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fro.n the New York Courier, Sept. 21.
LATER FROM EUROPE.
’ Bv (he jacket ship Garrick, Capt. Palmer,
from Liverpool, we have received our regu
lar London files to the 15th ultima, aiu, Li
verpool papers of the lGtn. VNe are also
indebted to Capt. Palmer ioi papers O; the
latest dale.
Tfie Liverpool cotton market remains
without material change.
Money continues abundant, and for com
mercial “purposes could be obtained at front
2 1-2 to 8 1-2 per cent. The continuance of
favorable weather, and the more promising
prospects of the harvest, had materially im
proved the appearance of the funds, and pro
duced a better feeling in the market.
The Canada Indemnity bill was read a
third time in trie House of Lords on the lflth;
and was ordered to a third reading on the
14th, in the House of Commons.
A correspon ler.ee ha 1 taken place, which
will he found, between Mr. O Connell and
Mr. Stevenson, in reference to certain offen
sive expressions alleged to have been used by
the former gentleman, touching the slave
holding relations of the American minister.
London, August 15.
THE AMERICAN MINISTER AND MR.
O’CONNELL.
23 Portland Plata;, August 9.
Sir: My attention has been called to the
publication, in (lie l ist Spectator, of a speech
which purports to have been delivered by
you at a public meeting in Birmingham, in
which you are reported to have used the fol
lowing language in relation to myself:
‘ I believe their very ambassador here is a
slave-breeder,onejof those beings who rear up
slaves for the purpose of traffic. Is it possi
ble that America would send here a man who
traffics in blood, and who is a disgrace to
human nature V
I desire to know from you whether this is
a correct report of what you said on (hat oc
casion, and with that view address to you
this communication.
I am, sir,
Very respectfully,
Your obedient, servant,
A. STEVENSON.
To Daniel O’Connell, Esq. &,o.
16 Pall Mall, Aug % 10.
Sir: In consequence of your letter of yes
terday’s .date, I examined the report of mv
speech at Birmingham, in the Spectator of
tlie 4th inst. and have no hesitation in say
ing, that the paragraph you have selected is
not a correct report of what I said on that
occasion.
The very next sentence, docs, to my mind,
show that the report could not he correct,
and having examined another report since,
as well as from distinct recollection, I repeat,
that the report is not correct.
I have the honor to be, sir,
Your very ob’l servant,
DANIEL O’CONNELL.
To A. Stevenson, Esq.
23 Portland Place, Aug. 11.
Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the
receipt of your note of last evening, in an
swer to the one from myself of the preceding
day.
Presuming that you intended your reply as
a disavowal of the offensive expressions con
tained in tint part of your reported speech
which had allusion to myself, and to which
your attention was called, I am satisfied with
the answer you have given.
As an incorrect report of your speech has
been made public through the press, I beg to
inform you that I deem it due to myself that
the correspondence which lias taken place
should also be published.
I am, sir,
Very respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
A. STEVENSON.
To Daniel O'Connell, Esq. &c.
London, Aug. 14.
In the House of Lords last night, several
bills received the Royal assent by commis
sion, after which Lord Brougham moved the
third reading of the Canada Government
Declaratory bill. Lord Denman made a
manly and constitutional speech, in which,
while he deprecated the grant of an indemni
ty to those who violate the law, and so far
opposed the bill, he fully admitted ‘ the enor
mous extent’ to which Lord Durham had ex
ercised the powers entrusted to him. The
bill was passed.
Lord Brougham afterwards presented a
petition (similar to one presented by M\
Leader in the Commons,) from the Honora
ble Leicester Stanhope, as chairman of the
committee, complaining that a statue by
Thorwaldsen, subscribed for fifteen years ago
by persons of distinction belonging to all par
ties, to perpetuate the memory of Lord By
ron, had been refused admission into West
minster Abbey, in consequence of the impro
per intervention et the Dean. It was beyond
all doubt tbe greatest work ol that great mas
ter, vet it had been lying now for a period of
nearly fifteen years unpacked in tbe custom
house. The reason was, that an application
which had been made in the usual form to
the Dean of Westminster (Dr. Ireland) for
its admission inlo the sacred edifice, where
the ashes of the illustrious dead reposed, had
been refused bv that Reverend person.
This refusal was understood to he ground
ed upon a belief in slanders respecting Lord
Byron’s religious opinions. Now, he (Lord
Brougham) believed Lord Byron’s most inti
mate friends did not know what his opinions
were, or whether they were orthodox or not.
The petitioners prayed, that, in consequence
of the refusal of the Dean of Westminster to
admit a statue which was said to be the finest
work of that great, sculptor, the House would
take steps to induce the temporary keeper of
a national edifice to admit the statues of the
illustrious dead.
The Canada bill was brought up in the
Commons, on a message from the Lords, and
after a short discussion, in which Lord T.
Russell, Mr. Leader, Lord Stanley, and Sir
G. Grey took part, the bill was read a first
and second time, and ordered to a third read
ing on tbe following dav.
Mr. Leader moved that an humble address!
be presented to her Majesty, praying that
her Majesty would be graciously pleased to
direct that there be laid before this house a
‘Return of the names of persons who have
been convicted in Upper Canada of treason,
misprision of treason, or felony, since the Ist
of October, 1837 ; the value of the persona!
property, the number cf acres of real estate,
the value of the houses, buildings, and l ands,
if any, belonging to such persons, forfeited
m tbs Crown ; the grants and sales, if any,
ot such forfeited property and estates; the
names of the purchasers and grantees of such
property and estates, and the value of the
personal and real estates, so forfeited, retain
ed by the Crown; and the amount or value
of real an 1 personal estate, if any, tint has
been granted by the Crown to the widows
children, and relatives of such persons, and!
the names of such grantees. 5
MARKETS.
