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About News & planters' gazette. (Washington, Wilkes County [sic], Ga.) 1840-1844 | View Entire Issue (March 31, 1842)
NEWS & PLANTERS’ GAZETTE. I. <;. COTTINCi, editor. No. 31.—NEW SERIES.] & PLANTERS’ GA2EIU terms: Published weekly at Three Dollars per annum, if paid at the time of subscribing; or Three Dollars and Fifty Cents, if not paid till the expi ration of sixpionths. No paper to be discontinued, unless at Ihe option of the Editor, without the settlement of all arrearages. O’ Cillers, on business, must be post paid, to insure attention. No communication shall be published, unless ice are made acquainted with the name of tlw author. TO ADVERTISERS. Advertisement.-, not exceeding one square, first insertion, Seventy-five Cents; and for ea<h sub sequent insertion, Fifty Cents. A reduction will be i.ide oi twenty-five per cent, to those who advertise by the year. Advertisements not limit-id whe i. • ~ will be inserted till for b: , . i-ngiy. Executors, Ad ra. -i, required by law, : . o, sixty days i j .;. he adver ■ • : - ate , .... ... X .•;•••’ ■ iic ’ .- grocs, in ■■ln. notice • a . ■ • Lets er-sioi Adin :• ■■ •’ • and L. II TIT r-C - i\EW mo-WiT, h ci, 1 JL and Prunelle VvY .g \\ .-men's sew’d K*p Shoelees ; Boy.-: <.*:> i; and Kip Slices, siw’d and peg’ll; Coarse Brogans, making my assortment complete from the smallest size to the largest extra size, low for Cash. A. L. LEWIS. December 10, 1841. 10 JYotice • A LI, persons indebted io the late firm of Mc- J\_ MILLAN & VINCENT, are requested to make payment, immediately to JOHN 11. DYSON. January 6,1842. 19 Notice, 4 LI, persons indebted to the Subscriber ei il ther by Note or Account, are requested to call and pay up immediately—if not, they will linil their notes in the hands of the Justices. GEORGE W. JARRETT. February 17, 1842. 25 /- Police, THE Subscriber having sold out his Stock o! GROCERIES to Mr. Edgar Vincent, respectfully recommend him to the patronage of his lriends and former customers. GEORGE W. JARRETT. f February 8,1842. 2m is&invA, HAVING purchased the Stock of GROCE RIES of Mr. George VV. Jaiirett, 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 Tatioiv Candies, OF a superior quality, for sale low, at whole sale or retail, by ROBERT 11. VICKERS. March 10. 28 ALL Teachers having demands against the Poor School Fund of Wilkes county, will please render them in to the Secretary, before , the first of May next, at which time the same will ’ be distributed to the several Teachers having claims, in proportion to their demand. ROVLAND BEASLEY, See’y. March 17, 1842. Com. Poor School, j ELBERTON Female •lead e mij, j The Trustees of this In- j P,l ii"'° ri ?rati ' ie ‘’ . l ° j roKtsyjpiSfcSfc he services of Miss MA- JgggggpsyS .; V E. HODGE, as In- rue tress for the present - niendation -of Miss Hodge 1 and her success as a Teacher, the Trustees flat ter themselves that persons wishing instruction, would do well to embrace the opportunity now offered. All the Branches, both solid and ornamental, usually taught in the Villages of our State, will ha attended to, and at customary rates. Board can be had in private families in the Village, on moderate terms. Elberton is pleasantly situated, remarkably healthy, and strictly moral; with a flourishing Male School, under the direction of Mr. John T. Baker. \ THOMAS J. HEARD, J Y. L. G. HARRIS. | ROBERT HESTER, l Trustees. A. HAMMOND, | SHELTON OLIVER, J Elberton , Marcli 5, 1842. 3t 25) GEORGIA, \ Whereas, Joshua Morgan Wilkes County. $ applies to me lor Letters of Dismission as Guardian for John Scott. These are, therefore, to cite, summon, and ad monish, all and singular the kindred and creditors j of said Minor, to be and appear at my office, within the time prescribed by law, to shew cause (if any they have) why said letters should not he granted. Given under my hand at Office, this 14th day of February, 1842. JOHN H. DYSON, c. c. o. February 17. rnfim STMHiILDLHS MEETING. TjpillL undersigned, Slockhoiders in the Bank -L °t the State ot Georgia to the extent ol up wards of Fourteen Hundred Shares, 11 100,] and in number, Thirty, hereby give notice tor a Meet ing ol the Stockholders, to he held in the Bank oi the State ol Georgia, in the City of Savannah, on Wednesday, the twenty-seventh day of April | next. The objects of which Meeting are as fol j lows: Ist. To examine into the nature, kind, and ex tent ol the debts duo to and from the Bank— when contracted, when due, and how secured. 