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neither peach jellv nor stewed plums. If you
do you will kill him.!
‘ButwhptamT tn do, doctor? He wont take
the pills 1 sHMjK'se wititout something tw swallow j
lliem with, and I of nottiirimore harmless !
than peach jelly or stewed plums.’
Mrs. Feathers’ Ones, w iter—water is
the thing. Leave it to me; I’ll ad rise th* young
loan.’ So saying be turned to me and began with
voluble eloquence to impress upon my mind the
necessity of strict adherence to his directions.
1 politely intimated that I would acquiesce.
•Vou will be sure, mv dear sir,’ very impres
sively, said he, ‘not to touch peach jellv 1’
‘Yes, sir,’ I answered.
‘You are resolved not to do so?’
*Vou may rely upon me. doctor.’
•And the stewed plums?’ he added.
‘I shall refrain from both,’ said I.
A commendatory smile overspread his wrinkled
Countenance, and he turned to the nurse with an air
of triumph, as much as to say‘there, Mrs. Fcatli
erstones, you see w hat 1 have done with my per
fiuave powers.’
•Bat, Joe ter,’ said I.
•Sir,’ said be.
"With a motion of the hand and head I beck
oned him to my side, indicating by my manner
that I wished to have a word or two of private
Conversation with him.’
* Well sir,’ said he, holding down his head with
Bis ear to my mouth.
’ Whose house is this, doctor ?’
‘lndeed, sir, I know not who owes it.’
’1 mean who resides here ?*
’Hush!’ it’s a secret,’
‘Asecret! why?’
*1 dont know, but secrecy has been enjoined
Opon me. Never you trouble yourself about where
are—-take mis pills and you will soon get well.’
_ Vp took out his watch, said he had overstayed
iiis time, and pretented to be in a great hurry
o.iout some of dear patients, who he feared would
he dead before he reached there ; ‘Good day,’ he
exclaimed, clapped his hat on his head, and bol
ted as expeditiously as a meteor out of the room.
As soon .as he had gone, Mrs. Featherstones
began to descant upon the propriety of mv taking
■a pill, and was horrified as it were, that (notwith
standing the express orders of Doctor Humdrum)
l should insist upon imbibing a teaspoonful of
peach jelly with it.
‘What.’ said she—‘after the doctor so partic
ularly advised to the contrary, would you have
be temerity to eat peach jelly or the hardihood
o partake of stewed plums ? For gracious’ sake,
iny young Iriend, do not, —do not, 1 entreat you.
By so doing you will actually commit suicide.’
‘Not at all, madam;’ I answered. “1 ain hun
gry enough to eat an apple-dumpling.'
‘An apple dumpling! it would chunk you,’
Cried she with an assumed tone of compassion,
and a gesture of amaz-m-nt, to think that l should
entertain a thought of such a thing. ‘An apple
dumpling!’ don’t think of it.’
Nothing would do therefore hut that I must
swallow one of Doctor Humdrum’s celebrated
pills in a mouthful of water. Alter doing which
difficult feat of absorption, Mrs. Featherstones
left me to compose myself with a nap.
bo. ——thoiigt I, ‘l am t as wise as ever. Here
have I been five weeks in an unknown house, not
in my senses the while, and now th it I have re
covered, I can obtain no satisfaction in regard to
the matter. Every care requisite for <> in' in my
situation has been bestowed upon me f perceive;
but—but—but—-’ and thus 1 fell asleep.’
Singular Dream — Awful IVarnin jy. — \ very
venerable looking old gentleman come into our
office a few days ago, in a great hurry apparently,
and wished to settle his bill immediately. His
singular deportment, and strange actions, render
ed more so by his exceedingly confused coun
tenance, led us to enquire into the causes.
•O nothing, only l dreamt, ’
Why, what could you have dreamt, Mr. D.
to have such an elfect ?
