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WILMINGTON JOURNAL. i . 1 . . , . ,.- ,1 .ALFRED . JPJtICJ DAVID FULTON, bottom our country, liberty, and god. and Pito D131D FVLTOJT $ VOL.L WILMINGTON, N. C., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1 , 1 844. NO. f. PUBLISHED gSTERY FRIDAY MORNING, From th New York Evening Post. THE CHARACTER OF HENRY CLAY DRAWN BY MR. W E B S T E R. Certain articles which anoeared in the Ma disonian while Mr. Webster was in the Cabi- net, and which are ascribed to his pen, have lUiA,!- u 1 : i i i .. : i 'ru ian-ij i n irjiiijiisueu ay nidi juuuidi. 1 uey T ft MS Or f rtt vML-ttlN&TON JOURNAL rr nnllara and fifty cents if paid in advance. 1 attack Mr. Clay with great severity, and draw I wo uu- . i . . I t:.- i i . iL $3 00 TMn naDer discontinued until all arrearages are - -j t t ' at the end of three months. , his political character in the darkess colors.- at the expiration of the year. .That they were actually written by Mr. Web- d except at the option of the publishers. No paL!rintiou received for less than twelve months, .ubjcnp ADVERTISEMENTS Inserted at one dollar per square of 16 lines or less for the first, and twenty-five cents for each succeeding insertion. 25 per cent will be deduc ted from an advertising bill when it amounts to inlUra in anv one year. Yearly standing .dvertisernents will be inserted at $10 per square. , ster we have niw no doubt, though there was, some time since, a newspaper denial of the fact, which induced us for the time to suspend our opinion of their authenticity. Since that denial the articles have been re published and circulated under Mr. Webster's name. That gentleman has not thought fit, in any manner, to deny that they were his own productions; even the whig prints have been silent on the subject; the authenticity of the AH legal advertisements charged 25 per cent j articles is tacitly admitted both by the reputed higher. , , 1 author and his friends. 1 he original manu- ryif the numoer oi ihkim- " , , scripi ln Mr, Webster's hand writing, is now ' . . i L. K nntinnpii Until i .. r .. . . ,. - . ax mcnmonci, in the hands ot the editor ot the Richmond Enquirer. Below is an article from the Washington Globe, embodying one of these caustic papers, tht-v will be continued until on ue Knciiwui"") j - ordered out, and charged for accordingly. TTLetters to the proprietors on business con nected with this establishment, must be post paid. r . I nVFICF. nn the south-east corner oi r rum uu j j .nntraiin tu ,u-to- f t---n Princess streets, opposite the Bank of the State. ! by Webster when he wrote anonymously and - hV y-"". j lne ree expression of his genuine opinions of every DESCRIPTION, j and feelings, with the character drawn by him catlu executed and with dispatch, on ,ateJ.,n onf . of th"se epeechea which he is literal terms for cash, at the JOURNAL OFFICE. BLANKS, paid for making at the public meetings of his party. We lament to see a mind like Mr. Webster's employed in these degrading offices amerce- " c Of every description may be had at the office of nary advocate of the man whom he despises, the u Journal? as cheap as can be procured in the j bestowing praises which he knows to be un ,t for ra-di. Any blanks wanted, and not on j deserved, and contradicting opinions which hand, will be printed at he ahortest possible no-j he entertains in his inmost convictions, and which he once uttered under the masK oi an anonymous writer, with all the energy of truth tice. CORNEX-XUS MYERS' Mauket-Strkkt Wilmington, N. C. (jT'Hats and Caps at wholesale and retail. 7tf GEORGE W. DAVIS, IHERCHAMT, LONDON'S WHARF, Wilmington, N C. Oct. 4th, 1844. Receiving and Forwarding Agent, A AD Gi?r:l C 9 -n wlnlon Merchant, Next door North of the New Custom-house, WlLMINGTOX, N. C. GILLESPIE dc ROBESON, J JE JT T S For the sale of Timber, Lumber, and all other kinds of Produce. Sept. 21, 1844. 