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THE GAZETTE.
By EDGAR SNOWDEN.__
Terms.
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Daily paper : . . 5 per annum.
Country paper __ r
The ALEXANDRIA GAZETTE forthe coun
try is printed on Tuesday, Thursday, and
Saturday^ —
We noticed a few days ago, Mr. Graham’s col*
lection of Poetry, and recommended it to the fa
vorable attention of our readers. The follow*
ing is one of Graham’s own productions:
g WALLACE’S LAMENT.
Am—“Maids of Arrochar.”
J. Graham.
Taou pride of thy country, the gallant and
brave
Thou darling young fav'rite of glorious fame,
Thy comrade in arms sheds a tear o’er thy grave,
Where pale Caledonia sits mourning Iter Gra
ham. "
Vife traitors* too foul for the records of story,
All mankind shall loathe e’en the sound ol
your name! , .. c..
Ye murd’rers, you stabbed on the path of his
TheSbravest of heroes, the gallant young Gra
ham.
Cold grave, dost thou know in thy bosom is laid
The warrior, the hero, the patriot s frame
Thou mansion of bliss, now the home ot m*
shade
A braver ne’er passed to thy glories than Gra
ham,
In death’s narrow bed though thy cold clay be
Yet Scotland’s invaders shall stait -.at thy
name_
For aye, when in battle her banner was flying,
The first and the last was the gallant young
Graham.
Ye seraphs that bore his pure spirit to bliss,
that Southrons the vict’ry can
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claim! •
But O! 1 request you would tell his shade this,
That Wallace still lives, and remembers the
Graham!
And while recollection can call up one feeling,
That feeling each drop of ray blood shall en
flame— . „ .
And here do I swear, on his grave fondly kneel
That, next to my country, I'll shed them for
Graham.
O! could his remains but be wak'd from their
sleep, _ , . .
And hear tlie proud insults of tyranny’s claim.
The cold grasp of death not a moment could
keep
The dauntless, the daring, the patriot Graham,
Fain would I ceasless mourn o’er thy dark
dwelling, , _ .
But Scotland the swords of her warriors
claims— , _
I go, and can fearless meet thousands assail
ing; *
But cannot, O! cannot, say farewell to Gra
ham.
♦The Cummings.
From the Selections of Mrs. M. H. Robb.
ON AN INFANT’S GRAVE.
’Tis well, perhaps, the flower has never bloomed.
Nor burst to beauty in this vale of tears;
’Tis well, perhaps, it now lies low entombed;
It fell unsullied ere the waste of years.
Affection saw the rude approach of death,
And strove in vain to arrest the impending
blow;
Maternal feeling fed the latest breath.
Which kept a spirit in this world of woe.
Ah! why should grief your hapless life consumed
And why should sorrow thus pervade youi
breast?
In blissful realms your darling girl shall bloom,
And wake to raptures in eternal rest.
THE INDIANS
Extract of a letter from a gentleman in Wash
ington, dated Wednesday, VIay 21, 1384.
“In the House of Representatives, yesterday,
Mr. Everett, of Vermont, from the Committee
on Indian Affairs, reported three bills. 1st, To
provide for the organization of the Indian de
partment. 2d, A bill to regulate trade and inter
course with the Indian tribes, and to preserve
peace on the frontiers. And 3d. A bill to pro
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vide ior tne esiaousnmeni ui me nc&inu in
ritory, and for the security and protection of the
emigrant and other Indian tribes therein.
The limits of a letter will not permit me to en
* ter on a minute detail of the provisions of these
bills. This subject, at an early period of the
session occupied the attention of the Committee
on Indian Affairs, and they have bestowed much
time in preparing and perfecting the subject;
their labors have resulted in the report of these
bills;-a^\d should Congress have time to act on
them, it is believed they will pass. They propose
material alterations in our relations with the In
dian tribes, and should they be passed into a law,
the Red man may date his preservation and se
curity for his rights from that period.
The bills were accompanied with a report
drawn by Mr. Everett, embracing a succinct
view of the whole subject of our Indian rela
tions.
