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THE IIKHALI.):
TH* FLORIDA Waß.—The Si Louis
Bulletin say* : We heve never yet ee<-n the
American people more uniteil upon eny one
subject, titan in their opposition to the disgrace
ful nnd ihameful termination of this war. We
have heard many gentlemen of both partiea
apeak of it, nnd all have nlludcd to it with re
gret, and have seemed to consider it more hu
miliating to our national character, than any
thing which can be found chionicled upon the
pagcflofotir history, from the days of our glo
nous revolution, down to the present time.
Indeed, the whole war, sofitt as the Govern
ment has been concerned, ban shewn one con
tinned scries of folly eud mismanage incut.
In the first place, instead of relying upon the
valor and bravery of our own troops, Indians
were taken ftoni the wilds of the ‘ far west” to
light our battles, nnd as might have been fore
seen, they proved to be utterly unfit for service,
and far inferior to our own forces in contend
ing with the wary Seminole*. The Secretary
of War must have been greatly nils taken in
their character when he employed them upon
-tieli a service. Our Western Itidiuus will
light when they have Irecs and bushes to con
real them, or when they have the advantage
Wit they would almost as lief shot them
selves, as inarch on open ground gainst a con
cealed or unseen foe. This however, is but
one error in the long catalogue of blunders.
General, after General, was sent to super
sede the one in command, and after a three
years fight, and an expenditure of mure than
thirty millions of dollars, we have absolutely
sued for peace, which was reluctantly granted
by the Indians. Yes, they have grunted our
prayers for peace, but for how long none can
say. Their spirit of hatred and hostility, has
been aroused to its highest pitch— and as soon
as they raise another crop, they may again
flourish the tomahawk and scalping knife. Af
ter loosing some of the most gallant officers and
soldiers belonging to Ibe ranks, we have given
up the whole matter in dispute, and have left the
Hcininotrs ill the quiet undisturbed possession
ufa large portion of Florida, end huve Urns vir
tually confessed thut we were beaten.
This will have its effect upon the Indians
elsewhere, and will encourage them to com
mence hostilities. The honor of the nation
required that their should have been no com
promise, and the chivalry of the land will rebel
against it. The American spirit can never
submit to such humiliation, and will look upon
a compromise as an insult to the character of
the nation. The blood of hundreds of our
slaughtered citizens cry aloud ngiiinstH, and
the people will never, never sanction a res
sat ion of hostilities until this handful of Indians
nre conquered and driven from the hummocks
and everglades of Florida.
From thk W rut
From the New York Gazette.
We have been favored with files of Bar bn
does paper* to file lftth, and St. Thomas to the
HHh of June, brought ny the barque llecln,
CujiUin 11 ml If v.
Most melancholy accounts arc given of the
demtffctlizcd conditioned the lately cufiauch
iseil classes at Dennirara. Theft ia described
ns having risen to such a height both in town
and country, that the depredators have formed
themselves into association* and gangs, pro
vidod with places appropriated for the recep
tion ami concealment ol stolen properly, and
who to escape detection, do not hesitate to
commit murder. The Royal Gazette says that
so far as freedom has ns yet developed the
moral character of our Inlawing population, it
does nut show it in u very favorable light.
The Governor ofUuadalupe, under date of
Hassuterre, 26th May, lots decreed that from
that date and until otherwiseotdered, the Su
g irs of Guadeloupe and its dependencies may
he exported from the open portsoftliut Colony
by every ting and every destination.
The last aeeotutis from Martinique repres
ent the crops as sintering from the effects of a
long spell ofdry weather. The canes planted
last fall had been cheeked, and in many in
stances hud perished altogether. The coffee
plantation* have also suffered, so that the pros
poctsof the next crop were of aigloomy char
acter. Good quality sugar hud advanced in
consequence from lb to 22 francs 50 es. the
quintal.
In St. Christopher the Governor and Legis
lature were nt issue nbout the tax bill; and tit
Ailtigue dissensions had arisen between the
Council and House Assembly in respect to a
dispatch from Lord Glenelg.
From the Antigua W eekly Chronicle of the
lllhof June, we learn that a severe shock of
an on. .hqttake was felt in that Isluml on the
morning of thu Wilt, and on (be afternoon of
the same dav there was an evident change of
weather. Which gradually increased as the
night advanced to a terrific thunder storm, and
fix in midnight till morning the atmosphere
was oue blase of lightning and one roar of
thunder. During this time there were heavy
falls of ruin. Another slight shock was felt the
morning of the Hth, a few untunes before 6
o’clock.
