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Thursday morning, Oct. 4, 183S. $ j
- Latest from Florida.
fBUUBLE SHIPWRECKS AND
INDIAN MASSACRES l
By the U. S. Revenue Cutter Madison, Capt
Howard,which arrived just as the impression of
this day's paper was completed, we hear of a
more extensive loss oflife and property, lliau
was ever before effected in a single hurricane
upon the Southern coast Between thirty and
forty vessels are said to have been lost upon
the Bahama Banks on the 7th of September,
aud the hurricane is represented to have been
more terrific than was ever before known even
iftUapse latitudes. No particle of canvass could
the force of the gale and the sur
vlVors represent that the bare masts and
tfean were blown out of staunch and new ves-
Wafca. And beside the extraordinary liorrors
Wttiipwreck upon a desert shore, many of the
numerous survivors of the wrecks upon the
after their escape from the hor
rible battle of the elements, only reached the
land to meet a more frightful death in mas
sacre by the Indians of Cape Florida.
We give the following, which are all the few
particulars of the wrecks, that we have as yet
ascertained.
The ship Kentucky, New York and New-
Orleans packet, was lost on Gun Key, Baha
mas, —a total wreck, —but passengers and
crew all saved.
The hermaphrodite brig Victory, Dunham,
master, was also lost on Gun Key—a total loss
of vessel and cargo. Crew and passengers
saved.
We have the following from the South Flor
idian of the 15th ult.
The French Brig Courier de Tampico, Jule
Julian, from Havana, bound to Bordeaux, with
a cargo of sugar, segars, Ate., was driven
ashore in the night of the 7th about twelve
miles north of Cape Florida light—only seven
out of sixteen souls saved: Brig and Cargo to
tally lost:—the survivors rescued from the de
vouring ocean were soon visited by a large
Crty of armed Indians, who spared their lives
cause they were Frenchmen, saying, that
they only killed Americans. The Captain and
the six other survivors were taken from the
beach after the gale was over, by a smack
from the North, bound to this place.
The names of the persons saved from the
brig are: Copt Jules Julian, 2d Capt. Charles
Huppie; Toulon, apprentice; Zenou, Boatswain;
Dupni, apprentice.
Passengers—Momsieurs Lcgrand, Arrani
bria.
Names of the persons lost—Cussinier, Car
penter; Gaudin, Cook; Ballex, Allani, Gauyn,
sailors; Raymond, boy.
Passengers—Monsicurs Durenal, A. Lacav
re, Samatan.
The brig Aina,Thomas, of Portland, Me., from ,
St Jago, went ashore about the same time and
near the same place. Every man on hoard ,
except one , a Dutchman, was massacred by the
Indians. He was spared at the time of the
general slaughter, and subsequently hid him
self in the hold of the brig. During all one
day and night the Indians kept up a horrible
pow wow aboard the brig; there were about
fifty in number. The next day the Indians left j
the brig for a short time, when the poor ruan j
crept out from his hiding place, discovered and j
hailed the wrecking sloops America and Mount
Vernon, and by them was taken off, the Indians
again appearing in sight after lie had left the
brig. The Indians will wreck the brig.
[We are happy to be able to slate there are
two more survivors of the wreck of the Aina,
who are how on board the Madison at this
port, viz: EleazarWyer and Samuel Cainmett,
both of Portland. Wyer was shot through the
thigh and hand, but has nearly recovered.]
The brig Export, and a ship, went ashore at
the same time nearly off Cassar’s Creek. The
master and crew of the brig have arrived at
this place in the wrecking sloop Globe.
The sloop Globe and smack Splendid, have
saved about three hundred boxes of sugar
from the brig. The Master of the brig has
kindly favored us with the follow ing letter:
Sept. !hh. 1838.
The brig Export, C. M. Morrill, of Kenne
bunk, sailed from Matnnzas on the 4th inst.
with & cargo of fifteen hundred and seventy
nine boxes of sugar and one bag of coffee,
bound for Boston, on the 6th, experienced a
severe gale, which increased to a hurricane.
