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■jMITF.D ST VTES W'D ENGLAND.
rROVT THE NRW-tUIIK STATES WAN",
Bur readers will ffmbtle.rs peruse the fol
■ns’ letter from ihe celebrated andaceom
,Bheti Miss Edgeworth, >o Dr. Griscom, of
;B>’ York, with a lively interest, both on ac
cK,t of the source whence it emanates, and
tsßcbaracter of it s contents. There is one’
wild) will forcibly arrest the atten
of the reader. Miss Ed on worth says it
fashionable in London to spiuk
of the Americans, and she expresses a
He that it will soon become equally fasli-
SSffiatde to write in the same manner. To
amen. Our sentiments on this
are well known. We wish to see a
of courtesy and liberally prevailing be-
the two nations: out it must be on
sß.s of reciprocity, and without any humili- ‘
Bn on our part. Self-respect is tile only i
iH 1 of insuring respect from others. j
’ Edgewartti's Town, -March 4, 1824& !
Bv'ou nave me mn'.li by the pre-
B vou have made m .sir, of your travels in
Though they could not contain so
Bn positive novelty for us as they do for
t Americans vet they will not be lessinte-:
ißmgto Lie old than to lie new world.— j
B interest of curiosity may not be so great
bl> hat of self-love isstiil greater. We are
l o'.u la see how European ihings and
Bsons strike Americans l! happens that
M Slave given accounts of persons and;
Bngla.id, ‘Scotland, France, Geneva !
B wiKe’-iaud, which niy sister and I have
Bur |v visited, and many of the persons’
Bu>n you mention, are our particular;
B i Is. To tii; justice and spirit of all Die ;
Bneations of what “we have seen, we can
Br full testimony; and from these, we are
Bsonahly led to infer, ilia; all your repre-
B'-b'ons of tviiat we have not seen, are
lly accurated.
B'oor account of > he manufactures of Khef-
B . tor one instance, gives as much infor-
Btmn as possible in a small coinpass, and
Bs . therefore, be valuable to foreigners,
Hi, Hve more curious to know how ‘he toys
great Toy-shop of Europe are produ- !
,v i*'i T'r‘- -*•••’ -;.r etion. i ;
Bry you did not see Birmingham and >
B > s *
B'onr works have reached me but a tew
B'S; and 5 have not yet finished reading it;
B as i have an opportunity of'sending this
B ! -1 bv a perso i who is going to Philadel
■i:i. I cannot deday to offer you my ac-
Bmv'iedgemeuts. iiiougn they must be msuf-
Bcm!, as 1 have not yet seen tiie exleut of
B ooiigafion.’
Bive seen enough, however, to judge ofllie
Brit O'hii i t >r r.'i l ii i ■ -.tiny, Mie t'ree-
Bmfroin national jealousy, evinced in your
Brit. 1 wish that tiii-i spirit, which does so
Btcli lior.or to the character of each indiri-
Bal, and which is Ihe true policy of every
Bti in, were more general between America
Bu England.
Bi is now becoming’ fashionable indeed in
Bmioti to speak well of Americans, and I
Bpe the fashion of writing with liberality
Bii follow in among our best authors ami
B ,i,rs ’
> ■Washington Irvine has set an excellent
E Bample. In others of your writers, and of
['Be panegyrists of their country, i liave re
[■■Betted to observe the talent they indtvidu-
I By possess, and tiie grand facts'they had to
I Butace in favor of America, marred and dis
iß'acch by this sort of national spirit of mun
iß°P<>ly. Let thepi raise and glorify their
IBmntry,and exult in hertalenisund triumphs
f Bis aiul science as much as they will, in this
IBcy may be sure of the concurrence of the
(Bise aiui the sympathy oft lie good, and the
IBdulgenee of all. fcven if they exaggerate
I B'Hle in favor of i heir country, it is an avnia
|Bc weakness, for which there should he, and
|B!i give-and-take charter granted by tliecmn-
IBum (11S,< 11 ,t>'i'i e ]n v, ci IntliMi the common
IBw of nations. But the moment any one na-
IBciior one world begins to depriciate the
|.Bher indulgence and sympathy cease; and
IBie just inference is, that ihose who attempt
§B> knock down others, that they may raise
!B le >nselves upon the fallen bodies, are cqd-
IBttousihat they are inferior.
