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V warn (»]BiiaiioiBa&®<i>waiai MUKBENW > VOLUME I. GREENSBOROUGH, N. G, JULY 2, 1839. NUMBER 20. PUBLISHED WKUKLV. I.YSDOM SWAIM & M. H. SIIEHWOOU TERM S: Two Dollars ami Fitly Cents n year, in advance,—or Tlirco Dollara, after the expira-tion of thri-o months from Ibo data of Iho lirsl number received.—No papi r »ill be discou-tinued until all amtntsi 'are paid, except at the option of the publishers ; and a failure to order a discontinuance within the year will bo considered a new engagement. Adtrrtui-menti,—at One Dollar per square, for the Orel insertion, and Twenty-Jive Cents for each succeeding publication. A liberal deduction will bo made in favor oftliose who advertise by the quarter, or for a longer period. (C7" It-tiers to the publishers must come free of postage, or they cannot IK' atlendetl to. Ill ■..' — COMMUNICATION. Far the GrcensbarouRh Patriot. Stoke* County, June llth, 1639. MB. EDITOR: 1 liavo bin a thinkin for some time I should like to rite to you consar-nin poll)licks, but my nabors said I had better not, becaus as you was a whig and a< 1 waaon totlier aide, you wouldeut Iirint my ritins for me. Well totlier day sees one of your papers anil I seed so much printed thcro that is rong, that I have concluded to rite you a frondly let-ter in li<i]ir, ili.it it will aid you in seeing the error of your ways and induce jou to turn; and this is a private Utter as I dont want printed in the paper?, for I only rile it becaus I lliort it my duty. It seems tli.it you are agin .Mr. Hill our candidate for kongrcs, and it does appear to mo to bee the most strangest thing in natcr that any body can be agin him, for you know Mr. Hill is in favot of the president and Mr. Shcppcid is a-gin him—why sarlinly you have never saw Mr. Hill. Why Ivc known linn al-ways, and he is a nice clever man, and he is so frondly to the pore pcplo in per-tickler. Now you shortly dont know whats good for you, or you would not be agin Vanburcn. If you could onlv hear Mr. Hill talk a bout it, I know youd turn—he dont talk so pretty when he makes big speeches, but it is when In-takes you out by yourself—O he dose ■plain it so nico! Mo and Mr. Hill is old fronds, and he talks to mo jest as same as if I was a big man, and he looks so smilin, and he will stand and talk jest as long as I please. So one day lie told me how a man hailort to do;—he says it is jest as easy for a man to be |kipltr as Otipoplcr, for Ifhe will keep his eye skin-ned be can always sic how ibe wind's about to blow. Ho cays that ho was cotch^d onco and only once, an.] lit lalfi d mighlly when ho told me of it— it was when Jackson fust ContO out : he aayi that ho read the papers ami heard the people talk, and thort thai CralTord would be the poplar man, so he went for CratTord, and be was a candidate lor the Scmhly that year, ami out comes Shover for Jackson and heats him ; be says that before thfl lection was over ho seen ho was on the rong trail, and wishl many mid many a time tint he bad of took up at lust for Jackson, but it wag too late. Ho says that when they was Icel.onocr- j illVor,| Mr. irj,| rouM „„, anspI j, a|, in that year Shove, .old1 the people all a. .,,„„„ ,|„, jacksoll or no JK^ bout how Jackson had lout for urn, and „11!M lhi w0, , ,„„ Vanburin a that it took amasin well. He says that this sanu Shepperd was poling for the commons thai saim year and he wos for Jackson too, and maid some speeches for Jackson, and they hurt Mr. Hill pretty considerable, and he hainl forgot Shop, pord for that yel. Well so ho says that next year he come out for Jackson, find-in as he was the poplorcst, ami that the people liked him becaus he had lout for urn, and that year he beat Shover al! holler. Well he says he hung on to Jackson very close tell Jackson killed the bill that kongrcs past rcniiing the chapter of the United Slates bank, and then he laid mutral for a w bile, for he had always thorl the bank was a mighty good thing, and he had never hearn nothing agin it be-fore and he did not beleeve tiic people would like Jacksons killin it, and ns he had bin cotch once he wos determine ' not lo lip in the dark agin. So he wait-id lell Ibe bill was fotch into kongrea agin, and then when he seed that the members of kongrcs who had voted for it afore they know'd Jackson was agin it, then voted agin it and call it a monster and heard the people say it was a inon. strr and onconstitulionable, for giner.il Jackson (aid it wos—he know'd winch way to steer then, and so he conic out agin the bank. Well Mr. Hill says he wos in Ihe same fix agin when Jackson took the public mono* out of the United States hank be-caus it wonldent lectionocr for him, and give it to some Stale hanks that wos wil-lin to lectionocr for him: he says he know'd it was rong, and laid still toll he found Which Way the people would go, and when he found thev would go with Jackson he come out and went thai way too,—and he says he found that the pi o pail of the oiimfi>iim d people coiiipi in about any ol their acts, he ji si tells about how J.iok.-on I,ml for Hie coil.i til, and if hi bodlm bin a friend to tin country he would, nt ol f. ut so for it, sud that Jackson knows V,ml,men, and he recommend, d him, and that Vanbor, n Mad promised to tread in J.icksons foot-steps, and that no true Jackson man will complaint and thai none will complain but bank whigs, fcdralists and tones, and that they aro all ogin Jackson and Vanburcn because they are friends to the country, and that ourn is the only rcpib-licnn parly, and that all lhais agio our parly is either bank whigs, f- drslcsla or lories, why be says they eoiuea over preily considerable quick. And he says •ts best lo keep the peple with their at-tention turned lo Jackson, for if they once lose site of him and examin the measures of the administration, and lei each measure siand or fall upon its own merits, Ihat a body would never know where to find the peplo, and then candi-dates would havo to stand or fall upon their own merits, and nono but men of merit could be lectcd to any oflicc. Well this was on tuzedy of cort week and then we quit talkin becaus he said he wanted to look over his speech, as he and Shepperd had lo speak the next day. Well wensdy I coinus on lo cort to hear the candidates speck. I am fond of hearin candidates spcek, becaus if the the Ihing works right I think I shall come out myself afore long—anil in the eveniu we' all comes into the cort house and Shepperd he made along speech all about mailers—he lolled all about his gtiinc for Jackson in all things lhat wos Wright and agin him in all things that wos rung ; he said he would support no man in a measure which he thort would injer the country—hi: told about public ollicers being turned out becaus they would not Inctionccr for Jackson and Vanburin, and about Ihir piiltin in some lhat would lectioneer for urn and lay out a p.ut of there salrvs in leetioneeriu—and he read Where it WOI proved that they did have lo lay out part of llnr salrys for tin. party in leelioneering—he then told all about a hcep of them saim officers gitliu a hole chance of Ihe peple's money in thir hands and rofbsin to wise it up—and a man bv