1-tf and sincerity. contradiction; and by far fonder of invective! and retort than of the influence of soft persua sion, neither friend nor foe, who opposes him in debate, can expect quarter. Indeed, on these occasions, he treats his friends worse than his foes; for, while he looks upon the lat ter as enemies in a lawful war, he rewards the former as rebellious subjects who deserve no mercy. "Excessively fond of admiration, as a pub lic orator, and consequently studying effect more than a wise man should, he cannot, and never could, forego a joke, or sarcasm, which should bring applause from the gallery, though at the same time it should plant a dagger, or create vulnus irnmedicabile, in another's heart. The natural result of this temDer has been ful ly shown. WThile no man in his speeches, jains more general applause, no man inflicts so much private pain, so deep-seated a dislike, in the bo som of adversaries." Since 1842 Mr. Webster has been turned out of the premiership, The country had marked him, and the administration of which he was the head, for decapitation. The whig party and Mr. Clay, its chief, had denounced him as corrupt, unprincipled, and treacherous. lhe Clay press, from the highest to the low est, had pelted him like scavengers. Driven out at last by all parties, he at last cried out "Where am I to go !" For a year he wan dered about without a door being open to him. At last, the hopelessness of whigery called him in: hiCome, we will take your help, althmigh our leader has said you are a dead weight to any party. Our case is so desperate that you can do us no mischief. It is a proper penance to make you recant the testimony you bore against your old federal accomplices. You must, therefore, take an early opportunity to falsify all you have uttered, especially against the leader of whiggery, in a lofty panegyric." Mr. Webster assented to the humiliating: The principle of action which Mr. Webster i conditions : and, in a late speech at Valley imputes to Mr. Clay, namely, a determination to be President of the United States, is the true one. He has no other; all his opinions, Forge, forg-ed this new character for Mr. Clay: " Mr. Clay has been before the country for all his public policy are summed up in this. ! lon2 period noarly forty years ; over thirty Auctioneer fc Commission Merchant, WILMINGTON, N. C. Liberal advances made on shipments to his friends in New York. September 21, 1844. 1-tf. Wholesale & Retail Druggist WILMINGTON, N. C. 000 JO HIT HALL, COMMISSION MERCHANT Second brick building on Water, South of Mul berry Street, up stairs, HAS FOR SALE CASKS fresh Thomastown Lime, Western Bacon, in hogsheads, A BBLS, Mess Pork, 10 N. O. Molasses. Sept. 27, 1844. 1-tf In Store. 6) fl HHDS. prime Leg f Tobacco, 25 Bbls. Porto Rico Sugar, 10 Bbls. prime Porto Rico Molasses, 10 Tierces Salmon, 20 Hhds. Grate Coal, For sale low by GEO. W. DAVIS. Oct. 10, 1844. Candles BOXES Fayetteville mould Candles, -WrjUst received, per steamer Win, B. Meares. For sale by GEO. W. DAVIS. Oct. 10, 1844. This is the secret of all the contradictions in his letters; this is the motive of all the shifts and doublings to which he resorts in his pursuits of what he imagines to be public opin ion. Most true it is, as Mr. Webster says, that "he has promulgated opinions and con demned them, joined parties and forsaken them, supported friends and abandoned them, all with the expectation of the presidency." Mr. Webster's Portraits of Henry Clay. After thirty years acquaintance with Mr. Clay in 1842, Mr. WTebster sketched this por trait of him for the Madisonian. It will be 6een that the outline embraces the character of Mr. Clay from the time he and Mr. Web ster met in Congress, down to 1842, when they had parted, and the sketcher sat on the same seat in the cabinet of Secretary of State, which Mr. Clay had once occupied : " When the years he numbered (says Mr. Webster of Mr. Clay) were barely sufficient to qualify him for a seat in the Senate of the United States, and he could almost without suspicion pretend to the innocence of a novice in political intrigue, he extended his vision through a long vista of party turmoil and re volution before him, and intently scanned the whole scene, that he might discover in turn all the tortuosities and difficulties of the path which led to the covered prize beyond. To attain it, every energy has been nerved; every plan and every scheme has been employed, till the age of 70 has overtaken him in vain. " He has figured among statesmen in origi nating and supporting measures deeply affect ing the interests of the country, whether for weal or for wo; it was with the expectation of the presidency. "He has figured among partisans and in trigued among politicians; it was with the ex portation of the presidency. "He has poured his fluent strains of delibe rative eloquence in