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Laht Bi lwer r Cftrvr.LF/Y.—Our final tm-(j
pressions, on closing this work, arc that the fair
authoress is a satirical, sharp, rather witty wo
man ; and withal n Tartar, of the intensest
school. Indeed, we can hardly imagine, how the
parties managed, under the circumstances, to es
cape the fate of those marvellous cats which de
ceased in Kilkenny,—nr how there was any thing
left of either. We cannot disposscs ourselves of
the idea that the lady has had wrongs; hut it
wotlld seem that the fierceness of her spirit as
well as (ho 'game' of her ii/iysi'/ae, would create
a soul of mutiny under the shell of a terrapin—
to say nothing of a man of high-strung sensibili
ties. and triumphant, and therefore impatient,
genius. Thcsuhjoined sketch of her ladyship is
from the Corsair , —one of whose editors, Mr.
Willis, she has caricatured in her novel, under
the similitude of one who, though intended for
(juite another personage, speaks and acts precise
ly like an English cockney. There is not a
faithful shade or lineament, either as to speech,
manner or form, in the whole picture. If her
ladyship’s others are not (letter,there are no tran
scripts of real life in her whole production, file
assaulted parly who draws the following, might
sav to her in the spirit of (he Italian, “I also am
a painter?"— t'hilailclphin Caz.
Miss Wheeler, ( alias Julia Neville, alias Lady
Lylton Jtulwer,) was the daughter of a most
worthy and respectable widow, living some three
years ago in Park Mews, a small lunc running in
the rear of Seymour Place, May Fair. Mrs.
Wheeler was early lefla widow with one daugh
ter, a pale, handsome, slender girl, who chanced
to attract the attention of Edward Ilulwer, then
fresh from college.—The attainment was a ro
mantic one, and soon discovered, and strenuously
opposed hy Mr. llulwer's mother. We have
many times listened to the story of their meeting
“to drink tea” with a sympathising lady, whb oc
copied a “three pair ol'slnirs hark,” in Fleet Street,
and who ultimately succeeded in marrying two
■ persons, who were neither, as she then thought,
“long for this world.” To her great surprise,
Miss Wheeler has since turned out In be among
the fattest of women, and Mr. Tinlwer the most
immortal of men. The aristocratic mother was
soon reconciled to the match, but as the novel
shows, the daughter-in-law continued to live at
swords points with every member of the family,
her husband included, Ilulwer bore her “incom
patibility” as long ns he eould, in form, and
finally bought a beautiful house in the country
not far from London, furnished it exquisitely,
and supplying her every earthly want hut that of
his own society, left her to expend her eccentrici
ties on her dogs, which, to the number of around
dozen, are her perpetual companions. They
(the dogs) are immortalized collectively and in
dividually, in L’hoveley,
So much for the real history which has been
made the basis of this novel. The scenery part
of it is from her Ladyship’s album, the record of
a journey she made some seven years ago to Na
ples, in her husband's company. Who the
“ Mowbray” of that excursion was wo are unahfci
to say, hut wo presume should Mr. Ilulwer lake
her hint and he killed by a restive horse, she will
'inform ns by carrying out her story with a re
marriage. Wo happened to follow very closely
on her track through the principal cities of Italy,
lint we will hear witness, if called upon, in Doc
tor’s t 'ominous, that with the exception of a King
I ’harles’ spaniel, we never heard her name asso
ciated with any male whatever. We have grounds
(or believing that her Ladyship misrepresents
herself in another particular, the silent grief with
which Lady do Clifford receives the marks of her
husband’s coldness and indifference. In one
chapter, she makes her lord threaten her with a
blow, In physical strength, Mr, Bulwor is much
the “ weaker vessel,” and has, it is commonly
said, very often been made to realize it. Mrs.
B.’s incursions viet nrmis into his bachelor’s
rooms in the “ Albany,” at unseasonable hours,
compelled the unresisting author at last to accept
a friendly invitation, and take refuge for his house
hold gods with Count d'Orsay. Here at present
he lives, under the protection of an inexorable
porter at the door, and a vigilant “tiger” within,
and the spite that was thus suppressed in her la
dyship’s nails has oozed out from her finger’s
ends—in a novdl.
I . S. Sloop or Wan lloiinkt.—Who does
not recollect the intense interest felt for the fate
ol this vessel and her gallant crew, and how long
and how anxiously every arrival from the south
was looked for to see if any intelligence reached
there of her melancholy fate. At length the
news came that hut a single tarpaulin, and a
few planks, were 101 l to tell the tale—they wore
picked up ill the Cult id Mexico, and bore marks
of having belonged to the ship. She went to the
bottom, anil not one, it was thought, had been
letl to account the story of the sad catastrophe.
There is one survivor at least, a sailor, so as
serts the New I ork Despatch, unhesitatingly.—
A gentleman just returned from the prairies of Il
linois, had seen him. He found him cultivating the
land upon the twelve mile prairie, near the Kas
kaskia river, lie states that he was saved in a
boat with five others; that they wore drifted
-ashore upon the islands of i-’ulia, whence after |
different changes and fortune, he is found at the
West.—He stales that the Hornet was making
for u harbor when she struck on a rock, and that
he knows of the escape from the wreck of no
persons except himself and his five companions.