‘Well now I have paid my subscription, and
am a little composed, I’ll tjllyou my dream in a
few words. After reading your paper last-night
till a late hour, I retired to rest as usual, and
soon fell into a sound sleep, during which l dreamt
that f had died and that I made iny appearncc
at heaven’s gate, (and having great confidence
in my own righteousness,) walked in with out
knocking, and was received with great jov by the
multitude around the throne, but it was not lnn° f
before I,heard my name called by the Great Judge
to come before him to be tried for the deeds done
o the body while on this earth. Judge soon run
over the list of crimes but found them all forgiv
en, and was proceeding, ‘enterye blessed of "my
other’ when a sudden silence ensued, as though
he had found something on the book against me
and after a short silence, the mighty Judge again
commenced, ‘you have been a good man while
en the earth, yet I find you guilty of one of the
tispardonable sins, which is of subscribing for a
newspaper and dying without paring for it—
Therelore, depart ye cursed into everlasting pun
fshment.’ ° ‘
What an awful warning this to the world, we
Hope all newspaper subscribers inny profit by it.
San. Adv.
A Cigar.— A happy lookin’ ctitter, ain't he.
tvifh that are little short black pipe in his mouth!
Bhe net is, squire, the moment a man takes a
pipe ; he becomes a philosopher; it’s the poor
mins triend; it enables the mind, sooths the
temper, and makes a man patient under trouble.
Jt r as made more good men. good husbands, kind
masters, indulgent fathers, and honest fellows,
Wan any other blessed thing in the unversal world,
Indians always buried a pipe and a skin of to
with their folks, incase smokin’ should hr
Lio-fashton in the next world, that they mighn’l
jg:> unprovided. Jist look at him his hat has got
mo crown in if and the rim hangs by the sine,
ijivG the bail of a bucket. His trousers and jnck
et are all flying i„ tatters of different colored
patches. Ha has had one old shoe on one
loot and one nntanned moccasion on t’ other.—
Jfe amt had his beard cut since last shearin’ and
Jte rooks as shaggy as a yearlin colt. Aa„|
you see the critter has a rakeish look Aoo. lit.l
? re old kat is cocked on one side quite known, he
Jjas both hands in bistro wser* poc >et, as if ha had
. Somethin’ worth feelin’ there w hile one eye shot
Mo on th* account of the smoke, and the other
Sftmdm out of the way of it as far as it can,
tn ues it like a’bit of a wag. A manl-hat didn't
fdk k »i e °V? n * d ? £>,at now ’ *T I,rP - * Vou may
t.ik about fortitude, and patience, and Christian
resignation and all that son of things, till yon
..re -ired; .have seen it, a.id heard tell of it ioo.
s-aLr CV ? r . kneW * nstance y ( 't’ where it didn’t
Vhnl a \ lc g r!' a heav ? or sour out of ihe oven .
tSbiiosopliy jg oke mq*t ether guests I’ve seed, it
' s t 0 v, sit rheae as keep good tables, and though
it has some poor acquaintance, it aint more nor i
hall pleased to be seen walkin’ lock uud lock with ■
’em. out smokin.’— The dock maker.
Read what the Clockniaker savs:—Every !iv
in critter must work m this world, and a labor
er is a slave, but the laborer only get enough to
live on from day to day, while the slave is tended
in infancy and old vePaud has spare time enough
given him to earn a good deal too. A married
woman if you come to that, is a slave, call her
wlmt you will-—wife, woman, .angel, termagant
or devil, she’s a slave ; and if she happen to get
the upper hand, the husband is a slave ; and if he
don t lead a worse life th in any black nigger,
when lie's under petticoat government, then my
name is not Sam Slick.
THE SILK CULTURE.
