houses of the general assembly of VIRGINIA, in secret | I feel proud of belonging to such a nation which has session, which had for their object to call on the presi-produced such a blaze of talents. It shivers the manisident of the United States, to use the treaty-making festo of the Spanish cabinet into dust and ashes. Into power for the acquisition of a territory in Africa, which what utter insignificance does the redoubtable chevalier might contain the black population of the United Onis sink! He seems like a pigmy in the hands of a giant. States." Again-"fifteen years ago, the power of the State rights. The following we find marked from the general government was invoked by Virginia for this ob- Albany Advertiser, date not given, but probably in ject, with almost legislative unanimity." But if 1827.-"The singular manner in which some politicians within the last fifteen years the constitution of the Unit- can change their principles, though not new, is indeed ed States has not been changed, the opinions of the paradoxical. I can recollect when in the senate of this hair-splitting political doctors of Virginia have tumbled state, the hon. Martin Van Buren proposed a plan for "topsey-turvey," and on many important points. We balloting for 12,000 of our militia, and giving them up know not where to find these folks. Right changes to the United States for a term of years. A motion was with them, as expediency leads-personal pride being made to limit them to the defence of this state. He opthe sun of their system. posed it, and it was rejected. Thus a law was passed, Wur on the Indians. The late proceedings of Geor-thro' Mr. Van Buren's influence, converting our citizens gia, and the marching of state troops into the Indian by ballot into regulars, and sending them without their country, gives force to the following: consent, into Canada, and into distant states. This law Extract of a letter from general Jackson, to gov. Ra-passed the winter that peace was proclaimed, and on bun of Georgia, dated the 7th May, 1818. that account did not go into effect. I shall ever remember the noble stand then made by gen. Root. He openly declared upon the floor of the senate, that "Mr. Van B's project was worse than French conscription or British "impressment. "The one," he said, "merely forced sailors, and the other young men; both of whom were generally destitute of families; whilst Mr. Van B's. law drew men from all classes, and compelled them to become soldiers."

"That a governor of a state should assume the right to make war against an Indian tribe, in perfect peace with and under the protection of the United States, is assuming a responsibility that, I trust, you will be able to excuse to the government of the United States, to which you will have to answer, and through which I had so recently passed, promising the aged that remained at hame my protestion, and taking the warriors with me in the campaign, is as unaccountable as strange. But it is still more strange, that there could exist, within the United States, a cowardly monster in human shape, that should violate the sanctity of a flag, when borne by any person, but more particularly when in the hands of a superannuated Indian chief, worn down with age.Such base cowardice and murderous conduct, as this transaction affords, has not its parallel in history, and shall meet with its merited punishment."

Appointments to office. The following is related in a Philadelphia paper. It refers to a noble characteristic of the incomparable hero of our revolution:"We recollect an anecdote of Gen. WASHINGTON, when president of the United States, which exhibits that true magnanimity which ought to characterise every chief magistrate of a free and enlightened nation. There was a personal and devoted friend of Washington, whom he had treated with great kindness, and to whom he had In his message to congress, 5th Feb. 1827, Mr. given many proofs of his friendship. This man, presumAdams said "It is my duty to say, that if the legisla-ing upon the intimacy and friendship that existed be tive and executive authorities of the state of Georgia tween them, applied tor an office, for which it appears should persevere in acts of encroachment upon the the president did not think him qualified. The publie territory secured by a solemn treaty to the Indians, and good, in his opinion, would not be promoted by his apthe laws of the union remain unaltered, a superadded pointment. The answer of Washington ought to be inobligation, even higher than that of human authority, scribed in letters of gold, and hung up in the president's will compel the executive of the United States to eif-house, at the seat of government."As George Washforce the laws, and fulfil the duties of the nation, by all ington, you may depend upon my friendship and willingthe force committed for that purpose to his charge.-ness to serve you, BUT AS PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED That the arm of military force will be resorted to only STATES, I CAN DO NOTHING FOR YOU.” in event of the failure of all other expedients provided by the law, a pledge has been given by the forbearance to employ it at this time. It is submitted to the wisdom of congress to determine, whether any further act of legislation may be necessary or expedient to meet the emergency which these transactions may produce."

