Columbia telescope. (Columbia, S.C.) 1828-1839, March 18, 1837, Image 1
BY A. S. JOHNSTON
NEC DEESSE, NEC SIT^ERESSE REIPUBLICJE.
YOL. S3"N<>. 11
COLUMBIA, S. C.| MARCH -18, 1837.
PUBLISHED WEEKLY.
$SPER AN SUM
THEv f
COLUMBIA. TEL3SCCP3
IS PUBLISHED BY
A. S. JOHNSTON,
Every Saturday Morning,
im> ETSRY WKD.VKSDAY A.*D SATURDAY MOR.NISG
D7RI.VC THE SESSION OF THE LEGISLATURE.
TERMS :
Three dollars per annum, if paid in advance, or i
Pour dollars at the end of the year.
Aj>vm.tisemexts conspicuously inserted at 75
Sents per square for the first insertion, and 37 i cents
for every subsequent insertion. All advertisements
ordered in the inside every publication ? or inserted
trtherwise than regularly, to be charged as new for
fcvery insertion. Advertisements not having the ,
bomber of insertions marked on them will be contin- j
'bed till ordered out, and charged accordingly. All f
Accounts for advertising, above $25 and under $50, :
?5 per cent, deduction ? above $50, 40 per cent, de- !
Auction.
P ota toe Oats*
JUST received a few bushels of this valuable
grain, from Tb orb urn of New York, weighing 50
v lbs per bushel. Also three bushels of the eight that
Mr Pots of Chester raised from one quart of the
Potato Oats, wefghinj* 45 lbs to the bushel.
At the Garden ? Apple Trees, Pear Trees, Green
Gage Plumb Trees, Damson ditto, Peach do. Some
very rare Fig Trees; Ornamental Trees and Shrub
bery i 1000 Giant Asparagus Roots ; Chinese Olian
thus or I>ee of Heaven, wiih leaves 4 feet long;
"V^lllow leaved Catalba, beautiful flowers ; Stercula
Plati nafolia or varnish tree, leaves like a lady's para
sol ; Moss Roses ; Lady Banksea Roses ; Velvet do.
N.B. The subscriber can always be found a: the
Seed Store or at the Garden.
R. E. RUSSELL,
jan 13 3 Seedsman and Florist.
Columbia, February 11, 1S$7.
Saluda Manufacturing Co
Resolved, by the Board of Directors of
Saluda Manufacturing Company, That the
Books shall be opened on the 1st day of March
next, at the counting house of D. & J. Ewart
& Co., for an additional subscription of one
hundred thousand dollars to the capital Stock
of the Company. New subscribers will be
admitted into the Company on the same terms
and on the same conditions of original sub
scribers. Ten dollars a share on each share
of one hundred dollars, will be required at time
of subscribing, and tea dollars a share at the
end of each and every sixty days thereafter,
until the whole will be paid. A failure to com
ply with these terms, will inure in a forfeiture
of the stock for the benefit of the Company.
The Company having one fourth of tb? mill
filled with machinery, and now in operation,
and another fourth in progress of setting up,
are able to calculate to a reasonable degree of
certainty, the value of their undertaking. To
make the establishment available to the full
extent of ipftich it is capable, they have come
? to the <fetertmnation, provided they can sell
tb# gtnHr, to &U the mill from the basement to
the attic story. The citizens of our State, and
particularly the present stockholders, are called
.upon to aid in an undertaking which will be a
credit to our State, and will most unquestion*
ably exceed in profitable or pecuniary results
any joint stock com pan v within the State.
D A VI D E W A RT, President.
Leiin^ton Academy.
THE Trustees of this institution having pro- i
cured the services of Major L.emuel Boozer,
as Principal, it is now open lor the reception of
Stmlents. Those whodesir*- it will be prepared for j
admission into the^ higher classes of the South Caro- j
hna College. Of the healthiness and many other
advantages and conveniences of this institution, it is i
unnecessary to speak for they are already sufficiently
kjK*wnto the community.
^ Students wiU be taught the Classics at from $3 to
"fujfr jjer Quarter. The higher branches of Mathe
ipatifrfl at the same prices, &c., and English Grara
r?tiT aography, Arithmetic, &c. at $4,00 per Quar
? *" '
?i. . Good boarding can be procured at $8 per month,
exclusive of washing &c.
THOS. H. SIMMONS,!
J NO. MEETZE,
EPHRAIM CORLY, v
R. HARM AN. f * Trustees.
SION MILLER,
DAVID HENDRIX. J
March I*, 1337 10 3t_
TITZ J.M.1IES.
Wfi.L ms&e his present x eason at Mr. J. C
StirvrTf*inns plantation, 14' miles below Co
lumbia, and will be ? 1313 res \t $8 each single
leap, $15 the season, wni^h discharged by
the payment of $12, if paid o y t.?e_ first of July,
$25 to insure a raare with foal, ano 25 c^nts to the
groom. The insurance So be paid as soti? as the
mare is ascertained to be with foal or parted iVith.
