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TIIE COLUMBUS TIMES.
GOSSIPING.
The following is exquisite—alas! that it
should be—for its truth. We publish it in the
hope that it may reach some who are guilty,
perhaps Irorn mere thoughtlessness, of the
odious practice there set forth. The mirror
thus held up with such excellent fact, must re
flect too detestable a picture to be endured
lor a moment. It is copied from a iate work
Gy Mrs. Sedgwick, called Means and Euds —
from the section “ On Conversation.”
Gossiping.— s he most prevailing fault of
con versa Run in our country, and, I believe, in
all social communities, is gossiping. As weeds
most idlest tiie richest soils, so gossiping most
abounds amidst the social virtues in.small
towns, where lhere is tjie most extended mu
tual acquainlance, where persons live in the
closest relations resembling a large family
circle. To disturb the sweet uses of Ihe little
communities by gosiping, is surely to forfeit
the benefit of one of the finest arrangements
of Providence.
lu great and busy cities, where people live
in total ignorance of their neighbors, where
they cannot know bow they live, and hardly
know when they die, there is no neighborhood
and there is no gossiping. But need there be
ibis poisonous weed among the flowers—this
blight upon the Iruil, my young friends?
You may understand better precisely what
comes under the head of gossiping, if I give
yon some examples of it.
In a certain small thickly settled town there
lives a family, consisting of a man, his wile,
and his wife’s sister. He has a little shop, it
may be a jeweller’s, saddler’s, shoemaker’s, or
what we call a store —no matter which, since
he earns enough to live most comfortably,
with the help of his wife and sister, who are
noted for their industry and economy. One
would think they had nothing to do but to en
joy their own comforts and aid and pity those
tess favored than themselves. But instead of
till this, they volunteer to supervise all the sins,
follies and short comings of their neighbors.
Ti e husband is not a silent partner. He does
his full share of the low work of this gossiping
trio. Go to see them when you will, you may
hear the last ne.vs of every family within half
a mile. For example, as follows:
“ Mr. gave $l5O for anew wagon,
and lie had no need of anew one; the old one
has not run more than two years.”
“Mrs. has got anew hired help;
hut she won’t stay long—it’s come and go
there.”
‘•Mrs. had another new gown at
meeting yesterday, which makes the filth in
less than a year; and every one of her girls
had new ribands on their bonnets; it is a good
thing to have friends; but, for my part, I had
rather wear mv old ribons.”
“ There go Sam Bliss’ people with a barrel
of flout; it was hut yesterday she was at the
judge’s begging.”
*• None of Ihe widow Day’s girls were at
meeting, but they can walk out as soon as the
sun is down.”
This is but a specimen ol the talk of these
unfortunate peop'e, who seemed to have turn
ed their home into a common sewer through
which all the sins and foibles of'tbe neighbor
hood run. Yes, but iheir minds have run to
waste, and there is some taint, I fear, at their
hearts.
The noted gossip. Miss , makes a visit
iii a town where she has previously been a
stranger. She divides Iter time among several
families. She is social, and what we think
miscalled, agreeable; for she is perpetually
talking of persons ami things. she wins a
too easy confidence, arid site returns home
with an infinite store of family anecdotes.—
She knows that Mr. and Mrs. So and So, who
are supposed to live happily, are really on bad
terms, and that he broke the hearts of two
other women before he married his xvife; she
knows the particulars, but she lias promised
not to tell. She has found out that, a certain
family, who for ten years have been supposed
to live harmoniously with a step-mother, are
really eminently wretched. She heard that
Mr. , who apparently is in very flourish
ing circumstances, has been on the brink of
bankruptcy for the last ten years, &.c.
Could this woman find nothing in visiting a
new scene to excite her mind but such trum
pery ? We have given you this example to
show you that the sin of gossiping pervades
some communities. This woman did not cre
ate these stories. She heard them all, the in
dividuals who told them to her little thinking
that they in turn would become the subjects
of similar remarks to the very persons whose
affairs thev are communicating.
What would we think of persons who went
about collecting lor exhibition examples of the
warts, wens and cancers with which their
fellow beings were afflicted ? And yet would
not their employment be more honorable,
more humane, at least, than this gossip-mon
gers r
We have heard such talk as follows between
ladies, wives, and mothers, the wives of edu
cated men, and persons who uiere called edu
cated womens
“ Have you heard that Emma Ellis is going
to Washington?” “To Washington! how
on earth can the Ellises afford a winter in
Washington?” “Ob, you know they are not
particular about their debts, and they have
six girls to dispose of, and find rather a dull
maiket here.”
“Have you heard the Newtons are going
to the country to liver” “Bless me! no,
what’s that lor?” “They say to educate
their children; but mv dress-maker, Sally
Smith, who works for Mrs. Newton, says she
is worn out with dinser-p triies. He runs the
house down with company.”
