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THE MACON GEORGIA TEEEGRAPH.
JOHN BULL AND BROTHER JONA-
THAN,
OR TTTR COCKNEY TOURIST.
A young sprig of tho London press linppcned
sonio six m >nths ago to be travelling in a stage
From the Democratic Review.
DEATH IN THE SCHOOL ltOOM.
a ract.
Ting-a-ling-fingling 1 went the little bell on the teacher's
desk of a village,school one morning, when tlie studies oftlie
earlier part of the day were about half completed. It was
well understood that ibis was a command for silence and at
tention; and when these had been obtained the master spoke.
Tub Plungbovkr the Falls that did'ut
happen,—We went yesterday, with ail the world
liereubouts, to see tlie barque Detroit go over
ti e Falls/ At tlie appointed hour—3 P. M.—
the vessel was towed from the foot of Grand Is-
cotch, in which vehicle a raw Vermont youth j and into the stream to the very verge of jhp j J| e was B i OWj thick set Ilian, and his name waa Lugare.
WiU n passenger. The Youth bov W IS not one I rapids, and then cut adrift. She took the first ‘Hoys,’ said he,‘I have had a complaint entered, thatlast
of your “real cute” fellows, but a shy, diffident i P'“"gc gallantly, head on and for a moment j
stripling, travel ing from a distant school to | seined completely engulfed, but almost instant- ber< ,, sir . •
ly the hail shot upward from tllC “hell of waters,” The one to whom he spoke came forward. He was a
" ■ je . . , . . i i slight, fair looking boy of about fourteen; and m» lace had a
her main and foremasts went by the board, ai d | laughing.good humored expression, which even the charge
on she went. The next descent was passed now preferred against him, and the stern tone uod threaten
spend his vacation at home. To tlie Londoner
he was an object of great curiosity, being the
first sample he had seen, and lie pestered the
boy with questions touching hi-* inode of life,
habiM, stu lies, employment, &c. thinking to
amuse Ivnwelf, gather items for his journal, at
the same time impress tlie other passengers
wit i tlie proper idea of his vast importance.
Tiie b«iy aitliodgh evidently annoyed, answer
ed politely, and displayed none of the character
istics of tlie Green M juuta'n youths ; so the
Englishman thought lie could boast as he plea
sed ui h much impunity. He told the passen
ger, that heard much of Yankee tricKx and
A ankce shrewdness, ‘‘but for his part he had
never seen any thing in them that he could call
clever, and, indeed, l.e wis!u d very much to be
made t.ie subject of one of their tricks, for if
tncy could fool him, he could then believe in
what he had hearJ of their character.”
This bint was not thrown away upon young
Jonathan. He thought he would set his wits to
work for the honor of “ down east,” and scow
li t upon a scheme, lie had heard the English
man inquiring for the direction from the town
w here the coach tvas to stop, to a residence some
five miles distant. This direction happened to
he the very path the boy was to take home,
b t lie said nothing.
Thec.iktIi snipped. Little Jonathan trotted
home and Johnny Coll, after having deposited'
bis luggage in the tavern, soon followed. There
was a lunatic asyl-Jm nenrthc town tve mention
ed. Jonathan told every soul he had met that
one of the mad men Find escaped, and tvas com-
ing along the road, and that they would know
him by his perpetoa ly inquiring for the resi
dence of Mr. Brown. Not content with this,
he turned to every farm house, and told the in
mates in great alarm that a madman had esca
ped from the asylum, and to be on their guard
against a man who would inquire for the resi-
<1 nee of Mr. Brown- The thing succeeded to
a miracle. Johnny Bull had not advanced far
on hi. tray before lie perceived a man plant
himself on 011“ side the road, brandishing a thick
cudgel, end assuming the attitude of one who
expects danger, and tvas resolved to defend him
self to the last. Jolmnv thought it tvas singu
lar, but nevertheless put the question
safely. At the third her mizenmast gave way
anda few rods further she grounded by the head.
Her stern swung slowly round and grounded al
so. When she left Goats island she tvas lying
broads de to tlie current, in its shallowest part
nearly m dway between the island and the Can
adian shores. She will probably lie there un
til she breaks to pieces, or until the river is
swollen be a heavy southwest gale, driving the
water down the l ike, and lifting her off. Tlie
day was delightful, and large numbers of spec
tators lined both shores. We took a malicious
p'etsure in enjoying their disappointment.
Such an affair at Niagara Falls is something like
sacrilege, and we hope it will not be repeated.
liujfulo Journal.
McLEOD.
This famous vagabond was to to be tried
yesterday before the Superior Court of New
Yo.k, at Utica. Will he be acquitted, convict
ted, pardoned, hanged--are questions that inter
est more persons than himself, and on all of
them, there is contradiction enough to make the
case a very pretty puzz'e. It is probable that
u pk a to the jurisdiction will be interposed, and
if overruled, an appeal will be taken to the Su* j j,>t>r
p eme Court of tlie U. S. which will almost cer- *
tainlv be refused
look of tlie teacher had not entirely dissipated. The
countenance of the boy. however. waa too unearthly fair for
health; it had, notwithstanding its fleahy, cheerful, look,-a
singular cast as if some inward disease, and that a fearful
one, was seated within. A# the stripliug stood before that
place, so often made the scene of heartless and coarse bru
tality. of timid innocence confused, helpless childhood out
raged , and gentle feelings crushed—Lugare looked on him
with a frown, which plainly told that he felt in no pleasant
mood. Happily a worthier and more philosophical system
is proving to men that schools can be better governed tlinn
by lashes and tears and sighs. We are waxing tow ard that
consummation when one of ihe'old-fashioned schoolmasters,
with his cowhide, his heavy birch-rod, and his many ingeni*
o’us methods of child-torture, will be gazed upon as a scorn
ed memento of an ignorant, cruel, and exploded doctrine.
May propitious gales speed that day!
‘Were you by Mr. Nichols' garden-fence last night?' said
Lugare.
sir,’answered the boy,‘I was/
‘Well, sir, I'm glad to find you so ready with your con-
fession. And so you thought you could do a little robbing,
and enjoy yourself in a manner you ought to be ashamed to
own. without being punished, did you/'
‘I have n t been robhiug,’ replied the boy quickly. His
face was suffused, whether with resentment oi fright, it tvas
difficult to tell.—'And I did'nt do any thing last night that
I'm ashamed to own.*
‘No impudence!’ exclaimed the teacher passionately, as
he grasped a long and heavv ratan; ‘give me none of your
sharp speeches, or I’ll thrash you ull you beg like a dog.’
The youngster's face paled a little; his lip quivered, but
he did not 3] eak.
‘Anti pray, zir,’ continued Lugare, as the outward signs of
wrath disappeared from his features; ‘what were you about
the garden for? Perhaps you only received the plunder,
an l had an accomplice to do the more dangerous part of the
t that way because it is on my way home. I was
• • . • , • . | there again afterwards o meet an acquaintance; and—anti—
1! the trial goes on, it is tin- j b uf i did not go into the garden, or take any thing away
dersiood that McLeod will rely principally on 1 trn,n I would not steal—lmrdly to save myself from
evidence that Ik wa* not one of the party which betlcr hare stui . k to ttat ,„ te v~ You
destroyed the C iruline $ and bring Up ns ft re- j were seen, Tim Marker, to come from under Mr. Nichols'
«enrc tlie avowal of the act by the British Gov- | ” ,ftif rt . fe,ice ? lillle af,er ni ! ,e o'clock, with a bag full of
, . .- . . * a .‘ft some! hi. g or other, over your shoulders. 1 hebac hadcveiy
eminent and justify It on the ground t licit if lie j appearance of being tilled with fruit, and this morning thq
were there, it was as a subordinate acting under j melon he Is are found to have* been completely cleared.
