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'the constitutionalism JAMES GARDNER, JR. T E R M s. Daily, per annum, S 3 00 Tri- A'eekly, pur annum, 6 u 0 il paid m advance, uu Weekly, per annum, OU If paid in advance, 2 50 TO CLUJSS. We call /xirliculur attention to the following term* of our paper: To Clubs, remitting *lO in advance, FIVE COiMFS are sent, i lus will put uu c weekly pa per in ilte reach of new subscribers at TWO DOLLARS A YEAR. SCT All new subscriptions must be paid in advance. isiage must be paid on all Cuiniuunicaiions a id Refers of business. Ktroliidouai) Valor* Whilst engaged in admiring and eulogiz ing the recent deeds of bravery, of ourga.iant Generals and soldiers in Mexico, it may not be out of place, or inappropriate to the tunes, lo revive the remembrance of some ot those achievements which distinguished our re volutionary contest, and gave lo our national * oalaxy so many bright and illustrious names. Jn Headley’s lively work of W ashinglon and his Generals, we find the following spirited ; and vigorous descript-:on oi one of tue most brillanl victories in the \V ar o! Independence. , STORMING OK STONY POINT. “But the most brillanl action of Wayne’s life,and one of the most illustrative of bis char- i aeler. was the storming ol Stony Point. ' Washington, at Wayne’s request, or ganized a corps of light infantry, and pul him j over if, with directions to lake thisstronglmld. . Tuts fortress was apparently impregnable to , any storming party; for, situated on a bill, it was washed by the Hudson on two sides, j while on the other lay a marsh which every j tide overflowed. Besides these natural cle- 1 fences, a double row of aballis surrounded the entire hill, and on the top were high ramparts bristling with cannon. Six hundred veteran troops garrisoned this rock; sufficient, one would think, lo defend it against live limes the number. But it was no common obstacle that could deter Wayne when his j mind was once made up, and he determined, formidable as it was, to execute the task a;?- j signed him or perish in the attempt. It is ; said that while conversing with Washington j on the proposed expediting he remarked: j ‘General, il you will only plan it, I will storm j r p ’ “He carefully reconnoitered the ground, and having ascertained the exact position of things, formed his plan ot attack. On the * 15th°of J nly, 1779, he started from Sandy * Beach, fourteen miles distant, and at eight in the evening arrived vvithin a mile and a hah of the fortress. It was now twilight; ai.d the mild summer evening with its cooling breeze stole over the water —the stars came out one by one on the sky, and the tranquil river flowed by in majestic silence, and all was sweet and peaceful. While nature was thus jreuosing iu beauty around him, Wayne, with is struTitr soul wrought up to the tatk before him, stood in the gathering shades of the evening, and gazed long and anxiously in the direction of the tort. “Over hills, across morasses, and among the broken shores of the Hudson, he had led Ins little army.noiselessly, in Indian file,and now waited for the deepening night to lock -fiis enemies in slumber, fcftili undiscovered by the garrison, he began to reconnoitre the ; works more closely, and at ha J I past eleven | o’clock put his columns in motion. He \ divided his army into two portions, one of which was to enter the fortress on the right, and the other on the left. In advance of each went a forlorn-hope ot twenty men, to remove the piles ot rubbish that were stretched in double rows around , the rock, and placed just where the betteries could mow down the assailants fastest. Be- j hind these forlorn hopes marched two com- i • panics of a hundred and fifty men each. Wayne knew that every thing must rest on the bayonet, and so lie ordered the load of every musket of those two companies to be drawn, while the first man who should lake ; his from bis shoulder or utter a word without orders, or attempt to retreat, was to be put to death by tiie officers nearest him. Silently j these devoted bands submitted to the desper ate measures, and fixing a piece of white j paper in their caps to distinguish them from the enemy, gallantly moved forward at the low word of command. At midnight the two columns, headed by their forlorn-hopes, came in sight of the fortress, along whose dark ramparts the sentinel was lazily treading his accustomed round, while the deep‘AH s well, j fell faintly on the listening ear. Grim and ; still