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MILLS AND LAND,
FOR SALE.
THE subscriber offers for sale, on very accom
modating terms, the settlement of land on which
ho resides, situated in Ihe north-eislern part of Mus
cogee county, on the Upainie Creek, 17 miles from
Columbus and 14 from Talbollon. The tract em
braces
One thousand and twelve acres,
seven hundred acre* of which are first rate Oak and
Hickory I.and, and the remainder good pine land.—
Two hund ed acres are clear and, well fenced, and in a
good stale of cullivaiion. On the premises are two
good frame dwelling houses, of small dimensions, and
a good log house, besides negro cabins and all nece
sary out-buildings.
There, is also on the place au excellent Saw and
Grist Mill, just completed and in perfect order. Tile
Mill is four stories high, and Is on the IJpatoie Creek,
a stream which rarely fails to allbid sufficient water
to keep the Mill in operation.
The engagements of the subscriber alone induce
him to offer the place for sale. It is Situated in an
excellent neighborhood, near to a Church, School
house and Post Office. The p'ace will be sold low,
nnd the terms cannot fail to satisfy any one desirous
ofpurchasing. HENfrY KENDALL.
Jiiy 8 22 4t
E. 11. .PLATT,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
(Cuthbert,Randolph County,Georgia.)
WILL promptly attend to any busim ss entrusted
to his care in the counties of Stewart. Mari
on, Randolph, Early, Decatur, Baker. Lee, Sumter,
Macon and Ooolv , Georgia, and Russell and Harbour
of Alabama.
nrrE’ fni’ps :
Columbus —Tlon. T. F. Foster and Colonel John
Hanks.
Lexington—Joseph llenrv I tttnpkin, F-q. B. F.
Hardeman, Esq. Lewis J, Dupree and George F.
Platt.
VV shinglnn—Hon. Garnett Andrews.
Macon—Col. D. C. Camnbo.ll. Jerry Cowls. Esq.
Forsyth—Messrs Dunn Si Martin
Thutn tstotl —John J. ‘ arev. Ksq. T. R. Bethel.
Apalacht’ iMa. Flo.—William G. Porter, Esq.
Charleston, S (J.— William Harris.
New York. —Messrs. Collins, K esc & Cos.
March 11 5 ls
SPECIAL NOTICE.
tri IVOR the Steam Boat. Tallapoosa, has been ly
ing at the Columbus Landing, and a abort dis
tance below it, she has been visited liv persons known
to the subscriber, and valuable irons, bol.s, screws and
0 her nrtir'es iielon ring ‘<• the boat, taken from her.
This notice is intended to ap rise the individual
who have abstracted the above articles front the Tat
-1 tp tbev nr* ili well known to the snbscn
l„,r, and that unless said art cles, one and all, are
forthwith returned to him, he will immediately com
mence prosecutions agreeably to the hw in suehease.s
ill ado and,provided. DIJ.VI. .\R.
June. 17 10 u
TO BRICK MASONS AND CARPEN
TERS.
rj EALED proposals wtd he rent ived by the Clerk
J 5? of the Inferior Court <•! Heaid eotm y, for the btul
,lhiit of a court house in the town of Franklin, Heard
county, until the first Monday in June next. Bids to
he for three sizes, viz : onedO by sf> t. , t, one SO by
SO, the oilier 40 feet share, a led lor each ; (he hall
mnl court room below, finished; also a bio for eat ;
finished complete, alter the style of the court 1! ’
l.aGrange or Nevvnatt. 1 *r furthei pet lit ,at- ‘ ,
nlv at the luferior Clerk’s Os! ee. ) y et-d- re; ‘ lie ‘ li
fe rior Court. H- BLEDSOE, cr.
April 22 11 111
HEAD QUARTERS, 10th Div. G. M !
Coi l’misus, May 24. 1341. |
Division orders.—in pursuance of the
General Orders of the Comm.an lei-in-Clnef, the j
< .Lowing “ ill he the order for the Ann u.l Review and
Inspection of llic 10th Division. In t! . county el
Talbot on ihe 2S, 29,and30 June next.
Macon, _ >
M irion, **
Sumter, ‘
Ste ‘art, }° t o
Muscogee, J -
Harris. M, la lo . . , ;
The Field Staff Company, and nnn-comtnisionod
o'K --r< will he assembled on the first named dav. in
each county, f>r the purpose of I >.'iil ; an I tlm Kegi- |
ments entire, will be assembled on toe - iccee. .tig d.t\ s
Review and Inspeetion. tn eon- r-u'v with the
to. By * of oaxiki. v.-noraAtn ,
MaiorGeneral. IfMi Division. O. M. ,
BENJAMIN HENRY, j
June 3 17 4t D.vision Inspector. [
general orders.
Head Quarters, Ist Brigade S'h Division, G. M.
■ Fkask-uv 20th May, IS4I.
rVIHE foil >wing will be the order of Review and
JL Inspection foi the First Brigade, Ninth Divis
|ii the county of Heard, on Monday and I uesu,a\
the sth and 6th of July next.
In the county of Troup, on W ednesday and Thurs
day the 7ih and Sth of July next.
In the county of Meriwether, on b nday and Sat
urday the;9th and 10th of July next. . .
The Fiell Stats Company and non-Ooimiissioncd
Officers, of each county, will be assembled on the h.st
named day, for the purpose of a Drill, ami on ihe suc
ceeding day. the regiments entire wdl be assembled
for the purpose of exercise, review and inspection, in
U 'y n T L SMiTH M S"-mn.
May 27 16 U
REMOVAL
JNO. j. B. HOXEY, has removed his of
-1 1 lice to the room over the store of T. A. Bran
ca few doors above Taylor and Walker’s, and
nearly opposite Col. John Banks’ Drug Store.
Jan. 12.
