The North-Carolina standard., 1850-06-12
THE GALPHIN CLAIM.

should receive money from the public treasury. From
l7ss to ls4O constantly, his heirs tried to make the
State of Georgia pay them this $43,5ls. Georgia,
they said, took the lands the British Crown held in
trust; Georgia stood in British Shoes and Georgia,
therefore, was the debtor. For sixty odd years the
GalPhins always pressed their claim as debt OF
Georgia. Somebody, in 1898, attempted to bribe
John Ross, the Cherokee chietain, and to get him to
insert this claim in the then pending, afterwards the
New Echoa treaty, but Ross spurned the brbe. John
RIDGE therefore, in 1885, got to make the treaty
The Galphin claim was put in. The Senate struck
it out: ayes 26; noes 10. only. Nobody knows what
John Ridge was paid for this Gaphin article in the
treaty, because the United States struck it out and
the consideration failed. 1t is than probable,
however, that John Ross was broken down, and John
Ridge bolstered up, because of Rosss refusal to
ognlze this claim, or to make treaty with tin.
Well, on Saturday night about O'Clock, in the
hottest weather Of August ls4s. the Galphin claim
got through the House of Representatives of the Uni
ted States! When Georgia would not paw, and for
60 odd years, had repudiated, Uncle Sam was tried,
successfully tried, this hot Saturday night, August
18th, ls49, as Congress in hot haste aaourning.
whole raft Of claims went through that memorable
night,-with not one word said about this, no ayes
and noes-but all in silence, the bargain being, that
if one was objected to, the whole raft would 60
the dam.
The claim then for the first time made sc Law {"
of was to be examined by Mr.. Secretary Walker,
adjusted under the treaty of I773 and if found all
right, "pad.'' Mr. Walker never examined it, never
'adjusted" it under the Treaty of l773-but paid
it'' on the certificate the British crown given May
I'd. l775, viz: ,5ls, Feb 2sth. 1e49 just Mr..
Walker was going out of Office, and Gen. Taylor
coming in; all this was done in haste and hurry,
without any examination as required by law.
The principal of the claim being thus settled to be
by Mr.. Walker, 1858, which the Galphns were
delighted enough to get Of course, the next thing
to fix the interest, from May 3D. ITS, that prnci
pal The principal was tride. when it was pocket
od md tho inforo sxh
looked at the big bundle of papers, did not like their
size, and turned all of them his Comptroller
of the Treasury, Elisha Whittlesey. Elisha read
them all, through and through; the only man that
ever did read them till this resurrection day of the
Galphins in the House of Representatives. Elisha
pronounced the principal rotten and the interest
rotten if possible than the principal. Elisha put
black mark on the big bundle, and sent it back to
Mr.. Meredith. But the Galphins were not to be foil
ed so easily; and no wonder, after their Saturday
being importuned, sent them to the Attorney General
for his I" advice " and opinon.' Mr.. Johnson did
not read them, Elisha did, through and through ;
for if he had, he would have seen that among Mr..
Crawford's Georgia friends" the most interested
was no less parsonage than the Secretary at War
himself, who had $4,000 invested in the claim
Mr.. Johnson rubbed out Elisha's black mark, and
painted the whole thing up bright and beautiful
Mr.. Meredith, having more confidence in Reverdy,
the Magnificent, than in Elisha, the JUST ordered the
interest ($lsl ,s52( paid; and $ll5ooo have glided
into Mr.. Crawford's pocket.
This is the Galphin story. We, too, have tried
hard, with other Whig editors, to take it down as
Wing principle" but it choked US; and we should
die If we did not print this much about it. We beg
to be excused for thinking the Wings honest
party, and intend to maintain only honest and honor
able transactions. N. Y. Ezpress, (Whig.)
PERsIsrENcY OF FAMILY FEATURES. 1t is we'll
known that personal pecuiarties of all kinds, defects
as well beauties, casts of features and train of
preston, transmitted from parents to their chill
dren. Sometimes the reproduction of face and figure
in the child seems almost perfect. Sometimes the
face is borrowed from parent, and form of head
or of some of the limbs, from the other. Occasionally
there is remarkable blending of the two throughout
the carriage of the head of the mode of walking
are transmitted. and family voice is nearly as COM
mon marvel as family face.
In the royal family of England, certain fulness
in the lower and lateral parts of the face is conspicu
in the portraits of the whole series of soveregns
from George l. to Victoria. 1t has been equally
in other members of the family. The Duke of Cum
beEland, who figured at Culloden, presents generally
the same visage several of the sons of William
Nv. The ephysiognomy may be traced back to Sophia,
the mother of George l. how much further, we can
not tell 1t is equally certain that thickness of the
under lip, peculiar to the imperial family of Austria,
maria Lousia is said be characterized by i) has
been hereditary in the since marriage some CEN
turleS ago with the FOlSh mouse OF Jagellon nence
it came.
When Mr.. w lillian Hewitt visited Stratford ION
Avon, in order to write respecting the places connect
ed with Shakespeare, the schoolmaster informed him
that descendant OF near relation OF the poet was
one of his pupils. He marshalled his laddish troop
in row." says Mr.. Howtt ''and said to me, There,
now, sir, can you tell which is a Shakspeare!' =
glanced my eye along the line, and quickly fixing it
on one boy, said, That is the Shakespeare You
right. said the master, that is the Shakespeare
the Shakespeare cast of countenance is there that
is William Shakespeare Smith, ineal descendant of
the poets sister, The lad, continues Mr.. Hewitt,
ss was fine lad of perhaps ten years of age; and
certainly the resemblance of the bust of Shakespeare,
in the church Stratford, is wonderful considering
he is not descedent from Shakespeare himself, but
from his sister, and that the seventh in descent What
is odd enough, whether it be mere accident not,
the color of the lads eyes, light hazel is the same
as that given to those of the Shakespeare bust which
it is well known was originally colored. and of which
exact copies remain" E9 II. ~
Not Only have we such facts as the prevalent tall.
ness in the inhabitants of Potsdam where Frederick
l. assembled his regiment Of longitudinal guards and
strong infusion Of Spanish features in the people
the county of Galway, In which some centuries ago
several Spanish settlements were made but are
assured by Major Bevan, that he could distinguish
the several castles in India BY their pecularites o
countenance !; and the Jews are the same people ir
Egyptian entablatures Of three thousahd years ago
as they are in some countries at the present day.
is now engaged in extensive lumber mills in Wis
consn.