"THE MORGAN AFFAIR." We rather hastily adopted a paragraph from the New York "Commercial Advertiser," and published it in our last paper, concerning a matter about which, because of its prolixity and uncertainty, we had resolved to do no more than record reThe Seminole war. Extract from Mr. Clay's speech sults. We have read the trial of Adams, at Lockport. in the house of representatives-"Mr. C. begged leave The testimony on behalf of the people was given by further to premise, that the subject under consideration Richard Giddins and James A. Shed, accomplices in presented two distinct aspects, susceptible in his judg.the false imprisonment and conspiracy against Morgan. ment of the most clear and precise discrimination. The The testimony is not of that direct character which the one he would call its foreign, the other its domestic as-"Commercial" led us to expect, as to the murder of pect. In regard to the first, he would say, that he ap-Morgan; for the judge, in his charge, said, "the defenproved entirely of his government, and that Spain had dant, if guilty at all, was guilty of assault and battery no cause of complaint. Having violated an important stipulation of the treaty of 1795, that power had justly subjected herself to all the consequences which ensued upon the entry into her dominions, and it belonged not to her to complain of those measures which resulted from her breach of contract; stil less had she a right to examine into the considerations connected with the domestic aspect of the subject."

The manner in which Mr. Adams defended the general, is well known. Of his letter to Don Onis, dated 28th Nov. 1818, the Richmond Enquirer thus spoke:

and false imprisonment of William Morgan, and of a conspiracy actually carried into effect. The punishment was imprisonment not exceeding two years, a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars." To these things Giddens and Shed were as much parties as Adams, the prisoner at the bar; and, relying on the testimony of the witnesses, it seems they understood that Morgan had been murdered, but how and when, and where, or by whom, they knew not-or did not tell. And though the probability of murder is so much strengthened as to inspire a belief that Morgan's life was surely taken, the "I cannot sufficiently express the profound, sentiments dark transaction has not been cleared up by this trial, as of admiration and delight with which I have perused this we supposed that it had been, on reading the article in state paper. It is written with an astonishing force of the "Commercial." Eleven of the jury agreed upon a Ingenuity, and adorned with the most captivating elo-verdict of guilty against Adams, for assault and battery, quence of all descriptions. It has the air of a man who &c. as stated by the judge-but the twelfth man "would feels most acutely for the wrongs of his country; who is not believe the witnesses who were accomplices," and indignant at the insults offered her by the aggressor pre- the jury, not being able to agree, was discharged. tending to demand redress, and who pours out those feelings in the most forcible strains. It is a monument SILK. The bill for promoting the culture of silk, of diplomatic genius. It is an ornament to my country. lately before congress, was very important. Its leading

object was the establishment of filatures-for preparing | will admit. Practice has tested its utility, although not the silk from the cocoons, so that it might be rendered an article of commerce. In this state, being reeled, it is called raw silk, and its average price is about five dollars the pound.

Our imports of silk goods are worth eight millions of dollars a year. It will, probably, be a long time before we shall have extensive manufactories of such goods; but we have it in our power, in a very short period, to supply as much raw silk as will pay for all the goods that we consume, and thus add nearly eight millions annually to the general wealth of the country; for the feeding and management of the worms may be almost wholly accomplished by the labor and attention of aged and feeble persons, or quite young children, without injury to them, though now wholly unproductive for the want of suitable employments; and thus the great value stated may be obtained at little more than the cost of reeling the silk-a home-market for the cocoons being made by the establishment of filatures.

