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CHRONIOLE AND SKNTTNEL.
AUGUSTA.
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THURSDAY MORNING, JANUARY 7.
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Adams Press ibr sale.
A power press of the above improved patent can
be obtained at this office at a reduced price. It is
in perfect order —large enough to work a sheet 24
bj 36 inches, turns oif eight hundred sheets per
tour, and does it* work in superior style.
Mail north of Richmond last night.
Large Cotton. —We were presented the other
day with one of thelargest cotton stalks we have
ever seen grown in Georgia ; it was the product of
the farm of T. W. Dillard, Esq. of Burke, measur
ed inches in circumference, and was said to have
been 10 feet high before it was cut.
From the Savannah Republican.
The Election in Chatham County.
The following is the result of the election in
this county yesterday for member of Congress,
Justices of the Inferior Court, Receiver of Tax
Returns, and for Collector of Taves. There was
no opposition to the present Justices, who were
all candidates for re-election, and no opposition
to the Receiver of Tax Returns.
For Congress.
Hines Holt, (W.) 428
J. H. Watson, (L. F.) 4io
Foe Justices of the Inferior Court.
A. Porter* ••• 788
W. Thorne Williams 781
Elias Reed 775
Francis Sorrel 743
M. Myers 691
Receiver of Tax Returns.
B. Lathrop 829
Tax Collector.
Jacob Shaffer, (elected) 248
John Cass 139
James E. Hogg 125
B. T. Theus 48
Four other candidates received 98 voles.
From the Savannah Republican.
From Florida.
By the following letter, received yesterday
from eur attentive Florida correspondent, it will
be seen that the important information from the
■eat of war, published in our columns yesterday
morning, in relation to the surrender of Indian
warriors, was substantially correct. Upon the
whole, the news is of such a character as to give
strong hopes of a termination of the war—cer
tainly a better grounded hope than we have yet
had reason to entertain.
* Florida, December 27.
Gentlemen, —Since my note of yesterday, giv
ing the happy intelligence of the coming in of
the Indians, I am informed that the chief of the
Talahasses, and other head men, are among the
number, and great hopes are now entertained es
an adjustment of the difficulties heretofore in the
way of peace.
In veply to your enquires, I have to state that
the last that was heard of the “Republic’s own,”
command by the Duke of Albany, it was valiently
scouring the country on the Tampa road, at the
sound of the bugle. The Indians who subse
quently came into Fort King, said that hearing
' its shrill notes some three miles off, and not ex
actly understanding "the charge ” from "the re
treat,” chose for themselves to give it the latter
interpretation, and acted accordingly,
Your’s truly.
P. S.—A wagon, with an escort of ten men,
was attacked by Indians between Micanopy and
Wakahoota yesterday, and Lieut. Shorwood, Mrs.
Montgomery, Sergeant-Major Carl, and -three
privates were killed. A team was also attacked
near Fort Holmes and the teamster killed yes
terday.
Mrs. Montgomery was a most lovely young
woman—had been recently married and Jhad been
in Florida but one month.
From the New Orleans Bee of Dec. 31st.
From Texas.
By the arrival of the steam ship Savannah.from
Galveston, we have received our tiles of Texas
papers to the 27th hist. The papers are busily
employed in discussing the subject of the dispo
sition of the prize schooner Ana Maria and car
go, captured by Lieut. Moore. With regard to
this matter it appears that the captain of the schoo
ner obtained an injunction and had the sale stop
ped, after a positive order from the Court of Ad
miralty that it should be made. The prize agent
repaired to Houston, and requested the judge
to ;§et aside the injunction, which was done, and
the sale commanded in ten days. The Mexican
N captain again obtained an injunction and arrested
the sale, by which procedure the whole subject
becomes involved in litigation. The conduct of
the authorities who have four limes issued and
reversed their orders is commented upon with
merited severity by the press.
President Lamar was expected at Galveston
on his way to the United States.
Dr. Lott an estimable citizen of Galveston was
lound dead in the swamps some weeks ago. He
was laboring under mental alienation and in that
condition wandered from the house at whichjhc
resided and was never heard of until his body
was discovered.
A ssirmish took place some days ago between
the Lepans and Coramanches in Milam country,
in which one or two ou either side were killed.
John P. Borden has resigned the office of Com
missioner of the General Land Office.
We notice littie else of interest in the papers.
Case of McLeod.—The examination of Al
exander McLeod before Judge Bowen, in this
village, has been closed. It resulted in remand
ing him him to jail until he enters into resigm
zance of $5,000 for himself, with two sureties of
$2,600 each, for his appearance at court to an
swer to the charge of being one of the gang con
cerned in the murder committed at the lime the
steamboat Caroline was burned. The testimony
given in, is very contradictory— several witnesses
tending to implicate the prisoner, while others
swoic positively to his being elsewhere on the
night of the burning of the Caroline. If upon
trial, the accused should succeed in establishing
an alibi, and an acquittal follow, the question
growing out of that affair, will of course be post
poned. But it on the contrary, a jury shall
adjudge him guilty, then will the case assume a
serious aspect. Our national government, would
not if it could, and could not if it would, inter
fere with the decisions of New York, for an
offence committed against the laws of this State;
the penalty must be inflicted. On the other
hand, the act for which McLeod is arraigned has
been sanctioned by the British Government, and
she is bound to protect her subjects. How then,
in such a contingency, a collision between the
nations is to be avoided, it is not easy to foresee.
