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“The price of Liberty is eternal vigilance.”
SENATE OF THE U. STATES.
We believe that the complexion of the 1 -
Mted States Senate, for two years, from flic
4th cf March next, will be as follows.
Adm. Opp.
Maine —Messrs. Holmes awl Sprague 2
Vermont —Seymour and Prentiss, 2
Ntv Hampshire —Bell and Hill. 1 I
Massachusetts —Webster and Sillabee 2
Rhode Island —Knight and Robbins 2
Connecticut —Foot and Tomlinson 2
Yew York —Dudley and Marey , 2
A". Jcrtcy— Dickerson &e Frelinghuj sen 1 1
Pennsylvania —Barnard and Wilkins 2
Jk&tivitre —Clayton ami Naudain, 2
Miry land —Smith and Chambers 1 1
llrginia —Tazewell and Tyler, 2
Forth Carolina —Brow n and Manguin'd ,
Youth Carolina —Hayne and Miller 2
Georgia —Troup and Forsyth, 2
. ilahama —King and Moore 2
Mississippi —Kllis and Poindexter 2
J/oUsiana —Livingston and Johnson 1 1
Tennessee— White and Grundy, ,2
Kentucky —Bibb, one seat vacant, 1
Ohio —Buggies and llwingj "2
Indiana —Hendricks, one seat vacant 1
Illinois —Kane and Robinson, 2
Missouri —Bc ntor.and Buckner 2
2d 18
Should Kentuckarul Indiana elect anti-ad
ministration Senators, there w ill be a majo
rity of 8 for the administration otherwise, the
majority will be 1 0. \V C have placed Messrs,
lazewelland Tyler lor the administration,
notwithstanding the stand taken by them m
the last session of Congress.
Washington*, April 18,1831.
• Sir: In communicating to me, this morn
ing, the information of the resignation of the
Secretary of State and Secretary of War, to
gether with the reasons which bad induced
the loriner to take this step, you were pleased
to observe that this proceeding was made
known to inc as one of those whom you had
associated with you in the administration of
the Government, and you suggested that I
would, after a few days reflection, have a fur
ther conversation with you on this subject.
Euf, in recurring to the brief remarks made
-.t the time, as well as to the letter ofresigna
tion of the Secretary cf State, which you
v. ere good enough to submit for inv perusal, 1
.have not been able to ascertain what particu
lar matter was intended to ho proposed for
my reflection, as connected with this event.
Under these circumstances, and being de
sirous of avoiding the possibility of misappre
hension as to your views, I w ould respectful
ly inquire whether the measure adopted bv
the Secretary of State and of War, is deemed
to involve considerations on which you -ex
pect a particular communication from me,
and if so, of what nature.
I have the honor to be, respectfully your
obd’t sen t- S. l). INGHAM.
To the President of ihc U. S.
Washington, April 19, 1831.
Sir: I am gratified to find mvsclf entirely
relieved, by the distinct explanation at the in
terview to which you invited me to-day, from
the uncertainty as to the oltjoct of your com
munication yesterday, which I had referred to
in my note ot last evening; and have to make
my acknowledgements for the kindness with
which you have expressed your satisfaction
with the manner in which 1 have dischrged
the duties of the station to w hich you had
thought proper to invite me, and your confi
dence in my administration of the Treasury
department. I beg leave however, to add, in
my own justification, for not following the ex
ample of the Secretary of State and Secretary
of War, in making a voluntary tender of the
resignation of my office as soon as I was ac
quainted with theirs, that I was wholly un
conscious of the application to thyself of any
of the reasons, so far as I was apprised of them,
which had induced them to withdraw from
the public service. It, therefore, seemed to
be due to my own character, which might
otherwise have been exposed to unfavorable
imputations, that I should find a reason for
resigning, iu a distinct expression of your wish
to that effect; this wish has now been frankiv
announced and has enabled me to place my
retirement on its true ground.
I have, therefore, the honor of tendering to
you my resignation of the ollice of Secretary
of the Treasury of the United States, which
you will be pleased to accept, to take effect
as soon as my services may he dispensed with
consistently with your views of the public in
terest.
