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LIVING AT HEA. •
•It l sbfflCtimes desplit hard livin' M
fvo understood,* says Mr*; Matvei, who had been
attentively listening to the long yarns, of her
nephew, jack Tafrail. .
•Not so very bad neither,’ rcnliod Jack;‘wo can
•generally get a supply of good beef barrels.’
• ‘Beef barrels’ exclaimed the old lady is it posn-
rbh! the noarereturs have to live on beef barrels'
•They are very fine eating nia’nin, 1 can assure
Ton,’ said Jack with a very grave face—‘tho only
.difficulty ii to keep the sailors from eatiug up
the barrel* before the beer is.gone-’ \
‘Are they so ravenous,’ asked Mrs. Mari el, that
^flavonoud 'hy the Lord Harry, if you’d ouly
sntn them, as I have, eating a handspike without
pepper or salt, you’d think nothing at all of their
seating a beef barrel.’-
- ‘The massy on mo! I’d no idea the poor cre
ators overcome to so short common.’
“ Short! 1 believe you’d think it long enough
before you’d eaten up a handspike.’
'•1 dare say I should, for I’ve lost almost all iny
•teeth.’ .... , ,
‘But If you had’nt you’d find it no such short
job to eat a handspike, I can tell you. Why do
yon know it took me once a whole week to eat up
.ono—bnf‘tivas made of tho best white oak’!
‘Ah well!’ Said Mrs. Marvel, lifting up her eyes
in unfeigned astonishment—‘1 thank heaven I was
made a woman and no sailor.’
/Tis’nt evory woman that’s no sailor though,
iunty. There was Tom Roundfaee shipped with
tls from Belfast—as fine a rosy-chceked Iridi-
msiHser rather Irish woman—as ever went aloft.
He belonged to iny me*. Every body liked the
snug little sailor, and would iiave shared with liini'
Vielasthitof pigtail in his box. But hscould’nt
onduro hardslups like the rest of in—bless his rosy
’ cheeks! Vc fell sick, and while he was delirious
Tike, it came but that he was a woman, ami no
mans*
•Poor cretur! did she live on marlin-spikes too?’
‘Sho! no, bleu your soul; as soon as she was dis
covered to be a delicate woman, and no man, she
was allowed to mess with the Captain’s wife, and
live on the very best.’
■I spose she bad tea and coflee and bread and
butter.’
-•Tea! oh yes—black tea.’
•Bhuson orBohen? But no matter—either on
‘-•m.is very good—nnd a great deal more healthier
than yonr green tea*,’
‘That may be, ma’m—hut I can toll yon *:was
neither shuson nor bohja; but blacker than eith-
er.’i •
‘Blacker! massy on me! I wonder what sort
Ufteah was.’
•Oakum.’
•Opium! Oh, Lord! do they make tea out of
thatjiizen stuff? I should think they’d wake no
more/
•Not opium, aunty—but oakum.’
•What,sich stuff as the culprits pick in the ten-
pennytcntiarics?"
•Ay—wo shipped a hundred weight for the use
of the captain ami liis.lady/
‘Faugh! I’d ns soon drink tea made out of to
bacco.’ « -
‘It’s very good though, when yon once learn to
fike'Tt. As to bread and butter, that was out of
the question. To bo sure, they had good ship-
• bread, made partly of ryo meal andparfly of plan
ter of Paris and saw-dust; but as for butter, that
was not to bo thought of aboard ship.’
‘No butter!’
•No/
*. ‘Nor nothing to spread on their bread!’
•Nothing! Oh, yes, they had plenty of good
fresh tor.'
‘Tar, did you say!’
•Ay/ ' .
« ‘Do thoy burner the if bread with tar? Well,
(Vatbents nil lever hoard of—I would’nt go to
sea for nothing In thevWirld. Butter their bread
with tar! La, mo, how do they get it down/
•By swallowing, aunti.'
By swallowing! why, don't it stick in their
throats!’ \
‘Oh—ay—a little at firtt. But as soon as it
•gets warm, it runs down. '-The common sailors
you mnst know never get any—its a notch or two
above their diet. Ilowsomcvcr, I remember we
(upped tho tar barrel one night hnbckuoivn to the
captain—I and tho rest of my mess—got out a
ponnd for each man, nnd thought we’d Iiave one
glorious meal. But it come to tho ears of the cap
tain, nnd if we had’nt persuaded him ‘twas the
rats, we should have had a round dozen apiece,
.every boy aboard ship/
■‘I ’spose they have chickens nnd sich like to cat
In the cabin?’
