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From (lie Georgia ArgusA
PROTECTIVE TARIFF.*
Although the fact is before us, and we have for
Borne time been satisfied that it would be so,>yet
we can hardly realize it, that men who have fog
vears been the strictest advocates of State Rights
Doctrines; who have held up to the country in
Strong terms the evils of the protective systertt;
Who have unsparingly denounced it as unconsli>*'
tutiona], unjust and oppressive: who have contended
that the only safety of the people was to
' be found in adhering strictly to the letter of the
Constitution;should now, ar.d all at once, become
the open and avowed advocates of this
same protective svstem. If we- were actuated
*>7 a desire for a party triumph alone, we should
,bfe glad to see it, because although we believe
.that there will be many who will ,abandon their
.if1" old faith, yet we feel fully satisfied that they
cannot in Georgia, carry with them enough to
give them the power; we feel that as strongly as
old party associations and party influences operate
upon men, there are thousands of the old
State Rights party of Georgia who love their
country better than their party, and will not sacrifice
their principles even for party's sake; we
feel that howeveY they may disagree with usias
to men, and as to many measures, they cannot,
they will not differ as to this question. But we
regret.that any should be lead off; satisfied of its
fatal tendency as fully as of our own existence,
we had hoped there would have been no division
^ in the'South upon it, but as the division must
^ exist, as many of the old opponents of the system
have become its advocates, we must endeavor
to show them the error oftiieir ways, and if
we cannot persuade them to pause before they
go too far to recede, we shall at least make an
effort to prevent others from following them.
The protective system carries injustice and
tyranny upon the face of it; because in its very
* terms, it implies the taking of the proceeds of the
labor of one man to give to another, without an
equivalent. Every man is or ought to be at liberty
tb pursue such occupation as may best suit
his taste, and if from want of industry or skill,
orirom a want of demandfor the production ol
his labor he should not be able to make it profitp
ableKhe is at liberty to change it and ought to do
so; liis neighbors certainly ought not to be compelled
to contribute of their earnings to enable
him to pursue an occupation for the products oi
which they have no nse, or which from his want
of skill or of industry, he rnav not bo able to
? make profitable to himself, if a man were to
sit down in a community to cultivate a flower
Harden, or to raise monkeys or parrots, his neighDors
would think it very unjust that they should
be taxed to support him and his garden, or his
monkeys, an8 parrots: yet it would be equally
unjust to compel them to pay a shoemaker twe
^' dollars a pair for his shoes, when they could gel
? .them elsewhere as good at one dollar. In prin.
oiplethere is no kind of difference; the object 01
each is to enable a man to prosecute a pursuit al
the expense of others, which he cannot makt
profitable to them.
jq} The new fledged advocates of .protection art
i. basinets defence upon some very strange
grounas; brte is that the South is likely to be derprived
of a market for its cotton by the produc
-tion of the article in the East Indies. Admit.
ting all that is contended for in relation to thrive
be true, it does not alter the principle, nor r.mrW
we be benefitted by ^ Supposing that Indir
cotton can be brought to this country and sold if
the city of New York at a less price than we car
afford to make it for, it is just that the people o
the North should be compelled to pay us thre<
or four per cent more for cotton than they wouli
have to pay for it elsewhere? or is any body foo
enough to suppose that they would do it? Cot
ton is produced in South Carolina, Georgia, Ala
bama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Arkansas, am
partially in North Carolina, Virginia, and Ten
nessee. If it should be found that India cottoi
of as good a quality can be brought to this coun
try ana soiu at lour cents per pouna, ana mat w<
cannot make it for less than seven, does any bo
dy believe that the people of the States who can
not grow cotton, having the power in Congress
would permit the present duty of three cents pe
^ pound to remain on cotton for a day? or suppo
eing that the people of Texas should produce cot
ton which they could afford to sell cheaper thai
we can, is there in all the United States a mai
who is such a stark mad fool as to believe tha
the States which do not and cannot make cottor
but who are obliged to use it would permit th
duty of three celffs per pound to remain for a day
Can any man who pretends to have his sense
about him believe that they would consent to pa;
seven or six or even five cents per pound for ou
cotton while they could get it from Texas o
from India either as of good ifnot a better qualit;
at four cents? No?when the present duty wa
imposed upon cotton it was done to make a shov
of fairness and equality; the advocates of a pro
- tective system would at that time have just a
soon have made it twenty cents as three, becausi
there was no place in the world where cottoi
could he produced as low as the United States
and with or without a duty they knew then
could be no competition; it is like imposing a du
ty upon the exportation of corn in Ohio or hog!
