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THE LOCK OF HAIR.
* Pis Ilio gili of the dead!—of one who lira
llenealii llir liitfon which we I read—
'Tut hallow'd by Ihr tear* and sigh*
Os lips li'ilov (I anil tunning eyes!
'Tis till 1 gift of llic dead!
Ti« lli« gift of (ho clr.nl!—upon hit brow
The beauty of that lock was celled,
Ii was tho token of it vow,
\\ hour memory is clear e’en now !
’Tis the gilt of the dead!
’ I'is the gift of the dead! Height tress of hail!
\Vilh hit own lingers thou werl si:reck—
Ton dear thou art —earth, sea, or air,
Holds not n gift for me so fail;
’’i'is the gift of the dead!
’i’ir ihr gift of the dead!—of a Rifted nnr,
Whose heart was mine till its last pulse duel,
Os one, whose cveiy look and lone
And lightest word were music - .’* own;
’’i'is the gift of the dead! ,S. J. F.
Ammu, Maumktimm.—She was a fine
• 'rapping young woman enough dressed hall
and hall between n line lady mid n servant
maid ; but as sly looking a baggage as you
Coni select front an assortment of gipsies,
and, unless her face lieltul her, i| tile capahe
ol tiornlcliii g a Cock-lane ghost. Indeed,
something came across me that I had seen her
before; and if my memory don't deceive me,
it was at sonic private theatricals contrary
to law. For cerium she coni I keep her coun
tenance, lor, if (iii! otiilandisli figtne ol n doc
tor, with Ins rfheer face, hud postured, and
on wed, and paged towards me, with Ins lin
gers,lor nil the word like the old game ol
‘my granil-iiiccher sends yon n stud’, and ytui'r
neither l« smile nor to laugh,” as lie d d to
her, I should have Intrtl to a dead certainly,
instead of going off’, as she did, into uneasy
sleep. As soon ns she was sound, the Count
turned round to me, with Ins broken Engl.slit
“Ladies and gentleman," says lie, “look here
at dis young maidens, Mizz Chariot Ann Bliz
iihet Mirim-”—for that is Ins way ol talking —
‘aid my magnetismiifsCH I Iro her into von
M ite of Boinuamhoo/.'oism,” or something lo
that efieel, —“.Mizz. Chariot Ann, dot) art a
r ip." “A. fast ns a church, Mister Count,”
rays she, talking and hearing as easy us broad
awake. “Ferry good,” i-aya he. “Now, 1
lake rl s boltc—.Missis (linsse Cokery, and I
el a I make t.'je maidens rend som little ol h in,
wid her back. Here ho iabyiween her shoul
ders. Mizz. Chariot Ann, what you sec now
mil your eyes turned the wrong way for lo
look!” “ Why llion," says she, ‘ Mr. Count,
I see r|'i le plain a T and an O. Then comes
R, mid () and S and T ; and I lie next word la I
11, and A, and 1 and R,” “Kerry gool," cries
the ( Knmt over again. “Dad is to real de hare.
Ladies and gentlemen, yon nil hear! As
(iott, is my sliudge, so is lit re in de bukc.
Now, don, M zz Chariot Ann, vons more.
Vot yon taste in yon mouse!” “Why, then
m ister,” says Chariot Ann, “ns sure ns fate,
I taste sweet herbs chopped up small!” “Very
pool, indeed! but vot more by sides de sweet
lierrubs!” “Why,” says sin*, its n relish a salt,
and pepper, and mace—and lot me Bce*-
thcre’* flavor of riiricnt jelly." “Ucsser and
liesser,” cries the Count. ‘ Ladies and gen
tlemen, are not dose vouderlools l You shall
rco every wort of it in the print. Mizz Char
iot Anti, vot you feel!" “Lawk a mercy, Mis
ter Count,” says she, “there a sort of study
feel, so there iw. in my inside!” “Yaw! like
yon fool pelly! Fetiy genii New, yen teci voi 1 ’
"Feel! Mr. Count?” she. “Why, I donl’i
feel nothing at all—the stuffiness is clean
gone away?” “Yaw, my child!” says be,‘Mat
is bycanso I take nvay the cokery boko from
your two shoulders. Lillies an I gentlemen, .
dose are grand powers of megnotlsimiß! Ach
Himmoll As Hamlet say, dero inure in our
philosmlirod dim dero is in de heaven or do 1
earth! Our mutter Nature is so fond to hider '
lacs! Rut von adept, so us me, con It Let up
a whale."— Hood,
t
had —Patriot wit—A Sovereign lirm. ,
nty. —'The United States odicers on board the
•leanihnit New England under the command 1
"f I't. Champlin, on her recent visit to Dim- I
kirk found nil the boxes containing mins and 1
rtnmitnnlinn marked “A cure for the Kum’s i
Evil! ’ —Hujfalo Jow.
11V.avv 1 ai.u —‘Look here, Sain -lousing,
is yon gwoin to do theatre to night!”
“No—is yon ?”
• Dai 1 is. Don’t you see de great ’trac
tion dcre on do lull?”
‘D es I does. Say, nig, what’s do name oh
dat big piece down dcre at de bottom,” point
mg lo the annoimeement of Master St. Luke.
