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Athens, Sept. 23,—21—tf
■ StWW
JW. JONES, is now receiving and open-
. ing at his Store, his supplies of
TALXi &■ WINTER GOODS,
which combind with his former Stock, render
his assortment very complete.
English Straw Bonnets.
A case ofhandsome English Straw and Florence
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Oct. 14,-24—tf
NEGRO SHOES,
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GEORGIA CLARK COUNTY.
Edward L. Thomas, Admin
¥ J istrator 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 myoflice within the ,
time prescribed by law, to shew cause (if any ,
they have) why sai l letters should not be grant
ed. Given under my hand this 17th July, 1837.
G. B. HAYGOOD, d. c. c. o. I
July 22—12—6 m.
GEORGIA, HALL COUNTY.
’WMT'IIERE AS, Ambrose Kennedy, Adminis- j
■ > trator of the Estate of Ed ward Harrison,
deceased, applies 11> 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 20ih day of Octo
ber, 1837.
E. M. JOHNSON, c. c. o.
Oct. 21, —25—6m
‘GEORGIA, CLARK COUNTY.
VM/ - HERE AS, Win. Thomas, Sr. Administra
tor of Drury Thomas dec'd. 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 said letters should not be grant
bed.
G. B. HAYGOOD, d. c. c. o.
August 5, —14—6m
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 and negroes belonging to the
estate of Benjamin Higginbotham, dec’d of said
county.
JAMES M, WARE, Adm’r.
Got. 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—20
FOUR months after date, application will be
made to the Honorable. Inferior Court of
Clark county, when sitting for ordinary purpose
es, for leave to sell all the real Estate ofEliza
beth Goodwin, late of said County deceased.
THOMAS MOORE, Adm’r.
Oct. 28—26—4 m
Southern Whig.
From the London Allas.
THE EXECUTION.
A SPORTING ANECDOTE —BY BOZ.
My Lord Tomnoddy got up one day;
It was half after two,
He had nothing to do,
So his lordship rang for his cabriolet.
Tiger Tim,
Was clean of limb ;
His boots were polished, his jacket was trim :
With a very smart cravat,
And a smart cockade on the top of his hat;
Tallest of boys, or shortest of men,
He stood in his stockings just four feet ten;
And he ask’d, as he held the door on the swing,
“ Pray, did your lordship please to ring ?”
My Lord Tomnoddy he raised his head,
'And thus to Tiger Tim he said ■■
“ Malibran’s dead,
Duvernay’s fled,
Taglioni has not arrived in her stead ;
Tiger Tim, come tell me true,
What may a nobleman find to do ?”
Tim look’d up, and Tim look’d down,
He paus’d, and put otU'a thoughtful frown,
And he held up his hat, and peeped in the crown,
He bit his lip, and he scratched his head,
He let go the handle, and thus he said,
As the door, releas’d, behind him bang d:
“ An’t please you, my lord, there’s a man to be ’ang'd !”
My Lord Tomnoddy jump’d up at the news,
“Run to M’Fuze,
And Lieutenant Tregooze,
And run to Sir Carnaby Jenks, of the Blues,
Rope dancers a score
I’ve seen before—
Madame Sacchi, Antonio, and master Blackmore;
But to see a man swing
At the end of a string.
With his neck in a noose, will be quite a new thing?”
My Lord Tomnoddy stept into his cab —
Dark rifle green, with a lining of drab ;
Thro’ street, and thro’ square,
His high-trotting mare,
Like one of Ducrow’s, goes pawing the air:
Adown Piccadilla —up Waterloo Place,
Went the high-trotting mare at a deuce of a pace ;
She produced some alarm.
But did no great harm,
Save fright’ning a nurse with a child on her arm ; j
Spatt’ring with clay
Two urchins at play,
Knocking down—very much to the sweeper’s dismay—
An old woman who would’n’t get out of the way,
And upsetting a stall
Near Exeter Hall,
Which made all the pious church mission folks squall.
But eastward afar
Thro’ Temple Bar,
My Lord Tomnoddy directs his car;
Never heeding their squalls,
Or their calls, or their bawls,
lie passes by Witham’s emporium for shawls,
And merely just catching a glimpse of St. Paul’s
Turns down the Old Bailey,
Where in front of the jail, he
Pulls up at the door of the gin-shop, and gaily
Cries, “What must I fork out to-night, my trump,
For the whole first-floor of the Magpie and Stump ?”
* *****
The clock strikes twelve—it is dark midnight—
Yet the Magpie and Stump is one blaze of light.
The parties are met;
The tables are set;
There is “punch,” “cold without," “hot with," “ hea-!
vy wet,”
Ale-glasses and jugs
And rummers and mugs,
And sand on the floor, without carpets or rugs.