I seize the occasion to offer you my thanks
for the many testimonials I have rccievcd of
your kindness and confidence during our offi
cial connexion, and especially for the renew
ed assurance this day of the same sentiment.
S.D INGHAM.
His Excellency Andrew Jackson,
President U. Staten.
Washington, April 20th, 1831.
Sir: Late last evening I hud the honor to
recefljgvour letter of that date, tendering your
resignaljon-of the office of Scc.of theTrcasurv.
When the resignations of the* Sec. of State
and Sec.of War were tendered. I considered
fully (he reasons offered, and all the circum
stances connected with the subject. After
nature deliberation, I concluded to accept
those resignations. But whrti this conclu
sion was come to, it was accompanied with a
conviction that i must entirely renew my
Cabinet. Its members had been invited by
me to the stations they accepted—it hail
come together in great harmony, and as a unit.
Under the circumstances in which I found
myself, I could not but perceive the propriety
of selecting a Cabinet composed of entirely
new materials, as being calculated, in this re
spect at least, to command public confidence
and satisfy public opinion. Neither could I
lie insensible to the fact that, to permit two on
ly to retire, would be to afford room for un
just misconceptions and malignant misrepre
sentations concerning the influence of their
particular presence upon the conduct of pub
lic affairs. Justice to the individuals whose
public spirit bad impelled them to tender
their resignations, also required then, in iny
opinion, the decision which I have stated,
Iwwi v'vrj>ainfill! to my own feeling.*, it became
THE MACON AHY EltTlsEit, ANl> AGIiiCLETLHAL AND MERCANTILE INTELLIGENCER.
necessary that f should frankly make known
to you the whole subject.
In accepting of your resignation, it is with
groat pleasure that I bear testimony to the in
tegrity and zeal with which you have inan
| aged the fiscal concerns of the nation. In
| your discharge of ail the duties ofyour office,
i over which Iliad any control, I have been ful
| ly sat.stied; and in your retirement you carry
I with you my best wishes for your prosperity
and happiness.
It is expected that you will continue to dis
charge the duties of your otHce until a suc
cessor is appointed.
1 have the honor to be, with great respect,
your most obedient servant,
ANDREW JACKSON.
Sami . I). Ingkvm,
Secretary of the Treasury.
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'.L'jmA-iu ...
— “ These are counsellors
“That feelingly persuade mo what I am.”
From the Avgusta Constitutionalist.
The Superior Court of Scriven county is
now in Session, Judge Law presiding! We
are informed that there are two fruitful foun
tains of litigation in the county, in the waters
of which most of the gentlemen of the Bar
are refreshing themselves—vidclicit :—the
claims el halt hundred cousins to a large es
tate, the proprietor of which not long since de
parted this life intestate ; and, strange to say
though the question involved is one of law
merely, and not very difficult of solution, a
very general interest is taken in it, and many
are tbe guesses and speculations respecting
the probable decision of the Court. If tbe
matter were submitted tea Lawyer he would
probably soon make up his mind, and decide
in the course of half an hour, upon the rights
ot the parties :—but as appeals from Courts
of Ordinary are submitted by special statute
to the Judge and the Jury —the discussion of
this plain case may and perhaps will, occupy
one or more days. The present are the gold
rn days of forensic disputation; for now the
Lawyer may expatiate in a wide and flowery
and fruitful field—he may gather flowers and
strew them before the Jury, or offer the fruits
of studious hours to the Court—but the iron
age must come,when a denser population and
increased litigation will narrow down the
speeches of the gentlemen of the long robe to
dry statement ot facts and references to the
law. We do not know that this brief wit sea
son is to be longed for, although the dispatch
of business will certainly derive benefit from
its coming. It is certain, that whenever ig'ade
the long harangue of the lawyer is listened to
and it it have any tiling of cloqucig e and
knowledge—shall pass into the geireral mass
to enliven & enlighten it. We think we have,
remarked that sentiments favorable to Con
stitutional liberty and apt quotations and il
lustrations from scripture, generally produce
a striking effect tqion Juries and the surroun
ding crowd—and wc canot doubt that the la
bors of the Bar are not confined in their happy
influence to parties litigant alone. But we
forget—it was our purpose to speak of anoth
er class of cases besides those existing bc
aween the disputatious cousins. 'These cases
arise out of the levy of an Execution—upon
what think you gentle reader ? Not upon
goody and chattels—nor simply upon houses
and lands—but upon—a whole City—Hotels,
Courthouse—Church and all l —lt iy indeed a
serious truth, that the bold attempt is now ma
king to bring Jaoksonboro’—a town bearing
the name of one of our distinguished patriots
and the seat of justice of Scriven county under
the hammer of the Sheriff! We need "not say
that hostile claimants have sprung up, thick
as armed iucn from the sown Dragon's teeth
and the contest will be carried on in tlie most
spirited manner. Several of the questions of
law have been already decided by the Court
in favor of the Plaintiff in Executions—but
the facts are for the Juries, and these being
of the vicinnage may be possessed by a more
than Thomas hsrdnessofbelicf—-in the justice
of the Plaintiffs claims. It sometimes happens
that the Court and Jury, like Mr. Bulwer’sSi
aincse Twins,though closely connected—have
diffe rent inclinations and pull different ways.
