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THURSDA Y MOR.YLVG, SEPT. 25, 1r23.
B3= We are authorised to say, that Col. R- 5’
Sutes. owing to ill health, will not be a candi
date for a seat in the next Legislature.
We are authorised to announce John Millen
Esq. as a candidate for Representative ot tins
County, in the next Legislature.
The Editor begs the readers of the Mercury t>
overlook any deficiency which they may perceive
or imagine in the Editorial department of the pa
per for the last few numbers ; a slight indisposi
tion has prevented his paying the usual attention
to business.
FOR THE SAVANNAH MERCURY.
LITERAR Y INTELLIGENCE, EXTRA'.
It is understood that the following new works
arc now nearly ready for publication, and will be
formally announced, in a few weeks:
BEAUTIES OF CONSISTENCY—
Exemplitied in the history ot parties for the
six years.
This work is an enormous folio, and iisernnge
meut has been committed to Thomas Ritchie,
editor of the Richmond Enquirer. All the parti
culars relative to its compilation have not trans
nired ; but rumor has been bu.<y with its lame
Personages of no less distinction than Messrs. Cal
houn, Van Buren, Me Duffle, and Hamilton, and
other and numerous statesmen of less tact, togeth.
ur with the small-fry of many old Crawford press
es have been enlisted in its preparation. It is
thoroughly radical, notwithstanding the horror
formerly evinced, by at least three oi the gentle
men above named, to that cabalistic term. It will
consist of elegant extracts from files of the Rich,
mond Enquirer, New-York Evening Post, Albany
Argus, Georgia Journal, Southern Recorder, Sa
vannah Georgian, Augusta Constitutionalist ct. ce
tera, in which Andrew Jackson is ccmpared to
‘Certain military tyrants of notorious “energy,
and his election “deprecated as a curse upon the
country,”—intermixed with recent and equally
elegant encomiums, from the same sources, upon
his remarkable civic virtues all proving his en
tire fitness for tire Presidency. The speculations
of Ritchie, (somewhat drowsy,) the malicious
bitterness of the Post, and the miserable, (irivel
lin<r imitations of the Georgia presses, are cniiv
cned by occasional sallies from that Prince of s o
litical buffoons, M. M. Noam who w.ii! >m occurr
ed tiiat Jackson was never thought oi for the Pre
sidency until “brought into nomination by tut
tgg tag and bob-tai’ oj Pennsylvania. i-i sm i
this v, or-v is considereu a pertect anomsly in p u_
tics a literature—a compound ol every thmg
discordant in principles, opinions and language
“black spirits and white, blue spirits and grey’’ —
a streak of lean and a streak of fat—here a truth
and there a lie—but ail rendered perfectly harmo
mious bv the pure and patriotic combination who
.furnished its materials, and icho hate each other
less, because tney love office more.
The Literal Constructionist, a series of mes
snges, essays, Congressional speeches and Whis
key iiarrangues, all proving, most conclusively,that
George Washington. John Adams, Thomas Jef
ferson, James Madison, James Monroe, John Q,uin
cv Adams, and twenty Congresses, never under
stood. or nave wilfully violated, the Federal con
stitution, by recommending, or providing by Le
gislative enactments for the encomage.aent of
American manufactures and Internal nupiove
ilnents, chiefly collated from the wonderful State
papers of Govs. Cries aod 1 roup, with the copi
ous extracts from disown speeches, by George
It. Gilmer, M. C.
A Quick. Stet to Resistance, or anew way to
commit treason, c nsistently with ‘"the most lofly
principles of patriotism,’ by ei C itizen of Colleton,
S. C. coriections and additions by the Lditor of
the Charleston Mercury.
