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SALISBURY, NOIlTEf-CARO! JIVA,
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1836.
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BY JOSEPH WADC HAMPTON.
THRHS or rCULICATIOV.
1. Tl
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TO C(t!!KFSl'OM)ENTS.
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to t'te 1'lifor. the post.ice sh'uild in all c ises be pit I.
Toctic
Hecess
mi n vrrr hkmmw i rvi.
TO TilK MMMOltY OF DAYrf l'AS'i'.
There a an '(our. a (jen.sive hour.
(And oh! how deir its sx-.lhin ovpr,)
It i when twilight sprids Iut veil.
And steals a l!ie .si'er.t dale;
'I'is when the tad inif blossoms c!tjse,
When all is s:!-riee and r j-"se;
ThTi mefriory w-t ;, and loves to mourn
For days that never can return.
Thr; is a strain, a plaintive .-trr.in,
The source of j..y and yet of pain ;
It is the son', v. hose dvinX r!e'ii!re
So'T- friMi.l b loved fia brrd with pleasure;
.11,. frl.-ri.I ,-(ir ner ntriin rmv !ita.r
Th melting1 liv to nmory 'lor.
Oh! th'n. "r inaTC spells restore,
Visions of blis. ful days no more.
There is a tear of sweet relief,
A fer.r or rupture, an I ot'irief.
The feel 1:1"; heart alone can know
What ort emotions bid it flow!
It U- when mernorv cliarrns the miti'l,
With feud T ieiaffes refined;
Tis S"n hr h ilmv snHs re-tore,
. parted fri-mds and joys no more.
I live the man, who well nn bear
Mi-rortnnos an'TV fro'.vn ;
I f)V the hnart that -p trus de--nir
When all i's fri. Is h ive il rn.
I 'o'.-e the ponl so so-rely rni'iJ
That fics-rrv cannot b'i'ri.t;
Thf Knnl tint scorns the rin crowd
An 1 bravely claims its rinltt.
I pr7: that f rtitnde of mind
Th" tyrant cannot shake;
I prr. -' that strererth of soul refined
No earthly power can hrenk.
I love the ?mn w'-o scorns to bead
V, -ii'rh utH ctien' Mast ;
Who trn.-ts in rn AlmiThly Iricnd
For his rewarl at last. A. T. H.
SIGGINSIANTA.
JOIl THE WESiriiN CVKOIAMAN.
"Mi. F.ditor : What harm did ever Riehard
p,,Mw Slight do f you 1 savs IVn Waters, arid I
sav so too. Shame on you Ivlitors of Salisbury.
The verv place that Phtlo nprese-ded ! Torn nut
nn innoceiit nun ! S!iane on y u I say. I t' d' you
what, you'd Ivetfer not show your f ice up here, a
old aunt R-Mty Leathersides has turned out as well
as Phil Spriggins. Sally went over this rnornin-j
to au:it Hetty's and left me with the children, so
nfier dinner I pulled olf my coat, rolled up my
sloves, and sitti down by the window, comnien
ee l writing a letter to Philo, ab nit otir afKiirs u!
liere, anl had cl.;erlv began, when in popped mv
liitle Wilhelmifia, (I believe Sally got the name
out oftl3 Viear of Wakefield,) with her face as
rainpt. aud nuiriii r jnjt blowing : what's
the matter my little darling ? says I. Oh dad ly,
dad lv I'says the little thing, aunt Hetty and cousin
P.nl are coming down yonder with in imma. I
guessed what was bringing out aunt H -ttv, so I
buttoned up mv collar, and ran my fi bers two or
three times through my hair, to appear a little de
con. Directly in come aunt H tty and cousin
Phil sure enough ; How are you aunt Hetty? ay
I d m't ax me sich a question as that now Tim,
don't v .11 see how things are a gwine ? What in
the world have you been aln.ut, while these crea
tures a call themselves whigs, have turned out
that " inooeent" man? I never knov'd a breath
about it till this evening, and then Sally told me.
