THIRD SERIES. No. 1-VOL. XII.] BALTIMORE, FEB. 28, 1829. [VOL. XXXVI. WHOLE NO. 911 THE PAST THE PRESENT FOR THE FUTURE. EDITED, PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY H. NILES & SON, AT $5 PER ANNUM, PAYABLE IN ADVANCE. Some additional papers to the correspondence of That the exports have, during the same period, amountcertain gentlemen of Massachusetts with Mr. Adams, ed to $72,264,686, of which $50,669,669 were of domeshave been published, and shall have a place in our next. tic, and $21,595,017 o foreign articles; that of the doAmong them is a letter from Mr. Plumer, of New Hamp-mestic articles $41,130,106 were exported in American shire, formerly governor of that state and a senator in vessels, and $9,539,563, in foreign vessels; and, of the congress, stating his knowledge of a plan for forming a foreign articles, $19,978, 268 were exported in American separate government in the winter of 1808, and that he vessels, and $1,616 749 in foreign vessels; himself was then favorable to it-though soon convinced that it was the most "erroneous opinion that he had ever formed upon political subjects." It is intimated, we know not on what authority, that the appeal of the gentlemen of Massachusetts will be speedily answered. We shall, of course, duly notice it. The speeches of Messrs. Wright, of Ohio, and Smyth, of Virginia, on the proposed amendment of the latter to the constitution of the United States, shall have a place soon after the rise of congress. Circumstances have given peculiar interest to them. THE NEW CABINET. From the Washington Telegraph of the 26th. We are authorised to say, that the new cabinet will consist of Martin Van Buren, of New York, as secretary of state. Samuel D. Ingham, of Pennsylvania, as secretary of the treasury. John McLean, of Ohio, as postmaster genera John H. Eaton, of Tennessee, as secretary of war. John Branch, of North Carolina, as secretary of the navy. John McPherson Berrien, of Geo. as attorney general. It will be seen, that the postmaster general is to be included th the cabinet. We learn that the president elect yesterday received a letter from Mr. Van Buren, accepting the state department. The other gentlemen are in this city, and have notified their acceptance in person. A HISTORY of Mr. Adams' administration will issue from the press of Mr. Force, Washington, during the ensuing autumn, forming a volume of 500 pages octavo, and furnished to subscribers, at 3 dollars a copy, in boards. The "history of the administration of John Quincy Adams" will contain among its topics, the following: 1. A preliminary view of parties in the United States, from the era of the confederation to that of the accession of John Quincy Adams to the presidency. 2. A view of his life and public services, anterior to his presidency. 3. An account of the events connected with his election to the presidency. 4. A view of the genius, policy, acts and results of his administration, exhibiting the operations of each of the principal departments of the executive government, viz: the state, treasury, war, navy, and general post office; and comprising the legislative and diplomatic history of the United States during the 19th and 20th congresses. 5. A view of the state of the country at the commencement and at the termination of his presidency. 6. An account of the lives, services and characters of the members of his cabinet, &c. 7. An appendix of documentary and other illustrations of the text. Letters, post paid, to Peter Force, will be attended to. COMMERCE AND NAVIGATION. The secretary of the treasury has transmitted the annual statements and tables. Intending to give them at length hereafter, the following extract from the letter of the register of the treasury may suffice all present purposes: From these statements it appears that the imports, during the year ending on the 30th September, 1828, have amounted to $88,509,824, of which amount $81,951,319, were imported in American vessels, and $6,558,505 in foreign vessels; VOL. XXXVI-No. 1. That 868,381 tons of American shipping entered, and 897,404 cleared, from the ports of the United States, and that 150,225 tons of foreign shipping entered, and 151,030 cleared, during the same period. I have the honor, also, to state, that the amount of registered tonnage employed in the foreign trade, on the 31st December, 1827, amounted to 747,170 44-95 That the enrolled and licensed tonnage, including 84,278 78-95ths employed in the fisheries, and 40,097 75-95ths in steam navigation, amounted to 873,437 34 Making together, (as per abstracts, No. 11 and 12), tons, 1,620,607 78 As appears