To the south, especially, this matter is interesting. It would afford occupation to aged slaves and small children-and, because of its production, enable their owners materially to improve their condition; and, as it relates to agriculture, we hope that it is not liable to those "constitutional scruples" which belong to manufactures!

heretofore made public. The recent publications on the management of cocoons and culture of silk, by government, will instruct any person to prepare the cocoon for winding and in saving the raw or refuse silk for the market. For further information the public are referred to the editor of the American Farmer, published at Baltimore, or to Daniel Hack, Savage factory, near Baltimore.

The machine above mentioned seems to be the only thing that was needed to promote the culture of silk, in the family way-by which much money is made in Connecticut; in some, enough by silk, only, to support the whole family.

RAIL ROADS.

Loads of seventy-five barrels of flour are now brought from Ellicott's mills to Baltimore, 13 miles, in two hours, by one horse, without more apparent labor than is caused by the drawing of a gig, with two persons, over a good common road.* Mr. Cooper's model locomotive engine is plying on a part of the road, for the gratification of those who wish to ride by steam, at the rate of 18 or 20 miles an hour.

mile!

Many rail roads are about to be made in different parts of the United States, the subscriptions for which have overflowed. The Liverpool and Manchester rail It appears that in seven years, from 1821 to 1828, Great road will make unexpected dividends. The stock is at Britain imported 24,157,516 lbs. raw silk, at five dol-a great advance, though the road cost about 35,000%, a lars a pound, costing $120,787,580-or, $17,225,000 worth annually. There was exported of raw silk from Italy alone, (though large quantities are manufactured in that country), of the value of 59,881,233 dollars in these seven years, or at the rate of about 8,500,000 dollars a year-equal to the average value of our crops of tobacco and rice; and so much may be exported from the United States, without any diversion of the labor of the people which shall materially affect the production of any of our present staple commodities.

A late Liverpool paper says-On Saturday last the Majestic, a new engine which has just been put on the railway, travelled six times between Liverpool and Manchester, a distance of one hundred and eighty miles!-The total quantity of goods conveyed backwards and forwards amounted to one hundred and fortytwo tons!-The same engine travelled on Monday one hundred and twenty miles, with loads similar to those taken on Saturday. There are now ten engines of Mr. Stephenson's employed on the rail-way.

We were favored a short time ago, with a beautiful [The expense of fuel, oil, and attendance on this enskein of sewing silk, being the first manufactured with- gine, is said not to exceed $5 a day. At this rate of in the city of Troy, N. Y. by Mrs. E. Pawling in 1830-cost, 25,560 tons may be transported one mile for five the lady of the first mayor of that city. It is excellent. dollars-or fifty tons one mile for one cent! Accompanying the specimen, was an account of the progress of the culture of silk at Troy. It shews the "STATE RIGHTS DANCE." The much talked of "state success that attended the patriotic efforts of Mrs. Paw-rights ball," was given at Charleston to his excellency ling a lady whose example must have much effect, gov. Hamilton, of South Carolina, on the 3d inst. in the (from her condition in life) to encourage those who are theatre. We have a large account of it, in the nullificatin a dependent state, to pursue this elegant branch of ing Mercury. The governor was received with a flourindustry, so happily fitted for the attention of females-ish of trumpets and an immense concourse of spectators. in whose welfare the public has a deep and lively inte- The finale is thus givenrest. Many tens of thousands of these, now straightened for the means of respectable subsistence-if so situated that they could obtain supplies of mulberry leaves, taight, at least, live comfortably, if not accumulate little fortunes for themselves, by rearing the worms and preparing the silk-a delicate employment, exactly suited to them, and in no wise interfering with that sort of retirement which is so commendable in young women and girls. It is added, that Dr. Corning, an enterpri sing merchant and manufacturer at Troy, has lately planted many mulberry trees, to encourage the culture of silk. We think that farmers adjacent to many of our cities and towns and almost all the villages and hamlets in the United States, cannot raise any crop that might be rendered more profitable than mulberry trees. A regular business could easily be made of it, in selling leaves by the pound, to females and children having charge of silk worms.

