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THE C&NVICT. Prom the -V. O. Commercial Bulletin. Thomas Tibbetts. This extraordi nary individual, who was hung recently, was born, we believe, in this State. How ever, be that as it may, he has spent the best (or rather the worst) part of his life in it. At the age of ten years he was a drummer boy in the army, and was sta tioned with his step-father (a corporal) in Louisiana. Having been beaten, as he says, very severely by his step-father, in a fit of revenge he seized a musket i and laid him dead at his feet. For this, he was tried and sentenced to be impris- 1 oned twenty-one years; the sentence ol i death being thus commuted on account of: his extreme youth. After remaining in i prison for the space of eleven years, lie was, in January, IKW, being then but twenty-one years of age, pardoned out by Gov. White! lie arrived in this city just at the time that the Louisiana volunteers were about to embark for Florida; and having enlisted under Col. Persifer Smith he went with him to Florida. After serv ing there four or five months, lie return ed to this city, and almost immediately went up'the river; he returned here, however, in»a fortnight after, and had not been in the city three days ere he* com mitted the crime*for which lie yesterday forfeited his life. Three days since, lie was visited in prison by the Mayor, Denis Prieur, who asked him how he felt. “As well as a man in my situation can feel,” was his answer, “ but I should like to have something to drink.” Some brandy was brought him, which ho drarik eagerly; after which .Mr. Pri cur told him lie did not come for the pur pose of giving him any hopes of a par don. “ And if you should do so, I’d not be lieve you,” said Tibhets. “ Would you not prefer imprisonment to death, and that on a scaffold ?” m Ah, no!” said he, with a hitter smile "if tny sentence could he remitted for only* a year’s imprisonment, (ami 1 know that they would not let mo <>lf for so snort a period) I would prefer to die in stantly.” * “ Life is said to he sweet,” observed the Mayor. “ Ay, it may ho so to you, and such as you, surrounded as you are by the com forts and luxuries of life. But look at inc, (holding up his chains.) Eleven long years of my life have 1 passed in a miserable cell, chained thus like a galley slave, disgraced and deserted by all and every thing that could render life dear to me. What sweetness, then, think you, lias such a life fer such a as I am ? No sir, (seeing Mr., Prieur was about to speak,) as a boy, it i* true, I was head strong and wayward, hut not naturally vi cious. It is true that I hated those who hated me; but I also loved those who were kind to me. But this 1 take no credit for; 1 hut obeyed therein the in stinct of nature. But upon one occasion, for indulging in a damnable propensity, that corporal, (hisstep-father) boat me so unmercifully, that 1 seized a musket and shot him. I was imprisoned, and led to believe that if 1 behaved well T should he Released in a year or two ; hut year after year rolled on, and still I was a wretched prisoner; the bright morning of my life was wasting away, unsolaced, uncheered ! no release came, my heart sunk within me, my hopes were blighted, and with my hopes died my youth. I themsgave loose to the worst passions of my ptiture, and joined my miserable companions in their worst pursuits. Finally, mv prison doors were unbarred—l was pardoned ; I entered that prison not a depraved hoy ; 1 left it a desperate man. I came to this city and joined the volunteers for Florida; before sailing I was arrested as a suspi cions character, but being released, went with Colonel Smith— returned to this citv and—the rest you know.” Mr Prieur then hinted that the vice which led him astray was drinking. “ No, sir,” said he fufiouslv, “ gam bling! damnable gambling! lor that was I beaten by the man whom, in revenge I killed. I deserve to die, but not for the offence for which 1 stand committed. 1 deserve to die, however, for deeds which I have lately done.” He was questioned on this head, hut obstinately refused to reveal a syllable. Mr. Prieur, who is, bye-the-bye, a practi cal phrenologist, then proceeded to exam ine his head, to ascertain if the organs of firmness and destructiveness were not strongly developed, and finding such to be the case, he spoke of it. The prison er said nothing in reply to him on that head then, but the day before yesterday he asked for pen, ink, and paper, and wrote the following : "My last It'/// and "Vest amt nt: Give Denis Prieur my head. Tom Tibbets. Port of St. Loris.