JOHN L. LEWIS,
IS mr authorized Agent to iransact any business
of .nine, during in/absence fron^CdundHis^
June 3 17 ,f
jIcOOUGALD & WATSON,
4TTORKIES AT LAW,
Columbus, Georgia
* “ |{ROl (iHT TO JAIL
ON the 17 h inst. a negro in-.n wlk) ca is himsell
A ilrew. and so vs he I. ones lo Nathaniel De
auu-v. of Russell county. A'. >, The owner is
desired to co nc f.rward, comply **uh ihe law, pay ex
penses an i take him , ,
’ WH.LIAM BROWN, Jailor.
~ 15 if
May A
VOLUME I.]
From the Memphis Enquirer.
Caution to Slave Owners. — The follow
ing article Ironi a Cincinnati paper shou if be
i a sufficient caution lo slaveholders travelling
| towards Oitio. Our fellow townsman, Di.
j .Shanks, ou his ruAiit return from Virginia,
had a slave stolen front him in Cincinnati,
i hi is card in ti.e Louisville journcl, suiting
j lacts ol the case, elicited fbe subjoined at tide.
It will he Keen Irani it that one species of
Southern property is no longer held sacred in
Ohm, and that a Southerner had as wed throw
it away as to place it within ihe control oi her
laws. We should he sorry to believe, in the
language of the Republican, that “any con
siderable portion of the fifty thousand citizens
of Cincinnati desire the present stale ol
things, 5 ’ we would remind our brethren of the
‘■liueen City, 5 ’ that salting as it is permitted
to exist, the effect is the bame upon Southern
rights and interests, us though every man,
woman and child had given their aid directly j
towards producing and maintaining it. Cm
cinnati has become a den for negro stealers,
who;perpelrate their robberies ii[>on theSoulh
with perfect impunity. The South can do
nothing to protect itself, but by estsiblishing a
system of non-intercourse. T his it does not
desire todo. it does not seek to interfere with
the domestic affairs of Ohio, and only asks
that protection of its rights which common
honesty justifies it in demanding. It desiies
to maintain friendly relations with Ohio and
her citizens; hut this is hardly practicable, so
long as the cil zens of liie South are robbed
with impunity the moment they set foot with
in her borders. The “fifty thousand citizens
of Cincinnati” owe it to themselves to put a
stop to the system of wholesale thieving which
now disgraces their city.
From the Cincinnati Republican.
“ Abolition in Ohio.” —The Louisville
Journal of Saturday last, has a communica
tion with ihe above title, signed Lewis Shanks,
givit.g a statemeni'of the writer’s late troubles
at Cine nnati, on his “way home from Virginia
to Memphis, Teuin, on board the steamboat
Sylph, with a family of eight negroes, the fa
ther mother and six children ”
As the facts in this particular case, given by
Mr. Shanks himself do not implicate, in any
sense, the citizens of Cincinnati, we deem it
unnecessary to make them the subject of re
maik. What Mr. Shanks was ‘•inibrmed,”
too, is of mmor importance. We deem the
present a proper opportunity however, for a
few genet al remarks upon the concluding
paragraph of his article, which reads as (bl
ows :
“ I have been thus particular in giving de
tails, that travellers naving servant- with them
may be apprized of the difficulty of passing
Cincinnati without losing them and losing them
irrecoverably, if the late opinion of the laws
and constitution given in Ohio be sustained.”
The only question arising here is, whether
there is any real necessity lor the caution con
tained in ihe above paragraph?
However, in the present slate of our feel
ngs. \\e could wish it otherwise, candor com
pels us to admit tiial there is a real necessity
tor <uch caution; and that Southern travellers
will ‘find difficulty of passing Cincinnati,”at
the present time, without losing their servants,
rims much we are forced to acknowledge in
j istice to those gentlemen of tfie South, who,
eiTier travelling !br hea!;h or business purpo
ses, have heretofore been in the habit <4 v,si
ting our city, and bunging wish than the ne
c -ssurv set vants. Indeed, it were even cul
pable to conceal the truth of this statement,
when at least two instances, within the last
no tb, have come io our knowledge of South
erners losing their servants whilst tarrying
here even f, ra single night. Any inference
drawn from this admission, however, ilia! any
of the considerable portion of the 50 000 cit
izens of Cincinnati desire this state of things,
would be bobi untrue and unjust. We verily
believe, and think we cannot tie mistaken, that
at least fifty-nine fiftieths of her citizens are
not well pleased with that opinion, believed to
be o'tiler dictum of the supreme court o! Ohio,
which would make the slave free, in all cases,
the moment he touches the the Slate
with the consent of his master. ‘Nothing fur
ther is true, front our admission, than that we
have in our city a few misguided men who,
heretofore accustomed lo think they were do
ing God’s service by taking the slave from his
mast r, either with or without law, now that
they have the color of law, seek every oppor
tunity of enticing this species of property front
the rightful owner.
In the meantime, tlie wisli prevails in Cin
cinnati, (except wiih the few al> ve referred
to,) that a case may soon be presented in >
which this whole question may be fairly, an.;
fuly, and finally adjudicated by the highest
judicial tribunals. And in what remarks fol
low, we are certain we but express the wish
es and feelings of nine-tenths of the citizens
af Cincinnati. They smeereiv seek and de
sire tn enjoy fncndly and social intercourse
with their southern fellow-citizens; they he
-1 eve, as citizens of Ohio, the ins itulion of
slavery to be an evil, and are happy to know
that if can never gain a permanent introduc
tion into their own Slate; they would he un
willing to permit even a iax construction
of the rule which has hitherto obtained,
confining owners of slaves to a tempo
rary snj turn in. or passage through the State
with such property in possession ; yet, they and”
not desite, nor seek such a construction o!