-“Raw Head and Bloody Bones;” or, alarming
Discoveries; shewing the awful tendency ot in
creased duties on the manufactures of Mother Bri
tain, and a solemn warning to the people of the
South against the Tariff, and the emancipation |
schemes of one Lundy, who is going through the (
countrv like a roaring lion, and has already suc
ceeded in getting up a sort of meeting among a
“few fanatics in Boston,” and who is suspected of
possessing a “controlling power” over Congress.
—Jour nil Ojfice, M leugc i tile. ,
[What gives much anticipated interest to this
work, is. ;he report that it is principally from the
pen of the Senior Editor, long distinguished for
the profundity of his acquirements in political eco
nomy, and for the truth and accuracy of his calcu
lations in repaid to the present Tariff. A close at
tention 1 > all the British theories to be fonnd in a
college 1 brary or a country bookstore, and a prac
tical knowledge of commercial affairs, (by which
ho is enabled to calculate to a “ yard of ribband.’
the tremendous effects of the Tariff of 1828, upon
agricultural interests of the South) doubtless
quality him to do ample justice to the momentous
subieets of his work. lie h is, moreover,discov
ered from the lute debates in the British parlia
ment, that the corn laws and tobacco duties of
Fn -h u ’. arc indicative of great “ national philan.
thr ;>y and r> mercial freedom,” (as Mr. Huskis.
son wouid say) auj arc, thorclorc, complete anti
podes to the “ American system.” Those who
a-e too indifferent or too indolent to examine into
the matter tluemselves, will find this a convenient
volume; and may rest contented, that neither
ti ne, nor the revolutions of empires, “mr principa
lities, nor powers, nor any ether creature will ever
impair, “jot or tittle,” the truth of any of the
positions of this groat noliiicnl economist. Os the
rnacninations of Lundy, little is yet known ; but
that ti_3 germ of a m >st awful conspiracy is form
ed, ami that half of the Congress, and all the
people of the non-slave-holding Ft to, re engaged
in this cut-throat business, there is too much rea
son to dread ; the timely discovery of the scheme
however, by the lynx-eyed author of this work,
imy yet save us ; which God ir. mercy grant !]
National Tahiffs Unconstitotton al ; or an
attempt to show that the Slate Tax on American
manufactures, Kentucky hogs, horses, Ac. is tlit
only tariff .vhicii is in perfect accoi dance with the
Federal compact liter vlly construed —ByAtti us.
[fiie writer of this work his air i idy conferred
lasting glory on the literature of tl e country by
Sundry elegant, though somewhat 11 Mysterious
Pictures” of life and manners among us : but he
ias experienced the too common fate of genius—
aedeet. This effort of his pen, however, at such
i • isis. cannot but command attention ; as it is
i rderstood the mere report of its forlh coming has
a gloo n over the Tariff States —dispersed
•viany a drove of fine plump grunters,already mar
shalled for a march “ over the mountains and afar
away” for Georgia, and played the very d—l with
the power-looms, spinning-jennys and operatives,
ofthe North. Several riots among the sailors in
New York, and a recent attack by a mob, on the
tenements of certain unlucky Cyprians in Phila
delphia, are attributed by the Evening Post, to the
same cause. Surely the days of the Giants are
returning.
The Value of the Union calculated ; by
President Cooper and Professor Henry of South
Carolina College.
[Men who “ leave their country for their coun
try’s good.” between two days, are, uniformly, po
litical diamonds ofthe “ first water ;” their attach
ment to good order, and a peaceable submission to
the laws of their adopted country, are proverbial.
The stupid native may not suspect danger until he
is in chains of his own manufacture ; and can ne
ver appreciate the real value of his political insti
itions, without the aid of such disinterested patri
ots as President C. who w T ent to Pennsylvania to
build up a manufacturing monopoly, and lias come
to South Carolina to pull down the Constitution
, and the Union.]
The Political Cradle ; or a Horn Book for
i Baby Politicians, being a collection of Essays,&c.
originally published in the Beaufort Gazette. Ti o
be ornamented by a fontispiece, representing that
horrible monster, the Tariff, swallowing up a huge
Colton Plantation. Intended for the Nurseries &
Schools of the United Kingdoms of Colleton and
Beaufort. By “ St. Helena” and others.
