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Western A.vriQriTiESi— Every day
we seosc»ne account of discoveries made
in different parts of the United States.
Splendid caverns in Arkansas, rivaling
the famed grotto of Antiparos—petrifi
ed warriors and dogs amongst tlic Alleg
hany mountains—tuins of a magmticient
city on the shores of lakes and many oth
er wonderful things, have been brought to
light by men whoseein %o have devoted
theiT time and means to such researches.
We heartily wish that sonic such anti
quarian spirit would rise amongst 11s. It
would find ample materials wherewith t<»
gratify its own curiosity and that ol‘ the
public. Even in the county of St. Lou
is there arc many spots of this kind of re
search. We know the fact that, on the
Riviere dcs Peres, at the distance of a
bout several miles from the city, there are
a number of graves which from all ap
pearances, seem to have existed there for
centuries. They are on a high bluff, near
whose base the stream passes, and from
their length they would seem to he the ten
ements of men who were far superior in
size to those of the present day.
On the shores of Maramec river, near i
the town of Fenton, there was an immense
cemetery, containing several thousand
graves, all of them remarkably small, the
largest not exceeding four feet in length.
The cemetery is now enclosed and culti
vated, so that the graves are no longer i
visible. Wo have seen several articles!
which were found in tin? field, having been |
overturned by the ploughshare. Amongst
the articles were several pieces of ear-!
them ware, well glazed, a small bowl of;
earthern ware, remarkably well executed,:
and particularly, a lower jaw bone, in size
that of a child two years old, but contain
ing the teetli of a man of forty. We
were informed that, before the cemetery
was enclosed and cultivated, there could !
be seen at many of the graves head and
foot stones, with inscriptions on them \
which none could understand.
We recollect to have seen a statement
of these facts in some paper a few years
ags, hut nothing was elicited beyond
mere wonder.
Might not a little research at the places :
we have named he productive of some-:
thing new in natural history, or throw
some light upon the history of the coun
try.-[St. Lou is Bulletin.
Evanescence of Fnort.in v. It is well
for both rich and poor to he often remind
*ed of the extreme changeahlem ss of
their condition in this country. Judge
Story remarked, with great justice, as well
as force, in his speech in the Massachu
setts Convention : In our eouutrv, the
highest man is not above the People ;
the humblest man is not below the IVo-
they have not addi
tional power. Nor does wealth here form
a permanent distinction of families.
Those who are wealthy to dnv pass to the
tomb, and their children divide their es
tates. Property thus is divided quite as
fast as it accumulates. No family can,
without its own exertions, stand erect for
a long time under our statutes of descents
and distributions—the only true and le
gitimate agrarian law. It silently and
quietly dissolves the mass heaped up by !
the toil and diligence of a longlife of en
terprise and industry. Property's con
tinually changing, like waves of the sea.
Ouc wave rises, and is soon swallowed up!
in the vast abyss, and seen no more. An
other rises, and, having reached its des
tined limits, falls gently awav, and is sue-1
craled by yet another ; which, in its turn'
breaks and dies away silently on the!
shore. The richest man amongst 11s may
be brought down to the humblest level :
and the child with scarcely clothes to cov
er his nakedness, may rise to the highest
ollice in our Government. And the poor
man, while lie rocks his infant on his knees,
may justly iiululge_the consolation, that,,
if he possess tpleuts and virtue, there is
no office beyond the reach of his honora
ble ambition, it is a mistaken theory
that government is founded for one ob
ject only. It is organized lor the protec
tion of life, liberty, and property, and all
the comforts of society—to enable us to
indulge in our domestic affections and
quietly to enjoy our homes and our fire
sides.—[Salem Gazette.
The interior of a Gun Bun;. The
Wolf having sailed for Simon's Bay, 1
took leave of my cape friends ; and
mounting a horse wagon, went to join
the ship. 1 again embarked, and we
stood away up the coast. The captain
of tlic Wolf was one of the best natured
and most eccentric men 1 ever nu t in
command of a ship of war. A strong
and hardy seaman, 111 boats, or in battle,
he had fearlessly exposed his life; and he
was made of stuff to go through any work.
Much against our wish, lie gave up his;
own cabin to Capt. Sliervvan, royal navv,!
