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, From the National Intelligencer.
CONGRESSIONAL DOCUMENT.
A SECOND POCAHONTAS-
House or Representatives, Full. 28, 1843.
Mr. C lojirr, from the Committee on Indi
an Affairs, made the following Report:
The Committee on Indian Affaire, to whom
ms submitted n ‘communication from the
Secretary of War, recommending that a
pension he granted to Milly, an Indian wo
man of the Creek nation , report:
That it appears, from the communica
tion of the Secretary of war, ami the uc
coinpanving statement of Lieut. Colonel
Hitchcock, us well as from the published
and accredited history ofthe period, that, in
1818, during the Indian warin the South,
Milly, the proposed object of the bounty of
the Government, saved the life ofan Atner.
ican citizen, who had lieen taken prisoner
I; several warriors of her/ tribe, and who
was about pyoe put to detail by them, when
was re scurtl by iter energetic and humane
interp.js/fiin. The act pf this Itttlian girl
■revives/ho recollectionpf un event in our
‘oiyul annuls —the .rescue of Captain
by tho daughter Powhatan, the
-■of. uted i’neiibnn'.as.
/ y,, ■is the daughter of the Prophet
/ pro no: ■ i’ • <;k chief, who
. u . re at celebrity from In.. l
. •- or Got!. Jackson during
• a,! . In!” IN. At the time
tied ihc a ti m which is so cno.
if ‘■ err character, site was under six
i< n years of ag</ her nation was at war
with the UnitedfStates, and her father was
one of the decided atnl indefatigable
enemies of thy white pr qde—circumstan
ces all of wWch go to exhibit her conduct
in a more excellent and val'.od point of
view- At ttyi time the prisoner was brought
in by hi/captors, Milly and an elder sister
wore playing on the bank of the Apalachi
cola wet in the vicinity of the Indian camp,
wher/they were startled, in the mu! ol”
thei/sports, by the peculiar wnt-c-ry which
announced that a prisoner had beer *akc:i
Tl/cy immediately went in the direct 1 ••> of
life cry; and, on arriving at the place, Ibitnd
0 young white man stripped naked, bound
to a tree, and his captors preparing to put
/him to death. On observing this, Milly in
, stantly went to her father, who, as before
stated, was the prophet Francis, and a prin
cipal chief of the nation, and besought him
to save the prisoner’s life. This hededined,
saying, at the same time, that he had no
power to do so. She then turned to the cap
tors; and begged them to spare the life of
the white man ; but one of them who had
lost two sisters in the war refused to listen
to her supplications in behalf of tlte prison
er, declaringthat his life should atone for
the wrongs which he had received at tlte
hands of the white people. The active hu
manity of Milly would not bo discouraged.
She reasoned and entreated, telling tlte vin
dictive savage who was bent on the des
truction of tlte prisoner that his death would
not restore his sisters to life. After along
time spent in her generous effort, she suc
ceeded ill rescuing the prisoner from the
dreadful death to which he had been doom
ed by his cruel captors. The condition on
which his life was finally spared was, that
he would shave his head after the Indian
fashion, and adopt their dress and manner
of living. To this he joyfully assented.
Some time afterwards the white matt
sought his benefactress in marriage, hut she
declined, and subsequently married one of
her own people. Her husband is now dead.
Her father was put to death in the war of
1817, ’lB, and her mother and sister have
since died. She is now friendless and poor,
residing amongst her |>eople in their new
country, near the mouth of Verdigris river.
Site has three children, a boy and two girls,
all too young to provide for themselves, and
consequently dependent upon their mother
for support.
Under these circumstances, the Secreta
ry of War recommends that a pension of
eight dollars per month be allowed her du
ring the remainder of her life. The com
mittee see a strong argument in favor of
this dispensation of’the bounty of the Gov
ernment, not only in the relief which it will
afford to the immediate recipient, whose
conduct has so well deserved it, but also in
the effect which it is calculated to produce
by teaching the still uncivilized ‘.hough
gradually improving people to whom she
belongs the virtue of humanity. This act
of the Government, furnishing at once a
proof of its gratitude and benevolence, will
show them the estimation in which deeds of
mercy are held by it, as well as the re
wards which it bestowson those who per
form them.
