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terahoit, if you oan make up matters •> ith
Fan, I shall be glad to have u<Jh a soil in
law, that’s all. Ami Mrs. Colo’s any way
of thinking ; so look t > if.’
A month after this singular lete a trie,
Mr. Frederick Lawson h<l Frances Cole,
the daughter of Job Coin, I nquire,'to the
hymeneal altar. And proud was the lion
est old coalman of Such in alliance; al
thougli many scheming mammas, who had
eligible sons were terribly pul out, and
wondered what the old fool could havi boon
thinking of; uud lie worth a plum. too.
From the Arkanses Gazette.
A TALE OF TRAVEL.
Lord Morpeth. —A friegd lias related to
us the following story, which he received
from the mouth of one of the parties :
In 1841, a young broad shouldered, big
fisted Kentuckian—a regular bred stock
raiser and drover—went on to Buffalo, New
York, to purchase of Lewis Allen, who has
just returned from England, some of his
imported stock. After he had closed his
purchases, finding he had a day to spare,
lie determined to spend it in a visit to the
Falls of Niagara. So after breakfast, he
stepped into the pajssengercars, and found
the department which he selected occupied
by a modest-looking and plainly dressed
gentleman. In a few moments he com
menced a conversation upon the subjeet
most interesting to him, to wit, imported’
stock, and the bargains he had made, and
informed his fellowtraveller, in the most
decisive manner, what was the best bleeds,
&c. The stranger, after hearing him out,
without dissenting to what he said, spoke
upon the subject of English stock general
ly, the different kind of breeds, the proper
ties of each, the best cross for milk, butter,
&c., and displayed, in a modest and most
unassuming manner, such minute and gen
eral information on the subject that it as
tonished the other, and he asked him if he
was not a stockraiser. He said no, and tin
Kentuckian asked, as usual, ‘What might
be your name, sir?’ ‘.Morpeth,’ was the
reply. ‘Morpeth! Now I have been all
over Kentucky, and travelled to Arkansas,
bull never heard of the name before.—
Where did you come from Mr. Morpeth V
‘From New York,’ ‘York,’ said he, ‘New
York ! A great place—beats Lexington or
Louisville, I admit; hut did yoii come from
the city or country, Mr. Morpeth V From
the country.’ ‘Well, it is a very great
State ; always saving and except old Ken
tucky, it is the finest country I ever saw.’
In a short while they conversed on the sub
ject of farming, and the stranger, without
the least parade, seemed to be perfectly fa
miliar with the subject, and after hearing at
length of the superior style of agriculture
in Kentucky, and tlie astonishing produc
tions there, the cords of fine stock, grain,
&c., lie related the improvements which
had recently been made in agriculture by
ineansof chemical experiments, the differ
ent kinds of soil, the distinguishing proper
ties of each, rotation ofcrops, effect of cli
mate upon productions, &o. &c ; at length
the Kentuckian cried out, ‘Why, Mr. Mor
peth, you mu.:: have followed farming for
a living? ‘No,’he said he had not, ‘lout
it was a subject to him of great interest.’—
The r.-st of the journey was filled up with
a description of what the Kentuckian had
seen on the Mississippi and in Arkansas, to
which the stranger listened with apparent
interest. At length they reached the Falls,
and amidst constant exclamations of aston
ishment on the part of the Kentuckian, they
passed on to the Canadian side. Upon
reaching there they saw a number of ne
groes, dressed in regimentals, with mus
kets in their hands. ‘Why, what the devil
does this mean ?’ ‘These are regular sol
diers,’ said ihe stranger. ‘Soldiers ! ne
groes for soldiers! Well, by-G—d, did
you ever hear the like ? Well, when I go
hack to old Kentucky, and tell them that
the British have negroes for soldiers, they
never will believe me in the world. Whv,
sir, if an Arkansas overseer were to come
here with his big whip and give it one crack,
I tell you, sir, that a regiment of these
black rascals would drop their muskets and
beg for quarter. Now, old fellow, you
might have heard that we like to have got
into war .with the British about some boun
dary or other. I tell you that the first horn
that was blown would raise a regiment in
old Kentucky that would sweep this land
from shore to shore. Nothing could resist
thorn ; for I tell you nothing can beat old
Kentucky for war or raising fat stock.’
