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ed, with a high prominent forehead ; his face was
loe.g, narrow and irregular, the right side of which
Kcmcd so depressed or contracted from some acci
dent, as to subject him to inconvenience in speaking;
his mouth appeared to have been drawn or inclined
towards the right side, by reason of the contraction
in that side of the face, and although large enough,
remained almost c losed on the right side, while the
left side was entirely distended in speaking; his eye,
like a sick man's, looked weary and melancholy. His
voice, his person, his eye, gestures, all combined to
convev the idea of a sinking invalid, lie proceeded
however, after singing a hymn, ami offering a short
b’.it ardettt pr tv t to the throne of grace, to state the
subject of his discott-'C, which was designed as a re
futation of the doctrine of universal salvation.
As he progressed with his profound and logical
reasoning, his masterly and irrefutable arguments,
his voice gradually assumed a musical and harmoni
ous tone, which floated through the hall like the sil
vers' tone of the me low flute, wafted by balmy mid
night zephyrs, over the moon-lit bosom of some syl
van lake: the music of his voice, like some mysteri
ous spell, rivited the attention of the listener in pleas
ing astonishment. His form gradually dilated —his
bosom expanded—his countenance assumed a digni
ty, a grandeur—his eye an inspiration, a sublimity—
till he stood before the enraptured audience, the august
personification of the heathen poet’.' ideal divinity.
His eloquence approached its crisis, as he proeeed
to draw a contrast between the two extremes of vir
tue and vice. lie described in glowing imagery the
grav hatred, way-worn pilgrim, as traversing the
earth in every direction, dispensing peace and happi
ness where e’er he went or came—he fed the orphan,
and wiped away the widow’s tear —his smile was oil
and wine to the wounded spirit—he kindly healed
the lacerated conscience, and commanded back the
overwhelming waves of despair from the exhausted
and sinking sou!—his heart is virtue, benevolence
and chastity —Iris life is sympathy, beneficence and
philanthropy—he journeys to the great city of the
proud—the proud man envies him the benedictions
of th* virtuous poor—the pilgrim is asserted, mana
cled, and incarcerated in the deep, dark, damp vaults
of the prison: and here was drawn a picture of
wretchedness and misery, which passed the iron to
the soul of every individual of that audience. All
heard the dinking of the prisoner’s chains—all
shuddered and “ dropped the honest tear of sensibil
ity,” ns they saw the captive turn to lay the little
stick upon its bundle, after having etched with a rus
ted nail another notch to add to the miserable days
he had spent in captivity.
But the proud mail arrayed in “ scarlet and fin*
linen,” crowned with a diadem of" gold, begemed with
sparkling diamonds and costly stones, revelling in tdl
the luxury of affluence, dwelling in all the “ pomp
»id circumstance” of greatness, basking in all the
homage and sunny smiles opulence commands, or
ders the victim to be brought forth. The wasted
form of the venerable pilgrim, leaning on his stall’,
totters into the presence; hi- withered hand trembles
on his furrowed brow, to shield his eyes from the too
brilliant light of the glorious day, which for twenty
long years had not visited his dim and rayless orbs.
A momentary ray of pleasure flits across the brow of
the kneeling victim, as he bows his hoary head to the
drspot, while in a faint querulous voice he sues to
Heaven for pardon murderers—he is led to the block
—bis lips quiver, and his long silvery locks flutter in
the breeze, as for the last time he raises his moistened
eyes towards a better world. But the fatal axe is
dropped—the quivering muscles, the compressed and
palid lips and snow-white hair, are dabbled in blood,
as the tt uufiless head rolls from the fatal block—tlw
curtain drops—and anon a new scene opens, and the
eloquence of this great man assumed an elevation, a
sublimity and grandeur beyond any thing I had t v r
before conceived, as he described the heavens—th
judgment seat—the songs of the righteous made per
fect—the music of angels and chcrubims. Beautiful!
beautiful ! sublime was that description ! Every eye
was riveted on the speaker, and several times was the
whole multitude dissolved in tears, or suddenly and
unconsciously impelled to their feet by the power of
his eloquence. At one time, when in a clear, plain
tive voice he cried, ‘‘is there no one to rescue devoted
in» >cen< e from the impending fate !” I unconscious
ly sprang from my seat—l thought I saw the eyes of
the devoted pilgrim pleadingly riveted on mine, and
f<lt impelled to his rescue; I found however thet in
this I was not alone, for most of the audience had
simultaneiously with me sprung to tneir feet.
