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deriug by the Hide of yon bnbbling brook—cut
ting tin- iiirHiß o’yr llje frosty hills With
n family sround liitn—ift the dashing of battle ;
—in the hour ofpt-neo—and oh! ntihe present
mom .4, vi<-ti him ns In*is!—Hut all bis bright
Moons inn) hrtjie* here, have born hut type* of j
hu ~,ul* liins hi that happy land to which he
i*h.a*:rni g.—“thsl will behU et<rnal home!”
Til u tinning, the speaker Imde me look In
anoth.T dir-'Cltonl looked, and beheld the
ini oplin -1 of a Miirria ; fe-uival, I mw the
bride,all gb c, and fiilcty—uud the- parent* and
friend* Made in {mppini *• upon the Union.;
Boon I re it her arrayed hi her travelling dren*.
*UttJ Waning for ll*e carriage Her husband
v. as about to return to the fnr west, I could
inu':.‘ upon Ui-r countenance —upon the timid
blush ui h i elitek—and thru ita death like
pih .lets iiiiJ the ehnngc* isl the fire of her
<■, ail that t patting within. And as she
wjilnvndcd iu t” the Carriage— the tear ih.it
fell upon he: mother’s hand, told how fondly
who |ovi and iiur partfil* and their fireside! In a
few years, l saw her return j hut oh I how
changed I—The savage had robbed her of her
husband—nnd she lutl escaped with her lov-.
jug tnlant, and wa* again restored to the *tin
of her mother. I hail -< en enough, and as the.
visum vanished, and I awoke, I involuntarily
repute I th- Words of the poet: —
“llmue, swf ‘t Home,
There is uo place like Ilotne.”
ALFRED.
v .v,.,.;’ C*Rgf,ld39. 1
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VC>n THE l KHALI*.
Ti -u pent nee, aud It’* Advocates.
” U i* n cruel lei for the (Inc mind,
I’ull of amotion., grnsroua and true,
To furl it’* light flung hack noon itsolf |
All it's venrm lmpnt*' rcpell and and chill'd,
Until it filliU refuge ill ili*l‘*iu!
And Woman, to whom sympathy ialifr,
The only aiiijospbere in which hi r soul
It velojtrti ntt ii has of good and true,
flow must eiic feci the chilli”
7Vi the hft/iri <>/ Mclntosh County.
Ltnica i
Fur an individual to address n body, tinnier
rms and intelligent as yourselves, might be
i ui'idcred in the obstruct, ii* egotism nr pre
sumption, lint if you will be pleased to reflect j
that it is not only an individual but a cause ul-,
so, which addresses itself to you, I shall need
no further apology for tny remarks,
A question, the, importune* of which is *e
euiid to none that has ever occupied the atten
tion of society, Is now exciting the public mind,
[mrtii’lilwly iff tha State of Georgia, and In this
question are involved, till those principles
which tend to exalt and dignify, or to debase
the moral character of man, I, like many j
others of a similar nature this cause has most
to fear front pretended friends whose sinister
designs are calculated to effect any thing but
its advancement, It i the meridian of a day
which dawned on u in cheering brightness,
but which is already ovei.shadowed by the
clouds of sophistry and caprice. It will be ad
mitted by all, that to allow ourselves willingly
to be made the injured subjects of an evil eus
tout is indirectly to acquiesce in the eommis
, ..in of it. and the ohiect of these few observa- j
tionsi i.tn endeavour to con’ nice the Lmiiesol
Mc Intosh that they, in common with their sex,
• have the right to be heard and should not de
lay In asserting their claims to deliverance
from an evil which has wrought much of deso
lation among their own sex in every country ,
in which it exists.
* The cause then which addresses itself to
you is Temperance, and the correction of those
abuses which it'* opposite invariably engcu- j
dcr*. It ts unnecessary for me. to enlarge on
the namherlc * evils which have resulted trom
“Intemperance.” While it* iiillueitco is fell, in
vain'det - tile mother with anxious and unvvti
wring solicitude endeavour to instil into the j,
mind t.f her son * those principles of action’
xv filch, if listened to and elierisited, would j
throw arotinddtim a barrier,impenetrable by (fie .
insidious as-auju of temptation; in vain doe* •
the sister w nb all the disinterested affection by j
which her line is c’naracteriaad attempt to I
•UHlilhtie her pProthev to the nequisitl.ui of
those v'f¥tHt< which ate indlspciisunle to the
enjoyment of a life of happiness. In vain i
say are the heart burnings und mental depres
sions which the female sex in every sifffhtion j
in life have been called to experience, by the ;
povv or of this common enemy.
