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; : | —-, • .->■ "*• '.! 1 — “ tvisAoui, Justice, Moderation.” VOL- I- ALBANY, BAKER COUNTY, GEORGIA, SEPTEMBER 17,1845. if NO. 33. the patriot, pHED EVERY WEDNESDAY MORNING, BY ufiSOM TIFT & SETH N. BOUGHTON, *' c Editors and Proprietors. TERMS. _,. n tViilirs per annum, if paid in advance, or ,^ Dn£r. al tbe end of the year. "fLrtueinrnt* not exceeding twelvo line*, will ■' rt.d »' One Dollar for tbo first insertion, and ^frfnWfor cach continuance. Advertisements ‘.Urine the number of insertions specified, will fuS-d until lorbid. “E " 0 fi/in<l and Negroes by Executors, Adminis- V^’nw) Gupidians, are required by law to he in a public gaxcUe, sixty day* previous to Personal Property must be advertised a, manner dirty day*. 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 dians, saw plenty of buffalos, and came to . n.iMisbed forty dny*. Vtiff that application will be made to the Court uSisbed weekly for four montli*. ‘"Monthly Advertisements,One Dollar per square Israeli insertion. J7.\n Letter* on business must lie post paid. 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