I siy Tim, wh it in the world have you been
about ? What do you think the gin'm! will say to
this? R dv Tim if you don't do something, the
case is s goner with us. Ah aunt says I, I'm
afraid you are too late. Well, if I am, w hose to
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7. -T'T'l. J;',LV.Ji'
iimc ? Here's 11 j i I ami you, you've ilonc nothing
i'ut sit aud Sim die your jujkjs, while things ware o;o
in to rack ;is fast a a harrvcane. I looked
around and I saw Fiiils face as red a- fire, but be
fore I could say a word he broke loose. Aunt
Hetty do you say I did nothing? Do you call ri
din my Ijorse to death iiothi!!;, which cost ine an
hundred end sixty two dollars and fifty cents in '
clean cash ? My two trips to Ualeih to see lNiilo,
which cost ine fioin and cotninir, aud my two
weeks hoarding while there, which cost nie just
seventy one dollars and twenty five cents, I sav, do
you call this nothing? Lk besides at the lijior
I paid fir, an J the time 1 lo-t ; in to musters,
tax paying, and every other place ; so that the
grass to n. toy crap, and I'll have corn to buy this
fill ; so I want tione of tour I) uts litis way aunt,
if you please. Hut here's Tim, I've toM him to
link alxiut, but the devil f a cent would he spend ;
No, he'd sit at home vvith l'hilo's paper, and say no
dauber, no danger at all ; so now you see (turning
to me) the dangi.T when it's tx late. I felt my nap
beiisninij to 1 ise, so sir, savsl, 1 want none of
your llouts; this way, us you lohl aunt Betty, if you
please. How many candles have I not burnt out
rending the " (Ilole" and the "Standard," and
how much paper have I not wrote up in letters to
Pbilo ? There's the night lx-fore the election, I
wrote up twelve sheets of paper, that I paid thirty
seven and a half cents a quire, with iSlotght
tickets," and with all my ciTorts next day could
ooly net tliree otr them of my hands; yes, and that
was in vour own neighborhood too ! Aunt ISHtv
now commenced again. Well, well, says she, had
squire Lealhcrsides been alive, matters would have
been in another sort of stile ; but 11s it is, it's no use
to quarrel about it, now ; so lets do all we can.
1'iiil you sit down this evening and write a letter to
I'iiilo, tell him how affairs are going 011 with us,
and just hint to him that little Joe Leathersides
h:n turned over to the whigs, lay own nephew too
Ami Tim, yon sit down and write a letter to the
" irin'r.d' in Alabama, and tell him to hurry on
down here or we are all a goner as sure as fate."
Ard Tim be sure to send these scandalous I'd, tors
of Salisbury, as (len Waters sa) a keener. So
no v Mr. I'Mitor, I have given you a wipe, and if I
Yours, in great haste, as 1 have got me om iuis
letter to write.
TIM SIT. ICG INS.
To THE PitEsIDEXT OF AlaH.VMA : I ted you
what iriu'ral, vou'd better hurry on down here i .to
North Carolina. The whigs have play'd the devil
vvith u ; they've turned out our Covernor Speight,
and what's worse than all, have a majority in the
Legislature; so vou need not calculate ou our
sending Henry "
Conner, to Washington this
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heat. The fact is gin'ral, the whigs h iv"! got u
it last, and we can't deny it, th ' Phil tries it.
