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THE GAZETTE.
By EDGAR SNOWDEN.
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try is printed on Tuesday, Thursday, and
Saturday.
All advertisements appear in both papers, ana
are inserted at the usual rates.
LONDON.
From the European Correspondent of the United
States Gazette.
What a world of people may be got together!
one would think that men loved one another.—
Is this the Thames? This rivulet, which in Ame
rica would be given over to the barge and the
broad horn, or to some packet steamboat, such
as sueaks up the Ohio or Kentucky in the sum
mer season?—is this the famous stream, whence
issue navies to sweep, and claim the sovereign
ty of oceans, and to which, as to a great central
vortex, tends the commerce of the whole world?
To one who has plodded up the Mississippi, for
weeks, without finding the end or beginning, it
looks like a ditch, but still it is a ditch where
countless squadrons float, in lieu of splatter
docks; and such endless lines of chimneys, of
towers and steeples, as was never seen before,
take the place of reeds But what is the fame
of the Mississippi, the Plata, or the Amazon, to
this mighty little river? What, indeed, are the
Rhine, the Danube, the Tigris and Ganges, with
their immense cities, their fertility, their wealth,
their historical celebrity, compared with this
muddy brook? Rome rose from the insignificant
Tiber: London lies on the Thames.
The propriety of the phrase “forest of masts,"
I never appreciated, until the steampacket in
which I crossed the channel, from Calais, was
threading her way among the great fleets moor
ed or mooring, in a mass extending almost from
Sheerness to London Bridge. How the pilot
steered us along through the labyrinth, 1 could
no more understand than 1 can now, when I
am perched in an omnibus, how Jehu makes
his way through the chaos of carriages up Pic
cadilly and down Cheapside. It is all a mystery.
And this then is London, thought I, as we
plunged into the smoke-bank that surrounds the
cockney city, and beheld the distant dome of
St Paul’s, followed by steeples, come looming
up mistily out of obscurity. Woolwich (the
diabolical laboratory and workshop, wherein,
since the days of Marlborough, have been fa
bricated all those infernal compounds and en
gines, with which Great Britain carries on the
work of glory,) with its royal arsenal and dock
yard, academy and barracks,was passed. Green
wich, with the palace in w hich was born the
' great virago Bess, and which was converted
by Charles II, (the only good work of this dis
solute king) into a magnificent hospital, a ref
uge for those patriotic tars whom Britain has
robbed of legs and arms; and its Observatory,
the seat of science, where Maskelyne and Her
schell pursued their sublime researches, was
left behind. Deptford and the Isle of Dogs
crept in the tear. The Commercial and West
India Docks, ceased to confuse the eye; and
we plunged on deeper and deeper into the wil
derness of civilization. Who ever beheld such
old, ugly, dismal looking houses! Their walls
look like banks of soot, and their red tiled
roofs like the shelves of a crockery woman.—
There seemed no end to them. By and by, we
were passing between Rotherhithe and the Lon
don Docks, there was a buz on board,—we
were sailing over the Tunnell the subaqueous
highway, commenced with such noble audacity
by Brunei, a Frenchman; w ho became an engi
neer, in his youth, on the shores of Ontario, to
bestow on the British nation, in his old age, the
circular saw, and a comfortable lounge at the
bottom of the Thames. Now’ St. Paul’s lifts up
his monstrous dome with a still more command
ing effect; not that he seems much incteased in
Iliagrmuue, urn yvu uegm iu tract: uic
outlines, and distinguish the bulk and altitude of
the edifices at his feet. He is like a mountain,
that preserves,for miles, the same apparent bulk,
even when the great buildings about him are
blended by distance into one undistinguishable
mass. But what cluster of houses, old, disjoint
ed, irregular and scrambling, is this, surrounded
by a wall circumscribing some ten or a dozen
acres of ground, with sentinels stalking on it,
and a big square white house, with turrets at
the corners, all inexpressibly ugly, simpering
over the top of all? This is the Tower, the re
doubtable Tower, the place where the state
murders used to be committed, and where Bri
tannia keeps locked up such stores of muskets
and swords, that one would think she intended,
some day, to murder the whole world. Here
Raleigh suffered and Sidney bled. You can
hear, as you pass, the water of the moat gur
gling out from the traitor's gate.