“Well I can’t zackly speceniity tie nameob
dat piece, but dev say it’s one dal possesses
do biggest kind of intereslariel v."
"D.it s enough—dat last ’spression of yours
conwmees me—l’m gwoin.”
If Congress were to pass the sub treasury
hill, would the country bo worse off than it !
is now!— (Hohe.
No, The only difference is, that the pen !
pie, who arc now plundered tecrellv, would 1
then ho plundered openly.— l‘rciu!cc.
A gang of counterfeiters bus boon broken !
up ;■> Michigan. They bad throe sub tieasn- I
nes, containing in all nb ?ut twelve thousand I
dollars in spurious notes— lb.
Arrrrt O-Murbrrrrs.—The four hro-
Ihers named Jones, who murdered (,’ol. Ward
near Meniph s, and for whom a very large
reward was offered, were taken on the tkjj |
near Fulton mi Red river by a party of mm- 1
I eimm from Hampstead county, Arkansas !
Ih - y were taken to Lillie Rook on the VTlh '
nnder n strong guard, and were lo be carried
to Memphis in the first boat.
Ai u.AN-1,) - ..—At'Nalohez, on the 12ih in»l,
ft ponton ol the earth a little above the light
,**!• a , :iv, ‘ mid an immense mass 0 f earth
nn.l lunlH-r was preeipitate.l upon the dwellings i
hrl.nv svn-rnhot the hull,lings were complete- !
1> destroyed, ard a lady and he. daughter were i
, "!" rh "f' rrd - ‘o he- placed almost beyond i
" Ch, l "‘■•’•■'-ry. h ,S supposed that n
t y z;rTr, u ;•* «■£* i
_ ' J 1,8 acs,rut ' la “ “1 property was very I
1090 bl, l„ 'I Vt<i r M U1u,1 , 1,y ,h 0
:Wlt ; , • 1 an,lt, ‘ i Tampa
~ >’ u l " Ditto nvn Irom Havana, and m,cm
throe years m lighting the Indian*, whom he
r. pea led.y vaaq-nshml. II- closed h.s career
near the moinh “f Red Rucr. having penetra
ted thus (ar from Tampa. “ 1
fe’vow Sron'i The tv, other, which for the
asl three or liur days h.s been It.-elcning (,
ace,mu’s « for iis mildness m
fir. part „f the winlor, yesterday paid us „f
■mi,i a line eld f.ishimied snow siorm. The stern
viiniiiiriircd on J’hursduv, quite moderately, j
creasing hy degree* in violence, un it lust eve,,
‘"S. wnen ii assumed the aspect of a C.nadi u
temp,., drilling the lal ing snow and lii.l i.,
* ry Ihe sleighing, however i>
* v«iy line, .iikl the whole city, regardless of • tli
i pollings of the pililessVlorni” ft e;hed to he out
|in all Milts df vehicles that could ho fixed upon
1 runners, in order to moke the most of the occa
sion.—.V. Y. Exjirctt, 17/^'f ntl.
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WASHINGTON, Feb. I ft.
! The proceedings of the lawless hordes, calling
j themselves “I’alriots,'’ on tllb Northwestern
I Frontier, against the neutrality of the country,
aro now engaging the attention of the House of
Representatives: and the Hill which passed the
Senate on the IRih of January, to compel the
observance of our neutral obligations, has u.t«
dergonc a very thorough and elaborate discussion.
Tbs Committee on Foreign Relations in report
ing this bill to the House, proposed an amend
! merit ofnn important character to that provision,
1 which allows the trade in aims and munitions of
war, conducted in vessels by sea to any foreign
port or place whatever, which has been hitherto
carried on lawfully by citizens of the United
j Stales under the old Neutrality Law. 11 he
.amendment limits this provision, and jnnhibitt
! this trade to ports or places within lontevminoun
euuniriet or coloniet.
A number of other amendments have been
offered by different gentlemen, with the view o'
obviating particular objections. The truth is, the
hill is very badly drawn. Neither Mr. Senator
Iluchanoii, who introduced it originally into the
Senate, nor Mr. Howard, who remodelled it in j
the House, is lit to preside over the Committee I
on Foreign Relations. There is an almost unani- !
molts desire to pass some hill which will lullill :
all the duties of neutrality and preserve peace on |
the frontier; hot some ol the provisions of this
measure are so objectionable, that I do not be
lieve it would soininanJ forty votes in its present ■
shape.
On HajurJay Mr. HOWARtt presented two
official letters which had just been received by a
special express from Detroit—one fr in (sen. Urn
[ dy to Ailj’t Gen. Jones; and the other fiotn Gov.
Mason to the President, complaining of a defi
ciency i f power, and urging the immediate pas
sage of the Rill now before the. House. Ofeourse,
these funclionaiies only wish that some effective
measure should he enacted. Their letters furnish
no arguments fur this particular hill.
1 mentioned in a former letter, that the Senate
[ had passed a hill altering the times of holding the
111. S. Courts in the .VVn.'/i District. When this
measure was taken up in the House.
Mr. GARLAND of Louisiana, look occasion to
comment very strongly on the neglect of the Dis
'rict Judge (McKinley) who, ho said, hail not
shown his face in New Orleans since his appoint*
mri.t. He believed the arrangement of the Jtr
dicial District in the South-West, hail been ,;ade 1
with reference to a particular appointment: and j
it had operated on Louisiana as a curse rather i
than u blessing. He declared that Congress could j
do nothing belter for that State than to abolish '
the law so far as it was concerned.
