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Wis copy from the last Apalachicola Uaxel- j
•4’ the following amusing article, Like (lit*
Editor of that paper we shall in B'turo |ox
with a jealous eye upon all fat in*
hera of Convaißion* to make or amend consti
tution*.- f'Aron Sentinel.
state conarmrTtoxa.add r*r mkn.
Wo intend after this, to be very cautious of
the politics of fat mr/i. They may be correct 1
and honest enough hi Mile natieis, perhana;
but when “mi'* to the making or mending
of “Bte Constitution*,” they won’t answer, i
They have no proper notion of the beauty of
proportion—of the film*** of things. In their
own constitutions the /fra/iy predominates. In
, their political “Constitution*,” the selfish pre
dominate; nnd the result in both cases is an
imw folding figure, and sn unbalanced instru
ment, which esn’twork well.
in the Convention.culled for the purpose of
forming a “Constitution” for a state govern-;
inent in our territory, Jenc-kes the fat man of
Florida hel l a very prominent position. In
fact he was the greatest until in the Conven
tion. In the first place, lie weighs 4ft,l, or per- ;
Imps five hundred —in the second place lie vo-1
leu /ipe proxies: that is, he answered for five
absent members elect ; in the third plat o, hr
retained in lus own person all ihe management,
tact, industry and talent, which belonged to
the whole eastern delegation, lie not only
voted for the five tn< tubers abte.nl but he con
trolled the voles of the balunru ol the eastern
members urceettl. Jenckes. tier fate, the fat
man nj Florida, was the gre.i -it personage
m the til. Joseph Convention. Me held in Ins
hand thu vote of the eastern district! and, in
case of any little splitting between the middle ;
anil the w est, lit* own aye or upy, which re
verberated through the halls like hoarse thun
d-r; gave law to the whole body. Whnt was
thu9oifiik|tirnce 1 Why, he made aconatilu- j
tiuu for Florida, so out of portion, so ugly in
some of its parts, that he could’nt vote for it
himself!
They have lately held n Convention in Geor
gia for the purpose of amending their Consti-
MMioit. Hut it seems to be the opinion of the
people of that slate tliul the amendments pro
posed, arc more absurd than ihe errors they
were intended to amend. And this result is
charged entirely to the influence of* Springer, j
the fat man of (ieargia. Springer is fully as
great a man ns Jenckes. If, possible be is not
quite so fat, yet he is a little longer in the legs,
larger in Ilia native proportions, nnd fully equal
to him ill shrewdness and decision of charac
ter. Although he voted no proxies, yet the
Union party of Georgia were exceedingly well
drilled, worked w ell in harness, and voted with
the fat leader, w ithout a dissentinenl murmur.
They remoulded their constitution, ufter the
model which the fat man presented : nnd the
result of their labors w ill we presume, share,
the fate of the constitution, chibomied by the
fa! man of Florida. It will not be suiiii al
ly attractive lo secure the ufiTuctions of the
people.
Are wc not right, therefore in keeping a
sharp eye on the political movements of fat
men /
Li tton liiab’ewspape.r borrower* - Time :
Haturduy morning 8 o’clock, Scene: the break
fast table. A rap is heard at the door, and the
nawspaper is for a few momentsopenad before
the. fire. ] “Come John, it won’t do to dry it
so long, for I see neighbor Snooks is sending :
his sun after it.” Another rap at the door.
“Father want* to know if you will just lend
him thu paper five minutes, if you atnt done
with it he will send it Tight buck, tie only
wants to see if the brig Htur has been heard
from wlml our Tom went In.” “Tell your!
father the brig is not reported.” Home he
trips,and ns speedily returns: “Mother wants
to knyw who was buried yesterday, can’t you j
lend it to her just two minutes.” •‘Tell your !
mother that all the deaths tins week are Mr.
• - , anti n child of Mr.- 1 I
In ii few moments, another tap—“ Sinter Susan
wants to know if any body’s married this week,
ami unrli 1 Joe wants to know if there is any
nncthm to day, and father wants to know
what the newsis from Virginia, it aunt Snooks
w ant’s to know if there are any more pretty
stories about the Jarvis woman—if yon can’t
spare the paper, why can’t you wri.e down
what there is—just causiwl don't want to keep
running back and forward so”—"Here my lad,
take this paper to your father -and round to
all your uncles and aunts, and Imve it back,
whatever is left off it, next Sunday morning
at 8 o'clock, precisely, w hen you come to bor
row the next.” Ten applications on Sunday
by borrow ers, all sent to tieigbor Snooks, with
a lenticular caution to return it there when!
done with. .Holiday Iho ruing, a rap at the ‘
door, and a buy with the paper is uslterd in :!
