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jjqMKgsroMi as □ajOTpfiMk* ' WILLIAM E. JOKES. AIGISTA, CEO., THURSDAY EVEXIAG, ARV 2« J 837. [Seiui-weekJy.j-Vol. 1.-Xo. 8. JJUlfltSilCtl DAILY, SEMI WEEKLY AND WEEKLY, At No. 261 Broad Street. TERMS —Daily papei, Ten per annum in advance. Semi-weekly paper, at Five Dollars as heretofore i.i advance, or Six at the end of the year. Weekly pajier, Three Dollars in advance, or Foot at the end of the year. Tuesday Evening, January 24, 1837. WASHINGTON, Jan. 16,1837.5 Monday evening, 10 o'clock. 5 The deed is done! The Expunging Resolu tions have passed the Senate, and the act of sa crilegious violation of the Records of the Senate has been performed by the Secretary. I have ust returned from the Capitol, after witnessing the disgraceful and humiliating spectacle, the contemptible farce, as Mr. Webster said every man of sense would regard it, were it not also a \ ruthless violation of the Constitution. I have seen those who were sent here to be the guar dians of the Constitution and a country which has more to preserve than any other country under Heaven, borne down by a power which has swept every thing before it, until our very existence as a nation under our laws and constitution is ren dered a matter of groat doubt and apprehension. At this late hour, exhausted as I am, by a pro tracted and most exciting session, and filled with the most painful emotions by all I have just seen and heard—the exultation of the wicked and des perate —the compliance of the servile—the dejec tion of the virtuous and patriotic—the ineffective, though wonderful labors of groat statesmen to rescue the Constitution, and preserve the dig nity and independence of the Senate. I can only briefly notice the incidents of this most disgraceful sitting. Mr. Ewing spoke with extraordinary earnest ness and power. He maintained the justness of the opinion conveyed in the obnoxious resolution, and went at great length into the consideration of the proposition to Expunge. Some of his pas i sages were full of noble and impassioned elo quence—others were of the most sarcastic and withering character. When he sat down, “ Question! Question !” was cried by Benton, and echoed by the Expungers.—The ayes and noes were ordered, and just as they were about to be taken Mr. Webster rose. Instantly the most I perfect silence reigned over the whole chamber— you might hear the suppressed breathing of those i around you, so profound was the silliness. His | appearance was most solemn and imposing. He was manifestly struggling with deep emotions. He began to read a manuscript which ho raised from his desk. The circumstance was singular that so skilful and practised an orator should read the remarks he thought fit to offer. But it was not a speech, it was a solemn protest in behalf ofhis colleague and himself as Senators of Massachusetts against the proceeding in which the Senate was about to engage. It was a paper of immense power—the argument clear, and irresistible as a mathematical proposition, and conveyed in the most terse and vigorous language—the remarks on the act to he performed, and the protestation y against it such as might be expected from the mind of a statesman and a patriot. The closing ,• sentences were eloquent beyond description, and his voice, in giving utterance to them rang through the chamber like a clarion. Never have I heard li more energetic and effective elocution than was 7 exemplified in the reading of the whole paper. As soon as Mr. Webster finished, “ Question! '■ question!■” again resounded through the room. (| The question was then put on the adoption of % the Expunging Resolution—and carried. Twen j ty-four in the affirmative. Nineteen in the ne gative. Mr. King of Georgia, left the Chamber 4 before the vote was taken. The man to whose pride the majority of the Senate yielded their in dependence and dignity—Mr. Benton —then 4 arose and proposed that the work should be con summated immediately. The question was then put —the proposition agreed to. The President H pro tem. Mr. King of Alabama, then directed the % Secretary to execute the order of the Senate—and ■ instantly Mr. Webster, Mr. Clay, Mr. Cal houn, and all the Whig Senators with the cx f) ccption of two or three, left the chamber in dis gust. They could not witness the degrading spectacle; Mr. Dickens then commenced his task—teak <- his rule, and deliberately drew with his pen the | prescribed black lines around the subject of the vindictiveness of the Senate. He was busily en. gaged in the Work of degradation—the Senators sat quietly looking oil—they watched the proceed- I ing, some with exultation, no doubt—but most with contempt and indignation. At last the en raged feelings as the people rose up against the desecration—they became uncontrolable—ahd four Successive rounds of hissing burst upon the cars of the servile actors in this farce. Instantly the President arose and cried, “ Clear the galle ries !” Mr. Benton sprung up, apparently al i most bursting with rage, and actually bawled into silence the other Senators, who had risen, as he exclaimed, “Let the disorderly persons be taken into custody! I hope the ruffian will be ins ant ly seized and brought before (Senate —the Bank RUFFIAN SIR —THE UNITED STATES Bank RUF. fian I—l hope the Senate will not permit them selves to be insulted by ruffians of the hank ! —ruffians, sir, who, during the panic, used to sit in these galleries armed with dirks and pistols to overawe our deliberations!” —and with this ex plosion down sat Thomas H. Benton. The President directed the Sergean-at-Arms tc I take the disorderly persons into custody. That officer repaired to the galleries and soon returned | with a person under his charge, whom Mr. Ben ton had pointed out as one who had committed f the disoidet 1 A motion was made to discharge this individual—but Benton having applied to f;. him some of those brutal terms which constitute his ordinary vocabulary, Mr. Morris, of Ohio, a i-oso and suggested that it was but fair the person charged with the contempt should be heard in his own a'sfence. Again it was intimated that the person in .custody was ready to answlr questions, and wished to bo heard—but this privilege and birthright of every American was denied him.