—A i agar a Courier.
The long controversy in the Hancock and
Washington Congressional District (Maine) has
been terminated at last by the election of Joshua
A. Lowell, N. 8.. by one majority.
Fue Pro-thm Senator.—lt is officially an
nounced to-day, that his Excellency the Gover
nor has conferred the commission of Senator
jtro-lem. to fill the vacancy occasioned by the
death ot the Hon, Felix Grundy, upon A. (J. P.
Nicholson, Esq., of Maury. We learn that Mr.
N. passed through town on Saturday night on
his way to Washington. —Nashville Wing.
Canadian Affairs*
The following is the correspondence alluded
to in the letter of our Washington corespondent
published yesterday.
To the House of Representatives of the Lnited
States :
I herewith transmit to the House of Repre
sentatives a report from the Secretary of State,
with accompanying papers, in answer to their
resolution of the 21st instant.
M. VAN BUREN.
Washi xe rox, Dec. 28, 1840.
Dafabtment of State. }
Washington, Dec, 28, 1840.
Sir:—The Secretary of State, to whom has
been referred the resolution of the House of Rep
resentatives, dated the 21st instant requesting
the President “to communicate to that House
• if notin his opinion incompatible with the pub
lic interest) all the correspondence between this
Government and that of Great Britain, or the
officers or agents of either, or the officers and
agent of this Government with the President or
any of its Departments, which has not hereto
fore been communicated to that House, on the
subject of the outrage of burning the Caroline i
on the Niagara frontier; and whether there is
any prospect of compensation being made to the
owner of said boat for the loss thereof; and, al
so, whether any communications have been
made to this Government in regard to the
arrest and imprisonment of McLeod, by j
the authorities of the State of New York, for
being concerned in said outrage; and, if so, that
he communicate a copy thereof to that House,”
has the honor to report to the President, in an
swer to that resolution, the accompanying pa
pers.
Respectfully ’ ’ submitted.
JOHN FORSYTH.
To the President of the United States of .Amer
ica.
Mr. Stevenson, to Mr. Forsyth. — Extract.
Legation of the United States,
London, July 2, 1839. S
******
I regret to say that no answer has yet been
given to my note in the case of the “ Caroline.”
I have not deemed it proper under the circum
stances to press the subject without further in
structions fiom your Department. If it is the
j wish of the Government that I should do so, I
pray to be informed of it, and the degree of ur
gency that I am to adopt.
| Mr. Forsyth, to Mr. Stevenson. — Extract.
Department of State, ) 1
Washington, 11th Sept. 1839. $ j
t * * * * *
With reference to the closing paragraph of
your communication to the Department, dated
the 2d of July last, (No 74,) it is proper to in
. form you that no instructions are at present re
quired for again bringing forward the question of
the “ Caroline.” I have had frequent conversa
, tionswith Mr. Fox in regard to this subject—one
ofvery recent date—and from its tone, the Presi
dent expects the British Government will answer
your application in the case without much farther
delay.
i
Mr. Fox to Mr. Forsyth.
Washington, Dec. 13, 1840.
Sir;—l am informed by his Excellency the I
Lieutenant Governor of the Province of Upper ;
Canada, that Mr. Alexander McLeod, a British j
subject, a late deputy sheriff of the Niagara dis- j
trict in Upper Canada, was arrested at Lewiston j
in the State of New York, on the I2th of last :
month, on a pretended charge of murder and j
arson, as having been engaged in toe capture
and destruction of the piratical steamboat “ Car- i
oline.” In the month of December, 1837. Af
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| ter a tedious and vexatious examination, Mr. Me- j
Leod, was committed for trial, and is now im
prisoned in Lockport jail.
I feel it my duty to call upon the Government ;
of the United States to take prompt and effectu- i
al steps for the liberation of Mr. McLeod. It is i
well known that the destruction of the steam- j
boat “ Caroline” was a public act of persons in
her Majesty’s service, obeying the order of their i
superior authorities. That act, therefore, accor- ;
ding to the mages of nations, can only be the
subject of discussion between the two National ]
Governments. It cannot justly be made the
ground of legal proceedings in the United States |
against the individuals concerned, who were
bound to obey the authorities appointed by their
own Government.
I may add that 1 believe it is quite notorious
that Mr. McLeod was not one of the party en- j
gaged in the destruction of the steamboat “Car
oline;” and that the pretended charge upon !
which he was imprisoned rests only upon the
perjuied testimony of certain Canadian outlaws
and their abettors, who, unfortunately tor the
peace of that neighborhood, are permitted by the
authorities of the State of New York to infest ;
the Canadian frontier.
