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ALEXANDRIA GAZETTE.
PUBLISHED A«D EDITED BT
EDGAR SNOWDEN,
FAIRFAX ST., OPPOSITE THE POST OFFICE.
TERMS.—Daily Paper $8 oer annum, payable half ■
• yearly. Country Paper $5 Per annum. __
A NUT FOR THE PRINTERS.
Jim Black, who lovfcd to cat a-•
Was courting Betty Brown,
A maid wbo had a jam of cash
To make the pill go down.
So Jemmy thus, one morning, said,
And took her by the
“ Dear Het»y, most accomplished maid,
The fairest in the land—
Hear this * I make;
Some pity now bestow—
And put, I pray, for mercy sake,
A . to my wo: .
If my destruction be your aim,
A t you may use; ^
I'd rather die by sword than flame;—
My warmth of words excuse.
Y'es, even a J now
A welcome guest would be:
For fate’s determined to allow
% sailing fur two
Rather than bear vour frowns, will [
Embark upon the seas:
For in a ' I would die—
Not peiish by 00°.
Rut to the last your praise I’ll sing,
In spite »t all our jars.
And thro’ the world your name shall ring
And soar above the ***.
There’s not a § of our land
Could show our j| :
I’d better try to count the sand
Than all your worth to tell.”
Hettv, who had a feeling heart
Not quite so tough as leather,
Bade Jemmv for the priest to start,
To ros^’them both together.
BREVIER.
LAST MOMENTS OF MR. RANDOLPH.
CFrom the Philadelphia Examiner.j
Mr. Randolph arrived at Philadelphia in the
Baltimore steamboat on Monday the 20ih May
last, with a view of embarking for England in
the packet, and took lodgings at the City Hotel
in Third near Arch street. On Tuesday lie lode
out in a hack, and on his return was so feeble as
to be obliged to go to bed. Without any person
al acquaintance with Mr. Randolph, but being an
admirer of his political consistency and manly
independence, I made an appointment with a
friend to call upon him, and accordingly went
with huo to the Hotel between one and two \
oMock on Thursday the 23d. We sent our
names up to his room on a card, and were then
desired to walk up, by the servant who deliver-1
ed it.
On entering the room, which was a front one
in the third stoiy, we found Mr. Randolph in a
bed, lying on his back, with his head and shoul
ders propped up by pillows on a bed chair, with
his knee* bent and elevated. He looked thin
and emaciated, and more like a skeleton than a
living man. His countenance appeared to be al
most destitute of life, and, without turning his
head, he put out his hand as l approached the
bed, which 1 took, and inquired how he was. 1
told him my name, and introduced my coinpani- ’
on Col. Biddle. He seemed to be in a stupor,
and scarcely noticed us, which I, supposing to
be the effect of a temporary debility, sat down,
in the hopes that he would soon be able to con
verse. Col. Biddle also took a chair nearer to '
the side of the bed than the one on which I sat. ;
There was nobody else in the room except Mr.
Badger one of the proprietors of the Hotel, and
we all three remained silent fur some minutes,
as if in the presence of a dying mao, wailing lor
Mr. Randolph to signify his wish to converse.
After a lapse of probably five minutes from
our entrance, Mr. Randolph beckoned to Mr. i
Badger, who approached near to him. He said
something in a low voice *o him, which 1 did not
Kaar. »mt then Mr. Badger whispered to Col. i
Biddle, who then approached near to Mr. Ran
dolph who said someihing in a voice just audible,
about “names for the paper—1 will give a hun
dred dollars towards it's distribution.” Tnis
was unintelligible to us all, and Mr. Randolph
perceiving that we did not understand, repeated
“I want to give names for the paper.” Mr.
Badger then said to us in a low tone, “Mr.
Randolph has sometimes been flighty;” but I,
thinking that he was under a mistake as to who i
his visiters were, said, “I think Mr. Randolph
is under some mistake about Col. Biddle.” Up
on this Mr. Badger said to him, “ Perhaps 9ir
you have mistaken this gentleman for Mr.-,” ‘
naming a gentleman whom he had seen before —
Mr. Randolph replied. “No, I have not —I
suppose him to be the editor of the State rights
paper.” This expression instantly cleared up
the difficulty. Col. Biddle named me as the in
dividual intended, and I took his place near Mr.