We doubt this story, bat there is a possibility it
may he true, Sio many years have passed, and
so much anxiety expressed, that it seems to us
ere this the history must have come out if a sur
vivor existed. I’he Dispatch, however, insists
that it is so, and is prepared to put unv of tho
friends ol the ill-fated crew in away to obtain
more particular information.
f-MMIPIItSIXn All-11l NT OP ’A DbaF M»N. j
Sanuu-l Walorlmry, who formerly lived at Slam- i
ford, (.'t. became totally deaf at the age of It!
years. Anxious, as far as practicable,to remedy
the disadvantages of his situation, his ingenuity
suggested the possibility of ascertaining the pro
uiiinciation of words by the motion of the lips.
To practice himself in this, ho took a mirror,
and used to speak before it. He accurately ob
served the movement requisite to every sound ;
learning first syllables and then words.
I nccrtiiin ot his success, he did not explain to
his family either his intentions or his progress,
tdl after about six months diligent study he com
menced the practice, which he very soon brought j
to such perlecliou that any one who was not in
formed ot his particular situation, would hardly
suspect that he was deaf at all: hut might speak
. to him and receive regular answers though he
beard not a single word. He cannot even hear
thunder, nor the report of cannon. Such ex
plosions. however, jar Ins nerves, and produce
violent hcad-achc; sometimes followed hv the
Weeding again at the mouth. What is most sin- j
gular is. that a person may whisper in the softest ;
manner by pissing their Ups against his cheek,
and he understands perfectly well what is said :
he also comprehends a whisper, either directed to
him, or between two persons at a distant part of I
the room.
NeHEi.n op Nkwsvai kiis i-ugLtsitr.n ix
tue Woßin.—A Herman paper says—ln Spain
there are twelve newspapers ; in Portugal seven
teen ; in Switzerland thirty-six; in Belgium six
ty-two ; in Danmark eighty ; in Austria eighty,
two; ill Russia an I Poland eighty two; in Hol
land one hundred and fifty; in Ureat Britain
I-v hundred and seventy four; in Pausia two
hundred and eighty-right; in the other Germanic
states three hundred and eight ; in Australia
■t'n«; in Africa twlvc; in Asia twenty-seven, am!
m Auwtiei wuc thou.aud vuc hundred pgy
ty-eight; from which it will be seen that Uierr
* are moic than had'as many newspapers publiah
cd in America, (with the exception of France,
which the writer has loti out, and well he may,
for she has so completely muxilcd the press, that
there might as well he none, and cast a stain on
her escutcheon which it will he difficult to wipe
off,) than thereat in the whole world put togeth
er, and with not one-fortieth ot the population.
It is no wonder, then, that this country bears the
reputation abroad of being not only the happiest,
but tin! freest nation of theoarth, when the press,
which we consider to he the “sentinel on the
watch tower,” is left free, not only to guard
against all encroachments on our rights, (it it
acts up to its profession,) hut to diffuse informa
tion far ami wide over the country; for wherever
knowledge is, there will freedom be found.
CMHONICLK AN!) SKNTtNEL.
AIfGU S T A .
SATURDAY MORNING, JUNE 1.
Savannah.
A large and respectable meeting of the citizens
of Savannah, was held in that city, on the 38th
inst. The object of which meeting was to take
into consideration, the propriety of further meas
ures for tlie increase and extension of its com
mercial facilities.—The lion. John M. P. Berrien,
presiding, and Joseph S. Fay, Secretary.
This is as it should he; and we cannot withhold
the expression of a hope, that the time has ar
rived when our sister city will awaken from her
lethargy, and feeling the necessity of further cf-1
forts to regenerate her commercial prosperity—vin- i
dicatc her claims upon the people of Georgia, and
thus give, both action and energy to her wishes.
Towards Savannah, we, in common with the
people of the interior have Iml one feeling; it is
identified with all that belongs either to her pros
perity ns a city—or to the slate.—She has failed
to grasp the advantages offered her, both by na
ture and by circumstances, and in her slumbers
her rival city has advanced; while the trade she
might, by her energy and greater effort, have se
cured, has by the force of causes easily controlled,
become tributary to another.—Her destiny is in
herown hands, and connecting herself as she now
proposes to do, with South Carolina, by a com
munication across the Savannah River—with
Macon, by means of her Rail Rond, and with Au.
gusta by the same communication, we may read
in her future history, the evidences of that enter
prise and energy—that commercial advancement
and prosperity which have niaiked her earlier
efforts.
The views of the mealing wore ably sustained,
both by Mr. McAllister, and Judge Nicol. The
Hon. Mr. Berrien, after making, says the Savan
nah Republican, with his usual clearness, a few
very pertinent remarks on the importance of the
objects aimed at, submitted to the meeting, the
following resolutions.
Itevolved, That the completion of tire Kail
Road communication between the cities of Sa
vannah and Macon, is of the utmost importance,
not merely to those cities but in its connection
with the Western and Atlantic Kail Road, by
means ot the road now in successful operation
between Macon and Forsyth, and (he prolonga
tion of that road from Forsyth to the State Road,
will be of incalculable benefit to the people of (he
Slate; that the completion of the road from Sa
vannah to Macon, can never for a moment be lost
sight of without producing the most injurious
consequences to the commercial interest of Geor
gia, and that the funds and credit of ;he State
ought, if necessary, to bo freely used in the ac
complishment of that object, already so far ad
vanced by the untiring /.cal and energy of the
Central Rail Road Company.