“Oh, 1 suspect they are obliged to go to
economise. You know she dresses her chil
dren so extravagantly. 1 saw Mary Newton
at the theatre (she is not older than nty Grace,)
with a diamond ferrionere.”
“Diamond, was it? Julia told me it was
an aqua marina. The extravagance of some
people is shocking! I don’t wonder that men
are out of patience. Don’t tell it again, be
cause Ned Miller told me in confidence—he
actually locked up all his wife’s worked pocket
handkerchiefs. \\ ell, whatever else mv hus
band complains of, he can’t find tault with my
extravagance.”
Perhaps not; but faults far more heinous
lhan extravagance this woman had to account
for—the pernicious wtrds for which she must
be brought into judgment.
I hope it may appear increditable to you.
my young friends, that women halfway thro’
this short life, with the knowledge of their
immortal destiny, with a world without them
and a world within to explore and make ac
quaintance with, with the delightful interests
and solemn responsibilities of parents upon
them, should so dishonor God’s good gift of
♦he tongue, should so waste time, and poison
social hte. But be on vour guard. If your
minds are not employed on higher objects,
and vour hearts on better things, you will talk
idle about you friends and acquaintance.
The habit of gossiping begins in youth. I
once attended a society of young persons,
from thirteen to seventeen years of age, who
met for benevolent purposes.
“ Is this reading or talking afternoon?"asked
one of the girls.
“ Reading,” replied the president ; “and I
have brought Percy’s Reiiques ol English
Poetry to read to you.”
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, MAY 13, 18*41.
j “Is not that light reading?” asked Julia
Ivers. “ These are old ballads and songs.”
“ Yes, I suppose it will be ca! ed light read
ing.”
“Then I vote against it; mother don’t ap
prove of light reading.”
Julia, who had the lightest of all minds and
the most voluble of tongues, preferred talking
to any reading, and without loss of time she
began to a knot of girls, who too much resem
bled her:
4 Did you notice Matilda Smith last Sun
day ?’
‘ Yes indeed ; she had on anew silk dress.’
‘That is the very thing I wanted to find
out, whether you were taken in with it. It
was nothing but her old sky-blue dyed.’
‘Can that be? why she has worn it ever
since she was thirteen. I wonder I did not
see t he print of the tacks.’
‘I did,’ interposed another of the committee
of investigation. ‘ I took a good look at it as
she stood in the door. She could’t deceive
me with aunt Sally’s wedding sky-blue dyed
black.’
‘I don’t think Matilda would care whether
you were deceived or not,’ said Mary Morris,
the youngest member of the society, coloring
up to her eyes.
‘Oh! I forgot, Marv,’ said Julia Ivers, ‘that
Matilda is your cousin.’
‘lt is not because she is my cousin,’ replied
Marv.
‘ Well, what is it then ?’
Mary’s tears dropped on her work, but she
made no other reply. She had 100 much del
icacy to ptoclaim her cousin’s private good
deeds, and*site did not tell how Matilda, hav
ing had a small sum of money, which was to
have been invested in anew silk gown, gave
it instead to her kind ‘aunt Sally,’ who was
sinking under a long indisposition, which her
physician said ‘ might be removed by a jour
ney.’ It was—and vve believe Matilda little
cared how much these girls gossiped about
her dyed frock.
Julia Ivers turned the conversation by say
ing, ‘Don’t you think it strange that Mrs.
Sanford lets Maria ride out with Walter
I she I ?’
‘ Yes, indeed, and what is worse yet, accept
presents from him.’
‘ Why ! does she?’ exclaimed Julia, staring
open her eyes, and taken quite aback by an
other person knowing a bit of gossip which
had not yet reached her ears.
‘ Yes, she does; fie brought her three ele
gant plants front New York, and she wears
a ring which he must have given Iter; lor
you know the Sanlords could not aflbrd to buy
such things, and, besides, they never do.’
I have given but. a specimen, of* various
‘characters and circn ustances which were dis
cussed, till the young gossips were interrupted
by a proposition from the president that the
name of the society should be changed; ‘lor,’
as she said, ‘the I ttle charities they did with
their needles were a poor offset against the
uncharitableness of their tongues.’
There is a species of gossiping aggravated
by treachery ; hut, had as this is, it sometimes
is committed more from thoughtlessness than
| malice. A girl is invited to pass a day, a week
or a month, it may be, in a family. Admitted
to such an intimacy, she may see and hear
much that the family would not wish to have
reported. Circumstances otten occur, and re
marks are made, from which no harm would
come il they were published to the world,
provided what went before and came alter
could likewise be known; but taken out of
their connection, they make a false impression.
