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going to cut Mr. Corntassel’s profile; but
Mr. Corntassel began to feel a little less
easy than he had felt on some previous oc
casions.
Isa sudden feeling of pious regard for
certain tilings lie had learned at the Sun
day school, when a boy, came over him ;
or if the sight of the surgeons’ instruments
had produced overpowering associations of
an unpleasant nature, lie could not say for
hislife. The truth was, he had not reflec
ted seriously on the matter previously, and
the awful consequences now rusiied upon
his mind, with painful reality. He would
have given his horse, buggy, watch, dogs,
every thing in the world, ho was about to
die ‘seized of,’ if he was only safely and
honorably out of the scrape. But Mr. Corn
tassel, trusting that he possessed” sufficient
of‘needful pride,’ to hear him up, resolved
to ‘do or die’ in the most approved manner,
however disagreeable either might be.
This he had determined on, irrevocably;
but as the second handed the pistol to him,
for some motive, unknown even to himself,
he could not refrain from suggesting a diffi
cult point, which had just occurred to him.
‘The statutes of the State are very severe
against all concerned in a duel,’ said Mr.
Corntassel, ‘as much against tiie seconds us
the principals.’ And he looked like he ex
pected, or at least hoped, the colonel would
say, ‘That’s a fact Mr. Corntassel ; let’s
stop the matter.’ But the colonel’s reply
was not precisely to that purport.
‘Make yourself easy—l can arrange all
that—make yourself easy, Mr. Corntassel,’
said he. But Mr. Corntassel was not ex
actly as easy as he could have wished.
‘Are you ready ?’ Here monsieur Par
lezvous made a bow to the company and
kissed his hand at them, with the charac
teristic politeness of his people, whether in
a saloon-or under the guillotine. And Mr.
Corntassel cried out,
‘Stop, stop, I’m not quite ready. Colo
nel I’ll speak to you a moment, if you
p| case , In looking round, just now, J
discovered that I am exactly in a line with
that straight, tall, dead pine, yonder. In a
line, colonel! in a straight line! The
Frenchman will have a line shot on me,
and kill me certainly. Can t something
be done colonel ?’ said Mr. Corntassel, in a
whisper, but with some agitation.
‘Yes, you can light or back out, just as
you like: either will be something. But
you are not in a line with the tree, I assure
you. Stand aside and let me have the pis
tol, as the laws of honor demand in such
cases, if you will not fight, go home and
be laughed at all your life.’
‘O no, I’ll fight, I’ll fight; I only men
tioned the circumstance, merely mentioned
it. I’m ready, major.’
‘Are you ready ?—Fire! One, two,’ and
bang, bang, went the pistols. Mr. Corn
tassel, after a moment’s reflection discov
ered that he was not dead, and rejoiced ex
ceedingly at the thought. But as the smoke
passed off’ he saw Monsieur Parlezvous
standing alive also ; and as he did not re
joice at that circumstance*, the presumption
is the qualms he had felt before the fire, did
not originate from conscientious scruples
on the subject of killing a man. Monsieur’s
being in life boded another shot, and Mr.
Corntassel did not like that.
After the Colonel had loaded for the se
cond fire, Mr. Corntussel, in a very round
about way intimated the propriety'of the
matter’s stopping where it was.
‘lt cannot be,’ said colonel Nicepoint, un
less the proposition comes from the party
challenging.’
‘But’
‘But what?’
‘lt is against the laws of Georgia to fight
within the limits of the State, Colonel, and.
if I should kill him I would be hanged, and
you would go to the penitentiary at least.
Now I don’t care so much on my own ac
count as on yours.’
‘1 respect your forethought and disinter
ested regard for me, Mr. Corntassel; but
you see I have provided a horse, for your
escape, if you kill Parlezvous. And be
assured I have a means of getting off safely
myself Do not disturb yourself on my
account, my friend. I know that is all
which weighs on your mind.’
‘I should dislike so much for you to get
into trouble, and have to leave the country
on my account! You have an interesting
family, and—ah! a—Colonel are you sure
the old pine don’t line with me?’
‘ Perfectly sure, sir.’
