western carolinian salisbury n c tuesday april 27 1824 no 203 mr taylor said that he had not previ ously mentioned the word caucus in this debate nor should he have now done so had he not been personally called upon ; but that if the resolutions for amending the constitution should bc taken up it would be necessary to consider that sub ject as having a tendency towards that consolidated and concentrated form of government towards which we were ver ging with awful rapidity at this junc ture it is thought an examination would produce an excitement inconsistent with a discreet consideration of the amend ments ; and therefore he concurred in the proposed postponement mr mills stated the views which indu ced him to move for the indefinite post ponement of ihis subject he had believ ed that it was quite impossible to act up on these resolutions at the present ses sion ; that the public sentiment was not yet prepared for any amendment on this subject and that a sufficient number of the senate to carry any one of these amendments could not be induced lo vote for any amendment he thought the present toas not the best time for the con sideration of the subject and that there were so many and so various propositions that no one of them would be adopted at present as the chair had decided that it was not in order to do so he should submit to the decision and take his seat philo white laws of the united stales this is the age of new inventions says lord byron who must undoubtedly have had his eye on our western world when he committed this veritable remark to paper dr buchanan of lexington inventor of a steam engine with small circular tubes for boilers which is now in opera tion in that city is at present engaged in adapting his engine to a vehicle for flying through the air and relative to its pro gress we find the following in a late lex ington public advertiser : " to prevent daily disappointment and interposition it is necessary to state that the flying ma chine is not yet so far completed that the public curiosity can be gratified by see ing the mode of its operation as soon as this car be done notice will ke given in the public prints well might the year in which this invention is perfected be designated as the " annus mirabilis something valuable — " we have seen within these two or three days a machine invented by mr joseph har mer the great value of which consists in the facility by which all different articles of food requiring culinary pre parations may be rapidly almost in stantaneously prepared in the course of a minute or two the mechanism is simple yet philosophical ; a few drops of spirits or of alcohol scarcely a cent of expense is sufficient to put the whole in operation and beef steaks mutton chops veal cutlets eggs ham and venison may be got up adapted to the most epicurean appetites richmond phenix mr barbour who was in the chair when the discussion alluded to commen ced felt it his duty to explain the reasons which had induced him to allow a wider latitude to that debate than had been in dicated to be proper by the chair at this time it was in consequence of his pe culiar situation — in connection with that meeting that he had refrained from cal ling gentlemen to order who had intro duced its discussion he considered that it was better that the liberty of debate should be sometimes abused than that it should be curtailed — the more especially as every gentleman stood answerable be fore the country for any remarks he might make in this senate after the lapse of a few minutes and after another gentleman had risen to speak the vice president observed that the gentleman from alabama was entitled to the floor if he chose to progress mr k then rose and observed that he under stood himself to have been deprived of the floor by the decision of the chair to which the vice president replied that the merits of the question before the sen ate might be discussed and that the gen tleman might progress mr k then ob served that he would not attempt to evade the decision of the chair ; and that if he could not be permitied to reply to politi cal doctrines preached here for home con sumption he had no wish to speak western carolinian will follows : three dollars a year ill be inserted at fifty cents insertion and twenty-five subsequent one addressed to the editor must be will not be attended to ulls ulllia'll united states senate on the proposed dmcnt to the constitution relative to the on of president and vice president ofthe litcd states during which debate the policy the late caucus at washington was inci ntal!y drawn into the discussion fr taylor of virginia said he was osed to the district system because it a tendency to deprive all the states it and small of a portion of their pow md because it interfered with the sep e character of the states as independ sovereignties he illustrated this , of the subject by several remarks then proceeded to state that he con ed in the opinion that had been ex sed in debate that the district system calculated to bring the election of ident into the house of representa i mr t fully concurred in the s of the gentleman from south ilina mr hayne that great evils d arise from tlie constant interfer of congress in the presidential elec and that any amendment to the con a happy winding up we