INDEX.
From the Courier.—South Carolina and the
Tariff. —The operation of the Tariff, by a h:\ py
turn, is actually making its opponents practic liy
its advocates. The whole State is now turning
its attention to its own resources. “Buy nothing
you can make at home,” i3 the earnest advice of
(nose resolved to oppose the Tariff. Now, t.’iis is
he very principle of the Tariffitseif, and ii it is
good fin- a family, it is good for a State, and for a
whole Nation. So the American System of buy
ing nothing vviiich can be raised and made at
borne, will tie illustrated by the prosperity and
denty which the non-cons nnption system will in
vitably pi and ice, and thus South Carolina will
>eco;ne, by her example, me strong supporter of
principles, which her book-learned politicians de
nounced by their precepts. Obey then tiie laws of
the country ; if the}’ are bad, experience and free
representation will soon afford an ample remedy,
and the very fact of our Planters resolving to raise
their own supplies, w ill render the Tariff inoper
ative as to them. As an intelligent observer re
marked, that when the people about Camden, got
but 0 cents for Cotton, during the war, and lived
on their own means, they were more out of debt,
and nipie independent, than thoy have been since
HOMESPUN.
T _
From the Detroit Gazette , of Sept. 4. —Gov.
Cass returned on Monday irvun Gic;ii Say, in tho
steam boat Henry Clay. There arrived also in
the 11. C. thirteen U innebago Indians, among
whom are the principal chiefs and head men
of tne tribe. They are to proceed in a lew weeks
to tne city of Washington ou a visit to their
“great father.,’
We learn from a gentleman who attended tho
council held at Green Bay by Gov. Cass and Col.
Menard w .th the Indians, that every thing w r as
very satisfactorily conducted. r I ne Indians are
perfectly friendly, and too Winueb igoos particu
larly are well disposed. The lead country re
mains in our possession until all the Indians in
terested in its title can be collected for its cession.
During the past week, the pleasing intelligence
reached us that the posts of Niagara, Fort Grati
ot, and Chicago were to be re-established, and
that two companies were to be stationed at each.
It is aiso stated that a post was to be established
at the Portage between the Fox and \\ isconsin
rivers. r l his suddmi change of policy has doubt
loh resulted from the accurate knowledge which
the present Secretary of War and the Major Gen
eral of the Army posseses in relation to it.
Fire. —Yesterday afternoon about 6 o’clock a fire
broke out in a stable occupied by Mr. Josiah Smith
back of new Fourth street, below Green street, N.
L. The carts and, we believe, the horses, we*e
saved, tiie stable and the hay with other proven
del w r ere destroyed, ihe Carpenter Shop of Mr.
Wiiiiaai ii. Ellis took me and was much injured,
a part ofthe finished work was .saved, much lum
ber it is stated was destroyed.
Several Frame buildings on Fourth street were
greatly injured md the rear of houses on Dilwin
suffered some.— L. S. Gazette, loth inst.
Chamber of Trade. —We understand, that the
imporUis and dealers in Dry Goods, in New
fork, are about forming an association under the
above name. The objects aimed at, are the pro
. notion of just and equitable principles iu trade—
lie correction of abuses—the protection of the
rights, and the‘advancement ofthe interests of the
mercantile classes.—The association will be to
the Dry Goods interest what tho Chamber of
Commerce is to another class of merchants. One
object will be, tiie investigation and decision of all
.imputes and matters involving a mercantile ques
tion, which may be referred to them. Another
will be the suggestion of improper practices in the
mercantile community. Conducted by men of
elevated character, such an association must bo
productive of great good in the city, and we hear
th v wish success to the laudable undertaking.
IFul.