After a while the hell of the tavern rung
for dinner, and they both hastened in, the
Kentuckian before. When he reached the
room he found the table half filled with ne
groes, and stopped. The stranger, without
.. appearing to observe it, took hold of a chair,
and pointed to an empty one by his side.—
‘By G—d,’ was the astonished interjection 1
of the Kentuckian, you are net going ,<■ i
eat your dinner with n groes, are you ? I
can’t do it sir. I cipid never slum in--
face at home : i ware to do sc -
‘Well,’ said the i a;,, •atiier he. i.
grv, 1 nckin °.‘i.(.t i, :,'e t ‘‘v
travellers, 1 .. 1,.,m0r
We will go <’. I. -.W
tne suspense . g.
ruerican side. . r r (
hand, my old fel-- Yb. n
they reached tin *
Kentuckian was ,v
----ishrnent. and sivori :i a:
believe himjat horn - ’ :
The stranger w.ts t ■
such things, and told hint who whs
ginal inventor of such bridge;,'the ■.. at lie
pcovemems that had been made t:a
one had been put up, the defects in its r vi,
how they could be repaired, improved, Ac.
Here the Kentuckian burst out in a lu arty
laugh, and said ‘Well, stranger, I have
found you oift at last ; you are a bridge
builder by trade,’ slapping him on tbc
shoulder in fireat glee. ‘No, sir,’ said he,
‘you are mistaken ; but! have been a great
deal with persons who were fond of such
things, and acquired somewhat a taste for
therti.’ ‘Well,’ said the Kfntuckian, ‘I
hear the las-t bell ringing; let us go and
get our dinner. We will have a bottle of
wine, and 1 wiil pay lor it myself; for I
would i at hot have tost one of the calves 1
have purchased of old Buffalo Allen than
nut to have been here today; for 1 have
had lots and gobs of funs’ ,
They sat down to dinger, drank their
wine and the Kent uelnab filled up the
chasms betw. on the courses with pruises
of Kentucky iukl a iniso, nf the Canadians
and British. He hail hlwfcvs hated them,
and he always would Imte them ; he would
just like to have another brush with themto
liek them again, and a great deal more in
the same strain, to which the stranger 1 is
tened patiently, and sometimes with a kind
of quiet interest. He went on to say that
he had heard tliut the English were in the
habit oftravelling through the country, and
then writing books ridiculing and abusing
abusing us. He just wished, bv Heaven,
that he could catch some of them in old
Kentucky. He had heard, as he came a
lung, that there was now a great English
Lord travelling through the country to
write a book, and lie had heard his name.
‘lt was Lord—Lord Morpeth, I believe.’—
‘That is my name, sir,’said the stranger.
‘Jesus Christ! you/don’t say so ! Tavern
keeper, what do 1 have to pay ?’ T.
THE FIRST PRAYER IN CONGRESS.
The subjoined extract of a characteristic
lc’tter from John Adams, describing a scene
in the first Congress in Philadelphia in
September, 1774, shews very clearly on
what Power the men of old rested their
cause. Mr. A. thus writes to a fiiend at
the time.
“When the Congress met, Mr. Cushing
made a motion that it should be opened with
prayer. It was opposed by Mr. Jaif, of
New York and Mr. Rutledge ofSouth Car
olina, because we were so divided by roli
gious sentiments, some Episcopalians, some
Quakers, some Presbyterians, some Ana
bapiists, and some Congregationalists, that
we could not join in the same act of wor
ship. Mr. Samuel Adams arose and said
that he was no bigot, and could hear a
prayer from any gentleman of piety and
virtue who was at the same time a friend to
his country. He was a stranger in Phila
delphia, but had heard that Mr. Duche,
(Dushay they pronouncecfit,) deserved that
character, and therefore he moved that Mr.
Duche, an Episcopal clergyman, might be
desired to read prayers to the Congress to
morrow morning. The motion was secon
ded, and passed in the affirmative. Mr.
