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TUESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 5.
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The Election.
, Below we give the result of the election, held
jeoterdev, in this city.
For Congress.
Hines Holt 530
John Wat50n........ 2^f>
Judges or the Inferior Court.
Warren, 603
Allen, 549
Beale 593
Walker, - 632
Harper,. 563
Lon g street, 264
Tax Collctoe.
Kennedy, 431
Watkins, 336
Tax Received.
Dickinson, 273
Walker, 454
McLane, 7
The following gentlemen were yesterday elected
Directors of the Mechanics’ Bank for the ensuiag
year.
Amory Sibley, William P. Rathbone,
Marshall Keith. Geo. 11. Metcalf,
Jshn M. Adam?, Josiah Sibley,
Thos. S. Metcalf, Erastus C. Scranton.
James B. Walker,
At a meeting of the Board, Amory Sibley was
rs-elccted President.
Benjamin Fitztateick, of Autauga county, has
been nominated by the Locofoco Convention cf
Alabama, as their candidate for Governor.
From the Charleston Courier of yesterday.
From Florida.
The achr. Stephen Francis , Capt. Magee,
arrived hereon Saturday last, from St. Augustine,
bringing us the intelligence which follows, in ref
erence to Indian affairs.
The conduct of Col. Market, in executing
summary punishment on the savages thus taken
in arms, will, we be!ieve, pneel general approba
tion. The system of white flags, and feeding
and supplying these monsters in human shape,
with the very means of continuing their butch
eries, has been adopted long enough to satisfy the
most morbid theoretical philanthropist, and it is
lull time that energetic measures should be adop
ted to get rid of these murderous barbarians.
From our correspondent.
Office of the News, j i
. ‘ St. Augustine, Jan. 1,1840. 5
FLORIDA NEWS.
Col. Harney has passed through the Everglades,
coming out at Cape Sable. He surprised a camp
of 40 Indians, hung ten of the ivarriora , and re
served one to take him to Sam Jones’ camp.
Chekika, who headed the party robbing Indian
Key, was among the number. Lt. Ord, of 3d
Artillery, in attempting to dislodge 7 Indians from
an island, lost one man, had six wounded, and
the only one uninjured, brought his men off. At
a time, when the commanding General is tampe
ring with outlaws and murderers, it is a bright
relief to ciat the eye upon a man who knows his
duty to the country and is not afraid to perform it.
Last night the market was illuminated, can
nons fired, and music employed to add thoir grate
ful sounds to the admirations which this atfair
has produced.
Late last evening, we learn the killing of Lt.
Sherwood, 7th Infantry, a wife of an officer, and
two privates near Micanopy. Also,a teamster at
Pilatka.
St. Augustine, December 31.
Glorious.—Forty Indians Captured—Ten In
dians Hanged.
Capt. Thompson, of the Waller M., arrived
this morning from Key Biscayne, brings a verbal
report that Col. Harney, who had proceeded into
the Everglades with ninety men, succeeded in
discovering the town of We-ki-kak, where he
captured 29 women and children, and one
warrior, and killed or banged ten warriors (they
were perhaps shot in the attack.)
We hope, however, that thev were hanged,
alter being caught alive, for, belonging to the
gang which committed ttie massacres at Carloosa
hatebie, and Indian Key, they deserved neither
mercy, judge or jury—nothing but an execution
er; and the People of Florida have lung deplored
the unfrequency of such salutary retributive ex
amples. if these Indians were hanged, their peo
‘ pie willjsee we are at last in earnest. How much
blood might have been saved had 10 Indians been
hanged five years ago!
Col. Harney, we are told, went in at the Mia
mi, and came out near Cape Sable. If so, he
must hi.ve gone where no white man has proceed
ed, and discovered a singular and important wa
ter communication across the South of the Pe
ninsula.
We gave the gallant Colonel our good wishes
when be went down, and are rejoiced to see them
fulfilled.
The party returned round the coast, leaving
Captain Davidson, who is. we arc sorry to #av,
dangerously ill. at Indian Key. Another expedi
tion is preparing. Official reports may he expect
ed to morrow by the Wm. Gaston.
We said a few days ago that the destruction I
of one Indian was of more importance than the i
taking of Beyrout. What then must oc our |
rejoicing when 40 arc captured Our market is !
illuminated to night—the big gun is out—the ;
band is playing cheerfully, and the people arc I
•homing for joy.— Herald.
Shipwreck, and loss of life.—The S«-hr |
John McCluug, Capt. Wm. H. Freeman, of j
Philadelphia, hound from Bt. Thomas, sprung a- i
leak about one 100 miles off this port on Sunday
night, 20th inst- Last observation, hit. 30®, ion
79 6 . Supposed a hut started, and the course I
o the vessel ripped off a plank. It being impossi
ble to free her, M.—held on a short time bv a line
End then tins vessel went down. A t first the boat
drifted out. but presently the crew were enabled
to make her quarter on the land ; and made land
near Mosquito Bar at 2 A. M. Wednesday. The
•urf being rough, the boil swamped a quarter of
» mile out. and the seamen, lour in number, were
*ll drowned, Tne captain and mate. Mr. Wil
son. reached the shore—the former n, a lifeless
state. By the assistance of the male he was re
stored. and they made their way to a fishing hut
near the post of New Smyrna, where they recei
ved every attention, anti arrived here on Siundiv
J»«t in the Joe. Crowd. }
The men drowned are two whiles. Jonathan
Drake, aged 41 , ot Montgomery countv, JVnu.,
and Thomas Chawesworth, aged 39, of the same
fdace and two colored men, James Jones, aged 46
of Pennsylvania, and John Miller, aged SI. of
Lewiston, Del.