Whereas, the Central Rail Road will very soon
be completed to a point, from which it may be
connected with the city of Augusta, by the shor
test practicable route, by a Rail Road to that city
from such point.
And whereas, such connection will tend great
ly to promote the interests of the cities of Savan
nah and Augusta.
Resolved , That it be recommended to the cor
poration ol the city of Savannah to subscribe for
one hundred thousand dollars of the stock of the
Company incorporated for the construction of the
said road, and to invite the corporation of the ci
ty ot Augusta to unite with them, in the accom
plishment of this desirable object, by & similar
sul scription.”
M e invite the attentive consideration of the
reader to an article in this days paper, headed,
“ Passages in (be life of Marlin Van Huron.”—
Georgia is even now arrogantly claimed as »
Van Huron State, and articles arc going the
rounds, the object of which, is to leave upon the
public mind abroad, the impression that we arc
already sold to a deccmlant of (ho “ Dutch” and
jifto a descendant—ergo Otc. Ac. It is certainly
a quest ion of grave importance to the people, to (
determine whether they will legalise the transfer.
It has been said by the supporters of Mr. Van ‘
| Huron, that no accusations of a tangible character
| could be brought against him, of this, the reader :
j can best determine when bo shall have read the j
j article to which bis attention is invited.
Rki .ulixk, —It may not be generally known
j to the Retailers of (Spirituous Liquors, that a law
passed at the last session of the Legislature, takes
effect this day. The provisions of (hat law us
j far us we now recollect them, forbids the stile of
less than one gallon, until application shall have
I been made to the Clerk of the Court, or those |
1 otherwise authorised to grunt licenses, and an
| oath prescribed by that act. imposing certain re. j
slrietions—taken. Those who neglect it, subject
the no .‘lves to all (he pains and penalties to which
a person retailing without license, is now sub- | 1
■ ject.
I,ater from Europe.
By the arrival at New V oik of the packet ship
I Louis Phillippe, from Havre, the editors of the !
Commercial Advertiser have received tiles of Pa
'• ris papers to the Ist May.
i At the latest dales the imm-tonal crisis was
neither terminated, nor apparently drawing to a
termination. Several new attempts had been
! made to form a cabinet, but all had fallen through.
It was reported that the King, despairing of a
cabinet through the agency of Marshal boult, had
applied to Marshal Gerard, as the only person
I likely to bring the crisis to an end.
The negro population of Africa is supposed to
amount to very near a hundred million; in Ameri
ca the negro race may be taken at eight millions,
the tyuiycun twenty.
Pnssagus in the Lift? ol ■"'l* ' nn Bnren. |
“The Northern Mar with Boutiier>'
feelings.”—lncompliance with the request of
many friends in the country, we copy in anolhei
column, theevidences of Mr. Van IJuren s advo
cacy of free negro suffrage in New V ork. It
will be seen from the documents, that Mr. V an
13uren distinctly supported the extension of the
right of sulfragc to free negroes, on the broad
principle,that “he vouhl not draw a revenue
from them, and yet dm)/ them the right of suf
frage," t his covers the whole ground, slid puts
to (light all the excuses and suhlerfligcs, which
“ sink or swim” parti/.ans have vamped up, to de
lude the Southern people. This is conclusive
that Mr. Van liuren, on principle, advocated
making a free Degree's vote, in New York, bal
ance a white man’s vote in the South, in the elec
tion of President; and such is now the effect of
the clause in the New York Constitution, which
received the strenuous support of Mr. Van Burcn.
i The vote of any free negro in New York, is equal
to that of any white man in Virginia! And for
this delightful state of things, we are indebted in
an eminent degree, to the man who is held up to
the South, as “ the Northern man with (Southern
feelings;” and who, on that account, is entitled
to our confidence and support.
The Enquirer and other “sinkers and swim
mers,” seek to screen their “ sweet little fellow”
from the odium justly attachable to hint on this
score, by asserting, that, free negroes enjoyed the 1
right before, and Mr. Van Huron sought to limit
it hy requiring a property qualification. There
is no manner of force in this excuse. First, be
cause, as before stated, he advocated givingrthem
the right of suffrage on principle, contending
that it was not right to tax them, and not permit
them to vote. —And secondly, the Committee in
I reportingthe new Constitution, expressly required
1 every voter to be a free white man. A motion
I was made to strike “white” out, so as to admit
| negroes, and Mr. Van Buren voted for that mo
tion. At that time there was no property qualifi
cations required, and that was only added after
wards, and at the suggestion of a very different
person from Martin Van llurcn. But if Mr.
Van Burcn did require negroes to own properly
in order to vote, he imposed the same requisition
on the whites—manifesting a disposition through
out the whole Convention, to put the white and
the black upon a footing of equality !
