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LAW NOTICE.
JOHN 11. POWERS <fc JAMES A. WEST,
HAVING associated themselves in the prac
tice of Law, will attend the Courts of
Houston, Bibb, Crawford, Macon, Dooly, Pulaski
and Twiggs. AH business entrusted to their care,
will be promptly and faithfully discharged.
J. H. POWERS,
J. N. WEST.
rr Office at Perry, Houston county, Oa.
April 22, 1816. 17—3 m
hAjohivston,
AT T O E Y AT LAW,
Refers to —
> Macon.
John McGough, E^/rCulutnbus.
Aprils, 1840. 13—ts
SEABORN WILLIAMS
ATTORNEY AM) COUNSELLOR AT LAW, AND SO
LICITOR IN EQUITY,
Tuskegee, Macon County, Ala.
References —Messrs. Thomas & Downing, Co
lumbus Ga., Hon. James R. Bclser, Montgomery,
Alabama.
Oct. 8, 1813. 41—ly
JOHN B. WEEMS.
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Columbus, Ga.
TIiTILL practiee in the comities comprising the
Y ¥ Ctiattalioochee Circuit, and the adjacent
counties in Alabama.
#3” OJfice ocer the store cf M. Brannon, on
Jtro.ul Street.
Feb, 11, 1846. 7—ts.
A. O. FOSTER.
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
Columbus Ga.
\inil prartiee in the Courts of the su;cral
v ▼ counties of the Chattahoochee Circuit, &
the adjoiug comities of the Sonthern-West
ern Circuit of Ga. And also in the adjoining
counties of Alabama.
references:
Messrs. Harper & Holmes, Apalachicola, Fla
“ W. DoaringSt Sons, Charleston, S. C.
Poe & Xisbet, Macon, Ga.
“ N. G. Foster & A. G. Foster, Madison, Ga.
Columbus, Oct. 8, 184a. 41 —ly
J. EAW,
ATTORNEY AT LAW;
BAINBRTDGE, (DECATUR CO.) GA.
WILL attend punctually the Superior
Courts of the counties of E.arly, Maker,
gnd Decatur of the South-Western, and of the
pountv of Thomas of the Southern Circuit.
_May 31,181a 21—ly
COL&UITT 4 COOIi,
ATTOIt ULE Y ’S AT LAW;
\17 r ILL praalMWlffpcoiiutics of Troiip^er-
and Carroll.
Walter T. Ga.
Wm. C. 1). Cook, LaGrai%,
April 23. \ 31—ly
E. 11. PLATT,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Albany, Baker County Ga.
Jan. 1, 1545. I—ts
AVGUSTA, WAR It EM TOUT,
MILLEDGUVILLE & MACON
3\iAiT, x.xnNrx;.
FARE REDUCED!
Only $9 00 through from Augusta to Marou!
iVnrtst, cheapest, and only direct route daily,
{Sundays not excepted,) through without delay.
LEAVING Augusta by Georgia Rail Road, 91-2
o'clock, F. M-, Warrenton by Stage 12}
o'clock, A. M., thence by Sparta, arriving at Mill
edgcville at 111 o'clock, A. M., at Gordon at 41
o'clock, P. M., thence by Central Rail Road to
Macon at 6 o'clock P. M-
From Macon, leaves for Gordon by Central
Railroad at 6 o'clock, A. M., thence by stage to
Mdledgevillc at 10j o'clock, A. M., to Warren
ton 9 o'clock, P. M.,in time for the cars on the
Georgia Rail Road lor Augusta, and arrives there
in time for the cars on the Charleston Road.
Passengers through, on this line will in all
cases have the prcfeicuce over those on the way.
The line connects immediately at Macon., with
the Macon and Western Railroad, and with the
line of stages going South and West, to Talla
hassee, Columbus, and Montgomery, Ala-
Fare at Augusta, received l>y Agent Georgia
Railroad; at Warrenton, by E. Hale ; at Macon,
by W. A. Mott; at Milledgevillc, by A. Mott.
KNOX & MOTT, Proprietors,
Milledgevillc, April Bth, 1846 [S. C.] 15 —St
DUNG my absence from Columbus, Al
lred Iverson, Esq., will act as mv attorney
and agent in relation to the estate of Gen. Wat
son, of which 1 am at present sole Executor.
fl. W. WALKER.
Jan. 2S, ISIS. s—ts
BASiINB ANdIoPeT
VI E have a fine lat of the above named ar-
* tides on hand, which we are desirous to
cell for Cos*. Planters can save 25 per cent by
purchasing from us now, for their next crop. —
Those who wish to purchase would do well to
call, as we shall sell the article lower than ever
was offered in this market.
MOODY & DURR.
Columbus, Feb. 25,1846. 9—ly
A=a\ r PllE\id?rsinsufd offers for sale his
resiCMce situated in Wynnton, i
>UUa mile frointhc Citr. Containisg about a
all m
on two thirds of the rchase money—for par
txulars, apply to,
C. SHERWOOD.
Columbus April, 15, ]. 16—ts
VOLUME VI.
n* Ha mmm#
TTAS just returned from New York, and is
this day receiving a large assortment of
G 00335,
of the latest importation, which he has selected
himself with great care. Those desirous of ob
taining such goods as are imported expressly for
the New York City Trade, will do well to call
immediately.
Has also received a full assortment of
MILLINERY GOODS & FASHIONABLE BONNETS,
from the most approved Millinery establishments
in New Yqrk, She will open and show them this
day the 22d April, 1846.
April 22, 1849 17—ts
THE subscribers have entered into a copart
nership under the Style of Brokaw &
Clemons, for the transaction of the Dry Goods Bu
siness, at the Store recently occupied by Messrs.
Bradley’s & Demmom.
J. A. BROKAW,
W. G. CLEMONS.
Columbus, Jan, 28, 1846. 6 —ts
LUKE REED, Jr.
