigs have
done or may do. it rectus their attempts at heading have
proved abortive in every it stance. The tirade of abuse
that has been heaped upon President Tvler for the last
eighteen months bv the friends of a United States Bank, |
hits becu harmless to him and will redound but small
praises to them; the madcaps t'ho threw up ti.si.' offices j
and left the Cabinet, are now convinced ol tliei. 1 ' ‘ not
haste,’ and looking with anxious eyes to the places they
once occupied. The complaint .in! curse against Presi
dent T\ let- has ceased, because it was unjust and useless.
He is calmly pursuing the duties ol his station, regard
less of the schemes of political leaders, amply sustained
by the people, as well as by a consciousness of having
thus far honestly discharged the duties pointed out to
him by the Constitution.
“ He thal docth well shall be approved and accepted.”
[Lyons (S’. Y.) Argus.
A Cheat Paint.—Take one bushel of unslacked lime
ami slack it witli cold water; w hen slacked add to it 20
pounds of Spanish w biting, 17 pounds of salt, and 12 pounds
siiErnr. Strain this mixture through a wire aeive, an.d it
will bo fit for Use after reducing with cold water. This
is intended for ihe outside of buildings, or. where it is expos
ed lo die weather. In order to give a good color three eonts
are necessary on brick, and iwo on wood. It may be laid on
v. ith a brush similar to whitewash. Each coat mui. have
sufficient time to dry before the next is applied.
For painting inside walls, take as before, one buritel nn-
alaeked lime, 3 pounds of sugar, 5 pounds salt, and prepare
as above, and apply with a brush.
I have used it on briek, and find it well calculated to
preserve them—it is far preferable to oil paint. I have also
used it on woo.!, and assure you that it w ill Inst longer en
rough siding lhan oil paint will on platted siding or hoards.
You can make any color you phase. If you wish a straw
color, use yellow oelirn instead of w hiting; for letuort color,
oohrp and chrome yellow; for lead and slate color, lamp-
black; for blue, indigo; for green, ebronte green. These
different kinds of paint will not cost more than one foul It
as much as oil paints, including labor of putting on.
The force of True Love could go no further.—
Mr. Johny O'Connor, a man of no honor, went out with
3Iiss Brady, a nice little lady, nnd treated to some brandy,
and sponge cake and candy, and more things so dainty, and
kisses in plenty. But at length the said fellow, grew awful
ly mellow,—and as he was walking, and kissing anti talking,
with pretty .Mbs Brady, the nice little lady, a purse full of
rhino, (I wish it was mine, oh! he whipt from her pocket,
and clear’d like a rocket. But soon he wns taken, while
tracks he was making, and lodgings assign'd him, where
justice might find him. But the maid on the morrow, came
forward in sorrow, her little heart heaving, and tears her
eyes leaving, and hegg’d that tiis honor would, pity poor
Connor, to which he consented, as Connor repented, w hen
n ff went the couple, with limits mighty supple, nnd left us
pi esuming. that a maiden so hluommg, herself to a life of
nv tch trouble was dooming, lor Johny the blockhead, who
pic k’d the maid's pocket when married, I’m thinking, will
w h ip her like winking.
N ew Case.—“What can a man do?” asked a green
one yesterday, “ when the sheriff is seen coming to him
with a writ in his hand.” “Apply the remedy,” said
anot tier o ue gruffly. “ Remedy !—what kiud of a reme
dy ?” “ H eeling remedy, yon goose—run like the devil.”
Literary Honors.—At ihe recent commencement of
ihe University of Alabama, at Tuscaloosa, the degree of
LL, Dwas conferred on W. G. Simms, of South Carolii a.
the author of several popular tales and novels illusirative of
American .history.
THE SEASON OF LOVE.
BY GEORGE P. MORRIS.
The spring-time of love
Is both happy and gay,
For jov sprinkles blossoms
And balm in onr way:
The sky. earth, and ocean,
In beauty repose.
And all the bright future
Is coulcur dc rose.
