Newspaper Page Text
1
a ntl took "my watch. The \knighty
softened his heart. He gave orders,
and my taate was brought down, and
threatened with death, if he did not
tell. He corroberated my statement.
I was sent back to my prison, and told
f had half an hour to consider between
life and death.
About three the next morning I was
Ushered in the presence of the wretch,
who asked me for the key of my sex
tant, and told rtie he had released my
crew; my long-boat was longside; that
he had lost my other boats; and that
I might think myself well off, for his
determination was to have destroyed
Us, ship and all.
In going forward between rows of
'armed men who struck me with their
cutlasses for looking about me, I -got
into my boat with some difficulty, sore
with bruises. & weak with the manner
confinement, and got on board, it
then blowing very strong. My heart
Was almost broke when I saw the hov-
*c that was made with the cargo:
broken eases, cools. bottles, about
the deck, every thing in the greatest
confusion. Tarpaulins cut to pieces,
hatchets broke to pieces, running rig
ging, sails, cordage, provisions, guns,
muskets, e it lasses, powder, shot the
whole of my wearing apparel and of
my own private venture, all nautical
instruments, &c gone, cabin stores
in fact, completely gutted of every
thing, not even a knife and fork or
spoon, tea or sugar, or a second shirt
to my back left. They even cut the
beam in the cabin to get the cabin
bell and pulls away, and broke open
my desk and bureau, destroyed and
took away books, papers several let
ters, my account books, most of my
receipts, a great many letters strewed
about different parts of the ship, some
wet, and in pieces; all or most of
those parcels sent down to,Deal, with
several others, broken or destroyed—
things that couhj be of no manner of
use to him, but mere wantonness —
While ouboaid ofliim, I observed a
bucket, on which, although much fad
ed, I distinctly saw “Cumberland”
painted in black letters on a white o-
val. This bucket had been painted
green with black hopes, judge what
my feeling must have been then, and
when my life was threatened, it pre
cluded hope, for it-struck me imme
diately of the fate of poor Cur ns.—
There was also an English binnacle,
mahogany, with brass revolving top,
standing abaft, that lie must have rob
bed from some ship.
The brig was entirely black, no
••hannels, same as Clorinda when she
was bought; American built,, appear
ed to have been originally a schooner,
was ahout 200 tons, very sharp, sailed
fast, had a deal of overhang abaft, a
billet head; her topsail-yards nearly
ns square as her lower-yards; and rov-
nl-yards rigged abaft; had a !o:ig 18 or
24 pounder on a pivot on the forecas
tle; with four long guns, apparently
12 pounders, on the main deck, &,t vo
In the hold dismounted: the captain
seemed to me to be a Nevv-Orleans,
French or American, spoke rather
broken English, but very grammatic
ally, and I think a well educated man;
his crew chiefly Spanish, but some
English and Americans among the*;
■at times a good deal of English was
•sgokcn.
Effects of Intemperance in the body.—
We have never seen this branch of
the general subject better handled,
than in Dr. Mussey’s Address before
theN. H. Medical Society. The fol
lowing short extract is a specimen —
Let the drunkard read it—and sbud
der! as every sober man must.
N. Hampshire Obs
What is .the secret of this witchery
Which strong drink exerts over the
whole man? I will try to tell you.—
After being received into the stomach
it is sucked up by absorbant vessels,
is carried into the blood, and circu
lates through the alimentary organs,
through the lungs, muscles, and brain,
■and donbllesS through every organ of
the bodyi Not a blood vessel howev
er minute, not a thread of nerve in the
whole' animal machine, escapes its
influence? It disturbs the funetjons
ef life; it increases for a time, the ac
tion of Jiving organs, but lessens the
power of that action; hence the dee;)
depression and collapse which follow
preternatural excitement, by habit
ual use, it renders the living fibre less
and less susceptible to the healthv
operation of unstimulating food and
drink, its influences soon become in
corporated witlvall the living actions
of the body, & the diurnal sensations of
banger, thirst, and exhaustion, are
strbngly associated with the recollec
tion of its exliiliralirig effects, and thus
bring along with them; the resistless
desire for its repetition.
