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From the London Kao Monthly JUaga&in
T2-1ZO-TI;
OR THE PLEASURES OF REPUT.:
TION.
A Chinese Tale.
Fi-ho-ti was considered n young twin c
talents; lie led, in Pekin, a happy and a com
fortable life. In the prime of youth, of a high
ly respectable Japanese family, and enjoy in
a most agreeable Competence, he was excee I-
iii!»ly popular among the gentlemen, whom i:<
entertained at his hoard, and tho ladies wh
thought he mi"ht propose. All the pleasure s
of life were at his command; he drank thougn
without excess, the cup of enjoyment: are,
laughed, and loved his fill. No niau in P kin
was more awake during the day, or enjoyed a
seronor slumber during the night.
In an evil hour, it so happened that Fi-ho-ti
discovered that he possessed the talents we have
roll trod to. A philosopher,—who, being nls >
his uncle, had the double right, both of philoso
phy a id relationship, to say every thing un
pleasant to hint,—look it in his head to bo ve
ry indignant at the happy life which Fi-ho-ti
so peacefully enjdyed.
Accordingly, one beautiful morning, he vis
ited onr young Chin-Epicurean. He found
‘him in his summer-house', stretched on luxuri
ous cushions, quailing the most delicious tea,
in the finest little porcelain cups imaginable,
reading n Chinese novel, and enlivening the
study, front time to lime, by a light conversa
tion with a young lady, who had come to visit
him.
Orr philosopher was amazingly shocked at
the prospect of so much comfort. Nothing
could be more unpJiiJos iplucal; for the duty of
philosophy being to destroy whatever charms
us with life, she is anxious, in the firsi place
to make it a burthen to us. Tito goddess is en
amored of patience, but indignant at pleasure.
Oar Sage was a man very much disliked and
very much respected. Fi-ho-ti rose *rom bi-
cush'ons, it liitlo ashamed of being detected in
so agreeable an indolence. Tne novel .fell
from bis baed; and the young iadv, frightened
a* tba long beard and the long uails of the phi
losopher, would have run away, if her feet would
have allowed her; as it was, she summoned
her attendants, and hastened to complain to
her friends <>f the manner in which the pleas
antest tetes-a*tctes could be spoilt, when young
men were so unfortunate as to have philoso
phers for undeg.
The Mtndxrin,—for Fi-ho-ti’s visiter enjoy
ed no less a dignity,—seeing the coast cleat,
hemmed three rimes, and commenced his ora
cular admonitions.
•Are yon not ashamed, young tnan,” said he,
“of the indolent life that you lead? Are you
not ashamed to be so indolent and so happy?
Yon possess talents; you are in the prime of
youth; are you deaf to the noble voice of am
bition ; Your country calls you for exertion,
•—seek to distinguish your name,—recollect
’ lite example of Confucius—give yourself up to
study,—be wise and be great.”
Much ntoro to this effect spoke the Manda
rin, for he loved to hear himself talk; and like
all men privileged to give advice, he fancied
time he was wonderfully eloquent In this in
stance, his vanity did not deceive him: for it
was the vanity of another that he addressed.—
Fi-ho-ti was moved; he felt he had been very
foolish to ho happy so long. Visionsof disquie
tude and fame lloated before bint; lie listened
with attentiontotheexliortationsoftlie philos
opher; he resolved to distinguish himself and
to he wise.
The Mandarin was charged with the success
of his visit; it was a great triumph to disturb so
much enjoyment. He went home, and com
menced a tract upon the advantages of philoso-
phy.
Fi-ho-ti surrendered himself to study, if-
retire I to a solitary cavern, near upon Kaifon-
gu; he tilled his retreat with books and instru
ments of science; he renounced all social inter
course; the herbs of tho plain and the water of
the spring, sufficed the tastes hitherto accustom
ed to thu most delicious viands ot'Pckin. For
getful of love and of pleasures, he consigned
three of the fairest years of his existence to un
interrupted labor. -He instructed liimsell—
he imagined he was capable of instt uciing oth
ers.
Fired with increasing ambition, our student
returned to Pekin. He commuted a work,
Which, though light and witty enough to charin
the gay, wo the origin of a new school of phi
losophy. It was at once hold and polished;
and the oldest Mandarin or the youngest beau
ty of Pekin could equally appreciate and enjov
it. In one word, Fi-ho-ttfs book became the
rage,—Fi-ho-ti was the author of his day.
Delighted bv the novelty ofliterary applause,
our young student more than ever resigned
himself to literary pursuits. He wrote again
-and again succeeded; all the world declared
that Fi-ho-ti had cstblished his reputation.
Was Fi-ho-ti the happier for his reputation?
Y o -hall ; -.dge.
He went to call upon his uncle, tho Manda
rin. He imagined the Mandarin would In* de
lighted to find the success of his admonitions
The philosopher received him with a frigid
otrriarrassment. lie talked of the weather, and
he emperor,—the last pagoda and the new
ttvhion in tea cups; he said not a word about
his nephew** hooks. Fi-ho-ti was piqued;
be introduced the subject of his own accord.