the huge black rock loomed up against the sky,soofl to shake with its own thunder, and stand a blazing volcano in the night heavens. Noiseless and swift, the fearless patriots kept on their way, when lul as they came to the marsh, they saw only a smooth sheet of water —the tide was up flooding the whole ground. The brave fellows paused a . moment, as this new and unexpected obstacle j crossed their path, but at the stern ‘forward,’ of their leaders, they boldly plunged in, and without a drum or bugle note lo cheer their steady courage,moved in dead silence straight on che palisades. The noise had now alarm- and the rapid discharge of | their rfuskets through the gloom, was fol lowed? y lights, moving swiftly about upon the parts, and hurried shouts of 'To arm*! | To o*rms/’and the fierce roll of drums,rousing j up f\e garrison from its dream of security. 1 The next moment, that dark rock was one i* ass of flame, as the artillery and musketry opened along its sides, shedding a lurid lignt ; on the countenances of the men below, and 'Advance? Advance!' rung in startling accents along the ranks. ‘’The ramparts were alive with soldiers, and amid shouts and hurried words of com- j mand, the fiery terrent from the summit kept j rolling on those devoted men. The water j around them was driven into spray by the grape shot and balls that fell in an incessant shower, while the hissing, bursting shells, traversing the air in every direction, added m conivaceble terror to the scene. Vet those for lorn hopes’toiled vigorusly on,and heaved away at the abattis to open a gap for the column, that.without returning a shot stoodand crumbl- j ed under the fire, waiting with fixed bayonets ' to rush to the assault. At the head of one of those was Wayne, chafitfg like a lion in the toils, at the obstacles that arrested his | progress. The forlorn-hope in front of him j worked steadily on in the very blaze of the batteries, and the rapid blows of their axes were beard in the intervals of ti e thunder of artillery that shook the midnight air, while one after another dropped dead in his foot steps, till out of the twenty that started, only ! three stood up unbanned. Yet still their axes fell steady and strong until an opening ; was made, through winch their columns could jmss, and then the shout of Uat ne was heard above the din and tumult, sum moning his followers on. With fixed bayo- ! nets they marched sternly through the pur- j tils made at such a noble sacrifice, and press ed turiously forward—through the morass over every obstacle —up to the very mouth ol the cannon, and up the rocky accdvity, they stormed on, crushing everything in their pas sa,re. Towering at the head of his shatier ed"coluinu, pointing still onward and upward i with Ins glittering, blade, and sending his thrilling shout back over his followers, i Wayne strode steadily up the height, till at i ! length, struck in the head by a musket-ball, | he fell backward amid the nfnks. Instantly : rising on one knee, lie cried out—“ March on! Carry me into the fort, for I will die at the head of my column!'’ And those heros : [mt their brave arms around him and bore him onward. Not a shot was fired, but tak ing the rapid volleys on their unshrinking breasts, their bayonets glittering in the flash of the enemy’s guns, they kept on over the ' living and dead, smiting down the veteran ranks that threw themselves in vain valor before them, till they reached the centre of j the fort, where they met the other column, which, over the same obstacles, had achieved ; the same trumph. At the sight of each other, one loud shout shock the heights and roiled ; down the bleeding line—was again sent buck ' till the heavens rung with* the wild huzzas, j and then the flag of freedom went up and i flaunted proudly away on the midnight air. i Tue thick volumes of smoke that lay around I that rock, slowly lifted and rolled up the | Hudson, the stars appeared once mure in i ' the sky, and all was over. The lordly river j went sweeping by as it had dune during the , deadly strife that cast such a baleful lighten j its bosom, and darkness and dead-like silence | shrouded the shores. Mournfully and slow : thooe forlorn hopes and their brave compan j ions who had laden in the assualt, were brought up from their gory beds and convey ed to the grave. “Wayne’s wound proved not to be severe —the bail having only grazed the skull for two inches, and he lived to wear the laurels a grateful nation placed on his brow, iho