Mr. MARTIN of Alabama, undertook the de- j
fence of the Judge ; and gave as an excuse lot I 1 !; 1
not holding Couit in New Orleans, that the j
yellow fever was raging at the time.
lIuI 1 remember, that during the discussion in
the Senate, Mr. Sevier of Arkansas, declared the
Judge had not mice shown his face in that Shite.
Was the yellow fever raging there also?—So
much for political appointments to the Supreme
Dench !
MONDAY, Fob. 19th.
On entering the Senate Chamber this morning,
an Ilnur and a half before the time for proceeding
to business, I found the Chamber crowded to
overflowing in every part. All the galleries were,
packed and piled with anxious expectants: and
numbers of ladies finding no room there, elfeclcd
a lodgment in the privileged reals on the floor-
Dill there they wore not allowed to remain. The
rule was enforced ; and the fair beings wore inex
orably expelled. This immeneo multitude was
called together by the intelligence ihatHuxuv
Clay was to address the Senate: They were
not disappointed. That illustrious statesman and
orator spoke for nearly five hours: and all his
friends declared that he never made a more in.
structivc, eloquent, and in every respect, able
speech in his life. He laid down five great prop
ositions, which ho proved and illustrated at
length:
Ist. That it was the deliberate purpose and
, fixed design ol the late Administration, to estah
i Ush a Government Dank, —a Treasury Dank, to
j bo administered and controlled by the Treasury
j Department.
j Snd, That with a view to this end 1 ,-there was
i a determination to overthrow the whole Ranking
j System of the country.
3rd. That those attacks were first confined,
Irom considerations of policy, to the Dank of the
J United Stales, but were afterwards extended to,
i and are now continued against, the State Institu
tions.
■lib- That the present Executive has succeeded
, lo the principles, plans, and policy of the late i
Administration, and is pledged to perfect them. I
filh. That this hill is introduced for the pur- I
i pose of executing the pledge, by creating a Gov
ernment Dunk to be administered and controlled
by the Treasury Department.
The evidence Mr. Clay adduced on these points
was very full and conclusive. 1 will notice it
I particularly to-morrow.
In the course of his remarks, he alluded to the
extraordinary attitude of Mr. Calhoun, in relation
j to this AdtmiiislratiomanJ his extraordinary eon
duct as developed in his famous Edgefield Letter’
Slid his speeches at the last and present session
Never was there a more severe and more clfee
! nvv rebuke administered lo any public mau, than
; that given to Mr. Calhoun by Mr. Clay in this
memorable passage.
Where, ho exclaimed, did this measure origi
inate? The ilrawer lives in the White House:
the eiulorter is the Senator from South Carolina ’
j What the drawer thinks of ilie endorser, his hah
ilual good temper and courtesy, will perhaps ever
prevent us from learning ; but what the endorser
ha* run/ of the drawer, still rings-in our ears.
Who does not remember the remark that the dcs j
lined successor had none of tho noble qualities of I
the Lion, hut only the sneaking and cunning »(. '
f irbutes of the Fox. * I
Mr. f.l.iy properly characterized his conduct
of Mr. Calhoun to Uio Whigs us ungenerous in
the extreme, ami especially his remarks on the
Whigs in the Edgefield letter. Mr. Calhoun ihere
•aye that he quit his old allies because he found
that the victory would ensue not to him and his
party : hut to others. I'arty ! exclaimed Mr,
Clay, I thought we were fighting for our country
—lor its liberties, its rights, its interests. Our
object was to drive the Goths and Vandals from
Koine. It was for this we were allied; —to bring
down Executive power, to lake from the spoils
men lllc f dsiession of the Government. Dot the
Schaterfrom South Carolina and his parly hive
left us. They have gone horse, fool, and dra
goons!—Hut that horse, foot, and dragoon con
sists of the Etc mlor himself! He has gone over,
to use the language ofhis now distinguished ally
“SotITAHt iXU ALO.se!”
Mr. Clay herb made a heauli'ul and striking
reference to the etory ol Achillea in the Head;
contrasting Ilia conduct with that of .Mr. Calhoun
The Grecian hero remained in solitude, brooding
over his wrongs—hut when he did come forth,
it w s to raise his avenging a. in, and drive the
Trojans hack to their city. Achilles did not go ■
over to the Troyan camp, lie, at the worst, j
stood aloof from his friends and countrymen : j
even though he was so grievously wronged.
ft e, proceeded Mr. Clay, have done the Sena
tor from South Ca olina no wrong. We. honor
cd him for his talents, his genius, his mi/ifioaeil
patriotism, his stern and inflexible fidelity. Yet
Ihe has gone over to the Trojan ramp! He has
■ id* us: liut whether, should victory perch on
| the banners of the Spoilsmen, he would leave
i them also, if the victory should not enure to him
mid hfs parly, Mr. Clay said, is a question which
j- he would leave to he decided by the high parlies
j concerned!
I will notice the reply of Mr. Clay 10 the argu
ments of Mr. Calhoun, in my next.