the ordinance of : 99, or the e in titu ion o|
their State, as would, without the least eartlt
iv benefit to the condition oi’ ihe slaves, cause |
| innumerable heartburnings, and jealousies, j
| and ii ffieulties between the citizens of what I
| should be sister S .n< snd one parent Ri-p thlic. j
A Singular Slum on*. —Four gentlemen j
and an old minister were assa-l pj on the high- j
way by three robbers, who demanded and
took posession of al! their funds. The old
minister pleaded very hard to be allowed a
dttle money, as he was on his way to pay a
bill in London. The highwaymen, as our
authority informs us, “beinggenerous fellows,
gave him all his money back again, on con
dition of his preaching.” Accordingly they
retired a little distance from the highway, and
the minister addressed them as follows:
“Gentlemen—You are the most Ike the
apostles of any men in the world, fi r they
were wanderers upon the earth, and so are
you; they laid neither lands nor tenements
‘that they could call their own ; neither, as I
presume, have you. They were despised of
all, but those of their own profession; and so,
I believe, are you. They were unalterably
fixed in the principles they professed; and 1
dare swear so are you. They were often
hurried into jails and prisons—were persecu
ted by the people, and endured great hard
ships ; all of which sufferings, I presume have
been undergone by you. Their profession
brought them all to untimely deaths; and if
you continue in vour course, so will yours
bring you! But in this point, beloved, you
differ mightily; for the apostles ascended fiorn
tiie tree iato heaven where. I am afraid, you
will never come; hut as their deaths were
compensated with eternal glory, vours will be
rewarded with eternal shame and misery, un
less you mend your manners.”
The Richmond Btar it ports the following
boarding house scene.
“Mr. Squibbs, is your tt-a strong enough:’
“Not quite, ruadam—the butler is, howev
er.' 5 .
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, JULY 39, 1841.
From Stephen’s Incidents of Travels.
A VOLCANIC ERUPTION.
I awoke with the ‘pilots legs resll ng on my
I shoulder. It was rather an undignified posi
j lion, but no one saw it. Before me was Hie
j Volcano of Cosaguiua, with its lidd of lava
j and its desolate shore, and not a living being
I vva.-, m s giil except my sleeping boatmen,
l ive years before,on the shores of the Medi
terranean, and at the foot of mount Etna, 1
read in a news paper an account of the erup
j tion of this volcano. Little ui I then evei
j expect to see it; the most awful in the Ins
j tory of volcanic eruptions, the noise of which
I startled the people nl Gaulimala fourhundred
1 miles off; and at Kingston, Jamaica, eight
; hundred miles distant, was supposed to be
1 signal guns of distress It out some vessel at sea.
The face of nature was changed ; the cone
! of the volcano was gone; a mountain ana
j field ol lava ran down to the sea ; a forest old
j as creation Lad disappeared, and two islands
were formed in the sea; shoals were discov
ered, in one of which a large tree was fixed
up ide down; one river was completely choked
up, and another formed, running in an oppo
site direction ; seven men in the employ of my
hungo proprietor ran down to the water,
posited off in a hungo, and were never heard
of more; wild beasts, howling, left their caves
in the mountains, and ounces, leopards, and
: snakes fled for shelter to the abodes of men.
This eruption took place on the 20th Jan
uary, 1835. Mr. Savage was on that day on
the side of the volcano of San Miguel, distant
one hundred and twenty miles, looking for
cattle. At eight o’clock he saw a dense cloud
rising in the south in a pyramidal form, and
heard a noise which sounded like a roaring of
the s-a. Very soon ihe thick clouds were
lighted up by vivid flashes, rose colored and
forked, shooting and disappearing, which he
supposed to he some electrical phenomenon.
These appearances increased so fast that Lis
men became frightened, and said it was a
ruina, and that the end of the world was nigh.
Very soon lie himself was satisfied that it was
the eruption of a volcano; and as Cosaguiua
was at that time a quiet mountain, not sus
pected to contain subterraneous fires, he sup
posed it to proceed from the Volcano of Ti
gris. He returned to San Miguel, and in ri
ding three blocks fell three severe shocks of
earthquake. The inhabitants were distract
ed with terror. Birds flew wildly through
the streets, and blinded by the dust, fell dead
on the ground. At four o’clock it was so daik
that, ns Mr. S. says, he held up his hand be
fore his eyes, and could not see if. Nobody
moved without a candle, which gave a dim
and misty light, extending only a few feet.
At this time the church was full, and could not
contain one half who wished to enter.
The figure of the Virgin was brought out
into the plaza and borne throughilhe streets,
followed by the inhabitants, with candles and
torches, in penitential procession, crying upon
the Lord to pardon their sins. Bells tolled,
and during the procession theie was another
earthquake, so violent and long that it threw to
the ground many people walking in the pro
cession. The darkness continued till 11 o’-
clock the next day, when the sun xvas partial
ly visible, but dim and hazy, and without
brightness. The dust on the ground was 4
inches thick; the branches of trees broke with
ils weight, and people were so disfigured by
it that they could not be recognised.
At this time Mr. S. set out for his hacienda
at Zozonate. He slept at the first village,
and at two or three o,clock in the morning
was roused up by a report like the breaking
of most terrific thunder, or the firing of thou
sands of cannon. Thi's was the report which
started the people of Gaulimala, when the
commandant sailed out, supposing that the
quartei was attacked, and which was heard in
Kingston, in Jamaica. It was accompanied
by an earthquake so violent, that it almost
threw Mr. b. outof his hammock.*
•This may al first appear no great feat for
an earthquake, but no stronger proof can lie
cited of iis violence with which the shock af
fects the region in which it occurs.
From Stephens’ New Work.
We continue our extracts from this boo];
as ihe most entertaining matter we can fur
nish our readers
LAZOING.