’ Mother says it is ton much plague to keep
the paper all the w eek, people keep comiug
arlcrit so.” —Portsmouth Journal.
”
“In our last we are informed our readers
tliat we should suspend the publication of our
paper one week, in order to ‘try’ to make col
lections. Wo did try t and after travelling
sixty miles, bow much, kind patrons, do you
suppose we raised I Not the first cent.
The consequence Is, that wo are compelled to
publish onr paper lilts week on a half sheet,
as we have no money to send to town for pa
per.”
S .clt is the ‘‘o'er true tale” of a Western
publisher, apologising to his readers for being
obliged to cut down his weekly sheet one halt
of its proper dimensions. The simple story
this ISuilor is only illustrative of the general
history and state of newspaper pubdeation all
over the failed Stales. A large iportionof
the newspapers, in fact, merely > r.tg on from
day today a lingering, lalmriou , \nd painful
existence, which most of thorn w,. ,ld hu ■ m;o
have voluntarily resigned but for the mixed
motive of pride and duty which induce them
to cling to existence, not as long as it is endu
rable inert ly, but as long as it is poessitile.
For this sickly condition of the newspaper
press the publishers of newspapers are them
seixes somew hat to blame. Os all the arts of
life, theirs is that whose professors have per
haps less of the esprit dr corps than any olh
or. They to often suffer themselves too be im
posed upon by their customers ; and in truth
the rivalry is such among themselves, that they
are half afraid to insist on the same justice ]
which every body else exacts front them, lest
they should lose thetr patrons by enforcing
their rights.—Tints it happens, that whilst there
urc very few publishers of newsptpcrs who
would not feel themselves entirely at case, in
body and mind, if they could realize w ithin a
fourth of the whole amount due upon their :
books, there arc almost as few who are not, at
the close of the year, (and indeed, at the dost
of every week in the year.) sorely puzzled
how to make Ikuli ends meet. To this ohser-*’
ration there are. of course, .many exception*,
but not so many as to invalidate the general
truth of it.
Tiie only remedy for this evil that we know
—Wiist thev exert them
'•* their sheets ac
” more close
* oer-
rtgo/oiis in our requirements es|>ciaJly in rel
gurd to the terms upon which we publish el
son of advertisements ami public notices.
We were aet to thinking of this matter by
finding in all the Baltimore city papers of yea
i p-rday the subjoined notice of an agreement
I entered Into between the publisher* of that ci-
Ity for their mutual protection; which wc copy,
as well for the information of readers general- 1
i ly, as for the particular information of publish
ers who receive this paper ill different parts ‘
of the country. These rules are substantially !
i those which have been long established in the
Nothern cities, and with some variation (such
us an. s-eption in favor of notices of Fire Com
panies) would be a* applicable here and every
where else, as in Baltimore.
Kenbuck Killed by Young lilack Hawk.—
The Chicago (Illinois) Democrat of tha l‘2th
; inst. says—“ From several of the. Puttawaia
! lino Indians, now in this city, who recently
passed through the Hue County, we learn the
: iollowint’ particulars:- During the übsencc of
a nephew of young Black llawk, Keohuckgol
his wife drunk, and passed the night with her.
Being thus detected, it fell to Black Hawk, as
j the nearest relative, to avenge his nephew’s i.-
jury, which betook theoarlics occasion to do,
and stabbed Kcoktick at the entrance of his
nephew’s wigwam. Keokuck, it will be re
| meiubered, was always Ihe friend of the whites,
and opposed to the celebrated Black Hawk or
| Sac w ar, and tvas promoted chief through the
| instrumentality of the United States Govern
ment. He was about fifty years of age and at i
the lime of his death was tfiis side ot the Dett i
Moines river, about 135 miles (four days Jnurit
; ey the Indians have it) west of the Mississippi,
Young Black lluwk is now chief of the Sacs,
and the last news was at the bead of ‘2009 wur
nors, inarching for the Sioux county. He has
j lohi none of his inveterate hostility to the
‘whites; but the terror with which his late
travel through the United Stales with his fa
ther and prophet inspired hint may keep him
from any other demonstrations of it, although
he sneers at the peaceable disposition of Keo- i
kuck, nnd swears he will convince other na- j
tiona of the invincibility of his warriors. He 1
sent word to the Sioux that he had mqjdercd
the woman chief, and was coming upon them
with warriorsmore numerous thun thetreesof
the forest. To whom the Sioux replied he
would lie met by warriors as numberless ns the
I lenves upon those trees.
“Young Black Hawk is about thirty year.-,
of age, and altogether the most handsome In
dian in his tribe. In passing to the Signs coun
try he pusses through the Pottawatamie lands,
which will he neutral ground so long ns nei
ther party Infringe* upon the rights and regu
lations of the Fottuwatamies.”