After he had finished, Mr. CALHOUN rose
and said that Mr. Clay had misstated or pervert
ed every argument he had thrown out. Hu
would reply to the arguments, and also to the
personal remarks of that Senator, at his good j
leisure i aiid, o' ih.it time, ho assured the Senator
the debt between them should be settled and paid.
Mr. Cloy rejoined with great promptness whe
ther he had perverted and misstated the argli
| tr.cnl of Hie Senator he would leave to a more I
impartial tribunal than him--the Semite. With
respe Ito any pay incut, the Senator tony lie dis
posed to make ho was ready to receive it in any
way. ‘ i s ock not, said be, a contest with any
I man. I avoid none with the Senator from South
j Carolina,
Mr. ALLEN of Ohio then moved the ad journ
j men*. He has Hu floor for to morrow. M.
From the N■ J'. Com. A dr. /if,. It).
Destruction of the iiuwcry Thetftrc.
A little alter two o’clock on Sunday morning
i Ihe henuUlul edifice, erected hut little more than
j a year since, known as the Bowery Theatre,
was entirely destroyed by lire. This is the
I third building, devoied to theatrical purposes and
j erected upon this spot, that has been burned
I ten years. The first edifice was burned
in Mav, 183 d, the second in September, J.SdG,
and the third yesterday morning.
) The following of Ibis firo arc
principally made up from the Courier and Gazette
ot Ibis morning.
At about a quarter past two o’clock, the private
watchmen stationed in the building were nlaim
od by the reflection ofa light on the stage, caused
by a lire in the upper part of the building. The
lire was just then breaking out in ihecaipenlet’s
shop, which was situated immediately under the
root in front of the building, and the alarm was
spread with all possible despatch. The firemen, 1
with their engines, hastened to the spot, but I
before any water could bo brought to bear upon
the building, the whole interior was in flames,
and the possibility of saving any thing was ah
most out of the question. A dash was made at
the properly room,where the wardrobe was kept,
hut only one small bundle of garments was res
cued, and the whole ward tube, estimated at
7000 or *BOOO, fell a prey to the flames. The
scenery, machinery and stage property, being all
highly combustible, were soon consumed, and at
about three o’clock the roof fell in, sending aloft !
a muss of cinders, which flew far and wide, and I
burying beneath [it all that remained of the ill- j
starred Bowery Theatre.
The iron safe, containing some money and all
the books and papers of iho establishment, was
saved;, but, except this, nothing of any value
was rescued. The wardrobe, scenery, and other
properties, were valued at about $OO,OOO dollars, !
upon which there was no insurance. Insurance I
to the amount of $1)5,000 had been effected upon !
the building, which it is supposed will not cover 1
one half of the Whole actual loss. Very few of
the actors had any clfecls in the theatre, and they
have thus escaped the general ruin. Mr. Uuver
nay, carpenter to the establishment, had three
thesis ot tools and other properly destroyed which
was not insured.
Os the origin of this fire, Ihere can ho but one
opinion, that it was the work of an incendiary.
The flames when first discovered, were breaking
out from the carpenter’s shop in the top of the
building in front. There was a coal stove in that
room, hut no lire had been in it since half past
four o’clock the previous day, and the last per
son who 101 l the building on Saturday night,
stales most positively that there was not a spark
of fire in the building, except such as was below,
| and was attended to by the watchmen, i'hcre
| are moreover, some circumstances, which we aro
not now at liberty ‘.O divulge, which tend to
| strengthen the general opinion that the lire was
I the woik of an incendiary.
J here were three ot four buildings adj lining
| the Theatre also destroyed
1 The heaviest 10.-er by this disastrous fire is Mr.
Dinneford, who owned the wardrobe, and the nth
-1 or stage properties, upon w hich there was no in
\ suranee.
From they. Y. Kx/iiess, Fel>. 19.
MONEY MARKET—CITY NEWS.
Saturday. I*. M—There is a good deal of feel
ing, and no small disappointment manifested at
: Hie course the Senate have taken in relation to i
I the small bill law. The prevailing sentiment is
1 that the popular branch oft' e Legislature ought
not to yield to the amendment nt the Senate in :
regard to ibis lull. A suspension of the net for '
: two yens would not ollurd imv relief—the ban Its 1
j would have no inducement for this short peiiod '
I to go to the expense ot preparing new plates. >
I So long ns our neighbors on all sides circulate I
small notes, <?o long every man in llic community
must receive the n. Neeessily is paramount to
I any act of the Legislature, and a law that can
; not be enforced ought to he repealed.
K>i.itv Link, Bos-m>.—The investigating
j committee of Massachusetts, appointed to exam
ine into the doings and eomlition of this bank,
j have made, so tar us the public are concerned, a
very satisfactory report. The bills of Iho bank
! in circulation, amount to *158,072, of which
i ? 110,000 arc held by the associated banks, leae
| "’S only flViro in actual circulation, for the re
deinplion ul \\liieli the assets of tliclui.lv a am
ply sufficient. Thy Ids,-, if any, will fill entirely
upon the stockholders. Unlike the other hank-, j
whore condition has hi'on submitted to the pub I
lie, the Kilby bank had no connection with 'he ;
government, neither has it been under the direc
tion of political men. The report of the com- i
millce exonerates the directors from the imputa
tion of any thing, of a dishonest or fraudulent |
charac'er, in tho management of the affairs of the j
institution.
