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[From the Savannah Georgian.]
FROM FLORIDA.
The following is an extract of a letter
from an officer of the army, to a gentleman
ill this city, dated
Camp near the Oklawaha,
5 miles from Pilot ka, Jan. 24, 1K39.
I will give you a short description of
our. land of Flowers. Lord ! what a cog
nomen for Florida; in the first place, nfWr
crossing the Oklawaha river we cot a road
from the point of passage to Lake George,
as perfect a barren as the foot of man
over trod upon, scrub oak as high as a
man’s head; this occupied us fire days,
when we camped at Silver Springs. Ex
pectation was high as to the probability
of catching Indians, in fact we had been
inforiMd by our Indian guide, Tomoka
John, that there was a large body of re
fugee Creeks waiting to give us a recep
tion. Our blood was up in spite of scrub
oaks, and no water, besides a broiling sun;
we marched and marched—advanced and
retrograded but “de Ingun no dar.” Well
says our Major to Sampson, (negro guide,)
you see there are no Indians here, where
are they? Well massa you see dey are
all gone, if dey no in de swamp dar, dey
ober todder side in de big hammock, wa
ter all round, if dey no dere, dey must be
off yonder (pointing South,) if dey no
dere Eh ! ! dey must be all gone, me
dorno where—so ended the grand expedi
tion (to the Oklawaha) consisting of twelve
companies.
After this the whole of my regiment on
this side went to Key Biscaync and Fort
Pierce, excepting my company, which is
here building a picket work. I came
near nabbing a few of the scanips the oth
er day, five of them had fired on a teams
ter, shooting him through the right breast,
wounding him badly. This was up Deep
Creek, about two miles from which place
I was at that time. I started immediately
with twelve men and came up with the
wagon, which was striped of its cover; all
the corn bags being emptied and the bags
taken. We traced them upwards of a
mile by the grains of corn spilled and
their trail, when we lost them in the worst
swamp that ever white man saw. But
two days afterwards came our part of the
fun and plunder* I was ordered with my
whole company to reconnoitre Deep Creek
down to the Oklawaha river, a distance of
three or four miles.
After arriving at the mouth we saw a
small fire. A tree was felled immediately,
and we crossed over to see what was the
matter. We soon discovered we had
pounced upon them unexpectedly. They
left every thing “in statu quo,” in the
midst of their cooking; cnonti was on the
fire—cups and pots were filled with water
— eveu powder-horns and (vouches, hows
and arrows, petticoats, moccasins, cloths,
&c. were strewed thickly round; every
thing we did not care to carry off was
pitched into the creek. 1 warrant they
will rue the day they stole the wagon.—
We got back the identical cover and corn
bags. 1 did really pity the poor devils for
their destitution, —we took them all. The
war is stopped for want of argument. Wc
can do nothing, for no one knows where
the Indians are, and of course wc cannot
move against them.
FLORIDA WAR.
Governor Call in his message to the
Legislature of Florida, now in session,
has presented an interesting view of the
Florida war, and shown that, after three
years of military operations, bravely and
(vcrseveringly carried on, at a great loss of
lives, and an immense expenditure of mo
ijey, the state of things is worse than ever;
and lias most urgently recommended the
passage of the bill (with some chang
es) now pending before the Senate for
the armed occupation and settlement of
that part of Florida which is now overrun
by the hostile Indians. The part of Gov
ernor Call’s message relating to this
subject has been ordered by the Senate
to be printed, for the information of the
Senate and to aid them in legislating to
the best advantage on the bill in question.
Mr. Benton gave notice that lie should
call for the consideration of the bill on
Monday next; having now received the
opinions and suggestions of Governor
Call, in addition to those of General Her
nandez and the Surgeon General, Doctor
Lawson, all eminently qualified to give
opinions, ahd all concurring cordially
in favor of the bill, not only as the best,
but as the only means of terminating this
harassing and desolating war.
FLORIDA WAR.
