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EDITED BY THOMAS HAYNES. VOL. VI. WO. 14. BY r. 1.. ROBINSON, State Primer, Anil Publisher (by authority) of the Laws of the United States. ISSUED EVERY TUESDAY MORNING. TERMS.—Three Dollars per annum. No subscription taken for l.ss than a >aar, and no paper discontinued, but at the option of th. publisher, until all arrear ages are paid. CHANGE OF DIRECTION.—We desire such of our subscribers as may at any time wish the direction of their papers changed from one I’ost Office to another, to AnfbnftXts, in all cases, of the place to which they had been previously sent ; a. the Wiere order to forward them to u different office, places it almost out of our power to Comply, because we have no means of ascertaining the office from which they are Wrdcee.l to be changed, bill by a search through our whole subscription book, con taining several thousand names. ADI ERTISF.MF.NTS inserted at the usual rates. Sales .f LAND, by Admi •tistrators. Executors, or Guardians, are required by law to be held ea the first Tues day in lhe mouth, between the hours of ten in the forenoon and three in the after noon, at the Court House in the county in which the property is situate. Notice of these sales must be given in a public gazette SIXTY DAY 8 previous to the day of Sales of NEGROES must be at public auction, on the first Tuesday of the manth between the usual hours of sale, at the place of public sales in the county where the .letters testimentary.of Administration or Guardianship, may have been granted, first giving SIXTY' DAY'S notice thereof, in one of the public gazettes of this State, and at tho door of the Court House where such sales are to bo hold. Notice for the sale of Personal Property must bo giveu ia like manner, FORTY DAY'S pievious to the day of sale. Notice to the Debtors and Creditors of an Estate must ba pnblishsd FORTY DAYS. Notice that application will be made to the Court of Ordinary for leave to sell LAND, must be published for FOUR MONTHS. Nolic, for leave to sell NEGROES, must bo published for FOUR MONTHS before anv order absolute shall be made by tho Court thereon. Notice of Application for Letters of Administration must be published THIRTY •AYS. Notice el Application for Letters of Dismission from the Administration of an Es tate, are required to be published monthly for SIX MONTHS. ~~~ POETRY ’ From the Southern Literary. Metoenyer. BEAUTY. WRITTEN FOR MISS EMILT S- ■ ' T. “ Where in Beauty ? Where ?” Earth’s thousand voices cried: And an answer, mute, tilled eartn and air. From nature, far and wide. The Alpine flower sprang tin High in the cleft rock’s side, And the tulip lifted her gorgeous cup By the dahlia—Tyrian-dyed. And n rose with graceful earn Unveil’d her glowing breast— Gems of the morning flittering there— Like a maid for bridal drest. “Where is Beauty? Where?” Cried echo from her cell • And the forest wav’d, and the streamlet there In a silvery cascade fell. Tho light clouds, floating high. Threw shadows o’er the green; And an unseen hand drew out on high . The bow of tinted sheen. The setting sunbeams threw On earth a livelier tinge, And the clouds of a royal-purple hue • Were edged with a golden fringe. Then Autumn’s wondrous wand' Touch’d forest, hill and sky, And sky and hill and forestland Did glow most gorgeously. “ Where is Beauty? Where?” ’ ’ Earth’s eager ones still cried; And the lover with exulting air Led forth his beauteous bride. The mother gazed with joy On the babe at her breast that lav, And glanc’d at the shouting, gold-ltair’d bay. With the butterflies at play. • ••••• Whirlwind and plague and storms, lie veil’d inearth and air, Midst Beauty, in its thousand forms ; And death stood victor there. “ Where is Beauty ? Where ? Shall none its image find!” Earth cried—and Hcav’n responded there, “ *Ti» in the immortal mind'.” Maine. ELIZA. MISCELLANEOUS. From the Baltimore American, BLACK HAWK—TECUMSEH. Messrs. Editors: Hearing of the death of the celebrated Sauk Chieftain, Black Hawk, I am induced to make you the following communication, which may be interesting to some of your readers: During a residence of several years in what is now the territory of lowa, I had many opportunities ol seeing and conversing with this noted warrior, and often look back with feelings of great pleasure to the many tokens of good will and friendship that he has frequently bestowed upon me. His lodge * as always open to the stranger, and he was ever ready to share that with him which be might most want, either his furs and blankets for a couch, or bis corn anti venison for a repast. He always spoke iu Aerons of high regard of the whites, saying that in war Ise fought like a brave man, but in peace he wished to forget that bis hand had ever been raised against them. His j career as a warrior commenced at a very early age ; when he was but nineteen years old, bis father Pawheese led a war party against the Osages, in which exp edition he accompanied him ; they succeeded in reaching the villages of the Osages, which they attacked, and, after a very severe encounter, routed their enemies and burnt their town. In this encounter Black Hawk’s father was killed. The son revenged his death by killing and scalping lhe Osage who had slain him. He was fond of re counting his early exploits, and often boasted of his being at the right hand of Tecumseh, when the latter was killed at the battle of the Thames. Ilia account of the