The power of tlte Government to confer
such bounties lias been frequently exer
cised. In 1824. Congress passed an act
granting to General Lafayette and his heirs
two hundred thousand dollars and a town
ship of land. In 1834, an act was passed
granting to two hundred and thirty-five
Polish exiles, transported to the United
States by order of the Emperor of Austria,
thirty-six sections of land, within the limits
ofthe State of Illinois or tlte Territory of
Michigan. The act by which pensions are
granted to the widows of officers and sol
diers ofthe anny of the United States is an
exercise of the same power founded on the
same general principle. But it is enough
to say that the Government which does not
possess the power to pay its debts of grati
lude, and to perform acts of beneficence &
charity, would be unworthy ofthe respect
and affections of its citizens.
Believing tliat the act of this Indian wo
man presents a proper case for the exercise
of the gratitude and bounty of the Govern
ment, tlte committee reporta hill allowing
her a pension of ninety-six dollars per an
num during her life.
WAR DEPARTMENT, >
Washington, April 16, 1842. $
Sir : I have the honor to transmit here
with a report of Lieutenant Colonel Hitch
cock, in the case of Milly, an Indian wo
man of the Creek nation, who, in 1818,
when otjita voting, saved the life ofa white
prisonerca|Hurcd by her tribe and sen
tenced to bo put to death.
/She is now residing with her people in
tho West—a poor destitute widow, without
the means of support, having lost all her
properly, and her children 100 young to
provido"fot4iJ v ®f’° ri sooi.-j'Kv.g. Similar to
the roinanticsSA'i,£ a^/ r / '-fvrly history, her
peculiar case demanSa ifflr sympathy and
admiration, and most strongly commends
itself to the favorable consideration of your
committee and of the House. I would re
commend that a pension for life, or eight
dollars per month, be allowed her by the
Government. It may be an inducement to
preserve the lives oftiiose captured by Itos
tile Indians, and he the means of mitigating,
to a great degree, the barbarous cruelty of
savage warfare.
I have the honor to be, with great respect,
your obedient servant,
J. C. SPENCER.
Hon. JamcsCooper,
Chairman ofthe Com. on Indian Adairs.
Washington, April 12, 1842.
Sir: I have the honor to report that, in
my recent visit to the Creek nation of Indi
arts, I found a Creek woman, named Milly,
• daughter ofthe celebrated Prophet Fran
cis, the .Creek chief who was executed by
order of Genera! Jacltston in the Seminole
war of 1817, ’lB ; and, believing that the
c:r. o-iVnnoes of her history presented a
’ ‘ iry peculiar interest, I made it a
pein •*, .'brain from herself a statement of
iiot couilt’e’ a i)Bi when, as public his
toiy !• •. alv< arty recorded, she saved the
life of an American citizen who was a pris.
oner n. tii.* power of some of her tribe. Tlte
history s'o’ es that the white man was about
to b” burned alive, but was saved by the
interposition ofthe prophet’s daughter. Be
ing in the vicinity of the Indian girl, near
fit', mouth ofthe Verdigris river, and being
acquainted with a portion ofher history, ,1
►>d several miles to hear her story from
liersel f.
I i:.a! been informed that she had a claim
|'o some negro property, now held by the
! £•■ e oh- ; and I first questioned her in rc
: ■ T.r claim, and then directed her
mind ba o 1818, and told her 1 had heard
that sh. had saved the life of a white man
in the war of that year. She answered that
she had, and immediately gave me a very
minute and graphic account of the circum
stances.