—The Harbor Master of this city has furnished us with an abstract from his Register for the month of April, just ended. It appears that, during that month, MG different Steamboats entered our port, the average •tonnage of which amounted to 13,551 tons. The whole number of entries was 18H, and the amount of wharfage collect-, ed from the boats 1070 dollar-. Sixteen' . were new boats. Some idea may he I formed of the extent of the trade of " this city from the facts just stated. V. c question whether any city of the West can show u like number of arrivals within the same period. [St. Louis Republican . THE REMEDY. A DOMESTIC SCENE. After all said on the subject of the times, of reform, and the necessity of pconoiny in all our outlays, the.truc way is to set to work forthwith, and carry reform into] practical execution, anti see how it works. Example is a great guide, and what'one. will do, the other w ill imitate. Fashiona ble extravagrance would he at once sur rendered, w hen it is fashionable to be | economical. Avery large importing house was prostrated by the pending stottn, and first tried the experiment of extension, hut finally gave up, and suspended pay ment. * About a fortnight or three weeks after that event had taken pltfce, I called at their magnificent mansion in Place, and found the house closed, and a hill on it for sale or to let. I stood mus ing for a few minutes, calling to mind the splendor of the last party 1 had been at, in that very house, in January last: the parlors with their magnificent ottomans, damask chairs, rich Persia cafpets r can delabra.-, and costly mirrors—the gay and I fluttering crowd of fashionables, the su- I perh supper, and massive plate, and flash- I ing lights, and jocund faces, and above j all, the graceful and delighted mistress of | the mansion. Now all was dreary and des jolate; the dust had dready collected on j th<! Venetian blinds, and the plated hell handle looked dark and dingy. An air iof desertion and decay lowered on the j mansion, the airy dreams of the occupants bad vanished. I determined, Hbwever, to see my friends,, for he who forgets a j friend in the hour of adversity is not fit | to live iu this world, and, on pursuing my enquiry, 1 traced them to a small street east of the Bowery, arid living in a neat two story house. I rang the bell, aijd whs uslxrml into the parlor by a little girl with a clean check apron. 1 looked aroilnd tin; rooms. What a contrast! A plain hut new ingrain carpet, neat rush bottom chairs, a'sofa, two small looking glasses in the piers, under which w as a plain ma hogany table, and plated candlesticks on the mantel piece. Every thing was neat, and directly in the opposite extreme of the splendor of their former habitation. The lady of the house met me with a cheerful smile and a cordial shake of the hand.— The last time 1 had seen her she was alighting from her carriage, splendidly dressed, at Stewart’s, in Broadway; she now had on a neat calico dress, a silk apron, and a plain cap, and she looked exceedingly interesting. “W hy how you stare,” said she; “am I not an-altered woman f” “Yes, lml altered for the bet ter. How well you do look !” “j)o 1!” Why yes, I think I do. 1 take great oxer ofoe-—hustle- about..Jjjjo, house—rub furni ture, ns'Voti once advlsi it me to Oo —toon' after the kitchen—am constantly employ ed ; indeed it must he so, for wo caqnot keep an army of sen ants, as we formerly did.” “It will all work well, he sure of it; the storm will soon blow over, at least with you, because you show yourself to he a skilful pilot; you take iu sail in time, and will soon have your ship moored in smooth water.” “Well, you do comfort [ me .exceedingly, for. I have sven hut few of my gala friends of late. Here comes mv hie band ;—now ton must sit down and take a cheerful family dinner with us.”— Avery w hite but not very fine table cloth was’spread; uncut tumblers—blue plates —buck-handle knives and forks —japan- ned bread baskets, &c. &c. and a little girl with a check apron w aited on us. A heaf steak and a hot. pot at oe—a couple of slices of fried halibut—an apple dumpling —good white bread, and a tumbler of beer constitut'd our dinner. “Don’t look at me,” said the hostess, “for really 1 eat like a ploughman—of late 1 have had a most unfashionable appetite; hut then 1 rise with the sun, and the day passes so quickly that night sits in before I have done one half of my work—now don’t smile when l say work, for although von know I have not been used to it, vet real ly Ido work, and very hard.” “Do von not miss your horses and carriage—your rides up and down Broadway—your vis its to Stewart, Boyle, and Venables !” '.