Capr. Freemen, who i« a young man, has been
in tha Navy—was recently married—is much dis
tressed iu mind by the disaster—hut. fortunately,
he basinet with most kind ami attentive friend-?
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Sergeant Haywood, 2d Dragoons, whose mira- j
colons escape from the Indians at the massacre of i
Carloosahafchie, we related last year, died recent
ly at Fort Reid, from falling from the top ol a j
house.— lbid.
Mr. Tanner, the inn-keeper of Fort Harlee,
was killed a few days since by a shot fired by a
third party, while he was scuffling with a man
in the dark.— lbid.
Indian. —Three Indians made a friendly call
last week upon a negro at Col. Hallows’ planta
tian, nine miles from Mandarin. They were
very inquisitive—wanted powder, seed-corn and
pea's. The boy gave them the powder in his
horn, and the other articles, when they went
away peaceably,— lbid.
Col. Dancy left town Wednesday morning,
taking Capt. Mickler with 40 men. and Lieut.
Ferreira, of Captain Dunmett s company, with
20 men, to proceed to Gen. Read’s Head Quai
ters, at Fort Macomb, from whence some expedi
tion will probaoly be started agaii si the Indians,
who may be in the region of Suwannee Old i
Town and Deadraaivs Bay.— lbid.
We have this moment heard that Lieut. Sher
wood was a shot while proceeding, a few days |
since, from Micanopy to another post. A lady in i
company was wounded, as were four or five ol ;
the escort.
Indians. —On Monday afternoon the old city j
of St. Augustine was thrown info as much con- j
fusion as a hive of bees when the hive is kicked. •
An express from Col. Hanson’s plantation two
miles from town, informed us that Indians were
in the neighborhood.
The circumstances were these : While a party
of people were at work in the field, an In
dian negro (the same, we are inclined to be- ■
lieve, who was with Wild-Cat when the planta- j
lion was robbed on the 28lh Oct.) approached a
girl who was rome distance from the rest, and in
quired where her master was—whose men were
working on the pine-barren—how many while
men there were in the house, &c. The fellow
rnade no threats, but merely uttered “ umph,”
“umph,” to the girl’s replies, and telling her to
say nothing, glided away into the woods.
The moment she told her story, information
was sent to town, and great preparations were
made for “ killing Indians”—but the parlies
which went out returned without finding any.
The old story for 4 years has been, “we can’t
find the Indians.” Now they come so near that
with a spy-glass from the house lops, we might
see them grinning at us. How accommodating?
That there was a party on Monday, within two
miles of the town, who sent the negro out as a i
spy, we have no doubt, and that they will com- 1
mit some depredation before tfiev return south is
quite probable. Really these Indians arc restless
neighbors.
Since writing the foregoing, we have learned
that on Sunday morning one of Mr. Jenckes’ne
groes discovered Indian tracks near his planta
tion at North River, 20 miles from this place; in
consequence of which his people have been re
moved.
Mr. Jenckes has a family of i 4 negioes, a large
plantation and buildings, and a mansion for a
prince, within 20 miles of the oluest city in
America, and yet he is kept a prisoner in town, i
He attempted to re-establish himself last, spring, |
but was besieged by the Indians, narrowly escap- !
j ing with his life, and a good part of his was de
| stroyed.
j Col. Hanson, has also a family of about 70 ne
groes, within two miles—within sight of the
town, upon a plantation ot which the Indians
take possession when they please.
These two arc the only remaining plantations
in St. Johns county. However callous may lie
northern hearts, these two owners ot 140 slaves,
feel a responsibility. They have a 140 mouths
to feed, and 140 persons to clothe, lodge and pro
tect. Were the country quiet, this would be ati
easy matter, but it is not easy when Seminole
I Indians come when they please to destroy crops,
i and plunder negro houses.— lbid.
From the New Orleans Picayune of the 29th.
Disastrous Fire —uad Loss of Life. — Our
slumbering citizens were aw akened by ihe dole
ful tolling of fire bells, between three and four
o’clock on Sunday morning, and a flaring light
soon rose near the old marke t by the lower ferry.
The block ot buildings between the markets was
j involved completely by the flames, with a rapidity
! that occasioned most melancholy resubs. A cold
j and furious December wind was sweeping over
the city, w ith more severity than any such visila-
I lion that we have known during tiie present win
ter, fanning the lire with such impetuosity as to
j hurry on destruction in spite of the be. t efforts
jo! the firemen. The Independence Coffee House
Morrison’s extensive ship cnandiery, a dry goods
store, &c. were burnt, and merchandise, to the
j amount 0f£19,000 destroyed. Altogether the
| loss is estimated at about 835,000.
