MfUtgue and Vive in London. ... 1666,- . .i Toe following historical skdlch is from Eleouc Uevicw, Tlicie is nothing on ?srth more terrific than a fearful pestilence, lo see men dying ami hourly. struck down an unseen power,—while the breeze seems as gentle and is healthful, the sky as bright and ■ clear, and the earth as teeming Hurt liuittul as ever, murks must eiuplmii- Cfllly the hand of Omnipotence. the month of Julie the heal became excessive, and- the deaths reported as from the-plague,.were two hundred and seventy . six. fur the lasfweek. Ln the middle of July it began to alarming progress’ among the suburban parishes northward. Willi the approach, of September the eastern ones aimred the-same fate, so that thb dark cloud having thus moved round the whole circuit bf the city, began to shed its disastrous in fluences over the trembling myriads who still clung to it as their home. From June to September the weekly .reports of deaths continued to increase in various degree,' un til they rose to eight thousand two bundled and ninety-seven. Hut theJciTurand con tusion of that time were such as to render it impossible that complete returns should made; and' we safely believe , that the kfienc ot horror was much greater than even the largest ot these numbers would indicate. According to the best authority we possess, the weekly mortality during the early part of September w.as not less than twelve thou sand, a ’ third part of which amount were* supposed to have died in the course of one fearful night! The bills fur the year report the total at sixty-eight thousand, five hund : Ted and .ninety-six; which fails, probabiyby one-third, to exhibit the real extent of the , calamity. Many died of fright; in the case of others, lunacy,—brought on by the same cause, preceded dissolution. The instances - ol females dying in a slate of pregnancy increased mure than tenfold; and Tie new born seemed only to live to become capable of dying. I he symptoms of the disease varied con siderably, in different cuhsliluliuhs. In some cases there was no appearance of swellings, and the infected person flatteredUii inself Joins were Only those of oidhiavy iiulTspu''-" ,wUuu,.uut,'vl. J.he thest Was foumLUi-cxUihit a spots, 'Which warhed the victim, and his friends that life would be — —extinctiu,afew.hom:B ut the utmost. Thete j, spots were called I lie U>kenx, ami were pier' aejit iefuie Alie Jinagipaiioii ot'r tlic people.as, (he messengers ol death. The person in whom the disease took this shape died with comparatively little suffering; but when car ■ ■ buncles appeared the internal functions re tained much of their strength,.and a high state of fever commonly ensued. Many„ ,ih their piiruxyism, broke away from the beds in Which they were fastened, and raVeil upon ■ pa6Scngera .in_lthe l the windows of -their apartments. ■ Some laid violent hands upon themselves, whilst others gave - utterance to their misery iii loud and bit ter lamentations, Or, forcing their way abroad .tied, with little or nothing to.cover them, from street, to street, shouting forth the most phrenzied language. Some of these! creatures threw themselves into the Thames sank in sudden exhaustion and ex- j pired; even the officers, so great was the fear of infection, commonly forbearing to put any restraint upon'them. ()f those who were visited with the disease in this form, few died in less than twenty-four hours; some lived through twenty days, but the average, limit was five or six days. In July and August the majority of the infected per-, ished; in September and October the recov eries are believed to have been in the pro portion of fruin three to five. “The means employed to counteract this awful calamity sometimes aggravated its violence. Thus on one occasion the Lord Mayor ordered sea.-coal Gres tp be kindled in the streets; amidst which the pestilence stalked with increased desolation,-until e lionnuus falls of rain happened to extinguish them. Comets and unusual meteors diffu sed horror'and dismay all around; \vhilst soothsayers, astrologers, quacks, and other knpostorß.renpedadeteslableharvestfrbin the tears "of their fellow-creatures. ! }V, "London emptied itself of all whohad-' t)ie means of removal. Not less thamfen thousand , houses - Were deserted in fbn cily and its.adjacent parishes; sothat grass grcw. : in- the miost frequented Thoroughfares; all abodes reported by thc’}pcal authorities lis ■ containing infected persons! were immedi ately shut lip; whilst on (lie door:a large red .cross was . painted,.With the words Written ... - over if: "The Lord have mercy on v>?” Watchmen, with halberds in their hands, prevented all ingress or egress; tradeiwas wholly suspended, and two general pest : houses'were opened. Tho. following is a graphic picture, to be read almost with tears: ~ _ ■ - ?.