The question, however, of whether Mr. Mc-
Leod was or was not concerned in the destruc
tion of the “Caroline,” is beside the purpose of
the present communication. That act was the
public act of persons obeying the constituted au
thorities of her Majesty’s Province, The Na- :
tional Government of the United Statesthought
themselves called upon to remonstrate against it;
ami a remonstrance which the President did ac- I
cordingly address to her Majesty’s Government,
is still, I believe, a pending subject of diplomatic
discussion between her Majesty's Government
and the Unite! States Legation in London. I
feel therefore, justified in expecting that the Pres
ident’s Government will see the justice and the
necessity of causing the present immediate re
lease of Mr. McLeod, as well as of taking such
steps as may be requisite for the preventing oth
ers of her Majesty’s subjects from being perse
cuted or molested in the United States in a sirn- i
ilar manner for the future.
It appears that McLeod was arrested on the
I2th ultimo; that after the examination of wit
' nesses, he was finally committed for trial on the
18th, and placed in confinement in the jail of
Lockport, awaiting the assizes, which will be
held therein February next. —As the case is nat- I
urally occasioning a great degree of excitement
and indignation with the British frontier, I ear- !
uestly hope that it may be in your power to give 1
me an early and satisfactory answer to the pre
sent representation.
I avail mysclt ol this occasion to renew to
you the assurance of my distinguished consid- :
eration.
H. S. FOX.
Hon, Joh n Forsith, Ac. Ac.
Mr. Forsyth to Mr. Fox.
Department of State, } j
Washington, December 2G, 184 U. £
Sir;—l have the honor to acknowledge, and j
have laid before the President your letter of the |
13th instant, touching the arrest and imprison- j
ment of Alexander McLeod, a British subject,
and late Deputy Sheriff of the Niagara District
in Upper Canada, on a charge of murder and
arson, as having been engaged ir; the capture
and destruction of tiie steamboat “ Caroline,”
in the month of December 1837; in respect to
which you state that you feel it your duty to call !
upon the Government of the United States to
take prompt and effectual steps for the liberation
ot Mr. McLeod, and to pevent others of the sub
jects ot her Majesty, the of Great Britain
fiom being persecuted or molested in a similar
manner, for the future.
Ihe demand, with the grounds upon which
it is made, has been duly considered by tine Pres
idem, with a sincere desire to give to it such a
reply as will not only manifest a proper regard
for the character and rights of the United States,
but, at the same time tend to preserve the amica
ble relations which, so advantageously for both,
subsist between this country and England. Os
the reality of this disposition, and of the unifor
mity with which it has been evinced in the ma
ny delicate and difficult questions which have
arisen between the two countries in the last few
years, no one can be more convinced than your
self. It is then with unfeigned regret that the i
President finds himself unable to recognise the |
validity of a demand, a coraplimance with w hich ■
you deem so material to the preservation of the
good understanding which has been hitherto
manifested between the two countries.
The jurisdiction of the several states which
constitute the Union is within its appropriated
sphere, perfectly independent of the Federal Gov
ernment. The offence with which Mr. McLeod
is charged was committed within the territory,
and against the laws and citizens of the State of
New York, and is one that comes clearly within
the competency of her tribunals. It does not,
therefore, present an occasion where, under the
Constitution and laws of the Union, the interpo
sition called for would be proper, for which a
warrant can be found in the powers with which
the Federal Executive is invested. Nor would
the circumstances to which you have referred, or
the reasons you have urged, justify the exertion
of such a power, if it existed.
The transaction out of which the question ari
i ses, presents the case of a most unjustifiable in
vasion, in time of peace, of a portion of the terri
tory of the United States, by a band of armed men
from the adjacent territory of Canada, the forci
ble capture by them whithin our own waters, and
the subsequent destruction of a steamboat, the
property of a citizen of the United States, and the
I murder of one or more American citizens. If
arrested at the time, the offenders might unques
tionably have been brought to justice by the judi
cial authorities of the State within whose ac- :
knovvledged territory these crimes were commit- i
j ted : and their subsequent voluntary entrance |
within that territory, places them in the same j
j situation. The President is not aware of any
principle of international indeed of reason
or justice, which entitles such offenders to impu
nity before the legal tribunals, when coming vol
untarily within their independent and undoubted
jurisdiction, because, they acted in obedience to
their superior authorities, or because their acts j
have become the subject ot diplomatic discussion
between the two Governments. These methods
of redress, the legal prosecution of the offenders,
and the application of their Government for satis
faction, are independent of each other, and may
ibe separately’ and simiultaneously pursued. The
1 avowal or justification of the outrage by the Bri
| tish authorities might be a ground of complaint
1 with the Government of the Unted States, dis
tinct from the violation of the teiritoiy and laws
of the State of New York. The application of
the Government of the Union to that ot Great;
Britain, for the redress of an authorized outrage'
of the peace, dignity, and rights of the United
States, cannot deprive the tState ot New \ ork ot
her undoubed right of vindicating, through the
exercise of her judical power, the property and j
lives of her citizens.
Ycu have properly regarded the ailedged ab- i
sence of Mr. McLeod from the scene of the of- |
fence at the time when it was committed, as not j
1 material to the decision of the present question. :
I That is a matter to be dicided by legal evidc nce .
