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MI % t air Si A Sfj 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.