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Prom the Portland Advertiser.
Those of our readers wm> were amused jritlt
thn “ tleighride,” nhich wo putjftsiied a few
weeks since, will nut be less gratified with the
following histoiy front the soiiio pen. of Johnny
Bcodlu’i '
COURTSHIP.
-After my'sleighrido last winter, and the slip*
pery trirk I was served by Patty Bean, no bo
dy would suspect me of hankering nfter the
women in n hurry. To hear mn curse mid
Swear and mil out against tho wholo feminine
gender, you would have taken it lor granted
that I should never so muWi as look at one of
them again, to all eternity—0,bi» I was wick
ed. ‘ Darn and bhst their eyes—says L—
Blanto their skins—ornient their hearts and
daru them tn dm nation.* Finally I took un
oath, and swore that ifl ever meddled or had
any dealings with them again (in tho sparking
line 1 mean.) I wished I might be hung and
choaked. *
• But swearing off from women and then go
in® into a meeting house chuckful of girls, all
shining and glistening in their Sunday clothes
end clean faces, is like swearing off from
liquor and going into i grog shop. It's all
•moke.
1 held out and kept firm to my oath for IItoo
whole Sundays. Forenoons,’ n’teinonn, and
intermissions complete. On the fourth, there
were strong symptoms of n change of w<a her.
A chap about my size, was seen an the way to
the meeting house with a new patent hat* on;
bis (mud hung by the ear* u;vm a shirt collar;
his cravat had a pudding in it, and branclind
out in front, into a double bow knot. Hu car
ried a straight back and a stiff nock, as a m m
singld to, when ho lu>s his best clothes on; and
every time lie spit, lie sprung his body forward,
like a facknife, in order lu shoot dear of the
ruffles.
'Squire Jones* pew is next but one to mine;
* and when 1 stand up to prayers and take my
coat tail under my- arms and turn my hark to
the minister, I naturally look right straight at
Sally Jones. Now Sgjly Ins got a face nut to
be grinned at, in :t fog, Indeed, os regards
1 beauty, some folks think she can pull an even
yoke with Polly Bean. Fur my part, I think
j there is not much boot between them; Any
how, they are so nigh ra itched ihal they hate
and despise each other, like rank poison, ever
; since thoy were school-girls.
'Squire Jones had go his evening fire on,
and stir himself down to reading the grea. bible,
when lie heard a rap at his door. * Walk in.
Well, John, hbw der do 1 Gil out Pompey.—
Pretty well, I thank you, Squire, tyid how do
you dot Why so as to he crawling—ye oply
beait, will you hold yuut yop—haul up n chair
and sit down, John.’ -
' IIow do you,' Mrs. Junes t O middlin',
flaw's yor uKuml Don't forget thn mat, there
blr. Beedle,' This pul mo in mind that 1 had
'bern off soundings several times, in tho long
niuildv lane; and uiy bsots were in a sweet
pickle.
It war-now old Captain’s turn, the grand
father. Being roused from a doze, by tho bus-
lo and racket, he opened both his eyos, at first
With wonder Rnd astonishment. At last lie be-
pm to hallow so loud that you might hear him
undo; for he takes it for granted that every
ibdy is exactly as deaf us he is.'