Is evidence required of its being ab
sorbed, and pervading tbe different or
gans of the body? Approach within a
few feet of the rum or brandy drink
er, and the odour of his breath will
quickly demonstrate, nil the lungs,
loaded with the foul liquor, are dis
charging it with all the energy in their
power.
When taken by the nursing mother,
it enters into the delicate food prepar
ed by nature for the nourishment and
growth of helpless infancy and in this
way, as may most rationally be sup
posed, produces a relish.for an article
naturally disgusting, and lays thus ear
ly, in some instances, a foundation for
intemperance in after life. What
physician has not known a nursing
mother give a fretful child a good
night’s sleep, by taking herself a dose
of lvandy at bed time?
0 her organs than those destined for
the formation of inilk. manifest the
presence of this article when it is
com' i ed with peculiar odours; those
organs especially which are set as
waste gate's, to the system, soon show
how foreign it is, and ill adapted to
the real wants ot the animal economy,,
by seperating it from the blood, and
taking it out of the general circula
tion as fast as possible.
The brain, that most delicate and
wonderful organ, which forms the
mysterious link between the other
forms of matter and mind, the healthy
functions of which are essential to vi
gorous intellectual operation, is capa
ble of imbibing%lkohol, and having all
its actions suddenly arrested. In
point, is the case of a man who was
puked up dead i.i London, soon after
having drank a quart of gin upon a wa
ger. He was carried into the West
minster Hospital and there dissected.
• In the ,veatu les of the brain was
found a considerable quantity of lim
pid fluid, distinctly impregnated with
gin, both to the sense of smell, ami
taste, and even to the test-of inflam
mability. The liquid appeared, to
the senses of the examining students,
as strong as one third gin to two thirds
water.”
We know that alkoliol, even when
diluted, by long contact after, death
hardens the brain, as well as the other
soft textures of the body which contain
albumen; and although the vital prin
ciple. may enable the brain to resist in
great measure, and for a long time this
effect ofalkahol, when brought into it
from the stomach by the general cir
culation, the fact, as alleged by many
and as I am strongly induced to be
lieve from the limited means I have
had of Qbserving, viz. that the brains
drunkards are literally harder at
death, than those of the temperate,
may be considered in strict accordance
with the effects of intemperance up
on the intellectual functions. If this
organ be any degree hardened by the
circulation of diluted alkohol through
its minute and most delicately organ
ized parts, it might well be supposed
to be less susceptible of those exquis
itely balanced actions, which we can
hardly help believing, do exist in the
impressions made by external objects,
nn:l in the variety of combinations of
them, produced by the more abstract
and retired operations of the mind.—
That a large proportion of tipplers
early discover an unnatural obtuseness
ofintelleot. and that frequently a minfl
originally quick and vigorous, be
comes sluggish and imbecile, need not
be told to an assembly of physicians
who have had the common opportuni
ties of observing the effects of intem
perance.
AWFUL EFFECTS OF INTEM
PERANCE.
Extract of a letter to the Editor,
firm the Rev. A. W. Gay dated
Wilkesborough, September 12, 1828.
1 have thought it might not be amiss
to send you the following account of
the fatal effects of ardent spirits, of
which you can make whatever use
you think proper.
At the fall term of‘the Superior.
Court of this county, held this week,
a man named Barlow, was tried for
the murder of his wife. During the
trial, the following facts were proved.
Barlow had been a dutiful son, a good
neighbor, and an affectionate husband,
until habitual drunkenness induced in
sanity. In a fit of Insanity, 'he mur
dered an a’fectionate and a pious, wife,
vho had borne him five children, the
youngest about two weeks old. The
manner in which the atrocious deed
was committed, is almost heyond cre
dibility. Barlow confessed that he
beat his wife until he thought she waB
dead—that he left her,—that she rose
and attempted to make her escape—
and that he then pursued her, and
beat her brains out with a rock! It is
said that they had previously lived in
perfect harmony, and that her charac
ter was irreproachably good.—BarloW
was acquitted on the plea of insanity.
