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[From the Columbus Enquirer.]
AUGUSTA BANKS..
The course poVsued by the Attgnsta
Banks, towards those of the interior, has
lteyn sash as t» cripple them ia their op
erations, embarrass the whole community
by reducing the circulation, and produce
great distress in the very middle of the
business season, when money is usually
most plenty. In consequence of n great
portion of the merchants of the State
making their notes payable at Augusta, it
gives the banks of that place the control
of touch of the circulation extant. If these
institutions would pay out Hie notes ol
other Banks so received, this would not
be felt as an inconvenience, but under the
present policy of running them home im
mediately, it is not difficult to sec that
our batiks must curtail their business, ns
a matter of safety to themselves. The
charges urged against the Augusta B inks,
ore of a serious nature, and if true, will
not add to their character for fair and
legitimate transactions. It seems that,
for the purpose of controlling as much of
the Northern funds, nccumiilntcd by oilier
banks, as possible, they refuse to pay out
their notes and call upon them for frequent
settlements. That if the banks, called up
on will not redeem their notes with North
ern checks, at such a rate as is prescribed,
they propose to take notes of other banks
at a half to one per cent discount, which
if agreed to, they immediately present for
redemption upon like terms. This is a
sort of a shaving, brokering operation, dis
graceful to any institution professing to do
business in an honorable manner, and ru-
inous to the interests of the people. It is
understood that a proposition was made,
that the notes of the banks in Georgia and
South Carolina should ho received at aJI
the banks in both States, and that a bank
holding a balance after settlement, should
receive interest, at a certain rate, for a
reasonable time, if it itas not disposed to
pay out their bills. This arrangement, so
highly beneficial, not only to many of the
banks in Georgia, but to her merchants
generally, it is understood, failed in con
sequence of the Augusta Banks refusing
to enter into it, unless the rate of interest
was made much higher than was proposed.
The people have complained loudly of mo
nopolies, aristocracy, Ac. and at one time
tfe feared that the mania would end in a
prostration of all banks, by making a sac
rifice of them at the shrine of Benton’s
mint-drop and hard-money humbug; and
we extremely regret that the banks them
selves should give cause for dissatisfaction,
or make it necessary for our institutions
in the interior to resort to a law of doubt
ful constitutionality, for protection.
It is due the whole community, that the
Banks in Augusta should discontinue their
present ruinous course, or satisfy the peo
ple of its correctness.
The Swartwout Defalcation.—Ac
cording to Secretary Woodbury’s reports
to Congres»ihe defalcation of the late col
lector of this port amounted to a million
and a quarter of dollars. Let us see how
this sum compares with the salaries of the
President of the United States from Gen
eral Washington down to Mr. Van Buren.
Gen. Washington was in I &onn non
office S years and received ) 1 ~ '
John Adams, 4 years, 100,000
Tlios. Jefferson, 8 years, ‘200,000
James Madison, 8 do. 200,000
James Monroe, 8 do. 200,000
John Q. Adams, 4 years, 100,000
Andrew Jackson, 8 years, 200,000
M. Van Buren, 1 year to | 0 „ ......
March 4 1838, j ~° , UU
Total, § 1,225,000
Here is the sum precisely equal to the
salaries of the Presidents for forty-nine
years, at sixty eight dollars a day. What
a prodigious amount of money! Besides
that, the collector was in office nine years,
and his emoluments are stated to have
been at the lowest estimate, §20,000 an
nually-making an aggregate of §IBO,OOO.
Add this sum to a million and a quarter,
and it appears that Mr. Swartwout has re
ceived from Uncle Sam the snug little a
mount of ONE MILLION, FOUR HUN
DRED AND FIVE THOUSAND DOL
LARS, or a fraction over FOUR HUN
DRED AND TWENTY-SEVEN DOL
LARS A DAY FOR NINE YEARS!—
Unele Sam must have an immense revenue
to support his family. The bairn, it seems,
was not disposed to make two bites of a
cherry. Who would not be a Sub-Tres
urer?—[N. Y. Sunday Morning News.
