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About News & planters' gazette. (Washington, Wilkes County [sic], Ga.) 1840-1844 | View Entire Issue (June 9, 1842)
From the Savannah Georgian. From Florida. (fir By tlio Steamer Charleston, Capt. Barden, we have received the St. Augus tine Herald of the 27th inst., and the News of the 28th inst., from which we take t!ie following extracts: Augustus W. Walker has been appoint ed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, Collector for the Port ofSt. Augustine. THE ALACHUA MASSACRE. We have received a letter from our at tentive correspondent at Newnansville, un dcr date of the 23d May, to whom we tender our thanks for his politeness, which gives us further particulars of the horrid barbari ties committed by the gang of Indians that passed through Alachua county on the 15th inst. After their murder of Mr. Cason’s family they attacked the house of Mr. Absalom Snowden, not Mr. W. H. Ward, as stated in our last, and killed him and throe child ren, and Mrs. S. they wounded in seven places, and left her for dead. After setting the house on fire they took the children about 2i)o yards from the bur ning of theirdwelling, and shot them one by one with arrows, in sight of their mother and kil led them all before they molested her. A refinement oftorture, this, that only finds a place in the savage breast, and that no civilized being would conceive. She swoon ed and has no recollection of the departure of the Indians. It is believed she will re cover. She is under the care of Dr. J. P. Crichton. On the morning of the 17th they’ killed 2 soldiers near Wacahootee, and on the same day, Lieut. Britton was in search of the party, and came on them while in am bush. The Indians fired on his advance, and wounded three men. They fled pre cipitately. The citizens and troops are in search of them day and night. Capt. Ker’s company of Dragoons has been in pursuit of them, as also Capt. Sewell’s company oflnfantry, but all unsuccessful. On the 21st inst. the Indians were at Col. F. R. Sanchez’s plantation, at San Felasco ham mock. Capt. Sewell and a party of citi zens had gone out on the hunt after them, and had not returned when the mail left. The writer concludes bv saying and justly too, “If this is peace, we never want to hear of war.” A correspondent of the News writes (Newnansville May 19,) to its Editors : Mrs. Snowden, after her three children were deliberately murdered before her eyes was, although begging for her life, shot with a rifle and with arrows, and stabbed in several places, and left for dead. An ar row has been taken from her, and another from one of her children; they are both barbed with iron or steel, something in the form of a harpoon, and were shot with such force as to go thro’ the body of Mrs Snow den. A small party of five men were at the Mill, distant half a mile from Snowden’s, who heard the rides and yells of the Indi ans, and the screams and cries for mer cy of Mrs. Snowden, but to go to their assistance was almost certain death, with their small force : The ford at the creek was waylaid by the Indians, and had they gone to their assistance, it is altogether pro bable the whole would have perished. On Monday evening, a Company of Dragoons, under Capt. Kerr, arrived here (Newnans ville) having trailed the Indians (probably the same party’, from the direction of the Wacasassa. The Dragoons, and Captain Sewell’s Company of Infantry, and some I citizens, in seperate parties, hunted for j them on Tuesday, and discovered that they I had gone from this neighborhood. After an unsuccessful search of three days or more the scouts returned, except the Drag oons, who are now in pursuit. The Indi ans left more blood on their trail, having killed twosoldierssomewhere between here and Wacasassa.” Lieut. L. Smith, Bth Infantry, has assu med charge of the Quarter Master’s De partment at this post, relieving Lieutenant C. Hetzel.— St. Augustine News, 27th ult. From the St. Augustine Herald 27 th ult,. The store house at the foot of the wharf at Picolata was burned to the ground on Wednesday night last. It is supposed to have been the work of some evil disposed persons. Two moccasin tracks and a shoe track were discovered and traced about a mile off to the camp of Mr. Edward R Ives, who is cutting fire wood, and which was discovered to be on fire, and nearly consu med. All the negroes in Mr. Ives employ had left early in the evening and slept at Picolata. Col Riley, with his command of the 2nd Reg’t Infantry, left Picolata for the north on Wednesday. A man named Cavenagh, formerly of Sa vannah, was shot last week at Black creek by a man named Maurice Stroll. Washington's Victory. —The great and good Washington once provoked a gentle man, in debate, who struck hint suddenly and