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*hc confederacy. Nor is this to be j
wondered at when to the foregoing j
considerations it be added that half' of
,,„ r population is estimated, in the po- j
jjjcal scale, at but three fifths of its'
actual weight. We are often up-:
In aided hv a comparison of our condi-
tion with that ot Sew Vork and Ohio,)
lo which all the other States which,
•ire exempted from the curse of slav
ery, might well lie added. And with
jhuuic u e feel ourselves constrained
to bow to the liumdiutiug comparison.
»V e view out beloved Slate, blessed,
by tlit' God of nature w ith a variety
oi useful and lovely capabilities, un
surpassed by those of any other coun
try on the globe; we view it not mere
ly as stationary, while her sister!
Mates are advancing, but as positive
ly net'lining. It is peculiarly the pro-,
vinee of such statesmen as compose .
vuur honorable body to delect the
causes of the national calamity and :
degradation, and to provide and apply j
the remedy. That the causes here-j
to fore frequently assigned arc? the |
jrue ones, we do not believe. II they
have any effect, as possibly they may, j
it must be extremely small and par- \
tial. We humbly suggest our belief j
that the slavery which exists, and |
which, with gigantic strides, is gaining j
i-round amongst us, is in truth, the ,
groat efficient cause of the multiplied
evils which we all deplore. V\ e can
not conceive that there »s any other
ball in ins neck.—He in great rage
tired at me and missed me; by tins
time all the pistols of the banditti
were discharged, as well as those of
my friend in among them; they lied
and we pursued, when the captain
suddenly wheeled his horse, passed
my friend and came directly at me
* *
with his sabre to cut me down. 1
wailed quietly until he came within
six feet of me when l shot him through
the body; be fell on the neck of bis
horse, and they both came down to
gether.
His companions seeing this be
came intimidated; but after a little,
seeing aa intention on their part to
charge against me (my friend being
occupied in finishing the captain, who
was not quite dead.) I seized a small
fowling piece which was in the hands
of my servants, and compelled them
to retreat; this left us masters of the
lit 1,1. We look possession of the
captain s horse, arms, &c. and deliv
ered them to the Alcadcor magistrate
of the next village—the villagers
turned out armed and gave pursuit,
when some meeting five of the gang
they killed one of them. It is a most
fortunate circumstance for us that we
did not fall in with the whole gang, if
we had I should not now be alive to
toll the tab;. My friend (Dr. Bcard-
mnii) received a severe sabre wound
in bis left arm.
DAVID PORTER.”
cause sufficiently operative to paral-
ize. the energies of a people so mag
nanimous, to neutralize the blessings
oi Providence inc luded in the ghl o» a j
Jand so happy i.i its soil, its climate,
us minerals, and its waters; and to an
nul the manifold advantages ot our re
publican freedom and Geographical
position. It Virginia has already fall
en fi >m her high estate, and if we
!ia; c assigned the true cause of her
fall, it is with the utmost anxiety that
we look to the future, to the fatal ter
mination of the scene. As we value
our domestic happiness, as our hearts
yearn for the prosperity of our off
spring. as we pray for the guardian
care of the Almighty over our conn- t
try, we earnestly inquire what, shall 1
he lone to avert tlie impending ruin, j
The efficient cause of our calamity '
is vigorously increasing in magnitude ;
and potency, wade we wake and j
while \\ o sleep. 'The outlets for
draining off a portion ol this pestife
rous population of slaves are fast clo
sing against us. In the mean time
our white people are removing in
multitudes, to distant regions, and 1
those who remain seem destined to
become martyrs to their love of \ ir-
gisiia, exposed to foreign enemies, to
civil feuds, and to domestic insurrec
tions, without the physical ability in
dispensable to their own preservation.