Which will obtain the ascendancy and control
in the Borough cases remains to he seen.
In the case of Xorris vs. Wade —Judge
Law has decided that where notes are given
for the hire of a slave for a year,and the slave
dies within the year—the hirercan claim no
abatement of thcsumduc iqion the notes. But
it had been otherwise, if the hirer had, in his
contract, guarded himself against the contin
gency of the death of his slave.
In the Ejectment ease of Nix and Green.
the Judge also declared, that the Locus in
quo might be proved not only by the resurvey
of the county surveyor or other documentary
evidence—but by parole—by witnesses- who
know the situation and boundaries ofthcland
and can speak to them with reasonable cer
tainty.
In the same case it was also held that, al
though a trustee cannot generally purchase
the trust property, yet the trustee may pur
chase from Cestui que Trust, where tlic latter
is full age, and the transactions is fair. Feme
Coverts and infants cannot convey to them
their trustee.
It was also ruled that parole evidence can
not be received to contradict or vary a deed
—but where Si 000 is mentioned on the face
of the deed, itt may he shewn that there was
another sum agreed upon between the parties,
or that natural love and affection entered in
to the consideration of the deed.
Also—that a conveyance from Cestui que
Trust to Trust when bona fide made, operates
to discharge the Trust, and to vest the title in
the Trustee.
Also—the Court of Ordinary has no power
to divide and distribute real stnto—but it is
competent to parties of full age to consent to
a distribution and division of their property
without reference to any Court.
In another case the Judge decided that
where Plaintiff in Execution is dead—it is un
necessary to make his representative a party
to a claim case.
‘.'•-ho wasyouthful,’ said a Lawyer, ‘as love,
beautiful as an angel, sir 1 —(it was on a pc
tion for twdivorce)— -and virtuous sir—as •ir
tuous—as—as could be expected-
“ The Herald of a noisy world.”
Front the Charleston Courier of Thursday last.
THREE DAYS LATER.
The sltip. Othello, Tucker, arrived at Sa
vannah on flic 26th instant, brings London
and Liverpool papers to the 27 th ult.
From our own files, received by this arri
val, and from a slip from the office of the
Georgian , we have made the extracts which
will he found below.
The London Courier of the 25th ult. eulo
gizes a speech made by Earl Grey, the pre
ceding evening, ou the Irish Reform Bill, in
reply to the Marquis of Londonderry. It is
represented to have been a bold avowal of
principles, which are dear to Englishmen,
and which ought to bo considered by the ar
istocracy, as-aguarantee against revolution.
His Lordship is represented to have taken a
correct and popular view of the influence
which his order ought to have in society ;
and declared himself attached to it, only be
cause he believes that, by the exercise of that
influence, the welfare of the community at
large is promoted.
The Duke of Wellington is stated to have
admitted, in the course of the discussion of
that evening, that the majority of the people
were in favor of the Reform Bill, hut assert
ed that this was no ground for passing it.
The Morning Post states that Lord Grey
threw out something like a hintj that Parlia
ment would bn dissolved—and adds, “we
cannot believe that the King will ever con
sent to place this empire in the state in which
wc see Belgium and Holland.”—But the
Courier asserts, “that the King, on receiving
the news of tho division, told his Minister
that lie would cheerfully do whatever they
might consider conducive to the success of
the great measure, whi!i they had brought
forward.”
