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THE ]?I ,lf fl]\ (J E O R fi I A T E 1* EKRAPII.
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the philosophy of man.
thev shv. (and deny it who can.)
»a a tune, in the acicrcd divau,
> A.i> with tbe Sciences join'd,
•jt-ju to re:! her how Man is defin’d?
i'tezt ■ miiiiK believed him a mum undeclined,
S . rainu; his body, so Mnrr*-hless liis mind;
<>.* a .dio. t interjection of wedding and wo,
Hi, hind is ah! aud his death U an oli!
Next Logic, defin'd him an enthymeme brief.
Where one thing is wanting, that sometimes the chief,
His birth antecedent, begins life’s short talc,
ilia death ms the consequent never can fail.
Dam*? Rhetoric, next at the board took her SWtiun,
And gave her opinion he was an oration;
Exordrum his birth, and narration his life,
Peroration his ex it, the end of all strife.
Arithmetic thought his a tale in reduction,
So w.t«iin* r his body,—his spirit a fluxion,
A drop in duration, too little to sever
From the ocean that flows on for ever and ever.
Geometry, upcohI him a spherical figure,
I’i».»r tncu are small circles, and rich one the biggci;
Hut still her opinion dcridedly ran,
That he ends in the* point where at fir*,l he began.
Astronomy, said he resembled a moon,
A brightness and spotted and changing so soon;
Cold, lickle, unequal, now clood, then bright,
An emblem id* man, in her wanting and light.
Geography, view'd l«m as misery's map,
\Vnether hoary with age or a babe on the lap;
Full ofdescrts, volcanoes, rocks, whirlpools, and bogs,
His centre all fire, and his surface all fogs.
Music thought him a drum, because hollow iu the middle,
Jf noisy, a trumpet, when fopish, a fijdle;
If vainly loquacious, a cymbal would suit,
Wlien thankful a harp, and when loving a luje.
Horticulture described him a delicate flow r.
That blooms but a season, and dies in an hour.
jMie said if another brief emblem might pass,
In his youth lie was green, in Ins r.ge witherer’J grass.
Geology 8]K»ke, and she thought him red earth,
A bit of warm day, when a babe he had tilth;
ilia food, phyfir, raiment, earth wholly ^applies,
And ’tis dust turned to dust; when he finally dies.
Pneumatics, defined him, a shadow of morn,
A vapor ignited the moment 'tin born;
The slxide of a shadow, that passeth away,
The dream of a vision, the breath of a day.
Typography, thought him a common-place book,
And said his contents were by many mistook;
Hut whether by wisdom or vanity peim'd
Jlis birth is a preface, a Jin is his end.
Morality deem'd him an ocean of evil,
A Pandora's box, yea a limb of the devil;
A den, where the vipers of wickedness breed,
Immoral in practice, a libel in creed.
Religion spoke last, and all sweet was her sentence;
ff.ie drought him half angel, when brought to repentance;
If faith in Messiah, and love, spread its leaven
Through Ins nature renew’d, it was miniature Ileavcn. >
could be done with her; she was again set at liberty and
neither her nor the husband was heard of a^aiu.
THE HEATH WARRANT.
A THRILLING STORY OF A WIFE’S ATTACHMENT.
The mist of the morning still hung heavily on the moun
tain top, above the village ofKedcliit, but ihe roads which
led towards it Were crowded with the varied population of
the surrounding country from far and near. At Alesbury
the sin.pj were closed, the hammer of the black smith laid
upon its anvil—not a wagon of any description was to be
rccii in the street, and even the bar of the tavern was lock
ed, and the key gone with the proprietor towards the cliff
as a tjkeu of au important era winch was without a parallel
la the annals of the place. And save here and there a soli
tary head looking through a broken pane, in some closed up
house, with an air of sad disappointment, or the cries of a
Eiilj? nurseling was hear.i, betokening that iu the general
flight, it had been left in unskilful hands, or nwyhap here &
there a solitary, ragged, and illmatured dog, either seeming
or halt* appeased by the privileges of a luniday, granted on
con li.ion of staying at home, the whole village presented a
jit tare of desertion aud silence, that hat) forever been uu-
krwn before.
But in proportion as you drew near the ponderous cliffs
in the inU t of which tt»e little town of Redciirf was situated
you mingled again in the thick bustle aud motion of the world
of men aud women, and boys, and horees and dogs, and all
living, mov ing and creeping things, that inhabit the wild
distr.ct of Pennsylvania.
Tue village was crowded to overflowing, long before ine
nn had gamed a sufficient attitude to throw ns rays upon
tue deep Vu ley in which it Jay. The bar of the "inn was
crowded, and the fumes of tobacco and whiskey, tlie jingling
of small change, aud the perpetual clamor of the throng, was
sufficient to rack a brain of common flex ifiliry. in the
streets there w as the greeting of old and long parting ac
quaintances; the bartering of horses; the settling of ol.l ac-
< ; lots ; the buffoonery of half intoxicated men; die clatter
of women ; the crying and hallow ing of children and boys, A
the barking and quarreling of stranger dogs. To look "upon
the scene, to mingle with the crowd, to listen to the conver
sion. or to survey the countenances of the assembled mul
titude, would lead to satisfactory solution of the cause for
v.vicu this mass ol heterogenous matter was congregated.
Wi iiin the walls of the old stone jail, at tlie foot of the
mountain, a different scene had been that morning witness-
rd There chained to a stake in the miserable dungeon,
damp and scarcely illuminated by one ray of light, now lay
the emaciated form of one whose final doom seemed near
at lnnd. A few hours before, his wife and little daughter
had travelled a hundred miles to meet him on the throahold
of the grave—they met. and from that gloomy vault the sons
of praises ascended with the ascending sun. and the jailor
as he listened to the melodious voices of the three persons
whom he looked upon as the most desolate, and wiui of all
in the wide world, blended sweetly together, and cbauotiug
me beautiful hymn—
“ It is the Lord. sfioufl I distrust
Or contradict his will ?'’ •*
almost doubted the evidence of his senses, ami stood fixed
in astonishment «t the massy door. Could these be the
voices of a murderer, and a murderer’s wife aud child.
Tue brief an 1 to be final interview had jmssed; however
—those unfortunate ones had loudly couniieuded each other
to the keeping of their heavenly parent, and parte 1—he, to
f ace the assembled multitude on the scaffold, at d they as
they said to return by journeys to their sorrowful home ; the
convict, wore out with sickness and wat< hfiig, now slept.
llri name was John Creel, hi*placeof residence said to
be ju \ irginia. He had been taken up while travelling from
the northward to his home, and tried and convicted at the
country town some miles distant, for the murder of a fellow
traveller, who had borue his company from the lakes r who
was ascertained to have a large sum of moMtfRuth him, and
whj was found in the room in which lie -def^l a country
inn. near Redclift, with his throat rut.—Creel always had
protested his innocence, declaring that the deed was j*erj e
trated by some one while he was asleep, but the circumstan
ces were against him, and though the money was not found
upon him, lie wuosentenced lo l>e hung, anu was removed to
the old stone jail at Redclitf for security, the countv prison
being deemed unsafe. This was the day the execution was
t > tuse place—the scaffold was already erected—the crowd
pressed round the ouilding, and frequent cries of “ bring
out the murderer,"’ were heard.
Tue sun at last told \he hour of eleven, and there could
be no more delay—the convict’s cell was entered by the of
ficer* in attendance, who roused him with the information
that all was rea<ly without, and bid him hasten to hia ex
ecution—they laid hands upon him and pinioned him tight,
while he looked up toward heaven in astonishment, as one
new born, ou.'v said, “ the dream, the dream.” “ And wliat
of the dream, prisoner ! ’ said the sheriff.— ,4 You would
do me a great kindness if you would dream yourself and
mo ontoi toU accursed scrape.’’ •* 1 dreamed,’’ replied the
convict, J’tLnl while you read die death warrant to me on
the scaffold, a man came through the crowd, and stood be
fore us m a grey dress, with a white hat and whiskers, and
that a bird fluttered over- him, aud sang distinctly—this is
Lewis, the murderer of die traveller.”
