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-eiiington is descended
... a good old English liimily, w hich, in
earlv times, owned considerable posses
sions in /he counties ol York anil Nor
tba/nr'an, and in other places. It be
came connected, by marriage, with the
family of Shirley, Earl Ferrers. Sir
Lawrence Washington married Elizabeth,
a daughter of the second Earl Ferrers. —
It was also connected with that of Vii
-1; is, Duke of Buckingham. A branch
of the family, from unknown causes, lor,
they were wealthy, emigrated about the
year IGSO to America ; and the well
known ( one may say with truth the uni
versally famous) General and [’resident
George YV ashiugion was descended trout
it.
My great grandfather, James Washing
ton, was so deeply implicated in the un
fortunate affair of I lit* I)nko of Monmouth
in the time of Charles 11, 1653 and 1684,
that lie was obliged to fly from England,
and, after losing by shipwreckon the const
of Portugal every tiling of his personal 1
property tint lie had been able to carry
away Jrom England, lie came to Holland.
While there, lie was Irequently demand-I
ed on the pail of England hv its ambus-j
sador, and ins delivery insisted upon; but
the General States did not consent; and
thus he became the touiider of that brunch
which then began to tlo irixli in liollnn i,
and is still in existence in the persons of
two individuals, cousins, lieutenants in
the army and tuny.
I possess tin autograph letter of the
great man, George Washington, from
Mount \ eriinn, January 20. 1770, in which
among other things, it is said : “There
can he but little doubt, sir, of our descen
ding from the same stock, as the brandi
es of it proceeded from the same country;
at w hat time your ancestors left England
is not mentioned ; mine came to America
nearly one hundred an t fitly years age.”
At the age of sixteen I received, in 1794,
a commission in the Dutch service, but
was unwilling to serve the Batavian lie
public founded in 179-3; and being a
faithJui follower of the House of Orange,
1 emigrated. At the formation of the
Dutch Brigade of the Prince of Orange .
in the English service in 1799, l was ap
pointed lieutenant in that brigade, until
the disbanding of the latter, after the peace
ot Amiens, in WO2. A few months Liter
I had the good fortune to enter the Bava
rian service. Since then, nearly forty-two
years have passed, of which I have been
attached no less than thirty-seven years !
to the most high person of the King, part
ly as Marshal of the Court, and part! V |
aid de-camp.
I have also planted a slock in Bavaria,
which, it God will, is some time to bear
good fruit to the King and Country. I
have three sons : the eldest, Ludwig, six
teen years old, is a page of his Majesty
the King ; the second, Max, fourteen
years old, is pupil in the lloyat Corps of
Cadets; anti the third, Karl, ten years
old, frequents the public school. Bv m3'
two marriages with daughters of families
of the highest nobility in the land, my
children are placed in agreeable circum
stances, even when lam no more; and,
in this manner, this branch of the family
in this new country may flourish. God
give his blessing to fT !
It would lead me too far to enter into
details of my biography*, for being in ear
lier years frequently exposed to the
storms of late, brought on chiefly by rev
olutions, and at a inter period placed in
important offices and other relations, I
could not do it without being very long ;
and, since ibis letter has already attained
a con-idrruble extent, that which has been
sai<i will, J nope, satisfy you. I will on!}’
add, in order that you may become alto
gether acquainted yvith rny situation here,
that I will subjoin to ihe signature ol my
name what is otherwise not usua 1 ; but
in ibis case l think I may make an exccp- (
lion, because it forms in a manner a part,
of rny biographv.
Thanking you for the 1 terary production
transmitted to me, which possesses, by
the preface of the renowned Prolessor
Herrman, an enhanced value, l remain,;
with sentiments of perfect esteem your
devoted,
It ARON VON WASHINGTON.
Royal Burn nun Chamln : Haiti, Lieutenant flc-
H»rnl and Aid-tie-Camp to Ins Majesty the
King, Commander <>f the Order of Civil
Me fit of the. Batavian Crown, of the
G ret It order of the Savior, ts the British
Military Order of the Bath, height of the
Royal French Order aj the Legion <f Hon
or, and Lord of Sot zing.
To Dr. J. G. Flvzel,
Consul vj the U. S. ts S. America in
Leipzic.