This may constitute him a very fit [icrson, and
give him strong mid peculiar claims to the sup
port of some Southern men; hut they who think
the Macks should not he admitted to a social and
political equality with the whites, and deem the
preservation of our domestic institutions essential
to our happiness and prosperity, will see; in this
conduct of Mr. Van .Burcn, ample evidence that
all his professions to the South aie mere profes
sions, and that he is a fit associate of Tappan,
Garrison, and their kindred Amalgamators.—
Richmond Whip;.
mii. va.v iit;ilex's opinion axu vote ox
HIKE NEUnO SUFFRAGE.
On the 12th of September, 1831, the Commit
tee on the right of suffrage, reported the following
amendments to the Constitution—Sec Debates
of the Convention, page IST,
“Every white male c.itiwn. of the age of 21
years, who shall have resided in the State six
months next preceding any election, Ace. &c.,
shall he entitled to vote,” &c.
On the 19th September, (sec page 180,) the
above amendment being under consideration,
which had been supported and opposed by various
gentlemen, Mr. Clarke said: “1 am unwilling to
retain the word white, because its retention is re
pugnant to all the principles and notions of lib
erty to which we have heretofore professed to ad
heie, audio our Declaration of Independence, y
which is a concise and just, expose of those prin
ciples. In that sacred instrument we, have re
corded the incontrovertible tenths: “Wo hold
these truths to lie self-evident, that all men are
created equal; that they arc endowed by their
Creator with certain unalienable rights; that
among them are life, liberty, and the pursuit of
happiness,”
“ The-people of color arc—capable of giving
their consent; and ever since the formation of
your Government, they have constituted a portion
ol the people—from whence your legislators have
derived their just powers; hy retaining that word,
you deprive a large and reputable number of the
people ol this -State, of privileges and rights
which they have enjoyed in common with us,
and to which they are justly entitled, ever since
the existence of our Government.” Same day „
see page 190.
Mr. Jay moved that the word white be slricLnx
out.
Mr. Kent supported the motion of Mr. fi.iv..
“ He was disposed, however, to annex such qualifi
cations and renditions, as should prevent them:
from coining in bodies from other States, to vale
nt elections.” Mr. Kent proceeded to support*
the motion to strike out, on the ground' that id
would be a viulation of the Constitution rtf the
United States to prohibit them from voting.” On.
the 20 1 1 1 September, see page 199.
Col. Yoiingsaid, (seepage 191.) “ThcminiUf
of the blacks are not competent to vote. Tdey
are too much degraded to estimate the value,, or
exercise with fidelity and discretion, that ini porf
nnt right. It would lie unsafe in their hands..
Their vote would ho at the call of the riehes'Jpur
chnsor. It this class of people should heraafter
j arrive at such a degree of intelligence and -viirtue
j as to inspire confidence, then it will he proper t«>-
j confer this privilege upon them. At poosentv
I emancipate and protect them, but withhold! that’
privilege which (hey will inevitably abuse. Hook
to \ our juris slid penitentiaries—by whom nee they
j tilled ! By the very race whom it is now propo
j sed to clothe with the power of deciding upon*
j your political rights.
“It there is that natural, inherent right tu votep
I which some gentlemen have urged, it ought' to be-
I further extended. In New Jersey, femefas were*
formerly allowed to vote; and on that principle:,
you must admit nepresstr, as well as lu tjrocs, to*
partk-ipafo in the right of suffrage. M'rttifs, ton,
and aliens, must no longer be excluded,, hut* the
“era of good feeling,lx*commenced in earnest*.” -
Mr. Eivingston said: “ Bnr, we are standing
upon the foundation of good society. The ele
ments of government are scattered mound us-
All rights are buried; and from the shoots (hut
spring from their grave wc are to weave a bower
that shall overshadow and protect oi:r liberties..
Our proceedings will pass in review Before the*
power that elected us, and it will bo Ire the peo
ple to decide, whether the blacks are elevated upon
a ground that we cannot reach. Sir, we, all of
us, enter the government, subject to file implied
condition, that our constitution was luiilo to re
vision and alteration; and that Marks, in this,
particular, have vested rights, exempt from the
power of abridgment or alteration, which the
whites have not, I have yet to learn.”
“Mr. Jay. (see page 201) concluding his
speech said in reply, "1 have yet to notice the or- i
gumonl of the gentleman from Saratoga, (Col. |
Young.) They were avowedly addressed, not to 1
our reason, but to our prejudices; and so forcibly
have they been urged, that I feel 'pewoaA'd jb.it
they had more influence on the committee than
all that has been said beside >Oll this occasion.
Though repeated in v irious forms, they may lie
all summed up in this—that we are accustomed
talf-cl- upon black men with contempt; that wo I
v* iU not eat with them ; that we will not sit with
them; that we will not serve with them in the i
militia, or the juries, nor in any manner associate
with them ; and thence it is concluded that they
I ought not to vote w ith us. How, sir, can that
argument he answered, which does not profess
(to be founded on reason! Whv do we feel
; reluctant to associate with a Mark man !
