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r4 1 V Wvfl Jf. C, iillili, Editor and Proprietor JTTST tUl'JP TCJS&3Z 3YOTS Wilmington Nortli Carollndi in VOL. III. NO 21 FRIDAY, JUNE 8th, 1838, :4"-? ''rr? ---- : "-'''" 'J ." - V '" :t - '; -f ",.""-":p' ; "'w;rv .-".:.;; r--v'--;i ""H-. ' 1 - W ' :: . i . .:.-' .!. ; m .! - I . -.- X ' wrnn.FiTmTcwm p.- . : , t ' ' . : . .... , 1 r . . ., 1 ', , sfc? , M It 4 . 't 'hi 'f 44! 1 r l - V PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDA Y MORNING: . , TZjXIZHS. . ; ' Three Dollars per axncm, in advanceI ' . advertisements v r Not exceeding a Squar- Inserted at 03SE DOLLAR ! 'the first, and TWEiT Y-IFIVE CENTS for each subse ' qunt insertio'if. , . . : io Subscribers taken for less than one year, ahJ all vrho peirmit their subscription to run oter i a -year, without-giving notice, are considered bound for the second year, and so n for alt suc ceeding years. Nof:paper discontinued until all arrearages are i naid unless at the option of the Editor. try- OFFICE on tlie South aide of Markt Street, be ' : lew life Com t iionnn. : '- RICHMOSD AXD P TJSRSB UJi G RAILROAD. . . OI71cof t!ie Uichraonn & Pi feterpbnr2 I. JlailroiiJ Company, iuaj. loit, 153-j. jjIIE compUtion of this Railroad (from Ptersbur to Manchester, opposite to'Kich mond,) makes the chain of Railroads; through tho -Slateof: Tirinni eonlinuoui, with the exception of only nijio .miles ; and add important ndvan tii ea- ito the' Inland Uouttj for xSorlliern and Southern travelling.- " ! . ' . Thera arer established on' it V tro DAILY TRANS, or. of which is in connexion with the .North' and '.South .rvlaii line, and a TRl WEEKLY" TRAIN, cpniiectiiig- with the HalifaxV VVilniin.on & Charleston Railroad, 8ta?a & Steamboat lina." ' t ; ";' Passengrs( .who leava Charleston forrSvil mington, on Sunday or Tuesday evening; will, - if thy arrive in Halifax by 3 o'clock oi Tues , day or Thursday .evening, be brought to Rich mond, by ' th .'tri-weekly line, ir tim for tba Wednesday or. "Friday morning's Cm ra for Wash ington, whereby they will reach Baltimore the . same evening, and can proceed to Philadelphia the Ame nigtit, and arrive in New York before dinner on ThucsdaJ or Saturday : being lessihan - fur days St am Charleston to New York. The . -connexios is equally god and expeditious with the e,x:ra .line from W ilmington, uud with nil the "lines from North to South. The rauta through Petersburg and Richmond will.be found also- to be one. of. the best routes, from "the South to the Yirginia Springs. The -Passengers dan arrive at Charlottetviile, having only 41 miles stage tiavtllin, after reaching the Railroads in Virginia, in 3 days fiom. Charles ton, arid 2 days from-Raleigh. 'All possible arrangements are made en this Railroad for tKe comfortable and safe transport ation of paesen-gers. 1 V2'Z lihv wiLmNO-Toj $ haleigu ItAILKOAl), AXD ' 1 wi i ipETERSD VUG RAILROAD, 1 A VELLERS n re in formed that .an - Eriffine conneclifisr from the North and South;, vith the iVilminglon Railroad Company s Line f Stages leaves Btakely every Sunday, Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and always arrives in linie at Petersburg tocpnnect with the daily lines of '"'Railroads arid Steamboats passi-lig through v -Ri'ahmond, XVashinton, Baltimore,, tye. This 4tne leave Petersburg for the South on Tuesdays, Thursdays, arid Saturdays, in time to connect with the Wilmington Railroad Company's Line -f6age.v J , V - ,. - ' T - Xravellers may rely upon finding on this Line vareful and experienced Engineers, attentive Captains of Train, anil comfortable: Coaches. rjfereburg, December 15th, 1S37. 