Hut I tell you what gin'ral, we're roused. Th-re's
Phih, Hen Waters, Phil Spriggins, old mint Hetty
Leathersides, (you know'd old aunt Hetty before
you went from here, did nt you?) and my self, 1 tell
vou what, we are making matters fiy. No longer
th 'ii yesterday, I beard old S im Constant say, that
yen were endeavoring to control the 'lections, and
that vou were jiersonally electioneering fr Martin
Van Huren, so I bristled up to him pretty quick, I
tell ye. Well says I, if he is, whats it your busi
ness ? Its my business, and the business (says the
ol I fx-1,) of every patriot and friend of his country,
to see that he is not deprived of his rights and
privileges. For mv part says he, I view the con
tort of the President as an unwarrantable abu.e of
(H'ver ! He is actually doing whit no other Presi
dent has ever dared to attempt ! Yes gin'ral, the
old dolt head went on to say, that if you succeed,
you will establish a precedent that will eventually
lestrov thi fair and happy gorcrnmmti and es
Mb'ish at absolute monarchy on it rui'is. Well
Mr, savs I, don't you know the gin'ral did what
none of them ever did, he beat the Hritish at
New Orleans ; so he's a letter right to do it than
thev had : well, if he did, s ivs the old fellow, he
nis no right to traverse the country like an ef-'c-ioueeriug
Poltreon ? I thought eiu'ral J.vkson
was above such degrading actions. Hut I find says
he, that there is nothing however Lise, but he will
e moosrend to do. to nccomnlish his iurioses ; and
sivs he, the truth of it is, he is propria pir.-tona,
endeavoring to sway by hts popularity, the minds
if th" people, and in a manner compelling his
friends to vote foi Mart;n Van Huren ; because he
i) refers him. Is this n publican ? say she to me,
has the eop!e a free caoice in the disposal of
their suffrages ? Well Sir, say s I, I can't exactly
see through it there; but I'm sure the gin'ral will
do as he pleases. Can't the gin'ral form a new
srhool of po'itics as w e 1 as Jefierson, savs I,
why mav'nt he have his doctrines as well as Tom
Jefierson? Yes Sir, says I, the gin'ral is not a
gwine to be bound bv t?.e n strict rules of Jeffer
son ; no says I, he's al.ove any of your republican
Itauimels. I tell yon what. I h If Spriggins blood rise,
ho sav I, you nce'nt think the gin'ral is obliged to
do as the other Presidents did. So I tell you what
this cut him up, and it was'nt long liefore he left
me, muttering something to himself about fools.
CI
I Hut gtn'ral between ourselves, dotv'l you think
an s in a bad row for stumps ? That Vhitc (now
he would'nt mind any thing you told In about be
ing Vice President under Van,) is car tug the west
and south, and I'm afraid yin'ral, iipite of you,
he'll get the vote of Tennessee ; ytr own istate
t'Kigin'ral! Do try and do all 30 can, as you
come tin down here ; tell 'em all (a you have in
some places,) that you won't have py of them f.r
friends, without they Vote for Mart Van Huron.
That's all the way you can tltgin'rul; Its
the way I'm doing, and you w-dd'nt believe
how it helps us down here. A fei days ao I
took Philo's p iper in my pocket, an went over to
neighbor Seroggs, on purpose to telhmi w hat you
said about the matter ; so when. I wtt in, there he
sat w ith his pipe in hisniouth, and btween me and
you, he s abominably lazy ! but tit's no defer
ence, as his vote will e; as far s any. Well
neighbor Scr.ggs, says I, I have coir over to talk
to you about what the gm'ral said ; well, Mr.
Sprigrins says he, I don't believe hevould do such
a nasty thing. Why Tim, its not right, can't I
vote for any body I please 1 Well Mr. Serous
says I, if you don't believe me, he re von can read
it yourself ; so I pulls out the paper and hands it
to him ; Oh Tim says he, you red, as I never
lamed to read ; so I read to him wiat vo- sai !.
Well, well, says he, since the irin'H said it, I'd
vote f r him, or I'd vote f.r the dad if he only
said it. Hut Mr. Sc rogs can't you io something
lor us say s I. Oh ye-, siys he. I 1 use my in
llu e nee ; and to-norrow I'd go to I.-n Smalls, to
the shiM.tiug match, and by li e le y i d's, T I
buy a quart of liquor, and give a geien! Van Hu
ren treat ! so gin'ruf you need not L- u.ieasy from
that qu trfcr.
I am giu'ral your friend till de.-th,
TIM SlUIUfJINS.
P. S. (lin'ral wrileto me, and lt!l tr.e how you
are loinir out their in Alabama ; atl tell ine how
I must act. as these ivhigs keep qicstio.iinr me
rather too c lose. T. S.
ARM AND CAliitKL
The following is an extract from j letter of '().
t. O." li:liii-h..d m it e New Y..r'.