At the same time, Jacob Miller of
the! same county was convicted of
murder, and sentenced to be hanged.
P. S.—Perhaps it ought not to be
disguised that the last spirits which
Barlow was known to have usfed be
fore the murder of his wife; was a
few gallons, procured from a Preacher
of the Gospel, icho liepl Distillery. This
was procured * very few weeks be
fore the murder, and was the immedi
ate cause of that particular fit of insan
ity. The previous habits of Barlow
were well known lb that Minister.
[If a preacher of the gospel will in
this way become accessary to murder
and to the death of the soul for the
sake of filthy lucre—let it be known
to the public;—let no disguise be
thrown arround liis character—the
sooner such preachers are known, and
their characters duly estimated, the
better it will be for the interests of
religion. Who can read the above
postscript without feeling indignation-
without a thrill of horror at the tho’t
that a minister of Jesus Oh.iist instead
of saving, should by this traffic, de
stroy the souls of men!!!]—Visitor and
Telegraph.
Jlaother Calamity.—Our heretofore
favored land, it would appear, has
been doomed to curses, not with 1 ‘war
famine, and pestilence,” (for we are
at peace with ail nations, and unpre-
eedently healthy,) but with worms.
The worm had scarcely ceased Us
devastation on the crops before we
heard of the maggot in cattle.
The description of fly that deposits
the eggs from which these maggots
are generated we understand is partly
covered with hair, and is above the
size of the ordinary green fly. They
deposit them in the nostrils, wherev
er there is blood on the animal, or an
abrasion of sikn, as from slight injuries,
and not, as with the common fly,
where there is a taint.' The egg,
shortly after it is deposited, assumes
the shape of a worm, varying in length
from a quarter to one inch. They
affect horned cattle, horses, hogs,
dogs, &e. Among the former we be
lieve they are more general. Blood
is constantly trickling or oozing from
the place where they are deposited,
and is the first indication of their pres
ence. It is really revolting to human
ity to see the victims of these vora
cious insects.
The experience of persons in this
neighborhood, in the use of applications
to destroy them is limited; but we
understand that.if they are early dis
covered, washing the part affected
with spirits of turpentine will kill
them. If they have been at work
several days, the part should be laid
open with the knife, washed with spir
its of turpentine, and sprinkled with
calomel. These are agents, and used
for exterminating these insects, as we
learn are generally successful.
Selma (Ala.) Cour. Sept. 11.
From Ward's Mexico.—“I cannot
conclude this sketch of the population
of Mexico, without remarking upon
one great advantage which New Spain
enjoys over her. neighbors, both to the
north and south, in the almost total
absence of a pure African population.
The importation of slaves into Mexico
was always inconsiderable, and their
number in 1793 did not exceed six
thousand. Of these many have died,
many have been manumitted, and the
rest quitted their masters in 1810, and
sought freedom in the ranks of the In
dependent army—so that I am I be
lieve justified in stating, that there is
now hardly a single slave in the cen
tral portion of the republic. In Tex
as, (on the northern frontier,) a fete have
been introduced by the North American
settlers; but all further importations
are prohibited by law, and provision
has been made for securing the free
dom of the Offspring of the slaves now'
in existence.
-—-
In Boston there was formerly a sign,
‘ c Dr. Trott,”—which was-ultimately
succeeded by one with the name of—
“Dr. Gallup.” An Irishman observ
ing the change, said he was plas’d
with the Doctor’s success—that he
1 had got from a Trot into a Gallop,.
The other morning a young chimney
sweeper was sealed upon an alehouse
Delicti, alia in one uuud ins Crush, anu
in lire oilier a hoi buttered roll.—
vVhhe exercising his mastica
tors, with a pel severance thal evinc
ed tire Highest gratification, he observ
ed a dog lying on,tire'ground jiear him."
