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POETRY,
FOR lIIK MKSSKMJER,
UNRS,
IN MEMORY OK TVR I.ATE RKY ft RF.KT JOHN HOWARD.
THE CHURCH’S LAMENT.
Why comet lie not ? that man of (tod,
So often seen within them) walla;
Has lie forgot the “ heuae of pmyer” ?
Can lie repose when duty calls 1
Heard you his step, along that aisle?
Saw von his placid, manly hrow 1
Is that his form—his voice—hit smile ?
M\slerious change ! where are they now I
Tliero Bl inds the Altar—where Ilia hands
Were lifted o’ewthc mourning train;
Pointing to Jexus cruriji> il—
The Lauib for dying sinuers plain 1
There lira the Itook—whose Iloly page,
Reflected on his raptur’d v“w. .
The glories of the (lospcl scheme,
Surpassing bright, forever new !
And, there the seats— where list’ning crowds,
Have hung upon his burning thente ;
While lie discoursed of “ wrath revealed,”
And Jesus “ mighty to redeem” ?
They witness all—thnt lie has stood,
A champion hold—for truth and Heaven;
Firm, prompt, and fearless at the cross,
A victor crown’d, with “ souls forgiven”!
Tie comes no more ! with herald’s trump,
To offer pardon, lif* and liaht!
lie sleeps in dust! embalm'd in hope.
His faith exchang’d for blissful sight!
Then, fare thee well, thou man of God !
Thy mantle on thy brethren be :
And thou, who shur’d thy fondest love,
Hu Zion’s care — and follow thee ! (L
HI ISC KB. liWlOiy.
HOW TALL WAS ADAM ‘
This import mt question ha. been debited
with as tntich earnestness a, if the salvation of
the world depended upon it, by man, ory lear
ned men of different ages and countries, who,
however they ntay have differed in their compu
tation, alt agreed in one thing, that* the stature
of our first father was prodigious.
In the foremost rank of these speculators we
must place the Jewish Rabbins and the mystical
writers of the Talmud : some of the latter assort
that when Adaui was first created, his head lay
• l one end of the world, while his toes touched
the other end ; but that his figure was much shor
tened after his transgression, at the request of
the angels, who were afraid of such a giant. —
These Talmudists, however, left him the height
of nine hundred cubits; and others pretend that
on being expelled from Paradise, he walked
straight through the ocean, which, so enormous
was the length of his limbs, eren afiefthey bad
liecn shortened h, sin, he found every whet, for
dable. Other Rabbins reject, as fabulous, the
account of Adam's stature equalling the length
of the world; they fix il one thousand cubits
at his creation, and say that God deprived him
of exactly one hundred cubits when he had taten
of the forbidden fruit. These oxtiavagant no
tions prevailed among the Turks. Arabs, and
many people, who certainly never read the old
Jewish writers, but who all agree in attributing
to Adam a most super human size. The stature
of Eve, his wife, was of course, proportionate;
and in (lie neighbor hood of Mecca the, show a
hill which served as Eve's pillow, and afar off, in
the plain, the spots where her legs rested, the
distance from one of her feet to the other being
computed at two musket-shots.
We should hardly have expected to see these
dreams revived in France in the eighteenth cen
tury, and among a society of learned men ;-jet
the facts is, that iu the year 171 ft. Menrion pre
sented to the Academy ol Relies Let'.rcs a (.limn
ological scale of human stature, wherein he so
berly insisted that Adam was exactly one hun
dred and twenty three feet nine inchtsliigh, and
Eve, one hundred auu eighteen feet, inches
and three quarters; being precisely four feet,
eleven inches aud a quarter, shorter than her hus
band.
According to lltnrion's scale, the size of man
rapidly diminished from his first fall, down to his I
redemption,& but for the advent of our Savionr, I
the human form divine would, in the same pro
cess of diminution, have been reduced, long ere
our lime, to that of a miserable homnnenhis, not
so high as my Uncle Toby’s knee. The learned
author says that Noah was tewenty feet shoiter
thin Adam; that Abraham was only twenty
seven feet high ; but that as for Moses, (poor
puny creature!) he measured n. more than thir
teen feel from the crown of his head to the soles
of his feet. Ilenrion, like a true theorist, wedded
heart and brain to his system, is by ne means
discouraged or put out when heg-ets among the
facts of tolerably well authenticated history. In
contempt of all authority, he stvs, Alexander the
Great, who was reni irked among his contempo
raries as being rather a small mao. was six feet
high, but that Julius Ctosar only measured five
feet.
Under Augustus our Saviour was hnro. and
then tne stature of mankind ceased to iVsvindle,
end began even to shoot up a little; Imt there
llenrioti’s Kchetle Chronofofrique stops, he hav
ving proved te his entire aalislaction that, in the
course of three thousand years, nsan had dimin
ished .and lost one hundred and eighteen feet
nine inches of his stature.
The Siamese, and other Asiatick people, have
a religious belief that corresponds with the in
genious Frenchman's hard-laiomed scale; they
sty that since the loss of his primitive innoeenco,
man has gradually become less, and that in the
end he will not lie higher than a magpie. Rut
all people, all religion*, all superstitions, have
ackn iwledged the ekistenoe, in former times, of
a gigantick race, .and have delighted to dwell tt
lioti the visionary picture of days when we were
purer in heart, s'ronger in frame and mind,
‘•more blest, more wise,''('than w no ware.