the Capitol; it was with tin expectation of the presidency. " He has speechified ;)t dinners and on the ; stuni-; it was with the expectation of the pre sidency. "e has promulgated opinions and condemn ed them he has joined parties and forsaken them he has supported friends and abandoned them it was all with the expectation of the pre sidency. Amid eery change of political opin ion in himself and every revolution of party whether he was representative, senator, commissioner in a foreign country, or quitted his popular position to become Secretary of "We are Glad to Hear It !" Such was the exclamation of the Rich mond V hig of Friday last, after saying, with great joy, we understand that the people of Texas have elected the anti-annexation candidate President ol that Re public by about three to one." But here is an extract from a letter written by Dr. Jones himself, the President elect, taken from the Harrison (Texas) Times, which may be regarded as containing a little more truth than the mere " we understand" of the Richmond Whig, viz : "Were I to make a tour through the coun try, I should either be compelled to neglect my omcial matters or to resign. The latter would indeed, be very easy ; but in the pres ent crisis of our negotiations, it would, per haps, look like a desertion of my post. I am not yet without hopes of annexation, and as I have had a great deal to do in this matter, I have some pride in wishing to go through with it. The charge that lam 'inimical to fur tter negotiations with the United States, for the re-annexation of our country to that? is wholly without FOUNDATION IN FACT, and A BASE SLANDER." No w, is the Whig "glad to hear" this, and is it satisfied "that the people of Tex at have elected the anti-annexation candi date hv about three to one?" Madisonian. " What is your idea of the end of the world," Millerite to a man he conversed with yester day. My idea," said the man, - is that tlu world is rPWP, and consequently has no end." The statement made that Gov. Conway had run way to Texas with a number of slaves, is a Roor-baclu.m.-tf. O. Pic. years he has taken a leading and highly im portant part in the public affairs of this conn try he is acknowledged to be a man of sin gular and almost universal talent ; he has had great experience in the administration of al most all our public affairs he has served for many years, with wonderful judgment and ability, in both houses of Congress of one of which he performed the arduous and difficult duties of its presiding officer, with unexam pled skill and satisfaction he has performed most important services to his country of a diplomatic character as the representative of this government in Lurope, at .one of the most trying periods of its history, and most ably conducted to a satisfactory conclusion a very delicate and troublesome negociation ; he has exercised the duties of the Department of State with consummate and unexampled abili ty ! He is a man of frankness and honor, of unquestioned talent, and a man of a noble and generous bearing. "Repeated and enthusias tic cheering frequently interrupted Mr. Web ster during the above remarks on Mr. Clay, and continued for some minutes." What must Mr. Webster have felt when he heard the whigs shouting at his glorification of the "frankness," the "noble and generous bearing" of Mr. Clay, whom but a little while before he had denounced for his heartless am bition his cunning and his perfidy his un sparing and vindictive malice. From the Madisonian. The Last Of the Whigs. With the final overthrow of Mr. Clay, which will take place in about a fortnight, we may chronicle the termination of the existence of the spurious Whig party. The name of this modern party was assumed merely as a mask; there was not a sentiment of its foun ders in common with the genuine Whigs of the Revolution. The true Whigs felt, and resis- Cj ted to the death, the aggressions of haughty England; the false Whigs of tlie present day, at least a great many of the Whig leaders, are the faithful advocates of British policy, and the relentless foes of all who adhere in good faith to the spirit of the Declaration of Inde dependence. A treaty is made with the German powers, by which the chief products of our farmers and planters are to he admitted into those countries almost free of duty. Britannia, as piring to be sole arbitress of the world, objects to