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[For the Brunswick Advocate ]
DEATH—THE GRAVE
I know not why death always should be clad
In dismalness and horror, for methinks
He oft the messenger of mercy is ;
The liberator of a prison’d world
Oh when my soul has been with care depress’d
And all my hopes of happiness destroy'd,
When on my brain the dead’ning height lias
press'd
Os misery and torture —exquisite and keen
When scorn and wrath, and all the various ills.
That clog and cumber our diviner parts,
Have caus’d this fragile tenement of earth
To live a thousand deaths—it death be horror.
And the enshackl and soul writhing with pain
In its dread agony and fierce dismay,
To chafe beneath the gulling bonds ot life,
Then, then, this Death, this cold and icy death
Would have been greeted as a bosom friend
Oh what were death to being like a slave -
Paltering with pain and most abjectly seeing
A transient respite—which if gained portends
Renewal shortly and more dire still.
I would notbe the dastard weak and doting
Upon this life, clad « ith infirmities,
And crouching as a lowly suppliant
To beg a little, little longer space,
Which space, lie knows, will be but as the last.
A scene, where wo# is deity supreme.
Ah I but the grave, the dark and lonesome
grave
Where all is desolation black and cold
True the grave is cold and lonesome—very
•hill—
But when the throbbing temples quake with
fire,
That speeds like boiling lava through the
veins,
And fritters all the intellects away—
Who would not love the damp anil cooling sod
And press and press it in Ins ecstasy,
Where levers and where chills alike are hurt
less.
The selfish worm that in that dark abode
Gloats on the pamper’d sons of luxury
Is hut an emblem of his reas’ning brother,
Who, in his cursed thirst for worldly gain,
Will not alone our substances consume,
But fix his fangs in happiness and bliss
Yea ! he will tear tlio vejy last, lone stay
Os life away—if, but flic form it cherish'd,
Will in its ruins—compass his desires.
Who then would not prefer the silent worm, 1
That with no guile deludes—no threats alunin.
But does his work in secrecy and ease—
To him whose smile is but a glitl'ring fang, |
Which he inserts while friendship's on his
tongue,
And whose fierce anger sends that poison in, !
Which nothing bpt u man prepares for man
ZENOIMII'S.
[From Lockhurt’s Life.]
Closing Scene of the Life of Sir
Walter Scott. The render longs ear- 1
neatly, at last, in love and veneration to
wards Scott himself, for the concluding]
scene. The following is Mr. Lockhart s
account of the return to Abbotsford, al
ter the air of a sea voyage to .Malta and
Naples had been tried in vain.
“On this his last journey, Sir W alter was ■
attended by his two daughters, Mr Ca-j
dell and myself—and also by Dr. James
Watson, who, (it being impossible for Dr.
Ferguson to leave town at that, moment)!
kindly undertook to see him safe at Ab
botsford. We embarked in the James
W alt steamboat, the master of which,
(Capt. John Jamieson,) as well as the
agent of the proprietors, made every ar
rangement in their power for the conve
nience of the invalid. The captain gave
up to sir Walter’s use his own
cabin; which was a separate erection, a
sort of cottage on the deck; am! lie
seemed unconscious after laid in bed
there, that any new removal had occurred.
On arriving at New Haven, late on the
9th, we found careful preparations made
for his landing by the malingers of the
shipping company, (Mr. Hamilton,) and
Sir Walter, prostrate in his carriage, was
slung oil shore, and conveyed from thence
to Douglas’ Hotel, in St. Andrew’s square
in the same complete, apparent uncon
sciousness. Mrs. Douglass had in former
days, been the Duke of Bncclcuch's
housekeeper, sit Bowliill, and site and her
husband had also made the most suitable
provision. At a very early hour on the
morning of Wednesday, the 11th, we
again placed him in his carriage, and he
Iny in the same torpid state during the
first two stages on the road to Twecdsido.
But as we descended the valley of (iala,
he began to gaze about him, and bv de
grees it was obvious that he was recog
nising the features of that familiar land
scape. Presently lie murmured a name or
two —‘Gala W ater, surely—Buckliolm—
Torwoodlee.’ As v.e rounded the hill at
Landope, and the outline of the Eildons
burst on him, he became greatlv excited,
and when turning himself on his couch,
his eve at length caught his own towers,
at a distance ot a mile, lie sprang up with
a cry of delight. The river being in
flood, we had to go round a few miles bv
Melrose bridge, and during the time thus
occupied, his woods and house being
within prospect, it required occasionally
both Dr. Watson’s strength ami mine, in
addition to Nicholson’s, to keep him in
the carriage. After passing the bridge,
the road for a couple of miles loses siHit
of Abbotsford, and he relapsed into In
stupor, but, on gaining the bank immedi
ately above it, his excitement became
again ungovernable.
