Arkansas intelligencer., 1843-04-29
18th Of October, 1889, designed to burden the
General Government with the debts of the States.

debts, is the reputation Of State debts, and there.
fore, that none but the friends of reputation are
in favor of assumption.
Resolved, That Mississippi is under no obliga-
ton 10 pay five millions Of State bonds issued by
the State to the Union Bank, and forming the cap.
ital of the bank, and signed also by Cove rnor
McNutt, because, in the opinion of the Senate,
the State received no other benefits from the exis-
tence of the bank than various loans made for
the support of the State, and for the advancement
OF the interests Of spectators, sarpefs and swind-
| lers.
Resoiued, Therefore, that Mississippi, in the
name of the Union, repudiates these bonds /; and,
10 the language4Sf her Governor, prefers war to
their payment. ~
BY Ma. M'DuFFIE, OF SOUTH cARoLINA.
Resolved, That all banks, tariffs, and manufac.
lures, are but the miserable contrivances Of man
to supersede the great laws Of nature and that it
is the duty of the people to rely upon natural
remedies for the correction of existing evils.
Resoloed, That the Government is not bound.
and is not called upon to do any thing for the re-
lief OF the people, that to attempt It, would be
but 10 increase the embar rrassmens already exist.
ing, and that, in the opinion Of this body, re
ance upon nature would work out radical md
| timely cure.
Resolred, That to protect domestic manufac-
lures is to impose burdens upon commerce, and
consume
ton OF the foreign than of the domestic manufac.
turer.
BY MIR RlvEs, OF VIRGINIA.
Resolved, In the opinion Of the American Sen.
ATE that Lord Byron, in swimming from Sestos to
abyGos did not perform so grca. a feat as Lean
der, because the difficulty was greater in SWIM
ming from the Asiatic to the European Shore than
from the European to the Asiatic, on account of
Inc greater resistance of the current.
Resolved, In the opinion Of the American, Sem
ate, that Oliver Cromwell YVES justified in meeting
Charles II in battle and in claiming to be Protec-
tor for iite--that his courage and wisdom display
ed in Ireland and England upon various trying oc.
casions, eminenty entitled him to the head of the
British Government. and that the hanging Of his
remains at Tyburn, two years after his natural
death at Whitehall, was a cruel, wantou, and un.
precedented act of atrocity.
ReSoired, In our opinion, that The diminished
receipts from customs OF the United Sates is in
consequence Of the Mgh duties of the late tariff.
and that the diminished and still decreasing re-.
ceipts Of the British Government from customs is
IN consequence Of the recommendation of free
trade, and the diminution Of high rerenue duties
10 the country.
Resolped Therefore, that we have the most pro.
found confidence in the lately promulgated views
OF Sir Robert Peel, touching the policy of this
Government: as to its own modes of revenue, and
what should be the extent Of its protection 10 the
home interests.
Resolred, That in the opinion of this Senate,
the brethren OF Joseph, in selling their brother to
the lshmaeites, for twenty pieces of silver and in
conspirng his deatl., interfered with the natural
rights of Joseph, were guilty Of designed murder,
and were in after time justly subjected to the
clemency Of their younger brother.
Resolred, Further, in the opinion of the Senate,
hnf ,h,,oac th. 1c l..
Egyptian god Apis, was guilty of most sacre.
gious act, and that the mortal wound ho had acci.
dentally given himself with his sword in the same
place where he had wounded the Egyptian deity,
offences.
The Cold Wafer Punishmenl.-T Baltimore
American says the cold water punishment, which
was introduced in the Auburn State Prison of
New York, last April, has been attended with the
moat satisfactory results. 1t consists in the effi1.
sion OF "od water upon the naked head and bod y |
Of the disobedlent and refractory convict he be.
ing at the time in good health. The water is
applied at temperature, varying from So to 50
degrees Fahrenheit. The applications are repeat.
cd with suitable breathing and speaking interms.
sions, till tho obstinacy of the convict is subdued
and reformation promised. In no instance has il
been injurious to health on the contrary its effect
on the ratio of deaths has, within the last wear.
been one to one hundred, while at Sing Sing,
where the practice has not been introduced, the |
ratio has been five to one hundred.
DR.. J. P. Pitney, the medical officer of the |
prison, in his report says:
''lhe GOODNESS OF these water applications can
be so graduated by the Thermometer, with the ad-
dtion of ice or snow, combined with more head
an consequently force Of water, with pipe or
outlet of from half an inch to one inch in di. |
ameter, MS to produce a shock and dread. which
would punish sufficiently, and subJue the mos.
powesfui, refractory and obstinate convict in any
State Prison; and that without endangering. in |
the slightest degree. his life and health, provided
the application shall be Of very short duration, say
from half minute to two minutes.''
The cold water punishment has been practised
in the Massachusetts, State Prison for about two
years, with entire success, and to the almost total
exclusion OF severe and inhuman modes of punish
ment. IN
Csrs for Cossnmpf iOn.-The following COM
munication, says the North American, comes
from . source entitled to the fullest confidence :
Messrs Editors "A letter from distinguish