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CHRONICLE AND SV NTINEL.
AUGUSTA.
TUESDAY MORNING, SEPT MBER 29.
FOR PRESIDENT,
WILLIAM HENRY HA SIRISON,
Os Ohio;
The invincible Hero of Tippecar e —the incor
niptible Statesman —theinflexib Republican —
the patriotic Farmer of Ohio.
for vice-phesiden:
JOHN TILE i ,
Os Virginia; i
State Rights Republican of the School of ’9B—
—of Virginia’s noblest sons, a 1 emphatically
one of America’s most sagaciou , virtuous and
patriot statesmen.
FOR ELECTORS OF PRESIDENT AND 1 fCE-PRESIDENT,
GEORGE R. GILMER, of C jlethorpe.
•BUNCAN L. CLINCH, of C ;nden.
JOHN W. CAMPBELL, of I fuscogee "
JOEL CRAWFORD, of Han )ck.
CHARLES DOUGHERTY, < Clark. 1
SEATON GRANTLAND, of Baldwin.
ANDREW MILLER, of Cas
WILLIAM EZZARD, of De ialb.
C. B. STRONG, of Bibb.
JOHN WHITEHEAD, of Bi ke.
E. WIMBERLY, of Twiggs
FOR CONGRESS,
WILLIAM C. DAWSON, o Greene.
R. W. HABERSHAM, of H bersham.
JULIUS C. ALFORD, of T: ,'up.
EUGENI US A. NISBET, od Bibb.
LOTT WARREN, of Surat.
THOMAS BUTLER KING, of Glynn.
ROGER L. GAMBLE, of J fcrson.
JAMES A. MERIWETHEI , of Putnam.
THOMAS F. FOSTER, of luscogee.
FOR SENATOR,
ANDREW J. MILL IR.
FOR REPRES -NT ATI I -S,
CHARLES J. JENKIN ,
GEORGE W. CRAWF< ;lID,
WILLIAM J. RHOLI.
“In the midst of life wc a ; in Death.”
Never have we been more fc :ibly impressed
with the truth of this solemn w ruing, than we
were on hearing of the death of 'ol. Paul Fitz
simmons, who died at his residency near this city
yesterday, of a violent attack of lElious co ! ic. On
Friday last he was in our office apparently enjoy
ing the highest degree of health, fnd bid as fair to
live to a good old age as any of tfcir acquaintances*
Reared in the city, he was fami arly and favor
ably kaown and none, enjoyed ii a higher degree
the confidence and esteem of his iumerous friends.
q 3 q. q q q g~q q
A Severe Re! ike.
Never have we seen a more ithering rebuke
cl the small game, which Locofc oism is attempt
ng to play off upon the South, tl n is contained in
the following article, from the P iladelphia Senti
nel, a leading and zealous Van Bi 'en organ in that
City. Wc commend it especial r to those Loco
focos at the South, who have be. j so industriously
engaged in attempting to make a impression up •
on the minds of the Southern people, that the
Whigs and Abolitionists are idei ined. What say
.you Corporal, will you dare to p iblish this article
frem one of your own party . gans, that your
readers may see the game whic you have been
atlempting to play off on them j i
Fronthe Phi adelphia j entinel.
William Pill Fessenden, Es member elect of
Congress in Maine, is not, as e are informej,
and never has been an abolition t, but on the con
trary has always expressed his Opposition to the
principles of that party.
We may as well lake this oc asion to say that
we have not been able to perce |/e the truth and
justice of the charge that the w ig and abolition
parties of the north are identity in their aims and
effort. We have not seen th | proof that the
abolitionists have any special a inky for either of
the great political parties, orar r expectation that
the scheme of immediate emur, ipauon would be
promoted by the success of one ir the other. In
stances have occurred in whi. i candidates for
office regularly nominated hav. from their sup
posed leaning to abolitionism i Ceived the suff
rages of anti-slavery men; but his has happen
ed on both sides, and has been mere accident in
■the history of politics It is n lorious that the
abolitionists as a body have no onfidence in eith
er the whig or administration parties. This is
openly arid frequently rxpres* d through their
presses and conventions, and ii their nomination
of candidates of their own lor t e Presidency and
Vice Presidency. We belie' that after the
speech of Mr Clay last winter n the Senate, on
the subject of slavery, the great I ody of the abo
litionists would have given Mr Van Buren their
decided preference had the fonr r gentleman been
taken up as the rival candidate | and we do not
suppose they have been materially conciliated by
the nomination of Gen. Harmon, since in the
event of the success of the whigs, the doctrines
of Mr. Olay will be sanctioned and incorporated
in the new administration, of which he must be
the hierophant and symbol.
As to raising the cry of abolitionism for effect
at the South, we must pause little and inquire
what that effect may be, and whether honest
men and patriots can have anj hand in securing
it. We may throw odium upon our opponents,
and consolidate the South in support of Mr. Van
Buren, by such trickery. But is that the end
of ill Is that the ultimate effect 1 Is there no
danger of deepening and strengthening the al
ready too apparent jealousy between the great
Northern and Southern sections of our beloved
common country 1 God kno vs we have per
plexing elements enough already in our political
problems, the greatest of whicli is diversity with
out disunion —and let us bew;>?re, lest in attempt
ing to conquer a party, we blow up the Union.
Let it not be deemed imposs.ple that the South
•and North, now attempted to arrayed against
each other as parties, may, e f long, come to be
arrayed as nations, separate, independent and
bitterly antagonists.