1 shall not be able to do justice tv .o
ry, and can only embrace the main” fea
tures ofit. She began by saying that an
elder sister and herself were playing on the
hank of the river Apalachicola, when they
heard a war-cry, which they understood to
signify that a prisoner had been taken.—
They immediately went in the direction of
the cry, and found a white man entirely na
ked, tied to a tree, and two young Indian
warriors, with their rifles, dancing around
him, preparing to put him to death, as was
their right, according to custom, they ha
ving taken him a prisoner. She explained
to me that in such eases the life of a prison
er is in the hands of the captors —that even
the chiefs have no authority in the case.—
Milly was then but fifteen or sixteen years
of age. “The prisoner was a young man,”
said Willy, u aiid seemed very much frigh
tened, and looked wildly around to See ‘f
any body would help him. I thought it
was a pity,” said site, “that a young man
like him be put to death ; and 1
spoke to mother, and told him it was a
pitty to kill him—that he had no head to go
to war with,” (meaning that the voung
man must have acted upon the advice of
others, and not upon his tflvn suggestion, in
going to war.) “My father told me,” con
tinued Milly, “that lie could not save hint,
and advised me tospeak to the Indians, and
I did so ; but one of them was very much
enraged, saying he had lost two sisters in
the war, and would put the prisoner to
death. I told him,” said Milly, ‘that it
, would not bring his sisters back to kill the
young man ; and so talking to him for some
time, I finally persuaded him ; aud he said
, that if the young man would agree to have
his head shaved, and dress like an Indian,
and live among them, they would save his
life.” She then proposed the conditions to
the white man, which were joyfully accep
ted ; and the Indians changed the contem
plated death scene into a frolic. They
shaved the young man’s head, excepting
the scalp-lock, which was ornamented with
feathers ; and, after painting him, and pro
viding him an Indian dress, lie was set at
liberty, and adopted as one of the tribe.
Some time afterwards, the young man
proposed marriage ; but Milly said she did
not save his life for that, and declined the
proposals.
1 asked Milly how she now liTOd. She
told me that she was very poor, and had to
work very hard ; that her father was put to
death in the war, and her mother and sister
were dead. Her husband was also dead.
Os eight children, she had but three living,
twoof whom were young girls, and one boy,
too young yet to help her. But she said
that ifshe could recover her property from
the Seminoles, she could live very well.
She is now about forty years of ago; and
after having seen Iter, and being entirely
satisfied of the truth of her story, I am in
duced to recommend that her ease be laid
before Congress, with an application for a
small pension for hersupport in her old age,
in consideration of her extraordinary and
successful interposition, by which, in 1818,
the life dan American citizen was saved
from a eAicl death from the hands of sava
ges. A small pension, (SSO or $75 a year,)
with a clear exposition of the grounds of its
allowance, may have a salutary influence
upon savage customs in future times. A
more suitable occasion than the present, it
is presumed, can hardly be expected. Mil
ly has now no husband or brother, or any
near connexion, to provide for her, and is
in need—with a fine promising son indeed,
but tiro young to be ofservice to his mother;
and, owing to pledges made to the Semi
noles, it is probably she will not be able to
recover possession of some negro property,
now held by the Seminoles, belonging to
her.
The story of Milly Francis is recorded i
ina volume entitled ‘lndian Wars,’in which
there is a picture representing the prepa
rations for putting the white man to death,
while the Indian girl is represented as plea
ding for his life to her father.
The circumstances are familiarly spo.
ken of in the Indian country ; anil there is
no rcuson to doubt the truth of the story,
except that Milly told me herself that the
young man would hate been shot-, and not
burned to death, as the story represents.
I have the honor to be, very respectfully,
vour obedient servant,
F. A. HITCHCOCK,
Lieutenant Colonel 3d infantry, &c.
Hon. John C. Spencer, Secretary of War.
From the Charleston Mercury. ‘
Magnificent Phenomenon. —We arc
indebted to’ an intelligept and scientific
friend in Beaufort, for the following letter.
The phenomenon of several mock suns
.was witnessed here several mornings be
fore, but they were in motion and near the
sun, sometimes passing over his rim, and
and were unaccompanied by the remarka
ble ring encompassing the horizon which
is here described.
To the Editors of the Mercury
BEAUFORT, APRIL 22, 164:).