country rung with his name, and Congress presented him with a gold medal. The I whole plan of the assault was most skilfully 1 laid, and the bearing of Wayne throughout I gallant in the extreme. He chose the post ol ! danger at the head of his column, and led i his men where even the bravest might shrink I to follow, and when struck and apparently | dying, heroically demanded to he carried for- | ' vvard, that he might die in the arms ot viclo- : ry, or be left where the last stand was made. His troops were worthy of such a leader, and more gallant oflicers never led men into bal ! tie.” MitssacUnsells Toryism-—A troclon* Sent I tUilllSi Who could believe that even in the metro polis ot old Federal Massachusetts, a news paper could be tolerated in the utterance of such anti-patriotic, anti-American sentiments, 1 as those which follow, from the lioston Daily Chronotype, a paper of the Tribune school? In speaking of the late Victory of our ar my at Cerro Gordo, and of our brave- soldiers engaged in that glorious achievement, that paper says; “On the dull-dogs march—-up lo their eyes in blood—proud to do their savage work.” Again,that paper has the following . most atrocious and infamous sentiments: “If there is in the United States, a heart worthy of American liberty its impulse is TO JOIN* THE MEXICANS, and hurl down I upon the fuse, slavish, mercenary invaders, j | who, born in a Republic, go to play over the accursed game of the Hessians, the tops of those Mexican volcanoes. It would be sad | I and wofal Joy, Out a joy nevertheless, lo hear 1 that Ike hordes under ScotL and Taylor were, \ EVERY MAN OF THEM, SWEPT INTO THE NEXT I woe ed. Whal business has an invading ar ! my in this? ’ f Here we are told that “if there is in the j United States a heart worthy of American liberty, its impulse, is to join the Mexicans ; and fight against his own country, and tiiat ■ ■ it would be “a joy, nevertheless, to hear that ! ; the hordes (meaning our brave soldiers) uu ’ der Scott and Taylor, were every man of them, j swept into the next world.” And the writer ! impiously asks, “what business have they in I this world?” Here is another extract: “As to the so-called Democrats who, jus tifying this war, march to humble Mexico at I our feet, we honsr their bravery as much as we do tiiat of the wolf who scales the sheep fold at the peril of Ids scalp. And as to the W higs who condemn and deplore this war, and yet tight its infernal battles, they are as j : honorable in our eyes as sheepkiliing dogs. , To call them mere murderers is 100 tame. A anelv-nine murderers in every hundred icho suing on the light-rope , are more excusable | and more worthy of honor in every point of | view . . . Your United Slates Army in Mexi | co. we defy an archangel to prove the con- , ! trary, is a band of slaves murdering lo extend ! ; slavery ... Were it the last word the Chro- dj notype should ever utter,and its editor with his wife and little ones were to suffer for it the magnanimous retribution ot Christian warfare, as did the women and children at Vera Cruz, il should brand Folk, Scott, Tay j lor, and all their subordinate butchers, as j S [css fit to live in this green and flowery world 1 than any wretch that ever swung out of it on j | hemp.” j The only reasonable conclusion that can j be arrived at, is that the writer of the above i j 5 a fugitive from an insane hospital, and is j thus giving vent to the ravings of his addled intellect. No man of sane mind, unless he j be a scamp of the deepest die, could give ut- I terance to such abominable sentiments. —A. l r . Globe. Troops Arrived. The ship Henry Pratt, Capt. Condon, from I Vera Cruz, arrived yesterday morning, bruugnt ! the First Regiment of Tennessee Volunteers, Col. Campbell commanding. I hese troops num ber 350 rank and file, and are now quartered in Williams’ Warehouse, in the Third Municipali ty, The U. S. Transport schooner Maria Thom as* Capt. Thompson, from Vera Cruz on the 13th arrived here yesterday morning. The Maria . brought up two companies of the 4th Regiment | 1 of Illinois Volunteers. These companies were | 1 under the command ot Captains Pugh and Hart, i ! and Lieuts. Oglesby, Froman, Post and Brown.— j N. O. Delta, 2 2d inst. More Troops. Cant P. N. Guthrie, and Lieuts. M. Hannan ■ ' and G. 11. McClelland, with a company of the | j luh regiment of infantry, mustering 93 rank and ! file, arrived here last night in the steamboat lag- 1 1 lioni, from Pittsburg. They will move up to the j camp at the Carrollton Race Course this morning, : where they will remain until tronsports arc pro- j cured to convey them to the seat of w ar .