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A PORTRAIT OF JEFFERSON.
“In the Vice-President’s chair sat Mr. Jefferson,
serene, self-possessed, and seemingly passive,
surrounded by the Senate, two-thirds of whom
were politically hostile at a time when political
hostility was personal and in a city where factions
ran so high that, as Mr. Marshall, a Senator Irom
Kentuckv, declared, those who happened to ac
company the Vice-President from the Senate
chamber to the Indian Queen tavern, where he
lodged, often had to ward off insults which were
aimed at him. The chair ot the Senate he filled
with ease and dignity, dividing his time, when
out of it, between the company of literary men,
particularly foreigners, of which he was very
fond, and the Philosophical Society, upon which
and on its committees lie was a regular attendant.
Asa politician, the public never saw him. Ad
dresses he never answered, speeches ho never
made ; and yet rarely has there ever been a party
so disciplined as that which looked up to him as
its chief. This was not by any active service
which he himself performed. It a code ot reso
lutions were to be anounced to settle the faith of
the infant party, Mr. Madison’s judicious pen was
invoked to give them shape, and bis presence in
the Virginia Legislature was required to add dig
nity to their utterance. If the young energies of
the West were to be awakened, Mr. Nicholas’s
holder genius was employed to impel Kentuckv
to a manifesto still more impetuous. Through
Mr. Li vingston was the alien law to be attacked;
tl r >ugh Mr. Gallatin the founding system to be
dissected ; and yet while the agents of the party
were operating throughout the land in perfect
harmony, and with unexampled industry and
skill, its chief continued, with the same disen
gaged equanimity, to preside in the Senate in the
morning, and to pursue his philosophical amuse
ments in the afternoon. No call was heard for
caucuses; aud even the hoarse voice of the Au
rora, the most vehement of party organs, never
uttered any of those significant notes by which
the wandering emissaries arc to be recalled to
the central roost for fresh instructions. Even
now, when Mr. Jefferson’s correspondence, or at
least the most unguarded portions of it, have been
published, nothing is so striking as the reserved
attitude he maintains; no edicts are announced.
It was from his lieutenants, and not from himself
that the orders were to issue. ‘Can you not in
duce Mr. Madison to put his views on paper?’ —
‘Mr. Nicholas has the matter in hand and will
give you his impressions.’ The ease with which
it worked can now be understood, by seeing how
nicely each workman was fitted for his post. —
Thus, on the appearance of Mr. Hamilton’s
‘Marcellos’ letters, Mr. Madison was detailed to
answer them, for ‘there is no person but yourself
can foil him;’ and Mr. Pendleton, then to the
dignity of spotless age adding the charms of a
style peculiarly gentle and lucid,
‘jucunda senectus
Cujus erant mores, qualis facundia, mite
Ingenium—
was ordered to issue a review of the Gerry cor
respondence, ‘short, simple, and levelled to every
capacity.’ But at the time, the master hand by
whom these springs were touched, was invisible
to the popular eye. It was recognised by its
results, not by its incidents. The party proceeded
in its cycles,not under a stroke given fresh at each
emergency, but under an impulse antecedently
imparted ; acting under the harmony of a system
rather than the stress of a decree. The wisdom
of its controller, like that of the inventor of the
automaton chess-player, become the more won
derful, because, instead of being supposed to
play well each particular move, he had the credit
of having prepared beforehand, with infallible
accuracy, the combinations of the whole game.”
A PORTRAIT OF HAMILTON.
“But Hamilton’s attitude was far different.
He was not only the guide, but the champion of
the party. Rejecting the mysterious habiliments
of the automaton, he stood before the audience
in person, bending over the board and moving the
pieces unmasked. Whatever was to be done, he
did himself. Neither labor, peril, nor exposure he
spared. His mighty arm was ever in the thickest
of the fight. Even when a boy of sixteen, his
cry against British tyranny floated clear and
shrill above the early voice of the revolution.
When scarcely twenty, at the head of Washing
ton’s staff* the crimson of his sash was deepened
with the first blood of Brandywine, Germantown,
and Monmouth. He led the advanced guard, at
A ork town, in that dashing charge which, on Oct.