A student of the University of Tubin
gen, Wurteinbnrg, named Gnehlfrth, be
ing recently at Uauflemhurg, in the can
ton of Zurich, Switzerland, made a bet
with some of bis friends that be would
cross tlie Rhine with one leap, and pass
thu6 from Switzerland into the Grand
Duchy of Baden. On the day fixed for
the execution of this feat, Mr. Goehlerth
-..vjuuced
.mo university education in
Germany.— Journal dcs Dcbats.
The Romance oj Romance. —l ire histo
ry ot the liaison of Mirubenu, the French
revolutionist, yvith the Marchioness «Je
Monnier, is more romantic than romance.
1 he parlies “saw, and looked, anil lov
ed.” Mirabeau seduced and carried her
off. She was seized and thrown into a
convent. He escaped into Switzerland ;
he was tried and convicted ot comumacy,
and sentenced to lose his head. The lady
escaped and rejoined him. They passed
into Holland, where, after a .time, they
were seized—site was again immured in
a convent, and he was consigned to the
Castle ol \ iueerities, where he remained
three y ears and a half. After his liberation,
he obtained anew trial, pleaded his own
case, produced a lurk <>( the lady’s hair]
steeped in poison, of which she yvas in
possession ot a counterpart for their mu
tual destruction, should he fall, and bv
the impassioned power of his nll-com
rn Hiding eloquence, he terrified the court
and his prosecutors, melted the audience
into tears, obtained a reversal of bis si 11-
teuce, and even threw the cost of suit
upon the plaintiff!
Man-traps. —Ov !en fenr e of
a ladies’ seminary, in the neighborhood
ol Loudon, there is painted in large
1 harncters—
"Man tiaps set on these premise.”
A yvag, who was passing, chalked be
neath tin: notice—“l ir (jins.'’ Where
upon he was taken before a magistrate
liy a police officer. Being put upon his
defence for thus defacing the wall of a
respectable establishment, he argued “that
f ii was the Latin lor J/ir//, and Gin die
English lor Trap ; ergo that Virgin was
only another word for Man trap; though
the fact might tie that it was a highly in
appropriate term, and ought not to be
u.ed.” The magi were po?ed, mid the
man was sent about his business, with a
bint to beware lest lie should be caught
in his own description of trap, as he
might expect no mercy if he were.
Swallowing a Hook. —The following—
which the Boston Traveller thinks good
enough almost to be a “fish-story”—is
related in the Mew Orleans Medical
Journal, by Dr. Kilpatrick, of Wooil
viHe, Mississippi. The case occurred in
Barnwell district, South Carolina :
“Mrs. was enjoying her usual
i siesta, in the afternoon of a warm day, on
ja p diet spread upon the floor in a cool
putt of the house ; and while siie was Iv
ing 011 her back sleeping pleasantly, no
doubt dreaming of past pleasures, her
grandson, a little urchin of tiiree or four
summers, was playing about the house
with a fishing tackle complete, pole, line,
and hook, who, when lie discovered the
old lady with her mouth widely distended;
thought it was a line opportunity to ‘catch
a fish.’ Accordingly, in order to effect
hi? purpose, he cautiously deposited the
‘hatbed hook’(I believe there was no
bait on it) into his grand-dame’s open
mouth The tilulution caused her to
awake suddenly, and as her mouth was
dry from exposure, she closed it, and
swallowed the hook two or three inches
below the uvula. So soon as she dis
j covered her situation, the whole family
was assembled by her calls and cries of
I distress, except little Charley, who had
dropped his pole in a panic and run oft!
“Some gentle efforts were essayed to
remove the hook, both hy the patient and
; some of the family ; hut, being apprehen
sive of fixing the barb in the throat, they
ceased all efforts, and despati bed a mes
senger for Dr. E. Leroy Antony, who
resided in the neighborhood. When he
arrived, found that the hook was not fas
tened into the flesh, his fertile brain sug
gested a plan by which itcouid be remov
ed safe, easily, and without an operation.
“His plan was to cut off’the line within
a foot or two of the mouth of the patient;
then to drill a hole t hrough a rifle bullet anil
drop it over the line, down on the hook.
In order to fit the bullet on the point of
the hook, and maintain it firmlv in that 00
sition, a reed was procured, the joints
punched out, and then passed down over
the line, and pressed firmlv over ihe bul
let. fu this manner the hook, bullet, and
reed were all withdrawn at once, very
easily, without any injury.”
