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Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1840-03-19

VIRGINIA AND NEW YoRK.-We pub
lished aIew days since The Resolutions in
troduced into The Virsiuian House OF Del
egares by Mr.. Bayly. After various de-
lays they were taken up on Friday last
A discussion arose. in which Mr.. Scott
objected to The language Of the Resolutions
as in one part containing menace towards
New York, and in another "squinIing al
South Carolina Nnllifca,ion." We had
supposed tha, on this subject OF the right
of abolitionists to steal our slaves with
impunity, the whole South were NullIfers;
all South Carolina is so at least-witness
The resolutions passed without dissenting
voice at the late Session of our Legisla-
ture. Mr.. Bayly defended his resolutions,
and warmly and successfully opposed a
move to defer their consideration. The
first of the series, after some verbal amend
ments was then unanimously adopted. II
is as follows.
l. Resolved, That the reasons assigned
by The Governor ofNew York for his refu-
sal to surrender Peter Johnson, Edward
Smith and Isaac Gansy, as fugitives from
Justice, upon the demand Of the Executive
of this State, are wholly unsatisfactory;
and that that refusal is a palpabIe and
dangerous violation Of the constitution and
laws OF The Uuiled States.
The House adjourned without taking
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Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1840-03-19

Document 27s, House of Representatives.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1840-03-19

The Charleston Mercury of the 18th
inst. says:-At an election held on the l. lrh
instant, at the Hall of lbe State Bank. the
following gentlemen were duly elected:
James Jervey, w. A. Caldwell. Otis
Mills. James II. Ladson, E. H. Edwards,
John Wilkes, S. P. Ripley, Thos. Gads-
den, Harris Simons, George Gibbon, J.
B. Legare, IN. R. Middleton.
New Director-lo fill the vacancy oc.
casioued by the dea,hof the Hon. Thos.
Lee, late President.
Lincoln telegraph. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1836-1846, 1840-05-28
THE TELEGRAPH.
B AT H Me-:
THURSDAY MORNING. MAY %.
HARRISON STATE CONVENTION

The citizens ofthe several cities, towns and plan
tatons in the State Of Maine, who are in favor of
the eleetion Of GEN. WILLIAM HENRY HARRI-
SON forthe next President and opposed to the
present National and State Administrations are re-
quested to select Delegates to meet in Convention
at AUGUsrA, on WEDNESDAY, the 18th day Of
June next, at 10 o clock, A. nj to nominate can
didate to be supported at the approaching election
for Governor: and two candidates for Electors mt
Large of President and Vice President, and to adj
opt such other measure as the present crisis Of the
country and the interest fthe Wing party may de-
manc. The ratio of representation for the sevsra
towns andcies, in the Convention, will be entitled
10 one delegate, of more than 500 and less than
1000, to two delegates; of more than 1000 and less
than 1000, to four delegates; of more than 1000
and less than 1000 and less than sOoO to ten dele
gates; of more than 5000 and less than 10000, to
twelve delegates. and Of more than 900 to fifteen
delegates. The representation to be based upon
the population Of 1887. BY order Of the State
Committee.
Lincoln telegraph. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1836-1846, 1840-05-28
THE CALAMITY AT NATCIIEZ.

~
The loss of lives by the tornado at
Natchez on the 9TH inst. is estimated in
some of the New Orleans papers at be-
tween 200 and 300.
A numerous meeting was held at New
Orleans on the 9th to aid the sufferers by
the late awful calamity.
We have gathered mostly from the New
Orleans papers, The following additional
particulars The Steamboat st Lawrence
went down. 1t is said that she was lifted
many feet out Of the water and instantly
dashed to the bottom of the river with
every soul on board. The enormous body
of water now rolling in the Mississippi and
swelling to the very topmost limits OF its
banks, was dashed into foaming pillows,
and flatboats were torn to pieces and their
scattered planks flew about in the wind
like feathers. Every church and every
public building shared in the ruin. Stee-
pies were dashed to the earth and houses
all over the town were unroofed.
The steamboat Prairie IS now lying at
the wharftorn to pieces-"blown up" by
wind worse than ever boat was blown up
by steam. The hull and machinery is all
that is left Of her Her cabin was carried
away, floor and all. The wheel house
was un, oofed, and wh.. remains OF the
hoat ;s real aud shattered in an awful man
ner.
from an extra, issued from the shattered
Office Of the Free Trader, we learn that a
public meeting has been held by the citi-
zens in the court house, at which resolu-
tons wore offered, appointing relief COM
minees, &c.
The city Hotel, was thrown open TO the
wounded. DR. Pollard has taken the Ire
mont House for an additional hospital.
From the ruins of the Steamboat Hotel,
Mr.. Alexander the landlord, his lady and
bar keeper, were dug out alive, as also
Timothy Flint, the historian and geogra-
pher, and his son from Natchitoches La,
besides Doctor Talioferro and many others,
Mrs. Alexander is considered dangerously
injured; two of her children were killed in
her arms. As many as nine dead bodies
have been dug from the Steamboat Hotel.
The number of burials which took place
on the 9th inst was about fifty, and many
are still in a dangerous dying condition
From an estimate made by Mr. Rutfner
Lincoln telegraph. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1836-1846, 1840-05-28
FOR THE TELEGRAPH.