Until a comparatively very recent date, the
sciences of geology and comparative anatomy
were so very little cultivated, that all the huge i
bones of the largest of living creatures, nd of
those monstrous animals that have so long disap
peared from the face of (he earth, were taken for
human bones. People seem to have forgotten
that the world had ever had any other human
inhabitants. The scattered hones of whales,
rhinoceroses, hippopotami, elephants, my, even
the fossil remains of the guana don, the ichthy
osaurus, the mastodon, and the megatherium,
were picked up and shown as fractional parts of
the bodies of ancient races of men ; and when
ribs were found three feet in circumference, and
thigh-bones six leet long, no wonder they belie
ved there had been enormous giants in the land.
These remains strongly confirmed the vulgar er
ronr; for when man can say of anything won
derful, that they have setn it with their own eyes
there is no hope of convincing them. The evi
dence of human skeletons found entire, of mum
mies, three thousand years eld. no ways larger,
or differing in proportion from living men and
women, had no weight on these large b.lievors ,
in thn marvellous, who could swallow an anted- i
iluviatt monster fur a man.
From the Keen— Yorker.
A FINGULAR CIRCUMSTANCE.
Some time durin'g the year 1815, Mr. Henry!
Lossley. of Georgia, the son of a gentleman of ;
moderate circumstances, was married to a Miss
Mary Lansing, a I idv of some accomplishments
and great personal beauty. A few months after
their union, it became evident (hat they would
. have to gain support by their actual labor; and
il was certain that in Georgia they could not do
more than to obtain a mere subsistence. Il was
thought best that Mr. Lossley should travel into
sortie new country, get a piece ofland, ntakesonte
little improvement on it, ami then return to carrv !
out his companion.
Mr. L. travelled to the state of Kentucky, and
was about contracting „ piece of , jn , ||e
neighborhood of where the town of II n()W
limit, lie availed him,elf of*l,e fust opporluui
ty of wmt.ng a few l,„e, to hi, companion. This
letter never reached the beloved object for whom
it was intended —but fell into the bands of one
with wliout Mr. I.osdey bad been a competitor. ;
An answer came hut not ol Mis. Lossley, but ap
parently from her lather, with whom ha had left !
her during his absence.
• Dear aen ; Your wife took siek about a week
after your depaiture. At first we did not enter
tain fears concerning her. After some days, her
brain became alfecled and she lost her reasons,
and while in this situation she called every per
son wlte wis in attendance oil her and came to
tee her, ‘ Henry !’ A short time before her death
she came to herself, and seemed to have but one
desire to live, which was to see you! and her
last sentence was * oh, my dear Henry ! and shall
I see hiut no tuote iu this life !’ aud breathed bet
last.”
(Jo the reception of this letter, Mr. Lossley be
came almost desperate. His whele amount of
earthly goods seeuted to b. cur off at one struke.
He made several atteuips to answer the letter but
lound it impossible te write en such a painful
subject, lie became a solitary uiau—being in a
land of strangers —aud bad ns person to w hom
lie could uubosom hiiiTself—aad though grief is
loud of company, yet he had to share his alone.
The returning to the place, where he
had so eften beheld the fair face and lovely form
ol his now lost Mary, without being able to see
her, he could not hear ; and having left but little
behind, save his companion, that was of any
consequence to him, lie gave up the idea of re
turning. Neither had he any disposition to set
tle hiinsef; and finding that he could sustain his
grief better w hen (ravelling than in any other
way, ire joined himself to a company of fur tra
ilers, and shaped his course to the Rocky Moun
tains. He passed nearly two years among the
Northwestern Indians. The hardships he endur
ed, the dangers thiouch which he passed, all had
a tendency to call off his mind fiom former sor
rows, aud hy the time he had returned to Missou
ri, he had in some degree obtained his former
cheerfulness. The roll of years at length wore
away his grief, and finding at last an object on
which ha r.onld place his affections, he again mar
ried. From tilt time that he left his companion
ia Georgia, till lie uturitcd bis second wile, it was
about fir. years.
Rut what shall we say about Mrs. Looslcy, sot
strange to tell, she yet lived! Weeks, months,
and years passed by but has brought her no ti
ilingsofher husband. Post offices were examin
ed, but no l.tter canto. Hi* name was looked
for in the public pi inis, but could not be found.
Travellers were inquired efbu’ to no avail ! Not
a word could she hear of him. At length she
gave him up as dead, aud conceived of his death
in many ways.
After a lapse of eeven long years and more,
after the departure of Mr. Lossley, Mr. Starks
offered hi. haad in marriage to Mrs. Lossley;
and, aa it was firmly helieved by herself and
friends that he was dead, she accepted.
At this time Mr. Lossley was living with his
second wife in the State of Missouri, where he
continued to live for something like eighteen
years. About fourteen years after his marriage
his second wife died—and he was left with two
children, a son and a daughter. The daughter
was the eldest, and took charge of her father’s
house—but in little more than three years alter
the death el her mother she married, and mo
ved to North Alabama, and her father and btoth
er went with her.
In the mean time Mrs. Starks had lost her hus
band and father, and leaving bnt one child, and
that a little daughter, she removed to North Ala
bama also, to livo with an aged necle who rvas
living in that part of the country ; so that Mr.
Lossley and Mrs. Starks became neighbors; and
they became acquainted with each other as Col.
