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' t(««n4 «rbis MlictitMle lo have hi* character ami
mental eompmency elevated before tire public.
H» descanted on the immense field tor enterprise
* in the Indian settlement beyond sir© Mississippi, and
through that, s* a stepping sioae, into Texas; and
recommended me t« direct my destinies that way.
Without making any promises or commitments, I
did not discourage, at this stage, hi* inflated
schemes for my advancement, a* I had a curiosity,
now on tip-toe, to hear this romantic projection, l«r
hi* manner snd hi* enthusiasm were at least enter
tabling. Accordingly he went onto develops much
ofa systematic enterprise, but not half what 1 have
sincelearnt from another source; perhaps because
he discovered that my interest in the subject did not.
keep pace with ihc anticipations he had formed for
the progress of his disclosures. I learnt from him
these facts and speculations :
•• That he was organising an expedition against
Texas; to afford » cloak to which, ho had assumed
lire Indian costume, habits, and associations, bv set
tling among, them, in the neighborhood of Texes.
That nothing waa more easy to accomplish than the
conquest and possession of that extensive and fertile j
country, by lire co-opera lion of the Indians in the
Arkansas Territory, and recruits among the citixens
of the United State*. That, in In* view, it would I
hardlv be necessary to sliike a Mow to w rest 'I exn* |
from Mexico. That it was ample for the establish
ment and maintenance ofa separate and independent
government ftom the United States. That the ex
pedition would be got ready with all possible th »- ]
patch ; thal the demonstration would and mu.it he
made in about twelve months from I'uil time. That ;
the event of success opened the most unbounded
prospects of wealth to-those who would crnb.uk in it;
and that it Was with a view- to facilitate his recruits,
he wished to elevate himself ill the public confidence
by the aid of my communications lo the Richmond .
Edquirer. Thai I should h ive a surgeoncy in the
expedition, and recommended ino in the mean time
<o remove along willi him, and practice physic n- t
mnng the Indians in the territory.”*
* (CVv of endowment on the above by the Picsi
Jtnl-—“Jlr. Mayo, on the contemplated invasion of
Texas,—private and confidential—a Inter In be wm
ten (confidential) to tile Secretaiv nl Aiknnvas, with
* a copy ofconflilenti.il letter to Win. I-tihun, 1*. -
{Secretary lo the Territory of Florida.11 j
SENATOR TALL.MADGE.
Wehave rrccived in* pamphlet form lint spreeli nf
Mr* Tsllmadge, delivered in the Senate ot tin* l nit
•d Slates on the 30th of June, on (lie ptnpoMlinn ol
Mr. Wright to repeal (lie first incite sections of iln*
Depositc Act of 1836. It is an able anil conclusive ar
gument against the enlargement of Executive Pow
er : and tu calling attention In some of its more pro
minent points, we should do injustice to tile seiners
and merits of Mr. Tallmadee, it »e refrkined limn an
espreasiuu of the feelings with which we have re
garded his recent course. Tim country now owes
a large debt of gratitude to Mr. Tallin nice, for his
noble, honest, and independent course. \\ c lli.iLo
an extract from the speech brlmput ;—
“God deliver me from such Demuciary I A de
mocracy which concentrates all power in tlie hands
of one man—a democracy w hicli subjects the opin
ions and actions of parly followers to Ins will, ami to
ins will alone—a democracy which mokes the gieat
and paramount interests ol the country subservient to
the low and grovelling putsuitsof pally—a denim ra
cy which permits no action mi any question, howev
er urgent the necessity may be, witliout orders limn
head quarters—a democracy that appeals to the pas
tions and prejudices of the people, instead ol en
lightening their judgments, and relying upon
their reasnu and their patriotism—a democracy w Inch
attempts to set up one class of the community a
gainst the other, as if their interests »' ere not recipm
i ally identical—a democracy which denies to every
man the right to think and act (or himself on those
great questions in w hich the vilul interests ol the
country are so deeply into red—a demoeiaey which
attempts by parly drill and patty discipline, losiiliveit
the very spirit of the Constitution, In snhstiliito Ex
ecutlvc lor Legislative power, to subject the will ol
the Representative to the will ol'thn Executive, to
compel him to act contrary to Ins own opinions a
gainst hisnvvu conscietn e, and in open defiance ol ilie
expressed w ill and wishes of lii« const it lien Is— a tie mo
cracy which extends ils influence from the seat til the
General Government to the respective Slates;
wInch swallows up the texeived lights of ihe Slates
in the Consolidation of the central powet — a demo
cracy. in short, which establishes in the heart of the
country the most perfect despot sm, under the delu
sive forms of free institutions.
Yes, Mr. President, such is the democracy ofthis
federal administration—an aduiiuistraiinu that has a
dopled the ultra federalism «>f “ I lie reign of terror,"
and now c harges upon its former li inula the sins of
its own con.mission. Sir, the people of the l imed
States cannot he deceived Ly these vain and hollow
pietcnccs. Democracy, like monarchy, will he known
by its fruits. The bitter fruits of this Administiatinn
have already ripened sufficiently to indicate the ttee
on which they grew—and the people have long since
tailed enough to enable them, like our first parents,
to distinguish between good and evil. Sir, the con
test which is now waging, is to determine the future
character of our Government,—Upon its result de
pends the question of the indr pendence of the legis ■
iative branch, and also that of the supremacy of the
popular will. As these shall lie dclcnnincd, so will
the character of our Government he. Tin* contest
will form a new epoch in our annals, and the fulnie
historian, with the “luminous philosophy ol Gib
bon,” will date from this period the rise or fall of our
Republican institutions."
HIGH PRICE OF RETRENCHMENT.—The
1 Louisville Journal says:—When Mr. Adams was Pie
sident, the people paid $13,1100,000, a year as the ex
penses of the Government. Tlrey now pay $38,000,
fKHlayear. The difference is S3o,000,000. This is
ihe net cost of (hat very valuable roniiumliiy, •■rr.
t tench tut II tCheap enough. Would the people
like to buy some more ofit at the same rate ?
