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1 % & e c #? i S'. Vll'Jii')( jj* •‘What do you <\r .\'.:tha:i’s he ad. ■Doctor ■" >i a p;a::.*k>:.h.i.t Idy ik' other !"V' to a man (t m diemt . “I ditn t know, l*m sure,” r. pli.d the doe- ■ ctor, ** iit a ..: l uotic. dit | a.i: i■un rl . I t>r, tor. Liio wish you'd < x.unine it, i Fat:-! give yo;;r opinon on t .i. j.vt.” IS at ha n, a great jtiuiji of a 1 tty, W'c adorifd- I inglv eall.J i.i, ;,!ul and. or .! to tok• oil’ liis hat I so that the Doctor might examine the bumps [ 4t! his head, To tilts Nthin at lir-1 d.-mir r.T, rf ',Ti.iii ’.here is no use m it, for he had :;ct bumped Ins head never since moving-day, when lr* f II against a l:uii;>;>ust —hut no tv 3 t\vas all well. However, lie was prevailed upon by the promise of a lump of sugar to unbare his towy sconce, and soomit it to the inspection of the do tor. The lath r was un fortunately no piirenoloir -t, and alter - jui.it ing rapidly at. the sulj eel, told the mother; ’1 hat'he thouirlit her son’s liead was as round - srs a pumpkin. '“But tint isn't what 1 mean Doctor,” said ; 1 he mother, “1 wish you to examine the lumps, \ 1 UHtps, and cireundh-xioiis, and sec what the ! oy’s made lor. I can’t lu ip thinking he’s ii a. tic for something rothert andJ'vo tliouyht so for a long lime-'’ “1 haven’t the least doubt in the world, madam, but what you’re correct —but what he’s made lor in-particular, i! is' dillictilt to tell, l’erhaps lor a butcher, a tinker, or a pedlar—l know not—it is out of my province to determine.” “But don’t you think he is cut out for fiomi tiling great 1” “it may b.; so, ma’am, but lie is likely to he .spoilt in making up.” “Ah! now you’re yoking, Doctor.” “It’s no joke, I can assure you.” ‘•But, Doctor, you don’t examine into the --case.” “I can’t see into the case—it’sd lish thick.” “Fudge ! Doctor you wont take up the matter seriously .” “Oh, for that matter I’in perfectly serious madam—hut really—” “Come nearer, Nathan, so that the Doctor •<*an have a fair view of your head—a little nearer, my sen. Can you see it now, Doc tor ?” “Perfectly, perfectly,” said the Doctor, re soiling a little, as the boy drew near, scratch ing his head w ith great industry and zeal. “What do you think of it row, Doctor,” said the fond mother—“confess seriously, did you ever see any body’s head so eueelon <rf.” “Seriously then, Madam, I never dif? “ Aint it all kivered over, as twere—” “1 must say I never saw a head so covered oocr in my life,” said the doctor in a very equivocal tone, as the boy approached still .nearer and scratched vv.ith unabated zeal. ‘•Did you now, positively,” resumed the iond mother,” ever see such a living speci men?” “1 think I never did see such live specimens in all mv travels,” said the doctor with a sort of shudder.” “Come a little nearer, Nathan, so that the ■doctor con feel of your head.” “Excuse me there, madam, I begin to feel "very sensibly already.” “Why don’t you stir,Nathan? why do you oreep so.” “There is a stirring in his very hair, that rrtakis mine own to creep with sympathy” iFaid the doctor, recoiling a few-steps and growing unconsciously poetical. “I know you must be luirly astonished on a near view of his head,” said the mother de lightedly. “1 never was more so in my life,” return. <;d tlie man of medicine— “ Don’t you observe that his head is run ning over with bumps?” “It is indeed running over,” replied the doctor, with particular emphasis on the word Tunning. “Well, what do you think I’d better do tvitb uiin, Doetor?” “A tine-toothed comb is very efficacious in these cases,” said the doctor, as it were think ing aloud. “A tine-toothed comb?” ejaculated the mother. “Yes—that is—l mean—” “True—true—ha, ha, ha!—truo, the boy js a iittlo blowsy to day. (Jo and smooth down your hair, Nathan. But tell me, Doe tor, seiiouslv, what you’d advise me to put the hoy to?” “1 advise you to wash him up clean, mvk A thorough revolution in the outward affairs of his head, and then send him to school.” “And what do you think he’ll make, Doc tor? now tell me candidly.” “Why, madam, 1 think he’s as likely to make a blockhead as anv tiling.” “A blockhead indeed—but I see, Doc tor, you know nothing of phrenology. Please florid in your bill to-morrow morning. A Mockhea!, indeed V'^-Constellation. ‘ POrPIXG THE QUESTION.” Th-s subject, alike interesting whether it Ur considered retrospectively crin prospect, Ju occupied the pens of n'.eny, as doubtless it has at tiroes engaged the thoughts of a!!.— lint their modes of treating of it are not less dissimilar than, it common belief be accurate, taeir various ways of proceeding therein.