I I May this invidious and degrading spirit
|Be..st* on both sides the Atlanuc! Let ns all
(By loraise ourselves without lowering oth
|B<:- May public esteem be the just reward
(Hi every writer, ,vho sets this I'audable exam
• Ble, and who preserves temper and candor,
|B veit when goaded by illiberal criticism or
by vulgar example!
I 1 am, sir, y our obliged serv’t,
I MARIA EDGEW ORTH.
i; I P*S. Your account of Dublin is excellent
IBs far as it goes; but lam sorry you did not
|B ,a y long enough to become acquainted with
jHoine of our men of pre-eminent t a lent s; for
our Suigooh-Gciieral Crampton,
B, n °’ Dt’- Crumpton whom you mention) and
B>ttrke, our Solicitor Genera!, as he was when ;
fßou were in Dublin. He is now Laird Chief j
B us 'tce- in eloquence wit, and conversational j
| le j s j' u jiy equal to ills great competi- 1
B° p i Pfunket. *
Y r ou mention, with deserved approbation, !
W Briscol’s book on Ireland—!t is one of the ,
eloquent and courageous works that ev- j
lias been published on tins country. But !
B many instances there is exaggeration and
spirits, which connteract and defeat
otherwise admirable purposes. The ‘
has produced great effect in London, as
as Ireland,
|l Regret that I was not in Dublin when you I
•. y t i
DARIEN GAZETTE.
DARIEN, (GEORGIA,) (equal anil
were there,and still more regret that yon did
not visit Edgeworth’s Town, where a public
coach would have taken you in nine hours,
and where you would have been hospita
bly received though 1 was absent from
home.”
Muetom in Parvo, —The following humor
ously arranged paragraphs from an English
paper is a specimen of the European node
of despatching minor articles of intelligence.
JY. Y. Pat
MiAtTi-rs, the Greek Admiral, seeing the
Government wanted money, collecced all
the remains of his own fortune, and distri
buted it amongst the captains and sailors:
“If I die (said he) it will he useless to me,
and if we are victorious, my country’s safe
ty will be to me an ample reward.” Mad
am Catalani’s husband, formally an officer of
cavalry has we understand, been recently
promoted to the rank of Chevalier. —It is
said that a piece of lime, the size ofa walnut,
put into the water in which potatoes are
boiled, will he found to have the effect of
rendering the heaviest potatoes light and
farinacious. —“Life,” said one who had seen
much of it, “is like a game of backgammon,
the most skilful make the best use ol it.—
The dice do not depend upon us in the one
; case, nor do events depend upon us in the
jother; but it is the manner of applying them
t hat occasions the difference of success.”—
■ The names of Chateaubriand and Angoti
leme were formerly celebrated in the annals
of love and gallantry. A Connies de Cha
teaubriand, remarkable for tier beauty, was
the mistress of Francis I. King of France—
and the Dutchess of Augouleme, the mother
of that monarch, so persecuted and mortified
the loveiv favorite, that, she was compelled
to retire from court and seek an asylum in
the chateau of her husband. But M. de
Chateaubriand, who by no means approved
of the conduct of his fair wife, had her put
to death. The unfortunate countess was
imprisoned in an apartment hung with black,
and, in the presence of her husband, was as
sassinated by four masked bravoes, her veins
being’ opened. — The Russian Government,
accordsng to recent accounts, has imposed
a tax of three percent, on the produce of ail
the copper mines in Russia, which will be
productive of considerable revenue, instead
of the 300,000 roubles that used to be raised
under the old system. —A ne • comet has
appeared. It is, as yet, not visiole to the
naked eye; and scarcely by aid of of a telles
ccpe.—Malt liquor and cider may be pre
vented f ora becoming sour, by adding about
| four pounds of toasted bread to each hogs
nesd, fi'c Ivmg oTspatrt ts Sacciloii, in
i a house ol six rooms, living in less state titan
ait English squire, and taking no other en
joyment thru ids cegar, and visit to a litfle
Theatre wuic:i has been erected for him by
a strolling company, lie is so fond of this
recreation, that ii any thing occurs to inter
rupt the performances, he imposes silence
himself. Capt. John 1 Hindus Cohrane, in
the preface to his work lately published,
entitled “Narrative of a pedestrian Journey
through Russia and Siberian Tartary,” &c,
statutes that the cxpences of his journey
from Moscow to Irkutsk, which, by tin* route
lie went, vfuis 6000 miles, certainly fell short
ofa guinea!” Flu* plague iias appeared at
Alor,, in the lonian Islands. The High
Commissioner lias rq-established the samto
ry laws, previously m force,in all tiieir vigor.
