myself of the occasion to add, that I regard an oppo- | bor, have been sold to Captain Robert Hugunin, of Naral. The United States vessels at Sackett's Har Oswego, who will break them up, and remove the materials to Oswego. ship, dated off the Western Islands, say that she has The North Carolina. Letters from on board this proved herself as fine a vessel as ever floated. command of capt. Navaio, arrived at New York from The Colombian frigate Venezuela, of 32 guns, under Carthagena, on Sunday last, and exchanged salutes with the fort on Governor's Island. She is the bear [To the editor of the City Gazette.] SIR: Recognising, distinctly, the right of any citi-er of a messenger with despatches to our government, zen to ascertain the sentiments of those placed in the containing a ratification of the late treaty, &c. situation of candidates for their suffrages, on all questions of public interest, I readily answer the question of "A Voter," in your paper of yesterday, Whether I am opposed to the present administration?" At the last session of the legislature, as one of the senators from Charleston, I attended a meeting, the object of which was to determine on a candidate for the presidency. I gave my vote for general Jackson, because I believed that the majority of my constituents were in his favor; and I thought that every personal preference of my own, if I had any, should yield to that consideration. The election having terminated, according to the provisions of the constitution, in favor of Mr. Adams, I thought, and still hope that the minority will acquiesce nor can I conceive upon what grounds a virtuous man could declare war, in advance, against an administration, the only aim of which must be the public good, and the punishment of which, should they attempt otherwise, is safe in the hands of an honest and enlightened people. Long personal knowledge and public observation of Mr. Adams' character and conduct, have convinced me of his ardent purity and patriotism, and render it impossible that I can have any prejudices against his untried administration. Your obedient servant, WM. CRAFTS. [Mr. Drayton has been elected, by a considerable majority.] CHRONICLE. morning of the 17th inst. pulled down three or four A mob, in one of the eastern towns, at 2 o'clock in the ing too strong for them, they set it on fire, and thus disframe houses, and attacked a brick one, which, provlodged the tenants of all! This is mentioned only to ask, if such events happened in Baltimore, what would the charitable and orderly people of some of our cities have said about it? Such things will happen, in every country and in the best regulated communities, and it does not become any one to imprecate a whole society for the sudden and unanticipated actions of an inconsiderate or vicious few. on the 16th inst. col. Thomas Barbour, (father of the Died, at Barboursville, in the state of Virginia, present secretary of war), in the 90th year of his age, He was an ardent whig of the revolution, and, except which he reached without fear and without reproach. his venerable contemporary, Mr. Jefferson, was the last survivor of the members of the house of burgesagainst the stamp act in which the revolution began. ses of Virginia, which, in 1769, made the first protest seph McCracken, aged 89 years. He was a gallant in Salem, Washington county, N. Y. col. Josoldier of the revolution, and lost an arm by a cannon ball at Monmouth. the 107th year of her age, was lately baptised in the Baptism. Cumber Green, a colored woman, in Roman catholic church, at York, Pennsylvania. She is said to be in good health and of sound intelleet. Fishing. On Saturday week there were one hunThe fishing was principally for mackerel. One boat dred and one fishing boats lying at anchor at Cape May. caught upwards of sixty barrels of this fish in one day barrels per day. -the boats were averaging from twenty-five to thirty It was an error in our last to say that Mr. Willey was elected a senator of the United States. It is true, that he had a very large majority in the house of representatives-114 to 50, the highest of his opponents, and Mr. Lanman only 4 votes: but in the senate, which has a concurrent vote, the third stood thus-for Lan-in Worcester, Massachusetts, much of it meadow, Effect of a canal in prospect. Thirteen acres of land, man 6, Willey 3, Stoddard 2. been made in Connecticut. Thus no choice has which the owner offered last year for $1,500, sold a Mr. Rush, it is understood, has accepted the few days ago for eight thousand. appointment of secretary of the treasury, and is soon expected to return to the United States. at Plymouth from Rio de Janeiro. On the 30th DecThe slave trade. The Accession, Roddam, arrived Lewis Shoemaker, of Pennsylvania, has been appoint-in the water, and abandoned by the crew; but a numin lat. 20, lon. 30, fell in with a brig, with her masts ed by the president, to be consular commercial agent of the United States at Matanzas, in place of Francis Adams, deceased. ber