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I* embroidered, and a narrow eiencievre lace cdtres
everv pari;, round the wlist is a ceintare ale orveiriruere
*ӣthree stiffened folds, instead of a bow or hue,ted, t..
a really elegant shape nothing can he more bcconi.ng t.tan
this dress, which, ns the season advances, permits, under |
the plat? • I muslin, a warmer chennzette : a very pretty
bonnet adds to the effect.; it is of rose colour silk, lined ,
and trimmed entirely w.tb the same material ; the brim j
is rather reverse and come s low up.m the cWee.t.; a price- (
ful sort of garland, formed by fl .turned fanchous cut en j
fieche ; encircle the crown: brides of rose colour sarsenet j
ribbon are fixed n. ar the ears, and tied in smu l oowg
with Ion" ends; no cap or ruche, is worn withthis bmmt, .
but the hair is dressed rather fuller than usual with m.-r: . .
ing costume ; me glove t are ol primrose iiujtlie sl.p- .
■ers, black and sandals. ....
P Evening Dress—\ dress of delicate pink Valentine j
■ilk, with‘hoi t sleeves, which, a* well as the
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and drapid over the bosom ala Serene. Ihe bauds .
that confine it are of the same material as the . re-s, ;
meeting in a point just above the waist and h ushed by a
•mall pink bow; a triple ruche of white tulle give addition
■1 softness to the effect of this very elegant atnr., but it
only continues from tlm shoulders to the bosom en caur.
The head dress is a hrret of black lace, the head of the
cap being sustained by stiffened hands ot pmk satin, and
the central fulness in front divided by a plumet ot roses, j
bows and brides of pink gauze ribbon.
From Jamaica and Carthagena— The editors of the j
N.Y. Gazette have received Jamaica papers to the 14th j
ult. The legislature of the island were in session, and ac- |
cording to the editorial remarks, were likely to haven
warm “sitting. The various questions as to the nest
policy of managing the Slaves, occupied much of their
proceedings. The Governor’s speech was conciliatory,
but, by many, condemned.
The Kingston Despatch of the 14th October, an
nounces the arrival of the British packet Lyra, L’un
Carthagena, whence she sailed on the Bth, bringing in
telligence that several French vessels had arrived at
that 'place, and that their object was to avenage the re- j
cent insult offered to .Mr. Baiiott, the Representative
of the French Court at C irthagenu. On their arrival a |
letter was delivered by the Commandant t > Colonei V es.
ga. the Governor of Carthagena, (mm the Rear Admiral.
Governor of Martinque, Di'ssotet, in which satisfaction
was demanded for the insult offered the f reneh I’ lag,
and the outrage upon the person of Mans. Barroit, the
representative ot France. The Governor replied with
temperance, assuring the commandant, that he might
catty his menaces into effect without resistance, as the
place was not garrisoned, «?rc. and says he, ‘ It your
Excellency will not allow the matter to be decided by
the Supreme Authorities, executive and judicin', and in
sist on carrying your hostile designs into effect against a
pacific population, your Excellency will be te-ponsible
for all the evils that may ensue. Be persuaded that I
am not vested with the power of giving the satisfaction
demanded —that is investedin the Supreme Government
slope.”—Further correspondence took place which t» r
ruinated in the Commander’s intimating his intention that
he would blockade the port if at sun down on Thursday
1 f,th, full satisfaction was not awarded. His .Majesty’s
vessel of war, the Serpent, was immediately despatched
for Carthagena to protect the British subjects and inter
terests at that place.
MOBILE, Nov. '2. —Seldom or never, has our city
been “so dry and dust a;” —for several weeks we have
had no rain—business is much retarded by toe low stage
of the rivers, and much impatience exists in the interior
to get the present crop to market as early as po.sihle.
By°a gentleman from Tuscaloosa, we learn that little or
np rain lias fallen there for nearly two months past. \V e
have heard it asserted that the early and severe frost?
would lessen the crop of this State several thousand
bales.
The weather is fine, remarkably so for out door busi
ness, and could our planters tiave sent in their Got f on, a
more luvoraule time tot landing it could no*, have occn
desired.— ?du!hle Mcr. Adv. -V j j;. 2.
Murder. —A shocking murder has been committed at
Cowharbour, by William Enoch, who deliberately
shot his wife in the latter part of September. They
had been married id or 17 years and had lived together
till within j or fi weeks previous to the murder when she
left him and went to live with her brother. He came
in while the Coroner’s Jury were sitting, stooped down,
kissed the corpse, and confessed the murder, saying at
the same time, he would not have given them so much
trouble if lie could have got his gun off, for he had intend
ecfto shoot himself, but in his agitation, it seems, when
loading ins gun, he put down the shot first. Ibid.
NEW-ORLEANS, NOV. I. I 'he Sugar Crops. —
The early frosts of last week, h i ve done much damage to
the cane; in many places so much, that halt the quantity
oflsugar which was calculated on before the frosts came,
will not be made. O i Mr. Shepherd's estate alone, it is
calculated that the frost has caused a loss of three hun
dred hogsheads. Other plantations have sustained little
or’ho damage, particularly in the vicinity ot the city,
where the fogs from the lakes, united with that ot the
riwr, had entirely protected the f ane. The extreme
dry weather, although unfavorable to the general
health of the country, is very favorable to plan
ters under existing circumstances. There is much well,
fofiiided apprehension as to the next year’s crop, as there
is very lit.le cane left, which will answer tor seed. Ihe
injury to the cotton crops is not so considerable ; the
greater part of the crops having got oat «1 the way ot
frost, or at least the damage being only partial.
• “ From the Fre.lerickshur<r inert ii.
j INTERESTING ANECDOTE.
