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ATHENS, GEORGIA,--THURSDAY MORNING, JUNE 17, 1847.
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OCCtlMONED
By a Sermon on Whit Sunday, by Dr. Stetens.
• And they all wera filled with tbe Hv!f Ghost, as the Spirit
Cave them utterance.'*
In rushing wind—and tongues ol flame
The Holy Spirit unuccn came,
And wond’ring crowd* at sight »o atrango
Press’d there to gaze. A sodden change
Seem’d wrought on those on whom they fell,
Working aa by some mighty spoil*—
For all the men they were among,
Began to spook in ev’ry tongue
Which the new spreading faith requir’d.
With easo and quickness all inspir’d.
Full many wondrous works they knew
Had oft been done, which God pros’d true,
Recorded on the Sacred Page,
And handed down from ago toeiga—
But never yet bad mortal man
Beheld a scene so grand as then.
These glowing flakes of lambent flame
Sottly upon th’ Apostles came—
Giving a clear and radiant light
■Ing aught—and beauteous bright!
p/ungues, at once to show.
‘ hey would soon bestow—
s cloven, to proclaim
r So-krar’oholy name
1 language speak
To alf^j^ahould the Gospel seek—
•They came infire, that men might know
They did direct from Godhead flow—
For God has oft himself reseal’d,
Aa if within some flamo conceal’d j
To Moses in the bosh that burn’d
When first his Maker’s will he learw’d.
He calls himself “consuming fire”—
Whenever wo provoke his ire.
•They sat upon each Apostle’s bead.
Not for a moment, and then fled—
They linger’d long, the fact to tell,
Tbo Spirit would through life-time dwoll
Within their minds, a saered fire,
Their hoarts with wisdom to inspire.
And that U prov’d—for where they went,
To teach the Gospel each intent.
At once in every foreign tongue.
They spoke to all they dwelt among—
■So spreading ebrisuin light abroad
Where’er men would receive tbe word—
m A miracle at/rsf, bow vast:
A miracle e’en to tho last!”
Tho Spirit cornea we know not how.
And breathes Ilis grace on all who bow
In faith beneath His gentle sway.
And clears our every doubt away—
With holy influence draws us on,
Until tho Christian race is won—
Then calm within the heart doth rest, *
A soothingxnda welcome guest;'
Imparting strength and light and power,
*Till life’s last sad and dying hpur—
Then on his wings the soul up bears.
To pass In Heaven unending years,
Amid its happy ransom’d host,
With Father, Sox and Holt Ghost!
Athens, May E
ZAC IIA BY TAYLOR*
Had’a
That brought this noble chief on earth!
Hal!, all hail, the glorious May,
That gave two brilliant vic’try’a birth 1
Twice again he gained the day,
' men, leading forth, th’ exulting trains.
He stormed the mighty Monterey,
And crimsoned Buena Vuta’a plains.
*s no praise by nations given,
•his noble name;
I,hi|hl3b
bat stern resolve sat upon every l
Acre.” Near the centre is a ragged open-
ingor pit, about 20 feet in diameter, which |
ears to gr,^n#jic iato -thx* wry bow- j
of the earth. It has been sounded to
the depth of a thousand feet, and no in
dications of bottom found. A stone
thrown into “ the Well,” as it is called,
can be beard rattling for a long time
against the rugged sides, until, with terri
ble and unearthly reverberation, it plung
es into the water, A noise like that of a
seething cauldron is heard, and soon
there issues from the mouth of tbe pit a
column of damp vapor, possessing an un
commonly foetid smell. The vapor is
somewhat inflnmahle, and that fact proves
the presence of carhuretted hydrogen gas,
or what is called by miners 11 fire damp.”
Although at a distance of three^hundred
feet from ihe'surfacc, it has been proved
by experiments with quadrupeds that life
can he sustained!
The incident I am about to relate oc
curred sometime after the passage of
Gen. Washington, with bis army, across
New Jersey, in tho spring of 1777.
The infamous cruelties of the maraud
ing parties of British soldiers, had awak
ened every feeling of resentment, and
aroused in every bosom an implacable
hatred, which only the extermination of
the inhuman monsters could allay. ;
Taking advantage of the absence of
their natural protectors, a party of demi-
brutes, under the command of Captain
Smith, bad committed outrages upon the
unprotected females which would shame
the very name of man !
