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[From the Miiledgevilie Recorder.]
It will be remembered that the late Leg
islature requested the Governor, to ap
point a commission of competent gentle
men to investigate the subject of our
Slate finances, and to report a financial
system, for the consideration of the ensu
ing legislature.
We understand his Excellency lias per
formed this duty by the appointment of
tli# following gentlemen, to constitute this
commission— John .M. Berrien of Savan
nah, Win. W. Holt of Augusta, and Ab
soloni 11. Chapped ol Macon, Esquires.
I his is a most important commission,
and gentlemen better qualified to perform
the duties appertaining to it, could not
probably be found in the State. The
people of Georgia, lure really no idea of
the importance nud necessity of a thor
ough investigation of our financial sys
tem. When they remember ihaUeven the
taxes of the State for this year, has been
given to the different counties, and when in
addition they recollect the very large a
mount which has been appropriated, to be
paidout of the Treasury during the current
political year, they will no doubt be sur
prised and astonished when they are in
formed, that the Treasury is now and iu»
been for some time past, unable, for the
want of funds, to piy the ordinary de
mands, which are daily made upon it.
The legislature to he sure while on the
one hand they were giving away the pub
lic tax, on the other authorized the Cen
tral Bank to borrow (if it could) six liun
nren thousand dollars, for the current
expenses. But even this from the care-.
less and informal mantu* in which it was,
done, wc Icar will prove a very difficult
enterprize, if it does not entirely result in
t id'ire. Instead of authorizing State
scrip to be issued, which they were in
formed, was the only mode of obtaining
loins (bribe Slate, and as lliey well knew!
had just been illustrated in the State loan j
made by Major Crawford, yet thelegis-j
lature without adopting this necessary form !
<>r any oilier, merely authorized the loan,
on the part of the hank: a thing which
experience lias fully proved, is much soon-J
er s lid than done. We understand diffi
culties have bften experienced by the Pres
ident ol the Central Bank already, in his
endeavors to obtain a loan for the im
mediate wants ol the government.—
I’he difficulty will probably he overcome
l>v that energetic and faithful ollicer, but
certainly neither so easily nor on such
good terms as it would have been, had
the form ol the negneiation been made!
by the legislature, in conformity with his
views. i
la tli- mean time rs there is no money j
in tlu: Treasury, ami no taxes to come I
into it this year; nor in the Central Bank,j
tor about the first act of the present di
rection nuts to devise means to pay the
debts of tlie bank, for money formerly
borrowed, v.e have only to say to ail
claimants on the govcrinent tint they
must just wait until the money can nr.
winnowei> to pay them. Poor old Geor
gia! all her lands gone, and ail her mo
ney gone —her taxes given away, debts
due, and the money yet to be borrowed i
to pay them with, sme!y it is high time j
that something should be done to bring !
things right again. We have all respect j
tor tin; ability of the gentlemen selected !
by the Governor to revise our financial i
system; they will convene at this place
during the spring or summer, and we may ,
reasonably hope, as the result of their Is- 1
hors, such recommendation* in regard
to our finances, as will rectify the errors of
years gone by. and ameliorate our cuudi- (
lion for those that are to come.
Tee in Calcutta. —There is ;:n anecdote
often related, stating that a Jesuit Mis-|
siunary, giving an account of the climate
of Europe to the King of Siam, spoke of
water being hardened in tint quarter-of;
the world, so that people could walk upon '
it; ami that the illustrious auditor, who
had listened to many of his stories with
interest, told Inm lie need not make any
more relations, for now he knew they,
were ail lies. So incredible was the ac
count of a fact to one, whose senses had j
never had an opportunity to know it by ]
experience. I
The anecdote was brought to our re
collection a week or two since, on read
ing in the New England Galaxy, a corres
pondence between our fellow citizen,
Frederic Tudor, Esq. and certain gcntlol
men in Calcutta, concerning the transpor*
t itiou of Ice from Boston to the East In
dues, and the preser*r>*“'n .gs % w>*that
tropical climate. •
We believe that Mr. Tudor was the
first man who ever thought of making
merchandize of this article. He sent a
cargo of it to the West Indies about thirty
years ago—the first that had been in that I
region.- In-1834, he extended his enter
prise to Calcutta. When it is considered
that the Tee is loaded here at all seasons
of the year, for that distant country; that
it has, in common passages of ships, to
traverse fifteen or sixteen thousand miles
of tropical sea water, and to pass the
equator twice, we cannot but think this
undertaking will come in for a share of
the eclat which attends the triumphs of
steam and the progress of science and art
m so many directions at the present time.