On the 7th, while lying too, she struck on Led
berry Reef, the sea running mountains high.
The brig bilged in 15 minutes; we got out our
longboat and made for the shore, and narrow
ly escaped being drowned. The brig is part
ly broken in two, and she will be a total loss,
but a part of the cargo will be saved. About
an hourprevious to our striking, a ship struck
very near us, all hands had left the ship, and
are probably lost She went to pieces, and I
think it was the ship Thracian, of Plymouth,
her cargo was rail-road iron, machinery, and
dry *podi. C. M. MORRILL,
Master of the Brig Export.
[We are informed by Capt. Howard of the !
Madison, who examined the wreck said to he
the Thracian, that he is of opinion that suffi
cient evidence does not exist of its identity
with that vessel. None of the crew of the
ship in question were saved. She was evi-!
dently anew Boston built ship. She had on
board a locomotive engine named “Camus:*,” ,
directed to Hyde &. Comstock, New Orleans.
The rest of her cargo seemed to consist of do- j
nieetie floods, bar and tire iron, a carriage,;
saddles end harness, nails end machinery.]
The sloops Alabama, Dread and Camion of
Mystic, bound to this port drove ashore and
lost .in the tame gale. only survivor yet
ascertainedisJoacph Ndble. They went a-'
shore near , the Courier. Noble
♦ scaped from the Indians end joined the
Frehcß 'emw: When the Cndung came up
with the French crew he passed himself off M 1
one of their 1 number, and thus saved his life.
Nobleha* arrived at this place, sad fives the
naows of the persons oo board the sJoeps~-ali
«f whom are doubtless lost except himself—
-9° hjerd the sloop Alabama—Captain Pren-
Porks, Bamuel Welcher junior, John Par- j
fc*]s JOhfi Dean and Joseph Ndblf. Onboard
the Dread—Francis P. Helraes, Solomon Bur
ner, George Fish, James Reynolds, Benjamin
Philips and Charles, a colored man. On board
sloop Caution, Capt D. P. Hehnes, George ,
Richmond, (lost over board before the gale)
Nat, a Portuguese, Albert Spalding, Nathan
j Fish, Latham Brightman and Tom Crandle, a j
mulatto.
i The schooner Caroline, of Key West lying
at anchor, at Ctezar’s Creek, during the gale
drove from her moorings out on the reel, struck
and sunk. Master and crew all lost. The
: following are their names: Joseph B. Will- 1
1 lams, master, Henry Packer mate, John St.
Martin, John Murphy, Janies Bennet, John
i Gray, James Savey, William Dillinow.
I The Schooner Caledonia, , from Havan- i
a bound to New Orleans with a cargo of
j sugar, coffee and segars, was totally lost on
: the Coloradoes,on or about the Bth Sept. Fate
of the crew unknown.
. The Revenue Cutter Campbell, and the
United States Schooner Wave, then lying in
our harbor, immediately upon hearing of the
) disastrous intelligence above given, got under
j way and proceeded for the Cape. It is to be
' hoped, if their should be any wandering sur
-1 vivors left, they may speedily be restored to
j their friends
The boats of the U. S. schrs. Madison,
Wave and Campbell, examined the Keys in
the vicinity of the Cape, in the hope of rescu
ing survivors, but we regret to say that, with
the above exception of the two survivors of
the Aina, none are known to be saved. The
j boats of the Wave and Campbell attacked a
party of 15 Indians, who were plundering the
| French brig, but succeeded in killing but four
i of their number.
! The Madison brings the further intelligence
of the loss of the schr. Forrest, of Lubec, load
ed wjth live oak. She struck on the reef a
bout 18th ult., one day out of Key West, and
I sunk. The crew and passengers returned to
! Key West in her boats.
The works left by the troops at Key Bis
cayne, were burnt by the Indians about tho
last of August. The Government Hospitals
and Barracks on Cape Sable have also been
burnt.
The Madison is now on her way frani Pen
sacola to her station at Portsmouth, N. 11.
Officers and crew all well. She has stopped
at this port for w ood and water and sails im
mediately.