‘ Colonel, suppose that a-a”
‘ Prepare to take your places, gentlemen!’
said Maj. Broadblade.
‘ Hold on Major, I’ll be with you present
ly,’ said Mr. Corntassel. ‘Colonel, you
have a very respectable family, and a—a’
‘I flatter my selfl have; but how does
it bear on the present business V
‘ If I should kill Parlezvous, you would be
tried and’
‘And you are scared, and don’t want to
fight, Mr. Corntassel,’ said Col. Nieepoint,
looking his worthy principal full in the face.
‘ O no, my dear Colonel, you mistake me
altogether. I am only apprehensive on
your account.’
1 Let me relieve your fears by disclosing
an agreeable fact,’ said the Colonel. 1 Pre
pare yourself for happy intelligence. There
are no halls in the pistols, Mr. Corntassel.’
f What?’
‘ There were no balls in the pistols, at
the first fire, and there is no loading but
powder and wad, now.’ Mr. Corntassel
was a happy man. He felt like he had a
new lease on life, and was a brave as a lion.
‘ Take a small vial of red ink—you will
find it in the comer of the pistol case there,’
continued the Colonel, ‘ and stain the bosom
of your shirt just above the waistband.’
‘ What for V asked Mr. Corntassel.
‘ Hold here I’ll do it,’ the Colonel remar
ked, and poured the red ink on the linen of
the astonished belligerent. ‘ There, that’s
it.’
‘ What does all this mean Col. Nieepoint?
r don’t understand.’
‘ There leave the vest unbuttoned, and
just fasten the coat wit!) one button, so as
to conceal the ink. There, that’s the idea.’
■ What for, though ?’’ asked Corntassel.
‘ Take your places, gentlemen !’ cried
out Maj. Broadblade.
‘ Now,’ said the colonel to Mr. Corntas
sel, ‘ take your place, with your left band
on the button which fastens your coat, rea
dy to throw your coat and vest open as soon
as Parlezvous fire.s, and then fall like a
man mortally wounded. He will see the
red place on the linen, and not doubt but he
has slain you. Mum ! You understand ?’
The parlies took their positions for a re
newal of the combat. Monsieur looked
round at the trees, the river and clouds, to
take a farewell of the world, after the man
ner of a knight of the middle ages, when he
was about to do battle on some adversary.
He bowed, and threw another kiss at the
crowd. Mr. Corntassel’s spirits seemed to
have grown lighter, with the intelligence
lie had received from his second. That
gentleman, in a mariner peculiar to himself
looked round at the crowd and cried out,
‘ Farewell world !’
•Parlezvous,’ said ho, 111 make you
dance do wing of de pigeon, this heat, old
fellow. I’m sorry for it, but so it is.
‘May be so—May be I make for you
dance some wing of de pigeon too, Mon
sieur,’ replied Parlezvous, with a shrug of
the shoulders, and a peculiar look about the
eye- brows.
Are you ready ?—Fire!—One!—Two
bang ! bang ! answered the pistols, arid
Cornelius Corntassel fell to the ground,
displaying the blood-red spot on his linen.
The crowd all gathered near, to see the ca
tastrophe.
CHAPTER FOUR.
An honorable murder, if you will;
For nought I did in hate, but all in honor.
Othello.
Take any shape but that, and my firm nerves
Shaii never tremble. Hence, horrid shadow !
Never shake thy gory’ locks at me ! — Macbeth.
Monsieur Parlezvous’ first enotions, after
perceiving the result of the matter, were
those of savage satisfaction, in considera
tion of’ the indignity so recently cast on him
by his antagonist. But after witnessing
the apparent agonies of the fallen man a
moment, and hearing his piteous lamenta
tions, the feelings of humanity began to re
sume ificir oiact? his heart.
‘o, Lordy ! O, Lordy !* dried Mr. Corn
tassel, rolling over on the ground and ictck-1
ing up his heels, in a very’ farcical man
ner. ‘ O, Lordy, I’m a dying ! Doctor can’t
you help me ?’
