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The following beautiful reflections ou
Voin in are from “the disowned.”
“Th re is something very delightful in
turning from the unquietness and agita
tion, the fever, the ambition, the harsh and
worldly realities of man’s character, to
.the gentle and deep recesses of woman’s
secret heart. Within her musing?
is a ream, of haunted and fairy thought,
to which the things of this turbid and
troubled life have no entrance.—What to
her are the changes of state, the rivalries
and contentions which form the staple of
our existence? For her there is an intense
and fond philosophy, Im-fore whose eyes
substances flit ami fade like shadows
»"d shadows grow flowingly into truth.
Her soul’s creations are not as the moving
and aortal images seen in the common
day; they are things, like spirits steeped in
the dim moonlight heard when ail else
are still and busy when earth's labourer’s
are at rest! They are
“Such stuff
As dreams are made of, and thoir little life.
Js founded by asleep.
Her’ s is the real and uncentered poetry of
being, which pervades and surrounds her
as with an air, which peoples her visions
and animates her love, which shrinks
earth into herself, and finds marvel
and meditation in all that it Iteholds with
in, and which spreads even over the hea
ven in whose faith she so ardently be
lieves, the mystery and tlie tenderness of
romance.”
LAMBETII STREET POLICE—
LONDON.
Avery peaceable pale faced operative,
charged a brawney limbed coal porter
one of the “unwashed;” with having as
saulted him.
I were a sitting quite promiscuous in
the tap room of the Jolly Gardeners,
when the defendant gets into a hargument
me, which I told lain he knowed nothing
about. ‘Don’t I,’ say he, ‘and what do
you think?’ and he ups with his first, and
gives me a little punch in the head. So
us 1 warntnable to compete with him why
I gets up and walks out, with this ere
observation, that I were rightly sarved
for holding siteh discourse with sitch a
feller. He follows me out, and quiet una
wors, fetches me a kick behind wot sent
gae smack into the kindle.”
“Please your Vorshib,” said the defen-
Unt, “that there chap voted to houiidc me
as he’d got a bettcrer hedication than vot
I’d got, and I offered to take the conceit
out on him in any branch of laming liow
somever; bin instead of that while I was
busy in discoursing with cot I'd got left in
my pint.”
A policemen here informed the Magis
trates that the conduct of the defendant
had been exceedingly violent, and that
when in custody he had resisted and se
verely beaten him.
Tlia Magistrate upon hereing this fined
the defendant £5, or two months, impris
onment.
.frimisggssr.
""FR >'l EI JROl’E.—The ship Colain*
bia from Loudon, and the Caledonia from
Liverpool, at New York, have brought
papers to the first of April from the latter,
inclusive. The Cotton Market had been
animated at an advance. The news from
Poland is cheering; France and Austria
appear to approach a rupture; confusion
prevails in Belgium, and despotism still
reigns in Portugal.
Portugal. —A private correspondent of
8 London paper of the 30th March gives
on account, in a letter dated the 19th, of
the execution of seven persons in that
capital, accused of a conspiracy against
Don Miguel The attempt of the conspi
rators was made on the Bth, when the per
son in question, with others charged with
being their accomplices, were apprehend
ed. Their trial by special commission
had been interrupted by the report of the
insurrection of Cadi/, and the lsla de
Leon, which had produced the greatest
consternation at the court of Lisbon.—
On the 13th a Spar.Vi courier arrived with
the news of the failure of the insurrec
tionary movement. Don Miguel there
fore give orders to the tribunal to proceed.
Accordingly the president of the commis
sion drew up a sentence, in which seven
were ordered to lie executed, seven to be
transported and seven to bo acquitted, but
not liberated. The first seven were or
dered to he committed to the care ot two
friars, who were told to prepare them lor
being strangled and burnt, it is men
tioned as a curious fact, that Don Miguel
did not, as usual attend this execution, or
go to see the heads stuck on poles after
wards. The heads arc stated to have
been burnt along with the bodies.