14, 1781, drove in the first of the enemy’s out
posts. Nor did the field of battle alone know him.
Valleyforge found his keen and comprehensive
intellect mastering the details of military duty as
well as the principles of military organization ;
and from that frozen camp, under Washington’s
great sanction, did he issue those fierce appeals
which aroused once more the fire of the almost
cowering Congress. The same dashing temper,
the same splendid abilities, the same absorbing
individuality, followed him in the constitutional
convention, and into the assemblages, popular
and representative, by which, in New York, was
tried the Tate of the instrument which that con
vention perfected. In Washington’s Cabinet,
which he entered when he was hardly thirty-two,
he was not only the enthroned chief, but the un
disputed exponent of the party \\Jiich then began
to confine to itself the name of Federalists. An
incomparable felicity of style and precision'of ar
gument were animated by an instinct so fine as to
supply him with the logarithms of politics, instead
of the more tedious processes which others em
ployed ; and by his immense intellectual vitality,
his readiness to expose himself at any point and
to every danger, and his intrepid gallantry, he
not only centred in himself the whole activity of
his his part\q but in a manner, paralysed colla
teral energy. He became the embodiment of
that party, in the same way as Mr. Jefferson’s
party was the embodiment of himself. Mr. Jef
ferson spoke only through his friends; Mr. Ham
ilton’s friends spoke only through him. The in
fluence of the former was subtle, equal, and gen
tle, operating rather through the force of a pre
viously given rule than of an immediate precept;
the influence of the latter was direct and personal,
exercised at the particular moment, and pointed
to the particular case. The one committed to
his friends the chart by which the ship was to be
guided, and them withdrew from their company;
the other took the helm himself, cheering them bv
his presence, and controlling them by his com
mands.”^— Wharton’s State Trials of the United
States, §'c., fyc.
ANSWER TO THE DESCRIPTION OF AMERICAN
WHITE WASHING.
BY DR. FRANKLIN.
In the Character of a Lady.
Sir.—l have lately seen a letter upon the sub
ject of white washing, in which that necessary duty
of a good house-wife is treated with unmerited
ridicule. I should probably have forgot the fool
ish thing by this time; but the season coming on
which most women think suitable for cleansing
their apartments from the Smoke and dirt of the
winter, I find this fancy author dished up in
every family, and his flippant performance quoted
wherever a wife attempts to exercise her reason
able prerogative, or execute the duties of her
station. Women generally employ their time
to better purpose than scribbling. The cares
and comforts of a family rest principally upon
their shoulders ; hence it is that there are but few
female authors; and the men, knowing how ne
cessary our attentions are to their happiness, take
every opportunity of discouraging literary accom
plishments in the fair sex. You hear it echoed
from every quarter, — 4 My wife cannot make
verses, it is true; but she makes an excellent
pudding; she can’t correct the press, but she can
correct her children, and scold her servants with
admirable discretion ; she can’t unravel the in
tricacies of political economy and federal govern
ment; But she can knit charming stockings.’—
And this they call praising a wife, and doing jus
tice to her character, with much nonsense of the
like kind.
I say, women generally employ their time to
much better purposes than scribbling; otherwise
this facetious writer had not gone so long un
answered. We have ladies who sometimes lay
down the needle and take up the pen; I wonder
none of them have attempted some reply. For
my part, I do not pretend to be an author, I never
appeared in print in my life, but I can no longer
forbear saying something in answer to such im
pertinence, circulate how it may. Only, Sir, con
sider our situation. Men are naturally inattentive
to the decencies of life; but why should I be so
complaisant? I sav, they are naturally filthy
creatures. If it were not that their connection
with the refined sex polished their manners, and
had a happy influence on the general economy of
life, these lords of the creation would wallow in
filth, and populous cities wuuld infect the atmos
phere with their noxious vapors. It is the atten
tion and assiduity of the wonen that prevent
men from degenerating into mere swine. How
important then are the services we render; and
yet for these very services we are made the sub
ject of ridicule and fun. Base ingratitude!—
Nauseous creatures! Perhaps you may tLink I
am in a passion. No, Sir, Ido assure you I never
was more composed in my life; and yet itds
enough to provoke a saint to see how unreason
ably we are treated by the men. Why now,
there’s my husband—a good enough sort of a
man in the main—but I will give you a sample
of him.