—lb. i j— iii wfi *>mujih 'mm mmm m • m.m mmmmam ~aii(uis'l'a7(;e(3,. i : Fill DAY MORNING, MAY 23, 1817. o*No mail received last evening from otfi i D | ces North of Charleston. This is the first failure of the Northern mail we have had to chronicle for ?nme time. DEMOCRATIC MEETING. The Democrats of Richmond county are requested to meet at the City Halloa Tues day Afternoon next at five o'clock, for the | purpose of appointing delegates to the Gubernatorial Convention, to be held at I Milledgcville on the fourth Monday in j June. Dcatli o!" the ll.Hioiabk .Sola a Schley. This distinguished and highly esteemed I citizen departed this life very suddenly on j Wednesday, 2Gth instant, at his residence I five miles from this city, lie was in good : health, and had just returned from a drive of about two miles to the Belville Factory, with which he was connected, when he was struck down with in the breast, which ter minated hiatlife in half an hour. He was in the (32d year of his age. This gentleman leaves a bereaved wife, and many children and grand children to mourn this sad dispen sation. Joyous and social in his temper, re markably amiable and affectionate in his dis position, his presence always diffused hap piness and gaiety in the domestic circle. Among his professional brethren, also, and a very extensive range of friends and acquaint ance, lie was highly prized for his many so cial traits and good qualities. Nature having bestowed upon him a fine intellect—active, strong and vigorous—he attained a high po sition at the bar, and was in the enjoyment of a very lucrative practice at the time he was elevated to the Bench. He presided over the Middle Circuit,continuously for eleven years, down to the month of November, 1315, at which time the Hon. R. L. Gamble was elect ed, without opposition. For several years past, we have enjoyed, in common with other members of the Rich mond Bur, an intimate acquaintance with Judge Schley. We esteemed him highly) | and will kindly and respectfully cherish his I memory. IVhat shall he done va ilia the Couqueicd :Urzicaii» ? That is 3 good rule which tells us, “\ou should not count your chickens before they are hatched.” We have therefore not been disposed prematurely to discuss the question above propounded. e have thought that, i at the proper time, our government would be ■ quite competent to provide for the contem plated exigency. But as some of the \V higs seem so awfully horrified at the idea of a „probable acquisition ol Mexican lernu r y ? with the incumbrance of a portion of .Mexi can population along with it, we will indulge in a little speculation on the subject, to see whether such an event will create any real dilemma or embarrassment. The Whigs are famous for panics—famous for excitements — I alarms,‘‘hydras and chimeras-dirc,” and are | constantly insisting that the country is on the eve of some terrible catastrophe. They * seem to have no confidence in the stability ul our institutions, the good sense of our people, and their capacity for managing intelligently their own affairs. Let us inquire what there is so very terri fic in the idea of acquiring half a million of i real genuine lice Mexicans along with their ! territory. This is the usual numerical esti mate of the Whigs. W T hat harm could they 1 do us, either as citizens admitted under our laws to all the privileges and rights of Ame rican citizens, living in territories of the Uni ted States; or as conquered people living un der the protection of our government, and governed by such law’s as Congress saw lit to enact. In either case they would live under a ter ritorial government. In the one, they would : have the same right of voting for magistrates, county officers, members of the territorial le gislature —of being enrolled in the militia — of o-iving evidence in cases in Courts ct jus tice. and of sitting on juries, with such quali fications as to who shall and who sha.l not i enjoy these privileges as Congress might L prescribe. In the other, they would be on a Pooling with the North American Indians un der our protection antT living upon our soil, or upon lands appropriated by our govern ment for their use. We may comtemplate | either disposition of them with the utmost se | renity. There is nothing very alarming in such a slate of things—even though there | should be half a million of them. That number could neither overthrow our government by force of arms, and conquer us, I in the latter case; nor in the former, could they undermine our institutions at the ballot box, I () r corrupt, or overawe our legislatures. Suc cessively we have acquired from the King doms of France and Spain, large accessions of territory, with their French and their Span | ish population respectively. Yet these have not revolutionized the country either with the cartridge box, or the ballot box. We have neither had placed over us, a citizen King, nor a “most Catholic Majesty.” This popula tion has either become absorbed with our own, and imbued with a republican spirit, or if remaining distinct, and adhering to origi | na j customs and opinions, have been at least harmless, and in a great degree useful citi i zens. So on the other hand, the Indians, whiU ■ contemning our civilized customs, and pre ! sering their pristine habits and wild life in the woods, have not given our government much trouble to keep them in proper subjec- I tion. j It may be said that the acquisition of Lou ___ 2 isiana and Florida, are not parallel cases—or at least are not fair illustrations, because the population of Frenchmen, in one instance and Spaniards in the other, was vastly less than half a million. We reply that the ac quisition of territory was also vastly less than that which would be occupied by the half a million of Mexicans it is proposed to annex. The population to the square mile, in each case, might approach much nearei similarity. In addition to this, the rela tive proportion of our population to the proposed accession, may be very near equal to that which it bore to Louisiana in 1804 and to Florida in 1819. We are now twen ty'millions of people. In thirty years we will be fifty millions. We can without any very great apprehensions of being over run by Goths and Vandals, continue once or twice every generation to conquer or buy 1 territory, taking along with it if necessary some hundreds of thousands of human bi p.'ds. These latter may be changed and im proved by the operation. They cannot very materially change or deteriorate the Anglo Saxon rate. That race is bound to predo minate, to increase, and to advance. It k surely destined to the entire mastery ol the North American Continent. \\ e believe too. that tiiis is to be accomplished through tht influence of our free institutions, and undei the lead of the star spangled banner. Wheth er the Canadas, and the British provinces enlist under that flag, or unfurl one of their own, having emblazoned on it the same re publican principles, it belongs to the future i to disclose. But the days of the dominion ol . monarchical princiales ort this comment are | numbered. We have been led into these speculations ; by I lie tragic air of perplexity that some o' j the Georgia whig papers assume When the | subject is alluded to. The thought of hav -1 ing this half million of Mexicans under our ; flag, appears to worry them as much and as | constantly, as the existence of three mil 1 ions i of slaves in the (Southern Slates, worries their political allies Horace Greely of the Tribune, Seward, Giddmgs, John Quincy Adams and i*Danlel Webster. It must have had it’s influ -1 ence on the Massachusetts unanimously < whig Senate, when those sapient legisla-' j tors for the old puritan commonwealth re fused a vole of thanks to General Zachary i Taylor and his brave army. That State has i been distinguished always for its intolerant 1 views and fierce bigotry, though of all other | spots on earth, it ought to be the most en lightened, tolerant and liberal. But after | li the pilgrim Facers” had settled it, in vindi- I cation of the privilege of “freedom to worship ! God,” and chased the Indians out of it with | lire and sword and bloodhounds, their next ! step was to drive out Roger Williams and his followers for non conformity to their re ligious tenets. During the last war with En dand, they voted it unbecoming a chris ® * j tian people to rejoice at the victories achiev j ed by our arms over the enemies of our coun j try. They seem never to be wholly free : from some leading fanaticism or absurd bigo ' try. Their venom is at this particular junc j ture specially turned against the slavehold ! ers of the South. It is because (Southern j arms have done so much to conquer Mexico 1 and Southern institutions are surely destined j to be planted there, that Massachusetts is so bitterly opposed