HAS removed to his lower store, a few doors
below the Market House, on the west side
broad street, where he will be happy to see all
who wish to settle their accounts with him or with
the late firm of James Shaw & Cos.
Columbus, Jan. 14, 1846. 3 —ts
BOOTS, SHOES, AND BROGAN §1
OF every description—a large stock, to
which additions are constantly being made
for sale on the most reasonable terms, by
LUKE REED, Jr.
Sign of the golden boot and saddle, a few doors
below the Market House.
Jan. 14, 4 —ts
SADDLERY &, HARNESS.
OF all kinds—a complete assortment con
stant'y on hand and for sale at the lowest
possible prices by LUKE REED, Jr.
Sign of the golden boot and saddle,
below the Market House.
Jan. 21, 1846. 4—ts
INDIA RUBBER GOODS.
TNDIA RUBBER CURTAIN CLOTH—FIoor Cloth
A —Gin and Machine Banding—Hats, Coats,
Leggins, &c. &c., for sale by
LUKE REED, Jr.
Sign of the golden boot and saddle,
below the market house.
Jan. 21, 4—ts
ALL KINOS OF LEATHER AND FIND
INGS
FOR sale at the sign of the golden boot and
saddle, by LUKE REED, Jr.
Jan. 21, 4 — t s
FOR SADDLERS &, HARNESS MAK
ERS.
SHIRTING, Harness and Bridle Leather, Sad
dle trees, Hog Skins—Pad Skins—Harness
Mountings—-Buckles—rings, &c. &c., for sale by
LUKE REED, Jr.
Sign of the golden boot and saddle,
below the market house.
Jan. 21, 4 —ts
FOR CARRIAGE MAKERS.
TOP k APRON LEATHER—-Curtain Cloth,
Coach Lace—Worsted fringe—Drawing
Cord, &c. &c., for sale by
LUKE REED, Jr.
Sign of the golden boot and saddle,
below the market*house.
DlltacT FROM IIAVANNA.
1 f ' a !l° ns Superior Cuba Molasses,
1 in Hhds. Tierces, Bis. & Hlf. Bis.
\ also, a
% 10 bis. of choice Honey,
\Swcetmeats of various
Mbreen ginger for preservin
Wamarinds in the Shell,
(Aesnuts, Prunes, Lii^HU&c.
The above artmles, with are
now offered at whWesale and cash.
\ H. t.jmPeenwood.
April, 29, 1846. % rtf
1 rAYA /Y A A Spanish Cigars for
JL y wholesale and Retail.
AV 1). T. GREENWOOD,
April, 29, 18 W, % 18—ts
iH4ill>llL)K§.
O Miuwla Hanjmockslust received.
rCO ‘M u. V. GREENWOOD.
Apiy29, 1846, \ J B— ts
“I Half Pipes Brandy of (\pice brands, just
Jreceived. H. T. (KEENU r OOD.
April 29, 1846,
schiebamgS
-1 Doz. of superior Schiedsfci Gin,just
1 VJ received. li. T. GREHBXVOOD.
April, 29, 184 G. B —ts
MUSCOGEE COUNTY,
TOLLED beita me by J. G. Stanley, one sor
rel Horse D*ed face, a white spot on the
neck, supposed to u%gight years old. Appraised
by John Roland,
lars, this 22d March,
T rola nd, j.p.
A
the 21th April 1546. R.m MITCHELL, Clk.
April 29, 1546. y 18—2 t
WAR IS INEVITABLE!
BUT X.BT XTeeaXE!!
Disastrous News to Broad Street BooJx
Sellers.
T'HE undersigned takes this method to in
form the public that the Cheap Book Store is
to be found 2 doors below the Post Office, where
books have been and still continue to be sold
lower than at any establishment in this city. He is
desirous that those offering the SI,OOO should
come forward and settle as lie is short of funds.
Just received a select assortment qf School,
t lassical, and Miscellaneous Books, which will
be sold low, in spite of opposition. Among which
are a few copies of the Rise and Fall of the Irish
Nation, Proverbial Philosophy, Willis’Dashes at
Life ; Afontezuma the Serf, Mysteries, Bostan,
and Parleys Cabinet Library, anew work just
from the Press. Also, just received Visiting
C ards, Motto, H'afers, .Letter, and Note Enve
lopes, Rice paper, Lithographie Prints and Note
paper. 23” A few copies of American Almanac
for sale 25 per cent, less than New York cost. —
Those persons desirous of purchasing Books
Cheap will bear in mind to call at the No. 1. Lit
erary Depot, 2 doors below the Post Office.
B. B. DeGRAFFENRIED.
April 29, IS 16. 18—ts
LATEST NEWS FROM ORE6ON.
“j ßooks selling off astonishingly low.”
at the New Book Store of
B. B. dcGRAFFEMRIED,
2 doors below the Post office.
TNfonsequfnw of Fires, serioms interruptions
-L in business, and the great competition m the
Book line, I will sell Books as low and lower
than any establishment in this city, or surround
ing country —Cost or no Cost—a word to the
wise is sufficient.
April 22, 1846. 17—ts
GREAT 8t UNPARALLELED
REDUCTION IN THE PRICE OF BOOKS,
SCHOOL CLASSICAL A MISCELLA
NEOUS,
By GEORGE DUNHAM.
At the Cheap Book Store, just above the Market.
April 15, 1846, }6 —4f
yilE ySIOJf OF THE STATES, AND THE SOVEREIGNTY OF THE STATES.
3?OBTXiX.
THE INQUIRY,
Tell me, ye winged winds,
That round my pathway roar,
Do ye not know some spot
Where mortals weep no more !
Some lone and pleasant dell,
Some valley in the west,
Where, free from toil and pain,
The weary soul may rest ?
