Qur factories is also of American invention, and improvements are made upon nearly all the models im ported. We are independent of foreign workmen for these things; and can give as much knowledge as we receive, in cotton and woollen, and other machiDery.

The engine of 100 horse power, built in Pittsburg, and used to raise water to supply the summit level of the Union canal, cost, with its iron pumps and machi nery only $5.000. It is capable of raising 650,000 cubic feet of water 94 feet, in 24 hours.

The aggregate values, as stated in 1810, were probably one half short of the real values at that time. The returns of 1820 are so defective as to be useless for any general purpose, and were rightfully suppressed. The following remarks from a late British paper are interesting

There is not one branch of exports from this country, which has not been seriously reduced during the last three years, with the exception of iron and steel The increased exportation of the raw material, has long been known to the manufacturers of Sheffield, and believed by many to have been very injurious to the trade of the town. This opinion will be rather confirmed, than otherwise, by an examination of cer

Among other manufactures of iron, we may notice one of mill-saws, at Philadelphia, of such superior quality and moderate price, as already nearly to have prohibited the importation from Europe. One furnace at Barrington, requires 1,200 bush-tain returns that were made to parliament, during the els coal daily, to keep it in operation, and nearly last session, in which it appears, that the exports of five tons of pig iron are made every day-100 hands iron and steel, during the three years ending Januaare employed. The "Sterling Company," in the ry, 1827, had increased from 851,5781. sterling, to city of New-York, at a late date, employed 300 1,107,7241.; while manufactured hardware and cutworkmen, assisted by three steam engines, and work-lery, during the same period, had diminished from ing up five tons of iron per day, besides large quan- 214,000 cwt. to 192,000 cwt. An increased exportatities of copper, brass, &c. Anchors, chain cables, tion of iron and steel, to the amount of upwards of steam engines and other machinery were made here. 250,000l. sterling, in the short time of three years, In Lincoln county, North Carolina, there are four affords a strong evidence of a disposition on the part furnaces and ten forges, which, in 1823, made about of foreign nations to engage in the manufacture of 900 tons of bar iron, and 200 tons castings. There are cutlery and hardware-Sheffield Courant. also extensive works in Stokes and Surry counties. [For some further remarks on iron, as connected It is every way sound policy in the people of the south-with the internal trade, see that head, in the precedern states to establish and encourage manufactures ing pages.] for themselves. We have no local views on this subject. It will, besides, increase the exchanges between the states and promote domestic competition, 'for the common benefit of all consumers.

SCRAPS.

Large quantities of snow have already fallen to the north of Baltimore, and such has been the severity of the weather, that the navigation of the Northern and Erie At Taunton, Mass. 1,200 tons of nails are made canals has closed. Ice an inch thick formed on the basin annually, and 300 tons of plates, hoops and machine- at Albany on Saturday last. A remedy for these periry. At Pittsburg, there are seven rolling and slit-odical interruptions of internal commerce will be found in the superior benefits resulting from rail roads.ting mills, eight air foundries, six steam engine facto- A late census of Michigan, shews a gross population ries, one wire factory, &c. Some of these are very of 17,411, of whom 192 are colored persons.large establishments; one of them has two engines of There are now in the state of Maine 196 Baptist 100 and 120 horse power! churches, 119 ordained ministers, 15 licentiates, and A rolling mill on Esopus creek, New-York, is fit-12,029 church members. Nett gain the past year 484. ed to manufacture 200 tons of iron weekly.

In Morris county, New Jersey, there are seven rich iron mines, several furnaces, two rolling and slitting mills and about thirty forges. The ore of some of these mines has all the desirable qualities of the Swedish, and when the Morris canal is made, wil be worked very extensively.

Iron abounds in the north of Ohio. It is stated as probable that 1,000 tons of pig iron were forwarded to New York, via the Erie canal, during the past season, from Painesville, where the ore is said to be so accessible as to cost at the works no more than 150 cents per ton. Three furnaces were at work, and three others, with as many forges, were building some time ago.