The olheers und jailor held a short consultation, which
ended m a determination to look sharp after the man in grey
w ith the white hat—accompanied with many lvirts of resig
nation of the prisoner, and the possibility of bis- innocence
being «:ae. .ed by a supernatural agency—the prison doors
were cleared, and Creel, pale and feeble, with a book-indiia
!.«ud, and a mien of all meekness and humility, was seen
loitering from the prriou to ike scaffold. He had no sooner
aacende 1 it. than liis eyes l*egan to wander over the vast con
course < t people aroux.d him with a scrutiny that seemed
like faith iu dreams—and while die sheriff toad the warrant
the cou^ict's anxiety appeared to increase—he looked aud
then raised bis hands aud eyes a moment toward* ih«r
clear sky. as if breath*i»g a last ejaculation, wkeiilo! ax- he
e^uu.cd 1 i • fi •' »os; i *n tb ; very per in. h de c/ibed,stood'-
witliiu six feet of the ladder! T lie prisoner's eye caught
me sight, ami flashed with fire while lie called out, **diary
Jjewis, the murderer of the traveller,” and the jailor at
u»«* same moment seized the stranger by the collar.— At first
hw l to escape, but being secured, and taken before
the M.agj irate-*, he confessed the deed, deUiled all the'par-
t .c’idar.** •; i‘live icd up pint of die money, informed wliefe a.
iiotlier j ret will hidden, mu I was fully committed for trial—
while Cm l \%a* turned loose, and hastened like a man out
i f I i> senv;.i, lVoni the scufluld.
Thiee ihiys had elapsed—Creel had vanished immedinte
I v after ii»r ltberatum, wlien the pretended Lewis astonished
an*I eonfoundcit the magistrate* by declaring Creelto be.her
luist'taud. tint siiu had asrumad the disguise, and performed
ti»e whole part by his direction ; tiiat he had given her the
iMom-v v. Iiich hr- had till then successfully concealed about
I i- person; and dial f!ie whole, from ilt«» prison u, tlie aeal-
loM ».iC. v;n a contrivance loeflect his » sc.ijk*, v^liich ha-
m i;; t fic-ted, o .c w^is regardless of ciMi.-.eqaeiices. Nothin
SINGULAR ADVLNTURK OF JOHN COLTER.
Mr. Bradley, in hi? travels m the interior of Noith Amer
ica relate* the following biiigular adventure ol a man narn-
rd John Colter ?
44 Colfer came to St. f.ocis in May 1310, in u t-mutl ca-
Uv'k*, froirT the Iiead waters of tin; Missouri, n distance of
d.ObO miles, which lie traversed in 30 davs. I saw him on
hia arrival and received from him an account of his adven
tures. nftrr lie had separated from Lewis and Clarke’s
party ; one of these, for its Angularity, I shull relate. On
tfre arrival of the party at the head waters of the Missouri,
Colter observing an appearance of abundance of beaver
being there, got pci mission to remain and hunt for some
time, which he did in coinjmny with a man of the uameof
Dixon, who had traversed, the immense tract of countiy
from St. Louis to the head waters of the Missouri alone.
Soon after, lie separated from Dixon, und trapped in com
pany with a hunter named Lotts; and, aware of the hos
tility of the llluckfeet Indians,one of whom hml been kill
ed by Lewis, they set their traps at night, and look them
up earlv in the morning, remaining concealed during the
day. They wcie examining their traps curly one morn*
ins', hi a creek about six miles from that branch of the M is- j U
souri called Jefferson s Iork, and were ascending in a ca
noe, when they suddenly heard a great noise, resembling
the trampling of animals; hut iliey could not ascertain
(lie lact r as the high perpendicular hanks on each side of
the rircr impeded their view. Colter immediately pro
nounced it to he occasioned by Indiana, and adv ised aa
instant retreat, hut was accused of cowardice l»v I'otts,
ho insisted that the noise was caused by buffaloes, and
afterward
From the Savannah Georgian.
PRESIDENT 'TYLER—TI1E CURRENCY'—AND
A UNITED STATES BANK.
NO. 2.
In the first number it was asserted that the country was
under obligations to President T^ler, for his veto lo the
Bunk Bill—because a United Stales Bunk hud been tried,
and had failed to correct or prevent evil, but had ^eeu led,
und liad led lrom the path of satiety, and would again ; be
ing similarly organized and managed, and influenced as the
•Slate Banks, its action would be more or less similar—tiiat
England had a controlling Bank,aud experience iu its man
agement, aud }et was, and had been sutjected to the same
evil with the United plates--that under the light of experi
ence, she was endeavoring to correct the evil, by reducing
the number of those having the power to issue Bank bills
for circulation—and we quoted President Tyler’s first Mes
sage to Congress, showing that he was sensible of this im-
po. taut point, expressing ooubt “whether any scheme of fin
ance can prove, lot any length of time, successful, while the
States shall continue in the unrestrained power of creating
Banking corporations,” and inviting the correct on of the
il by the Slates and Congress, iu whom the power lay.
gested, that Bankrupt law, ope rating upon the Banks,
with this evil corrected, would give us a sound currency,
w hile some other arrangements to facilitate commerce, if
foilud necesary, might be adopted rather than so immense
and dangerou* a power as that of a United states Bank, un
less much reduced ui.d muddied in capital and powers.
The arrangements, management and influences of all
Banks are similar, but the if locations being different, their
interests are often opposed, so that if one Bank had the pow-
they proceeded on. In a few minutes afterwards, their
doubt* were removed by a party of Indians making their . y - . . . , # .
appears ace on both of the creek, to the amount of *U graaaJ.ver.ity of mterewa, .t nngb«-H
five or six hundred, who beckoned them to come ashore.
As retreat was now i in possible, Colter turned the bead of
the caimc, and at tb *. moment of its touching, an Indian
seized the rifle belonging to Pells; hut Colter, who is a
remarkably strong man, immediately retook it, und han
ded it to Potts, who remained in the canoe, and on receiv
ing if poshed off into the river,
the shore, when an arrow \
out, Colter, I am wounded
him on the lolly of attempting to escape, and urged him
to come ashore. Instead of complying h« insta itly lev
elled Ids rifle at the Indiun and shot him dead on the .-pot.
This conduct, situated as he was, may appear to have
been an act of madness, but it was doubtless the effects of
sudden but sound icasoning, for if taken til»\e, he must . , .. . . .
have, expected lo be tortured lo death, according to their J[} dlrulIie111 1°^ rcguluting the currency of the whole country,
custom. He was instantly pierced with arrows so numer- 1 ^ ne l ,ov J c * r oi 11 Bank sufficiently large to effect such a pur-
ous, that to use Colter’s words u he was made a riddle i P oae 111 l “ l * country , would be ojo great and dangerous to
of ." They now seized Colter, stripped him entirely entrust, d to weak and frail men, (look at the conduct of
, il it . i ...i* mn t;, 1(T .i - i cr of conti oiling all tiie others m this extended country, with
doubt* were removed by a party ol Indians making tlicir - . s ■ . . ».
. . y Y . * . . .i its great diversity of interests; it might—it would, as a mat-
ter of course, w hile checking or exc.ting the operations of
one part of the country, injure the interests of another; and
as the controlling Bank or liea 1 must be located at one point,
it would be, iu a great degree, ignorant of the circumstan
ce* and interests of other points, and would be influenced in
e,. in ine canoe, aim on rec. iv- ’ u nreasn, « b J circumstance, ami interests oi its own
ver. He bad scuieelv quilled w ucU would olten be very ditferent and even might
was shot at bim, an.i be cried be u i'l-°f d tu anotlier lienee, it its action was
I!" Colicr renuonsUalrd witli eve" ngl.t. as to die interests of that part of the country
where it is located, it might be, and very olten would be
wrong and opposed, and sometimes directly injurious to
the interests of some oilier part. It would be clear to every
reflecting mind, since the influences and interests of one
Bank and one part of the country are frequently opposed to
those of another, that a Bank cannot be the best mode and
naked, ami begau to cpuault on the maivnci he Fliould be
put to death.