— This was perfectly in keeping with the lawless and outrageous character of the night’s proceed | ings. What justice or decency could be expect a, e( j f rom men who had not scrupled to to invade * and violate the sacred charter which they were I elected by the people to protect and defend I Af ter some confused proceeding, the Senate conde scended to order him to bo discharged ; and in stantly 4 motion was rnadp to adjourn and carri- I ed. The person who had been brought up then asked the Chair if he might he permitted to say a word in his own behalf, to which the President promptly replied, « Take him out of the house.” VVhat right bad this band of Destructives and Disorganizes to treat an American citizen in this way? To drag from the gallery, where he was surrounded by a dense crowd, and arraig., bin , before their tribunal without a shadow of evi dence, to allow a bullying, swaggering member of their own servile faction to indulge in insolent language towards him—and then, without allow ing him to be heard, to dismiss him with con tumely and contempt I—After this great achibve merit, the twenty-four knig.jts of the black lines broke up their club and dispersed. Mr. Clay has bestowed this name upon them, and let them hereafter be refered to with the title of K. B. L! ! He expressed his hope that the Secretary would carefully preserve the pen with weich he performed the execution, and give it to the most warty ofthe majority. Perhaps, indeed, hereafter when Americans shall have lost all but the forms of the Constitution, and some American monarch shall trace back the history of those suc cessive stages by which a Throne had been rais on the ruins of a Republic, he may, in order to express his gratitude for the proceedings of this day and night institute a new order, and give them the name of “Knights of tub Black Lines.” Washington, Jan. 19, 1837. Thqjdisgraceful proceedings of the Senate on Monday night in violating their own records, produced a deep sensation in the other branch of Congress; and as soon as the House met on Tuesday, Mr. Underwood of Kentucky asked leave to introduce a series of resolutions, the ob ject of which was to preserve the journals of both houses from any mutilation, erasure, or alteration, by providing proper punishment for every such act. The motion, however, required the suspen sion of the rules, and that, of course, was not granted by the party. On the same day Mr. Calhoun directed the attention of the Senate to the fact that the proceedings in the case of the individual who had been arrested and brought before that body were illegal, as there was not a majority of the Senate present. Mr. Calhoun, however, did not pray for a decision at that time; and so the matter was undetermined. A quietus was given ’to the resolution of Mr Allan, of Kentucky, for inquiring into the expe diency of granting a portion of the public Domain to each of the old Slates of the Union. This subject has producer) a groat deal of heated dis cussion It was on Tuesday laid upon the table on motion of Mr. 8011. Mr. Wise’s resolution for inquiring into the conduct of the Executive Departments, has been graciuously allowed to pass at last. Mr. M’Keon, one of the New York Regency, made an elabo rate defence of all and sundry the departments of the Government, and was followed by Mr. Jenifer in a cutting, vigorous and most eloquent speech. He replied to all the principal arguments of Ihe different advocates of the Spoils’ Parly and particularly of Hamer, whose gross political tergiversation, and fulsome adulation of the pow ers that be, he handled without gloves. He road a letter from Hamer, written from Washington only three years ago, in which the Van Huron faction and its head were denounced in unmeas ured terms; and he asked what right such a per son had to denounce Washington letter-writers or members of Congress, for assailing the admin istration in advance, when in fact that had been his own course three years before Mr. Van Bu ren was elected. The game of the party now began to develope itself. After refusing Mr. Wise his Committee of inquiry fur nearly two years—after postponing from day to day the consideration of his resolu tion—after denouncing it as impeaching the President, as an insult to the President! —after all the manifestations of horror at the idea of pass ing such a resolution —they suddenly, a few weeks before the termination of the session, when they know that a committee will not have time to look into the one thousandth part of the abuses of the Government, relinquish their opposition and by a unanimous party vote agree to the adoption of the resolution. Mr. Vanderpool rose and moved the previous question, the effect of which was to cut off all further debate ! I wish every freeman in the country could have heard the indignant remarks of of Mr. Wise. He exposed the mean ness ofthe conduct of the party and told then they could not by this trick and chicanery escape from the odious imputation of delaying action on the resolution. Though the time between the period i and the end of the session was much too short for the prosecution of the investigation he sought, - he still took their proposition late in the day, as it was, and seconded the call for the previous . question. This call was sustained by the House, • and the resolution finally adopted. > In the Senate, on the same day, Mr. Kent pre -3 sented a memorial from the Grand Jury of the i County of Washington, remonstrating against . the presentation of petitions on the abolition of , Slavery, and praying Congress to apply such remedies as might be in their power. A discus . sion of considerable length and interest arose on i the question of printing, which was finally carried t in the affirmative. , In the Senate yesterday there was a very long and animated discussion of the bill for anticipa ting the payment of the indemnities becoming > due under the French and Ncopolitan treaties, t which was finally rejected by a vote of 22 to 19. 