“My hearers,” said the preacher, ‘will those two
individuals, so differently actuated in this life, whose
conduct was governed by the extremes of virtue and
vice, meet with the same reward in a future state of
existence ? Is it compatible with the unbending and
■tern justice of the Great Eternal ?’ After an eloquent
pause, he proceeded with the closing scene, which
causes a shudder of horror to thrill through my sys
• tern, whenever my memory recurs to it. When tl>e
disembodied spirit of the pilgrim was pre»entrd be
fore the judgment seat of the Most High, smiles of
recognition passed through the congregation ; when
he triumphantly wayed his palm of victory—received
the everlasting crown of glory, ami life eternal: when
lhe received the embraces of the blest, and raised his
tremulous voice for the first time, to join the loud
hosannahs of saints and angels, as the chanted ever
lasting strains of heavenly song to the great I AM,
hysteric shrieks and bursts of joy issued from the
females iu every part of the house.
But the scene was not yet closed ; the catasthrope,
the great denouement was yet to come, which yet
shocks and harrows the souls of all who witnessed it
that evening. He pourtrayed the proud man as re
ceiving his sentence—his curse—his final and eternal
doom. “ The guilty soul,” he said, “in dreadful
consternation, leaped the golden gates of heaven,
and plunged down, down, down to the dark fathoma
ble bosom of despair ; the liquid fire, as he descends,
spew up in massy billows to receive him, while the
incensed King of Heaven pronounces, “depart from
me you accursed,” &i.c., in a voice hoarse as thunder,
with indignation and insulted majesty.”
An earthquake, accompanied with the most tremen
dous peal of thunder, could not more have startled
the audience, than did the last sentence of the spea
ker; every individual sprang to his feet, and all made
one general rush tow ards the door, accompanied with
a continued shrieking and wailing of females. In
lheconfusion, I found my cousin Magdalena almost in
a state of insensibility. I assisted her to the door,
and just as we gained the open air, the speaker in a
tone as -oft and soothing as woman’s love, exclaimed,
“ my friends, be not disturbed, there is yet a balm in
Gilead, and a God in Israel.” We had by the time
he completed this soothing sentence, gained the street,
end widiout further delay made our way home, not
withstanding my desire to bear this man com
plete bi* remarks,
From the Albany Evening Journal.
TRAVELS IN NORI 11-AMERICA.
The Harpers have published, in two volumes, the Tra
vels of the Hon. Charles Augustus Murray in North Amer
ica, .hiring the vests 1834, 1835, am) 1836. Wo were
led to expect, from what we had hoard of the habits and
bearing of this young nobleman, a frank, fair, and honest
report of all he mot with, worthy of remark, in bis ram
bles through our country ; and in this expectation wo are
not disappointed. The work is alike creditabl.- to his
head and his heart, fie was an intelligent, enterprising,
• ill tut fellow, whose enthusiasm and love of adventure
fed hi n to explo e the rudest and wildest regions. He
writes as he rambled, with grace and freedom. Coming
with his mind free from taint, all that lie saw and heard
was impressed upon it in truth and honesty. Gener
ous, confiding, and social himself, he inspired kindred
emotions wherever he found respectful artel acceptable at
tentions and civilities, where the Fiddlers, Trollopes, &c.
comnlain of rudeness and insult.