But the loss ot life is our most painful dulv to
relate, Mrs. Brown, with a young child, unable
to escape, perished in the flames. A black wo
man and tier infant met the same melancholy
destiny. Mrs. Morrison, herself with an infant
in her arms, ascended to the roof, crossed on to
the other houses, and finally was seen and taken |
< off before the fire reached her. But another child, :
19 months old, has not been found, and is doubt
less now reduced to ashes in the ruins. Besides
this, one of our brave and energetic young firemen
perished, being crushed and hurled instantaneous*
i!v into eternity by the falling of a wall. Cun
i ntngham C. H. Rowan was borne to his tomb
|on SuiKiav afternoon. He sprang from his bed
at the cry of danger, and met his death affording
; succor to distress. His brother firemen, together
j with numerous friends and citizens, attended to
i do honor to his remains, anti a mournful farewell
j was taken of one of our spirited and brave protec
j tors.
Since writing the above, we have read Mr.
Morrison’s letter published last evening in *Sie j
Native American, by which it seems this calamity
is but the finale ot long and severe illfortune. A ,
I meeting of his friends is suggested, and certainly I
I no occasion could occur calling more forcibly for i
| friendly sympathy and assistance. After long'
j struggling to surmount former difficulty, the blow
| has now fallen, crushing at one domestic lies and
i prostrating his means most cruelly.
From the New Oilcans Bee of the Hath.
Texas,
| By an arrival from Texas on the 35i.1i, dates j
| were received from Galveston to the 23d. The I
news is of little importance, and h is been antici- !
pitted by those papers which published on Satur- !
day.
A considerable number Mexican troops were i
reported to have been seen on the borders of the i
Rio Grande. It was also rumored that they in- !
tended making a descent upon Texas in the spring \
for the purpose of destroying the settlements, and
breaking up the trade between the two couu- I
tries.
Business had been brisk at Galveston during
the week ending on the 19th. Ordinary cotton
ranged from 7to cents; fair quality comman
ded 8 cents.
fneoiiT.iNT Indiav Tmeatv.—The Fort
ayne Times (la.) states that at the late Indi
an payment at the Forks of the Wabash, the In
dians made a proposition to sell their lands; and
thai Gen, .vhuov (although not officially author*
r/.c.i by tin; Government) took the responsibility,
w oilc th, v were in the humor,” of treating with
*co. l.u auout ofhl.fujo being the whole ol
the Miami lands in this Mate. The price agreed
!° b * ‘ s about . 10 per acre, and the Indiana
•■?t in five years. The lands are worth
Mil per acre hard as the times are, and there is
f't.e down the General Government will cmifii m
Albany Argm,
Alterations of the Court*.
rasters cmcmr.
Spring Term.
Hnl loch
V» syne Thursday after Ist Monday in April.
Camden 2d Monday do
Glynn 3d do do
Mclntosh 4th do do
Liberty Monday thereafter.
Bryan Friday thereafter.
Fall Term.
Bulloch Last Wednesday in October.
Wayre Thursday after Ist Monday in Nov. i
Camden 4th Monday in November.
Glynn Monday thereafter.
Mclntosh.... Do do
Liberty Do do
Bryan Friday do t
SOUTHWESTERN CIRCUIT.
Randolph Ist Monday in Feb. and Aug.
Early 3d do do do
Decatur 4th do do do
Baker Ist do March .V Sept.
Lee 2d do do do
Dooly 3d do do do
Macon 4th do do do
Sumter ...Ist do in April, and Tues
day alter Ist Monday in Oct. I
j Inferior Courts as heretofore.
CHEROKEE CIRCUIT.
Union 2d Monday in March and Sept. i
Gilmer 3d do do do j
Muiiay 4th do do do i
Walker Tuesday after the Ist Monday |
in Oct. and Ist Monday in
April.
Dade 2d Monday in Oct. and April, i
Chattooga 3d do do do ;
Floyd 4th do do do :
Laurens Superior Court. Ist Monday in March and
September.
Thomas do do ..4th Monday in May and j
November.
Marion Ist Monday in March and Sept.!
Harris 2d do do do
Stewart Ist Monday in May and 3d Mon- ;
day in November.
Stewart Inferior Court. Ist Monday in Feb. and 2d i
Monday in July. i
Twiggs Inferior Court. .Ith Monday in March and j
September.
Fayette do do . ..3d Monday in Jan. & June. :
Muscogee do do ..4th do do & July.
From the Geornia Journal.
(Cr We call the attention of oui readers to the
following, it speaks for itself. No language
which we can use. approbatory of the secession
j of the State Rights Senators on the occasion al
| luded to. can add to their weil earned laurels.—
We were present, on both occasions; and we felt
proud that the party to which we belonged,
ranked among its members, the receding Sena-1
tors. Qur leaders, however, will do well to give !
the plain, unvarnished statement, which wi.l fol
low this article, their careful attention.
, The Resolution, proposing to bring on the elec
tion of a Senator to the Gongress of the United |
States, having been called up on the 23d Novem- j
1 her, was amended, so as to require the election to ;
take .place on the 4th December, when it was j
moved, by the Senator from Walton, that “ the
Resolution should he upon the table for the bai- I
ancc of the session.” The effect of this motion,
if carried, would have been (under a Kuie of the :
Senate) to prevent the eleclion of Senator, by the I
present Legislature.