‘No, not in the len.- t; Ido miss mv parse occasionally, to be frank with volt, but when 1 accommodate mv means to my wants, all is smooth. We cannot cat gold, von know—it can only perforin cer tain offices, which Ido not want. 1 have enough of a rich wardrobe to last me for years —rather too many pocket handker chiefs, that cost me •'S>O a piece: and as to the carriage and horses, if they brought their gratifications, they were also a source ol trouble, vexation, and expense, and 1 am better without them, it is thus 1 de rive consolation from misfortune, and am content and most li;i|>pv.’’ All this is the result of practical good sense- I —of a determined mind, which soars above mi-fortune—of a happy contented nature. What a treasure such a wife is to a man in these times, and who, instead of increasing fits gloom and despondency by frowns, upbraidings, and forgetfulness —points out tilt* road to reform, and leads him towards it by her own good and suc cessful example—keeps iij> his energy, and inspires him with new life—animates him to future exertions —smooths the pil low ot disappointment and cheers him with the assurance of better times. [Star. Tur liEvrxvE. —The receipts of the Revenue of the United States in the month of April, as stated by the Secreta ry of the Treasury, were from Customs. s9{*3,6Uo ; from handsel ,011,700 : total, $1,905,300. The, expenditure during the same period amounted to >3,P'<7,403 BmjjftfiVlCK ADVOCATE. . Sailing by kite power.— Some young gentlemen, (they with iu tfrdescribe them as “enterprising and patriotic yibinjjjcn tlemen,”) a few days jlhlce cohstructed the most enormous kite “that we recollect to have heard or read of, and went on to Governors island for the Dgrposc ot flying it, and its “capahilitiea’* very soon be came apparent; fox it took six of them to keep it from flying into “infinite space. Their kite was constructed of can-] vas upon a strong ash frame, and was fourteen by ten feet in dimesions. After ascertaining its powers tfjjion land, they .tried them on the waters, and taking it into a boat they let it Ay before the wind ; j and- the way it carried lietjjteough the bay, our “enterprising 1 ” phifosdphers con sidered equal to any thing ill,,,the “go a- I head” line, ever achieved byjpe late Col. Crockett. are little afraid to men tion the log hook account offthe matter, hut the velocity was little short of thirty knot. We have heard of propelling boats j | and carriages by kites iu Europe, but we I believe this is the first practical demon-, stratum in this country ; and we are not ’ J sure but our young friends arc in serious j ness as much entitled to ctlah and have as good rigjbt to talk about “benefit of I science” and all that, as other niodern j philosophers. [X. Y. Star. Melancholy Results ok Ga.mbj.ixu. A few days since a young lawyer, whose name*\ve will not mention, came to this city ftom’fJSt. Mary’s Cos. having in his I possession a sum of money belonging to | his father, and which had come into his ! hands in the settlement ofteoine property entrusted to his care. The whole sum he ! lost at the gambling table, lie then ap- I plied to -various legal gentlemen of his ac | qiiaiutancc, and having succeeded in bor rowing a considerable amount from them, once more madly sought the place of his ; ruin, and q'nce more came forth wild, | haggard, desperate, w ithout a dollar of the thousands he had so rashly and wick edly staked. lie then succeeded in ob taining sir dollars, anil with this paltry sum fled to Washington. Sonic of those whom lie so basely deceived and wronged, j pursued him; and strange as it may seem, j the infatuated youngMtian was found witli jin the walls of a 'gambling house. The [above facts ought to he pondered well by young men. 'lMiey. speak louder than words; and they oiler a solemn warning to all, to a\oid that dizzy and dangerous vortex, from which, when once engulph ed, a man can‘scarcely hope to escape with properly, recitation or peace of mind.—[Baltimore Transcript. fro.