Mr. Murray started from Liverpool in the ship Waverly
Capt. Phillips, in April, 1834. Ti e ship, when two thou
sand miles out, sprung a leak, which required the constant
exertion of every man on board for nine days and nights
to save her fioni sinking. Site finally made the port of
Fay il, where she Was four weeks repairing, and from
thence was six weeks in getting to New York. There is
a beautiful moral in the following extract :
“ Here I must pause, to dwell for a moment on the il
lustration afforded, by our present circumstances, of the
inscrutable wisdom and mercy of that Being whom wo are
constantly incensing by our disobedience and insulting by
our ignorant complaints, but whom, nevertheless, bears
with our infirm ities, ami often compels its to love and ad
miration bv making the very grievances of which we com
plain the visible instruments of our preservation. This
■i'fleCliqn was suggested bv looking at the scene on deck ;
for during the first week of the voyage, we (in the cabin)
had often complained of the smell, dirt, and other nuisan
ces occasioned by the number of emigrants stowed in the
steerage, most of whom were, as I have, said, of the most
wretchvd and ragged cl.lss that lieland exports to the co
lonies ; and we had often remarked how much more agree
able the voyage would have been, had they not come on
board. Had our wish been granted our term of life had
now been short indeed ! If the ships compliment had
consisted only of the crew and cabin passengers, we
should have hern ore this, worn down bv fatigue, and un
able to keep her afloat ; for, besides the ordinary sailors’
dutv, the pumps required six men at work without inter
mission, day and night, while the heaving over of the cargo
found full employment for twenty more!”
Mr. Murray remains but a few days in New York,
makes a jaunt to Rockaway, and then passes up the Hud
son, stopping to admire West Point. Os Albany ho says:
“ After leaving West Point, we pursued our way in the
steamboat up tin; Hudson, as fir as Albany, pa-wino
beautiful scenery, leaving on our right ’* v( je Park and a
number of prettily wooded v ;in | Oi j 0 ,„ ],.ft t() ( | ie
Catskill mountains, Albany, the capital of New-York,
is one of Itic oldest settlements in the United States, I be
lieve the first in the upper Stares, having been settled in
1612. It is a busy and prosperous town; and as it forms
the terminations both of the Erie canal and es the Hudson
and Mohawk rail road, is a place of much commercial ac
tivity. The population is estimated at 28,000, and this
citv may be pronounced the greatest emporium of inter
nal trade in the United States. Estimates taken last year,
(18-33) and based upon accurate calculations, compute the
value of goods brought into it, through the Erie and Cham
plain canals, at two millions and a half sterling.
“ Ttie Capitol ami several other public building appear
ed worthy of notice, but 1 had no time to visit them on
this occasion. The principal proprietor in the neighbor
hood is Gen. Stephen Van Renselaer, better known by
the appellation of the Patroon, wh > is mentioned in the
books of all American travellers as one of the largest land
holders in the States. 1 had the pleasure of being intro
duced to this respect ibis and venerable old gentleman at
Saratoga.”
Os Canandaigua and Gennessee, and of Messrs. Greig,
Duncan, and Wadsworth, he says:
“ From Auburn we took saddle horses, and teC.-.-
nwva, atreafc.lTTuTlyrsTruafeir town on Seneca lake; thence
through a country bearing marks of- improved cultivation
and prosperous condition, to Canandaigua, passing over
the fine lake Cayuga on a wooden bridge, the length of
which I conceive to be neatly a mile and a half, built on
piles. Nothing can be more neat and comfortable look
ing than the village of Canandaigua; it is comooved of
one long street, which i», indeed, a series of vilLs ; each
house being shaded by walnut, hickory, and other forest
tr<
“ Having letters of introduction to Mr. G , an emi-
n* it Scottish agriculturist, and my companion being ac
quainted with Mr. D— , another Scottish gentleman
settled here, we found ourselves soon in the enjoyment of
every comfort that the most kind and considerate hospital
ity could offer. Mr. G. was one of the most earl vest set
tlers in this part of the country, and by unwearied perse
verance, consummate ability, and unsullied integrity, has
raised himself in this district to an eminence, both in for
tune and character, that may be pronounced enviable.—
Indeed, it was, with mingled feelings of astonishment,
pleasure, and national pride, that I saw this man doing
the honors of bistable, in a house that might vie in com
fort and luxury with a»y of the villas near London, and
looking fr< m its roof over a vast plain of corn, fruit trees
•nd gardens, on which, when he first came to the country,
the impervious forest grew, the red man and the deer wan
dered.
“We spent two or three days here most agreeably, arid
1 derived mu* h useful information fram conversing with
Mi. G. respecting the method pursued in surveying, clear
ing; selling and otherwise managing the tracts of land dis
posed of in the : r country.