death of this dis tinguished warrior was related tome by himself, during an eve icftag that I spent in his lodge some winters ago. In the course of our talk, I asked him if he was with Tecumseh when he was filled. He replied: “I was and I will now tell you all about it. Tecumseh, Shaubinne and Caldwell, two Pottawattamie Chiefs, and myself, were seated on a log near our camp lire, filling our pipes for a smoke on the morning of lhe battle, when word came from the British General that he wished to speak with Tecumseh. He went immediately, and after staying some time rejoined us, ta iling his seat without saying a word, when Caldwell, who was <me of his favorites, observed to him—my father, what are we to do? Shall we fight the Americans? “Yes my son,” re plied Tecumseh. “We shall go into their very smoke —but you are now wanted by the General. Go, my son, I never ex pect to see you again.” Shortly after this (continued Black Hawk) the Indian spies came in, and gave word of the near approach of the Americans. Tecumseh immediately posted his men in the edge of the swamp which flanked the British line, placing himself at their head. I was a little to his right, with a small party of S.iuks. It was not long before the Ameri cans made their appearance; they did not perceive us at first, Ind ns we were by the undergrowth, but we soon let them know where we were by pouring in one or two volleys as they were forming i.ito line to oppose the British. They faltered a little, but very soon we perceived a large hotly of horse (Col. John son’s regiment of mounted Kentuckians) preparing to charge upon us in the swamp. They came bravely on, yet we never stirred until they were so close that we could see the flints in their guns, when Tecumseh, springing to his feet, gave the Shawnee war cry, and discharged his rifle. This was the signal for us to commence the fight, but it did not last long ; the Americans answered the shout returning our fire, and at She first discharge of their guns I saw Tecumseh stagger for wards over a fallen tree near which he was standing, letting his rifle drop at his feet. Ar soon as the Indians discovered lie was killud, a sudden fear came over them, and thinking the Standard of Union. Great Spirit was angry, they fought no longer, and were quick ly put to flight. That night we returned to bury our dead, and search for the body of Tecumseh. He was found where he had first fallen, a bullet had struck him above the hip, and his skull had been broken by the but end of the gun of some soldier, who had found him perhaps when life was not yet quite gone. With the exception of these wounds his body was un touched, lying near him, however, was a large fine looking Pottawattamie who had been killed, decked off in his plumes and war paint, whom the Americans no doubt had taken for Tecumseh, for he was scalped, and every particle of skin flayed from his body.* Tecumseh, himself, had no ornament about his person, save a British medal. During the night we buried our dead, and brought off the body of Tecumseh, al though we were within sight of the fires of the American camp.” This is somewhat different from the account which is com monly given of Tecumseh’s death, yet I believe it to be true; for after hearing Black Hawk relate it, 1 heard it corroborated by one of the Pottawattamie Chiefs mentioned by him. I asked him if he had ever fought against the whites after the death of Tecumseh. He said not—that he returned home to his village on the Mississippi, at the mouth of Rock River, and there he remained until driven away by the whites in 1832. The wish to hold possession of this village was the cause of the w ar which was waged against the whites during that year. He told me that he never wished to fight, that he was made to do so; that the whites killed his warriors when they went with a white flag to beg a parley and that after this was done, he thonght they intended to kill him at all events, and therefore he would die like a warrior. In speaking of-this defeat, he said it was what he expected ; that he did not mind it, but what hurt him more than anything else was our Government degrading him in the eyes of his own people, and settling another chief (Koebuck) over him. This degradation he appeared to feel very sensibly—still he continu ed to possess all his native pride. One instance that came under my observation, I recollect well, in which it was strong ly displayed. He happened to be in a small town in lowa on the same day in which a party of Dragoons, under Capt. arrived, and in paying a visit to a friend with whom he always partook of a meal, whenever he stopped at the village, he met with the Captain who had been invited to dine. Black Hawk remained, also expecting the usual invitation to stay and eat with them, but when the dinner was ready the host took him aside, and told him the Captain, or rather the white man’s I chief was to dine with him that day, and he must wait until they had The old Chief’s eye glistened with anger as he , answered him raising the forefinger of one hand to his breast to represent the officer—“ I know the white man is a Chief, but 7,” elevating the finger of the other ha nt I far above his head, “was a Chief and led my warriors to the fight long before his mother knew him. Your meat—my dogs should not eat it." Saying this, he gathered the folds of his blanket about him, he stalked off, looking as proudly as if he still walked over the ground that he could call “ my own." Black Hawk possessed, in a great degree, one fine trait which it is not usual fur us to concede to the Indian—kindness and affection for his wife. He never had but the one, and with her he lived for upwards of forty years; they had several child ren, three of whom still survive, two sons and a daughter.