into Kentucky. Then what good will a protec
tive tariff do the South?^?We ask the particulai
attention 01 our reauers to tnis partot tne supject
?If cotton can be produced in India cheaper thai
we can produce it, she can of course drive ui
out of foreign markets and all that is to keep he
from driving us out of our own market is a higl
protection in favor of our cotton. Now there an
only nine States which produce cotton and thrci
ofthese North Qpjolina, Virginia and Tennesset
to a very limited-* extent. There are eighteei
States which do not and cannot produce it, the}
are all compelled to^jse it?they have the powei
in Congress to do what they please; does an}
body believe that they would consent to payt
tax of three cents a pound or even half a cent or
all-tiie cotton they use for the benefit of th<
Southern Planters?
<?; But the argument is that we are to be driver
out of the foreign market by the India cottonsadmit
it; and suppose that a duty of ten cents pei
pound should be imposed upon foreign cottons,
how would the Southern Planter be aided by it'
The Southern States can and do produce foui
times ae much.cotton as is necessary to supplj
the consumption of the United States, if we cannot
find a market for it elsewhere tirafexcess 01
production will of itself soon redflce1 the price
v jy? tue lowest amount that will enable the proto
live by it?suppose the farmers of Mus.S^eofle
county could get sale for their corn nc
\ylfeEe but ih Columbus, and that a law were
passed, that the citizens of Columbus should purchasa.no
cori but that raised in the county, and
^afthe farmers produced four time3 as much as
Columbus ??ild consume; what good would the
law do the firmer] Does not every body see
that..corn would sell just as low as it every bod}
were permitted to sell corn in Columbus. Now
if there tvasa law to compel the citizens of Co.
luntbus to jmy to tjm city authorities lifty cents
Q? every oasnei ot corn brought from any other
county, and the farmers of Aluocogee county
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produced only half as much as the people of Go^. 1
lunibas could consume, then they would be bene- j
fitted by it, for as long1 as their corn lasted, the
people of (jj&imbus would be compelled to puj^
: chase aianrgh price of thein, and the balance
" "they would have to purchase elsewhere. But :
the whole idea of our being injuredJjy India cot- I
ton is a great humbug, as we shMTsometiifte or
j another attempt to prove; not that cotton rfiay not'
i he made-in India, this we shall not deny, but it(<
can never be made there so as to prevent us
from cultivating it profitably here. So far then
as the South is concerned, we derive nn.protectcction,
and no benefit of any kind frofff. a^tariff, i
but we may be greatly injured.
From the Pendleton Messenger.
Will those nullifiers at the Soutnwbo in their
opposition to Van Buren; were led off to join in i
, the hard cider campaign, in favor Harrison,
now hoist the flag of Henry Clay and a protect- I
| ive tarrfT? Will they forget that ten years ago,
11lie)'were almost in arms against this system,'
j then as now advocated by this same champion}
I From some signs in Georgia, we think it not itn- ;
j probable, that Mr. Clay will be nominated for
J the Presidency by. the Whig Convention which
l is to assemble at Milledgevjjde on Monday next
I There will certainly be an enortmade.by a porjtion
of the party to. effect his nomination; but.
i there are some doubts, whether it wiULnpt.be
j postponed, at least for the present
i We speak for ourselves only, when we-say,
; that we would prefer to see Mr. Clay in' the}
! field as the Whig candidate, to any other man.