* Who b it t I say, who in tho world b it 1
is. Jones going cluse to hi* ear, screamed
tit, * it's Johnny Beedle.' Ho—Johnny Bee-
T l omomber, ho was one summer at the
iege of Boston.' ‘No, no father, bless your
cart, that was his grandfather, that’s been dead
n.l pone this twenty years.’—‘ Ho—but where
»es ho come from P * Down town.* • Hu,
nd what dons ho follow for a livin' T And he
1.not stop asking question* after this sort,' till
!l the particulars of tho Beedle fumily were
tiklishra and proclaimed ill Mrs. Junes' last
'rcecli. He then sunk back into his dozo a-
»?#.; - - . /
The dog stretched himself before one and-
tui; the cat squat down before the other.—
Icpce came on by degrees, like a calm snow
lorni, till nothing was heard but n cr jcket On
er 'he hearth,* keeping tune with a sappy yel*
iw bircb forestick. Sally sat up prim, as if
!m were pinned to tho chair back ; her hands
rn«sed genteelly upon Imr lap, and her eyes
inking straight into thn fire. M mmiy Junes
rred to straighten herself too, and laid her
mu's across on her )np. But they would not
l’v sitll. It was full 34 hours sinco thoy had
[tiu<* any work, and thoy were out of all pa-
iiuim with keeping Sunday. Do what she
voiil.l to keep them quiet, they would bounce
Up haw and then, and g<5 through th* motions,
u spire of the 4th commandant. For my part
( y n -looking very much like a fool. The more
I tiV*i lo say something, die mom my tongue
truck fist. I pu> mV right.leg over my left, and
tan! ‘ hem.* Then tchanged andjiut tho left
over tho right. .It was no use. The silence
kept cum'mg on thicker arid thicker. The
drops of sweat began to crawl over me. • I got
my eye upon my hat hanging on a peg, on the
road to tho door, and then l eyed the do6r.—
At this moment the old Captain all at once
sung out ‘Johnny Bcedlol*' 'ft sounded -like a
■cl p of thunder, and I started right up an
tend. . ‘
* Johnny Beedlo, you’ll never handle such
a drumstirk as'your fiither did, if yer live to
the age of MrthnsuW. He would toss op his
' drumstick, and while it was whirlin'in the air,
I take n gill er rum, and then ketch it os it come
j down, without lusin’ a stroke in the tune.—
'Wlut d’ye think of that, hal But scull your
i chair around dose nlong sider er me, so yer
I can hear. Now what Have yo'confle a’ter?— 1
\nl O, jest Utkin’ a w ilk. I'lo.ts.iin
i walkin’ I ^ue»s. I raoan.jett to see how ye all
, do. Ho—That’s another lie. -You've come
j • courtin’, Johnny B<-ed!g; yo'u'r a’ter tiui
Sa). Say, now, do ye want to marry, or only
j ceurtV
This was what I Call a choaker,* Sally
; made, but one jump ard landed in the middle
( of the kitchen; nud thero she skulked in the
daik corner, till the old man, afer laughing
himself into a whooping cough, was put to bed
Then came apples and cider; and, the ire
being broke, plenty of chat with mamma Jones
' about the minister and ‘sermon.* I greed with
j her ion nici'y upon all ihn points of doctrine
■ bu' I had forgot the text and all the heads of
the discourse, but six. Tlven tho teazed and
tormented me to tell who 1 accounted the best
and uftnr charging Sally tt> look well to the
fire, sho led tho way to bed, und Squire gath
ered up lib shoes and stockings und followed.
Sally and 1 were left silting a goo8 yard n-
4>ar*; honest measure. For fear’ of getting
tongue tied again, I set in with u steady stream
of talk. I told Iter alhlie particulars about the
weather that was past, and also made some
pretty cute guesses at wliafit was like tu bo in
future. At first 1 gave n hitch up with my
chair at every full slop. Then growing saucy,
I repeated it at every comma, and semicolon ;
gnd at last it was hitch, hitch, hitch, and I
planted 'myself fast by the side of her.
‘I swiuv, Sally, you lookodsoplaguey hand
some to day, that *1 wanted to cut you up.’—
‘Pshaw, git nlong .you,' says she. My hand
had crept along, somehow, upon its fingers,
and began to scrape acquaintance with hers.—
She sent it home again with a desperate jerk.
‘ Try it again’—no better luck. ‘Why, Miss
Jotics, your gotten* upsiropotous, a little old
muidisli. 1 guess.* 'IIand3off’s fair play, Mr.
Beedle.’
It is a good sign to find a girl sulky. I
knew where the shun pinched. It was i list are
Patty Bean business. So I went to Work to
persuade her that I never had any notion af
ter Patty, and to prove it I fell to running hor
down at n great rate. Saliy could not help
chiming in with me, and I rather guess Miss
Putty suffered a few, I now, not only got hold
of her hand without opposition, but managed to
slip an Rrm round her waist.—But there wns
not satisfying; so I must go to poking out mv
lips after a buss. 1 guess-1 rued it. Sho fetch
ed me a slap in the face, that made me see start,
and my ears rung like a brass kettle for a quar
ter of an hour. I was. forced to laugh at tile
joke, though ouf of the wrong side, of iny mouth,
which, gave my face something the look of a
gridiron. *
The battle new began in the regular way.—
‘Alt, Sally, give me a kiss, and ha’ done with it
now. I won’t so ilmro, nor tech to. I'll tako i t
whether or no. Do if you dare, and at it we
went rough .and tumble. An odd destrut lion
of starch now commenced. Tho' bow of my
cravat was squat up in half a shake. At the
next bout, smash went the shirr collar, and at
the same time, some of thn head fastenings cave
way, nml down came Sally's hair in a flow),
like a mill dam broke loose, carrying away half
u dozen combs. Onopig of Sally’s elbow, and
my blooming ruffles wilted down like a dish
chilli. But she had nothing to boast. Soon
her nt)ck tackling began to shiver. it parted
at the throat, and wliooraw. canto a whole
school of the blue nnd white beads, scampering
and funning races every which way about the
floor.
