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GEORGIA CLARK CO UNT Y.
’E)BL r HEREAS Edward L. Thomas, Admin-
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July 22—12—6 m.
GEORGIA, HALL COUNTY.
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Sept. 16-7-20
Executor’s Sale.
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Southern Whig
From Blackwood’s Magazine.
THE AGES.
A thousand years—a thousand years!
So long a time has worn away,
And o’er the hardening earth appears
Green pasture mix’d with rocks of gray;
And there huge monsters roll and feed,
Each frame a mass of sullen life;
Through slimy wastes and woods of reed
They crawl, and tramp, and blend in strife.
A thousand years —a thousand years!
And o’er the wide and grassy plain,
A human form the prospect cheers,
The new-sprung lord of earth’s domain.
Half clad in skins he builds a cell,
Where wife and child create a homo;
He looks to Heaven with thoughts that swell
And owns a Might beyond the dome.
A thousand years—a thousand years!
And lo ! a city and a realm:
Its weighty pile a temple rears,
And walls are bright with sword and helm:
Each man is lost amid a crowd;
Each power unknown now beat's a natne;
And laws and rites, and songs are loud,
And myriads hail their monarch’s fame.
A thousand years —a thousand years :
And now beside the rolling sea,
Where many a sailor nimbly steers,
The eager tribes are bold and free.
The graceful shrine adorns the hill;
The square of council spreads below;
Their theatres a people fill,
And list to thought’s divinest flow.
A thousand years —a thousand years'.
We live amid a sterner land,
Where laws ordain’d by ancient seers
Have trained the spirit of command;
The pride and policy and war,
With haughty fronts ar? gazing slow,
And bound at their triumphal car, ;
O’crmas’ered kings to darkness go.
A thousand years—a thousand years !
And chivalry and faith are strong;
And through devotion’s sorrowing tears,
Is seen high help for earthly wrong.
Fair gleams the cross with sunny light,
Beneath a dim cathedral arch;
’Tis raised, the burgher Staff of Right,
And heads the stately feudal march.
A thousand j’cars —a thousand years!
That drags along our slight to day !
Before that sound returns again
The present will have stream’d away,
And all our world of busy strength
Will dwell in calmer halls of time.
And then with joy will own at length,
Its course is fixed, its end sublime.
From the Knickerbocker for November,
The Dead Husband*.
BY ALFHOXSO WESTMORE, ESQ., AUTHOR OF THE ‘GAZETTEER
OF MISSOURI’
More than one halt'of the inhabitants of the
globe have an imperfect idea of the sufferings
that are endmed by their kindred, even in the
vicinity of their own dwelling. The same
laudable sentiment that induces display of the
elegancies of life, causes concealment of our
miseries, or humiliating misfortunes. The so
cial feeling which induces us to lend aid to a
neighbor in peril, or in the full tide of prosper
ous action, leads to the exhibition of our good
fortune; it is sympathy in both instances. Il
is the sufferer who seeks concealment, having
no flattering prospects to offer for the congrat
ulations of the sympathetic. It is the jealous
distrust of our natures that induces the pedes
trian, who is toiling onward with adtumid
brow, to cast a nervous and discontented glance
at (he tenants of the post-coach, as it darts on
ward ; and he welcomes the cloud of dust that
insures concealment of his woes, created only
by contrast. It is only when crime brings
sufferings on the innocent kindred of the crim
inal, that there exists serious cause of dtscos
tent-
Josepii Joplin was one of half a dozen sons
of at..vern keeper in the county of Buncombe,
North Carolina; and tcotisequcntly he b. came
i itiated in early life into the ways ofthe world;
by which general expression,it may be in this
case understood,an acquaintance with whiskey
! & tar kilns, long rifles, & quarter-races. When
this younger son of the publican of the‘Piny
Woods’had nearly attained the stature of the
family standard, six feet three inches, and a
few months before he had reached his twenti
eth year, he led up before the township justice
of the peace a hope-inspired damsel. She I
vowed herself his partner, tn weal and tvo, in
life and death. His circumstances nt the time
were only middling. He owned ‘a likely
young nag, a dollar bill, and a good rifle-gun.’
A few months after the festivities of the nup
tials had left the sober realities of life in bold
relief, the young couple began to look beyond
the precincts ofthe paternal double cabttts, in
I order to fix the trace leading to the most invi
ting region. Their departure was acCelefil
ted by • a small scrimmage,’ in which Mr.
Joplin was unfortunately a principal actor, at
a shooting-match. His antagonist had dark-
I cued the manly disk of our hero a little ; but
I then the young bridegroom boasted that he
had taken an ‘ under bit out of his left ear,
i and stove two of his front teeth down his
I throat.’
i The young couple departed with the buoy
ancy of hope, (that flattering endorser of ac
commodation paper.) for tho western district;
the husband on foot, leading in the devious
pathway his bride, who was mounted on the
nag. This animal was well ladened with
household stuffs, consisting principally of
quilts and ‘kiverlids.’
