explained by the short duration ofthe summers
in the mountains. If, on the ot.lier hand, the
cultivator of a flat country, the climate of which
is mild, and the soil dry and light, continually
made use ofhis own seed. it would head every
year sooner, the stalks would become shorter,
and the heads and grain smaller and smaller,
and in time there would result but poor pro-
duce. In this last case, the cultivator brings
his seed with advantage from a country more
cold, the soil of which is good and substantial.”
The quantity seed per acre, should be from
five peeks to two bushels. It should vary with
the time of sowing, and with the size of grain.
Late requires more than early soiving; and
large and full seed should be in greater quanii-_
ty ihan that which is small, in order to coni-
pensate for the less number contained in a bush-
cl.
To prevent winter It-illing.—-Winter killing is
caused by the heaving ofthe soil by frost, gen-
erally during the severe nights in the latter part
ofwiiiter, after the covering of snow has melted
from the ground. This breaks the roots, and
the plants, as soon as the dry weather of spring
comes on, wither and die from the want of near-
ishment and ‘moisture. The freezing of the
large quantity of water with which the ground is
saturated early in spring, proves particularly
destructive to wheat. Hence the great impor-
tance of thorough draining, both by surface clian-
nels and by covered ditches. Superficial fur-
rows should not only be cut through the field
whenever they may be needed, to carry offivhat
may fall upon it; but also at its upper sides, to
prevent the water from contiguous fields from.
flowing upon it. Covered drains should be from
two to three feet deep, and three or four rods
apart, where the object is to drain off the water
which rests in the soil on low wet land.—'-
\Vhere underground streams are to be cutoff,
the depth, course, and distance asunder, must
be suited to circumstances, which nothing but
an examination on the spot can determine.-
The great profit of draining has been proved by
some farmers in the western part of this state,
who have by a thorough course rendered low,
heavy, and rich land, which formerly was
wholly unfit for wheat, on account of its wet-
ness, now capable of yielding from thirty to for-
ty bushels to the acre; and in some cases al-
most repaying, in a single year, the whole ex-
pense of the work.
. Manuring often on certain soils prevents
wheat being winter killed. Thus poor and hea-
vy land, where crops are liable to this injury,
may be greatly improved in the respect by ma-
nure; as is proved by the fact, often witnessed,
that such parts of fields as have been well ma-
nured produce abundantly, while other parts
unmanured are left bare by the action of the
winter frosts.
Another mode of preventing winter killing is
to cover the surface of the ground with a coating
of straw. When this is employed, it should be
spread upon the surface after sowing, and just
before the wheat comes up ; or else in the win-
ter. (or when the danger is to be appreheiided,)
and removed again with a horse rake as ear-
ly in the spring as the weather will admit.
Sowing early in autumn has also atendeucy
to prevent winter killing, by affording the roots
time to attain strength sufficient to resist the ac-
tion of the frost. But as wheat sown early is
more liable to attacks of the Hessian fly, farm-
ers must exercise their discretion as to the time
of sowing. As a general rule, where the princi-
pal loss is to be apprehended from winter kill-
ing, wheat should be sown early; but when the
Hessian fly is considered the most formidable
evil, sowing a few weeks later is recommended
as best.
Importance of further‘ e.i:pcrimcnts.—-Notwith-
standing the great improvements in agriculture,
the art of cultivating this important crop may
yet be considered in its infancy. The average
product of wheat throughout all parts of the
world, has been estimated not to exceed six bush-
sls reaped for one sown. But that this amount
might be greatly increased none can doubt.-—
The enormous crops which are sometimes rais-
ed in this country teach us what may be done
under favorable circumstances. Take, for in-
stance, the account ofthe crop raised in 1816 in
Springfield, Mass., on four acres of land, the
product of which was two hundred bushels, or
fifty bushels to the acre; also that raised in 18-
33 by Jirah Blackiner, of \Vheatland, Monroe
county, who obtained the premium ofthe Agri-
cultural Society. for a crop of si:t'ty-eight bush-
el: and forty-three pounds on a single acre.-
Now the great point to be determined is to know
what are the essential requisites of a good crop;
anti to be able to distinguish these from acciden-
tal circustaiices not connected with success. It
is therefore important that numerous experi-
ments should be above all, that every one who
is successful in raising great crops of this grain,
should publish a particular account of his meth-
od, describing as accurately as possible the na-
ture ofthe soil, the quantity and kind ofseed, the
condition and preparation of the land, the mode
and kind of manuring, and, in short, a minute
description ofthe whole course of culture. Ev-
en a slight improvement. if generally adopted in
the Genesee country alone, would be of the
value of many thousand dollars anntially ; eve-
ry new fact or saggestion should therefore receive
all the attention which itsimportance demantls.
-—Genesee Farmer.
From the Connecticut Cowrant.
The Superior Court, Judge Bissell presiding,
has been in session in this city, during the past
fortnight. One of the most important cases
which have been tried, was that ofthe Thomp-
sonville Manufacturing Company, vs. William
Taylor and others—-for the following briefsketcli
of which, we are indebted to a friend.
T/tompsonvillc Zlfan ufacturing Com.prm_i/, ‘vs.
lVilliam Taylor and others.