“Mr. Laidlaw was waiting at the porch,
and assisted us in lifting him into the din
nig room, where his bed had been pre
pued. lie sat bewildered for a few mo
ments, and then resting his eve on Liid
law,
i how often have 1 thought of you ! By
this tunc, his doijs had assembled about
Ins chair —they began to fawn upon him
j and lick his hands, and he alternately sob
'bed and smiled over them, until sleep op
■ pressed him.
‘ I)r. Watson, having consulted on all
things Mr. Clarkson and his father, re
signed the patient to them, ami returned
to London. None of them could have
any hope, but that of soothing irritation.
Recovery was no longer to be thought of;
but there might be Kuthanasia.
“And yet something lik ' a ray of hope
did break in upon us next morning. Sir
W alter awoke perfectly conscious where
he was, expressed an ardent wish to be
carried out into his garden. W e procur
ed a Bath chair from Huntly Burn, and 1
wheeled him out before his door, and up
and down lor some time on the turf, and
among the rose beds then in full bloom.
The grand children admired the new ve
hicle, and would be helping in their way
to push it about. He sat in silence, smil
niir placidly on them and the dogs, their
companions, and now and then admiring
the house, the screen ot the garden and
the flowers and trees. By and by lie con
versed a little, very composedly with us,
said he was happy to he at home, that he
felt better than he had ever done since lie
lell it, and would, perhaps, disappoint the
doctors after all.
“lie then desired to be wheeled through
his rooms; and we moved him leisurely
for an hour or more up and down the hall
and the great library; “1 have seen much,
he kept saying, but nothing like my am
house; give me vine turn more!’’ He was
gentle us nil infant, and allowed himself to
he put to bed again, the moment we told
him that we thought he had enough tor
one day.”
Still in his ashes lived their wonted
fires. Two novels (which Mr. Lockhart
hopes will never see the light,) had been
written in Naples, and the “last glimpse
of daylight,” m vvliat remained of the
great novelist’s life at Abbotsford was one
filial ell’ort at the de>k.
“Alter breakfast on Tuesday the 17th,
he appeared revived somewhat and was
again wheeled about oil the turf. Pres
ently he fell asleep in his chair, and after
dosing fur perhaps half an hour, started
awake, and shaking the plaids we had put
about him from oil’ his shoulders, said,
“tins is sad idleness. I shall forget vvliat .
1 have been thinking of, if I don’t sa t it
down now. Take me into mv own room, !
and fetch the keys of mv desk.” He re
peated this so earnestly that we could not
reluse; his daughters went into his study,
opened Ins writing desk, and laid papers,
and pens in the usual order, and l then j
moved him through the hall, and into the
spot where he had always been accustom
ed to work. AN lien the chair was placed
at the desk, and lie found himself m his
old position, he smiled and thanked us,
and said, “Now give me my pen and
leave me for a little to myself.” Sophia
put the pen into his hand, and he endeav
ored to close 1 1 is linger; upon it, hut they
refused their ollice—it dropped on the
paper, lie sank back among his pillows,
silent tears rolling down his cheeks, but
composing himself by and l»v, motioned
me to wheel him out of doors again.
Laidlaw met us at the porch, and took
his turn at the chair. Sir \\ alter, alter a
little while, again dropt into slumber.
When lie was awaking, l.aidlaw said to
me, “Sir Walter has had a little repose.”
“No, Willie,” said he, “ no repos,' for
Sir Waller hut in the grave.” Thu tears
again rushed from his eyes. “l'i muds, do
not let me expose myself—get me to bed
—that's the only place."
“With this scene end and our glimpse oi
daylight. Sir Walter neve r 1 think left
liis room afterwards, and hardly his bed.
except for an hour or two in the middle of
the day, and after another week he was
unable even for tin-."