It. was the season for making and number
ing the cattle, and two of the benches Aychi
nena were at the hacienda to superintend the
operation. The cattle had been caught and
broil ; lit in : but, as 1 had never seen the pro
cess of lazoing, after dinner a hundred head
winch iiati veii kept up two days without rood
were let loose into a field two or three miles
in circumference. Eight men were mounted,
with iron spurs an inch long on their naked
heels and each with a lazo in hand, which
consisted of an entire cow’s hide cut into a
single cord about twenty yards long, one end
was fastened to the horse’s tail, which was first
wrapped in leaves to prevent being lacerated,
and the rest was bound into a coil, and held
by the rider ill his right hand, resting on the
pummel of the saddle. The cattle had all
dispersed ; we placed ourselves on an eleva
tion commanding a partial view of the field
and the riders scattered m search of them - '-
in a little while thirty or forty rushed by the
riders at full speed, and very soon were out o
sight. \\ c must tether lose the sport or fol
low : and in one of ihe doublings, taking par
t.cular care tc avoid the tfror.g of furious cat
t e and headlong rider -, I drew up to the side
o; two men who were chasing a single ox, and
i.flowed over iiiil through hush, and under
wood; one rider threw his lazo beautifully
over the h ins of an on, and then turned his
horse, while the ox, bounded to the leng'h cf
the lazo, and without shaking horse or rider,
pitched headlong to the ground. At this mo
ment a herd swept by w, h the whole compa
ny in fall pursuit. A large yellow ox s q ora
ted rom tiie rest, and all followed him. For a
m le he kept ahead, doubled, and dodged, hut
the hersemen crowded him down toward the
lake ; and, at.er an ineffectual attempt to holt, |
he rushed into the water. Two horsemen
followed and drove him out, and gave him a
start, but in a few minutes the lazo whizzed
over his head, and; while horse and rider stood
like marble, thefox again came with a plunge
to the ground. The riders scattered, and one
horse and rider rolled over in such a way that
1 thought every bone in Lis body was broken
but the sport was so exciting that I, who at
the beguniing was so particularly careful to
keep out of harass way, felt very much dis
posed to have my own horse’s tail tied up and
take a lazo in my hand. The effect of the
sport was heightened by tire beauty of the
scene, with the great volcanoes of Agu and
Fugo towering above us, and toward evening
a deep shade ever the plain.
A Night's Rest.— Mr. C. and I were in a
rather awkward predicament for the night
The general reception room contained three
beds, made of strips of cowhides interlaced.
The don occupied one ; he had not much un
dressing to do, but what little he -had, he did
by pullingoft'his shirt. Another bed was at
the foot oi my hammock. I was dozing, when’
I opimd my eyes, and saw a girl abotit seven
teen sitting sideway upon it smoking a segar.
She had a piece of striped cotton cloth tied
around her waist,and falling below her knees;
the rest of her dress was the same which na
ture be stews alike upon the belle of fashiona
“tiie union of the states, and the sovereignty of the states.”
hie lire and the poorest girl: in other words,
it was the same as that of the don's wife with
the exception of the string of” heads. At first
I thought it was something! had conjured up
in a dream; and as 1 waked spperhnjs I raised
my head, for she gave a few quick puffs of her
segar, drew a cotton sheet over her head and
shoulders, and laid down to sleep.” I endeav
oured lo do the same, I called to mind the
proverb, that “travelling makes strange bed
iellows.” 1 had slept pell mell with Greeks,
Turks, and Arabs. 1 was beginning a jour
ney in anew country; it was my duty to con
form to tiie customs of the people ; to be
prepared Mr the worst, and submit with resig
nation to whatever might befall me.
As guests it was pleasant to feel that the
family made no strangers of us. The wife of
the don retired with the same ceremonies.
Several times during the night we were wak
ed by the clinking of flint and steel, and saw
one of the neighbours lighting a segar. At
daylight the wife of the don was enjoying her
morning slumber. While I was dressing she
bade me good morning, removed the cotton,
covering from her shoulders, and arose dressed
for the day.
The Post Office, since it has been under
the management of the present. Postmaster-
General, is in a truly deplorable condition.
Mr. Granger may be a very good intriguing
politician, a first rate Abolitionist, and a great
minister of State, but lie is a miserable mana
ger of the Post. The deputies, whom he has
appointed, are constantly making the most
vexatious blunders; and it is high time that
the newspaper press should expose them.—
The first tiling that this Mr. Granger has done
is to set himself in opposition to the press by
suffering paltry and illegal suits to be com
menced for forwarding prospectuses—a privi
lege always granted by former Postmasters-
General; and it therefore behooves us to watch
him narrowly, and show him no mercy what
soever.
A package, forwarded by a friend of ours,
at our request, from Washington, directed to
Richmond, Virginia, as plain as it could be,
was sent to Richmond, Kentucky. It was for
. warded more than a month since ; and yet, as
we learn from Richmond, Virginia, it has just
been received ! How long are we to be com
pel ed to submit to annoyances and distresses
such as these! So long, we presume, as the
process of removing competent officers and
putting in incompetent ones is to continue.
We hear that Mr. Tyler is weary of this busi
ness of removals, and is desirous, if possible,
to retain many of the excellent incumbents of
office, appointed by Jackson ana Van Buren..
We hope he will assert his opinion and main
tain it, in spite of the urgency of his Cabinet
Ministers—among whom the most importu
nate are Webster and Granger, who, if they
could have their way* would turn the whole
country topsy-turvy, to reward political ad
herents and renegade politicians. The truth
is, the l’ostmaster-General ought not to he
considered a member of the Cabinet. lie
never was consulted ministerially , we believe,
either by Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Ma
dison or Monroe. He ought to he kept to his
department, and not allowed to meddle in the
affairs cf the country. This rule should be
imperative in the case of such an officer as Mr.
Granger.—New Wo Id.