■ ' - “\Vhen : those who ventured abroad met; flwy tioi|adis(ance from each other; and the.man WUp;.pas3ed a house with the fatal mark upon .it; ciiijnnibnly glanced indirectly at jti . aridj'imuffling his cloak about him, made'hiS \yay with a hurried and timid step along"the forsaken footpatU'un.the opposite side, Men r ■ feared - even 'the fragrance offlowfirs, lest they should inhale the.sickness from them, and. called fur antidotes, rue, myrrh, and , zedbary. Ay the dpailis multiplied till the •soarexpressions of sympathy with the de — parledrsuchas-tollingtlicparisliknell, wearing mnfurning, anil fuiieral pfocessions, Suddenly ceased. Men were employed to go through the infected dislricts.-in the dead of night, to collect and inter the bodies of those.who expired in the course of the dav. ' . The distant tinkling of .a bell, and the glare of torches, announced The approach ofithe dead-carl; "and as -it came near the houses . with (be cross upon them;, (he men attending, it uttered alternately .the well-known opsf-;vopii’D.iB*»J” .-.To this, rally the’(response of the inmates'was often a waiW of'sorrow'as they- brought-their dead to the ' dour, jfometiifies . barely covered, hut, com-' inOpiy'Wrapped' uphlikeuiumiiiiesintliebed , lifen onwhichthey had breathed their-lust. 1 . .. v T jjV bodies’ thus obtained, weire,lodged one upon 1 another in the vehicle, and» being cbn,- veyed to the edge of a broad decp.pit pre t pired- to receive them, the board ht the .end’, of the part was- removed, and they, were made to . fall as they might, into their phi . res. This done, the workmen covered I hem; immediately with a.'layer of < earth, ; upon which:'Othpra in their turrf were thrown in the same manner, until; the.dreaded re ceptacle was lull to withln.vi'few fect of the surface. . > “Tlio sufl’eringsof those whose imagina tions followed the objects of their’aflections to such a scene, must have been great. It is well known that grief and exoitementiiot unfrcquenlly obtaineda visible mastery oyer the understanding. The -unwonted course of things abbut them filled the minds of many with the supernatural. They saw spirits walking the earth; and could trace out fearful sights in the heavens; and there were those who believed themselves-coin missioned to announce, the wrath of the Almighty! One mari took upon himself the mission of Jonah. Another naked, except a covering around his waist, and sometimes with a vessel of burning coals raised above Jiis head, traversed the city day and night, "without appearing to lire or rest, exclaim ing,- “Oh! the great, the dreadful God 1” But the cause which seemed to push reli gion to the extreme of 'fanaticism in some seemed to expel all sense of it from others. In the language of these, life was short; Its probable end to-mot row; the future-was a dream, and the fool could only sufler.the fleeting moments that might rema -, n to pass in wailing rathel’ than in pleasure., Thus the darkest hour of calamity became mark ed by—fheTttmost license in crime. Oaths and imprecations in one quarter, mingled with the adorations and prayers which as cended from another; the song of the drunk ard blending with the hymn of the devout; one class eagerly benten riot and sensuali ty! converting the tavern and brothel into a, species of pandemonium, whilst another and happily a much larger one, manifested a new solicitude, to diffuse the benefits of pi c(y and charity, which thc.horrors.around them had done'much to purify and exalt. “Within a few months afterwards camp another vial of wrath, in the form of fife, upon our then ns now most guilty metropo lis. It broke.out on. the second day of Sep tember, 1686, after an unusually hut and sultry August, on the premises of a baker in Pudding Lane, near London Bridge.-r -'The habitations about it were unhappily builfof Wuod, much crowded together, with the roofs-anilpartitions of many of them .... -u ' ' | bady’weather’;' the cemre ef enormous stores, .in. iicihp;'other' naval materials; oils, wines,- rosin, and foreign spirits', were'deposited. Sir Thomas Bludwprth, having to act as Chief Mngis- Irate, provedTjuite'unequal-tohis-functions. -The..sailors...urged, an_expl«aio.n_of.Jhosfi. store-houses through gujipowder, which lay in the path’of the conflagration; a step which,, had it been taken in time,, might have pre vented much hi sciiief. Little or nothing effectual was done, and the fiery deluge spread. Street after street became pyra mids of flames, and then heaps of smoulder ing ruins. By night the whole slope of the city- towards -the river,-- from the Three Cranes in the. Vinfry to more than a mile westward, was an arch of fire;, steeples; churches, public„edifices,- sinking, one after another, out (if sight, amid clouds of smoke, the glare of flames, and an incredible noise produced by the violence of the wind, the rush of the conflagration, and the frequent crash' of roofs, as they tumbled successively toward the ground. “The clement which thu« reared on earth seemed also to have taken possession of the heavens, which glowed with a. changeful and terrific brightness, so that u the lurid ef fect was observed at the, distance of forty or fifty miles. Evelyn, who was an eye-wit ness, exclaimed, —‘God grant that I may, never behold the like, 1 saw-ten thousand abodes in one flare; —the noise, - and crack ling, and thunder of .the impetuous blaze; the shrieking of. women and children; the’ hurry of people; the fall of towers and churches—it w.ss’like a,hideous storm; and the air alt about so hnt niid inflamed, that at last, one was'not able fcrapproach, so that all seemed'forced-to; stand - still and let the flames burn Qn, which -they did, for nearly twp in breadth.’