I'rum ^hnnhl.
HIE i{rsToi{.\ri((.\ or iSR.\r,i„
ijv THE p.i:\. c KoiuiE cuoly.
“ Ami I licartl n voire onl of Iionven sayinp-,
Tltliohl, tlir tuhcrnacle ot'CifuI is withnu-ii', aiul
lie sh;ill liwcll witli tlicm, aiuI llu y s1j;iII be his
peopk', and (lod himself sliall be with them,
aiul be tlieir Ciod.”—Uev. x.\i. 3.
Ki\(; ot tlie (load! how long- shall s’vccp
’I'll} uratJj! how lonjj thy outcasts weep!
'Vw n thousand a^onixinf^ years
His Israel steeped hi-rbreail in .tcarp;
TJie vial on her head been poured—
rlight, famine, bhame, the sc ourg'c, the sword!
’■? is done ! Has hrcritlird thy trumpet blast,
‘I'iie 'I'ninEs at length have u e])t their labtl
On rolls the host ! I'roni laud and wave
The earth sends up the Mnransf)iutd slave!
'I'here rides no glittering' chivalry,
.\o banner purples in the »k v;
’■J'he worlil within their hearts has died;
'f'wo thousand years have slain their pride;
't he look of pale remorse Is there,
'J lie I'p, involuntary jirayer;
The f(.rm still marked with many a strain—
liran ’iofthe soil, the scouri^e, the chain;
'J'he serf of Afric’s fiery ground;
The slave, by Indian suns embrowned;
The weary drudges of the oar,
T’y the swart Arab’s poisoned sliorc,
'I'he gatherings of earth's wildest tract—
On inirsts the living cataract !
AVh.it strength of man can cheek its speed ?
’I hey come—the Nation of the Treed;
Y\'ho leads their n.arch ? Heneath His wheel
Back rolls the sea, t!ie mountains reel •
TSefore their t"oa.l Ills tnim]i liiown,
^Vho speak- tiuuvli r, and 'li-doiK !
Kingof tl.c i.C iu! O!:, T.ct m kain
M’ar. thy long pilgrimage of pain;
Oh, not in vain the voice that ciict!.
To spare thy maddened homicide !
Even for this hour thy heart’s blood streamed
They comc !—the Host of the Hedcemed !
AVhat flames upon the distant sky ?
'Tis not the comet’s sanguine dye,
'Tis not the lightning’s (juivering sjjire;
'Tie not the sun’s ascending fire.
And now, as nearer speeds their march,
■Expands the rainbow’s mighty arch ;
Though there has burst no thunder-cloud.
Mo flash of death the soil has ploughed.
And still ascends before their gaze,
Arch upon arch, the lovely bJaze;
Still, as the gorgeous clouds unfold,
llisi; towers and domes, immortal mould.
Scenes! that the patriarch’ visioned eye
"Beheld, and then rejoiced to die ;—
That, like the altar’s burning coal.
Touched the pale prophet’s harp with sou!;—
I'hat the throned seraphs long to see,
Now given, thou slave of slaves, to thee !
AVhosf city this? What potentate
Sits there the King of Time and Fate ?
■\Vhom glory covers like a robe,
■\Vhose sceptre shakes the solid globe,
A\ hom shapes of Ci e and sjjlendour guard ?
’J'liere sits the Man, “ wliose face was maiTed,”
'I'd whom archangcls bow the knee—
The weeper in Gethsemane !
Down in the dust, aye, Israel, kneel;
Tor now thy withered heart cun feel!
Aye, let tby wan cheek burn like flame,
There sits thy glory and thy shame !
Nineteenth Conjijress.
SECOM) SKSSIOX.
Mr. Wright iVoin the Select Commit
tee 3j)|)oinfed on the subject of the Vice
President, made tlie following report,
which was orderdd to Ijc laid on the ta
ble, and ordered to be printed.
. HKPORT OF THE COMMm’KH.
