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About News & planters' gazette. (Washington, Wilkes County [sic], Ga.) 1840-1844 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 10, 1842)
proceedings which transpired yesterday in the committee room, and which were direc ted to the same end, hy which it seemed that when this proposition, viz. to tjhoose another momber of the committee as chair man in his jlaee was made, four of t ln• com mittee had voted to lay it on the table, to wit, Messrs. Cushing, Everett. Granger and another, whib Messrs. Prolfit, Gilmer, lilu tl and another voted nay. Mr. A. him self, votod in the negative, and the commit tee adjourned. Mr. Adams proceeded to show that not only was there a conspiracy in the House, to make the gentleman from Albermarle [Mr Gilmer,] Chairman of the Committee on Fori ign Relations, hut that gentleman his coadjutors had their auxiliaries out of the House. Mr. A. then read a ribald letter addressed to him from Jackson, N C., saying that he was watched, and that if he did not alter his villainous course, deatli would he his portion,” &c. [Here there was much laughter.] He produced also a portrait of himself, which had been sent to him hy mail, and which, he said, represented him with a bullet, at short dis tance. through his head, and upon the mar gin was written ■■ to stop the music” of one who “ l.i Lae i -.a.-e ... o-;e revolving moon, W ler, s ..esuian and balloon.” Mr A wait, on in this manner for some ■tiru , and tin n suddrnlj changed histone to one of deep feeling. [I, ja id that he would r. ther the gentle man from K ;irooky had e >tno e> his si‘at and stabbed lem !■> die he -■ nee than to lja\ aim t him contained in tin - -solution After comm- nting much i ngth upon the past acts of ins iife—ids appointment to the Russian Mission, he said coming so un expectedly upon him that he knew notiiing of it, until the very day before it came— Mr. A. returned to tit sum ‘ •'< the p lion itself. Me r peat ! a -.•.m hat - <>u accompanied tlie presentation of the p tition with instructions which distinctly shewed what were his own feelings about it. Mr. A. then went into a history of his past life, alluded to the confidence lie had enjoyed of Washington, Jefferson, Madison, and Munroe, as evinced hy their frequent appointments, after which he entered upon his defence, and yielded to a motion to ad journ. mimm? WASHINGTON, GA. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 10. 1842. The Bankrupt Law. The efforts of the democratic party in Congress, in conjunction with a few Whigs, to repeal the bankrupt law of the extra ses sion, have been defeated in the Senate, by a majority of one. Another effort will be made farther to postpone its going into ef fect, with a view to its final repeal. Although this law has, in the opinion of many excellent jurists, serious defects — yet, we are now and always have been fa vorable to it, and hope that the efforts of its opponents will prove unsuccessful. Thou sands ofour citizens are now weighed down and shackled by debt, and if the present law, defective though it may be, is not al lowed a trial, the fruits of the activity and enterprise which they would exercise, if permitted, will be forever lost to the coun try—for if the present bankrupt law is re pealed, no other of the kind will be enacted in our day and generation. It appears somewhat inconsistent, that the democratic party who have always pro fessed to be the peculiar friends of the poor, and have been notorious for the court they have paid to the debtor classes, should op pose a law calculated to free the oppressed and honest debtor from his hopeless condi tion. But so it is, and it affords another in stance of the insincerity of the professions of that party. The bill for the postponement of the bankrupt act cannot be passed before ma ny w ill have taken the benefit of its provi sions. as many of the District Judges held courts on the first instant lor the reception of petitions. We do not know if the Judge in this District has held or intends to hold a Court for that purpose. 03= The trial of Colt, for the murder of Adams, in New-York, has resulted in a ver dict of Murder in the first degree.’’ Colt has made a confession, in which he states that the act was committed in self-defence, Adams having made an attack upon him and nearly strangled him, while they were in Colt's room, with no other person present. Some circumstances which came out in evidence on his trial rendered his account of the transaction very probable. The N. Y. Courier says, “ John A. Morrill, Esq. one of the Cousel for John C. Colt, applied for arrest of Judgment for one month, in order to prepare a bill of exceptions for the purpose of carrying the cause before the Supremo Court on writ of Error. The Court allowed two weeks time for that pur pose/’ . $ The amount of Treasury Notes out standing on the Ist instant, was $6,592,048 05 cent I '. (fir Every paper we open these days contains some complaint of the derange ment of the Mails, and we suffer with the others, hut we see no use in complaining. The mails have never been so regular since as they were during Amos Kendall’s ad ministration, who, if he was wrong in his politics was a very good Post-master Gen eral. If a reform does not take place shortly, we shall pray devoutly for his res toration to office. 