Kxect rioN. —“Adams, the murderer of Mrs.
M'Vuy, (his paramour,) was eart h ’> on the 6th
instant, to the gallows, to meet tin penalty of
of violated Law. lie was aentenev i lobe hung
by ihe Court in this place, bis Honor Judge
Faulk presiding. The charge accompanying
the sentence, was a masterly production, doing
credit to the heart as well as the head of ns
author, and though it has long since been pub
lished in the papers of the Town, we shall at
some future time lay it before our readers.
It was a solemn sight to see the immense
crowd gathered before the jail, waiting to ac
company the unhappy man to the place of his
execution. The gay laugh grated harshly on
our ears, amt burst from the lips of thoughtless
youths. A few years ago, he was possibly as
gay, and as innocent, and though he served
but a short apprenticeship io the grogshop and
the brothel, yet lie soon reached that acme in
guilt and depravity that required him to be cut
off from life in the noon of manhood, as a
wretch unworthy to live. O ye! who hang
around the bat room, sipping its poisoned
streams pause & reflect! It may be that in
some unguarded hour, when the brain is heat
ed and the passions aroused by the intoxicat
ing bowl, you too, may lie hurried iiituthe com
mission of crime, your souls would loathe in
your calmer moments.
Columbia (S. C.) Temperance Advocate.
in Apology.—When the French army nil- j
t-red Berlin after the battle at Jena, in 180(5.
the ladies, a* a party, expressed their surprise
at the rapid march, *\Ve should have arrived
sooner,’ replied one of the French otlicers. ‘but
some light obstacle detained us for twenty
four hours.’ The ‘slight obstacles, were 800.-
C VY ’ men n-he wore overthrowp to gel past.
For the Herald
MY FATHER.
1 remember, welt remember wbea my father died— |
My moib-r call'd me from my ply and laid me at |
his aide |
His face was pair aa pale eoutd be, and calm that i
wriufctad brow,
Thcee eyes that late look’d bright on me *lr'd ;
dimly on me now,
Hr took me in hit feeble arm* and press'd me to hit
check,
And whrn he moved his trembling lipa and thrice
assayed to speak ;
tie could ntrt apeak 1 then came the sigh and on my
cheek the tear,
For death had drank that blessing up before it
reach'd mine ear.
Uut obi that smile—l see it yell—the kindly look
lie gave,
And that last kiss and fond embrace—they hide not
in the grave,
For they are now a* bright to me as erst hia spirit
fled—
They’ve shap’d rny thoughts to saddest things,—
they die not with (he dead 1
An-f then my mother looked so pale, ! thought 100
she would die,
A nd leave me here a lonely one bereft of every joy—-
W ithoul a friend to take my part, a helpleaa Orphan
Roy ;
Hut God is good to little ones for by his mighty will
My mother liv’d and precepts mild into my breast
instill'd;
Oh’ may my heart those lessons keep a mothers
love hath taught
And live within my bosoms core and dwell in every
thought.
They Intd linn in the Cold deep grave I heard the
holy prayer
Which woke my hearts affection fresh and mingled
sadly there;
But recollection knows nought else for by some
hidden power
My griefdtd wash from memory's rock the doings
of that h iur.
ssssssss
His grave's as humble as he was, o’ergrown with
grass and weeds,
No sculptur'd m arble blazons forth hts virtues or
his deeds—
But memory in my heart has built a monument of
love
Which lime itself shall not decay nor earthly power
move.
ALFRED.
Nerersink Cottage, July , 1830.
Lakeit of Indiana. —The scenery of the
“thousand isle*” of the Ht. Lawrence, and of
the ‘highlands’on the Hudson, have been made
subjects of history and themes of romance,
while the wild, beautiful and the gorgeous
scenery of northern Indiana is almost un
known to those who have never traveled among
it.—Hundred* of small, clear Lakes with san
dy shores, from one to five miles ill circum
ference, decorate und enliven the face of the
country. At one moment the eye of the trav
eller rests upon cultivated fields, fait hamlets,
and bright sheets of pure water glittering in
the sunlight. Suddenly the scene changes,
and the view extends, through ‘‘oak opemuga ‘
and over n gently undulating surface covered
with rtcii and variegated wild flowers, as far
as the eye can reach. Wild deer are often
seen hounding in herds over the plains, nnd
flocks of white swans croak their hoarse notes
at sunset upon the waters of the Lukes. Al
most every Luke is invested with interest by
the legendary lore of the Indians who have in
habited the country for centuries, and whose
traditions, is faithfully recorded and transmit
ted to posterity, will be regarded as deep in
teresting memorials of a strange race of “bar
barians” who perished u uier the “protection”
of their civilized brethern.