— n*jn the J& st 4!*® destruction churches, lafilf houses, be- a fragment ■ reinained erect fO aid the explorer.” " >■ • • . 'CO-liT’S'- TR* AX-. ■ The evidence in thia case was .concluded bh Thursday.;; In the afternoon, the sum ming up waa commenced byMr. Emmett, one of 00l t|S. counsel, by reading the.follow* ing confession written by the prisoner: COLT’S CONFESSION. Samuel [Adams called on Friday at my office, as near as I can recollect, between the hours of 3 and 4 o’clock. , Whether he had.any special object in view in coming at that time or not I cannot say. When he, ■ entered my.office I was sitting at my table, as usual, and' was at that time engaged in lookingoylcramanußcriptaccoufit book, as I had, b'eeri engaged in thia work fur one or. two: days previous; that ..is, I was reading jaxerthe entries and reconsidering the arith metical calculations, belonging to the en triesjt&c. _ _ ■ _ . Mr. Adams sealed himself in a chair hear the table, and within an arm’s length, of myself, so near that had we both leaned,our heads forward towards each other, 1 have lio doubt but that they would have touched. I Spoke of my account, which he had at my-request-handed to- me ten dr Twelve days before. I stated to hiip ; .tlmt "his ac count was wrong, and read to.'him at .llie same, time the account, asl had made it out. on another" piece of jijipe'iy and requested him to alter his accoUnt as I had it. He objected,'to it at first. saying that I did not understand printing.' however, altered his figures as 1 read them from my account, as I made the remark that I would give $lO or soine such siimnf I was pot right. -■ i&Affer he had altered his figures, and on lobkihgit over, he said thdfhe was. right at first,'and made the remark that I meantj to cfieaf hirii. (In-the mean time we had both beepfiguring;%•separate paper, parts of the Word ; followed Word till if came to blows. The wDrdB "you llel” were passed, pnd'several ■slight hlowet, and' until T received" a blow across .my ’mriuth and noße, whifch caußey ,roy hose slightly to bleed, .felt‘like exert* ingmyself to strong-defence, I believe I then struck hin|'Ae^,lriol^U^wUlr , We'grappled with" cat h other at' the time;,' $ fiufi tb.ihe wall, with’ thy aide and hip.to thd table;:;. At J|)is time he had |iis hand in inj nccit iii\ndljcrchicf, twisting it so IhatTcouUl scarcely breathe; and at the aanle timepressing me hard upon the wail and tablet' r There \yas"a hammer upon the table, which.' I’iin.mediajely .seized hold of, and .instantly the head. At this time I think' his hat was nearly in my face,, ntuP lug fapc, i- sh<fi|hl; think, was downwards.' I (16:not-think he saw me seize the hammer. The seizing of the hammee-and .■ ous. 1 think this blow knocked his hiitoft’; but will not be positive. At the time, 1 only remember of his 1 twisting my neck handker chief sa tight that it-seejned to-Ininas: though I lost all power of reason. Stilt f thought!' was striking away with ..thejiammer.— Whether he attempted to-'gef^^.-hammer from me or. not 1 cannot 1 not think he did. The - first sense of thought was, it seemed, as though his hand or some thing brushed from my neck downwards,. — -I cannot say-that 1 had any sense ora-cflec tion till I heard a.knock at' (he door. Yet there is a faint idea still remains that I shov ed him off so that ho fell oyer, but "of this ! cannot say. When I heard the knock on (he door, I,was instantly startled,- and am fully conscious of going and turning the key so as to lock it. 1 then sat down, for 1 felt'very weak and sick. After sitting li few minutes, and seeing so much bloodj I think I went and looked at poor Adams, who breathed quite loud for several minutes, threw Ins arms out and was silent.'- 1 re collect at this time taking him - by the hand, which seemed -'lifeless; and a horrid thrill came oyer me; that I had killed him. , • About this time some iioise started me.— I felt agitated or frightened, and I,think I .wentto the door to sec if I had fastened it, and took the key turned down the slide. I think. I stood for a minute or two, listening to hear if the affray had caused any alarm. X believe T then took a seat hear the.tvindow. It was a, cold damp day, and the window had been closed all day ex cept about six or eight inches dt the top, which I let down when I first .went to the office, and which remained down all the lime'l occupied it. ."■ r , • I remained iti' the same scat' 1 think for ~ * I'juovuijr clSkeV whicli-were within my ce.^cV. ,vMy custom had been to leave the-curtams about' one-third' drawn from the side the win dows, towards Broadway. The blood at thia_ltime was spreading over fhe-'lloor.