The loud wind dwindled to a whisper low,
And sighed for pity as it answered “No !”
Tell me, tliou mighty deep,
Whose billows round me play,
Know’t thou some favored spot,
Some island far away,
Where weary man may find
The bliss for which he sighs,
Where sorrow nevei lives,
And friendship never dies ?
The loud waves roiling in perpetual flow,
Stopped for a while, and sighed to answer “No!”
And thou, serenest moon,
That with such lovely face,
Dost look upon the earth
Asleep in night’s embrace,
Tell me, in all thy round,
Hast thou not seen some spot
Where miserable man
Might find a happier lot ?
Behind a cloud the moon withdrew in wo,
And a voice sweet, but sad, responded “No!”
Tell me, my secret soul,
Oh ! tell me, Hope and Faith,
Is there no resting place
From sorrow, sin and death :
Is there no happy spot
Where mortals may be bless’d.
Where grief may find a balm,
And weariness a rest ?
Faitli. Hope, and Love, best boons to mortals
given,
Wav’d their bright wings, and whisper’d, “Yes,
in Heaven.”
From the Olive Branch.
‘ I NEVER WILL DESPAIR.’
The proudest motto for the young—
Write it in lines of gold,
And let it be engraven deep
On memory’s living scroll—
Then in misfortune’s gloomy hour,
When racked with torturing care,
’Twill have a soul-sustaining power—j
‘ I pever will despair.’
The sailor on the stormy sea,
May sigh for distant land;
And free and fearless though he be,
Wisli he were near the strand;
Eut when the storm is wild and loud,
Amid the lightning’s glare,
lie climbs the slippery mast and sings,
‘ l never will despair.’
The wearied student, bending o’er
The treasures of the past,
And dwelling on the magic lore
Which genius has amassed,
Though ceaseless study blanch his cheek,
His strength and health impair.
Yet still his heart these words will speak,
( I never will despasr,’
The patriot statesman, whose wljol.e soul
Is in his country’s cause,
Who labors to establish peace,
And to sustain the laws,
May find his enemies a host,
His friends but few and rare;
Yet true to his last breath, he says,
* 1 never will despair.’
Thesqldier on the battle plain,
When thirsting to be free,
To throw aside a galling chain.
And strike for ‘Liberty !’
Though great the peril, will not shrink,
No sacrifice will spare;
But nerving his right arm, will say,
, ‘I never will despair.’
The Christian tqo, tho’ oft beset
By foes without—-within,
This motto should not once forget
Amid the world’s loud din,
But when he lifts the eye of faith,
And bends the knee in prayer,
Be this the language of his heart,
‘I never will despair.’
MISCELLANY.
From the Apalachicola Advertiser.
“A SNAKE STORY.”
A short time since as one of our steamboats
was wending her way to the hegd of navigation,
she * brought up’ at an intermediate port’ be
tween this place and the junction of the Chatta
hoochee and Flint rivers, for the purpose of
‘wooding’ or landing freight. As soon as she
had touched the bank, ‘bow line’ made fast and
plank out, she was boarded by one of those not
very rare specimens of humanity, a full grown,
live ‘hoosier,’ bearing all the outward marks and
brands which designated the ‘green horn’ genius.
Only waiting till the noise made by the blowing
off steam had ceased, with lys drawn do\vn
on his eyes and his arms firmly buried to the
elbows in his ‘trowserloons’ pockets, he marched
resolutely up to the clerk of the boat, and in a
loud, uncultivated tone inquired, “if he didn’t
want to buy a young rattle-snaild” The clerk,
like most of‘the boys’ on our steamboats, being
particularly fond of a joke, and ‘knowing his
man,’ immediately conceived a plan by which
some fun might be had in these dull and unpro
pitious times of scarce freights and low prices.—
Assuming an air ‘as serious as a Judge,’ he pro
pounded to the snake man many questions as to
the size, age, color, and order of his reptile, grave
ly remarking, after all his interrogatories had
been answered satisfactorily, that “he was not
just then in the market himself, but there was a
commercial house in Apalachicola who were
loading a ship for Liverpool, and that, part
of the cargo w r as to consist of a rare collec
tion of beasts, birds, and reptiles; that everything
curious was in great demand, and snakes, If they
were the realpizen, would readily bring from
fifteen to twenty dollars a head.” The “hoo
sier,’ elated with the thought of what a hand
some sum he could make, thanked the clerk
profoundly for his information, and immediately
set out for home, where he ordered all hands to
drop everything else and go to ketching snakes.
By the time the next boat passed that wav
bound for this port, he had succeeded in captur
ing, alive and unharmed, a barrel of the most
poisonous serpents, embracing cveTy variety and
hue that crawled in his ‘ diggins;’ the adder, the
moccasin, the rattle snake, &c. &c., of all ages
and sizes. Having them placed on board the
boat, regularly in good order and well
conditioned, marked and numbered as in the
margin, and to be delivered at the port of Apa
lachicola, to Messrs. B. & H.” (as per direction
of the clerk aforesaid,) he paid his passage and
took them in his own care, to make their delivery
doubly certain. As soon as he had arrived here,
his first inquiry was for the location of the above
firm, having found which, he presented himself
with all the dignity of a man engaged in legiti
mate trade, stated the information he had receiv
received from the steamboat clerk, and desired
that his snakes should be put at once upon the
market. Understanding the hoax at once, and
determining not to spoil the fun, Messrs. B. &
H. “regretting that they had just filled their last
order for snakes, but had no doubt they would
meet ready sale, as there were several houses in
the trade,” and he was directed to one of these.