by the annual statement of the district tonnage of the United States, transmitted from this office, on the 24th December last. Permit me further to state, that, in conformity to the 10th section of the act above referred to, the articles exported have been valued at their actual cost, or the value they bore at the time of exportation in the several ports of the United States, from which they were ex!ported; and that the articles, imported were valued at their actual cost, or the value which they bore in the foreign port from whence they were imported into the United States, free of any subsequent charges whatever. have the honor to be, &c. JOSEPH NOURSE, reg. Hon. Richard Rush, secretary of the treasury. From the preceding it appears, that, in the last treasury year, we imported the large sum of $16,245,000 more than we exported, to say nothing of short entries at the custom house, or on account of goods otherwise fraudulently introduced. We may easily believe that the apparent balance was at least twenty millions. A considerable part of this was made up in freights earned, or profits accruing, in the transportation of our own commodities-but the real balance against us was large, and how paid, or settled, we know not. The steady advance and increase of our tonnage, is very satisfactory. The facts laugh at the woful predictions of the opponents of the American system, and fully sustain the hopes of its friends. What will the authors of the "Boston report" think of their misrepresentations in respect to this matter? Will they not feel a little ashamed of themselves? In some remarks that we published on that "report" on the 26th Jan. 1828, it was said "we venture an opinion that, for 1827, the [tonnage] tables when published a year hence, will shew that the enrolled and licensed tonnage was not less than 850.000 tons." Sec vol. 33, page 354. But such tonnage amounts to 873,437 tons, and shews the mightily increased coasting and internal trade of the United States. The following exhibits the progress of our tonnage for the last 10 years-from 1818 to 1827, inclusive of both. The years previous to 1818 had shewed a greater amount of tonnage, but in that year the lists were corrected at the different custom houses, and the real amount was ascertained. 1827 1818 Registered 747,170 Enrolled, &c. 873,437 Ways. " When the tables are received, we shall then present the items, with the former tonnage of places, at which persons have most grumbled about hostility to comincrce, and concerning a desire to destroy navigation, &c. to compel GENTLEMEN to withdraw their determination against the tariff, and yield obedience to facts placed in opposition to theory. In 1824-the ruinous-tariff year, the gross tonnage As we never expect to sanction such a proceeding, we was 1,389,163-it now is 1,620,607; increase 231,504, in hope that cause will not be given for it. three tariff years. Now the anti-tariifites would certainly have charged us with any decrease of the tonnage VIRGINIA. In the debate on the resolutions attached which might have followed the act of 1824-we appeal to the report of the committee to which was referred certo their honesty, and demand credit, because of the in-tain proceedings of the legislatures of South Carolina and crease. It is a bad rule that "will not work both Georgia, concerning the tariff, &c. it appears that Messrs. Fitzhugh and Edgington, members of the house of delegates, because that they opposed these resolutions, have had a column of matter thrown at them in the Richmond Enquirer. The first is specially charged with having "borrowed the newspaper essays of Mr. Mathew Carey and Mr. Hezekiah Niles, and the learned labors of the Harrisburg convention." Now, if these names-"Mathew Carey," Ilezekiah Niles" and the "Harrisburg convention, are not enough to satisfy any one that Mr. WEIGHTS AND MEASURES. It is much to be regretted JAMES MADISON does not understand the intent and meanthat standards for these were not long since established ing of the constitution of the United States, and that even by congress. The luminous report on the subject by Mr. JEFFERSON was a blockhead when he spoke of imMr. Adams, while secretary of state, remains disregard-posing "prohibitions" to support the domestic industryed on the shelf, and the public is suffering many and serious we do not know what a new school Virginian would reinconveniences on account of this neglect of the national quire to shew that Messrs. Fitzhugh and Edgington were government. New York has undertaken to establish wholly in the wrong.