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About News & planters' gazette. (Washington, Wilkes County [sic], Ga.) 1840-1844 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 21, 1843)
NEWS & PLANTERS’ GAZETTE. D. G. COXTIiIfO, Editor. No. 4.—NEW SERIES.] News and Planters ’ Gazette. TEU M s : Published weekly at Two Dollars and Fifty Cents per annum, i. ia :li e tune oi Subscri bing; 01 Three , nci paid till the expi ration of tnree muth^. No jjaper to ire discontinued,unles. a, the option oi tiieitl litpr, withom the settlCmtn of all arrearages. O* hitters, on business, must be post paid, to insure attention. No communication shall he published, Unless we are made acquainted with the name of the author.. TO ADVERTISERS. Advertisements, net exeeedn 6 one square,first insertion, Seventy-jive Cents; and for each sub sequent insertion, FiJ'ty Cents. A reduction will be made of twenty-five per cent, to those who advertise by the year. Advertisements not limited when handed in, will be inserted till for bid, and charged accordingly. Sales of Land and Negroes by Exe entors, Ad ministrators and Guardians, are required by law, to be advertised, in a public Gazette, sixty days previous to the day of sale. The sales of Personal Property must be adver tised in like manner, forty days. Notice to Debtors and Creditors of an Estate must be published forty days. Notice that application will be made to the Court of Ordinary, for leave to sell Land or Ne groes, must be published for four months— notice that application will be made for Letters of Administration, must be published thirty days; and Letters of Dismission, six months. Mail Arrangements. POST OFFICE, ) Washington, Ga., Sept. 1, 1843. y EASTERN MAIL. By this route, Mails are made up for Raytown, Double-Wells, Crawfordville, Cainack, Warren ton, Thompson, Dearing, and Barzelia. ARRIVES. Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, at 9, A. M. Tuesday', Thur.-nay, and Saturday, at 21, t. M WESTERN MAIL. By this route, Mails are made up for all Ofii ces in South-Western Georgia, Alabama, Mis sissippi, Louisiana, Florida, also Athens, Ga. and the North-Western part of the Slate. arrives —Wednesday and Friday, by G A. M. closes —Tuesday arid Thursday, at 12 M. ABBEVILLE, S.C. MAIL. By this route, Mails are made up for Danburg, Pistol Creek, and Petersburg. ARRIVES. Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, by 1 P. M. CLOSES. Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, at 6 A. M. LEXINGTON MAIL. By this route, Mails are made up for Centre ville, State Rights, Scull-shoals, and Salem. arrives —Monday and Friday, at 9 A. M. closes —Tuesday and Saturday, at 9 A. M. APPLING MAIL. By this route, Mails are made up for Wrights boro’, White Oak, Walker’s Quaker Springs. arrives —Tuesday and Saturday, by 9 A. M. closes —Monday and Friday, at 9 A. M. ELBERTON MAIL, By this route, Mails are made up for Mallo rysville, Goosepond, Whites, Mill-Stone, Harri sonville, and Ruckersville. Arrives Thursday 8 P. M., and Closes same time. LINCOLNTON MAIL. By this route, Mails are made up for Itehoboth, Stoney Point, Goshen, Double Branches, and Darby’s. Arrives Friday, 12 M. | Closes same time. EF The Letter Box is the proper place to de posite all matter designed to e transported by Mail, and such as may be found there at the times above specified, will be despatched by first post. Wilkes Agricultural Society. AT a meeting of the Society, held this morn ing, it was Resolved that Premiums be a warded for the following Stock to be exhibited on Friday the 20th of October next in Washington: For the best Horse. Do. Colt, under one year oid. Do. Cow. Do. Native Cow, which if she be the best Cow exhibited, may take both premiums. Do. Bull. Do. Boar. Do. Sow. It was further Resolved, that none shall com pete for the premiums who have not become members by paying the admission fee of One Dollar and signing the Constitution ; though ail persons are invited to attend and exhibit their Stock. FRANCIS T. WILLIS, Secretary. O’ The semi-annual meeting of the Society wilLfake place on Friday the 20th of October, at which time a public Address will bed u.vered by a member of the Society. September 7,1843. 3 COTTING & 81 T.;., ■ _t, ATTORNIISS, HAVE taken an OFFICE iff the rear of Willis & Hester’s Store. January, 1843. 