It appears there has beeu expended about
ion thousand dollars in the erection of
extensile and permanent buildings in
C alcutta, and which have been presented
unconditionally to Mr. Tudor, with a mu
mhoent spirit, worthy the country and the
r r. o? t e —[Boston Courier
! Post OJfict. Department. —The “Spy
in Washington” is making a “demonstra
tion against the General Post office Dc
partmein. We have already published
, ot>c of his letters oil the subject. From
i the last that lias appeared in the X. York
Courier and Enquirer, we extract the fol
: lowing:
It lias been shown, that the extent of
the mail routes was less in than in
1837; that the transportation of these
i routes was much less in 18:18 than in
1837, as was estimated by .Mr. Kendall;
ill it in I-37 there was a nett surplus re
venue over the expenditures of the depart
ment ol about 891),01)0 dollars ; and that
in 1638, tlie actual revenue was increased
more than 810'),000.
Now, with these diminished facilities,
increased revenue and immense surplus
(>u hand at the commencement of 1838,
what ought the American people to anti
cipate would he the financial condition of
the Post Office Department, on the firs:
ol January, 1839? I will not answer this
interrogatory. Every honest man of com
mon sense, can do that for himself. But
I will tell you what is its situation, and I
call Amos Kendall to the bar of tlie'peo
ple to prove the accuracy of mv state
ment. The 6800,000 of surplus is gone
in a single year; the increase revenue of
.8100,000 is also gone : Heaven only knows
where; ami the department is at this mo-
ment on the verge of complete bankrupt-j
cy, from which it can only escape by re
ducing existing facilities, flow this ruin
ous slate of things has been so suddenly
brought about, remains for the Post Mas- 1
ler General to explain. But if asked by
a Committee of Congress, | presume they
will he referred to his “ short hand''
hooks. j
W hen I began this letter, it was my in
tention to have presented several other in
teresting items, but I fear to overload it
Willi figure*. I will therefore only refer
to one other important fact. 'Flic Post 1
Master General in his report of 1838 says, 1
The accruing expenditures for the year!
ending 39th June, 1 c? 37 were
about $3,393,428
The engagement and liabili
ties of the department for
the year ending3l)ill June,
IKJB, were $4,080,(108
.Being an increase of expen
ditures in 1838 beyond
1 5 37 of ' 81,370,040
1 close for the present with the astound
ing (act which the preceding statement
establishes, that the extent of the post route
ot the United (States was reduced six tliou
!sand lour hundred and twenty-four miles
!in li.e year lsiW below what it was hi
i 1837, and that the expenses of the depart
•j incut were .increased during tiic same pe
i riod o.ir million three hundred and seventy
six thousand ? r hundred end forty dollars.
[From the Washington Globe.]
ARM HI) Oi ' TTATIO.V OF FLORIDA.
Ih tract of a htt,r from Col. Gadsden ,j
addressed to Col. Charles Downing.
I have read attentively Col. Benton’s
bill for the [military occupation of the
Territory ol Florida, and deem its general
provisions good; and. i should suppose,
calculated to promote the object contem
plated.
The limit of 101) to a station I think
small, miles'the guard at the black house
be at least one company. On the whole,
however, I think the hill well enough; ami
tin; opportunity should not be permitted
to escape of introducing into Florida, by
the strongest of modern temptations, an
enterprising population, which will expel
the Indians, ami dovelope a country, which
1 hive always contended, contains within
itself very great resources. To the south,
eastern and southern Florida it will lmre
after be invaluable, and as costly as the
war has been, it will be amply repaid
hereafter in the knowledge it has given us
ol a country not only unknown, but which
it was fashionable to represent as the land
of mustpiitoes, alligators and “ rarniints .”