The motion was put, and on sounding the
; ayes and noes, the President declared that it had
j prevailed. The yeas and nays being called for,
■ and the undersigned members of the Senate, be
' liovingthc refusal to elect a Senator to the Con
i gress of the United States, to be a violation of
j the Constitution, anti a during outrage upon the
j feelings, and expressed will of a majority of the
' freemen of the State of Georgia, having urged i
' every reason and argument, in vain, as a last re
sort, to prevent the consummation, of this before
unheard of act of oppression, withdrew peacea
bly from the Senate, leaving less than a quorum, j
j *)n the succeeding day, we appeared in our seats, i
■ determined to afford to our opponents, an oppor-1
: 'unity of receding from the stand they had taken, i
:iiid for tr• is purpose, one of us “ moved a recon
; ;Mention of the order of the Senate, under
: which the Resolution was taken up.” But a
j night’s reflection had not changed their determi
nation, to defeat the will of the people, for they
unanimously vote 1 against a reconsideration, and
the motion, “to lay the Resolution on the table
tor the balance of the session, ' being pressed, w»
' again withdrew from the Senate chamber, leaving
jour opponents without the power of consum- i
mating their intended violation of constitutional
duty. Wc fee! the more justified in the course
we pursued, tram the fact, that we, m reality,
j have a majority in the Senate of Georgia, But I
by reason of sickness, arid other providential j
; causes occasioning the absence of members, the
Van IJuren party had become the majority, and
; were taking advantage of the circumstances, sor 1
j the purpose of thwarting the views of the real
i majority, and the known wishes of the people.
Thomas E. Blackshear, of Thomas county.
Eli Glover, of Jasper “
; T. .!. Warthen, of Washington
Thomas H. Dawson, of Colombia ••
A. J. Miller, of Richmond
i Charles Kennon, of Harris
John Harris, of Warren »•
| • Winfield Wright of Laurens ••
Loverd Bryant, of Stewart
Singleton Harris of Taliaferro
Solomon Smith, of Bryan
John C. Walthour, of Effingham
j John M. Minter, oi Marion ••
Ben. TL Moore, of Lincoln
Peter J. Williams, of Baldwin
Joshua H. FHer, of Telfair
James Strickland, of Ware
J. S. Calhoun,of Muscogee
H. P. Sinead, of Talbot •»
S. Spencer, of Liberty ••
I . J. Bullock, of Bibb
Daniel O Neal, oi Decatur ••
George Stapleton, of Jefferson
Henry Strickland, of Tattnall «
i C. W. Christian, of Elbert
| Oliver W. Cox, of Hcnrv
Levi J. Knight, of Lowndes
John A. Jones, of Paulding
•S. Floyd, of Morgan ••
1 J. M. Gonder, of Hancock «
j L>- B- Creech, of Montgomeiv
S J. S. Vincent, of Clarke
A. B. Reid, of Monroe ••
Jarrci Beasley, of Troup
James Griggs, of Putnam
John Bryan, of Macon
j A. Thomas, of Oglethorpe
i We were not present, vet we concur fully in
the principles and actions oi' the seceding Srna
i l,>n? ;
George H. Harris, of Burke
Thomas NV. Goode, of Upson
| Jno. Williamson, of Newton
I William Janos, of Lee •-
j J arias Tomlinson, of Sumter
i James Holmes, of Houston “
Kentucky.—No State in the Union presents
abetter financial condition, when we compare its
resources with its liabilities, than the State of
Kt vinw, For her fortunate position, in tins
respect, she is in a measure indebted to the for-
Clearance and good judgment displayed by .Mr.
Binlock, her fund commissioner in 1838 and 1339
in declining to m-jioci jtc her securities, except on
lti« own terms. The credit of the State has thus
be -ii must honorably sustained and her bonds are
jueiiy considered among the most desirable of oui
State securities.— Wth C urUr Enquir -'
1 ‘
Major IB B. Beall. ! i<
We take great pleasure in announcing to'the , I
numerous friends of Major Beall, that he is rapidly 1 r
recover ng from his late illness, ami is now con- '
i
valescent, any reports to the contrary notwitb- ,
standing. i j
Mutiny and Murder.— By the steam boat ' v
by lock, from New Orleans, arrived last evening, j
we learn that she touched at Pass Christian, and i
while there, learned that a mutiny had occurred
on board the schooner Alexander, of Pensacola to ,
whose assistance an aimed party went in a sail- 1 (
boat. The boat returned while the Sbylock was j
laying at Pass Christian. ,
The circumstances, as related to those on the (
boat, are as follows:’ A ship master in Pensaco- j
la had written to a shipping master in New Or- !
lans for the purpose of engaging a competent i
mate and six sailors, with the proviso they should
he Alnericans; but the shipping master, disre- :
garding this,shipped the men,ail being foreigners,
and forwarded them on the Alexander bound to ;
Pensacola. A short time after sailing from the !
city, the seven men mutinied; —drove the Cap-:
i fain and crew ashore, and took possession of the .
i schooner. They soon grounded her. The Cap- '
i tain came to Pass Christian for assistance, and a
i party was formed and fully armed, and saiied for
i her. On reaching the vessel, they found the mu- :
| tineers had killed the cook soon after the captain
| lelt; quarreled among themselves, and murdered
! three of their own party; hoisted part of the
i cargo from the hold, and threw it overboard.— 1
They were seemed, and were to be transported to
; New Orleans as soon as the schooner floated,
papers of the Western District state, '
j that a strange and fatal disease, which has thrown i
i the citizens of some parts of the District into j
j great alarm and confusion, is now prevailing there.