This was an action on the case in the nature
of a conspiracy, charging the defendants and
sixty other carpet weavers, who were the work-
men of the plaintiffs, with having conibiucd and
conspired on the 214}; of July, 1833, to abandon
the plaintiffs’ employment and refusing to work,
except at certain stipulated prices; and also as
having combined to prevent any person from
entering into the plaintiffs’ service, until the
company would raise the wages of the work-
men. That in pursuance of this agreement,
they did simultaneously -leave the plaintiffs’ em-
ployment, and binder and prevent others from
entering into their service, and did interrupt stop
"the plaintiffs’ business for a period of thirty
days. _
The principal question raised by the counsel,
and for a decision of which the plaintiffs pro-
fessed to have instituted the suit, was, whether
these workmen had a right thus to agree togeth-
er to abandon their euiployirieiit, unless paid
the prices demanded.
It was claimed by the defendants that the
prices by them demanded, were only reasona-
ble prices, and not such as could be said to be
cxtorliouate of unjust. And in this view of the
case, the Court charged the Jury, that it was
not the policy of our government to regulate the
prices of labor by law; that if left to itself, it
would find its true level; that ifthe workmen,
lzsai-.2-2; °.‘_~oir employment, had broken any
i «—‘..-T-' cznployers, they were liable
1: ,i.'il{It‘l "Elk
* ‘ ' ;.-»: n pr--5.4: rt ':~..r.- : but that their leaving the
if.‘ “,-.lftll;‘lll.-;‘ M; 41.» .-.4, I.-:'-"ornliiniiig together to work
vi ~.rv,w-r - r-,-if on ‘ Artain terms, was not in
itself sdcli a conspiracy as laid a foundation for
this action. \Vhctlier the defendants had or
had not improperly interfered to prevent other
workmen from entering into the plaintiffs’ scr-
vicc, was submitted. as a question of‘fact, to the
jury, who not being able to agree, the papers
were taken back, and the cause continued.
/lllfur Lot-c.—-A soldier nauicd Miller coin-
mitted suicide a few days since at l’ittsbnrg|i, in
consequence of being ordered to a distant part
ofthe country previoiis to his marriage with a
young lady of l’iitsbiirgli, to whom he had been
j NORWALK GAZETTE.
TUESDAY, OCTOBER l3. 1835.
(if The appetite for money is never satisfied
in those who have been successful in business;
and nothing can cure them of a desire to accu-
mulate, but some great reverse of fortune.-
Then, they are only sensible of the dangerous
eminence upon which they stood, when they
have fallen _from it. They despised security and
competence when they were within their reach,
the more keenly to regret their loss, when they
are most sensible of their value. The pursuit of
wealth is very much like the pursuit of fame ;
Both are sought with equal ardor, and both fail
to satisfy the wants of the aspiring mind. Both
are liable to be affected by those fluctuations in
opinions and fashions, which rule the world and
give laws to nations; and both, though capable
of bestowing a degree of happiness, often render
their possessors miserable. It is the slave who
digs up the diamond, but the voluptuary shines
in its reflected splendor. Men who make money
have no time to enjoy it; they leave that plea-
sure to their spendthrift heirs; unless, indeed,
they have tlie—what shall we call it ?—the hap-
piness to lose it before they die, and so save their
children from dissipation and an early grave.
\Vhat a moral we have in the fortunes ofSte-
phen Holt. of New York, whose great eating
palace at the corner of Pearl and Fulton streets,
has been knocked down by the auctioneer for
one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars,
a little over one half of its first cost. Stephen
Holt began his career as a humble victuallcr in
Fulton slip, in a cellar. By economy, frugality,
and industry, he rapidly acquired a fortune. A
few years since he lived in a large four story
house on the corner of Fulton and \Vater-streets,
and was considered a rich man. He must then
have been worth one hundred thousand dollars.
He was still making money. in a sure, safe and
easy way. But Stephen Holt’s mind expand-
ed with the increase of his fortune and the growth
of his person. Stephen was now fat and past
forty. Standing on his stoop one day, and cast-
ing his eye upon the block fronting on Pearl,
Fulton and Water streets, which was then for
sale ; what a noble structure, thought he, might
be reared upon such a spot-—wliat a Babel of
bed rooms, halls, parlors, larders, bars, shops
and kitchens, with a white flag flying from the
cupola displayinga huge green turtle. Stephen,
thou art a made man—-and a great one. The
fame of thee and thy white palace—thy stews,
roasts, boils and frys—shall live in the memory
of all good eaters, henceforth and for ever. It
shall.__be done! Stephen sold all he was worth
to purchase the lot; then mortgaged the lot to
build the house. The ambition of Stephen was
gratified, and Holt’s Hotel was, and is, the won-
der ofthe city. But, the eating of his guests did
not equal the eating of the interest of his borrow-
ed capital. And, although Stephen had become
a great man and a large man, and a ready ca-
terer to the appetites of his customers, his skill
did not avail him when he was called upon to
minister to the capacious maw of the law.—
Neither green turtle nor chowder satisfied that
appetite; and so the palace was dished up one
day on a piece of parchment, and Stephen was
doomed to dine out. Alas, forhuman ambition !
this last infirmity of noble minds F Stephen
thought he had calculated securely, for his basis
was the human stomach and his superstructure
man’s insatiate and ever returning, perennial
appetite. Appetite,quoth Steplien—for Stephen
was a good liver liimself—seldom fails; and, as
he who eats, pays, ergo I pay. ' Go to—thinkest
thou, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no
more cakes and ale ?