We need hardly tell our readers, that wo have been
uniform and very decided in our opposition to Gen. Jack
eon ; that we did what we could to prevent his election
and re-election; that wo have condemned many of the
measures of his administration; and that we shall, pro.
bably., continue to say hard things of him, as occasion of
fers.. We take not the less pleasure, however, in giv
injfcpablicity, for the first time, to an anecdote, which
reflects signal honor upon Gen. Jackson, and indeed up
on the American character. The authenticity ot the sto
ry is unquestionable—We heard it front age demon, of
distinguished literary eminence, whose writings have
placed him among the first of !i /ing authors, and oi whom
any country might be, as his own is, justly proud. It
was related in a company ot whom was another distin
guished individual, now representing his country-abroad,
but, at the time to which the anecdote refers, h filing a
situation near the person ofns hero, which enabled him
to bear testimony, Irom personal knowledge, to its truth.
In the year 18x?4, our informant met, at the table of
General Sir George Airey, many distinguished English
men, then in Paris. The conversation turned on the
pending Presidential election, and fears were expressed
that, should General Jackson be elected, the amicable
relations between the two countries might be endanger
ed, in consequence of his implacable hostility to Eng
land, and his high handed exercise of power, as evinced
during his command at New. Orleans. Foe necessity,
on the part ofour informant, of replying to those obser
vations, was superceded by tne promnt and generous
outbreak of one ot the guests —I 01. Thornton, of the
85th—an officer well known for his trank and gallant
character, and whose regiment sufioreJ severely in the
attack of the Sth ot January. He testified, in ihe hand
somest terms, to the conduct of Gen. Jackson, as an
able and faithful commander on that occasion, and ae.
dared that, had he not used the power confided to him
in the “ high handed” way alluded to, New Orleans
wodhi infallibly have been captured. As to the charge
of implacable hostility. Col. Thosstox declared, that in
all tfi’d intercourse, by flag and otherwise, between the
hostile corrynanders, General Jackson had been pecu
liarly courteous and humane, and to support this
assartion, begged leave to mention op.e circumstance.
He then pr -oceedi d so sta*e, that, on the day after the at
tack, the British were permitted to bury their dead lying
beyond a certain line a hundred or two voids in advance o
Gen. Jackson’s entrenchments—all within that line be.
ing buried by the Americans themselves. As soon as
tins melancholy duty vas performed, the British Gener.
•ex* 1 »a?T at receiving a flag, wfih the swords,
epaulettes and watches of the officers who had fallen, and
a note from Gen. Jackson, couched in the most courteous
language, saying that one pair of epaulettes was still
missing, but that deligent search was still making, and
when found U should be sent in. These articles—d
ways considered fair objects of plunder—were rescued
by Gen. Jackson, and thus hanked over, with a request
that they might be transmitted to the relatives ol the
gallant officers to whom they had belong id.
This anecdote, an 1 the frank nnd soldier like style in
which it was given, turned the whole current ot feeling
in favor ol the General, and drew forth an expression
•>: applause from all parts of the table. ‘ Fat myself,”
said our informant, “I felt a flush on my cheek, and a
thrill of pride through my bosom, and in my heart I thank
edtheofil General for proving, by this chivalrous act,
that the defenders of our country were above the sordid
feelings of mercenary warfare.”
A”T @ "if .1 S'A Y
FRIDAY MO’I.VIXG, MJVEMBKR 15, 1533.
v The Ft’ie:sdi x»i Eh; I’uiou,
*JiZJ f«•©«:* all parts »? the Elate, are
rcqnested lo meet at MiUedji'Vtllc, cu
the 21Hla i.'oSnHf.
Filtr,
\ esterday about one o’clock, a fire broke out in the
smoke house of Mrs. Woolsey, residing m Broad-street,
just above the United States H ilel, but was soon got
under without doing further damage than destroying
the wood work of the building (which was of brick
with a slated roof) and a quantity of hay that was in the
building al the time the fire origin ited.
Bv a letter from Miliedgeville, under date of the
1 Th hist, we learn that Gov. Troup has resigned his
in the Senate of the United States.
On Wodnesd .y morning last, a number ofour citizens
beheld a sight not often, if ever before, seen. We were
not fortunate enough ourselves to witness it, hut from
what we have heard from others, we learn that hundreds
and thousands of meteors, resembling those ■occasionally
seen in onr cloudless nights, nnd of dill's rent degrees of
brilliancy, were seen in all directions darting through the
horizon. For several days past, the weather here has
been very warm and damp, and the earth being covered
w.th perishing vegetable matter, the vapor arising from
it might, perhaps, have occasioned this strange phenom
; enon. The driver of the Washington stage informs us,
that it was witnessed by himself and passengers, between
five and six o’clock in the morning, while on his way
here.
Atlurni'y “enurui o; «iiu Slates.
Tiie Richmond Enquirer of the Bth inst. stales, that
Peter V. Daniel has declined the appointment of Attor
ney General of the United States, which had been ten
dered him by tile President of the United States.
PftA \ K 1.1 N CO I.LEGE.
The Millcdgcville Federal Union says, Richard W.
Habersham, of Chatham county, h .sheen elected Trus
i tee of Franklin College, vice Hon. George M. Troup,
resigned The Rev. S. P. Pressley has been elected
professor of Rhetoric and Belles Letters, in Franklin
College, vice professor Oiin, resigned; and Messrs.
Charles F. McKay and Armstrong, Tutors in said in
stitution.
Crons isi Lauiiiiana innl Mississippi,
The Attakapas (Lou.) Gazette of the 2G ult. says, “the
hard frort which fell during the night of the 21 inst. ha?,
we understand, very materially injured the sugar crop
throughout Attakapas. We hear that some of the plan
ters are cutting down their cane, to preserve it as much
as possible, and to prevent acidity- Perhaps this is a
prudent step, as the weather since the freeze, lias be.
come quite mild.”
