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CHRONICLE AND SENTINEL.
AUGUSTA. N
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WEDNESDAY MORNING, JUNE 3.
CC/’No mail north of Charleston last nigb;t-
The] Charleston Mercury of yesterday stfi —
By the schr. Stephen & Francis, Capt. Mageei we
have received a slip from the office of the SrjAja
gastine News, dated 2Sth ult. confirming Um* ac
count of the attack and murder ol several perkohs
belonging to the Theatrical corps of W. C.
of Savannah, also the attack on Mr. Jenckes plan
tation, at the head of North River, in the neighbor
hood of St Augustine, by the Inl.ans —Wildcat,
it is said being in command —the particular? of
which have already appeared in our columns.’ 1
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Columbia, May 10.,
To the Editors of the Charleston Courier: ] -
) Gentlemen—Since ray last, the river contijai-e*
to fail. One of the piers of the Broad River bfidge
ha* partly fallen ; it ia therefore impassible, hut by
Coot passengers. If the rest of the piers standi the
superstructure will stand; if it doe* in the course of
a few weeks it will be trussed up ; when the public
can use it. I have jnst seen Thomas Stark, from
the Rail Roau works, on the River To ray Ip-cat
satisfaction, he tells me the works have withstood
the shook The in,u*v done to the Columbia C -
nal from ivhat ha* since been learned,confirm* ny
last opinion. At the head df the Canal, from E‘ro,*d
River bridge to Bull • slice, and as far as the- eye
can see below, the waters of the rivercominglo
it. The embankments are all gone, and |rnut h iof
the masonry. {
ft Two negroes one belonging to Stadker & Hill,
and the other to Mr*. Myres, were drowned in Dying
to save their boats
pEHRSTLTARIA I-iEGISLATCRE. —ld the H'Otpe
on the 26th, the Internal Improvement Appropri
ation Bill passed, yeas 4S, nays 41—no fuKhcr
amendments having been made (o it. It Drakes
appropriation amounting to something over s3 r
000,000. It contains a revenue provision, re
quires the United States Bank to loan to the /State
H ,000.0‘ 0 at four per cent, and forfeits its char
ter if it refuses to toe the mark. I
Fatal Duel.—The Toronto (U, C.) Trans
cript, of the 21st in«t., reports the fatal isi«»|e -of
« duel which was recently fought at Montreal, be
tween Lieut- GwJ. White, cf the 7th
and Mr. Grant, late of the 79th Regiment. !'l:he
Colonel fell from the fire of his opponent, \ 1* he
cause of quanel bad reference to the condi|c( ; of
Cokmel White towards a young lady related i to
Grant. * \
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Mr. Cooper is goingback info antiquity* -Ha
has sued the Albany Evening Journal for i. 11 1 al
leged libel, published three years ago, ancl Ibid
his damages at “ten thousand dollars,” The Alle
ged libel was contained in an article on the ifa
-mous “ Three Mile Point” controversy. ’
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Frgm ’the Rithmond Whig. j
den. Harrison’s Corresponding Commit
tee— Casein point.
The Baltimore Pilot, referring to the Federal
-charge against Gen. Harrison of being in the
hands of a committee, adduces some interesting
reminiscences to show that Gen. Jackson occu
pied precisely the same altitude when he wjis a
candidate. He not only refused to answer inter
rogatories, but he resigned his seat in the Sebate
because he would not subject his motives to [mis
construction by participating in any of toe dues
-tions agitated before the country. To rel.evefhim
a confidential committee was organized in Nash
ville, which undertook to answer all letters to him
touching public matters. Tho very men who
are now most clamorous against Gen. Harrison
were then most vociferous in lauding tha 'deli
cate course of Gen. Jackson. But still there
was and is a very wide difference, and that! too,
in favor of Gen. H. The opinions of Ge|i lack
son were not known to the country on the lead
ing questions oi the day, or on the great queUioiis
which had previously divided the country. He had
made no speeches—written no despatches or let
ters—which circumstance once prompted R ; ilchie
to ask—“ Where are his speeches ? Wh&e his
despatches ? Where the evidences of his itut.es
manah'p ?” He had taken no steps to jpilt tho
country in possession of his sentiment;;. | The
People, therefore, had a right to inquiry [what
they were.—Nut so wkh Gen. Harris-yni He
-has taken an active and prominent part yn every
great question for the last thirty years. Hr. has
been as open as day with his opinions—ha has
concealed them for no one, but has published them
from the house-tops.—Every man who can read,
scan know them by referring to his public speeches,
his letters and his voles. In answer to inquiries,
he has only to say, as he does say, ‘"here are
my opinions—they have undergone no change.”
The Pilot states shat the course of Gin s Jack
son excited much clamour at the time—some im
puting his silence to fear tc declare hie opin
ions. The Legislature of Indiana, composed of
his friends, formally addressed him on t|ie sub
ject, and desired an expression of his opinions.
But they could only succeed se far as to obtain
a reference from him to his sentiments formerly
expres-ed. The following is an extract of his
letter in reply to the Governor of Indiana;
“Hermitage, February 28i 1828.