it; refusing to become a party to the treaty herself, she protests against other nations en joying the commercial and other advantages State, he never lost sight of the one great oh- of such a convention; like the dog in theman- ject the presidency. As soon as he thought j ger, she will neither eat herself, nor alowoth his arrangements made, his forces prepared, j ers to eat. She protests against the arrange and the plan of campaign complete, he enter-1 ment, and calls upon the American Senate ed the field, and he was defeated. Again de- through her ministerial organs, to reject the feated, in open warfare, he experienced, in j treaty. The modern Whigs, having a majori 1835, the additional degradation and disap- j ly in the Senate, most humbly and submis pointment of being rejected by his own friends. sively respond to the call. The treaty is re Vexed and harassed by reiteration of defeat, 'jected. Thousands of industrious American where stands he now 1 Upheld by his own j farmers and planters are injured, deeply injur desperation and the recklessness of a few des- jed, to an incalculable extant but Great Bri perate friends, he affects the modesty of re-tain is gratified. With the American Senate, tirement, while he promises indirectly a re- : or rather the Whig Senate, to execute her de newal of the contest. Jcrees, Britannia can dictate to the world, and "Directly he promises no such thing ? btrt faMfsh anj kind of a commercial monopoly in the morbid peevishness of frustrated ambi- i slnay be graciously pleased to fancy, lion, (we will not quote an old and familiar 1 1,0 rejection of the 1 reaty of Annexation, adage) he assails personally, as well as po-! I?""? '"Stance of the subserviency of litically, one whose position he envies, be-r fte ers t0 the P?,,CV of Great Be cause he has, by long reveries on his own as-! hat Government desires first to rum pirations, persuaded himself that he should be j the producers of cotton and sugar in the Unt there himself! But where is he now ? At led blates by cherishing a hostilecompetition every struggle he is sinking further and further ; on oar borders) next .she desires to ruin our from the obiect he wishes to grasp. Are DM r ,w -j . - j - i hopes of the presidency any brighter? . I i : n-.: . 1 me raw maierrn 10 marhei in oruisu vt-sseis, from the rival nation, and by making Texas an enormous depot, whence her manufactured articles can be smuggled into the United States and sold for a less price than the American "His most sanguine friends cannot confi dently make the assertion. "He has met the punishment which usual ly attends a constant tissue of intrigue. The ! manufacturer can afford to make them. There calculations of his cunning have deceived him, fore the Tory members of Parliament, and the and he is further from the presidency than Tory presses, call upon the Whig Senators to ever. ! reject the Texas Treaty. It is done. Modern t T ' I 1 "Yes, further than ever. When he betray- i Whiggery is obedient to unusn monarcny. ed the President, and declared himself in fa vor of a national bank, contrary to the profes sions of the party in 1840, and so far succeed And so with the debts of the States. John Quincy Adams has even gone so far as to threaten the indomitable People of the W7est, ed in his perfidy as to obtain the leadership of i with British chastisement, if the debts were British policy and British interests, in dero gation of the interests of their own country men. But Mr. Clay is the last of the Whigs, and his end is nigh at hand. Indeed he seems to have had a presentiment of his approaching political demise, if we may judge from his consternation lately, as evinced by his inco herent acts and desperate shifts. He was first opposed to the tariff of 1842, because Presi dent Tyler would not sanction Distribution; and all his immediate Whig partisans in Con gress voted against the bill. A year after wards he was in favor of the tariff, and aban doned his Compromise principle. This lost him friends of the South, and he never did en joy tl.e confidence in the North for having framed the Compromise bill, in the first in stance. At first he was opposed to the annex ation of Texas unqualifiedly; next he was in favor of it "personally," with certain qualifi cations; then he was only in favor of it in a certain contingency, which he said could nev er happen; and lastly he was opposed