He comes into the parlor the other day, where,
to be sure I was cutting up a piece of linen.—
Lord ! says he, what a flutter is here ! I can’t
bear to see the parlor look like a tailor’s shop ;
besides I am going to make some important phi
losophical experiments, aud must have sufficient
room. You must know my husband is one of
your would-be-philosophers. Well, I bundled
up my linen as quick as I could, and began to
darn a pair of ruffles, which took up no room,
and could give no offence. I thought, however,
I would watch my lord and master’s important
business. In about half an hour the tables were
covered with all manner of trumpery; bottles of
water, phials of drugs, pasteboard, paper and
cards, glue, paste arid gum arabic ; files, knives,
scissors and needles; rosin, wax, silk, thread,
rags, jags, tags, hooks, pamphlets, and papers.
Lord bless me*! I am almost out of breath, and
yet I have not numbered half the articles; well,
to work he went, and although I did not under
stand the object of his manoeuvres, yet I could
sufficiently discover that he did not succeed in
any one operation. I was.glad of that, I confess,
and with good reason too; for after he had fa
tigued himself with mischief, like a monkey in
a china shop, and had called the servants to clear
every thing away, I took a view of the scene my
parlor I shall not even attempt a mi
nute description; suffice it to say, that he had
overset his ink-fluid, and stained my best mahog
any table with ink; he had spilt a quantity of
vitriol, and burnt a large hole in my carpet; my
marble hearth was all over spotted with melted
rosin ; beside this, he had broken three china
cups, four wine-glasses, two tumblers, and one
of my handsomest decanters. And, after all, as
I said before, I perceived that he had not suc
ceeded in any one operation.- By the bye, tell
your friend the white-wash scribbler, that this is
one means by which our closets become furnished
with ‘ halves of china bowls, cracked tumblers,
broken wine-glasses, tops of tea-pots, and stop
pers of departed decanters. 1 I say, I took a view
of the dirt and devastation my philosophic hus
band had occasioned ; and there I sat, like Pa
tience on a monument, smiling at grief; but it
worked inwardly. I would almost as soon the
melted rosin and vitriol had been in his thooat,
as on my dear marble hearth and my beautiful
carpet. It is not true that women have no pow
er over their own feelings; for notwithstanding
this provocation, I said nothing, or next to noth
ing: fori only observed, very pleasantly, what
a lady of my acquaintance had told me, that the
reason why philosophers are called literary men.
is because they make a great litter ; not a word
more; however, the servant cleared away, and
down sat the philosopher. A friend dropt in soon
after —Your servant, Sir, how-do you do? ‘O,
Lord ! I am almost fatigued to death ; I have been
all the morning making philosophical experi
ments.’ I was more hardly put to it to smother
a laugh, than I had been just before to contain
my rage; my precious went out soon after, and I,
as you may suppose, mustered all my forces;
brushes, buckets, soap, sand, limeskins, and co
coa-nut shells, with all the powers of housewifery,
were immediately employed. I was certainly
the best philosopher of the two; for my experi
ment succeeded, and his did not. All was well
again, except my poor carpet —my vitriolized
carpet, which still continued a mournful memento
of philosophic fury, or rather philosophic folly.
This operation was scarce over, when in came
my experimental philosopher, and told me with
all the indifference in the world, that lie had in
vited six gentlemen to dine with him at three
o’clock. It was then past one. I complained of
the short notice ; poll ! poll ! said lie, you can
get a leg of mutton, and a loin of veal, and a few
potatoes, which will do well enough. Heavens,
what a chaos must the head of a philosopher be I
a leg of mutton, a loin of veal and potatoes! I
was at a loss whether I should laugh or be angry;
but there was no time for determining: I had but
an hour and a half to do a world of business in.