Th j adventurers reached the point of des
tination, six miles from the last cabin, on the
borders ofthe Indian country, in season to
I make a crop. When the corn was gathered tn,
the fill hunt half finished, the venison drying, &
the ‘bear bacon’ cured, the Indian Summer,
with its mild haze shod a soft and cheeri: g
influence upon the new.beginners.
O.i one ofthe quiet evenings, made more in
teresting by the tranquillity of the day of rest,
the settlers were entertaining a neighboring
family with a happy displa) of the best the
house could afford, with ‘a streak of fat and a
streak of lean.’ While the children of their
guests were playing antic gamb.ls about the
* The writer of this very spiri'ed sketch of western
I life, assures us that it is essentially true, having been
I narrated to him by a respectable citizen, only six miles
* from the closing scene ofthe tragic adventure. A ficti
-1 tious name has been ruhsututed, out of delicacy to trie
I :mrviv«'rs ofthe, family.
tins. Kmi ecrbXkxr-
“WHERE POWERS ARE ASSUMED WHICH HAVE NOT BEEN DELEGATED, A NULLIFICATION OF THE ACT IS THE RtGH I’FUL REM ED Y. ” JeJferSOlt.
door, a scream of infantile alarm arrested the
attention and deep interest of the settlers. As
the three males of the party snatched their
arms, the anticipated war-cry rang responsive
in the precincts ofthe cabin. The foremost of
the assailants fell, and another shot wounded
and arrested the advance of the leading warn,
or, while the affrighted mothers drew in their
fugitive infants. As the cabin-door was clos
ed against the foe, a distracted mother saw
her youngest child snatched up by a retreating
brave, while hi; comrades dragged off their
dead leader. A gun had been hastily charg
ed, and the fearless Joplin, having thrown open
the door, drew it to his face; but the wary
savage held up, to shield his person, the little
captive. ‘ Fire!’screamed the distracted mo.
(tier; * better dead than a prisoner!’ At the
critical instant when the little sufferer parted
asunder its legs, the sharp report ofthe rifle of
the white man was heard, and the crimson
current, of a deeper hue than the painted skin
of the savage, rippled down his naked trunk.
He reeled, and hesitated, and ere the smoke of
the rifle had blown away, the frantic mother,
with knife in hand, was seen flying to the res
cue. The savage, cool, and collected, even in
the agonies of death, interposed the infant be
tween the thrust ofthe Amazon and his person,
and the unhappy mother plunged her weapon
into the bosom of her own child !
The warrior’s knife closed the scene as he
fell, and was bathed in the heart’s blood of the
fearless woman, the wife of Joplin’s nearest
neighbor. The Indians fled without a single
scalp.
After the funeral obsequies of the mother
and child had been hastily performed, and
they were consigned to the same unostent; tious
grave, the neighboring settlers assembled, and
rendezvoused at Joplin’s cabin. They elect
ed him their captain. Here they continued
during the autumn and winter, with various
fortune in sharp skirmishes with their unre
lentiug and always vigilant enemy.
Early in the spring, they broke up their little
settlement, and retired back to the more po
pulous part of the country. Captain Joplin
returned to the paternal mansion in the Piny
Woods, to exhibit the beginning of the third
generation, in the person of young Buck-eye
Joplin. After lingering awhile in his old
haunts, and recounting the perils he had cheer
fully met and overcome, he looked out again
upon the land of promise, the western expanse,
for another channel of enterprise.
The second expedition of our hero was un
dertaken by water. Having packed his fami.
ly across to the Tennessee river, and exchang
ed his ‘ nag’ for a canoe, or ‘dug-out,’ he em
barked in bis long and devious voyage to the
Mississippi. Joplin occupied the stern as
steersman, but his spottsq was provided with a
puddle, which she plied alternately with her
knitting, as they glided onward to an unknown
land. The voy.tg-3 was barren of incident,
and only varied by fishing and hunting for
the subsistence of the family. They entered
the Mississippi, and descended this river to
the mouth of White river; and as this was
backed up by the spring freshets, the voyagers
turned their course up the stream, and crossed
the connecting cut, or bayou, to the Arkansas
river. They continued their voyage, until
they found a landing-place of an inviting as
pect, near Little Rock. Here the emigrants
landed and pitched their half-face camp.—
After a year or two of hardship and privation,
incident to the settlement of a new country,
the Joplin family, somewhat increased in num
bers, began to enjoy the fruits of industry.—
The improve I condition of the captain’s pecu
niary affairs afforded him the means of indulg
ing in his ardent propensity for attendance on
ait the gatherings, which lie had never dis
missed from his mind while his necessities re
strained him. In the absence ofher husband,
the pains-taking woman kept the shuttle flying,
or sung an accompaniment to the instrumental
music of thy spinning-wheel. From these
gatherings Joplin sotne'imes returned with
marks of personal rencounters; and time, and I
the soothing care of the even-tempered woman,
were requisite to soften the exasperated back
woodsman, and to obliterate the sigrs ofthe
feud on the distorted visage of her husband.
