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'1‘ WE NTY-THIRD CON GRE SS.-—
2d. SESSION.
IN SENATE"
WEDNESDAY, January 7.
The bill making appropriations to improve
the navigation of the river Wabash was passed.
The bill to settle and establish the northern boun-
dary line of Ohio was passed. .
In the "House---Mr Polk, from the Committee
of \Vays and means, reported a bill making ap-
propriations for the expenses of Government for
the year 1835, which was read twice, and com-
mitted to Committee of the Wliole on the stateof
the Union. Mr Hanner, introduced a resolu-
tion instructing the Committee on the Judicia-
ry to inquire into the expediency of amending
the Constitution of the United States, so as to
limit the service of the judges of the Supreme
and inferior Courts to a term of years. The
House refused to consider the resolution by a
vote of 90 to 84. The subject of the pay of
naval officers was again taken up and some
further progress made in it, when an adjourn-
ment was moved and carried.
Friday Jan. 9. In Senate---Very little busi- ,
ness was done in the Senate. Mr Benton de-
livered a speech in opposition to the bill making
compensation for French Spoliations prior to 18-
00. Several bills were coiisideted; and Mr
Benton offered a resolution in relation to the U.
States Bank.
In the House---The business transacted was
mostly of a private nature. The resolution, in
relation to the “papers of Gen \Vashington” and
MI’ Spflfliea Was, after a long debate, rejected,
by a vote of107 mays to S7 yeas.
Saturday, Jan 10. The Senate did not sit.
In the House a bill from the Committee of
Wa is and Means to suspend unconditionally the
receipt of bills and notes of the United States
Bank, in payment of dues to the United States,
was read twice and referred to the committee of
the whole on the State ofthe Uniou. Mr Polk
presented certain stateiiieiits from the Secretary
of the Treasury respecting the rate of exchange
charged by the Bank of the United States-—-10,-
000 copies of which were ordered to be printed.
The Bill for the relief of commodore Isaac
Hull, as amended in the Committee ofthe VVliolc
was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading.
[This amendment strikes out the allowance of
compensation to Commodore Hull, for his serv-
NORWALK GAZ l<)T'I‘l:'}.
FRIDAY JAN. 23. 1835.
AT FAULT AGAIN.—-Any man of reflection
and possessing the smallest spark of charity,
must blush for the embarrassment into which the
una-nimous adoption by the Senate, of Mr. \V eb-
ster’s resolution, has thrown the Jackson press.
It is even worse than the vote ofcensure upon the
Post Master General ; and still more coiifouiid-
ing than the backing out of the President him-
self in his protest. How mal a propos.’ why
cannot we have a little concert between the first
violin and contra-basso? Bring your instru-
ments together gentleman, and take the key note
from the magician; for these discords, though
they may be to the uninitiated, “harmony not
understood,” are exceedingly grating to the au-
ricular sensibilities of those editors who suppose
they think for themselves. When the Presi-
dent’s Message appeared, the collared press
from one end of the Union to the other, respoiid-
ed to the call for war-—for reprisals——for invest-
ing the president with important discretionary
powers ; and those who dared to dissent from
this opinion were admonished of an opposition to
a former war—of the odium which attached to
Van Bureii, and other federal-deniocratic-tories
for their opinions toucliing its expediency. Not-
withstanding these impotent threats, we did, in-
contineiitly, at the very beginning, most strenu-
ously insist upon the utter incompetency of any
such proceeding; as well as upon the disastrous
consequences which would ensue to our coiniiier—
ices as Navy Agent, from 1829 to 1832.]
Monday, Jan 12. In Scnat.c—A report from
the Treasury Department, containing statements
of the operations of the Mint for 1834,---and arc-
port from he same source relative to the land
office:---and a series of resolutions introduced by
Mr Benton, relative to the Banks in the District
ofColunibia, were ordered to be printed. Mr
Bentoii’s resolution, introduced on Friday, call-
ing on the Bank of the United States for a his-
tory of its operations in Specie, dcc, dcc, was a-
greed to.
Mr \Vebster addressed the Senate two hours
and a half upon the French Spoliations bill---
Mr Calhoun spoke briefly in opposittion---and
Mr Clay rejoined.
In the House, many petitions and memorials
were presented; Mr Young presented a me-
morial from Coventry Conn, the birth place of this P1'Ql8Ct Of 51 “'31” W3-3 “Qt agreeable to the
CAPT Nxrii.-\«.\‘ ii.iLi:, for the erection of a nion-
ument to the memory oftliat ‘ victim and martyr
in -the cause of our independeiice.' A message
from the President exhibiting the operation of
the mint for 183-]. was received, and 5000 extra
copies, with the accompanying documents were
ordered to be printed. The Bill for the relief of
Commodore Hull was passed. The House, in
Committee of the \Vliole, went into considera-
tion of the Appropriation Bills generally.
Tuesday Jan 13. In Senate---The bill for
granting indemnity to U. S. citizens for Spolia-
tions commitcd by France prior to 1800 being
before the Senate, Mr Bibb spoke at some length
in opposition. Mr Shepley moved to amend
the Bill so as to make the appropriation five
millions, to which Mr W'ebster had no objection.