L. (this title he bad obtained when among the
fur-traders) and Mrs. Starks. They formed an
attachment for each ether, and Col. Lossley
eventually offered her hisltand in marriage, which
she accepted ! It is to be observed that during
the whole of their intercourse, they look great
care never to mention any circumstance connec
ting it set < with their first marriage, and both pas
sed as having been married but once—they had
both been sostry cancieus on this subject that the
slightest trace of their former acquaintance was
not discovered until the night before the marriage
was to have been solemnized.
The night before marriage, aa they were con
rersing alone, (he Col. remarked that he expected
te ke a little frightened en the next evening—
saying with him the eldor the worse ; • for,’ said
he, • when I married the first time, 1 was not so
much enth arrased as when I married the la.-t !’
to which Mrs. Starks replied by saying. ‘Yon
have been married twice it seems? The Cel.
tried at first to change the subject of the conver
sation. but soon found that would not do; and
knowing it would have to cente out, sooner or
later, ke went into a detail of circumstances con
nected with his first marriage, giving names and
dates ! This was a subject on which the Colonel
was eloquent. At length, looking upon his in
tended bride, ha saw that she had taken more
than usual intetest in the relation he had been
making. He then broke the silence by saying,
‘you must fotgivo me for tho kind remembrance
I bear for the beloved eompanion of my youth.’
While he was uttering this sentence, Mrs. Starks
swooned away, and would have fallen from her
sett hid notthc Col. supported her. While she
lay in this death like slate, many were the reflec
tions w hich passed through the mind of the Col.
First supposing that as lie had for a lime kept
this secret from her, and at last divulged without
intending to do so, it might have a tendency to
destroy her confidence in him, or causa her to
fear that bis affections were so much placed tip
on the memory of his first wife that it would he
impossible for him to respect her as he ought ;
these apd many other (thoughts of a like kind
rushed through his mind, and he but awaited the
power of utterance on the part of Mrs. Starks to
hear her renounce him forever. Rut, oh! how
mistaken were his fears! No sooner was she
roused from Iter swoon than she threw her arms
around hi* neck, and resting her head upon his
bosom, *ohbed like a child, crying out, ‘ Oh ! my
husband.’ The Col. being much astonished, in
quired raiher hastily what she meant. With her
hands still resting on his shoulder*, with a coun
tenance beaming with joy and suffused with tears
—she exclaimed with a Wall'choaked utterance, 1
am your long lost Mary! and you are my Hen
ry. whom I mourned as dead for these twenty
! year*!”
The joy then became mutual. That night and
the next day wero spent m relating circumstan
ces which transpired with them during their se
paration, and admiring the Ptevidence that
brought them together. On the next evening
those bidden to the marriage attended. The parson
came, but there was no service for him ; 0 render.
Tho transported cooplo informed the assembly
that they had been lawfully married upwards of
twenty years before and gave a brief outline ol
their history, and entered into the hilarity of the
evening with a degree of.cheerfuliicss unusual to
them both.
Abstnct of Mind —Cases of this sort are every
il.iy becoming more frequent. During the late
balloon ascension of Mr. LauiMt in New York,
an individual thrust his hand into the pocket of
another person, supposing it to be his own, and
drew out a pocket book containing a large sum
of money. Me went off with the cash, and at
the last accounts, had not discovered his mistake.
It is ft* iretl that Mr. Hayes, in one of his ahsen
moods, will clap his hand on the shoulder of the
unfortunate man.
A DOVE’OVEiTdKMAGOfJfJI'.
Petci Brush was in a dilapidated condition—
nut at elbows, out at knees, out of pockets, out
of spirits, and out in tire street, an -out and
outer’ in every respect. He sat upon the curb
stone leaniiiz his head upon his hand, his elbow
be ini’ placed upon a stepping-stone. Mr. Brush
h.id'lor some time been silent, absorbed in deep
thought, which lie telievcd by spitting through
his teeth, formed into the gutter. At length,
heaving a deep sigh, he spoke. ‘They used to
tell me, put not your Bust in princes— and I
hav'nt. None of ’em never wanted to borrow
nothing of me. Primus! puolt! pill uni yottt
trust in pollliciauers! them’s my sentiments.—
There's no two mediums about that. Hav’nt I
been serving my country these five years, like a
patriot; going to meetings and huzzaing my
daylights nut; and getting as blue as blazes;
Itav’r.l I blocked the windows, got licked fifty
times, carried I dont know how many black eyes
and broken noses, for the good of the coidmuii
weullh, and the popularity of our illegal rights,
and all for what. Why, fornix. If any good
has come eut of it. the country has put the whole
of it in her pocket, slid swindled me out of my
earnings. I cant git no office ! Republics is un
grateful—l didn't want no reward for my servi
ces. I only wanted to be took care of, and have
nothing to da; and I've only got half nothing to
do I Heiog took care of was the main thing.
K f publics is n ogr a tofu I,l‘nt swaggered if it ain't !’
‘Come with me,’ said Charley, helping him
along. •1 11 take care of you. Rut what made
you a potilicialter bav’nl you a good trade?’
•Trade! yes; but what's a trade when a feller's
gat a soul—a whole soul? Trade! I love my
country to take care of me. Ileadwork is the
trade I'm made for—for talking that's my line.