C()MM ERCiAL CONVENTION.
The following Circular letter from Messrs.
Stiles and Jenkins, a sub-committee of the
late Augusta Convention, w'ell deserves the
serious attention of every southern planter,
for the clear and forcible manner in which it
presents their interests, and oven duties, in
relation to the encouragement of Southern
Commerce.
The undersigned, a sub-committee, from
the corresponding committee, appointed by the j
commercial convention held at in
April last, respectfully ask Tbe'attention of
their fellow-citizens of Georgia to the state
and condition of our own trade, anti of south
ern commerce generally. Fully persuaded,
that no labored effort is necessary to stimulate
public opinion on a subject which appeals di
rectly to the individual interest, the state pride
and the lively patriotism of each southron,
and which has been elaborately discussed in
papers emanating from the commercial conven
tions before hidden in the city of Augusta
and in newspaper essays; we shall confine our
selves to the statement of a few well ascer
tained facts, and the most obvious conclusions
draw n from them.
The minimum value at which the surplus
productions of Georgia exported through their
various outlets, are estimated, is $15,000,000.
{ Os this quantity, one third in value is sent
| coastwise to other American cities, for ox
! portution, and the remaining two-thirds diroct
liy exported from our own seaport. Most of
| our foreign supplies being drawn from New
i York, that great store-house of imported pro
ducts and lulirics, and being subject to no du
ty when landed on our own shores, they un
dergo no survey, nor are placed upon a gener
al register. Hence our national statistics fur
nish no satisfactory exhibit of the amount of
imported goods consumed in Georgia. That
it exceeds the amount of our exported surplus
is apparent from the fact that exchanges are
always against us. While therefore the gen
eral rule deduced from commercial observa
tion, that a nation imports as she exports, is so
i strictly applicable to ourselves—it is probably
! not greatly variant from the truth, and we the
I more readily adopt it, because, ns will be seen,
s we do not thereby give factitious strength to
the argument.
For the $5,000,000 of exports sent coast
; wise, we probably receive in return that amount.
I of northern and western production and manu
facture. In return for the $10,000,000 direct
| iy exported, we receive into our own seaport
trom foreign countries goods amountin'! in
value to $500,000. The remaining 9,500,000
; of our own exports to be returned, comes to
us in merchandise through circuitous channels
j loaded with various charges, unknown to a di
' rect trade, all of which enter into the southern
i merchant’s estimate of cost, and of course
must be included with a per centum for profits
to him, in the price paid by the southern con
sumer. These,fellow-citizens, are facts from
which we deduce the following inferences:—
Ist- The inevitable consequence of such a
course of trade is to erect one of our cities
into a great national emporium, to the ruin of
all others. Though we may thus create for
ourselves an object of national pride, we are
far from adding to the real prosperity of our
common country. All other cities become its
tributaries and dependencies. A commercial
shock befalling such an emporium, inevitably
pervades the whole system, visiting ruin upon
the parts, which as they had no agency in
producing, are powerless in averting the ca
tastrophe.
2ndly. Being the producers of cotton, rice
and tohacco, the great staples which pass in
exchange for foreign merchandise, consumed
in the United States, and therefore having
greater facilities for purchasing, we yet pay
more for such merchandise than do onr north- i
ern brethren. And this difference in price is
a Biinj annually drawn from us, never to oe re
turned, It is the wages of labor and skill
fairly arid honestly bestowed for us, but which
we are fully to furnish within our
selves, ana therefore peed not pay for. As,
well might the southern planter employ north-'
BRUNSWICK ADVOCATE.
em hirelings in the cultivation of bis fields,
while his slaves, whose unbought labor is his
birthright, luxuriated in the shade.
3dly. By this voluntary abandonment ot
foreign commerce, we support a non-resident,
mercantile, and commercial population, which
whilst it does not enhance our wealth, actual
ly diminishes our relative political strength.