_ Interesting to the Christian Public.—
Under rids caption tiie National Intelligencer
has the following- gratifying information: —“lt
will interest the Christain Public to know t hat
information has la'eiy been received by the
Government that Dr. lie naan, tiie Prussian
Minister to the Swiss Confederation, trans
mitted, some time since, a memoir to his sov
ereign upon the condition of the Christian
Populations in Syria, urging the necessity of
embracing the favorable occasion presented)
by the concert of the European Powers, inclu
ding France, in the settlement of the Turco-
Egyptian question) of granting them effectual
and permanent protection on the part of the
great Christian powers against Mabomedan
oppression; and that the King was so forcibly
struck with the views presented in this paper,
that he caused a circular note to he transmit
ted to the other four Powers, inviting them to
concert with Prussia the means of accom
plishing this benevolent purpose. It is stated
that Dr. Benson has been charged with a
special mission to the Court cf London on this
subject; and we noticed, some time ago, as
probably growing out of this, a declaration by
lord Melbourne, in the Hottse of Lords, that
the Government of England had under ils
consideration the propriety of adopting meas
ures for the protection of the Syrian Chris
tians. much resembling those of the Church
of England.”
The Caledonia, which arrived on Saturday,
brought about lAOOO letters. The postage on
those for New York was a little more than
-31 fiCO. The clerks in the post office had a
hard day’s work of it, and they were as busy
and industrious as bees. They had the Bri
tannia to make up, which left before noon with
0,009 letters. At 35 minutes past one, the
Caledonia’s mail hag arrived at the post office.
The cars for New York were detained till 7,
to enable the p- ■ master to forward tiie letters
■nd papers -or wo South. At 40 minutes af
ter 0, every 1 tter was sorted, all the mails
made up, and despatched by the two steamers:
and others received and forwarded by the
usual mails amounted, in the aggregate, to not
loss than “5,000, which passed through tiie
hands of the clerks during the day. in addi
tion to those, Ne postmaster informs us that
s >venty-five bushels of newspapers were sent
from the office during that day.—Boston Tran
script.
Tn regard to the Presidential election, the
Houstonian says:
We consider the election of General Sam
Houston so certain that neither the aid of
newspapers, nor the'ordinary mods of elec
tioneering. through his friends, is necessary
to secure it. ‘The people of Texas know how
to appreciate his important services, both in
the field, the executive chair, and in our leg-1
islative halls ; and notwithstanding the com
bined efforts of his enemies, and the apathy of
his friends, the polls at the September elec
tion will given a triumphant majority of the
votes of Texas.
Franklin’s Toast —Long after Wash
ington’s victories over the French and Eng
lish had made his name familiar all over Eu
rope, Dr. Franklin chanced to dine with the
English and French Ambassadors when as
nearly as I can recollect the words, the fol
lowing toasts were drank : By the British
Ambassador: ‘England—the sun whose beams
enlighten and fructify, the remotest corners
of the earth.’—The French Ambassador,
glowing with national pride drank —‘France
—the moon, whose mild steady and cheering
rays are the delight of all nations : consoling
them in darkness, making their dreariness
beautiful. Dr. Franklin then arose with bis
usual dignified simplicity,said George Wash
ington—the Joshua who commanded the sun
and moon to stand still and they obeyed him.
Music from the Woods.— -Wesee it stated
in a St. Louis paper, that Pianos* manufac
tured at the town of Herrnon, on the Missou
ri river, have been brought down to St. Louis,
and are now exposed to sale. This seems to
be a very strange speculation—manufacturing
Pianos in the wtlds ol Missouri.
1 TEXAS.
Tae Kingston arrived yesterday, in 40
hours from Galveston, and we have received
the latest papers.
_ ihe Civilian of ilie 10th in publishing the
following official announcement of the com
p!ei;on of the Texian Loan, still doubts
whether it v, ill be realized, as will appear by
the remarks appended to the notice.
TEXIAN LOAN—OFFICIAL.
Treasury Department.
City of Aiisiiu, June eSiU lb4l.
To the Ed.tor of t!ie Austin Gazette.
To quiet all apprehension and to remove
the doubts that have been created by recent
newspaper publications, it is thought proper to
give this public and official notification to ail
whom it may concern—that official informa
tion has been received by the Executive of
the positive sals of our bonds by our Loan
Commissioners in Paris, the proceeds of
which will, it is confidently expected, be real
ized in the city of New Yoik in the course
oftiie month of August next.
JOHN G. CHALMERS.
Secretary of Treasury.
Notwithstanding the above annunciation,
we are Compelled to doubt the final recep
tion of the Loan. We understand that M s
srs. Laffitte & Cos. were not aide to make a
loan of such magnitude with their own means
and the manner in which they offered the
bonds for sale favors the supposition that they
merely acted as agents of Gen Hamilton in
offering to sell the bonds, although, like their
government) they may have given a “ moral
guarantee” of success. Besides, the terms
upon which the bonds are offered are wholly
unauthorized by {any law of this country,
and therefore not binding unless Congress
chooses to ratify them. Tii , considering
their unfavorableness to Texas,, and our in
creased ability to get along without foreign
aid, is by no means sure to take place.—Ci
vilian.
The Sante Fe expedition lias been beard
from dated 37th June—all well. The name
of S. W. Howland, who acts as pilot of the
expedition, was omitted in the former an
nouncement. The number of merchants,
amateurs, &c., should have beeil*staled at 37
instead of 77.
Gen. Burleson, with 25 volunteers, started
from Austin in search of a party of Indians,
said to be encamped some distance above.
A B.ble Society, under the management of
the Rev. Mr. Fontaine, private secretary to
the President, has been established at Austin.
Three churches, one Catholic, one, Metho
dist, and one Presbyterian, are being built at
Galveston, and a fourth is to be commenced
soon for the Episcopalians.
Extract of a letter received by the ITon
Secretary of War, da ed Lamar Countv,
May 28, 1841.
