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ly bix months—for dismission from Guardianship, forty
days.
Hut. its for the foreclosure of Mortgage must be published
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the full space of three months—for compelling titles f,om
Executors or Administrators, where a Bond has been given
by the deceased, the full space of three months.
Publications will always lie continued according to these,
the legal requirements, unless otherwise ordered.
REMITTANCES BY MAIL.—'A postmaster may en-
eloae money in a letter to the publisher of a newspaper, to
pay the subscription of a third person and frank the letter if
written by himaelf.”—Amos Kendall, P. Al. G.
‘ Thai’s true ; I did not think of that: but
it’s too late now.’
Wiih a deep sigh the simple hearted Major
left our office in search of somebody who would
aid him in ‘raising the wind.’
JHffiiccUiWJ}*
ANOTHER EARTHQUAKE.
We take pleasure in introducing to our read
ers the harangue of Billy' Earthquake.
Yesterday we were passing by the Court
House, where an elociion had been going on,
a “real screamer from the nobs” about six feet
six inches high, sprang out of iho crowd, and
uttered the following:
“This is me; if it aint cuts me, and no mis
take? Billy Earthquake, Esquire, common
ly called little Billy, all the wav from the big
North fork of the Muddy Run ! I’m a small
specimen as you see, a remote circumstance, a
mere yearling, but I’m of the true ‘imported
breed’ and can whip any man in this section of
country? W-h-o-o-p! Won’t nobody come
out and fight me ? Come out some o’you, and
die decently, for I’m spiking for a fight! I
haint had one for more than a week, and if
you don’t come out, I’m fly-blowed before sun
down to a certainly!—so come up to taw!
“Maybe you don’t know who little Billy is ?
I’ll tel! you : I’m a poor man, it’s a fact, and
smell liko a wet dog; but I can’t be run over!
I’m the idenlicle individaal that grinned a mi-
najjerio out of countenance, and made the rib-
nose buboon hang down his heqd and blush.—
W-h o o-p! I’m the chap that towed the broad
horn flat boat up Suit liver, where the snags
were so thick that a fish could’nt swim without
rubbing the scales off! ftets, and if any body
doubts it, just let them make their will! Cock-
a-doodie-doo! May be you never heard of
the time the horse kicked me and put both Ins
lips out of joint! if it aint true cut me up- for
catfish bait. I’m the very infant that refused
its mother’s milk before its eyes was open, and
called out for a bottle of white-eye whiskey!
W-h-o-o-p-h o-o, ay ! Wake snakes and come
at me! Perhaps, too, you never heard tell of
a youth that tried to look loving at a ga’, and
threw her into spasmodics, and she’s a roaring,
raving maniac to this day. W-h-o-o-p! I’m
that little Cupid! Talk about grinning bark off
a tree! taint nothing—one squint of mine at a
bull’s heel would blister it! O ! I’m one of
your toughest sort, live forever, and lurn to a
white onk post. Look at me ! (said he, slap
ping his hands on his thigs with the report of a
pistol.) I’m the genneine article—a realdnu-
ble acting engine. I’m the locomotive that
pushed the hull off the bridge, and can out-run,
out-jump, out-swim, out-talk, out-e.-tt, chew
more tobacco and.spit less, drink more whiskey
and keep soberer than any other man about
these diggins! D n it, if (hat don’t make
’em fight, nothing will. I wish I may be kiln-
dried, and cut up into wooden shoe-pegs, if I
believe there’s a chap among them that’s got
Courage enough to collar a hen ! Whoop-hoo-
hy! Well (said Bill, walking off in disgust.)
I’ll go home and have another settlement with
Joe Sykes. He’s a bad chance for a fight
seeing as how he’s got but or.e eye left to
gouge at, and an underbit out of both ears, but,
poor fellow he’s mighty willing to do his best,
and will stay a body’s appetite till the next
•hooting match.”—[ Exit little Billy grumbling.
Go Ahead!
This is the mo'.to of the. age. The only ques
tion is, how shall we ‘go it ?” For one we be
lieve in going it by steam ! To us, there is noth
ing like the ‘‘puff” of a steam-boat, and the
‘•snort” of a locomotive. They speak of pow
er, the real “speed nnd bottom” and unlike the
panting horse, the fickle gale, and the moping
canal boat, “go ahead J” That is what we like-
give us something adapted to our short lives.
Let us live last and accomplish something.—
Twenty miles to the hour will do for sober-peo-
ple, thirty will do for moderate livers; but we
have a work to do that will require a run of
sixty. Pity, the human body could not be con
verted into a steam engine, without the cum-
bersom tacklins of fenders nnd fixtures. How
we should like to “get up steam” and pace over
creation.