— Tijere’-.WM a great cj u a nifty .amlTTol ra -1 armed lest it should leak illrough",ijVt6~tluT imothccarics’s 'store. I tried to sfop-.it by. tyong piy‘ handkerchief around' his' heck 'light. This appcared'tp do no gpod./I then looked about the room for a piece of fwine, and fop ml in a box which stood in the room, after partially pulling out some awning that was in it, a piece of cord, which I tied .tight around liis neck, after taking -thc-bandker- chief ofl’. and hisstockfoo, 1 think. ■■ It wasliieh 1 discovered so much blood, and the fear of its leaking through the floor caused me to take a towel and gather with it all that I could, and rinse it intodlre pail 1 had in the room. The pail was, I should think at that time, about one third full of water, and the blood filled it at least anoth er third full. ’ Previous to doing this, I moved the body towards the box, lind pulled out the part of the awning to rest .il on, and covered it with the.remainder. I never saw his. face afterwards. After soaking up all the blood 1 could, which I did as still and hastily as possible, I look my seat agaiiMiear thtf wiiidow, and began to think- what was best to do. About this time some one knocked at the door, to which, of course, I paid no attention. My horrid situation remained from this time till dark, a silent space of time of still .more horrid reflection. At dusk of the evening, and at the same time some omnibusses were passing, 1 care fully opened the door and went out as still aS’; possible, and I' thought, unheard. I Crossed into the Park, and went down from thence to the City Hotel, my purpose .be ing to relate the circumstance to a brother who was stopping at fhis house. J,,saw.him in the front reading room engaged'ip. con versation with two gentlemen..- 1 spoke to him, a few words passe(j' I ’be(u v een tfi.-and seeing that he was engaged, I altered my purpose and returned as far as the<Park.— 1 walked up and down the Park, thinking what it wits best to do. Many things 1 thought of; among others, was going to some magistrate, and relating the facts to him.— Then the horrors of the excitement—a trial, public censure, and false andfoul reports— that"' would be raised' by the many who Would stand ready to make 1 the best appear worse than the worst, for the sake.of a pal*, try pittance gained to them in the then feeW ings, was more than could be borne. ,Puhr lication of perverted truths, and originating false, foul, calumniating lies.’ Besides, at this" tiinc, in addition" to-lhe'blows - given, there would be left the - mark or evidence,of a rope drawn tight round the neck, which looked too deliberate for anything like death caused iu.an affray. -Vx ' Firing the building seemed at first a hip py thought, as all would be enveloped in flame aind wafted into the air and ashes.— Then the danger of causing, the death of others,, "(as there .were quite a" nu mber who slept in the buildings) the. destruction of property, &c. caused me at oricetoaban don the idea. I next thought of having a suitable box made, and have'it leaded in side, so that the blood would not ;fun blit, and movinglt off some where and buiying .it. : Then the delay of; itU this, -and the great liability of being detected. ' ; After wandering in.the'Park for an hour or riiqrie I returned to'my room, amf ehtered it as I had left it,-as I supposed/unobserved. Wheeler’sdpor was open:and he was talk ing to spuie one quite audibly.; 1 my room entering undetermined; ppd, nol knowing What to do. - After ! seated in my room I waited silently till i\V)ie.eler’B schpol Was ou t arid hiS-lighfoextingujahcns and . -during this' suspense it occurred too '-that I might ptit the body in a cask dr:l)»xl,and ■ ship it off somewhere. I ,’iiltle dinughrat this time that the box which' waslln*' :tlte room wouldianswer. : 1 supposet] l,t, t tiO-short arid, small.-iand:entirely urisafe.-TsHt Was quite open. ‘ :■ : « Wheeler’* school being,j3Ut,>l still beard some one in his room, ami ns I thought, laid down on some benches, -- The rtoise did not bppoiir: H *acntf /like a [icrsnivi; gnihg lo bed. Icouldlieurtlic' ri’stlipgot'nubiiUxlothos. r.fclt, Somewhat alarmed, but then, the idea Occurred to me.that it might bO the person ‘who Wheeler had stated was going to occu py the-room that I then occupicd.as n sleep?, lug room, as soon as' 1 gave it up, which was to be in about ten days’ time; was tempora rily occbpyiti'g bis room-for this purpose.—' .Relieving myself by this thought, 1 soon lit a candfe, knowing that no time was to be lost; something must'be dope. This was about nine o’clock 1 should think. Haying closed the shutters I Went and examined .the b03;%-'see if I .'could ,not crowd the body into-it. I soon saw that there Was a possi bility of doing so, if L could bend the legs up,so that it would answer if 1 could keep some of the canvass around the body to ab sorb the blood,, and keep it from running' out. This I tvas fearful of. It occurred to me if I bury or send this "body off, the lollies which he had on would, from de scription, discover whodt might be. It be came necessary to strip and dispose of the clothes, Which.l speedily accomplished by ripping up the coat sleeve, vest, &c.; "while removing the clothes, the keys, money, &c. in his pu.ckets caused a rattling, and 1 took them out and laid them on one side. I then pulled a part of, the awning over the body to hide it. 1 then cut and tore a piece 1 from the awning, and laid it in the bottom of the' box. ■ . , . 