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About News & planters' gazette. (Washington, Wilkes County [sic], Ga.) 1840-1844 | View Entire Issue (March 3, 1842)
NEWS & PLANTERS’ GAZETTE. . . COTTMItI, Editor. No. 27.—NEW SERIES.] NEWS & PLANTERS 6AIEUE. terms: Published weekly at TliriT Dollars per annum, if paid at the time of subscribing; or Three Dollars and Fifty Cents, if not paid till the e.xpi- j ration of six months. No paper to be discontinued, unless at the option of the Editor, without the settlement of all arrearages. ID* Letters, on business, must he post paid, to ‘insure attention. No communication shall be ■published, unless we arc made acquainted u ith the name of the author. TO ADVERTISERS. Advertisements, not exceeding one square, first insertion, Seventy-five Cents; and for each sub sequent insertion, Fifty Cents. A reduction will j he made of twenty-five per cent, to those who 1 advertise by the year. Advertisements not limited when handed in, will be inserted till for- ‘ bid, and charged accordingly. Sales of Land and Negroes by Executors, Ad ministrators, and Guardians, are required by law, to be advertised, in a public Gazette, sixty days previous to the day of sale. The sales of Personal Property must he adver- | tised in like manner, forty days. Notice to Debtors and Creditors of an Estate must be published forty days. Notice that application will be made to the i Court of Ordinary, for leave to sell Land or Ne groes, must be published weekly lor four months; notice that application will be made for Letters of Administration, must be published thirty days; and Letters of Dismission, six months. AGENTS. THE FOLLOWING GENTLEMEN WILL FORWARD THE Names of AXV WHO MAY WISH TO SUBSCRIBE : ./. T. cjj- G. il. Wooten,\ A. 1). Statham,ltunburg, Maliorysville, B. F. Tatom, Lincoln- Felix (r. Edwards, Pe- ton, tersburg, iiloert, i O. A. Duckett, Crawford- G a. Grier, R y.own, ville, Taliaferro, IV. Davenport, Lexing- James Bit, ■ ••<•!, ton, Hancock, .S'. ./. Bush, Irwington, IV,a. ft. No ‘ , !’ Wilkinson, ton, ‘ Dr. Cain, Cambridge, | John A. v . Ibheville District,! shen, L• • bn I . • ..itli ('arolina. M&ri iixxangem&ats. POST OFFICE, ) (Washington, Get., Jan:’ • //, 1842. $ AUGUSTA MAIL ARRIVES. Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, at 5, A. M. CLOSES. Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, at -lb, P. M. MILLEDGEVILLE MAIL. j ARRIVES. Sunday, Wednesday, nr.d Friday, at 8, A. M. CLOSES. Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, at 11, A. M. CAROLINA MAIL. ARRIVES. Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, at 11, A. M. CLOSES. .Sunday, Wednesday, and Friday, at 8, A. M. ATHENS MAIL. ARRIVES. Sunday and Wednesday, at 9, A. M. CLOSES. Sunday and Wednesday, at 9, A. M. ELBERTON MAIL. ARRIVES. CLOSES. Thursday, at 8, P. M. j Thursday, at 8, P. M. I.INCOLNTON MAIL. ARRIVES. CLOSES. Friday, at 12, M. | Friday, at 12, M. ; *Yotice, ALL persons indebted to the Subscriber ei ther by Note or Account, are requested to call and pay up immediately —if not, they will find their notes in the hands of the Justices. GEORGE W. JARRETT. February 17, 1842. 25 ~mmum* A LI, persons indebted to the Estate of Thom as ilia key, late of Wilkes county, deceased, are requested to make immediate payment, and those having demands against the same will pre sent them in terms of the law for payment. WM. Q.. ANDERSON, Adm’r. January 27 22 NEW SHOES. TO- WIT, the following: Ladies’ Kid, Call, I and Prunelle Walking Shoes ; Women’s ! sew’d Kip Shoetees ; Boys’ Calf and Kip Shoes, sew’d and peg’d ; Coarse Brogans, making my assortment complete from the smallest size to the largest extra size, low for Cash. A. L. LEWIS. December 16, 1841. 16 tVotice* A LI, persons indebted to the late firm of Mc -v V MILLAN & VINCENT, are requested to make payment immediately to JOHN 11. DYSON. January 6, 1842. 19 JYotice • THE Subscriber having sold out his Stock of GROCERIES to Mr. Edoaf. Vincent, respectfully recommend him to the patronage of his friends and former customers. GEORGE W. JARRETT. February 8,1842. 