No#, sir, what was theie in that bag ?
Like lire itself glowed the face ot tlie detected lrfrf. He
spoke rtot a word. All the school had their eyes directed at
imtitafy orders.
If McLeod be tried, convicted and pardoned,
oreven if he he tried and acquitted, will the Bri-
i ill Government be sat'sfied in either case?
Doubled. If the British Government be satis
fied, willit mend matters ? Our Government
holds the destruction 1 of the Caroline, a gross
outrage—Great Britain has taken the act upon
herself, defends it, refuses all reparation, con
fers honors on those who did the deed.
The acquittal of M> L -od in such a way as to
satisfy England, will then by no means end the
SV, can you direct me to t he” residence of j d^culty. It will singly reverse tlie position of saiJ ^ ()oar fe , loW
Von wns the man. Now
you just cuuuuti youi.ieft
Mr. Brown V*
“ Yes. I thoiirdit
Iook here, s.ia.iger
respectfully, and keep your own side of the road,
.for if you come near me, J swung to man 1 11
smash you!”
Johnny’s eyes opened and bis mouth too.
“My dear friend, I don’ want to approach
vou. I honlv wish to know wiicrc Mr. Brown
li.cd.”
“ Well now, you just follow your nose, and
don’t molest noboJv, you tarn d varmin.-You’d
borer go home and get on your waistcoat.”
The man who seemed in a hurry, passed on.
I the parties. We shall then be the party H*
send instructions, to make demands, and finally
..Lmii iuuu.i. ^m "i iu ' tldit 1 irar. For there
is not tlie remotest hope tiiat England will ever
make the reparation for the invasion of our ter
ritory and burning of the Caroline—we have in
far t had her decision on that point already.
It appears tlicnthat something too much im
portance Ins been attached to that individual nin-
ro npoop Alexander McLeod, and that all we
can gnin by sustaining the new posit on of Mr.
Webster, is a change from the defensive altitude
to that of assailant, in which we shall have tlie
option of making war or suffering disgrace, ac-
Jolmnv gazed after hint an instant, quite con- l cording as we may prefer the present interest,
founded, and then proceeded on his way, saying j 10 t!le 1,onor and independence of the country,
to himself, “ Veil, upon my vord, that person's | Charleston Mercury.
conduct was worry singular ?” He turned off j
to a farm house. A woman was siting at tlie! I will give you a fact which may profit some
door sewing. When she perceived him, she | ^ >’ o(rr readers.- I took charge of my estate
started front her sear, and darling in tlie do >r, j twenty-seven years ago, having from that time
held it for an ir.s'ant, while she turned to gaze un, i il now > from *Mrty to sixty in k family, and
nt the stranger. | within that time have not lost one child under
“ Madam, will you be so kind as to lbnform ' twelve years, (either black or white.) with the
n o whether I ham on the right road to Mr. 1 excepjion, of one a few hours aftcrits hirtli. and
Brown’s ousel” - j I attribute it principally to the following rcnie-
*• I though: so !” exclaimed the woman, slam- ! dv » wll ' cfl kc( ’ps tWhi free from worms:
ruing the door fast, and bolting it, and tlie next j Tu!< e ’! ,c fat of bacon sliced and fried in
moment she was seen peeping suspiciously from ! a P nn un, *l •l* 0 essence is all out of it; take out
tlie upper window. j the rind first; then put as much worm seed as
“ Vot is the matter, madam ? I merely ! !s necessary, (vulgarly called Jerusalem oak,)
vant to know—” ' i •'■•s much sugaror molasses as will make it pala-
“ Oh, go away, you unfortunate w retch !— table—give it three mornings in succession.
Don’t you attempt to cut anv of your tantums I The child will eat it freely; some you w.ll Irwe
here. Go away now—there’* a good fellow !” | »o refrain from ca ingtoo much. Incredible as
Toe woman disappeared and Johnny paused 1 n, TV appear, I have known as many as one
him. The perapiration ran clown his white forehead like
ra n-drr p
'Spea*, sir!' exclaimed Lugare, with a load strike of his
i at in on the desk.
Tlie boy looked ns if he would faint. Hut tlie unmerciful
teacher, confident of having brought to light a criminal, and
exulting in the idea oftlie severe chasetisement lie should
now be justified in indicting, kept working himself up to a
still greater and greater decree of passion. In the mean
t me, the child seemed hardly to know what to do with him
self.— His tongue cleaved to the roof of his mouth. Kitlier
he was very much frightened, or he was actually unwell.
'tfpeak, I »ay!' again thundered Lugare; and his hand,
grasping his ra an, towering above bis head in a very signi*
hundred and twenty or thirty large worms come
from a child of three or four years old. I usu-
ally g've tlie medicine spring and full.— Far
mers’ Register.
nn instant to asccriain if there wns any dung
friglrful about li in. Me then proceeded and
encountered a good humored countryman, com
ing wliistlinu along the road.
*• Pray, Sir.” said Johnny, “ can you direct
me to Mr. Brown’s V’ Awful Condition.—A Scotch paper (the
The thoughtless com.Hyman had forgotten j Berwick Advertiser) tells a story of a man who
i little Jonathan’s warning, but when he heard was sucked into the stream and carried over the
the question it recurred to him, and without say- falls of Niagara—that he was drawn into the
ing a word, took to his heels in such a hurry that great whirlpool below, where he was whirled ra
ise timil.lt ti over a log, put p eking himself up pidly round for the space of a fortnight where
again, betook into the woods, and was out of lie was happily kept alive by means of buiscuits
which were'thrown him by people slaading on
tlie banks! A steam tug was procured from
Kingston, a stout cable thrown to the man—a
lieavv head of steam put on, when with- great
sight in nn instant.
“Veil,” said Johnny to himself, “this is
certainly worry licxliaordinary !” He began
to feel strange sensations, and w; Iked on for a
half a mile, ruminating uwlully upon the unac
countable treatment lie had icceived. Here lie
met another traveller, and with very doubtful
ft. clings about gettin,
his question
difficulty he was dragged out.
112s iroice
won hu.sky and thick. ‘I will tell you sortie—some other
limp. Please to let me co to my seat—I a'nt well.
Oh ye-*; fhet*; vf;y likely; anti M r . L’jgare btilirp l ont
me believe vour lies? I've four.d' you otit, fir plainly e-
nough; and I am satisfied that j’ou are as precious a little
villain as there is in the $tate.—Hut I will postpone settling
with you for an hour yet. I shall then c^Il you up again:
and if you don’t tell flie whole irtfth then, I will give you
something that’ll make you remember Mr. Nichols’ melons
for many a mouth to come: go to your seat.*
Glul enough of the ungracious permission, and answering
not a sound, the child crept trembling to his bench, lie
felt rery strangely, dizzily—more as if he was in a dream
than in real life; and laying his arms on his desk, bowed
down his f.ce between them. 'The pupils turned to their
accustomed studies, for during the reign of Lugare iu tlie
village school, they had been so used to scenes oi* violence
and severe ehasti e nent, that such tilings in.tio but little
interruption in the tenor of their way.