The following humerous argument was ad*
vanced by a canal stockholder, for the purpose
of putting down rail-ways.— Clev. JP/aindcaler
“He suw what would he the effect of it; that
it would set all the world a gadding—twenty
miles an hour, sir! Why, you will not be n-
ble to keep au apprentice boy at his work—ev
ery Saturday he must take a trip to Ohio to
spend the Sabbath with his sweetheart. Grave,
plodding citizens will he flying about like com
ets. All local attachment must be at un end.
It will encourage fliglitiness of intellect. Va
rious people will turn into the most immeasur-
able liars; —all their concept ons will be ex
aggerated by their magnificent notions of dis
tance—‘only a hundred miles off! Tut, non
sense, I’ll step across, Madam, and bring your
fan! ‘Pray,sir, will you dine with me at niy
little box on the Alleghany?’ ‘Why indeed I
don’t know—I shall be in town until 12—well
I shall be there, but you must Irtme offin time
for the theatre. And then, sit, there will be
barrels of potk and cargoes of flour, and chal
drons of coal and even lead and whiskey and
such like sober things that have always been
used to sober travelling—whiskey away like a
set of sky-rockets. It will upset the gravity
of the nation. If a couple of gentlemen have
an affair of honor, it is only to steal ofl to the
Rocky Mountains, and there no jurisdiction
can touch them. And then, sir, think of fly
ing for debt! A set of bailiffs, mounted on
bomb shells, would not overtake an abscon-
ing debtor—only give hint a fair start. Upon
the whole, sir, it is a topsy turvy harumscarum
whirlligig. Give me the old solemn straight
forward Dutch canal—three miles an hour for
expresses and two for jog ot trot journeys—
with a yoke of oxen for a heavy load. I go for
beasts of Durden : it is more primitive and scrip
tural, and suits a moral and religions people bet
ter. Nr rie of your hop skip and jump wliitn-
seys for mo ”
TEXAS AND MEXICO.
We clip the following from the Galveston
News of the 5th instant:
STILL THEY COME.
Another British vessel of war arrived yes
terday from Vera Cruz, bringing despatches
for this government. The report is that those
despatches contain a positive and uncondition
al acknowledgement of our independence by
Mexico. Whether this be so or not we can
not ^ay, nor indeed is it of any consequence to
the people of Texas, except to convince them
beyond all possible doubt (if any doubt there
I wusj that our relations with Mexico have al
' ways been under the absolute control and di
rection of Great Britain. No Texian can any
longer doubt th:it, heretofore, it has been the
policy of England, as has been said already, to
use Mexico as a cat’s paw to whip Texas into
compliance with her terms. Our indepen
dence would have been obtained long since,
had not the slavery question been n stumbling
block. The decisive course now taken by the
United States, has alarmed the powers of Eu
rope. Great Britain sees clearly that she has
no longer any power to harrass Texas through
Mexico. The interposition of the great North
American Republic presents an insurmounta
ble barrier to this policy. There is now no
alternative. Texus will effectually escape
from her clutches, unless we cun be induced to
renounce the protection of the Union that is
now presented to us for acceptance. The
emergency i3 great—no time can be lost—
money and Ministers and agents are put in re
quisition. D spatches and expresses by land
and water ure hurrying to and fro. Every
artifice and intrigue—every device and strata
gem of diplomacy is resorted to—pfom'ses and
threats and bribes are alternati ly presented.— 1
bought his stages, and all necessary fixtures,
and bids, say 10,000. Another man comes in,
(who is under no obligation as heretofore to
purchase out the present contractor’s hacks
and horses) and says he w II carry the mail in
a one horse vehicle, for -$5,000 ; now if there
is not travel enough on the route to enable the
stage bidder to comedown to $5,000, the -stage
must stop, and the one horse vehicle gets the
contract.
It is probable such may be the case in ma
ny places in the southern country.
Such are some of the most important ob.
jections to the law, as far as the south is con.
ce rned.
In nnswer to all this it may be said, that
much the largest proportion of the revenue of
the Post Office Department is derived from
the northern section of the country ; and that
under the old arrangement, the north in a mea
sure supported the mail establishments of the
south. But to counterbalance this, the south
pays heavy tribute to the north through the ta
riff, and through the immense quantity of goods
annually purchased by our merchants, and in
other ways.
From the Washington Constitution•
RECIPROCITY.