(a specialjusticejand myself, and slept on
the deck. At three o'clock in the mor
ning I was awoke l»v a monkey jumping
into my cot —a trick of the captain s—
and got rid of the intruder only by rolling
him up in his cloak. Some time afler
vvyds, two gamecocks crowed alternately
from two opposite lockers ; and hull-dogs
worried one another under the table. Un
the cabin floor were sacks of corn, bar
rels of flour, boxes of empty bottles, old j
shoes, and paint pots ; from the beam
hung bird and buckskins, horns, boats'
fenders, a fiddle, triangles, (See.; and on
deck, sheep and goats, pigs and poultry,
had free range to keep them healthy. In
tui'jr' . >!f was a in ; r un of curi
osities, and a floating menagerie. [Gaps
tain Alexander's Voyage of Observation.]
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Beetroot. Since the introduction of
this valuable root into France, or rather
! since its extensive cultivation for the mak
ing of sugar, the French government and
chemists have been indefatigable in turn
ing it to the best advantage. ThcJirwr-i
,nnl ties fit halt now states, that M. Dub
riinfaut has discovered a method of ex
tracting potash, equal to the foreign im
ports, from the residue of the molasses af
ter distillation; which residue had previous
ly, after producting some alcohol, been
thrown away as worthless. This important j
process supplies 1 -lit li of pot ash to the quan
tity of sugar obtained, and is calculated
at 7,000,000 killogrammes per annum ;
the price of which would amount to from
! eight to nine millions of francs. The
I manufacture of sugar from beetroot is so
rapidly increasing in France, that the du
| ties on imported sugar, for the first nine
months of are 4,093,803 francs
less than for the corresponding nine
1 months of IKB.
Pi.i: \si-res of a Troimcai, Ci.imate. i
Insects arc the curse of tropical climates,
'l’lie vet.? rogue lays the foundation of a
tremendous ulcer. In a moment you are
covered with ticks, chigoes bury them
selves in your flesh, and hatch a large col
ony of young chigoes in a few hours. They
will not live together, hut. every chigoe
sets up-a separate ulcer, and has his own
private portion of pus. Flies get entry
into your mouth, eyes and nose. You
eat flics, drink flies, breathe flies. Liz
ards, cockatrices, and snakes get into ;
your bed ; ants eat up the hooks ; scor
pions sting you on the loot, and every
thing lutes, stings or bruises; every se
cond ol your existence yon are wounded
by some piece of animal life that nobody
has ever seen Indore, except Swammer
dam and Merriam. An insect with elev
en legs is swimming in your tea cup, a
nondescript with nine legs is struggling
in the small beer, or a caterpiller with
several dozen eyes in his belly, is hasten
ing over the bread and butter ; all nature
is alive, and seems to he gathering ail her
entomological hosts to eat you up, as you
are standing, out of your coat, waistcoat,
and breeches. Such are the tropics. All
these reconcile us to our dews, logs, va
por and drizzle—to our apothecaries
rushing about with gargles and t iuctures—
to our constitutional coughs, sore throats,
and swelled faces.— [English pape r.
The Bin a• -. Hr. art. — “People talk
an everlasting sight of nonsense about
wine, women and bor as. I've traded in
all ol them, and 1 tell am, there aint one
Ih.ki'A'ii'f.hk'OiiYhv.' ”' 'i oli' 11 oar' i < *I k s 'say *
Git, such a man is an ugly grained critter,
he’ll break his wife's heart ; if a
woman s heart was as brittle as j ipe
stalk : Ihe female hear!, as far as niv
experience goes, is just like anew India
rubber shoe ; you* may pull at it, till it
stretches out a yard long, and then let go,
and it will fly right hack to im old shape.