It is by relating the disjointed circumstances,
and repeating fragments of conversations, that
so much mischief is done by those admitted
into the bosom of a family.
iTou know that, with the Arabs, partaking
salt is a pledge of fidelity, because the salt is
a symbol ot hospitality. Buch a sacred grati
tude for hospitably by never making any dis
paraging remarks or idle communications
about those into whose families you are re
ceived. I know persons who will say unhlush
ingly, ‘I am sure Hint Mr, So and So is not
kind to his wife. I saw enough to convince
me of it when I was there.’ ‘ Mrs. S.
is very mean in her family.’ ‘How do you
know that?’ ‘I am sure I ought to know,for
I staid a month in her house.’ —‘If you wish
to he convinced that Mrs. 1,, has no govern
ment over her children, go and stay there a
week as I did.’ ‘ The B’s and their stepmo
ther try to live happily together; but if you
were in their family as much as I am, you
would see there is no love lost between
them.’
Now you perceive, my young ftiends, that
the very reason should have sealed this gos
sip’s lips, adduced as the ground of your Faith
in Her evil report.
*******
I have dwelt long on this topic of gossiping,
my young iriends, because, as I said before,
I believed it to he the prevailing fault in our
young and social country. The only sure
mode of extirpating it is by the cultivation ol
your minds and the purification of your
hearts.
All kinds and degress of gossiping are as
distasteful to an elevated character as gross
and unwholesome food is to the well-trained
appetite.
THE WHITE HORSEMAN.
BY A SOLDIER OF THE REVOLUTION.
The heavy tramp of tlie regulars as the
solid columns moved amid the darkness to
wards Concord, was heard with indignation
by the waking inhabitants of the country. —
The hardy yeoman, as he leaped from his
pallet and glared through the window at tire
passing show, was at first at a loss to conjec
ture on what errand these well-trained war
riors, had been sent; but instantly recollecting
that there was a depository of arms and pro
visions at Concord, which the Americans bad,
at much trouble, collected together, he made
no doubt that this strong detachment of the
British army had been commissioned to take
possession of them. There was something!
provokingly cruel in the eyes of the Ameri
cans, in thus depriving them of the very hum
ble means of defence which they had been
able to procure; and although they did not
immediately form the resolution of drawing
the blood of those incendiaries, yet the mur
mur of disapprobation ran from house to
house, until lire whole of the surrounding
country had been aroused ft cm their pillows,
anu anxiously awaited the result of their
movements. It was in a large building a few
miles below Lexington that a family, who had
been early made acquainted with the ap
proach of the British hirelings, resided.—
They were up and doing, long before tiie ar
rival of the troops.
The girls assisted their brothers in putting
on their equipments, and the old man saddled
tiie horses for his sons. As these lads were
about starting for the purpose of watching
the career of the regulars when they should
arrive at Concord, a young man rude swiftly
up to the door, and hade the volunteers good
morning. “Capt. Roe!” burst from the lips
of all present, save one young and blooming
lass, who hung her head and sighed deeply.
This young man was, apparently, under thirty
years of age; of middling stature, and dark
eyes, which now gleamed with fire. He spoke
a few hasty words, in an under tone, to the
armed peasant boys, to which they replied by
0
THE UNION OF THE STATES, AND THE SOVEREIGNTY OF THE STATES.
grasping their -tire-locks and hastily mounting
their steeds. “ Not a word has he spoken to
me,” sighed the pensive girl. Quick as
thought, the young Captain sprang to the
ground, and giving her a hearty embraee,
promised to be with her in a few Itours. No
answer was returned bv the desponding fair
one, but she clenched her hands and raised
her pallied face to Heaven, as if engaged in
inward prayer. There she stood in statue
like silence until the sound of the departing
horses’ hoofs had died away. Then turning
to her mother who had remained at her side,
she softiv said, “I shall never see him more!’’
“Foolish girl,” answered the old lady in a
tone that trembled while it chid, “do you sup
pose that Captain Roe intends to attack the
British army with a handful of plough-boys?
There will be no fighting depend upon it.”
But the sound of approaching horsemen
driving swiftly along the by paths and Ihe
main road, convinced the trembling girl, that
the number was not small who were already
up in arras for the defence of their rights, their
hearthstones, and their liberties. The two
females shrank into the house oppressed by
feelings strange and new.
The young men, with Capt. Rroe at their
head, drove off toward Lexington, and halted
at a barn on the road side, at a distance of
two miles from that village. Here were as
sembled about forty youths, v, hose lack of
equipments, and unmilitary bearing was com
pensated by sturdy limbs, hard embrowned
visages, and sinewy arms.
“Now my dear fellows,” said Roe, in a
hasty, but not agitated tone, “ vve are strong
enough to march. We shall he joined by
others. The Cambridge boys are wideawake,
and have gone to Concord already; and I
have seen some old men galloping out to en
joy the morning air. The country is rising
all around us.”