‘ Mon Dieu, I vern much sorry for kill
Monsieur Fleur de Maize,’ exclaimed Par
lezvous, with his hand on his forehead, in a
manner indicating deep sincerity.
‘ You will find, Monsieur, that your
cause of regret will increase. Your crime
is punishable with death, by the laws of the
State. You will be hung as a murderer.”
These remarks were made by one, known
to Parlezvous as a law yer.
‘ Hang me by de neck ?’ asked Monsieur,
with unaffected astonishment. ‘ What-for
somebody no been tell me so, before 1 fight,
eh ? I in strange country hang me
by de neck ah !’
‘ Monsieur Fleur De Maize, I beg seven
tousand pardon for shoot you !’ cried out
Monsieur, as he ran up to the wounded
man.
‘ Don’t talk to me, you bloody murderer !
O, Lordy, my belly,’ screamed Corntassel,
like a boy with the cholic, from having
loaded that receptacle with too many chin
kapins.
‘ Monsieur Doctare, I will give you tree,
four, several hundred dollar, if you keep
Monsieur What-you-call from die. I give
you ebrvting. I make profile for you wife,
your Icetle dau’tare, your neighbor, every
body.’
The man on the ground, by this time be
gan to give indications of approaching
death There was a horrid contortion of
countenance —a convulsive twitching in
the extremeties—a gasp, and all was over.
‘Ah, Monsieur, What-you-call ! I beg, I
pray vera much, you will not die!’
‘lt is too late now—he’s dead, poor fel
low!’ said two or three persons.
I give tousand dollar, for somebody
make me dead too,’ exclaimed Parlezvous,
in his agony, caused by blended feelings of
real sorrow, and the fear of an ignominious
death on the gallows.
‘Run! run, Mr. Parlezvous! and hide in
the cane-brake; here comes the sheriff to
carry you to jail!’ was the suggestion of se
veral persons, and Monsieur took their ad
vice.
As the coat tail of Monsieur Parlezvous,
fluttering in the breeze, raised by his quick
movements, began to grow a little dim in
the distance which his speed had placed be
tween himself and the late scene of action,
Cornelius Corntassel, supposed by the
crowd around to be a dead mao, in good
faith, suddenly raised himself and cried
out—‘Good morning!’ The negroes and lit
tle boys stood aghast, as if a ghost had ap
peared before them, and even the grown
persons were astonished. But Mr. Corntas
sel had only to throw himselfinto a posture,
and give them ‘the double trouble,’ to con
vince them lie was no ghost. This he did,
and the multitude set up a shout of laugh
ter, which the retreating Frenchman sup
posed to be the halloo of the sheriff and pos
se in persuit of him, and redoubled his
pace, already not a slow one.
About three days after the duel, Mon
sieur Parlezvous, who during that time had
sojourned in the wilderness, and
on persimmons, black-haws and such other
winter fruit as the climate produces sponta
neously, was one day reclining on the
ground, and leaning against the trunk of a
large beech, reflecting on his hard fate.—
His boots were grimed with the swamp mud
his clothes torn by running through the un
der-brush and cane, and his hat had been
lost in the hurry of the escape. For want
of shaving apparatus, his black beard had
grown out, and nearly covered his whole
face, giving him a ferocious, bandit appear
ance.
‘Ah inon Dieu,’he thought, ‘dat Ameri
can national dance, de wing of de pigeon,
have make me suffer too much.’
Hearing a rustling of the leaves and a
foostep, he looked up and saw what ?
CorneliusCorntassel stood before him, as he
lost appeared when in life. Being firmly
impressed with the belief that he was in
presence of one of those denizens of the oth
er world, Monsieur Parlezvous would have
exclaimed—
“Be thou a spirit of health, or goblin dmnned!”
if lie had been sufficiently familiar with
Hamlet. But that apostrophe escaping his
memory ho merely observed, as, trembling
in every joint ho fell upon his knees before
the specter—
‘Ah, mon Dieu, I am a lost man! Mon
sieur ghost, I am ready for go vid you, to
de dinble, vare your home is; but ’fore 1
go, tell me if you did put you foot, and trow
me down fore de lady, on purpose, ven I
was dance de ving of de pigeon? If you
did not mean to trow me down, ’fore de la
dy, I shall be one vera miserable glwsl, ven I
come home, to your house /’
Mr. Corntassel repressed his natural love
of mischief, through commiseration for the
distressed state of his late adversary’s mind,
and assured him he was no ghost.
