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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