03“ Ninety.six of the Texian prisoners have arrived in the city of Mexico, where they are employed hy Santa Anna in clean ing the streets. Their condition is descri bed as wretched in the extreme, being bare footed, covered with filth and vermin, and chained together two and two. The story, that three of their number were shot hy the Mexicans, is denied by the prisoners. THE MONROE RAILROAD. We are happy to learn by the subjoined extract which we make from the Jeffersoni an and Griffin Gazette, (which we suppose is good authority, interested so deeply as it is in this work,[that the prospect in favor ol the completion of this road, is as favoiablt as it seems to be from the statement of the Gazette. While we believe there lias in the prosecution of this undertaking been much to censure, most deservedly, we yet believe, that in what lias bt en accomplished there is much to commend ; and whether there were or not, as we are not ot those who take pleasure in the adversity even of an adversary, and of this undertaking we havi never been, we are ready to rejoice with the friends of the Road upon their renovated prospects, and trust that prudence, energy and a continued spirit of > nterprize, may vet fulfil file early hopes oi those tiiga iir in it : “The road is forthwith to be completed to Griffin, and the necessary locomotives and ears supple, and. We understand about forty thousand dol lars worth of additional stock was purchased at the meeting ; also that the city ol Macon will immediately pay up her indebtedness; and, further, that the Governor stands rta dy, as soon as the Company complies with the stipulations of its charter, to subsonic for two hundred thousand doljars worth of the stock on behalf of the State. ”—Recor der. COMMERCIAL BANK AT MACON The Annual Convention of the Stockhol ders of this Institution takes place on Mon day next. We understand it is their deter mination to wind up the concern. As it has been of little benefit to the Stockhold ers or the public for some time past, we presume there will be no objection to this course. —Moron Telegraph. Editorial Change. —Dr. W. Flint has re tired from the Editorial charge of the Southern Whig, and has been succeeded by Philip Clayton, Esq., who will in future conduct it. The Court House in IP catur, E Kalb county, was burnt on the night of the 19th lilt, supposed to b the work o( an incendi ary. The records of the county belonging to the office of the Court of Ordinary, were entirely consumed, and we understood,all. or nearly all of those of the other County Officers, which is serious, and to a great extent, irreparable loss. Important Decision of the Supreme Court of the United States. —The Court pronounc ed yesterday an opinion settling an impor tant commercial question, which ought to be soon and generally known. In the case of Swift against Tyson, the Court decides: 1. That the thirty-fourth section of the judiciary act of 1789, making “ the taws of the several States” the rules of decision in the courts of the United States where they apply,” only extends to the statutes and permanent local usages of a Slate, and not to the judicial decisions of the States upon questions of general com mercial law. 2. That a pre-existing debt is such a con sideration lor the regular transfer of a ne gotiable instrument as enables a bona fide holder to enforce it, free from the exceptions to which it might be liable between the ori ginal parties to the instrument. Washington Globe. American and Indian Colton. —A corres pondent of the Boston Adas states that by a table in the Liverpool Chronicle of the 4th of December, it appears that the amount of American Cotton imported into Liver pool, betwer n Jan. Ist and Dec. 3d, 1840, was 1,145,779 hales, while that between Jan. Ist and Dec. 3d, Ifs4l, was but 804,- 105 bales or very nearly thirty per centum! The same table shows- that the import of Indian Cotton, during the same period in 1840. was 102.332 bales.. In 1841, 143.352 “ Increase, 40,920 “ or very nearly forty per centum! Thus while the American Cotton inported into Liverpool has decreased thirty per cent., the Indian has increased in even a larger proportion! Nor is it the Indian only that is to be apprehended by our planters. The importation of