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ALBANY, BAKER COUNTY, GEORGIA, SEPTEMBER 17,1845.
if NO. 33.
the patriot,
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to Debtors and Creditors of an estate most
and rapture of love for hcrwhich thehw-1 course, portfolo n pasture for cows, and without difficulty. They met with no In
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POETRY.
Prom the Philadelphia Inquirer.
MOTHER.
I'otEM! the name whose loveliness
' jvcellsall other names on eartlv—
enn e’er express
fl,e story o> mother Worth;
a, low which Item ay hca , rt
E'er since the dny wi.il* C avo blrth >
,\nJUte a never failing fountain
bashing and sparkling from the mountain,
Will still increase in depth and power
Until the awful solemn hour,
When thou shall meet the wave
Of Death’s dark sea,
And find the grave
A blissful entrance to eternity
Motmb or artEl what music dwells
In that dear name, so soft and mild—
ft by-gone day* and scenes it tells,
Of the pure love, ami undefiled,
Which glowed w ithin Uiat heart of thine
For me thy darling little child,
Mourning with every grief of mine.
Rejoicing when 1 smiled,
llow vast the dobt l owe to tlico
For all the toils and cares
Fmdurcd for me from inlancy,
But chiefly, for the prayer*—
Which thou in humble faith to Heaven did send,
That 1 might make the God of Heaven my friend.
loriM! tho’ I the sacred debt
Of gratitude can ne’er repay
Which thou hart laid upon me, yet
I still will cherish, day by day
The bright example thou hast set,
Of holy love aud truth;
.’-•.I ne’er forget the precepts thou
Hast taught me in my youth,
Which still shall guide mo in my way,
While daily, I to heaven will pray,
Tat thou aud I, aud all of us may meet,
Anna) our common Esther's mercy-seat.
Pailadelphia, Aug. 25, 1845. C.
- r , — ™ I iuuj a uasuim lor cows, iuii
ror of Ins eiiuaiioii may easily explain. He the old wall which marked its limits is fall,
felt that he was saved, and be was saved, j ing down.
He himself wittily said, that it was as little I •* Near it you see a cluster of grassy em
us the brandy could do to accomplish his bunkinenls of a curious form—circles and
resurrection as it had produced his living octagons auil parallelograms, which bear
the name of King James’s Knot, and once
death!
When we reflect, that of the buried, the
cofiin of not one in many millions is after
wards examined, and that yet among these
few several instances have occurred in
which it was obvious (as from the deceas
ed having turned on Ins side) that the dead
hud been huried loo soon, we cannot well
reject the.horrible conclusion that the oc
currence iM so rare as our shuddering
natures vvoina desire it. An examination
of the catacombs of Paris, some years ago
(where the dead are slowed awoy in open
boxes, or simply deposited in tlic vault,)
led to rite discovery that some had turned
on their sides, and others had quit their pla
ces and died at a distance in tlic agonies of
famine having gnawed away their own
flesh.
The following authentic and affecting
story has suggested these reflections:
“In the year of 1810, a case of living in
humation happened in France, attended
with circumstances which go far to war-
rant the assertion that, truth is indeed
stranger than fiction. The heroine of tlic
story was Mudamoiselle Lafouseade, a
young girl of illustrious family, of wealth
and of great personal beauty. Among her
numerous suiters was Juficn Rosseut, a
poor iitcrateur, 'or journalist, of Paris. His
talents and general amiability had recom
mended him to the notice of the heiress, by
whom lie seemed to hnvc been truly belo*-
;'cd j but her pride of birth decided her, fi
nally, iC i\“'CCt hint, anil to wed a Monsieur
lie nolle, a Eantcr and a diplomatist of some
eminence. After however, this
gentleman ncglec'ed, and oCfhnps more
positively ill-treated her. Having passed
MISCELLANY.
BURYING ALIVE.