understand that the marine insu rance society of this city whose stocks were sold at auction on monday will di vide at least ll 000 more than its capital it is not every institution in these days which is able to divide par an exam ple of this sort is therefore worthy of notice richmond compiler galvanic experiments by the sen tence of the court the body of johnson the murderer lately executed at new york was to be handed over to the sur geons for dissection the curious results obtained in europe by the aid of galvan ism led to similar experiments in this case when brought into the room the face was livid and the body still warm a powerful galvanic battery under the di rection of professor mcnevin assisted by professor griscorn and dr greenhow was made to act on different parts ofthe body the effect was startling to the spectators the arms and legs were ra pidly contracted and extended the hands clenched with violence and a general shivering pervaded the body the eye brows were drawn up and the features distorted in a most horrible manner — the heart was laid open and seen to beat and nothing but actual breathing was necessary to induce a belief that the man was restored to life many ofthe spec tators were compelled to quit the room we are gratified to learn that a distin guished physician proposes giving a de tailed account of these interesting exper iments in the next number of the medi cal journal nat adv no person of a good heart under stands christianity without wishing ie to be true and no person of a good judgment ever studied its evidence impartially and with a sincere wish that it might be true who did not re ally find it so mr kelly of ala next took the floor and began with observing that he would endeavour so far as it was practicable to withdraw the subject under debate from the fog with which it had been enveloped and to conform to the rule of debate pre scribed by the chair he remarked that the whole discussion on this caucus ques tion had arisen from a want of forbearance on the part of the gentlemen who had ad vocated that measure the gentleman from new york mr king had been charged with a change of opinion on the subject of the constitutional amendments and had risen in his defence and justified his disposition to delay acting on the sub ject at this crisis on account of the cen tral power which now presumed to select candidates for the presidency and vice presidency of the united states wheth er he actually used the cabalistic and por tentous word caucus or not i hold it said mr k immaterial he certainly spoke of a central power that had arisen in this government not known tothe con stitution and unfriendly to the liberties of the nation ; and whether he called it a caucus or not he certainly did said mr k assure the gentleman that he had no unlriendly feelings towards any person who differed from him in opinion now said mr k this remark was received with the most extraordinary sensitiveness on the part of these gentlemen — they had with an ultra chivalrous esprit du corps immediately rushed into a contest on the caucus question and had entered into ar guments in support of that measure — mr k repeated that a very small portion of forbearance in that stage of debate would have prevented the discussion alto gether but as gentlemen had thought proper to assume a different course it had certainly become necessary that their re marks should be answered and their argu ments refuted this had been done by the gentleman from south carolina in respect to the arguments which were ur ged on the other side before he addressed the senate but other arguments had still been advanced and to these mr k said he would now proceed to reply — waiving for the present the constitu tional question he would notice the ar gument of the necessity of a caucus as a party measure now without arguing how far a caucus could be justified on that ground he would say that such a measure could certainly not be justified as a party measure where only a small minority could be got to unite in it desultory tion would be very objectionable h would have the effect of making interference more frequent he it had been a great object with him nany years to effect some amendment ie constitution which might secure election of the president without ming congress with it he might live to see that desirable object ac plished but he hoped the gentleman i south-carolina would in clearing a tomb lately in boston the remains of a british officer were found it is supposed he was buried with his clothes on but they had all perished ex cept his silk sash which was in perfect order and the colors bright singular munificence — robert veaux esq of philadelphia the author ofthe life of anthony benezet a few days since received five hundred dollars from some persons unknown as a mark of gratitude for the benefit derived by the donor from reading the book ; which mr veaux pur suant to direction on the 19th instant paid over to the provident society for the employment of the poor mr john randolth — the norfolk herald likens this gentleman's mouth to a hornets nest : he cannot open it but out pops a sting his remark on a motion to appoint a day for the adjournment of congress was at once original sarcastic and apt " he thought it was time that every member who did not intend to rely on the public crib but feed out of his own cora-house should go home and plant his corn to the question of a congressional 5 for the nomination of candidates ie presidency mr t said he nev d any doubt that such a nomination i clear violation of the spirit of the itution on that subject he believ is sentiments were in print it ap d to him p.