Waterloo as it is, —We take the follow
ing ft om a loiter of the Brussels correspon
dent of the Evening Star
Travellers have told the worhf over anil
over again, how the field of Waterloo was.
I think you had as well learn how it is.
Changed enough God knows. Cultivation
Iva done something lo effect this change,
but vilnnous bad taste, and royal vain glory
have done the rest. In the plain, the Dutch
erected a huge mound, shaped like a cone,
on which they placed a Belgion lion. This
j hillock was actually made, to mark the spot
where the Prince of Orange was wounded,
i And to do the matter thoroughly about
twenty feet of the soil were leveled away lo
! some extent—thus changing the very char
! artcr of the scene of battle ! The localities
I are thus destroyed. You read an account
of the battle, and when you visit the scene
of action, you cannot understand how thu
buttle tvas fought, and you wonder
why you cannot. The French cav
alry were checked in their advance by the
roughnessof the ground—the mound menu-
fiit-ltirer has cleared them nil away. A
; bank sheltered the English cuvtilry from the
| deadly sweep of the French guns—the bank
‘is taken away. The English troops for
hours sustained the attack of the French in
| one commanding position—that hus been
; shoveled away ! All this has been done to
tell that a Dutch Msince was wounded on
i the field !
The wood ofPolgnes is rapidly vanish
! ing.—The owners are rutting it down every
| veer. The Duke of Wellington has an es
tate here (as Prince of Waterloo) and he
, also is culling down his time.
Hougomont is becoming a ruin—but
then, as srl oil', the willow over the Mar
| quis of Anglesea’s amputated leg is very
. flourishing. George IV. \ foiled Waterloo
; when on the Continent in September, 1821,
! and is said to have contemptuously smiled
; at the idea of a gorgeous monument over
the said leg.
The natives insist that the Dutch won
the battle, and blame Cotton, the author
of tile pride to Waterloo, (who was pres
ent and very severely wounded) for affirm
ing that the Duke of \\ ellinglon and his
troops had some share in the victory. The
Prussians say that Blutcher was the con
queror. The French—says as little about
the matter as they can.
Os human relics there remain many. The
bones of the dead are perpetually turned
up by the plough. They say that the lieltl
of Waterloo has been remarkable for its fine
corn since the battle. The year after the
light, the corn all came up of a dark green—
human gore had made the land much too
rich.
I believe it is not generally known that,
in the autumn of 1814. as the Duke of Wel
ls. ;lon was passing over Waterloo, he was
struck with the aspect of thr place. ‘This,’
said he, -is the very spot l would choose
on which to fight a pitched battle for the
i liberties of Europe.’ He even remained a
day at Mont St. Jean, and carefully exam
ined the place. No doubt this observation
was of essential service to him on June IS,-
1815.
Tile Boston correspondent ol'the New York
Post writes that some years since, John Lowell,
! jr. Esq, of Boston, died in some remote part
of Asia, while on his travels, and left half of
his estate, amounting now to 8350.000, to the
support of free lectures to the people of Boston.
The first course is to be given next wi Her,
and Mr. Silliman, of New Haven, and Drs.
Palfrey and Walker, of Cambridge, are en
gaged for the season. As the whole populat
ion had a right to admission, not a little difficul
ty occurred to the trustees in arranging the lec
lurcs, so as to promote the comfort, while at
th same tine they respected the rights of all.
TUc difficulty has” been gotten over by a very
simple plan, which was merely to enrol those
who w ish to attend, and the first applicants are
provided for as for as the room w ill accom
modate them, and then those who are disap
med this year, will hate the preference
Mrs. Chapman, who mur
*the sake of a lover,
zedy—not her
TUB MCINTOSH, COUNTY HERALD,
From the Detroit Morning Post.
I.YSCII I.AW.
There are few, if any, who look upon a
scene like that at the foot of Griswold-street,
yesterday, without a thrill of horror. Yet.
w c must confess, there are crime* committed
by those wearing the form of man,, for which
there is no legal remedy. Paul Maples, a
; butcher here, and a disgrace to his family and
liisr trade, (for our butchers generally are a
j wort hey class of men.) received in hia cm
i ployinc-ut, some months since, a deserter from
the British army, and, after becoming indebt
ed to him some 50or 70 dollars, conceited hi*
j obligation by getting the poor fellow into a
fit of intoxication, conveying him across the
river and surrendering him lo British officers
for the ordinary rewurd on such occasions.