del, it cannot bo; the Lord would not suffer •
dog, a Caffre, to call a true believer Servant ;
Min All till* ' -*
•“It is even so,'said the Effendi,‘and die
English now wdntlo be our. mailers, and they
will be ono day. It Inis been long prophesied
we must full.; .Stumboul will sec the son of
yellowness, die Russian within her holy walls.,
and Masr Will be a bene between the dogs ol — — — . . .
Fiance and Euglaud, bin the latter must have They manage thesp things hotter m Italy anti
it;' ‘If either of the C ffenj must have it,’i Spain; aitd the modern inhabitants of Georgia
said the fat merchant, ‘let it be the French ; if | and -Louisiana w.-tild have done well to imitate
wo'onlv could keepour inuitey and ourjworoen j the founders of New-Orleans, where, the Lit-
oot irf their reach, they ore good humored in- j ropean plan has been followed, I think, with
In all the streets and squares of Savannah, most
of which are very tastefully laid out, tumu-rous
rows of. the Pride-»f*lndia*tree have been
planted, which servo to shade the . walks, and
give quite n tropical look to the scene. S"The
grand mistake, However, as it appears to me,
in all the town* in the southern parts of the
United Slates, is making tho streets so wide,
that little or no shade is afforded by tho houses.
fidels enough, they lovefinitacia, they are al
ways merry.’
“ ‘It was not easy,* said the divine, ‘when
they were here, to keep either our money or our
women from the Cafftcs—confusion to theit
race; the other infidels plundered the people
less; but who loved thorn morel Were they
not both the enemies of God's prophet aud his
law t’
“A good looking young man in an Arnantft
great advantage. . .
Savannah, though obviously tho principal Ci
ty in the state of Georgia, is not the capital { it
being the custom all over America to select for
the seat of Government some place as noarthe
geographical centre of the State as possible.—
In many cases that situation, though it looks
neater on the iuap, is not nearly so accessible
oVso convenient as one upon the sea-coast.—
On this principle, Lisbon, strictly speaking, is
uniform, who had • hitherto henn silent, now ; more centrical to P.ormgal than Madrid, is to
gave his opinion of the two powers; ‘The Spain. And New Y«fk would certainly he a
English Giaours,* said he, ‘have most munny,
bocausethey have only to send to India for as
many ship loads as (hoy please, and thoy can
better aford to pnv men for fighting for them
than the others. Tho French bring no money
with them ; wherever they go they pillage,
but they- never, take a paras assay with them
after all. Whichever gives the bpst thy me,
rations, is the Giaour for am Aruaoiib’
“Surely,’ exel-ftmed the Miliro, “you would
not draw your siroed forli dog, a Christian /”
“ ‘For no man who Hid- not pay our,' replied
tho Arnnout,” evading the question.
“ ‘What, for a Caffre ?’ rejoined the Mnlitn.
*'‘Why not,'said the’Aim-i'int, ‘when tho
business is to cat knothnr^C 'ffre’s threat 1’ •
“Thiswasa good jok)*7 and ever* one felt
hjmself bound to laugh. When silence was
restored, the lawyer put a question which puz
zled rhe whole assembly exceedingly : ‘Where
is England 1* ‘England,’ replied the priest, with
the supercilious trir of superior knowledge,
‘England is in London !' La! Lt moush kirlili,
cried the Efli-ndi, the man of learning; ‘Eng
land is not in London, London is only a belted,
a town, but England is in the grrnt «ea of tWb
north, it is an island, like America, which is also
English.' t
“‘That’s impossible,’ said the lawyer, ‘so
great a nation novt-r could be art island ; are the
p .ople of Si'io or Cvprus to ho compared to the
English, and are not both these places islands 1’.
