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SF*®ii i ica _iiV. Herrirn to 'dr. Muir. Washington, XiOt! July, 1831. n: Your note ot‘yesterday, was received i> r circumstances which prevented my im 'iate attention to it. I reply to it now, to <*t the misapprehension into which you ' been led, ami winch, by the publicity *a yo Ili .vo given to it, id calculated to lead the public. i < xtruct tram your note the following sen te : vTy solo object Yvas at one?, to clear the the President from a charge, which arc well aware ought to be attached to .; for you have, as ( understand, explicitly ; ;red, that lie disclaimed to you, at the wheat jim were in communication with • Johnson, any design like thui now iuipu o him.” 1 make this quotation for the purpose of ■ ngto you, that you have been entirely iformed—that the statement contained in ■extract is not warranted by any deciara i ever made bv [m j; and st.ll assuming it •>c your wish to represent tins matter truly he public, I am under the necessity of ask yon to give publicity to this note. 1 am, very respectfully, Sir, votir obed’t sorv’f, JN. M YCPIIERs' >N BE HR I EX. V.ANois P. Br. v:n, Es j. Editor <>f the Globe. dir. Blur to Mr. Berrien. Washington, July 20, 1831. cur note of this morning will be given 1 -diatcrly t:> TtlC prCSS. lit nf- lOllCe to subject ol which it treats, yon do me but ■■e when you say tint U 1 wish to ref-re this matter truly to the public .” You • permit me, therefore, briefly to show the i ol on which I felt myself authorized to that “you were well aware,' 1 ' that the ge implicating tho President, ought not ■* attached to him, and (hat you had your* explicitly declared that he disclaimed the ose imputed to him. t> tb first branch of this statement, h you do not seem directly to controvert, IVO to support me the positive written dec eu ot Col. Johnson, in which he says "- 1 ‘ President ultrays disclaimed such a ‘‘ cfion, and that he told you so. lie sides , I have before me, in the hand writing of 'resident, trid identical paper, which he toyourself, and Messrs. Branch and lug , and which pres etted the attitude tint he grit it his duty to assume in relation to ‘•.rctimsfances which affected the lianno •<! character of his Cabinet. The course it he thought proper then to adopt, was ■ • gated on information given him by sev iiienibers of Congress, shewing that a mabon had been entered into, in which -cli and the other gentlem. tt named concerned, to disgrace Ma jor Baton, and '--b h.s diipnission from the Cabinet. Af er Tutory verbal explmotion of the rea • inducing the interview, the President ded to sayi, that if it v. < re true that you ikon the course of which he spoke, he trnseJf called on to make the declaration i he read .) yeti from his written titeino .r, in which he says that it was, using r words, “Not only unjust in itself, but disrespectful to me” (the President) ' .'eil calculate;! to destroy the harmony y Cabinet. The wounds ytport which opinion is founded, arc substantially l 1 do not claim the right to interfere, ! meaner, in the domestic relations or •mi/ intercourse of any member of mi/ net, nor have 1 in any manner attempted ci-. &C. the conclusion of the same paper, after titillating the circumstances to which he :d to c-; l your attention, he says, as the r of the matte r, “Therefore have l sought id mine, to assure you if there is any in the report lint you have entered into e.ibinati jn charged, to drier Major £lu .o:n my Cabinet , that IJ eel an indignity insult ottered to myself, and is of a char ■/ha! will be considered of.” •s is tite ground on which this matter 'ace I by the President in his interview bu in the beginning of the difficulties, rotn it, and the absolute asseveration of . Johnson, I consider my statement, that . v ro well aware that the President dis • and all right to interfere and dictate the I intercourse of the family of any tnern ■ i the Cabinet, to be well warranted. cat lam also warranted in having said on. yourself, had declared that the I’ros disclai.ned to you any disposition of the will appear from the extract which i from the letter of your own, now before After recapitulating a conversation of own, held with Col. Johnson, (the tenor .ich you inform me is to be adjusted be lt you and him,) you make this single rc in relation to the President: : the interview to which I was invited by resident, some few days afterwards, 1 dy crposed to him my views on this sub end he disclaimed any disposition to press i requisition .” • this you have allusion to the written dec on read to you by the President, which near no other interpretation than that 'i you have given it in this extract, i both the points presented by me, in the .