Sir :—I have had the honor to receive yiour ex
cellency’s letter of the 30lh ultimo, endorsing res
olutions of the Senate of Indiana, adopted, as
it appears, with a view of ascertaining rrjy opin
ions on certain political topics. I
The respect which I entertain for the /Execu
tive and Senate of your Slate, excludes from ray
mind the idea that an unfriendly disposition dic
tated the interrogatories which are proposed.
But I will confess my regret at being farced by
this sentiment to depart in the smallest, degree,
from that determination on which 7 have al
ways acted. Not sir, that J woald wish tocon
e ceal my on any political or ;national
subjects; but as they were in various pro
mulgated in 1824,1 am apprehensive [hat my
appearance before the public, at this li.ye, may
be attributed, as has already been the. case, to
improper motives.” H ] ■ *2 1
Such was the case with the Old Kero; when
questioned by his own friends, who w ine in good
ikith, seeking information. All Gen.'Harrison's
friends know his opinions—it’s hi* enemies only
who are so very solicitous to hear from him, that
they may have a pretext for voting for him !
But how stands the case with Mr. Van Suren?
He has been questioned, and he has replied, when
he has condescended to reply at all, by re
e9 Jferring his catechists to his letters and 'speeches.
On some points, however, of deep and vil-tl interest
to the South, h* has uniformly refustt ti give any
answer. In 1836, a meeting of thei Jj’eople of
Amelia appointed a Committee to interrogate him
about bis views on the slave-trade between the
States —Whether or not Congress luid the pow
er to interdict it, and whether it wov/ld be expe
dient to do so, if it had the power 1 To this re
spectful inquiry no response has been received
)to this <Jty. Mr, Thomas Giles, if our rscoliec-
J lion is not at fault, was the Chairman of the Com
mittee. The proceedings were published in the
papers of the day; we will look them op and re
fresh our neighbor’s memory with them. It is
obvious th'.t the baneful effects of the Abolition
mania could not reach us in any sum. so readily
a* by prohibiting the removal of slave* from one
State to another. The passage of such a law
would exert a most baneful influence upon \ ir
ginia particularly, which would in consequence,
soon be overrun by her black population. Judg
ing from Mr. Van Buren’s past course in respect
to slavery—his vote on Missouri Restrictions —
for Free Negro Suffrage—his admission that Con
gress had the power to abolish slavery in the
District, and, lastly, his refusal to answer the re
spectful inquiry of the People of Amelia, the pre
sumption is violent, that he entertains the belief
that Congress can and ought to pass a law inter
dicting the migration of slaves from one State to
another. Certainly until he does answer to this
important point, he and his hirelings are the last
to object to General Harrison’s refusal to answer
any inquiries—more especially as all the Gener
al’s opinions touching slavery are known to be
Southern, and known to be based on the immove
able principles of the Constitution, He is not
with us to-day, when he wants our votes, and
may be against us to-morrow, when the popular
current has taken another direction. He has
been with us from the beginning, on high Con
stitutional grounds, and will be with us as long
as the present Constitution endures.
Proceedings of Council.— Extra Meeting.
Cocxcil Chamber, 7
June Ist, 1840.3
Present, Hon. D. Hook, Mayor ; Aldermen —
Parish, Richards, Robertson, Jackson, Harper,
Miller, Bones, Crump, Dunlap, and Fleming.
The minutes of the meetings of the 25th and
29th May were read and confirmed.
The Mayor stated to Council the objects of the
meeting to be to report the measures he had
adopted to repair the damages to the streets, See,
j and the removal of substances injurious to health,
thrown up by the Freshet; and to request some
more efficient action of Council in furtherance
of the work.
Council unanimously approved the steps al
ready taken by the Mayor, and recommended
strongly the most untiring attention to carry out
the plans suggested.
By Mr. Robertson—
Resolved, That the Mayor be added to ths
Committee on streets.
By Mr. Parish—
Resolved, That one thousand dollars be placed
in the hands as his Honor the Mayor, as a con
tingent fund, to be appropriated fi r work done
on account of the city.
By Mr. Harper—
Resolved, That the Mayor be authorized to
pay Thomas Hackle, James Alien, John Bohler,
and John McKenney,five doHarseach, out of the
contingent fund m his hand*, and the same
amount to a negro, the properly of J. P. Seize.
By Mr. Miller—
Resolved, That the sum of twenty dollars be
paid .o R. P. Spellman, for the service rendered
by him to the citizens of Augusta during the late
Freshet; and that the thanks of the City Coun
cil be also tendered to him.
The following bills were read and ordered to
be paid :
John H. Mann, for cash paid by him for
work done by order, $23 00
Do do hire of horse,
cart, and boy till date, 129 00
Council then adjourned.
a H. OLIVER, Clerk.
Bully Duncau, one of the big guns and or
acle of the Van Buren party, makes use of the
following insulting language, in -derision of the
suffering condition of the people, brought about
by the humbugging of Benton, and the experi
menting and incapacity ®f Jackson and Van Bu
ren.
“ The yelp of panic, ruin and distress, is sow
overspreading the land, and doing its base and
dirty work of slander upon the character of our
country. Where is the panic and distress to be
found? Where it always will be found ; among
the PENNYLEsS LOAFERS OF YOUR
COUNTRY.”
Can you read the above paragraph and not
say that Dr. Duncan has earned his distinc
tion, as leader of one of the most unscrupulous
factions that ever disgraced a nation ?
