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■oaiiten.uuse and deportm ent the dcep„-
E t emotion. Sue sat Dei ore the Dar,
■ad seemed to be entreating one of
■he gentlemen of the bar to intercede
Erher father. Presently the jury
Consulted together and gave in their
Eerdict “not guilty,” and the Court or-
Ijored the prisoner to be discharged.
Iplie change in the father and daugh
ter was instantaneous. Surprise, joy
land gratitude came over them all to
gether. The delight of the daughter
Lvas excessive.—“Now let me tell
liny story,” exclaimed the man; “it’s
Ireiy short, I beg you to let me tell it. ’
Ijle then gave a rapid and animated
■statement. He said that a man came
■to the ship with a cable on his shoul
ders, threiy it down beside him, and
[collared him, when be halloed lire!
murder! and the rascal run off. The
[people came up and found him with
'the cable. “Then they took me to
[jail. I was never there before,’' said
[he, that's all; thank ye gentlemen,
thank ye heartily, and he left the
court,, while the audience were high
ly amused with the incident and the
naivete of his account of it. The
daughter followed, but just as she pass
ed the jury box, she suddenly turned,
■and made a low courtesy to the jury
with a grace of manner and a grace
ful countenance, worthy of Jeanie
Deans.—JV*. Y. J. Com*
A most melancholy and heart rend
ing notice of a death ( by lire, is thus
recorded in the Albany Daily Aiier-
tiser of Thursday, CM. 24:
We have to record an appalling in
stance of the death by lire of a daugh
ter, aged about 12, of Thomas Lee,
merchant tailor of this city. About
seven o’clock, on Sunday evening, as
she was sitting in a rocking chair, in
the second story of her father s house,
in Danicls-street, and, as is supposed,
asleep, she fell over the fender into the
fire, and the tlames caught her clothes.
She instantly ran up stairs into the
third story, where was a girl about
her own age, who was too much alarm
ed to render assistance. The suffer
er, writhing in agony, convulsed, and
uttering the most piercing shrieks,
made her way down stairs, and out of
the front door into the street. At this
time, she was completely enveloped
in flames, which illumined the whole
street, and her piteous cries aroused
the whole neighborhood. A gentle
man, who was passii^ at the time,
caught her in his arms, and to his qyvu
injury, pressed her to his breast, and
partially succeeded in slaying the
flames, but not having an overcoat,
could not subdue them. As the soon
est means of gaining relief, he ran to
wards a pump near by, but stumbled
and fell. Another gentleman caught
tier up, ^nd took her to the pump,
and a person happening to be there
with a pail, the flames were quench
ed. The agonized being was taken
'back to the house, and her body pre
sented, a m,ost dreadful appearance.—
Her clotlies were almost entirely
'burnt off, and her skin was also, all
except that on her face. Medical aid
'was rendered, but at one o’clock that
night, the spirit of the unhappy victim,
left its wretched and tortured abode,
and winged its way to heaven.
The mother of the girl, was at the
time on a visit to a sick neighbor’s,
and the father was absent from town.
J\luider.—We are informed tha
the Rev. M. Taylor, living on Rich
ardson s creek, in Anson co. was aho
dead by his slop son. Peter Slaughter
bn the 25th ult. Slaughter fled, bu
was apprehended near Morgantown
and has been lodged in jail, to awai
bis trial at uext Spring term, of Au
aon Superior Court. We have bear
some details of this tragic event
which stamp it as a very aggravate*
ease of murder; but we shall deelim
giving them, lest injustice may be dom
the party criminated.-—N. C. Pap.
Curious fact.—We have before u
the M. S. account of a remarkable
:ftct which has recently transpired ii
Buckingham county, In working th<
■James River Slate Quarries, a pietp
ef pine bark, 8 inches in length, 5 in
ehes in width, and 3-4 of an inch thick
was brought out of the solid mass o
Rock. This pine was as perfect am
uound, if it had beenjusttakenfromthi
.tree with the exception of its bain;
Tittle scorched, smutted, and with ai
ashy appearance on the inside, as i
from coals or embers, or perhaps oe
oasioned by the blast of powder. I
was imbedded in the rock about 11
feet below its top sod tfig rock itiell
was covered 8 or 10 feet of solid earth
and clay, never probably disturbed by
man before. It has somewhat of an
antique appearance. The proprietor
attempted to preserve the bed of rock
in which it reposed—but the fock was
too solid aud hiird to be separated in
any other way than by the explosive
force of gun powder in the application
of which unfortunately the bed was
entirely shattered and destroyed.
As with toads which have been
found imbedded in the solid rock, the
question may be more easily asked
than answered. There is nothing re
markable in die pine or the toad, but
like fly in amber “How the d 1 did
it get there.” There are more things
in heaven and earth, than are dream
ed of in our philosophy.—Richmond
Compiler.