Ohio Disks.—The chief clerk in the Audi '
tor’s office having examined the returns made by I
the Banks of their Condition, found them much
more favorable than’he expected. He says the
hanks are culiiely solvent, and can resume spe
cie payments any day after the hanks of the East
shall have resumed. ,
From the .V. F. Jferutd , Feb. IP,
Fiio.m Jamaica, West Indies.—The Jidin
j W. Cater, the regular Jamaica packet, arrived
last night with files of that Island to the Ist in-l.
The Kb gslon Maikel quotations of the 31st till,
slates that hhds. sugar sold at 30s. 4d. per 100 lb.
; and barrels flour at 495. 2d. per brl.
The Bib Regiment of foot doing duly in Ja
maica, was under orders for Canada. Thib cor/ri
has been many years on the I viand, and is much
respected, li is feared that the transition from
heat to cold may elfect the health of the officers
j and men.
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I CHRONICLE AND SENTINISL.
AU« tJSTA
ftalKhlay Moi nitig, Feh.lM.
Tits I.N’IiiA.M Captive*.—Micanopy and .the
other Indians who have been confined on Sulivan’s
Island, left Charleston, on Thursday in I lie brig
Homer, for their destination to the West, via
New Orleans.
Gen. Winlield Scott, with a part of his suite,
arrived at Now York on Saturday tho 18th ins I,
from Albany, and left on Monday for Washing
ton.
The U. S. sloop of W ar Concoul, sailed from
Pensacola on the. 17th. The schooner Grampus
hearing tho broad pennant of Com. Dallas, ap
peared oil'the harbour at the same time.
The Nashville Whig of the Idth hist, says,
that the hanks at that place discount very spar
ingly. The aggregate new discounts of the two
hanks is less than 15,0(10 a week; Natchez and
Vicksburg money is taken in payment of debts..
Interior hanks uncertain—discount pretty heavy.
Alabama notes in delnund I a 2 per cent premium
U S notes 10 a II premium.
Tun Weather.—-The N. V. Dai’y Ex
press of IChh inst. says : “Since the storm on
Friday, the weather has been intensely cold,
which has occasioned the rivera to be nearly
closed with ice, obstructing the piss tgo of
steamboats at the different ferries, and all
the vessels arriving or sailing, of course, are
compelled to have steamboats.
Dr. A shot Smith, Surgcon-Genftal offhoTex
ian Army arrived in Washington recently under
orders from tho Government. Ho brings de
spatches to Gen Hunt, the Texian Minister.
In 1800 tlie population of the new Slates cud
Territories created out of the public domain was,
00,000, in 1330 it was about 3,300,000.
r J he present debt of the Slate of Ohio, is lon
millions of dollars.
LATE FROM FLORIDA.
liy the arrival of the steamer John McLean,
Capt. Adams, at Savannah the Editors of the
Georgian have been put in possession of the |
following information from the seat of war.
Cr.AUKSVII.LK, E. F. 2
February 19, IS3S. 5
To the Kill lor of the Georgian.
Dear Sir: A letter was received at this place
| lasi evening, from an officer of lire army at In* j
dian River, stating that there was a report there i
lira' Gen. Jesup had captured three or four bun- |
died Indians, men, women and children. The j
officer writes lUct the report is very indefinite, j
therefore he will not vouch for the truth i f it. :
I Tho whole country where Gen. Jesup is opera- !
( ling, is under water, frequently catching the men
up to their breasts. Gen. J. is new near Jupit
er inle'.
Jacksonville, Fob, 20. 7
Courier Office, Tuesday, 2 o’clock A.M. S
By the arrival of the framer John McLean,
j Gapt Adams, from Black Greek, we learn that a
j letter from an officer ul St. Augustine, to another
I at Black Creek,says,that an express had arrived
I from the army, which says that it is rumored that
j Gen. Jesup had captured Five Hundred Indians.
It is also said that a treaty has been made with
J the Indians, and Lieut Leonard has departed for
Wastinglon, from Indian river, in ordor (tils
supposed) to ratify the treaty.
A correspondent of the Savannah Republican,
who writes liom Clarksville under date of the
14ill inst. says.—“ Last evening’s express from
Tampa, brought us information that 21 Indians
and 103 negroes, had come in lately at that post.
It is also said that a considerable body of Indians
arc on an Island southwardly, and arc hemmed
in by some of our troops.
“Report say s that Gen. Nelson has killed 15
Indians and taken 19 prisoners.’
fun THE i’ll HO XICLK A.M) SENTINEL.
To John Quincy Adams of the House of
Representatives, Washington.
Slit—Sometime ago, how lung 1 do not re
member, but I think it was about the early part
of the present year, a debate look place relating
to the Abolition question. lit the course of that
debate, in reply to a member who urged the
binding force of the Constitution of the United
Slates and its provisions, you replied in sub
stance that you were actuated by higher mo
t.vcs, and guide.l by the fuoi-ainount obligation
of your 1 ehgiuus duties. That this teas a
retgious question, and your condui t -would be
con formable to your religious feelings and
| obligations, and so governed at every hazard.
