_j.._i
provisioris, and had to*put himself "onto short
allowance ; and then he begun to show his nay-
tural temper. He first stretched himself otit as
1211' as he could go, and ‘tried to hook the captiu’s
piece 0’ seal, but when he -found he couldn’t
reach that, he began to blow and yell. Then
he’d rare up and rear, and try to got himself
clear from the ice. But mostly be rarcd up and
roared, and .pounded his big paws and head up-
on the ice, till bye and bye, (jest as the captain
said he expected,) the ice cracked in two agin.
and split right through between the bear and the
captin, and there they was on two different pie-
ces 0’ ice, the captain and the bear! The old
man said he raaly felt sorry at parten company,
and when the cake split and separate, he cut oil‘
about a haaf 0’ pound o’scal aiidcliiickctl it to
the boar. But either because it wan’t enough
for him, or else on account of his foclen btitl at
the captin’n goon, the beast wouldn’t touch it to
eat it, and he laid it down, and growled and
moaned over it quite pitiful. \Vell, oil they
went, one one way, and totlier’nothcr way, both
feel’n pretty bad, I expect. After a. while the
captin got smart and cold, and felt mighty lone-
some, aiid he said he raaly thought ho’d a gi’n
in and died if they hadn’t pick’d him up that ar-
ternoon.”
“\Vho picked him i.ip, Venus T”
“\Vho? a codfi.-:li craft off Newfoundlantl, I
expect. They didn’t' know what to make o’ him
when they first see him slingen tip his hat for
’em. But they got out all their boats, and took
a small swivel and a couple a’ muskets a board
and started off-—cxpectcn it was the se:i—szu'pcnt,
or an old maromaid. They wouldn’t. believe
it was a man, until he told ’em all about it, and
then they didn’t hardly believe it nuthcr-, and
and they cut him out o’ the ice and tuk him
aboard their their vessel, and rubbed his legs with
ile 0’ vitrol ; but it was a long time afore they
come to.”
"‘Didn’t they hurt him badly in cutting him
out Venus l”
“No sir, Ibclieve not: not so had as one might
s’pose; for you see he’d been stuck in so long,
tli:-itthe cii'cul:.iticn on his blood had kind 0’ rot.-
ted the ice that was right next to him, and when
they begun to cut, it crack’d oll‘ putty smart. and
easy, and he come otit whole like a hard bilot
e g-"
“\Vhat became ofthe bear ?”
“Can’t say as to that, what become on liim.——-
He went off to sea soinowliercs. I expect. i
should like to know, myself, how the varincnt
got along, right well. for it wsis kind in him to
let the captin have the biggest half ofthe seal,
any how. That's all boys. How many’s as-
leep?”
I'r.«u.Y.—-My glances at Italian character must
be received with allowances, asniore casual im-
pressions which might be changed by longer res-
idence, or more extensive crtporicnce. I have
said that thepeople appear to me tlislionc-st. I
have certainly never before been cast among
such voracioiis bargain mal-:ers, such greedy
beggars and l.lllL'()llS(,‘lOllI’llJlC cheats. The i.iii-
lucky traveller fcelsthe full concentration ofthcir
combined efforts. 'ieg:irding him as a kind of
legal prey, thy flock down upon him with the
avidity ofvultures, altlioiigh with the assiiiinetl
gentleness ofdoves. The rciiowu ofltaly aunti-
laly swarms her towns and roads with strangers,
who call forth all the eiipidity and meanness of
a people naturally cunning and ingenious, and
driven by poverty and oppr(:.:<sioii to a iniserablc
state oflifc and niorals, without knowledge to
regulate them. They are full of the germs of
talent and kindness, and when enlightened and
good, are amiable, generous and delightful peo-
ple. But these cliaracters are exceptions, and
tile means disgust you with broad indecency,
and cheat you in every triflle and at every step;
and not uufrequcntly offer examples of wicked-
ness and audacious profligacy, the thought of
which makes the blood boil in the veins, and yet
for which they tell us there is no redress. Out
of Tuscany the slanderer, the seducer, and the
assassin, stalk fearless of law, which concen-
trates its silent energies against liberal thinkers,
suspected patriots, incautious strangers, and plot-
ters against govorniiient. Priests and SOltllCl'S
sit like the nightmare on the land, and all the
wise and virtuous among the Italians mourn ov-
er the dreadful debasemeiit ofthcir country. I
have seen tears in the eyes ofa silver-licadcd
man, and that man a priest, while acknowledging
the wrotchedness of“poor Italy.” The author-
ities not only often repress virtues, but encourage
vices. Kiioivlcdge, thought and industry are
locked in certain cliannels; all the excesses of
extravagance flow from the duke downward, and
their ever-recurring holidays sink them yet deep-
erin poverty, laziness, sloth and their consequent
evils; thus investing idleness with the propriety
oflaw and the society of religion. There is no
press, and the grosset impositions pass believed
by most and unquestioned by all. Creduliiy
upon the subject ofannual miracles is itself al-
most a miracle; and ifwe may credit the rever-
end narrators ofthose wonders to the gaping niiil-
titude, the saints toil more laboriously than the
men. No profit is too unimportant for the peo-
ple to extort, and no invention too mean and
complicated for them to contrive, with the hope
of gain from the devoted forcsticrc (strangcr.)—
He must distrust them in all they say, in all
they do, in all they give. They cheat in the
price, in the change, in the quantity, in the qual-
ity; he will pay twice or five times as much lbr
an article as they dare charge one of their own
countrymen, and yet I never met more civilit.y.