The Custom House, a noble structure, front
ing five hundred feet on the river, relieves the
eye and the mind from the contemplation of the
hideous Tower; and when you stalk through its
prodigious hall, and perceive the bustle of its
six hundred officers, engaged in the peaceable
adjustment of the affairs of commerce, you are
made aware of the true grandeur, and what
should be considered the true interests of a great
empire. ,
But let us not waste time on a house devoted
to such cockney affairs. In London, one must
talk about the piles which speak Britain’s glory.
Neither must we seem to occupy our minds with
the tropes of trade: the great folk at the West,
will write us down among those vulgar beings
who hold together the ends of the earth, and
scrape away the riches thereof! the merchants—
shopkeepers! Let us hurry through the tainted
* f purlieus of business, the contemptible place of
exchanges and banks, of lord mayor’s and hos
pital builders, the dog-hole that lies east of Tem
. pte Bar—the city—and get among the squares
and parks, the palaces, terraces and Macadam
ized Toads, that make up that heaven of a cit’s
ambition, the West End.
. From the platform of the Custom House, we
step right among the shambles of a fish market.
. . What soles! what salmon! what turbot! prawns!
crabs! lobsters! One is seized with fear at the
sight of so many ugly old women; but with more
terror still, when the courteous policeman, in
answer to your question, informs you that you
are in Billingsgate! In Billinsgate? You move
by every lady-dowager of sprats and mackerel,
as you would by a belle in a ball, respectfully
and humbly; you know not at what moment
may be tumbled about your ears a tempest of
that elegant dialect—the Doric of the English
language—which all history has admonished
you is spoken here, because here originating, in
its fullest perfection. Your fears are ground
less; a dozen policemen, with white braided col
lars and cuffs, on their blue coats, and varnish
ed crowns to their hats, are sauntering about to (
keep the ladies In order. - Profanity and mde-j
cency shock you no more: Billingsgate is a dead
language. That old lady that starts up, waving
a dead mackerel before your eyes, exclaiming,
‘ Buy mackerel? As good fish as is,5 will not
beat you; she will not even scold. The hand
of reform has here done wonders. Really this
Billingsgate is quite a tidy place. But who can
stand a fish market.
You pass the great London bridge, a chain
of vast stone arches, such as they throw’ over
the Thames. You catch a glimpse of the thou
sands, and tens of thousands of coal barges t hat
lie blackening the mud above the bridge, like
king crabs along the Jersey beach on the Dela
ware Bay, and of the larger colliers with their
Spanish brown sails, Charon s canoes, to ap
pearance, that go flitting up and down among
a fleet of wherries, as sharp, long, and light as
the prows of South Sea Islanders. You turn up
Fish street Hill, peep up at the summit or the
Monument, a tow’er of two hundred feet in
height, built to resemble a fluted column, and to
commemorate the great fire oi 1666; start at
the name East Cheap, painted on a corner, and
pass on by Lombard street, or Cornhill, by
'Change or the Bank, till you are buried in the
torrent of life that thunders into Cheapside
Through this mass, the densest and most con
founding in the world, deafened by the roar of
omnibuses and sharp yells of their conductors,
captivated by the displays of shops, perplexed by
the crowd, squeezed, jostled and hurried along,
less by your own legs than the elbows of your
neighbors, you give yourself up to your fate,
and pass on wandering and stupified. What is
this? thish 'ge, this tremendous pile, with a dome
like an Indian barrow, and lofty walls like
bluffs on the Mississippi? St. Pauls!! It occu
pies two acres of ground; but how’ soon you
are swept away from it! The crowd carries
you on; you are in the fleet, you have passed
Blackfriars, you see the Temple Bar arching
over the street, you pass it, you are in the West
End, and you hope to be in quiet. No such
thing: the million float along up the Strand, the
omnibusses and hackney coaches, the lumber
ing cool w’agons and breu’ers drays, with hors
eslike elephants, the darting cab, the creeping
carriage, are here as thick as ever, the water
carts, are still turning the dust into mud, the beg
gars ply the brush on the crosssings, and the
Buy-aBroom’ woman in Swiss caps, and the
Buy-a -Rose wenches in London filth, attack you
with increasing importunity. Stupor yields to
nervousness, you feel in a passion, and bestow
no more ha’panies; you would give all in your
oockets to be in some place of rest. But where
T..;n ...... ouol/ it? Vmi h»vA rpaehed Chariot?
