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SPAIN.

The following account of the miserable
condition of Spain, is taken from gentle
man in Madrid, to his friend in this city,
dated Dec. 18th, 1871
"The country is so completely overrun
by robbers, that nothing goes safe. Not a
diligence has gone from this to Seville for
some weeks past, without being stopped
and plundered by these banditt. Indeed,
II was never worse than at present. DR..
Wilson, an English gentleman, and his
lady, left here about four weeks ago for
Andalusia. The diligence was stopped by
Jose Maria, with band of sixteen. He
says they were fine looking men, mounted
on handsome horses, and armed each man
with brace of pistols, gun, broad-sword
and dirk. They were very polite, not oblig
ing them to get down with their faces to
the ground as usual, but gave them some
brandy and water to drink; and when they
LETT shook hands with the passengers, wish
ed them pleasant journey, and begged par.
don for having been obliged TO put them &c
so much trouble and Inconvenience. They
took every thing in the way of money
watches, &C., and all the gentemen's
clothes that were worth taking, even theil
cloaks and umbrellas and also all the la.
dies dresses, leaving them Il few night
gowns, caps, &c. This is what has hap
pened to every diligence or coach tina
passed on that route. In fact the travelling
In that direction is entirely stopped.
.Ne,0 York .4dUertiser.
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SLAVERY.

The following letter is from the Washington
Correspondent of the Portland Advertiser:
What frightful picture does slavery presenti
The number of blacks, piiabe looking objects,
even in the District of Columbia, small IN the
ratio Of her territory and population in compar
ison with other States, has awakened my at
tention, and have run over the statistics with
alarm. Have you ever compared the white
population with the black, in some of the slave.
holding Slatess Ii not, run over the census
Of those FIVE States south of Tennessee, and
marx what gloomy result What fearful
and threatening future! betokening crisis,
which pray heaven we may avert
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HARrFnRn Eah lS


THE CHERoKEEs. On Thursday evening
last, at the Centre Church, Elias Boudinot and
John Ridge, addressed numerous and atten.
tive auditory, upon the subject of the past and
present condition of the Cherokee Indians, and
gave history of the rise and progress Of the
arts Of social life among them, as well as a con
else aud eloquent account of the continued per-
secutions which they have received and are
still receiving, from the State of Georgia, act
ing under the supervision and sanction Of the
President of the United States. Without o
moiety nf party feeling in our bosoms, so far
the question Of abstract injustice was concern
ed, we must confess, that, as John Ridge
standing up in the pride and consciousness Of
right-depcted the barbariies and wrongs with
which the Cberokees, individually and nation.
ally, have been visited by the citizens of Geor.
ga, we felt that President who could trample
on the rights Of tribe Of Indians, like the
Cherokees, even if otherwise qualified for his
station, should be hurled from his place by the
united voice Of people who cxult in freedom
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WASHINGTON. Feb. IL.

WASHINGTON, Feb. Is.
The debate on the Tariff resolutions OF
Mr.. Clay, in the first instance, and the SUBJ
sequent discussion and arrangements con-
corning the celebration of Washington's
birth day, seem, for the moment, to have en-
tirely diverted the public attention of this
city from the Presidential question. Pri-
vately, however, the subject is still talked
ever, and find that the opinion which is
most prevalent among those of the National
Republican members who are the most dis
Greet and the best informed, is that the pros
poets of Ear. Clay are brighter than they
were at the commencement of the session,
and that they are yet Frightening. His
speech on the Tarf, it is anticipated. and I
should think with much reason, will gain
him great strength in all the Northern and
Western States: while the rejection of the
nomination of Mr.. Van Buren,, it is believed,
will make the present schism between the
Calhoun and Van Buren, parties SO wide
that it will he found impossible, and that
the vote of South and North Carolina, Ala
bama and Mississippi, cannot be counted
on hy the Jackson party with that conf
dence with which they have hitherto been
claimed. What Virginia will do, seems to
be still considered as far from being deter
mined. She will not vote the ticket which
contains the numes of jackson and Van
Buren,. Even the editor of the Richmond
Enquirer, it is said, by those whok him,
will not venture to support such ticket,
and if Virginia should ultimately vote for
Gen. Jackson, Virginia member assures
me that it will he, not because she approves
of Gen. JacksoI's course--not that she re-
tains any confidence to his competency
not that she looks for any benefits to the
country from his reelection, nor even that
she will give thereby any pledge to sustain
his measures, but because her hatred of Mr..
clay absorbs and nulll6es every other feel
ing. A Virginian expressed to me that his
hope had been that Mr.. Clay would have
taken some ground Of compromise in which
Virginia could have met him, but that he
had now abandoned the expectation.
United States Gazette.
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from oppression. We were favored with cor
rect history of the trial and Imprisonment, or
rather " forcible abduction" of the missionaries,
now incarceIated in the state prison at Mil
ledgevile. Both Boudinot and Ridge are good
and apt speaker.-oi fine personal appearance.
The former is the Editor Of Cherokee paper.
A collection Of Sl6O was taken up at the close
of tho seryice-.iirrOr.
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WasHIHGToY, Feb. Il