28 For Sale* o—a The Subscriber . for sale his /’ Laud po:-3PSeiu..s o’ near fourteen hundred Acres, lyuig in the county “I Wilkes, twelve miles West ot W isiungton, on the Scull Shoal Road, on Kettle Creek. There is attached to the premises? a, Saw-Mill in fine operation, and a Corn Mill on a small scale—a commodious Dwelling, a well of fine water, with other necessaries. Persons wishing to purchase would do well to call on the’ Subscriber —he is determined to give a bargain. He would also offer a Lot, No. 241, in the county of Dooly. D. WATIES McJUNKIN. Wilkes co., September 7,1843. 4t* 2 WARE-HOUSE COMMISSION BUSINESS. AUGUSTA, GA. e m JN TENDING to establish mvselt in Augusta ■*” in the above business, I offer my services to my friends and the public, and shall be in Au gusta, ready to receive consignments, by the middle of September. My charges will be the same as tho?e at other Fire-proof Warehouses, except that tor those who consign me their Cotton, I purchase goods free of commission. Liberal advances made on produce in store. EF My office will be at. Clarke &. Roberts’ Fire-proof Ware-House, where ail Cotton con signed me will be stored. FRANCIS T. WILLIS. August 24, 1843. 52 STOVALL & SIMMONS, COMMISSION MERCHANTS, AUGUSTA, GA., in ffMIE undersigned having associated them selves under the firm of STOVALL & SIMMONS tender their services to the public in the transaction of a GENERAL COMMIS SION BUSINESS at the Fire-Proof Ware house lately occupied by Stovall, Simmons & Cos., on Broad-Street. Particular attention will be given to the Stor age and Sale of Cotton and receiving and for warding of Goods ; and liberal advances made on Cotton in store. Mr. John Robson, of Madison, will make ad vances on Cotton consigned to us, and the A gents of the Georgia Rail Koad Company will forward the same, and despatch Goods to our customers. Choc! a on the different Banks and Agencies in the interior will be procured and forwarded to suit the convenience of customers in making remittances, when desired. PLEASANT STOVALL. GREENVILLE SIMMONS. Augusta, August 24th, 1843. Gt 1 ADAMS & HOPKINS, FIRE-PROD? WARE-HOUSE. AUGUSTA, GA., August 22, 1843. jmi THE Subscribers respectfully tender their thanks for the liberal patronage heretofore received—and again oiler their services to their friends and the public in the WARE-HOUSE & GENERAL COMMISSION BUSINESS in this city. Prompt attention will be given to the Storage and Sale of Cotton, forwarding Goods, purchase of Merchandize, shipment oi Cotton, &c. Proceeds of Cotton will be remitted (if so instructed by the owner) in Bank Checks payable at Washington, Greenesboro’, Madison, Eatonfon, Milledgeville, Covington, and Colum bus, or in Bank Notes by mail. Messrs. F. C. McKinley & Cos. of Madison, will act as our Agents for the forwarding of Cot ton by Rail Road, make advances on Cotton con signed to us, receive return sales of Cotton, and pay over proceeds at Madison if desired. Messrs. McKinley & Seymour are our Agents for forwarding Cotton per Rail Road from Greenesboro’. ADAMS & HOPKINS. John M. Adams. \ Lambeth Hopkins. ( August 31. 9t I TO MERCHANTS AND PLANTERS. LsZ Jjgj HAMBURG, (S. C.) July, 1843. I BEG leave to inform you, that I continue the WARE-HOUSE AND COMMISSION BUSINESS at my old stand, known as the Wa ler-proof Warehouse. Detached as it is from oth er buildings, its location renders it nearly as se cure from fire, as if it was fire-proof The floors have been elevated above the high water mark of the great freshet of May, 1840. Planters will thus be secured from the possi bility of loss and damage by freshets. I avail myself of the present occasion, to re turn my thanks to my friends and patrons, for their liberal support during the past season. I solicit from them and the public generally, a con tinuance of this confidence, and assure them that in return for their patronage, I will use my best persona] efforts to promote and protect their in terests, committed to my charge. In addition to this assurance, I pledge myself that I will in no case purchase a bale of cotton, directly or indi rectly. I will attend personally to the sale and forwarding ol cotton to Savannah or Charleston; also, tp the sale of Bacon, Flour, &c. &c., and to the receiving and forwarding of goods to the up country. Having a fine wharf attached to my Warehouse, no wharfage will be charged on Cotton consigned to my care, either for sale or to be forwarded to Savannah or Charleston. My commissions for selling cotton, will be 25 cents per bale, and 12£ cents for forwarding. 