! and the sincere desire of the President is, p lat
it may be satisfactorily established. If the des
truction of the Caroline was a public act of per
sons in her Majesty's service, obeying the or
der of their superior authorities, this fact has not '
i b~en before communicated to the Government of)
j the United States by a person authorized to make
; the admission; and it will be for the court which j
I has taken cognizance of the offence with which
| Mr. McLeod is charged, to decide upon its validi
ty when legally established before it.
The President deems this to be a proper occa
sion to remind the Government of her Britanic
Majesty that the case of the “Caroline’’ has been
j long since brought to the attention of her Majes
* tv's principal Secretary of State for Foreign Af
fairs, who, up to this has not communicated
j its decision thereupon. It is hoped that the Gov
j eminent of her Majesty will perceive the impor
tance of no longer leaving the Government of the
I I nited States uninformed ot its views and inten
tions upon a subject which has naturally pro
: duced much exasperation, and which has led to
I such grave consequences.
I avail myself of this occasion to renew to you
the assurance of my distingused consideration.
JOHN FORSYTH,
H. S, Fox, Esq. <ftc. &c, dec.
The London Times shews, incidentally, in the
course of an article on the subject of the Treaty
with Texas what England expects to gain by the
recognition of the young Republic. The follow
ing is an extract;
As affording new openings for our commerce
there must spring many advantages from this
treaty. Texas should be, from position, the great
est cotton growing country in the world, which
pursuit, joined with her great agricultural resour
ces must preclude for centuries any rivalry with
our manufactures. It will be, of course, the po
licy of the new state to improve that intercourse
by low and moderate duties. As Texas increas
es m population and power, it is not anticipating
too much to hope that she may form that coau
torprise in the south which the Canadas are in '
the north to the power of the United States.
Miaruxu,—The population of Maryland,
according lo the census table published in the
Baltimore American, is 467, 567. The popula
tion of Baltimore is 102,513. In the state 287
persons are employed in mining; 60.080 in ag
riculture ; 3,172 in commerce ; 21,088 in man
ufactures and trades; \ 18 in navigation of the
ocean ; 1,500 in navigation of canals, lakes and
rivers, and 1,608 in the learned professions, and
as surgeons. There are S 3 revolutionary pen
sioners. Deal and dumb there are 173 white and
71 colored persons, Blind, 103 w hues, 84 color
ed. Insane and idiots, whites 240, colored 136.
Gl the population 157.926 are white males ;
| 158 643 white females; 29,11 i tree colored
j In; des ; 32,823 tree colored females; 45,970 !
male, and 44.740 female slaves. It is worthy of
remark, that while me white population numbers
j ««ore than double that of the colored, there are
but 24 white persons of 100 years and upwards
| of *S e ’ wh ile there are 217 colored persons (123
tree and 94 slaves) who have reached that ad
j vanced period of human life.
I I hi. Cask of Lzui. White.—ln July, 1839.
I Ezra White, a young man of respectable connex
ions, in New York, was convicted of the “wilful
) murder ’ ot Peter Fitzpatrick, in that city. Ever
: since that time up to the present, an effort has
j been made to obtain a new trial, and the matter
! was argued and carried trom court to court, aided
by tne respites ol the Governor, but without suc
cess, until it finally reached the Court for the
Correction of Errors. This CQgrt is composed ot
members of the State Senate, and we perceive by J
the latest New Voik papers, that they have re
versed the judgments of all the lower courts, ana
i grant , ed him a new trial. The vote on the re
vi n-a r was 21 to I. Ihe impression seems to
bo now that he will be acquitted ; and among
other reasons assign#! for the impression is the
fact that witnesses to the transaction cannot now
be collected together.
Revenue hum Distilled Spirits in Ire-I
land. Ihe Cork Reporter says :— “When the
official returns are declared, as they will be in a
few days, they wdl exhibit these results, that the
manufacture of spirits in Ireland was less, by
three mil ions five hundred thousand gallons in
the year ending 10th October, than in the prece
ding year, ending on the same date. The con
sequent loss in revenue is close upon five hun
dred thousand pounds sterling, or more closely,
JC4H6.GO6 16s. 6d.
The British and'the Chinese. —The edi
tor of the Providence Journal, who has convers
j ed with a gentleman who was a passenger in
\ ship Lion, says :—“The Chinese wete in high
| spirits, not fearing Admiral Elliot or Ills ships of
I war. The opinion of foreigners at Macao seemed
to be changing with respect to the success of the
British, and it was thought by many, some two or
three years would be spent in making captures i
along the coast, which would have little effect oa |
the empire at large, and after such demonstration
the hostile force would withdraw, and leave the
Chinese at liberty to resume trade with
foreigners. The British had captured a number
of Chinese junks and taken them to Cap-sing
Moon, letting the Chinese crews go at large.”