It is curious to remark what asystem anti scicnco
cheating has become in Italy, and how from its
universality it has almost lost its oditim.
“Sir,” said a French gentleman the other day
to a shopkeeper, “you made me pay four plas-
’ tres for this article, and you gave it to that per-
son for two.”
“And ifI choose to give it to him lbi'72otI1ing,”
was the reply, “what business is it of yours ?”
At the theatre :1 friend of mine applied for a
season ticket. The boxkecper informed him
the usual price, but added, “yeti are :1 straiitrer
and must pay more.” I
I heard a pretty and agreeable Italian woman
soundly rate the master of an inn, for an extor-
tionate bill.
.“You must be crazy,” she said ; “I know the
price ofthings here as well as yourselfl am no
stran-gcr.”
Their veracity for money has no limit, eitlier
way; they grasp with equal energy for the small-
est and largest sum; .,
“Ali,” said a man who had detained a quat-
trino,(the fifth ofa ce1it,) from the change ofa
customer, who left itrather than wait, “Ali there
goes a fool. He despises the quattrino. Block-
head ! He does not reflect that the quattrino is
the monarch of coins. Take it from a million,
it will be a million no longer.” An Italian ver-
sion of one of Poor Kit.-liard's mnxiins, to which
the oppressed dwellers beneath this beautiful sky
are forced to give a rather liberal constriiciion.
The spirit of fraud prcvadcs all the minute
details of life, and extends to classes of socictv
where the iinsuspccting stranger never fll'8.'.‘.l'lIS
ofits existence. It rises from the porters, sliop-
keepers and vetturini, to the owncrsof houses
and masters of hotels, and runs through the var-
ious fortnsofextortiou, incorrect information, pil-
fering, and not iiiifreqiiciitly takes a yet more
bold and alarming range, carrying tlistt'iist into
the bosom of families, and rcacliiiig oven the
highest arrangements and dearest rcliitious oflifc
—T. S. Fay.
Frcuzcrz and I;lrr_1/I,i.—A letter front Port. au
Prince, dated 13th January, s.'1ys:——“‘\Vo have
two French ships of war hero, and it is said that
the French Government has accepted the offer
of this Government made some time since. This
Government is to pay l,0t)(),()O0 of francs in cash
this being the debt of Lafitte, besides /l»'3.00(l
francs to be paid in 45 pears. \Ve consider the
affairs between tlia two governments as finally
settled."
In the Legislature of “little Delaware,” :1 bill
prohibiting the circulation ofBault notes of a less
denomination than 5 dollars lias been rcject.er.l.
Wliut could that State do without small bills?
NQRWAEJEQ one §<1’E"K‘i~}.
TUESDAY FEB. 17, 1835.
fi:;§Tl'io New York Evening Post, a day or
two since, contained a call for a public meeting
of the “democracy” to express “Z//Cir gratitude
for the miraculous preservation of the valuable
life of Andrew Jackson, and congratulating the
friends of democratic principles throiighout the
Union, and throughout the world, on this auspi-
cious event.” \Ve are not aware that the call
has been responded to by the keepers of the faith
” or that any expression
of “tile r.lemocracy;
has been made of their gratitude for the per-
formance of this miracle, for which the whole
world is to join in a clcmocralic to (Zcum. For
our part, we can say sincerely, that if, by coin-
niou consent, :1 day should be set apart for the
special purpose of returning thanks to God for
his providential interference to spare the life of
this sinful old man, we would most heartily con-
ci.ir in its adoption, however trivial the affair
miglit appear ; viewing it, as we do, as a signal
mark of Divine Providence, not so much in fa-
vor to this nation as to the individual himself,
who, were he to profit by it, as a reflecting and
a Christian man should, would have more rea-
son to humble himself before a long suffering de-
ity, than to make it an occasion for private
brawl and scandal. But if the call be intended,
as no doubt it is, for the party merely-—as fa-
vored of God in this eveiit—we should as sin-
cercly deprecate the iinpiety of the act as pecu-
liarly otlbnsive, arrogant and excltisivc. And
this we believe to be the fact; and marked still
more strongly by a rank pharisaical spirit. It
is an electioneering trick, thoroughly political
in all its aspects.
‘While on this subject, we feel inclined to re-
or to a remark of the New England Galaxy.