We perceive that a proposition has been
brought forward in the British Parliament to
lessen or abolish the duties on Indian corn —
The advantages and importance of such a
measure to the toiling and starving millions of
that country, has at last become manifest to its
leading statesmen. They seem willing now,
not only to lessen the duty on corn, but upon
many other articles of commerce, which are
raised here in superabundance, and which, un-
Fromthe Washington Constitution,
The Hermitage.
We make the following interesting e .,
from a letter of the Hon. Isaac Hill to ti, e
Hampshire Patriot, describing a visit to 1 t*
venerable Patriot of the Hermitage on the 11
instant. eit| >
“ I found Gen. Jackson better in health ih a
ed by cruisers. In 1S40 she made overtures
to Mexico for the Californius, and there is
scarcely any doubt but that her negotiations
have been constantly prosecuted with an eye
to the possession, if she has not already obtain
ed a mortgage on them as indemity for the
debt of Mexico.
We need not stop to discuss the question,
whether our commerce could be. safely and
prosperously prosecuted on the Pacific, if the
Cafifornias with their harbors were in the pos
session of Great Britain. We sought the ac
quisition of Texas in order to se.cure to our- ^
selves the command of the Gulf of Mexico— j structed easy chair, with his writing maJeria 1 '-
and it is more important, probably, that vve ; his miniature bible and hymn book before him
should acquire the Californias in order to se- To him are brought ns soon ns the mail arrive,
cure the harbors before referred to in the pro-
I expected ; yet so weak, if it were any
man, I
week. For
tempted to take his cus'omary meals with
familv. He sits through the day in a well.,
j , ’ “ “ an y other
ould scarcely suppose he would lj v
fertile last four monilis he has not ^
con.
der legislaiive or treaty compacts of recipro
cal provisions, would be of vast benefit to the
But have we not had enough of British media- i agricultural interests of our own country. We
Byron's Superstition.—That he was super
stitious ('and lew highly imaginative men have
not a secret leaning to a belief in supernatural
events) is clear, not only from his own confes
sion, but from the solemn tone in which he
generally spoke of sue!) occurrences. Even
in his letter to Mr. Murray, alluding to the
ghostly disturbances of the house on the Arno,
notwithstanding the light, ironical style, and
the attempt to account for the noises, an unea
sy feeling as to the visitations complained of by
the “ learned Fletcher” and others, is percep
tible. Possessing a mind of extraordinary
powers. Lord Byron was blessed or cursed
with the must acute sensibility. Generous and
brave to a fault, if generosity and bravery can
ever be excessive ; the very soul of friendship
and love, with a heart open as day to melting
charity, he resembled n charming and sublime
instrument, whose chords, touched by delicate
and skilful fingers, discourse most eloquent
music; but ruddy struck by coarse and igno
rant hands, send forth the most jarring discords.
Alas ! how little was he understooo’, till it was
too late. Such a sensitive temperament was
well moulded to receive impressions from the
world of spirits. When he was at Genoa, he
told Mr. Cowell that some friends of Mr. SJie/-
From the North Carolinian.
The New Postage Law*.
Sonic of the provisions of this law, (which
goes into operation in something Fss than three
months) operate peculiarly against our section
ly, sitting together one evening, had seen that j of countr y f as Wt p as the whole South and
tion and friendship ? This mediation was once
sought for ; it is now forced upon us. When
it might have given us relief in a time of dis
tress, it was withheld, except npon conditions
dishonorable to our country. Can we forget
the Armistice meditated by England, and per
fidiously violated by Mexico ? Can we for et
the cold blooded slaughter of our citizens,
their lingering sufferings, and the brutal cruel
ties iu(1i<‘ted upon them ? And has the friend
ship of England ever yet ransomed one Ame
rican Citizen? The simple question now
presented is, whether we shall abandon the
broad protecting shield of the American Eagle,
and accept of a recognition obtained by British
diplomacy, and offered for no other purpose
but to carry out Bri'ish policy and crush the
American Union? This tender of indepen
dence at this time, is the legitimate result of
the offers of friendship and fraternity upon a
footing of equality l:y the American Union.—
For this offer of recognition we are therefore
indebted to the United States, and not to Eng
land. Had we been repulsed by the United
States, this offer would not have been made,
and we should still be subjected to the harms-
sing and predatory war of Mexico. The whole
operation is the result of foreign intrigue and
policy, and Mexico has no more free agency
or volition in it. than the Emperor of China
or the Pope of Rome. Was it not the first de
clarution of Herrera’s government, to renew
the war upon Texas with redoubled vigor?