Logansport Telegraph.
The following information is from returns
. made to the, Post-Oflire Department, and lias
been politely handed to ns for publication;
Newspaper*, Magazines and Periodicals
published in the United States, Ist July, 1881).
Maine 41
New-Hiitnpshire 20
Vermont 31
Massachusetts, (at Boston (55) 121
Rhode Island I t
Connecticut ;ti
Ncw-York, (at New York City 715 271
Now-Jersey 39
Maryland, (at Baltimore 20) -48
Pennsylvania, (at Philadelphia 71) 253
Delaware 3
District of Columbia, (at Washington 11) 1(5
Virginia, (at Richmond 10) 52
North Carolina 30
South Carolina 20
Georgia 23
Florida Teritory 9
Alabama 34
Mississippi ;iti
Louisiana, (at New Orleans 10) 2ti
Arkansas 4
Tennessee 50
Kentucky 31
Ohio, (at Cincinnati 27) 104
Michigan 31
Wisconsin Territory 6
lowa Territory 3
Indiana (59
llirmus 33
Missouri 25
1555
Os the above, 11(5 are published daily, 14
triweekly, 30 si ini-w eekly, and 991 once a
week. The remainder are issued semi-month
ly, monthly and quarterly, principally maga
zines and reviews. Many of the daily papers
also issue iri woeklys, semiw eeklys,and week-
Thirty eight are in the German language,
: in the French, and one in the Spanish!
silveral of the New-Orleans papers are printed
in French and English.— Globe.
The Anapolis, Maryland, Republican men
tions a mulberry tree growing on a farm near
the Severn river, the body of which measures 1
twenty hso feet in circumference at some dis
tati ‘e irom the ground, with height and expan
sion of limbs in full proportion. It is in full
foliage, and the owner was a few days since
offered thirty dollars to allow it to be stripped
of its leaves. — Paulson.
.In apt reply. —John Randolph once re
proached Daniel Sheffy,a member of congress
from Virginia, with being originally a shoe mu- i
ker ; when Sheffy, replied—“lt istrne. I com
menced the businessoflifea shoemaker. Had
my colleague begun hiscareer in the same vot
cation, it is very possible he would have re
mained a shoemaker to this day.”
“The New Yorkers go behind Indies in the
street, and spit tobnccojuice upon their white
dresses, and refuse to hoist the flag of their
country on board of their vessels when the
Chief Magistrate of the nation enters their city !
If there be any thing meaner than those two
acts, please ‘name the article, for the crowd is !
approaching.’’— Boston Post.
THE IvrcZNTOSH; COUNTY HBRAID
From the Cortair.
Hr. Willi*’ First Letter lon
EiiXlaud.
More fortunately than we ventured to unti- i
cipate, our friend and associate arrived in Eng
land after a passage of tw emy days, hi season
to t ail himself ol the atesm-packcl Liverpool, !
and to write us a brief letter, announcing his 1
happiness in ugain selling foot on terrnfinno. i
ilia most welcome letter will speak for itself; !
but in juslicc to Mr. Willis we will take the
liberty of saying that, when on the ocean, it is j
his tnlsfoi tune to be constantly ill with sea sick
ness and mostly confined to his berth, which
readily aerourns for his refraining to enter into
any detail of the events of the voyage. No
sooner, however, doea he “snuff the land
breeze,” and disembark, than his spirits revive. ;
and be luxuriates with his wonted felicity of
expression in giving vent to Ins joy.
We are pained to add, that immediately on
sealing the subjoined letter, so indicative of
the happiness he was gratefully indulging, it
was announced to him that his aged and res
pected father-in-law, Mr William Since, of the
Koyal Arsenal, Woolwich, died the week pre
vious to his arrival.—Sympathy with one dear
est to him, w ill naturally engross for a lime his
tende.rest sensibilities; but on ihe arrival of the
llrmsh Queen, already on her way, we confi
dently expect a renewal of the correspendence
which thenceforward will he uninterrupted.
Sum Glx dutch, orr tiil Isle or Wight.
Evening of June 9th, 1839.
My dear doctor.