The amendment was then agreed to, but on mo-
tion of Mr ‘.Vebster the final question on the pas-
sage ofthe bill was postponed to Monday next.
\Vednesday, Jan 13. In Senate—Mr \Veb-
'<'if"i§‘J~’i?)‘i{”“-‘«':t’ti‘r§g§‘tdtth the iiicon\'iences of the
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Custom House in that citv,aiid praying the BT00-
Several bills from the House
ferred, and others of little
The special order ofthe
tion ofa new one.
were appropriately re
ublic interest passed._
day, Mr Clay’s resolution:
‘That it is expedient, at this time, to pass any
law vesting in the Presitlentaaiitliority for iriaking
, reprisals upon French property, in the contin-
‘tfigcyl of provision not being made for paying to
, ‘ Q, ' l nit sti ulated bv - ~ ' ' -” I :11 ,_ _
the tmmy 01 lgwsl thTe"1‘n‘( P1z3$9nl)5°3“i0n ‘if honest dlflercnce of Oplmon ’ ran . Power ofthe illeélitiinate monster 15 pziialyzeilz
‘he Freinch C m-,\r?,.)€Cj,“. qpolne 10,, d0Ubt the honest)’ Of the Post‘ ‘Eh A 1- the people have awoke from the infliicrcc ofits
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fCfi‘1’;“;?§L1lr1)g’ta,,en in “,.he,.ep0r,‘ Efnd Ormzfence S1515--and the fault is venal in a ‘.9 torporific pill, and_are astonished whit they
iiolutioii He was followed by Mr. Kin". wife‘, I’ost’s intellectual caiiu... in a d 11‘ 100k 11361‘ “P0” lh‘-’”' gm-95 apathy-
. ' . . _ , *‘ . recteu .,.. 3,, fi 6 mom-~ . i
""”h°“t ilssmmug I-0 the Tepml MM! Clay m doctrine f flerelio “-3 n v‘ » 10 THE FAMIIY MiNs'rni‘L' a reP05ll’31"' of
....il:irs, w1sl1et.SOl0 amend the resolu- 5 0 <=<iua1y——m qhovting = . ed 1 - - s .
- iv an unanimous vote--- confidence in the honesty of the W . ,,0_ Music and Poetry ; devoted to the cause -.Jfiiiu-
‘ g H A " ' niif. a1l,._~,ying the surrender of the prom . ,,0 sical science, in its various applications it the
_ 1 K . A ~__, ~ -—..-it-es of the nce(_ , Gus worship of God, and to the sober and I'Ill‘)I]£ll
.CO,,,.,g.,,e(ie,m,,-,, ,,-...,_,,._. e 1, . _ ,, ‘ c ” ‘ mp- enjoyiiients oflife; and toadvocating theciaiins
ident. of the U. S. at the opeiiing V, _ ,-,; ; ._. 4..., ;, ,_ -M, -A . ,_-,. ,3 . _~ , un_ of music, in its several departments of ?-.-:;ory
3°S°‘°” of COIISWS-*2 it 15 111‘?-‘5l"-"hem to P355 8”)’ de;_,,,;__V ,_ ,_, g : I _, ,, Cause and practice, with strict reference to souad sci-
law relating to the treaty of 1831, until further
information shall be received from France.”
Mr Clay accepted the amendment in part, ob-
jcctiiig to some particulars. Mr \Vebster pro-
posed the form in which the resolution was pass-
ed after some debate, in which Messrs \Vebster,
Bucliaman, Cuthbert, King, Leigh, Calhoun
and Clayton took part. The yeas were 45; the
resolution was as follows:
Resolved, That it is inexpedicnt at present to
adopt anydegislative measure in regard to the
state of affairs between the U. States and Erance.
Jan.‘ 15. Judge Duval, the senior Associate
Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
tendered his resignation last evening.
In Senate, D/Ir. Toinliiison, from the Commit-
tee on Pensions, to which was referred the bill
to revive and continue the act providing pensions
for persons disabled by known wounds received
in_ the Revolutionarylgwar, reported the same
with an amendment, inserting one year instead
of six.
h Mr Tomlinson also reported a bill to continue
Le ‘office of Commissioner of Pensions; which
a‘’'’}.% bee“ feada Mr. T. made a few remarks,
showing the importance of the office. &c.
Before the Senate went into Executive busi-
ness to-day, the joint Resolution for the sale of
the Lion and two Horses presented to the Pros-
ident of the U. States by the Emperor of Moroc-
C0. W218 taken up _for consideration, and after
some remarks from several gentlemcn,an amend-
ment was adopted authorizing the President to
present the Lyon to whomsoever he chose, and
Ol‘(lt'l'lIlg the horses to be sold at public auction.
The business transacted in either House on
Fri‘day.was not of great importance, and they
bot.i adjourned over to Monday.
A GREAT MAN-—A singular case of exemp-
tion lately occurred before a Council of Revision
in France. A young soldier was sent home be-
cause he was of such colossal stature and so stout
that he could not march in an infantry rirriment,
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and so heavy that in the cavalry his weight
would destroy any horse he might be put upon.