Randolph and said to him—“ 1 am not now, Sir, '
the editor of a paper. The one which I conduct
ed was discontinued at the end of the last year.
It was tfe Banner of the Constitution, to which,
I presume, you allude.” He replied audibly,
“ 1 knew that that paper was discontinued, but
I understood that you intended to publish ano
ther, if sufficient patronage was obtained before :
the first of July.*’ I replied, that “the first of
May was the period assigned for its commence
ment, but that, as the requisite support wax not
offered, the undertaking had been abandoned.—
At the north, the cause of State rights had been
so completely annihilated, that nobody could be
found here to support a paper devoted to its ad
vocacy.” I continued—“ At the time you came
out against the doctrines of the President's Pro
clamation, and when the cause stood in peed of
such able defenders, I had been in hopes that we
should have been able here to rally a party, but
have been disappointed ” I said, “l was glad
to learn from Mr. T-, a few .weeks ago,
that he did not consider the cause as desperate in
Virginia.” Mr. Randolph then said “Mr.
T—- was here to see me this morning ”
During these remarks Mr. Rrandolph listened
with great attention, showing that he felt a deep
interest in the cause of State rights uj> to the la
test period of his life, but he was too feeble to con
verse, and, thinking that any further observa
tions might disturb him, we took leave of him,
under a strong persuasion that he could not
long survive. In this impression we were con
firmed by his man John, who had entered the
room before we left it, and who accompanied us
out, and who stated, in answer to our questions,
that he had been the constant attendant of his
master for many months past, and that he had
never seen him so low as at that time. He said,
he thought at one time in the preceeding night
that be was dying.
On the following day, Friday the 24th, I called
at the Hotel at about a quarter before ten o’clock,
to inquire after Mr. Randolph's health, but with
out anv intention of going to his room. I saw Mr.
Badger, who said, “ I believe he inquired this
morning for you. He desired me to send for
some gentleman whose name I have forgotten,
and I think it was you.” 1 then mentioned my
name, when he said “ that was the name.” I
then said, I would go up and see him.
On entering the room I found two young gen
tlemen, who I afterwards learned were Dr. West
and the younger Dr. Parrish, son of the attending
physician. Mr. Randolph was lying in bed in the
same position in which I had seen him the day be
fore, having his head and back propped up, and
ms Knees eievaieu. ue appeal ru w
insensible.
After a little while lie asked for a pencil and
paper, which were given to him. He then asked
for spectacles which were also given to him. when
he began to write very earnestly, resting (he pa
per on the. back of a waiter placed against his
knees. When he had filled two thirds of a page,
the lines were irregular and wide apart, he han
ded it to Mr. Badger, who entered with me,
to read. Mr. Badger attempted to do so, but
found it incoherent and in some parts illegible.—
Mr. Randolph then said “ semi it over the way
to Dr. Coulter.” His mind was evidently wan
dering, and as he insisted upon die note’* going
with haste, Mr. Badger left the room with it, as
if to send it.
Mr. Randolph soon after began to write again.
After he had finished, he beckoned tome to come
to him, and giving me the paper he said *• read it
loud ” 1 tried to do so, but cou'd only make
out apart. Il commenced thus “Dying”—ihen
followed words that looked like “place—home,”
and th*n these words, as well as I can recollect,
not having the paper before me —,l Randolph
and Betty mv children adieu — Put me to bed at
Chatham.” 'He then told me to send the note
quickly to Chatham, and as he was urgent upon
it, I left the room for two or three minutes, as if
to execute his wishes
Atone time Mr. Randolph asked me to get an
orange to which he pointed on the mantle piece,
and cut it for him, which I did. He ate two small
pieces. He asked for water, and drank two or
three times At times he showed by his remarks
that his mind was nearly gone. At one time he
said “ call Capiaim West back.” Capiam West
had been an officer on board of one of the pack
ets in which Mr. Randolph had made a voyage
to England, but was not then in port. At ano
ther, he inquired “ how much do they ask foi all
the chairs in this room ”
Between 10 and 11 o’clock Mr. Henry E.