4thly. Let no southern planter suppose that
this enterprize is the concern of mercantile
mcn —not his. The very converse of the
proposition is true. The merchant, wlntsoev
er and to whomsoever he pays on account of
merchandize, counts it all cost; and takes
good care that it is returned w ith a profit by
the consumer. It is his right. On any other
terms he cannot serve his customers. Any
other calculation would beggar his family and
destroy his usefulness. But who makes return
to tho consumer? —Unfortunately, he is the last
in the catalogue of purchasers to whom the
commodity comes in the course of trade. For
him was it made, and from his pocket must
come both the prime cost of making, and the
incidental charges of traus|>orUng it to his
own door. If then, he be interested in having*
it cheaply manufactured, can he be less so in
having it cheaply conveyed? Is he concerned
that it be wagoned from his domestic market
to his own domicil, by the nearest route and at
the lowest rate, and will he take no thought
through what channels and at what cost it
! comes from foreign countries to that market.
Is it not equally on its way to him, and at his
! own proper charge, while bounding swiftly over
the billows of his native state? Is not every
dellur saved from each item of expense, so
much added to nett annual income?
All these evils may be remedied, all these
benefits secured by the establishment of a di
rect foreign trade. The southern states are
engaged in an earnest effort to accomplish
that end. They meet for that purpose in con
vention, at the city of Augusta, on the third
Monday of October next, and we do now res
pectfully and earnestly invite our fellow-citi
zens of each county in Georgia, to send dele
gates to that convention. Thus may you re
tain for tiie entire south her long lost commer
cial independence, and by securing to your
growing state the wealth of her vast resources,
make her the third, if not the second state of
our happy union.
BENJ. EDWARD STILES, > Com-
CiIARLES J. JENKINS, $ mittee.
TO TIIE PUBLIC.
Till. GEORGIA FEMALE COLLEGE.
The building for this Institution, the most
airy, spacious and splendid, perhaps, of any in
the State of Georgia; containing seventy-two
rooms, with ample space for at least two hun
dred boarders, is now almost being completed.
It stands on a beautiful eminence, overlooking
the City of Macon, and will be opened for pub
lic instruction, on the first day of January 1839.
It will be under the charge of the Rev. Geo.
F. Pierce, (so well known in the State of
Georgia,) as President, and who will reside in
the Institution, assisted by an able and efficient
faculty, and from whom the pupils consigned
to their care, will no doubt receive a practical
and complete education. In the College will
be taught not only the whole course of English
Letters and Science, but also vocal and instru
mental Music, Drawing and Painting, together
with the Latin, GrooU, 1\ .juili, £|>niiLil», anil
Italian Languages; and last, though nut least,
there w ill be in operation a system of Domestic
Economy, by which the young ladies, under
the directions of experienced teachers, will be
enabled, and required to prepare, and keep in
good order, all their own clothing, thereby a
voiding milliner’s bills while at school, and at
the same time preparing themselves creditably
to do this work for themselves and families, in
future life. The great object of the Trustees
will be, to make the course of studies practical
and inoral, as well as literary, thereby render
ing the pupils that may passthrough this Insti
tution, the comfort and pride of all associated
with them in after years. It is contemplated
that the fixed expense of each pupil w ill be a
bout Two Hundred and Fifty Dollars per an
num. This sum w ill cover the expenses for
the use of a room, for eating, and tuition fees,
of every description; or in other words, for the
use of a room and eating, $l5O, and for tuition
ot' every description, SIOO. The parents of
pupils will have to furnish their own rooms,
w ith such furniture as they deem necessary: or
if required, it w ill be done by the faculty, and
charged in their bills. This last expense is
more nominal than real, as, on leaving, the
furniture can always be sold to the next occu
pant for nearly its original cost.
The Trustees are desirous to ascertain what
the probable number of pupils will be, at the
opening of the Institution, and for this purpose,
earnestly request all persons intending to send,
to signify it bv letter, addressed to Col. E.