3m I TTAVING purchased the Stock of GROCE- I I RIES or Mr. George VV. Jakrett, the Subscriber will continue the business at the Store formerly occupied by Mr. Jarrett, and will sell upon the most reasonable terms. Persons in want of Groceries are respectfully invited to call. EDGAR VINCENT. February 10.1842. 3m TO THE^ PUBLIC. Tailor’s Prices Itrdnced. THE Subscribers respectfully inform the in habitants of Washington and the Public | generally, that they have removed to the East side of the Public Square, where they are pre pared to make GARMENTS in the most fash ionable and best style, at the following reduced prices, for cash : Frock Coat, corded or bound, §9 50 Dress Coat, do. 9 50 Frock or Dress Coat, plain, 8 50 Gaiter Pantaloons, 3 50 Plain do. 3 00 Rolling Collar Vest, 2 50 Double-breasted Fes/, 3 00 McGRANAGIIAN & DONNELLY. Washington, February 17,1812. 3m Tailoring Prices Pro portional. PTHIE Subscribers having associated them selves together for the purpose of carrying on the above business in ali its various Branch es, and believing from their experience in busi ! ness that they will be enabled to render general satisfaction, would respectfully submit to their ! friends and the public the following prices for Work, by which they expect to be governed herealter: Fine Corded Coals, Dress <j- Frock, $9 50 Plain do. do. do. 8 50 Plain Coatees, 8 00 Thin Coats of Bombazine and Corded, 7 50 Plain do. do. 7 00 White or Brown Linen Coats, 4 00 Gaitor Pantaloons, 3 00 Plain do. 2 50 Double-breasted Vests, 3 00 Plain do. or Rolling Collar, 250 Over Coats and Cloaks, each, 11 00 They will continue at the Shop formerly oc cupied by J. T. Palmer, East side of the Court- House Square. (fir REPAIRING and CUTTING done promptly, and on reasonable terms. JOHN T. PALMER. HECTOR McMILLAN. February 21, 1842. 26 i THE DEVIL AMONG THE TAILORS, AND NO MONOPOLY! TIM IE Subscriber begs leave to inform the public and his former customers, that, in consequence of the present Hard Times, he will make up Work in a Superior Slyle of Fashion, at a reduced price for Cash, Hog-meat, Lard, Meal, Flour, or Irish Potatoes. Persons wish ing to patronize a TAILOR that is willing to comply with the Times can do so by applying to the Subscriber. WILLIAM F. SO HAN. February 24, 1812. 26 months afterdate, application will be made to the Honorable the Inferior Court oi Oglethorpe county, while sitting as a Court o Ordinary, for leave to sell three Tracts of Land in Oglethorpe county, and one House and Lot m the Town or Elberton, Elbert county, with thirty Acres of Land attached thereto, belonging to the estate of /. Reid, deceased. REBECCA REID, Adut’x. LINDSAY H. SMITH, Adm’r. February 24, 1842. m4m 26 | TVT OTICIS. —-All persons iiavi..g claims i li gainst the Estate of Z. Reid, iate of Ogle thorpe county, deceased, will present them prop erly attested according to law, and all those in debted to said Estate are requested to make im mediate payment to the Administrator. REBECCA REID, Adm’x. LINDSAY 11. SMITH, Adm’r. February 24, 1842. 6t 26 WATCH A- CLOCK REPAIRING. fIMIE Subscriber returns his thanks for the custom heretofore received, wishes to in form his customers and the community general ly, that he has just received a good supply oi’ Materials for Repairing Watches, Clocks- A large supply of all kinds of Chrystals and Spectacle Glasses. Also, a few pair SILVER SPECTACLES and PENCILS, For sale by R. il. VICKERS. October 14, 1841. ts 7 To the Planters of Georgia. a fenny saved is two fence earned. ffinE Subscriber is now offering to the Far- JL mers of Georgia, “MIMS’ WROUGHT IRON PLOUGH STOCK,” invented by the Messrs. Seaborn J. & Marshall Mims, of Oc lebbalian county, Mississippi, and patented by them. This PLOUGH in every respect is the most, desirable PLOUGH STOCK ever offered to a planting community. It combines durabili ty with convenience—it will last a great many years without repair or expense, and will admit ot every variety of Plough Hoes, (three tooth harrow excepted,) with perfect convenience and lac ility—it is not heavier than the ordinary wood en stock, yet far stronger, and being so very sim ple in its construction, that any blacksmith in the country can make them. Sample Ploughs may be seen and tried at Mr. Dense’s Shop in Miliedgeville ; at Mr. Martin’s Shop in Sparta, and at Mr. F. B. Billingslea’s in Washington, Wilkes county. Let the Farmer examine the Plough, and he will purchase the right to use them. The Subscriber proposes to sell county rights on the most accommodating terms. ET All communications on this subject, post ; paid, addressed to me at Miliedgeville, or Wash ington, Wilkes county, will meet with immedi ate attention. B. L. BARNES, Agent for S. J. &, M. Mims. January 27, 1841. 