The steam engines in Great Britain have the power of $75,000 horses, or 2,000,000 men; and as it is estimated that each horse requires the product of two acres of land, the use of steam leaves 750,000 acres at the dispo-Great glass works are erecting on sal of the people.Lake Champlain, by Boston capitalists-the savings on the cost of wood and sand, it is stated, will cause a great reduction in the cost of the manufacture-one account says equal to 50 per cent.—A large factory of what is known by the name of Brittania ware was lately put into operation at Taunton, Massachusetts. It is said to be the second or third in our country, and promises to do well.36,780 bales of cotton were exported from Petersburg, Virginia, for the year lately ended, of which coastwise.- -Four sisters lately 16,094 were sent met at Stillwater, New York, whose united ages amounted to 309 years.--the oldest 87, the youngest 70, -Sometime ago, says the Schuylall in good health.kill Journal, two colored persons at a public house near Joanna Furnace had a dispute whilst playing at cards. They (as we have been informed) agreed about butting, or (fighting head to head) when one was unfortunately killed. The survivor was lodged in the county jail on Thursday evening. A pamphlet has been published in France, entitled the art of putting on a cravat in thirty four different ways, with the author's portrait!"A writer in the New England Farmer recommends the substitution of mulberry trees for stone walls and wooden fences. The tree is easily cultivated, is of a thick growth, and bears clipping and cutting without injury. The leaves, of course, might be profitably used for feeding silkworms. -The flock of merinos, the property of his royal highness the duke of Wirtemberg, as well 327,898 as that of M. Peitet, has yielded about 3,560 pouds 1,215,946 (126,000 pounds) of fine wool, which have been sold for 2,478, 139 exportation. The merinos were sold at 35 to 341 rubles, 593.993 that of the third generation at 30, and that of the first and 144,736 seroud at 20 rubles.

The manufacture of steam engines is a very large and rapidly increasing business. Many mechanics be gin to use those of one or two horse power-the cost of which is a trifle. The cotton and rice planters will soon have them to clean their cotton and rice, and there will be thousands of them scattered through our country in a very few years. Much printing will be performed by steam power.

We have no means by which to arrive at the certain value of the iron manufactures of the United States. Some of the items were thus given in the returns of the marshals for 1810Products of furnaces

$2,981,277

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and now only one out of every 45-in 1780 the average deaths in England were one out of 40-now one in every 58. These practical results, taught in the school of experience, are preferred to the theories of Dr. Smith or Mr. Huskisson. All that has happened in respect ta cottons will take place in regard to woollens, should the manufacture of them be protected, else like causes will fail to produce like effects.

The friends and subscribers of this work are respectfully reminded, that payments for it are contracted to be made in advance; and all who are in arrears are very seriously requested to remit by mail, at the cost and risk of the editors, any sums which may be due unto them. "The times are hard" "money is scarce;" we are quite willing to bear our proportion of the sufferings or inconveniences that appertain to the condition of our country in the reduced prices of its principal commodities, which, A valued friend has called our attention to an editorial however, we have zealously endeavored to advance, by paragraph inserted in the first number of the first vol.. increasing the home market-that it may take the place of this work, published Sept. 7. 1811-as follows: of the ginted, RESTRICTED OF PROHIBITED foreign one "The present is a period naturally leading to the estabbut, when times are hard or money scarce, the de- lishment of manufactories. Deprived of our accustommands of publishers are too often regarded as among the ed commerce by the arbitrary and illegal proceedings of last to be paid, and we suffer far more than is our pro- the belligerent nations of Europe-obstructed, by miliportion. The accounts for the year have been generally tary power, from an exercise of our right to carry the forwarded as usual, and we earnestly urge a speedy at-productions of our own soil to the proper markets for tention to them. There is no lack of business for the them, and so denied the ability to pay for those fabrica editors, but an unusual and distressing deficiency in the tions it has hitherto (perhaps) been our interest to receive amount of receipts. from abroad,--it is imperiously demanded of the American people that they should look to themselves, and, in themselves and from the inestimably valuable raw materials of their country's growth, make for themselves, those articles of necessity, convenience or even of luxury, which it once suited them to obtain from the workshops of the old world-to draw themselves. off from such nations as would (if they could) compel us to purchase their manufactures, though draining us of the last cent to pay for them, in forbiding an ingress of our commodities to such ports and places as might enable us to preserve a well-balanced account in our trade with the world-without which national as well as individual poverty must inevitably ensue.