Now, while the interviewing honr is passing we will clear
I up the rnvsterv of the bag. and of young Hitker bein'* un
der the garden-fonre on the preceding night. Tlie boy's
mother wa*. a widow, and they both had to live in the very
narrowest limits. His fathc! had died when he was six
years old, and little Tim was left a sickly, emaciated infant,
whom no one expected to live inauy months. To the sur
prise of all, however, the poor child kept alive, and secuie i
to recover his health, as he certainly did his size and good
looks. This wa' o.ving to the kind offices of an eminuet phy
sician who had a country sent in the neighborhood, and who
had been interested in the widow’s family. Tim, the phy
sician said, might possibly outgrow his disease, but every
thing was uncertain. It was a mysterious ami bulbing ma
la ly ; and it woul 1 not be wouderful if he should in some mo
ment of apparent health be suddenly taken away. The
poor widow was at first iu a continual state of uneasiness;
but several years had now pa.sscJ, and none of the impen
ding evils had fallen upon the Lov’s head. His mother seem
ed to feel confident that he would live, and be a help and an
honor to her old age; and the two struggling on together,
mutually happy n other, and enduring much of pover
ty and discumfo*l without repining, each for the other’s
sake.
Tim’s pleasant disposition had made him many friends iu
the village, and among the rest a young farmer named Junes,
who with his elder brother, worked a large farm in the
neighborhood on shares. Jones very frequently made Tim
a present of a bag of potatoes or corn, or some garden vege
tables, which he took from his own stock, but ns his part
ner was a parsiintymorrs, high tempered man, and had often
»«id that Tim was au idle fellow, and ought not to be help
ed because he did not work, Jones generally made his gifts
in such a manner that no one knew any tiiirt** about them,
except himself and the grateful objects of bk kindness. It
might be, too, that the widow was loath to have it under
stood by the neighbors that she received food from any one;
for there is often an excusable pride in people of her con
dition which makes them shrink from being considered as
objects of‘charity’ as they would from severest pains. On
the night in question, Tint had been told that Jones would
send them a ba<* of potatoes, and the place at which they
were tobe waiting for hhn was fixed at Mr. Nichols' gaf-
ilen fence.—-It was this bag that Tim had*been seen stag
gering under, and which caused the unlucky boy to be ac
cused and convicted by his teacher aa a thief. That teoch-
er, was one little fitted for his important and responsible of
fice.—Hastily to decide, and inflexibly severe, he was the
terror of the little world lie ruled so despotically. Punish
ment he seemed to delight in. Knowing little of those
sv “ _-i fountains which m children’s breasts ever open
qii.ckly at the call of gentleness and kind words, he was
foared by all for his sternness, and loved by none. I wi-uld
that he were an isolated instance of his profession.
Tlie hour of grace had drawn to its} close, and the time
which seemed sufficient to awake a freezing man in his last
lethargy. Cluick and fast blow followed blow. Without
waiting to see die effect of the first cyt, the brutal wretch
plied bis instrument of torture first on one side of the boy ’s
back, and then on the other, and only stopped at tlie end of a
jew minutes from very weariness. Still Tim shown no signs
of motion; and as Lugare, provoked at his torpidity, jerked
away one of the child’s arms, on which he had been leaning
over on the desk; his hand dropped down on the board with
a dull sound, and his face lay turned up and exposed to
view. When Lugare saw it, he stood like one transfixed by
a basilisk.- His countenance ttrrned to a leaden whiteucg*;
the ratan dropped from his grasp; and his eyes, stretched
ttride open, glared as at some monstrous spectacle of hor
ror and death. The sweat started in great globules, seem
ingly# from every pore in bis face; his ekiuny lips contracted,
and showed bis teeth; and when lie at length stretched forth
his arm, and with the end cf one of his fiugars touched the
child’s cheek, each limb quivered like the tongue of a snake;
and his strength seemed as though it would momentarily
fail him. The boy was dead. He had probably been so
for some time, for his eyes were turned up, and his body
was quite t old. The widow was now childless too. Deatn
was in tlie school room, and Lugare had been ftoggjrrg a
CORPSE. W. Wj
TO THE PEOPLE OF THE THlllD CONGRES
SIONAL DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA.
Fcllovr-Citiicns:—Unconstitutional suppression of free*
dom of speech having deprived me of communication with
you through public debates, this letter is resorted to, in or
der to give you some account oftlie late memorable Admin
istration and revolution of the hundred days.
General Harrison was prevailed upon to begin his brief
Presidency by unnecessary extraordinary session ot imper
fect Congress. A discordant parly was to be cemented by
acts of Congress, establishing a National debt and Honk of
extra ..e*sion sixty eight days, during which time, with the . COTTON—THE PRG8PKCT.S. " '
utuil freedom *f debate, iufiuilely more brsmfess wa. d. ne, t Thc following from a late money article u f,h t v- v
sod infinitely better done, thaa during one hundred and sic ald> will be tounc i of much interest. ' V V Be.
d ys ot the late fettered sesstou: for members ot L.mgres., i Tlie i lle account, from England .re more du 3 „
like Other raeu, work much better free .ban eus.avcd At the eottoft trad-, ,ud involve, ui an eminent de.. r “ ?"* h
taat ses.ion, under Mr. Clay » excellent Speakership, all the bi!itVi not wlly o( - th „ house, engaged in that trade T’V
exigencies of war were provided for, notwithstanding t.,c Suutliern institutions generally that hare been ui'" of *e
opposition of an able, bold and refractory parly, when party lnent3 in t!ie The f.jj in t ( le price rf >n. A
excitement was greater, and prompt .ction much more ne. Murch lagt it fully , j cent p, r lb; in lbe raw ^
CC sary, than now. No re.iramt was put on debate All ig al to } U ^r bale alt round, and involves 2' T ‘‘-
motions and speeches were perfectly tree. Resolutions . > IJ > ■ > . -iosii..,
were unrestricted. Petitions, public and private, were re
ceived, a£ the people desired, Slid acted upon. There was
no committee of rules, continually fabricating additional fet
ters. Mr. Webster, by a series of resolutions, arraigned
President M ad I son for criminal misconduct, and tlie accusa
tion was debated as tong as a virulent opposition thought
pioper. It voted for none of the supplies. The previous
cjnestion was seldom resorted to—never without great oroa-
Committees were fairly composed. The majority-
stock held and forwarded since that period of u ear : h
000. The result of this has been the stoppage of
ses, the embarrassment of others, and the probal ip
the return of a vast amount of bills. The hou. e *f
stopped in Liverpool were holders of 6000 bales tbe |
which is not far iroin #<0,000. There is an euii 0 . 0 .
in this city, that has held, for some mouths, 3ooo (,,) “’ ll *
loss on which must he near $35,000. These **' *-
have beem he result of the speculation comments
.1,. a... n._L - si . ”‘10^
pose that the price of cotton must continue to rise no 10
how much might be produced. The same system 0 rc ttit!n
pursued on tlie other side, has led tlie manufacturer/* 1 *-”
agine that there was noliinitto the quantity of mannfs 1011
irnmld fix's# nmrlil )\A i!tan/xaa>l t\C Till. t .