They were fir.-t inclined to vet him op *»* a mark to
shoot at, but the chief interfered, and prized him by the
shou bier, asked him if lie could run fust? Colter, who
had been some time amongst the Kee-katso or Crow Indi- lul
the late U. *5. Bank,) and its action would have too much
fluente upon individual action to prevent coutinued pros
perity. “How idle, says the late Mr. Stephen Elliott, how
visionary, how ruinous arc the efforts to enter into the de
tail of personal pursuits and regulate the employment of capi
’. We a
are called upon to clip the wings of commerce,
anaele the hands of industry, control tlio spirit of enter
prise, that they may not range through the world and dan
ger, by their excesses, the transquility of our systems. The
government or the Banks must manage the transactions of
its citizens, lest they become wealthy and misemploy their
wealth, or become idle and adventurous, and squander it a-
way
From the present mode of pr jceeding in Congress, the
banishment oj the spirit of deliberation and investigation
anil the ado pilau of party drilling it would seem, that
the Bank is desired us an instrument lo control the politics
rather than to improve the currency and commerce of the
country. .-This view' cannot but be perceived by all and can
be denied by none. Stack being the case, let us refer again
to the views of the late Mr. cnepheu Elliott, President of
the bank of South Carolina in leilff whose -great erudition,
whose great theoretical and practical knowledge, whose
masterly. Philosophic and virtuous mind, enabled him pro
bably better thau any other man, to form a correct opinion
on the subject. lie says the United States Bank ‘‘standing
as it does m a community, the reservoir and depository of
the national wealth; receiving into its vaults the overflowing
tide of public revenue; acquiring in this manner nearly all
the circulating paper of the local Banks; its operations a-
gainst them, when hostile, are irresistible. But it is only by
the immense depositesofthc United irtut^i that these oper-
ation? can be effected; it is by the resources of the nation
that the local banks are overpowered; it is by the arm of
the Government that they are oppressed; and it may merit
some inquiry whether tue arm of Government oughUso to
be employed. These circumstances merit the mote con
sideration, because great injury may, in certain positions ol
T the country, unexpectedly u:ia unintentionally be inflicted.
blow, lie suddenly stopped, turned round, and spread out ) A system, general in us principles and uuitorm iq its ap
his arms. The Indian surprised by the sudden ness of the plication may be unequal and oppressive in its operation.”
' ' * Where ver a Bruucli ol liw Bank of the United eftutes is
established, it immediately become, an instrument by wlii h
all other monied institutions are, und must be regulated. At
auv, had in a considerable degree acquired the Blackfoot
language, and was also well acquainted with Indian cus
toms ; he knew that lie had now to run for Iiis life, with
the dreadful odds ol five or six hundred against him, and
those aimed Indians; he therefore cunningly replied, that
he was a very bad runner,although he was considered by
the hunters as remarkably swift. The chief now coni
niaiidcd the party to remain stationary, and he led Colter
out on the prairie three or four hundred yards, and releas
ed hill, biddinng him save himself if ho. c add. At this
instant the horrid war-whoop sounded in the cars of poor
Colter, who, urged with the hope of preserving life, lan
with a speed at which himself was-surprised. He procee
ded towards the Jefferson Folk, having to traverse a jdain
six miles in breadth abounding with the prrikly pear, on
which be was every instant treading with bis naked feet.
He ran nearly hall way across tl*e plain before he ventur
ed to look over his shoulder, when he perceived that the
Indians were very much scattered, and that he bad gained
ground to a considerable distance from the n aiB body;
but one Indian who had carried a spear, was much before
all the rest, and not more than one hundred yards from,
him. A faint gleutnofhope now cheered the heart of Cotter,
he derived confidence lroin the belief that escape was
within the hounds of possibility ; but that confidence was
nearly f.itul to bim, for he: exerted liimsell[ to such a de
gree that the blood gushed from bis nostrils ami soon al
most covered the fore part ftf his body. He bud now ar
rived within a mile of the river, when he instantly heard
the appalling sound of footsteps behind bim, and every in
stant expected to feel the spear of hi* pursuer. Again he
turned his head, and saw the savage not twenty yards
from him. Determined, if possible, to avoid the expected '
action, und perhaps the bloody npncuruuce of Colter, also
attempted to stop; but, exhausted with rustling, he fell
while attempting to throw his spear, which struck in the
giotind and broke. Colter instantly snatched up the point
ed part, with which he pinned him to the earth, und then
continued b.s flight.. The foremost of the Indians, on ar
riving at the place, stopped till others came up to join
its pleasure they transactor sQspeud business, und at its de
cree* the commerce of any city or local district, can be inter
rupted or paralyzed, or totally destroyed. It wields, in
w .... , . - truth, a power wiiich the Gov eminent of the United States
them, when they set up a hideous yell. Every moment ! itself cannot exercua, and does not possess. The laws of
of time was improved by Colter; w bo. although fainting
imd exhausted, succeeded in gaining tin; skirling of tin*
cotton wood, on tire borders of the Fork, through which
lie ran and plunged into the river. Fortunately for him, u
little below this place vvus an Island, against the upper
put of which, a raft ol drift timber had lodged. He dived
under the raft, and, after several efforts, got his head
above water amongst the trunks of the trees, covered over \ fate dilute the operations of the
with smaller wood lo the depth of several feet. Scarcely
h id he secured himself, when the Indians arrived on the
river, screeching und yelling, as Colter expressed il, “like
so many devils.” They were frequently on the raft du
ring the day, and were seen through the clinks by Colter,
who was congratulating himself on Ins escape, until the
idea arose, that tiroy might set the raft oil lire, hi horri
ble snspence lie remained until night, when hearing no
more of the Indian*, he dived under the raft, and swum si
lently down the river to a considerable distance, where
he landed, and travelled all night. Although happy in
having escaped from the Indians, bis situation was still
dreadful : he was completely naked, under a burning stm;
the soles ol his feet were entirely filled with the thorns of
the prickly pear; he was liuugrv, and had no menus of
killing game, although lie saw abundance around him;
and w.ts at least seven days journey from Lisa’s Fort, on
the Bighorn branch of the Roche Jim no river. These
were circumstances, under which almost onv man, but an
American hunter, would have despaired, lie arrived at
the Fort in seven days: having subsisted on a root much
esteemed by the Indians of the Missouri, now known by
the naturalist ar psoralen eseuknta,
From the A’. O. Crescent City.
SSATL RDA Y NIGHT.
Burn- in his (>cniitifiil poem of the u Cotter’s Saturday
Night,” struck a chord in Hie bosom ofull refloctivc read
ers: for no man. in any station of life, can arrive at the
end of the week without leehiig that it presents a differ
ent aspect, and exerts an influence different lrom all other
of the seven days. If Sunday seem to be the Sabbath of
the soul, Saturday night is the Sabbath of the mind and
body. On such au occasion, wc look Lack ihremgh the
faded week to every item of our conduct—we separate
the good from the bad, und if rational beings, cherish the
contemplation of the one, while we repudiate the second.