Mr. Benton, chairman of the Commit
tee of Military Affairs of the Senate, has
reported a on/ from that committee pro
viding for “the urmed occupation and set
tlement of that part of Florida, trhich is
H4Ht orerrun and infested by marauding
bands of ho stile Indians.” The principal
of the bill is to grant land to the settlers
who will go to the parts of Florida indi
cated, eAabhsh stations, and maintain
their possession until the country is paci
fied, and the Indians removed. Three
hundred and twenty acres of land is the
quantity proposed to be granted to be se
lected by the gutters themselves, eacji
for himself, aooovding to priority of set
tlement. Provisions for a year, and also
ammunition to be to the set
beyond the latitude of the
Vithlacoochee. Wc believe that this bill
as been reported upon full consultation
with the Secretary at War, several offi
ver=, who have served in Florida, and ma
ny ....habitants of the Territory, and that
they all concur with th t Senate s commit
tee in believing that this bill presents the
true, safe, expeditious, cheap, and effec
tual method of bringing the Florida dis
turbances to an end. Accompanying the
hill is a letter from the Surgeon General,
Dr. Lawson, in answer to inquiries from
the chairman of the committee, in which
he presents the most cheering prospect of
the facilityof obtaining good land, healthy
stations, and plenty of provisions for the
settler The letter has been printed to
accompany the hill, by order of the Sen
ate, and is herewith [.resented to the pub
lic and we take the occasson to say that
Dr. Lawson’s views and information are
entitled to the highest confidence, the
whole being given from actual experience
and personal examination, and bottomed
upon both military and medical services
in the peninsula of Florida. The Doctor
having had a military command and serv
ed much in tl.e Territory, and especially
in the extreme southern part of it, which
he so well and so interestingly desribes.
[From the Savannah Georgian.]
SILK CULTURE.
Our readers who arc interested in the
culture of silk will highly appreciate the
practical knowledge of Mr. Spalding,
embraced in the following note, jvitli
which we have been politely furnished by
Mr. Bond.
Savannah, 20th January, 1830.
Dear Sir—At your desire, 1 say, that
my Morns Multicnulis plants are altogeth
er derived from a single tree which my
friend Dr. Fort, of Milledgeville, obtained
at an early period from Mr. Prince, of N.
York. Air. Wylly’s are derived from mine;
Mr. Couper’s arc altogether front three
plants brought by the Rev. Mr. Bartow,
from Prince’s Nursery. Mr. Couper and
myself, for two years past, have pressed
our neighbors to the culture and have
given away thousands of plants. I have
now 23 acres containing about 22,000
young trees planted at 3 feet by 10.—
This distance has been selected for the
greater convenience in gathering the leaves
into small carts provided with wicker
baskets for the feeding of the silk worm,
and is a distance adapted to the size of;
the Alours Multicaulis which is in truth!
rather a shrub than a tree. My mode of!
planting, if a nursery, after digging the!
soil well, to trench about three inches!
deep two feet apart, then place a two bud-’
ded cutting in the trench a foot apart,
giving a little upward inclination to the
cutting, so as to meet the season whether
wet or dry. When the cuttings are placed
in the trench, I strew over them a little
well prepared manure and then cover
them about two inches deep with soil, ;
marking the spot where the cuttings are!
placed by a small stick, that the grass*!
may he mole carefully hand-picked. I
find that a sandy soil is preferable to clay,
and I believe it will he better and safer
to send plants or cuttings from the south
to the north, because in preparing them
here, they will arrive at the north while!
the season is yet soft and the soil in a;
good situation to receive them, whereas!
in bringing them from the north here, he-!
fore they have had time to root, our sea-j
son becomes hot. and dry. I draw' this!
conclusion from my son three years ago
having Imported from Prince’s Nursery,
through the medium of Major Bowen, of
Sava..nali, 8100 worth of cuttings, say
1040. They looked well when they ar
rived on the Ist May, and altho’ carefully;
planted, not more than 00 of them grew.
In my own case 1 rarely lose more titan 1
or 2in 100. It. cultivating them in the
field, root crops, say potatoes, turnips or
cabbages may be grown with them ad
vantageously, but beware of culmiferous
or grain crops, rye, oats, ike., for the
roots spreading over the surface will ac
tually cither kill, or greatly injure all young
trees. You may make wi.at use you please
of this letter, if you believe it can he of
any service.