The Paris Messager dcs Chambres of the
24th ult.contained a statement that the Aus
trians intended to limit their intervention in
Italy to Modena and Parma, and not to in
terfere with Bologna.
The* same paper says—“A letter from Nan
tes of the 20th inst. states that a communica
tion Irom the Minister of Marine, addresed to
the Chamber of Commerce of that town, an
nounces that the friendly relations between
our Government and other Powers, will al
low foreign commerce to be proceeded in
without any apprehension. This intelligence
has produced a lively sensation on the Ex
change, and it is stated that several merchants
immediately manifested aq intention of re
suming the course of their commercial enter
prises.”
Accounts from Turin represented the King
of Sardinia as dangerously ill; in conse
quence of which a Regency had been formed.
All the members ot the Bonapartp family
that remain at Rome* (says a Milan letter of
the 16th inst.) arc narrowly watched by the
police, on account of the sons of Louis having
taken part in the revolution; and even Car
dinal Fesch, notwithstanding his inviolability
as a prince of the church, has not been ex
cepted from this measure.
LONDON, MARCH 25.—A German mail
arrived this morning with the Allgemeine
Zeitung to the 20th instant, the Austrian Ob
server to the 15th, the Nuremberg Correspon
dent to the 18th, and the Journal de Frank
fort to the 19th. 'The accounts from Vienna
state that orders had been issued for a levy of
50,000 recruits in all the provinces of the
empire (excepting the kingdom of Hungary.)
A report is mentioned from Lemberg, in Gal
licia, that by anew ordinance of the Imperi
al Government, the Austrian frontiers were to
be opened to all unaimed fugitives from Po
land. The accounts from Italy mentions that
the vanguard of the Imperial troops entered
Modena on the 9th, as well as the Duke,
amidst loud acclamations, and it is added the
insurgents “appear to be very good tempered,
and no friends of bloodshed.” At Vienna on
the 13th inst. the 4 per cent. Metalliques
were 68f, and the Bank Shares 9-43. From
Maycnce, it is stated, that the Dutch Pleni
potentiary had attached his assent to the reg
ulations relative to the free navigation of the
Rhine, but with the condition that Antwerp
should be excluded from the Treaty, and re
quiring that the free navigation from the
Scheldt into the Rhine, should be the subject
of future negotiation. ,
FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.
Office of th&Gcorgian, )
Savannah, April 36—12 o’clock M. $
LATEk FROM ENGLAND.
By the fast sailing ship Othello, Captain
Tucker, we have received files of Liverpool
papers to Saturday, the 26th, and London to
Sunday, the 27th ult. both inclusive. The
Othello lias been absent but 65 days.
These papers contain very little intelli
gence of importance, being filled principally
with the proceedings of Parliament on the
Reform Bill. The Reform Bill for Ireland
was brought in on the 24th, and read a first
time; the second reading was fixed for the
18th of April; the opponents of Lord Rus
sell's bill were sanguine of its defeat, in con
sequence of two of the majority having declar
ed they will vote against it.
In Poland addresses have been published
from the Government and from the Chamber
to the army, thanking it for its noble exploits
anc predicting its ultimate triumph.
On the 24th in Ixrndon, a public meeting
took place at the Mansion House, to raise a
subscription’for the relief of starving districts
in Ireland. The Lord Mayor presided. The
meeting was addressed by many eloquent and
benevolent individuals, who most forcibly
described the dreadful state of misery and
deprivation sustained in Ireland. Private
lottcrs were handed about the room, whence
it appeared that several persons had died from
starvation, and at this present time in the
six parishes of Westport alone, there were
31,904 persons wholly without food.
The London Times of the 25th, says—
“ Private accounts have been received to-day
from Cadiz of the 10th inst. which, if they
may be depended on, dissipate all the hopes
entertained for the success of the Constitu
tional cause. Accordingto these* nearly the
whole of the party engaged in the first at
tempt on that city have been taken, and!
more than 400 of them have been put to death!
Gen.- Toijijos, it is believed, has e.---ap<
We are still, however, without any precise
details (fi the'subject.