And shall we alas! reduce ourselves
to ilie necessity of invoking aid from
the North and West? We will not
pre r s Inis appalling topic any farther,
but with intense solicitude recom
mend it to the serious consideration
of your bo tumble body. We feel as
sured that in addressing men of such
enlarged and liberal views, as tve con- i
fi lently ascribe to the members of
your body, it must be unnecessary to
dilate lari her upon this mournful and
most interesting subject. We. deem it
prudent, too, not to push this memorial
imo greater detail, and therefore we
desist, only adding our importunate
prayer that you m iv devis° some eon- j
stitutional provision, the fruit of wlii li
shall be the extermination, in due j
time, ol tin; slavery which threatens
v ith dost met ion all that tve hold dear j
and valuable rs a people.
AH which is respectfully submit- j
ted
i
From the Ch~st**r t piand l nion, duly it*, j
“Mexico, May 2!)t!i 1*29.—1 have
nut vet had an interview with the
President, but shall tomorrow, when I
shall settle all matters with them, ;
and return home. On my wav here 1
I had a most unpleasant and extreme- j
ly dangerous adventure, but my good j
genius protected me as it has done on
many other occasions. Travelling
with a friend and having no apprehen
sion of danger, we were suddenly
attacked bv three banditti, being part
ol a gang of seven, well mounted and
well armed, with their faces blacked
and looking more like devils than bu
rn m beings. We had merely time to
form a line on one side of the road,
while they formed on the other,
fhe battle commenced by their cap
tain discharging his pistol at me at the
distance of a few paces. I then fired &
shouldhavc killed him,had not his horse
♦brown up his head and received the
TO POSTMASTERS.
“Il frequently happens that news
papers are sent by mail, addressed to
persons who do not take them out of
the office. In every instance of this
kind the postmaster should give im
mediate notice of it to the editor of
the paper; adding tin* reason if known,
why they are not taken, that is.
whether tin; person is dead, has re
moved lo some other place, or merely
refused.”
The above is an extract from tlie
instructions of the Postmaster Gener
al to the several Postmasters. The
instructions also direct that a Post
master, who wishes to avail hitnscll ol
the IVnnklin privilege, shall “write
his name and office on the outside of
the letter,” and no letter shall be
admitted as franked unless the office
attends to this duty.
We have, this morning, received a
letter from one of the recently ap
pointed Postmasters in Connecticut,
informing us that our country paper,
scut to J. H. C., is not taken from his
office, no reason is assigned. The
letter has not even the name of the
stale, either within or on the outside.
It is signed by asst.' 1 On the
outside the Postmaster places bis
name, hut does not say whether lie is
Posmaster in Maine or Florida, nor
even condescend to place a date to it.
A'. 1. Spec.
A REOWING SPRING.
Extract of a letter to tlio editors «»f the
Richmond Compiler, dated
Nevvbkrn, (Ya.) 12th July * 1829.
‘*! saw a natural curiosity a tew
days ago, that I am very much sur
prised has not attracted the attention
of some persons sooner. It is a very
large spring, in the county of Wythe,
being one of the head springs of Crip
ple Creek, about ten miles from the
court house, in nearly a south course.
It ebbs and jloirs in the months of Au
gust and September only; runs four
days and stops four days, duiing the
two months mentioned. The balance
of the year it runs continually; the
water is limestone, and in quantity
sufficient to turn a grist mill. It is
an uncommonly large spring; it will
begin to blubber and sink back, and
not run one drop; and at the end of
four days it will roar like claps of
thunder, and in a few minutes after
the noise, with a blowing, and the w a
ter returns. The gentleman who
owns the spring, and lives near it, is
the man who gave myself and other
persons this information. We went
to the spring and drank of the water,
which was exceedingly line and cool
and of a bluish color, so much so as to
color the creek a mile or upwards be
low, into which it empties. The
man who owns it, and lives there, is
hv the name of Pointer, a man of
truth and respectability. I asked the
neighbors if it was true; they told me
it was. There is a mill or mills with-
iu one half a mile below it, which has
to stop when it stops, although on
another stream. 1 told Mr. Pointer
I would forward the account he gave
to you and give him as my author.—
lie told me to do so, that it was
the truth, and could be proven by fif
ty Ol more respectable men, but some- ♦ ministration. \\ e are happy lo learn we
liow or other it had passed the notice < are not alone in our opposition. Able
of men until now. '• hands have volunteered for the defence oi
For myself 1 think it one ol’ the Indian i;ghis. AYc invite particular at-
greatest curiosities 1 have ever seen; » tention to the able piece we have re-pub-
niueh more so than the natural bridge, j lished from the N. Y. American. The
that lias attracted so much notice.— ; two leading articles in our present number
From the authority for the foregoing ! are likewise calculated to encourage us
account of the spring, i have no doubt j much. In our next we shall give our
of its truth. They call it the blow
ing spring. That the spring is in an ob
scure neighborhood is the only reason
1 can give for its passing unnoticed.”