— The eldest son is one of the most promising young braves of the Nation, and bids fair to be one of its most noble men. The daughter is still quite young, and is considered as the most beautiful maiden belonging to her tribe. He has now departed on his long journey, to join those of his people who have gone before him to their happy hunting grounds far beyond the setting sun. May the Great Spirit grant him a clear sunshine and a smooth path. • I have seen, rnvrelf, in Kentucky, pieces of this skin tanned, and displayed as ha ving belonged to Tecumseh. I have never, however, until now, thought proper to uaJeceiva the holders to the authenticity of their honorable trophies. APPARENT DEATH. A natural horror is felt by every one at the idea of being bu ried alive, and many strange methods have been adopted, to prevent so horrible an event. Among the most singular, and at the same time the most certain, was that adopted by old Grimaldi, viz: decapitation, which he ordered to be performed after apparent death had taken place. Many are content with having an incision made, a toe or finger cut off, &:c. but a re cent communication, read at a meeting of.the Royal Acade my of Medicine in Paris, would lead us to doubt the efficacy of such a measure while, at the same time, it gives us a fearful idea of the extent to which the burying alive has been carried on in France; for which, indeed, reasoning a priori, we should have been already prepared, from the rapidity with which the interment is effected, after death has apparently seized his vic tim. Twenty-four hours is, we believe, the usual period allow ed for the body to remain above ground, and we have heard of a case which occurred within the last two years, in which a lady while in a trance, was twice ordered to be buried by the French authorities. From each of these trances, however, she recovered. M. Bourgeois, in the paper alluded to, states that when the Cemetry of the Innocents was made a market, bodies were found in such extraordinary attitudes, that it was evident that they had not been so placed originally, and that their posi tion must have been assumed by lhe body after interment. Oth ers, yet more marked, presented all the indications of re restored consciousness, those also of a posthumous death, if we may use such a phrase. In Germany, it is usual to place the bodies ift a room, near the cemetry under the care of the sexton, with a bell rope in the hand for twenty-four hours before inter ment ; but this has not always prevented tlie happening of so fearful an occurrence.. In fact, there is not any positive infal lible sign of death, save general decomposition ; neither cold ness of the body, rigidity of the muscles, thickening of the vitreous humour of the eyeball, &c. can be relied on. Burning with wax, or scalding with boiling water, or making incisions, without producing any effect, are not sure proofs of death ; thousands of facts have demonstrated the insensibility of the skin to such injuries in many complaints attended with trance, orcven in a simple epileptic fit. In every case of apparent sudden death, even if the body be cold, attempts should be made to restore animation. An extraordinary proof of tbe utility of such a measure occured to the celebrated Dupuytren. A fireman was struck down, and the front part of the chest driven in by a heavy machine which fell upon him. He lay, apparently dead, and was on the point of being carried off as such, when Dupuytren, who was passing by, ascertained that the cause of his condition was the pressure exerted by the de pressed bones on the cori’ents of the chest. He raised them, by pressing on either side of i!’? chest, when the man sighed deeply and soon evinced marked sign* oY He finally re covered. Had it not been for Dupuytren, l!.’C 'vould have been buried alive. M. Bourgeois adds, that many,ou ’l>c f’ e ld of battle, have been thus restored, & many others might have been saved had assistance been afforded sufficiently early. It is a sin gular fact, that the faculty of hearingjs one of the last extinguish edfmany persons while in a trance, have heard noises, and have even distinguished and understood the conversation of those some who surrounded them. Military men, also, to whom lhe funer al honors have been rendered, have been roused, and as it were, restored to life, even while being lowered into the grave, by the discharge of fire-arms. Galvanism, or electricity, might be had recourse to with advantage, to determine the question of supposed death, and its influence would be materially aided by passing needles into the heart to which the wires might be attached. Experiments in t!je French hospital have shown us that this may be done with impunity.— Liverpool Mercury. Anew way to get married.