Cross; but this is the vortex of the vortex; here
meet the floods o( the bustle, from the Strand,
Cockspur street, and from White chapel; east,
west and north, are all jumbled together.
You cannot cross by the King’s statue, (not a
bit of a cross is there here,) there are two ma
ny wheels rolling over the broad pavement. So
you go on whither the tyrannical crowd will
have you, and that is up Whitechapel, forming
many desperate resolutions to escape by the first
byway that may present, and flattering yourself
with many hopes, as the grey towers of the Ab
bey grow’ nearer and more distinct
Your eye is caught by the glitter of martial
equipments across the street. You are opposite
the Horse Guards, betwixt the Admiralty and
Treasury. Two shining fellows in brass helmets,
with drawn sw’ords, sitting on splendid black
horses, as quiet and motionless as though both
were carved out of stone, occupy two arched
gateways, between which however is the great
portal, and unsentinelled. A glance, reveals a
large courtyard,with an arched passage through
the edifice, behind which is seen the delicious
verdure of a public square. You spring across
the street, dive among red coats, penetrate the
thoroughfare unchallenged, cross the wide and
gravelled Parade, behind the guards, and giving
but a glance at the Monumental Pillar of the
Duke of York, and the palaces that surround
it, dive into St. James’ Park, to enjoy the de
lights of the country, in the heart of Babylon.
From the Boston Daily Advertiser.
Mr. Editor—I hope the following extract
from the letter of a recent traveller in Europe
may be thought not out of time or place, if in
serted in the Daily Advertiser.
“ With the bright morning sun for my compan
ion, I left Baden for Zurich. 1 breakfasted at
Dieteken, a little village about two leagues dis
tant, where I had great pleasure in hearing of
the excellent feeling that exists between the
Protestant and Catholic inhabitants, and the
absence of bigotry and prejudice by which both
are distinguished. One church serves both for
the worship of God. The Catholic of Dieteken
does not feel that his prayor will be less accep
table, because the prayer of a heretic rises from
the same shrine;—nor does the Protestant fear
the displeasure of God because he offers his de
votions in a temple consecrated to the Romish
faith. Would that all Catholic Priests were like
the Priests of Dieteken, and that all Protest
ants were tolerant as those who worship in the
same temple with his flock!”
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Alexandria, I). C.
ALEXANDRIA:
WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEPT. 17, 1834.
Maine Election.—We have not much authen
tic intelligence from the Maine elections later ,
than what was published in yesterday’s Gazette.
The Whig gain has been very great and encou
raging. Two Whig members of Congress are
?d—Evans by a large majority,
teen hundred; and Baily beating
and there is some chance of a
jst between Hamlin (Whig) and
i) being doubtful. In \ ork Dis
trict, there is no choice. Goodwin, the Jackson
| candidate, received 3,657 votes; Porter, (Whig)
| 3.452; scattering, 962.
The State House of Representatives consists
| of 166 members. We have returns from 115, of
! which the Whigs have 62. the Jacksonmen 42;
i doubtful 1; no choice 11; 71 remain to be heard
i from.