The Port Gibson (Miss.) Correspondent, of the same
date observes: “We had a very severe frost on Tues
day morning, which has greatly affected vegetation,
having killed the most of thing? that do not stand the
winter. All the cotton not matured is destroyed; and
the rot having been pretty bad on the middle growth of
bolls, the quantity will full considerably short of the
anticipations of an earlier time than the present. We
are m hones that the sickuess has been effectually dissi
pated by this early approach of cold, and that we shall
enjoy until the winter has fairly set in, the delicious
weather experienced since the frost.”
3sla:>;l Seiiator.
We learn from the Newport Mercury, that in the Leg
islature of Rhode Island, on [lie 31st tt t. the resolution
offered at the last session, declaring the election of Mr.
Robbins to the U. S. Senate, in January last, to be void,
was called up and passed by a majority of 16 votes. On
the Ist inst. a resolution was offered, for the two houses
to join in grand committee for the purpose of electing a
Senator in the Congress of the U. States, in the place of
Mr. Robbins, which passed by a majority of 20. The
{lon. E. R. Putter was then nominated, and elected with
out opposition.
We are authorized to state, (say the Savannah Repub.
licnn) that the branch of the United States Bank in this
city,has received instructions from the Principle Bank
to reduce the rates of Exchange to a half per cent, with
interest for time lo run on the Northern Cities. It has
for some time been at 1 per cent., and the reduction now
made brings the rate to the same as that of Charleston.
I!OX. JOHN FORSYTH
!t will be seen, by the following correspondence,
which we have been requested to publish, that Mr. For
syth had been invited to a public dinner in Milledgeville,
which he declined.
MILLEDGEVILLE, 9th Nov. 1833.
Dear Sir —We, as a Committee appointed on the
part of the Union Democratic Republican party of Geor.
gia, now assembled at Milledgeville, in consideration
of the important services rendered the cause of the
Union, and your firm and undeviating devotion to the
true interests of our State, together with your recent
successful efforts in arresting the dangerous political
heresy of Nullification ; and the efficient support you
have given to the administration of onr venerable Chief
Magistrate, Andrew Jackson—are instructed to invite
you to partake of a public dinner, at such time as may
suit your convenience.
If your many engagements will permit you to accept,
please notify ns at what time it will be most agreeable
for you to attend.
We are, resoectfullv. vours, &c.
JACOB WOOD,
THOMAS GLASCOCK,
ELI H. BAXTER,
JESSE F. CLEVELAND,
JOHN BATES,
A. A. BROWN.
N. B. POWELL,
G. Vv B. TOWNS,
JAMES WOOD,
THOMAS HAYNES,
H R. WARD,
T-TOMAS L. WAYNE,
JOHN R. STANFORD,
JOSEPH STURGES.^
MILLEDGEVILLE, Nov. 11, 1833.
Genti.emf.n —I throw imself upon the kindness of
those whose invitation to a public dinner you have con
j veyed to me, when I ask to he permitted, most respect
fully. to decline the intended honor. With grateful ac
knowledgments to those of my fellow-citizens whose
sentiments you represent, and a proper sense ot what is
due to you peisonally, for the-terms in which you have
I expressed their wishes, I am persuaded, that the pro
posed manifestation ot their confidence, with the usual
incidents, will not be useful to the great cause in which
we are fella.w-laborers —he cause of the Union, ot the
Constitution, of ,’he rights of the people of the United
States, and of the pebffle of each Slate.
It is obvious, from recC nt events, that the dangerous
doctrines and pretensions of oar neighbor State, cannot
find an abode among us unless connected, by force or
artifice, with the s ill surviving prtj« ,,iees our !oca!
parties : prejudices deserving respect a!1 > because
they are honest; entitled to mine, because they are en
tertained by persons to whom lam deeply ;ndebted. I
would not even seem to triumph, when so rna/fiV former
associates have been disappointed.
Firmly convinced that nineteen.twentieth of tho peo
ple, if they do not now, will, when they are properly
uudersto d, approve the principles upon which we act,
I will not be instrumental irj any manner in keeping a-
live feelings that may possibly prevent a calm anJ tem
perate and accurate examination of them.
Absent, anil suffering under severe illness, daring the
past season, I have been neither.! careless nnr indiffer
ent, although a silent observer, of the open and covert
efforts made here to deprive me of the public confi
dence. I was silent, from implicit reliance on long
continued kindness, and from a conviction too, that if I
had not won by more than twenty years of public ser
vice, character enough to sustain n e against the stile
artifices of political profligaev, what I had secured ■' as
not worth the trouble of defence. Ever ready frankly
to explain, and to defend my political opinions a id pub.
lie conduct, to any of my fellow-citizens, who honestly
desire to investigate them, I shall continue to disregard
all those, who are predetermined to censure them.
Considering it at all times the duty of every public
servant and private citizen, to prevent collision between
the State and General Government; to restore
ny, whenever it is Interrupted between a State
ther of the departments of the Federal Government;
to protect with equal vigilance the rights of a State and
of the U died States; to sustain the administration, so
long as it continues to be governed by the principles
which have been, in the main, practically enforced since
the present chief magistrate was elevated to office.
I have the honor to he, Gentlemen,
With great respect.
Your fellow citizen,
JOHN FORSYTH.
To Messrs. Jacob WooJ, Thomas Glascock, Eli 11.
Baxter. Jesse F. Cleveland, John Bates, A. A. Brown,
N. B. Powell, G. W. B, Towns, James Wood, Thos.
Haynes, H. R. Ward, Thomas L. Wayne, John R.
tSiauf.rd, Joseph Sturgcs, Esquires.