1 TJiUls i- MO „uuh jdiKtsnce aw Europe, aor
in any country in which slavery is unknown. j
It arises from an association of iiieas. Slave- 0
ry and black skin always present themselves to- a
gethcr to our minds. But with the diminution i
of slavery, the prejudice is always diminished; it
and when slavery shall be no longer known b
amoung us, it will perhaps disappear. But, sir,
what sort of argument is this 1 I will not cat
with you, nor associate with you, because you
arc black ; therefore, I will disfranchise you. I
despise you not because you arc vicious, but more- f
ly because I have an insuperable prejudice against |
you; therefore, 1 will condemn you and your in
nocent posterity to live forever as aliens in your |
native land. Mr. Chairman, I do trust that this ,
committee will not consent to violate all those s
principles upon which our free institutions are j
founded, or to contradict all the professions
which we bo profusely make, concerning the
natural equality of all men, merely to gratify odi
ous, and I hope temporary prejudices. Nor will (
they endeavor to remove a slight inconvenience,
by so perilous a remedy as the establishment of a
large, a perpetual, a degraded and a discontented
caste in the midst of our population.
These extracts will serve to show the ground
on which the question was argued and decided.
Nothing from Mr. Van Buren, in reply to all
this cant about equality between the whites and
blacks. Did He recognize the equality !—judge
People of Virginia for yourselves.
Immediately 011 the termination of these last
remarks (see page 202) the question, on striking
out the word white, was taken by ayes and
nocs, and decided in the affirmative—Ayes 62,
Noes 59—a majority of only four, Mr. Van
Huron voting in the affitnative. Gen. Root then
observed (sec same page) that ho thought the
Report of the Committee was in some respects
objectionable. There was danger of extending
the right of suffrage too far. It was now ex
tended to negroes, or in the polite language of
the day, to colored people. It was, in his opin
ion, inexpedient to admit strolling voters. With
a view to prevent it, and compel those to contri
bute to the support of the Government in which
they claim to participate, and whose protection
they receive, he would now movo to strike out
all that part of the first section of the report,
which follows the word “years,” mid to insert
in lieu thereof an amendment, the principal of
which ho had previously suggested. The
amendment was then read.
A proviso was subsequently offered l.y the
Committee, see page 329, limiting the free ne
groes suffrage to those who had a freehold estate
worth §250, obviously for the purpose of prsvent
-1 ing the strolling colored gentlemen from coming
over irom other States and voting, such as our
runaway slaves from Virginia.
The subject being again under consideration,
see page 364, Mr. Birdseye moved to amend the
first line of the section, which read, every male
citizen ol the age of 21 years, by inserting after
the word “every,” the word “free,” which was
lost. Mr. Briggs then moved, to amend in the
same place, by inserting the word “white,” which
had been before struck out. Chancellor Kent
opposed the motion. It was true, he said, that
the blacks were a degraded portion of the com- ,
DTUnity, but ho was unwilling to sec them d is
franchised, and the door eternally barred against
them.
Then comes Mr. Van Buren, and what says
he! Hear him: Mr. Van Buren said “he was
in favor of the plan proposed by the select com
mittee, and opposed to the amendment,” which
was to reinsert the word “white.” See same page
364.
Mr. Van Buren again—sec page 368—in con
cluding some remarks, said “He thought the
committee, constituted as they were, had done
themselves great credit by their concession to
those from whom they differed, and he, for one,
returned them his sincere thanks. Under all cir
cumstances, he would be well satisfied with the
right of suffrage, as it will soon be established,
and would give it his zealous support, as well in
his capacity of delegate as that of citizen.
Again—seepage 376—Mr. Van Buren said:
“He had voted against a total and unqualified
exclusion (of the blacks) for he would not draw
a revenue from them, and yet deny them the right
of suffrage. But this proviso met his approba
tion. They were exempted from taxation until
they had qualified themselves to vote. The right
was not denied to exclude any portion of the
community who will not exercise the right of
suffrage in its purity. This held out induce
ments to industry, and would secure his support.”
When Mr. Jefferson was in the Presidential
Chair, lie appointed an Embassador to France
who was hard of hearing, the same being pre
sented to Napoleon, was asked by him, in his
usual quick manner :J
“ Well, how is the President!”
“ Very squally,” was the reply, supposing
the enquiry being what passage he had.—
“ How so” asked the Emperor” what ails him” !
“Nothing but head winds, your Majesty ”
“ What, Sir,” said he turning to his courtiers,
“ does the President suffer Irom winds—who has
ever heard the like of that!” and left the aston
ished Embassador amidst the smiles of his com
pany.
Famine in Newfoundland.— The extracts
below, from Newfoundland papers, exhibit a
scarcely credible slate of distress in that province.
The Governor lias authorised the Commissioners
of the Poor to expend the sum of £2OO from
the Treasury. £240 has also been given for
this purpose by the Irish Society.
Disthess in the Bat.-— On Saturday and
Monday last, onr streets presented a melancholy
appearance, about we suppose, two hundred poor
females came from the North Shore, to sock re
lief from the Benevolent Irish Society of this
town, which Society had given fifty pounds for
the poor, and these poor creatures had scarcely
a garment to cover their nakedness. We have
been informed by several gentlemen from Power
Island Cove, that 011 their way to this Town,
they called on several poor families, and found
them in a sad state of starvation. Some families
they stated, had not eaten a morsel from Sunday
morning until Wednesday evening, and others
from Monday until Wednesday—and wc are
convinced, from the reports that are hourly coming
in from that quarter,that this is not the only case
in which starvation must pul an end to their suf
ferings, unless relief isshorly given them.—Car
boner Sentinel.