Gentlemen: —This morning about eight
o’clock, the most beautiful phenomenon
perhaps ever beheld, was seen by the inha
bitants of Beaufort. A thin cloud, in form
of a’ring, and in thickness four degrees, ea
compassed the whole heavens, parallel pre
cisely to the horizon and exactly of the
same latitude as the sun, and of course cros
sing his centre. At the distance of twenty
one degrees, on each side of the sun, ex
actly in the ring where two parhelion-like
forms, and their diametersexactly the thick
ness of the ring. These two were ofa daz
zling brilliancy, and they shone, especial
ly the one to the left of tlte sun, with more
splendor than the real sun, though ex
cepting the ring, there was not the faintest
cloud or even haze in that part of the hea
•vens. From each side of the sun, a pencil
of rays ofthe most intense whiteness exten
ded along the ring to each parhelion, the
diameter of these pencils being at the sun
equal to his, and at each parhelion the
same as its diameter. It may here be sta
ted that the parhelion on the right hand of
the sun was considerably less than the oth
er, and that the ring in that part did not
much exceed two and a half degrees, where
the maximu and minimum thicknessofthe
whole ting.
At the distance of forty two degrees far
ther off wore two other parhelions, one on
eaclt side still of tlte sun, & both in titering,
and occupying its diameter ; these were
much fainter than the two interior, and dis
appeared sooner. The prismatic colors
were at times visible in the interior, espe
cially in the one to the left, the red ray
next to the sun ; I believe that it was tlte in
tense brightness that dazzled my eyes too
much to see them always.
While the sun rose in the heavens: the
ring and the four parhelions rose equally
with him all at eaclt instant of time having
exactly the same elevation. I have not
been able to learn when this phenomenon
began, and will not be surprised, if told, that
it appeared at sunrise. About half past
eight the ring began to grow less dense, the
parhelions to diminish in splendor, and at
ten ail had vanished.
The ring was at a very great height., the
thinnest clouds which float the highest in
the air passed beneath it; the very winds
which were wafting them did not reach it ;
it remained as unmoved by them as I have
seen an Aurora Borealis arch do in a high
northern latitude. Any section of the ring
would have much resembled the tail of the
comet, and its color was exactly of that pe
culiar lurid kind which a large flame exhi
bits at some distance in sunshine with the
sky onlv in the back ground.
D. W.
From the N. O. Tropic.
LOGIC.
“I have corn and want pork, my neigh
bor lias pork and wants corn: we exchange:
that is Free Trade.” A corresdondem in
forms us that this incontrovertible piece of
logic illuminates the pages of Kendall’s
Expositor. Adam Smith would wince un
der it, Jean Baptiste Say would say no more
on political economy. It is clear reason
ing ; almost tangible. There is all the wis
dom of Bacon in the thought, and the pre
cision of Locke in the expression. But
however we must praise the vivid concep
tion and the terse conveyance of the same
to the breast of unenlightened Democrats,
vet there ;s an eror, more by implication
than really apparent on its face. Suppose
Farmer A. has corn, and Farmer B. has
pork, B. wants the corn and A. the pork,
but the latter, though willing to ‘exchange’
perfectly willing to exchange, says: “B.
you must let me have your corn delivered,
free of expense, but you must pay a kind
of turnpike toll for my pork.” Could the
legal cranium of Mr. Kendall distort this
transaction into an “exchange ?” But ab
surdity is the badge ofall their tribe. “We
do not want your ‘filthy’ tobacco,” says
France, “and ifyou want to send it to our
port you must pay more duties on it than
you can sell your staple for, “We’ll shut
it out of our ports.” Johnny Bull roars the
same at our bread stuffs, and his cry iias
ever been in accordance with the following
Cabinet song by the Tory editor North, in
his Nodes Ambrosiaiice:
‘Ye that honor the laws that our forefathers made,
And would not see the laurels they twined for
us fade,
Nor would yield up your wreath for the cant of
‘free trade,’
Join, join in our chorus, and let the world ring
VVith our commerce and glory—and ‘God save
the King!”
Fretly Keen. —The Albany Patriot says:
One of our own Methodist clergymen, last
Sunday, remarked that if all the world be
lieved the Second Coming was to take place
on the 23d of April, 1843, at three o’clock,
P. M., two-thirds of them would delay all
preparation for it, till half-past two?” t
- - A ‘ * ■*.