Not that we intend to preach; or to assume the
direction ofanothcr’s opinions upon such sub-
jccts. But, since in this affair, politics and re-
ligion have been strangely mingled, we con-
ceive it to be as much our privilege to express
opinions upon it as others, if these opinions are
marked by a proper degree of sobriety.
The Galaxy, in affecting t.o rebuke what it
seems to regard as a proneness to superstition in
the piiblc mind, remarks :—
“That. the two pistols snapped at him, with-
in a few feet of his breast, both hung fire, is re-
garded by many people as :1 special interposi-
tion of Providence. As a Christian, the belief
that the evcrwiitcliful care of an all—scoing God
is continually over all his creatures, is among
the most cheering articles of our religion, but
we confess that. we dislike to see the attempts so
frequently made to trace direct intorpositions of
l’rovidence in favor ofindividiials. It is an as-
sumption of knowledge on the part of mortal
and finite men, to read the inscrutable designs
of dt-i2.y——and is a doctrine liable to continal and
flagrant abuse.”
The whole of the last sentence is conceived
in a spirit of error. \Vhen we attempt to trace
any remarkable event to a “direct interpositon
of Providence,” it is not an “assunzption of
L/.-nozL‘lecZgc” on our part, but merely an infer-
ence, drawn, as well from the character, place
and time of the act itself, as from a belie/‘in the
omniprescnce of deity. \Ve are told in scrip-
ture, that not even asparrow falls to the ground
without divine appointment :, that even the hairs‘
of our heads are numbered ; that even our
thoughts are known before we express them,
and that for every idle word we shall give an
account. Certainly, then, the inspired word
warrants the presumption that the life of An-
drew Jackson was preserved by the “interposi-
tion of Providence.”
how such a sentiment is, under a scriptual View
of the subject, at all liable “to continual and fla-
grant abuse.”
Neither can we perceive
But the sentiment was uttered, no doubt, as
the writer fancied, in an enlarged philosophical
spirit. He probably imagines that he is pay-
iug a compliment to deity, when he regards
him as a being too much absorbed in the con-
templation of his own greatness, to take cogni-
This is
one of those sublime errors int.o which our theo-
rists are constantly falling. It is indoed_ that fa-
tal error, within whose circle are confined, as it
were by the potent spell of a magician, the
proudest flights and the inostcxtcnsive rcscarcli-
But, it: has, in the
prosecution of that very same enlarged philoso-
phical spirit of enquiry, its correction. Hence,
we are led to regard this objection, upon which
we are so apt to pride ourselves for our own
liberality of sentiment and feeling, as the ef-
fect of a littleness in our capacity instead of
in the reverse, as a mark of frivolity in deity.
God is as much honored in ascribing to him
an ability to interfere in and adjtist the ini-
nutest differences in the moral and natural
world, as in his unbounded faculty of control-
ing the stupenduous machinery and action of
the universe, and of presiding over all in the
udsubdued cffulgence of his glory and per-
fection of all his attributes of greatness. If we
desire sensible evidence ofthis, we have only
to look at the care bestowed in the auatomiciil
formation and physiological relations, of the
members of the smallest insect :-—in the struc-
ture of the smallest; plant; in the adaptation of
means to its growth and subsistence ', and in the
zancc of the concerns of mortal men.
es, of our modern deists.
undoubted co/tccrn manifestctl for their preserva-
tion, for the promotion of their cnjoyments, in
their peculiar ways; and, in all cases, where
animal life is concerned, in the studied care to
adapt every member and every function to the
purposes of happiness and life; so that, throi.igh-
out all animated nature, from the lord of the cre-
ation to the meanest reptile, no qiierrcloiis scep-
t.ic can point t.o any one organ, and accuse deity
of appropriating it to the production of disease or
pain, but in its abuse. Is not this evidence,
that a habitual endeavour to trace the “interpo-
sition of Providence” in the occurrence. of all rc-
inarkable events, is SCtIlCl.l()llCtl«l)Ol.ll by scripture
and philosophy; and that such endeavour can-
not, under any circumstances, be “liable to con-
tinual ‘and flagrant abuse ?"
2’
h 4
PERSONALITIES on THE PUBLIC PRESS.-
The great infirmity of editors is their proneness
to personality. \Ve mean in regard to each other,
and not to the character and conduct of public
men ; for this, to a certain extent, is atlinissablc,
especially sinceiipon the character ofour pub-
lic men depcntls, in a very great measure, their
fitness for public stations. But, this cannot al-
i.vays—nay, it can very rarely—be affirmed by
editors, who always appear to the best advan-
tage wl1oi1'im.pcrson.al, or when their number,
capacity, character and identity are veiled in the
asstimption ofthe mystic ti.-c. Hence it may be;
regarded as an impropriety for one editor to ad‘l
dress another by n:.uue, if not a breach of cour-
tcscy. His business is with the doctrines he
supports, thejustncss and expediency of his opin-
ions in their effect upon the public mind. Ifl
these be foinid untenable and falliicioiis, attackl
them vigerously—witli all the force of argument
——with all the power of logic, and with all the or-
nament of rhetoric, if you please; but, not ran-
corously, nor passionately, nor in uncourtcous
language; for when you do this, you surrender
the arguinent. Address hiin——or rather his
opinions, as yeti would desire to be addressed
yourself—-that is, provided, always, you esteem
yourselfa gentleman. Ifyou do not——-iior your
reader oitlier—lay on; the coarser your laxi-
guage, the more bit.ter your personalities, the
betterjoke.