i n fortunate ^Mistake.—Twp armed
parties, one consisting ut four and the
readers an able article on the subject from
the National Joui nal.
SUMMARY.
Speaking Aside.—A diffident lover
( going to ttie town clerk to request
other oi live persons, trom this town, him to publish the bans of matrimony,
set out on Monday night last, iu pur
suit of a ga."g of runaways on our isl
and, for the apprehension of whom
large rewards are offered. They en
countered each other in the dark on
the road about a mile from town, as
it was unknown to each party that
another was out with a similar ob
ject, after challenging each other,
a gun was discharged on one side,
answered by a general lire from the
other, which was returned, and both
parties retreated — under the impres
sion that they w ere engaged w ith a
superior foice of runaways! Three
persons were w ounded on each side,
six in all. Roth parties continue.!
under their inis'ake until they met
each other in Reaulort. The wounds
we believe, are not dangerous, and ii
no harm had been done, the affair
would have been highly ludicrous.
Jicaujui t Gazette.
Oil Saturday last, just after sunset,
a lady, whose eyesight is very good,
was silting at her * bower window,”
raising her eyes, she saw a lovely boy,
appaieutly annul Inc years old, issue
horn the upper window of a hou^e op
posite—cautiously, Gut his only cau
tion seemed to l»e against pursuit, there is no choice,
j He stepped boldly ami stcadiK duvvn
• to the eaves. Atra.d to call lest Stic
should startle him, the lady's work
cwt. It was planted in tlie year 1 TC$V
The stem is about 13 inches in gum.
The editors of the New York Com-'
merciai Advertiser, call on their
brethren, in Pennsylvania, to aid iu
reforming the name jMauch Chunk.-*
They state on the authority of a gen
tleman familiar with the subject, that
there arc no such words or sounds as
JWauch Chunch, nor any analogous to
them, in the Delaware, or any other
Indian language. He believes the
name to have been origiually Jlfvng
Chung, or the Hear Mountain.
Cobbett says that all North AniefL
ca does not contain two hundred such
.. . . , . . - unmannerly, greedy, * and indecent
tound Him at work alone in the middle | brutes as were assembled at the late
ol a ten acre lot and asked him to } dinner of the Westminster electo.s
sicp aside a moment, as he had some
thing particular for his private ear!—
iierk. c imer.
An Advertisement, in the Lehigh
Pioneer, calls a meeting of the cit i
zens of Muucli Chunck, to form an
“ Anti-talk-aljout-your-neiglibouis-^o-
cietv.” To stop tattling, in a vil
lage, was not among the visions* oi
Swill s philosophers of LaputeJ
Many notable deaths have lately
taken place in France, among whom
are those of the.Prince of llohenlohe,
who had attained the rank of a French
marshal; ol General Cazial, one of
Napoleon's most distinguished officers;
of the Eishop of Dijon; and of the
daughter ol’ the daughter ol the Ex-
M mister, Count Peyronnet.
The Loudon papers announce Cap
tain Basil Hall's Travels in North
America for publication early in June.
The Vermont American announces
that the sixth trial for the choice of
a Representative toCongress in that
State had been unsuccessful. Gen.
Gaboon (the anti-masonic candidate;
had 2b 1.2, Gen. Cushman 24JO, Mr.
Bell I 159, and Mr. Buck 181, so that
where he was pretty roughly treated,
j He says;—‘*1 saw one fellow endesiv-
■ oring to out a roast fowl asunder,
! crossways, while another had his folk
! stuck in the neck end, ready to take
; one of the halves.”