'ur*j
■ees were lainy ro.npose.i- i l.e majority I tlfjlde b y the United States Bank. The prece. cn V ln
en.oye i every narltamcntary privilege. The committee of of t fl at i nstitutioo | ed ,be planters anti
which I was then, as now a member, was equally divided L„, ,t, a , ,hs n». ,i„„. u,no '->to So ,
between the parties, whereas I am now put down in n mi
nority of three to six. Now, compare ffee with forced le
gislation. During die late One hundred and six days, but
twenty-two acts have been passed, all told, and tfie twt>
which* occupied two thirds of the session, frustrated by ve
toes. During the former s09sion of sixty eight days, fifty-five
a£ts were regularly deliberated and enacted, comprehending
a great variety of the most important laws, public and pri
vate ; among the rest a complete system of complicated in
ternal revenue, one single one of whk*h tax laws, the land
tax, is as voluminous, as intricate, and, iti every respect, as
difficult of ff.Iaption to general acceptance, as all the laws of
die lale session taken together. 8ucb are the fruits and
proofs of free and forced legislation respectively. The
mere inedrod of it without reference to the matter. The
natural reaction of compression rendered one hundred and
six days almost abortive, whilst sixty*eiglit days of freedom,
discount, crowned by Distribution of the Public Lands, al ^
together restoring and aggrandizing the discarded reign of under similar and stronger circumstances of difficulty, were
wh&t is miscalled strong Government. greatly more produedve.
- . _ r approached at which it was usual for Lugare to give his
A RREST-**./! HU llccovtry <f) Sftotc/l .>Ioncy,~» J scl»**jl a joyfully-received dismission. Now and then one
an answer, propounded I Some two weeks ajjo, informal on was received ; <>f the scholars wm»!d direct a furtive glanee at Tim, some-
14 1 • .1 • i .» . i i . c ^.ioaa times in indifference or inquiry. They knew that lie would
in tills place, tn.lt an cm >ezz eniei)t of S139J have no mercy shown him, and though most of them loved
To ensure their striking enactment, and captivate or awe
the community, a large majority in Congress organized both
Houses by much more partisan counfiittees than ever felt
before,and under much more arbitrary rules. No measures
were permitted to be introduced, but such as were said to
he indicated by the President's message. For Coujrres*
thus to crouch to the Executive would be unconstitutional
and derogatory, under any circumstances Hut when it
come to be seen that the President was much more opposed
than the Republican part of Congress to what whs publish
ed as a programme of hit measures, this restriction became
preposterous- Part of the plan tjf subjection, was to exclude
all petitions but such as suited the majority ? and it was
stralige to sec the most clamorous advocates of the abused
right of petition, combining with others of a party, to prevent
tlie people from being heard in that way. An absurd viol.v
tion of every citizen’s right of debate was indicted by fixing
the length of speeches, wdiich were moreover mostly sup
pressed altogether by a gag, known as the previous question.
This absolute despotism of the many, more tyrannical than
that of any one master, is unknown in the Senate, and rarely
used in all rational deliberative bodies. It isr a regulation
perhaps essential to curb abuse of discussion like war or im
prisonment, appropriate only to offences in thc last necessi
ty » but a return to thc dark ages, when continually imposed,
as it wns throughout the late session, upon the representa
tives of some eight millions of freemen, reduced to mute and
passive obedience ; allowing no amendment to be proposed,
i or a word to be said. There was uo free deliberation du
ring the late hundred days. The laws enacted were
made by downright force.
In no spirit of persona] mikimlness to the members of a
party prescribing these destructive reversals of the institu
tions of our country, I deem it a solemn duty to call public
attention to them. They mark an era in Am?ri<*afi republi
can annals. They will be seen from Europe with iuvidious
delight as the practical acknowledgment that free govern
ment is impracticable. They arc as I will prove} iatal to
judicious legislation. They constitute a tyranny more in
sufferable than that of any single tyrant. If the people
could have an idea of such dragooning law making, they
would stigmatise it as they did the act of Congrens by which
members voted themselves unjust compensation. It is cal
led energy. It ts supposed that energetic action is popular,
as it ought to be; but uot a vigor beyond law. There was
not the least occasion for it during the late zfcssion. The
inntorirv was so iarpethatit crtuld cany any thing. The
iniuiinty w as never frv.-’ions. \Ve voted the supplies nud '
reasonable requirements oi adiiiiuislratiun wiili alucrity.—
It gives me pleasure to declare that, without distinction of
party, with a few exceptions, there existed throughout the
House of Representatives a general disposition for good pr
der aild personal decorum, it not frustrated by party ; and
tlie prevailing object of illegitimate party drill is to discip
line followers for some Presidential Candidate.
It ought to be taken as w£ll without ns it is within the Cap
itol, that laws are not openly enacted, but hatched in the
hot-bed of frequent caucus : resorted to even more to check
iti:ie|>endent members of such surreptitious assemblies than
their party adversaries. Continual caucus of a la rue ma
jority is a modern contrivance—part of the system of irreg
ular government. Hills resolved in caucus ; drawn, like the
bankrupt net, bv some distant lawyer, probably j>a d for it,
then introduced in cither House of Congress, with a decla
ration that, however imperfect, objectionable, and revolting,
not a single alteration must be allowed, or even listened to.
You must say, fellow-citizens, whether this is what you
elect members to Congress for. During tlie late session
nearly all ihe chairmen of Committees of the Whole were of
the d'lininant party, and, however respectable, eould not vi
olate its caucus orders. Without one solitary exception,
even the act of grace to the widow of the late President,
ever/ art passeJ, as the phrase is, was forcibly rushed thru’
the several readings, which also are most of them mere tit
ulor and rapid formalities—in fits of the previous question.
By a sort of Cassartan operation, the whole issue of the hun
dred days came into premature anil unnatund being, which
is thc reason why. as I will show you, all the principal ones
proved mere abortions.
Hy revolutionary misrule, tlie violent control tlie wise.—
The discree' and best inclined portion of the ruling party
ate mastered by the outrageous ; caucus fetters torture a
majority, and enabled a minority to overthrow the whole.—
The first Hank bill of the hundred days wns carried by this
kind of despotism, contrary to tlie win of a majority of both
Houses.. The Bankrupt bil) was carried contrary to the
will of a majority of the House of Representatives. Tlie
second bank bill was despatched, absolutely despatched, on
short allowance of two half days for discussion. Not one of
a minority ot' ninety mftnbert wa* beard ooit. One of the
two legislative days allowed os was Sunday, which by the
Constitution and high authority, is excepted from the ten
davs the President is permitted to employ to consider any
bill. A charter for twenty long years, corning, as was said,
from the den of iniquity in Philadelphia, and hashed up in
caucus, which the President's veto brands *»s n broker’s
shop, was the bastard offspring of a few hour’s debate.
This is the kind of legislation to which it is all important
that universal attention should be called to ernsh. Other
wise the House of Representatives may degrade itself be
yond redemption. Already it has lost constitutional prepon
derance, and is sinking, like the iniquitous banks, into popu
lar odium. Madness of party, perhaps party reaction—for
I nm willing to agree that all parties are liable to excesses
—it behooves all reflecting men, without distinction of party,
to rescue the gdvemment from such degradation. Clamor
ous denunciation of Executive sway hns been long the party
cry, while party violence is transferring all constitutional
power from the House of Representatives to the executive.