to it, come what might, for ever and ever. Thus, even on this question, he has forfeited the con fidence of both North and South. Then a gain, his kinsman Cassias, had "his thanks" for endeavoring to wheedle the Liberty men into his support. Upon this being found out, he writes to his cousin that he is about to lose Kentucky, and that he is represented in the South as being an abolitionist but he declares he is no such thing, and spurns the imputation. Now the Liberty men take offence at this let ter, and resolve not to touch him. But still, Cassius, and Webster, and Greely, his prime friends, continue to beg and beseech the Lib erty men to support him; and while all their efforts prove abortive, the South is becoming still more indignant at their persistency! The proof is in Georgia, and will be found in North Carolina. Alas, disappointed man ! All these spas modic vacillations, are but the last dying flounderings of the well-hooked fish. They convince reflecting men that the Whig candi date himself entertains no hope. The precur sor success is an invincible steadiness of pur pose, which has not been manifested by the Whig candidate, or Whig party, since the spring conventions assembled in Baltimore. The defeat of Mr. Clay will afford many true men, who have committed the giand er ror of becoming his partisans, an opportunity of forming more agreeable, and certainly more lucky party associations. From the Madisonian. " Dark Coalition with the Abolitionists." Such, at length, is the charge sneering ly made by the Federalists against the Re publicans. And this, too, after J. Q. Ad ams has been striving for ten years to mo del the Abolition party for party purposes to elect Mr. Clay, who once elected him ! But it seems that the Liberty men have in reality as much independence as the Whigs certainly as much principle and will not now, and never will hereafter, sup port either the Whig candidate or the De mocratic candidate. And yet they are charged with having formed a corrupt coa lition with Mr. Polk, by the profligate whigs. J. Q. Adams, Daniel Webster, Horace Greely, C. M. Clay, &c. &c, the principal Clay leaders, after trying for months and years, by the most direct ap peals to induce the Liberty men to vote for Mr. Clay, now turn round and charge them with a corrupt coalition with the De mocratic candidate for the Presidency, be cause they arre resolved to vote for Birney, their riwn firm and indomitable candidate, Mr. Webster says to the Liberty men, "if you vote for Mr. Clay," (he did not tell them how much he had a bet's ed Mr. Clay, onf a year and a half before,) " he will be elected. If yotr don't vote for him, Col. Polk will be elected. So that, if you vote for your own Candidate, you will be coalescing wFlh the Republican party." Such is the profound logic of our oppo nents! ft is no harrft for J. Q. Adanis, Daniel Webster, and C. M. Clay to call upon the Liberty men, in the glare of an October's mid-day sun, to unhe with the Federalists trpon Clay. Oh, no; no harm in this. Their Southern friends expect it. But when the Liberty men, after listening with great respect to the coon orators, sig nify their determination to support their own Birney, the whig leaders become so vehemently indignant, that they do not hesitate to sound the alarm of union of the Liberty men" with the Republicans. And they would rouse p the whole South, as one man, against Colonel Polk and his friends, because the support of Birney by the Abolitionists will add, if possible, more certainly to the election of the Re publican candidate. Stately these whigs must have hard fa ces and short memories, to suppose they can do with impunity that which they charge as a monstrous outrage in oth ers. We append a letter from Mr. Birney on the policy, &c. of himself and party : Boston, Oct. Id, 1844. You have learnt that I have been nomina ted for the House of Representatives of the Michigan Legislature by the Democrats of the County in which I reside. No Liberty party organization has been formed m that County. The nomination has no relation to party measures but was prompted by nonsid- erations oi local interest, my neignoors were a letter from a Whig of Saginaw county, as suring me that such would be the case. If you will believe what I have stated, you will say my course is right? I repeat to you, J am not under the slightest party pledge: 1 have received