Egyptian Cotton is shown by the same table to have increased in a ratio of thirty one per cent., and the Maranham into a ratio of seventy per centum. The Texian squadron arrived at Sisal early in January. This fact we learn from a letter dated at Merida, Jan. 7th, which has been politely handed us for pe rusal. Com. Moore was at Merida, at that date,consulting with the authorities. The writer’s opinion is this—though the facts upon which it is based are not given—we shall probably have fighting with Mexico either by sea or land, or both, before forty days.” The same letter says the people will not agree to the terms of the re-union with Mexico. — N. O. Bulletin. From tlie Savannah Republican. HARD TIMES. When a matt is walking in a drizzling rain, it is usual to say on meeting a Ire ml, “ u wet day neighbor I”—and the salutation may be made even in a smart shower , but when tlie flood-gates are let loose, and it rains, what in common parlance is called dogs and cats, no one ever thinks of stopping to suv •* it’s a wet day,” much less would i he do so when one tumbles over head and I ears into the dock, and is swimming tin dear life to the shore. It would be an in sult to the poor drowning wretch and a shock to all proper feelings of humanity to cry out to such an one, “ it’s a wet day. So it is with the times. While money was only scarce, it did well enough to say “ the times are hard !” and when the cir culation had diminished one half, the thing was just bearable ; but now that the money is all gone, and tlie January game of wiping out old scores, completely blocked, it looks like an insult to say it is hard times —at least we are apt to suspect that the ejaeula tor, is a little green, and has not passed through the flint mill for the last month, or else that he is just from the country. We are all now in the situation of the man in the dock. We are swimming for dear life, and no one thinks of jeering us with the it sual saw, “ hard times.” Hard times in deed ! that day is past. We recollect once upon a time when it was called hard times, hut since then our language must have changed its meaning—for they were very glorious times compared to these. We would like very well to reasccnd the ladder again as far as hard times, and we would almost he willing io slop there and be con tented for life. As for prosperous times, they may he sung of, with the fall ol our first parents and their expulsion from para dise. These are times, when if a man thrusts a bill in your face, you have a right to take it as an insult, and draw as deadly a weapon upon him—at least sling an emp ty purse in his face ‘ Virginia and the Navy .—if any State has especial cause to be proud of our Navy it would seem to he Virginia. The Presi dent of the United States, who is, ex-officio Commander-in-chief of the Army and Na vy, is a Virginian ; the Secretary of the Navy, is a Virginian ; the first Clerk of the Navv Department isa Virginian ; ill - Com modore of the Mediterranean squadron is a Virginian ; and the Commander of the t ri gate Columbia, one of the Home squadron, (so called, we believe, from its staying at home) is a Virginian. A noble list this, trulv. Glofv enough for one State.—Bos ton Transcript THE EXPENSES OF CONGRESS. The official estimates of the expenses of ■ Congress, including members, officers and : clerks—estimating the sessions for which ! each member is elected at 218 days, art — Senators, §90,886 Speaker ofthe House at sl6 per day, 3,484 241 members at $8 per day, 420,000 Delegates from the Territories, 5,232 Traveling expenses of members, 164,060 • The Secretary ofthe Senate receives $3,- I 000 and the clerks in his office $9,800 ; Chaplain of the Senate SSOO, ditto of the House $500; Posmaster of tie House $1 590; Stationary, &o. for the Senate, $60.- 000. Incidental expenses of the House $150,000. The Library of Congress, in cluding the salariesof its officers and con tingent expenses, $12,300; gross expense $1,079,570. This includes salaries for the door keepers, assistant ditto, clerks of the House, sergeant:- at arms, and all other subofficers connected with the two Houses. —Southern Patriot. DEFICIENCY OF COMFORTS AT THE SOUTH. With all the advantages however of a most generous soil, and a mild and genial climate, with good markets for all the pro duce they can spare, the planters through all the South lack many ofthe comforts and ! elegancies of life which arc a common bles sing throughout New England. Their houses are in the first place loosely con structed, and there is generally a careless ness about making the necessary repairs, which gives them a dilapidated appearance j in one or two years after their erection During the short, but frequently severe cold j weather, tlr-y arc cheerless and uneomfor- 1 tabletenements. They seldom have