There can he litilc doubt that burying
vilei*much more frequent than the world
«PpusM, oi has any inclination to believe.
*“«e arc conditions of suspended life so
resembling death, and of such long
Miinuance. as to deceive the physi
c'll and induce the sepulture. The late
etnintiit and most worthy Philip Dod-
o.agc was within an acc of meeting the
Mful fate of being buried alive, and
*|«t made it worse, with a perfect con-
«ousness of all that was passing. He
'atsupposed lobe dead, having fallen into
jsiate actually resembling death as far ns
body is concerned. Ills pulse and res-
‘oation ceased, his limbs became rigid, his
lce assumed the sharp outline characteris-
: c of death, aud he remained in this condi-
®J} ontil the family, physicinus and friends
all but «ne !) supposed that his spirit had
®* e d. That one was Mrs. Dod-lrige; her
11f e refused to despair, and she continued
5 Uj e remedy after remedy to restore uni-
aaitoti. Finally she poured a spoonful of
randy ( a cage 0 f breach of teetotaiism
'bich we think Father Mathew • himself
ooldexcttse) down his throat, and the
with him some wretched years she (fieri,-
at least her condition so closely resrimblcd
death as to deceive every one who saw her.
She was huried—not in a vault—but in an
ordinary grave in the rillagc of her nativi
ty. Filled witii despair, aud still inflamed
!>v the memory of a profound attachment,
the lover journeys from the capital to the
remote province in which the village lies,
with the romantic purpose of disinterring
the corpse, and possessing himself of its
luxuriant tresses. He reached the grave.
At midnight lie unearths the. coflin, opens
it, and is in the act of detaching the naif,
when he U arrested by the unclosing of the
beloved eyes. In fact the lady had been
buried alive. Vitality had not altogether
departed; and she was aroused by the ca
resses of her lover, from the lethargy which
Imd been mistaken for death, lie bore
her frantically to his lodgings in the village.
He employed certain powerful restoialives
suggested by no little mediral learning ; in
fine, she revived—recognized her preserver.
Site remained with him until by slow de
grees,she fully recovered her original henh h.
Her woman’s heart was not adamant, and
this last lesson of love sufficed to soften it.
She bestowed it upon Bosseut. She retur
ned no more to her husband, but conceal
ing from him her resurrection, fled with
him to America. Twenty years afterwards
the two returned to France in the persua
sion that time had so greatly altered the
lady’s appearance that her friends would be
unable to recognize her. They were mis
taken, however, for at the first meeting,
Monsieur Rcncllc did actually recognize
and make claim to bis wife. This claim
she resisted ; and a judicial tribunal sus
tained her in her resistance ; deciding that
the peculiar circumstances, with the long
lapse of years, had extinguished not only
equitably but legally the authority of the
husbana ”
STIRLING CASTLE IN SCOTLAND.
Win. C. Bryant, Editor of the New York
Evening Post, in one of his interesting let
ters from abroad, thus describes a visit to
Stirling Castle in Scotland:
“ We went up through the little town to
the Castle, which is still kept in perfect or
der, and the ramparts of which frown as
grimly over the surrounding country as
they aid centuries ago. No troops, howev
er, are now stationed here ; a few old gun
ners only remain, and n Major somebody,
I forget his name, takes his dinner in the
formed a part of the royal gardens, where
the sovereign used to divert himself with
his court icts. The cows now have the
spot to themselves, and have made their
own paths and alleys all over it. “Yonder,
to the southwest of the castle,” said a sen
tinel wlto stood at the gate, “you see where
a large field has been lately ploughed, and
l>cy ond it is nnoi her which looks very green.
Thai green field is the spot where the bat
tle of Bannockburn was fought, and the
armies of England defeated by Bruce.”