to territorial acquisition W e see no reason however, that (Southern j whigs should allow their political sympathies j with their Northern allies, to give those al- I lies their moral influence—to give them “aid 1 and comfort” in their efforts to fetter and lie down the institution of slavery to its preseni j confined limits. While they are doing this, the North is moving to the West and the I ” i Northwest, with giant strides, with her insti tutions—her social prejudices, and her politi cal bigotry, and will in time endeavour to en compass and crush us. Mon. Sauivt Webster* This gentleman, accompanied by his lady and Miss ISeaton, arrived at (Savannah on ! Tuesday last in a special train. He was to be escorted to the Monument Equare the next d iy, and addressed in behalf of the citi , zens of Savannah. The dinner was to be i given on Thursday. The Georgia Regiment. The volunteers from this State, whose term of 1 service would expire about tlie middle of next month, have been ordered back from Jahipa.— We understand that they left Vera Cruz on the 13th inst., on their way to New Orleans, where they will be finally discharged and paid off. They will from there, seek such conveyance home as | best comports with their inclinations. We shall ! look out, every day, for some of their familiar and | weather beaten faces. Arrival ol Volunteers. A Company of Cavalry, commanded by Capt. Loyal I, of Newton county, arrived in this city on yesterday morning, on their way to Mexico. It is indeed a splendid looking troop of young, healthy men, well mounted, and capable ofdoing good service in the wars to which they arc march ing. They are an honor to the county from which they came, and worthy to represent their i Stale in the tented field.— Columbus Enquirer , j 261 h inst. Mississippi Senator. We understand that Col. Jefferson Davis, of Mississippi, has been appointed by Gov. Brown, U. S. Senator, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the recent death of Mr. Speight. Length of Service. The following table shows the amount of sca service seen by some of our principal Nava! Offi cers;—Com. Stewart, 23 years; Com. Conner j 15 years; Com. Perry, 20 years; Capt. Newton, 18 years; Capt. Gregory, 18 years; Com. Stock ton, 14 years; Com. years; Capt. Breeze, lOvears; Commander Tatnall, 16 years; Commander Sands, 10 years. Madeiia. The Sschr. Errata arrived at Madeira early April, laden with flour and corn. The Hour wrdW sold at $lB per bbl., and the corn at S’sß per inois twenty-four bushels. A number ot vessels ha\e been sent within a month to the same destination and with the same cargoes. Capt. Matthew Stetson, of New Bed ford, bus 1 been arrested on charge of barratry, in having ..old in 1813 and 1814, m New Holland and Val paraiso, 37.000 gallons of oil, and 3.000 pounds whalebone, and appropriating the proceeds to his ; own use. lie was committed to answer. -- | Connecticut. The Legislature of Connecticut has rejected a proposed amendment to the Slate Constitution) j striking the word 'white out ot that instrument, i so us to place negroes and whites on the same footing in regard to suffrage. The vote stood ayes 1 12 to 68 nays--two thirds being required. \V iscousin. This territory has already 28 newspapers; two daily, two semi-weekly, and twenty-lour weekly—of which, eleven ire Whig, ten De mocratic, two neutral, undone Abolition.— j One Whig and one are printed 1 in German. Stam; siud Siuim. There was a very severe hail storm in j Henry country, Alabama, on llieSlh inst. It continued tor ulo it twenty minutes, culling corn into ribbands ami effectually thinning cotton which had not been brought to a stand. . The air was darkened by the tailing twigs from the forest and shade trees. Some of j the planters had their whole crop of cotton, corn and grain completely destoroyed. In some ol the houses on the side exposed to the i storm, not a pane ot glass was left unborkeu. \ In its progress for eight or len miles up and down the riter, and about ten or twelve (so fir as heard trom) cast and west, the wind seemed to come from every quarter, and the hail stones, not in general very large, were driven with such force as in many places to strip large oaks of their bark and twiggs. and in some cases of branches ot the i 1 s.ze of a man thumb. i Many of the stones, as wc learn from a let- i ter in the Eufaula Shield, were of the size of a gumeahen’o egg, and one after being carried nearly four miles weighed over two \ obuces. Many weighed eight or ten ounces —while there were out few that were less than a hen’s egg. Chickens, turkeys and young pigs exposed to the storm, were killed i or severely hurt. On the 10th inst., two days after the storm, the hail in many places remained midis.