“Ah!” said the philosopher dryly, “1 un
derstand you have written something that pleas
es the women; no doubt you will grow solid as
your judgment increases. But to return to tlu*
tea cups.”—-
-Fi-ho-ti was chagrined; he had lost the af
fection of bis uncle forever; for he was now
considered to be more learned titan his unci
himself. The common mortification in sncce.*
"is to find'tha: your own family usually hate
you for it. “Mv uncle no longer loves me,”
thought he, as he re-entered his palanquin.
“Th?s i; a misfortune.” Alas!—it wns the ef
fect of Reputation!
The he-wt of Fi-ho-ti wns naturally kind
and genial; though the thirst of pleasure was
rooted in hri veins, he still cherished the soc I
desires of friendshi|>. He summoned one-
more around him the comrades ot his youth;
in * fancied they, at least, would be deli 1 to
f : J their frL-u.l not unworthy ol th aff e >».
r- reived t..en. with op n arm . the' re-
1 i;Is greeting wit!) shyness, an > a w>>
. ition of sympathy; tiieir conve/s .UoAj
m letiger flowed'freely—they were afraid of
itmitlin^ tltentst Ives before so clever a man;
-they felt they were no long r with an qual,
dyet they refus 'd to acknowledge a superior!
-Mi-ti perceived, with indescribable grief,
•at a wah had grown up between himself and
e companions of past years; tiieir pursuits,
eir feelines, were no longer the sam>-. They
•re not proud of his success—they were jeal-
ns; the friends of his youth were the critics
t his manhood*
“This, too, is a misfortune,” thought Fi-lto-
'. .'S lie threw himself at night upon Ids couch.
Very likely;—it was the effect of a Refuta
tion.
“Bui if old friends are no more, I will gain
now,” thought the student. “Men of the same
nttrsuiis will have the same sympathies. I as
pire to be tt sage : I will court die friendship of
sages;” i
bo-ti now resolved to resign himself once morel
to pleasure. Again he heard music, and again ;
. c feasu d and made love. In vain!—the zest,'
the appetite was gone. The sterner pursuits
be had cultivated of late years had rendered
his mind incapable of appreciating the luxu
ries of frivolity. He had opened a gulf be-
tween himself and Ids youth ;—his heart could
be young no more.
“One faithful breast shall console me for
all,” thought he. “Yang-y-se is beautiful and
smiles upon-me; I will woo aud win her.”
Fi-ho-ti surrendered his whole soul to the
new passion he had conceived. Yang-y-se lis
tened to hint favourably. He could uot com
plain of cruelty: be fancied himself beloved.
With the generous aud unselfish ardor that be
longed to his catly character, he devoted his
lu'ure ears to—be lavished the treasures of
his affections upon—the object of his love.—
This was a'noble idea of Fi-ho-ti’s. He For some weeks he enjoyed a dream of delight;
sniroowled himself wiflt the authors, the wits, | he wo.'io from if too soon. A rival beauty was
and the wise men of Pekin. They ate his din- i w illing to attach to herself the wealthy and
ners,—they made luni read their manuscripts generous Fi-!io-ti. “Why,” said she, one day,
—(and a had caligrapby in Chinese is no trifle!) j “why do you throw yourselfaway upon Yang-
—they told him he wa* a wonderful’ genius—Iy-se? Do you fancy she loves you? You
and they almsed him anonymously every week
in the P kill Gazettes. The heart of Fi-ho-ti,
vcir ling alter friendship, found it impossible
lo expect <t single friend amongst the literati of
China: they were all too muck engrossed with
themselves to dream of affection for another.
They had no talk—no thought-*—tio feeling—
except that which expressed love for their own
books, and hatred for the books of their contem
poraries.
One day Fi-ho-ti had the misfortune to break
his lug. Tim most intimate of his acquaintance
among the literati found him stretched, on his
couch, having just undergone the operation of
setting.
“Ah!” said the author, “how very unlucky
—bow very unfortunate!” i
are mistaken; s c has no heart; it is only her
vanity that makes her willing to admit you as
a slave.” F-ho-ti W s incredulous and in
dignant. “Read this letter,” said the rival
beauty. “Yang-y-se wrote it to me hut the oth
er day.”
Fi-ho-ti lead as follows:
“We had a charming supper with the gay
author last night, and wished much f r you.—
Yon need 'not rally me on nty affection for him;
f do not love hint, but I ant pleased to com
mand his attention; in a word, my vanity
flattered with th notion of chaining to myself
one of tiie most distinguished persons in Pe
kin. But—love—ah! that is quite another
th ug.”
Fi-ho-ti’s eyes were now thoroughly epen-
‘You are extreniq.y obliging,’said Fi-ho-ti fed. He recalled'a thousand little instances
touched by his visiter’s evident emotion. j which had proved that Yang-yrse had been on-
“ Yes, it is particularly unlucky that it should ly in love with his celebrity,
be just at this moment; for I wanted to con-j He saw at once the great curse cl distinc-
sult you about this passage before my new j tion. Be renowned, and you can never be
loved for yourself! As you arc hated not for
your vices, but your success,'so you are loved
not for your talents, but tiieir fame. A roan
who has reputation,islike a toiwer whose height
book is puhli-ed tomorrow!”