‘That’s true—they aro a few starved things—
Hud as soon as they aro gone, the sailors eat the
hen-coops/
•Well, I should think they were hotter than mar-
Iinspikes or beef barrels—being made of pine, and
therefore moro tenderer,—and besides, they must
(ssto of the chickens n little, and that’s something
you know, for there ain’t no bettor eating in tho
world than a good chicken. But how do they
cook tho hencoops?’
‘Why, thoy mako a stew of them, mixed up
with a few bits of rope’s end, and sometimes a
head or two of sponge, if they can get any fresh
Jr era the bottom of tho sea/
* •! always understood that vegetable* was a
Alarming remedy for tho scurvy/
■Nothing better—we had several men cured by
patting sponge into thoir broth, with a little sea
soning of fish-hooks/
•I’ve often heard they havo some dreadful scur
vy people aboard the ships. I wonder for my
part that folks will go to sea, to live on beef-bar
rels and hen-coops and marlinspikcs/
‘Beef-barrels nnd hen-coops aro not a dish to
b« sneesed at- The worst pf it is, that a body
must wait until tho fowls aud beef aro used up, be
fore thoy can catthc coups and barrels.’
‘What an appetho sailors must have! and
what an astonishing digestion too! But I daro
say they have all good teeth, and stomachs that
can digest any thing/
•Why, yes, aunty, that's true enough for the
most part. But there was Will Mungo—poor
feUow—he’d just come to sea, and liked to nave
died one day after eating a bit of a handspike—
and would, If he had’nt takena dose of the trade
winds.'
• ‘Trade winds! well that's the queerest kind of
trade I ever heard of. How docs it operate?
•Very much like an anti-phlegmatic/
•Ah me! if such aro the hardships of a seafar
ing life i'll persuade your cousin Jim, who has a
great notion of going to sea, to stay at home
where he can get something good to cat. Mas
sy on me( I wonder how you lived through it
ail, Jack/
•Iliad my life insured.'
[N. Y. Constellation.]
The uhofe Hog.—At the last term of Hall
Superior Court, a man was convicted of tbe
cnaeofhog stealing, and sentenced to receive
fifteen luheq. It was in evidence that he cut off
wo hog’s head and threw it away, to prevent
detection. After receiving his punishment, and
while putting on Ins shirt, he very coolly observed,
•‘The next time Ido auch a trick, I'll go the
ttholt hog."■■■ —Athtninn.
one way or another, one object—
privileges of the people.—The Metropolitan, Aug.
* A r . J
* From the Richmond Compiler. -
THE BANDITTI.
The last evening's Whig contains a ldttcrfronr
Southampton, dated Jerusalem, Sept. 17. It
gives hii account of tile* origin, progress auu.
termination of the late insurrection. It begins,
by allaying any fears which might exist pf the
repetition of such scenes. It makes out that
without amis nnd without concert^ tli? mischief
must always be circumscribed within a very nar
row range. Hut as, an indispensible mpans-t*
precaution, tho writcr'ijwisti upon it, that color
ed preachers must he prevented front hnrrangu-
ing vast crowd* in the ranting cant which they
have been permitted to employ. He contends
that the late insurrection was the work of fa
naticism.—Cm- Sal was the prime mover, and
lie sketches the following portrait* of tho Chief
of the Bandits: . , •
“General Sal was no preacher, but in his
immediate neighborhood; lip had acquired
the character of a prophet; like a Itoinau syb
il, ha traced his divination in characters of
blood, on leaves, alouc. in the woods; ho would
arrange them in sonic conspicuous place, have not
a dream telling him of the circumstance; nnd
then send some ignorant black to bring them to
him, to whom ho would in.terprp.t their mean
ing, Thus, by means of this nature, he ac
quired an immense influence, oyer such per
sons as he took into his. .confidence. IIo
likewiso, pretended to havo 'conversations with
tho Holy Spirit, nnd 'was assured by it that
ho was invulnerable. His-jescape, as belabor
ed uuder that opinion, is much to be regretted.
‘Tis true, that Nat has for some time thought
closely on this subject—for I have in my pos
session, some papers given up by hi* wife, under
the lash—they are filled with hieroglyphical
characters, conveying no -dofiuitd meaning.