onist, if he be a gentleman, in mind as well as in
inauiier, will partake of your rage. No indeed,
his silence will sufficiently express his contempt,
B ut do not suppose that your antag-
without the necessity of his descending to bandy
words with you. You may imagine you please
Perhaps you do——biit you do
They
are such subscribers as every editor should not be
your subscribers.
so at the expense ofyoiir o\vn character.
anxious to please.
And then, again, in awarfare ofthis kind, there
is always a positive loss on both sides, because
the evidence is €.L‘ pa/‘lo. One editor may injure
the reputation of an other to the extent ofliis own
circulation. The other has the same advantage.
The gain to either. is by inference n'ierely—the
loss to both is equal; and, accordtng to the vio-
Besides,
tlicre should exist among editors, of whatever di-
leiice ofthe contest, permanently evil.
versity of opinion, a certain esprit (ZZ(rC0’l‘17S—-3.
certain desire to preserve unimpaired the iiiflu-
ence and character of the public press, which
should always render them courteousin their dis-
putes, forbeariug in their impeacliments, and
content with the limits ofthe question upon wliich
tlieyjoin issue. Editors, as men, have passions.
But as editors, it does not become them to express
them. They can have no weight in an argument
—theycannot defend a position, or illustrate an
It should also be borne in mind, that to
the examination oftopics of grave and general
axiom.
import, a calm and dispassionate mind is due.—
All its faculties should be in a state of serenity
Itis
only in savage life and among men ofuncultiva-
ted minds. tliatwe see the stormy passions ming-
ling in debate. How unworthy then of those
who, from their vocation and their constant in-
although in vigorous and exalted action.
tercourso with civilized and cultivated minds,
are these ferocious characteristics! A
And then this habit impairs their iiifluen ce—-
degrades the character of thc press—dc-bases the
public morals-—infects politics with ‘its iuveter_
ate spirit of schism and chicanery—-and reverts
upon the perpetrator all the evils he has char-
ged upon his adversary; endows him with the
qualities ofa fiend, and destroys alike his hap-
piness and his prospects in life; or leaves him
the prey of that bitter and sarcastic feeling which
makes him as hateful to himself as he is terrible
to others.
VVe have been led to make these observations,
by reflecting upon the constant, coarse, rancor-
ous, but impotent, personal attacks which have,
nearly without intermission for three months,
been made upon the conductor of this press, by
his two political rivals, in his immediate neigh-
borhood. \Vc mean in this village and in Stain-
ford. As these attacks have been made with-
out causc ; and, we hope, without any worse de-
sire than to fall in with and gratify a depraved
taste in seine portion of the public mind, we
trust we shall not be deceived in our expecta-
tion of their being discoutiniied.
been of such a character,
They have
hitliorto, that we
could not, consistently with a sense ofself respect,
take any notice of them. '\V'0.llil.VC no personal
quarrels to wage in our paper. This is the
property of our subscribers.
for fair ground for debate; and when they are
sought to be coiitroverted by sober argument and
in courteous language, we shall always be found
ready to defend them.
Our opinions of-
COLLAR]-ID AND l\IAitKi«:i).—-'\Vc have seen
an article copied into the Tory press of this state
from the Albany Argus, in which that paper pro-
fesscd to know enough about Connecticut poli-
ties to predicate from their aspect confident as-
surances of success. The Argus seldom speaks
without its cue; and perhaps, to its jesuistical
talents might be now added its inquisitorial
powers, for we have caught its cue: and, can
now account for the ready response found in the
press here and elsewhere upon this very inter-
cstirig subject. Orders from the Regency, bot.h
at \V-asliington and Albany, having been received
by the faithful here, that a scliodiile should be
niado ofthe property ofI{ing Andrew, preparato-
ry to its being transferred, for a valuable consid-
eration, to his successor Nfartin Van Burcii, the
uuinberiug, registering, examining, marking and
collaring, has already been commenced, by the
steward of the royal. household, in the good town
Stamford. \Ve have not been informev.lwlietli-
or in conforinity to the whole hog practit-tc, they
have put rings into their noses. PCl’ll."v.I)S they
are tractable enough without resorting to such
means. If they are, let it. be omitted. They
may be taken to the polls in droves, or led out
singly by a tetlier——or, if the animal be vicious
and apt to kick or bite, he may be inuzzled and
iiiaiiaclcd. No matter about the process; the
vote is the thing, the aiiiiiial is oflittle accouiit.