1 then cut several pieces from the awning for the purpose of lessening its bulk, sup posing it was too much to crowd into a box with the body, it would not go in. 1 then tied as tight us I could a portion of the awning ala*tt the head, having-placdirsome thing like’flax which 1 found in the box with the awning. (.This flax or swindling tow came from a room which Iliad previ ously occupied No. 3 Murray street, also the awningj I then-threw a piece-of this rope around the legs at the joint of the knees, and lied them together. I then Con nected a rope to the one above the shoulders or neck, and bent the.knees towards the head of the body as much as I could. This brought it into a compact form.' Al ter sev eral efforts I succeeded in 'raising* the body to a chair seat, then to- (tie top of the box, and turning it round a little; let itjflto the box as easy as I could, back downwards, with the head raised. The head, knees and down to the bottom-of-the box, anil fijii’Vfftg: the body a little towards ine, I readily pushed the head and, feet in. ■ The, knees still , (injected; I bad tb stand upon them 'with all my weight before I could get them ■down. 'i'iie-aiviiing* was then all crowded indie-bnx- 1 reserved to wash the iloor. There being •still a portion of the box next to the feet, not quite fufi, I took his coat, and' after pulling up a,portion of-the awning, crowded it partially under them, and replaced the awning. The cover wasatamcc put on the box and (jailed down with four or five na Is which were broken.and of but little account. I-then-wrapped—lhc--rcniaindei c df - h'is; •clothing up and carried it down stairs to .the privy, and threw it into it, together witlf his keys, wallet, money,''pencil cas«j,.&.c.— • Theset-latter’ things I look down L in my hat and pockets, a part wrapped’in a paper, and a part'otherwise, In throwing them down 1 think they must have rattled out of-the paper.' , I then returned to the room, carried down the pail .which contained the blood, and threw it into the gutter of (he streht ; pumped several pails of water and threw in the same direction. The punip is nearly opposite the outer door of the building) then carried a pail of water upstairs, and re peated said washing to a third pail; (hen rinsed the pail, returned it clean and two thirils full of water to the room; opened, the shutters as usual, drew a chair to the dour, and leaned it against it on the inside'as 1 closed it. Lucked the door and went at once to the Washington Bath House, in Pearl street near Broadway.- On way to the bath house, went by a hardware store, for the purpose of getting some nails so as further,to secure the box. ■ The store was closed.. When I got to the bath house, I think- by the clock there it was eight min utes past 10. I washed out my shirt thoroughly in parts .of the sleeves and’ bosom, that were some wliai'staihcd with blood from washing the iloor. My pantaloons in the knees 1 also washed a little, ami .my neck handkerchief in spots. • ' 1 then, went home; It wanted, when I got home, about 5 minutes of 11 o’clock. 1 lit a light, as usual. Caroline wishe'd to’know why 1 came in so late. I made an excuse saying, that-1 was with a'friend from Phila-- delphia, 1.-think, and that 1 should get up,in the moining early to go-anil: see him ofi’. _ I -went to the stand and pretended to .write till 'she became quiet or went to sleep, 1 then .’pul out the light & undressed thyself; spread :my shirt, &c. out to.dry, and. went to bed. In the morning, at lialf pasl 5 o|clo.ck, Jg«flf up, put my shirt and handkefchiefj-tvhreif were not yef quitedry,intdthel(dttortvof: the-clothcs basket under the bcdi ’ Alwaya -changed my shirt morning put. on-a clcaii chief and. was ncarly drcssed awoke up. L said to her that it was-cldubt ful whether ! should return to breakfust.—- Did' hot return; went to the' office, found if apnarently as l hadleftit, Went aftersume hails: got them at Wood’s store; the store was just opening; returned to the J'ooin; nail ed the box on-all sides; went down to .the Rist River fei ascertain the first packet for New Orleans. , ' . ' ; s , • Returned to my room; marked (he box; moved if myself, buf- with great difficulty. Id the head ot the stairs; .did not dare to let it down myself; went to look for a carman; saw 4Wan passing the door as I was going but; requested him.tp helphiedown wilh-the box; he got U ,down withqut.any assistance; pre ferred doing so;’ paidhimlO orT2 cents;' Went doWn Chambers street fur a cartmftn, Whd- l-saw coming towards Broadway; hired hifh- ! .t<l v take thevTjdx to the'ship (oof of Mai den* Lapp; went with' him. While he was loading the box I-went tb-my office for,a pieiie of piper to write n receipt on; wrote a rcci,*ipt to be signed by (lie captain - oh my u ay .dowri the street; did nut offer the receipt to "fie, signed, but requested one; which the receiver of .the brig gave me. A clerk was byat the - time and objected to the’ form of .the; receipt, and p.ok if and altered it; wish ed to know.if I wanted a bill of lading.'' ,1 first remarked that as there was but one box, it, was not very important; huvyevcr. that T Wuqkl cnll. ai the pfficeTur one. .r Did nut go for a bill of lading, 'l'oreup the. receipt before I was twohetjuarcs from the ship.