The President or the Senate have become our whole gov
ernment. While caucus controls a House of Representa
tives, fettered by arbitrary rules and previous questions into
a mere body of registration, what is it but a Jacobin club, or,
ruther, an old French Parliament ? Caucus is the Jacobin
club where laws are resolved upon. The House of Repre
sentatives is a silent Parliament, which records them in
mute and passive obedience. Why may not a regent, pro
tector, or king, come in, booted and spurred, with a whip in
his hand, and oversee thc business done as his followers
settled in conclave?
The degeneracy of American Government is flagrant
At the first session of Congress, the President deliberated
sometimes w ith the Senate, in their hall. In his first coin
goods that might be disposed of. This served to eoco .
the planters and speculators here, until production,
the raw material and of the manufactures, has outr
sumption, and the means of payment in all the mark ^
the world. The result is of coursfc a paralysis in allil ****
ificatior.s of the trade, a fall in prices, aud the ruii/V^’
oj»erators. The following is a table of the exports of ^
manufacturer*from Great Britain at different peririds C ^
Export of Cotton Manvf actttresfrom Gnat Brfa
1834 1840
Qiftntity. Vale-. Quantity " y ,
Plains cotton, y<U, 283,950.158 fi,5U,l?3 483,114 37*1 -w,* 1 *'
Dye •• “ 271,755,661 7,«U.!7» 357^17 054
Rucclhtucouf,
Total,
This table give* a vast increase of the cfiiemitv v?
small increase-in the aggregate value. It appear# ffiat
.A o.wl A.-- . Coll0 ^
same
rotten have fallen from «kl per yard to 3jd, anddved
from G|d to 5$d, and yarn* from 15d to I4d. L* t i, c
« time the crop of cotton has inereased’fmm 1.2.Tf;32£ bal** 1 *
j 2,174.000 bales; and the price talk*ft from lla 12 rems**
entfi. These facts are thc incontrovertible M'uiptni l ° * > -
prodaction, caused by tlie unnatural sdinulou* m n
a 8cents.
over __ _
banking and ctedit systems, throughout tlte world. ”]
the first six months«f the present year, tlie extir.rts U f IW ^
Great Britain have been les* than last year with the ex ^
tion of plain calicoes, which have increased. Tke follow^
is a comparative table of exports :— lu £
Cotton yarn. !!>•.
I’l till culicuns yds.
ge
Let us contemplate, next, the strange and revolting char
acteristics of the laws made by dragooning Duplicate bank
bil s—one dont, t'other come on—a bankrupt bill enacted in
to abeyance, like a bear’s cub, tube licked into future shape;
a Distribution bill, which is a mere paltering declusion, mu
tilated as it is of its productive fatuities ; a Loan bill, the
mere basis of the blessings of national debt ami a new foun
ding system ; larger loans explicrly announced by the head
oi* the Fimince Committee, and that head in the Senate,
w hich it is impossible to wink so hard as not to see tuu*t be
followed by direct taxes, for like the deplorable £tate debts
they can never be redeemed by other expedients; a Reven
ue hill which taxes in the luftip, so that neither merchant nor
manufacturer can possibly comprehend its oracular provi
sions* incidentally declaring prohibitory hostilities with
France when war with England is eminent; the Post office Export* of Cotton Manvfactnrgr* from Great Brit
put on the custom house for support—it required the ragirg for tkfjirst Six Months of 1841 Cu
1840. 1841. Increase
B CnMnn ••■Ml IL. JH 1 (A lA > A* 0-0 ao
ntts ami judicious minority, prevented, as any one may as-
certaii! by simple computation, the cost of the late hundred
days’ misrule being one hundred millions of dollars. A mil
lion of dollars a day would have been tlie per diem of the
late dynasty, had it not been dethroned.
Next, let us see what it has accomplished. It has achie
ved the final extinction of all Banks of the United Stales. A
unwillingly restored the custody of the public money to th*
Treasurer of the-United tkates. to whom it was entrusted hy
the original act of 178fi, and not to the Secretary of the Trea
sury, usurping its control. It has wroung from the Presi
dent his slow leave to a contingent distributictii acl, dtsiined
to be repeal by act of Congress at an early day. It has car
ried a bankrupt act which may ha\ •* aoir.e influence on she
fall elections and ring the knell of expiring banks, but w hich,
t is not pretended, can be executed wdehonf fundamental al
terations. S*-o that loans, taxes, and a few bills too insignifi-
c mi f>r enumeration, are the poor achievement* of die hun
dred days’ misrule, frequently vatrfned on* the floor of thc
Senate, anti in certain of the public presses, as frightened
children whistle in the dark, when courage is oozing out at
every pore, and the sweat of trepidation starting from the
forehead. Thus divinity ofparty discard overruled part
combination, ami shaped its rough hewn ends. The «loud,
only as bigas a man’s hand in the President’#* message, i:»
ci eased till it darkened the whole horffon, and at lcniM-h the
storm broke forth With an Intensity o» Which, fbllow-eitizens,
newspapers ami letter-writer* can give but faint impressions
nt a distance. The distinguished member of the ruptured
iiiuj iriiv, who vainly attempted to reason with its rage, truh
said, that what a huge portion of it did, to wit: arraign the
President for his hostility to a Bank, the pivot of all their
proceeding, is no better than the Whig party to have foisted
itself into jKiwer, bv concealing their design; and that their
party differences, if not reconciled, w ill become, not misfor
tunes, but crimes, by their own misconduct.
They never can be reconciled, because they are quarre’s
of principles. The distentions of that party are inevitable
consequences of attempting to create one out of discordant
in aerials. The President’s first message w ashed h's hands
of the retributive justice of an ill advised extia sc.vden. de
signed to do what human pjwer cannot effect. Ye . through
out the whole hundred days of viceroy ally over i.it?«, party
purposes were unrelentingly pursued in contumelious dis
regard of his *a amines ana views—until he was left, as the
first veto with much feeling declared, with no other ojefon
than abject submission, or the exert* i.-e of that great n muni
tion p*#teuiiality, the only safe-guard against legi<dati\e dic
tation, am! which he was obliged to uve against law.** forced
through the Leg’.slu'ure by entcu* majorities, which were
minorities of the legislative body. Rut for that appeal t.»
the reople. the people themselves would have been os much
enslaved as the Presult nr. This Union would Vo g«*rer»cd
by illegitimate regency, ruling with unstait iiresponsibility.
Both the President and the House of Representatives w- uld
he nullflied. Even the Senate was not a wtliing party to at
least the first Bank bill. We should have luwf Rank gov
ernicent, and -nothing but paper money—a vast broker’s
simp, in the metropolitan lolitudes of Washington, with
branches ogling e.tcn other across rivers, whotc divisions do
bat multiply the means of conspiring mischief, all secretly
nnnaged by some old woman of either sex at the seat of
Government, w ould be incessantly deranging the prices of
property every where. An invisible empire of Bank, like
the caucus empire, secretly ruling Congress* a power not
behind, but before, the throne, would govern the Govern
ment of the United States. Front all these, the recoiling ex-
res es of the hundred days, through the instrumentality of
the votes, have saved the couotry.