(tut there is a fact which is as surprising as it;
i true and which calls loudly on you lode
date year sentiment* in v gat'd to this cause
It has !cm stuted by individuals in the public
prints that the ladies have no business to mi d
dle with this subject, especially as far as re-;
(Sards any Legislative enactment which may
be made in reference to it; and will you not
respond to this libel ou the philanthropy, be
)u volencc and iuleilcct which you undoubted-
Jv , / Will you willingly take these as
sertions as a quietus to your energies and ef
foit iu the cause of Temperance ? In a word
will you given tacit assent to the avowed
opinions of those who w ould not have you
heard, or will you at once show to the world
that you are not a whit deficient in those
sympathies which have ever linked benevo
lence vv.th the cause of suffering humanity!
The question then is not, w hat is to be done ?
But how shall the desired good lie effected? I
would respectfully suggest that every lady in
M'clutosh county, should record her name
W lit rev era Temperance register can be found
The Cause is assuming anew feature, it has
called upon the Legislators of our country, to ,
skid iu it* propagation ; and the press is teem-!
tug with productions pens whose ink has
refused to flow on guy other subject.
The field is open, nay, conquest in- ;
viiCs you! It may reas luably be presumed that
.were every Lady iu MVlutosh county, to en
list in the Temperance cause, the effect
would bfi irresistible. Such an undertaking, in
such a cause, and with such advocates, would
inevitably be the antecedent to a general ex
jsiisioa <-f the fir front <-u. vicinity, aud who
can viy where the influence of such an exam
ple would stop, who can calculate on th*
amount of benefit which might accrue from
such * proceeding? The reformation which
has already beeii brought about in society by
the cffo/is of the friend* of Temperance war
rants u* hi entertaining the most sanguine
hope* for the future.
Vaiiousare the blessing* which must result
from the permanent establishment of Temper
ance Societies. Yoorexertion* will be rewar- ’
fled by constant evidence* of improvement in
the moral co dition of mankind. The tear*
of sorrow and anguish which have hitherto
trickled down the cheek of the destitute w ill
be succeeded by tears of joy and gratitude to
the friend* of Temperance. You will scatter
flowers among the gra-a which ho* grown over
premature graves, and you will bequeath a
legacy o those who shall come after you.
which shall be more fragrant than the memo
ry of the most renowned of earth’s conquerors.
The propriety of urging children to pledge
themselves by their own act to abstain from
\ intoxicating drinks can hardly be dwelt upon
too forcibly. To the mother this came com
’ mends itself particularly. It is from her that
! the child receive* it’* first instruction* iu the
principles of virtue, und she would fail to ac
| quit herself tu her duty, if she did not incul-
I cute on her children the tiecestity of abstain-
I ing from excessive drinking. Ii Is common
ly said by persons of more mature age, that
! their habits of drinking were formed by the
! example of parents, and, although they may
not have been confirmed in these habits at
home, yet it has been there they have imbibed
j a relish for drinking which has been since in
creased to excess. There is another relation
ship, too, which might w ith propriety be noti
ced, it is that of the widowed mother! If
there is a cause next, to the religion of her God,
w hich claims her advocacy, it is that of which j
we arc speaking. In Iter children, *he sees the
only ties which bind ber to the unfathoined I
future,they are the ‘yesterday and tomorrow’of!
her existence, through them only docs ln- look
back on the irrevocable past, omTfor them
alone docs she gild the ray’s of life’!-, setting
! sun. To those then who are mothers, we j
j w e would, in behalf of the temperance cruise, !
i earnestly recommend a pledge in which their
■ own names should be united with those of their
! children believing that this would have u hap- i
py influence on their minds, when the moth
; er’a counsel should h ive Ceased to point them i
to the path of virtue and integrity.