It is a repoit of great ability, and shews that
the whole subject was familiar to the writer, and
had occupied much of his time and reflection,
and the country should feel greatly indebted to
him for the very able and satisfactory manner
he has elucidated every fact connected with this
important branch of our public affairs; and to
give you an idea of the judgment and prudence
with which this whole subject has been mana
ged, I will remark, that this measure is sanction
ed by the Executive, approved by the Secreta
ry of War, the unanimous opinion of the Com
mittee, and meets the approbation of the Indi
ans themselves. It will be the means of settling
the whole of this perplexing subject, and of a
voiding those unfortunate collisions which have,
and inevitably would arise between the General
and State Governments. The importance of
this subject, and the estimate formed of the re
port, may be judged from the fact that the House
ordered the printing of ten thousand extra co
pies, without a dissenting voice.
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OFFICE HOLDERS.
I Washington Correspondence of the Portland
1 Advertiser.]
The party here are making a desperate ef
fort to retrieve their falling fortunes. You pro
bably have noticed in the Globe a proposal to
issue extra Globes, so as to operate upon the
autumnal elections. One of the circulars of the
Jackson members of Congress has fallen in my
way—'and as it is, I am confident, but a C0Py °‘
almost all, I must call your attention to it. I hey
are be directed to Collectors, Inspectors,
YVeighers, Gaugers, Post Masters, &c.—and
the call is made upon them to furnish such a
quota of names, as it is erpected,—a very sig
nificant term—and as the times demand, a
term equally significant, that they contribute all
their influence to sustain the paper. I do not
pretend to give the exact words,-—but the fact
is, that all office holders every where are to be
called upon to contribute their quota of names,
and to be responsible for them, under an
indrect threat of expulsion from office, it
they do not obey. Now I think that it is high
time that the People took this matter
Office holders are the servants and not the ti
lers and masters of the People. No office hol
der ought to be allowed to interfere in elections,
—and of this we not only have Jefferson s but
Jackson’s authority. Public opinion ought to
rebuke them in the most decisive manner. If re
buke won’t do, more decisive measures ought to
be resorted to. Are these men thus paid to
electioneer out of the people’s money, to be al
lowed to be the instruments of oppressing the
People! How are they better when they act
thus than Swiss mercenaries—-hired Hessians a
standing army drilled and disciplined to ketp
the People under. How prominent they are
in all political assemblies! How active, how un
ceasing in their efforts—and why? because—
the answer is obvious—they are hired by t
dav to be just so active in their own behalf.
I call upon the People to watch these interested
men They are not fit advisers, fit sentinels
of the public welfare. Their mouths are stopped
with gold—and whenever they are officious and
intermeddling, they ought to be kept still. Let
the People tell them face to face what they
are after, and how they are paid—and my life
for it, a second attempt will not be made to se
duce such men from their duty to their country.
We have received from Baltimore, a copy of
the Report of the Trustees of the Bank of Ma
ryland. The facts disclosed by this Report
are of the extraordinary nature. If we rightly
understand it, not only is the whole capital
stock of the Bank sunk, but its assets fall short
of paying its notes, debts, and deposites by se
veral hundred thousand dollars! Some of the
particulars of this statement are, indeed, almost
incredible.—Nat. Int.
The Northern Whig, of Belfast, Ireland, is
one of the most decided and able of the liberal
journals of that country. In the number for
the 7th ult. the proceedings of President Jack
son and of Congress, in relation to the Bank
of the United States, are noticed in some detail
We annex the opinions of the Irish Whig.
Nat. Ciaz.
“ General Jackson and the United States Hank,
—The hostility of General Jackson to the Uni
ted States Bank, instead of being modified by
the progress of commercial distress, appears tc
be the very reverse; and remonstrance only
tends to render it still more bitter and decided
A late New York paper gives an account of an
interview which a deputation from the Mechan
ics’ Committee of that city had with him; and,
if the details be correct, we must say, that his
deportment, on the occasion, was more charac
teristic of an irritable, self-willed despot, than
befitting the President of the United States ol
America.”
The Kentucky Intelligencer has published a
decision made by one of the State Judges, tc
the effect that the “ Bank of the Common
wealth”—a bank owned, we believe, chiefly by
the State, is unconstitutional, being in contra
vention of that clause of the Constitution of the
United States which prohibits the separate
States from issuing “ bills of credit.”
The case above stated is precisely similar tc
one which was argued before the Supreme
Court of the United States at its last term, in
which Mr. J. M. White and Mr. Wilde with
great ability took the ground said to have beer
affirmed in the Kentucky State Court. The
case was held over for advisement by the Su
preme Court, whose opinion upon it, will, it is
presumed, be delivered at the next term of the
Court.—-Nat. Int.