WASHlnGTON, co. ~.
The Baltimore Convention is either to be
blown up, or Pennsylvania is to receive the
nomination for Vice Presidency. Van Buren,
is out Of the question. He is too heavy load
for Gen. Jackson TO carry. Since Saturday
there has been strong indications in the Jack,
son party that his pretensions are not to be
thought of airy longer. Pennsylvania is to be
soothed with the Vice Presidency, if the Gen.
eral rstoes the Bank, and Mr.. Van Buren, is to
stand back. There is nothing like making a
virtue of necessity in such case. 1t is said
that adversely tries mans friends. II Van
Buren's friends we're to be tried here Just now
Il corporal's guard would out-number all OF
them who are not of the New York line.
So ends the Bsltimore Convention, as far as
Van Buren, has any thing to look for that way
from the Jackson party. Instead of putting
down Calhoun by that continuance to raise
himself little higher up, it :urns out that he
has only been shaking the bush for Pennsylva-
nia.-N Y. Commercial .4duertiser.
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ment over their position. Such is the misery
of their uneasy state. Would they solicit !;
would they permit Congress would legislate,
and turn some of the streams of the Treasury
to wash away this pollution! bu, no, oh no, the
South puts herself upon her sovereignties, and
cries "hands off,
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From INDIA. Calcutta papers to Oct. %
have been received by the brig Hindoo, at
New York. 1t is stated that the Cholera
has been making fearful rayages among the
seamen belonging to the ships in the river.
No fewer than six fell victims 10 it in the
General Hospital on one day.
The Singapore Chronicle states, as an
item of news from Java, that the capital OF
the Maatschappy, Dutch Company that
enjoys exclusive privileges in trading with
that island, has been reduced TO twelve mil
lions, and that the Belgians are excluded
from all further participation. The three
towns now Interested are Amsterdam, Rot
terdam, and Middleburgh.
A Calcutta paper says-The lahors OF
the Rammohun Roy and the establishment
Of the Hindoo College have together con-
tributed to give shock to the popular sys-
ten of dolatry in Calcutta, perhaps we
might say in Bengal, which has evidently
alarmed the fears of its supporters. A
Bruhma Shubba, or Hindoo Thestical So
ciety, has been formed by Rammohun Roy
and his friends, who besides have the COM
mand of several presses, and conduct sew
eral periodical publications, both in the Eng
lish and Bengalee languages.
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The SENATE AND THE President OF THE II
STATES. II is curious circumstance in the his,o'
ry OF this country, and one that will not fail heres
ter to excite attention. that the Senate of the JJn;,
ed States have by vote almost unanimous de.
clared the President Of the United States 10 bor,
been guilty of a ft:Lsehood!!! The vote. anno;n,
ing Walter Lowre. Clerk of that body, on bis ma.
ked denial Of non-interference in Executive nam;
nations, when the President had himself solemnIv
affirmed that interference is of this descrn,;nn'
The Senate has impeached the veracity of Andrew
yackson-6oth parties concurring in the verdict
President to stand towards the Senate Ya, 80 4.
is. The Senate have seen the affirmation oS Tho
President. under the signature Of VIM. r. Iep;o
and the Senate have voted that Anore,o .JacE'o, :;
unworthy Of belef!!, Let it be noted 70
Pennsylrania Wig.
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From LISBON. The ship Plato, at Phil
adelphla, sailed from Lisbon on the 10th
ult. The editors of the Philadelphia Ga
zette learn from Capt. Wise, that Don Mi
guel has collected about $4,000 troops to
repel the invasion of Don Pedro. About
90 padres, or monks, in convent nearly so
miles from Lisbon, were under arms. and
exercising daily. with view ultimately to
aid their earthly master. Don Miguel was
fitting out two line of battle ships, erecting
forts about Lisbon, and making every prep
aratlon to resist the enemy.
1t was the decided opinion of the Lisbo-
mans, that in case the troops of Don Pedro
were unsuccessful, they would all be put to
instant death by the sword without mercy.
Orders had been given by Don Miguel,
that, whenever any of the citizens of Lisbon
were collected in groups together, not be-
ing in the regular line of defenders, after
the arrival of Don Pedro's hosts, these
groups should be fired upon by his regular
soldiers, for fear of treachery.
Capt w. describes Lisbon as miserable
and loathsome beyond endurance. InsoleAt
police, squalid beggary, and rank villany
were every where rife.
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posing the renewal of its charter But, for
ourselves, we have not been able to dscov-
er the evidence by which such charge can
be sustained.
The friends of the Administration are ev-
identity divided on this subject-some of the
hrmest supporters of Gen. jackson are zeal
Gus advocates of the Bank. The President
IN his last Message declared that, though
his own opinion remained the same, he was
willing to leave the question to the good
sense and intelligence Of the people. Mr..
McLane, the present Secretary of the
Treasury, enters fully into the subject in his
late Report, and endeavors to show the
necessity of such an Institution, and that it
would be difficult if not Impossible, to trans
act the business of the General Government
which belongs to the Treasury Department,
without the facilities which the Bank affords
for that purpose.
We entertain decided belief that the
Bank has exercised sautary influence IN
regulating the currency Of the country, and
that 1t has been enabled to render more eff
hclent aid in the prosecution of extensive
commercial transactions than It would have
been in the power of the local Banks to have
done. We are, therefore, in favor of re-
newing its charter under such regulations,
and with such checks and guards against
any abuse of its power, as the wisdom of
Congress may suggest and approve.
| SCARCITY OF MONEY. A writer in the
New York Journal of Commerce, among the
reasons for the present alarming scarcity of
money, assigns the following, which, it is
thought, operates with great influence:
IL IS the political action ofthe Government
upon the U. S. Bank. If Gen. jackson per-
sists in the determination TO pay off the ma
tional debt in the coming year, one half if
not three-fourths of the large merchants in
this country must he sacrificed to crafty
his vanity. 1t was stated last fall that the
government advertised to pay off an amount
of the debt, within certain time, much
beyond what its deposits would be in the
bank, and that, too, without asking the con-
sent OF the bank, which common courtesy
would seem to have required. Now, if the
national debt is to be paid off during the
present presidential term, it can be done
only by the government drawing heavily on
the bank, and in that case the bank mus,
draw upon the merchants and the result
will be ruinous and disastrous. But let
the people see where the blame lies, that
the innocent may not receive the odium
Gen. Jackson's vanity and antpathy to the
bank are about to bring a mass of evils
upon the country which are yet but little
foreseen.
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From the 81. John, ~ b. Gil, Gazette.