Tint broken leg of his friend seemed to the
author only as an interruption to <he pleasures
of reading his own works.
But, above all, Fi-ho-ti found it impossible
to trust men who gave the worst possible char
acter of each other. If you believed the liter
ati themselves; so envious, ntalignan-, worth
less, unprincipled a set of men as the literati of
Pekin never were created!
Every new acquaintance lie made told hint
an anecdote of ar. old acquaintance which made
his hair stand on end. Fi-ho-ti began to be
alarmed. He contracted more and more the
circle of his society; and resolved to renounce
tne notion of friendship amongst men of sintiiar
pursuits.
In the small circles, in the distant provin
ces of the celestial empire, the writings of Fi-
ho-ti were greatly approved. The gentlemen
qmtfed him at their tea, and the ladies won
dered whether he was good looking; but this
npplanse—this interest that he inspired—never
readied the ears of Fi-ho-ti. He beheld not
the smiles he called forth by his wit, or the
tears he excited by his pathos; all that he
saw of the effects of his reputation was in the
abuse he received in the Pekin journals; he
there read, every week and every month, that
he was but a very poor sort of tt creature.—
One jou r nal called him fool, another a wretch;
a third seriously deposed that he wus a hump
backed ; a fourth that he had not a shilling in
the world. In Pekin, an insinuation o* - that
last offence is considered as a suspicion of.un-
./ardonabje gtret. Ollier journals, indeed, did
not so much abuse as misrepresent him. He
found his doctrines twisted into all manner of
shapes. He could not defend them—for it is
not dignified to reply to all the Pekin journals;
but he was assured by his flatterers that truth
would ultimately prevail, and posterity do him
justice. “Alas!” thought Fi-ho-ti, “am l to
be deemed a culprit all my life, in order that
I may he acquitted after death? Is there no
justice for mo until I am past the power of
malice? Smvly. this is a misfortune!” Very
iikclv; if was tirm necessary consequence of
Reputation !
Fi-ho-ti now began to perceive that the de
sire of fame was a chimera. He was yet cred
ulous enough to follow another cliimpra, equ
ally fallacious. He said to himself—“It was
poor and vain in me to desire to shine. Lei
me raise mv heart to a more noble ambition;
let nte desire only to instruct others.”
Fraught with this lofty notion, Fi-ho-ti now
conceived a more solid aud a graver habit of
mind: lie became rigidly conscientious in the
composition of his works. He no longer de
sired to write what was brilliant, but to discover
what was true. He erased without mercy,
the most lively images—the most sparkling a-
phorisms—if even a doubt of their inoral utility
crossed his mind. He wasted two additional
years of the short summer of youth; he gave
the fruits of his labor to the world in a bonk of
the most elaborate research, the only object of
which wns to enlighten his country men.—“This,
at least, they cannot abuse,” thought lie, when
he finished the last line. Ah! How much he
was mistaken!
Doubtless, in other countries the public are
remarkably grateful to any author for correct
ing their preju lices and combating tiieir foi
bles; Imt in China, attack one orthodox i rror,
pr-vo to the people that you wish to elevate
and improve them; andrenoonc-all ha ■> mess,
nil tranquility, for the rest of your life!
Fi-ho-ti’s book was received wah the itosr!
frigid neglect by the philosophers,— First, In-!
s estimated by the length of its shadow. The
sensitive and big 1 : wrought mind of Fi-ho-ti
now gave way to a gloomy despondency. Be
ing himself misinterpreted, calumniated and
traduced; and ieeliug that none loved him but
through vanity, that lie stood alone with his
enemies in the world, he became the prey to
misanthropy, and gnawed, by perpetual sus
picion. He distrusted the smiles of others.—
The faces of men seemed to him as masks; he
felt every where the-jrresence of defeat. Yet
these feelings had made no part of his early
character, which was naturally frank, joyous,
aud confiding. Was the change a misfor
tune? Possibly; but it was the effect ofRuru
tation!
About this time, too, Fi-ho-ti began to feel
the qffec.s of the severe study he had under
gone. His health gaVe way; his nerves were
shattered, he was in that terrible revolution in
which the mind—that vindictive laborer—
wreaks its ire upon the enfer-bled taskmaster,
lite body. He walked the ghost of his former
self.
One day he was standing pensively beside
one of the streams that intersect the gardens of
Pekin, and, gazing upon the waters, he mutter
ed his bitter reveries. “Alt!” thought he,
why was I ever discontented with happiness ?
I was young, riclt, cheerful; and life to me was
a perpetual holiday; niy friends caressed me,
nty mistress loved me for myself.—No one ha
ted, or maligned, or envied me.—Like yon leaf
upon the water, my soul dauced merrily over
the billows of existence. But courage, nty
heart. I have at least done some good: benev
olence must experience gratitude—young Psi-
ching, for instance. I have the pleasure of
thinking that hr. must love me; I have made
his fortune, I have brought him front obscurity
into repute; for it lias been my character as
yet never to he jealous of others!”