* %
“None of our Relations. —“Mother, who is
this Aunt Arctic, they have found down south'!”
“I don’t know —soma old m.^d —none of our re
lation*, that’s certain.” A
The Veto Power.
Cur strictures upon the low purposes Jo which
that “ place man ” Mr. Forsyth had lent himself,
in repeating by insinuation a charge against Gen
eral Harrison, which had been pronounced over and
again n foul calumny, has induced the c «rpoial to
put his head out of his shell, and make an effort
at his defence. And byway of sustaining the
calumny has republished the following extract,
which, he knew as well as Mr. Forsyth, had been
repeatedly pronounced an unqualified perversion of
truth, told for the express purpose of making a
false impression.
“ I will make no pledge in regard to principles. —
Should 1 be elected, I will give my assent to all
laws, which may pass both Houses of Congress,
however much those laws may be against my own
principles .”
Lest our readers may have forgotten the expos
ure wnich we published ot this piece of Loco Leo
forgery, we subjoin an article from the Baltimore
American, which appeared in our paper of the 18th
July last, which contains the remarks of General
Hasrison on the veto power. We ask our readers
to compare those two extracts, and see to what re
sorts Locofocoism, with Mr. Forsyth at its head, is
driven to sustain itself.
From the Baltimore American.
Gen. Harrison on the Veto.—A letter dated
Cleveland, published some time ago in the Globe,
ascribed language to Gen. Harrison in his speech
at that place, which we felt sure he had not utter
ed. It stated that Gen. Harrison in reference to
the veto power voluntarily pledged hirase.f to
sanction any law that might be passed by Congress,
whether the measure should be in accordance with
his own constitutional opinions or not. The fol
lowing extract from the speech of Gen. Harrison at
Cleveland on the occasion referred to, will show
what he did say on that subject :
“He was of opinion that the danger apprehen
ded by Patrick Henry and oiher distinguihsed pa- I
triots, who held that the Executive would encroach |
upon, and finally exercise a dangerous influence \
over the legislative and judicial departments of the |
Government, had, to a great extent, been realized. ,
He considered it of the first impoitancc that the ad
ministration of the Government should be brought
back to its original purity, and that the Execu
tive power and influence should be continued with
in the limits prescribed by the spirit of the Consti
tution —that the will of the People, expressed
through their Representatives, and not the will of j
one man, should govern in all questions touching
the general welfare —that the President should not
and that he would not, if elected, interpose the ve
to power between the wishes of the people and the
legitimate objects of their desires, except to pre
serve the sacred |cbarter of our liberties from vio
lation. He held it improper for the President to ex
press his opinion, much more to express his deter
mination to exercsie the veto power in regard to
measures corning exclusively within the province
assigned by the Constitution to Congress, until
those measures shou'd have been duly considered
and perfected by the legislative depaitmcntof the
Government, and presented to him in the manner
prescribed by the Constitutiou for his approval.”
From the N. Y. Courier Enquirer.
Mr. Poinsett and the Florida War.
The President and Mr. Poinsett have been so
busy in explaining away their project for a stand
ing army of 200,000 men, that they have had but
little time to devote to the pra< lical business of ,
the War Department. This has been suffered to i
go by the board, while Mr. Van Buren has been
writing long letters of denial, explanation and apo
logy, and Mr. Poinsett has been verifying them by .
certificate. We presume that neither of them |
knows more of what is going on in Florida, tuan
he knows of the religion in the moon.
Governor Call knows something of Mr. Poinsett
and his master, and tells what he knows with great
effect. His log cabin harangues are among the
best of the day ; for he speaks of what he has
known and seen. On one occasion, when we heard
him, in giving an account of his change from Van
Burenism, he related an anecdote that illustrates
both the military genius of Mr. Poinsett, and tne
degrees of interest which both the Secretary and
the President manifest in public affairs.
“ I had many good reasons,” said Governor Call,
on the occasion to which we refer, “for changing
my opinions of Mr. Van Buren. It is needle s for
me to attempt a recital of tne cruel butcheries of
my countrymen —the midnight assassinations of
innocent and helpless women and children—the
desolation and ruin—the depopulation of the larg
est and fairest portion of Florida—all the work of
a race of merciless demons. Every newspaper
contains accounts of what has been done and is
still being done. Immediately after the massacre !
of a body of Dragoons upon the Caloosahachee River
—consequent upon the treaty of General Macomb I
at Fort King—l, the then Governor of Florida,
acting from an imperative sense of duty to the
suffering people of that Territory—addressed a
letter to the Picsident of these United States, set
ting forth the deplorable situation of things,
“ This letter was sent by a committee to Wash
ington—the President and his war minister were
at Saratoga. My friends went there, and present
ed themselves to the Executive, surrounded as he
was by his political friends, and by all the “ means
and appliances to boot,” of gay and fashionable
life. They were directed to see Mr. Poinsett.
They did so.—lie could not hear them. He and
his master had come out for a little relaxation—for
a little air—and could not be troubled. But if my
friends would come to Whitehall, they should have
a hearing. To Whitehall they repaired, and pre
sented themselves again. Here they could not be
heard —but, if they would come to Plattsburgh,
an answer should be given. To Plattsburgh they
repaired, and here, escape seeming impossible, my
letter was read by the President, and referred to
the Secretary of War. And what think you, my
countrymen, was the conclusion of this great man ?
“Go home P gentlemen,” said he, “go home! I
intend to manage this war in my own way !” In
his own way ! And what has that v ay r been ?
