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From the Milledgeville Recorder.
CHEROKEE AFFAIRS.
It will be seen by til* following official
correspondence, that the Ross delegation
at Washington have failled in their efforts
to annul the treaty or to modify any of
its provisions. They have been told in
language perfectly distinct that the Cher
okeesmust emigrate at the time specified
by tKe treaty. It is to be hoped lor the '
peace and quiet of our borders, hut more;
especially for the interests of the (.’hero
kees themselves, that their emigration may
be peacefully accomplished. The render
will notice the gurantee of the War De
partment to the Executive of Georgia,!
that a Competent force to prevent aggros- '
sons on our citizens, should the Chero
kees be so unwise as to attempt any, shall i
be stationed on the frontier at the proper
time. The law for the formation of vol
unteer companies along the line of fron
tier, if properly carried into effect by those
counties, and suitably armed as they will
be by the Executive, will in addition to I
the troops referred to, be ample we imug- j
ine, to quiet all fears that might otherwise;
he entertained, as the time approaches for j
the removal of the Indians. We hazard
nothing in saying that ail will be done!
that ought to l;e done, by the vigilant, sa-j
gicious, and patriotic ollicer who now fills
the Executive chair of Georgia.
c 1
Department or Wait, \
December'2 s , 1837. j
Sir :—I have the honor to acknowledge
the receipt of your letter <d‘ the Kith
inst., by the hand of .Mr. Shaw, togeth
er with the accompanying papers.
Copies ol the correspondence between
the agent of this Government and the
Cherokee delegation, now at Washington,
were forwarded to you some days ago ;
1 now transmit copies of another commu
nication from them, and of my reply.
This puts an end for the present , to all
hopes of conciliating these men, and in
ducing them to lend their influence to in
duce the Cherokees to remove quietly.
Prompt and energetic measures will he at
once adopted to protect the border set
tlers; and I do not think the interference
of the State authorities necessary to the
military defence of that district of coun
try. Above all, I earnestly ask that the
citizens of Georgia residing in these dis
tricts may not be removed from their
farms and plantations, under the pretence
of protecting the persons and property of
the inhabitants. Such a measure is cal
culated to produce the result we deprecate,
and to weaken our real strength there.
Very respectfully,
Vottr obt. sen t.
J. U. POINSETT.
His excellency George K. Gn.Mr.it,
Governor oi’ Georgia, Milledgeville/j.’..
r Washington City, )
December 2(’>th, l'* >7. j
To the Hon. Joel It. Poinsett,
<S rerrtart/ of War.
Sir: —You have doubtless been appri
sed by Mr. Mason, with vv ham, at tile in
stance of the Department, the delegation
of the Cherokee Nation of Indians have
for some time been in communication,
that the conferences between us have ter
minated without any adjustment of the
matter in which we are interested. The
communication addressed to that gentle
man, will exhibit the grounds upon which
we proposed to negotiate with the Gov
ernment of the United States. The Pres
ident having referred us to you as the offi
cial organ of the Government, and our
communication with Mr. Mason being
informal, we are-compelled again to ad
dress von, and to state that we are author
ized bv the Nation vwlioni we represent,
to enter into any negotiations with tiie
Government of the United States upon ail
the matters of common interest to both
parties, on the basis that the instrument
called the Treaty of December, 1>35,
shall u it be considered binding on either
party. It would ho unnecessary to go in
to any detail at this time, either of the
grounds upon which we assume the utter
invalidity of that instrument, or the ex
tent to which we should feel ourselves au
thorized to go, should the proposed basis
be acceded to. You are fully in posses
sion of the first, and the second could on
ly he material should our proposition be
eute/t lined. Such being our proposal
based upon our conviction of justice and
propriety, we can only in addition, inti
mate our earnest wish, that should it not
be acceptable to you. von will inform us
of the general basis upon which tin;Gov
ernment of the United Stales is disposed
to negotiate with us.
Although we can scarcely venture in
indulging the hope that our proposals w ill
lie acceded to, after what has occurred,
our duty compels us to submit it to you
for *n official reply.
