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fFEOM CHAMBERS’ EDINBURGH JOURNAL.]
THE WEDDING.
A BACKWOOD SKETCH.
During R residence in America, no observing
person
can fail 'o have remarked, whether he Ira.
vel in Canada, the U. Slates or Texas, the vast num
ber of Irish families every whore to ho met with.
They bear such distinctly marked peculairitios,
that no mistake erfh occur in attributing to them
their native soil. It has been my lot to visit ma
ny of the settlements of those wanderers from tho
green isle, but nowhere did I meet any family
which so singularly interested me, as one which a
few months back was residing within the limits of
Texas, consisting of the futher, mother, a son and
iwo daughters. Old Rock, or as lie is generally
called, Captain Rock—a name doubtles assumed—
emigrated to America seventeen years ago—bis
family then consisting of two daughters ; for the
the son was born afterward in the land of his adop.
lion. For seven years, the sturdy Irishman, (ori
ginally well informed and well educated, though
his early history was never known) contended
with the difficulties incident to new settlors, with
various success in different parts of the Union,
when he was induced to join the first band of ad.
venturers who, under General Austin, obtained
leave from the Mexican Government to locate
themselves in Texas. The family obtained a grant
of land as a matter of course, but old Rock did not
fancy settled agricultural pursuits. To have round
him a wel! stocked farm, cleared and productive
fields, and herds of cattle, would have required a
degree of perseverance and patient personal lubor
of which he was incapable. Me preferred the life
of a wandering squatter, upon which he at once
entered, and which he has never sinco deserted.
Building a boat, old Rock embarked in it on one
of the Texian rivers, with his family, an old gun,
and a small stock of ammunition, and, following the
windings of the stream, did not stop until he came
to an abandoned log hut or frame house, where he
thought he might find temporary accommodation.
Of these deserted houses Texas has many, their
abundance arising from various causes—dentil
from fever, the terrible civil war, oroftenerstill/rom
men having hastily chosen location and built there
on, before it was found out thut the spot was unde
sirable and unproductive. Rock was not nice ; if
the neighborhood supplied game he was satisfied.
Sometimes an acre of sweet potatoes, Indian com
and pumpkins, might be put under cultivation, oth
erwise the family lived entirely upon venison, wild
fowl, fish and oysters ; and it wus whispered, pork
uponoccasion. A reported fondness for this lattor
article was one of the causes of old Rock’s migra
tions. No sooner did lie pitch himself in nny
neighborhood than it was said pork was at a premi.
um. Pigs certainly disappeared most mysterious
ly, but though all threw the blame upon Rock, he
ever averred the panthers, wolves and stray hunters
to have been the real culprits. However this might
be, after some months residence in any particular
spot, the family usually received a polite notice to
quit, and find another dwelling place. Eighteen
several times had the Hibernian patriarch removed
his lent at the bidding of his fellows j any neglect
of such orders being usually followed by the ioflic
tion of thut summary justice called Lynch Law.
When I became acquainted with tho family, ear.
ly in the autumn of 1842, they were residing on
one of the tributaries which pour into Galveston
bay—known as Dick’s Creek. The son was six-
teen, a small made lad, who entirely supported the
' family by means of his gun, being one of the most
expert hunters 1 ever met with in the backwoods.
Every article not produced by themselves—their
clothing being entirely of deerskin—was obtained
by bartering venison hums, whicli they always
carefully preserved for this purpose. Rock and
his wife were now old ; the former, though yet
sturdy, moved about only in his boat, and smoking
by his fire, the latter doing all the cooking. Mary
and Betsy Rock, the daughters, it would he vain to
attempt faithfully to delineate. Fat, brown, and
healthy, dressed in petticoats and spencers of deer
skin they were the most original pair it was ever
my, lot to encounter. They could neither read nor
write, hut could hunt and fish most excellently well
—and two udventurous days thoy were that I spent
in their company. They hud never seen an En
glishman hefore sinco they were grown up, and my
pictures of lifo at home enraptured them. With
the younger daughter Mary,—the other was en
gaged to be married to a Yankee—I became a pro
digious favorite, and many a hunt in canoe and in
the prairie had we together. But to my story.
After leaving them witlt a faithful promise of pay
ing another visit, I found myself six weeks after,
again at the door of the once elegant frame house,
where I had left them. To my surprise, it was
half burnt and desolate. This disuppointed me
much, for I had brought up several appropriate pres-
ents for both my young friends. Pursuing my wuy,
npthe river, i halted at a farm house, where I found
several persona collected, who quickly informed
me that the family hud been “mobbed” off the
creek, with threats of being shot if they settled
within ten miles of the spot. Where they had
Rone to, no one knew, nor seemed to care—and
lc, ° Pities being the very extempore administrat
ors of justice who had warned them off, l soon do-
parted, and gained the itouse of my friend Captain
°u, whore I purposed ruralizing during some
1st I r ^ rotn Tod I learned that two fat pigs had
j. V msappoared and suspicion most unjustly, as
atterwards turned out, having fallen on the Rocks
o squatter and his family had to acck a new rest-
"gplaco. On hearing this, I give up all idea of
y er agnjn seeing my fair friends.