Hut to their honor and manliness let it be said,
they allowed him to be whipped and cropped
1 for his pains. Yet laws must be executed and
| rules enforced, and it being understood that
I yesterday was the. day appointed lor the exe
cution of the deserte , certain individuals took
the wretch, who could sell the life of a broth
er man for a few paltry dollars, rode him on a
rail, shaved his head, tarred and sanded it, and
he was finally lodged in jail to protect him
I from annihilation. We do not, we cannot,
1 commend such acts on the part of any portion
1 of our citizens, but we will repeat our words,
that there are villaniet committed for w inch
the law makes on provision. I.el this fellow
be discharged from jail, and permit to leave
the scene of his disgrace. He cannot live
( here.
Fire at Ihe Astor House. —About 12 o’clock
yesterday, the uimost confusion prevailed
among the inmates of the As lor house, in con
sequence of its being discovered that the Idrge
apartment used for drying clothes was on fire.
The female domestics- sixty or seventy in
number—tumbled over each other hi their
efforts to secure their own trunks and chatels,
■ little carring for the fate of the building, or the
property of other persdns. But that danger at
, one time threatened the entire edifice, the -cene
I of confusion and dismay among these people,
; would have made a very stoic smile. Bonnets,
caps, hats, shawls and other ct ceteras were
thrown together in “most admired disorder”
and it was not until the fire was wholly subdued
that anv one of the numerous and tnotcly corps
of damsels could be induced to return to their
j household allegiance. It appears that some
■ combustible material*had been placed too near
the stove used in the room where the fire orig
inated, and considerable progress had been
made by the destructive clement when the
catastrophe was first discoved. Thanks to the
prompt exertions the firemen, and athm-Iy and
plentiful supply of wuter, the damage was con
fined to one apartment only, and will not ex
ceed three or four score dollars—exclusive of
ihe refreshments—in the shape, of wines, li
quors, and mint julips—wlnch were liberally
served up to each of the large number of fire
men present.
Devil,a Family Maine Formerly there
were rnanv persons surname.! the Devil,
such as Rngerius Diahnlus , Lord of Mon*
tresor. An English monk, WiUelmus,
surnaniod Diavolus. Cobert, IJ uk e o f Nor
mandy, sou of the .Conqueror, was snrna
med the Devil. In Norway and Sweden,
there were two families, of t game of
TrolU, in English, Devil, and every branch
of these families had an emblem of the Devil
for their coat of arms. In Utrecht there
was also a family called Teufel o r Devil,
and in Brittany there was a family n.yiicd
Diahle.
Forks. —ln the ruins of Pompeii, spoons
have been discovered, but no forks ,■ whence
it is inferred that the K nnans, at least be
fore the accession of Titus, which was coe
val wit* t|)c destruction of that city, had no
such table utensils. Nor is it known that
at any Inter period the ancient world ever
adopted these instruments. The lady who
first displayed them at her table, was named
Maria, and was sister to the Ramans, who
acceded to the Byzantine Empire in 10.11.
Fotks, therefore, were probably invented
at Constantinople.
Museocian Funerals.— in Muscovy, when
a man dies, his friends and relations imme
diately assemble, and seat themselves in a
circle round the cm ps, of w hich they ask
the following questions :—“ Why have you
died ’. Is it because your commercial con
cerns went badly ? Or was it because you
could not obtain the accomplishments of
your desires ? Was your wife deficient in
youth or beauty ? Or has she been faith
less to her obligations t ” They then rise
nnd quit the house. M hen they carry the
body to be buried, it is covered, and convey
ed on a bier to the brink of the intended
grave, the covering is then withdrawn, the
priest reads some prayers, the company
kiss the dead and retire. These ceremon
ies finished, the priest places bet weed the
fingers of the dead man a piece of paper
signed by the patriarch confessor, purport
ting his having been a good Christian.
This they suppose, serves as a passport
to the other world, and from its certifying
the goodness of the deceased, St. l’eter,
when he sees it, util open to him the gates
of eternal life. The letter given the corps
is removed, and placed in the grave, with
the face towards the East.
Singular Justice. —We observe, by the re
sult of a recent suit in New Orleans, that in
that state the owner of a slave is civ illy res
ponsible for felonies committed by Ins slaves.
In the case referred to the plaintiff obtained a
virdict for 81250 and costs. The following
are the circumstances: on ihe night of the 6th
June last year, the plaintiff’s office was ro bed
of 81.400 in Texas notes, and 8150 in gid.
Three blacks were apprehended for the rob
bery —On one of them, the slave of the defend- j
ant, 8100 of the money was found, and SSOO
of it were recovered from a person to whom
he had passed it. The present claim was for
the loss of the balance stolen, reducing the Tex
as money to New-Orleans par value, and it
was awarded.— Ibid.
Barking up the wrong Tree. —Dr. Rog
ers, the person who took such a fit of the
morns multicaulis mania as to steel a large
quantity of trees from Burlington county.