Gen. Tarrant and Capt, Stout are each ab
sent, on an expedition against the Indians, to
the Upper Brazos, with about one hundred
volunteers. The Indians have committed
many depredations upon the frontier of our
section of the republic, since the regulars left.
In one instance seven members of one family
were murdered in open day, besides many !
other depredations of less magnitude, such as
stealing and destroying property.
LATE AND ITPORTANT FROM TEXAS.
We have received our regular files of Tex
as papers from the seat of government to the
10Ji, and from Galveston to the fffilh ult.
From the Austin C.ty Gazette we extract the
i'oßowing :
Arrival of Commissioners from Gen.
Arista with propositions for an Armis
tice. —By the Hot). C. Van Ness and Col. \V.
G. Cooke, who arrived in town from San An
tonio a few days .-ince, we learn that three
Commissioners or Agents from Gen. Arista to
our government had arrived in that place and
may be expected here to-day. 1 1 is generally
believed that Gen. Arista proposes a suspension
of hostilities, opening a direct trade between
Texas and the Mexican provinces,lie restrain
ing all marauding parties on his side, pro dried
Texas will do the same on their side, and a
joint and mutual action against the host ile In
dians. It is the true policy of this government
tn meet Mexico halfway whenever she does
make us an offer of her hand, not only so
shou Id shenot forget that, though she may have
enacted the partot an unnatural parent, Texas
is an offspring of Mexico, many of our citizens
arc of Mexican birth or Mexican extraction,
and look up to that country as their fatherland.
Whatever, in our situation, tends to peace,
tends also to national happiness and prosperity
—whatever leads to a definite or indefinite
suspension of threatened hostility, will do
much toward the re-establishment of confi
dence throughout tho whole extent of our
western frontier, will encourage emigration,
ani have a tendency to establish friendly feel
ings and relations between the inhabitants
res.ding east and those residing west of the
Rio Grande, and from this will flow, as a na
tural result, the removal of all those- national
prejudices which at present unfortunately exist
between the Anglo-Amqrican and thtf Mexi
can races.
Agricultural products of the U. States.
—i tabular statement has been prepared at
the State Department exhibiting the agricul
tural statistics of the United States as re
turned by the Marshals appointed to take the
sixth census. They are not complete, the
States of North Carolina and Kentucky, and
the Territories of Florida and Wisconsin not
being given. The aggregate annual products
of agriculture and the domestic animals in
the Union with the above exceptions areas
follows ;
Wheat bush. 70,174,9491-2
Rye “ 17,007,600
Corn “ 297,855,053
Oats “ 100,375,192
Buckwheat “ * 0,952,32(3
Barley “ , 3,848,149
Potatoes “ 101,031,439
Cos tton* lbs. 1,064,500,785
Wool “ 20,939,340
Tobacco “ 78,070,303
Sugar “ 281,265,113
Silk cocoons “ 323,482 1-4
Dairy value off $23,959,531
Orchards “ 7,259,076
Lumber “ 10,955,646
Wine galls. 316,626
Hemp ana Flax tons. 843,049
Hay “ 9,641,225
tar, bbls, 31,689
Horses and Mules 3,489,150
Neat cattle 13,433,383
Sheep 19,085,962.
Swine 20,745,898
Poultry value of, $10,992,910 1-2
The value of an annual crop of grain and
potatoes,’even at. the present low prices, is
probably not less than three hundred miliums
of dollars; and it'We include other agricultu
ral productions, among which are cotton and
tobacco, with a fair, allowance for the cattle,
.shpep, horses swine, &c., which belong to tbe
year, we shall have an annual product of
’more than Jive hundred millions of dollars in
value. ‘
*Som of the Mtrshals have retu ned ginned Cot
ton ; others in the seed.
[NUMBER 25.
j The first Methodist Preachers. —At
the commencement of Methodism they were
chosen by Mr. Wesley, on account of their
knowledge of Scripture, and powerful, though
net often cut rated minds. Samuel Bradburn
(a man whose life, published, would be one
of the most interesting and even amusing of
Looks) was remarkable for his strong mind
and unwearied labors. In wit and humor,
few men excelled him ; and the early annals
of Methodism brightened by the speaking of
his facetiousness. “ See, (said lie on one oc
casion, to one of the first chosen preachers)
the good that Methodism lias done!’ * des, (was
the reply) it Ins •lone a great deal for us *' —
Something in this displeased Bradburn, lie im
mediately said) pointing to a Mr. Marsden—
“for us ! Why yes , you was a cobbler, and
I was a tinker, and it. has made us gentlemen
but brother Marsden was a gentleman before.”
“You should not have called me a cobbler
(said the preacher in question ;) it would have
been more civil to said a boot and shoe ma
ker.” “ Yes, (added Bradburn,) but I did
not call myself a tin-plate worker, but simply
a tinker.” Such were the men whom Wes
ley made Ids first itinerant preachers. The
writer of this lias seen and conversed with
many of them; among others, with the three
of whom the above story is told ; and it must
be acknowledged that they were a class of
men of great mental power—rough some
times, and perhaps a little uncouth, but ener
getic, self-denying and indomitable. They
were often, too, men of great personal strength
and there is current an anecdote of one who
was much annoyed on one occasion, by the
profanity and impertinence of a gigantic
butcher. For some time he bore patiently
with the man’s ribaldry ; but at last his feel
ings were outraged, and, walking up to the
fellow, he took him by the coliar, and the
waistband of bis breeches, as though he had
been a little child, and hung him by the latter
to one of the great hooks of his own shop,
where he remained dangling till the (exhorta
tion was concluded.-- Church of England
Review.
Cooking— Sir,—ln the Island of Jersy,
England, they have a mode of cooking which
is peculiar to those Islanders whose governing
principle is to make a little go a great way.