With sentiments of the greatest re
spect,
\Ye arc, sir, vour ob’t sotv’ts
JOHN ROSS/
EDWARD GUNTER,
11. TAYLOR,
JAMES BROWN,
ELIJAH HICKS,
his
SETUWAKEE.,x
mark.
SAMUEL d'H. GUNTER,
lua
WHITE x PATH,
mark.
Delegates of the Cherokee Nation.
Department of War, I
December 27,1837. (
C -it’.vrn :—l have tUs honor to ac
knowledge the receipt of your letter of
the 26th December, which has been this
instant placed in my hands. Mr. Mason’s!
letter was submitted to me before it was)
sent to von, and received my concurrence 1
and approbation ; it must be regarded,
therefore, as an expression of the opinion
of this Department. The treaty of Dec. j
1-83.5, is considered by the President to he
a law of the land, which the Constitution
requires him to execute, and, therefore,'
no negotiation can he opened or proposi
tion entertained upon the basis your pro
pose.
The Department regrets to perceive a
settled purpose on your part to involve
your people in the difficulties, and to ex
pose them to the sulleriiigs, which will
inevitably follow their opposition to the
treaty. It is well informed that von have
held out to them false hope- , which have
led them to refuse to emigrate at the sea
son of the year best suited for their com
fortable removal. This i' very much to
be regretted. .The President w hen he in
structed me to listen to any proposal you
might be disposed to make, was governed
by ati earnest desire to.conciliate tin- par
ty in the Cherokee nation opposed to the
treaty, and secure its peaceable execution
by engaging your iiitiuence to aid in pro
ducing this desirable object.
The unreasonable pretensions put forth
in your communications, both to Mr. Ma
son and to this Department, have destroy
ed these hopes ; and all tit it n r.v remains
for me to say in reply to your letter is,
that it is expected the Cherokee -Indians
will remove from the State at the period
lived upon by the treaty of December,
1835. Very respectfully,
V our ob’t servant,
JOEL I‘. POINSETT.
Messr John[linns, Edward Gunter, 11.
Taylor, .las Crown, Elijah Hicks, Sct
uwakee, Samuel 1). Gunter, White
Path, W ushington City.
PiUiit.sj»r’ t hi: Si: v.—The New York
Journal ol Commerce sivs that Mr.
Greenleaf, editor of Thu Sailor’s -Maga
zine, has kept a register of marine dis
asters which have come to his knowledge
within the past year, and the result is ap
palling. The whole number, counting
only those which resulted in a total loss
of the vessel, was no less than./. «/• hun
dred and ni/i ti /, viz :
Ships and barques, 1)4
Brigs, 135
Schooners, *g’i 1
Sloops, J 2
Steamboats, ]",
Total, 415.)
Mint of the vessels included in t!tl
melancboly list were American. Forty
three of them were lost towards the close
-<• ii-ao ; out ttte intelligence of llieir
fate was not received here until HT/.
Thirty-eight were iost in the mouth of
January, .51 in February, 24 in March. 34
in April, It) in May, 1.5 in June, 41 in .in
ly, 51) in August, 32 in September, 13 in
October, 13 in November, and 6 in i),
com her. The precise time when the re
maining vessels were !<»-t could not be
satisfactorily ascertained.
j In the almvt* named ve-sels, (s ivs the
! Sailor’s Magazine,) one thousand two
I hundred and ninety-live lives an ivporl
-sed as being lost. This probably is but
a part of the while, lor in many instau-
I ues tiie crew are spoken of as missin
land in other cases nothing is*siid, where
j perhaps, there was a total loss. Surely
i what is done for sailor.-, .should be done
! quickly.
1 An Ai i’inertN-i Si*i:r r veiu: <•.;•* In
sanity, was witnessed a sh irt time since
at the Lunatic Hospital at Uaaumr, in
France. A lady and gentleman v ent to
visit the establishment, accompanied bv
: llteir child, a little girl of five or six years
old. As they parsed one of the cellthe
wretched inmate, a young woman of
limit twenty-live, w ho li.ad irrevocably lost
her reason, through tin* desertion of a
! seducer, and the death of her of’-prinV,
1 suddenly made a spring at the Irttlo girl,
who hid approached within her reach.
