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Prayer of the Blisd —The annexed prayer
of the Blind, written foi the occasion of lhe fair
given last week at Faneuil Hall in Boston, as
mentioned in this paper on Friday, by our friend
B. B. Thatcher, JE.-q. and printed upon satin for
the benefit of the Institution, is redolent alike of
poetry and devotion:
PRAYER OF THE BLIND.
BY B. B. THATCHER.
Published for the Ladle*' Fair, held al Faneuil
Hall,
FOR THS BKXFIT OF THE
•INSTITUTION INSTRUCTION
OF THE BLIND,’
May 1, 1833.
Holy Father; hear thy children,
lu their darkness, cry to tbee;
Light thou hast denied their eyelids—
In their bosoms let it be
In their bosoms, in their bosoms,
Let the rosy radiance be.
Father! thou hast taken from us
Ail the fair earth’s veidant dyes—
Flower’s hue, and fountain’s lustre,
And the bliss of loving eyes—
And the ocean with its gtandetir,
And the glory of the skies.
Yet thou wilt not all forget us, •
Father, in thy care divine;'-
■ob upon the souls within us,
Let the lamp of knowledge shine :
.Lead us, lead us, blessed Saviour ;
Love us, love us, make us thine ;
Then we shall tot heed the tempest,
Lowering o’er life’s starless sea,
In the storm and in the shadows.
Guide and light around shall be—
And within us, Oh 1 within us,
Shall the rosy radiance be.
TO AN UNKNOWN GRAVE.
Who rests below i No echoing voice replies,
No mournful whisper answers to my quest;
The nameless sleeper all unconscious lies.
Nor spell hath power to break his silent rest,
Long fears have flown since keen affection's eye,
That patient watch’d to greet thy hoped return
Has ceased to weep, its once bright fountains dry.
And Stangers look unmoved upon thine urn.
Yet not unmoved; though no fend records trace
Thy name, thy country, or thy glory here,
Nor sculptured trophies o’er thy burial place,
Bright with thy fame, demand a silent tear.
Wert thou belov’d t Did woman’s gentle heart
Her world, her altar make of only thee T
Wert thou forsaken ? Did the cold world part
Two faithful souls that loved too fervently ?
O'er thy last hour did anxious friendship weep,
And watch the failing of thy ebbing breath,
dose with kind band thine eyes in “dreamless
sleep-”
Love thee through life, nor cease io love in
deaths
Or when the dew of life’s last mortal pain
Stood on thy brow, was uo kind mourner near,
Didst thou implore the friendly and in vain,
And fail to win the heartless, purchased tear ?
Who sleeps below 1 Can no deep charm reveal
The hidden secret which these mounds inclose 1
.Is there no might o’er death, to break the seal,
To qpe the fountain of thy Joys or woes?
No mortal sound can echo in thine ear,
No mortal prayer thy fettered voice piovoke ;
Rest! till thy slumbers, in the hour ofjear,
Are by the Angel’s echoing trumpet broke.
Farewell! The shades of evening o’er thy grave
A deeper tint of gloomy sadness throw;
The sun’s last beam is lingering ou the wave
That roams and sparkles on he bay below
From the New York Mirror.
THE UNEDUCATED WIFE.
(CONTINUED.)
The tootr continued io fall, and the
.roads were impassible; the house bud dis
appeared, and Albert had no alternative
■but to await the clearing. To find his
way was impossible; besides, he would
have staid with a more trifling excuse, so
much was he interested in the beautiful
Isadore. Weeks passed, and Albert still
lingered, endeavoring to procure a horse
and guide.
Conversing with the old gentleman he
learned his sad story ; learned, that, fired
with ardour in the cause of liberty, he had
left a delightful home & his lovely daugh
ter Marion, the mother of isadore, in the
care of a favorite sister, and embarked for
this country, where he remained during
the war, constantly drawing oo his owo
funds. Feeling certain of the final success
of tbe Americas cause, he bad no doubt
of being remunerated for ail. Io the mean
time Marion married an iuteresting young
German, aud the old general persuaded
and finally prevailed on him to join tbe
aimy. The unfortunate young man was
severely wounded in the first campaign,
which caused his death in a few years as.
<»r. The old general, grieved to ihe
heart that he had been the means of in
terrupting so much happiness, promised
his daughter that he would come & spend
the rest of his days with her as s<»on as his
claims was settled, which he tbo’t would
speedily. At ihe close of the year
fine wrote to inform him that if he ever
wished to see her alive he must come
Boon, as she felt she could not live many
moaths. J
Tue haart-stricken father embarked
-immediately, and found his child just alive
ou bis arrival. He was almost overwhelm
ed with grief, but Marion far from lamen
ting her early exit, said, " It is the will of
Heaven, and I have but ibis tie to earth,"
placing her slender and almost transpa
rent hand on the fair brow of the little Is
adore, and looking tenderly at her father.
‘‘l know that my Redeemer lived), that
there is a house not made with hands for
ino io heaven. I give you my child, cer
tain that while you live you will be a fa
ther to her, and I trust, my dear sir, you
will have her piously educated, f**r even
u*y short life has taught me ‘there is no
thing true but Heaven.’"
She died soou after this conversation,
and the unfortunate old man,as he follow
ed her to the tomb, felt almost broken
hearted. he settled all bis affairs, and
found he bad made such calls on his estate,
that after paying all his debts, he had but
a thousand pounds. Embarrassed with
the little girl, (for his own sister was dead,
aud he had no near relation,) he conclu
ded to write to Madame Waldorf, the
aunt of Isadore, her father's only sister,
and request her to take the care of the
orphan until he could come and claim her.