22 “ to! IraamNtsNh “ EXECUTED AT THIS ®FFO © E a PT'BLISIIHD KVKIIY THI'IISDAY MORNING. WASHIAGTOA, (WILKES (OH IV, U\., MARCH J 5, 1842. WAR. The following advice was given by Dr. Benjamin Rush, an eminent American phy sician and philanthropist, who died about thirty years ago : “ In order to impress more deeply the minds of the citizens of the United States with the blessings of peace, by contrasting them with the evils of war, let the follow ing inscription be painted on the sign which is placed over the door of the war-office at Washington, namely: An office for butchering the human species. A widow-and-orphan-making office. A broken-bone-making office. A wooden-leg-making office. An office for creating public and private vices. An office lor creating public debt. An office for creating famine. An office for creating pestilential diseases. An office for creating poverty, and for the destruction of liberty and national happiness. In the lobby, let there be painted repre sentations of the common instruments of death ; also, human skulls, broken bones, j hospitals crowded with sick and wounded soldiers, villages on fire, ships sinking in the ocean, rivers dyed with blood, and ex tensive plains without a tree or fence, or a ny other object but the ruins of deserted farm-houses. Above this group of wofti! figures, let the following words be inserted in red charac ters, to represent human blood : National Glory.” SHERIDAN AND THE BOOTS. A short time after bis leaving Harrow, be went down to Bristol to spend a few days Before he quitted that place, he wished to obtain, on credit, anew pair of boots. Ho called on two different sons of Crispin ; ordered each to make him u pair I of hoots, and to bring them home at diifor ! ent hours of the day be had fixed for bis de j parture, telling them they should be punc i tually paid on the delivery of their goods, j On the appointed morning, the first that came found the young gentleman in expec ! tation. He tried on the boots, found that | one of them pressed upon bis heel, directed ! the man to take it home, stretch it, and re i turn with it the next morning; the man, I who could not comprehend of what service a single boot could be to the possessor, o beyed. His brother Crispin soon followed; the same fault was found ; the same direc tions repeated ; and Sheridan having ob tained a boot from each, mounted his hack for the metropolis, leaving his dupes to la ment their foily in being duped by a raw stripling. DIVORCE. A Tr nion correspondent of the Newark Daily Advertiser, under date of the Bth uh. says : A Divorce Bill of some interest was passed this afternoon. A foreigner of very gentlemanly appearance and of great pre tensions, by false representations, ingratia ted himself into the atli-ciions of a young orphan girl of 17, beautiful, accomplished, and an heiress. Her stepfather required references from him, and sent to France for certificates of his character. A package ofletters came, all of which spoke highly of him; but from this package it was af terwards discovered letters from an emi nent American, then in France, had been abstracted, and would, if they had been re ceived, have placed him in such a light as to have prevented the unhappy consequen ces to her and her family. They were married, and in 4 or 5 months it was dis covered that he had committed a forgery to a large amount, lie fled to New Orleans, and thence to France in the forecastle of a ship; thus aiming a deadly blow at the happiness of his affectionate wife and her unborn child. And it was afterwards dis covered from letters in his apartments that he had came from France engaged in a conspiracy to perpetrate forgeries to a large amount. Two years have passed, and no thing has been heard from him. And this divorce was sought and granted (by a vote of 35 to 9,) to