- I quoted in your last note, I fed myself sustained by the documentary evidence, ■ i I now lav before you ; and 1 trust you .Iso coe-idcr itas fully vindicating the merit which I have made. .Having thus fied myself,you will permit me to conclude irrcspondenco w ith you. I am, Sir, your obedint servant, F. B. BLAIR. Mr. Berrien to Mr. Blair. Washington, 20th July, 1831. lave this moment received your note, in <e.t to mine of this date. 1 make no apol .or continuing tins correspondence, al . t. h you intimate a wish to conclude it, 'use it will be readily understood, that it i your charncti r ;as a public journalist, .iotas an individual, that 1 address you. rciso a tlierefore, which, as the iiitcr e* a public journal, you can with no THE MACON ADVERTISER, AM) AGRfCLETtIiAL AND MERCANTILE INTELLIGENCER. propriety witnhuld, when I claim the iuser ! lion of this note in the same paper which con veys your own communication to the public. I 1 repeat the quotation from your note ol yesterday:— ' „ “My sole object was at once to clear the skirts ot the President of a charge, which you tire we ll aware ought, not to be attached to him; for you have,as 1 understand, declared that he disclaimed to you, at lltc time when you were in communication with Col. John son, any design like that now imputed to j him.” The first remark which f have to make j upon this quotation, witn reference to your obsi nation, that I do not seem to controvert tire first'branch of this statement, is the fol lowing : Your assertion that / was well aware, that the charge against the President, to which you referred, ought not to be attached to him, was wade vwpress!y to rest upon your under standing, that I had explicitly declared, that h-“ (the Pk siilcnt) disclaimed to me, any such ’(■sign. YY hen, therefore, 1 told you, that such a statement was not warranted by any declaration ever in .de by me—and of course that yottr understanding was not correct, I gave you a very broad denial of my having any such knowledge as that which "you had iiiipuf‘ (l to me. In more distinct terms, how ever, (il that he possible,) I now renew that declaration. I have no such knowledge — Nay more, Sir; I have no knowledge of the papir, “in the hand writingof the President,” to which you refer. No such paper was ever read to me, or shown to me, or spoken of to me. It it had been, I should most certainly not now In; vc had occasion to address myself to the public on this subject, through tiie col umns of your paper. 1 laving thus disposed of the paper to which von refer, and shewn that this can furnish no ground for yottr understanding of what J was, or was no! aware of, since I never saw it, and its contents were never communicated tome. I advert next to your suggestion, that this un derstanding ig warranted by Col. Johnson’s positive asseveration. Upon this subject, I have already told the public, through you, that (consider myself bound by the implied understanding n suiting from my correspond ence with that gentleman, not to publish any statement of the conversation which occurred between him, Messrs. Branch and Ingham and mysel, until lie shall have a reasona able time to r. ply to my letter. ] told you, at the same tunc, that any departure from this understanding, which was authorized by that gentleman, would absolve me from its obliga tion. 1 still adhere to Ibis view, and content myself at present, with repeating, in refer ence to that of which you suppose me to be well aware, that I hare no such knowledge. The time must speedily arrive when this for bearance will be no longer necessary. Your next reference is to a letter of mine to Maj. Eaton which you say is in your pos session. As you have published an cjrtract, you are bound to give the correspondence— even before that is done, it is very easy to see that you have entirely misunderstood the ex prc.-lion which you have quoted—that a dis claimer ol an ■ itention lo press a requisition, is a wholly different thing, from denial of ever having made if—and that in using this expres sion, 1 could not have had allusion to“ a writ ten declaration,” which 1 had never .seen or heard of. | You will perceive then, Sir, that you are > wholly unsustained in all the points of your statement, except by a declaration which you I uvhnit that you have used without authority, | ‘and which will lie met if it becomes ncccs- ] sary. Asa faithful journalist, you will, ot i course, seize the occasion to correct your i error; you can, no doubt, do this, in relation j to the paper on which you have placed so j much reliance, by a direct appeal to the Ikes- i ident, who will not, l think, authorize* tin * statement, that that paper was ever shown to \ me. However this may be, I bear this testi mony to the truth. Neither invitingcontro- ! versy, nor seeking political effect, I find my- 1 self in a position, in which I must either speak, j or silently permit the public to be misled. 