“ From Canandaigua which I left with much reluctanc
tanee, we passed through a thriving and well cultivated
country to Genesee, where 1 had the pleasure of being
introduced to Mr. W , the owner of a magnificent es-
tate in the Genesee flats. Fortune seemed not yet wea
ried of being bountiful, and allowed us to see this most
beautiful valley, with the advantage of residing in one of
the most hospitable and agreeable houses that I ever en
tered. Mr. ’s son ac< ompanied us through his exten- |
tensive farms, which are formed to delight equally the eve
of a Poussin or a Sir J. Sinclair. The broad meadows
of- an alluvial soil, covered with the richest grasses, as
watered by the winding Genesee, are studded with trees
beautifully and negligently grouped, among which are
scattered large herds of cattle of various breeds and kinds,
both English and American ; the meadows are here and
there interspersed with fields of Indian corn and wheat,
while the hills that rise on each vide ate crowned with
timber excepting spots where the encroaching hand of
improvement has begun to girdle some of the tall sons of
the forest, whose scathed tops and black bare arms beto
kening their approaching fall, gives picturesque variety to
the scene.
“ Yet this scene, extraordinary and interesting as it
was, possessed less interest to a contemplative and musing
mind, than the venerable and excellent gentleman who
had almost created it; for it was now forty-four years since
Mr. VV. came as the first settler to this spot, with an axe |
on bis shoulder, and slept the first night under a tree.—
After th s he lodged in a log house; subsequently in a
cottage ; afid he is now the universally esteemed and re
spected possessor of a demesne which many of the proud
est nobility of Europe might look upon with envv, where
he exercises the rites of hospitality, in the midst of his
amiable family, with a sincerity and kindness that I shall
not easily forget.”
After visiting the falls, Mr. Murray descen led (lie St.
Lawrence to Ogdensburg, and from thence, as the chole
ra was raging at Montreal and Quebec, proceeded bv land
to Burlington, Vermont, where he was charmed with the
town, and pays a handsome compiment to our friend
1 homas, who then, if not now, kept an excellent hotel
there,
At Montpelier he bought a French pony, (to share the toil
with the horse purchased at Auburn,) and here, in the hand
somest manner,-he vindicates our countrymen fiom the
imputation so unscrupulously cast upon us by most foreign
tourists, of being cheats and sharpers.
“ Here I cannot help making a few remarks upon a
subject on which 1 think the general opinion in Britain is
erroneous. We arc taught to believe that the Yankee is
invariably a suspicious and avaricious man in bis money
transactions, and incapable of those feelings and acts of
liberality for which the British character is distinguished.
I shall mention two instances that occurred to me tn the
space of four days, which showed a very different char
acter from that of which the New Englanders are accused.
I he change in the route which the prevalence of the cho
lera at Montreal induced me to adopt, had prevented me
from drawing any of the money which I intended to get
tn th t c>ty, and my finances were, therefore, so much
reduced as to leave me only just sufficient to take me as
far as Boston. Upon mv mentionit.g the circumstance to
Mr. T , my landlord at Burlington, as my reason for
not making some trifling purchases, he at once a' vaaccd
me fifty dollars, by endorsing mv draft on New York, and
presenting the bill to the Burlington Bank.
The second instance which I shall quote was in the
purchaseof the Indian pony. Mr. C ,of Montpelier,
understanding that it would be inconvenient for me to
pay Ids price out of my travelling pocket money, offered
al once to accept my draft on New York for the sum, in
which manner the purchase was made. Neither of these
gentlemen had ever seen or heard of me before, neither of
them asked even for a letter of introduction or other pa
pers to satisfy them as to any particulars respecting me;
and with all due and modest allowance for my own gen
tlemenly appearance, I very much doubt whether 1 should
have met with the same liberal treatment, under similar
circumstances, at a country town in Yorkshire or Lan
cashire.