prevent any claim by him hereafter to the property of his wife or the person of his child. PAN OF GRAVY. “Ba-a-a! Ba-a-a !” shrieks a half na ked infant of about eighteen months old. “ What’s the matter with mamma’s theet yittle ducky ?” says its affectionate mother, while she presses it to her bosom, and the young sarpint in return digs its tal ones into her face. “Da den, Missis, I knows what little massaJim wants,” exclaims the cherub s negro nurse. “ You black hussey ! why don t you tell me then ?” and the infuriated molher gives Dinah a douse in the chops with her shoe. “ Why he wants to put his foot in dat dar pan of gravy, wats coolen on de harf!” whimpers the unfortunate blackey. “ YVell, and why don’t you bring it here, you aggravating nigger you,” replies the mother of the bawling young one. Dinah brings the gravy, and l : ttle Jim puts his feet in the pan, dashing the milk warm grease about his sweet putnpy little shanks, to the infinite amusement of his mother who tenderly exclaimed — “ Did mother’s yettle Dimmy want to put his teeny-weeny footsev’s in the gravy. It shall play in the pan as much as it choosy 1 woosey’s, and then it shall have its pooty i red frock on, and go and see its pappv vap- I py.” THE TOSS UP. BY THE AUTHOR OF “JEST AND EARNEST.” From Bizarre Fables. “Shall quips, and sentences, and these paper j bullets of the brain awe a man from the career of i Ins humor ?— Shakespean■ In the tap room of the Black Bull, seated j at a table on which foamed a newly drawn j pot of porter, were Tom Doyle and Frank ! Evans: They were youths approaching manhood; of nearly the same age and the same world ly station, hut in aspect most different. — Friends were they of a three weeks’ friend ship ; and they sat down at that tap room table talking over their affairs in a confi dential friendly manner. Tom Doyle was known by that uneerc : mouious appellation to a large hut doubtful ly respectable circleof acquaintance. lie had passed his whole life in London, and the greater part in the streets of London. He had received such an education as the streets of London supply, hut very little oth er. The shifts of poverty had given him cunning ; slight but perpetual skirmishes with the law ofthe land had given him a taste for law breaking ; cold, heat, hunger, thirst, contempt, ill usage, and disease, had given him fortitude to bear whatever should happen. lie had a young-old look, anil seemed an unnatural combination of the hoy and the man ; the careless follies of im maturity conjoined with the calculating vi ces of maturity. Frank Evans had been brought up away from towns. Fresh air, green fields, sprea ding trees, clear streams, were things fa | miliar to him. He had not been accustom ed to walk continually in crowds, and tread his passage through lines of eager, unprin cipled faces. Money making was less ob trusively carried on, and the great strug gle of one human being with another for existence was not so palpable. Me was healthful, rather simple, not very industri ous, and of indecided character. Totally ignorant of what is called the “world,” he was about equally liable to lie turned to j good or evil. Hitherto he had been chiefly j subjected to beneficial influences, but a ! three weeks’ intimacy with Tom Doyle | had not been without its effect. The intimacy was brought about thus : Doyle was one morning standing on Lon | don bridge with his hands inserted in his J pockets, and whistling as he contemplated i the departure of the Margate steamer from | the wharf below. While so engaged an other spectator placed himself by his side I and gazed on the proceeding with an ear nest curiosity that contrasted remarkably with his unenjoying languid glance. The spectator was Frank Evans A conversa tion ensued by which Doyle learned from the communicative stranger that he had come to London only a tew days before, that he had run away from his native village In consequence of a quarrel with his parents, j and that he was now staying with an uncle at Bermonsey, who was exerting himself to make up matters. From this day Doyle and Evans often met. Tin London youth undertook with great kindness to instruct his country friend in some of the ways of the metropolis, and