The Phenomena of the Brain. —One of
the most inconceivable tilings in the nature
of the hram, is, dial the organ of sensation
should itself be insensible. To cut the
brain gives no pain, yet in the brain alone
results the power of feeling pain in any
other part of the liodv. ll the nerve which
leads to it from tl/e injured part be divided,
we become instantly unconscious of suffer
ing. it is-onlv by the communion lion with
the brain that any kind of sensation is pro
duced; yet the organ itself is insensible.
But there is a circumstance more wonder
ful still. Trie brain itself may he remov
ed, may be cut away down to the corpus
calosum, without destroying life. The an
imal lives and performs all those function*
which are necessary to simple vitality, but
has no longer a mind; it cannot think or
feci; it requires that the tood should be
pushed into its stomach; once there, it is
digested, and the animal will even thrive
and grow fat. We infer, therefore, that
the part of the brain called the convolu
tions, is simply intended for the exercise
of the intellect and faculties, whether ol
the low degree called instinct, or of that
exalted kind bestowed on man, the gift of
reason.— fl’igan on ike Durability of the
Mind.
LORD CHATHAM.
TO TIIK j: DITOR OF THE I.OXDON TIMES.
Sir: Having read in The Times ol Fri
da}* an interesting extract from the Edin
burg Review relative to the death and
public interment of the great Lord Chat
ham, 1 beg leave to send you an anecdote
concerning the same occurrence which I
have often heard rny father relate.
He was in thy house on the occasion of
a motion for a public funeral to Lord Chat
ham. However general was the unani
mity of the house, it was disturbed by the
factious opposition of some man of emi
nence, (l forget who he was.) Amongst
other arguments he threw diseredit upon
public funerals, by mentioning some of
the ridiculous indecencies which occur
whenever there are public processions. !
Colonel Bare (I think it was, yvho an
swered him) commented upon his public
conduct, and contrasted with the sharpest
irony the deeds of Lord Chatham yvith
the shabby ads of the objector.
Having enumerated the splendid say
ings and doings of the Earl of Chatham,
at the end ol each he made a pause and
then said; “Can the honorable (or right
honorable) member say as much ?”
Burke seemed also tube burning yvith
indignation, and preparing to pounce upon
the said olj -ctor, but, suddenly changing
his purpose, he took hold of my* father’s
arm arid said : “Let us go into the Abbey.”
Having surveyed the place where they
were to lay this great man, and the solemn
building, lie seemed for a time absorbed
in thought—then rousing himself lie re
peated with the affecting pathos the lul
i-wiiig lines :
“On let me treat! the gloomy aisles alone,
•Sj I loxtiry to vulgar minds tmlitiewn,
A '.Mg the wnils. where speaking marbles show
Win. worthies loim I lit* linllowed mould below.
Proud mi mts, who once the reins of’ empire held,
In arms who niumphetl, or in arts excelled ;
Chieis marked with scars, and prodigal ol Mood ;
Sieru patriots, who lor sacred freedom stood ;
Jnsi men, hv whom impartial laws were given,
And saints who trod and led the way to lira ten.
Near to these mansions, wlieie the mighty rest,
Since them foundations came a Holder guest;
Nor e’er was to the hovers of hliss conveyed
A purer saint or a more welcome shade.”
'fhe place, the circumstance, the man,
and the words made a deep impression
upon my father’s memory, and I have of
ten heard him repeat the anecdote. The
words are Tickell’s, “on the death of Ad
dison.”
You may make what use of this anec
dote you please.
I am, sir, your obedient Servant,
C. SFENCER STANHOFE.
Weaveuham, December, 3.
LATER FROM TEXAS.
We received yesterday by the Mail, Galveston
dates to the 22.1 and Washington (Texas) to the
Sth of March. We publish helovv from die Gal
veston News the first answer to the Annexation
Resolutions of our Congress. The National Re
gister (Washington,) which is raid to be the Presi
dents Organ is discussing the subject vehemently,
but for some reason, appearing unwilling to com
mit itself directly against Annexation. The posi
tion of President Jones is still undefined, and it is
as ilitfieudt to find in the motives oi’f.is election as in
his subsequent course, what his wishes and opin
ions are. On this subject the Galveston News
says :
We hive long been convinced, that, in this
country, there is no organization of parties, upon
any fixed principles or public policy. While (he
election of President Polk establishes the annexation
of Texas and the occupation of Oregon, repudiates
a Tariff lor protection and a national bank, and set
tles the question in relation to the distribution of
the proceeds of public land sales, — that of President
Jones is neither the triumph of any measures ad
vocated by those who supported turn, nor the de
feat of any advocated l>v those who opposed him.