On these occasions, the ferocity of his dispo
sition predotnin ited on the first day after the
gathering; on the second, he was moody and
thottghtlu! ; and the third brought on repent
ance, and promises of reformation.
The great races at length came on; and
Captain Joplin’s colt, sired by Chain-Light
ning, out of the celebrated full-blooded dam
Earthquake, had been entered for the jockey
purse, and the owner was ‘obliged to be pre
sent.’ This he promised should ba his last
race, and his last fight on any race-course.
I he good woman ventured, as she handed him
his holy-day jeans, to urge his return home at
an earlier hour than usual. Very fair promts-
I es were made ; but, about the hour of mid
night, the ‘whole team of bear-dogs’ opened a
boisterous greeting as the roistering captain
approached his cabin. Ihe cold bacon, and
cabbage, and buttermilk, were set out by the
flickering light of a Corinthian tallow peach
wicked candle, and the meal was despatched
in. silence. When the gentleman from Bun
combe had picked his teeth with his pocket
knife, he whispered an appalling secret in the
I ear of his wife. She drew a long sigh of re
{ signation, wiped her eyes with ajjorner ofher
I apron, and began, packing his saddle-bags,
( while Joseph Joplin cleaned his ‘rifle-gun,’
which he called ‘Patsy,’ after his wife, lie
had finished trimming the bullets he had cast,
when, all things being ready, he rose to de
pa rt.
‘ Joseph Joplin,’ s tid his wife. ‘ I always al
lowed it would come to this; bit the Lard’s
u ill be done !’
In reply, the captain briefly remarked :
‘ 1 f he don’t die of the stab I give him, Mike
Target will pass me word, when the boys go
out into the bee-woods, I leave you every
thing but the colt tied my bear-dog, Gall-buster;
and, so as I never comes back, tell the boys’t
is mv wish that they never gives the lie, tier
■takes it.’
’l'he period of Joplin’s absence was more
: than three years; during winch space of lime
| his patient spouse kept up the tnonotouons mu
i sic of her wheel, and the regular vibrations of
the shuttle. Iler hearth was kept warm and
j clean, and her children were amply clad in
1 cleaulv attire, and well fed. Every Sunday
! was set apart for extra w ashing of faces, comb-
I ing of tow-heads, reading a chapter or two,
j and chanting a hynre. She had rented her
' field, so as to secure her bread stuffs ; and her
| little stock of cattle h,:d increased, while they
I supplied milk and butter tor the subsistence ot
I her children. Each tedious year had she
I spun, uove. and tn ide up for her absent hits-
I b nid a new suit ot jeans, which she hung tn
I Ihe cabin beside her own tiol day apparel, that
' she carefully abstained from wearing, until she
| could atiiib lietvclfuiJ htisb.md m their b st,
SATDAY, SOVEJaBER 25, 1537.
on some joyous day of meeting. His Sunday
hat hung on the hook where the breech of his
rifle had rested. Every day of rest she made
it a point to brush the dust from the smooth
beaver, and drop a tear into the crown. From
the day of his departure, no account had ever
been received of hing. 'l’he sheriff, with a iude
posse, had searched the premises on the day
after the affray, and the neighboring country
had been scoured in vain. The racer had out
stripped all pursuers, and the f igitive was se
cure in the unexplored regions at the foot of
the Ozark mountains.
The wounded sportsman who had defraud d
our hero, contrary to the most flattering hope,
had been effectually cured of the wound that
Joplin, in his intoxicated rage, inflicted. Th :
wife, rejoicing in this piece of good fortune,
had resorted to every device wtihin the com
pass of female ingenuity to convey intelligence
to the unknown region, the abode of her hus
band ; but she had almost despaired of ever
seeing him again, when an old bee-hunter dis
embarked from his pirogue opposite her cabin,
on the Arkansas river, to dry his blankets after
a hard storm. Os this 618 adventurer Mrs.
Joplin learned that he had met a trapper on
the head waters of White river, who called
himself Griffin, and the description of his per
son induced the fond wife to think it migh be
Captain Joplin himself. On his way out to
the bee.woods the following season, the old
hunter carried with him a letter to the follow
ing effect:
‘Deer Carting Joe Jopling ; arter my best
respects, hoping these lines may find you: he
arn’t dead no more nor you and nine ; you mout
come home, I reckon; the childrin all right
smartly groin ; you would never know the baby.
‘Patsy Jopling, at the Piny Bend.’