\Ve believe ilie electors of this state have
heretofore been regarded as an inlclligent, well
informed and independent people. Pcrliaps
they derived this reputation from some writer
who emigrated to the west some twenty years
since; such a person for instance as Tiuiotliy
Flint :—a native of the state, and necessarily
partial to_its character. But since Mr. Fliiit's
removal there have been great changes. Fol-
fear the march of mind in Connecticut has been
retrogressive instead of forward. That is, infer-
ring from the slavish doctrines of J acksonism——
of unconditional submission. That there is yet
a majority who do not yield to this conclusion, is
most true. But, we are not anxious about the
majority merely. \Ve wish to see the whole
population walking erect in the image of deity.
\Ve would not, for the honor of OM Connecticut,
have one man bowing his neck to this yoke.-
It is a dishonor to the state ; it is, in him, an act
ofparricidc. '.‘lio spirit. ofthe Pilnrims has be-
come extinct within him ; he is no longer wor-
thy to be called by the name. of his fathers.
‘OUR Ri:L.i'rio.~.'s wi'i'ii Fi'..~..\'ci-1 appear to
liave assumed a new interest witliiii a few days
past, from the exposure of Mr. L,ivingston’s cor-
respciidciice with government, respecting the
probtibiliiy of an appropriation being made by
the French Chambers at their present sitting.——
Extracts from that correspondence are only giv-
cn; and the letter which follows our remz1rl<S
contains the whole of the inflainablo matter
whicli Gen. Jackson has had the tact to throw
into Congress at this interesting period of its iti-
vcstigations. The calm and considerate reader,
whose iiiiagintition is not liauntcd by the cliiine-
ras of the editors of a large cornmercial metropo-
lis like New York, nor the hot politicians of the
South, nor the interested siipporters ofthe pres-
ent administration, will see nothing so very ex-
traordinary in it as to call forth so much impas-
sinned speculation. The opinions expressed
even in this short letter are contradictory; dep-
recating, in the beginning of it, the determina-
tion tif making the subject of this indemnity a
“fl:£Q~ question” with the Clizimbers; and ini-
i11ei'fiiitely' after observing that, “the decision
-not to make it a Cabinet question, will not be
without its favorable operation.” The letter is
quite as full of cncouragcntcnt as discourage-
ment. In short, it is an opinion which may
bear interpreting to suit either aspect ofthe inat-
ter. Besides, that these more extracts, and not
the full letters themselves, have been commu-
nicated to Congress, under a plea that it was not
thought expedient to lay them before the public
at this time, proves, if it prove any thing, that it
is a scheme of the administration to win from
Congress an expression of concurrence in its
views, and to procure, if possible, their assent to
some hasty and offensive executive measure.——
Aside from these views, we see nothing to an-
thorize this renewed excitement.
Otir proper course is to wait and see what
France will do during the present session of the
Chambers. After their adjournment, we may
then discuss the propriety of assuming offensive
measures. But, until then, the least said the
better. \Ve have no desire to see Congress
commit itself by resolution, or otlierwisc, upon
so vague a subject, however much it suits the
views of party :—and that these views are not
the views oriiiterests ofthis country, is too pal-
pably plain, to be denied.
This party must get up a war with F rance,
or it must be broken up. Its future existence is
-incompatible with that of our present form of
government.
M7. Livirzgslon to the S8(,'7’Cf(l)'_7/ of State.
' Plums, 22:1 DEC. 183-I.
Sin :—-—Our diplomatic relations with this Gov-
ernment are on the most extraordinary footing.
\Vith the Executive branch. I have little to dis-
‘cuss, for tlioy agree with me in every material
point on the subject of the Treaty. \Vith the
Legislature, where the great difficulty arises, I
can have no oflicial communication; yet deep-
ly impressed with the importance to my fellow
citizens of securing the indemnity to which they
are entitled, and to the country, of enforcing the
execution of engagements solemnly made to it,
as well as of preventing a rupture which must
infallibly follow the final refusal to execute the
convention, I have felt it a duty to use every
proper endeavor to avoid this evil. This has
been, and continues to be a matter of much em-
barrassinent.
it ‘it
are .2
My last despateh ((3th December) was written
immediately after the vote of the Chamber of
Deputies had, as it was thought, secured a nia-
jority for the administration; and it naturally
excited hopes which that supposition was calcu-
lated to inspire. I soon found, however, both
from the tone of the administration press, and
from the language of the King and all the Min-
isters with whom I conferred on the subject, that
they were not willing to pi.it their popularity to
the test on our qiieston. It will not be made
one on the determination ofwhich the Ministers
are willing to risk their portfolios. The very
next day after the bebate, the gjnisterial Gazette
[Les Dcbats] declared, tha ‘satisfied with the
approbation the Chamber had given to their sys-
tem, it was at perfect. liberty to exercise its dis-
cretion as to particular measures which do not
from an asscntiaf part of I/2a£s_1/stem, and the
communications I subsequently had with the
King and the Ministers confirmed me in the
opinion that the law for executing our conven-
tion, was to be considered as one of their free
questions. I combatted this opinion and asked
whether the faithful observation of treaties was
not an assc-nfial part‘ of their system, and if so,
whether it did not come within their rule 7-—
\Vit.hout answering this argument, I was told of
the endeavors they were making to secure the
passage of the law by preparing the statement
mentioned in my former dejspatch. This, it is
said, is nearly finished, and from what I know
ofitstenor, it will produce all the effect that truth
and justice can be expected to have on prejudice
and part.y spirit.