“ ‘Do thp Frenrli romo from an 'island too l*
said a’Slie k, from Assouan, who had never seen
an island but that 4>f Elepliautina, ‘there enn-
By the Iloky, if Sally Jones isn’t real grit, not he many of them then
there’s no’ snakes. She fought fair, however,
I must own, and neither tried to bite nor
scratch, and when she could fight no longer,
for want of breath, she yielded handsomely.—
Uer arms fell down by her sides, her head back
over her chair, eyes closed, and there l «y her
little plump mouth, all in the air. Lord I did
ye ever seo a hawk pounce upon a young ro
bin 1 O. a bumblebee upon a clover top 1 1
say nothing concerning how a buss will crack
of a frosty night. Mrs. Jones was about half
way between ailenp and awake. “There goes
my yeast bottlo,” said sho to herself, “ burst
into twenty hundrod pieres, and. my bread is
all dough again.”
The upsliut of the matter is, 1 fell in love
with Sally Jones, head over ears. E very Sun
day night, rain or shine finds me Tapping-at
Squire Jones’ dour, and twenty times have I
been within a hair'a breadth' of popping, the
question. But now I have ntado a final re
solve ; and if I live till uext Sunday night, and
I don't get cho.iked in the trial, Sally Jones
will hear thunder.
A TURKISH CONVERSATION.
Wo insert tho following ludicrous description
of the. Conversazione of an Arab man uf quali
ty, wuuuui too anxiously inquiring whether the
aUmiiablo humour wait which our author has
hit off the quid nunc circles of Egypt may not
owe a poignant stroke or two rnuro to his own
original whim than to t|ie characteristic traits of
his intorlocutors.*
rnou maddin’s travels in turkey.
‘The Navaritto business now gave a political
turn to their discussion, and many of their opin
ions of European' policy aud power were so
singular, -hat 1 could with difficulty bring my-
If lo beltfcvo they were set iously delivered.
“A fiet.co looking little man with a green
tutbuu, high iu office, broached the subject of
the late buitlo: ‘The Giaours h ive burned uur
ships,' said he, ‘but God will hum them; hell is
a hot cuucb,und a grievous couch it shall be to
them,'we are told by the prophet.' ‘Please
thc'Lutd,’ responded a fat merchant, and his
Inshallah was doled out with great devoiiun.—
‘Weie all the ships in the world joined against
the Sultuii in the battle 1* askod an A'ab Sheik
ill itio simplicity of heart; ‘Ay, all,’ answered
a Ulvnt-i of great eminence, 'ail the Cnffers of
Fragucstan wero leagued against the true be
liever*, hew else could (hey prevail, what tcu
of them.tould face one true Moslem 1 but ten
thousand to one are too great odds; and were
thero nut forty thousand of their ships against
us. 1’ ‘Allah Wakbar,’ said tin Effendi, a man
of learning,'there is but one .God, and if the
English were not at Nuvarino, the Fr.mcowa,
the Nempknwa, and tho Mutcnwa, would now
befood lor the kelp cl bahrl’the sea dogs.—
‘Allah Karim!’ejaculated an old.priest, ‘God
is most mcrc ful, it is only the infidels who say
that the ships of tho sultan were burned ; u is
impossible, because tbe Giaours c< uld not bum
them.'—‘Cullam ihaib I’ cried a dozen of the
party,‘it is well spoken, it is the ships of the
unbelievers that- are burned, not the Sultan's*
Did not the Algerines,' said « grave old man
‘destroy the entire fleet of tho English a few
years ago, and whero were they to find another
i|ll at once t is a ship like a pastek, u water
melon 1 ducs.it grow in the land 1 is it liko a
rain drop! does it fall front tho shy V ‘Wallah
callam ihaib l’ God was called to witness by
several, that it was a good saying.
“The English arc a great people,’ said' a
young Malira, a secretary *f tiio governor’s
•they are a Very great peopl* what razors can
be compared to Engl sh ! what pistols vie with
those of England 1.dp not the Pacha’s cannons
‘When they were here,’said, tho lUalim,
there was no Scarcity of them, they were forty
thousind strong in Seanderin alone.'
