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For incidental i xp uses attending the repairs of fortifications,
<nd for the ptirch as- of additional land in the neighborhood,
fifty thousand do!!. i ;
For the Fort at ; . ande Terre, being the amount of a former j
appropriation catticd to the surplus fund, fifteen thousand dol
lars;
For the preservation and repair of Fort Niagara, thirty
thousand dollars;
For repairing and rebuilding the old fort til Oswego inclu
ding the construction of the necessary barracks, twenty thous
and dollars.
For barracks and other buildings at Sackett’s Harbor, ten
thousand dollars;
For barracks and other buildings at Plattsburg, twenty
thousand dollars;
For the construction of barracks, quarters store houses, hos
pitals anil stables t\gd the necessary defences of the posts it may
be deemed proper to establish for the better protection of the
Western frontier, eighty thousand dollars.
Sec. 3. 7>< it further enacted, That the fidlowing sums be, I
and the same are here hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of
any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the j
support of the Military Academy for the year one thousand
eight hundred and thirty-nine, viz:
For pay of officers, cadets, and musicians, fifty-nine thotis- '
and two hundred and twenty-eight dollar.-;
For subsistence of officers and cutlets, fluty thousand ami
four dollar.-;
For forage of officers’ horses, three thousand nine hundred
and thirty-six doll.us;
For clothing of officers’ servants, three hundred and ninety
dollars;
For defraying the expenses of the board of visitors at West
Point, two thousand dollars;
For fuel, forage, stationary, printing, transportation, and
postage, twelve thousand five hundred and eighty-one dollars
and forty-live cents;
For repairs, improvements, and expenses of buildings,
grounds, roads, wharves, boats, and fences, seven thousand two
hundred and twenty-one dollars and sixty cents;
For pay of adjutant’s and quartermaster’sjclerks, nine huti-1
deed and fifty dollars;
For increase and expenses of the library, one thousand dol
lars;
For miscelleue m-. items and incidental expenses, seven hun
dred and thirty-one dollars and fifty < ent -;
For the department of engineering, three hundred dollars;
For the dr; rtment of philosophy, twelve hundred dollars;
For the department of mathem iiics,*nineix -seven dolors and
fifty-four cents;
For the department of chemistry, eight hundred and twen
ty-seven dollars and fifty cents;
For the department of drawing, two hundred and eighty-five
dollars; !
For the department of tactics, three hundred and sixty dol- I
lars; J
For the department of artillery, two hundred and Seven'.y
five dollars;
For a reservoir, three thousand One hundred and eighteen
dollars;
• For two fire-engines, with hose complete, one thousand nine
hundred dollars;
For the completion of the buildings fir the library and the
engineering, philosophical, and chemical departments, in addi
tion to the appropriation of eighteen Immlred and thirty-eight,
sixteen thousand six hundred and f.<rt\-nine dollars and fifty
cents..
Sec. 4. 'And be it further cnarlcd, That payment shall be
made under the directions of the Third Auditor, to the Missouri
volunteers, whose horses were lost, or cast away at sea, or which
perished or died in consequence of suffering at sea, in the vov
age from New-Orleans to 1 ampa Hay, in the year eighteen
hundred thirty-seven ; and that the sum of thirty-five thousand
dollars, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appro
priated, be, and the same hereby is, appropriated, to make said
payments.
And when it shall appear that erroneous valuations have been
made of such property, with a view to defraud the Government,
the Secretary of War shall suspend payment therefor until a
satisfactory investigation can be made, and it shall be made to
appear that such valuation was made in good faith.
Approved, March 3d, 1839.
[Public —No. 38.]
AN AC! making appropriations for the naval service for the year
one thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the follow
ing sums be appropriated for the naval service for the year one thou
sand eight hundred and thirty-nine, in addition to the unexpended
balances of former appropriations, viz:
For pay of commissioned, warrant, and petty officers, and of sea
men, two millions three hundred and fifty-two thousand six hundred
and twenty-five dollars and sixty-four cents;
For pay of superintendents, naval constructors, and all the civil
establishments at the several yards, forty-four thousand dollars;
For provisions, six hundred thousand dollars;
tor repairs of vessels in ordinary, and the repairs and wear and
tear of vessels in commission, one million of dollars;
For medicines and surgical instruments, hospital stores and other
expenses on account of the sick, seventy-five thousand dollars;
For improvement and necessary repairs of the navy yard at Ports
mouth, New Hampshire, thirty thousand dollars;
For improvement and necessary repairs of the navy yard at Charles
town, Massachusetts, twenty-six thousand dollars;
For the improvdment and necessary repairs of the navy yard at
Brooklyn, New York, seven thousand five hundred dollars;
For improvement and necessary repairs of the navy yard at Phil
adelphia, Pennsylvania, eight thousand dollars;
For improvement and necessary repairs of the navy yard at Wash
ington, twenty-six thousand dollars;
For improvement and necessary repairs of the navy yard at Gos
port, A irginia, sixty-four thousand dollars;
For improvement and necessary repairs of the navy yard near
’ensacola, .twenty-five thousand dollars;
For ordnance and ordnance stores, sixty five thousand dollars;
For defraying the expenses that may accrue for the following pur
•>oses, viz: for the freight and transportation of materials and stores
t every description; lor wharfage and dockage; storage and rent;
•ravelling expenses of officers and transportation of seamen!; house
rent for pursers when attached to yards and stations where no house
' provided ; for tuncrai expenses; for commissions, clerk-hire,office-
• nt, stationary, and fuel to navy agents; for premiums and inciden
i expenses of recruiting; for apprehending deserters ; for compen-
ion to judge advoca* <; for per diem allowance to persons attend
! courts martial and c an ts of inquiry ; for printing and stationary
■i every description, and for working the lithographic press ; and
*'■ books, m ips, <dcirt-:, mathematical and nautical instruments, chro-
• meters, mode!,-, and drawings; for the purchase and repair of fire