1 heir hearts are made ot stout leather, I
tell you ; there s a plaguv sight of wear
in ’em. 1 never knowedbnt one case of
it broken heart, and was in t' other
sex, one Washington Banks, lie was a
sneezer. He was tall enough to spit
down on the heads of your grenadiers,
and near about high enough to wade a
cross ( harlestown liver, and as strong as
a tow boat. T guess lie was somewhat
longer than the moral law and the cate
chism too. He was a perfect picture of a
man ; you could nt limit him in no par
ticular : he was so just a made critter :
folks use to run to the winder when lie
passed, and say there goes \\ ashington
Banks, beaut he lovely .’ 1 do believe
there was'nt a gal in the Lowell factories
that want in love with him. * * *
Well, when 1 last see and him: lie was
all skin and hones, like a horse turned
out to die. He was tee-totally dellesh
ed—a mere skeleton ; I am dreadful sor
ry. says 1, to see von. Banks, looking so
pecked : why you look like a sick turkey
hen, all legs ; what on airtli ails you ? I
am dyin, says he, of a broken heart.—
What, says I, have the girls been jilting
you ! No, no, savs lie, I brant such a
fool as that neither. Well, savs 1, have
you made a had speculation ? No, savs
he, shaking his head, 1 hope 1 have too
much clear grit in me to take on so bad
for that—What under the sun is it then !
said 1. Why, savs lie, 1 made a bet the
fore part of summer, with Leftenatit Ohy
Knowles; that l could shoulder the best
bower of the Constitution frigate. 1
won mv bet : but thr anchor iras >0 <tnr
neil heavy it broke un/ heart! Sure en
ough he did die that fail, snd he was the
onlv instance I ever heard tell of a brok
en heart. [The Clockmaker.
Mungo Park’s Sox.— lt was at Ac
cra that.Mr. Thomas Park, son of the
celebrated traveler, was landed as a mid
shipman from the Sybiitc, with three
years leave of absence to travel into the
interior, ami search for his father. He
was a fine tall Scotch lad, only nineteen
years of age, and without any knowledge
of the world. His death lias been com
monly ascribed to poison, administered to
him in vengeance for having imprudently
ascended a fetiche or sacred tree : hut the
real cause was his obstinacy in rejecting
<he advice of the resident merchants of
Accra. He lived for three months in the
town, and though he had frequent invita
tions to take up his quarters with the Eu
ropeans. he preferred remaining in a hut
BRUNSWICK AJfvbCATE.
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with designing natives, who plundered
him. There he indulged in drinking spir
its ; married ai* Accra wife by way of
learning the ianguage, though the dialect
of Accra is totally different from those
in the interior, and took long \yalk*‘in
the heat of the day with a view of har-i
dening himself. The consequences of|
these imprudencies were, that when he
set out to cross the Volta, his constitution
was already completely broken ; he’ was
thin and -weak ; he caught a feVer after,
a few marches, and fell another victim to-
African discovery.— [Captain Alexan
der’s Voyage of Observation.
Mr. Jefferson’s pi.axs in youth.-
A late number of the Southern Messenger
contains some letters of Mr. Jefferson,
written in early life. From one of them
dated 1704, when the writer was only -1
years of age, we have made the following
extract :
“I shall shortly he where my happiness
will he less interrupted. I shall salute
i all the girls below in your name, partic
ularly S— y P— r; dear Will, 1 have j
thought of the cleverest plan of life that j
: can be imagined, yon exchange vourlandl
for Edgeliill, or I mine for Fairfields, you;
marry S—yP —r, I marry li—a 11-1,!
join and get a pole chair and a pair of;
keen horses, practise tiie law in the same
! courts, and drive about to all the dances
in the country together; how do you like it!
Well lam sorry you are at such a distance I
cannot hear your answer, however you
must let me know it by the first opportu
nity, and all the other news in the v.Grld
, which you imagine will affect mo. lam
dear Will, vours affectionately,
T. JEFFERSON.
The Insoi.f.nce of some of the reck-;
less agitators who attempt to excite the
people by their mad practices, is insiiHer
alde. On the Fourth, the American
Flag—the Flag of the Union—the Na
tional banner—was suspended from a
cord extended from Concert Hall to the,
Illuminator office nearly opposite. In
scandalous derision of this glorious em
blem, every star and stripe of which is as j
dear to the true American citizen as “the
apple of his eye,” a rascally placard em
anating as we learn, from the Illuminator
office, was suspended by the side of the
Flag, bearing in large letters, on one
side, “Slavery’s Cloak,” and on the nth-j
or “Sacred to Oppression.” It remain-!
ed only until it was noticed, when it was
soon torn down. It is creditable to the
assembled citizens who saw the scanda
lous scroll, that their insulted feelings
uere not urged to violent exasperation a-,
gainst the nernetrators of the outrage.,!
sum mar tue neon was treated with tiie
contempt it deserved.—[Bos. Transcript.