Tiie characters on tho oldest paper, apparent
ly appear to have been traced with blood; and
on each paper a, crucifix and. tho. sun, is dis
tinctly visible; with the figures 6,000, 30,000,
.80,000 &c. There is likewise a' piece of pa
per, of a late date, which, pll agree, is a list of
hi* men; if so, they were short of tweuty. I
have been credibly informed that, something
like three years ago, Nat received a whipping
from his master, for saying that'the blacks ought
to be dree, and that thoy would lie free one day
or other. Nat in person, is not remarkable;.his
stature rather smalt, aud his hair very thin, with
out any peculiarity of expression. As a proof
of his shrewdness, lie had acquired a great in
fluence ovor ltia neighborhood Acquaintance,
without being noticed By the whites—protends to
be acquainted with the art, of making gunpow
der, and likewise that of making- paper. My
own impression is, that lie has left the.State—ma
ny believe him to be yet lurking in lus neighbor
hood. There are various rumors of his having
becu from home, many days aba time preach
ing in Richmoud, Petersburg, aud Brunswick.
They are however, entirely without foundation.—
The truth is, I have noyer heard of his preach
ing any where. Ho exhorted, and sung at
neighborhood meetings, but no farther—To an
imagination like Nat's worked upon for years
by pretended visions with p mind satisfied of the
possibility of freeiug himself, and race from bond
age; and this by supernatural means; to one thus
situated, is it wonderful, that the singular np-
pcaranco of tho son in August, should havo
tempted him to executo his purpose: particular-
butchered him, paid A tribute to his . memory by
remtatedlv savin* “thore were no'more lorn
Uarrows.yo contend with/’ His
buslv esoaped, but. witnessed the deadly strug-
-^rie. .Arriving at Captain Hams’, the family’
having jqst eUaped, with their numbewmereas-
ed/hthey ■ plundered the house, imtl set off direct
ly tor Jerusalem- It - was just * before they
reached tlie lasUncntioneil house, tliat l willin'
party of volunteers, fell in their route—ami
pursuing them, we found the' blood hftrdly eon- state
pcak-d, in tho’ houses they had left- «'ith-
i'ln* gait the negroes travelled, served to
c additional Iiorror. For they never llidq
ly -when its tilotrp surface "was defaced by ^
black spot which Nat interpreted into positive
S roof, that he would succeed in his undertaking.
[at encouraged his company-on thdir route, lis
tening diem, that as tho black spot had passed
over the-sun, so would tho blacks pass ovor the
earth. Having assigned the cause of the insur
rection, it becomes neee-sary to es.unTne its
extent. As far bock, as a knowledge of this
affair can be attributed to evon six or srven,
upon crcdiblo testimony, is Sunday iVuencon.Slst
of August, and this credibio testimony consists
in dio declaration of several uogruts, supported
by collateral circumstances. On fjun-lay fore
noon, the day preceding tho f,r 3 t >k -nlaypNat,
Austin, Will, Hark, £«,m ..'Jo—.’id- Jack,
met in nn old field, near M.y - ■ ibh Travis’s,
where thoy had melons, uiul something, to cat.
Nat was observed to take them out! ono at *
time and hold long conversations «riu> them.
Having developed bis- |Jan- to each man
some brandy was introduced - ufcd the affair
talked over together. Even then, u:.e - of the
party, objected to tho proposition, and denied
the possibility of effecting it. Nat assured them
of its practicability—saying, that their numbers
would increaso as they went along; and stated,
that liif reasons for not telling of it before, was
that the negroes had frequently attempted sim-
lar things confided their purposo to Several and,
that it always leaked out; but his resolve, was
that their march of destruction nnd murder, .
should bo tho first nows of tho insurrection. It entsfl from travelling about.' The black prea-
support of this momentary procedure, I would there must be disbanded. All unlawful meeting!
left. With
two and a' liair mile* of Jerusalem, in tho
progresi w(is. arrested?and though pursued the
tvUbfe iricht fortune, setfmed to * sport uitli us,
liv bringing u< nearer together, and yet, tnakiug
Us pursue separate routes* /Ih© fumilies, how*
ever, tbrougluiut the country, were then placed
lihoii their guard, and no more murders ©out*
mined.’ Their last effort at .-plunder and mur
der, was made in their attack on Dr. hamucl
’Blount's, house, where they met With a recep
tion worthy of the gallant little force that gave
it. ft wuld he hero unjttst, not to advert to
the JctCrmiued firmness of Mr. D. W. I-itzhurg,
thif leader I believe of tlie little band. And here
another circuiustnuce corroborated iu a . slight
decree, in v opinion that til© • iDsurt*e©tion was
not general—the slaves of Dr. Blount, many hi
number joined heart and baud in 'drtcnce of their
master. The force of the band was there much
Itfokrn jiy deser.tiop; and that; aud the foj*
owing day, most of them .were shot.**
Here follow otljcr particulars worthy of no*
*%
strike — . .