Psi-ching was a young poet, who had been
a secretary to Fi-ho-ti. The student had dis
covered genius and insatiable ambition in the
young man; ho had directed and advised his
pursuits; he had raised him into fortune and
notice; he had enabled him to marry the mis
tress lie loved. Psi-ching vowed to him ever
lasting gratitude.
While Fi-ho-ti was thus consoling himself
with the idea of Psi-ching’s affection, it so
happened that Psi-ching and one of the phi
losophers of the day whom the public voice
esteemed second to Fi-ho-ti, passed along the
banks of the river. A tree hid Fi-ho-ti from
their sight; they were earnestly conversing,
and Fi-ho-ti heard hisown name more than once
repeated.
“Yes,” said Psyching, “poor Fi-ho-ti can
not live much longer; his health is broken;
you will lose a l'jrmidable rival, when lie is
dead.”
The philosopher smiled, “Why, it will cer
tainly be a stonte out of my way. You are
constantly willt him, I think.”
“lam. He is a charming person: but the
real fact is, that, seeing he cannot live much
longer, I am keeping a journal of his las^ days;
in a word, I shall write the history of my dis
tinguished friend. I think it will take much,
and have a prodigious sale.”
Tho talkers passed on.
Fi-ho-ti did not die so soon as was expected,
anu Psi-chir.g never published the journal from
which he anticipated so much-profit.—But Fi-
ho-ti erased to be remarkable for tho kindness
We have been favored >v;ih the following re
mark*, from the Moniteur ile Commerce,of Pans
mi tits extravagant price of cotton, which we
It ivo translated, believing it will he found inter
! estiug to our readers engaged in the cotton busi
ness Charleston Courier.
PARIS, Aug. 1833—On the extravagant
price of Cotton.— It must be granted th it the les
sons of exp-rience .ire very little valued in
Frauce. It is now but a few years sitteo a com
mercial crisis was severely felt ill consequence of
a rage for speculation, especially in cotton : aud
already commerce relapses into’ those dangerous
excesses, which necessarily lead those to ruin,
who abandon themselves to their influence.
D -uhtleas there was a largo space to he filled
up in the price of cottons, raw and manufactur
ed, which had fallen from the exorbitant price
ibey had obtained at the epoch of the last com
mercial freuzy, to a state of depreciation, ruin
ousto the industry engaged it- the trade and ma
nufacture of cotton: and that depreciation was
attended with no advantage even to the consum
er. for the inferior classes, which suffered cruelly,
by reason of the inaction of the factories, in ma
ny instances altogether closed, aud iu others but
feebly conducted, were disabled from buying for
lack of means. The lowness of the price of cot
ton cloths, brought ruin to the manufacturer, aud
misery to the consumer.
The revolution of July added but slightly and
for a very short time, to this state of suffering,
which had its origin, in the excesses of the years
of extravagant prices and reckless infatu iti-ai.—
A commercial regeneration soon began to be ex
perience<k spriuging up as a natural consequence
of the political change.
Its happy effects Jtave not been slowly devel
oped. Apparently by a kind of enchantment,
but really in consequence of the vast wants of a
reuovated and brisk consumption, industry reviv
ed with a wonderful vigor, and fruitfulness, not
withstanding the internal disorders exciteit in
the country, by the contending parties; and it
is but truth to say that in no previous period has
thee been a greater comparative prosperity dif
fused through all classes of the people.
By commerce every thing is connected. If
the highest classes flourish, the middle classes
partake of their prosperity, aud they in their turn
communicate it to the inferior classes, who con
stitute in effect the priuciple of action, the cause
of the common prosperity, for it is they who la
hor aud who consume. By parity of reason, ad
versity communicates itself iu a like manner; it
descends from one class to another, and to the
worst the last; the same kind of reaction that
works file common good, produces, under a
change of circumstances, general suffering
The marvellous prosperity of industry, in these
latter times, has now embraced the jvhole peo
ple. It is at-such a period that rashness and in
toxication prevail. It is only necessary to com
pare the prices of cotton, at short intervals, in
order to perceive the deplorable extravagance
that has seized upon the speculators.
Cotton, Louisiana, Carolina. &c. which on
the 1st January last, was worth, at Ilavie, but 18
to 19 sols per pouud, has been carried to 85 sols
—Louisiana, worth 20 to 22 sols, has been rais
ed to 43 sols, out hundred per cent. The fever
has turned all heads; in five days 12 to 14.000
hales have been sold at Havre, having passed
through at least, fiye hands, leaving a profit of
from 2 to three sols iu each : one lot is mention
ed, bought but 8 days siuee at 32 sols, which has
beo a resold at 43—where will be the limit of this
veritable freusy—and what will then be the con
sequence 1 It is but too easy to prove that the
la'.ter will be even more disastrous, than the for
mer will have been extravagant.
We can account, up to a certain point, for a
considerable advance of price, if the material be
really insufficient far the supply of the, fabrie. ne
cessary to be provided forconsumptiou; but this
reason does not really exist to account for so ex
traordinary an enchantment.