A ROYAL AU'i'iioii.—M. Gachard, Keeper of
the Archives of the kingdom, has just discover-
ed a little inedited work of the Emperor Charles
ten by C liarles V. himself, to the Dowager Queen
Mary of Hungary, his sister, Governess ofthe
Netlicrlands. This curious performance, which
is particiilai'ly remarkable for its modesty, is da-
ted Tunis, July, :24, 1523,
A New Di;i~'i:~'i'rioiv.—A young lady being
latclyon an cxamiriatiii as to her proficiency in
the 80101160 Of Grainiiicr, was asked why the i
noun bachelor is singular, replied with great ap-
iiiembcrs of Congress, if the thing must be done
\’.—-It is a narrative ofthe taking of ’l‘i,inis, writ- I’"’f97‘77Wi and We are quite sure it would take
equally well.
thou art not half so rude as maii’s iiinmmudc H
C, .
So sang the poet of Avon.
against the wings at the last election, and joined l
against the poor,” it is supposed, have conde-
cial and national prosperity upon the adoption of
fitlie President's opinions. \Ve maintained the
ifact, that the French government was acting in
good faith and exerting every power to bring
about an early and satisfactory fulfilment of the
itreaty. But, to these reasons, the party would
not assent, the President tlesires a war—the Pre-
sident says our national honor requires it-tlie
President says we must all concur in getting up
a war excitement; and these reasons should be
siiflicient for us. They were sutlicient; and
our national honor was the countersign.
But, how very dull their perceptions were!
Did we not warn them, in all gentleness, that
Kitchen Cabinet? and that neither Martin Van
B uren, nor Amos Kendall—nor Woodbury-—nor
Forsyth—nor any other member of the culniary
council would assent to a war——aiid, par conse-
queiice, to a third term ? But this was \Vhig sa-
gacity, and a synonym of malice. Look at the
result. Not only the Senate, but also, the com-
mittee of the House of Representatives, have re-
fused to support the “Greatest and Best.” The
house has been turned out at the windows; and
upon his back. How shall we reinstate him’?
said, in the language of the poet—
“A11d tlirico ho a1u\v'urd'$.¢x".‘iil '
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Evening Post of being a'\Vhig par
guise. Iftlie Post is \Vhig, it is rea 1”-
guise-Noah.
The above is one of Noali’s quain . ~~
short, crisp and spicy, like macaroni '
cv, not altogether deserved. \Ve a
tliis affair of the windmills has laid the old hero
How restore to him his broken lance and his
anibling rocinante? \Ve must recount again the
battle of New Orleans: where it may be well
(]’_§"Tlie Penn Yan Democrat accuses the
respect to that sturdy champion of tlt Ii .' =2 ' -
3.4
One of the most moving specimens of elo-
days of Counsellor O’Botlier’em, who flourished
under “the shadowy shade of some umbrageous
sent time of Pop Emmous and Davy Crockett,
gentleman of our own blessed county, which was
blown off from his surcharged lungs on the ne-
ver-to-be-forgotten 8th of J aiiuary last. \Vliat 5
class of rhetoric it comes under we are at a loss
to determine. For rigmarole, it is too discursive
—for bombast,too inflated-—for bu rlesque,too gro-
tesque—being “full of sound and fury,” but sig-
nifying sonietliinrr. It may be oracular, since
it is niystical—full of sense “profound obscure"
—not the chiar oscuro of the painters. If there
were a single word in which the rhetorician
would approach it---but feebly, though. It was
words. But, reader, it was good Jackson de-
mocracy; and, if that does not account for it-
it may have been the cause of it.
But why should we bother our head for a
classification or a significant title, when we can
present the reader with a sample of this ram
aris in hand.
Take the following petit pot pourm about the
“golden fleece,” the “hideous serpent” the ty-
raiit’s yoke" the “aristocratic mongers" -—wliat
are these ?—the “syrens,” and the “torporific
pill ;” and call it what you like—it is good Jack-
sonisin. The old Here, with laudalils patriot-
ism, after defeating the English at New 'Ui'1C€1nSi
has been waging an externiiiiatiiig war ever
since upon their language; and, with the daily
reinforcements he is every where receiving. We
may reasonably expect, in a short time, to see
the King’s English completely driven out of the
ceuntry. Then, like the Portuguese on their
secession from the Spanish, we shall set up a
language of our own; and call it—wliat shall
we call it? The Jackson dialect or the Potta-
wattarnee, or the Creek, or the Mohawk’!
But to our orator--as the hero is the presid-
ing deity, he must first “slaver him all over.”
and then his “spunk is tip for a blow at “Mother
Bank”—what energy !—-what virtuous indigna-
tion I
“To the hero of New Orleans our country
owes a debt of gratitude, which will increase in
a compound ratio as it descends upon poster-
ity, whilc they enjoy the rich blessings of civil
and religious freedom, guaranteed by the vast
energies of his mind and the inagnaniniity of his
soul, and bequeathed as a rich ineinerito to warn
them against the horrid Cliarybdis of Banking
Monopoly.