No Johnson, No Vast Hares.
The article which we copy below from a tho
rough-going loco foco paper in Pennsylvania,
shows that Col. Johnson’s fiiends will -not pass
over in silence the act of the Convention in throw
ing him overboard. Their cause was desperate
enough in Pennsylvania before, and now without
any prospect of success far their favorite, we can
hardly believe that much enthusiasm, in the com
ing contest, will be manifested for Mr. Van Bu
ren.
More Treachery. —A faithful public ser
vant laid upon the shelf by Southern intrigue
and Northern craven heartedness, —lt is wrJh
feelings of burning indignation that we notice
the meanness and political degradation of the so
called Democratic (but more properly office hun
ters’) Convention held at Baltimore last week.
It is time that the iodepenvlent press, of a true
Democratic stamp, speak out, when a body of
men, professing to speak the wishes of the De
mocracy of the Union, dare to hesitate when the
question is between the gallant soldier and the
noble-hearted patriot now filling the chair of the
Vice Presidency, and some one of the many in
triguing spirits who aim at displacing him.
Where was the free spirit of Pennsylvania—
pledged to support his renomination—when that
sneaking artiffi e was employed in the Conven
tion to remove the danger which they feared
would attend the support of the noble Johnson?
Were our delegates afraid that the chivalry of
the South would bolt! Is Pennsylvania to be
considered an appendage to the political despo
tism of Tennessee and Alabama? Is Ohio, also,
to be sold fur Southern votes ? Is Kentucky
considered so certain for the enemy that ve must
insu ! t her in the person of her gallant son ? Are
Indiana and Illinois conceded to Harrison, that
we dare to remove their gallant defender to make
way for a Polk or a King ? It is well for the
Convention that Mississippi was not represented,
or she would have spoken her rebuke in tones of
thunder. But the conspirators must beware.
The States of the Mississippi valley, that glorious
belt of young giants, will not thus he imposed
upon. New Hampshire, Arkansas, ay, and Penn
sylvania, wiR teach these aspiring demagogues
that it is one thi..g to plot, another to succeed.
We feel that with the name of iohnsoa, the
cause of Martin Van Baren would have prosper
ed; but (and let all mark the prediction) the De
mocratic Convention have placed a worm there
- lost may eat away the vitala of success. We
- fear, even while we burn with shame; we doubt
: the future because what can the people think ol
• measures which have 'or their guide, and leading
; object as w«il, to truckle at the foot-stool of Sour
t them intolerance 1
r Richard M. Johnson is the choice of the Dcm
? ocratic party in all the States where the Demo
s cratic ticket can succeed. If, then, he is not elec
■ ted, neither can Martin Van Buren be. Mark
, the assertion, fellow citizens, and remember it
well when the ides «f November arrive !—Pitts
burg- Constitutionalist, (~ V. JS.J
From lie New Orleans Bulletin of the 21. h.
Important News from Mexico.
By the steam ship New York, Captain Wright,
' which arrived last evening from Galveston, we have
f received the latest Texian papers. From tne Aus
tin Sentinel of she 9th instant we copy ihe folio w-
, 1 ing important news :
From the West.
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An express arrived’ic this city on Sunday, bring
’ >ng a confirmation of the defeat of the Central for
ces at Guerrero. CoL Zapata, as before stated, was
taken near Meat, by Gen. Arista, und at first well
treated, but subsequently decapitated, and bis head
siuck upon a pole and placed in front of fas own
hoo*e at Guerrreio. This provoked the resentment
oi a brother of Zapata, who raised about four hun
dred rancheros, and the Central array having been
divided into several small parties, cut them all into
pieces. The pen pi e have taken fresh courage, and
the Federal flag again waves in triumph over the
States ol the North.
Mexico will be compelled to return to the consti
tution of 1624, or the whole territory will be par
celled out into independent Slates. Federalism >s
the cause of the people against the priests and array,
and il must and will prevail. But a few days ago,
n was said ail was lost—now the boasted array of
Arista, which was, after flogging the federalism, to
sweep over Texas with the besom of destrucuon,
has been destroyed by a few rancheros, and feder
alism m the north is more prosperous than it has
been before since the days of the usurper.
The Comanche* had come down in a large num
ber, and brought in two .Mexican women taken
from the San. Antonio river about a year ago.—
i hey still have some American prisoners in iheir
possession, which appear very unwilling to return.
From the New Orleans Bee of the 28 th.
Daring act ol'Piracy on the Coa*t ol Cuba.
Letters received in this city yesterday, from
Havana, dated 22d May, 1640, contain the follow
ing particulars of one of the most daring acts of
piracy on record:
The Br. brig Vernon, capt. Cunningham, of
Halifax, sailed from Falmouth, Jamaica, bound
to Halifax. When eight days out at sea, being
off Cape San Antonio, a a open boat, with seven
men, wis seen approaching the brig, and when
within musket sbot, 4 fired a discharge of muskets at
it. The brig having hove to, the captain of the boat
informed captain Cunningham that a revenue
cutter was standing at the Cape, and that his pa
pers must be inspected. Captain C. immediate
ly set eut in his boat with three men aud bis pa
pers, to comply with the summons. He bad not
proceeded far before theetker boat pulled up, and
having taken possession of her, they striped the
crew of their clothes, and began the work of de
struction. The captain and two men were in
stantly killed, and the other effected his escaped
in leaping overboard, and swimming ashore.