. fu three mouths, aud perhaps in 'ess, there
will be new arrivals, ami surely Europe, and
Frauce especially, are provided with the inateri
al, raw aud spun, for a good deal longer time.—
It is then in a good measure to ill-regulated spe
eolation, which although it operates cn a real ba
sis, is nevertheless a game of chance, that “the
present extravagant rates are to be ascribed
and we say it with pain that the rage for the sport
which infects all classes, and masters all objects
is one of the most fatal maladies that afflicts the
age; it is the destruction of true commerce, aud
the ruin of industry.
But how is it that we do uot see that these
.apparent profits will in a short time enure to the
beuefir of the producing country ? The demands
of the Americans will necessarily rise the higher,
by reason of the prices established in Franco.—
Thus, it is they v ho will profit by the rise, for, in
the end, competition in the matter will bring a-
hout a downward reaction proportioned to the
previous excessive elevation—it is then for traits
atlentie commerce aud advantage »hat we are
laboring at this moment, iu prejudice of all
Fiance, whether we regard her iu the aspect of
a manufacturer or consumer
The reflections, which are suggested to us by
the deep interest we take in commerce, and
which the experience of good minds had no doubt
anticipated, will he productive of good, we at
least hope, in awakening the solicitude of spent
latnrs, and of the manufacturers, who may have
confer with the Governor of Alabama noon the
Oest mode of removing these com /davits," &.e. &c.
We ought to have i it formed the Editor of the F.n-
quirer, that Commissioners had been sent to the
Creek country for this purpose, and that Govern
or Gayle has rendered any further effort toward
this mode of proceeding, if practicable under any
circumstances, impracticable under thf present.
Governor Gayle objected, in his first letter, a-
gainst th attempt to discriminate between the
wrong -Iner.s and quiet settlers, as sending “the
Marshall with an arm cl force, ’ and making in
clusions among the inhabitants, with a view of set
tling disputes betwe en them and the Indians,” in
regard to questions **tii their character strictly
and properly legal.”
Gove-uor Gayle in his Proclamation, charac
terises the interposition of the officers of the li
nked States to put an eud to the difficulties by
removing those committing violence upon the
ludians aud their rights, as ••undertaking, with
out any lawful authority, end in violation oj our
common constitution, to regulate matters ichith
belong exclusively to tht laivs aud tiibunals oj the
Stale."
From this, it will he seen that Gov, Gayle de-
nies all right in the General Government to in
terfere in any degree to carry the treaty into ef
fect.
'file P|
Robadil outdone.—The famous plan of the
valiant Bohadi! for anting up an army in detail,
is mulling iu comparrison with a plan of Dull
Green’s for routing the Administration aud its
friends. He proposed to establish at Washing
ton a “correspondence manufactory,” from which
he would scpply any amount of news necessary.
Letters were to have been written to editors in
different parts of the couutry. so th it they might
appear simultaneously in differed papers, aud
the pbruseologyvomeWhat altered, he considered
as coining from different hands. 'Phis arrange
ment was only to he known to a few, and a
“mystery” was to be attached to the letters, uot
eveu letting the workmen know their origin, so
that a “fictitious importance” might he given
to matters “otherwise important.” Unfortunately
for D -IT Green’s pocket, his plan has-been dis
covered, and his manufactured letters will be
traced to their own polluted source, aud apprcci
ated accordingly.—Georgian.
premature in their vituperation,
through the Secretary of Wa
to tin- Marshal Ion
process that may be served ou hi....
!> ’ supposed that the government
military, any more th in ■ ts civil u |j;
ordinary administration of justice within
its of a State. lM-‘ • “
diiiR, acted ia a correct manner, i„ reiusin*
liver up his men, until he had orders f r ,.‘ u
periors. lie knows not the Courts of w,
iu r his case, lie is on ini fit; rv limy, , j
strict orders, winch ..re not to’he > -
judicial mandates, unless there is a wa •
this effect from the authority to wliir-i, i 1:11#
obedience. i
It is right, also, in the gov ;rmiic-nt. Jf
whoshot Owens are given up that it j , ' ■ '
on the stipulation that they he tried in *. ^- U ' 6
cial district in Alabama not uuderhi"li ,
mein, in consequence of the late distuu1, ;p U '1'.
an excited district is mane the seatof
tic soldiers 'who shot (tul... .
. - instruction
since “to siAmino ;i|]v
It; * <l '“
• to
,l ' 1 shield i ts
' rs ' !r «0i the
. r- . ■■‘dimth t is
U or AlcInl< sbh:,- tI1()tlViI(fc; J
cause the Pekin philosoph rs are visionaries,
and it did not build a system upon visions,—
and secondly, because ol Fi-ho-ti hints' If they
were exo-edinJv jealous. But from his old
friends, the journalists of I’ km—O—Fol—
with what invective, what calumny, what abuse-
it was honored! He had s night to h • tiie friend
of his race,—he was stigmatized as the direst of
its enemies. He was.accosed of all mnnn r of j ifc. ; frui; if, which has come to maturity. Th
secretdesigus; tin - painted slippers >: the Man- Hanford Times mentions en titer in that city, as
I iritis were in d mi t; and It ha I evidently ii'-avily'barthiMifd wi:h .fruit, * nte of which has
intended to imrifi ill the halls of the grand pa- i grown .ripe tu I proves very good.
gnd i. A *! let no man wish to be a saint an-
red to lie a urirtvr. Stray Bullock.—A late Ohio paper enn-
i aa advertisement sign illiza' < :h Bullock,
who desires inf. motion.iu regard to tier bn
I of his heart and tba philanthropy of his views.