felled him to the ground. It was in a Court-House yard in Virginia. Washing ton was a brave man, and it was expected he would resent it, as a man oj honor —and so he did. He retired to his room. He then addressed a note to his antagonist, re questing him to call at his room. The gentleman did so, having prepared himself to fight. Washington met him at the door, and offered his hand. “Sir,” said he, “I was in the wrong, I inflicted the first inju ry. You have had some satisfaction. Ac cept my hand, and let us exchange mutual forgiveness.” An old lady in Indiana named Radish, has recovered s>soo from a young man na med Smith, for kissing her. Smith told the Judge that he thought .SSOO was too much to pay for kissing a vegetable. If a man has black eyes and a pimple on his nose, how long will it take him to win the heart of his lady, supposing him addic ted to stuttering. Pocket-Hook found — Mystery, and per haps Murder.. —There has been put into our hands, to be inspected und advertised, a large Pocket-Rook, found last week in the suburbs of this city, on the premises of Mr. 1 Zebulon R. Robbins. Wo call the atlen ! tion of editors at the South, more especial ! ly in Georgia, to the following facts which i we have ascertained from Mr. Robbins, and from an examination of the pocket-book it self. We are not without apprehensions that something worse than robbery’ may have been connected with the secreting of , this pocket-book. It was found, as wo have just said, on the premises of Mr. Itobbinsin what is cal led Roath Town, north west of the Toll Bridge, secreted in a stone wall. A stone hud been taken out of the wall, the pocket book thurst into the hole, and then con cealed by the replacing of the stone. It is mouldy and much defaced from the action of the weather. The papers which it con tains arc much injured, and some of them nearly illegible from the same cause. The pocket-book hasthenameof E. Bond Macon, Georgia,’ written on one of the in ner folds, and most of the papers go to show that E. Bond, (or Elijah Bond, as the name is written out in some of the papers,) was the owner. The papers are some of them valuable. Among those most likely to fur nish a clue to some satisfactory explanation of the mystery connected with them, are the following: A bill of goods bought of Boorman, John son, Ayres & Cos. New York, by Messrs. Bond & Murdock, May 18th, 1840. A bill of goods bought by the same indi viduals, on the same day, of J. & J. F. Trippe. Articles of agreement between Francis 11. Murdock of Crawford County, Georgia, and Elijah Bond of the same place. These are articles of agreement for entering into a mercantile copartnership, and bear date, July 10th, 1835. They arc witnessed by- Samuel Wesson and Francis Gorton. A letter from J. L. Saulsbury to E. Bond Knoxville, Georgia, under date of Macon, May 6th, 1830, proposing a copartnership in business. A note of hand for an amount exceeding fourteen hundred dollars and made payable to E. Bond, or at the Commercial Bank, Macon, Georgia. This note is dated, Hope well, Geo. January Ist, 1839, and signed by Miller, Worsham & Cos. A piece of paper containing two sepa rate halvesof two United States Bank bills of the denomination, each, of twenty dol lars. The superscription of this paper was “To Barnard Gilluly, from Pliny Holbrook Worcester, Mass.” Within is the follow ing note which we copy verbatim— “ Capt. Drewry—Sir: Barnard Gillulv, Feb. 20th, 1839, was at Allatoony, Cass County, Cherokee, Georgia, in the employ of Charles Seter, (contractor.) In Sept. 1938, he was at Macon, Georgia, boarding ja: Robert Beasley’s Hotel. I wish you to take a little pains to find him, and should y’ou, if he will give you one the within halves you may give him the other, reser ving to yourself the one payable at Phila dephia, which you will please get exchan ged, should you be so fortunate as to find him, and I will pay you for all your trouble. Yours, PLINY HOLBROOK. “Worcester, Feb. sth, 2840.” These are the papers, a note of which we regard as most likely to lead to a dis covery of the owner of the pocket-book, in case he is alive, and to some solution ofthe : mystery, in which the matter is at present j involved. It should have been stated that i j the latest date found on any ofthe papers is j May 28, 1840. Also, that in one corner of the book, w'as found a five dollar gold piece —United States coin.