1 have a sufficient sense of what is due to them,! not to intrude myself uncalled upon their: notice—and the consciousness of what I owe j to myself, will not permit me to shrink from j the performance of my dirty, i am, very respectfully, Sir, your obedient servant, JN. A1 ACPIIERSON BERRIEN. To Francis I\ Blair, Esu. Editor of the Globe. Mr. Blair to Mr. Berrien. Washington, July 21, 1831. Sin: Y our last letter was received late at night, when the Globe was made up for the press. To give it insertion with theoorres pondcnce which preceded it, rendered it ne cessary that I should defer tlie whole until this day, and substitute other matter, previously set up, for my paper. Y\ ithout adverting to the special pleading of your letter, (in which; being no lawyer, I t.ivc no A ill,) 1 come at once to the point. You t ike issue again with me, by declaring “ that no such paper as that quoted by me was ever read to [you j or shown to you or spoken ol to you.” And you further sav,! that the President “ will not, you think, an-! thorize the statement that that paper was ever ! shown to [you.”] J YVlien tlio statclnent which I made, predi-: j e.afed upon t 01. Johnson s letter, was im peached in your second note, 1 made the ap peal to tire President which you seem to think I ought now to make. He immediately put into my hands the original memorandum which he wrote and which he read to Messrs. Branch, Ingham, and yourself; and I am now expressly authorized to state again, that in the interview referred to in my note and in your own letter, | quoted therein, lie held in his hand and rend • to you the paper from which I have given the I extracts, which you say was never read, shewn ’ or spoken of to you. And lain authorized! further to say, that if you will call on the President, he will again exhibit and read to you this original document. It nuts prepared by him in contemplation that the interview might lead to an immediate dissolution ol the Cabinet, amt it was intended by him to record 'he basis he assumed in doing an act which involved his own character and the inter* sts ! Die country. The [mperthus premrm! bv , the President, was communicated at the time to several of his friends, whom he consulted on the occasion. And flic substance of fin conversation which preceded and followed the communication, wax also imm-diatf 1/ re duced to writing, and Connected with the document read to you, that nothing might be left to recollection, if circumstances at a re mote period should make a reference to it necessary. With regard to a transaction so recorded, and vouched by the concurrent tes tituony of those consulted on the occasion, there cun he no mistake. —A man’s memory may be treacherous when the man himself is honest. lam willing to believe this is your case. You have innocently forgotten the | declaration made by the President, which I stands authenticated, as I have told you, as well as.the communication of the same pur port made to you by Col. Johnson. I am obliged to rely on this written record of a fact rather than on your memory, espe cially when 1 find this positive proof confirm ing the statement of Col. Johnson, that the President disclaimed any right or desire to interfere with the private associations of your > self or your family, and that you knew it. I next quoted your own written admission, confirming the statement of Col. Johnson and the written record of the President, in the following words—“ In the interview to which I was invited by the President some ftw days afterwards, (after Col. Johnson’s visit,) I frankly expressed to him my views on the subject, and he disclaimed any disposition to press such a requisition.” You say that “a disclaimer of an intention to press such a requisition, is a wholly dif- Terer.t thing from denial of ever having made il.” 1 thought not, in this case; because no such requisition had been made. Col. Johnson says, the President disclaimed to him any de sire to control your domestic affairs, or pri vate intercourse, and he told you so. The record of what the President said to you, de clares, that he claimed no right to interfere “in the domestic relations or personal inter course