He was known in afti r-lifo for the. sourness of
his temper and the bitterness of his satire.—
Was this deterioration of the kindlier elements
j of his'nature a misfortune? Perhaps it might
he so; it was the effect of his Reputation!
The Nantucket Inquirer : *.ys there is in one of
gardens of that island, r. flourishing i ig tree.
suffered themselves to be betrayed.-as it were, by
svmpathy into the excitement; the danger of
which has already become so great.
Tl isdauger is pointed out by the marked dim
inution of manufactures, when it begins to he per*
ceived sensibly by that of consumption. The
triumph of manufacturing industry has been
great ; hut that it should he solid; it is yet ucces
sary to' prepare for it a profitable retreat by an
insensibly progressive reduction of prices. Spe
culation lias already shot far ahead of that indus
try tin' is rendered wiser hy-tlic r<;iiicmhraiiQ.e
of recent reverses. Let such speculation have a
care. If it come not hack to tho necessary pro
portion between the value of raw material and
that of the fabric, it will yet ruin itself, and give
another example of the necessary consequences
of its excesses.
The impulse given to manufactures, for the
last three months, to supply the demand that has
not been satisfied for three years, is the cause of
tho high prices; hut it is to he feared that the de
mand for the interior does not settle readily—can
tiie foreign demand make amends for the lack
of consumption ? We certainly cannot hope it.
*Vc say again that low prices (ion marchc) which
provoke and stimulate a liberal consumption,
ceasiug, the latter will iiicontestihly perish
We say yet once more, let spe. ulotion moder
ate itself or it will end in a new catastrophe of
v/hich manufacturing iudustry will experience
•he disastrous effects.
Our admonitions are addressed to speculators
of every class.
Two" Sword Fish were taken in the vicinity <»f
Barnstable last week, one w< ighrd filtl) lbs. n I
the ofh"r measured 11 feet iu 1 mg'h. nml weigh
ed ahont 590 p»un ts. Boston.
pr p
.ij istir. ?” cri d Fi-bo-fi to his
utererst a
i?«>, F •!>\
Thoroughly
•s!r;i\ei]
whom
■wav or slot
iaid they, one Voice;
is Reputation!” .. H .HH
a.*,'-I >viiii ins anib.iiol), l i- t ved uo tidings ot either “good or Oou icpurl.’’| 1'iaiHts which are made by tht, iutlu-U Lhitjfi, anU^ nvl; ^
a.! Zuria! Buli*-
II rc!
i*<;MT CAL
I'ro.n tne A’ashiugtun . -'oV
It escaped us y ste; ay. t! it it w -s prepo*eii
Jbe K'.itor of th< lt>i-hin<>ud ' ' ..iquirer, that
•mmtfsiouere bedes»p h. to«h ivekroun
y,‘ lo-.'Cer'a'n th* tat. huracUr of’’ i ru
t:s th-j . d a. and th -tier o l i • can-
Front the Standard of Unton.
The Governor, accompanied by the joint
committee af the Senate aud Mouse of Repre
sentatives—State House Officers—Jiuiges ol the
Superior Court—aud other distinguished eitizso*.
assembled iu ihc Represetative Chamber on Wed
nesday at twelve o’clock, for tile purpose of being
sworn into office. Previous to Ins taking lb.*
Oath, he delivered the following patriotic Ad
dress :
Fellow Citizens :—By the voice of the
people, 1 am a second time called to the Chief
Magistracy of the State ; and now appear before
you for the purpose of solemnizing the obligations
which l am under, to discharge with fidelity the
duties of the high trust confided.
Experience has uot only taught me to feel the
full weight of the responsibilities which were in j
the first iustauce anticipated but 1 am convinced
that the most pure aud zealous devotion to duty,
requires the aid and support of the people, to
crown with --uccess, the efforts of auy public
functionary.
Mv own abilities can effect hut line good, mi
les , 1 am supported by nty constituents. But
however humble my pretentions may be, I shall
he faithful to thr laws and constitutions of my
country, duly regarding the opinions of my fellow
citizens—with whose seal of ^.pprobatiou I have
been so often aud so highly honored.
But with all my veneration for public opiniou.
and deep felt gratitude for past confidence, 1 am
ready, if it he necessary, to sacrifice my present
standing upon the altar of my country's good—by
sustaiuiiigthe democratic principles upon V hich 1
haveacted throughout the whole of niy public life.
U lieu the foundations of our Republic arc in
danger, personal or selfish calculations must be
excluded. 1 sh ill move forward in the path
of duty, regardless of consequences to myself.
I shall shrink from the performance of no duty,
however painful; and uo resposibiiity, however
severe. J shall look to the welfare ol the whole
state—ami uot consider myself the advocate of
any local or partial interest.