“Another thing I am also bound to say, namely, that
the descriptions hitherto given by travellers, of the ac
commodations at the taverns in the more remote parts of
the country, have been highly colored to their disadvan
tage. In travelling tor the last fortnight with mv own
horse and wagon, I have stopped at three or four differ
ent places in the course of each day, and have gone
through a great portion of the most unsettled country in
New fork, Vermont, and New Hampshire: in many in
stances the taverns have been very small; but I have
never had reason to complain of want of cleanliness,
good victuals or civility. I have asked at the most un
seasonable hours, both early and late, for breakfast, din
ner and supper; and in the course of ten minutes have
always been supplied with a beefsteak, potatoes, bread,
and cheese, butter, eggs, and tea or coffee; the beds havt;
been clean, and whenever 1 as.ked for two or threq
els, instead of the one placed in the r£om, tl.;Sy have been
furnished without any hes>‘^;‘ lon or extia charge. All
"hat a traveller is a sufficient knowledge of.the
wot Id, to prevent his mistaking manners for intention ;
end a sufficient fund of good temper in himself to keep
■i n iro n I eing irritated by trifles. Upon entering < r driv
ing up to a tavern, the landlord will sometimes continue
smoking his pipe without noticing your entrance ; and if
you ask whether you can have dinner, you tnay be told,
‘dinner is over, but I guess you can httVc something.’ If
you are true John Bull, you will fret and sulk; and si
lently comparing this w.th the bustling attention and
empressement of an Et glisb waiter, or hoots, you walk
about by yourself, chewing the bitter cud of wrath ; I ut if
you are a traveller, or formed by Nature to become one,
(which John Bull is not,) you will take this reception as
you find it, and as the usage of the country.
Mr. Murray was a keen sportsman. In this country
he hunted all kinds of game, from the wilt) turkey to the
buffalo. On a hunting excursion near the AHeganv
Mountains in Pennsylvania, he met with a countryman,
; (Mr. Murray is a genuine Scot,) who in casting his lot
in America, had got what Jeannie Deans would call
“• shoulder to the hills;” or, in other words, had lo
cated on a spot bearing astrong resemblance to his na
tive Highlands. Here the Travelltt, “warming to the
tartan,” indulged in reflections alike eloquent and patri
i otic :
i “One. <>f my Isicg rsnAl. s led w>c to house of Mr.
i Chisholm, one of a large and respectable family who
! emigrated limn the neighborhood of Inverness, and are
| now among the most wealthy and thriving tenants of the
I glades. As I drew near to the farm, 1 overtook a man
i whom I immediately guessed by his appearance to be
: the laird. He did not hear me coming along the grass,
■ and when close behind him, I called out to him, in Gaelic,
‘lt’s a fine day, to-day.’ He started with surprise at this
salination, answered it by welcoming me to his house,
and soon made me tegret that my knowledge of Gaelic,
confined as it was to a few phrases, did not enable me to
carry on the conversation in that language; however, we
‘cracked’ long over scenes of mutual interest and recol
lection—the wilds of Badenoch, the woodlands of In
verishe, and the ducal mansion of Kinrara, and the
neighboring abode of Rotliiemurkes.
“With many mingled emotions did I listen to the
tongue that, in native accents, spoke of those well-known
scenes. They may be of little interest to others, they
may be unknown Io fame; but when one who has high
land blood in his veins—whose early foot has trodden the
heath-covered mountain—whose young memory was im
pregnated with the wheeling flight of the eagle, the timid
eye and free bound of the toe, the horse plash of the
waterfall and its slumbering loch, its pebbled margin
fringed with weeping birch, and its bosom reflecting the
rugged and dusky forms of the cliffs and promontories by
which it is indented—when such a one feels his heart un
moved, his spirit unstirred bv these recollections, kt him
(’(iff that tartan which has well earned its green and
crimson glory in many a field from Bannockburn to
Waterloo—let bint doff'it,
“ And hang a calf skin on his recreant limbs.”
“In no other part of the world has my national pride
been more gratified than in this country; which, abound
ing as it does in settlers from every nation in Europe, af
fords a fairer opportunity than can . be found at home of
comparing their respective characters under similar cii
ct instances. 1 think I can affirm with equal truth and
pleasure that the Scotchmen who have settled in the U.
I States have earned for themselves a higher average char
| acter for honesty, perseverance, and enterpt ize than their
rival settlers from any other part of the old world.
BULWER AND Ills WIFE.
The novel lately published by the wife of Bulwer, the
novelist, has aheady passed through three editions in
England. Its only merit consists in its bitterness, and
the success with which it portrays the angry feelings of a
vindictive woman. N. I’. Willis, in the Coisair, gives
the following account of the fust misunderstanding be
tween Bulwer and his wife:
Bulwer was an ambitious man—full of genius—of
profound learning, and liberal views. He had written
Pelham, the first novel of the nineteenth century, and the
Disowned, not far behind it in merit. He becamea mem
ber of Pari iainent. To his wife he had breathed his '
hopes, his ambitious thoughts of what Ito could effect.