1 wifi also attend to the buying'of goods pgr order. Very respectfully, yours, &c. G. WALKER. August, 1843. 52 months after date, application will fie made to the Honorable the Inferior Court of Elbert county, while sitting as'a Court of Or dinary, for leave to sell all the Lands and Ne groes belonging to the Estate of Haley Butler, deceased, this loth -Mav, 1843. , EPPY BOND, Adm’r. June 1. m4m 40 months alter date, application will be made to the Honorable Inferior Court of Wilkes county, while sitting as a Court of Ordi nary, for leave to seli aU the Real Estate of John S. Walton’s minors, lying in said county. I. T. IRVIN, Guardian. .Tune 15, 1843. m4m 42 WASHINGTON, (WILKES COUNTY, GA.,) SEPTEMBER 21, ISIS!. IHiocfUnurcms. THE EQUESTRIAN’S CHILD. A THRILLING SKETCH. It is about throe years since 1 was enga ged to play in an Equestrian Company.— It was managed by a Mr. Codoni, of Italian extraction, and of much respectability.— For a short time previously I had been an ill-remunerated member of a country dra matic circuit, in which low comic parts had principally fallen to my lot. This person, taking a fancy to mv powers in that way, made an offer to me of the tempting salary of two guineas a week to become clown to the ring in this exhibition. I must confess I had some qualms—but I put the affront into my pocket, and the two guineas into the opposite one ; when, finding my equilibri um perfect, I at once deserted the hoards and took to the sawdust; threw up the sock and buskin, and donned the cap and bells, and very excellent fooling I made, believe me. The chief attraction when I joined the corps, and that which nightly filled the great amphi-theatre to overflowing, was a female equestrian, whose enactments were of a most original and interesting, nay, startling excellence. She was a woman of striking beauty, which, though a little past its prime, and beginning to fude, was, nevertheless, by a little art and trouble, capable of a perfect restoration to its original brilliancy. She’ was an universal favorite, and the applause she nightly drew down was most unanimous and decided, and she seemed fully alive to it; in fact, her features used to exhibit a strange, glowing pleasure, in the noise that thundered around from every quarter of the vast and sonorous edifice, of a nature which I have never seen depicted on the counte nance of any other player—a kind of anom alous, enthusiastic delight—it seemed an altogether unexplainable expression. Her figure was the perfection of symme try, and tlie lightness and elegance, the ea sy, confident, swimming grace wherewith she went through her evolutions on horse back, accompanied by the sort of absent, mystical smile of strange, internal pleasure she constantly wore in such circumstan ces, rendered her an object which the eyes of the spectator felt pain in being removed from for one instant, from her first entrance to her final exit. But there was another, without whom she hardly ever appeared in the circle, and who perhaps constituted a principal part of the charm that hung around her—her daughter, a tiny child of about three years old, exceedingly small for her age, but of much intelligence and beauty. Its face seemed absolutely angelic, whilst its little frame rivalled its mother’s grace. It was a light-tinted, flaxen-haired girl, altogether unlike its parent in features, save that its eyes of laughing hazel might possibly have fragments from the dazzling dark orbs of the mother. Os this child she was immoderately, do tingly fond. She was continually caress ing it, and talking to it in some foreign lan guage, and never for a moment allowed it away from her sight; her very heart seem ed wrapt in the infant. Daily in the public promenades she might bo seen walking along, talking and smiling with an ineffable sweetness to her darling, and apparently careless, or rather scornful of the numerous young men that watched her crossing the street, and crossing again to get glimpses of her face, and see whether that beauty which had so fascinated them amid the glare of gas, the crash of music, and the flutter of drapery, would bear the test of sober day ; or others, who by various schemes and affectations, endeavored to draw upon themselves one of those looks of love which she lavished in such profusion on her little