A LUtr ’A.
The following extracts of letters addressed by the
Secretary of War to Mij. M’lntosh, and Francis S, Key
Esq., we take from the Richmond Enquirer of the Bth
inst. The reader will see in these instructions llie deci
ded prools of a determination to assert the supremacy of
the civil authority, winch ought always to actuate the
friends of a Republican Government.
Extract of a Letter to Mohr J. S. Mclntosh, dated Oc
tober 2‘J/h, 183 d.
“Sm—Your letter of the 21st instant to Major Gene
ral Macomb has been laid before me—and, in answer,
I have to inform you, that you will interpose no obstacle
to the service of legal process upon any officer or sol
dier under your command, whether issung from the
Courts ofthe State of Alabama, orofthe United States:
On the coiVtrarv, you will give all necessary facilities to
tite execution of such process.
“ It is not the intention of the President, that any part
of the military force of the United States should be
brought into collision with the civil authority. In all
questions of jurisdiction, it is the duty of the former to
submit to the latter, and no considerations must interfere
with that duty.
“ If, therefore, an officer of the State or of the United
States come with legal process against yourself, or an of
ficer or soldier of your garrison, you will freely admit
him within your post, and allow hint to execute his writ
undisturbed.”
Extract of u Letter from the Secretory of War, to Fran
ces S Key, Esq, October 3t, 1833.
“ You have seen by the letter addressed to Major Mc-
Intosh, it is the determination of the Government to pre
serve the proper ascendency of the civil authority. The
military force is employed by virtue of an act of Congress,
in a specific object. In the execution of this, tlntv will
follow the directions of the Marshal, and both vvillue go
verned by your adviesq in every thing relating to the exe
cution of their duty. I.ct all legal process, whether
from the Courts ofthe United States or from the Stats of
Alabama, be submitted to without resistance and without
hesitation. The supremacy of the civil over the military
authority is one ofthe great features of our institutions,
and one of the bulwarks of the Constitution. The Pie.
sident is particularly solicitous that no act should be done,
to violate this great principle. But on the other hand,
the Marshal and the Militaay force must bo defended
against vexatious proceeding; and you will, therefore,
without delay, in every instance where these are institu
ted against, them, have the matter brought befoie a Judge
of the United States for his determination.”
In the old College oi William & .M iry, in Virginia,
there were but 4 students in attendance at the beginning
ol the present term. We believe that it is the oldest
literary institution in the country, and numbers among
its Alumni some of the most distinguished in America.
PROM OUR CORRE;i ,> OSDEVT.
MILLEDGEVILLE, Nov. 11.
This morning, a resolution from the House of Re
prescniatives was taken up, the object of which is to
appoint a joint committee, with direction to take the
subject ol reduction in the number of members of the
Legislature into consideration, and report a plan for the
accomplishment of that object, either by bill or other
wise. On the adoption of the resolution the yeas and
nays wore called. The yeas were 53, the nays 35. So
the Senate concurred ;n the resolution ; and, on the
question arising, of what number shall this committee
consist, on :he part of the Senate, the number 9 was
adopted.
It is impossible to tel! what this joint committee will
report. It is my opinion that no convention will he
called. A reduction might lie proposed to the people,
in the shape of a bill ; but as, for passing such a bill,
it requires a majority of two-thirds, it is doubtful whether
a bill cculd be framed so as to receive the approbation
of two-lhirds of the members of each branch of the
Legislature. Thera is one thing which must be done,
ami that is reduction, otherwise, wise legislation can
never be expected in Georgia, with such large bodies as
the Senate and House of Representatives. I sincerely
hope, however, that the members themselves will feel
the necessity of reform, and that by bringing forbearance
and concession in the discussion of the subject, some
plan may be agreed on, which may be approved by a
majority of the people.
A resolution has passed both houses, appointing to
morrow for the election of a Secretary of State, Trea.
surer. Surveyor General, and Comptroller General.
The Senate passed a bill this morning for pardoning
a man named Johnson, who is under sentence of death
for murder, on Friday next, in this county. The House
has to proceed on this bill, before Friday. The vote
in the Senate for pardoning was 49, against 37.
NOVEMBER 12.
The communication of Mr. Cooper, a member of the
House of Representatives from the county of Putnam,
you will publish in the Constitutionalist. This courtesy
is due to this gentleman, who, notwithstanding the ex
traordinary zeal with which he advocates the doctrines
of nullification, and his undivided devotion to the ad
vancement of the new party, in which he is a principal"
leader, deserves commendation for his deportment in
debate, and for his language towards his opponents,
being careful, as I have remarked, of provoking no un
gentlemanly reply, by any intemperate attack. I am
indeed sorry to find this gentleman thus engaged. If
his zeal had another direction, the State could not fail
being benefitted by his ialents. But as his mind has led
him to connect his political fortunes with the nullifiers,
he must expect to share the fate which awaits them all,
in the final result of the political crisis in which our
country is now engaged.
This communication of Mr. Cooper demands of me a
few remarks, though the main point of it has been an
licipated by my letter, which appeared in the last Con
stitutionalist. Those remarks explain ray views with
regard to the word “ sovereignly,” which Mr. Cooper
moved to strike out from the titles usually given to the
United States.
The editors of the Federal Union can explain what
they understand by sovereignty of the United States,
and sovereignty of each State. Their explanation and
definition of the term can have no bearing with the dif
ferences which appear to exist between Mr. Cooper and
myself. The explanation I have given of the term “ so
vereignty” is niv own ; if it is erroneous, none other but
myselfcan be accountable for the error.