The death
“As 1 was dressing on the morning of
Monday the 17th of September, Nichol
son came into mv room and told me that
his master had awoke in a state of com
posure and consciousness, and wished n>
see me immediately. I found him entire
ly himself, though in the last extreme of
feebleness. 11 is eve was clear and calm
—every trace of the wild tire of delirium
extinguished. “Lockhart, said lie, 1 mav
have but a minute to speak to vou. .Mv
dear, be a good man—be virtuous—be re
ligious—be a good man. Nothing else
will give you any comfort when you come
to lie hero.” lie paused, and 1 said,
“shall 1 send for Sophia and Anne?” ‘No,’
said lie, “don’t disturb them. Boor souls!
1 know they were up all night—God bless
you all. With this he sunk into a very
tranquil sleep, and indeed, lie scarcely af
terwards gave any sign of consciousness,
, except tor the instant on the arrival of lit*
; sons. They, on learning that the scene
| was about to close, obtained leave of ab
sence lrom their posts, and both reached
Abbotsford on tin- 19th. About half past
one. B. M , Oil the gist of September,
Sir Walter breathed his last, m the pres
ence of all iiis children. It was a beauti
ful day, so warm that every window was
wide open, and so perfectly still that the
sound of all others, most delicious to his
car, the gentle ripple of Tweed over its
pebbles, was distinctly audible as we knelt
around the bed, and his eldest son kissed
' and closed his eves.
The funeral
“The court yard and all the precincts
ol Abbot.-ford were crowded with uncov
BRUNSWICK ADVOCATE.
ered spectators, as the procession was ar
ranged; and as it advanced through Dar
nink and Melrose, and the adjacent vil
lages, the whole population appeared at
their door in like manner, almost ail in
black. The train of carriages extended,
I understand, over more than a ftiile, the
Yeomanry followed in great numbers oil
horseback, and it was late in the day yre
we reached Dry burg. Some accident it
was observed, had caused the hearse to
halt for several minutes on the summit of
the hill at Bemerside, exactly where a
prospect of remarkable richness opens,
and where Sir Walter had always been ac
customed to rein up his horse. The day
was dark and lowering, and the wind
high.
“The wide enclosure at the Abbey of
Dryburg was thronged with old and young;
and when the collin was taken from the
hearse, mid again laid on the shoulders of
the afflicted serving men, one deep sob
burst from a thousand lips. Mr. Arch
deacon Williams read the burial service
of the Church of England; and thus
about five o’clock in the evening of Wed
nesday, the iiiith September, 1832, the re
mains of Sir Walter Scott, were laid by
the side of his wife, in the sepulchre us
his ancestors.”
“So fades, 3'j languishes, grows dim, aud dies,
Ail that the wurld is proud of.”
From tin- London Morning Chronicle, Mar. 2-i
Bank Gossip. There is beginning to
he a good deal of conversation in the
higher monetary circles of the City about
ail important letter which has been re
ceived at the Bank of England from Mr.
Biddle, and which is said to contain a de
cided declaration of war between the
Bank of England and the Bank of the |
United States. It seems this letter has i
been provoked by the treatment which!
Mr. Jaitdouhas received from the Bank |
directors since his arrival in London; and
particularly in the refusal to allow him to ,
open an account at that institution which
has been considered as an affront bv the
Bank of the United States. This would
appear to have been totally unexpected by
Mr. Biddie, wlio supposed that his estab
lishment was upon the best of terms with
the directors of the Bank of England,
wlio had nisi previously sent out oilers of
credit to the Bank of the United States,
but which were very courteously refused.
Mr. Biddle is now said to have foreseen
the danger of taking any credit of the
Ban!; of England; the irregularity of the
management of w hich had been exhibited
in the'destruction of the large American
houses in London and Liverpool, and
which caused him to abstain from all ob
ligations to an institution which would
not hesitate to withdra# their advances at
the first moment of panic or alarm. The
very circumstance of the Bank directors
having sent the letter by the Bnst ollice,
consequently bv way of Halifax, and
causing it necessarily to be nearly a
month behind the time at which it would
have been received by the regular packets
from Liverpool.or London to New York,
was itself an evidence of the superannu
ated manner in which Mich important ne
gotiations continued to he conducted bv
the Bank. Under tie. ,-e circumstances it
was thought more advantageous to estab
lish a direct agency in England, and Mr.
Jamton, in coming here, requested, as we
arc informed, neither credit nor favor of
a ll v description from the Bank of Eu
qland, but solely to be allowed to deposit
his monev am! draw upon it in the ordi
nary way, and which the directors in
sii si tuess had nut the right to refuse. In
the meantime, Mr. Cowell, the agent of
the Bank of England, arrived in the 1 -
mted State.’', and was received by Mr.