After escaping the melancholy fate of his com
panions, he remained in the woods during five
days, where be was met by Don Antonio, captain
•f a small craft, to whom be related the circum
stances. Captain Antonio immediately went in
search of the pirates, and soon found them on
shore, near the Cape, actively employed in un
loading the cargo of the hi ig. Being alone, and
fearful of being murdered it they mistrusted him,
he accosted them as one engaged in the same bu
siness. He bought a few guns, and contracted
to sell them a sloop he bad at his residence,
which was near the spot, and invited them to
come in the morning and examine her.
7"hey accordingly set oat next morning, to con
clude their bargain with Antonio. As soon as
they arrived at his house, Antonio, assisted by
several of his neighbors, arrested the pirates, and
sent them under a good escort to Havana, where
.they will he tried-
Anlonio returned on board the brig, where he
found the remainder of the crew who bad been
spared by the pirates until the cargo could be ta
ken out- Their intention was to murder them
as soon as they bad finished their work.
The sailor who escapedsaw a great number of
sails and pieces of rigging concealed in the woods.
'The conduct cf Antonio in rescuing these un
fortunate victims, aud bringing the pirates to
.punishment, is highly commendable.
From the New York Timet.
On* of Kendall’s “Extras.”—ln a Globe
article, headed “t«c federal fartt,” and
which wc can scarcely be mistaken in attributing
to the pen of Amos Kendall, the writer says of
the celebration of the sortie at Fort Meigs, held
at St. Louis on the sth inst., that it was “ con
ducted by old black cockade, dyed in the wool
alien and sedition, and British Bank Federalists/
deadly enemies of the people and their rights.”
One of the individuals included in tnis cate
gory, indeed the most prominent of them all, was
Col. John O’Fallon, who was General Harrison’s
aid, and was with him in »U his battles during the
late war. The Editor of the Baltimore Pilot
thus vouches for his democracy.
*• He was my class mate in early life, and I can
speak of him because I know him. He was not
more than ten years of age when Jefferson came
into power, and he and his entire family have
at all times been democrats .”
Yet this honest and consistent partiot, and
such as he, are denounced by the bloated specu
lator and hireling scribe who wields the pen edi
torial of the extra Globe—so called, we suppose,
from its extra mendacity—as “ a British bank fed
eralist and and an enemy of the people.”
“ The President and bis friends were never
more confident of success.”
So says the Richmond Enquirer. If this be
true, why the extraordinary exertions of the
party! Why the secret circulars of the Federal
members, urging funds to he collected, and the
whole land to be subjected to party discipline?
Why so many calmunies against Gen. Harrison 1
Why deny the prodigality of the administration?
Why refuse to let the People see the official project
for a Standing Army? if the triumph of the
Feds be so certain, why the«eßai-weekly appeals
ol the Editor of the Enquirer, “To arms! To
arms! Rally! Organize!” and hiafrantic enclama
tion, “the Philistines be upon you!” Why har
rass the People? Why not give them quiet?
If the confidence in the success «f the office hol
ders be felt which it expressed, why do not the
Feds, one and all. consult their own ease, like
. their venerable leader, go to sleep until after the
elections.— Richmond Whig.
From the Troy Daily Whig,
Foul slander upon th* Patriots of th*
Revolution. —The present administration par
ty not-content with heaping every species of ca
lumny and vituperation upon the heroes of the
i last war, have at last opened their foul mouthed
i batteries upon the Patriots of the Revolution. In
, the addresses of the Van Buren members of the
f late Legislature of New York, may be found the
, follow in g passage :
[ “The early History of this Republic too abun
l dantly proves that mart of those who took part
. m the Revolution, fought for independence rath
i er than liberty - They rebelled against a mon
, arch abroad, for the purpose of selling up a mon
i arch at home. Placed at a distance from the
. throne of Great Britain, they had Hide chance to
. participate in its honors. its titles and its pen
i sions „• and they aimed to «rect a throne in Ame-
rica, around which they might form a band o
privileged noble*. No sooner was the object
achieved, and the States separated from their pa
ten land, than these subjects began to develope
themselves in the writings and acts of some of the
revolutionary leaders.”
■To what a pitch of audacity has the Tory par
ty of this country arrived when they dare thus
to insult the memory of the heroes of the revolu
tion !—Such infernal scoundreiism needs no
comment. The antidote for such bane, every
freemen carries in his heart.
From the New York Times.
Executive Appointment in Contempt of
the Popular Will.
Tha Executive penchant for individuals whom
the people have rejected, is proverbial; indeed, so
frequently has he selected defeated candidates for
offices of their gift, as the recipients of hi* favor,
that it would seem as if be considered the defeitof
a partisan at an election a personal affront which it
became him to avenge—a piece of presumption
which he waa bound to chastise by inflicting upon
them in tome other shape, the nuisance which the
people had declined endorsing through the ballot
boxes. We will name a few among the many in
stances in which Mr. Van Buren has ihown his
contempt for, or displeasure at, the manifestations
ofihe papular will.