Long and anxiously did the poor affection
ate wife wait the return of the father of her
little brood, and often in the trai i ol her flatter
iug imagination startas some stranger entered
her cabin, with the exclamatio ;, ‘ 1 thought it
was Capting Jopling!’ In her leisure mo
ments, too, she was m ihe habit of fix: g her
ardent and steady gaze on the point of rocks
behind which she had s eu him depart. In
all the torture of delay, not a reproachful ex
clamation was ever uttered by the sufferer.
A sigh hastily drawn, and a rudely-constructed
prayer, evinced the emotion she deeply felt.
The fond woman, could perceive, as her chil
dren increased in growth, strong resemblances
of their father developed in every lineament.
But the likeness in ‘the baby’ was absolutely
wonderful. ‘lf,’ said she, ‘little Joe was
grown, and daddy war here present, th 'y
.would never know th ins Ives apart.’
It was on one of those mild and sun y days
of rest, in the Indian Summer of autumn, that
the wanderer returned. The careful motlvr
was surrounded with her children, and was, a
the moment he entered the e.abi , gi'i gih last
touches to the flaxen locks of the vou .gi st
child.
‘ You had as well give mv hair a little comb
ing, Patsy,’ was the calm salutation of our
hero.
‘Capting Joseph Jopliig!’ exchiim-jd th>
ha If-frantic wife, ‘ar it you at lust !’ Sh.
smoothed down the folds ofher garments as
she arose, and, with a smile of welcome, us
she gave her hand, said, ‘ Howdy, Joseph ?’
Ona close and more deliberate scr .tiny of
his person, Patsy seemed to think, with her
husband, that his hair needed the comb. His
locks were matted together like the wool on
the forehead of a buffalo ; not a comb or an
intrusive pair of scissors had interrupted the
wild luxuriance of its growth, in a period of
more than three years. When his hat had
given way to the irritation of cane-brakes and
green briars, and the pollings of the storms of
summer and winter, he had cultivated th? c v
eririg with which nature had bou ititully pro
vided his cranium. By occasio al cropping
of his locks with his butcher knite, as th y
grew out so as to obstruct his vision, he left his
upper-works with a singular aspect; and whe i
the growth of three years’ beard is considered,
with the bears’ oil glistening on its u icomberl
surface, it is not strange that his charitable wife
should give him some : ronical compliments,
such as these :
‘ Jop'ing, you ’re a beauty ! S div, b"itig the
soap. Joseph, you are a picture! The poor
baby don’t know its daddy ; did he think dad
dy was a painter? Get your daddy’s razor
out of mammy’s box ; put on the tea kettle,
Sally, and heat some water, while I make up
a pone of bread' Josey, did you cook for
yourself all this time?’ and as she bustled
about, she began to sing a long-neglected air.
to which she had trod a measure in the j >yi>us
days of early youth, in the Piny Woods of
Buncombe.
The first six months after his return home,
Captain Joplin was diligently occupied in re
pairing his farm, which had fallen into a slov
enly condition. He was content with the so
ciety of his domestic circle, and remained
quietly at home. But, when the great annual
races came on, ho was tempted to spend a day,
only as a spectator, on the track, and accord
ingly appeared there early on the first morn
ing. He had many acquaintances there, all of
whom were thirsty beings; and before the
sun went down he felt rich, and generous, and
and glorious. ’l’he ferocious stage < f the dis
ease came on after dark.
The return of the husband to his cabin that
night was at an earlier hour than usual, lie
was pale and nervous, and blood was on his
hand, and his garments were discolored. He
notified his wile of ihe necessity of his imme
diate departure. She insisted on leave to ac
: company him, which was readily granted.—
Such of their effects as could oe speedily pack
; ed, were hastily put in portable fo>m. In mi
hour, the tanuly je mounted on their riding
animals, ana leading down the river.
Few words among the fugi
tives; and the phicvkyf destination was Oliver
mentioned. Ou reaching the first ferry, at
about ihe hour of midnight, they turned short,
ly to the left, and crossed to the opposite bank
ofthe river, without requiring the aid of ferry
men. Oa landing, Joplin scuttled and sunk the
ferry-flat, to cut oft’ pursuit. They continued
their route until about ten o’clock, with little
regard to road or trace; and having found a
deep ravine, apparently uatroddtu by human
footsteps, they baited for refreshme.it. After
a brief repast of dried venison, the party con
litiued their route, and at sua-set were fifty
miles from their habitation. It should have
been obs-rved, that th’> fugitives left their ca
bin in a blaze, with a Impu that in the neigh
borhood a belief would prevail that the whole
family had been consumed. To strengih. i
liii® belief, the cuutuiig woodsma b aldep s.t
ed the carcasses ot two d-.. r h hail kifo'd th-:
day before, and several joints of tiaeoa, tn th
corner where thu t’umly usually slepi, that
these might be mistaken for their b ines. I’he
impression which it was po.icv to make, on
''Samiiiatioii of the ashes, obtained currency
a great extent, and it delayed pursuit. When
the doubts that were entertained by some of
the destination ofthe fugitives finally induced
search.it was too lute to discover any trace, of
the Joplin fanily. It was believed bv many,
who supposed they had fed. that they departed
down the river in the ferry-boat that had dis
appeared.