Every attention will be paid to prevent accidents or
escapes but no responsibility for either if they occur.
Pasta/age furnished gratis, grain fed at $3pCr we^k.
Boys found gratis, for further particulars, see hai?J
V. V. TAJ LOR, Manager.
March 11 10
South Carolina.
RICHLAND DISTRICT.
IN THE COURT OF ORDINARY.
Heirs and Repa
ratives of Ben
Wiiun*. ?
:garet? Applicau.- ,
vs.
!SarideIl Grant and Sally his wn v, .,rimH)i
j trs ui ?>cu
-John Miter anu Mary his wife, ?e.- ,]e
-Jordon Lee and Letty his wife, S jamin r*. ? '
John Sims and Lucy his wife, j ceased.
Dahl. Martin & Rachel his wife,
Reuben Cusad & Anne his wiie, j
"Trinity Martin, Tade Hodge, & J
Nancy Martin, Defendants. J
r!* appearing to my satisfaction that Randel Grant
and Sally his wife, John Miller and Mary his
wife, Jordon Lee and Lettey his wife, and Reuben
Cusad, four of the defendants, reside without this
State ; it is therefore ordered that they do appear and
object to the division or sale of the real estate of
Benjamin Hodge, on or before the first day of May
next, or their consent to the same will be entered on |
JAMES S. GUIGNARD, O. R. D.
March 8, 1837 10 8t
THE BRdersigiied respectfully makes known the
following arrangement for his public DANCING
SCHOOL:
Time of attendance for Misses, 1 oi clock, on Mon
days and Tuesdays, and 3 o'clock on Saturdays.
Ditto for Masters, 7 o'clock, P.M. Mondays, Tues
days and Fridays.
9houkl these hours not suit, alterations can he
made so as to accommodate all persons.
If the grown youner renllemen of the town will
form a Class, they will be attended to with pleasure,
nov 19 3t 47 E. C. BREEDLN.
JLaic *\\>tice.
GREGG & ADDISON.
HAVE renewed theif Partnership, in the prac
tice of Law for Lexington District.
March 11th 10 4t
EXCHA*?E.
CHECKS at Sight on Lexington, Kentucky, by
RICHARD SONDLEY,
Agent Bank of Charleston.
Nov 20 , tf 49
PROSPECTUS.
OF THE
Southern Christian Advo
cate.
AT the late General Conferrcnce of the Metho"
dist Episcopal Church resolutions were passed' 1
authorizing the publication otjweekly relini jus papers, i
on the same footing with the Christian Advocate
and Journal (ot New York,) and the Western Cris
tian Advocate (Cincinnati,) at Richmond, Nashville, t
and Charleston. At Nashville, the paper thus au- I
thorized, has already been issued. The one intended I
for Richmond, will, we doubt not, soon be put forth, i
And the Georgia and South Carolina Annual Confe- ;
rences, for whose districts the paper at Charleston j
is especially intended, have each taken measures ,
for its early publication.
The Act of the General Conference authorizing
these publications, was called fin by the Southern
Delegates, on the ground of its being necessary to j
an equal distribution of the Church's press to all j
perts of ber communion ; and especially, in view of !
the peculiar political aspect of the times. Within j
the rang** contemplated for the pap**1 at Chtrrles- i
tea, terrvingvequal scope for those at Richmond ;
and Nashville, there are about fifty thousand whites ,
in the membership of the Church. Here then are, j
probably, ten thousand Methodist 'families, and a
much greater number attached to the Methodists who i
have no weekly paper published among them. ? I
This, under any circumstances, might be held a
sufficient reason for the publication we propose; i
but considered id connexion with the feeling-which I
is known to pervade all classes of men on the sub- '
ject of our domestic institutions, it not only justifies
onr undertaking as one that is expedient, but strong
ly urges it as necessary to the Chnrch.
We propose, therefore, to publish at the city of
Charleston, as soon as the subscription list shall war
rant it, a weekly religous paper, to be entitled the
Southern Christian Advocate, which shall be zeal
ously devoted to the promotion of good mo rd Is and
religion to give exprsession to the views and feelings
of our people, kindly, but firmly, on all subjects of
bearing on the Church ? and in particular, to set for
ward the cause Christian benevolence, as embodiedin
the Bible, Missionary, Sunday-Scool, Tract and
Temperance Societies.
This paper shall be printed on an imperial sheet
of the same size and quality with that of the Chris
tian Advocate of New York with, new type, long
primer; and the typography in all- respects, shall
closely resemble the New \ork paper.
The price will be three dollars, to be paid in ad-'
vance.
Subscriptions paid within one month after recei
ving the first number, either to the publisher or an
authorized Agent, wEl be considered as in advance.
In any case of discontinuance during the year, the
subscription for the year must be paid, and postage
of the order to discontinue.