There is in certain parts of New-England, a !
custom, eminently honoured in the observance,
of sending .to the editors with the notice of a mar
riage a generous slice of wedding cake, and in cer
tain cases a bottle of wine, to Dcii/juatt the rich
wedding token. We mention not these things
with any view 7 of extending the custom, but to
notice that such has been the revival in the mar
riage market, to use a mercantile phrase, that the
editor ofa New-Bedford paper has been constrain
ed to solicit from friend a recipe lor preserving
plum cake through dog-days.
By the way,our eastern brethren spell plum (b)
cake with a B —it must be Heavy.
IMPORTANT. —The following copy of a let
ter from the Consul at Campeachy, in Mexico,
was handed to the Editor of the IMew-Orleans
Courier, for publication, on the 18th August, by
the Collector of that port. YVe call tlxo attention
of the merchants generally to its contents, deem
ing it of great (importance to their interest and
tiiat of the Spanish subjects who may in their ca
pacity of seamen, be so unfortunate us to go to
Mexico.
Qatry. —YV ould naturalized Spaniards be includ
ed in tins order?— Mci-. ddrxr.
Consulate U. S. A. ?
Campeachy, July i?sth, 1828. $
Sir: By the interpretation which has been here
given to the 4th Article of the us'v .Arancelof
of Mexico, every vessel that anchors is liable to
pay lull tonnage money, whatever may be ike mo
arc oj her arrival — Whether to ascertain the
slate of the market, to receive instructions, to get
a pilot, to repair damages, to obtain bread or even
water.
The three Manifests required to be ready in the
act of anchoring, by Article 7th, must be equiva
lent to minute invoices of the cargo, by-article 8 ;
■and any eirorin quantity or quality will incur the
penalty of duties by Article bth; and of confisca
tion by Article 10th —however evident and inno
cent the mistake may appear.
This communication being intended for the be
nefit of American citizens interested in the trade
of this district, you will make such use of it as
may to you soefn advisable.
1 am, sir, very respectfully,
your obedient servant,
H. PERRINE.
B. Chew 7 , Esq-
Collector of the Port of New Orleans.
P. S. By official letters from the Gefe Politico
: of this city and the Governor of this state, I am
Requested to inform the Masters of American vos
! icls who may arrive here, that they must not per
•nit any Spaniard of their crew, on any motive
whatever either to land or to visit another vessel,
not even for a moment. Masters, therefore, who
wish to prevent any pretext for hostility towards
themselves or the interests entrusted to their ■
care, w 7 ill avoid having any Spaniards among their
,crews, when bound to this district.
Freshet at the East. —The following additional !
particulars of tho late destructive freshet are
from the Williamstown [Mass ] Advocate: ■
The range of Taghkanuc mountains pass thro’
the town from north to south, at the basses of
which runs a small stream called Green River.
This stream has its sources in Hancock and
Lanesboiough, and after running in a northerly *
direction twelve or fifteen miles, falls into the
Hoosuc about 100 ruds below the intersection of
the main roads from Greenfield and Pittsfield.
The mountain side presents an inclined plane of
about, four miles in width and eight or ten in
length, down which the water, in times of rain,
flows as it. does from the roof of a house; and tho
Green River being ttie only outlet for the water,
it will readily be perceived, is easily raised even
b\ ordinary showers.
About twelve o’clock, on Thursday night, the
workmen employed- by Luther Bartlett, Esq.
[who owns an extensive tanery about a quarter
of a mile above the place where the Greenfield
road crosses the Green River] were awakened by
the noise of a pump, which was put in motion by
the water's overflowing the floom and tailing on
tho wheel. They immediately alarmed the
neighbours, and by tueii united and unremitted
| exertions succeeded in keeping the stream in its
natural channel, by which tiie gust and saw
mills in. ie Jiately above, belonging to Captain
Town, as well as those et Mr Bartlett, were pre
served from destruction.