Indians. —About 200 refugee Indians
are said to be concealed in the hammocks
’.be caMe.in.arni of St. Andrew’s Bay,
between 30 and 40 miles north of this
place. A detachment of IT.l T . S. troops are
in pursuit of them.—They have as yet
committed no depredation and excite but
little alarm in the neighborhood.
collision occured be
tween the Steamer Oconee ascending, and
the Steamer Oceola going down, the river
—about six miles above Apalachicola.—
The boats came together with a crash—
and we regret to aaj that it was attended
by tlie loss of several lives. One man from
the Oconee, and three we learn from the
Oscebla were drowned. We have con
versed with several passengers on the Oco
nee, who says that tliere was no misman
agement on the part of the officers of that
boat, she being in her proper position
and backing her engine at tlie time of the
accident. The accident occurred about
10 o clock at night, and the Oceola is
much damaged—the Oconee suffering but
mile or no injury.—[St. Joseph Times.
.5. Washington, Febi 9t
Important and Acceptable News.—
Commodore Bechamel, of the French arm
ed steamer Veloce, arrived in this city oi
Thursday evening from Baltimore, ac
compnnied by Captain De Challie, hi:
first officer. The Veloce arrived ai
Baltimore on Tuesday in fvc days'f roir
Havana. Tlie Commodore, when he em
tered the Chesapeake, intended toproceed
up the Potomac direct to Washington,
but on ascending tlie river some thirty or
forty miles, found his progress arrested by
the ice, when lie put about and proceeded
to Baltimore. But for this impediment we
should have found a foreign-frigate prob
ably anchored off' our navy yard, two
hundred and fifty miles inland, before any
one was aware that such a ship was on our
coast. We state this fact in connection
with the rapid passage of the Veloce from
Havana, to mark the important revolution
which has been, suddenly as it were, crea
ted in navel operations by the all power
ful agency of steam —a revolution which,
bv placing Europe and America, practic
ally, within half the distance which form
erly separated them from each other more
deeply affects our own country and its
position in regard to foreign states than
any other. By obliterating so much of
tlie vast distance which separated us from
the Eastern continent, it almost incorpor
ates us in the family of European nations.
It certainly imparts to us new relations,
and imposes fresh duties; and it would ar
guc more of madness that of thoughtless
ness to disregard the lesson which it
teaches us.
We are happy to learn from a gentle
man who accompanied the French officers
from Baltimore, that hostilities have been
J terminated between France and Mexico.
I Through the intervention and mediation
of Admiral Douglas, .commanding the
British fleet on the Mexican coast, terms of
accommodation have been mutually agreed
on l»y the belligerents, and hostilities had
ceased. The particulars will doubtless
reach us before long.
HIFLE SHOOTING.
The New York Spirit of the Times
remarks :
A member of the Savannah (Ga.) Rifle
Club is about to call and show us a spec
imen or two of their rifle practice, that
will, perhaps, “knock the hind sights off’” j
the rifles of Gotham ! A member of the
Savanfiuh Club lately made 10 successive
shots, off hand, measuring 27 5-8 inches, ‘
and 20 successive shots measuring 01 5-8
inches, at their “usual (list nice,” which !
is 120 yards. He says in a note —“ 1
shall be in vour city in the course of two
or three weeks, and will accept your
challenge to bet you a basket of Cham
pagne, that if II Aititi.vuTON visits Savan
nah, he will he beaten at almost any dis
tance, and in any manner and shape, save
at a rest.” “Done,” say we, and if Lieut.
Harrington cannot “put your eye out”—
that is, your hulls eye—-we will call in
Capt. P., of the same beautiful corps, or,
if need be, bring up a corps de reserve in
the veteran Col. A. 11. S., who “makes a
perfect mash” of a swallow on the wing,
at a hundred yards—more or less!!
Abolition in If elate are. —The following
brief but significant report was lately
made in the Legislature of Delaware by
Mr. Jones of Wilmington:
“Mr. Jones on Friday presented the
following report:
“The committee to whom was referred
the petition of 311) 'teamen of the eity of
Wilmington and county of Nete Castle,’
praying for the ' abolition of slavery
throughout this State,' beg leave to re
port :
“That they consider the petitioning of
‘ teomerf to our National and State Legis
latures (which they regret'to see is be
coming so general a practice) as deroga
tory from that refinement and delicacy
which should, under all circumstances,
accompany the female character, and as
an unwarranted interference in subjects
that should more properly belong to their
fathers, husbands, or brothers.