“ nines and inaclimi-ry, and for the repair of steam engines in navy
< Is; for the pu-J; and maintenance of oxen and horses, and for
• "s, timber wfr : , a;.J workman’s tools of every description; for
' age of I'-ttt <on p i',lie service ; for pilotage and towing ships of
; tor taxi and a-uissnicnis on public, property ; for assistance
' r< 1 to v< in distress, f,r incidental labor at navy yards, not
deal 1 ■ to any other appropriation; for coal and other fuel, and
. cam! >•< and oil fir tin.- use of navy yards and shore stations; for
- pairs of ma/aziues or powder houses; and for no other purpose
« istcver, four hundred and fifty thousand dollars ;
i or coiitit,gent expenses fur objects not hereinbefore enumerated,
rec thousand duller <;
tor psji ol the officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians,and
privates, a., 1 su',,i,ien<<: of the officers of the marine corps, one
n nidi ” I and sei only-four thousand three bundled dollars;
.For the provisions for the non-commissioned officers, musicians,
and privates serving on shore, servants, and washerwomen, forty-five
thousand and fifty dollars ;
For clothing, forty-three thousand six hundred and sixty dollars;
For fuel, sixteen thousand two hundred and seventy dollars;
For keeping the present barracks in i pair until new ones can be
Greeted, and for the rent of Icmpor uy 1 .t ri<ks at New York, thn
thousand doling;
For the transportation of officers, noncommissioned officers musi
cians and privates, and experts'* of r;.. i niting, six thousand dollars; ■
For medicines, hospital stores, r-iirgi'.al in ■•truments, and pay of,
matron, four thousand one hjindi'd and l iiiy-tiine dollars;
. For contingent expenses of said corps, freight, ferriage toll, whaif- i
age, and cartage, per diem allowance fir attending courts of inqui- !
ry, compensation to judge advocates, house rent where there are no i
public quarter* assigned, incidental labor in the quartermaster’s de
partment, expenses of burying deceased persons belonging to the ma- |
rine corps, printing, siatinnarv, forage, postage on public letters, ex
penses in pursuing deserters, candles and oil for the different stations,
straw for the mon, barrack furniture, bed-sacks, spades, axes, shovels,
picks and carpenter’s tools, seventeen thousand nine hundred and
. seventy-seven dollars;
For military stores, pay of armorers, keeping arms in repair,
drums, fifes, flags, accoutrements, and ordnance stores, two thousand
dollars;
For completing the hospital at New York, twenty thousand dol
lars; J I
For conveying Schuylkill waler to the naval asylum at Philadel- i
.hla, and for all necessary repairs, nine thousand seven hundred and I
a’xty dollars;
For current expenses of the hospital and its dependencies near I
Norfolk, one thousand five hundred dollars;
For completing the hospital buildings at Pensacola, and building a I
whaif for landing the sick, tour thousand dollars;
Sic. 2. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of!
the Sccietary of the Navy, under the direction ol the President, to
make picparations for, and to commence, the constiuctinn of three
steam vessels of war, on such models as shall be most approved, ac
cording to the best advices they can obtain, or to complete the con
struction of one such vessel of war upon a model so approved, as in
the opinion of the president shall be best for the public interest, and
most conformable to the demands of the public seivicc; and that to
enable the Department to cawy into eflect this requirement, a part
of the sum already appropriated for the gradual improvement of the
navy, equal to the sum of three hundred and thirty thousand dollars,
shall be, and is hereby, directed to be subject to the disposition ol
the Department for this object, in case that amount can bo diverted
from that appropriation without a violation of existing contracts, ami
if that cannot bo done consistently w ith the rights of contractors and
the public interests, then so much of the said sum of three hundred
and thirtv thousand dollars as can be so diverted to this object, from
tho appropriation referred to, shall be subject to the disposition ,of
the Secretary of the Navy tor this purpose, and the residue :.,e
said sum of three hundreh and thirty thousand dollars shall be, and
the same is hereby, appropriated, and shall be paid, out ol any mo
ney in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated; and the said sum
of three bundled and thirtv thousand dollars, be expended in the
manner in this section prescribed, shall be in addition to any materi
als now on baud, applicable to the constiaction of the said steam
vessels of war.
t h uni the Acir- York Sunday Xcirs.
THE OLD CLOCK.
“Here she goes, there she goes I”—Some years ago there
came to this country a family from England, which settled on the
upper part of this island, and opened a public house. Among their
chattels was an old clock, which they prized more for its age than its
actual value, although it had told the hours for years on years with
the most commendable fidelity. This clock is now situated in one
of the private parlors of the house, and many a time has it been the
theme of remark in consequence of its solemnly antique exterior.
A few days since, about dusk, a couple of mad wags drove up to
the door of the hotel, seated in alight and beautiful wagon, drawn by
a superb bay horse. They sprang out —ordered the ostler to pay
every attention to the animal, and to stable him for the night. En
tering the hotel, they tossed off a glass of wine apiece, mouthed a ci
gar, and directed the landlord to provide the best game supper in his
power. There was a winsome look in the countenance of the elder
a bright sparkling in his eyes which occasionally he hall-closed in a
style that gave him the air of “a knowing one,” and a slight curving
of the corners of’ the mouth that showed his ability to enjoy, while his
whole demeanor made every acute observer sure of his ability to per
petrate a joke. Now and then, when his lips parted and he ran his
fingers through bis hair with a languid expression, it was evident that
he was carer to beat work in his vocation—that of a practical j'-jke;
The i dier was a dapperyoung man, although different an , ' (eaiancc
yet with f> attires which indicated that his mind was . || t 0
a successful co-partner with his mate, ’'..j a C, r y pun or gravely de
livered witticism was frequently orke-j, oft’w ith an air of philosophy
or unconcern that gave him. at o’.’, cO the credit of being a firstrate wit.