The following exhibits the population res
pectively of the seven principal States of the
German Confederatisn, as taken from the la
test lists in the archives of the Diet: Aus
tria, 9,482,277; Prussia, 7,853.341; Bavaria,
3,522,000; riaxonv, 1,203,000; Hanover, 1,
305,351; Wirtemburg, 1, 595,462; and Ba
den, 1,002,000.
POLITICAL.
FROM THE ROCKINGHAM (va) REGIS
TER.
The friend of Mr. Crawford look to
his election, as an event which, must
necessarily flow irom the “Signs of the
Times.** And whilst they tcel right
cheeiiiy at his goodly prospects
they trust his political adversaries hav
ing fought the good fight manfully,
will soon ground their arms, and rally
ing around the Constitution, give sta
bility to his administratrion, and make
him indeed the head of the nation, as
he will be the chief in the affections of
the people. We are not too confident,
we do not speak unadvisedly when we
declare, that if events ever cast their
shadows before the in,they do at the pre
sent crisis in relation to the Presidency.
They proclaim in a voice foul as the
“ca.tle .upon a thousand hills,” strong
as “an army with banners;” that Win.
H. Crawford will be the next President
of these United States.
Mr. Ctawford will come into office
with clean hands and an upright heart.
He has made no bargains. He has gi
ven no pledges. He lias looked for no
adventitious aid. Concious of his integri
j ty* relying upon the native purity of Ins
| character, and the lofty independence
i pf his feelings; He has moved steadily
j forward in the discharge of his official
duties, fearing no man, contemning
I nc> man. Not ain’ici >us of the char
iacter, of a political Gladiator, he has
avoided tills and tournaments, and left
: the Pecaddiiloe of the Election to more
congenial spirits, to those better vers
ed in the aits of sycophancy, the wiles
jof diplomacy. Mr. Craw lord’s politi
cal course has been bold and decided,
and is before his friends and his coun-,
try. He has neither temporised with
circumstances nor compiomitted with
principles He has selected noxobby,
to court popular favour. He has
chimed wi h no administration to bask
in ti)e sunshine of executive patronage.
He has sought no controversies. He
has mingled with nodispu at ions* He
has provoked no obloquy; lint with a[
dignity worthy of better ti ees, has held j
aloof from the Arena, and permitted
his fellow citizens themselves to dispel
the gloom, in which en\y, detraction
and calumny, had vainly endeavored
to shroud the brightness of his virtues,
the stem integrity of his ptinciples
Such a man, fellow citizens, is \Vm
11. Cntvvfotd, and such a man we are
conscious you will be disposed to sup
port at the polls on the first day of
November next.
Henry County, (Ala.) Oct. 12, 1824.