The Sulfct Committee to whom \v:ts ro-
ferifd the communication of the\’ice
Vros’dent of the 21)th December last,
rcspccifully rr-port,
’rii9t, imniodialeiy after l!,(.y asscm-
!/;ed. 1lif*y inibrmid the \'ifc-Presi(li;nt
cii Uk-u' l)cin;j; or2;:ini/'.c(l, and of their
vcadiness Uj ii ceivo any comnmniraiicMi
v.’iiich he Jii!u;!jt see lit. t(;m^U(x. On the
tert ij t of iiis rej)ly, dateil the 3d of
.^uuiary, anti which acoon)panics this
report, Mr. M‘l)u!Tie, a« the Iriondand
rejTescntutive of the \ ico4"resident,
\v ' ad/nilled before tlie cummiUeo,
Mti i'dcd Ihronghoul the cxauiination
’.viiK.h Inllowed.
Tlie lijst object of innuiry, in pro-
• ctMlini; to business, was to ascertain
’.vhetiier ai'.y oliar-^es ajrainst the \'iee
f^j’csidt nl hud b(.‘en placed amtjrij^ the
public records of the War iJc.'partnnMit.
And aftor an examination on this point,
liie conimittee became satisfied that no
-jcb char;:^es v. ere, or had been, amonp;
’.he records or papeis of thitt JJ(,'pait-
ment. JiiiT, as the letter from i:ii,ah
'Mix, addressed to Majoi-SaterleeClarke,
Jinder the name of *“ 1 ianc(jck,’’ had
bof-n published in th.e Alexandl-ia Phce-
jiix (ia/.ette, of the ]Jecend)er,
4vbi('h public.'ition ibe \'ioe Presi.lent
liad parti.'uhn ly rcfrjrcd t(., in his tu.te
to tin* committee, 1 hey felt bound to
•':;airinci'uily cr.u fieely iulu l)i(* truth
^'1 laLiiy ul the niaiiei's contained in tbai
tter.
From tiie nature of the duties impos
ed upon a Committee of Iiupiiry, espe
cially when coimected with lhe'di>tinct
wish, as expressed by the Vice President
in the present instance, for the “ freest
investigation,” it has been iu'ipossiblefor
the Committee to give to their proceed
ings the connexion and conciseness in
cident to trials, when the testimony is
ascertained and arranged before it is
presented.—'riiey have, however, dil
igently apj)lied tiiemselves to Inc sub
ject referred to them, and after a long
and laborious examination, they aie
unanimously of the opinion, that there
are no facts which will authorise the
belief, cr even suspicion, that the A'ice
President was ever interested, or that
he participated, directly or inciirectly,
in the proiits of any contract forme(l
with the (lovcrnment tlirough the De
partment of War, while Ilf. was entrust
ed with the discharge of its duties, cr
at any other time.
'J’hey are also of opinion, thnf the
conduct of Mr. J’arbour, tlie pre-ei.! >se-
cretary of War, in regard to the U tter
of K. Mix, Is not, in the slightest de
gree, deserving of censure. 'I’hc accu
sation contained in the letter was reu:ard-
ed by him as a basecaluniny iipon the
Vice President, }»cnned by a man whol-
ly unworthy ol notice: and the commit
tee have no re:ion to believe that the
supposed truth of that accisation w'as at
any time tlu* basis of aiiy aci of the
War Depaitim nt. The publication of
the letter ap])cars to have been produc
ed as follows :
! In the month of December last, Howes
I Goldsborouirh and Kiijah Mix were*
competitors for a contract with the War
! i/'opartment ; (Joblsborugh, soon after
his arrival in Washington, obtained
from Mr. S. Tlnrk, a copy of the letter,
wiih a view’ to use the same against l\Jix
should he I’-id it necessary. From this
co])y, a transcript was obfai-icii by Wm.
F. Thornton, the junior Kdifor of the
Plurnix (iazctte, on the 27th ot' Decem
ber, which he published the next morn
ing in that paper, accomjjanied i)y his
editorial remarks. In this pubhc'ation
Mr. liarbour had no agency, cither di
rect or indirect. When he heard that
the letter liacl been made })ublic, he re-
fjuested Col. H. M. Johnson, of the
Senate, to call upon tlie V ice President
as a mutual friend, and inform him of
the manner in which the letter had come
to his (Mr. JJarbour’s) hands, and that
the same had been subsequently trans
mitted through the post ollice in an en
velop to Major Clark, to whom it be
longed. This information was given
by Col. Johnson to the Vice President,
in the morning of the 2fHh of J)ecem-
her, just before he transmitted liis com
munication to the House.