Hamilton, (post paid,) at Macon, as soon as
may be convenient. The Board will meet in
the City of Macon, on the 29th of November,
at. which time they wish to have this information
before them, as they then expect to till the re
maining offices, and make the final arrange
ments for opening tho College on the first day
of January, 1639. We will merely further
add, that although it is very desirable, and
earnestly recommended, that the pupils be
boarded in the college building, yet the rule is
not imperative, and parents preferring to do so,
have the privilege of boarding their daughters
within the City or Vineville, both of which
are sufficiently convenient.
The friends of this Institution will have ex
pended, of their private funds, in its erection
aad outfit, considerably more than Fifty Thou
sand Dollars, without expecting anv other re-
I turn or benefit, than that which every other
j citizen of the country may receive. Their ob
ject has been the public good, and now with
i confidence and pleasure, they offer its treas
ures to the rising generation of their beloved
J country women.
By order of the Executive Committee.
LO\ ICK PIERCE, Agent.
Macon, Sept. 18.
{£/“ Editors of papers in Alabama. Missis
sippi, So. Carolina, Tennessee, Florida, and
Georgia, friendly to the cause of Female Edu
cation, will oblige us by publishing the above
| notice, and making such editorial remarks as
may tend to call the attention of the people of
i the South and West, to this Insitutioii.
Tit for Tat. —The crier of Sherston Mag
na gave notice to the tradesmen of the town
last week, that W. Sherborne, carpenter, would
not be answerable for any debts contracted by
his wife. On the same day the tradesmen of
Sherston made the same functionary erv the
following:—‘-Notice is hereby given, that the
tradesmen of this parish are-willing to trust the
wife of \V. Sherborne to any amount, so long
as she is separated from her husband.”
Death of a Veteran. —The last num
ber of the St. Louis Bulletin is in mourn
ing for the death of Gov. Clark, who ex
pired on the Ist inst. We copy the fol
lowing from the Republican of Monday:
The Governor for some time past, has
been complaining, and gave evidence of
a rapid increase to his afflictions, and the
ravages of old age. Lately his illness
greatly increased, and on Saturday night
he breathed his last, at the residence of
his son Merriwether Lewis Clark, of this
city. Tlidugh the event from the age and
feeble health of the deceased was not un
locked for, it will not be the less regretted.
To seethe great —the good—those whom
all are constrained to love ns the benefac
tors of their country, and respect as their
country’s ornaments—whose names and
whose histories are identified with all we
know of the early history of our land—to
see sucli men falling around us will bring
a sigh from every breast and a tear from
every eye.
The name of Gov. Clark must ever oc
cupy a prominent place on the pages of
the history of this country. He arriv
ed in St. Louis in the year 1803, and in
company with his intrepid companion Mer
riwether Lewis, Esq. and a small baud of
selected men, performed the first journey
across the Rocky Mountains to the mouth
of the Columbia river. The history of
the pioneer trip of Lewis and Clark is fa
miliar to every reader. After his return,
he was appointed Governor of the Terri
tory of Missouri and subsequently, Su
perintendant of Indian Affairs for the
Western Division—which office he con
tinued to hold until the day of his death.
In the office of Superintendant of Indian
affairs, and in his intercourse with the In
dians of the West, his services to the Unit
ed States have been pre-eminently valua
ble. He well understood the Indian char
acter, and his whole intercours'e with them
was such as won their highest esteem and
their most unbounded confidence. His
name is known by the most remote tribes,
and his word was reverenced by them eve
ry where. They revered him as a father,
and his signature—which is known by
every Indian, even in the most distant
wilds of the far west —wherever shown
was respected.
He was sixty-eight years of age when
he died—and was probably the oldest
American settler residing in St. Louis.
Through a long, eventful and useful life,
he has filled the various stations of a
citizen and an officer with such strict in
tegrity, and in so affable and mild a man
ner, that at the day of his death, malice
nor detraction had not a blot to fix upon
the scroll which the history of his well
spent life leaves as a rich and inestima
ble legacy to his children, and the numer
ous friends who now mourn his death.