1 The proceedings of the House were very inter - csting. Mr. Hawes, of Kentucky, offered a rcso -1 lulion providing that all mcmoriols, petitions, &c --3 relating to the abolition of slavery and the slave > trade should be laid on the table without being re- J I ferred or printed and that no faithcr action should -| be had thereon. As soon as the resolution was i : read, Mr. Hawes demanded the previous, ques s ' lion, which call was sustained by the House, and 3 ! the resolution was adopted by a vote of 129 toC9. , ' In consequence of the trial ol Richard V\ bite I for burning the Treasury, having terminated in - his acquittal in consequence of the statute of s : limitations, although otherwise would have been - convicted, the President has recommended to - Congress a revisal of the law so as to prevent the s bar of the statute jrom operating in cases when 3 the proper officers of the Government did not - know, and could not by due diligence have known -by whom the offences were committed. The sub - ject has been referred to the Committee on the - Judiciary. 1 The bill for the admission of Michigan into . the Union was next taken up and after some dis cussion on the propriety of committing it to the Committee of the Whole, it was decided that it should not be committed; and it will be taken up this day, as the first business in order. The Committee of inquiry on Whitney’s case readily pursuing their inquiries; and it is said they will make their report during this week. Gen. Santa Anna arrived in this city yesterday after; loon. I have not seen him yet, Mr. Cuthbert, of Geo. took his seat in the Sen ate yesterday. Judge Wayne has also arrived. The Supreme Court is now full, and will proceed immediately to the trial of cases involving questions of consti tutional law. From the Montgomery Advertiser. TEXAS, MEXICO, AND SPANISH AF FAIRS. The Second Campaign Against Texas. Important —We have been favored by the Editors ofthe National Inquirer, (a weekly publication ot this city,) with a slip containing the following important Proclamation. Mr. Lundy, one ofthe editors ofthe paper alluded to, was in Mexico a short time since, and no doubt has correspondents in that country ; Advance if the Mexican Army to San Louis Poiest.—Proclamation of General Bravo. — By the last Express mail from the South, the official Proclamation of General Bravo to his array, dated at San Louis Potosi, has been received in this city. We have been permit led to make a translation of it, and herewith lay the same before our readers. It will be thus seen that the Mexican army is advancing rapidly upon Texas. PROCLAMATION. The General in Chief ofthe Army of the North, to the Jorces under his command. Soldiers/—You are destined to form in im portant part ofthe army that returns to Texas. Since the grand work of our independunce was achieved, our country never called upon its worthy sons in defence of a more sacred cause, nor to sustain a more just war. In that Texas where there should only be found peo ple friendly to the Mexicans, and grateful for, the generous hospitality granted by them you meet with hordes of insolent adventures who when ourusurped lands are claimed from them answer by raising the savage cry of war. A trifling success, which must be attributed to the contempt wiih which they were looked upon, and by no means to their own prowess, has fil led them with vam glory. They consider the soldiers of our army as cowards and eflbrmin ale, though this same army, during twenty-six years of continual combatting, has never once shuiiod danger, but has, on the countrary, giv -1 eu strong proofs of suffering and heroism. ; But the madness of these adventurers knows no bounds ; they have threatened to carry the uar as far as the walls of Mexico itself—(bo - ish men that they are ! Wo forgive them this extravagant idea hut shall at the same lime undeceive them. Let them be made ac quainted with the true character of soldiers of the Republic.—On 1 and let them understand that to us has been commit!ed the'gunrdianship of the honor of the nation ; to us the ven geance for the outrages she lias received ; to us, in fine the charge of making it evident to them that a magnanimous people are not to i be insulted with impunity. , Soldiers ! Our comrades are waiting our arrival on the Northern frontier, and are impa tient to share with ua the renown of our first ’ efforts. Let us proceed to join them without delay ; and all united, let «s fulfil the sacred duly entrusted to ns.—lt requires but one small off >rt to secure the integrity of the na iti mil terilory, and to restore the character, as well as the inestimable blessings of penc<. Soldiers ofthe Army ol the North ! What - I expect from you is subordination, disci , pline, respect for property, firmness in the hour of battle, clemency towards the conquer ed. The example will bo set by your com manders, ami victory will follow in your foot steps—of this I, as your commanding general assure you. He will he found always near , you, the first to encounter danger, and when ' the campaign shall bo terminated, he will re commend your services, that they may be re ' compensed as they deserve, and will then 1 leave to you, exclusively, the merit of having • triumphed. Camp, in San Louis Potosi, Nov, 9th 1836. NICHOLAS BRAVO. 1 We arc indebted to the Hon. Judge Wood ward of New York, just arrived from Texas t for the following copy of a letter from the s seat of government of that republic. Subjoin , ed to it is a communication from President ( Houston, to the Legislature of Texas, com. plimentary to the judge, which as it furnishes 1 some items of interesting information, we ’ publish.—N. O. Bulletin. , Columbia, Dec. 23,1836. Augustus M. Tompkins, a gentleman who 1 is reporter to the Senate of the Republic of ’ Texas, reports the perfect organization of the ' government, courts are regularly established i finances, regulated revenue laws passed, the ■ land-bill passed the army is organized. I Gen. Houston will repair to the army and acquire what information may be of irnpor -1 tance and last intelligence received of the > approach of the enemy, ho will return to i Groce’s retreat on the river Brazos, which is , the seat, of government during the recess of Congress, where he will remain at the tem ’ poraryseat of government until the first of May next, wnen the congress is to meet at ■ the city of Houston, about 25 miles from the » Galveston buy, on the Buffalo Bayou. The \ latter place is the seal of government until the f year 1840 - The congress has passed resolutions an- I thorizmg the President to accept any number i in his discretion, not exceeding forty thousand ! volunteers fur two years, or during the war as j in ids discretion he may deem proper. Executive Department, ) 5 Columbia, Dec. 13,1836. y - To the Honorable the Senate and the House of , Representatives. 