*!. <* letter in the London Morning l’ost, dated Madrid, Dec. sth. “A line clashing carriage was stopped vesterilay nt the gate of Atcoho by the custom-house officers, and notwithstand ing t-lio entreaties of the fashionable titled lady within to he allowed to proceed with out any detention, which would otherwise affect her nerves and delicate frame, was searched, when behold, it \yns -found on tirelv full of rich French and English con traband articles of dress, &.c. Os course* the w hole were taken to the custom-house, together with the carriage and horses; but the lovely delinquent, as well as the coachman and footman, with their black cockades, were suffered to escape; oth ers, besides our Ministers here have ser vants with these cockades; upon inquiry,! 1 am assured it was neither his Excellen- i cy’s equipage, horses, nor servants; 1 am thus explicit because it lips been at tempted to spread thu report that it was ; otherwise. ] To show the estimation in which the Geological and other surveys of Massa chusetts are held, it is only necessary to state that the appropriations for tho pur pose are within a few hundreds of $lO,- 030, in addition to w hich nearly six thou sand dollars have been appropriated lor the printing and publishing of the survey atone. Massachusetts is second to no state in the Union iu point of enlighten ment and a full understanding of her own interests. Bhe devotes $45,000 to sur veys without any mineral region to be ex plored, whilst Maryland, with more min eral wealth than any other State, higgles about appropriating half the smu to simi lar purposes, [Bnl. American. Sai t. dence of tHe extreme caution observed by the Bank of France in respect to dis counts, that the only loss incurred in the course of last year (during which hills to the amount of 700,000,000 francs had been discounted) \va£ one of 290 francs In 1790, the valuation of property in Massachusetts, according to a table fur nished by .Mr. Carter to the .Legislature of that State, was -but 5i&,(b29,97-1. In I>3o, it was $t205,3(»0,-107, and during the interval its population was nearly doubled, whilst the number of its voters was increased about SO per cent. Massachusetts Schools. The amount of money raised in Massachusetts annual ly, for public schools, average s•> :{! p Pr head, from 4to 14 years of age. In bos ton, the average is >ti >:>; in Charles town, •?! (9 : Salem. >2 ?*2; Lowell, $3 So: Worcester, So ti’; Dedham, $4; Koxbury, $3: Springfield, $2: North ampton. So 91: Dorchester, SI 82. Charlestown stands the fourth highest in t!ie State, in its appropriation for schools, after Boston.—[l> H Aurora. From Europe. The packet ship Pennsyl vania has arrived at New York, bringing Lon-< don papers to the 24th, and Liverpool to the •intii. The intelligence is better than was ex pected, although the extent of our commercial embarrassments was not fully known, the latest advices from New York being to the 3d. It was kiiown that the failure of the Josephs was complete, and had been followed by that of heavy houses in New Orleans; but the crisis in New York and the country generally, had not then been reached. Cotton had risen a shade, and a sale of 4000 baps was made on the 24th. The TJ. S. Bank Bonds, issued for remittan ces, were in high credit at Liverpool, but their reception in London had not been ascertained. In the British House of Commons on the j 19th, a motion for an address to the King, pray ing him not to renew the order in council au thorising British subjects to engage in the ser vice of the Queen of Spain, was negatived by a majority of -so, the vote being 242 and 27c*. The application of the French ministry to the Chambers, for an appanage for the Duke de Nemours has been withdrawn at the request of the Duke and his royal father. The preparations for the marriage of the Duke of Orleans were going on very actively. The Chamber of Deputies had passed, by a majority of 25b, the act, establishing his allow ance, 2,000,000 francs per annum, 1,000,000 for w edding presehts, a ndIffOOJXJO per annum for the princess, jn case of widowhood. The distress of the operatives was still very great in France. The trial of Meuneir was in progress. The new French ministry is officially an nounced as follows: Ministers Retained. Count Mole, President and foreign minister. Gen. Bernard, minister of war. Admiral Rosamel,minister of marine. M. Martin du Nord, minister of commerce. Ahv Ministers. ML Montalivet, of the inte rior, vice Gasparin. M. Salvandy, ’of public instruction, vice Guizot. M. Bathe, of justice, vice Persfl. M. Lacave Laplagne, of finance, vice Duchatel, A dreadful fire broke out in one of the prin cipal warehouses in