— Returned to niy of Lovejoy’s. Hotel in the Park.i\Yeiif tdhis eating room. Called fora hot roll and coffee. Could not eat. Drank two cups of coffee. Went to my office, locked the dyor, and sat down for some time. Examined every thing about the room;' VVipcd; the wall, in one or two spots. Went home to, bed.- '<r- MivEnimett said.that they, had intended to make the confession public, but finally concluded to wait, in order to see what course would be taken on the trial. He declared the case came under the class of excusable humicide; v 'revievved the evidence, and made a powerful-appeal-totlitf jury. , , The Court then adjourned... ; John Qnmcy. Adams.— This man,, who , onco.hcld tho highest post in the Republic, and whoso great age, superior talents, and unequalled experience in public life, should preeminently qualify him to be "a burning and a shining lights to tho statesmen of the ago, is disgracing himself and his country by his wicked (we con coll them by no softer name) attempts at agitation. Day after day docs tit mischief-moker seek to array tho North against the South on tho sub ject of Abolition, Although the House repeated ly decided by a large majority, that no petitions of tho kind shall bo entertained, still he persists in, offering them, arid, upon every occasion seeks by violence of language and taunting insults, to inflame the passions bf-thp Southern members, and ihereby rend asunder the bond of unity and community “of feeling which have heretofore protected US from tho evils of anar chy and domestic strife; But this reckless obUmon o. has oVen went,a step farther: -A few days since ho had the audacity to present a petition ‘from some kin dred spirits in his own district, for a rtpeal of this glorious Union! Wo blush to think that such a wicked attempt has been made—still more that tho author is an ox-President of the United States—and yet more that such a man had been honored in bis day by the immortal Washington,' who, in his last pitting addfess to his fellow-countrymen, warned them against Indulging in the remotest thought of a dissolution of the Union, John Quincy Adams has lived beyond, his day. After having been invested with tho honors of the Chief Magistracy, he should have retired from public life. He never more should have appeared on llu; theatre of political turmoil and action. Had he done r - , I SO, the errors of his administration would have been . INSURANCE.-We call the . attention of cur rcoi- { hc r „,„ Ulcd to bis ‘Vices forgotten. But ambition ' ‘ Usement oX the : bgnino GWv Fins IssurtAxcn • u « Cosiravr.” published in another, column, ! Ins we ouu'a’/l '°? an • “ul 7 r taken jts‘ place, --Tho Southern Itates re- Philadelghia that makes insurances on all kinds of fu6ed to 6lletain him in hi 3 BCCOnd conlcs , for thc property. The terms .1 will bo observed, are reason,.- Pre6idency _ and t 0 , hc pco le „ f 6 ,- vc . holdi S^^!!*~T <^-^ uk '^^^ l ” tl^<>llfe9 M ,g ~fe-l-Stotea_daoLhe_miiinlT attribute hi, .lefekr | n -2 8 ._ (whetner tli© pr6periy"bo-n:aror-perßonrtl}.vSboulUj;nk.. ~ brace tho opportunity afforded them of securing them selves-against-loss by tho destructive element.- He' member the old adage—“A stitchiLOmtimc saves nine,’’ and call at once upon tho agent, Dr. J. J. Mtkus, of this Borough, and have your property insured. AMERICAN VOLUNTEER. UY GEO. SANDERSON, CARLISLE: THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3. ISI2. APPOINTMENTS-BY THE GOVERNOR. JOHN B. BUTLER, of Allegheny county—LEVl REYNOLDS; of Mifflin county—and GEORGE M. HOLLENBACIC, of Luzerne county—to bo Canal Commissioners, from and after the Ist Febru ary* instant. ... OVID F. JOHNSON, fisq., Attorney Genertd of the Commonwealth, for the next three^ycdffl. ■ ' AwoTilKn Finn.—Two stables in the southern part of this Borough, weic destroyed by fire between 1 and 3 o’clock on Fiiday morning lost*- One of them wn occupied as a chandler shop; by a German, and in that one the conflagration, it is stated, oiiginatcd—-probably. through carelessness in securing the fire the .evening previous. The night was calm, and owing to this cir cumstance mainly, together with thd exertions of our fire companies, the fire was got under without commu nicating to the contiguous buildings* ~ (Xj’Tlic confession of Colt* the murderer of Mr., Adams, \vhos9 trial..took place, last week in ,N. York, : will bo ; found in thin' \v. ck's paper. ""The charge of the Judge wus given on Saturday, and-the ease sub mitted to’'the Jury, who returned into Court on Sun day morning, at 4 o’clock, with a verdict of Guilty of -Murdernni! t First degree 7 Onc'of the counsel for tfic prisoner gave notice to tlm ‘Court, that lie wished tq file a bill of exceptions, -which, in consequence of the lateness of the hour, and the absence of his asso ciates, he could not do before Monday. The prisoner, the Atlas says, heard the verdict of the Jury with some little emotion, which appears to have been en tirely quieted when his counsel put in his plea for a bill of exceptions. Several of the Jurors were much affected, ond-some of thun shed tears when they were separately called upbu to answer t) the verdict. “Valuable Stocks! —United States Bunk Stock solid, in Philadelphia, for.