My carpet, which had suffered in the cause of
experimental philosophy in the morning, was des
tined to be most shamefully dishonored in the af
ternoon by a deluge of nasty tobacco juice. —
Gentlemen smokers love cigars better than car
pets. Think, Sir, what a woman must endure
under such circumstances, and then, after all,
to be reproached with her cleanliness, and to have
her white-washings, her scourings, and scrubbings
made the subject of ridicule, it is more than pa
tience can put up with. What I have now ex
hibited is but a small specimen of the injuries we
sustain from the boasted superiority of men.—
But we will not be laughed out of our cleanliness.
A woman would rather be called any thing than
sloven, as a man would rather be thought a knave
than a fool. I had a great deal more to say, but
I am called away; we are just preparing to
white-wash, and of course I have a deal of bu
siness on my hands. The white-wash buckets
are paraded, the brushes are ready, my husband
is gone off—so much the better; when one is
about a thorough cleaning, the first dirty thing to
be removed is one’s husband. lam called for
again. Adieu.
Mr. J. F. Allen, of Salem, Mass., is said to be
the greatest producer of grapes by artificial heat
in the United States—having nine graperies.—
Some of- his hot houses are over 100 feet in length,
and ripe grapes of the choicest varieties are hang
ing on the vines every month in the year. His
produce this year will be about 5000 lbs., and his
arrangements promise to double the yield—for
market, of course. Peach trees and apricots are
cultivated in the same way.
The person named Mackenzie, who has been
delivered up by the United States Commissioner
in New York to the Canadian authorities, is not
the well known Win. Lvon Mackenzie, but an
other mdjuidual of the same patronymic. He
was given up oil charge of forgery.
A bold but unsuccessful attempt was made on
Saturday night, the 7th inst., to rob the Union
Bank of Nashville, Tenn. The chap made a
hole sufficiently large in the floor to pass through
from the cellar, but failed in attempts to break
open desks, &c.
The Rochester Advertiser says that a little boy
attending school in the eastern part of that city,
picked up a piece of lime, supposing it to be
chalk, and put it it his pocket. While in school
the perspiration slacked the lime, and burned
him considerably before it could be removed.
A FRIEND OF THE FAMILY 1
SAVANNAH, THURSDAY, AUGUST J
AGENTS.
Mr. J. M. Boardman is our Agent for Macon.
Mr. S. S. Box for Rome.
Mr. Robt. E. Seyle for the State of South Caroli^
James O’Conner, Travelling Agent.
Dr. M. Woodruff, Columbus, Ga.
TO THE PUPLIC.
We offer tbe following premiums to individuals, dubs
visions and lodges, the distribution of which to take .pi„,
the Ist September, and all persons competing will please 1
the fact when they send in their list of subscribers, W e i lllt I
uoexceptions in favor of town or county.
To the individual, club, division or lodge, who returns u. .j,
greatest number of subscribers on or before Ist 1
Harper’s Pictorial Bible, Turkey, gilt edges, worth s*2s. F I
To the second largest list—The American Agricultu,..
from vol 1 to vol 6 inclusive, bound in cloth, worth $7,50.
To the third, Brande’s Encyclopedia of Science, Literatus
and Art, worth 85,00.
To the fourth, American Farmer’s Encyclopedia, worn I
$3,50.
* To the fifth, Downing’s Fruit and Fruit Trees of America I
worth $1,87.
The sixth, American Poulterer's Companion, worth $1,05
To the seventh, eighth, ninth, and tenth, Alteu’s Histon- I
and Description of Domestic Animals.
LAUNCH OF THE STEAMER OREGON.
On Saturday affernoon.at 3J o’clock, this fine, new steamer, 1
bn It by Jones 6c Paport lor the Union Company, I
launched. Her exact dimensions we nre not able to give, [,,, I
she is about one fourth larger than the H. L. Cook, and wl fi
draw much less water, which was the most important object I
to be obtained in her construction, in which her builders have I
met with success as her draught of water is but nine i uc hei I
and when she is ready to take freight it is expected she wj|| I
not draw more than sixteen or seventeen inches, and will thus I
be able to run at very low stages of the river.