SPAIN.
An article in the Lisbon Gazette, dated
at Madrid on the 12th alt. contains of
ficial accounts from Cadiz, of the of the
execution of 45 of the Constitutionalist, of
the Band of of Monzanares.
A Supplement to the (lazrttr of the
17th, gives the official account of the dis
comfiture of the Constitutionalist. They
were 400 in number.
This despatch is dated Seville, March
9th.
Another despatch of the 11th, states
the capture of a small number of Consti
tutionalists ; so that the Band is wholly
destroyed and broken up.
FR V\TF.
Paris, March 20.—A few hours have
affected a great alteration in the aspect of
affairs here ; yesterday all was calm-to
day all is excitement. The confirmation
of the reported entry of the \ustrians in
to Bologna, and speech of the President
dfthc Council in reference to it, leave lit-,
tic ground for hope that war may be n
voided. The report on the state of the
public Treasury and Revenue, presented
by M. Humans, is fraught with addition
al causes for despondency.
BELGIUM.
This unhapy country is again agitated
within and threatened from without.
Antwerp March 25.—The Dutch stroops
are in motion, and ure approaching its irreat
numbers to our frontiers, by way ofßlad
el, and Eerzel, between Eiudltoveu and
Turnhout.
The position of flic squadron on the
whole line to Flushing, is prescisdv the
same; some persons who pretend to be
well informed affirm, however, that there
will he a change in a few days , that the
Zceuw will come before the city with
some covettes, and that the gun boats
will go away. At ail events it is certain
that the Zceuw, of 99 guns, is ready to
leave Flushing, and that it is fitted out
for active service.
Brussels. , March 28, 4A. M.—.“ The
greatest alarm pervades the town. A
horde of miscreants, paid and organized
by well known individuals, have liven let
upon the town, and are at this moment
committing the most disgraceful acts of
disorder and pillage—acts which will
render forever infamous the names of the
instigators, and cast eternal disgrace upon
the nation, the more since they are not
the result of temporary effervescence but
emanate from a preorganised plan. Re
ports of an Orange complot plot in this
place and Antwerp have been rife for
some davs, a partial corroboration of the
truth of the reports was produced by the
declaration of a Cos!. Borreinens, who in
a drunken carousal, proclaimed his in
tentions of proceeding to meet the Prince
of Orange with his regiment. The offi
cer was immediately arrested, and it is
said that he made revelations implica
ting other persons.
The regiment stationed in the caserne
Saint Elizabeth muntined, planted a tree
of liberty before the gate maltreated some
of the officers, and then being fined by
some of the populance, proceeded to the
prison, demanded the life of their chief.
Vienna, March —lt is said that an ar
my 0f90,000 tnen will he stationed in Bo
hemia. and a corps of 30,000 men the
frontiers of Troyal A Itaily.
POLAND
The advices from Poland are encour
ageing,. Diebitsch remains inactive, and
the vicorious Dwernicki has pursued
Krentz and his barbarians over the Bgu
into Podolia where the people are rising.
The German papers receiv ed to the 23d
instant, are of some interest, as testifying
the further success of the Polish cause.—
The entry of the Polish army, under
Dwernicki; into the province of Pololia
is likely to produce a considerable in
crease of perplexity to the Russians.—
The Nobility and their dependents have
arisen cn tnasse, and assembled 15,000
cavaliy, which force advanced to Katniu
icze the capital, and disarmed a Russian
regiment of infantry. Tlie news of this
has already, it is supposed, led to a re
treat of the force under General Kreutz
The private acounts from Berlin give a
most heartcheeriug account of the state
of the Polish cause. If these accounts
may he relied upon, the Russian army is
in a most deplorable condition—a con
dition only equalled by that of troops of
Napoleon, in their retreat from Moscow.