The rude volunteers gave three loud cheers,
and at once formed in marching order. The
little band struck out into the high road, but
before they had reached Lexington, were
obliged to turn into a by-wav, as the rapid
advance of the British endangered theirsale
ty. Having arrived at Lexington, Capt. Roe
called his men to a hait, and besought them
sooner to sell their lives than be driven from
die position they had taken. This charge
appeared to be needless, as diey had no in
tention of firing upon the enemy, and it was
not to be expected that regular troops would
ussault unoffending men. While this little
company was resting beh nd the village
church, many squads of Americans dashed by
them, on their way to Concord, but Captain
Roe maintained his position with the view ol
harrassing the enemy if they should offer any
violence to the vilhge. Just as the morning
dawned, the hasty tramp of men was heard
by the little band; and in a moment after
wards, the British Commander wheeled his
sieed upon the plain where they stood, and
waving his sword commandeu them to throw
down their arms and disperse. The Ameri
cans were not fast in acknowledging the au
thority of the epaulelted caitiff, and, in an
instant, a shower of British bails cut down
neatly half of the little company and put the
rest to flight. Captain Roe was among the
slain. The women and children of Lexington
fled from (heir houses over the lulls, filling
die air wilh their screams. There was an
old man By the name of Hezekiah Wyman,
the window of wfiose house overlooked the
ground where these murders were committed;
and no sooner did he see his brave country
men fall, than lie inwardly devoted himself to
revenge the unhallowed slaughter.
‘ V\ ile,’ said lie, ‘is there not an orld gun
barrel somewhere in the garret?’
‘I believe there was,’said she; ‘ but pray
what do you want with it?’
‘I should like to see il it is fit for service,’
replied he, ‘if I am not mistaken, it is good
enough to drill a hole through a rig’lar.’
* Mercy on me, husband! are you going
mad? An old man like you—sixty years last
November—to talk of going to war! I should
think you had enough lighting the British al
ready. There lies poor Capt. Roe and his
men bleeding on the grass before your eyes.
What would you do with a gun?’
The old man made no rep'y, but ascended
the stairs, and soon returned with a rusty
gun-barrel in bis bands. In spite of bis wife’s
incessant din, be went to the shop, made a
stock for it, and put it in complete order for
use. He then saddled a strong white horse,
and mounted him. He gave the steed the
rein, and directed his course toward Concord.
He met the British troops returning, and was
not long in perceiving that there was a wasp’s
nest about their ears. He dashed so closely
upon the flank ot the enemy that his horse’s
neck was drenched with the spouting blood
ot the wounded soldiers. Then reigning
hack his snorting steed to reload, he dealt a
second death with the never-failing bullet.—
The tall gaunt form of the assailant, his gray
locks floating on the breeze, and the color ol
his steed distinguished him from the rest of the
Americans, and the regulars gave him the
name of ‘ Death on the pale horse.’ A dozen
bullets whizzed by his head, when he made
the first assault, but undismayed, the old pat
riot continued to prance his gay steed over
the heads of the foot soldiers, to do his own
business faithfully, in the belie! that because
otliers did wrong in firing at him, it would be
no excuse for him to do wrong by sparing the
ifireling bullies of a tyrannical government. —
At length a vigorous charge of the bayonet
drove the old man and the party with whom
he was acting, far from the main body ol the
British. Hezekiah was also out of ammuni
tion, and was compelled to pick up some on
the road, before he could return to the charge.
He then came on again, and picked of! an
officer, by sending a slug through his royal ■
brains, before he was again driven off. But
ever and anon, through the smoke that curled
about the flanks of the detachment, could be
seen the white horse of the veteran for a mo
ment— the report of bis piece was heard, and
the sacred person of one of his Majesty’s faith
ful subjects was sure to measure his length
on tie rebel ground. Thus did Hezekiah and
his neighbors continue to harrass the retreat
ing foe, ur.til Earl Pereey appeared with a
thousand fresh troops from Boston. The two
detachments of the British were now two
thousand strong, and kept ofl the Americans,
with their artillery, while they took a hasty
meal. No sooner had they again commenced
their march than the powerful white horse
was seen careering at full speed over the hills,
with the dauntless old yankee on his back.
‘Ha!’ cried the soldiers, ‘there comes that
old fellow again oti the while horse ! Look
out for yourselves! for one of us has got to
die, in spite of Fate.’ And one of them did
•lie, for Hezekiah’s aim was true, as his prin
ciples of economy would not permit of his
wasting powder or bait. Throughout the
whole of the bloody road between Lexington
and Cambridge, the fatal approaches of the
white horseman weredreaded bytrained troops
of Britain, and every wound inflicted by H ze
kiah needed no repeating. But on reaciiing
Cambridge the regulars, greatly to their com
fort, missed the old man and his horse. They
comforted themselves bv the conjecture that
he had, at length, paid the forfeit of his te
merity, and that his steed had gone home with
a bloody bridle and an emptv saddle. Not so.