Biddle in the most hospitable manner, be
ing turnislied w ith apartments in the Bank,
and Ins mission facilitated in every possi
ble manner i>\ Mr. Biddle, and to an ex
tent which is allowed to have largely con
tributed to the successful collection of
the monev of which Air. Cowell went in
search. In the midst of all this came
out the advices that Air. Jaudon had been
so degradingly treated bv the Bank di
rectors; and the letter which has now
been received is said to bo one in which
Air. Bghlle expresses great indignation
against the hoard, requesting at the same
time that the remaining business of the
w hiding up of the all’airs of the suspend
ed houses, in conjunction with Air. Cow
ell, might lie instantly removed elsewhere.
Bagamm's rotT.Tii S'l'imno. 11l order
to refute the inanv tales and rumours re
lative to the occasion which induced the
celebrated virtuoso to acquire such a won
derful power of execution on the fourth
string of the violin, an Italian publication
lias lately given the following particulars,
professedly in the words of the meat mas
ter himself;—
“At Lucca 1 always led the orchestra
w believer the reigning family attended the
opera. 1 was so frequently sent into the
Court circle, and I gave a grand concert
every fortnight. The Brinccss Eliza( Bac
ciocchi Napoleon's sister) always retired
before the conclusion, because the harmo
nic notes of my instrument effected her
nerves too powerfully. Avery amiable
lady w ho 1 had long since secretlv ajjore.d,
was frequently present at these parties,and
1 soon perceived that a pleasing secret at
tracted her also to me. Our mutual passion
imperceptibly gained strength. < >ne dav
I promised in the next concert to suprise
her with a musical piece of gallantry,which
should have a reference to tlie terms upon
whieh we stood. At the same time I caused
the Court to be apprised that I meant to
perform anew composition, with the title !
of“A Love Scene.”
Great curiosity was excited,hut what was ,
the amazement of the company when I en
tered with a violin with but two strings! I
1 had left only the G and the E string. The
latter was intended to express all the feel
ings of a young female; the former to im-{
itate the voice of a despairing lover. In j
this manner it executed a kind of impass-;
iona! dialogue, in which the tenderest tones j
succeeded expressions of jealousy. At ]
one time they were caressing—at another,
tearful aceords, cries ofanger and rapture i
of pain and felicity. A reconciliation j
formed the close; the lovers, more ena
moured than ever of each other, performed
a pas de deux, which terminated in a bril- 1
limit coda. The ‘Scene’ was highly applau
ded. I say nothing ofthe delighted looks :
w hich the lady of my thoughts cast upon
me. The Brinccss Eliza after loading me
w ith praises said to me flatteringly: “You !
have done the impossible on two strings:!
would not a single one be enough for your
talent!” I promised immediately to make
the trial.”
This idea flattered my imagination, j
and in a few w eeks I composed for the j
fourth string a souato entitled Napoleon, j
which 1 performed on the 25th of August,
before a numerous and brilliant court. — !
The success surpassed my expectations.
From that time dates my predilection for!
the G string. Beople were never tired of
listening to my pieces composed for that,
string. As one keeps learning from day
to day, so I gradually attained that pro- j
ficiency, in which there ought now to be
nothing astonishing.”
Our Means of Defence. The Ar
my and Navy Chronicle of Thursday lust
contains a table prepared w ith great care
by Col. Croghan, one of the inspectors
general of the army, w hen a rupture with
France was anticipated, in relation to ar- !
niament required for the fortifications ot
the seaboard. From tins statement we l
learn that there is a deficiency at the forts j
with reference to the war armaments, of
LA72 guns, 18 a -12 pounders, 18U carro-i
nades, LAG mortars, 2054 guu carriages,
102 mortar beds, 1,258,229 shot for guns
and carronades, 78,753 shells for howit
zers and mortars, 79,(151 rounds of grape
and canister shot, and 10,049,398 pounds
of camion powder i
For present purposes there is a defi
ciency ol 418 guns, 18 a 42 pounders,
93 carronades, 57 mortars, 82G gun car- ‘
riages, (i t mortar beds, 0(5,583 shot for !
guns and carronades, 2072 shells, 9542
pounds ot grape and canister shot, and
I 875,457 pounds of powder.—[Mobile
i Chronicle.