( His political tenents are too well known to ad|
mit of any attempt at concealment He eannot
j be represented in one section as bank, and in
I another as anti-bank?as tariff or anti-tariff,
according to the demands of the occasion. His
I friends hail him as the father of the".\uierican
| system," (as they call it,) th^abie'advocate 01
j high duties, and the foe to free trade. As such,
| he must he taken, if he is taken at all. We
! hop? to see the next presidential contest, when
! it conies, conducted on principle, so that let it
! result as it may, the policy of the government
may become settled, - for some years at least.
LATEST FROM ENGLAND. %.
The British Royal .Mail Steamship Columbia,
" arrived in Boston on the .morning of the 2d inst.,
at 6 ?'clock.
The money market remained just about the
i same as at the last previous dates.
We have no improvement to notice in trade.
On the contrary, the dullness which had for
| some time prevailed, has, if possible, increasi
ed. People seem to have made up their minds
to enter upon no business transactions whatever,
i until the new tariff shall have passed into law.
On Tuesday afternoon, the pressure for money
on the Stock Exchange became so severe
| for a short time, that some of the jobbers had i
| to pay as high as at the rate of 10 per cent per
annum, for accommodation for a few days, but
the market soon recovered.
Money is abundant. Good bills can be discounted
at 0 per cent.; and many of the first
merchants, instead of employing their capital in
the ordinary way of business, are seeking,#)?
its investment on loan?fortunate if they'can
obtain per cent p|
l-t?-mora- tdiiws. with cixtoon ?burvdrod
t J troops liad sailed for India, which shows a de-|
, I termination on the part of the government to;
!! push the war against Afghanistan,
f 1 There continued to he a great many failures in
3 the commercial business of London, and also in
j the manufacturing towns. One of the heaviest;
1 houses in Manchester stopped payment on the
. 114th.
. i There was a terrible explosion of a distillery,'
j, in Church street, Lambeth, on the 13th, but a
. ! short distance from the place of the Archbishop
1 j of Canterbury. Several persons were injured.
. i A column of ignited spirits was thrown upwards
2 j of fifty feet into the air.
. | Destruction of one-fifth of the City of Hamburg
. by Fire.?The city of Hamburg, the great com!
mercial emporium of Germany, one of the
r most flourishing on the continent of Europe, is
_ a heap of ruins. Her merchants were rejoickfe.
_ at the prospect held out to thern by the promised1
n improvements in our commercial tariff: ndW"
n they are mourning over their richly stored waret
houses in ashes, their houses devoured by the
i, flames, and their prospects of increasing prose
jierity scattered to the four winds of heaven.
i FRANCE.
s Terrible Railroad Accident?-One hundred
y and twenty persons killed, and many maimed and
r wounded.?A deplorable catasthrophe took place
r on Sunday evening week, on the Versailles and
y Mendon Railway, by which one hundred and
p twenty persons were killed, or have since died
v of their wounds, and many maimed and wound.
ed. *
I., 1,-r v..? i?
? jii iivsuui ui IIHJ avin^ o iciC) me waici W UIAO
e in the gardens of Versailles were playing on
t Sunday, which attracted immense crowds from
] Paris. The train to which the dreadful accident
occurred left Versailles 1 or Paris at half past 5
o'clock in the afternoon, and was crowded with
passengers. "There were," says one account,
"seventeen or eighteen wagons, with two engines
before and one behind.
The velocity was excessive. When between
Beleuve and Mendon, the axletree of the first
machine broke, and, stopping, the second ran
over it, killing the stoker, and breaking the first
machine in pieces, spilt its fire on the ground.?
Instantly six or seven tfagons were broken in
pieces, and the rest running over the live fire
of the broken engines, burst into flames. It is
the custom on the Left Bank Railroad for the
doors of the waggons to be closed, without any
possibility of opening them except by keys in
the hands* of the conductors. No conductors
were forthcoming, and thus the inmates of three
of the wagons were burned."