‘You no ghost?’ asked Parlezvous,
scarcely believing his own eyes Mr.
Corntassel’s words. ‘Ah, Monsieur, I suf
fer too much—you must no’ make me
game.’
‘I assure you, my dear sir, that I am not
a ghost, but am Cornelius Corntassel, in as
good health and spirits as you ever saw
him ’
‘Eii! vat ? It is no ghost, sure ’nugh!’ said
Monsieur Parlezvous, rising from his knees,
convinced, and clasping Mr. Corntassel in
his arms, affectionately. ‘Ah Monsieur
what-you-call, I so glad you ain’t gost —1
so glad I ain’t murder you—l so glad I
ain’t hang by de neck!’
Monsieur Parlezvous’ remorse, while in
the river swamp, ever after deterred him
from taking the life of a man in a duel. —
And Cornelius Corntassel’s first affair of
honor, having so thoroughly convinced him
that he was not ‘built for a man of war,’ it
is presumed he has taken no risks of that
nature since.
AYVFUL RETRIBUTION.
A few days since, considerable excite
ment was produced by the disappearance of
a young girl, aged about 16, the daughter
of a Mr. Mercer, one of the most weallhy
and respectable inhabitants of Southwark.
A young man of this city, named Hutchin
son Herbertoil, was arrested on suspicion
of being concerned In her abduction, but
was discharged in consequence of the girl’s
return to her parents. It was ascertained,
however, that Heborton had seduced the
young girl, and that she had gone to a house
of ill-fame, in the neighborhood of Pine and
Twelfill streets, where he had been in the
habit of meeting her. Her absence as well
as iier return, we believe, was voluntary.
The anguish of the family at the knowledge
of the dishonor that had fallen upon the
daughter of their house, no tongue can tell
no pen can describe. To wipe out the stain
as far it was possible so to do, a marriage
was proposed to the seducer. This was
declined on his part, and the brother of the
seduced then challenged him. This was
also declined. The infuriate brother, stung
almost to madness, determined not to be
baulked in his revenge. He watched the
movements of Heberton, and having ascer
tained that he was to leave the city last
evening in a carriage, by way of Camden,
he concealed himself on board the ferry
boat armed with one of Colt’s six-barrel led
pistols. Shortly after the carriage was dri
ven on board with the blinds drawn up, and
when within a few yards of the Jersey shore
Mercer approached the carriage and fired
four balls into it in quick succession. One
of them proved fatal, taking effect under
the left shoulder blade, and another enter
ing the body of Heberton. He was con
veyed to a tavern in Camden, where he ex
pired in a few minutes. Mercer immedi
ately gave himself up to the authorities.
Thus has the atrocious crime of seduc
tion been visited with awful and summary
retribution at the hands of the outraged
brother. VVe have been acquainted with
Heberton for some years, and have always
known him as a mild, amiable and gentle
manly man—but the crime which he com
initted was of too black and damning a
character for us to express regret or sympa
thy for his untimely end. For his widow
ed mother we feel deeply, as well as for his
afflicted relatives, who are among the most
respectable of our citizens. His fate is a
striking example of the evil effects of idle
ness Having no occupation, and abund
ant to supply his wants, his whole time ap
peared devoted to intrigue and the gratifi
cation of sensual passions. Had ho been
engaged witli the occupation of business,
his mind would have been filled with other
thoughts and higher aims. Let Ills fate be
a warning to all idlers.— Ph. Eve. Goz.
From the N. Y. Journal of Commerce.
NEW-YORK PHILOSOPHICAL SOCI
ETY.
Interesting Relic. —At a meeting of this
body a few evenings since, General Tal!-
madge exhibited a silver ball, consisting of
two hollow hemispheres joined together by
a slight screw at the edges, which had once
contained an interesting and important doc
ument addressed by Sir Henry Clinton to
Gen. Burgoyne, which, if it had not been
providentially intercepted, might have sav
ed Burgoyne’s army, & produced a change
in the fortunes of the war most disastrous
to our countrymen.