OPEN WAR IN AFRICA. Capt. LAW
renee, who arrived here yesterday from
Africa, states that when he left the Gambia
on the 2lst December, the British troops
and militia were engaged in open war with
the Mandugoes severe engagement had
taken place on the 18th November, which
lasted for about six hours. The British
had upwards of 100 wounded and 90 killed.
When Capt. Lawrence sailed, reinforce
ments we're hourly expected from Sierra
Leone. The British force was in no way
adequate to encounter the Mandugoes who
had fortified themselves in a most masterlv
manner by entrenchment. Capt. BENJAMIN
Lee, commanding the Sierra Leone militia.
had been killed in the engagement.
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So WE GO. A writer in the WASHINGTON
Globe is for shortening the Senatorial term. nd
taking from the Senate the power Of con6rm,na
or rejecting the Presidents nominations. "Mv
remedy" says be, 4" should go to the root n
tho evil Cut them (thc senators) down 10
two years, and strip them of the power Of con.
firming and rejecting nominations ~" Bravo
Why not 20 little farther; there is no need nj
a Senate at all--abosh ii-make Gen. jackson
n king and Amos Kendall a duke-blow IN The
constitution and nullify the law. Your partn
will bear you out in any thing
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In the debate on the nomination of Mr.. Van
Buren,, few Of the friends of Jackson took any
part. They were abashed and silent before
tae rebuke of highminded men, who feared
not 10 do their duty, and as fearlessly avowed
the principles on which they proceeded Mr.
Marcy, however, trained pupil in the school
OF Van Buren, policy, openly, shamelessly avow.
ed his motive to action and the incentive OF
his party. When," said he, &c they the N. Y
politicians) are eontending for uictorv, then
auoto the intention of enjoying The fruits of IT,
II they arc defeated, they expect 10 retire from
Office" Why do they make such a ciamor
about Van Buren, then? The truth is, thew
like the doctrine for themselves but disapprove
of it in their MISUNDERSTANDING altogether on
the principle, " heads | win, tails you lose. ~
If they are successful, THEY CLAIM, MAT.
TER OF RIGHT, THE ADVANTAGES OF SUCCESS
They see n0thing acrong in the rule, that TO
THE VICTOR BELONG THE SPOUS
OF THE ENEMY" here, now, is a man
whs utterly discards all notion of patriotism.
OF contributing TO the general welfare and good
government Of the country, and avows, with
out blush, that he is member of party pur.
suing selfish scheme of self.aggrandisement
mere msrcenary fighting for plumber.
.Neto HaDeR .4duertiser.
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GREAT PUBLIC MEETING IN PHlLApE1-
PHIA. A public meeting was held in Phil
adelphia on Monday evening, the 18th inst.
for the purpose of sustaining the Senate Of
the United States, by an expression of opin-
ion on the subject of the rejection of the
nomination of Mr.. Van Buren,. Daniel w,
Coke, Esq, was called to the chair. In con.
sequence of the crowd the meeting ad-
Journed to the Great Saloon of the Ma
sonic Hall, which was Immediately fill
ed, and more than two thousand persons il
was thought endeavored in vain to gain adj.
mittance. A series of resolutions. defend
ing the constitutional privileges of the Sem
ate, were moved by Mr.. Edward Inpersoll.
and after several speeches were carried by
reclamation.
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COLOMBIA. The foreign ministers were
informed by a circular on the 23d Nov. of
the retirement from the vice presidency of
Gen. Caicedo, and the appointment in his
place of Gen. Obando; to which the minis
tiers of the United States, Great Britain,
France, and the Netherlands made suitable
replies. On the 18th Dec. appeared de-
cree of the convention, setting forth that
whereas from the 18th of Nov 1881, the
central provinces of Colombia had been
united into one independent State, bearing
the name of New Granada, it was necessary
that constitution should be prepared for
the same, which would lie done as soon as
possible; that of 1880 being, in the mean
time, 10 be observed in all respects. All
the subsequent acts are headed " Colombia,
State of New Granada"-but we cannot
find that any desire is manifested for an
union under federal government, with the
Other States. The convention seems to be
actively engaged, and strong dispositions
are shown to reform their ecclesiastical es-
adjustments. A project was before the
convention for suppressing entirely all
feast days, except Sundays. The great
number of those at present observed is de-
clared TO be injurious to the morals of the
people, causing them to spend in idleness
more than half their time. Many converts
have also been suppressed.
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At Hampstead, IL. ~ wagoner being alb.
sent from home, black who knew he had
money, broke into the house. The wagner 8
wife was awoke BY the growing Of her dog. a
fine mastiff. and told him 20 seize the man. He
did 50, and was standing by the dead body of
the black in the morning.
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CHOLERA AT CAIRO. The Rev. Mr.
kruse' OF the Church Missionary Society
stationed at Cairo, gives ah appalling state
inent OF the ravages of the Cholera in tina,
city. The populationi is estimated at 2OO,-
0oo souls. In the early stages of this
ir,!htiul disease, 1900 people were carried
oif daily. The fatality gradually lessened
however, and at the date Of the last letter
September 18th, the deaths had diminishej
to Oh. per day.-W y Com. Advertiser.
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Thos. Madison, j., Bennington, (Yt) killed
hog, 20 months old, which weighed after be.
ing dressed, with the fat taken from the onrails,
Ga lbs.
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The Richmond Wing of the ID inst. make