Mr. Tyler is an instrument of overruling Providence, often
marvellously snatching this Republic from apparent jeop
ardy, to rescue it from the calamities of the late over wrought
extraordinary session. This chapter of strange accidents
conducting him to the Chief Magistracy, is said to nerve him
with a sort < freligious belief that lie "is destined, through
hi. her power, to wonderful instrumentality. Uncrmprc mi-
sing champion of the radical politics of the Virginia plat-
foim, l:e stood erect upon it almost alcue, environed by par
ty adherents opposed to his principle, confronting party op
ponents sympathizing with those principles, fearlessly* sus
tained by a small sect of inflexible politicians, unjustly st’g
matized as a cabal or kitchen cabinet, counteracting an offi
cial ministry without the Piestdent’s predilections, if not
their antagonists, in fact the Cabinet of another, most of
whom have just departed this political life, after six short
months of a fitful, ephemeral exis e ice. For some time
past, Me. Tjler must have been a constant veto upon ail
their views; for he did not sympathize with one of his Sec
retaries iu attachment to Banks or Abolition, in enjoyment o ’
ai library removals from office, or any of the pleasures of ex-
ce>sive Government. W hi lever he" stands fast by the peo
ple, they will support him. Measures, not men, is thc car
dinal rule of Republicanism.
Never in American annals was a crisis so full of consoling
lessons as the late abortive sessions of tlie vetoes. The
whole country justly admires the striking posture of a minor
ity in the Senate whose notions, speeches, and votes are still
fee. Let me say for die minority of the House of Repre
sentatives, that under duress, with debate oppressed and
votes suppressed, that House did its duty. Mr. Tyler’s
petsonal friends sat there with us, their votes and speeches
in harmony w ill* ours, sufficiently signalizing what ought to
be done, and might be expected. Accordingly, the civil
Dec.
49.440.302 <MWer* - 5,4^0 r/A
154,141.404 181,758,541 27.617 ©7? ,
■nureu - -* 14J,7l 9, % I 141^54,334 — 2,365.119
The demure in the exports of yams is mostlv to the north
of Europe.- The increase in the plain calicoes has
mostly to the Brazils and the United Stne>. In the prinuvi
calicoes there was a decrease of J0,000,000 yards ui
British West Indies, and an increase in other quartern. Thu
increase o* business does not, however, indicate a heahU
trade. The go* d have been forced off on account o; the man.
uiacture.«/to relieve their distresses. The weekly aver;
of cotton taken by the trade, 1ms been as follows :~
18l<\ • bags, 22,733
MU. “ 18*901
Decrease, • 3,*32
equal to a tailing off of 160,000 bales for the six lmniths
2 JO.OOO for the year.
The quantity of goods sent to this country in 1834, wlien
thewh.de export were £20,500,000, was Jtl,700.000; li*t
year, when ot Jt24.600.0u0 expoited,but X 1,123,000
Although the year 1837 gave n severe lesson to the spr
oulator* in die cotton market yet they again plunged inn# iLe
market durin*r the pa3t year, predicating their movement
tblviy on the fact that the number of bales sent to market
was less than the enormous crop of the previous year, when
it reached 2,176,000 bales. Tlie result this year tnfl U
more disasteron* than in that year, because, from eoutiuued
reverses, the dealers have less stability now than then. Ti e
losses in cotton have been so severe ot late years, Um laip*
sums borrowed in Europe on the credit of tie* Siuiheru
States, and applied to banking, have been lost. The banks
whose capitals w ere so t reated, are insolvent, and the Bank
rupt Lav.’will soon sweep them from existeure. and inmir?
the States in the question of taxation to meet die principal
and imeie^t of the bonds issued for their capita it.
A REAL FISH STORY !
It is well known to seamen, that it is nn exceedingly tiifT-
cult matter to kill a shat k. They seem insensible to pain—
rill struggle a long tin:.
vLen he drelated
dead, tiiAA any
atnl after being horribly u.ujilated, <
with denth. It is plain that the Irishman *
that an cel would live longer after he wa:
other animal, had never seen a shark.
It may be considered strange that, althnuch shark* ofen
manifest a deep-seated aud devounag 1 king fi r mImtk, tir
feeling is hy no mentis reciprocated, for saiiors vvii.ee jii
iinrt rujuerab'e antipathy to sliarkf 1 —iV Mimethnes when tiey
«*pp»ure one of these “monsters of the deep” they treat him
iti a very utilviadsome uicjmer, and put trirk* him,
whh*h piece him in au orromfoi table poshfou—and e\h>i
in »«oitspicuMis attitude the r Hostile feelings utul uutorgw-
ing disposition.
We have seen several it.stances of tenavhv w a ri>atk, nl
a e!mrnc:er to astonish a laiwisuvaii-*-aud have heard * t *rv-
eral well attested cases, rt>U more remarkable. For i. •
st mre, a gentleman f>4 undmihied verachy. om*e iiJonncl
us. that he saw a shark hooked, taken Jer k, and his liv< r
taken out; after which he was thrown overboard—when hr
kept swimming about the ship apparently as calm at d uti
concemed ns Nicholas Biddle himself wlieu the stork rf
the Batik of the United States was rapidly det lining—and a
ba ted ho :k being thr wnoverb« ard, this phtloeofihici-Keatie
man, (not Nicholas Biddle, but thc «l»ar .) greedily seized it,
and was a«gn'nt captured ! But this is only nuts and giuger-
I vend to what w e are going to relate.
The fishing schr. Aiabaim, of Gloucester, Capt. P cm ing,
arrived here about a week ago, from a skurt ern'ise after
mackerel, and had been quite successful, having caught a
hundred barrels. According to the statements of the cap
tain and the crew, while all hands were busily engaged iu
hauling in the fish which wore very abundant around them,
a large shark sud leidy appeared, and the frightened mack
erel took their departure for places unknown, without cere
mony. The shark, however, disdained to pursue them, but
remained by the schooner. The officers and crew of the
Alabama were disgusted and indignant at such conduct ir.
I he shark. A C; unci! wns held, and ft was unanimously
resolved, first to catch him, and then to punish him for his
insolence.
The first part oftlie resolution was soon carried Into effect,
for the shark was hunery. and easily beguiled to his undoing.
When • sti etched upon the deck of the Alabama, lie w*§
found to be a formidable looking ariimd, nearly tw elve feci
in length. A consultation wasjnow held to decide upon the
kind of punishment which he deserved, and it was agreed
that Ire had merited death—and that his head should be
chopped off with the cook’s axe. This sentence was carried
i into execution fortlftvith—and the body was pierced scvewl
j time* widf rm old bayonet, when it was tumbled overbear!*
while the head was retained as a trophy.
The Alabama now changed her berth, proceeding to
some distance from the >;»ot where the scenes we hare jui-t
related were enacted. A shoal of mackerel was soon di»*
covered—tlie lines were ngain put over—the fish bit sharp
aud eagerly—ami the joyous crew proceeded to fill the decks
with mackerel. All at once they disappeared, as if sem*
fearful enemy was approaching—when one of the crew pe.-
reived an object in the water, end exclaimed—•“‘Here is an
other rascally shark c< m ug alongside !”
Preparations were accordingly made for capturing the in
truder—when, to tie great astonishment of Ccpt. Reusing an*!
the crew, they found, on closer inspection, that the .-lurk a-
revolution which marked the wonderful transition of the • lonesidc was the identicalJi*k iraiek they had lehcaM
succeeded in capturing the above named indivi- ] oi'vours. Jo t step up here.'