The pathology of the disease, as well as the neces- j
! sary course of treatment, does not seem to be fully !
| understood. The most prominent pathological
i phenomenon ot the disease, as it now prevails,
i seems to be an immediate morbific influence on
1 the brain producing direct debility distinguishable
j from all other atmospheric miasma , by produ
cing spasms, debility, sorenesss of the muscular
■ system, and instant death. —Jones burgh FTcun ) |
1 Whig.
A Profitable Prison.—Gov Shannon, in |
his late Message to the Legislature of Ohio, gives ■
the annexed account of the State Penitentiary :
‘•lt appears to be cor ducted prosperous y by its
present Warden. The total cash receipts for the
year ending November3oth are stated at $44,000.
Total cash payments, year amount to §52,000,
which is a nett of §25.000, above all expenditures
for superintendance, and so forth. The number
! of convicts on the 30th November was 488. But
four deaths have occurred during the year.”
Education iu England—curious Facts,
The last number of the Boston Medical Jour- i
j nal contains an article condensed from an official ;
; report, by which it appears that of 121.083 couples
i married in England, there were 40,587 men and
i 58,959 women who could not write. The pas
toral, agricultural, and purelv manufacturingrlas
i ses are the most ignorant. The better educated
i artisans and trades people appear to emigrate, and
; assemble in the metropolis; for it is not probable
; that children born in the metropolis are educated
I in the schools so much more extensively than are
those born in the country, as the abstract would
imply. Os tiie above number, SG2S men and
16,414 women were under 21 years oi age.
The average age of the men was 27 years, of
the women 25 years and a few months. The
mortality in England and Wales for 1839, was
as 1 tvi 47.3, In 1833 it was 1 to 46.
i Capture of St, Jean d’Ache.—The New
; York Courier remarks that the reduction of this
fortified place, (so celebrated in the time of the
Crusades, as the seat of the order of the Knights
\ oi Bt. John; and in modern times for the resis
tance it successtuliy made to Napoleon during
i a seige of two months.) by the British and Allied
j Naval forces, in the short space of four hours—
would seem to indicate either a great improve
ment in the art oi gunney, or in the kind of artil
lery now Hi use. Wc see it stated in the report
i ot the Austrian officer in command, that the
British war steamers, were, from the heavy calibre
j of their guns, enabled to take up a position out
of the reach of the artillery oi the fortress, and
I that their guns were all of the construction ot
Pa i xii \n • It is to the use of this newly invented
, piece of ordinance, that the speedy demolition of
I the fortress is to bo attributed.
The Egyptians fought gallantly, and lost 3000
j men (part ly by the blowing up of a powder mi
, gazine.) the English, Austrians, and Turks had !
: only 18 men kiMed! Botne idea of the havi.-c
may bo gathered from the fact that the ship 'Fite !
Princess Charlotte fin d 4400 shots, and the Bel- i
■ lerophnn disposer! of 14,033 lbs. of powder, and
of 68,908 lbs. of iron -hoi. Thoie were 460
i guns ot the heaviest calibre, at Acre, worked by
French bombardiers.
Asc ♦•nt nl .Tont i3!:t:ic by Ji’adCi.ioixciSi* i
U’A ugevitie.
iii dr. c:;u. mu lee a.
In my account ol the glacier ot Faucignv, in
serted some years since in a German periodical,
I related how a young lemale from the valley of
Cbamouni touched the summit of Mont Blanc j
not through her own merit and enemy, but thro
the efforts and perseverance of the guides, who.
at her own urgent entreaty—for the was betroth- :
<>d to one of them—took her along with them in :
an excursion in quest of rock-crystals at the foot I
ot the Dent du Midi, and carried her. when MM- j
rie was not, abie to walk any farther, so that thev
at length arrived with heron the summit o» Mont !
. Blanc. rthe was thence called Marie de Mont '
Blanc. Net so tortunate were Lady Cam Mull ■
and her daughter, both courageous fi males, who
: proceeded without accident over the <’ol de Ge
ant to the Piedmontese Allee Blanche, nud would
: fain have undertaken the ascent of Mont Blanc,
iit they had not been assured b\ d.e modes that
! this was an achievment, imp icticabl for a wo
| man. This impossibility is now, however, ren
; derod possible. I might even say not difficult, !
through the antotir propre, the courage, and the
firmness of a F: each lady accustomed to excur
sions of this kind.
Neat rtf. Lambert, in the department of the
; -‘*n, at the foot of the western declivity of the
Jura, where many rugged mountains are finked !
; together, is seated a mansion named Lonmues,
Here Mademoiselle d’Angeville was born' and
brought up. Bhe exccrcised herself at an early
i age in long Mountain excusions in her own
i neighborhood, and on one occasion walked se
; verity leagues in four days. One would « - ,roe 1
! iy believe her to be capable of such an exertion
; judging Irom her slender figure, her small t ic- 1
gaut toot, and a haadsome hand of comvno* d- !