About seventy rod? further down the stream
I was > u-Ht n:ili containing two sets of stones, a
eirdti- i s.v.v ■ .id iwoe other machinery. A strong
dan was here thrown across the river, but its
strength --.as not proot against the swollen and
i-npe ums t Trent; and the tvaler overflow
ing ite ba Ik’- ve th da n. soon formed a chan
nel on tne west side of tiie mill, through which it
r i :ed wit a resistless force, carrying before it
timber, ear :i. r >cks, and every thing which im
peded its c use and at about half past three the
mill fell, and was b >me away by the flood.
A few rods to tiie north w est ol this mill stood a
large brick building, erected about tw 7 o years
since’ and occupied partly as a Grist mill and par
tly by Mr. Duncan as a machine shop. The earth
below its foundaiicn being undermined, all the
south east parts of the building fell and disap
peared.
Near the east end of the last mentined build
ing stood a large two story dwelling house, occu
pied by Mr. Luther Peabody and his father,
with a family of eight persons The family had
retired to rest as usual, and were awakened by
gome of the neighbors a few 7 minutes before the
falling of the brick building. They had barelv
iimo %o (lr**,:-* and liiako tlKvr wlot'll the
whole house rose on the flood and moved off.—
Mr. Rbert VV. Smith, who was endeavouring to
save some of the most valuable articles, was in the
house at the time; nnd owing to the roar of the
wind and torrent, and the crash of falling timbers,
he did not perceive his perilous situation, till he
was fairly in the centre of the channel, and mo
ving at a rapid rate over its rocky bed. No time
was to bo lost; and finding the door made fast by
tiie springing of the timbers, he jumped through
a window, and was carried down the current a
mong timber, plank'trees, and the wreck ofthe
house, which fell to pieces the moment he was
so fortunate as to make his escape. In his pro
gress he several times attempted to save himself
by catching hold of the bushes which in some pla
ces lined the banks of the river, but without ef
fect. At length, after being carried about 100
rods, lie succeeded in catching by a tree, which
w r as lodged on a small island in the middle of the
river; here he held fast till his friends, who had
followed on the shore, succeeded in throwing him
a rope, by means of which he regained the land,
?tier heiyg in the water about two hours and a
half, having received only a few slight contusions
on his body and a cut on his wrist which was
probably made by the glass when he jumped
through the window.
It. is impossible to form any correct estimate
ofthe damage sustained. Mr. Peabody has suf
fered more severely than either of the others; ha
ving lost his furniture, clothing, bedding, provis
ion, Ac. The buildings, we understand, were the
property of Mr Win. B. Shearman, and were
probably wortli from $2,000 to s3‘ooo. The in
jury done to the new Cotton Factory, by the des
truction of its sluiceway is considerable.
Thi’ damage done to highways is very great,
and seven bridges on the Green River were
swept away, besides several small bridges in other
parts of the town. j
The gardens, fonces, Ac. on tho banks ofthe
river, near the buildings destroyed, were com
pletely swept away’ earth and all, leaving scarce
a wreck beliind-
We understand the freshet was felt severely at
the south and east, several ofthe bridges on Deer
field River Having been carried off, and many
small ones in Savoy, Curnmington, Cliarlemont
and other towns in the vicinity.
FIRES.—A fiie occured yesterday at
12 o’clock, in the back part of the building
186 Cherry st. It was caused by the boil
wg over of some oil in a paint shop.
Another fire broke out in a bakery in
Stanton street, No 216, on Thursday. The
damage in both these cases was of no great
amount.
This morning, between one and two o’-
clot k, the ahum was again given,aud prov
ed that a fne had taken No. Thomas st.
in tire bakehouse of Mr. Jacob Medinger,
which with several oilier buildings were
destroyed.
in all the above cases, our firemen be
haved with their wonted promptitude and
skill, iu ihe latter, the turn out was gener
al, aud their exei tmns merited the highest
praise. Great difficulty was experienced
in obtaining, water, aud some time elapsed
before a line was formed to the North Ri
ver. The school house was saved only by
great exertions
The following we believe to be a cor
rect statement wf the property destroyed :
—No. 11, occupied by Mi. Hudson ; No.