I .days passed in the usual occupations of a
j n .'8 Party, when, on tho nftoi'iioou of tho fourth
self WUI1 ^ n ' ono ttt the log hut hut to amuse my-
over certain lately arrived English papers, while
y companions wore searching the country round
some cattle which my friend the captain was
foo/? 11 * s e '^irg- About an hour hefure sunset
rein* e ^ S w ' llc ' 1 * supposed to ho those of ono of the
,l,„ P ar *y °f cow hoys, were heard behind
|„, l U 'thanat its side, and in n minute more the
Vn „"' > ! 1 ' rn > s ed,and in walked—Tim Rock. The
tlier,j lller ’ having satisfied himself that I was
u v ®" c ed close to rnc, and answered my
My first enquires were after liis sis-
grcoiinn
tors. “Why,” said lie, “sister Uct is to he married
to-morrow, and bister Marv lias sent me to invito
you to tho wedding.” “How,” said I, in some
surprise, "did your sister know 1 was here ?” Tim
laughed und replied that, when 1 stopped with my
bout s crow at tile farm houso, lie wus on the oppo.
site bank in tho big timber hunting, but dared not
communicate with mo in consequence of what had
occurred. After u few words of explanation, I
shouldered my gun, my packet of presents fur the
young ludies, and leaving a line in pencil for my
trionds, followed Tim through tho forest until we
reached the water’s edge, where carefully conceal,
ed by overhanging trees and bushes I found a mod
erate sized canoe. It was almost dark when I step
ped into tile boat, hut still 1 saw that it already con
tained a human being ; so my hand meclmnicalty
sought the butt end of my pistol. “You won’t
shoot me, sir,” said the rich, full, merry voice of
Mary Rock to my infinite surprise. Tint laughed
heartily at my mistaking her for nn Indian, and
then cautioning me to speak low, until all the hous-
c8on the river were passed, wo placed ourselves in
the craft and commenced our voyage. 1 knowing
the bayou to a nicety, acted ns steersman. Mary
sat next with a paddle, and Tim at the bow with
another. It scented that, determined to have me
at tile wedding, the brother and sister with the
consent of their friends, had sturted to fetch me ;
feeling certain that I would come, after the promi
ses I had made to that effect. It seemed that they
had judged rightly; for here was I, in company
with two of the rudest settlers in the wilderness,
embarked in a frail ennue to go 1 knew not wiiither
nor had I cin e much. This roving spirit it wns,indeed
which initialed mo into many secrets and myste
ries of the woods aud prairies which escape the
more sober and methodical.
Tlte record of thut night’s journey would in it
self be a curious chapter in western economy ; but
more important matters forbid. Suffice it to re.
murk that after sixteen miles journey down a rivor
by moonlight, and as many more across tho rough
und sea-like bay of Gulveston, enlivened by merry
jocund talk all the way, we arrived about dawn at
tlie settlement of the Rock family. It was a large
doserted barn or warehouse near Clare Creek. The
family were alteady up and stirring, and engaged
in active preparation for the important ceremony ;
and to my surprise the supply of eatables and drink
ables was both varied and great—all, however, being
presents from the bridegroom, one Luke, a wealthy
land owner of Texas, in possession of much cleured
ground, and many hundred head of cattle. It may
be matter of surprise that a man well to do in the
world should have chosen a bride so every way
rude and uneducated ; but in Texas women are
scarce ; and the lover might have looked far be-
fore lie could have found a more cheerful and good
natured companion—more willing to learn ; more
likely to he loving, faithful and true, than Betsy
Rock. Tho blushing bride received me in a cotton
gown, shoes and stockings, and other articles of
civilized clothing previously unknown loiter, and
in which she felt sufficiently awkward. But Luke
had sent them, and Betsy wished to appear sumo-
body on her wedding day. My presents were all
therefore, except a bead neckluce, employed in
decorating Mary who, secreting herself behind a
screen with her sister almost convulsed mo with
laughter by appearing in a few minutes after
in a man’s red hunting shirt, a cotton petticoat,
whito stockings and mocasins, the body of a silk
dress sent to her by a Galveston lady, and a cap
and bonnet. Never was Loudon or Parisian belle
prouder than was this little rosy cheeked, light
hearted Texian beauty.
About eight o’clock the visiters began to arrive.