Watkins of Virginia came into the room Mr.
Randolph seemed to recognise him as he took his
hand. The same occurred with Mr. John S.
Baibourwho came soon after. Mr. William
Baiksiiale also came in, when Mr Randolph
asked him where his son was, and told him to go
and bring him, which he did- Before 11 Dr.
Parrish arrived, and from that gentleman I learn
ed that up to eight o’clock of that morning, Mr.
Randolph’s mind had remained perfectly unim
paired. .•
I cannot recollect the whole of the little inci
dents that occurred. Mr. Randolph did not ap
pear to suffer any pain. At times lie wished the
door left open for the air to pass through, one
window being all the time open At one time
after eating the orange, he a«ked lor a toothpick,
and then for a penknife to inend it, wlucn was gi
ven him, but he could not u>*e it. W hen he wrote
the first time he used Mr. Badger’s specta
cles. His own were under him on the bed, and
could not be got at, hut an old p.iir occasional -
|v used by him was given to him at one time,
when he said “ these arc not the best ones.” At
one period he insisted upon putting his spectacles
into a tumbler of water that stood on a stand
within his reach, which I afterwards learned was
sometimes his practice at home. At times there
was a motion td Ins lips, with a movement ol the
hands, as if in devotion
At about twenty minutes after eleven, bis eyes
began to become fixed, and he laid from that
time without moving. His breathing was easy,
and continued so until fifteen minutes before
twelve o’clock (noon) when he drew his last
breath. He departed without a groan or a
struggle. As he ceased to breathe, there was a
slight contorsioo on one side of his face, and his
legs, which continued elevated at the knees,
fell over from their previous position to the left
side. I assisted . Or. Parrish in removing the
pillows and chair from under Mr. Randolph's
head, and before I left the room gave to Mr.
Barksdale the paper which Mr Randolph had
handed me to read, supposing that as it contained
the last words written by that distinguished man,
it might be considered’ as a valuable relic by
some of the relatives, and especially by those nam
ed in it, who, I have since learned, were his
nephew and niece.
The incidents above related are substan
tially taken from memorandums made at the
time. If they have no interest attached to them,
it is because’no matter of interest occurred.—
They will, however, answer this one purpose,—
they* will, show exactly what did happen during
the two last hours of Mr. Randolph’s life, and
many serve to refute any false tales that may at
any future time he fabricated to the prejudice of
that distinguished man.
Mr. Randolph's remains left Philadelphia on
Sunday the 26th Mav, for his late residence
at Roanoke, in charge of his friend Mr. Barks
dale.
Mr. Parrish had some interesting conver
sations with Mr. Randolph not long before his
death, which, it is probable, were reduced to
wriiing soon after, and may probably at a future
day be given to the public*.
Extract from Captain Alexander's Transatlan
tic Sketches.
We select his account of hi* introduction to
the President, and hi* dinner, en famille, with ,
him:—
The Inspector General (Gen. Wool) was so,
kind a* to accompany roe to the President’*
house, a handsome building of the Ionic order,
of two atone* and a basement, overlooking the
Potomac and the extensive landscape frdm the
elevated scite. W'e entered an iron gate before
the edifice, drove round a grass plat enclosed
with posts and chains, and alighted at a lofty
portico of four columns- On knocking at the
entrance door, at which there were neither guards
nor livrjed retainers, after considerable delay,
one of the leaves was opened by a little man in
a fur cap, and grey short roat, who said he would
ask if Gen. Jackson could be seen; he then left
us in an empty hall. It was bitterly cold, and
General Wool piloted me up stairs to an anti
room in which there was a fire; sundry chairs
without backs, book shelves without books, and
(in plain frames,) four colored scriptural prints,
indifferently executed.