-epostcrous for gentle to contend that in making such a nation they acted in their private ities mr t here entered into argument to prove that members of ress could not meet at the seat of rnment and nominate a candidate a pugilistic contest took place near coventry eng on the hth february between two persons of the name of smith and ellis after a short fight ellis was taken away so severely bruised that he died the next day extraordinary case the indiana pa pers have contained statements from time to time since november 1823 of the facts relative to ihe oozing of blood from the cheek and eye cf judge prince's girl aged 13 years and cf the conversion of that blood aflcr it had passed the pores of the skin into clots which the obser vers term flesh cartilage and bone the testimony of such gentlemen as doctors shuler thomson and decker and gen erals evans and neely would seem to put the matter out of doubt but there is fur ther evidence about a dozen of these extraordinary productions comprehend ing the three several substances have been received in this city with the follow ing letter to dr mifchill from dr shuler of vincennes — me w york paper " enclosed are specimens of bone and cartilage with a clot that were taken fr ra the girl's face i regret i have no more to send you i think you will have re ceived some before this time from gen evans the specimens i found are smaller than most that made their appear ance the largest of them owes its whiteness externally to having been brushed and is smoother than most of those which i saw all the bones had some part of their surface smooth ; but this smoothness was generally on one side the caitilaginous substances ap pear when dry to be of two kinds ; the one pale and transparent and the other yel lowish and more opaque as you will find by examination it is probable i think if the cartilage and bone were pro perly analyzed they would be found to contain a larger portion of gelatine than the regular bone of the human body ; and the yellow pieces especially to be composed principally of gelatine the clot enclo sed is not a fair specimen it being smal ler and of a darker colour than most of the others many were of a dusky white and of a fibrous structure the shades of hue were various c accept the as surance of my high esteem c the british monitor says that the em peror alexander had determined to trans fei the seat of his government from st petersburgh to moscow and his imperi al majesty had signified his intention never more to reside in the former city ! should this resolution be carried into ef fect there can be little doubt that it is connected with some political views upon turkey as the distance from moscow to the turkish frontier is trifling in com parison with that from st petersburgh disinterested love a young lady told an old gentleman that she was in love with his estate : " take it madam said he and then you will possess two-thirds of me for mind you have already and my whole being con sisted but of mind body and estate " o ! then rejoined the juvenile fair " it would be very unreasonable sir to rob you of all three pray keep your body for yourself he presidency without making it a x business the people would so rd it and it would produce the same t as if the nomination was made by tbers in their ligislative capacities is honourable friend and colleague . barbour had stated that he mr lor had been his instructer in respect tuusing and that he had introduced into the first caucus he evev attended colleague if he had received any in frankfort ky march 11 while the illustrious riego was lying in a dungeon just before his murder a soldier placed as a sentinel over him one day said were you not in prison i would murder you " were i not a prisoner replied riego " you would not dart to look me in the face a man and woman were sentenced to bo hanged at the late montgomery circuit court we understand that the woman had been kept as the mistress ofthe man and that their crime was the murder of his wife ctions from him on the subject had ainly profited greatly by them : he been a very apt scholar in his lessons had far outstripped his master but colleague was greatly mistaken he never attended a caucus either in gress or elsewhere for the purpose ominating candidates for offices such cedings he considered very danger trotting match — a trotting match took place a few days since on long is land between a celebrated horse called poppet belonging to a gentleman in phil adelphia but formerly owned in new york and a mare named betsey baker the property of a young gentleman in new york the distance was three miles fop a purse of glooo the mare won the match by about 60 yards having perform ed the distance in about 9 minutes 46 se conds we understand that the knowing ones came out at the little end of the horn m clement a french chemist has lately invented an apparatus for the dis tillation of sea water which produces six pounds of good fresh