Liverpool. August 15. ]
Cotton. —The market since Friday last,
has been more quiet, hut without effecting
prices, which remain steady, and the advance
of 1 Sd noticed as having been obtained on
American descriptions, under lair, during the
past week, is still sustained. The sales on
Saturday were 3 000 biles, on Monday
2,500 bales, an 1 yesterday 2.000 bales, chief
lv American descriptions, were sold, with a
very quiet market.
The sun? of $12,500 Ins been realised bv
the First Municipality of New Orleans, from
the letting of o.ster stands on the levee.
From the Bdy State Democrat. ,
The panic is over; the greatest, the most
widely concerted, and the most profligate in
our history. Its authors have paid an invo
luntary tribute to the truth of Lite Democratic
principle ; they have unconsciously confessed
that the love of order is one of the strongest
instincts of humanity. Despairing of gain
ing power from the tranquil preference of the
people, they have sought to gain it by in
creasing confusion, in the vain hope that the
people would not find resources in their own
energy, but would throw themselves in des
pair into the arms of the very men who were
tne authors of the public sufferings.
The panic is over; and the people of the
United States are none the less strongly de
voted to the cause which is their own—to the
cause of Democracy. True, there have been
great agitations, and opinions have vibrated
to and fro with strange rapidity. But the
hand of a child may so shake the” compass as
to affect the motions of the needle, while the
magnetic poles are fixed eternally in the earth
by the infinite power of God. just so has it
been with regard to the public opinion of the
country. The angry efforts of unprincipled
politicians have caused alternations and con
flicts; but the love of truth and freedom is
deeply planted in the soul of the nation, and
the might of genera! laws triumphs promptly,
easily, and always, over the transient jarrings
and influence of evanescent passions.
The panic is over, and no National Bank
has been established. The whole effort and
evil has defeated itself! The selfishness
which was willing to incur even tfie risks of
commercial ruin in its eager graspings after
dominion, has been able only to punish itself.
It has swept over the mercantile community,
scattering dismay and ruin ; it lias not been
able to wrest tloe nation out of the track of
freedom, marked out for it by Providence; it
has not been able to affect a retrogade move
ment ; it, lias not succeeded in changing the
tendencies of national legislation.
The panic is over ; and with the tranquil
ity of returning reason, the banks have been
compelled to return to specie payments. —
Such is the achievement of moral truth, sus
tained by the firmness of the Executive.
What Madison failed to accomplish, Van
Buren has succeeded in. Where Madison
yielded and granted a National Bank, Van
Buren has stood firm and refused. Where
Madison, harrassed by anxieties and sur
rounded by difficulties, consented to receive
an irredeemable currency, Van Buren, under
more favorable circumstances, has been sus
tained in his own inflexible integrity ; and
the banks, failing to triumph over his firm
ness, have been compelled to yield to his
policy. Such is the power of moral principle,
inflexibly asserted. The blessing of heaven
attends an honest purpose; and here again
faith in the intelligence and virtue of the
people, meets with its just reward in its un
exampled success. ‘Fhe bearing of the Pre
sident of (lie United States, during the frenzy
of the moneyed interest, will ever continue to
win admiration ; and the result will never be
forgotten, for it is without a parallel in the
history of any nation on earth.
The nanic is over; and not only have the
whigs failed to force upon the government an
irredeemable currency, not only have they’
failed to get a National Bank, not only have
they failed to win popular confidence, they
have not yet succeeded in getting a set of
principles on which they can rally. They
have not yet agreed what flag to hoist, under
what doctrines to gather. The letter of Mr.
Legare of South Carolina, is directly at vari
ance with Mr. Webster’s speeches. The
Whig party is floating about in the uncer
tainly of what haven they are to steer for :
by what rules they are to be guided. Here,
in Boston, the Daily Advertiser is too honest
to sustain the policy of Mr. Clay; the New
York American has been constantly at war
with the whig presses of Philadelphia ; and it
is a notorious fact, that the whigs come out
of the panic as they went into if, ‘ without
one honest common principle to bind them
together.’
The panic is over; and the whigs have
not yet been able to agree on a candidate for
the Presidency. Such is the doom of selfish
ness, such is the natural justice, by which
Heaven always defeats the purposes of the
enemies to freedom. Fie puts confusion into
their counsels; jealousies grow up in their
breasts; and the lofty spirit of self denying
patriotism, the spirit of union and harmony
growing out of the preference of truth and
right to personal aggrandizement, never in
spire their hearts with the energies that pro
mise victory. It is on their part a strife for
spoils, an anxious effort after power and
place; and Southern whigs, Northern whigs,
Harrison men, Clay men, and Webster men,
can never meet in that spirit of faith in great
principles, and of patristic self-denial, without
which a community of action is impossible.
On the other hand, even in the midst of
the panic, the democratic party has succeed
ed in all its essential purposes. It, has pre
vented the establishment of a National Bank ;
bv its unbending firmness it has compelled
the return of the banks to specie payments;
it has saved the government from a base
subjection to the moneyed interest; it has
protected the honest merchant against the
fraudulent speculator; it has sustained the
yeoman and the real emigrant against the
monopolist of lands; it has nursed our do
mestic manufactures against the policy of
excessive importations from abroad.