In a certain sense, Sati'itluy night is one of those, holy
caves in the wilderness, or moss grown cloisters by the
way side of life, whence tire tiavellcr, after ablution and
earnest prayer, steps freshly upon tire track again. We
love !o look ut it m such a light. It cheers us on, und w ill
cheer others over the world—tliut desen so barren ol
plcasaut verdure—so scant iu water—so filled with con
cealed dangeis. And as upon a real journey through
trackless material wastes tvc would kindly caution the
wa v farer to step into such solemn cells fur prayer ami ma
th, so would wfi inv ite our ti wrrtDy rrnd-
t oral ionol yL- -p—» *• - * -*- , . v _ * mmmm y •* j fire nfunv who have invested thoir
or. to el.eri.li I He op,-or.unit y «fl»*dcd U>, annul «ml ^ to t l, ul of the c
moral refreshment, bv a strict observance ol Saturday
the l mted £>t ites must be enacted punficly, and must have
an univei.seal and uniform operation. 'Ine decrees if ttie
Bank are passed in privacy, und arc only kuou n by
their ejjeet*; they can ue muuc lo act on one city, or one
district oj con nu y exclusively, they can crip pie the en
ter prise iJ one State, and promate lltai oj another; they
dram the specie from the Banks oj one district la
_ >Jjices in some marc fa
vored or more unfortunate f/uauer. Decisions winch
may aff ect every pecuniary transaction of a country, may be
made in silence, and executed almost m secrecy. Tliey
would at least only be known, and then but partiady, at the
moment of execution. A community may feei their eff ect*,
may find itscil involved in distress and rum, wiinuui being
able to trace distinctly the origin or extent of the operating
cause. The commerce of any particular city may be de
stroyed, eveu without design,far the potccr oj this Corpo
ration is as yet perhaps, even to its Directors, but tuud-
eqnatcly known. There can be no doubt that if in two
contiguous cities, such as Charleston and daviumaii. a sys
tem ol coerii m against tiu Banks, a!id consequently, against
individual*, slmuid be enforced in the one, and not iu the
other; such would be the facilities given to the merchants,
such the accommodation to the planter, such the advantage
afforded to the mechanic iu that ciry, in which a liberal sys
tem is adopted, that iu a very short time, we should 11ml
every floating branch of commerce, every specie* ef remov
able properly, every individual unattached to the soil trails-
feried to that spot, where business vvus uu*buckie<J aud en
couraged.”
That such are the powers of a great monied institution
cannot be denied, aud that it can have no balancing or con
trolling power excepting iu oue of its own nature, the effects
of the aictiou of the United State* Bank in lblfl and lelil,
and of the Bank of England iu 10J? clearly demonstrate.
Hence the security of the country against such an institu
tion must depend upon the skill and virtue of its directors.
The history of the late Bank from its beginning, with few
exceptions, to the end, show that such reliance will be but
a frail one—the very history of the present time would laugh
at such cieJulou* weakness. Mr. Elliot proceeds. “It ;t-
vvere really a National Bank; if its capital were truly nation
al, if its income and profit* belonged solely to the Govern
ment, and were or might be applied exclusively to national
purposes, amidst the general splendour and utility of its re
sults, every minor consideration, every personal or local in
terest would have been forgotten. But in its present sit a
lion, a corporation wiiich may 1c owned and governed by
a Jew opulent men in our gt eat cities, and be directed
solely lo private aud personal objects; v. hicli may be mon
opolized oy foreigners, or uhiclt may Exhibit once more
■setnes oj unexampled and unblushing speculation. (Do
j tilt* late scenes equal or surpass his ideas when thi* w as
written?) we know not why the other-private or local iusti-
I tutions should be prostrated bclore it; why the interest of
tire nfunv who have invested their property instate Bank,
omparatively lew, wl
• i . • . ' • . , » » • • . • i , ~Y f are interested in the Bank of the United States, or irhtt the
night. J hi* to our mind should in every ihiuiIv ho made l , ,■ i 9 . /
„ . r—. ..r i ...n ;... • .-.-i \ Government oj the i mted Mate* should
a serious festival—a least of morul advice aud lender, use
ful admonition.
'Those who take flic pains to reflect, may find, by refer
ence to their own experience, that Saturday night 1ms of’
it.-ell or by long accustomed associations something im-
preBsive- Jfvoti make a heavy loss, either of money or
reputation, he sure that \our chagrin w ill he doubly as tor
ch leon Saturday night'as ut any other time. Ifyou have
been wntching all the week with a sick fiiend, on that
night you will be m<»re than ever the victim of gloom—
more superstitious tears will creep over you-, ami jour
thoughts w ill be incontinently turned towards the fancied
shapes of the unreal world. Ifyoui wife or children Pie
—your mistress deceive you, or your friend betray, look
that on Saturday night tue forms of the WLe and" loved,
and the frailty and falsity of the others, will come troop
ing up the v isia of memory iu most solemn array. We ure
not metaphysician enough,nud were we y we i:uve no time
to enter inti, a solution ol the reasons lor such tlwngs ; but
tint Saturday night has a peculiar influence, we have
never doubt, d ; since reason as we will, we have always
fount! it more impressive than any other nig lit-
Childre n led it; even ill families where the observance
of it is nol u peculiar thing. The younger ones ure more
quiet then, nnd the oldv^r more trauquil in their pastimes.
'The little Ijov has put lip his tap, wagon, whistle and
marbles, and the little girls have given their dolls (heir
supper nnd sent them to bed. Mother has laid by nil her
woiK, save the “darning of stockings,” a lubor peculiar
to this evening in all countries—father is conniug the
newspaper or some solid woik, aud for the children no
plnymam remains, save l'outo, the shaggy dog.— Even
lie is quicker of car than usual, and plays with discretion
—the boisterous hark is husiirc!—he bound* not so w ildly
over the floor, but reflective and more than ordinarily
wntchfnl, grow ls if you tempt it too mud) to play, and .
simo70s by fits upon the warm hearth. Saturday night j 11015 lt,e 1
among children, is by common consent rite night for sto
ries aud gloomy rclulious, and Though tins may be at ihe
bottom of the reverence wc pay it in adult age, yet we
are as tar from the general cause, us ever. D Uy'should
children look upon litis night as loo sacred for loud sports
uqdoy their
means or buffer them to be employed, to overwhelm ami
destroy institution* which in the hour of difficulty and dis
tress afforded to their country the most efficient uid. The
Bank ol the U nited States enjoys many privileges, which
even under common ciicurnstaiices give it great advantages
over the local Banks. Its great capital, its extensive cred
it. aud the power of circulating it* hilis over the whole surface
of the I niicd States, enable it to transact more business
afiti to issue w ith safety more paper than any other monied
institution. The bills payable at Boston, may be actually
distributed at New Orleans; those payable in Charleston
may be scattered on the Missouri. These are important
pnviledges, to which it is fairly entitled from the services it
render* lo the Government. But when it employs tfiese
advantages to destroy; when it intimates, by its conduct, a
design to accomplish that object so often hinted at by its great
stockholders of standing alone iu society; the citizens ot this
country will be inevitably compelled to enquire into the
purpose for which this power was ostensibly given; and in
to tue expedienby and propriety if placing the credit
aud fortunes of almost every individual in the If. N.
perhaps the commerce of our cities and the recourcvs of
our country under Hit, control of the directors of an y one
private institution.
‘‘Neither must it be forgotten that the Directors of the
Parent Bank, by whom all the subordinate branches are gov
erned, let them be selected with the utmost caution, must
in their views and feelings be csser.tiilly local. The opin
ions and prejudices and even • rr as if Philadelphia
must Ite their guides. We cannot« xp jet always to find or
retain i i its government, men superior to the age or com
munity in w hich they reside. Their leading object must
be to render their arrangements at home satisfactory; every
movement of the system must bend to this purpose". They
will listen to rumors of suffering, of ruin, in the remote cor-
ith the same general emotion of sympa
thy with which they hear of the distant ravages of the ele
ment.; tliey will, perhaps, consider them as alike accidental,
and equally inevitable. The only suffering which they can
distinctly Jeel, the only ruin whose cause tliey can clearlv
appreciate, is that which occurs iu their own immediate vi-
too solemn for I*oi*t«Tous talk and laughter, but just | t .
grave enough to suit those tales which buiim times fill the i *‘*'ucn are the views ortho Bank of me United Statesand
l.rncv with phaubislM.- horrors ! No one cuu tell. 'The operations on the local Banks which we have felt our
unseen influence hover* over us o* a mantle—our mind* selves compelled, however xelnctaully, terpreseutto your
pilgrims into a dense nnd blackened void. Wc think j notice, if, even under iis present administration, they
tve hear—we think we touch now here, now there, sonic j have been forced on our attention, what might we not ex-
prt scncc that we cantlnt define, and the soul for the mo- I***L if the talents and integrity which now guide it should
siirnt is a chaos of “ nutrient ion able thoughts.—Choo&c, j at any time I** exchanged for an unsteady cr tyrannical ad-
then, Fa tu relay night as your peculiar season of reflection, j ministration; for principles partial, local or corrupt.”
and Weep it holv before* the altar of the Dii Penates. Out This view of a United States Bank, one given by its own-
of the impressions it brings, fashion reflection,'and fiom action under an able and virtuous administration, exhibits a
flic subtle influence* which load you to the realms of j pow* r to which every act of our revolutionary ancestry ue-.
building iik t.ipiij hies, drawn system of thought which < tare* a jealousy—it io incouriaieut with their caution,"pru-
cli.ill lead your m*«id4o the GiuU'Author. ‘ deuce, wisdom forecast, jealousy of power, aud thtar spirit,
of liberty and equality. It is much to be regretted that the
late Mr. Elliott .lid not live until, and through this la*t re
vulsion. His reflecting and pliilosphic mind would have
given us a calm and clear view of its causes and effects, and
united with the experience of Mr. Cheves in the capacities
of tlifc Bank of the United States, they might have arranged
for the country a system of currency and finance which
might have proved invaluable. There are other inen with
as intelligent minds and as extensive information; but iu the
present day there are few so honestjwhose mimls are so well
balanced and so free from the influences of wealth and poli
tics.