This letter to “Hancock,” as pub
lished, and to w’hich the Vice President
had referred, contained, among other
things, the following assertion: “ And
I have letters of Vandeventer’s, which
most positively mention that he (mean
ing Mr. Calhoun) was engaged, and re
ceived some i)OJtion of tlie copt':-c'. ”
As such letters, if they existt'd, mi^ht
bove reici..;u to, .ippear to relate prin
cipally to the pi ivMc* confidential tro.s-
actions between him and K. Mix, in re
gard to the contrart; and there is no
reason to brlic\ e or presume that the
Vice Pnislilriii was ever made acfjuain-
tcd Avith tiioir contents. The letter
from (Jol. Armistead, w’ritten while he
wa- at the head of the Engineer Depart-
!nent, although it Avears the appearance
of an official |)aper, and was improj)erly
intended, as the Comntittce believe, to
bring the weight of oilicial inllnence to
bear upon the private transactions be
tween Vandeventer and JNlix, was not
wi itten witii the sanction or knowleilse
lead to further eviti'Mice, and be inipor-j that one fourth belonged to Maj. Ven-
tant to aid the ( ommittee in their in
quiries, they thought j)roper, in the ear
ly stage of Iheir proceedings, to issue a
subpoena both for Mix and \'andeven-
ter, with a clause therein contained
commanding them to produce any pa
pers in their possession, tending to
jn'ove the i."cusHtion wl.ich jNIix liad
made in his letter to Hancock. In obe-
dcance to this summons, the witnesses
appeared, and. Mix Ijaving been first
called upon to testify, j)r(»duced, during
l)is exaaanation, tb( letters from Miijor
Vandeventer, dateii August 7th, 1818,
Sept. lOtb, 1S18, .Inly Sib, 1820, March
'•2 1th. 1S21, and ti.e lettej’trc-m (,Vd. W.
K. Armistead, (lated M.Trch21th, 1821.
On his sccond examination, lu'j)roduced
the letters fiom Maj.)r \ andeveiifer.
to w'it, the one dated August, ol, 1818,
and October 17th, l.sji). When it was
))erceived tiiat, in one of the h'tters of
Major Vandeventer, to wit, the t^ne
tlated the 7th of August, 1818, :md to
which they here particularly refer, ;d-
iusit)u was made to a j)ai t!!( r in the con
tract, whose name was to have b'en
kejjt secret, they fidt it to be their duty
to discover, if th:*y could, who this se
cret partner was, or at any rair>, to push
the iiifpiiry so far as to Iea\e no room
for suspicion that the Vicc* President
was the ])ers(jn alluded to. 'I'his branch
of the subject l-.as been the princii)al
cause of their consuming so much lime
in the inve-stigation ; they fouiul that
they were led into a wider iiled than
could have been at first anticij)ated, and
that it was necessary, in oider to get a
full view of the wliole ground, to go
thoroughly into the origin and histo
ry into the origin and hislory of wliat is
commonly called the Mix contract,
'llio letters of Major Vandeventer, a-
for one hundred thousand pcrchcs of
stone. 7'he language of t!ie letter i j os
follows : “ You will inform the Agci i
thata contract has been made with Capt.
E. JNIix, to deliver, as soon as practica
ble at the Ki|) liaps, one hundred thou
sand j)crcb of stone.”