1 shall constantly bear iu uiiud, that we are all
citizens of Georgia, ns well as eitizens of ihc
United States—Thai we owo allegiance to both
Governments—That both Governments are
ours, and are equally indispensable to our happi
ness, prosperity and liberty—That each should
lie kept strictly within their respective constitu
tional sphere—and finally, that he who would
destroy State Soverignty by Consolidation,
or the Federal System by Nullification, is a
traitor to liberty, and deserves the universal ex
ecration of mankiud!
Gn Thursday. Mr. Cooper, of Putnam offer
ed the following Preamble and Resolution:
We, the Representatives of the good people
of Georgia, iu General Assembly met, feel im
pelled by a sense of duty to ourselves and those
we represent, to express our feelings of mortifi
cation and regret at the unqualified and oppro
brious denunciation of i I is Excellency the Gov
ernor, in his Address on the occasion of hi* Inau
guration agaiust the patriotism of a portion of
our fellow citizens who have politically differed
with him.
The right, freely to express his opinion upon
any matter in which the public welfare may be
coucerued, ts uitdeniuble. The right also to ex
press his unqualified disapprobation of every po
litical view adverse to his own, is not disputed
by auy one; hut in assuming »he office of censor
over tho opinions of others, we conceive he has
transcended the duties and powers of the Exeu-
live- In that Address, he was heard to declare
that “he who would destroy the sovereignty of
the States by Consolidation, or ilie union of
tho States by Nullification, is a Traitor to his
Country, and deserves the execration ol the
people.” Whi it beiug intepreted, must mean,
that lie who advocates the doctrine of Oot’.-oli-
dution. intends to destroy the sovereignty of the
States, and is a Traitor, whilst' he who advo
cates the doctrine «f Nullification intends todcs-
-oy tho Union, -and is likewise a “Traitor.”
By :he expression, uo oilier ideas are intelligible.
It is not a simple expression of Hi* Excellency's
opinion on these- matters: nor is it a mere dis
claimer of those doctrines. It is nothing short of
a covert attack upon the purity and pa riot-
rim of a(l .who advocate those principles.
Coming from an Executive Officer, it is cal
culated to s'ir up strife. ami embitter pa: ty feel
ing. It increases discord within the Stale, and
promotes not th • Union of the States. Ii *ets a
precedent of evil aud .pernicious tendency, aud
ought never u be followed :
• i: it the rrfire Resole din/ the irsembly afore
said. That this ati'ick of tht G vt-mor on the
purity mi 1 patriotism of porth ti of the people
ivho politically differ with him, was uncalled foi
mi ligtiifi'-.i and improp- r 11 is cnlctdated stir up
.;r■ 1*.-. amf may engender the feelings of ugry
opposition; jjfnl in no application to p osing
•■veil's oi M-iing controversy cuu-we deem it
> lie authorized.
vestigatuu. tiie soldiers who shot Owens i
stand, we imagine, little chance mr their i'~*
it isthe duty of the government to prou-ct ik
men, so far as an impartial aditiiubiratiiu ol
law will enable this tobedonc. iu 5 Vt >
ous. if the Intruders, thcaibelves, are to, '- 1
lute the jury, •hat the men, judging
temper ot the Alabama papers, u isicii ji e \V,
apologists, may he sacrificed to
vengeance. Let ihe men have 'bchgcilii ^ '
impartial trial, aud the issue canuotjbe u , • "
The right of challenge wuuid he no (Science it
district of which ad tiie inhuliitaun hit nil !‘
ders on the public lands, and would tberehu l
prejudiced arbiters iu a case that cunu^«- LU|lir ,
their ow n immediate interests. Rums] Cotlm*
is one of those of u hich the ceded l ret* temur,
is composed. It is from one ot the n«t
established iu this county, that process hsu^
to arrest die men under an iuuicimeut l
Grand Jury. Gan the persons who may uw,j l0!t
the i’auuel iu Russel county be supposednnurtial
arbiters, on au issue of life aud death, iu ibcu*
of a companion in guilt ? We say uu; ai^it.
government would be wrong to abhudun Uie uag
to a trial of this kind, it would be utxi;»i
mockery of justice, to allow persons who b.ve
intruded ou the Public territory, aud, et lourae,
cimiinal in die eye of the law, to sit iu ju^ium
ou the lives of those who have been in nuiinu!
in their removal, aidiou.-.-h mere suhordtuun,*
compliance w ith the principles of a taikied
Sovereignty.—‘.Nouihrrn / ’alriot
L’OliEHji a .
From the Sew York Journal of Cominrctt.
late from tit a Vue.
By the packet ship Sally, Cap*. Forbes, r:
have received Paris dates to the eveuiug ,;f tfe
3fJth Sepr., and Havre to die evening of On.
inclusive.
Paris. Sept. 28.— About D o’clock last igti,
a mnu appeared in the Galerie d’Orieaiu, a, the
Palais Royal, wearing two cockakes. out tr,cu
aud the other white. He was immediately tv-
rounded and jostled by a crowd shouting A Im
le Carlisle! Le Carlisle al’eau! and ivouldlave
been inevitably thrown into the basin at thogir-
den had uot the guard arrested aud condmied
him to the guard house in the Place du 1‘aiaii
Royal.