— Nonoich Courier. Communications by letter, if post paid, or in any other mode, relating to this mat ter, may be addressed to the Editor of the Norwich Courier, Norwich, Ct. GHOST STORY. “The widow of Governor Starke, soon after his death, went with her daughter, Miss Starke (the authoress of the ‘Widow of Malabar,’) and her niece to pass the winter at Nice, Soon after their arrival at Nice Miss Starke dreamed that her father came to her bedside, withdrew the curtain, seated himself on the bed, told her not to be alarmed, and went on to instruct her as follows: ‘On the Thursday in next week a packet will arrive at the postoffice, addres sed to your mother ; go you to the office and receive it; open the outward cover, enclose the contents in another paper, and direct and forward them to Mr. ,of the Inner Temple.’ Her father, or whatever it was, then withdrew. Miss Starke was greatly disturbed, which was evident to her cousin when they met at breakfast, who endea vored to tranquilize her with the usual ar guments. Finding, however, that the sub ject had made so deep an impression, she said, ‘Let us go to the postoffice on thursday and then the absence of the packet will con vince you that the whole is an idle dream.’ To the postoffice these young ladies went and there found the packet just arrived ; half an hour later it would have been in the hands of Mrs. Starke- Miss Starke had no hesitation in doing as she had been directed but opened the packet and forwarded the contents to the Inner Temple. The return of post brought her a letter from the family lawyer, complimenting her on the extraor dinary sagacity and caution she had shown in sending the papers to him ; for had her mother executed the deeds sent to her, the utter ruin ofher family would have been the consequence!” —Sporting Review. Corpulency. —Corpulency is often a symp tom of vigorous health. Nature, to relieve the system of its redundancy of blood, cau ses an increased deposition of fat. Good humour and good living are the most com mon causes of this affection. Solomon re marks, “ A merry heart doth good like a medicine; but a broken spirit drieth the bones.”—“Laugh and grow fat,” says the old proverb.—Sterne observes, “everv time a man laughs he adds to the duration of his life.” In alluding to the influence of a life ofeaso in causing corpulency, Dr. Arbuth not says, “You may soe an army of 40,000 soldiers, without a fat man among them; but I dare affirm, that with plenty of rest, 20 out of 40 shall grow fat” Whoever saw a fat post boy?— Polytechnic Journal. Case of Presumption. —Curious scenes sometimes occur in Courtsof Justice, where almost every phase of human nature is pre sented. An English pnper states, that du ring an argument in Council, in a case heard a short time since before Vice Chan cellor Wigram, with respect to presump tion, his Honor said that the following was the strongest case he ever met with. A man was tried before Lord Kenyon, on an indictment under the game laws, for shoot ing a bird. It was proved that the man fired, and that the bird fell and was picked up by the prisoner. The jury returned a verdict of not guilty. When asked for their reason, they said they presumed that the bird had died of fright, there being no evidence that there was any shot in the gun. A Parliament of the Olden Time. —Few who stand at Charing Cross and see the le gislators who, in lordly equipage or easy cab, on horseback or on foot, wend their way in crowds, at the hour of four or five, to declaim and divide upon the political measures which agitate the day, trouble themselves to picture the mighty difference between the past and the present—the par liamentarians of an elder time. It is worth while to evoke a shadowy semblance of things that were, from amid the chaotic fragments of their antiquity. Standing on the same spot five hundred years gone by, a pilgrim on his way to the shrine of the confessor might have noted a little con course ofthe noble and lowly crowding to the place of Westminister, where the King held his solemn parliament, to which his lieges were summoned to aid& advise him. But instead of its being long past mid-day, the morning sun is scattering the dew from the green fields and hedges which stretch far away to the north and westof the little village of Charing ; and our pilgrim may have just reached the cross by the way a cross the fields, which ended on the high road to Windsor and Reading, hard by the umbrageous manor of Hyde, beneath whose I ancient oaks the hogs ofthe abbot of West- [ minister fatten on choice pannage. It is j the hour of eight in the morning! The! lordly baron prances to Westminister, sur- ! rounded by armed followers and armed J himself. Sleek bishops and mitred abbots, j or their monkish proxies, amble thither on j sure hackneys; & knights ofthe shire, stout ■ burgesses and their servitors, swell the train. Os all the men, perchance vour j burgher, except he were a turbulent Lon- j doner, looked upon this going to parliament j as an unmitigated nuisance ; it drew him j from his stall or shop, his wonted marketer stated fares, to mingle with the mighty of the land, with whom he had few views in common ; and to what end ?