The British Queen Steamer. —While
on the Clyde the other day, we went a
shore at Port Glasgow to have a peep at
this most splendid vessel, the largest
ever built in Britain, and vve freely con
fess that the sight amply repaid ns for
the visit. From the river, the British
j Queen, owing to her elegance of shape
j and fine proportions does not look so large
;as she really is, hut as you approach her
lon the wharf, comparing her with other
I large vessels near her, her trvmendous
' bulk becomes more imposing, her extreme
] length stretching 275 feet, being 35 feet
longer than the largest line of battle ship
now afloat. But if the visitor is surprised
while standing near her, he is doubly so
after ascending the ladder and going upon
deck, which, being flush all along, in
length and brdadth resembles a tolerable
street, being clear over deck 40 feet and
over the paddle boxes 64 feet.
The paddle boxes are entirely outside,
and do not at all interfere with the sweep of
her deck, w hich stands at present from 30
to 40 feet out of water—of course when
her machinery, amounting to something
about 500 tons, is on board, her draught
of water, at present perhaps 10 feet, will
jhe considerably increased. There she
(lies, her gigantic hulk throwing every
j other steamer into the shade—an admir
able illustration and a noble monument of
the irresistible power and progress of sci
ence.—[Ayr Advertiser.
Russia —The eratic Emperor arrived !
quite unexpectedly at Munich, about the
middle of August, travelling in erg under
[the name of Count of Adlersberg. Aj
number of amusing anecdotes are told of j
his movements. On his arrival at Munich,
instead of driving to the palace, he stop
ped at the post house, and leaving word ■
lor lhe King (of Bavaria) where he was;
to he found, lie started off for Krenth.
On It is way thither, he left his carriage and
got into a small cart belonging to a peas
ant whom he met, and proceeded on his
journey, meeting with considerable op
position from the gens d’artnes at the va
rious stations, who could hardly be satis
fied, even by an inspection of his pass
port.
At one station the guard was on the
point ot arresting him as a suspicious per
son, and Nicholas was obliged to disclose
his real character; and even then his sto
ry was not received without suspicion.
The German papers contain anew ukase
against Poland, bv which the Poles are
forbidden, to wear the Polish costume,
and commanded to assume the Russian—
which they are told, is much move eco
nomical.
The Augsburg Gazette (good authori
ty) affirms that Russia will t ike sides with
1 irrkey against the Pacha of Egypt, should
he attempt to establish Ins independence
of the Sultan
Corn crop in the West. After notic
ing the failure of the fall crop, tre set forth
in some of the newspapers of the middle
stat«, the Wabash Courier of the 6th inst.
says—ln this state (Indiana) and Illinois,
as far as our knowledge extends, the pros
pects oj an abundant corn crop were nev- 1
er greater, and nothing hut an uncom-i
monly early frost can blight the hopes of
the fanned as to this important staple.
Indeed, this year promises, so far as the
west is concerned, to he one of unusual
abundance in the production of all the
necessaries of life.
Gen. Gaines returned to St. Louis, on
the 12th inst. on board the steamer Platte,
on a voyage up the Missouri river. He
had been induced to return, from infor
mation received on the way, that the dif
ferent chiefs of the Missouri tribes had
refused to attend the Indian council. All
apprehensions of difficulty from this quar
ter may, we presume, now be suspended.
Much credit is due to Gen. Gaines for the
promptitude and energy with which he
prepared to meet the coming storm. It
may have been this very show of prepara
tion that has averted the danger.
It is expected that the steam ship Brit
■ ish Queen will be ready for sea in Novem
ber next.
The owners of the above vessel have
begun another ship, to be called the Pres
ident, which will be ready in the course
ofiiext summer. She is to be of 2,000 tons
burthen, which is 400 tons larger than the
British Queen.
I
The Macon Messenger of the 27th ult.
. says—“ln consequence of the rains last
. week, our river rose about three feet, and
. one load of cotton was despatched for
, Darien.”
1 _
j The Madisonian states that the hall of
the new patent office at Washington is to
. be the largest single room in the world,
the ceiling to be supported by one or two
, hundred pillars. The portico it is be
t lieved, will cost one hundred and seventy
, thousand dollars.