the latter undertook to furnish the money as far as his own resources and his uncle s bounty would allow. But now an epoch had arrived in their intercourse. Doyle wished Evans to join the coterie of Ned Roller, an enterprising individual who did much business of an illegal but productive character. This he the more strongly urged as he had himself resolved, after some scruples, to enter on the business himself. To this proposition Evans objected, in the first place, that he did not like it abstracted ly ; and in the second place, that his uncle had offered to procure him the situation of light porter at a merchant’s counting house which might lead to a seat in the counting house itself, and that to opulence and con sideration. They agreed to discuss the j matter quietly over a pot of porter in the taproom ofthe Black Bull. “WhyFrank,”said Doyle, “I’m ashamed of you—roast me to a cinder if I ain’t. — Wiiat’s the odds if there is a little danger or so with Ned—it’s a blessed sight better than being a muff of a porter in an infernal old cheating counting house.” “Come, Tom, no had language,” said E vans, “you may be right, but I don’t feel so sure of it. If l refuse to take this situation, my uncle will turn me out of doors—that 1 know.” “And what of that?” said Doyle, “other people has doors I s’pose. I’d pretty soon turn myself out of his doors if it was me. “Well, Tom,” said Evans, “I’ll tell you what I’ll do to settle it one way ortheother. We might talk here ali night and 1 should not make up my mind. I’ll toss you for it —heads, Igo to the merchant; tails, Igo to Ned ! Lend me a halfpenny.” “I lend you !” exclaimed Doyle, “a like ly thing I can lend you! I lost my last halfpenny at skittles, two hours ago!” “And I paid my last halfpenny for this pot of porter;” said Evans, “and my uncle has sworn to give me no more unless I’m obedient. Dasli it, I shall be obliged to go to Ned for want of a toss-up to give the counting house a chance!” Here he fumbled in successive pockets with the view of placing his destitution be yond doubt. He found each empty until, in the last of all—the left waistcoat pocket —in the extreme left corner, his finger en countered something havintr the feel of a coin, lie drew it forth, and displayed an old battered, verdigriscovered farthing. It had remained there unnoticed —hut now it was to decide on a lifetime. “Ah, ah!” exclaimed Evans, joyfully, “here is what shall tell us. Now, see fair plav ! Remember, head is for the Mer chant, and tail is for Ned—and here goes! The coin spun in the air and dccendcd on the table—t’was head. “The merchant forever!” exclaimed 11- vans. “Toss again, and hold your noise ! ’ said Doyle, sullenly. The coin spun in the air and decended on the table—it was tail. “Ned for ever!” exclaimed Doyle. “Now for the last toss!” said Evans. Ilis heart heat fast—the room seemed to swim round with him—and his knees trem bled. His previous reckless calmness had disappeared, and he was wound up to an in tense pitch of anxiety. He did not allow hirnscifto wish either way, or if so, it a mounted to but half a wish. Ho tossed up the farthing forthe last time. The coin spun in the air and decended on the table—it was head. “Damnation!” muttered Doyle, through his teeth. Evans spoke not a word. He was very pale, and his eyes were fixed on the ground. “But hang it, man,” said Doyle, “you don’t mean to call the tiling settled because the cursed old farthing came heads instead of tails—come, we’ll talk itover.” “No, Doyle,” said Evans, “I am fixed. 1 swear solemnly that if the result had been contrary, I would have acted on it as rigid ly. Our fates would then have been one and the same ; as it is, we must see each other no more. A dirty brass farthing has decided my course of life !” And at the door of the Black Bull that evening Tom Doyle and Frank Evansshook hands, parted and went in different direc tions. They never met again. Tom Doyle took to petty larceny. 