5 Gentlemen— lt becomes my duly and at '* the same time it gives me pleasure to call '• your attention to a gentleman and a friend to Texas, who has but recently arrived in the - countryand Ins claims upon you, viz. John .. Woodward, Esq, of the State of New York. The accompanying documents, the onc c marked A and the other marked B, will ena • ble you lo see upon what this communication 3 is founded; actuated purely by a spirit of pat -3 riotistn and benevolence, he has been the de voted friend of Texas, thro’ all her difficulties J and struggles for liberty when a dark and threatening cloud hung big with destiny over • her, when it was feared by many that the toc ej sin of her liberty was soon to be sounded, ami I I some were induced to abandon her to her fate J ne stood firm as her friend and her advocate, |u r energies were only increased by the <kn -1 gers which surrounded her, but he found con -0 solatioa and hope in the justness of our cause b and the firmness of our people; and he now a appears among us to cheer us in our prosper lt ay and success as heartily as lie sympathized with us in our adversity.' Judge Woodward comes from the most ' populous and wealthy states of the North, c and brings with him such testimonials ofehar acter and worth as doubtless will insure your • favorable consideration of his claims; when . (it is recollected our success depended upon , | the exertions of such gentlemen, persons t j who were actuated lo interfere purely from benevolence and a moral convict,ok. of ’ i the justness of our cause. lam sure that you will give to jnfo' ■ | Woodward such assurances that he will bo , secure in his investments in Texas ami will (satisfy him that wo are not ungrateful lo our friends Through his exeiions, together with others connected with Ifimrin procuring addi tional strength to our navy (which will soon • I am informed if it has not already arrived up on our coast) we will bo enabled to keep the , command of the Gulf. It is the intention I ( understand of Judge Woodward to nettle many families in Texas, and coming as he ■ does trom the Northern part ofthe United Stales and being a gentleman ofiortune high character and influence, through him we miiy reasonably expect to introduce into the coun try many valuable ami enterprising citizens, and when I know it is at all times the pride and wish of a free people to do justice lo mer it, and at the same time to know yon, their representatives arc governed by a spirit ol liberty and intelligence. 1 feel confident that, the claims of Judge Woodward upon the Re public will not be passed unrewarded. (Signed) SAM. HOUSTON: A New Orleans paper ot the 11th was re ceived yesterday alter our paper went to press It furnishes some interesting items of intelli gence trom Cuba, from Mexico and Texas We give an abstract, derived in pari from let ters which have been shown to us, received by the same mail. Dates from St. Jugo are to the lulli ult. General Lorenzo has issued further procltma tions adhering to his determination in fivor of the Constitution of 1812—Ins troops nave taken an oath of fidelity to it, and are arcsilved upon resisting the iroups of General Tacou, 4,000 of whom have landed at Siiarra and are expected daily at Si. Jago. A buttle is expected. St. Jago. is in a deplorable con dition. The British sloop of war, Nimrod, and the British fngale, Vessel, Captain Jones, ue lay ing alSl. Jago, for the protection qt British subjects and property. The British slop of war, Madagascar of 46 guns is at Port Royal, Jamaica, and the British ship, Melville, 74 guns, Admiral Hulket, is laying at Bermuda, exclusive of the blockading squadron of two vessels. The intelligence from Mexico is also of interest. M. Gorostiza arrived m the city of 1 Mexico on the 15th of December, wh ch event will bring up ut once for the decision of i but government, the results of hie mission 1 to this country. On the same day, General Bustamenlc arrived from France, in the city 1 of Mexico. He is a candidate for the Presi -1 deucy, and will probaly bo chosen. Report says 1 he declared for the Federatlqu System, which sets him at once into opposition lo Santa An na. His success) would he favorable lo the principles originally declared by Texas— . but in her present posture, would it not be adverse lo the hopes rested upon the suppos ed engagements of Santa Anna? The ac counts are confirmed, of extensive prepara- 1 tions for an invasion ofTexas.—but the suc cess ofthe efforts is rattier problematical. 1 General Bravo’s army, (say about 4,000) is , encamped at Monleny, about 200 miles from Mantamoras. Another body of troops is ut ( Matumoras, whither General Bravo lias gone lo get them in readiness to enter Texas. 1 But they are clamoring for want of pay,—mid are in a state of disaster from want of dis cipline and insubordination. Five officers mil several privates wore shot for mutiny, on tiie march to Monterry, and hardly a day ( pusses at Matmoras, without an execution ( for robbery. The Congress of Texas lias adjourned to i meet in April, at the new town ol Houston. The army has encamped near Bexar, where the President lias gone to review it. lie has 1 been empowered to receive services of any number of volunteers, not exceeding 46,009 men. Texas has lost, one of her most distinguish ed citizens, in Colonel Stephen F. Austin, who died at Columbia, on the 26.1 i ultim. Ex. President Buruel, of Texas, is in New Orleans. Half a million of specie has arrived in New Orleans from Tampico and Matamoras wi thin a week.— Mobile Register. TWENTY FOURTH CONGRESS. SECOND SESSION. IN SENATE. Thursday January 1 O', 1887. A message was received from the Presi ; dent, of the United wtales, communicating, m i reply to a resolution of the 16lli, a letter ad dressed to the President ofthe United Slates, from the President of Mexico, of the 4ib i ot July, being the whole of the information f in the possession of the President concerning i the visit of Santa Anna. I The correspondence, consisting of a letter ; from Santa Anna, dated July 4i.li, ami the re ply ofthe President dated (September 4th, was I then read. The letter from Manta Anna, . states that lie has given up the idea of keep i ing Texas in a stale ot dependence on Mexi i cu, but tiiat it will requite the interposition of i a strong and disinterested power to induce f Mexico to acquiesce m this view. He con • aiders the President of the United States, as f occupying precisely the position which he t ought to occupy, to be able to interfere in tins ; contest so as to hr ng it to a termination— i and Santa Anna expresses his determination ; to co-operate with the President in this mat ter. The reply of the President is cautions, . civil, and friendly. He oxpressuss doubts r whether any act of Santa Aiuih, w hile a pr.