Were not Steplien’s heart too well defended
by fat, we would think this should break it. .In
so greasy a profession, the asperities of fortune
must have been greatly blunted and dissolved,
and “our fat friend,” as Brumell said of George
IV., will soon have his pan over the coals with
other fish to fry. Good luck to him, we say,
who should not say it, since we never liked his
cookery. But every man to his taste.
fl§=’The Stamford Sentinel, after a furlough
ofa few weeks, again rriounts guard; and re-
invigorated, refreshed and cheerful, with a dou-
ble supply of ammunition and rations, takes a
draught from his canteen and puts the chal-
lengc, “\Vho goes there '1” Van Buren and De-
mocracy. “Pass on.” He has rubbed the rust
from his firelock, and looks "as good as new.”
But, to drop the metaphor, Mr. Holly says, in
his sheet of Monday the 5th inst.—-
“Aftcr an absence of five or six weeks from
the editorial chair, it is with pleasure we again
resume our labors, and make a bow to, not only
our old patrons and friends, but also to a goodly
number of new ones, through the medium ofthe
press. Grateful for past favors, and flattered
with the kind assurances held otit to us by our
friends, of a‘ continuance, we shall study to ren-
der our humble sheet more wort.liy their liberal
encouragement than it has heretofore been ; and
we can assure them, that the Sentinel will in fu-
ture make its regular appearance on every Mon-
day morning.”
Vcry wcll—very well—-friend Holly. But,
rcmctnber the homely old adage—-“Fine promi-
ses butter no parsnips.” We wish you good
luck. with all our heart; for it would be a bad
heart, indeed, which could wish you otherwise
in so ungrateful a business. We did indeed,in-
dulge the hope that, during the interim, the par-
ty liad made some provision for you. Not that
we expected to profit from your absence. Oh
no---it would not have been sixpence in our
pocket. But, we thought soiricthing was due to
our zeal. We are lad, nevertheless, to liear
5’
that you have extended yourbusincss; and that
you intend to “pettifog.” Nothing like being a
man ofthe world, as corporal Bunting says.---
The stud of the law shar cn’sa man's intellect
Y P
surprisingly. The sopliists of antiquity and the
logicians ofour own times, can be reckoned no
match fiir a keen, livcly, country pctti:/iigger.
The tortuous and ingenious cunning, the or-
atorical bathos and special pleading, of such a
functiouary, when managing a cause, whether
for some time engaged.
ofcriniiual or civil issue, present an interesting
study for the rnoralist and metaphysieian.---
What was Martin Van Buren but a petlifogger?
To be sure he has been admitted to practice in
the Supreme Court; but he is, nevertheless,
in every essential a pettifogger. Look at his
plcadings—-are they not some of the finest exam-
ples of liair-splittiiig and equivoque on record T
Courage, friend Holly.
VVe see, also, that you have foresworn “good
sherris sack,” and entered a practitioner in the
Inns of Temperance. Willi such legal acu-
men, what a verdict may we not expect you to
obtain for your client! VVhat tomes and bro-
chures may we not look for from your fertile
pen! Holly on hock, and hock on politics!
\Vhatasignificanttitle! Perhaps you will agree
with us in saying that, although we wage eter-
nal and exterminating war against every fer-
mented and distilled liquid, we do not object to
them, being mixed. We know very well that,
in chemistry, combinations of things of opposite
qualities sometimes neutralize each other, or
produce results varying from their separate ori-
ginal properties:—thus usquebaugh is a califac-
tory,'-ind citric acid, or lemonjuice, a refrigerant ;
but when united, with the assistance of sugar
and water, they protlticc that excellent, comfort-
able and cheering elixir called whiskey punch.
\Ve take it, therefore, that you have not entered
your caveat against mixed liquors; which, to a
course of pcttifog, are so essentially a«nt2'-fog.-
Your experience must have taught you‘that the
brain, when engaged in the best ofcauses, can-
not always derive warmth from the resources of
the art rhetorical; and that, depending, as it of-
ten must, for its success, upon an identity ofiu-
terest, in feeling, with your client, there is no
other way to beget and propogate a suitable en-
thusiasm, than by appealing to the sympathies
of the stomach, which, receiving a cordial stim-
ulus from the decanter, communicates it, through
the agency of the nerves, with the rapidity ofan
express rider to the head, and awakens there the
intellectual organs into preternatural activity.—
And, as a consequeuce—tlie justice being drunk
——you gain your cause and get your fees. Hence,
we infer that, against mixed liquors, you take no
stand. . .