We regret much to learn, that JO
SEPH LANCASTER, the author of
the system of monitorial instruction,,
for the discovery of which the whole
civilized world is deeply indebted to
him, is in this city, suffering under the
pressure of great pecuniary want.—
We think it is only necessary for the
fact to be known, to insure him imme
diate relief. It is. as we understand
owing in a great measure to his be
nevolent exertions for the benefit of
his fellow men, that he is now reduced
to want. This city and country are
his debtors, as well as other parts of
the world, and we presume a portion
of that debt will be paid here.
JV*. F. l)ai. Adv.
Education in Ireland—The whole
number of Schools in Ireland is found
to be 11,822, and the total«uumber of
children in attendance, according to
the protestant account, is 560,549, of
whom 4 )3,285 are catholics, and the
remainder protestants. by the Cath
olic account, the whole number is 6b9,-
964, of whom 421.023 are catholics.
T phus Malignant Fever.—Dr. T.
C. Smith of Dublin in !320, obtained
of the British Parliament a reward of
5,8'JO/. for the undermentioned re
cipe, for Typhn Malignant Fever.
Six drachms of powdered nitre, six
drachms of oil of vitrol—mix them to
gether in a tea cup, adding to the nitre
the drop of the oil at the tiqne—
The cup to be placed during the
preparation on a heated plate of iron,
and the mixture stirred with a tobac
co pipe. The cup to be placed in
different parts of the si k room.
Hard Duly.—A colonel, who had
raised a regiment of fensible cavalry,
was complaining in company that he
had the whole labor of the corps on
himself. ‘I am,’ said lie, obliged to
be my own major, my own captain, my
own adjutant, &c.’— And,’ said a
person present, ‘I presume, your own
trumpeter.
A fat Birth.—The annual itu |ome of
the Archbishop of Canterbu*, who
lately died in England, was no less
th n 25,000/. sterling, or $111,000.--
This is equal to the compensation we
allow to our President and Vice Pres
ident, the four Secretaries of the
great departments, the Postmaster
General, the Chief Justice, and the
six associate Judges of the Supreme
Court, and the support of our Minis
ter at London into the bargain. The
Bishop of London succeeds to this
goiden manger of * the church.”
A cure for the Ague and Fever, that
has never failed in five hundred cases.
l-2oz. of gloves, 1-2 oz. of cream
tartar, 1 oz. of Peruvian bark, well
pulverized: put them into a bottle of
best port wine, and tike decoction or
tincture on the well days, as fast as
the stomach will receive it. As there
are more persons afflicted with the
fever and ague than at any former pe
riod, (in the opinion of many of the
faculty,) the publication of the above
recipe will probably be beneficial to
numbers who now labor under the dis
order.
Ohio.—The DaytoH Journal of Au
gust 19th, announces tub tact, that one
hundred and seventy-three marriages
have taken place in Montgomery coun
ty; since the commencement of the
present year. Surely there miist be
some charm in Montgomery!! *
Mammoth Coach.—A Coaeh maker
in Philadelphia is engaged in construct
ing a stage to run between Borden-
town and Washington, N. J. calcula
ted to carry fifty-six passengers. The
carriage is divided into two apart
ments, om abov^-and the-other beitmv
each to contain 28 passengers.—The
whole is to be drawn oy twelve hors
es, three abreast, the driver to be as
sisted by 2 postillions. The speed
will be the same as in the four horse
coaches. In the stages now in use,
three men, with the same number of
horses, could carry but 27 passengers.
New Juvenile Paper.—Tne smallest
newspaper in the known world, with
out any dispute, has just reached us
from Salem. It is called the 'Hive,’
and may be read profitably by all our
little statesmen and - siateswomen,
in the nursery before breakfast. The
paper is five inches long, by three in
widih. It has not declared itself on
the Presidential question.—Dost. Pal.
Cromwell s Slculj.—A lady on a vis
it lo the*British Museum asked the
person in attendance if they had the
skull of Oliver Crom well? Being an
swered in the legative, “Dear me,
said she, that is very strange—they
have one at Ox/ord.”
Navigation tf the Mississippi.—Un
til tne year 1623, it was thought im
possible for aiy steam boat to ascend
the river abo*e the rapids; but during
that year, to ihe astonishment of thou
sands, the steam boat Virginia ascen
ded the river to St. Peters and return
ed. Aud now there are as many as
eight or ten steam boats engaged in
the upper Mississippi trade.
Unprecedented Travelling.—We be
lieve that the rapidity of Travelling on
the route from New-i’ork to Detroit
is unexampled in any eomtry. The
distance is 750 miles, and it is per
formed in four days and alialf, viz:—
from Ddtroit to Buffalo, 250 miles,
in 48 hours; Buffalo to Albany, 350
miles, 48 hours, and from Albany to
N. Y. 150 miles, in 12 hours.
The Patnarch of Physicians.—Dr.