Whence comes this sudden and unexpected
change, after nine years of empty threats, and
abortive attempts to invade us ? Do we want
independence under such auspices ? This kind
of independence partakes too much of compul
sion, and in this respect resembles British
emancipation, which ransoms the African from
the name of bondage, but, subjects him to ac
tual servitude under the authority of a master,
duringall the years of his strength and physical
energies, then throws him friendless on the
world. Such independence ol the people of
Texas do not want. Already has the Amer
ican Constitution made them more indepen.
dent and free, than any people have ever yet
been made by the favors of Great Britain.
From the Crescent City.
A Slronjf Game.
Our good friend Major Oudesluns returned
to this city yesterday, from a trip to the North,
ern part of Alabama nnd West Tennessee.—
We understand that ho enjoyed him-elf huge
ly. As he came into the offi :e yesterday mor.
ning, wo observed that he was a liitlo out of
sorts, and asked him what was the mailer.
»I am trying to think, said the Major, • where
I shall raise some money to-day.’
‘ Why, asked we, ‘ d.d you como home with
out money V
* Well, I did,’ was the reply. * You sco I
undercook to play what they called ‘ A small
game’ of Poker, on an Alabama river steam
boat, and I didn’t have very good luck.’
‘Did you lose much V
* Yes ; I was flat broke.*
4 How was that ?’
4 Why, you see, it so happened that other
players held better hands than I did. My
knowledge of the game was somewhat limited,
bur after they had explained to me the value
of the different hands, I concluded I would get
along with tolerable 8'fety. First I held two
pair, but somebody held two larger pair, that
cost mo five dollars. Then I hejd three queens,
bot »omebody else held three kings; that cost
ibc twenty dollars. Finally, I thought I h d
’t>« sure ; I held four aces. Tne betting was
brisk, and at it 1 slapped up my entire pile.’
4 Of course, you won that time.’
•No, I didn’t, though: what do you think
one man showed against me ?’
' Havn’tthe slightest idea.’
‘ He just turned over five sevens of spades,
and raked down the money !’
* But that wasn’t fair, Major.’
‘ Why not ?’
‘ How could there bo five sevens of spade*
m one .pack V
gentleman distinctly, as they thought, walk in
to a little wood at Lerici, when, at the same
moment, as they afterwards discovered, he was
far away in quite a different direction. “This,”
added Lord Byron, in a low, awe-struck tone
of voice, “ was hut ten days before poor Shel
ly died.”—Ifood’s Magazine.
Character indicated by the Laugh.—The
following paragraph is from the February num
ber of Blackwood:
“How much of character is there in a laugh !
You know no rran until pou have heard him
laugh—till you know when and how he will
laugh. There are occasions—there are ru
mors—when a man with whom we have been
long familiar, shall quite startle and repel us
by breaking out into a laugh which comes man
ifestly right from his heart, and yet which we
had never heard before. Even with fair la
dies with whom I have been much pleased, I
have remarked the same thing. As in many
a heart a sweet angel slumbers unseen till some
happy moment awakens it, so there sleeps of
ten in gracious and amiable characters, deep
in the back ground, a quite vulgar spirit, which
starts into life when something rudely comi
cal penetrates into the less frequented cham
bers of the mind.”
From the Columbian Register.
The Election.
In this State, field on Monday, has resulted
in the continuance of federal domination lor an
other year, as we anticipated it would. It is
probable ;hat the wl>ig State Ticket is elected
by the people, that the Legislature is whig by
about the same majority as last year—that they
have elected tii»-ir four Congressmen, and per
haps their Sheriffs. VVe have never known so
little effort put forth by either party ns on this
occasion, and it is evident our opponents have
gained more from dissensions in the democrat
ic ranks than from any other cause*—Tne
statu of the vote in this town, huni'liattig as it is,
was produced by u combination of circumstan
ces such as never occurred befoie, industriously
circulated by whies and iheir abettors.
linn. TVm. II. Slileg.
A Washington Correspondent of the Bnlti-
raoie Patriot writes (11th inst.) that “Mr.Stiles,
ol'Ga. will gel the appointment of Charge
des affairs to Austria.’’ We would rather see
our friend Stiles a R' presentutive in Congress
from his native State, but he will fill with equal
honor such a position as that indicated in the
above report.—Savannah Georgian,
A fortunate fall.—A poor Irish laborer in
Dubuque district, Wi%co si i, digging in search
of h ad on a small patch of grouYid which he
owned, fell suddenly into a deep cavern, and
on looking around found the aides covered with
pure lead, being the richest mine ever discov
ered.
Southwestern portion of the Union.
