The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-03-29 00:00:00

iklAßcif 29, 18 6.

of
.Rhode Island, who is thus described bv a Washing-.
ton correspondent.
" Mr. Pearce of Rhode Island, then mounted the rostrum to
finish his speech, and thump, -thanip,, scold, scold, to-day:as
upon Thursday last attended his..speech, which was thrown to-
gether pelt melt without seiise 'or 'Order, rough and tumble. As
usual the desk of the hon. iiienther with the floor around him,
was well kicked and thumped. S,rch groaning and„screaming,
scratching and hallooing, scolding' and fretting, jumping and
hopping, whining and sighing,- the • three professions, •and., the
fifty mechanical branches are incapable naturally or artificially
to put together. Let me giVe you a specimen of this rantionv
speech maker's remarks; commencing with a long tirade against
every commercial mini and commercial city in the country. He
began by quoting Burke in the following language and follow-
ing libel. As to the'merchants—" their counters are their al-
tars—their ledgers are their bibles—and their gold their god."
Shameful, unworthy of Edmund Burke, but fit to be quoted by
Dutee J. Pearce. This, however, was not the extent of his
mercantile anathemas. Soon he went on to quote the follow-
ing pretty extract from a member of congress delivered thirty
years since. The merchants would send a vessel to hell for a
bag of coffee at the 'expense of burning her sails.' Soon he
went on to say that the merchants were not patriots, and that he
was against them if he stood alone,—and then soon after to•say
that the men who had been burnt out in New York had .made
money by the conflagration, and if the fire was unprecedented, it
was not so much so as the passage of the bill would 'be. 'Then
mine an imputation that it was amoney making affair. Thep a
page of precedents. Then a narration of the fires which have
heretofore taken place in the country. Then an allusion to,
Ohio. .Then a chapter upon individual' suffering, upon widows
and old maids, whom he contended were suffersng more . than
the suffering merchants of New York. G. W. Bangs, whose
Claims he said stalked an:ong us like Scipio's ghost, was next
spoken: Then again an allusion to what he should do if the
bill passed, to wit: introduce a similar bill for the relief of his
constituents. •

The' advices from St. Augustine, and . the-vicinity of
the Indian war in Florida- reach to the 20th February.
We make the subjoined extracts as the most interesting
we can find :

•
" By accounts from New Orleans, to February 18th. several
additional companies of volunteers had already organized and
paraded, preparatory to their departure for Florida to relieve
those who had preceded them.
"The suns of 1741 dollars has been subscribed in New Or-
leans, towards the relief of the widows and orphanS of the trews,
who fell in the late massacre between Tampa and Fort King.
"There was a rumour at Picolata, February 17th, that Col.
Twiggs had had an engagement with the savages, and killed
150 of them.
On the St. Johns, irninediatelyitbove Picolata, the Indians t
do not appear to have committed the depredations that they had
in the vicinity-of St. Augustine.
" A letter of a Georgian volunteer, dated Picolata, Feb,l7th,
states that although the houses hail been suddenly deserted by
the planters, they were found most of them with the doors open,
the furniture within, and yards and gardens, poultry, and pota-
toes all as ondisturbed as when occupied.
" A letter from Capt. Jones, of the U. S. cutter Washington,
at Tampa Bay, dated Feb. 4th, states that he had landed two of
his 12 pounders on a mud scow, which was made into a floating
battery, manned by Waif -big- crew, and placed in a small creek
to the left of the cantonment, within two rods of the pickets..
He speaks in the highest terms of Majorßelton, the command-
ant, who, though authorised to abandon the post when he had
but 200 men, and was threatened by 1000 savages in the imme-
diate vicinity, flushed with their victory over poor Dade, called
a meeting of his officers, all of whom agreed to bury themselves
in the ruins rather than surrender. Captain Jones adds :
" Nearly all the barracks and out-houses are burnt down, and
the troops are picketed around the two block-houses. Some
two or three rods from the margin of the river, the barracks and
out-houses were burnt in order to give the cannon in the block-
houses an opportunity to play on an open plain that intervenes
between the pickets and the thickets, from which the enemy
would rush in the event of an attack.