The summer of love
Is the bloom of the heart.
When hill, grove and valley,
Their music impart,
And the pure glow of Heaven
Is seen in fond eyes.
As lakes show the rainbow
That’s hung in the sk ; es.
The autumn of love
Is the season of cheer.
Life’s mild Indian slimmer,
The smile of the year;
Which comes when the golden
Ripe harvests is stored,
And yields its own blessings,
Repose aud reward.
The winter of love
Is the beam that we win.
While the storm howls without,
From the ^tinsltine within.
Love’s reign is eternal,
The heart is his throne,
And lie has all seasons
Of life for his own.
LIGHTS AND SHADES.
The gloomiest day hath gleams uf light,
The datkes! wave hath bright foam near it;
And twinkles o’er the cloudiest night
Some solitary star to cheer it.
The gloomiest soul is not all gloom;
'I he saddest heart is not all sadness;
And sweetly o'er the darke>t. doom.
There shines some lingering beam of glad ness.
Despair is never quite despair;
Nor life nor death the future closes;
And round the shadowy brow of care
Will Hope and Fancy twine their roses.
DIED, suddenly in Jones county Ga., on Sunday evening
the 5th inst., about 3o’elock. JAMES LOCKETT, Esq .of
Cli nton, Ga., aged about 55 years; he was an exemplary and
liet tovolent member of ihe Baptist Church for many years,
an< 1 has left a bereaved widow and one sun and numerous
rel atives and friends, to lament his loss.
’ Frilly we can say in ibis ease “in the midst of Life we are
in Death.” He had that day, started on a short journey, in
ord inary health, and expired in three miles of his own resi-
dei tee.
“Leaves have their time to fall.
And flowers to wither at the North wind's breath,
And slars to set—but nil,—
Thou hast all seasons for thine own, O Death.”
If Washington's Mirth-Day /
FEBRUARY 22.
ri”IHE METROPOLITAN GREYS will celebrate
-I L this day by an Oration from Sergeant William
S rEEi.E, .and the reading of Washington’s Farewell
At Idress, by Corporal Thomas Godwin, at the Metho-
<li it Church.
The citizens generally, are respectfully invited to at-
te; id. A procession will he formed at the Court House,
at half past 10 o’clock, precisely.
SAMUEL T. BEECHER, ) nf
F. H. SANFORD, > Commit. ee of
A. H. McNEIL, S Arran Z ement *-
February 20,1843. 36—It
General Agency,
AT MILLEDG 1V1I.I.F,. G \.
B Y an act ofthe G>-n- ral .W mh v < ’ t . • Sure oft;
gin,pass' d on tIf 28lIt day ■ I D . • td> r. Hli.t i. yf
s v.mn of said Act, provides * that the lortim.i < d'awer* j :1
the Lind Lottery of 1821, embracing the counties of origi
nally Dooly, Houston, Monroe, Heury aud FnyeU J ; and ihe
fortunate drawers in the Lind Littery uf 1827, embracing
the counties of Lee, Muscogee, Troup, Coweta and Carroll;
and the fort unate drawers in the Laud Littery of 1832, em
bracing the county of originally Cltarokre, but now Chero
kee, Forsyth, Cobb, Cass, Lumpkin,tSihner, Murray, Walk-
er, Paulding, Dade, Chattooga, Union,anti Floyd,shall take
cut their Grants or. or before the lirsi day of July, 1843, or
the same shall be considered as reverted to the State. The
operation of this aet does not apply to lands drawn hy or
phans until twelve months after the youngest one shall have
attained the age uf 21 years.”