The Richmond Wing of the ID inst. makes
the following remarks:
In reading Mr. Haynes speech let the read
ers set down half the i'll he enumerates as the
effects of the Tariff, to rhetorical flourish, and
a southern imagination-and three fourths Of
the other half 10 slavery-which, by rendering
manual labor degrading in the eyes of those
who consider themselves ceu born, causes
southern youth to be brought up in idleness
and OF course IN habits of dissipation and ex.
travagance. Trace the principles in its opera
ton TO encourage idleness and worthlessness,
and repIess exertioh, and it is plain enough
why in the south we see so many once opu!ent
families in ruins, SO many gentlemen of pedi-
gree in penury, and the absence of that general
prosperity so conspicuous and remarkable in
every slave-holding portion of the United
States-ecery portion we say, without excep-
ton.
This is truth which every man, in his own
bosom, acknowledges, But for its existence
we should never have heard murmur against
the Tariff upon which is poured allthat iscon-
tent which the pressure of misfortune engen-
ders, and which naturally seeks to vent itself
upon something, which it calls the cause,
whether truly falsely. Take the most ex.
aggerated estimate of the tax which Virginia
is supposed to pay under the Tariff, divide it
per capita, and it will be found most inconsid-
cradle, and insufficient to account for nation
decay. 1t is not political, but moral cause
which is at the bottom of southern decline"
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Extract of letter from gentleman in Chm,