The reports which continue to reach us rela
tive to the Famine which prevails in the remote
settlements of this Bay, are of the most harrow
ing description. Wo have no hesitation in say-
I iug that within a circuit of twenty miles of Har
| bor Grace, there are hundreds of families who
| have not, within their respective dwellings, an
( ounce of the common necessaries of life—and
who, for weeks past, have been subsisting upon
a single meal a day, ami this, too, in many in
stances. of the most wretched and nauseating
character.— Harbor Grace Star.
Ofituta! Honesty—a itrikiMg case.
| The following article, the substance of which
i is extracted front the Report of the Investigating
j Committee, presents an awful picture of the hon
esty and strict morality of Mr. Levi Woodburv’s
trusted agents in collecting the proceeds of the
sales of public lands. There may have been
rogues under other Administrations, but it must
be conceded that this bears off the palm from all
others in the number and amount of their depre
d4tiu£u. OfoiA'/y-ji.tc'.’t LjuJ Olliet Receivers,
sixty-three were defaulters ! Never did any se ,i
of men possess so happy a knack as Van Uuren t |
and VV'oodhury in selecting rogues lor office.— j
They seem to liave been guided by an uncring
instinct, and impelled by an irrcsistahle affection
to the embraces of thieves. <
From the New York Times. 1
Puunc DKFAULTr.ua —Public Lancs. — 1
We. believe there are sixty-seven public land dis- '
tricts and the same number of officers appointed,
called Kf.ceivkus, whose duty it is to sell the
land and receive the money.
The Congressional Committee report, (page
H 3) sixtt-thhek of these officers as iiefaul-
TtW, with names, dales and sums; many of
yvhich sums arc from &20,000 to §lOO, (ICO. All '* s
these were out of office so long ago as October,
1837.
They also report a list of rise Deceivers,
whose defaults have been ascertained since that
date; a portion of these also, are for large
amounts.
llor.e arc seventy-two of this class of officers ,
who have plundered the public of more than a
million of dollars.
It should be noted that this list was taken from
Mr. Woodbury’s Reports. The Committee had
neither time nor means to enter the dark recesses
of any of the uxiihmiutko receivers.
We hope the first act of the next Congress
will be the creation of a Committee or Commit
tees, to enter personally on the examination of
every one of these “mints of private coinage.”
Wc fear the Indian Department will be found
even more rotten than that of the public lands.
The Committee seem to conclude that the
government retainers went into office, known
to be gross delinquents, for the benefit of their
active, unscrupulous partizan services.
Will the Committee inform us in their next
report whether those men were not origina ly ap
pointed entirely on this principle 1
From the Otsego Republican.
The Cooper Libel.
James Fcnnimore,Cooper vs. Andrew M. Barber.
For Defendant—
Morehouse & Lathrop, Attorneys: and J. A.
Spencer, S. S. Browne and Lyman J. W alworth
Counsel.
The suit brought by Mr. James Fcnnimore
Cooper against the editor of the Otsego Republi
can, for the publication of an alleged libel on tbe
novelist, some two years since, was tried at the
Montgomery County Circuit on Wednesday
last, Judge Willard presiding, and terminated in
a verdict of $4OO for the plaintiff'. The libel it
self, it will be recollected, consisted solely in our
republishing an article from the Chenango Tele
graph, in which Mr. Cooper was handled rather
severely than otherwise, and which bad reference
exclusively to a dispute which had sprung up be
tween the plaintiff and his neighbors, relative to
the occupancy and use of a small strip of land up
the Otsego lake, which for years and years had
answered the purpose of resort for the surround
ing villagers during the hot summer months.
The intrinsic value of this piece of land would
I certainly not exceed ten dollars ! In republish
ing the Chenango article, wc accompanied it with
what wo deemed at the time, and still hold to be,
a correct version of the matter at issue, taking
care to correct such of the statements in the for
mer as were at variance with the facts, and actu
ated throughout by tbe honest and avowed pur
pose of giving a frank and fearless expose of an
affair, which had already crept into the columns
of tho newspaper press, and was then widely cir
culating in a distorted, incorrect and exaggerated
form.
For thus assuming a position friendly to Mr.
Cooper—for no reasonable man will view it in
any other light—the novelist commences forth
with a suit against us, and pushes it even to a fi
nal issue in a court of justice.
It was contended on the part of the defence in
this case, and subsequently admitted by the
Court, that not a particle of libellous matter exis
ted in the strictures of the defendant, while no
justification of the obnoxious matter of the Tele
graph was set up—tho whole together indicating
upon its face, as we have before stated, the hon
est intentions of the defendant, and a disposition
to give to the public what was repeatedly called
for, from various and highly respectable quarters,
viz : a plain, unvarnished statement of facts,
without fear, favor or the hope of reward.
Tho Court, however, excluded the entire testi
mony of the defence in proof of the facts stated
as the truth in evidence, it was alleged, did not
amount to a justification, nor could be given in
mitigation of damages—and instructed the jury
accordingly to find a verdict—and not simply a
verdict , but “a respectable” verdict, (wo use the
precise term of the judge) in favor of the plaintiff
in the suit, Mr. James Fennimore Cooper. To
this decision of the judge, defendant’s counsel
took exceptions, and application will be made to
the Supreme Court for a new trial.