Mr. Cooper states, and I itelieve the statement, be
cause it is made by him, that the nullifiers have no ul
terior views to veil. Mr. Cooper has now no ulterior
views to conceal. But how long since is it that the nul. j
lifters of South-Carolina, and the few leaders of them 1
in Georgia, have unveiled their ulterior views, and the
objects the\' wished to accomplish ? Let me remind j
Mr. Cooper of the notoriety of the declarations of the I
nullifiers, w'hen they started into being. Nullification l
was a constitutional and peaceable remedy, for any abuse
of pow er by the federal government; the exercise of it
bv a State would preserve the Union, and prevent a dan
gerous collision between the State and federal authori
ties. Did the opponents of nullification ever believe in
such declarations .' Never. Why.' Because the re
medy in question was not constitutional, could not be
peaceable, and, if exercised, would inevitably produce a
collision between State and federal author.ties, which
would place in imminent danger, the public peace and
harmony and the union of the States. What have be.
cotne of the declarations of the nullifiers They are
gone to the winds. -Voir, it is admitted that nullifica
tion isuot a constitutional power. It is not peaceable,
because South-Carolina, to enforce her ordinance, had
to require the services of 20,900 men, to prepare and
purchase 29,009 muskets lo arm those men, and to put
in complete order pieces of heavy ordnance. Every
thing was ready in South-Carolina for war, while the de
claration was continued, that nullification was a peacea
ble remedy. AnJ yet, nothing was wanting in South-
Carolina, but to apply the match, and 'he whole coun
try was in a blaze. Mr. Cooper says the views of the
nullifiers are unveiled. They are so now, hut they were
not then. As they are now known, the people will no
more be deceived by declarations of peace and attach
ment to the Union, while the inevitable effects of nulli
fication, are a dissolution of this Union, and civil war.
Mr. Cooper is still afraid to admit that Mr. Calhoun
is the chief leader of the nullifiers, because of the pre
judices that may be yet entertained tn Georgia against
that “ distinguished name.” I believe that ?.!r. Cooper
has unveiled all his ulterior views. Bat can he take
upon himself to declare that all the ulterior views of
his political friends have also been unveiled ? His he,
or have ther, divulged, what they intended to do with
that “ distinguished name,” fn the present crisis of our
political affairs ? It has been so often proved that Mr.
Jefferson was not a nullifier, that I shall not attempt to
controvert the assertion of Mr. Cooper, that instead of
a nullifier of the Calhoun school, he might prove him
self to be a “ nullifier of the true Jeffersonian school.”
The name of Mr. Jefferson can never be associated with
that of Mr. Calhoun. The one was, during his long
life, a democrat in theory and practice—he never once
deviated from .bis principles. The other, has been re.
markable for the versatility of his principles, and the
opposite extremes to which they have been directed.
But I have no! much time to dwell upon this branch of
my reply to Mr. Cooper ; nor upon the assertion, that
1 have been aided in my previous remarks by the inau
gural address of the Governor. The fact is, when the
debate occurred, on the motion of Mr. Cooper, the in
augural address had not been delivered, and my remarks
were on their way to Augusta, when the Governor was
inaugurated, on Wednesday.
I am sorry that titere exist so much difference, at th »
present time, between the political principles of Mr.
Cooper, and mine. It would have been a gratification
tome, if we had continued lo agree in our political
course, and in our political prejudices. It gives mo
great pleasure, however, to state, that there is in the
communication a sentiment which corresponds with my
feelings—a sentiment which makes amends, in some
measure, for the erroneous and dangerous positions as.
sumed by the nullifiers. This sentiment is: “When
evils are no longer tolerable, and the Constitution shall
be abandoned by the Government, so as to afford ..a pro
tection to liberty or the people, in its enjoyment, then,
and not till then, will nullifiers raise the standard of
disunion.”
1 will beg leave to indulge in some remarks respect
ing the Union, which the sentiment of Mr. Cooper, ju-t
quoted, has suggested to me. I will then state, that 1
am attached to the Union, and that I would make any
sacrifice for its preservation. Mr. Cooper may rest as
sured that I would not be the last in raising my voice for
its dissolution, if the alternative presented tome, was
oppression and subjection, or war to the knife. But as
iong as peaceable and constitutional means can be em
ployed !or eomitenm#hg die evil effects of certain mea
sures ofthe federal government, 1 shall certainly cling to
this union, which has rendered us independent of the
most formidable empire in the world ; which has sue
cessluliy contended on land and water, with the armies
and fleets of that empire; and which has placed the
States forming this Union, among the first nations ofthe
eartn, for intelligence, industry, enterprise, wealth and
bravery. And will Mr. Cooper permit me to tell him,
that it is to the flag of this union, I ova my life, and an
asylum from the bloody knife of the clack savages in one
of the West India Islands ? Compelled to abandon my
native land, by revolution and the rebellion of slaves, I
found safety, hospitality liberty in this union. And
to this union, as an adopted citizen for nearly 28 years,
am I indebted lor :he privilege which I have frequently
exercised, ofboldly and fearlessly speaking my though’s,
arul for the privilege which I now exercise, of address,
ir.g a native born Georgian as an equal, and in the man
ner 1 do. Ain 1 not then bound by every tie of gratitude
to deiend this Union, and assist in preserving it as it
was originally instituted ! Have I not every reason to
be “ fascinated with this union,” though Mr. Cooper and
his political friends may possess nerves strong enough
to resist the fascination ?
I admit that if I was to take the asseveration of Mr.
