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MtAtWSf a®TlO St WSMIffR HUB IWPWIi©;, ever remembered in the | The tine Bridge lately erected is ft injured, and great apprehensions tit will "o awav entirely; but such ®f U . \e of the water that it is impossible | eVtbe state f than within a mile o( it , JeaP!’ ruat , nlll i we are at this moment in ; em o. a,, or Wr. :.!„■ Keeper, Were taken oil m a nMh- ' .nYloek this morning, and serious Entertained for the safety of Mr. K r -' a,c ; nve if who was left near Ins house. ■° ?CrS nunil er of Negroes belonging to i* "L. nia,iv of them sick, arc il J| w uKis u plantation is entirely under the amount of damages to the ri- hear that Mr. Ro is k', and the Negroes rescued. ■ Pj:.n ulkton, S. C. Aug til. B oflast week were unparalleled at 1 ■ Tkr ni-ihovear. The creeks in tins astonishingly high, and many ■ " and mill dams have been swept off. ■i"l hi nn* has been done to the crops on even oo small water eour*. n the cllect ot Seneca river near tins Las been dreadful. The cotton crops ■PSmost totally destroyed and it is to be rod that the crops ot corn have not fared ’BSrlibetter. The full damage has not yet n ascertained hut from all we can learn, “■Lmo'n.t on seven or eight plantations on ' river cannot average less than one thou- Kml dollars each exclusive of the injury to Me land, which in some cases has been very Monsiderable. It is also to >e apprehended ‘M'nt t'r decav of vegetable matter consequent mi'thc liiuiulatioa, may produce in its inline- Miatovieinitv, a scourge to which wc are, m Bisection,'almost strangers, billious fever. X would lain hope, that this evil may be Inverted. ■ Mobile, Ala. Sept. 2. B tt.ovs. Wo learn from the gentlemen ul UK. counties on the Alabama, that with- last 1,1011! 1 1 , the Southern section o( the !H lt( . i s considered to have suffered more m the rains than in any period since 1819. M: cotton and corn crops will inevitably ■ much injury. Patriot. j B [From our Correspondent.] ERIE, 29th Aug. 1831. y 0 i| must excuse me for not sooner wvi to von. 1 could have communicated interesting, but what you have seen public paper-',— and the state of the crops j^B s bian,and is now too precarious, to give warrant lur the expression of an opinion lative to the future. Two weeks ago the |Hros;':o! wv; llattering in the highest degree M-aho.it that tit,ic w-t weather set in and has ilßoannr.' and ever since, and at this moment it is Munng, and a prospect of its continuance for days. The Marrior, at this place, is lu. abouttwe-ntv feet above low water mark, is rising rapully ; and there are certainly causes for apprehending an inundation low grounds on this river,—an event, would destroy thousands of acres of corn M t'Antyn , and which is almost inevitabb . if as m,, !' rail, lias fallen in the vicinity of the s of the river as there has in this lioigli- H,rhood. The consequences of the unusual Met weather at this season arc, the destrue- of u great quantity of fodder, and a pos- M,.. i.it ii- of cotton piekin g|to nn unusually period; and it appears that tliere must n viTV great destruction of cotton by the Bru;, t’.miV.h 1 have nut yet heard much com- j ol it. The weather for about twenty days past ha? cloudy ; and rain fell every day more or Dunn if this time we <lo not recollect H „ one clear day—the Warrior and have risen to moderate height. 'Flic ■crop, ill this county have commenced ■m.,,*. and is thought bv many that should weather continue in such an unfavorable that the cotton crops will fall short; in B 1 commencement of tlio season the pros- Hi, dof the cotton was excellent. The loss ■of fodder will Tie verv great. B Eric {Ala.)(Jaz. Sept. 1. IJ.IOmi.E, \\ G. :i 1 .—The Weather.— For J pjree weeks p;>t, it has rained almost inces-j ivuitly. Oi Monday night last we had ano jl!ter g.le from the South and East, and yes-1 i' r<lay morning the waters of the Hay were as | ingli within tliree inches as tliey were on tlic > 37in; hut we arc happy to say that no matcri- j pd damage was experienced in tltis harbor. Me learn from tlie country that the Cotton [crops, particularly on the rivers, havesuffered materially, and that the rot has already shown it-s*df io an injurious extent The Alabama Hirer at Montgomery, had risen 12ieet at j our latest advices. ’ ! The Mail frorvN. Orleans due on Monday i Jtr.orr.ing has not yet arrived. The country! between this and Pascagoula is completely j inundated. —*— The Weather. —At this season of the year.! tre are usually parched up with drought and heat; but in the last month (August,) there J have been inccssent rains—we have had rain "pon rain,Apiil showers alternated witli win ftertorrents —wo verily believe the sun has (not shown five consecutive hours for the last month.