Supper on tlm table, .ne-j. (wo Yankees were not dull as a couple
generally will ;,e a', table, but made mirth and laughter and wit their
compaor ninl tis Wine in his parti-colored flowered robes presided
'.lerq was a “set out” fit for a prince and his associates. The Yan
kees ate and drank and were right merry, when the old family clock
whirred and whizzed as the hammer on the bell struck one, two,
three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve ! The
elder looked up at the old monitor before him, struck bis elbow on
the table and looked again steadily for a minute, and then laughed
out heartily, awakening the waiter, who was just dozing by the win
dow sill.
“What in the name ofMornus are you laughing at?” asked the
dapper Yankee, as he cast his eyes now over and around himself to
ascertain where the zest of the joke was concealed. The elder
winked slyly, and yawning lazily, slowly raised the fore finger of his
right hand and applied it gracefully to his nose. The dapper man
understood the hint.
“Olio! funderstand—no, you don’t come it over this child I
Waiter, another bottle of champagne.”
The servant left the room, and our heroes inclining themselves
over the table held a long conversation in a low tone, when the elder
of the two raised his voice, and with an air of satisfaction ex
claimed—
“ Clocks always go it!”
Then both cautiously rose from their chairs, and advancing to the
clock, turned the key of the door, and looked within, the elder in a
half-inquiring, half-decided manner saying—
“ Won’t it ?”
The waiter was on the stairs, and they returned to their seats in a
trice, as if nothing had happened—both scolding the waiter, as he
! entered, for being so lazy on his errand.
Having heard the clock strike one, they were shown to their beds,
; where they talked in a subdued tone, and finally sunk to sleep. In
the morning they were early up, and ordered their horse to be har
nessed and brought to the door. Descending to the bar-room they
asked for their bill, and with becoming promptitude paid the amount
due over to the bar-keeper. The elder perceiving the landlord
through tho window, placed his arms upon the bar, and in a serious
tone enquired of the bar-keeper if he would dispose of the old clock.
The young man hesitated—he knew not whet to answer. The old
clock seemed to him such a miserable piece of furniture that he had
an impression that it might as well be his as bis employer’s, yet he
could not comprehend why such a person should want such a hide
ous article. While he was attempting to reply, the good-natured
landlord entered, and the question was referred to him for an an
swer.
“I wish to purchase that old clock up stairs ! Will you sell it?”
, asked the elder Yankee, while the younger lighted a cigar and cast
! his eye over the columns of the Sunday Morning News, which lay
on the fable. The landlord, who had set no great value upon the
clock except tis an heirloom, began to suspect that it might possess
the virtues of Maria Hayward’s chair, and be filled with dollars; and
almost involuntarily the three ascended Io the room which contained
iU
“The fact is,” said the Yankee, “1 once won a hundred dollars
| with a clock like that.”
“A hundred dollars 1” ejaculated the landlord.
“Yes You see there was one like it in a room over in Jersey, and
i a fellow bet me he could keep his forefinger swinging with the pendu
' him for an hour, only saying, ‘Here she goes, there she goes.’ lie
I couldn’t do it. 1 walked the money out of him in no time.’
“You did? You couldn’t walk it out of me. I’ll bet you fifty dol-
| larsthat I can do it on the spot!”
“Done !” cried the Yankee.
The clock struck eight, and with his back to the table and the
door, the landlord popped into a chair—
“ Here she goes, there she goes!” and his finger waved in a curve,
his eyes fully fixed on the pendulum. The Yankees behind him in
terrupted—“ Where’s the money? Plank the money.”
The landlord was not to lose in that way. His forefinger slowly
and surely went with the pendulum, and his left disengaged his purse
from his pocket, which he threw behind him upon the table. Ail was
silent. The dapper man at length exclaimed—
“ Shall I deposite the money in the hands of the bar-keeper?”
“Here she goes, there she goes!” was the only answer.
One of the Yankees left the room. Tho landlord heard him go
down stairs ; but he was not to be disturbed by that trick.
Presently the bar-keeper entered, and touching him upon the
shoulder, asked—
“ Mr. IJ , are you crazy ? What are you doing?”
“Here she goes, tbeie she goes !” he responded, his hand waving
the forefinger as before.
The bar-keeper rushed down stairs ; he called one of the neigh
bors and asked him to go up. They ascended, and the neighbor
seizing him gentlv by tho collar, in an imploring voice said—
“ Mr. B ,do not sit here. Come, come down stairs; what
can possess you to sit here?”
“Here she goes, there she goes!” was the sole reply, and the sol
emn face and the slowly moving finger settled the matter. He was
mail!
“He ts mad,” whispered the fiiend in a low voice. “We must
1 go for the doctor.”
The landlord was not to be duped; he was not to be deceived, al
though the whole town came to interrupt him. “You had better call
up bis wife,” added the friend.
“Here she goes, there she goes!” repeated the landlord, and his
hand still moved on.
In a minute his wife entered full of agony of soul. “My dear,”
she kindly said, “look on me. It is your wife who speaks !”