From the New- York Tribune.
PROSPECTS FOR 1843.
“ When shall we have better times ?” is
the anxious inquiry of thousands, pining
with the sickness of ‘ hope deferred.’’ They
have so often heard the cry of ‘ Land 110 !’
when no land wus visible, that they begin
to think there is to be no land any more.
Yet we trust they will allow us to believe,
and endeavor to show, that the darkest
hours are past, and that a brighter day at
last duwns on our long-suffering Country.
Yet it must not he concealed that there
are still formidable obstacles to the com
plete re-establishment of our National pros
perity. The want ofan adequate and uni
form National Currency is, for two years
at least, insurmountable. The partnership
of Tyleristn and Loco-focoism, to which
the Government is for that term virtually
surrendered, will do nothing; Tylerism
being intent oil making a show of anxiety
to do something, while it neither does nor
professes any thing effective; and Loco
Foeoism rests on its thread.bare maxim
that the Government can do nothing for the
relief of the people, and ought to do noth
ing ; but that, in Currency as in Trade,
doing nothing is the perfection of human
wisdom. Now there is no fallacy more
clearly refuted by every day’s experience
than the assertion so constantly dinned in
our ears, that ‘ the Currency will regulate
itself,’ if let alone. We are daily pointed
to the fact that the current Rates of Ex
change between the chief commercial cen
tres of the Union have approached a reason
able standard, as if that answered every
purpose,’ while a deposil*in St. Louis. Chi
cago, or Louisville, cannot lie realized bore
except at a smart-discount ; debtors or pur
chasers in States embracing half the sur
face of tlte Union can promise no currency
in which to make remittances to the Atlan
tic States; and even the Federal Govern
ment drags, at a heavy expense, its kegs of
dollars five hundred miles over prairie
roads, in order to reach a point where they
can be made available ! And all this in a
state, as we are told, of equalized Exchan
ges and a proper Currency ! But no ! the
Exchanges have not been equalized, in a
ny practical and beneficent sense, and the
want ofa uniform, adequate National Cur
rency, remittible in any manner at the
slightest’eost, is still sorely felt in depress
ing Industry, obstructing Business, and di
minishing the just reward of Labor all o
ver the Country.
But this evil is greatly modified, and will
in time be nearly overcome, by the opera
lion ofthe Now Tariff, which has already
turned the balance of trade largely in our
favor; and is still rapidly swelling the a
mount of Specie held in this country. We
neither expect nor desire that this influx of
Specie will be permanent; but its effect,
in enlarging and strengthening the basis on
which rests our Circulating Medium must
be beneficial. The rigorous and distress
ing contractions of our Currency conse
quent on the heavy importations of Goods
and exportation of Specie in preceding
years are now at an end; henceforth the
tendency must be to a moderate and grad
ual expansion, even though our Circulating
Medium be limited to the amount of our
precious metals alone.
But a still greater benefit to the country
than even that conferred through theinvig
oration of the currency is about to be expe
rienced from the New Tariff’ in the wide
diffusion and more general prosecution of
the Mechanic Arts and Manufacturing pro
cesses. The vast Agricultural portions of
our country have been kept in comparative
poverty by the remoteness of the markets
for their products and the cost of reaching
them. While the farmer in Illinois must
raise wheat for 25 cents, yet the maker of
his cloth pays $1.50 for it, neither of them
can prosper. A few go-betweens may a
mass riches, but the great mass of the pro
ducers on both sides must languish, because
most of the fruits of their reciprocal labors
arc consumed in the cost of exchanging
them. Both must be vastly benefited by
the transfer of the manufacturer to the
neighborhood of the farmer. This process
has already begun ; it will go on through
out the year ; and, if the next Congress ad
journs without disturbing the Tariff', it will
be instantly and greatly accelerated. The
whole country, and more than our own
country, will be signally benefited by the
removal of one hundred thousand manufac
turers and artisans to the great Valley of
the Mississippi, where the farmers of tliat
vast luxuriant region can pay them for
their products with the mountains of Grain
and Meat which must now be sold for a
irifle or remain a drug on their hands.