-Names, and the cry of "mad dog," standards of weights and measures. It appears that they being great things in Virginia, and in respect to men of vary considerably from those now in use; and we see it much higher pretensions than "Mathew Carey" and stated, that it will cost the dealers in the city, only, not "Hezekiah Niles." Instance, Messrs John Randolph and less than $100,000 to supply themselves with new mea- William B. Giles. A little while ago, neither of them sures and weights, according to the law which is to go could have been elected a doorkeeper of the house of into operation on the 1st Jan. 18350; and it will also cause delegates, in evidence of the reliance of that house on much trouble and calculation, when buying of or selling their political integrity or private worth, and they were to the people of other states. called by many hard names. But these gentlemen, We years ago, heard it given as a reason why congress without change in their polities or morals, have lived to did not legislate on the subject, that the members did laugh at and despise their opponents, and to envelope not understand it. Perhaps, hardly five men have ever their own selves in that political orthodoxy which denouncbeen in congress at one time who did understand it; but ed them as "nuisances and a curse," being elevated, by surely, this important matter might have been referred to the very set that abused them, to the most distinguished a special board of scientific men, the results of whose offices in the commonwealth, as its most worthy and couJabors would have been satisfactory to all, though the sistent patriots-and the cry of “mad dog" is raised against principle of their operation might have remained incom- all who now question the merits of the gentlemen. Thus prehensible. The best legislators may be very indiffer--but at a vast distance, and in respect to a particular subent mathematicians. ject, when individuals would reason upon it, "Mathew Carey" and "Hezekiah Niles" are named, and the argument is concluded. CASTOR OIL. Among the queer things of "these our days," we notice a communication of Mir. Edward A. Broddus, in the Georgia Journal, dated Monticello 28th Jan. 1829, informing the public that his "friend Dr. D. A. Reese" had manufactured some “anti tariff castor oil," a specimen of which was sent therewith; saying that he had made 600 bottles last year, "notwithstanding the dry weather," &c. and telling as how that he expressed and clarified it, &c. &c. "Mathew Carey" has retired from the tariff "arena”— but is eagerly pursuing other objects to benefit his fellow men, and especially to ameliorate the condition of the poor. His benevolent and vigorous mind cannot remain inactive; and his hand is always ready to second the thoughts of his heart. It is a proud thing to hear one's name associated with his-for a more honest, charitable and disinterested patriot, never lived than Mathew Carey, Such oil has long been made in the United States-in and so he will long be esteemed. When the ephemeral Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, and Ohio. The supply politicians of the day-those who blow cold or blow hot, exceeds the domestic and foreign demand, at what may and with the same breath, shall have passed iuto nothingbe regarded a fair price for the commodity-now bear-ness, his name and labors will be blessed by millions of ing only 150 cents per gallon. It is much better, because happy freemen. We take the liberty to say this of our of its freshness, than the imported, and a great deal venerable friend, because that, as just above stated, he has cheaper. A quantity was exported to England, to help retired from the contest, and, as we apprehend, with a a little in payment for calicoes, (seeing that our bread-resolution to take no further part in it. And this we sinstuffs were not taken in exchange for them), and our cerely regret-for the time is approaching when the best farmers would have made handsome profits on their talents of the friends of the "American system" will be crops of oil, but British "free trade" interposed, and, by required to preserve it, against the theorists of the south, a duty of 150 cents per gallon, rejected our supplies. It and power not derived from the people. "All eyes, says will be recollected that Mr. Haile, a member of congress a late South Carolina essayist, are turned to the congress from Mississippi, when the present tariff law was under of 1830, for an alteration of the tariff "-and on that subdiscussion, thinking that castor oil might be advantage-ject, it is apparent to us, that parties will be newly ously made in the south, though a most decided