Randolph our President, waited on Mr.
Duche, and received fur an answer that if
his health would permit he certainly would.
Accordingly next morning he appeared j
with his clerk, and his pontificals and read I
several prayers in the established form,
and then real! the collect for the seventh
day of September, which was the thirty fifth
psalm. You must remember, this was the
next morning after we had heard the rumor
of the horrible cannonade of Boston. It
seemed as if heaven had ordained that psalm
to be read on that morning.
“After this Mr. Duche, unexpectedly to
every body, struck out into an extemporary
prayer which fill’d the bosomsof every man
present. I must confess I never heard a
better prayer, or one so well pronounced.
Episcopalian as he is, Dr. Cooper himself
never prayed with such fervor, such ardor,
such correctness and pathos, and in lan- j
guage so elegant and sublime, fol- Ameri
ca, for Congress, for the province of the
Massachusetts Bay, especially for the town
of Boston. It has had an excellent effect
upon every body here. I must beg yCu to
read the psalm. If there is any faith in the
sortes’ Virgiiianos, or sortes Homeric®, or
especially the sortes Biblicte, it would be
though: providential.”
Here was a scene worthy of the painter’s
art. It was in carpenter’s Hall in Phila
delphia, a building which (we learn by a
recent article) still survives in its original
condition, though now sacrilegiously con
verted, we believe, into an auction mart
for the sale of chairs and tables, that the 44
individuals met to whom this service was
read.
Washington was kneeling there, and
Henry and Randolph, and Rutledge, and
Jay, and by their side there stood, between
in reverence, the Puritan patriots of New
England, who at that moment had reason to
believe that an armed soldiery was wasting ■
their humble households. It was believed
that Boston had been bombarded and des
troyed. They prayed fervantly for Ameri
ca, for the Congress, for the province of
Massachusetts Bay, and especially for the
town ofßoston, and who can realize the e
motions with which they turned imploring
ly to Heaven for divine interposition and
aid? “It wSs enough,” says Mr. Adams,
“to melt the heart of a stone. 1 saw the
tears gush into the eyes of the old, grave,
pacific Quakers of Philadelphia.— Newark
Daily Advertiser.
Gigantic Bird. —The remains of a bird
hare been found in New Zeland, which so
■ i., - surpasses the ostrich or cassowary in
,/ as these birds surpass the eagle. A
- Jlection iff t!:„ bones was sent by Mr.
Williams, a missionary, to Dr. Buckland,
“he piae 1 ih* r,i in the bands of Professor
; C‘v*n for ..animation. Mr. Williams, on
.-,v y. -i. i ones withfthose of a fowl,
! c.i ‘':t mwas 14 or 16 feet in height.
, •’war. • ‘•■ms this conclusion as to
i” i iij, and finds that it belongs
• us with the ostrich and emu
■■ithto,) but was of a more
Among the hones received
• 1 ‘’ in -, is a tibia or leg bone, two
m length, and compared
! “'bieh says Mr Murchison, the thigh
; no'.i .; :nu )of O’Bryan, the Irish giant,
: ls : Ft-'my In strength it was
j probably ;o the'ostrich what the elephant
1 a Shetland \ .ay. Were they still a
j live and capable of being tamed, a couple
! ot these leathered giants would be a team
fur an emperor’s car. and hear him along
with more than railway speed.
Dean Swift proposed to tax female beau
ty, and leave every lady to rate her own
charms. He said the tax would be cheer
fully paid, and be very productive.
GEN. HAMILTON ON REPUDIA
TION.