In a subsequent letter, written to
James Maurice, also copied into the
same letter book, and datel the 21st day
of August, 1818, the contract is descril)-
ed as being for two hundred thousand
j)erches. ’rhe language of this letter is
asi'ollows; “Mr. E. Mix will soon
commence to deliver stone at the Kip
Kaps, under coiilract with this Depart-
of the V’ice President, and no copy of’ment, for two hundred thousand perch. ”
it w;is ever entered in the letter book of j Some time after the delivery at the
the Department. j Engineer Department of the first bond,
but at what j)recise time does not ap
peal-, a new bond was given for the de
livery of onp hunf!re».l and fifty thousand
j)crches, by E. iNIix. This second bond
is signed by F'. Mix as contractor, and
Samuel Coop('r and James Oakley, as
sureties—arid it is ante-dated to the 5th
ofAi;gust, 1818—but no certificate, in
regard tr> the suHiciency of the sureties,
was attached to this instrument. 'I'he
Committee have been unable to ascer
tain w’hen this second bond was receiv-|
ed at the Engineer Department; thoug;)
the impression of (len. Swilt is, that it
was received before he left the office,
which was on the 11th of November,
1S18. Maj. Vandeventer also expres
ses his belief, that it was delivered dur
ing tlie Fall of 1S18. How far his tes-
1‘mony confiicts, if at all, with his let
ter to Mix, dated 17th of October, 1820,
in which he urges upon the latter to at
tend to “theboiul,” the ('ommittee w ill
not undertake to determine.
The attention of Gen. Swift was par
ticularly directed, befoietheCommittee,
to the discrepancies in the bonds, also
to the two letters from the Engineer De
partment, in which the contract is allud
ed to. The explanation which he gives
will be found in his testimony, to which
the committee refer.
During an investigation relative to
this contract, by a Committee of the
House of Rcjiresentatives, in 1S22, a
copy of the bond was requested by that
Committee. In answer to which, the
Engineer Department furnished a cojiy
of the second bond, which had been
substituted for the one first sjiven—but,
as there was no certificate of the Recor
der of New-York, approving the sure-
certificate annexed to the cancelled bond,
was made, and attached to the copy of the
ties on the second bond, a copy of the
bond furnished. Capt. Smitli, of the
Engineer Dnpartment, who attested
these copies, has explained the cause of
his certifying to this inaccuracy, and to
his testimony, in that particular, the
Committee here refer.
The question still remains, who was
the secret partner.^ Hut the ('ommittee
being entirely satisfied that the secret
partner was not the Vice-President,
which was the main question to be de
cided, will leave the conflicting testimo
ny on the other point with the House,
without attempting to decide upon its
relativ'c weight.
On the 27th January, 1S27, theCom
mittee closed the examination of witnes
ses on their jiart, except as to one or
two, who had bc^en summoned, but had
not attendetl. On that day, the friend
and representative of the" Vice-Presi-
dent was advised that the Committee
had so closed their examination; and he
was also informed by a member of the
Committee, in its presence, that the
Committee were unanimously of opin
ion that theV'. President was innocent of
the charge of having participated in any
manner in an^ contract made with the
War Department; while he wms Secreta
ry of War. The same day, at the in
stance of Mr. M’Duffic, subj)fcnas were
issued for witnesses to appear and testi
fy on behalf of the Vice-President. On
the 29th January, the Committee re
ceived from the friend and representa
tive ol the V^ice-President, a paper pro
'Fhe committee will here remark, that
they j)lace no reliance whatever on Ihe
t('stimony of Kiijah Mix. From the
sell-con!radictions, apjKirent on the.face
of his testimony, and which it is unne
cessary here to reca|)itnlate, aside from
the inlaiMy attaclied to his character, the
cn'mniitiee were satisfied that he ought
ntjt to lie bc-lieved on his oath. The
letters, however, just referred to, and
produced by him during his examination,
do not rest for their authenticity on his
testimony. 'I'iiose from Major Vande-
ventor, excepting such parts as had been
flelu’ed or obliterated, were acknowl
edged by Maj. Vandeventer himself to
be genuine; and he was requested in ev
ery instance, to state, with the letters
ibefore him, what nanies or words had
occupied the obliterated places, when
the letters were written. The letter
from C’ol. Armistead was also f.cknow-
leged by that pfiicer to be genuine. lint
the three papers purporting to be copies
or the substance of a letter from Major
\'andoventer to Mr. Calhoun, rest for
their authentieity on the unsuj)por!ed
testimony of F'. Mix, and are regarded
by the conimittee as having been fabri
cated by him. They are also of opin-
icn that the words or names defaced
from the letters of Major \’andeventer
were so defaced by F]. Mix : and the
committee have been unable to ascertain
with certainty, either from Vandeven
ter, the admitted author of the letters,
or from any other source, what the
words or names were, widch have been
thus obliterated.