All communications, whether of business or matter
for publication, unless remitting money or subscrip
tions; to the amount of ten dollars, must be post
paid.
Communications involving facts, or respecting
persons, as accounts of revivals of religious meetings,
obituary notices, biographies, &c. must be accompa
nied with the writer's name.
Communications may be addresed to the Rev.
Wiliiam Capers,Charleston, or to either of the Pasto
ral Ministers of the Methoidst Episcopal Church in
this city, who are members of the Publishing Com
mittee.
The Itinerant Ministers and Preachers of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, are all authorized
Agents of the SoutKifrn Christian Advocate, to
whom payments may be made.
The proceeds of this paper, as a part of the General
Book Concern, will be equally divided among all
the Annual Conference*, to be applied in spreading
the Gospel, and aiding distressed and superannuated
MinisuTS, the WnJftws and Orphans of those
who have died in the work.
WILLIAM CAPERS. Editor.
Publishing Committee ? Nicholas Talley, George F
Pierce, Bond English, Whiteford Smith jun. James
Sewel, John N. Davis.
Feb 24 8 tf
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Seat this who Can.
E do challenge the world to simplify or im
prove the principle of Cooper's Tumbling
Shaft horse power.
It has only 2 small cast wheels, one with 29 cogs
and the other 9, with which any motion or power
that's required for Cotton Gins, horse Mills, turning
Lay thes, wheat or Rice Machines, can be obtained.
The cost is not half that t>f any of the old plans,
is much easier propelled, and more durable.
The said power is now in operation, in the lot of
William W. Purse, Cabinet Maker, near the Com
mercial Bank, where it can be seen at any time.
Auy person or persons wishing to purchase the right
for Machines or Districts, will apply to Dr. Frede
rick W. Green, our agent, just below the Branch
Bank, who will make conveyances for the same.
ROBERT M. MAUPIN,
JOHN W. LANGHORNE.
E.VTERTAIWIEJYT.
THE Subscriber begs leave to inform his friends
and the public generally, that he has taken the
well known Public House, south of the Court House,
Congress Street, YORKV1LLE, So Ca. (formerly
conducted bv J. McNeel,) a;:d solicits a share of
public patronage.
This Establishment is in every way calculated to
reader comfort both to the traveller and permanent
boarder ; every exertion will be given on the part
of the proprietor to accommodate those who may
fivor him with a call.
A. S. WILLIAMSON.
Yorkville, S.C. Jan. 1st, 1837. 3m 2
2CrThe Charleston Courier will publish the
above, weekly, for th-ee months, and forward the
account to me at Yorkville.
Reward.
R* \ A VP AY, from Thos. Evans, in Augusta
four months ago, a negro girl named
SCIlSo 'PR^C;!.LA. She is aged 21 or 8
years, derk mullatto, a,C?: 5 fe1et,h'?Ji veff rs?Tr
make! SI, e formerly belong t0
Chester district, now of Columbia ? * thought
she may have gone back to that neighboi'.10^. '
^?'livans.
* " r x ? ? ? ? J _
oni
dollars for her apprehension, and a further sura of
twenty five dollars on proef that she has been har
bored by any wnite person.
JOHN J. GRACEY.
Feb. II, 1837 6 tf
Committed.
TO the Jail or* Richland, as a ^urmvay, a nCgro
man who calls his ,?am_e ** i ^ N, and says
he belongs to George Danic.s Chester .district,
So. Ca. Winston is about 37 yea."8 aSe? five
four inches high.has lost all the fingers' from the left
hand and several of his front teeth. The owner is
requested to come forward, prove his property, ^ay
charges and take Ijiin away. I
JESSE DEBRUHL, S. R. D.
February 22d, 1S37 8
Election
RICHLAND DISTRICT.
February 2ith, 1S36.
THE Managers of Elections for Richland District
give notice, that by virtue of a writ from the
Speaker of the House af Representatives, they will,
on Monday the twentieth day of March next, open
the polls for the election of a Member of the House
of Representatives, in the place of D. J. M'Cord.who
lias accepted a disqualifying office.
The po I.h will be kept open one day at all the
country precincts, an I two days in Columbia. On
ihe third day. the managers will meet at Columbia ?
count the votes, and declare the election.
WM B.STANLEY, ) Managers
ROBERT BRYCE, [ at
ROBERT WADDELL, ) Columbia.
Feb. 18 3t 8
LAW NOTICE.
~WMJ"M. E. MARTIN will practise in the Courts
of Law, for Beau:ort, Barnwell and Colleton
Districts. His office is at Coosa whatchie.
Feb. 15. 1?37. 8
From the New York American. *
THE MONSTER.
There is certainly- much inspiration, of various
kinds, about the gentleman familiarly denominated
by the lieges of the "Revered Chief'," as the "moii
sier," or the "Money King."