In the height of her delirium, the poor
1 creature fancied the stranger's child her
'own, and, devouring i' with kisses, bore
it in triumph to the further end of her
! cell. Entreaties and menaces lining
proved equally metioctu and to induce her
I to restore the child to its terrified motli
! er, the director of tin* establishment was
sent for, and at his suggestion the maniac
was allowed for a lew moments to retain
peaceable possession of her prize, under
| the impression that exhausted with her
' own frantic violence, she would shortly
fall asleep, when tin* child might be lib
erated from her grasp, without difficulty,
or the employment of harsh measures.
This calculation was not erroneous : in
i a few minutes the poor sufferer's eves clos
ed in slumber, anil one of tiie keepers
j watching the opportunity, snatched the
! child from her arms, and restored it to its
mother. The shriek of delight uttered bv
the latter, on recovering her treasure, a
; wakened -the poor maniac, who, on per
j ceiving the child gone, actually howled
| with despair, and in a paroxysm of un
; governable frenzy, fell to the ground—to
j rise no more. Death had released her
! from her sufferings.
| r
, Looking over the Houston (Texas)
I Telegraph the other day, we cast our eye
! over the prices current at the se«t ofGov
| eminent of this laud of promise. For
: the benefit of those of our readers who
j may be looking with longing desires to
the fertile prairies of this if tlurado , we
BRUNSWICK ADVOCATE.
make a few quotations from the prices
current aforesaid :
for bacon 37 1-2 to G 2 1-2 cents per
lb.; heel 12 1-2 to 18 3-4 cents per lb. ;
butter tjfl ol) per lb.; tallow caudles 75
cents per lb.; corn $2 f»;> per bushel; cof
fee 2.5 cents per lb ; eggs per dozen £1
50; mackcrel>22 to $25 per barrel ; lard
50 cents per lb.; fresh pork 25 cents per
lb.; sweet potatoes $3 per bushel : brown
sugar 37 1-2 per ll>.; loaf sugar 70 cents
per I!).; corn meal $3 per bushel ; lum
ber 70 to SOO per thousand.
We should say, from the prices quoted
that weak stomachs ought to be consid
ered great blessings in Texas. One of
our real hearty, hale, hog and hoinininv,
up country Georgia stomachs, would
have to carry Biddle’s bank along with it
at such prices as these, or else put uj>
with most piuchitigly short commons.
\\ c hope, on account of our many friends
in that country, that money is very come
at-able there ; or that they have abandon
ed the appetites they used to possess when
we knew them last ; otherwise they must
suffer in the flesh most greviously. Eggs
a dollar and a half a dozen ! ! why, we
have our eye now on some of our old
friends in that country, who would antici
pate tiie product of the day’s labor, in
the eggs they would consume tor break
fast.—[Southern Recorder.
| Rrmsi at Bergamo. The Munici
pality of Bergamo last year offered Ru
; Liiii any stun of money that he might de
mand to sing there during the fair: Ru
bini, with the generosity- for which he has
always been distinguished, replied, that
lor singing to an audience in his native
place he could take nothing, and that he
was happy to have an occasion of show
: ing Ins feelings of affection and attach
ment to it. lie quitted London in
for the express purpose of performing
j his promise. When he arrived at Gene
va he received a letter which announced
to !iii .i titat the cholera was raging at
Bergamo, that the fair was suspended, and
I that death caused devastation throughout
I the country, itubini.in spite of all he
heard, repaired to Bergauio, and from
thence he went to a small v illage, St. Ito
; main, where he was born, to embrace his
lather and liis friends. The Municipality
j wished very much to testify their thanks
j for his kind disposition towards them;
| they regretted very much their ingbilitv
Ito open the Opera that year, and dared
not to trespass upon his generosity for
1837. Rubini’s answer was,that lie should
; perf rm Ins promise. This year lie re
j pouted his visit to Bergamo ; it would be
I uselt - to describe the manner in which
| tk - " i ms; tenor in the world was received;
Is came from all quarters to hear
! I.: 11: , to the great ady:int.nu« of -ny
j co. me last night of his performance was
Ih .eii the opera of il Virata ; lie having!