CHATHAM COUNTY MEETING.
At a meeting of the Union and State flights
party of Chatham county, arid those op
posed to a Bank of the United States, and
in favor of sustaining the Administration
in the etliirt to separate the Government
and Banks, held in the long room of the
Exchange, in Savannah, on Monday eve
ning, 24th September, Adam Cope, Esq.
was called to the Chair, and Fred’k. A.
Tipper, appointed Secretary
The following resolution was submitted by
M. H. McAllister, Esq. seconded by Mr. L.
Scranton, and adopted :
Resolved, That a committee of thirteen, of
whom the chairman shall be one, be appoint
ed by the chair, whose otity it shall be to no
minate a ticket fur the next Legislature, to be
supported by the Union and Slate Rights
party of Chatham county, and that said com
mittee report their nomination, and the ac
ceptance of rhe nominees, at a meeting to he
held at this price to-morrow evening.
The chairman (time having been allowed
for that purpose,) appointed the same eve
ning, the following gentlemen to compose the
committee:—Adam Cope, Thomas Purse,
George Shick, M. Myers, Isaac Ilussel, 11.
M. Goodwin, Dr. R. D. Arnold, L. Scranton,
R. A. Lewis. Isaac De Lyon, Fred’k. Dens
!er, M. Dillon, and Jacob Schaffer.
The following resolutions were then offered
by Isaac Russel, Esq. seconded by Mr. Geo.
Shick, and adopted:—
Resolved , That this meeting most cordially
approve of the administration of Martin A an
Buren, and that his recommendation of es
tablishing a Treasury of the United States,
where the fiscal concerns of the government
can be managed by officers appointed by the
people, and subject to their control, is clearly
and expressly indicated by the constitution.
Resolved, That we consider the depositing
the people’s money in the vaults of hanks,
and loaning the same to the customers ofj
sneo institutions, is a direct violation ot’ the
constitution, which declares, ‘ No money shall
be drawn from the treasury but by appropri
ations made by law;’ that to collect money j
Irom one portion ol the people, to he placed
in hanks, and loaned out to others, who have]
no snare in its production, is manifest inius-j
tice. |
Resolved, That an independent treasury,
and the separation of its affairs from all con-!
nexion with banks, meets our entire appro-1
bation.
Resolved, That we view such an institution
as a United Slates Bank, as an abomination— ;
a monster calculated only to destroy the de- I
mocracy of the country, and to build on its i
ruins aristocracy and monarchy.
From the South Carolinian.
INDEPENDENT TREASURY—FACTS
FOR THE PEOPLE.
There is a habit of assertion, with some ‘
men, who don’t know what they are talking !
about, that the public money will not be safe
in the hands of public officers. A few facts
will show which have been most faithful de- j
positories, the collectors, or the banks. Since 1
1739 the immense sum of (§1,053,000,000,)
ten hundred and fifty-three millions of dol
lars, have gone through the hands and con-;
tro! of the public collectors and land receivers, i
During the 49 years embraced in this ealeu- j
lation, the whole loss, by these individual col-’
lectors and receivers, is computed at about!
§1,000,000, or one-tenth of one per cent.— |
Erom ISI7 to 1834, the amount of the public i
revenue deposited in the banks, was about
$350,000,000, or a little mo'c than one-third
of what had gone through the hands of the
collectors and receivers. Upon this, the loss,
in 17 years, has been 81,254,424, or three
eighths of one per cent, —besides which,!
there is about $10,090,000 of government
money due by the deposite banks, on depos
ites of government and its disbursing officers,
which Was not finally secured at the last
Treasury reports.
At New York, about $357,000,000 have
been received by the collectors, and only
$21,700 lost by defaulters—being about six
cents every SI,OOO, or about one-sixtieth of
what was lost on $350,000,000 deposited in
the banks in 17 years.
In the mint, about $73,000,000 have been
coined, and not one cent lost by a defaulter.
These things have happened under the old
Treasury organization, which was not guard
ed so carefully as the Independent Treasury
would have been, if the bankites had not de
feated it. That bill provided that larger
bonds should be given by public officers, and
that if one of them used, lent, or permitted
the public money to be used, while in his
charge, he should be indicted as a felon, and
fined and imprisoned. Now, can you punish
a bank, and make it honest ? If it uses your
money, can you imprison it, and fine it?—
Can you disgrace it, by making it a felon ?
ONE OF THE PEOPLE.
Specie. —Considerable arrivals of specie for
our Banks have taken place within a few
days, and other amounts are near at hand,
and will be received in the course of a week.
Specie funds are also provided to a large
amount in New York, which can either be
converted into specie, or he used for purpo
ses of Exchange. Os the specie received, or
near at hand, the Darien Bank has $40,000,
the Ocmulgee Bank $30,000, the Branch
State Bank $60,000, the Monroe Rail Road
Bank $23,000. The exact amount received
by the other Banks we have not understood;
but all are well provided against the opening
of the fall business, to afford their aid in the
purchase of the country produce. All our
banks, it will be recollected, were in good
condition at the time of tlu-ir last reports, and
the amounts now received are in addition to
what they then had in their vaults. It is
proper to remark, that on an examination of
the condition of the banks throughout the
country, few, if any, present as solvent a
condition as those of Georgia.
The Branch Insurance Bank of Columbus
in this city, has about twenty-seven dollars
in specie to one in circulation.