Cold fowl and cigars,
Pickled onions in jars, I
Welsh rabbits, and kidneys—rare work for the jaws ! -
And very large lobsters, with very large claws; ;
And there is M’Fuze,
And LieutenantTregooze,
And there is Sir Carnaby Jenks of the Blues—
AU come to see a man die in his shoes!
The clock strikes One I
Supper is done,
And Sir Carnaby Jenks is full of his fun,
Singing “ Jolly companions every one !”
My Lord Tomnoddy
Is drinking gin-toddy,
And laughing at ev’ry thing, and ev’ry body.
The cloc k strikes Two ! —and the clock strikes Three I
“ Who so merry, so merry as we ?”
Save Captain M’Fuze,
Who is taking a snooZe,
While Sir Carnaby Jenks is busy at work,
[ Blacking his nose with a piece of burnt cork.
The clock strikes Four!
Round the debtor’s door
i Are gathered a couple of thousand or more ;
As many await
At the press-yard gate ;
Till slowly its folding doors open, and straight
The mob divides, and between their ranks
A waggon comes loaded with posts and with planks.
The efevk strikes Five !
The sheriffs arrive,
And the crowd is so great that the street seems alive >
But Sir Carnaby Jenks
Blinks and winks,
A candle burns down in the socket, and stinks ;
Lieutenant Tregooze
Is dreaming of Jews,
And acceptances of the bill-broker’s refuse ;
My Lord Tomnoddy
Has drunk all his toddy.
And just as the dawn is beginning to peep,
The whole of the party are fast asleep.
Sweetly, oh ! sweetly, the morning breaks,
With roseate streaks,
Like the first faint blush on a maiden’s cheeks ;
Seem’d as that mild and clear blue sky
Smil’d upon all things far and nigh,
All—save the wretch condemned to die I
Alack 1 that ever so fair a sun
As that which its course has now begun,
Should rise on such scenes of misery !
Should gild with rays so light and free
That dismal, dark-frowning gallows tree !
And hark ! —a sound comes big with fate,
The clock from St. Sepulchre’s tower strikes—Eight !
List to that low funereal bell;
It is tolling alas I a living man’s knell !
And see ! —from forth that opening door
They come—he steps that threshold o’er
Who never shall tread upon threshold more.
—God ! ’tis a fearful thing to see
That pale man’s mute agony,
The glare of that wild despairing eye,
Now bent on the crowd, now turn’d to the sky,
As though ’twerc scanning, in doubt and in tear,
i The path of the spirit’s unknown cardei ;
Those pinion’d arm?, those hands that ne’er
“WHERE POWERS ARE ASSUMED WHICH HAVE NOT BEEN DELEGATED, A -NULLIFICATION OF THE ACT IS THE RIGHTFUL REMEDY.’’ JejjeTSOn.
Shall bo lifted again—not ev’n in prayer I
That heaving chest I —Enough—'tis done !
The bolt has fallen I —The spirit is gone—
For weel or for woe is known to but One I
Oh I ’twas a fearsome sight! Ah me I
A deed to shudder at —not to see !
Again that clock ! —’tis time, ’tis time !
The hour is past;—with its earliest chime
The cord is sever’d, the lifeless clay
By “ dungeon villains” is boras away;
Nine! —’twas the last concluding stroke!
And then my Lord Tomnoddy awoke !
And Tregooze and Sir Carnaby Jenks arose,
Captain M’Fuze, with the black on his nose;
And they stared at each other, as much as to say—
“Hollo ! Hollo!
Here’s a Rum Go !
Why, Captain ! —my Lord ! —Here's the Devil to pay !
The fellow’s been cut down and taken away !
What’s to be done ?
We’ve missed all the fun !
Why, they'll laugh at, and quiz us all over the town,
We arc all of us done so uncommonly brown !”
What tMS to be done ■--'twas perfectly plain
That they could not well hang the man over tl”ain ;
What was to be done ? The man was dead !
Nought could be done—nought could be said ;
So—my Lord Tomnoddy went home to bed !
EARNEST MALTRAVERS.
BY E. L. BULWER.
We have found this work to be deserving
the high repution that the papers have gene
rally given it. Below will be found a Chap
ter, which speaks eloquently of love ana mu
sic—two things which excite more of interest,
in the way of sentiment, than any other—es
pecially with our fair friends. This fine el
oquence, love, music, and sentiment is broken
up by the appearance of a newspaper,—a
Newspaper ? say you in astonishment; yes, a
newspaper—(see how important newspapers
are)— they burst in upon these transitory dreams
and present real life, in all its changes, varia
tions, alterations and fluctuations. To under
stand which well, will be worth more than all
the fairy dreams, that the bright, poetic ima
gination of the greatest sentimentalist could
ever conjure up. But read and judge for
i yourself:— Southern Post.