The bullet which preserves the perpendic
ular of iny cabin-lamp is at last still, I congrat
ulate myself; and w ith it my optic nerve re
sumes its proper and steady function. ‘l'he
vagrant tumblers,the peripatetic tceth-brushes,
the dancing stools, the sidling wash-basons and
el ceteras, have returned to a quiet life. The
creaking bulk- heads ery no more. I sit on
a trunk which will not run away with me,and
pen and paper look up into my fare with their
natural sobriety and attention. I have no
apology for not writing to you except w’ant of
event since wc parted.—There is not a mile
stone in the three thousand four hundred miles
I have travelled. “Travelled,” said If lam
as unconscious of having moved from the wave
on which you left me at Staten Island as the
prisoner in the hulk. I have pilehed forward
and backward, and rolled from my left cheek
to my righi; but ns to any feeling of having
gone onirartl I um as unconscious of it as a
lobster backing after the ebb. The sea is a
dreary vacuity, ill which he, perhaps, who
was ever well upon it, rati find material for
thought. Ilul for one, I will sell at sixpence
a month, nil copyhold upon so much of my
lifeas is destined “to the deep, the bine, the
black,” (and whatever else lie calls it) of iny
friend the song-wriler.
Yet there are some moments recorded, first
wilh a sigh, which we find afterwards copied
into memory with a smile. Here nod there a
I hough i has come to me from the wave, snatch
ed listlessly from llic elements -here and there
a word has been said which oil shore should
have been wit or good feeling—here and there
a good morning, responded to with an effort,
has, from its courtesy or heartiness, left an im
pression which will make to-morrow’s part
ing phrases more earnest Ilian I had antici
pated.— W ith this green isle to windward, and
the smell of earth and flow ers coming to my
nostrils once more, f begin lo feel an interest
in several who have sailed w ith rhe. Humanity,
killed in me invariably by salt water, revives,
1 think, w ith this breath of hawthorn.
The pilot tells us that the Montreal, winch
sailed ten days before us, had not yet passed
up the channel, and that we have brought with
us ibe first west wind they have had in many
weeks. The sailors do nol know what to say
to this, for we had four parsons on board, ami
by all seacunons, they ure invariable Jonah*.
One of these gentlemen, by the way, is an abo
litionist, on a begging crusade for a school de
voted to the amalgam of color, and very much
to the amusement of the passengers he met the
steward’s usual demand lor a fee wilh an ap
plication for a contributing to the funds of his
society! His expectations (him British sym
pathy are large, for he is accompanied by a lay
brother “used to keeping accounts,” whose
sole errand is to record the golden results of
his friend’aeloquence. Hut “eight bells” warn
me lo bed; so when I have recorded the good
qualities of the Gladiator, which are many, and
those of her captain, which arc more, I will
put out my sea lamp for the last time, and get
into my premonitory “six feel by two.”
The Georob Inn, Portsmouth. — This is a
morning in which (under my circumstances)
it would be difficult not to be pleased w it It the
entire world. A fair day in June, newly from
1 sea, and with a journey of seventy miles be
fore me on a swift coach, through rural Eng
land, is what 1 call a programme of a pleasant
day. Determined not to put myself in the
way of n disappointment, I accepted without
the slightest hesitation on landing at ihe wharf,
the services of an elderly gentleman in shab
by black, who proposed to stand between me
and all my annoyances of the. morning. He
was to get my baggage through the cusloine,
submit for me to ail the inevitable impositions
of tide waiters, secure my place in the coach, j
bespeak me. u fried sole and green peas, and
sum up his services, all in one short phrase of
£s. and. So putting my temper into my pock- !
el, und making up my mmd to let roguery
take the will of me for one day unchallenged,
I mounted to the grassy remparts of the town
to walk off the small remainder of sea-air from
rav stomach, and admire every thing that came
in my way. I would recommend to all newly
lauded passengers from the packets to step
up and accept of the sympathy of the oaks of
the “King’s Bastion” in their disgust for the
sea. Those sensible trees, leaning toward the
earth and throwing out their boughs as usual i
to the landward, present to the seaward ex- 1
posttre a turned up and gnarled lookofhausea
and disgust, which is as expiessiveto the com
monesl observer as a sick man’s first look at
his bolus. I have great affinity with trees, and
I believe implicitly that what is disagreeable
to the tree cannot be pleasant to the tnan.
The salt air is not so corrosive here as in the
Mediterranean, where the leaves of the olive
are eaten off entirely on the side toward the
sea, but it is quite enough to make a sensible
tree turn up its nose, and in that attitude
stands most expressively every oak on the
“King’s Bastion.”