the name of Woodberry thretniii to turn urn out if Ihey did not give it up, and tint some of Mr. Vanburin's freuds nl In him not 10 turn mil out becaus they wos his frends and had influence, arid if he turned urn out fhev would go agin him and so would all thir I'rcrn!,—and that arter a while some of urn broke and we lost all the money that ihey had, and ihe others run away, and lhat one of urn that run away carried a million and a quarter of dollars of our money, end that all of urn that run away carried preltv consid-erable of money—ami he red some books where all of that wos printed down And be said he was agin Iho sublioshorv, becaus if that past he was ufeerd Ihe pres-ident would appiutsome more that would keep the money, and some more that would run away, lie said he wauled kongrrss lo fix the mode and manner of keipin the money. Well when Iliad ; beam all ibis I was skeerd becaus I was and if and Ins men was mighty hid folks. So up Mr. Hill g.ts, and he looked so smilin that I nateily love him. He did not portend In read any books to sliow what Shepperd had red was not so, bul the way lie pill il to Sin pperd wos ills- I trcssin. lie said he was no great poli-lislnoncr, but he know'd what was rile fiom what WJS rung, (he wos cold soboi) —he tl lied how Jackson had font for the Country, how he praised Yanburen and recommended him, and how the peple had elected Mr. Vsnburen, and then he I browed liimsi If hack and put on a smile thai would make any man vole for him .ii.il sayi he, gentlemen arter all this can any one helceve that Mr. Vaiihuren would fnjrr us in the way ihat my honorable euuipeliter says he does? Thai seemed to satisfy the peple mighty well. And then in anserine; about the officers keep, in the public money ami runuiii away with it, he did mil deny it, but said they wo, wings, and that Swurwort presided ala whig meelin in newyork, and lhal the wings wos about lo run him for vice president,--at that maybe the peple dident lair. He said he wos for the sub-treasury— that the peple had looted the piesiilenl and he would lint iupr them— tint he would nppinl good men lo keep ihe money. And lie did kill the whigs so ded when he said that these matters had nolhin to do with his election—that the true question now before the peplo, and lobe decided between him and Shop, peril, wos who shall be next president : Will you elect Vanburcn, a man of Jack-son's own choosiu, or Clay who wenl agin Jackson > Well arter they was dun speikin I went to Mr. Hill, as I wanted In know siiiuthiii about all this money what Mr. ■ ,, ... •■■•••■» |« o- iSMhiecppppecrrdil ssaaiidl t wwaass Ilno-satt,, aanndd aaxxeedd I nn-- pie would sustain any th.ng that Jackson bout it, 1 he »id ,. wos lost, but lhal might do, and denco lien he has no. bin „ ».s lilk(,„ ,1V „,,. , ,-,.„., of „ .„,. so canskMW, but JO. goes on for Jack, ministration, ami that we who are raal W,'o I"0" ,""f ?' I",'0H*"l"'1'1'™" ••'■'■' frond, of Jackson and . how the people is, and » he finds ,ny| Vonburcn ort no. lo say aothin aboul il M •■ 11, bo I, says I, you said in your speech thai Ihe) weio whigs lhat took this mo-ney. Well, s ys he, so I did; bul 1 did noi know what oih r turn lo give it, and thai will answer very well, for Shepperd can only deny it, and the peplo will be-leeve me, as I am on the popler Bid., and uiey will not find out any better afore iln election. Well of course this satis- Jii.d me fully, and I think on lo satisfy any reasonable man who is a republican ■i* goes with Ihe popler aide. I axed Mr. Hill to tell mo what was 'In- rial pints of difference atween him and Mr. Shepperd. Why,says he,in ra-nlity there is no difference alwoen us— except Mr. SbepfM rd thinks the public money ort to bo kep in such way as kon-gres shall direct, and be subject at all tun s to the supervision of kongres—and I tell Ibe peple 1 think il had ort lo lit kep by men appiuted by Mr. Vanburcn; and, says he, I think mine is the poplcr-est docturn, for Mr. Vsnburen served under gineral Jackson, and you know Ihe peple loves Jackson. But, says 1, where is all that goold and ailvcr that vou used to promise us > Why, says he, I must be honest, as you know I am at all times and on all occasions,—that goold and silver talc was all a humbug, but we wos obliged to promise it in or. der lo git the peple ritely agin the Uni-ted Slates bank ; and now that they are fully agin it and think il is a raal mon-ster, there is no danger in tellin um lhal Ihe goold and silver aiul coining at all— in faei ihe revenue is no! to be collected in goold and silver al al, but is to be col-lected in the notes of ihe different Slate banks. Well, says I, I had rather have had Ihe goold ami silver, hut I aint a guine lo doaart my party for nu'hin. Hut, says I, ami thaie no other pints of difference atween you ? O^ says he, ihare is one more—Mr. Shepperd thinks that as Ihe public lands belongs to tin-whole people of Ihe United Slates, as much to ihe old Stales as to the new, when Ihey are sold and ihe money paid in, that when Iheygnlodivide itweort to have our share. And says I, aim that rite ? <) yes, says he, but I am compelled to say I differ with him becaus you know kongrea past a bill one lime called Clay's laud bill, iliviilinglhc money in that way, and gineral Jackson killed it because he wos ngin it and wos for the new states havin all the lands ; and now you know if I wos lo go for diWdifttrtbe money as Mr. Shepnotd wants it divided, they would say I WOSagin Jackson. And be-sides Clay fotch in that bill what Jack-son killed, and vou know at that time Clay wos mighty onpoplor, and that helpt lo niiike Jackson's killin of it so popli r, —and besides, says lie, Mr. Van Huron is agin dividin the money anil wants lo lo give all the laud lo the new s'ates; and, says he, Mr. Vanburin wril lo me that he went for lhat to git the new states lo vote for him agin, and ho says if he caul git the new stales he cant he c-leeted, and so, savs he, if we dont go for givin the land lo the new states they will beat Mr. Van Huron,—in foot, I find, says he, ilia' unless 1 slick lo Jackson rile or rong ihare is no gitling along. I lovO the peple, and should like for them to have their share of the money, but as I have said before you know the peple will sustain Jackson in any thing he dose, and whojomever is with Jackson is on the safe side. Well this was rather ticklish talk to me, but as Mr. Hill said he loved the peple I ihort he menl rile and so I spose I am aalistide ; but I must confess I should like lo have our part of Ihe money what ttiey sell ihe land for—per-tickler as I understand that it was this money tint Harris and Knyd took and never paid back to Mi. Vanburin : and I shouldeiit like lhat part .of the hizuess much if it warm lhal ihey are raal friends of Mr. Vanburin. Well about Ibis time says Mr. Hill, lets go and drink siiuithin. So we weul, and he culled for a quart and we driukl ihe most of il, but nather of us warnt drunk, ami we got lo talking aboul Ihe free school law, but how the conversa-tion In gnu I limit recollect, as I was a looilcsnrli rdrinkv,—bul any ho'V I went on to tell what I thort of Iree schools, for I was mighty for um, brill as I am a pore man