101 tf ' Great Exvedilion to the North! ' ; . rTn'K"AVELLERS are informed that the JLL RAILROAD "between : Petersburg :" and ilichmond is no w finished, completing the main MAIL LINE of '.i ail road from North Carolina to tho Norlli. The -different companies on the ' toute'tiow start a line from Halifax, N. C: on the days the Wilmington Itailroid Company's? line of stages, reaches there, which will enable navel lers to reach New York ItCelvt hours a advance of yevery. other line. The followiug is thc-schedule of this line; '!. ; LEAVE . Halifax 6 to half past 5, PM f Petersburg half paat 1, AM . Richmond 4. A.M. r Vaahiiigton ify i, P. M. .Biliiinore 7, P. M. ti Phllaeul pbia 6, A. M. REACH Petersburg 1, A. M. Richmond halfp;it3, A.M. Washington hall" past 3.PM Baltimore half past 6, P.M. Philadelphia'. A. M. New Vork 2, P. M. ; Only one night's rest is lost on this route. The second. night, passengers sleep on board the ' Philadelphia steamboat. , From Petersburg' the' alxive Jinc is the Daily Mail Line, and the different companies are bound in heavy penalties, .to run through, in the' schedule time. Travellers, when they leave Halifax, will please apply to the acnt of the Petersburg Rail road Company, B. F. Halsey,' who will afford theni every facility. - Besides the above FAST LINE, there are oilier independent Daily Lines, running on the .1 respective ranroaus, so mat in; no case can pas 'senders be delayed more than Lalf a day, at an poiut of the route. ' Passengers who wish to 'staysail night at Ha lifaxl will fird next inoriung an engine of the" - Petersburg Railroad Company, at Gary's Depot, waiting to carry them on. :s ' There' are five or six daily engines, now run- - ning pn. the rPetersUTg Railroad, "so that pas sengers at almost any Hour can start for Pcters- hnr. '.''':": . Petersburg Railroad Offlce, ) ' . 123 lmo May lBitvttfJi - V HAIUIOD HOTELj At Enfield, Halifax County ,N. C. J. SOUTH ALL, , TfTI AVlNG taken from Mrs. P.W. SOUTH IrlLALL that beautiful new building, situated! at thfe. west end of the' village, and contiguous to hertgroe? is naw; fitting it up for the reception of tVavellcrs. To . manyf promises have been made in this line of business, in wi " hav been deceived. 1 shall only which the public say, call and judge for yoursslvea. , Mrs. Southall and daugh ters promise personal attention to laaies. April, 1838. ' 1 117 3m Editoraof the Roanoke Advocate, Edenton Gazette Norfolk Herald, Petersburg lntelli . gencer, Raleigh Star; Fayetteville Observer, and r Wilmington Advertiser, will please insert the ' above advertisement until the first day of July, and forward their accounts to this hotel for pay ment. i - - NOTICE TO MERCHANTS. ALL' Merchandise, intended to jbc for warded on the Railroad, must be sent be tween, sunrise arid eight o'clock, A. M Any thinfserit after that time cannot be taksn on thai day. Nothing will be received, unles, it is put un in the most substantial rn,an;ier. . Every thing must have the owner's name, rnaked distinctly on it, and a biU accompanying it, specifying the weight, stating who it is froaa, who it is for, and where it is to be left. . ; ., , ''. , Th merchants will be held responsible in every case, for the freight on eTery thing sent by thm. Merchants having consigaments of pro-duee'-and other articles from the country, must takealm away the day that; they arrive, as the Company will not be responsible for any thiiig suflorrd to remain at the Depot all nijht. i Aiticles will be deliverd laf, and taken from the following points on thq road,x viz.' Rqcky Poirt Depot, Wter Station, near Burgaw Swamp, and ihe'Depot; near South Washington. i 1 'l L.L. H. SAUNDERS, ' 1 Agent of Transportation. 12ln"l833t . S ; ' 12"3 TUB LOCOMOTI VE AND TRAl.S' 75 7" ILL leave the depot at Wilmjngtsn, iyt evrv day. (except Sunday and Tuesday,) picciseiy at .ran j)si ciguw o tiuta, wj. uam further notice. ' L ; . . T May 18ih, 1838. . j -. ' 12Q'tf - i .1 'K 'L.'