I | n /f. dehcac - v - Her e y* certainly It.
teliigence and firmness, and her languor rcso- I <
ution arid the tone of good society, in other ; !
respect she is no beauty, and forty-two years old. 1 1
•She assured me that ten years ago, at‘the first | !
s.gh: of Mont Blanc,glowing us it then was in I ;
11 ' ‘ ' etting sun, she corn ived n ex- :
(.aoplinary desire to be on (he ton of it—a lid- ■
w ' !: ’-'h s^le has evei it ce chi
which was partly the cause of her long vi.-it to 1
t reneva, where there is so magnificent a view oi 1
taa s "lonniain, and its C.-I!dws. As Made- ‘
msisclJe d’A ngeviUe is not ru h. it took her sever- '
a; years to save the sum requisite for Hie enter
prise, and I. st summer she .-.ml ;■) licr.-i.if, •• 1 \-,[ '
uow accomplish ii. .
I: ' ‘ : Bepienib he p .I ■
iiom tJ Uh.tmui.uii. Theieat the Lu-1
on,” she immediately madeknown ner inUntc'ii-
Every one, and the guides themselves, joined in
remonstrating with and dissuading her, Rega.di
less of all representations, she persisted in her
purpose. r i’he guides iherelore, were at lengtn
forced to relinquish their opposition, and to cuter
into negotiation with the adventurous iaciy. rtue
engaged Ju.—*ph Coutet, who had been already
seven times on Mont Blancas cliiei of the guides
hired five others and two poilers; so that tne
party consisted altogether of nine persons.
On Monday, the 3d of September as a serene
sky and a coM air announced a fine day, the ne
cessaiy implements and provisions were collec
ted, and preparations made for starting. Over
thick trowers the lady put on a woman’s gow n
of coarse wollen stufl, and over that b goatskin
cloak, such as is commonly worn by the gitD at
the challs on the Alps in the vicinity, a fur hood I
coming far over the face, and upon it a Urge j
straw hat, without green veil or without green |
spectacles. She had besides, stout shoes, and |
the indispensable Alpine stick, mounted with j
chamois’ horn. But, before their departure, she
deemed it necessary to make a speech to her
attendants, which must appear wholly superflu
ous and out of place to ail who are acquainted
with those moral, modest,and well behaved men.
Mademoiselle d’Angevilie, who is fond ot using
flue words and phrases, reminded her guides that
ii was a female whom they were escorting, and
therefore she begged them to abstain from ail ex
pressions which might shock her delicatesse de
femme. The guides looked at one another, and
a flush of displeasure was their only reply. The
speaker immediately perceived her mistake, and
hastened to depart. !She might, indeed, have
spared this precautionary uddrers till she found
that it was needed, and then a hint to her head
guide would have been sufficient. We will see
by and by, that Mademoiselle d’Angeville ceased
to be so coy at the height of 15,000 feet above
the level of the Adriatic, in sight of three king
doms and a dozen republics.
Without difficulty or inconvenience the spirit
ed traveler passed the Torrent de Mimont, the
Pierre de FEcheile, the splendid glacier of Bos
sons. ano the obelisk-like rocks of the Grands
Mulets, where she collected plants, and wrote
short notes as memorials of the spot to her friends
and relations.—Here a glorious night awaited
ner. Flooded by the light of a full moon, the
vast fields of snow above, and the sparkling gla
ciers below her, produced a surprising .effect,
which was heightened by the avalanches that de
scended, crashing and thundering from the Dent
du Midi passed past (he foot of the rock below
The magnificence of the. scene allowed her
not a moment’s sleep, though she felt quite weil.
She observed in the moonlight, how Munier, onu
ot her porters had composed himself to sleep on
a narrow ridge of rock, in such a manner that
either leg hung down over a tremendous abyss,
into which Ue must have fallen on the slightest
movement, rthe stepped softly to him and awa
kened him ; lie eyed her at first in amazement,
and then, smiling, quieted her with the assurance
that he should be very glad if he could always
find so good a bed in his mountain excursions.
About three o’clock the party pursued their
route. The guides had previously made a hear
ty breakfast; but Mademoiselle d’Angeville, hav
ing no appetite, contented Lei seif with five dried
plums and snow, and she took nothing but this
frugal meal between Chamouni and the summit
cr Mont Blanc, for if was not till she reached
that point that she lelt any inclination for eating.
Vv Idle the guides were breakfasting, she changed
her dress in the tent, patting or, thick warm plan’s
apparel, instead of woman’s gown, which was an
obstruction to her. i
Continuing her journey, Mademoiselle d’An
geville crossed the Taconnac glacier, the Petites
Mon tees, the Petit Plateau, the Grandes Montees
and the Grand Plateau, with an ease that tilled
all her guides with astonishment, and occasioned
the repeated remark that they h id seldom seen a
man walk, climb, and leap over abysses, with
such firmness, safety, and resolution. Owing to
her experience in climbing mountains, she lound
no difficulty in the ascent of Mont Blanc so far
as Mur de !a Cotes; and she> is surprised at all
preceding travelers, who have described it as so
formidable, and represented it us being attended
with such terrific circumstances, which site con
siders the more incomprehensible inasmuch as
the traveler is always held by a strong rope tied
round the body,or steps upon poles heid in form
of abridge between two guides, and that teal
danger is quite out of the question.
it was not till she Had passed the Petits Mu
let--tnat Mademoiselle d’Angeville began to be
fatigued, and her weariness increased the nearer
she came to the Mur do la Cote. This is the
;ast but likewise the most difficult acclivity, on
account of its slope of from eightv to eighty-two 1
degrees toat \ou have to climb before you can i
r-';ica the top oi Mont Blanc. It is true that all
the guides had begun to flag except the chief,
"’ho always went on before her, and with his lit
tle axe cut broad steps in the fozei: snow. Had ;
there beer, a telescope in Geneva that would en
able the observer to distinguish persons at the dis
tance ot fourteen leagues, one might have watch
ed Mademoiselle u’Angevilie climbing the sharp
eastern border oi tite Uallote, and see ho.v ln-r
motions gradually became slower, and indicated
more and more exhaustion, and how she sat
down every fifty paces to rest and to take breath.