This subject, to which we called the attention
0. our readers sometime last summer, Is new be
ginning to engross the public mind throughout
the country, and we are glad to perceive that the
southern agriculturist is beginning to be 4 sensi
ble ot its vast importance. It is only during the
past two years that any degree of attention has
been paid to the subject; and such has been the
astonishing success attending the efforts of the
northern experimentalists, and so incredible have
been the accounts of the immense profits resul
ting from the culture oflhe mulberry there, that
our people have egar Je.l ihe whole mute, n and easa
mevi,ionary speculation, than as a permanent ag
i(cultural interest ; and the cautions and admoni
tions, which have occasionally issued from the
southern pres -, nave contributed to defer our plan
ters from embarking in the silk culture. While
w<: would commend the exereise of that wary pru
dence which teaches us to ‘look before we leap,’
yet. when indulged in to excess, and allowed to
bias our better judgment, we hold it equally as
reprehensible as the other extreme. Whatever
fears might hive been entertained of the practica
bility of the silk culture in the South, we cannot
but beli ve those fe is in a great measure remov
ed, by the result of practical experiments already
made by southern gentlemen. It has been alrea"-
dy ascertained that the inorus mnlticaulis grows
luxuriantly licre ; and that our climate is, per
haps, better adapted to the constitution of the silk
worm than that of any niher portion of the United
States. The light, sandy soil of our ‘piney
woods,’ which is generally unfit for any other
agricultural purpose, grows the mulberry, even
better than heavier and richer soils; and in our
mild climate, as many as four crops of worms
bav“ been raised in one season.
We hop •to see southern enterprise embaiked
in this branch of agriculture. That silk is des
tined, at no distant day, to become a staple pto
duct oftlie country, we have not a doubt; and if
its cultivation can possibly be a source of profit
to the northern agriculturist, it certainly presents
a double inducement to the southern. Its pe
culiar adaptation to slave labor cannot be doubt
ed, and the slightest investigation will satisfy the
most sceptical of its immense profit. The re
cent act of the Legislature of our state, at once
renders the cultivation of the cocoon a safe and
profitable business. Isy this act. a premium of
lilty cents is awarded for every pound of cocoons,
and ten cents for every pound of good silk, which
premium alone, independent of the value of silk,
is a much greater inducement than is offered bv
the cultivation ol either corn or cotton. For ex
ample—it will be seen by the Silk Grower, for
December, that the Monmouth Silk Company
awarded t » the Rev. D. V. McLean,of Middleton,
Mass., a premium of S3O for the production of
the largest amount of cocoons from the six
teenth of an acre of ground. The amouut pro
duced was 31
would be 510 lbs. Thus the premium offered by
the state, on cocoons alone, would be the hand
some sum of $265. The premium of ten cents'
per pound of reeled silk, and the value of the silk
itselt, added to the above sum, would, we think,
amount to a net product from one acre of ground,
which could not be equalled by any other crop.
The premium law will continue in force for the
period of ten years.
Those who would possess a thoeough knowl
edge of the silk culture, would do well to procure
the Americon Silk Grower, a very comprehen
sive and ably conducted journal, devoted almost
entirely to the subject. Price $1 per annum.
Subscriptions received at tliis office.
Augusta Ml nor r
SILK CULTURE.
Our readers who are interested in the culture
of silk will highly appreciate the practical
knowledge of Mr. Spalding, embraced in the fol
lowing note, with which we have been politely
furnished by Mr. Bond.— Savannah Georgian.
Savannah, 29th January, 1859.
Dear Sir—At your desire, I say, that my Mo
rns Mnlticaulis plants are altogether derived from
a singletree which my friend Dr. Fort, of Mill
cilgevile, obtained at an early period from Mr.