—lndependent of this, however, when the
process is p'operly conducted, the delicious
flavor and richness which is communicated to
the smallest quantity of the animal food em
ployed, is a very strong recommendation for
its adoption, which requires neither extra
trouble nor expense.
The meat to be operated upon, is first cut
into steaks and fried with shred onions in
butter, over a quick fire, until it is well
browned and about half cooked; it is then
transferred altogether into a stew pan, water
being added sufficient to form a considerable
quantity of gravy, when the process is com
pleted; and the whole is left to simmer for the
space of six or eight hours, when, the proper
seasoning being added, it is served up hot—a
dish lit lor a President! I well remember
meeting some friends in London, who, on
describing a dinner at which they were pres
ent. the day before, the tickets lor which were
a guinea each, they all spoke in raptures of a
dish of beefstake and onions cooked alter this
manner, declaring it to be superior to all the
venison, game and poultry at the table. VV i!!
your readers try the effect even with hard and
tough meat of inferior quality, not, however,
to the exclusion of that which is young, fat, and
tender. I am, Mr. Editor, a lover of good
living, hut No Epicure. —Farmers’ Cabinet.
Formation of Hair—Some persous are
puzzled to account for the formation of hail
stones, in the atmosphere, when the temper
ature on the earth’s surface is above ninety,
as was the case on Wednesday Mr. Espy,
in h s meteorological lecture, gives a beauti
ful description ot tiie formation of a cloud, and
after the cloud is formed, he says, rain drops
are generated—but sometimes these cannot
reach tiie earth on account of the violence of
the upward current, but *re, on the contrary,
carried to the region of -perpetual congelation,
there frozen, and thrown olf at the sides ol
the hail cloud.—Boston Journal.
A view of both oceans. —Tiie lofty point
on which we stood was perfectly clear, the at
mosphere was of transparent beauty, and’
looking beyond the region of desolation, below
us, at a distance perhaps of two thousand feet,
the whole country was covered with clouds,
and the city at the foot of the volcano invisi
ble. By degrees, the more distant clouds
were luted, and over the immense bed we
saw at the same moment the Atlantic and
Pacific Oceans. This was tiie grand spec a
cle we had hoped, but scarcely expected to
behold. My companions had ascended the
volcano several times, but on account of the
clouds had only seen tiie two seas once be
fore. The points at which they were visible
\* ere the Gulf of Nicoya and “the Harbor of
San Juan, not directly opposite, but nearly at
right angles to each other, so that we saw
them without turning the body. In a right
line over the tops of*the mountains neither
was more than twemy miles distant, aid from
the great height at whi -h we stood, they
seemed almost at our feet. It is the only point
in the world which commands a view of the
two seas ; and I rank the sight with those
most interesting occasions, when from the
top of Mount Sinai I looked out upon the
Desert of Arabia, and from Mount Ilor 1 saw
the Dead Sea. —Stephen’s incidents of Travel
in Central America.
Advantage of Science.— Mr. Holbrook, of
Medway, the celebrated bell-founder, who has
put up a clock upon the Baptist church in this
mwn the present week,- gave us a little in
cident of his life, which is wor'h relating, if
for nothing more than to show the importance
of a knowledge of chemistry. An immense
pile of cinders and dross had accumulated
near his foundry, wiiich was supposed to be
entirely Worthless, and was used to fiil up
stone walls, &c. A foreigner who happened
to be in town examined the pile one day, asd
offered .SIUO for it. So large a price excited
Mr. Id’s, suspicions that the cinders mig! t
contain valuable metal, and he declined sel
ling it. The man then offered <s2oo, which of
course confirmed his opinion, and, after a little
parley, the stranger acknowledged that be
was acquainted with a process by which valu
able metal might be extracted from the cin
ders, which he offered to divulge sos and small
compensation. A furnace and apparatus were
constructed according to Iris directions, and,
when the whole pile was run through,’ the
mass of neglected rubbish yielded a nett prof
it of thirteen thousand dollars. So much for
knowing “ how to do it.”—Lynn Freeman.
Ireland. —'General Dix, in his oration
delivered at Albany on the sth inst- said that
notwithstanding the in which Ire
land is held.she actually sent twenty-four mill
ions of bushels of grain annually into the
island of Great Britain for the subsistence of
the British people, and this was but a part of
her surplus produce. What might she not
become with aoindependent .parliament, and
without the incumbrance of the enormous
impost system of Great Britain 1 She was
nfaking noble efforts for Freedom, and she was
cheered on by tiie wishes and prayers of Us
friends throughout the world.
(Jo’-respofidonce of the Herald.
Washington Crry,- July*l4th, 1841.
On and about Henry Clay—Daniel W eb T
stek —Insolence of the Pope to a Citi
w ZEN OF THE UNITED STATES —HIS INCAR
CERATION EY THE INQUISITION.
James Gordon Bennett, Esq :
Sir —Your admirers in the west, for west
and southwest are beginning to have less con
fidence in your political censorship, hut in
morals and finance the confidence is unabated.
Your correspondence from the Capitol has of
late savored strongly of locot'ocoism, and the
gratuitous tirades against old Hal, the favorite
son of the west, inuuce many of your friends
to boheve that you have formed a coalition
with the Wall street blacklegs, to prevent, if
possible, the contemplated improvement in the
currency which the sovereign people now ex
pect. By the people, I mean the hardy yeo
men who till tiic earth, and the industrious
mechanic and manufacturer, all of ‘•t horn are
producers, and consequently deeply interested
in having a uniform currency, w hich experi
ence has proved can only be obtained, in our
widely extended country, through the agency
of a Bank of the lmited Stales. 1 admonish
you to be careful, and not throw your paper,
hitherto impartial, frank, and independent, into
the locoloco ranks; every novice in the great
west knows lull well that the harpies in your
Wall street can only prosper whilst the country
is suffering under a deranged currency! Do
not attempt to humbug us, or attempt to force
on the yeomanry of the couLtry the idea that
old Hal can for a moment act in unison with
the denizens of that polluted kennel, Wall
street; it won’t do ; if you persist in that
species of humbuggery, you will lose your
reputation as a politician, and what is of more
value to you, t! e power of being useful; pur
sue an armed neutrality, but do not degener
ate into faction.