The enemies of this cause have attributed
our/.cal to Fanaticism,but we would tell them j
that it Is Fanaticism which, despite their
i taunts and reproaches, still’look* to the glori
oils prospect which stimulated those individ
uals who first embarked in the establishment
of this reformation, it is thin Fanaticism
which “brook* u> delay” in endeavoring to
bring about that day, when men shall listen to
j the voice of experience, and In which whole- ‘
j some laws, will not fait to command that res
pi ct to which they are entitled, and in which
j men sh ill be morally Free ; It is that Fauati
: cism 100 which now culls r sportfully but, ear
nestly, on the Ladles of M’olntosh, to come
i forward, uud bv ullaehiug thuir names to the
Temperanco list to disclaim the insertions and
; principles of those who have said “she shall
have neither part nor lot in the matter,”
CAROLUS.
RUgti'Hif.
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roll THE DAHIEN HER.VLD.
Tltr Temiierunce Cause,
“.Now- by Si tt orgr, the work goes bravely on.”
Mh. EdiTOH:
There never was n truer line indited, than
that which saysy
“Man never (J, but always to bt blest ”
Man is never satisfied with bis lot.
“restless disposition—his longing after future
happiness and gain, leads him, like the hue,
from object to object, until at lust he throws :
Ins counters in the stream and reaching to re
deem them, loses h.msslf. I m et’ not cite in
stances to prove the asserftmi. Our dully in
•rerenurse with men verify the statement Nor
need I tell the reader, that the loudest advo
cate of Republicanism is not the best patriot—
nor the most prodigal Philanthropist, the
most chatitable man. By it* fruit should ev
ery tree be judged. Alexander was a brave
and successful warrior —but was he not the
tyrant of Maecdon I Caesar drove back a
horde of Gothic and Vandal barbarians from
his country—but did he not overturn the lib
erties of Horn J Bonaparte exalted France to
a high pitch of glory—but did he not sutler
the Imperial Diadem to rest ir on Ins head,
and drench the ground with the blood of the
Gallic youth! Hut this is enough to show
that man is but human, and prone to use pow
er when he qooe possesses is, with an iron
rod. The allusion will be understood by the
intelligent reader.
A writer tn your paper of the 2lih*inst. un
der the signature of “Coro? ns” hasentered the
field like a true knight, with sword and hel
met ; aud made a desperate charge on my ar
ticle of the 10th. But lam so strongly armed
vv tth reason, that Ins thrusts pass'd by me like
the idle wind, —and thanks to uiv protecting
star, enough of me ts left to reply. 1 must;
confess hi reasoning stagger'd me. and regret
that he did not apply argument to refute mv
article, the whole of which he considers bare
assertions and an effort produced by Fanati- :
usin. 1 atn no fanatic—l never was. Party
spirit, nor the excitement of a moment, never
carries me aw ay. Reason is always permitted
to view passing eveuts in their true light, and
to walk baud in hand with Justice and Mode
iit ion. I seek not the glory ofCtesar —l is |i
S hot the welfare of Rome.- It was this feeling
which induced rue to write the article that
brought Carolus to the field, aud now that he
h#s volunteered his aid in the great cause of
Temperance, he shall wear all the laurels he
can reap in the conflict.
CiirvTnr admits, aud I say it with regret,
that the Temperance Party are determined to
THE; XttCriIfTOSH. OQTJNTT; HERALD,
adopt that old and Uncharitable adage, “he who
H not (hr mix against us ’! Could there ever
be any thing so ungenerous and unreason
aide? So uncharitable and pmscHptivc 1
What! are we to be forced into measures
against our will, or set down and branded as
the advocates of Intemperance? Forbid it
Justice! Forbid it Reason! Forbid it every
generous and noble sentiment that exists in
the breast of man. .Such sentiments a s the*e
1 were used in the days when France was bleed
ing at every pore—when her streets were
drenched with the blood of her best citizens, —
and the rack and the engine sent their thou
sands unanointed to their God. Such were
the sentiment* of u band of wtetclies who un
derthe delusion, of deism and fanaticism, trod
the Bible in the dust, and in it’s stead dissemi
nated principles, which to this day chill the
blond at the mere recital. They shouted
“tho-.e who are not for utareagainst us!” aud
the unconscious babe, as it slept upon its
mother* breast, was airn from her—the bus
band from bis wife, —the f.tlber from his home
—and the sword performed the last office!
Shall 1 point you to Spain and tell you of the
scenes enacted there 1 But I need not. The
page of history is alike open to all. lam
thankful that my lot is cast in this glorious
republic, where such unhallowed sentiments
never can thrive. The sob el Freedom never
will nurture so noxious a weed. It may spring
into existunce, ■ but the wholesome breath of
! public opinion, will blight it ere it urrives at
i maturity.