A GEORGIAN.
PUFF HIM—PUFF HIM.
If the Whig Editor* and letter-writers were just permit
ted to have their own way. Mr. Dawson would be very soon
puffed into the greatest man in the nation.
They speak of his transcendent talents, and his mighty in
fluence in Congress, and elsewhere, as if nobody knew him
hut themselves. They puffed him at one time, for a seal in
the Cabinet—at another, for a Foreign mission; and thirdly,
for Speaker of the House of Representatives, and talked of
these matter* with as much apparent confidence, as if it was
based upon even the shadow of reality. Well! He was
not placed in the Cabinet—He wes not sent upon a Foreign
mission—and he was not made Speaker; although the hum
bug part of the Speakership wu* very dexterously played
upon him, by the Kentucky Dictator. But had he even
sesaed the qualifications for that station, Mr. Clay did not
intend to bestow it upon him; not because he could not con
fide in his principles—not because he did not consider him
sufficiently federal, in his views in regard to a National
Bank, a National Debt, and a Tariff; but because he knew'
the people of Georgia to be Republican, and that the time
could not be distant, when the force of their opinions would
be brought to bear palpably and effectively upon Mr. Daw
son, and the whole Georgia delegation. Under this view of
the subject, Mr. Dawson war not the man for Mr. Clay, and
accordingly, he took up one, upon whom he could rely im
plicitly, to i xecute his commands, and whose constituents
would be more likely to sustain him. Hence, John White,
of Kentucky, was selected, and Mr. Dawson was put off,
with the empty applause of maguaiiiinously yieldin'* to the
wishes of his party.
All these high expectations having failed, it was found ne
cessary to do something to recommend him to the confidence
and support of the people of Georgia; and the plan was,
therefore, adopted, of giving him all the credit of every mea
sure in Congiess, which his friends w'ere pleased to consid-
ei for the interest of the’ people, or out of which they believ
ed political capital could be made.
The first move was. a puff upon the “dead horse" qnes
tion. A report from the War Department—-or rather, ar
extract of a report, was published in some of the leading
Whig papers, containing nothing to encourage the hope that
the volunteers were to be paid lor their losses; but on the
contrary, containing charge* of fraud and corruption upon
the whole army, officers and men. This report was attack
ed, as fraught witli unjust and unfounded charges against
oar gallant Volunteers, and in the absence of iiitoriiirtion to
the contrary, was charged to the present Secretary of War,
Mr. Bell. No sooner was Mr. Bell’s name mentioned in
connexion with the report, than out popped the whig papers,
with what they considered the astounding disclosure, that
the report was not made by Mr. Bell, but by his predeces
sor, Mr. Poinsett, nnd almost split their skies w ith laughter,
to think how, with tire assistance of Dawson's cunning, they
had trapped the Democratic Editors. They seemed to sat-
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accordingly applauded lor his unsuccessful efforts in their
behalf. But we replied, if the report was made by Mr.
Poinsett, so much the worse for Mr. Dawson. It proved
that he had slumbered over the claims of the volunteers, and
had taken no steps to wipe out the stain which Mr. Poiusett
had cast upon them, That if he was truly their friend, and
Imd taken up their claims in good faith, he should have ta
ken measures as soon as the new cabinet came in, to have
the report of Mr. Poiusett re-examined, and a counter one
made by Mr. Bell, in accordance with the justice ofthe case.
Has Mr. Dawson done this ? No. And why has he not f
Because he either believes in the truth of Mr. Poinsett’s re
port, or he has been wilfully, and culpably negligent of his
duty, and his pledges to the volunteers.
Our own view of the subject is this—tiiat he ought to have
introduced a bill in Congress, containing an appropriation to
pay the Florida volunteers for horses lost in that service,
and then to have had their claims canvassed, an 1 to have
stood up like a man in their defence—but the beginning and
end of all bis labors amount to a short resolution upon the
War Department, which brought out the famous report of
Mr. Poinsett, and the publication ol a part of that report, in
some of the whig paper* of Georgia ; although it has been
since announced, that Ire had carried tin appropriation thro’
the House, for that object, and Chat the ,% dead horses' f would
be soon paid for. A shout was raised upon the occasion,
and “hurrah for Mr. Drwson,” was the order of the day;
aud some people, we dare say, were soft enough to take it
for granted, and to set it down as true, that Mr. Dawson
would come out of the "dead horse" scrape, witli flying col
ors. But gentle reader, just look at the proceedings of Con
gross—examine all trie appropriations, and you will find that
although Mrs. Harrison received $2o,00j—although the No
bles of the land may get a mammoth Bank, and the federal
ists may get a National Debt; although the Northern man
ufacturers may get a protective Tariff, io swell their gains,
and beggar the Stoutli, the Cheiokee volunteers will never
•ret paid for their "dead horses” through the agency of Mr.
Dawson—and that opinion is now becoming very prevalent
among intelligent men of all parties.
Finding that the "dead horse” whoop was raised a little
before they had gotten out of the woods, that subject lias
been suddenly dropped, nnd the public put upon a new scent.
They have found it too slow, to keep him up in the race
which he is running over the Georgia course, and his friend*
have deemed it advisable to give a fresh impetus to his move
ments, by mounting him upon a rail car; and in furtherance
ofth-.tt arrangement, it ha* been announced with a grand
flourish, that upon the passage of the late Tariff*bill through
the House, he had done a wonderful service to the State, by
exempting rail road iron froia taxation- Upon that subject,
the Southern Recorder discourses as follow,*, in a letter of
one rf the Editor* from Washington, “To Mr. Dawson the
credit is due, for having rail road iron excepted from duty.
This will likely save to Georgia alone, $100,1100 or more, by
the time the present works in progess are completed.”
We ask, emphatically, what mail in hi* sober senses, will
ascribe the honor and glory of exempting rail road iron lo
Mr. Dawson ? when it is known, to have been heretofore,
^generally, if not uniformly exempt, and when, from the deep
interest which most of the Stntes have taken in the construe
tion of railroads, no bill to tax railroad iron, could be pas
sed in Congress ? And yet, in the face of all this, Mr. Daw
son is to run away with the credit of doing a thing that he
could not-have prevented, if his life had been at stake.
But where is the evhlenee of his mighty efforts to exempt
rail road iron from taxation. We have seen no speech, we
have seen no debate, in which he lias reflected peculiar ho
nor upon himself, or entitled himself, to the appellation of a
public benefactor, in the nretnises.
And 60 ends anotlier of the humbugs by which it has been
attempted to puff Mr. Dawson into importance, and to se
cure for him, the office of Governor, at the coining election.