'From this account it is clear, thahrtmt for the
custom of locking the passertgwSjSk.iri-jthe carriages,
so awful^a loss of life wou^not have
taken place. *
INDIA'.
There are no later dates from India than were
brought by the last previous arrival; but the
r English papers contain a mass of selections from
Calcutta journals which are highly interesting.
The financial condition of . India appears to be
f disastrous in the extreme. This seems to be
. owing to two prominent causes, in the first
. place the rash attempt to occupy Afghanistan
. has cost the government already nearly 20,000,,
0001, a great share of which enormous sum has
, been drawn from the legitimate channels of
trade. In the next place there is now no resoI
lute money power like the old Company monopo,
ly, capable from its ready means and undoubted
, credit of controlling half the finances of the
, I world. , .
RUSSIA AND ENGLAND.
Blaekwoods Magazine has an elaborate article
i on the ^Russian movements against Circassia,
' (from which we take a paragraph,) very distinct^
ly revealing the lurking feelings of jealousy at
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this moment ranklin?wth'e bosoms of the twoi<
great rival Europeari'p&wers. M
England very justly agprefi^pds that her Asiat- 1
ic'prey will be struck at% the great Northern i
Empire, which stretches acrqgsAsia and Europe,
and seeks to extenfljtS-^onifmoh t0 shores of
the Mediterranean am?the Indian seas.
"All Russians regtttf the conquest oflndia as a
matter as much In the course of things as the (
coming of summer in June. They shake their 1
heads when any Englishman presumes to doubt <
its facility, and rather pity the dulness of John t
Bull. There is probably not a subaltern in the 1
armies of the Czar, who has not made up his i
mind that' a couple of campaigns, at the furthest, 1
would seat him, cigar in hand, in tne palaces. 01 i
Calcutta; and as for the higher grades, colonels t
andifenerals, they have, in ninety-nine instances t
out'of a hundred, sketched the plan of a 'grand 1
manoeuvre,' by which 100,000 men are- to be 1
moved to the foot of the Himmalayas, to be reii?-. >
forced by 100,000 Tartar cavalry?the whole tp }
pour into the plains of Hindoston,offc6ur8e'beftt- <
ing the British in all directions, %til the only t
matter to be settled would be the division of their 1
plunderand their provinces. No Englishman
should ever atlempt to argue this, absflrdity.?? i
He throws away bis tiin? Nothing Jalit a,can- <
non-ball can be tougher than the skull which he '<
tries to make pliable; and nothing but the natur- 1
al fact of finding a British battalion thundering (
on the broken ranks, and ^driving him over hill
ahd dale, cullmted in the {host exemplary man- \
ner, will fever teach the Northern Alexander i
that he could make no more impressiou upon 1
British India than" upon the pinacles of its moun- '
tains. No army froin the North, even if it could
arrive at the foot of l^mmalayae, octhe banks of 1
the Indus, would have tbe slightest chance of '
being able to make head against the force'which 1
the Governor General could gather upon the
frontier. -You cobia not gather 10,000 men,'
says the Russian, dreaming of Delhi. We could
and would gather 100,000 men; and, if that were
not enongh to secure the frontier, half a million
?and not leave of the Russian invaders enough
to give a meal to the crows of tbe hills."
. A Desperate Burglar Killed.?A notorious !r
burglar named Jesse Sutton, recently released
from the penitentiary, met with his death on Fri- j
day night last^iu the following manner:?On the
night above named, Air. William Power, of the
firm of Power & Son, residing in Franklin-street
near Pearl-street, returned to his home ""in cpmpany
with a Mr. Zollinger, ^between ten and
eleven o'clock. Shortly afterwards, Mr. P. proceeded
to the hydrant in the yard to get a drink,
and, whilst in the act, thought he saw something
run intaan out house. He immediately
returned to the kitchen, seized a small piece of
sj&ftfwood, and walked toward the out house,
at the same time calling upon his cousin (Mr.