“ I looked, ond so frcsli ana bright was
the verdure, that it seemed to me as if the
earth was still fertilized with the blood
of those who fell in that desperate struggle
for the crown of Scotland. Not far front
I his tlic spot was shown us-where Wallace
w ns defeated at the battle of Falkirk. This
region is now the scene of another and un
bloody warfare ; the warfare between the
free church and the government church.—
Close to the church of the establishment,
at the foot of the rock of Stirling, the sol
diers of the free church have creeled their
place of worship, and t he sound of hammers
front the unfinished interior could be heard
almost up to the castle.”
A NOBLE OLD SOLDIER LIVING IN
DOVER, N. II.
The oldest survivor in the present cata
logue ofHavard University, is Dr. Ezra
Green of Dover, N. II., savs the Courier—
He was born at Malden Mass., June 17,
1746, and graduated in 1765, eighty years
ago this summer. He joined the'N.'Hamp-
shire regiment in the revolutionary army
ns a surgeon, in June, 1775, and continued
;:?} the last cl December, 1776, in the mean
time «i2V:. n f Rone by the w ay of the North
River to Montreal, and joined the army on
its retreat before tile enortv, as they advan
ced from Quebec. In October, 1777, lie
cniisied ns surgeon cn board the Ranger,
of eighteen guns, Copt. Paul Jones. He
was on board that vessel when the attempt
was made to capture the Earl of Selkirk,
and in the action with the Drake. He re
turned to America in the Ranger in Octo
ber, 1778, under the command of Captain
Simpson—Jones remained in France. . In
tbespringof 1779, be went on a cruise
with Captain Simpson in the Ranger, in
company with the Providence «$• the Queen
of France. These three vessels fell in with
six brigs loaded with salt, under convoy of
a brig of fourteen guns, and took them nil
the mouth of the Kansas, 785 miles in 28
days. On a part of the route they were
stra igh t ened for provisions.
Mr. Cabanne, is behind on the YVapello,
which is aground. When they left, there
were 55 men at Fort Platte and 35 at Fort
John.
In the Indian country they fell in with
Antonia Rubidoux, who had been trading
with the Snakes and Yutnws. He had
with him 40 or 50 horses and mules, and
seven or eight thousand dollars worth of
peltries. He had been successful in trading
with the Indians; the Yutaws had once
robbed his fort when left in the,custody of
some Spaniards, but they were generally
very friendly to him. He stopped with his
brother at Si. Joseph-
Mr. Viunet slates that in December last,
the Bruler Sioux raised a war parlv, went
to the fords of Platte, surprised a "Pawnee
village of 120 lodges, killed 10 of their war-
riots and 8 squaws, and took three warriors
prisoners, burned the village, and plunder
ed the Pawnees of their beaver, horses and
corn. The Pawnees fled in great conster
nation, and the Sioux returned .home in
triumph.—St. Lorn* JFew Era, 23d uIt.
THE BEST SPEECH EV£R MADE
When the news of the fall of Ticonder-
oga reached the Capital of New Hamp
shire, John Langdon, who was Speaker of
the Provincial Legislature, seeing the pub
lic credit exhausted, and bis friends dis
couraged, rose and said:
“I have (3,000 hard money; I will
pledge my plate for $3,000 more. I have
seventy hogsheads of Tobago rum, which
shall be sola for the most it will bring.—
These are at the scivicc of the State. If
we succeed in defending our firesides and
homes, I ntay be remunerated. If we do
not, the property will be of no value to me
Our old friend Starke, who so nobly main
tained the honor of our State at’Bunker
Hill, may safely be trusted with the con
duct of the enterprizr, and we will check
t lie progress of Bttrgoync.”