“Here she goes, thereslic goes !” and his hand continued to go,
but his wife wouldn’t go; she would s'.ay, and he thought she was
determined to conspire against him and make him lose the wager.—
She wept and she continued—
“ What cause have you sot this? Why do you so? Has your
'A’ j ‘ ’
“Hi re she goes, there she goes !” and his finger seemed to be tra
cing her airy progress, for any thing she could ascertain to the con
trary.
“My dear,” she still continued, thinking that the thought of his
child, whom he fondly loved, would tend to restore him, “shall I call
up your daughter?”
“Here she goes, there she goes!” the landlord again repeated, bis
eyes becoming more and more fixed and glazed, from the steadiness
of bis gaze. A slight smile, which had great effect upon the minds of
those present, played upon his face, as he thought of the many un
successful resorts towin hinij’rom his purpose, and of his success in
ha filing them. The physician entered. He stood by the side of the
busy man. lie looked at him in silence, shook his bead, and to the
anxious inquiry of his wife, answered—
“No, madam. The fewer persons here the better. The maid
had belter stay away : do not let the maid”
“Here she goes, there she goes !” yet again and again in harmony
with the waving finger, issued from the lips of the landlord.
“A consultation, I think, will bo necessary said the physician.
“Will you run for Dr. W ms?”
The kind neighbor buttoned up his coat and hurried from the
room.
In a few minutes Dr. W 1 - ~ms, with another medical gentleman,
entered.
“This is a sorry sight,” said he. to tho doctor present.
“Indeed it is, sir,” was the reply. “It is a sudden attack, one of
the”
“Here she goes, there sho goes !” was the sole reply.
The physicians stepped into a corner and consulted together.
“Will you be good enough to run for a barber ? We must have
his head sliaved and blistered,’said Dr. \V ms.
“Ab, poor, dear husband,” said the lady ; “1 fear ho never again
will know his miserable, wife.”
“Here she goes, there she goes !” said the landlord with a little
more emphasis, and with a more nervous yet determined waving of
his finder in concert with the pendulum ; for the minute hand was
near the twelve— that point which was to put fifty dollars into his
pocket if the hand arrived at it without his suffering himself to be in
terrupted.
The wife in alow, bewailing tone continued her utterances—
“No! never; nor of his daughter”—
“Here she goes, there she goes !” almost shouted the landlord, as
the minute hand advanced to the desired point.
The barber arrived; he was naturally a talkative man, —and
when the doctor made some casual remark, reflecting upon the
quality of the instrument he was about to use, ho replied—
“Ah ha! no monsieur, you say very bad to razor—tres beautiful—
eh?—look look—look—very fine, isn’t she ?”
“Here she goes, there she goes !” screamed the landlord, his band
waving on—on, and bis face gathering a smile, and his whole frame
in readiness to be convulsed with joy.
The barber was amazed. “Here she goes, there she goes !” he
responded in the best English he could use—“Vare? vare shall 1
begin ? Vat is dat he say ?”
“Shave his head at once !” interrupted the doctor, while the lady
sank into a chair.
“Here she goes,“there she goes !” for the last time cried the land
lord, as the clock struck the hour of nine, and he sprang from his seat
inanccstacy ofdelight, screaming at the top of his voice, as heskipped
about the room—
“What?” said the bar-keeper.
“What?” echoed the doctors.
“What?” re-echoed the wife.
“Why, the wager—fifty dollars!” But casting his eyes around
the room, and missinggthe young men who induced him 'n wa t'-'
clock, he asked the bar keeper— ’' ll lie
“Where are those young men who sur>- ed hst ui ht ?
quick, where are they ! ’ ®
“They went away in th**:? wst" « i • u»
the reply “ ‘ r nearly an hour ago, sir! was
lA!' 0, , like a thunderbolt through his mind. They had
a ' c '.< nis;’pocket-book with one hundred and seven dollars therein,
decamped—a couple of swindling sharpers with wit to back
them ! The story is rife on all men’s tongues in the neighborhood
where this affair occurred, and the facts are not otherwise than here
set down ; but we regret that the worthy landlord, in endeavoring to
overtake the rascals, was thrown from his wagon and so severely in
jured as to be confined to his room at the piesent moment, where he
can watch the pendulum of his clock at his leisure.
AGRICULTURAL LIFE.
The cultivation of the earth is congenial to the nature of mankind;
and a very large proportion of men, during some part of their lives,
either do, or have a desire to, lead a agricultural Fife, or to become
farmers. Besides those who, in civilized countries, are bred to
cultivate the soil, and make it their sole pursuit through life, there
are thousands of others who retire from the bustle and anxieties of
trade, the relaxation of a professional, or the turmoils of a public
life, to rural quiet, and the undisturbed cultivation of a few acres
of land.
The Merchant whose youth has been spent behind the counter,
and whose prime of life and middle age, have been passed between
the ledger and “the iron safe,” between the hopes of gain aud the
fears of loss, having at length realized a competency, retires from
the crowded city, and the bustle of trade, to the pure air of the coun
try, and the peaceful cultivation of a farm.
The Lawyer, having acquired professional fame, abandons his
causes for a more tempting cause—the pursuit of agriculture, or min
gles with his professional labors, the exercise of the spade and the
plough. In like manner the Physician and the Divine, consult their
own ease and quiet, and find a balm for both body and mind by
snatching a few hours from the calls of professional duty to apply
them to the grateful purpose of tilling the earth. Why should we
mention the Statesman and the Warrior? They, too, are inclined
to become farmers, the one leaving the field of ambition, the other
his harvest of laurels, both seek a soil most congenial to the best
feelings of man, and end the career of life, like Cincinnatus, at the
plough. Even the Mariner, the adventurous son of Neptune, whose
home has been for many years, professionally and practically, on the
deep, who has sailed to ail lands, and visited every sea, bringing
with him the rarities of every country and the products of every
clime, purchases a home on the land; transplants his exotics into
his native soil, and prefers that his last rest should be in the
rnral church yard, with his kindred, to finding a bed in the bosom
of the deep. The Mechanic, too, is smitten with the love of farming
and exchanges the dust of the shop for the furrows of the field ; the
confined air of crowded rooms, for the free atmosphere of the
heavens, and the noise of machinery for the music of the birds.