.. A n f .:i Otllce of the Wilmington fe Raleigh R. R. Col 7 Wniaiiigton,2itli May, ISU. nnrs'iance of a resolution of the iStoek- holders. passed at their late meeting. an in stalment of .FIVE dollars peri share on the stock of tins Coinpany, is hereoy required to oe paia oil the. I st du'y of July nextKiii lieu of the 1st of November, as heretofore or lered, i i V 121 tf JAMES O WEN, President. ! THE EARLY DEAD. There is a plaintive sweetri ess in the following stanzas, which goes directly to the heart, j ' ' fie rests but not the rest tf sleep- - Weighs down his sunken eyes, ' ; :. The rigid dumber is too deep, ' : The calni too b'reathles'9 lies-!". - Shrunk are the wafidei ingyeins that stj-eak The fixed and marbled (ircw; Tiiore is no life flush on the cheek u Death! Detth! I know! thee now 1 Pale king -of terrors thou art here hi all thy dark array . ' But - lis the living weep and fear ; Bc'neath thine iron sway jlJrin1"- tluw'rs and crown the Early Dead, There hour of bondage past; r. But wo, for those who mourn and drcajtl ' And linger till the last, i! Spring hah its music and its bloom, : t And morn its glorious light ; But.still a shadow from the tomb, 5 A sadness and a blight,? ; .' . Are ever on tarth's loveliest things. ; The bi eathk)f change is there, '.) And'Dea h his dusky, shadow flings ! . O'er all that's lovu'd and fair, v i So let it be for ne'er on earth . j Should man his home prepare ; ? The spirit feels its heavenly bn th ' And spurns at mortal care. , Even o'er young'Worth and Gcnm3 ; Let no vain tears be shed, I '. But bring brigh t wreaths of victory j And crown tlie Early Dead. , f j ;. : ' ', . ' r ' i : From the New York American. CHARADE '.;")..' My first's a -title found in English lays, j Applied to gods and men in ancient days;; , My second's small, but often inost acute, I Speaking with eloquence, altho' 'tis mute; -My yHkd's a.measure used to' measure stuffs, In the' old days of farlhinggales and ruffs ; My fourth's a dainty tissue spurt in air, Torn by a. breath, suspended by a hair ; 1 To find my fifth, yoii.must proceed with art, Take a whole blister but select your parti My whole is one on which your hopes' depend, God save the country and theright defend. , -. ' From English papers. : A Cohirt Anecdote. When a female member of the British royal family Holds a levee; it is customary for her to i kiss the ladies of the uobilityarid no others. It happened that the lady ol the Lordi Jus tice Clerk was on one occasion, among the number of those presented to'the-late Princess Amelia, who, it is well known, was very deaf. " Stand by iot jny Lady Justice Clerk," said the man in waiting. Meanwhile, some meddling persons whis pered to him tharhis announcement was incorrect, -the lady being (a commoner. By this time the kiss preliminary was about to be performed, wher out bawled the man of office through a speaking trumpet. Don't kiss her madamsbs not a lady." ' ;. .'; ; . Scotch and Chinese Music.- The j me lody of the Chinese and Caledoriian pipes is so exactly:similar,hatj it ! has never failed to attract the attention of the Scotch who' have visited China ; and indeed the recognition has been mutual ; for, when a highland piper, (who had been taken out in an Indiaman.) was sent up to Can ton to attend a meeting of the Sons of St. Andrew, ori the hational anniversary,! the Chinese were no less stfuck with the picturesque costume of thd plaided Gael, than ravished by thfe strains " which! pro ceeded fromhis intfumentJ I '-' 1 i ( . , t j-. ... .- The quantity qf coal annua UyJ pro duced in Great Britain, is estimated at 22,700,000 tons, of w hich nea r 15,000,000 tons are consumed for domestic purposes. ' A- splendid ssteamboat has been esta blished to run diiect from 'London to Havre, " 1 '-pl.. CHOLERA BURIALS AT MARSEILLES:, Mies I'ardpe, whose pen seems one of the most prolific ones of the day, has pub-; fished two, more volumes, "The River; and the Desert." They are the remains of the lady's; traveling notes, not; embo-f died iu her previous baoks. , The follow ing notice of the cholera and the burials' at Marseilles is an extract. 