anti-formed. tariff man, was willing to protect its domestic product by In speaking of the resolutions above referred to, a duty of two dollars per bottle"*-not knowing that it the Richmond Whig says-"The report and resolutions was already supplied in quantities exceeding the domes- against the tariff were adopted by the house of delegates tic demand; and that ten thousand dollars per bottle duty on Saturday; the minorities on the several resolutions, would not affect the price the ten thousandth part of a varying from 63 to 75. It requires no prophet to tell, that cent. This Georgia "anti-tariff oil" is called "home- this is the last year, in all probability, that a Virginia legismade." If the manufacture of flax shall succeed as it lature will pass equivalent resolutions. The change of promises, in being spun and woven by machinery like cot- opinion, in favour of the tariff, is advancing with great raton, how will Mr. B. like to hear the linen goods of the pidity, and has already embraced men who a year or two iniddle and eastern states called "home-made” and anti-ago voted for similar resolutions to those just adopted. southern, to induce people to use them instead of cotton? The fate of the resolutions in the Senate is thought doubt As the ordinary bottle contains only the 5th of a gallou, the proposed duty would have amounted to about seven times the selling price of the oil. What would Mr. | Halle think of a duty of seventy cents per lb. on cotton? ful. [Such is the progress of opinion in Virginia, that if the people had the power to express their sentiments, we are inclined to a belief that a majority would shew themselves lavorable to tariff principles, at the next election 446,800 1828 405,856 The stock is still very heavy. The excess crops have caused it. And though we observe that the importation of 1828 compared with that of 1827, declined in the large amount of 149,310 bales, the stock at the end of the latyear was only 41,000 bales less than that of the preceding-shewing a difference in demand of 108,000 bales, against 1828. BOSTON. Four hundred new houses were built in this city in 1828. Now, as Boston was supposed more than any other place to exist by commerce and navigater tion, which the tariff was to destroy, how is this great increase to be accounted for? We think that there is more reason in this fact than in the whole one hundred and ninety six pages of the famous "Boston report;" superadding all the new matter, if any there is, of the second edition, called a report on the finances! CONSUMPTION of fuel. By a memorial from the Lyceum of Natural History, read in the common council of New York, it appears that 40,000 chaldrons of Philadelphia and Baltimore also are rapidly gaining in coal are annually consumed in that city: of which, 20,000 population and wealth, and certainly not by foreign com- are English and Scotch; 4,000 Rhode Island; and 16,000 inerce. There is an immense disposable capital at Lehigh, &c. The value is about $600,000. Besides Philadelphia-fixed and increasing wealth; and it is agreed this, there are 280,000 cords of wood used for domestic that Baltimore is gathering strength handsomely. And purposes, and 200,000 for steam boats. The whole notwithstanding the many new buildings that are annual-amount paid by the city for fuel, euch year, is $2,400,000. ly put up, the press of inhabitants for them is greater It all goes out of the state, except a portion of the wood. than the supply of tenements in either city. We say these things are caused by our manufactures. If this be objected to-but our opponents inform us from whence they come. Let us have some reason for them-they have hot happened by chance. "A NEW THEORY of the causes of the various motions of all the planetary bodies belonging to the solar system," we learn, is in the press at Vincennes-and a note from "the author," who is unknown to us, states that he intends to present himself "before the conspicuous philosophical societies" to deliver lectures, accompanied with various experiments in demonstration of the truth of his theory. THE MORRIS CANAL, commences near Easton on the Delaware, and, passing the flourishing town of Newark, terminates at Jersey city, opposite New York. Its whole length is 100 miles and 64 chains, and the navigable feeder from the Hopatcong lake, is 60 chains. will have several inclined planes and 23 locks-the chief of which are finished, and indeed the whole canal now appears to need only a small and prompt aid to complete it. The entire amount expended on this work is $777,923 71; there are demands against the company for the sum of 388,050 