Holyoke, of Salem, now ih the 101st
year of his age, visited the Boston A-
theneum lately, walked through the
numerous apartments, examined with
interest the books, drawings, easts,
models, &c. and was scarcely seated
a moment during a long attendance.
Say', there is a great change of tidies.
Gloucester Telegraph.
Nicety of the law.—At the Lancas
ter assizes, in England, in August
last, ou tiie trial of three prisoners,
who had obtained 100/. oil a* forged
Check alleged in the indictment to be
made in the name of ToWnknd and
son, because the name appeared to the
jury to be written Tewnend, the
judge decided the variance to be fatal,
and the fellows were acquitted.
Diversity of Mind.—There are now
800,000,000 of human beings on the
earth:—there have been more than a
million times that number in the world,
and as many more yet exist; and there
never have been, are not now, nor
will there ever be, any two of that in
numerable multitude exactly alike.
Velocity 1 of Steamboats.—The im
mense increase of power requisite to
obtain a small increase of velocity,
ought to have its influence in deter
mining the speed of a steamboat dur
ing a long voyage, and its proportions
ought to be adapted to that speed,
with a small excess of power for e-
mergencies. The powers required to
give a boat different velocities in still
water are as follows:
Miles.
3 per hour
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
Horse power.
5 1-2
13
25
43
69
102
146
200
The mechanical power, or power
of a steam engine to impel a boat in
still water, must be as the cube of
the velocity. Therefore, if an en
gine of twelve horse power will impel
a boat seven miles per hour, it will
require one of thirty-five horse power
to impel the same boat at the rate of
ten miles per hour. The action of
what is called a twenty-five horse
power engine is just equal to the im
pulse given by 1,000 cubic feet of wa
ter falling through the height of ten
feet.
Longevity.—A woman, named Tier
ney, died lately at the-Hague, aged
113 years. She enjoyed full posses
sion of her mental faculties, until with
in a few days of her death, and was
accustomed to take a great deal of ex
ercise. Her father lived to the age
of 105 years, and her uncle had enter
ed his 113 year, at the time of his
death.
Change of times.—The town of Ply
mouth, in 1824, contained but 32
dwelling houses, and 180 persons.—
The people were poor, in debt, & suf
fering extremely by privations, and
hardships, but bearing the whole with
more than Roman firmness. They
were obliged to fortify tlieir Town to
protecLthemselves against the assaults
of the Savages. Their Navagntion
consisted of a few boats or shallops.—
In 1625 after Harvest, they sent one of
their shallops, the largest vessel they
had, with a load of Corn 1o the East
ward, up Kennebeek River, to trade
for Beaver, and other Fur. They
had laid a' deck over her midships to
keep the Corn dry, but the men were
forced to stand *all weathers without
any shelter. The voyage was made
by Mr. Winslow fan eminent Gentle
man, aftewvnds Governor of the Col
ony) and some old standards, for sea
men, they had none. Novi', Ply
mouth with four or five thousand in
habitants, very considerable shipping,
and extensive commerce, and with its
Court House, Jail, Bank, Academy,
Halls and Churches, holds a very ie-
spectable rank among the Towns, and
Seaports of Massachusetts.
Salem, in 1629 contained but six
houses, besides Governor Endicott’s,
and there were but 100 Planters in all
the Colony, (Chalmers says eight
miserable hovels)—in f698, it con
tained only 85 houses, and 300 polls,
and in 1732, (four years after the birth
of the venerable Dr. Holyoke) 520
houses, 5000 inhabitants and 1200 tax
able polls—now, with regard to the
population, wealth, and commerce, it
is the second town in New England.
It contains about 13000 inhabitants
and has a large number of Ships,
whose keels plough, and whose sails
whiten every sea. Its merchants have*
been long celebrated for their in
telligence, industry, and enterprise.
Its public and private buildings arc
magnificent, and its various institutions
doit great honor- Surely wo may
SOUTH SEA ISLANDS.
At one of the services in aid of the
London Missionary Society, in the
month of May last, a Sermon was
preached by the Hon. and Rev. Bap
tist Noel, in which he stated that 20
Islands in the South Seas had already
been christianized through the labors
of missionaries, and that 30,000 chil
dren were under instruction. About
fifty churches have been built. One
auxiliary society in 1825-6, gave
$1332, and another 5000 gallons of
cocoanut oil. In three islands out of
20, the number of baptisms since the
mission commenced, (in 1797) is
5615. In five Islands, the number of
communicants in 1825-6 was 2294.
Mr. Noel remarked that baptism in
these cases, was not “lightly admin
istered,” nor were communicants
“lightly received.”
From the Court land Herald.