’The plaintiff'summed up the cause himself in
his own behalf, and Joshua A. Spencer, Esq., of
Utica, for the defendant. The speech of Mr.
Spencer was acknowledged on all sides to be one
of the most forcible and eloquent addresses'ever
made to a jury. We regret that our notes were
not sufficiently full to enable us to lay it before
our readers with a degree of accuracy that would
do justice to the speaker himself.
As this suit may be deemed still pending, wc
shall delay our intention, for the present, of going
into a thorough and minute history of the whole
transaction—from its commencement to its close.
City Sexton’s Report for May.
White Males, 2 Black Males, 1
“ Females, .7 “ Females, 1
“ Children, 7 “ Children, (i
12 S
WM. MOODY, Sexton.
Consignees per South Carolina Rail Road.
Hamburg, May 31, 1539.
Hopkins, Jennings & Co., S. Kirtland, W. Hat
tier, A. Frederick, Stovall & Simmons, Clark,
McTeir & Co., T. Dawson, F. Lamback, Haviland
& Risley, J. P. Hendrick, George Parrott, J. F.
Benson, 11. W. Sullivan, E. Boyce, W. & A. Aus
tin, W. Anderson, E. Wood, G. W. Rush, Jeffers
& Boulware.
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0- TOTAL ABSTINENCE SOCIETY.— An
adjourned meeting of this Society will take plats
on Monday evening next, at the Presbyterian I-ec
tore Room, for the purpose of continuing the de
bate concerning the License Law.
may 31 C. F. STURGIS, Sec’y
OCT BENEVOLENT SOCIETY, for the heruft
of the Sick Poor of Avgusta and its vicinity. —
The Visiting Committees for the ensuing month are
as follows:
. Division No. I.—Mr. P. H, Mantz, Mr. D. Bland,
Mrs. Meredith,Mrs. Charles Jones.
Division No. 2.—Dr. E. Osborne, S. B. Groves, T
Mrs. Trembly, Mrs. J. W. Stoy.
Division No. 3.-—Mr. E. W. Collier, Jas. Panton
Mrs. J. C. Snead, >’rs. A. Whitlock. v
Any member of the committees may obtain fund •
by calling on the President, (W. W. Holt, Esq.) at
his office, Cumtmng's Fiaza.
may 22 C. f. STURGES, fcerelary.
tJjT The Rev. M'. Dibble wi 1 preach in rhe
Presbyterian Church on Sabbath morning; and will
lecture in the Presbyterian Lecture Room at night.
The subject of the lecture will be a general view
o r the various groups of Islands in the Pacific
Ocean, to which the gospel has been extended, and
a brief sia'.ement of facts attending the spread of
Christianity from Island to Island. June 1
SOUP OR BROTH
Served up every day this week, at 11 o’clock, at
the Cornucopia. may 28
(£/■ NOTICE. —The Kail Road Passenger Train
between Charleston and Hamburg, will leave as
'follows; —
UPWARD.
Not to leave Charleston before 7 OOa.m.
“ “ Summerville, “ - -8 30
“ “ Georges’, - “ - 10 00
“ “ Branchville, “ - 11 00
“ Midway, - “ . 11 30 m.
/ “ “ HlackvUe, - “ -* 100 v. m.
“ “ Aiken, - - “ - 300
Arrive at Hamburgnotbefore - 400
DOWNWARD.
Not to leave Hamburg before 6 00 A. m.
“ “ Aiken, - “ - - 730
“ “ Hlackville, “ - • 930
“ “ Midway, “ - - 10 30
“ “ Branchville, “ - - 11 00
“ “ Georges’, “ . •• 12 00 m.
“ “ Summerville,“ - - 2 00p. m.
Arrive at Charleston not before 300
Distance —ISfimiles. KareThrough—slo 00.
Speed not over 20 miles an hour. To remain 20
minutes each, for breakfast and dinner, and not
longer than .5 minutes for wood and water at any
station.
To stop for passengers, when a white flag is
hoisted,atcither of the above stations; and also at
Sineaths, Woodstock, Inabinct’s, 41 mile T. 0.,
Rives’, Grahams, Willeston, Windsor, Johnsons,
and Marsh’s T. 0.
Passengers i ip will breakfast at Woodstock and
dineat Hlackville; down , will breakfast at Aiken
and dine at Summerville. may 21
(Jjr’ RESIDENT DENTIST.. —Dr. Munroe’s
operating rooms, second door from Broad treet, on
Mclntosh-st., opposite the Constitutionalist oilice
march 13
Od*HIGHLY IMPORTANT. ..rp
Nervous diseases, liver complaint, bilious dis
eases, piles, rheumatism, consumption, coughs
colds, pain in the chest and side, ulcers, all deli
cate and mercurial diseases arc successfully treated
at Dr. EVANS’S Office, 100 Chatham-strect, 'New
ork.