Zollinger) to followhim with a light On reaching
the place, he attempted to enter, but was resisted
from within; finally he succeeded in his
attempt to open the door, when he was dragged
in by the coat and the door closed.
At this critical juncture, and before his antagonist
could fasten on him, Air. P. raised the stick
ofwood which he still held in his hand, andstruck
the villain on the head. Clinging to one another,
they reeled out of the place, the door of which
-had opened during the souffle inside. Mr. Power j
than repeated the blow, when Sutton cried, "part-1
ners, partners,' and staggered off By this time j
Air. Zollinger hm,vn?iaived with a light; and Sut- '
ton, on being interrogated to that effect, replied '
that lie nau tnree .partners, wno were close oy.!
Two or tfiree watchmen, drawn thither by the '
alarm given by Mr. Zollinger, having arrived on!
i the spot, Mr. Power went after a physician, and!
t returned with Dr. Perkins, who dressed the
wounded man's head. He was then taken to the
i Western District watch-house on a litter, where
he died on Saturday morning, his skull being
severely fractured.
Sutton is 41 years of age, has been in the penitentiary
of this State four times, and was only
discharged the last time on the 4th of April last.
When first discovered he was in his stocking
feet, and had his pumps beneath his vest. On
his arrival, at the watch-house he was searched
ind a bunch of skeleton keys, a screwdriver,
%ox of friction matches, strips of pine wood and
a silver plated key, supposed to be one of those
recently stolen from the house of Miss Rachel
Colvin, were found on his person.
At the instance of his honor the Mayor, Wra.
T. Rice. Esq. held an inquest on the body on
Saturday morning. After examining a number
of witnesses, and listening to the voluntary statement
of Mr. Power, which corresponds with the
details above, tfife Jury returned a verdict that
the "deceased cafne to his death from blows in
I flicted with a billet of wood by Mr. William
| Power, in self defence.',
An individual named Abel Howard, supposed
to be an accomplice in house breaking and burning,
was brought before Squire Blair on Saturday
morning, and being unableto give a satisfactory
account of his whereabouts on the preceding
night, was committed to jail. Officers Bowersox
and Schwatka are in pursuit of another
person upon whom suspicion rests.
As soon as Mr. Power heard that the burglar
was dead he voluntarily went before the Chief
Judge of the City Court, and offered any security
that might be asked. None, however, was required,
and the Judge discharged him before the
verdict of the Jury oi Inquest had been rendered.
[Baltimore Americrn, 6th ult.
BRITISH INDIA.
Gen. Harlan, an American, who attained power
and rank in Afghanistan, where he resided
several years, has since his recent return, published
a book on India, which we have not seen, ]
but from some extracts judge to be of great in- i
terest. The following is the conclusion, and if ]
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it be indeed true, the JEnglisn nation are strangely
deceived as to the character of their moral as- i
cendancy over the Hindoos. An empire so held
cannot long continue. '
"The tenure of British India, and consequently
the integrity of the British empire, is at this mt>- 1
ment sustained by a single hair, and that so 1
tensely drawn that the slightest adverse move- <
ment will certainly snap asunder the retaining 1
power. The thousand native princes of India are
regarding with intense anxiety and ardent hopes, (
the movements of the British army before the '
Khyber pass, and the fate of General Sale at 8
Djillalabad. Every able bodied man, whose numbers
are not less than five millions, covetous and t
exasperated enemies, is standing with ^the foot
in the stirrup and hand on the spear,''^gloating
on the hope of plunder which the traditions of old
age have placed in fascinating visions before t
them. The sentinels are on the watch-towers,
and their runners are in the way, aiid the earliest r
promulgation of the last reverses of the. British
in Affghanistan, will signalize the destruction of j
every EngH^ynan throughout the whole of India.