In ihe mean time the flight was continued,
until Joplin reached his old haunts, in a cane
b ittom on Flat Creek, a small trihutaiy of
White River. Here security was made doub
ly sure by the bear-rough that sheltered them,
and by the distance they had removed from
ihe settlement in Arkansas. They had, more
over, taken the precaution to locate within the I
boundaries of Missouri. The fugitive from j
justice was likewise in the vicinity of a cave, j
known only to himself and the red hunters who J
had formerly resided in this quarter of the
country. In this subterranean chamber, the
dry bones from a neighboring battle-field had
been deposited by the tribe who had been the
greatest suffbrers in a sanguinary conflict. As
cheerless as this place might appear, Joplin
had reposed in it alone many nights on his
former visit to this region of country; and in
this place he had cached his furs and peltries,
which now constituted his surplus for his new
b ginning in the world. The erection of a
cabin was a task not easily completed, with
out the aid of neighbors for the raising; but,
when the roof had been placed over their
heads, and fastened there with Weight poles, |
and the puncheons composing the floor laid j
down, the mother of this little colony began to
sing, and spin, and bustle about over the irre
gul ir surface with cautious footsteps, and
stealthily, in her daily task. She had not for- ;
gotten the essential portions of her wheel and
loom in her departure from the ruin ofher old j
h.ibitatiou. and the mechanical ingenuity of j
the woodsman, with his axe, augur, hand-saw, i
and butcher k ife, supplied the deficiency.
The good woman continued still to indulge oa
Sunday in a clean apron, a chapter, and a
Camb. These were luxuries she could not
readily dispense with. Li his former visit to
this wild region, J .plin esteemed it no hatd
ship to r. fra in from the use of bread-stuffs;
but he was constrained to make some apology j
to his wife and children for the privation he
would be obliged to impose, until he could
raise a crop. He however assured them, that
with a mixture of bear-meat and venison, and
a‘sprinkle’ of turkey.br -ast, they would do
very well without bread, provided they could
get time to cut bee-trees.
Tbit isolated family had innocence and con
tentment in full possession, and independence
prospectively within reach. The disturber,
known in the west by the name of ‘l..ng green’
and 'blue rut >,’ i t Pennsylvania, ‘old rye’ and
‘cider royal,’ and by the I idia.ns appropriately
‘lire water, ’ a .fl more emphatically ‘fool-w.i.
t- r,’ was happily beyond their reach. The
o Jy race-ptilb k own hi this :ew settlement
was that o i which th- 1 husband a id wife co;i
--t -iidud for the prize of domestic comfirt. i
this, the fabric.ititin of jeans by o >•’ party, and
the dressing of buck ski. s by ihe oth r, fur
nished profitable arnusume t. The only visit
made by the daring woodsman to the settle,
ments secured him the patriaroh of a flock,
and a few meek companio is, from the fleeces
of which ‘the winti r of his disco ;tent’ was
made comfortable. Li their retreat, the Jop
lin family were in ti fairway to make their
circumstances easy, by such skill as is itsuallv
acquired in frontier experience, when a hard
winter, a tended with much variable weather,
set in earlier than was anticipated. The
woodsman had exerted himself violently i ,
the chase, to secure his supply of ‘b ar bacon,
while the Indian Summer lasted. To this
cause he attributed the ‘dumb ague,’that laid
him up when the first s io w-storm commenced
With this disease he luigf—ed a few weeks.
Th? only medicine within reach of the settl -rs
was a small p ircel of walnut pills. Whether
the bark of which those were composed hid
been scraped up or down the tree, so as to fit
it for an emetic or a cathartic, does net appear,
but no relief was afforded by administering
even ‘a double dose,’ and he grew weaker as
much with the repetition as by discontinuance
of the remedy. When he coil’d no longer rise
without assistance, or stand alone, the anxious
and confiding wife inquired, for the first time,
how far it might be to the residence of the near
est neighbor. When she was told it was one
hundred and sixty miles, it is uncertain which
predominated in her mind, hope or despair. <
She continued silently and thoughtfully to |
minister to his wants, to the extent of her cir
cumscribed means, until, when. at night,
the wintry winds were rudely perforating the
openings around the cabin.door, and the house
dogs growled a dignified response to the dis.
nial howliugs of the woif, the hoarse death
rattle in the throat of the sufferer was perceiv
ed. This added consternation to alarm. To
the earnest and almost unconscious inquiry
now uttered by the trembling wife, ‘Shall I
send for a doctor?’ no answer was given.
Her husband had expired !