First came a boatful of men and women from Gal
veston, bringing with thorn a negro fiddler, without
whom little could have been done. Tlton came
Dr. Worcester and his lady from St. Leon in a ca-
noo. after them Colonel Brown from Anahuac in
his dug out; and, about nine, the bridegroom and
four male and an equal number of female compan
ions on horseback, the ladies riding either before
or behind the gentlemen on pillions. Ere ton there
were thirty old persons assembled when a most
substantial breakfast was set down to, chiefly, con
sisting of game, though pork, beef, coffee and rar
er still, bread, proved that Luke hud had a hand in
it. This meal being over, the boat in which the
party from Galveston had come up, and which was
an open craft for sailing or pulling, was put in re
quisition to convey tho bride and bridegroom to the
nearest magistrate, there to plight their truth. The
distance to be run wds six miles with a fair wind
going, hut against us on our return. The party
consisted of Luke, who was a young man of power
ful frame, but rather unpleasant features; tho bride
and bride’s maid, (Mary Rock officiating in this ca
pacity,) papa of course, myself as captain, and
eight men to pull us back. The breeze was fresh,
the craft a smart sailer, tho canvass was full all
therefore being in our favor, we reached West
Point, the residence of Mr. Parr, the magistrate,
in less than an hour. Wo found our Texas in So-
Ion about to start in chase of a herd of deer,
just reported by his son as visible, and being
therefore in a hurry, the necessary formalities
were gone through, the foe paid, and the usual doc-
umenl in the possession of the husband in ten min
utes. The eye of tho old squatter was moistened
ns he gave his child away ; some natural tears ; she
sited, hut dried them soon ; and presently everybo
dy was as merry as ever.
No sooner were the formalities concluded, limn
we returned to the boat, and to our great delight
found that, close-haled, we could almost make the
desired spot. Tlte wind had shifted a point, and
ere ten minutes, wo were again clean full, the tide
with us, and the boat walking the waters at n noble
rale. All looked upon this as a good omen, and
proportionahly morrier ; none more so than my
own particular friend Mary, who, in her finery, was
an object of much good humored jolting from the
men who surrounded Iter.—About one o’clock Mr.
and Mrs. Charles Luko wero presented by old Rock
to the company at the barn ; and, after an embrace
from her mother, tlte bride led the way, accontpa-
nied by Iter lord and muster to tho dinner table.
Tlte woods, prairies and waters, as well the Gal
veston market, had all liberally contributed their
share of provender. Wild turkeys ducks, geese,
haunches or venison, wero displayed beside roast
heof, pork, red.fislt, Irish and sweet potatoes, pump
kin and apple pie, and an abundant supply of whis
key, brandy and Hollands, without which a fete in
Texas is nothing thought of. An hour was con.
Burned in eating and drinking, when Sambo was
summoned to take his share in the day s proceed-
ings. Tables, such ns thoy were, wero cleared
away, the floor swept, partners chosen, and despite
tho remonstrance of one of the faculty present, Dr.
Worcester against dancing so shortly after a heavy
meal, all present, tlte dissentient included, begnn to
foul it nimbly. Never was there seen such danc
ing since tho world begun, never such laughing,
such screaming, such, fiddling. Every one took off
shoes and stockings. 1 was compelled to do so, to
mvo the toes of my especial partner, Mary, and
to the rapid music oftho old negro, reels and
country dunces wore rallied off at a most surprising
rate. All talked and joked, and laughed, such
couples ns were tired repealing to seek refresh-
meal*, but the dancing never ceasing, except at
rare intervals, when Sambo gave in from sheer fa-
i tiguo und thirst. Such wus the slate of thing, un
til about nine o’clock, when a sudden diminution of
it, our number was noticed by all present. Mary
had before let me into the secret; and the bride
and bridegroom wero missed, as well as the four
couples who had accompauied Luke. Rushing in
to tho open air, we descried the husband and wife
on their fine black horse, galloping beneath the
pule moon across tho prairie, escorted by their
friends. A loud shout was given them, and those
who remained, returned to the house to renew tlte
dancing, which was kept up until a late hour. It
was fourduys nftormy departure ore I regarded
my companions at Todvillo.
Such was the wedding of ono of those hardy pi.
oncers of civilization, whoso descendants may yet
he members of u great and powerful nation. I
saw Luke and his wife, as wcli as Mary, on many
subsequent occasions; but 1 never learned that
the American backwoodsman repented his union
with the wild Iristi Diana, who had hunted deer on
Murtany island with the English stranger, could
paddle a canoe with more ease than she could use
a needle, and shoot a duck with more facility than
write her name. Luke, however, is teaching her
more useful accomplishments : and Betsy, ere her
children—one of which 1 have already seen—ure
of an age to require instruction, will doubtless bo
ablo to render it. I hope, however, my picture
will send over no ono to wed Mary, for though I
have for the meantime returned to civilization, t can
not yet resign a certain faint notion, that there
might he worse lives than that of a Texian settler
witli such un associate.
ter and brighter revelation than theirs.] For I
know thut my Redeemer livotli, and that ho shall
stand ot the latter day upon the earth ; and though,
after my skin, worms destroy this body yet, in the
(lash shall 1 see God ; whom I shall see for my
self, und mine eyes shall bohold, and not anotii-
Interesting Discoveries in Arabia.
The editor of the New York Commercial Ad
vertiser, who gave a former article on this subject
to the public, has been furnished with the follow
ing interesting information in addition to that pre
viously given :
In tlte year 1834, somo officers in the service of
the Mon. East India Company discovered on the
coast of Hadramaut somo ancient inscriptions,
partly cut in tho ruins of an old city, partly in tlte
living rock, and in a language quite unknown.—
Copies of one of these inscriptions were sent to
Germany, in the hope that there some learned
philologist would be able to translate it, and unfold
its “hidden meaning.” This hope was not realiz
ed, and the mystic writing hud nearly proved use
less, when the Rev’d C. Foster, of England, the
author of“Mulioinmedanism Unveiled.” and a well
known Oriental scholar, hit upon the interpretation.
