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fol 11- Darien Odette I EDITED .LYD PUHLISIIED BY A’S. F. GiiANDISON. (os THE BAY) fier annum, ‘fiayable in advance. ■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 Xo. 43. m 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