of any member of his Cabinet;” and, in allusion to the same conversation, you say, lie any disposition to press such a requisition.” When no such requisition had been made by Col. Johnson; when he told you the President made none ; and w hen you do not pretend he made any , either di rectly or indirectly, I could not but under-' stand your declaration, that “ he disclaimed any disposition to press such a requisition,” as a declaration that lie made no such re quisition. Cut I find, in the character you have always sustained before the public, other conclusive proof, that no such requisition was ever made of you, and that you km w it. Ifthe President had signified to you, directly or indirectly,' that lie required you to compel your family io associate with any one, contrary to their will and yours, you would r.ot, as a man of honor, have waited for an invitation to resign. You would have thrown your commission in the face of the President, -and said to him, “Sir, 1 , am no longer adv iser or associate with a man ' who requires me to disgrace myself* and fami ly, though he be the President of the United j States!” In your pubii-* character I had a I gurantcc that you would no*, for the sake or” your honor, salary amt emelurnents, as Attor-; ney General, Aik yattr character as a man.! by tamely listening to such a -requisition.— No, sir ; it is impossible to believe tiiat. von ■ could have listen. ;l to such a requisition ;; dismissed your self respect; forgot your south- j era honor; and humbly bowed in seeming! reverence to the man who had insulted you, until politely invited to resign ! It is impos- j sildc that you could bury such an insult, pro- ! less to be the friend of the President, make ! th<“ speech that you did recently in Georgia, j and now that you are out of office, disclose a i fact which would sea! your own shame- No, j sir; no such proposition was ever mode to you; you had no cause to complain of the j President; you eulogized him in public and j private ; tied you would have gladly acted as j Attorney General to the end of his adminis-j tration, had you not been invited to resign. But. the circumstances under w hich the j haTmony of tire late Cabinet was restored, to- . pel the inference, which you will have it, in I your hist note, that the extract from your let- ; tor to Major Eaton, leaves open in the ambi-j guity of its expression. From the moment j that you denied to the President any partici-! patron in the political combination to drive! Major Eaton from the Cabinet, the usual courtesies were renewed among its members without any association between their re spective families. Maj. Eaton would have been as reluctant to receive visiters, driven into his | doors by the power of the President, as they could possibly have been to submit to such tyranny and* degradation. Ilis house was thronged by those who were among the most respeetaldo people of the city—by the most; honorable families visiting annually there,! and by those from abroad, most distinguished by station. To the gayety and respectability of parties tints attended, the appearance of ; persons constrained by the authority of.the Executive, if it could have been exerted for j such purpose, would have added nothing.— | It could have served no purpose to have ex acted such a requisition as that now imputed, Ity the injury of the Present. To have forc ed the wife of the Secmarv of YY'ar, upon tiiat portion of society which was unwilling to receive her, could have added nothing to her reputation. It is ridiculous to impute to the failure of such a design, the dissolution of the late Cabinet. You, I think* must know that this step was the result of the diversity of political views, which attached the tiro parlies in the Cabinet to different divisions' of the new parties which became apparent in tiie dissention between the President and 1 Y rce President. This produced, in the then state of the Cabinet, combinations in Con gress, calculated to defeat the most salutary measures of the administration. In the op position which showed itself with regard to the Turkish negoci at ion, the members of the I Cabinet favorable to the new born opposition, j were expressly exempted in the denunciations , of those members of the Senate, who then | came out and disclosed, for the first time, j their hostility to the President and a part of liis Cabinet. That a wish to bring Major E ;tou and in i'ui.iiU into .-a -!-i\ V had no ' influence in producing the dissolution of the j Cabinet, is apparent from the fact*that it ope rated to consign them and him to privacy.