“Your committee are also decidedly ol
the opinion that the petitioners whose
names are affixed to the memorial under
consideration, would confer more real be
nefit upon society, if they hereafter con
j fined their attention to matters of a do
mestic nature, and would be more solicit-
I ous to mend the garments of their hus
bands and children, than to patch the
breaches of the laws and Constitution.’’
Latest from Ptru. —Letters have beer
received at New York from Lima to Dec
r:U. There had boen no lighting sinc<
the date of our previous advices; but iht
Chilian army appear XO‘ have* become a
ware of their perilous situation, and or
tfre approach of the army ofthe protecto
General Santa Cruz, they (the Chilians
evacuated Lima, and proceeded to tin
North. There is no doubt that befon
this time they have been compelled ti
leave the country. Such has been, o
w ill be, the issue of the invasion of Peri
by the Chilians.
The fireman’s Ball at the Park was i
great affair—some 4 or 5000 present, am
the decorations and tovpef ceil of such at
immense throng, waltzing on the floorei
stage or filling the tiers of boxes, had i
most imposing effect. The Investigating
Committee honored the occasion—thi
only one we learn on which they have in
termitted from their arduous labors tha
occupy them incessantly night and day.—
[N. Y. Star.
BRUNSWICK ADVOCATE.
FROM HAVANA.
-1 The brig Audubon, from Havana, ar
- rived here yesterday, having sailed on the
i 20th. The Captain informed the Editor
-of the Courier that intelligence had been
s received at Havana, of the arrival of a
t French fleet in the West Indiaseas with
i ten thousand troops destined to att against
■ Mexico. The* fleet had been\ spoken
I with off Martinique. About a week pre
vious two English seventy-fours‘and two
frigates arrived at Havana from Cruz.
It was reported that the English Admiral
' expected to be joined immediately by a
large fleet from England.—Thtre were
many French vessels of war in the port
of Havana, and scarcely a day passed with
out the arrival or departure of some
; French vessel of war being announced.
The presence of so many vessels made ev
ery tiling high in the provision nlarket. —
Perhaps good speculations might be made
by the shipment of Western, produce.
From the signs of the times, jt seems
probable that there will be itnncnse ar
i rnaments concentrating upon th« Gulf of
| Mexico, for the sustenance of wYich vast
1 supplies will be required.—[N. O. Bulletin.
Animal Magnetism. —The London
Lancet, which has contained rjports of
the wonderful experiments ini animal
magnetism, by Dr. Elliotson, hits lately
changed its tone in regard to the subject.
The editor, in the number for Dfccember
1, thus speaks:—
“Is it true that any physicians or sur
geons of any of the Loudon Hospitals
are insulting public decency and abusing
tlie confidence which has been reposed in
them by parents and guardians, by still
practising animal magnetism on the sick
and deluded patients ? If there be such
a hospital—if there be such officers be
longing to any establishment in London
—the sooner the governors take serious
notice of what is passing in their institu
tion, the better will it he for the inter-*
ests of the charity, and the reputation of
the science of medicine in this country. I
After the exposure, the extraordinary,
but most complete and effective exposure j
of the folly of believing in the reality of*
animal magnetism—accomplished to the
satisfaction of every sane spectator, at aj
private residence in London—we had
thought that the humbug would no longer
be tolerated in any of our public institu- j
timis. If, however, we arc correctly in
formed as to what is passing, at least in .
one of them, we have been deceived in
this expectation. We have a duty to dis
charge to the profession in this affair,!
and it shall be executed to its fullest ex
tent. The nuisance shall be attacked,i
the humbug shall be pursued, milil.it is
.thoroughly and finally abated. Our duet
| object in writing this notice, is to solicit
immediate information oinhe subject to
which it relutcß. If there he such a hos
pital as the one we have described, the
medical school with which it is connect
ed must be speedily and irreparably ruin
ed, unless the immotal quackery be at
’ once put down by the governors, or other
controlling body of- the institution, in
which the heinous enormity against com
| mon sense and female delicacy is perpe
trated. Sincerely shall we rejoice to find
that we have been misinformed by the rc
\ ports question.