The heroic stand irc.de by the Poles against
their formidable enemy, has given them a
moral strength in the eyes of Europe -that
may yet etxibie them to overcome their inva
ders. Diebtsch is represented in aii attitude
by no means enviable, among the morasses
of Block. We have ir the last Warsaw Ga
zette, a letter from Prince Lodychowski, to
the marshal, in answer to a hint lor the sur
render of Modly. The spirit iu which this
letter is written is worthy of the best days of
Poland, and John Sobicski was appointed to
bear it. The Prince thanks the Marshal for
his personal good opinion, and hopes to win
of so great a warrior, the still higher respect
due a soldier who has done his duty, lie re
jects w it# disdain the offer ef a composition,
and assures him that Modlin will hold out to
the last gasp in emulation of the glorious
thousands who have fallen victims to the
maintenance of national independence.
The Insurgents of Italy, in their craven
like submission to a handful of rnen, and their
erouch'ng at the sight of the eagle, are the
very contrast to the heroic men of Poland.
The latest arrivals from Ireland state the
commencement, on Monday, of the election
for Clare, and a duel, arising out of it, be
tween Mr. R. Mahon and Mr. W. Smith,
M. P. for Ennis. Neither gentleman was
injured bv the first fire, and the parties shook
hands. It is supposed that Mr. Maurice ()’-
Connel will be returned. Michael Drohan,
tithe proctor to the Rev. Mr. Butler of Burn
church, Kilkenny, was barbarously murdered
on Monday, while on his way to serve tithe
process at Woolen Grange.
The House—ln and Out. —On Wednesday
morning at three o’clock, expresses were M ai t
ing in the neighborhood of the Palace Yard,
in the Strand, and other places. Under the
gallery continued crowded with Peers, Bish
ops, and amongst them a Royal Duke. Nor
did the roof of flic House escape—it was
bountifully supplied with ladies of rank, and
the wives and daughters of members, although
(most ungafiantly) they had no means of see
ing or hearing the “debates,” except through
the ventilators !
Letters from Vienna intimate the deep
sympathy felt by the Hungarians towards their
almost compatriots, the Poles. It is suppos
ed that a positive demonstration of their sym
pathy, of a kind not very agreeable to Aus
trians on the eve of breaking out. The
frontiers of Galicia are watched with the
most jealous care, to prevent the infection of
air tainted witJi the liberty of Poland. It is
feared that to inhale this breeze would brace
the sinows of the Hungarians to a desperate
effort.
The French papers of Tuesday, from which
wc gave as many extracts as necessary in
yesterday’s 'Times, contain accounts from the
north of Italy to the 10th inst. and from
Rome to the Bth. The Austrians had taken
possession of Ferrara, as well as Parma and
Modena. At Ferrara they had immediately
re-established the Papal Government, dissol
ved all the authorities created by the revolu
tion, and declared all acts void which had em
anated from the revolutionists. The persons
deprived of their places by the insurgents had
been restored, had been ordered to lav aside
their celors, and to deliver up their arms.—
Thus Austriain soldiers not only interfere in
the internal affairs of the Italian States, but
dictate in the most minute details, as if they
had the civil government and police entirely
in their own hands.
Letters fVom Rome state that the inhabi
tants daily expected the arrival of the revo
lutionary troops from Bologna. The tri-col
otir was seen from the towers of the city
float ing over the advancing force, and would
soon it was supposed, be planted on the sev
en hills, unless the Papal army showed more
courage and zeal than it had hitherto display
ed. The two sons of Louis Bonaparte, who
served in the ranks of the insurgents, had left
them and proceeded to Ancona to embark for
Trieste. The latter fact does not seem to
lend much credibility to the reports of the
great success or brilliant prospects of the
party whom they have joined. Cardinal Bcr
netti, in order to overawe the disaffected at
Rome, had announced the entrance of the
Austrian troops into the northern duchies.