Messrs Editor: -At a time when
every press in every state is teeming
with reiterated productions from the
pens of prenzy-siricken enthusiasts, it
will projahiy not surprise you to re
ceive a communication li nn this out
of-the-way corner of the Union.—
Tnottgh we have no established mail
route here .o btingushie ne vsofiheday
from other pa is of the voild, we have
plenty ofsuch as originate among our
selves and our good neighbors of Ear
ly, on your side of the riv and Pike
on our own; ve now and then hear
from Tallahassee and Ccsisacola by
1 some waudeiing stragier or other, and
from Appatat htcola Lay by'our own
iiaidy boatmen. In addition to this
we send an Idian runner every four
teen days, a distance ot sixty miles to
our nearest Post-Office ultCovveu., sot
such newspapers and leucis as may be
sent us from abroad. This we do for
the double purpose of Itea mg from
our friends from a distance, and disco
vering who is to take jV’.mc *s scat
i the next lou. years; for on.bongo we
have none but chimney-corner politi
cians in this country, wc have plenty
l of these, ami they'aie to be seen at
every g>cg shop, and indeed in every
smoky cabin, hurrahing for some fa
vorite candidate for President. I be
lieve it is a prevailing opinion abroad,
that Gen. ,t ichson will obtain the vote
of Alabama; and indeed it may hap
pen that he wifi, but the fiends of Ins
two great rivals, Adams and Crawford,
appear to be confident of success. I
Know not now ihe Nor'hern and mid
dle counties may vote, neither do I
know bow the S uth will vote, but I
am confident that Gen. Jackson will
only be ihirdsmun in most of (be Eas
tern counties. In the large and res
pectable county of Montgomery, Mr.
Crawford is undoubtedly tiie most
prominent candidate; in Pike, a lew
days ago at a company muster, the
W iiiskey going round pretty freely,
some noisy lricnds ot Gen. Jackson
proposed the fashionable amuseinent
of President making; the vote was ta
ken, and lo! it stood thus; Adams 28
Crawford 26, Jackson 14. At a wed
ding in ihL neighborhood last week,
lilt same amusement was adopted the
resun was as loilows; Adams 16,
Crawford 12, Jackson 3. Mr. Adams t
obtained the greatest vote at this mar- j
rige, but the reason was very obvious,;
ait the ladies present voting fur him; ‘
so that Air. Crawford actually bad the ,
greatest number of those who will be |
entitled to a vote at the approaching j
election. I will relate a cncumstance .
which inougn I do not appioveof the
met od, will at once convince the most j
incredulous bow Gen. J. stands in this i
county. At our late Battaliion mus- ,
ter, when the whole county was col
lected together, a proposition was made
to destroy in a public manner, a pampli- i
let set forth by a few salleiites of Gen.
j. at Piltsbutg, Pa. which paved the ‘
way for the famous Harrisburg Con- j
ven ion; this pamphlet (which by the
by was the only one which lias
ever reached us of the kind) was for
cibly taken fiom the owner, tail’d and
leathered, and then made a bonfire of,
using every No. of the Georgia Patri
ot which could be procured to feed
the flames. Not satisfied with this ex
pression of their dislike to the General
a young man was immediately employ
ed to draw his cat ricamre in the act
of purchasing his present wife from
her former husband; this was soon ex
ecuted, set up as a target and literally
shotlo pieces. You have no doubt be
fore this time, learned the result of the
election in Early and Decatur coun-
I ties, Georgia; Mr. Crawford has tri
umphed in both and I trust through
out that enlightened Slate, the idle
boast of Cosain Emir, the Tui k, to the
contrary notwithstanding. All his
sleeping and waking dreams, and silly
“signs of the times,” will not place his
idol in the Presidential Chair, or him
, self into the office of Messrs. Gales &
| Seaton. Letters have been lately re
! ceived from St. Stephen’s, in this
neighborhood, announcing the with
drawal of Gen Patton, who was one of
tiie candidates on the Jackson ticket
in Mississippi: This circumstance
together with the reaction in favor of
Mr. Crawford in Tennessee and Penn
sylvania, surely augers no very favora
ble sign for the ear-cutting candidates
in these quarters.