The Bangor Whig says —“The bound
ary commissioners, Messrs. Dean, Norton,
and Irish, are now in this city, and we un
derstand are making arrangements to pro
ceed without delay to run the line, under
instructions from Governor Kent, pursu
ant to the resolve of last winter.”
We regret to learn that Walter S.
Franklin, Esq. clerk of the house of rep
resentatives, died of bilious fever at Lan
caster, Pennsylvania, on Thursday last.
[Globe.
The following singular circumstance is
said to have lately occurred at Baden: A
young Austrian count, having had uncom
mon good luck at roulette, brought home
and carefully locked up 30,000 florins (a
bout 65,000 francs.) When he rose in
the morning, not only his gold was gone,
hut, to his astonishment, his old faithful
servant, Fritz, was missing also. In a
bout it week’s time, to his surprise, Fritz
made his appearance. “And where do you
come from?” said the count. “From
Vienna.” “What have you been there
for, and what’s become of my money?”—
“Why, sir, I thought von would play again,
and lose your money; so I took it home,
and here’s your father’s receipt for it.”
! The Slide of Alpanach. —lt is a fact
j that there is a rail road in Europe where
J the speed of two hundred and sixteen
miles an hour is ordinarily obtained —not
i indeed for passengers, but for timber! It
is the celebrated Slide of Alpanach, in the
1 Alps, constructed for the purpose of con
| veying trees from the mountains to the
Lake of Lucerne. Tim following is a des
cription of the famous Slide.
“This rail road, which was completed
in the year 1818, is formed entirely of a
hout 250,000 large pine trees, deprived of
the bark and united together in a very in
genious manner, without the aid of irpn.
It occupied 160 workmen during 18
months and the cost 100,000 sanes, or
English feet long. It has a trough ahont
6 feet broad and from 3to 6 deep. Its
bottom is formed of three trees, the mid
dle one of u’hich has a groove cut in the
direction of length, for receiving small
rills of water which are conducted into it
from various places, for the purpose of
diminishing the friction. The whole Slide l
is sustained by about two thousand sup-!
porters; and in many places it is attached!
in a very ingenious manner to the rugged
precipices of granite. The direction of)
the slide is sometimes straight sometimes j
zig;z.ag, with an inclination of from ten to;
eighteen degrees. It is often carried a- j
long the sides of hills, and flanks of precip
itous rocks, and sometimes over their sum
mits. Occasionally it goes under ground,
and at other times it »s conducted over
thedeep gorges by scaffolding 129 feet in
height. The large pines which were 100
feet in length, and 10 inches thick at their
smaller extremities, ran thro’ the space of
three leagues, or nearly nine miles, in two
minutes aud a half!
The fires in the Pities of New Jersey
are continuing with unabated fury. It is
feared that the whole of these valuable
woods will be swept away. There ap
pears to be no hopes of stopping the pro
gress of the flames
Jacksostielc, (E. F.) 22d Sept. 1838.
The troops in Florida and on the Georgia
line, are busily employed in scouting and hunt
ing for the enemy, who from their superior
knowledge of the country, generally elude
the regular as well as the volunteer companies
from the Territory and from the State of Geor
gia.
There was quite recently an expendition
made to the Okefenokee Swamp, but nothing
was discovered but a few signs of the Indians
having been there sometime previous. Major
Dearborn commanded the expedition and was
accompanied by Capt. Miller and Asst. Surg.
M. Laren, with a detachment of the Ist Infan
try—Lient. Howe with a detachment from F
Company, 2d Dragoons and one or two compa
nies of mounted Georgians.
The Commanding General in Florida has re
ported that the “Florida war must soQn close
for want of officers”—he further states, “I must
insist that the field and'company officers be
longing to the Regiments in Florida, not hold
ing staff appointments under the law” that “8
officers of the Q,r. Master’s Dept, 5 of the Top.
Corps, 2 of the Ordnance, and a due proportion
of the Medical Staff, be ordered here forthwith
# * # # « jjjj g canno t b e done I must
respectfully request to be relieved from the
command,” &.c.—[Savannah Rep.