Now it is evident, that this prevailing love of zlgriculture, which
sooner or later discovers itself, is implanted in our very natures,
or to say the least, is the result of reason and experience. If it
be innate, it is merely kept down for a while by the engrossing
pursuits of wealth, in the strife for human glory and distinction
among men. But being these satisfied or disappointed, the mind set free
returns to its native (natural) desires, and applies its remaing ener
ges to their peaceful gratification. But reason and experience will
be allowed their share in bringing so large a portion of mankind,
ultimately, to the cultivation of the earth. Who that values his
natural dignity and independence, would not prefer to be the lord
of a few acres of land with nobody’s humor to consult but his own,
and nobody to please but his Maker, to the cringing, the fawning,
and lying, that are apt to enter so largely into political, professional,
mercantile and mechanical life. If there beany one man on earth,
who is truly independent, it is the farmer. Such an one can truly
say, “1 ask no favours.” Skillful qnd honest labor is all the earth
requires, and it yields a due return, no favors dearly bought with
tho surrender of independence, of honor, orof truth,and of all noble
and manly feelings-—no truckling for office—-no fawning for popu
larity—and no lying for gain. No man can say of farming, “ I have
served a faithless master.” Among the industrious and sober
agricnlturlists, we find no deserted Woolseys. The choristers of
the field never sing t© deceive; the flowers of the mind never
bloom to hide a deformity ; Nature never smiles to betray.—- Yankee
Farmer.
FROM EVENINGS WITH TRINCE CAMBACERES.
NAPOLEON AND THE GRUMBLER.
Napoleon delighted in treating his soldiers with kindness, in con
versing with, and even in gently provoking them ; they knew it and
took advantage of it with remarkable reserve and moderation. The
French nation are distinguished by an exquisite sense of delicacy, and
unparralleled judgement. No other nation, not excepting the Ital
ians, is gifted with superior tact. I recollect amongst other in
stances, that at a review at which I was present, an old grognard
(grumbler) as he called them, who strictly conformed for the rest, to
the species of ceremony observed among military men, and which
was part of camp etiquette, stepped out of the ranks, presented arms,
held up his hand to his chapeau and stood as motionless as the sta
tue of one of the guards of Pharoali. The Emperor, whose eyes were
glancing at the manoeuvre, walked two or three steps forward, as
it were at random ; then suddenly turning round, and finding him
self face to face with the grognard, thus opened the colloquy with his
hollow voice :
“ What is it you want ?”
“ Tc’l me Sire, how much longer shall 1 have to run after sue
cross of honor ?”
“ Oh, you would have it ?
“ I deserve it.”
“ You say so ?”
“My services prove it; my comrades will attest so by—!”
“ Don,t swear.”
“ Zounds ! Is it not mortifying to think that I should have fol
lowed you to Italy, where we thrashed Warsmur at Mintur, and
Melas at Marengo, afterwards when we beat the Austrians at Aus
terlitz, where the other Emporers, tho pair of whom were no match
for you, were, so courteously treated at Jenna, where wo gave the
Prussians their heart’s content: and yet after all to be no farther ad
vanced than a novice who still sobs after his mothers’s pap?
“ I have in fact seen you every where.
“ Well, then, Sire contrive so that I may see a piece of rod
ribbon at my button hole.”
“ Have you been wounded?” inquired Napoleon.
“ Nine times.”
“ This is worth a pension and a cross.—You shall have both.”
Tho Emperor walked on; tho veteran followed him.
“ Sire, one word more. They have been so often promised me
that I fear you will forget me like those wheedlcrs have done.”
“ Oil! you mistrust me? this shows no great respect for me; but
since you will not rely an my word, hero are pledges.”
The emporor unfastend his cross, for he always wore a silver one,
like a mere knight of order, gave it to the soldier and with it a hand
ful of gold.
The ‘ Fiimon?’ Colt. beat.— An Arkansas paper tells tho follow
ing story : “ Rather, sir; but not quite so crooked as I once saw. It
was about the tallest butternut that ever grew. Standing near it one
day in a thunder storm, 1 saw a squirrel on eno of the topmost
branches. The lightning struck the same branch about a feet above
him and the squirrel started. The lightning had to follow the grain,
ol course, and the squirrel, went straight down. So confounded
crooked was that tree, that the squirrel, sir, by my watch, got to the
bottom precisely three minutes before the lightning.”
“ That’s a lie, I swear !” exclaimed the lanlord.
“A lie sir? true as ever a story was. I afterwards saw that tree
cut down and imide into rails for a hog pasture. The bogs would
crawl through twenty times in a day ; and so thundering crooked
were them ar’ rails, that every time the hogs got out, they found
themselves back in the pasture,”
Curiol’s Relationship.—According to the Danbury (Mass.)
i imes, there is a boy in that town whose mother in his cousin whose
cousin is his niece, whoso uncle is his father, and whoso grandfather
is bis uncle. Who can give us an explanation of this ?
From flic Southern Recorder.
MAINE AND GEORGIA.