of blacks were holding by the starboard fore chains and cat-head. The A. took thirty-one off the Com. Porter. The naval court of inquiry, appoint-brig was about 200 tons burden, and appeared to be wreck, and ten from the inside of the vessel. The ed to investigate the conduct of com. Porter, having concluded the business before them, and reported the facts to the navy department, adjourned, on Tuesday last, sine die. Mr. Simpson, of the Park theatre, New York, lately received 1900 dollars on his benefit night. The state bank at Trenton, N. J. has exploded. Its bills are now selling at Baltimore at 50 or 60 per cent. discount. We apprehend some grand rascality in this business, (for the amount of which an hundred little rogues would be sent to a penitentiary), from the fact that very large quantities of the bills of this bank bave lately been strangely forced into circulation in this city, and, perhaps, further south. They were new bills, fresh from the manufactory. laden with palm oil; and the blacks stated that the crew left her when she became water logged. The Accession arrived at Bahia on the 12th of February, sage), who were given into the hands of government. and landed thirty-nine, (two having died on the pas that col. McKee arrived there on the 7th instant, Pensacola, April 23. From Tallahassee, we learn, who is authorized, by the president of the United States, to select a township of land for LAFAYETTE Florida, which took place on the first Monday of this The sale of the lots in Tallahassee, the capital of month, amounted to about forty-five thousand dollars; and it is supposed they would have brought much more, had not the rain rendered the roads unfit for travelling previous to the day of sale. PRINTED BY WILLIAM OGDEN NILES, AT THE FRANKLIN PRESS, WATER-STREET, EAST OFSOUTH-STREET THIRD SERIES. No. 14-VOL. IV.] BALTIMORE, JUNE 4, 1825. THE PAST-THE PRESENT-FOR THE FUTURE. [VOL. XXVIII. WHOLE NO. 716 EDITED AND PUBLISHED BY H. NILES, AT $5 PER ANNUM, PAYABLE IN ADVANCE. TREATY WITH COLOMBIA. The ratification of a every project to avoid the honest payment of ones general convention of peace, amity, navigation, and debts, it is presumed that I have joined "the conspiracommerce, between the United States of America and cy against democratic whig principles," though I had the republic of Colombia, concluded and signed at no apprehension that any such conspiracy now exBogota, on the 3d day of October last, by Mr. Rich-isted in Kentucky, or elsewhere in the United States. and C. Anderson, minister plenipotentiary of the United States in that capital, and don Pedro Gaul, secretary of state for foreign affairs, were exchanged at Washington on the 28th instant, by Mr. Daniel Brent, chief clerk of the department of state, on the part of the United States, and don Jose Maria Salazar, envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary, on the part of his government. It is not at all necessary to repel this insinuation, nor shall I return railing with railing. I frankly confess, that I am ignorant of what is the "present system" in Kentucky, of which the writer speaks, for I had almost thought that there was no system at all in regard to the things referred to:-so it is very possible that, as to some of the facts, I may have been led into error by what was stated in various newspapers, though of as good authority, perhaps, as this anonyGEN. LAFAYETTE. The Kentucky papers give us mous essay-but I must believe that the general refull accounts of the reception of the nation's guest marks, as to the operation of the banking and relief at Frankfort, Lexington, &c. The general must have laws, are correct-for the reason that they have always had a busy time of it, for the period of his stay was produced the calamitous results which were mentionshort, and the people of Kentucky were not to be out- ed. 'Cato,' however, asserts that the present bank has done by those of any other state in demonstrating been of "great public utility”—if 30, I am really glad the respect they entertained for him. After visiting of it; but I must be permitted to doubt what he says, some other places on the Ohio river, he will have rapidly to proceed towards Boston, that he may be there in season to lay the corner stone of the monument to be erected on Bunker's hill. After which he will return to Washington city, to take leave of his friends there, (and on the journey to and fro), that he may embark for France about the 15th August. He will then have spent about a year among us-such a year as never before marked the life of a man. As mentioned in the last REGISTER, a pretty full account of what has happened at different places, with many of the addresses, &c. shall be recorded. The papers are carefully preserved for the purpose. General Lafayette arrived at Cincinnati on the 19th ult. escorted by gov. Desha, of Kentucky, and many other gentlemen, and was received by gov. Morrow. The proceedings had were highly interesting, and he was welcomed, as usual, to the "hearts and homes" of the people. Five hundred free masons were present when he visited the lodge-and 1,500 children of the Sunday schools marched in procession. A great number of people were assembled. He has since been at Brownsville, Union Town, New Geneva, (to visit Mr. Gallatin), and other places. He was expected at Pittsburg on Tuesday last, from whence it is said that he would take the direction of the lakes, and proceed down the Erie canal, the borders of which will be lined with a grateful population. or only to receive it as an exception to an almost universal principle. And he adds, what is really pleasing intelligence, that the circulation of its paper is regu larly reduced-that its calls are not re-loaned, and "that unless the people shaH continue this bank with a specie capital sufficient to bring its notes to par, that, in a few years, there will not be one state bank in existence in Kentucky." The writer uses rough words because I spoke of the notes of the Bank of the Commonwealth as being a "legal tender;" yet I think that the replevin laws made them so, by their ex post facto interference between debtor and creditor. But these it seems were so amended, last year, as not to have reference to contracts made after the passage of the amendatory act. This is a large advance in the way of improve ment, and no one will rejoice more than I shall, when Kentucky is relieved of all her relief laws-when she shall resume her former march in population and power; when her people shall become what by soil and climate they ought to be, among the happiest and most wealthy of this happy republic. But my belief is, that this highly favored district of our country would have contained at least 100,000 more persons than it now does, if the banking and relief laws had never been passed. This, to be sure, is only a matter of opinion-but it is one that is strongly corroborated by other opinions long since entertained and expressed in the REGISTER "Cato" makes a grand flourish about the case of a FLOUR. The ship Potosi, Baldwin, in 36 days from Cadiz, arrived at New York on Saturday. Letters re-person who is said to have been "legally murdered" ceived by her state that the ports of Spain were not opened, for flour, and that the grain crops had been much improved by late rains. The crops of wheat in Chili are spoken of as so exceedingly large that 150 lbs. of that grain might be had for 75 cents. The ports are glutted with flour. KENTUCKY. Some days since, among many newspapers received from this state, and well filled with ardent articles on its local politics, I found, in the "Kentucky Gazette," a piece signed "Cato," and beaded "H. Niles of Baltimore," which, of course, attracted attention, and I read it without much admiration of the temper with which it was written. It is in reply to some remarks in this work of the 9th April, about "money manufactories and relief laws;" and it seems that, because I have been consistent in my opposition to the paper banking business and VOL. XXVIII.-14. in Baltimore, by being confined for debt, and so triumphs in the law of Kentucky by which imprisonment for it is abolished. Though I would not alter the law as to past transactions, that fraudulent persons may be constrained to do justice, I will go farther than this as to the future, and so prevent such individuals from obtaining credit. I would repeal all the laws that have relation to the forcible collection of debts, and thus place credit on the safer and more honorable ground of an honest reputation, being that on which millions of money pass from hand to hand, every day, as temporary accommodations or short loans. These loans are punctually repaid, and so common debts would be, if built upon the same rcsponsible principle. However, from much observation and a great deal of melancholy experience, 1 have long since resolved that there is much more to bu feared from no-hearted debtors than hard-hearted q ditors. I have myself been as miserably poor as almost any man ever was rendered by the bad acts of others--but, among numerous creditors, never found more than one or two that were not rather disposed to help me, by furnishing new accommodations, than to harrass and destroy me, because of their old claims. It was my good fortune to make them believe that I would pay them as soon as I could, and so it was their interest to assist me, to say nothing as to what humanity might have dictated, had not interest pointed out their true policy on the occasion. It ought to be in the power of every honest man to furnish reasonable evidence of his honesty-and if any such do suffer, they are not as one to an hundred of equally honest men who are injured or ruined by dishonest debtors, over whom no other law than that of force has any power. of counties, (arbitrary districts of land), and not of persons, liable to be called into the service of the state, or of property, to pay taxes. The democratie states of Maryland and Virginia have, practically, the most aristocratical