CHAPTER VIH.
' “ Borne clouds sweep on as vultures for their prey,
*
1 No azure more shall robe the firmament,
' Nor spangled stars be glorious.”
Byron —Heaven and Earth.
It was a lovely evening in April ; the wea
ther was unusually mild and serene for that time
of year in the northern district of our isle, and
the bright drops of a recent shower sparkled
upon the buds of the lilach and laburnum that
clustered round the cottage of Maltravers.—
The little fountain that played in the centre of
a circular basin, on whose clear surface the
broad-leaved water /illy cast its fairy shadow,
added to the fresh green of the lawn—
“jAndsofte as velvet, the yonge grass,”
on which the jptr-e and early flowers were clo
sing their heavy lids. That twilight shower
had given a racy and vigorous sweetness to the
air, which stole over many a bank of violets,
and slightly stirred the golden ringlets of A’ICC;
as she sat by the side of her entranced and si
lent lover. They were seated on a rustic bench
just without the cottage, and the open windows
behind them admitted that view of the happy
room, with its litter of books and musical in
struments—eloquent of the Poetry of Home.
Maltravers was silent,for his flexible and ex
citable fancy was conjuring up a thousand
shapes along that transparent air or upon those
shadowy violet banks. He was not thinking,
he was nnagiiii ig. His genius reposed dream
ily upon the calm but exquisite sense of his hap
piness. Alice was not absolutely in his thoughts
but coloured them all—if
she hud left his side, the whole charm would
have been broken. But Alice, who was not a ,
poet or a genius, was thinking, and thinking
only of Maltravers. His image was “ the bro
' ken mirror,” multiplied in a thousand faithful
I fragments over everything fair and soft in that
I lovely miscrocosm before him. But they were
i both alike in one thing—they were not with
1 lh“ f "hire, they Were sensible of the prese 1 ;'.;
I the sense of tliq actual life, the enjoyment of
i the breathing time, was strong within them.
. Such is the pivilege of the extremes of our ex
istence—youth and age. Middle life is never
I with to-day, its home is in to-morrow ; anx
■ ious, and scheming, and desiring, and wishing
i this plot ripened, and that hope fulfilled, while
j every wave of the forgotten Time brings it
i nearer and nearer the end of all things. Half
! our life is consumed iu longing to be nearer
} death.
1 “Alice,” said Maltravers, waking at last
' from his revery, and drawing that light, child
j like form nearer to him, “you enjoy this hour
' as much as I do.”
j “Oh, much morel”
I “Mor>! and why so?”
j “Because lam thinking of you, and per
! haps you are not thinking of yourself.
j Maltravers smiled and stroked those beauti-
I ful ringlets, and kissed that smooth innocent
• forehead, and Alice nestled herself io his breast,
J “ How young you look by this light, Alice !”
; said he, tenderly looking down.
“Would you love me less if I were old?”
asked Alice.
“I suppose I sh add never have loVed you
i.i the same way if you bad been old when 1
first saw you.”
“Yet 1 am sure I should have felt the same
for yon if you bad been—oh! ever so old!”
“ What, with w rinkled cheeks, and palsied
head, and a brown wig, and no teeth, like Mr.
Simcox I”
“Oh, but you could never be like that! —
You would always look young—your heart
would be always in your face. That dear
smile—ah, you would ba beautiful to the last!”
“ But Simcox, though not lovely now, has
been, I dare say, handsomer than 1 am, Alice,
and I shall be contented to look as well when
I am as old.”
“ I shotiid never know you were old, because
I can see you just as I please. Sometimes,
when you are thoughtful, your brows meet,
and y u look so stern that I tremble; but then
i think of you when you last smiled, and look
up again, ai d though you are frowning s'.ill,
you seem to smile. lam sure you are differ
ent to other eyes than to mine ; and time must
kill me befure, in my sight, it could alter yow.”
“Sweet Alicei you talk eloquently, fur you
lulk love.”
“My heart talks to you. Ah! I wish it
could say all it tilt. 1 wish I could make
poetry like you, or that words were music—l
would never speak to you in anything else. I
was so delighted to learn mus:C) because when
1 played 1 seemed to be talking to you. I am
i sure whoever invented music did it becauSt
ATSIEiVS, CaEOJJWIA, SATIJRIOY, 2>EC£i.UISER. 16, 5 837.
he loved dearly and wanted to say so. I said
‘he,’ but I think it was a woman. Was it
not ?”
“The Greeks I told you about, and whose
life was music, thought it, was a god.’
“Ah, but you say the Greeks made love a
god. Were they wicked for it. ?”
“ Our own God above is love,” said Earnest,
seriously, “ as our owa poets have said and
sung. But it is a love of another nature —Di-
vine, not human. Come, we will go within,
the air grows cold for you.”