These v ere the dny* of patriotism. The
offer was accepted, the money paid, the
plate hypothecated, and the rum covcrtcd
into cash. A corps of mountaineers was
soon raised, and placed under the command
ofStarkc. Wheu he came in sight of the
enemy at Bennington, lie said: “Boys,
there are the Red-coats. We must beat
them, or this night Molly Smrkc will be a
widow.” He aid beat "them. The tide
of war was turned. The hearths and fire
sides of our fathers were preserved, but
whether old John Langdon ever got back
his plate, except in Continental rags, we
do not know. There are ntanv who lost
and brought them into Pourlstnouth, N. II.
after an absence of three weeks. Shortly j every thing in the service of their country,
afterwards inc same vessels ruade another j made advances, and sacrificed estates,
cruise, fell in with a large Jamaica fleet,, whose deccudants are now poor, with thotf-
“ homeward bound,” loaded with rum, su- 1 —-*-*-* J - - Llt -
gar, logwood, pimento, &c., and captured
eight of them, seven of which they succee
ded in getting into the port of Boston. As
they approached the harbor, the housetops
were crowded with people, alarmed at tnc
sight of ten large ships coming tip, suppo
sing them to be a British fleet. The next
year Dr Green went ont in a privateer, and
subsequently in a letter of Marque. He
now resides at Dover, ninety-nine years old
on the 17lb of June last.—Boston Bee.
sands of this money in their possession.
JV. O. Jeff. Rep.
From the Columbus Times.
FLORIDA.
We have been favored by a friend in Mer
iwether county with the following letter
descriptive of the health, climate and soil
of East Elorida.
Fort Brooke, Tampa Bay, I
Blast Florida, 22d July, 1845. )
Dear SirYour letter of the 21st ult. to
the Postmaster, at this place has been hand
ed tc me with the request that I would an-
_ banqueting room, and sleeps in the bed-
c t '*emil stimulant almost immediately dis- chamber of the Stuarts. 1 wish I could
^jedilic trance, and restored Mr. Dod- communicate the impression, which this
•’«ge to the command of his limbs, and to castle and the surrounding region made up-
J 1 ®)' years of distinguished usefulness.— on me, with its vestiges of power and mag-
„ '“i for it, be had in all probability been 1 nificence, and its ppwent silence and deser-
jjned alive for tho weather was warm; j tion. . ....
*• j" he already shrouded for his last abode. I “ The passages to the dungeons in which
c0 ° ““sed to relate, with thrilling effect, his' pined the victims of state, in the very buil- — ; —o- —-
■"Elions during the rime of his supposed . ding where the court held its revels, and some rockets id the air and surprised and
H| h. He could not stir a little finger to the chapel in which princes and princesses astonished Ibe Indians exceedingly.
’ notice of his being alive, but bis sense were christened, and worshiped, and were - ~~ ’ “
aring remnined perfect, and his mind crowned and wed, is turned into an annoy.
T'lcd. He heard the fact of his being From its windows were shown within the
FROM THE MOUNTAINS.
On yesterday the Randor arrived, and t
brought down ten or twelve men from the ! swer the questions which it contains, re-
mountains, being a part of those in Ihe cm*! specling the climate, health, soils, &e. of
ployntcni of Messrs. Pratlc & Cabanne.— 'this State. This I shall do with much
They were under the direction of Mr. Viu- pleasure, and the information which Tsltall
net, who has been for a considerable time . communicate, may be relied on for its ac-
in the mountains. The present has been a curacy, as all the facts which I shall state
very favorable year for obtaining tobes and | have been derived either from personal ob-
fure ; the winter was mild, and there was ’— — * —'*—* “
very little snow. The company had col
lected about six hundred packs of buffalo
robes and a quantity of beaver; they star
ted front ForlLnrainie (the upper fori) with
four Mackinaw boats and four hundred
packs of buffalo robes, and descended the
Platte river about ninety miles, when the
water became so low that they were com
pelled to abandon their voyage ; they lan
ded their peltries at the C.ednr Biufls, and
sent backs to the fort for wagons. Whilst
there Colonel Kearney with two hundred
aud fifteen dragoons arrived on the I7lh of
June He sent out a deputation to a hi-
oux village to invite the Indians to a talk.