The second section provides that all news-
papers of no greater size than 1900 square inch
es, (which includes most newspapers in the
United States) mny circulate within 30 miles of
their place of publication, free of postage. It
is not difficult to perceive that this provision
benefits only the populous parts of the coun
try; for, while there are numerous Post Offi
ces within 30 miles of each other in the thick
ly settled Northern und Western States, there
are never more than two or th.ree in the sparse*
ly settled Southern country; thus, while al
most every man in the South will haw to pay
his newspaper postage, a large portrait of the
Northern and Western men, are keeping t,le
money in their pockets; by which it wt/I he
perceived that the less favored people of t he
South are actually bearing at least three-fourths
of the burthen of the tax so far as this item is
concerned.
The fifth section abrogates entirely /he
franking privilege to all persons. (Other
parts of the law, however, restore it to mem
bers of Congress.) Thus the postmasters are
cut off’ fiom one of the principal privileges of
the office ; and in our section of country, where
the commissions on the amount of postage, in
a great number of cases, do not amount to two
dollars a year, the franking privilege is t e prin
cipal inducement to h<>]d the office. This, it
will be' perceived is not the case to any thing
like the extent in the northern and western
States. There are many Post Offices in the
South, where the whole amount of postage
collected during the year, is not $10 ; conse
quently the salary is a mere nothing.
To he sure, the law does say that where
the commissions of a Postmaster do not amount
to $25 per annum, they shall be increased to
50 per cent, thus dividing the amount of post
age annually received at the office, equally be
tween the Postmaster and the Government ;
but as «ve before mentioned, at many places
where the whole amount is not more than ten
dollars, it is litile or no consideration. And it
certainly cannot be const- ered just and fair
that the inhabitants of a thinly settled country
shall bo deprived of mail facilities on that ac
count.
But we hope our Postmasters will hold on
uutil they see how the law will operate, and
whether the next Congress will not amend the
law iu some particulars.
The 18ih section of the law authorizes the
Postmaster General to let contracts for carry
ing the mails, regardless of the mode of con
veyance. We have remarked upon this sub
ject before ; but to illustrate the matter, we
will suppose the present contractor who car
ries the mail between Fayetteville and Ra
leigh, has put in his bid under the new law, to
curry the mad in two horse hacks, capable of
accommodating four passengers. He has
rejoice to perceive that the more the princi
ples and advantages of free trade are discuss
ed nnd examined, the more they are advanced
and approved throughout the world. And, in
this connection, we ngnm advert to n rumor,
mentioned some time since by us, und which
has obtained general credence here, that Mr.
Packenham, the British Minis'er, is charged
with the negotiation of a treaty based upon re
ciprocal advantages to the products of each
country.in their respective markets. The pro
bability of such a power l>eing vested in that
m nisier, derives additional force from the fact
to which we have just adverted, that Parliament
itself is acting upon the principles of such a
policy.
This state of things presents a spectacle
worthy the profound consideration of those
American statesmen, who have at till times ad
vocated the advantages of a hi«li protective ta-
riffin this country. The protective system in
England as w* 11 as in the United States, has
ulwa'ys been kept up against the will and the
interests of a majority of the people. But the
system in England was by far more just in its
principles, than it is here. There it protects
the agriculturalist as well as the manufacturer
Here it is for the bonefil of the manufacturer
alone. Ai d yet, we find that in England, af
ter a trial of five hundred years, her most en
lightened statesmen are anxiously seeking to
relax its rigor, and to adopt a policy more in
consonance with reason, justice, and of the
enlightened age in which we live. The prin
ciples upon which it is bused, operating unjust
ly upon the great producing classes of the
country, and being also violative of the proper
Jaws of commerce, would finally find their ca
tastrophe in the destruction of a'l. This re
sult, by a wonderful concatenation or circum
stances, events, wisdom, and management, has
been starved off for centuries, and the system
has been sustained until the hour of its doom
seemed near at hand. The irjustice of its
principlos being thoroughly understood ; the
discussions of the doctrines of free trade hav
ing satisfied all of their justice and truth ; the
enlightened influence ot free inquiry, Having
prepared the world for the adoption of truth
whenever it is presented, we are scarcely sur
prised to see the statesmen of Great Britain
ready to adopt a policy better suited to the in
terests and welfare of mankind. They are sur
rounded by circumstances which cannot bo
any longer resisted. They can neither tem
porise with them nor control them. It is the
part of wisdom to yield when they may, and
to make it n matter of merit to do so. The
wonder, then, is not that they are now willing
to abate their high protective policy, but that
some of our statesmen are anxiously se-king to
fasten the unjust and abominable system upon
us h' re. The advocates of a high protective
tariff here, will not be instructed by tire lessons
of experience which centuries teach; but,
with an impudence which conveys a perpetual
insult, and an effrontery which has no parallel,
they argue against reason, truth, justice, and
the fitness of things, in favor of their own sor.
did interests.