Gen. James Hamilton was a guest at a
Fourth of July Dinner at Columbus, Mis.
sissippi, and having been “called out” by p
toast, referred to the doctrine of
lion. In the course of his remarks, lie nar
ruted ihe following circumstance, which oc
curred while he was in London :
“Gentlemen, I wasln England when the
intelligence was received and the shofk
was felt of your failing to pay the dividends
on your bonds. I might describe to yjm
the panic which this intelligence produced,
and its disastrous influence on the inter®ts
of our whole country ; but I forbear. I
j know that the losses of largo capitalists j>re
not very apt to produce much sympathy
However, your bonds, you will permit no
to inform you-, were sold at a price wh ch
seemed to promise a high rate of interest;
they were therefore purchased in Europe
by persons in moderate circumstances,
seeking in this way an* augment incomet;
by disabled half-pay officers, by compara
tively destitute widows, and by trustees for
orphans in nowise in a better condition. —\
The statement of this fact recall! to my j
mind a circumstance which occurred short- j
!y after the news reached London/ that the’
Executive of your Slate had declined re
cognizing the validity of your State bonds, j
I happened to step in the office of a friend, j
a highly respectable merchant in London, !
where I met a gallant officer of the British
army, whose acquaintance 1 had the honor
and pleasure previously to make He in
formed me that lie was an unfortunate hol
der of Mississippi bonds. He remarked, ‘I
shall carry to my grave a large deposite of
American lead, which I receivid at the
battle ofChippewa, where, wouided and
disabled, 1 fell into the hands of your coun
trymen. From their generosity, unboun
ded kindness, and humanity, I thought I:
could safely deposite in their good faith the j
little gold a limited fortune had still left j
me. I saw the seal and signature of the
State of Mississippi; I thought this enough;
but lam nearly ruined by my confidence
in your country.’ This, gentlemen, was
said with a sensibility free from all vitupe
ration or querulous abuse. It was said by
a man who stood six feet two in his shoes,
the perfect and entire impersonation of the
finest models of Phidias and Praxiteles. It
was, in one word, the gallant Sir John Ma
rillon Wilson, who was wounded in seven i
places at the battle of Chippewa, ami who, i
amidst prejudice and ignorance in regard j
to our country, stood up as her generous j
and noble defender in his own. Can you j
blame me, gentlemen, isl assured this ve- j
teran, with a gush of sensibility equal to!
his, that every farthing of the Mississippi;
bonds, interest and principal, which he held j
would be paid, as sure as there is a God in |
Heaven ; that I knew the resources of this ;
State and the character of her people; that j
this was a mere pause or suspension in her 1
good faith, which had resulted from causes !
entirely connected with the supposed un
fairness with which an intermediate nego
tiation had been made for the aggregate a- !
mount of the bonds in the United States; j
that there was not in her people a particle j
of meanness or sordidness ; and to hold on j
with inflexible confidence to bis stock.”
From the Georgia [florae] Courier.
ASSUMPTION OF STATE DEBTS.
It is impossible in the exercise of the
most extended charity to helive that the
Democratic Editors think they speak the
truth when they assert, that one of the meas
ures of Whig policy is for the General Gov
eminent to assume the debts of the respec
tive states, it is said that persons may con
tinue to assert a falsehood, until in the end
they will yield credence to their own mis
statements, but if this be so, it will not ex
cuse them in the present instance, for the
proposal to which they have allusion has
been so lately brought before the country,
that no one can have forgotten its tendency,
and who are its advocates. If it shall ap
pear, however, that the frequent repetition
of a false statement produces upon the mind
the same effect as if it were long persisted
in, it may be possible that they begin to be
lieve it, for no one has ever been more in
dustriously circulated, oftenar repeated,or
more numerously endorsed. It matters
little except as to the degree of their crimi
nality, whether those who make the state
ment believe it or not, it is not less untrue.
There is no such measure before the coun
try cither of Whig or Democratic origin.—
If there has been such a proposition made,
let us know when and by whom ? If it be
a Whig measure, tell us who are its advo
cates ? One of the Democratic Editors af
ter having made his chargeagainst the dis
tinguished Whig candidate for the Presiden
cy, openly withdraws it, because he says
he has no evidence of its truth. Will the
others who have made similar statements,
exhibit like candor ?
The scheme of Mr. Cost Johnson, ot Ma
ryland, upon which this fabrication isbased,
is as unlike the assumption of State debts
as it well can be. He has at all times as
serted that they were widely different,“and
that it was great unfairness to confound
them. But whatever may be the nature of
his proposition, (and we do not intend now
to discuss it) it rests alone upon its merits,
and upon his very able individual advoca
cy of it, and we defy the Democratic prints
to shew that it has ever been recognised as
a Whig measure or supported by the Whig
party. If they are of opinion that the crea
tion of Stock, the payment of which should
be guaranteed by a pledge of the public
lands, is an injudicious measure, let them
oppose it openly and fairly, and meet Mr.