2d. To examine the Minutes of the proceed ings ol the Board of Directors, and all the Books, , papers, arid correspondence of tiro same, both to : and by its officers. 3d. To ascertain if there be any Director or I Directors elected in said Bank on the par; of the Stockholders, who are not buna fide, entitled in ins own right to the requisite number of shares j to quality him or them as such. 4th. To revise and amend the By-Laws. slh. To regulate voting by proxy, in order to forbid officers ot the Bank procuring, acquiring, or rating proxies, either to themselves or others. 6th. i’c revise the compensation (fixed by the Stockholders hitherto,) of tiie President, and consider the propriety of reducing the salaries and the number of the officers generally, and to examine the securities given on llieir bonds. 7i.h. To consider the propriety of applying to j the Legislature to alter and amend the Charter ot the Institution, and in what respect. Bih. To investigate the affairs of the Bank, and the management of them, in every particu lar, since tho last Meeting of the Stockholders. Inasmuch as no authority exists in the Charter for the voting by proxy, except in elections, all Stockholders are earnestly requested to attend in person, and votes on questions will he taken ac cording to the scale in the Charier. The President, Cashiers, and Agents of the Brandies are respectfully requested to prepare . .ateiuei ts oi each, giv.ng exact particulars ol all the assets and property oi each, their nahili l-cs, Ac , Hi ., to be Um and there mid before tiie Stockholders. in conformity with the foregoing, tiiey hereby give public notice, that, a Meeting oi ail the Btockhoiders of tiie said Bank of the State ol Georgia, is hereby called and summoned to be held in the Banking-House, in the City oi iS.nan- j nab, on Wednesday, the 27t,h day of April next, j commencing its sitting at 10 A. in. C. P. Richardsone, Gouid & Buckley, G. R. Hendrickson, James M’Laws, N. li. Knapp, G. B. Gumming, Pres’t. Wm. Patterson, Execu- pro tempore Savannah tor Estate of D. Moil- insurance and Trust giiii Company, J. McDonald, James Dickson, L. F. Harris, Hiram Roberts, D. R. Rohe, Janet Evans, per Attor’y. F. Porciier, C. P. Richardsone, Luke Christie, J.P. Screven, Francis Foley, Martha Hines, T. J. I’armelee, D. O'Byrne, John M. Turner, Ad- John Bradley, miinstrator oi Jacob G. W. VVylly, Trustee, Abrahams, M. Hopkins, 11. (J. Wyer, Thomas Purse, C.B. Carhart, Cashier Jas. M Laws, Trustee, of the Mechanics James M Law.--, Atlor- Bank, ney tor W. W. Mmit- Jaines W. Davies, gomery, Trustee. March 3,1842. ‘ 8t 27 tiitk of tiie .Atate of Georgies. Savannah, February 25, 18-1 J. \\ LERKAS a p..; or ii...- i p-.hi . i-• m tiie Mavi.]i..ali K. public, a oi in .stair, calling a meeting oi llie Stockholders i this Institution on the *27 1 1 1 day ot April iicx. The Board oi Directors deem it due to ti.e v.i;-: i majority ol ilio Stockholders not connected with I th.s movement, to express publicly its views in relation to it. la the <:; ai.on oi this Board, it is a duly incum bent, on the Directors of every Bank, (derivable not only from its charter, hut iroiii considerations of good faith paramount thereto,) to hold its af fairs at all times open to the inspection ai-.d ex amination ot those whose interests are committed to their custody. In this view of the duly which devolves upon it, this Board reiterates the call which has been made, and expresses the hope mm since il iris hoe > made, if will be responded to by a meeting sufficiently large to give a lull representation to the interests, and a fair expres sion to the wishes ot tiie Stockholders. It therefore earnestly requests all who can at tend, to be personally present, and those who can j by no possibility be in attendance, to send their proxies. The only evil that can be the result of i the contemplated meeting (other than that which the agitation ot the question at a time of general depression and universal panic must necessarily j produce,) is the non-attendance of the Stock holders, thus leaving the interests of tiie Institu tion in the hands ot a few who cannot fully rep resent tiie interests of the whole. To arrest as far as it can, the injurious conse quences ot widish the call for a meeting of stock ■ holders at this time is productive, this Board deems it proper to ailude more particularly to it. j At a period when tiie pubiic mind is excited a : gainst all Banks, by reason of the gross misman i agement oi many oi them in our country, any j movement of the kind contemplated, is calcula ; ted to operate