By this time the news became general, and eve
ry body knew that there was a snake vender in
town, and all had a disposition to * humor the
joke/ Reading the signs along as he went, our
snake friend soon presented himself at’ another
counter and demanded “if they didn’t want to
buy some snaix?” Here he was interrogated
with business-like gravity, as to age, size and
species, to which he replied that “they were of
all sizes, little, middlin’ and big; old, young, and
COLUMBUS, GA. WEDNESDAY, MAY 6, 1846.
middle aged; spreadin’-adders, copper-bellied,
high-land, and water moccasins; strijied and
•yaller rattle snakes, but they were all the real
genuine pizen , warranted to bite if they could,
and kill if they bit ” These were “just the
kind they wanted, and they were extremely sor
ry he had not arrived a day or two earlier, as it
was probable they might have purchased the
whole lot; however, there was a firm a few doors
below who were in the snake market, and who
would no doubt be glad of so good an opportuni
ty of furnishing their friends in Liverpool with
such a variety of poisonous serpents:” and to
this house he was directed. In this way the
poor, unsuspecting, unsophisticated snake catch
er, was driven from house to house, from num
ber to number, until at last, as the day began to
wane and the prospects of a sale to grow dim,
he presented himself, with flushed face and per
spiring forehead, to the Captain of one of our
vessels, who he had been told would probably
take the whole lot, at a fair price, and asked, in
a despairing and almost suppliant tone, “ don’t
you want to buy my snaixt” The Captain was
prepared for the question—the joke had reached
the climax—and an unaffected; irresistible roar
of laughter broke from the crowd who had col
lected to hear his last appeal. The snake man
stood aghast, the very picture of utter amaze
ment and wonder; but verdant as he was, a ray
of light broke in upon him, and he began to un
derstand that he had been most completely taken
in. If any doubts still lingered around his obtuse
intellect, they are effectually removed by the re
marks of the crowd.
“Well,” said he, after pausing awhile as if to
bring his mind to a focus upon the extent of his
wrongs—“ Well its a d—n mean trick, anyhow,
to serve a feller. Here I’ve had three niggers
two days a-ketchin’ snaix, takin’ a site of pains
to get ’em without a bruise or a scratch—run
the risk of bein’ bit by the blasted, pizen things
—paid three dollars to come down on the d—d
old boat, deck passage, at that, and the danger
of bustin’ up thrown in—paid tliirty-seven-and
a-half cents freight on the barrel—lost three
days’ work myself, and wore my legs a most off
a-trampin’ over your inter shells and sand—got
your nasty fleas all over me a-biiin‘—and haint
sold nary snaik ! It’s a low life trick, any way
you can fix it, and that’s what a feller gits by
havin’ any dealin’s with your steamboat clerks
and your town people—the ouiUenist set in alt
creation ! I’ll chop every sn<iix head off, and
take ’em back home, for they shouldn’t crawl in
no such a dod rotted place as this!*’ And the
‘green *un’ was downright savage. To appease
his wrath, however, “the boys” treated to the
best the town afforded; made up a subscription
to pay his passage Back home, in the cabin
and promised never to buy a snake from any
body but him, because he produced the real pizen
breed.
Having put his threat of beheading the ser
pents into execution, he left our city on the return
bout, with his barrel of dead vipers, in a much
better humor that could have been expected, de
claring, however to the last, that “he’d never
believe a d—d steamboat clerk agin as long as
he lived, and that he had made his first and last
trip to Apalachicola
The following capital story we take from the
New York Spirit of the Times:
AN ELECTION STORY.
As the Presidential contest of ‘44 was draw
ing to a close, and the “returns” from the respec
tive States began coming in, the excitement
which had been growing with the growth of the
campaign, and strengthening with its strength,
could now no longer be restrained, but showed
itself as well in the eager countenances, as in
the bitter words and hasty actions of men. Bus
iness in this part of the country (Lowndesboro’,
Ala.,) was almost entirely lost sight of; men no
ted for their devotion to their purses and their
interests, might have been seen at any hour of
the day, idly loitering about, discussing the prob
able issue with as much vjhemance as though
their whole fortunes depended upon it. Thou
sands upon thousands of dollars were staked upon
the result; and when it became known that the
vote of New York, was to decide the conflict, the
eyes of the whole people was turned upon her
with feelings of the deepest solicitude.
On the arrival of the day upon which the final
news was to reach Montgomery, having a large
amount of money bet upon the election, and
feeling very anxious in regard to it, I determined
to send am express for the intelligence. Accor
dingly, writing to a friend to send my messenger
back as soon as the mail arrived, which I knew
would be about 11 o’clock that night, I started
“Old Armstead” —a faithful old negro of mine—
a great favorite in the village, and a “pisin demo
crat”—with particular and pressing instructions
to keep perfectly sober, start home as soon as he
got the news, not to ride “Traveller” hard, yet
to be certain to be back before day. Immedi
ately after he left, it became known in town that
I had sent “Old Armstead” to Montgomery after
the news, and to give every one of all parties the
benefit of the express, I agreed, upon his arrival
at home that night, to fire one barrel of my gun
in (lie event thai Mr. Clay was elected, and if
Mr. Polk was the “chosen one,’ I w as to fire both.
At my usual time I went to bed—but not to
sleep. The “dmad uncertainty” of the intelli
gence I was so soon to receive, added to a ner-,
vous fear as to the safety of my investments so
lavishly made upon Mr. Polk, banished rest from
my pillow. However, about three o’clock in the
morning, I had fallen into an uneasy slumber,
and was dreaming of counting money and seeing
new clothes, when I was suddenly aroused by
the clattering of a horse’s hoofs against the hard
ground, at least a quarter of a mile off. I raised
up in the bed, and in a moment recognized the
strong, powerful lope of my “Traveller.” Spring
ing to the floor, with my feelings in a tumult of
anxiety, I lit a candle and jumped to the door,
when “ Old Armstead” seeing me, and having
about “half a gallon” on his mind, shouted out,
“Master Mr, Polk's elected, by hokeyl ” I
sprung to my gun, which was sitting ready
cocked for the occasion, let go one barrel, and
had my linger on the other trigger, when the idea
struck me to hold on a minute and see the effect
produced by the one barrel. Before the rever
beration had died away, out jumped Bill Thomp
son, the most virulent, bitter Whig in the village,
from the door of his house, regardless of the bit
ter cold night, with nothing but his shirt, (for he
had just risen from the bed on the report of the
gun,) and as he hit the ground, he yelled, rather
than halloed “Hurrah for Clay ! lam a made
man Hurrah for Clay!”