He spoke as he would have spoken to his own soul. He
entered the House of Commons; he rose to speak; it was
his first trial; his fame was at its zenith ;he saw the lights ,
dance before his bewildered eye; the student of the j
one solitary lamp was before blazing at.d flashing chan
daliers, and his heart crept back to bis book girt sanctua
ry, and his tongue could not utter its beautiful and elo
quent sentiments ;he failed. Stunned and confounded,
he fled to the sanctuary of home, like the culprit to the
sanctuary of the church. His wife was in her boudoir;
she had beard of bis defeat, at a party where she was.
Her pride was stung. He entered to receive her sympa
thy. Dropping him a courtesy, she sneeringly addressed
him—“Ah, you are the distinguished Edward Lytton
Bulwer, author of Pelham and Disowned. You the man
that was to regenerate England, to overthrow the Grey
Ministry ? Poor thing, scared by the flare of a candle!”
lie was overwhelmed with rage, and slapped her on the
fat e. It was unpardonable among men, but not among
women. The provocation was great. This was one
of the first causes of separation ; who was to blame in
it? Morality and love will answer that question.
ODD PEOPLE.
The passion for practical jokes upon a great scale has
long been extremely popular and predominant. A noble
earl,not many years dead, in order to divert himself and
two or three chosen friends ‘at another’s expense,’ used
sometimes to invite to dine with him some six men, each
minus an arm or a leg; on another day, half a dozen wor
thy personages, who were stone deaf; on another, half a
dozen others, whose obliquity of vision happened to be
exceedingly temarkable. One day six bald men were
asked ; on another, three men, six feet four high, with
three men scarcely four feet six ; on a third occasion, a
neat half dozen of stutterers ; an equal batch of sufferers
under some nervous affection, which induced them to
keep winking their eyes and twitching their noses at each
other during the whole lime of the repast, perfectly un
conscious themselves of the oddity of tire proceeding.-
New Monthly.
one’s mothep.
Around the idea of one’s mother the mind clings
with fond affection. It is the first dear thought stamp
ed upon our infant hearts, when yet soft and capable
of receiving the most profound impressions, and all
the after feelings are more or less light in comparison.
Our passions and our wilfulness may lead ns far from
the olyeet of our filial love; we may become wild,
headstrong, and angry at her counsels and opposi
tion ; but when death has stilled her monitory voice,
and nothing but calm memory remains to recapitulate
her virtues and good deeds, affection, like a flower
beaten to the ground by a rude storm,, raises up her
bead and smiles amidst her tears. Round that idea, as
we have said, the mind clings with fond affection ; and
even when the early period of our loss forces memory
to be silent, fancy takes the place of remembrance, and
twines the image of our departed parent with a gar
land of graces, and beauties, and virtues, which we
doubt not that she possessed.
From the Auguata Coustitutionafal,
HEALTH OF AUGUSTA.
We continue to day our mournful catalogue of deaths
by the prevailing epidemic, and are sorry that we cannot
give the glad tidings of its mitigation. Our physicians ap
pear unanimous in the opinion that the cases occurring
within the past week are of a decidedly milder type,
but when we take into view the spareness of our popula
tion, at the present time, and the number of deaths daily
occurring, it -is difficult to say what, if any, change has
taken place.
The daily reports of eur Board of Health we give be
'] low ; they can be relied upon by our fellow citizens abroad
as being correct- —as we do not believe there has a death
• occurred, within or without the city, of one of our citi
zens, that is not noted in them ; and we hope our readers
at a distance will bear this in mind, and not attribute all the
deaths reported to afflicted Augusta.
•| The weather in the early part of the week was cool
and considered favotable for the health of our city ; but
the last three days have been close and sultry—and has,
no doubt, added to our sickness.
Below will be found the names of those who have
died by fever since our report of Thursday last, at which
time we reported fifty-ene deaths—viz : 48 whites and
3 blacks.
Mrs. Nehr, native of Germany, Resident.