Johnson’s arguments in the same indepen
dent manner in which he has advanced
them, but let them not attempt to deprive
him of the honor of having originated a
scheme, which to say the least of it, exhibits
his independence as a man, and his en
larged views as a statesman, by falsely as
serting that it is one of the measures to be
adopted by the Whigs. That this often re
peated assertion is untrue, is evident, be
cause the scheme of Mr. Johnson is incom
patible with the distribution of the proceeds
of the public lands, one ofthe great meas
ures which the Whigs propose to the coun
try. It is impossible that both these plans
of disposing of the public domain can be a
dopted—they are antagonistic, and yet in
almost every Democratic paper, it is grave
ly asserted that the Whigs favor both.
What our adversaries expect to gain by
making churges of this character, we are
at a loss to conceive. A misstatement
which carries its refutation upon the face of
it, can do little harm to us or good to thorn.
They must find some more promising
subject when they desire to mislead, than
the principles of the Whig party> Those
principles are too legibly written, too open
ly and proudly avowed from one extremity
of the country to the other to be misunder
stood or misrepresented.
WHAT ARE THE LOCOS FOR?
The Whigs are charged with being in fa
vor ofthe establishment of a United States
Bank. Well, they plead guilty to the
charge. They are in favor of establishing
a Bank—they are in favor of furnishing
the country with a circulation that shall be
j at par value as well in Maine as in Louis,
j iana. Experience has taught them that an
j Institution which had the control and man
! a'gement of millions of the Government's
j money, for years together, and by which
j the Government never lost one cent, and
which, at the same time, was vastly bene
ficial to the people, in a variety of ways
supplying them with a good currency all
the time—experience, we say, has taught
them, that such an Institution is preferable,
greatly preferable to all the experiments
which have been the rostua of Jackson and
Van Buren for the last fifteen years—and
hence they advocate the establishment of a
United States Bank.
Now, will our opponents tell us what
they are for ? Are they disposed to take
the pet Bank system under their patronage;
a system by which the Government lost
millions of the people’s money? Or will
their sober, second thought, induce them
still to presevere in advocating, and thrus.
ting upon the country, the hard money sub
treasury project ? Or will they take Ty
ler’s Exchequer, and make this their bant
ling to cry for votes before the people ?
It is high time that the Democrats should
answer questions of this kind. The Whigs
•take up a Bank—what do they intend to do?
Tlip Whigs take for their financial system
what in days that are past, met the appro
bation ofa Washington, a Madison and oth
er names which aie still “dear to fame”—
what do the Locos intend to do ? Be defi
nite in your project, gentlemen, and we will
know ; or rather the people will know'then,
upon what foundation you stand. There
is too much beating about the bush, just
now to suit the people’s palate. They want
to know upon what you stand, so that the
sandy foundation may be washed from be
neath your feet.
From the Savannah Republican.
THE DEMOCRACY AND A TARIFF.
Free Trade is now announced to be the
determined Democratic policy, at least of
the Southern wing of that manoevring force.
It is affirmed in this quarter, that if that
party is successful, the Tariff will be re
pealed. Repeal is out of the question.—
Revenue must be raised, and direct taxa
tion no community will tolerate. The most
they can do, will be to adjust the revenue,
so as to provide for the uniformly heavy ex
pense of a Democratic administration, and
this will give sufficient protection. They
will, in tiiat case, do no more than adhere
to Mr. Clay’s plan, even if they establish
a horizontal tariff’of 30 or 40 per cent. —
But will they do this without making a
strongly marked discrimination ? Will the
Democracy of New York, and Connecticut,
and Pennsylvania, ever surrender the dis
criminating duties entirely, which now ex
ist ? We believe not. Time will show ;
but we have seen by the vote on the last
Tariff, that Democratic interest too often
prevals over Democratic allegiance. The
votes of Mr. Buchanan, and others, show
this.