In a minute more there came tearing up the
street to Thompson’s house, half a dozen half
naked whigs, yelling like so many unchained
devils. “Hurrah for Clay and Frelinghviysen!”
I could stand it no longer; with feelings of the
most unalloyed rapture, I pulled down the “ham
mer” on the second barrel! If a thunderbolt
from Heaven had fallen among them, it could
not have produced more consternation. Bill
Thompson fell flat op his face and groaned, “I’m
ruined! Broke ! Smashed all to nothing !”
By this time the street was filled by the shouts
of the triumphant democrats, and the curses of
the disappointed whigs. I ran back to put on my
pantaloons, and on my return to the crowd
found “Old Armstead” on the ground with a
dozen men around him, yelling out “Yah ! yah r ’
yah! Bress God, dis night will be de deaf of me
yet,” and then he would roll oyer in another par
oxysm ctf laughter, and press his hands to his
side. “Yah! yah! yah! I hab seen heep of
tings in Old Virginy, but I never seed nothin to
beat dat!” On some ope inquiring what was
the matter? he replied, “I am lasing at the way
Master fooled Mr. Thompson—Yah! yah! yah!”
By this time the day had broken, and the crowd
had assembled at the .grocery, where about Jialf
of them were drunk. In the midst of the confu
sion, in walked “Old Armstead” and said “Mas
ter, I’m afeerd ‘Traveller’ hab got the bots; I
had obleeged to rid him verry hard las’ night to
bring de news, and he is very sick.”
“Thank God!” exclaimed Bill Thompson,
“I hope he may die.”
“If there is any doubt of it,” exclaimed anoth
er “disappointed” ‘ we’ll help him along.”
To these charitable remarks I paid no atten
tion, but as I left the grocery I heard “Old Arm
stead” say, “I ’spect, gentlemen, if‘Traveller’ do
die, Master can ride ‘Grey Bill,’ what he won
from Mr. Thompson.”
“Oh, Lord!” groaned Bill Thompson; “will
somebody cut that old scoundrel’s throat.
Armstead becoming somewhat alarmed for his
safety, followed me to where ‘Traveller’ was ly
ing, who, by one or two drenchings, recovered
from the effects of his hard night’s work.
Since that time the bare mention of “The
Night Qld Armstead brought the News,” is
enough to make Bill Thompson leave.
PAUL JONES.
The Charleston Mercury of a recent date, con
tains the following vindication of the character of
Paul Jones, which has suffered as much from the
prejudices which foreign paragraphists implanted
in th e mind of his own and succeeding genera
tion s, as his private fortunes did from the disin
terested quality of his patriotism. In our own
country—the land for which the gallant spirit de
voted its sleepless energies—-there are many who
associate the memory of John Paul Jones with
reckless daring, sometimes displayed in question
able enterprizes:— N. O. Picayune.
The fate of Paul Jones, living and dead, has
been a strange and a hard one, and contains as
many items of injustice as ever fell to one man’s
lot. Among the foremost and most devoted, he
plunged into the struggle of our Revolution, and
threw into the common treasury e; soul as heroic,
as adventurous, as exhaustless of resources, as
ever lived; endless labor, and money to the last
dollar of his fortune. The only naval officer in
the service who showed the intuitive genius of a
great chief, he n,ot only was, not placed where he
belonged, at the head of the naty, but was post
poned in rank to a long string of men who had
no reputation and never acquired any. Engaged
in the most active and successful service, for sev
en y?ars he not only not received a dollar of pay,
and no rations, but he was almost the whole time
in advance to Congress for money paid out in
repairing his ships and feeding his crews. From
time to time he occupied himself in giving to the
Navy Department his views, full of sound sense
and comprehensive system of the organization of
the Navy. But while time has confirmed his
views and led to their adoption, it was not till the
world had forgotten who was their author.
But the most heinous wrong done to Paul
Jones is found in the popular notion of his char
acter, which seems to have been borrowed from
the course slanders of the British press, at the
time he frightened the Isles from their propriety
and put Mistress Britannia in a paroxism Os ter
ror and rage. For half a century he existed in
the popular mind as little better than a successful
ruffian—a big, ferocious savage, with a diabolical
eye, whose voice in battle was that of an enraged
tiger, whose soul exulted in killing men, sinking
ships and burning towns. The friend, corres
pondent and companion of Franklin, a ruffian !
The idolized hero of the Court of Versailles a
savage ! Never was there a more rascally carica
ture. Paul Jones was a slender man, delicately
moulded and organized, handsome, courtly in
manners, with a great love of refined society and
with qualities to adorn it, given to writing poe
try, and as distinguished through life for kis hu
manity as his heroism ; and if we consider that,
excepting the lion courage and intuitive genius
that God gave him, he was in all respects abso
lutely a self-made naan, the refinement of his
mind, his comprehensive and profound knowl
edge of his profession, and his power of de
veloping his ideas in logical order and with rare
clearness of expression, will seem scarcely less
marvellous than the successful daring of his ac
tion. We cannot find in all naval history a hero
with more high and various claims to admira
tion than John Paul Jones.
But to the people of the U. States he is some
thing more. He is their first naval hero—he,
more than any other, deserves to be honored as
the founder of our navy and the fount of its in
spiration—the tutelar genius of our wooden walls.