’,af ! f*ss than full speed; and ax their horses be
come tire d. they pro sed frcsii ones*. Billy Artis,
against * whose name there seems a prescription,
wax conspicuous among the insurgents; when
E res sod into .service, "lie wept like a child,' but
aving once tasted blood, ho was like a wolf lot
iuto the fold. Tortured by his conscience, and
too prond to surrender, ho wap his own destroyer.
In future year*, tho! bloody road, will give rise to
lunuy a sorrowful. legend; and the trampling of
hoofs, iii • fancy,'visit many an excited imagina
tion.’
"Below is a correct list of the whites who
have ' been murdered: Joseph Travis', wife and
three' chidren; Mrs. Elizabeth Turner, Hartwell
Peebles and Sarah Newsome; Mrs. Piety Reese
and son William; Trojan Deyal; Henry Bryant,
wife, child and wife’s mother; Mrs. Catharine
Whitehead, sou Richard, four daughters, and
grand child; Salntheil Francis; Nathaniel Fran
cis's Overseer, and two children; John T. Bar-
row','-and GcorgO W. Vaughn; Mrs. Levi Waller
and toili children; Wm. Williams, wife and two
hoys, Mrs - Caswoll Worrell and child; Mr. Re
becca Vanglmn, son Arthur, and niece Ann E.
Vaughan: Mrs. -John R. Williams and child:
Mrs.: Jacob Williams, and three childrcu; and
Edwin. Drury; amounting to fifty-five.
•‘I havo now hurried through my promised
narrative, and feel relieved at quitting so gloomy
a subject, but must trespass yot a to w moments
longer on the patience of the reader. Rumors
have-no donbt gone abroad, relative to the num
ber of blacks killed; a few remarks on this head,
will.not then, bo doomed improper. From the
best evidence which I have been able to obtain,
likewise from what I actually saw, the numbet
of 40will .include cvcry'insurgcnt who was with
them/er the -least time,' thr aghout thoir whole
rout, - Tho fart of their being mounted, and
their irregular made of riding, caused their num
ber to appear much greater than it really, was.
Oar -Court has manifested great clemency in
listening with ibitveaviod patieucc to .tho exami
nation: of a multitude of witnesses, and to long
and elaborate arguments of counsel., 'And their
judgments reflect credit' upon our country, w^ieu
it is remarked, that there is not nn‘ individual
who disapproves of ono of. their convictions.
Thoy jtave condemned to death ono and twenty
perions. Thirteen have been executed, u com
mutation of punishment in several cases recom
mended, and there are something .like’five and
twenty prisoners yet to be tried. A communi-
catiim.in several cascs'I have warmly supported,
anti Tiere add my approbation of tho course pur
sued by the court when the testimony seemed to
call for it.—Those who have been condemned to
death and those actually shot, exceed the number
attributed to tho insurgonts. From all that we
can learn upon tho subject! wo arc persuaded
thattho plan-was not general, that it was known,
here and there, to a very few persons scattered
abejit—that tho only persons' acquainted with it
wdcjcither the black preaching'missionaries, or
thfrfiw to whom they sent messengers, iu foqr or
fivq of'the counties—and that tho groat body of
the - Colored population was profoundly ignorant
of the project.^
Tho misc.hTef • can- never bccomo general—
though circumscribed ns it must bo from want
ortho means of concert, even they must be cir
cumscribed still more by stricter regulations of
po!ico._ Tho black missionaries must bo prev
the occurrence, it was difficult to obtain the par
ticulars which led to this melancholy termination.
Tho shots, wo understand, were fired worn a
house occupied by blacks, and before the police and even soi
officers arrived, the furniture of three house* was
fT^Abou, 12 o'clock, n large mob had
collected, who demolished one house and part of
two others.—[P. Journal,
alleugo the fact, that tho affair was commenced
without a silicic firelock, and without the least
particle of ammunition. Killing the first fami
ly with their axes, they then obtained several
guus, and some shot. If tho design'had been
thought of for the least length of time, they
certainly would have made some preparation.