I These were not your words, but lin y exj icss
j the substance and meaning of your remarks, to i
j ike best of my recollection, which was strong)v |
| excited by perusing the debate. But I kept no
j document or memorandum of what passed, and |
j I can only make my memory answerable for tire j
I general fact, that this was substantially an avow
al made by yourself on the floor of Congress. '
during the discussion of a Slavery quest ft) ri. Iff 1
am right in my recollection, you irfe a proper ■
subject for the following remarks; • if‘not, I shall
be glad to find myself mistaken, and you will
n in..in uwtuu' luil, unscathed 1 y any allusion to J
yourself. 1
1 Religious motives operate on ovary innn,ao* (
! cor,ling to the completion of hi* religi uifi cr< ed; i
and unfortunately, almost every man lias a rol.-
i gious creed of his own, which forms the guide
of his conscience arvJ Iris conduct, and tiro often
seems to justify him in avenging tire offences
j against what he calls religion, as crimes of the
■ very deepest dye.
! A faxatic, is a man who subjects his reason
ings, his feelings,and his conduct to the absolute
i and implicit control of the religions doctrines lie
! has embraced. Compared to which the usua[
! precepts of morality, the laws of society, and the
| rights of his neghbors and fellow citizens, ar • of
Ino weight or vsluc. His conscience as to pin.
1 amount obligation is a religious conscience, and
if that ho satisfied, his mind i- at rest.
For instance, hardly a nation ofitnliijliily can
! he pointed out, among whom human sacrifices |
| were not frequently offered up io appease the
anger or propitiate the favour of the deity. A
very orthodox treatise on ‘Atonement,’ by an
Irish Clergyman, now a bishop, whose mum I
i forget, contains remonstrances, which do not
comprise half the list. The sacrifices of Jug
i gernaught, and the Mexicans, are hut samples of
at least fifty historical iccoids. AVhen the Arl
ans wore ordered to he put to death, and burned,
under Constantine, it was the commencement
only of the auto dales of the inquisition; piously
imitated by the Protestants of England during
the alternate supremacies of Popery and Reform.
■ The burning of Serve us by John Calvin, the
impris mment of Jocinian Piddle, the pious poi
secutions for religion’s sake, sanctioned by the
prote.tanl Church of England from Henry \ 111,
to the Princess Victoria, (in whose brief reign
as yet, the Jews as well as the Papists, have lel( 1
j the weight of religious prejudice) lake away all :
| pretences of honest exclamation against the
j Catholics. It is enough to allude in this country
i to the early histories of Massachusetts and Con- j
j iiecticut, lo show how easily t lie horrible die- j
j lutes of religious fanaticism can extinguish all
: the best feelings of humanity and substitute a I
j system of pious cruelly as the most acceptable ;
I service that can he rendered to the Deity cren
: led by law. The blind and gloomy zeal otihesef ,
I mistaken icligionists has every where manufac< j
I lured a deity of its own, and taken for a model |
' the very worst spin imen it cou'd'llnd —them- j
j selves.
j Sir, you well know I could more than fill the ;
i columns of a large newspaper’ with a mere list
I of the atrocities committed under (he name and
; sanction of what is called religion; the religion
| •
[ of the rack, the sword, the dungeon and the fire- j
i brand. T.ie characteristics of those men whose |
consciences is a religious conscience only; and I
who deeffi that th- sc atrocities arc called for to |
avenge the cause of their outraged di by. I wilj !
therefore confine myself to the In ief notice of the ;
j assassins of Henry 4ih. and Louis 15th. op
j Fiance.
You may find in the small collection entitled
hes JMurulet lies Jesuites, the doctrines of that
j sect that has declared the right and the duly or
I putting to death such Kings as entertain heictica; !
j doctrines calculated to bring down the vengeance |
j of the Almighty on the people over whom they
I preside, he bon voi lienvi qtlartre, the best 1
I j
j monarch that ever sat upon the throne of France, j
was nut sufficiently Catholic for the Jesuits of j
his day. In 15'J.), Jean Chulcl, a Jesuit student,
j inflamed with holy zeal against the dubious |
| Catholicism of Hen., attempted his assassination,
i but failed. The religious hatred of the Jesuits, j
| however, neither slumbered nor slept. In 1(510 !
another Jesuit, Jtavitlac, attempted bis life by j
assus.-ination and succeeded. Afterwards Louis 1
loth fell in like mannerly lhe a assassin JJamiens, '
These men considered their duly towards the !
j religious tenets they had adopted, as fully sulll. 1
! ciont to justify treason and murder. The die- I
tales of humanity and rnoialily, and the laws o' ■
j the land wore as the threads of a gossamer’s j
j web with them. Their consciences wore at case, !
1 and they died as men who had done God user- i
vice; and so did die actors in the massacre of St. !
Bartholomew. With them all religion is heresy ;
hut their own, and no feelings are to be cherish,
ed, or any law to be obeyed, that conflicts with
the intolerant dictates of their own sectarian
creed. For such men laws arc made in vain.
I ft is true that in civilized countries generally, at
j this day, the fire and the faggot, the rack, the
j axe, the gibbet and the dungeon, are 100 harsh
I to lie permitted; the more enlightened humanity
I of the present day, will not bear these violent
j measures, and the dispositions of fanaticism are
kept under control. But the rancorous spirit of
j reiig ous zeal, is even yet permitted lo break ou; !
every where in minor and milder forms of perse- !
cution.