50, on amount of loans, notes in circulation, &c. and the resources have an aggregate of 572,032 90, being chiefly shares of its own stock and bills payable by stockholders, received for instalments and for shares of stock not paid-all which will probably be good, if the canal shall get into successful operation; but is a way of doing business that we never approved of. We like real pay-slaves, except sixty, were lost. ments of stock. Much work, however, has been done on this canal, and we wish all success to the projectors the slaves.] and proprietors. It is calculated as being capable of transporting 300,000 tons a year, and expected to be much used for the supply of coal. Very many of the culverts, aqueducts, &c are completed, and 131 bridges WASHINGTON. The officers' quarters, at the marine barracks, in this city, were destroyed by fire in the afternoon of the 20th inst. The fire is said to have been caused by the burning of a chimney, by which a piece of timber let in to it was ignited. Many houses have been thus destroyed. A carpenter who has not sense enough to arrange his joists, without supporting them by the chimneys, ought not to be trusted with the building of any house. built. U. States. SLAVES RELEASED! A Brazilian slave ship, having an board 475 slaves, was cast away near Santos, about 15th December. The captain and crew, together with the [We are glad that the captain and crew accompanied THE EXPLORING EXPEDITION. If, from any cause, nothing should result from the projected expedition to the southern seas that will redound to the glory of our country or benefit of any of the human family, we feel entirely satisfied that the officers and agents to whom the COTTON. Havre, in France, is, like Liverpool in Eng-expedition is assigned, and the ship that is fitted out for land, the chief port at which cotton is introduced. From the purpose, will not dishonor us by the want of entera statement of the cotton trade at that place we extract prize and skill, or ample preparation. And as it is possible that this expedition may become of no small public the following items. interest, we inserted the resolutions and speech of Mr. All other Total. Hayne, in the senate, knowing that they would be replied 30,688 168,724 to in a manner that might form a part of the history of the 23,066 140,075 expedition at a future day. If Mr. H's calculation of the 38,400 7,678 47,028 cost of the voyage were applied to the support of our fleet 1828 21,700 3,487 25,187 The diminished importation of 1828 seems to have in the Mediterranean, how many millions would the agbeen chiefly caused by the great stock on hand at the end gregate of the latter amount to? And in truth, the peoof 1827-for the amount "sold and forwarded" in the ple of the United States, interested in ascertaining the new islands, reefs, &c. in the southern ocean, have a much last year is given at only 3,450 bales less than in the pre-stronger comparative right to favor this expedition, than ceding, have a few merchants to keep up a squadron in the Mediterranean, the cost of which is from ten to twenty 1828 Imports, 1827, bales 138,038 British importation and stock of cotton at the end of times more than the value of our regular trade in that each year, in bales. Importation. United States sea. But calculations of cost, in dollars and cents, were not made in fitting out and keeping up that squadron, else it had never been fitted or employed. 1826. 1827. 1828. 594,234 647,883 439,828 75,429 148,761 187,400 The facts submitted by the secretary of the navy in 46,926 25,233 30,978 obedience to the resolutions of the senate, are inserted 64,053 71,823 86,184 in the present sheet, and are highly interesting. 118,521 249,250 172,781 THE MAILS. Notwithstanding the late excessively sc 75,496 90,550 112,655 vere weather, no failure of the mails has occurred this 73,558 35,800 35,840 season between Philadelphia and Baltimore. But Mr. 74,735 71,200 $4,580 Purdy, the agent of Messrs. Stockton and Stokes, sta tioned at the Susquehannah, was recently employed on the ice from 8 o'clock P. M. to 4 A. M. to prevent a failure. He has suffered much; and one of the drivers between Philadelphia and New York, actually froze and died on his box, during the snow storm of the night of the 20th inst. We have not often had a winter like the present. Several heavy snows have fallen, and, for twenty days together, the wind has been north-westward. Oak wood, at Baltimore, has been eight dollars a cord, and the yards are now exhausted. Great exertions have been made to relieve the poor in the several wards, and on Sunday last about 