The iAst of tiif. Yemassf.es.—This
once powerful and warlike tribe, it is well
known, after being nearly exterminated
and driven from Carolina and Georgia
came to Florida, where they continued
to reside for some time near St. Augus
tine under the protection of the Spanish
Government, and thence went into tiie
interior. A tradition we are informed
exists among the Seminoles, that they
were driven by the Creeks and Musco
j gees upon an island in the everglades,
where they all perished except one man
and woman. Jumper claim:; descent from
these two, as aKo Alligator , though he,
not so pure in blood as the former. These
two are the only representatives of that
numerous tribe the 1 eiua.<.<re<. who once
inhabited tho whole coast of South Car
olina and Georgia.
All Indian prophecy also exists among
the Seminoles, that like the Yemassees
they are to be driven on an island where
they are to perish. This is implicity be
lieved by them, and fatalists as they are,
who believe they are not to die before
their time, can it be expected that they
can be brought to emigrate?—[Florida
Herald.
livroeitn v.—There is much hvpoc
ricy in affecting to give up the pleasures
of the world from religious motives when
we only withdraw from it because we find
a greater gratification in the pleasure of
retirement. “My dear children,” said an
old rat to his young, one, “the infirmities
of age are pressing so heavily upon me,
that 1 am determined to dedicate the short
remainder of my days to mortification
and penance, in a narrow and lonely hole
which 1 have lately discovered ; hut let
me not interfere witii your enjoyment—
youth is the season for pleasure—be hap
py, therefore, and only obev mv last in
structions—never to come near me in
my retreat. May God bless you all !” j
Deeply affected, snivelling audibly, and
wiping his paternal eyes with his tail, the
old rat withdrew, and was seen no more
for several days, when his youngest daugh
ter, moved rather by filial affection than
by that curiosity which is attributed to
the sex, stole to his cell of mortification,
which turned out to he a hole made by
his own teeth, in an enormous Cheshire
cheese.
Riches. —It often amuses me to see;
how a liap-hazard, neek-or-nothing voy
age, which by some rare good fortune en
riches a common place individual, in
creases his reputation for talents. All
the small fry look up to him ; he begins
to talk with great emphasis, but no dis
cretion, about matters he don’t under
stand ; and his great talents are at least
rewarded by being incorporated into a>
banking institution! It would seem
that the acquisition of riches is consider
ed as unequivocal proof of great clever
ness, which is the mercantile phrase for
wisdom. But in my opinion, any man
may grow rich if he pleases. It is only
to become the slave to gain ; to think,
and work, and dream, for money, and to
repress and starve every liberal impulse
of the mind. Thirty or forty years stick
ing close to this, will inveitably make a
mail rich enough to consult his tastes,
or his passions; just at an age when he
has no tastes, and for the most but one
passsion. This is what is called gaining
the world and losing our soul—an ex
change very common in this world. —
[Paulding.
[From the Bangor Journal.]
Miss Martinf.au on American Morals
and Manners. A paragraph has been travel
ing through the newspapers for the last three !
weeks, upon which we were disposed to com
ment severely-. It is an extract, (which here
follows) in several respects an unfair one, from
“Society in America,” by Harriet Martineau,
2 vols. The work comes to hand as our paper
goes to press:
“The vacuity of mind of many womon is, I
conclude, the cause of a vice which it is pain
ful to allude to," but which cannot honestly be
passed over, in the consideration of the morals
and the health of American women. It is no
secret on tlic spot, that the habit of intemper
ance is not infrequent among women of station
and education in the most enlightened parts of
the country. I witnessed some instances, and
heard oi more. It does not secin to me to he
regarded-.with all the dismay which such a
sympton ought to excite. To the stranger, a
novelty so horrible, a spectacle so fearful, sug
gests wide and deep sub jects of investigation.