— A lady being engaged in a the ological dispute with a gentleman, convinced him she was right; still he was unwilling to acknowledge himself vanquished, and proposed to wager, if she would allow him to name the condi tions. To this the lady assented. “ Then,” said lhe gentle man, “ I will wager myself against you.” The lady seeing no method of escape, consented that a clergyman in the neighbor hood should be sent for, who soon united them in the chain of Hymen. Query, who won the wager jHILL.EIXiEVII.LE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY HORATAG, AIPK3L SO, 1839. Our Conscience— Oytr Cossrolrrj—O««r The frenchman in pursuit of information. — Yen I vat in Paris, I read in de journal sotnetlng about your country. 1 long great deal for to see him. I read de journal more encore, to ascertain precise ly your manner andyour habit. I learn him exactly, so I tink den, from leelcl story written by le Doctcur Franklin, vich ho call “de Vissle." “ Aha !” say Ito myself, “ I shall take de ship and sail for New-York, right vay, to get de information.’’ I put Ze Doctnur Franklin into my pockets, and I began to reflect on his story about “de Vissle.” Lc Doctcur Franklin vas von grand philosophy in dis country, but one ting dat he write in “de Vissle” is ver much foolish. Ho say, “ven I vas little garcon, my parents fill my pocket? with I'argent ; I met von other little garcon in de street with vissle. It please me ver modi, so I buy him, and give for him all de argent." Vich Is just like leetel dem foolish boy vould do. Den he say, “I go home much ploase vid de vissle, and trow do whole house into one confusion,” vich is very natural. But de part vot I tink ia most foolish part, is ver he say, “people in dis country pay too moch for de vissle.” Ven I come here, I look all roifnd me very moch, to see the people vot pay* too much for de vissle. I no spike do Engiis tong voxey-vous, so I cannot inquire vy dey ne vissle ; but I am very moch astonist, ven I see nobody dat don’t vissle nevair; so I say to myself, Monsieul lo Doctcur Franklin dem humbug, to say de people of dis country pay too much for de vissle, ven dey no pay for ne vis sle nevair at any time. So Ino read him no more, but I read Ma dame Trollope, who say dat de people of dis country buy de leetle penknife ver small, and cut de leetle end of de stick ver much. So I come to de grand conclusion, dal le Docteur Franklin 1 no com prehend ven I read in him how de people her always vissle continu ally, but dat he mean, de people here always vittcl de leetle piece of time vat you call chips. I remain sometime under dis impression, vich disturb my sleep, and my head is vat you call ver much contused, till I find out vat he all mean, ven von day I learn, to my grande sat isfaction, dat all de people in dis country vittel, vich is, dat de eat ver moch de same as dey do in Paris, only more corn-beef, vich is all I learn since I come here to get do information.—A’. Y. Mirror. The Farmers.—The following tribute, by a New England Clergyman, to the virtue and patriotism of the farmers of our country, is not more beautiful and eloquent than true. They are the sheet anchor of the nation-—uncontaminated by the general degeneracy of the times, and to be relied upon with the utmost congdence in all emergences. “There is one class of men upon whom we can as yet rely. It is the same class that stood on the little green at Lexington; that gathered on the heights of Bunkerhill, and poured down from tl>e hills of New England, and wbieh were the life blood of the nation when the English lion was ready to devour it. I mean the farmers. They were never found trampling on law and right; were I to commit my character to any class of men, my family and my country’s, it would be the farmers. They are a class of men such as the world [ never saw for honesty, intelligence and Roman virtue, sweetened by the gospel of God. And when this nation quakes, they and their sons are thoso that will stand by tho sheet anchors of our liberties, and bold the ship at her moorings till she outstridcs the storm.”— Nash. Union, Osage Apple Tree.—lt seems that the Morus Muhicau lis, which has been received in this country with that entlinsi as which is always excited by strangers of note, particularly when their merits are most mysterious, is likely to find in one of our natives n daring and confident, if not successful rival. We refer to the Osage Apple Tree. A correspondent in a brief communication, says—“ Having seen in this morning’s United States Gazette an article recommending the Osage ap ple tree for feeding the silkworm, many of your subscribers would he grateful for some information iu relation to it.” But little is known of it, ond our answer, therefore, will be more brief than satisfactory. It has been called Maclura, we believe, in honor of Mr. McCluer, an American naturalist, and was first introduced into this section of the United States by Mr. M’Mahon, to whom the seeds—brought from the Missouri by Lewis 8c Clark—were presented by President Jefferson. The Madura is described by Nuttall, as “a small lactescent tree, producing wood similar to fustic; leaves alternate, entire, de stitute of stipules, furnished with superaxillary ; simple spines; aments axillary ; berry verucose and large, at first lactescent yellow.” We learn in addition, that it is a spreading tree, from twenty to thirty feet high; its leaves are from one and a half to two inches long, and the fruit nearly the size of an orange, axillary and subsessile, surface verucose, partly tassel leated with ocsolete calcine vertiges. It is said that the apple is nearly as juicy as the orauge, and is, when matured, sweet and well flavored. The Osage apple tree has been tested in this latitude, and (jpund to endure the severest winters; its leaves are said, upon good authority, to be as favorable for the silk culture as the most approved species of mulberry, and to be useful and lasting for hedges, There appears to be no dif ficulty in raising it, and as the plant is indigenous ‘and to the manor born,’ it may eventually displace the half naturalized and acclimated foreigners that have been introduced.