- I soner, could he considered as having any va i lidity; hut is willing lo do any thing which lie can, to produce so desirable a resuil, con sistently with Ins duly, and the policy and practice of the U. Stales.—After the corres pondence had been read. f Mr. PRESTON said, that the gontlcrnarf who had offered the resolution lo which tins , was a reply, was not in Ins seat, and he did I not know what disposition he desired lo make i of this message. Ho wished however, lo • make a remans before the subject was dispos i ed of. The circumstances of Santa Anna had greatly changed since his letter of the 4th of . July. Since that 1 1 rno he had been released . from captivity, and had arrived in Washing i ton City. He did not know whether the . President or Santa Anna was disposed to on ter into negotiation of Texas. He did not i know what disposition the Senator from Mis -1 sUsippi intended to make of tins resolut on, r hut in his ow n opinion, the present message . did not at aii change the position in which 1 the United States stood, in relation to Texas. ■ —Whenever that resolution should he taken , up, he would pledge linntcll to prove that the . U. Slates are bound to make a prompt and - full recognition of the independence of Texas, > independently ot any agency on the part of r Santa Anna. In her own right, from her own . right from her own position, Texas has a right i to be recognized. The inquiry of the resolu tion he should not consider as involving any t opposition to the views ofthe President in Ins , message, which placed tin; propriety of recog . nition on tin: result of the invasion ofTexas by ri General Bravo, which wna now abandoned. Mr. WALKER made also a few observa tions similar in their iriiport, and read certain interrogatories on the subject of the feeling of the Mexicans, which he had submitted to a gentleman from Vera Cruz, and his replies, to shotv that the expedition against Texas was abandoned. f Mr. CALHOUN said he was disposed to vote for the immediate recognition aticr the informal ion which had been received. The message was then laid on the table and ordered to he printed. The Hon. T. S. CLAYTON, U. S. Sena tor, from Delaware, lo fill the vacancy caused by the resignation ofthe lion. J. M. Clayton, appeared, was qualified ami took his seat. FIRE IN NA'J CHEZ. The office ofthe Courier & Journal, at Natchez, Miss was entirely consumed by lire on tho niy hi ofthe 13th hist. Correspondence oj the Mercantle .Idvcrtiscr. New r Orleans January 19, 1837. Half past 1 o ’clock, A. M. S Dear Sir, —The thrremometer holds mi impor tant control over this market ut the present lime, A few days more ns plcascnt weather, as the past three days, would cause holders of produce to wa ver in their firmness, and important decline would lake place. Sales of Flour and Whiskey have al ready been made nt a decline from Saturday’s and Mondays prices, by the more timid holders, and those of a more (inn east are almost derermined to yield lo a decline, and no doubtwould do so, hut each dislikes to he the first to submit. The steamboat Goo. Washington arrived day before yesterday from Cincinnati, which place she left 291 h December,ami Louisville on Ist January, reports die navigation of the Ohio hazardous and difficult in consequence of ice, the weather cold and tho river fast closing, and the upper Mississip pi entirely closed. it i r. it. At his residence in Blakely, Ala, on the Hih inst, Jas. W. L. Simmons, formerly of Augusta, Ga. Ile has led a wife and Iwu amiable daughters, wilh numerous Iricndslu deplore Ha ir loss. In this city, on die COili in-i,, Ai.vx vndkii Pan ton, aged about 2(1 yeurs, a native of Beach island, Souib (forolina. CRIME AND CONSEQUENCE. Concluded. One evening, as I sal in a room ut a tavern, rny temporary place of abode, gloomily reflecting on my situation—recurring, in agony of soul, to the happiness that I had forever cast from "ic, and painfully endeavoring to suggest to myself some plan by which ( might retrieve, in part, my fal len fortunes, there was a knock ut the dour, and Roberts entered the room. He hud been absent lor some time, in one of the northern states, and he now approached me with seeming joy, and as it he anticipated from me an equally cordial wel come. His presence, however, was any thing lint pleasing to me. I was largely indebted to him for money lost and loaned nt cards; and when did debtor meet his creditor with joy at his heart 1 Besides, I had begun lo feel, that but for my association with this man, I should nev er have plunged into the vortex that had over whelmed me. He was aware of my coldness, and broke out with—“ Why, W ,my dear fol low, what is tho mutter? Is this the way you 1 receive an old friend after a six months’ absence? 1 lint yon seem lobe in ibu dumps; has any thing f unusual occurred to fret you?” “ Why do you put such a question?” replied 1 I; “do yon not know that lam a ruined man— that every thing I could call my own has been 1 torn from me—that lam a wanderer,covered with 1 shame, heaped wilh obloquy, steeped in poverty ? 1 and do yuu expect, under such circumstances, to 1 find my heart hounding with joy, or my face mantled with smiles? To bo plain with you, Roberts, 1 was thinking of you just us you piude I your appearance, and 1 will tell you wfrut was passing in my mind. Memory had gone back to 1 tho time of our first acquaintance, when I was in possession of all most valued by man: wealth, 1 that seemed scarcely to have a limit—a repnlu- 1 lion, unhreathod upon by reproach—the alloc- 1 tions of one whose equal 1 have never met, and * the unspeakable blessings of a pure conscience. 