Talking m the oyster cellars—iu the bar rooms
any where! ] call a talk all day, only stop
ping for meals, aud to wet mv whistle, Rut par
lies is all alike. I've been oo all sides, tried ’em,
and 1 know ‘em—none of’em gave urn any thing,
and I've a mind to knock off aud cull it half a
day.'— Knickerbocker.
A gentleman was at a stable buying a horse,
and wanted to see his motions. The horse trader
called the boy, who happened to lie away, to
cone and ride the horse, and he accordingly moun
ted ; but not having heard tho previuus conversa
tion the boy wits at a loss bow to proceed, till lie
Called his master to hint and asked in a low voice,
which rather unluckly was overheard. “Sir am
Ito t ide hint to s ell by or buy by.
The Cincinnati Mirror says that a man who
was hanged lateiy in a neighboring Stale for
burglary and murder, confessed under the gal
lows that his career of crime began by stopping
a newspaper without paying sot it. It is certain
that lie tillered the Road to Ruin hy the light
gate. ’
Conundrum. —Why are the Van Curen men
like fish out of water ?
Uecattse they are always lying -shout the Hank.
LATEST FROM FLORIDA.
Ry the sehr. George and Mary , Capt. Willfv.
arrived yesterday forenoon from Jacksonville, E.
F. we hsve received a slip front the office of the
Jacksonville Courier, dated the Blh inst. contain
ing the following interesting intlligence.
Latest Intelligence—Aiimt Movements.
Major Pierce with all the effective force from
St. Augustine, left Rlack Creek on Saturday
evening, encamping that night at Hull’s Creek,
five miles from G .trey's Ferry, on his way to New
nansville. The force with him amounted to a
little upwards of two hundred nten. A train of
wagons went on under his escort” We are told
that Maj. P. is deterinied to try another battle
with the Indians, and that too, speedily. May
the God of battles grant him success.
C.ipt. Walker, from Nassau coutily, left this
place Tuesday morning with sixteen men, tojoin
the remainder of his company at Newnansville.
The two companies of malitia (whose lime of
service expires in a few days) and the on of
Regulars at Furl Gilliland joined with the men
just gone on with Major Pearce, will we hope, be
able to saveNewnansvillefront the Indians- That
place has been ilrreatened and will probably ba
altackted, or the roads leading to it, so Leset
that Communication except under strong escort,
will be interdicted.
Mr. Charles Dell, who left Newnansville on
Saturday last#states that for some time the In
dians have been iu the immediate neighborhood
of the Fort. It seems that they made their head
quarters at Ban Felasco (Col. Sanchez’ planta
tion) only loar miles ftoin Newnansville, and col
lecting cattle, penned them there for a night, aud
then drove them off towards Hoglown prairie.—
The Indians on Tuesday night of last week,
came within 15 yards of the Fort atxl supping
a slip of bark front a tree, made some marks,
which were interpreted by those skilled in Sem
inole hieroglyphicks to signify that 150 Indians
were present at that place, it is impossible to
say rvhat force the inferntls have bnt enough to
overrun Florida unless assistance soon comes.
The women and children at New nansville must
suffer incredible hardship, at night shut up in the
Fort, alarmed needy and siek. The day is spent
in the tents pitched around the Fort. We are
told that the number is near three hundred.
At Black Creek, the people from Alachua, j
who sought that place for security, and are en
camped on both sides of tho Creek for some dis
tance along the road, are suffering greatly from
sickness. Such arc their exposures to the weath
er, thsir want of almost every comfort of life,
(hat the preservation of their healths is a thing
impossible. The measles and the whooping
cough still prevail among them.
These epidemics, in addition to the fevers con
sequent on their exposures, place those unfoitti
nate people in “extremis rebus.” Il is said two
thirrls of them are now siek. What must be their
sufferings !—houseless, homeless, lying open up
on the ground, exposed to the noonday heat, tho
damps and dews of night, and the storms ol heav
en, destitute of every thing even of medical aid,
(except what is rendered by the surgeon of the
Post) siek, dying.
Store House to rent.
at or both of these Store Houses od
joining the subscribers, wliirh are
large, and convenient: they ennld be
easily united, and would make a desirable
eti.nd for business to any one desirous of
renting them for such purpose : die terms will lie moder
ate. Apply to liEOROE JEWETT Ac CO.
■Sept 31 30
a TO It EXT.
r*HIE tw# story Store House, with rcl
.l. lar, at the bead of Cotton Avenue—
will be finished by 10th or 15th ncxi month.
The stand is a very desirable one, and any
person wishing to rent had best imply immediate! V
„ „ WM. 1). PARKER it CO.
Sept 19 __ 4w30
STRAYED
IpROM my plaee one mile tioiow James A. Everitt’s
1 ipiarter, on Ifogernwl creek, in tile 14th district of
Houston county, on the 4th day of August last, a sorrel
Mare MULE, three years old, thin order, with a star in
the face: noodier marks recollected.
. * „ J. IV. C. HORN.
Houston Cos. Sept 20
mrrao !,t ***** ,!,S * WOllf>7
|\j ( y *‘ j ** now given to all person s liable to pav
x 1 Tax in the 50th and 71fh dists. G. M. of Itihb coun
ty, that have not given in their tax returns for the prcu
•nt year, (18Jf>) would do well to rail and give in before
the lirnt ol October, as the hooks will be closed at that
time, and all defaulters double taxed.
JAMES HOLLINGSWORTH, T. R.