Iu conclusion, we may be permitted to ask the friends of
Mr. Dawson, what service he rendered to the people, upon
the unconstitutional and outrageous donulioii of 825.000 T
And what he was doing when that iniquitous bill to distri
bute the proceeds of the public lands, was passing through
the House ? or how he can look the people of Georgia in the
face, after voting for a tariff to drag ten o~ twelve million*
from tire pockets of the South ? not to mention the Bank bill
winch rules rough shod over State sovereignty, nnd claims
the right to set up corporation* within their limits, without
their consent ?—tStandard of Union.
er fully indeutifies it. There is an oftium and disgrace at
tached to his whole jKjliticial course, firofiu the time be war
discarded by the New Hampshire Farmers and taken up by
the Boston Aristocracy, to the present time. His course
now is perfectly consistent with wliat it wa5 then. In both
case*, in conjunction with others, he has done imraence inju
ry to the prosperity and g<»od ol the nation. Other Feder
alist* beside Webster still exert a-great influence upon the
policy of the government. Our legislation now exhibit* the
same spirit which characterized that ot many F ederal legis
latures during the war. Facts have clearly shown that the
old Federal party is now in power, notwithstanding the va
rious names Ky which it i* often called. Men who would re
gard the measures to which we have above alluded, as un
patriotic and wicked, and world uese e very honest and
laudable means to counteract and destroy their ownef, can
never feel friendly to an admiration such as now governs us.
It is inimical to our individual and our country’s welfare.
Our happiness depeuds upon the prevalence of pure Jeff er
sonian Democracy, and tiiat is incompatible with Federa
lism.” ,
T'rom the Dover Gaze tic*
FEDERALISM.
Wc are often asked to give an exposition of Federalism
a* it was some thirty years ago, and the particulars in which
it differred from Federalism of the present day. The latter
is easily answered, for its identity with the former is sus
ceptible of the clearest demonstration. To define Federal-
ism requirt 1 * a little consideration, and we commend the fol
lowing paragraphs to the serious attention of our readers.
Federalism in its general deception is the opposite of Re
publicanism, as Despotism is of Liberty or Slpverv of Free
dom, and its followers originally were those opposed to the
Democratic nature of our Government, fctach were John
Adams, Alexander Hamilton, aud Fisher Ames, Otis, Sul
livan and Webster. The great outbreak of Federalism oc
curred in the time of the last war, when several distinguish
ed and leading politicians co-operated with Great Britain in
her attempts to destroy our country. The seciets of the
Hartford Convention, many of w hich h vve lately come to
light, exhibit its true spirit and show the bottom and heart
of its advocates. That Convention was composed of a num
ber of the delegate* of the British agency who had actually
iu view an alliance with Great Britain, which Providence
arrested and Federalism virtually became defunct in the
very place of ii3 birth. The circumstances which will make
the subjoined facts as illustrations ot Federalism appear
more odious, are that our countrymen were suffering in a
war with an insolent and cruel enemy.
There is no question but tiiat the old Federal* designed
to Subvert our Government and establish, a* a British paj»er
avers, a “Limited Monarchy strengthened by an alliance
offensive and defensive with England.” The Hartford Con
vention, plotted especially by the Federalists of Massachu
setts in co-operation with otlfers of the Northern State*,
was to mature the measure and seek the interference of the !
English Government. Had they lived in a Government i
loss mild, the Conventionists would have been hanged for
treason. They opposed the war—they liarrassed tne gen- j
crab administration—they abused the "President—thev in- \
suited and sneered at our distressed countrymen, and sought I
to shiver into atoms the glorious compact of the State*.
They wished to have a “new Congress,” to “erect a sepa
rate government for their common defence nnd common in
terest.” Nay, they went further and threatened to provide
the “black population” of the South with aims, and lay it
open to the ravages of a servile-inhuman war. They called
Madison a “cowasd** and “tyrant”—“Democracy” a “syren
song”—and boldly proclaimed in Legislatures that th»v
were •‘ready to exchange our Constitution for that of Great
Britain, MONARCHV aud all.” They sought to embarma#
the operations of Government by proscribing every tnau who
was- willing to lend it money to feed and clothe our patriotic
and destitute militia. Such briefly were the leading nunt*-
ures and opinions of old Federalists, and have they changed ?
\V e answer, no ! Many til the most conspicuous men of the
old Federal party are* still living, nr if not, are more than
represented iu the Federalism of their sons; ONE of its
distinguished leader* is still living among ns and occupying
a high sent in the present administration—That man is DAN
IEL WEBSTER, AN INCH A NOLI) AM) BI1TKR FEDER
ALIST.—The jioaiuou lie occupies in the party pow in pow-
From the New Haven Register.
THE *25,000 GRANT.
There never was a more flagrant violation of the Consti
tution erf the United States than the late grant of *‘J5,000 to
the family of President Harrison. As we have before said,
we do not object to tlfis from ary captious spirit, for we nev
er had au unkind feeling towards the late President, though
politically opposed to his election ; but we consider this die
beginning of a system of civil pensions in this country, which
lias been the curse of all the rotton aristocracies that have
ever scourged the human race. Where do the whig* find
any authority in the Constitution for this? That instrument
says
“The President shall, at stated times, receive for his ser
vice a compensation which shall neither be increased or di
minished, during the period for which he shall have been
elected, and he shall not receive within that period, any
other emolument from the United States.”
The compensation of the President is fixed at *25,000 a
year, or *6,250, payable at the beginning of each quarter.—
This latter sum, we should not have objected to ; but in ad
dition to that, the whigs in Congress have voted to the family
of the late President *25,000 additional “coixfpensation.” or
“emolument,” though he had served but one month ? This
is not given as a pension for military services, as Was the
grant to Gen. Brown’s family, after liis decease—that gallant
officer having died a cripple, while still holding a military
commission. He dropped as it were in the harness—
worn out, and broken down, in the military service of his
countrymen. But the *25.000 voted to President Harrison’s
family, is not put upon any such ground. It is to make up
to them the immense pecuniary sacrifices, which the whig*
imposed upon the General in conducting die political cam
paign. It is said, they ate him‘ out of house ami home
aud now, instead of making up the loss from their own pock
ets, diey are for taking it from the treasury of the United
States. Would there not be the same reason for making
similar grants to the families of Daniel Webster ami Henry
Clay, and other prominent men iu the whig ranks ; Webster
it is said, has bankrupted himself, in the political chase, and
for all the glory of wniggery ; why no: pay his debts from
the Treasury and give a fortune for the future support of
hia family 1 There is no difference iu die principle of the
two cases.
But it is said that we never had a President die under
similar circumstances. What then? docs that authorize
the whigs to break the Constitution ? If no President died
in office, we have had other high officers die in the dis
charge of their civil trusts. There was the case of the Vice
President Elbridge Gerry—a patriot of the Revolution, and
one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. He
died in the midst of his term, while Congress was in session,
lie left a large family—with less property than was left by
President Harrison. But though all sympathized with his
family for their loss yet no one thought of proposing a pen
sion, or a jrrant of money to his family, beyond the compen
sation that belonged to him by law, as Vice President. Tiiat
was during the democratic administration of James Madison.
Such things were never thought of in those days. But now,
since we have the great “expounder” to construe the Consti
tution, with an “under Secretary of Skate” besides, accor
ding to the British model, the w higs can make that instru
ment mean anything, or nothing, just as may best suit their
schemes of disposing of the public money.
EXECUTIVE DICTATION.
The Richmond Whig of Wednesday, spear ing of Mr.
Tyler’s attitude in relation to the Bank question says —“ To
the particular modifications which liis constittuional princi
ples make him desire to impose upon such'an institution, the
Whig party, even when they differ from him, willingly as
sent. so long as it shall be apparent that hi* objections are
made in strict good faith.”
There is nothing for which the Whig party have *o holy
a horror as for “ executive Dictation. ' This was the sub
ject of unceasing clamor against General Jackson and Mr.
Van Buren.—To reform that evil was a main poiut with the
Whigs. Now a Bank Bill has been concocted by Congress
and sent to Mr. Tyler. Mr. Tyler has vetoed tiiat bill. In
tne Veto Message Mr. Tyler does not recommend directly
any substitute—makes no explicit avowals. But in liis dis
cussion of the subject, he throws out certain observations
from which it has been inferred that he would sign » bill to
establish what is styled an Exchange Bank. Mr. Crergeaut
then proceeds to tinker up a new biib conformable to what
it is inferred, implied, conjectured, guessed, that Mr. Tyler
will confirm. Il Uii» is not a submission to “ Exec utive Dic
tation”—if it is not a servile degrading submission, where
those who submit have to guess at the w ishes of (lie supe
rior, aiid'trim their legislative sails exactly to the veerings
of the Executive breeze, ti.eu we are as much mistaken as
the Federal Whigs were, when they expected Mr. Tyler
to abjure his own opinions and surrender himself as an au
tomaton in the hands of Mr. Clay.