At one time we see him overthrowing in argument
and then irritating by his calmness, like that "of a
summer morning," committers of infuriated parti
sans, and the 'Reve;ed Chief," himself? at another,
discoursing be ;ore the youths of hi? Ahna Mater;
in thrfe lofty tone, and with the proud disdain of a
scholar and a eentleman, of the mean and creeping j
and vulgar things of which party, in its madness,
sometimes makes its gods, and drawing general pic-;
tares of demagogues, under which the conscience
stricken jacobins of the day insist upon writing their
own name.
And now we luve him before us in the guise of a
poet ? in ladies' bower Nicholns Biddle is the
writer of the following lines, communicated, assu
redly without his knowledge, fbi tliis paper. ry >
reader of taste will appreciate their happy*and>?race
ful aHaskius.
The followiag trifle was wrjtten in ihe year 1S23,
soon after the writer left his residence in the coun
try to take the station he now occupies. }lany
years previous, he had addressed some complimenta
ry lines to a lady distinguished by great personal
and intellectual attraction. The lady no* sent her
album to receive a contribution. TtxJ book wa?
returned with the following apology (or not writing
in it.
Time was, when to see thee, fair lady, alone
Would wake into verse this cold bosom of stone :
But now thy command, all unchanged as thou art,
Cannot kindle the fancy nor soften the heart.
So unequal our fates, since that sythe bearing Time,
Appeased by thy beauty, provoked by my rhyme,
Tho' he folded hrs wings and muffled his tread,
And passed without touehing a hair of thy head,
As he came by my farm, cut me dowi^to a cit,
And dispersed my small stock of merinos and wit.
If you deem this a preteit made up for ray wife,
Pray look at my dwelling and think of my life.
Not a mummy wrapt up in his pyramid hall,
Nor tiie toads that live on for whole years in a wall ;
Nor the famed iron mask, breathe more dulness and
gloom,
That I ? when enclosed in my vast marble tomb,
'Midst vaults of damp stone and huge chests of cold
iron,
That would quell all the fancy of Shakspeare or By
ron.
Alas ! had the ancients, who so much surpass us,
In their pure golden age, fixed a bank on Parnassus ;
What a model of wisdom and pleasure to follow !
Only think- now ? to sign one's bank notes like
Apollo !
But that rake of Olympus ? too happy to rove ?
Would have scorned to take money and ceased to
make love,
And the Muses whose sex condescends to protectors,
Have a true female scorn for all sorts of Directors.
'Tis fiercely avenged though, for banks where they
know it
Have a horror that warns them to shun every poet.
And since the first rhyme, the Muses' fond votary,
If ever he's trusted soon goes to the notary.
Even I, sainted ladies, w no fixed on my farm,
Tho' you never would visit me wi.?.hed you no harm,
Even I would exchange, shall I dare to confess t'ye
all,
For one sheet of bank notes, the whole quire celestial,
I prefer my last schedule of number one debtors,
1o the writings of all the republic of letters;
My "much esteemed favors" from Paris to those
Which brought on poor Helen an Iliad of woes :
Nay, two lines of bad prose with a good name upon
it*
To the tenderest fourteen, ever squeezed in a sonnet. .
Why, f wonhi nut an epfr ? not for Hebe's account, 1
The very best draught from Helicon's fount ;
Nor give ? this it grieves me to say to their faces,
More than three days of grace to all *he three Graces.
Then their music of spheres, can it thrill through
the soul
Like kegs of new 'dollars as inward they roll :
And Cecelia herself? though her lyre was divine,
Never gave to the world notes equal to mine.
But we've parted in peace now, I never shall quar
rel
If my branches like Daphne's wont sprout into
laurel ;
And renouncing illusion find peace and content
In that simplest, sublimest of truth ? six per cent.
While the bank is my goddess, its desks are my
altars ;
And all my fine phrenzy is spent on defaulters:
So useless like the sculptor of old ? in this stone
You cr.n breathe inspiration as pure as your own,
Be it mine while no scribbling ypur tablet defaces
To keep out of your book, but keep in your good
graces.
LOVE SONG.
What mistress half so dear a3 mine,
Half so well dress'd, so pungent, fragrant,
Who can such attributes combine.
To charm the constant, fix the vagrant ?
Who can display such varied arts,
To suit the taste of saint and sinner.
Who go so near to touch their hearts,
As thou my darling dainty dinner ?
Still my breast owns a rival queen,
A bright-eyed nymph of sloping shoulders,
Whose ruddy cheeks and graceful mien,
Entrance the sense of all beholders.
Oh ! When thy lips to mine are press'd,
Wh it transports titillate my throttle ;
My love can find new life and zest.
In thee, and thee, alone, my bottle !
Going io propose. ? 44 I should feel v.-ry much
obliged to you, for any advice, sir," said Mr.
Magnus, taking another look at the clock, the
hand of which was verging to t he fiveminu'es
past. "Well, sir,'' said Mr Pickwick, with
t!io profound solemnity with whicfrthat great
man could, when lie pleased, render his re
marks so deeply impressive. ? 44 i should com
mence, sir, with a tribute to the beauty
and excellent qualities; from them, sir, I
would diverge to my own unvvorjniness.'' ?