AH we can say is, may such ever be the
late of tyrants and their miserable, but
not less guilty adherents. By the way it
is.said that France, Prussia, and Eng
land, have remonstrated with Russia on
behalf of the Poles. We are afraid re
monstrance, unbacked by arms, will pro
d uce little or no good to the cause of that
brave but unfortunate people.
Warsaw, March 12.—Gen. Dwcrnieki
got the appellation of Cannon Provider,
because every monent he is bringing in
some fresh piece that lie has taken from
the enemy. We have this moment learnt
that his troops huve passed the Bug at
Clamour and Horodlo. On ariving at
Wendzetnen/.y, the seat of the goverment
of Volhyniai, they divided, taking the
roads of Kswell and Loutsk. It is iin
inipossible to describe the joy and enthu
siasm of the Volhyuiaidians, on witnes
sing the arrival of their brethern, the
Poles. They only waited for this, to a
venge the outrages that have been com
mitted upon their most distinguished cit
izens. Princes Sangusko and Ltibem
beski, Kounts Isidore and Alexander
Tabanski, Count Joseph Moszezenki,
with many others, have been violently
tom from their families, and conveyed to
the very extremity of Muscovy. The
whole of Lithuania is burning to avenge
those acts of barbarity. The fate of
Nicholas is sealed. We are waiting, witli
the utmost impatience, for official reports
of the heroic march of our intrepid war
riors.
March,' Ise—After the departure of the
eorps under the command of Gen. Dwer
nicki, the Russians made a second entry
into the town of Pulawy on the 9th inst.
Humanity is struck with the atrocious hor
rors committed a second time by these
Russians upon the unfortunate inhabit
ants. Alter having pillaged and com
pletely destroyed Pulawy, they forced a
wav with them seven of the inhabitants,
on which unfortunate beings they commit
ted the most violent acts of barbarism ev
er heard of in the civilized world. A
mong those unfortunrte persons, were
Gniewkwicz, and another, the name un
known to the eyewitness. After their
suffering the most dreadful punishment,
their eves were pushed ou‘, until death
put them out of reach of further torments;
which otherwise, they would have to have
undergone from the bunds of those bur
i bariatis.
| IRELAND. —Tlie wgetched penssrt
ry of the West have organized a system
(peaceful, but still dangerous) of combi
nations against the landlords—have set a
price on lands, and though thev do not
resort to acts of violence, and have deter
miuedon abstaining from them they take
no land unless it will he let on their own
j terms. Thegentry will not submit. The
1 evil which we hear is this; scarcity at pre
| sent stares is in the face; the average
stock ot previsions, at least the poor man’s
{ sustenance,.i* not sufFeint even withecon
| omy, to bold out until the harvest. The
| country generally is flooded—tillage
backwards— the pul: of March dust can
not lie gathered— the harvest must he late
RUSSI 4.—A letter from St. Peters
hurgh, in the Algemine Zeitung, of the
IGth hist, contains the following passa
ges:—
The Emperor is resolved to incorpo
rate the Polish kingdom with Russia, as
a province of his g-eut 3nipirc. This j
would he a merited satisfaction iriven to
the Russian nation. It was, perhaps o
rigiintlly an ill-judged proceeding to at
tach l*oland to Russia,*and yet as inde
pendent of the Russian government, and
to give it coTTstitututioMal institutions,
while the form of government among us
remained absolute. There was in this
a contrast which could not fail to excite
mutual dislike Hid greatly contributed t«
the dreadful catastrophe of 1825.
NETHERLANDS.—We learn from
good authority that the negoeiations for
the loan vvliicl bur government was to
contract, hate failed in England, on ac
count of the unsettled state of the Conti
nent, w hich Would not permit this loan to
be contracted except on very low terms to
which the minister of Finance could not
accede.
Latest from Mexico.—We have recei
ved a file oftie Registro Official of the
Capital of Mexico, to the 26th of March,
brought by th< brig Alto, which arrived
yesterday frou Vera Cruz, having sailed
on the Ist inst.