Trieste, on the night of the 11th and 12th April, -which caused the loss lof some lives, and property to the amount of several millions. * Larue Fire ! We learn from the New York Courier and Enquirer, the particulars of the burning of the United States Public Store, No 107 Washington street, between one anil two o’clock, on Saturday morning. As soon as the discovery of the tire was made, efforts were immediately made by the watchmen and ’firemen, who soon reached the spot, in consid erable numbers, to effect an entrance into the building, by bursting open the doors and win dows ; but these being very strong, and sheath ed with stout'ironj'considerate time, elapsed before their object was attained: At this peri od, the tire, which appeared to have originated in the second story, had extended to the upper lolls, and the flames were begining to make their appearance down the hatch-way, to the first floor, of which, in a few moments, they had complete possession. The store was filled, from the cellar to the’ roof, with goods of almost every description, the w hole of which are totally destroyed, with the bare exception of some, tive or six packa ges ot l)rv Goods, w inch stood near the door. All the public papers in the counting room ate supposed to have shared the same fate; it not having yet been ascertained that any thing was taken out of the office but a couple of old ledgers, of no value. The loss of prop erty, we are informed by one of the keepers, cannot fall much short of one million of mu.!.a us, but a small portion of which, it is probable, is insured, it not being very general ly th" custom, among our merchants, to get out policies on their goods in Public Stores, the time they remain in them being so uncertain. Between two and three o'clock, several hea- I vv explosions took place, inside the building, w hich shook the walls to their foundation, anil finally blew them down. A fireman, of the name of Horton, attached to Hose Company No. 13, lost his life, in endeavoring so save that of a lad who was in danger from the fal ling of the north gable end. lie intrepidly sprang forward, and had gras ped the lad, to hurry him from his situation, when both were buried beneath the ruins. The hoy was taken out still alive, altho’ dread fully wounded, but before Horton Could be extricated, he was dead. Si .nullah Preservation from Drown-. ! INC. A gentleman, taking a trip., of pleasure J ' across the sound, day- before yesterday, while ; .snoring most melodiously among trunks and I band-boxes, was requested, by one of the hands j on hoard the steamboat,‘to move,’ as he was i lying on some baggage that was to be sent a- i 1 siiore in a few moments. Showing no inten-! i tion of resigning his comfortable resting-place j the fellow gave him a push, which sent him o- ] verboard. Fortunately for his life, it was a very hot day, and some tar, melted by the heat \ of the sun, had trickled down upon the band ■ boxes under him, and when he went overboard, j a band-box adhered to each arm, and thus he was buoyed up till a rope was thrown him, not, however, till the band-boxes (whose fair ow j ners, no doubt, wished him at the bottom of the sound) were completely saturated with the I briny billows. So writes a correspondent, who ! professes to have been an ‘eye-witness.’ [N. i Y. Sun. * From Norfolk. By the arrival yesterday I afternoon of the steamer Cuba , Capt. Swu.f.r, j we have received (says the Charleston Mtrcury lof Saturday) Norfolk papers up to Monday j morning, with other Northern Journals. I The beautiful village of Suffolk, (Ya.) has I suffered from a most destructive conflagration, f It. bro(;e out Saturday morning at the lower part lof the village, and gained in spite of every ef j fort, consutning the Court House, Jail, and a i bout 45 stores and dwellings. The loss is i very heavy and but slightly insured. 