I have returned from this pleasant walk,
dear Doctor, gay. fresh and with once more an
earthly feel in iny limbs. And now a brief,
adieu, for here comes my fried sole, done to a
most judicious and delicate tint of brown, and !
w ith it the most grateful flankers of peas nnd
asparagus. — Faith! you’ll excuse me breaking
oft". n. p. w.
Torch I.ight Pageant. — The reception
of the Eagle Fire Engine Cos., No. 13. and
Victoria llosc Cos.. No. 47 of new York,
by their brother firemen of Albany on the
evening preceding the Oth. was a splendid
affair. The guests, who went up in the
Eri, Capl Benson, were received at the |
wharf at Albany, by all the fire companies
of that city, each member bearing a torch.
The N. Y. engines were manned by the Al
banians. and a grand procession formed by
torch light, the effect of which is described
as magnificent. An address was delivered
to the guests, by Alderman McMullen,
President of the Albany Fire Department.
N. Y. Star.
Fraud upon the Indiass.—The St. |
Louis Republican has taken the pains to
condense, so as to give a satisfactory view, j
in a small space, document No !229, pub
lished under order of the late House ol
Representatives; and surely in the whole
j history of this administration, among the
| many instances of the villanous exercise of
power, there is not one more outrageous
than is here disclosed. Tha document cotn
-1 prises the correspondence of the depart
ment in relation to the execution of the
treaty with the Winnebago Indians. The
1 treaty was made in IKI7, at Washington,
and the Indians agreed to cede to the Unit
ed Htates their lands on the east of
’ the Mississippi. In the payments lo be
1 made by the United States government, i
there were two stipulations— first, that
9130,000 should be applied lo the payment
of the debts of the tiaders with the Winne
j bagoes— second, that the United States
should pay to the relations and friends of
said Indians, having not mote than one
quarter of Winnebago blood, one. hundred
thousand dollars. In order to ascertain
the proper individuuls who were to receive
this money, the government appointed two
commissioners, Gen. Simeon Cameron, of
Pennsylvania, and Mr. James Murray, of
Maryland, to proceed to the West and
i the-; obtain the required information. With
| them went a lawyer from Philadelphia na
med 1). M. Brodhead, whoappeored as the
legal adviser, but as the document referred ‘
to show, went but to speculate or assist in
1 speculating and defrauding the poor Indians
out of what the government had magnani
mously proposed to give them. Arrived
at the place of destination, they commenced
; the work for which they were despatched,
! but instead of a warding to thoseentitled to it
the amount due them, they commenced a
system of buying up claims, for which it
appears they were well prepared, Brodhead
acting as agent in all these transactions.
Claims worth fifteen hundred and two thou
sand dollars were bought for four or five
hundred—not bought fairly and honourably,
| but the holders were induced to sell from
misrepresentation and a course of decep
tion practised upon them. It is not exact
ly known how much was made by the spec
! illation but the least estimate is put at sixty
thousand dollars. Fortunately for the cause
|of justice, however,Majoi Hitchcock, who
was lo remit the money ot pay the claims,
I understood that something like villany was
going on, and he refused to pay any rlaims
in the hands of Brodhead or his companions
in the fraud. Major Hitchcock made a rep
i escalation of the w hole matter to the De
partment, which sustained him in the step
he had taken. The Republican concludes
the history, which we have rendered much
more btief than it is there given, with ob
serving—“ W e here take pleasure in no
ticing the prompt manner the Commission
er of Indian Affairs, J. Hartly Crawford,
set his seal of disapprobation on this specu
i lation. and which was fully sustained by
the rieeretary of War. Whsn the facts
were communicated to the Department,
and the Commissioners had reported their
proceeding*. thay examined hy Mr.
Crawford and he recommended to the Sec
retary of War to set aside their proceed
! itigs, which was done, and anew Commis
sion has been ordered. ‘l’he the
Commissioners throughout, in relation to
the allowance of the traders and half breeds,
and the assembling of the Indians, admits a
total disregard of, the instructions of the
Secretary of War; and wc are glad to see
that there is yet virtue enough remaining
at Washington to discountenance and con
demn such an outrage. The document
contains a number of letters, front theConi
missioners and Brodhead, attempting to
defend their conduct, which they wholly fail
to do. The Commissioners deny any par
ticipation in Brodhead’s speculations, and
; say lhat they were not aw-are of them until
: they had given them the drafts; but all the
I cireumstrnccs conspire to ptove the falsity
i of this assertion, especially as far as Camer
on is concerned. Murry’s participation ’is
not so clear ; and Brodhead, as well as Cam
eron, have the unblushing effrontery to call
it a legal transaction, in which Brodhead
i sold his legal services, as counsel to the
half breeds, and is now justlv entitled to
the money. Efforts, through political in
; rtuences, and the aid prominent political
men, have been attempted to operate on
the Secretary of War, to induce him to re
considere his decision rejecting the report
of the Commissioners ; but with a firmness
w hich does credit to his character as a man
and an officer, he has withstood them ait,
and set aside their report. The eonse
; quenre of this course w ill be that Brodhead
and Cameron will lose their money, or else ;
must seek it of the half breeds, whom they
have cheated and defrauded—a consumma
tion which their conduct richly merits.