Could this transfer be speedily effected, not
only would an immediate improvement
both in the demand for and price of Agri
cultural staples be generally felt, but trade
throughout the land would feel the benefi
cent impulse. No state ever permanently
diminished the - amount of her imports by
increasing the variety of her productions.
If Illinois were this day as great a manu
facturing State as Massachusetts, she would
like Massachusetts, consume a larger a
mount of Foreign Products than she ever
did while exclusively Agricultural and
Commercial. The satisfaction of certain
vital wants by the labor of her own hands
would increase both her ability aid hv
disposition to buy freely of other . o .•
* Staples.
j We note, therefore, with hearty grufifica
tion the accounts which reach us in our ex
changes of the building of Woolen fac'orie3
> in the West, of cotton factories in the Sujih
r and, the establishment of new branch o”
f Manufacture in every part of the Country. ’
It is through such manifestations that our
Protective Tariff is to perform itsgreat work
: of rebuilding the prosperity ofthe Country,
by opening new sources and varieties of em
ployment, and, by bringing the producer and
: consumer much nearer together, increase
t the reward of the former while diminishing
. the cost to the latter. Only let tliis policy,
t be steadily persevered in, and the improve
, ment in Business, or the demand for labor i
i and its Products, will be steady/and certain, j
Y.x w.; jii• v.'i,-w wbat i- called a 1
season of Prosperity in 1843. We know
that prices, whether of lands, of products, or
of labor, are and must be low whil&tour cur
rency remains as contracted and imperfect
as now ; and we would not have it expand
ed by any sudden impulse. There will be
few great fortunes made rapidly this vear,
and we care not if never again. But of that
real prosperiry which is exhibited in stead
ily prosecuted, and expanding Industry;
in the erection of buildings, the improve
ment of lands, the introduction of new arts
and unproved processes, and the realization
ofa large aggregate return for the year’s
industry, we trust this year will not he un
fruitful. For those heavily in debt in pro
portion to their tyieans, it will be a hard year
as have been several before it ; for those
who can find no employment suited to their
capacities, or adequate to their support, it
will also be hard; though we trust that
both the number anil the privations of these
will be much diminished. We shall bo
greatly disappointed if 1843 does not leave
us as a people, in a decidedly better condi
tion than it found us.
Curious facts respecting the Colton Man
ufacture. —The history ofthe Cotton Man
ufacture in England is without a parallel
in the annals of any age or country. In the
beginning ofthe reign of George 111, it gave
employment to forty thousand persons, and
the value of the goods produced was £600,-
000; it now employs not less than fifteen
hundred thousand persons, and the value
of the goods produced exceeds thirty one
millions. It is difficult to form a concep
tion of the extent of such a manufacture;
but the following calculations may help cnir
readers to an intelligible idea of its vast
nrss. The cotton yarn annually spun in
England, would, in a single thread, girdle
the globe 203, 770 times ; it would reach
fifty-one times from the earth to the sun;
and it would encircle the earth’s orbit eight
times and a half. The wrought fabrics of
cotton exported in one yoar would girdle
the equatorial circumference of the globe
eleven times. The cotton manufacture
furnishes one-half of British exports, em
ploys one-eiever.th ofour population, and
supplies almost every nation in the world
with some part of its clothing. The re
ceipts of the merchants and manufactures
from this single branch of industry, equal
to two-thirds of the public revenue of the
kingdom.
INSTANCES OF LONG LIFE.