I bad viewed it under very different eves;
and I feel gratified to find that opinions
promulgated some ten years since are now
to be respected.
\ on have, sir, the most favorable oppor
tunity of doing more for Florida than any
! predecessor: am! now is the time to make
the best of a calamity, and convert this
war, desola-ting our country, into final
good for its improvement and settlement.
Yours respectfully,
JAMKS GADSDEN.
Colonels Warren and Mills, Major Hart,
and S. I Utwvot, and many other
. distinguished citizens ofFlorida have writ
ten letters of similar import.
\Ye niidorslawl that Geo. Nelson has
o lie red to raise volunteers to the number
1 authorised lor the protection of our fron
tiers on the Florida borders. His offer
will we understand be accepted by the
Governor, in preference to ordering a
draft. The force when raised will be or
dered to take the place of tlie troops whose
term of service itas just expired. Gen.
Floyd will continue as chief of the com
mand. Gen. Nelson, we understand has
expressed his willingness to accept a com
mand subordinate to the former. Both
these officers it will be remarked, thus act
in the service of the State in subordinate
positions to their military rank; Gen. Floyd
having been acting as Colonel, during the
whole Okefinokee campaign; and as such
he will continue to act, while Gen. Nel
son, likewise waving his rank, will prob
i ably act during the ensuing campaign, as
‘Lt Colonel.—[Millcdgeville Recorder
BRUNSWICK ADVOCATE.
, TO THE FARMERS OF GEORGIA FOR
.1 IS3O.
■i By an act of the Legislature of 1837, a-
I bout 40 gentlemen were constituted a
i Board of Agriculture and rural economy.
These men were selected for their sup
posed qualifications, to advance the farm
ing interest of Georgia, upon which, all
ihe prosperity of her citizens depend. By
I he aforesaid act, this Board were to meet
annually in Miiledgevilie on the third
Monday in November. It is believed
that three-fourths of the persons named in
the law, bad no knowledge of its existence,
and therefore, the meeting was almost en
tirely neglected; some, however, did meet,
and these highly approve of the object
proposed.
1 It was proposed at the meeting, that a,
practical member of it should address a !
lew essays to the planters, calling their at
tention to some of the now important ob
jects, that should engage their care and j
aitentioii.
First, then, as good soil is the first es
sential requisite to profitable farming, it j
is obvious this should engage the planter’s
care and labor—this should be done in
two ways —when the soil is naturally good,
provisions should be made to keep it so
—when the soil is either naturally poor,!
or rendered so byexhaustion ortlirough bad j
husbandry, steps should, without delay, be
taken for its restoration.
The farmers of Georgia could not have
pursued a more fatal course, than they
have done for the last 30 years. The
grow ing of cotton on broken lands, is the
most ready way that can ho adopted, to
utterly destroy tliepi. Hence, we have
thousands of acres that were once fertile,
and richly repaid labor, now worthless to
the last degree—nothing hut sterile red
clay full of gullies. And what has the
planters received as an eqnivalant for his
ruined land? Why . in some cases, nothing
Imt an increased number of negroes, who
now consume the almost entire production
of his worn out land. And a few years
more, going on at this rate, he must either
remove West, he sold out by the Sheri IT,
or live in the extreme of poverty.
Come then and let us reason together .
—our case is not yet hopeless—yet at this I
very time, we are tempted to kill the goose
that lays the golden egg. The present
high price of cotton is much more likely
to result in evil to Georgia, than* in good.
It never was, not ever can be, the interest
of this State, to purchase bread or meat,
in any shape, let the price of cotton be
what it may. It were easy to demonstrate
this to every thinking mail, and nothing
hut the most fatal delusion has carried ns
forward in a course that has well nigli
proved fatal. The writer is now in such
haste to urge and beg his fellow-citizen
j farmers, to make sure, in planning for
this present crop to secure an abundant
I supply of provisions as the primary object,
I that he cannot now take time to reason
■ upon the consequence of a contrary course
—small crop of cotton, a large crop ol
j grain of every kind, take great care of your
stock, especially of hogs*—don't run into
the Free Banking before you know what
you are about nor think of getting dis
counts next fall to buy your meat, hut have
it abundant at home—have no drones in
your hive-—no non-prodiictives, and pros
perity and happiness will attend you at
home and abroad. [.Miiledgevilie Rec.