The President’s nephew and adopted son, Mr.
Jackson, a tall young man, recently married (as
almost all American young gentlemen fortunate
hf are) came and conversed with us for some
time, and then conducted us into a handsome
drawing room, with yellow furniture, where wo
found the ladies of the family dressed a la Pa
risienne, and all of them extremely affable and
agreeable; they consisted of young Mrs. Jack
son. Mrs. Donelson. Miss Eaton, and Miss Far-!
quhar.
After sitting some time with the ladies, we 1
conducted them to their carriage, and then were
shown into a room were the President was seat- •
ed at a table covered with newspapers, and be- |
fore a huge fire. lie rose at our entrance, and, |
shaking hands, inquired after our health with the j
formal politeness ol the old school. The Gene- 1
ral is about six feet high, of a spare make and
upright cariiage, dressed in black, with a black
stork, wears his white hair, coinbed back from
' his face, which is long, and his nose of corres
ponding dimensions. In face and figure he re
minded me of the late Lieutenant Governor of
the Royal Military College, Gen. Butler.
Behind the President there was a full-length
portrait of Bolivar, similar to the one I saw in
the possession of Sir Robert Wilson; and round
the room were models of agricultural imple
ments.
The party in opposition to the re election of
General Jackson to the Presidential chair had
spread a report that he was seriously ill, and
could not live; am! it was with a peculiar expres
sion that he replied to Genrpal Wool’s interroga
tory regarding his health, that he had not been
so well for ten years A tooth had annoyed
him, and an unskilful dentist in removing it had
i also drawn with it a part of the jaw; the acci
I dent had confined him to the house for a few
davs, but now he had got over the annoyance,
j \Ve remained with the President a quarter of
an hour, during which time he made inquiries re- I
garding inv progress through the states, asked
my opinion of what I had seen, and then spoke j
at some length on the engrossing question of re '
form, trusted that there would be no revolution ;
in England, and ihat the constitution would still
be preserved in its purity.
It would be very improper for me to repeat the :
General’s words during this very interesting in- j
ter view, as it would be a betrayal of confidence,
of which former traveller* in the States have j
been sometimes accused! let it suffice to say, (
that I retired much pleased with my reception
bv tin* Chief Magistrate of the United States,
who politely invited me to a take a family din
ner with him in a few days.
General Jackson commenced life without the
advantages of a liberal education:—his energy j
of character alone brought him forward: first
on service in the revolutionary contest, then dis
tinguished in Indian warfare on the Western
Frontier, he was the terror of the red mm from
Mississippi to the Rocky Mountains; he like
wise engaged in political life, and acted in a
judicial capacity. As a Geneial of the Militia
of Tennessee, he was selected to repel the
British invasion at New Orleans in 1814; his
success on this occasion was of incalculable bene
fit to the states, occasioned his promotion to the
high office which he has filled with excellent
judgment lor three years, and ha9 given gene
ral satisfaction both to the citizens and to foreig
nri8<
The day before I left Washington, I dined
m fumitle with the President, and considered
my being asked in this kind and friendly manner
as* a compliment to the service to which 1 belong
ed. The General had not begun to give dinners
that season, and my stay being short, owing to my
anxiety to return to England, from the stirring
times that were anticipated, if 1 had not been
invited to a family dinner, I could not have par
taken of the hospitality of the Chief Magistrate
at all.
To a small and comfortably drawing-room,
with mirrors and chandelier, and in which there
was a full length portrait of Washington, [ was
introduced by Mr Baird (the butler) to Gen.
Jackson, who was seated in a high backed arm
chair, round which were the members of the
family, the ladies composing one quarter of the
semicircle and the gentlemen the other. My i
excellent friend Gen. Wool, anti his boy, were •
the only strangers besides myself.