barns and what I believe is still more rare, wood houses. The consequence is, in regard to , the want of tlm first, that their stock ac- j quires much more feeding than would be neccessary if housed during the long, cold storms of rain, hail and snow which always prevail in the winter, and then come out lean in the spring, and unprofitable for milk or labor. But the wood house, which to the thrifty New England house wife, is deemed indispensable, cannot be expected where the animals themselves are denied a shelter. The want of it, however, is often a source of vexation, and is bad economy. On many plantations the wood is brought tip just in sufficient quantities to af ford a scanty supply, and used in its green state —or, if collected in consider able quantities, suffered to lie exposed to all weathers, and consequently much of the time unfit for use. But particularly as regards many of their domestic arrange ments —that peculiar methodising, and those thousand nameless comforts and con veniences which give home an air and de light above all other places, there seems to be an indifference which is altogether inex plicable. And this is often the case where there is wealth sufficient, not only to ensure the comforts of life, but to introduce the Graces themselves. But in the improved mode of husbandry abroad, which shall bring neatness and method into the corners and under the fences, of every field, wo may hope to sec a corresponding improve ment in the out-buildings, as well as the kitchen, dairy and parlor. To make note, however, of all to which my observation ex tended, would, perhaps, make my remarks out of place in’ your paper, and occupy too : much of vour space. From the New Orleans Bee. LATE FROM MEXICO. Barbarous treatment of the Texian captives and American prisoners. We, yesterday, had an interview with a gentleman, just from the city of Mexico, who informs us that 90 oi the Texian cap tives had reached that place, some days before his departure. They were brought in, in a most wretch and condition, having been marched hare-looted and almost nak ed from the place of their capture. A mongst the prisoners, was the son ol Gen. Leslie Coombs. The charity of the for eigners in the city furnished them some ne cessary apparel So far from receiving humane treatment from Santa-Anna, as reported, they were chained in pairs and were com veiled to work in the streets as common feioits. Our in formant assures that tlie resident ministers of foreign countries, had interfered in an in formal manner, to arrest this disgraceful and barbarous treatment, without success. Young Coombs was extremely ill ; his con stitution had proved too frail to endure the cruelties to which he had been subjected. The accounts of the treachery resorted to, to capture the expedition, are confirmed. Mr. Kendall had not reached Mexico; he was expected daily in company with about. 200 Texians. Mr. Ellis, our minister at Mexico, had demanded young Coombs, as a citizen of the United States ; but that a week hud e lapsed without his receiving any response from the government. We have read a number of private let ters that speak of the sufferings of the cap tives as most appalling. There has been no clemency shown to tlie citizens of the i United States. The general belief in the 1 city was that nothing short of force would meliorate the condition of the prisoners, and that all would he treated alike. Besides these, \v- have hr- i favored with tne perusal of official documents, detailing the circumstances of the capture of the ex pedition and the march of tlie prisoners to Mexico, which exhibits a refinement of treachery, a hardihood of perfidy and an ex cess of cruelty, arrogance, and rapacity, on the pari of the Mexicans, scarcely equalled by the barbarity of llieir forefath rs towards the helpless aborigines whom they subject ed to every species of torture, and slaught ered in very iimiiserrn nt. Under such circumstances does it become this government to be deliberating in cold debate about the course to pursue. Whilst we parley, the miserable captive dies. The United States should send the two war steamers, now ready for sefi. at once to Ve ra Cruz, and let these derni-devils know if her citizens, were not produced on board | within a given period, the city would be made a funeral pire. It is all idleness to negotiate with a people who are only re markable for imbecility and perfidy.