The fall sec tion provides “that from and immediately aft»r
the passage ol this net, any person applying to take out any
grant in the above described counties, shall lake an oath that
he is the proper owner of said lot, or the lawful agent of ihe
owner thereof, and shall produce a pov er of attorney from
the owner of said lot. properly attested,” &c.
fcj- The undersigned, believing that there area large p or .
lion of the fortunate drawers in the above Lotteries, wl.o
are not disposed to i-ndergo the fatigue end expense ofa jour
ney to and from the .Seat "f Government, for Ihe sole pi, r .
pose of take mil their Grants, has hern induced to offer his
services to the public as a Creticrnl A gent to Grunt
Lola in the above Latent s; also, to at:.-nil lo the KE> i.VV-
AL of NOTES in the Central Bank, and tu furnish mioni!-
atiott concerning enchanted or reverted lots.
The following are the prices of Grants in the several
Lotteries, to-wit:
Fob 'lie Lottery of 1821, ST Oh
For ihe Littery of 1827, 5 O'!
For the Luiery of 1832. (Land l.ol»l 5 Ot)
For the Lottery ot 1832 (Gold Lots) 2 50
llis foes w ill h-*—for ecch Grant, 50 c. —for each re
newal of N t " !l cents—lor information concerning uu-
granted or leveio-u ots, 25 cents.
Central L m ; fu.. ■», or the notes of specie paying C.mks
only, will le- . c. > d for amounts due the Siat».—7Ti 9
change hills ar : uy Council of Milledgeville, or oi tho
Central Bank, ! I. received in payment of ray fees.
IO” Postaux. ■ v ery instance to be paid, arid the n.'f-eg_
sary amount enclosed, in order to meet w ilh due attention.
To procure a Grant, an affidavit is required of the owner,
guardian, administrator, or legal representative of the own
er, or of judgment creditors—showing that he or they are
such owner or judgment creditor of ihe owner, which affi
davit must he filed at the Surveyor General’s office, before
a Grant can issue.
All business entrusted limy care, will he faithfully and
promptly attended to.—Address
THOMAS M. COOK,
MiUcdgerille, Ga.
Milledgeville. Feb. 21, 1343. 36 mot_
United States District Coitrl.
DISTRICT OF GEORGIA
IN BANKRUPTCY.—In the matter of Joel Bran
ham. physician, of Eatonton, Putnam county. Ga.
Tiie above described Joel Braubani, having this
day filed his petition praying that he tnay be declared a
Bankrupt,aiidtlie Court hav ingassigned tae thirtieth day
of March next, at JJ o’clock. A.31.. at the Court House
in the city of Savannah, lor the hearing of the same:
notice thereof is hereby given to all persons interested,
that they may appear at the time and piace aforesaid, nnd
show cause, if any they have, why the prayer of the
petitioner should not oe granted.
GEO. GLEN, Clerk.
Savannah. Feb. 17, 1843. 36
United States District Court-
DISTRICT OF GEORGIA.
IN BANKRUPTCY.— In the matter of Benjamin
Morris, of Henry county, Georgia, late merchant of the
firm of Morris -Jk Lewis, of s fid rotinty.
The above described Benjamin Morris, having this
day, filed his petition praying that he may be declared a
Bankrupt, and the Court having assigned the thirtieth day
of March next, at 11 o’clock. A. AL. at the Court House in
the city of Savannah, for the hearing of the same; no
tice thereof is hereby given to all persons interested,
that they may appear at the time and place aforesaid,
and show canse. if any they have, why tbe prayer ofthe
petitioner should not be granted.
GEO. CLE-V, Clerk.
Savannah, Feb. 15, 1843. 3t>
Dancing and Waltzing Academy.
M R. JOHN WORD, respectfully announces tn the
citizens of Milledgeville and its vicinity, that he
proposes to continue his DANCING SCHOOL a se
cond quarter. He improves the present occasion of
tendering to them his grateful acknow ledgments for the
very friendly patronage which has been so kindly ex
tended to him: and most sincerely hopes, by assiduity
and attention to the tuition ol those who may be placed
under his care, to merit a continuance of their favors.—
Subscription li-t at the State Rights Hotel.