companion. But if she bore towards her daughter such affection, the child seemed to return it with a devotion scarcely less ardent. It was never happy but when fondling and fondled by her, and was always pining and moping “ bad” (to use a technical term,! when her avocations led her from its socie ty. On this account it never was that fa vorite among us which its beauty and in telligence might otherwise have rendered it. I may stale that she was a woman of ve ry low moral character ; an abandoned and utterly profligate person, indeed; appa rently without any one redeeming feature, save the engrossing attachment to her in fant. I could say more on this point, hut leave you, considering her station in life, to guess the rest. Her name was Clara Benattar, as was also lhat of her daughter. She was said to be an Italian Jewess, though we could only surmise her origin, a3 she never talked of any of the past events of her life. At all events, she Htd played for a considerable time at Franconi’s, in Paris, where a son of Mr. Codoni engaged her. The child and she used constantly to perform together on horseback, or on the tight rope or slack wire, on all of which she displayed consummate proficiency and grace, but especially the first. They were wont thus to assume such characters as Venus and Cupid, Psyche and Cupid, Hebe and Ganymede, Aurora and Zephyr, and the confidence, the total absence of fear dis played by the little one, when apparently in the- most dangerous positions ; nay, its look of wild delight when in such circum stances ; its shrill, joyous laughter and ex clamations, and the clapping of its tiny hands, conspired to take away every feel PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY MORNING. ing of anxiety from the minds of the spec tators, and leave them lost in delight and wonder. Tlie animal, too, that sho chiefly used, as if to render the exhibition perfect, was one of exceeding spirit and.heautv. It was a young blood-mare, black as a coal, which, having been rendered unfit, by ar. easily concealed accident, for the turf or chase, was purchased by our manager, and train ed for exhibition in tlie arena. Well, our season—u perfectly successful one—though prolonged to the utmost, at length was over, and the benefit nights came on. It was Clara’s benefit, and she had adver tised some of her most beautiful and attrac tive performances. Tlie great building, as might be expected, was crowded to the gal lery, the low rate of admission to which made it frequented chiefly by the inferior and more juvenile portion of the commu nity. A gorgeous spectacle commenced the en tertainments, and when it was over, Mad ame Clara and her child were announced amid continued rounds of applause. The black mare was first introduced, and led round the ring by two of the servants of tlie establishment, who ran at its head, for as vet it had not become so habituated to its occupation as not to be startled by the glare of gas, the shouting of the audience, and the ear-piercing music of our band. Then Clara bounded lightly into the a rena, attired in a drapery that set off her unrivalled symmetry of person to an admi rable degree. It was intended to picture her as Ariadne, and around her loose, short, black curls, was bound a garland of roses, lilies, and vine blossoms—all artificial, of course, but perhaps better calculated than real for scenic display. When, with one of her strange enchant ing smiles, she had courtesied lowly to the house, in jumped her lovely child, attired in a close fitting, skin colored dress, with two tiny butterfly-wings, like a little cupid, bearing in one hand a thyrsus, or bunch of grapes, and in the other a small gilded chalice. In a twinkling, this little Bacchus had sprung with a clear cry of joyous laughter, into her arms, and kissing the creature, with an appearance of the utmost fondness, on the lips and brow, she took a few quick steps, and with a bound seated herself on the unsaddled back of the black mare.