— Vo cvii c- this let'the following example be r near, (t,wi;h ope ■ exhibited iu a former f oabe? of tiio Allas—[p. 41. vcl. I.] The ■ ’ harrassitK nt -rtf tiie subject appears in the f r sent cite to-have acted on the writer, even i.n. hs dt lib;tat, composition about it: f. g. * M :s :.ot this either that 1 mean to express.” —'h i we ; root oil to let him speak his own f Util.Kills. “ He re is tio more delicate rt p in life than t operation designated 1.-y the elegant J ifi.-c 1 have selected for (lie title of tnv prc i i.t Itici.l ration. Much winding and cau t on, and prewouS sotindipg, is ncccssurv ! 1 tit you h; ve rot a favour to ask of a great j j hi. It .is ten chances to one (hat he takes| i , HO 1-is head to consider your request ex t intact, rrd to make this" the pretext for f hi' " off wfi: t he t aturally considers a ilk r: otne Uj j t.iiage to bis steti—a man ffcfck ' ‘'..oi c.ti his poi.d oft cts. Put ! d v *. w* : ' ■ TiiE MACON _ADVKBTMi-ill. AND AGMCtLTURAI/ AND MERCANTILE INTELLIGENCER- risk you run in laying yours, if at (be mercy j ol a youug gipsy, loir.lt r ot fu.i and frolic than 1 any thing in lit: . Even trough she love you I •veil the who! -of In r little lyeurt, she po:s ss- j es a il.iw ot spirits, and woman's ready knack I at pres rvi.ug appearances; and though her he.'om may heave responsive to your stain.l in. ring talc, she will litre you cn with kind,! complacent loo!s, until you have told ‘vour pititul and then laugh in your face for your pains! It is not this cither that I mean to express. •Men ere not cowards because th *y see dis tinctly the danger that li .s before them.— 'Alien a person lias coolness sufficient to ap preciate its full ext> nt, he has in general ci ili r 11-pos.' don nough to hack out of the snip-, or it is inevitable, to march with due n r igi.atio.u'to meet h:s fate. In like tnanijf r, i! i-not that poor IMlgarlxk, the lover, has a clear notion (pt rsous in ins condition are rarely trouble ii with < h ar notions) of what a waits him, but he tec Is a kind of ■choking a -1 bout the Lu ck ot Ins heart, a hong-dog inclina j t ion to go backwards instead of forwards, a : cheek, a sudden step in all hi - functions. He 1 knows not liovv to lock, or w hat to say. His j plan, arranged with e.o much happy enthusi | asm, when sitting clone in his arm-chair, af- t r a good dinner, -and two or three glasses ot w ine, in the uncertain glimmering of twi light, w ith his feet upon the fender, proves quite impracticable. Either it has escaped liis memory altogether, or the eonver-.atkm perversely takes a turn totally different from that by which he hoped to lead the fair one ; from indifferent topics to thoughts of a ten derer complexion, and tints, by line degrees (lie watching, all the time, how she was af -1 fee ted, in order to be sure of liis bottom, be i tore he makes the plunge) to insinuate his. j confi suon, just at the moment that be'knows jit wy 1 be well received. J The desperate struggles & flounderingsby j which sonic endeavour to get out of their ein i harrassment arc amusing enough. We re* j member to have been much delighted the j liist time we heard the history-of the weeing of a noble lnid, now no moce, re lated. His Lordship was a uuwi of talents and enterprise, of stainless pedigree, and afair rent-roll, but the veriest slave of bashfulnets. Like all timid and quiet he was very susceptible ;.r.d very constant, as long as he was in the habit ofsecing the object sf liis ufikctic;;:; dai ly. lie chanced at the begin:?? of an Edin- burg winter, to lose Ins heart to Miss ; and as their families < re in habits of intima cy, he had frequent opportunities of meeting with In r. lie gazed and sighed incessantly— a vary Dumbiodikes, but that he !.a 1 a larger allowance of brain—be iollotvci her every where ; he felt jealous, uncomfortable, if she looked even civilly at another; and yet not withstanding the encouragement, afforded him by tiie lady, a woman of s; use, who saw what lus lordship would be at, esteemed biscliarac- 1 ter, #■ superior to girlish affectation, & made every advance consistent with woman’s delica cy—the winter,'was fading ■•into spring, and he had not vet got his month opened ! Mam ma at last lost all patience ; and one day, when his lordship was taking his.usual lounge in the drawing room, silent, or uttering an occasional monosyllabic, the .good lady ab-.i ruptly kft the room and locked fne pair in alone. When his lordship, on essaying to take his leave, discovered the predicament in, which be stood, a desperate fit of resolution seized him. 