*Pt 30
\OTK E.-l hare purchased a residence in this
i 1 city, and resided here ever since the 25th May last,
from that date I have considered this city and county
my place of abode. L. L. ’GRIFFIN.
Macon, .Sept 21, 1830, j vS ;;o
To all whom it may concern!
‘■[H IKE notice, llmt I slmll proceed todistribute the
■ legacies of Samuel Eeuseur, senior, Into of Hnn
roe county, deceased. The ciistribiition ot the property
Will take place at die late resilience of the deceased,on
the J/ lb iust. The legacies in money will bo paid at my
otiice in Forsyth, at any time after that day.
7. E. HARMAN,
_, „ Appointed Agent for Legatees.
SwptOO r i w ; )( ,
NOTICE.
subscriber, a small sorrel HORSE
‘’bout the 23th ot August; no marks rcc-
B ollected except that his back seems to
“rWtee**S#ws, have been very badly hurt bv die saddle,
vvliieli, however, was well when be fell here'. A renson
able compensation will be paid for bis being takan up
and information so that I get him, or his delivery.
„ . „„ JOSHUA A. WIMBERLY.
Sedt 20 3w30
From the Sat in mil Inlilligtncir.
FROM NACOGDOCHES.
Tiio public li is heard scarcely uny thins from
Gen. Gaine’s head quarters since his letter ol
the lOih us July, announcing his intention to
march part of his army to Nacogdoches; and
from that post itself we have not, until new,
heard a word. This long silence had, indeed,
begun to create doubts in the minds of some
people whether Gen. Gaines had, in fact, com
promised the neutral obligations of his country,
by a military movement into the Mexican teni
lory ; but the annexed extract from a letter re
ceived yesterday by one of our citizens, from an
officer at Nacogdoches, settlos the question, and
shows that a detachment of our army is in actual
occupation of that Mexican town:
Extract of a Utter from an officer of the U. S. Army ,
dated Camp Nacogdoches, August i, 183(>.
“Since I last addressed you from Fort Tow
son, I have performed mother inarch of near
two hundred miles, and now, on a small hill
which terminates, or rather on which Nacogdo
ches partly stands, our encampment is spreud.
We were two weeks acoinplisliing the march,
which was truly fatiguing. Part of the country
over which we passed had never been travelled
before, except by men on horseback ; and as we
were encumbered with ox teams, a road had ne
cessarily to be cut as we advanced, which caused
great delay, even when tho river was to be cross
ed, and the trouble incident to building bridges
and rails did not occur to detain us.
Wa reached this place about a week ago, and
the firing of a small piece of artillery on our ap
proach told ol a favorable reception. The in
habitants are extremely polite and obliging, bat
si,my of them have left the town in consequence
us the hostile altitude of the neighboring Indi
ans, who are said to be so numerous that some
do not consider the town safe now, notwithstand
ing the presence us the U. 8. troops.
“Yesterday evening the roaring of artillery
and the sound of martial music announced the
ariival us Gen. Houston and staff. He seems to
have sidle red in health, and the wound he re
ceived at tlin battle of Sau Jacinto confines him
still to his crutches.
“ Report said a week or two since that ten
thousand Mexicans were on their march to Tex
as, but like most reports of the kind, it proved (•
be incorrect, though it is yet believed that about
two thousand aie embodied at Metamoras. The
Texian army is daily increasing in strength and
confidence, and will doubtless be able successful
ly to oppose any force that cun be brought a
gaiuat them.”
DEATH OF ROTHSCHILD.
Nathan Mayer Rothschild, the celebrated I.on
! don Hanker, died on Thursday, July 28, ar
Fraiikfurt-ou-the Maine, at 5 o'clock in the after
noon. He was only 59 years of age. His visit
to Frankl'orr was to be present at the marriage of
Iris son. His illness continued for several weeks,
before it terminated in death. He was sensible
to the last. It is said tbat lie had a strong pre
sentiment that he should not return to England
—but an impression prevails, that Ins life might
have been saved, if better professional advice
could have been procured than that found on the
spot. Mr. Rothschild was, emphatically speak
ing, a self-made man—the rise of his fortune was
all within the present century. He came to
England in 1800, where he acted as agent for
his lather in tho purchase of goods for tire conti
nent. Shortly afterwards, through the agency of
his father, and the Prince of Hesse Casscl, he
had large sums of money placed at his disposal,
which he employed with extraordinary judg
ment, and his means went on at a rapid rate ol
accumulation. It was not till the breaking out
of the war with Spain in 1308, that his extraor
dinary means, which were displayed in making
remittances for the English army in that coun
rry, were developed to any extent, so as to he
known to the mercantile world generally. He
was one of ten children, eight us whom survive
him—four brothers, two younger, and two older
(ban himself, and four sisters. He married the
daughter of Mr. Cohen, a merchant, in London,
who is said so little to have anticipated the suc
cess in life of his future son-in-lnw, that he en
tertained some doubts about the prudence of the
match—and Mr. Rothschild was accordingly de
sired to produce testimonials as to his wordly
means. The whimsical answer was, that what
ever number of daughters Mr. Cohen possessed,
lie could not do belter, so far as money and good
character went, than to give them all to Nathan
Mayer Rothschild.