“’Do not talk of thousands, exclaimed the
priest, 'callam millimini, tho word is mill ions;
were they not liko locusts from Scanderia to
Assouan 1’
“ ‘With ten thousand Arnaou'ts, said thn voting
soldier, ‘I would have driven thpm into theses,
every Caffre of them- How many thousands of
English did we not trample on, in Buschild a
few years ngot . .
‘“They were five and twenty thousand
strong iu Rusot ta,’said the lawyer, ‘and they
were all slain.*
“ ‘Not nil,’ answered the Effendi, ‘the gener
al got his life, hut thero were only fivo thousand
of them altogether.* ■ ,
“ ‘Five thousand or twpnty,’ cried the lawyer
i* it not all the same thing: were they not all
infidels, and were they .not vanquished with the
sword of Islam V '
Allah kirim,’ cried the ptiest, ‘God is
most merciful; such bo the fate of nil who be-
lievo not. in the true prophet, to whose name be
eternal giory 1’
“‘If the Sultan,’ said the Effendi, 'hid taken
off the heads of the Janissaries a hundred years
ago, the law of islara would now be spread over
the whole earth.’
‘As it is,* replied tho priest, 'ure not the
true believers like tho stars of heaven J who cun
count them 1 is not their empire over the whole
earth from the rising even to the getting place
of the sun.’
" ‘It is not in the Frown Ocean, however,’
said the Levantine, ‘thorfl are no Moslems
there.’
It is a lie,’ .said the priest, 'they are
every where, tho prophet has said it.’ .
'“What, in America 1* said the Levantine,
'it was only discovered a fow years ago!’
“‘Well, then, if it was not known to'tbe
prophet,* replied the priest, ‘of course ho had
no'hing o say to it.’ 1
'“Bui,* continued the levantine K in n low
voire, ‘the lawoflhe prophet could not be in
tended for all mankind.’ -
'“It was meant.fur tho universe,’said the
ptiest, *.md-bell's fire is thj portion of him who
rejects it. *
‘“Ifevery nian i, bound to fas, the Ram-
zan, fromst.nr.se te suqse.,* ropl.ed he Lo- called by the dr.ver, thbyeliow moctsin.
vantme,'on the Dam of reprobation, the Mos- . V.. f .* J _ . , , .
. 'e .c- v n ’ _ - ~ * -. - habits of these snakes anueared - to bo aunt
come from England V 'll is very true,’ replied
.singer :n the gsllery, that day. But nium-Lj the Ulema, ‘and they havo conquered all tlm
-there whs no getting that out ofme. 'Praise to (world excepting tho dominions of the Sultan,
the fa<-* i* often disgrace’ says I throwing a sly [ India is tbeirs, nnd some say the Indian Moslem* absence of verandahs or piazzas, those useful
4quint at Sally. » iare theit slaves.’ 'ilia Allah, heaven forbid l’ and ornamental appendages, so general at
Axl«st, Mrs. Jones lighted t’other csodje,! exclaimed the priest, '• Moslem under an iofi- Charleston and most other places in the South.
lems of the Frozen Ocean, .whero the days
are six months long, sltoyld feel somewhat ex
hausted.’ . ;,oiv-
*“I do not believe it,’cried the priest in
a fury,'wlio ever saw a ‘daysix mouths lont:l
who could sleep un entire night of six months
long?—no mads*** ”. CZ "vro». i - >-
“‘But I read it in a book,' said the Levan
tine,‘written by the famous Volney.’
“ ‘What is written iu ihe.perspicuous vol
ume of truth,' replied-.lie priest,‘admits nei
ther of duubt nor disputation; there isnota
word in the Koran concerning the days of six
months' duration, neither of the nights; there
fore I disbelieve it, because it is impossible.’
“ ‘Kiif,’ said' the Levantine, ‘do as you
please, but truth is one:'—a very common ex
pression of the Arabs, and is generally the ne
plus ultra in an arguinent.” .
Extra/Is from It.sillhWs Travels.
The showy tuwnof Sivahnati, which stands
at the height ofaboui fifty feet above the rivbr
of the same name, oqtlw very edge of the right
or southern bank, is rendered p iriicnj irly strik
ing, when seen from the river, by several tall
spires and oilier public buildings,.either ming
ling pleasantly enough With the groves of trees
planted in the streets, or standing boldly up.a-
gainst the sky above them.