2,000 dollars were additionally col lected in the different churches. rump-6 feet 6 high-8 feet 94 girth, and 5 feet 04, shoulder to dewlap. He was fed by William Lansdale, esq. and is a "mountain of beef"-larger in all his measurements, says the Chronicle, than the great ox Columbus, except the girth; and half-a-hand higher than the famous Leicestershire ox. His weight is not given. MURDERS AT EDINBURG. Most horrid events have lately been revealed at Edinburg. It appears that two wretched Irishmen, named Burke and Hare, have been in the practice of murdering persons to obtain possession of their bodies for the surgeons and a couple of their countrywomen, though not participating in the deeds themselves, seem to have acted as decoys or assistants. The practice was, to invite persons into a house, make them drunk, and then strangle them; after which the bodies were secured in a box, and speedily passed into the possession of the doctors, by whose agents they appear of the victims is not certainly stated, but it seems that to have been received without any questions. The number FLOUR AND GRAIN. The British agricultural report for December says-"The wide range of prices which exists in the market sufficiently indicates the variation of quality. Wheat may be purchased from 50s. to 100s; barley, from 22s. to 45s. and oats from 15s. or probably lower, to 34s. The supply of the metropolis has been amply provided for, and the arrivals in the port of Lon-they may have amounted to not less than 10 or 15 perdon very considerable. They consist of the following quantities of the principal sorts of grain. British Scotch Irish Foreign Wheat. Barley. qrs. 271,491 228,915 34,796 643 Oats. 272,577 107,365 560,156 97,529 To Dec. 23, 1828 780,125 261,285 1,037,627 present: Wheat. Barley. As to Oats. of a sons. Details of the manner of the death of three only are given, in the confession of Burke; but further disclosures were expected. The ruffians appear to have become quite hardened to the business, but the certainty of their own speedy death has effected them powerfully-aggravated, perhaps, by the reflection that their own bodies will pass through the same hands that they had supplied with subjects. EGYPT. The present pacha looks far beyond his preself strong enough to resist any hostile disposition in the sent state of dependence on the sultan, or else feels himgovernment at Constantinople. He is an aged man, but pursues the improvement of Egypt as though he long expected to rule it, or transmit his authority to his son. Among other proceedings which shews this, he has sent many promising young men to be educated in France, and four are in England-oue to learn practical navigaAverage, 1827, about p. qr. tion, another to study naval architecture, a third matheDitto 1828, "These are the averages of the maritime districts; and, himself for diplomacy. These are all attached to the matics and military engineering, and the fourth to qualify taken for the whole year, they exhibit a declension, in-household of his son, Ibrahim. Some of these youths stead of a rise, in every grain but wheat. Looking, have been in Europe several years. Those in England however, to the latter half of the year, prices have risen are well acquainted with our language, and speak and as follow, viz. wheat to 64s. barley, 35s. 6d. oats 24. write it fluently. and the average of the last six weeks is for wheat, 748. 6d, barley 39s. 2d. and oats, 258. 8d." 558. 358. 26s. 59s. 6d. 338. 22s 6d. The foreign supply has been far greater than was expected. The stock at Liverpool was also large-408. 9d. however had been offered for 700bbls, of New York flour just landed, and refused. Sixty five vessels laden with about 500 quarters of grain, arrived at London in one day, from the continent. The price of flour at New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore, has rather declined than advanced, in consequence of the last news, and not many heavy sales have been made. DELAWARE. The legislature of this state has enacted a law altering the mode of choosing electors in that state. The general ticket is adopted. PHILIP LEE, the son of Frank, the well-known and faithful servant of general WASHINGTON, has a wife and several children, that, being slaves, were about to be sold and transferred to Georgia. It appears, however, that 500 dollars, the price of them, has been raised in the city of New York and its vicinity, and that the family will not be separated from the husband and father. We have felt it rather an unpleasant duty to notice this case, though its issue is honorable. NEW JERSEY. Mr. Southard, present