'Miss sat bending most assiduously over her needle, a deep blush on her check. Ilis lordship advanced towards her, but, loosing heart by the way, passed on in silence to the other end of the room. He returned to the charge, but again without ef fect. At last, nerving himsolflike one about to spring a powder mine, he stopped short before her—‘Miss , will you marry me?’—‘With the greatest pleasure, my lord,’ was the answer, given in a low, somewhat timid, but unfaultering voice, while a deeper crimson suffused the face of the speaker.— And a tight good wife she made to him. Some gentlemen, equally nervous, and un aided by such a discriminating and ingenious mamma, have recourse to the plan of wooing by proxy. This is a system which l ean-by no means recommend. * * * Day, the philosopher, had a freak of educa ting a wife for himself. lie got two orphan girls intrusted to his care, on entering into recognizances to educate and provide for them. One proved too mulish to make any. thing of. The other grew up every thing lie could have wished. And yet he gave up the idea of marrying her, because she one day purchased a handkerchief more gaudy than : accorded with his philosophical notions. Of course, it never came to a declaration. I wish it had, that one might have seen with what degree of grace a man could divest hit? self of the grave and commanding characters of papa and pedagogue, to assume the insinuat ing deportment of the lover. There is a set of men, whose success in wooing—and it is unfailing—l cannot com prehend. Grave, emaciated, sallowing di vines, who never look the person in the face whom they address—who never speak above their breath—who sit on the utmost edge of thcirchairs, a full yard distance from the din ner-table! I have never known one of these scarecrows fail in getting a good and a rich wife. How it is, Heaven knows ! Can it be that the ladies ask them. One thing is cer tain, that I myself have never been able to ‘Pop the question.’ I.OPtD TIMOTHY DEXTER. For one to bear the title cf a Lord in these United States is so unexpected and singular an affair, that every reader, wo presume, will recollect to have heard of the individual thus designated. The causes for which lie \vns thus “gazetted” by his neighbors, were, as is probably known to most persons, h s great wealth, and ostentatious display of style. His personal history, and the strange accidents, as they would seem, to which he was piinci pally iudi bted for his fortune, are perhaps less generally understood ; and to make the rentier acquainted with these, fwc beg to state that tor tin ir authenticity we rely on common report and the writer about to be quoted] and to present arspefimen of anew work— “Haverhill,” —we now copy the prin cipal part of the hero’s description and histo ry of his brother-in-law. “II" '.o° wry? a friendless boy, and made Ins w ay to the high dignity of a -shopkeeper solely by prudence, economy, and dexterity, in trathe, aided perhaps a little by cunning and overreaching. Born of parents the low - est of the low, vulgar, ignorant, and .deprav ed, iic h id, at a Very early age, shaken off the clogs imposed by his parentage and pov-j city, and stood forth conspicuous for a talent! which hade fair to give him riches. In the language of the country, he was known to be a ‘right smart lad,’ ‘a keen chap,’ ‘a real sha ver, all expression's declaring the popular opinion of Iris thrift and sagacity. His com mercial career may lie dated from his ninth birth-day. The nature, quantity, and value of the transaction w Inch developed his trading tact is characteristic, and deserves to he re - corded. if is first speculation was in bones —keel-bone s ; the quantity, half a Winches ter bushel. A year before this memorable era in the fortunes of Air. Dexter, a button mould maker, travelling through th a v illage in quest of the raw tnetcrial of liis trade, em ployed the hoy Timothy to collect i*. promis ing to give him half a crown per Winchester bushel for all lie; should collect. The boy in stint!}-set about the t-wk, and uawoarediv employed himself until he had, as he suppos ed, acquired the: property iu half a crown.