and a heap of mv naber'is pore and dill! able to ■ deeule thir ch'ldern. I tol-led him that pore men thais got no prop-i rty at all, and lhal- got a heap ol rhil. den. aint abb- row "o -end lliirchilder'i io skool a single bn IHTISUS tie y has lo pay the skool ni.islerai»ht dollars a year for each ol the childcrn, nnd that if we gits the common skools accord in to the new law ihees pore men wont hove to pay much ol the lav, and them thai is too old lo pay a pole tax wo-il hive to pav none at all, and lhat nil thir childern can Co to skool and the rnosl of the lax will fall upon Ihe rich peple that is able lo pay il. And I lolled him it wos rile be-the pore childern could not help thir fa-thers being pole, and lhat ihey stood as much in need of edecation ns the rich men's childern. and that if they had ede-cation Ihey could stand their hands bet ter in the world, thai Ihev could not be cheated so i asy, that Ihev would not have (o sine notes and papers without knowin what was writ in um, and that ihey could keep llnr own accounts, and read the scripturs. and read other things newspapers, and sich, and beconio inform-ed and know what wos going on in the world, and then ihey would be able lo form opinions of their own and not have to look up lo demagogs more ignuranl than themselves, except that they can read for their opinions and for advice as to how they shall act and vote. And I felled him that if all tbo pore childern woa cdecaled we should find among them some mighty amart fellera that would be ablo to stand their hands with the rich folks; and instead of havin to be in-structed bv ignurant demagogs, they would teach these demagogs what is what; tbey would detect and expose their du-plicity and ignorance. When I got threw I lookt at Mr. Hill nnd diskivered that he had taken the fidgets very considerable. Says he, I know what you say is Irue, and that if Ihe people was to accept of the skools it would perduce all the benefits and good ed was the raal argiments for puttin down ihe skools; and besides, says he,you bad or: to tell um that in votiu for freo skools they will part with their liberties—thai ihey will Ihcrcby.conscnt to bo taxed, and lhal they cannot arterwards withdraw their consent, snd the Sunlily will go on taxin um lull they will bare to be sold for thir taxes, the/and thir children—*nd that the rich whigs'will buy um, and they will all havo to be whigs. Abrat that time Mr. Hill he laffed out rite loud, and says be, if you make um believe that tbejr will have to become whigs it they voto for it Ho inshore they dont do it, for Ihey think these whigs aiel hardly hu man, and tbon ho laffed agin and winkt at me and says he lets drink sumlbing. I said nuthin to thai—but says I, doctor, I amafeerd Ihey wont believe these things you and Mr. Hill has bin tellin me lo tell um; but howsomover I can try it, and he-sides, says 1, doctor, I am 'sprised lo find you agin free skools becaus 1 have always eons, queiiccs you mention and a gralc hearn that you got all of your larnin at many more. But, says be, what would freo skools. be the sitiation of the country if all woa informed as you aay, and as I know they would be 1 Who would thar bo to direct public sentiment if every man bad an o-pinion of his own. Says he, why then if a candidate happened to make a miatako in his speech they would all know it, and if he happened lo advocato principles fraut with danger to the rites and liber-ties of the peplo they would dcti ct and expose it. If ihe peple all was well in-formed— ifacamlidatc went for any meas-ure because the president wos for it, or agin any measure because Ihe president wos agin it, why they would laffat him and Ihey would beel him to death. And besides you say that if the thing works right you think you will come out as a candidate before long. Now suppose the people was all edecated and informed as you want um to be, take my word for il if you did not know adzactly what you wos aboul, why they would beat you in-to a greasy spot, and the son of tho poic-est dirtiest man in the county might be the man lhat would beat you. Well this put me to considcrin ; so while 1 was consideriu Mr. Hill wenl back and look another drink, and by the lime he got back to mo 1 was very per. tickler agin the schools, and when I tol-led him lhat 1 begin io think he was rile and that I had been in a log, he laffed, cleared up his throat, wiped his moulh With his hind, and laid his arm on my shoulder and siyi he, now sencc you have seen and acknowledged your error I will tell you that you must not talk lo the peple as you havo bin talkin to me, for if Ihees ulees lhat you have been exprosain to me once lind their way into the beds of these pole devils they'll eve-ry man of um vole for Ihe school's. Well but, savs I, what argimcnl must I use a-gin the schools ? And about this time 1 lookt around and who should be standiu tile thar but doctor Wilson ! I reckon you never seed doctor Wilson—he is a aal nice little man and a fust rale di in-ocrat. He Is for Jackson and Vanburcn and agin all banks, and a raal freed lo pore peple. He was a candidate in this county for the sinil last year, and O he did make some sweet speeches—they say he attempted to put ill two tickets for himself on tho day of Ihe lection, bul I dont belccvc It, for Mr. Hill says it is a lie raised on him by ihe whigs; but, says I, Mr. Hill one Vanbureu man it lied mo he seed bun do il. Ah, says he, the kus-std whigs hired that roan to say so and dont you helceve it- So I promised Mr. Hill nol lo belecve it. And then, says I, but Mr. Hill you haint tolled me yit what argimcnl I must use with the pi jiie agin the skools. Why, says he, tell um that the law was past by a whig Irgishitur—that the object of it is lo tax the pore peplo lo cdeeate the childern of the rich—that it will cost the peple, and in pertickler the pore peple, mure than Ihey will ever be able to pay— and that districts of six miles square is too large, tint if the skool houses is bill in the stiller the childern livin in the cor-ners will havo to walk over fore miles, and lhat Mr. Ilayden a good skool mas-ter says srj—Hist all of the pore peple will live in Ihe remote corners of the dis-tricts, and all of the rich in or near Ihe senior—that tho rich men wont let tho pore men bild a skool house or. thir land, and il thev do ihey wont let pore men's childern drink water out of thir springs nor set by fires maid of thir wood—and lhat the rich men's childern will make uglv faces al the pore men's childern, for Mr. Hi)den says so. But, says I,can I induce the peple to believe these things I O JeSi says he, if Ihey seem to have any So I did, says he, but wharc I was raised they are all edecated, the pore as well as the rich, and I found thar that 1 could not be considered a grate man, for thar wor tharo some fellers whose fathers were not worth n cent—ihey out larn'd me at skool and when we quit skool thev could beet me at every thing, so I cut out for a country whar tbo pore wos not edecated, and North C'arlinar wos thai country. I stopt here in Stokes, and now jeat as I amgitlin to be considered some-thin more than common, if they begin lo idecale the pore here, why I shall be