Paris, Sept. 30.—Yesterday, being the birth
■lay of tlte duke of Bordeaux, about iU) you::; i
men belonging to the Carlist party, appeared a
the church of St. Sulpice, all wearing grt-tc (ri
vals, and many of them armed with stout-.utki.
It was rumored that as soon as divine served..-
over, they would raise the cry of Fite It ii.'
but ho such occurrence took place, aud (k pi
ty separated without the lea t disiurliinre.
Fienna, Sept. 19.—According to nport, the
Sovereigns of Russia and Prussia, withttvtttl
Princes of Germany, intend to spend the latter
part of the autumn, or the beginning of the v.ni
ter at Vienna. This report i* r m.'ered prol-.l-’c
by some extraordinary preparations weuh u:
going on at Si ftfenbruHi. *1 hi-1 ■ n I et o! Id*
now in his capiral is very considerable, kn
ot them are about to proceed to tin I nitw!Sttis
of America; by Trieste 'i he h-st accounts fas
Turkey are unfavorable. The insurrccioo it
Bosnia and Albania is not yet suppressed, and
the dissatisfaction of the 'links, at the infitenf*
oftlie Russians and the reforms of theSuboiB
increasing.
The Swabian Mercury gives the fclkwrcgH-
der date of Berlin, Sept. 17 :—“(irent i.<’ T >-
ments have been observed iu the Rnssiati • ,
in Polc'ind, showing that the Cabinet »f • S! ? r ' j
ter burg is determined to be’prepared'fur*jc i
vent. Complniuts are made of the deficit wy' i
the harvest iu the Governments of On:>‘ < - |
and Oasau. Moreover, Orenbourgh i* invpgfc
by bands ofbrigands, the chiefs of which ti*- 1 '
timrities with all their vigilance have been « 1 '
hie to arrest.”
11 JlVRE. Sept. 23.—Cnttou continues rf*?
heavy. 'Pile sales show a decline of80a-iotrC'
times from the highest point. (Sales for fir
653 hales. 380 bales Georgia at 127150;;I* 1 '■
1 J.3 Mobile at 105al!5f.
Sales Sept. 30—385 hags Havana ('r'lTff ! -
774a85 in bond, 100 Mayti at SOf. No (W j
FIVE DAYS LATER FROM ENGLA^
We are indebted 10 Capt. I leirn of the skp -*
jax for Liverpool papers to Sept. 30:h, and Los
don papers to Saturday the 28th-
There is no farther news from Portugd-
The Duchess de Bern" is beginning W*!®'
gain in the rumors of political plots.^ ,
Another great Indffio house at Cak ulIa
failed, Colvin & Co. _ t
The commercial accounts are in genets, t'
favorable, and especially with regard to
The merchants exhibit great prudence. .
LIVERPOOL, Sept. 27—Cotton-W^
mann this week lias been more limited' ^
a long time past, so much so that ^* e ^ > " n-gg
regular market, and for the present l ,ric( * !;
be considered nominal, and the 11 wd *1 110 , j
are therefore omitted; about'3000bep 0 ^
ous sorts were brought to auction 10 ' oB |t
though t'i" owners were desirous of ^
400 bags were tt.-ken, principally Brazd- s .. f
■luction of Id to 1 j<] per pound front I' 1 -'* f ^
rates, hut there were afterwards no seII* 1 * ,
decline. Sales of the week, I6»* ' .V,, r
124:-18.1 : 80 Stained 8al2| : 640 Bow^
giaJUalOA: 700 Mobile. Alabama
see. 9,104, 8jaH>$ ; 850 Now Orle-n*
Total, 8920 bales. Imports this wi:«“»
halos.
FROM LI •‘BOV. ., t
The brig Halcyon. Gapt. S»* , i , n, j' jj,.-
this ivrt yesterday from Lisbon. nt
bet**'
15th September.
The
nods
for pn
Alabama
- th v
, iu lU.
n hich
pouring »tii
11*1 tin? Fed ! g " rnoien 1
iftirm, 1 bo military ove th
•staleo>-iluo-cua,a;o alitlle
sailed on Uie —... , ..
states that there were skirmishing B .i
the contending lorcc*. l-ut tbn< nf
general attack since the 5'h. Ou the 1
the 12th. n party of the ' goolites g 01 r ^ j 3
ofa convput o 11,the ca*t side of r j V ff
the nii-rnipg a frigfite at anrh.-r 1"
opetu-d a fire upon it. killed a
; nd dispersed the rent under, D'*' 1 .. ..ri
in- posscs.ion of the su ; uri-s of *• ■ ^ ,„•»
Don Pedro ofrft- city ‘»*d »'■" u . fc.f*
water f ommunic 'tiou. the waif to 1,1 « ;c
up fora lone time It ri iffi-uglu
has -uffii :
p the M
..iu! tb-
couuuy.
it tor<
unite-
tr
ml
r«-ng for 1
, l,.r In c : not >■
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