Executive Department, I
Trenton, N. J. March 12th, 1839. |
c’ ,,t • 1 11 compliance with the directions therein contained, I have
the honor to enclose a copy of a Joint Resolution adopted at the pre
sent session by the Legislature of this State—with a copy of the Re
pot t of a Committee on which the same is founded :
And to remain with great respect, your obedient servant,
WM. PENNINGTON,
Governor of New Jersey.
His Excellency the Governor of Georgia.
The Joint Committee to whom were referred the report and reso
lutions of the Legislature of the State of Georgia, relative to the
neglect or refusal of the Governor of the State of Maine, to surren
der upon the demand of the Governor of Georgia certain citizens of
the foi mcr Slate charged with the commission of a crime against the
lawS of the latter, have had the same under consideration and re
spectfully submit the following report thereon:
The duty of every State or Nation, not to permit its territory to
become an asylum for criminals, but to surrender upon request, (hose
who have fled to it to escape the punishment due to the crimes which
they have committed in another country, may be regarded as a well
established principle of the laws which regulate the intercourse of
civilized nations. Although this has been questioned by some whose
opinions are entitled to great respect, it is supported by reason, usage
and weight of authority. It is a settled rule pervading the criminal
jurisprudence of the whole civilized world, that no State can right
fully punish any crime, however enormous, perpetrated beyond its
own limits. If therefore the perpetrator of the grossest offences
against humanity, can but escape from t>'.e mf, st iiction of the coun
try where the crime was > comm'“ed, ’ he wi ji g 0 unpunished, unless
the government to whir’; u(! i iaS | eu j j tg a jj j n bringing him
to justice. 'YCre t[;o means of impunity so easy, it would be
siblc to P'Ae force and efficacy to laws designed to restrain the evil
of mankind, especially among those inhabiting the borders
of a country. A regard for justice, therefore, as well as for the safe
ty of their own citizens, and die avoidance of perpetually recurring
causes of misunderstanding and complaint, requires that governments
should mutually aid each other in arresting and subjecting to the rig
or of the laws, those whom other motives are insufficient to withhold
from wrong and violence. Accordingly the duty of surrendering fu
gitives from justice, i> now generally recognized and acted on through
out the civilized world.
The principal difficulty has been in determining how far the rule
should be extended, and what offences should be considered as fall
ing within it. While some writers confine its application to crimes
against the laws of nature, others would carry it further, and embrace
within its operation, offences which are made such only by the posi
tive laws of the State. Between sovereign and independent States,
the extent to which it shall be applied, is commonly regulated by
agreement, and provisions for that purpose have been inserted in se
veral of the treaties made by the United States, with foreign powers.
But this duty, as between the different States of the Union, does
not depend either in its obligation or its extent, upon the law of na
tions. The illustrious men who had the courage and patriotism to
declare and achieve their independence, had also the sagacity to per
ceive that the intimate union and harmonious connection which they
sought to establish between them, could not be maintained without
some provision that should prevent each from becoming an asylum
! for fugitives from the others. They therefore inserted in the articles
of confederation, a clause requiring fugitives from justice to be deli
vered up for punishment to the State where their crimes had been
committed. The same principle somewhat modified, was adopted
into and now forms part of the Federal Constitution, in the following
terms, viz: “A person charged in any State with treason, felony, or
other crime, who shall flee from justice, and be found in another State,
shall, on demand of the Executive authority of the State from which
he fled, be delivered up, to be removed to the State having jurisdic
tion of the crime.” This language, it will be perceived, is broad
and comprehensive, and in the opinion of the committee ought to be
liberally construed. It extends to all crimes— by which are mani
festly intended, crimes against the laws of the State from which the
fugitive has escaped. Each State is entitled to prescribe such rules
for the government of its own citizens and the regulation of its own
internal affairs, as it may see fit, subject only to the Constitution of
the Union. By the laws of nations, a citizen of one country, whose
business or pleasure carries him into another, is entitled, except in
case of war, to the protection of its laws; and in return, he is bound
equally with its own citizens, to respect and obey those laws while he
remains. Even ignorance of those laws, though it may palliate, and
in a moral view destroy its guilt, will in a Court of law, afford no
justification for theit infraction.
The Constitution of the United States, which secures to the citi
zens of each State all privileges and immunities of citizens in the
several States, does not in terms and cannot in reason, lessen the
force or extent of this obligation. A citizen of New Jersey who
should go into the State of New York, and there do an act, which
within the limits of this State he might lawfully do, but which the
laws of New York had made a crime, and should then return to his
home, would he within the language and spirit of this clause of the
Constitution, equally with a citizen of New-York, who had done the
same act and had then fled hither to escape the punishment which he
knew would overtake him if he remained. And whether the citizen
of New Jersey, unconscious of oflence, should return leisurely and
openly, after accomplishing the purpose of his journey, or should flee
hastily and by stealth, he would equally “flee from justice” within
the meaning of the Constitution.
Nor is it requisite that the guilt of the fugitive thus demanded,
should be established and proven before the authorities of the State
where he is found, are bound to deliver him up. Even between
States wholly independent and disconnected, the law of nations re
quires only that reasonable grounds for the charge are sufficient to
put the accused upon his trial, shall be shown : and with good reason,
as the witnesses by whom the crime is to be proved, will naturally
and usually be in the country where it was committed, and g might
be highly inconvenient for them to pursue the fugitive. But whatever
ground there might be for doubt as to the nature of the charge, or the
evidence by which it should be supported, if the Constitution was our
only guide, has been removed by the action of a Congress, which
numbered among its members many who had taken part in the fra
ming or adoption of that instrument.