Carnlut is 100 candid, and if I mistake not
‘ his friends will chide him for it. lie openly
admits that the subject of Temperance will
“ere long be discussed freely and candidly in
every Legislature assembly.” This is what
petisely I asserted. 1 stated that the Tern
| perauee party relying on their own strength.
were now making a political question of the
I matter, aud desired to bring he subject before
: the people, ami make the question at future
j elections “Temperance, or Anti Temperance.”
‘t hey have heretofore denied that their ob
ject was political, but those better acquainted
with human nature than “Carolus,” predicted
J that this would bo the result. But, her.*, they
! calulute without then host, “i’vvas this, that ,
ut times, aroused politician* of nil parties to a
sense of duty, mid as one man, they warned
! their friends of the approaching religious crisis,
it is a question which should never be brought
’ to the ballot box. for the friends of Temper
> ance may rest assured, that that is the rock
j upon which ihtir gallant barque will founder. ‘
; The political sea is not its suitable element.
It should goon ‘‘conquering and to conquer”
like the “still small voice” of reason, it is
illy calculated to buffil the waves of a mighty 1
political commotion — the lambcauiiot encoun- j
tor the Lion with the least hope of success.
Hut I may be deemed ‘ Fanatic,” ami I will
leave the fgturc verify mv assertions.
Suppose that the legislature should, at it*
next session, repeal the act granting licenses
would it not bring the selling of liquor back to
the point from whence it was taken by the
] license law ? Undoubtedly. What was that
point f Why, every person was then at liberty
to sell as little or as much as lie pleased. It is
I the height oi folly to think of correcting the
evils of intemperance by abolishing the license
i law—for my life upon the question, no court
in Georgia would even de ermine otherwise,
than that every individual has n legitimate
right to sell his owe lawfully acquired proper
ly m any quantity he pleJSe* -the state may
levy a tux upon it,"and likewise, under certain
contingencies, an additional tax—and it may
place it in a position to avoid the payment of
the additional tax, ns, for instance, the right to
sell as little as one gallon without a license— j
but no human power can rightfully say to any t
individual youtkall not tell directly or iudi-
I’reetly, your goods, or chatties in quantities to
j suit your own pHUnae. The™*tate jr tv sav.
j that if you sell /■'*> than a gallon, you shall
pay another lax of live dollars per year, in
dependent of the. first tax upon the valuation
of spirituous liquors. We have to pay (axes
to support our state Government. We pav a
tax upon the value of our spirituous liquors;
and, as 1 have just slated above, if we desire
to sell iu less quantities than one gallon, the
slate, makes us pay five dollars more—not be
cause the retail of liquors is regarded us an evil.
but because the state needs the money to lie.p
pay its expenses. If individuals imagine that
the tepeal of the license law w ill or e.oi stop
the retail of spirituous liquors, they are very
much mistaken. If such a calamity should
ever v ts;t the state of Georgia, ( w hich God for
bid,) as the repeal of the license law for tlie
retail of spirituous liquors, would inflict upon
our country, it will icquiiv an age to correct
the mischievous legislation, perhaps, of a sin
gle day. Grog shops would spring up like
mushrooms in every mile square iu Georgia,
and w ould to Heaven they possed the preeo-.,
city—ruin and moral desolation would take up
its abiding place in this state now on the high
way to prosperity and glory—aud what will
be the compunctious visiting* to our temper
ance friends when after their strenuous exert
ions to destroy the hydra-headed monster of
intemperance, they find they were but chaunt
ir.g the dirge of their own principles, and pre
paring the funeral train to attend their last
obsequies to the grave ?
It is a remark of Bacon’s that “all error is
founded on some truth.” \\ ho denies that the
abuse of ardent spirits is an evil of a great and
dangerous character 1 While we all look on
and deplore its existence, what means can we
successfully adopt to arrest it ? Does the con
firmed sot require the eloquence of a Beman—
the philosophical reasonings of a Kiuridge—
or the solemn warnings of a Morrison to con
vince him of the evils of intemperance? No.