Prince, of New York. Mr. Wylly’s are derived
Irom mine; Mr. Couper’s are altogether from
three plants brought by the Rev. Mr. Bartow;
from Prince’s Nursery. Mr. Cooperand myself,
lor two years past, have pressed our neighbors to
the culture .and have given away thousands of
plants. I have now 2:3 acres containing about
22,000 young trees planted at 5 feet by ten. This
distance has been selected for the great conveni
ence in gathering the leaves into small carts pro
vided with wic'ker baskets for the feeding of the
siik worm, and is a distance adapted to the size
of the Moms MultiCaulis which is in truth rather
a shrub than a tree. My mode of planting, if a
nursery, after digging the soil well, to trench about
three inches deep two feet xpart, then place a two
budded cutting in the trench a foot apart, giving
a little upward inclination to the cutting, so as to
meet the season whether wet or dry. When the
s cuttings are placed in the trench, I strew over
them a little well prepared manure and then cover
them about two inches deep with soil, marking
the spot where the cuttings are placed bv a small
stick, that the grass maybe more carefully hand
picked. 1 find that a sandy soil is preferable to
clay, and I believe it will he better and
safer to send" plants or cuttings from the
south to the north, because in preparing them
here, they will arrive at the north while the sea
son is yet soft and the soil in a good situation to
receive them, where as in bringing them from the
north here, before tucy have had time to loot, our
season becomes hot and dry. I draw this conclu
sion troni my son three years ago having imported
from Prince’s Nursery, through the medium of
Major Bowen, of Savannah, SI OO worth of cut
tings, say 1040. They looked wed when they ar
rived on the Ist May. and altho’ carefully plan
ted, not more than 60 of them grew. In my
own case I rarely lose more than 1 r~ 2 in 100
THE GEORGIA MIRROR.
cultivmitig t > the field, root crops, sny'
potatoes, turnips sis tfSbbagcs may be grown with
them advantageously, but beware of culiniferous
or grain crops, such as corn, rye, oats, Ac. for the
roots spreading over the surface will actually
either kill, ot greatly injure all young trees. You
may make what use you please of this letter, if
you believe if can be of any service.
I remain, dear sir,
Your obedient servant.
_ „ THOS. SPALDING.
lasts. P. HoSd, Esq.
A law was passed by the Legislature of Penn
sylvania on the 2d ot April last for the encour
agement ot the Growth and manufacture of
Silk—which provides that a premium should be
paid of 20 cents for every pound of cocoons rai
sed and 50 cents lor every pound of silk reeled.
I niter this law one young lady has drawn out of
of the i reasury $367. Shatne on aiur Legisla
ture lor not following an example so laudable. -
FREE BANKING.
In many of the Counties in this Suite, mee
tings are being held for the purpose of organi
zing associations to go into business under the
General Banking Law. Applications from El
bert, Sumter, ’J roup, and Early counties, have
already been made to the Comptroller and Com
missioners for the appointment ol" agents to ap
praise tiie property of persons disposed to engage
in the banking business, ami for the bonds, mort
gages, and other forms required to enable them
to pledge the same, and commence operations
immediately ; but no association has vet deposi
ted the amount of funds required to"defray the
expenses to be incurred for engravings, &c. It
is believed, from the best information obtained
by the Comptroller and Commissioners, in their
correspondence with engravers, and conversations
had . with their agents, that it will require two
thousand dollars or more, to procure the plates,
dies anil bills for each association which may go
into operation. Each bank will, it is thought be
compelled to have a separate set of engravings,
in order that the name and place of each bank
may be engraved on the face of their bills. Each
institution will have to iocur the expense of
platen, dies, Sic. of its own, although the bills to
be circulated by the associations formed under
the law, (all o( each denomination,) have the
same vignette, and each denomination will be
stamped differently, and bear a different design.—
The name and place of the bank having to be en
graved on the plate, will necessarily make the ex
pense to every association nearly the same for
obtaining their bills, and will consequently, pro
duce some delay in getting them ready for the
use of the banks to be established, as" the bills
procured for one bank will not answer for the use
of another.
Only five, ten. twenty, fifty, one hundred and
one thousand dollar bills are, by law, authorized
to be issued and circulated in this State. A plate
of four bills of one denomination, or one of each
denomination, will make 36,000 impressions of
each bill on steel, and its probable cost will be
about S6OO. The bonds, mortgages and other
blanks to be used by associations for securin'!
their stock, in form, to be assigned to and received
by the Comptroller and Commissioners, have
been prepared and may be obtained on application,
upon the payment of the cost of them.