Alter another discourse on English Reform,
we handed the ladies in the blue dining room,
where a well cooked dinner ami choice wines
refreshed the senses. The services of plate and
chrystal were in excellent taste. Two brown,
domestics assisted Mr. Baird, who gave his
opinion on dishes and liquors as he helped them,
and seemed to be the factotum of the establish-1
ment. After some lively conversation regard- j
iug the ages of wine and ages of individuals, re- i
£tarks on the changes in the face of ^Jie coon-■
try, the increase of Belds and decrease of the
forest, the General drank “our absent friends,” i
and we all rose, and handed the ladies back to
the drawing room, where they were arranged as
before, till coffee was served, when two of the
young demoiselles went to the piano, and sang and
played Scotch airs; the General regaled himself
with a long pipe in hia easy chair, a la Parr,
and retired to bed at nine. Tnus ended the par
ty at the President’*.
Seven thousand and two passengers arrived at
Baltimore, from foreign ports, from the 1st of
Mav to the 31st of August.
THE GAOL DELIVERY.
From a late British publication.
If the Solicitor General carries his bill to abo.
lish imprisonment for debt, he will have saved
more undeserved suffering than either Clarkson
or Wilberforce. Among all the monstrosities of
law, the most monstrous is that of depriving a
man of the power of paying any body or any
thing, because he cannot pay somebody or
something at a given time. Tne present law of
debtor and creditor entitles a man to say. sir. you
owe me inonev, either pay me or be immured.
The answer to this might be, Sir, 1 owe you no
money. It matters not, says law; goto gaol un
til we see whether you do or not, or lind securi
ty for your appearance to four limes the amount
pretended to. Or, again, the answer may be.Ve
ry well, I owe this sum to you, but I have no
means of paying you but Iroin my professional
income; in a year or two I shall be able to save
all that is due to you and others. No, says law,
speaking the language of a revengeful creditor,
go to gaol and starve—neither pay me nor any
body—go and be ruined; base is the slave who
cannot pay; go and be ruined in gaol; I want not
mv money; I like to see a scoundrel punished.
The answer, again, may be thus—True, I owe
you money, but 1 have property to pay you ten
times over—give me time—let me sell it—let me
look out for a good purchaser. No, says law, if
we had your property, it would satisfy our debt
a thousand times over, but we cannot touch it.
but your liberty is in our power; goto gaol, then
you will have no opportunity of disposing of your
property to advantage, but you may rid yourself
of it at a sacrifice, and on the proceeds lead ajol
ly hie in prison, much win ue wamcu (
officers of the law; and since ruin necessarily
comes upon you, make the best of your situation
—it is not to be expected, treated as you have
been like a felon, that you will now ever volunta
rily reward the person that has thus dealt with
you bv the payment of his debt. Assuredly he
has had his money’s worth in cruelty.
This is the morality of imprisonment for debt
between one creditor and another. 1 lie debtor
does not, however, suffer alone; all the other
creditors are injured to the amount of the debts,
or, at least, to the value of the chance of pay
ment- Because one impatient person pursues,
the law permits the body to be thrown into gaol,
and the property to be squandered among the
extortioners who surround it. In the ruin of cha
racter, of income, and from (he circumstances
of personal movement, not only is involved the
destruction of the hopes of creditors, but the pros
pects perhaps of evpry member of a family.—
When parental surveillance is taken from chil
dren or voung persons, when the reputation of
the house* is sunk, and the overtures of its in
mates met with contumely, then comes the reign
of temptation. The great upholder of honest
pride or self-respect is gone; a loose is given to
low inclination, and the means and the instru
ments are never far off It may be safely said,
that there never was a greater disproportion be
tween any two things than a sum of money alleg
ed to be due, and the loss of liberty in a father
of a family, the earner of an income, the protect
or of hi* wife, and the guardian of his children.
The relation between the property of a debtor
and his debts is very precise, and he is not an ho
nest man who will hesitate to satisfy one with the
other; but we Englishmen, who above all others
are deeined'most of all to value liberty in (he mass,
are those who of all others, the most carelessly
sacrifice it in detail; and not merely liberty, but
morals. What prisoner leaves the gaol —haunt
of vice, intemperance, and chicanery—untaint
ed? Who will answer for the purity of his wife
and danghters who daily visit him, miking their
way through an ordeal of temptation? How ma
ny a youthful criminal dates his first crime by the
epoch of his father being dragged to gaol!