letters from some of yoa since I came here, evincing disquietude, at the enect of my position. The W higs see the influence of their outcry oh you, and they are redoubling it. If you yield to it, we Will have enough of such outcries. We will beconfoun- ted and routed by the mere clamor of our ad versaries. If I were to give way to it now, and yield to the suggestions of the alarmed a mong us, they would have assurances that I could be frightened from my purpose. See what has been the reraU 6f this yielding, in the late electiori in ittsbrer. Our friends were alarmed at a false and preposterous is sue, gotten up by our seducers. They will never be without such alarms, till they show that they have set themselves, like adamant: against every such device. 1 o such of you, then, as feel disquieted, I say, be reassured. Give me your confidence command mine. This mutual faith must exist, or we shall accomplish nothing. 1 shall stand in the position 1 have taken equally prepared to resist the shock of open enemies, or the panic of real friends. JAMES G. BIRNEY. Signers of the Declaration of ludtpende net? . The following is a list of the names, timet of birth and death, age, and State represented by each of he immortal signers of the Decla- tion of Independence : Losses of the last Four Years. The husbandmen of the United States are losing money by millions under the present state of things. We ask our readers to look at the following article from the New Hamp shire Patriot, summing up the loss sustained this year upon foiir commodities alone " Four of the principal articles of agricultu ral produce in New Hampshire are beef, pork, butter, and cheese. Let us see how the pri ces of these articles have been affected by the Federal tariff. We will compare the value of the beef, pork, butter, and cheese in 1840, with the Same in 1844. The number of neat cattle in New Hampshire in 1840, was 275,562; swine, 121,674 ,' and the value of butter and cheese in the same $ear, $1,638,543. Sup pose that the 275,562 neat cattle would aver age 450 lbs. each, which would make 620, 014 barrels of beef. This, at $i4 per bar rel, the price of that year, would amount to S89J,203. The 121,674 swine, would aver age about 250 each making 152,086 barrels of pork, which, at $15, tie price of 1840, would amount to $2,281, 42 J. The value of the beef, pork, butter and cheese of New Hampshire, in 1840, then was as follows : Names. Samuel Adam, Robt. Treat Paine, John Adams. John Hancock, El bridge Gerry, Stephen Hopkins, WiiTiam-Ellerjr, Josiah Bartlett. Matthew; Thornton, William Whipple, Oliver Walcott, Roger Sherman, am'l. Huntington, Win. Williams, Philip Livingston, William Floyd, Lewis Morri, Francis Lewis, Fr's. lioplcinson, John Hart, Abraham Clark, Richard Stockton, John Witherspoon, Benj. Franklin, James Smith, Benj. Rush, George Clymer, Robert Morris, George Ross, George Taylor, John Morton, James Wilson, George Read Caesar Rodney Thomas McKran, Charles Carroll, Thomas Stone, William Paca,' Samuel (;iiase, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamip llarrwon, Fr's. Lightfoot 1-ee, Rich'd. Henry Lee. George Wythe, Thos. Nelson, Jr., Carter Braxton, John Penn, Joseph HeWes, William Hooper, Thos. Lynch, jr. Arthur Middlcton, Edward Rut ledge, Thomas Hey ward, Button Gwinnett, George Walton, Lyman Hal), R. I State. Born Mass. 1722 1731 1735 1737 1727 N. It. 1729 1714 173Q Conn. 1726" 1721 1732 1731 N. V. 1716 1734 1724 N. J Pet in. 1713 1737 1715 1726, 1730 1722 1706 1748 1745 1730 m 1716 1724 1743 Del. 1734 1730 Md. Va. 1734 1737 1743 1740 1741 1743 1745 1734 1732 1726 1736 1736 1741. 1730 1742 8. C. 1740 1733, 1740 1746 Geo. 1732 1740 1 731 N. C. e at time signi 45 41 39 32 69 49 47 62 46 50 8 45 fa 50 63 39 61 69 46 54 70 5S 31 37 a 60 H 33 42 46 S 39 33 36 35 36 31 42 44 50 38 40 35 46 34 36 43 36 30 44 36 45 Died. Afe. 1803 81 1814 86 1826 91 1793 65 1814 70 1785 78 1320 93 1790 66 1893 89 1835 55 1797 71 1703 72 1796 64 1311 80 1778 62 !2l 67 1798 72 m 8 1730 66 1794 68 1781 51 1794 72 1790 84 1806 F8 1813 68 1818 74 806 73 799 69 1781 us : 777 53 793 bi 1793 64 1783 63 1817 83 1832 92 1787 40 1800 60 1811 70 1S26 63 1799 54 1794 60 1794 62 1806 80 1789 51 1797 61 1788 47 1779 49 1790 48 1780 40 1738 55 1800 60 1809 60 1777 45 1904 60 1791 66 Beef, 620,014 bbls. at $14, Pork, 152,088, at $15, Butter and cheese, $8,990,203 2,281,420, 1,638,543 $12,910,066 Value in 1840, Let us see what the arlidles w.ould hrthg now. Beet is now worth $5 25 a barrel ; pork, $7 50 ; butter and cheese have fallen about 25 per cent, in price since 1840. Sup pose the same quantity of each article as there was in 1840, and the value in 1844 will be Beef, 620,01 4 barrels, at $5 25 $3,225,073 Fork, 152,088 " at 8 50 1,282,748 Butter and cheese, at 25 per cent. . . decline, 1,228,907 Value in 1844. $5,776,772 Now let frs compare the value of these pro ducts at the periods, in a table, exhibiting at one view the full extent of the robbery of the farmers in the four articles: 1840. 