At the last election in Maine, the State went
out and out for Jackson, leaving only Mr. Evans
in Congress to show the shadow of an opposi
tion. Now how changed!
From the Portland Advertiser of Thursday even
ing last.
The election is yet the all engrossing topic.
Our office for the three days past has been
crowded with inquirers, demanding the result.
Letters from all quarters of tfie country also,
pul us the like question. As yet we cannot de
cide. Our gain is great—immense—encourag
ing to the Whigs in every State of tjje Uniop,
who can have no idea of the stern conflict
which the Whigs of Maine have waged with the
cordon of pensioned office-holders who are sta
tioned on the margin of our long line of sea
coast, and who even penetrate the interior, and
stand as Custom House sentinels on the Canada
line. If, elsewhere, the Whigs do as well as we
have done, the country is rescued from the reign
of the Kitchen Cubinet, and Whig principles
are triumphant. But one Representative from
Maine has stood on the floor of Congress for
four years past, defending W hig principles.
We certainly shall now send there tw-o, we hope
three, (Hamlin in the room of Jarvis); and in
York there is no choice—and in Oxford, now
represented by a Jackson member, it is not yet
certain that Mason, the Jackson candidate, is
re-elected. Parks and Hall, Jackson members,
no doubt are re-elected, but by what majority
we have not the means of ascertaining.
The returns show that the political excitement
has reached every farm house in the interior.
Probably there will be 65,000 votes thrown, per
haps more. The sea-board, generally speak
ing, has given us great gains, notwithstanding
there the office-holders are: located. All has
been done that could be done. lfDunlap is re
elected, it will be by a majority not worth men
Honing. •_ _
In Lincoln, we have gained four Whi&Serra
tors. In Somerset probably two. From the
three Eastern districts, our-returns do not ena
ble us to form an opinion upon what will be the^
result. L..
The Whig members of the House come in
well. We have gains on all sides. But the cha
racter of the House is not yet determined. To
day, we learn that we have gained a Whig re
presentative in Monmouth, at the second trial.
Administration Abuse.—The Jackson pHllts
ridicule the Opposition party for claiming “ all
the decency,” as tlifc phrase runs. How this
may be, it is not for us to sqy. ' But of one
thing we are very sure—and that is, that some
of the Administration journals seem very stu
dious in their endeavors to show that no sort of
decency attaches to them. As, par example:
The Pennsylvanian now before us. in an edito
rial article, says:
“Colonel Watmough, finding his canvass up
hill work, has applied to the Bank for the loan
of a few of her Senators, in addition to the
other facilities granted for carrying on the war
in the Third District, and the Old Lady of Ches
nut street has detailed the Chloride of Lime
Committee, and Mr. Southard, for the purpose.”
This language is used in reference to the Fi
nance Committee of the Senate, now’ on public
business in Philadelphia. Again, the Pennsyl
vanian says:
“Mr. Webster owes the Bank about eighty
thousand dollars, and it is supposed that a speech
up tow’n will pay six months’ interest on the
debt. Mr. Ew’ing is Henry Clay’s man Friday,
commonly known as the Waste of Waters and
the Solitude Senator. He also has had exten
sive facilities from the Bank fur scrip specula
tions.”
This impudent and shameless libel is uttered
with all the non chalance of an ade|Q at the
trade of calumny. Such villainous stuff, how
ever, we should think would nauseate the coars
est stomachs. We owe an apology for quoting
it in our paper; but the physician who handles
the dissecting knife must occasionally meet with
bad subjects.
Curious discoveries in Greece.—A letter from j
Athens states, that during some recent excava
tions on the field on which the battle of Chae-:
ronea was fought, there had been found the co- j
lossal lion which the Thebans erected to the
memory of their countrymen w ho perished in
the conflict. Several curious monuments of an
tiquity have also been discovered atKydnosand
Delos, and have been deposited in the Greek
Museum. _'
Another Attempt.—We copy the subjoined
from the New York American. The lovers of
music, in that city, like most other lovers, are
zealous and persevering, but not very success
ful—
“ The Opera— It is with the greatest pleasure
we are enabled to state to our readers, that a
project is on foot to revive the Opera, this sea
son, under the auspices of a new manager, with
all the aid that can be derived from the Italian
artists now here, and if practicable, with addi
tions from Havana, and, next season, from
Italy.