Letters have been received by the Comptroller
and Commisaioners from several other counties
informing them of preparations made and pro
gressing for the organization of companies.—
From the statements given, in relation to which,
it is thought that as many as eight or ten, if not
more, associations will be formed and in operation,
during the present year.
The appraisers appointed by the Comptroller
and Commissioners are,
For the county of Sumter: Messrs. Henry
Davenport, Hugh M. D. Kins, J. W. Tommey.
James P. Guerry and John H. Blount.
for the county of Libert: Messrs. Joseph
Rucker, Thomas j. Heard, William W. Chris
tian, Beverly Allen and William Jones.
For the county of Troup; Messrs. Mitehell
Bennett. Thomas B. Greenwood, K. L. Haral
son J. D. Newsom and James Culberson.
For the county of Merriwether: Messrs. Mar
shall Martin, Andrew Park. Alexander Hall,
Janies A. Perdue and Alfred Welborn.
For the county of Harris: Messrs. Thomas
H. Murphey, John White, Hardy Crawford;
William C. Osborn and Henry H. Lowe.
For the count; of F.arly: William P. Ford.
William Castleberry, Barnett Cody, Jvmes P.
Holmes and George W. Mercer; any three of
whom arc authorized to act in their respective
counties.— Federal Union.
From the Southern Recorder.
Opr readers will recollect the account of a mur
der committed in Jones county, a few months
ago, on the body of a Pedler of Jewplery, whose
nintiliated remains was discovered some time af
ter the murder, in the hollow of a fallen tree, in
the woods. Through the Mayor of Charleston
the following testimony, giving'a detailed account j
; ot the murder, has been obtained, and transmit- j
ted to the Governor of this State; whose Proela- j
mation, offering Six Hundred Dollars reward ’for
the murderer*, will be found in another part of
this paper. Supposing that this testimony of one
of the men present at the murder, (ihough accor
ding to his account protesting against it) would be
interesting to manv of our readers, we have ob
tained a copy from the Executive Department,
for publication. We publish it for a further pur
pose: murder will out, sooner or later;no matter
how cunning may lie the perpetrators, their I
Crime will come to light, bringing with it the pe
nalties of retributive justice.
1 ho statement below, without any explana
ions of ours, gives a clear account of this san
guinary and diabolical deed ;
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA.
Examination taken this 23d of January, 1839, of
Tlenry Jones; that he is a native and citizen of
Connecticut; deposed that some time about No
vember last, bnt thinks by reference to papers in
his possession he could ascertain the time cor
rectly, he met up at Macon, in Georgia, with a
man named J. W. Cowles, [this it is, Julius
William Cowles] : he is a ventriloquist ; before
this he was owing him some money ; there was
< another in company w ith Cowels; they had been
j performing some time beforethis indifferent parts
| of Georgia, as ventriloquists ; remembers that
i they performed at Monticello ; deponent had a
| wagon and two horses [they were black horses,]
i horses, now in Charleston : bought them last Jnue
at Johnston’s in King-street; went with said Cow
les and another man, whose name is not now ful
ly remembered, but it begun with “D,”aud thinks
his Christian nam* is John, from M icon to For
] syth, and there performed two nights, and then
returned to Macon, and staid there one or two
nights; Cowles promised deponent that if he
uoul 1 carry him and his companion about, where
he went to act, would compensate him. and also
pay linn the money he owed him before—this
was his inducement for travelling with him; came
to him one afternoon, when in Macon, and told
him that he was going to leave Micon.aud there was
another man going with them and asked him to
take him also along with them—he agreed to it,
oixl he was to be [laid extra lor it: lie prepared for
start),ig—he then said lie could not go that af
ternoon, as the said man was not ready to go, and
pronoked waiting till 11 o’clock next day—at 11
said lie would go, wait till afternoon ; and they
started from Macon about 4or 5 o’clock—it was
late is the afternoon ;tlic party who went were
Cowles, his coninanioii, and (he man who was to
join them and himself, in the same wagon and
pair of black horses; all were in the wagon and
he drove them; commenced the journey in the