As another proof that it uras not genera?, they
did not make one dozen efficient recruits, along
tbeir whole route of slaughter—thoy ccrtaiuly
made many more, bnt instead.-of being of any
service, most of them had to be guarded, by
some two or three of tho principals, furnished
with guns, with orders to shoot the Jirst man
who endeavored to escape.
unlawful meetings
mbit be suspended; and the laws for that pur
poso should be enforced.—Slaves must be con
fined to their own plantations—nor bo permitted
to go off*, but upon urgent considerations. The
attendance of largo collections of blacks from
distant places at some central point must be res
tricted—for, these meetings-are a point (T ajipui,
where they may give and reccivo' information;
form plans and communicato signs htid watch
words.
Further still.—Tho lap-s' forbidding schools
and education must be enforced—as they have
boon iu this - city—since the law of the last Legis
lature was to go into force.
. ... Further.—Regular patrols ought to bo cstab-
1 ho writer ridicules the extravagant exaggera- ltshed m the counties and ciu'es. Arms ought to
ions that are afloat about ;tho concerted plans "be distributed'amongth—"— ~ *
The Spintofthe Age—The sturdy Engiiihman,
to mi country house: the volatile Frenchman, in
corn-field^ t£« lion-hearted Pole, on tho Vistula;
flu, all are locking in one direction, seeking
said to havo been formed, and tho numbers said
to havo been engaged in other counties and re-
ntoto quarters.
Tho massacre began at Mr. Travis’* house:
“On Sunday night, tho 21st of August, the
party mentioned at the dinner assembled at Mr.
Travis’s kitchen, and about one or two o'clock,
having recovered from ' their dobauclt, they
commenced their hellish purpose, by applying
a ladder to tho window, entering it .and un
barring tho doors. Nat and Hark have the
credit of performing tho first act. No member
of the family over awoke from their slumbers.
With a broad axo were they all despatched; and
ono blow seems to have sufficed for two little
boys, who were sleeping so close that tho same
stroko nearly severed each neck. Fivo were
murdered at this house; several never changed
their positions; but a little infant with its head
C u l 5™’ ,vas *° rcet * *o exchange its cradle for
the. fire place.—Here were obtained several guns
which were deliberately cleaned and loaded; the
horses on the plantation saddled, and their ca
reer commenced. Proceeding in a zigzag course
tnoyjosifcd every house on tbeir way to Cap-
lain tsewit Harris’s; and no soul escaped them
through clemency. In this part of their route;
they numbered with the dead a methodist, who
had preached, where several of them were pre»-
ent the day before. A division was there etfect-
_ e whites, where necessary;
ana proper moans taken to preserve them—to
provent 4 their being stolen and lost. Uniform
-companies ought-tobc encouraged—and a good
corps- of-cavalry especially organized in the
towns and counties. In fine, every mefflia ought
to bo taken, to give a more effective organization
to. the one party, and to prevent concert and
communication iu the other.
Hore many persons might stop, but others
would go further still, and ask, if some.means
had not better bo devised for striking, d gradual
stroke at the root of the evi|.
Srpt. S3.—Our town was again thrown in n
itc of olnrm last piglit, by the reassembling of
e mob of the night previous, m Olncy s lane,
the number of 7 or 800, who commenced pith
ling down the houses occupied by the blacks,
and at 12 o'clock bail succeeded In destroying
eight buildings. Tho First Light Infantry Com
pany were uutler arms duriug a part of tho inght,
liy order of Governor Arnold, wiio, with High
Sheriff Mnmford nnd his Deputies, assisted by
tiie Members of tho Town Council, succeeded in
arresting a number of tiie ringleaders.
I\ a. si o'clock, A. M.* The mob have defeated
both civil nnd military authority; finished lli?ir
workiu Olncy’s lone, and moved to tho head of
tiie Cove, where they had recommenced leanug
down houses and destroying furniture.
LATE FROM EUROPE.
. New York, September 20.
Ry tbo ship Samuel Robinson, captain Gris
wold, ■ we- have recoivod London papers to the
21st August, and Portsmouth to thc22d, both
inclusive; The latest accounts from Warsaw aro
to August 4tli, up to which-time the Russians had
made uo impression upon the Poles. The Dutch
have retreated to Holland. The reported cap
ture of St. Michael’s by the Terceinaus is con
firmed,
London, Aug. 21.—It is reported that a mis
understanding prevails in tho Cabinet respecting
tile late alterations in tiie Reform Bill. We trust
this difference is not of a serious nature. For
the sdke of tho country may it bo speedily ad
justed, for without unanimity there, the great
measure must fail.