Major Dram of the Quarter Master's Department
who was recently promoted to a Lieut. Coluitclev.
j and connected by marriage w ith Col. Demon of the I
* Senate, we learn from Philadelphia, was recently in
that city, (we presume on his way homo to St. Lou
j is,) with a Tieasuty warrant for thirty thousand
dollars on the Mint, at that place, payable in Ameri
can gold ! What means this incurring of expanse
and risk of transporting gold to Missouri ! Is there
no specie in (lie land olTici s of the Western Slates !
We venture to express a belief that there is an a-1
bundanceof it, even at the Land Offices in Missouri,
and probably in the Bank of Missouri at St. Lnoi«, j
to the credit of the Government. We have heard, j
! within a few weeks past, that the Treasury Drpati
inent had given six months ctediton its specie diaiis,
| drawn on some of the Ohio Land Offices, to
be paid here in specie, at the end of that term,
i Behold it now evading gold from Philadelphia to I
the West! Why. and for what purpose has it been 1
•eat ? We have been told through the columnsof the
Globe ionic scores of times that Treasury notes in the !
West were worth mote than specie for tite purpose nl
remittance. Why were they not sent, if funds are
wanted m the West; and thereby obtain for the Go
vernment the premium they would command ; and
»i»o, save to it the expense and risk of transport
ing gold? We all know, that the Quat let mis
ter's drafts ou the Department, pay able in Phil
adelphia or New York, would command a premium I
of one per cent, in Si. Louis, payable in specie._
Then. we inauire again, why was the gold 6cnt, at
aneapenee and risk to the public? Was it that a
certain piopbecy may be fulfilled, made two or three
fears since, that the- lime would speedily arrive,
eben gold would flow up (he river Mississippi, and
(listen through the mtersficcs of the long silken pur
teeuf the farmers who iuhabit the great valley that
tears its nanie ? Or was it lor the purpose of prov
ng to the people of Missouri, when their election
ekes place Mat mouth, that the long promised Gol
Jen Era has at length, on that particular occasion, ai
nved, toMeoe tiieir Sfatc'aud secuie unalloyed happi
ness to its oitieens ? [Madisonian.
Btm GOODS.
u/ £ HAVE just received, and are now opening. 1
•If” 'several Packages of Domestics, together with j
{garimy of articles iu the Faucy line, which we are i
, pnng nrJ cheap, and expect to receive in a few j
; IWeen egteueive aud well selected assortment of j
(.jCpGIW suitable l«r the present season, which will,
(IpneM it very reduced prices for cash.
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\V aSHI.no ton, July 54
The PucliniKT or tor I'mti u Statks left this
ci! v setter tiny lor Norfolk in llto steamboat ( olutit
Uia. From Norfolk he will proceed 10 Richmond,
and thence to the WVitern Virginia Spring*' He i»
accompanied hy hi* Private Secictmv (Major \ an
Uvur.N) and another ol In* sons. Mr. I'.’inbktt isal
»o lo journey a*.ill him. Mr. Forsyth doeenoi go,a*
had been reported ;nm Hid the Navy Comini**ioncr»
accoirpauy the President lo Norlolk [ A.i/. hit,
A correspondent nf the New I »rl> Journal ol
Commerce stair* that the ('1117.111s' Hank ul Nr"
Orleans, fur the purpose nl regulating ihe exchan
gee and currency ol the West, lias nrule an nrnmjte
iiient willl the Hank* in Cincinuaii lo rireulule aliou
a million ol their money and to reimburse them by
rxchangeiiti the North, to bo purchased at New Or
lean*, and the Hank* in ('>•111111.111 to purcluiKe ex
change in their place and aend 10 the Citizen*'
Hank.
RECAPTl’KE OF SCHOONER LONE.
The puiti< ul.n» of the gallant recapture of the
schooner Lone, whose arrival at New Oilcan* was
noticed last Week, are furuiehrd in the uiissiag New
Oilcans slip* ol Mill instant, which have no*v come
to hand. The Hullelin thus relate* the occurrence :
•' Our reader* recollect a notice in this paper a
few days since, of the arrival 1 I the sehoonet Lone,
Capt. Clarke, at Matamo as, after passing the block- I
a,le. Having st Id the freight at nil cliorinutu profit.
Captain (‘I II ke took in a cargo of specie ami hides
worth f.'1(1,0011, and cleared again tor New Orleans.
On the morning of the 25th June, before day light,
the Lone passed the line of the Del Nolle under
canvas* ivilli a fiesh smacking brei ze, and strung ex- j
pectatioii* of eluding tile vigilance of ihe block- ]
adiIt,r squadron. Hut she had not sailed ten miles
to sea before the breeze died aw ay. and tlav light j
revealed the French bug ul Avar williiti a mile's ihs
lance.
So *11011 a* the Vlinker Ava* discovered, the I'reiich 1
coiuuiander manned a boat with a dozen Bailor* and 1
in,,1 Diets, bnardetl. and tool, pn session it her as a
prize. AM the crew ami passengers were transfcrccd \
(mm the schooner Lone, to the tJ. .s. sloop ol win
Vaudalia, «xceptmg <'aptain (.'laike, the mate and
the cook. A lit uli uant ami a pr /.c crew of right !
men wpie then put on hoard nod ordered to !
Saciifieios, wlieie the French Heel Jay at author. !
Captain Clarke, his mule and cook, were thus tie !
laim d prisoners in tlirir own vessi I under a guard of
nine armed men including the lieutenant. They
selmiitted to their late w ith commendable Joint tide
till the morning of the fourth of July. The vcsmcI*
lay becalmed thirty miles from Saeriliciou. The
iecollectioiiH of*76 stirred the Yankee blood in the
veins ol tlie prisoners, and they dch rmir.ed to make
an effort for liberty, Fortune seemed to favor the
attempt.