Cen bRATIsH is lecturing IN this place wis.
casset) to highly respectable audience, who are
delighted with the manner as well as matter of
his Lectures.
The Gen. is much more noticed and more
cordially received by some of the most respectable
citizens of Maine, (now attending the Supreme
Judicial Court in this place) in consequence of
the base attempts of one HENRY MolLvAirE
to injure him, by writing infamous letters TO
private individuals with view to Obscure those
intellectual endowments he can never initiate.
N. B. the word "respectable' is here inserted for
the special benefit of philadelphia lawyer
whose rare requirements in the enigmatical art,
are second only to those Of another character,
under whose instruction the prosecutors OF so
amiable man Gen. Bratish must have learned
that enviable mode of warfare, of stabbing de-
fenceless man, in the dark. We would say to
the Gen. in the language of his favorite Poet.
"Durum sed levius fl patentia,
Quidquid corrigere est nefas
It's hard but patience must endure.
And sooth the woes il cannot cure"
Thanks to Mr. Neal, for his noble and manly
vindcation ofthis interesting foreigner, and per-
secuted Patriot from the low--the vile attempts
Of those whose only apology is their want of
narrowness Of purpose-fhat little
ness Of soul, which is the almost invariable con-
comitant of envy and Malignity, ~
Lincoln telegraph. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1836-1846, 1840-05-28
"DlSTRESS! DISTRESS :.

If the Editors of the Waldoboro Patriot sup
pose the PRONUNCIATION of facts, through the me-
dunn of their paper, would disturb us in the
slightest degree, they are, for once at least, in
error. So far from being 'disturbed,' we assure
our neighbors of the Patriot, that although such
a novelty as facts in the Lincoln Patriot would
be matter of great surprise to us, yet we should
be as much rejoiced at the occurrence ofsuch an
unlocked for event. as any advocate of truth can
possibly desire. We hope our neighbors will
show some visible signs of reform in this particu-
lsr. Should their sheet be so purged, as to be
made the conveyance of undsguised, unmisti-
fed TRUTH we will hail it as fellow aborer in the
Herculean task of rescuing this fair land from
the band of political free-booters, who now
plunderng the very affairs of liberty. Whilst we
say spread out the facts without stint or meas
ure, we will not deny that we sometimes feel in
dgnant at the attempts made TO os-other the truth,
and deude an honest people.
| II is principle in the tactics Of the sPoILs
! rARrY,-thc party, now trampllng with iron heel,
on the highest interests of this great country, to
attribute every indication of prosperity, in any
branch of trade commerce, directly TO the poll.
cy of their chief, although prosperity and hi
measures generally sworn enemies to each
other. Such feelings must have governed the
Editors of the Patriot, when they proclaimed that
the activity in our foreign commerce, during the
past winter, was owing to the stree trade meas
ures of Mr.. Van Buren," Our exposure of this
senseless fallacy has called forth labored reply
But instead of meeting our arguments fairly, and
attempting to establish their position, they have
abandoned it as untenable, and retreated behind
a cloud of contradictions, false reasoning and
savls1 glorification of that prince of aristocrats
him of Undertook, who has so ndustriously
looked over the Sub-treasury schemes of China,
Spain, Portugal, Turkey and the other despotisms
of the old world, after the best Sub-treasury sys-
tenn for republican America.
Our brother of the PATRIOT opens his article
by telling us
! "That the commercial and manufacturing in
terests of the country were in a state of unex-
ampled prosperity, and that the owners of ships,
Lincoln telegraph. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1836-1846, 1840-05-28