The proceedings of congress were almost entirely
exempt from any parly influence, even of a uer
sonal, or sectional character.
We find in the Texas papers no news of a gene
ral character.
From the Galveston (Texas) .AVies, March 22.
ANNEXATION MEETING IN THE CITY
OF GALVESTON.
Upon the reception of the undoubted intelligence,
I by the steamer New York, that the Joint Resolu
-1 lions tor the Annexation ot Texas had finally pnss
j ed the Congres of ihe United States, a meeting ol
I 1 lie citizens of Galveston convened at the Verandah
] on the 18111 instant, where, upon motion, General
, Memuean Hunt was unanimously called to ihe
Chair, and Mr. A. C. Hyde appointed Secretary.
Ti e Chairman briefly stated the obj cl of the
meeting, anj
U pmi motion of Gen. Hugh McLeod, a Commit
tee was appointed to draft Resolutions sh be re
ferred to a future meeting, and that .1 salute of 100
guns no fired in commemoration of the success of
Annexation. The Chair appointed Gen. H. .Mc-
Leod, .Messrs. P. S. .Merritt, A. C. Crawford, M.
B. Menard, and VV. Ihchardson, said Committee,
and up m motion, the Chairman was added, and
the meeting adjourned uuiii Friday evening next
at 5 o’clock.
Friday evenings o’clock. Pursuant loadjonrn
ment tfit* meeting assembled at ihe Verandah, and
being called toorder by the President, the Commit
tee .eported through tin ir Chairman. Mr. Rich
ardsoii, the following Preamble and Resolution-:
Whereas, among the earliest acts of ihe people
of i!ii> country, after their Declaration of their In
depend lire, and ihe glorious and decisive battle of
Sin Jacinto, was 1 tie* almost unanini ms announce !
incut to the world ot’ilieir settled attachment to the
Aun iioan Union, and ol their desire that this Re
public should he re-united to that great conledera
ev of States.
And whereas, cur fi-st and only application for
re admission, was ilien deleaieii bv insuperable oh
star cs arising from the extreme iulimcy nl’our ex
isicn'c, from our want of recognition |»v oilier (row
ers, from the customary law of nations requiring
that some lime should lie allowed to Mexico to as
sert her claims and vindicate her pretended rights,
and also from the universal apprehension bv "ur
friends, as well av enemies abroad, of our total ina
bility to maintain that separate nationality which
we iiad tin 11 just entered upon, in ihe learliil sirug
gle with which we find to contend, fir our liliertus
against an ancient and powerful Empire—present
ing lo the world, as we then did, the most unequal
co iff,ci recorded in history—a handful of scattered
colonists in a state of destitution ami poverty, con
tending against a nation numbering eight millions
of souls.
And whereas, our re-annexation, to that confede
racy has since been procrastinated by tiic peculiar
state ot parties in that country, by the intrigues
and machinations, of political aspirants, and by va
rious collateral issues, and ci retires* a nres, iu>i onlv
independent of the policy of tins measure, but in
opposition to the popular leeling of the nation.
And whe-eas, the question has recently lieen re
ferred direct to the great tribunal ol the people, anil
by them our re-admission to the American confed
eracy has been triumphantly and authoritative ly
affirmed in the election of Mr. Polk, and we have
just received the joyful assurance that their repre
sentatives in Congress have faithfully ratified the
express will of ihe people, upon tl.is question, so
that it now only remains wi'h the people of Texas
to determine w hether they will accept the proifered
Union, or take the chances of a separate and isola
ted existence. There litre,
Resolved, That we believe the people of Texas,
true to their early and undeviating attachment to
the American Union, w ill hail with heartfelt joy
the responsive invitation of the American people
now extended to them, to accept the guaranties of
that great constitutional compact formed by our
ancestors, and immortalized by a Washington,
Franklin, Adams, Jefferson and others, whose
names are imperishahly identified with the great
cause of human liberty.