"The writer knows one planter in the middle
part of this Stale, who killed tins reason up
wards of til), 000 lbs. pork.
Indiana Internal Improvmcnts. —From
a pamphlet report made to the Legislature
by J. L. Williams, Esq. Chief Engineer of
! the State of Indiana, —which abounds in
valuable statistics of the resources and
I prospects of the vigorous young Ilussier
State—we learn that the estimated cost of
improvements authorised bv existing laws,
is >21,000,000. In order to carryout
these works, there will be a deficit from
other sources, to be provided annually by
taxation, from 1830 to 18,>1, of from
•6299,000 to $399,000. The excellent
banking system of Indiana is a great help
in the prosecution of these works, and
when the rapid increase in wealth and
population are considered, so that the tax
for internal improvements will each year
become lighter in the ratio of these, it is
safe to say that no State of the twenty-six
is in a more flourishing condition.
! The administration people appear to be
in something of a quandary ns to the name
l>v which they shall henceforth call the
Sub-treasury scheme., Tk/rLnvMm; will
not do, certainly; and to call it the “Ily
' drostntic Balance,” as one of its advocates
! once called it, would be quite too obscure.
!So they are at a Joss: much, seemingly,
like the worthy person in ibe anecdote.—
His given name was Joseph: a child was
presented to him for baptism, to he called
'"Peter. “That’s a bad name," lie whisper
ed to the father—“ Peter denied his mas
ter. Why not call him Joseph?” “Ah!
| that’s worse vet,” said the proprietor of
; the little responsibility “ Joseph de
nied liis mistress!”—[Philadelphia Gaz.
A Good-/[t arted Dog. —The Boston
Times has the following;
“A dog was found bv an apothecary on
! his step, with a broken leg. The humane
apothecary took him in, splintered his leg,
and finally cured him, and let him go. In
a short time after, the apothecary heard a
scratching at the shop door, and on open
ing it found there the dog, with another
dog in company, whose leg was broken.
This was getting into dog pr dice expe
-1 difiotiely."
[From the Baltimore American.]
The artificial mounds of the Western
Country have long been the subjects of
inquiry to travellers, and of speculation to
antiquaries. One of these elevations has
lately been opened at the “Flats of Grave
j Creek,” on the Ohio river, twelve miles
below Wheeling, by Messrs. Thomas
Biggs and Abelard Tomlinson. The en
try was made on the north side, about
four feet above the base, and was extend
ed along a horizontal passage about six
feet wide and eight feet high, towards
the centre of the mound. There have
been found two vaults, evidently of differ
ent dates, one at the bottom and the oilier
at the top. The mode in which these
vaults have been constructed is as fol
lows—the sides have been composed of
logs set on end, on the tops of which j
stones have been placed to the thickness j
of two or three feet. These logs have
entirely decayed, but have left their im
pression on the earth. The object of
constructing the mounds seems to have,
been to use them as national monuments.!
In most of them have been found solitary
skeletons, but in the lower vault of the
one under consideration two skeletons
were found, with their heads near each
other, and with their limbs arranged in
so disorderly a manner, as to induce the
belief that they had been hurried stand
ing and had fallen from some cause or
other. In the upper chamber with the
bones, which were in a highly decompos
ed state were found many beads, copper
whistles, and a (lat stone marked with
hieroglyphic characters. The measure
ment o( the Grave Creek mound, as as
certained in 1838 by the Engineers of the
Marietta and Wellsville Turnpike, was
found to be 295 feet diameter at the bot
tom, 09 feet diameter at the top, and 69
feet in perpendicular height. The cubic
contents are one million nine hundred
and fifty six thousand and eight hundred
and one feet of earth, or seventy-two
thousand four hundred and sixty three
i cubic yards. In 1811 there was on the
! top of this mound a white oak four feet
iin diameter, which, from its appearance
could not have been less then seven hun
dred years old, and supposing a hundred
years to have elapsed between the forma
tion of the mound and the commence
ment of the growth of the tree, the prob
ability is, that the structure has been in
existence eight hundred years. The in
tention of the present proprietor is to wall
the sides of the vaults, and to erect on
the summit of the mound a neat sum
mer house for the accommodation of trav
ellers, in which will he preserved such
relics as may from time to time be foifhd
lin the interior of the tumulus. The spir
! it which has dictated this course is highly
! commendable, and worthy of all imitation.