And from other Cotton shipping ports in near
ly the same proportion. The above tables were
taken from the New Orleans Price Current and
Commercial Intelligencer and show a greater
expectation of cotton in 1893 than during any
former year. The Patriotkeeps out of sight the
fact that the price of Gotten has been on the de-
cline for some years past, and by giving the
rnlas only, tries to make j, appear that the crops
have been diminishing in quantity. But the
truth is the cotton crop has increased in quantity
every year, for several years past. The amount
exported tho present year will far exceed that of
any previous year; but the planters will not
realise as much from their present abundance as
they formerly did from much less quantity, on
account of reduction in the price of the article.
Here is surely new order of things-crops
diminishing, ships increasing, freights rising,
and no unusual causes operatng-all brought
about by the gentle and harmonious operation of
Martins "free-trade measures" Now, in all
becoming humility, il appears to us it would
strike most men, that when the quantity to be ex-
ported is least the number ofships to carry it great
est and nothing out of The common course things
to hurry it forward freights win be low; and on the
contrary the larger the crop and the fewer the ships
to carry it, the more pro table to the ship owner.
This is only different statement, with the same
sense, Of that simple and long admitted law in
Political Economy, that prices, no unusual causes
operating, depend on supply and demand But
the eyes of the world are like to be opened at
last. It was left for our philosopher, with few
dashes of his sage pen, to overturn the whole
theory. He has discovered that the reverse of all
this is true-that when there is the most labor to
be performed and the fewest hands to do it, wa
ges will be low. Perhaps, sir, the scientific world
will be anxious to see refutation of Adam Smith,
Say, McCulloch, &c, from your pen.
Lincoln telegraph. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1836-1846, 1840-05-28
WHOM THE PEOPLE REJECT, MARTIN.
VAN BUREN, REWARDS!

john M. NILES, who has but just been de-
feated, as candidate for Governor, by the People
of Connecticut. has been appointed to succeed
Amos Kendall as Post Master General.
c. q. CAMBRELENG. another 'great rejected
of his own people, has likewise been rewarded
by Mr.. Van Buren, for party subserviency while-
member of Congress, by an appointment
Minister to Russia, with salary and outfits, &c.
to the amount of $4,000. A snug little "inci
denial benefit"
Lincoln telegraph. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1836-1846, 1840-05-28
POETRY.
FOR THE TELEGRAPH.

sis any among you afflicted ? let him pray
Ay, let him pray-to heaven alone
Let sorrows prayers arise
Mid earth s poor feeble solaces,
The spirit fants and dies.
Earth hath no balm for the distressed,
For weary souls 40 rest
The troubled pillows of the soul
Heed not her weak behest
But there is one who hears the call
Save or we perish Lord
He whispers, 'peace wild waves hush,
Unmurmnrng, at his word.
On him, whose care is over all
Let every care be cast
Then may the sorrowing, burdened soul
Hopes richest blessings taste.
Oh let Us pray: for God alone
Knows all our wants and cares
He, only, can sustain our feet
Mid trials, griefs, and snares.
Mid every i'll that chequers life,
And clouds our earthly way
When friendships ties are rent by death
Or, by neglect, decay
When confidence and love are spent
Where they are needed not
AS pearls, cast to the thoughtlsss brute.
Are broken and forgot;
When sorrow bows the spirit down
With strong, resistless sway,
Then let us raise the soul from earth
To heaven-oh let US pray
There is in prayer to soothe the soul
What nothing else can give -
Strength it imparts, and soiaee too,
II bids the suppliant live,
And pours the oil and wine Of joy
Within the bleeding hearts,
Heals all its wounds, and gently draws
From thence affection dart
And there are sorrows of the soul
Known butt God alone,
Which in the hearts deep solitude
Are spread before His throne.
Why should we to the careless world
The souls deep woes reveal'
For rather let as go to Him
Whose word, or look, can heal.
All earthly Joy will vanish soon,
1t hasteneth to decay
Would we gain bliss that ceaseth not
Forever-let us pray. II
Lincoln telegraph. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1836-1846, 1840-05-28
FOR THE TELEGRAPH.