The silk manufactures of England are estimated to amount to £14,000,000 sterling per annum, or upwards of 62,000,000 of dollars.

Silk filature-adapted to family use. This neat little apparatus (about the size of a lady's work table,) consists of eight spindles or winders, and the necessary appendages, complete for making organzine or warp for stuffs, of any size over five fibres of the cocoon, with any amount of twist per inch required, at one operation. It is also adapted to doubling and awisting; with an easy speed of the hand at the crank or winch, from fwo to three thousand yards of thread per hour may be produced as the quantity of twist required

"When the company dispersed, every one retired, not only highly gratified with the splendor and gaiety of the scene, but carrying with him the animating conviction that the cause of state rights goes on triumphantly "conquering and to conquer," and that the flame of liberty yet burns as vividly in the hearts of Carolinians as when it was first kindled by their fathers upon the altar of patriotism-the Palmetto fort."

Among the decorations of the room were portraits of John Randolph, ("set in ever-green!")—and Mr. Calhoun. In regard to the latter, the Mercury says

"Of these we should neither do justice to our own feelings, nor to the interesting occasion of which we are giving an account, if we did not distinctly record those of John C. Calhoun, the pride of Carolina-a statesman unsurpassed in genius, or experience, & patriot, whose spotless reputation calumny has indeed attempted but cannot taint-who is even now triumphantly treading under foot the despicable snares which were laid for his destruction, and who is yet destined to attain an eminence from which he will look down with pity on the impotent malice of his enemies."

*This appears a common load.-On the 15th instant, one horse drew four cars laden with one hundred barrels of flour, from the mills to the relay house, six miles, at the rate of seven miles an hour-another horse then drew the same load with equal speed to the depot in Baltimore. Neither horse appeared distressed. This result is the effect of the almost entire annihilation of friction in the machinery of Winans' improved cars.

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But Mr. Calhoun is not a nullifier. Will all this be | West Branch; $100,000 to the North Branch; $25,000 to the Lewistowu cross-cut, to be paid out of the West taken "bock again?" Branch appropriation; $100,000 to the Big Beaver, and $60,000 to the French creek.

A late Salem paper speaking THE WHALE FISHERY. of the whale fishery, says--within the last week, six ships have arrived at New Bedford from whaling cruises to the Pacific and South Atlantic ocean-three of which have brought home 6,550 barrels of oil-the remaining three are reported with full cargoes, probably having not less than 2,500 barrels each, making an aggregate of 14,050 barrels. There are upwards of one hundred ships employed in the whaling business from that port, and the number is rapidly increasing. The benefits derived by that town from this productive business are immense. The tonnage of the port is considerably greater than that of Salem; and next, in New England, to Boston. Its population has nearly doubled, in the last ten years; and it bids fair in a short time to outstrip the other New England commercial towns in population, as it has already done in commerce. Its present population is 8,000. A great many new buildings are annually erected and numerous other improvements are actively and constantly going forward. This prosperity is the result alone of the successful pursuit of the whale fishery. Most heartily do we wish them continued and increased success.

MASSACHUSETTS CLAIMS. The governor of Massachusetts, in a message to the house of representatives, acknowledges the receipt of $419,748 26 from the secretary of the treasury, under the act of congress which provides for the settlement of the Massachusetts claims. The terms of the act by which Maine was separated from Massachusetts proper, give one-third of this money to that state. It will be observed, that for some reason or other, the accounting officers have cut short (a few thousand dollars) the appropriation allowed by congress-which was $430,748 26. The original claim was $843,601 34.

BLOCK ISLAND. The people who reside on this speck on the ocean, and belong to the state of Rhode Island, during the late severe weather, were forty-seven days without intercourse with the main land, and many of their little comforts were exhausted.

PATERSON. The people of this thrifty manufacturing town, having resolved to make a rail road to the Hudson river, opened a subscription for 250,000 dollars to effect the work,-20 per cent. to be paid on subscribing. But on the close of the books, the first day, it was found that $1,291,750 dollars had been subscribed-or five times the amount required! May speedy and complete success attend this noble display of public spirit at Patersou!