1844. Keduc. Beef, value, $$,990,203 $3,225,073 $5 765,130 Pork, 44 2,281,420 1,292,748 998,672 But. & cheese, 1,638,543 1,228,907 409,636 Alleged Outrage on the American Flag by a British4 Officer; ' .... i . The Journal of Commerce, of, Rio Janerio, contains a protest from Cant. P. C. Duma. of the brig Cyftis of New Orleans, from which it appears that his vessel, was boarded off Ct blnda, ; June 9, ; .844, bjr Capt; Bosanquet, of her Britannic Majesty's brig Albert, Capt. Bosanquet accofnpaftied bj bfip of his officers and a negro attendant, forced ills way into the cabin of the Cyrus, the three trampling under foot the flag of the United States; after search ing the cabin for the brig's papers, they came on dec i attempted to obtain forcible, posses sion oi the log &odi; tftrt a've way when Cap. tat n Dumas ordered his men to arm themsel v.s and protect their rights. The British Cap tain then returned to the cabin,' broke open Captain Dumas's trunk, took Out the brig's papers and retianed them.; Captain D. im mediately abntfotte hfs Vessel, his eVe go ing with him,' leaving everything on board. . He now presents the facts to the U. States' Government for theU action in the premises. WesrVould state that the British Captain re fused to show his authority, thus violating the treaty between the United States and Great Britain relative to the right of search. : The British government will, undoubtedly indemnify the owners of the Cyrus for this outrage,to which their attention will he prompt ly directed by the Government of the United States. Ca plain Dumas does not state wheth er his vessel was fitted out for the slave trade or any unlawful trafie. $12,910,166 $5,746,728 $7,173,438 " The contrast presented in this table de serves to be studied. Hov comes it ? For whose henefitl In 1840, the Government was in the hands of a Democratic administration. The next year, a he order of n.en with riew measures, assumed the control of the public affairs. Have their measures been conducive of the prosperity of our people? Look at the effect exhibited in the foregoing table. In four articles alone, the farmers ofNew Hamp shire have experienced, since 1840, in four years of Federal misrule, a de .d loss of seven millions one hundred ami seventy-three thou sand four hundred and thirty-eight dollars ! "But this picture, dark as it is, is not halt painted. If we had time to point out and add the increased duty which the farmer pays on salt, molasses, cotton, and woollen cloths, glass, iron utenfials of almost every kind, on every thing, in a word, which he buys, and the consequent increased price which he in curs, we should fail in ability to pdrtray the truth. Darker and darker colors would have to be added to the picture. Plundered in the increased price of what he buys, plundered in the price of what hrs ralSb'r produces fo sell, having his ability to pay diminished as his wants increase, will he tamely submit to in jury and injustice like this?" N. Y. Eve. Pott. The editor of the Boston Post thinks if Mr. Clay shouldn't be elected President, his epis- was issued. The meeting assembled on Mon- tolary exploits may yet make the fortune of day night, and the committee of arrangement Courtship of a Banhful Clergyman The Rev. John Brown, of Haddington, the well knowh author of the Self-Interpreting Bible, was a mah of singular bashfulness. In token of the truth' of this statement, I need only state that his courtship lasted seven years. Six years and a half passed away, and the Rev. gentleman had got no further forward than he had1 been lhe first six days. This state of things became intolerable ; a step in advance must be made, and Mr. Brown sum moned all his courage for the deed. Janet, said he as they sat one night in solemn silence; "we've been acquainted now for six years an mafr, and Pve ne'er1 gotten a kiss yel; de think I might take one, ma bonnie girl!" "Just as you like John, only be becoming and proper wi'it." "Surely, Janet, we'll ask a bles sing1." ,,;.. , The blessing was asked the kiss was ta ken, and the worthy divine, perfectly over powered with the blissful sensation, mos. rap turously eXelaijned". "'O, womah T But ft is giide we'll return thanks.11 Six months made the pious couple man and wife, and,; added his descendant, who humor ously told the tale, a happier couple never spent a long and useful life together. , J Whig Move Defeated. 