Voyage of discovery. Yatching
which belongs exclusively to the gentlemen
of England, is about to be turned to other
purposes than pleasure alone, by James
Brooke, Esquire, who lias arrived in
Hamoaze, in his schooner yatcli Royalist,
of 142 tons. This gentleman is about to
start on what may be termed a voyage
ot discovery—to explore tlie Indian Arch
ipelago. He proceeds to Borneo, calling
on his way at tlie Cape of Good Hope
and Singapore, where his researches are
to commence, probably, subsequently ex
amining some of the interesting grounds
of tlie Pacific, returning to England by
Cape Horn. It is the first instance of
any gentleman devoting bis life and for
tune to the attainment of geographical
knowledge in those distant and danger
ous seas, an'd the voyage of the Royalist
yatcli will hand the name of her spirited
owner down, deservedly, amongst those
of our most enterprising circumnaviga
tors. The voyage is expected to occupy
about three years. She is armed with
six guns, and carries twenty men, and is
in every way prepared for the pirates of
those seas. Mr. Brooke is a member of
the Royal] Western Yacht Club. He
leaves this port in a few days.—[Plymouth
Herald.
Ls'ieiUsr or M~sahd.<Shrcp.-^Q a®
buck and tw: of «Kr, - aUahta
have been imported, via Savannah and
Augusta to this place. r l hose feeling an
interest in the heretofore much neglected
i science of Agriculture, and rearing do
i mestic animals, particularly those intend
ed for the table, have evinced tlie most
lively interest in tlie welfare and success
ofthe importation. Wm. Dearing, Esq.,
I has presented the proprietor 500 acres of
land, in Rabun county, where they will
be located.—[Athens Whig, 9th inst.
Commodore A. J. Dallas has been ap
pointed to the command of the Navy
Yard at Pensacola, and will enter upon
its duties as soon as relieved by Commo
dore Shubrick, in the command of the
West India squadron. Commodore J.
M. Mclntosh will relieve Commander
Latimer as second officer of that yard.—
[Army and Navy Chronicle.
Steamboat Casualty. —The steamboat
J. Stone, Capt. MeodaJl, hence for Dari
en, aboot six o’clock on yesterday morn
ing described a steamboat, supposed to
Be the Ocmulgee, Capt. Blankenship,
1 from Darien, for this port, ahead, and toH!
the man at the helm to follow the star
board marsh so as to . avoid her. The
large bell of the J. Stone was rung so as
( to give notice to the persons on board the
other > boat—the small bell rung to notify
the engineer to proceed slowly, and Capt.
Mcndail, then ran on to the wheel house
and called to them to stop. The engineer
of the J. Stone then stopped the boat,
when the Ocmulgee ran into the J. S. and
stove the larboard side, carried away 35
feet of the guard deck, stanchions, wheel,
and side hwuses, which were all lost over
board, broke wheel shaft and damaged
the engine slightly, and sustained other
damage. The Ocmulgee encountered
some damage and subsequently towed the
J. Stone to the city.—[Georgian.
FnoM Mexico. The New Orleans
Courier of Saturday evening states, that
ail arrival at that city from Vera Cruz has
brought accounts to the 24th of January.
At that time, the city had few other inha
bitants than the consuls of foreign nations
with their families. The castle of San
Juan de Ulloa was occupied by French
troops. In the vicinity there were about
12 French and 6 English men-of-wnr.
The French admiral exercised undisput
ed authority. All vessels which had ar
rived with cargoes from New Orleans,
were about returning, without having
been allowed to discharge. There was
no news from the interior of Mexico, as
all intercourse was prohibited.
Grand Project. —Gov. Porter of Penn
sylvania, in a message recently sent to
the Legislature, recommends to them to
take such measures as may be necessary
to procure the location of a Railroad from
■ the city of Pittsburgh, through the States
of Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, to St. Louis.