— Santa-Anna, so far from being softened by the clemency ofthe Texians when he was their prisoner, is vet more ferocious towards them An act. of humanity always excites the direst hatred in the breast of a despot. We would suggest to the Legislature the j propriety of pa. using some resolutions upon this subject, as Kentucky has done. We would ai'so recommend a meeting of the citizens of I lew Orleans on some day this week, to express their sense of the enormi ties practised upon their fellow-citizens. — The people should go in advance of the tardy movements of Government, and stim ulate the authorities to prompt and efficient action. If every contemptible government is allowed to trifle with the rights of our citizens, an and treat American prisoners, ta ken under such circumstances, as rebels or outlaws the name of American citizen will soon beeoit.ie a reproach and a bye-word a mongst nations. Our informant met Mr. Litmsden be- tween Vera Cruz and the city of Mexico. We lea rn that General Paiadez, hitherto a partizan of Santa-Anna’s, is getting up a revolution in the North to overthrow the ruthless t yrant. Let on r fellow-eiiizpns, before they close their eves in slumber this night, think ofthe cruel destiny of Kendall and Coombs, and other of their countrymen, now chained as j felons, and made to work in gangs in the streets of .Mexico. Six months ago they j | joined the: Texian expedition as guests, in j j the vain security of their country's flag.— i They have fallen into the bands of a ro ! morseless chief and his barbaric followers, j ami sufiFred outrages that arc not warrant :cd even towards traitors. If one of these ! men perish, either by the sword or by i!.-- ease caii'i and by cruelty, we hope his -host will clank his chains in the ears of every American citizen, that non* may sleep till vengeance moisten his grave with showers of blood. A New Mode of Raising the Wind. —!i is related by the gossiping correspond at oi i the Courier Ues E'.ats I nis, that a clever man, adroit,disputatious and unbeh wing, was making a living in Paris by being con verted. The process was to go to som ■ e- ’ clesiastical propagandist, ardent in the 1 cause, ami feigning to be a Protestant, (which he is not,) our gdventurer professes a desire to be enlightened as to tin - truth ot the Roman Catholic doctrines. —Forthwith he is received and argued with; but having j prepared himself he makes a good battle and yields only at the last extremety, hav in', taken care in the course of the polem ical discussion, to let it he understood that lie has a largo family, and little or no means of support. The triumphant Priest tells of his success to some of his pious flock, and ofthe poverty ofthe neophyte. Collections are made, and in adjuring Protostanism our convert puts some hundreds of francs in his I pocket. “He has already, says the cor respondent, “been converted twelve times in Paris, and is soon about making a busi ! ness tour in the provinces. The Naval Peace Establishment of Great Britain for the year 1842. is S three-deck ers, 23 heavy two-deckers. 40 frigates, 112 1 sloops, troopers, and brigs, and 6 1 steamers ’of war. and 20 armed packets. AFFINITY OF METALS. Sonic will h- surpris and to I am ’bat dil Cerent metals are capable ofh nig mixed or S amalgamated while in a cold or solid state but such is the fact. When copper is cov ered with u coating of tin, or solder, th- tin will in a fi w months amalgamate with the copper, penetrating to the debt!) of a triftli of an inch, and render the copper llius far brittle and nearly worthies.-. Tin also has a similar effect on brass When gold leal is placed in contact with copper, and is kept some time in contact by pressure, the gold I and the copper will unite, and the gold will he found to have penetrated into tiie copper. If the copper and gold he gundy heated, the gold will disappear, while the temperature is far below the fusing point, and xvi 11 actually sink below the surface of the copper, as may he seen hy filing and examining the edge of the copper when cold. Mercury will penetrate the surface of either gold, or tin, and in some instances to the dehth of an eight of an inch—and it is not unlikely that it might be proved by a course of experiments, that most of the me tals may be made to unite with each other, hy long continued and close contact. — N. V. Mechanic. The Louisville Journal furnishes the j following sketch of a rather daring move- i went of a young lady. A Louisville Belle. —A few nights ago, j one of the most accomplished belles of this j citv, while sleeping in the same apartment j with Mrs. Charles W. Thurston, who is in feehie health, was suddenly roused by a slight noise. Looking around her, she saw a ruffian, evidently a robber, at a window, lin the act of raising it. Leaping up, she hade him depart. lie hesitated a moment but seeing that the two ladies were alone in the room, he proceeded with a terrific ; frown in effecting his entrance. There | upon the voting lady instantly seized a large pistol that chanced to be in the apart ment : she cocked it, presenting it at him, and declared her determination to blow his brains out if lie did not instantly fly. He knew