His physical disorders, his moral destitution,
and his cripled and enervated frame, are elo
quent and convincing enough. What means
can save him, or restore him hack to his primal
days of sobriety and happiness? Penal laws
never can. Our attachment for objects in
creases in a direct ratio with the means adopt-
ed to withhold us from them. Education, the
force of public opinion, arid that giant-like
lever the newspaper press, arc the only sure
and perinutietit corrector* of acknowledged
evils. As intemperance and tipling shop* are
evil*, many of our best citizens throughout the
state think that penal enactments cun reach
them. It i* a mistaken-idea. So far as they
may be legally recognized as nuisances, the
laws are specific enough note, against them.
Spirituous liquors like gunpowder, steam and
fire, are perfectly harmless unless abused.
It would certainly be a plausible argument
against gun powder to poult to the battle- s
ground of Waterloo, and the sanguinary fields
of carnage in every land—but the fault lie* in
the madness of ambition provoking the spirit
of resistance to the haughty stride* of tyrants.
W e could feelingly argue against the use of
steam vessel* by pourtrayiog the horror* of
that night that Consigned so many of our
friends to the deep and coral eaves of the At
lantic, by the unhappy explosion of the Pu
laski. as well as the wreck of the Home, and ,
the hundreds of explosions on our western
waters—but the lamentable consequence* of
tlit sc events,are to be traced to the carelessness
of commanders and engineers. It is folly to
say that the world could not do uithout gun
powder or sleuin —how did OUr ancestors “pur
sue tin even tenor of their way” without th> -e
concomitants of war and commerce ? Ido not :
endorse the opinion, although I have heard it
staled by experienced and scientific men. that
the evils which have resulted from the discov
ery of gunpowder and steam, have greatly oer
balanced uli the good they have ever effected.
But 1 do affirm that the remark n justly appli
cable to distilled liquor*. We point to the
confirmed drunkard, and discourse eloquently
upon the evils of intemperance—but we too
often forget that God has so constructed poor
erring human nature that moral perfection i*
more to be desired than ever to be expected-
Many evils are committed because the moral
principle is not in the ascendency—in my
strong man flee from the weak, because the
first possesses but little firmness of purpose.
Extremes of all kinds are dangerous. There
is a healthy mediocrity in the gratification of ;
all our desires or passions—and where Ibis is
lost sight of, injury may tie the consequence.
We runnot by any principle of correct ethics,
deduce conclusions, in consequence of the
abuse of an ariiejs ;;r su'ostance, as an objection j
to iisi(e. This is an acknowledged legal, as
well as an irrefragible moral aphorism. It is
a work of supererogation to apeak to the drunk- j
anl of the evils of intemperance—he know*
their dreadful extent—their blighting and |
deadly mildew updo his health and fortune,
| without the aid of a commentator.
If it were eonsideied necessary, and the
j limits of a newspaper coiuribuiioit would per
mit, 1 could bring forward the views of John
Marshal, late Chief Justice of the United
States, to sustain the opinion, that every indi
; vidual has the legal right to dispose of hi.*
lawfully ucquired property in any quantity,
however small or large. And that ardent
spirits is property, no one will deny who re
flects that it requires capita) aud labor to pro
dues it. and a*such, it was regarded by this
eminent Chief Justice. But loattempt to deny
the right to sell liquor* in oiy quantity, levels
to the ground one of the greatest pillars w hich
sustains the temple of rational liberty—that
pillar in our constitutional fabric, w hich sus
tains all personal chatties, of whatsoever kind,
to the proper use and disposal of their legiti
mate possessors, or rightful owners. Ido not
believe that any legal gentleman in our coun
try could successfully disprove this position.
It is founded in law. and sustained by the first
i principles of equity.
i Experimental legislation has been adopt’ and,
’ time afie - time,, hi in our Union, to
correct lint mischievous effects resulting from
the saleOf intoxicating liquors. Licenses have
been advanced to such an amount us to have
almost acted as a prohibition to the legal sale
of ardent spirits —when that was done, it had
the effect of making many tolerably good men,
very bad men. They sold liquors icilhoiit li
cense, because they could not afford to pay for
the privilege—and thu become, in one sense,
out-laws in a rivil community. Prohibitory
statutes have had a bad, not to say a highly
demoralizing effect, wherever they have been
adopit'J. In South Carolina the license law
was increased in 1835. from fifteen to fifty
dollars—and 1 do not think I hazard a doubt,
(and my means of knowing the truth of the
statement are not very limited.) when I assert
that the amount now paid for licenses through
out that S'ate is not greater, in the aggregate,
than it was when the license was only fifteen
dollars —of course, taking into consideration
the increase of population—l I know that
grog-shops arc more numerous iu that Suite
now than they ever were before,
i The consequences of intemperance, and the
existence of grog-shops are evils w hich can
alone he corrected by public opinion—the dif
fusion of knowledge—and the press. Whoever
thinks differently, will doubtless be satisfac
torily convinced of his error, by subsequent
experience and reflection. But. however diffi
cult may be the means of destroying this evil
that individual will certainly deserve well of
his country, who can point out the legal and
practicable means.