DovEn, Aug. 18 We have reason to believe
tiiat very important negotiations are going oil bo-
tween our government and the continental courts,
from the frequency and extraordinary despatch
with which messengers and despatches pass to
and fro. An opiuiou prevails, not without some
foundation, tiiat it will lie a difficult mutter to a-
void a general war. Admiral Coilrington’s fleet,
consisting of 15 sail, went down the channel
from the Downs this afternoon,
London, Aug. 11?.—We have reason to believe
that nothing prevents a co-operation between the
country nun Franco in some efforts to restore to
Poland the blessings of peace and freedom, bnt
tho state of affairs in Belgium. Thnt peace
should be established between Holland ana Bel
gium is therefore an object of grent importance
to tho Poles, os well as to the other European
powers. It may turn out that Holland has been
playing tho game of Russia.
London, Aug. 21.—The Paris papers of Tues
day and Wednesday aro wholly taken up, cither
with the Report of tho debate upon the Address,
which was resumed in tho Chamber of Deputies
on Monday, or with speculations nnd comments
upou tho extraordinary- scene then exhibited. Hi
therto tho Chamber has been discussing those
parts of the Address which were but little calcu
lated to elicit any violent collisions of party feel
ing! hut on the day in question it entered upon
the most delicate and sore parts of it. The de
bate opened witli a preliminary call from a Mem
ber of the Opposition for more explicit informa
tion with respect to tho relations between France
nud Belgium, Italy, Portugal and Poland, which,
after some explanations, by the Ministers, was
-fi*Uy>r<>fuXed.
-Tiie veteran M. Lafayette then tried tho'm fur-
• ther by a more formal motion upon-the subject of
thc'Austrifin invasion of 'ho Ecclesiastical States
in Italy; but this also, after a repetition by hi.
Scbasliani of tho old story about tne revolutiona
ry principles of “intervention" which iu Ins
mouth always means non-intervention, met with
the samo fato as tiie preceding amendment of M.
do Las Cases, and fell to the ground. Up to this
time the sympathies of tho Assembly do not seem
to havo been very warmly enlisted in the dispute,
for the conversation was conducted with temper,
and the result heard with composure. But when
Lafayette rose to move a second amendment re
specting Poland, a storm arose which did not sub
side for the remainder of the fitting, nor indcod
for tiie greater part of tiie next. '
Tho amendment concluded in these terms—‘Let
us remonstrate with energy against those tram
mels that, contrary to the laws of nations, inter
cept our communications with it; and in order to
render tho mediation of your majesty more regu
lar and efficacious, let us hasten to yield to the
acclamations of France, and by receiving the Po
lish Legation, acknowledge tneir glorious inde-
G ndcncc, both in right nnd fact, acquired at the
is of the remains of thnt noble blood which has
been so generously shed for us.” Tho Minister
of Commerce-opposed tho amendment upou tho
grouud that nothing was to he done for tho Poles
except by an open declaration of war, nnd that
for this alternative Franco was not prepared.
, The amendment was ultimately negatived; but
scarcely had its fate been scaled, when M. Bignon
started up and proposed “That in your majesty's
affectum expressions as to tho misfortunes of the
Poles, tho Chamber of Deputies finds with satis
faction a certainty most grateful to their feelings
—that the nationality of the Poles will not be
destroyed/’ The task of repelling this last po
pular alteration of. the text of the Address was
confided to the Keeper of the Seals, who was
heard upon it, os was a Felcx Bodin, who sug
gested to it a mere verbal amendment. Upon
this, the President of the Chamber, according to
a practice of that assembly, declared tho discus
sion dosed. .
A question having arisen, however, whether
the last amendment ought not to havo been put
first, as it undoubtedly would, according to the
usago of tho House of Commons, M. Casiinir Pe-
rier ascended the tribuno for tho purpose of ad
dressing the Chamber, but was prevented by the
most clamorous cries from tho Opposition of
"No, no;” and tho* he plead
ed lus privilege of Minister under tho Charter,
and made the most earnest appeal for a hearing,
he was eventually obliged to descend, under tho
fence. The Prcsidcut, as
jonty of 2o2 against*}. Tho clati -
appears to have been conduct/ d
decency nud more regularity lb a £ nh ,
and even soxMthing like on amcn ,, orft loo,
to the outraged feelings
Council. This -'result is general^ <?
in Paris as'a fresh guarantee for tL r°° k ^
of poarc—peace, however, to be
the sacrifice of poor deserted Pol.S,?*.
certain that the French GovertSL 11 *i
any orders of recall to rny paTof
Wo are told, lUcve?,
a
ed for the purpose of extending their-devasta-
tions, hut they soon again united. The last
homo ^ they visited, before reaching Captain
ugh apprized of their intention, could not get
Attempted Insurrection in Dtlaware Wo leani
from tho Dolaware Star, of tho 21st ult. that
several blacks have been imprisoned in George
town, in that state, on suspicion of being engaged
m a plot to rise on the inhabitants of Sussex
county. Tho first Tuesday in October was
appointed for-the commencement of their dia
bolical work. .