They stole upon deck about daylight and found
only four »iiilois upon the watch, the residue and
the officer having retired to rest. To knock down
two iifthe watch and drive the other two up the tig
ging before the muzzle of a pistol w ilhout a lo id or .1
flint—to fasten the companion way 111 on the hen
tenant mid lock the forecastle upon the sailors, w h
but the work of a moment with this trio of resolute
seamen eon'emlmg for their freedom. Without
any bloodshed, and almost without rehistai.ee, they
took possession ol the schooner, and brought
her prize new, money, hides and all safely to New
Orleans. On their way to this port they were met
and bo nded by a Hiitislt armed ship, the command
er of which applauded the gallant exploit of Captain
Cl.uke, and offered him n convoy to Havana. The
whole t.c111< vment may bo taken us a fair specimen
of Yankee daring and enterprise.
I'rnn the Nrw Orleans A>neriean% July IT
Few tilings have occurred here to cause so much
undisguised mirth as the exploit of ('apt. Clarke, nf
tlic schooner Lone, his mate and .steward, in retaking
the vessel, and bringing the pi./e crew ».f nine
Frenchmen safely into |>otf, bound hand and font.—
I he parlicuhns of this matter wi re so generally pub j
lislied yesterday that it is useless to 1epe.1t them
in re. It was highly amusing to observe the worthy (
Captain repuiiiug himself an I his story t> the Col
lector of tins port. While the officials w ere bursting •
w ith Hiipp essed ninth,('aptain ('laike proceeded willi
l.is story a* solemn as a judge in the c 11t11111.il court.
IL’seemed far more tioublcd with the lew words
of the Collector than in mu rounding, with Ins
body guard ol two, the whole ol the nine French
sailors; and when some doubts were expressed
whether the schooner must he sent back again, lie
calmly observed, he couldn't see why,—it was the
duty of every captain to bring bis vessel to her port
i f destination. Wo learn that it was deemed ne
crssaiy to make a special deposits of 1 lie specie to j
the order of tho government, and to lake bonds for
• he vessel, and caigo, pending the transmission of
instructions from head quintets. The Captain and
Ins ciew had immortalized themselves, and many
was the joke crocked, ami bottle too, while laughing
at the dilemma of the sleeping lieutenant and hi*
tied up cicw.
STKA.MBOAT DISASTERS.
Tho Inst mails ft urn the West fuini"h account*; ol
the occurrence of several disastciN to steamboats on !
those waters, but in only one of which, however, were
there any I in cs lost.
Tilt? Cincinnati Daily News slates that on the night !
ol the 1 ‘Jill instant, the steamboat Detroit, while de
scending the rivcrfroin Pittsburg, with INIosrs. Ci.ay
and Chittenden, struck on some obstacle iu tlic riv- I
cr, supposed to be a sunken coal boar. The ('aptnin
being on deck at the time, prom ply directed the boat
to the Kentucky shore, where she sunk, but the pas
sengers disembarked without inconvenience. The
steamboat Buffalo came along soon after, . ml took I
on board the I>etroit*s passengers. Messrs. Ci.ay ami i
Chittenden landed at Maysville, where they took j
stage for home.
Another,—The steamboat Rio, bound up the Mis- j
sissippi, collnspcd a tine on tin* the llilr iust. 5 miles !
above St. Louis. The second steward, a black
in an, was so dieadfully hurt that his life was despair
ed ol ; and live children, deck passengers, were sc- i
vercly scalded.—Two of the l itter, one an infant, j
have since died. A black boy, about 13 years old,
was also injured so severely that lie died the day nl |
terwnrd*. 'The passengers unanimously passed res- j
olutions, absolving the officers of the boat from all
blame.
Another.—The steamboat Ben Franklin, on liri
way up from Louisville to Cincinnati, took fire on the
night ol the loth instant, from sparks (lying on the
hurricane roof. The the at first is said to have had
quite an alarming appearance, but it was got under
without micli damage.
'I he steamboat Pioneer, on her upward passage to
\\ heeling, broke a shall outlie loth instant* No
other injury sustained.
It is stated that M. L. Davis, Kkq. the biographer i
of Aaron Burr, will put to press in October tlie Pri
vate Journal of that individual while in France. It
is expected to contain may important disclosures ami i
much amusing gossip.
•. _
Col. Andrew Pickens, formerly Governor of South
Carolina, died lately, near Pontotoc, North Mis>issip
pi, of a paralytic attack. Gov. Pickens was about
60 years of age.
Governor Call, of Florida, has succeeded in ma
ing a treaty with John Walker and Kcon Chatainic- !
co’s tribes of Apalachicola Indians. The Indians I
have agreed to stiriender their lauds, and to remove)
on the 20tli of next October.
—
Richmond and Fredericksburg Rail Road.—By
the Report of the President and Directors, it seems
that the whole cost of the toad and fixtures amounted
to $998,241 46). The road itself cost $642,680 671.
1 hey think they will be able to divide four per cent
oil the first ol November, anti three per cent outlie
first of May ; and that increased dividends may here
after be reasonably expected.
[Richmond Whig.
The Compiler says—“ The continuation of the
road from Fredericksburg to Potomac or Aquia
Creek, was suspended by the Company, for the pie-!
sent—no doubt to ascertain first w hat disposition will
be made ol the I pJuiou h and Alexandria project:1
SUICIDES.
We learn through jiassfiigci. in the < stein stage,
that Colonel Peter \V. Orsywin. ol Texas, while on
Ins wn) lu Washington City, look lushle.it the house
ill .Mr. Juliu Mayse. Ileau'a Station, Term., a lew
* «i. re. lie applied a landed pislol tu Ins lemple
ami blew uir the lop ol Ins bead. A pistol, a razor
aml a iml uf laudanum wi re found upon ihc table id
j Ins room, nl#«i In# will, himI u Idler dirccletl to Air.