Bur, when Great Britain shows her willing
ness to take the duty off) or to reduce it upon
flour, corn, pork, bacon, beef, cotton, and hun
dreds of other agricultural products, provided
we do the same by iron, cloths, cutlery, &e„
we can scarcely expect that the Princes of
Lo'vpII nnd Providence will long sustain their
system against the interest and demands of the
people. That -uch a system of reciprocal du
ties will b.® proposed and adopted, cither by
treaty or legislative compact with Great Brit
ain, we have v\arv little doubt. And, with its
adoption will end.that miserable contrivance,
concocted to promote the purposes ol sordid
interest and soffish anffi'lion, pompously styled
'• THE AMERICAN SYSTEM.”
secution of our commerce on the Pacific.—
But with the evidences oi the anxiety of Great
Britain to obtain possession of this territory,
which are well authenticated, out Government
cannot fail to see the importance of preventing
any such acquisitions by th • t power.
The last advices from California inform us
that the province is in a state of revolution—
the natives wishing to expel the Mexicans,
and havintr every prospect of success. The
struggle will be short, if it has not already ter
minated. We leurn also that many of our citi
zens who emigrated to Oregon, have fallen
down and settled in North California, and that
they have found the most delightful climate and
a rich soil. They affiim that Oregon is but a
bleak, barren waste, compared with California.
We refer to these facts to show that it is not at
all unreasonable to suppose that California may
be iii a condition at a very early day to be an
nexed to our Union.
the newspapers ; and during the
tarried at the Hermitage, his first ir,
From the MissUsippian.
Hon. Kobt. J. Walker.
Mr. Walker is a native <>f Pennsylvania, a
ripe scholar, and a lawyer of profession. At
an early age he commenced the practice in the
western part of his uat've Slate. Unlike, how.
ever, the m j ray of lawyers, his mind was ne
ver bound down by the doctrine of precedents,
nor chained to error by the persuasive learning
of “ the bo- ks.” The untrammelled activity
of his mind soon directed him to the conclusion
that many of the evils of soci* ty might be reme
died by a c’oser adherence to th it excellent
maxim, “ The world is governed too much.”
When he had scarcely attained the age of ma
jority, he wrote a series of essays, which were
pubhshed in a Pennsylvania Gazette, advoca
ting a change no less radical in Ins jurispru
dence of the country than that which but now
is growing into favor, namely: the total abol
ish men tofu II laws recognising accommodation
paper, or for the collection of what are called
security debts. The periodical convulsions
which rack society, springing from a plethoric
credit system, were found to have been occa
sioned from the mistaken policy of the laws in
enforcing the collection of debts imprudently
incurred, and for no bona fide consideration
on the part of the contractor.
Mr. Walker has always been a democrat.—
It is asserted, and we believe it to be true, that
he was the fust man in the nation to suggest
Andrew Jackson for the Preside' cy. He emi
grated to Mississippi in 1S26, and, engaging in
the practice of his profession* acquired a repu
tation as a jurist equal to that of any man m
the Union. When the Planter’s Bai k «f M's
sisstppi was chartered, in violation of the com
pact of the Stale with the old bank of Missis-
dppi, Mr. Walker was selected, with Dame!
Webster and H orac? B-nnev, to give an opin
ion as to the con-liiutionaiity of the charter.—
He continued quietly in his profession until
1835; when George Poindexter, then a sena
tor in Congress, outraged the rights and wishes
of his constituents, and set tip “ fi>r h'mself”
and the fierce hank aristocracy then battling
with the Old Hero. Mr. Walker took up the
cause of the people, avowed himself a candi
date in opposition to Poindexter, who before
that time had been considered omnipotent in
the State, visited every county, and overpower
ed the champion of bunk whigery. In 1S36
lie was elected to the Senate. Since that pe
riod his career has been before the whole coun
try. No Senator, in so short a period, ever
won a name so distinguished, so honored with
his party at home and abroad. Mr. Walker’s
senatorial history would embellish the pages of
the life of any philanthropist. He has been the
champion of the rights of the masses. The
new States have found him their most active
and efficient friend. His course in regard to
the pubi c lands, advocating; as he has done,
the rights of settlers to pre eruptions at low
rates, and a continual graduation in the price
of the unsettled territory, has gained 1pm the
lasting gratitude of un immense and har.ly
population in e»ery new State. On the cur-
re' cy question, the tariff) the rights of States,
&c. See , Mr. Walker lias stood forward with
the republican ranks. No subject of impor- I
tance has come before the Senate, since lie en- ;
tered that body', that he did not show himself
master of.