I remain, dear sir,
Your obedient servant,
TIIOS. SPALDING.
Tuos. P. Bono, Esq.
THE GEORGIA BANKS.
In reply to numerous applications
made to us to notice the course pursued
by the Georgia banks, for some time past,
and the pressure and embarrassments
produced by that course, we beg leave to
observe, that it was not to indifference,
nor a reluctance to touch the subject,
should be ascribed the delay iu offering
our views upon the causes and effects
of the pressure and embarrassments. We
are seeking all the information that can
be obtained; and wc hope very shortly to
Uc enabled to comply with the wishes of
our friends in the country and the City.
Iu the meantime, we beg our country
friends to believe, that tl.e banks of Au
gusta arc not more hostile to the country
banks, than they are to one another in our
city; that the interior suffer less by the
course of our banks than our citizens
themselves; and that if the banks of the
state are not compelled very shortly to
adopt another course, the most serious
injury will he sustained by the commer
cial and agricultural interests of our state,
of which the banks must have their share.
[Augusta Constitutionalist.
If (Her isms. —“ The closest ties will some
times be broken,” as the criminal said, when
the rope with which they were hanging him
snapped in two.
“ 1 think we had better drop the subject ,” as
the man said when the judge asked him what
he had to sa v against sentence of death being :
passed urea him.
BRUNSWICK ADVOCATE.
[From the Now Orleans Boe.]
AFFAIRS IN MEXICO.
We are indebted to tlve politeness of
: one of our subscribers for the following
extract of a letter, dated
“Mexico, 29th Dec. 1838.
“Matters are in such an anomalous
state now, that surely they cannot remain
|so much longer. Here we had a three
j day’s ministry of Gomez Pedraja and his
confederates for a reform of the constitu
! tion of 1824, say from the 12th to the
loth inst., during which wc had a regular
tumult,unaccompanied by any other excess
than ringing of hells and a few broken
windows, and cries in the streets of “viva
la union” and “viva la federacion” —all
of which amounted to nothing after all.—
The troops remained firm and threatened
to leave the city and proclaim Santa Ana
a dictator.
“Upon this Bustamente quarreled with
his new fangled ministry, who retired, and
•once more left the political field to the
‘centralists’ —but confidence in Busta
mente is gone and he has had the greatest
difficulty in forming anew ministry, com
posed ofTorua for the war department, Go
roztija for foreign affairs, Col. Corlina for
finance, who by the way, is a much better
colonel for the ‘Battalion de Comercio’
than a minister of finance, and Lobrija,
brother of the administrator ofour custom
house, for the interior. Meantime the
interior of the country was rather troubled,
hut all is quiet again. Our communica
tion with Tampico continues to be cut
off by Canalijo with his troops, and hither
to the efforts to persuade General Urrea to
give up his ‘federal’ plan and submit to
the government lias proved unavailing.
“How government will manage to raise
funds is not very clear. Hitherto it has
subsisted on patriotic loans and a few con
tributions ultimately the clergy must
pay for the war, which will serve them
right as they are preaching it up in their
churches.”
The Merchants. During the debate
on the Swnrtwout Defalcations, Mr. Hoff
man said, it had of late become the prac
tice it. every way, and on all occasions,
to assail the character of our Merchants,
who. seemed to be regarded bv some as a
caravan on the desert, that every wander
ing tribe might think it fair to attack and
plunder. But who are tl.e mcrcl.auts of
this country? They were men whose
honor and enterprise have done as much
to elevate our national character as the
gallant achievements of our army and
navy; and whose integrity and faith, dur
ing our late financial difficulties, hail call
ed forth on the floor of the British Parlia
ment, a tribute of praise from the Chan
cellor of the Exchequer—men ' who had
j left less than 8500 unpaid, out of more
than 82,000,000, which had been return
ed upon them protested from England.
W here did their enemies find motives for
this perpetual attack? Was it to be found
in that spirit of enterprise which had
carried our flag to every sea and every
dime, and had paid into our very Treasu
ry the sums which had formed this ali
ment to speculation and defalcation?