Tlie government have promoted per
haps a hundred or more of the officers of
the army bribe South, on account of
their success in the late campaign; and
rewarded with a dollar and 4 reals a great
many non-commissioned officers and pri
vates.
The National Congress were occupied
w ith the proposed reforms of the Con
stitution, recommended by the Legisla
ture.
The Registro of the 25th March, states
that the country is in a state of tranquili
ty, aril presumes that peace will be pre
servedj and affairs go on well. Wc see
no indications of disturbance at present;
but it b certain elements of discord are
not waiting, and that some of the favor
ite plans of the government, if put into
execution, may bring them into action.
On the Btli, some cotton machinery ar
rived at Mexico, which had been sent out
from the United States. A company has
been formed in Guanajuato, called the
Junta ot Ceiaya, (the cupitol,) with a bank
tor the encouragement of manufactures;
and its prospects lire said to be fluttering.
A proposition submitted to the Con
gress by the Vice President in relation to
the Press, was reported against on the
24th, by aCommitte of the House of Rep
resentatives.
Extract of a letter received in this city,
by the Alto, from Vera Cruz, under date
of April Ist.
“The Conductor is expected here from
Mexico on Sunday next, with a large a
mount of specie.—No political news.
N. I*. Daily Adc. April 23.
Erplosion of a pair of Bellows —This
morning about 8 o’clock, the inhabitants
in the vicinity of Eldridge street, were
considerably alarmed by a sudden report
which shook the houses in the neighbor
hood. It proceeded from the steam en
gine manufacture of Mr. William T.
James, No. 45 Eldridge street, which was
caused by the bursting ot the Bellows used
in his establishment. The explosion
broke the beams, and threw the flooring
entirely off of them. No lives were lost,
although if it had happened one minute
sooner, a number would have been killed.
iV. Y. Com. Ado.
NEW-YORK, April 29.
Distressing Shipreck. —We learn from
the llallifax Jouraul, of the 18th inst. that
the brig Billow; -.Captain Dennis, from
Bermuda, for llallifax, with discharged
soldiers under charge of Lieut. Liston,
81st Regiment and their wives and chil
dren, was lost the Ragged Island in the
gale of Saturday, 9th inst. and all on
board perished. It appears by her papers
which drifted ashore that there were 63
women and children, and 30 men, besides
the ere w, on board.
Prom the Southern Recorder.
Detraction of- the Penitentiary hy
Fire —On Monday night last, a few min
utes after 9 o’clock, fire was discovered to
issue from tire roof of the work shops
forming part of the Penitentiary Edifice,
and in spite of all the exertions of those
having charge of the Institution, aided
by the citizens of the town, the flame
spread rapidly to the main building, and
the whole was burnt, together with the
wooden house in the yard, and the county
Jail about sixty yards off. The county
Court-house was saved with much difficul
ty, and although the wind was light, the
fire caught some houses at the distance of
three hundred yards. The light of this
great conflagration was distincly seen at
Eutonton,, twenty miles from this place.
None of the prisoners escaped, or were
burnt—till the books und papers of the In*
et.tuticn were eaveif. Tfelcc; in- rrfah
ufactured articles* n.tv materials tools,Ac
may amount to eight or ten thousand dol
lars. Temporary arrangements arc ma
king for the shelter of the convicts, who
are kept at labour within the high brick
wall that encompassed the budding, and
secured at night by being hand-cuffed
and strictly guarded. In a short time a
part of the cells the construction of w hich
was directed by the last Legislature, will
be in readiness fpr their reception.
The buildings destroyed cost the State
we .behave, upwards of an hundred
thousand dollars, but the construction was
very bad, and if the system of punishing
crimes by Penitentiary imprisonment
shall be perseved in, of which there may
be some doubt the destmtion of an edifice
so uneuitable to the purpose, will scarce
ly be a public loss. It is not doubted but
the fire was communicated by some of the
Icouvicts—as yet, however, no discovery
lias been made that will fix it o.i any one
of them. In the general confusion and
anxiety to secure the convicts, a prisoner
in the county Jail of the name of Wilkin
son, charged with the robbery of the pub
lic mail , of which he had been the carrier
made his escape.