The Bank of Hawkinsville has also lately
received about $40,000 in specie.
The fall business lias opened with a pros
pect of fair prices fir cotton, which will pro
bably continue, should the banks be able to
afford the means necessary for its purchase;
but should they be drawn upon for specie,
(except what may be necessary for purposes
of change,) by those who sell it, in the early
part of the season! discounts must necessarily
stop, and the prices be greatly reduced, if not
an almost entire suspension of purchases.
These are facts which it becomes our plant
ers, and all others interested, to take into
consideration.
Exchange on New York at our Banks, is
now two per rent. — Macon Messenger.
Southern Money Affairs. —The New York
Journal of Commerce says: Letters from
Gen. Hamilton in England, say that his offers
of 5 per cent. South Carolina stocks at 95
(to rebuild Charleston) has been accepted as
soon as made. He had disposed ol a million
of dollars at that rate, and would return in
ihe Great Western. Anegociation has been
made here, by which a bank in Alabama has
been authorized to draw on one of the banks
in Wall street., at sight, for $1,500,000. —
Southern funds are in demand. Georgia is
taken to any extent at 1 1-2 discount, and
Charleston at 1 discount.
PRINTERS’ BILLS IN PARTICULAR
DUNS IN GENERAL.
There is certainly embedded somewhere in
human nature, a principle which leads men to
turn up their noses at printers’ bills. Os all
sorts of duns, a printers’ dun is ihe most un
done dun. There is rest neither night nor
day for the sole of his foot, and a denial to
him is a matter so natural, that he has become
a standing monument of patience. Those
who wish to prepare themselves for elevation
in eternity, ought 1o engage to collect debts
for a printer. Job’s 1 ang suffering spirit is a
1 mere circumstance’ to that of a printer’s
dun. We are well aware that the best kind
of a dun is a bore most intolerable. He is a
man, to make the best of him, who carries
with him a multitude of calamities, and, like
a camel, before a simoon, all sorts of people
can scent his approach.
* Mr. John Smith, here is your bill for a
small matter due the office of the ‘ Luminous
Illuminator.’ This is the fiftieth time that I
have called, and you will oblige me by ‘pony
ing up.’
Mr. Smith puts on his spectacles, ap
proaches the collector, inspects the bill, and
walks off saying, ‘ Pshaw, these printers’ hills
are nuisances. Ten years I have subscribed
to the Illuminator, and what good has it done?
T can’t see any benefit that I have reaped
from it. I only subscribed to patronize the
concern. Didn’t expect to he tensed every
day with a trifling account. Stop my paper I .’
The reply of Mr. John Smith contains the
very philosophy of the thing. Mr. Smith
cannot see the ‘benefit he has reaped from
the ‘ Luminous Illuminator,” and hence he
won’t pay the bill. Now, when Mr. John
Smith buys a coat to keep out the cold, the
benefit he reaps from it is tangible. He can
comprehend the quid pro quo. But a news
paper shuts out ignorance from the nobler, the
intellectual portion of his natore, and it is,
therefore, incomprehensible. He can’t f'd it.
and, therefore, says it is net. We believe
diat schoolmasters’ bills, doctors’ hills, law
yers’ bills, and divines’ bills, are all more dis- ;
ficult of collection, than shoe makers’, gro- i
cers’, or merchants’ bills. The reason is be-;
cause the ‘benefits reaped’ are not suscepti
ble of touch or visual demonstration. The i
ruling principle is the same throughout Christ
endom.
Most persons can feel the absence of a i
newspaper, although ilsey cannot compre
hend its presence. It is a simple, gentle, dai
ly adviser. Ii comes freighted with noiseless
news, to every man’s door, and most persons
take it up as they do the hand of a long tried
friend, whose a r gus eyed nature penetrates
all quarters of the horizon. Like that friend,
too, few know its loss until it occurs, and
then there is a vacancy in the day—an insip- f
id hour in the morning, that used to be filled
with the pleasing instruction which it brought.
Ah! ye two legged sinners that neglect the
printer, toink of the intolerable curiosity
which your newspaper has frequently relieved
you of, and then go straightway and repent.
As we have elsewhere observed, we have ;
a most excellent and honest set of subscribers;
land we are duly thankful for all their kind- 1
! ness. In concluding this article, we bestow
our benison upon them. To the young men,
we wish that choicest of all blessings—a
I good wife. To the young ladies, attentive
! lovers and kind husbands. To the old men,
i (we love old men) we wish obedient sows,
| sweet hours of repose, and a hopelul contem
plation of the future. To the old women
but we forget, tiiere are no old women. —
i Our gallantry is sadiy at fault.
‘
Gratitude. —What American can read,
i without deep emotion, the following anecdote
‘from Stephen’s ‘lncidents of Travel in J
i Greece, See.’