The death of this eminent Banker is one of
the most important events for London, and per
haps for Europe, which has occurred for some
time; his financial transactions have pervaded
the whole continent—and may be said to have
exercised more or less influence on money busi
ness of every description. No operations on an
equally large scalo have existed in Europe pre
vious to his time—for they were not confined to
his own capital and resources, which were im
mense, hut were carried on in conjunction with
his brothers in Baris, in Vienna, in Frankfort,
and in Naples—all of whom possess collossal
fortunes of their own. Besides which, lie had
agencies established in almost every large city in
the old or new world, all of which, under his di
rections, conducted extensive business of various
kinds. Nothing therefore was too great or ex
tended, provided the project was a reasonable
one, for him to undertake. All the brothers of
Mr. Rothschild arc men of great capacity and
knowledge of business—but it is generally ad
mitted that they deferred to Ids judgment in all
their undertakings, and that he was the moving
principle of the great mass of capital they rep
resented.
Mr. Rothschild, like the rest of hie brothers,
held a patent of nobility with the title of Baron,
but ho never assumed it, and was more justly
proud of that name under which he had acquir
ed a distinction which no title could convey.
From the Jackson (Tenn.) Truth Teller.
THE BRAVE COLONEL CROCKET.
Lost Prairie, Ark’s. 18SG.
Mrs. David Crockett—Dear Madam : Per
mit mo to introduce myself to you as one of the
acquaintances of your iniicli respected husband
Col. Crockett. With his fate in the fortress San
Antonio, Texas, you are doubtless long since ad
vised. With sincere feelings of sympathy, I
regret his untimely loss to your family and self,
hor it amongst strangers, ne constituted the
mast agreeable companion, he, doubtless, tu his
and children, must have been a fa
vorite peculiarly prized. In bis loss, freedom
has been deprived of one of her bravest sons, in
whose bosom universal philanthropy glowed with
as genial warmth as ever animated the heart of an
American citizen. When he fell, a soldier died.
To bemoan his fate, is to pay a tribute of grate
ful respect to nature —lie seemed to be her sou.
The object of this letter is to beg that you will
accept the watch w hich accompanies it. You
will doubtless know it when you see it. And as
it has his name engraved on its surface, it will no
doubt he the more acceptable to you.
As it will be probably gratifying to you to learn in
what way I became_possessed of it, permit me to
stale, that, last winter (the precise date not recol
lected by me.) Col. Crockett, in company with
several other gentlemen, passed through Lost
Prairie, on Red River, (where I live.) The
company, excepting the Col., who was a little be
hind, lode tip to my house and asked accommo
dations for the night. My family being so situa
ted from the indisposition of my wife, that I could
not accommodate them, they got quarters atone
of my neighbors’houses. The Col. visited me
the next day and spent thednr with me. lie ob
served whilst here, that his funds were getting
short, and as a means of recruiting them, he must 1
sell something. He proposed to me to exchango
watches—lie priced his at 30 dollars more than
mine, which sum I paid him, and we accordingly
exchanged. °
With Ins open frankness, his natural honesty of
expression, his perfect want of concealment, I
could not hut he very much pleased. And with
a hope that it might be an accommodation to him
1 was gratified at the exchange, as it gave me a
keepsako Which would often remind me of an
honest man, a good citizen, and a pioneer in the
cause of liberty, amongst bis suffering bielhreu in
Texas. ,iii
His military career was short; but though l
deeply lament his death, I cannot lestriin nty
AitieiiCHtt smile At tlie recollection of t!e fact
that lie died as a United States soldier should die,
covered with his slain enemy, and even in death
presenting to them in his clenched hands the wea
pons of their destruction.
Wo hope that the day is not far distant when
his adopted country will be freed from a savage
enemy, and afford to yourself a*d children a
home, rendered in every way comfortable by the
liberal donations of government.
Accept, dear madam, for yourself and family,
ike most sincere wishes of your future happiness,
of your most obedient servant and frrind.
J ISAAC N. JONES-
A New Orleans paper gives a report that Mr.
Poinsett, of Sonili Carolina, has been “ap
pointed the commissioner to examine into and
report on the political condition of Texas, pre
liminary to sending a diplomatic agent to that
country.” It lias been generally understood
here that a resident of this city has been appoint
ed file agent of Texas, and that he, several
weeks ago, left the city on that business.
Nat. lnklligcnctr*
Consistency. —ln a small town in Vermount,
according to the Boston. Transcript, there re
turned a few weeks since, a young man, a native
of the place, who hud been absent for about ten
years, having resided in Georgia, where lie had
accumulated considerable properly, about ten
thousand dollars of which were invested in slaves.
Shortly after bis return be was seized with a fe
ver, and on August Ist died, without family, and
of course his propety went to bis brothers and
1 sisters, three of whom were members of the Abo
lition society, and one of them is president of the
society. When called upon to know uliat they
intended to do with the slaves, it being intimated
that they might now show their consistency, the
president of the socieiy replied, “ that the laws of
1 the State were so oppressive to free blacks, that
it would be a mercy to sell them to some kind
’ master, who in conformity with the request of
bis deceased brother, should give bonds, that
families should never be separated.
The Jackson specie-paying land circular, is
sued for the benefit of Bluer, Kendall, and Cos.
lias excited great alarm as well as indignation in
Mississippi. As an evidence of ibis fact, we are
told by the Natchez Courier, of the 2d instant,
that the banks in tbat place instantly, on the re
. ception of the circular, resoired to coase discoun
ting, and au order to that effect was sent to all
the branches throughout the Stale. This meas
ure was deemed necessary to the safely of the
banks, which would otherwise have been speedi
ly drained of every dollar of tlieir.specie—Lynch
burg Virginian.