strip! of all my importance, and in that event I shall Icavo Ibis country, and he talked alternated. Well, says I, doctor ■ifnre you shall leave us, I will say or do any thiog for you. Well then, says he, do you use jest the argiment that me and Mr. Hill has told you ;—why says ho you had ort to do it on your own accounl, for if ibis skool law dose go into opcialion all the consequences that me and Mr. Hill has described will ensue, and then what will become of us three '—here squire Hill wants logo to kongres and he will stand a pretty good chance for it un-less the peple shall oiifoitunately gil their eyes open afore tho leclion—I want to polo for iho sinit agin next year, and maybe we shall havo to bring you out for the commons, and if the skool law passes it will affect ns now because the law is a good one and iho whigs will claim the credit of passing it. But even if we shou'd all be lectcd now, if that system goes into operation the people will soon become so enlightened that WC shall soon be thrown overboard. Well 1 listen'd lo these things nnd promised to go for Mr. Hill ami agin the the skools ; bul to give conciens fare play I must confess 1 am in quite a snarl. I cant see the thing as Mr. Hill and doc-tor Wilson sees il; llnr seems to be too much in the dark ; we have to conseol loo much from llio peple. But it niay all be rite. I acknowledge I donl know much about Ihees lug matters. 1 wish you would rite me a private letter ami give me your views on (his subject; and if you do, dont let no body know it,—ar.d whatever you do, dont let no body know how you got this letter—dont say a word aboul it in your paper—and be shore you dont drop il any wharc, because if you do doctor Wilson will bi/slioro to find it, and thin he will have it printed in the Holly Standard. A RAAL REPUBLICAN. ^^—^^^-«—^^^^^*a From the. 'Proy Morning M'tif. RETURN OF THE PRODIGAL SON. " The Northern man with Southern principles," it seems is to spend the sum. mer solstice at Saratoga Springs* \V c tlo not wonder that Iho Albany Argus should feel some anxiely about the re* ception he will receive among us. A man who has signally abused the cilizans of the lOnipirc Stale, is very likely to be met with more cuffs than kisses. It will require I higher power of persuasion than Ihe life pensioner of the Sta e paper pos-sesses, to induce the people lo law i up-on a viper lhal Ihey line nourished in their bosoms until Us fangs have stung llieui lo Ihe heart. Let the Argus, with its hundred eves, look for a moment among the diversified classes of society, and see if it can find any which justly owes Van Buren res-peel or reverence. He has scoffed at the 'cinharassinenl of our merchants, and prostrated the bu-siness of our manufacturers. He has calumniated those connected with our banking institution, by clurg xorciso of tho right of suffrage—an of-tcrico which, if committed, would havo s.ibjeclcd them lo incarceration among the felons in our State prisions. He has insulted tho feelings of tho religious par. tion of the community, by receiving for-oign infidels, mala ami female, into confidence and favor. He has alarmed tho fears, and disturb-ed the rcposo of men of property, by the countenance he has extended to the woes* species of agrarianism, and by appointing lo office tbo leaders rsd instigators ofasa most disgraceful sad destractive riots. Ilia whole adminiatratioa has been a wicked aud malignant crusade upon the rights of tho people,and the prosperity of i he north. Ho has robbed this Slate through tho influence he has exerted upon the Alba-ny Regency, of tho benefits of a repre-sentation in in the Senate of ihe nation, by defeating tho ro-appointment of the Hen. N. P. Tallmidgi. Ho has squandered, through ihe prod-igality and extravagance of his adminis-tration, that portion of the surplus reve-nue to which this State waacntillcd, and which, if appropriated as it should havo been, would have educated overy poor man's child In the Slate of New York. And is it for acts like Ihcso that his servile tools would have the people rush forth with congratulations at his approach and scatter flowers around the footsteps of tho intriguing Irailor? Docs respect "for the Station of chief magistrate" re-quire this humiliation from ihe freemen of the north ? No, il never can be so—it never iri'M be so. Honor heaped upon the undeserving, is the deepest injury to the worthy and virtuous. I.et "ihe fa-vorite son come homo and paaa lo Ins heartless revels and political intrigues at the Springs, in silent and -cornful neg-lect. I."t the eyes of those whom he had insolently injured and basely betray, ed, be awn. d from his mousing tread. BltOUgh will be left to do homage at Ihe footstool, and shout hosannas in praise of the princely demagogue.- Tower never yet lacked parasites to surround it—or the paltriest idol, worshippersal its shrine. The time for the people to re/'oicc at the return of the President hat not t/et come. In 1841 every honest heart in the Ian I will join in any demonstration of joy which the Argus may propose to ofle'r upon Ihe arrival of Martin Van Buran —at kutili rliook. nig ihein with ihe foulest frauds, and en* doubt upon thu subject inforcc the idee deavoring to bring upon tbo m the awcej that it is a whig measure, am! that th whigs is all agin Vanburin, and if it be-comes necessary you may lell um thai Jackson and Vanburin are both opposed lo it; but don't let anv kusscd whig hear lhat. About this time doctor Wilson spoke, ami ii suppriied me tnidlin much to find him Bglll tho skools, lor I had all ways hearn that he got all his larnin at free skools, because he is a ynnky. Well he rattled away, and you may dipend upon it he argyetl very nice : he lolled me that tho argiments that Mr. Hill hud mention Another Joan of Arc.—The govern-ment of Peru is al present in the hands of a woman. Madame (iain.irra is a fe-male Bonaparte ; and though her husband is nominally the head of Ihe republic, she is Ihe real sovreigu. It was owing lo her energy lhal he lose from the ranks of Ihe army, a common soldier, to Ins present rank. It is said that she never permits any subject pertaining to the government lo be discussed even in privy council, without her presence; and.-healways ac-companies the President on his official visits, especially those made lo foreign dignitaries. Gen. Gammaramade a visit, not long since lo our squadron, accom-panied by tbo different ministers of de-partments. Mi d line tiaminarra of course With him. Alii r Ihe customary salutes. she entered theoomm xloro's cabin, when refreshments were off red, and tho usual compliments exchanged. When Mad-ame Oamarra thought they had remained a sufficient length of time, aho rose, look-ed around her with the air of an empress, and uttering tl.c single word "vamos!" left the cabin, the others following hct out like a pack of sheep following their leader. She always wears pistols and a dirk, and is said to be a good shot.