secretary of the navy, and yet residing at Washington, has been elected attorney general of the state of New Jersey, and by the same legislature which pronounced him a foreigner, when he was proposed as a member of the senate of the United States. A LARGE OX, raised in Harford county, in this state, arrived at Baltimore a few days ago, after a laborious journey of 36 miles. He is 13 feet 6 inches from nose to FIRES. Distressing fires have recently occurred in Portsmouth, N. H. Boston, Huntsville, Ala. and Savannah, Geo. In the latter city on the 17th inst. upwards of forty buildings were destroyed, with a vast amount of merchandise, furniture, &c. Most of the buildings were insured, but many individuals have by this calamity been deprived of their homes and rendered liable to the aggravated sufferings of this very inclement season of the year. The city of Demerara, has sustained a loss, by fire, estimated at £500,000 sterling. FOREIGN NEWS. GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND. An interesting correspondence will be found in page 6, between the duke of Wellington, Dr. Curtis and the mar quis of Anglesea, lord lieutenant of Ireland, relative to the claims of the catholics. Much speculation has been caused by the publication of these letters, and a good deal of feeling excited. The liberal sentiments advanced by the marquis have rendered him very popular with the Catholics, and it is said that he has resigned his office in consequence of the wide difference of opinion on this subject with the premier. But the "Courier" states, with an air of authority, that he has been recalled by the government, and adds that "the question would not have been advanced by his continuance in Ireland, nor will it be impaired or retarded by his recall." The marquis of Anglesea has appointed three liberal protestant barristers to as many vacant clairs of Irish counties. Mr. Curran, son of the celebrated orator of the last generation, has been made chairman of Kerry, which is reported to be worth £1000 per annum. Tyrone has been given to Mr. Tickell, descendant of the poet; and Leitrim to Mr. Nunnet. The total increase of revenue, beyond the corresponding quarter of last year, is £686,000.-The total amouut of the revenue for the year ending 5th January, 1828, was £46,644,675; and for the year ending 5th January, 1829, £48,305,322. It is said that the Irish revenue statement, when it appears, will show an increase of £100,000 for this year beyond last year. Stephenson, the banker, has not been apprehended; the most vigilant measures have been taken, officers being despatched in every quarter. TURKEY AND RUSSIA. those who, for the good of their country, have endeavored There is nothing new from the theatre of war. The report of the massacre at Crete is confirmed: an Ancona date of Dec. 10, says "The latest accounts from Poros and Syra, return to the subject of the massacre of the Christian inhabitants in the cities of Crete. No Chris-the states becoming petty kingdoms or the union an emtians are now left in those cities, all have perished by the sword, and all their brethren in the island are devoted to the same fate." SPAIN. pire, than of religious establishments. In Virginia, we so much condemn and detest them that our legislature will not grant a legal right in fee for an inch of soil to site a church, or secure a grave yard to any religious association, lest it would open the way to establish some sect. Hence our churches, in cities, towns and country, are in the pow er of individua's, to be made into barns, and our burying grounds, yards for cattle. This reasonable and enlightened consider as excessive timidity, or owing to enmity It is announced from Spain, via Paris, that, on the 24th September last, the king of Spain authorised the minister of foreign affairs to sign a treaty, by which France is inscribed for 80 millions of francs, in the great book of the public debt, in the three per cent. stock. The Span-men ish government will pay to France four millions an-against Christianity. nually, of which 2,400,000 francs for the interest, and 1,600,000 francs for the redemption of this stock. SUNDAY MAILS. "Mr. Johnson and his committee seem alarmed at the simultaneous exertions of citizens of every rank and denomination of Christians in our country,-as it union of multitudes must make a cause bad. They most unwarrantably call the memorialists a religious combination, seeking to control civil government-when in fact they are in the due use of their civil rights respectfully requesting congress, in their proper sphere, to remove obstructions out of