Was it to he found in the early history of
our Republic? Are not gentlemen ad
monished of its injustice, by that picture
which adorns your Rotunda, when they
sec and know that lie who is sitting in
his Chair of dignity and peril, receiving
the Declaration of our Independence from
a Jefferson and a Franklin, was a Boston
merchant—the proscribed and patriotic
Hancock?
Let me tell the gentleman from Md.,
that Commerce is, and always has been,
the handmaid of Liberty; and its protec
tion or destruction, has always been the
unerring indication ofa wise and free, or a
t weak and arbitrary government. Let me
remind him, that tl.e weak and vacillating
reign of the (ill. Henry of England, was
still more darkened by legislative enact*
! incuts against the freedom of commerce,
whilst the same page of history, which
jsliines with the achievements and wisdom
of one of her best Kings, was illumined
jby laws to unfetter trade and protect her
j merchants.—[Alex Gaz.
Severe Cold at the North, —At Al
bany, Jan. 23, 8 degrees below zero.
At Saratoga Spa, Jan. 24, 7 A. M., 33
degrees below zero.
At Ballston Spa, Jan. 24, 7 A. M., 33
degrees below zero.
At Albany, Jan. 25, G 1-2 A. M., 14
degrees below zero.
At Boston, Jan. 21, 7 A. M., 14 de
grees below zero.
At Charleston, Jan. 25, daylight, 10
degrees below zero.
At Chelsea, Jan. 25, 8 A. M., 7 degrees
below zero.
At Dorc'nsVct, J an. 24, 15 degrees be
low zero.
The Morality of Railroads. —When
Queen Elizabeth wished to accomplish
an important undertaking, she commenc
ed what she called “ turning the pulpits”
—giving the clergy tl.e key note of tl.e
enterprise, and the people were soon
made to chime in, in most sweet concord.
It was a capital notion, at least so think a
railroad company in Massachusetts, and
they are trying to turn it to account.
The “Western Railroad Corporation,” in
order to insure the success of their ap
plication to the legislature for aid, have
addressed circulars to all tl.e clergymen
in the state, urging them individually to
deliver a “discourse on the moral effects
of railroads!” We beg to suggest to the
clergymen ns a text suited to the subject,
1 Peter iii. 9 : “ Rendering railing for
railing.” — [Boston Transcript
An Affray. Yesterday, about 2
o’clock, P. M., in the principal street in
this city, two young men, both of whom
had resided here for several years, had
a quarrel about the settlement of an ac
count, which led to blows, and resulted
in one of them plunging a Bowie knife,
to the depth of between three and four
inches into the side of the other, imme
diately under the ribs. The wound was
inflicted with a Bowie knife about ten or
twelve inches it. length, and there is ev
ery reason to believe that it will prove
mortal. 'Phe inftictor of the wound was
arrested, and taken before C. M’Clure,
Esq., for examination. We gather from
the notes of the investigation before us,
that opprobrious language was first used
by the party stabbed, retorted by the other,
and the first blow, as near as could he
ascertained, was given by the former.
They clinched and both fell—in that pos
ture, or when rising from it, the knife
was drawn and the wound inflicted. The
defendant was required to give hail for
his appearance for trial at the regular
term of Court to the amount of 81000.
Which being done he was released.
We have here another awful instance
of the consequence of that most perni
cious and disgraceful habit, the wearing
of deadly weapons. When w ill the dic
tates of wisdom aud reason prevail among
our young men, and banish this accurs
ed practice from the land.— [Natchez
Courier.
Air. Secretary Woodbury, in his re
port to Congress, has ransacked the ar
chives of the Treasury from the com
mencement of tl.e government, and after
exhibiting his usual knowledge ofarit/nna
tir, discovers that by using the Banks as
fiscal agents there is now about one mil
lion of dollars unavailable funds. This
is too much to loose. But why has he
,so studiously concealed the amount of
losses sustained by the government offi
cers? Not a word is said about the over-!
whelming amount which has taken legs
and fled beyond the seas.—Are the mill
ions on millions which the dishonest Sub-
Treasurers of the country have stolen
and carried away, more available than
the amount lost by the hanks? We pre
sume not. And yet the one is blazoned
forth and held up to the public censure
whilst the other is unnoticed and unre
buked. If Woodbury is an honest man
in this matter, ho would do to fool a wis
er crowd than wc arc.—[Columbus Enq.