He first showed that success was possible; and
so unexpected and astounding was the proof, that
all Europe rang with the capture of the Serapis,
as if it had been the downfall of an empire. It
was, in fact, the birth of a rival to the proyd Mis
tress of the Oceap.
PREMATURE INTERMENT
Alarming Statement.
The custom of premature burial in France—or
rather the law, for we believe it is matter of police
regulation—whatever arguments of sound policy
it may have to recommend it, is opposed by one
of such overwhelming force, that the continued
maintenance of the practice, in defiance of that,
is one of those curious social problems, our satire
against which, is only disarmed by remembering
how many such obstinate errors there are amongst
ourselves.
The number of living interments that have
been interrupted by accidental circumstances
alone, in France, since 1833, amounts to 94 l
Ninety-four attested cases, in which the living
have narrowly escaped being laid amongst the
dead !—the wrong of the premature death being
nothing to the horror of that inconceivable
awakening in the grave! In the eye of common
sense, judged by the rules of the most ordinary
inference, each one of these cases, not so escaped,
would have been a murder; because the plea of
non-intention cannot be allowed to. a law which
risks it against such evidence as this. Os these
ninety-four cases, 35 persons recovered spontane
ously from their lethargy at the moment when
the funeral ceremonies were about taking place;
13 were aroused under the stimulus of the busy
love and grief about them; 7by the fall of the
coffin which inclosed them ; 9 by the pricking of
the flesh in sewing up the shroud ! sby the
sense of suffocation in their coffins; 19 by acci
dental delays which occurred in the interment
(how insignificant is this item!) and 6by volun
tary delays suggested by doubt as to the death !
These, then, are they who have escaped ; now,
think of the whole numerous family of trances and
epilepsies, and remember that the population of
France are habitually huddled into their narrow
homes within four-and-twenty, or at most aight
and forty hours Sfter death-—before the grim con
queror has had time, in most cases, to “hang his
ensign there”—
Ere yet decay’s effacing fingers
Have swept the lines where beauty lingers.’
and then calculate, if you dare, the numbers
whom no such intervening angel came to rescue
from this inconceivable horror! On that head.,
the satisfies, of course, ’are silent, —but sugges
tive. Os all but these 94, the grave keeps the
secret: but remember that of all who, since 1833,
were about to be byripd alive, these are the favor
ed of accident; then take to your Tables of
Chances, and tremble before the resulting rela
tive figures .which they present! And for all this
amount of horror the cure is easy. In England,
no man is laid in the grave tin the signs have set
in of that coming corruption, which, however the
heart may shrink from it, relieves at least from
the most terrible fear of all. In France, if the
dead must be put away so soon, it should be by
fire, as of old-r-or, at least, the surgeon should
operate, in mercy, before the coffin lid be closed.
It has been well said that of all the actions of
a man’s life, his marriage least concerns other
people—yet of all actions it is most meddled
with by other people.
NUMBER 19.
DEMOCRACY AND ARISTOCRACY.
La Reforme, a French publication, says that
of 33 millions of people in France, 27 millions
do not drink wine, 31 millions never taste sugar,
20 millions never wear shoes, 31 millions never
eat meat, 18 millions eat no wheaten bread, and
4 millions are clothed in rags. Let us state these
facts in a different mode. Os 33 millions, 15
millions only, or less than half, ever eat wheaten
bread, 13 millions only ever wear shoes, 6 millions
only ever think wine, 2 millions only ever eat
meat, 3 millions only ever taste sugar, and only
seven-eighths are clothed in anything better
than rags. We must add that of the few who
ever cat wheaten bread, meat, or sugar, or drink
wine, or vyear shoes, a portion can command such
comforts, or as Americans call them, necessaries,
only occasionally ; for we must suppose many
gradations between those who consume such
things constantly, and those who never consume
them at all. Hence, some procure one, or more,
or all of them, only on Sunday, others only on
holidays. Sonic can occasionally procure meat,
without the rest; some both meat and wine ;
still fewer, meat, wine, and sugar. Some who
never taste meat, wine, or sugar, or wear shoes,
or whole clothes, occasionally find luxury in
wheaten bread.
We ask the Americans to think of this.—
even among the miserably poor of our
commercial cities, do we find those thus habitual
ly destitute 1 Echo answers “where V ’ And
who are the majority of the French population
who never eat wheaten bread, or meat, or sugar,
or drink wine, or wear shops ? They are the
agricultural population! The tillers, aye ! and
the owners of the soil ! Farmers and “hired
men” of Pennsylvania f think qf that! Think,
on sitting down to your well loaded table, with
appetites sharpened by toil, and just pride inspir
ed by freedom, think of 33 millions of people,
more, by sixty per cent., than the whole popula
tion of the United States, of whom seven-eighths,
and a majority of them farmers, never touch
wheaten bread, or meat, or sugar, or wine, or
wear shoes !! ! Can you even imagine such
poverty 1 Another portion of these destitute suf
ferers arc the mechanics of the great cities.—
“Operatives” think of that.
And what is the oilier side of the picture 1
France is the richest nation of Continental Eu
rope. Its natural wealth of fertile soil, sea coast,
mines, will support more people in comfort than
that of any other 200,000 contiguous square
miles on that continent. But—aye 1 But—
France is a monarchy, and is contiguous to pow
erful neighbors. It has a gigantic navy in time
of peace, and an army of 250,000 men. It has a
throne, or royal executive, of great magnificence;
and its government is elected by only 250,000
voters, and those the richest, from an adult male
population of five or six millions. And why does
it maintain this gregt a,rmy to devour the bread
of the people 1 To maintain a king cn his throne,
and to maintain a frontier against contiguous
nations, continually “resting on their spears.”