The following details were extracted
from a curious book by M. Lejoncourt, re
cently published, and entitled, “Les Cen
tenaires, Ancient et Modernes:”—“There
have died in England, in the course of the
last century, 49 persons who. have reached
from 130 to 180 years of age. Os those
seven reached 134 years, four 133, two
140, four 155, one 159, one 100, one 108,
one 109, and one 175.—The official re
turns of Russia show that tiiere were in
that empire, in 1814, seven persons aged
upwardsofl2s years, and one who had pas
sed 160. In 1835, a man died there 135
years old, and in 1838 there died 1,238 per
sons who had passed 100, of whom 125
were upward of 120, 111 were from 121 to
125, three from 120 to 130, five from 131
to 140, one was 145, three were from 150
to 155, one was 100, and one 165.—1n
France we do not live so long, vet the fol
lowing instances oflongevitv are worthy of
notice. In 1710 a peasant, .named Jean
Mazard, died at Dun'le Roi, in Berry, aged
upwards of 100. This man preserved his
senses to the last, and was married ten
times. The last time he entered into the
married state he was 99 years of age, and
1 lie bride 18, who two years afierwaid made
hint a father. A cure of Lisieux named
Desroces, died in 1712, aged 113. He
celebrated mass a few days hi'flare his death
and resided 91 years in the parish. In the
same year died Jacques Thevenot, a labor
er at Chateau-Vilain, aged 114, married
three times, and the father of 39 children ;
and an officer named Bultrade, married at
St. Germain, aged 115, leaving behind se
venteen children, the eldest 74, and the
youngest twelve. In 1818, an apothecary,
named La Baupin, died at Chautebriand,
107 years old ; he was married twice, and
was upwards of 80 when he contracted the
second marriage. He was the father of
32 children-—l 6by each wife, and he was
103 years old when his wife was delivered
of two fine boys, who died upwards of nine
ty year later. In 1747 died in Lourdes,
M. Nazon de Vige, 118 years old. He
was passionately fond of shooting, and had
good speech not long before his death. He
was upwards of 100 wen he married. In
1757, a faringr of Bar, near Tulle, named
Nouthac, diejfbat the age of 115, He never
had a day’s sickness, was married three
times, was 92 when he entered the state of
wedlock the second time, by which whife
he had several children, and was 102 years
old when married the thud time.
The following, nol from the Midnight Cry,
hut from the ‘ Vial of Wrath,” (N. Y.) is
not so’ Lad :
‘ The. beast bad seven heads, and teh
.‘.or: -n each hi id, which makes seventy
b.wns. i tv. oi Injrto the seventy weeks of
Cu; ~! N-.v be toil of this beast Was
•t long. v. ‘ t ho number o r die
■ -a ■ : b b i;’ 7- and it makes
‘..'d’ , ... L ,-i; age of the world when
tile '(<•■! Cliruti. ... ,i. i began to .eign.
N-*>v, t.c up the beast’s tail into three knots
anti it will sho” it tc 614 feet i inches,
which hr i.g tnu'.iir ieu by S, the number
of gives !M3 exactly—the y<ar in
wiiicfi the world will be burn’ up Bat
there is another remarkable coincidence.—
Martin Luther wore boots with nails in
the soles—-just 263 natls in both boots,
which, being multiplied by the seven heads,
gives 1841. Throw in the boots, which cor
respond to Miller and Himes, and it gives
1843.
Temperance in Ireland. —There are five
million two hundred thousand tce-totallers
in Ireland.
MR. CLAY.
The address of the Whig Convention of
Virginia to the people of that state, abounds
in passages of rare elegance and power.—
The following extract iu relation to Mr.
Clay is replete with historical truths, pre
sented in the most striking langttuge. The
address is supposed to have been written
by that sterling whig, Benjamin Watkins
Leigh, a man of whom any nation might
well be proud. It is the error of the age
that abilities like his ate permitted lo lan
guish in retirement, whilst the changeling
and the intriguer occupy stations which
they neither merit nor adorn.