IJ, by Mr Gilbert ; No. 15 occupant un
known ; No. 19 Michael Sanford ; No. 21
Abraham Cadmus and Mr. Backner—toge
ther with a number of back buildings, to
wards Duane street, in ‘the rear of Public
School No 10; which, early after the fire
broke uui, caught,and the efforts of the fire
men were particularly directed to its pre
servation.
From the Buffalop Journal.
Important Army movement We under
stand ill t Fort Niagara is immediately to
Be garrisoned by four companies o the
second regiment of United States inUtfit
ry; and report says, that this iort will be
made head quarters of the frontier line ot
posts. By the Detroit papers we are m
formed ot several new arrangements made
in the west by the G r ar Department,
among which are the re occupancy of i oi t
Dearborn (Chicago) and 1 ort Gratiot
But the most important measure of the
Department we conceive to be, that of
establishing anew post, immediately upon
the portage between the Fox and Ouis
consin rivers, in the country ot the Winne
bago Indians. Permission fortiiis was ob
tained of the natives, at the late treaty at
Green bay The post will be called Fort
Winnebago, and is to be garrisoned by two
companies of the first regiment of United
States* infantry This lort will occupy the
enlv intervening land (n portage of but six
mile) between the chain of western lakes
and the Mississippi river. The position
is about central between Prairie du Chien
on the Mississippi, and Green Bay, and up
on the extreme northern verge of the min
ing country. To obtain a cession of this
district to the United States, was among
the objects to be embraced in the late trea
ty at Green B y. The purchase was not
effected, but permission was obtained to
occupy the mining district, until all the In
dians interested in the sale can be collected,
at a council which will convene the ensu
ing summer, probably at Galena, when
there seems little doubt tha arrangement
will take place. In the mean time tiie In
dians propose to inform themselves ol the
numbers of the whites, by actual observa
tion ; for which purpose, fifteen of their
principal men came to Detroit, in the Clay,
on their way to Washington. They pro
pose visiting, before they return the sea
ports of New England, and many of the
Urge interior towns of the country. ‘This,
says the Michigan Herald, “will doubtless
hive a powerful effect on those aravages,
wh > have hitherto considered themselves
equal in numbers to tlit- whites, and more
brave and warlike. They will soon be con
vinced of their error, in regard to the nu
merical strength of the people of the Uni
ted States, and, of course, less willing to
put their bravery to trial.*
, Should the proposed treaty, the ensuing
summer, result favorably, we trust no time
will be lost in rendering perfect the navi
gation between the F xand Ouisconsin ri
vers, and thus opening the way by the
short route of the Eie canal ana ithe lakes,
for the flood of emigration which is ready
through that channel, to penetrate the for
ests of the west.
From lute London papers.m
Paris, July 19.
A letter from Angers, dated the 15th
July, contains some curious facts relative
i to a convent of female Jesuits, which exists
, near that town. —“ For the last two years a
| convent of Jrsuitesses, under the title of the
; Sacre Camr y ha> been established at a place
; called iVJaisun Rouge, a quarter of a league
t from Angers Sixty thousand francs were
paid for the premises ; and building, to a
I considerable extent, has been, and is still,
carried on there Whence the purchase
money came, is not accurately known, hut
is strongly suspected that the laXe Ministry
I furnished it; but the expenses incident to
| the improvements and construction carrying
I on there, are in part provided for in the fol
lowing manner: Every two months, and
(even oftner, it is announced from all thepul
j pits in thediocess that there will commence,
jon a certain day, a retreat in the convt nt,
’ sometimes for the men, sometimes for the
women ; at other times for tiie young girls,
and then for their schoolmistresses. W hen
the female retreat is announced, you may
see crowds of women hastening to the con
vent from all the parishes in the diocess, to
the number of five or six hundred, though
in the present state of the building it is not
capable of accommodating more than 400.