I have already extended this article to too
great a length. Mr. Editor, but allow r.je one
word more, and I will conclude. The sensa
tive Mr. “ Carolus ‘ could have forgiven all ray
previous remarks, if I had not alluded to the
Ladies! There I touched a tender cord,
and foresooth he swoons away, wounded no
doubt, but not mortally. He wishes to know
if there is a spot in the civilized world in which
the influence of woman has not been felt ? 1
answer, no! and felt most strikingly, too. sir,
“Carolus. - ’ by many of the lords of creation !
FIDES.
Important. —The Red Lander, a Texi.
an paper of the date of July ‘JOih. “slopped
the press” to announce the arrival in town
of the scalp of Col. Bowles, the Cherokee
I chief.
A MODERN FAUST.
Among these individuals who should
have been seen somewhere else yesterday
morning, might have been seen at Mr. Re
corder Baldwin’s offirc of busiiias*, a pro
fessed follower of the great Faust, vulgarly
known a* a‘jour piinter.’ lie was a case
—all sorts of a ease—a walking ••vlilion of
the striped pig, or in other words an uncor
rected copy of the i corks of intemperance,
sewed up, and boundby no teetotal rule of
entire abstinence. He looked blurred, or
like a 6ad impression of a worn wood cut
of our American eagle, or of a runaway ne
gro.
‘You were found sleeping out la*t night,’
said the Recorder. ‘NN ho and what are
you V addressing the badly set up bill of
humanity in the dock.
■Me, I’m a poor—d—n poor specimen of
the art preservative of all art* —vulgarly
called a‘jour printer.’ or ‘typo,’ said the
printer.
‘And need correction,’ said the affable
Recorder. *1 thought you a fool case.
Why were you not at your lodging last
night V
•Because I lost my place, got out of
sorts —had no quoius (coins) to get locked
up any where else : in fact, out of cash
which is the copy of our existence. Ah !
sir. I’ve felt the pressure of the time a*
well as other folks—have had an impres
sion, and a heavy o ie, of the difficulty of
justifying iny actions by the right mea
sure.’
•But a correct man of vonr profession,’
said the Recorder, ‘would have been at his
case setting up. I don’t see vv hat altera
tion van should make in the copy of your
verdict. You were lying down sir.’
•Yes I had come to a period, that’s a fact,
arid the watrhinsu made a parenthesis of
his arms to raise me up, and a note of ad- ;
miration of my body, head downwards,
while bringingrne to this new fangleJ pres*
to have a proof taken,’ rejoined the jour.’
‘The watchman charges you with being,
tipsy, sir.’
•I i ret my matter too much last night,
that’s a fact.’
‘When that watchman placed you on ;
your feet you could not stand straight— i
leaned in every direction, and staggered
about as though you were working off the
new grand lottery oil the side walk.’
‘I thought, sir, that I was on rule and
figure work , but Charley soon gave me -
rap with something more than a shsip's foot
which in a measure straitr>\‘ enc d t ne. He
well nigh <?'•'!; ibi’.ted the matter of my up
per case, sir.—throwed my brains into pi.’
‘! . nail have to send you to the calaboose,
sir : lock you up for thirty days.*
•Thirty days ! What ! lockup mv form
for thirty days. Oh ! you don’t mean that,
*ir.—You have no rule fir doing it. “Why,
sir, you might a* well send me to lie on
the galties in the swamp at once. Thirty
tiny* in the nllabo i*c ! That would in
deed be living on the imposing stone. L< t
me go this time, Mr. Recoider; I will see
and correct errors, avoid all outs, such a*
the watchman discovered, in future, and
present a clean and revised proof sheet of
mv conduct hereafter. I’ll tell your honor
what it is : that watchman who handle* the
j book so often don’t always follow copy.