February 20, 1843. 36 It
Treaaary OtHce, >
Milledgeville. Feb. 2(lih, 1843. j
P ERSONS presenting coupon Warrants for interest due
outlie Bunds ofthe State uf Georgia, at this office, for
payment, will in every instance be required to accompany
the same with the bonds from which said coupons are
clipped. Notice is herehy given lo all caicerned, that on
failure to present the bonds, the warrants for interest will
nut he cashed. B. B. SMITH, Tr
February 20, 1343. 35 t f
~ STILL CHEAPER:
AND CENTRAL MONEY STILL AT PAR.
J UST received and now opening at the sign of the
New Dry Goods Store,
IOO pieces Light Prints; SO pieces Dark Prints;
50 “ rich English Prints;
585 “ blue Kentucky Jean?;
85 “ grey do. do.: 150 ps. Nankin;
• © hales 3-4 Homespun; 5 bales 4-4 Hoinespiiu :
United States District Court.
DISTRICT OF GEORGIA.
IN BANKRUPTCY—In the matter of Setli W.
Parham, of the town of .McDonough, Henry county,
Georgia, carriage maker,
Tiie above described Setii W. Parham, having this
day, filed his petition praying that he may be declared
a Bankrupt, and the Court having assigned the thirtieth
day ol March next, at 1! o’clock. A. M„ at the Court
House in the city of Savannah, for the hearing of the
same; notice thereof is hereby given to all persons in
terested. thatthev may appear at the time and place afore
said. and show cause, if anv they have, why the prayer
of the petitioner should not be granted.
GEO. GLEN, Clerk.
Savannah, Feb. 15, 1843. 36
United States District Conrt,
DISTRICT OF GEORGIA.
IN BANKRUPTCY—In the matter of Wm. J. Lit-
is. of Henrv county, Georgia, late merchant of the firm
of Morris & Lewis, of said county, and also, late mer
chant of Butts county, Ga.
The above described Wm. J. Lewis, having this ( hv,
filed hispetitirm praying thatho may be declared a Bank
rupt, and the Conrt having assigned tne thirtieth day ol
March nex*. at eleven o’clock, A. M-, at the Court House
in the city of Savannah, for the hearing of tiie same;
notice thereof is hereby given to all persons interested,
that they may appear at the time and place aforesaid,
and show cause, if any they have, why the prayer of
the petitioner should not be granted.
GEO. GLEN, Clerk.
Savannah. Feb. 15, 1843. 36
United States District Court.
DISTRICT OF GEORGIA.
IN BANKRUPTCY.—111 the matter of John I).
Stow, of JIacon, Bibb county. Georgia, late broker, and
as a partner in the firm of Dickson Stow, late mer
chants of Hamburg. South Carolina.
The above do-crilied .John B. Stow, having this day,
filed his petition nrayrng that he may be declared a
Bankrupt, and the Court having assigned the seventeenth
day of April next, at < I o’clock, A. 31. at the court House, in
the city of Savannah, for the hearing of the same; no-
tiee thereof is herehy given to all persons interested,
that thev may appear at the time and place aforesaid, and
show cause, if any they have, why the prayer of the
petitioner should not be granted.
GEO. GLEN, Clerk.
Savannah. Feb. 17, 1843. 36
United States District Court.
DISTRICT OF GEORGIA.
IN BANKRUPTCY.—In the matter of Allen Bed-
ingfield. of Bihb county, Georgia, cotton buyer.
The above described Alien Bedinefield.having thisday
filed his petition praying that he m? v be dec'ared a Bank
rupt, and the Court having assigned the seventeenth day of
April next, at eleven o’clock. A. 31., at the Court
House in the city of Savannah, for the hearing of the
same; notice thereof is herehy given to all persons in-
teresled, that they may appear at the time and place
aforesaid, and show cause, if any they have, why the
prayer of the petitioner should not he granted.
GEO. GLEN, Clerk.
Savannah, Feb. 17,1843. 36
United states District Court.
DISTRICT OF GEORGIA.
IN BANKRUPTCY.—In the nuitter of Lev,'n H.
Ellis, of Hancock county, Georgia, farmer.
