Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1830-04-01

-rbe >fTrontery Of Che FwashingfeE Tsle-
sranh is strongly illastrstBd by the assertion.
made in the nanaber of Saturday last, that
sbo editor Of the National Gazette has be-
come tho eulogist Of Mr.. Chiffon. has aatn-
ally "bcdaubad with praise" that prurent
orator. Il is impossible that any reader, WIN
the least H,odican ofinteligsnce, could have
misunderstood DOR paragraphs concerning
Mr.. Chiltoa's pablicatisns. We ara apt 10
be amused with the grote,qIs critic burlesgns'
ard have rovolyed deeply the question whsth-
Or thcre be in Congress, man whom Mr..
CLAW. himself, would not have preferred as
an oetrntatisas proselyts, 70 the SAID rseani-
or. We -nlIuds here, only TO NlT. Chiltons
publ;c displsys--at these we may lawfully
smije or nout little: If we ceuid initiate or
commend the assaults of tho Telegraph upon
hi. private character, we should deserve the
terwibls favor of that print ---sNet Oss.
IMPORTANT MrsTAKE.-it appears by the
proceedings OF Congress, that the secretary
Of the Treasury, il his Annual Repert, nlaue
sli,take to the ANAL amount OF 81 ,OOu,Ooo'
as " tas expenses of the Government Tor me
last quarter Of the year 1929. Addihg TINS
item, il appears that the expenditures OF 'he
more thentneycs hundred ftonsand do'G'5; the
payments O. account Of the public debt. and
aDder the Client Treaty. being dedasfed IN
both years. Thi. maks another serious JOKE
in tho gsnd farce Of ReirsnchsssHt - Cora '3do'
We refer our leaders, 70 another eoInmuni-
eaiton re.pesting Che Aims House, an cbJsct
Of considerable pablo interest Mr. Mace,
the governer of a large House q Correction in
England, has published pamphlet on she
subject of Prison Discipline, in which there
are some remarkable details. lie states tna''
on moaerats calculation, the number OIL o.
tenders confined in the respective prisons o.
England and Wales, is not lsn than ninety
five thousand 10 tbs course of one year. WINE
.he animal expense OF thsse establishments is
!; ,le short OF fye .hundrsd thousand pounds
sterling. Mr.. Mace says
~In the formation Of arimiaal dei'nqueh's
am . decided advocate for kesd labotLf' con-
Joined nth hard though wholesome Jeos' 40
among the best external means that can 10
adopted for counteracting habits oil idIcnsss'
dissipation, and vice, and promonns 0ispo,
sitlop to industry, temperance ana V'ftuc; 1
think that ell pr,son labonr should oe produc-
tive, and turned TO the advantage ci ene com,
munity If every prisoner was compeheo ,l no
only to cara his own support, but 10 soii.li
buto M far as possible to the support OF tho
prison officers, il would increase the Irksome-
ness az hi, situasiea lit would make hiin
more highly value his liberty, when released
1T would operate ss powerful check, when
again tempted 10 step aside from the paths OF
honesty and virtss--aTsd It IS obvious thdt, se,-
ds,. such regulations, one eeo'dd regord pr
so,es i, the ght "a ,rIieh it ss TO be ts''sd they
speno+e too generally regarded by Offenders NOT
subject TO hard iabotr, ~ a ssssse Of incidence,
10 .ohscI, they nssy, By committing ra'70's pes
~ depretIstons, retreat for the 'eaEfes SEASON,
froas le.bo.n-, masiety, Sn,ger, and ,csssf, ana
,ch.rs thsu are sure If rsssaiar provisions n'd
co,,sjcxte5ls bed. ,c;tho,a }retloaght~ ezpa''e"
[Naa1nA GaRette
Charnpollion, the fasous explorer OF r.
gyptian antiquities, holds the following IAN
o7,a.s at the snd Of his 6ftseuth letter, dated
1RsbeG
81 once moro repsatit-Egyptian art owes
to itself alenc all that it has produced oil great
Of pure, Of beautiful; and, without meaning
any ofIease to the lssraed persons who max
II rnattsr of religion To believe firmly IN the
.noptsn.ous generation Of the arts IN Sraece,
Il /. evident to nae, as it mnss be to oil who
have I'd orouShy seen Egypt, or have sub
stsntial knowledge of :he Egyptian menu
ments existing in Europe, that the arts com
msneed in Greece by servile imitation OF TIE
arts of Egypt, mues more advanced than IS
yulysrIy believed, at the period at which the
first Egyptian colonies came IN contact with
the savage inhabitants OF Attlca, or the Pslo-
ponaesas Old Egypt taught the arts to
Greece; Greece gave them the most sublime
deyelopemeat, but. without Egypt, Greese
would probably never have become the sias'
sicsl land OF the fiae arts Such is sas entire
belief on that greas problem. ! write these
line almost in the presence Of bas-relief winch
the Egyptians executed, with the most eis'
CANT deiieaey Of workmenshlp, 100 years
before the Christina era. What ws'a the
Greeks doing thene-But it would require
volumes to treat that question; and have
only letter"
The sculptures Of the nsnament OF I'll
Asafiif ara sscertsissd to be moro than tnree
thousand Ave hundred years old.
.Nait0ral Gazette.
MASONIC.-We understand that the IA
stalIatiop of the Hon. EDWARD LIVINGSTON.
es Cr,nA High P,iest Of the General Grand
ROYAL Arch Chapter OF ths Unifcd States, vice
DE W,rr CLIsroE, deceased: and olthe Hon.
JosL r.. PoIssErr, az Deputy Grand High
pr;ast &c tba General Grand Chapter, viii