And such will be the condition of these United
States, when they are surrounded by the nation,
of Canada, the nation of Qregon, the nation of
Mexico, and divided, upon Mr. McDuffie's sub
lime project, into “three confederacies.” Give
us, Mr. Webster, your independent nation in
Oregon ; give us, Mr. McDuffie, your “three
confederacies” of North, West and South; give
us, Mr. Mangum, your independent nation in
Canada ; give us, Sir Richard Pakenham, your
guarantee of Mexican independence under Brit
ish protection; give us, Mr. Guizot, your inde
pendence of Texas and your balance of powter
among these nations ; and all of ye, gentlemen,
give us the kings, standing armies and wars ne
cessary to maintain this system, and then of eve
ry thirty three million of people on the continent,
seven-eighths will never taste wheaten bread, or
meat, or wine, or sugar, or wear shoes!! But
give us the continent, the whole continent, and
nothing but the continent, under one confederacy,
and every thirty-three millions of people upon it
will fare as well as the twenty millions do now.
American voters, think of these things ! — Phil.
Ledger.
COMPOSURE IN PERIL.
Although none of us had any idea that wc
should survive the gale, we did not think that
our comforts should be entirely neglected; and
an order was therefore given to the men, to put
on their best and warmest clothing, to enable
them to support life as long as possible. Every
man therefore brought his bag on deck, and
dressed himself; and in the firm athletic forms
which stood exposed before me, I [Captain Lyon]
did not sec one muscle quiver, nor the slightest
sign of alarm- The officers each secured some
instrument about them, for the purposes of obser
vation, although it was acknowledged by all, that
not the slightest hope remained. And now that
everything in qur power had been done, I called
all hands aft, and to a merciful God oflered pray
ers for our preservation. I thanked every one for
their excellent conduct, and cautioned them, as
we should, in all probability, soon appear before
our Maker, to enter his presence as men resigned
to their fate. We then all sat down in groups,
and, sheltered from the w ash of the sea by what
ever we could find, many of us endeavored to ob
tain a little sleep. Never perhaps was witnessed
a finer scene than on the deck of my little ship,
when all hope of life had left us. Noble as the
character of the Sailor is always allowed tube,
in cases of danger, yet I did not believe it to be
possible, that among forty-one peisong, not one
repining word should have been uttered. The offi
cers sat about wherever they could find shelter
from the sea, & the men lay down conversing with
each other with the most perfect calmness. Each
was at peace with his neighbor and all the world;
and I am firmly persuaded that the resignation
which was then shown to the will of the Al
mighty was the means of obtaining His mercy.
God was merciful to us ; and the tide almost
miraculously fell no lower.— Voyages of Arctic
Discovery.
EXTRAORDINARY OCCURRENCE.
On Friday the 10th inst., as some thirty or
forty persons were crossing the Merrimack river
in a ferry boat, a man named John C. Ordwav,
in a fit of insanity, seized a boy about ten years
old, sen of Seth Eastman, Esq. of Concord, and
threw him into the river, on the side of the boat
facing up the stream. The act was seen only
by some small boys, who cried out that this man
had thrown a boy into the river. The man said
it was a dog. The boy passed under the boat,
hitting its bottom, and came to the surface a rod
or more below the boat, down the stream. When
he came up, he was observed to stick a portion of
his apron into his mouth. He then threw him
self upon his back, barely keeping his face out of
the water, and in this position kept paddling with
his hands. The boat haring passed over him
and making considerable headway, had already
opened a wide space between them, but the little
fellow struggled manfully mid kepi bis head above
prater, till rescued by the persons in the boat,
something like fifty rods below the spot where he
was thrown over. When the boat reached him,
a rope was thrown to him, which he seized, and
he was then taken into the boat, exclaiming—
“l haint got a bit of water in me.”
The boy states that when he came to the sur
face of the water, he recollected what he had a
few days before read in a book about the mode
persons who could not swim, should adopt, when
happening to get into deep water.
There is a mountain at the head of theGGusl f
of Bothnia, where, on the Ist of June, the sun
does not go. down at all. Travelers go up there
to see it. A steamboat goes from Stockholm for
the purpose of carrying those who are curious to
witness this phenomenon. It only occurs one
night The sun goes down to the horizon, you
can see the whole face of it, and in five minutes
it begins to rise.
AGRICULTURAL.
NEATSESS IN FARMING.
We have somewhere heard the remark, that
with the good farmer, every thing gives way ta
his business—that utility is all, and appearance
nothing—hence you arc not to expect neatness
about his dwelling, his door yard, being cut up
into mud by the farm waggon and the manure ,
cart, and the contiguity of barns, pig pens, and
kitchen, such as convenience, not freedom from
the peculiar odors of the hog yard and rich ma
nure heap, may dictate.
Now to speak bluntly, this is all nonsense. It
so happens, that in farming neatness and thrift
almost invariably go together,. The same love
of order which prompts the farmer to clear his
3 T ard of broken barrels, old hoops, fragments of
boards and sticks of wood, whatever else defaces
and defiles his premises—also prompts him lot
have a place, which is calculated to bear upon
real and substantial profit.
Some of the very best farmers with whom wo
are acquainted—whose eminent success and
heavy profits, separate them in this respect in
bold distinctness from the rest of their neighbors
—are patterns of neatness; and the touch of their
hand in the expulsion of nuisance is visible all
over their farms. Their door yards show that
the master is “at home,” the barn yard, which
is not so near the house that all the butter and
cheese manufactured is flavored with the effluvia,
exhibits the same neatness, even where all the
refuse of other places is collected for enriching
in due time the rest of the farm.
A farmer of our acquaintance, with 160 acres,
in whose farm yard we could scarcely ever dis
cover a w isp of straw in the wrong place, re
marked : “0, I don’t attempt to make much from
my farm —I expend so much in improvements,
that my clear profits arc only about a thousand
dollars a year.” Another of those neat farmery
in whose fields, cockle, docks, and chess obtain
no foothold, nor along whose fences a solitary
elder bush or nettle is ever seen, raised twenty
seven hundred dollars’ worth of farm produce at
the prices of 1844; and both these farmers live
in Western New York, where prices are com
paratively low, entirely away from the peculiar
advantages of market, which nearness to great
cities givfs.