Hezekiah had only lingered for a moment to
aid in a plot which had been ‘aid bv Ammi
Cutter, tor taking the baggage wagons and
their gdards, Ammi had planted about fitly
old rusty muskets under a stone wall, with
their muzzles directed towards the road. As
the wagons arrived opposite the battery, the
muskets were discharged, and eight horses,
together with some soldiers, were sent out of
existence. The party of soldiers who had the
baggage in charge, ran to a pond and plung
ing their muskets into the water, surrendered
themselves to an old woman called Mother
Barberick, who was at that time digging roots
in an adjoining field; A party of Americans
recaptured the gallant Englishmen from Mo
ther Barberick, and placed them in safe keep
ing. The captives were exceedingly aston
ished at the suddenness of the attack, and
declared that the Yankees would rise up like
musquitoes out of a marsh and kill them.—
The chef d'ceuvre having been concluded, the
harrassed soldiers were again amazed by the
appearance of Hezekiah, whose white horse
was conspicuous among the now countless
assailants that sprung from every hill and
ringing dell, copse, and wood, through which
the bleeding regiments, like a wounded snake,
held their toilsome way. His fatal aim was
taken, and a soldier fell at every report of his
piece. Even after the worried troops had
entered Charlestown, there was no escape for
them from the deadly bullets of the restless
veteran. The appaling white horse would
suddenly and unexpectedly dash out from a
break or from behind a rock, and the whizzing
of his bullet was the precursor of death. He
followed the enemy to their very boats and
then turning his horse’s head, returned un
harmed to his home.
‘ Where have you been husband ?’
1 Picking cherries’ replied Hezekiah; but
he forgot to say that he had first made cher
ries of the red coats, by putting the pitts into
them.
From the Sunday Morning Atlas.
STRATAGEM.
‘I really don’t know which I love best,”
said Jane Manvers to her friend Marian Wes
tell, as she returned from a splended party
where she was ‘the admired of all admirers,’
William Stanton or Fredrick English. Out
of a host of admirers that my fortune, now that
I am an heiress, has brought to my feet, 1
have selected them. They are neither rich
—both are filled with sentiments of honor as
far as expressions and general conduct go. —
Both love me. Neither have expressed it in
strong terms —but either only wait for the ne
cessary encouragement, I am sure to pop the
question. To either, my fortune would be an
advantage. They may—it is an ungenerous
thought —but I cannot help entertaining it,
love my fortune, and not me. Do you know
Marian, I have strong thoughts of putting
their love to the test?’
‘How can you do it?’
‘I have thought of a way. You may re
member that 1 had a cousin who was suppos
ed to be lost at sea, and the property which
has made a poor, unnoticed girl so much cour
ted, was to be his, if he were living.’
‘Yes, but you have had the full and positive
proofs of his decease.’
‘I know it, but the “world does not, nor can
my two favored lovers he acquainted wit It the
fact. I therelore propose to state in the pa
pers that my cousin is not dead as was sup
posed. To give up for a lime my splended
establishment, and to retire into comparative
poverty. It is said that kings and tieiresses
rarely hear the truth from I lie flatterers by
whom they are surrounded. This will at least
test my lire rds. What think you of my
plan ?’
‘Excellent—try it, by all means.’
The idea was acted upon, and it was cu
rious to see how Jane’s admirers dropped off
one by one. Her two lovers waited upon her
at first in her retirement, and Jane was more
puzzled than ever which to choose. Frede
rick English’s visits in a short time became
more like angel’s—that is, lew and far be
tween—while William Stanton's were con
stant.
Upon one of them he said ‘My dear Miss
Manvers, I have known you long. In the
days of your prosperity—surrounded as you
were by many lovers who were affluent, 1 did
not dare to disclose to you a passion which I
had felt from the moment I knew you, and
which has grown and strengthened with my
acquaintance. Now that you are poor like
myself, the diffidence which had else hermeti
cally sealed my bps from divulging my heart’s
passion, is removed. lam not affluent but I
can support you with respectability at least,
and if you will accept for your husband one
who loves you devotedly, I do not think that
you will ever regret the hour that makes you
mine. At least I will try never to give you
cau e.’
‘I believe you dear William,’ said Jane,‘and
if you will accept a beggar, lor I am little bet
ter .’ _
‘Say not st>, dearest—l cannot listen to such
wrong even from your lips.’
‘Your fortunes will not sutler by the union.’
‘That they never can. When shall our
marriage take place?’
‘Next week, if you will.’
‘At your lodgings here?
‘No, at the bouse of a friend. Call for me
and we will proceed together there.’