They entered, his arm round her waist.—
The room smiled upon them its quiet welcome;
and Alice, whose heart had not half ventedits
fullness, sat down to the instrument still to
“talk love” in her own wav.
But it was Saturday evening. Now ever'.
Saturday Maltravers received from the neigh
boring town the provincial newspaper —it was
his only medium of communication with tbg,
great world. But it v.ct for that commu
nication that ho always seized it with avidity,
and fed on it with interest. The county in
which his father resided bordered the shire in
j which Ernest sojourned, and the paper inclu
i ded the news of that familiar district in its
comprehensive columns. It therefore satis
fled Ernest’s conscience, and soothed his filial
anxieties to read, from time to time, that “ Mr.
Maltravers was entertaining a distinguished
party of friends at his noble mansion of Lisle
Courtor that “ Mr. Maltravers’s foxhounds
had met on such a day at something copse
or that “ Mr. Maltravers, with his usual mu
nificence, had subscribed twenty’ guineas to the
new’ county jail.” And as now Maltravers
saw the expected paper laid beside the hissing
urn, he seized it eagerly, tore the envelope,
and hastened to the well-known corner appro
priated to the paternal district. The very first
words that struck his eyes were these :
“ AZaiunzwg illness of Mr. Maltravers.
“ We regret to state that this exemplaryjand
distinguished gentleman was suddenly seized
on Wednesday night with a severe spasmodic
affection. Dr, was immediately sent
for, who pronounced it to be gout in ti.e sto
mach—the first med.cal assistance from Lou
don has been summoned.
“Postcript.—We have just learned, in an
swer to our inquiries at Lisle Court, that the
respected owner is considerably worse; but
slight hopes are entertained of hir recovery.
Captain Maltravcrs, his eldest son and heir, is
at Lisle Court. An express lias been despatch
ed in search of Mr. Ernest Maltravers (Mr.
M.’s other only surviving child,) who, involved
by his high English spirit in so ne dispute with
the authorities of a despotic government, had
suddenly disappeared .from Gottingen, where
his extraordinary fiilelbts had highly clistin
guished him. He to be staying at
Paris.”
The paper dropped on the floor. Ernest
threw himselfback on the chair, and covered
his face with his hands.
Alice was beside him in a moment. He
looked up, and caught her wistful and terrified
gaze. “Oh, Alice!” he cried, bitterly, and
almost pushing her away, “ what remorse have
you not occasioned ma!” Then, springing on
his feet, hurried from the room.
Presently the w’hsle bouse was in a commo
tion. The gardener, who was always in the
house about snpperiime, flew to the town for
post-horses The old woman was in despair
about the laundress, for her first and only tho’t
was for “ master’s shirts.” Ernest locked
himself in his room. Alice! poor Alice!
In little more than twenty minutes the chaise
Was at the door; and Ernest, pale as death,
came into the room where he had left Alice.
She was seated on the floor, and the fata!
paper was on her lap. She had been endea
voring, in vain, to learn what had so sensibly
affected 'vlaltravers, for. as I said before, she
was unacquainted with his real name, and
therefore the omnious paragraph did not even
arrest her eye.
He took the paper from her, for he wanted
again and again to read it: some little word
of hope or encouragement must have escaped
him. And then Alice flung herself on his
breast. “Do not weep,” said he, “ Heayfen j
knows I have sorrow enough of iny own J—-
My father is dying ! So kind, so generous, so
iiidti'.gont ! Oh God, forgive me! There,
there, compose yourself. lou will hear iroin
me in a day or two.”
He kissed her; but the less was Cold and
forced. He hurried teway. She heard the
wheels grate on the p:>bles. She rushed to
the window ; but that beloved face was not vis
ible. Maltravers had drawn the blinds, and
thrown himselfback to indulge his grief. A
moment more, and even the vehicle that bore
him away was gone. An 1 before her were '
the flowers, and the starlighted lawn, and the
playful fountain, and the bench whete they had
sat in such heartfelt and serene delight, lie
was gone; and often, oh how often, did Alice '
remember that his last words had been uttered
in estranged tones—that his last embrace had
been without love!
Antidote for the Poison of Prussic Acid. —
At the Maidstone Infirmary, in England, a
curious example of the effeet of a newly dis
covered remedy for the effects of Prussic A
cid, was given by Dr. Robinson, in the course
of a series of desertations delivered before the
faculty on the subject of poisons.
Baltimore American >
“?xt the conclusion of the desertation the
effect ot Prussic Acid was tried upon a rabbit.