44 Very good.'* said M. Magnus. " Unworthi
ngoJ ' 1 . 1 'y ? axxituL-sux." resumed Mr.
PipkwiCN : -or t0 ^ow that I was not whol
ly unworthy, ;.'r. J would revew my past life
and present conditio.?- } should argue, by
analogy, that to any body ei&J J must be a very
desirable object. I should then f^^iate o:i
the warmth of my love, and the depth oi .rn.v
devQtion. Perhaps I might then be tempted
to teize her hand. 44 Yes, I see," said Mag.
nus, 44 that would be a very great point." 44 1
should then, .sir," continued Mr. Pickwick,
growing warmer as the subject presented it
self in i7?ore glowing colors before him ? 44 I
should then, t^r, come to the plain and simple
question., 'Will you have me.' I think I am
justified in assuming t.'.iat, "upon this, she would
turn away her ncad." 44 You think that nny
be taken for granted ?" said Magnus, 'because
if she did not do that at the right place, it would
be embarrassing." 44 1 think she would."
41 Upon this, sir, 1 should squeeze he." hand, and
I think ? I think, Mr. Magnus, that a fit' f 1 had
done that, supposing there was no refusal, I
shou'd gently draw away the handkerehief,
which my slight knowledgd of human naluie
leads me to suppose the lady who have applied
to her eyes at the moment, and steal a res
pectful kiss. I think 1 should kiss her, Mr.
Magnus; and at this particular point. I am
decidedly of opinion, that if the lady were go
ing to take me at all, she would murmur into
a bashful acceptance." Mr. Magnus startid,
crazed on Mr. Pickwick's intelligent face fo: a
& ? i
short time in silence, cfnd then, (the d al point
ing to the ten minutes past,) shook him warm
ly by the hand, and rushed desperately from
i the room.
From the Cincinnati Evening Post.
^ Progress of the Newspaper Press. ? In 1S02,
among a large parcel of old books that we
ipurchased of an English gentleman in Charles- i
Son, were a sequ -nee of five small folio vo- :
funics of the first Gazettes published in i
^England. They were printed at Oxford, bv I
brder of the government, and commenced in i
November 160(j. They were in good preser- j
Nation, each volume containing one year's ?
papers. The first contained an account of I
?the great fire of that year, and a number of j
?;rticies on the-gteat pUgue of the preceding i
year. There was news intRem from all paris i
of ^Europe, from some parts of Asia, and from J
"our Colony of Virginia." One of the ariU.
rcles from the latter place gave an account of
the prospects of the " Tobacc ?? Crop " In the
tthikiug up and arrangement of matter. ibex ?
r,tvere little, if any, inferior to the country
papers of the Uniied States forty years ago,
every article of intelligence beginning with a
a two-line letter, as ours did then. Not dulv
appreciating those volumes, which we bad
bought with others for a mere tr.fle, and find
ing that others put a still less value upon them,
we determined to take them to London,
(which we visited annually,) where their
value would be duly appreciated. We did
so, and left them for sale wilh our agents,
Vernor, Wood and Sharp ; they failed soou
after, and we never heard more of those inter
esting volumes, for what is more interesting
than a volume of old newspapers 1 ? yet how
few are there who take t he trouble to preserve
them.
The material for the best history that could
be written of the last war, is to be found in the
newspapers of that period, which will bo
invaluable to the future historian of our coun
The first newspaper printed in this country,
was the Boston News Letter, in 1704. We
have turned over some of those and other an
tiquated volumes of the periodical press, which
contains numerous interesting facts, in our
revolutionary history, no where else to be
found
The best, and we believe the only collection,
of the newspapers of that period, are to be
found in the valuable Library of the American
Antiquarian Society, at Worcester, Massa
chusetts, founded and munificently endowed,
by the late Isaiah Thomas, L. L. D. The
Library of the Massachusetts Historical So :i
ety, at Bos'on, has some also, and many pam^
phlets of the period of which we speak.
It is a great misfortune that at the period
immediately preceding and during our Revo>
lutionary war, there was bo few newspapers,
the whole number probably not much exceed
ing twenty, (now there are from ten to twelve
hundred.) What there were, furnished in
comparably the best accounts (particularly in
their neighborhood) of those thrilling events,
which were of such frequent occurrence, in
"the days that tried men's souls.''