As a politician, we must confess, that you
have much of the Cobbett vein in your writings;
much of the ready, rough, colloquial style, for
which that arch demagogue was noted ; and al-
so that you have not been parsimonious in your
“billy-gridiron” epithets in regard to oursclf.—
VVe, nevertheless. can enjoy ajoke; and have
no objections to being pelted by a figure so gro-
tesque as to force us into a hearty laugh at its
contortions. The ban-hommie of your sarcasms,
and the softness of your criticisms, must make
these assaults exceedingly popular. For we can
assure you, they please both your friends and
enemies. And ifthis effect cannot be imputed
to your skill, and we cannot say of you as the
author of the Almanac des Gourmands says ofa
French cook, that he made such excellent sauce
he could eat his father with it; youiat least__de-
serve praise for being the author of such pleas-
ant gaucheries. Besides, who would not forgive
your past enmity for your present friendship?
Or, who so insensible as not to forget your cen-
sures, when you utter such agreeable praise as
zettc, and a nobler wliig there lives not.” Gam-
mon or salmon, this is. pleasant enough. Pray
you, don’t forcswear any more good natured
things. We are very accessible to flattery; par-
ticularly from an opponent in politics.
(l:,FEvery department of science admits of
the division into practical and theoretical. The
ciiltivators of science practically are always
more useful to their species than theorizers, who
are more amusing. The circle of the former is
more confined than that of the latter, of whom
indeed, it may be said, that they not only take
in the whole range ofhuman knowledge, but af-
ter exhausting old worlds, imagine new. They
are the poets ofscience---men ofcapacious minds
and fruitful imaginations, whose object is to daz-
zle and proselyte, not to inform. Such men are
frequently profound scholars; and always men of
genius. Brown and Broussais, in medicine, were
of this class, particularly the latter, who is only
more rational than the former because he is more
ingenious. The late Dr. John Mason Good, was
a profound scholar, antl sacrificed nature to meth-
od, in an endeavor to give the world a new sys-
tem ofinedicine, which has recently gone through
several editions in this country. Just at this
time, the newspapers are abounding with enco-
iniastie remarks upon this work. It is a work
well calculated to please, and also to make the
student who reads it, well satisfied with him-
self. It is filled with ingenious speculations?
the most striking cases; great pliilological acute-
ncss; an imposing collocation of symptoms,
treatment, and the progress of the disease.-—-
Beautiful and abstruse theories on neurotica, and
the subtler essences of vitality; learned disqui-
sitions on atmospheric phenomena and miasina.
Faith, we passed a very pleasant winter poring
over Dr. Good’s five volumes octavo. But how
is it that practical physicians reject him, as not
merely useless, but as calculated to mislead?
Yet such is the fact. We see, to besure, that he
now comes to us, enlightened and illuminated
with notes and commentaries from wise pens.---
But we doubt his value, beyond the precincts of
the closet. The fact is, when physicians begin
to write, they soon leave the common every day
track of experience, and become rapt in the se-
ductive drcanis of abstruse speculation. In a
study possessing, to the mind of the sanguine
and imaginative, all the charms of the exploded
visions of alchemy. lead on step‘ by step in the
pursuit of some darling theory, it is not to be
wondered at that the science of medicine should
at some hands, become a romance. \Vould
some old practical man sit down and re-write Dr.
Good, he would confer a far greater benefitupon
this age and country than medicine has yet re-
ceived from the pen of any writer, since the
days of Hippocrates. Dr. Good's study, as a
system, is well and explicitly arrayed; and al-
though in some measure, stiperecded by that of
Gregory or Bost.ock, is still excellent for all prac-
tical purposes. He would form the basis of an
excellent superstructure; or rather we should
say. that he offers the materials, like the Colise-
um of Rome, for the erection of a very useful
and convenient niodcru st.ructure.
{l:,==’Tliere isa call in our paper to day, for
ilie Annual meeting of the stockholders of the
Norwalk Academy. '
this :—“Onr erudite neighbor of the N9_i;walk- la-_
{EPOLU correspondent, “Scurlator," should
read the papers. No man can be qualified to
vote understandingly, who tloes not make liiin—
self habitually acquainted with the occurrences
ofthe day; anti when knowledge can be so ea-
sily obtained as it is in this country, such neg-
lect is at least criminal; and evinces an indiffer-
ence to the welfare of the country and an igno-
rance ofthe value of our truly estimable privil-
eges as freemen, that one under less favored cir-
cumstances would wonder at. Scrutator wishes
to be informed whether it be a fact “that Mar-
tin Van Buren had corresponded with the Pope
of Rome 1'” It is a fact of some five years notori-
ety; but what to make of it, politicians have been
greatly at a loss to determine tip to this mo-
ment. Some affect to see in it a dark conspira-
cy; and others look upon it as ajoke.
part, we are inclined to regard it as of no matter
ofimportance whatever. It is railicr favorable
to the little Magician’s liberality than otherwise;
for, they are always more liberal toward the re-
ligious creeds of others, who have none them-
selves. Yet, we are not aware that Mr. "Van
Buren is not a member ofa church ; or that he
is. The tendency of that correspondence doubt-
less is, to encourage the propagation of the R0-
man Catliolie religion in this country, by point-
For our
ing out to its professors in Europe the privileges
and immunities which they would enjoy under
the mild and generous spirit of our laws and in-
stitutions. As a politician, we have no right to
impugn the motives of Mr. Van Btircn in this
instance, and we would be unwilling to do so.