constitutions of any in the union, and a small minority of the people legitimately govern in both. The present constitution is maintained in Maryland by the simple operation of power, in the small counties-no one pretends to reason in favor of the system-but it is not the less likely to continue on that account. In Virginia, however, there is much of argument in support of the present constitution. Those possessing the power of the state are doing "very well," and will "let very well alone," as long as they can. Yet they are rapidly reducing the comparative power of the state by it. A little while since, The writer too says that I have "lost cast" for ex- and Virginia was at the head of the states-now, as to pressing some doubts concerning the propriety of legis-an effective population, she holds only a fourth rank; lating the judges out of office, because they believed, and, for a combined operation of population and what almost every man out of Kentucky believes, wealth, no more than a filth. It is of no sort of impor that certain acts of the legislature were illegal and tance to me, as a citizen of the U. States, whether Ma ought to be void. The case between the Democratic ryland and Virginia advance or recede in population and Federal party in 1802, as referred to by "Cato," and power, provided the general progress of either has no sort of relation to the present state of things is not affected by such special cases-but it is, more in Kentucky. The judiciary act, passed by the latter, or less, the nature of every operation which depresses (as we believed, at the time, to nurture and rally the people of a particular section of country to intheir political principles), was repealed by the form-jure the whole, when all have a common interest in er, as being useless and unnecessary-(though it is probable that, from the increase of population and business, we shall soon have to resort to something like it to relieve the judges of the supreme court, and the court itself, from the excessive pressure that there is upon them and it-so much so as almost to amount to a "denial of justice," in many cases, and only for the want of time to investigate them): but in Kentucky the system seems to have been preserved, though the judges were dismissed, and without an impeachment. or Virginia. But I have said there are arguments used in support of the present constitution of Virginia, though we have no reasonings in favor of that of Maryland. The following, copied from the "Norfolk Herald," is offered as a specimen: the happiness of all: and, though other states may receive the population which leaves those just named and others-still, the amount of the national force may be diminished by the want of that prosperity and content in those who remain, which caused so many of their fellow-citizens to abandon the homes of their fathers and seck profitable employment and political rights in new situations, unless the states, throwing out their inhabitants, are so densely peopled that there is not space for their enterprize or scope enough left for the exertion of their industry-which, Now, it is rather severe that I should be thus charg-certainly, cannot be supposed to exist in Maryland ed with having lost my cast, when the fact is notorious to every reader of this paper, that I have always been opposed to the doctrine of infallibility in judges, and contended that they should be held responsible to the people for their opinions, so far as to dismiss them, if thought proper. That the people ought to have this power, I have no manner of doubt; but "The land of steady habits. This appellation has bcthey should not hastily take it up, or use it, in seasons longed to the state of Connecticut, time out of mind. of temporary excitement. Our feelings may materi-We think, however, that Virginia has the best claim ally change in an hour-but the law must not be to it, at least, in a political point of view: In our nade to depend on our feelings. There are estab-late congressional elections, out of sixteen candiJished principles which affect others as well as our-dates for re-election, fifteen were re-elected. We selves, and before these are broken down, due time do not believe that a similar incident can be cited, as should be allowed for reflection. And I an free to having occurred in any other state, since the federal confess, whether it be to join "the conspiracy against union. It is the pride of Virginia, that, in matters of democratic whig principles," or not, that I would national concern, they have seldom failed to think, rather have the judges covered with the mantle of in-speak and act as one: that their state has ever been fallibility, as it may be practically said that they are a stranger to faction; that their elections, however at present, than subject them and the established laws closely contested, have been conducted with the of the land, to the discretion of ordinary legislation—strictest propriety. Is it required to be told how it unless the legislators