THE 1> AT."
NAira'tAY. MAV 14, lHttl.
Irregularity of the Mails.—We have
endeavored, by frequently changing our
day of publication to meet tlie departure
of the mails, and to forward the Demo
crat as early as possible to our subscri
bers. But in this age of reform, we find
it impossible to keep up with the Post
Office department. Besides, several of
our mails have become rather eccentric
and uncertain in their courses. Seeming
to have neither fixed period for arrival or
departure, but dropping in at irregular
intervals, and starting off again at ran
dom. For instance, although the Thoin
aston mail has been arranged so as to
leave here on Saturday morning, yet the
carrier has deemed it more convenient to
set out a day sooner, and therefore prevents
our subscribers on that rout from receiv
ing their papers until nearly a week old.
Wc hope this evil will be soon remedied.
Some of our papers still insist that
Mr. Lumpkin is a candidate for Gover
nor. Now if a man’s own word can
not be tuken in matters of this kind, we
know not whose can. Resides, running
him as n candidate at this time would
prevent “the people of Georgia from be
ing united [in Mr. Gilmer we suppose,]
which it is Mr. Lumpkin's anxious de
sire to see,” fei it would moreover •‘tend
to embitter party animosities, and en
gender new strifes;” and above nil that
Mr. Lumpkin considers his services
much more important in Congress than
elsewhere; and it would in his view be
a derelection of duty to desert his post.
We shall not believe that lie is a candid
ate until we see it announced under bis
own hand. His letter to the Editor of
the Chronicle is the best evidence we
have seen on the subject, and must be
conclusive till rebutted by higher.
The citizens of Savannah gave a pub
lic dinner to Mr. Berrien on the 4th inst.
“The assemblage” (says the Republican)
“was numerous and respectable.” Asa
matter ol course, Mr. Berrien made a
speech on the occasion, from which we
make the following extract which is wor
thy of serious attention.
“I will not do violence to the social
feeling, to which this occasion is devoted,
by the discussion of a much agitated and
highly agitating question, which is con
nected with this subject. I purposely lim
it myself to the enquiry, whether some of
the evils which we suffer may not have
resulted from our failure to keep pace
with the changes which have occurred
elsewhere where, and especially in the
other States of the Union? Extending our
view to the State at large, whether we
have not relied too much on the value of
our products, and the natural advantages
of our position; and looking rather to our
past prosperity, than to those unwelcome
indications which menaced its continu
ance; have remained to a certain degree
stationary, while others have been advan
cing in the career of internal improve
ment? I do not disguise from myself the
fact, that the change in our condition, has
been greatly influenced by causes over
which we could exercise no control; by
the altered political and commercial state
of the other portions of the world. Con
stituting a part of the great family of na
tions, we cannot be insensible to that
which materially affects its other members;
for that law of his nature which ordains
that man shall be n social being, forbids
that, either as an individual or as a mem
ber of society, he should be wholly inde
pendent of his fellow men.
Still it may be worth the enquiry,
whether all which we have lost can be
justly imputed to-this cause? and es|>e
cially, whether something may not he re
gained by intelligent and uuremitUsJ ex
ertions to facilitate our interior communi
cations, and to improve the ocean inlet,
on which we are so advantageously foo
ted? M hen the great staple product -of
our State, commanded three times the
price which can now be obtained for it,
the difficulties of communication were o
vercorae, because the value of the artiela
compensated the labor and expense, which
were necessary to the accomplishment of
, this object. Our storehouses were then
i filled with the fruits of ouy agriculture,
, and here, also, were sought, as uu almost
| necessary consequence, those supplies
I which our citizens derived from the skill
| and industry of other nations. Our city
■ was then the great mart of the agricultu
ral productions of our State, as well as of
those foreign supplies w liich then reached
us, in no inconsiderable quantity, by di
rect importation. But this is unhappilv
a picture of by-gone times; a state of
things which we can scarcely expect to
see realized again, in all its former extent.