The abandonment of their houses anu
families by these women during the eight
days ot tiie retreat gives rise to numberless
quarrels between tin m and their husbands
To give more importance to this retreat,
| during which Jusuit preachers hold forth
twice or thrice a day, tfie Bishop frequent
ly repairs thither in his pontifical robes,
and heads the processions which take place
within the waits iff the convent. It is cal
culated that each of these retreats brings
about 3,000 francs to the convent. With
regard to spiritual matters, all the peni
tents who present themselves receive a
pretty equal portion of pious instructions,
benedictions, and indulgencies ; but with
regard to temporal matters —viz. bed and
board—the case is different; the penitents
ar e divided into four classes : the first class
pay 25 francs for the eight days of the re
treat—the second pays 16 francs-—the third
9 francs—arid the fourth 3 francs. Those
of the first class have a well served table,
with coffee and liquors, and a separate bed ;
each ; those of the second have a very plain
dinner, without coffee or liquors, and sleep
two in a bed ; those of the third get neith
er wine, coffee, nor liquors, and have but
a single mattrass for two to sleep on ;
whilst the fourth get nothing but a little
bread and soup, and sleep on pallets on
the grouud.
Awful Calamity , —We have been fa- !
vored with the following extract cf a letter
from a gentleman in Hartford, to his friend
in this city, dated Sunday morning, Sep
7. 1828. ‘
“ You doubtless know something of our
freshet, but the half has not been told.—it
is now neady at the highest, though still
swelling a little. It is a melancholy spec
tacle. Probably no calamity so general
has occurred since the settlement of the
country, bordering on this valley. It is
sickening to behold our rich meadows, on
ly on Monday last, literally groaning with
the greatest crop ever known, now cover
ed over as far as the eye ran rcark i
one great sea Not a vestige of U !lf !
be seen on the Wethersfield road P: , s ,
The long East Bridge, next to East 1]
ford, on the meadow, was expected t s
off. The trussels were raised, and t|| ( . H '°
ter is up to the floor. Several live (
floated by yesterday—one pair yoked
Several ore now standing on the
part of south meadow, their backs ju st J 1
of water. A red fox and a gray
probably visitors from Vet mom,-
caught just east of Morgan’s brffo?
The t imber prepare s and laid f or ,V’
guard lock, at Enfield Falls, went byt u ' 6
days since ; all the embankment under u
ter, leaving not even a ripj.le. The wa f *
is 24 feet below water mark It is s U^/ /
fluous to say, that all the crops on thecne-*
dows are destroyed, for a hundred orr> i(1 g
miles up the country. Farmington
is injured in several places, we hear a
the culvert partly gone, but your losses al?
a flea-bite to ours.” The same writer st:r s
that the losses and damages cannot he t s
tiuiated at less thuu 500,000 dollars.
[Herald.
——
[From the Frederick (Md.) Citizen, Sept
AN ACCOMPLISHED VILLAi\
In the month of September last, a nv ;
calling himself Charles L Haderman, aj,. ; |j
ed to the Trustees ofthe Academy i n [;*
place for employment in the mathematical
department of that institution, which
vacant. 11 is address was such as to i nu , N
es! those to whom he applied, and after r .
ducii.-g certain testimonials, lie was em;,!, >v .
ed. As might Ue expected, from the kL L
hospitality and unreserved cordiality of
people of Frederick, iio was soon t, Kt , n
the hand, and treated with the utmost attes
tion. W hether it was the fnscinaTin® ease
and gracefulness of his manners, the w
uing elegance of his colloquial powers, the
profoundness of his leai mug, or the discou.