If the Afghans slaughter the remnants~of Brit- ?
ish troops under Gen. Sale, at Djillalabad, and f
defeat the Brttish in its ptojected attempt to
force the Khyber defile, the British power in In- }
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iia expires i#tantly, without a doubt, as it will
vithoutja struggle?except the death-thfaes of
fteiraSfficers, as the native army strangl6--the.ni
n their beds." . ^
Correspondence of the Charleston Courier\
WASHINGTON, JUNE 3.
The subject of the loan is still talked of. It is
itated, on good authority, that the loan has not
jeen negotiated; that only 250,000 dollars Werm
obtained by the Secretary ofihe Trearury; thd8
his money is to be reimbursed on the 1st of Juy;
that it was obtained from banks on the credit
tnd Security of John Ward & Co.; and that near-,,
y two pfflfce'nt is to be paid to the brokers; Jer>
legociating it Others hold out the idea, sftll,
:hat the loan has been takprfc in part In ord^fr
o clear away the mystery of this transaction, MS
Woodbury, to-day offered a resolution in the Senite,
calling en the Secretary of the ^Treasury to
eport to-the Senate the amount of money bor dwed
since the date of his report on thb finances;
the rate bf of discount or interest pawnor
he same; and the length of time for which it Wan"
lorrowed.
The resolution lies over one day. The Sec?
etary will, it is supposed, find the income from:
lustoms falling short of his estimates. The
imount of drawbacks paid out, at New-York,
ately, has been very great Large quantities of
roods are still to be re-exported.
The Senate spent the whole day on the appor:ionment
bill?the question beingon the districtng
of the Statpjf-. Mr. Bagby and Mr. Miller
spoke against the district system, - No vote was
taken.
The vote on the proposition^?/ the-House to
divide the States^lnto single dfttrictB,.will be1 i
close one, but Will, I think, be loflti;\,We shall
3ee to-morrow?Tor I presume they wfll soon take
the question1 :'Vt.
In the House MrJ^Davi^ffered a resolution
calling on the Presfiwnt to inform the House
whether the New-York Custom House commis
Bion is still employed and underpay; and also to
communicate a detailed statemepi'of all the expenses
of the commission. It vpllrrequire a new
commission to furnish all the accounts in detail.
It was resolved to take the army apportionment
bill out"of Committee on Monday.
- Mr. Randolph, of N. X, moved that the tarifl
bill be made the order of the day after the action
of the House on the army bill, and that its
consideration be continued from day to day till il
be disposed of. .This motion was lost.
Mr. Fillmore has, at length, reported a bill foi
raising a revenue. The bill is not accompanied
with any report; but Mr. Fillmore.etated that il
was based on the scheme proposed by the Secretary
of the Treasury in his late report and bill
The House went into Committee on the Armj
Appropriation bill, and the debate on the reduction
of the army was continued.
Mr. Giddings made his first appearance, today,
since his return to the House. He delivered
his views, at length, to half a House, on the
subject of abolition, the Creole case, &c.
WASHINGTON, JUNE 4.
The weather is 6till somewhat cool for the
season, which circumstance is very favorable ti
legislation. You would not think;'-fchowevei
from the appearance of the House, during theTas
few weeks, that any legislation was seriously in
tended. The House meets at eleven,'and afte
the morning business, which is aW-ay's attendei
with great clamor and confusion, they go int<
Committee of the Whole on the state of tin
Union, and take up the bill which is the order o
the day. The member who, by courtesy, is en
titled to the floor has no sooner made his prepara
tory arrangements; and addressed the Chair
than the majority of the members take up thei:
hats and evacuate the hall. Some few?say for
ty or fifty?are detained by their correspondent
or other business, and are thereby compelled t(
remain in their seats, though they have still lesi
purpose or inclination to listen to the speed
than any one of the absentees.