1 The fire originated in a cabinet shop occu- i pied by .Mr. E. Arnold. [Savannah Republi can. Glorious Fncertaintv of the Law. In 1 ‘ the Dundee shaving case, the magistrates de clared the apprentice was bound to shave his master’s customers on Sundays. The Lord Or dinary reversed this judgment, finding that the i apprentice was not bound to shave on the Lord’s day. In January last.the inner House of the I Court of Sessions reversed the Lord Ordinary’s j interlocutor, and ordained the unfortunate aj>- j prentic" to shave again on Sundays. And, to end the buffeting about, of poor Jeininv Grant, the applthuice, l ist week the House of Lords iiave nis services cannot be called upon to ghave the people of Scotland on a Sun day. I’ The old South Sea Scheme. The follow ing particulars of the good or bad fortune of the [ stockholders, we find preserved in an old En glish Magazine: A married man of the age of sixty, after portioning off his sons and daughters, secured, as he thought, for himself and wife, £looo' per annum South Sea stock; and with this: provident idea went to Bath, bought a house | there, and proposed settling in life in a con- I tented way. Upon the first great fall of stock ! he began to be alarmed—it was at £IOOO when he left London, and it fell to £9OO. He accordingly left Bath with an intent to sell out; but before he arrived in London, then four days journey, it fell to £250. It was too low, he thought, to sell then—and he lost all. Two maiden sisters, being original proprie tors, when the stock got up to £960 were ad vised to sell out. The eldest sister agreed ; the other was for continuing ; at last the l’or ,mer prevailed and they sold out their stock, which amounted to above £90,000. "They then consulted their broker how to invest the money: he advised them, to buy navy bills, i which were at £2s’ per cent discount. They accordingly bought in, and in two years after received the whole of their money from gov ernment. Thus they had not only the luck to sell out within £3O per cent, of the highest price of South Sea stock, but gain an addi tional increase of £25 per cent on their capi tal. , The duke of Chandos’ stock was worth, at one time, £300,000. He went to the old duke of Newcastle to consult what to do.' He ad vised him to sell. No; he wanted half a million. “ Y/tty then,” said the duke, “sell £IOO,OOO, and take your chance for the rest” No—he kept all —and lost all. Sir Gregory Page was a minor at that time ; his stock was worth £200,000. He had two guardians; the one was for selling, the other for keeping ; the former was positive, and in sisted on an umpire, an umpire was according ly called in, who gave his opinion for selling. It was accordingly sold; and Sir Gregory, on coming of age, with the legal interest of so large a fortune, afterwards built that fine house on Blnckheath, and purchased a park of three hundred acres around it, which house he lived in, in great magnificence, for fifty years and then left it, with an estate of £IO,OOO a year to his nephew, the late Sir Gregory'Page Turner. Gay, the poet had £IO,OOO stock given him by the eldef Creggs; this, with Borne other stoyk he purchased before, ainouuted, at one time, to £20;000. He consulted with his friends what to do. Dr. Arbuthnot advised him to sell out No; that would he throwing atvay his good luck. “ Well,” said the doctor, “sell out as much as will produce £IOO a year, and that will give you a clean shirt and a shoulder of mutton for life.” He neglected this advice, aud lost all; which had such an effect upon his spirits, that notwithstanding his subsequent success with the Beggar’s Opera, it produced a billious disorder, which in the end killed liim. An old quaker, when the stock was at its height, employed one Lopez, a broker, to sell out; which he accordingly did; but when the money came to be paid, tlie stock fell, and the purchaser was off. “ Sell theuT again, friend Lopez,” said the quaker. Ile did so; and the stock falling a second time, the .purchaser walked on. “ Sell them again, friend Lopez, for any thing—but be sure of thy man.” The third time lie succeeded : and the fall between the two day’s interval was about £SO per cent; so that out of £IOO,OOO stock he secured half. Lopez, who lived many years after this’trans action, was well known by the name of “ Sell them again, friend Lopez.” Mi cut ga.\. —The Legislature of this State | has passed an act authorizing the sale of state j serif) lor 85,000,000, to be expended on public works, and another appropriation $30,000, for the purpose of making Geological Surveys and developing the mineral wealth of the State. Appropriations for purposes of Internal im provements in Indiana, Illinois, Alabama and other of the States, have been made upon a scale which astonishes the older members of the family. It is but too evident that those young sisters of ours, though scarce out of their teens, have strong notions of taking the lead in our family matters. It used to be that the school-master went from the old to the new country, but it would be a little ludicrous now to see a Dominie from this part of the