— Not long since, finding sonic fault with the police and discipline of one of Iho regiments of the army, she sent for the colonel commanding it, and reprimanded him in a manner lo which he did nol feel inclined lo submit, especially from a wo-man ; replied that he would hold himself responsible to the President, but not to the President's wife. He was soon taught however, whom he had lo deal with ; for Mad line Camarra immediately command-ed him lo silence, and at tho same time presenting s pistol, told him that if he uttered another word of insolence, she Would drive the bull) I through his head. Some say lhal her husband has more th,u once experienced Riich n threat: but we all know the world is addicted lo scandal. —Army and A'oJTJf Chronicle. Suitor's dread of Friday.—"Colum-bus sailed from Spain on Friday discov-ered land on Friday, and re-entered Ihe port of Palos on Friday. These curious coincidences should havo sufficed, one might think, lo dispel the superstitious dread still so prevalent of commencing a voyage on that ominous day." To our certain knowledge, the keel of Old Ironsides was laid on Friday ; she was launched on Friday ; went to sea on Friday; fought her first battle on Fn-day, and discovered she had lost (Jen. Jackson's figure head on Friday De-troit Post It was a golden qui ry of Dr. Franklin. in answer to one of the importunate ((ti-lers of Thomas Paine, that "if men were so wicked with religion what woutdlhov (state with bribery andcorruplion in thsft be without ;: !" ing curse of a general bankruptcy law. He paralysed Ihe vigorous arm of the mechanic, and struck down idc hopes ol those who were about commencing an en-terprising and useful career. He has filled the pnckoisof ihe usurer with money wrung from iho necessities of the honest debtor. Ho has openly charged, in a solemn message to ihe Congress of the United Slates—a libel which will be handed down lo future generations—more than S hundred thousand electors of his native
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Title | The Greensborough patriot [July 2, 1839] |
Date | 1839-07-02 |
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Swaim, Lyndon Sherwood, M.S. |
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Full text | V warn (»]BiiaiioiBa&®waiai MUKBENW > VOLUME I. GREENSBOROUGH, N. G, JULY 2, 1839. NUMBER 20. PUBLISHED WKUKLV. I.YSDOM SWAIM & M. H. SIIEHWOOU TERM S: Two Dollars ami Fitly Cents n year, in advance,—or Tlirco Dollara, after the expira-tion of thri-o months from Ibo data of Iho lirsl number received.—No papi r »ill be discou-tinued until all amtntsi 'are paid, except at the option of the publishers ; and a failure to order a discontinuance within the year will bo considered a new engagement. Adtrrtui-menti,—at One Dollar per square, for the Orel insertion, and Twenty-Jive Cents for each succeeding publication. A liberal deduction will bo made in favor oftliose who advertise by the quarter, or for a longer period. (C7" It-tiers to the publishers must come free of postage, or they cannot IK' atlendetl to. Ill ■..' — COMMUNICATION. Far the GrcensbarouRh Patriot. Stoke* County, June llth, 1639. MB. EDITOR: 1 liavo bin a thinkin for some time I should like to rite to you consar-nin poll)licks, but my nabors said I had better not, becaus as you was a whig and a< 1 waaon totlier aide, you wouldeut Iirint my ritins for me. Well totlier day sees one of your papers anil I seed so much printed thcro that is rong, that I have concluded to rite you a frondly let-ter in liiim d people coiiipi in about any ol their acts, he ji si tells about how J.iok.-on I,ml for Hie coil.i til, and if hi bodlm bin a friend to tin country he would, nt ol f. ut so for it, sud that Jackson knows V,ml,men, and he recommend, d him, and that Vanbor, n Mad promised to tread in J.icksons foot-steps, and that no true Jackson man will complaint and thai none will complain but bank whigs, fcdralists and tones, and that they aro all ogin Jackson and Vanburcn because they are friends to the country, and that ourn is the only rcpib-licnn parly, and that all lhais agio our parly is either bank whigs, f- drslcsla or lories, why be says they eoiuea over preily considerable quick. And he says •ts best lo keep the peple with their at-tention turned lo Jackson, for if they once lose site of him and examin the measures of the administration, and lei each measure siand or fall upon its own merits, Ihat a body would never know where to find the peplo, and then candi-dates would havo to stand or fall upon their own merits, and nono but men of merit could be lectcd to any oflicc. Well this was on tuzedy of cort week and then we quit talkin becaus he said he wanted to look over his speech, as he and Shepperd had lo speak the next day. Well wensdy I coinus on lo cort to hear the candidates speck. I am fond of hearin candidates spcek, becaus if the the Ihing works right I think I shall come out myself afore long—anil in the eveniu we' all comes into the cort house and Shepperd he made along speech all about mailers—he lolled all about his gtiinc for Jackson in all things lhat wos Wright and agin him in all things that wos rung ; he said he would support no man in a measure which he thort would injer the country—hi: told about public ollicers being turned out becaus they would not Inctionccr for Jackson and Vanburin, and about Ihir piiltin in some lhat would lectioneer for urn and lay out a p.ut of there salrvs in leetioneeriu—and he read Where it WOI proved that they did have lo lay out part of llnr salrys for tin. party in leelioneering—he then told all about a hcep of them saim officers gitliu a hole chance of Ihe peple's money in thir hands and rofbsin to wise it up—and a man bv the name of Woodberry thretniii to turn urn out if Ihey did not give it up, and tint some of Mr. Vanburin's freuds nl In him not 10 turn mil out becaus they wos his frends and had influence, arid if he turned urn out fhev would go agin him and so would all thir I'rcrn!,—and that arter a while some of urn broke and we lost all the money that ihey had, and ihe others run away, and lhat one of urn that run away carried a million and a quarter of dollars of our money, end that all of urn that run away carried preltv consid-erable of money—ami he red some books where all of that wos printed down And be said he was agin Iho sublioshorv, becaus if that past he was ufeerd Ihe pres-ident would appiutsome more that would keep the money, and some more that would run away, lie said he wauled kongrrss lo fix the mode and manner of keipin the money. Well when Iliad ; beam all ibis I was skeerd becaus I was and if and Ins men was mighty hid folks. So up Mr. Hill g.ts, and he looked so smilin that I nateily love him. He did not portend In read any books to sliow what Shepperd had red was not so, bul the way lie pill il to Sin pperd wos ills- I trcssin. lie said he was no great poli-lislnoncr, but he know'd what was rile fiom what WJS rung, (he wos cold soboi) —he tl lied how Jackson had font for the Country, how he praised Yanburen and recommended him, and how the peple had elected Mr. Vsnburen, and then he I browed liimsi If hack and put on a smile thai would make any man vole for him .ii.il sayi he, gentlemen arter all this can any one helceve that Mr. Vaiihuren would fnjrr us in the way ihat my honorable euuipeliter says he does? Thai seemed to satisfy the peple mighty well. And then in anserine; about the officers keep, in the public money ami runuiii away with it, he did mil deny it, but said they wo, wings, and that Swurwort presided ala whig meelin in newyork, and lhal the wings wos about lo run him for vice president,--at that maybe the peple dident lair. He said he wos for the sub-treasury— that the peple had looted the piesiilenl and he would lint iupr them— tint he would nppinl good men lo keep ihe money. And lie did kill the whigs so ded when he said that these matters had nolhin to do with his election—that the true question now before the peplo, and lobe decided between him and Shop, peril, wos who shall be next president : Will you elect Vanburcn, a man of Jack-son's own choosiu, or Clay who wenl agin Jackson > Well arter they was dun speikin I went to Mr. Hill, as I wanted In know siiiuthiii about all this money what Mr. ■ ,, ... •■■•••■» |« o- iSMhiecppppecrrdil ssaaiidl t wwaass Ilno-satt,, aanndd aaxxeedd I nn-- pie would sustain any th.ng that Jackson bout it, 1 he »id ,. wos lost, but lhal might do, and denco lien he has no. bin „ ».s lilk(,„ ,1V „,,. , ,-,.