I Mayse, ilia latter conlaiDing instructions at to the
! disposition ul liia remains. Col. Grayson, we learn,
wua a native of Kentucky, lie was recently appoin
led Minister to the Governn eul ol the I’. Stales, in
place of Gen. Hunt, (le.igned,) and was, at the time
ill Ins death, a candidate for the Presidency ol Texas,
in opposition to Gen. Mirabesu 11. Humor. \\ e h.Ive
not heard any cause a s.gneil for Ins lash act nisei!*
dcttiuctlon. [Abingdon Statesman.
Mr, J os nr u Sir vtason, of Madison tounty, Ky.,
committed suicide on the 1st insl., by shooting liim
stll through the head with a nils.
Mis. Fi.iz.ahutii Ai.VKRson, ofGarrard county,
Ky, was found dead in tlie ham of her husband. Mr.
John a. Alter ton, or) the .'Id met., having hung her
self with a tope, attached to one of ihe joisls.
j.’atai. Dlk.l.—We learn from ihe Natchez Free
Trailer ofilie r-ili iust., jhal Messrs. Drane and Dili
1,ms, eilizena of (Jantoii, Madison county, Missis
sippi, boihgentlemen of high respectability, hy mu
lU l I iigreeiiieni, fought each other a lew days since,
near ili.it place, w ith double-barrelled shot guns, uud
were norii killkd ! •
It IS slated in the Grand Gulf Advertiser that fif
teen deaths have been occasioned by violence in ihe
State nl Mississippi, within the l ist three months,
and ihnt on llie il'Jth nil., a man was attacked with a
4 aue, in the streets of Grand Gulf, and, because lie
1 Imse 10 repel force hy force, the aggressor discharg
ed a pistol id him, the shot entering his side. The
assailed then allemplrd lo discharge Ins pislol, hut,
if lading In go olF, hen treated.
Murderous Affray.— A friend 'has shown us a Id
ler, just received hy him, from which we extract the
following. Thu occuricnce tu which il alludes,
tunk place in Ghiitoih Hinds county, about the
Mill insl. :
" A most unfortunate nflair oceuricd here in the
early part ol this week. Thomas Homey. Ksq. was
shut and wounded [not dangerously] by Win. Par
ham. In a few initililrs afleiwards Parham shot A.
|„ Shackleford, who died iimlnnl/y. Gen. Foote,
Will. unW John Parham, and Allied Gibson, hive
hern indiiMcd for murder, and will lie put upon their
trial next week. We expect to show a plain case of
justifiable homicide in Win. Parham. The others
did nut participate at all in the- the fracas."
MUR OKU.—A two legged animal—we will not j
slander the brute creation by calling him a brute— j
rinined ISrown, lately murdeicd his wife, in Pope |
county, A iKaunas, by shooting her with a rifle loaded
wuh two halls. She was sitting amidst her children, j
in tilt! shade of n tree, sewing. She saw the rifle
pointed at her, hut befdro she had time to rise, re- I
reived the* balls between her breasts. She ran fifteen hr j
twenty feet, when she fell and died. The children I
immediately fled, the eldest taking the youngest on j
his bark, anil alarming the neighbors at JJnideuelle, i
about tluee miles from the house, who repaired to \
the scene of this dreadful tragedy. When they nr- !
lived there, the murderer had laid Ins victim on the
linl, and washed (lie blood from her hands and lace,
.uni had then ihank himself stupidly drunk and laid j
down at hn feet, with two loaded rifles at lus side, I
and lalleu into a senseless slumber.
Ills weapons were secured, and him ell bound.
No entitle hut whiskey, lor the murder. Drown and
hit wilo were both Iron) the neighborhood of ('on- \
cord. North (’arolina, and wero the father and mo- :
iher of live children, the eldest 14,and the youngest
*2 years old, and she was pregnant at the lime of her j
murder.
N. V. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS*
A. .S’. Ilil/yrr. vs. John Travers.
This was an action to recover $2,500, on a con
tract for services rendered by the plaintiff to defend
ant, and also for money paid while iu such service, mi
rier the following circumstances:
li appealed that during the session of the New
Jersey Legislature ol .'id and *07, plaintiff was em
ployed by defendant, to proceed to Trent"!) and lob- !
/ill for thu passage of a bill, entitled "The Dcrgen
Port Company Dill.” (Ofwhieli company, defrnd
ant has subsequently been President.) The plaintiff;
proceeded, according to contract, and succeeded,
though wit li the greatest difficulty in procuring the i
incorporat ion, and the bill was finally passed, near the
close of the session. It was also shown that the
defendant was present and lobbied in aid ol Ins agent,
the plaintiff.
The defence set tip. was, that the plaintiff had no
right to recovei, as it was an unlawful and illegal
proeeedure altogether. A nutnbet of witnesses were
line introduced to explain to (ho court, what was
meant by the term lobbying* or rather what was
the nature of the duties peiformcd by the plain
tiff.
This part of the testimony was very full and expli*
cit, and afforded no little amusement to the audience
ns well ns the couth We need not cite hut a sin
gle point by way of illustration to explain sati facto
lily tins portion of the report. It was "that the
plaint ill invited the members of the Legislature to his
house to supper,ami that while there, and under the
influence of wine, then rotes wero promised iu sup
port of the bill.”
The court charged, that no doubt remained, that
the plaintiff'had rendered his seiviccs as h id been
alleged in the opening. Dut every agency to pro
cure votes in the manner which has beet, proved,
was illegal and repugnant to republican principles,
onniiicli all our institutions arc founded. No man
was therefore entitled to recover for such services.—
There were two points for the jury to consider.
1st. Whether the defendant in this case did em
ploy the plaintiff—and
2d. Did he employ him fur honest purposes ? It
so, he is entitled to recover.
If he was employed to bring into effect his pci son
nl influence with the New J rscy Legislators, lie
certainly could not recover. .Such recovery would
heat variance with public viitue. It the co tract
was altogether corrupt, then a verdict must be.
given for the plaintiff. If the jury were satisfied to
the contiary, the defendant would be entitled to the
verdict.