We cannot say when, where, or by whom
the ftU J"*};/ paper was printed m the United
StateS: but, if our memory serves, the first
one published at Boston, was in 1792, or 93,
edited by Thomas Paine, the poet, who, af er
the death of his elder brother, was called
Robert Treat Paine, after his father, one of
the signers of the Declaration of Indepen
dence. The paper was called the " Orrery ,"
and did not last long, we believe. It was a
number of years after before another daily
was attempted in thr.t town. They had no
d ficiency of papers, however, there were the
"Independent Chronicle," the "Gentinei," the
"Palladium," and the "Gazette" all twice a
i week. Demv was the common size of a news
paper in those days, and when th^y were
enlarged to super royal their size was as
much^a matter of astonishment, as the mam
moth sheets of the present day. Editors
gave themselves little trouble about marine
news, shipping lists and price currents in
those days. The first marine list published
the United States was by Tom Allen, at New
London, Connecticut. We recollect a remark
in it during a bitter cold spell some five and
forty years ago, it was this, that ~*Hcll?ale
had frozen up and no vessels could rass,'' this
place formerly so called, in the East River,
New York, has its proper cognomen "Ilurl
gate."
So late as 1795, tlr* only notice that was
taken of marine affairs m the papers of
Charleston, S. C. was their arrival or depar
ture, with the bare mention of the vessels and
captains names. There were then but three
papers in that state ; two daily in the city,
and one once, or twice a week at Columbia.
The facts in the above article are all from
memorv, and may, in some trifling particular,
be incorrect, but in nothing essential.
SMUGGLING DOGS IN FRANCE.
The Minister of Finance has just resorted
to a measure of which, at first view, wears
the appearance of fiscal vexation, but which
after a moment's examination, every o le will
admit to be highly judicious, simple and easy
of execution, of a nature to give no trouble
tO illiltn cut perlono, anJ oa!eu!ntp<] to |?0 of
benefical influence on the revenue. We re
fer to the duty of five francs a head, on the
exportation of all dogs of hrge breed, on the
Belgian frontier. This frontier affords great
facilities to smuggling, which is carr ed on
Hiere very extensively. Between Belgium and
France", there is no chain of Mountains, river
or other natini ^ne demarcation. The
consequence is, that it .'s a region, over which it
is very difficult to keep up an effectual sur
veillance. There is no decisive remedy for
an unlawful traffic, but a commercial con
ventio i, which should subject the trade between
the two governments to the same custom
house officers.
Under the present system, Franco anp
Belgium, notwithstandingtheir intimate politi
cal alliance, are in a st.tte of open com m r
cial hostility. The smuggling trade is pusfced
to an extreme and i? carried on by the agency
of innumerable packs of do # It is against
this singular kind of contrabandist, who in
troaiice enormous quantities of tobacco, thread,
and son;e woven fabric?, that the new ex
port duty, above alluded to, is aimed.
According to information received by the
Government, the number of dogs employed
in carrying on this trade, amounts to five or
six hundred thousand, and the utmost efforts
of the custom house officers do not enaiile
them to capture more than one out of eighty
or a hundred. Five pr six pounds weight is
the usual load of a dog. Four hundred thou
sand dogs, loaded with tobacco, occasion a
loss to the revenue of about five or six mil
lions of francs annually. Various methods
have been proposed to obiviate the evil. M.
Duchatcl lias rejected all suggestions of an
inquisitorial charoct< r. Every citixen will be
permitted, . as heretofore, to keep hi* own
mastilF, but if lie undertakes to export hirn
to Belgium, he must p:iy a duty. , If the cone '
trabandists are willing i:i this way to d'Vidy
the spoils with the Government, the treasure
will gain from two and a half ro three million
of francs per annum. if ttot, they must con
tnve some other w.iy of driving their bu*it
ness, for it will be next to to ge- '
the dogs in Belgium, without ihe^Mowledge
of the custom house officers. Ifc fact tni^ ?
whole secret of the *rude, as oisv carried .
on, consists in treating thejfttag*'- 'wfcll in
France, and using them !
in- France thev are w.,41 fofegjiQ !
put upon short commons. BliU farther, to |
teach them to evade the custom hotise officers, J
they are regularly beaten in Belgium, fey (
persons wearing the French custom house i
livery. ? '
As soon as the dogs are sufficently liun- i
gry, they are loaded in Bilgum with tobacco,
&c. and Jet loose in the night. They accor- i
dmgly make great haste back to France, ta- i
king care to give the custom house a good |
berth. When it becomes necessary to take I
I hem back to Belgium, they are led by their
masters, in open day, in large packs, and in ;
the face of the officers. The object of the '
duty is to force the smugglers to abandon the ;
business, or share the profits with the treasury, j
Journal des Drbats , 9 ih Dec.
[From the Delaware State Journal, Feb. 24.] :
From Dover. ? The legislature of this Slate |
adjourned on Wednpsnay, after an important i
and interesting session of seven weeks. The
Act to invest the Surplus passed the Legisla.
ture on Tuesday.
Silk. ? An act has been passed by the
Legislature, providing that a bounty of ten
cents shall be paid from the state treasury for
every pound of cocoons which phall be pro
duced in this state for ten years. We hail
the policy manifested in this act and in that
providing for a geological survey of the State,
as evidences of an eulightened spirit growing
up in our councils which will do more to fos*
ter and promote the lasting prosperity of o:ir
state, than the legislation of the last fifty
years. This state with a little perseverance,
i-! destined to become a great sill district? cli.