prev .o,idy arranged to quit Bergamo ear-!
ly o.i t!:e following morning. At the mo-J
ac'.it ,va:m lie runs to seize the child of
his re. J, to the astonishment of Ruhini,
•he child presented him with a note,
i which lie put in his girdle, until he finish*
1 idled his scene. On re-entering the scene,
having read the note, which was from his
! country men, entreating him to sing one
j more night at tiie theatre, Ruhini came
forward to express his extreme gratifica
tion, hut his emotion prevented Ins say ing j
j much more than that lie would certainly j
jsmg the follow ing evening. “The house,” J
says our correspondent, “syniathising w itli j
| his emotion, the enthusiasm became re- j
| doubled, ami lie was unable to finish tlie
j opera; Id* retired under a shower of tlovv-j
j ets, crowns, poetry, and pictures, after j
I which tiie populace conducted him home!
! with flambeaux.” The little v illage of
I St. Romain having no theatre, and his,
father mid friends wishing very much to j
hear him sing, he offered to sing a inass : i
the delight at hearing which was beyond j
description. The Municipality’ of Bor-1
I gnmo have decreed that a marble burst of j
Rubin:, by tiie celebrated Marcliisi, shall,
l>e placed at tiie entrance of llieir theatre, i
i London Paper.
I‘ ; ;
Int ru.—SoiiKgiiien say ill it “wealth j
li s power, ’ —and some that “talent is povv-!
| er,' and some that “know ledge is power,” I
I and others that “authority is power,”—j
but there is an apothegm that I would'
place on high above them all, when 1
would assert that “truth is power.” Wealth
cannot purchase—talent cannot refute —
know ledge cannot overreach—authority \
i cannot silence her ; they all, like Felix, |
tremble at her presence. Cast her into
Alio sevenfold heated furnace of the ty-j
i rant's wrath—fling her into the most tre
j memlous billows of popular commotion—!
she mounts aloft in the ark upon the sum-;
• nit ol tiie deluge.—She is the ministering \
spirit who sheds on man that bright and!
indestructible principle of life, winch isj
given by its mighty author, to illuminate
land to inspire the immortal soul—and
| which, like Himself, “is the same yes
jterday, to day, and forever. ’ When the
mould has been long heaped on all the
{•ride of wealth afid talent, knowledge and
i authority —when earth and heaven itself
shall have passed away, truth shall arise;
like the angel on Monoah’s sacrifice, up
on the flame of nature's funeral pyre, and
;ascend to her source, her heaven, and
! her home—the bosom of the Holy and
j Eternal God ! —[English paper.
George Schley, Esq., of Savannah has
; been appointed Commissioner in Georgia.
! for the state of Maine, to take the ac-j
j kuowledgment of deeds and mortgages, I
; and of any contract, letter of attorney, or ;
any other writing under seal, to be used or j
recorded in that state.
I The following highly important Resolutions
were offered by Mr. Calhoun, in the Senate of
the suited States on the 27th ult. and ordered
to be printed:
“Resolved, That in the adoption of the Fed-!
eral Constitution, the States adopting the !
same, acted severally, as free, independent and
sovereign States; and that each, for itself, by j
its own voluntary assent, entered the Union ;
• with the view to its increased security against i
: all dangers, domestic as well as foreign, and ;
the more perfect and secure enjoyment of its
advantages, natural, political, and social.
Resolved, That in delegating a portion of;
their powers to be exercised by the Federal \
Government, the States retained, severally,:
the exclusive and sole right over their own 1
domestic institutions and police, and that any
intermeddling of any one or more States, or a !
combination of their citizens, with the domes- !
tic institutions and police of the others, on
any ground, or under any pretext whatever, !
political,* moral or religious, with the view to
tneir alteration, or subversion, is an assunip- !
tion of superiority not warranted by tiie Con- j
slitution; insulting to the States interfered
with, tending to endanger their domestic pe:u"e !
and tranquility, subversive of the objects for j
which the Constitution was formed, and, by !
necessary consequence, tending to weaken
and destroy the Union itself.