Why-, he swore there against me as if his
oath was stereotyped and as if he knew it
; like a book.’
The recorder told this modern Faust
| that he was fully impressed with the siu
eerity of his determination to reform but
that unless he trot some person other than
himself to vouch for it. he must give him a
short situation, sav thirty days in the cala
boose. j.Y. 0. Picayune.
Life in New OiiLr.ANs.—lf in the win
ter we are the gayest people on this conti
nent, with more variety of life und manners
than any other city presents, in the summer
w e arc the dullest. The monotony ofexis
! tence caused by the very general absent, e*
is only varied by the fever and the exci
i ting scene", in creates. We proceed to nten
tioaefoe, the®* relation of which caused a
chill through our heart*, and struck the
’ “electric chain” by which vve arc strongly
bound. It surely must have thrilled the
heart of the beholder with sudden horror.
Dr. Lambert, an excellent as well as an
eminent French physician in this citv, n la
te.* that during his frequent rides through
the different streets, his attention has al
most alway s been attracted as he passed a
i house where a pool family lived. The
family consisted of a man and his wife, both
rather young, and the latter good looking,
; with a little infant smiling in beauty and
about ten months old. lie was led to no
tice them from the appearance of content
that lived there, and their being frequently
ion the banquette before the bouse. After
the fever set in, he still saw ‘hem for some
• days, happy a* usual : but at length he mis
sed then, from the accustomed place,” This
he did for two days, until, on the third,
feeling uneasy for them, be stopped his gig
before tic house, alighted, and rapped at
the dm r. No answer, silence was in the
mansion. II - pushed open the door and
went in. There lav the husband and wife
on the floor—both dead of the fever, and
the former decaying. The child was alive,
and with its little arms around the dead
i mother’s neck, vainly trying to draw the
sustaining fluid from the breast. Dr L.
says that, familiar as he is with scenes of
death, nothing before has ever shocked his
; feelings to half the extent. With a praise
worthy benevolence he has taken measures
to have the infant protected. Such is ‘life
in New Orleans.’—.Yei e Orleans Times.
More Stabbing. —We learn from the
Norfolk Beacon that an affray took place
at Edeton N. C. on Friday last, in which
Mr. Bland, the Postmaster, was stabbed
> through the body by a man named Whita
ker Benbury. It appears that Mr. Bland
was engaged in opening the mail, with clo
sed doors, when Benbury knocked at the
door of the office and demanded admittance,
which was refused. Benbury then broke
i open the door, and on his refusal to leave
the house, Mr. Bland attempted to put him
. out by force, when he was stabbed through
the body. Fear* are entertained that Mr.
B. and would not recover.—Benbury has
been arrested and is now in jail. What ag
gravates this outrage is that Mr. Bland has
j a wife and six children dependent upon his
exertion for support. It is also stated that
Benbury has a wife and four children,
whose feelings may well be imagined from
the rash and guilty conduct of their pretcc
tor.
[ Reported for the Cincinnati Daily IVArgj
.4 Hogue \hnosl rbnsum
ntaie and notorious scoundrel, whose real
name is Hines, aud who figures with as
many aliases as the Emperor of Russia has
titles, came very near bring consigned to
limbo yesterday in this city, under the fol
lowing circumstances: A person of whom ,
he hai) borrowed a considerable sum of
money about three years since, recognised
him, in this city, and charged him with it.
Hines denied his name, he at the time •
using the alias of Austin. The creditor,
vt hose name w e have not learnJ, went to the
office of M tn. Doty, Esq. and got out a
capias for his arrest. By some means,
Hines found out the movement, and re
paired to the steamboat Pike, w here he
assumed u long face, aud told the pass
engers that he had fallen oterboard and lost
all his money; hut he had cheek for a large
amount that he was to draw at Louisville.