With the matter inserted in the present sheet, we shall conclude our regular publication of the address and appendix on behalf of the Harrisburg Convention. The parts not yet extracted from the pamphlet are the chapter on sales at auction-an interesting communication on the linen manufacture-brief notices of the product, &c. of lides and skins, tobacco, lead, and sugar-a large collection of opinions as to the constitutions doctrine of protection, and a great gathering of miscellaneous items. Such of these, however, as shall appear most useful, will have a place hereafter, as opportunity offers.

We have never faultered in our opinion or condbet since then; but the incidents which have happened in sixteen years shew us, that a person, by keeping one straight-forward course, may be fashimable or unfashionable several times in that period, with the same persons! This, however, more especially happens in zig zag politics-for there always will be "men of principle according to their interest.

The extent of the matter composing the pamphlet was a subject of much regret to the compiler-but it was thought that a general text book should be faruished, and so arranged that persons interested in the subject might examine it at their leisure-especially farmers and planters, more concerned, we believe, in the protection of domestic industry than any other persons whatever; and it is for their interest, or rather that of the people at large, that we have exerted ourselves for so many years past. The owners of ships and factories have our good wishes in common with others, and they partake of the general prosperity which results from the adoption of wise and CULTIVATION OF SILK. Many enquiries have lately patriotic measures. We are absolutely certain of these been made as to the best method of cultivating the mul things 1. That protection has reduced the price of every berry and for rearing silk worms-and we hope the suc sort of labor and every commodity on which it has acted, cessful enterprise of a few, already engaged in the husiequally advantageous to producers and consumera; 2,ness, will be profitable to our country at large, and stäng that it has greatly enlarged the home market for the late others in their efforts in furnishing a new article of farmers and planters, in sales of grain and meat, wool, great value to be added either to our manufactures or cotton, &c. without at all diminishing the foreign one; exports. Four acres of land, planted with the mulberry but increasing it in the supply of new commodities; 3, near Boston, have supplied food for as many worms as that, as in Great Britain so with us, manufactures have made 420 lbs. of silk, worth $3 50 per pound or 1,470 improved the morals, advanced education, added to our dollars-all which were attended to by four girls, and comforts and increased our population. Other important only for a short period in the year. There does not ap things might be mentioned; but we shall just now only pear to be any mystery, or difficulty in this business-it prove these, 1st, The protection of navigation and of the rather re ures carefulness than skill, and more of atcotton manufactures, has reduced the price of freights tention than labor; and is especially fitted for the em and coarse cotton goods one half-many other items ployment of aged persons having young children under might be added; 2nd, protection has prevented the ad- their charge-nether of which, in any other way, would dition of hundreds of thousands of laborers to the alrea- be of much utility or present profit. It seems that the dy very numerous elass of farmers, and thereby check- best manner of cultivating the mulberry is to sow it ed a greater surplus to act in a further reduction of the "broad cast," when the leaves may be mowed off and price of grain, &c.-and it seems quite certain that com- raked together for use with the least possible trouble, petition has induced the consumption of 100,000 or 150,000 and that they are larger and more tender than when MORE bales of our cotton than would have been used with-grown on trees, though enough of these must be reared out it, and it is known that about the value of six millions to furnish annual supplies of seed. in manufactures was exported last year; 3rd, we have a demonstration of improved morals, &c. at every factory, and see the elevation of poor ignorant persons into well fed, well clothed and reasoning beings-we have it in proof that crimes and paupers are 100 per cent. greater in the agricultural than in the manufacturing districts of England, and in Manchester, one person out of every 28 died annually in 1770, before it was one great work shop, OL. XXXII—No. 13.