— Ledger. The Awful Plunge 3t. Catharines, U. C. Jour nal of the 6th, states that five men went over Niagara Falls on the previous Thursday. The Journal says, “The only par ticulars which we have been able to learn, are, that just before sunrise on Thursday morning last, a boat with two men in it, was discovered in the middle of the river, above the falls, vain ly endeavoring to make their way through the ice, with which they were enclosed, to the Canada shore. Their utmrst ex ertions proved unavailing, and in a short time they were seen to enter the cascades, when they disappeared. In half an hour after, another boat, with three men in it, was discovered in the same awful situation, and trying too, to gain the Canada side ; but in a few moments shared the melancholy fate of the other. Yesterday the body of a man was picked up in lhe Whirlpool, supposed to be one of these unfortunate men, having about his person two hundred dollars, and a valuable gold watch. We have no other particulars.” Rev. Rowland Hill.—Wc have had all the short-haud writers from London to take down his sermons: but the moment (it might be said) he got “under weigh,” they invariably laid down their pens in utter amazement and despair. Indeed, nothing but an active mind and close attention could keep up with him. so as to take in his ideas as be uttered them; to write them was impossible. His powers of amplification were unlimited ; he would run through eight or ten epithets in a breath, each one changing the grandeur of the thought. When arrived at this state it was evident he was dead to all external objects, and was revelling among the magnificent images of his fancy. • • • • • • • • When I called upon Mr. Hill, I generally found him with a book in one hand and a pipe in the other; aud often in such agony with the pain in his back, that, to alleviate it, he would lay his whole length upon the floor; even in this position I have found him smoking and reading. He told me that ho had read more of Latin and Greek than of his own language ; and, in a conversation he had with Mr. Green, he said, “Do you know, sir, for the last five or six weeks, I have read from five o'clock in the morning until seven or eight at night ? I mean, literally reading, sir, without ever going out, except now and then on an eve ning." He looked pale : I said, “Sir. you will only injure your health by such hard study.’’ “ Oh, sir,” he replied, “ 1 find lam obliged to do so. I have no pleasure in walking out, and it occupies my mind; be sides, sir, you know I have many reading men in tny congregation, and I must keep the upper hand. I should not like any of my hearers to know more than myself. I have given up reading modern publications —they are so verbose that I can get few ideas from them : yet, when I takeone up, I ennnotlay it down till I have lead it through, sir; then I 2>n vexed and dissatisfied at the waste of time; besides, I like io goto the originals, sir, and drink at the fountain of knowledge Gardner's Music and f riends. A new way of raising the ‘wind.’—A couple of Loafers in Sanders ville, who is known and distinguished by their never having any money, has adopted the following novel but effectual inode of raising funds.— They have got hold of a $lO bill by some means brother, (borrowed it no doubt,) and one will take it aud go up and scat himself among re spectable men, and commence conversing and boasting about money, and then observe that he has ‘more monej than one man ought to have,’ when some gentleman exasperated at such impertinence, will ofl'cr to lay a wager that he cannot show a certain sum of money. The Loafer will of course take up the bet, and win tho gentleman’s money by ex hibiting tho ten dollar bill. Having thus raised the wind, he hands it over to his chum who goes into another company and makes a raise in the sime way, and retains the bill until lhe fiist runs out of funds, who calls on him. gets it, and in a new crowd, goes through the same process as before.— Southern Advocate. Irish Fight.— We learn from a gentleman just from the Rail Road, that some few days back, a fight commenced between two parties of Irishmen somewhere on the Road between Cass ville and the Chattahoochie, which terminated in the death of two on the spot, besides wounding some five or six others so desperately, that their recovery was considered doubtful. Fire arms, says our informant, were used by both parties. [ Western Georgian. POLITICAL. We copy the following article from the Louisianian, to which we call the attention »f the democratic party in Georgia. COL. R. M. JOHNSON AND THE VICE PRESIDENCY. Though it has hot positively been announced from under the signature of this respected soldie.- and patriot that he is not a candidate for the office of Vice President of the United States at the next election, yet it hns so frequently been asserted in newspapers published ia the ir-tiediate vicinity of lhe Colonel’s residence, without cootratiicticn on his part, that whatever our sentiments in relation to him may be, lhe public would seem to be authorised and iu some treasure bound to take it for grant ed. The Colonel has filled a large space in the eyes of his countrymen during the last thirty yeais, and there is no man wha enjoys a greater portion if public esteem than he does for good sense and sincere devotion to the welflire of his country. 