The important Tariff’next in order after
that of 1812, was the High Protective one
of 1810. The Tariff was not levied ex
pressly for revenue, but those articles most
heavily taxed, were those which could be
manufactured in the United States ; and
here the term, “American System,” had its
origin. Many of those who voted for this,
have been lately, and some are now, lea
ding men in the Demapratic party. We
refer to the vote on the Tariff which passed
the House of Representatives, 27th April,
1816, arid find the list of yeas headed by
Atherton, a Democrat of Hampshire.
Among those modern Democrats who voted
for it, are Albion K. Parris, lately a Comp
troller at Washington, under Van Buren,
(and perhaps he is there still,) Enos D.
Throop, of New York, Samuel D. Ingham,
General Jackson’s Secretary of Treasury,
Samuel Smith, of Maryland, one of Gen.
Jackson’s warmest supporters in the U. S.
Senate at subsequent period, Wm. T. Bar
ry, his Postmaster General, P. P. Barbour,
Henry St. George Tucker, Richard M.
Johnson, Nathan Sanford, JOHN C. CAL
HOUN, William Lowndes, Alfred Cuth
bert, Wilson Lumpkin, &c. while against
it, we find the namesof Tim Pickering, of
Massachusetts, Erastus Root, Benj. Huger,
John Forsyfh and'Richard H. Wilde. It
passed the Senate by a vote of 25 to 7 —the
yeas and nays not be taken- So much for
some of the important Democratic votes at
that time. This bill being under discus
sion, a motion was made to reduce the du
ty on cotton goods every two years : Mes
srs. Calhoun and Johnson voting against it.
A motion to reduce the duty on iron, from
75 cts. to 45 cts. was agreed to : Calhoun
and Johnson voting against it. The motion
to reduce the duty on Sugar, from 4 to 2
cts. per lb., was agreed to—B6 to 56—Cal
houn, Johnson, Lumpkin and Forsyth vo
ting against reduction. Mr. Calhoun is
now for Free Trade, though he has never
yet offered, as a substitute, any mectfltre for
carrying out his doctrine. It was on the
passage of this bill that he made his cele
brated speed) in favor of protecting domes.
tic matiulaclures, when lie said they ‘siimSlil,
be pul beyond the reaolt, of contingency,’
adding his eulogy in favor of Internal Im
provements.
Wc next proceed to the Tariff's of 1824, j
1828 and 1834. Wo shall give the entire ,
vote on the latter, in the House of Represen. j
tatives, as corrected-for us by Messrs. Gales ‘
& Seaton.
“77ie Tyler Grippe.” —lf the late Ad- j
ministration impoverished our pockets, it
enriched our language ; for to it we are in
debted for what many thought could no lon
ger be invented, anew crime and anew ;
word—“ Swarlwouling .” Like our obliga
tions to it are the Tdndred ones which the
present dynasty is conferring. It has fur
nished to nosology anew disease ;-*-that
now prevailing North and South, and in this
city—and which they call the “Tyler Grip
pe,” or influenza. Common people, not
understanding the Italian name, call it “the
Influence,” and the Tyler influence is
spreading fast.
The disease seems to be a kind of office
seeker’s epidemic, and produces a great se
cretory activity of the glands of the head.
Some weep very plentifully, as Mr. Tyler
did at Harrisburg : others have a very co
pious salivary discharge, so that their
mouths water at the thought of an ample
salary; while others again have a terrible
running atthe nose—which organ, indeed,
appears to have been the original seat of
the affection. It first broke out (as every
body knows,) at Boston ; where the Yan
kees, who have never seen such a nose as
Mr. Tyler’s, involuntarily, at coming be.
fore him, clapped their fingers upon their
smellers, just by the same law of sympa
thy which made all that collected to gaze
at Rip Van Winkle, rub their chins, as they
viewed the enormous growth of his beard.
The universal blow ing of noses that ensued
led naturally to the supposition that a very
bad Influenza was raging; and as the par
tition which separates fancy from fact is
very thin, that which was only imagination
speedily became reality. The President
was of course rather gratified at the demon
stration ; it was a reference to the member
in which all his superiority lies. Besides
the blowing of noses is a compliment which
has always been paid to his eloquence in
public bodies.