—the Alabama has risen 20 feet, and j * s still vising, Cl rent damage* has been done ‘o ladder—the corn is sprouting where ripe, °n the ears, and cotton rotting, Should this 'venthcr continue pinch longer, the cotton '‘top will he cut short more than one hall. Pur country is ytill tolerably healthy, but '*l dry, hot weather succeeds we apprehend vim country yyill (suffer from endemic fc. V( tts. Selma Ale, Oour, Froni the Mississippi Advocate Tmfr Floods. — We learn from several pa that a greater quantity ol rain tell about oth of July last, in several parts of the ‘uuntry, than has happened in the same 1 n gth of time, with,in the recollection ot tlit* 'bleat inhabitants. The Editor of one paper ’ale.', that it fell not in dropH, or in streams, ,:,t in one vast sheet of water, threatning dc ‘■’f'lciiun in its course. The citizens of Ncw e-' V. Delaware, Pennsylvania and Ohio, U! sustained irnmei|ac hisses in the de motion of t|u ir crops and buildings. A '■* v stone house, at Hluirsville, Penn ; ’ hi Mr. John Mills, tv. ir.h had been erected near the margin of a canal and creek, was carried away by the violence ot the water, and Mr. Mills, his wife and two children lost their lives in the awful catastro phe. In our section of the country also, a vcfv considerable quantity of rain has fallen, dur ine' the present season, and it is thought the crops have been materially damaged. 0 Extract of a letter dated BATON ROUGE, (LA.) Aug. 30. “Ram began falling here on Saturday night- continued, with a few hours intermis sion, during Sunday and the follow ing night": yesterday morning the rain began falling in torrents, accompanied by some wind: at about 2 o’clock I*. M. the wind rose to a hur ricane, and continued during a great part of last night, levelling fences, and upturning trees by wholesale. The cotton crops wore considerably injured by the storm of the 16th and 17th et seq, but now they must he nearly destroyed. Tell such of your friends as ex pect much from the crop in this neighborhood, not to be too sanguine. Yours, truly, &c.” —La Adv. WHEAT CROP. ( On the sid ject of tbc present year’s Wheat Crop, in the western sections of the State of New York, the Commercial Advertiser has tlie following paragraph: It has been stated, and the fact substantial ly contradicted, that the western wheat crop will this year, tall far short of the ordinary yield. \Ye have direct information upon the subject, which renders the intelligence hut too true. An extensive agriculturist from Cayuga County, states to us this morning, that in a wide section of the country, em bracing Cayuga and the adjoining counties, the crop will not equal one ball ot the ordina ry product. The quality is generally good, in Cayuga, when well got in. But such was grown, in consequence of the wetness of the season. Lidupi,)!} A TROt’P MAN, A GILMER MAN, NULLIFIER, <$6C. • It was asserted in a Macon paper, ( the Tel (■graph] that Mr. Crawford was, m 1828, the Chairman of a meeting in the town of Athens, at which he contemplated with pleasure the sepulchre of tbc Union, and sanctioned with liis name, the principle, that a state may const i- j tutionally, by imposing an excise, nullify a j law passed by Congress. We showed that if that meeting sanctioned the principle of Nullification,.Air. Lumpkin was also a nullifier, for he was present at the meeting, and was one of the committee that drew up the resolutions which Mr. Crawford i sanctioned with his name. j . On the showing of his own friends, then. Mr. I.CMFKIN was a NULLIFIER in the year 1828. On the 25th of April, 1830, Air. Lumpkin wrote to a friend in Georgia, a letter, of, which the following extract was published in the Athenian. “Weakness of the breast anil lungs, entirely prevents Gov. Troup from public speaking. Every body, however, knows where to find Troup. He will stand bv his arms. If the hill passes our House (and I think it will) it plaeesa half million ot dollars at the disposition of the Presi dent, for the removal of tjie Indians. Andi entertqrtain no doubt will be wisely and judicious ly used by the old hero. —A nil.in concert with other executive plans, "very soon remove all the Southern Indians. Indeed the Choctaws, Chick asaws, and Greeks, are already petitioning to go. And by prudent measures, the Olierokees will he forced tb yield. “The great difference between our former and late efforts upon the Indian subject, is that we now make it a subject of general policy, which involves the interest of many States and Territo ries; whereas formerly, Georgia~was contending for her rights sing * handed.” It follows, therefore, out of his own mouth, that MR. LUMPKIN" was aTIIOLT MAN in April, 1830. In relation to Governor Gilmer, we