'f 44 Imagine a space of ground, somewhat) exceeding six acres,! devoted to the "vic-l tims of one deadly malady ! At first each? body was committed singly to the grave? it had its own little spot of earth its owni distinguishing eross its own garland oft .immortelles. ; A flection and re met had. yet a resting place for the imagination the tears of tenderness could be wept' upon; the, tomb of the beloved and the lost. Butj this " luxury ol woe" endured not long J the 'number of victims increased, not only! daily, but hourly the city streets became! one vast funeral procession the popula-j tion which had thronged the: walks now crowded thiatbu'nal place and, loo -fre-f fiuently, they"; who dug the graves died as! fthey hollowed them, and shared them with! their employers. Others, as they phed their frightful task, recognized among the victims some friend, Or relative, or parent jj and with the partial insanity , of despair Jsickening at fhe sight of their own hurried ana unpeneqt wotk, sotiqnt to, violate in I prouder tombs . around them, in order t i deposite within,, their: recesses the remainst ol tnose wno nau . been dear to tnem if f 1 hen came the second and still rnoref revoltinir stage of the hallucination of misery. It was on one of the most fatal days5 of the disease a bright morning t July, when sea and sky were blue and beautiful, and Nature, pranked out in her garb of loveliness, -seemed to mock at h'u-j man 'suffering, lhat.suddenly .as the city srrpaned with victims, those who had hi- I therio laden the death carts, and .carried them forth to burial, withdrew despairing 1y from the ! task, and literally left the, dead to bury their dead. For a'brief in terval the pariic was frightful ; the scorch- ing heat of the unclouded sun, the rapid- - iv ... t . i - i . .i i .1 : . ! enects or tne oisease upon ttie oouies, ithe difficulty of procuring substitutes for Uhe revolting duty, all conspired to ex- cite the most intense alarm, lest the emu-; via of putrefaction should be Superadded to the miasma which was already iedingf the malady. In this extremity, the May4 or of the town addressed himself to thret? young men, of whostj courage and reso4 j lution "He had a high opinion, and who in4 stantly consented to devote themselves t3 the: preservation of their fellow citizen's The sexton, measuring and hollowingj cut his nnrrew space of earth, was rei placed by workmen flini'ingup the soil! from the deep trenches, extending somel hundred feet in length : while the coura-f geous trio who had undertaken to transi pojt the bodifs, speedily filled uplheconi- mon grave, which, was thus prepared for them. The Same prayer was m.urmurecl over a score; the tinkling or tne 5am, little bell marked the Service performed for a hundred, whose sealed ears heard? not the sound and for a while the work! went on in silence. But that silence was !atlength rudely and strangely broken.) 1 Human mitufe. wrought up to its last! 1 point of endurance, acknowledged no au-f thority spurned at all duty, and the! tools of the workmen were cast down asf they sprang out of, the. trenches, Sftd re ! fused to pursuto their task. It must have been a frightful scene and? one never to be forgotten, when the gleam- injr of bayonets was apparent within the Hvalls of-the grave yard, and the troops , istooa siienijy ,aong tne euc ui ic ; trenches, partially heaped with dead;; compelling, by the mute eloquence of their; iarms. the labors of the livins 1 And this! 'in a burialplace ! where all should be still, land solemn, and sacred! .The compul LsMtorv work tvas com nleted. and I stood yesterday upon this spot of frightful rne de the lonff. deep, common graves of upwards of 4000 of the rlague smitten. The sun was shining upon them; 1 on those which 'had been first filled up, the rapid vegetation of this fine climate 'had already shed a faint tinge of verdure : 'above them spread a sky of the brightest .blue without a cloud : on one siae . tne eye rested on the distant city, anuuie ear taught the .busy hum of its streets ; on the "other, swelling hills and rich vineyards stretched far into the distance ; but they lay there, long; and silent, and saddening, j the mute records of a visitation which has steeped the city, in tears of blood. It Was awful, as, I paused