injuriously on this, or any other institution: add to this consideration, which ap plies generally to ail moneyed institutions, the fact, tiiat iieavv losses have recently accrued at our branch at Macon, which in a time of unpre cedented difficulty have been promptly met by i the Bank, and it will he perceived, that the move ment that has been made, is eminently calculated to injure this Institution, and when the circuni- I stances attending on this call are duly consider ed, it will be difficult to escape the conclusion, j limb evil to a greater or less extent, may be its consequence. : No one of the Subscribers to that document lias ever intimated to tiie presiding officer oi tiiis Institution, or to any n ember of this Board, a de sire to have a meeting of Stockholders; the call itselfhas never been communicated directly to, or been laid before this Board, and the first noti fication given was the insertion of it in the col umns of one of the gazettes of this city. Such course not only indicates a want of courtesy, but exhibits a distrust ol tiie members of tiiis Board, which cannot fail, within the sphere of its influ ence, to affect injuriously, the interests of the In stitution over which tiiey preside, which distrust was not necessary in effecting the call, and was therefore entirely gratuitous. What motives have influenced to such course, the Board leaves to the decision of the public. Resolved, That the foregoing be published in the gazettes of Savannah, the Constitutionalist, PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY MORNING. WASHINGTON, (WILKES COI NTV, GA.,) MAIUIB sl9, 1 Augusta, the Recorder, Milledgeviile, the Whig, | Alliens, and tho News, Washington, Wilkes • county, Georgia. Tiuo extract from the Minutes, A. DORTER, Cashier. March 10. 7t 28 TO THE PUSLiC. Tailor's M*riccs iteehtceel. TEN I IK Subscribers respectfully inform the in | JL habitants of Washington and the Public generally, that they have removed to the East | side of the Pubiic Square, where tiiey are pre pared to make GARMENTS in the most fasli- I ionable and best style, at the following reduced I I prices, for cash : Frock Coat, corded or bound, $9 50 | Dress Coal, 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 Vest, 3 00 McGRANAGHAN & DONNELLY. Washington, February 17,1842. 3m Tailoring Prices Pro portional. PTHIE Subscribers Inning associated tlicm ! selves together for the purpose of carrying on the above business in all its various Ilrai.i li es, and believing from their experience in In.-.- 1 ness that they will be enabled to render genera, satisfaction, would respectfully submit to theii friends and the public the following prices for ! Work, by which tiiey expect to be governed j hereafter : Fine Corded Coats, Dress f Frock, $0 50 \ Plain do. do. do. 8 50 ! ; Plain Coatees, 8 00 Thin Coats of Bombazine and Corded, 7 50 I Plain do. do. 7 00 White or Drown Linen Coats, 4 00 Guitar Pantaloons, 3 00 Plain do. 2 50 Double-breasted Vests, 3 00 Plain do. or Rolling Collar, 2 50 Over Coats and Cloaks, each, 11 00 They will continue at ;iie Shop formerly oc cupied by J. T. Palmer, East side oi tiie Court- House Square. (Kr REPAIRING and CUTTING done promptly, and on reasonable terms. JOHN T. PALMER HECTOR McMiLLAN. 1 February 21, 1812. 20 THE DEVIL mm thetliloes, A N D NO MONOPOLY! rjMIE Suoscnber begs leave to inform the j : public and Ins former customers, tL •; m i consequence of die present Hard Times, lie wdl j make up Work in a Superior Siyle of Fashion, , at a reduced price tor ( asii, Ilog-meat, Lard, Meal, Flour, or Irish Potatoes. Persons wish- j ing to patronize a TAILOR that is willing to ! comply with the Tunes can do so by applying to i die Subscriber. WILLIAM F. SOHAN. Fel ruary 24, i • 12. 26 To the /Planters of Georgia. A I'IINNV SAVED 1 1 TWO PENCE EARNED. Subscriber is now oilering to the Kar -9 mers u! Georgia, “MIMS’ WltOUGHT livvJ.\ PLOUGH ISTOt K,” invented by the i .Messrs. Seaborn J & Marshall Mims, oi Oe- I Lebbahan county, Mississippi, and patented by them. This PLOUGH in every respect is die most desirable PLOUGH STOCK ever offered to a planting community. It combines durabili ty with convenience—it will last a great many years wnhout repair or expense, and will admit ot every variety of Plough Hoes, (three tootli harrow excepted,) with perfect convenience and facility—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 ho seen and tried at Mr. Dense’s Shop in Milledgeviile ; at Mr. Martin's Shop in Sparta, and at Mr. F. B. Billingslea’s m Washington, Wilkes county. Let the Farmer examine 1 lie Plough, and he will purchase the | right to use them. The Subscriber proposes to sell county rights | on the most accommodating terms. ATT All communications on this subject, post- ! paid, addressed to me at Milledgeviile, or Wash j ington, Wilkes county, will meet with immedi ate attention. B. L. BARNES, Agent for S. J. iv. M. Mims. January 27, 1841. 