have hoard it confidently asserted that Mr. Lump kin, did, Mast winter, approve of the message of Governor Gilmer, and particularly that part which set forth his principles and policy, with regard to our Cherokee lands." If Mr. Lumpkin approved of the message J lie must have approved of the suggestion in I relation to Indian Testimony in ourcourts. Mr Lumpkin, approving of the message, | and being therefore a Gilmer man , he stood before the pu die, on precisely the same grounds with Mr. Gilmer on these two points, as well as others embraced in the message. And so late as February last ffrLumpkin, said in a letter, refusing to become a cundi : date, in opposition to Air. Gilmer, j “In the present posture in which we find the I important interests of Georgia, instead of pursa -1 ing a course which might tend to embitter party ! animosities, and engender new strifes, it is my most ardent desire to see the whole people of Georgia united on the great subjects of political interest, and principle, which are inseparably coii | nected with Liberty, and the perpetuation of our i Federal Union.” Mr. Lumpkin, then, hv his own showing, was a short time ago, a GILMER MAN. Where is Air Lumpkin now !—At the head of the Clark party —Where will he be next | vca r .’—There you are too hard tor us. Georgia Journal. We have been informed, and the ihforma tion is derived from undoubted authority, that some of the partiznns of Mr. Lumpkin, in Baldwin county, and in some of the ad - joining counlies, have adopted the ino-l des i pieahle means to electioneer against Gover : nor Gilmer. And among those means is this: that (lovernor Gilmer is in favor of a reserva tion pf the lots of land, after drawing, in which gi>hl should ho found. 'Flic gentle man yviio gave us the information, related to jus this circumstance: ho asked a citizen, for whom he would vote, the reply was, for : Mr. Lumpkin. Why? The answer was, because Mr. Giltner is in favor of declaring all the lots after being drawn, in which gold should be found, the property of the State, 1 and not of the persons who should have drawn i them, and any private enemy of mine tnav go and sprinkle a little gold dust in n shallow j branch,mid affirm that, thisgold had been dis ) covered on the lot I may have dtuwn, and i thereby deprive me of my property. We hope this notice of this despicable and dirty electioneering trick, wiH have the desired effect; instead of producing what their au thors anticipidated injury to the election of Governor Gilmer, it will benefit him, ns it should be. We should not be surprised to hear ot similar despicable means being resor ted to, when it. will be found that the one in question lias failed. Georgia Journal. A PI.TI AS ANT STAOE-OOACir companion.— A remarkably tall man travelling inside of a stage-coach, greatly incommoded the occu pant of the opposite .seat, by the disposition i of his feet- For many stages the sufferer bore his fate with heroic fortitude, and no word of complaint escaped his lips, until the j coacli again stopped to change horses, when J the tall gentleman unfastening the doo.r, ex claimed,“Well, I shall just go out and stretch my legs a little.” “Don’t for God’s sake, iJont!” replied the other, “they’re too loiig al ready.” “ Our Book relates to all the acts and eiiqdoy- { meats of man.” — Juvenal Friday, Sep!. Hi, l£3l. fljf The Advertiser will hereafter be issued on Wednesday mornings and Friday evenings. E.VTOXTOX CON VENTION. Delegates to the Convention, in addition to those heretofore published. Baldwin —Benjamin ,S. Jordan, John 15. Gor man, Tomlinson Fort. Jefferson —Irby Jackson, Patrick B. Connely, John 11. Newton. Tw iggs—Dr. Asa E. Dupree, Col. Nimrod W. Long, Maj. /I. Robertson, Stephen F. Miller. Warren —Maj. G. A. Chandler, Dr. Henry i Lockhart, Dr. Leroy Holt, and Robert Lazenby. ■ CHARLESTON election. The Nullification Ticket, for Inteiulant and Wardens in Charleston, S. C. has succeeded by j upwards of 100 votes. H. L. Pinkney is the j Inieiidant. ' The Seasooi. Under this head, in another part of our paper, I we h ive collected- all the accounts which have | reached us front different quarters, relating to (lie late destructive storm. From these statements, our readers will be enabled to form as correct "an estimate as ourself, of the injury done to the crops. That they have suffered severely, there can be no doubt. We regret to say that Mjrabeau LaMar, Esq. one of the delegates to the Philadelphia Free Trade Convention, from Muscogee county, in this State, lias been prevented, by a sudden and j severe indisposition, from attending that highly interesting and important meeting, lie was at tacked in Mrlledgeville, while on his way to Philadelphia, with an autumnal disease