Iron Steam Boats.— \Ve learn from
the (iazette, that some of our Iron Man-!
ufucturcrs have determined to build an ‘
Iron Steamboat. AVo trust the design will
; not be strangled in the birth. It is
proper that Pittsburgh celebrated for her j
j iron manufactures, should have the honor
of building the first Iron Steam Boat con-'
1 strutted in t his country. [Pittsburgh (Pa.)
; Advocate.
; British Army in America. The
following is the proposed distribution of
her Majesty’s troops in North America,
their number and strength.
I hilt far. Pile 23d, 73d and 93d roij
iincnts, consisting of 590 men each.
Anr /irtntstriik. The 11th and (55th
regiments, consisting of (590 men each.
Canaria. The Ist Dragoon Guards
'•and 7 1 li Ilnssnrs, consisting together of
500; the second hattallions of the Grena
dier and Cohlsteam Guards, consisting of
TO men each; the Ist, 15th, 20th, 24th,
•A’-tl, 31 1 h, 43d, (iGtli, < Ist, 83d and Ssth
foot, consisting of GOO men each.
The entire number of British troops in
Canada will thus he seen to he 10,000
infantry and 509 cavalry, exclusive of nr
i tillcry and engineers.
I 8. Navv. The Navy Register
states that the number of our national ves
j sels is fifty-live, rated as follows:—One
(the Pennsylvania) is rated at 129 guns,
seven at 80, four at 74, one at 54, four
teen at 14, two at 32, eleven at 20, three
jat 18, six at 10; the remaining seven are
under 10 guns. There are 50 captains!
iin the Navy, 49 masters commandant,
270 lieutenants, 49 surgeons, 24 passed
j assistant surgeons, 33 assistant surgeons,
15 pursers, 9 chaplains, 181 passed mid
shipmen, 247 midshipmen, 27 sailing
masters, 25 boatswains, 25 carpenters,
and 24 sailmakcrs. The marine corps :
I comprises 1 colonel, 1 lieutenant colonel, 1
I majors, 13 captains, 19 first lieutenants
and 20 second do.
The Fulton, steam ship, is not included
in the list. AN c hear conflicting accounts
oi her fitness and unlitness for service;
hut one thing is certain—if she is not fit,
steam vessels can be made so. AN'ith our
stretch ot coast, our inland seas, and
mighty rivers, we should have the largest
armament in the world. Steam warships
—one at least—should be on every lake,
and every principal harbor should be pro
vided with one.
I lie Athens (Ga.) 11 hig states that
Gem Scott and Suite, passed through that
place on the sth instant, on their way to
their head quarters in the Cherokee
country.
The tnusquitoes of Florida, (says the N. ,
O. Picayune,) not only carry grindstones (
to whet their bills on, but also take a j
little bov aiongto turn the crank ,
Frauds in the Custom House. AVe i
mentioned on Saturday the seizure, by
our Collector, of a quantity of English
woollens, for alleged violation of the Rev
enue Laws, at the port of New York,
were it was supposed they were smug
gled. They were forwarded to an auc
tion house iiere, lor sale. The N. York
American says that for some time past, a
regular system of defrauding the revenue j
has been practiced there by importing
high-priced cloths at the duties on cheap
cloths. This required collusion on the
part of the officer in the Custom House
charged with selecting the packages to be
examined, and is supposed to have been
done in this wise: A. B. imports ten
packages, numbered from 1 to 10—No.
1 and 10 containing cheap cloths. The
Custom liaise officer directs, according
to arrangement, N'os. 1 and 10 to be ex
amined ; and they being found of the
quality specified, the* whole invoice is
passed ; and thus, cloths worth 5 or 8G
per yard, were entered at the duties of
cloths worth only 8l 25. The suspect
ed importers are said to have tied ; and
the recent resignation of Mr. Campbell,!
soon after his promotion to the Deputy
Collectorship, seems to fix upon him sus
picion of being implicated in these frau
dulent transactions. [Boston Transcript.
d>
The .late Cot,. Shei.lman. Since
our last another Revolutionary Batriot
has been translated to another world.
Full of years and the patriarch of a nu
merous household was Col. John Siiell
inan, our late fellow citizen. Attached
to the free institutions which in his day
and generation he personally contributed
to establish, Col. S. prized liberty not for
the name alone, but as the source of those
blessings, civil and religious, so peculiar
ly American. On his “Revolutionary”
services we are not prepared, with our
limited information, to dwell, blit esm
merely state that he served two campaigns
in the Maryland line at the commence
ment of the war: was at the battle of
AN'hitc Plains; and subsequently captain
of a volunteer corps of cavalry from
Maryland, raised in part for the protec
tion of the state of Virginia.