This gentleman waspreparing, last Summer, a
treatise on Arabian geography, when he met with
these inscriptions in Wellstcd’s Travels in Arabia.
He attempted their translation, but ultimately re
linquished the task as hopeless. Turning after
ward, for material for itis work, to a tract on ancient
Arabian history hound up with his copy of Schul-
ten’s Monuments of Arabia, hut so rare in England
as not to he found in the library of the British
Museum, he opened on a title and monument which
instantly struck him, from the equal length of the
two documents, and the apparent identy of their
locality, (near Aden, on tlie coast of Hadramaut)
as an Arabic version of the uudecypherable inscrip
tion he had seen in Wellslead’s travels.
Awakened to new hopes by this discovery, Mr.
Foster prosecuted his researches, and succeeded in
decyplieringthe record, which had stood the ravages
and mutations of 2500 years, and which takes us
back to the ago of Jacob and Joseph, and within
five hundred years of the flood ! In this record are
restored to the world its oldest characters and lan
guage, while it also contains a full and cleai decla
ration of the great central truth of the gospel, "he
preached to them Jesus and tlie resurrection." Al
though the Arabic translation was the clue to this
discovery, Mr. F. corrected several errors and re
moved some obscurities.
The inscription is in three parts. The longest
is of ten lines, engraved on asmooth piece of rock
forming one side of the terrace at Hisn Ghorab.
Then there are three short linos, found on a small
detached rock on the summit of tho hill. There
are also two lines found near the long inscription,
lower down the terrace. They all relate to one
transaction, an incident in Adite history. The
tribe of Ad, according to Sale, were descended
from Ad, the son of Awes or Uz, the son of Aram,
the son ot Shem, the son of Noah. The event
recorded is the route and entire destruction of the
sons of Ac, an Arab tribe, by the Aws, or tribe of
Ad, whom they invaded. In Mr. Foster’s book
fac-similes are given of the inscription; the Adi-
tic and the Hamayaritic alphabet,and a glossary con-
laining every word in them, its derivation and its
But it is not the antiquity of these monuments,
howevor high, which constitutes their vulue ; itis
the precious central truth of revealed religion
which they record which thoy have handed down
from the first ages oftlie post diluvian world,that raise
them above all price. Viewed in this respect, they
strike at the very root of scepticism, and leave not
even his o» n hollow ground boneatli tlie feet of the
unbeliever. For if wliulthe infidel vainly bring into
question ns originating with Christianity, stands
here, registered as the primeval faitli of mankind,
there is an end, at once, to tlie idle sophistry of un
belief.” “Tlie inscription on the rock of Hisn
Ghorab. a contemperary witness of the faith oftho
most ancient of tlie ojd Arabians, changes tlie state
of things, placing beyond the cavils of scepticism
itself, at once, the fact and tlie purity of their be
lief in the scriptural doctrine of the resurrection;
and presenting to the eye this great Gospel truth,
£to borrow tlie noble languugoof Mr. Burke,] ‘cov
ered with the awful hoar of innumerable ages.’”
The New York Sun copies the above from the
Commercial Advertiser, and appends the following
remarks, on which tRe road or may set his own
value ;
This is a translation evidently from Arabic and
of a rrvjch later date than tlie translator supposes.
The reference to “the surges oftlie sea against the
castle”—“sowing arid rice”—“ needle worked,
many coloured silk vestments”—“coursers with
long necks, dun colored, iron gray und bright
bay”—.-vheso are modern phrases and do not go
hack to the days of tlie patriarchs—they are abbre
viated Arabic phrases. “Snrash Dxeralih” is a
mixture of Hebrew und Arabic. Egypt is tlie
head quarters oftlie truly ancient works; Arabia
of those of a mo re modern character. The inscription
a bove may not he older than the time of Muhu-
i met.
election in Louisiana, whan in the 2d
al district we have gained over the vote of
non-
year
018, in (he 4th district 477, and in (he St. Temma
ny Senatorial district, 477, alao, making a total gain
of tha Bute, be-
A “Down East Courtship—A curious occur
rence on a matrimonial subject took piaco while
our comedians were ‘down East.’ There was a
respectable man in Boston, who had two beautiful
daughter.-; the girls wore know to be dowerless. An
old bachelor, a physician, known for his kindness of
heart, wishing to change Ilia life of single blessed
ness, had the father’s permission to address either
of tlie fuir daughters on the tender subject ; and, as
he wascortuinly unprejudiced us to which lie trust
ed to chance in his intended selection. He tossed
up a liollar—head for Eliza,tlie reverse for Anne.
Head won, and the fair Eliza received tho very
business like offer of the doctor’s hand and heart.