„., of „ .„,. so canskMW, but JO. goes on for Jack, ministration, ami that we who are raal W,'o I"0" ,""f ?' I",'0H*"l"'1'1'™" ••'■'■' frond, of Jackson and . how the people is, and » he finds ,ny| Vonburcn ort no. lo say aothin aboul il M •■ 11, bo I, says I, you said in your speech thai Ihe) weio whigs lhat took this mo-ney. Well, s ys he, so I did; bul 1 did noi know what oih r turn lo give it, and thai will answer very well, for Shepperd can only deny it, and the peplo will be-leeve me, as I am on the popler Bid., and uiey will not find out any better afore iln election. Well of course this satis- Jii.d me fully, and I think on lo satisfy any reasonable man who is a republican ■i* goes with Ihe popler aide. I axed Mr. Hill to tell mo what was 'In- rial pints of difference atween him and Mr. Shepperd. Why,says he,in ra-nlity there is no difference alwoen us— except Mr. SbepfM rd thinks the public money ort to bo kep in such way as kon-gres shall direct, and be subject at all tun s to the supervision of kongres—and I tell Ibe peple 1 think il had ort lo lit kep by men appiuted by Mr. Vanburcn; and, says he, I think mine is the poplcr-est docturn, for Mr. Vsnburen served under gineral Jackson, and you know Ihe peple loves Jackson. But, says 1, where is all that goold and ailvcr that vou used to promise us > Why, says he, I must be honest, as you know I am at all times and on all occasions,—that goold and silver talc was all a humbug, but we wos obliged to promise it in or. der lo git the peple ritely agin the Uni-ted Slates bank ; and now that they are fully agin it and think il is a raal mon-ster, there is no danger in tellin um lhal Ihe goold and silver aiul coining at all— in faei ihe revenue is no! to be collected in goold and silver al al, but is to be col-lected in the notes of ihe different Slate banks. Well, says I, I had rather have had Ihe goold ami silver, hut I aint a guine lo doaart my party for nu'hin. Hut, says I, ami thaie no other pints of difference atween you ? O^ says he, ihare is one more—Mr. Shepperd thinks that as Ihe public lands belongs to tin-whole people of Ihe United Slates, as much to ihe old Stales as to the new, when Ihey are sold and ihe money paid in, that when Iheygnlodivide itweort to have our share. And says I, aim that rite ? <) yes, says he, but I am compelled to say I differ with him becaus you know kongrea past a bill one lime called Clay's laud bill, iliviilinglhc money in that way, and gineral Jackson killed it because he wos ngin it and wos for the new states havin all the lands ; and now you know if I wos lo go for diWdifttrtbe money as Mr. Shepnotd wants it divided, they would say I WOSagin Jackson. And be-sides Clay fotch in that bill what Jack-son killed, and vou know at that time Clay wos mighty onpoplor, and that helpt lo niiike Jackson's killin of it so popli r, —and besides, says lie, Mr. Van Huron is agin dividin the money anil wants lo lo give all the laud lo the new s'ates; and, says he, Mr. Vanburin wril lo me that he went for lhat to git the new states lo vote for him agin, and ho says if he caul git the new stales he cant he c-leeted, and so, savs he, if we dont go for givin the land lo the new states they will beat Mr. Van Huron,—in foot, I find, says he, ilia' unless 1 slick lo Jackson rile or rong ihare is no gitling along. I lovO the peple, and should like for them to have their share of the money, but as I have said before you know the peple will sustain Jackson in any thing he dose, and whojomever is with Jackson is on the safe side. Well this was rather ticklish talk to me, but as Mr. Hill said he loved the peple I ihort he menl rile and so I spose I am aalistide ; but I must confess I should like lo have our part of Ihe money what ttiey sell ihe land for—per-tickler as I understand that it was this money tint Harris and Knyd took and never paid back to Mi. Vanburin : and I shouldeiit like lhat part .of the hizuess much if it warm lhal ihey are raal friends of Mr. Vanburin. Well about Ibis time says Mr. Hill, lets go and drink siiuithin. So we weul, and he culled for a quart and we driukl ihe most of il, but nather of us warnt drunk, ami we got lo talking aboul Ihe free school law, but how the conversa-tion In gnu I limit recollect, as I was a looilcsnrli rdrinkv,—bul any ho'V I went on to tell what I thort of Iree schools, for I was mighty for um, brill as I am a pore man and a heap of mv naber'is pore and dill! able to ■ deeule thir ch'ldern. I tol-led him that pore men thais got no prop-i rty at all, and lhal- got a heap ol rhil. den. aint abb- row "o -end lliirchilder'i io skool a single bn IHTISUS tie y has lo pay the skool ni.islerai»ht dollars a year for each ol the childcrn, nnd that if we gits the common skools accord in to the new law ihees pore men wont hove to pay much ol the lav, and them thai is too old lo pay a pole tax wo-il hive to pav none at all, and lhat nil thir childern can Co to skool and the rnosl of the lax will fall upon Ihe rich peple that is able lo pay il. And I lolled him it wos rile be-the pore childern could not help thir fa-thers being pole, and lhat ihey stood as much in need of edecation ns the rich men's childern. and that if they had ede-cation Ihey could stand their hands bet ter in the world, thai Ihev could not be cheated so i asy, that Ihev would not have (o sine notes and papers without knowin what was writ in um, and that ihey could keep llnr own accounts, and read the scripturs. and read other things newspapers, and sich, and beconio inform-ed and know what wos going on in the world, and then ihey would be able lo form opinions of their own and not have to look up lo demagogs more ignuranl than themselves, except that they can read for their opinions and for advice as to how they shall act and vote. And I felled him that if all tbo pore childern woa cdecaled we should find among them some mighty amart fellera that would be ablo to stand their hands with the rich folks; and instead of havin to be in-structed bv ignurant demagogs, they would teach these demagogs what is what; tbey would detect and expose their du-plicity and