The editors of the Natchez "Ariel" and Mobile, (Ala bama)."Register" are earnest in calling the attention of their readers to these things. The former noticing the production says-"Would not this culture be admira bly adapted to the eastern section of this state? Would it not be much better for planters on a small scale; those who make but 10 or 15 bales of cotton, and whe have a land carriage of 50 or 100 miles to marker, to tuna

their attention to the culture of silk? The labor would [tablishments; and those on a small scale are comparative. be much better suited to females, than that which is ne- ly unprofitable. In some parts, no fears could be entercessary in the culture of cotton. Many men whose fa- tained from gatherings of slaves, or the progress that they milies are large might from the labor of their own chil- would make in a knowledge of their own capacity and dren, realize 4 or $500 per ann. The facility of trans-power; but in others, we think, that such things might he portation would give it a decided preference over cot-attended with considerable hazard, in the course of events ton to those whose residence is remote from market."-judging from the sensibility shewn upon the subject. And a good essayist in the "Register" says-It is the art There are but few places, however, well fitted for factoof biving within ourselves that leads to independence, ries, at which a wholesome population of free white laboreither in a nation, or an individual, after all the volumes ers might not be easily collected-with as much case that have been wrote on the subject. The management at Richmond, Petersburg, Fredericksburg, Raleigh, for of a Quaker for twenty four hours, would teach an ob- examples, as in Baltimore county; and these would be serving mind more than "Smith's Wealth of Nations." perpetually collecting round them bodies of persons who Without reading, writing, or even much talking on the might be relied upon in cases of emergency. Besides, subject, they have reduced the theory to a system, and the factories would prevent the emigration of thousands the consequence is universal comfort, prosperity, and pe- of poor white people to parts of the country wherein cuniary independence, amongst them-a poor or depend-labor is more honorable than in the south, and finally ent quaker, would be a phenomenon-they keep no store raise up a new and powerful class of individuals every way important to the public safety and national welfare-high"An acre of ground in our country is but a small piece-ly productive, and defensive, not dangerous: a class as one dollar and twenty five cents will buy it. A little much superior in intellect and comfort to the populationi labor will clear it of every thing-a little more will dig from which they would be drawn, as the latter are to the it up, and plant five or six hundred young mulberry trees slaves. This is not a speculative opinion and out or a few hours will put in the grafts. Thirty seven and an these would arise many highly-gifted persons to adorn half cents will buy a silk mulberry of the finest species- the societies in which their lot should be cast. Some of this in a little time will produce grafts sufficient for your the most valuable and wealthy of the people of the Unitacre. In the mean time you have a potatoe and pea patch ed States are of these-men that have created their own for two years-no labor lost-and when you can no lon- titles to respectability, and who command it because of ger plant or tend the ground, its annual value, by ano- their good qualities. The employment of white operather less laborious and more agreeable employment, viz. tives in the factories would keep up the separation which gathering the leaves, becomes a life estate worth three is thought so becoming and proper, if not absolutely nehundred and thirty dollars per annum. Can any more cessary, in the south-but numerous slaves might be em rational, or inviting inducement be offered to honest in-ployed in furnishing subsistence and materials, in hundustry?"

account.

And adds

"From trial, by grafting the silk mulberry on the native tree of our country, I am persuaded that the production of the second year would be considerable, but there seems to be some doubt of the propriety of beginning so early to take the leaves off the foreign mulberry. Our native tree will bear this robbing as soon as you please, and the thread it produces, though coarser than the European, is excellent, and peculiarly fitted for the most common, most useful and coarser fabrick, and was their quantity sufficient, I am assured, would be quickly added to cotton by northern ingenuity in the production of new goods, giving the latter more durability and a handsome appearance.

dreds of different ways-probably to an increase of their own comfort and more advantageously to their owners because of the new markets afforded for the products of their labor. We do not speak in reference to household manufactures-they are almost every where profitable and proper, and employ much time that, without them, would be wasted. The cultivation of silk does not sp pear liable to the objections just above hinted at-it may be mixed with and become a part of the ordinary concerns of the landholders and their slaves, and certainly yield a larger and more certain profit than cotton, proportioned to the land and labor employed-and the transportation of it to market would be a trifling matter, compared with the value of the article.