The report of the Commissary General ol
New York, relative to the awful attack on the
Arsenal during the recent election in that city,
has become a standing joke. Poetry and prose
have both been employed to elucidate the wri
ters’ text, and the “ fellow in a claret colored
coat” is likely to go down to posterity with the
“man in the iron mask,” the abstract wonder ol
the world, stat nominis umbra ” The editor ol
the Commercial Advertiser has, we think, come
as near guessing out the real “claret” as any
modern inquirer has in his attempts to discover
the author of Junius. He thus SDeaks:
N. V. Gaz.
“ The editors of the Times, have a number of
affidavits in their possession, proving beyond a
doubt, that it was no other than Nick Biddle.—
He was seen to take a large roll of United States
Bank bills from his pockets, some of which he
distributed among a few7 hundred mild, peace
able looking fellows, speaking a foreign lan
guage, with heads bound with handkerchiefs
and hands armed with hickory clubs—whereup
on, after a gentle yell, they ran very calmly to
ward a crowd of “bank bullies,” who wrere
standing in a tumultuous manner, wdth their
hands in their pockets, looking with great vio
lence at the transparencies, in front of the Ma
sonic Hall, and doing nothing with all their
might, and then in the most quiet, orderly, inof
fensive manner, proceeded to knock down these
bullies with a view' to keep them still and pre
j serve the peace. All this was done to give the
bullies a pretence that they had been ill treated.
Accordingly those who were able get up,
(which was the case with the majority, say one
out of every ten) became very unnecessarily in
dignant, and threatened, to the great distur
bance of the peace, to defend themselves. Then
this same quiet hickory party, knocked them all
down again in a more peaceable manner than
befoi e. At which treatment the bullies became
• infuriated, and rushed, with the “fellow in
a claret-colored coat” at their head, to the ar
senal. They there bowed in derision” to the
lady of the castle, and walked about in their
best clothes, and loaded the guns with stones
and nails, with a view to burst the guns and kill
those who fired them.”
JOB PRINTING executed at this office
ALEXANDRIA:
MONDAY MORNING, JUNE 2, 1834.
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ALEXANDRIA CANAL.
We stated in Saturdays Gazette, that Mr.
Chinn from the District Committee, had made
a report, to the House of Representatives, ac
companied by a bill appropriating $100,000 to
the aid of the Alexandria Canal Company.—
The following is a copy of the bill:
A BILL for the benefit of the City of Alex
andria.
Be it enacted, ^c., That the Secretary of the
Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and
required to subscribe to the stock of the Alexan
dria Canal Company, one thousand shares, of
one hundred dollars a share, to be held for the
use and benefit of the Corporation, and the divi
dends arising therefrom to be applied by said
Corporation to the education of the poor chil
dren of said city, and other charitable purposes;
and provided that, before said subscription is
made, the said Canal Company shall, at a gene
ral meeting of the stockholders, give their as
sent to said subscription upon the terms afore
said. and further concede to the Government
of tlie United States the right to transport every
description of property belonging to the United
States upon said canal and aqueduct free from
any tolls and charges, and shall moreover give
to the United States the right to use the water
flowing through the said canal for any purpose,
and to connect a dry dock or any other im
provement with the said canal or acqueduct;
provided, also, the said Corporation shall be en
titled to vote upon the stock hereby authorized
to be subscribed in the same manner as if di
rectly subscribed by the Corporation of Alex
andria. The evidence of the assent, hereby re
quired of the Company, shall be filed in the of
fice of the Secretary of the Treasury before ma
king said subscription.
The report which recommends the passage
of this bill, is said to be a very able and strong
one. We trust the subject will receive the pc
tient attention of Congress. On their justice
our claim reposes. It is known and admitted
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ought to be cheerfully acknowledged by the Na
tional Legislature, as we have no doubt, they
will be. ' ______
SPEAKER STEVENSON.
In the House of Representatives, on Friday
last, Mr. Speaker Stevenson rose and informed
the House that he had taken the Chair that
morning, though still laboring under severe and
continued indisposition, for the purpose of open
ing the House, and preventing any delay in its
business; and likewise for the purpose of an
nouncing his determination of resigning the
Speaker’s Chair and his seat in Congress. This
he proposed doing on Monday at 11 o’clock.