Ireland. —The wretched peasantry of the
west have organized a system (peaceful, but
still most dangerous) of combination against
the landlords—have set a price on lands, and
though they do not resort to acts of \ iolcnce,
and have determined on abstaining from them
they take no land unless it will be let on their
own terms. The gentry will submit. The
evil which we hear is this ; scarcity at present j
stares us in the face ; the average stock of*
provisions, at least the poor man’s sustenance j
is not sufficient even with economy, to hold
out until the harvest. The country general
ly is flooded, tillage backwards —the peck of
March dust cannot be gathered —the harvest
must be late —and if, additionally, lands be
not taken and sown, a greater scarcity next
season will -be inevitable. On Wednesday
mornihg, fivb pieces of cannon and three
troops of the carbineers, from B< llincollig,
left Limerick for Ennis, to attend the Clare
election. Sir T. Arbuthnot and Major War
lnirton had already arrived at Clare, as com
mander and inspector general of the district.
Captains Smyth and Alarkam have been dis
charged from Kilmainham prison, by order
of his excellency the Lord Lieutenant. Six'
months of the time for which they were sen
tenced for the homicide of Mr. OOrady have |
been thus remitted. Mr. O’Hagan has also!
been discharged from the same prison, on a ‘
memorial from his prosecutor, Capt. Scott.— I
We have not learned whether Air. O’Hagan’s !
late partner in the Louth Free Press has sinii-!
larly experienced the clemency of the Irish
executive. Several commercial failures are
said to have taken place in Dublin. A re
markable case of forgery, wherein Airs. Arm
strong, the wife of a colonel, is accused olj
having forged her husband’s signature to ac-,
ceptahces'for an unknown amount, was sub
mitted to a police office examination on Alon-j
day last. The investigation is still proceed- 1
ing.
Russia. —A letter from St. Petersburg!!, in
the Algemcinc Zeitung, of the 16th inst- con
tains the following passage? :
The Emperor is resolved to incorporate the
Polish Kingdom with Russia, as a Province
o his great empire. This would be a merit
ed satisfaction given to the Russian nation.
It was, perhaps, originally an ill-judged pro
ceeding to atiaeh Poland to Russia, and yet
as independent of the Russian Government,
and to give it constitutional institutions, while
the form of government among us remai :ed
absolute. There was iu this a* contrast
which could net fail to excite mutual dislike,
and greatly contributed to the dreadful cufas
trophefof 1825.
Large sums cf money are daily sent to the
army, and the extraordinary military prepa
rations which continue to be made in the in
terior of the empire, excite a conjecture, that
after the suppression of the Polish revolution
our army will have another destination.
Four new divisions of 16,000 men each,
have lately commenced their march from the
interior of the army, to which recruits arc
sent daily, so that, by the end of April our
army in Boland (not deducting those who
have fallen in action) will amount to 250,000
men.
Corespondence -of the X. V. Journal of Commerce.
London, March 5, 1831.
I send you a parliamentary statement of
the duties established at different periods in
relation to the Colonial trade. In the last
column you will see the duties now under
contemplation. The bill itself has been post
poned from time to time, to make way for
matters of high and immediate interest. The
attention of all parties is at the passing mo
ment entirely absorbed by the debate on Puf
lainentiary reform, and its opponents are
equally sanguine that the result will conform
to their respective and conflicting hopes and
desires. But the King’s name, still “a tow
er of strength”—which the adverse faction
want, and ihe voice of the people, is most
unequivocally with the Ministry.
You will observe thatthe Marquis of Dar
lington, one of the most affluent in borough
property, has openly avowed his readiness to
sacrifice it for the improvement of the repre
sentation. The Marquis of Tavistock, eld
est son of the Duke Bedford, has pledged
himself for his own and his father’s determi
nation to make a similar relinquishment.—
Others will no doubt yield to the calls ofjus
tice and the force of example,
Perhaps it will surprise your countrymen
that Mr. Baring should separate himself from
his friends, and become an opponent of their
plan of reform. Bui the fact is, that lie can
not consent to yield Yip his borough of Car
lington, which no doubt cost him a large'surn,
and to which he is indebted for a great por
tion of his political consideration habitually
awarded hi* by Ministers. Besides, a pa
tent of nobility being more attainable with a
borough than without one, the latter is not to
be lightly thrown away,even if the owner have
a long purse left, before it has yielded its ac
customed harvest of hereditary honors.