We were much surprised, at Savannah,at the
be ter capital for the United Slates than Wash
ington, or its own State capital, Albany.
We left Savannah on the 13'hof March, 1828,
and ahiip'ed our course ho.triy south. If re
quired to give file localities with any precisiun
in such a route, it would have been necessary
to carry sextants and chronometers in the car
riage. Pm we were fist sinking into the wild
nnd litilu known parjs of the continent-, on
which the traces of man were asyet bat feebly
impressed. Consequently tbe maps of these
regions were not yet Hutted with cities and vil
lages, no-, welibed over with linns of roads nnd
canals. Whether the lime will ever cento
when those (lungs shall appear, is doubtful; for
every step of thisfiist day's journey was through
swamps, where nulli ms of fevers and agues
seemed to he 'waiting to devour any one who
should como near.
On reaching Onrien, a neat little village on
the left hank of tbe gigantic Al i'smiln, one of
the largest rivers in America, but the name of
which 1 had never'heard of befme, we were
ram by a gentleman we had formerly known,
and at whose invitation We were now visiting
this part of he country. Under his escort we
proceeded down the current in a canon some
thirty feet long, iiollowud nut of a cypress tree.
The on* were pulled b> five smart -negroes,
meriy fellows, and very happy looking, us in
deed are most of their race, in spite of all their
bondage. They accompanied their labour by
wild sort of song,* noi veiy unlike that -of the
Canadian vovageurs, but still inure neailv re-
Vinhling that ol the well-known -
meutit Bombay. • As the evening fell, it became
necessary lo make great exertions to avoid be
ing entangled in a labyrinth, of low, marshy,
'alluvial islands, nearly flush with the watet,
covered wbh long reeds, ami extending for m i
tty leagttei off to sea, abreast of the niultitndiu-
rus months of ihe great Alatam 'ha. Cut the
flood title from the Atlantic was an overmatch
fur the river, though swolfi nearly to its uunost
height, or what is called a “ htgjt fresh,” bv (lie
heavy rains in '.lie interior of Georgia, of which
State.this river is >heprincipal drain. We had
quite en'itigh lo do, therefore, by hard rowing
and good :i>itiiiage, to reach our destination, St.
Simon's Islam!, iielore it was pitch dark-
Otr ilit>20tn of M ireit, 1828, wo commenced
our toilsome jo'iritey across .lie So't'hnrtf. Sec
tion, as it is called, ofihe United States. 'The
arrangements we originally nude would have
i tken ns along the banks of the groat Aliaiuaj|-t
river, through a very wild ami interesting coun
try. But (tierecent high fretthes had swept a-
way most of the bridges across the creeks which
fall into that targe stream, aud thus tho ruatl
was rendered impassable. •
We •herefote struck again to the northward,
in the first instance, ns far as the Village of Rice,
borough, directly away from the river some
thirty or forty miles ; after which we steered to
the westward, nearly p.tr.dM to its Course,—
In this manner, though we had still to (ind our
Way ovot many Irouhlpsotne watercourses, we
took them higher up, and thereby iucui red less
risk of being washed awuv, and lost in somo of
tlio-e boundless swamps which characterize the
alluvial districts of Georgia-
On the way to K.ceboiongh from Darien,
we saw nn alligator sleephig it full leuath in die
sun, o'n the trunk of a f .lien tree, in the swamp.
Wo all not out of the carriage, and inspected
him at the distance of ibrmror four yards. At
lengtii, upon sume slight noiso bdtng made, he
jumped, or rather slid off the tree, iqto the wa
ter. After tuoking at the alligator, ns ttie
morning was caul, we resolved in walk ou u
liltlt;, aud r tlher laughed at the driver’s Caufion
about snakes, which were fuqnd, ho said, in
great number^ in these swampy regions. But
within five minu.es after ho bail spoken, we al
most set uur feet on two uf tho veiy reptiles^be
was warquig us against ; o'nft of which was
ubdul- three feet lung, quite black—the other,
aud
The
ppeaied to bu quite dif-
feieni; for when the whip was cincked at tho
.yellow mocasin, it glided offintu tho mky-look-
ing stagnant water, and wns tost sight uf in a
moment. The black one, however, appealed
averse to-the water, and stole along the bank,
tor some distance, at so gentle n rate, that we
might have struck him, end perhaps might have
caught him, hud wo. lietm so dispused. It is
curious enough, that ulthuugh we afterwards
travelled over several thousands of miles of
country, where all kinds of snakes abound, we
never afterwards saw but ter* more, and never
eucouDtered or oven heard a rattlesnake.