This offer she was not inclinod to uxcept ; so the
following letters were written and sent:—
“ Dear Sir,—I am very sorry that I must re.
fuse your kind ofi’er ; but I am sure my sister Anne
would jump at it.
Yours, &c.
ELIZA A.’
Tlie philosophical gentlemen immediately wrote
as follows:—
Dear Miss Eliza,—I have to apologise for the
mistake I made—I meant to have addressed my
letter to Miss Anno ; 1 have written to her pei
bearer- Hoping soon to he your affectionate hro
ther. J. B.’
And it is a well known fact that tlie doctor and
‘dear Anne married, and, as the‘Fairy Tales’say
lived happy together, while the fair and fastidious
Eliza inurried a scamp for love. The scamp bo
came a bankrupt, and left her, with two helpless
child ran, to penury and misery. But ‘good Aunt
Anno’ being childless, adopted the liltled bereaved
ones.
Slavbry in England and in the United
States.—Lord Brougham, and oilier pliilanthro.
pists Ly profession in Great Britain, have made a
great deal of noiso about the case of a man in
South Carolina who was sentenced to be hanged
for slave steuling. Thoy held up one of the Amer
ican Stales as tlie only civilized community in the
world in which such a penalty for such un offence
was authorised by luw. Tho fuel of the case how.
ever is that tlie law in question was an English law
pass in 1750, while South Carolina was under
British rule. It had remuined obsolete on the stat
ute book, its existence scarcely known, until tlie
oeoasion referred to, when the Stale’s Attorney
found himself obliged to urge it against the prison,
er. The man, however, was pardoned, and there
was au end of the matter.
Judge O’Neale, before wiiom tlie case came,
has given a brief history of the affair which is pub.
lisliud in the Glasgow papers. In tlie course of
his letter the Judge nsks :
"Is Scotland free from the sin of slavery—whito
slavery? Are there no taskmasters in England,Scot-
land and Ireland, who can vio witii the very worst a-
monjj6t us 1 Compare our slaves, negroes though they
be, with your while servants, your starving laborers,
your suffering tenantry; and if they have not more
comforts, more happiness, South Carolinians will be
content to be branded as merciless tyrants. But until
censors, ‘Physician, heal thyself /’ ”
The London Times, commenting on the Judge's let
ter, is constrained to rnako these admissions : “T/ie
diff rcnce between England and Carolina is, that our
‘white slaves’ are so cheap that nobody will buy them.—
They are a drug in tlie market. It is the interest of the
employer to leave them as free as possible. The selfishness
of power and wealth, of land and capital, tells not directly
on the individual‘white slaves,’but on the system of the
whole labouring mass.”
This is a pretty fair exposition of servitude in
England. Tlieslavery of English labourers is that
of a caste subjected to a superior caste. “It is the
interest oftlie employer to have them as free as possi
ble." That is to say, the domestic relation be
tween the employer and tlie labourer is as slight as
possible—for tho reason that the former wants tlie
service of tlie oilier without incurring responsihtli-
lies towards him beyond the small pittance of
wages which is fixed by tlie muster himself. He
comes under no obligation to furnish regular em
ployment, but discharges tlie labourer at will ; he
is not huund to support him when tlie poor man is
sick ; lie takes no care of tlie old broken down la
borer.
Neither does the English master do anything to
see his working man comfortably provided witli
lodgings, food or clothing. He pays t|io wuges
greed on and that terminates tlie whole obligation
ot llio employer, while out of his scanty allowance
thus afforded, the laborer must do for himself us
well us ns lie can. He lias sold his time and his
abour to his master ; he must have work or per
ish; lio is at tlie mercy oftlie master—for his la-
hour is “a drug in the market ;” tho employer can
Imvc at Ii is own price, und in the language of the
Times, ho screws tlie poor working man down “to
a sculii of living wliich-lic would be ashamed to al
low in his horses and dogs.”
of 1,572 t votes in about one half i
ing more than the Locofoco majority in 1843.
But to the changes which it ia our buainaaa to ro-
cord. And first let ua hear wbat one of our old
revolutionary patriot* baa to tay. It always give*
us pleasure to hearken to their counsels. Wa taka
the annexed extracts from a letter published ie the
New Lisbon, (O.) Palladium, dated
Elkrun Township, July 12,1844.
Mr. Mitchell :—Permit an old man, a compan
ion in armainthe Revolutionary War with our much
beloved Washington, to say a passing word to my
young friends about the great importance of the
coming Presidential campaign. I was in the Rev
olutionary and last wars,, and may be permitted to
ssy, that I love my country and'ita institutions dear
ly, and intend, so long as I am able, to aid in the
perpetuation and glory of those institutions, to do
so to tho extreme extent of my ability. Lhave,
further, always been a Democrat, and yet remain
ono to all intents and purposes—voted, a* soon aa It
removed from Virginia, where property qualifica
tions are required for the right of suffrage, for Jas-
Monroc, three times for General Andrew Jackson,
and for Martin Van Buren.
;!1
explanation, with notes of copious illustration upon
every point which they involve. The f
first inscrip.
tion of ten lines is thus translated.