Isaac H. Bronson, went to Congress a conser
vative-opposed the Sub-Treasury—nailed it to the
table at the extra session. At the next session of
Congress sew light shone in upon him —he became
a vindicator of the measure —voted for it, and was
appointed a Circuit Judge through the influence of
the Albany Regency. Remaining at W luhington to
vote for the biH of abominations, he lost the office
by lapae of time. The managers of the affair intend
ed to have him re-nominated, but they found the
State Senate too honest to sanction their design.
Mr. Bronson was again a candidate for Congress
and was defeated. The people of hut district vetoed
him. He therefore became the favorite of the Pre
sident and received the appointment of Judge in
Florida.
John J. D* Graff, another m-rabar of Congress
from this state, left bis home for Washington, pro
fessing strong opposition to ihe same darling scheme
of the Executive. After he arrived there however,
he saw reason to change Ins opinion At the ex
piration of his Congressional term, not daring to
take a re-nomination lor Congress, ho resolved to
test his popularity by running lor the Asaeraoly.
He was nominated in his own county, and defeated
by a considerable majority. The President shortly
afterwards appointed him to an Indian agency.
Eli Moore was a candidate for re-election to
Congress from this city, in 1638, and was defeated
by an overwheiminu raajoriiy. Tne President maue
him Surveyor of the port of Yew York.
Churchill C. Cambreleng defied popular
opinion, and declared that the Sub-Treasury should
be in operation throughout Mr. Van Horen’s ad
ministration. “ in spue of tnmantations hereof else
where.*’ He carae back lo his constituency, snd,
like his colleague Moore, was condemned by their
vote. Tha President ha* appointed him Minister
to Russia.
Fei.ix Grundy was nominated for the office of
U. fcs. fc’tnaior for Tennes-ee, and rejected by the
Legislature The President thereupon made him
Attorney General.
John M. Niles of Connecticut, received a simi
lar nomination, and was rejected by the Legiataiure
of his State. He was recently a candidate lor Gov
ernor, hnd was treated no better by the people.
Tw < defeats gave him a doubts claim on the Gov
ernment. The President therefore made turn a
member oi the Cabinet, by cooierrmg upon him the
office of Postmaster General.
riETH Driggs, we believe, hai never been a can
didate lor the representative office. He baa never
been condemned by a popular verdict rendered
through the ballot box—but twelve of his country
men sworn to do him justice, have virtually declar
ed him by their decision, lo be unworthy of public
or pm ate confidence. The President haa made
him a Consul
All the marks of executive favor we have enu
raarat d, tave two, were bestowed on citizens or
residents of the state of New York. Were we lo
swell the catalogue wi:h all the instances of tha
ramekind which hava occurred in reference to tha
citizens of other states, a volume would be necessa
ry t-> contain it. The President is now a candidate
fur re-election, and these things will nut be forgot
ten by the people when their turn comes.
There is sound reuse in the following article from
the Alexandria Gazelle :
Who did it ?—We were struck, the other day,
by the plain common sense exhibited by a gentle
man from the country in conversation upon polities.
V\e remarked ti him that we were rejotcad to hear
that he wan no longer a supporter of the present
administration, and observed, at the same lime, that
he had undoubtedly good reason for h:s change of
opinion.
“ My reason is a very plain one.” said he, “ one
thneiery man can easily understand. I looked
around me and found every thing going wrong, and
1 asked myself what made it so, who made it so ?
and my reason told me that those who had power,
must have made it. The Whigs have no power—
they could not have brought about this state ol
things—the Van Buren men have had all the power,
and they must have done it.”
This reason seemed to us a good one He had
come to the same point that he would have done
had he waded the whole field of argument-
An Incident at the Battle of the Thames.
AS RELATED BT AN OLD SOLDIER.
At the battle of the Thames, a laughable incident
occurred, which is thus related by one who was in
the engagement.
The British (General had formed hia men in open
order, witn their cannon pointing down the road,
by which the Americans were advancing. Gen.
Hamson immediately took advantage of this, and
ordered Col. Johnson’s mounted regiment to charge
at speed by heads of c rapanies (so as to expose the
least possible front) pass through the open intervals,
and form in the rear of the British forces. This
movement was brilliantly executed by ihebattal
lions under the co nmand of Lieut. Col. James
Johnson; his brother, Col. R. M. Johnson, the
same time charging the Indians with the other bat
talion.
It happened that in one of the companies under
James Johnson’s command, there was a huge, long
legged, brawney fellow, named Lamb ; he weigh
ed about 240 lbs.; was a brave man, and as good
humored as big; brave men proverbially are. Lamb
had broken down his Kentucky horse by his great
weight, and waa mounted, instead, upon a short,
stout, wild Canadian ponv ; from whose sides his
long limb* depended almost to the ground, while
his bulky frame rose high above the beast—looking
not unlike an overgrown school bay astride a rough
sheep.
H hen the charge waa made, Lamb’s poney took
fright, and broke into a strain. Lamb pulled, until
the bit broke in the animal’s mouth, and all com
mand of him was lost. The litlle poney stretched
himself to the work, dashed out of the ranks, soon
out-stripped all his file leaders, and pushed on in
advance of the company.—Latah was no longer
master of his horse or himself, and he was in a quan
dary. If he roiled off, he would be trampled to
death by his own friends—if the horse rushed upon
the British lines with him, so far ahead of the rest,
he must be killed Either way, death seemed in
evitable ; and, to use bis own expression, he thought
“ he’d jist say some hing they could tell his blends
in KemucKV, when ibey went home.”