'Fhe ofler for the contract appears to
have been made by E. Mix, on the 23d
of July, 1818, and proposes to deliver
at Old Point Comfort, “from one to
one hundred and fifty thousand perches
of stone, at {S3 per perch.’’ The
contract, as furnished from the WarDe-
partnicnt, bears date the 25th July, 1818.
It stipulates for the delivery of one
hundred and fifty thousand perches of
stone, at three doilarsperperch-is drawn
up in the hand writing of JVIajor Vande
venter, and by him alune witnessed,
and is signed by (jen. Joseph G. Swift,
then chief F'nginecr, and by f^lijah Mix.
Although Mix here appears to have
been the only co.itractor, yet, from the
evidence, there is reason to believe,
that at the time the contract was made
or soon after, and l)efore the execution
uf any valid bond for the performance
thereof, it was divided into shares, and
^trcrgtt), an^ vlgilaucc of a ^mc cot’
when ibe murd..rer, in defendin» j •
self', was forced to loose his prey, uj/,*
with the loss of a few' feathers, flew ait
its company, and a furious enga eiii
for about tw’o minutes ensued,
the heroic crow had evidently the ni
tery, and having driven ofl’the auver!'
ry, joined the black gentry, who st,aw
on the surrounding trees, wiiuts,
the combat, with a few croaks seciiicd '^
say, “I have rescued the captive
They all set up a loud cawino-. '•
up
inu: /o Ptcan to
*iig, as ii
the victor! All ii,-'
passed under the eye of a steady yon
man w'ho happened to be in the r
meadow, siruck mute with asioriKr
ment.
Shrcwfilnmj Chronick. ^
THE FiiESS.
The honorable 'Mr. Forsyi;), of Geo-
ir'iiU in a laie debute in Congrcis husscen
fit lo IItier a terrible anaiiien.u ajjai'ns*
the Press, which he contends, is a nici^
vehiclc of shlander, libel and liccnuous”
We are not aware that tlie honor-
ness.
able g;entleman has ever been thouj^^lu of
consequem-.e enough to merit from ti,c
corj.‘S i.i Editors more than a passing no-
iKc ; tnough it is probable, that
one has, liereiofore. remarked nuh fiee
doom upon the honorable geiuK-nan'ij
conduct, as a statesman or public airei,-
and that hehustak.i, Ju- presen; oppor-
luniiy to iliusirale int- ;^o.'-pcl truth of the
maxim of 1 lud.i!)i as—
No man e’er f.-!t (!,( l;;uiur draw,
'^ith good oi)uiion of the law.
Or, it is possible, ihat the honorable ger-
man may have been about to sell his vote
for Presideni, and kindly wished to give
warning lo printers and editors, thui it'
they should not keep quiet, they might
expect a prosecution at common laiv, whpie
truth is a libel, and good intention a
crime, and fine and imprisonment there-
\vard for publishing the one and esercis
ing the oilier. Galaxv.
devcntcr, one fourth to Elijah Mix, one
fourth to R. C. Jennings, and the re-
mainning fourth to a person whose name
was not to have been mentioned. The
title of Vandeventer, to his fourth, at
the time above referred to, appears to
have rested on a verbal and confidential
agreement between him and Mix, and
so remained till the 24th of April, when
he received a written bill of sale of one
half of the whole contract. Howes
(ioldsborougb Co. subsequently be
came the owners of one fourth, by pur
chase fVom Samuel Coo]jer, who had
previously purchased from Maj. \’^ande-
venter; and they (Goldsborough and
Co.) were recognized at the War De
partment, by the consent of E, Mix,
expressed iji a letter sent by him to the
Secretary of W’ar, and dated the IJtb
of April; 1821.