Look at every newspaper you open ! See the con
tinued daily and bloody enactments of tnis dread
ful tragedy ! Look ai the recent massacre at In
dian Key—a spot which my friend has beautilully
denominated a “ gem of the ocean,” —a second
Paradise !
But 1 need not give you any further examples of
“ the way !” in which Mr. Poinsett has conducted
the war. “ The wayfaiing man, though afoot,
may run and read.” The President could drink in
the flatteries and adulation of his friends, but he
turned a deaf ear to the recital of the distress and
sufferings of his distant and uninflueutial people.
We in Florida cannot vote ! —This cold and heart
less indifference to a true and proper recital of our
wrongs, was the first reason why I changed.”
A Goon Hit.—ln a western town in Virginia,
The Richmond Whig says:—“The Locofocos had
stationed themselves for the purpose of insulting
a Whig procession in march for a certain point;
but the Whigs came up 200 strong in double files,
so that it was deemed by the Locos prudent to
let them pass in respectful silence. There was,
however a negro servant attached to the Whi"-
cavalcade, who lingered in the rear, and when he
passed the Locos, they most obsequiously pulled
off their hats to him, and, bowing low, exclaimed
—‘How do ye do, Gen. Harrison—how dove do 1 ?’
Pornpey humored the joke: ‘You mistaken dis
child, gemmen—l hab not de honor to be Gen.
Harrison, but am your Vice President Dick John
son’s son !” W r e may guess that the Locofocos
did not rally after this homethrust.”
European Affairs. —The Liverpool corres
pondent of the New York Times writes—“ The
preparations for war continue and increase.—The
new treaty is said to be ended as soon as begun.
France will not have any thing to do with it:
Prussia would fain shun being in any way mixed
up with Russia, and it is said that Austria has
made a formal communication to the effect that
neutrality must be preserved. This if acted on,
would be a virtual departure from the principle of
the treaty.”
Election. —The Governor of Massachusetts
has ordered the election of a member of Congress
in place of the Hon. Abbott Lawrence, resigned,
to take place on the ninth of November next—
No candidates have yet been nominated to fill the
vacancy.
From the New York Times of the 24th.
i Maine Election.
, Our summary of votes for Governor yesterday
. was as follows:
j Kent... 45,560
Fairfield * 45.181
)
1 Kent’s majoritj' 379
i We add the following received by this mor
, ning’s mail which confirm the election of Kent
i by the people by about 300 majority over Fair
s field.
The Portland Daily Advertiser of Monday
gives a corrected summary of the votes in the
towns heard from, presenting the following result
‘ —votes for Kent 45,393 ; Fairfield 45,050 scat
tering 10 ; majority for Kent 333.
| The Advertiser gives a list of he small towns
and plantations, which had not been heard from,
and which last year gave 78 voles for Kent and
134 for Fairfield.—This may probably reduce
' the majority about 50.
The Eastern Argus Revived, (Harrison) edi
ted by Mr. F. O. J. Smith, gives an entire list of
the returns received, producing the following re
sult. Votes lor Kent, 45,339 ; Fairfield, 45,081:
majority for Kent, 2-58.
Upon this statement the editor remarks as lol
ows:
We have collected the above returns carefully,
aud where there was a difference in returns in
our exchange papers, have taken those most la
vorableto the administration. The towns yet to
be heard from gave about 60 majority for Fair
field, in 1838. Very few scatering votes appear
to have been cast.
The Advertiser corrects the figures of the East
. ern Argus (V. B.) in several towns, wherein Mr.
Kent Is allowed 140 less than his actual vole.
The returns in the Augusta Age are shown, by
I the same paper, to have given Mr. Kent 268 less
: than received from the people. The Advertiser
says—“ The question —who will be the Gover
■ nor for 1841—we consider as having been set
| tied by the people beyond all controvery. The
editors state that their recapitulation has been cor
l reeled and revised by the best authorities which
i ccmld be obtained, and will not vary materially
| from the official return.
From the Boston Courier.
The Eastern Oongression al District
It will be seen by the following letter from our
correspondent at Eastport, that Mr. Noyes has
been defeated, no choice having been effected.—
The delegation elect now stand 4 Whigs, 2 To
ries and there are two vacancies.
** Eastport, Sept. 19th, 1840.
I wrote you a few r da} T s since, saying that the
chance was in favor of Noyes’ election; since
which time returns have been received, which
show that he has lost his election by some 90 or
100 votes.
Kentts populai with us. but old Tipis much
more so; and we will run No} r es along side of
him, next heat, November 2. and shall come out
far, far ahead. We are just as sure of electing
Noyes at the next trial, as we can be of any
event that lias not taken place. Kent’s ma
jority will be enougn to prevent all disputes,
but not enough to allow us to sleep on our oars.
! Aou are aware ere this, that wc have a majority
n both branches of the Legislature.”
The Legislature of Maine is how in session.
The Government “Trading on Borrowed
Capital” again.
The New York Correspondent of the Notional
Intelligencer, writing under date of September
9th, communicates the following information.
It has been ascertained that the United Slates
Treasury is indebted to the Bank of America
nearly three millions of dollars on Treasury notes,
which had been negotiated there “to raise the
wind.’ The Bank's loan to merchants amounts
1 to abeut $1,300,000. Now, it does not look well
in the honorable powers in Washington to be
talking of “loans,” “merchants in speculation and
debt,” &c. &c. &c. while such are the facts.