From what we have heard on this subject, almost any "For female and young slaves, the pursuit of silk farmer or planter whose whole family consists of 15 or would furnish an employment not only a hundred per 20 persons, might supply an annual average of 2 or 300 cent. more profitable than cotton, but more calculated to lbs. of raw silk, without feeling any loss of land or labor meet and fill up the claims of humanity and wise policy-engaged in the business; and this alone would pay all and instead of having the female slave exposed to the un- the extra duties imposed by the tariff, (if any there are!) wholesome effects of morning damps, and dews, in a cot-on a whole county with 15 or 20,000 inhabitants and in ton patch, wading through grass and weeds, or basking In a hot August or September sun, while probably in a situation that forbids exposure of any kind, she might be turning the wheel, in a comfortable room, and which ultimately, if prudently directed, might render some trips to "the store" quite unnecessary. This would not render it necessary for the "merchant," to shew Mr. Planter such a big piece of paper" in the “fall”—called a

"store account.

some measure prepare the people of the south, (who in their cotton may almost be said to have a monopoly of the exports of the United States in products of the soil), for the state of things to which they are hastening by the over-production of their staple; which it is for the bene fit of our manufacturers, as well as our planters, should command a better price than it bears at present; just as the millers make most profit when the farmers are prosperous. And in these profits no injury is rendered to We heartily rejoice in the success of every the rest of the community that is not more than coun branch of the national industry, and think that we see interbalanced by advantages gained, in the more liberal the cultivation of silk the creation of a new and very va- circulation of money and higher wages paid for labor. It luable article for the internal or foreign commerce of the should always be remembered that it is the ability to purUnited States having a powerful tendency to link the chase, and not the nominal price of an article, which opevarious parts more firmly together, and render all the rates as the cost of it to the consumer. A laborer obtainpeople more happy. If not yet prepared to manufacture ing 150 cents per day, can pay two or three prices more it at home, it appears to us that raw silk might easily be for his bread, or his clothing, or his groceries, &c. than rendered an article for export second in importance only another who receives only 100 cents per day for either to cotton, and without any sensible effect on the other of these items make up but a small part of necessary exwise productive industry of the country. penses, while his earnings are advanced 50 per cent.

Much has been said concerning the establishment of The silk manufacture is a very important one. We manufactures in the south. We know of no reason why import large quantities of silk goods which, in due time, they might not as well flourish south of the Potomac as might be made at home. The British have long pro north of that river, especially in the parts adjacent to Ma-tected and cherished this manufacture, and it is one of ryland, populated with nearly the same sort of persons, and having much similarity in manners and habits; but we apprehend that if the severe laws which have been passed in certain of the states concerning slaves are necessary, that it would be highly inexpedient to employ them in large es

great extent in England. A late Liverpool paper says→→→ "The largest order ever given in England for the silk trade, has been by his majesty within the last few weeks to complete the furniture of the new apartments at Windsor. There are to be several suits of hangings of

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the most magnificent description; and the estimated expense which will attend the order will be nearly £80,000. The order, is not, we believe, confined to one house in the trade, but given to three or four of the most extensive, in order both to have it completed in time, and to afford employment to an increased number of workmen.ject to the call of individuals, except, indeed, on extra