! ‘ x\t Kalamaki, while walking along the
•shore, a Greek who spoke the lingua Franca
j came from on board one of the little caiques,
and, when he learned that I was an Ameri
can, described to me the scene that had taken
j place on that beach upon the arrival of pro-
I visions from America ; when thousands of
miserable beings who had fled from the blaze
of their dwellings, and lived for months upon
plants and roots; greyheaded men, mothers
with infants at their breasts, emaciated with
hunger and almost Frantic with despair, came
down from their mountain retreats to receive
the welcome relief. He might well remember
the scene, tor he had been one of that star
ring people; and he look me to his house,
and showed me his wife and four children,
j now nearly all grown, telling me that they
I had all been rescued from death by the
generosity of my countrymen. I do not i
I know why, but in those countries it did not
seem unmanly for a bearded and whiskered j
! man to weep; I felt any thing but contempt \
| for him when, with his heart overflowing and
j his eyes filled with tears, he told me, when I
j returned home, to sav to my countrymen
that I had seen and talked with a recipient
’ of their bounty ; and though the Greeks might
| never repay us, they could never forget what
we had done for them. 1 remembered the
[excitement in our country in their behalf, in
I colleges and schools, from the greybearded
[senator to the prattling schoolboy, and re
! fleeted that, perhaps, my mite, cast carelessly
upon the waters, had saved from the extre
mity of misery this grateful family. I wished
that the cold-blooded prudence which would
have checked our honest enthusiasm in favor
of a people, under calamities and horrors
worse than ever fell to the lot of man strug
gling to he free, could have listened to ihe
gratitude of this Greek family. With deep
interest I bade them farewell, and telling my
guide 1o follow with mv horse, walked over
to the foot of the mountain.’
AUTUMN.
Again lias the revolution of the seasons
brought us to that period of the year which
is peculiarly the time of thought, and of gra
titude. The Creator lias so harmonised na
tural objects and seasons with the revelations
he has vouchsafed of the principles of true
religion, that nature and revelation mutually
support and sustain each other. The objects
which greet our senses are types of the truths
which religion offers to the mind. The think
ing being needs no other confirmation than
Nature generally spreads before him of the
truth of religion, and the immortality of the
soul. In support of the belief that the spirit
of man has an eternal existence, we have the
truth in nature that matter can never he an
nihilated. The most that chance and change
can do toward its destruction is to change its
form. Though in one shape it appear to
vanish before us, it is only again to present
itself in anew and more beautiful formation
—the same ingredients—the same atoms—
reunited and more perfect. Shall we say then
that the soul, the reason, the intelligence of
man—call it. by what term we please—is less
than matter? Are the senseless and inani
mate objects we meet endued with an eter
nity of existence which the soul is denied ?
Are our very bodies—the earthly temples—
of superior nature to the spirit which inhabits
them? Reason—the boasted champion of
those who would be wise above what is writ
ten, revolts at such a degrading idea—a
thought full of ingratitude to Omnipotence,
and a doubting of his wisdom.
As there is an autumn to the year—so to
each man’s life, who is not cut down at mid
summer or in the spring time of his existence,
there is a time, when his only joy is in retro
spection, or in the enjoyment of the present
fruits of past labor and industry. The au
tumn of life answers to the Fall of the year.
Its winter is death, and beyond that death
the Christian believes that there is another
Spring, the advent of a life eternal. Happy
are those whose autumn is the tuition of early
promise.
We have this season abundant reason to be
grateful for the bounties of a kind Providence.
Not only are crops abundant, the fruits which
minister to our enjoyment, as well as the more
solid food upon which we depend for support;
but universal health enables those for whom
these blessings are intended, to partake of
them in joy and thankfulness. At no period
for many a year have so many happy cir
cumstances combined to bless us as at the
present. Let us then, while w r e rejoice, re
member the Giver. —Boston Eve. Gaz.
GOLDEN OPINIONS.
I am here insensibly led to make an apoln
-Igy lor the instability of the theories and
practice of physic; and those physicians gen
erally become the most eminent, who have
the soonest emancipated themselves from the
tyranny of the schools of physic.— Late Au
thor.
Our want of success is occasioned by the
following causes: Ist. an ignorance of the
disease; 2d, our ignorance of a suitable re
medy; 3d, want of efiicacv in the remedy.—
I Ibid.
j If truth doth any where manifest ilself, seek
i not to smother it with glossing delusion ; ac
knowledge the greatness ihereof, and esteem
it thy best victory when the same doth pre
j vail over Ihee. — Hooker.
The whole nation is groaning under the
present practice of the Medical profession,
which fosters disease more than cures it, arid
debases or ruins our constitution. — Morison.
Diet. —ls you ask the French professors
what is the best mode of curing disease, tliev
will answer you like the Greek orator, when
it was inquired what was the first essential in
eloquence? he answered action; and what
i the second? action; and what the third? ac-\
: tion. So would the physicians of Paris, if it j
were inquired what was the first requisite in j
! curing disease, they would answer, diet; and
the second? diet; and the third? diet.
Masticate Food. —ln eating food due care
should be taken to chew or masticate it suff
iciently, previous to its being swallowed.—
: This is a point deserving of a very strict at- i
I tention, and may be deemed the first process
lin digestion. Why? Because without the
solid parts of our food being well triturated in 1
j the mouth, and at the same time incorporated j
with a due proportion of the salivary secre
tion, it cannot he converted into good chyle, j
or healthy nutriment.
W c find the following conundrum in the
last number of the New York Mirror: ‘When 1
a mother puts her child to sleep, of what two
peaces in the vicinity of New York does she
remind your Sing Sing and Rockawav.’ I
SENTINEL & HERALD. |
COLUMBUS, OCTOBER 4, 1338.
dissolution! !
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the subscribers, is dissolved by mutual con-’
sent. The accounts due the concern will be
in the hands of B. V. Iverson, or Ids agent,
D y
who will attend to their settlement.
B. V. IVERSON, 1
J. B. WEBB. I
Columbus, Sept. 1, 1833.