The audacity of their impudence is rather novel
to say the least. There are not bigger beggers on
earth at the banks than “the Government” just
now. If it were not for “bank notes” and ‘ cre
dit” obtained of banks, the President would go
j hungry to bed, if he had no other income than
his salary. Three millions in debt to a bank /
4 Divorce of Bank and State!” “Unholy alliance !”
Ay, the office of the Receiver General of the chief
commercial city is in this very bank ! The de
opsites there, too ! This is the Sub-Treasury !
Ay, let the “Whig orators” pour into them these
facts, and arraign (hem on the tribunal of “ the
stump,” till they cease delusion and humbug, or
pay to principle a formal and showy homage at
the least.
From the Louisville Journal.
Holland’s Life of Van Buren.—Our read
ers may remember that a Committee in Illinois, a
couple of months ago, asked Mr. Van Buren sev
eral questions, and, among others, whether Pro
fessor Holland’s Biography of him was correct.
Under pretence of having heard that a forged edi
tion of that work was in circulation, he declined
answering their questions until they should send
him a copy ol the book to which they referred.
They promptly sent him a copy, but his contemp
tible manoeuvre enabled him to put off'his reply
till after the Illinois election. He has since re
plied, and this isjthe closing paragraph of his let
ter.
“The publication sent to me by Mr. Alexander
is a genuine copy of the first edition of Professor
Holland's work. I herewith return it, with the re
mark that it was written without communication
with me, but contains as far as it goes, a substan
tially correct history of my political course.
I am gentlemen, respectfully,
A our obedient servant,
M. VAN BUREN.”
AV ell, in the edition thus sanctioned by Mr.
\an Buren as genuine and correct, the annexed
passage may be found. Is their any thing more
to be said 1
“By the old Constitution of New York, no
distinction was made in regard to color, in the
qualification of electors. In the Convention for
its amendment, a proposition to restrict the right
to white citizens, was rejected by a vote of sixty
three to fifty-nine. A long and eloquent debate
preceded this rejection : Mr. Van Buren did not
participate in the debate, BUT VOTED WITH
THE MAJORITY.— Holland's Lift of Van
Buren, page 182.”
A letter from New York says:—lt is staled in
Wall street to-day in many quarters, that there
are more Treasury notes in circulation than ap
pear in the report of Mr. WconnußT. Upon a
subject so important I wish to make no statements
; which will implicate the Treasury Department,
for forgeries might increase the number, and thus
lead to such a suspicion or such a result; but the
; attention of the Treasury Department should be
forthwith directed to the rumors abroad.
1 o produce Light bt F hiction. — This may
; be done by rubbing two pieces of line loaf sugar
; together in the dark ; but in a much greater de
. gree by two pieces of silex or quartz. By this
: meai s one may distinguish the time of night bv
1 a watch; but what is more surprising, the effect is
s produced equally strong, by rubbing two pieces
t of quartz together under water.
f W hat does it Mf.an ? —Mr. Renfroe a good
whig, residing on the Cumberland River, a few
days ago erected a liberty pole on the highest peak
s ot the Cumberland Mountain, and from itunfurl
s ed to the breeze the American Flag. In a mo
, menl alter he had fixed u, he looked up, and saw
an eagle descend and play around it for several
s minutes, and then directed its flight in the direc
tion of “North Bend.”— Cincinnati Gazette.
President Mum.
“ An admirable letter” is just published in the
Pennsylvanian, written by Mr. Van Buren in an
swer to these queries, propounded by six citizens
of Philadelphia.
Are you io favorof a Protective Tariff?
Did you vote for, or support a property qualifi
cation for voters in (he Convention of'New York?
Are you in favor of reducing the standard of
Wages 1
Whether you are in favor of the Secretary of
War’s plan for organizing the Militia ?
These questions are not made for the purpose
of unfriendly criticism, but only from a sincere
wish to have your own views on these subjects.”
The response to these questions is on the
“mum,” mystification, and humbug principles,
which Mr. Van Buren is admirably qualified to
reduce to practice. To the first question he re
plies by referring to another letter written by him
self. The second is answered by referring to a
paper “prepared by his friends at Albany.” The
third question he does “not comprehend precise
ly,” and therefore he gees a siring of words in
reply which nobody else can comprehend pre
cisely.—And the fourth question he does not an
swer at all. Not a syllable of reference is made
toil. And this letter his organ in this city con
siders “so admirable in itself as to render com
ment superfluous.”— Nat. Gaz-
A correspondent of the New York American,
now travelling in England, thus describes the
approach to and appearance of the great manu
facturing town of Manchester:
The rail road from Birmingham to Manchester
runs through the heart of a gieat manufacturing
district.—The thousands of tall chimneys, stud
ding the country, send up clouds of smoke which
curl in sooty festoons on the hills and sink in dark
masses in the vallies.—The train of cars seemed
to cut its way through an embankment of smoke.
The dingy barrier broke away as the engine
approached, and opening to the right and left, let
the impetuous steam-serpent through ; while be
hind us, our track was as distinctly marked as
was ever that of the great leivathan on the New
England coast. On the verge of the horizon
hangs a cloud such as you might fancy would be
suspended over a hundred burningcoal-pits. Dim
ly visible through it ar.i hundreds of tall brick
towers, looking like the turrets of Erebus’ Castle.
Buried alivo under this congregation of pestilent
vapors, are the 300,000 inhabitants of Manches
ter. How they contrive to breathe such an at
mosphere, is to me a mystery.