He had formed this resolution under a deep
sense of duty, and because his state of health
rendered it impossible for him (as must be ap
parent to the House) to discharge in person the
laborious duties of the Chair; and he had there
fore deemed it respectful and proper to give this
early notice of his intention to retire.
This has been for some time expected, and
several candidates for the Chair have been ge
nerally spoken of. The contest for the honor
may be expected to be animated and interest
ing. The election will take place, of course,
to-day.
We observe in the Richmond Enquief a let
ter from Mr. Stevenson to Mr. Rutherfood of
that city, in which, after complaining of the
strictures made on him, and acknowledging
that his district is opposed to his political prin
ciples, he says:—
“ You desire to know, and so do many of my
friends, what course I mean to pursue in the
present state of things in my District; and you
tell me, that you are daily interrogated upon
the subject, by friends and opponents. You
express at the same time, entire confidence in
the principles which you think will guide me
and the course I shall pursue. In this you do
me no more than justice, and I beg you to be
lieve that I will not disappoint you. I mean,
to pursue steadily and fearlessly, the path of
' duty, and carry out those principles which have
governed me through a long course of public
service. Of this, you and my friends may rest
satisfied. That a decided majority of my Dis
trict differ with me upon the subject of the Re
moval and the Restoration of the Public Dcpc
sites, it would be folly in me now to doubt, if
• what I learn be true, and the local elections are
• to be regarded as any test. Under such cir
cumstances, I should not feel justified as the Re
representative of the District, in refusing to
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formally expressed. My opinions as to the
right and consequences of instruction on the
. part ofthe Constituents, have Jong been known.
It has ever been known with me a favorite doc
trine, and ought to be justly regarded as one of
the corner-stones of all Representative Go
vernment.
“1 beg you to communicate these, my opin
ions, in such a manner as you may choose,
to those who are really desirous of knowing
what they are, or feel an interest in the mat
ter. This is all that I deem it needful or proper
for me to say, and you will use it as you please.
It is, however, possible that even this may not
be satisfactory to some portion of my constitu
ents, and an effort may be made to force me to
retire. Be it so. Iam ready to laydown the
trust, whenever it may be required in a manner
that I ought to listen to and respect. I have
said so to many of my other friends. Under such
circumstances, I could have no motive to con
tinue.
DISTRESSING SHIPWRECKS.
We have mentioned the loss of three vessels,
bound to Quebec, viz: Isabella, Jane, and Moon.
TheQuebec papers contain furtherparticulars of
the loss of these vessels, and melancholy ac
counts of the fate of others by shipwreck. Cap
tain Crooks attributes the loss ofthe Jane, which
he represents as a fine new brig to “the want of
something being done in the way of improving
the light houses at each end of St. Paul’s.”
These vessels were wrecked almost in sight of
each other in a dark night, amid snow and sleet.
A barque was lost near the same spot, and it
is feared that all on board perished.
We mentioned heretofore that seven persons, |
belonging to the Isabella were lost. Some had
arrived at Quebec—the residue amounting to
more than 200 persons suffered severely with
the cold before they left the wreck. They land
ed on a small island, and serious fears were en
tertained for their safety. The only building
there being a small one for the accommodation
of so large a number of people.
On the night of the 7th ult. the ship Patriot,
Captain Anderson, from Aberdeen, for Quebec,
was diven ashore at Gaspe, and in two houis
was full of water. Crew and passengers saved.
The inhabitants were stealing the goods as fast
as they could obtain them from the wreck.
* A postscript to the Quebec Mercury of the
22d, contains a melancholy detail of the loss of
ship James, Capt. Laidler, with two hundred
and thirty passengers,every individual of whom,
it is believed, has perished. This vessed sailed
from Limerick for Quebec, on the 8th of April.
Harrisburg Convention.—A Whig Convention
was to have assembled at Harrisburg, Pa., on
the 27th ult. _ '
A Arew Banker.—It is stated in an Upper Ca
nada paper, that a gentleman from England,
partner or agent of the firm of Rothschild & Co,
has arrived at the city of Toronto, capital of Up
per Canada, where he intends immediately to
open a Bankinghou.se on the Scotch system.