ST. LOUIS; [Mo.] August 20.
The effects of the Treasury Circular are be
ginning to be seen. Specie lias almost entirely
disappeared from circulation ; and as for gold,
but preeious little ol it has glistened in this part
of the country, although we were promised floods
of it two or three years since. Tile Jacksonville
Patriot ways ; “In this place you cannot now
obtain specie for a five dollar bill.” The paper
circulation is becoming daily more depreciated,
and general tesorl must be had. by our merchants
and business men generally, to a system of sha
ving. They will be doing injustice to themsel
ves, should they continue to sell their goods at
fair prices—receive uncurrent and depreciated
paper at par in payment—and then pass it over
to the broker at a discount of three, fire, and ten
per cent, for gold and silver, or such money as
will be received at tire desk of the bank—[Re
publican.
The London Spectator, speaking of the bill
for the distribution of the surplus revenue among
the several Slates, asks—“ls not this the first
instance in the history of nations, of taxes being
returned to lhose who paid them ? The finan
cial prosperity which such a transaction indi
cates, is awing to a really representative gov
ernment, an industrious population, and an al
most unlimited field of production. Let tile
people of England take advantage of their pelit
cal knowledge, enormous capital, and extensive
colonial possessions ; and the time may arrive,
when, after an honest discbaige of the National
Debt, they may divide (he accumulation of sur
plus income among (lie several counties.
N. Y. Journ. of Commerce.
The Editor of a West Indian paper called the
Bermudian, expresses not a iillie surprise at the
liberality of the American Government, in pro
viding for the distribution of the surplus revenue
among the Statos. He says—“We believe it is
a singular instance for a Government lo ac
knowledge it has more money than it rightfully
can dispose of, and an extraordinary state of
things when that power which is generally view
ed as an extortioner of (lie means of the country,
should be seen jiouring back on the People its
stores of treasure to be disposed of by them as
they should seem fit.”
The Louisville Journal says:—Wo are told
that the President is much enraged at the result
of the Kentucky elections. He denounces his
imbecile editors in the Stale of having deceived
him, calls them a set of lying old women, and
swears to take awav their blank, paper, and twine
contract. They will probably go to Texas.”
Indiana. —Tho Indiannpolis Journal, publish
ed at the Seat of Government of the Slate, gives
a complete list of the members elected to the two
Houses ol tho Legislature, the aggregate of which
is as follows:
* Harrison. Van Buren.
Senators, 29 18
Representatives, 55 44
84 62
From the National Intelligencer.
“ As you svkhk.”—So, we have carried the
day in Maryland, after all. The returns furnish
ed by the Raltimore papers of Wednesday ex
hibited such a Flemish account for tile Whigs—
giving them but 2 in 22—that we concluded with
those papers that the apathy ol the Whigs had,
beyond all doubt, betrayed the State into the
bands of their adversaries. The issue of the
election in the remaining counties, however,
averted, it appears, so discreditable a result. We
should owe an apology to the patty for too rea
dily admitting that they were beaten, if their
negligence had not placed the political fortunes
of the .State in such jeopardy, and in fact deserv
ed defeat rather than success. In same of the
counties, only half tho number of votes was re
ceived which could have been given. Let their
narrow escape—if indeed they have escaped—
teach them ihe danger f inattention or over
confidence, and the necessity of vigilance in the
more important contests to take place in the two
next months.
The Baltimnre Chronicle of yesterday brought
tlie following unexpected news—changing entire
ly the previous aspect of ihe election :
From the Chronicle.
MARYLAND F.RRL’T.
We yesterday permitted the Van liuren folks
to have the result of the electoral election all
their own way ; and we really thought that they
had caught the whigs of the Stales napping ; but
by the gratifying intelligence received last night,
il seems filial the tables have been turned oil
them, and that the Whigs are triumphant !
‘1 he Van Ruren parly of the city had a grand
procession, with banners, diinns, si c., last night,
in honor of their victory! but this morning we
suspect they feel rather flat.
Tho following list shows the relative strength
of the p.irtices in the electoral college. The re
turn from St. Mary's is not official—not have
reiiiiim from all the distiicts in Allegany been re
ceived—although (here is not a doubt of our suc
cess there ;
ff'hig- I an Baren>
Allegany. 2 o
Washington, o 2
Frederick, O 2
Montgomery, 1 i
Prince George’s £ o
Calvert, 2 0
Chailes, 2
St. Mary's, 2 t)
Annapolis City, 0 I
Anne Arundel, 0 2
Callimore City, 0 1
Baltimore County, 0 2
Hartford, 0 2
Cecil, • 0 2
Kent, 2 t)
Queen Ann, 2 2
Talbot, 2 0
Caroline, 0 2
Dorchester, 2 0
Somerset, 2 <>
Worcester, 2 0
Total, 21 ID
From the Louisville Journal.
“ Will Mr. Secretary Forsyth give any account
of his speculations in Indian reservations ? Will
Amos Kendall ? Will Attorney-General Butler?
Will Richard M. Johnson ? Why did Speaker
Pope give the casting vote against enquiry into
the Cherokee Treaty 1 Almost tho entire Go
vernment is up to its chili in land speculations.
Let them deny it, if they dare ! Stationed at
Washington—possessed officially of the infor
mation which others must get as they can, they
avail themselves of it to “ feather their nests”
and rear immense fortunes ! Is it right ?”