Coeper, and his political friends, without connecting it
with the political movements in South-Carolina, and the
declarations made at several nullification meetings in
Georgia, I would come to the conclusion, that he and
they are friends of the Union. I will even be liberal
enough to say, that they may actually be friends of the
Union to a certain extent. But I must be permitted to
believe that it is a very extraordinary kind of friendship,
as felt bv Mr. Cooper and his friends for the Union,
which would deprive it of the muans of sustaining its
existence. They are friends of the Union, and yet they
would render it a nullity, by sapping the very founda
tions upon which it is based. They are friends of the
union, and yet they would refuse |it that food which
alone keeps it alive. For, its destruction is inev
itable, if deprived of the power to maintain itself
against foreign or domestic assaults. Mr. Cooper
and his political friends, have not as yet started
the principle, that the Union could not resist for
eign aggressions : I believe they still admit, that the
Union possesses the power of employing the means
placed at its disposal by the constitution, to repel for
eign invasions. Is not the Union as liable to domes,
tic as well as to foreign aggressions? And it the
power, in one instance, is not denied, can it be denied
in the other ? If the Union possesses the power to
repel foreign aggressions, it must possess also the pow.
er of repelling domestic assaults. And it is an assault,
when the attempt is made to deprive it of all the means
with which it keeps itself constitutionally alive, and of
the ability to perform all those important functions for
which it was created by the people ot the U. S. If .Mr.
Cooper, and his political friends, find that this Union has
grown too big, and by the strength it has acquired has
transcended the powers which the constitution has wise
ly limited, they should confine their remedy to a diet,
which, without destroying, could reduce the federal sys
tem to the necessary standard ani a constitutional equili- :
brium ; they should not attempt, by the remedy of nulli- ■
fication, to destroy the most essentia! principles of its j
vitality. If this union has lost any of its symmetrical
forms, it is easy to repair the defects by a proper regi
men, and bv a wise application of an absorbent to the de
fective parts. If it has excrescences which impede its
constitutional and regular motions, it is easy to cut them
off: it requires only the will of a majority of those who
erected that union. But we should avoid, in our appli
cation of a remedy to defects in the anion, to touch those
parts which alone keep it in life and vigor.
The elections for State House officers have just ter
minated, by the choice of Col. W. A. Tennille, of
Washington County, for Secretary of State ; Thomas
Haynes, of Hancock, for Treasurer; Major Carnes, of I
Baldwin, for Comptroller General; and John Bethune,
the present incumbent, for Surveyor General. The
following are the ballots :
Secretary OF St.'TE.
First. Second.
Tennille, 110 140
W. Y. Hausell, 113 113
Sellers, 31 7
Gibson, 10 6
Treasurer.
First. Second. Third.
Haynes, 114 133 138
J. Williams, 124 55 8
Alston, 12 70 118
Buffington, 9 0 00
Searey, 0 I 00
Meriwether, 0 0 1
Comptroller General.
First. Second. Third.
Carnes, 48 91 166
A. Foster, 50 58 43
Powell, 64 54 18
Kelly. 29 27 20
Kenan, 22 29 Jo
Buthwell. 45 7 00
M. F. Boisclan, 6 00 00
Hatcher, 00 09 L
Surveyor General.
First. Second.
Bethune. 132 134
Wellborn, 89 103
Gaither, 41 26
Cox, 1 00
Kenan, 1 00
Miscellaneous Items*
The Legislature of South Carolina will convene on
Monday, 25th inst.
The Baltimore Board of Health, report the deaths of
38 persons in that city during the week ending sth inst.
The New York City Inspector reports the deaths of
113 persotis in that city during the week ending 2d inst.—
Consumption 31,
Leslie, the distinguished Artist, is now in Philadel
phia. Ins native city, it is proposed by some ot the pa
pers to show him some mark of public attention. A
newspaper is a queer place fur the proposition ; it ought
to lie determined on first, and talked about afterwards,
The General Assembly of the State of Rhode Is!,
and met on the 29th ult. and on the regular counting of
the vo es for a Representative to Congress, given lhe
past summer, Tristam Burges was declared the only
one duly elected.
Rise of Real Estate. —lt is worthy of remark, says
the Newark, (N. J.) Daily Advertiser, as an indication
of the progress of this town, that at P. Ailing’s sale of
building lots on the Rail Road avenue, on Wednesday
last, real estate which was a lew years ago sold for
$65, and that was then considered full price, brought
$10,009.
It is said th..t he productive power of Great Britain
and the United States, with the aid of machinery, is
equal to that of the whole human i ace without it.
Capt. Walker, from Malaga, at New-Orleans, states
that Cholera had broken out at Saragossa and several
other cities in Spain ; and the people of .Malaga were
in dread of a visit from the same pest.
The followingis a report of the Passengers and Mer
chandize, conveyed on the South-Carolina Rail Road,
during the week ending 19th inst. Passengers, 335,
exclusive ol those in the Company’s service. Mer
chandize down. 70 bales Cotton.
From Vera Cruz. —Capt. Kennedy, of the brig Spark,
which arrives! at New-Orleans from Vera Cruz, informs
that three or four days previous to Ins sailing, the Cho
lera re-appeared there, and the deaths from it amounted
to from 1(J to 15 a day. Business was in a state of slag,
nation. N-> news of importance from the interior had
been received at Vera Cruz when the S. left.
C »i: 2 ill nia i i*: ijst» s» s.
7 ’ MILLEDGEVILLE, Nov.il, 1833.
To the Editor of the Constitutionalist.
Sir, —In your notice of tiie proceedings of the sc
corn! day of the session, you have bestowed some at
tention to two motions I had the honour to make, in re
gard lo tiie journals. Had you been silent as to the
reasons and objects I ha J in moving, or had you truly
stated them, you would have saved the necessity of any
remark of mine. You say my “ reasons are only a
repetition of what the Nullifiers of South-Carolina had
frequently advanced, respecting the sovereignty of the
States.” You certainly have misunderstood me. I en.
tered not upon the question of State Sovereignty, but
expressly stated my only object was to avoid what might,
even by a misconstruction of the journals, involve a
committal of members on that point. True, it was ca
sually remarked by me, that we hold, “ Absolute Sover
eignty resides with tiie people of each State,” and no
where else. But this was not our reason for moving.
