The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-02-08 00:00:00

UNITED STATES.

By the packet-ship Canada, Captain Wilson, which arrived
here on Tuesday, we received New York papers to the 16th
ult., inclusive.
No exception had yet occurred among the Legislatures of the
other States, to the general practice of disapproving of the doc-
trine of nullification and of the conduct of the nullifying party
in South Carolina. The opinion seemed to be gaining ground,
that the differences which had arisen, would be amicably ad-
justed.—The following are extracts :
Noirrti CAROLINA.—The joint committee of the Legislature
to whom was referred the communication of Governor Hayne,
of South Carolina, have made a long and able report on that
subject, acd recommended the adoption of the following reso-
lutions :

" Resolved, That the General Assembly of the State of
North Carolina, doth entertain, and doth unequivocally express,
a warm attachment to the Constitution of the United States.

" Resolved, That the General Assembly doth solemnly de-
dare a devoted attachment to the Federal Union, believing that
on its continuance depend the liberty, the peace, and the pro-
sperity of these United Stater.
"Resolved, That whatever diversity of opinion may prevail
in this State, as to the constitutionality of the acts of Congress
imposing duties on imports; yet it is believed, a large majority
of the people think those acts unconstitutional; and they are
all united in the sentiment, that the existing tariff is impolitic,
unjust, and oppressive ; and they have urged, and will continue
to urge its repeal.
" Resolved, That the doctrine of Nullification avowed by the
State of South Carolina, and lately promulgated iu an or-
dinance, is revolutionary in its character, subversive of the Con-
stitution of the United States, and leads to a dissolution of the
Union.

"Resolved, That our Senators in Congress be instructed, and
our Representatives be requested, to use all constitutional means
in their power, to procure au adjustment of the existing con-
troversy between the State of the South Carolina and the Gene-
ral Government? and to produce a reconciliation between the
contending parties. •
"Resolved further, That a copy of these Resolutions be
respectfully communicated by his Excellency the Governor of
this State, and to his Excellency the Governor of South
Carolina."

THE TARIFF.—Of this fruitful topic of collision for the last
sixteen years, the National Intelligencer of Wednesday says:—
" The House of Representatives, having entered into a bond,
secured by sundry sets of Yeas and Nays, duly recorded in the
Journals, to employ itself exclusively upon the Tariff until it
comes to some determination in 'elation to it, yesterday set to
work upon the bill reported by Mr. Verplanck, from the Com-
mittee of Ways and Means. What is to be the ultimate fate of
this bill, is a matter of doubt. We should be able, perhaps, to
form something like a conjecture. upon it, if we certainly knew
what are the views of the Executive on the subject. On this
point, however, there are various reports, and of course different
opinions. One says, that, if the message of the President and
the Annual Treasury report be consulted, it is clear that duties
are to be taken oft to the amount of six millions of dollars.
Another says, that the President, in addition to his proclamation,
has orally declared his opinion to be, that the protective system
ought not now to be impaired. Thus are we so confused by con-
trary reports and opposite opinions or declarations, that do man
can certainly say w►iat are the views of the administration at
this moment as to the Tariff. In fact, things have taken such a
turn, that there is difficulty in determining what are the politics
of the government party, not merely as to the Tariff, but as to
other questions, of a more general nature, and of wider bearing
than the details of the Tariff bill."

A correspondent at Washington remarks, that "there is no
apprehension of the necessity, at present, at the application of
U. S. force against the Nullifiers of South Carolina." That
the proposed Tariff is considered as an Executive disposition to
yield to the doctrines of the Nullifiers, and whether adopted or
not, will have a tendency to appease the wrath of the hot heads
who have occasioned the excitement.

THE PROPOSED TARIFF--The prevalent opinion at Wash-
ington is, that Mr. Verplanck's proposed Tariff, which is now
under debate in the House of Representatives, will not pass
either House this session of Congress.
The Washington writer for the Commercial Advertiser, thinks
the Tariff Bill will pass both Houses. .