His mortal remains were yesterday at
tended to the grave by a large concourse
of his feHow citizens, anil military hon
ors awarded him by the volunteer corps
of the Ist Regiment under the command
ol Major AN illy.—[Savannah Georgian.
Accident. AVe regret to state that
private Jasper AV. Jewett, of the Chat
ham Light Artillery, unfortunately lost
his right hand, and lower part of the arm
hv the premature discharge of one of the
guns, while he was in the act of ramming
home a cartridge for the salute of minute
guns at the funeral yesterday of our late
venerable citizen. The arm has been
amputated below the dhow, and Mr.
Jewett, though throw n to the ground and
his clothes partially ignited by the dis
charge, was last evening as well as can
he expected.—[lb.
Briso.nf.r.s of AN ar. General Gaines
made application yesterday to the First
Judicial District Court of this city for
the release of a number of negroes, w hom
their masters from Florida had claimed
and seized by virtue of a writ of seques
tration. They were found among the
Seminolos, when they surrendered and
were regarded as prisoners of war.
Under these circumstances they were
treated as members of the hostile tribe.
Their owners, however, having heard of
their capture pursued them to New Or
leans, and by the help of the law' stopped
their march to the Far West. The ap
plication of the General proved iiiisuc
cesslul, the court having overruled his
motion. The negroes will now re
main in the custody of the sheriff, until
the question of ownership is decided. It
appears to us that the government merit
some censure in this transaction. The !
iact was well known that many runaway !
negroes were among the Seminoles, be-!
longing to planters in Florida and Geor-;
gia, and yet they are hurried off to the
west without enquiry, or giving their
masters any opportunity to claim or iden
trfv them.
“Alack-a-day !” cried an old sawyer J
upon hearing of the loss of a sloop load of j
grindstones; “the times were dull before, 1
but now I suppose they will be duller than
ever.”
Morning. The best part of the day for
most purposes—is in a great measure lost by
most persons. There is no question of it. I t
is either lost in sleep—between sleeping and
waking—feeble efforts to arise*—buttoning up
at the toilet, or in a state of trilling indecision
"hat to take hold of first. Let habit have its
due influence in the case, and there can be
no doubt, but that early morning is the most
advantageous time fur effort, of awv kind, i
physical or mental. AA’liat an important parti
of most people’s lives are lost! Sir Walter!
Scott’s evidence in any thing which relates to
experience in great performance " ill be taken
without reserve. lie says, when I got over
any knotty difficulty in a story, or have had
m former times a passage in a poem, it has al
ways been when I first opened my eyes that
the desired ideas thronged upon me. This is
so much the case, that I am in the habit of re- 1
lying upon it and saying to myself when I am !
at k loss, “we shall have it six’o’clock to-mor-,
row morning.’’ If l have forgot a circum- j
stance, or a name, or a copy of verses, it is i
the same thing. 1 think the first hour of the !
morning is favorable also to bodily strength. ]
Among other feats, when I was a young man
I was able to lilt a smith’s anvil, bv what is
called the horn ! —but I could only do this be- j
lore breakfast—and required my whole strength
undiminished by the least exertion.
Horrid Murder. By a letter from a
friend residing in Cherokee county', we learn
that a most atrocious murder was committed
upon the person of Mr. Janies Copeland, at
Air. Donaldson’s Ferry, near the town of Can
ton. on Thursday night of the 19th ult.
The letter informs us that “Mr. Copeland
was sitting in his door, washing his feet pre
paratory to going to bed, when hearing a yard
dog barking fiercely', at some object from
which the paling divided him, on scolding the
dog, was fired on by the assassin, who was in
the road, on the opposite side of the paling
One ball, or shot, entered high up in the chin,
near the mouth, and passing one side of the
jaw, shivering teeth and bones, lodged deeply
in the neck; another, passing through the lap
pels of his coat, slightly grazing across the
throat and passing over the head of a little
daughter, wounding the scalp for an inch or
two, finally lodged in the log of the house.
The alarm was immediately out (as the as
sassin no doubt anticipated,) that it was the
act ot Indians, and the next dav, presented a
scene of the greatest excitement, under that
mistaken supposition. In a very short time
however, the strongest suspicions were excited
against a certain individual living in town
and is it not mortifying to humanity’, and to
our caste, to acknowledge this creature a white
man!!