— j But he was doomed to have his hopes pros- I trated ; liis employer disappeared, leaving the bones in the bands of their unreuxuncrat- Jod collector. It was not in the; nature of the | prudent boy to tiirow aught away, and it was ejuite as foreign to it to give any thing away which might, by any the remotest possibility, become valuable, and he deposited the bones in one of the dark nooks of hie father’s garret, where they remained undisturbed for many months. If so happened, in some moment of boyish intercourse, that an act of more then usual kindness in an associate melted liis heart, and, to show his sense of the favour, lie gave him his honor ! Repentance, sincere and fervent, soon followed. The occurrence of which 1 am about to speak was minuted down by him as a warning against the indul gence of grateful feelings in after years, and was the cause, it was said, why it was the last gccctous action he was ever known to perform. The button-maker returned, and renewed liis off. r. His prodigality, and the loss he had sustained by his thoughtless grati tude, cut him to the heart. Aft; r deliberat ing a few minutes, lie went to the donee-and [demanded back the bonrs. They were re turned, an 1 Tim’nsloncd with them to the button-maker, and r.cehc.'t liis half-crown. This was the capital with which my broth er-in-law commenced business, and was the occurrence which gave him, in after-life, thee nickname or epithet, of‘Tim Bones.’ T could mention that Ik: had nnnt er, ‘Sorri!-,’ given him by l!ie boys on account of his red hair.- It was that.by which lie was always known, until the affair of the button-maker occurred. Indeed, it is to be doubted w hether he knew lie had any other, for when he was asked by his catechist ‘what was bis name,’ he answer ed ‘Sort ii,’ and upon being asked who gave it to him, ans.we rad •the boys in the parish.’ At least, this was the story, though some-raid it war altogether an invention oi' that mad creature Jack -Reeve. It served, however, to fix-the nickname upon him, and the object of the perpetrator was answered. He laid out the two shillings and sixpence received for bones in the ‘tongues and sounds, j of cod-fish, collected lift re and there fresh, and the refore cheap. These, when cured, lie ‘swapped’ for a keg of rum, which, with tne aid of a cool and sweet rivulet near at hand, be turned into a fine penny, lie went on plodding and speculating, at-once the admi ration and the laughingstock of the village ; one class of inhabitants, the more aged and reflecting, calling him that ‘smart lad, Timo thy Dexter,’and extolling him to the skies; another, the young and thoughtless, ridicul ing him for the qualities which procured him the admiration of their elders, and distinguish ing him by the different nicknames of'Scrril,’ ‘Swap,’ and ‘Bones.’ , But Timothy throve, notwithstanding the jibes and sneers which were dealt out by his neighbors. A second fortunate speculation, quite as singular and extraordinary as the first, put him in possession ef still larger means of indulging his darling passion for traffic. I have mentioned the old tar .Tack Rccyc, and his propensity to fun and extravagance. He became, while indulging it, the uncon scious instrument of Timothy’s making an other fortunate more in the game of life; as he was wont to boast afterward, ‘he helped poor Sorril up a— many rounds of the ladder.’ In a moment of imsurpicious con fidence, the latter ■confided to Jack the im portant secret that lie had made himself mas ter of forty crowns, ttticl asked the opinion of the merry old sailor 'how he should employ it to best advantage, and in what speculation it was "likely to make the'largest return.’ jack answered, with his usual good-nature, that ‘he’d be now, if this wasn’t the very thing he wanted. I’m your friend, Sor —Tim,’continued he,‘and I’ll show it, lv the secret I’ll let out, and tiie sheet-anchor advice I’ll give you, my boy. When I was with old Sir Pjercy Brett, in the Cockcdoo dledoo,—heard of the ship, say?’ ‘Never,’ answered jhe boy* ‘Well, she wa.* the largest ship that over sailed on the ocean* Once upon a time, when she was tacking in the Channel of Eng land, her bowsprit knocked over a liglit.hoiisd on the coast of France, while at the same moment her spanker-boom swept off' a flock of sheep feeding oil Dover Cliff's.’ ‘I)o you know who—bought the wool Task ed the boy. ‘Not I, you skinkcr. There were grog shops on the yard-arms; and she was so ‘tant,’ that a lad of fifteen who went aloft to hand the main-royal, after using all possible des patch, came down an old man, gray as a rat. Well, I was with old Sir Percy—it was the same cruize in which lie did that wonderful feat which has been so much talked of, — beat tip from St. Kitts fit Grenada, two hun dred leagues, in two against tradewind' and current —Truo as gospel, or may I never —W i 11, we put into Montego Bay, in a hur ricane—weather as hot as ; and if there was—a warming-pan to'be found in.all Jim* ake, then you are neither‘Bones’nor ‘Sorril,’ ‘Swap* nor ‘Timothy.’ Gad ! how cross the admiral was I lie threatened to hangup cvc. ry planter, shop-keeper, overseer, negro. : whether blacker wfiiV, blue or yellow.’ ‘Did h;- >' asked the boy with extreme as tonishment. ‘Ay, did he; English, Scotch, Irish, Yankee,! Mandirtgo, 'Koroinanfyn, Whidah, Fidel), j Benin, Congo, ’twos all one. ‘Look you ; ; mc,*stiys he —he’d a reghto bad pructi.-c of j swearing; but, though both I and the chap- j lain tried to mend him, it v; all of no use— < ‘Look you ; mg’ says he, ‘when ir-st ! j come this way, see that every father’.- son of j you be furnished with a good brass warming pan or it wilU*# the for you;* Koar I’ll tell you u’Ti.’flram ♦iiiuki?%ef'.’ ‘What V demanded the boy, eagerly, j ‘Why, that you .shall simply the island of Jitnake with warming-pans.’ I ‘But don’t you think somebody has supplied them before now V ‘I c riki almost swear, and would if 1 didn’t hate the practice, that they havn’t. Nobody I hut a stiaip-wilted, screw-auger soil of a body | like you and me, one who is up to snuti', 1 would ever have thought of the thing.’ ; 4 Wind shall Ido !’ i ‘l)o i why, buy and ship as many warming pans as you can pack up, with Captain Ivim ; ball, in the Sally, which goes next week to Montego Bay—the very spot. But mum— say nothing; if you blab there’ll be an end of the matt; r. Crecno aud Kincpenco, or Buckles and Bagi'er, will be snapping it up, as one of your West India sharks does a | Guinea nigger: keep i! to. yourself. -Good , bye.’ And away went Jack to ecjpy a laugh at hie joke, but without a suspicion that the-boy would take tbe thing seriously. lie set about it, however, af. once ; and collected with as much privacy as jiossible, a large quantity of warming-pans, to send to a climate when; the coldest weathe r was almost equal to fever heat!—-Yet this speculation, the most absurd that ever entered into the head of a mortal, -yielded a thousand per cent profit. The bot toms of the pans were sold at ten times their cost, duty, and charges, Ter sugar-ladles in the boiling-houses; au’d the perforated covers, or lops, were purchased tip, at an equal ad vance, for skimmers! Even thchandlos-were disposed of, lent I forget for what purpose, and at a price far beyond the original cost cf the t cnthe article. The riei;t sum obtained for the adventure waslaid out insugar; and this received at a fortunate moment, and turned by the shrew, and boy in t!m most advantageous manner, yielded also a handsome profit. To sum up in the fewest words possible, the forty crowns yielded four hundred and seventy. ! He presently came to be reckoned one of those ‘whom the devil helps ;’ in other words, vary lucky and fortunate. Greene and Nine pence, seeing that every thing prospered un der his care, pr oposed to him to go out m a small sloop of theirs to .Martinique, with a car go of hogs and deal hoards. He was to have a small commission on the f-ale of the Limber; dad, as there is usually a gain in the admeas- j ure me nl, he ovas to have, besides,‘one-half of J all lie sold more than there was !’ Sorri! made' a fine speculation for himself, and cne which • satisfiedche owners. j Soon after his return-, be attempted to build j a small vessel fora coa.it; r. When her sides! were partly planked up, his builder went to him, and informed him that he was in want of! wales (planks for the bends of the ship.)— ' Dexter did not fairly understand what was j meant; hesupposed, however, that, it was the ! bones of a whale; and, accordingly, he bought; up all the whalebone there was in the market. Some extraordinary event, I forget what, a few ! months after, converted this absurd specula-j ion into one of equal profit with the last. | Fronflhe G!obc. GOVERNMENT AND ITS ABUSES. Government has been called “a necessary evil.” It has acquired this appellation from its abuses. The history of mankind is little else than a history vf thr abuses of Government. Most communities of men appear to have boon in their origin, liflle'better than associations of 'robbers. Sueli governments as th- y had, aimed more at aggression than protection The members of each community were en tirely'rf. eject to the \v T i 11 of their chief, whose principal objects were war, conquest and military glory. When lawgivers arose, thrv sought more to make men brave warriors than happy citizens. The leading abuse cf government which originates many othetfe, is war. There never was a just war. One party or the other and often both, arc in the wrong. The govern ment which is in the wrong commits a mon strous abuse. Instead of protecting its sub jects or citizen in their honest purs*fs, it compels them to abandon their homes, to march into foreign countries and encounter toil, danger and death in plundering, harass ing