After Gen. Burgoyne had reached Lake
George at the head of the forces that had
been concentrated at Quebec and Montreal,
with a view tothe capture of Albany and
the occupation of the surrounding country,
his progress was extremely dilatory—to an
extent, indeed, that seems to those who are
not fully acquainted with the exact state of
the country at that time, and the whole cir
cumstances of the case, entirely irreconci
lable with the exacted military reputation
of that officer, and his fidelity to the Royal
cause. Between Montreal and a point near
ly twenty miles this side of Saratoga, the
country was in an almost pathless wilder
m ss. The settlements along the Mohawk
and Hudson cherished a deadly hostility to
the invading army. The support of the
British fleot, by advancing up the Hudson,
was absolutely essential for the furnishing
of Burgoyne’s army with tho necessary
supplies, as well as desirable for military
co-operation. And it was in expectation
es its advance, that tho General resolved
on a delay which admitted the assembling
of such reinforcements in support of the A
merican General Gates, as wore fatal to
the enemy’s plans. This delay on the part
ofßurgoync was however unnecessarily
protracted. For Sir Henry Clinton, by the
capture of Fort Montgomery, through the
instrumentality of a thousand men who had
been detached from his force at Haverstraw
bay, and the successful demolition of the
several obstacles interposed by the Ameri
cans to the ascent of the river, (a heavy
ship, armed with huge timbers at the bow,
advancing with all her canvass spread be
fore a strong soutli wind, severed on a sec
ond trial, the chain extended across the
Hudson at West Point,) had effected the
passage of the fleet up the river, and had
transmitted by a sure and sale conveyance,
as he believed, information of this fact to
Gen. Burgovne. This was contained in
the document described above as inclosed
in a silver bullet. The messenger entrus
ted with it, somewhere in the Northern part
of Duchess county, fell in with some coun
trymen who were good patriots, and who
insisted on searching him lor secret corres
yondence. They discovered on his person
three musket balls, in all respects alike
save that one seemed to weigh much light
er than the rest. On his captor’s observing
this, the spy instantly seized the ball and
swallowed it. The circumstance was com
municated to George Clinton, by whose
command emetics at first, & afterwards ca
thartics were administered, the operation of
which was supervised by a file of soldiers,
and resulted in the recovery of the ball and
the interception and disclosure of its con
tents. The spy was hung at Hurley, and
for want of the information which he carri
ed, Burgoyne and his army were captured
at Saratoga.
The following is a copy of the letter in
closed in the bullet:
“Fort Montgomery, Oct. 8,1777.
“Nous void, and nothing between us but
Gates. I sincerely hope this little success
of his may facilitate your operations. In
answer to your letter of 28th September,
by C. C., I shall only say that I cannot pre
sume to order, or even advise, for reasons
obvious. I heartily wish you success.
“ Faithfully yours,
“H. CLINTON.
“To General Burgoyne.”
Rome was once saved by the cackling of
a goose, and why should not Pennsylvania
be rescued from dishonor by the suggestion
of the noblest of creatures —a woman ?
The men of this degenerate State seem lost
to all sense of propriety, and their efforts to
throw off this incubus, the Stale Debt, are
freebie and unavailing. The gentler sex
have often came to the rescue of their lords
and masters, when dispirited and wearied
they were about to abandon exertion and
lie down supinely on their hacks, the slaves
of circumstances’ A lady of Lancaster,
willing to prove that these days can also
furnish feminine patriots, proposes to the
sex throughout the State, that they turn
their whole stock of jewelry into coin, buy
up the State stock, and make a present of it
to the State. She estimates the value of’all
the trinkets in the possession of the ladies
of Pennsylvania, at eighteen and a half
millionsofdollars—just enough, by buying
the stock at fifty per cent discount, to pay
off the wthole State debt. “Our Lords,”
she wisely observes, “ will never pay the
debt in the world—and it will certainly be
no very great hardship for us to dispense
with our jewelr)’ for a short time. And
when we pay off this great debt for them,
our chivalrous beaux will be both able and
willing to buy us anew supply.”