which will preclude the possibility of his attendance. We lament this unexpected dispensation, nqt only as it regards the health of M. L. but the loss which the Convention will sustain in his services. He is an enlightened Georgian, enthu siastically devoted to the rights of the States and the perpetuity of the Union. The j eople of Muscogee have just time enough to appoint a successor to Mr. L., and we hope they will promptly do it. We learn from the Georgia Journal, of yester day, that John Wingfield, Esq. of Morgan, in ctnssqucnce of his domestic arrangements, de clines the appointment as one of the delegates to the Convention. He, however, expresses his hearty concurrence in the design of it. Foreign. Our European intelligence to-day is interesting. We give all the details that have reached us.— The gallant Poles, it seems, maintain their form er advantages; and. if reports speak true, they will receive the formidable aid of France and Great Britain. Such an event, would speedily giv once more to the countrymen of fcobiesii, Pulaski, and Koskiuseo, “a name amongthe Na tions of the Earth” —a name which their patriot ism and chivalry have more richly merited and proudly earned, than all the Revolutions w hich have so lately shook the Old World to its centre. In France, all is pacific. The Speech of-the Citizen King, evinces towards the United States those friendly feelings which characterized our ancient Ally, under the fatal reign of the amiable hut unfortunate Louis. The recent Treaty too, which we have concluded with that country, shews the Commanding position we occupy in her councils. We may no doubt attribute'in a great degree the favorable estimation in which w e are held by La Belle France, to the untiring influ ence oftl.S good I.a Fayette. Since writing the above, this morning’s mail brings usadvlct . thn . -days 5-.rt<r—they are irom Liverpool and London, and up to the 2d and 4th August, inclusive. They bring us no certain in telligence from the Poles. Several important ru mors however, were afloat. “One is, that a great battle had taken place, in which the Russians were defeated with the lor;, of 11,000 men and BO •pieces of cannon. Another, that the Russians were bombarding Warsaw. And a third, (re j pealing a previous report) that the Emperor Nicli j olas was dead.” Our commercial advices by this arrival are to | the 3d August. In cotton, they say, “there is little business doing in our market this week with |no alteration whatever in prices. The sales on J Monday 1500—yesterday and to-day, the sales dull. The imports this week are fair.” Ulr. ISt-Doiinld. That “ the devil iiiay quote scripture to his purpose,” was never more successfully illrts trated in a political point of view, than it has been by this gentleman, lie takes up de tached quotations from Washington, JafFor son, and Jackson, which have no definite bearing upon the contexts, and attempts, tci?/ he nil he, to impose them upon the people, as fundamental rules of principle and action. In our last, we exposed the fallacies, in this particular, which he attempted to fix upon the administration of the venerated Washing ton, and shall now turn our attention to his misrepresentations of the opinions of Jeffer son. Even in the most desperate exigencies of public affairs, Jefferson reprobated the exten sion of a protective, influence over, any one branch of the National Industry to the exclu sion of another. As an evidence of the fact, we shall here quote his views, delivered in an official interview with Gen. Washington, when he was President of the United States, and the former Secretary of State, as record ed in his “ Ana.” He is speaking of a finan cial project, then proposed by the Treasury Department, and vehemently supported by tTio old Federalists. He said to Gen. Wash ington : “ That it was a fact, as certainly known as that he and I were then conversing, that par ticular members of the Legislature, while those laws were on the carpet, had feathered their nests with paper, had then voted for the laws, and Constantly since lent all the energy of their talents, and instrumentality of their offices, to the establishment and enlargement of this system ; that they had chained it about our necks for a great length of time, and iri j order to keep the game in their hands, had from time to time, aided in making such legis lative constructions Of the Constitution, as made it a very different thing from what the people thought they had submitted to : that : they had now brought forward a proposition i far beyond every one yet advanced, and to [whichthe eyes of many were turned, as the j decision which was to let us know, whether I we lire under a limited or an unlimited gov- j eminent. * He (Gen. Washington,) asked me to what proposition,! alluded 1 answered,(,o I that in the report on manufactures, which, 1 under color of giving BOUNTIES for the cn jcburagement of PARTICULAR RIANU FACTI RHS, meant to est ablish the doctrine, that the power given by the Constitution to collect taxes to provide for the general wel fare of the United Stales, permitted Congress to take every thing under their management ( which THEY should deem for the public wel \ fare, and which is susceptible of the apphea -1 tion of money." Iff re then, it w ill he seen, even in the in ! ejpicnt stage of our government, with what patriotic solicitude Thomas Jefferson viewed that manufacturing spirit of monopoly, which i is now raging throughout our country w ith ! fearful strides. What then was hut a sub- Ijectl'or apprehension, has now heroine a j fact of startling reality. The untiring, in ! genioue, and insidious labors of the Consoli- J dationists, have at length fastened the Incu ' bus upon our shoulders, and it will require a ! patriotic struggle to shake (he monster off".— They have, in the prophetic language of the Sage of Alonticello, at length succeeded, “in making such legislative constructions of the Constitution, as makes it a very different thing from what the PEOPLE thought they had j submitted to." To show vvliat a harmonious consistency prevailed in the opinions of this great man, during his eventful and illustrious life, we a ■ gain refer o him as late as the year 1825, hut ; a short period previous to theplosc of his ir.or jUl career. Speaking on the same subject, 1 in a letter to a distinguished individual, he J says: “ I see, as you do, and with the deepest af ■ ffietion, the rapid strides with which the l'e i derul branch of our government is advancing j towards the USURPATION OF ALL THE ; RIGHTS RESERVED TO THE STATES, iand the consolidation in itself of all powers, I foreign and domestic ; and that too, by con ; Htniclions, which, if legitimate, have no h ' mils to their power. Take together the deci sion of the Federal Court, the doctrines of the President (J. Q. Adams,) and the mis constructions of the constitutional compact, ; acted on by the legislature of the federal brtmch, and it is hut too evident, that the three ruling branches of that department arc in combination to strip their colleagues, the , State authorities, of tl * powers reserved by : them, and to exercise themselves, all fune- I tions, foreign and domestic !— Under the pow er to regulate commerce, they assume indef nitrfy, that also over agriculture amt mam• j furfures, and call it regulation to take the earnings of one of these brunches of industry, and that too the most depressed, and put them l into the pockets of the other, (the mnnufactu rers,) the most Jfotrishing of all. Under the authority to establish post rqads, they claim that of cutting down mountains for the con struction of roads, of digging canals, and aid ed by a little sophistry on the words ‘ general welfare,’ a right to do not only the act3 to ef fect that w hich are specifically enumerated ! and permitted, but whatsoever they shall j think or pretend will he for the general wel-; fare. And what is our resource for the pro- ! serration of the Constitution ? Reason and argument? You miehtas well reason and nr gue with the marble columns encircling them. The representatives chosen by ourselves ? They tire joined in the combination ; 6ome from incorrect views of government, some from corrupt ones, sufficient, voting together, to outnumber the sound parts ; and with mu- j joritics only of one, two, or three, bold enough j to go forward in defiance.” In this critical juncture of affairs, what J course did the pat.fotism of Thomas .filler- j son recommend ? An immediate appeal to 1 the dernier resort ? No. He recommended a course which we have endeavored, in our bumble capacity, to impress upon the uiinda of Mr, McDonald and the party of which In is a deluded follower. After deprecating all movements, instanter, to such a measure, Mr. j Jefferson thus concludes his .wholesome ad- j vice : “But in the meantime, the State should be watchful to note every material usurpation on their rights ; to denounce them as they occur ; in the most peremptory terms', to protest against them as wrongs to which our present submission shall be considered not as acknowl edgements or precedents of right, but as a tem porary yielding to the lesser ceil, until their accumulation shall OVER WEIGH THAT OF SEPARATION.” Is this the policy which is pointed toby tbc purblind nnd destructive doctrines of Mr. .McDonald? Far from it. Light and dark-) ness arc not in a more striking contrast to each other, than are his opaque views ami the I illuminating opinions ofAlr. Jefferson. Air. j