The whole transaction seems to have
been but one continued series of frauds,
almost, if not quite unparalleled even in
this day.
Eliza Emery warns all the girls out South
and West—hoosiers, buckeyes and all—to
look out for her gay, deceiver, runaway
husband, David.—She says that he has eru
ellv left her. ami told the folks when he
started that he was going South-west to
preach universal salvation and marry a
hoosier. Eliza thinks he can easily be
known, and to prove it says, “David has
a scar on his nose were 1 scratched it.”
Upwards of‘>oo.ooo persons have been
conveyed on the Trenton Rail Road since
its completion, and out of that large num
ber it is asserted that only two have been
injured, viz :Mr. Steel, who was recently
killed, and another who lost the use of his
hand by an accident which occurred about
twelve months ago—Both of these persons
w ere outside of the cars, smoking segars,
and neither, it is said, would have been hurt, j
had he occupied his scat in the car.
.1 Great Day's Work- —The Salem Ga
zette states that on the -Ith july, 7006 pas-!
sengers were carried on the Eastern Rail
Road. The trains tirade twenty-five trips
between Boston and Salem, and two trips
between Boston and Lynn; the largest num
ber carried by one traiu was 553- No ac
cideut, delay or confusion occurred. The ,
receipts were about three thousand dollars, j
Decidedly Mad. —A northern editor says
that he entertains hopes of getting all that is
owed him hy his subscribers!
From the Standard of Fnion.
MONROE KAIL ROAD.
Wc learn that there arc a number of miles
now under contract, above Foresyth, and that
the company are exerting all their energies to
reach the main trunk, or Western and Atlantic
Rati Road in a short tine as practicable.
We also understand that they have adopted
what wc consider the moat politic arrange
ment for securing the speedy accomplishment
of so great a work, by engaging those who lake
stock, to work out three fourths of their sub
scriptions, In labor upon the road, and receiv
ing one fourth in cash.
If the citizens upon, and tear the route,
should go heartily into this measure, which
we cannot doubt, the road will soon be finished,
with the expenditure of a comparatively small
sutn of money.
This plan of working out stock, must give a
new impetus lo the work of iuterual improve
ment, and wc hope to see it speedily and gener
ally adopted. It is one which claims, in a pe
culiar manner, the public consideration, and
w hich if reduced to practice, will obviate the
difficulty of raising large sums of money, and
place it in the pow er of the people to deveUpe
the resources of the State, by the application
of their own industry.
Wc arc gratified to learn, that Mr. Benja
min Brantly, of Monroe county, has w r orked
out, with twelve hands, in two months, two
thousand dollars worth of stock in the Monroe
Kail Road. Tins is better business than plan
ting cotton, and we hope to see hi, example
j followed by many others.
MfLLEDGVILLE.
Perhaps there are but few cities in the Un
ion, and none in the Southern country, which,
in point of health, arc more desirable as a resi
dence during the summer months, than the
Capital of Georgia : and we have often been
surprised to see lhat—while our citizens who,
in the winter season, reside on their planta
tions. in Ihe lower section of the State, are
seeking a more healthy- summer’s residence
than their own can afford them—but few of
them seem to be aware of the great advantages
which MiUedgeville and its vicinity present
for their acceptance. Let an individual exam
ine, w ho desires information upon this subject,
and he wili find that the number of deaths in
our city, during the sickly'season, are general
ly so few as to bear no comparison with any
other, and he will be compelled lo arrive at
the conclusion that Milledgville is certainly
one of the healthiest towns in the Southern
country. To families, another induement be
sides that of health is presented, which is of
the utmost importance. This is no other than
the excellent opportunity which is afforded
them of playemg their children under the
charge of instructors who are eminent in the
profession which they have devoted them
selvea to. Ogle-thorp University, with its
Fhofkhsors and Tt tors j So,rrsßi no’, with
its Female Seminary, under the rlmge of Mr.