PROVIDENCE-cotton market. Because of the frost, the supply of cotton, at Providence, R. I. was only 1,488 bales, on the 11th Feb. ult.-but several ship-loads were lying at Newport, or daily expected to arrive there.

GEORGIA AND THE INDIANS. The legislature of Georgia, at its late session, passed the following act, which is denominated a law: the Cherokee Indians, so far as the Indians are conAn act to declare void all contracts hereafter made with cerned.

Be it enacted by the senate and house of representatives of the state of Georgia, in general assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That no Cherokee Indian shall be bound by any contract hereafter to be entered into with a white person or persons, nor shall any Indian be liable to be sued in any of the courts of law or equity in this state, on such contract.

[This, we suppose, is not considered a law impairing the obligation of contracts.' It only declares certain contracts void-deprives them of all obligation, but does not impair their obligation. It places the Cherokee Inders them incapable of contracting at all, and exempts dians on the same footing with infants and slaves-renthem from all liability to coercion for the performance of their voluntary obligations. Such a statute is indeed a strange one under our federal constitution. It shows It furnishes a strong and impressive comhow far passion and prejudice may carry intelligent and upright men. mentary on the salutary provisions and intended restrictions of the constitution of the United States.]

[Nashville Banner.

NEW YORK 7's. NEW JERSEY. The editors of the LOUISIANA AND THE MISSISSIPPI. Whereas it is of New York Evening Post, have commenced the publication of documents which have been laid before the legislature relative to the controversy between that vital importance to the commercial interest, not only of state and the state of New Jersey, as to territory and Louisiana, but of the United States, that the obstructions jurisdictional limits. It appears that New Jersey has at the entrance of the Mississippi be removed, and wherecommenced a suit in the supreme court of the United as the difficulties of entering the river are daily increasStates, in which she sets forth that she is justly entitieding, and immense losses have lately been sustained in Be it resolved by the senate and house of representato the exclusive jurisdiction and property of and over consequence thereof: the waters of the Hudson river, from the 41st degree of latitude to the bay of New York, or midway of the said tives of the state of Louisiana, in general assembly conriver, and to the midway of the channel of the said bay vened, That the senators of this state be instructed, and of New York, and the whole of Staten Island sound, to- the representatives be requested, to represent to the ge gether with the land covered by water of the said river,neral government the necessity of deepening the mouth bay and sound, in the like extent. To bring the matter of the Mississippi, and urge that a suitable appropriation Be it further resolved, That the governor be requestto an issue, she has filed her bill accordingly, and pro- for that purpose be made without delay, cured a subpoena to be served on the governor and attor ney general of this state, to appear on behalf of the peo-ed to have transmitted, as speedily as possible to the ple of the state of New York, and answer thereto, under delegation in congress from Louisiana, a copy of this the penalty of five hundred dollars. The governor has resolution. informed the legislature, that, unless otherwise directed, he shall instruct the attorney general to protest against any evidence of right on the part of the state of New Jersey by appearing, and contesting the suit in its progress to its final result.

Α. Μουτου, Speaker of the house of representatives. ISAAC A. SMITH, President of the senate. A. R. ROMAN, governor of the state of Louisiana. LOUISIANA. It is estimated that from 50 to 60,000 Those intePENNSYLVANIA. The bill providing for the prosecution of the works of internal improvement now in pro- bales of cotton, and 6 to 7,000 hogsheads of sugar, will go gress in Pennsylvania, has at length received the sanc-out of the Red river the present season. tion of both branches of the state legislature, and only rested will note the progress of production, though many cannot comprehend how it is that supply affects price! wants the signature of the governor to become a law. It appropriates $600,000 to the rail-road from Philadelphia to Columbia; $116,170 to the canal from Columbia to Middletown; $125,000 to the western turnpikes; $700,000 to the canal or slackwater navigation between Huntingdon and Hollidaysburg, and the rail-road across the Alleghany mountains; $200,000 to the extension on the