The jury retired, and after almost four boms' 1
absence ca • e into conn w ith a verdict for the dc-1
feudan t.
From the Urulgelon Citron icle.
THE GREAT ECLIPSE OF 1B33.
The eclipse we perceive begins o be the subject
of comment in some of the newspapers mourcoun
try, and this early notice is no doubt owing to some
peculiar circumstances connected with the phenome
non itself. For many years past wc have had, at
short intervals, a large eclipse of the sun—either to
tal nr annular—and this one has been styled, hy way ;
<>f eminence, the last of the series—for wo shall not,
witness another similar eclipse for sixteen years, nor
a total eclipse for nearly a generation to come.1 and
wc tainnol withhold the solemn reflection, that this
w ill be the last remarkable tclipsc that many of us
shall ever he permitted to see ! Ves, befoie another
conjunction of the heavenly bodies, which will cause ,
a tutal obstruction of the sun's rays, a whole genera- i
tion ol our species w ill have passed ihc ordeal of
death, the retributions of eternity ! and yet the undis
turbed affairs of the Almighty move on—and those
splendid spheres, launched from his hands, with un- ;
deviating certainty fulfil llicir destined round—prai
sing their great Creator either in lustre or in shade!
Hut we leave our readers to moialize upon ihc sub
ject at tlieii leisure. We hope the day may bo line
—that out a cloud may obscure the horizon or dim
the '• setline sun’s" effulgence—that all may enjoy
the pleasure of beholding—though none can experi
ence the delight of such a spectacle but the student
of nature, and the humble worshipper of its gieat
A uthor!
hi order to furnish our readers with a full and ac
curate description, we have been at considerable
pains anil labor to calculate the exact phases and
tunes of this eclipse—adapting them expiesstjy tc
the latitude and meridian of Bridgeton, w inch we
find in lie 39 deg. 26 nun. north, and lougitude 75
di g. 15 min. west, from Greenw ich.
This eclipse will not he total, hut annular—that is,
the moon’s apparent diameter being less at the time
ill,in the sun's, cannot hide the w hole face of the sun,
hut will leave die margin visible, UU< a lumiuous ling,
to all persons w itlitu a certain distance Irotn the cen
tral path.
The ellipse will oceui September 18, 1838, b*
| tween 3 an«l 6 u'cluek, it) the afternoon. The first
point of euniact*will be about 97 degrees Irotn the
• nil's vertex ^oi lop) to the right hand, precisely at
3h. 17m. 68*ee. The beginiug of the annular
eclipse will be 4b. 36w. ‘J7sec. The luminous ling
will continue 6m. 20sec. and end*at 4It. 41m. 4isec.
The nearest approach ol'lhe sun and moon will tube
place at precisely 4h. 38m. 3<3sec., and the apparent
distance of the i eutn-a will then be only H3J seconds
—the moon's apparent latitude being 18see. south—
of course the ring will lie marly concentric, the uppci
part being a small ftaclion broader than the under
pait, on account of the exact central path falling a
little to llie west of Hndgeton. This will he by lar
ihe most interesting pin lion of the phenomenon.
The sun will hi a great measure be blotted out from
the heavens—and his place supplied by a luminous
ring of surpassing beauty and splendor! To witness
it would recompense a voyage across the great Atlan
tic. The shadow will then gradually leave the sun,
and the eclipse will end at 5li. 50m. 53se.c. just 16
uiiiiutrs before the sun sets to the mhabi'ants ol
Hrulgeton, having continued 21). 32m. 55sec.
The above calculations arc all made Jo solar or ap
parent time, being licit which is usually kept in
this place—the equation of time is about 6m. faster;
by deducting from the times above, you will have
mean nr clock time.
As n regards the earth in general, and the tract of
country lo w Inch the eclipse will be central and annu
lar, it is staled in the American Almanac to be as
follows:
liegining to be visible in the unknown regions near
the north polo, the central annular eclipse will pass
through Kamschulka in Asia, Ihe Hiitisli posses
sions in North America, not lar west of 11 udson’s Hay,
Rake Supetioi, Wisconsin Territory, Michigan, the
northeast pail of Ohio, southeast part of Maryland,
noilhcast part of Virginia, and into (lie Allantic
Ocean ; its course being from northwest to southeast.
The eclipse will be annular over a space oM2() miles
wide.
The ring, in the places where it may he seen, will
continue only from lour to about six and a halt min
utes. At Haltimore, the eclipse will begin a* 6m.
past 3 I'. M. The ring will ho formed at 37 min.
past 4, and be central at 10 min. past 4. The eclipse
will end ai 40 min. | ast 5. At Washington City and
llichmmid, the several phases will he within a small
fraction of a minute of tiu> same time. At Raleigh
within about two minutes of the same lime. Hut
there no ring « ill appear. The sun will he a vety
slender crescent. This crescent will be wider, with
horns less sharp, as we go south and southwest,
ami north and mithcast, from the path of the cen
tral eclipse.
This path fust touches the eaith at a point near
the north pole, a little east oftlie meridian ofUrcen
wicli. In a few seconds afterwards, iit attains its
greatest northern latitude, whilst for the first eight
minutes it moves rapidly westward, until it in 93 de
grees west of that meridian. Intern minutes idler
passing nut of the U. States into the Atlantic Ocean,
it leaves the cailh at a point about 34 degrees north
latitude, and 58 west longitude; just 1 hour 58tr>in
utes and 32 seconds after its first touching the earth ;
having unversed a somewhat circuitous Hack of 5000
miles in length ; and (as we said before) the whole
annular path being 480 miles in breadth. It reach
es, hi width, from Tail field county, in Connecticut,
nearly to Raleigh, in N. f'aiolinn.
This will he the last central eclipse of the sun visi
ble ill the United Slates, until May 26, 1854. The
next total eclipse of the sun will be August 7,
1869.