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Carrel, the late editor of tne " Xationaf." His
death has caused considerable sensation in KurojK'.
lits writings, it is said, were the main cause of the
revolution of the three days, in l3'l. ib- fell in
a duel witn the editor of a paper called Ine Pre
.vc" Carrel had a great hatred of violence, though he
looked on animal courage as indispensable to a pub
lic man, and to the chad of party. CarrH was no
reg.cide! lie iiated seaifdds, blooded and the sub
stitution of tiie courage ot the hands, for the pr-
fjress ot ieasonanu me. im.oence 01 irum. ii -
1 1 a ....... -I. ...II. - I., a l..vA.T.I..
rei loiigm oueis, ue was no uueoisii oui nu ij.is.iv
nnagitied that ins p isition required it.
Imbtcihx that thi y arc " i reou'inlx-r to have
tic-ard him exclaim, when so"ak: ig of certain a. i ir
chists, who imagined that the cau of the llepublic
was to be served by force a. id violence.
Carrel was a gentlemaa! ili manners were
most finished. lie entered the room, :n,t asa swag
gerer, but as a statesman; and was u uiorinly well
dressed, kept a good table, rode on horsebiek near
ly every day, and associated with the lxst society.
He was as free from vulgarity as he was from
pride or ostentation.
Carrel had undertaken to write the life of Napo
leon. If he had lived to complete it, all other histi- j
ries of that great man would have been laid aside;
and even tiie 1 decline and Fall of the Roman Empire,
by Ginb -n, would 1 01 have excelled it.
" Cane! was a great orator, as weil as a writer.
These qualifications art seldom combined. In con
versation he was as eloquent as Coleridge. At the
tribune he was as nervous as Ur .ogham ; and as to
his writings, Chateaubriand has not hesitated to
place him on an eq lal rank with the first writers
of the last and present century.
The duel in which Carrel was engaged, and w hich
terminated in his death, was little letter than mur
der 011 the one hand, and suicide on the other.
That man, Girardin, had no more right to fight
witii Carrel about the trumpery ailair of mere com
mercial speculation, than the most obscure mer
chant's clerk would have the riht to demand sat
isfaction of General Jackson. Carrel acted in cir
cumstances without b-'ing convinced of the propri
ety of his conduct. lb-, t herefore, anticipated death,
and made his will ! On the day prior to the duel,
one of his uiist intimate friends breakfasted with
fum. He was as cheerful and affectionate, as ever,
but he said not a word as to the event of tho next
day. It is thought lhat he disapproved himself of
the step he was about to take; yet he knew not
how. with honor and propriety, to retract his en
gagement. It is high time that the subject of duelling should
be taken up in France. D is high time that these
civilized (!) murderers should le put a stop to. It
is really infamous for an enlightened and great jwo
ple, as "are the French, to allow themselves to lv
the dupes of the most w retched sy stem of butcherv
ever invented by the Devil or his angels. Here
was a philosopher, a statesman, a great public w ri
ter, a patriot, a lover of his seeies, H faithful and
devoted friend, a good master, an impartial, upright,
honest, cooscientoMs citizen, the pride of tiie young,
and the hope of die aged, called out in a wivkI io
the n-iL'blMrhood of Paris, (the Hois de Sincerities,)
and tie-re wounded mortally by a man named Gir
ardin!! And for what ? For some great principle,
for so. ne noble cause, to insure ine irmmpn 01 no -
. 1 i i-i .i
ertv and truth? No such thing.
: Hut .M. Girar -
din, an obscure individual, who has set up a new j sent. Now taut the danger from his imputed con
commercial speculation a cheap Journal consul- spuaey has i-'Ug si .ee va.o.-at-. , the toui pai.titdj
ers himself tttlended by an article tn the Xationai, ri coii cfiuis connected wnh the nait.e ot Borr, is
insults M. Carrel, threatens to publis.i a bio-raphy -! the late lb- high moitted anil guted iiao ill :i,
and exHst him! und thus urge on a duel vwth a wh;.se p. . ticacity , w incli hovvevei t..-t ..in. i;:s
man whose sIhkjs be was not worthy to blacken. iiie, del -co u those qualities which ripened at 'v ih
1'hus France, aud Curope, and tiie world ; thus lit- iato tn-u.-'u;, und endt d by cousii-m ih 11 p ossess
erature, aud the cause ol liberty and tieth,aie to he ! or to obscurity and uisgraee. jfVc.7. Arcia.
oepriveu ol a wise, noble, great, aud glorious bei:iir, 1
because a meiaj sjx-culator in Journals, cries for
blood !