should be men very different in- is that Virginia enjoys this enviable distinction? We deed, from the body of those with whom I have been would answer, because the right of suffrage is limit acquainted as such; persons superior to the influence ed to the freehold qualification. Experience admoof their passions. nishes us that universal suffrage would change the sober steady habits of the old dominion, and make VIRGINIA. A great deal is now said in this state-her, at once, a mad-cap and a termagant; not knowand, indeed, something seems to be doing, as to the ing her mind for half a minute, and playing such call of a convention to revise and amend the consti- strange pranks as to forfeit all the respect and contution. Very respectable meetings of the people have sideration she had ever acquired. Is it among the been held at several places, at which strong com- changes contemplated by a convention, to barter the mittees were appointed to direct and superintend mea- freehold qualification for universal suffrage? If it is, sures to bring it about. That there is room enough for then we must say, let us have no convention. Better amendment, we think, cannot be doubted; and we, endure the imperfections of our constitution to eterof Maryland, are much interested in the progress of nity, than seek to remedy them by so great a sacrijust and liberal principles in Virginia, under a hope fice." that we also may get rid of the farce of representa tion to which we are subjected:--a representation Every reader of this work will recollect, that it has been uniformly opposed to those frequent changes The National Intelligencer, however, suggests. that the Arabian story may be an old tale, as something very much like it was told to capt. Paddock, of the Oswego, as far back as 1500. TONNAGE. The domestic tonnage that entered the United States during the year which ended 30th September last, was $50,033; and that which departed 919, 278 tons. The foreign tonnage which entered and departed was about 102,500-of which 67,357 was British, 10,173 French, 8,630 Hanse Towns, 4,452 Spanish, 3,132 British, 3,112 Swedish 2,188 South American, 1,226 Portuguese, 738 Danish, 621 Italian, 83 Haytien and 661 uncertain. which take place in the delegations of some of the supposed to have been the fate of the gallant Blakely states to the congress of the United States, for rea- and his gallant crew. sons which have been freely assigned-but error may be as easily committed on the other extreme. If, in the first case, there may not be time enough allowed to enable the representative to understand, as he ought, the public affairs committed to his charge-so, on the other hand, it is very possible that, by being too long in the public service, he may adopt a set of opinions in enmity to the best interests of the people, to whom it is right that every one should occasionally return, that he may be instructed. But admitting, in its fullest extent, the wisdom of thus perpetuating the power of a state, (in congress), in the hands of particular persons-that which is praised as being the cause of it, might well be so extended as to recommend a body of hereditary legislators, like the house of lords in England-or at least, the establishment of a liberty-loving and liberal set of them, such as the bench of bishops-created by the king, but holding only a life-estate in the business of making the laws! If the principle is good, it must "go through;" and Alexander, of Russia, who is the greatest of all "freeholders," ought to have the best and wisest government in the world. WATER POWer. It was mentioned, some time ago, that the water power, within a semi-circle of 20 miles, with Baltimore as the centre, was equal to 1,613,000 spindles-a friend, a few days since, gave the following account of the mills which are actually at work on the principal streams, the most distant of which is 23 miles from this city. On the Patapsco 49; the Great Gunpowder 42; Gwynn's Falls 21; Jones' Falls 23; Herring Run 7. Many of these are very large estabTHE WASP Sloop of war, captain Blakely, was re-lishments. The mills on the Little Gunpowder, which markably successful in annoying the British during are numerous, were not stated. the late war, and also captured one sloop belonging to the enemy and sunk another. The last account that we had of her was, that, on the 23rd Sept. 1814, she was off the Madeira islands, and it has been ever since supposed that she foundered at sea, whereby the whole of her officers and crew perished, and no trace was left of her. DEAF AND DUMB. The Hartford Asylum, under charge of Messrs. Gallaudet and Clerc, has at present 65 pupils, under the charge of five instructors-two at 1,200, one at 1,000, one at 800 and one at 700 dollars a year. The cost of board and tuition, including washing and stationary, is 115 dollars a year. The buildings are large and commodious, and can accommodate 130 pupils. There are various work-shops, and the boys spend five hours every day in learning some useful