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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. THE AMERICAN SILK GROWER AND , FARMER’S MANUAL —A monthly publication, designed to extend and encourage the growth of Silk tbf*ighout the United States. Edited by Ward Cheney and Brothers, Burlington, N. .1., and pub lished in Philadelphia, at the low price of One Dollar a year. {>3“ Subscriptions received alibis office. ap 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'. 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