The Fl'XERAL of Armond Carrel L of couise. nt.
tended. Tiier. were about tlx thousaxi) mci ux-
i;ks; and I siioold siiv that haif of them even sin u
tears. K,hatrtiubrimul sIcmhI nenr. He was l
inmuuiMiKiii sivhhi ntrir. lie was joo
cted to speak. The jKet of 1 e people,
t, wept like an infant! and tnv kind and
much allech
BEItAGER, Wept
generous-hearted Ti 1 m e a 1 n k a u , tiie a-sociate and
friend of Arnuuul Carrel, was so overcome bv irrief,
that be could only give utterance to a tew eloquent i
.rds of sorrow and regret. "Mv dear Catrei,'"
h; said, "shall I never see you more ?T' and I '
thought his heart would burst as tie put th ques-
lion to hiinseif, for the dead could not reply lo his:
sad interrogation.
The remains of Carre? were intered Pr the time
leingat the village cemetery of Saint Maude; hut
the city of R.. uen, which gave him hirih only 35
years ago, has claimed his ashes ; and David has
engaged lo present lo tne birth-place of his depart
ed friend a marble, hut almost shaking bust, from
iiis oa 11 immortal chisel.
And 'tis thus that the brightest aud lesl bparf I
'Tis thus that the hopes :;nd expectations of politi
cians and statesmen, patriots and sages, are disap
pointed! "Its; thus that we ham with Horace,
that "death is the last bouodary of human ailairs"
with Jurenal, that "death alone confesses how
weak and feeble is the ImiIv of man" with Virgil.
"that ea n the wisest and the best cannot cscajte
death;" but with Ovid we also learn,
Cum volet ille dies, qua nil nisi corporis I. ejus,
Jns ha bet incerti spatiua. mi:i uui-ii .evi.
Come, soon or late, deatlrs untlet-rminl day
Tins tmr-'fil being only can decay.
Yours, obediently, O. P. Q.
AARON BURR.
The. death of Aaron Hon- is one of those events
which come upon the public ear like a knell. It
carries us back to times that are past, to men th;d
have left the scene forever. The events m which
he figured, the men with whon; he associated, have, !
most of them, long since entered into the domain
of history. At the sound of his name til" stet.rs
s-.t!o .Revjibdio... jyvd of I ho pvp-itfu! imimcIi .v i t. J
prospeet : conspicuous among ie.ch appear the
form Mont joinery, of Arnold, of Hamilton,
and Jefierson. These have Irth l-.t.- ubtering
in the grae, and now, at the age of 61. after more
thauthirtv years retirement worse iha.s exile, Aaron
Hnrr, poor, solitary, and forsaken, creeps obscure
l anil ignobly into tiie tomb.
' An old man broken with the storms of state;
Hath come to lay his w eary bones ;;niong you.
(Jive him a little earth tor charity."
And yet, whatever may have lie-ni his demerits,
however dark the ohhquy which has attached it
self to his character, the termination of his varied
and protracted career, excites in the public mind a
feeling not wholly iiiiuccompanied bv sy mpathy aud
deference. The Revolution, although comparative-iv-recent,
is the heroic period of American history.
Il's annals are invested with a poetical iutcre t
which attaches itself to all those who were con-
spieuous in its eventful drama. I Is libures already 1
loom upon the imagination as though seen through
the ita of ages.
Hut there is something more, or rat her something
e'se, which awaken ami explains the interest fell
in 1 he history of Hurr. Great talents, brilliant
courage, lofty reputation, eminent services ail
sacrificed at the shrine of an ambition whose scope
and end are vet w rapt in mystery are well calcu
lated to exeite curiosity and attract attention.