Resolved, That this Government was insti- j
tated and adopted by the several States of this j
l nion as a common agent, in order to carry in- j
to effect the powers which they had delegated |
by the Constitution for their mutual security |
and prosperity; and that, in fulfilment of this \
high and sacred trust, this Government is
bound to exercise its powers so as to give, as
far as may-be practicable, increased stability
and security to the domestic institutions of
the States that compose the Union; and tint it
is the solemn duty of tiie Government to re
sist all attempts by one portion of tiie Union;
to use it us an instrument to attack the do- i
mestio institutions, instead of strengthening j
and upholding" them, as it is in duty-bound to j
do.
Resolved, That domestic slavery, as it ex
ists in the Southern and Western States of
1 this Union, composes an -important part of
their domestic institutions, inherited from
their ancestors, and existing at tiie adoption
of tiie Constitution, by which it is recognised
as constituting an essential element in the dis
tribution of its powers among the States; and
that no ciiange of opinion, or feeling, on the
part of the other States of the Union in rela
tion to it, can justify them or their citizens in
open and systematic attacks thereon, wi*h the
view to its overthrow; and that all such at
tacks are in manifest violation of the mutual
and solemn pleUge to protect and defend each
other, given hy the States, respectively, on en- i
taring the Constitutional compact, which form- i
cd the Union, and as such is a manifest breach
of faith, and a violation of the most solemn
obligations, moral and religious.
_ Resolved, That the intermeddling of any >
State or States, or their citizens, to abolish '
slavery in this District, or any of the Terri to-:
ries, on the ground, or under the pretext, that,
it is immoral or sinful; or the passage of any
act or measure of Congress, v\ ith tu it view, |
would be a direct and dangerous attack on the !
institutions of all the Slave-holdi>'*’ Mmo-s. |
ftr.yo:vc t, That the union of these State;:
rests on an equality of rights and advantages :
among its members; and that whatever de
stroys that equality, tends to destroy the U
nicn itself; and that it is the solemn duty of
all, and more especially of this body, which
represents the .States in their corporate cap :c
--ity, to resist all attempts to discriminate be
tween the States in extending the benefits of
the Government to the several portions of the
Union; and that to refuse to extend to the
Southern and Western States any advantages
which would tend to strengthen, or tender
them more secure, or increase th ir limits or
population by the annexation of new Territo
ry or States, on the assumption or under the
pretext that the institution of slavery, as it ex
ists among them, is immoral or sinful, or oth
erwise obnoxious, would be contrary to that
equality of rights and advantages which the
Constitution was intended to secure alike to
all the members of the Union, and would, in
effect, disfranchise the Slave-holding States,
withholding from them the advantages, while I
it subjected them to the -burthens, of the Gov-;
ernment.”
From tin' Au-rasta Conslilutionalsl. insl.
At tire last session of tiro legislature, Mr.
McAllister introduced a resolution, requiring
the appointment !>y the Governor, of a special
agent to repair to Nashville, in order to ob
tain from the legislature of Tennessee, 11 jw
still in session, the privilege to extend Yuc Wes
tern ami Atlantic Rail Road, to the Tennessee
river.tvith,in the territory ot'that state. In accord
ance with tliis resolution, the governor ap
pointed (ieii. Newman, who immediately after
set out for Nashville. It would seem from the
following extract from the proceedings of the
Senate of Tennessee, that Gen. Newman has
arrived at the seat of government of that
state and entered on the duties of his mission.
TEN N ESS EE LEGISLATOR E.
Se.vatk, Dec. 2t>.
Mr. Whiteside submitted the following:
Whereas, it has been communicated to this
General Assembly by the governor of tin
state, that Gen. Daniel Newman, as special
agent appointed by the executive of the state
of Georgia, in conformity with a resolution ot
the legislature of that state, asking that cer
tain privileges be granted to that state in ex
tending the Western and Atlantic Rail Road
to the Tennessee river, is now in attendance
at the seat of government: therefore,
Resolved, by the General Assembly of the
state of Tennessee, that a joint select com
mittee be appointed to wait upon Gen. New
man, special agent from the state of Georgia,
and inform him that the two Houses of the
General Assembly are ready to receive any
communication .which he may think proper to
make them m relation to the object of his
mission.