The following persons have kindly con
sented to act as Agents for the Sentinel and
Herald :
Col. C. Parker, Collodensville, Monroe Cos. I
Peter Cone, Esq. Eden, Effingham Cos.
Rev. Reuben E. Brown, Perry P. O. Hous
ton Cos.
Trios. H. Key, Esq. Drayton, Dooly Cos.
Col. Thos. J. Holmes, Concord, Baker Cos
j Stephen D. Crane, Esq. Dahlonega, Lump- \
kin Cos.
; Col. John Dill, Fort Gaines, Go.
j John C. Mangiiam, Greenville, Ga.
j E. J. Wood &, Cos. St. Joseph, Flor.
! Nourse, Brooks Cos. Apalachicola.
1 J. S. Yarbrough, Lumpkin, Stewart Cos.
1 Ja? Buchanan, Cuthbert, Randolph Cos.
Erratum. —ln our editorial of last week, by
mistake ‘ Archimedes’ was inserted, when it!
should have been ‘ Lycurgus. 5
THE DEMOCRATIC PRESS.
The September number of the Democratic
Review, in contrasting the Whig and Demo
cratic newspapers in our country, says of the
; latter, ‘ though in number not equalling pro
; babiy the fourtli part of their opponents —and
: almost universally inferior in those elements
of success which depend on the liberality
with which they are supported by the public
—yet the democratic papers, throughout the
country, exhibit at the present period a con
trast to the whig presses equally favorable
and remarkable. They are lull of energy,
boldness, confidence, earnestness, argument
and eloquence.’
This is certainly a high compliment to the
Democratic press of the United Slates; and
specially so, coming as it does, from a source
entitled to so much credit for discriminating
and powerful talent. But we do not believe
that the panegyric is overstrained; every
observant reader must have long since mark
ed the striking difference between the demo
cratic and whig papers; and the strong
sense, the sober and thoughtful eloquence,
and the nervous style which characterise the
matter found in the columns of the former.
Nor is it strange that the question should
stand thus : The great principle of demo
cracy, which it is ours to advocate —a prin
ciple leading back to the formation of this
glorious confederacy—a principle lodged at
the base of a Constitution written for the
brave, the virtuous and the free.; is the main
spring whicli moves us in all our actions,
and animates every lover of the Union with
the bright hope of reward : and that reward,
lie is assured, will be the perpetuation of the
free institutions of his beloved country. Who
could not —who wo ild not write free, bold
and eloquent, when the quill he holds has
been plucked from the wing of liberty’s bird?
What excitement is wanting—w T hat lack of
theme —what absence of thought or dearth
of language can there be, when the cause of
truth, the principle of liberty and equal
rights, and the bright example of our illustri
ous fathers, all rise around us as the magi of
genius, scattering their light along our way,
and inspiring us with the divinity of virtuous
and valorous deeds! We would not appear
in the vain and offending character of boast
ers and egotists, but we do, upon our con
science, believe that tlie cause we advocate is
the cause of truth, the cause of liberty, and
the cause of the people. In such a cause,
the tongue must be free to speak, and elo
quent in its utterance; and the head clear
and strong to write, and truthful in its rea-
sonings,
Our opponents are contending against the
administration; and the administration is
contending for a democratic, republican form
of government; to be administered upon the
pure principles of its origin ; totally discon
nected from great monied interests and influ
ences. How stiikingly manifest, then, the
difference between the two parties! And
how sublimely superior does the cause of the
democratic administration rise above the
puny hiit exasperated struggles of its oppo
nent whigs.
‘ The friends of the administration have a
distinct and specific policy to pursue and de
fend. It is boldly put forward, and held on
| high, as being itself its best recommendation,
if only suffered to be fairly carried out in
practice. It is simple and transparent. All
can readily understand it, and it is impossible
long to attempt to misrepresent and mystify it.
Its friends write their principles on their
| foreheads; embody them in the most clear
and full expositions of them ; and even have
recourse to unusual forms, to put forth the
most authentic declarations of them. They
are all, moreover, of an unequivocal demo
cratic character.’
The whigs, on the contrary, are fighting
under cover. Their heart’s desire is most
indubitably for a National Bank, but they are
afraid to avow the doctrine. They seek to
catch the breeze of popularity, ere their sen-,
timents are fully and fairly known, refusing!
for the present to declare for either Clay, j
Webster or Harrison, referring their fiiends
to some future Convention, which mighty i
caucus shall decide which of the godlike pa
triots, sycophantic political jugglers, or aboli
tion favorites shall be run fur the next Presi
dency.
Engaged in this latter mysterious, unde
veloped cause, are an immense number of
presses, perhaps trebling the number of those
on the side of democracy. And why •’ Be- j
cause the whigs are the poxcer party; they
are animated and moved onward by the
potent and magic influence of money , ‘ the
root of all evil.’ And alas for the purity of
our institutions, and the perpetuation of our
liberties, there are too many to be found upon
the political arena, who are ready to work
for the ‘filthy lucre’ in any cause, pure or
impure, fair or foul.