May she be as successful As her mate the 11. L. Cook
which has arrived as promptly at her wharf for the jast sea- I
son as the Rail Road cars. The Cok is about to be over- I
hauled and placed in complete order for the next season’s bu- f
siness.
‘PUBLIC MEETING.
The attention of our readers is directed to the meeting of
citizens called by his Honor the Mayor, on Tuesday next, for
the purpose of taking immediate steps towards the continua
tion of the Burke county Rail Road.
TIT Barney McKinne, a white man, together with four
slaves and two free persons of color, were arrested on Satur
day night while playing at cards. The former was committed
for trial at the next term of the Superior Court, and the ne
groes were tried before his Honor the Mayor, on Monday,
and sentenced to receive thirty-nine lashes.
FLORIDA TROUBLES.
(rov. Mosel}’ has taken prompt measures for the protection
of the people in the vicinity of the Indian settlements. An
express left on the 25th, requiring the Colonel of Duval county
to raise a company of mounted men who are to repair inline
mediately to the scene of the outrage. A detachment of the
Company ol U. S. Artillery, at present stationed at St. Au
gustine, lias been sent by the commanding officer to Indian
River, and other points on the coast.
LATE AND IMPORTANT FROM TEXAS.
There seems uo longer to be any doubt in that quarter that
a general Indian war is at hand. The Indians in the region of
Laredo and along the Rio Grande to within 15 miles of Brown
ville, have been committing the most cruel depredations, kill
ling women and children, burning houses, stealing horses, and
destroying the growing crops. A train had been attacked near
Laredo and 13 men killed. The greatest uneasiness and
alarm prevailed throughout the Western and North-western
part of Texas.
TO HIS HONOR THE MAYOR,
S ,R: —Tbe undersigned, warmly interested in the success
of the Burke County Rail Road, hereby request you to call
a public meeting of the citizens, to be held at the Exchange
Long Room, on Tuesday, Aug. 7th, at noon, to take into con
sideration the propriety of extending public aid to said enter
prise.
Savannah, July 28th, 1849.
Jos. S. Fay, Jno. W. Anderson,
M. H. McAllister, Edward J. Harden,
Rabun & Fulton, Win. H. Bulloch,
D. !•. Hnlsey, G. W. Garmany 6c Cos.,
Jos. H. Burroughs, C. A. L. Lamar,
Way & King, p. J). Woolhopter,
N. A. Hardee &: Cos., J. H. Ladd,
W, Woodbridge, F. S. Barrow,
Willinm Duncan, Henry Harper,
Hamilton & Hardeman, Robert A. Allen,
J. C. Habersham, C. F. Mills,
Andrew Low 6c Cos., A. Champion,
Greiner 6c Beall, John N. Lewis,
McCleskey 6c Norton, A. Welles, per A. R. Wright,
F. H. Wellman, Scranton & Johnston,
J. L. Swinney, M. J. Reilly, by W. A. Con
W. B, Giles & Cos., erv, Attorney, #
Yonge 4; Gnminell, E. .T. Purse,*
Washburn, Wilder 6c Cos., Williamson & Preston,
Robt. Habersham 6c Son, John L. Cope,
W. Mackay, S. C. Dunning,
J. A. Huger, Cohen, Norris, 6c Cos.,
George H. Johnson, Phillip Reilly,
Swiss, Denslow 6c Webster, Cohen 6c Fosdkk,
Davis & Copp, Mulford Marsh,
Boston 6c Gunby, Samuel Solomons,
B. A. Crane, by T. Holcombe,Thomas M. Turner A Cos.
Attorney,
MAYOR’S OFFICE.
Savannah, July 28tli, 1643-
In conformity with the above request, the citizens of n ’
vannab generally are respectfully invited to attend a P*$ li
Meeting , to be held at the Exchange Long Room, on Ti * “
day, August 7th, at 12 o’clock M.
[l. s.J R. WAYNE, Mayor*
Attest, Edward G. Wilson, Clrkk of Council.