But we see nothing .n Tyler’s whole career to justify the
idea that he is disposed to dictate to Congiess. He seems
only determined to maintain the just independence of Ins de
partment—without dictating or being dictated to. While,
however, Mr. Ty ler does not seem to have exhibited any
Executive dictation, the Federal Whigs of Congress do ap
pear, by their concoction ol a new' bill, framed expressly to
meet the supposed views of the President, to renounce all
their former doctriues against “Executive Dictation.” and
to knuckle uuder to the ’ President (whom they at heart
wish any were but where he is) with something "of the in
quiring Amorousness and mercenary tail-wuggings of au ob-
piious spaniel.
Here, then, is this great Whig Extra Congiess, with all
their detestation of “Executive Dictation.” quietly drawing
in the harness of the supposed wish of the occupaut of the
White House. Good! Pe ersbutg Statesman*
THE “BETTER TIMES’—WHERE ARE THEY!
The follow ing from the State Capital Gazette, is well
worthy of the serious reflection of the .Farmer, Mechanic
and Laboring man of the State :—
“The promised,” “BETTER TIMES” of federalism, where
are they .^they are certa nly not with the harp wokkiS-u and
INDLSTUIOIS MECHANICS and LABORING MAN, tor witli
these useful and worthy classes of our fellow-citizens, if re
port speak true, times were never more pressing i or was it
ever'more difficult for them to obtain the means of living lor
themselves and their families. Is it with the farmer? Ask
any of our unassuming and honest tillers of the soil, who la
bor hard upon tueir farms from sou rise till suu set. whether
they have been bene fit ted by the inoUern “reform," and
they will tell you that they are cither compelled to take a
worthless and irredeemable sliinplastercarrency iu exchange
for their pooduce, or it uiust spoil upon their hands. Who
then is benefitted ? Why, stock jobbers, brokers, and
NABon»,.who during times like the present—times of Fed
eral Reform—are enabled to reap a rich harvest by their
nefarious transactions in the way of sh aving deprecia
ted paper, buying up poor men's notes, Ac., and who,
behind the curtain of their concealed iniquity, afe sucking
as it w ere, the very life-blood of the people.—These are the
unprincipaled wretches who ar£ bene filled during times of
federal Bank coutr&ctions like the present, while die poor,
honest, ami iudustrious citizen, who “earns liis bread by the
sweat of his brow,” is impudently told b^ the purse-proud
and Insolent bloodsuckers, that he must get along the best
way he can !
POST OFFICE DEFAULTER*.
According to the late report of the Post Office Auditor,
Mr. Whittlesey, there were on the 4th of March last no less
than three thousand three hundred aud thirty sc ten Post
Masters iu arrears to the Government, for sums varying
from a few dollars to many thousand.—Petersburg Intelli
gencer.
Is every officer that was in arrears on the 4th of last March
a defaulter ? The first quarter of the year expired, let il be
observed, on the 31st of March. If thenlA/ff thousand
three hundred and thirty seven Post Masteis were defaul
ters on the 4th of March, quare, has Mr. Granger turned
them all out of office ? If he has not, then lie has kept de
faulters in office, know ing them to be defaulters.—Peters
burg Statesman.'
RUMORED ATTEMPT TO RESCUE McLEOD.
Great Hoax.—On the 27th inst., we understand letters
were received by the sheriff’nnd first judge of this county,
residing at Whitestown, from the Governor and the Secre
tary of State of this state, informing them that authentic in
formation had been received at the seat of government tiiat
a body of about three hundred men from Canada were to ren-
devous on the evening of the 27th, in the town of Marcy,
adjoining Whitestown, opposite, o.i the north side of the
Mohawk, and make an attempt to rescue McLeod and con
duct him to Canada. The sheriff immediately called out the
inhabitants, mustered nil the arms and amunition iu the j«lace
shotted the guns, and placed a guard around the jail- He
also pent to Ut ca and procured more arms and ammunition;
ami the armed posse guarded the jail bravely and manfully
until morning; but no attempt was made ; no foe appeared ;
and no trace of the invaders lias been discovered. “ Order
reigns at Warsaw.” The country is quiet. The jail well
defendod, and a strict guard will he maintained in future,
Utica Democrat.
A White Monkey.—It is stated in the Havre papers tiiat
a vessel just arrived from Cantor, has brought a considera
ble collection of objects of natural history, and aiuoug them
a white monkey. Its eyes are red, its hair white, and its
conformation, as the Journal du Havre remarks, presented
many analogies to that of the Albino* among the African
tribe.
Money Recovered.—We have authentic intelligence
from Danville (says the Richmoud Whig of Saturday) dial
the ur.cancelled (Kirtion of the money recently abstracted
from the bank, in that jflace, 1ms been found, where it had
been concealed, and that oue of the Tellers of the bank has
been implicated iu the rubbery, arrested, aud was undergo-
iug cxauiiuaiiou.
Prom the N. Y. Uxtra Sun, Sept 4 N I
ARRIVAL OF THE STE U ir I
brita.vma. Cil I
The Sleamer Britannia, R. B. Cleveland, P j
arrived in Boston Thursday morning, i>e|, t j .. I
utes pastfour. She iott Liverpool on the 19ih a* ^ ; I
Tbe-general European new s is not particular!' ^ I
and the intelligence lrom Ureal Britain is motho v' - I
character as belore received. Parliament . ls ’I
the 19th of August, anil the first business would b° ^ *. I
lion of a Speaker. The members would thru b* |
by the Lord Steward, and on die 24th her Maiio/*"' I
open the session “ by commission,” and the V, I
would then be delivered from the throne. Till- I
low a great political struggle of ten days’ dursii,° I
will probably end in the resignation of the I
installation ot the Torict. "j?he arrival of Ui e N »I
will therefore be looked far with die greatest iot* lMe, d
We are pained to find that great alarm is i u3 uv * I
the harvest in almost every-part of the United Kii
continued wet and cold weather having nearly a I
crops. In the meantime, trade continues a the^M
plorable state, and the distress amongst die . I
the poor people generally is unusually severe. Ul,ei k|
The McLeod •[uestion had'again been agitaiej ■ |
reported thatJi/tcen tki/isof narhad 4«v«scnf). ! '*|
For particulars on this and other subjects w* rcfer* ,,< * |
ders to our synopsis of die news. . I
An old established house at Liverpool, i n the
trade, has suspended payments—their debts ai!„ [u ,, ' 11
000. “L
The London Globe, in noticing some articles in the} .
paj>ers ou the American new tariff law, which ^
duty of 20 per rent., ad valortvt, ou Frencli silk,
articles ofiuxurv, says, the law has excited the a ,■
French |K>liticiaiis, who pretend dial it is an v :-~Y I
of the treaties between die two countries.
Several shocks of an eardnjuake have been feki,
eHt parts of Scotland ; it is said, that “ the houses m,, , I
wiLdowa rattled, and the chair* danced in their ;■
About seventy couutry people, old and young, oft,,,
es, have brokeu up eomlbrtabie cslublislrucnt* iu y
for the purpose of embarking for America to join
atics, the Mormons.
Tu e SPKAKSRSHtr.— We have reason to know th, ( I
Robert Peel has communicated to Mr. C. Shaw Let. . J
inteution to support the re-election ol dial gendcuiau - |
event of his beiug proposed on the meeting of the ii t ,'
liament, as Speaker of the House of Commons.
A Peerage has been conferred on the Karls of m, lr I
fast, and Kenniare ; on Sir Richard H. Vivianaad ftj,L I
ry B. Parnell. Lord Segrave and Barham have I
sed to the dignity of earls.
The Thames funnel is now complete to within tet
of the Wapping shaft, and it is said, that this will be ■
ed in about six weeks, aud in November the Tunnel*
open for foot passengers Mr. Brunei passed
through the Tunnel on the 12th ult.