N. J., had his trial at Mouth Holly on Wed
nesday and was found guilty. He was sen
tenced to three years imprisonment, and to
remain in jail until he shall have worked
out the costs of prosecution. So much for
the timber speculation.
Highly proper. —The Editors in Balti
more have come to the wise conclusion that j
they labour too much for nothing, and that
they will hereafter charge for “notices for
meetings of literary, military fire, or any !
othet associations, or for holding fairs ; j
for nominations of candidates marriages. !
deaths, catds of thanks,’’ J: ‘. All Edi
tors should do the same.” Vho works!
~*'*r them without pay ?
Information —hot Water tor one—the
rites rit!
A few duy* ago a celebrated informer of this
city, made a living visit lo the distill house of
Mr. Williams C. Fay, in Harvard street, and
with a sanctified face, unrolled a bandanna
handkerchief, and display ed to the gaze of the ,
most exciting of all beverage, a bottle.
‘l.et ine have a pint of ruin if you please,’ j
said the informer.
‘That would be a violation of the law,’ quoth
the man of the still.
‘But I want it as a wash,’ continued the in
former. ®
‘lt is Doles* a violation of the law for all that,’
*aid the still.
‘lf I should inform it would.’
‘And w hat surety have I that you will not ?
‘Sell me the rum and the event will show.’
‘Give me the bottle,’ said the still, and away
he went to one of the hot water vatu, where
he filled the bottle with the warm aqueous el
ement. and having corked the bottle tight, re
turned it safe tothe infoimer, who planked the
price upon the instant, and went away, think
ing he had made a glorious haul! of a Iran -
gressor. and had got the prisif positive, as
tight as cork could mak it. But what was
his disappointment on making ready for the.
complaint, to find that instead of the real 1 stri
ped pig’ he had bought a pint of warm water,
bottled up !—Boston paper.
Testing the Question. Mr. Jacobs, of Bos
ton, whose imprisonment for the violation of
the fifteen gallon law, was the cause of the
great commotion in that city last week, has
instituted an action against the Justices of tiie
Police Court for false imprisonment, fixity the
damages at 8800D*Jbr the purpose of lakher
testing the question of the right to imprison in
such cases— Pennsylvanian.
There was a crowd lately at the cathe
dral in New-Orleans. And such a crowd,
says the Time*—“there wnsn’t room for a
man to take snuff, and a little yellow dog
was so squeezed he couldn’t bsrk.” Non
sense ! That don’t begin. When Master
Burk played atTremont, some years since,
the city authorities forbade any person to
enter the theater without first marking his
legs with a piece of chalk so that he might
be sure of finding them again. One of
the Boston editors, not being able to beg or
borrow any chalk, managed to get in by
evading the ordinance ; but bitterly has he
lamented his imprudence ever since. He
losEhis own legs, and gota pair that belong
ed losnnie person of weaker understanding.
You may see him about the streets to this
dav, unable to support himself perfectly
without the assistance of a lamp post / O
that was a crowd !
The battle of Eleven Hundred Horses.— \
‘Two of the (Spanish) regiment* which had
been quartered in Funen were cavalry,
mounted on fine black long tailed Andalu
sian horses. It was impracticable to bring
off these horses, about 1100 in number—
and Romans was not a mail who could order
them to be destroyed ; he was fond of hor- ]
ses himself, and knew that every man was
attached to the beast which had carried
him so far and so faithful. Their bridcls
therefore were taken off, and they were
turned loos upon the beach. A scene en
sued such as probably never before was
witnessed. They were sensible that they
were no longer under any restraint of hu
man power. A general conflict ensued, in
which, retaining the discipline they had
learned, they charged each other in squad
rons of ten or twenty together then close
ly engaged, striking with their fore feet,
and biting and tearing each other with the
most ferocious rage, and then trampling
over those which were beaten down, till
the shore in the course of a quarter of an
hour, was strewn with the dead and disa
bled. Part of them had been set tree on a
rising ground at a distance ; they no soon
heard ‘lie roar of the battle, then they came
thundering down over the intermediate
hedges and catching the contagious mad
ness, plunged into the fight with equal fury.
Sublime as the scene was, it was too horri
ble to he long contemplated, and Kotnana,
in mercy gave orders for destroying them ;
but it was found too dangerous to attempt
this, and after the last boats quited the beach,
the few h-irses that remained were seen
still engaged in the dreadful work ofmutual
destruction.’— Southey's History of the Pe
ninsula Wetr.
New-Orleans, June ’23 —Attempted Sui
cide.—A gentell looking man attempted to
drown himself yesterday morning on the
Mississippi, hut was rescued by some indi
viduals who happened to be near. He
appeared determined to make way with
himself, and accordingly went on board a
fiat boat, tied his legs togethor with a han
kerchief, and then rolled into the rivet like
a turtle on a log. He doubtless was fear
ful of altering his mind, after jumping in
the water, and therefore took, the precau
tion of tying his legs fast.