arriv L
f °ur days]
for the daily Washington newspapers, andri'
letters bearing the postmark of tbecapitoi^
With all his bodily weakness, his inteJl."
seems to have been brightened and mature
by time, ai d his attention to the most minir
public affairs far greater than that of sonic of
the most wary statesmen and politicians er,
gaged in public life. The all absorbing to pi ,
with him now is the annexation of Texas!
correspondence with Gen. Houston and otherj*
has given h m a knowledge of the state of th a !
question, as it exists in the interests and f ee {
ings of the people of that country and of d,]
Western States, that is not generally under,
stood by the people. His feeling for tlierevp
of the vote in the Senate was intense, and hij
whole countenance brightened at the annuneq.
tion in letters of two successive davs, thy 5
majority if the Senate would probably votefo
the resolutions.
“ The General has lengthened out bis ljf t
for years bv his prudence and abstinence-.
His complaint is pulmonary : one lobe of tt,
lungs he believes robe entirely consumed.—
This cond lion is shown by the shortness of
breath, which almost entirely precludes rj, t
benefit of personal exercise. When he moves
it is so quietly as to produce tic disturbance.—
His feet and ankles are swollen from co .ft. oed
sitting, and he finds u substitute for salutary
exercise only in the bathing of his limbs every
evening in those emuHei-ts calculated to pro.
duce a healthy aciion of the skirt. Weak as he
is, lie shaves with his own hand, and combs and
adjusts the ample gray hair which, continues to
add to the dignity of his appearance.
“ It is not age simply tuai has reduced rie
old Hero to his present weakness. Had his
life been that of thousands of the present itene*
ration, he might have tivrd to be an hundred
years of age, and no more exhausted.than he
now is. Exposure in the campaign of lSI5,
brought on a diarrhoea, which contii ued w,th
more or less violence for four months, and
which was cu. ed after the case seemed to be
hopeless. In the Seminole campaign i f 1813,
he had hemorrhage ol the lungs, which wjj
probably the commencement of the diseaseev.
er afterwards gnawing his vitals.
“Of the highly interesting intercourse with
the veteran enjoyed fur four days, 1 shall here
after have much ic say to my friends on nj
return; and o the public l may have that to
repeat which, if it shall gratify them as much at
it did me, will not be words thrown awav. I
oh im I he right to speak us the representative
to Gen. Jackson in New Hampshire, as well
from an earlier friendship, as from the fuel that
I am the only person from the Granite State
who lias travelled four hundred mites out of his
way to vis't the Hero since his retirement to the
Hermitage. '1 he State which has stood firm
on the giound of principle on all *pies iui*»C
national politics since 1S28—which has never
been veered to the right hand, or the left by
heartless demagogues who in other States have
corrupted the people with their own money,
tnd misled them in monnshy e projects of gain,
ng wealth by speculation end of protecting la
bor by higher taxation—the State wh cii has
been led astray by no false issues—is as highly
ppreciated in the gieat West, as in tne East:
her praise is upon the tongue of every patriot;
ind by none is she higher complimented than
by the Heroof the Hermitage, who has carried
out her principles in the vetoes of the Bank and
the Maysvillu road bill.”
It will be remembered that Mr. Webster re
ceived nut long since, the sum of $100,000 to
be invested for his benefit daring his life time.
The reception of this gratuity, to enable Mr.
Webster to enter tin- United States Senate at
the feed Attorney of the Northern Manufactu
rers, bus damned what little fame be had left,
to everlasting infamy, and the question has been
started in some of the papers, whether he ought,
under the circums ances, to be allowed to take
i
From the Washingtcn Constitution
The Value of the Cali^*®»«*as tc Hie
United States.
Whilst it is not our policy to Require new
territory fur the mere purpose of national glo
ry, it does fall legitimately within the great ob
jects of republicanism to extend the area of
freedom, and diffuse the blessings of liberty,
of peace. This noble purpose, however, iN to
b8 accomplished by peaceable means, and with
the voluntary consent of the inhabitants of the
acquired territory. When such acquisitions
cun be thus made of contiguous territory which
is essential to our national defence, the policy
becomes obligatory upon us. Upon these prin
ciples the annexation of Texas was not only
justifiable, but absolutely necessary for our na
tion >1 safety ; and upon the same great con
siderations, the acquisition of the Californias
will become the republican policy of our Gov-
ernment. To this point events are now rapid
ly lending, and sooner or later it will become
the great question of the times.
A few facts well established will present the
importance of this subject in its true light.