This is the true philosophy ofthe Tyler
Grippe — which is admirably named, wheth
er regard be had to its origin or its effects.
It is a disease the least sympathetic, the
most relaxing, the most contemptible, and
the most harrassing, which, without being
dangerous, ever afflicted a community ;
thus occupying in physic the same position
which Tylerism does in politics.
Richmond Whig.
HOW THEY AGREE.
A Locofoco paper in this city a few days
ago avowed itself in favor of “a horizontal
tariff.” Now hear what the leading Loco
foco paper of Louisiana says about this
“ horizontal tariff:” ■
The senseless cry for abolishing custom
houses is one ofthe absurdities of the party
who style themselves the patrons of free
trade. One division of this party is in fa
vor of a horizontal rate of duties — that is,
the same rate on every article imported,
which is as absurd and vile a departurefrom
the principle of dealing out. equal bmejits to
all as was ever imputed to the protectionists.”
—[N. O. Courier.
How nicely these democrats agree on
principle !
SUPPOSED PIRACY.
Mr. Humphrey Anthony, (says the Phil
adelphia Gazette of the Ist instant) arrived
this morning in this city, from New Bed
ford, reports that he was yesterday morn
ing on board the schooner Sarah Lavinia,
of and from Alexandria, D. C. for Demera
ra and a market. Mr. A. reports that the
above schooner was discovered on Sunday
morning off Buzzard’s Bay, Maes.; had her
anchor down, no person on board, and a
bout three feet water in the hold. By re
curring to the log book, Mr. A. discovered
that on the night of the 14th ult. the captain
and mate had quarrelled, and when clench
ed, both went overboard. This part of the
statement, it is presumed, was written on the
log by a pirate, as the whole transaction sa
vors much of some foul and bloody work,
there was an auger hole bored in the fore
castle, and the water was getting in as fast
as possible.
[Since the above, three of the crew
landed, near New Bedford, from a boat,
and have been arrested in that town on sus
picion of having murdered the captain and
mate.]
Straws show which way the wind blows,
and toasts at public celebrations are con
sidered good indications of the popular
sentiment of the place where they are ut
tered ; if there is any faith to be put
in these indications, our old fashioned Geor
gia Union men, if they stick to Calhoun and
the ‘chivalry’, will have to go the whole
hog for Nullification—which formerly they
so much abhorred. The accounts of the
celebrations of the Fourth of July in South
Carolina, abound with such sentiments as
these:
Tariff Law. —Let us repeal it if we can,
but nullify it if we must.
The Tariff —Upon it let us first hold a
couucil talk; that failing to accomplish our
object, then Nullification.
And many more of the same tremendous
ly alarming character!
Hurrah for the Chivalry ! Go it: ye
Knights of the Dismal Countenance! Let
us all nullify! Who’s afeard?
An Irishman who had blistered his fin
gers by endeavoring to draw on a pair of
new boots exclaimed “Faith I believe I
shall never get them on until I wear them
’ a day or two.”
Cost, of a Politician. —We find in one of
our exchange papers the following table
showing the amounts that have been paid
Mr. Van Buren for his services in the vari
ous public offices lie lias held :
Received for 7 years services as
U. S. Senator, say SIO,OOO
Received for ,4 years service as Se
cretary ol'State 24,000
Received for 6 months service as
Ministerio England 18,000,
Received for 4 years service as
Vico President 2LOOO
Received for 4 years services as
President 100,000
Amounting to $170,000
A pretty dear bargain!—even if this
were all he lias cost the country ; but in or.
der to estimate his cost we must calculate
the amount of the swindlings and frauds
which the irresponsible office holders, ap
pointed by him, have perpetrated. ’’'There
would he some millions in the aggregate a
mount.
The Charleston Mercury, speaking of
him says “It may be worth considering al
so, whether, if a man will be President a
second term, he ought not to be compelled
to serve at half price, as he is certainly a
second-hand article, and ought to go
cheap.”— Columbia Chronicle.