1 All. save one, of these have tied—perhaps that too is gone; and all this is your work. Yes, sir, 1 yours! But fur you, I should never have he n 1 templed to play ; hut for you, I should have a- 1 band.med in time tho vile pursuit. Yes, sir, it 1 was you who urged me on, by stimulating me I with false hopes that foitune would not always I frown—that one lucky cast would retrieve all, 1 and a ihous.m I specious tales that won upon my ( credulous car; and when, amid reflections such ns tl> esc, you presented youself in person, you 1 can hardly suppose that you could have been ve ry welcome." “ W ,” replied Roberts, “ 1 have had n long ride to-day, and feel heartily tired. It was my intention to go to bed as soon as I should reach this house. But the landlord informed me you were here, and as a friend I hastened to see you. Homo would feel offended at the re ception I have mot with, hut I can make every allowance for the feelings that irritate you, and. I feci it my duty not to leave you until I have some what calmed your present mood. Whenever 1 gel into trouble, and led a disposition to give way to misfortune, tbe first thing 1 do is lo sit quiet ly down, wilh a comfortable glass and a good ci gar, and philosophize upon the matter; and by your leave, you slmll follow rny prescription.— Gome, come, I will take no denial; we will talk ; over alliiirs soberly and calmly, and the odds are ' ten to one hut we strike upon some plan which, if boldly and industriously pursued, will set all 1 things straight again. You will not drive me from you, will you ? O no, I see that you will not.” When the refreshments he had ordered had been produced, Roberts resumed. “ Where is your wile; W , and how is she?” I in formed him. “ And you, I suppose, are a less welcome guest than -lie at her father’s ? Well, all that will come right too. By the bye, the old gentleman should not bo quite so rigid about this 1 matter of play as he is. Many a cool bundled has he won of my father; but I have observed, that your reformed sinner always makes a perse cuting saint. Let that rest, and tell me candidly, are you entirely destitute ?” “ Utterly, utterly,” replied I. 1 “ Are your debts all paid 1" “ You know they are not; I have not paid yon.” “pshaw!” said Roberts, “nevermind me.— ' Have you paid others 1” “They have paid themselves.” i ‘•Good! Have you formed any plan by which you expect to support yourself and family.” i “ None.” replied I. “ But if I had, what means do I possess to put any scheme into cxc- I ention ?” i “ Let ns hit upon the scheme, and we shall find the means,” said Roberts; “my purse, as well as 1 yours, is at present nt tbe lowest ebb. A rascal ! I that 1 entrusted wilh a snug sum, bus decamped, 11 and left me in tbe lurch ; and a fellow whose i i bond f held, lias smashed, and won’t pay a slid- 11 ling in the pound. Hut 1 started in life with h nothing, and have been so often reduced to the ; same condition as at first, that, as you perceive, I ( i take the thing quite coolly. It is trim, lam a single man, and there is no one depending upon me—otherwise, I might feel this matter more se riously ; but 1 should not sit down, and mope, ! and scold my friends, W ; I should be I hut the more prompt, the more decided, and the [ more persevering in my actions. Let mo sec; you have as yet proposed nothing to yourself.— What s;ay you to turning rneiclnmt?” “1 know nothing about business,” I replied, “ and besides, t have neither capital nor credit.” “ The law, then ? Your talanta and education combine to fit you lor that pfofos .ion.” “ And what am J to live on, while I pursue the necessary study ! ’ “Thai’s true; one thing then is dear—mo ney you must have, and that at once. That be ing the case, there is one way to obtain it.” “ And that is—” “ By winning it,” replied Roberts. I started from my chair, and walked up and down the room with violence. “ Now I pray you he listen to/ me HUcm..c v ,' ,entinued tlieyjSiifler. “You would not, I presume, object to gelling back some of your losses by the same means that you made them ?” “And if I should not, how am I to know that 1 can ? Hal it not been, all along, my endeavor to do so, and has not each attempt invariably plunged me in deeper ? Besides, I cannot play without a slake.” “ Let me put this question to yon, W ,” said Roberts. “ Suppose you knew that a man had defrauded you of a certain sum of money; you had no proof, however, which could establish his guilt, and enable you to recover in a court of law. Would you, if he were by accident placed in your power, hesitate to force from him what he had deprived you of—nay, would you not deem yourself justified in Using artifice to place him in that situation.” I replied that I could net tell; possilily.l under such circumstances I might do so. “To be sure you would,” rejoined Roberts, “and all (he world would applaud the deed.” “ But whither docs your question load?” ask “ f’aticnee, and you shall hear,” replied he.— “Do you remember playing a game of brag in company with O. and F. and myself, on which occasion yon ami your humble servant were 1. ft minus a few thousand ?” “ Certainly,” said I, “ I remember it hut too well.” “ Well,” resumed Roberts; “ we, poor inno cent lambs, were cursing our ill-luck—luck in deed ! ha, ha! there was no luck in the matter; we were fairly pigeoned—damnably cheated, sir!” . “Ho do you Know, Roberts? By Heaven, if I thought so, I would make an example of them. “ Oh ! sir, you could not prove it!” “ How do you know the fact, I repent?” “ Because I have seen them playing together since, when I was not inlercstered in the game, and could watch them coolly and closely, and I did so ; and lam perfectly satisfied iu my own mind that there was collusion between them.