22 GEORGIA, l Whereas, William Dallis,Ex- Lincoln county. j ecutor of the Estate of Thomas Dallis, Son., deceased, applies lo me for Letters | : of Dismission. These are, therefore, to cite, summon, and ad monish, all and singular, the kindred and credit ors of said deceased, to be and appear at my of fice, within tiie time prescribed by law, to shew cause (if any they have,) why said letters should not he granted. Given under my hand at office, this Gth Janua ry, 1842. lIUGII HENDERSON, Clerk C. O. j January 20. m6m BLANKS. CLERKS, &c., can bo supplied ► r with the following BLANKS, at the Office ot the News and Gazette : Sheriff’s Deeds, Sheriff’s Executions, Tax Collector’s do. Ca. Sa’s. Letters of Administration, Do. do. with will annexed, Do. Dismission, Do. Guardianship, Administrator’s Bonds, Guardian’s do. Delivery do. Subpoenas, Bench Warrants, Recognizances, Writs of Assumpsit, Do. Debt, Commissions for Interrogatories, Warrants of Appraisement, Marriage Licences, Ac. &e. ILr* Any kind of Blanks can he furnished at ‘ short notice \priL Jwtl i/ittGCrU^iUGUSi. From the Athcnicum. STAUENIJACH, THE SHARP SHOOTER. After the battle of Austerlitz, the Aus ! trian army was virtually disbanded. The j regiments were left without pay in conse quence of the general breaking up ol'the Austrian finance ; the public spirit was ex tinguished by the result of so many unsuc cessful wars; Napoleon's genius seemed to have gained the final ascendency ; and the general feeling throughout the continent j was, that all efforts for independence were | hopeless. Hut in the midst of this national despair | there were some gallant spirits left, as if to keep uj) the remembrance of the old na tional glory, and ho ready for the time of retribution. Among the disbanded troops was a regiment of sharpshooters, chiefly rai sed among the range ofthe Carinthian Alps, i hey were ordered home lo their native place, and some French officers, with a j commissary-general, wore sent to attend them to Laybach, and see the measure eoin j pick'd. l'he country in tlie neighborhood of’Lay : bach, is remarkably hilly, and the regi ; “lent was compelled to scatter a good deal. : | The men fell intogroupes, and as they be j came less immediately within sight of their masters, murmurs arose at the journey, and | the insult of being thus driven home by ! French commissaries. Asa party were | thus talking at a turn of the mountain road, i I where they had halted without much fear j of the officers before their eyes, the rear of j | die company oi the regiment, commanded | by Lieut. Siauenbach. overtook them, and tiie sitters.down invited the others to drink, j Discipline had been nea ly at an end for ‘ some days before, and Siauenbach made no j objection. He had probably been incdita- i ting something of what followed, for, on the ! glass being presented to him, he drank | •‘the health of our father, (the Emperor,) | and better days to our country.” The I toast was received with shouts. What was i subsequently done to rouse the sluirp-shoot- j ers is not known, but it may be tolerably j conceived, from tiie fact, tiiat the colonel ! j tind stall were the only part ofthe regiment ! tiiat entered Laybach with the Frenchmen: j what had become of Siauenbach and the | other officers no one could tell. Inquiry 1 j was set on foot by die French authorities, j wiio were then pervading every corner of j tiie Austrian territory: but nothing could be ascertained, further, than the whole regi- ! I mem had anticipated Napoleon's orders, | | and had suddenly disappeared. In a few days, however, reports were ! j brought to Laybach of occasional fires liav- ■ j ing been seen in the mountains that edge the Saave ; and one morning the despatch es, regularly forwarded to the French com missary-in chief, did not arrive. This pro duced some disturbance in the city, and no slight alarm among the gentlemen of the French staff, who immediately despatched a courier to Moravia for an additional force | of French troops. The courier set out at night, to prevent accidents; hut his pre vention was unlucky, for the next day he was set down blindfold within a short dis tance, of Laybach, with