The feeling of toleraiion in the bosoms of states-
men should always be as expansive and impar-
tial as the spirit of the Constitution itself.
{GB The senseless clamor of the administra-
tion press about the exertions of the Banks to
counteract the provisions of the one dollar bill
law, can have no foundation in truth ; it is mere-
ly done to prejudice the minds of the people a-
gainst those useful institutions. The suppres-
sion of one and two dollar bills cannot affect the
business of the banks to any sensible extent; and
ifit could, no bank would be so rash and foolish
as to jeopard its charter by violating the law.——
Tlie disorganizers know this; but they flatter
themselves that the people do not, and therefore
they wish to take advantage of this supposed ig-
norance to bolster up their party. They like-
wise know that could they, immediately or re-
motely effect what they pretcnd to desire, the
destruction of every banking institution in the
State, no greater calamity could befall this com-
muiiity than such an event; for they know that
it would be withdrawing from circulation nine
tenths of the available means of business, or tie-
luging the community with bills from other
States. . But they think the doctrine suits the
people, and they wish to make such use ofit as
shall secure a Van Buren majority against the
next presidential election; after which, feeling
secure in their strength, they will abandon it.——
Uuless, indeed, they can get a sufficient number
of branches from a national bank, under the con-
trol oftlie general government, to supply the pla-
ces ofour local banks, to aid the party in the elec-
trons.
@=’\Vhat we \Vhigs particularly want at
.this time is, a succinct, well digested and popu-
lar life of Daniel VVebster. Such a work has
become necessary from the frequent perversions'
of facts which daily appear inthe administration
journals, and which even the friends and admir-
ers of that great man, cannot authoratatively de-
ny, for the wantof well attested data. We hope
our friends in Boston will take this suggestion
into consideration; for we feel persuaded, that
there is no one act in the past life of that emi-
nent statesman which, if impartially stated,
would not redound to his honor. He is not
merely the greatest man, as a statesman and an
orator, in the country, but he is one of the best
men, as it respects his moral worth and stern
unbending integrity. It is only necessary for
the people to know this, to secure his election.
_____________,__.
(E? The fanatics who execrate the fanaticism
of the Abolitionists, are abusing the Rev. Dr. Be-
men, of Troy, because he once owned slaves,
and has recently become an anti-slavery advo-
catc. We would regard these facts as being
greatly in favor of Dr. Bemeu, inasmuch as he
has some practical knowledge of slavery, and is
therefore the better qualified to judge ofits moral
turpitude. For the same reason, we should a-
buse a reformed drunkard for joining a tempe-
rance association ; or a rake who should forsake
his evilways and become an ornament to society.
{):,?*"Tlie Honorable Dutee J. Pearce, Van
Buren member elect to Congress from Rhode
Island, and the Hon. Tristam Barges, Whig
ex-member, non-elect from ditto, are enjoying
the fruits of their contest in a little sociabile ani-
mosity and friendly hostility through the public
press; by which we arrive at the important in-
formation, that the Hon. Tristam Burges drinks
his brandy mixed with laudanum, while the
Hon. Diitee J. Pearce, like a true scion of hick-
ory, drinks his clear. A capital joke this, and
worthyof record.
_ (]f,P'\Ve shall be proud to deserve the good
opinion of the Hartford Times; or of any other
independent press. It certainly is our desire,
as it is our intention, to utter nothing in support
of party derogatory to truth and fairness. In the’
matter of Mr Bentoii’s speech, we think we can
satisfy the Times, by the republication ofan ex-
tract from that article next week. -
That Mr. Van Buren acted with the party op-
posed to the late war while in the New York
Senate, in I811-I2, there can be no doubt. His
reply to the Governor’s message---the part he
took in caucus for the nomination of electors of
president---and his vote for those electors, cs-
tablisli this fact. He was then in the party
which supported Dc \Vitt Clinton ; and Clinton
was the opposing candidate to Madison. Of
Clinton's democracy, we have nothing to say.
That Mr. Van Buren was honest in his motives,
we do not pretend to deny. We do not arraign
him at the bar of public opinion for these acts ;.
we merely refer to them to neutralize charges of
the same character brought~against Mr. \Veb-
ster, by Mr. Van Burcn’s friends. “To think it
unwise and uncandid to make such acts the tests
of present qualification in either gentlemen; for
we all know very well that they cannot affect
their present cliaractcr. Mr. Van Btircn was
then, arid is now, as much :1 fetlcmlist as Daniel
\Vcbstcr.
{E**’ \Ve publish the following letter certainly
with some reluctance. Mr. Adams made a good
president; upright, honest, independent; free
from party bias, a statesman and not a politician.
Hence his failure to succeed a second time; for
he had not fulfilled the expectations of party---
he did not rewarrcl his friends. J ackson’s saga-
city was too keen for him. IIe promised his
friends the spoils; and the public a single term,
to secure his administration from the corruptions
and extravagance ofthe then present incumbent.
In his success was seen the secret of Mr. Ad-
ams’s defeat. \Ve never thought less of Mr.