1 Ie pro ceeded from that to burglary; and one night having imbibed too much, lie quarrelled with a comrade, and struck him.so heavily on the head that his comrade never moved afterwards. Tom Doyle was hanged in the Old Bailey at 8 o’clock on a mysty morning, to the great amusement ot a select company of both sexes. Frank Evans became a light porter, af terwards a clerk, and afterwards a partner. His industry was exemplary—his honor was unimpeachable, and paper bearing the signature of Stirling and Evans was ta!:• -n with as much confidence as that issued by the Bank of England. Great is the reward of virtue and striking is the punishment of vice. Tom Doyle lies dead and unprayed for—and Mr. Francis Evans is alive and rides in his coach. \et if, on that memorial evening at the Black Bull, Francis Evans has been a little more persuadable, or had not found the farthing or the farthing turned up tail, he might have been hanged like Tom Doyle, and might now lie dead and unprayed for, instead of being alive and riding in his coach. MORAL. Life is a brass farthing ; and. in the toss up between Fate and each human being, high pirth and low birth, riches, and pover ty, wisdom and folly, ‘.learning and igno rance, virtue and vice, arc hut other names for head and tail. From the Star of Florida. “A MOTHER'S LOVE.” Some eighteen months ago, two young men of this county, one of them quite a youth, being present in a remote village in the Eastern District of tiie Territory, were unfortunately engaged in a rencontre, which resulted in the death of an individ ual. This unfortunate occurrence, produ ced as was natural a strong excitement a gainst the offending strangers ; they were arrested, and imprisoned ; but finally bail ed by their friends, who became surety for their appearance at Court, to stand a trial for the homicide The iddest of these young men, fell a victim to a southern climate, during the past summer. And the other apprehend ing, that during the continuance of a popu lar excitement against him, that there would he little chance for an impartial ex amination of his case, neglected to appear at court to meet his trial, at the succeeding term of court. During the past week how ever, he was arrested, and again thrown in to prison in this county, preparatory to be ing sent to the place of his trial. Ilis mo ther and sister, according to the custom in such cases, were permitted to visit him. On Sunday evening last, just about twi light, the jailor, as he thought, unbarred the prison doors, to permit the afflicted and widowed mother, and his no less sorrowful sister, to depart, from a mournful interview with an unfortunate son and brother. Some four or five hours afterwards, cir cumstances were brought to the recollec tion ofthe officer, which induced him to sus pect, that all was not as it should he. He determined to visit his charge for the pur pose of satisfying his doubts. On entering the cell which ought to have been occupied by the young man charged with homicide, lo and behold his prisoner had fled ! His mother occupied his place. She had parted with her bonnet, veil, cloak, and other outward garments ; and with a handkerchief to his eyes, as in the utter a bandoument of grief, the criminal had wal ked past the jailor and the guard and enter ed a carriage at the door, where stood two blooded bars, and an active driver, ready HI . .1. It Al*l 11 i.. Pr in ter. to hurrv him from a loathsome confine nient, to freedom and safety. He lias not since been heard of. His mother remained behind, to brave the fury ofthe disappoint ed officers of the law, and the prosecutors. From the Maine Farmer and Advocate. EMINENT MECHANICS. We shall occasionally give sketches of the lives of eminent mechanics—especially Americans. The results of Fulton s la bors and experiments have been of more consequence to his country than the con quests of any of the renowned heroes of oth er days ever were to their particular coun tries. Their triumphs were those of force; his tiie triumph of mind over matter. They built up or enlarged their countries by ap propriating to themselves the labors ot others ; he added to the greatness of his, by calling anew power front the hidden re cesses of nature, and applying it to the peaceful aits of life, by creating instead of destroying, and bv developing new resour ces instead of plunging his follow man deeper into the depths of ignorance and misery. ROBERT FULTON. Fulton was a native of Little Britain Township in Lancaster