trade, such as carpentry, coopering, The Spring Grove, a British whale ship, was lost on the African coast on the 23rd Nov. last, and some of the crew have been rescued from the Arabs by that distinguished philanthropist, Mr. Wiltshire, the British consul at Mogadore. In the account of the af-shoemaking, &c. The product of these shops do not fair there is the following paragraph: pay the expenses of them, but they prepare the deaf "A circumstance is stated by one of these rescued and dumb to earn their future support. The period men, which is as follows:-He says that the Arab of four years is generally sufficient for their instrucchief in whose hands they fell, could speak a little tion in what is taught in the asylum. One hundred English; and contrived to inform them, that, some and twenty-eight pupils have been received into the years ago, an English ship was lost on the African coast, asylum since its establishment; but of this number that the crew reached the shore to the number of three only 28 have sprung from families able to maintain ` hundred men, well armed; that his own tribe, consisting them there. The remaining hundred have generally of five hundred men; attacked them and were re-been maintained by the states to which they belong. pulsed; that he solicited the assistance of a neigh- This institution was incorporated in 1816-its funds boring tribe to renew the attack, with an additional force of four or five hundred men; that the British drove them back a second time, and were making good their retreat for some settlement of security, when they were a third time surrounded by a body of thirteen hundred; and that the British fought till three fourths of their number fell, and the remainder were cut to pieces, after laying down their arms, and after killing 250 Arabs. The name of the ship and the time of the shipwreck are both unknown." then amounted to $25,505, obtained by subscriptions - MAJOR GAMBLE, a valuable officer of the marine corps, being about to leave the Philadelphia station, It will appear very possible, and even probable to was invited to a public dinner. The mayor presided, every one, on reading this paragraph, that we have assisted by general Cadwallader and Nicholas Bidthus learned the probable fate of our gallant country-dle, esq. as vice presidents. Among others, the folmen. The Americans might easily have been mis-lowing toasts were drank: taken, by the Arabs, for Englishmen. The amount The navy-Its commanders, its courage, its congiven as the strength of the crew is greater than the stancy and its clemency: Need we go "beyond the Wasp had, but she may have made some recent cap-four seas for more?" tures and have had many prisoners on board-who, in the case of shipwreck and attack by the Arabs, would have made a common cause with her officers and crew. There would be a melancholy satisfaction in ascertaining the certainty of what is now "This idea was first published in the Federal Gazette, but seems almost simultaneously to have pressed itself on the minds of others, as well as on that of the editor of the paper just named. The army-Its honorable deeds in war gave it a character which its gallant officers have best maintained by its discipline and usefulness in peace. Internal improvement-Whilst we drink its rapid advance, let us not forget that the scientific and accomplished officers of our engineer corps are the pioneers of its march. After the major had been complimented by a toast, he gave-(prefaced by a brief and appropriate address)The citizens of Philadelphia--Distinguish. GEN. CALL was invited to and partook of a public 3d. That, if they were turned out of their houses, dinner, at Pensacola, on the 25th April. He was the they would die at the corner of their fences, to maable and faithful delegate from Florida, in congress.nure the soil, rather than they would abandon the Among others, the following toast was drank on this land of their forefathers. occasion: "The president of the United States: Learned and experienced in the affairs of state-may he be as virtuous and happy in his administration as his worthy predecessor." We are further informed that gen. McIntosh mov ed, in council, when the first cession was made, that any person, who should propose the cession of another foot of ground, should be put to death. A report prevailed in Milledgeville, on the 25th instant, that a great council of the Indians was about to JOHN C. SEMMES, our countryman, who has resolv-be held, to deliberate on the propriety of commenced that the earth is hollow and populated, has ac-ing hostilities against the party among them favorable cepted an offer of the emperor of Russia, through to the treaty; and it was thought a civil war would count Romanzoff, to make a polar expedition, under ensue. The legislature of Georgia, which had conthe patronage of the "deliverer"-who has not land vened to hold an extra session, was expected to put a enough above ground to satisfy his ambition. stop, for the present, to the survey of