—to a reluc tant assent to grants of subsides, and in re turn to pray remedies of grievances seldom permanently redressed.— Bentley’s Miscel lany. I Russian Serfs. —Some ofthe Count Che remetieff’s serfs are merchants, and very wealthy. The riches of a serf are gener ally obtained by procuring his master’s per mission to leave ids estate, and follow some trade in a town where he can, without in [ terruption, turn a small capital and his na i tural shrewdness to account. This boon is well paid for if he is successful. In the country, in cases where the landlord’s cu pidity does not interfere, with the provisions made by the law for the serf’s benefit, they sometimes accumulate large sums ; for they spend hut little, upon themselves, and an increase of wealth does not make that alter ation in their habits that might be expected. — The custom is to allow the surf three davs : of the week to cultivate the portion of land assigned to him by his master, for whom he works the other three ; and in this case also he sometimes reaches a state of compara tive affluence. Many of the Count Chere metieff’s serfs could of course, if permitted purchase their freedom; but this nobleman has no idea of allowing them to take advan tage ol their own industry : on the contrary it is a subject ofself-gratulation with many to possess rich serfs, and it is affirmed that Cheremetieff is so proud of his that no sum would tempt him to give them their liberty a worthy descendant, truly of his ancestor in the days of Catharine. With this man there is no plea of necessity, but it gratifies his vanity, for it has an effect when he in- vites foreigners to his country seat. On these occasions the count is received by one of his rich serfs, in a mean hut built in the usual style of a Russian log-house, and fit ted up with the rudest furniture ; the table is covered with the coarsest linen, and a black loaf with some salt and a wooden bowl of broth, are placed upon it. The party merely taste this humble refreshment when a door leading to another house at the back is opened, and the noble proprietor and his friends are then ushered into an a partment handsomely furnished : the table is here loaded with plate, glass, fruit, and a profusion of viands, in the arrangement of which little taste is displayed; and cham pagne, quass, and vortka are served, one as freely as the other. The guests leave the house astonished by such an entertainment given by a Russian serf, fancying perhaps that, under the circumstances, the man is as well pleased to be a slave as free ; and in some cases they are right. In all proba bility the serf who has thus feasted his mas ter and friend can scarcely read, knows nothing of figures, counts with beads, and has a beard of enormous length : he makes however, large sums of money, for he is shrewd, cunning and saving. His moments of extravagance are when, as in this case, he receives his lord, or at one of his own children’s weddings.— Jesse’s Notes. Solitude Sweetened. —Martin Van Buren making manlo sugar. HENRY CLAY. The New York American says: On Saturday evening, at the Tabernacle, when Mr. Marshull was speaking of the district he represents in Congress, he men tioned, incidently, that Ashland was com prised in it. The word was scarcely ut tered, before the vnulted roof ofthe crowded Tabernacle rang with an involuntary and general burst of applause, which was again and again repeated. When our informant looked down from the gallery upon the floor he saw grey-haired men—nay, clergymen —pounding with their canes, to use his own expression, “like drummers.” When it is remembered that this was a meeting, in no sense political, and formed rather of classes retired from party strug gle, the tribute thus indirectly and sponta neously ]>aid to Henry Clay was the more striking. Indications of Mr. Clay’s popularity are daily manifesting themselves. This fee -1 ing is confined to no one section of the coun try, but extends from Maine to Florida and from the Atlantic to the Rocky Mountains. Man}’ of the leading journals have already placed his name at the head of their columns as the next Presidential candidate. The weakness and vacillation of the pre sent incumbent of the Presidential chair, his impotent efforts to build up anew party and his pretty jealousies so continually dis playing themselves against all who are not disposed to submit to his dictum, have des troyed all his chance, if lie ever had any, of retaining the station he holds. All the other candidates who are offered totheeon sideration of the public are thurst forward by sectional prejudices or opinion wholly local. Henry Clay concentrates the varied and discordant elements of public opinion that have long agitated this country upon him self. His sober judgement, calm energy of character, statesmanlike and practical a bilities directed by a steady and far-reach ing intellect, and his sympathy with the in dustrial classes, arc all qualities eminently fitting him for the highest office in the gift of the people; so have they directed their at tention to him and will not divert it, until they have conferred upon him, most worthy recipient of it, the greatest of all earthly ti j ties , President of the United States.