county, Pennsylva nia. and born 1765, his parents were in humble circumstances and were enabled only to give him a common education. He early exhibited a fondness for painting, and at the age of 18 he established himself in Philadelphia. At the age of 22, he went to England to advance his talents, and w r as received into the family of West,with whom lie spent several years and entertained warm friendship. During his stay, he be came acquainted with the Duke of Bridge water, and Lord Stanhope, the former fa mous for canals, tiie latter for the love of mechanism. He soon turned his attention to the use of steam for propelling boats.— In 1796, he obtained a patent for a double inclined plane. He also professed himself a civil engineer, and published a treatise on Canal Navigation. He soon went to France and obtained patents for his im provements. He spent the succeeding 7 years in Paris, in the family of Joel Bar low, during which time he made himself acquainted with the French, German and Italian languages ; and acquired a knowl edge of Mathematics, Physics and Chemis try. He turned his attention to submarine e xplosions in the harbor of Brest, demon strating the success of his discovery. The British Ministry invited him to London, where lie blew up a vessel which led them to suppress rather than to encourage his improvements, they therefore gave him no employment. In 1803, he made several experiments in steam to apply Ins principle to boats— Chancellor Livingston was then minister to France. Fulton, with his aid, constructed a boat on the River Seine; this was in 1803. which fully evinced the practicability of boats. He determined to enrich his coun try with the discovery, and immediately embarked for the United States—and in 1806, commenced the construction of the Boat, the results of which are given below. In 1811, Fulton was employed by the Le gislature to explore the routes for the Ca nal. and was engaged with zeal in prosecu ting that object, on the breaking out of the war. In JSI2, he was again experiment ing on submarine explosions. In 1814, lie contrived an armed ship for the defence ot New-York, and invented a submarine ves sel for plunging under water, ihese plans were approved by the Government, hut be fore he accomplished them he died sudden ly on tiie 26th of February, 1815. His person was tall, slender, and well formed. VVe have thought proper to give this full account of the first Steam Boat that was constructed in this country, and ofthe great inventor. The advantages that have fol lowed this discovery are too great to be cal ciliated. Fulton’s account of the first Steam-boat : Fulton, in a conversation with Judge Sto ry, gave th<> following account of his ex periment : “ W hen, said he, “ 1 was buil ding my first boat, the Clermont, at New- Yorii, the object was viewed by the public either with indifference or with contempt as a visionary scheme. My friends were civil but they were shy. They listened with patience to my explanations, but with a settled cast of incredulity on their coun tenances. I felt the force ofthe lamenta tion of the poet, Truth would you teach, to save a sinking land. All shun, none aid you, and few understand. “ As 1 had occasion to pass daily to and from mv building yard while my boat was in progress, I had often loitered, unknown, near the idle group of strangers, gathered in little circles, and heard various inquiries relative to the object of this new vehicle, the language w r as uniformly that of scorn, sneer or ridicule. The loud laugh rose at mv expense, the dry jest, the wise calcula tion of losses and expenditures, the dull but endless repetition of Fulton’s Folly. Nev er did a single encouraging remark, a bright hope, or a warm wish, ctoss my path. Silence itself was hut politeness veiling its reproaches. At length the day arrived when the experiment was to be brought in to operation. To me it was a most trying and interesting occasion. I invited my friends to go on board and witness the first successful trip. Many did me the honor to attend as a matter of personal respect, but it was apparent they did it with reluctance, fearing to be partners in mv misfortune and of mv triumph. I was well aware chat [von >11: \xvn.