A SiNoui.Aß Cass.. —A poor weaver in
this town, of the name of Grime, was, a
short time ago effected with a pain in his
stomach accompanied by other peculiar
sensations; he took several courses of
medicine, without experiencing any relief.
“At times,,” says he, “I felt as if some
thing was moving about in my insides.” ]
lie continued iu this condition about a
week, when the pain began to descend; he
then tried outward applications, such as
rubbing the pair, with warm flannel—still
there was no abatement of the pain.—
When the ailment reached the knee, the
pain was excruciating; the patient sat up
most of the night, rubbing tl.e afflicted part
before the fire, until he felt a little easier; he
was then about to draw on his stocking,
when he perceived something sticking out
from the calfof hisleg; he immediately drew
it out, and it proved to be a tailor’s large
sized needle, considerably corroded. He
is now iu a convalescent state.—[Preston
Chronicle.
The Coi.lec f.. —We arc happy to state
that the prospects of our Slate University
continue in the highest degree flattering.
There are now in attendance 111 students,
and 8 or 10 more of those who were here at
last term are expected to return. The
professors are all at their posts, prepared,
alter a few weeks’ rest and recreation, to
re-enter upon their accustomed routine of|
duties, and zealously to continue the ardu
ous and faithful labors in which they have
heretofore been engaged. They are de
serving of the confidence of the people of
Georgia, and we rejoice to find that their
talents aud exertions are appreciated.
[Athens Banner.
W. L. Yancey, Esq. who was convicted
of Manslaughter at the last full term of
our Court, and sentenced to a fine of fif
teen hundred dollars, and imprisonment
of twelve months, says the Greenville
Mountaineer of the 25th inst., has had his
sentence commuted by tl.e Governor of
this State to 8500 fine and three months
imprisonment; which time expired on the
22d inst. and Mr. Y. was released. The
petitions forwarded to his Excellency,
were signed by upwards of 1000 respect
able persons, and a large portion of them
citizens of. this District. [Charleston
Paper.
Education in Virginia. —Some remark
able facts are stated in the Message of
the Governor of Virginia, showing an un
expected degree of ignorance among the
people of that ancient commonwealth.
He says, that of 4082 applicants in 1817
for marriage licenses, 1187, or nearly
one-fourth, were unable to write their j
names. In 1827, of 5043 applicants,
1100 could not write; and in 1837, of
4014 applicants, 1047 were unable to !
write. This shows but a small increase |
of the blessings of education among the
people of that State. All the applicants!
were males, and the Governor supposes!
that education is more generally diffused
among that sex than among the females.
1 he Governor recommends some materi
al changes iu the school system. —[Rich-
mond Whig
HAVANA.
The exports from the port of Havana,
during 1838, are valued at sixteen millions
iof dollars, in which the article of sugar
alone amounted to nine millions.
The Spanish government has ordered
to be sold the property of the Bethlehem
convent in Havana. The plantations
and slaves of the convent are estimated
at about three millions of dollars, the
houses and lots in Havana, at about three
hundred thousand dollars. [Savannah
Georgian.
General Banking in Georgia. —We
■have been informed from Milledgeville,
that the banking business under the late
i law, seemed to he in quite a flourishing,
ior rather increasing condition. Not less
than ten or twelve companies are forming
and rapidly progressing in their prepara
tions to commence operations. A compa
ny had been formed in Sumter, one in
Early, one it. Troup, one in Stewart, one
in Elbert, another in Decatur, and an in
dividual of our city proposed going into
the business. In Jasper, Coweta, Cher
okee, Cass, and De-Kalb counties, meet
ings have been called to make arrange
ments for organizing associations.—[Au
gusta Constitutionalist.