GENERAL BLAIR.—It appears from Saturday's Telegraph,
and it is confirmed by a letter from Washington to the editor
of the Journal of Commerce, that on Thursday evening, Gen.
Blair, who some time since attacked Duff Green in the street,
is in a state of derangement. The report is, that the grand
jury had indicted the General, and a writ for his arrest had
been issued. He went to the theatre, armed with two pistols
and two dirks, declaring that he would not be taken. He took
his scat in the stage box, where he remained for some time,
with a pistol in each hand. About nine o'clock, he fired a
pistol, but without injury, and, apparently, without purpose.
Great consternation ensued. The performance was stopped.
The police, aided by some citizens, surrounded him, and to
them he gave up his arms without the least resistance. With
more difficulty he was persuaded to leave the box. But, in the
lobby, he became quite savage—threw off his coat, stamped with
a noise like thunder on the floor, and with his stentorian lungs,
challenged the whole theatre to a conflict. The police shrunk
away, and the general was conducted to his lodgings, by his
friends. These circumstances will-serve to account for General
Blair's extraordinary and hitherto inexplicable outrage. Poli-
tical excitement, operating upon a sensitive mind, has, to some
extent at least, warped his reason. Gen. Blair's reputation in
this city and elsewhere, until this session, has been that of a
good hearted, generous, gentle, and sensible man.
The following anecdote is related of the late Governor, now
General Hamilton, of South Carolina :—When a boy, he was
impatient of control, hair brained, and given to the trial of bold,
but inconsiderate experiments. When a lad, and at school in
Providence, in Rhode Island, he took it into his head one day,
to test the power of gunpowder on himself. For this purpose,
he loaded a pistol and deliberately holding it against the mid-
dle finger of his hand, he shot it off, and' the effect was, that,
which almost any boy of common sense would have anticipated,
the finger was blown off with the cords and bones to the palm
of his hand. Many have probably seen the mutilation of his
hand, without knowing the cause of it. [General H. is about
repeating the experiment on a larger scale.'
KITTEN PlE.—The New Bedford Gazette states, that one
evening last week a lady in that town made up a fine batch of
dough, in a trough, and left it on the hearth before the embers,
iu order that it might rise before morning, when it was to be
transformed into plump " dough bats." On going into the
kitchen in the morning, the lady found a batch of seven
" young infant" kitchens, all snugly bedded in the warm dough,
and the old cat sitting by, watching, with Turk-like gravity,
this unlooked for addition to the morning breakfast!
SHIPWRECK.—Loss OF NEW SHIP LOGAN, OF NEW YORK,
FROM SAVANNAH FOR LIVERPOOL.—We have been furnished
with the following particulars of the loss of this ship, by Captain
Bunker, who arrived here yesterday, together with his officers
and crew, in the ship Grand Turk, from Boston.—" Left Tybee
Light on the 16th Dec. for Liverpool, wills a fair gale from the
south, which continued, blowing a gale from the westward until
the 19th. At 1 o'clock 45 minutes, p.m., the ship was struck
by lightning, which descended the starboard-pump, from thence
it passed up the after hatchway, and passed oft. We imme-
diately found the ship on fire, and commenced breaking out
cotton from the main hatchway, to endeavour to find the fire;
in the course of half an hour got into the lower holds and on
the starboard side of the pump we found the cotton on fire. We
then commenced throwing water and heaving the cotton over-
board, which we did by cutting the bales in pieces. We conti-
nued working in this way for some time, in the hope that we
should get the fire under • but, after heaving eight or ten bales
over, we found that the 'fire was raging between decks on the
larboard side. We then left the lower hold and commenced

breaking out between decks. In a short time we had broke out
20 or 30 bales, but the smoke becoming so suffocating was
obliged to leave the hold and close the hatches. It was now
night, and the ship under close reefed topsails, but we were de-
termined to save the ship and all the cargo if possible. Find-
ing, after all the hatches were closed up, the upper decks began
to grow hot, we therefore cut holes around the pumps and cap-
stern, and hove down water, and continued at it all night. At
daylight found all the upper deck, from the mainmast to the
after hatchway, was on the, and in some places the deck had
been burnt entirely through; concluded then to take off the
main hatches; after working about an hour in heaving water,
found the smoke so bad that the men could not stand it; we
then closed the hatches for the last time, and continued throw-
ing water through the holes that were cut, the fire still gaining
on us ; and finding that no hope was left of saving the ship, the
long boat was then ordered out, with sixty gallons water and
L what provisions could be obtained. We then embarked, sixteen