main roadout of Macon towards Milledgeville ;
Cowles ordered him to drive of from tin main
road in a small road to the left; it was then about
dusk, and he observed that he took this road to
reach a small village, where he wished to goto
perform, and said if he drove some way that even
ing lie coni J get there in time enough to put up
his bills to play next night; the road was rough
and one of the screw tups got off and they had to
stop to fix it; it then was quite dark, and deponent
proposed to stop at a house they came to, but he
(Cowles) said no, they could drive on slowly—
and rode on some A or .4 miles, they had two bot
tles of liquor, or flasks, they stopped to drink and
then rode on a mile further; they then proposed
to get out and walk, as the night was cold—they
did so. they walked behind the wagon; Cowles
was walking along side ol this person, and the oth
er man a little ahead ; they a!! were then walking
along silently ; first words deponent heard was
someone crying murder; tivo or three times de
ponent foooked round and saw this same person
running towards the wagon and calling out for
help ; deponent sprung out of the wagon and ad
vanced to him three or font steps ; that Cow
les and his companion said if he attempted to as
sist him, they would shoot him through; Cow
les had a bowie knife and pistols, the other man
had a pistol, and i knife-—this knife he had hnr
rowed from deponent when they were tin n i g
the wagon : the person dropped ; and one oi the
two came up to him, deponent; it was then very
dark ;it was Cowles’companion, who is a large
man larger than deponent; this man’s na.tie, I
think, was Dickerson, he went by name of John
generdly; came up to deponent and threatened
to put him to death if he said any thing about the
murder; arrived at Milledgeville that night; they
would not allow him to leave their company ; when
he went out of the house one went with him, and
slept m the same room ; started next day and went
on the Savannah road ; all slept in one room that
night; next day travelled on towards Savannah;
they changed their course and went towards Da
rien : in the road they threatened to put deponent
to death, and made him promise never to disclose
the murder; they disputed between themselves
about dividing the plunder; they made up their
dispute, and again changed iheir plan and deter
mined to go to St. Marys ; they met a traveller
on the road and enquired about St. Marys, and
of public houses—he mentioned the name of a
man keeping a public house ; Cowles said that
this man knew him, and said consequently he
would not go to St. Marys; they then went to Jack
sonville, and performed there one night; they all
staid in one room; from thence they went to St. Au
gustine, they performed there two nights; they
staid about four days before deponent left; depon
cut and Dickerson came ou from St. Augustine, in
schouer Empire, Capt. Southwick; this w as in De
cember; thinks it was before Christmas; they
had along passage,and put back to Darien,from
head winds ; and arrived in Charleston, after this
long voyage—and deponent has continued in
Charleston since that tire.(•Dickerson was on board
with deponent; on their arrival they both went to
TANARUS, W. Johnson's King-street, and spent that
night ; next morning they went down to the ves
sel and had their things carried up; deponent
carried his things to his brother’s; saw Dicker
son next day, at the vessel: went to the vessel to
gether, parted with him there, and he lias not
seen him since—but ins beared that lie is in
Charleston ; a sailor who hail left Sonthwiek’s
vessel, told deponent lie saw Dickerson it was a
bout ten days after their arrival; the man mur
dered had a considerable quantity of jewelry in
his possession ; this jewelry was in a box; they
divided it between them, and quarreled about the
division: it was at a house on the road in the
country, about 50 or 60 miles from St. Marys,
that they made this division in; Cow les offered
the jewelry for sale at Black Creek, or at a place
where the Indians had been ; both offered the
jewelery for sale in St. Augustine ; they sold some
of it there ; they offered it for sale to the passen
gers ; Cowles paid him off at St. Atigustinp, and
told'him he should take some of the jewelry or
he should get nothing else ; and deponent took
some of it as his pay ; both of them followed de
i ponent wherever he went, while in St. Augnstine