—Phila | delphia Gazette. From the Baltimore American. MR. VAN BUREN AND THE NEXT PRESIDENCY. It would seem that Mr. Van Buren, hav- I ing once attained the Presidency through Gen. Jackson’s influence, is disposed to j seek it again by the same means. They ! made a public entry into Nashville recent ! ly, together, accompanied by Ex-Governor j Polk, who is spoken of as likely to be the candidate for the Vice Presidency on the ticket with Mr. Van Buren. The proces sion, according to the Nashville Whig, was infinitely more stately and ceremonious than a Tippecanoe mass parade, and equal ly as imposing, but for the want of num bers. A committee purporting to act in behalf of the “ Democratic citizens of Nashville and its vicinity,” invited Mr. Van Buren to a public dinner, and in their note take oc casion to say : i . “In conveying to you this invitation, al ■ low us to assure you that it is offered by a large, intelligent, and respectable portion of our community, who look with pride up on your public course and will always hail you as the consistent, uniform and able advo cate of the doctrines of the Republican party. Especially, during your administration of the General Government, have they scanned your actions, and they rejoice at the evi dence which they afford of an integrity that is unspotted, and of a firmness and devoted ness to constitutional duty that will ever command the admiration of the country.” Mr. Van Buren tenders his respectful and grateful acknowledgments to “ the de mocratic citizens of Nashville and its neigh borhood,” for their approbation of his char acter and services generally, but more es pecially of his official conduct —the testimo nial being particularly grateful from the consideration that it is offered by the “ im mediate neighbors and associates,” says Mr. Van Buren, “ of an illustrious friend, with whose political opinions and public acts, by far the most important of mine have been so closely interwoven, and who above all oth er men has had the best means of judging of the motives by which 1 have been actua ted.” Mr. Van Buren proceeds to say that in consideration of the position he occupies, and the objects for which his journey was undertaken, he had designed to abstain from all discussion of political questions—but adds : “It cannot, however, I trust, he consid ed a departure from the line I have thus marked out for myself, should I embrace this occasion to pay a passing tribute of justice, as well as of affection, to the illus trious citizen, now enjoying the repose of a well spent life in the bosom of your fertile and beautiful State. To him, more than a ny other man living, is owing the successful progress and ultimate re-establishment of those great principles by which my admin istration of the Government was directed, and an adherence to which has drawn from you such unqualified approbation. To his integrity, firmness, and perseverance, join ed to civil courage equal to that he has so often displayed in the field of battle, more than to any man living, for the maintenance of the national rights and honor, will the people of the United States be indebted for the final overthrow of false, and the perma nent re-establishment of true principles of liberty, based on the durable foundation of the Constitution. My own efforts while in the Executive chair were in a great mcas. ure directed to maintain the important posi tions lie occupied on his retirement from public life, and the result is known to the world.” It is not to be expected that Gen. Jackson will abandon a protege who makes such humble acknowledgments of fealty and de votion ; nor is it to be expected that the in dependent “democracy” will hesitate to gratify the General in any little matter which lie may have at the heart in behalf of his favorite. Messrs. Calhoun, Benton, Buchanan, Johnson, and other aspirants, may make up their minds to postpone their claims for the present. Well, the Whigs will ask no favors. Mr. Van Buren is a gentleman like man, and a very respecta ble competitor, notwithstanding he was dis tanced in 1840. With HENRY CLAY to head the bold front of the Whig phalanx, and Mr. Van Buren for an antagonist, we may look for a very decent contest when the time of strife comes. From the Richmond Whig. PRESIDENTIAL ASPIRANTS. There is a palpable and growing uneasi ness in the ranks of the Loco Foco