the way of the means ordained to increase knowledge of principles and morality, essential to our free institutions, and to secure the favor and protection of him who by his laws governs all nations." APPOINTMENTS BY THE PRESIDENT, William Clark, of Pennsylvania, to be treasurer of the United States, vice Thomas Tudor Tucker, deceased. An insertion of the following being claimed by a most respectable minister of the gospel in Virginia, and one of the original subscribers for the "Register," on the principle of our "rule to give both sides," we willingly allow it a place with a pre-determination, however, that it shall not lead to a discussion of principles foreign to the design of this work, except in general terms. "In your Register, No. 21, you take the liberty, as you and every one of us unquestionably have a right, to give your opinion freely respecting Johnson's report on Sunday mails. You very highly commend it. I have read it carefully, and think very differently of it, or of many things in it, and for good reasons, I believe. Col. Johnson and his committee pretend to see in the prayer of the memorialists what is not in it, nor would be allowed by those presenting to have been in it, in any form, either expressed or implied, or any thing having such a bearing. They have more good sense and sound patriotism, than to wish civil legislatures to decide in religious disputes, or systems, or doctrines,--at least, when they assume a religious aspect:-therefore, the insinuation that the memorialists are aiming at a religious establishment by the civil power, is an ungenerous calumny. Such an union, of church and state, is most abhorrent to the presbyterians in America, and I believe so to all other denominations of Christians in the United States. But, it is evident, the committee were opposed to the petition of our numerous memorialCharles S. Walsh, of Maryland, to be secretary of ists, and therefore, when they could not fairly base them-legation of the United States in Spain, vice John A. selves on the merits of the memorial of the postmasters, Smith, transferred to Paris. their deputies and others, they mounted a popular hobby and rapidly posted away. Joseph Hopkinson, of Pennsylvania, to be judge of the district court of the United States for the eastern district of Pennsylvania, vice Richard Peters, deceased. Samuel Larned, of Rhode Island, to be charge d'affaires of the United States to the republic of Peru, vice Joseph Cooley, deceased. John A Smith, of New York, to be secretary of legation of the United States in France, vice Daniel Sheldon, deceased. John Pulis, of the Island of Malta, to be consul of the United States for that island, vice Joseph Pulis, Helmich Janson, of the Kingdom of Norway, to be consul of the United States for the port of Bergen, vice Henrich Janson, resigned. "Mr. Johnson makes a flourish about the Jewish gov-resigned. ernment being a theocracy, the meaning of which is, a government by God. We acknowledge it was, and hope that col. Johnson is a better man than to deny that God claims and exercises the government over our country too, and that, as far as his laws are manifested by the light of nature and by revelation, that we are as much bound to obey them as were the Jews. Charles Douglas, of Alabama, to be consul of the United States for the port of Guazacualco, in Mexico. Cornelius Bradford, of New York, to be consul of the United States at Lyons, in France. of the United States at the free imperial city of Ernest Schwendler, of Pennsylvania, to be consul Frankfort, on the Main. "Our jurisprudence acknowledges the following laws of God, and have made them a part of our civil code, viz.: to do justly to love and practice mercy-to obey civil rulers-to take and administer legal oaths-not to profane God's name-not to rob God of a seventh portion of time, called a Sabbath day—not to rob our neighbor of his life, Nicholas Biddle, of Pennsylvania, Jonn B. Trevor, good name or property: but according to col. Johnson's pure civil policy, as these belong to religion, and are re- of Pennsylvania, E. J. Dupont, of Delaware, Benjacognised by all religious systems, they must not be touch-min Hatcher, of Virginia and Charles A. Davis, of New ed in any way by congress, or by any civil body. Pray York, to be directors of the Bank of the United what sort of a government would we have without them? States for the year 1829. "Such persons as find the Sabbath in their way, and its sacred duties a burden, have ever been crying out against William McKee, of North Carolina, to be surveyor of the public lands in the states of Illinois and Mis |