! An act of Congress passed Febiuary 12th, 1793, provides, “That
whenever the Executive authority of any State in the Union, or of
either of the Territories northwest or soi th of the river Ohio, shall
demand any person as a fugitive from justice, of the Executive au
thority of any such State or Territory to which such person shall have
fled, and shall moreover produce the copy of an indictment found on
an affidavit made before a magistrate of any State or Territory, as
aforesaid, charging the person so demanded with having committed
treason, felony, or other crime, certified as authentic by the Govern
or or Chief Magistrate of the State or Territory from whence the
person so charged fled, it shall be the duty of the Executive author
ity of the State or Territory to which such person shall have fled, to
cause him or her to be arrested and secured, and notice of the arrest
to be given to the Executive authority making such demand, or to the
agent of such authority appointed to receive the fugitive, and to cause
the fugitive to be delivered to such agent when he shall appear'”—
This law prescribes the duty of the Executive authority of a State
upon whom a demand is made, in plain terms, and reduces within
very narrow limits the examination which lie is to make before acting.
If. a duly authenticated copy of an indictment, or an affidavit certi
fied as authentic, and charging the person demanded with acts which
by the law of State where they were done amount to a erime,
at’iu the proper evidence of those laws are produced, he has no right
to inquire whether the indictment or affidavit is true, but is bound at
once to take measures for causing the person so charged to be attest
ed and secured. lie may not pause to inquiie whether the person
demanded is guilty of the charge made against him, or whether the
laws against which he is accused of offending, are right or proper, or
whether from excitement in the public mind or from any other cause,
he is in danger of being denied a fair and impartial trial. None of
these questions lie in the path of duty marked ont for him, and which
he ought to pursue without deviation or reluctance.
Such in the opinion of the committee, are the rules by which the
conduct of the several States of the Union towards each other, on
this delicate and important subject, ought to be regulated. z\nd were
there no other motive for the faithful and prompt observance, than
the fact that they are part of the supreme law of tho land, that alone
ought to be abundantly sufficient.
New Jersey has never yet refused a ready .and willing obedience
to this or any other requirement of the Constitution ; and the com
mittee hope and trust that she never will. Sho has ever regarded
with feelings of veneration and attachment, that glorious m mument
ol the wisdom and patriotism of our fathers, and recognized the sa
credness of the obligation which she assumed by its ratification. But
aside from the imperative duty thus imposed, and the many and great
benefitsarising from the union which that Constitution has cemented,
the interest and safety of the several States, if wholly independent
and unconnected, would require the adoption and observance of sim
ilar rules of intercourse; lying as they do contiguous to each other,
separated only by narrow rivers, and in many instances only by ima
ginary lines, with tho means of passing from one to another so nu
merous and rapid, the criminal code of each must inevitably become
the laughing stock of the vicious and abandoned, if the crossing of
a boundary line should ever be a security against punishment. It |
needs no l.tbored argument to prove that in this matter at least, the |
path of duty and of interest is one and the same, and should be cat e- ;
fully and cheerfully followed.
Upon the conduct of the Executive of the State of Maine in the
particular case which has given rise to the report and resolutions re- j
ferred to them, the Committee express no opinion. There are no
documents before them to show by what reasons and motives that
conduct was guided—and if there were, they would not feel them
selves entitled to pass upon them. The States between which this
difficulty lias unhappily arisen, are I he political equals of New Jersey,
and much as she may regret that any contrariety of feeling and opin
ion should exist between them, she claims no right to thrust upon ei
ther her unsolicited umpirage. But site may, without oflence, chal-
lenge each to a friendly and generous strife with her, and with
other in the faithful discharge of all the duties of our social
and in devotion to the welfare and happiness of our common
try. • A. ARMSTRONG. ■
JAPHET IRELAND
WILLIAM STYLES
JOHN SUMMERILL, J r I
JESSE RICHARDS. ‘ I
March 4th, 1839.
STATE OF NEW JERSEY—JOINT RESOLUTION. ■
Be it resolved by the. Council and General Assembly of
Stale, That the Report of the Joint Committee, to whom were re-H
ferred the report and resolutions of the Legislature of the State ofH
Georgia, be accepted, and that the Governor be requested to trans-B
mit copies thereof to the Governors of the Slate of Georgia and B
Maine.
In council, March 6th, 1839. This Joint Resolution having been B
three times read and compared in council.
Resolved, That the same do pass.
By order of Council, A. PARSONS,
Vice President of Council.
House of Assembly, March 7th, 1839. This Joint Resolution ha- H
ving been threo times read in the House of Assembly.
Resolved, That the same do pass.
By order of the House of Assembly,
LEWIS CONDICT, Speaker. ■
STATE RIGHTS and UNITED STATES RIGHTS.
I
0f fUgtttett.
THE .TRUE ISSUE. 1
Shall ours be a GOVERNMENT OF THE BANKS, or a GOV- I
ERNMENT OF THE PEOPLE? Shall we have a CONSTI- I
TUTIONAL TREASURY, or an UNCONSTITUTIONAL NA- I
TIONAL BANK? Shall we have a CONSTITUTIONAL CUR- I
RENCY of gold and silver, or one of IRREDEEMABLE PA- I
PER ? Shall we live under the despotism of a MONIED AR! STOC
RACY, orunderthe safeguards of a FREE CONSTITUTION?
[Washington Chronicle.
TIJESIJAY MO RAT NG, APRIL 9.
THINGS AS THEY ARE.
What could be more gratifying to any political party, than the ground
now occupied by the Union party of Georgia ?