Cabotvillk, (Mas .) July 7.
'I'll». Urkat IIi.ll.—I have just been to see the
great bell, east a lew days since by the ingenious and
justly distingui'hed mechanics, the Messrs. Ames,
of tins place, ll is truly a curiosity, and well worth
a journey ol one hundred miles lo see. Its weight
is about 8.000 pounds, and it measures in height a
botit six feet, and is nearly of (he same size in diame
ter. It is to be placed on the City Hall in New
York, and to be mug only in cases of alarm by
fire. Several attempts have heretofore been made
by the Corporation of New York to obtain a bell of
snllicient size for (Ins purpose, but they have here
tofore been unsuccessful. Several large bells have
been put up. but all in a short time have been bro
ken. The Messis. Ames have invented a new mode
of lingiiig this bell, which will undoubtedly pieveul
its being broken. Their plan is, lo have the bell
remain stationary, and to be struck by machinery
put in motion by a crank. The object ot the ma
chine is to change the direction ol the clapper al
each stroke in such a way as lo cause every part of
the brim of the bell to be struck, and of course to
be equally condensed.
To do this, a vettical shaft is made to pass up in
the centre of the bell, with a cam on the upper end.
Thisshaft revolves between two upright supports of
cast iton, from which the clapper or tongue of the
bell is suspended—having an arm on the upper end,
against which the cam is made In act and give motion
In the clapper. The supports of the chipper have
a slow revolving motion given by a worm wheel at
tached to the shaft of the crank. The clapper gives
a stroke to every revolution of the crank, and revolves
around the bell to every hundted strokes.
Hi this ingenious contrivance, the bell is always
sti ui k with same force, however fist the crank is
turned. There can be no doubt of its complete suc
cess; and it affords another instance of the great
skill of those gentlemen, who have already done so
much for American manufactures.
The Huff.ilu Commercial gives an account of a
review, at the Falls of Niagara, which went utf with
great eclat, although the number of troops was not
so great as was expected, probably not more than six
or right hundred in all. Lord Durham appeared in
the uniform of a general officer accompanied by Sir
John Colborne, Sir Charles Paget, and a brilliant
staff. The Countess of Uurha n and several ladies
were also on the ground. The review was followed
by a sliatn light. A large number of spectators were
present, including many from the United Stales, who
were treated with marked courtesy, some fifty being
invited to a collation, at which Lord Durham gave the
health of the President of the United States, pre
lacing his toast with some appropriate remarks. The
w hole affair went off in good style, and "cannot fail
to have pioihiccd a favorable impression.
Disbanding ok tiik Canada Militia.—It is
slated ill the Detroit Free Press of Monday, finm a
source which that paper says may be relied on, that
an express reached Sandwich the day previous, from
Toronto, with orders to the commandant to disband
ihp militia on the frontier, and to draw oflThc regu
lar troops into the Loudon district.
'_
From the it. Louis Hr publican, July 4.
I1’ill'its ok Abolition.—We hear from Adams
county, Illinois, ol an unfortunate affray, connected
with the bad spirit existing in that (|iitirter, betivren
the Abolitionists and anti-Abolitionists. Tivo citi
zens of I!oone county, in this state, hail pursued two
of their runaway slaves to Hear Creek, in the neigh- ]
borhood ol Quincy. When satisfied of their being j
discovered, the negroes, both of whom wero armed
with nfles, took shelter in a hazel thicket. Their
retie.it was soon suriotiuded by the citizens, who had
engaged in the pursuit. As soon as the attack com
menced, one of the negroes fired his rifle, the con
tents ol which were lodged in the body of one of the
pursueis. The wound is said to be extremely dan
gerous. A shot from the pursuers struck the body
of one of the slaves and he died in a few hours after
wards. The other runaway, seeing resistance hope
less, gave himself up to his owner. A party ol Ab
olitionists, w ho had by this time collected, now inter
fered to prevent the slave from being taken back to
his master's residence. They insisted upon an
examination before a magistrate, theprjof of owner
ship, dec. hoping some opportunity would be given
lor the rcscuo or escape of tiro slave. Theanti
Abohtionisis opposed any such proceeding ; until
from words tbe parties proceeded to blows, which
wero given and returned with hearty good will. In
the confusion of the scene, the owner of the slave
was enabled to secure him a horse, and made his es- |
cape to the terry at Hannibal, which he crossed on ,
his way home. The parlies tnilrtanr were lull fight
ing when our informant came away.
Health of yew Orleans.—The Advertiser of the.
l7tli has the following paragraph in relation lo the
health n| New Orleans:
•• The depopulation of our city is very rapid—ships
and steamboats leave, crowded with passeugers. ;
The steamboat Albany, «Inch left yesterday, had be
• 'I
tween two iinJ three hundred on board. ih.inK
providence. Now Orleans was never more healthy
than at piesent; cool, refreshing shower* have been
frequent, and the evenings are generally delighilul.
We trust the season will pass uver without the visita
! lion of disease."
TheVollowrogallegorical seutimenU proclaimed at
ihe celebration of the 4th iust. al Lenox, Ms., by ihe
I committee of arrang) nietiis, are novel to us, and cer
I tainly very true anil pretty.
"Agriculture: The heart of the American Ea
glc.
Commerce and Manicures : The wings el the
Ametican Eagle.
The Army and Navy : The talons of the American
£»*>•" _
A Hint.—The Colonial Legislature ot Virginia,
jin 1C55, enacted a law in the wards following, to wit:
, •• A member of the House, lot being disguised with
! overmuch dunk, shall be lined fust time, 1U0 pounds
j tobacco ; second time, 200 pounds ditto ; third time,
10 pounds ditto." Such a law, some two centuries
i after, would Ittve greatly relieved the burthens ol
: the Commonwealth.