nnd Mrs. Anderson ; Midway, with its Female
H< iiool. under the superintendence of Ma. Kc
erton and his accomplished lady, and our ow u
Ctrv Schools, afford advantages for the edu
cation of youth, which no other section of the
State can surpass, and but few equal. The
fame of those who are engaged in the instruc
tion of the youth of our Slate in the vicinity
of Milledgville, is so generally acknowledged
and appreciated abroad, that they need no
panegyric from our pen lo add to their well
earned reputation, but w'e cannot refrain from
laying claim to their merit, as an inducement
fUr parents to seek a residence among us.
Good water, good health, good teachers, and
excellent society, are temptations of no ordi
nary character, which we present to those w ho
are seeking a more desirable summer residence
than their own homes may afford to them.
Miliedgrille Journal.
A Journeyman Printer. — Much Ini- been
said and sung about the characteristics of
“tramping Journeymen Printers,” and the ex
traordinary vicissitudes which mark the pro
gress of that most intelligent, though thriftless,
race of mortal* ; but we believe the following
extract of a letter, received from an old ac
j quaintance of one of the Editors of the Couri
er, indicates a versatility of accomplishments
rarely equalled in these days :
“ 24th June, 1839.
‘■Look at the signature of this, and you w ill
remember the person who addresses you. i
met your brother, who is settled here, about
half an hour ago, and was informed by him
that—— will start to your place in
half an hour, I have, of course, no time, to say
much. lam hereby chance— met your broth
er by chance —and had a host of of remini
scences awakened in my mind in a moment.
Since I saw you last, I have experienced all
j the vicissitudes of fortune —at one moment a
Colonel ofTexian cavalry—the next a prison
er among the Comanche*; at another, lieu
tenant aboard a Te.xian sloop of war—the
next prisoner among the Mexicans of Mata
moras—finally a ‘ypo in , under the weath
er 1 ('an I serve you at Terre Houle, or can
you serve me? If you have forgotten my
qualifications, here they are: A practical
printer—an experience stenographer—a good
English writer —a perfect French scholar, vo
calist. and player on the Spanish guitar. If I
can be of no use to yon, write and say whether
1 can get a school in your neighborhood.’
When we last saw the writer of ihe above,
in 1834, he was acting in tho capacity of a Re
porter in Congress, and the next time we heard
of him was through an obituary notice in a
New Orleans paper, detailing the circuiustan
i ces of his sudden death 1 Our readers may
therefore imagine our surprise on receiving
the post mortem evidence of remembrance
from a gentleman whom the newspapers, lOor
12 months since, had consigned to mother
earth!
If the services of a gentleman, so gifted, can
be profitably employed by any of our cotem
poraries, we shall cheerfully communicate to
them his address ; for, we regret to say, we
have no room for him in our own establish
ment.— Wabash Courier.
Macon, July 16th.
The Crops. —Accounts from all quar
ters, concerning the crops, are very cheer
ing. It appears to us, from what we, have
seen and heard, that they are not half so
much injured by the late draught, as many
would fain make belief. It is true, that, in
certain portions of the country, they are,
in a degree, injured, but take the country
throughout, abundant harvests may be an
ticipated. We think that what will be lost
to the com crop by the drought, will be
gained bythe extra favorable weather for
gathering the wheat crop. Consequently,
out greatest loss will be sustained in gar
dens.— Telegraph.
The Young Dyotts. —The St. Louis Even
ing Gazette of June 28th says,—“The neph
ew and son of Dr. Dyott, of Philadelphia,
who were implicated in his frauds and the
subjects of a criminal complaint, were at
the National Hotel, in this city, on Sunday
last; at which time they left, it is supposed
in the Pawnee, for New Orleans. The
nephew registered his name, on the book
at the hotel. William Boyd: the son as
John Williams.
Caution to Masters of Vrssels. —Judge
Buchanan decided in the District Court at
New Orleans on the tiSih ult. that officers
of steamboats and of other vessels, on board
of which a slave may be found, who was
not there with the knowledge and consent
of his master, were liable to the penalties
which the law imposes for feloniously or
clandestinely taking away slaves, even
though such ships or boat had not left her
moorings. The captains of steamboats
and vessels are cautioned how they employ
or permit on board persons of color, of
whose freedom they are not perfectly satis
fied.