Cheat Eclipse of the Moon. —There will be a
total and magnificent Eclipse of the Moon in the
evening of the sth day of February next, com- j
naencing at 7 o’clock, 9 minutes, and should the at- I
mosphere be clear, it will present as sublime a j
spectacle as we seldom witness. The eclipse will |
commence at 7 o’clock, 9 minutes in the evening, |
2 hours and 6 minutes alter the moon rises, it win ;
be visible to all pans of the United States, the
Canadas, the greater part of Mexico, the whole of |
South America, ail parts of the Atlantic Ocean, the ■
whoie of Europe, and as far east as the meridian
of Bombay in Hindostan, at which place the moon j
will go down partially eclipsed. The moon will J
set totally eclipsed at Arabia, Constantinople,
Egypt, the ceuntries adjacent to the Caspian Sea, -|
and Moscow in Russia. The moon will arise to- i
tally eclipsed at Astoria, at the mouth of the Co- '■
lumbia River, in Oregon Territory, and will be !
visible to all parts of the earth, where the moon is
above the horizon.
Two Scenes in Richmond (Va.) are thus
| described by a writer in one of the papers of that
| city. [They relate to the night in which Fann x
| Elsslf.u recently appearred in the Theatre of
l that city.and the first briefly describes that scene:]
“She floated about like a fair but very volup
j tuous looking spirit, and cut her toes hither and
' thither, and swayed her body to and fro in away |
: which was a caution to all : nflaramable young
j gentlemen, gray-headed or not. The lovely crea-
I tures who graced the scene looked on enchanted,
| and made all bright with their smiles; the vast !
; crowd of men shouted and applauded with their
whole might, and the beautiful dancing woman. 1
giving them an extra flirt or two, which see them
off in a perfect agony of delight, made her bow
the curtain dropped, the dear Fanny tapping her
Wiing your-neck-off upon the shoulder, said
‘dere, dere is to one thousand dollars almost—
now let us go.’ But the audience said no, and
they shouted and screamed, and thumped for her
; to come out and
“At that moment, in an obscure hovel, open
' in many parts to the cold, biting winds, without
j fire, alone sat a poor woman, holding to her chil
| led bosom, her sick and dying babe, while upon
i a rude pallet of straw lay two shivering little
■ creatures, her children, too. Pier eye was heavy
! with watching, her cheek sunken with hunger
j and suffering, her heart filled with the very gall
| and bitterness of life. Still how truly, oh ! how
j truly, answered that heart to the pang of a mo
ther’s love, as she gazed into the innocent face of I
her dying babe ; how fast flowed the tears from
eyes which had known little but sonow and weep
ing through many weary days—how deep and
fervent was the prayer which came up from the
very fountains of privation and grief. There
] was no heart near to sympathize, no kind hand
; to aid, no soft voice no sooth—the physician’s
j healing art, charity’s angel arm came not lo sof
ten the dying moments of her poor babe; and
as life flickered and waved in its fair urn, and the
sobs of the mother sounded in that solitary room
as in the agony of her grief she exclaimed, ‘a few
pence had saved thee to me, my sweet babe—as
the slecpcst on the pallet ot straw murmured in
their uneasy slumber: “Mother, dear mother, give
me some bread’—as the keen wind came through
the crevices and she clasped the dying child to
her bosom ; at that moment, a dancing woman,
a stranger, with her wealth of thousands, and her
ingots of gold and silver made her last graceful
bow, and took the princely sum which was hers
for a few moments’ pleasant labor.
“As the spectators gave their last shout, the
babe’s innocent spirit winged its flight to Heaven,
and the mother gazed in despair upon all that re- ;
rnained lo her of the little prattler whom she so j
dearly loved.
“Such is life.”
Ft otn the New Orleans Picayune.
Prairie Sketches.
The Rancukuos. — A knight in complete slee!
with poised lance, spurring to thecomoatm sight
of his lady-love at a tournament of the olden time
formed not a more spirit-stirring or pleasure-in
spiring spectacle that does a Mexican Ranchero
in pursuit of a buffalo calf to ensnare it with a
lariat. The lariat is a rope, sometimes twenty .
fiet in length, and even thirty, made of hemp
generally, but frequently formed from plat
ed strings of buffalo hide, softened well to obtain
the necessary pliability ; one end is turned into
a slip-noose, end the use of both hands is requir
ed in throwing the rope. The Mexican springs
upon his horse, caring little whether there is any
thing more than a blanket upon the animal’s hack
and with the lariat coiled and divided, (the noose
end and two thirds of the rope in his right hand
and the other end firmly secured in hip left,) he
claps knees and spurs into Ins steed and darts
away like an arrow, often with the bridle in his
teeth. The buffalo cows are far swifter in tiight
than the bulls, and always keep the lead when
pursued. The calves never iag behind their dams j
but strain their tough young limbs into lull as;
swift speed and keep ever close by the parent’s l
side. During a hunt the calf seems almost under i
the cow, and so continues, scarcely varying its !
gait so as to advance or fall behind by any percep
tible difference.