and destroying their fellow men of other nations. The evils of fhis-abuse are not con fined to the regions occupied by contending armies; but extend throughout both commu nities. They arc filled with widows and or phans. The industry of every class of people is taxed for the support of armies and their attendants. Moderate improvements in fi nanciering have enabled government to cast the expenses of their Own follies upon poster ity. They carry on wars with borrowed mon ey, and entail the burden of payment upon generations unborn. Great Britain has pur sued this policy, until all hope of paying her debt has vanished, and the annual interest is A burden almost too great for the people to hear* It is thus that the abuses of govern ment arc made perpetual. Out of war have grown orders of nobility exacting their support from the labor of the people. 'lf the Icadqf of a conquering array became a king, each subordinate chief must he a Lord. He must have his domains and his vassals, with license to take the fruits of their labor without an equivalent, and control them according to his will* Modern Europe lias witnessed in the feudal system all the evils ahd horrors of this abuse. It is ie ceding before tjec increasing intelligence of *he present age; but even in Great Britain, it is yet stroiig enough to make a fearful strug gle. A wasteful splendor, luxurious living, cos ly presents, us.-less parties, unbounded pro fusion and sometimes capricious drs’ructio i of public pruperty, are aims ; which attend , most gov ..Turnouts of ancient and modern times. Yvho can rad of th Easts of the; Persians, tlte en-tertaiuneuits ol'the Romans, er cve;n the dinners of British kings and no bis without r.’tlectiugiwiw many of mankind had bee n plundered and perhaps murdered to : clothe the guests, to 1 rnrtli the table, to pro- , cure tlie m ats and wines, hire the music and | prepare the shows, it is not (ot these pur j)os that maiikind needs government.— They are its abuses. Perhaps the worst abuse of government is that which attempts to trammel the mind, it consists in church establishments supported by tic eiii! power. Government has no cen c. rn with men’s religious opinions. They do not establish it to teach them religion. That come s from another source. It should pro tect all creeds and adopt none. But what has government done! It has adopted systems of religion and attempted to force them on mankind. Those whs) have been too consci entious io subscribe to its creed, it has ex cluded from public employments, sent into exile, imprisoned, hanged, burnt at the stake and torn joint from join# iu the lioly Inquisi tion. Than tlie abuses practised by govern ment under the cloak of religion, there are none more horrible in I'ie history of mankind. It is a melancholy refl; otfon, that history finds so little to say of the bkssings of govern meat, and so ranch of its curses. What is the history of the Egyptians, she Persians, the Cartliagcnians, the Greeks nad the Ro mans but volume ;ftcr volume of the abuses of government, a detail of wars, oppressions, minders, misery and crime? In this desert of human calamity, there is scarcely an basis on which to rest the wearied eye. - Those traits of character which the reader is most inclined to admire, are those which have filled the world with misery. How few did Alexander make happy ? llow many did lie make wretch ed! What were Cecsar’s glories but the de vastation and conquest of uimileiiding nations, and the final subversion of iiis country’s insti tutions ? Bv his laws and the impulse he gave to mind, Napoleon did much good; but he kept Europe in mourning. Hurricanes are recorded; but the gentle breezes which show er bl ossings from their wings, pass by unheeel- ! cd. So, it is the storms of desolating war which furnish materials for history, and ure read of with interest ami aelmirution; but gentle peace, without which no people can be prosperous and happy, this an unfrequent page, which is hurried vcrwith indifference. We admire (he master spirit of the storm ; ' but the peaceful ruler who seeks only to make ! his people happy, scarcely excites a glow of interest. Str.kc out ail history which records the i abuses of government, and what should we have left? A hundred volumes would shrink to one, and the history of this world’s affairs, would be soon r. tub In no country is government yet free from abuses. In Asia and Africa, it has scarcely uuprovcdsincc tlie earliest ages of history.— In Europe the human mind is making fooran . 