1.1. ...Jf .-.._i. i Tim did not move. The*
Tlic stranger paused right before Johnny, & 1 bad taken place in Baltimore, and that the par
Ills hat seemed :<> be rising off bis hea l.—To : ties concerned, a lad namrvl J uies Dumn,
judge from his looks, his feelings must have ! nbout 18 years of age, and a young man named
been like th“<e of a bird fascinated by a rattle- Cmakleb Greenwood, had with their ill gotten
snake. J<> \ noticed' the frightful appear- gain, Trended their way South. Our indefatigi-
ance oftlie n cr. and terror now took po;- 1 ble police had been on the qui vive since, and
spss oi. oi h hi. He imagined something dread- jon Satarday through the instrumentality of M.ir- ' f
fui was going to occur, and forthwith took to his sbal Ptndergast and State Constable Lent/,
heels into the woods.
God bless my art,’’ exclaim d he loud, ‘vot
ran he the matter with the people ! Vot kind
iff country av I got into? Vy, these inhabitants
are wild ! They are Walentincs and Horsons !
Hourang Ilouu.ngs? regular vild men of the
vooJs.”
11c was now completely lost in a thick wood.
When he found flic way again, he was afraid to
ask any more questions, and finally got back to
.the town, where the next dav, our hero visited
him with “ Look here, stranger, Mr. Brown’s
house isjust wiiere it was yesterday. When
you bfce him, tell him what you think «f Yan
kee tricks.”
him, whipping was too, common there to exact much sym
pathy. Every enquiring glance, however, remained unsat-
it fled, for at flic end of ah hour, Tim remained with bis face
complete-iv hidden, and his bead bowed in his arms, pre
cisely as he had leaned himself when he first went (o his
»eat. Lugare looked at the boy oc< adona’Jy with a scowl
which seemed to bode vengeance for his sullenuess. At
length the Inst class had beeu heard, and the last lesson re-
ited, and Lugare seated himself behind his desk on the plat
form, with his longest and stoutest ratan before him.
Now Barker,’ he said,’ we’ll settle that little business
dual", and recovered from Greenwojd’o trunk
the sum of $744. Both were committed by B.
C. Pkksslt, Esq., a Magisirnrfe, to our Jail,
there to await further orders from Baltimore.
Charleston Mertury.
The Moon.—The celebrated French Astro
nomer, Aragy, contends that this planet is not
nn inlwbited body, and that it is without any
kind of vitality, either animal or vegetable. Tie
leys v* it ich, however, he says, are of primMrve
formation.
school room was as still as the
1 crave. Not a sound was to be heard, excej I occasionally
! a lon^-drawn breath.
! *Mind me, air, or it will be the worse for you. Step up
here, ahd take off your jacket!’
The hoy did not stir any more than if he had been of wood.
L»Jgaic shook with passion. He sat still a minute, as if
considering the bedt wav to wreak his vengeance. That
minute, passed in death like silence, was a fearful one to
( some of the children, for their faces whitened with fright.
I It seemed, as it slowly dropped away, like the minute which
precedes"die climax of an exquisitely performed tragedy,
when some mighty imistei* of the histrionic art is treading the
sta«?e, and you and die multitude around you are waiting
with stretched nerves and susp’ :iJed breath, in expectation
of the terrible catastrophe.
‘Tiin is asleep, sir.’ at length said one of tiie boy# who sat
near him.
Lugare, at this intelligence.allowed bis features to telax
from their expression of savage aegvr into-a smile, but that
smile looked more malignant, if possible, than his former
scrowls It might be that he felt amused at the horror de
picted on the faces of iho*e about him; or it might be that
he was gloating in pleasure o» the way in which he intend
ed fo wake the poor little sluruberer.
‘Asleep, are you, my young gentleman*.’ said he; ‘let us
see if we c»n|t find son*ething to tickle your eyes open.
recommended no measure whatever. He left all to what I tilling in what is called omnipotence in June, broke, bv its of that fish—for the hea l was King perfectly qaiet on the
he might then speak of the wisdom and patriotism of tLc own over-action, into irreconcilable fragments before Ye »- • deck of the Alabama ! The rascal was probally ptt*li>f
More. SlMUBrj—Tiie iioston Transcript
M)\* that an uuiubcr of storm ships
are already built for the Concord line, and that
rar’v in the spriB£» they will commence r n-
riinjtf sn that h boat will leave Liverpool sind I
Wm. Comt Johnson is the Whig candidate
for Governor in Maryland. Thepcople of that
State know the cost ofwliiggery too well to elec-
him^ - Pennsyhanian*
A JV sid ration of Principles.—‘‘Feller citizens.” said
an Arkansas orator who mounted the stump a short time
since —** Feller ri* i*ens. didn't 1 aid in riding Bill Poker,
th* block leg. on a rail ?”
“ You did ?■ yoa did !” rtid his auditory^
“ Didn't I, feller citizens, lick that bigpedler from the
Jarseys that spoke disrespectfully of onr state ?"
Yes—you did? >oa did!” unanimously shouted the
meeting.
“ Feller citizens, when Jim Jenkins was proaecnted by
bis political enemies for horse stealing, didn’t I, as foreman w M m f
r ' e : * —* —rire verdi gnti/f w cf asm a It and furl- Tfivro’s notlfin^likp in** kin? the best of a bad case/boys.—*
, # i .y, here, is determined not to be worried in his uujjri a
ot—* t uu 1 vou dto —you cv n . u -ter . : j H)U( a idild flogging,.for thc thought of A cau’t
” Is there a non in this crowd, feller citizens, that doesnr’t • ^ iiu ] 0 ^oundrel awake,
owe ine a drink V r ! Lugare smiled again aa be made the last ebserratyn*.
“No. notone.” 1 He grasped his ratan firtnlv, and d»scende<l from hi* awt.
” Havn’t you alwaya seen me willing to stand treat T j WjR, light and stealthy stept he oro^dtlte and stood
"Always—always—you’i# a horse!” 1 hv tlie * —* * 1
Representatives oftlie people.
I5ut within Iwo years past, two bank bills, originating in
the Senate, have been hardly considered, while hurried
through the House of Representatives, under the high pres
sure of ihe previous question. Twice lias a great party
been rallied from the 8enatc against two Presidents for pro
voked vetoes. Twice has a Bank of the United States, if
desirable, been destroyed by party leaders provoking ve
toes, seemingly for party purposes. A brilliant, impulsive,
and dictatorial leader, the most eloqueut man of his country,
far advanced in life, yet with all the ardent buoyancy of
youth, capable of any fatigue, indomitable, with the most
admirable talents for commending followers ; without favor
with tiie peoole ; whose best argument was made agamst a
United States Bank, of which he is now, without mercenary
motive, by far the most powerful advocate—the Atlas, or
rather Sampson—has, foi ten years past, been the hero of a
political Iliad, whose catastrophe, more through his agency
than that of any other individual—has proved the final doom
of the monarchy of American finance. Revenue bills and
tax bills begun or radically recast in the Senate ; the House
of Representatives tamely waiting at all times for Presiden
tial recommendations of measures which bought to originate;
Executive or Senatorial initiation of almost every thing, ore
alarming symptoms of modern legislative degeneracy. Our
government was founded upon the broad basis of the House
of Representative*, where its orgofric acts, including the
Bank of the United States, began, aud all moneyed measure*
belong. Bilt, under the cry of rally to the rescue from
a union of the sword and purse, Voth have been arrogated
by tlie two branched of the Executive. The Representative
branch, by self degradation, stripping itself of all constitu
tional powftV, and submitting to be tlie silent slave of those
who nre its constitutional inferiors
It is among the dogma* of a party (has revolutionizing
American government, that the Supreme Court of the Uni
ted Startex possesses not only an absolute veto upon all seta
of f-rmirress: but that its constructions of them are conclusive
tuber, with catastrophe of irreparable dow nfall. The mi
in rity enjoyed the great advantages of being one in senti
ment, in action, in the conviction of right, and the sense of
being v rouged by a despotic majority; discarding (til thoughts
of makirg Presidents, while our opponents thought nirst of
that ambitious object. There were not half a dozen demo
cratic caucuses of the minority of the House of Representa
tives that l know of during the session. Without colluakm,
secret understanding, selfish or party bargain, we saw e-
nough of the shadows of coming events to teach us that we
had but to wait obvious devefopements and bide otir time
in open, patient, steadfast adhesion to the principles we were
chosen to maintain. This constituted all the police weluni
about in search ofhis head !