-ow ed. A Noble Act. Col. Veil, of Arkansas, and the President, (.-ays the Baltimore tSun.) were old friends. The last letter which the brave soldier is supposed to have written was to Cui. Folk, ’directing the advance of Col. Veil s pay to his family. He was poor, and his family were dependent upon him. He had a young lad at Georgetown College, and we learn, so s'ates a Wash in gton letter in the New York Herald, that the President lias adopted this boy, and will educate him and regard him as his own son; and that lie will see to the com fort of the family. The expense beyond the ordinary expenses in time of peace, for the army and navy in .Mexico will, it is computed, amount to about 8; 16)096,000 per annum, this is also about the sum that Mexico annually raised from her tar,ff and internal revenue. Well Managed Corporation. The iStock ot the Delaware and Hudson Railroad and Canal Company is now selling in New York at one hundred and eighty-five dollars per share, the par of which is one hundred dollars. Sir Robert Peel, in his speech against the Factory bill, said he knew ten persons, at least, who are now worth JCIUO,OOU each, who had at one time only 20s. to 30s. a week. i A well-known political economist says — ’ “We pay best, first, those who destroy us— generals; second, iho.-e who cheat us—poli ticians and quacks; third, tiiosC who amuse ! us—singers and musicians; and least of all, ’ those who instruct us.” Dr. Bowring has proposed in the House of f Commons, that a Congress of Nations be as t sembled to agree on an uniform scale of , coins, weights and measures, for all coun ; tries. The idea is a great one, if it could be r curried out in practice. A Yankee Turned Arab. i It is said that the invincible Arab chief, who has for many years baffled the French Generals in Africa, is accompanied on all his expeditions by a regular down caster, a Nan ’ tucket man, lineally descended from old AJ | mirai Coffin. He sports the Moorish dress, rides a magnificent barb, lays by the dollars, ’ professes Mahometanism, but sings Old Hun ’ dred with the genuine nasal twang, when , ever he is going into battle. r . . A Pretty Incident. The Jalapa (Star relates the following beau tiful incident connected with the battle of Cerro Gordo: “As the column of Mexican prisoners were inarching by us after the bat -5 tie, we observed moving on with the rest, a little boy and a lamb. Amidst the fire and smoke, and the roar of musketry and artille ry, which had so lately enveloped the hill, • these weak and defenceless creatures had stood unharmed. As they passed along our ’ lines, they were every where greeted with a kind look and word. Countenances dark with the fierce passions of the recent conflict, clouded with the remembrance of fallen friends, and of revenge but half satiated re laxed into a smile of mingled pleasure and pity—pity, that they should have been thus exposed, and pleasure, that He who guards the sparrow, had sheltered them from the ravages of the iron storm.” The Temperance Convention. The annual meeting of the State Temperance Comentiwii of Georgia, will be belli in Giilfin, on Wednesday, the 2iidol June, eounet in ing at tl ■ o'clock, A. M. It will l»e si eu by ti»e following j notice, that the friends of the cause in Griliin, i have generously made provision for the accommo dation of the Delegates to the Convention. The Griliin "Washingtonian Temperance So- I ciety, hail with delight, the twenty-third of June : next, as a great day lor our State and for the cause of humanity ( the day of our State Temper ance Convention,) and we the Committee an nounce with pleasure, that arrangements will he mule to accommodate ail the Delegates of tins State and our sister States, that will attend said Convention; and a Committee has been appoint ed L>v this Societv to meet all tin- Delegates at the Depot on the arrival of the car, to conduct them to their respective places of abode during their stav with us. Come and let us make one general, one powerful dibit for humanity, for our country and our God. Rev.J. W. Wilson, W. L. Ligon, Committee. Rev. J. W. Wilson, Rev. \Vm. Martin, A .Gray. \S m Freeman, C. W. C. Wright, W. L. Liuon, Committece of A rangciucnts. Editors fricn I'y to the