We dwelt, living long luxuriously, in the zenanas
of this spacious mansion, our condition oxempt
from misfortune and adversity. Rolled in
through our channel,
The sea, swelling against our castle with angry
surge : our fountains flowed with murmuring
fall, above.
Tho lofty palms , whose keepers planted dry dates
in our valley date-grounds ; they sowed the arid
rice.
We hunted the young mountain goats and the
young hares, with gins and snares; beguiling we
drew forth tlie fishes.
We walked with slow, proud gait, in needle worked
many coloured silk vestments, in whole silks,
in grass greet) chequered robes.
Over us presided kings, far removed from base
ness and stern chastisers oi reprobate and wick-
ed men. They noted down for us, according
to the doctrine of Heber,
Good judgments, written in books to be kept; and
we proclaimed our belief in miracles, in the re.
surrection into the nostrils of the breath of
life.
Made an inroad robbers, and would do us violence;
we road forth wo and our generous youth, with
stiff and sharp-pointed spears rushing onward.
Proud champions of our families and wives ; fight
ing vulianlly upon coursers with long necks, dun
coloured, iron gray, and bright bay.
With our swords still wounding and piercing our
adversaries, until charging home, we conquered
and crushed this refuse of mnnkind.
The short inscription in three lines reads'
thus;
With hostile hate, the men oferimo
We assailed ; onward rushed
Our horses and trampled them under foot.
The two line inscription, which is under the
long inscription on the terrace, is as follows :
Divided into parts, and inscribed from right to left
and marked with points, tnis song of triumph,
Sarasli Dcrabh
Transpierced, a,id hunted down, and covered their
fuces with blackness, Aws the Beni Ac.
On the subject of these inscriptions, Mr. Foster,
in his dedication of his book to the Archbishop of
Canterbury, thus remarks :
“What Job, [who, living in the opposite quarter
of Arabia, amid tlie sands of the great northern
desert, had no lasting material within reach on
which to perpetuate his thoughts,’ so earnestly de
sired, stands here realized.” “Oh that my word*
were now written!” Oh that they were printed inj&
book! That [like the kindred creed of the lost
tribe of Ad] they were graven with an iron pen,
and lead, in the rock forever ! [For mine ia a bet.
An innocent man hung by a mob.—Under this
caption tho Paris (Mo.) Mercury narrates some
curious particulars connected with mob law. Some
years since, Mr. James Barnes, son of Aquilla
Barnes, of Missouri, wus hung by a inoh in Arkan-
hocauso lie was suspected of having mur-
IIyulen in a Huruv.—If tho following story
he true, either literally or any foundation on
fact, it certainly partakes in no small degree of the
ludicrous. It is narrated, however, us bona fide,
and is said to conic all the way from Russia :
An English merchant, residing at St, Peters
burgh, desired loimarry a Russian lady, which can
not be done without a special edict from tlie Em
peror. He had given up all hopes, when, ono
evening, a frieud happening to find the Emperor in
a good humor, repiosented tho mntier to him, and
desired his permission. “Let Miss A. nnd
B-be married immediately,” was tlie order given
by Nicholas. This Ukase was signed at G P. M
by ten it had passed through tlie offices of registry
whence, by eleven o’clock, it wus in tho hands o
the synod, and by midnight the police were trotting
tlie streets to put it in execution without delay
Mr. B. wus fast asleep, when u thundering rnp at
the door frightened him awake. Visionsof knout
and the like, floated before his half wakened brain,
when the iear-faced soldiers burst into his chum.
t>er and ordered him to follow.
“In God’s name, what have 1 done?’ he exclaim-
e-d.‘where am I logo? Mustl be dragged off at
this time of night ?”
“We have a warrant for you, which must be
/executed immediately,’ said one of them and he
proceeded to read : “By the grace of God, the
Autocrat of all the Russians, &cc, orders the mar
riage of Mr. A. to Alias B. to be solemnized im
mediately, &c." ‘You sec he admits of no delay,’
observed the officer gravely. Tlie astonished
merchant was then hurried off to a priest, and
thence in company with this functionary to tlie
house of the lady, who was thundered np in tlie
same way ; and ere her eyes were fairly opened,
or her dishabille half arranged, the t wain were one
flesh. The clergyman attested the execution of
the sentence, and ubruplly departed with tlie offi.
cers, leaving tlie astonished couple to get over
their confusion.
dered tlie “Wright family," in ono of the counties
of thut Stale. Barnes to the very last asserted Ills
innocence, but the mob were inexorable, and he was
hanged by them. It now appears fromstatemenls
in the Van Buren (Arkansas) Intelligencer that the
real murders have been found, and are in confine
ment at Fayetteville, in that State. There are
three of them, by llio nurncs of Star und Reese,
and they are said to have frequently boasted of tho
crime. They will be convicted, it is said, on tlie
testimony of many witnesses to these confessions.
But their conviction will not restore tlie innocent
man to life, nor save Ins murderers from tlie stings
of remorse tor so cruel an uct.