Extraordinary Discovery of Homan
Skeletons. —Dr. Allmatt of Wallingford,
lias written an account of some most
interesting discoveries which have been
recently made at Shooter’s hill, near
Panghbourn, Berks, on the line of the
Great Western Railway. Several human
skeletons, in a high state of presevntion,
having been disintered, which are the re
mains of Roman soldiers, who fell in all
probability during their sanguinary con
flicts with the ancient Britons. Small
sepulchral urns of rude workmanship,
but elegant and classical devices, were in
the graves, and upwards of forty Roman
coins, of gold, silver and brass, of the
reigns of Do.nitian, Constantine, Julian
the Apostate, Constantiuus, Gracia..us,
Liciuius, Lupicinius, the Proprietor, (who
was invested with regal authority) and seve
ral others. Spear-heads, battle axes, and
spurs of British and Roman manufacture,
were also found.
Some of the graves contained consider
able ...asses of charcoal, without bones,
indicating that honours had been paid to
the deceased warrior, and that his remains
had been burnt previous to interment.—
Some of the coins arc in good preservation,
hut others are worn, cankered, and illegi
ble. The hones are well preserved, hav
ing laid in the dry gravel, about four feet
from the surface, immediately overlying
the chalk, and one of the skulls was heavi
er and more consolidated than natural,
owing probably to its being in the inci
pient state of the process of petrifaction.
Horrible, infliction of the Lash on a
Marine by anew Instrument of Torture.
—Another of those disgraceful and execra
ble scenes took place recently at Wool
wich, on the person of Alfred Edley a
private in the royal marines. The poor
“condemned” (for that is the tern, among
the soldiery) human being, by an abhor
rent law which stamps indelible infamy
on the character of an enlightened age,
and brands England with the stigma of
barbarism, revolting to civilized Europe,
was paraded about ten o’clock, to hear
a sentence promulgated, which was to
mutilate his frame, not to be effaced but
by the decomposing process of the grave!
lie had been guilty of the old crime of
disposing of his “kit” or “necessaries,”
to procure a few shillings to supply his
wants, which he refused to explain, &c.
for which, altho’ his own property, he
was to receive one hundred lashes, or nine
hundred stripes! The poor fellow strip
ped without a murmur, and disdained to
entreat mercy in a quarter where he might
as well have attempted to drown the wind
by his whistle; the scene of blood com
menced under the auspices of the sur
geon who is placed on the arena of this
sanctioned atrocity, not to allay or miti
gate the sufferings of the victims, but in
sure the neck of him who has to carry
out the demoralizing and accursed law
into effect. The groans and writhings of
the unhappy object could only be equalled
by one enduring the scalping process of
the tufted Cherokee; the quivering flesh
yielded to the practised strokes of the
brawny arms of tl.ose used to this work
of blood and torture; the mutilated back
presented one broad mass of lived flesh
and clotted gore, which was still lacerat
ed with renewed vigor, until the misera
ble wretch had received the full quantum
awarded.—But the “cats” with which he
was punished have not passed unnoticed
by the observations of those feelingly
alive to this horrid mode of punishment.
—lnstead of whip-cord, they are made of
cotton close wove, with three over-hand
knots.in each tail! and the plea for the
adoption of this refinement of torture is,
that the “cats” are less liable to clot with
blood! and do not descend with such
ponderous weight, thereby bruising, and
endangering the culprit’s life: yet it is ad
mitted they inflict more excruciating ag
ony, by cutting to the quick! The poor
fellow was conducted to the hospital, evi
dently laboring under great exhaustion;
and three others, Rowley, Hopkins, and
Smith, for a similar offence, were march
ed off to Colbath fields prison for differ
ent terms of imprisonment, with a j»ortion
of the period in solitary confinement.
[Weekly (London) Despatch.
Colton was quoted it Columbus, (Ga.) on
the 31st ult. at 12 to 111-2 cents.
| GALE AND FLOOD IN NEW YORK.
| [From the N. Y. Jour, of Com. Jan. 26,11 P. M.J
i Severe Gale. —One of the severest
gales we have ever experienced, visited
i this city on Saturday afternoon. The
day previous the weather was mild, with
a moderate breeze from the Eastward,
, and indications of a storm. In the course
j of the night, rain commenced failing, and
the wind at this time got quite fresh, in
clining to a gale.—This description of
weather continued until about two o’clock
P. M. on Saturday, when there wss a rap
id increase in the uproar of the elements,
and by three o’clock a regular gale was
upon us, from SSE.—For an hour and a
half there was a constant rush of wmd, at
times its violence was terrific,
i The dispersion of sign boards, the
thrashing of window blinds and shutters,
| the scattering of slates and otflicr appur
tenances of buildings, Flic whistling of
rigging, and the general roar of the tem
| pest, were the first incidents to which
public attention was directed;, but anoth
er danger soon became apparent, in some
respects more formidable than all the rest.