Party about their candidates for the Presidency and Vice-Presidency. Eacii ofthe preten ders has his partizans, who are becoming more and more jealous of each other. The one apprehends that the other is attempting to gain the advantage, and all are strug gling manfully for the prize. As mere lookers on, we note, that the Globe has not paid Mr. Calhoun even a passing compliment, for three months. The Enquirer, on the other hand, has not whis pered a commendation of either Col. Ben ton or Col. Johnson for six months—and it is even sparing of its compliments to Mr Calhoun, although its present purpose is to persuade that gentleman and his friends, that it is his devoted friend. It writes edi torials calling for one year more of delay, and publishes letters from Washington, weekly, urging the same thing. If Mr. Calhoun can be amused with promises for a twelve month, his friends, it is supposed, will become so firmly committed to the par ty, that they will not fly off, when Mr. C., is set aside, as he will be. It would be too much to have Mr. Clay and Mr. Calhoun the opposing candidates. That would be a redundancy ofgentility, which the Locos could not stomach. In Pennsylvania, Mr. Buchanan’s flag is flying, and his adhe rents say, it shall continue to fly. In the great West, Col. Johnson’s advocates are active, and being confident that their favor i ite is the strongest man of the party, are de termined to adhere to him throtighgood and through evil report. The only danger they have to encounter is, that Mr. Van Buren, orsome of his agents, may thurst another Buckner in the Col’s way, and attempt him to abandon his friends for another loan of SIB,OOO. Whilst Col. Johnson and Mr. Buchanan and Mr. Calhoun are actively electioneer ing, Mr. Van Buren is not passive. He is openly in the field, and has made his ar rangements with Gen. Jackson and Gov. Polk. The “True Whig” has the following ar ticle, in which it strangely omits the crack ticket of Van Buren and Polk. BEHIND THE TIMES. It has been suggested to us that we were j entirely behind the news in our last nutn- j ber, in relation to the loco candidates for the I next Presidency, and that it was due to that party, which we are always willing to ob lige, that a corrected list, up to the latest information from the knowing ones of the party here, should be given before their fol lowers take side. We therefore give the following as the latest: BACHELOKS’ TICKET. President, JAMES BUCHANAN. Vice, WILLIAM R KING. HARD-MONEY TICKET. President, THOMAS II BENTON. Vice, JOHN M NILES. NULLIFYING TICKET. President, JOHN C CALHOUN. Vice, LEVI WOODBURY. WAR TICKET. President, RICHARD M JOHNSON. Vice, Gov. PORTER. DIPLOMATIC TICKET. President, LEWIS CASS. Vice, ANDREW STEVENSON. INSURGENTS TICKET. President, WILLIAM ALLEN. Vice, THOMAS W DORR. T. T. QUID TICKET. President, JOHN TYLER. Vice, J WASHINGTON TYSON. A Religious Dog. —Mr. Simpson, farmer, at Bowness, in this county, has at present a sheep dog in his possession which attends church every Sabbath during the morning service. As soon as the bell commences ringing, the dog shows symptoms of consid erable anxiety, and after a few peals have been rung, he may be seen proceeding to wards the sacred edifice, unaccompanied by any one. Perhaps the most extraordi nary fact is that he never attends the church but on Sundays, although the bell rings frequently during the week.— Whitehaven Herald. Vicious. —The editor of the Perry (Ala.) Democrat gives notice that he shall insert no marriage notice, unless accompanied by the sum of one dollar ; but the death of de linquent subscribers he will gladly insert gratis. The Fashion of the Times. —“ When I came to this country,” said an emigrant, “I brought several hundred dollars in gold— and they then called me Mr. Smith; but when it was all gone, I was called plain Uncle Bill.” SUCCESS TO SHOEMAKERS! John Henderson, the distinguished Sena tor in Congress, from Mississippi, wns in early life an apprentice to a shoemaker in Cumberland county, New-Jersey. Love of study, energetic habits, and good talents, have raised him from the cobler’s bench to the Senatorial chair. Roger Sherman, one of the Committee appointed to prepare the Declaration of In dependence, and one ofthe signers of that paper, an eminent statesman, a distinguish ed jurist, and an upright man, was also a shoemaker, and pursued his humble voca tion in Connecticut, till his industry and in telligence pointed him out to his neighbors, as a fit representative of their feelings and principles. Mr. Gilford, the celebrated translator of Juvenal, the Biographer of William Pitt, and a former editor of the London Quarter ly, was also a shoemaker, and plied the awl for a number of years before he tried the pen. Mr. Holcraft, whoso dramatic writings are inferior