Three drops were administered from a glass
(the surface of which most probably abstract
ed by half of the quantity) and the animal ex.
hibited immediately the usual symptoms—in
creased action of the lungs, diL t ton of the pit
pils, and the peculiar shrill cry which in such
cases is generally indicative of immediate ap
proaching dissolution. In order to give it a
chance ot recovery, however, a few drops ot
ammonit were administered, without apparent
benefit. A constant stream of cold water was
then poured upon the base of the skull and
along the spine, when the animal very shortly
exhibited symptoms of tesusitation. It was
then wrapped in .warm flannel. In a quarter
ofan hour it was suflici?!:t]y recovered to walk.
Dr. Robinson had in a former lecture men
tioned that, this mode of treatment had been
discovered by accident. A cat, which had
annoyed the apprentices of a chemist, was
poisoned by them with Prussic Acid, and
thrown by for dead. I’y mere accident, how
ever. it fell under a stream of water, which
was pouring from a pmjip, the effect of which
was its gradual resusitation.—Betiefi'iiig bv
this hint, the same means have been since suc
cessfully applied to more than one hitman sub
ject who had taken Prussic Acid. No instance,
however, had come within Dr. Robinson’s
knowledge where an animal had been restored
after the symptoms which this rabbit exhibit.
; i,”l; and the singularity of the case struck the
faculty as being one, a knowledge of which it
was desirable should be promulgated. The
rabbit is now in full health and vigour
LECTURES ON EGYPT.
Mr. Buckingham, the English gentleman
who has come over to this country recently, is
lecturing in N. York, on the ancient cities arid
monuments of’ Lower, Cential and Upper
Egypt. His lecturer a ro hiuhlv spoken ol by
the New York press. In the Courier and En
quirer we find a notice of some length of the
lecturer’s happy method of treating his sub
jects, ard of several of the’ topics on which
he discourses. We make the subjeuned high
ly interesting extract:
“We know not any thing that could have
been more happily described than the great
temple of Jupiter Ammon at Thebes, in the
manner it was given by’ the lecturer on Friday
evening. To have given the admeasurement
i,. feet er yards, however correct in itself, would
have been totally ineffective in producing the
sensation within the minds of his hearers
which the reality is so eminently calculated to
effect. In order, however, to bring the mat
ter fully and fairly before us, he approaches
his subject from a distance. He tells us that
I such is the magnitude of the scale on which
this wondrous fabric is constructed, that the
spectator must be upwards of a mile distant
from it in order to judge of its relative pro
portions, He then causes us to advance, as it '
were, along an avenue nearly two miles in
length, adorned with numerous sphinxes, each
at least thirty feet high, until we arrive at the
gate before which are placed obelisks, sculp
tured figures of colossal size, &c. rising save- ;
rally to the height of 30. 60, and 120 feet, or,
as it would bo expressed mathematically—in
geometrical progression. Yet all these mere
ly stand before, the portico ; and what propor
tion has a portico to an entire building? In ;
describing the portico itself, he proceeds to
say that it is inclosed by 144 pillars, each of
12 feet diarn tre, and that consequently there
must be 24 feet intercolurrmiation between
each two ; the perimeter therefore—not inclu
ding the back or wall of the main building—
must be about 5180 feet, and the portico itself
would be capable of containing within it the
entire building of St. Paul’s Cathedral, Lon
don, which last is the iargesi building in Eu
rope, save one. Having proceeded thus tar !
in gradually raising the ideas of his hearers, j
he brings the mutter shortly to a conclusion, I
by saying that the circumference of the entire |
building is more than two miles*
The Luke Mceris furnished Mr. Bucking
ham with a theme on which he could largely
expatiate ; but, having given us the accounts
of ancient writers, and the popular belief on
the subject of that wonderful labor, we should
have been glad to hear from his own hypothe
sis concerning it; and this, because it is the
belief of modern travellers that the Lake Mcc
ris itself is not a work of art, but only the ri
ver or canal which communicates with the
lake, and the Nile is fairly to be considered as
such. If we are to believe Shaw, Denon,
and others who have examined this matter
carefully, it would seem that the basin of the
lake is natural, and being well adapted to the
purpose, the waters were by artificial means
let into it; it appears alsa that this lake, which
Herodotus and others describe as being about
450 miles in circumference, was considerably
diminished in size in the time ®f Pompilius
Numa, and is at the present time not more than
about 40 miles iu length by 6 or 7 in breadth.
The dimensions of the lake are still evidently
contracting.”
Alemorp.— Among the many remarkable
qualities of Davy Crockett was his wonderful
memory, of which my friend Col. A., whom
he once ran against for Congress, lately gave
the following anecdote in proof. “When we
began our electioneering campaign,” said Col.
A., “not being able to speak very well extern,
pore, or rather not at all, I wrote’ out a speech
with great care and committed it to memory.