The embarrassing position now occupied
by the widow had never been anticipated. Il'
her strength could have overcome the resist,
mice ofthe hard frozen earth that would ena
ble hereto say to the Indian deity of the wil
derness,‘With pious sacrilege a grave I stole,’
her force, and that ofher infant children nut
ted, was insufficient for the removal ofthe bo
dy. Widowed destitution was never more
complete. There was her dead husband on
one side,and her weeping and distracted babes
on the other. A single night of bitter wake,
fulness and watching was the last that she I
ventured ts linger out in her dreary abode; '
and it seemed to her an eternity of darkness.
Early oa the morning after the death ofher
husband, the lone widow packed up a supply
of provision, and, with her children, mon t d,
left her cabin and uuburied husband to search !
for a neighbor. She carried the rifle with her ;
in order to make tire at her eucumpmen s on I
the journey. Ou closing the door on the house
of mourning, ihe distress nf parting was made
doubly agonizing by an i quiry of one of the
children, made in these words: ‘Are you go
ing to leave daddy V
The first day’s route lay up through the val
ley, and along the ba k of the creek on which
tier dwelling was situa’ed; and she was there
fore guided by it. After the first night’s eti
campmer.t. where she had been surrounded !
with wolves, and nervouslv agitated by their
howlings,and occasionally the startli g scream ■
of a panther, she resumed her journey. The j
little family of wa iderers had marched a short ■
distance from their place of lodging, when all ■
i< lowi'Jge :.f th ir route failed. After Wan.;
tko'ing sometimes in one direction, and then;
retracing th. ;r steps and striking off at some I
other point of the compass, the b'-wild- red
mother eueatnped for the second night. The
next rnor.iing the half-distracted traveller de->
rerniinsd to rcf’'j?ie her Reps Two dsys'
brought her back to the dreary and desolate
’ abode, 'i’he cabin was surrounded with a
snarling pack of wolves, which Were contend
' ing for the remains of her little flock ot sheep.
These were scared away by the faithful dogs
that had followed the family. The interior
presented the frightful evidence of mortality.
A cat had made horrid inroads on the face of
the deceased, and was stftl feeding on the mu
tilated corpse! The necessity of burial was
' in no manner diminished by this horrid spec
tacle. I’he afflicted woman scarcely knew
why she had returned. She passed another
long winter night, in her house of mourning,
| hovering with her little brood around the
i cheerless hearth.
i When morning at last arrived, the family
I again departed, having confined the cat under
j a tub, to prevent a repetition of her .c.annibal
feast. AfteJ a journey of five days in a south
wardly direction, and when the widow began
to hope she was approaching a settlement she
was cheered with the view of smoke arising
from a hunter’s camp. He was out i.< search
of game, but tjiere was an abundance of veni
son hanging ovfcr the embers of his camp fire.
This proved a seasonable supply, for the poor
woman had that morning given the last morsel
of her stock of food to her children, while she
piously fasted herself. The hunter was as
much gratified, on his return to his camp thai
evening, to find it so well peopled, as he had
been in the successful hu.it of the day, 'l'he
hospitality of the camp was profusely urged
j upon the strangers, and bear-meat, venison,
and turkey, and elk marrow-bones, were prof
fered with the frank and liberal manner of a
woodsman.
! This camp was sixty miles from the near-
I est settlement; and it was speedily arranged
i that the hunter should accompany the family
■ back to the house, to inter the dead husbmd.
| As the party approached the cabin, ths family
halted, and the hunter advanced to look into
the condition of the interior, before the tnour
ners ventured to take another gaze of hnrrot.
Hunters, as well as sailors, have their super
stitions. which deduct somewhat from their
genera! fearless bearing. They believe in (
charms on t .eir rifles, and sometimes employ 1
• a person skilled in magical inca .tutions to take
off the spell.’ 11 is not. therefore, unaccount
able, that this woodsrn m felt greater apprehen- !
ston in approaching the cabin where a dead
body lay, than ha would in conflict with an
Indian, or in a close hug with an ‘old he bear,’
provided his butcher-knife was stiff, of appro,
ved temper, and sharp at the point. He ‘laid
out’ an old she wolf with his rifle, that was
scratching at the door of the desolate habita- .
tio i, and was on the point of raising the latch,
when he heard issuing from within a low
moaning sound. Venturing to peep through
an opening where the chinking had fallen out,
a single glance at the frigbtt .1 and mutilated
corpse satisfied his heated imagination that th
sou.>d proceeded from the dead husband.- H
ran off with wild affright, under a full co.ivic
tiou that the house was haunted. The earnest
e treaties of tire widow induced him, in com
pany with herself, to approach the cabin once
more. They looked in at the same moment,
and beheld, as their superstitious imaginations
severally painted ihe scene before them, in the
conception ofthe hunter, a black, cioven-foot
ed beast, sitting on the body of the deceased,
while the widow insisted'hat something like a
swan was liovcri g over the remains of her
dead husband. Tile moaning was renewed;
ihe coiifi leinent of the cat was not remember
ed, and the spectators of the horrors within
ran away in despair. The hunter once more
ventured near enough to the cabin to throw a
torch upon its roof. When the flumes had .
spread, and were rapidly reducing the house I
to a mass of vivid ruin, the iuneral party mount- I
ed their horses, and turned their backs upon)
ihe ashes ofthe Dead Husband. I
From Blackwood’s Magazine.