From his earliest public acts, his life has been
fraught with deeds ofvalor, ofnatioiial benefit and
Democratic purity ; and to cap the climax of his
fame, and to ‘riLL’—yes, to heap up, shake
down, and cause still to run over, ‘the measure
of his country’s glory,’ he issued his unparalleled
vi~:'ro, which struck the deatli-blow to an enemy,
more dangerous to the liberties of otir country
than all the powers ofEiirope marshalled iii hos-
tile array against us. I mean the ‘Mammoth
Bank, and its aristocratic iiiongers, who were
fattening upon ‘exclusive privileges,’ draining
out the life-blood of the tree 0} Liberty and en-
slaving the people. The Hero touched their
golden fleece, their magic art wasuiiiiiiasltetl;
they coiled like the hideous serpent iiitciit on de-
struction; vengeance gleaniedin their eyes, and
barrel.
ble materials, and was soon in a blaze.
young firemen plied their engine with great vig-
or and discretion, and had they been in posses-
sion of a few feet of hose, the flames might have
been readily extinguished; but being destitute
of this very important aid, they were obliged to
cut through the roof—after spending some time
would condense the sense of the poet—“tlie in borrowing a ladder—-when the fire had at-
wreck of matter and the crush of worlds”---tliat taiiicd too great strength and volume to be sub-
dued. Fortunately, the liotise stood detached
rather the wreck of reason and the crush of from any other, and no further danger was ap-
prehentled.
that the occupants were serious losers in furni-
ture and clothing, by the disaster. The remov-
al of the dwelling itself, by this or any other
means, would have been generally regarded as
an important public improvment; fllldv Perhaps
Fiiu«:!—-Our quiet little community was
quence we have ever seen recorded, from the startlled, at about eleven o’clock on Saturday
morning last, by the cry of fire.
matter of pretty general interest, the whole of the
tree,” in the green Isle of Erin, down to the pre- village was soon turned out of doors, and the
boys made a fine holiday of it. A large wood-
inay be found in the last stentorial effort of :1 en tenement standing in the elbow of the Dan-
biiry road, a few rods above the bridge, and oc-
cupied by two families, had taken fire from
As it was a
ome hot ashesvery carelessly thrown into a
It was composed of the most combusti-
Our
\Ve regret, however, to learn,
for that reason, the owner, \Villiain Lockwood,
Esq. a gentleman of great wealth and respecta-
bility, does not receive the sympathy lie is just-
ly entitled to. He had affected no insurance
upon it, and by previous contract loses the
right to rebuild it. Hence the loss is without
mitigation.
f.\"\'llll regard to our spirited young firemen
and their little engine, we feel disposed to give
a few words of advice.
dicipline a larger company, and add to that a
of hose.
roof, or into a window.
would say, go to our very worthy fellow citizen
Insurance Company, and get your property in
sured.
time saves nine.”
days” in conning those scraps of Latin which s
inocratic friends.
Tiii-: .NA'1‘lOi\'AL DEB'r.—We all look wit
spective countries.
scenes of profligacy and distress, like the glair
with one direful thrust, and one fell swoop, tlicy
the patriotic inflexibility, and stern ‘iiitt-grity of
Andrew Jackson, who, under God, 11:13 broken
the tyrant’s yoke, and saved our country from a
v worse than Egyptian bondage. '
The sagacity of the people would have seen,
but too late, the deliisive and fatal snare. They
glided smoothly and heedlessly upon trie un-
ruflflcil tide of ‘Bank facilities ;’ they ilistzovered
not the direful abyss which yawiietl below I
This subtle foe was like the fabulous syrcns
who enticed passengers by music and then de-
voured them. But the charm is broken; the
they are monopolies. it is ;,~ , ‘ ~-
pervision of law in all case A
only be competenttodecidr ;.-: -7
all goodness. This is the error of the Post.——
Some writer of celebrity has said, that everv
man is mad upon some one subject; and tlizit
such hallucination is not incompatible with the
possession of the highest grade of intellectual
power. This monomania is practically illus-
trated in this able writer. It is the anti-mon0p-
oly monomania. And a very harmless one it is.
Yet, we read the Post with pleasure; and woii-
der, as we wander through the long attenuated:
yet vigorous, columns, of seine article upon mo-
nopolies, whether the editor has not been driven
mad by a nocturnal visit from the grim and in-
dignant ghost of the late worthy federal editor
and founder of that paper, \Villiam Coleman,
E sq .
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Tris BALTIMORE CONVE.‘i'TION.-A week or
two since we ventured a guess that there wuold'
be no Baltimore Convention. Perhaps we were
in error—perhaps not. Afliriiiatively, bccai.ise,
the object of such convention being clearly un-
derstood, and admitted by universal consent‘ to
be the nomination, without discussion or provi-
30, of Martin Van Bureri for the presidency,
the fatigue, expense and loss of time, could be
better employed by delegates at home; and
that by surrendering that business to the Alba-
ny Regency, which power, in all cases of the
kind, has the revision of such proceedings, all
this trouble would be saved. Alfd, negatively,
because, the people must be liuiiibugged with
an appearance of discussion and an address.--.