Supposed Murder Taken. —Two or three
day s since wc noticed in the Picayune, the
offer of a reward of 9200 by the Executive
ofGeorgia. for the apprehension of John
Ray, who killed James Dooley oil the 29th
ult, nnd copied a description of his person
from a Georgia paper, with a number of
pecular marks by which he might be known.
Yesterday an individual was apprehended
in the Third Municipality, answering the
description to a letter, having light hair,
light eye-brows, a large scar on his head,
ruddy complexion, red beard and having
lost the first joint of one of his fingers. Not
! being able to give an account of himself, he
is held in custody.
Baltimore. June 24. Dreadful Acci
dent on the Trenton Rail Road. —The Phil
adelphia correspondent of the Exchange
under dale of yesterday writes that on Sat
urday night a few miles beyond Bristol,
the locomotive and the whole train were
throw n off the track. Mr. Steel, merchant
of that city had both his legs awfully muti
lated, he was standing outside between the ‘
cars. One leg was mashed below the knee, :
and the foot of the other pariiaßy taken off. I
A spike to the end of one of the rails had
become loose, the end of which was sticking
up and caused the accident.
Bank of Charleston. —The Rank of Char*
: leston has declared a dividend of five dol
’ lars per share on the original shares, for
’ the six months ending on the 30th inst., !
| being at the rate of 10 per cent annum.
: A dividend of 81 25 cents, per share, has
also been declared for the same period, on
the Ist instalment of the additional stock of
the Bank. Both dividends payable on and
after the Ist proximo.
New York, June 24. |
Trial of Mackenzie. —An extra from the
office of Ontario Messenger, gives a short
account of the trial of William 1.. Macken
zie, who was indicted before the United
State* Courts fora violation of the neutral- [
| ity law of 1918. The evidence adduced
! was a recapitulation of the facts connected
i with various expeditions that have been
rasied in this country for the invasion of
British territory. Mackenzie conducted
his cause in person, unaided by counsel,
and without introducing testimony, that
| which he oflered being regecled as legally
inadmissible. He addressed the court and
jury in a speech about eight hours long, in
which was detailed the whole history, of j
his connection with the Canadian insurrec- 1
lionist- The jury, after retiring for three (
hours, returned a verdict ol guilty. The j
sentence of the. Court, which was that he ;
should be imprisoned in the county jail of i
Monroe county for eighteen mouth* and j
I pay a fine of ten dollars, was pronounetd ;
immediately after the verdict was render
ed.—Evening Post.
Increase of the growth of Cotton in the
j I'nited States. —ln 1791, only 188.310 lbs. I
:of cotton were exported from the United:
States; in 1798 it was lest than 19,000,- !
000; in 1802 the amount was 27.601,075
Ihs.; in 1819 it was 87,987,015 lbs. ;in IB2Q
it was 127,890,152 lbs.; in 1930 it anumn- i
ted to 191,159,102 lbs. ; in value 829,675,-
BH|. This amount in value was less by
87,000,000 than in 1825, when the quantity
was less 1*22,000,000 lbs. ; the pi ice in the
latter year being more than double that of
the former. The amount exported during
the year ending with September 1838 was
upwaids of 039,000,000 lb*. ; leaving of
, that year's crop, including- nearly 8,000,-
000 lbs. of slock the previous year, which
remained on hand, upwards of 98,000,000
I lbs for home consumption ; the year’s crop
in round numbers, exceeding 720,000,000.
Better Times for the Poor. —From vari
ous extracts which we make to-day, it will
; be seen that provisions,—Flour especially
; —are greatly fallen in price. Flour now
costs, in the nothern market, about one
, half as much as it did some time ago, and
the poor man there, a* well as here and
: elsewhere, will find his morning loaf twice
as big as it was a few months ago The
labouring classes have been too long rob
bed of their rarnings bv speculators, and
; we admire the patience with which they
i have submitted to the heartless imposition.
The strong arm of wise legislation should
regulate the prices of breadstuff here, that
the whole burden of avarice fall not on
those least able to bear it.
On Monday evening after sundown, we
were walking in the western part of the city,
| and parsed a row of several elegant houses
j vet unfinished. The workmen had gone,”
and a middlca-ged gentleman, as his neat
suit of black indicated, was surveying the
structure with evident complacency. He
was the owner of those fine dwellings. A
poor, little*,*sickly, rugged boy was under
, the scaffolding, gathering a few chips into
a basket. The brow of the rich man low
ered upon the unhappy child, and pushing
| him into the street, he said in an angry
| tone, “Go away, go away, w hat business
have you here ?” When the spirit of that
man appears before the mansions of the
blest the guardian angel will reject it saying
‘Go away, go away what business have you
here f" —Motional Gazette.