TEA, COFFEE AND TOBACCO. '
Three plants at this moment connect three
different quarters of the globe, which for ages
would have known little of each other without
them. China is connected with England by
scarcely any other link that: her lea; forthree !
hundred years tobacco was the sole link be- '
tween England and the Western world, and
Arabia is to this hour scarcely bound to us but
by her coffee. Such are the slender but pow
erful sources of national connexion. The dis
covery of coffee was not made until the latter |
! part ofthe thirteenth century, and, like any I
other great discovery, it was the result of
chance, adopted by necessity. An Arab, the
Scheykh Omar, fell under persecution in his
own country ; he and his disciples fl d to a !
mountain in the pro' iuce of Yemen, where, in j
the desert, all usual food failed him ; a coffee 1
berry there grew wild, and the distressed re- L
fugee, as it was too hard for him to masticate, I
tried iis effects in boiling; he drank the liquor, j
found himself revived, and made it imrnmortal. .
Yet recommended as it was by its refresn I
ing properties, its spontaneous growth, and .
still more, such is the absurdity of mankind, by i
the example of a foi 1 or knave, who called i
himself a saint, coffee took upwards oftwocen- j
turies to make its way into the world. Even ,
m its own country it was as dishonored as a ;
prophet among his kindred ; and near as Egypt i
was, it was not till the third century from its ;
discovery I hat it insinuated itselt into the sober ;
potations of the Egyptians. It is seldom that'
the world is indebted to superstition foratiyihi g |
except carnivals and cardinals ; but the follies j
ofthe Arab devotees in the laud of the Tua- •
I raohs, who win gold opinions of men by ex- i
j travagai.ces that would degrade the mules they !
! ride, were the first parentage of Egyptian cos
fee-drinking. Triose wretched people,spend
ing half their existence in mortifying the with
ered flesh on their tawny bodies, found cotfee
I essential t< keep their bodies and souls togeth- ’
I er. ’l’he 'Turk uext adopted it. It suited his j
| laziness, a. d Ins stupidity. The showy bar- j
; barian wa ted n .thing but tobacco to com
plete the curse, which, to th slave and to the
sensualist, tur s all the e. joymeuts of the sens
es i..to evil. Tob. ccoc. nn to add perpetual
intoxication to his cata'ogue of wilful calami
ties. It is a remarkable ii.stance of the per
versity ofthe human will when left to iiseli,
that while coffee, with all its singular powers
of cheering the mind and refreshing the nerves.
1 took nearly four hundred years to make itself
known in Europe, and while the fotatoe is
i scarcely more than coming into use in a large
portion ofthe Continent, tobacco took but 1 t-
; tie more than half a dozen years to be k mw
■ as far ns ships can carry it; that it is now the
! favorite Jdfh of every savage lip within the cir
j cumferencc of the globe; that it fills the at
! mosphore ofthe Continent with a stench ; th it
the Spa iard sucks it. as he says for the heat
—the Dutchman for the cold—the Fre .chma ,
I because he has notbi >g else to do—the Ger
; man, hegause he will do nothing elae—the !
Vol. V—tVo. »•*
London and American apprentice and
because it makes him look tike a geutk-iiMM.—
and all because it is in its own nature (hejS*
thiest, most foolish, dullest and most ditgtuAig
practice on the face of the earth.
Mr. Clay’s Speech.
SUB-TRE > SURY BILL.
( Continued,)
The moral deducible from the past is, that
our free institutions are superior to al|o'hers,
and can be preserved in their purity and ex*
cellency only upon the stern condition that we
shall forever hold the obligations of patriotism
paramount to all the ties of party, or to individ
ual dictation; and that we shall never openly
approve what we secretly condemn.
In this rapid, and, I hope, not fatiguing re*
view of the causes which I think bavr brought
upon n-i existing embarrassments, I repeat that
it has been for no purpose of reproaching or
criminating those who have had the conduct
of our public affairs, but to discover the means
by which the present crisis has been protteeed,
wiih a view to .ascertain, if possible, what
(which is by far much more important) should
be done by Congress to avert its injurious
effects. And brings me to consider the reme*
proposed by the Administration.