For obvious reasons- they did not again attempt to raptatf
the fielt w’ith a hook aud line—but a harpoon was driven in
to him, and lie was again hauled on board, aud retained un
til he was rendered incapable of frightening or devouring any
more shoals of mackerel.— Boston Journal.
TURTEttRSUe LKGKNDOr THE KILKENNY
CATS.
O’Flyn she was an Irishman, as very well was known. ^
And .she lived down hy Kilkenny, aud she lived there «*•'
alone.
Will only six great large tom-cats a* knew their vMf a5a**»
Oh, very fond o’ cats was she—(and whiskey too. 'tis
£lie didn’t feed ’em very much, bat she comb'd 'em web
instead;
As may be guess’d, these large tom cats, they didn't get very
sleek,
Upon a combing once a day, and a ‘ka’porth’ once a week.
, , ■ ; | , -ill ia hi Itti iv.lll —N13 IIP MIC W Cl 11 H *. *■‘
occasion lor. Tliua managed, with honesty is the best poll- | Ami ev tv body else besides sbe scrap’loo*!* shut out.
rv, three moth* of extraordinary session did the work tiiree — . .....
yeais of |M>pular struggle, by n ere natural cultivation of the
straight forward course of events righting themselves. It
was the doom of an infatuated majority to destroy their own
ascendant, while a compact minerhy stood fast upon the rock
of their well known principles, merely awaiting eventuality.
Further and eternal vigBanre still remains the price t, he
always paid for liberty. But tlie winter of our di-c intent,
has passed away during a aummer session, and spring opens !
upon the fall elections with all its reviving promise. The
late extraordinary session of Congress is the fast of the ex
traordinary sessions. It has taught lessons of modera’ion
and economy, which can never be forgotten. It has taught
the American people that enalitidns are inaonaistent with
r,ur fo'ities. The people will recollect with gruitude the
tession of the vetoes. C. J. INGKRtlOLL.
Washington, I). C., Sept. 13, ISO.
Revotutinnary Incident.—It is well remembered ’hat a
reward of five hundred pounds *as oflertvl ror the 1 e .d of
John Haneock. When he signed the Declaration‘diode
pendence, he d.d ir Wirh a bold hand, in a conspicuous mjiTt
ncr ;and rising from his seat, peitiling ro it. t xclatmed.
There ! John null fan read thy flame without spectacle*;
Now on one dreary winter's night, O'Flvn she went to bra
: The whiskey bottle under her arm. (the whisky io her head.f
The six great large tom eats they »at all in a dismal row.
Attd horridly glared their hungry eyes—their tails wags' 1
to and fro.
At last one grim grev-nalktn spoke in accents dire tb !>)*•'
And dreadful were the words that in this awful wiiis| >, ‘ r
fell- ,
When al! >he other five tom-cats in answer loud did sqa** 1 '
Let's kiii her—and let* eat her—body, boue* apslall'.”
1 hinJiu : up m all the other.deportments of Oovermrtfm, he m ay double his reward, and 1 put hhn at defiance.
iLrlcding Congress. Let those who have witnessed the .
proreed mgr or the late extraordinary session, obedient to \ n . * % • , , . .
that dopuin, itnatpne that learned court assisted bv eri»v» | r ease of bigamy m high brought be-
conn,ellots, construing meaning out ofstleb oM.ofCo^-ess ' fo™ n agwtra.e recently .n Philadelphia. T ..
as the machlt^ry before designated neresssrily produces. ' ^ ,lv ; Ma !> K ' 1 "» ,er > • 1, »* Br ^ d - « «»>«t head of the
-.r- . m . _ , , * v 1.^ unlucky sleeper. Tl»« boy wa# atill as ancon^iou# j It must be a much greater farce than the imposture dfau- [ au,,! - v of one , of °V r luiH-tHmaries—both die bus
“Weil, now, you all know I voted for old lip QTd T>ler of* his impending podtftbmefit a# ever. . He might be dream- j ^urs predicting futurity from tire entrails rtf shitlghfered bands appeared her. On^ of them reaides mN(
thr last election : but if ever I do it again, I ULe tetotally ingaome golden dream of youth and pleasure; perhaps he ! blasts. The false interpretations are incalculable to bi* * . , *' e ot,)er m Philadelphia. The lady claimed c
w?a far away in the world of fancy, seeing scenes, ami feel- into law. I arrest m consequence of tern* iu the femily
Of liiirtihle f oh terrible 1 oh desdly tsle to tell ,,
When the sou sitouc i» the window kc'-e all there 6*ctM
stili and weil> .
i Tlie cats they sat awl hik’d their paws sh in » merrv rmg
D-U noiUiHg cist within the place loot’d Hh* O iirisff
—
thats good Let’s liquor.”—-.V. (J. Pic.
k I»0
int
Whig Safi/inal Debt.—Heifry Clay announced in
Boston t.ri’iv Jrc*k, thu* esublitllint; a ueckK- I d e Perste on Piturday that CoBjfrers, at u» next sesuon,
” - . will lieve to provide tor mother losn:
inkromrjw ttuli r.iiroiif. • 1 *
ing delighla, which cold reality never can bestow. Lugare
lifted his ratan high over his head, and with the true and
expert aim which lie had acquired by long practice, brought
it dtmII on Tim's back with a force and whacking sound
thus litigated into law.
I proceed to prove that forced legislation make* law*, ac
cording to the experience of the hundred da;.tf. as much
fewer as they are worse. President Madi'sen convened
Congees* on the 2*th May, IS13, and they remained in that
an agent of a foreign government. The case was po*ti>oned.
P. Clat’s speech in favor of his Taut Bill is the strongest
argument agsraulhis Distriputinn BiU made this session.
Auon they quartell'd savagely, and spit, and swore
hallo’d, '■ ,
Till at iast these si* great largo tom cat* they one an 01
swallow’d; —
And nought but one long tail was left in that once pt*ce
dwelling.
And a very tough one too it wus—'tis the smno »* * *
telling.
ex * Crutk shank's Omnibus.
of
•* Oft in the stilly nifht.
When slumher's chains h.ve boon 1 me,
I feej the ettrsnd bite • ...
Of something crawling rouui u*« •