Thus (hey run as the Ranchero advances, un
til his position is about ten feet behind tire flying
cow and calf, when he suddenly beats away upon
the side where the calf is running, at the same in
stant hurling th(3 lariat and catching the young
buffalo round the neck with tjae roue which tigh
tens instantly and tumbles the victim over. This
is a moment of glorious excitement to the .Mexi
can hunters. They scream with delight as the I
animal is jerked over on the grass and separated I
from its dam. Then a kind of sport commences I
which seems to an American traveller more ex- I
hilerating than any thing else of which he could i
have any conception. The angler with his hook- I
cd fish kr.pwp nothing to compare with it, and it
beats even “cock fighting. ’ The poor calf is no
sooner down than up again, ami scarcely up be
fore he is again rumbled over or suffered to* run
a short distance, according lo the whim of the *
hunter. The Mexicans sit and laugh at this un- 1
til they roll in their saddles; as for tailing from j
tiieir seats it seems lo be a thing impossible. The i
j young buffalo makes little effort to free itself from i
die rope, but rises after every fall, still pressing j
headlong after its flying dam until she Disappears
beyond the verging Here the fun ceases,
no longer any of its own kind in sight, it becomes
lame at once, and will place itself by the side of a ‘
horse and run with it as formerly with the cow. )
The rope may be taken from its’neck, as it will
never leave the horses unless it should again fall
j "ho trail and sight of its kind, so that the crea
lure may ,be reared with the utmost ficility by
assistance simply of a domestic cow.
At foil William we sqw two buffalo calves
gi-zing with the domestic cattle, and displaying
no indictation whatever of discontent at their si.u
alinn. The poor cow,however, was obliged to bo
tied before the little buffalos could get nutriment
from her, for they had an ungentle fashion ot
handling the udder which she considered some
what unusual.
A method of highway robbery somewhat singu
lar is also practiced in Mexico by means ot this
skill in throwing the lariat. The robber pur
sues the traveller precisely the same manner as a
hunter rides after the young buffalo, throwing the
noose in such a manner as to pinion and tighten
the victim’s arms down to his side, at the same
moment jerking him from his horse to the ground
by which action he is rendered powerless and the
robbery is easy.
An incident slightly romantic in character, con
[ nected with this kind of plundering, occurred some
short time previous to out ffying visit to Santa
Fe, and of course we heard of it. A rich Mexi
can ivas proceeding with an extensive caravan to
Chihuahau, and he was in the habit of carrying
a large amount of gold'belled around him beneath
his clothes. This fact became known to a dar
ing and desperategambler.whosecharacter,among
these people, was no obstacle to perfect freedom
,of intercourse with all classes. He travelled with
I the caraven, as it soon appeared, for the express
j purpose of making himself master of the golden
j girdle. His opportunity occurred when about
halt the travel was completed. The Don rode
one day out of sight of the caravan in search of
| w ater, and the gambler, whose eye had been upon
i his victim through the whole journey, was in
i stantly off to execute his scheme. He sought and
i came up with the Don, entered into conversation
' with him, and soon had the rich Mexican unhor
sed at his feet. But to get at the * yellow boys’
i it was now necessary to release the arms, which
I were tied down over the girdle, and this was not
to he thought ot. The robber dared not fire lest
he should be heard by the passing caravan,and he
i seized a buffalo’s skull which iav near, with the
intention of dashing out his victim’s brains. The
Spanish desperado stood over his conquered prey
holding the tightened lariat in his left hand, his
horses reins around his left arm, and with the
huge, white skull raised in his right hand ready
to dash upon his prostrate victim.
“Don’t kiil me, and you shall have my gold !”
exclaimed the helpless merchant; and the gam
: bier paused.
1 hough the gambler had secured his cwn horse
the other had taken tright and galloped baek to
the moving caravan when its rider was thrown on
! the ground.
“I know you want my gold and not life,” said
j the merchant. “Cut the rope that binds me, and
place your knife instantly upon my neck; and if
I do not give you the gold, you may drive the
blade into rny throat.’
The gambler did so, for in his flurry he had for
gotten the frightened horse, but the merchant had
not, and was playing a cool and cunning game.
“ The gold, the gold,” said the gambler, “or the
knife sinks in your neck !”
| “Instantly! said the merchant, as he endeavor
ed to gain all the time he could in releasing the
; belt of gold.
Another moment, and rapid hoof steps were
heard, followed immediately by the appearance of
a dozen approaching horsemen.
I he robber turned pale, but his eyes flashed in i
desperation, and, gritting his teeth horribly, he
swore he would kill!
“Kill me,” said the merchant, “and you are
: shot down instantly ; release me, and I will nev
er betray you ; quick, put away your knife !”
Such a superiority has cool courage over the
most daring wickedness! The gambler sheathed
his knife and stood trembling, while the brave
Mexican trader sprang to his feet, adjusted his
dress, met his triends, said he had been by some
accident thrown trom his horse, and rode back to
the caravan side by side with his enemy byway
ot warding suspicion trom him. He promised
not to betray the gambler, and he did not. But
the guilty man succeeded soon alter in another
depredation, and fled.—Then the story was told.