— Tiie want of the harmony i ssentini to the pub lic welfare, hoivev; r originated, was preg-• nant with political effects and produced thh result. You require me to correct the error of my j declaration, predicated on the information ivhioli Col. Johnson communicated to me, j upon the ground that I have no authority to j use Ihe evidence which establishes the fact. The testimony which l have in my possession, under Col. Johnson’s hand, satisfies me thor oughly of the truth of the assertion 1 have made, and therefore, 1 will not admit it to be an error. Your exception to the use I have made of his testimony, may he applicable as a censure upon iny course. But I consider, that circumstances fully justify tiiat course, and I am only responsible to Col. Job toon for m?conduct in lelation to his letter.— Your objection to the authority under which 1 have acted as to Col. Johnson's evidence, does not, in the least, change the nature of that evidence. It is as convincing as it could he under full authority to use it, and probably more so than evidence purposely prepared for the public eye. Y on seem to think that I am bound to pub lish, on my own account, the correspondence between Major Eaton and yourself, because I have used a paragraph having exclusive re ferrcnce to the President. Ido not think so. I will have nothing to do with the controver sy between Major Eaton and yourself. You have a right to bring that subject before the public in any way you please, and on your own responsibility. I will not hesitate to print it, or any qmrt you may choose to embo dy, in the discussion with ine. I closed my last note to you, by an intima tion that it would conclude our correspond ence. 1 did so because the issue between ns depended altogether upon the variety of the statements I had made, contradicting asser tions in the Telegraph, for wli.Yph 1 did not know that you were responsible. When you volunteered to question my staten vents, I laid before you frankly the ground on which I act ed; and then, in a second letter, brought to your view tiie proof on which, as lo myself, 1 was willing to rest Ihe issue. But at you seem inclined to make, through inc, an ait kick on the President, and to use the correspondence on which you entered (certainly without be ing called for by any thing I said, as to your self,) as the medium of bringing on a t e leral discussion of the question of the dissolution of the late Cabinet, J shall certainly sac,ri fice my inclination to w hat you consider tny chi'w. My reluctance to continue the correspond ence with you, proceeds from no want of r sped to you. But 1 believe the public is sic k of the subject.; is satisfied with the dissolu tion of the old Cabinet, and the formation of the new one ; and this induced the iuclirsa tion I have evinced, to spare tiie country tl*o disgust of the dissection of a subject, whicl j it seems willing to bury. At all events, the ! progress we have made will be sufficient for i one lecture. If you think fit, we will resume ! it again. Yours <ke. , F. P. BLAIR, f | FIVE DAYS LATER—IMPORTANT, j By the packet ship Sylvanus Jenkins, Capt.! Allen, we have received London papers io | June Bth, and Liverpool to the 9th, both in-j elusive. The news from Poland is painfully interesting. A great battle has been fought, but without any decisive result. From the Dublin Evening Post. Famine in the County of Mayo There are not fewer than 150,000 men, women, and children, in a state of actual starvation in the county of Mayo. This, we beg leave to say, is no exaggerated statement. A census has been taken of the parishes and townlands by competent and trustworthy persons, who cun repose on oath, if necessary, to the accu racy of the returns. \Y T e have seen the fright ful list in the hands of a gentleman, himself a landed proprietor, and one of the most ac. tive and intelligent of the deputation nowin Dublin,Sir Francis Blossc. There is, there fore, no exaggeration. Famine, in the hor rible and strict sense of the term, is devour ing in a part of one county alone, a popula tion of 150,000 human creatures. From the Journal du Commerce, June \th. “ YY’e have just seen a letter from St Gall of the 26th of May, from which wc make the following extract :—“Y'ou will be as much surprised as we are, to hear that whilst Swit zerland is disarming, all the villages on the extreme frontier have received Austrian Gar risons, and yet, at no time during peace have they been known to be occupied by a single soldier. If it be considered that there is no passage into Italy from that part of the fron tiers, this movement of American troops may be a cause of rejection for our statesmen as well as those Of France. Paris, June s.