He stuck both heels into the pony’s flanks, and
urged him to the inmost speed. On they drove,
some 50 yards in front of the leading file ; Lamb’s
gigantic pe son swaying from side to side, and his
legs swinging in a most portentous fashion—the lit
tle Canadian “ pulling fool” all he knew how, his
tail straight, his nostrils distended, his ears pinned
back, and his shiny eyes flashing from his
shaggy foreiun, wit.t all the spite and spleen of a
bora devil. Just as he got within a stride or two
of the British, Lamb flourished his rifle, and roared
ounn a voice of thunder—“ Clear the way, G — d
d—m you ! Pm a coming /”
To hi* surprise, the line opened right and left,
and he passed through unhurt. So great was their
astonishment at the strange apparition of such a ri
der, and such a horse, moving upon them with
such furious velocity, that they opened mechanical
ly at his command, and let him pass. So soon as
he gained the rear oft heir position, Lamb rolled off
on the grass, anti suffered his pony to go his own
road. A few minutes more, and he was with his
comrades, securing the prisoners. —Quincy WAig.
The Rev. J. N. Maffit has become one of the
editors of the “Western Visiter,” a weekly de-
Imocratic paper published at Cymhiana, Ky*—
St. Louis Pennant .
For the Chronicle and Sentinel.
To ft Lady who requested some Lines
from the Author.
I oft my untaught lyre have strung.
Since truant from a far-off home ;
I left my loved and native clime,
’ Beneath thy sunny skies to roam:
> —Have careless swept the trembling strings
At sunset hour and evening’s gloam.
And bid the passing breeze to bear
Its wild notes to my sister’s home.
But scarce could deem my humble song
Would find a lisfning ear in thine, —
1 That one who beauty’s sceptre sways
r Would list to minstrelsy like mine.
J Yet sweet the task when Woman calls,
t To him who owns her magic (oner ;
1 Mo welcome still when Beauty’s smile
. With sunlight gilds the Muse’s bower.
Then be it mine to breathe to thee
j A wish, a thought, in Friendship’s name;
i Love’s torch is often dimrn’d by time.
While brightly bums her sacred flame.
Air— m Thi Meeting of the Waters.”
>
i There is not in this wide world a pleasure so sweet,
1 As remembrance of those whom our hearts love to
»
. meet;
• Oh, the last fond emotion of life must depart,
Ere the bloom of thy beauty shall fade from my
, heart.
1
Yet it is not that Nature around thee has thrown
i Her mantle of beauty —Ob, ’tis not alone
The soul-illumin’d ray that is shed from thine eye.
Like the soft sunny light from thy own native sky ;
I
, ’Tis that each iovely charm that can render life dear.
Seems blended before us whene’er thou art near ;
( And we feel that this cold world an Eden would
prove,
I Were its deserts adorn’d by the light of thy love.
Sweet vision of beauty, oh, calm be thy rest.
And unclouded thy life till its sun’s in the west;
, May thy bark safely glide o’er the world’s troubled
stream,
And the bright star of Hope round its prow ever
gl«am. 11.
Kentucky Bisk.—A meeting of the stock"
holder* of the Bank of Kentucky, resident in
this ci'j, was held yesterday noon, in the loom of
the Board of Trade, Thoma* P. Cope, Esq. in
the Chair. The object was to hear a formal re
port of the committee (Col. Dayton, B. W.
Richards, and George Handy,) appointed at a
former meeting to visit the Bank, and ascertain i
the situation in which the stock held through the
late Philladelphia agency *tand* in the Bank.
The resolutions and formal report were not or
dered for printing, and as they may not be sent
to the press immediately, we state what are our
impression*, derived from conversation and from
the Kentucky paper* since the visit of the com
mittee.
The Bank of Kentucky will we think do what
ever can be required at her hands—probably ac
knowledge the whole of the stock, and look to
the Schuylkill Bank for remuneration. Os course
we have only an impression. Action of the Stare
Legislature would be required for any important
measure, and that body will hold an extra session
in September or October.
The gentlemen of the committee were admitted
to vote at the meeting of the stockholders in Ken
tucky : and it was resolved, as a matter of course,
that no dividend should be made until the mat
ter of the fraudulently issued stock should be
adjusted.— U. S. Gazette.
Matrimonial Expobt.—ln the early settle
ments of Virginia, when the adventurers were
principally unmarried men, it was deemed neces
sary to export such women as could be prevailed
upon to quit England, as wives for planters. A
letter accompanying a shipment of these matri
monial exiles, dated London, August 12, 1621,
is illustrative of the manners of the times, and the
concern then felt for the welfare of the colony,
and for female virture. It is as follows :
‘We send you a ship; one widow and eleven
maids, for wives for the people of Virginia; there
hath been especial care had in the choice of them
for there hath not one of them been received but
upon good commendations.
“ In case they cannot be presently married, we
desire that they may be put with several house
holders that have wives till they can lie provided
with husbands. There are nearly fifty more that
are shortly to come, and are sent by our Hon.