beside these vast tumuli, to remember two short months had peopled them to stand there, and to pMCtureto myself the anguish and the suf fering, the terror and the despair, amid which they were wrought; to know that within their hidden recesses were piled indiscriminately the aged arid the ybung, the nurseling and the strong man, the ma iron and the j maiden ; and, above all, it was affecting to trace th hand or surviv ing tendertiess which had planted the record-cross, and the tributary wealth, upon some spot of. the -Vast "sepulchre, wkich was believed to cover the regretted one. It say believed: for viib could measure with his eye Chat fatal' trench, and make sure note of the narrow space where hii own lost one i lay above, or beneath, or in the midst 1. Would you endeavor to divest yourseli of these ievolting images, they are brought back upon iyou with (enfold force, as you pause at the termination or the trenches for there 5Tour eye falls on a tall black cross, crowned with immor telles, and bearing the inscription : Choleriques du Mois de Juillet. You turn away with jthe blood rjuiver- mar in your veins and a second cross. wreathed and fashioned like the first marks the graves of he! Cholerique!,d'A6ut et.Septembre. And here, thanks to an all-gracious Pro vidence, the last formed trench yet yawns hollow and empty for full, two-thirds' of its length. The destroying angels slow ly.furls his wings-4Death, glutted with prey, pauses in his work of devastation I shall not again hav courage to enter the cemetery Antiquities from Greece and Asia We find in a Paris paper, the following piece of news : The American Commodore ElTiot ha. on boaid the Constitution, at Malta, a large collection pf vpry curious antiqui ties, which he has taken during his cruise in the Levant, from :the plains of Mara thon and Troy, the neighborhood of Athens, Corinth, arid Suniam, different parts of Syria, especially Bal bee, the Holy Land, and Egypt. The most curious articles in this collection are two sarcophagi of marble, found near Bey rout, on the; site of the city of Beryta. They were ; discovered sixteen feet deep in the soil, by a peasant ; who was dig ging to set; our a mulberry tree, j The Commodore purchased (hem, and caused them to be transported on board the fri gate, from a height of G00 feet above the sea. Five hundred: men of the crew joined their efforts to carry these masses a distance of a mih? and ahalf. The sarcophagi are of white marble, all in 6ne piece. The smallest has this inscrip tions Julia Ma mcea A ti g u sta . She was the mother of Alexander Severus Em peror in the year 222 of the Christian 1-ra. 1 he two monuments were empty when tuey were taken by tne crew of the Constitution; j ) ' Curious Chair. An elegant chair has recently, been manufactured in Phila delphia, intended fbrithe' Commissioners' Hall at "Kensington ancf which isjeom posed of thel.following interesting relicks ofantiquity s 1st.. A portion of mahogany, part of a beam from the residricejf of ' Christopher Columbus, which was Vtuilt Hear the city of St. Dom.ino-o, in 1406. rand wh ir.Il was. the first house built m America by! Eu ropean hands'. ; 2d. A piece of ihq Gr'pat Tree, under which Wm. Penn formed? bis treaty jwith the Indians, in ' 1GS2. I'his tree! was blown down in 1810, aul from certain marks was ascertained t,a be 283 years .!! " j , .' 3d.. A portion of oak joist, taken from a nouse in i-nuacieipnia, once tne resiaencc of Penn 4th. Apiece of the last or a group of chesnut trees, which; fornierly stood in front of the State House. j 5th. Part, of the cane seating from an old chair of Wm. Penn. i 6th. A lock of hair of the late Chief Justice Marshall, (! !) enclosed in a 'glass case, and placed in tho back of the chair. 7th. A. piece of" Old Ironsides." ,8th. A piec-e of the ship of the iine Pennsylvania. ! 