Theoi ly two important harbors for our ves
sels from Gape Horn to the mouth of the Co
lumbia river are the l>a\sof San Diego nod
San Francisco. Tne British Government is
so well apprised of the value of these harbors
in the navigation of the Pacific ocean, that she
has caused them both to be sounded at great
expense. She has had the whole coast survey-
PBOTEt TION.
One of the chief characteristics of the protec
tive policy, is ihe taking und fascinating garb in
which it is always dressed when presented to
the public. If somn great manufacturer is de
sirous of making more money from the capital
inverted in bis business, and asks Conjrre«s to
impose heavy burdens upon the masses for this |
object, he invariably disguises his real motives, |
and insists that such a policy will encourage !
American indusrty, and protect the farmer, the j
mechanic, and the laborer. The reason, then, |
which lie urges for the adoption of the mens- j
ute is not tiic real one ; for if that were frank- J
ly avowed, he has the sagacity to know t'-at he
might ask in vain for ti e imposition of duties
upon foreign fabrics which come in competition
With his own, The farmers, mechanics, and
laborers, are, by far, the nio-t numerous in this
country, and t<> keep them quiet under the ex
actions which high and protective duties im
pose upon them, charms them with the prett”
idee of “protection to home industry.”
[Utica (N. lurk) Democrat.
his seat in the Senate next winter. It see®?
there is a case in point, where a member ol
Congress was not permitted to take his seat.
We learn from good authority, that Mr.
Clay lias also been made the recipient of the
bounty of his frien Is. He owed, our informant
says, $20 000 to John Jacob Astor, which debt
has been paid off, as. also, five thousand dollars
to one of the Lexi gtou banks, and five thou
sand dollars were deposited thereto his credit.
We do not [dace Mr. Clay in the category with
Webst> r, because we presume lie has retired
From the Batavia Spirit of the Times.
Gov illarcy.
Major Noah, in speaking of the new Cabinet,
makes the following naive remarks :
“ New Yoik has an able ai d honest man in
William L- Marcv. We have kn*>wn him
from th" time lie kept a little wooden law of
fice in Trov, S by 10, with a ft w law books
and a good French Horary. He edited the
Budget and we the National Advocate, und to
gether we achieved in this State, more politi
cal victories than Ney or Soult, but being a
fa»t runner, he got into the Governo-’s chair
before I could come op to him. My misfor
tune was that I sprung from an old aristocrat
ic family in the time of the Deluge, and my an
cestors came out of Egypt with the Iiaeli'.es.—
Gov Murcy unites many excellent qualities,
personal nnd political, and he will place the
country in a state of defence such as it never
before has been placed in,”
fn m public lifg, and b cause we do not think
lie is a nmn to be corrupted like Webster in
this way. Nevertheless, we think it will add
nothing to his fanv, that after having received
so many thousands of dollars from tieTre.is J ’
ry of his country, he finds it necessary at his
age, to receive tlie bounti s of Ins friends, ho"'-
ever disinterested tne (mentions of ihe donets
may have been. One thii g we will say for th®
Whigs in this c nnection, that they are liberal
of their means in the promotion of the interest:
of their party, or in rewarding the services of
their public men.—Kentucky Yeoman. .
We learn that the Hon. Thomas F. Jfttf- 1
shall will be a candidate for Congr.-ss in this
district. We are glad of it. Though not as
good a Democrat as we could wish, lie is bold,
talented, honorable, and a gentleman. If th 6
Democrats have no candidate in the district^*
and wi beheve they will not have—they W| 1‘
go for Mr. Marshall to a man, and against M r '
Davis w:ih so manv political sins to answer wh
vve think his chances of success tolerably good.
It is certain that the would-be leaders of ike
Whigs will do all they can against him—"®
meat) the Simon Pure Clay collar rnen—though j
as we believe a majority of the district agr ee i
in sentiment with Mr. Marshall on the To* 35 i
and other questions, there is a reasonable pi°' r;
babiluy of his success.—Ken. Yeoman.
lion. Jacob Thompson-
The Hon. Jacob Thompson has been aP* !
pointed by the Governor of Mississippi to" 1 * I
Un ted States Senate, in the place of the H° n ' j
Robert J. Walker. It is w ith great pleasiir®
that we make diis annunciation. Mr. T hotnp^
son has served long and faithfully in Congr es5 '
and in audition to distinguished ability, h« } ,oS
sesses soundness of principles, firmness of cb ar
acter, and all those manly attr butes, wh^
make him one amongst the tiu ; y irtfli ,el ’ n
and trusted men of the South.— Wash. Co*•