The tide was rising rapidly, and, driven*
forward by the wind, soon covered the
wharves, and then invaded South street
nearly the whole of which, including the
side walk, was for some time under tl.e
water, to the depth of one to three feet.
Up Maiden Lane, Broad, Fulton, Beck
man street, Peck Slip,&.c. the water reach
ed Front street, and in some of them even
passed beyond Water st. In all these
streets we saw boats plying,—cotton bales,
barrels, &lc. floating,—-and when the wa
ter subsided, some hundred of tons, we
should think, of thick ice from the har
bor were left in the streets. A great ma
ny cellars were filled with water, and the
damage to goods must in the aggregate be
very considerable.
A number of buildings suffered more or
less damage.
The shipping at the wharves lay as qui
et as could be expected. There was a
gooJ deal of disturbance among them,
but no bones broken, that we arc aware
of. Several canal boats were driven up
on the wharves and even into the middle
of South street.
We have great fears for vessels on the
coast, as the gale drove directly on shore.
[From the Southern Whig.]
The main Trunk of the Georgia Rail
Road is progressing with astonishing rap
idity—the whole line appears like a bee
hive. Those who wish a summer resi
dence in the romantic Cherokee, will soon
he gratified by a mode of conveyance
that seems to suit the old and young, the
grave and gay, the man of busineSs
and of leisure. The locomotive monsters
will soon be seen surpassing in speed the
high mettled racer passing along mountain
side and over deepest glen, bearing in
their train the luxuries of distant lands,
in exchange for which wc will return
treasures from our mountains, and bread
stuffs from our valleys. We will not then
send to the Baltic for wheat or even to
the New York Canal; nor will we send to
Fulton Market for beef.
The famous Coosawattee and other-bot
tom lands, shall give us plenty and to
spare; our sheep shall graze on the moun
tains, and from the rocky cascade shall
arise tl.e hum of industry the loom
and shuttle and the thousands of spindles
shall send a thrill to all within hearing.—
Why then are hundreds talking of the
West and of Texas? Millions of our fel
low mortals would think this a paradise.
Mail was not created for an idle being;—
he that would be happy, must he industri
ous and his mind employed. Let us ail re
solve to do something, however small, —
’tis no longer a disgrace to work. Let
one of us cultivate the Mul(»erry, another
the Peach, and a third the Apple. Why
should Georgia pay thousands of dollars
for apples to the other States —that pro
duce them on lands worth fifty dollars per
acre, when we have better lands for orch
ards selling at fifty cents per acre? Let
us all resolve to be industrious for one
year, and every thing about us will alter
as if by magic.
A Noble Dog. —The Boston
states, that while a gentleman, his wife,
child and dog, were walking near the
Providence railroad, the child, unpcrcciv
ed by its father, strayed upon the track.
At that moment the train of cars was
coming forward,at full speed when the dog
jumped forward, seized the little trembler
by tl.e waist, and brought him safe from
the track; scarcely had he accomplished
this feat, when the lumbering locomotive
came puffing by.
Butler Found Gui.ljy. —The trial of
Thomas Butler, charged with murdering
young White, at a house of ill fame in
this city, a short time since, was brought
to a close last evening, when the jury re-
shortly returned with a verdict
oigiUy of Murder in the second degree.
The junishment of this crime is im
prisonment in the Penitentiary for life.
[Cincinnati Whig, Jan. 23.
We cannot account for the rise in the
price of leather. —[Lynn Recorder.
We can. The leg-treasurers are using
up shoe-leather so fast as to keep the mar
ket in a state of almost complete exhaus
tion.—[Louisville Journal.
If a Whig were born in the sea, he
would be agudgeon. —[Pennsylvania Dem
ocrat.
If a Shark wore born on land, he would
be a Sub-Treasurer.—[Louisville Journal.