j hp offered jewelry on board the vessel, some of
; what h 6 got from Cowles, and some of what he
; got from his brother, ; Cowles went by ti e name
of J. Williams; and had some bills with his
name as Williams and some as J. 11. Cowles;
had some oftlie bills printed at Augusta; Cow
les is a juggler and ventriloquist, about 5 feet 7
or 8. very trim built well made man, very active
and upright in his walk, his walk is quick, his
gait and manner indicates activity ; Dickerson is a
tall and very stout man, walks rather bow-ledgged
has a verj fair complexion, light hair, blue or
light eyes, broad shoulders, with two double teeth
on the upper jaw in front, chews tobacco very
much ; when they played deponent kept the door
keeper; deponent saw the man drop down, and
was dead ; knew that he was dead ; they said they
used their knives; Cowles had the knife in his
hand; when the man called for help he
said he was stabbed, and held his back, and Cow
les came up and thrust at him and he fell; they
consulted about the body, and took it up and put
it in on the hinder part of the wagon ; Cowles
covered it with a cloth, anr ordered him to drive
off from the road, and took the body out and put
it in a hollow log ; deponent never saw the man
before, but from what he observed of him he would
I say he was a foreigner; rather a stout man ; his
j speech was as a foreigner: Cowles knew him he
j fore and spoke as such; did not bear his name cal
| led by them ; deponent says he heard Cowles
! was in Charleston, and came in the Motion from
Jacksonville; Cowles cone t . Johnston’s and saw
deponent: and asked hm if he md yet ■ ■
j notice or information about the murder; deifo
1 nent said he had not; Cowles tol I him if lie had
, there were men watcl ▼ ; - .
j it ia about Two weeks or more a:ace Cowles saw
him in Charleston.
~ HENRY JONES
bworu t« before me this 23d day of January 1*39.
H. L. PINCKNEY
Mayor of Charleston.
Mayor's Office, Charleston S. C. i
January 26th, 1839. C
I hereby certify, that the foregoing is a true
and correct copy of the affidavit of Henry Jones,
taken before me oh the 23d instant, and that the’
signatures of Jones’ name to this copy of his af
fidavit. are in the proper handwriting of the said
Henry Jones. H. L PINCKNEY,
Mayor of Charleston.
S DXJti’J QAX.
THE MERCHANTS.
During the debate on the Swartout Defalca
tions, Mr. Hoffman said, it had of late become
the practice in every way, and on all occasions
to assail the character of our Meichant*,who teem
ed to be regarded by aome as a caravan on the de
sert. that every wanderi g tribe might think it
fair to attack and plunder. But who are the mer
chants of this country ? They were mwi whose
honor and enterprise have done as much to ele
vate our national character as the gallant achieve
ments of our army and navy : and whose integri
ty and faith, during our late financial difficulties
hail called forth on the floor of the British Par
liament, a tribute of praise Irmn the Chancellor
of the E xchequer—men who had left less than
SSOO unpaid, out of more than $2,000,000. which
hid been returned upon them protested from En
gland. Where did their enemies find motives for
this perpetual attack ? Was it to b# found in
present ex« rfions on Iheir past history ? Was it
to be found in that spirit of enterprise which hsd
carried our flag to every sea and every clime, and
had paid into our very Treasury the sums which
formed this ailment to speculation and defalcation?
Was it to be found in the early history of our Re
pubKc ? Are not gentlemen admonished of its in
justice, by that picture which adorns your Ro
tunda, when they see and know that he is there
sitti gin his Chair of dignify and peril, receiving
tile Declaration of our Independence from a Jef
ferson and a Franklin, was a Boston merchant—
the prostibed and patriotic Hancock?
Let tne tell the gentleman from Md., that
Commerce is, and always has beer, the handmaid
ofL berty an Jit rotection from destruction, has
always been the unerring indication of a wise and
tree, or a weak and arbitrary government. Let
me remind him, that the weak and vacillating
reign oftlie 6th Henry ofEngland, was still more
darkened by legislative c«aetments against the
freedom of commerce—whilst the same page of
history, wbieh'shines with the achievements and
wisdom of one of her best Kings was illuminated
by laws to unfetter trade and protect her merchant*.