On one of the days ot my short stay there, the
sky was shrouded in thick clouds—the watery
vapor rolled in waves through the streets, and
mingling with the smoke of the manufactories,
made it impossible to distinguish objects at the
distance of 20 feet. Business leading me into
one of the principal thoroughfares, I stumbled
along the slippery side walk; now running over
a boy ; anon finding myself elbowed into the gut
ter by a sturdy John Bull ; then was nearly run
down by a cab in attempting to cross the street;
and quite knocked over an old woman and her
apple stand as I leaped to the walk. Almost suf
focated, I returned to my hotel, saturated to the
skin with a mixture of sea fog, coal dust, and
smoke, more potent than the once celebrated lig
neus-acid. Manchester would make an admir
able smoke-house for cannibals.
What London is to the commerce of the world,
Manchester is to the cotton trade—the great
regulator. The Chancellor should sit on a cot
ton hale instead of a wool sack. I think it can
not be intelligent ly denied that the machinery
used in the best factories at Manchester, is super
ior to that employed for the same purpose in the
United States. The moie extensive experience
of English workmen, the lower price of labor,
&c., may account for this—lor other things be
ing equal, who will affirm that American skill and
enterprize are insufficient to cope with the finest
specimens of British machinery employed in the
manufacture either of cotton or wool ?
Hardress Fitzgerald.
In the Dublin University Magazine for February
among the articles of interest there appears a nar
rative of singular adventures of Hardress Fitzge
rald, an eminent Irish royalist, who contrived to
elude the strictest search for his person, after the
battle of the Boyne had all but annihilated his par
ty. The narrative from which we propose to make
a short extract, purports to be written by the hero
himself, and commences wi‘h an amusing account
of his living in disguise in Dublin; it then proceeds
to state, that, becoming anxious to join the wreck
of King Jame’s forces in Limerick, he ventured on
travelling across the country as a pedlar ; how,
while on the way, he had an interview with Gen
eral Sarsfield, and received from him certain pa
pers to convey to the unhappy royalist; after which
on pursuing his journey lie had the misfortune to
fall into the hands of some soldiers, and was bro’t
before Captain Oliver, a leader in the ranks of his
opponents. At this point we shall allow him to
tell his story in his own words, which give one a
fearlul idea of the cruelties committed at that dis
astrous period in Ireland.
“ Unbuckle your pack,” exclaimed the corporal;
“ unbuckle your pack, fellow and show your goods
to the Captain—here w’here you are.”
I proceeded to present my merchandise to the loy
ing contemplation of the officers, who thronged
around me with a stiong light from an opposite
window. As I continued to traffic with these gen
tlemen, I observed with no small anxiety the eye
of Captain Oliver frequently fixed upon me with a
kind of dubious inquiring gaze. “I think my hon
est fellow,” he said at last, “ that I have seen 3 ou
somewhere before this. Have you often dealt with
the military ?” “ 1 have traded sir,” said 1 “with
the soldiery many a time and always been honora
bly treated. Will your worship please to buy a
pair of lace ruffles ?—very cheap, your worship.”
“ Why doj'o wear your hair so long over your face,
sir,” said Oliver, without noticing my suggestion,
“I promise you, 1 think 1.0 good of you; throw
back your hair and let me see you plainly. Hoi j
up your face and look straight at me ; throw back
your hair, sir. ”
I felt that all chance of escape was at an end,
and stepping forward as near as the table would al
low me to him, I raised my head, threw back my
hair, and fixer, my eyes s ernly and boldly upon Ins
face. I saw that he knew me instantly, for his
countenance turned pale as ashes with surprise
and hatred; he started up, placing his rand instinc
tively upon his sword-hilt, and glaring at me with
a look so deadly, that I thought every moment he
would strike his sword into my heart. He said in
a kind of whisper, “ Hardress Fitzgerald.”
“Yes,” said I bo’dly fur the excitement of the
scene had effectually stirred my blood. “ Hardress
Fitzgeiald is before you. I know you well Captain
Oliver. I know you hate me. 1 know you thirst
for my blood ; but in a good cause and in the hands
of God, I defy you.” ‘ k You are a desperate vil
lain, sir,” said Captain Oliver; “ a rebel and a
murderer. Hallo there, guard seize him.” As the
soldiers entered, I threw my eyes hastily around the
room, and observing a glowing lire upon the hearth,
I suddenly drew General Sarslield’s packet from
my bosom and casting it upon the embers pianted
my foot upon it. “ Secure the papers,” shouted the
Captain, and almost instantly 1 was laid prostrate
and senseless upon tiie floor by a blow from the
butt of a carbine.
1 cannot say how iong I continued in a state of
torpor; but, at length, having slowly recovered my
senses, I found myself lying tirmiy handcuffed upon
the floor of a small chamber, through a narrow
loopho'c in one of whose wails the evening sun was
shining. I was chilled with cold and damp, and
drenched in blood, which had flowed in large quan
tities from the wound on my hea By a strong
effort I shook off the weak drowsiness which still
* 1U j S j]P on me, weak and giddy I rose with pain
and difficulty to my feet. The Chamber or rather
cell in which I stood, was about eight feet square,
and of a height very disproportioned to its other
dimensions its altitude from the floor to the ceil
ing being not less than twelve or fifteen feet. A
narrow slit placed high in the wall admitted a scan-
U v ightj but sufficient to assure me that my prison
contained nothing to render the sojourn of the ten
ant a whit less comfortless than my worst enemy
couffl have wished. My first impulse was natu
rally to examine the security of the door—the
loophole which J have mentioned being too high
and too narrow to afford a chance of esc ape. I lis-
J teneci attentively to ascertain if possible whether
or not a guard haj been placed upon the outside.—
s Not a sound was to be heard. 1 now placed my
shoulder to the door, and sought with all my com
bined strengtn and weight to force it open ; it*
- however, resisted all my efforts, and thus baffled in
I my appeal to mere animal power, exhausted and
f disheartened, I threw myself on llje ground. It
was not in my nature, however, long to submit to
the apathy of despair, and in a few minutes I was
* on rav feet again. With patient scrutiny I endea
vored to ascertain the nature of the fastenings
5 which secured the door. The planks having for
» innately been nailed together fresh, had .sun k con
» siderabiy, so as to leave wide chinks between-each
, and. its neighbor. By means of these apertures,
I saw my dungeon was secured not by a lock as I
’ had feared, but by a strong wooden bar, running
* horizontally across the door, about midway upon
the outside.