But how rich the consolation which flows
as a river into the heart of that man, who
knows himself to be the advocate, untram
melled and free, of a constitutional form of
government; of that code of political ethics,;
framed and adapted by the great apostles of
freedom, who lived and acted in ‘ times that
ti-ied men’s souls!’ Nor does the mind pass J
beyond the bounds of sober reason, when it j
goes forth lbndiy to contemplate ihe surpas- ;
sing amount id’ patriotic infiuence which a
press, devoted to the maintenance of demo
cratic principles, must exercise over and
above those vehicles of Whig calumnies and I
misrepresentations—papers bought and sold,
like cattle in the market—ready to do the j
bidding of the autocrat of a great national in
stitution, and struggling ingloriously for a
consolidated government —a reestablishment
of the Hamiltonian system ! May we be
saved from the pernicious principles of the
author of the United States Bank, and deliv- j
j ered from the executive sway of a lineal de-1
I scendant of the old Federal school —Henry
Clay.
POLITICAL INTOLERANCE.
By a contemplation of the infinite variety
with which the productions of both mind and
! matter are so broadly and minutely marked,
it would seem that Deity had afforded to man
the clearest indications of his duty. \ ariety
in her productions seems to be one of the im- j
mutable laws of nature ; throughout the wide
range of the material universe, this principle
prevails in all its infinitude. In Ihe regions
I of mind, no less than in those of matter, the
: influence of this same immutable law is mani
; test; and it lias been well remarked, tiiat men
do not attach themselves to parties, govern
ments, or systems of religion, because in
I every thing each of these accord with their
! own opinions, but because the principles !
; maintained, established, or taught, are most
i nearly allied to their own views. It we would
keep in view the existence of this important
truth, taught us by the economy of the uni
verse, anti also this utilitarian principle, or,
perhaps to speak more properly, this principle
of majesty, we should witness far less of that
degrading spirit of intolerance which so j
strongly marks and disgraces the present age- j
Intolerance is a vestige of barbarism,
which, in despite of all the lights which sci- i
once and religion have poured upon the
world, has descended to us from the dark
ages. It is either the offspring of ignorance,
or ot a wicked and perverse heart: it is the
agent of mischief, and the arch destroyer of
human happiness. We behold in the present ;
day, die faint but fearful glimmerings of tiiat
| indomitable spirit which led martyrs to the j
j stake, and victims to the wheel. If men
I would suffer themselves to be governed by
| reason, tiiat noble and distinguishing attri
| bute of his nature, rather than by the influ
ence of the animal passions, which lie pos
| sesses in common with the lowest order of the
brute creation, intolerance, both political and
religious, would be banished from the world.
But the great misfortune is, that in polities,
personal ambition, a sordid and selfish thirst
for power, for wealth, for influence, and a
thousand other objects unconnected with the
good of country, marks the devious course of
political aspirant??.
The channels of communication between
i these and the great body of the people, in
l many instances, we regret to say, are polluted
and corrupt in the highest degree. Such men
and parties have their political organs or
engines to operate upon public opinion, and
| the degraded and detestable managers of a
portion, at least, of the public press of this
country, are but public slanderers, with the
sherest impudence prostituting truth, and for
the self-gratification of the triumph of a party,
or a favorite to whom they are bound hand
and foot, they seek to degrade, wither, and
blast the character of all who may dare have
the independence to think for themselves.
Thus the most angry feelings are elicited, by
appealing to the worst passions of our nature,
and the most fearful elements of the human
cliaracter are called into action, destructive
alike to the peace of individuals and society.
A noble and generous discussion of principle
is lost sight of, and a political contest becomes ;
a petty, loathsome, and degrading scramble, j
Every man having the good of his country j
and of society at heart, should lend all his j
energies to put down this state of things;
and the man who aids in producing them,
should he held as a public enemy, and driven
into that station of insignificance which his
conduct so richly merits, by the universal
contempt and withering frowns of a virtuous
and enlightened people.
In a republic especially, the truth should :
never be lost sight of, that politics is justly j
ranked as a moral science. Its great aim is j
the happiness of man, the main prospect and !
object of his life: by it the lessons of correct j
government are taught, and with us espe- !
daily, the democratic principle of ‘ the great
est good of the greatest number,’ is one of its
standing duties. By the rules of pure dia
lectics, the ardent searcher after truth may
learn her important lessons. The principles
of politics thus established and pursued, be
come a high, a noble, and an exalting subject
of contemplation. The beneficial infiuence j
exerted by her disciples upon all ranks and
conditions of men, would be most sensibly and
powerfully felt: before it ignorance and into- j
lerance would vanish, and it might then be
SO lOj
‘ And man the brother,
Lives the friend of man.’
If the habit of regarding politics in this
light should he cherished, the science of go
j vernment would advance towards perfection
! with an exulting rapidity, the condition of
man would become greatly ameliorated, and
the cause of morality astonishingly advanced.
. _
The Democratic party of the state ‘of New
: York have nominated Win, L. Marcy for
j Governor, and the Whigs have nominated
Wm. 11. Seward for the same office.
J Mr. Sully, the celebrated portrait painter,
| has returned to this country, having sojourn
ed in Europe for several years. Whilst in
London he took the portrait of Queen Vic
toria.
A cucumber six feet and six inches long,
; grew in the garden of Joshua Clapp, Esq. in
the town of Leicester, Massachusetts. This |
upon the authority of the editor of the Wor- !
cester Spv.
*
Dr. Priestly, in one of his works, states,
that he had often, in a fit of abstraction, pe
rused a book almost through without discov
ering that it was one of his own works.
Query. Can the editors of the Enquirer
peruse their last number, and not recognise
it as their oicn work ?
ELECTIONS.