Sir Robert Peel has at last taken his stands,
in uncompromising resistance to every spe
cies of reform. I say at last, because almost
up to the very moment of his rising in the de
bate, it was doubtful on which s'idc of the
question he would throw his weight. He has
chosen the side of his quondam friends, the
high church and state party, whose abuse and
contempt have been unsparingly showered
down upon him ever since he has lent his aid
to the emancipation of the Catholics of Ire
land and in returning to their embraces he is
received with a welcome as extravagantly
warm and.hearty as ever a repentant prodigal
had a rightto expect.
The Government are laying in Hemp, to a
greater amount than was avowed at first
They have bought 1500 tonsvsince the for
mcr contracts of which you were apprised,
and tho first sellers arc quite indignant at the
concealment practised upon them.
—“Collected news
“ Of these most brisk and gidd v-paeod times.”
A NEW PROJECT. "
The Indian question, being no longer ca
pable of use for the annoyance of the South,
our very good friends have hit upon another
expedient, namely, not to use any article
that is the product of slave labor! ! And
they have the impudence to avow their oh
ject to be, “/a bring about the desired change
in our Southern Suites.'' 1 Where is this in
fatuation to end ? Read what follows;
vve take it from a Philadelphia paper.
... & Co ‘ Journal.
J rle Goong. —W ilh this name vve have
noticed at one or two grocery stores, mer
chandize offered for sale, and’ have learned
that a large and respectable portion of our
fellow citizens, felt conscientiously scrupu
lous in purchasing and using articles that
were produced by slaves, lest they should
thereby give direct encouragement to slave
ry. Wc have been at a loss to ascertain how
sugar, molasses, coffee and cotton, could be
obtained in this city, without the labor of
slaves ; but it seems they are obtained, and
are offered lor Sale among others, by Mr.
Peiri n, at his grocery store, south east cor
ner of Third and Noble streets. Mr. P. has
sent us a sample of the sugar which he sells
among the free goods, and as we have not in.
quired into the merits of the question upon
which the refusal to use the products of sla
very rests, vve adopt a part of Mr. P’s. very
appropriate language accompanying the sam
ple :
“The great objection made by most per
sons to adopting the use of goods' of this de
scription, has been, that they come higher
than similar qualities of slave production.—
Heretofore this may have been the case, with
regard to the article of sugar, but the retail
ing prices of our present stock, wc consider
equal, as you will see by *he samples sent you.
1 lie other goods are on a par with those of
the common kind—so that this objectioinvill
no longer hold good.
“We have considered this os the most ef
fectual, and, at the same time, the safest plan
that can be adopted, to bring about the de
sired change in our own Souflsem States.
By this, Ihe free produce is brought into fair
and honorable competition with the slave
and a market is always open for the goods •
and the slave holder, finding that he" could
more readily dispose of his produce were he
to emancipate h;s slaves and hire them as free
men, would be induced to do so, at least from
selfish considerations, if be weir proinpti and by
no nobler motive—so that we think the sub
ject cannot be too strongly recommended to
the attention of the community at" large.
From th Philadelphia Ih llrtin.
The Map of busy life. —No less a person
than Bishop Horne remarks, when speaking
ol ihe labors to which we arc a slave, “The
follies, vices, ami consequent miseries of
multitudes, displayed in a newspaper, are so
many admonitions and warnings,so many bea
coins, continually burning, to turn others
from the recks on which they have been ship
wrecked. What more powerful dissuasive
irom suspicon, jealousy, and anger, than the
story'of one friend murdered in a duel? What
caution likely to he more effectual against
gambling and profligacy, than the mournful
relation of an execution, or the fate of a des
pairing, suicide? Y\ hat liner lecture on the*
necessity of economy, than an auction of cs
tales, houses, and furniture? ‘Talk they of mo
rals?’ There is no need of Hutchinson", Smith,
or Paloy. < >nly take a newspaper, and con
sider it well ; read it, anil it will instruct
thee.” The authority of a Bishop was not no
ecssary to convince every thinking man that
a newspaper is an invaluable appendage to
the domestic fireside—a companion which in.