I delivered this at three several meetings, and
was a good deal gratified iu believing it was
very well received. I had always spoken
first, but at the fourth meeting, which was a
very numerous one, Crockett proposed that he
should fake the lead. He accordingly mount
ed the stand, and to my utter amazement re
cited every word of my speech, only chang
ing very slightly a sentence or two to save his
own cause. I never felt more awkward in
my life. My turn to speak camo, and my
speech was gone—stolen—used up—and I
was left, without a word to say. And to com
plete my mortification, the rascal was chuck
ling and laughing as if he had done the very
cleverest thing in the world.”— Western paper
Discovery of North America.— A volume
has been recently published by the Royal An
tiquarian Society of Copenhagen, relative to
the supposed discovery of the contii ent of
North America, by the Dane : or Northmen,
in the first years of the eleventh century. In
this volume are extracts from Snorre Stur
leson.an Icelandic author of the thirteenth cen
tury, whose work has been often cited in this
connection, and numerous other ancient authors
in the Icelandic language. These extracts
are accompanied with Danish and Latin trans
lations—a Latin Commentary, and various
disquisitions illustrative of the general subject,
i Considerable space is given to the famous in
scription on Deighton Rock, in Massachusetts.
The editors of the volume maintain with great
confidence that the coast, of North America
was thoroughly explored by the Danes, from
Newfoundland to New Jersey, and that Mas
sachusetts and Rhode Island were settled by
them. Numerous jfizc similies of ancient man
uscrip’s, appealed to as the authorities for
these conclusions, are contained in this impor
tant and curious volume. But a few copies
of it have reached this country, and we learn
from the Boston Daily Advertiser, that an ac
count ofit will be given in the introductory
Lecture, to be delivered by Governor Everett,
i before tho Massachusetts Historical Society,
oil Tuesday (to morrow) evening. Such a
subject illustrated by the vast research and tn
the attractive style of Governor Everett, cannot
tail to be rendered in the highest degree in
teresting; and we hope the Lecture may bn
published at an early day, tor the benefit of
■ those who will be unable to henr.it.
Remedy for the Choler z —X Marseilles pa
per says that a physician ofthat place has dis
covered that charcoal i-s a remcilv for the Asi.
atic cholera. Hal! an or.’of the fine powder
mixed with t«o pounds pure Water, is given as
an injection, and a quarter oz. ofthe sum > pow.
tier drank in warm waler. lie was led to the
discovery from observing that none of the char
coal porters took tho cholnrn, nod the well
known antiseptic qualities of itkii substance.
PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE.
Fellow-Citizens of the Senate
and House of Representatives :
We have reason to renew the expression of
our devout gratitude to the l«iver of all good
j for his benign protection. Our country pre
i sents, on every side, the evidences of that con-
I turned favor, under whoso auspices it has gra
dually risen from a few feeble and dependent
Colonies to a prosperous and powerful Con
federacy. We are blessed with domestic
tranquillity, and all the elements of national
prosperity. The pestilence which, invading,
for a time, some flourishing portions of the
Union, interrupted the general prevalence of
unusual health, has happily been limited in ex
tent, and arrested in its fatal career. The in
dustry and prudence of our citizens are gra
dually reh< Ying th . n from the pecuniary em
barrassments utide? which portimw of thsm
have labored; judicious legislation, and the
natural and boundless resources of the country,
ha.e afforded wise and timely aid to private
enterprise; and the activity always character
istic of our people has already, in a great degree,
resumed ns usual and profitable channels.
The condition of our foreign relations has
not materially changed since the last annua]
message of my predecessor. We remain at
peace with all nations; and no efforts on my
part, consistent with the preservation of our
rights and the honor of the country, shall be
spared to maintain a position so consonant to
our institutions. We have faithfully sustained
the foreign policy with which the United
States, under the guidance oftheir first Presi
dent. took their stand in the family of nations—
that of regulating their intercourse with other
Powers by tae approved principles of private
life ; asking and according equal rights and
equal privileges; rendering and demanding
justice in ail cases ; advancing their own, and
discussing the pretensions of others, with can
dor, diiectness, and sincerity ; appealing at all
times to reason, but never yielding to force,
. nor seeking to acquire any thing for themselves
by its exercise,
A rigid adherence to this policy has left this
Government with scarcely a claim upon its
justice, for injuries arising from acts commit
ted by ils authority. The most imposing and
perplexing of those of the United Skates upon
foreign Governments, for aggressions upon
our citizens, were disposed of by my prede
cessor. I ndependently of the benefits confer
red upon our citizens by restoring to the mer
cantile community so many millions of vhich
they had been wrongfully divested, a great
service was also rendered to his country by the
satisfactory adjustment of so many ancient
and irritating subjects of contention ; and it
reflects no ordinary credit on his successful ad
ministration of public affairs, that this great
object was accomplished, without compromis
ing, on any eccasicn, either the honor, ol the
peace of the nation.