from her countenance that she would he as good as her word, and snatching some small articles of dress from a chair within I arm s length of the- window, he fled with precipitation. Wo are told that the young heroine would have fired if she had known that the pistol was certoinly loaded ; but she feared that it was empty, and that a snap would betray her clefencelessness. MENTAL DERANGEMENT FROM I INTOXICATION. The drunkard in jures and enfeebles Ins ! own nervous system, and entails mental j disease upon his family. His daughters I are nervous and hysterical ; his sons are; weak, wayward, eccentric, and sink insane under the pressure of excitement, of some | unforeseen exigency, or of the ordinary j calls of duty. This heritage may he the result of a ruined and diseased constitution , hut is much more likely to proceed from] that long-continued nervous excitement, in j which pleasure was sought in the niter- i nate exaltation of sentiment and oblivion, j I which exhausted and were out the mental | powers, and ultimately produced imbecil- ‘ itv and paralv-sis, both atiributeable to dis ease of the substance of the bruin. How far the monomania of inebriety is itself a disease, and may be more the dnvelopeinent ! the consumption, than the commencement j of a heriditary tendency to derangement, this is not the place to point out : but there; is every reason to believe that it not only; acts upon, and renders more deleterious, u hatever latent taint may exist, but vitiat s ; or impairs the sources ofhealth for several j generations. That the effects of drunken- : css are highly inimical to a permanent healthy state of the brain, is often proved at i a great distance of time from the cours - ’ o! , intemperance, and long after the adoption j of regular hibits. Sometime since, 1 was called upon to treat a r markahly fine boy about sixteen years old, among whose rela tions no case of derangement could be poin ted out, and for whose sudden malady no cause could lie assigned excoj t a single glass of spirits. His father however, had been a confirmed drunkard, was subject to 1 the delirium and ilepr- ssion (■■Bowing iti- I ebriety, and died of delirium tremens The boy recovered. 1 i case presented j many points ot inter si. IPs imail increased : j rapidly, and the two h iresnhercs were o’ unequal size. flic d.seuso was intermit ; tent, the patient passin,; a w- ek in furious j incoher. ni madness, and the suite •■• ding j week imp ri/ct tranquillity and conscious ness. Th so r ites were s pern, and ore a ; nected by a short and profound sleep or ! lethargy, differing altogether from the pa i Rent's ordinary sleep, and recognised by ; him as theculminating point of his disord. r. At present I have two patients who appear | to inherit a tendency to unhealthy action of the brain from mothers addicted to diinking and another, an idiot, whose father was a drunkard.— lir. Brown on Insanity. Blame:).. —“A bright morning to your j fair face .Mistress Murphy. ■AY ell a good morning, John.” i “Geh ! Mistress Murphy, whiniver Isc a raly, shinv. Irish inornin’ like his. it puis | me itynind of the ould counthry, and ofthe time “Ven l lived wid yer father, (r st his sowl. in\dacentern.an niverdhrew : : a'h, and 9 n d4\a poor erayther iver passed his doors without a bite or a sup. “Troth he was, John.” “Mistress Murphv, (pulling a flask out ! of his pocket,) would ye trust me tor a half j pint till i go down to the wharf, and may ’ the divil flv away wi’ the roof of my jacket hut I’ll pay yc before the sun goes to bed! “Burn the dhrap, John, tell ye pay me for the half pint ye got yesterday.” “Mistress Murphy, {emphatically)] know yer mother, an’ she was an ould hod earn cr, and vnr fadther was a dirty was r-w >- | man, and I seed him hauled wi’ six roarin’ j big bulls to the gallows, yeold ’ug— ’ John sloped in double quick time, and a I pewter mug rattled wrap)fully across the pavement Haw to disperse a mob of Females. —We | hoi;: vc that ,the females of this country have never disgraced themselves hy tho i commission of riotous acts—they have ne : ver rebelled against the laws of the consti tuted authorities, tor the purpose of vindi j eating tlie rights of women, and compelling an extension of their privileges. But such j indecorous and unfeiriiniiie proceedings I have been wittn ssed in other countries. — ; H'istorv Informs us that in the year 1792, i the female par; of the population ot Toulon in France,declared themselves in a state oftnsurroetion. They were at tirst laughed at and their threats treated with contempt; hut when th • v proecedid to acts of violence it was found necessary to disperse them.