Lord and Treasurer the Earl of Southampton,
and certain worthy gentlemen, who, taking into
their consideration that the plantation can never
flourish till families be planted, and the respect of
wives and children for their people on the soil,
therefore having given this fair beginning; for the
reimbursing of whose charges, it is ordered that
every man that marries them, give one hundred
and twenty pounds of the best leaf tobacco for
each of them.
“ Though we are desirous that the marriage be
free, according to nature, yet we would not have
those maids deceived, and married to servants; but
onlv to such freemen or tenants as have means to
maintain them. We pray you, therefore, to be
fathers of them in this business, not enforcing
them to marry against their wills.”
A Horrible Accident.—One of our report
ers, in the course of bis perigrinations up town
yesterday, saw a five dollar note lying upon the
pavement. Elated with the sight, be stooped
down to snatch it from its lonely and abandi ned
position, when horrified be starbd back as if
stunned with its appearance. Could it be possi
ble ! He longed to be satisfied ; and securing a
chip, he inserted it beneath the pictured paper,
and lifting it to sight, displayed its true character.
Alas ! it was too true. Trembling and sick at
heart, he dropped the fearful rag, and ran with
the wings of the wind, until he had placed a
saving distance between him and the object of
his detestation. It was a Brandon note, and the
last we beard of it, the residents in its vicinity
had petitioned the Board of Health for its re
moval.—Phil. Spirit of the Times.
Lisbon—The Doe Howl.—After II o’clock
at night the dog-howl begins. This continues
without intermission till morning; it is one of
the most hideous noises that ever grated on man’s
ear—their cry is not “the house dog’s honest
bark,” but a wild unearthly howl, broken at times
by the abrupt note of passion, ot the prolonged
yell of anguish, distinctly recognizable even at
, this distance. OccasioflKHy a civil war breaks
1 out, by some tribe invading the territory of ano
[ ther; and then the uproar is truly terrific. In
these struggles the vanquished are instantly de
• voared by the conquerors. Notwithstanding all
this canine discord, the dogs appear at present
the most stable part of the constitution of Portu
gal: their government is republican, formed of
i several petty states, and weie it not for those
nightly outbreaks, I would say was well regula
• ted. Living in small communities, principally in
1 the ruins of convents, old houses, and many of
the places desolated by the great earthquake, they
own no masters, answer to no names; and, like
i all outcasts, have become an abandoned, disso
. lute, and uncivilized race, scorning the power as
. well as the protection of man—the Irue Ishmael
iftaaof ihs canine race. They have a peculiarly
wiki and ferocious aspect, and seldom stir out;
ring the day; but at night troops offif u *
twenty of there ravenous creature* come ru
along the deserted and ill-lighted *treei«_J. ! *
ping to revel on some recent offal, and
any unhappy stranger fall amongst’ them
instantly set upon and devoured on the so * tt
The dogs of Lisbon are nothing in number
to what they were some years ag.», when it D ° W
absolutely dangerous to open the doors o nr.
dog-howl began. They are, however, uncer It*
present po lice surveillance, a necessary evil f*
being no sewers, or any means of re moving „ •
ance and ofial in this most filthy of cities t j Ul **
paving corporation to compel cleanliness "tj- **
dog* therefore, are the only scavenger*, -k*
clergy endeavored at one time to keep down .t ■
numbers, till the occupation of thia pl ac€ fieir
French, who compelled them to turn kzxJ
therm-elves; since this they have rather eocom
their increase, to prevent toe recurrence of . * gt| *
lar degradation. Another cause of the v™
ber of the dogs formerly arose, from the
up the country having, during the
larly shipped down the river to Lisbon, to
them destroying the grapes, and sending L, K * m k
when the harvest was over. This has. ho**'
been stopped—and the government lately i~.,V r
an order to have all dogs destroyed by th e
not wearing a collar with lh« owner’s namT*
Since then, numbers have been destroyed •
son and, dying in the street at every turn T'
quite disgusting, and enough to cause a
Jence; in fine, though greatly diminished aJ
are still very numerous. But as sewer. ,ren
being made through the principal street*, the
ceasily for them will soon cease. It u ver
markable, that notwithstanding the numbZ *
dogs, hydrophobia is hardly known— Wm/
narrative. et
-
From the Greenville Mountaineer.
Tie Rains.—ln comman with every Dtrfn ,
L. S., we have been visited by excessiJe^ll f
This week, a real North Eastern has been Wow.
mg storm of wind anu rain, that has rai«J
the water course* much higher than S
have been known m this section for years. ou r
Reedy River is a Niagara in mi nature, and
been unfordable this week-a circumstance wIS
very rarely occurs. Great injury, « nol - *
tuin, is expected to be the consequence of th
rams to the growing crops of wheat, which bar!
been very promising this spring. The great riw
in the water courses has arrested the mills
The Population and Occupations nr
Gbkat Bbitain.—According to the population
returns of Great Britain, exclusive of Ireland
there were in 1811,2,012,391 families, of whom
691,353 were employed in agriculture; i n 1827
2,346,717 families, of whom 773,732 were em
ployed in agriculture; in 1831, 2,745,336 fami-'
lies, of whom 761,348 were occupied in agrirul
tor*. It appears, therefore, that in 1811,34 fa
milies in every hundred were employed in agri
culture; and in 1831 only 27 in eve'iy hundred
families. In 1831, of 3,341,926 males in til Ire
land, 1,138,060 were set down as emploved chie
fly in agriculture. In England, ot 3.199.984
males aged 20 years and upwards, 744,407 were
set down as laborer* employed in husbandry,
94 883 as occupier* of land, not employing labo
rers, and 141,460 as occupiers who did employ
laborers.