At the day appointed, William was in read
iness, accompanied by Frederick English.—
They were both surprised at the magnificence
of Jane’s atlire, and thought it somewhat out
of character with her circumstances, but how
much more surprised were they when step
ping into a carriage with Jane and Eliza, they
were driven to Jane’s former residence, and
found her still the mistress and heiress, and
learned the plot by which she had tested her
lovers. The way Frederick cursed himself
and his fortune ‘was not slow.’
Girls, you who possess money, make it a
point of finding out, before the irrevocable
knot is tied, whether you are loved for your
selves or your fortunes.
From the Baltimore American.
Lynch Law f..om the Bench. —The
Chicago Tribune narrates the particulars of a
great excitement at Oregon, Ogle county, Il
linois. Several men belonging to a gang of
horsestealers in the neighborhood had oeen
arrested. During the session of the court, and,
probably with a view to the rescue ol the pris
oners, fire was communicated to the court
house near which stood the jail. The court
house was consumed ; the jail with some diffi
culty was preserved from the flirries, and the
prisoners were kept secure. The town was
in great excitement, rumors being circulated
that the confederates of the prisoners were re
solved to assail the persons and property of all
concerned in prosecuting the accused felons.
Judge Ford, who presided at the trial, hav
ing disposed of the case of the prisoners, took
occasion to say—“that hitherto he had acted
as a magistrate upon the bench, as impartially
! and justly to all, as he could, hut would take
that opportunity to allude to threats which had
been made out of doors. It had been threat
ened that violence would be visited upon the
persons or property of all concerned in prose
cuting the prisoners, including the judge who
had presided at their trials. If any persons
concerned in uttering such threats were pres
ent, he would take that opportunity of adrnon
isiiincr them that the moral portion of the com
munii v was at least well organized to protect
themselves and the laws, and that no such
demonstrations of vengeance for the fate of
the convicted felons should pass without con
dign punishment. For himself his official sta
tion would now compel him to lea\'e l.is
home in order to discharge his duties on the
Circuit; and he would be obliged to leave his.
family and his property in their midst, without
the presence of their natural protector. But
he then gave notice, that—if in his absence,
his family or property should be assailed in
pursuance of the threats already made—be
would, upon his return, place himself at the
head ol his friends, pursue the offenders wher
ever they might retreat, and —judge or no
judge, law or no law—hang them summarily
upon the nearest tree.
The Tribune, with great propriety, com
ments upon the foregoing singular address as
follows: °
We should greatly lament such a declara
tion from any source; we can find no words
to express our mortification and indignation at
hearing them from the bench. We can well
appreciate the excitement of feeling, which un
der the circumstances led so discreet a man
as Judge Ford to utter a threat so sacrilegi
ous, but excitement can, in any case, furnish
ot.ly an excuse, not a justification.
ARISTOCRATIC PRIDE
Among all the varied Ibrtns and phrases in
which pride exhibits itself to public view,
there is none more disgusting and ridiculous
than that aristocratic lorm which it assumes
in the persons of those who seem to consider
it an indignity to be seen laboring with their
hands, or performing any of the druggeries of
life. They think it above tbe digultv of a
gentleman, in which they would like to be
considered, to soil their delicate fingers with a
mean employment as most men engage in to
earn with honesty, their daily bread. These
men ol’ starch, and rultles, and bergamot,
would iook upon it as an everlasting disgrace
to be surprised by their consequential acquain
tance in the act of rolling a wheelbaraow
through the streets, in (tie transaction of ne
cessary business, as tbe immortal Franklin
used to do through the streets ol'Phiiadelphia ;
or in carrying provisions from the market or
in tilling the land. This foolish pride is of
ten a heavy tax on the purse of its possessor,
for often do we see such a person, in order to
keep up the appearances, expending his mon
ey,and subjecting himself almosttostarvation,
and to every domestic inconvenience, to pre
vent his pride from being mortified, and to
support his tancied dignity. Such dandified
fops are the mere insects of society, as per
fectly useless as,the gilded butterfly whieh ho
vers about the flowers in the sunshine of sum
mer, but is swept away by the blasts of au
tumn.
We are remarkably well pleased with the
rebuke which Wm. Gray, of Boston familiar
ly termed “ Billy Gray,’ or.ce gave to this
butterfly race . He happened to be at mar
ket one day, when he heard a spruce young
lawyer, who had just opened an office for the
practice of his profession, inquiring for some
one to carry home a piece of meat. Stepping
up to the man of law, said Billy, to him, “ Sir
1 will carry your meat.” “ Very well,” was
the reply, as it was handed to him, and the
lawyer led the way through the streets, while
he followed, to the no small amusement of
those who happened to know him. Having
arrived at this house the attorney inquired,
what was to pay?