The decision not to make it a cabinet ques-
tion will not be without its favorable operation;
Some of the leaders of the opposition, may not
be williiig to take the responsibility of a rupture
between it/be two nations, by brcakingthe treaty,
when they are convinced that instead of forcing
the Ministers t.o resign they will themselves on-
ly iuciir the oditim of having caused the nation-
al breach. In this view of the subject, I shall
be much aided if, by the tcnoroftlie President’s
Message, itis seen that we shall rescutthe breacl
of faith they couteuiplato. I
It is on all hands conceded, that. it would be
imprudent to press the decision before t.lio next
month, when the exposition will be printed, and
laid bolbrc the Chambers.
On the whole, I am far from being sanguine
of success in the endeavors which I shall not
cease to make for the accomplishment of this
importaiit object of my mission; and I expect
with some solicitude the instructions for my con-
duct in the probable case of a rejection of the
law.
Enw.-inn LIVINGSTON.
Ilon. JOHN FORSYTII, .S'ccrcla-r_1/ Q/‘State.
No'ri«:.—-Tlie paper hero rcfcrrc_d to by Mr.
Livingston is a iriemoir to be laid before the
Commissioner which may be appointed to ex-
ziiniuc the law, intended to contain all the ar-
guments and facts by which it is to be supported.
Tom’ I~Io.\'i-:sTv.—-’I‘lie elections in the state
of Mississippi were conducted by the Tory par-
ty with the single view to rot.urn such a Legis-
lowing the wake of the general government, we
\
laturc as would displace Senator Poindextcr by
the substitution of one subservient to the purpo-
ses of the present administration. The olfiéial
paper, the Globe, the editor of which is the iii-
timate personal friend and dependant of the
President, charged the Senators generally, and
Mr. Poindexter particularly, with having been
tampered with by the United States Bank, and
to prove the charge upon the latter gentleman,
at a moment when such proof was likely to
have its influence upon the elections in Missis-
sippi, it published what it ‘called “an qfltczal lat.-
ter from one of the government Directors of the
Bank," in which a series of transactions, impli-
cating Senator Poindexter’s honesty and char-
acter, were circumstantially detailed, with all
the appearance of truth.
On the appearance of this letter, Mr. Poin-
dexter made a direct call throngli a Committee
of the Senate upon the Secretary of the Treas-
ury, for a coppy of it. The following is Mr.
\Voodbury’s reply ;—
TREASURY ])AI’AR'I‘.\IF2-.‘\'T,
3d Jan. 1835.
Sir.—I have the honor to acknowledge the
receipt of yourletter of yesterday ; and, in reply
I have the honor to inform you, that among the
'rcc07'(ls and files of this ofiice, there is no letter or
7‘cpo'rt fi'o71i.a7zy Director, or from any person. who
has been a .Di‘rcct0r, of the bank of the United
Slates, which purports to give any account or starc-
mcnt ofthe trtmsaclions of the Hon. George Poin-
zlc.1:ter with the Bank of the United States.
I am very respectfully,
Your obt. Servant,
LEV] WOODBURY,
Sec'y of the Treasury.
Hon. J. M. CLAYTON, .~
Chairman of the Judiciary Committee,
Senate United States.
Senator Poindexter, to establish more fully the
malicious falsity of the charge, knowing that the
President was in the habit of confidential inter-
course and correspondence with the government
directors, directed his inquiry, through the same
committee, to that functionary. His answer
is equally explicit and negative. Mr. Poin-
dexter is exhonorated from the charge; but not
until after that charge has had its effect upon the
electors of the state from which he Comes-
If the moral turpitude of this act can be height-
ened by additional circumstances, they may be
found in the fact that the Globe is the official or-
gan and mouth piece of an American Presidents
giving correct and full information to the An1eri-
can people upon every subject relating to the ac-
tion of Congress and of the Departments. It is
not only bound in honor and duty so to do, but
also to give nothing but what is true, and found-
ed upon a careful examination of facts. But,
then, for this organ to fabricate a tissue of false-
hoods in the form of an official document, and to
publish it as an official document, for the pur-
pose of destroying the character and influence of
an honorable member of the highest legislative
body in the country, is a flagitious outrage upon
decency, honor and truth. Yet we feel bound
to say, that it accords in character with the
whole conduct of this administration. It is the
paper quoted by the administration press through-
out the country; and quoted to mislead the pub-
lie mind; to villify public men ; to misrepresent
facts; to hide from the eyes of an outraged com-
munity, the corrupt practices of that government
from which it derives its elemosenary and miser-
able existence. We have reason, however, to
believe, that Senator Poindexter will be re-elect-
ed by the Legislature of his own State.