1 # n c tic strides and the true principles of govern ment begin to be understood. Deadly strug-1 gles. between abuses consecrated by ages and 1 the rising spirit cf reform, convulse ©neepun* ! ♦ry after another with alternate success. But the work will progress, as light and mind in crease, until governments shall confine them selves to the single duty of protection anclthe ' nations “learn war no more.” This will be | , the blest millennium. In our next article on this subject, we will j | turn our attention to our own government. From the Charleston Mercury. At an unusual large assemblage of the State Rights and Free Trade Party, convened at Fayollc’s on Tuesday Evening, July 12, 1831. ‘ 1 iic lion. IIuARY DEAS was called to thef'.n.r, and Thomas Gadsden, Esq. ap* poinsed to act aft Secretary? - I Mr. 1) as having bHefly r< md the object of the meeting, Henry L. Pinckney, Esq. ! moved that a. Committee be appoint* and to take into consideration the letter of the Union Party to General -Jackson, and kis answer thereto, and to report thereon. The motion having been unanimously car ried, the following Gent.omen were appoint ed on that Committee : M. I. Keith, Chairman, B. E. 800, Eli is Vanderhost, William P. Porroneau Finley, Jacob AXSoa, Stephen Elliott, S. L- Sim mons, Col. Cattle, Dr. T. \’. Simmons, I*. JJ. Lining, C. M, Furnani, 11. W. Cogdell, Alex* M izyck, B. It. Smith* Thomas Lelirc, It. Q. Pinckney and"’. T. F. Lowndes. 'The above Committee having rotifer!, 11. L. Pinckney, Esq. (a? Chairman of a Com mittee,) then submitted the following Reso lution.', which he prefaced with an address lo the meeting explanatory of their objects : Resolved . I hat delegates He now appoint ed, who shall meet such other delegates, to he appointed, by the friends of Free Trade, as shall assemble in Philadelphia in Septem ber next, for the purpose of adopting S uCh i measures as may be deemed expedient to open the eyes of the people of the U. States,, as to the unconstitutional character and gross injusticeU the American System, and bring back the blessings of Free Trede. And that; the friends Of “Free Trade” in the different Districts and Parishes throughout the State, he requested either to acquiesce in the selec timi made by this Meeting, or to appoint oth er delegates to represent them respectively. Iwsolred, i hat a Committee lie now ap pointed to net n<- a General committee of the State Rights and Free Trade Party. It shall bo the duty of this Committee to correspond with the delegates of the State Rights and Free Trade Parly when they shall he in at tendance in Convention at Philadelphia, with a view not only of obtaining from time tptimo tteli information uf the proceedings of the' Convention, n may be necessary for the in-1 formation of their constituents, but also to convey totheaaid di legates such information in regard to the views and wishes of their constituents, as may be necessary for their guidance in their * Hurts to promote the ob- Jcctsoftijq Convention, & solved l .' 'shall fori} r of tile said EWtoßee to corn sj:*nd with (to ling'c ril 'd imbue men, friendsofStat ■ Pi,,:,. ! th ■ S. Stat ~ v Ul aS; oi ofjr.f r?r cirt.ttn di; V.t* *, rt oi t;,*- "Tti S L-l OUT J>C;i*Olplc iU ci< . 'HOC if St,'ll Right j and in opposition to tbe Restrict in Ay stem, —not only in relation to the- ( be made by the proposeef f4c-ntion, so lor t'.ie purpose of and Viinccr I traiing the talents, the worth, and' tfTu, n ,.‘ f j of the supporters of these principles, and [|g fusing amongst the people a proper know! i edge of the dangers to which our free ir.sti*-- ! tions arc exposed, from the nrlargemonr [[" | the powers of the l edera! Government, | ! j licentious constructions of the Constitn’i,.-. j AYso.b ft/, That it shall be the duty 0 f tlm j said Coinniiitec to cull ;i Mei ting of ;li ; . p , tyat such times and places, and on such or easi/jns, as tJiey mi ay deem expedient, ( jq it . lorthe; pu-rjose of Jen ing information before the Party or of receiving instructions f rrm in relation to the j*oposcd Conventioa • with regard to any other matter which may re quire tin: action of the Party. And whereas the efforts which have iafob been made, and are now in progress, on the part of the Tariff party at the North, to rive: j tlie American system upon os, as the settle *” | policy of the country, particularly the forma* | lion of Associations, and the establishment';: | Presses there, to be devoted to the disscnib | nation of the pernicious- doctrines on winch | that system is founded, renders it indisnerufi ; Idy necessary that counteracting measures j should be resorted to. And tvhereas- tlie State 1 Rights and Free Trade Party, of South Car. | olina, have, at all times, cherished, ! trust, have