Now, all this might be done, by a caucus of the
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ClIARl'IY.—-“Bl0_\V, blow thou wintry wind,
JTICIIF M'ajor Noah :
i.l?N0 less than 2000 persons who voted
11 the crusade of the Jackson leaders of “rz'r:/z
parent candor, “Because it is very singular that
tiny don’: get mar/'i'cd."
scendcd to accept aid from those very wliigs
duruig the late inclement weather.
they were learned in all wisdom and ptiicct i;; 1
dexterity in a person speaking the English lan-
guage. Instead of this, he gave us a prose dis-
Scflation upon Astronomy, in which he acquit-
tctl himself very creditably ; and we doubt
whether any body went away dissatisfied with
the amount of eutertainiiient they had received
b0ma Esq. of F airfield, has been iiomiiiatcd by
ence, pure morality and evangelical reli_;'9n.
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have been frequently called upon of late. to no-
tice new publications of various kinds, and we
begin to feel some delicacy in the practice of
this SPCCICS of pulling. But we have the plea-
sure of knowing Mr. Dinglcy, and of knowing
him to be an excellent maii—aud one whose
qualifications and experience are well fitted for ,
the business he has taken in hand. Th-a mirli-,1
ber of the work before us gives the fullest evi-
dence of this, in its literary no less than its musi-
cal department. As a guide to, and instructers
in, church and family worship, it will be highly
esteemed wherever taken; and cannot be too
5lT0U£’l)'» 3.5 it may be sincerely, TCCOIDIIE-{;Il(lCtl._
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MR. Mossii«:.—This young gentlemaifs imi-
tations were thinly attentled on Friday evening
last; but the audience though siriall was highly
gratified. Such speakers as we have heard, he
“Wok 0H?” as Sam F oote says, to the life. VVitli
great command in the iiiodulatioii of a voice, not
either of great compass or flexibility, z.-.rid, we
may add, with afacc not remarkable for its inns-
ciilar action, he contrives to give a variety in iii-
tonatioii, expression and gesture quite sm-pi-isiiig.
Mr. DIossie’s acquirciiiciits must be varied and
of considerable extent; although with regard to
his improvisations, we must confess ourselves to
have been disappointed.
I
Iinprovisatiou which
is an aiiglicisiii from the verb improvvisare, to
make verses in rhyme extemporaneously upon
any given subject, conveyed the expectation of 0
hearing some such literary feat from the gentle-
man, which indeed would have been, if well ex-
ecuted, a rare example of cousuiiimate skill and
ii exchange for their money.
Si:-N.i'i'oiii.u. NoisiiN.»i'i'ioiv.—Tlioinas B ()3-
the VVhig convention for the 10th District.
sought to chain our country in ‘.)CI‘l)t*i_7)-'.!l .«'~-~----'--
picture are the party preparing for us !
‘ware has devoted a large portion of his annual
address to the Legislature, to a review of the
controversy respecting the Indemnity Treaty
with France ; and concludes with the following
most grave and ludicrous sentence—surely sig-
nificant enough to let France know what she has
‘tt’:'Er.’pEct from the people of that powerful and
military commonwealth :—
nestly recommend an immediate attention to the
militia system, together with the enactment of
such provisions as may be adequate to place the
State in an attitude of preparation for the prob-
able emergency !”
Tansy, to the Senate, for a seat on the bench of
at any act of General Jackson, it would be at
this. But we are not. Taney has been a most
pliant tool of power, and should be rewarded.-
Therc is, however, one obstacle in the way, and
that is the Senate; the “refactory Senate”.
Esq. a candidate to represent this county in the
twenty fouitli Congress.
day says, “ \Vc understand that another afiliirof
honor.’ was settled at Bladensburg, on Saturday
morning last. The combatants were midship-
incii belonging to the frigate United States, and
had qirirrellcd in the Mediterraiiean.
third lite, one of them was wounded in the knee,
but we hope not daiigerously. He is a citizen
of .B2llflll10]'e.
ed ‘at Augusta, (Georgia,) on the 3d instant,
which covered the ground to the depth of an inch
or more. _
l.l!lS republic, our rejoicing, as a free people
who entertain any portion of self respect, shoul
be moderated. If we are to be called upon to
wage war or to make peace—to demand what
what is due us by others or to pay to others
What is their due at his beck, as a party, and not
a people—and are to attribute all the beneficial
rezults of the operation of our peculiar frame of
8°"9mm€Df. 10 his agency-—of what conse
qtence is such an event to us? If the paymen
of debt he a party measure, shall we glory in it?
slall we gazette the acts of this personage, from
wnicli he, and his alone, are to derive lustre?