The following portion of Professor
Ware’s address to the Senior Class of
Harvard University, in 1837, seems very
appropriate to the present times:
“Live for usefulness and society.
There is great demand for well-proportion
ed minds. Answer the call. Uphold
the institutions of your country. Stand
fast for its rights. Plead for its laws.
Arm yourselves against all tyranny of one
or of many, against life, liberty, or right.
counsellors to public opinion, to
save the land from being ruined by the
vice of the ignorant, or the knavery of the
knowing."
Speaking of the love of retirement and
that philosophic ease so fascinating to ma
ny minds, he remarks:
“But this is to shun the responsibility
which lies on every man to do something
for those with whom God has placed hirn;
this is to seek only his awn good, and not
that of others; this is to sink in selfishness
what was given hint for usefulness; and it
issues in defrauding hirn of that solid vir
tue which can only grow by exercise; it
weakens the nerve, palsies the energies of
his own mortal nature. There is no char
acter where there is no action. There is
no virtue where all endowments are hoard
ed for personal enjoyment, and none offer
ed for the participation of others.
“Seek for and assiduously use opportu
nities for exercising in active goodness.
If jou have surrounded yourselves with
favorable circumstances, this will be easy.
But society has demands upon its privileg
ed sons beyond this. In the unsettled
state of principles and manners in this
growing and restless country, nothing is
so greatly needed as a virtuous public spir
it in the better-informed classes. It is
urgently necessary that they stand forward
i with wise hearts and bold hands to stem
the torrent of false opinions, to uphold the
honor of principle, to determine the suf
frage for right, and to maintain truth
and religion in their supremacy. The
perils of the age, the crisis in the charac
ter of a people bursting forth in the im
mense range of free iife, with innumera
ble numbers, are matters of common re
mark. The friends of truth and order
are anxiously awake, for something must
be done. YVlio will do it? Whoever
else it may he, those who have been most
favored with knowledge must make them
selves this number.”
Ludicrous case of Robbery. Yester
day a robbery was committed which caused
a general laugh .-gainst the tradesman who
was plundered. A well-dressed ‘victimi
ser,’ whose general apparel a pair of very
indifferent shoes by no means improved,
walked into a bootmaker’s shop in the
city, and asked for a particularly neat pair
of VVelingtons. He was rather a fastidi
ous customer, but the master of the shop
at last fitted him with great exactness.—
‘What’s the priceT’ said he, stamping with
his right foot to fasten himself- immove
ably in the new purchase. Before an an
j svver could be given in darted a stranger
j into the shop, struck the hooted customer
a violent blow in the face, knocked him
flat, and then ran off. The insulted per
! sou leaped up with the blood running from
his nose, and crying out, ‘where is the vil
lain who assaulted me?’ ran out at full
speed to catch the aggressor. ‘I wonder/
said the owner of the shop, ‘if the gentle
man will catch that vile rascal who hit
him so spank. lam afraid the hoots will
cramp him. I thought they were too tight,
and its a pity if the feller escapes.’—
‘Catch him?’ exclamed the shopman, look
incr at the old pair of inud-plungers which
the ‘victimiser’ had left behind; ‘l’ll be
blest if they arn’t both‘in fast enough.’—
‘What?’ said the master, in consternation,
‘what do you mean to say the gentleman
with the bloody nose won’t come back?’
‘To be sure I do,’ answered the shopman,
‘what could he come back for? Hasn’t he
got a pair of good hoots for his bloody
nose?' It is almost needless to add that
be has not yet appeared. The bootmaker
is, no doubt, still in pursuit of his coward
ly and unceremonious assailant.— [En
glish paper.
Correspondence of a Western Trav
eller. “1 have just returned from a tour to
the Falls, and while travelling through the
western part of the state in a stage, we came
to a long strip of corduroy road, and as we
were bouncing over it and were almost driven
through the top of the stage, the driver stop
ped and said, ‘Gentlemen, take particular no
tice, this is the identical spot where Gov. Mar
ry tore hit pantaloont!' ”