Truly, this lady might be a worthy de
scendant of the noble mother of the Grac
chi, whose only jewels were her children,
whom she had imbued with great and good
sentiments. PJ\il. N. American.
A Jolly Red Nose. —A capital story is
told in the Salem Register, of a man with a
most resplendent and fiery proboscis, who
went to Albany for the purpose of asking
an office of Gov. Bouck. Being cautioned
not to appear before the Governor (who is
a strong temperance man) in that nose, he,
by the advice of a waggish physician, ap
plied a flax seed poultice to it before going
to bed, the night previous to his intended
call on the Governor. The next morning
he appeared at the breakfast table of the
hotel, with his nose bleached and parboiled,
looking for all the world like a washer wo
man’s thumb. The doctor was himself an
applicant for office, living in the same hotel,
and had advised the poultice only in joke ;
but when he found the man had” actually
applied it, he let the cat out of the bag.—
The boarders were accordingly on the look
out for the patient in the morning, and
when the nose appeared, there was a roar
of laughter at the table, that the poor fellow
had to change his lodgings, before calling
upon the temperate Go/ernor. —New Ha
ven Register.
George Cruikshank, caricaturing the
London Post-Office, says: “ A gentleman
in London having received a newspaper,
enveloped, with the inscription ‘time flies,’
on the seal, was charged full letter postage,
on account of information contained on the
wrapper /”
Apocryphal. —The St. Louis Gazette
says : “ It is said that since the late Earth
quake, the bottom of the river has fallen
out in some places ; for instance, where
the Gen. Pratte’s hull was sunk, she lay
very near the top of the water ; and since
the earthquake, the bottom cannot be found
with a line of 150 feet in length.”
From the V. S. Gazette, 16th inst.
DEATH OF fcOMMODORE HULL.
The fears which we expressed last week
that Commodore Isaac Hull wms in a dan
gerous situation, have been fully reaiiz.ed.
That veteran officer died yesterday mor
ning, at his residence, in Portico Row, mee
ting death as the nutural and expected close
of a long and useful life.
The name is imientified wjtli- the honor
and gldry of his nation. Ilis skill saved
the Constitution early in the last war, when
chased by a British fleet; and shortly nf
terwards he commenced that series of Na
val victories which gave character -to the
nation abroad. Those who recollect tho
gloom that hung upon the public mind,
from defeats and disasters on the frontiers,
will bear in mind the reviving influence of
the victory of the Constitution over the
Guerriere, achieved by Commodore Hull,
and comprehend how much ofgratitude is
due to him for his brilliant success.
Commodore Hull was the third on the
list of Post Captain—Commodore Barron
and Commodore Stewart were before him.
His commission bears date 23rd April,
1806, one day after Com. Stewart’s.
Commodore Hull was, we believe, a na
tive of Connecticut, where he married, and
where ho spent much of his time when not
on public duty. He must have been about
68 years of age, though his personal ap
pearance would have led to the belief that
lie was much younger.
After the above was written, a friend
handed us the following:
Commodore Hull expired this morning
at his residence, Portico Square, within a
few days of completing the 68th year of his
age.
Before entering the Navy, he made two
voyages to England, one to Ireland, one to
Rotterdam, two to Lisbon, two to Cadiz, and
ten voyages to the West Indies. He Com
menced his nautical career when 12 years
of age, (fifty-six years ago) and when on
board a prize taken by his father from the
British during the Revolution, when the en
emy had possession of Now York.
On the 9th of March, 1798, he entered
the Navy as a Lieutenant.
While First Lieutenant of the Frigate
Constitution, under Commodore Talbot, in
May 1799, in the quasi French War, he
cut out a French letter of marque from
Porte Platte, (St. Domingo) with a small
sloop. This gallant act was achieved at
noon day, and without the loss of a man.
In 1804 he commanded the brig Argus,
and rendered service in the Tripolitan War,
in the storming of Tripoli, and the reduc
tion ofDerne.