DR. WILLIAM EVANS' MEDICINES,
Are composed of vegetable substances, which exert
a specific action upon the heart, give an impulse or
strength to the arterial system ; thcb’ood is quick
ened and equalized in its circulation through all the
vessels, whether of the skin, the parts situated in
ternally', or the extremities ; and as ail the secre
tions of the body are drawn from the blood, there
is a consequent increase of every secretion, and a
quickened action of the absorbent and exhalent, or
discharging vessels. Any morbid action which
may have taken place is corrected, all obstructions
are removed, the blood is purified,and the body te
sumes a healthful state.
These medicines after much anxious toil and re
earch, having been brought by the proprietor to
the present state of perfection, supersede the use of
the innumerable other medicines ; and are so well
adapted to the frame, that the use of them, by main
taming the body in the due performance of its
unctions, and preserving the vital stream in a pure
and healthy state, causes it to last many years long
er than it otherwise would, and the mind to be
come so composed and tranquil, that old age when
it arrives will appear a blessing, and not (as too
many who have neglected their constitutions, or
had them injured by medicines administered by ig
norancc) a source of misery and abhorrence.
They are so compounded, that by strengthening
and equalizing the action of the heart, liver, and
other viscra, they expel the bad, acrid or morbid
matter, which renders the blood impure, out of the
circulation, through the excretory ducts into the
passage of the bowels, so that by the brisk orslight
evacuations which may be regulated by the doses,
always remembering that while the evacuations
from the bowels are kept up, the excretions from all
the other portions of the body will also be going
on in the same proportion, by which means the
blood invariably becomes purified.
Steady perseverance in the use of the medicine
will undoubtedly effect a cure even in the most
acute or obstinate diseases ; but in such cases the
dose may be augmented, according to the inveteracy
of the disease ; the medicines being so admirably
adapted to the constitution, that they may be taken
at all times.
In all cases of hypochondriacism, low spirits,pal
pitations of the heart, nervous irritability, nervous
weakness, fluor albus, seminal weakness, indiges
tion, loss of appetite, flatulency, heartburn, general
debility, bodily weakness, chlorosis or green sick
ness, flatulent or hysterical faintings, hysterics,
headache, hiccup, sea sickness, night-mare, gout,
rheumatism, asthma, tic douloreaux, cramp, spas
modic affections, and those who are victims to that
most cxcrutiating disorder, Gout, will find relief
from their sufferings, by a course of Dr. William
Evans’s Pills.
Nausea, vomiting, pains in the side, limbs, head,
stomach or back, dimness or confusion of sight,
noises in the inside, alternate flushings of heat and
chilliness, tremors, watchings, agitation, anxiety
bad dreams, spasms, will in every case be relieved
by an occasional dose of Dr. Evans’s medicines.
One of the most dangerous epochs to females is
at the change of life; and it is then they require a
medicine which will so invigorate their circulation
and thus strengthen thcr constitutions as may ena
ble thorn to withstand the shock.
Those who have the care and education of Fe
males, whether the studious or the sedentary part
of the community, should never be without a sup
ply of Dr. Evans’s Pills, which remove disorders
in the head, invigorate the mind, strengthen the
body, improve the memory, and eliven the imagin
ation.
When the nervous system has been too largely
drawn upon or overstrained, nothing is better to
correct and invigorate the drooping constitution
than these medicines.
Dr. William Evans’s Medical Office, 100 Chat
ham street, New York, where the Doctor maybe
consulted.
Cjf A Case of Tic Doloreux. ..PD
Mrs. J. E. Johnson, wife of Capt. Joseph John
son, of Lynn, Mass., was severely afflicted for ten
years with Tic Doloreux, violcntpa in her head,
and vomiting with a burning heat in the stomach,
to leave her room. She could find no
remef from the advice of several physicians, nor
| from medicines of any kind,until after she roinmcnWV
I ced using Dr. Evans’s medicines, of 100 Chatham
j street, and from that time she began to amend, and
! eels satisfied if she continues the medicine a few
! days longer, will be perfectly cured, ilcferenc;
I can be had as to the truth of the above, by calling
! at Mrs. Johnson’s daughter’s store, 389 Grand st
! N V,
.1 REAL BLESSING TO MOTHERS.
Du. Wm. Evans’ Cf.i.f.hhatf.d Soothing Syrup
for Children Cutting their Teeth.
This infallible remedy has preserved hundreds of i
children, when thought past recovery, Lorn con- I
vulsions. As soon as the Syrup is rubbed on the
gums, the child will recover. This preparation is
so innocent, so efficacious, and so pleasant that no
child will refuse to let its gums he rubbed with it.
When infants are at the age of four months,though
there is no appearance of teeth, one bottle of the
Syrup should be used on the gums to open the
pores. Parents should neverhe without the Syrup
in the nursery where there are youngchildren ; for
if a child wakes in the night with pain in the
gums, the Syrup immediately gives ease by open
ing tho pores and healing the gums ; thereby pre
venting convulsions, fevers, kc.
Sold by ANTONY & HAINES,
Solo agents in Augusta,
J. M. A- T. M. TURNER, Savar.n'h,
P. M. COHEN & Co., Charleston,
SHARP A ELLS, Milledgeville,
w C. A. ELLS. Macon, J
A. W. MARTIN,Forsyth. /
BENJAMIN P. POORE. Athens,
MARK A. LANE, Washington.
apfi