£3 for $lOO paid. Schuyl kili Bank $G to 7 for $5O paid. Girard Bank $4 for SGO paid. ..A ran [FOR WHAT?] .look place upon the latter bank on yesterday week,' when its insolvency was proved. Many of our citizens arc sufferers by its crasln —Harrisburg Reporter. Cj The plan for the payment of the public debt of the States, which we copied last week from thoNa j t'.onal Inu Hi ’Oncer, meets with the .approbation of many of out readers. We have very little doubt that if a law of the kind was passed by our Slate Lregisla* lure, in a very few years the whole debt of Pennsylvania would be liquidated.. It is certainly preferable to the system of eternal taxation for the. payment of inteh* est alone, r • > . OC/*The notes issued by the Towanda Bank, under the act bf'lß4l~al ! <rn(>fpaB3aMo“any-morc-inT-thiB; neighborhood; The notes issued by the .Erie Bonk arc also looked upon with suspicion. l ~So we go. . Resumption. is ; MahVlakm.—The House of Dele gates of Maryland have passed a bill by a vote,of 55 to*ls requiring the Banks of that State to resume spe cie payments within., twenty days after tKo final passage thereof, it is believed tho bill will also pass the Senate. ' “ “ " BiSKritfrr'LiW.—U’llis: law wcnt -into force on the; let Inst. The till for its" repeal, uio House of Representatives by so large 'n-iti^, S rejected in the Senate, on Friday last, ! question of resumption hasiiccn agitated 'tb’ihc State Senate, ' On Thursday lost, a resolution lyasOffered by Mr* Ewixo, the purport of which was to'instruct the Committee on Bgmkato enquire into the expediency of coßnpolUgfca resumption of specie payments. , ', i" On the discussion of tho, resolution, we find the fob -lowing synopsis of the remarks of our talcnted'Sqna tor, Mr, McLasauan, which wo copy frometho Koy stone I .. ' .:' a Mf» McLAISAHAN said this was a subject about which more; had'been said anil less understood, thou any of the leading topics of the day* It was a subject that all parties had agitated, and had . at length arrived } %|piier:ttnivettfil conclusion.—The great highprieitof aftU-hidsonry, and his few but trusty, follow era, had at length yielded to-the irfesistible-force of this tnily democratic doctrine, and now at this day they were, rcady.'-vaihcl willing to-..acknowledge the truth of the position we had always occupied* The day bad poised by when the people were to bo deluded and hoaxed— when ,tUoy_.wcro. to be frightehed from ,their steady purposed, rTlTeday wheh/lKosc-ifilcUcts of Pennsylva nia, who had liech feasting on the Hardearnings of the widow and the orphan, were .left to oulragb'lho laws of humanity with had passed by, and the day had come when retributive justice The banks had drank the very, lifeblood*? our insti tutiona-r-thoy had 'iuined the credit of the State, and the time .-had coroewhop.there roust ho.-Actrdn. r The remedy, formed* 1 "ij-•- . it hod been egid that knowlodge wns poTjcrj but* money;' too,. wagpowef. ; It yiaiUro. oil that':greaiea dll,the machinery,of action. :Gjve Engrand tko-.CQn* trol:c£ the Banks rn thia 1 1 □ g always Lad since tho CFs Kilncr, —-fiinoo the cstaMiubmcntof thc filinoua * 4 bal-? onoo \vhccl”-r<md tho Amerkon people must become’ to Ihesorgreatmaßtcre of thi pcoSn aa'-hewura of Wood *omo aieady. pcrinaneiit regulations. 09 this subject, otir masters were ia tondon. - ‘v.f • - ' ~ What we wanted was a stable,"permanent currency; for,.instability in the cuirencyproduced instability jn prices, and that ,was ruinous and dangerous to the prosperity of the country.. To illustrate this feet; Mr. M. turned to the history of Bpain, once powerful but now ruined, in consequence of the fluctuating and un stable basis onjwhich her curicncy was founded. , ye Why was it that our mahufactarcrH'were unable to ‘ cop© with those of England? ;it was because the banks bad become speculators in foreign productions and the consequence was that this country was always drained of its specie. There must be an established' uniformity arid-regularity of pricc|, Let the system pursued by the Legislature be firm and decided com pel the immediate resumption of specie payments, and forte the banks to pay their liabilities. Let the Legis lature pass a uniform law that will not only be bene ficial now, but permanent and lasting.' iho country—to its laws and domestic institutions—and hence; too, his animosity to his epuntrymen generally, who chose to Glevate the patriot Jocksoirat his'ex pcnsc. Tine, we apprehend, is_the grand secret of Mr. Adams’ agitatory movements, and to ..this oric caus3 mainly, may be attributed Ins iaccndiary, tfnitor- J ous‘conduct, , -Like Milton’s Arch Apostate; “he wo jW rather rule in-Hcil-than scrve-iii-Hcaverr”— p . and if ho cannot-be-a Prince, he is determined to de stroy bis country; to make this last abode of liberty, th • asylum of the oppressed of every land, a by-word and reproach among the nations of the eaith. But we are pleased to find that his infamous con duct is hot likely ten be permitted to go unpunished.