water by the burn ing of one pound of common coal a sin gle still will supply five hundred pints of it daily and distillation may be performed during the roughest weather he meeting to which the gentleman jed was held by some of the members he virginia legislature for the sin purpose of preparing resolutions to proposed in the legislature mr t he did not agree with the gentleman he other side that informal meetings preparing bills or resolutions to be osed to legislative bodies had any niblance to a congressional caucus nded to transfer from the states their stitutional check and influence in the it is stated in silliman's journal of sci ence that a monsieur le roi has contri ved a new and very simple method for teaching the art of writing a thin and perfectly transparent plate of horn ofthe usual size of a leaf of paper has the pol ish removed from one ef its sides when laid upon a copy the hand of a child ea sily traces the letters upon the unpolished side which neither absorbs the ink nor allows it to spread when the whole plate is written over the ink is washed off with water and is ready for a new exercise thus the same horn which is not liable to break may serve indefinitely and by this means produce a great economy of he had always understood that the very first principle of the republican party to which he belonged was that a majority only could act or speak for the party and this indeed seemed to be a sacred prin ciple that could in no case be disregarded but the gentlemen of the present day have conquered the difficulty that embar rassed archimedes when he stood a soli tary colossus on the vortex of mechanical science he £_______-, " give me a place bthe world gen alexander of russia with magnanimi ty uncommon to despots has permitted the erection near cracow of a monu ment to the memory of kosciusko the fellow soldier of washington and the brave but unsuccessful vindicator of tho liberties of poland the monument has become as much an object of veneration to the poles as was the person of the he ro of respect and admiration to all tho world tion of a president to congress it been said indeed that a congression hicus acted only in their private char t's to illustrate this assertion we - all heard of what is called a bull e - suppose sixty or seventy of the est and most respectable private citi > should assemble and entertain the tators with jigs rigadoons and horn s ? would not their private charac be estimated in contemplating the bition ? but if the same number of nbers of congress should assemble and bit a similar scene would not their he characters be also estimated ? so n assembled for nominating a presi b t is their public characters and ie only which are intended to influ c the election and such an influence tobr.s.l.mitcullp l s shuler to stand and i'll move^h^ihuh tlemen have stricken from this sentenc the " dospou sto and the article az an retain only the ton k$smon kineto they now propose to raise the worl without a fulcrum here mr k ws called to order by the chair the pres ident said that in his opinion the debal had on the former days assumed a muc wider range than the strict rules of orde would authorize ; he himself was not the in the chair ; and that he conceived it 1 be his duty at this point to confine th discussion to the precise question befor the senate mr kelly said it was hi intention to have replied to some of th opinions heretofore expressed in debau in favour of the meeting alluded to j bu choosing sides — a young minister received a call from two different so cieties at once to become their pastor one was rich and able to girt him a large salary and well united the other was poor and so divided that they had driven away their minister in this condition he applied to his fa ther for advice an aged negro ser vant who overheard what was said made this reply : " massa go where there is least money and the most devil he took the advice and was made the instrument of uniting a dis tracted church and converting many souls to christ paper witherford the prophet — this cele brated indian warrior who led the hostile indians to the attack on fort mims in 1813 which resulted in the massacre of near 400 men women and children ; and who afterwards voluntarily and dauntless ly flung himself into the the hands of gen jackson and demanded his protec tion died near montpeliar in the state of alabama on the 9th of march last in onondago county a short time since a miss cooley in consequence of the coolness of a betrothed swain and his subsequent breach of marriage promise recovered damages to the amount of 250 dollars-a cool sum this for baulking warm expectations tr ys that of the states bestowed by constitution for self-preservation by sferring to congress a power confer on the states their characters will 3 * them into a caucus either for the p°se of a bull-dance or for nominating vinegar — the vinegar manufactur ed by all the great establishments in london is made from malt most of the vinegar consumed in paris and indeed throughout france is extracted either from wood or potatoes the rumor published by us a few days ago that mr wirt was about to resign the office of attorney general ofthe u s and that it had been tendered to mr clay has been contradicted as far as it regards mr clay petersburg paper