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ceedings of the court martial held at Mobile, and lately discovered in the war department, will not be published unless called for by the proper authority-congress. The decision of the secretary appears to us a good one. Public papers, we think, in general, ought not to be subCOTTON BAGGING. The Natchez "Ariel," says. "We These will no doubt, be brought out, in a regular way, ordinary occasions, and under peculiar circumstances. readily believe our citizens, will ere long, one and all, at an early period of the approaching session of congress. anite with us in opinion, that "the American system" is as well calculated to promote our prosperity, as the There is something about these papers that reperity of any other state in the union. Nay, we do be- quires explanation. We have taken no part in the mat lieve, that in the encouragement of a kome market, rests ter, but the public mind has been greatly excited about our only hope of realizing a fair profit on our agricultural the trials, and we would represent the whole affair to We know it was asserted, when the high pro- the public intelligence. When political controversy first tecting duty on coarse cotton fabrics was first imposed, brought up these trials to remembrance, and it was rethat the consumers would have to pay an additional price ported that they were not to be found in the war departfor the article, in proportion to the amount of duty im- ment, it was asserted that president Madison had ordered posed; and the growers of the raw material would have the return of them to gov. Blount-next we saw that the to submit to a reduction in price, on account of the coun- "Nashville committee" published extracts from the tervailing duties that would be imposed by the British "original proceedings"-now we find that an account of government. We know that no such result has been exthe proceedings is discovered in the war department, perienced; on the contrary, we are satisfied, no counter-where the originals, it seems, should have been depositvailing duty will be imposed; and none are hardy enough ed from the first. We do not, in the most remote to deny, that we get the manufactured goods of a much degree, mean to insinuate wrong committed by any better quality, and at a much lower price, than before the person in this matter; but there is an apparent ir duty was imposed. The enemies of the system, when asked to point out the injurious effects of the tariff, are forced to acknowledge that much, (if not all), the evil they anticipated from it, never has and probably never will be realized. The only article they can point to, as being enhanced in price by the tariff, is cotton bagging, We saw last week, an invoice of several hundred pieces of bagging, imported in the year 1816, on which the duty was cents per yard. The duty it would now pay, under the tariff, would be not quite 4 cents per yard. Surely this difference is not worth complaining of; and it is really absurd to attribute the present high price of bagging to the tariff, for it has had no more influence on it than it has on the rise and fall of our majestic river." |

regularity in it which, we think, that the people would! like to understand, warmed as they are by discussions on the subject, and we hope that all questions concerning it, may, if possible, be put at rest, and at once-if the papers shall be called for by either branch of the national legislature. This is as much a private as a public wish-fifty pages of this work have sometimes been given up to documentary articles, all the points of which might have been brought out in less than five. It will be expected of us faithfully to insert whatever belongs to this question, and we shall do it, it' reasonably practicable; and therefore we wish that the whole may be presented at once, and as brief as possible, for the public judgment.

EXPORTATIONS. We have more than once noticed THE LATE COL. HOWARD. The city councils of Balexportations of machinery to Great Britain. The power- timore, at their late extra session, passed a resolution to loom made at Matteawan, N. Y. for weaving broad cloth, obtain a portrait of our late valuable and venerable citizen, and sent out some time ago, has been put up and is in and distinguished soldier of the revolution, col. Howard operation at Leeds, highly approved of. In the know--who left not behind him any one, perhaps, who had edge of machinery, we are fully able to "return light for light."

seen more or severer service than himself; one however, of those who passed with him through all the hardships and battles of the south, and was a soldier from Jan. 4 1776, still survives-our much esteemed friend, major Peter Jaquett, of Wilmington, Del. who in a letter addressed sometime ago to the editors of this paper, said.

The Philadelphia papers mention that a coachee, made by Mr. Ogle of that city, to the order of a gentleman of Edinburg, and about to be exported, has been exhibitel-not because it is better than many others from the shop of the same maker and others, but on account of its destination. In carriages generally, especially be during all which time I never lost more than one month's "I was attached to the army seven years and ten months; cause of their lightness and strength, as well as cheapness, duty, and never was absent one day from my regiment we greatly excel the old world; and particularly in wag-without leave. I was engaged in more than thirty field ons for burthen or the conveyance of passengers, and coachees and gigs, as well for convenience as use. This coachee weighs only about 1,000 lbs. A similar carriage of English construction, would weigh more than twice as much, as we are intormed, and not, perhaps, wear any longer. The British duty on the importation will be thirty per cent. It is expected that this order will be followed by many others.