only to Shakspeare, and whose genius was of a very high order, was ori ginally a shoemaker. William Carey, D. D., the eminent ori ental scholar, Professor of Sanscrit and Bengalee, in the college of Fort William, Calcutta, and the translator of the Bible in to one or two of the languages of the east, was in early life a shoemaker in Northamp tonshire, England. Robert Bloomfield, who gave promise of superior poetical talents, wrote his beauti ful poem of the “ Farmer’s Boy,” while actually performing the duties of his trade as shoemaker. These are but few of many instances, in which the humble sons of St. Crispin, have by the force of soberness, integrity, dili gence, study united with moderate ability, risen to the high places of honor and dis tinction in the literary and political world, proving that there is no obstacle which in dustry, application and probity will not o vercome. Let no young man be discouraged be cause of his present unfavorable position ; but let him remember that by improving well the scanty advantages which lie now possesses, he may, in process of time, raise himself to the most desirable eminence. Savannah Georgian. SINGULAR CELEBRATION. Texan Trickery. —The anniversary of the battle of San Jacinto (21st of April,) was celebrated in great style by the Texan pri soners confined in the Convent ofSaintiago, city of Mexico. The way they worked it to obtain leave of the commandant of the guard was certainly ingenious, if we were correctly informed. One of the Texans who spoke Spanish, went to the officer and told him that it was a great feast day in Texas—the anniversary ofthe patron saint of that Republic; and desired that he would give the men the liberty of remaining in doors that afternoon in order to celebrate it. To this the commandant gave his assent, and the men came in from their morning work well supplied with every species of liquor and good things to be found in the rum and cook shops on their route. Although unwell at the time, and unable to participate in the festivities, wo have nev er seen more jov or hilarity upon any oc casion. An excellent dinner was provided, ! speeches, songs, and toasts, patriotic and humorous, elivened the scene ; the walls were decorated with Texan flags, done in chalk and charcoal, and a happier set of fellows never congregated around a festive board. A similar scene under similar cir cumstances was perhaps never before wit nessed the greatest and al most defeat Santa Anna ever sus tained, afid under his very nose. That night the chains were knocked from our ankles and we obtained our liberty ; but we can never forget our last day in pri son or the celebration of the Battle of San Jacinto. N. O. Picayune, 25th ult. Attempt at House Breaking—Gallant de fence of the owner of the house. —About 12 o’clock on Friday night one of the female servants of Mr. Francis Charlon heard an unusual noise, which induced her to look from the front window of the dwelling, when her attention was arrested by the ap pearance of three men in the street below, who after a few moments conversation, turned into an open space, and after having tried to force the side doors without success they made their entrance into the back part oftlie permises by first scaling the fence of an adjoining farm, and were proceeding to wards the house. The servant then alarm ed her master, who was asleep. By the time he was awakened they had succeeded in reaching the piazza, and Mr. Charlon immediately prepared himself for a jd.vo rous defence, and, with sword in hahu, rushed to a door opening into the house, where he encountered two of the rascals one of whom, after having received a blow, retreated ; the other, however, continued the conflict, but after receiving one or two cuts from Mr. C., made his escape also. The occupant of the house believing that they were still about his premises, hastened down stair, into the yard, when his son, a lad of about 17 years of age, called to his father for assistance, who repaired to the spot immediately, and found him engaged in a dost contest with two men, and again his trusty sword was called into requisition. After dealing several blows, with great ef fect, one of them made off, when the father and son secured the other, and had him brought to towm, and lodged in the guard house, from whence in consequence of the severity of his wounds, he was conveyed to the hospital, attached to the poor house, where his accomplice was also lodged ha ving been arrested by the proper officers. We visited them yesterday, and when ques tioned in relation to the circumstances, state that one of their companions made his escape at the commencement of the onset— that it was not their intention to break into the house, but that having runaway from their vessel, they scaled the fence with a