structs when company and conversation an
not to he* come at. To the dialer, flu
trader and the merchant, more valuable ’tha,
a clerk—it truly teaches what follies may be
shunned, as well as what articles are in’ re
quest, What more useful L sson could t<>
taught than the one w hich in almost cvcrv
successive publication is promulgated—lmw
this Bank robber, after all his toil and cun
ning, is immediately defected—how the suc
cessful desperado who has attacked the mail
is, within twenty-four hours, in imminent
danger of hanging, The gradations of vice
with their punishments, arc all to be found in
a newspaper. Detection so regularly follows
crime, that one would think the* reader of a
good journal could scarcely be tempted to
forsake the paths of rectitude, when the chan
ces arc so monstrously against him; but alas!
for human nature, the sermons thus preached
though practical, seem to have very little
more weight than those of the pulpit; and the
two joined together, are unable to prevent
the increase of crime, though both arc un
doubtedly of service in preventing much
which would otherwise occur.
In considering the. benefits conferred bv
newspapers we must not omit the very great
facilities they confer on conversation. With
out them, conversation Would dwindle down
to the merest local chit-chat of an Indian vil
lage. Ghost stories and hobgoblins would he
introduced to prevent an actual famine of so
cial intercourse. Scandal would roam a small
village like a wild beast among tire defence
less hamlets of Africa. To become acquain
ted with the proceedings ofcongress,each man
must mantain a correspondent at Washington
to know the price of produce, every far
mer must visit the great cities in person at a
vast expense, or be liable to being cheated
by every simmer who prefers gain to telling
the truth. Without a newspaper, what would
the population of America know of the state
ot Europe—absolutely nothing more than the
vague and indistinct rumors propagated l>v
ignorant letter-writers, and retailed with still
gTontcr inaccuracy by ignorant hearers.
That a newspaper is a map of busy life, is
proved by the avidity with which a traveller
or an emigrant seizes on the journal of his na
tive village. It contains no valuable foreign
news, but he traces on its surface the rivers,
the little streams, and the tides w hich agitate
the little world he has left. In the advertise
ments he recognizes the hoys grow n to man
hood the failure of their fathers, and the
death of an old inhabitant or a young play
mate the marriage of a lady whom he left in
the undisturbed possession of half a dozen
hearts—she has gmne through the hedge and
taken a crooked stick at last! And the reflec
tions, the green remembrances which spring
up as those little spectacles arc presented to
the imagination, are worth the price of twenty
periodicals. A friend who has long been all
sent in Europe, w rites us thus pathetically
from Paris:—“l have been for some months
m Germany, and should still be there, were it
not for the absolute non-intercourse which
subsisted between me and home. Letters
addressed to my agents in Liverpool, found
ineirway, it is true, to my remote residence,
but an American newspaper, somehow or oth
er, never penetrated to mv retreat for four
dreary months. I could stand this depriva
tion no longer. After having been in Parir
twenty-four hours, I folt as if I had got very
near Philadelphia. At Galignani’.s invalua
ble reading room, I found a file of l’oulsoii’s
admirable “Advertiser,” and I felt as if! was
walking up and dow nmv native city I had
got hold of a brick, at least, of Philadelphia.
1 read every advertisement to the very last
one of a year old—deaths, marrrages, ship
news, prices of stock, and all’ If my friends,
who promised so faithfully, had only forward
oil a single file of Poulson’s paper, I should
st.ll he studying at my German University;
blit it is impossible to endure tho want of this
necessary of life."
Ihe difference of intelligence rvinccd be
tween a family of children who have no ac-
cess to a newspaper, undone where this cheap
and rational indulgence is permitted, has of
ten been remarked, and is perceptible to the
most causal observer. The advantages of all
classes are not vet however, sufficiently ap
preciated. Many neighborhoods are still un
provi (i with this solace for unoccupied
time. Books are invaluable adjuncts of a
newsnaper, hut the latter should come first,
and there is no fear that the former will no.
follow. Though editorial puff* Of books an
certainly not always to he depended on, how
can the reader know what hooks are publish
ed, without a newspaper? We have demon
strated au outline ol our own opinion of pub
ic journals, and must leave our readers to fill
up the picture for themselves.
Srrap of Biography —A biography of
Rohcspherrem an Irish paper concludes thus:
I his extraordinary man left no children be
hind except his brother trho teas killed e‘
tye same time.