If.women, in a region professing religion more
strenuously than any other, living in the deep
est external peace, surrounded by prosperity, 1
and outwardly honored more conspicuously
than in any other country, can ever so far cast
offsolf-restrait, shame, domestic affection, and
tiie deep prejudices of education, as to plunge
into the living hell of intemperance, there must
be something fearfully wrong in their position.
“An intemperate man has strong temptation
to plead: he began with conviviality, and only
arrives at solitary intemperance as the ultimate
degradation. A woman indulges in the vice
in solitude and secrecy, as long as secrecy is
possible. She knows that there is no excuse,
no solace, no hope. There is nothing before
her but despair. It is impossible to suppose
than that there has otherwise been deapair
throughout; the despair which waits upon vac
uity. I believe that the practice has, in some
few cases, arisen from physicians prescribing
cordials to growing girls at school, and from
the difficulty found in desisting from the Vise
of agreeable stimulants. In other cases, the
vice is hereditary. In others, no explanation
remains, lmt that which appears to be quite
sufficient, —vacuity of mind. Lest my mention
of this very remarkable fact should lead to the
supposition of the practice being more common
: than it is. 1 think it right to state, that I hap
pened to know of ..seven or efoht ©•«”■ ll » Llio
i higher classes ot society in one city. The
; number of eases is a fact of comparatively
i small importance. That one exists, is a grief
which the whole of society should take to heart
and ponder with tiie entire strength of its un
derstanding.”
j This extract is but one page and a few lines
: out of tu'o volumes, containing together up
wards of 800 pages, and the circulation of it,
as an arant courier of-the whole, was calculat
: ed, it M ill be found, to give an unfair impres
sion of the M ork to the public. "With this re
mark Vo beg to enter our protest, on tiie oth
er band, against the statements of the para
j graph.
In no respect are they creditable to the au
thor. She witnesses comparatively frequent
instances of the intemperance, of “women of
j station and education.” In such a case, then,
does she not become strangelv associated Math
the alleged vice ?. It Mail not be .said that she
was otherwise than a voluntary attendant on
| such scenes. Miss Martinoau M-as more. She
! was tiie hospitably entertained guest in these
j circles, according to the shewing of her own
: m ork. We must fear the question of an early
j sower of strife might here he asked, 'ls this
thy kindness to thy friend:' She may have
I witnessed this vice disgracing a portion of the
j families with M hich she mingled. But while
j some were disgraced, can she forget v.ho were
! afflicted by it. ? And may not.her work, little
j likely to reclaim the vicious, be at this mo
ment deeply lacerating the innocent? We
have rarely seen an equally fragrant breach of
the confidences of social life.
1 But ivo dispute the general truth of this
; statement. This vice does not prevail as an
j object of serious “consideration” in regard “to
the morals and the health of American mo
men” of education. The instances, as we be
lieve, though ever to be deplored, and in that,
sense too many, are few and of a solitary char
acter. 'J'ho writer, too, has observed Ameri
can society with British moral feelings, and it
M ill honorably bear a comparison with that of
the Mother country ; perhaps with any other
on the globe. During a residence in the U
nited States of more than double the length
of Miss Martineau’s, an intoxicated female lias
never, that lie remembers, been seen by him.
We still trust, however, that tlic Americans
will give this work a patient persual. Asa
whole, this paragraph is more offensive than
any tiling else we find. It is no specimen of
the Mork.
Another new theory in regard to a
merica. A paper lias been read befpre the
Geological Society of London, by Mr. Roy, in
which he advances the opinion that there exis
ted in former times on the continent of Amer
ica an immense inland sea, bounded on the
West by the Rocky Mountains, from the table
land of Mexico, to parallel of forty seven de
grees of latitude; on the North by" the barriers
separating the head M aters from the Lakes
lrom those of the Northern rivers and extend
ing below Quebec ; and on the East by the
Allegany Mountains extending to the Gulf of
Mexico. The area of ihis vast sea, was 960,-
000 square miles.
Singular Libel Suits. Two Printers to
the English House of Commons—Messrs.
Hansard and J. D. Nichols—have been sued .
for printing documents for said house, which
are alleged to have contained libels upon the
plaintiffs—John Green and a Mr. Stockdale.—
Tiie Commons M ill probably defend their prin-!
ters in these suits.