the lands ceded by the Indians-which had been ordered by the proclamation of governor Troup. THE CREEKS. The following view of the disturbances among this people, is copied from the Charleston Courier, and throws much light upon the subject: However shocking to a sensitive mind may seem the summary vengeance inflicted by the Creek Indians on gen. McIntosh and another chief, who had aided him in the transfer of the Indian lands, yet, it can be regarded, where it is correctly understood, in no other light than an act of penal justice, required and sanctioned by the law which governs the Creek nation. The Creeks are, in a good measure, civilized -they are losing the character of the hunter in that of the agriculturist; they have partially civilized towns which are represented each by a chief in the general council; and of these chiefs, there are thirty six. It has been always required that a majority of these should sign any contract for the alienation of the Creek territory-but, latterly, so hostile are these people to any further sales, that the punishment of death has been enacted against any chief who should propose such a measure. Of these important and vital regulations, McIntosh must have been aware-and yet he not only advocated the surrender of the land, which is to go to the state of Georgia, but signed the deed, conveying it away, in company with one chief only the other signatures to the treaty being, it is said, those of persons entirely unauthorized. Now, if these be the real facts of the case, who is there that can feel any sympathy for the ruin of the betrayer of his nation of the man, who appears to have been more civilized, only to become treacherous; and whose hooors, won by serving our country, do not redeem his disgrace in the sacrifice of his own? If these facts be so, who does not pity an exiled people, torn up by the roots from their domestic soil, and driven, like leaves of the forest, westward, towards the grave of the sun-and that, too, under his auspices, in whom they chiefly confided. N. W. INDIANS. We learn from the Detroit Gazette, of Nov. 10, that gov. Cass left that place on Saturday, the 7th, for Wapaghkonnetta, Ohio, to treat with the Delawares, Shawanees, Wyandots and Senecas, on the subject of removing from Ohio to the west side of the Mississippi. It is expected that he will return to Detroit about the 10th of June, when he will immediately depart for Prarie du Chien, where he will meet with the Sacks, Foxes, loways, Winnebagoes, &c. for the purpose of fixing some boundaries for the several tribes, and thus check, in a measure, their frequent quarrels. QUARANTINE LAWS. A great revolution has taken place in England, as well as in the United States, as to the doctrine that the yellow fever is contagious; and a bill is before parliament for the repeal of the quarantine laws. PIRATES. A piratical vessel, and her crew of thirty-eight men, has been captured off Matanzas by a British cutter and a steam boat fitted out at that place. Several of the pirates were killed, and the rest sent to Havana. It is said to be ascertained that some of them had assisted in capturing more than twenty American vessels, whose crews were murdered. An additional gang of pirates have been hung in Porto Rico-eleven at once. This looks very much like a resolution to do justice to this late numerous class of persons. AGRICULTURAL SCHOOL. An institution, entitled "Fellenburg School," in which are taught horticul ture, agriculture, &c. under the superintendence of Samuel S. Stebbins and Elisha N. Sill, jr. is establishThe instructors obThe affair of the killing of McIntosh, be it justifiaed in Windsor, Connecticut. ble or not, is not cognisable by the government of the serve that their pupils "are taught and encouraged to United States. They have only to look to the treaty. close application and persevering industry. From practice habits of economy, regularity, temperance, If executed by competent authority, on the part of the Indians, it must be enforced, unless an enlighten-enabled to exercise a controling influence in the forour very intimate connection with our pupils, we are ed and liberal policy should rather make a great pe-mation of their characters. Their manners, and their cuniary sacrifice to the state of Georgia-than cover the Indian soil with the bones of slaughtered Indians. If, on the other hand, the treaty, as it is alleged, was executed by incompetent authority, the whole matter is re-opened for conciliation and peace. We are informed, by the Darien Gazette, that, at a late meeting of the Creek Indians, they made three irrevocable laws, viz: sentiments, and all that constitutes the character of a ing attention." The summer term commenced the good and accomplished citizen, arc objects of unceas17th inst. The terms, exclusive of two vacations, one of three weeks and the other of five, are one hundred and fifty dollars a year, payable semi-anntally. This sum includes the whole expense of board, tuition, washing and room rent. |