William Moody, “
| Vlrs. Aaron Rpff’, “
Bazil Youngblood, “
John Sandiford, “
f airs. Jones, (mother of Priscilla,) “
Miss C. Sabal, “
Master Albert Banta, New York,
flames L. Wray, Resident.
fMiss Emma Hartford, “
{Mrs. J. Calvin, “
S. P. Turpin, “
William Wright, “
Richard Meredith, “
Mrs. A. Z. Banta, New York.
Mrs. Rebecca Quizenberry, Resident.
Henry D-ilby, “
Miss Elizabeth Hamilton, South Carolina.
Asbury Knight, Resident.
John Stansfield, Printer, Boston or New York.
Mrs. Deaves, Resident.
fMrs. Green, “
JDr. Dent, “
Mrs. Broome, “
fJoseph Rouche, France.
John Abbott, unknown;
Frederick Selleck, Resident.
{James U. Jackson, “
William Thompson, “
Henry E. Parmelee, Connecticut.
Thomas Allen, Resident.
Welcome Allen, “
Wiley Hargroves, ■» “
And six negroes —four in the eity and two in the country.
The following deaths have also occurred within the
same period from other diseases:
Edward 11. Barrett, Resident.
Mrs. Mary Savage, “
Mrs. Meridith, n
James Johnson, “
J. C. Griffin, (died at Aiken,) “
Mrs. Elizabeth Pryor, «
And four negroes.
| Died out of tke city.
BOARD OF HEALTH.
Sunday, Sept. 8, 12 M.
The board of Health report that four deaths have
occured during the last twenty-four hours—only two
from (ever, one from hemorrhage, and one aged negro
woman from chronic complaint.
Published by order of the Board.
A. CUMMING, Mayor.
J. G. Dunlap, Sec’y pro tern.
Tuesday, Sept. 10, 12 M.
1 The board report six deaths, by fever, five whithes and
one black, in the city, since the report of yesterday and
two deaths by the same disease in the country.
Published by order of the Board.
Wednesday, Sept. 11, 12 M.
The board report three deaths, from fever, within the
last twenty-four hours.
Published by order of the Board.
Thursday, September 12—12 M.
The Board of Health report, the death of two persons
in the city, from fever, and one in the country, a resident
of the city, from the same disease.
Friday, Sept. 13—12 M.
The board report three deaths from fever in the city,
and one in the country, during the last twenty four hours'.
Saturday, Sept. 14—12 M.
The board report the death of two adults and one child,
during the last twenty four hours. The board also report
the death of Mr. George Lark, who died in Barnwell dis
trict, S. C., on Tuesday last, but the fact was not known
to the board till to-day.
m A. CUMMING, Mayor.
S. M. Tiiompfon, See’y.
„ „ STAT I RI3HTS Af!D UHiTED STATES RIGHTS.
WiniE! MID4VRIO COS' S’mEQSff.r*
THE TKUB SSSUE.
Shull ours be a GOFERNMEXT OF THE RANKS
or a GOVERNMENT OF THE PEOPLE? Shall
have, a CONSTITUTIONAL TREASURY, or an UN
CONSTITUTIONA L Nd TIONA L LA NK ? Shall sm
have a CONSTITUTIONAL CURRENCY of gold Attn
silver or one of IRREDEEMABLE PAPER? Shall
■nelive, under the despotisniof a MONIED ARISTOCRACY,
orunder the safeguards of a FREE CONSTITUTION ?
[Washington Chronicle.
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TUESDAY MORNING, SEPT. 17, 1839.
DEMOCRATIC TICKET.
FOR PRESIDENT,
ITBARTIiIT VAft BUREN.
FOR VICE PRESIDENT,
J « El FORSYTH.
FOR GOVERNOR,
CHARLES J. MCDONALD.
DARIEN BANK.
A friend infotms us that there is every prospect that this
Bank will bo able to redeem its bills in a short time, aud pro
bably resume specie payments in the mouth of November.
We would therefore advise the holders of her bills not t»
submit to a sacrifice upon them.
judge McDonald.
We learn that a report is circulated in some tdaces, that
Judge McDonald is in favor of the Flournov petitions. It
is utterly false, for to our knoweldge, no man in the state
is more opposed to them, than ho is. He entertains a far
higher respect for the rights of the people, than to sanc
tion or countenance a project, or support a principle which
would only be the entering wedge to a series of abuses
and usurpation, the magnitude of which, no man can esti
mate.