9th. Thirteen sta rsi composedof pieces ofall the above relicks. I r . : "Westward the Jbtitr of Empire; takes its way." The Peoria Register i announces the arrival at that place of : the steamer Princejton, with about 150 emigrants on board, who design settling in thejneigb bourhood of Oregon! City. They em barked at Wheeling; and carried with them all the necessary implements of husbandry and household furniture, to the amount of 75 tons. It seems they have gone there prepared to live. Navigation of the Osage. The steam boat Relief returne to St. Louis on the 9th May, having ascended the. Osage river as high as the townfof Argos, abcut 200 miles by the meanderings of the river. 'i ' 1 '.' - trial of the wooden pavf-ment experiment has been commenced at New Orleans. j Scott's Idea of what ?s i. WW Vulgar. Lock hart relates an anecdote of a rebuke once given by Walter? Scottj in hi? hear ihgi to his daughter Apne. She hap pened to say of something, that she! could hot abide' it-jT-it was vulgar 1 My j love," said, her father, '' you, speak like a very voting lady. Do you know, after ill, the meaning.of this word vulgarl? 'Tis only common. Nothing that is common, ex cept wickedness, can deserve to be spoken of in a tone of contempt. fAbd when you have, lived to, my years, yotj Will ie dis posed to agree with me iri thanking God, that nothing reallynvorth having, or car ing about in this world, is uncommon." Absence of Mind. A tall, man io Vir ginia, haying had a conversation with another of inferior dimensions, made a bow to his cane whlcfi stood in the cor- ner, ana seizing, nis irienu py tne caip, walked off with him. v a ' ! Amuiln; Incident Siege of Grave. The Sieger of Grave in 1G74, is one of the most celebrated sieges , in modern time3. In: a small place with earthen revetments, without bomb Jprbofs for his troops, the Marquis de Chamilly, who was the. Governor of the place, with 3500 men, sustained a siege of nearly four months; against the united fortes of Spfliri, Holland, and the Empire. Gen. llabenhaup, one of the most distin guished generals of Holland, was first appointed to the command of the besieg ing army. But so protracted was the defence, that the. Prince of Orange him sslf took the command, and in order to make any further progress, was obliged' to relieve the completely disheartened army, by fresh troops. j The siege abountls with incidents, showing the gaiety wiih which French men, when well commanded, will en counter any dangers, or, endure any pri vations. ...'.'; About two months after the commence ment of the siege, the supply of! meat being exhausted, the garrison was ob liged to eat their horses. Being taunted with this by the enemy, and in order to show that they had horseflesh to spare, the Marquis de Chamilly, having; gone out at about ten in the evening, to one of the fronts attacked, ordered that cne ol the worn, out cavalry horses should be brought forward. The soldiery led out one. To the .marie an(j i 1 the general ordered, them to attach more than 200 lighted matches: After this, the 'night being dark, the hoTse Was driven along a dyke which'led directly to the trenches of the enemy. Those posted there, see ing a number of lights advancing; were so much alarmed, that they opened a ge neral fire upon them. The horse, fright ened by this fire, jumped from the! dyke, and-runmng to the rijjht, bure the iwhole n . r . i . i are oi tne emrenenmems in that direc- tion, wunout Dtinsr wounded : ana as v "-,1 .i' ,i i i'- . . W . 'I did not fire on our side, at length re turned to us. He was taken, and many matches that had been lost,, were replaced. In the meantime, all the enemy's forces had been roused, and were marching to the defence of their entrenchments, the drums of the infantry beating, and the bugles of the cavalry sounding the chargp. "The time that we were occupied in refitting, our horse, was sufficient t6 enable the enemy to reach their trenches, while during this time, our cannon, which had been pointed during the day, were sweeeping their works, killing, as we afterwards learned, large numbers of men. After the lapse of about an hour, our hoTse covered with matches, was