11 in reality the Colonel intends t 4 retire to the shades of private, life at the expiration of his oAicial term, we presume the attention of the democratic party will he Mtrw* i to Mr. John Forsyth, the present Secretary of State of tbe United States, as tlie individual most Citing and worthy lo succeed him. Col. Benton and Mr. Buchanan were both brought forward by their respective frieeds as candidates, whose claims to that high office were to be decided by the democratic convention which is to assemble uext year. But both these gentlemen have peremp torily declared that they will not consent under pretext circum stances that their names shall be brought before th? Ration with a view to such election. Mr. Fersyth has oat declir.rd, and fortunately be is admitted by all panics to ewnebine its bis per son the qualification- which become tbe station. We say no thing es Mr. Fersyth’s powers at a statesman, liecai*.3 '.very American citizen, est klinded by facliens prqudicr.j, that they are equal to any post in the civil gwvernmect of th* country. He will be opposed by lhe federalists, because his political principles arc diametrically opposed to theirs-—-bis principles are those which are cherished ia the South with pe culiar affection—those which Jefferson and tho fathers of the Coustitstion esteemed best adapted to the maintenance of tbe system of liberty ingrafted on our institutions. Mr. Forsyth is, besides, a man of great experience in pub lic affairs. He has discharged the functions of o-verv species of employment under lhe government—legislative, judicial, di plomatic and executive. Iu each and all of theca various posts he acquitted himself with honor—in each and all he occasion ed no regret except when he quitted them. Some of them were of the most delicate and important character. In the em bassy to Spain, at a critical juncture in our relations with that country, bis extensive information, his wise, firm and independ ent deportment, was lhe object of admiration throughout Eu rope as well as this country. While a member of tbe Senate of the United States, he was admitted by friend and foe te be the most adroit and tbe most agreeable debater in that assem bly, filled as it then was and still is with men of the very first grade of talent. The people of the United States are so well acquainted with the manner in which he has borne himself, as Secretary of State, that it would be utterly superfluous to go into detail to prove that he has discharged its difficult functions with greater ability and power than any man that ever occupi ed it, except Mr. Jefferson himself. JOHN FORSYTH is the man, who combines in an eminent degree all the requisite qualifications, and his name, already proclaimed throughout lhe union, in connexion with lhe Vice Presidency, has been universally re-echoed by the democracy. A number of the citizens of Warrenton, N. C. held a meet ing on the 4th of March, tvhen a Committee was appointed to invite Mr. Van Buren to partake of a public dinner in that town, as they understood be would visit the South the ensuing Summer, to which the President returned the following reply. —Greenville Mountaineer. Washington, March 25th, 1839. Gentlemen :—I take great pleasure in acknowledging the receipt of your letter of the 4th inst. written under the impres sion that I was about to visit tbe South, and inviting me to partake of a public dinner in the town of Warrenton. The report of my intention to make an extensive tour through the country, to which you have alluded, was well founded.— Never having bad the gratification to visit either of the States of Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Missouri, Ten nessee, Kentucky, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan or Maine, and sensible how much my ability to execute, successfully, such duties as may devolve upon me, in connection with their interest, would be increased by personal observation, 1 had de termined to visit those States, or as many of them as time and circumstances would allow, in the course of the ensuing sum mer. In making this tour, my course would have brought me in your vicinity, and I beg you to believe, and to assure those in whose name you have addressed me, that I would have been highly gratified at the opportunity to exchange personal salut ations with my fellow citizens of Warrenton, and to have made them my acknowledgements for the compliment which you have tendered me in their name. I regret, however, that the present state of public affairs has induced tne, in accordance w ith my sense of duty, to defer my proposed journey to a fu ture period. For the flattering expression of confidence aud regard con tained in your letter, I return you my heartfelt thanks. The assurance of the existence of such feelings among his constitu ents is the best reward for any services which a public servant can render; and it possesses for me in this instance a peculiar value, from the circumstance that such assurance proceeds from the friends and immediate neighbors of the late Nathaniel Ma con ; from those who have been familiar with the counsels, and nurtured in the principles of that great and good man, whose friendship it was