Texas. We learn from an individual who
came passenger in the schooner Texas, (join
Velasco, arrived yesterday at the Balize, (says
the Louisiana Advertiser ,) that on the ?th
inst. a boat from the brig Belvidera, of New
York, in attempting to land, was swamped, and
five persons drowned,viz: Mrs. Ward and child,
Mrs. Rowley and child, and Mr. Lapis Curtis,
all of Onondaga county, N. Y. The remain
ing persons in the boat, supposed to amount
to five or six, were saved.
Capt Thompson, of the Mexican navy, with
the other persons who escaped at the same
time, had arrived at Velasco previous to the
sailing of the T. His reception was extremely
cold. It is said that to him Capt Wheelwright
is indebted for liberty. Ilis agency in the en
deavor to effect it being made known to the
Mexican authorities, a secret warrant for arrest
was issued, but evaded by flight
Capt Powell, of the Texian army, was shot
at Columbia, by the surgeon of the company of
which he was in command. It was caused by
some trifling altercation. The ball passed
completely through him.
The major part of the army are on furlough ;
the remainder are inactive and quiet No ap
prehensions were entertained of any hostile
movements of the Mexicans.
Gen. J. Pinckney Henderson, minister from
Texas, to the Court of St. James, arrived yes
terday, by the steamer Orleans, from Galves
ton. It was stated that Gen. Houston had
proceeded to Nacogdoches to meet the Indians
in friendly treaty.
The lice says—“By the schooner Kosciusko,
Burns, from Galveston which place she left on
the I3th inst, we learn that the U. S. Sloop of
War,Boston, was off that place on the lftli
proceeding to Pensacola, with despatches from
Commodore Dallas to the General Government.
It was stated to the officers that the Commo
dore had been unable to procure any satisfac
tion from the Mexican authorities for the out
rages committed on the American flag, which
makes it appear likely that he had despatched
the Boston for further instructions.”
[Savannah Georgian.
From Trinidad. We learn from Dr. Fon
taine, passenger in the brig Marcia Jane,
Capt. Davis, arrived at this port yesterday from
Trinidad, via St Thomas, 10 days from the
latter place, that the day before leaving Trini
dad, an insurrection broke out among the
black troops at St Josephs, some eight miles
from Port Spain, who assaulted their officers
and gained possession of the arsenal, where
they supplied themselves with ammunition.—
1 he officers made their escape and proceeded
to Port Spain, where they rallied a force, met
the insurgents and dispersed them, killing some
15 or 20 in the encounter. A few only made
tuoir escape to the bush—the rest were captur
ed. None of tlic whites w ere killed, the ne
groes having most of them blank catridges.—
A frigate had sailed from Barbadoes to take
the prisoners in charge.
The Marcia Jane brought $19,000 in spe
cie. [New Ilaven Herald.
Look out for thf. Imposter. Williams,
the Oculist, has had to decamp, sans eeretnonie,
from Nashville, Tenn., for mal-practice. This
fellow lias carried on a successful came of em
in y ie g ou th and WV»«t, f or some time,
and at Charleston had the impudence to battle
it with the ‘Riglars !’ If people will be duped
and fleeced by these vile impostors, then let
them be punished for their egregious folly.
James Smith,F.sq. Editor of°the Nashville
Cumberland Presbyterian, and a minister of
the Gospel, who lias placarded this impostor in
handbills, dated Nashville, June 30, 1837,
says—W illiams, soon after his arrival, had the
impudence to hand over to his foreman, a mass
of the most disgusting bombast and falsehood,
which was to be inserted as editorial, with a
bribe ot S2O to back it. ’Twos ‘no go’—the
parson was too honest! The hodge-podge
which \\ illiams dished up, stated him to be,
as usual with these ‘varmint’members of every
medical society since the days of Esculapius,
and physician to every throne of Europe since
the reign of Chaiiemingne; Napoleon's own
bedside favorite; has cured every body ; one
man, (whom wp, the editor, have seen!!) in
Nashville blind for 70 vears!! This was a
Hectic too much—though Parson Smith lives
in a ‘whole hog’ country, lie couldn’t swallow
this morceau with all his bristles, though the
ears were greased and fastened back with
Benton’s yellow boys. A denouement conse
quently took place. The Editor says—‘Let it
not be said in Great Britain, that a strolling
English vagabond can buy up the American
Press, to subserve his vile purpose.’