Mr. Copeland has left a wife and six or eight
small children, who by his death, are deprived
ot their only means of support.
The circumstances proving the guilt of the
accused, are of the strongest character. lie
is confined safely in the dungeon of our Jail,
where the good people of the county unani
mously determine him to remain, until legally
discharged.”—[Standard of Union.
A cunning Rogue. A clerk yesterday
coming down NVall street to make a deposite,
had his bank book peering and peeping from
his coat, pocket while lie stopped to gaze at
the numerous caricatures near the new Custom
House. A well dressed rogue came up be
hind him quietly, and while winking and
smiling to the mob, and inviting them by signs
to look at a neat trick, lie slipped the bank
book out of the pocket without disturbing tha
clerk, who was still gazing at the pictures.
The bystanders, believing him to be an inti
mate friend of the clerk, were highly tickled
at the trick, and laughed and chuckled at tho
anticipated surprise of the clerk. Tho rogue
walked slowly ahead, turned smilingly to tho
crowd, put his finger# on his lips to enjoin si
lence, and actually disappeared with a large
sum in bank notes, thus obtained openly while
hundreds were looking on. No one knew wlio
lie was, nor has the money been recovered. It
was a bold and yet a dexterous robbery.—N.
Y. Star.
The Cotton Crof. Some of the English
papers are making very erroneous calculations
oil the profits accruing from the crop of cotton
gone or going to market this season. They
set down the e«3t of production at (51-4 cent*
and the selling price at 12 1-2 and thus err
botli ways. On very rich soils, such as the
bottoms ofthe Mississippi, Red River, and Brns
sos, cotton may remunerate at 9 1-4 cents; but
much that is raised in South Carolina, Georgia,
and Alabama, is done at an expense varying
from 7to 8 cents. Then again, a large portion
of the present crop of Uplands has not been
sold on this side of the Atlantic for 12 1-2
cents per lb., and many planters have not re
ceived perhaps one cent more than the raising
of tho cotton and sending it to market has ac
tually cost them. Instead, then, of 40 or 50
millions of dollars set down in England as tho
profits on the cotton crops of the United States
we may venture to say that twenty millions
have not been made by the American mer
chants and planters. Indeed, if we consider
that, fully one half the exports of cotton has
been made by the Banks, we shall be compell
ed to reduce the profits of individual merchant#
to a trifle, compared with that ot former years.
[Mobile Advertiser.
Lovf Affair. 'Flic New York
AV big gives a romantic account of a love
■'(flair between a member of the New
York Legislature and the chambermaid
ot the hotel where lie boarded. She is 22
years of age, beautiful and amiable. Thu
legislator was smitten at first sight, and
proposed to accompany her to the thea
tre. She stated the case to the landlord,
who advised her to accept the invitation;
which she did. At the theatre, the wor
thy legislator proposed matrimony. Thu
maid refused, giving excellent reasons.
She said, his daughters were educated,
and she was not; she was poor, lie weal
thy—he would he subjected to the ridi
cule ot his friends, and his wife had not
been dead a year. A few days after he,
again proposed, and was again refused.
AN idowers are persevering fellows, and a
third time the member was at her feet.
He could not resist her unassuming grace
and soft allurements. He now offered to
lurnisli her with every thing she might re
quire, hut lie was again dismissed; or
rather, she told him to consult his friends.
He did so—he consulted many of his
brother members—stated his wretched
condition, and was advised to leave Alba
ny immediately. Notwithstanding all
this, lie returned to the fair chambermaid
—she reluctantly consented, merely to
preserve his senses, and they were mar
ried.”
Something Singular. The Lawrence
burg la. Beacon, has tho following:—
AN c have been credibly informed, that
on tire evening ofthe 13th inst. a daugh
ter of Mr. Williams, n6ar Wilmington, in
this county, died of the Small Box, or
was supposed to be dead. That she was
dressed in the usual manner, set up with
all night, and on the following morning
was found to be alive. She is still living
and represented to he convalescent. ANY
cannot vouch for the truth of the story,
although it has been more than once rep
resented to us as an absolute certainty.
A celebrated toper, intending to go to
a masquerade, consulted an acquaintance
in what disguise lie would advise him to
go, and received for answer, ‘Go sober
for once in your life, and I will under
take to say that not one of your friends
will know vou.