again brought upon the dyke, and frightened by the lire, and feeling the sparks from the matches, began immediately to run. The enemy, imagining that . we had been repulsed in our first attack, and that we were returning to the charge, redoubled their fire' upon the horse, who this time, fortunately turned off towards the left, where he had not yet been, and at a dis tance" of sixty 5yards, sustained the !fire of the whole line of entrenchments from the dyke to the river. The -poor deval was at length killed; but his matches still.ap- pearing, and the drummers who were posted in our most advanced lodgments, continuing to beat the charge," while the dead horse " fesait fe.rrae" the enemy concluded that 'we were afraid of advanc ing, and kept up a constant fire till day, when thev discov3red that the formidable antagonist who had sustained the whole fire of their army, was an old horse. This adventure diverted our garrison exceedingly, while it had such an effect upon. the, enemy, that on the next day more than eighty men deserted to us. First Attempts, " It will do"! is a very bud saypig.' What costs little; labor seldom deserves much praise. If we ac quire the habit of thinking that performan ces are already well enough, while we have the power of making them still bet ter, we shall gradually bestow less and less pains, and still content ourselves with their execution. The sheet of paper is still extant on which Ariosto wrote tin oc tavo, describing a tempest in sixteen dif ferent waysi,and it was the last which he preferred. Tasso founu rhymes,' with great difficulty. Yet these were men of much genius. Who, with such examples before them, ought to be contentedj with first efforts 'I It will generally be .found thaf what is called genius, may be resolv ed into the union oi a strong taste for some particular sturdy or art, with great indus try in mastering it. The possessor rarely says of an itioifferent performance " It will do." We have seen an easel inscrib ed with the salutary motto, -.Try again," which prehaps often shamed its owner out of laziness and despondency; and the same motto is carried by rnosr geniuses in their hearts. We all know how thank less are the services of those who carry the principle ' It will do" into their famh liar intercourse with others ; ,how nig gardly is the kindness which it promotes how scant the good , offices which it sanctions. . i The Bostonians complain, o! the shab biness of the tablet over ibe remains of Franklin and his wife, at Philadelphia, and express a desire to erect a suitaoie monument, if the Philadelphiam do not. ' MCTS. FOR THE PEOPLE. Mr. Bond's, speech continued, , We -will now look to the Post Oflfc Departmeut. The Oeneral PorCOfficii as itAvas then called, had the gfood for-, J tune-not only to escape the censure, bul io enlift the ' praise of. that fault flhdinV . era. M, leave it for those who were, farqi; liar wifh the motives and political rurreW of that day, to account for this. The com mittee said of -it " the efficiency ;olthtsi branch of the public service is in a ,cpnJ& tion highly improverj and improving";- My first remark on this is, that the..Pti Office department passed into the hand? of General Jackson in a healthy aqd tfiir cient state. A few years, ifyder bft, form, rleduced it to chaos and inso,lvenpyf The dftailsof. its mismanagement haVtf been long ince proved. The.'eiid.etKp is on file here and in the Senate, witnth : reports; of the several committees flppQlr) ea to mveitigate its,aDuses. , i reier gerk- tlemen!io tne hle9, and will not a vie ell on the various abuses which were desigjaaVe and established.. I heir enormity, COUpleC with the fact of the borrawijng money.' oil public necpunt byihe Postmastff Genere" al, without law or authority, alartoed tho country: But bad as all this . wus, ? and used as the pecuniary patronage had been', to confer personal benefits on favorites; until the disorder and insolvencyiOl tha Department became apparent, still theo-v litical n?es which had been made, of tho appointing patronage wre hot disclosed and noiv never will be. The present Pobt master; General, Amos Ken da f I, tells us in his account the late destructipn of that Department by fire, that all the books. pa'pers'and files of the Department were saved, .xeep. the. "files" of the V appoint- ment office,", and that these were de stroyed ! . , ' In the first six years of Gtneral Jnckk, son's Administration, about . 