The rule requiring resolutions to lie one
day on the table was suspended, and the reso
lution adopted.
The speaker appointed Messrs. Whiteside,
Bratcher, and Frey, to be of said committee
on the part of the Senate.
December ‘2B.
Mr. Whiteside, from the joint select commit
tee appointed to wait on Gen. Daniel New
man, agent from the state of Georgia, on bus
iness relating to the extension of her state j
road to the Tennessee river within the limits
of the state of Tennessee, and inform him
that the Legislature is ready to receive any
communication lie may think proper to make
in relation to the object of his mission, have
performed the duty assigned them, and here
with present a written communication from
said agent, which lie desires may be commu
nicated through the committee to the two
Houses of tiie General Assembly; which com
munication was read, and on motion of Mr.
Whitside,- 500 copies of said communication
was ordered to be printed for tiie use of the
Senate.
FROM FLORIDA.
Steamboat Concussion. The steamier
Ocinulgee, Cuptain Blankenship, arrived yes
terday afternoon from Garey’s Ferry. Capt.
B. reports that yesterday morning, about 7 o’-
clock, the steamer Santee, Captain Poinsett,
bound hence to Florida, and the steamer Da
rien, Captain Burden, from Darien, with a
load of cotton for this port, came in contact in
St. Catharine’s Sound, the weather being
thick and foggy; and from the force of the
concussion of the boats, the Darien sunk; and
when Capt B. left, there were six feet of wa
ter over deck. He succeeded in taking off
25 bales of cotton, some baggage,’and all the
crew, none of whom, fortunately, were injur
ed. Capt. B. reports that th? Santee was
leaking badly when he left, and all hands
were at "the pumps.
From Capt. B. w e have received a Jackson- 1
ville Courier of Thursday of last week, but
it contains no news, and Capt. B. informs us
that no iater intelligence had been received
fro.a the army when he left for this port.
Savannah Georgian of IBih inst.
A Paris paper has the following under date
• of Lyons, Nov. 1:
! List Friday, M. Deschamps, a rich inhabit-
I ant of la GulHoticre, died at the end of a short
illness. His funeral was ordered for the next
Saturday evening; but on reilccting that the
ceremony must then take place at night, it
was postponed till Sunday morning. On this
day, early, there arrived before the house of
the deceased, priests and sextons, inspectors
of processions and porters. At the moment
when the board which closed the coffin was
about to he screwed down, to the astonish
ment and fright of all present, the corpse rose 1
from its receptacle, sat up, and asked for I
something to cat.
All started back with affright, until they
discovered it was not_a phantom, but M. l)es
cliamps himself, who awoke thus opportunely
from a lethargic sleep, which* had appeared
tike death. They immediately bestowed on
hi:n every necessary care, and he recovered
so far as to remove all anxiety for him. It is
very fortunate that the burial did not take
place on Saturday, as had been before arrang
ed, for M. Deschamps would then have perish
ed without doubt, even if he had awaked un
der the torments of hunger and despair, as has
sometimes happened. He declared that while
in his lethargy, he heard all that was said, ami
every thing that was done around him, with
out being able to make a motion or to express
his feelings; a horrible torture, which can be
fully understood only by one who has felt it,
and which ought to serve as an additional
warning against hurried burials.
The Cotton Crop. The Baltimore
American says:—‘-The recent advance of one
penny n pound on tiie price of Cotton in En
gland, if maintained, w ill prove of the utmost
importance to the commercial operations of
this country. Tlic three of tliis remark will
be better understood after reference is had to
a simple calculation made on the subject by
the Philadelphia U. S. Gazette. Estimating
the crop of 1837 at eighteen hundred thou
sand bales, and allowing 400 pounds to a bale,
the result is an aggregate of 720 millions of
pounds of Cotton—on which the advance of a
penny sterling a pound, or two cents, would
produce fourteen millions of dollars. A sum
sufficient to relieve us in a great degree, if
not entirely of our indebtedness to Europe.”