“Get Money, honestly if you can; if not
Get Money,’’ —Old Text—We were told
this week by a gentleman who was conver
sant with the facts, lhat during this spring
a company of eight negroes were enticed
off, or runaway from their master in Wood
county, Ya., and were secreted by an Abo
litionist on the Ohio side. .4 reward of
one hundred dollars for each ol thc negroes
was offered by the planter, and to obtain
which the benevolent philanthropist inform
ed his brother-in-law where the slaves
were secreted, who immediately took them
into custody, returned them to their owner,-
received two hundred dollars rush down,
and a bond for the remainder, payable in
sixty days, which of course was divided
between the good Abolitionist and his rela
tive.”—M a shin gum Yaley.
We learn from the Lancaster Herald,
lhat during the last month there passed over
the Swatara Bridge, on the Lancaster, Eli
zabetown and Middletown Turnpike, eigh
teen thousand, four hundred and nineteen
head of Sheep, and two thousand, two hun
dred and twenty eight head of Cattle.—All
in the direction of the City of “Brotherly
Love.”
/.. E. Lawless, U. N. Judge for the Mis
souri district, has resigned his office, to
lake effect on the Bth instant. This resig
nation, according to the St. Louis Republi
can, will he “highly gratifying lo the bar,
suitors, and the public.” It is the same
Judge Lawless who once decided that there
is no appeal from the will of a mob, when
it clearly appears that it was a numerous
assffinbly !
A preacher who had once been a printer,
thus concluded a sermon. Youth may be
compared to a comma, manhood to a semi
colon; old age to a colon: to which death
puts a period.
With what amusement simplicity a child,
w hose infant faculties are just expanding
under the influence of objects around, as
the bud unfolds itself into the blossom, will
sometimes answer questions or make re
marks upon what is passing before it. A
little fellow, who had been rather wild and
noisy during the day, was seated before his
mother, when she began to admonish him
gently. “You must be a good (jov—God
loves you and lakes rare of you always.”
“ Well, mother, what did he let the bum
blebee sting me for yesterdayt” asked the
child, looking up earnestly into his mother's
face.—[Claremont Eagle.
Neic Definition of a Gentleman. —A sai
lor under examination the other day, at
thr Police-office, charged a youth, whom
lie described as a gentleman with robbing
him. “ Why do you call him a gentleman l .’ ’
asked the magistrate. “Because he wears
a long tailed coat,” replied the sailor.
In Germany, men do all the ladies’ work.
There is no lady in Dresden w ho can make
a dress. All the German ladies employed
men dress makers.
The best mode of dying. —The cxsltange
papers are full of suicide. The easiest wav
to tiie is, to pay all your debts and wait till
your time comes. We’ve tried it.
You arc a happy tnan. We hope you may
live a thousand years, and leave a hundred
children after you, to follow their naody’s
example.
Special Verdict. —Three young men
w ere recently tried in Cattaragns county,
for shooting and mortally wounding a dog.
The written verdict of the jury was : “all
three guilty ; plaintiff’s damages assessed
at 0 pence ; and each of the defendants to
hare another shot at the dog !”—Buffalo
Com. adv.
A Mississippi paper advertises “two bush
els Holly Sptings Bank bills for sale—
cash or on a credit—or of not sold they
will swop it for seed potatoes.”
Docters and Undertakers. —There ate
479 legal practitioners of medicine and sur
gery in New Y T ork City, and 273 underta
kers.
Taken by Surprise. —About sixteen hun
dred persons visited Havre de Grace, on
the 4th of July, from Baltimore and Phila
delphia. The good people of that place
did not expect so many visitors, and were
nearly cutout of house and home.
Good. —The Lafyette Gazette, speaking
of Ellen Tree’s intended marriage, calls
Povet a twig, and says it is not surprised to
learn that the “twig is bent,” but that the
“Tree is inclined.”
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Imperial Humiliation. —At Vienna the
old custom of washing the feet of twelve
poor persons, in commemoration of oar
Saviour’s washing the feet of the twelve
apostles, was performed on Good Friday
by the Emperor and Empress of Austria.
The former performed the task on twelve
men and the latter on twelve woman; each
of the twenty-four had a puise containing
thirty pieces of silver presented to them.
The Cinciunattt City Council have under
consideration an ordinance authorizing the ar
rest of “all vagrants, loafers, gamblers, com
mon stree drunkards, and all odd looking gen
tlemen having no ostensible daily employment
nor means of livelihood.” The Cincinnati
Whig ventures the assertion that lhe city mar
shall and watch will have thiir hands full
should the ordinance pass.