Adams upon that account. Better fail so, than
succeed as his opponent did. But to the world,
success is the sign of merit. Sonic politicians
will never forgive him for having wrote this let-
ter. — We confess,we think it should disfranchise
him; for though we loved him ever so well, it
would be imprudent to trust him.
His first indiscretion was his liaison. with the
Anti-Masons.
been found ; but for this second fuurr pas, what
shall we say? ‘Was it dictated by asensc of
wrong? \Vill Mr. Adams never forgive his
friends for not having re-elected him to the Presi-
sidcucy? Or, like Coriolantis, is lie about to
throw himself upon the hospitality of the Volci,
and raise the brand ofwarfare against hisformer
VVhence this bitterness,
For this some excuse might have
friends and associates?
gratuitous slander ?---this gratuitous mati-
ness and folly?
But, we forget that Mr. Atlanis is a literary
9
this
man, and is “damned to everlasting fame,’ in
Dermot Mac Murrougli. The genus irrltubilc
of the author was sadly awakened by the criti-
cisms ofthe press---aye, ofthe IV/tig press too!
He will never forgive this, surely. The critics
would be sorry if he did.
We can hardly think Mr. Adams is courting
the Van Buren party. Yet men change; and
he is aware of his Anti-inasoiiic influcnce.---
Astrong temptation to both. VVe hope they.
may receive him. \Ve dislike his present po-
sition, excessively. \Ve think we can part with
him now.
QUINCY, Sept. 7, 183.5.
Dulce J. Pearce, Esq. Newport, R. I.
Dear sir,
I heartily congratulate you upon your re—elcc-
tion to Congress—although upon many impor-
tant public measures I differed widely in opin-
ioii from you in the last Congress, and although
I do not flatter myself that we shall agree much
better in the next, I am yet convinced that the
party which has been these 2 years struggling
to break you down, the base coiiipouiitl of ll urt-
ford Convention Federalism and Royal Arch
Masonry, is so rotten with the corruption ofbotli
its elements that I hail with joy the victory you
have achieved over it—l rejoice also that the
people have repaired the injustice done by the
same party to Mr. Spraguc. and have returned
him to Congress as your colleague. Of that par-
ty treachery is so favorite an instrument, that; I
have heard Mr. Barges complain that. they liavc
used it even with him—-it is their nature and
their vocation--—I welcome the result of your
election as a pledge that their chalice is return-
ing to their own lips.- They betrayed Ur. Bur-
ges by not electing him to the Senate of the U.
States. Their own organ in Providence cliargcs
the loss of his election to the Iloiise upon their
treachery. So will it, and so iiiotc it_alwa_\fs
be. They have no honest principle to keep
them together. Tlieironly cciiicnt is a sympa-
thy ofhatred to every man of purer principles
than themselves.
Towards Mr. Borges himself, I cherish a
friendly feeling---for, governed as he is by im-
pulses, and bitter as bcis in the indulgence of his
carcastic humor, he has brilliant parts, a classi-
cal taste, occasional flights of eloquence, and
too much honesty for his party‘. I deeply re-
gretted the division between him and you, and
lamented still more his opcn clcctioneering
speeches against you. In my humble opinion,
public men debase themselves by personal elec-
tioneering against each other. The depositorics
of public trusts should be ashamed to make
themselves the scavengers ofa party. Mr. Bur-
ges suffered himself to be used by the party to
which he belonged. Verily---he has his reward
---they have paid him in kind.
I have taken as much interest in the Rhoda
Island elections, as in those of my own State,
since the excitementontlie Masonic controversy
has had so much influence upon them. \Vhat
the politics of the State may be hereafter, or
what yours in Congress will be, I do not conjec-
tbre, but I hope they may be such as to promote
the cause of sound principles, good morals, and
the Union. I am with great regard, your friend
and servant. - J. Q. ADAMS.
From the Boston Atlas.
DANIEL VVEBSTER AND THE ALBA-
. NY ARGUS.
(1.) Q. Who in this speeches at Faneuil
Hall, Boston, during the late war, discouraged
cnlistmeuts into the American‘ army, and ad-
vised the Boston capitalists not to lentl their
money to defend their country ?
A. Daniel VVebstcr.
Q. Who counselled the Boston iner-
chants, at the time. to carry on a neutral trade
with the British at Eastport?
A. Daniel I/Vcbster.
(3.) Q. Who advocated the passage ofthe re-
solution in the Massachusetts Senate. “that it
was unbecoming a moral and religious people
to rejoice at the victories over the British arms ?”
A. Daniel I/Vcbstcr. V
(4.) Q. Who advocated the Hartford Con-
vention ?
A. Daniel H/'cbstcr.
(5.) Q. What does Daniel Webster call him-
self?
A. A \Vhig. [Albany Argus.
The above is a short catalogue of falsehoods,
published about a year ago in the Album; Ar-
gus; the organ of the gentleman to whom, ac-
cording Io the lettcrsfi-om some of our Berkshire
friends to our fiicncls and enemies at Allium/,
Mr. \Vebster will transfer his influence in the
event of his withdrawing from the Presidential
contest-—Mr \Vebster willingly putting his own
neck under the foot bf Martin Van Buren!