The above questions are from the Richmond
Whig. They have elicited no reply. Again and
again they have thundered in the eais of the
Cabinet, yet iliere has been no response. They
have been thrown into the form of specific char
ges and hurled with stunning force at the admin
istration, ye{ all has not been sufficient to bieak
the profound and death-like silence of the miu
ions of power. The Globe, so habitually noisy
on other subjects, dares not open his lips on this.
Reckless as that press and its kindred minions
are, that dare not deny, thut the highest officers
of Government have been using the powers and
privileges of their official stations to get posses
sion of the public lands, and applying the nation
al funds to the attainment of their object. Tiio
Government is a Government of sharpen and
swindlors. For offences far less infamous the
Cabinet of Great Britain would be booted and
pelted out of the Realm ; and, although we am
not the advocates of violence,we invoke the peo
ple of the United Slates to inete out to their ru
lers a punishment proportioned to their transgres
sions. The officers of Government are now fly
ing in all directions as if to escape from their
own fears or from tho wrath of the nation, but
wherever they may go, that wrath, we trust, w ill
pursue and overtake them and leave them “ tho
blasted monuments f publie vengeance.”
VAN 3TTBENISM.
From the Richmond Whig
mi. VAN BUREN —FREE NEGRO SFUFRAGE.
It seems impossible now-a-days, in politics, to
hold fast on truth, or annihilate a lie. Falsa
hood once pressed into the service of paity as
sumes tiio etherial essence of Milton's devils, and
from that moment cannot,
Receive, no more than can the fluid air.’’
It might otherwise be nnagiued that the people
of Virgiuia were past all nope of deceiving in res
pect to Mr. Van Buren's course in ‘he New York
Convention of 1821, upon tt> subject of free ne
gro suffrage. But so far Is this from being true,
that every day witness soma new effoit to bam
boozle them thereupon.
The Van Uuren Central Committee in their
late address—than which no longer yarn, no heav
ier lead line was ever thrown into the slimy depths
of party without raising a sparkle of wit on tho
surface, or bringing np a shell of information
from below—have stated that, in tha New York
Convention of 1821, called to amend the consti-
that state adopted in 1777, “an effort
was made to place the free negro upon an equali
ty wiih the white man as he stood under the old
constitution. To this Mr. Van Buren was de
cidedly oppesed,” &x.
VV e ask the attention of the people to certain
extracts from thejournul of that Convention.—
To that journal we appeal, and challenge contra
diction. Our references are to its pages.
The New York constitution of 1777 provides
that every male inhabitant of full age. having re
sided in any county six innntlis, and duiingthat
time possessing freehold of S2O value, or a ren
ted tenement of the yeaily value of 40 shillings,
and having'been rated and paid taxes to tbs
Slate, may vote for members of Assembly—that
the Senate should enmit of freeholder* who
should be chosen by freeholders possessed of free
holds of SIOO value over and above all debts
charged on them. See ihe journal, pages 14 15.
In the Convention of 1821, the Committee on
the Elective Franchise, reported the following as
a sn list iiis * o for the above provisions—page 134.
” Every white male citizen ol the age of 21
years, who shall have resided in this State six
months next preceding any election, and shall
within ane year preceding any election, have paid
any tax assessed upon him, or shall within ono
I year preceding the election, have been assessed to
work on a public road, and shall have per
fotmed the work or paid an equivalent accord
ing to law, or shall within ne year pttc*ding
thn election, have been enrolled in the militia
of this State, and shall have served therein
according to law, shall be entitled to vote at
such election in the town or ward in which lie
shall reside, fur Governor, Lieutenant Governor,
Senators, Members of the Assembly, and all oth
er officers who are or may be elected by the peo
ple.”
This report was committed to the Committee
of the Whole, and the petitions from the colored
people were referred to the same Committee—
page 135.
The proposed exclusion of the blacks was de
bated for several days, and at great length. Dur
. •ng that discussion it was repeatedly affirmed
and never denied, that the privilege possessed by
, ‘bo blacks of voting under the old constitution,
was a privilege not intended to be conferred on
them. For instance, in page 190. Col. Young
says: “If we look back lo the time when our
constitution was formed, we find there were then
few or no free blacks in the Stale. The pre
sent slate of tilings was not contemplated, and
hence no provision was made against it.”
With a view expressly to test the sense of the
Convention on this subject, a motion was made
to strike ont the “ while'’ from the substitute. On
tbat motion the ayes and nocs aie recorded, page
202—Ayes 52—Noes 59. Mr. Van Horen's
name is recorded amongst the ayes, lie had ta
ken impart in the previous debate,
The effect of this vote unquestionably was to
place free negroes on the looting of while men,
so far as the light of voting was concerned Dur
ing the after progress of the discussion, a middle
ground was assumed, by requiring of free negroes
a freehold qualification of $260. Mr. Van Bii
ren took pan in the discussion, and concurred in
llietesult. He said —page 276, “that be bail
voted against a total and unqualified exclusion,
for lie would riot draw a revenue from them, and
yet deny to them the right of suffi age; but ibis
|noviso met bis approbation,” &c., and again—
page 257, be placed the light of the blacks to
vole upon tlieii liability to lie taxed. He consid
ered “ taxation and representation” as indissolu
bly united, and applied the principle expressly lo
the case of free negroes.
We have now suited the facts, referred to the