PL'iti'rir or THE ELECTIVE FnANcnisi:.—W'e
have a fine illustration of the regard professed by
the Tory party to preserve unimpaired the pn-
rity of the elective franchise, in the refusal of
the Legislature of the State of New York to pro-
vide a law requiring the registry of votes previ-
ous to elections. This is tacitly acknowledging,
what every body before knew, that the elections
in the city of New York are controlled by ille-
gal votes; and that this very legislature, at least
in so far as it respects the city, is the offspring of
a fortuitous and irresponsible majority. Hence
the benefits of the elective franchise not merely
become a nullity, but manifestly a source of op-
pression and misrule. It is well known that a
large proportion of the voters upon whose choice
the Jackson city delegations are sentto the State
Legislature and to Congress, can neither read
nor write, are of foreign birth, totally unacquaint-
ed with the form and operations of our republi-
can government, are destitute of property, and
lead an uncertain and precarious mode of life,
subsisting, at least one third of their time, upon
public charity; and having no one feeling in
common with the respectable and native citizen.
Many of these wretches are lead to the polls be-
fore they have been in the city six months, and
taught by the rnagnates of Tammany Hall, to
hurrah for Jackson. And, if the injustice of this
state of things can be magnified, it is at the char-
ter elections, when a city government having
the unlimited disposal of millions of property, is
put in by the influence of these anarchists and
vagrants—an election in which, every true
friend to his country must confess, should be
only conducted by the tax payer and holder of
real estate. And this is required by a strict
sense of justice. And yet, we see these miscre-
ants on the eve of an election courted in the most
fulsome language by the public press; and their
influence magnified and their patriotism ap-
pealed to, in the most impassioned language.-
This is shameless-—it is abject—is disgraceful to
the American character. It is encouraging the
very evil which we so earnestly profess to dep-
recate. It is surrendering our free institutions
into the hands of a miserable foreign faction
whose only governing principle is plunder. It
is time we organized as an American party.-
No matter what the immediate consequences
may be in regard to our local elections. The
remote consequences are momentous. VVliat
little American feeling there may yet remain in
the breasts of the dominant party, must be ap-
pealed to. The dangers of foreign influence and
venality, and the corruptions in our own public
officers, are now unitedly threatening the over-
throw of the government. \Ve may concede
every possible privilege to emigrants—and that
is more than they have at home—and yet justly,
—yes, even in justice to them—withhold that of
meddling with our politics.
EX!-1CI_I'l‘lVE PATRONAGE.-—Tlle most momen-
tous action of Congress at any period since its
organization, is marked by the “Report upon
Executive Patronage,” an abstract of which we
republish from the N atioijpl Intelligencer. "To
our subscribers we say, re_ad--read--read--and
and his government, for the express purpose of
ponder. Too much thouglit—too much sober
and candid consideratioii—cannot be given to
this subject. To what a condition have we al-
ready come! and is there no relief but in an 3
amendment of the constitution by the people?
Must we risk the dangerous experiment to re-
strain the corrupting influence of an American g
chief Magistrate’s power? Fearful alternative! '
Yet. how shall we avoid it? And ifwe make the
trial, who knows what the cupidity _of the lead-
ers, and the abjectsubscrviency ofthe members, :
of the party in power, may effect. How justly \
did Mr. Calhoun remark that the only alterna-
tive now presentcd to the people was reform or
revoliition! And hm
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.ti'-" , 2- '-"v.{'
ctl ? How are these « -« :1... .
with? Ostensibly by t. .--w-:.'?_
ing this country intc .
thereby diverting public attention from tlicm.—-
Yet soniethiiig must be done—and that speedily.
The State is pletlioric with niorbific humors.-—
They have pervaded every ineniber of it, and
its paroxysm is at hand.
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The “Oregon Territories” is a designation giv- in
on to the galleries of the Massachusetts Hall of
Representatives, where about one hundred and
eighty unhappy mortals, members of the most
democratic assembly in the world, suflcr tliem- l
selves to be craiiipr-d -in fr--' "M ~~-~.?"—- . " -
two dollars per da . l’ \,
mg constituentswi ‘ .. ' . _i;: ‘I.’ I. ;
soonerthan pay th»-.i. «v«.' ~. -. v. I
if they could not drt: ~ ' ‘
i"t':1'.‘ ' ' .' '.t
in Greene county, Pa. and occupied by Mr Cle-
ment Masters, an aged citizen, was consumed‘
by fire a few nights since, and melancholy to re.- 7 j
late, Mr. M. perished in the flames. How the 1
fire originated is unknown, as the house and’ its
unfortimate occupant were nearly consumed be-
forethefire was discovered by any ofthe neigh-
bors.