[Contriving to make an opening he reached the
i door of the apartment in which he had been seized,
; and overhears an order given by Oliver for his ex
. ecution, which he declared should lake place in the
, evening era the moon arose.]
There was a ki»d of glee in Oliver’s manner and
expression which chilled my very heert. “He
shall be first shot like a dog, and the* hanged like
a dog ; shot to-night and hung to-morrow, hung at
the bridgehead; hung, until his bones drop as
under !”
It is impossible t« describe the exultation with
which beseemed to dwell upon, and to particular
ise, the fate which he intended for me. A chill,
sick horror crept over me as they retired, and I felt
for the moment, upon the brink of swooning. This
feeling however, speedily gave place to a sensa
tion still more terrible —a stale of excitement so
intense and tremendous as to border upon literal
madness, supervened ; my brain reeled and tnrob
bed as if it would burst; thoughts the wildest and
the most hideous flashed through my mind with a
spontaneous rapidiiy that scared my very soul;
while, all the lime I felt a strange and frightful
impulse to burst into uncontrolled laughter. Grad
ually this fearful paroxism passed away. 1 kneel
ed and prayed fervently, and felt comforted and as
sured ; but still I could not view the low ap
proaches of certain death without an agitation lit
tle short of agony.
I returned again to the closet in which I had
found mysell upon recovering fiom the swoon.
The evening sunshine and twilight was fast mel
ting into darkness, when 1 heard the outer door,
that which communicated with the guard-room in
which the officers had been amusing themselves,
opened, and locked again upon the inside. A meas
ured step then approached, and the door of the
wretched cell in which I lay being rudely pushed
open, a soldier entered, who earned something in
his hand, but owing to tiie obscurity of the place,
I could not see what.
“ Art thou awake, fellow ?” said he, in a gruff
voice. “Stir thyself; get upon thy legs.” His
orders were enforced by no very gentle application
of his militaiy boot.
“ Friend,” said I, rising with difficulty, “ you
need not insuit a dying man. You have been sent
hither to conduct me to death. Lead on ! My
trust is in God, that he will forgive me my sins and
receive my soul, redeemed by the blood of his son.”
There here intervened a pause of some length, at
the end of which the soldier said,in the same gruff
voice, but in a lower key', “ Look y e comrade, it
will be your own fault if you die this night. Gn
one condition I promise to get you off this hobble
with a whole skin ; but if you go to any of your
gammon, before two hours are passed you will have
as many holes in y'our carcase as a target.” “Name
your conditions,” said I;“ and it they consist with
honor, I will never baulk at the offer,”
“ Here thev are ; you are to be shot to-night, by
Captain Oliver’s ordeis ; the carbines arc cleaned
for the job, and the cartridges served out to the
men, I tell you the truth.”
Os this I needed not much persuasion, and I inti
mated to the man my r conviction that he spoke the
truth.
“ Well,then,” he continued, “ now for the means
of avoiding tnis ugh' business. Captain Oliver
rides this night to head-quarters, with the papers
which you carried. Before he starts he will pay
you a visit o fish what he can out of you, with
all the fine promises he can make. Humor him a
little, and when you find an opportunity, stab him
in the throat above the cuirass.”
“A feasible plan, surely,” said I, raising my
shackled hands, “ for a man thus completely' crip
pled and without a weapon.’ ‘I will manage all that
presently for you,” said the soldier. “ When you
have thus dealt with him, take his cloak and hat,
and so forth, and put them on ; the papers you will
find in the pocket of his vest in a red lea. her case;
walk boldly out —I am appointed to ride with Cap
tain Oliver, and you will find me holding his horse
and my own by the door ; mount quickly and 1 will
do the same, and then we will ride for our lives
across the bridge. You will find the holster pistols
loaded in case of pursuit, and with the devil’s help
we shall r. ach Limerick without a hair hurt. My
only' condition is, that when you strike Oliver, you
strike him, again and again, until he is finished — ,
and I trust to your honorto re nember me when we
reach the town.”
1 cannot say whether I resolved right or wrong
but I thought my situation, and the conduct of
Captian Oliver, warranted me in acceding to the
conditions propounded by my visitant, and when
alacrity I told him so, and desited him to give me
the power, as he had promised to do, of executing
them. With speed and promptitude he drew a
small key from his pocket, and in an instant the
manacles were removed from my hands. How my'
heart bounded within me as my' wrists were re.
leased from the iion gripe of the shackles!—the
first step towards freedom was made—ray self-re
liance returned, and I felt assured of success.