With European powers no new subjects of
difficult}’ have arisen ; and those which were
under discussion, although not terminated, do
not present a more unfavorable aspect for the
future preservation of that good understand
ing, which it has ever been our desire to cul
tivate.
Os pending questions, the most important is
that which exists with the Government of
Great Britain, in respect to our northeastern
boundary. It is with unfeigned regret, that
the people of the United States must look back
upon the abortive efforts made by the Execu
tive, fora period of more than half a century,
to determine, what no nation should suffer long
to remain in dispute, the true line which di
vides its possessions from those of other pow
ers. The nature of the settlements on the
borders of tb-j United States, and of the neigh
ooriug territory, was for a season such, that
this perhaps was not indispensable to a faithful
peiformance of the duties of the Federal Go
vernment. Tima has, however, changed this
state of things; and has brought about a con
dition of affairs, in which the true interests of
both countries imperatively require that this
question should be put at rest. It is not to be
disguised, that with full confidence, often ex
pressed, in the desire of the British Govern
ment to terminate it, we are apparently as far
from its adjustment as we were at. the time of
signing the treaty of peace in 1783. The
sole result of long pending negotiations, and a
perplexing arbitration, appears to be a convic
tion, on its part, that a conventional line must
be adopted, from the impossibility of ascer
taining the true one according to the descrip
tion contained in that treaty. Without coin
i aiding i:i this opinion, which is not thought
to be well founded, my predecessor gave the
strongest proof of the earnest desire of the
United States to terminate satisfactorily this
dispute, by proposing the substitution of a con
ventional line, if the consent of the States in
terested in the question could be obtained.—
To this proposition, no answer has as yet been
received. The attention of the British Go
vernment has, however, been urgently invited
to the subject, and its reply cannot. I am con
fident, be much longer delayed. The general
relations between Great Britain and the Uni
ted States are of the most friendly character,
and lam well satisfied of the sincere disposi
tion of that Government to maintain them upon
their present footing. This disposition has
also, I am persuaded, become more general
with the'people of England than at any pre
vious period. It is scarcely necessary to say
to vou, how cordially it is reciprocated by (he
Government and people of the United States,
’[’lie conviction which must be common to all,
of the injurious consequences .hat result from
keeping open this irritating question, and the
certainty that its final settlement cannot be
much longer deferred, will, I trust, lead to an
l earlv mid satisfactory adjustment. Al your
: last session, I laid before you the recent com
j mmiic itious between the two Governments,
and between this Government mid that of the
State of Maine, tn whose solicitude, concern
ing a subject tn which she bus so deep an in
terest, every portion of the Utiio i participates,
’[’lie feelings produced by a temporary in
terruption of those harmonious relations be
tween France and the United States, which
are due as well to the recollections of former
times as to a correct appreciation of existing
I interests, have been happily succeeded by a
cordial disposition on both sides to cultivate an
! active friendship in their future intercourse,
i The opinion, undoubtedly correct, mid steadily
entertained by us, that the commercial rela
' tions at. present existing between the two coun
tries, are susceptible of great and reciprocally
■ benefit: :1 immovemetits. is obviously gaining
I ground in France ; and I am assured of (he
• disposition of that Government to favor the
accomplishment of such an object. This dis
i position shall be met in a proper spirit on our
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part. The few and comparatively HniirpoT'
taut questions that remain to be adjusted H*-
tween us, can, I have no doubt, be scttlled with
entire satisfaction, and without difficulty.
Between Russia and the United States, sen
timents of good will continues lt> be tliittually
cherished. Our Minister recently accredited
to that Court, has been received with a franks
ness and cordiality, and with evidences of rei
spect for his country, which leaves US no room
to doubt the preservation in future of those
amicable and liberal relations which have so
long and so uninterruptedly existed betweau
the two countries. On the few subjects undef
discussion between us, an etuly and just deci
sion is confidently anticipated.
A correspondence has been opened with the
Government of Austria, for the establishment
of diplomatic relations, in* conformity with the
wishes of Congress, as indicated by an appro
priation act of the session of 1837, and ar
rangements made for the purpose, which will
be duly carried into effect.
With Austria and Prussia, and with the
States of the German empire, now composing
with tnelatter the Commercial League, our
political relations are of the most friendly cha
racter, whilst our commercial intercourse is
gradually extending, with benefit to a‘l who
are concerned in it.