It has been said, and guess with some truth,
that certain dignitary--an elector Of President,
when asked about four years ago, for whom he
should vote for Vice President, answered-"Oh we
only vote for Van Buren, and he chooses the Vice
President"
Think the Baltimore Loco Convention hadn't the
same idea2 LISBON.
Lincoln telegraph. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1836-1846, 1840-05-28
GREAT UNNATURAL PHENOMENON.

The late Treaties with Sardinia, Muscat and
Bolivia have caused the building of two
ships and two barques the present season in
Waldoboro'. The lovers Of the marvellous, can
at any time, between this and September, behold
these wonderful ere atoms of treaty power.
Lincoln telegraph. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1836-1846, 1840-05-28
The Earl of Mnlpraye fson Of the Ma

The Earl of Mulgrave (son Of the Mar
quis of Normandy arrived in Washington.
on Sunday last, the bearer Of dispatches
to the British Minister.
Since the above was in type. we learn.
that the accounts we published in our last
of proposition for an adjustment ofour
NJ E. Boundary question, is most probably,
sheer humbug!
Lincoln telegraph. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1836-1846, 1840-05-28

and S. J, Boyd, Esqrs.. the total loss is
supposed TO be about 81 geo, 900.
The neighboring planters are generous
ly sending in large gangs of slaves TO as
sst in clearing the streets and digging the
dead from the ruins.
Lincoln telegraph. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1836-1846, 1840-05-28

An inquest held in New London, on the
2lst inst, on the body of Captain Malcom, of
the sch Edward, of Wiscasset-an account of
whose death we published on Saturday-ahd the
jury rendered verdict of accidental death, by
being crushed between the boom and quarter
rail. in consequence of the breaking of the top
ping lift at the mainmast head. Captain NAL
com was of Dresden, Maine, aged about thirty
years, and has left wife and two children.
Boston Post.
Lincoln telegraph. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1836-1846, 1840-05-28

Our advices from Congress- present nothing
materially important The locos appear deter
mined to force the Sub-treasury through, without
discussion, as to it's merits. They choose dark
ness because their deeds are evil We shall
see.
Lincoln telegraph. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1836-1846, 1840-05-28

The Kennebec Journal has published a cheap
and very useful edition of the "Life of Harri-
SON. comprising 80 closely printed pages small
type. at the low price of $3.50 per hundred
cash,
Lincoln telegraph. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1836-1846, 1840-05-28

THE U. S. TROOPS. We learn that these
troops were not ordered to the Disputed Territory
after all. The information given in our paper WAS
given upon the highest authority and after careful
inquiry. The mistake grew cut Of the confu-
sion of certain CIVIL and military eunctiOnaries.
[Age.
How is it? Did Gen Eustis make the proposal
to Gov. Fairfield or not'r Did Gov Fairfield ac-
cept the otfer!?' Did Gem Epstis back ou,?-and
why?--Where is the mistake. Who are the civil
and military fanctionares2?-Or was i, Sir John
Harvey that limited that the thing must not be un-
dertaken, the peril of HerMajesty displeasure'
win not the Age publish the official Correspon-
dence between Gov. Fairfield, Gen. Eusts, and the
Secretary ofWar at Washington
1.-THE whole should come to light, we should
have a strange s:ory.-We know the particulars
ofthis affair." and must do Gov Fairfield the jnstice
to say that he was not treated with the considera
ton that chief Magistrate hada right to- expect
Gen. Eustis, either was very much Mistaken OF
very much frightened by Sir John Harvey, or
MIR Poinsett and President Van Buren,, changed
their opinion very suddenly! We could say some
thing about the last ''pacifc" news from England.
We wish Peace-we hope for Peace-but we do
not believe that this question will be settled, either
as quick, or as peaceaby as some people suppose.
But we must be rather diplomatic in our oommuni--
cations. Behind the curtain an afterpiece is play
ed, which is Farce, but which may turn into
Tragedy, when least expected. o. p. @.
Lincoln telegraph. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1836-1846, 1840-05-28

The Tornado at Watcher. The editor OF the
Vicksburgh Wing estimates the number who lost
their lives at Natchez, at one thousGndi and the.
amount of property destroyed at $4,000 600.
Lincoln telegraph. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1836-1846, 1840-05-28

The Supreme Judicial Court. is now in sessio .
at Wiscasset-ali the Judges present.
Lincoln telegraph. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1836-1846, 1840-05-28