I mate, soil and population all favor it and with
the fostering aid which the legislature is
ev denly disposed to extend it nothing but c
criminal indifference to our truest interests
can prevent it.
Tiie Paintings for tiie Rotunda.. ? The
joint committee appointed to select artists to
execute the paintings required to fill the four
vacant niches in the Rotunda, have fixed upon
Vanderlyn (whose famous 4Marius amidst the
ruins of Carthage' has placed him in a rank of
art surpassed by none in this coieitry,* Chap
man, I n man and Weir for that ptijpose. It is
understood that two of the paintiri?.were of
fered to Allston, which he declined, "from mo
tives of personal convenience, being ertgaged
in other works, an'd unwilling to be shackled
by any obligation of time in works of great
importance. The pictures are to cost $10,000
each. Eight thousand was the sum paid Col.
Trumbull for each of his four. The price may
be liberal enough, but none would have com*>
p'ained of improper extravagance had it been
higher. Probably, ho.vever, Congress will
present some additional testimonial of their
sense of merit to those whose productions, in '
this noble emulation, shall prove most particu
larly satisfactory to the country. ? Metropoli -
tan.
.
Jacksonville, March 2.
An express leaving Fort Armstromg a
Dade's battle ground, on Thursday last and
arriving at Black Creek on Saturday night last,
brought intelligence ihat 93 Indiaeghad come
in and surrundered to Gen. Jesup. Among
them, were Jumper, Alligater, Abrain and
Little Cloud. Micanopy, the great pond Gov
ernor, had not come in but had sent his 44 talk"
to the General. He says that he js unwilling
to go West ? that lie fiad lone fightingand will
fight more ? that he is si:k ? that although he
cannot consent to go West he supposes the
i whites can send him where they please ? so,
we arc told, ran his "talk." , ,
The exprt-ss also brought i information that
Oseola had been tried by an Indian Court Mar
tial. for cowardice at the Wahoo Swamp ? had
br?cn found, gui'ty and degraded ? deprived of
his rank and had retired from ?he main body
of the Indians with but few follower? ? retir
ed, the Indians themselves knew not where.
Extract of a letter receeivd in Philadelphia
from a friend and intejligent gentleman of
the western border of Arkansas, dated Jan.
17:
44 The apprehension that existed a short time
since of a difficulty arising among the Creeks
j on oceo'jnt of t ho right, of mlership, between
A-poth^le-ho-la and Mcintosh, has subsided,
and 1 hope for ever.
44 Fourteen thousand Creeks have arrived in
this country within this winter, and their con
dition is most horrible. Those who have reach
ed their ntw country are without any kind of
shelter, having not yet had time to build ; and
the condition of several thousand yet on the
road is still svorse. They are almost naked,
and are without shoes, and in this condition
they are driven on by the contractors through
a, 'I kinds of weather, jutit as if they were hogs.
The snow within the last ten days has been
as much as eight inches deep, and they are
hurried on through it; the women and children
frequently making the most heart-rending cries
i with hunger and cold." ? Nat. Gaz.
From the Reformer.
THE DEMONSTRATION.
The bill to produce delusion and discord in
the country ? for Mr. Wright's tariff b;ll d ?.-?
serves no other title ? was a^-nin before the
Senate on yesterday ; and lt?l to a d< bate of
much interest, as it tended to disclose more
fully the plans of the royalist pail v. No one
can now doubt ol the designs which lie at
the bottom of the propos.'tTseduction of duties.
It is well known that the advocates of the bill
do not expect it to pass. They have allowed
it to sleep on the table until the last days of
the session, and call it up now only for the
purpose of making a show ? of producing
false impressions ? aud by opening the dis
turbing question, again to throw the sections
into violent conflict. * Agitation is the engine
with which they work, eftrf the element in
which iii- y live. Peace jindqtu tineas are a
eurse to them. We vppiktt^ptpl a brief
sketch of the points involved in tfce debate, so
as to enable the reader to detect the sligki of
hand tricks of the jfyaksIijL .
The reader \vi;J bear hi mind that the com^
promise bill provides fo f t gradual reduction
?i f the duties oh imports untH the year 1842,
when t lie whole is to be hrooght down to the
revenue standard. In the meantime* it a I
lows the em ire repeal of the duties under 20
per cent* should the condition of the Treasu
ry niuke it expedient. The btU under consi
derate proptf. to WpWi Apt* oTthe
duties undergo p r cent tend * part aborts
Tr.<?rc is rrn!;-Vnl hits at uo^ beei! any
difficulty a L out the reduction, save as to one
or two it mhs ui the bilLi unnecessarily and
designedly put in rt for the purpose of produ -
cing discrv^, ami opening the whol^ tariff*
question agah^by disregarding the. compro>
mise bill. Oiios; of these articles' is Salt,
which the bill propS^s to make duty free?