Now ,let no one say that these remarks aremado
at the wrong season of the year, and that noth-;,
ing can be done for neatness and order in the’
winter.
The same general rule, in some shape or va
riation, has an almost an infinite number of ap
plications.
The care of domestic animals in winter needs
pre-eminently, the application of this rule—No.
animal can thrive well in the midst of dirt.—
Even a pig does not love dirt for dirt’s sake—lie
only happens to be so much ofa philosopher, or ra
ther stoic, that he is willing to endure for tlm
sake of a soft and cool bed in summer: for it has,
been found that these animals thrive better, and
fatten much faster, when kept clean and well
curried.
Horses and cattle are often neglected in clean
liness. We have actually known some who did not
clean the manure from horse stables for months,
allowing it gradually to thicken under foot with
the accumulating litter, till a foot in thickness—
reasoning, doubtless, as the boy did, who combed
his hair once a month, and was astonished that
such torture and troubled from the operation
couid be endured daily by other people. A far
mer who does his own chores, can hardly afford to
keep his horses so finely as the gentleman of
wealth, who has a man for no other purpose:
but every one should have his stable floor per
fectly clean at least twice every day, once in tha
morning, and once at night before littering, and
oftener would be better. Remember that the
oftener it is done the easier it is accomplished.
There are many other particulars where neat
ness may be attended to in winter. Gate hinges
and gate fgstnings often need repair, that they
may shut like clock work; boards become loose
on old barns and board fences; tools become
awkward for use, and need remoddelling or re
newing* and many other small matters, in doors
and out, require attention. \Ve are aware that
to many of our readers, who are examples for
others, such hints as the preceeding are not ap
plicable; to such we can say that they need not
read them—like the man who chiseled on the
stone at the fording place.
“When the water comes to this stone, it is
unsafe to cross.”— Albany Cultivator.
Preserving Bacon. —A very simple method
of preserving bacon, is to lay it down in charcoal.
In this way it may be kept perfectly sweet and
protected from the fly for an indefinite period,
provided it be deposited in a cool place. The
charcoal should not be triturated, but taken from
the coal-heap, coarse and fine together. The finer
particles are easily washed off, and the coarser
portions as valuable for burning as before.
Wounps in Horses. —Take of nitre, ono
quarter of a pound ;of vinegar, half a pint; of
spirits of turpentine, half a pint, put them in a
bottle and shake well before using. The appli
cation is to be made to the wound with a feather
or some other instrument, three times a day until
you effect a cure.
Warts.—These troublesome excrescences on
the teats of cows may be removed by washing
them frequently in a strong solution of alum.
Cholic in Horses. —Administer half an
ounce cf laadanum.
For Diarriicea i£ Cattle, give half an
ounce of Catichu powdered, and ten grains
powdered opium, in common gruel.
“I*l.l, TRY, Slß.’*
We notice a paragraph in several papers,
stating that the famous response, il ll try,
sir,” was made at the sprtie of Fort Meigs,
—According to our recollection of history,
the facts are as follows:—At the battle of Lun
dy’s Lane, the attention of the Commandcr
in-Chief was directed to an English battery
which was so placed as to mow down our troops,
in the most destructive manner, It was evident
that the party in command of that battery would
decide the issue of the contest Col. Miller,
since Collector of Customs at Salem, Mass., was
called, and asked if he could take that battery.—
He replied, “I’ll try, sir” General McNeil,
recently Surveyor of the port of Boston, then
a captain, we believe, in Col. Miller’s regiment,
advanced on the battery in front, to engage the
attention of the enemy, whilst the colonel ap
proached in another direction. Although Mc-
Neil was badly wounded, aud his company near
ly cut to pieces, Col. Miller succeeded in taking
the battery and turning the tide in favor of the
American’ forces. The modest and laconic reply
of Col. M. has since become famous, and is now
regarded with the same enthusiasm as the dying
command of Lawrence—“ Don’t give up the
ship ” — St. Louis Reporter.
THE SON OF NAPOUEON,
The sons of great men arc seldoig 38 great as
their fathers. The egg of an eagle, notwith
standing the proverb, will sometimes hatch a
crow. The excellences of the mind are not
transmissible as tfre diseases of the body, and per
haps it is fortunate that it is so. What would
have been the power of Napoleon’s son, if, to the
intrinsic influence of his father’s name he could
have added a second addition of his father’s ener
gy and talent!—Commencing just where Napo
leon left off, who could have prescribed a limit
to his onward progress towards power and do-,
minion. But far different is now his fate. The
Count St. Leon, the xllegimate son of Napoleon,
by the Countess of Luxembourg, remarkable in
Paris only for being strikingly like his parent iu
features, and unlike him in mental capacity, hav
i ing in a course of unmitigated licentiousness dis
j sipated an immense fortune left him by his fa-
I ther, has just instituted a spit against his mother,
and compelled her to pay him §I2OO per annuiq
out of an anuity of §5,000, bequeathed her by
the Emperor.
An incident occurred last week on board the
i Powhatan, Capt Rogers, worthy ofnote. The
I boat runs upon the Potomac, on the Washington
’ and Richmond line, and always rings the bell as
she passes Mount Vernon, in honor of the illus
trious dead whose mortal remains are entombed-
On the occasion mentioned, the Harmoneau ring
ers (Bostonians) were on board, and the boat
stopped opposite Washington’s grave, while they
sang the melody, “Washington’s Grave,”in sg
touching a manner—the whole company standing
uncovered—as to bring tears to the eyes of ,SW5f
on board. —[Alexandria Gazette *