THE ORANGE CROPS. The St. Augustine Herald says"This is an abundant season; and the exports will be large. It is estimated that the groves in, and around the eaty, will amount to 2,000,000. The exports of the week is about 400,000. Many vessels are needed to carry away what remains." [Why not import oranges from Spain, Instead of using our own, to the "injury of the revenue?" Let the opponents of domestic industry answer!]

actions, and bekles assisted in the siege, storm, or capture of nine forts or fortified places, in which I received three wounds, one of which, even yet, pains me every day."

resides at Wilmington, major Caleb Bennet. He enterAnother of col. Howard's associates in the south alko ed the army at a later period than major Jaquett, being a younger man, but faithfully and gallantry served until the revolutionary army was disbanded.

this state have excited more attention than usual, becaus TENNESSEE. The proceedings of the legislature of of the political sentiments and propositions submitted. in our last paper we inserted Mr. Brown's resolutions and the report, or reasoning upon them, with an account of other doings, useful for reference: we now give a part of the speech of Mr. Williams, of the senate of that state, in opposition to the reasoning of that report, and our read

CONGRESS will meet on Monday week. Several memers have a tolerably correct view of both sides of the hers have already arrived at Washington, and placed themselves in snug quarters for the session-which will, probably, be a very long and exceedingly unpleasant one. We shall exert ourselves to record its proceedings and to keep up with the novelties furnished.

question. The references of this gentleman to the poli tical history of the last presidential election are curion and interesting, and will, no doubt, cause a great discussion in the newspapers, and bring up to recol lection many incidents belonging to that contest. ELECTIONS AND ELECTIONEERING.

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THE TRIALS AT MOBILE. The National Intelligencer of Wednesday last, gives us to understand that the pro- been commenced in North Carolina, for the purpose of

appointing a convention to form an “Anti-Jackson" ticket | terest to be inserted in parallel columns: to issue weeklys of electors of president in that state.

Mr. Clinton has been newly nominated for the presidency at two or three meetings in New York, and some further communications favorable thereto have appeared in the "Statesman." But the N. Y. Evening Post, of the 8th inst. the day after the election, published the following until which time it had been, as a matter of delicacy, retained

"Dear sir- lately had a personal conversation with gov. Clinton, on the subject we talked of, as to the late singular course pursued by the Statesman, which has been generally supposed to possess his confidence; and it gives me sincere pleasure to inform you, that with his accustomed frankness he assured me that he disclaimed all participation in the policy that the Statesman had thought proper to recommend, so far as concerned himself. He said most explicitly, that he had not directly nor indirectly consented, and would not consent that his name should gen. Jackbe used as a candidate in opposition to that of Sun. That any other course on his part would be contrary to principle, a violation of honor and of good faith, and finishing by declaring, that the nomination of gen. Jackson met with his approbation.''

at $250 per annua, if paid in advance. The design of it is to spread, and preserve, the laws of the nation and its public documents; and furnish accounts of its manners, customs, education, religion, &c. and promote a love of literature in this people. We heartly wish success to this project. Whether it be the Cherokees, or any other nation, we are nearly indifferent-but we have long wished that some one tribe might be incorporated into the family of the republic-as proof to posterity that extermination was not the desire of the generation in which WASHINGTON lived and JEFFERSON flourished, however much it has resulted from the march of the white population. and, perhaps, generally must.

"THE CONSPIRACY CASES." The New York Commercial says The supreme court have unanimously de clared the indictment against Messrs. Eckford and Bar ker, invalid-So ends this business.

THOMAS ADDIS EMMET, on Wednesday, last week, sitting in court in apparent health, was observed to lean forward on the table, and when spoken to found to be insensible. Life, however, had not departed and he was The meetings of the people in the severd counties of carried home on a litter, and expired at a 11 o'clock at Virginia, for and against the present administration, are night, being insensible from the moment of the attack. He going on. An organization of its friends is making iad been closely confined in the "Astor case," and exKentucky-in which state it seems that they have a ma-erted himself exceedingly. He was a brother of the famous Robert Emmet, and has not left behind him an jority of ten in the house of representatives and of three The court of chancery was in the senate. Delegates have been appointed in many abler jurist or a better man. counties of Pennsylvania to attend a convention to be immediately adjourned after he was stricken, and every held at Harrisburg on the 4th of January, to nominate a possible mark of attention was paid while he survived, or ticket of electors favorable to Mr. Adams. At the meet of respect shewn after his decease, by the citizens and ing held in Pittsburg, gov. Shulze was named for the members of the bar of New York, who regarded him with vice presidency. great love and reverence.