The Sioux cotdd not be found ; he then
went on to Fort Pratte, (the lower fori)
and there had the Sioux Indians assembled,
held a talk with them, and entered into an
agreement, or treaty, with them to regulate
their condujpt with the whites. Heat night
fired his artillery, discharged a bomb and
,-ad
announced, and the outburst
followed, the directions for shrouding
.'O' ami the usual preparations in the ; .
r*inber of death ! Desperate, but vain as, is a green enclosure, intersecting with paths
jywMe, were bis efforts to give some to-1 which we were told was the tilting ground,
fa he move— or place of tonnunnents, and beside it naea
V of J'fe—not n muscle could he rnovi
■ r «a i
f M»
* 2?
_ of the
hill, to the right ol the castle, stretches
what was once-the royal park: It ts shorn ,
of its trees, part is converted into a race- 1 and 6 pacKs ol
Col. Kearney intended to go to the China
ney, thence to the South-pass, and from
that point to Fort William, on the Arkan-
sas.
Whilst the traders were waiting at the
Cedar Biufls 550 wagons of the Oregon
emigrants passed them. They had gotten
along very well; the Pawnees had shot a
few of their cattle, and caught a few of
their men straggling from camp, and had
stripped them, but did no further injury.
On the — dny of June the traders start'
ed from the Cedar Biufls towards Missouri,
with 10 wagons, 1& pfieks of buffalo robes,
.vcr, and cams in rapidly
most healthy in the icorld, is estimated lobe
1. per cent, this lact will be duly apprecia
ted. It must not be supposed that this
extraordinary exemption from mortality,
during the fast three years, has been con
fined to the troops; the health of the cit
izens, in almost every district of the Penin
sula, has bcenquiteas good as that of tho
troops, and in many instances their exemp
tion from mortality has been almost incred
ible. The Banks of the Manatee river (40
miles South of this Post) for example, have
been settled fur more than 3 years, and tho
number of inhabitants during that period
would average at least 300. < Yet from its
firet settlement to the present day, there
have occurred, among its whole population,
but three deatht and of these two were su
perannuated negroes, and the other a child
which died of chronic disease I It is wor
thy of remark too, that from its commence
ment to the present time, no practicing
physician has ever resided in that settle
ment. Thus it appears, that in a new set
tlement—on the banks of a navigable titer e
—and without the aid of medical skill—tho
mortality has been but fd percent for three
years, which is a proportion mors film three,
times less than occurs among troops comfort
ably quartered, and provided with able phy
sicians in stations reported to be the most
healthy in the world ! The settlement ou
the Miami river, on Indian river, and in
short on nearly every river in the Peninsula
afford further evidence of the extraordinary
salubrity of this climate; but enough, 1
trust has already been shown to refute the.
slanders which have been circulated re
specting the health of this country—and to
convince Ihe most prejudiced mind that
East Florida is pre-eminently salubrious.—
The health of Middle Florida is not to bo
compared with that of Ihe Peninsula, and
the reputation of the latter country has suf
fered much from having been confounded
with that of the former. It is probably to
the constant prevalence of the Gulf and
Atlantic breezes (which are felt in the Very
centre of the Peninsula) that the extraor
dinary salubrity of East Florida is at tribu-
tnble.
It will be impossible in the compass of a
letter to do more than merely glance at tlio
soils and productions of East Florida. Tho
basis of the country is pine land of various
qualities (first, second, and third rate) and
this lund is interfered, at irregular dis
tances, (say from two to eight miles) with
rich hammocks of fiom 80 to 10,000 aerou
in extent. This disposioft of the lands con
duces much to the health of the inhabi
tants ; for it enables the planters in every
portion of the Peninsula, to select residences
which are perfectly healthy in the immedi
ate vicinity of the richest plantations.—
There arc still iarge bodies of the riehest
species of hammock, swamp, prairie and
first rate pine lands unoccupied which can
be secured by pre-emption. Thighowever,
will not be the case after next winter a9
the new Slate is entitled to about one mil
lion and a half of select lands for purposes of
education and for internal improvements,
and commissioners to select those lands
will probably lie appointed ina few months.