In 1832-3, they were denounced as Federalists, Submission men, et
cet., because they were not prepared to take up arms and involve the
country in a civil war to put down tho tariff—because believing in the
patriotism and intelligence of the people, they preferred the ballot box
to the cartridge box, and would not consent to the adoption of violent
measures, until all hope of redress should be cut off through the consti
tutional expression of public opinion. Upon the right of Congress to im
pose an unjust, unconstitutional, and oppressive tax upon the people, in
tho form of a protective tariff, we have never wavered. We have al
ways pronounced it a most outrageous abuse of power, and no people
have been more open and decided against it, than the Union men of
Georgia. We, as a party, are strict constructionists. We claim for
the States all the powers secured to them by the Constitution, as ex
pounded by Jefferson and Madison, a firm and undeviating adherence to
which, can alone make our Government what its framers intended it
should be.
Such are the principles upon which the Union party was formed, and
upon which it still stands erect and immoveable; but how changed are
our political opponents ? Compare the ground which they now occu
py with the creed which they professed some six years ago, and the
likeness will scarcely be visible. Then, the Constitution was their text
book, State Rights their watchwoid, and ail who questioned their ortho
doxy were placed without the pale of political salvation. Now, we see
many of them not only backsliding from their faith, but virtually dis
claiming it, in the support of mon and measures calculated to enlarge
the powers of the Federal Government, regardless of the sovereignty of
the States. Their association with the Whigs could lead to no other
result, for “evil communication corrupts good manners,” and good prin
ciples too ; and from the day on which that party, in Georgia, took
ground against General Jackson, and joined the Whigs in opposing his
Administration, they have been gradually falling away from their original
ground, until their identity is nearly lost in the general mass. And why
is it so? Because in the whig ranks will be found the body and soul of
Federalism. Look to their leaders from every quaiter, and who will
dispute it. John Quincy Adams-, who entertains no more veneration
for the Constitution than he does for the Alcoran—Daniel Webster, who
claims for the General Government the exercise of every power which
he may deem necessary and proper—Mr. Clay, who is a zealous disci
ple of Alexander Hamilton, and would make Congress omnipotent if
ho could—ami Mr. Wise, who thinks the of a State, a very
salutary measure, when they put ou airs and talk about their own sove
reignty; and we might enumerate many others of less note, but equally
devoted to the principle of consolidation. These are naked and glaring
facts, too well known to be disputed, and unless the “nullifers" (that
were) of Georgia, part company with them they will soon be merged
principles and all in the vortex of higery. A step or two more and all
is lost.
Ihe contest now commencing lor the Presidency, will show us how
it stands, and the signs are ominous. M". Preston of South-Carolina
has already declared for Mr. Clay, and we look for similar demonstra
tions in Georgia—indeed, he has many good wishes here, some of which
have already been expressed.
The state of parties at present, approaches nearer to that of 1798-9,
than at any other period since. Tho Opposition to Mr. Van Buren,
maintain the identical doctrines of the elder Adams and his party, while
the Administration and its supporters are walking in thefootsteps of the
illustrious Jefferson—in short, it is Democracy on one side, and Feder
alism, rank Federalism, on the other.
We put it to our opponents—is Henry Clay a Democrat or a Feder
alist? But we do not expect an answer, for they have a very happy
knack of evading the question, when the answer might involve them in
inconsistency.
As a party, we support those who contend for the rights of the States*
and oppose those who would enlarge Federal authority, and we will
show our faith by our works. With us, Federalism and Federalists
shall find no favor, and we rejoice that, that class of politicians are our
adversaries. Phe Federalists, as a body, are arrayed against our prin
ciples. They oppose us, men, measures and all, as we will oppose
them, for conscience sake, and for the sake of our country.
We have no Adams’s, Websters, Clay’s, or Wise’s, aud we thank
Providence, that we have no Crittenden’s—no alien and sedition law
men in our ranks—none who would fine and disfranchise an Amer
ican citizen for the honest expression of his own opinions in this land of
liberty.
We approach the contest as our fathers did in ’9B. We take the fieldl
as they did, with the Constitution in our hands and the Democracy by
our side; and we meet, as they met. Federalism—aristocracy, intoler
ance and proscription, and as they conquered, so will we conquer. The
gag-law party cannot triumph while the hardy yeomanry of this country
have a voice to speak in the name of liberty.
Mr. Biddle has resigned the Presidency of the U.S. Bank of Penn
sylvania, and Mr. Dunlap has been appointed his successor.
This step on the part of Mr. Biddle is said to have excited considerable)
sensation among the money dealers and stock-jobbers, and many and
various are the conjectures as to the cause of his resignation. The
most improbable of which is, that a reconciliation had taken place be
tween him and Mr. Van Buren, and that he would shortly be placed at
the head of the Treasury Department.
Now if we were called on for our opinion upon the subject, we should
answer, that Mr. Biddle having succeeded in amassing a princely for
tune, and being somewhat stricken in years, had resolved to withdraw
his body and mind from the labors and cares incident to the station, and
his vast means from the waves of speculation. ,
MR, PRESTON. •
This gentleman has given in his adhesion to the Whigs of the North
as will be seen by the fidlowing letter, addressed to a Whig committee in
New-York:
Philadelphia, 24th March, 1839.
Gentlemen :
I have tins moment received your note, in which you dome the honor
to request, my attendance ala public meeting in your city, on Thursday
evening next. 1 regret to say. that engagements’ entirely indispensable
make it impossible for m< to have that pleasure. Otherwise. I would
rejoice in an occasion thus presented, to manifest my devotion to’ the
Whig cause, and my gratitude to the people ofNew-York, who have so
triumphantly maintained it. With the highest regard,
I am, gentlemen,
Your obedient servant.
„ _. WM. C. PRESTON,
lo Messrs. Hamilton Fish,
James Bowen,
John O. Sargent.