world teaching the young idea how to shoot in the far West, where ideas, like corn—not to speak of rifles and steamboats—shoot ahead of every thing we can conceive of. It would he amu j sing, truly, to hear our beloved sister Virginia [ teaching Ohio how to make roads , or our es i teemed self, Maryland, lecturing Mississippi ■on the subject of the Laws and the Constitu \ lion. The truth is the Old States are the Old j Maids of the Federal family, and are stiff and [ stingy and are hard to move from their accns ] tomed staid and solemn gait—ls they do take j a hand in-the family dance it must always be jto a slow tune in some old-fashioned, formal, cotillion. Such a bouncing, romping, stirrinc country dance as their young sisters enjoy, would make their old bones ache for the bal ance of their lives.—[Baltimore Republican. The Mississippi Comb. This singular name we have taken the liberty of giving to a 1 newly invented machine for the purpose of ! displacing bars at the mouths of our own riv i crs. It consists of a wheel 30 feet in diame | ter, and 30 in breadth. On the perimeter is i fastened a great number of curved shovels, constructed of iron, and of a triangular shape. They are arranged in alternate rows. A hea- Ivv frame is provided in which the wheel re i volves on two gudgeons well secured by fric j tion rollers. The wheel is placed at the inter section of the third part of the frame. Two heavy weights move in the frame perpendicu lar to the axis, so as to keep the wheel well embedded in the mud. With the long end up wards at an angle of about 50 degrees, attach ed to a steamboat ot' great powciy the machine j is drawn across the bar. In this way the mud [ is ripped up and a channel at once formed.! The long end being lowered, the weights side I to that extremity, and thus the wheel is disen gaged from the mud, so ns to be earned oasilv across the bar again. The feasibility of this i machine cannot be doubted. That it can be I improved when put into action, we have no hes itation in saying. All we wish is to see it in \ operation. [N. Orleans True American. Dropout. —Accounts from various parts of tlie \\ esf Indies state that there was much suf fering for want of rain. In Antigua there had been no rain for six months, and the crops were in consequence entirely cut off—The inhabi tants were obliged tti send to M onserat for wa ter, and it lOd per pail. Lord Tenterden’s last moments afford a strik ing instance of “the ruling passion strong in death.” The last trial at which he presided, was tho memorable one of the Bristol magistrates, for the riots in that city. This was in )832. He was observed, for some months before, to have been gradually getting weaker and weaker. His altered looks clearly showed that his health had been seriously affected; and his friends did every tiling they could to dissuade him from ‘ undertaking to preside at a trial which must, of necessity, involve so much mental anxiety, and subject him to so much physical fatigue. Still he would preside. In the course of the proceedings every one saw how unfit he physically was for the task. He stinted sever al times on the bench; and at last, nature gave way to such an extent, that he was no longer able to maintain a sitting posture. He was taken home; but he insisted every day, until the case was finished, on seeing the notes of the other judges. These he examined care fully, and made remarks on the various circum stances which transpired in the court, as they appeared in those notes. He grew’gradually worse, and but a short tinle before his death, which took place in ten days after ho had been taken out of the court, he was partially insen sible. A few minutes before he expired, his reasoning powers returned to him. He un versed a short time with his friends, and slitter a momentary pause, said, “Gentlemen off tsie J ury, you may retire.” These were his last words—he died in a few seconds after he had uttered them. The circumstance shows how completeljfiithe trial in question had engrossed his thoughts, until "seized by temporary un consciousness. And the case returned with his returning consciousness. At the moment he gave utterance to the words quqted, he, no doubt, fancied himself sitting in the court, and addressing the jury. Tub Emperor at the Plough. —On the 15th day of the first moon, in every year, which generally corresponds to the first of March, the Emperor (of China) in person performs the cermony of opening the Grounds. This P|ince, in great promp, proceeds to the field appointed for the ceremony, the princess of the imperial family, the presidents of the five great tribunals, and an infinite number of man darins accompany him.