File condition of tlie world affords little
prospect of any material advance in the
market value of our principal staple. A
part, then, from such improvements in a
griculturc, as may reduce the cost ofprf>-
uuenon, ns value to tne producer, -is chief
ly to be increased, by facilitating, O mJ
thereby diminishing tlie expence of its
transportation to an eligible market.
Elsewhere, this trutli has been felt and
acted upon, and we are in no inconsidera
ble degree the victims of the diversion,
which it has already occasioned. DoSs
it become us (I speak ot our fellow citi
zens throughout the State) to await in
listless inactivity, the consummation, of
this result?
It is now several years ago, since a dis
tinguished engineer, who had been enga
ged in making surveys in various parts of
the Union, pronounced this port to-be
the appropriate Atlantic outlet of the
•Southern and Southwestern States; and
the truth of this opinion, would ere this
have been demonstrated, if the requisite
exertions had been made, to- improve
those interior communications, which are
suggested by the natural advantages of
our position. Such an operation, how
ever, in -the extent, which ought to be
given to it, belongs emphatically to the
State, because the capital which it w ould
require, transcends the resources of otir
city, and because also, tlie benefits which
it wqpld confer, would be Co-extensive
with the. whole line of communication.
May we not hope this subject will find
favor in the councils of our State, and
that some portion of the ample fund,
which must ere long he placed at our dis
posal, will be set apart for purposes of in
ternal improvement. Whoever shall suc
ceed in awakening the attention of the
Legislature to this vitally important sub
ject, and shall liuve the good fortune to
effect a successful result, will deserve to l>e
ranked among the benefactors of the age,
and will justly acquire to himself an en
viable place in tlie esteem and affection#
of our people.
FOR TIIE DEMOCRAT.
Mr. Editor.—l perceive in some of your
late papers that you have labored under
some doubt, as to the causes of the jute
squall among the members of Gen. Jqek
son’s cabinet. Now lam so fortunate as
to have in niy possession a document*
which perfectly explains this affair. I*
seems that during the somnolency of the
old General, Uncle Sam’s affairs have
been very improperly managed; his
household has fallen into great disorder.
The military detachment stationed at fort
Mitchell which had been placed there to
tight the battles of the nation instead of
lighting as they were bound to do, have
been ordered by John Crowell (who
entertains a most diabolical hatred for ev
ery thing Georgian,) to labor most outra
geously, for sundry of her.
Stephen M. Ingersoll, Seaborn Jones,Jind
others! and this affair is placed in a most
horrid fact by the part that tins labor
consists in cutting outu road from Col.Uin*
bus over anew ferry to Alabama, a work
in which thousands will be interested,
and the proprietors of an old.ferry high
ly exasperated! As is said above, ‘John
Crowell hates Georgia, and can therefore
only employ the soldiers at the fort in
works by which this state must be so
largely benefitted, from the most diabolic
al motives. This transaction is most hap
pily exposed in the document which we
publish below. Your readers will perceive
that it is from a distinguished “General”
of this place; who presuming on a parity
of military rank with Jackson, addresses
him in quite nil authoritative manner; flat
ters him with his friendship, if he should
act agreeable to his desire in thejiremi*
ses, and threatens him With a withdrawal
of his countenance, if he should turn a
deaf ear to such disinterested advice*
Your readers cannot hut remark also, the
felicitous manner in which he exposes the
abominable position of this Stephen M.
Ingersoll—the “right hand man” savs he
“of Crowell ” A horrible conjunc
tion! Were he placed on his left hand it-*
would not be so dangerous; but to stand
on the right hand of flic most
foe of the interests of Georgia! The |>o
sition is truly alarming; and then again he
hns for years past been ut law! amhwhat
is woree, against the very writer Os thgp