NEWSPAPERS vs. DRINK.—" I positively
never knew a man in the country who was loo poor
to lake a newspaper. Yet tw o out of three, even re
spectable people, read no newspapers but what they
! burrow. As I speak generally, I hope I offend none.
If I do,the greater the necessity to speak out. Eve
ry man is able conveniently to take a newspaper.—
How many who think themselves too poor take a
newspaper pay four times as much daily fur drink !
Miserable man, thou art poor indeed !"
[Benjamin Franklin.
FROM TEXAS.
Vklasco, July T.—The stiles of town property
here have just closed ; something like, a hundred
thousand dollars worth of property was sold, and
only a fraction of the entile interest disposed of. A
mung the purchasers of lots we notice the names of
(Jen. Lamar and Col. Bee. We understand that
they intend to have their residences at this place.
We also notice some of our most extensive pl.intcis
purchasing for the put pose of residences.
The proprietors intend laying a proposition before
the next Congress, oll'et mg this place ns the perma
nent seat of government. Its position during the
war is highly advantageous—East nmi West it is
nearly central, and in point i f health and comfort
it possesses advantages over every other place.
We have learned by gentleman just from Salt An
tonio, that a deputation ol 12 Cherokee chiefs hail
just returned from Mataimras, escorted by 150
Mexican Cavalry, and that they li»J made a treaty
with the Mexicans.
It is expected that we have much ]list cause of
apprehension at their hands—several indications of
hostility have already occurred. Many little parties
of surveyors have been attacked and some destroyed.
Capt. B. F. Cage ami a Mr. Campbell were recent
ly attacked near San Antonio by n party of Cuman
clies; the latter was killed and the former was shot
ill ougli,and only saved hislifehy his cooluessund pre
sence of mind, lie cntllie bowstiings ofonc of the In
dians, and succeeded in reaching a thicket where he
defended himself for some time against a large parly.
—Cage was a disciple ol Bowie and an old Indian
fighter, and but for his skill and courage w ould have
been killed."
The New Orleans Courier of the I3ih inst., says
that President Houston arrived in that city on the
12th and immediately departed for the east, on a
visit to the numcious Indian tribes who reside on
the frontiers of the T* xian republic, lor the purpose
of forming treaties of amity and peace with them.—
He will, it is said, be absent three months.
TI5f * COPPER WARE
I'.It'TOIt S’. .
TIliUKiV KVL1I,
One Itoor .Yorlh of
DSC. II. DAVIEV
St II f'« S TO It I],
AS on hand a Isr^e assortment of 1 in Ware,
which he will stdl very low. Merchants
who deal ill this article, will do well to call on
him, as he warrants his work to he as well executed
as at any other establishment in the State.
He has also hand, and is prepared make, Stills,
Kettles, and every kind of Ware in his business—
House-Coveting and Spouting with Tin or Copper
on the most approved plan, and low prices.
(JJ3* STOVES, ofdilfcretit kinds and sizes.
February 19 w is if
A Penny saved is twopence gained.
CITIZENS SAVINGS BAN K
.its. wvcMtrsvna.
■ u.lilntrd hi IN34 n ilh u fund of SI IOO, bn. now
an active Capital of
.10,000 DOLLARS.
DEl’OSITES of money current in Virginia
w ill be received by this Institution, if not less io
amount lliiin FI VU DOM, t ICS—and certificates
issued therefor binding fully and effectually the funds,
stock and property ol the Institution, for the payment
thereof, when demanded upon ten days notice, with
interest thereon from the date, after the rate ol'o per
centum per annum for such as may remain six months
A: upwards ; and four per centum per annum, for such
as may remain four and not exceeding six months,
end three per centum per annum forsuch as may be
demanded within four months.
DISCOUNT DAY.
Every Thursday at (>J o'clock, P. M. ai»he Office
of the Institution, I doors below the Farmers'
Dank.
JNO. ROH’N. McDANIEL, President.
TIIO’S. McKINNEV, Treasurer,
JOS. MARSH. Secretary.
MHItCTOHS,
Joshua h. 1 lolines,
Jas. T. Stevens,
R. W. Collins,
John T. Davis, !
Chailes L. Mushy,
Lynchburg, F» b.
Jno. \V. 1 oitng,
David K. Lyman,
Jim. McKinney,
JJavid Rodes.
«ts2G
NEW 150 OKS.
WE HAVE JUST RECEIVED a large as
sortment of elegant new publications, in the
various benches of literature, viz: Cuvier's Animal
Kingdom; I,yell's and Comstock’s Geology; De
La Beetle's Geological Manual; Manual ol Classic
al Literature; Stsmoodi's Fall of the Roman Em
pire; Niebuhr’s Rome; Wheaton's International
Law; Hartford Convention; Fisher on the Vine,
Mrs. Sigourney's Letters; Methodist Hymns and
Prayer Books, all sizes, and very line; Wavcrlv
Novels, 27 Vols. ; Davy Dumps; Sketches iii
Paris; Egypt, Arabia Petrea and the Holy Land;
Celestial Scenery of the Heavens by Thos. Dick;
Abbott’s Way to do Good ; Young Man'sand Young
Lady’s Library; Young Wile’s Book; Young
Husband's Book; Gen. McComb’s Tactics; Mrs.
Barbauld's Lessons ; Clark’s Commentaries oh the
New Testament; Bingly’s Travels in Europe;
Clinique Medicate, by Andral; Lady Blessingion’s
Complete Works 1 Vol., {cc. ice. together with
a very extensive assortments of English, Greek, La
tin and French School Books and Stationary of
every description, nholesaleor retail, at low prices.
Our stock is now the most complete ever offered
m this Market, and we particularly invite the reading
rnmmuuity to call and examine lor themselves.
„ MARTIN <V LATHAM.
May 3 u
I.VNCUUL lie, JII.V .*«>. IS;,S.
