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BY JAMES W. JONES. The Southern Whig, PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY MORNING. TEKSS. Three dollars per annum, payable within six months alter the receipt of the fn st number, or four dollars if not paid within the year. Sub scribers living out of the State, will be expect ed in all cases, to pay in advance. No subscription received for less than one year, unless the money is paid in advance; and no paper Will be discontinued until all arrear ages are paid, except at the option of the pub lisher. Persons requesting a discontinuance, of their Papers, are requested to bear in min J, a settement of their accounts. Advertisements will be inserted at the usual rates; when the number of insertions is not Specified, they will be continued until ordered out. 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Blank Books made of all Sizes and Ruled to any given pattern. J. C. F. CLARK. i Athens, Sept. 23, —21—ts JW. JONES, is now receiving and open . ing at his Store, his supplies of FAXiXi &, GOODS, which combind with his former Stock, render! hit? assortment very complete. English Straw Sonnets. A case ofhandsome English Straw and Florence Bonnets, iust received and for sale, by J. W. JONES. Oct. 14,-24—if I NEGRO shoes, 200 pairs Superior Negro Shoes for stile by J. W. JONES. Oct. 14,—24—tf GEORGIA CLARK CO UNT Y. ’E)BL r HEREAS Edward L. Thomas, Admin- • » >strator on the estate of John W. Thom as, deceased, applies for letters of dismission. This is therefore to cite and admonish all and singular the kindred and creditors of said de ceased, to be and appear at my office within the time prescribed by law, to shew cause (if any they have) why sa’i 1 letters should not be grant ed. Given under mv hand this 17th July, 1837. 1 G. B. HAYGOOD, d. c. c. o. July 22—12—6 m. GEORGIA, HALL COUNTY. AS, Ambrose Kennedy, Adminis- ▼ » trator of the Estate ofEdward Harrison, deceased, applies t> me for Letters of dismission, This is therefore to cite and admonish all. and singular the kindred and creditors of said de ceased, to be and appear at my office within the time prescribed by law, to shew cause (if any they have) why said letters should not be grant ed. Given under my hand, this 20th day of Octo ber, 1837. E. M. JOHNSON, c. c. o. Oct. 21,—25 —6m •GEORGIA, CLARK COUNTY. VY" HERE AS, Win. Thomas, Sr. Administra ’* tor of Drury Thomas dec’d. applies for Jetters of dismission. This is therefore to cite and admonish all, and singular the kindred and creditors of said de ceased, to be and appear at my office within the ‘time prescribed by law to shew cause (if any they have) why said letters should not be grant ed. G. B. HAYGOOD, d. c. c. o. August 5,-14—6m XpOUR months after date application will be made to the Inferior Court of Madison coun ty when siting for ordinary purposes, for leave to sell the land anu negroes belonging to the estate of Benjamin Higginbotham, dec’d of said county. JAMES M, WARE, Adm’r. Oct. 7—23—4 m. FOUR MONTHS after date, application will be made to the Honorable, the Inferior Court of Madison county, for leave to sell the real Estate of Agnes Lawless, late of said coun ty, deceased. JOHN B ADAIR, Adm'r. Sept. 16-7-20 Executor’s Sale. VX/'ILL be sold on the 24th November next, » * at the late residence of Jarratt Bell, de ceased in Walton county, a quantity of Corn and Fodder, one or two Horses, some Hogs, and some other articles too tedious to mention. Terms made known on the day of sale 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