j
ton, S. c., to has friend in Congress, dated
FEB. Z, 1882.
Our eyes are all turned anxiously on your
deliberations for the decision of the great ques.
ton which Gistracts our Southern country
Mr. Haynes speech although we expected
something extravagant, cane upon us like a
thunderbolt. The dark cclors which he has
mingled in his picture o. our poverty and
wretchedress, are considered, by all intelligent
men whom | have heard speak Of the subject,
as the phantoms of an excited Imagination.
We look about us in vain or the signs of dis.
tress he so eloquently describes. We have
wandered through the city, and searched for
the signs of desolation, in those parts where
business has ever been done, but in vain. We
have examined the custom-h house entries, and
are astonished that he (Mr Hayne) should
have made such an assertion with regard to
our commerce, without an examination of facts,
to which he has always had access and with
regard TO the business of the City, it NAV be
safely asserted that there never was the same
amount done as there Is at this Gay. Mr. Rayne
complains that 1t is done by Northern men, and
with Northern capital which consider as an
unfortunate reference, inasmuch as il proves
Ut it proves any thing that it is only want
OF native energy and enterprise that pre-.
vents its being done by native capital and ma
tive men.
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The tasks to which these Judges subject
themselves would apP7l much younger men
They meet at IL o'clock, A. NJ, hear counsel
necessarily and patiently till o'clock, P. NJ.
then at z O'Clock in the evening meet in coun-
sci to give their opinions on the cases submit.
ted, where they often continue, am tod till
ii or IL, P. NJ. Besides this, the opinion on
the case some time or other is TO be made out
by one of the Judges.
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Very respectfully, sir,
Xour friend and uay

WILLIAM ABELs.
P. S. have several times dined with the colo
nists, and think better tables can be set in any
part of the wGrd. We had every thing that hearts
could DESIRE of meats, and fish, and fowls, and veg
etables, and wines, &c. &c.