2d. That we have looked with feelings of deep
and intense anxiety upon ihe great struggle for our
restoration, and upon the untiring and patriotic ex
ertion of our friends in the L T nited Slates, and that
we now congratulate them, and the friends of civil
iilierty every where, upon the complete consumma
tion of their la Imrs in a final and glorious triumph.
3d. That in this triumph of justice, truth and
liberty, we recognise the Hero of the Hermitage as
foremost iii llie galaxy of patriots, to whom our
thanks and gratitude are especially due for his un
dying zeal and powerful influence in behalf of our
adopied country. .Way his last moments he bless
ed with the full realization of his loudest hopes.
4th. That we lender our unfeigned thanks to
that bold ami honest patriot John Tyler, whoseo!-
fieial elevation has given him the direction of 11111
destinies, and whose steady ami persevering sup
port of ill is great cause eniilles him lo t fie lasting
gratitude of the American people. To him pecu
liarly belong the honor and fame of restoring his
country’s integrity. The many brilliant achieve
ments ofliis administration will yet be appreciated,
and illumine the brightest pages of American His
tory.
oth. That eve shall ever hold in grateful remem
brance the distinguished services of John (j. t'al
hmin, whose gigantic intellect is only equaled bv
iiit? purity of I.is pairin'ism, hi-' blameless lilt-, and
entire devotion to ihe best interests of his country.
His official dispatches are marked by that power of
resea rest, orignality and truth, which carry convic
tion, and command ti e admiration of ihe woild.—
He has been the Ajax Telamon of the true Amen
can po ire, and w ill not be forgotten in 1848.
(ith. That ivi* shall ever ten ember the e iiincnt -
services of Mi. R. J. Wa’kei; Mr. C. J. Ingersoli;
Ex-Chancellor B bh, Mr. Uuchauati, Mr. Wood
bury, Mr. D mglas; ami other distinguished fiiemls
of annexation.
7th. That wc feci ourselves bound to acknow
ledge our obligations to Mr. Met rick, Mr. Johnson
and Mr. Henderson, who have nobly renounced
party dictation, and sustained the popular voice of
their country.
Sth. That we most cheerfully respond to the
seniitnjrnts of his Excellency, President Polk, in
bis loalugiiral Address, expressive of his determina
tion to carry out the wishes of his constituents for
the final consummation of,his measure, anil that we
believe lie will I’aiihliiily, honorably and zealously
fulfil tins solemn pledge, and discharge the impor
tant trust now commuted 10 It ini.
9th. Tout we recommend lo our Executive the
patriotic sentiments of Piesidetit Polk, with the
hope that he will leel it his imperative duty to use
all proper, necessary and constitutional measures
to co-operate in the most effectual manner with
him, and bring to a full and final completion, and
“at the earliest practicable period,” the greai nitsis
ure of Annexation, according to the well known
and acknowledged wishes of the people id Texas.
lOt it. That we deem it uur privilege and duty to
recommend to President Jones, in the most rcspccl-
I’ul terms, the propriety of speedily calling a spe
cial session of Congress lor the purpose of ascer
taining the will of tlie people in regard to ihe Joint
Resolutions just adopted bv the Congress of the
United States, ami with the further purpose of act
ing upon this important subject bv a convention of
the people of'Texas, according to the provisions of
our constitution.
II th. That we recommend lo the people of Tex
as the propriety of their immediately convening in
their respective counties, declaring Ilieir sentiments
upon these deeply interesting questions in primary
assemblies, aid indicating such preliminary steps
as they may deem necessary and expedient in this
great crisis of our national existence.
The meeting was then addressed, in answer to
the call made upon them by Dr. Branch T. Archer,
Gin. Hugh McLeod, .Mr. Thomas AT. Joseph, Mr.
Win. H. Rhodes, and Col. .if, 15. A/enaril.
The question was then put by the President,
“shall the preamble and resolutions be adopted.”—
When a unanimous response in the affirmative,
was given. It was*fhen moved and carried that a
committee of five he appointed to write an address
to the citizens of Texas; and on motion, the Chair
was added to the Committee, which was according
ly named, to consist ol the following gentlemen,
•Messrs. \V. Richardson, J. T. Dosweil, T. M. Jo
seph, 3S rii. li. Rhodes and T. I*. Anderson.
On motion by Mr. P. G. Merrit, it was ordered
that the friends of Annexation be requested to
make an illumination throughout the city 00 Satur
day evening, tiie 22d inst. 011 motion, the meeting
then adjourned sine die.