a note declaring “ war against the French,” and informing “th ■ French staff,” tiiat if they chose to stay in Laybach they might, but that not a man of them should ever return to France. This formidable document was signed “the King of the Mountains. ” This billet produced singular excitement in the city. The French commandant in stantly ordered a meeting of the authori ties, and in this civic and military council his Ma jesty of the Mountains was declared a public enemy, and a reward ofthe ade quate number of thalers was offered for him, deader alive. This was probably an un willing measure on tiie part of the grave burghersofCarniola, but they knew the ac tivity of Napoleon’s vengeance too well to talk of hesitation ; with the populace it was altogether a different affair, and their rejoicing at the defiance was all but trea son to the supremacy of the conqueror.— The ‘ King of the Mountains” was an ef j fective name, and the habitual taste ofthe German for forest wonders found its su preme indulgence in inventing attributes and adventures for this mysterious mon arch. War, and of all its kinds insurrectionary war, is fitted to take hold upon the popular i imagination. Its secrecy, its sudden o.v ----l plosions—its sudden extinctions in one quarter, to spring up like a conflagration in another—even the personal intrepidity, in telligence, and dexterity required in its sol itary and hazardous enterprise, throws a romantic and superstitious interest about it, that gives a powerful impulse to the imagi nation. The “ King of tiie Mountains” had none of the established indolence of‘ the throne ; he seemed even to have the facul ty of being every where at once. The ar rival of couriers soon ceased totally, or oc curred only by permission of his invisible majesty : and then the letters were gener ally open, and accompanied by remarks, sometimes burlesque and sarcastic, and sometimes conveying intelligence of the I most disastrous nature from France. The peasants brought provisions to the city only under the passport of his majesty ; the tra ders and travellers were compelled to ad- I vertise in the Laybaeh Zeilung before they set out, their route, with a declaration that they were not going to France; in short, his majesty’s determination to extinguisli all intercourse with the land of tvrannv. was expressed with the most undiplomatic I distinctness and absence of ceremony. The French authorities, however, now set themselves actively to resist the public feeling ; and, as their first step, Ordered the printer of the Zeitung to jail, with a declar j alion, that the first merchant or traveller 1 suspected of compromising with the “ ban ditti,” should follow the printer. This had ( ( its effect for u few days, and the advertise, j uients were stopped, llut a Bolognese jew eller, w ho had come to the fair of ldira, and ! after lingering impatiently lor some weeks j j in the city, “as anxious to realize his pro. i ducp on the other side of the Tyrol, had not ! left 1 jaybach half a German mile, when he , was met by a party of armed “ peasantry, j who ordered him back. They took nothing j from him, and when he offered them moil | ey, refused it, slating that they were paid ; ; by their own “ sovereign ;” and ordered 1 merely to prevent any man's going through : bis territory without his passport. Soil) ■ oilier attempts had the same result; until i I at length the French commandant detenni ■ ned to take the field against the unseen n | surper. He gathered about five hundred j troops of different arms, and called out the j Burgher-guard lo make up his army. Hut I the citizens had long settled their minds up ; on the point, and they, one ami all, <lisco\ j ered so many personal reasons for objecting 1 to a mountain campaign, that M. le Colo nel dc Talmont was at last, with infinite j indignation, obliged to compromise the af- j ; fair, and leave the “ hole of the gallant \ Burgher-guard for the defence ofthe gates j • and ditches. The Colonel was a bold fellow, a vieu.v | j moustache, who had served from the time of i ! Moreau s march into Swabia, ami was a i i soldier all over. The idea flint his coni j munications should be intercepted by a ! “mountain thief, a pcdler, a goat hunter,” \ was at once intolerable and ludicrous ; and he promised the civil council, that, before j twelve hours were over they should see the ! “ robber with a rope round his neck. For j the purpose of more complete surprise, the I : expedition was to wait for nightfall. About ; 7in the evening a patrol wiiieh had been j j ordered to search the market peasants as they passed out of the gates, (for the lion i est Carniolans were strongly suspected of j j carrying on the correspondence ofthe dis- j j affected within and without,) brought in an old seller of eggs, in whose basket they had ! [ found some gunpowder. This was of course contraband of war, and the peasant was brought to head quarters. A farther sear- fi j discovered a letter to the • Mountain King !’ * He was extremely dccrepid, and so deaf, j ■ lie could be scarcely made to und. island j that a court-martial was about to he held upon him. His Carniolan jargon was e | quaily lost upon the Colonel. To shoot j him, however, required sonic consideration. ; I rial was impossible, with a man destitute j of all faculty of explanation, or und rstand ing; his age rendered him harmless; and cruelty might have irritated the country people (wiio had crowded hack on his sei- ! zure,) and deprived the city of its provi j sions. Finally, as the best alternative, it j was determined to make use ofthe old man , as a guide to the haunt of the insurgent j chief. This, however, lie positively ref’usi and to he, under fifty pleas of ignorance, feeble ness and fear; he was at last induced to give way, was seated on a baggage mule, and with a bayonet at his hack was march ed out with the troops. The peasantry i hung their heads, with no very measured expressions of wrath at the hoary traitor ; hut as Iho French never condescend to j know any language but their own, all this was lost upon them. Night fell—the c.\- j pedition proceeded—and the old man and i his ass wore put in front of the column, S watched by half a dozen Chasseurs as the j I advance of the whole. The mountain range that overhangs the j Idrian Mine Country, is, though not very j elevated, remarkably rugged. Short, slim p [descents, and heights where every rock seems pointed for the express purpose of re ! pulsion, make it an extremely arduous bu siness to work one’s way through it in the daytime; what must it be in the night!’ To add to its difficulties, one of these storms, so common and so violent in the summer of the south of Germany, came on. The whole expedition, the “ general camp, pioneers and all,” were drenched in a mo ment, and after a faint struggle to get on, . I the whole scattered themselves under the ] 1 pine trees that cover every spot where a i root can cling. The Colonel, fearful of lo | sing his guide, now ordered him to be doub- I ly watched ; but he was so far from attempt j ing escape, that to avoid the storm, he was | already making his wav back to the clump j where the Colonel had taken his stand. The storm had now risen to a pitch of fu- j fury that now made the shelter of the forest I more perilous than even the open air; tire I trees were torn up by the roots—huge bran- j cites were flying about, to the infinite peril \ of everyone who came in their way—sheets ! of gravel, and the lighter stones from the sides of the limestone cliffs, filled the air; and when to this were added thunder, that absolutely deafened the ear, and flashes that ! burst like shells from rock to vook, splitting whatevertheytouchcd.it may be believed! that the French wished themselves far e! nough that night from the mountains of Id ria. It was now between twelve and one; the j troops had been out for hours, and no symp toms ofthe insurgents had appeared, and ; every soul was heartily tired, theorder was j given to return. The whole corps was in- j stantlv en rout with gladdened hearts : but 78. .0. Et ACI B? 1,, Printer. ! even this had now become notriviul matter. ; The road, bad enough before, was now ten j times worso ; tlx* ascents were so slippery las tube almost inaccessible ; the descents were but so many precipices—plunging them into so many torrents, as every rivu let had now swelled into a furious stream. The Laybach river this night had many a i knapsack and pouch carried down its Hood ! from the tributary streams of the hills. In two hours more it would be morning, | and tiie storm had at length began to sub j side. But lighting was altogether out of the I question, in the present dilapidated state of, the “grftnd army” of Laybach.