In 1812, he commanded the Constitution,
and by his energy and skill as a seaman,
he escaped from a British squadron under
Commodore Broke.
Not long after this affair, he met the
British frigate Guerriere, and to the sur
prise of the whole world conquered her.
ThatJight was of more importance to the
people of this country, than all the subse
quent. naval victories, because it demon
strated that the notion ofßritain being invin
cible on the sea was incorrect. And as the
Coniniodore once said to the writer ; “The
people did not know I went to sea without
orders.” The gove/nment was afraid to
trust our ships of war out of our own ports,
until Hull in spite of the panic, showed that
an American frigate was equal to a frigate
of any other nation.
Since that time he has commanded in the
Pacific and Mediterranean, and at shore
stations in the United States.
He lias been eaplain in the Navy of the
United States 37 years, but had he served
England in the same circumstances as In
has served hisown country, he would have
been a peer of tfie realm or at least an ad
miral.
His mind was clear to the last. He was
cheerful and resigned, because, as lie de
clared, not very many hours since, “1 have
never knowingly wronged a human being—
and to the best of my ability, I have always
obeyed my God, and served my country.”
Few servants of the Republic have ren
dered more faithful or better service ; let
his course serve as an example to those who
followed his track.
Revolutionary Relics. —One of the Drums
used yesterday, by the musicians of the
Guards, sounded the thrilling call to arms
at the battles of Eutaw, Saratoga and the
Cowpens, and was presented to the Histori
cal Society in 1841, by Gen. Charles R.
Floyd.
The Chair, which was yesterday occu
pied on the stage by Judge King, the orator,
was the seat of one of the Signers in the
Hall of Independence, and presented to a
member of the Society.— Savannah Geor
gian.
•SUB-MARINE TELESCOPE.
This valuable invention of Mrs. Sarah
P. Mather, of Brooklyn, we have already
noticed. The apparatus was then arran
ged for examining only the bottom of rivers,
bays, lakes, and other deep waters. A
person at the surface could, by means of
this instrument, obtain a clear view of the
water at almost any depth, and at a dis
tance of twenty feet in every direction from
the lamp, which communicates with the
surface by means of a tube. Since that
time Mrs. Mather has added an important
improvement, which enables one standing
on the deck of a vessel to view the under
part of the hull as distinctly as one
sees his own face in a mirror. This im
provement is effected by the application of
mirrors or reflectors within the telescope,
by means of which a side light is reflected,
and the bottom of the vessel thus brought
plainly into view. This invention must be
of vast importance to our navy and to navi
gators throughout the world. It might at
once be applied to the removal of the ob
structions in the Mississippi and other riv
ers, and to the discovery of those unfortu
nate boats, and the recovery of the imper
ishable part of the cargoes, which have
been almost daily lost there, amounting to
many millions of dollars per annum. No
ftiatter hotv turbid the water may be. the
illuminating power of tho instrument over
comes its utmost capacity. A pin has been
distinctly soen in the muddy bottom of our
bay on a windy day, at the depth of twenty
two feet.
Surely Congress could in no wav
beneficially expend a few thousand'of del
lars than in putting this instrument into
operation, and thus rewarding the inven
tor.—N. Y. Com. Adv.
Intrusion on the Pulpit. —Dr. S. Brown,
of this village, was arrested on Tuesday,
by a sheriff Irom Gloucester, on thechargo
of disturbing public worship in Rockport,
Sunday, the 22d ult. We understand two
other warrants for similar offences at Es
sex are in the hands of the proper officers.
As far as we can learn, tiie affair at
Rockport was somewhat as follows: The
Doctor, accompanied by his Wife, enterod
the Congregational Church just before ser
vioes commenced. The latter stopped at
the foot of the foot of the pulpit stairs, while
the Doctor in the exercise of “the largest
liberty,” took his seat in the pulpit. Tho
regularoccupant thereof took his seat also,
and not recognising his companion as a
brother in orders, asked some of his congre
gation to put him out. Accordingly the
Doctor was lifted outofthe pulpit, and car
ried down midway of the broad aisle, where
proving too heavy for his bearers, be was
laid out at length. Mrs. B. kindly placed
her muff under her husband’s head, and he
laid there until the close of the service, a
notable and visible “testimony.” Wc have
not learned the result of the trial in this
case.— Amesbury [Mass. ] Transcript.