Every able bodied man, and many who
were scarcely able, had flocked to the
standard of Washington, and gone toac-
company him in his victorious expedition,
leaving their wives and daughters, their
homes and -property, tr» the protection of
the need men and boys.
At 1 ength, a cowardly assault upon a
family, composed of an aged widow and
her three lovely daughters, who,alter be
ing cruelly outraged by the brutal soldiers
were beaten nearly to death, and the old
woman thrown into the ‘ Well* of the Dev
il’s Half Acre,” so exasperated the young
men,.that they resolved upon vengeance.
A secret meeting was held, and they
resolved to meet the next evening at the
foot of the ridge, to punish the cowards,
who were encamped, in fancied security,
about a quarter of a mile from the scene
of outrage. The greater part of the da^
was spent in moulding bullets, and pre
paring their weapons, which being ac
complished, they waited with leverish
anxiety the appointed hour.
*Twas a lovely eve; such an one as
we rarelv see in our too changeable cli
mate. The sun, bathed in a halo of gold
en light, slowly descended behind * the
towering steep of Shannock. The bright
stars looked down from the pare ether
with a seemingly encouraging smile, up
on the band of youthful heroes, who had
silently gathered in a copse at tbe base
of the mount. Each moment some brave
boy would noiselessly approach, with his
rifle upon bis shoulder, and, with a simple
nod of recognition, take his place and
quietly await the order of the person who
was to be their leader.
The one chosen to command them,
was a sturdy-youth of about 18 years of
age, strongly built, and very athletic $ he
carried a long rifle, and was clad in a
plain rustic suit of gray “ home-spun.”—
His quick movements and hurriedly whis
pered instructions, showed that ho felt
tbe importance, and understood the dan
ger of tbe attempt they >nexo about to
make; and the fire that flashed from his
dark eye, proved that be was equal to
the emergency.
•i At length the party, numbering fifteen,
were assembled ; the ages of none ex
ceeded eighteen, while the majority were
still younger. Tbe order to march was
given, and the yoang band followed their
leader in profound silence.
'Twas a noble sight l those brave
yonog spirits, setting out to avenge the
wrongs of their mothers aud sisters, at the
risk of their own lives, and against fear
ful odds of numbers and experii
a gesture from their leader bqpight them
to a stand. Each boy singled out his
man—the command was given in a low
tone, and the sharp report of fifteen rifles
broke upon tho stillness of the night, and
re-echoed along the hills end crags of
Shannock! instantly, under cover of the
smoke, they rushed in upon the survivors,'
and pinioned them ere they could recov
er from the sudden surprise ! The aim
of the boys had been lully true—fifteen
soldiers, (among them Capt. Smith,) lay
weltering itf“- their blood, groaning and
mingling curses and execrations flrfch their
departing breath!
The five prisoners, secorcljtjiound.
were marched at once to the copse -from
which the youthful band had set out ;
there a consultation was held to detei
mine their fate. <
SgjmC uL*> Im*4 individual wrongs V
avenge, were desirous to hang them n
once upon the nearest tree. Others, raor
lenient, wished to allow them a soldiqfr 1
death. Many and various were the opin
ions and methods proposed—but they all
agreed to be guided by the decision of
their lender, Dan Lount.
During the whole affair, Dan had
scarcely spoken except to give the neces?
sary commands, and now when appeal
ed to, to decide the fate of the prisoners,
he merely said,—“To the Devil's Half
Acre?'
A responsive “aye”burst simultacous-
ly from all, and in a few minutes they
stood near tho mouth of “ the well!”
“ In with them,” cried the excited boys;
here they buried the widow Gale, and
old Pomp! In with them,” and spite
the struggles of the captives, they were
already upon the very verge of the yawn
ing pit, when their leader exclaimed
hold!”
“ Not yet, boys,” said Dan ; “ I wish
to say a few words before yon throw
them inand when the prisoners had
been led back a few feet, he continued in
a voice trembling with emotion: “You all
knew the widow Gale—-you knew her
lovely daughters—blithesome, amiable,
light-hearted, happy girls. You know
them, but not as I do: yon love them,
but not as well as I. The eldest is my
affianced bride! My whole souliswrap-
r id up in her—she is my guiding star—
love her better, far better than my life,
and the wrong she has suffered wrings
ray very soul! Before you, you see tho
guilty perpetrators. Look at them—are
they fit to live ?*'
“ No, no!” exclaimed each and every
one.