MEMUCAN HUNT, President.
A. C. Hyde, Secretary.
From the Georgia Journal.
BALDWIN SUPERIOR COURT.
Last week, our Superior Court was in
session, and disposed of many important
cases, in some of which the State was
deeply interested. We shall refer to a
few of tltem.
In the case of the State vs. William
Searcey, charged with the murder of Tho
mas Fuller, there was a mistrial. The
jury to try the case were empannelled on
Thursday morning, nmi tlie Judge deliver
ed his charge to them on Thursday night
about half yast 10 o’clock. The Counsel
for Prisoner, were Messrs. Cone, Harris
& Day, Sanford, and Johnson—F<>r the
Stale, Messrs. Kenan & Rockwell, and
the Solicitor General, J. M. Asliurst, Esq.
After the evidence closed, hut two speech
es were made—on the one side, by Messrs.
Sanford and Cone, anil on the other hy I
Messrs. Kenan and Ashurst, The jury
remained out until Saturday morning
about 11 o’clock, when, failing to a»ree
upon a verdict, they were discharged.
In the ease of the St,-tie vs. the Securi
ties of Sinclair, late Commissioner of the
Deaf and Dumb, a verdict was returned
for the Securities. Counsel fur the State.
Messrs. Hansell an I Sanford, and for the
Securities, Messrs. Harris & Day, Kenan
At Rockwell, and Judge Longstreet.
In that of the State, vs. the securities of
Thomas Haynes, late Treasurer of Geor
gia, a verdict was returned against the se
em il its of about S9OOO. This case was
prosecuted by the Solicitor General, J.
M. Ashurst, Esq., Messrs. Hardeman,
Kenan & Rockwell, and defended bv
Messrs. Cone, Sanford, and Harris &
Day.
A pardon has been granted by the Pre
sident to Captain Sang«ter, found guilty of!
assaulting John Quincy Adams, ami sen
tenced to a fine of SIOO, and one month’s
imprisonment. Mr. Adams, and the Judge
ol the Court signed a petition to the Pre
sident for his pardon.
PASSAGE OF THE TEXAS ACT.
We extract from the Globe, a very re
markable article under this title. It is a
defence of Mr. Benton for his course on
the Texas question, and worthy of tht
attention and study of our readers.
No press in the Democratic Party has
yielded more for the harmony of its mem
bers, than the Federal Union. We shall
not soon forget the astonishment produ
ced in our minds on seeing Mr. Benton’s
unnecessary, and exceedingly injurious
publications on the subject of annexation
during the pendency of the Presidential
election, and alter Mr. Clay had thrown
himself into the great breach it was cal
culated to produce in his party. We have
not forgotten the run these productions
had in the federal newspapers, and ihe
desperate grasp made on them by the
whig party, to raise themselves from the
state of prostration into which they were
thrown. The injury produced to the De
mocratic cause cannot now be known ;
thiit they were the turn-scale which lost
us Tennessee, weheve not a doubt. All
this we witnessed, “more in sorrow, than
in anger.” YVe witnessed with these
feelings, the gathering storm of public in
dignation at the West, which was risingto
overwhelm Mr. Benton with nil his tal
ents, and all his determination; and we
saw with mingled emotions, the sturdy
oak, bending as 1 lie reed before it, the
great champion of our rights to Texas
as he represents Iximself, sliding to his former
position as a tree which had been uprooted,
poorly and imperfectly planted to wither
in the position in which it formerly nour
ished. There can be no doubt of the foot,
that Mr. Benton’s popularity with his
party has received a terrible shock, and
we have not the slightest objection to the
diligent attention of the Globe lo its duty,
of healing wounds thus caused. To re
sume our figure, we tire pleased to see the
most powerful laborer in the part}*, wftli
his great watering engine saturating 11 it*
pan bed earth around the toots of the great
tree under which lit* has so often taken
shelter.
But the Globe is not content to pour out
its waters of healing,and restoration alone.
Other and taller trees tire in the forest,
and they must ho hewn down. They
must not obstruct the winds, or the light
of Heaven. Mr. Benton is excused, be
cause of “the attempt of Mr. Tvler lo
identity this great measure with himself
at a lime which rendered such embodi
ment final lo its success.” “It was mani
fest to the Tyler administration, win n the
treaty was thrown into the Senate—that
the federal parly, dominant in that body,
would, under no circumstances pass it.”