— Now, for thv drift of my question ; I say, it would be perfectly justifiable in us to pay these knaves in tbeir own coin—to turn the tables upon them, and so net hack the cash they fobbed from us, ami that I take it, would lie n pretty little capital to begin tho world with again.” ‘ There is certainly nothing to object to on the score of justice,” said I, “ but I question if such a scheme would bo deemed honorable among gen tlemen.” “ I cannot answer for tbeir abstract opinions,” said Roberts, “ nor do I greatly cure for ibem; but this 1 know, that among the whole circle of my acquaintance, which is tolerably extensive, there is not one who would hesitate about the matter.” “ But what means shall we employ ? If they he the rascals you have described, will they nut he keen enough lo detect us I” “ 1 defy them,” said Roberts. “ Leave every | thing to me. To-morrow yuu shall lie instructed; it is necessary now that 1 should sleep. Du you | so, likewise, and he assured (hat your situation | will soon he changed for the heller. In the mean time yon will need money ; there are fifty dollars, tmll of all 1 have—take them; you will soon he able to repay me. Good night! and hark ye, no more despondency, but took the woifil boldly in the lace, and smile with contempt upon fate, as I do.” Perhaps, Mr. S. , you arc surprised that I should so easily have assented to this vile pro posal. There had been a lime, sir, when I should have treated it as a personal insult; fiat 1 was not then a broken-down gsmider. My principles had not been supped fiy continual contact with tlie unworthy ; the degrading and unhallowed desire of gain hail not fastened on my soul, ami corrod ed my sense of honor. One must have been crush ed and miserable as I was, before he cun fie suie ( of his power lo resist the tempter. Our scheme was soon executed ; we regained onr losses from . and something more be sides, and 1 was once more out of the reach of ab solute want. I hired a small house, where, veiy much against the inclination of her family, 1 placed Emily. One of her sisters accompanied her, fur her continually declining health render ed (he sympathies ot a female friend absolutely necessary. I once more resolved to bandon play. The suggestion thrown out fry Roberts with re gard to the study of the law, although doubtless Hot seriously intended by bim, bud been frequent ly present lo my mind. 1 now determined to pursue that avocation, and felt every confident'!; in my capacity to succeed. 1 compared myself with those around me who bore a reputation in the profession, and fell proudly conscious that in talent 1 was their equal. 1 told my wile of this. Her only answer war a deep sigh, that seemed to shake her slender frame, and these words: “ 1 1 hope it may be so, Charles; for your sake, 1 hope it may he so.” Ift h nettled at the doubt implied, but I replied not. I had deceived her too often to dare lo remonstrate. My studies were commenced, but I bud little calculated on the difficulties of my task. It hud been a lung lime since 1 bad taken a book into my band, and I found it almost impossible to chain down rny attention lo the subject before me, My eyes would he fixed on the page, hut my mind would wander far, far away from it. Sentence after sentence was perused and reperused, but no dis tinct meaning was conveyed to my understanding. I would sit for hours in one fixed attitude, lost in total abstraction, and when recalled to myself fiy some accidental circumstance, the visions which had been floating in my mind were as scattered ami unintelligible as the wildest fancies ot a fool ish dream. It was impossible to study. One morning, after repeated and unavailing at terncts to overcome this slate of mind, I threw down my hook in despair, and went forth into the open air, to try it exercise would not bring relief. It was a lovely day in spring, the trees had just shot out their tender leaves, the hinlg w ere peeling forth their joyous notes, a thousand insects were dancing in the balmy air. It was a day on which a heart at ease might leel most hap py : hut to me the blessed son no longer shone wilh brightness, and my bosom Was cold to those charms of nature which had once made it thrill wilh gladness. I wandered on, knowing and car ing little where I bent my steps, when, at a sud den turn of the road, I encountered Huberts. “ Well met!” said ho. “ I was on my way to see you, I have good news for you.” “ Indeed,” replied I, sadly, “let me have them, , then, for thorn is no one to whom they could be more welcome.” “ Another chance, W , to got back some of your cash, and if I mistake not, a pretty good lump of it too. lam to give a dinner to-day, a i bet I lost—lost purposely, my boy, and you must i come; we will try conclusions wilh the gentle- . men again, and with rather belter chances of sue- ■ j cess than we formerly had. Turn back and get your horse, and as wc ride along I’ll tell you all ! shot it.” “ I must decline your invitation.” replied I. “ That you shall not I” said Roberts. “It is useless for me to go, Roberts, for I will not play. Imn convinced that 1 cannot win by fair means, and I will not resort to any other.” “ Yon can do a* you please about that, but I must have you with rue; it will ho of service to you ; it will cheer you up, and show yourliicnds that you are not the man to give way to misfor tune. Believe mo, the world respects every one who shows it n hold front. Indeed you must not refuse mn; I shall feel hurt if you do.” I wont. It is necassary to say that night was spent in play, and wilh the aid of ray honest partner, \ Hid Hot lose, The ice vnu now fairly - broke. I could no longer refuse to join Roberta .in bis schemes of plunder. I was in his power; ! and felt that be could blast me by a single word/ 1 Hut some suspicions began to be entertained ;my success was 100 uniform for one who had formers 1 ly lost so constantly, and it was therefore concer ted between Robert and myself, that 1 should oc . oasionally seem to lose to hinij making a subso- I '(iienl settlement with him in private. ■ There was a young man, soft of the Sheriff of the County of , who acted as deputy to his father, a very worthy and respectable man, who had served with great credit in' th* continen tal army, and brought up and maintained, by his industry, a numerous family. He himself paid no attention to the affairs of his office, but confid ed them entirely to the activity and integrity of Ins son, who had won general respect and popu larity by the zeal and fidelity with which be dis-' charged his duties, and the gentleness and mer cy he exhibited, when called on to pul in fore* the harsh decrees of the law. I had but little ac quaintance with either the young man or his fa ther, nor, in all probability, would the latter have been pleased to have his son in habits of inter com sc with me. I had attended a session of Iho court of some business, and was detained too late: to admit of reaching borne that day. Several Olliers were in the same situation—among tjiera; Roberts. Alter supper he took me aside, and ask ed mo if I lecollerlcd Wallis. “ No,” 1 replied, “ I icmember no such per son,” “ You have a bad memory, then,” said he; “I never forget those who win my money,” aad he recollected to my mind the individual who hail held the faro bank at the