The Missouri Republican says-Editors in the Atlanthe states, when describing the mode of appointing elec tors in Illinois, and Missouri, generally put down these states as choosing by districts, and calculations on the result of the next election are not unfrequently made, predicated upon a probable division of the votes of one or both of them.-This is a mistake: both states will vote in 1828 by general ticket, and there is no probability of a division of the vote of either. In Missouri, the law providing for the appointment of electors is somewhat peculiar The state is divided into districts, one resident of each of those districts is to be chosen by the voters of the whole state, and no two persons residing in the same district can be chosen as electors. Every voter designates three persons as his choice, and the person (residing in auy one district) having the highest number of votes given in the state for any one person residing in the same The prac district, will be the elector for that district." tical consequence of this regulation will be, that each voter will give his vote to three persons, no two of whom reside in the same district; and the result will be the same as in the ordinary general ticket system, with the exception of the residence of the electors.

FIRES. We have a list of the houses destroyed by the late fire at Mobile-they amount to one hundred and sixty-nine, exclusive of back buildings or out-houses, and much damage was also done to the wharves. About 7 8ths of the buildings destroyed were of wood-hence the extent of the calamity. In many instances, entire sets of the books of the merchants were destroyed, of course, large quantities of goods and furniture.

Niblo's hotel, at Petersburg, Va. was recently destroyed by fire-the chief part of the furniture and other moveables saved. It was insured to the amount of $35,000.

LABEL CASE. The Wheeling Gazette of the 17th inst. furnishes the following law case. Truth, it seems, is no justification in Virginia, in matters charged as libellousand a person seeking damages, has, by his counsel, soliited the suppression of it, that damages might be obtained! The jury, however, soon settled the matter; and we question if ever a jury will be found in the United States to sanction the saying that "truth is a libel," unless unnecessarily told, and for the gratification of ma lignant personal purposes.

The Albany Argus thus classes the members elect of the legislature of New York-"regular republican" 81, "federal" 17, "anti masonic" 14, "Clintonían Jackson" The commonwealth, vs. Robert I. Curtis, 4. Eight counties electing 12 members, yet to be heard The public have already been informed, that, at the from. The "Advocate" claims 49 members as friendly to the administration, so far as the returns were received, August court, an indictment was preferred against the and holds out the expectation of others, mentioning seve-editor, at the instance of Mr. Carter Beverley, (author ral counties in which the presidential question was not nade the test. The whole number of members in the assembly is 128. Phineas L. Tracy, the "administration candidate," has been elected to congress in place of Mr. Evans resigned.

At a convention of the members of the legislature of Vermont, held on the 9th inst. Jonas Galusha, Ezra ButJer, John Phelps, Apollos Austin, William Jarvis, Asa Aldis, and Josiah Dana, were nominated electors of presilent; and Samuel C. Crafts, for governor, Mr. Butler having declined a re-election. All friendly to the reelection of Mr. Adams.

"THE CHEROKEE PHOENIX." This is the title of a newspaper, proposed to be published by Elias Boudinot, in the Cherokee nation, for the benefit of the people thereof-in part to be printed in English, and in part with the lately invented Cherokee characters-matters of in

of "the Fayetteville letter," &c. &c,) for charging Mr. B. with falsehood and misrepresentation in his letter to Duff Green of the 11th July,

This cause occupied two days at the late [November] court, and was decided on the 10th inst. The defendant offered, in justification, proof of the truth of the publica tion complained of as libellous. On behalf of the commonwealth, it was contended, that it was not competent for the defendant to give such proof in justification. The argument upon this point was of considerable length and great interest. Mr. Doddrige, for the defendant, maintamed, that under the circumstances of this case, it was competent for the defendant to prove the truth of the publication in justification. We are sorry we cannot lay his argument before our readers, for, although it did not convince the court, we are persuaded it would convinee the public, that the legal grounds which he assum ed, "will stand the test of human serutiny, of talents and