"Eighty of the inhabitants have taken refuge on board the
transports, which had arrived to take off to the Mississippi the
Seminoles, in conformity to the treaty; the captains of the
transports, 18 in number, being ignorant probably of the hos-
tile proceedings of those tribes, or being desirous to fulfil the
contract so far as regarded their vessels. The sloop of war Van-
dalia arrived January. 28th. Fifty marines bad previously been
sent on from Key West by Com. Dallas.
"A letter from one of the Irish volunteers. at Gen. Hernan-
dez' plantation, 28 miles from St. Auguitine, dated February
20th, states that Mr. William's sugar mills, &e. burned by the
Indians, will cause that gentleman a loss of 45,00(1 dollars.
By the schooner Laura, Captain Walker, arrived at Charles-
ton, we have news from Key West to Feb. 15. Intelligence
received at Key West from Cape Florida to Feb. 10th states
that the Indians had not then revisited the lighthouse, but had
made another visit to the unfortunate Mr. Coolev's plantation,
robbing the house, destroying the furniture, &c. It has appear-
ed singular to us that an ample supply of guard-boats with
sailors and marines had not been left by Commodore Dallas,
there and along that coast, as was stated- to have been the ob-
ject of that commander. It is also unaccountable why his
whole squadron should have returned to Pensacola.
A black boy who escaped from the massacre of Mr. Coolev's
family states that the murders were committed by fifteen In-
dians, in revenge for the death of an old chief, named Alibama,
shot by a white man, who had been favoured in his escape, it
was thought, by Mr. Cooley. Mr. Cooley is again at the light-
house, and writes that Indian fires are seen from there, smoking
in the distance on the main land. A letter from Key West
states that the Indians, if defeated in the north, will updolibtedly
fall upon the southern point of Florida, and justly adda that the
boats of our squadron might have prevented this if they had
been sent, as they should have been, up the. different creeks,
penetrating. the everglades.
T Tau 3 hp.eßay,
schooner M
Exchange, of Frankfort, Maine, went ashore at
Jan. 31st, and was entirely lost.
A disposition to riot and insubordination among the
workmen still continues in
,New York. The fact is, the
workmen are already .tx,lo well paid, and consequently
they are more arrogant in their demands. If they per-
sist they may injure their employers and retard the im-
provements of the .towu,, but they will suffer most se-
verely for their. folly in, the end.. The following may be
taken as a sample of their proceedings.
"PREPARATIONS FOR ANOTHER STRIKE.—The ourneymen
masons of this city have held a meting, and passed the follow-
„,
ing resolution _ _

Resolved,—That from and after the Ist day of April next
the journeymen masons will demand, a;ta fair compensation for
one day's labour, two dollars and fifty cents; and ne hereby
notify our employers of this our intention.'
".ANOTHER.—The journeymen shipwrights and calkers have
resolved—

That we agree that two dollars and twenty-eve cents per•
day is fair compensation for our labour at new work on and after
the 21st instant; and the swu of two dollars and 4fly cents for
old work on and after the 7th instant.'
" AND YET ANOTHER.—The marble polishers, rubbers, and
sawyers have resolved—
" "That we are determined after the 10th day of March not
to work under an advance of twenty-five per cent.' "

There is no country on the face of the earth where the
worst passions of human nature are more frightfully de-
veloped than in Ireland. Murder by open violence is bad
enough ; but wilful perjury, eincloyed for the purpose of
swearing away the life of an innocent man, from no mo-
tive of revenge, from no sense of personal injury, but
for the sake of money and to Gratify the dark malignity
of certain villians Who are called priests; is inexpressibly
atrocious and diabolical.

Such crimes are common to and are of frequent occur-
rence in Ireland. A wretched population is kept in sa-
vage ignorance by the popish priests, for in this state
these people are much more easily made the victims of
priestly rapacity. They are plundered by their father
confessors every day and every hour of their existence.
From his cradle to his coffin the poor labourer is perpe-
tually toiling to meet the demands of his'priest. He is
taxed to the amount of half his parents' wealth when he
is christened, and he is waked and anointed at the ex-
pense of his last shilling. It takes more than he could
earn in twelve months to defray the costs of his marriage,
and, when he expires, his friends suffer as severe a loss
in their pockets as his orphans do by his death. He i 5
'punished by the magistrate for theft, and he has to 'pay. r.
the priest for confessing the crime. He is sent to Enk- :.?
land a beggar to-procure the means of paying-his station
dues or his Easter offerings. He begs and works for that
of which he is robbed by the " good man." He is
tempted to be dishonest in order- that he may be consi-
dered a true catholic of the old chtirch ; and, if success-
ful in his knavery, he is compelled to share his gains with
the monk who absolves hint'fiom the sin. If regular in
his attendance at Mass, he is fleeced of his money ; if ir-
regular, he is obliged to pay for not receiving that which
he has to pay for receiving. He is consequently taxed
for not having a coat to go to the chapel in ; and if, by
accident, he have a good coat, he has to pay double. He
is taxed for attending mass, and taxed for absenting him-
self from it. He is taxed for the faults of his wife 'and
the misfortunes of his mother. He is taxed for h'isibre-
titer that is hanged and his brother-in-law that is trans-
ported. He is taxed when he presents his child at the
baptismal fount, and he is taxed for the remains of Ilia
father in his coffin. Coming into the world, going out
of the world, and in the realms beyond the world; lie is
taxed. At birth, at baptism, at board, and in bed—at
mass and at marriage—in health and in sickness--at con-
secration and at confession—on the day of feasting and
the day of mourning—on every saint's day in the eaten-
dar from Yule to Midsummer and from Midsummer, to
Yule, the poor Irish papist is taxed and plundered 11 •
some rapacious priest.

Can we wonder then that the labouring classes of the
sister island are poor and miserable Poverty is not a
crime; but it is a crime of the deepest dye in him who
keeps men ignorant, and, by superstitious'appiiances, re"
duces them to poverty. But if with poverty there: earn('
contentment and peace of men—if the fault were in the
system and its effects 'were not pernicious, we mighthave.
reason to be more tolerant of popery in the same wal
that the law is of quackery, which may be corrected but •,
cannot be eradicated. Alas ! there is no conSoliti°l3
even from this source. The Irish peasant is not onl! re-
duced •
chioeil to misery and destitution by the frtinduie.zi(4os: •
his priest, but he is told that his povertr•is chits*o.l7t t'ue