Gross Outrage on the Savannah River. —
On Tuesday evening a shore boat, belong
ing to one of the Sailor Boarding Houses in
this city, and manned by some half dozen
desperadoes, boarded the British barque
Covenanter, and look therefrom twelve
sailors—nine on a first visit, and three on
a second. The master of the barque had
unfortunately no fire-arms, and was there
fore in no condWon to make resistance.—
The the Captain, and
fired several pistols ai the ship. This boat,
or one in company, then proceedeed to the
British barque Springfield, Capt. Yoy,
which vessel was ready for sea, and made
an attempt to board her. They were, how
ever, fired into, and three of the party
wounded, one ofthetn known as ‘the Mo
bile Slasher,’receiving a ball in his fore
head, and another in his mouth, which
knocked out three of his teeth. Another
by the name of Brady, received three-buck
shot in his body, and the other, whose name
we did not learn, was so badly wounded
that it is expected he will not recover. VVe
arc informed that he has been taken to the
Hospital.
The names of two gentlemen were given
us, who saw one of these piratical boats
leave the wharf—the scoundrels on hoard
of her being armed with cutlasses, guns,
&e. It is satd to be their custom logo out
every night, seeking to'entrap as many
sailors us they may. We have before cal
led public attention to their piratical enter
prises, but we do not hear that the city au
thorities have taken any measure to sup
press these daring outrages and punish the
freebooters. Our port will get a name e
qua! to Havana, in its worst days, if these
thiugseontinue, VVe unhesitatingly affirm
thai it is highly discreditable to this city,
lhat foreign vessels should come here, and
be compelled to defend their rights by force
of arms. This is what they are determined
to do, however, and we hope they will make
good use of them. The master of the Co
venanter, was in town yesterday, and sup
plied himself witli arms. Two or three of
the Captains also came up on the same er
rand. If our laws cannot protect them,
why then, we say, in God’s name, let them
defend themselves.— Savannah Republican..^
Discovery of Runaway Slaves and their
Return. —The schr. Empire, Capt. Powell,
which, left here on the Bth inst. hound to
New-York, returned to this place on Satur
day last, to land two slaves which were
found on board this vessel. The Empire
had proceeded to the Northward ofCliingo
teague, when Capt. Powell discovered, lor
the first time, that he had more passengers
on board than had placed their names on
the way-bill, and on enquiry ascertained
that the unknown passengers were slaves,
(mother and child,) belonging to a gentle
man in this Borough. Capt. ?. immediate
ly determined to return to Norfolk, and up
on his arrival proceeded to the Mayor’s of
fice, and informed the Mayor of the circum
stance of his return. The Mayor prompt
ly despatched an officer on board to receive
the runaways, and a warrant for the arrest
of the Steward, who it appears, was cogni
zant to their secrecy on board.
We learn that Capt. Powell produced the
Mayor a certificate from the passengers on
board his vessel, averring that so soon as
Capt. P. made the discovery, he determin
ed to return, in which determination they
concurred.
Since the above notice was made we
learn that the Steward states that he was
induced to aid them by the solicitation of
the husband of the woman. They were
disoovered in the galley, where, he states
they had been stowed two days previous to
the sailing of the vessel.
Norfolk Beacon.
At a meeting of the Academy of Scien
ces at Paris, on the 26th of December last,
an interesting paper from Baron De Hum
boldt was read in reference to the contem
plated Canal between the Atlantic and Pa
cific Oceans.
He informs the Academy that the prepa
ratory labors for cutting a canal across the
isthmus of Panama are advancing rapidly.
The commission appointed by the govern
ment of New Grenada, for the construcfon
of a canal to unite the two oceans has la
minated his examination of the localities,#
and has arrived at a result as fortunate as iqr
was unexpected. The chain of the Cordi!-®
leras does not extend, as was supped, a
cross the isthmus; but on the contrary, afc-