The exploring Expedition. The New
\ ork Journal of Commerce says:—“We learn
that the Ex [Coring Expedition is to be de
spatched forthwith. Capt. Kearney is appoint
ed to tiie command, and has entered on his
duties. The Macedonian is not to go, but
her place is to he supplied hy the sloops Van
dalia and Peacock, both of which are nearly
ready, one at Norfolk and the other we believe
at Boston. The brigs which were built for
the purpose and which are so well fitted for
the service, hy their capacity of sailing side
wise and stern foremost, are not to go, so the
expedition will consist of the two sloops, store
ship and "schooner.”
Military Force ok the United States.
Tito-tegular army of the United States accor
ding to an official document, annexed to the
report of the Secretary of War, consists of I
Major General, 2 Brigadier Generals, 1 Adju
tant General, 2 Inspectors General, 1 Quarter
Master General, 4 Quarter Masters, 1 Com
missary General of Subsistence, 2 Commissa
ries, 1 Surgeon General, 15 Surgeons, (JO As
sistant Surgeons, I Paymaster General, 17
Paymasters, 1 Commissary General of Pur
chases, 2 Military Store Keepers, 15 Colonels,
15 Lieutenant Colonels, 23 Majors, 146 Cap
tains, .'{3o Lieutenants, 1008 Non Commission
ed Officers, 272 Musicians, 108 Artificers, &c.
5,002 privates. Total, 7,058.
We understand (says the Tallahassee Flo
j ridi in of the tith inst.) that the fugitive. Creeks
in West Florida have at length been induced
jto submit, and have come in under the
I conduct of their chief. Co-a-had-jo, and Ste
phen Richards, Esq. who had been sent by
Gov. Call to treat with them. This inteili
| gence is communicated by a letter, received
; a few days since by the governor from Mr.
Richards; who states, that the Indians, to the
number of seventy which is supposed to be
! all who were out—are now at Walker’s Town
on the Apalachicola.
Be wake ok Percussion Caps. On
Christmas day as a young man of Albany was
out with a friend on a hunting excursioa, up
on discharging his piece the percussion cap
exploded, and several pieces of the copper
completely penetrated the transparent cornice
iof his eve. He immediately applied to Dr.
Scudder, of New York, the oculist who was
in town, who by means of instruments, took
three pieces of copper cap out of his eye. It
was saved, but his sight is no doubt forever
lost. A severe warning to those usim r fire
arms with percussion caps.
Scorpions are the most frightful and dan
gerous of all insects or reptiles in Havana.
They grow very large sometimes, five or eight
or even ten inches long, and after a rain, they
crawl over a house, and not unfrequently over
persons sleeping in bed. Their sting is fork
ed and at the extremity of the tail, but unless
first attacked th6y do not strike; it is very ven-,
omous but may be cured after about two
hours of Buffering.
Eccentric Adventurer.* Tlia Phila*
delphia Ledger lately stated on the authority
of a friend, that Capt Sliackford ofPortsmouth,
N. H. once made a passage to England in a
“small open vessel,” with no other companion
than a dog—and when he landed in England,
he was apprehended on suspicion of piracy.
This statement is exceedingly incorrect. The
Capt. Sliackford, who is probably alluded to,
upwards of thirty years ago, sailed from Cadiz’
for Demerara, in a sloop of forty or fifty tons,
with no companion, save a dog. He arrived
there in safety after a long passage,and brought
his vessel to anchor outside the bar. His face
was unwashed, his chin unshaven, and his hair
long and matted—altogether he presented an
unusual, and not a very prepossessing ’appear
ance to the officers of the port and the pilots
; who boarded his vessel. The story which he
told, appeared incredible, and he was suspect
-1 ed of having murdered thejj remainder of the
! crew on the passage. Some ship-masters, be
longing to Portsmouth, however, on going on
board, recognized their old acquaintance, "not
withstanding lie was so singularly travestied,
and vouched for his general good character,
: and eccentric disposition. He was liberated,
j and allowed to dispose of his cargo consisting
entirely of chalk and wine-vinegar, which he
did to great advantage, there being a scarcity
of those articles in Demerara at that time.