1 A letter writer says: “ Now if these Wes
tern States should agree, in connection
| with Pennsylvania, to locate a Railroad
j between these two points, either by the
funds of the different States, or of com
| panics of private individuals, in connec
tion with those States, it would make one
j of the most splendid lines of internal im
| provements in the world—a line of con
tinuous railroad from the city of Philadel
phia to the city of St. Louis; being per
haps about one thousand miles. But be
sides, it being a continuous railroad from
, St. Louis to Philadelphia, it would also
; be a continuous railroad from the former
place to Washington City; because there
j is now a railroad from that place to Wash
-1 uigton City, with the exception of twenty
four miles, which will also soon be made,
* or, in the other direction, it might be
continued to New York and Boston.”
The new ship Gen. Park hill, Capt. J.
D. Wilson, arrived at St Marks on Friday
the Ist inst. She is a beautiful vessel of
l six hundred tons burthen, measures one
hundred and thirty one feet on deck, thir
'ty feet beam, and twenty one feet hold,
j and will carry two thousand bales of cot
ton. We understand her cargo is ready
for immediate shipment. We have before
I stated that she is for a regular packet be
tween this port and Liverpool.
The ship Geneva, Capt. Hale, will clear
to-morrow for Liverpool, with a cargo of
sixteen hundred hales of Cotton.
It is truly gratifying to every friend of
a direct European trade, to w itness the in
| terest manifested by our enterprising citi
, zens, and the disposition to try at least
the experiment with their own ressurces,
instead of waiting for Legislative assist
. ance. We believe the experiment cannot
fail, at least so far ns our friends are con
cerned. In other Southern ports the like
l feeling prevails, and the time is not far dis
tant, when we shall be able to rely alone
j oil our own merchants for supplies, instead
of an abject dependence on northern im
i porters. —[Tallahasse Floridian.
j Peat of a Somnambulist. —The Baltimore
Sun tells of a chairmaker of that city
who got up in the night, went to his shop
! and procured an adze, and thence mount
ied the roof of his dwelling and entered
| the chimney—giving it a thorough scrap
ing from top to bottom. After which, he
again ascended to the roof and cleansed
his neighbor’s chimney in the same way.
While occupied in this humane service,
the watchman’s hourly cry awoke him,
'and in this perilous situation, making his
predicament known, lie was fortunately
‘extricated with no other harm than a coat
| of soot.
Horrible Inhumanity. —The Haverhill
(New Hampshire) Republican announces
the fact that in the jail in that town there
is n man sixty years old, who has been in
carcerated eight years for debt, and for a
considerable portion ofthe lime for prison
charges only ! Such a fact is a disgrace
to the state which permits such laws to
remain upon her statute book, and a
damning blot upon tlie character of the
town, where the fact must be known. If
the citizens were men of common na-
I lures, they would set the old man free bv
an immediate subscription, and denounce
, his persecutors as unfit for human society
; —[N. Y. Sun.
, . Spunk. —“Marnl, may’ntl go and play
'horse to-day?” •
“No, child, you must stay in the house.”
j Now, look here, marm, if you don’t let
me, I'll go and catch the measles —I
| know a big boy that’s got ’em prime !
We have been informed, verbally, of a
melancholy occurrence which took place
at Wiilingford on Sunday night, the 20th
instant. Three young men were employ
ed watching a coal-pit, near which, as is
customary, a cabin was built to protect the
workmen from the inclemency ofthe weath
er. The young pien had retired into the
cabin, which was well supplied with straw
and it appears they also had a fire. From
the account the young men gave, they
must all have fallen asleep, and when they
awoke they were completely envoloped in
flames, and being somewhat bewildered,
they could not readily discover the en
trance to the cabin, but finally succeeded
in getting out, though their clothes were
entirely consumed, and their bodies and
limbs literally roasted—in this horrid
condition they were able to reach the
house of Mr. Aldrich, the father of one
of the young men, a distance of about
half a mile, but in a situation not easily
to be imagined. One of them died on
Tuesday'following, another on Wednes
day, and we have not learned whether the
third survives or not. They were from
15 to 19 years of age.—[Rutland, Vt.
Herald.