The repetition of "Poor fellow, poor
lello.v,” in a good-natured tone,
brought tbe quadruped from bis rest
ing place- tie wagged his tail, look
ed up with an eye of humblc-entrealy,
an d in that universal language which
ad nations understand, asked fo a
morsel of bread. The sooty tyrant
held his remnant of roll tow ards him
but on the dog gently offering to take
it, struck him with Ins brush so vio
lent a blow' across the nose as nearly
broke the bone. A gentleman who
had been, unperceived, a witness . to
the whole transaction, put a sixpence
between his linger and thumb, and
beckoned the chimney-sweeper to an
opposite door. The boy grinned at
the silver, but on stretching out his
hand to receive it, the teacher of hu
manity gave him such a rap upon his
nuckles with a cane, as made him sing.
His hand tingling with pain, and tears
starting from his eyes, he asked what
that was for? “To make you feci” was
the reply. “How do you like a blow
and a disappointment? The dog en
dured both!” This was a good prac
tical lesson, the record of which no
doubt will have better effect than a
volume of ethics.—N. Y. E. Post.
surviving member of the first Arime*
can Congress, that ol 1774. Charles
Carroll, of Maryland is the only one
remaining of the Congress of 1776 f
that adopted the Declaration of Inde
pendence. James Madison, of Vir«
ginin, is, it is believed, the only sur
viving member of the National Conven
tion of 1787, which formed the Con
stitution of the United States. Major
William Jackson, a revolutionary of
ficer, who signed and certified the
Constitution as Secretary of the Con
vention is still alive, and resides in
Philadelphia.— Vermont JUcss.
Splendid Church in Russia.—Ex
tract of a letter from a gentleman to
his friend in Northampton!. “At Sa
lem, a young man just arrived from
Petersburg!], Russia, gave me a piece
of rock with which the Emperor Nich
olas is now building a church which be
intends shall be the largest ever built.
1 here, will he 42 stone eoluins, .each
54 feet high.'carh weighing 120 tors,
each 7 feet in diameter, and each of
one solid piece of rock.”
The follow ing anecdote of Godfrey'
de Bulloign, as Fairfax calls him, is
curious and w'e believe is not general
ly knew'—When this great champion
of the crusaders was inaugurated
King of Jerusalem, he was offered a„
crown, which he meekly declined,
saying, that he never would wear a
crown ef gold in the place where his
Saviour had worn a crown of thorns.
Tecumseh.—This hero of the scalp
ing knife, is in the way (as we per
ceive by (he New Monthly Magazine)
of being immortalized. in Great Brit
ain, through the medium of “a Poem
in four Cantos, by an English Officer,”
hearing the romantic iitle of “Tecum
seh', or the Warrior of the West.”—
No extracts are given; but w r e take it
for granted, that the inspiration of the
subject, has elevated the military bard
into something very like Homer—or
Milton, at least* The editor of the
New Monthly puts forth a deal of in
teresting pathos in his notice of the
work. “It is a tribute to the memo
ry of a great and noble character in
savage life, that was distinguished as
an ally of the British in Canada, du
ring the late war there, and fell
in battle. The Kentuckians after
wards skinned the fallen warrior, to
make razor strops of his hide—a proof
of Kentuckian civilization, which the
Americans of other states refer to in
proof of their charges against that, of
being a seini-barbarous province.”—
“He seems to have been one of those
dignified and noble characters which
occasionally burst forth from the
shackles of savage and untutored na
ture to command and direct the mean
er spirits around him, and to obtain
unqualified admiration from civilized
nations.” “Not only the British, but
the Americans (not Kentuckians,) have
paid the tribute of admiration to the
*tried virtues of Tecumseh.” “He
was a brave and honorable savage,
whose name should not die in Eng
land.” But enough of this rigmarole.
It is a pity that officers of the army
will dabble in mock heroics and sage
critics become ridiculous; but it
seems to be the fate of almost every
English writer in regard to this coun
try, to be guilty of the sin of ignorance,
ill-nature, or absurdity.—N. Y. States
man.