The great evil under which the country
labors is the suspension of the banks to pay
specie, the total derangement in all domestic
exchanges, and the paralysis which has come
over the whole business of the country In
regard to the currency, it is not that a given
amount of bank notes will not now command
as much as the same amount of specie would
have done prior to the suspension; but it is the
future, the danger of an inconvertible paper
money b> i:>g indefinitely or permanently fix d
upon the People, that tills them with apprehen.
sinus. Our great ..bject should lie lo re-esiab.
Itsh a sound currency, and thereby to restore
the exchanges, and revive the busimas ofthe
country.
The first impression which the measures
brought forwaid by thu adirinistratiou make i«y
that they consist of temporary expe.dieuls, look'
iug to the supply of the necessities of the Trea*
sury; or so far as any of them possess a |»cr.
inaneut character, its tendency is rather to
aggravate than alleviate the sufferings of the
people. None ol them propose to rectify the
disorders in the actual currency ofthe country;
but the people, the states, and their banks, are
left t<> shift for themselves as they may or
The admin.stration, after having intervened'
between the states and their banks, and taken
them into the federal service, wi.hout the cou.
sent ol the st..les; after h «vi g puffed and
praised them—after having brought them, or
co .tribmed to bring lliem, i.ao iheir present
siiu.aiou, low sud.ieidy turns its back upon
them, leaving them to their fate! 1 1 ts ui con
ieut with that; it must absolutely discredit
the.tr issues. And the very people who were
told by the administration that these banks
wouid supply them with a better currency, are
now left to struggle as they c in with the very
curre..ey whic.. the government recommend
ed to them, but which it now refuses itself to
receive!
The profess, d object of the administrafiorf
is to establish what it terms ihe currency of
ihe constitution, which it proposes to accom
plish by restricting the federal government,,
tn all receipts and payments, to the exclusive
use of specie, and by refusing ail bank p iper,-
whether convertible or not. It disclaims all
purposes of crippling or putting down the banks
of the States ; but we shall better determine
the design or the effect of the measures re*
cornme ded by considering them together. a»
one system.
1. The first is the sub treasuries, w hich are
to be made the depositories of all 'he specie
collected and paid out for the service of the
general government, discrediting and refusing:,
nil the ip.tes ofthe States, although pa'jubte
and paid in specie.
2. A bankrupt law for the United States,
le/elled at the State Banks, and authorizing
the seizure of the effects of any of them that
stop payment, and the administration of their
effects under the fedwral authority
3. A particulai law for the District of Cu.-
lumbia, by which all the corporations and peo.-
ple ofthe district, under severe pains aud pon
iilties, are prohibited from circulating, sixty
days af'er the passage ofthe law, any paper
whatever not convertible into specie on <foi
tnand, and are made liable to prosecution by
indictment.
4. And lastly, the bill to suspend the pay.*
ment of the fourth instalment to the S'ates,
bv the provisions ot' which the deposite bul ks-
i dt bted to the Government are placed at thw
discretion of the Secretary of the Treasury.-
It is impossible to consider this system
without perceiving that it is aimed at, and, if
earned out, must terminate, in tile total aiibvwr.-
siou of the state banks, «od that they will bw
placed at the mercy of the Federal Govern*-
ment. It is m vain to protest that there is nn J
design against them. Theeff ct of these mea
sures cannot bo misunderstood.
And why this new experiment, or untried*
expedient? 'The people of this country ar« ;
tired of experiments. Ought not the Adnrmis*-
tration itself to cease with them? Otight rs
not to take warning trom the evenUof recent
elections? Above all, should not the
constituted as it now is, be the last body to"
lend itself to farther experiments upon the busi
ness and happiness of this great people? Ac»'
cording to the latest expression of public opin
ion in the several states, the Senate is n<v fob.-
ger a true exponent ofthe will ofthe s ; alto or
ofthe people. If it were* there would
thirty-two or thirty-four Whigs to eighteen of
twenty friends of the Administration.
Is it desirable to banish a convertible paper
medium, and to subsiimte the precious metais
as the sole currency to be used in all the vast
extent ol the varied business <>t this entire
Country? 1 think ‘ ot. The qua tity of pre*’
cions metals in the world, lookt g to our lair
distributive sh ire of them, ts wholly iasufiju
ci. nt. Aco verltble paper is a great tiny<*
sivmg instrument, independent of its superior
advautag sin transfers ai d remittances. A
ii i nd, uo longer ago than yesterday, informed
me of a single bank whose payments and
ceipts in one diy atnoii ited to two millions of
dodars. What a vast time would not htive
b en ne-ess-iry lo count such a vast sum?
The pavm nts in the circle of a year, in ths
ci : y of N-w York, were est i n.ited several years
ago at fifteen h'.i idred million. How many
(lien -and how many days would be laWfefetarY
to count such a stun? A you .g, grcwtng and
enterprising people, like th .se ot th United
Slate's, more than any o;her, need the use of
those credits which ire i icuhtnl to a s»>uud
re:oar e v £te!T>. Credit is the f lead ufiitdigsot