“A shilling sir,” replied the carrier, ivhich
having received, and bowing polilelv, he
thanked the lawyer, an (l told him whenever
he wanted a similar service done again, to call
on Billy Gray. As might have been expected
the man of law was astounded at the an
nouncement of the fact, that a man worth as
many millions as he has tens, had condescen
ded to do this piece of drudgery for him. and
so great was the mortification at the rebuke
he had received, that he never again sought
for another person to do a job which lie could
as well do himhelf if the whispering pride
were only silenced.
We would sav to all fops, fools, and dan
dies, “Go and do likewise,” and make vour
selves decent and useful members of society,
instead of being laughing stocks for men of
sense.—Pittsburg Visiter.
CHILDREN THINK.
Frequently children think correctly, with a
directness and honesty which should shame
many of their seniors.
Peter * * * * was permitted by his parents
to look at the great procession of Total Ab
stience men and boys that marched through
the streets of Albany on the Seventeenth of
March. He knew several of the men used
formerly to gel drunk, for they had worked for
Ids lather. Then they were fagged and fil
thy and profane. Now in their apparel and
appearance, they were gentlemen.
Peter was about eight years old. He saw
a great many boys in tlie procession younger
than himself and gladly would he have had
such a shining medal and new white ribbon
on his neck and breast as they wore. After
the procession were all gone by, the family sat
down to dinner. Peter seemed very thought
ful, and showed but little disposition to eat.—
As had long been the custom at his father’s
table, he was offered the little wine which
was left in the glass; but he refused it. His
mother asked “what is the matter?” “I
don’t know,” said Peter. “ I have often heatd
lather laugh at Mr. Delevan, and call him a
fanatic and a fool for spending his time and
money to assist the Temperance cause and
aunt Gertrude has often done the Same; but
there must be some good thing about Temper
ance.” “ Why so? ” said his father, “ because
there was Mike and Pat who used to he so
ragged and dirty when they worked here, and
I have often heard them say* they could never
get money enough to get anew coat, but now
they are dressed as well as father, and they
looked a great deal more smiling and happy
than they used to do. What has made this
difference?”
“They are now sober men,” said the father.
“Is it temperance has made this change?”
asked little Peter, “ I suppose so.” “What
is temperance?” “O,itis to be moderate—
to drink a little.” ‘But, father, I heard you
tell cousin * * * * who came here drunk the
other day, this is the result of your moderate
drinking. Do temperance societies allow
their members to drink moderately?” “ Your
mother will answer you. I must go.”
Peter was not satisfied, and in the evening
wanted his father to tell him what was the use
of drinking wine? Whether cousin * * * *
learned to be a drunkard oh wine? And fi
nally, whether he might not join the “Youth's
Temperance Society,” in the Pearlstreet A
cademy. We are glad to say his lather and
mother Consented. The next day Peter had
his name enrolled, and came and got a Tem
perance Recorder and a temperance medal.—
lie has already induced three of his little com
panions to unite with the temperance society
j also.
I Youthful reader, think! Try to know the
reason and nature of things which are about
you, and with wlfch you are conversant. —
Fear not to ask information of your parents
and seniors, nor fear to refuse all intoxicating
drink yiurself, and to lead, others to do the
same. Remember Peter * * * *.
VOL. I. no. 14.
T notion, in file billowing article of the
York Herald, ol Svvartwout working
out his detalclion by discountlug fiissalarvas
President of the United States, may have been
verified by the fact, had the Whigs succeeded
when they proposed him for vice President on
Hie I itket with \Y ebsier. Mr. Webster icay
have died and Svvartwout succeeded him, and
the frugal Whigs may save something next
time by running Svvartwout, who is as good
a Whig as ever, on the Clay ticket.
Mr. Biddle’s Letter, —More Lost Words.—
W e give to-dav two additional letters, just
issued from Andaluisa, the elegant Tusculuiri
ol Nicholas Biddle, where he cultivates the
grape and finance with equal success.
i hese letters on finance are the most ad
mirable literally funfaronada of the age, out
stripping Bulvver, Scott,Cooper and Irving, all
hollow. The last letter on Samuel Jaudon is
a chief (i’ceuvre in style, sentiment and pur
pose. Mr. Jaudon was a large speculator in
stocks, on money borrowed of tfie bank.— :
I’lien stocks, fell—iie became indebted to the
bank, and now the bank is taking the debt
out in the work.
This is a capital idea, and why could not
Svvartwout, Price, Levis, and all the defaul
ters of the age, settle their accounts in the
same way ?
Swartwotil might work the remainder of
his life as President of the United States, re
ceiving nothing in pay, but settling off'his old
scores at the raie of $>25,000 per annum.—
Price as Vice President Stc. Sec: Splendid
idea!
We hope these are not the last of Mr. Bid
dle. The more lie writes the better we like
him. He knows more of banking, and can
tell more than any other man of the age. —
The report of the Committee and these letters
will form excellent materials for the debates,
for the extra Session. They are the charts dt
our financial ocean, and indictate the shoals,
breakers and sunken rocks, most admirably.