— Upon the instant, the grooms let go its head, and away it darted, galloping furiously round the circle, while the band struck up a most fairy-like and beautiful strain, one of the dance airs in tlie opera “ La Favor ite,” of Donizetti, and the two men retreat ed to the centre alongside of the riding master and myself. For a time, nothing was to be heard save the muffled, sounding, rapid tread of tlie horse’s feet among tlie sawdust, and the fit ful rise and fail of the wild melody from the lighter instruments of tlie band, with periiaps now and then an insuppressibie ex clamation of delight from scattered mem bers of the audience. With these excep tions, all was breathless silence and admi ration, as the fair equestrian and her child went on with their daring and graceful evo lutions. Now she would recline at length on the bare back of the flying steed, with an ap pearance of the utmost ease and unconcern, whilst the tiny Bacchus nestled in her bo som. Anon she would gently rise, kneel upon one knee in an attitude classically graceful, and look around and upward to the little one that perched on her shoulder, and, embracing her flower-girt brow, would seem to be laughingly pressing the juice from the grape-cluster into the chalice she held aloft in her hand. All this while, tlie smiling look of warm and passionate affection to the infant never left her lovely features, though it was oc casionally mingled with the blushful glow of strange, inward exultation, so charac teristic of her, at quick, short rattles of ap plause, that seemed to hurst at once from the whole enraptured audience. Then she rose gradually to her feet, eve ry change of posture being marked by the most poetical elegance of molion, and step per lightly on tlie bare croup of the wildly galloping mare, whirling the young Bac chus about her head the while, or rather seeming to make tlie infant deity fly with its little fluttering wings, as she danced in swimming gyrations. Tlie way this latter feat was managed was simple enough. A series of bands of thin, but strong leather, passed under the child’s dress, round its waist, beneath it, and over its shoulders. These all met, and there secured together at the bend of its back to a strong steel ring, which she wore round three fingers of her hand, with the fourth and thumb controlling bv a wire the two little gauze wings at its shoulders, which were mounted on small spiral springs, so that she could make them quiv er or fold them to its back ashe pleased. Well, while she was thus flying round, and while the house was all eye for her, and all ear for the admirable musical ac companiment—whilst the horse was gallop ing at its most furious speed—at once, just as she was opposite to the pit, the winged Bacchus seemed to leave her shoulder and fly towards the ground. As it fell, one ofthe wildly flung-up hind hoofs ofthe animal met it and the next in stant it was tossed lifeless and almost head less into the air, its brains dropping in a shower upon the persons of many of the closely seated pit spectators, and immedi ately after, its little body, with its painted wings and gaudy frippery, lay dead and motionless, like a crushed butterfly, among the dust of the arena. There was a strange, sudden hustle a mongithe spectators at first—they rose to their feet bv masses—many screamed ab ruptly with dread, others gave hurried words of direction, and numbers jumped from the pit and lower boxes to render as sistance. But tlie great majority were al together unconscious, for the first moment or two, of the harrowing event, their eyes following the equally unconscious ques trian, as she was born with lightning speed round the circle. The riding master and myself, stunned with the sight for a second, as soon as we could command our limbs, sprang from the centre, where we stood, to raise the shat tered body of tho child ; but ere we had time to touch it, the fiery gallop of the black mare had swept its rider round the ring, and she appeared on the same spot. As shecame near, she seemed paralyzed j with surprise and horror, standing in an at titude forcibly expressive of these emotions on the back of the animal (whereon, from mechanical habit merely, for it could not be from effort, she continued to maintain her balance,) and witii staring eyes, uplif ted brows, parted lips, and features the deadly pallor of which was fearfully evi dent beneath the warm, artificial complex ion they regarding tlie steel ring upon her hand, to which a fragment of leather was all that was now attached. But when she saw the mangled frame of her heart’s idol motionless among the dust, with the wild shriek of a mother’s despair she leaped from the place, and fell franti cally grovelling on the ground beside it.— A strange unnatural scream was that!