Ojvning of Parliament by her Majesty.—r
don Observer says.—* We have it from the Lest i . .
that her Majesty has notified her intention ofnpen v
Parliament in person on the 24tli insl., on which day :t V
al Speech will be delivered from the throne. The ..
mediate day from the 19th will be occupied in suearint
the members of the House of Common s after the rib
and the approval of the Speaker by her Majcstt.
The Globe ofthe ITtli tilt, says, however, With renr
diis, that as, in her Majesty’s present condition, unv ui,'."
taking involving anxiety or fatigue might prove ini,,.
Dr. Locoek has interposed his'veto ; and that the ut* |
liament will be ojiened by commission, instead ui
biueen in person.
Fifteen ships of war ordered t<>
AMERICA.
In the afternoon of the I4tli August, it wsjconfidmre
serteii here, says tue Ijondou Morning Herald, by ^
rally well inCuruuxi and most respectable meichcnis, *lv
ships of war had been ordered to proceed imiuediauw
tlic coast of the United States, aud th.H tliey were uitrui
be joined by ten other vessels ot her Majesty's navy tn*.
foreign stations. The object of like alleged "mission uf
amendment to the American shores, it was added, *■**•*;..
reive Mr. Fox, should the refusal of the renewed uuu
for the release, which it is said he is instructed t<» luric,.,
Mr. McLeod, compel the British representatives to vur
draw from Washington, and afterwards to adopt sac’slw
tile proceedings as may be deemed indispensable fur H*
vindication of the honor ofthe British Crown winch hasbtr.
so wiltidily and wantonly attacked by the American pew
and government in the |iersoit of its subject—AlexaudcrM
Lcoil. We have stated the rumor, winch we believe j.r-
ceeded from no interested, e veiled, or prejudiced sourer. \i
thus giving to it publicity, however proLauie *t* me\ Uua
it, we add no voucher for its absolute truth.
Correspondence vf the Savannah Georgian.
FLORIDA, Antrim.*
Sir—Lieut. Wessells’ command lias not yet returnee;
Fort King from its pursuit ofthe Renegade 1’reck (. t
resident in the VFalauo ttaump. N il e citizens iar .-
yesterday from Tampa) *say that tliey met on tkc
band of 25 warrior* oil their way to surrender theu-'
at Tuiupa. On theMhofihe coming mouth TigerUk.
notorious scoundrel, is to go iu with liis band. Lithe .
confidence can be placed upon bin notes—they arr.*
Nick's—promises to pay—-founded in iniquity uini tirrr
and have carried diaap|>o»iitmetil and desolation wlirrv\r.
they have been current. We have, however, this k.v:y
assurance founded on Col. Worth's well known em-^v n-
promptness—that he once{ gets Tiger-Tail iu IkiihI.ibt
stitutional scruples will prevent the application ot h-€'*•
upon Tiger's further progreos in blood ami murder. I*
activity of the Yirgima Colonel, /ter excellent c— the jz
laut Riley, whose probation was served under Fonyi..-:
the lines last w ar, leaves no rest Tor the wicked. \ t *
aware that lie is now i oiiimandiug a brigade compose^ mu*
2d and 7th lufaniry; and to judge by las efforts (tiiat i#>rr
verses can dampen—one would suppose tiiat he is in gcbc
ous rivalry with Col."Worth, and aspires to the honor
iug second best in the active contest now waging lertw
speedy termination ol'‘the war. Sucress attend him.
I begin to hope that in the coining spring wc way rrsnw
the cultivation ot our plantations, ami once more ei»j»yu?
shade of our orange unmolested, and secure from the "*•
derous interruption ofthe wily savage who lias left liis tuat
iu the dark and smouldering ruins of our once happy list
lets, and where triumph, yells still linger in the iuein'*r\
many a widowed mother, bereft of father,* husband, chi’.urc*
—liei all!*
McLEOD S TRIAL.
As many inquiries are made respecting the time
place of this trial, we will state, for the information tiu*
public, that the Court of Over aud Terminer, and Circe:.
Court, at which he will be tried-, w ill commence its
at the Academy, in the city of Utica, ou Monday, th* - y ‘ i k -
September ; that a pannel of forty-eight petit jurors ha<’ !* •
ordered, and will be drawn by the county clerk, in tkf p*
settee ofthe first judge and the sheriff of tfie county, at >•’*
county clerk’s office »« this city on Thursday next, at 10 A
M. The drawing is public, and all who feel any interrs
have a right to be present. The jurors are draw n fro* w*
cs in which tlicir names arc placed ; which names arc tab 5
from fists returned to the clerk’s office once in three ui.
by thetowu officers. There can be no partiality, fir -
corruption exercised in the drawing, and the character oli-*
draw ing officers^is above suspicion or reproach even info*
could. The Chief Justice, lion. Samuel Nelson, will p**
side on this trial. The Attorney General will proseaiu. *
Mr J. A. Spencer will defend tire prisoner. He will b» T
a fair trial, without prejudice or partiality ; and if guilt.' '<*
couvicted ; if innocent, be acquitted.—
Truc. m Philosophy.—Last Saturday, during the'’ wj**-
rein, a ladv passenger in the stage running between
re?h and Tuiladelplna, discovered her- band box oc the''*
of the coarh,- unprotected and drenched with rai*r.
surprise of every one, she genticly begged that it
be forgotten by the Driver, as it contained a valaal , l* DfV
bonnet. Very rftion the stage was in motion, hut a p*-' , ' rC
ger. in attempting to puli down a curtain, threw- bothib ’**'.
fated band box and a heavy leather trunk iiitoff* rfllt
The lady owner expressed Fome surprise and srailinj) 7 ^
greeted the occurrence. The stage was stopped
was found the trunk bad fallen upon the top ol tD
box aud crushed it, bounett and ribuins. in the inud- -
an outbreak was expected, but not an ill-natured
lowed—not an audible murmur. She singled w iib ert***
the misfortune^; but no indignant words or looks were '•
ble. Here was band box crushed, and a new bonnet
ed!“\Vhata severe trial fora lady’s temper,” fr***,’ 1 '-
“What an admirable wife such a woman would make
another. Unfortunately, it was found upon enquiry '
she was beyond reach-—site was a married lady * L ‘
AmcV.
SHOWER OF BLOOD.
From the Tennessee Telegraph nf the 21st oh.. 0
that die week before a small red cloud rose and | T rr *^j
self over a |»ortion of Wilson county, some ^
yards wide and near a mile in length, and poureu
thick, hazy sliower of something more nearly re ^ n “.j‘ /
blood and meat in a putrifie’d state, than any tiling ^
Telegraph says that the stench ofthe shower w’as 50 ^
offensive, that it ret some hands at work in a tw 4050
close by, to vomiting, aud that there were as 1T ? an i*r ti*
hundred persons upon the ground the ttabbatk *** ^
sliower, examining the clotted blood and putrified
had been "rained down" and the stench was stu *■
intolerable.
Lightning.—Tbe Savannah Republican of Saturd*}/^
during a shower yesterday, the mainmast ol the
lying at Anciaux's wharf, was struck by lightning* I^ 1 ^
mast was broken, and the mainmast head shiverej^^
fluid then struck the deck and splintered a plank. t
lors who w ere at work near the mast were knock**
stunned, but not seriously hurt. A uegro was also s*.
die leg. but not badly injured. gtrt jA
Mr. Nevilt’s bouse in Broughton street was al*'' ,,j.
The lightning descended the conductor ami brok c . ‘
the brick wall into the cellar kitchen, and after p»*J
dry freaks among tbe pots and kellies and knocking
tlie cook, passed off without further harm.
A Distrudire Fire occurred at St. Johns, N-
26tli ult., by which a ship of 900 tons burthen was ^ [**
The ship belonged to Messrs. Ownes and Dunes”* ^
ding ami nearly finished. The fire originated ,n ^ | >( :i
yard, and from thence communicated to die w *
di-ics in the vicinity, and if* progress could not „£*•*
uutil about fifty buildings iu the Parish l° lk
destroy ed.—Augasia Ckrouictc.