I also denied that the Federal Government, was sover
emu, in the proper sense of the term, either in wholu or
in part. —And I feel gratified to find myself supporled
by your respectable paper. For, you say, “ lie insist,
e l that the people were sovereign, which no body ever
denied, and that the Federal Government was not sover.
eign, which nobody ever believed and maintained.” Sir,
I perceive in this latter expression you have misunder
stood others as well as myself, or have misrepresented
them. For there are not a few who d» hold to the sov
ereignty of the United States or Federal Government-
I so understood and still understand some of those who
differed from me on that occasion. Upon this alone, I
refer you to an editorial of the Federal Union, of the
Cth, the organ of the Administration, and the leader of
a great party in this State, which remarks, that my
motions “ had supporters enough to shew that the Nulli-
Tiers are determine:! that the United States shall not be
sovereign, and that each State is to stand sovereign and
supreme upon her own basis.” This certainly means
that the United States Government is sovereign. Here,
Sir, your very clear perception, will discover, is no
“quibbling about words”—no veiling of the “ulterior
view's” of the “ Nullifiers.” Bermit me to assure you,
so far as I know them, they have none to “ veil.” They
feel proud that there yet remains freedom enough to
warrant them, in the face of day, to walk unmasked.
They also cherish the belief that until the doctrine of
the “ Federal Union” shall be adopted and acted out,
they have nothing to fear in pursuing this open course.
“ A nullifier of the Calhoun school.” Sir, this is ve
ry kind in you, anti will no doubt transfer to me, (with
those to whom I have not the honour to be known,) all
the prejudices that may attach to that distinguished
name—without conveying at the same time, any of the
high commendation that may be due his character and
talents. Had you attended, you would have understood
that it was in contemplation, that our views on those
controverted points would at a future day he submitted.
That w’ouldhave enabled you with more justice, if not
more truth, to pronounce, to what school of Nullifiers I
did belong.—l sincerely trust your determination to fore
stal yourself and the public on this point, was not indu
ced by the apprehension, that I might prove to be a
“ Nullifier of the true Jeffersonian school.”
But in another place you concede that the Nullifiers
are bold, even whilst attempting “ to veil their ulterior
views.”—A r ou say they “ intend to take a bold stand for
the doctrine, —and for Mr. Calhoun ;” and to consider as
opponents all those who do not go “ with them in their
policy,” which you have found to be a “ dissolution of
the Union, and the formation of a Southern confedera
cy.” In this discovery Ido not dou >t you have been
aided by the Inaugural address of his Excellency, if so,
you have also discovered, in tiie disposition of another
resolution I had the honour to offer, that his friends,
held that he had discovered what did not exist, or of
which we had no information—“ A Nullifier who in
tended to destroy the Union,” for a Southern confedera
cy. When evils are no longer tolerable, and the Con
stitution shall be abandoned by the government, so as to
afford no protection to liberty or the people in its enjoy
ment, then, and not till then, will Nullifiers raise the
standard of Disunion. And pray, sir, will you then
strike it ?
Your suggestions will no doubt have the effect, (aided
by the Inaugural Address,) to make the people believe
that Nullifies are “Traitors,” and the people will act
onthat belief until they begin to look through their ranks
and ask where some of them were, when their country s
battles were fought. Should they then begin to under
stand them, the day of visitation will be woe to them
who, with youiselt, called them Traitors.
Yours, respectfully, 6ic.
mark a. cooper.
Mr. Editor. —'-The dreadful explosion of the boilers of
the steam-boat New England, which lately occurred, has
determined me to do what I have long thought of, to
submit a plan, which I am confident would, if adopted,
prevent the fatal consequences from these accidents that .
j we so frequently hear of.-
I have no chymical nostrum, or mechanical combina
tion to propose, m prevent the bursting of steam boat
boilers. I have attended to all that has been said of
safety valves, of metalio. alloys that would melt, and
let off the steam when it acqu.rt-s a certain temperature*
and to all the different and various theories and opinions
of the immediate causes of these explosions. What I
have to suggest has nothing to do with tiie cause, or its
prevention; this is not, at present, at least, my object?
but to submit a simple, practical plan by which human
life may be protected, and human suffering and torture,-
worse than death itself, prevented.
Since, then, steam-boat boilers, as they are, or likely
to be, with all theii perfections and imperfections on their
heads, will occasionally burst, would it not be a great'
desideratum to prevent the dreadful consequences that*
arise from it ?
To preserve the lives of the passengers, and indeed,
of all who are not at the rime engaged about the boiler
of a steam.boat, from inj «ry by their bursting, my plan
is so simple and obvious, although as certainly effective,-
that 1 am apprehensive for that reason, certainly a very
had one, that it will be disregarded. It is as follows :
I would recommend that the boilers be placed close for
ward, under the forecastle deck, and a space sufficient
to contain them be appropriated for them, and separated
from the main hold of the boat by a strong bulk head, to
rise about a foot a' ove the deck, or as high as the deck
of the forecastle, without any door or opening into the
mam hold of the boat. The forecastle derk should be
slight, as those of deck-cabins or the round-houses of
ordinary vessels are. The after part of the forecastle'
deck might he fixed to the hulk head with strong hinges,
which, in case of an explosion of the boiler, would, as
it was thrown off by the force of the steam, keep the
after part of the deck from rising, and project the steam
forward; and although a great part of it would be blown
in pieces, enough would remain to produce this effect—
and would, infallibly, protect from injury every person
abaft the bulk head. But the engine and the paddle
wheels, it may be objected, cannot be moved to the fore
end of the boat. I doubt the fact, but I concede the
point. Ido not ask that they should he removed from
their accustomed situation. If the cylinder of the en.