— The Gazette of Tlitirgovia positively confirms the news which we have given of the approach of the Austrian troops, to the frontiers of Switzerland; the tenth part of these troops have arrived with carbine* This news, adds the paper above quoted, dc ; serves all the attention of tire Federal Authori ties. A letter from Colmar, of June, contains the following particulars—“ All the roads in the Austrian States are crowded with troops. An army of 60 or 80,000 men is forming on the frontiers of Bavaria, and Lindau is full of l soldiers. The emperor has summoned to i arms the population of that part of Hungary which adjoins Turkey.” harp fighting i?r rotANn. Warsaw, May 24.—The State Gazette contains despatches from General Skrzynecki, dated Dlugesiodlo, May 17, give an account of several advantages obtained over the Rus sians. The same paper contains a variety ol ot In r articles, which, though not vested with an! official character, are known to be substaq. , Rally correct. According to those statements j the Russian army is retreating in every di ; rection before our gallant troops, and in a few days we look forward to hear tiiat not one Russian soldier remains within the kingdom, t-’.ffrolciika, Lonvn, Nur, Ciecffpinawiec, and clawiski, arc known to have already been iYoed from the presence of the enemy. Die bit.vh has crossed tin: Bug at Granna, and the guards are retreating towards Bialysiock. Baggage, arms,and ?- rcs of every kind, to an immense amount, an 1 a military chest con taining 4 ; M),(KK) rtthlv.s, have fallen into our hands. One ot' our papers contains to-dav, in a postscript, the intelligence'that Tykocin was taken ,y storm by our troops, on the evening of the 21st, after an obstinate battle, in which the Colonel l.ungerman dist inguish ed himself. The cholera is losing much'of its violence. On the 21st instant, the num ber of patients was 107, of whom five died : on the 2'2d, the number was 106, of whom I four died. May 23.—An official account of General ; Skrzvnccki’s operations, down to the takingqf , Tykocin, lias been published. On the even j ing of the 21st, our troops entered the latter : place at. the point of the bayonet, and dis persed the grenadiers of the Russian guard, j who attempted to defend a dyke which passed j behind the city through the marshes of the ; Narcw. On the same day our troops encaun j tered, between CicchanoWße and Surnz.sev i oral detachments.of Marshal Br.Jiitsch’s corps ! which were endeavouring to form n junction j with the guards at Biaiystock. A Itrusian corps of 1,000 men, under Sackon, has been j cut off, and is now retreating into the palati nate of Augustowo, closely pursued by Gen. Sierakowski. From the palatinate of Pod lachia the Russians are rapidly retreating. On the 23d, Gen. Utninski occupied Siedlec, and a part of his cavalry pursuing the enemy upon the road to Miendzyrzecz. Immedi ately after Diebitsch had crossed the Bug, he , turned his whole force against Gen. Lubinski’s corps, which consisted only of a few thousand men, and having succeeded in surrounding ottr brave countrymen, he summoned them to surrender. lie immediately threw himself on the column nearest to him, which he completely , routed, and succor ded in re-establishing his j communication with the main army. The particulars ot this affair are not given in Gen eral Skrzynecki’s report. In the palatinate of Lublin, General Rudiger has retreated be hind the Bug, either with a view to maintain his communications with Diebitsch, or in consequence of his rear being threatened by the insurgents. ()n the subject of the insur rection in Y olhynia, Podolia, and the Ukraine, numerous reports are in circulation, but the i Government are cautious of publishing such j facts as they are in possession of, lest the'safety , <>f individuals might be compromised by their j indiscretion. Gen. Dwernicki is no longer in Gullacia. The Austrians have sent him to Presburg, and his officers are all to he placed l i i'l confinement at Olmiitz. Our light cavalry i has advanced some worsts beyond Tykocin ; but no account has been received of the oc cupation ol Biaiystock by our troops. llambfrgh, June 3. “The Prussian State Gazette of the 2d in stant contains the following: “From the Polislt frontier, May 29. “Accounts from the theatre of war state, tb;it the Polish Commandor-in-Chiefwas at b <-j;cd by Marshal Diebitsch on the 26tli inst. at i >strolenka, when a sanguinary battle en sued, j:i which the Rnssiitn army was victori ous. Ostrolenka was taken by storm by the Hit ims wish astounding bravery. The di vision oi the Polish General Gielgud, which I was siationed at Lomza, has been cut off bv j the mo vements and successes of the Russian | army. The Poles acknowledge their own! loss in killed and wounded to amount to 4, 000 men. Among the killed are Generals Kioki and Caminski and a number of staff! officers. The head-quarters of the Polish Cornmarider-in-Chicf were on the 27th aouin 1 at Pultusk. “Warsaw, May 26.