• On the 31st of March, we fairly plunged in
to tho forest, from which we did net again
emerge for ra-my a weary day of rugged trav
elling. The interest of the forest scenery was
a gqod deal heightened by an immense tract
of it being op fire. How far this extended we
had no means of knowing; but the volumes of
sntoke filled up the' back ground completely,
and deepened the general gloom in « very mys
terious Style. At many places; however, vyo
actually came among tho blazing'trees, and*
were somewhat incommoded by the heat and
smoke.
1 was amused at one particular spot.by see.
ing a pitch-pine-tree burning in areuriou*. Way.
The fire had somehow made a hole in the stem,
near the ground, and burnt out a jmgsgo |.. r
itself, of several yards in length, in the heart of
the tree; after which, the flame again made its
appearance, thus producing a pipe or chimney, sl'mTtJs"' 1 A ti
There was, consequently,astroug draught, end j 40 1 JAMES
the poor pine was roaring away like abhstf**
uace, while its top was waving about in th •
a hundred fedt above, as green and a, f r V lr '
if nothing remarkable were going nn balo»|°
Towards sunset, we came to ”a V
three roads branched off. After a pause"'*
took tho wrong one, as it afterwards Dr , ’ ! 5
but tlie delay and troublo were well
as it carried us through a part of i| le <•
whero not only the trees were on fire but e 1
grass also. It was air exceedingly prettv aVL
A bright flaming riug, about a foot in held Si
and throe or four hundred yards in diame, •
kept spreading itself in all directions, lue f r *
and enclosing trees, burning up shrubs ih
great avidity, and loaving within it a Er0Dn ',
work as black ns pitch, while every tlrin- a;-),”
out was a bright green, interspersed with - f.
flowers. I jumped into the circle, und iJJ
for n few minutes qo the scorthed ground, rad
mg my brain for something to conijwro it lriI !.'
but could find nothing more appropriate th , :l ’ 1
black uniform fringed with gold lace. 1
If cost us twelvo very hard hours’work,,
rtiako out between thirty and forty miles on thu
day, aud we wero right glad, at last, , 0 r'','
ourselves in a solitary log-house, kept bv,
widows who welcomed us to nil she had -
though sho kept no public house, sbo’vw,
cheerfully took us in, according to the naive? I
nl custom of those wild countries where no re?
ular nccemtnodntiuns pro to lib found oi
Course, these poor jiooplo cannot iflbrdtsj I
tertain traveller* for nothing, but there ebarv
were nlways tis moderate as their means wouU
allow, • v. 1
Next day wo accomplished only tivnrnv.fi,. I
ntile*. But in journeying through the f„ rw . L
of America, in rogjoqi where M-icndini’in-i.nj I
was nuvex heard, and ovor which his nn c i Ci | I
influence tvtll probably not soon be eprodrtbt
tiiuoum of a days winS is not always to betid-
mated by the numbor of miles.
, Shaltng out a Jlecf,
Extract from an'addrtts by the r.tt. Mr. 'Ckerlmi ,i|
_ • Salem, Mats.