GEOLOGICAL LECTURE* 55*SS
We inadvertently omitted ,o mention, in our I
that Professor Wm. B. Rogers, of llle University’
patd us a brief visit at the close of the precedme
week, A in compliance with the request of ule y 8
Men', Society, delivered on Saturday evening iiTtJfe
Methodist Protestant Church, au aide, eloquent
autl instructive Geological Lecture, before that As
socatton, the Patrick IJen.y Society, and a delight
ed auditory of ladies and gentlemen. Professor
Rogers has gone on Westwardly, for the purpos. of
meeting a corps of his Assistants, who it will he re
collected, are, under his supervision, making a geo
logical iccounoisance of the State. lie is expected
to be with US again about the last 0f August, when
wc hope lie will find it convenient to deliver us auad
j ditional Lecture.
RESUMPTI<J.\ ANNOUNCED.
1 lie Bank Convention, represented either by del
egates or by letters from the Banks in the Statrsof
Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Connecti
cut, Deleware, Kentucky, Rhode Island, Maryland
and Missouri, was held in Philadelphia on the 23rd
inst. John B. Morris, o. Baltimore, w as elected Pre
sident, and Elihu Chauncey of Philadelphia, Secre
tary, and it was unanimously resolved that the Banks
represented will resume specie payments on the 13th
of August; and recommend that Jay for the adop
tion of the Banks gcnetallv.
EXPENDITURES FOR 1838.
We subjoin an olfici.il statement of the estimated
drain upon Uncle Sam’s purse, for the year 1833,
made by those •• economical” stewards and guardians
of the. old gentleman’s interests, who, by their loud
clamors against his former uverscecr’s prodigal
ity, (though he expended only about ONE-THIRD,
per annum, as much as is estimated to he necessary
for the year 1838.) have succeeded ill securing »
twelve year’s control of the purse-strings ;
Extra Session,
For tho support of the Government
and suppression of Indian hostili
ties lor the year 1837 $2,109,000 00
2,/ Session loth Con press.
Civil and diplomatic 8.252,300 22
Army 6,1Q7,8H0 lu
Fortifications 1,015,415 OH
Protection of the Northern frontier 025,500 00
Navy 0,002,130 30
Revolutionary and other pensions 2,068,531! G2
Current expences of the Indian De
partment 3,002,427 73
Preventing and suppressing Indian
hostilities 7.739,410 41
Harbors 1,535,008 57
Light Houses 307,010 30
Miscellaneous 540,300 00
Private claims 35,107 00
$38,413 ,004 8
Thirty-eight and a half millions of dollars in one
year! And this, loo, to lie squandered by a party who
complained ol the expenditure id' thirteen millions
per annum, by (lie administration, which they over
threw, mainly by charging it with unnecessary ex
travagance, and w ho ofcouise promised to cut down
those expenditures to that narrow scale becoming
what they were pleased to call the “simple ma
chine" of a Republican people ! Alas, that tlrers
should be such a wide gulph between profeiiiou
and piactice.
We would suggest to the “ Democrat," at Fin
castle, that in the appropriations of 1838, there is no
“ Public Debt” to be paid off-—but tire vast aggre
gate, of more than 38 millions, which even the Rich
mond Enquirer admits to b* “ startling," is to be
appropriated to the current necessities ofour “ sim
ple machine," under the guidance uf else par excel
lence Economical parly !
The Richmond Enquirer, however, iu publishing
this "startling" exhibition of wasteful prodigality on
the part of the administrators of the government,
endeavors to turn the current ol public reflection
from the evils which it admits to exist, to others
from which it alleges that we have escaped. Ad
mitting that the expenditures have become unusual
ly large, it exclaims, with well-affected simplicity,
“But what would have been the situation of tho
Treasury, if the policy of Mr. (.'lay had been suffer
ed to prevail” J We can only infer vvha*. it ‘‘would
have been,” from what it was, when Mr. Clay’s poli
cy. as the Enquirer is pleased to call it, did prevail.
When Mr. Clay was the first member ofthe Cabinet,
tiie expenditures of the government were thiltcen
millions of dollars per annum : The Enquirer aud
its co-laborers in the werk of overthrowing that ad
ministration, even though it were as pure as the an
gels in Heaven, charged it w ith excessive extrava
gance, and promised, if the people would put them
into power, they would diminish federal patronage,
by cutting off a number of useless offices, and that,
to that extent, they would lessen the annual draiu
upon the public purse. The people took them at
their word. They displaced Mr. Adams; and Gen.
Jackson, as he stood in the Eastern portico of the
Capitol, to take upon himself the solemn responsi
bilities of tlie station which he had so earnestly cov
eted, and which he had reached by the unstinted use of
pledges, since wilfully broken, or unredeemed, be
cause they could not be complied with, ostentatiously
display ed a flag, with "■ Retrenchment and Reform !"
written in conspicuous letters upon its broad lold*.
And this is the cud! Instead of!3 millions per an
num, the National Treasury is taxed with 38 mil
lions of dollars. And when this confessedly "start
ling” fact is announced to the people, one ol the
old " Reformers” is impudent enough, to ask what
would have been ihn state of the Treasury ii t. 3
policy had prevailed. If the people had “ let
well enough alone,” Clay's policy would have ex
pended no more in 183d than it did in 1828, unless,
indeed, extraordinary appropriations should hava
been reudeied necessary by extraordinary contingen
cies in the latter year, not known to the former.
Of a like character is the whole of the Enquirer s
jesuitical aiticlc on this subject—especially that
portion of it which refers to Gen, Jackson’s veto ol
the Mnysvillc Road bill, by which, it alleges, he ent
short to a great extent the system of internal im
provements by the general government. There nev
er was a more outrageous attempt than that very
same veto to gull, deceive and mislead the people :
for, ut the very sessional which the Kentucky road
was vetoed, for reasons, as many persons believe, ex
clusively personal to Mr. Clay, hundreds of thou
sands of dollars were appropriated to works of m
ternol improvement, in other States, with the ap
probation of Gen. Jatksou,—wotks having no prf
'fusions to •' a uational character,"—much more