“ Then, my friends, they are not Jit to
die! We have already spilled blood
enough for one night, and the death of
these men will not repair the wrongs al
ready committed. What say you ? Will
it not be nobler far to spare their lives?
Let ns leave further vengeance to the
laws, or to Him who has said “ Venge-
isMine!” Fifteen have already forfeit
ed their lives; may we not spare the
five ?”
Though every heart was still burning
for revenge, tho example shown by poor
Dan, who had suffered more than any
present, softened their hearts, and they
allowed themselves to be persunded.
The prisoners were led down the moun
tain side, and the next morning taken to
Somerville and delivered to a company
of Continentals who were stationed tnere.
The actors in the scene have all pass
ed to that “bourne from whence no trav
eller returns,” but the reccolleclion of
old Daniel Lount aud his matronly wife
are still fresh in the memory of tbe wri
ter.—New York Times.
From at N. O. Delta.
The Poisoning Case InShelbr County. Texae*
On this case, so^fiendish in its concep
tion, so diabolical in its execution, and so
mournfully fatal in its results,w» have the
following further particulars from Mr.
Stille, who was the first to inform the public
of the tragic occurrence, through the Delta.
Many ot the time doubled its truth, for it
was hard to* conceive how any mind
could be so totally depraved, so lost to all
the feelings of nature and humanity, ns to
perpetrate on innocent and unsuspect
ing victims such wholesale murder. Yet
true ilis, too true, bearing about it though
: •*-*“- all the malignant and frightful
i of the firsf account. Old Wil-
il would now seem from Mr.
is the demon incarnate who
-this is circumstantially ev-
• •• Mfi?faCt-olthis sending so good -
oCTEo poisuned wending"meats'
ncler?, whom lie deemed his
at least, whose enemy he was.
e now in hot pursuit "of him,
they come up with him, they
Revolution in Steam Propulsion.
Under this -head the Liverpool Tiroes
describes an invention recently perfected
by Mr. Parkharst, a gentleman of great
mechanical ingenuity, which in the opin
ion of tbeeditor, must supersede the exist
ing modes of steam propulsion, and rev
olutionize the traffic by sea. This inven
tion is described by the Times to be entire
ly original, and like most useful inven
tions,beautifully simple. The advaiilages
are threefold—a greatly increased rate of j
slavs hail forty thootand Eves!
too poor too weak for tlrir rerangs
we will not detain the reader from
r. SulleVlettcr.
Bijou Saxa. Mxy 33,1847.
Dear ^-1 returned from a flying
visit to Hamilton yesterday, and learned
some wove particulars in relation to the
poisoning—fifteen are dead, and some
eight or ten are expected to die daily—
some got better, but took a relapse and
died. The poison was arsenic. I will
relate the circumstances ns I heard it:
It appears that old Wilkinson was a
man of bad character—a notorious hog
thief—and Morris, the groom, had been
twice whipped in Mississippi for negro
stealing. Wilkinson was accused of steal
ing the ho£S of Spot Sanders, and you
will perceive, from what follows, how he
revenged, himself. He sent to the house
of Sanders, who lives some two or three
miles from him, and who was not at the
time friendly, a half of a shoat, one tur
key, three chickens, some chicken pie,
butter, pound cake, &c., enough to last
the family a week, all poisoned, even to
the butter which was elegantly moulded.
The family ate of it—Mrs. Sanders, three
children, and a negro boy, are dead—tbe
other, and only child left, was dying when
I was at our friend Kerr's. Mr. Sanders
and seven negroes are yet sick—som^itis
thought, wilf die. Poor Mrs. Sanders
rfid not know that her children were
dead cr dying, and told her hnsband to
rear them in the nurture and admonition
of the Lord. She requested, when dy
ing, that her negroes should come and
bid her farewell; they could not, all being
poisoned. Mr. Sanders, mother/an old la
dy of seventy, was a victim' also. Allen
Haley lost a negro man—the man's wife
was one of the servants at the wedding,
and took him a piece of pound cake—-he
eat two moulhVfull, and not liking the
taste of it eat no more—yet that killed
him. An old lady by the name of Edens',
made the cakes, and she was poisoned,
together with her son and a negro girl—
tbe girl is dead, and her son not expected
to recover. ^ The butter that was left at
Sanders* was thrown out, and some fowls
eat of it and died in a few minutes. Al
len Haley and his mother were the only
personsntthe wedding not poisoned. They
came late after the guests were served,
and eat with the family, partaking oi
the same food they did—even to thecake.