ignorance. When I got threw I lookt at Mr. Hill nnd diskivered that he had taken the fidgets very considerable. Says he, I know what you say is Irue, and that if Ihe people was to accept of the skools it would perduce all the benefits and good ed was the raal argiments for puttin down ihe skools; and besides, says he,you bad or: to tell um that in votiu for freo skools they will part with their liberties—thai ihey will Ihcrcby.conscnt to bo taxed, and lhal they cannot arterwards withdraw their consent, snd the Sunlily will go on taxin um lull they will bare to be sold for thir taxes, the/and thir children—*nd that the rich whigs'will buy um, and they will all havo to be whigs. Abrat that time Mr. Hill he laffed out rite loud, and says be, if you make um believe that tbejr will have to become whigs it they voto for it Ho inshore they dont do it, for Ihey think these whigs aiel hardly hu man, and tbon ho laffed agin and winkt at me and says he lets drink sumlbing. I said nuthin to thai—but says I, doctor, I amafeerd Ihey wont believe these things you and Mr. Hill has bin tellin me lo tell um; but howsomover I can try it, and he-sides, says 1, doctor, I am 'sprised lo find you agin free skools becaus 1 have always eons, queiiccs you mention and a gralc hearn that you got all of your larnin at many more. But, says be, what would freo skools. be the sitiation of the country if all woa informed as you aay, and as I know they would be 1 Who would thar bo to direct public sentiment if every man bad an o-pinion of his own. Says he, why then if a candidate happened to make a miatako in his speech they would all know it, and if he happened lo advocato principles fraut with danger to the rites and liber-ties of the peplo they would dcti ct and expose it. If ihe peple all was well in-formed— ifacamlidatc went for any meas-ure because the president wos for it, or agin any measure because Ihe president wos agin it, why they would laffat him and Ihey would beel him to death. And besides you say that if the thing works right you think you will come out as a candidate before long. Now suppose the people was all edecated and informed as you want um to be, take my word for il if you did not know adzactly what you wos aboul, why they would beat you in-to a greasy spot, and the son of tho poic-est dirtiest man in the county might be the man lhat would beat you. Well this put me to considcrin ; so while 1 was consideriu Mr. Hill wenl back and look another drink, and by the lime he got back to mo 1 was very per. tickler agin the schools, and when I tol-led him lhat 1 begin io think he was rile and that I had been in a log, he laffed, cleared up his throat, wiped his moulh With his hind, and laid his arm on my shoulder and siyi he, now sencc you have seen and acknowledged your error I will tell you that you must not talk lo the peple as you havo bin talkin to me, for if Ihees ulees lhat you have been exprosain to me once lind their way into the beds of these pole devils they'll eve-ry man of um vole for Ihe school's. Well but, savs I, what argimcnl must I use a-gin the schools ? And about this time 1 lookt around and who should be standiu tile thar but doctor Wilson ! I reckon you never seed doctor Wilson—he is a aal nice little man and a fust rale di in-ocrat. He Is for Jackson and Vanburcn and agin all banks, and a raal freed lo pore peple. He was a candidate in this county for the sinil last year, and O he did make some sweet speeches—they say he attempted to put ill two tickets for himself on tho day of Ihe lection, bul I dont belccvc It, for Mr. Hill says it is a lie raised on him by ihe whigs; but, says I, Mr. Hill one Vanbureu man it lied mo he seed bun do il. Ah, says he, the kus-std whigs hired that roan to say so and dont you helceve it- So I promised Mr. Hill nol lo belecve it. And then, says I, but Mr. Hill you haint tolled me yit what argimcnl I must use with the pi jiie agin the skools. Why, says he, tell um that the law was past by a whig Irgishitur—that the object of it is lo tax the pore peplo lo cdeeate the childern of the rich—that it will cost the peple, and in pertickler the pore peple, mure than Ihey will ever be able to pay— and that districts of six miles square is too large, tint if the skool houses is bill in the stiller the childern livin in the cor-ners will havo to walk over fore miles, and lhat Mr. Ilayden a good skool mas-ter says srj—Hist all of the pore peple will live in Ihe remote corners of the dis-tricts, and all of the rich in or near Ihe senior—that tho rich men wont let tho pore men bild a skool house or. thir land, and il thev do ihey wont let pore men's childern drink water out of thir springs nor set by fires maid of thir wood—and lhat the rich men's childern will make uglv faces al the pore men's childern, for Mr. Hi)den says so. But, says I,can I induce the peple to believe these things I O JeSi says he, if Ihey seem to have any So I did, says he, but wharc I was raised they are all edecated, the pore as well as the rich, and I found thar that 1 could not be considered a grate man, for thar wor tharo some fellers whose fathers were not worth n cent—ihey out larn'd me at skool and when we quit skool thev could beet me at every thing, so I cut out for a country whar tbo pore wos not edecated, and North C'arlinar wos thai country. I stopt here in Stokes, and now jeat as I amgitlin to be considered some-thin more than common, if they begin lo idecale the pore here, why I shall be strip! of all my importance, and in that event I shall Icavo Ibis country, and he talked alternated. Well, says I, doctor ■ifnre you shall leave us, I will say or do any thiog for you. Well then, says he, do you use jest the argiment that me and Mr. Hill has told you ;—why says ho you had ort to do it on your own accounl, for if ibis skool law dose go into opcialion all the consequences that me and Mr. Hill has described will ensue, and then what will become of us three '—here squire Hill wants logo to kongres and he will stand a pretty good chance for it un-less the peple shall oiifoitunately gil their eyes open afore tho leclion—I want to polo for iho sinit agin next year, and maybe we shall havo to bring you out for the commons, and if the skool law passes it will affect ns now because the law is a good one and iho whigs will claim the credit of passing it. But even if we shou'd all be lectcd now, if that system goes into operation the people will soon become so enlightened that WC shall soon be thrown overboard. Well 1 listen'd lo these things nnd promised to go for Mr. Hill ami agin the the skools ; bul to give conciens fare play I must confess 1 am in quite a snarl. I cant see the thing as Mr. Hill and doc-tor Wilson sees il; llnr seems to be too much in the dark ; we have to conseol loo much from llio peple. But it niay all be rite. I acknowledge I donl know much about Ihees lug matters. 1 wish you would rite me a private letter ami give me your views on (his subject; and if you do, dont let no body know it,—ar.d whatever you do, dont let no body know how you got this letter—dont say a word aboul it in your paper—and be shore you dont drop il any wharc, because if you do doctor Wilson will bi/slioro to find it, and thin he will have it printed in the Holly Standard. A RAAL REPUBLICAN. ^^—^^^-«—^^^^^*a From the. 