— such as shall ring through my brain when age or disease may have made my ears im pervious ; and it rose in loud and louder waves of piercing sound, tiii it filled the I fout corners of the vast ampitheatre, and j was sent back in echoes and reverberations j to lacerate anew the hearing, quashing the j tumuitof the alarmed and excited audience, | as the crash of thunder in a tempest drowns ! the tumoil of tlie waters. Ail was confusion and uproar, amaze ment and terror, among the people ; women fainted, and many of the children were crushed and trodden upon, and they strug gled hither and thither apparently without any object—a strong panic seeming to have taken possession ofthem, —while over the whole floated a deafening roar of mingled noises, louder than the loudest applause that had ever sounded there. Meanwhile, the band went on wijh their music, blowing and straining their utmost to be heard above tiie clamor in tlie arena, for they were placed behind a screen in one of the entrance passages, to let the orclies. tra be filled with spectators, and were not aware of what had happened. The horse, moreover, riderless, and fran tic with fear and excitement, flew round and round, tossing its head in the air, and flinging aloft the dust from its heels. So veral of the company and servants rushing in from without, made attempts to catch it, in which I also joined. But they were in vain ; for the affrighted creature, darting from its course, dashed across tlie circle, and springing wildly over the barrier that enclosed it, was the next instant kicking and plunging, struggling and snorting, a mong the densely crowded audience in the space called tlie gallery, who, mad w ill) terror, and screaming to heaven for aid, rushed backwards with fierce struggling from around it, as if a very demon in a palpable shape had come among them. Oil. the terrors of that dreadful night,— terrors to which tlie dazzling glare of light tlie gorgeously decorated scene, and tlie thrilling music, lent a strange sublimity ap proaching to the supernatural ! As I sprang after the animal with a coi! of rope which I had hasti l y seized some where about tlie place, and which i inten ded to throw over it, so as to obtain, by en tangling its head or limbs, some purchase whereby to restrain its plunging, and drag it backward into the ring. I got caught in a vortex of the terror-stricken crowd, and af ter a few struggles, found myself crushed to the ground between the seats, and the next moment trampled over by a hundred feet. Aftersome hard but useless attempts to rise, I became insensible, and what hap pened thereafter I only heard by report ma ny days afterwards. 1 recovered cansciousness in the wards of the surgical hospital, of tlie place where I lay—my frame a mass of bruises. It was more than a month before I was dismissed, cured ; and by that time the circus had heen removed, no trace of it remaining, save the hollow space where the sawdust, mingled with the sand, indicated the sight of the arena. * * * * * Clara, I learned, was a maniac—the in mate of a public asvlum. Here she still remains; at least she did when I was last at the place ; but she is now quite quiet, cheerful and docile ’; indeed, so far recov. ered, as to have a kind of authority entrus ted to her over other female patients. Husband. —The etymology of this word may not bo generally known. The head of a family is called husband from the fact that he is, or ought to be, the band which unites the house together—or the bond of union among the family. It is to be regret ted that ail husbands are not house bands in reality as well as in name. One of the tin mines in Cornwall, Eng land extends the immense distance of sixty three miles under ground 11. J. K APPEL, Printer. •From the Boston Atlas. REMARKABLE INSTANCE OF FI DELITY AND HONOR IN PECUNIA RY AFFAIRS. In these days of unexampled perfidy, and abounding flagitiousness—when it seems as if the wonted restraints of honesty and mor ality had become lax and inoperative— when the self-aoknowledged counterfeiter, and the openly avowed swindler, are impu dently stalking about the streets at noon day—when the individual cheat is kept in countenance, in his villainy, by the repu diating States—it is refreshing to meet, now and then, an instance of unalloyed honor and integrity ; it is exhilirating occasional ly, to reach a green spot in the great desert of infamy. As chroniclers of