There is nothing to be said for this heinous of
fence against reason and morality. The creditor
gets nothing, saves nolliing; or« the contrary, he
more commonly loses all, save the pleasant re
flection that the man who owes him money is mo
rally and physically rotting in gaol. Credit is
more facile under this law, but it would be far
better for both parties if such credit were not, it
is a temptation to both parties—to the tradesman
who speculates on the “body pledge,’’ and the
sanguine consumer who hopes he shall be able to
pav, but who may be seriously deceived. No
man should have credit who has not means; if
he has means, it is on these means, and not on
kidnapping the person, that the creditor should
depend.
CHOLERA.
We believe wc are fully justified in asserting '
that this disease no longer exists in our county as
an epidemic. No case has occurred in Charles
town or Harper’s Ferrv during the two last i
weeks; Sinithfield has been entirely exempt; and ;
we rejoice to be able to state, that at Shepherds-1
town, where many hearts have been made deso. J
late, the disease has subsided, no case having oc
curred lately. Business is resuming its usual |
channels; and we may venture to say, that bet
ter general health no where prevails than through
out Jefferson county.—Charlestown Free Press.
To the Kditor of the Free Press.
Dear Sir—It gives me pleasure to be able to
inform you of the entire disappearance of the cho
lera from our town. We have had no case since
the 27th of August. Since that period Shepherds
town has been unusually healthy.
Charles Harper.
Shepherdstown, Sept. 3, 1833.
The ravages of disease have seldom presented
a case more fully claiming the tribute of a tear,
than in the heavy bereavement which Edmund I.
Lee, E«q or Shepherdstown, has experienced.
In April last, an interesting child of his was
snatched from a world of care; and ere time had
closed the wound, the destroying angel again
swept over his household, nibbing him of two
more of his cherished little ones, and the beloved
and amiable partner of his bosom. In such an
affliction, all human consolation is vain: all words
are idle.. The sufferer’s heart torn and bleeding,
where can he look, on earth, for solace?
** What ia now left him, but to raise
From thee, lorn spot! hit spirit** gaze—
To lift, through tears, liia straining eye
Up to His Father’s house on high'”
f Charlestown Free Press.
Mr. C. Bankhead, lady and servant, British
Secretary of Legation, and Baron Stackelberg,
Aid de Camp General to the King of Sweden,
•ailed from New York, on the 1st, for Liverpool.
ALEXANDRIA, (D. C.)
MONDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER y ^
Dinner to Senator Hives at Lewisburg.^u
Rives, of the United States Senate, bein7 '
visit to the White Sulphur Spring*, the *
of Lewisburg held a meeting on the 24th T
gust, (at which James Withrow, Esq. preiMfJ‘
and E. B. Bailey acted at Secretary,' an/ '
pointed a committee to invite Mr. Rives t0
take of a public dinner at that nlar. TU P,r
. ii. ' a,,«invita.
tion was accepted, aod the 29th of AugustC\ i
as the day on which the dinner should take plj f
The last Alleghanian publishes the letter «r ■>,
committee, and the answer of Mr. Rive,.
the former we take the following extract:
Your public life, sir, affords conclusive jr
Mtisfactory proof of patriotic devotion to r'
best interests of your country. It is in(J„j ^
tinguishrd by services, which unque»tioniM
give you Strong and undeniable claims upon
gratitude of the American people. At the t’0Ur!
of a forngn power, you have ably an,|
cessfully maintained the right* of jour »uv-r!
ment,.and with equal ability, you have^^'
quently, in the Senate of the United Natr,. fr
umpnantlv vindicated the true principles of ti,!*
government. A friend to the rights of the Sin*,
and opposed at all times to any encroachment!
whatever on those rights, you have yetfearle,,;.
me ™ nuu ououru |lreTeO^|.|RS »
South Carolina, and defended the just authoi •»
of the Federal Government. That the Union
at a period of imminent danger, has found inti*
person of a Virginia senator one of its nion on
lightened and spirited champions, cannot but |*
a source of infinite gratification to the discreet
and sober minded people of this Commonwealth.