Boahhino Houses—Look, out for Bar*
gains.—A considerable of u wag in a neighbor
ing city agreed with a landlord to board and lodge
him for one year at the rate of three dollars per
week—and as he was in the habit of dining with
his friends, he in return propose.) to give the like
encouragement for good dinners. The cove
nants in the agreement were that in all invitations,
fifty cents a head were to be paid te the landlord
tor such guests, and when the boarder was absent
from dinner /he same amount should be allowed
him! He took good care never to bring any
I tiicnd, but iu all ca>es was absent from dinner/
The result was, that he got his board and lodging
gratis, and brought his landlord in debt to him
every week fifty cents, and at the end of the year
paid nothing, but demanded twenty-six dollars
as his just dues in virtue of the cunning contract
—A. Y. Sun.
F ever and Ague.— fheN. O, Picayune says’
.he editor ot the Ghainpion ot Democracy
ha« got the fever and ague, and the way he “lets
out” upon it and at the same time lets into it is
a perfect caution. 1 here is one good thing about
his case, however—it has “shook” the following
capital article out of him j
W e can shake hands with an earthquake crack
i jokes with a tornado, dance on the top of a volca
no, out-laugh a thunder storm, whistle the wind
out ot countenance, drive a hurricane tandem,
catch whales in the Maflstroom, and boil them in
the crater of \ esuvius ; we can kiss a pretty wo
man, and laugh when we feel our cheek tingle
under the infliction of her delicate hand, but we
cannot write editorials, when our ague tit is threa
tening to make ten thousand little stars trom the
fragments ol this world on which vve live.
Ah that we mean to say is, that a man can't be
expected to do much when he is alternating be
tween those agreeably states of heat and cold
wherein consist the beauty of fever and ague.—
; Some old philosophers,w ere of opinion the wicked
would be punished hereafter, bv being first par-
I boiled, and then cast into an ice bath, and this
' process was to be continually repeated ! Only
think ol it! a whole eternity of lever and ague !
A poet once said, “Variety’s the spice of°life
that tends existence halt its zest;” but the poet!
although he was good at theory, know nothing at
all of practice. Hot and cold*, cold and hot !
there s variety !—no “spice” about it unless qui
nine comes under that genus; and so far from
“tending existence” to any thing it knocks a man
into nonentity much quicker than a railroad could.
Uoniouud tne fever and ague I
Hold on!—we take that back! Spoke toe
j late u ’ 1)y George ! Here it comes, with a kind of
Ia sh a-a-a-a-k-ing, and sh-sh-shi-vering, and hu
| hu-lui-hudlings,and a-a-a—ho, Lord!
MARINE INTELLIGENCE.
. Savannah, January 5
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Havana" eipo ° ’ snu ' N irgima Antoinette, Place,
EXCHANGE ON NEW YORK- \t sight,
1 ttt to twenty days siMit. For -uk- nv
C f i GARDEf.LE Rtll.ND.
AN ACT.
An Act to amend the Rent Laws of thLtitite,
so far as relates to the city of Augusta, so con
firm the purchase of the bridges across the savan
nah River at Augusta, by the city Council nt Au
gusta, and to legalize the scrip issued in payment
for the same. To confirm to the said cit}’ Council
certain privileges relative to said bridges further
to define the qualifications and disabilities of mem
bers of said city Council. To change the time ot
holding the summer and fall sessions of the Court
of Common Pleas, of the city of Augusta. To au
thorise the clerk of the city Council ot Augusta, in
certain cases, to act as clerk of the said Court of
Common Pleas, and to exempt the Mayor and
members of the city Council of Augusta, and the
members of the Augusta Independent Fire Com
pany, from the performance of certain duties there
in specified, and for other purposes in said act con
tained.
Sec. Ist. Be it enacted by the Senate and House
if Representatives of the State of Georgia, in gen
eral Assembly met, And it is heieby enacted, by
the authority of the same, that in all cases where
any person or persons shall lease or rent lands, a
I; mse or houses in the city ot Augusta, and shall
afterwards under let the same, the sub-tenant or
or suo-tenants shall be liable to the original lessor
for the rent of the same, during the time such
sub-teiant or sub-tenants may occupy or use
the premises; and shall be proceeded against in
the same way and manner for the recovery of the
amount due, as if he, sne, or they were the first
lessee or lessees.
Sec. And be it further enacted , That when any
tenant or sub-tenant in the city of Augusta, shall
fail to pay his or her rent, or any portion thereof,
within ten days after the same shall become due,
the lessor may consider the lease at an end, and
proceed against such tenant or sub-tenant, in the
manner pointed out in the Act passed on the 24th
of December, 1527, entitled “ An Act to amend
the rent laws of this State,” which shall apply to
and govern such eases. .
And whereas the city Council ol Augusta have
purchased fromGazaway B. Lamar and others, tho
bridges across the Savannah River at Augusta, and
have issued their bonds or scrip in payment for the
same. And whereas, the said city Jounci! have
desued a confirmation of said purchase.
Sec. 3. Be it enacted by the authority aforesaid,
That the purchase of said bridges, and the issue of
such bonds or scrip are hereby fully confirmed
and made valid and legal to all intents and purposes.
Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the said
city Councilof Augusta, shall henceforth have all
the powers, authority and p ivileges vested by law
in the late owners of said bridges, and shall hence
forth have the exclusive privilege of building,
erecting and keeping up bridges across the Savan
nah River, at Augusta, within the corporate limits
of said city, (which are hereby extended on the
north, over said river to the boundary line between
this State and the State of South Carolina) with
power to collect the 101 l now authorized by law in
relation to the bridges standing at the time of such
pmchase: Provided, that nothing in this act con
tained, shall be so construed, as to impair the right,
title, claim or interest of any other peisou or per
sons, in and to the lower bridge, commonly called
the Augusta Bridge.
Sec. 5. And be it further-enacted. That the city
Council of Augusta be, and they are heieby au
thorized to make and put in excution, all ordinan
ces necessary to protect their rights in the said
bridges and privileges therewith connected, and to
prevent their interference therewith in any way or
manner,by any person or persons whatever: Pro
vided such ordinances be not repugnant to thecon
stitiou and laws of this State or of the United
Slates.
Sec. 6. And he it further enacted. That no mem
ber of the city Council of Augusta, shall hold any
office, appointment or contract under said city
Council (whereby ho may derive any profit or emol
ument from said city Council) or the office of
Judge, Clerk or Sheriff of the Court of Common
Pleas; nor shall any person holding or interested
in any such officer, appointment or contract, be eli
gible, as a member of the city Council, after the
Ist Monday in April next.
Sec. 7. And be it further enacted. That the ses
sions of the Court of Common Pleas of the city of
October in each year, instead of the times new
Augusta, shall hereafter be held on the 2d Mondays
of February and May, and 3d Mondays of July and
fixed by law.
Sec. S. Andie it furthel enacted. That in case of
a vacancy occurring in the office of clerk of the
Court of Common Pleas of said city, the clerk of
the city Council shall sign and issue any process, a»
oleik of said Court, until such vacancy is tilled in
the manner pre-cribed by law.
Sec. 9. And be it further enacted. That the Mayor
and member* of the Council of the city of Augusta,
be, and they are hereby exempted from the per
formance of ordinary militia duly, during their
continuance in office.
Sec. 10. And be it further enacted. That the
members of the Augusta Independent Fire Compa
ny, be, and they are hereby exempted and released
from the performance of jury duty in any of the
Courts held in said city, or the county of Rich
mond: Provided they do not exceed thirty in num
ber. and are tegular in the discharge of their duty
as firemen-
CHARLES J. JENKINS,
Speuket ffi the House of Representatives.
THOMAS STOCKS,
President of the Senate.
Assented to, December 22d, IS4O.
CHARLES ,l. McDONALD, Governor.
Secretary of State’s Office, j
Milledgeville, Ga., Dec. 31st, 1540.3
1 cerlily that the above and two foregoing pages
contain a true copy of the original Act of file in
this office. Given under mv hand and seal of office.
\V. A. TENILLK, Secretary of State.
COMMERCIAL.
Latest dates from Liverpool,. .. .* December 4
Latest dates from Havre, December *2
Wednesday Evening, Jan. 7.
Cotton —OurCotton market since'oui last review
has been without change in prices, still, we wouid
observe, the operations to-day have bt-.n rather
favorable to buyers.
Exchange On New York, at sight, 0 C p
cent for current funds; Charleston —(a > #
ct; Savannah 2 ’/i)
cent; Lexington, Ky. par 0 3 cent; Richmond 4ct
a cent; Specie commands (a) 4 p cent preiq,
Bank .Votes. —
Savannah Banks, 0 2 ct. preu.
Columbus Insurance 8ank....4 (a) - - •«
Commercial Bank, Macon 4 (it - « ♦♦
Mechani- s’, “ (Augusta,) 4 * rj -
Agency Brunswick,“ 44 -
Planters’ and Mechanics’ Bank,
Columbus, s(d - “ «
Central Bank, 5 0 _ « disc>Ht
Milledgeville Hank, p UI
Ocmulgee Bank, 50 . ..
Monroe Rail Road Bank, fi 0 ..
Hawkinsville Bank, 0 _
Chattahoochie R. R.& fi’k Cu.pgr & * ••
Darien Bank, 005 “
Bank of Rome, 124 (3> 7 4 “
All other Banks now doing business, at par.
Specie Paying Banks. —Mechanics’ Bank, Insu
rance Bank ol Columbus, Commercial Bank ol Ma
con, and Brunswick Agency m this city.
SAILING OF STEAM SHIPS.
FROM ENuI.ANU. 1 ROM THE P-STj^TE^.
Caledonia, Boston, Jan i
President, Liverpeol,. • Dee. E New York Jan j
Columbia, Liverpool,.. Dec, 4 Boston,. . .Jan 1
Acadia,.Liverpool,..Dec. 4 Boston,.. .Feb 1
Br. London lan. 1 New York Feb! I
Britannia, Liverpool,.-Jan. 4 Boston,. .. Feb l
Gt. Western, Bristol,. .Jan. 12 New York Feb. lu
4 CARD. Persons having business with m*
will please call upon Mr. E. Muslim
Me 31 -w3w C. F. STURGIS.
l ! ■ s - tenders l,is professional
services to the citizens of Augusta and its vicinity
He mat be lound at lus residence on the Nortn
side ot Green second door below Mclntosh street
I or at the c hrouicle and Sentinel office. J