'Proy Morning M'tif. RETURN OF THE PRODIGAL SON. " The Northern man with Southern principles," it seems is to spend the sum. mer solstice at Saratoga Springs* \V c tlo not wonder that Iho Albany Argus should feel some anxiely about the re* ception he will receive among us. A man who has signally abused the cilizans of the lOnipirc Stale, is very likely to be met with more cuffs than kisses. It will require I higher power of persuasion than Ihe life pensioner of the Sta e paper pos-sesses, to induce the people lo law i up-on a viper lhal Ihey line nourished in their bosoms until Us fangs have stung llieui lo Ihe heart. Let the Argus, with its hundred eves, look for a moment among the diversified classes of society, and see if it can find any which justly owes Van Buren res-peel or reverence. He has scoffed at the 'cinharassinenl of our merchants, and prostrated the bu-siness of our manufacturers. He has calumniated those connected with our banking institution, by clurg xorciso of tho right of suffrage—an of-tcrico which, if committed, would havo s.ibjeclcd them lo incarceration among the felons in our State prisions. He has insulted tho feelings of tho religious par. tion of the community, by receiving for-oign infidels, mala ami female, into confidence and favor. He has alarmed tho fears, and disturb-ed the rcposo of men of property, by the countenance he has extended to the woes* species of agrarianism, and by appointing lo office tbo leaders rsd instigators ofasa most disgraceful sad destractive riots. Ilia whole adminiatratioa has been a wicked aud malignant crusade upon the rights of tho people,and the prosperity of i he north. Ho has robbed this Slate through tho influence he has exerted upon the Alba-ny Regency, of tho benefits of a repre-sentation in in the Senate of ihe nation, by defeating tho ro-appointment of the Hen. N. P. Tallmidgi. Ho has squandered, through ihe prod-igality and extravagance of his adminis-tration, that portion of the surplus reve-nue to which this State waacntillcd, and which, if appropriated as it should havo been, would have educated overy poor man's child In the Slate of New York. And is it for acts like Ihcso that his servile tools would have the people rush forth with congratulations at his approach and scatter flowers around the footsteps of tho intriguing Irailor? Docs respect "for the Station of chief magistrate" re-quire this humiliation from ihe freemen of the north ? No, il never can be so—it never iri'M be so. Honor heaped upon the undeserving, is the deepest injury to the worthy and virtuous. I.et "ihe fa-vorite son come homo and paaa lo Ins heartless revels and political intrigues at the Springs, in silent and -cornful neg-lect. I."t the eyes of those whom he had insolently injured and basely betray, ed, be awn. d from his mousing tread. BltOUgh will be left to do homage at Ihe footstool, and shout hosannas in praise of the princely demagogue.- Tower never yet lacked parasites to surround it—or the paltriest idol, worshippersal its shrine. The time for the people to re/'oicc at the return of the President hat not t/et come. In 1841 every honest heart in the Ian I will join in any demonstration of joy which the Argus may propose to ofle'r upon Ihe arrival of Martin Van Buran —at kutili rliook. nig ihein with ihe foulest frauds, and en* doubt upon thu subject inforcc the idee deavoring to bring upon tbo m the awcej that it is a whig measure, am! that th whigs is all agin Vanburin, and if it be-comes necessary you may lell um thai Jackson and Vanburin are both opposed lo it; but don't let anv kusscd whig hear lhat. About this time doctor Wilson spoke, ami ii suppriied me tnidlin much to find him Bglll tho skools, lor I had all ways hearn that he got all his larnin at free skools, because he is a ynnky. Well he rattled away, and you may dipend upon it he argyetl very nice : he lolled me that tho argiments that Mr. Hill hud mention Another Joan of Arc.—The govern-ment of Peru is al present in the hands of a woman. Madame (iain.irra is a fe-male Bonaparte ; and though her husband is nominally the head of Ihe republic, she is Ihe real sovreigu. It was owing lo her energy lhal he lose from the ranks of Ihe army, a common soldier, to Ins present rank. It is said that she never permits any subject pertaining to the government lo be discussed even in privy council, without her presence; and.-healways ac-companies the President on his official visits, especially those made lo foreign dignitaries. Gen. Gammaramade a visit, not long since lo our squadron, accom-panied by tbo different ministers of de-partments. Mi d line tiaminarra of course With him. Alii r Ihe customary salutes. she entered theoomm xloro's cabin, when refreshments were off red, and tho usual compliments exchanged. When Mad-ame Oamarra thought they had remained a sufficient length of time, aho rose, look-ed around her with the air of an empress, and uttering tl.c single word "vamos!" left the cabin, the others following hct out like a pack of sheep following their leader. She always wears pistols and a dirk, and is said to be a good shot.— Not long since, finding sonic fault with the police and discipline of one of Iho regiments of the army, she sent for the colonel commanding it, and reprimanded him in a manner lo which he did nol feel inclined lo submit, especially from a wo-man ; replied that he would hold himself responsible to the President, but not to the President's wife. He was soon taught however, whom he had lo deal with ; for Mad line Camarra immediately command-ed him lo silence, and at tho same time presenting s pistol, told him that if he uttered another word of insolence, she Would drive the bull) I through his head. Some say lhal her husband has more th,u once experienced Riich n threat: but we all know the world is addicted lo scandal. —Army and A'oJTJf Chronicle. Suitor's dread of Friday.—"Colum-bus sailed from Spain on Friday discov-ered land on Friday, and re-entered Ihe port of Palos on Friday. These curious coincidences should havo sufficed, one might think, lo dispel the superstitious dread still so prevalent of commencing a voyage on that ominous day." To our certain knowledge, the keel of Old Ironsides was laid on Friday ; she was launched on Friday ; went to sea on Friday; fought her first battle on Fn-day, and discovered she had lost (Jen. Jackson's figure head on Friday De-troit Post It was a golden qui ry of Dr. Franklin. in answer to one of the importunate ((ti-lers of Thomas Paine, that "if men were so wicked with religion what woutdlhov (state with bribery andcorruplion in thsft be without ;: !" ing curse of a general bankruptcy law. He paralysed Ihe vigorous arm of the mechanic, and struck down idc hopes ol those who were about commencing an en-terprising and useful career. He has filled the pnckoisof ihe usurer with money wrung from iho necessities of the honest debtor. Ho has openly charged, in a solemn message to ihe Congress of the United Slates—a libel which will be handed down lo future generations—more than S hundred thousand electors of his native |