my happiness to enjoy for many years and until the day of his death. It affords me great satisfaction to find that my political opin ions and course have been approved by those whom you rep resent. The principles to which you have made special refer ence, are those which I have sustained throughout my public life, and to which I hope to remain faithfol lo the end. Do me the favor to communicate these sentiments, in my name, to those whom you represent, and accept, for yonrseh'es, assurance of the high respect and regard with which, I am, gentlemen, Your friend and servant, M. VAN BUREN. To Messrs. Henry Fitts, Jr. and others, Committee. From the Auffutta Conetilutionaliet. The elections in Connecticut, as our readers are well apprised, have terminated in favor of the whigs, by the support of the abolitionists and conservatives. Those elections have been proclaimed as a glorious triumph to the wliigs, though in fact the result was a triumph of the democratic party, because tlie w’higs succeeded by reduced majorities, and because the hope will be realised, that another contest will certainly give to the democratic party that ascendency to which it has so ma ny claims. That northern wliigs should exult, at the result of the elections, it is not surprising ; but tint southern editors should repeat the exultation of w liigs and abolitionists, is in deed to be wondered at. We are mortified at it, as southern men. Some of the whig editors in Georgia have given the re sult of the elections, but without words of exultation; we there fore exonerate such from the censure the others deserve. To show how unnatural it is for southern men to exult al the result of the elections in Connecticut, we give extracts of let ters w ritten by the candidates for Congress, previous to the election. The Anti-Slavery Society of that State propounded two in terrogations to lhe candidates : Ist. Are you in favour of the immediate abolition of Slavery in the District of Columbia ? 2d. Are you opposed to the admission to* the Union of any new State whose constitution tolerates Slavery? To the first interrogatory, Mr. Toucey, one of the defeated democratic candidates, replies ; “ The Constitution haviqg recognised lhe existence of slave property, the utmostpower of the federal Government, in Ml P. L. ROBINSON, PROPRIETOR. its branches, is not coequal to the task of enacting “lhe immediate abolition ot slavery in the District of Columbia,” the people not having granted their Government any such power, and such an act would be unconstitutional and void; and therefore, no one, sworn to support the Constitution, could, in the dis charge of a public duty, under the responsibilities of that oatb, give the measure his support.” To the second he replies : “ The new State is entitled to come into the Union upon a footing of perfect equality of reserved powers with other States as a coequal State, coequal in all the attributes of sovereignty ; and it would be a mere naked, downright abuse and perversion of the power of admitting an equal State into the Union, to coerce such State, under color of the exercise of that power, to surrender any portion of those reserved powers and attributes of sovereignty as an indispensable condition of admission.— Belieting that the Constitution, as it came to us from its vene rated framers, is better than it would be made by any supple ment that could be annexed by the tampering of Congress, and knowing that the same reason supposed for rejecting a new State, exists for expelling from the Union nearly half the pres ent confederated States, and thus breaking up the Government at once, I shall give a negative answer to your second inter rogatory.” Mr. Whittlesey, another defeated democratic candidate, re plied as Mr. Toucey did. The following is an extract ol his letter: “ You call it a great controversy between freedom and sla very. It is because lam in favor of freedom, constitutional freedom, that lam opposed to modern abolition. It would break in pieces our constitutional fabric which Divine aid as sisted in making, and which many of us fondly hope will be perpetual, and my hand shall wither and my tongue palsy be fore I will make them the instruments of its destruction. I ' < -ihat abolitionists, many of them, honestly apprehend no such danger. They believe the cry of dissolution is empty clamor, and that dissolution itself is a less evil than the tolera tion of slavery. But is slavery thereby eradicated ? If the Union i: dissolved, is slavery destroyed ? I believe in the fu ture extinction of slavery; but as far as I can discern, the pres ent efforts of northern abolitionists have only the effect to re tard the melioration of the slave’s condition, and to put off the day of his final emancipation.” Now for the replies of the successful whig candidates* Extract from the reply of Mr. Storrs, one of the whig candi* dates elected: “With respect to the District of Columbia, I have no doubt that Congress possesses the constitutional power to legislate on the subject of slavery, ,as it does on nil other subjects of legis lation within that District, as fully as a State Legislature can exercise such power within its State: and that it is for such bo» dy to decide when and in what manner the power shall be exer cised. Respecting slavery as it exists in the several States, Congress has, of course, no constitutional power to legislate, as is universally conceded. As ro the remaining inquiry, I re