—“A relation of the ; most recent operations, published to-day, says J ho chic f object of the movement of our army towards Tykocin and Lomza was to en able a corps under the command of Gen. Clila powski to reach Lithuania, in order to afford assistance to the insurgents in that province. This point having been attained, as the Com mander-in-Chief found it impossible to induce the Russian Guards to give battle, and as the junction of Marshal Diebitsch with the Guards would give a combined force far superior to his own, he determined to return to his for mer position, while Gen. Gielgud, who it was intended should enter the northern part of Lithuania, began his march upon Lomza. Marshal Diebitsch in the mean time having effected his junction with the Guards deter mined to cut our army off from Warsaw.— The gallant resistance of the 2d corps, under Gen. Lubienski, which forced its way at the point of the bayonet through a force thrice its own strength,enabled Gen. Skrzynecki to pur sue his march. On the 25th the Guards at tacked Gen. Lubienski, whose corps formed our rear, at the same time that Diebitsch ivas advancing in the direction of Czyzew. Our army was already on the right bank of the Narew, and the rear only remained on the op posite bank. On the 26th the attack was re newed, commanded by Marshal Diebitsch in person. The Polish General drew near to < Ltrnlenka, and the enemy’s march was arres ted by the fire which the howitzers had kin ,ol ln *' ie town * Gen. Lubienski crossed the Narew, and burnt, the bridge- but not so effectually as to prevent it being quickly re stored. Accordingly, Gen Schakoffsk!o,sm>. ported by the tremendous artillery, succeeded m crossing the river. A most violent cop*- bat ensued. The enemy vainly endeavoured to convey large masses to the rHit b- n f r'fh"'*""'" IIki “ 3 " , ''" molt wii. icv.!™i hotels wbbw o' 1, a,,,! tore” ttis "S Z'Z other side ot the river, and who on his part was also striving t 0 effect his purpose. P ch ‘ t ' l P ol "t of contention was the •tlomr ihT il ? ngt j evak< l dike which passes along the marshy shore of the Narew ; and ffive'th'T nV !l ° £ ro " nd >contributed much to ” v ,7° I>aUle a sanguinary character. They oug it man to man, and thousands were kill ed by being thrownover the dike. The R U r. sum troops displayed a degree ofcourage and resolution far superior to ivhat they had shown m j'v.f"dn>£' part of . unusual heat increased the labor of the i Toe ID* i ms threw away their knapsactf*'* he more at their ease. At 1. ngth, to*.., cv.-.img, fatigued by their exertiong, J a .le to overcome the resistance ofourira'l- . troops, the enemy withdrew to tlm ] of 7 7 ofth river, and [we?j remained'in po !!* sio.i Of the. field of battle, upon whUV’ Commandor-in-Chief, passed the night, h, der u. provide for the relief of the w 0 lr( ]cl' io have recommenced the battle would 7/ tended to no result as General Gielm.,l if? 77' qooii; uv „7 “ the ( ominaruler-tn-Chief therefore, rcsnlvfj • ">*•• over Roza,, a, P u |,S 4 -"sg inarch was effected in perfect ordt-r, ard with out being in any way disturbed bv the nn my, wire, it appears, had suffered too ro V ,7' ly to follow us. To estimate the la.-s of bifl" sides is as yet impossible. On our side fJ r 3,003 to 4,009 men are hors de combat Zi p appears certain that though the Command in-Chief, with his usual caution, avoid? niff lusion to the loss of the enemy, it must he - least double ours. “Four regiments, one of thorn the Guard, that first attempted to pass .the river, \ v - cut to pieces. YY'e lost neither artillery b - gage, nor provisions ; a few stragglers' akl can have fallen into the enemy’s hands <]>ir. ing the retreat. Wc have taken only 200 prisoncis. Generals Kicki and Kaminski have been killed. Two other Generals P-- and Bozuslowski, have been slightly wounded According to thp statements of the prisoners three Russian Generals have been killed.?! The severe service which our troops have !rd to pass through has induced the Commander, in-Chief to allow them a few day’s rest in I’raga. The intelligence that the' Polish nr ,my,after a sanguinary and disastrous battle was approaching the capital, spread const. ? nation here, but the frank statement of Gen. Skrzynecki has tended for the present tj tranquillize the public mind. Two fresh re. giments of infantry, and several squadron* of to tile camn! From the Georgia Journal. *~~ SIOL’E OF CHOOSING. THE GJOVKAOU A.