The editor oftlie Mercury says that the news of
Barnes’s innocence is truly gratifying to him, "for
we pursonuily knew Aquilla Barnes, and tlie Bar.
lies family, twenty-six years ago, at Old Franklin,
Ilowurdcounty, Missouri. His father, grandfather,
and uncles were men of high standing and icspec-
lability, many oflliem exemplary members of tlie
church of Jesus Christ. How puinful it must have
been to liis father, and mother, tlte wife of his bosom,
with her helpless babes, and Ids relatives, to ho
thus deprived of his society ; and to think, too, that
a mob hung him, without judge or jury, under the
charge of murder, thus blasting his fame, and put
ting a stain upon his poor little children,his uuotiuud.
ing wife, his aged father und mother, together with
Ins brothers nnd sisters, his friends aud relatives.”
Beautiful Apcloguf..—A shepherd wns mourn
ing over the death of his favorite child, and in the
passionate and rebellious feeling of his heart was
bitterly complaining that what lie loved most ten.
derly,and was in itself most lovely, had been tu.
ken from him. Suddenly a stranger of grave and
venerable appearance stood before him, and beck,
oned him forth into the field. It was night, and
not a word was spoken till they arrived at the
fold, when the stranger thus addressed him ;
"Whenyou select one of these lambs from the
flock, you choose tlie best and most beautiful a.
mong them.—Why should you murmur because 1,
the good shepherd of the sheep, have selected Irom
those which you have nourished for mo, the one
that was most fitted for my eternal fold.”
Tlte mysterious stranger was seen no more, and
the father’s heart was comforted.—Jeremy Bent-
ham.
The “British” Party.
It is a singulur fact, that whilst the locofoco par
ty are continually charging the whigs with being
tlie “British” party, all their leading men in lhia
and many of the oilier stales, wero most prominent
in tho party opposed to MADISON when ho urged
upon Congress to declare War against Britain, in
defence of “FREE TRADE AND SAILORS’
RIGHTS”—a party who declared thut England
was “the bulwark of our Religion,” and thut it was
“unbecoming n moral and religious people to re
joice at victories obtained over her,” whilst lit the
same time she was stirring up tlie suvago tribes to
tlie murder of defenceless people on tho frontiers !
HENRY CLAY it waswho stood beside MADI
SON, and by liis eloquenco in Councils of tile Na
tion,aroused (lie slumbering ardor of his country
men, and urged them on to deeds of noble during,
which gild tha pages of ourcountry’s history dur
ing thut eventful period Where wero the rovi-
lets of Mr. Clay and the whigs at that lime ? Cust
your eyes around and single out the leading mem
bers of tlie locofoco parly, and it will ha found that
those who are now so pot-valiant in denouncing
llio “British Whigs,”—those who ure now so loud
ly urging tlie re-anncxniion of Texas, at tlie risk
of dishonor, and of enluiling au unjust war upon
llio country, and who scout the whigs for their op
position thereto as her enemies—were then found
in the ranks oftlie “PEACE PARTY,’' opposed
to democratic Madison and tlie war, ns thoy arc now
opposed to his right hand man, that true Democrat
HENRY CLAY. Look round, old brother Dem
ocrats, and judge for yourselves, and determine if
we speak not tlie truth ! Look at all those who
have held the offices, honors and emoluments, in
the control of tlie loco party, since the formation
thereof, and almost without exception they will he
found to have been of “The Peace Party in War,
nnd tlie War Party in Peace.”—American Whig.
This is probably, the last time my couoael will'
he intruded upon the old or youngpof my country.
My remaining days nmst be few upon earth, and I\
call upon you all for this time, and-henceforth* to-
stand by Henry Clay, and thereby perpetuate the
true principles of Democracy.
Wm, MANKIN.
Accompanying the above was another comraui
nication from Jonathan N» Ashford and Isaac Man-
kin, Jr., selling fortli their reasons for abandoning:
Loco Pulkoism. Thus the good cause continues to -
progress most cheeringly.
WESTERN NEW YORK, ALL RIGHT !
Tlie following is an extract from a letter to the
Rochester Democrat, dated Dansville, July 19,'
1844.
"I conversed with several during the day who
will, if they live, vote the Whig.tioket for the first
time in November. Among them is a highly res
pected farmer in Alm.ond, Allegany county, by the-
nnmo of Vun Campon, who-with seven sons, voted
for Van Buren in 1840^ but who will* now vote for-
Clay.”
gov, ritner !
The Loco papers still insist upon claiming Gov..
Ritner as a convert to their principles. To set this •
matter at rest we insert the annexed notice from-
"Carlilu Herald,” published within a few miles of
Gov. Rimer:
"The Chairman ofthe Whig Slate Central Com.
mittce has placed in our hands a correspondence
which has lately taken place between himself and
our distinguished fellow.cilizen,. Ex-Gov. Ritner, .
on llio subject of the next Presidential election.
Gov. Ritner gives liis views in a frank, clear, and -
furcibio manner in favor of the Tariff, the curreu.
cy, the distribution of tho proceeds of the public
luuds,und against tlie annexation ofTexas,affording
conclusive proof thut he has not changed liis opin.
ions in the slightest degree on these great questions.