—Two sides of the field are occupied by the Emperor’s officers and i guards t the third is allotted for all the' laborers of the province, who repair thither to behold their art honored and practiced by the head of their empire ; the fourth is reserved for the mandarins. The Emperor enters the field alone,prostrates himself, and pine times strikes his head against the ground, in adoration of Tien, the God of heaven ; lie then pronounces with a loud voice, a prayer appointed by the tribunal of the rites, invoking the blessings of the Almighty Sov ereign on his labor, and on the labor of his peo ple, who form his family; he then, in quality of sovereign pontiff of the empire, sacrifices a bullock, which he offers up to heaven, as the source of every blessing:—whilst they cut the victim in pieces, and place them on the alter, they lying the Emperor a plough, in which are yoked a pair of bullocks magnificently adorned. The Emperor then, laying aside his royal robes, takes hold of the handle of. the plough, mnl turns several furrows the whole length of the field: then with a complaisant air, having delivered the plough to the man darins, they successively follow his example, emulating one another and performing this labor with the greatest dexterity. The 'cere mony concludes with the distribution of mon ey, and pieces of stuff among the laborers there present; the most active of whom finish the remaining labor in presence of tiro Emperor with great agility and address. \ jdome time after when they have sufficiently labored and manured these grounds, the Em peror repairs again in procession, and begins the sowing of the field, always accompanied with ceremony, and attended by the laborers of the province. The same ceremonies are performed on tho same days, in all the provinces of the Empire, by the viceroys, assisted by all the magistrates of their departments, in presence of a great numbers of the laborers of their respetive provinces. I have seen this opening of tho grounds at Canton, (says the writer of this ar ticle) and never remember to have beheld any of the ceremonies invented by men, with half the pleasure and satisfaction with which I ob served this. [Pictou (N. S.) Bee. A Left Handed Compliment. Tho New York Sun says that Edwin Forrest was recently introduced to Lord John Russell, at a literary club room. Lord R. remarked that he was present at the performance of Lear, by Forrest, a few evenings previous. Mr. Bulwcr also present, tusked his Lordship if he agreed with him in certain critical objections made to Forrest’s reading certain passages. His Lord ship dissented in toto, and concluded by re marking, at the same time taking him by the 'hand, that his masterly performance of the character induced him to wish, for the first time in his life, to make the acquaintance of a professed actor. The compliment was receiv ed with strong expressions of gratification by the company, and by Forrest with a deep bow and a deeper blush. \\ ould not Lord John Russell have shown a little more genuine good breeding, by omit ting this allusion to the profession of Mr. For rest ? To us it seeyns not very civil to apolo gise to a man for tolerating his aquaintance, by telling him that lie is above tho generality of his trade. This is a direct censure upon the trade, which a real gentleman would be slow to utter, at least to a member of it A French man would never have done such a thing. [Philadelphia Ledger. Comparative sailing of an American and a British ship. Tiie ship Champlain,of New \ ork, Capt Ritchie, sailed from Liverpool Oc tober 25, for Canton, and arrived there early in February. The British ship Falcon, des patched by Messrs. Barings, to Batavia and Canton, to countermand certain credits, sailed from England about October 1, and only reach ed Batavia about the time the Champlain reached Canton. There riVe forty small vessels, chiefly schoon ers, engaged in the commerce of New Or leans with Texas. Such is the number of pas sengers, visitors, emigrants, adventurers, &c. that a line of four or five steam-packets would find full employ. ‘I never yet could sec one virtue you pos sessed’ said a very good natured gentleman to his better half’. ‘That I verily believe, my dear, for love is proverbially blind,’ retorted the admirable creature addressed.