\D rn . .. ELECTORS. 1 he policy pursued by the federal party in Georgia, has been so tortuous, and injurious to the reputation, dignity, and best interest* o. tire State ; and tiie political principles ot the leaders, as publicly declared by them, •selves, have been so aristocratical arid so j mucl) iri opposition to the rights of the State, ! a,ul to til<; powers reserved, when those Stale* j sanctioned the federal constitution ; that the j organs oi the party—the Editors of their news. ! papers—should he careful not to coniproimt i Bioinsclves, by unreflecting assertions, and j L >’ l ' u ' hasty declaration of principles, and of i t,!C measures they have supported and intend ! *° s "Pport. Silence on their part, as to prim : eiplcs, in all political contests and elections, would we think, be the best policy. But the desire to say something on behalf oftheir* candidates, and against the candidates of their opponents, will naturally lead them to commit some act of indiscretion, which will certainly be detected, and for which, as cod tainlv, they will be rebuked. This iscxets. i ptjfied in some of the remarks of the Editors 'of the Federal Union of last week. They : had the indiscretion and temerity to .sav. th*| I “He (the senior Editor of the Recorder,) aid i liis friends (the Troup party) happened, foul l series of years, to oppose the Clark party a I j their exertions to give tire election ofGoveri-1 | or to the people, lie and his friends Aappcadl to oppose fora series of yeans, the Clark p*r-| | ty, in their exertions lo give the election if I Electors to the people,-” when it iss I Well known as that the declaration of I j dependence was adopted o-i the 4th of J;-1 )y, 1776, that it was the Republican ffl j I roup party which finally insured tkj ; adoption*of both measures, and that it-wal , i roup men who first introduced the amend*l I tncnt ol the Constitution in the mode ofclertl ing the Governor, to the cosidcration of tb I Legislature. 1 I he alteration of the Constitution was cc.J sidered a measure of the last importune;! but before tlie republican party in the Log.-1 lature determined on agreeing to the alt-c.vl tion contemplated, they wished to ascertain! the sense ei their constituents upon the rnat-l ter. They made it their particular businfiil to ascertain the sense of tire people ; Mill finding that that sense was fora change ini the mode of choosing the Governor, the! change was made. YY ith regard to thcclianyel in the mode of choosing electors, tiro repubit-l can party thought best to apply directly M the people, for an expression of their wi-l A resolution was accordingly adopted for is B ccrtaining the sense of the people with rogjiH to this subject. I A measure originating with, and purely oil B the party to which the Editors of the Icderdß Union belong, is the act dividing the into Congressional districts, which parsed JB 1.825, and was repealed the year foUo'in® by the Republican party being in the mnjoS’B ty in both branches of the general assent!™ VY c wonder that the editors of the lVd’™ Union do not bring the repeal of this law, as a charge against the Troup party. I But to place the subject of choosing t™ Governor and electors in a clear point ot'icijß and in order to put it out. of the power of 4 Editors of the Federal Union, to prevent tfl facts, or to misrepresent our words, and a J state our positions, wo give the procci'iii?'* 1 ® the Legislature from 1821 to 1821, inclasi® upon the twu subjects, with a few explains® notes. ■ In November 6, 1821, Ryan, (Troup man.) gate no<* that he would after this day, move for tiitf® pointment of a committee, to prepare am?'’® port a bill to alter and, amend tlre 2d sect*® of the 2d article of the constitution ot ' M gin. According to this notice, a coina-d 1 ® was appointed composed of Messrs. I'. ' l ®! Harden, Crawford, Burton and YVimbril;.*® Troup men, who reported a bill nwkiatH® ! alteration contemplated. On the final P'“B sage of the bill, Mr. Adatfrs, of I’utn- -® Clark man, moved to strike out the v ° r ® “ majority of the rotes given in,'' and v C| ® the words “ and the person Iwving thelnV l '® number of votes.” This motion was r-j> : ® by a vote of 30 against 15. The hill pa"® by (lie constitutional majority, 35 against h® q> - ' r*• I . I 4.- I. r- 1 ®®