The history of this man forms a drama, which i
not without its catastrophe and Ms lesson. Gifted
with courage, with genius, an I with eloquence, he
rose rapidly to a station beyond which there remain
ed but one higher t tempt his grasp. In an evil
moment he listened to the vni, e of the tempter aud
fell, never to rise again. Disappointed in bis at
tempt, to cfioct which he bad d ceived his party,
vet unwilling wholly to lose th prize fbr which he
had ve.iiu ed so n.u -h. be sought to win u by a
dark and perilous path. What was the precise ob
ject of his schemes, has never yet been accurate
ly known. It has not yet lieon certainly ascertain
ed, whether his t-Trts were directed aga nst a por
tion of the American empire, or the oomaia oi a
neighboring nation. Rut the secrecy with which
thev were conducted, the measures which were re
sorted to, and the men w ho were employed, suifieed
to stamp upon his designs the character .f guilt,
and the verdict whieh released him was rather an
eseajKi than an aequifal. Hut although he evaded
the la v, the sentence, the moral sentence of pub
lie opinion, was pronounced against him, beneath
which his name and his fame have ever since
withered in hopeless obscurity. He paid the pen
alty of his ofiersce, bv suffe ring at the hands of an
indignant community (xditical death. In atlemp
ing to plav the part of an American Catiline, he
nustiok the people among whom ho lived, the epoch
to which he lielonged. A hundred years later,
his design might possibly have succeeded. The
nation was too young, too pure, too fresh, and vig
orous from its contest for existence, to become, at
that earlv stage, the tool and victim of an aspiring
demagogue. Resides that of his professional adv -cates,
scarce a voice was lifted in his behalf, and
he sunk lieneath the unanimous condemnation of
all parties. He crept through the large remaining
portion of his life, unregarded and esojate, shunned
bv all, or nl v pointed out at a dis'aone, like a
breaker to Iwi avoided. Every man who was
sensitive topublic opinion, or aiaied to public hon-
. ..! I,,,-. uli.ui LI 1. iir l)o imniMnf mn ol
1 trs, so-pi .imhc, h - .... --
lhis friendship. hat lesson does nisucsuny pre-
was born
In In
ttate of Xow
' Jersey on ti e tht ot tbuarv, 1750. V iien oulv
ot ;)gl v joined Ceu. Aniold as a voiiui-
,L"L'r sod iiiaici.ev with mm isoo. New bury pvi t,
v.,,...... .... .- . .. . v-... i,.-...
theiice he pi)reede.i to i: - t i ! Gt,. MiMitgomery of
li,e apnroacli of tins i.doiccn.t .;t. I 1 the assault
ntou-o ine ilvleri. -s, lo .i-au-aeie l v-nd. J rom
on Quelitx-, on tiie 3bl December, 17V5, he was
t,,!t? w' llH' Aid-tb- camps of that gallant oJIk.j r, ai.d
by ins s:de v. inn he tell, mortally wamdti.
Alter tiie repulse of the America s, h.j r Juir,
having acquired great rep'.t.oion tor mtrt -p.diiy nod
tedent, at toe request of O n. Wo sier, ieir,ai!,rd
u-'l the army, uud acted as Biigade Major, until
j May, 177G.
lu the in-i-,th of May, he proceeded to the citv of
New luik a. id by the m itatlou of (Jen. Wastim"--
i ton emeied his toihtury fami y. Here he ooo be
came uissatished ; out on the re -rommeii aatioti of
(Jovernor Hatictx-K, consented to ; ccept the ap.
pointti.eut of Aid-dc-camp to Maj. 'ieo. Puleam,
who commanded in the city. At tiie hvdtle of ionf
Island, Putnam commanded, aud Curr w;.:s his Aid.
W hen in American army retreated 4i .-. New
"York, Hurr by his intrepidity, rescued Iron? certain
capture the brigate of Gen. Knox. In June, 1773
he was appointed Lieut. Col. of Malcolm's regm.ent
which regiment he commanded for about two years
without eriintting corporal punishment to le in
flicted in a single instance. During that -period,
nis reputation as a scientific, gallant, and vigilant of.
lice 1 greatly" increased.
On the Jtli . i June, 1778, in the battle of Mon
mouth, he commanded Ins own and a part of anoth
er ieg:me:.t, in the division of L rd Sterling. Ills
sufferings, from fatijue. on that day, greatly impair
ed his healiii, ai d Ultimately comjrf i!ed him to re
lire from the aioty, at the close oi 17V(i.