The Virginia Lyceum. —A new monthly
magazine, bearing this name, is published
in Richmond by an associates of gentlemen.
I he Editor is 1.. R. Htreater. Esq. the price
82. 00, and the intention of the work is im
plied in the name. The third number (the
only one we have seen) is creditable to so
young a periodical, nnd induces the belief
that the Lyceum will soon take its place
among works of the class that are now
I more popular.
It is staled that Mr. Gowen’s Cow, Dairy
Maid, yielded 225 1-2 quarts of milk from
the l‘2th to the 18th June, inclusive, being
an average of more than 32 quarts per day.
We learn that a child was born a few
days since, in the city of Boston, with three
legs!!! What a Sub-Treasurer he would
; make!
Charles Spen or. the abscondi If cashier
of the Litchfield, Conn. Bank, who was ar
rested in St. Louis, has been released bv
the authors there, on a bail of 81000. That
is the last that will be heard of him again
fora while at least. Will the officers who
arrrsted him claim the reward for his de
■ tection ! end if they do, who will pay it !
The Judges who released him, or the Di
rectors of the Bank who offered it!
Pennsylvania. —ln the general appropria
tion bill, which has passed the Senate of
Pennsylvania, there is an item 0f8300.000,
lor the extension ol the Baltimore and Ohio
Rail Road towards Pittsburg.
Singular Coincident. —A man named
Cain Able, keeps the “Adam & Ere’’ tav
ern in Eden, Vermont.
’
rhe State Bunk. —The state Bank has
declared a dividend of Four Dollars per
share for the half year ending 30lh inst.,
; being at the rate of 8 per cent per annum.
Bank of Hamburg. —The Bank of Ham
burg, S. C. has declared the extraordinary
dividend of 810 50 cts. per share of 850
each for the six months ending on the 30th
i inst, being 6 per cent, as a regular divi
dend, and 15 per cent as an extra dividend,
in all 21 per cent, on the present capital of
8300,000, for the last six months.
The new stockholders are to come into
the concern on the Ist July, making the [
capital 8500,000. The new stock of 8200.-
000 is payable on the Ist Nov. next, with
4 months interest, at 6 per cent.
We learn that since the Ist January last,
the sales of stock of this Bank have ran
ged from 872 50 to 865 —the two last sales
in Charleston having been made at the lat
ter price.
The diamond and the dew-drop shine
with the same splendor, but the lustre of
the one is more enduring, and needs no
sunbeam to call it forth.
For Sale,
HMDS, belonging to the heirs of the late
Hon. John Houston APlntagh, viz :
100 Lots or more In ue city of
Diirien—Also, 22 tracts of
Land, containing; in all übout
8000 acres,
Lying in the county of Mclntosh, and on the wa
ters of Sapt-lo and South Newport rivers.
ONE TRACT in Liberty county,contain
ing 400 acres.
No part of any of those lands are more than four
miles from salt tide water, a small portion l.a* been
planted in Cotton, but me most to he valued for the
pine Ttntber and Light W ood.
The re-survey can be seen,also the original grants
or extracts from the Survey.,(General's office, by an.
plyingto REUBEN KING, Agent.
I Darien, Afay 21,1839. ni
N B Owners of Saw Mills are requested to look
ol the timber.
Points, Oils, Drugs,
IFAtfe Lead, Black do
Spanish Brown, Linseed Oil,
Spenn Oil, Copal Varnish.
A LSO, Castor Oil, Salts, and a variety
of other medicines just received, and for sale
by S. M. STREET.
June 18.
IIIIH KS.
HOWARD & GAGE
VI RE reody to contract to d-liver at their yard,
(Hony Gali) or elsewhere, Bricks of a superior
quality, on reasonabletrniis^.
They have on haitg tJJ veln, h tTtey will
ell cheap for cash.
quality as may be required.
Letters addressed lo them at Brunswick will be at
tended to.
Brunswick, June 18,1839. 4t.
Unstom limiM st. >lni >
DIRECTI OSS FOB ST. ANDREWS
BAR.
ANDREWS INLET lies in lai. 31 deg. N.
™lon 81 deg 32 min .in the State of Georgia En
trance between Cumberland and Jekyl Islands, have
ing eleven feet water on the bar at low tide; distance
j front the Light House on Little Cumberland Island,
North point, about seven miles. There are 3 Buoys
lor the entrance; one large Buoy placed just within
j the bar in three fathoms, low tide: one Spar Buoy on
a sp.t off the North point of Little Cumberland Isl
and, and one Spur Buoy in the middle of the sound,
on a shoal, made at the mouth of the great Saiilla
river.