Well, this excuse may pass for what it is
worth. Mr. Tyler’s unpopularity with
the whig party, may do for an excuse of
Mr. Benton, a democrat, to go against
every thing coming from him; and there
tiie matter may rest as long as it will. We
cannot join the wliigs in shouting hosannas
to conduct so inconsistent with every de
mocratic feeling. Yet all this would not
have failed out a word from us, for that
paper was thus far on its own peculiar
ground.
Thus continues the Globe—“ There
were other ingredients ‘thrown in by Mr.
Tyler’s Minister' to defeat the* measure,
(of annexation,) It was made to sub
serve the principle of slavery, not only as
an existing institution, but a rightful thing
abstractly, arid to be advanced with or without
the Union!l These circumstances, put
the badge on the measure as presented by
Mr. Tyler’s administration, which called
forth Mr. Benton’s opposition to it.”
Now, what are the facts? The treaty
made by Mr. Tyler contained nothing on
the Subject of shivery, and was for this
reason opposed by Southern Whigs. Mr.
Benton’s opposition to it was avowed be
fore Mr. Calhoun’s letter to Mr. King
was published, and therefore some other
cause for his opposition must he sought.
Disguise can be of no use in this matter.
The livalship of party leaders is nothing
new, and that which exists between Mr.
Benton and Mr. Calhoun is sufficiently
known. Mr. Calhoun’s letter to Mr.
King was an argument to the French Go
vernment against joining with England in
a crusade against slavery, and especially
against lending itself to the rapacity of
that government in regard to Texas. This
argument, unanswerable as it is, discus
ses the subject of slave labor, and espe
cially, the great value of the labor done in
tropical climates to the commerce of the
higher latitudes. Thus the Texas ques
tion becomes a matter of deep interest to
the civilized world, and France of all
countries, the last which should wink at
the monopoly about to be attempted by
Great Britain.
It was for tlie abolitionists of the North,
and not the Globe, to raise a hue and cry
over this letter. It had nothing to do with
the question before the Senate. That
question, the Tyler treaty, was a great
deal more free from all reference to slave
ry than the resolutions for annexation, for
which Mr. Benton finally voted. Mr.
Calhoun had no opportunity of giving his
reasons in favor ol the treaty, or of annex
ation. We regret 1 lint he had not —for
we should then have seen an argument
woithv of the subject. His letter to Mr.
King, considered tin* greatest State paper
of the agp, is confined to the reasons
which should govern foreign governments
in their policy on this great question. It
is unjust to torture it to the purpose of
widening the breach of public feeling be
tween the North and the South. It is
unjust to torture it into an argument :.a
favor of slavery in the abstract, Ibr it is no
such thing. It is a great light however,
and cannot he hidden. Feebler minds
are excited, and the passions so discredi
table to our nature inflamed. Mr. Cal
houn cannot retire from office as other
men. His high attributes forbid it. The
haw ks must have something to rob of its
plumage. He cannot be a private man.
Federal Union.
Failures are taking place in New York.
, From the „Y. f. TANARUS,.,,, c
Explosion of a Bomb s/aU—n
Accident.— Monday afternoon 1 " and
clock, a Mr. Duvall, a black ’
I respected by his neighbors and'/'’
time occupying a shoo i,Vp* , ra k
get out the .contents 0 f *
exploded, doing immense injury
sing a great loss of life J c a
On hearing of the accident, Wc rp
jCd to the place, and reached there?
So clock. Air immense crowd ? ba
sembled in Charlton and the Jighbi *
streets, and a deep solemnity had
upon all. We were admiYi 1 • Beu ' (
Duvall’s shop, and there a sinM 1 ? 0 51
ed itself beyond our power of de-^^ 1
Under a sheet lay Mr. Duvill sCr, P tlo
wreck, his arms blown off’ his’ \ Perfe
ously injured, and his person dreflm
disfigured. On a board near hi “
the corpse of Mr. Price, his hr- mW|
from the skull, and his face cold
lid. It was a spectacle to arouse JI
feeling of humanity and to impress i IS a
lul moral upon the living. s av
Such was the excitement and confusir
ot the scene that it was impossible
arrive at all the facts. The Coroner!