Messrs. Editors, I know that there
are more than one hundred thousand
men in these United States who
would wish to see Gen. Jackson Presi
dent at any rate; and who would,(i! you
call him any thing but KING) be wil
ling that he should have as much pow
er, and exercise it as despotically as
Tamerlane Kouli-Kiian or Mustapha
ihe second; provided always, that he
impelled or hung those who are impos
to nis election. But one hundred
thousand men cannot elect a president
neither can Gen. J. he the man. Be
fore I conclude, I would ask the
hieds of the General, the following
questions:
Ist. Has Gen. Jackson full tickets
formed at this time, in mure than nine
states?
2d- If all these tickets succeed
i will they elect him—and is there any
human probability that they will all suc
ceed?
3d. Should‘.he election go to the
House of Representatives, on what
states does he calculate? On the
North West? Do they not know that,
he has no prospect in'Otiirv Indiana,
; LasL*',, A? ’ ii not know who
the, mem bar ,m Piinois will support?
In live South- West; do they not know
who Mr. Rankin, of Mississippi will
vote for, or can they count on Ken
tucky?
We shal! then see his vote in the
West limited to Louisiana, Alabama
and Tennessee. Pet haps he may
build his hopes on the Southern Atlan
tic States; Georgia, North Carolina &
Virginia had each a majority in cau
cus for Mr. Crawford; a majority of
Maryland Is known to he for Adams,
and Mr. McLane,of Deiawate, is cot
tainly against him. He iherefoie has
no prospect of obtaining in the House
of Representatives more than Louisia
na, Alabama, Tennessee, S. Carolina,
and Pennsylvania.
CH AT AIIOOCHY.
FROM THE PHILADELPHIA
AURORA.
| Mr. Editor:-*- 1 have a taste for the
{ horrible , but for a long time I was at- a
loss now to gratify my. ecuiiar predilec
tion. I bad exhausted ati the picture
galleries, had visited all the wax works
diul puppet showsin the citjL ami final
ly purchased a season ticket of admis
-1 sion to the YVashington Museum, as he
i ing tiie only place that offntded any
food for my appetite; but 1 have gazed
j so long upon the headless trunk of poor
I Marie Antoinette, the dying Hamilton,
i Moreau, and many others, not to men-
J tion the emaciated Baron Trench pee
; ping through the bars of his solitary
: cell, that they finally lost their pungen
j cy, and I felt no more pleasure in ton
j lemplatitig ‘he jealous Moor,in the act
! of stabbing his sleeping Desdemona, or
Queen Dido sacrificing herself, than in
beholding those immortal worthies,
’ Washington and Franklin, calmly gaz
ing at each other across a table, or the
; lusty YVm. Penn, as if about to lead out
a lair Quakeress to a country dance
I was in aosolute despair until I saw it
announced in your paper that a Mr.
Stoker would hang himself at the Cir
cus for the amusement of the public.—r
Here is something, thought I to my
self, which conies up to my ideas of the
interesting , and nothing short of a bo
na fide hanging would have induced
me to have misssed so delightful an ex
hibiton. I repaired to the Circus at ar.
early hour, and took my seat as soon as
the doors were open. I waited impa
tiently until the horsemanship com
menced, but as the equestrians per
formed their feats with such conscious
security, I soon ceased to enjoy their
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performance. At length one q>peaf
;ed without saddle or bridle, and who
rode iike a madman at full speed,
throwing himself into all attitudes up
on the flying animal. I was in ecsta
cits; for I expected every moment to
see his brains dashed out, but, to my ut
ter astonishment, not to say disappoint
ment, he invariably regained his equi
librium when in the most pi riious situ
ation. I expected much fiom this ri
der, hut as I afterwards learnt that
there was no danger of an accident ever
occurring to him, he lost half his inte
rest in my eyes. The horsemanship
being ove , Mr. Stoker made his ap
pearance; my pulse beat at least twen
ty throbs to the minute more as he as
cended to the iope suspended to the
roofofthe Theatre. He commenced
his operations. I was all eyes. At
lenght being at full swing, he
I sprung headlong l"i urn bis sen —for
ty feet fiom the floor; ( there’s not a
plank between there and eternity,
thought I—but unfortunately, o. rath
er fortunately, his right leg was fasten
ed in a noose, and he hung suspended
in the air, head downwaids. In a lew
moments he tegained his former posi
tion, without having even dislocated a
iimb, and commenced operations again.