Bring the Light House to bear W. by N., when
the outer Bitoy will be in range with Light Han re,
end run for it till oyer the bar, and up with the out
er Buoy; the South (mint of Jekvl will then be N.
W. 1-2 \\ ; alter the course N. IV by W until be
tween the points ofCumberland nnd Jrkly Islands,
and nbreast of the Spar Buoy off Cunilwrhmd point,
leaving it to the South; where wifi be found good
soundings from 3 105 fathoms near the shore.
ARCHIBALD CLARK,
Superintendent of Lights & Buoys.
Jane 18, 183t> It
Georgia—Mclntosh C ountyT
WHERAS, William A. Mclntosh, • pplies for
Letter* of Administration, on the Estate of George J.
Noble, hue of said county, deceased. These are
therfore to rite, and admonish all, and singular the
kindred and creditors of said deceased to lie and ap
pear irt Gy “dice within tlic time prescribed by law,
U> s ow cause, if any exist, why said letters should
hot Lie granted.
Given tinder my hand at office, this 20th dav of
June, 1839. J E. TOWNSEND.
june 2-ttlr. Clerk. C. O.
Notice.
All |iersons indebted to the undersigned, by ac
count are requested to makejiaymenuo Mr. Will
iam B. Ecker, who is duly authorised to receive the
same.
WOODBURY & STACKPOLE.
Darien. June IHib 1839. the.
l-’or Sit it-.
iffiiilM The HOUSE and two LOTS oeeuni. and
by the subscriber. Also, one House and
Lot corner Scriven and Second street.—
i—.steam Also one House and two Lots on Second
street, near the Lodge.
SAMUEL PALMER.
up 16-3,
Marble.
The subscriber will furnish the Citizens of Darien
and its vicinity with Grave stones ard Toinbtnhles,
of all descriptions on reasonable terms, and of a first
rate quality. “nv persons wishing either of the
übove, w ill please leave their orders with Mr John
Mitcliel.
AMOS STEVENS.
Darien u .Uay 28th 1839. _
l'niitl* and Gils.
K KEGS English White LEAD
75 do American ditto—Al ho,
Green and Black PAINTS. Just received
and for sale by
may 7 J S. H ROKEXBAUGH.
Notice*
ALL persons are forbid trespassing; in any way
on tbe Tract of Land, it the State ofGeorgia, gitu
at and in A/clntosh county, bounded on the South and
West by lands of A’ex \V. Wylly, Esq. on the
East by lands of Cap* Pliilson, on the North by a
Branch of the Bapell river.
Col. Charles H Kopkins, will act as my agent.
JA MES FIIIPP, JR.
Beaufort. SC. June 19, 1839.4 t.
Twenty Dollars Reward.
STOLEN frm my stable on the night of the 7th
inst. two milerfiom Centersvillage, Camden county,
A SoiTfl Horse,
about eight rears old, middle size, or upwards, with
a blaze face, both hind feet white, and a small white
spot on one thigh.
Forty dollars will be given for the thief and home,
with preof to conviction. Or Twenty dollars for
the horse if returned.
THOMAS VIC KEY.
June 9,1839.3t*
Notice.
I IIEREBA’ give notice, that I have the
power to art as agent of the Georgia Lumber
Company, at ihij place, until further notice.
W. B. ECKER.
FOR SAJ.E, a few cargoes of Prime Lum
ber. Also, 30 thousand hard BRICKS.
Darien, June 11, 3t.
Darien Ice House.
THE SUBSCRIBER respectfully informs the
citizens of Darien, nnd the surrounding coun
try, that he has opened an ICE HOUSE, in this city,
and is prepared to supply the citizens with any quan
tity they may desire. Tickets can be had at the
store of Mr L M Smith, or by
Darien, April 2d, 1839.
Fresli Beef, Corned Beef and
Fresh Butter,
THE SUBSCRIBER, respectfully in
forms the citizens, that a fresh supply of
the above articles have just been received.
Beef, Butter, &c. will be constantly kept on
hand during the summer, and can be had at
all times. TANARUS, C. CHICK,
ap 30 ,
f.’eorgrin—Melntosb County.
FOUR months after date, application, will be
made to the Honorable the Inferior Court of
said County, when setting as a Court of Ordinary,
for leave to sell Bellford, a part of the real Estate of
John G. Bell, late of s id county deceased.
JOHN F. GREEN,
HUGH FRASER GRANT i ecwtorß ‘
May 26th. 1839.
Georgia— Melntosh - County.
FOUR months after date, application will bemade
to the Honorable the Inferior Court of said county,
when setting as a court of Ordinary, for leave to sell
the personal property belonging to the estaie of -Mrs.
Jane Russ, deceased.
JAMES BLUE, Adatt.
t May -27, 1839.4 ms.