A wicked wag in the Rojton Cour-
. j ier has annagrannnolizeil the name of
l Anne Royal! as follows -‘‘all annoy-
er,
It was reported at MaLone, that
the French were preparing a licet of
mc.:-ul’-w ar and transports to attack
dropped from her hands, ; ud she sat ! Algiers by sea and land—they had
with breathless apprehension. “■The
dauntless child st'etched forth Ins
men of war in
little hands and smiled." Having
found the direction of the breeze, be
drew a little windmill from li is bosom,
and bearing it at arm's length before
him, with one foot on the rain trough
and the other on the rool, ran delight
ed till fairly out of breath. Return
ing gaily IVoin his perilous expedition,
lie shot into the window, before the;
astonished lady had sufficiently col
lected her senses to observe tlie co
lour of the wings that decorated his
feet. Wings slu; is sure she saw.
Parents, lake cure oi your children.
Phi lad. paper.
now m commission <
the Mediterraauei n.
The A irginia Free Press says — Oi’
all the Anti-Societies which we have
heard of, none pleases us so well as
the Anti-ncglecl-to-pay-lhe-PKisTfcR-
Socioly, proposed to be raised tu our ;
neighbourhood.
The Greeks have been remarka- j
At the peace uf 11G3, when Cana
da was acquired by the English Gov
ernment, there were only GO.OOO in
habitants. There arc now upwards
of a million.
4 lie Alexandria Gazette states flirt
a citation lias been issued bv the ( ir-
euit Coui t cl tlie District ol G*»1uiti-
bia, against tlie editor of the 19;*11f-
niore Republican, for contempt of
Gourt in publishing the testimony in
the case ol Watkins, in opposition ta
an order of the court
It is estimated that there are m tlie
I nited States! 480,00(1 MeeharflcT;
9,000 Lawyers, 12,000 Doctor*;
1,000; (say 10,000) Minister*,
3G.OtX) Schoolmasters,
The Salem Cou Her, tells a story
of tw o girls who came to town to rC
themselves, and, after cheapening ir
twenty shops, colled at the Post Of
fice, where they found a letter fo?
each. 1 *IIow much?” uTttrfvcf
and a half cents eaoji!” “That th£
low
cs
* /
Acs, Uncle 8am never
comes down.” u Oo ask your uncle.
If he’ll let us hay.e them at ten cent?:
u c'il I alee both.”
As Anti societies are now all the
i {hr W illiamstow u Advocate
it n n( - u „ (I,..,,. | proposes to establish one which is
h v successful, ol hue, in llicu cou- 1 ‘ , 3 , . . . . r .
much needed about this ime. It i^
test with the Turks, and ins«.eud oi
being hunted out like wild ucasts up
on the mountains, have actually as
sumed the offensive. According to
accounts from different places, iney
lia\e, si ice the opening ui the prcsih
lo be called “Tin? anli-making-edit-
ors-pny-postage-on-eomm micaliua-So-
l ciety.
Tlie number of Old. Spaniar *s at
present in tlie city of New O-leans,
tv
i campaign, taken possession ol 8anw, | '' ho have left Mexico in co s sequence
Livadia, Vomtza, the Pass of Tiicr- j ^ hite expulsi m. is estimated at
u Rtst ff eary Traveller.''—We re- ! mopyia;, Lepanto, the Ouslie oi itou- j mwe than t'co thousand. 1 be New*
ceivcd yesterday a small proof sheet j melia, and far-famed Missoiuiigtn. I Oi mans Adieitiser $ta(o. c that many
from the office of the Richmond Henry Hamilton, ibe noiotious l; l are * n ^ si; k fe of n bin erne,
Compiler, containing partial returns swindler, who absconded trom \o»jv, whiie olheis suiier much ir n: pover-
oflhe late Presidential election, dated j U. G. lias been arrested m T ranee.— j
the Gth of November last, and which Report states that 4ltK)/ ol the prop- j
was ptobably mailed at that time.— eity canied offbv him has been se-
What have been the extent and na- j cured.
lure of its peregrinations, we have no j A little girl ol Air. John Brown,
means ol judging. Could it write the near Hebron, Onio, recently lell into
history of its travels, it would proba- j a well, 4< leet deep, with about sev-
bly contain accounts ol strange oe- on leet cl-water: this accident being
currenecs and vicissitudes and | discovered by Mr. Brown, be installs-
alterations of beat anti cold while vi
brating in the mail stages between
Maine and Georgia.—.A*. 3. Gaz
ette.
barge.« open-
letters v. h li » Lsel
WEDNESDAY, ArCJI’ST 2f>, 1S20.