Boundary Trespassers. —The editor
of the Boston Daily Advertiser, has infor
mation from Bangor, Me., that an expe
dition was on foot at that place which had
caused considerable excitement. For
the purpose of driving ofF, and arresting
the trespassers on the public lands in the
disputed Territory, whether'frotn one side
|or the other of the boundary line, the
Legislature_ k has authorized the employ
ment of an adequate force, to be iinmedi
i ately despatched on sleds, fully equipped
| for the purpose, under the direction of
the Sheriff for ihe County of Penobscot,
Hastings Strickland, Esq. and the Land
j Agent, Mr. Mclntyre. One hundred
! men were to be enlisted at Bangor and
! fifty at Oldtown, under Stover Rines of
the latter place, as Captain. They are
picked men, ail able bodied, and, it is said,
are to receive a dollar a day. The State
furnishes horses, sleds, arms, ammunition,
&,c., and the expedition was to have been
ready to start on Wednesday.
Bomb Cannon. —Repeated experiments,
under the inspection of scientific engi
neers, have demonstrated the superiority
of this new weapon invented by the French.
It is said to possess as much superiority
over the old shot and morter, as fire-arms
do over the bow and arrow, or the spear
' and sword of ancient times. At the bom
bardment of San Juan de Ulloa, the tcr
i rible efficacy of this military engine, was
satisf.ictorily'proved by the rapid demoli
tion of that fortress, deemed impregna
| ble to common artillery. Hereafter, the
battery of a foot or vessel of war will not
be deemed complete without the addition
of a few bomb cannon to tlie usual arma
ment. The Army and Navy Chronicle
J urges upon our Government, with good
j reason, the importance of granting to our
i officers the opportunity of becoming practi
; cally acquainted with this gun. The re
port was, that the steam ship Fulton would
! be furnished with four of these machines
jas part of her equipment, and no doubt
their general adoption and use through the
. navy will follow.— [N. O. Bulletin.
Excellent. —A correspondent sends
jus the following/which occurred recent
ly in a neighboring town. After service
j a few Sabbaths since, a young lady, who
1 was a stranger in the place, accompany
ing the Clergyman and liis consort home,
requested him to give the young gentle
men a lecture upon staring at the ladies
during service. He at once replied, “in
deed I will, Miss, and my[te.xt shall he,
turn away thine eyes from beholding van
ity.—[Morristown Jersevinan.
i ’
Printer’s Fee Extra. —The Maumee
: Express records, under Ithe appropriate
head, the a couple, in that region,
and adds:—
Accompanying the above we record the
Printer’s fee, in the shape of threeNublime
loves of cake, and a bountiful link of
splendid pork’semengw, full three feet in
length; and then warn’t there finejtimes in
this office, for the space of a short time?
A citizen who was a moderate drinker,
I was besought by?a temperance agent to
affix his signature to an abstinence
pledge. He declined—giving various rea
sons: at last, however, lie finished by ob
serving: “Well, I’m willing to subscribe
a little to help you along —put me dozen
for six months.
| There is an Editor “down east,” that
goes ahead of any thing we ever heard
of. lle is not only his own “ compositor,
pressman, and devil, but keeps a tavern,
jis village school-master, captain in the
| militia, mends his own boots and shoes,
makes counterfeit Brandreth pills, peddles
essences, and tin ware two days in the
1 week, and always reads sermons on the
Sabbath, when the Minister happens to be
out of the way. In addition to all this,
he has a wife and sixteen children.” We
thought we were a pretty smart fellow,
but tliis Editor beats us “all hollow.”
THE LAWYER'S SUIT.
Say* Thoma*, “Harry, can you tell
How lawyer* do, to dre»s so well?”
Says Harry, “Yes, you may rely on’t,
To get a sl it, they’ll strip a client."
Says Edward, “No ! they closer nip him,
1 They first obtain the *ait—then strip him."
New Orleans, Feb. 11.
Important from Mexico. —We are in
debted to a passenger on board ihe French
ship Bordelars, Packet, No. 3, arqjved
yesterday afternoon, from. Yera Cruz,
(which port she left on the 28th ult.) for
the following:—
General Santa Anna has been appoint
ed President of the Republic of Mexico;
he is now residing in Mange de Clava.—
Gen. Bustamente was organizing an army
of 4000 Mexicans, to march against Gen.