Old Wilkinson insisted on cutting a fresh
cake for them, but they refused to partake
of it, and escaped death by their refiuaL
Tbe lady that made the cakes Mrs. Edens,
went on the morning of the wedding day
to look at the cakes, in the smoke house,
where shehad put them, and found that the
covering she had put on the top of them,
was removed from all the cakes but one
that was covered with custard pie—they
looked dark and discolored, ana she took
some loaf sugar, which she gruted and
puLpver them thinking it strange that
they were so disarranged. ■ OM Wilkin-
They all think that health and strength
are gone, being every one unable to do
any laborious work. Poor souls! 8.
K.lnlc between Men and Angela.
[This definition of woman is illustrated
perpetually by incidents of common life,
and below', our readers will find another
instance of the Christ-like forgiveness of
the female nature. It is n letter produc
ed on the late trial ol Qoackenbush, who
deserted his wife and children to. run
away with one of his scholars, and it is
from his wife, written to him whilejhdwas
in prison:]—Home Journal.
“ I could not get my mind composed to
answeryour letter before. 1 did not think
when you lett home that I should have
such heart rending news from you. O,
how could you bo led away to forsake
your family; those that love you as they
(fiTThefr own lives. You w?*>te in your
letter about rnv turning agninst you.-—
Though all the world should turn against
you, 1 will not. O, when 1 think of the
disgrace you have brought upon yourself
an’d family—O, it melts my heart. But
what shall I say to you ? It is past: you
can never rccal it again. If it was in m}*
power to assist you, I would; but you
know I have no means to do iu I do not
know what the minds are of your broth
ers or my friends, for 1 have not seen
them. • • Mr. Weaver is determined on
your ruin. He is ready to have you taken
to suffer the penalty of the law in this
state, O, when I think'of you, that you
are in a land of strangers, in a prison,
even in a cell, my heart melts within me.
It seems to me, it cannot be possible, but
I suppose it is so. • • * You ask my for
giveness. I do forgive you from my very
Heart, and tbe children do, too. When
they think of your j^oing to state prison,
it almost breaks their hearts. I am not
able to come and see you, but I will try
and have’you!’ brother come, if he will.
May the Lord be with you; and if we
never meet again in this world, may we
meet where parting shall be no more.—
This is the prayer of your forsaken and
broken-hearted wife.
Elizabeth Quaokenbush.
Then comes the following postscript by
the prisoner's eldest daughter, recently
married
“ Dear Father—"When I think of you,
K seems as if my heart would break,'but
1 can truly say that I will forgive you.
I remain yours till death. E. Y.”
Singular Death,
The sudden and affecting death, of
ogham,
Charles Thornton Cunningham, Esq.,
Lieutenant Governor'of St Christopher's
nn.d the Leewaifi Island,’ is announced in *
the West India papers. It Appears ..that
this gentleman had just driven tri from tho
country to Basselton, the seat of Govern*
ment, in apparently .vigorous health anti
cheerful spirits, to open the Legisla
ture. After trfrnsactiifg some ^business * * 1
with his private secretary, and despatch
ing a note to invite some officers in a
French sljip of war, just come into port,
to luncheon at* the Government i^ouse,
ho rode down to the .mail office to •meet
his letters nnda boxcohtainingapicliireof
a much-beloved sister recently ^deceased
in England. He had. stated to more than,
one pcrsoiJhat his earnest deal re to pos
sess the pictQre was not unmixed with feur ~ T *
as to tbe effeetthe sight of it might pro
duce- upon him. So strongly had this ap
prehension fastened itself upon his mind,
that on the arrival of t|ie box at the Gov- ',
eminent House he sent a servant in quest
of a friend who might be with him when »•
the box was opened. Having failed in
finding him, he proceeded to open tlm
box. His Butler, who was prcsent» re- .