The above described Levin H. Ellis, having ll”
day, filed his petition, praying that he may be ot
dared a Bankrupt, and the Cor.rt having assigned the
thirtieth day of 31arch next, at 'll o’clock. A. M„ at t •
Court house, in the city of Save.nnah. fur tbe heariugiili" -
same; notice thereof is hereby given to all person-in
terested. that they may ap| iear at tbe time and pk«
aforesaid, and show cause, if any they have, why *•
prayer of the petitioner should not he granted.
GEO. GLE-V,Clerk-
Savannah, Feb. 17.18,43. 3^
UOO Reams Cap Paper;
February 20,1843.
50 do. Letter Paper.
E. W. BANCROFT.
36—if
United States District Court. ) , „
Distrirt of Georgia. ( * Bankruptcy.
D AVID B. RAMSEY, trader, la*e of Elbert county, Ga.
now a resit!-nt of the city of Auguala Georgia a
Bankrupt, having filed his petition praying thu a fufl dia-
'' eh ‘ ama y be decreed and allowed, and *
certificate thereof be granted to him-Nuice i* hereby
given lo ail creditor! who have proved their debts, and
the city*of s ?vannalLon’ Oi* tmntiuh dayof MaymnL U
ShmmH, Ftbnnfj IS, ISO.
United States District Conrf-
DISTR ICT OF GEORGIA.
IN BANKRUPTCY.—In the matter of Ckxtie*G.
McKinley, of the town of Newnan. Coweta wm?'
formerly inerchrmt and farmer, but now attornf.r <(i,ir
The above described Charles G McKinley, hatet' 3 *
day, filed his petition, praying that he may be deebr ■')
Bankrupt, a nd theCourlhavingassigned tbese.rn'“' r -
day of Apr’d next,at 11 o’clock, A. 31 ..at the Fourth'" 1 **
the city of Savannah, for the hearing of the«*® f '
tice thereof is hereby given to all persons interested.,
that they may appear at the time and place afor^ 1 '.
and show cause, if any thev have, why the prt«>*
the petitioner should not be granted.
GEO. GLEN. Clerk;
^Savannah, Feb. 17,1843. >0 -
Unifed States District Court-
DISTRICT OF GEORGIA. »
IN BANKRUPTCY'.-In the matter of «'tii»®“-
Baird, of Griffin, Pike county, Ga,. widlale n "' r .f.j
of the fitm of Ba rd & Gaston, of Rocky Mount
riweihcrcounty, Georgia. ,
The above described William B. Baird having th*.’
filed his petition, praying that he may be declared a
rnpt, and the Court having assigned the thirtieth ^
of March next, at 11 o’clock, A.31. at the ('out 1 *' ”
in the city of Savannah, for the hearing of d-"
notice thereof is herehy given to all persons inter ,
that they may . . . sam.
show cause
ay appear at tiie time and place aforesart
, if any they have, why the prayer ol tin :
t!* : onershould not be granted. .. t
GEO. GLEN, Cle*
Savannah, Feb. 17, 1843.
36
! In Bankrupt*
United States District Court.
District of Georgia. > .
J OHN S1I.COX, cabinet maker, of the city ^ ‘^,1
Georgia^ and lately doing business wlth -ln^P
and Daniel II. Silcni, jr , under the firm of Stic 11 ^ 1
ers, a Bankrupt, having filed iiis petition, | ,ra >'
full discharge from his debts may he decreedIan .
and a certificate thereof he granted 10 Inm; N“ 1 w ,»i
by given to ail creditors who have proved potus*
other persons in interest, to appear at tho Lu«- _ nexl.•}
the rity of Savannah, on Ihe twentieth day °* ®.„ rS a tr
11 o’clock, A. 31., to show cause why such d'"
certificate shall not be granted.
Savannah, February 15,1843
Clerk
3S-d "
OLIVER H. PRINCE,
Attorney at i afl ’
MACON, GEORGIA.
Office octr tha Commercial Bank-