[From the Journal of INDIANA. Official dignity. Commerce.] The close of the late session of the legis lature presented a scene of rather novel interest in the history of legislation. The nomination of the judges of the supreme court by governor Ray gave great dissatis

The allusion to the money paid by England, to the electorate, for troops sent to this country, to oppose us in our struggle for independence, and the appropriation of it, must be pleasing to all our readers. We have no room to-day for comments. Who does not know that the Hessians

tion to the senate, and after various reports, resolutions and messages, the difference was blown into a perfect hurricane by a message from the governor impugning the motives of the members in some of their proceedings. Several of the senators rose in their places and charged the governor with using his official patronage for electioneering purposes, declaring that the state was dis-Were bought for seven and six pence every man?"* graced by him, and praying that Providence would Extract from a letter to a gentleman of this city, dated avert a similar calamity for the future. The governor, Hesse Cassel, Dec. 19, 1830. hearing these denunciations as he was sitting in the lobby, attempted to defend himself, but sat down in a few minutes, apparently overcome by the intensity of his emo

CITIES ON THE OHIO. Nineteen or twenty steam, when thus swollen-the rapidity of their descents being boats, several of them of the first class, were at the considered! wharves of Pittsburg on the 8th. inst. lading and unlading. Thirteen boats had arrived, and seven departed in the four preceding days. The river was then seventeen feet above low water mark.

Cincinnati was also full of business. About the 1st March, there were sixteen steam boats in port-eight large ones arrived from New Orleans in one day; and about a dozen stop daily, passing up or down the "beautiful river."

The Cincinnati American says-"We understand that there are twenty-five thousand barrels of flour at one point on the Miami canal, waiting for the opening of navigation."

The coal trade on the Potomac is rapidly increasing. DISTRESSING. We find in the Western Times, published in Centreville, Indiana, the following account: "We were informed a few days since, by a gentleman traveller from the west, that during the severe weather, a man, about 45 years of age, his wife, six children, and four horses, were frozen to death on the great prairie in Illinois. When discovered-THE MOTHER LAY WITH A SMALL CHILD IN HER ARMS-five other children around her-the father, with an axe and flint in his hands, as if he had been trying to strike fire--a part of his wagon was cut into small pieces for kindling, and all "THE LEAK AND WATTS ORPHAN HOUSE" is about the horses in a heap, stiff in their harness. The name to be built at New York. John G. Leak died sometime of the unfortunate family, or where they were froin, since, leaving about 300,000 dollars to a young man t was not ascertained when our informant passed along." named Watts, with the condition that if he died before he arrived at the age of 21 years, the property should be vested for the support of orphan children, of all denominations. Young Watts died after he was 21 years old, and the great property became vested in his father, John Watts; but the latter has resigned the whole of it for the purpose of founding such an establishment. It is a noble deed.

THE PIRATES Sentence of death has been pronounced, at N. York, upon T. J. Wansley and Charles Gibbs, charged with piracy on board the brig Vineyard, and the murder of the captain and mate of the vessel, on her voyage from New Orleans, with a quantity of specie on board.

THE SLAVE TRADE. Late lespatches from the British vessels of war employed on the coast of Africa for suppressing the slave trade, shew that this savage business is in full activity, under the Spanish, Portuguese, Brazillian and French flags. These are some of the vessels -ship Velos Passagena, 26 guns, 555 slaves, captured by the British sloop of war Primrose; San Jago de Cuba, 165 slaves, and four other vessels, captured by other British cruisers. A French slave-brig, the Duke of Bordeaux, with 561 slaves, for Guadaloupe, was also captured, but given up, conformable to the treaty with France. Six or seven others, all from Havana, were off the coast, or had just left it, laden with slaves; but the success of the British cruisers had much checked the traffic, and caused the breaking up of several establishments. The 561 slaves, on board the French brig, were "stowed in bulk" and naked, and in a most horrible condition.