manifested, a sincere desire tone j lighten the public mind o:i the subject of the j unconstitutional character and fatal effects o' [ that system, and are still unwilling, while any ! hope shall remain, to omit any means in the.r poivcr to disseminate correct ' information or. this subject. And whereas, from t\ ie condi -1 ti®n of tlie public jiress in this city, tlie means ! are not sufficiently afforded of disseminating 1 the necessary information among the pco-C therefore, Resolved, That an evening paper ought to lie forthwith established in this city, iu sup. port of the just principles of Free Trade, ami strict construction of tin; Constitution ; and that for this purpose, it shall lie the duty of flic said General Committee to circulate sub scription papers, and to invite John A. Stuart Esq. the distinguished editor of the Beaufort Gazette, to take charge of the editorial de partment of the same. And be it also resolved, That this parly will proceed to e -tahlish a State Rights am! Free Trade Association; the annual contri bution to which, of each member, shall not exceed One Dollar and a Halt—And it shall be the duty of the General Committee to pr pare and report to an adjourned mectin? c c rhe party, proper rules for the government <? such ah association. That bite said Commit tee shall also correspond with tlie friends r? Spates Rights and Free Trade, in other part; of the State, and of the United States, for tlie-. purpose of procuring their co-operation iu trie formation of similar Associations in order that, by our united efforts, the blessings of Free Trade and equality of Taxation, may lie secured to our country, and the harmony of the different sections of the Union be re stored. The foregoing resolutions having been se parately considered and unanimously agreed to, 11. L. Pinckney, Esq* then moved" that the fallowing genth men be appointed Delegate* to the Convention, which was carried amid tiie acclamations of the meeting; Langdon Choves, of St. Peters ; lion. A! fred Huger, of St. Thomas and St. Dennis; Hon. Judge Colcock, of Charleston;!.. 1 Holmes, of Charleston; Col. F. K. Huger, oi Pendleton ; John Fraser, of Charleston, Cos!. Wnddy Thompson, of Greenville ; Hon. W. J. Grayson, of Beau orf; Col. Win. Preston cf Columbia; James Lynah efCliarleston; Chan cellor Harper, of Colombia; Coi. Thom; r T. Player, of Fairfield; Col. A. P. Bull*; < Edgefield; j. ]>. Witherspoon, of Lancast Col* Eldrcd Simkins, of Edgefield; Col- Ni Crager,'OfCharleston; Dr. Tydiman,of Ihuis. George ; Col. T. P. Alston, All Saints; Col John Cantey of Camden; Charles Macbeth o; Charleston. Mr. Pinckney then moved that the follow ing gentlemen be appointed “A Genera Committee of State Rights and Free Trade . Patty” agreeably to the second resolution, which was aiso tarried amidst the acclama tions of the meeting: Hon. Henry Deas, Chairman, Elias Horry, M. I. Keith, U* Cunningham, R. J. Turnlml Joiin llume, John Magrath, Charles M. Fur man, Jacob F. Mintzing, Dr. Benjamin B- Simmons, Janies Poyas, S. L. Simmons, Jacob Axson, 11. W* Perroncau, Benjamin A. Mark ley, Campbell Douglass, Thomas Lehrr, B- E. Bee, Dr. Thomas Prioleau, Stephen Lh. ott, Henry Itorlbeck, L. IT. Kennedy, J- h IVzant, A. M. Hertz, Philip Cohen, Andr-if Bay, James Robert.-on, ICcr Boyce, Ah'- MaSyck* The above proceedings Laving Teen £° n< through, the committee on the subject of he letter of the “ Union Party” to the Prosid".t announced, through their Chairman, that tin) were ready to report, when the following| ,rf * amble and resolutions were read to the ro |;tv [ ing, and unanimously adopted : “The State Rights and Free Trade Party have seen with deep regret the corrcspo-' | donee which lias recently taken place D tween a portion of our fuliotr citizens, styh't themselves the “Union and State Right- P“ ty,” and the President of the United f*Dt'] on the occasion of their invitation to the 1 ■' i-lent tu unite with them, in their kite celebration oi the Anniversary uf A< i:crß Independence. It is well known that an >• citation had her tolbrc been < xfended tpb l ' l ] Jackson, in behalf of the citizens ot Gliaf.'], ton, and with the cordial concurrence parties, inviting him to honor us with a ' "1 at his earliest convenience, ami the p rol ] li ' j had been held out to us, that “the man "-’ ol j the people delight ■ ! to honor” would coir*< J luong us as a welcome guest —not for k** !'*"■ [loan of mingling in our domestic strib’** .*'■ throwing the weight of his name in* l ’ ■ seal* 1 of any party, but forth** purpose o ■ reiving the friendly tribute of oitr atfao* liM ■ afT atiqr,. I-*--*- a! of wa ha’' 1