Alex. Gat,
MR. PREVIOUS QUESTION CUSHMAN.
Mr. Prentiss thus notices this gentleman.s de
fence of the Secretary of the Treasury :
I could not but admire (said Mr. Prentiss,) the
humanity and generous feeling which brought to
the rescue the honourable gentleman from New
Hampshire, (Mr. Cushman) For once i?i his
life he said aside the sling and pebble of Previous
Question, that weapon which he wields with
such deadly skill which no mortal argument mav
resist; with which he has so often smote, even
upon the very forel.ead* the vauming Philistine
of debate, this he laid aside and essay ed the ar
mour of Saul.
Cased in denial and brandishing assertion, lie
boldly stood forth for battle—aye, sir, and when
it waxed too warm, and safety consisted only iu
retreat, even as iEneas “did from the flames es
Troy, upon his shoulders the old Anchises bear,”
so with pious care did the honorable gentleman
convey from the field the hapless secretary, hi
rapid "(light, like Satan voyaging through chaos,
hall (lying and halt waking, he bore him across
the Serboman bog of his official correspondence
—that documentary morass, that bottomless
quagmire of ignorance, negligence and stupidity.
Honor to whom honor is due. While the par
ty have stool, aghast at the astonishing array of
facts; while even the gallant gentleman from Md.
(Mr. Thomas) has hung out the White Flag and
half begged for quarter—the gentleman from
New Hampshire has taken the front rank and
borne the brnnt of the fight, - t or shame ! for
shame! Where is Achilles ?—Where is Aga
memnon?—Where is Ajax, that Nestor should
be compelled to buckle on the unwonted armour.
But (said Mr. P.) I did not rise for the purpose
of detaining the Committee longer than might be
necessary to express my surprise at the bold dec
laration of the gentleman from Maryland (Mr.
Thomas) that the Adniinistation is entitled to a
majority upon a Committee, to be appointed for
the purpose of investigating their own malversa
tions.
For this reason the gentleman wishes the Com
mittee appointed by the speaker. He seems to
know either by intuition or experience, that the
speaker will be pliant to the wishes of the party,
—nothing that I could say upon the point could
possibly convey a severer rebuke than the argu
ment of the gentleman. It seetns to me that the
course of the Secretary, and his friends in relation
to the forming of this Committee, is dictated uei
ther by justice nor good policy—the country will
not be satisfied with it. It shocks propriety and
common sense. Their course in every point ol
view “is strange, ’tis passing strange” and iu con
tinuation oftlie language of the gentle Desdemo
na, though in a very different sense from that in
which the fair lady used the terms, I will add—
“tis pitiful , 'tis wondrous pitiful !”
Who could have thought it l —Looking over
some old newspapers, the editor ofthe llouisville
Gazette came across a Frankfort Argus, published
during the contest for the successorship of Mr.
Monroe in the Presidency, md at which time A
mos Kindell was its editor. He found therein tho
following editorial paragraph : v-
Presidential. —“The Nashville W r hig publish
es some well written articles in favor of Clay ann
Crawford, in consequence of which Jackson’S
friends threatened to pull down that printing of
fice This is a specimen of what Jackson's ctd~
; ministration might he, were he elected."
A inos has changed his opinion since 1824, He
1 was not [ roof against political promotion, arid
SSOOO per annum. When he sought office at
the hand of Mr. Clay, after Mr. C. was appointed
Secretary of State, he was offered a clerkship ,n
that denirtmenf. with a saia v of SIOOO He de
i ; if’ i '-'(too and wa- retVsed. Jackson £3 U
it,and afterwards increased the sum to ssooo*-
nn' l Kendall hi. nme I,'s worshipper and bond
’ ,v. . No v -r"h rheis a democrat of the
son school. He “tr.tret previde for bis faini'G