cause will p ease gi\efi c above in lice an insertion in tieir respective pa | fl erd - The Season mid Crop*. We have had an unusually cold, wet, and backward spring, which has caused generally | a had stand of cotton. Many in this vicinity have had to plough up and plant their crops the second time. Those who succeeded m getting a stand the first planting, have a bad prospect tor a crop, owing to the co;d which lias retarded the growth of the plant so much. The oat and corn crops,on tiie other fraud,pru , mise thus far a fair yield. The wheat crons in the neighborhood of Anderson Court I louse bid fair to yield but I little. The Gazette says that tlie fly, so fatal a few years ago, seems to have taken hold agMn with renewed vigor, j The Westminister Caroltionian says the j wheat crop has impoved very much latterly. ! There is now a prospect of its being more | than half a crop. It cannot be a fail crop as much of t perished in the winter, particularly | on the low grounds. The oat crop is very backward, hut may pull up yet. —Che raw i Cazelt, Hoik inst. [From the A T . O. Delta. ] Hamlet and tlie Skill'; OR, THE NEGRO AND THE TEACH BRANDT, Some years, ago, ten or more perhaps, the members of poor Tom Ward’s com pany of the National Theatre, in Wash ington City, got rather short of funds.— | Congress had ad journed, and I lie houses were so slim that even an eel could’nt have slipjKtd through them. ConMeqpmnt j lv the “comedians.” as old George Stan | ley (now dead and gone! used to cal! them, packed up their dramatic duds—tights, tunics, swords, helmets,and other “props, ’ and started to give a grand enterlaimnent at the theatre in the old town of Alexan dria. As soon as the bills were posted, j strange-looking old vehicles, whose ma kers were in their graves iiftv years ago, poured in Com the count rv. Gouty gen tlemen, who knew Jefferson when he was a young man; men who had been the c nnpanions of Madison, and elderly la dies, who still remembered the gallantries of Aaron Burr, were present. 'The house u as crowded, from the pit to what might be called a dome. Before tfie curtain i rose, the room was filled with the aroma of rank lamp-oil and oranges—peanuts were not then in vogue with tlie aristocra i cy of the District of Columbia. The j play was “Hamlet,” and the cast would have done credit to the actors in the meanest barn in England. The “Queen of Denmark” was a short lady, who spoke through her nose and had a harelip. She was dressed in a splendid robe, made of curtain calico, and a turban that might have once graced the brows of Queen Elizabeth. "Claudius,” the noble King, was assumed by a gentleman much ad dicted to rappee snuff and singing. Ho delivered his “set phrases” in a nasal ■ twang, and occasionally pronounced his speeches in an operatic tone. “Polonies,” the lord chamberlain, was a gentleman who invariably had a small bottle of whiskey in his coat pocket, for which ec centricity' he was dubbed “Gouley's Bit ters,” “Horatio” was a paper-hanger by occupation, but a “light tragedian’ by profession, “Laertes” was a son of Cris pin, but most enthusiastically devoted to the drama—a young man w hose sole and awl ambition wasto rival Booth. “Ophe lia,” w as a young lady, who used to boast that she Had read Mrs. Hofland’s novels, and had repeated Byron’s “Dream of Darkness” for eighteen consecutive nights o r» to crowded houses. She was arrayed in a dingy white muslin gown, and her neck was adorned w ith imitation pearls, as big as hens’ eggs. r* o The curtain rosa, and great was the applause. The old gentlemen and ladies of the District, some of them who hadn’t seen a play for thirty years before, were in perfect raptures at the performance, i All went on swimmingly until the fifth i act, at the commencement of w hich is the { grave-yard scene. An old negro man, i who had never been in a theatre in his life before, was allowed to come behind the scenes, for the purpose of waiting on the actors, lie had been sent out for sundry glasses of peach brandy and honey, and just as the ‘ Hamlet” of the night, who had on a pair of red lights, was commencing, in a wheezing voice, his beautiful soliloquy on the skull of “Yorick,” the negro came in with the “refreshments.” 'Taking the grinning skull in his hand, “Horatio” on his left, and the grave and grave digger on his right, “Hamlet” essayed to make the mournful speech. At this very moment the old negro came directly on the stage, just back of the grave, in the presence ol