ports that he looked at the countenance*,
earnestly, turned pale, whispered a few
words to himself, walked hnstijy tip to
his own room, aud was heard to full im* S'
mediately upon entering it. His servant*' .
followed him instantly, and- on - entering
found him stretched upon the floor—-a.
corpse! The St. Christopher Gazettfe, at •
many other public and private commur .
mentions, bear the strongest testimony to
the ability, vigor and high moral charac-, .
ter of this gentleman.—xV. O, Picayune,
AplsmalDg laelOMb
A very pleasant iucident occurred ,
one of our public schools a day or two j *” e Aj
A Genuine Glio*> story. •
The following is from tho “Journal of
the Heart,” by the late Mrs. Damer, edi
ted by Lady Charlotte Bury; it is given
as genuine:
A Mr. Cox, (commonly called Jumper
Cox) being at Lady Bother's, near Oxford,,
was desired by her to pronounce, a' few
Latin sentences by wny of norsuuding her * '
servants, who supposed tno house to bo
haunted, that he was a conjuror, ahd had '
banished the ghost into the Red Sen.—
“ Ydu must excuse me,” said he, **for iu
truth I am not myself convinced of tho
absurbity of such persuasions > and my *
I reason is because I once fancied I saw
my mother-in-law come to my bed side
and undraw the curtains; she then told
me that my wife would die before the cud
As for myself,’ she added
since. It seems that the boys attending j , y o '? never see me again, for I was'
the school, of the average age of seven * buried lust night. I was not dead—hut
years, had. in iheir ptsy of bat and ; a ! 1 '•"verwuh me now!’ TLlie next .nor.
ball, broken one of the neighbor's win- i hastened to Wallingford where my.
dows, but no clue of tho offender could I jll^oer-in-mw resided : I found she had
be obtained, os-he would not confess nor se,z 1 e . <1 ™ lh contagious fever, bad
would any of his associates expose him.
The case troubled the teacher, and on
the occasion ot one of our citizens visit
ing the school, she privately and briefly
stated the circumstances, and wished her
in some remarks to the school, to advert
to the principles involved in the case.
The address tqthe school had reference
principally to the conduct of boys in the
streets and at their sports. The princi
ples of rectitude and kindness which . . .. _ , . . . ~
ihould govern them every where—even ^y al a distant part of the c 9 nntry »ai«l
when alone and when they thought no lo ,I,e ’ Bless me, Mr. Cox, I bad ,<ho
son and his wife, and Morris* wife, were
arrested and examined before Squire Sen-
speed, a vastly increased power of stow- ! tiers,’’who committed .them . to prison
age, by the reduction of the present cum- Charles Alexander bailed the woman, and
brous machinery in the bolds of steamers,
and reduced expenditure in the cost of the
engine-power. A number of submerged
vertical propellers are to be fixed on each
side of tbe vessel; these revolve in unison,
and by the force with' which they take
bold of tho water, and the power which
this combined action gives them, mast
send forward the ship at a speed alto-
f ether unattainable by the present or any
nown system. It is asserted by practi-
nnd firmly beat each heart! Soon tl
approached the spot where lay encar
:ts of their hatred j the BriV
d twenty, and were all wrapt
in profound slumber. Slowly and slenlth-
hey neared the enemy, their hearts
ng violently as they saw them in
power—but not a word escaped
lips—their calculations had been
„ they were within
feet of the red coats
'
cal men, that a vessel so propelled would
cross the Atlantic in nearly half the time
of the best steamers now employed in
ocean navigation. Experiments have been
tried by the application of steam power
to these propellers, one of which, six feet
high, thirty inches in diameter, was driv
en by a six horse power engine, 294 rev
olutions per minute, which a practical
gentleman present stated would drive a
vessel 25 miles per hour. Mr. Parkhurst
is coming to this country in the Sarah
‘ Sands, now hourly expected, with a view
to lay his invention before our govern
ment, and if the Times is correct in its l have seen some
died, and had been buried immediately^
exactly, on the night and at the hour which
the ghost hnd mentioned. .1 wished, to
have the coffin opened: but the clergy-
nan representing that it could be of no
use, and might create discontent among
the populace I desisted | hut what sur
prised me most was, that, though I men
tioned the circumstance to Qoonebutlhe <>
clergyman, whose interest it was to con
ceal it, several weeks afterwards, a young
Wilkinson was taken out by a writ ol
habeas corpus before the Probate Judge,
Letter, and set at liberty. He was afraid
to leave the house during the day, as there
were persons determined on killing him.