But more. if the payment of this national
dent, is to be made the signal of a crusade
aéfllnst national industry and national improve-
meiit, how much should we deplore it? If it is
to tie the signal for opening our ports to all na-
ticns, for the iinportations of their products,
\Vl.'l10Ut restraint, without duty, without discrim-
ination, why should our meclinnine nnrl ,..... I‘..-
.- - . 7--‘.i~..“ I _
pcnscs of government, to pay, what shall we
want of revenue? And if we raise no revenue
upon iniports, who is to benefitted '! \Ve
sliould like to know where these speculations
are to lead us? \Vliat an undefined and gloomy
The big Governor of the little State of Dela-
“In consideration of the circumstances, I ear-
0:.PTlie President has nominated Roger B.
be Supreme Court. \Vere we to be surprised
The Jackson Convention held at Saugatuck
n Monday last, nominated Zalmon Wildman,
A DUEL.—Tlie Baltimore Chronicle of Mon-
On the
The rare occurreiice ofa fall ofsnow happen-
Let them organize and
hook and ladder company, with a hundred feet World. Which. Where 8- C0mmUDil_Y is Small and
This will enable them to approach
the fire in its first stages, from the interior of the
building, when a few buckets of water would do
more good than a thousand thrown upon the
To the owners and occupants of houses we
Mr. George St. John, who is agent for a Fire
Remember the old saw-“a stich in
Our houses and stores stand
in dangerous proximity; and in the event of an-
other ‘fire, it would be difficult to say where it
could stop; unless, indeed, it should prove to be struction—the social feelings cultivated—tlie as-
the old Town House, and that we would regret,
having them passed some of our “youthful
much offend the chaste ears of some of our de-
tlie pride of true Americans upon the extin-
guisliment of the national debt. It is an event
which will afford a fertile topic of reproach to
foreign governments by the press of their re-
. It is indeed, in itself, a fine
moral spectacle; and forms an agreable—a
cheering contrast—to the embarrassments, the
oppressions and taxation of those governments
where the splendor of the throne shines out amid
pliosplioresceiice of a putrescent carcase.----
But, if the party are to make this event, a sig-
..v.~;~.l for Bl]l,0'..Il_/:ll]j[___l_l_lC President,_gw_l39 had up
u.-guys \
I
Tun NORWALK LYCEUM.-—ThlS debating So-
the acting members ofit—for there are in this, as
in many mercantile companies, some “sleeping
partners”—is rather in a deserted and declining
condition. Out of about forty members, some
half a dozen occasionally drop in on those even-
ings appointed for disputations; but altogether
no concern to them. And we don't .Sl1PP058il
is. Entre nous, we have a charge against oiir-
self for neglect on this score; but we shall not
discuss it now. Suffice it to say, that we be-
lieve—mind, it is only our individual opinion—
the fault is inherent in the organization and
management of the society itself. People gen-
erally care little about disputations, especially
upon political subjects—and more especially
when they are extempore; or, as Mr. Mossie
calls them,improvisations. They are frequently
mere personal contests, embittered by spleen-
occasions for humiliation or triuuiph—for dog-
matiziiig-—for senseless declamation; seldom
marked by sound reasoning or matured reflec-
tion; aiid aid but feebly in the advancement of
knowledge, while they tend naturally to create
personal differences, and degenerate into mere
gladiatorial exhibitions, which bring the forum
itself into disrepute.
Now, in a small community like ours, the ob-
jects of a Lyceum should be, to diffuse useful
and entertaining knowledge equally among the
respectable part of its inhabitants, upon a plan
that wonld not only be acceptable to all, but
attractive to all—to ladies as well as to gentle-
men; and so to conduct its operations as to
make its meetings, assemblies of taste, beauty
and fashion. \Ve might, without additional ex-
pense, imitate some of those in other parts of the
not distinguished for its high state of excellence
in science and literature, call into life and ac-
tion, faculties which have hitherto lain dormant
in the mind of their possessors, and which have
eventually proved to them sources of happiness
and honor. Some, for their places of meeting,
, have halls expressly built for the purpose and
furnished in the most costly manner, in which
- lectures are delivered to audiences composed of
ladies and gentlemen; specimens of the arts, of
the natural productions of foreign countries, ex-
hibited, refreshinents spread upon the tables,
and the meeting made one of pleasure and in-
perities growing out of a state of seclusion, worn
down ; friendships contracted ; the manners im-
0 proved, the mind enlivened, and the general liap-
piness promoted. Sucb objects cannot be gained
by a debating society stuck in a lfot over a store,
and meeting once a week to quairel over some
political subject rife with matter for contention.
Very far from it.
“Well,” exclaiin some of the offended mem-
h
able, you will adopt them.
and for the transaction of business.
d
Cietyv miscaned 3 Lyceum» We are informed by ligious (Episcopal) newspaper, published at Bur-‘
liiigton, N. J. by J. L. Powell, at one dollar per
aniuiiii. It is distinguished by its fervid and
true christian spirit.
day last, we find some remarks upon a poem—
The Martyrdom of St. Peter and St. Paul-—by
the Rev. George Burgess, of Christ Church, ’ ll‘
in an indifferent way, as if it Were 8 111211161’ Of Hartford, which are strongly expressive of the if
editor’s high opinion of the poet’s ability. We ‘
take the two following portraits as we find them ,
copied in the Missionary; and if they be a fair
"specimen of the entire poem, we may congrat-
our Aiiiercan anthology.
bers, “what would you propose, Sir Oracle?”