Under these circumstances, we feel the mu»t
perfect confidence in the opinion, that when vour
present term of service shall have expired. v«i
| will be re-elected without difficulty to the holin',
able and highly responsible station you now fi
with so much credit to yourself, and advanh;t
to the State.
In reply, Mr. Rives says:
Your favorable estimate of the portion of pu‘j.
lie service it inay have fallen to my lot to pa
form, at home or abroad, fills me with a .Itr;
sense of your liberality and kindness. It au.i.'
the violence of party spirit to which you refer, 1
have encountered no small share of vehement
denunciation, I find a rich recompense in sue
testimonies of enlightened and patriotic appr„.
bation, as that you now convey.
Y’ou say, must truly, that 1 have been the ton
stant friend of the Eights of the States; »r,d
with an unvarying devotion to that cause, it his
never, in my humble judgment, been in mv pos
er to render it a better service than by my effort*,
however feeble, to rescue it from tiiose perm
sions and extravagant pretensions, which, is
making it incompatible with the existence of our
happy federal Union, and indeed of any organ
ized society whatever, must inevitably nave mail?
it an object of distrust and aversion to the path*
otic and sober minded people of this country.
M.M.Noah and ThomasGill inform theirfrieidi
and the public, that arrangements are matin;
which will enable them to publish a new daily
paper, in the City of New York, to be called t>«
Evening Star, to be devoted to News, Cut
merce, Agriculture, Manufactures, Literature.
Politics, Arts, Sciences, &c. &c. &c.
“The Evening Star will afford a friendly but
independent support to the present General and
State Administrations; will sustain the jo:
rights of the States, and the supremacy of t!x
laws; will advoca'e every measure tending It
perpetuate the Union, and reconcile conflictin’
interests; will maintain republican principle,
and the systems ami usages of the rrpublim
party; support the claims of eminent anil pj'ri
otic men; endeavor to heal existing divisions
expose intrigue and selfish measures; and. in
word, take care of the * public good.’ A m re
detailed view of the principles which will gofers
the new paper will shortly be distributed itia
pamphlet form.”
“ The Miscellaneous Department of the Eve
ning Star will be varied and interesting, einbrac
ing every department of Science and Liferalme.
Foreign and Local News, Fashions, and the Fine
Arts: in short, it is intended to make it a use
ful and agreeable family paper.”
•• Termf.—The Evening Star will he prinbJ
with i larse type, and on a handsome imperii!
sheet, at Ten Dollars per annum for the daily
paper, and Four Dollars for the semi wcekif.
the latter always payable in advance.”
From Arkansas Territory, our advices nuk*
it certain that A. II. Sevier is re lected Delegate
The returns, nearly complete, give him 3,5^
votes, and Mr. Crittenden 1,429.
Later from Xeio Grenada. —Captain Jonc‘,'
the brig Elizabeth, arrived at New York, b"B’
Carthagena, from whom an official account
been received, signed by the Governor of I'1
place, stating that a conspiracy was discovered to
the President on the night of the 2.3d of July-~
Measures were immediately taken by him toar.
rest those concerned in it. Colonel Jo<c Manu
el Montoya, military chief of tho province. w3*
ordered to apprehend an individual named A'J-1'
na, whose previous conduct had given cauw •
suspect him. When conducting Arjona to f
son, Monlayo was assassinated by him m < -
street. His accomplices, sixty in number, think
ing their plan discovered, that night fled •rt'fr
the capital on the road to Tunja. They #erea
made prisoners by the Governor of that p,3C^*
with the exception of five individuals on the
among the number was the above named Arjoi1
Order was then again restored.
Capt Briggs states that a misunderstand.^
had arisen between one of the authorities of t-’3'
thagena and the French Consol, M. Barrot, » ■'
was in consequence confined in prison, bat;
liberation was momentarily expected. A Fffr;