“ Now for the weapon,” said I. “ I fear you will
find it rather clumsy,” said he, “ but if well hand
led it will do as well as the best Toledo ; it is the
only thing I could get, but I sharpened it myself;
it ha? an edge like a skean.”
He placed in my hand the steel head of a hal
berd, and with a low savage laugh left me to my
reflections. Having examined and arranged the
weapon, I carefully bound the ends of the cravat
with which I had secured the cross part of the
spear-hcad, firmly' round my wrist, so that in case
of a struggle it might not be easily lorced from my
hand, and having made these precautionary dispo
sitions, I sat down upon the ground with ruy back
against the wall, and my hands together under my
coat, awaiting my visitor. The time wore slowly
on; the dusk became dimmer and dimmer, until it
nearly bordered on total darkness. “How’s this?”
said I inwardly. “ Captain Oliver, you said I
should not see the moon rise to night; methinks
you are somewhat tardy' in fulfilling your prophe
cy.” As I made this reflection, a noise at the
outer door announced the entrance of a visitant.
I knew that the decisive moment was come, and
lett ng my head sink upon my breast, and assuring
myself that my hands were concealed, I awaited,
in the attitude of deep dejection, the approach of
my foe and betray er. As I had expected. Captain
Oliver entered the room where 1 lay ; he was
equipped for instant duty, as the imperfect twilight
would allow me to see ; the sword clanked upon
the floor, as he made his way through the lobbies
which led to my place of confinement; his ample
military cloak hung upon his arm, his cocked hat
was upon his head, and in all points he was pre
pared for the road. This tallied exactly with what
my strange informant had told me. 1 felt my heart
swell and my breath come thick, as the awful mo
ment which was to witness the death struggle of
one or other of us approached. Captain uliver
stood wiihin a yard or two of the place where I
sat, or rather lay, and folding his arms he remain
ed silent for a minute or two, as if arranging in
his mind how he should address me.
“ Hardress Fitzgerald,” he began at length, “are
you awake ? Stand up, if you desire to hear of
. matters nearly touching your life or death : tud
I siy.” 6
I arose doggedly, and affecting the awkward
movements of one whose hands were bound.
“ Well,” said I, “ what would vou with me f
is it not enough that I am thus imprisoned without
a cause, and about, as I suspect, to suffer a most
unjust and violent sentence, but must I also be
disturbed during the few moments left me for re
flection and repentance, by the presence of mv per
■ secutor. \V hat do you want of me I 1 ”
! “ t 0 ?'°, Ur P unis , hraem > si r ” said he, “ your
*of haV * , aeu^ t sn ?o cst ed the likelihood
of it to your mind, but I now am with you to let
ycu know, that whatever mitigation of your sen
te ace you may look for, must be earned by your
compliance with my orders. You must frankly
ar u lully explain the contents of the packet which
you endeavored this day to destroy; and further,
you must tell all that you know of the designs of
! the popish rebels.”
“ And if 1 do this I am to expect a
my punishment—is it not so ?” Oliver i ’Sation °f
“ Well, sir, before 1 make’the desiS Va
cation, I have one question more to nnt uT Uni *
to befall me, in case that I, remembefi™ t h» is
of a soldier and a gentleman, reject your ■ r ‘ lon ° r
terms, scora your mitigations, and defv larn ° lI »
most power ?” “In that case,” r? JUr ut *
‘ re ha if an h °ur you shall be a corpse »°° Ujr »
1 lien, God have mercy on
and springing forward,! dashed the We , ’ said I,
I held at his throat. I missed mv aim Cm Wlllch
him full in the mouth with force tiUt !tfUcl{
his front teeth were dislodged, and the pJJ*!?.. O *
spear-head ; assed out under his jaw at t * lhe
My onset was so sudden and unexpected
reeled back to the wall, and did not recnv Ihe
equilibrium in time to prevent mydeaW, 1 " ls
blow, W'nich I did with my whole force • Se °° n(l
unfortunately struck the cuirass, near tlie
and glanced aside, it inflicted but a flesh » " *
I tearing the skin and tendons along the throat u’
now grappled with me, strange to say with™ e
ter mg any cry of alarm. Being a powerful Ut *
aad it any thing rather heavier and more
built than I, he succeeded in drawing me
to the ground. We fell together with a h
crash, tugging and straining in what wewere?' 7
conscious was a moital strugle. At length i “
ceeded in getting over him, and struck him ,*“ c ‘
moie The weapon whiclr I wielded had
upon the eye, and the point penetrated the br -
ibe body quivered under me, the deadly “ !
laxed, and Oliver i»v upon the ground a* P
As I arose and shook the weapon and th/K 1
cloth Horn my hand, the moon which he h,H f ;
told I should never see rise, shone bright .
into the room, and disclosed with ghastly di r
ness, the mangled features of the dead soldier n
is hard to say with what feeling* I looked . 1
the unsightly and revolting mass which had so 2?
ly been a living and comely man. I had not
tune, however, to spare for reflection • the^ 7 .
was done; the responsibility was upon m? ta
all was registered in the book of God who i!„i
rightly. 10 J ud g«
With eager haste I removed from the body sack
of the military accoutrements as were nece Jr,
for the purpose of my disguise. I buckled on Z
sword, took off the military boots, and donned
them myself placed the brigadier wig and JkS
hat upon my head, threw on the cloak, drew?t J
auout my face, and proceeded with the papers
wmch I found as the soldier had foretold me, nd
the key of the outer lobby, to the door o tEe
guard-room; this I opened, and with a firm d
rapid tread walked through the officers, who rZ
as 1 entered, and passed without question or inter
ruption to the street door. Here 1 was met byThe
gnm-looking corpora!, Henson, who saluting
said, “ How soon, captain, shall the file be d°ra WB ’
out, and the prisoner oispatched ?” “I n half an
hour,” without raising my voice. The man again
saluted, and in two steps I reached the soldier who
held tlie two horses, as he hud intimated.