In exemplification of this, I might mention th(
state of things yesterday, whereof I happened t<
take particular notice. During the long speed
on the army bill by Mr. Cross, there were verj
few members present. The whole number dm
ring the last half hour, was thirty seven, inclu.
ding the Chairman. Of these, not one membei
was listening to the Speaker, except Mr. Giddings,
of Ohio, who had planted himself by hit
side, not to hear his speech, butYo cfrtch his lasi
accents in time to be the first to succeetf-him or
the floor. In this state of things,' it cannot b?
considered as very oppressive to limit the numbei
of days that a debate shall continue, after all its
interests shall have subsided.
I learn that it has been decided upon, in caucus,
or by understanding, that the "hour rule"
shall be also adopted before the revenue bill is
taken up. But with all these appliances, the
debate on that bill will necessarily soon become
a dead bore, and be shunned accordingly.
There was a discussion, this morning, in the
House on the subject of the reply of the Secretary
of War to a resolution of the House callinp
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for the reports of the commission appointed to investigate
alledged frauds on the Cherokees.?
The Secretary declined to furnish the reports,
because the promulgation of tnem would tend to
defeat the object of the investigation.
Mr. Cave Johnson, in moving to refer the communication,
proposed instructions to the Committee
to inquire into the means and expediency
of enforcing a compliance with the order. Mr
Cushing contended that the Secretary possessed
the discretionary power to refuse to transmit the
papers if the public interests, in his opinjppj forbid
their Dublication.
Mr. Adams, on the other hand, sprite? very
warmly in support of the right of the House to
papers in possession of the Departments or of
the Executive, in which the concerns of foreign
nations were not involved.
Finally the House rejected the instructions,
and simply referred the letter of the Secretary.
The House made no progress to-day on the army
bill.
In the Senate, Mr. Preston, from the Commitee
on the Library, reported a bill to provide for
he publication of the history of the voyage of
lisco'very, &c. by the Exploring Expedition of
he United States under Captain Wilkes."
The debate on the apportionment bill was cooinued
by Messrs. Moorehead, Buchanan, and
rallmadge, and no question was taken on the
tubject
Several Senators are yet to speak on this much
nooted question of the district system.
Contraries.?The way to do right?Always
go wrong.
The way lo get out of debt?Run into
rexas. >The
way to be happy?Marry a scoldng.
wife.
The way to ^jet rich?Spend all you can
ret hold of, and a little more.
The way to be wise?Act like a fool.?
!*, S. Very natural to some people.
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WED^tllr MOjNTffi, JDNB 15. Bgfe Mower.?A
shocking murder jyas comroittecr
on Lynches Credit in this Distrit^ffrHSaturday
evening fast, by El&s Ford u pon'John Pitts. The
particulars that have* reached us are so contradictory,
that, a statement of tfiem -might-be,pre-^ . \
judicial tb'Tord, who is no \y^ confined in jjdfcr*'
Pitts ia^aid to have^ejf a pfeaceabl^prrfi^-' A .
, jensiw ^mag^anci had a wife and three chUdren.The.deedj^g-done
at Ford's owa, house, witfr
a shot gun.
Magnolia. ->
Weinvite the attention of the friends of southern
literature to the circular of the'propriettfe of
this periodical, which wervpublish tp-day.^We
will take"great pleasure irixeceivinf&md forwarding^lhs-Aphscriptrons
of thoseoyho may wish to
patronize the work.
Ritif Road to Colombia-?Tfie Rail Road v.
from Charleston to Columbia will be completed,
We understand, by the 28th insL The cars now
I . *t _ i *" ^ run
to Col. Hampton's Woodlands estate, withJ
iff five mile of Columhia.
T-- ^'V.1
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Congress.?The Bill making appropriations
! for the Army has passed the House#vith all the
jj^ductions proposed in Committee of the Whole.