“It becomes us to indicate our preference
as to the candidate of the Whig party for
the next Presidency. Instructed by our
Constitution, as well as in accordance with
our own feelings, we proclaim that HenPl
Clay of Kentucky, is the object of that
ference, over all other men—declaring,
however, this avowal, we deem it due to
our brother Whigs, in other Slates, who may
prefer any other individual, if any such
there be, that we are willing to submit his
claims to the consideration and decision of
a National Convention. We deem it un
necessary to sustain the nomination of this
distinguished Statesman and Patriot, by an
enumeration ofpublic services,or by an at
tempt to vindicate his character from the
aspersions of his enemies. These services
are inscribed upon every page of his coun
try’s History—--that character has passed
through the fiery ordeal of numerous party
contests, without a spot or blemish resting
upon it. His bitterest enemies admit his
superiority toal 1 selfish considerations ; and
they who most loudly condemn his opin
ions, confess the independence with which
they are avowed, and the ability with which
they are maintained. A native of Virgin
ia, while he has always been loyal to the
Union, ha has never been an alien to tire
land of his birth. He has no military ex
ploits of which to boast; hut although he
never was summoned to the field, his wise
councils gave energy to the arm that wiel
ded the sword, and his eloquent voice, 1 iko
that of Demosthenes, when he aroused the
Athenians against the Macedonian invader,
often enkindled the drooping courage of his
countrymen, when imbecility, and coward
ice. and treachery had struck our flag, and
shrouded the nation in gloom. Equal to
any emergency, he has twice, by fiis wise
moderation, thrown himself between infu
riated parties, and rescued the Union’from
impending dissolution in 1819. when the
question of the annexation of Missouri to
the Confederacy agitated the Halls of Con
gress, and in 1832, when the friends of out
free institutions trembled for their safety.—
At each of these critical eras in the history
of our Government, Ilenry Clay proved t
himselfcqual to the emergencies that arose,
when feeble minds, or less patriotic spirits ‘
would have sunk desparingly under (lie tri
al, or rashly defied its consequences. At
that proud period of his brilliant career, he
illustrated the beautiful sentiment, that
“Peace has its victory as well as War,”
And laid liis countrymen under obligations,
the force of which, even party malignity
cannot wholly destroy, and which the high
est honor in their gift cannot more than re
pay.
A Character. —Hill’s New Hampshire
Patriot has the following complimentary
notice of the editor of the Washington Globe.
Hill and Blair have long played into each
others’ hands, and been distinguished lea
ders of the Loco foco democracy of the
country. They know each other well.—
The people will now see who are the ora
cles ofdemocraey as now expound* and. They
will see for whose benefit they are voting
at elections. The Pat riot say;
“By a reference to the United S'ates of
ficial register published since the removal
of F’. P. Blair from Kentucky to Washing
ton, it will be found that'tliis Shyloek has
feasted upon “government pap” to the tune
of hundreds of thousands of dollars.. From
a beggar he has become immensely rich.
Pampered with the funds of government, lie
is now aristocratic, purse-proud and haugh
ty ; gives his splendid parties, riots in luxu
ry, and rolls about in liis coach drawn by a
spanofelegant horses. His arrogance lias
increased just in proportion with liis world
ly prosperity. Nabob a*s he is; moving
only in the first circles of “good society,”
and looking only with contempt upon
“low and vulgar,” lie assumes to dictate to
the democracy of the Union, and to teach
them that it is demanded ; not merely asked
of them to swear true allegiance to him,
and to obey his edicts. This is the man
who denies to us the rights of obtaining an
honest livelihood, and the privilege of bid
ding upon a contract, in common with eight
hundred or a thousand others, because our
success will conflict with liis interest and
divert a few thousand dollars from his ra
pacious maw, already filled and re-filled
with “government pap,” in a manner which
would satisfy any one but tlte veriest miser.
Yet, forsooth, the industrious mechanic has
no right to enter into competition with the
nabob—the Shyloek, the purse-proud and
pampered aristocrat. In the opinion of
Francis P. Blair, such an act of assurance
ought not even to he tolerated in this repub
lican government.”
SETTLEMENTS IN FLORIDA
Thntitle of emigration is fast flowing in
to Florida. Already it is supposed that
nearly all the giant 0f200,000 acresof land
made by Government, is taken up. The
following settlements are already establish
ed in the Southern section of the territory :
“ Chucachatta,” which is within 30 miles
of Old Tampa—“ Homesassie,” distant
from Cedar Keys about fifteen miles; ‘ Al
lafi,’ about seven miles below Tampa, on
the Eastern shore, and the Manatee,” at the
mouth of Tampa. On this last settlement
they have orange trees, lime trees, a great
variety of grapes, the olive, and most kinds
of tropical fruits in a state of cultivation.
Our informant alsostatesthat he
several places where settlements had been’
commenced along the coast, South of St.
Augustine.