A SINGULAR ADVERTISEMENT.
TbeLoesburg Genius of Liberty contains the foL
lowing advertisement: ... ; ,
“Tirenty. Dollars Reward—Ranawny from
the Secretary of tho American Colonization So
ciety, a negro rasnuamed Bill Crowley, who was
sent to Washington for tho purpose of sendinc
him Xo Diberia," t,-c. b
. TaoviDENCE.Sept. 22—In an affray last oven-
mg m Oluey’s lame, between 3 and 0 o’clock a
railor was shot dead, and 4 otheri hounded,
the deceased sailor is a Swede by* bihh nnd
he was eventually obliged
thrent of personal violent.. „„
the only means left ofpreventing further violence,
was atlast obliged hastily to dissolve tdo Cham
ber. I ho Ministers may Icam from this occa
sion tho state of public feeling in tho Chamber,
and in France, upon the subject of Poland.
Peace and harmony would appear by tho Paris
rapcrs of Wednesday, to havo been re-established
lietwccu the Chamber of-Dcputic* and the Minis-
a r. All traces of tho tempest of Monday seemed
aced from tho debates of Tuesday, and tho
assembly, as if to indemnify tiie Prime Minister
foe the outrage with which ho was threatened at
the previous sitting, gave him on immense major
ity tor tho Address. Tho Opposition, on this oc
casion, only mustered 73 votes out of a Chamber
consisting of 355, leaving 282 for tho Admiu-
istrauqn. ,
■tLoNboN, Aug. 20—We received last night the
If V papers of Wednesday and Thursday.
They are important only as containing the long,
rrotracted issue of tho debate in the Chamber of
Jeputics upon tiie Address to tho Throne, which
was como to on Tuesday, when the friends or
minister! carried the cnsomblo of tho Address,
dlflcnnc but in a very trifling degree from the
copy which we have already published, by ama-
Belgium^l
contemporaries, who is generally*!
that the King is to pledge himself, in hb.
to the Address of tho Chamber, that h e *a
draw his army when he is assured that •*'
mains no probable dangcrof the Dutch m
I—This, as wo expressed before
tlio governing anxiety of the French
meat; mid, considering the parties thev
deal with, it is neither impertiuent nor ju
able. Wo Iiave not seen as yet, any t»
shake cur faith in the honest intentions of
Pliillipiic as to tho sojourn of hU troops i
tttn. Tiie French squadron had returned
Ion from Lisbon. .
From the Georgia Journal
THE MISSIONARIES—The folios , ■
ter written by Col. Nelson, in relation to
Jeged abuses of power by tho Georgia C P -
tiio Cherokee Nation, give quite a differet
to the affair.
September lffil ].
To His Excellency Georuk R. Gitxti
Your Excellency’s letter of the 3d oftlfoi
directed to Col, J. W. A. Sanford,
him whether the several statements coal
tiie public - prints, in rcgnTd to the confits.
the Missionaries and other prisoners, is!
while in our custody, were correct; if sons—
what led to iht severity of such a meamTl
tiler with Hie cause of the arrest of otkenj
To your Excellency it is known lintCitl
tord’s absence on official duties, at MiM *
during these transactions, makes me rf-.iJ
for the measures adopted towards these uni,
In answer, 14tavo the honor ni'itsiier.l
thoy were confined each night, from tbetiI
their arrest till we reached these qtm
having a common padlock nnd trace t
round one miclo of each of them, after their]
ing to rest, say from 8 o’clock P. M. till d»j|
In justification of the measure, I have
thnt on (ho first arrest of thr nijfcioaoj
March last, I had them treated with all tL
sncct due their profession, nnd all the him]
that men mistaking their dtay without inti J
crime might be entitled to. Subsequent tit
and information however, developed the!
actor of these men; instead of finding th>l
meek innocently offending iudividuali »t|
believed them fo bo, they were found to be/
the influence of the wont passions; theyn
to play at r. game of the most desperate b>
and there has been uo expedient uowcviTl
inal, tiiat they have not resorted to, tv (
their purpose.—It was known from infer
at these quarters (though lodged by ii
whose testimony our laws would not i
hut of the most rcxpectabio of Hist t_
thnt there had been, (at their instance,) &.
held of the most incendiary nod crimiods
neter, that they had endeavored tocii
more ignornut Indians to oppose in f,.