Civil war yet rages In Spain, producing
tease suffering to its OWn people,• and to other
nations inconvenience and regret. Our citi
zens who have claims upon that country will
be prejudiced for a time by the condition of its
Treasury, the inevitable consequences of long
continued and exhausting internal Wars. The
last instalment of the interest of the debt duo
under the convention with the Queen of Spain
has not been paid ; and similar failures tilay
be expected to happen, until a portion »f the
resources of her kingdom can be devoted to
the extinguishment of its foreign debt*
Having received satisfactory evidence that
discriminating tonnage duties! were charged
upon the vessels of the United States in the
ports of Portugal, a proclamation was issued
on the ’. Ith day of October last, in compliance
with the act of May 25, 1832, declaring that
fact; a d the duties on foreign tonnage which
were levied upon Portuguese vessels in the Us
nited States, previously to the passage of that
act, are accordingly revived.
The act of July 4, 1836, suspending the dls
criminatir.g duties upon the proUwce of Portu.
gal imported into this "CoUntty in Portuguese
Vessels, was passed upon the application of
that Government, through its representative
here, under the belief that no similar discrimi.
nation existed in Portugal to the prejudice of*
the United States. I regret to statu that such
duties are now exacted in that country, uport
the cargoes of Arilericftn vessels; and as the
act referred to vests no discretion in the Exec-:
utive, it is for Congress to deterifiine Upon the
expediency of further legislation on the sub.
ject. Against these discriminations, affecting
the easels of this country’and their cargoes,
seasonable remonstrance was made, and notice
was given to the Portuguese Government, that
unless they should be discontinued, the adop
tion of countervailing raeasur.w on the part of*
the United States would become necessary;
but the reply of that Government, received at
the Department of State through our Charge!
d’.l Shires at Lisbon, in the month of Septein*
her last, afforded no ground to hope for the
abandonment of a system, so little in hannotijf
with the treatment shown to the vessels of* Pof;
tugal and their cargoes in the ports of this
country, and so contrary to the expectations
we had a right to entertain.
With Holland, S.i eder, Denmark; Naples,
and Belgium, a friend y in ercOtirse has been
uninterruptedly maintained.
With the Government of theOttortian Porte
and its dependencies on the coast of Hie Medi
terranean, peace and good will are carefully
cultivated, and have been foriered by sucli
good offices »s the relative distance and the
condition of those countries wotild permit.
Our Commerce With Greecw is carried ort
under the laws of the two Ghvermnents, rccL
proeally beneficial to the navigating interests
of both ; m>u I liate retijdn td look forward
the adoption of other measures” winch «4U Im
more extensively and permanently advanta
geous.
Copies of the treaties concluded with the
Governments of Siam and Muscat are trans
mitted for the information of Congress, the
ratifications having been received, and the ■
taeaties made public, since the close of the last
annual session. Already have we reason id
congratulate ourselves ou the prospect ol con
siderable commercial benefit; and we htV«
besides, received from the Saltan ot Muscat
prompt. eVille tee of his desire to cultivate lite
most friendly feelings, by liberal acts toward
one of our vessels, best wed in a manner so
striking as to require on our part a grateful
koowledgment.
Our commerce with the Islands of Cuba find
Porto Rico still 1 .bors undet heavy restrictions,
the continuance of which is a subj- ct of regret.
The only eff et ofan adherence to them will
be to benefit the navigation of other Countries,-
at the expense both of the United States and
Spain.
'i’he independent nations of this continent
have, eversii.ee they emerged from the coloM-i
al state, experienced severe trials in their pro*
gross to the permanent establishment of liberal
political institutiu..s. Their unsettled ectidi*
tio i not only interrupts their own advances tri
proep rily, lait h soften seriously injured the
other powers of the world. The cliimsofour
citizens tipu > Peru, Chili. Brazil, the Argen
tine Republic, the Guv. r .merits farmed out of
the Republics of Columbia, and Mexico, twM
still pending, although many of them have been
presented . for examination more than twenty
vears. New Granada, Venezuela, and Ecu’i-'
dor, have recently formed a convention for the
purpose of ascertaining and adjusting claims
upon he Republic of Columbia, from which if
is earnestly hoped our citizens will, ere long,
receive full compensation for the injuries or*
iginally inflicted upon them, and for the delay
in affording it.
An advantageous treaty of commerce has’
bfCG “‘‘“duded by the United States with tho
Peru Bolivian Co:.federation, which wants on
ly the ratification of that Government. Inn
progress of a subsequent negotiation for tho
settlement of claims upon Peru, has been un
favorably affected by the war between that
power and Ctffi, mid th ■ Argentine Republic;
and the same event is also likely to produce
delays iu the settlement of out d mauds, on
those powers.
The aggravating circmngfanCics emrtected
with otlr Claims upon Mexico, and a variety of
■'vents touching the iKuiortuid integrity of our'
G ivcrnment, led my predecessor to make rtf tlie
second session ofthe last Congress; a spetiftl re*
commendation of the course to be pursiffi.l to
obtain a speedy and filial sa'isfictinn ofibe in*
j iries eompkit md of by iliisG.>Veritrhet*f and Ity