and upon the motion tt> strike out which, the
present debate has ari?m.* These art the -
material facts. ^
Views or Messrs. Calh^uk uid Pixi*
ton. ? IMi se gentlemen maiuiii^ that the
compromise h II, passed for the eepress pur
pose of iranquil.sing the public vfed,.* and
harmonizing the great interests of OttleouiiM
try, ou^ht to be observed in good by
every portion of the Union. That the- neo*
pie of every State have acquiesced iflfthe
arrangement and settlement of the question
in 1833, and that their euiet ought not to be
disturbed for party purposes. They main
tained that the #om promise bill was reducing
the protecting duties gradually, and that, ac
cording to its provisions, the. -whole system
was to be bronght down to a revenue stand
ard in four or tive y ars. That by that time
the tariff interests would be gradually weak
ened, so as to leave few if auy obstacles to
a fair, equal and tinal adjustment of the whole
question, by bringing the duties down to the
revenue standard. They showed that the
compromise bill hid been of greatadvantage
to the staple growing States, as it h&d'jimin
isjied the revenue "already about sixty 'millions
of dollars, and would continue to* redtfos tbero
more and more. They ex presaetLffirinii elves
decidedly opposed to yielding up- thus edfan*
tages m order to secure the reducta^tf the
duty on salt. They charged that thia article
had been put in the bill as a bait, 'a tempta*
tion to the' South to yield up the advantage*
secured by the compromise bilL The tobject
was made manifest by the f&ct ?hat this was
almost the ouly article which interfered With
the com promise bill ? and that, if the Com *
mittee desired to reduce the reveopei.Jto the
amouut ot the duty on salt they mightj have
done se without interfering with toe compro
mise lull, as there were many articles bear*
ing a duty of les* L
duties might be eiIL^^
turbing the bill of 19& that had been passed
over by the Committee. They adverted to
the fact, and charged that -the design of the
royalists was to open the whole tariff'^uestion
again for mere party purposes, while they
could give no assurances that, the question
being opened again, they would not do what
they had done in 1828 ? deceive the South
and bring up the high protective tariff again.
Mr. Calhoun gave a history of the secret
manotiuverin?s during the debate on tbe fa
mous "bill of abominations" of 1827. and of
the pnrt acted on that occasion by;- Air. Van
Buren and bis present associater/^ShCy ha 3
deceived the South then by
they did dot redeem ? and he
to trust thern again. He used tpOttfiarka
ble wdrds of Mr. Tazewell to Mr. Van Buren
on that occasion, when the latter' came to
apologise for his falsehood and treachery J
?'Sir, you hive deceived me once? 'this is
your fault ? but if you deceive me again, it
will be mine!"
They further declared their opinion that
the friends of the bill did not expect or intend
it to pass ; and that the articles selected,
which were in conflict with the compromise
bill, were put in the bill for the purpose of
defeating its passage. They adverted to the
time ? the last days of the ?ession ? as evi
dence of the fact that they had no serious
intention of reducing the revenue at all.
They pointed to the divisions in the ranks of
the party, as an indication of the absence of
common principles upon this subject?*-onc
portion of tire members openly declaring war
on the Ihreshhold against, all reduction, and
another advocating reduction. They professed
thi ir unabated hostility to the 'protective
policy, and their willingness to repeal the
duties under 20 per cent on all articles import
ed. They would go to the farthest extent in
reducing the revenue without disturbing the
coiffpromise. ^They did not wish Wopcn the
subject again, in order to distract and agitate
ths! country, and to make the controversy the
means of strengthening the political power of
the Government.
These are the principal points touched or*
by the Senators from South Carolina f and
they were in accordance with the views en
tertained by the Reformers generally* as we
believe.
Views or rat Royalists.? Messrs.
Wright and Rives, the leaders of the right
wing of the party, were for the bill as report^
ed. They contended that there .would bt a
surplus, notwithstanding the curtailments an
t cipat.d by the Iind bill. They considered
it, therefore, important to make furthsr re
ductions. Mr. Wrightwas not explicit on
the question whether he regarded the compro
mise b II as entitled to be observed ? he was
particulars indistinct on this point. Mr.
Rives and others could not admit that there<
was any pledge, expressed or implied,- to>
respect the compormise bill. They did not
regard it as obi iga lory in any respect. Mr.
Benton was of the same opinion, and dew
nounced it as a bargain between politicians,
?with a good deal of other 6tuff of the sam<?
fabric. Mr. Buchanan was in favor of observ
ing the c Or. j promise strictly, and opposed all
propositions to- reduce the -duties. He is the
leader of the left wing of the party. They
did not, neither the one division nor the other*
discuss the question as one of general policy.
Their object seemed to be only to justify the
step f hey had taken. They made the com
mon professions of regard for the people, and
the duty of relieving thee from intolerable
burdens, k was, in their opinion* a cootro*
versy between the rlth and tie ftor ? fc&VotQ
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