FIRE AND Loss or Ll1'~‘E.—-A house situated j
The hotels are so scarce and witlial so poor in
Mobile, that the planters who come down the I '
river in the steamboats, cat and lodge on board
the boats rather than put up with the accommo-
dations on shore. If some of our enterprising
hotel keepers at the north were to go there and
erect a spacious public house, there would soon
be achange in this state of things.
e
N. Y. Mi'r'ror.—Tlie Liverpool Journal ofthe
20th of December concludes a handsome notic
of the Mirror in the following terms: “'
Morris is the principal editor of the New
Mirror, by far the best conducted periodical
the United States, and his prose and poetry
of a superior quality. English writers had b
ter look to their laurels.”
ANOTHER Z1211.-3 COLBURN !—The profou
and sagacious editor of the Richmond Enquir
after stating that Mr. Leigh was elected to_t
U. S. Senate by a majority of four votes, ma
the discovery that “if two oftliose votes had be
given to his competitor, there would have bee
lie.” \Vonderful Sagacity!
‘
The King 0fB: ' - a
subservient tool 01 - w. ' .- ' 4
bidden to be circul - 3:7: 1- :1: A :1 5 If‘?-
tliat immortal wor. ‘-’~_?1'
moral, so simple and attcctiugin its uaix_at.ve
the Vicar of \Vakt-field! '
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PCS T S C R I P T.
LATE EROM FRANCE.
(E? By last evening’s mail weliave receiv
through New York papers, dates to the 13th
from Havre, which coiiiaiu the important
telligence of tne receipt of the President's M
sage at Paris. Its import is there conside
iusnltiiig to the dignity of the French nati
and its effect will be to create new difficulties
the way of the fulfilment of the treaty, with
proposing any sensible remedy-
\Ve take the following from the New Yo
Mercantile Advertiser of yesterday : '
The packet ship I-Iavre, Capt. Stodlard, 5
rived last evening from Havre, havins left th
port as late as the 13th nlt.
Capt. Stoddard, of the Havre, reports th
the President's message was landed at Hav
‘on the 6th; that it created mtich sensation 4
‘Change, at Havre. It was reported at Hav
that notes had been exchanged between M
Livingston and Admiral De Rigny, the purpo
of which was understood to be that the bill woul
have been brought forward in the Chambers on
the 12th with every prospect of success, but that
in consequence of the excitement occasioned by
the threat in the President’s message, the sub-
ject would be brought forward during the excite-
ment; and further, that if our Congress gav
their sanction to the‘ measures proposed by
President, the French goveminent would co
(let it a declaration of war, and make immedi
reprisals.
Capt. S. states that he thinks the general op
ion was against paying the claim until th
could hear from this country, in order to asc
tain how Congress would treat the subje “
Those who had been in favor of an imme'*
ayment, were now against it, as they wer<
willing to be driven into it.
It was reported at Havre, that Mr. \Vell.—' .
American banker at Paris, had sold out l...'_‘:~
in the French funds, in consequence of the tl ~ :5
ened difiiculties between the two countries.
It was the opinion ofthe prominent Am ~"
merchants at Havre, that the claim would '
been settled but" for the threat in the Pros" ‘-. .-i
message. ‘
\Ve regret to perceive that the French
confirm the statement of Capt. S. .Havrr: ..-‘3.-i:
nal ofFeb. 12, has a long article, of whim '
following is the substance :—“We have ti»
nient received accounts from Paris of tin .~—f_:.
which the President’s message had in th in 1
ital. It produced butlittle sensation. T » ‘-
sons that General Jackson gives for his in st: -
of hostility, appear too weak to excite mun‘ ‘t
iety in France ; and a war with the U.
seemed to come from too great a distance t .- .~.-..-
real alarm to a country so little marat - .-
ours. Gencraliiidiliereiice with which tl ‘
sage has been received by the country,
been participated in by-our Ministry, wht .» ,
pears by the disclosures from \Vashingt ; '
placed in an awkward predicament: . F
have promised payment; and it is asked ‘
er the Chambers will consider the Mes;
an attack on its dignity. or whether t ..
timidity they will pass the indemnity bf‘ .
the latter case, it will be said that our M '
and the cabinet at Washingtoii, will hav 2
ued to destroy the independence of the . =:
bers. \
If, therefore, the majority of the Ch. . ’i~-
submit to the earnest entrcaties of the M: V in-_=
and have the weakness to pass the bill of :i..‘.-..
nity, which it has once rejected, without a ~..- '
it will be the Miiiistry, more than subs:
Chamber, that public opinion will accuse.
public will then be indignant at a Ministry
forgetful of all nationality, have plottedIw..» '. 25:.
American ‘government, to destroy the int’ ':‘=
deuce of the French Chambers,” &c.
The Paris Journal des Debats, ridicules
proceedings in the French Chambers on [lit
when a member depicted the consequence
war with America. _ Z
The Havre has brught dispatches for gc
ment, from our M: ster at Paris, which it
derstand were fon . ed to \Vashington f
press.
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Norwalk Chronicler