Several passengers lent him money, in all
about sloo, which he promised to fay at
Louisville, and with which he made off into
Kentucky.
nix’ trunk was seized and conveyed t o
Mr. Doty's office, where it was upend, and
found to contain some very valvKihle cloth
ing, a reference 3 in hie res; enable char
arter to Alov. Roman, of L uisiana, a dose
of arsenic, bonds to the amount of about
fit 1230 under which he had been pieced in
different names, for some of his viliaoics,
seveial memorandums, and the following
interesting sketch of himself original ly
published In the Savannah Georgian, cut
from a Philadelphia paper, lie is repre
sented to possess a very insinuating ad
dress. and as he will doubtless attempt
to play off some of his pranks in this neigh
borhood, our citizens should be on the
lookout.
found in his trunk, it is as
certained that he has, at different times,
travelled and practised his schemes, under
the aliases, of Doctor limes, Thomas Al
ston, 11. P. Richmond, A. H. Burrhees,
and Faulkner. He has been in prison
both in New York and Philadelphia, for his
rogueries.
Tub Slavs Vessel.—Our readers will
recollect that we published an aerouiit of
the alleged piracy on board the Armistcad,
in our last, and if her subsequent capture
and detention at Newport, K. I. The abo
litionist* hr.Ve opened a subscription to en
able them to employ eounsil in behalf of
the Alricans, and otherwise to administer
to their wants. It is said that the Black*
were not born in slavery, but were native
Africans, kidnapped and sold into slavery
iu Cuba, and purchased bv He nor Jose Ruiz
a few weeks after their arrival there, and
then shipped on hoard the schooner for
his < states on the same island. On the pas
sage they killed the captain and took po
sessiou o| the vessel, in which they were
endeavoring to retain their native country,
when tliev were raptured hy Captain Ged
ury. It is believed that if they had risen
on their original captors, who were pirates
by the law of nations, they would have been
justified —but senior Ruiz purchased them
in market ovort, although they were sur
reptitiously imported into Cuba in violation
of the Spanish laws as well as the law of
Nations. These matters will be derided in
at ourt ol Justice, and will present some
points altogether new. The New York
Express says “the property will he pre
ciousb poor property for the Abolitionists
here, as they who have seen these poor fel
low* represent them to he in appearance
hardly above the apes and monkeys of their
own Africa, and the language they jabber
is incomprehensible here, while an ajv
proaebing winter will ti.akc the North
more horrible for ifcem than even slavery in
Cuba.”
y .
Divivofor Truth.—lt is related of the
African —Joseph—the leader of the slaves
1 ! in the insurrection, on board the Armistad,
that, at one time he wanted the vessel
.anchored at sea, when the wind w as ahead.
1 He was told there was no bottom ;he told
them to let the anchor go; then seeing the
schooner drifting, he jumped overboard and
was under so long they thought lie would
never rise, but at last appeared, came on
board, and said there was no bottom to be
found. All the negroes of the sea coast of
Africa are excellent swimmers, indeed they
may almost he called amphibious. They
are often employed in searching after anch
ors, from which the cables have parted,
and the depth to which they can dive, and
the length of lime they can remain under
the surface of the water is almost incredi
ble.—Transcript.
The new Steam Frio ate.— The strain
frigate now building in the Brooklyn Navy-
Yard, is rapidly progressing. The keel
w as laid on the Ist of July, and she will be
ready for planking to day or to morrow..
This is working against time and nearly
equals the building of a steam frigate at
Greenwich, England, which was finished
in eight weeks after the laying of the keel.
11l England, a certain sum of money was
appropriated expressly to settle in how
short a time a government vessel could he
huilt. The steamer frigate now building in
the Navy Y'ard, will be a little larger
than the Great Western, and her engines
• will be put in at West Point, where they
are now constructing.
-Yetc York Court of Sessions. —In the
\ case of the people against Barney Corse and
Isaac Hooper, indicted for the abduction of
Tom Ilnges, slave of John P. Darg, of Mis
• souri, and the attempt to compound a felo
ny between said Dsrg and his slave, who
i robbed him of ASOOO. On motion, the
I Court decided to receive the testimony of
said I)arg de benecsse, on the condition of
Mr. Dars finding it necessary to leave the
■ citv- before the next term of the Court of
■ which due notice was to be given*— Journal
, of Commerce.
The Cotton Crop. —The Colorado (Tex
-1 as) Gazette says that the crops throughout
the country never were more promising.
The natives had commenced in good ear
nest, and the hands in that neighborhood
pick ‘JOO lbs. per day.
The Darien Herald speaking of dogs,
thinks it better that “ninetv-nine innocent
i ones” should suffer, than that a guilty one
I should escape. We are of the same, opinion,
and right dog- matic at that. — N. O. Times.