constantly occurring events, it isour frequent duty—and a pain ful one it is to perform—to record the mel ancholy detailsofforgeries and peculations; to hold up to the world the evil deeds, not ofthe practised and professed villain only, but of those who have been drawn into the paths of crime, from high stations and an honorable—and who, in melancholy addi tion to theirowndishonor, have visited with deepdisgrace an affectionate and honorable circle of connexions and friends. How a greeable, then, must it be to us, when, in a transposition of circumstances, it falls to our lot to recount an incident, reflecting the highest credit on the parties concerned in it; giving us hope that our race has not taller, away entirely from the paths of a lofty integrity ; and encouraging anew our earnest desire that unsullied integrity may yet abound among us, and meet its due re ward, even in our present sphere of exis tence. We have made these remarks, introdue toty to the statement of an occurrence w hich has taken place, within a few days past — which reflects great credit upon a mer chant of our city, and whom we are pleased and proud to call our friend, and which is highly honorable, also, to the community of which lie is a member. Some time we believe, ir. the month of November, 1841, the mercantile house of Shelton, Brothers & Cos., of this city ; borne down by the uncommon pressure of that time—found it necessary to suspend pay ment of their debts, and to close up the bu siness of the firm. Their creditors, after an investigation of their” concerns, agreed to receive fifty per cent of the amount of their respective demands, and release the house entirely from their obligations.— This agreement was entered into by all the creditors. The stipulated per centage was paid, and the demands cancelled. Since the time of the*failure of the bourse, Mr. Henry Shelton, one the partners, has de parted this life. Philo S. Shelton, Esq. the surviving part ner, proceeded with undaunted and perse vering energy, to wind up the concerns of the old firm, and to commence business, a new, on his own account. In his new en terprize, we are happy to say that he has been prosperous—and that he has made most honorable use of his prosperity. On Tuesday last, he made a dividend among all his creditors, of twenty-five per cent, upon the full amount of their cancelled de mands against him for house—paying out to them the aggregate sum of forty thousand dollars , for which they had no legal claim upon him whatever. This payment was entirely voluntary, on his part—and it has been made, not only to individual creditors, but, in some instances, to rich corporations, by whom the loss would not have been felt. We’present this as an instance of most commendable honor and integrity. It is deserving of all the praise that can be be stowed upon it. Pass along the name of Philo S. Shelton. Let It be held up to our whole business community, as an object of their admiration. Let our old merchants do him honor ; and let the young look up to this good deed, as worthy of their honest emulation. We congratulate our fellow citizens upon the occurrence of a transac tion so highly honorable to the commercial character of Bostonians. A PUNCTUAL CUSTOMER. “ May it please y’r Honor,” said a stout looking son of the Emerald Isle one morn ing not long ago at the mayor’s office— “ May it please your Honor, here's them three dollars I’m owin’ y’r worship.” The mayor did not remember having any claim against the man, and requested him to explain. “Oeh, thin, and a’int three dollars the price for breakin’ the corporation law over the face and eyes of a dirty spalpeen— when you pitch into him, y’r Honor, you know ?” The mayor understood the case at once. There had been a fight, and the principal offender, fearing a warrant, had determined to evade the tax of constable fees, &c.- About this time the Recorder stepped in, and having received the money began to make the entry on his book. - A thought seemed to strike our comba tant : , . “Suppose, y’r Honor, I make it five, would y’r worship giro me the privilege ? It will save a trouble, you know . What do vou mean by ‘privilege . “The lave to pitch into the spalpeen agin, if he don’t keep himself aisv, y’r Honor, ’ We left the mayor explaining why “pri vileges” of that kind could not he granted, and went on to our breakfast. Memphis Enquirer, [VOLUME XXIX.