The godlike Daniel is doubtless thrown in
to a quandary by the decision of your Supreme
Court; how he will extricate himself from
the dilemma in which he is placed time alone
can determine* lid has now another gordion
knot to cut that pr sents even more difficul
ties than the case of McLeod. , The vicege
rent of Christ on earth, his Holiness the Pope
of Rome, in the exercise of his Apostolic
functions, called the Bishop of Detroit to ap
pear before him in the year 1838 or ’.‘l!). The
latter in obedience to the divine mandate re-,
paired to Rome and kissed his Holiness’s great
toe with all due humility, as becomes an Or
thodox Christian of that old school, and a citi
zen of these United States ! It appears our
poor Yankee Bishop (Reese) was thrust into
prison in the holy inquisition, and urged to re
sign his Apostolic function of pastor of the
diocese of Detroit. He refused , and continues
to languish in the dungeon of the Holy Inqui
sition, cut off from all communication tvith Ms
country and friends. This will be officially
coinmunica ed to the department of State
to-morrow by a Catholic priest, who says
our worthy fellow-citizen is suffering this
prolonged incarceration owing to certain cal
umnies of his colleagues in the United States,
who have been accessory to his imprisonment
and have known the fact <SVer since its coil
summation, but have carefully kept it a secret
from the laity in tnis country, and especially
from the flock of the sufferer. I think you
will agree with me that this is a subject cal
culated to exercise the giant mind of the great
Daniel! A citizen of the United States call
ed to Rome to be judged by his Holiness for
acts alleged to have been committed in the
United States, is an anomoly, at least in the
history of our country. You will be in pos
session of the facts as soon as the Secretary
himself.
Yours, &c.
Ludicrous Anecdote.—A few years since,
an aged clergyman in the western part of this
country, speaking of the solemnity attached
to the ministerial office, said that during the
whole term of forty or fifty years that he had
officiated therein, his gravity had never been
but once disturbed in the pulpit. On that oc
casion. lie noticed-a man directly in front of
him leaning ever ti e railing of the gallery
with something in liis hand, which he soon
discovered to be a huge quid of tobacco just
taken from his mouth. Directly below him
sat a man asleep with his head back and his
mouth wide open. The man in the gallery
was intensely engaged in raising ami lower
ing his hand taking an exact observation, till,
at last, having got it right, he let fall the quid,
and it went plump into the mouth of the sleep
er below ! The whole scene was so indes
cribably ludicrous, that for the first and last
time in the pulpit, an involuntary smile forced
itself upon the countenance of the preacher.
’Twas a lovely evening—nature was hushed
in repose—naught was heard to disturb the
stillness of the night—the gentle zephyrs
fanned the earth from the sunny South to the
bleak regions of the North ; when my dear
Irena, arrayed in ail her beauty and loveli
ness, came bounding like a fawn in front of
her father’s splendid mansion ; she stopped,
her head bent as if in the act of listening; a
soft note of music held her enraptured spirit
in an ecstacy of bliss.
Her brain reeled, her senses were dumb, it
seemed as if she was wandering in imagina
tion, to that land where blest spirits will soon
meet, to sing the never ending song of re
deeming love—when with one wild bound, as
if the shaft of death had been sent with un
erring certainty, she screamed aloud, “ Get
ou% you darned old sow, rooting up all our
garden.”
Readers ! art thou a young man struggling
against difficulties for improvement and use
fulness ? Hold up then bravely thy head
when the surge rolls over thee. Knowest
thou not that the energy that works within
thee is the measure of the capability ? that
whatsoever thou wiliest, thou canst achieve,
if not interdicted by the laws of thy being?
Look, then on obstacles with an unblinkiiw
eye. Most of the good and the great of all
ages have been thy fellows in suffering, and
thou mayest be theirs in success. Despond
not; good counsellors will t ell thee to be hum
ble, their counsel is w ise; but remember hu
mility is not a fiction: it is the right estimate
of thyself, no depreciation, llumility is
strength; it is brave; she has lifted many a
time her meek eye serenely in the flames of
the stake. Be humble, then, but but be strong
in thy heart. Thy soul is an exhaustless en
ergy, the wide world is open for thine action,’
and voices from earth and hea\en summon
thee to dare and to do.—Zion’s Herald.
A Lo? ; o Passage.— The Dublin Monitor of
June lid, in an article relating to the fate of
the steam packet 1 resident, says that a vessel
Called the Jessie; Capta n Harding, left Que
bec on the I7thof November, 1840, and was
not heard of until the 21st of June, having
beer at sea nearly seven months, without havv
ing spoken a vessel or entered a port!’
Seven Deserters DrownED.- Tlie Buffa
lo Commercial of Wednesday, states that one
night last week, nine soldiers attempted to
swim across the river a little below the Ferry.
Two ofc them succeeded in breasting the
mighty torrent —the remaining seven ° were
drowned, and four of their naked bodies are
now floating about in the Whirlpool.
Mokf. Indian Difficulties in the F.a~t.
—A letter published in the Red-Lander, dated
Crockett, Houston county, the 2dd ult., states
that the house of aM s. Cbr nor, of Bur. ct
county, was recently attacked by a party ot’
Indians, while the family were at supper.—
I’lie iudians were repulsed by Mrs. Cannon
and her oldest son, and the nets! day
pursued and overtaken by a company-
Fort Houston. Two of iby. ; ntiians rg
killed; and one believed to be iWta|| v WOU(J%
ded. The family received no in^uiv.’