Now sir, assuming what, if not true, I shall be 1
glad to be convinced of its mistake, and mutt
willingly retract—assuming, I say, that you did
on the floor of Congress advance your paramount j
| obligations to the dictates of your own religious
: creed, I take the liberty of asking you; In what i
■ respect docs that religious creed differ from the i
j creed of the murderers of St. Bartholomew, or
that of Uhatcl, Damiens and Ravillac? I ask
sir, in what respect your motives of action in cn- 1
deavoring lo excite a servile war .differs from I
thisl For that your whole course of conduct on
the abolition question leads to a servile war with
its attending horrors, including ten thousand
assassinations like those of Chalel, Ravillac. and
Damiens, who can doubt? Their consciences
were pcifeclly at ease in contemplating their
ind.vidual victims, so is yours in contemplating
the scenes of general negro insurrection.
\ou arc presumed to hold sacred the useful &
beneficent, the mild and mticiful laws of social
1 morality as adopted among civilized unions:
| what harmony is there between those laws, and
j the excited murders of a servile war? Religion
is usually considered as holding sacred the sanc
j lion of an Oath. You, the self applauding para
j gon of religious sentiment and duty, have repca
j tcdly sworn to support and maintain the coiisti
j tut ion of the United State*; and in virtue of that
1 oath you sit as a representative. But what arc
oaths lo religionist of your stamp! Knowing
that the constitution guaiantccs to the South the i
system of domestic servitude adopted among ns
you give your solemn oath to the winds, yi •i*
abuse tiio in ft ro;‘Os«-il in y< h founded on that’
oath, ; ml in the tiny of your religious zeal, yo t
sacrifice on lire alter of perjury to the Demon o*
Abolition!
I!y what right sir do yon sit in Congress, if
your mith to EU|i|>orl the eoiistilulicn is not hind*
ing upon you! Arc you a lit member of that
body? Ifyou have undertaken inconsistent oh„
ligations, who comi'olleU you to do so! Were
I a member of Congress sir, I would move far
your expulsion, not as an avowed enemy of the
present (,‘onsliui ion, hut because you claim lira
right of laughing its provisions to scorn whenever
they interfere with the paramount obligations of
your own credit. fcSir, in lire puritan language of
the, eld Day Slate, you are not a '.v/intwouw mem
ber. Your until in support of the Constitution,
it at no lime to he trusted, for you have clrumsd
the rights of pleading “paramount duly.”
Sir, I have no rig tit to sny that you would
gladly involve this country in a war with Great
Britain, that you miigEil incite your brother
fanatics of that Istfantl to insist on a srnsads
against the. Slave holding Southern Stales; but
your conduct aild conversation have impressc.il
soma ol your Mow- a belief that
you would willingly do so ifyou knew how*
I take the liberty sir of recommending to your
i perusal Sterne.'.' admirable sermon on I>W Is-;
“ /IV trust vir fare n "noil conscii’iico" Pei ho.,s
I may ollrr in my next a few pas.ages fioin
lira', sermon t>« the serious consideration ot rsa.
in'.if set more value oa iho obligations
of an oath and the dictates of humanity than you
snd your colleague abolitionists in the national
legislature. SOUTH.
From thi; (j/urlt’)t!on Mrn urif.
WASHINGTON COURSE.
tufa MILK ME ITS.
Yesterday came off over the Washington
Course ilie first day’s regular race for the Jockey’s
Glut) Purse of $ 1000. The attendance on the
course was numerous, although the dsy was
! • c ravv and gusty,” and the new stand erected for
the accommodation of the ladies, glittered with
on array ufheatry and fashion,not to he outshone
. upon any course in the Union. The enlies
• Were such as to warrant the isdnlgcnco es ““If
; hope for very g eat sport, and this hope was not
to be d soppoinled.
The entries was ns follows:
. Col. Hampton’s ch. f. Chat’lfe Russo.,
Col. M’Catgn’s 1). c. Steel.
I Lovell .A Hammonds du. John Gusdron.
Col. Find’s ch. c. Riotizi.
j Col. Spann’.; ch. f. Dora! din
-1 Charlotte Hose, an own sister to Tulle; Steel,,
a colt of imposed blood, and the three other*
I were of the slock of Bertrand. Bertrand! due*
j not the heart of every lover of the turf expand
at his every name. Hero it was that his har
i dost contents Jook place—here {is brightest
j victories won, and his established
I —and hero it is that every descendant from this
! gallant horse is looked upon with pleasure; his
! triumphs hailed with joy, and his defeats (if de
feated) alleviated by sympathy. By this time
; the competitors for fame. Bcitlrnnd, and all, are
■at tb.e post; they are all in beautiful condition,
j and their finely tapering limbs and glossy skins
| betoken their high blood and keeping. It was
i no »asy task to ascertain the favorite; Steel was
said lo be the bc»t colt of his ago in Virginia.
John Gucdrun was the llowcr of Georgia, and
j Charlotte Russe, Ricnii and Dotaln lit* tan tor
, honirefCardiss.