“It will be a source of gratification, we are
sure, to all lovers of music, to learn this good
news. It ia intended, moreover, to put the price
of admission more nearly on a par, than that
heretofore paid, with the prices at other thea
tres.”. . .
Ms. William Smith—We are sorry to learn
from the Baltimore Chronicle, that Mr. William
Smith of Virginia, the Mail Contractor, has pe
netrated into Maryland, and appears there too,
as well as in his own State, in the character of
a political lecturer. He harangued in Balti
more on Thursday night last. The Chronicle
expresses itself indignantly at this procedure.
Its remarks are exceedingly severe. Will the
people submit to this sort ot business?
Balloon Ascension.—Mr. Mills was to have
ascended in a balloon from Philadelphia on
Monday last. The ascensions of this gentleman
have all been admirably managed and highly
interesting. On the present occasion, his flight
into the upper regions is especially designed to
be tributary to the cause of science. A corres
pondent of the Philadelphia National Gazette
states that
Among other things, Mr. Mills will carry up
four bottles, carefully closed by stop cocks, and
fully exhausted of air by a good air pump—
One of these is to be opened at a mile from the
earth, another at two miles, and so on to the top
of his voyage. Each bottle carefully closed
again, will contain a specimen of air more or
less dense according to the height; and while
it will prove a good check on his barometric ob
servations, it will enable the chemist to ascer
tain the constitution of the air at various heights.
For the first time I believe, the gas will be
made from zinc on so large a scale, it will be bet
ter than that from iron, the ascending power
will suffice probably to convey the aeronaut to
a greater height than has been reached. It will
also, if the wind should blow landwards, ena
ble him to travel far; for he proposes to descend,
anchor for the night, ascend in the morning,
and close his adventure if possible on the verge
of civilization. It is a bold thought, and one
for the successful execution of which every
good wish should attend him.
The balloon is made of 517 yards of white
silk, carefully varnished. Over this is thrown
a netting of white twine to give it strength, and
to afford attachments for the cords of the car,
which is sustained solely by if. The diameter
is 28 feet; so that it is larger than an ordinary
house, and the contents are over 11,000 cubic
feet. At the top a valve is fixed, which closes
! by a spring.
A New York paper remarks that there is nm
! pie proof that “ Mr. Van Buren in his political
life has acted with the federalists and the demo
crats—was an enemy and a friend to the late
war—opposed and supported Madison—sup
ported and opposed Clinton—was a friend and
an opponent to the Tariff—was a friend and an
opponent to John Quincy Adams—supported
and opposed Rufus King, and has been on both
sides of every question which has been agitated
| since 1812.” ___
The New York Evening Star thus speaks of
the Whig Candidates for Governor and Lieut.
Governor, of that State:—
“ Mr. Seward is a native of Orange county;
and is about thirty-eight years of age—interior
in point of talents and eloquence to no man in
the state; his speech in the Senate on the depo
site question, equals any thing delivered in the
country on that important measure, and was
every where quoted with high commendation.
To a most amiable temper, he unites the most
popular manners—frank, social and republican;
and we have no doubt that in his hands, the
destinies of the State will be safe.
“ Mr. Stillwell is a mechanic) well known in
this city as a sensible, popular, and judicious ci
tizen. He was the zealous advocate in the As
sembly. of the bill abolishing imprisonment for
debt, and as chairman of the Committee on In
ternal Improvements, was active in carrying the
Chenango and Chemung canals, and other use
ful projects into execution. He is exceedingly
popular in this district, and will poll an immense
vote. The nominations, we are confident, will
be received by the whigs with great sati- faction.