The Poles.—The meeting held on Thursday
evening, in the Representatives’ Hall of the Ca
pitol, in behalf of the unfortunate and expatriat
ed Poles, was very fully and respectably attended
Wc observe that a number of Senators and
Members of the House were present. The meet
ing was opened by prayer in behalf of Poland
and her banished sons. tw>o of w hom were pre
sent. A short statement of the present condi
tion of the 243 Poles, thrust into New York by
Austrian frigates, w'as followed by a fervid and
most eloquent appeal of the lion. Theodore Fre
linghuysen, of Newr Jersey, who well merits the
noble appellation of the Christian Orator. Se
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veraJ other addresses were mane, aim at me
close of the meeting, a number of Members ol
Congress and other gentlemen and ladies, gave
substantial proofs of their interest.
The Richmond Enquirer has the prudence to
disclaim the adoption of the sentiments of its
quoted articles. The Enquirer hatl better omit,
then, quoting such objectionable matter.
Mr. John A. Stone, author of “ Metamora,”
&c., committed suicide, in Philadelphia, last
week. He was laboring under an alienation ol
mind._
The Joint Resolution for fixing a day for the
termination of the present Session of Congress,
which has passed the House of Representatives,
was not taken up in the Senate on Friday, that
body having previously assigned Friday and Sa
turday to specific objects. It will come up, as
a matter of course, for its third reading, to-day.
Mr. Clay made an ineffectual motion, on Fri
day, to take up the joint resolutions submitted
by him, some days ago, in relation to the Bank
of the United States; but the motion having
been opposed by Mr. Wright, and decided by
the Chair to be out of order, under the rule ap
propriating the Fridays and Saturdays of each
week to the consideration of bills, Mr. Clay
gave notice that to day he should call up these
resolutions, and press for their consideration.
It is understood that Joseph White, Esq., late
ly confirmed by the Senate, declines acting as
a Director of the Bank of the United States.
George C. Washington, late member of Con
gress and now one of the Executive Council of
Maryland, is recommended in the National In
telligencer as a candidate for the office of Pre
sident of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Com
pany.
The election of S. A. Foot, as Governor, and
Jabez W. Huntington, as Judge, by the Legis
lature of Connecticut, makes two vacancies in
the delegation to Congress from that Slate.
There is also a vacancy in South Carolina,
one in New York, and another in Maryland.
There are, therefore, five elections to be held
for members of the present Congress.
The Lynchburg I trgiman, looking ahead,
mentions the name of Thomas Marshall, of
Fauquier, as a suitable person to fill the chair
• of Speaker of the H. of Delegates, and of Au
gustus Waterman, of Rockingham, in connec
tion with the seat in the Executive Council,
now held by P. V. Daniel.
One of the Baltimore papers contains a com
munication, signed “A Member of the New
York Bar,” which passes the highest compli
ments upon the Eulogy on the late- William
Wirt, recently pronounced in that city by Fran
cis P. Kennedy, Esq. “ The admirable biogra
phical sketch of Mr. Wirt,” says the writer, “in
terwoven with the peculiar traits of his charac
ter, the glowing description of his chaste and
beautiful writings, noble eloquence, pure mind,
and Christian heart, given in the literary style
and golden eloquence of the speaker, must leave
an impression on the minds of that audience
not soon to be effaced, and place another
among the distinguished productions of Ken
nedy. __
The Knickerbocker, published at New York,
has now appeared under new auspices. It bids
fair to be a most agreeable miscellany. The
last number contains much good writing. Mr.
R. Zimmerman is the agent for the Knicker
bocker in this place, who will show a specimen
number of the work to those who may wish to
subscribe.
Our prediction that the recent course pursucC
by the Bank of the United States, would pro.
voke new and more virulent assaults upon its
very existence from those whom it has offended
has already been verified. Many will not take
the trouble to examine a legal argument in sup
port of the mere legal rights of a corporation
and hence the Bank should have been, to pro
vent misrepresentation of its conduct, and pe.
version of its views, more accommodating i;
its disposition to open its proceedings to inves
tigation, than it has shown itself. The natura
and commendable jealousy felt towards so great
a monied institution, is not likely to be lessened
by even an appearance of a desire to avoid i
quiry. We have examined the whole subject
carefully, without prejudice or passion, and
have come to the conclusion that the Majority
ofthe Committee asked too much, and the Ban’
yielded too little.
In return for the services rendered by a Di
Cartwright, of Mississippi, during the prevalence
of the Cholera in that section of the country, ami
particularly on Pine Ridge, a number of the
Planters have combined, and presented him with
a splendid vase,the cost of which was six hundred
dollars. On it was inscribed, in addition to the
usual complimentary expressions:—‘-In 361 ca
ses, no deaths.” Ills practice consisted in at
tacking it in its incipient state with a combina
tion of Camphor, Calomel, and Cayenne pep.
per. A suitable address and reply were dJiwr
ed on the occasion ofthe presentation.