This million and a half acres, together With
the public lands offered for sale next month,
(12 of Augnst) and the quantity which in
the mean time, will have been occupied by
the numerous emigrants that are crowding
into the country, will, 1 presume embrace
all the first rate Government lands Wliich
are now vacant in the Peninsula. I think
there would be no difficulty, at this time, in
getting small bodies of rich land, say from
160 to 320 acres, partially cleared, and in
populous settlement by purchasing pre-emp
tion rights at about $500 each. 1 eonnot
inform vott at what rale yod could rent
cleared laud, as this would of course depend
on n great variety of circumstances, and
it is not a usual thing to rent land in this
country. The quality of good lands in this
vicinity is very limited, and it is nearly, if
not entirely occupied. Fort King in Mari
on county, is in my opinion, the nest start
ing point which an emigrant can have while
in search of lands,—and he ought to make
it his Head Quarters until alter he has
made his selection.
The productions of this Peninsula arc by
far the most valubie in the United States,
not excepting Louisana, nor the new Stati
of Texas. Its main staples will be Sugar,
Sea Island cotton, Cuba Tobacco and Or-
anger, and in all these, there is no othrr
State in the Union, that can compete wit),
it. The best lands here yield (owing, to the
tropical character of the climate) at least
twice as much sugar to the acre as tin
best lands in Lousiana. In Lousutna 1,00(
lbs. to the acre ia a good average crop: ir
East Florida the average crop is 2500 lbs.
and as much as 4000 lbs. have been pre-
duced on an acre 1 Sea Island cotton or the
best quality grows in every portion of th<
Peninsula, and the tobacco and oranges of
East Florida have already become celebra
ted for their superiority.. Besides tbes>
main staples, numerous other tropical pro
ductions flourish hew, which it would be too
tedious to notice.
The ranges for cattle and hogs in tbi.-
serration, or the most authentic sources of
inquity. I resided on the Peninsula por
tion or this Slate East Florida, for nearly
seven years; and have traversed the coun
try during that period, (being a medical of
ficer of the Army) to an extent of al least
6000 miles; so that I am acquainted with
its minute, as well as with its general topo
graphy.
The climate of East Florida, taking it
the whole year round, is decidedly more
delightful than any other in the United
States, and its general salubrity is certainly
not surpassed by that of any climate in the
world. Inflammatory diseases are com
paratively of very rare occurrence, and those
of a miasmatic character are generally of
th) mildest type, befog, in 99 out of 100
cases, of the intermittant form. In evidence
of this assertion, I will suite a few facts ; I
have served with the troops in East Flori
da for six and a half years, and four of
these were spent in the field during active
operations. The number of troops tinder
my charge averaged at least 150, and yet
the number of deaths which occurred" in
my practice, during this whole period, did
not amount to more than fO, and of these
not one died of fever or of any other acute
disease 1 The truth of this fact can be as
certained by reference to my official Quart-
terly Reports in the office of the Surgeon _ , . ,
General. Ag^fo, 1 have, during the last j Peninsula areincxhanstable, and the whol-
two years and six months^ attended at St. j country is already beginning to swarm with
Augiistine and at this Post, 4 companies of both. Cows, I am informed, produce a
troops (200) without having baa. in riiyjeatfbert ovary yeay, and never require t-
practice, dnrihF this wfkolf reriod, qsbsgte j be M rid# housed Winter or summer. Tii
death from rimf cifoSe !* WheriiTaltribwhIdrOodddtery wherecbound indeerand tur-
thdt the atoragd ettattaBtf-Among ffoops kejfo; Arid other game, and there is not prol-
stationed at Poets which are reported the ably in the world such a country for fish