£200,000 going a begging.—A great sensation
has been excited in Ireland amongst the very
numerous race of O’Neills, by an invitation to
all the Roman Catholic descendants of the fa
mous Sir Phelim Roe O’Neill to put in their
claims to a legacy of £200,000 now lying in the
Spanish Treasury. The particulars of this ex
traordinary announcement are as follows:
Some time in the course of last spring a stran
ger entered a house of entertainment at Omagh,
and, alter resting and refreshing himself, infor
med the landlord that he had the charge of an
important business, and produced some copies
of a paper, which purported to be the last will
and testament of Duke Hugh O’Neill, Count of
the Holy Roman Empire, Generalissimo of the
Spanish and Mexican forces, dec. dated the 25th
of March, 1770. £20,000 are willed to purchase
diamonds for the imperial crown of Spain, and
£20.000 more are bequeathed to the indigent
clergy of that country; but the residue, amount- j
ing to the immense sum of £200,000 is devised
to the Roman Catholic descendants of Sir Phe
lim O’Neill, the births of whose children are re
gistered in the great parchment-book of Lon
derry, which is still in existence, and which was
kept with great exactness during the period be
tween 1612 and 1649. The stranger suffered
copies of the will to be taken on payment of half
a-crown each, and these, it appears, have mul
tiplied with such astonishing fecundity, that
there is not a hamlet for 40 miles round Omagh
that is not agitated by contending claims of the
descendants of O’Neill, devout believers of the
stanger’s scripture to this great legacy.
The two contending claimants, who stand
highest in popular opinion in right of O’Neill
sept of Longfield. are a decent butcher in Gar
vagh, and an honest ferryman on the river
Bann, between Downhill and Portstewart, both
uncontaminated “by heresy and schism,” and ac
knowledged by their respective “ tails” as very
fit and proper heads either to fight for or go to
law’ about the legacy of the Grand Duke. The
latter and his family passed through London
derry on Wednesday last, on his way to Drum
quin, for the purpose of making an investiga
tion into his pedigree, and the legal establish
ment of his claim. The Peer at present repre
senting this princely family, seems not to have
been taken into contemplation in the will which
restricts the property to Roman Catholics. In
the mean time it would really be an act of hu
manity for somebody to make inquiry of the
Spanish ambassador, or some of our British
Consuls, and ascertain from the proper author
ities whether this document, which is now so
extensively circulating, and putting so many
poor and honest people to trouble and expense,
be genuine or not. The stanger’s demand of
the half crown per copy looked “ very suspi
cious.”
Tslegraphiaxa.—The Telegraph is outagalost
Mr. Leigh, and in favor of Mr. Calhoun. “ We
care not for Mr. Calhoan,” says the Telegraph.
A few sentences farther on, and it says:
“ The withdrawal of Messrs. Clay and Web
ster, and the nomination of Mr. Calhoun, would
be followed by a response and union of men and
interests, that would at once redeem the coun
try. Present this single issue, and let it once be
understood that we intend to make war only on
the abuses of the Administration; that we desire
to let the President pass auietly through his
term, and we can drive the Kitchen Cabinet in
to immediate disgrace. And Van Burenism
would be demolished before the close of the
next session of Congress.”
And in the very next sentence he adds:
“ Let it not be supposed that we have nomi
nated Mr. Calhoun.”
Verily, lucus a non lucendo.
The Telegraph, in this same article, says:
“ It is our belief that no man in the United
States has so large a share of the public confi
dence as Mr. Calhoun.”
Is the Telegraph serious?
The Telegraph does “ not believe that Mr.
Leigh can be elected. Although eminent in his
profession, and deservedly popular with many
of the citizens of his own State, he is young in
public life; that confidence in these times is of
slow growth; and Mr. Leigh is comparative
ly unknown to the American people. Chi
valric, proud spirited, independent, and magna
nimous as he is, his name is associated with
none of those noble deeds—none of those lofty
sacrifices—none of the arduous public conflicts
which have conspired to render John C. Cal
houn the pride of almost every man who has
been associated with him in public life.”