The first bond, received at the Engi
neer Department, on the contract, is
dated 5th of August, 1818, and de
scribes the coiitractas having been made
by F\ INIix and Georjje Cooj)er, for the
delivery of hiindn'd thonsuiid
ches of stone, being fifty thousand less
than ]\Iix was entitled to deliver. This
testing against the previous proceedings
of the Committee. C'liiisidering this
paper as prepared and jnv'sented under
the sanction of the high officer, in whose
behad it protests, the Committee have
deemed it their duty to transmit it to
the House, but they forbear all com
ment on its contents.
I lie Committee submit herewith all
the testimony they have received dur-
Fart.-
a field called the
bond is signed by E. Mix and (Jeorgt, . . . -
Cooper, and J. Oakley, as sureties: the the examination,
sureties were regularly ajiproved l>y R.
Riker, Reco'der of the (Jity of New’-
York, as appears by his certificate fol
lowing immediately after the signatures,
and dated the same as the bond. Jt
will be jierccived, at once, that there is
an obvious and fatal variance between
this bond and fhe contract. In anolii-
cial letter written from the I'ngineer
Dej)artinent, on the 11th day of August,
1818, to Lieutenant George Jilaney,
and coj)ied into the letter bixjk of that
Departniciit, the contract is described as
-Some time since, in
Hollies,
, belonginc: to
Sir Edward Smith, Dart of Acton Bur
nell, in this county, there was a flock of
pigeons, and eight crows, all busy in
seeking food. A hawk sailing in the
air over them, pounced on one of the
pigeons, and seemed, by their dispers
ing, to put in dread both parties. One
oft he crows sermofl for a few moments
to recollect himself, ar.d in an instant
llc^v at the ha’.vk ^^■ilh all tiiu courage,
IMHN ! ING.
It is related that Faust of Mcniz,
one of the many persons to whcyn the
iionor of having invented the invaluable
art of jH'inting is ascribed, having car
ried a parcel of his Jiibles to Paris, and
offered them to sale as MSS. the Frciich,
af'ter considering ttie numhci-of ljooi»c
and their exact tnujorniitij with anco
not/ier, even to p >ints ai.d commas, and
that the best book writers could not ba
near so exact, concluded there
witchcraft in the ease, and by either ac
tually indicting him as a conjuror, or
threatening to do so, extorted the se
cret. Hence the origin of the popular
story of the and Dr. Faustus.
New Fushion.-A\. is said, in the New*
Hampshiro Statesman, that it is becom
ing fashionable in the country therea
bout, to pay the newspaper printer?
punctually. Warm hopes are entertain
ed that this fashion w'ili become univer
sal.
As Printers now occupy, thanks tf>
the eloquence of Mr. Saunders and .Mr.
Houston, a considerable share of pub
lic attention, it may interest our readers
to learn that the Legislature of Louisia
na have elcel_ed John Gibson, editor of
the New-Orlea'ns -Argus, to bt* S'lak
Prititer. ]\Ir, (jibson is a warm iVicnd
of the Administration, and his predeces
sor was a Jacksonian.
TUn Wr.STERN I’ARAUrSF,!
Extract of u ktler dated, Stielhijvitk f'Jaincs3cf J
Jcimturi/ 20.
The distress in this country for th'^
want of money exceeds any thing th;d.
you can have an idea of: in fact, there i?i
none of any consequence, and their sta
ple, cotton', is so low in price, that you
may see hundreds of acres that willhf'
left unpicked. In consequence of tlio
price of Cotton, it will not pay the hin:
for getting it picked, although it appeal
to be the only article the farmers have,
to pay beir debts. They arc ohligci
to pay from 12 to20 per cent, a year in
terest. 'riio water still continues very
low: steamboats arc unable to go
Xe.v-Orloans, and no prospects of a rise.
It IS colder here than has been known
for many years.
The Newport (R. I.) I.iacc Schoc-
employs more than .'jOO females, who
find it diHicult to sujjply the orders. I'-
is said the style of the work has grcatl.'
irnj) roved.
The amount of pa])cr money in
dilation in Pennsylvania, including tl’.c
Unitefi States liank, and foreign ]»apcr,
is estimated al i^l0,000,000.
qufuitit)' of specie in circuhitico in thn^
Slate is thou.ght to be greater than.* '
any other iu the Union,