1300 p08tit masters-were removed from office, and, in inost of ihe cases, without the asio-nment of any cause.- When certain members of t the comtnitiees of the Senate and House", appointed, in 1833 '4 to investigate tbq abuses of that Depart men V a Item pjed tol get at (he files and correspondence of ihin " A ppjiintmeh: office,", with, a view to m9r certain and report svhether th'e reasons for; these removals .were" promptexi, ,byv h'&li! arid ju!st public considerations, or by inera party jpoiuicai expeuiency, iney wre oe nied tie right by the head of the Depart ment and by the friends of the Admirrii-,( tratiotr, who composed a majority ori onui of tne.4t committees I Was ndtthiV in-, tjuiry lust i reier vou, sir, tOiir. nen- ton s famous report and bill providing , tor thei disclosure of reasons iu case ot removal from office. I Jrefer you,. Mr.. - Speaker,- to your own remarks, and to ; those of your friends, in the debate on Mr. Saundrr'a reso ution, which I have al ready quoted. But; above all, I refer, you toihe remarksof the illustrious Midi- J son, unrivalled as4ie wis in the know! edge ott the letter and spirit of our. Con- . stitutioh arid laws, and' in p'urity and hon-, esty of purpose. As early as 17894 ioiha memorable debate on the 'power of the. Executive to remove from office, he not on ly denied tho right to exercise this power capncipusly, and without assigning 3-de. quate reasons, but he thought it would bn siich a bold assumption of lawless power. that he thus expressed himself: - I own it is an abuse of power which exceeds my, imagination, and of which I can form no rational ednception.' ; : But when Mr. Van Buren- and Mr Benton; (both of whom were on the com-j mitte which reported fh bill to prevent the abuse of this patronage of, appoint-j ment,) came.into power.this changed their. . tone; if j not their principles., 'Removals from office immediately followed, and. they deny . any obligation to assign rea sons I Is it not strange, too--hay, V not mysterious that, in the conflagration of the Fost Office, the only papers and files destroyed should be those relating ,.to tha, exercise, if not the abuse of the,powef .o( removal from office the. rety papers,, which the Postmaster General refused to, suffer the Committees of In vi stiation to examine? . . .. -. . t, . 1 said Mr. Van Buren changed his (ona on this subject. I" ivill at once prove if,' The journal of the Senate shows .that e, was one of.the Select Committee who re- ; ported the bill already referred He. eo. tered the office of Secretary of State wit))' the commencement of Gen Jackson's Ad ministration. One ol his first ofrtcial acta-; was the removal of a meritorious cleric , from his office in that, Departme;nlt arjd; a; positive refusafto assign any reason Hfor( it! The gentleman removed i-novr ' , merabei of , this House,' (Mr. Slade o( Vermont,) and . the oice of the people ' has sustained him wom tie desjxittsr of the Executive patronage sougnl to" da stroy. '. , ; " ;. .- The manner in which this patronage s abuted, aod the readiness and almoal teJa- ' graphic dispatch with which the wires of party machinery are felt throughout a,nd from the roost distant parts of tho UuiodJ may be imagined after reading this lscor: ic note (written by Mr. Van Baren,;tpon, after entering on the duties of Cecrstary . of State to a gentleman in Loaisisna:, : Washington, April 20,1829 " My! dear .Sir, -I hata tba hopor jof acknowjedgibg-t he receipt of your lettt r " u --';4 (1 M M -J j
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