I These immense heaps of earth serve as
land marks whereby to measure the lapse
jof ages, and may tend to throw light up
i oil I lie antiquity of the aboriginal race by
| which this Continent was once inhabited.
! Shipwreck of tiik. Earl of Moira.—
'File following letter has been received at
Lloyd’s, from the commander of the bar
que Ranger, oil’ Dungeuess, dated Decem-
I her 8, 1838:
I “I am sorry to have to report a most
1 melancholy spectacle I witnessed on board
\ the Earl of Moira, of Whitby, timber la
| den. We fell in with this vessel in lat.
45 N. lon. 21 54 W. oil the 19th of this
| month water logged, and with only one
I lower' mast standing. Although there
I was a considerable sea at the time, we
j managed to get a boat alongside, and on
going on board found four men quite dead
in a sail, which they had hung lip under
the maintop to shelter themselves from
the weather. Besides these there was
part of another cut up in pieces and hting
, up just like meat in a butcher's stall.
No doubt these poor fellows must have
undergone the extremity of hunger be
fore they were reduced to a necessity so
I revolting as to devour a fellow creature,
which, after all would yield but a tempo
rary relief without water. One of the
men appeared to have been dead about
2 or 3 days, as he was quite fresh, and
we judged that the one cut up for food
must have been a bov, from the small
ness of the fingers. There was nothing of
the least value which it was possible to
bring away, and therefore we left her re
gretting only that it had not been in our
power to rescue a fellow creature from
so awful a situation. Her cables were
bent, from which we concluded that she
must have been near the channel when
j she met with the accident that lias proved
so fatal to the ship and crew.”
MONUMENT TO DE WITT CLINTON.
We are glad to see that the Assembly
of New York have it in contemplation to
erect a testimonial to the memory of Dr.
Witt Clinton. It is to be a single block
of marble, in the form of an obelisk, stand
ing upon a base or plinth; and to have
an inscription and likeness sunk upon
one of the sides. The cost is estimated
at SIO,OOO. Clinton was the greatest
benefactor New York ever knew—and
her canals alone will always be a monu
ment of the gigantic powers of his mind.
True greatness finds a reward in doing
good—and posterity does justice to the
donor.—[Savannah Georgian.
Deserving oe Sympathy. —The edit
or of the Manhattan Advertiser says his
devil is sick enough, and two of his jour
neymen are as sick as the devil—his wife
out of humor—his children cross, ragged
and saucy—and he, himself, feels bad at
the stomach.
I [For the Brunswick Advocate.]
OUR RESOURCES AND IMPROVE
MENTS.—No. 5.
Mr. Editor,
While I must plead negligence on my own
part, we are certainly indebted to “An Old
Bachelor” for stepping forth to take part in the
subject of our remarks, and we can best ap
preciate the truth of what he declares in re
gard to our wants. As to the benefits de
pendent on and resulting from internal improve-'
inents, no man can long be indifferent to them,
or hesitate to declare his conviction of the
moral and social effects to be derived from
Railroads and Canals in our section. The
moral, intellectual, and social benefits are in
deed of much more importance to us than the
pecuniary considerations; although without the
latter we could hardly obtain the former. I
go for these advantages; I approve of religious
and literary institutions; I approve of science
and competition in science and arts, and all
the pursuits and employments calculated to
develope the human faculties, improve the un
derstanding, and embellish society.
I know full well that rail roads and canals
are controlling and remodeling," as it were,
every other branch of business in our country,
and that without these improvements in our
section, we shall forever be borrowers of oth
ers instend of lenders; that is, we shall lend
them the productions of our labor, and borrow
of them all the comforts and ornaments of life.