You are respectfully requested to
publish the Resolutions herewith com
municated; & brother Editors, friend
ly to the cause of Temperance and
the observance of the Sabbath, it is
hoped, will, through the medium of
their papers, aid in this good work by
copying these resolutions
HUGH BARR.
The Presbytery of North Alabama
view with great satisfaction, the spir
ited and Christian efforts that are ma
king in some parts of our land to ar
rest the violation of the Holy Sabbath;
and depending on the blessing of the
great Head of the Church, the Pres
bytery would “come up to the help
of the Lord, to the help of the Lord a-
gainst the mighty.” It is therefore
Resolved, That it is the sense of
this Presbytery, that the travelling
under common circumstances, which
is so much practised in the communi
ty, and even by members of our
Church, is a plain, a growing and aw
ful profanation of the Christian Sab
bath.
Resolved, That the Presbytery en
join, and they do hereby enjoin it up
on all our sessions, to be strict in en
forcing the discipline of the Church
, in every case of violation of the Sab
bath which may come to their kno^vl
edge.
The Presbytery have to lament,
that in several instances, professir;:
Christians, when on a common journey
have refused to “rest according to t!.
^commandment,” even when an op
portunity offered of spending holy time
.u worshipping with God s people in
ihe sanctuary.
And they do enjoin on the members
of the church, individually, a strict
observance of the Christian Sabbath,
particularly that they abstain from
travelling under common circumstan
ces, and from all other violations of a
day, the observance of which is 60 in
timately connected with the prosper-
ity of Zion.
The Presbytery of North Alabama
taking into consideration the gieat and
deplorable extent, and (he fatal con
sequences of intemperance,
Resolve, That they will not only ab
stain from the use of ardent spirits
themselves, and prohibit the use of
them in their families, except for me
dical purposes—but that they will
use tlieir utmost influence to discoun
tenance the vice, and actively engage
in promoting the interest of those as
sociations, which have in special view,
the suppression of this great and grow
ing evil.
By order of Presbytery,
HUGH BARR,
Staled Clerk.
Moulton, Sept. 13, 1828.
London Newspapers, —The dry rot
is making vvoful havoc among the news
papers. Our poor hundred-eyed
friend, the Argus, has fallen a victim
to it. His last peeper is closed, and
the sleep of death has ended his watch
fulness forever. The Verulam ha®
spoken one word of truth, viz: that it
could not exist any longer, and has givv
en up the ghost. The Spectator, look
ed at by nobody, has become a spec
tre, and is rapidly hastening to that
bourne from which no traveller returns*
The Atlas groans audibly under his
leaden burthen, and will soon sink intd
his mother earth. Peace to their
manes.—London paper.
HOUSE BUILDER. AND CABI
NET MAKER.
• New York, respectfully informs the
citizens of the Cherokee Nation, that he
intends carryingon the business of HOUSE
BUILDING AND CABINET MAKx
1NG in a manner superior to any that ha*
been done, & in the most fashionable man
ner, equal to that of N. York or Baltimore,
and Superior to any work of the kind in
this part of the Country. He will work as
cheap as any workman, and in a better
manner than can be done. He ha6 got
hogany and materials of the best quality.
N. B. He will take apprentices in the
above business. Any native who will
come with good recommendation, and of
steady habits will be received and tauglh'f
in the above business.
Persons wishing to build can be supplied
with a plan and elevation of any house that
may be wanting,
For further information please apply
to Messrs. David Vann and John Ri ige
Nov. 12, 1828. 37 t f
$8 REWARD.
S I RAYED OR STOLEN out of a Idt'
in this Town, a small light b”own
inare, with two scars in her forehead, hav
ing the upper part of her left ear bmt.—
Not one ot her legs is white—her main and
I ail are dark. I do not know her age, as I
had just got her from a white man. Any
person who will deliver the mare to me, at
Turkey’s Town, shall receive the above
reward.
Nov. 12, 1728.
CRYING SNAKE.
37 tf.
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NOTICE.
I DO hereby forewarn all persons froni
trading for two notes of hand, both pay
able to Joshua Holden, and signed by
self, and dated the sixth day of August 1827:
One of said notes was due the 25th of De-
eember 1827, for one hundred yards of
home spun. The other is due the*25th of
December 1828, fes one hundred and fifty
"ards of homespun, I am determined not <4
nay them, unless compelled by law, as thd
consideration for which they were given
has failed.
JONATHAN BLYTHE.
Nov. 12, 1828. 37 tf.
TEN DOLLARS REWARD.
I N February 1827, a man by the nam
of WILLIAM STONE sold me
lu>rse, which has since that time proved t
he stolen. Said Stone formerly lived i:
Jackson County Alabama, and is about fiv
eet 10 oi 11 inches high, light colored hail
pare made, and about 28 years of age.
vill give the above reward for any inform!
ion of the residence of said Stone.
WILLIAM LESLEY.
Chattooga District, Ci Ngtioc. CVt. f«
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