J tie otherwise liva ly and courageous traveler was
now stezvd w ith an increasing despondency, ac
companied by a painful oppression of the chest
and a feeling as it molten lead was circulating in
her \ciiis. She assured me herself, that she had
mustered and exerted all the energies of her
mind, that site might not lose all courage for pro
ceeding further. This state she calls an agony.
■Sescra! times she sank down in spite of herself,
and in one of Inese moments—incapable of ut
tering a word—she heard her conduct ar sav,
•• Jamais je ne a-enerai plus de femme sur le Mont
Blanc.”
Po facilitate her progress, Coutet pulled by a
rape Listened round her waist; and, but for lilts
assistance, she would probably not have Had
' the summit. V> hen si e aftt r
warus rallied him on Id- ungallant expression, he
icp,.M the' ner situation, owing tu the extreme
tension of the nerves and muscles at that height
was sueii as to threaten death : that her face was
quite ui&torted, like that of a person who has
expired in coniUisions, t tat he was every mo
ment afraid lest he should see her drop down
dead. Fortunately, with Ins assistance, her
strength just sufficed to reach the top, after inex
prcssiole exerti ns, on Tuesday, the 4th of Be>;-
tember, at fitiy-five minutes past twelve o’clock.
1 he rnoim at the a.r of the summit entered her
lungs, she felt cured and invigorated— just the
reverse ot ad tne male ascenders of Mont Blanc,
'"■ iK ’ !, l relaxed on the top.
ou ' ; : ailments forsake her. but
no felt as it were incorporeal, all sp : rit and all
p al0! -‘ ’ * h " “ilium ho the day before had
ucen so concerned about her moilosty was here
‘ Ul f ormed lnt f a thoroughly natural and Joyous
.mature; lor when tire chief guide remarked'that
■" “;••; "- it to a kiss on that spot, she made
Z • rr; N a . u present, d her clu ck
.‘ ,' a ‘ U e ’.. Ilm remarkable change is prob
'' i" l " t.) a iiisiilrto-ue. known rne
teo.ologica. influence ffi the atmosphere offfie
c«nsiif,iH oUnla lv iM hUrope u P° n tht ‘ female
constitution. Oi course de Saussure, with all
is> expt-iim m! '. nad no opportunity 0 f arriving
; Uch 11 Whnli ' in " fifty-two years ago- but n
hoare
hi
•■n.m.ug on I!u> i »> of Mont Blanc.
fore
a- „ :■ “'V' !
■ .)■ • !. ~ qu on le
" - ; - iC moistile tiionlo p{u- ; p...
r “-ut qi_e la
t 1 'i'upjww
ciiiic du Mom £ianc, ctqui n i=>t encore arrhefi
pevsonne.”
At a signal from him, 411 the other guides lent
d hand, and fairly lit’«d the lady upwards of four
feet above the surface ot the snow. Alter this
supplementary ascent. the provisions were un
packed, especially as the lady had recovered her
appetite v. he sc all other travelers lose theirs, •“die
ate with great relish, and, as a loyal Frenchwo
man, drank a glass ol champagne to the health
ol the Count <k Paris. Immediately afterwards,
she fell to work noon her correspondence, anil
wrote lour or live short letters to her relatives
and triends m Geneva and its environs, as Na
poleon formerly dated decrees from the Iviemlin.
In this there was to he sure something ol affecta
tion. The short time that she passed here she
might have employed to better purpose than in
I writing letters, for now she Iran hut avery 7 briet
interval tor examining the prospect in all its
parts. If was not till she had finished her coi
repondence that she directed her attention to the
view, favored by a perfectly clear and serene
skv, such as few have met with on Mont Blanc.
Here then stood Mademoiselle d Angeville, up
on a lofty Island, amidst an ocean ot immense
mountain waves. Overlooking the mighty chains
of the Catlian, Grajan, Pennine, and Lepontine,
i Alps and the Alps of Glarus. Uri. Unterwallen,
I and Berne, which lay at her feet, like huge dra
! gons, with scales, horns, and teeth, she mu-t
have been amply campensated for what she did
sec. for the view which other travelers profess to
have obtained of Milan, the Meuileranean, e
nice, and the Adriatic Bea. She declares that
she could not discover the slightest trace of any
of these objects, notwithstanding the sharpness
of her sight, and the serenity of the atmosphere,
since at this distance even with a good telescope,
the whole scene is blended into an undefined
mass, of an ash-gray. On this point, however,
we shall not insist. With rapid and practised
hand she made several sketches, and was only
prevented from taking more by a cold ot 8 deg.
Reaumur.
