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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.