God bless Mr. Biddle, and grant bin a good
crop of grapes next season.
HISTORY OF STEAMBOATS.
The following facts, which are condensed
by the Baltimore Sun from a lecture recently
delivered before the Baltimore Mercantile As
sociation, will prove interesting: “In En
gland, although the use of labor saving ma
chinery had begun to be entertained by many
ingenious minds, yet its full developement was
at once stilled by the fears of poor workmen,’
on the one hand, lest they should lose the
means of obtaining bread for their families,’
and by the alarm which the ricli entertained
lest the poor thus deprived of employment
should be thrown upon them for maintenance.
But in America no such retarding motives
were in operation. There was work for a hun
dred hands where there was but one pair of
hands to perform it. And this necessity de
veloped the genius of invention for which the
people of this country have become so remark
able. The brief history given by the lecturer
of various inventions originated or successful
ly applied in the United States, was highly in
teresting, and the description of the descent of
the first steamboat on the Ohio and Missippi
rivers, during the earthquake of 1811, held the
audience in almost breathless attention.—■
The credit of having first applied vertical pad
dle wheels to the sides of a boat; and for hav
ing first constructed a boat upon this principle;
Mr. Latrobe contended, should be shared with
Mr. Rosevelt and Mr. Stevens ; from the for
mer of whom, lie thinks, the principle now so
successfully applied to steamboats was obtain
ed by chancellor Livingston and communica
ted to Mr. Fuiton while Mr. Livingston was
Minister to France and had Mr. Fulton de :
laved but a few weeks his successful trial up
on the the Hudson, Mr. Stevens would have
had all the honor which now attaches to Mr.
Fulton, for he was also building a boat on thd
same principle, and finished it but a few
weeks after Robert Fulton’s experiment with
his boat. The original idea of vertical paddle
wheels app'ied to the centre of a boat is so cu
rious that we will give it as mentioned by the
lecturer. Mr. Rosevelt,- of New York; the
same who built the first steamboat on the
western waters, and with his family descended
the Ohio and Mississippi, during the fearful
earthquake of 1811, while a boy, amusing
himself with making and launching tiny vessels
cut out of a shingle the rude form of a boat; a
cross the centre of this he laid a small shaft,
which projected over the side of his boat, he
attached wheels with four arms, similar to the
wind-mills which boys are in the habit of ma
king. Around the shaft he wrapped a piece
of twine, and then to the end of the twine at
tached a bent hit kory spiig. He then placed
Ins little vessel in the stream, and had the de
light to see that, as the spring moved and drew
upon the thread and unwound it, the wheels
were set in motion and the boat moved forward
upon the water. This was some twenty years
before Fulton’s successful trial upon the Hud
son. After this, and before Mr. Fulton was
known in this matter; Chancellor Livingston;
ait. Rosevelt and Mr. Stevens, of Hoboken,
were jointly engaged in the endeavor success
fully to apply steam to propelling of boats.—-
The lecturer said that he had in his possession
the correspondence which passed between
these individuals at the time their experiments
were i n progress. Mr. Rosevelt wished to ap
ply the wheels vertically, and at the sides 5
but the Chancellor’s idea was that the tfud
principle was in the horizontal wheel; applied
to the stern. The latter overruled, and thus
the boat was constructed, and put in motion in
the Bay of New-York. It proved to bed
failure, speed was only about three miles per
hour. The partnership was then abandoned ;
w hen Mr, Rosevelt applied his principle to thet
same boat, and found it to work admirably.—:
But the boat was too w eak to bear the central
application of pow er, and was racked so as tot
be unfit for use. Mr. R. then abandoned the
prosecution of the matter for other and mord
pressing concerns. About this time Mr. Liv
ingston was sent as Minister to France, and
there iriet with Mr. Fulton. Encouraged by
Mr. Livingston the latter made many experi
ments upon the Seine, not, how ever, with thd
power applied according to Mr. Rosevelt’s idea j
but in all he was unsuccessful. lie finally, in
New-York, turned his attention to the vertical
paddle wheel, centrally applied, and succee
ded.”
A man from the country applied lately to a
respectable solicitor for legal advice. After
detailing the circumstances of the case, he
was asked if he had stated the facts exactly
as they occurred—“ O. aye sir,” rejoined the
applicant, “ I thought it best to tell you the
plain truth ; you can put the lies to it your
self.”
If you wish to aid in the circulation of mo
ney never let cash remain by you-—but pay
your debts.
If you do to others as you wish them to do
to you, you ought to pay your debts.
if you desire to pursue your business with
peace of mind—pay your debts.
If you wish to do what is right in the sight
of God and man—you must pay your debts.
Should your debts be ever so old, or should
vou have “ taken the benefit of the act,” if you
have the means, you are not a just man unlets
you pay your debts.