While other sections are driving ahead, and
reaping abundant pecuniary harvests by means
of their rail roads and canals, they will as a
matter of certainty draw to them wealth and
enterprise from other parts, and eventually,
unless other sections profit by the same means,
look upon them only os tributaries to them
selves. Railroads and canals, are excellent
means, in a wide extended country like ours,
of equalizing the business and comforts of
men, —of preventing that centralization of bu
siness and enterprise to one point, and there
by benefit the whole. It is a means put into
the hands of the people of each section to pro
tect and enrich themselves, instead of others.
Now that we should look upon this means in
conjunction with our natural advantages and
natural wealth as calculated to put us on a le
vel with other sections, if not as far above as
we are now far below in many respects, seems
to me most reasonable andjust.-
To reflect a little on the practical experi
ence of the effects, who is there that would not
view this section of country adorned with
schools and churches and magnificent build
ings, with inexpressible delight ? Who is
there that has travelled through the central
and northern portions of this State; through
South Carolina and Virginia, but more particu
larly through the Northern States, and seen
the hills crowned with churches, accompanied
by perpetual schools—the mountains and val
lies glowing with animation and wealth, and
w ill not take pleasure in seeing his own dear
homo—his own native land rivalling the most
favored portions of our country. Who will
not, instead of going abroad as we now do, to
obtain the true wealth and pleasures of life,
take pride in having the inducements, and
uniting the pursuits of pleasure, knowledge
and wealth, to our native or peculiar soil.
That we have the natural advantages, and suf
ficient inducements for changing the present
state of things for our own benefit, and to the
benefit of posterity no one can deny. As vour
correspondent says, we have on our rear a vast
and rich country, only waiting for the avenues
to be opened, to pour forth its treasures, to an
imate and enrich our coast. While our coast
itself is a region abounding in advantages,
both by sea and land, and adorned with that
beautiful handmaid of virtue, happiness and
wealtii, excellent health.
To speak of the practical means of accom
plishing the work of internal improvement, it
is not dependent on, nor can it result, from the
efforts of one or two individuals. We have
no lords, dukes, nor granuukes, nor do we want
any such to take up these works and carry
them through on tlioir own hook; which in the
event we had would serve only as temporary
benefits, afterwards as yokes and chains to
bind us down. But these works are, and of
right ought to be, in a free country like ours,
and in order that it may continue free and in
dependent, the work of a free united and inde
pendent people.
The leading principles and measures are
plain and simple. Legislation is the first step;
w ithout tfiis, we cannot with safety have joint
stock companies, and without joint-stock com
panies we can hardly attempt great works.
This is the act of the people, it is in the peo
ple’s hands. It is the sure guarantee and foun
dation on which we proceed. Consequently
it is as it should be, the act and work of the
peoplo dependent on them from beginning to
end; and must redound to the credit and in
terest of the many, and not the few. I might
further add, that while the work of internal
improvement in our country is the work of the
many, the way is plain, the field is fair, and
perhaps a more proper and noble field was ne
ver open for individual enterprise and acts of
merit
I am not unaware that many difficulties have
heretofore been in the way of internal improve
ment in this section, and that the time has but
lately arrived, when we can benefit by such
means. I will endeavour to show in my next,
| what these difficulties have been, and that
' they are now removed. Nor am I disposed to
1 believe that the citizens of this section are
I wanting in disposition, enterprise, and energy,
now the time is at hand. But it is union and
concert of action that must do the work. Ac
tion is the first principle, union is the-second.
Without union and concert of action, we can
not improve the country, or profit by the ad
vantages nature has thrown in our way. This
remark is more applicable to, and more needed
in practice perhaps by our whole state, than
this particular section. It was union and con
cert of action and well devised measures that
made our country free. From attachment to
home, and in union and concert of action, the
Israelites rebuilt the city of our fathers—
They helped every one his neighbor; and
every one said to his brother be of good cour
age, so the carpenter encouraged the gold
smith, he that smote with the hammer him that
smote the anvil, saying, it it rtady for the
sodering ßeflector.