MISSING We are sorry to state that we have
had no tidngs of particular friend John Smith
since he arrived at New York in the Great
Western from England We fear he has been
waylaid, and robbed and murdered. IF any of
our brother editors hear of his being any where
IN their "dggins, they will confer a favor on his
numerous friends in all parts of the world and
"elsewhere," by publishing of his whereabouts.
[Boston Transcript.
The last we heard of the above named gentle
man, he was reckoning up the sum total of the
late Pan Bureu GAL. in the "popu'ar vote of
Virginia. We suspect it won't come out right.
Lincoln telegraph. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1836-1846, 1840-05-28

Two articles of Original Poetry are necessarily
postponed
Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1840-07-30

The following case is stated in the Nation
al 1ntelligencer of late date. 1t surely cam
not be that Congress can pass a criminal law,
and yet that its members may violate such
law with impunity, under any plea of privi-
lege
| A NUT FOR THE LAwYERs.-A curious
case has occurred within few days past
which has given rise to much discussion i'm
this city.
On the 18th July, 1888, Congress passed
SAN act to restrain the circulation of small
''notes as currency in the District of Co
''lumbia, and for other purposes"
Under that act several of our citizens have
been indicted, and one of them has been
found guilty, and judgment has been passed
upon him in several cases.
The act provides that if arg person shall
uioIate its provisions. the person so offending
shall be liable to indictment by the Grand Ju-
ry of the county within the District where
the offence shall have been committed, and
on conviction thereofbe fined in sum not ex-
ceeding fifty dollars, at the discretion of the
Court, for every offence.
On M onday, the 9th of July, 1910, infor-
nation, under oath, was laid before Justice
OF the Peace in this city, that ALEXANDER
DUNCAN Member of Congress, from the
State of Ohio, who it is said, voted for the
law, had, on Friday previous, passed as cur
rency to citizen of Washington note of
less denomination than fire dollars, and the note
was produced and exhibited to the Justice.
and he issued warrant for the apprehension
of Duncan. The next day, the warrant not
having been served, the Justice recalled it,
and since refused to issue it on the ground
that, as Member Of Congress is privileged
from arrest, except in cases of treason, felony,
and breach of the peace, Duncan was not liza
BILE to arrest. 1t is understood that such is
the opinion of eminent counsel, who have been
consulted on the subject.
The case presents this strange anomaly
that Congress can pass laws creating offences
unhno,On 10 The common lar, punish them by
fne, and imprisonment to enforce that fine, J
and be exempt themselves from the operafion of
Their ooon criminal iaWS. Can this be so -
How does this affect the dueling law or the
law against obtaining goods or property by
false pretences, or the gaming laws1 Will
any gentleman conversant with such matters
be good enough to define felony, so that it
may be understood what's meant by the term
as used in the Constitution And also to
state what is breach of the peace as there
usedl
These are important considerations. The
questions are not put in any captious spirit.
but with a sincere desire to ascertain thelaw.
Ii that be such as may be inferred from this
case, 1t is high time for US to begin to think
OF remedy Tor great and crying evil.
Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1840-07-30

At a meeting of the Churchville Tippeca-
noe Club, held on Saturday the 25th july
On motion of Capt. Holland, it was unani-
mously Resolved,
lst. That John b. Baldwin, Esq. and Mai.
Charles II. Lewis, be solicited to deliver adj
dresses to this Club on the third Saturday in
August next, and that our Wing brethren
throughout the county be cordially invited to
attend and participate in the meeting.
I'd. That our fellow-citizens, who are poll
tically opposed to us, be invited to attend the
said meeting, and that an opportunity be af-
forled them of discussing the pretensions of
their candidate for the presidency.
On motion of Mr.. Lewis, it was unani-
mously Resolved, That, in the opinion of this
Club, the thanks of the Wings of Angus
ia, are due to VIM. Kinney, Esq. President
of the Central Tippecanoe Club. for his zeal
Gus and efficient labours in behalf of the Wing
cause, and that he be respectfully solicited to
address this Club at its next meeting, or at
any other time that may suit his convenience.
On motion of Mr.. Cochran,
Resolved, That, this Club do now adjourn
to meet at this place on Saturday the 18th of
August, at ii o'clock, A. M.
II. STERRETT, Pres't.
r. II. HoLLBND. Sec'ry.