Urea, who is stationed with the Federal
army at Tampico. A proclamation had
been issued, ordering all the French resi
dents in Mexico to quit the country before
the sth of the present month,. All vessels,
no matter what nation, were prohibited
from discharging their cargoes in Vera
Cruz. The city itself was almost totally
deserted, there being only a few foreign
ers, together with about 100 Mexican
soldiers remaining there. All the ports
of Mexico, without exception, are blocka
ded; there were about from 16 to 20 En
glish and French vessels of war off Vera
Cruz, also the American sloop of war
Levant.
Scene at the Death or a Virginia
Slave Owner. —The Richmond Enquir
er introduces the following scene in an
obituary notice of George E. Harrison,
son-in-law of Mr. Ritchie, who was a
wealthy planter:
On Sunday last we saw the bed on
whicli his remains were resting, surround
ed by all his slaves-not the domestics of his
house, who were all devoted to him, but
Iby his field hands. They were dissolved
i in tears and pouring forth their most pite
ous wailings. Avery intelligent slave, in
whose arms his master accidentally died,
j and who spoke of it with an intensity of
feeling which would have done honor to
any man, was addressing his brethren in
the most plaintive terms “Well may
you weep—you have reason to weep.—
You have lost not only your master, hut
your friend and your father.” The in
terment scene of the next day baffles any
description which we could give of it.—
The negroes of his own and his brother’s
plantations, of both sexes and of all ages,
flocked around the grave—all comfortably
clad, in a snow storm. Tears, groans, all
the manifestations of the utmost distress,
were poured fourth over the closing gravu
of their master. They bid him “good
bye”—they called hirn their friend and
their father.
Mr. 11. has remembered them in the
kindest terms in his will. It speaks of
them by name—makes the most humane
and liberal provisions for them specially—
and enjoins his Executor to treat them all
with every kindness, and points out the
manner in which it was to be done.—
He has bequeathed also §SOO to the Colo
nization Society.
Perhaps no man could so severely in
flict the castigation reproof, as the Poet
Burns. The following anecdote will illus
trate this fact. One night at a tavern in
Dtimlreys, the conversation turning on
the death of a townsman, and the approach
ing funeral, one of the company not cele
brated for the purity of bis life, said to
Burns, “I wish you to lend me your coat
for the occasion, my own being rather out
of repair.” “Having myself to attend the
same funeral,” answering Burns. “I am
sorry I cannot lend you my sables; but I
recommend a most excellent substitute—
throw your character over your shoulders
—that will be the blackest coat you ever
wore in your life-time.
Eating. —Every animal eats as much
ns it can procure and as much as it can
hold. A cow eats but to sleep, and uleeps
but to eat; and not content witheating all
day long, “twice it slays the slain,” and cats
its dinner o’er again. A whale swallows
ten millions of living shrimps at a draught;
a nursling canary bird eats its own bulk
in a day, and a c<\Jerpillar eats five hun
dred times its own weight, before he lies
down to rise a butterfly. The mite and
the maggot eat the very world in which
they live; they nestle and build in their
roast beef; and the hyena, for want of bet
ter, eats himself. Yet a maggot has not
the gout, and the whale is not subject to
sciatica.—Nor does Captain Lyon inform
us that an Esquimaux is troubled with
the tooth-ache, dyspepsia, or hysterics,
though he eats ten pounds of seal and
drinks a gallon of oil at a meal, and though
his meal last so long as his meat. But if
eating is to produce diseases, which of
all the nosolgy would be absent from the
carcase of Capt. Cochrane’s Siberian
friend, who eat forty pounds of meat, with
twenty of rice porridge, at a sitting.
.jft-
A word to Youno Men.— How Often
are we pained to see young men, after
the business ofthe day is finished, loung
ing about fashionableplaces of resort; when
the hours they nightly devote to the pur
suit of pleasure, as it is wrongly styled,
might be so usefully occupied in the cul
tivation of their minds. A young man
has each night at least four hours before
retiring to his rest, which he might oc
cupy in reading and writing. Now say
he goes into business at the age of twen
ty, and remains unmarried for five years—
he will then have for mental application,
during this time, 7300 hours. What
stores of knowledge might be acquired
in this time! How much useful informa
tion might he obtain! Even after he mar
ries, his family duties will not detain him
from an opportunity of instructing himself
in literature or science.— [Lon. Lit. Reg.