What other traveler- relate concerning great
debility, sleepiness, disposition to vomit, bleeding
at. the nose, pain in the eyes, faintness of sounds,
&c., she did not find confirmed by her own ex
perience. In short. Mont Blanc appeared to her
in many respects totally different fiom what it had
done to preceding travelers.
Alter a stay of fifty minutes she commenced
her descent, which \vas performed without acci
dent. That metercological influence on feminine
delicacy to which we have ailuded, still continued
to prevail in all its force, lor Mademoiselle d’Au
geville mace no scruple to glide down over th»a
rnirror-hke surface of the snow in the sam<? man
ner as male travellers, that is to say seated, the
guide sitting between her legs, of which he took
fast hold. Within half an hour after they had
left the top it was enveloped in a dense fog,
which did not clear away for above a week.
It is a remarkable circumstance that two other
successful attempts to ascend Mont Blanc were
made at the same time with Mademoiselle d’An
geviile’s. M. Stoppc, of Posen, with six guides,
and M. Eisenkramer, the landlord of the Union,
at Charnouni, with his guides and porters, started
shortly after her. passed the night not iar from
the lady, on the Grande Mulets, and reached the
summit of the mountain very soon after her.—
Thus there were fora moment, twenty-four per
sons at once on the top of Mont Blanc, Stoppc
and Eisenkramer congratulated the ladv on her
successful ascent, but stayed on the summit u
much shorter time than she did, and saw scarelv
anything tor they left it again in five minutes, as
though they had come merely for the sake of
saying that they had Ltcn there.
In a tew uours, Mademoiselle d'Angeville had
j passed the places which it had cost such labor to
j ascend, and reached the station of the Grands
Mulets, ihe days were too short, and the ladv
too much fatigued, for her to think of returning
the same day to Charnouni, as Eisenkramer did,
j alter resting a while on the rotk. She again
i Passed the night there, made several sketches in
I the morning, and arrived about noon at Charnou-
I ni, where she was received with great rejoicing,
| with songs, and the firing of guns, both by na
j lives and foreigners. She dined at the table d'
note oi the Union. On the following day she
j gave the guides their usual treat, which had a
peculiar interest. At the head of the table sat
Mario do Mont Blanc, no longer handsome and
blooming, but lively and full of spirits, and who
even drank so freely at the desert that her tongue
became very loud. Mademoiselle d’Angeville,
toe other female ascender of Mont Blanc, was
seated at the lower end of the table, and did the
honors in the genuine French style.
j ..) l vvas 80U f davs before Mademoiselle d’Ange
| viile returned to U- nova, where they immediale
! ly fell to prepare fi r the press an account of her
i ascent, with six de>
! - ri V ' hat w,li be ,ht consequence of all this »_
: rae s ascent of Mont Blanc, which since Dr
i h atlem P l has ! een accomplished hv
; twenty-nine travellers, mid at least one hum
i a ‘; d ,n v ' hiih , not ° ne has hi..
; HanimeiV'Jhree 3 ' guides' v injur >'~ for Dl
| vh r lrncd an woljz
aJ\ become as common an excursion from
I V ha i m ° Um asthat to lht Grand Mulcts and the
i Jardin. especially for the chivalry. - anil weal hw
Eng, ish ladies, fond of riding and t. \ hunting 7
SAy "T ‘hhy. for such an excursion ,-annot co t
j -w attempt succeed- or not.
| v pr ° the
ja» douiutul the oxj.-,, , i ’" Wf Sl '' ‘ ,O ' Vll
lotion of route of the*( ’I ° ol the ;*opu-
Hampsh i ;e a ,^" S ;„t me ’ COnneC,iCUt - Ne *
tarn. —ExUacfof'* Partial.
in *r lUh
morning. a viohnu-irtf 'i " l>M nino >n the
liuriftl in the ruins The P crSonß "ere
■I-. i-uM 2i i fll " c J1;*;j**»««.;». «r ho««
exception, have been m , tbe ot hers, without
the fortress only ® °|. less ln J ure d; and in
standing, The “ lree have been Ira
is immense; some village c “ Useil t 0 the country
longer io ek., a E„i. 8 '* m "- v b « «lmost .aid „„
mark the .Mhin l* or lions vvcrel.lt to
have sufel,| |, S3 ‘„ ha ' e •"■‘T mhaWted. Some
!wv f "Ot been free from > h “" *e». but
try nouses Os Zante n 1 S ‘ Ut thecoun
they are alMn ruins. l '°
that Roma, who wa the sr .ucient to state
oniv o^i*rrr r ° r «
horn? fine, .w [he" ? ,lle da -'
O'Hoi Joors, an,t up to ,I „ r he f°“»try were
known that am 1U \h~ * lsent hou r it is m t
killed. The Li L >««'»„ have
vears must elapse before /, , ria ° Us ’ °ud many
'lie I'lovv. The Lord H,c!, r" ' 1 recom f '«»
r'^"-^::r-r^.o m e,.t U fu
1 lan ar *y which has [ . v \ a,l ‘"'. Uake ,noro 'ioK-i.t
within three md I f fT d - since
engine of the steam ■>' '* “ e ls!ant> when the
traordinarv manner ZT T ‘ *' l ina '■ ■
'■
°pi lion w:u a uot an earthquake.
ofrnj, . " c °nfirmed by
. u,nns d and dust ... > , ai.ee
coming cloier in wit , : « ’■*
U liJ d we saw that en-