In writing upon this subject we cannot
sing, ‘ Hurra.i for the red, white and blue,’
for our tickets w ere printed on plain white pa
per, emblematical of the purity of our princi
ples, whilst our opponents showed the pink 1
and blue, and beat us with a jerk that vvel
j nigh put us out of joint; and what with a
Waterloo field on which to gaze, bad head
1 aches, and considerable nausea this morning
■=>
we feel strongly predisposed to the sentimen
tal, and must breathe out the mournful strain,
Oh no I never mention,’ &c. ; still the truth
must be told, and so here goes.
The votes on the Congressional ticket stand
■ as follows in our county :
Colquitt, 903 Iverson, 7G9
Alford, 856 Burney, 694
Dawson, 837 Campbell, 702
Habersham, 831 Graves, 67-2
Nesbit, 847 Hiilyer, 691
Cooper, 890 McWhorter, 666
King, 855 Patterson, 659
Biack, S3S Pooler, 659
Warren, 826 Nelson, 678
And for the Legislature:
senate.
: Calhoun, 823 Campbell, 727
REPRESENTATIVES.
Evans, 917 Lewis, 754
Howard, 859 Ilarp, 608
Richmond County. —A slip from the Chron
icle and Sentinel office, dated the 2d instant,
says :
‘ The election in this county yesterday
resulted in the success of the entire State
Rights ticket for the Legislature, by majori
ties oi Irom seventy-five to one hundred and
filt.v, and of the Congress ticket by majorities
: of irom one hundred and fifty to two hundred,
i We kept our paper open until near daylight
j this morning, in order to give the returns,
j but are not able to do so with correctness
| except at the city box.
The State Rights party appear to be gain
! ing in every direction. In Baldwin and Bibb
ifull State Rights tickets have been elected
and in Monroe four. In Talbot, the Union
| ticket lost one representative, and in Stewart
| a Senator. We hard'y know what to make
jof the signs which appear on our political
I sky. It may be that we shall be touted
j‘horse, foot and dragoons,’ so far as the Un
lion party is concerned, but of one thing we
are quite sure, tiiat whatever ticket prevails
| m the State, the Sub-Treasury must succeed
over the Bank.
COTTON.
The article comes in sluggishly. Sales
W‘ere made on yesterday at 10 1-4. Our
1 banks resumed specie payment on Monday
last, and w T e look lor a revival in business
generally.
| Stock of Cotton on band Ist
October, 1537, 4,467 bales.
I Received-from Ist October,
2 I 5
J 1537, to Ist Oct. IS3S. 42,873 “
j Shipped from Ist Oct. 1537,
I to Ist Oct. 1533, 46.990 “
11 i
1 Stock on hand Ist Oct. 183S, 355 “
!
, TIIE PROSPECT BEFORE US.
r i In judging of the future by itie past, we
I (have no cause to despair. We think it in
, dubitably true tiiat the march of Democrat id
, | principles is onward. If the South is true
. 1 1> herself, we shall escape the fangs of Fcde
.; ralistn. The delusion which a short time
i since seemed to lay such powerful hold upon
Ii the nation, us, we think, rapidly giving.wnV.
j Alabama has spoken in a voice of thunder to
. j the opposition, and Maine has nobly reechoed
! back the sound. The stern Republicanism
oi the great West, in the plenitude and ma
jesty of her strength, so far as heard from,
has proclaimed her adherence to the Demo
cratic cause. South Carolina is safe, beyond
a doubt, and it yet remains to be seen what
will be the language of our own beloved
Georgia. We believe her true to the great
, cause of popular rights. The present cor*
| test, as we have again and again declared,
lis one of momentous importance. The issue
| is in effect distinctly made up, whether this
government shall be under the control of (lie
sovereign people, or under the control of a
combined aristocracy of wealth. We know
that there are some who yet believe the peo
ple not capable of self-government— that they
are properly under the direction of the favor
ed few, and subject to their mandate. We
| rejoice to know this doctrine lo be false ; and
Whilst we admit that the corrupt machina
! lions of the enemies of democracy have
| sometimes succeeded, for a limited period, in
j gulling the people into a support of their
measures, yet a correct and proper under
standing of their true interest, and the inte
rest and honor of their country, has never
failed to bring them back into position. So
it will be again.
The course pursued by the State Rights,
or rather Nullification party, in this State,
; will be seen by every candid man to be one of
great inconsistency and equally great disin
genuousness. Whilst they profess to be op
| posed to a National Bank, they are using ail
their energies to put down the present admi
nistration, which, if prostrated and defeated,
the Bank Federal parly must necessarily
come into power. We are to judge of the
, tree by its fruits, and when professions go
,one way and actions another, we must lie
! permitted to take actions ns the surest index
of opinions and wishes. If this is the crite
rion by which we are to be governed, we
(would ask. so far at least as any issue now
before the country is concurred in, what does
j litis party differ from the Federal party of the
I North? We admit that as a party, they
; have not declared themselves in favor of
Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, or Harrison,
■ for the Preside:.cv, hut they are the avowed
and open opponents of Mr. Van Buren.
Some portion of that party profess them
s fives the friends of the leading measures of
the present administration, and yet we find
them, as we before said, as a party, heart
; and soul against the administration ; we find,
too, that they openly support an avowed
Bank man. Where, we ask, is the consis
tency of this course ?’
With a certain class, the good old way is
regarded as the bad old way.— Boston Even
ing Gazette.
That ‘certain class’ we should call in this
.section of country, IVhigs or JYuliifiers.
i General Mirabeau B. Lamar lias been
elected President of the Republic of Texas,
and M. Burnett Vice President.