These Questions and Answers were publish-
ed in all the leading Van Buren papers. They
were copied into the New York Post. and the
\Vashington Globe; and thence into all the
Tory journals. \Ve denied them in toto at the
time; demonstrated their falsehood: and called
upon the Argus and the Globe and the N. Y.
Post to correct their errors, or by silence ac-
knowledge their voluntary falseliood. Not one
of these journals consented to retract or explain.
Of the Globe we did not expect any explana-
tion; nor of the Argus; but ofthe New York
Post, whose editor makes such swaggering pre-
tensions of truth and indepcndcucc——wlio pro-
tests that his only desire is to know the ABS'1‘RAC'l‘
TRUTH, and that he will then publish anti ur-
hold it, without reference to any considerations
of polfcy or expedieucy—-we might have claim-
ed some more honest and libcraljtreatment. The
Boston Post did not copy the, article, but when
we called upon it to undcceive the Argus, it
maintained a guarded silence.
\Ve will now again repeat otir denial. and af-
tor the lapse ofa year and a month, again call
upon the Argus, the Globe, and the pair ofPosts,
to publish the denial and the proofs of their
falsity.
dent of New Hampshire ; he did not remove to
Boston till after the declaration of peace, and
never spoke in Faneiiil Hall at any time previ-
ous to that event; and never, at any time or
any place, give the advice intimated in this
question antl answer. ‘
3.) Utterly and tinqualifiedly false---with
iiotliing to give it even the semblance of truth;
wilful and malicious untruth. .
Ditto. Mr VVebster was never a member‘ ,
ofthe Massachusetts Senate, and not a resident
ofthe state at the period in question.
(-L) Mr \Vcbster discouraged and discounte-
nanced the_ I~Iartf'ord Convention; was not a.
member of it, and had not the slightest agency
lll getting ll lip.
(5.) \Vho better entitled to the name? The
advocate ‘of universal education---the friend of‘
domestic industry---Ilie ‘champion ofthe Consti--
tution---tlie tlefcnder of popular sovereignty
agaiiist Prerogative and Usurpation---if Daniel
\Vebstcr does not honor the name of wliig,.
where is a whig to be found?
From the Boston Atlas.
MR VAN BUREN AND DEMOCRACY.
Mr Van Buren is held up to the people as the»
Dcniocralic candidate l
In the name of all that is true, what claim-
has Martin Van Buren to the name ofa Demo-
crat?
All Mr Van Buren’s manners and preposses-
sinus are not only not Democratic, but they are
eminently the reverse. In his dress he‘ is a .
dandy; in his tastes, an exquisite; in manners.
a coxcomb; an insincere, heartless foppery i’.
tinguishes every thing he says and does. Ts»
Post now and then comes out with a violent t -
rade against the men who carry canes and quiz
zing glasses; and one would think that the es--
sence ofall true Democracy consisted in reso_--
lutely eschewing all such aristocratical abomin-
atioiis. And as for white gloves----the man.
wearing them is stigiiiatisetl as an absolute trai-
tor to the country! I The Reformcrjoins in the»
deniinciatioiis of all such crimes---and abuses.
Governor Armstrong, because he has so far pro-
littcd by his economy, integrity. industry and
eiitcrprisr>. as to be able to indulge himsclfin his
advanced years with an occasional drive in his
carriage.
All this is very bcautiful——but. mark the mis-
erable iiicoii.-i::tcnc_V of the men who hold this.
ltlliglingc. I\‘l:irtin Van Buren drives the most
splt-nrlid cstalilisliiiiciit in the coimtry. All the
United States could not ttirn out an equipage
sufficiently inagnifit-ent; and his carriage and"
equipments were imported from England. ex-
pressly for the use ofthe Heir Apparent and the "
Democratic Candidate. To see that beaiitifu . ‘
carria_«_zc of his---with its noble bays---rollin
Van Buren along the Pcnnsvlvanii Avenue--C-I
with his outridcrs and scrrazi./s in. li7:cr_1/---and
to think all the time that his hired presses are
cxtolling him to the skies---as the cspecialfa7;or-
ile ofthe Ycomanr_i/ and the par c.rccllcncc Dem-
ocrat of Democrats---tlie plain farmer-bov of‘
l'\'indcrliook I Now we do not blame Martin Van,
Biircu for all this. He is a man tifiiniiionso
\vcaltli——and if he can ride comfortable in his.
own carriage, we think he would be a fool to
take tip with .'i strziv liackncy coach. But we
do think that ll(;‘ iiiiglit have fed American, and
not European luxury, when he bought his estab-
lishment; and we think that it would be rather
more bet-oniiug the oflicer of a republican gov-
crunicnt to avoid such liveries as rcscmhlo‘tlie-
ostentatious trappings of forcign monarcliies.