“I might odd, that thnuse of ardent jpiriu I
b,V men who persist in calling tliriirHvn<i w ,J
perate men, lias exerted an imniediaio inflwuj
unfavourable to the proper transaction ofUfi.1
ness. Every reflecting and unprejudiced mrad I
is ready to nclrnowledgo Ihis, and every
will he forced ere-long to confess it.. A sin"l-|
case iu |>oinr, related the other day at a pubritl
meeting, by I be secretary of ihe Parent Socie. f
ty, will illustrate my meaning. A sea captain, I
now employed, Onboard a public steatn-btni,|
and wlm once navigated the ocean, reliieiitoi'l
himself, that in his former occupation, li;ir ;i J
accustomed— iltlinugh he always called liimsclfl
a rigiifiy temperate in,in,—to take a small j'.l
lowance of ardent-spirits, at eleven in ibe fort-1
noun, nnd four iu tho afterno6n. fie u-ed j
die cuurso of the forenoon, m have just nstnri
sail spread, as would enable ihe vessel to rapal
safely and s uadily along horcourse. Wheat)I
came on deck after taking bis eusturaaryelml
o’clock Stimulus, nncohciofts.of hsharinjiltl
least effect on himself, ho would cry oul, “Up,I
bays,shake out that reof!” and in about!»#■*■
■uiiimes when the exhilaration of the dnoi t
over, ho would look mound, and find tbit t
had the vessel iradql more sail than shecuni
possibly bear, nnd the order would he, “I'pl
boys, take in the riel 1—Quick, boys, quitlll
Now, said the ■eloquent secretary, tin* is
tlie operation otl'“tlio moderate ttsti” cn'inimi,
eating liquor*, npoq ull kinds v of bavit
throughout the roantry. It haijAj£<«mrfU|
rerf of the mow lucrative callings, which o
ci; liens can bestow. Give me niie half of*
money which has been squandered byte
um drinkers, under the utMQapwmwd indaeoceij
undue stimulus, through loss of lime and Id
waste of perishable properly, for warn ofr
son ililo Caro, uud especially thrnugli tiawiseiJ
rasli bargains, and I will convert every fond
,the Atlantic States imo a garden-; nay ia.ve-1
I will make tlie wilds ofoitr great western n'l
Icy into a fruitful field.”
CoLOrtnus 3op;em')er2i |
The Indian Council iviucii assemliM is!
Cieck Natiu.it On the 13ih nil. Ins adjaure
I'he object, of its meeting lo take into consjk
atiou the propriety of the emigration ivesti
Mtssitsipi river, in accordance with toe view j
the Government,ns expressedln iltircceu;.
ot president Jackson to:Ije Creek Imitms.
council has requested tlie Agent Col. Cn
tu apprise the 1*resident •f llic positive (
mm ition ,of the Nation not to relinquish iup
sent lerritury, but to. remiiin and suimiit tot^
laws ot Alabama, Commissioners liivo k*
ippoiuted on tho part of Alabama tee take d
Census ol (lie Nation; and havupioceeJedoJ
siderahly in the business of their appointing
We have been quito recently ioformeiif
Governor Carrol ofTennessoH lias buenq 1 ^
ted by tho President of the U. S. to
Creek ami Cherokee N-tliuns to leant
views m relation to emigration, flndascern:**
imet!y liom litem ivhetlier iliey would "K'J
delegation on tlie port of tho United State*
a disposir.on lo iiu.it, ami if so, l» appose afl
that one would immediately bu depuied w*|
* (Megation mi their pin. Wu Ire" ‘f
le trued that Govumor Carroll has vail™ 1
CnurukeiM, iqipi ised them of the object ufl
mission, ami been info: mod by them tint aL< l
gatiou from she Cherokee nation would oati
appointed to meet a delegation on tlw ^
the Unilcil S. lies, if sucli an out! jliu^f
commissioned, and that on nu tenns woeUi
con-em to a relinquish nont of their UtAt- J
the Legi-I iiurn of Tennessee comeunT
few weeks we understand the Governor
furred his triple the Creek Nation uiiiil'J 1 *^
Frum the spirit exhibited aitlm lud.sn^ 1 *
the same answer will probably be give" 1
Uuited Stuies Curamissioner by tit®
he received from Ihe Cherokee*.
GEORGIA—PiAe L’twa/y-
W IIKUKAS B 4ll rtrrdoA.i»oiiand HW/J
apply to to me for Lftters of
on the'estste of John Johnton, late Of ** lJ c
ceaied .a. .ne
Thro rat thereforr to rile imit nJman'j" * . i
"iilnr the kiuilreit mat creititun of *iht A
and appear at my office within the lime
live, lo shew eitute, if any they hart, why <* I
no the txrnntr.l them.
Given under my band at office. pWL . J
9vpt»mh.T, 1839. H. t». JOHWBOjL.*^
GEORGIA—Henry
J OHN E1.M0TT of captain
District, tolls before John K Dvih*^
SORREL STUD
supposed lo be one year old but Tip
sn« LmiCtfOw - - -1 vm
true copy from t h «»j