FiiistHeat.—Dorahella led fiVutf furls,
closely followed by the whole troup—fd*fte sr
cond mile she gradually gave place lo more pow
erful competition, and Charlotte liussc assumed
I her station in the foremost rank, with John Guo
drun close at her heels, ready lo lake her place
at a moments wnruiivg. 'J’lns aspect of things
continued until the 4th mile was nearly ended,
i when Steel appeared to think it lime lo show his
ti mper. He accordingly gave those in the rear
leg hail and won the treat.—Time 8m.5 s. lii
j etr/.i and Dorahella distanced.
Bkcov» Heat—’File horses all cooled off well,
i and the three who had played their game beet
I cam* up lo the post. Go! and oft" they are—
Georgia has the lead—and she could nut place
her lame in heller hands. Charlotte liusse
(huzza for Carolina) is just in his rear and going
at a “killing pace.”—“The old Dominion” trail
ing—as if there was more “there than met the
eye”—and so it piovcd; for after pel milling the
others to keep the lead for three miles, and thine
inspire their hackers with the hope of “pocketing
the change,” he at the last brush showed the truo
blood, and won this heat also quite at his tma,
l ime, 8m.3 s. Wo are no prophets, hut we
venture lo alllrm, that Steel will become the sire
I of a long list of running horses,
l After the main race, there was a Sweepstake
of one mile and repeal. 'File entries were M
•Mr. Newby’s Haidhearl. I
Mr. Iv. Miichell’s Sweet Emma, I
Both heats were won by Hardlteart in a littlo I
over 3 m. ■
'I he entries for to-day are as follows .- ■
JOCKEY CLUB PURSE fGUO. I
3 MILK 11 r. ATS. I
Iv. Richardson’s ch. m. Betsey Baxter, 5 years I
old ; by Crusader, dam by I.ittlu Billy—rider* I
dress Ida k. »
Col. McCargo’s h. c. Billy Towns, 3 years old, ■
by imported Fylde, dam by Virginian—riders I
1 dress green and blue. E
Ijuvell & Hamnrond’s ch. c. Oerovv, 3 years ■
old hy Henry, dam by Eclipse—riders dress black I
1 and red, |
.t. G. Guigfiaid’a ch. g. Clodhopper, (pedigree ■
unknown,) 5 years old—riders dress blue. I
Col Flud’s elr c. liienzi, 4 years old, by Bcr■ I
trand, Jr., dam Carolina by Buzzard—rivlers I
dress green. R
Fho following is the result; I
' Billy Towns, 11 |
Gerow, 3 2 1
Clodhnppcfj 3 3 K
Rienzi, 4 dis. I
Betsey Baxter, 5 di<- I
'I 'tire, Ist heal, Cm. Gs.— 2d, Cm. 2s. f
_ MARINE INTELLIG EWCfI. _ I
l v an X.AII, F< I-. 2-> —C'linml. barque lirll* I
I. mi. Xar.lo, llruzii; brigs Uglelhu. »»:•, Hull'll, UtJiiaiunt ■
}■• " ItieliciiUaek, Maroilln; si lies: Sa'rabM., l'»e I
low. Itaviiicu lliuNon, Wvnnn, AV, Indus.
\ it. Hr. , ; il ll Thnnias jUi.ii, I.nng, I.iv erpnot. niiKß
l)i (■•; ship Cel ii, Itiiekniini, ,\ A i.rk, lu ll , Si :i Iliroß
* -.e iT} . Clitti'l stun; Crit -i iun, Tistl. V, luistulit CVmB
liuii.tlnui!, \ York; setuv. Henry A. tin id, llrnnliii'P'B
I mmlnil, 24 dijs; Glide, fie rvliill, Dnlilimue. I. .low ■
■■ •t'M li t.y rulun,, r t, v t ns, C'liarlestun; si. i.mhi 4 t.ilitri;.*
/■i,’ r:c ». ( bill'll sti n, hunmi m A " ft
bb* ) U l.t'.cr 1 OX, I ili. Arc. line shin Sninm. B
r;, X A 111 1.; barque i ulT.y, He. 1 nndts, llnltiiaori i t""®
iMTfys Uu.n-It AV|, 11, rears, Iluitun, 17 .lavs; Gen Simitiriß
Ilii.ii. I, Ihilil nore. ’ * ’ )
( .r. '.'lir. A.i.Hmiri. ( oh*. Italiimore; vleam I’tid't iB
X.w \ ark, B|nnne} , New York.
Augusta IJche\’oleiit Society
t nnirniltees nppuinled fur the present muni}'. M *
' vmmtUre Division AV. )—Messrs. Wv.’.m*
I hi.inpsoii, Demetrius A. Bland, Mrs. Calharh#
• niilli,Mrs i Immas Gardner.
C< mmi.'/ip Division AV. 3—Messrs Wm. If Crnn'B
80111111011 Ki.cclaml, Mrs. Elizabeth f/onglas*. W |f €
b Moirison-
CrmmillM DwttioH AV. 3.—Messrs. EAV Pen:®!
ly, John Fleming, Mrs. E. \V. Collier, Miss Jb’.’f
(•lover.
AH rases of sickness and distress please report '§
''■cm- M. M. BROWN, J<ery pm i
< he Cunstilnlionalht will plra eroTV lhral'e"T
fell 15 lm 40