Guard, with a view to effect the relief of 1
selves, or any other persons that might be*
hended in tiio violation of our lam, ani l
tho guard was on the route through the cW
in tlischnrgo of their duties, murderthemindj
(If Worcester be not misrepresented, ag
this purpose was fired from his onn ho:
near it.) On tho first arrest, I overheard j
myself discussing tho probability 'of rioj
from tho Indians: one of them remarked, tl
tho Indians knew tho Supreme Coart now
sustain.tiiein, thnt they the Indians wsriil
open war, this being tneir character, and a a
apparent disposition on the part of MB
avoid arrest, on the approach of the Guard. i|
ccd mo to toko such measures aslb‘
necessary to secure their delivery to theti
thoritics. I believed the act fully justifiedby
circumstances, when it is recollected
whole force consisted of 15 men, deta
from this leaving with me but nine, in a
aud unfriendly part of tho territoiy, and I
much hnrrasscd nnd fatigued, by liaviojiH
from 31) to 35 miles nftcr night, and i pi
distance during the day, (which often otetml
us,) I believed it unsnfe to risk prisoners is 4
rooms (where strangers often oho d«p-l|
such Guard us my little force would en
to keep up, (considering too their tin
from cxccssivo fatigue,) without some odd
security. Iu ao instance was this security^
but in tiio mildest manner, (leaving <
inmgmnsy ill,) nor lias it over been Iokm
prisoucr under my charge. Their dctmti<*I
much longer than 1 wished at these
Go). Sanford’s abscnco aud his being p
of official papers necessary to their c
enused tho delay. Tiio day nftcr his "•“"•J
wero delivered ovor to the civil authoritm-"?
Cherokee who was chnincd to the wsppj''
caught in the net of digging for gold. HfJ
and nnd .been for eight years an outlaw,
own tribe for killing ouo of their offimv I
fear that lie would bo delivered to them •*1
cution under their laws, caused him '•'j
such desperate attempts at escape, that 11
compelled to chnin him.
As regards the arrest aud confinement I
M'l.cod, 1 deem it sufficient fur HR-&>•**■
grounds of bis urr< st, which were di-tinco)C
known to him on hi* discharge, togclhermj
names of the individuals lodging tneinfonsjj
all which he has thought pro|icr m bis (**
tions entirely to suppress, to ho relie'
baso falsehood aud calumny he has hcap>c«J
me. Tiie facts arc simply these, Ao lodi^
connected 'With the mission, reported him .**1
jor Brooks, ns residing in the territory in ™*
of our law's; another person of respect**®
connected with tho same denomination,^
iM’Lcod belongs, made the sam.’
myself. When wo met with him on the 0
of his arrest, he was not recognized by w' ■
individual against tvJiora the
been mndo. After joining the eonunsosi I
Wells soon brought themselves into 1
their abase of tiio administration of lb«
Government, nnd that of tho h> ta, . e . a :, '
and by M'Leod’s giving MpM JF**.
mendutions to tho prisoners in what J
should conduct timnpslrs*.' This ,
stir with tiio members of the Guard u
my attention was attracted; on
cause and not knowing that either oi ,
violators of our laws, 1 endeavored *n ,
peaceable terms to get rid of them; m
-could not, I inquired of’Trot,
(alluding to iM-Ja-od,) was one oftlie 1^
who was itinerating iu tbc.territory
By his answering iu the nffirmau'' 0 a* 1 ■■
ing his name, I had him arrested no arrl
the balance of the prisoner*.
these quarters and making - suc “ ! |M 1 ot
ed me to believe the inl'or msti oa . j;*
founded as I had believed, and ffr 7^.
acquainted with the whole, k*,”. M ui'<
but with noiio of the threats or ‘
buted to me bjr him. They are •*“ , a
The affair of Wells being eiibnvjjjj
and personal character, I detm J* ... tail
inform your Excellency lurlbcr,. .
whole .Htatc-ineiit as insoe public is