It is stated that the king of Loango had brought 100 slaves to the coast for sale, but finding no slaver on the station, butchered them all in cold blood, as he thought it too expensive to feed them. The bleeched bones of the unfortunate victims were still to be seen on the shore. "I tremble," said Jefferson; "when I think that Gon is just." Vengeance will be satisfied. A fearful and black belt will extend-its western end nearly touching Florida, its eastern resting on South America; the abode of pirates and murderers, retaliating the wrongs inflicted on themselves or their fathers, by pretended Christian white men.

MR. STAMBAUGH. Since the rejection by the senate of Mr. Stambaugh, as Indian agent at Green Bay, the president has appointed him sub-agent at the same place. [Penn. Inquirer.

WOLVES. Almost every winter, and especially in severe ones, we hear of the horrid death of men and women, in some parts of France and Spain, by wolves, who fearlessly attack and devour them. The United States have abounded with wolves-the western districts of Pennsylvania, &c. were as if filled with them-and a few, solitary and timid ones are still met with; but the deadly rifle has nearly exterminated them—and those which remain, no matter how much pressed by hunger, flee from the face of the destroyer-man. The character of the animal seems as if changed by the exterminating war that has been waged against him, by an armed people.

GOLD. Harris' mine, in Charlotte country, North Carolina, for some time past, was worked without much if any profit and abandoned for some months. But its working was resumed about the 10th of Feb. and in preparing for a new shaft, the vein was cut, which now, with much reason, excites high expectation on the part of the proprietors. The width of the vein is from four to eight and ten inches, and its inclination, so far as it appears, is about 80 degrees. In some parts it yields dust gold mixed with chrystals of magnetic iron; but what is most characteristic, are the masses of virgin gold which resemble moss, and occur in nests of several hundred dollars value each.

The examination is as yet very little progressed. From an opening of the vein however, of 10 feet long, 4 wide and 18 deep, there has been, as we are informed by the proprietors, extracted about five thousand dollars, and the vein is, to appearance, increasing in size, and not diminishing in richness. The minerals of the vein are quartz, oxides of iron, magnetic iron ore, &c. embraced in a calceous slate. [N. C. paper.

AN INDEPENDENT JUDICIARY. A state law nullificated by state judges. The Nashville (Tennessee) Banner of the 25th ult. says "The judges appointed by act of the last legislature, to constitute a special Since the preceding was written we have official court, for the express purpose of trying certain cases accounts of an insurrection among the negroes at Mar-growing out of late defalcations to the bank of the state tinico. They had fired the town of St. Pierre, and of Tennessee, on Monday delivered their opinions serinconsumed many houses, and ravaged and destroyed tim, sustaining the pleas to the jurisdiction of the court, thirteen plantations, by fire-they resisted the military and deciding the act by which they were appointed to with fire-arms and cutlasses; but were put down, for the discharge the duty, to be unconstitutional." present, and 126 of them, male and female, arrested, a number of whom had been shot. The governor apprehending a continuance of such proceedings, had issued a decree to establish a military court, &c. for six months. The colony was, perhaps, saved only by the free people of color, who, in most important respects, have the same rights and privileges as the white inhabitants, and hence form a strong party against the slaves.

OUR RIVERS. The Ohio river was lately twenty feet above low water mark-the Potomac fifteen, and the Susquehannah twelve and a half. What vast bodies of water must be discharged by these mighty rivers,

FOREIGN ARTICLES.

We have been compelled to omit our usual notices of events abroad, in the great demand for our room to attend to things at home. A very brief summary is all that is now needful to offer.

GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND.

On or about the 16th of January, Mr. O'Connell was arrested on a charge of conspiracy" to violate or avoid the effects of the proclamation of the lord-lieutenant, as to political meetings of the people. This caused a mighty excitement at Dublin; but O'Connell and his friends, arrested with him, gave bail, and so the matter