The publication of his letter will speedily
demolish the Locofoco slanders that have lately
been put forth charging him with' freindship for
Polk and opposition to Mr. Clay.”
THE STAR THAT NEVER SETS,
Vermont.— The Leaven of Truth at work.—The
St. Julinsonbury Caledonian, published at Danvilio, .
Vermont, says :
“We ure credibly informed that in ono district
n a town not forty miles distant from us. where
there are some twenty-five voters, und were here
tofore there have been but one or two whig*, there-
is not to he found now a single Loeofoeo—all of.
them having within a lew weeks united themselves
ill) the whigs,and are going for Clay and Prolec-
tion. Four or fivo of these men attended the Bur
lington Convention. They say they have been.
cheated and deceived by their former political <
Iricnds upon tlie Tariff; and now, seeing the whigs
are in tlie right, they are going with them.
“In unother town, where the Locos had some two -
hundred and fifty votes last year, wo are told by
good authority tiiat one-half of these refuse to go •
into tlie support of Polk and Dallas. They think-
they are culled upon to adopt new maasures and,
odious men, nnd they cannot consent to be Tolkedl
This don’t look much like "Polk, Dallas, and Victo-
rv,” as their leaders now shout.”
more help.
The New York Republic, a very ably conducted
paper which lias heretofore been neutral in poiitios,.
lias raised tlie Whig Banner. At the close of an.
urticlo announcing tho change, the editor says :
“From this time henceforward, then, this Jour
nal will give a steady, zealous and honest support,
to the Democratic W big party, and use its best on-
deavors to promote the election of Henry Clay,,
whose principles claim the confidence of the peo
ple, and whose services entitle him to the highest-
of nil earthly rewards.”
The New York Tribune says t
“There is a township in Pennsylvania which gave
Van Buren 72 majority in 1840t and oat of 200 vo
ters in the town, one hundred and twenty-five are
members of the Clay Club."
The same paper lias tho following :
“A short time ago, it was bousted by the Plebi-
an & Co. that there was but one Whig in Tivioli (a -
little village on the Hudson) and that he was week-
in tlie faith. We have since received an>ordcr fori
25 Clay Tribunes from that place, cash paid."
NO CHANGES, EH !
The West State Journal (N. Y.) says :
“A gentleman whose veracity ia not to he im
peached, stated that in one election district in Lon-
ox, Mudison county, where parties in 1840 stood*
24 Locofocos to 14 Whigs, there is now but o;i«
Folk man."
OHIO.
To the Editor of the Ohio Slate Journal:
Dear Sir :—I have been, and still am a Demo
crat, and I have voted for Martin Van Buren, but
since tlie party choose to advocate the annexation-
ofTexas to the Union, and make that a reason why.
Mr. Polk should he elected President,! for one can
not go for him, and Henry Clay wilt have my vote
iu October.”
STEPHEN SMITH.
Mill Creek, June 24, 1844.
South Solon, (Madison county) Ohio, >
June 27,1844. V
Mr. Spring:—Having been a warm supporter
Potato Cheese.—Boil good white potatoes, peal
them, and when cold, mash them until not tho least
lump remains. To five pounds of this, add one
pint of sour milk, and as much salt as you think
suitable. Work it well, and cover it, letting it re-
main three or four days, according to the season ;
then knead it again—make the cheese the size you
like and dry them in the shade. Put them in lay.
ers in large pots or kegs, und let them remain for
a fortnight. They will be good for years, if kept
in close vessel* in a dry place.
“Old Hickory" onco said that "all who trade on
a borrowed cnpitul ought to break.” There will
be a striking example of such u catastrophe next
fall in tho fateuf those who have dubbed their can
didate “Young Hickory” with a view of borrowing
for him tho popularity of “old Hiclory." *
Ilart. Courant.
(fir At a Whig meeting in New Orleans tlie other
day, ono of the speakers was rudely interrupted
by some one crying out, “Hurrah fur Texas and
Calhoun.” Tlie Whig sneaker instuntly respon
ded, "Hurrah forHenryCiny and the United States.
The applause was tremendous.
of tlie Democratic party for upwards of 38 year*,.
Lo
I wish you to publish to the world, and to the Loco
foco party, that 1 have left their ranks,.and shall
go for Cloy and Frelinghuysen.
WILLIAM P. LLNV1LLE.
There was a meeting of those “who have for
merly supported the Democratic parly, and who are
fHe
now favorable lo the election of Henry Clay to the
Presidency,” called at London, Ohio, for tho pur
pose of forming a “society to promote tlte principles
of the Whig party.” The cell waa signed by
Wm. B. Coulter, Z. T. Fisher,
Wm. Jenks, Jno. F. Uiienowitb,
II. McCampbell, Geo. Phifer.
MISSOURI.
William Hines of Howard coanty, has abondo*.
ed tho Locofoco party, and declared hit intention
to vote for Henry Clay. Having broken ike ica
he calls on his friends to follow him.
Miastssirrt.
Tlie Natchez Courier says:
“ We yesterday saw, and heard of five citiieus of