Remarkable election.—At thie late
election in the first congressional dis
trict in Iudiana, the two candidates,
Mr. Blake and Mr. Boon, in all the
counties but one, had 7,217 votes
each. The remaining county was ex
pected to decide the contest by a ma
jority of 20 to 30,
Maternal Intrepidity.—A gentleman
informs us that some time last week
the wife of Mr. Lemuel Alexander,
of Smithfield, in this state, w r ent to
the well to draw water, with a young
child in her arms. While in the act,
from some cause the child slipped or
sprung from her, and plunged into the
well, which was about SO feet deep.
The mother immediately seized the
well pole with which she descended
a part of the distance, and then jump
ed down to the relief of the child,
which was raised from the water and
held in that position until'the cries of
Mrs. A. brought Mr. Joshua Arnold to
her relief. Both the mother and child
were taken from the well, without
having received material injury.
Prov. Jour.
John Jay, ef New-York* is the only
“An ingenious plan for increasing*
the power of the voice has been car
ried into execution at Attercliffe
church, Sheffield, by erecting a con
cave sounding board, to act as a re
flector behind tbe reading desk and
pulpit, with the speaker's voice near
the focus of the concave. The effect
of this reflector, it is said increases
the power of the voice five times be
yond its ordinary volume, so that it
can be heard in the most distant cor
ners of the church. We should re
commend the adoption of this ingen
ious plan in numerous parish church
es in which the duties are discharged
with indiflerence or incapacity.”
Bristol Mirror,
Journal of Commerce.—It is stated
in the N. York Commercial Adv. that
Mr. Lewis Tappan, late of Boston,
has become proprietor of the Journal
of Commerce. Mr. Maxivell has re
tired from the editorial department.
Mr. Hale continues in the establish
ment. /
Rffed Gum.—Two Guns. Thomas
and James, w ere knocked down md
rifled of their money by some ruffians
in Savannah.
MARRIED—On Thursday last, W the
Rev. Mr. Behan, Mr. Davit Vann, Esq.
ofH[gh Tower District, to Miss jitha
youngest daughter of Capt. David M’Nair
of Arhohee District.
• zens generally.
1 would hereby give notice that I intent
by leave of Providence, to open a boart
ing bouse about the first of November nex
near the Mission School in this town, whei
I will supply children under twelve yea
of age, with board and washing for or
dollar per week, and youth over tweh
years of age with board exclusive of was]
lf.g, for the same price. But should ar
youth over twelve or thirteen years of a<
wish to enter the boarding house, they wi
please to produce satisfactory testimonial
with regard to their moral character.
For the satisfaction of all who mav wii
to support their children at School, I wou
state that Messrs. William Hicks, Alexai
der M’Coy and Elias Boudinott have ha
the kindness to accept the appointment
Committee to visit and examine the Sr ho
once in three months viz. on the first Tue
day of January, March, June and Septen
her, when they will report through the m<
dium ofthe Cherokee Phoenix the state ar
improvement of the School.
MARY ROWE for her fath<
v*. , RICHARD ROWE..
High Tower, Oct. 15,1823.
POCKET BOOK LOST.
A BOUT the middle of July last wi
X*- stolen out of my Pocket at my hous
a large Washed Leather Pocket-Booi
containing one note on the State Bank <
Georgia for £10, one note of hand on El
jah Hicks for £85, payable sometime j
October next; a receipt of Henry Meevr
the State of New York, for two notes c
John Byers of the said State, and son
other papers not recollected. To any ne
son getting & delivering said Book, paiie
and money to me; I will give ten dollar
and five for the apprehension ofthe rogn
I do hereby forwarn all persons fromtr
ding for said note of Elijah Hicks Ar
1 also forwarn Elijah Hicks from payir
said note to anyperson excepting mvsell
GEORGE HARLIN
Coosewaytee Chorofree Nation, A own
113. 1828*—24-tf. ' b