So says the Evening Star. Hem ! Wonder
how many editors feel small at this rebuke ?
[Cj|kixy.
Sharp Practice. A week or two since
the papers noticed the somewhat noticeable 1
fact, that a number of convicts had been sen- i
tonced at Quebec, to transportation to Eng-;
land—to be thence conveyed, we presume, to
Botany Bay. It seems that the turbulent
rogues were minded to steer their course in
some other direction, for they had not yet gone
out of sight of land, when sure information ;
was given to the captain that nineteen of them !
had managed to throw off their fetters, and had
arranged a plan to master the crew and officers, |
set them adrift in the long boat, and retain
possession of the ship. It. luckily happened
that almost immediately after this discovery a
brisk gale sprung up, and the rascals grew very
sea sick, and of course very helpless; to use
the expression of the pilot, who brings this in
formation, they were all “as weak as cats.”—
Thereupon the captain had them brought up,
one by one, from below—stripped to the buff
and belabored with a cat-o’-nine-tails, till:
they roared for mercy. Then they were care- j
fully hand-cuffed and heel-cuffed and other- j
wise provided for—and the sjiip went on her
way, with a reasonable prospect of fulfiling |
her voyage in perfect safety to all parties. = !
[Quebec paper.
Romantic escape from prison. Thurs
day, a Frenchman, confined in the debtor’s
prison, effected his escape, through the ingen
ious connivance of his wife and sister. About
five o’clock in the afternoon they were admit
ted to the prison, as usual, the sister having a
large basket on her arm, supposed to contain
female attire. Shortly afterwards the prisoner
was supposed to go up to liis room, when the
two others departed. Sometime after their
departure, the keeper to his astonishment, dis
covered that the debtor had escaped, by dis
guising himself in the female attire brought in
the basket, ala Sir Robert Wilson, at the time
of the French revolution. A reward of SIOO
is offered for his apprehension. [N. Y. Exam
iner.
Western and Atlantic Rail Road.—
The preparations for the survey and location of
this important work, have been made with the
greatest promptness. Col. Long, the chief En
gineer, has been at tills place for a week past,
and during that time has despatched three
Brigades of Engineers prepared to commence
operations, and prosecute the survey with en
ergy and efficiency. The route will soon be
determined upon, and from the known skill
and high reputation of the officers engaged,
we do not doubt that the selection will be made
with judgement
We are farther informed that a general re
connoissance, embracing an aggregate dis
tance of nearly a thousand miles, and having
reference to no less than six distinct routes,
leading from the Chattahoochee river to the
Tennessee Line, and through the region like
ly to be traversed by the Western and Atlantic
Hail Road of the State of Georgia, has alrea
dy been made by Col. Long, the Cliief Engin
eer, with a view to the selection of the most
favorable route for the contemplated Rail
Road: also, that a special reconnoissance, for
the purpose of determining the particular lo
calities, through which the surveys ought to
be carried between the Chattahoochee and Eto
wah rivers, has been made by Gen’l. Bris
bane and Capt. Stockton, on a great variety
of routes situated between these two rivers.
We are happy to add, that the several Brig
ades, constituting the Engineer force'about
to enter upon survey of the Road, have been
organized and assigned to their appropriate
duties, as follows, viz.
Brigade No. 1, conducted by Gcn’l Bris
bane, assisted by Mr. Brown late of the U.
S. Army, to the survey of sundry experimen
tal lines, between Montgomery’s Ferry and
the Etowah river.
Brigade No. 2, conducted by W. S. Whit
well, Esq. assisted by Mr. Norris, experien
ced Civil Engineers, the former from Boston,
and the latter from Baltimore, to the survey of
routes between the Etowah and the Tennes
see line.
Brigade No. 3, conducted by Capt Stock
ton assisted by Mr. Vining, late assistant En
gineers on the Central Rail Road of Georgia,
to the survey of experimental lines or routes,’
between Warsaw and the Etowah river.