\Ve will give our thoughts upon the subject;
and hope, gentlemen, that, unless you can sug-
gest something more practicable and more agree-
Let your meetings be monthly, not weekly ;
dispense‘ with your debates; keep a room for
y your library, for the meetings of committees,
Let such
of your members as are so disposed, prepare lec-
6-v-.-Mn nv u:_u-iflnp rl:_cnx1iailinnF Ilnflflgflflfnfl inter-
esting subject in history, science, literature, the
arts of life, &c. &c. which shall not consume
more than 20 minutes in their delivery. Let a
select committee meet at the Lyceum room
one week before the monthly assembling, to
Tm-: Missioimnr is the name of aiweekly re-
In the number for Satur-
ulate ourselves on the accession of new lustre to
Sr. PETER.
Look on them now; behold that rev'rend head,
With the thin frosts of green old age o‘erspread,
That calm, clear eye, that broad unruffled brow,
That lofty fraine,_unwont for naught to bow,
That soul they paint, so solemn, yet so mild,
Firm as a warrior, peaceful as achild.
The liardiest wretcli who fasten’d on his hands,
Toucli’1d bult with awe, those stretch’d defence-
ess iands :
The crowd, inur’d to terrors, heav’d the sigh,
“So like a God, and such a death to die 7”
Not that they mark’d the lines of princely bi
His was apcasant sire, a peasant’s hearth; ’
Long in his youth he plied the boldest oar, ,_.»'
\Vhere break the waves on rough Bethsaida's
sliore : «
Not that his name had fill’d the school, the field’, ,’
For other arms and arts 'twas his to wield,
Since from on high the rushing glory canie,
And ting’d his spirit and his tongue with flame.
ST. PAUL.
Younger is be who bears beside his chains,
Younger, though less ofyoutlifiil fire remains.
His eye is piercing, but his check is pale; ,,
Erect he moves; erect, but- worn and frail ; ii
Hardship, and toil, and days of anxious care
Have inark’d his mien, and blanch’d his sable
hair,
\Vitliout, within, each pain the gtiiltless weep,
Troubles by land, and perils on the deep.‘
The scourge, the chain, the snares relentless
spread, ,
And the keen pang when recreant friendship fled.
His is a light that trenibles while we gaze,
But never fades or fails its heavenly blaze:
There shines the spirit born withills to cope,
Still hoping on when fails all human hope;
Knowing what doubt to mortal wisdom cleaves,
Yet fast believing, for the heart believes :'
From his own race a hunted outcast driv’n,
Forgiving all; to him was much forgiv‘n.
Chosen, and call’d, and on his message sent.
His Master’s voice was with him as he went
Mid pains and tears he 'prziy’d, and wrote,
spoke,
And smote the fetters, till the fetters broke:
His fight is fought, his faith has reach’d the e
Firm to the heav’ns his glance,liis heart asce
There with the Judge he sees his crown reina
And if to live be Christ, to die is gain.
'1
Di-;.i'rii 01-‘ 'riii=: REV. EDWARD IRVING.
London, Dec. 11, 133-'l.—Edward Irving
no more. A London paper of this iiiorni
announced his death at Glasgow, but the do
was not given. It was four or five days sin
This event is admonitory and affecting. It c
hardly be denied that he had the elements 0
great man: certainly be has occupied a cons
cuous position; he attained an early notori
as a preacher; became eccentric, extravaga
wild, and may almost be said to have risen
splendent as a maniac. His recent history a
his end, are alike nielanclioly. His powers,
their own peculiar kind, were most comm
ding;—lie will have a place in history as t
founder of a sect; and he died at 43 years of a
the victim of that course of physical motion,
which his plirciizied zeal had led him. ‘
On the whole, I think he will be remember
and respected as a good and sincere man. I
extraordinary career and end, are a just cause
regret and larnentation.
Ms - I-—=-3 had literally wornhimself out so
weeks. and months ago; was advised by
physicians to travel ; went into VVales and sta
ctl some time; thence to Lancasliire; thence
Glasgow; and tlieuce, we hope, to Heaven.
Charity cannot but feel tender towards him.
Christian brother said to me to night: “He die
whom shall be submitted, without signature,
rejection, so that nothing unworthy the charac-
ter of the society shall be read in public. Let
the library be open for the benefit of members
preparing their theses. Among the productions
ofiered, let three, four, or five, according to their
length and merit, be selected—there will always
be some. For the monthly meetings let; tickets
t
these productions for examination, approval, or
without spot.” There was no stain upon h
character. Seine have qestioned his honest
and have attributed his course to ambition.
am inclined to think, that in the height of hi
popularity he was ambitious, and that God su ‘
ered him to fall—not to the injury of his char
acter, for in that he was saveil—but into thos
visionary and wild speculations, in which, per
liaps, he had for a time hoped to attain distinc-
tion, but wliicli became a snare to his soul; and
in which he wandered, and wandered, on in an L
be given, admitting one gentleman and two
ladies, to such members of the society only as
pay their monthly dues—and in no case let the
number be exceeded.
eccentric and wayward orb, and went down at
last in a cloud. I have long thought him not of
sound mind, and that is the best interpretation
of his character.
VVheilier his sect will increase, or decline, re-
Tlien respecting the places for the monthly
meetings, we would suggest that, supposing there
are twelve resncctnlilp. r:.,m:i:_.... =— «v V
1 it
- . « ‘ ' . .. x-..- ....t.
provide lights, and other accommodations, let
the monthly meetings be held there. They
would be quiet, sociable, free from obtrusion, at-
tended wtth little expense and a great deal of
benefit.