Iv«» H r.
iX i 'V
f)ur readers will perceive from the ar
ticles we insert in our piper umlor the
head of l ndians, that an interest is creat
ing m tlie public mind in regard to the
rights of the aborigines. We hope this in
ly descended, and brought her up un
hurt, except some slight bruises about
her head.
James Read, 34 Arcade, New
York, offers to treat bis customers
“with a view of one of the most com
plicated machines in this country, in
which he weaves eight different w atch
ribbons at the same time."
Extract of a letter received in Bos
ton from Havana, dated 8lh July:—
‘•‘Just now there is much truuble a-
ninng the dry goods dealers in tlie
city, several have stopped payment
. j V *1 y ^ - ' j 4 L #
tvrc>t will increase until public opinion I an j maU y more are expected. Thus j
■ shall decide either for or against us. AV v .
J wish to know what tlw people of the T_ nit- j
; erl States think of u«—whether they are
j xvilliner to sacrifice us to the cupidity of
I some of our white brethren—whether they
will sustain the doctrine of Secretary Ba
ton, ami say that the guarantee for ever
solemnly given by the United States to us,
is not sufficient to protect us in our rights,
and the only alternative is for ns to remove
acro«s the Mississippi. The policy ol
Washington, Jefferson, tkc. toward the In
dians has heretofore been, evidently, sus
tained by public opinion, weshould he glad
lo know whether the change proposed by
president Jackson will meet with public
approbation. When we are under fre
quent necessity of mentioning president
Jackson’s name, we hope our readers will
not think us as indulging ourseli in party-
ism. It is not against Jackson w*e are op
posed. but against the measure ol the ad«
a stain is thrown on more than two and
a half millions of paper, which lias
hitherto passed as currently as dou
bloons. There is scarcely a bouse of
magnitude in the place that is without
at least a hundred thousand dollars of
this paper.”
It is said the low price of lead
makes the working of the United
States lead Mines a losing business.
The Editors of the N. Y. Enquirer
say they have a press building to en
able them to print a much larger pa
per. It will have eight columns in a
page, each lour inches longer than at
present.
In the Garden of Hampton Court,
Eng. is a celebrated Vine, allowed,
by all foreigners, to surpass every
other in Europe. It is 72 feet by
20, and ha9, in one season, produced
2212 bunches of grapes, weighing 18
The trial of Asa W. !ls»vr M a dep
uty post master a! N jHV.’L, Ohm,
took place at Columbus «>;
week. He was
ing certain
through the office (of whi h ho ffu!
the sole management,) and attract
ing the money the ref i oni. He was
found guilty, but had not re-iff ed
sentence at the last accounts Lorn
Columbus.
1 he A t. Journal says, butter tubs
which have become foul may be tho
roughly cleansed by filling them with
bran and water and letting them stand
till fermentation takes place. It is
easily tried.
AVe are informed, says a Baltimore
paper, that Dr. Zollikoffer of this ci
ty had presented to him lor examina
tion, a head ol cabbage, that was
found to contain taenly two heads, in
closed in such a mainier by the extei-
nal leaves, as to foriii one of the most
solid and well arranged heads, to all
appearance, that the Horticulturist
would desire to exhibit as a fair sam
ple of the goodness of bis crop.—
Eighteen of these were as perfectly
formed as it is possible to imagine.
The directors of the steamboat
Chancellor Livingstone, runniii,; front
New York to Providence, have re
solved to discontinue the custom of
placing spirituous liquors on the table
of their steamboat.
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OP THE
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