The same Capt. Sliackford,’some time after
this, took “French leave” pf his wife and chil
dren,and wended his way on foot to the “far
West,” where in a wild and solitary spot, near
I the banks of the Mississippi he built himself a
I log lint, hearing a close resemblance to the
J cabin of a ship. Here he lived a number of
I years—and what ultimately became of him we
I know not. It may have been him, for aught
; w e know- to the contrary, who for several years
j past, held the office of Sergeant-at-Arms to
the House of Representatives in Congress.—
[Boston Her. Journal.
The statements above given are substantially
j correct, as we have heard them before stated,
j except the closing intimation of the person
j age. Josi aii Shackford, was the name of
j the intrepid captain, mate, cook and all hands
!of the vessel. He formerly lived in this town,
! hut removed some time since to Ohio, where
j he died six or eight years since, at tiie age of
87 years. He was a distant relative of our
1 late respected townsman the Sergeant-at-Arms.
! [Portsmouth Journal.
Large gums. The largest guns ever fired
are the Turkish cannon at the Dardnelles,
the diameter of one of which is two feet three
inches, and a stone shot from whicli struck the
Windsor Castle of 1)8 guns, and cut her main
mast almost in two, and nearly knocked her
two decks into one. Our young midshipmen
used to crawi into these guns on their hands
and knees. A gun almost as large was found
at Algiers. But the largest shot ever fired by
Europeans, was from the new mortar used by
the French at Antwerp. This shell was two
feet in diameter, and weighed, when empty,
016 lbs. It contained 00 pounds of powder,
and its total weight was consequently 1,015
pounds. The mortar from which it was dis
charged weighed 3,700 pounds, and the pow
der used to load it was 30 pounds. This is
really prodigious. We must add that at the
Dardanelles, one of the great Turkish shot
struck the hows of that magnificent first rate
ship the lloyal George, and, wonderful to re
late, that one shot alone nearly sunk her. Ac
cording to the Baron de Tot, thejweight of the
Turkish shot was 1,100 and the charge of
powder 330 pounds.
Maternal Tenderness. A sparrow
which had built her nest on the thatch
roof of a house, was observed to contin
ue her visits long after the time when the
young birds had taken their flight. This
unusual circumstance continued through
out the year ; and in the winter, a gen
tleman who had all along observed her,
determined on investigating the cause.
He, therefore, mounted a ladder, and
found one of the young ones detained as
a prisoner by means of the worsted, which
formed a part of the nest, having become
accidentally twisted round its leg. Being
thus incapacitated from procuring its own
subsistence, it had been fed and sustained
by the continual exertions of its mother.
If this be no more than instinct, what is
reason ?—[Raleigh Star.
T crkish superstitions. —Another sin
gular custom is, that of pouring water
where any one has fallen to prevent a re
currence of the accident on the same spot,
which is religiously observed by the low
er orders, as well as flinging stones at the
body of a decipated criminal in order to
secure tiie dreams of the spectator from
an intrusion of the ghastly object. No
Turk of the lower ranks of society ever
[lasses a shred of paper which may chance
to lie upon his path ; he always gathers
it .up with the greatest care, as the popu
lar belief leads him to place implicit faitli
in an ancient superstition, that all paper
thus obtained will be collected after death,
and scattered over tiie burning soil through
which ho is to pass to paradise; and that
consequently, the more he is enabled to
secure, the less suffering he will have to
endure hereafter.—[City of the Sultan.
General D ebility. —All old lady was
lately poring over a quack advertisement,
and, on being asked what news she found
in the paper, answered that there was a
great deal about General Debility, but she
wondered ivho he could be. She had
beared of General Harrison, General
Washington and General Jackson, but as
to this General Debility, she thought he
must be a foreigner, as she never heard
of him before. [N. Y. Star. 4
Mr. Edward Sparhawk, editor of the
Petersburg Intelligencer, met with a most
sudden death on Saturday last. He had
taken up his residence in Richmond for
the winter as a reporter of debates, and
was also a clerk to one of the committees.
After leaving the . State House, he was
seized with aghemorrhage from the lungs
and died in a few minutes.