ply, that, as at present advised, I do not think of any circum stances under which I should be in favor of the admission of a new State whose constitution tolerates slavery. If any circum stances exist which would impel me, as a matter of obligation, to do so, they do not at present occur to me ; and, independ ent of an obligation to admit such new State, I think it could not reasonably be expected or required.” Extract from the reply of Mr. Smith, one of the successful whig candidates: “I can, therefore, say that, in common with those who have had an agency in bringing my name before the public, I con sider slavery as a great and crying evil, lhe abrogation of which is .a “consummation devoutly to be wished;” that it is a sad commentary on those principles of freedom and equality which were inscribed by our ancestors as a frontlet upon our institutions, that the words of the Constitution conferring upon Congress the power “to exercise exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever” over the District of Columbia, are sufficient ly broad to clothe that body with power to annihilate (should they deem it expedient) this evil at the seat of Government, that the introduction of a foreign, independent, and sovereign State into our Union is totally unauthorised by the Constitution, and if it were otherwise, the measuae would be inexpedient if the effect would be to extend and aggravate the disease which all would extirpate, if possible, from our system, and especially do I think that the people should enjoy foe unalienable rights of speech, petition and the press, that these sacred'immunities ought not to be trifled with, nor frittered away, that no tyran nous majority should establish an “ Atherton gag,” nor law less mob trample under foot peaceable and unoffending citizens assembled to concentrate upon the dark recesses of slavery all the effulgence of reason, religion, and truth. “With respect to the admission of new States tolerating sla very to a participation of the blessings of the Federal compact, I would observe, that no such application will be made, except by the territory of Florida, for many years to come, and if she shall present herself, as Arkansas did, with a constitution deny ing to her Legislature the potver of emancipation, and passing an irreversible sentence of bondage against a hopeless race, I should dread the responsibility of giving her a place among the stars of our Union.” M r - Webster’s famous declaration that the Government of the United States ought to take possession of the disputed portion of Maine on lhe 4th of July next, is republished in the London prints from the tyhig newspapers here. The London Standard of M arch 20th, is before us, in which it is copied from the New York Express. It is singular how widely this “mistake” as to Mr. Webster’s meaning is propagated. His friends should send to the London journals a copy of the explanatory letter,* containing Mr. Webster’s own commentary on that obscure text, proving that he must have meant, not the next fourth of July, but some future fourth of July in this or lhe next century. —N. Y. Post. J Speculating Banks.—Great complaints are made in sev eral parts of the country, that certain banks have abandoned their legitimate business, and entered lhe field of speculation in competition with the merchants. The Chicago Branch of the Illinois Bank, has entered extensively into the Pork specula tions. By withholding all accommodations from the merchants, it has a vast amount of money at its control, and is enabled com pletely to monopolize the market. No one else having money, the farmers are compelled to dispose of their pork to the bank or keep it, and the bank can set its own price. After it gets the property in its possession, it can hold it until purchasers are obliged to pay its exhoritant demands. Biddle set the example, by speculating in Cotton. The Wisconsin Bank has become the monoplizer of lead.— The people of that Territory assert that it is the greatest curse that was ever inflicted upon any people. Several of the Southwestern banks have also converted them selves into speculators, to the enrichment of themselves and the destruction of all around them.— Ohio Statesman. Eccentricities of Alfieri.—Alfieri, the eccentric Italian and fine poet, was partial to long hair, and wore his hair floating about, just as we see the poor Ophelias. One day he was leaning against a side-board, decorated with a costly Chi nese tea-service, when, by a sudden movement of his down w ent one of the tea cups. The lady of the mansion took the liberty of telling him that he had spoiled the service, and. he might as well have broken them all; when instantly without uttering a syllable, orchanging countenance, swept ofi* the whole service upon the floor. Again, he at the theatre of Turin, was lolling over a side-box, into which his lovely au burn ringlets fell, and wherein was a lady. She broke out into, the most violent ecomiums upon his locks, and kept repeating the same : but the wearer was mute ; he was for the present un grateful. Next morning, however, lhe lady received, a parcel, containing all the hair of the poet’s head, with th«t following billet: “If you like the hair, here it is ; but for be&ven’s sake, let me alone.” Mails in Arkansas.—The “ Little Rock Times” says “We have no news—the mail contractor has run away, and the horses are sold—no mail for the last week, and none expected?’ WHOLE IVO. 374.