McDonald has, by his opposition to’Mr. La-) mar’s resolutions, emphatically said to us “As far as my vote can go, 1 will deprive the j people of the South of the privilege of meet- i ing together in Convention, for the purpose! ot petitioning for a redress of their grievan-! ces,” However ingeniously the gentleman may quibble, or how ever ably he may sophis ticate the question “to this conclusion he must come at. last.” * As we are apprehensive of overleaping the limits of this paper, we must here arrest our remarks until the. next number. We will then shew that there is as great discrepancies between Mr. McDonald’s opinions and those of General Jackson, as we have here proved to exist between Air. Jefferson’s arid thellori. Ex-Judge’s. In the mean time we beg leave to submit to our readers Ihc following excellent article from the Banner of the Constitution. It will convince them—and we are sorry to make, the assertion—that there is to be found a pa triotic son of the North, who is better ac quainted with the rights and interests of our State, than is one of her own sons, who is now aspiring to a high judicial station among us. From the Bonner of the Constitution. The favourable reception which the propo sal for a Free Trade. Convention has every where inet with, must be highly gratifying to tile friends of lib. ml. commercial principles throughout the U. States.—Almost ail seem too look to it as tjie harbinger of a better state of feeling than lias foi a long time existed; and, if it he attended with no better effects, it will, at least, serve to show that the contest now carried on is not a struggle for sectional interests, but for principles dear 'to a large and respectable portion of our citizens in ev ery State of flic Union. The number of Delegates already chosen, which amounts to upwards of one hundred and thirty, leaves no room to doubt that the Convention will be largely attended; and, up on the score of talents and respectability*©! character, it will not suffer by comparison with any deliberative body in the land. Can it be, then, that near two hundred citizens shall leave their homos, and take a journey or a voyage of one hundred, five hundred, or a thousand miles, at a great expense and sacri fice of comfort, without exciting the impress ion, far and wide, that the oppressions under which they labor, or, at least, think they labor, have struck deep into their sensibilities, the rather, because indicted by n brother’s hand! Can it happen, that a numerous body of distin guished men, from all parts of tin: l nion,can intermingle with the intelligent society of this city, and w ith one another, without exci ting the revival of those ancient sympathies which carried them along, hand-in-hand, du ring all former periods of national peril I Can it he, that a numerous, and dignified assem bly; acting under tlie sanction of the Consti tution, which guaranties “tlie right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances,” can issue a solemn manifesto, declaratory of their opinion that the Union ism danger,and that a refusal of one portion of the people to lend a conciliatory car to the complaints of another,, must inevitably destroy the harmo ny which can alone hold the States together under one common head: can such a mani festo, we say, he put forth, signed by a large number of the most able and patriotic citi zens of which the country can boast, without inducing the people to pause and reflect! In tine, can it he, that a plain, practical, arid honest exposition, of thcrcal effects produced by the Restrictive System, in retarding tlio national wealth and prosperity, shall not in duce thousands to examine the subject, who have never done it before? To all these qnes- tions we think the reply will be emphatically, negative—and we think we are warranted in saying, that, in this quarter, already there have appeared indications of a spirit of con -1 eiliation amongst the opponents of Free Trade, j which are exhibited in a moderated tone, I and a respectful notice of the proposed Con | vention. Some feeble attempts were made, for a I while, to excite public odium agninst this tru ' ly national measure, by intimating that the < ’on vention was designed- to promote the doc trine of Nullification. Tne malevolence and falsity of this aspersion were, however, soon put down, by the respectability and known o pinions of the gentlemen appointed in our ci ty, and who were amongst its zealous promo ters. Their odject was, as w<3 have occasion to know, to present a common ground, upon u bieh all could stand who were opposed to the Restrictive System x whether they regarded it as unconstitutional, or even merely as inexpe dient and unwise. No plan, therefore, of ef