Nothing could be more unjust than the attempt to injure
Judge McDonald with this question, when everv bodr
knows it was not set on foot by his friends, but on the con
trary, that the instigators of the scheme, are the friends «f
Jndpe Dougherity.
The paternity of the measure belongs to Mr. Jorinfr
Flournoy and Col. Joseph Ilonrv Lumpkin, both mem
bers of the whig party, and if it ha« turned out to he verv
unpopular with the people, Judge McDonald should pot
suffer for it.
The truth is, that the people are so well pleased with
him, and his prospects of success are so flatteriotr. that
his enemies are driven to every shift and strotaeem •• in
jure him; but there is too much good sense and indepen
dence in Georgia, to be humbugged and hoodwinked by
such manoeuvres.
*
COL. JOSEPH WEN RY LUMPKIN
AND THE RETAir. LAW.
Never in the whole course of our Editorial career, hive
we embarked in the discussion of any queslion, with so mtteh
reluctHnce as that which his recently agitated the pnMir
mind in relation to the sale of ardent spirits; and we were
induced at last, to the public expression of onr opinions alone
from a sense of duty to the cmmtrv.
In offering our views to the public, in the first article w h>ch
we penned, we hid no personal or vindictive feelings to
gratify, and we challenge all mankind, to find in that article,
the slightest personal allusion to anv human being. Our busi
ness was not with individuals, but with the question. We join
ed issue with'the’petitioners. and argued it upon its merits.
Moreover, we hove among them, manv dear and valued
friends, and those who know ns best, will he the last to charge
us with a wanton attack upon their feelings, or in any man
ner to interfere with, or disturb existing relations between
ns. Neither did we embark in the contest for the nu-pnse
even of retaliating upon those “who hate ns and dhpitefnlly
use us,” for in behalf of such, we can say in all sincerity,
“ Father forgive them, for they know not what they do.”
Tn fine, we did not seek to carry from the combat,
“ A heart’s stain away on our blade.”
With these motives operating upon our mind, we wrote the
article above referred to, in the hope that it might lead to a
temperate examination of the subject, as well as to allay the
excitement which seemed to be spreading in all directions;
but in this reasonable expectation we were wholly disappoint
ed, for instead of being met with the weapons of reason and
argument, we at once became the subject of personal vitu
peration; and although it is an article in onr creed of mor
als, not “to return evil for evil, or railing for railing,” we
may not upon all occasions be proof against the infirmities of
the flesh, and if we should chance to leave our mai*k open
some of our assailants, we shall have the consolation of know
ing that we were not the aggressors.
We had hoped when we closed our strictures upon Mr*
Flournoy, that we should not again feel ourselves called upon
to take any further part in the discussion, but as Col. Lump
kin has assumed the ground in his reply to the Georgia Argus,
that the act sought by the petitioners would be constitu
tional ; and inasmuch as he has, in our judgment, assumed a
principle at war with the spirit of our free institutions, we
deem it our duty to expose the falacy of his arguments, and
to show to the people, the dangetous tendency of the doctrine
he has laid down.
Considering that Col. Lumpkin has been ranked with the
party which has claimed the title of State Rights since 1832,
we cannot withhold the expression of our astonishment at
the Constitutional doctrine advanced by him in the article
under consideration.
It teas a fundamental principlejjilh his party, it><ois i
tutional construction, that the Federal Legislature could not
rightfully exercise any power not speeificnllj grained b_, the
constitution, ami such we believe, has uniformly been, and
still is, the opinion of every American citizen, who desei vea
to be called a republican; but the Colonel has been so pres
sed for arguments to sustain the cause in which be is so zeal
ously engaged, as to drive him from his original, position,
and to the assumption of a principle, which it adopted aa
orthodox, would invest the Legislative branch of ths Gov
ernment, with omnipotent authority.
He says, “I propose then to discuss calmly and dispassion
ately, the following propositions :
Has the Legislature the right, and is it their duty to pass
a bill for tho suppress! >n and prevention of tippling ! Tho
advocates of the measure affirm that they have the power,
'caving the mode and extent of redress to that body; aid hi