During the night he escaped on Morris 1
horse, which Morris brought to him.—
Eight persons are in pursuit of him, who
have sworn to kill him on sight. Morris
is Wilkinson's agent—he was ordered to
leave, or he would first be whipped, and
then hung. He refused to go, and we
may therefore expect that he will be made
short work of.
I wrote you.in ray last letter that the
negroes were suspected of having been
hired to poison tbe food. Such is not the
case, as the negroes were ^all poisoned,
they not belonging to Wilkinson,
i ‘ At the last accounts the pursuers were
but a few miles 'J ‘ * ” r *
they thought
eye to see aud no one present to observe.
Tbe school seemed deeply interested in
the remarks.
A very short time after the visitor left
the school, a little boy arose in his seat
and said,
“ Miss L , I batted the ball that
broke Mr.- —'a window. Another boy
threw the ball, but I Batted it and it struck
the window. I am willing to pay for it.”
There was a death-like silence in the
school ns the little boy was speaking, and
continued for a minute after be had clos
ed.
“ But it won't be right for —— to pay
the whole for tho class,” said auotherboy,
rising in his seat, “ all of us that were
playiog should pay something, because
we were all engaged alike in the play.-—
I’ll pay my part!”
“Aud 1!"
“And I!”
A thrill of pleasure seemed to run
through the school at this display of cor
rect tceling. The teacher's heart was
touched and she felt more than ever the
responsibility of her charge.—Bangor
Whig,
strangest dream last night. I. thought
your molher-in-law came to my bed side
and told me she bad been buried alive at
Wallingford!"'
Col. Mat.—This fine officer has boon com
plimented by a dinner gisen »o him by ■ num
ber ot tlm citizens of New Orleans. We give
a few ot the toasts t
By Col. May : Louisiana—Tho first State to
send her citizens to the relief o( Gen. Taylor.
By Mr. St. Masti.v. Col. Peyton—His gal
lant conduct at Monterey has won tbe applause
ot all.
By Col. Petto*. The noble sentiment of
Gen. Taylor at Boenm Vista, when Capt.
Bragg, having opened his battery upon the
dense masses of the enemy rushing foiwaril al
most to the month, of his Cannon, expressed a
Wilkinson— desiro to the General for a force to support him
A Horrible Brute.—A distressing trag
edy was recently enacted iu Philadel
phia in one of tbeir small tavern*.* A
father had bet five dollars that bit ton a
mere lad could drink 3 bottles of porter.
The bet was taken by some unfeeling
wretch, and poison was poured out far ’ _ J
the little boy: In obedieoce to tfie stern
command ot bis father, ho drank tvyojjoi-
ties, but found it impossible to finish the •
third. He was iiow in an almost helpless
state of intoxication, when the father be
coming enraged with -.his don compliance ? j.
with his wisHes, seized the remaining one
and thrusting the neck of the bottle into .the
child?* mouth actually poured it down <his
throat! U it not too horrible for coutem-
f ilation? The father had won his five doj-
urs, and now both being wildly aud fran
tically drunk, they started for boioe reel-
ing and falling at every step. The .poor
lad cm himself frightfully. Wheq -lbey
reached home, it was found neccessary to
send for a physician, who for a while de
spaired of tbo recoyery of the .child.—
Those ore'the facts related, to ya&rEv
change Paper.
We should rejoice to see die dav,
says tbe Richmond Whig, when all* men
of all parties f would frown down the in
iquitous and .corrupting practice of pro
scription for opinion’s sake—a practice
which fills the public offices with incom
petent and dishonest agents, who mako
politics a trade, and who are always in
market. The great hotly of the people, of
both parties, bayc a direct inierest in put
ting down ibis odious system and those
who practice it. Fleet Gen. Taylor and it
will be done.
, and they continued to ad- estimate of the value of the improvement, are black under tl
he will undoubtedly receive ample encour- nails
agemenL—True Sun. blacl