So that the Telegraph comes full butt up to
Mr. Calhoun every turn it takes.
The Telegraph has already announced that)
“ under no circumstances,” will it support Mr.
Clay or Mr. Webster; and it now announce*
that Mr. Leigh won’t do. He does not quite
come up to the Telegraph standard, we pre
sume! Very well; this is all modest and ami
able and encouraging. This is following public
sentiment with a vengeance!) It now only re
mains for the Telegraph to try and condemn,
as Presidential candidates, Judge McLean and
ex-Secretary McLane, and the business will b«
finished.
Is the Telegraph ambitious of being the War
wick of our country? Must its Editor “live in
story” as the President-maker? He has made
: one President already. Heaven deliver us from
i such another specimen of his talents in that line;
We commend, however, to his attention the fol
lowing from the Boston Courier. The Tele
graph’s course brings to mind, forcibly, the fa
ble of the Boy in the Apple Tree. We have
been throwing grass at him; it will soon be time
to see what virtue there is in stones. By which
we mean to say that in our opinion, the Tele
graph presumes upon kind treatment But to
the extract:
‘s Wc cannot permit the Telegraph to assume
that the small number of individuals in this coun
try, who believe in Notification, are alone actua
ted by a constitutional principle, whether sound
or unsound. We hold to the Constitution, justly
and truly interpreted; neither more nor less; to
the Union transmitted to us by our fathers, and
the Constitution as the record of the conditio*
of that Union.
“ If the Telegraph is for more, we are not with
it; If it is for less, we are not with it; and we
claim for ourselves, what we concede to the
Telegraph, the right to make and to follow a
conscientious construction of the Constitution.
Wre want no “ strong central government;” we
want a government according to the Constitu
tion; devoted to its principles; anxious to main
tain it, and faithfully to act up to its require
ments; but at the same time scrupulously »m
severely confined within its boundaries; untam
ed by the corruptions, and free of the usurping
spirit, which distinguish and disgrace the pre
sent Administration. Who may best preside
over such a government, is not for us, nor lor
the Telegraph, but for the People, to determine, i
Extract of a letter received by a mercantile
house in this place, dated Pernambuco, I2tf>
August, 1831:
“ Our exchange of copper for paper is no* in
full operation, and we think great benefits wnl
result from it to the trade of this place; and as
both crops of Cotton and Sugar continue to
promise to be very good, we confidently expert
a great change for the better in our commer
cial affairs.”
Extract of a letter to a gentleman in thiJ
place dated Portland, Sept. 11:
“Jacksonism still predominates in this State,
though somewhat diminished. The votes m
this city were 1426 Whigs, 865 Jackson. H 15
confidently believed there will be no election for
Governor.”
John Holmes, formerly Senator in Congress
has been elected a member of the Maine Leg>5'
lature from the town of Alfred.
The Cholera continues to prevail on the plan
tations about Savannah. The Board of Health
report one case in the city. Cholera has
appeared in Chester, Pa.
Hon. Mahlon Dickerson, Secretary of th*
Navy, has returned to the Seat of Government,
from his recent tour of inspection of the N>'y
Yards, <fcc. • ___
ICj* The Potomac Bridge is now repaired
and is in order for travelling.
[communicated.] fth,
I wrote a small piece about the Editor of
United States’ Telegraph some three or
weeks ago. 1 then repudiated Duff-Greeni •
The Telegraph to-day shows which way
wind blows. Isay again that the Telegrapn
will not be sustained in its suicidal policy oy
Whigs of the South. It cannot expect even u*
countenance of South Carolina. Mark that.
September 16._PalmetT •
[communicated.]
Mr. Snovrien:—The person who is in
bit of purloining my Newspaper from my
on Washington street, is hereby notified, tn
the offence is repeated, that the appropnat
medy to expose the offender will be resort?
by one of your Supscmi!.21