Yale College. —The annual report of the
: president and fellows of Yale College, wa» read
in the Connecticut legislature on the 26th ult.
It shows the receipts for the year ending Jodi
30, 1839, to have been $30,271 67—disbar
ments for the same period $29,830 45.
Indian Minuteness.—For acuteness of sente,
we think none can compete with the class of Indi
ana whose wonderful power, of reasoning are de
scrib-d below, extracted irom Thatcher’s Indian
Traits.
“Owing partly to hi* organization doublleu.ii
well as to his mod* of living from bis ch’idhood
up, the sense* of the Indian are extremely acute.—
It is iclaied. in modern limes, that a hunter, Belong
ing to one ol the western tribes, on his return home
to hi. hut one day, discovered that his venisoa
which had been hung up to dry had been stolen.
After taking observitiona, on the spot, he »et offia
putsuit of the thief, whom he tracked through the
woods. Having gone a little dial ance, he met wine
persons, be inquired if they had seen ahukoli
whiteman with a short gun , accompanied by a small
dog' with a short tail? They replied in the affirma
tive ; and upon the Indian assuring them that the
man described had stolen his venison, they desired
to be informed bow he was able to give such a
minute description of a person he had never went
The Indian replied thus : “ The thief I know it a
Hole man by bis having made a pile of siciwi vs
stand upon in order io reach the venison from the
height I hung it, standing on the ground,—that be
is an old man, 1 knew by his short steps which I
have traced over the dead leaves in the woods ; that
he is a white man, I knew by turning out hi. tott
when be walks which an Indian never dues; bit
gun 1 knew to be short, by the mark the muizl»
matte, in robbing the bark off the tree on which it
leaned ; that his dog is small, I know by hie tracks,
and mat he has a short tail, I discovered by the
mark it made in the d ist w ».en he was sitiing, it
the time bis master was taking down the meat.”
Substitute fob Embalmment.—When M.
Gaunai made lus process public he was not .wire
himself, perhaps, of the use to which it could b*
applied. Several weeks ago the body of a boy ,
murdered under very auspicious circumstances,
brought to the Morgue— the place w here aI! penoni
found drowned or murdered, and who are nst i® -
mediately recognised, are exposed—and the vtinr
were injected according to the plan laid down hr
M. Gajanal. The corpse ol the poor boy remand
several weeks in as fresh a state as when it ww
found a few hours after the murder. It nu not
yet nten recognised, but one cannot but admire the
facility thus offered for recognition. But for th*
discovery,the utmost time that the body couldh.w
remained at the Morgue would have be<-n five of »
six day a M. Gaunal’s process is extremely .asp***
and attended with Lufe expense He makes* 90 '
1 ian composed of sulphate of alum and hot water,
in proportion of two pound* of the snlpbste to»
Pof hot wa:er, and injects by the right c.roh"
arery ; in summer three quarts es ibis liquid, ,n ®*
» winter loss,according to the temperature. — P unt
Letter.
Correspondence of the St. Louis Penant.
Oft the Roof of the Cairo Hotel, Tea
Feet Under Water.
Citt of Cairo, May 10, 1840.
Mr Dka» Mb. Editor.—“My feelings sit w*
tolerable,” ana I can retrain no longer. H« fe '
I, in this confounded city of Cairo, with ibe«v
heook, commonly called »he Mississippi river, rs*'
sing tea feel over my devoted head. Our hotel
perfect cold waler establishment, and ibe way ’
ia a plenty of the** pore element” m tbe»e
is with a perfect rush. The Cairo Bank, upon wni
weal! built our hope* and houses, after having w
Sor some lime making daily deposiies in the
«ppi river, has at length fallen ibroofh, Me B "
rest of the llhnois spec elation?, and left a*
wretches, n it exactly high and dry, (would ta»t
were L) but buried “ full five fathoms deep,
de bat red from oil intercourse, except with the
Hah, buffalo and olht r such scaly character.,
you to sympathize with toe, and send us the t
aing Gazette to comfort us in oar mi»f*>rt‘-‘ D
Real estate io Caira has 'atphaiicaily fallen , /
k>w that you cvsld not find it with a twenty *
pote. Ob dear, Mr. Editor, allhongh I’m reff *
yet r» very dry—and if you could m oiage h> 8 .
my friend of the —-—, to send *ome of his**r ,r
to ihifi- * nasty deep,’ you will confer a lastm# 14
ua yours; die.
THE GREAT DROWNED OUT
[Cairo, as most of our readers know, is ** IB
at th* ju«ciioD ot the Ohio aad MtAsiwPP* r ' ,
on the liitneia safe- The site is very law. *>u
advantages ot the pos tion were deemed m
tioa times Vo be so great, an attempt wu i .
chiefly with Englab casual, under ihe wireciw
Mr. Holbrook, te establish a city there > ,