Again, we think that it is very Qxrziiszilile in-.
a youn_:: m:iii—\vho does not know any better—.
and who niakcs no very loud pretcnsio ‘‘
niortravwy-—to iltitlrlsll the “little stir.-le“
such an ahoiiiiiirition in the eyes of :~.-.
and as to the qui'/.:/.ing glass and \vhit~ r_«
zrc (lo l:’zin7.' the crime ‘iif sporting tlu 21'. 1 '
not he pronoiiiiccd “felony witlitiiit benefit ff
t-lergy,” in any free white man under twent_-
fivc years tifzige. Even after that ace, a niai
should have a littotime allowed forrcflection anl
i‘cpeiitaiicc, before lie should be submitted to ('.q:-
dign puiiisliiiicut. fiir the first ollcncc. But 1%..
a statesman of fifty and iip\v:irds—-tiic lea '. -, '
the Dcniocratic part_v—-slioiiltl play the r: ii
and {hit to every simpering miss is".
“(luivtllc” a rattan and eye glass-—antl trip min-» _
cinaly:ibou_t, breatliing perfiimcs, with his riri». . ‘H
ged finger shaking a scented li:iiidkercliicf “wit
iiiagic in the web ofit”—arid by such a cours
only cnrlcrir himsclfthe more tothc fiercest flm
ocmls-—-l~lcaven save the mark !—is not it a lit
lo /00 ludicrous?
\Vc are an advocate for proper things in propi.
er places. \Vc do not consider this course ab-ii
solute High Treason in Van Buren—butit is an
aiiiiising commentary on the bitter denuncia-
tions wliich tli liopocritcjou_ri‘..1ls are continually
issuing against the aristocrats who indulge in sim-
ilar iniqnitics.
Uartin Van Buren the candidate of the De-.
mocracy! There is not a chord in that selfish-
licart. of his, that thrills in accordance with the
true spirit of repuhlicariism. ‘Io has no sym-
pathy with the People: with the manly, gener-
ous, and vigorous independence of our true De- -,
mocracy. And yet, forsootli. we are told that
il1t'3ARIS'1'0CRACY or OF]-‘XCF. HoLnr:Rs are strong
enough to elect our rulers, and that the Yeoman-
ry of the country must take such a President as
they see fit to select. Put him up then as the
Otlice Holders’ candidate~——and do not insult the
common sense of voters by calling him a candi-
date of the Democracy!
s
‘ ‘a.
\-
Foun Br:o'riii~:P.s Drtoivivian.---Alate Loi~i« -..«
paper mentions the following distressing OC'.f‘..}t~-
rencc, by which four sons of Alexander S:-lc:«
1
bottom, Esq. a barrist*r "mar that "lace rare 5
drowned:---“The fai . iv 2‘ .2 . j
bottom, his lady, six w:--. 52:. 1 sh‘-«-= -ti: - '
The four cltlest sons ‘tvttti. 3
an early hour, for the v "I «
piece of water about a mile from their ia:...-. ~i ~
house. The spot they choose to bathe in, E~
re: _
reservior to the Paddington Canal, whi-r.‘
ceives its water from the river_Brent. ’ ht .:>_r‘=. i’
youngest brothers, youths of 10, 17 and 2(. -'*-.r-:
entered the rcservior, the eldest brother -‘I:-.=-.. ‘.
ing on the bank. The lads had not beam
the water many minutes, before the VVl~i~.‘--
them disappeared. The eldest brother
loudly for assistance, but their situation Si
rathei lonely, none was at hand, and in an -.-s:-‘-
ny of despair he plunged into the water ii: ‘= e. a
purpose of rescuing his three brothers, -'i;.-2 2 _-_
mentable to relate, his noble efforts \V41"t’ not;
successful, and he perished with them "
shocking accident was witnessed by a get 1 . -
name Dutltleii. An instant alarm was .;;=i. .1,‘
and in the course ofa short time, a nut ‘.»r._=“« of‘
the inhabitants were on the spot and_ -L-
young men risked their lives by plung:.x.g v
the water; btit full two hour and three -.
had elapsed before the bodies were r.~-.fii
up, The body of the eldest son, who it 2::
sed, and had jumped into the rescue of » I‘.
younger brothers, was clasped in the en mat.
ihem.” (
Rather mart.-ellous.---A most rcmai‘kr~‘:r-1‘ '2
of death by lightning, is stated to nayf,
ly occurred at the town of Gimbrett
Lower Rhine. ' Four men and fi\‘
took shelter during a thunder storm
Prune tree. All the women were ki
of them while in the arms of one of tht
The men were only stunned. No tra COS
effects of the electric fluid were disco 1
the bodies ofthe deceased, nor on ;t;.; ..~L-.--
grountl I V‘
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L(mic_nt_al)lc Prospects for Z'1'I'C"Ch3 1- -'9‘?-2).: ,
A case miglit occur under the new l;i\\_ I
press by which an editor might be fiI";"1 .‘1';
amount of one million of francs and ii.: ‘iv-‘H
for eighty years.
’1'hcl_.7i.rcc tt'on_dcrs of I'If07lI(37l.--4--I.d{?i.~?.
tccn, they wonder who they sliallytgkti
ly, at twenty-five, they wonder \\)li.. if H
get; and thirdly, at tlnrty five, Iihcg. ~~ »
Mr \Vcbstcr during the war was a resi-
<1.)
who will take them. , .:.§
Norwalk Chronicler