— gome regiments of troops were ordered out, lor that purp >so, but tlie hostile* maneuvers of the military appeared to make no im pression t>n this extraordinary assemblage of Amazons. The municipal authorities ! were reluctant to have rccouse to sangui j nary measures in order to quell tlie insur j rection, and various expedients to intim- I idatc the fair rebels were resorted to in vain. At last the Procurator Syndic devised a method which was attended with complete success. 11c ordered the lire engines to he I brought out, and filled with’ water, mixed ‘with a quantum snfficit of soot.. Wien all was ready for the conflict, they were ear | ried in front of the enemy, and the smutty contents of the artillery were vigorously j discharged into the thickest of their ranks. The phalanx was broken : tlie* petticoated j insurgents speedily vanished from tlie field of battle, and returned to their homes with drenched and soiled garments, and sooty complexions. Cast r Oil Candies. —We were presen ted by Mr. E. Marsh, with one of his can dles manufactured from Castor Oil, and were induced to test its qualities with a : sperm candle. Tlie experiment resulted j in the demonstration that the castor oil las- I ted longer than the sperm candle, and tho j light of the former was decidedly more bril liant and extensive than that ot the latter. IWe could not discover tlie least unpleasant | smell arising from burning the castor oil candle, and believe that they are well cal culated to supersede entirely tlie use of the sperm candle. Mr. Marsh informs us the\ j could be afforded by tlie quantity at 25 cts. j per pound, about one half the cost of sperm | candles.— Alton (III.) Telegraph. No Doubt. — ■ 1 see,’ said a young lady yesterday, ‘that some booksellers advertise ■ Blank Declarations for sale. 1 wish 1 i could get one.’ 1 Why asked her mother. ‘ Because ma, Mr. C ■ is too mod j est to ask me to marry him. and perhaps if : 1 could fill a Blank Declaration with the i - question,’ he would sign it.’ , We were not invited to tea, and don t j know how the two made it out. — (.rcsccnt I City. 9 I E i> , On the 19ih ult., at the residence of his sa ss tier, in Hi:.- -oil county, Alabama. CLEVE LAND PORTER; aged 10 months—son of ; ffuil .1. ami Emily Semrnes. TTri 1 1.-nmJJf rr'w.itwwht. --"W’wwii— • •>• <’ *'■■ ■ ■ 1 • I Notice* “iSN i IF, Subscribi r Invmg sold out his Stock of I. GROCERIES to Mr. Euoar Vim t.nt, ! iespectfully recommend bun to the patronage ot ’ a-■ friends and former customers. GEORGE W. JAR RETT. February 8,1812. 3in aVMlce H |T'\V! ’ I purchased the Su ck of GROCf - B.’ 1. RIBS ■ Mr. George W. Jarrett, the :■• abscriber will coffiuue the business at the • ere formerly i.cciqved by Mr. Jarrett, and will :„il ;!)•->'mos: reasonable terms. Persons ‘•ii want ip Groceries are respectfully- invited to :l ;i. EDGAR VIN( ENT. February 10.1842 gin ILL be iff ■ the first Ttie slay In March V f next, lie ,re the Court House door in V\ ■ shin \<> ~ Vff Ur ■ countv, Eleven NEGROES, ; “jo .o .hr ;:; ii G.Semincs, -M: ■r. Terms “Al'l SEMMES, Guardian. |i y 10, 18 1!. 4t 24 Man Isoase! ni IE JAIL the night of he st.h inst., ‘j j man i irne i DANIEL B YSFORD, com .,;.;tod i'or I. rcenv. Ho .is about twenty-three . r our ild, five it seven inches in height, if ie eye .11 h bar, quick spoken, addicted to : and w ben di t:, i b lastful and fond ot .'w a ■ :e'’- activity. The .Subscriber will ; hank:idly receive r.::y ‘information that will lead j ‘ i bis arras - . GEORGE W. JARRETT, Dep. Sheriff Wa i , Wilkes co., t’< b. 10, 181'.’. Iff; ib; Vugu.-ra Chronicle will please copy i,o affu-o ::"■■ nan, and forward hid. S£SO MSew&rd* RCN-iW • \ from the Mibscr:- h her i the 4th dijo! j . u urj last, mm No. : ro follow by the name oi BILL, about five feet eleven in \Vsrv ‘'bos high, stout built, and dark Mulatto complexion, twcnty-tvro iJjESSBh ... I, , 1 * e , Ins eye ■•iitl!e u#k a,jtl. .. win . i have some reas j .OiJ he i:. lurking ahc.i.tChoat.i,Edgetieid rict, South-Carolina, as he has connexions tii.it ■ i , di’n iiho: and. I have also reasons lobe- I.eve the said Ne>ro to have been stolen. I will the above Reward <n Pity Dollars tor the pprehe sioi uid oiivictiou of tlie Tliict, and re- 1 :, i ■ . r , ( ~ Megiv, i r Ten Dollars tor the Ne ■rr, atone, deli. e:ed to inert Lincolnton, Geor a, or oil ed in any safe Jail so that I can get NICHOLAS FOX. ’ I Lincoln ■n, Gn., Fe a -r .',1842. Im , 1YV!I .v Wi, II) DaillS, Ex-i f.'iKiihi cub. 1,, S"I ‘.l'.oroi’ the Estate oi Thomasl dote.: -id, applies in we for Letter)! o; Dismission. i 1 i Tiiese are, tiieren re, to cite, summon, and ad i imuisli, all ai.il siicmSitr.ihe kiudred and-credit ors sawt dice i••a.to be and a;.; car at my of. i tieewi*hin the time, prescribed by law, to shew cat, e(a , v they liar. eO why aid iettcis slmiuli i not. be granted. . , Given under my hand at ofi.ee, tins Gin Januaft ! ry, 184’2. , HUGH HEX f>KKSI>W Clerk C.<. { Jonttarv tit’ i