iii’t yet arrived, though summoned J*
ally hours previously. c
] As tar as we could ascertain the m
state ol things, it appeared that Mr. Di
: vail had purchased some bomb shell
; w Inch had been found at Sandy [fj,
but whether from the sand of the bes
Jor ironi the water, we could no, £
\ Ml j D,na . l1 ’ 11 set ‘")3, was on the sidewn
i nilea vonugio getoutthe powder of a
sai l . hnt whether with a stick ori r , m -.v
not known. Wnen it exploded, it not 0I
ly destroyed him hut a Mr. [Vice, w j
had stopped to get some work done’at h
sh,, i \ l i l,H 1 ’ ,,,ck 1 ,:,rl “I his head w.
completely blown off! A young lad nan
id Bio lei ic was destroyed, and an mill,
lutinii* man who was delivewng h-tter<t <
cirin! a 1s in t lit* neighborhood was al-
Li !li*il. A horse standing in a cart in and
sirei l, wasifi'stii,yeti,and it was repute
I that two persons whose names we foul
nu learn, also lost their lives at the san
moment.
’flic windows of the houses in thestro
were shattered, and we saw some ah
zii’is at woik repairing the damage?.'
piece of the shell was thrown a great di!
t‘ini*e into a neigliboiing street, but h.q
|>'i.v did 110 injury. No casually has o<
cur red for many years in this city, whir
lias been so fatal to human life as ihi;
ami the sympathies of the public are nan
excited by the untimely fate nf these ver
respectable and esteemed persons.
It is said Mr. l’olk and his Cabinet ai
behaving veiy discreetly, and acting ver
properly, about removals and appoin
meuts. \\ e take it for granted that
number of offices will change haulsalie
a while, but that is no reason why thus
win, so hunger after office that they nm
needs run to W ashiugion after them
should always be the successful nppi
] cants. It was well to send them limni
and after sui veying all the ground, tur
out those who are net deserving, or wh
have been uniformly opposed to the piiii
jciples and policy of llieadministraiion.-
NVc differ with many about what iscaile
“proscription.” \\ hen the* peop'ecliang
the head of an administration, tliut is
very clear indication that they also do
sire a change in the body. We helitv
it to ho radically impossible Ibr the tna
A'hiuery of government to work wel
when one part goes one way and aiintlit'
part another way. Subordinates inolfic
are not so apt to do their duty with ulac
ritv and promptitude, when they sr
working under those they have political);
opposed, and would he glad to see dis
graced. There is even danger as to tli
fidelity of such. We, therefore, neve
did regard it as “ proscription” to removi
men from office, who are politically np
posed to the existing administration. I
is true, some officers are so employed
that neither the services nor tlii office
can reasonably come in conflict with ih*
policy of the administration, nor exercisi
a deleterious influence upon the public in
terests. In such eases, we consider tha
removals are not called lor as a matte
of policy, and when made, are genera:!;
governed by feeling rather than nece'S
ly. But in> political opponent has all l
right to complain about being romom
from office, since it lias become ih« «-t
lied and recognised practice ol bolh
great parties of the country to changed' l
subordinates whenever the head (, l ■ '
government is changed. [Kentui ly
man.
Animal Magnetism. —Dr. Y\ xi. p* lK J H
hut too well known in this section, a
recenfly been edifying and astonishing 1
good people of Charleston with eclal
and experiments illustrating the (-so called
science of Animal-Magnetism. -
pondent of the Courier says, at t
ofan evening’s exhibition, he th 111
lieve there was a single sceptic < •
The Dr. left sceptics plenty and chbtoi
all along through Georgia, l,ut J lo u
and landlords tire sometime?
kind,” he still wanders on,
nelnrious c/illing, clK'Htiiig « ,n< \ | )U a
honest people, and imposing >■» <•
press, “pass him round.
7 1 ,He lsD
Prescott the Historian. 1 a c ot
February Mr. Prescott wasekete * (
lesponding member of ll* e • ca( |e
Franc e, under die division of l ie j
my of Moral and Political L,e _ ’ -p(,
the Section of General '» ' • a „;
honor was never tx lore ‘-•on p ran |dif
native of New England, exc* p
Mr. Prescott was to succeed f|h
Fernandez de Naveretie, isetr ® v / nera bl
Spanish Academy of H
and admirable man, who died la*
Madrid at a very advanc'd ‘ '
behind him none in Europe v.th a»
knowledge of Spanish hismr}.