—Tliev were toiling their slow wav along the verge i ol’the hollow in which Quicksilver Mines lie, and which, from its shape and perpet i nal vapour, puts the traveller in mind of i the boiler of a steam engine : but, however s picturesque for the eve ofthe tourist, a more vexatious route for a drenched army would i not. have been found in all Germany. On a sudden, the old guide pointed lo j something that through the fog looked like j the light in a cottage window. In a mo. ment il had disappeared, and was in anoth |er followed by successive lights. The Co i lonel was an old soldier, and had learned his first lessons in the mountain battles of the Brisgau. The troops were instantly closed up, and ordered to stand to their arms —but the order had been scarcely given, before a shower of shot was poured in upon the position. Soitie men were knocked down close to the Colonel, and among them tiie old guide. De Talmont was proverbial ly brave, and cared nothing about giving or taking death; but lie had humanity about him still, and he stooped clown to give the dying man a drought of wine outofiiis can teen. The peasant swallowed it with diffi culty, and dropped back on the ground with a deep groan. The firing had suddenly ceased, or was kept up only by French Han kers, “bo sent out a random shot now and then, without however, knowing on which side the assailants were lo be found. The word was again given to move, and the col umn began to pass down the sharp declivity above the village of Idria : but this decliv - ity is seven hundred feet by the plumbline; and it may he imagined that, in utter dark ness, it was not the easiest oath in the world for a drenched and harrassed party of for eigners. They had not descended half a hundred feet when a rifle flashed full in the Colonel’s face ; and this signal was fol lowed by a rapid running fire, that seemed to circle the whole valley. The Column feebly attempted to recover the high ground but the balls came in showers from the ridge ; to make their way down to the vil lage was as much out of the question, uu lessthoj rolled themselvesdown thescraped precipice, where none but a dead man could ever reach the bottom; to stand where they were was impossible, lor the bullets were raking their exposed column in all direc tions. The Colonel had now found out his error and with a few desperate men made a rush to the summit ; the tiro gradually paused on both sides from the excessive darkness, j and he made good his footing ; but out of his five hundred not above fifty could bo gathered around him—the rest had been ei ther shot or scattered through the forest.— With that fifty, however, lie made a hold stand, and the firing began to be vivid a guin, when lie felt himself suddenly grasped by the nock. The grasp was that of a gi ant; and lie was in a moment dragged away Lamong the rocks, untill, between exhaus i lion and surprise, ho fainted, i \\ lien lie opened his eyes lie found him- I self in a hut with two or three lorn; bear ded wild-looking figures, warming them selves over a stove.—Beside the bed on i which lie lav, there was sitting a handsome ! athletic young man in the form of a Yager; j fiie Colonel thought that he had seen the face be tore, and enquired into whose hands | iie had fallen. “Better hands than a Frenchman’s,” was the rough answer: “for if wo had fallen in to theirs’, we would have been shot; you 1 are now among the freehunters of Carnio ! H.” “And who are you?” said the prisoner. “Me ! why, I am all thing's in tum,” onJ the Yager, laughing.—“ Yesterday, 1 was a grave citizen of Laybach, attending the : order of Colonel de Talmont to shoulder my musket and mount guard in honor of j Napoleon ; this morning I am the king oi i the mountains. 1 wish you joy at your ar j rival in my dominions, Colonel!” “So, I am to thank your Majesty for last j night’s work, i wonder you did not shoot me at once—it'l had caught you, it would have gone hard with your Kingship.” “Why, then,’to tell you the truth, you were spared for the sake of a little piece of service t hat you did to a friend of mine.” 1 lie \ ager started up, and throwing a cloak over his shoulders, came forward tot tering towards the bed, I “Ah; by Jove, our old guide—that infer | na j °ld rogue ; 1 suspected him once or j twice, hut the rascal seemed so deorepid, | there was no use in killing him :a pistol j shot would scarcely have hurried him out jof tiie world. Yes, I could have sworn that i he was mortally wounded by the first fire, ! All a ruse, then?” “All,” said tiie Yager, “all was ficti tious, but tiie generosity of Colonel do Tal i’ mont, tiiat would not let even an old peas ant to the other world without a cup of i wine, I was the old peasant —I had gone ! into tiie city to see u hat you were about.— | I threw myself in the way of your patrol, - j Colonel, and became your guide. I had > intended as soon a 1 had brought you ther [vor r\ii; wvn.