— Upon his attempt at presenting the petition above mentioned, the following resolutions were offered, and. It is thought, they will pass: • 4 > Whereas the Federal Constitution is a permanent fTm of Government, and of perpetual obligation until altered-or modified in the mode pointed out in that in strument;, and tine members of this House, deriving their political character and powers from the same, uro sworn to support it; and the dissolution of the Union necessarily implies the destruction of that instrument, the overthrow of the American Republic, and the ex-' tinctioh of our national existence: a proposition, there fore, to the Representatives of the people to dissolve the organic laws framed by their constituents, and to support which they are commanded by those constitu ents to bo sworn before they can enter upon the exe cution of the political powers created by it and en trusted to them, is a high breach of ’ privilege, a con tempt 'ollcrcd to this House, a direct proposition to the I Legislature, and each member of it, to commit perjury, | and involving necessarily in its execution and its con | sequences the destruction of our country and the crime I of high treason: Resolved, therefore, Thai the Horn Jon* Qui*ct Adams, member from Massachusetts, in presenting for the consideration of the 'Representatives pf the United States a petition praying for ihe dissolution of the Union, has offered .the deepest indignity to the House of which bo.is a member, an‘insult to the peo ple of. the United States of which that Hoyso is the legislative organ, and will, if this outrage be permitted to.pas3-unrcbukcd.and-unpunißhcd r -haYe.disgnicctLhis- Tohntry, through their Representatives, in the eyes of the whole world. *• * Resolved, furth(r, Thot the aforesaid Jon* Quiwct tWsJnsaU, tlic first of thc h ad ever offered to the Government,‘and for the wound which he has •< permitted to be aimed, through' his instrumentality, at the Constitution and existence of his country, tho peace, the security,-andliberty of these Staten, might be held to merit expulsion from tho nationals Councils, and the House deem it on act of grace and’ ■ mercy when tfreylmlyiriflicrupohbinrtheir; severest—— -censure for.conduct BO.utterly. unworthy of .his past re-:., jlations to the State and his present position. This t they hereby do for the maintenance of their own purity and dignity; for the rest, they-turn him over to his own : conscience pnd the indignation of all true American c'.t'zons. Wo make a few cxtracbTbelow from the concluding part of the speech of Mr. Wise in favor of the resolu tions. They are truly eloquent, and show the estima tion which is placed upon the conduct of Mr. Adams by one Svho heretofore' acted with him in tho saracf party. They breathe tho purest spirit of patriotism, and must faavo.bccn as gall and-wormwood to the old disorganized: ~-Mr, r Wiac,_Baid» further,, thatjit the proper- time he should ask to be excused from voting on tholresoladoni — of censure.- Ho had formerly excepted against tho gentleman from Massachusetts os a judge * when he sought a trial; and ho should; now decline voting as a judge on that gentleman. The gentleman bad brought ; himself into bis present situation;- fie had no one to blame fpr jt but himself, jf he had-bcen tho subject of animadversion eitherby Mr. Wror othera.‘~Hc itwas. - who was Uio subject matter of this • and of course the remarks'pf those who tobk.part in it ■ uiUsl be somewhat personal. -Mr./W.; could have : wished to be spared the painful of the ; gentltforoiT either in’praise dt. censure. / Persdnslly . Mr* WJ hod, not censured.himt politically he had, If T ho had-iised any severity, jt;had exclu sively against tho gentleman’s political course/' If,' in v, an assembly like this, some wild brute should bo let . loose, every one know what' their course must''be— cithcr.jto killorto .cage him. If fie heard of a pbren siod wrbteh running a muck , as it was called, striking, ■ at and destroying all he met, there was but one thing . to.be done—the unhappy being must l»o'killed, even though.his .rage proceed ;from^mania. If an imbecile assaulted pnl/he might be handled. moli(er'maiiu t and thus, restrained, But should , the offender bo -found ,r wrapped in thc panoply of.age,pf.station i or even of ’ itself, still, if hewero capable of mischief, mischief,' and was desperately, and wick- ;r edly .bent on nuschief./wc forgot his age, and thought pnly interest? lobecndangcred. . Ifhewere old / monoTnaniashould he found opjpVyi HS! t)ic-torch; of the fi° w ;|
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