'The Whigs tf Boston, under the leadership of the Boston Atlas, called a meeting of "the colored Whig voters" of that city, and a general invitation the whig party after the vetoes then, or up 1 not oniy assumeu, ui pnu. nuu w giamj i t0iu usst, u eiecieu, i wouiu-cr- me cuuiny, to that period, the whig party held nineteen the British aristocracy in this matter, also, we whether 1 were noroia6ed by the Democrat of the States hv didd majorities. Under see many of the leading Whigs advocating lc Convention- the Whig Convention, or by hv HpfMripn mainritips. Mr. Chy's lead, and with his name as the the assumption of the debts of the Mates. whigs have lost p candidate for lb44in less than two years the! The grasping, murderous conquests ot Ureal st pdfctssion of all the States Britain in India ?.nd China, are applauded in but five or six. This is incontrovertible, and the American Congress oy leading vy nigs. .1 " T - mill not he denied bv anv -an Clav man. In short, no opportunity has been omitted oy -j j - . . . - .: : j His (Mr. Clay's) irritabktempcr brooks no; the modem vvnigs, 10 prove meif uemm - some industrious compiler. When collected and numbered, they would appear somewhat in this way : The Mrs. Hutchcraft Blanket Letter; The Cocked Hat Letter ; The Cologne Letter i The various Clay Club Letters ; The Young Ladies' Bed qui It Letter f The Soft Letter to the Missouri Hards ; The Clay Silk Handkerchief Letter ; The deep interest in the Latter Day Saints Letter; The Kid Glove Letter ; The Cassius Marcellus Abolition Repudia ting Letter ; Letter to Cassius softening the same ; The Ash Stick c. t by ray own hand Letter ; The Texas Letter ; the Anti-Texas Utter; Tariff and Anti-Tariff Letters a medley; The Anti-Protective Agricultural Letter i The Mississippi Magnolia Letter, &.---These, with some productions of a more tragi cal character, would form a volume of thril ling interest, and linkjthe author with his land s language for some years, at least, after the close of his career as a statesman. seceders from both these parties. So were Z , , ,. they, that I would consider myself as repre- " " : " seating the People and not a part. No pledge 1SSSli .iB?. iktter of party service was ProPosed-none was giv-1 Myj W en. 1 expect to be voted lor oy nigs as i - - , . ;T" well as by Democrats. I have just received fT says there . no end to . offered a resolution, reciting the dangers of annexation and the high expediency of the colored voters "leavirie all other parties and joining the Whig party in their efforts to savs the country. An amendment, substituting the Liberty party for the Whigs, Was offered, and carried, 50 to 10, and the meeting ad journed. Where is Cousin Cassius T The Law on Newspapers. 1. Subscribers who do not give express no tice to the contrary, are considered wishing to continue their subscription. 2. If subscribers order the discontinuance of their papers, the publisher may continue to send them, till all cash charges are paid.' . 3. If subscribers neglect or refuse to talis their papers from the offices to which they are directed they are held responsible till they have settled their bill, and order their papers discontinued. , 4. If subscribers remove to other places without informing the publishers, and the p per is sent to the former direction, they are held responsible.' 5. The Courts have decided that refusing to take a paper or periodical from the office or removing, and leaving it uncalled for, i "prima facie" evidence of ietentlbeal Fraud I'm ofTwhtn you talk about working," SS cork std lo (be ginger pop.
Wilmington Journal (Wilmington, N.C.)
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Nov. 1, 1844, edition 1
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