rv of some peculiar characteristic, that su
cured for him what many now den iniinate
a more than ordinary degree oj a tendon
we are unable to s >y. But certain it is ho
ingratiated ioms< It into tiie best society
and won the co. fiJei ce of some of our
most respectable dozens. In the enursj
of the cusuing winter, he became violent,
lent enamoured wttn a re>p. ctable y u u
lady, the permission of whose fi tends lie
solicited to address her. They objectedoq
account of his : emg a stranger oi
they knew imUiing, and urge ; him top u
pone Ins intentions until he should receive
certain credentials, winch he pie'eifft-ti to
“be in daily i xpectation of, establish folly
to confidence il eatea their
suggestion- with tiie utmot inspect, ff cl*
ing to be fully impressed with Uiur prooff
; ety ; but, bent upon a most nefarious desi^a,
I he prevailed upon the young lady to visit
[her relatives in Baltum re, whither he alter*
; wards repaired, and they weie # Dianieu id
June last After iheii return to Frederic!?,
• and a lapse of five weeks, he determined to
pay a visit to his friend the G rinari Cod*
j sul, at Philadelphia, (as he p e;ended,) who
lie expected held considerable funds u. aos*
session for him He accordingly packed
up all his cloaths, of which he h .and p.otured
a must abundant supply, and afier borrow*
ing considerable sums from various gentle*
II men into w hose favor he had insinuated
himself, he took passage in tiie stage for
P hiladelphia.
As he contemplated being al sent but a
few days, that time had no sooner elapsed
* than the ft iends of the young lady emc-i lin
ed apprehensions that he would not rt:um;
: but just as such fears bogau to t ke riot,
they were dissipated by the receipt es a
letter from ihe arch villain to the unfortu
nate deluded victim of his
at Albany, in which he stated that uitao
. complisiimg his business at Phiiaaelpbia,
ne had gone to New Y >rk, and :hat (lie
German Consul had ms M ined him iiis(Ha
der.nan's) kinsman, B iron Libenfelt, had
just arrived and was in search of him—that
the B.nun’s health having been unpaired
by a protracted sea voyage, he hud gufieto
Saratoga to recruit himself, and that lie
(H iderm -m) was about to mpair there ia
pursuit of him. He concluded by sayifl
that in eigto days iie w uld return, with fid
that was necesary to make their couditioo
iu life easy and ijffltient. He enclosed a
letter to the Trustees of the Academy,re*
signing his situation as teacher, which cir
cumstances served toestablish his imlepen*
deuce of such means of support. llis re
turn was anxiously looked for, but week*
have elasped, and to this period flothiuf
has been heard from him ; and tho reluctant
truth fixes itself upon all even upon the w
nocent and too confiding victim of his inU r#
nal arts, that ho has acted the part ol a hart
designing villain.
Iladerman is aboui 5 feet 10 inches 4
height, well proportioned and muscular*
appears to be about 35 or 40 years of a|G
light complexion, light eyes large irreeu-*
teeth, and thin sandy hair, somewhat
ley. He is a German, hut completely
Frenchman in manners, sneaks French 1
ently it is said, and tho English ve y ui y
tellibly to those unaccustomed to k ta!
New YonK, cp P t * j
In a report of the committee app ( '’
to inquire into the increase of crime m
don, they animadvert with severity 0,1
practice of compromising with wev , tS |lf
the recovery of stolen property, & n
that the negotiations are frequently con ,
ed by “Thieves Attornies, ’ and tin*
agency of Police officers They * iave
taioed proof of more than lG Banks i (
sought by these means to indemnify ‘
selves for their losses ; and that
of various sorts, to a valueabove
has within a few ve irs, been tin 1
negotiation or compromise * , Jib*
found it difficult to ascertain in gem
actual payments made to the tliie vt j*
reivers,hut they have proof ot liear •
000 having been paid to them, b> j-.,,,*
only, accompanied with a
every risk, and perfect impunity lu
ciimes.”