fecting a removal of the evil in any other way than by an appeal to the good sense and lovo of Union of the people, was in their contem plation; and it is evident, from the proceed ings of all the meetings, at the South and else where, that the same view is there entertain ed. In fact, this proposal ioc a Con vention o rigmatod North of the Potomac. It was in tended to say to our brethren cf the South, “We think there is yet hope in the good sense of the people—before you resolve upon -my measure of a character regarded here, by the mass of the community, as unconstitutional, or revolutionary, unite with your friends at the North, who sympathise in your sufferings, and who believe, with yon, in the truths of politi 1 science, in making one strong and conciliatory appeal to ths Government and to the Nation.’ This is the spit it in which it appears to have been received; and it must be manifest, that, just in proportion as this spirit is adhered to by all parties, will the Southern Delegates carry home with them the esteem, the affection, and the sympathies, of their Northern brethren—feelings which, at a crisis like the present, are of great price. Ancient and Modern Poland.—An cient Poland was a large country of Europe lying between Germany, Russia, Turkey, and Hungary. Including Lithuania, it con tains 284,000 square miles, and 15,000,000 inhabitants. The partition of Poland be tween Russia, Austria, and Prussia, took place at three distinct epochs, 1772, 1793, and 1795, and tbc result of tiie whole was as follows Square Miles. Population.' To Austria, 64,000 4,700,000 To Prussia, [62.000 3,600,000 To Russia, (158,000 6,700,000 284,000 15,000,000 At the peace of Tilsit (July', 1807.) Bona parte stripped Prussia of the greatest part of her Polish possessions. Of these he gave a small portion to Russia, and erected the rest into anew state, called the Grand Duchy ot Warsaw, which he assigned to the King of Saxony. In 1809, after vanquishing Austria in the field, he'compelled her to cede part to his new Grand Duchy. But all the arrange ments of Bonaparte were overturned by llio disastrous campaign of 1812; the Russians re-occupied Poland ; and the Congress of A i enna, while it decreed to Austria and Prus sia a partial restitution of their late cession, confirmed to Russia all the Polish and Lithu- I aniaa provinces acquired before- 1795, con | ferring on her, in addition, the sovereignty of | central provinces, which constitute the pre j sent kingdom of Poland. Each of the three ! [lowers was enjoined bv the Congress to give ) to its respective portion of Poland as free a | Constitution as circumstances would permit.- ■ The following table shows how the territory j and population were divided between the three potveis at the Congress of Vienna":— Square Milts. Population. To Prussia, 29,000 1,800,000 To Austria, 30,000 3.500,000 Kingdom of Poland, 47,000 2,800,000 To Russia, 178,000 6,900,000 284,000 1 5,000,000 The Kingdom of Poland, as constit-.ted at tike Congress of Vienna, is the seat of the pre sent revolution. It comprises the chief part of that which, from 1807 to 1809, formed the Duchy of Warsaw. It consists of the central provinces of ancient Poland, bounded all along its frontier l>y the respective acquisi tions of Russia, Austria, and Prussia. Area, 47,000 square miles. The population at pre sent is estimated at 4,000,000. The coun try, though subject to the Sovereign of Rus sia, Was governed in every respect as a sepa ■rate monarchy. The regal dignity is vested iin the Czar, represented by a viceroy, in i whom, and a cabinet of ministers, the execu tive government resides. The.religion of the majority is the Catholic. The Protestants |of different sects arc also numerous; and there are many members of the Greek church. I The J t ws arc computed to forma seventh part of the whole population.— East Lidia , Magazine, June. GREAT HURRICANE—BARBADOS INr RUINS—IMMENSE LOSS OF LIVES. We lay before pur readers u letter from the Consulate of the United States at Martinique, just received by the Collector of this |>orf, ac companied by a Gazette extraordinary, issued from the Barbados Mercury Office, bearing date August 13, giving an aacount of the rav ages of one of the most terrible hurricanes of which we icmembcr to have heard. It pass ed over the ill fated island of Barbados on the night of the 10th rust, and in eight hours left- it desolate, covered with ruins and dead bodies. A letter to the American Consul at Martinique, dated August 15th say s—“ This island, I much f< ar is reined,G it will beimpos bln for it to recover. ’ —A r . )". /), Post, DIE D— At bis residence IriTwiggsci'mntv'Ga. on Friday the ninth inst. 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