FROM FLORIDA.
Tallahassee, Feb. 16.
More Murders. —On Monday evening
last the house of Mr. White, residing two
miles south of the St. Augustine road, a
bout ten miles from Tallahassee, was at
tacked bv a party of Indians. A negro
was shot down in the yard, and simultane
ously three rifles were thrust through a
small nppertnrc aside the chimney of the
dwelling, and discharged in the breast of a
young man, brother in law of Mr. White,
who fell dead instantly. Mrs. White also
received three balls, and Mr. W. was
wounded by one hall. The Indians then
decamped without committing further dep
redations. The negro died next day.
Mrs. W. is thought likely to recover.—
Mr. W. was not seriously injured. A
party of our citizens next day went in pur
suit hut were unsuccessful in finding the
Indians. A number of signs have been
seen in the neighborhood, and great ap
prehensions are entertained by the inhabi
tants of further attacks. A party from
Camp Wacissa went out on Wednesday
morning.
On Thursday of last week, a party of
fifteen or twenty Indians attacked the
dwelling of Mr. Stokes, in Jefferson coun
ty, in the day time—the inmates, discover
ing them approach, fled, and thus 'saved
their lives.—The Indians plundered the
house ol SI,OOO in hank notes, and burned
it. Mr. S. was at his work about two
miles distant at the time of the attack.
Postscript. — We stop the press to an
nounce the following distressing intelli
gence received to day at 12 o'clock. M.
Pindarvis resides at the head of the Wa
culln, two miles from the railroad, and
twelve from Tallahassee,
Saturday, 10th Feb. 1839.
Mr. Betton,
Dear Sin:—Last night my nearest neigh
bor Pindarvis, his wife and most of his
children and negroes were killed by the
Indians. Judge of our situation. Please
inform Gov. Call we wish aid—l fear to
leave my family hut send my young man
in pursuit—hut we cannot pursue far, as
all leave their families for the night. We
were awakened by the guns, hut did not
know till this morning what it was.
Send mo a keg of powder and a box of
large size caps, a dozen bars of lead, &c.
DANIEL L. RICHARDSON.
M e beg for efficient aid for pursuit im
mediately—l have plenty for man and
horse to eat.
I have just viewed the scene of outrago
and found Mr. and Mrs. Pindarvis, and
two children murdered. She, (Mrs. P:)
inhumanly butchered and mangled, lying
in the yard—the old man and his eldest
son burned up in the building. A few of
us are here to bury the dead and a few to
go in pursuit of the Indians supposed .to
have been Borlo in number. Five chil
dren (the two eldest girls one hoy and two
small girl children) have been picked up
in the woods unhurt, except one of the
large daughters slightly in the knee. All
the negroes, six in number, escaped and
came to my house in the night. Great
alarm is felt by the neighboring people,
and something ought to be done at once to
check the vile savages.
H. ARCHER.
Mr. Blair has the largest neck for a man
of his size that we ever beheld.—[Demop
olis Gazette.
We saw at Louisville rope-walk, the
other day, ihe largest rope ever manufac
tured in this city. “Put that and that to
gether.”—[Prentice.
All old hunter is so infatuated with the
sub-treasury that lie even calls his rifle a
sub-treasury rifle.”—[Demopolis G’az.
We should suppose there would he dan
ger of its “going off,” too easily.—[Pren
tice.
Locomotives. —Mr. Norris exhibited
on Friday, one of the Locomotive engines
which he has manufactured for the Rail
Road Company in England. It is °f the
second class, weighing between eight and
nine tons —outside connection, and finish
ed in a stvln that will insure admiration in
England.' This will be the first Locomo
tive Steam Engine ever sent from this
country to Great Britain. Wc understand
that an engineer goes out with the loco
motive, who will be employed to run it on
the road. —[Philad. U. S. Gazette.
A little girl was lately complaining to.
a Friend that she had a cold, and was
sadly troubled in her lips by chaps, ‘Friend
said Obadiah, ‘thee should never suffer
the chaps to come near thy lips.’
Cato said, “The best way to keep good
acts in memory, is to refresh them with
new ones ”