We are told that Slamm, the editor ofthe
Plebeian, who looks upon the battle of
Bunker Hill as a humbug, and who is one
of Mr. Vanßuren’s strongest advocates and
supporters, is descended from a Hessian,
who with his countrymen were hired by
British gold to shoot down our forefathers
while struggling for liberty, during the re
volutionary war! No wonder that he should
look upon our battles, during that glorious
era, as a humbug.
Providence Chronicle.
The hard money currency is in full tide
of experiment in Illinois. No banks, no
rag currency manufactories in that State ;
the full fruition of the hard money principle
is exemplified without alloy: Corn is sell,
ing at eight cents per bushel at Springfield,
the seat of government. This is hard mon
ey times. The money is hard when you
get it—and hard to get.
Danville Reporter.
The late Postmaster at Berlin Centre,
Trumbull county, Ohio, in announcing his
removal and resignation to head-quarters,
adds the following impudent but not very
consolatory Postscript:
P. S.—l don’t know of any Tyler man
in the township—.though if you wish it I
can name some individuals that you might
possibly buy ; but not any respectable
man.
Mesmerism. —A travelling lecturer
mesmerism the other week advertised that
he would amputate a leg without any pain
being felt. At the appointed hour of the
lecture a goodly audience mustered ; when
lo! and behold, to the astonishment of the
spectators, the lecturer commenced and
mesmerised a table on the platform, and in
stantly sawed off one of its legs !
Ice Mountain. —The July No. of Silli
nian’s Journal of Science contains an ac
count of an ice mountain in Hampshire
County, Virginia, which has excited not a
little .interest in that quarter.—lt is com
posed of rocks and rises some seven or eight
hundred feet, constituting part of a ridge.
The mountain surface is made up of red
sand stone—and upon removing the stones
to the depth of a few inches, masses of ice
are found at mid-summer even during the
most oppressive seasons, permanently pre
served. A themometer introduced among
the cavities of the rocks sunk below 40 de
grees, and would have gone lower had it
remained. During a recent winter, a ca
vity about four feet below the surface was
opened, and filled up with snow. It was
covered loosely with boards, yet it remain
ed during the whole summer, dry, friable
and crystalline without melting.
Another comet is announced by the as
tronomers at the Observatory in this city,
first discovered at Paris in May. It rises
about 9 o’clock, P. M., in brightness about
equal to a star of the seventh magnitude.
Philadelphia paper.
One of the popular legends of the Welch
marches, is that of Morgan Jones and the
Devil. Morgan tells his own story in his
own way :
“ Well then you must know, says be,
that I had not seen his honor for a long
time, and it was about two months from this
that I went one evening along the brook
shooting wild fowl, and as I was going
whistling along, whom should I spy coming
up but the Devil himself? But you must
know he was dressed mighty fine, like any
grand gentleman, though I knew the old
one well by the bit of his tail which hung
out at the bottom of his trowsers. Well,
he came up, and says he, ‘ Morgan, how
are ye V and says I, touching my hat,
‘ pretty well, yo’r honor I thank ye.’ And
then says he, Morgan what are ye looking
arter, and what’s that long thingye’re car
rying with yc ?’ ‘ And says I, I’m only
walking out by the brook this fine evening,
and carrying my backy-pipe with me to
smoke.’ Well, you all know the old fel-,
low is mighty fond of backy : so says he,
Morgan, let’s have a smoke, and I’ll thank
ye.’ And says I, ‘ you’re mighty wel
come.’ So I gave him the gun, and he put
the muzzle in his mouth to smoke, and
j thinks I, ‘ I have you now old boy,’ ’cause
I you see I wanted to quarrel with him ; so f
pulled the trigger, and off went the gi*
! bang in his mouth. ‘ Puff!’ says he, w lsll
he pulled it out of his mouth, and hq/°P
ped a minute to think about it, and * le >
i 1 Cuss’d strong backy, Morgan !’ Then ho
gave me the gun, and looked wfF> and
walked oft’, and sure enough I’ve/ ever se ® n
, him since. And that’s tiie wa y j shut j
of the old gen tiffins n. my beyu