gine must remain in the centre of the boat, cannot the
steam he conducted to it from the boiler without defal
cation, or with as little as is now sustained ? A steam
pipe encased in a non-conductor (G inches of wood for
instance) though it were fifty feet long, would radiate
less heat than one of ten, in the usual way. If the boiler
were at the breast-hook of the stem, and the cylinder at
the transom of the stern post, it would present no diffi
culty. Intced, independently of safety, I would prefer
having the boilers forward. It may be asked, if all this 4
is so easy to be done, and so certain in its effects, why
was it not done before ? Why, perhaps for that very
reason, which I still fear will prevent its adoption. For,
“ so inconsistent a being man is,that he is forever striving
against evils that no human means or ingenuity can sub.
due, and submitting to others, that a tenth part of tho
pains that they co t him, would remove from him forev.
er.” This sentiment is borrowed, and probably rot cor
rectly quoted. The engineer who will undertake to say
that the arrangements I have proposed (I will not call
them improvements, asthere is nothing new but in trans.
position) will not be attended with die results I have sta
ted, or that they cannot be effected, will very much im
pair his standing—l mean in my estimation. Indeed,
they are so self-evident* that I defy a reasonable man to
gainsay them.
Ii is not my province, nor is tin’s the place to indulga -
in moral considerations, or*T might mention, that writer* <
on political economy nave lately doubted whether tho
steam engine itself, has been productive of good to the,
human family; an J the unparalleled prosperity of this
country and Great Britain, is not attributable, as some,
have supposed, to the steam engine, but to other causes.
One thing I am pretty certain of,-the aggregate of hu
man we a', when we make fair deductions for the amount
of human misery they have occasioned, has not been
promoted by the application of steam to the propulsion of
boats. It is probable, that since the last war that these
States were engaged in, that more men, not to mention
woman and children, have fallen victims to steam boat
accidents, than fell in that conflict; and our land is filled
with widows and orphans by this merciless destroyer—
who, not like the relict of the soldier, who has died a
less painful death for his country, are unpensioned and
unhonored, and I had almost said, nnpitied and unknown.
And if tho personification would not be too bold, I might
add, that he who can propose a plan that will effectually
destroy this hydra that has made an evil of one of the
first gifts that science has presented to mankind in this
age of improvement, “ will deserve well of his country."
AN OLD ENGINEER.
REIiIGIOUS XOriCE.
“ Prove all things, hold fast that which is good.” 4
—Paul. *
A series of Lectures, in defence and illustra
tion of the doctrine of the final blessed “ reslilu.
tion of all things,” is now in progress of delivery at tho
Unitarian Church of this city,by the Rev. Dr. Andrews,
late of Philadelphia. It is expected that the following
subjects will receive investigation: The damnation of un.
belief, (Mark xvi. 15, 16.) The Bible doctrine of Hell,
(Psalms ix, 17.) The character and influence of the De.
vil, (James iv, 7.) Blasphemy against the. Holy Ghost,
(Math. xii. 31. 3.) Parables ol the Sheep and Goat*
and the Rich man and Lazarus, (Math. xxv. 31. and Luke
xvi. 19.) Second Death. (Rev. xxi. 8.) Destruction of
Soul and Body, (Math. x. 28.) New Birth, (John hi. 3 )
Rewards and Punishments, (Proverbs xi. 31 ) Objec.
tions to the Dogma of Endless Suffering ; Reasons in
favor of Universal Salvations; Popular objections there- _
to considered, <fec. &.c. The Clergy and citizens of Au- _
gusta tire pespectfu’ily invited.
“Come now, and let us reason together.” — Bible.
[ From the Richmond Jeffersonian.]
5= Jill —First Pay.
Proprietor’s Purse, Extra—Two Mile Heats.
William L. White’s ch h Backslider, 4 years old,
by Hotspur, 5 4
Thomas Graves’ ch h Winterfield, 4 years old, by
Gohannn, di* .
John M. Bolts’ ch h Rapid, 5 vears old, by Ratlcr, 4 3
Henry A. Taylor’s ch m Multiflora, 4 years old, by
Mason’s Ratler, 2 3-
Wrn. R. Johnson’s b f full sister to Herr Cline, 3
years old, bv Archv, 1 * ‘
Richard Adams’ Sfanard’s bc 3 years old,by Ton
son, dr
Time—lst heat. 3m. ;>7s 2d, 4m.
Won very easily. The time is considered good, «•
Tree Hill, at all times the slowest track in Virginia, i*
unusually heavy.
SECOND DAY.
Proprietors' Parse, Three Hundred Dollars.
Mr. Dosvveli’s Moscow, by Tariff, 3 years olu, 53 8
Mr. Mince’s Molly Howell, by Contention, 6 years
old, = 44 o
Mr. Botts’Tobacconist, by Gohanna, 5 years old, 15 3
Afr. Wynn’s Filly, by Tonson, 3 years old, 2 2 di*.
Mr. Johnson’s Ironelte, hy Contention, 5 years old, 3 11
Time—lst heat, 4m. Is.; 2nd, 3m. 545.; 3rd. 3m. 58*.
Mr. Selden’s Duke of Orleans was entered for thi*
race, but did not start, in consequence of lameness.
NORFOLK JOCKEY CLUB RACES.
SECOND DAY’S RACE.
Proprietor’s Purse 0300 —2 mile heats.
The day was tine as could be wished for, the course