races. “ W but of him T” I inquired. "Does he think to take mein again!” “ I), no,” replied Roberts, with a laugh, “wol have learned rather too much fur that. Hut I have been talking with him; be will open a bank to-night, and lie agrees that you and I shall be equally interested. It shall be my business lo gt t him belters ; and as there are several here whose pocket-books are Will Ailed, I think we shall make a handsome adventure of it. For the sake of appearance, you know, we too must bet against him, and he will permit us to win largely, tor the purpose of enticing others. It is not cap itally contrived 1” “ Hut may not this Wallis betray us hercaf ter 1” “ Not the slightest danger of it; he is close as wax. 1 know him of old; and besides, he is un der obligations to me that he cannot violate if he would.” “ Kolierts,” said I, “do you feel no remorset Does not conscience upbraid you with the mean ness, the guilt of your course ! Have you no mis giving:;, when you behold the agony of those yog/ defraud 1” “ Have you such feelings V’ said Roberta. “ 1 have I” replied I. “ They torture me by night and by day. The hell that burned within me when, like a madman, I scattered my wealth to winds, was ease, was happiness, to what I now endure, and if the hour of detection should ever come, —but that 1 could not and I would not sutvive!” I clasped my bands together, and shook with fear at the very thought. Roberts gazed at me some little lime in silence, and bis countenance assumed a biller sneer. At length he broke forth. "Conscience ! Remorse! ha I ha! Because I have lived too long lo lie a dupe! Most men,in the greenness of youth, are fools, and ripen, with ago and experience, into knaves. There ate some, however, who are early wise, and they, if circuiu- Ktancos permit, become great and distinguished 1 and some, who are always silly, and these are reckoned virtuous, and become the foolbalW of the others. For my purl I was net made to lie kicked, I have found out that 1 must be the wolf or the lamb ; I piefer to be the beast of power. There is not one ol those men that you sec there, who w ould not, if they could, strip us to the last farthing. 1 play their own gmue, and place them where they would place ms. And fur this, forsooth, I must feel remorse I I And ihe whole system of society based upon a cheat; every one endeavors to overreach his neighbor, and the most successful is the must respected.— Bhall k I not >trivc among the real! You have been defrauded of a princely fortune and reduced to absolute want. 1 have let you into the secret of your misfortunes, and taught you how to retal iate your wrongs on others, and you prate to ms of conscience and remorse. Well then', if co»- scinco be to you this dreadful torment, iu Iho name of common sense obey its dictates. He wholly one thing or another (iu to those with whom you have played of latk, and hand them buck their money. Tell them they were cheat ed; that you see through the evilof your ways and come to make restitution; once more throw yourself buck on poverty, and sec how highly the world will applaud the net. They say there is exceeding joy over a repentant sinner in beavsu. Do you try bow much there is an earth. But I am losing time. Am Ito understand that you decline sharing with VVullisuud myself!” “No,” 1 replied, “itis my fate; I have gons too far lo recede, and I must endure, as 1 can, the loss of self respect.” We parted, mixing in with the general crowd. It was not lung before Huberts had collected va rious persons around linn, who secerned to bs lis tening willi great attention to something he was narrating, which, to judge from their frequent peals of laughter, was highly humorous. No one knew better than he how to afford entertainment to others, His manner was admirable ; his very laugh was a provocative to miith. Without be ing boisterous, it was the most joyous, careless, light-hearted burst of gaiety that I ever listened 10. Os those who were most attracted by him, was the young man I have before mentioned, the son of the old sheriff He seemed to be in an ectasy of delight, and Roberts fooled him “to the lop of his bent.” They drank together, they sang together, and committed parlous extravagances ; Roberts declaring that be was just in the humor Ibru frolic, and a frolic he would have. Present y cards were introduced, i know not at whose suggestion, and 1 was told by some one that a faro bank was about to be opened, and I received the inforntatialion ns if it were new to mo. We soon afterwards adjourned to another room, and the game was commenced. At first 1 did not bet, or rather appeared not to do so, but stood looking on at the others, and marking the vicisitudesof the game, 'i'o my surprise and regret I saw the shcrill’s son at the table,for I had always heard him spoken of as a moral and prudent youth, and moreover, I hud not supposed be possessed Iho means to play. I observed, however, that ah though evidently Hushed wilh what he had been' drinking, he staked with caution, and would, not, in all probability, win or lose any thing of consequence, and I thought nothing more of the matter. About midnight, uftergoingthro' the mockery of apparently winning some hun dreds, I threw myself upon a couch and slept. It was daybreak when I awoke, but the light* were still burning, and the gamesters, undi minished in number, as eager as ever in their play. Roberts was among them,a nd I, being desirous of returning home, took him aside to acquaint him with my intention. He object ed to my doing so, stating thst le was csce»-j0(l sively fatigued, and must sleep a few himself; that he had forborne and I must now take my turn to watch, for it wan better that one of us should observe honr things were going on; that so far, owing to the most singular run of luck on the part of one individual that he had ever witnessed, the* bank was loser. I inquired how his young companion had fared. He had lost rather heavily. “Hutsurely,” said I, “he cannot afford to do so.” lie replied very carelessly,' “ that's his own affair. I did not urge him to’ play. The truth is, he received yestereday a considerable sum of money in payment of an' execution, and very possibly he may be using the funds. 1 suppose he knows that he can make it all good. Hut go you now and sit down, and wake me in a couple of hours, tins’ will be sufficient reyosd for mev" %