The Committee of the fund for the benefit o.
the family of Thomas A. Cooper, have rece'v
. ed from the Chairman of the Committee •••!;;■-•!
superintended a representation in Mobile i:.;;
of that fund, the handsome sum of owe thousand
Jive hundred and two dollars and fifty-d.rj cr<,>
The early Cotton crops in the northern cl
tion of Alabama and the lower part of Team
see had been almost entirely ruined by thefrev
prior to the 14th ult. The season had, how.
ver. not so far advanced, but that the nbnr
tions thus devastated may be replanted. mow
ed a supply of seed could be found.
In Vermont, at half-past five in tho iiOHii: >
of the 19th ult., a shock of earthqucKc
felt in several places.
Durant, since his ascension r.t .tici-.i-no .
seems to have completely turned their heaaac,.’
the subject; no less than three ascensions beir.
now advertised in the papers of that place,one •;
a lady, who has a balloon in which persons un
allowed to take a small stroll in the air, u,c i
the course of a few weeks she will be able c
have a balloon of larger dimensions Y which
she intends to make an ascension. 3h.*: ihuspn
peals to the citizens:
Come all you Gallant Citizens, and join -j.*•
heart and hand,
To assist aspiring Genius, in a femsle o: -up
land,
Let not the arts and sciences, be ic mar ;li
confined,
Ye citizens of Baltimore, now ); o ts yen • i
ral mind.
The cruise of the U. S. frigate r.*.,
whose arrival was announced a few says w.
was probably as active and extended as *»»)/
that was ever performed in the same pc, :cc o
time. It commenced on the 26th Augu:, • Y
and terminated on the 23d May, 183*.
ter from Captain Downes to fhe Navy bepe i
ment says:-—
During the cruise of the Peicm: c, 3ik v.:
touched at Rio de Janeiro twice; Cape of 3oo
Hope, Quallah Battoo, and Soosoo. b’cas>
Sumatra; Bantam Bay, and Batavia, •slant* o
Java; Macoa and Lintin, China, Sandwichan<
Society Islands; Valparaiso three .ime-j; Cr.
lao the same; Coquimbo, Galapagos Islam
and Puna Bay of Guayaquil; boarded while c
her station in the Pacific, seventy-one Aimv
can vessels, amounting to upwards of eighty
thousand tons of shipping, and manned hy no.
than eleven hundred men; has sailed ovu -inf -
one thousand miles, and been at sea five L*’
dred and fourteen days; and during this li.»r\
| and in sailing this distance, through eve.'
I climate, in her voyage around the world, «
hands have never been called but once, at nigh
and that, three days out from New York; K»i
has she had a spar carried away, or lost a n;'J
by casualty, or had one seriously injured.
The Augusta Chronicle publishes a reply lir -’
Mr. W. J. Duane, to a letter which he had i
coon A iirmctn n nd fl ddressed by die
gentlemen, “ whose suggestion induced the Ed.*
tor of the Chronicle to nominate Mr. D- f°r
Presidency.”—Mr. Duane says in relation if •
“I am the son of an American, but I am m-j
myself ‘ a natural born citizen, ora citizen a
the time of the adoption of the Constitution. -
My father was taken by his surviving par^
from America to Ireland, prior to the
tion; he did not return until after the auop
of the Constitution: in the interval 1 ^ ,
and spent a few of my early years in ben
consequently, if I had the presumption to 1 *
of entering the door to which you point I -1
find it constitutionally shut against rne.
Extract of a letter from Albemarle Count’,1:
“ On the 4th of July next, Mr. Wru. C
is to deliver, at Monticello, an oration on 01
casion of laying the cornerstone Mr. Jeffers01
monument. Do you not think it pro fa nib 011
man of his principles to speak over the gi**
Jefferson?”
[communicated.]
SIR JNO. LOUDOUN McADAM
No living Englishman has ever rendered
fast-anchored isle more real service than»IU
Loudoun McAdam. The Sailor King, ti,e 1
est fruit of the British Navy, (as the Refoime
will admit,) has lately conferred the h°n0
knighthood on him. The following c“rl^
conversation is said to have been held
the king and the road-maker: :
King—McAdam, you have done a gren