“ Is all right ?’* be said, eagerly. “Ay,” said I
• which horse am I to mount ?” He satified me
upon tms point, and I threw myself into the sat)
die ; the soldier mounted his horse, and aaqfir.*
the S p Urs into the fl auks of the animal whjch »
bestrode, we thundered along the narrow bridge.
At the far extremity, a sentinel, as we approached!
called out, “ Who goes there I —stand and give the
word." Heedless of the interruption, with n.r
heart bounding with excitement, I dashed on.so
did also lhe soldier who accompanied me. The
sentinel fired.
“ Hurrah !” I shouted ; “ trv it again my bov ”
and away we went at a gallop, which bade fair to
distance every thing like pursuit. Never was
spur more needed, however; for soon the clatter
ot horses’ hoots, in full speed, crossing the bridge
came shaip and clear through the stillness of the
night. Away we went, with our pursuers clo«e 3
behind. One mile was passed, another nearly com
p.eted. lhe moon now shone forth, and turning i
in the saddle, I looked back upon the road we had ]
passed. One trooper had her ded the rest, and was 3
within a hundicd yards of us. I saw the fellow
throw’ himseil from his horse upon the ground. I
knew his object, and said lo my comrade, “ Lower
your body; lie flat over the saddle ; the fellow is
going to fire.” I had hardly spoken when the re
port of a carbine startled the echoes, and the bad ■
staking the hind leg of my compankn’s horse.the |
poor animal leli headlong upon the road, throwing 1
his rider hea l foremost over the saddle. My first I
impulse was to stop and share whatever fate might
await my vomrade ; but my second and wiser one j
was to spur on, and save myself and my despatch- 3
es. I rode on at a gallop. Turning to observe my
comrade’s fate, 1 saw his pursuer, having remoun
ted, ride rapidly up to him, and en reaching the
spot where the man and horse lay, rein in and dis
mount. He was hardly upon the ground, when I
my companion shot him dead with one of the hols- |
ter pistols which he had drawn from the pipe, and 1
leaping nimbly over a ditch at the side ol the road, a
he was soon lost among the ditches and thorn j
bushes which covered that part of the country, j
Another mile being passed, I had the satisfaction |
to perceive that the pursuit was given over,and in
an hour more I crossed Thomond Bridge, and slept
•that night in the fortress of Limerick, having de
livered the packet, the result cf whose safe arrival
was the destruction of William’s gieat train of ar- .
tillery, then upon Ps way to tiic bc>ie ers.
Years after this adventure, I. met in France a
young officer, who I found had served in Captain j
Oliver’s regiment, and he explained what I had I
never before understood—the motives of the man I
who had wrought my deliverance. Strange to say, I
he was the lostcr brother of Oliver, whom he thus
devoted lo death, in revenge, fur Ih; most grievous
wiong which one man can inflict upon another.
Dr.Graaf e, the Oculist.— The following I
is an extract of a letter from Germany:—“\oa
heard of the death of Dr. Graafe, the celebrated
oculist, at Hanover, where he arrived with Ihe in
lenlion ot trying one more experiment on tfct
eyesol Prince George o Cumbeiland. Thepro
lessor had already been unsuccessful in his at'
tempt at Berlin; and, it is said, was to have p«f
formed an operation of a most startling kind, and
which, had it not been mentioned in several Ge
rman papers as in contemplation, appears horribly
incredible. This operation is no other than U
king out the pupil ol the eye, and substituting in
its room that of some small aimal (bird, perhaps.)
This experiment has, it is said, succeeded in am- |
mals ;if so, why not in man ? Berlin seems par- .
ticularly gifted with bold oculists ; for Dr. Deif- j
fenbatch has succeeded, in more than two hun- I
dred instances, in curing obliquity of vision, vul* 1
garly called squinting; and only failed in one, I
with the Countess Hahn Hahn, who is minus an I
eye by wishing to look straight with both. It i* |
described as the simplest of all surgical operations; I
merely tho dividing of a muscle at the corner cl j
the eye so affected. We live in an age pregnant
with strange discoveries; and vve may well &)'
—what next 1”
Tho Boston Courier states—We are auihwi- !
zed by the Treasurer of the late Monumentj
to say that sufficient progress has been made
the settlement of the various accounts to j
ize the belief that the proceeds will not fall short of I
TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS-
It is with unfeigned satisfaction that we make
this annunciation. The Monument will o°
up. \\ hcever lives three years will witness its j
completion.
C Zj* The friends and acqaint&nccs of the ln- c |
Col. Paul Fitzsimmons, are requested to attend |
his funeral at 4 o’clock this afternoon, from tb Jj
Cottage, the residence of Mrs. Adams. |
DIED,
At the residence ofCapt. Wm. P- Beale, in Kit-- H
mond county, on the 27th inst., David LI 0 *’ ■
after an illness of 16 days, which he bore with ■
common patience, and Christian resignation. /' ■
last moments ga\ e confirmation proof, how ■
can triumph over the last enemy, and were ■
fiiends who stood around his dying ted called a
on to write his epitaph, surely they would w|j
one accord, inscribe upon his tomb, “He dieo m
the faith.” |
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