The Instruments, waggons and baggage,
of the several Brigades, arrived at Athens on
the 24th June. The Brigades were organiz
ed ; —their outfit completed ; and parties took
up their line of march towards Warsaw, on
the 28th and 29th of the same month.—[Athens
Banner. *
Ihf. hard times not so hard as they
MIGHT RE —AND A CAUTION TO A FEW JdIERS.
All know that there is a general cry of hard
times, and to us, who have been accustomed to
better, the present scarcity and suspension of
business is a severe trial; but, instead of des
pairing, and giving ourselves up to murmuring
and discontcdncss, we should reef our sails till
the squall is over, and make the best headway
we can. If we should take a peep into some
other countries, we should there see a class of
people, who think themselves pretty well off,
in a much worse condition than ourselves.—
According to a late writer, seven and a half
millions of the people of France cannot get
wheat or wheaten bread to eat, and they live
on barley, rye, buckwheat and chesnuts.
A common hand thinks himself pretty well
used, if he can get forty dollars a year for his
work: and half that for a woman, to do ordin
ary work, is good wages. In many parts of
Scotland, meat is only eaten on Sundays.—
Among the Nottingham stocking-weavers,
very few of them can earn over five shillings a
week, and often have to work 14 or 15 hours
per day, to do that. Judge ye how well they
can live by such wages, and yet hero wages
arc treble in amount, provisions cheaper, and
our condition vastly superior in many other
respects. So it seems tec are not so Ixullu off
as might be, though it is true it would bo pleas
ant to be better accommodated in regard to
the times. The sailor who fell from the mast
head and broke bis legs, thanked God that it
was not his neck ; and we may follow his ex
ample, and thank God that, notwithstanding
v?e arc writuing under the lash prepared by
our own lollies, wc are not visited by the
plague, the earthquake, or the pestilence.—
YV ithout wishing to moralize too gravely, we
would beg leave to whisper a word in the ears
ot one or two whom we have met with in 01 r
peregrinations, and who seem to take it in such
high dudgeon because they cannot get such
extravagant wages as they did a year or two
since, that they will not work at all, but sit
about in the way ot others. Better wear out
than rust out; and if at the end you die a poor
man, it can never be said over your grave,
here lies an idler. Os all epitaphs, heaven pre
serve you from that If you cannot get great
?vages, get smaller; and if you cannot get any,
set yourself to work. If you have nothing for
tlic hands to do, set the brain to work. Study.
Improve your mind. Read something useful,
if it be nothing more than old Almanacs
[Maine Farmer.
Arrest for counterfeiting. The Phila
delphia Sentinel says considerable excitement
prevailed last evening, in the neighborhood of
Poplar lane and Fifth street, in consequence
of the arrest of a young man, of genteel ap
pearance, for coining spurious half dollars.—
The Police, who are always on the alert, had
kept a sharp look out, it appears, for several
days past, having suspected something of the
kind, and on Monday evening, about 8 o’clock,
they obtained the necessary information—pro
ceeded to his residence, and arrested him in
the act of coining half dollars—a. large amount
ot which M ere found on the premises, with all
tl‘ e necessary apparatus for doing business on
a large scale. He made a desperate attempt
to escape, but it M-as all to no purpose. He
was safely lodged in prison, and will undergo
an examination before Mayor Conrad, when the
case will be regularly disposed of.
Horsewhipping Extraoreinart. Yes
terday, as one of the clerks of the alms-house
department was proceeding along' Broadway,
lie observed an altercation between the driver
of a dirt cart and the conductor of one of Brow
er’s omnibuses. Get out of my way or I’ll
smash your whole concern, says the omnibus
man. Oh! ye’re a fine fellow truly to be mount
ed upon that sw ell drag, and not able to get
cut ot the way of such a bit of a baste as I’ve
got, says Patrick the street sweeper. On
which Jarvey descended from his iox, and be
gaifbelaboring the poor mud man over the
shoulders and back in such a way as he will
not be likely to forget for the next six weeks.
The gentleman who had witnessed the affair,
got an officer, secured his high-mightiness of
the whip and brought him before the magis
trate, who straitway committed him to Bride
well. (N. Y. Era.