\Ve offer these remarks for the consideration of
the society; and to show our sincerity, we offer
our own rooms for the first monthly meeting.
[If The following Question will be debated at a
meeting of the Lyceum on Wednesday evening next
the ‘28tli inst.
Will the refusal of the French Chambers to vote
the appropriation for the 50df‘,000 indemnity (if they
should refuse) be a sufficient cause for wa r, or mea-
sures that will ultimately lead to war '2
LEVI CLARK, Sec'ry.
ENGLISH \Vi'r.--We have almost split our
sides with laughter in looking over a series of
caricature vignettes from London under the title
of “Emigration.” The first represents the poor
family embarking on board the ship at Liver-
pool for America. Another, a tremendous storm
at sea; short allowance; bilge water and junk
beef. A third, the landing at an American sea-
port at the moment ofa dreadful cholera raging:
undertakers and cheap funerals posted up in sun-
dry places. Another exhibits the adventurous
family in the dreary solitudes and forests of the
backwood settelments, and an interview takes
place with the niitivcs, being festoons of sea ser-
pents dangling from the trees, and “other var-
mint.” Another, a visit from a settler, being a
grisly bear poking his unwelcome muzzle into
the door of the log cabin. At length we discov-
er a crocodile chase, consisting of divers groupes
ofemigraiits “striking it” over the prairies hotly
pursued by these terrific animals, one of Whom
has already caught one of the fugitives by the
coat tail; this scene is indescribably ludicrous.
Finally, the poor family are seen perisliing in
famine and rags; which, however, is ratlierwi-
der of the truth than the other exaggerations,
of Dec. 10th, writes as follows :—“The cholera
still rages on board the American man of war at
mains to be proved. They have built several
places of worship in London, and rented «-.91--I...
\Vl]e[IJf3T Illnrn .3-A I . I ,. 3 - ’~ - ‘
.x "5; 1‘ -‘I.
7 ‘v-:).’ll tn; ’,
.._. ,-,,,,,..U,, _
. : __;;giuus sects. Extreine
oreett opposite extremes. The coldness of th
Churches of England and Scotland, not bein
congenial to their most ardent children, drives
them away to find satisfaction in some new in-
vention; and when they get away, to prove they
had reason, they undertake to do some extraor-
dinary thing, and run wild. This, I think, is
the real history of the Irvingites, and of all the
Millenarians.-—-Coirrespondent of the New York
Observer. '
..,_~
REWARD Orri-:iii:i>.—I‘. ~. L. ;;.:- -
tains the following par‘. :-«.., . . 1
“An elegant and couiinu—..‘..,;:; ~ - ~
in Brighton, will be given to any individual" i
can adduce proof of his having realized a sit .
fartliing by evading payment of the King‘s j
508. Or by smuggling transactions; or to l::-'-: ‘V
who can bring forward testimony of his hair? ;;
get rich by working on the Sabbath ‘day. I ' '«
ters (post paid) addressed to the Editor of ‘tr
Brighton Herald, will experience due attentsg.
and the utmost secrecy observed.
“A Iuzmlsonie annuity for life will be gran‘ . '
to any lll(ll\‘l(lllZll who can furnish undenia=
proof ofliis having ruined himself or injured ~ -
family by acts of benevolence.
paid) to be addressed to the Editor of the Bri, 1
ton Herald.”
Letters (1
Missio-.\'Anii-:s Muimisiti-:i).—By the ship (1--.-
a vender of coliins on the wharf, and notices of vington, at Baltimore, advices have been
ceived from Batavia to Sept. 24th. They co:
iiiuiiicate the melancholy intelligence that l\.
Lyman and Mr. Muiison, the two Americ=
Mi.-sioiiaries who embarked in March last, frc.
Batavia for Sumatra, were murdered and eat; ..
by the natives of the Batta country, in the int‘ A
rior of Sumatra, on the 28th July last. Tht ~
bereaved widows were still at Batavia, waitii .
anxiously for an opportunity to return to the ‘
native land.
The celebrated Rev. Dr. Morrison, who hi
devoted a considerable part of his life to the rut
ral interests of China, died on the 1st of Angus
at Canton. if
PRIZE TALE, &c. The “Mohawker,” a lit
tle paper published at Schenectady, offersa “disl
though in keeping with them.-—Noah. of sour cirout for the best original 31118. and?
dozen red hot pancakes with lasses on for thi
Our correspondent at Marseilles, under date best original poem."
prizes will bring tales and poems of a better
stamp than we have sometimes seen, or that a
VVe hope these liberal
Mahon. The Delaware had, on the 29th Nov- ..~
ember, about 150 cases on board and had lost 5 "
about thirty men, but no officers. The authori- '
ties still keep them in quarantine, notwithstand- J -
ing that several cases are daily declared in the it-
town."——N. Y. Mer. Adv.
at 0’ nine tails will be applied to the back of
:- «iv ,it TS. _‘
' 3 and animosity to the militia of Rhode - _‘
izi, was a toast drunk by a Major-General,
ix ~-uciining clay,” in that spirited little com-
§11ti','. wt 3, uh, A
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