Iumie ii ;i- iy after quilling the artnv . be commen
ced the sin iy f law, w it, i "A iliiam Patters n. F.-q.,
s;d;' qoe,! a distinguished Judge j" (, Siipl loC
Court d tlte United Stat s. let'. rn these gentle
man a ware, and ardent friendship subsisted. In
!7wd tie left Judge Patterson's ofhee, and emereil
t n d f Tiiomas Smith, Esq., brdher of the Hon.
J'i;. kj. -j . .'. - .. . -t . .f
to Albany ,aiid . .is admitted to p.-aen e as ttoiney
and cou.iseilor of the Supreme Court.
O i the 2d Ju!v, tlien twe itv-six years of
age, tie wa n..;rre d to M rs. T'ueodo ia Piev-.st, wid
ow of Coi. Prtivosi, of iiie Ciitisharmy. In 1781,
he w s e! cfed, b. i'ie city o New rk, a iii-.-m-ber
of the State Legislature. Io 1779, hi- was ap
pointed by Gov. George Clinton, Attorney General
f the State. In 17I1 , h was appoiuted Judge of
the Supreme Court, but af'er taking time to delib
erate, refused to accept. In 1792, he was ehcted
a Senator of the United Stales. He was several
times after thi- period a uteiober of the State Legis
lature, and president of the convention w hich revis
ed the constitute-!-,. In 101, he was elected Vice
President of the United States.
From this ti. to noany it; close, bis life lias
been one of great and abiding interest. He who
j writes his history, has a delicate task to perform.
Its wtiter will have prejudices io meet, of long
standing, and deep rooted. Hut the American peo
ple have a right, now that he sleeps the sle o of
death, to some account of the eer vary ing and che
quered scenes til rough which he has passed, so tit r
as he has left the means, and I hey are said to be
ample.
From th" Louisville Journal.
PiilOXTlClANA.
The Advertiser says, that the Whigs have achiev
ed but a small victory 111 North Carolina. This
souetls very much like the sinner's exclamation to
Noah, in the time of the deluge. The poor fellow,
af'er be,rring Noah for a long time to take him in
to the ark and finding all bis exertions in vain, at
length roared out, with the water flowing over his
chin aud just r. adv to guggle down his throit :
" Go tot bunder with your o'd ark 1 do.'it think
that this is any thing m ore than a light shower af
ter all." '
It appears by the late arrivals from Texrs, that
Gen. Houston has leen elevated to the Presidency
i f that young Republic. It ought not to le matter
of regret, if Geo. H-aiston continues to act th char
acter with which he set out in Texas, lie is a
brave and skilful otlieer, ae.d is possessed of good
natural talents of a eivil order. Tie pe. .p!e f Tex
as owed it as a debt of gratitude to their greatest
friend and lieticf i--tr, lo oiler him the firsi honor
i f the Republic. He 1- now President and com-ma.ider-in-ehte!
of her army.
(Jen. Mirabeau . Lunar has been chosen to the
Vice Presidency, whose services loth as a soldier
and as a statesman, were next in in jK.r!a: ce 10
those of Houston. Gen. Lamar has few sfieriors
in any country. V iih a charac ter pure and un
sullied, talents of the most brilliant order, aud with
all the bravery and generosity of knighl-errat.t. he
is the very man who would a orn fbr station he
has lecn selected to fill. Among free and ei. light
ened people, nothing cot tributes more to security
of liberty, and the. preservation of public honor, tr.an
the character ! the servants of the io--.pie. It is
not the ofiice which dignifies the n an, but toe of
fice is elevated by him. JTobilc Chronicle.
The following n-dice was lat.dy -tm k up in the
market-house at Taut-ton: 4i Lsr. A h'-rretv
zack, we araither zaek io on, a (Juse, a W-.--iun,
me a ke o Tates. Eny b d vi in the zame,
and oil bring uio to art- er Dusson, d the Na'gs
fled, shall ha dree slnliins gied to uu, and a kup
o' drink."
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