Afict various feats of surpiising dexte
rity, he ai rived at the climax of h • ex
hibition, which was to hang nitnsi if b y
the neck. I could scarcely coniain
myself lot joy, as I saw him fixing the
noose round that delicate par of the
body. This being accomplished, he
set his swing a-going at full speed, and
and when at me height, he slip fiom
his seal, and to my unspeakable dejight
tiiere he was, susfier Col: hanging din
gle dangle—a snnek bii'st fiom the
spectators. He hung for a few mo
melits as if liieless, but not feeling in
clined to end his eaieer in this manner
ue ie-ascended, and the awful pause
which per'adecl the theatre was suc
ceeded by a busy hum from all quar
ters. Phis is tli pla' foi me Lmight
Ito myieif, ami foTti.u i.h i p.*.* < , and
a season ticket, anti aitended t < m ent
ly every night in expectation of witnes
sing some appating accident; but, after
spending much time in tiiis way. and
nothing ol the kind occurring, I became
disNUtiaiied: lor, though the hanging
was very clever lot once or twice, it
soon lost its pungency, for it was not
the rcai thing aiier all. I quitted the
circus in despair. One day, while pas
sing along Mai ket-s.i eet, I paused be
ioie a building to read a sign w nich
shone conspicuous in flaining leticvs,
“The Horrors ot the Inquisition ll
iustiated.” While reading me va* ious
pla-aids which vvt:ie strewed about
like bins of fate, a man approached and
im iitu me in, at the same time assur
ing me that 1 could not fail being plea
sed, “ as it was toe most diabolical ex
hibinoil that 1 had ever seen in my life.”
Enough, said 1, lead on, we entered;
and as I cast my eyes around; it ap-
peaicci to me as if we ua literally en
tei ai into the inlet nai regions. “Ahi’*
cued m> guide, seeing my astonish
m< ni, “1 perceive you liave a soul to
enjoy tnese matters. Look you lute*
sii, and observe the operation ol this
wheel. This motion forces the thighs
horn the sockets; and tins .dislocates the
amis: mark the comoi uon of the un
nappy man’s countenance; that is the
exam expiession while the wheel is in
this position; by this motion, sir, the
Uiest, you observe, is v onsiuerabiv ele
va ed; and by this additional turn of the
iv -"1 we dislocate the spine. Every
tiling complete, you see, sir. Here,
sir is ihe horrible fortune of filling
the bovveis of the victim with water,
iieie are t,vo children, whose feet
were roasted to coal in the presence of
theii patents, and the instrument of
to. lure in which they weieconlired.—
i bis is tiie expression of the counten
ance alter ten minutes roasting, and
this, alter the space of half an hour.—
Here, sir, is the punishment ot the
Iron Doot, the most dreadful that ever
was invented, by which the hones in
the legs are split, and the mat row for
ced Horn them.” He went on in * his
manner, describing at least twen y dif
lei ent modes of fortune; and peicei
ving the interest I felt in his nan alive,
concluded by informing me that in the
course of a lew days he would have it
in his power to afford inexpiessible
pleasure, for be hourly expected.
The Virgin Mary and her hundred
lances,” celebrated in the histoiy of
ihe internal Inquisition.
To make shot v of a long story, Mr.
Editor, I visited i.is scene of horrors