'-It is apprehended, however; that it will be defeaU
: ed in the Senate. Mr. Adams had another opportunity
afforded him, of taking up the cudgel
j for his dear friends, the blacks. During the discussion
on the bill to amend the charter of Alexi
andria, an amendment was offered, to extefid'fhe
right of suffrage to all white citizens. Mr; A.
was immediately upon his feet, and' mofed to
strike out the word white. He made a longJ
winded speech?abused white people, and land:
ed the colored gentlemen, and stated that he had
| constituents " as blaclf as Ethiopians," whom he
; considered as clever as any he had. No ddqbt-,
the olcHTellow has?as high a regard for his' coftr~"
j ed brethren as for the white, and feels quite"at
t home while on an electioneering, tour seatedkbe*
. tween a couple of his black fellow-citizens.
The Senate was engaged, at the latest dates,
r in receiving Tariff petitions and "discussing the
" ? u:n
a^pumuumcui uui.
* i
w Messrs. O'Connell and Carr have issued
; proposals for publishing a paper at Winnsboro*
to "be called the "True Carolinian, and Farfield,
Chester, Lancaster and Newberry Advertiser."
3' We will publish their prospectus next week.
j Fire in New Yors$P-A destructive fire took ,
place in New York on the morning of the 2nd
r inst. It originated in the fifth story of the-large
tl publishing house of the Messrs Hampers, to which
n' the flames were confined. The loss sustained
j-j by those enterprising gentlemen is estimated at
. j 8100,000. It is supposed the fire was the work
-' of an incendiary. r
1 .
r ETlt is customary, we believe, for candidates,
] in electioneering, to drink with the men^moke
} with the old women and kiss all the children.?
3 We shoulddike to kftow whether old Mr.-Adams
1 follows the custom, while visiting his coloured
constituents. .
> Monticf.leo, June 6,1842. ?|
' To the Editor of the Camden Journal.
Dear Brother?It will doubtless jford you
. great joy to hear what the Lord h&floing fbr the
r Church at Little River in this (Fairfield)* Die'
trict. A fortnight ago yesterday, I commenced
t a meeting at the school house, some three, miles
i from Monticello. I saw, at the conclusion of tho
! meeting, that there was great seriousness manifested
by the congregation. I made another appointment
for Monday night, and met a large and
. attentive congregation. The meeting was so
interesting, that I proposed if the people Wished
' it, I would continue. 1 then took the vote, and
, found that it was the wish of a great many, that
it should continue. The meeting continued to
increase iu interest from day to day, and on yrtterday
it was my happinesr to 'lead 18 willing
converts down into the water, and bury them
with their Lord in baptism. Among the number
were four gentlemen and their wives. It was A
indeed, a heart-cheering sight to see so many
heads of families dedicating themselves to the
service of God. "
After the baptism, broths-Reynolds addressed
a large and attentive congregation, and at ti e
close of the afternoon services, many caj^p forwar/t
and eaid nror inr 11B. I think the orood
work is but just commenced. VVe can only 6ay
in the language of the Psalmist, ** the Lord has
done great things for us,: whereof we are glad."
YouPe, rji gospel bands,
LEWIS. DUPRE.
THE GAG AGAIN. \
Our readers will perceive, in the Congreww'onal
proceedings of to-day, that tho House has determined
to take the army bill out of the Committee
of the Whole on the state of the Union, on
Monday next, at one o'clock. This will be giving?supposing
to-day and to-morrow are consumed
on this subject?-Jive days' consideration
to the army bill, involving an expenditur&of some
eigh I millions of dollars. After debate ceaMB on
Monday, the clauses of the bill makiag^^.j?p- ? j
propriations will be passed as fast asgie Clerk of
the House can read them, without the reading of
a report, or one word of explanation being per- ;
mitted. This is Whig legislation! It is won- "
derful that waste, extravagance, and profligacy,
should be the result of such legislation? Deliberation
is a mere mockery, under such practices.
What is Congress,* but-the tool of its committees?
And what are the committees, uDdgr fbe
control and dictation of caucuses? Let the people
mark events as they* pass, and remember
them, too.?Globe,