He wrote that his adopted country was iu
debt to him for services aud expenditures,
and he doubted not that be should be paid
principal and interest, and that he should
then be enabled, wheu settled in his owo
house, to send for his grand daughter.
She answered his letter immediately,
and afior, as the geueral said, many sage
remarks,concluded by raying, " she had
done all io her power to prevent her bro
ther’s leaving his pleasant home aud love
ly wife to follows phantom—a will <»’’he
wisp—which he Called glory. It had led
him, where she expected, to death I That
Geu Chai lion bad made him forget what
he had been taught at home, namely, that
true patriotism did not consist in running
after liberty, but io doing our duty as fa
thers, husbands, and children in the sta
tion and in the country where Providence
lias placed us. That she declined taking
the little giil, and thought that if he in
tended to forsake his native country, he
had better take her with hi.it and make a
savage of her at once.’’
Vexed and tioubled at this severe re
proof, he determined to quit the country
forever and take Isadore wi h him.
Ile was soon quietly settled near Phil
adelphia, "a here he waited patiently a long
time ; but at last weary and disheartened,
finding his funds gone, and fearing that
even his friends were tired of him, ho
took the little girl, and retired quite back
into the country to hide himself aud his
sorrows from the world.
One day being iu pursuit of game, he
met an old Indian chief, whose life lie had
once saved in a skirmish, taken him to'
his tent aud kept him until ho was able
to go back to his tribe. Sanaqua intreat
ed the general to go with him.
"My nation," says he, " are grateful;
they will love the white warrior who sa
ved iheir chief’s life—they will make a
houso and give him corn—he can himself
shoot the deer—come with us."
The old man went, true to lhe word
of the chief, they supplied him with every
thing necessary to support life. The lit
tle Isadore they almost worshipped, call
ed hut by every tender epithet, and bru’t
her every dainty they could find ; but, as
lie concluded, he said, " Am I not sup
ported by charity !—by the charity of sav
ages,while my countrymen refuse to share
with me the blessings which I have toiled
and bled to obtain !"
He trembled and turned pale, bis limbs
seemed to lose their stiengtlf, and but for
the support of Fitzgerald he would have
sunk on the floor. He tried to sooth and
comfort him by telling him that as soon
as tbe weather was fit he would provide a
vehicle, and take him, with Isadore, to his
own paternal mansion ; he should have
his father’s study and his room, with all
the comforts his old age required.
"I shall leave you fur a few days, as I
have a tract of laud in this country that I
wish to see ; then return with such a con
veyance as will make our journey agreea
ble."
Fitzgerald dared not trust himself to
say any thing of Isadore. He felt he lov
ed her, and he thought the old genera!
would object to his speaking of marrying
the child, as he always called her. The
old man said, as he took his hand, "My
dear son, you are a friend indeed. I re
joice to see that America has still some
noble scions from the parent tree that
promise to oveishadow tbe land.”
While Fi'Zgerald remained he had con
stant opportunities of seeing the beautiful
and gentle girl; he saw her devoted atten
tion to her grandfather, her patient sweet
ness at all times, her industry and neat
ness. How often di-1 he wonder that with
so limi’ed a wardrobe she was always so
neat and becomingly arrayed. He knew
not, that rather than appear to disadvan
tage before one that she thought quite too
perfect for a human being, she bad sat up
nights that all might be in order during
the day. A more disinterested lovely
creature nature never formed, but she was
just as nature formed her, and A. Fitz
gerald enamored with her beauty, delight
ed with her artless loveliness, forgo, that
he did not live among savages, and that a
wife for him should be well educated, and
accustomed to good society. He forgot
that all his life had been spent in cultiva
ting and hltproving his own mind ; forgot
how often his beloved and accomplished
mother had drawn the likeness, with a
master’s hand, of the woman she should
be proud to call daughter.
But Isadore, the sweet, the efooisitefy
beautiful Isadora, had put all reflection
and reason aside, and he determined to
ask her of the old general on his return.
Some days passed ere he could procure
a guide to suit him Watapao, a friend
of the general, consented at last to go with
him. Ere he left, he took Geo. Chari,
ton by tho hand, and begged be would
lay all his cares aside, and try to get wall
enough to accompany him back. The
old man sigbed, looked tenderly at his
daughter, and said,
"God bless you, my son ; if any thing
happens to 111 e » I know you will be a fa
ther to this innocent child.”
"Albert’s face was crimson ; the word
"father" had embarrassed him so much,
that when he took Isidore’s hand, instead
of speaking, he only pressed it to his lips,
and raised his eyes to hers. She was
pale as marble, and trembkd so much,
that Fitzgerald was surprised, and almost
inclined to think he was in some way the
cause. He said,
"You are ill, Isidore ; come into the
air;" and leading her to the door, stood
by her until the blood came rushing to her
cheeks and temples ; then again, pressing
her hand to his lips, he mounted his horse
and galloped away, leaving her leaning a.
gainst the door.
Isidore had never seen any one to love
but her grandfather ; she was grateful to
the Indians for their goodness to her, but
Fitzgerald was above any thing she bad
ever conceived, and she looked up to him
with such devotion and reverence, that lie
was worshiped more than loved. She on
ly thought of him as a friend of her father.
To be his wife, never enter her iunoceut
thoughts.
A month passed, and no tidings of Al'
bert. Thu old general had beeu quite ill
for some days. Isidore bad made him a
bed of dried leaves and bear skius near
the fire, and bad exhausted all her little
skill as a nurse, but his pale lips and fal
tering voice alarmed her. One evening,
after a restless day, she knelt down beside
him to bathe his temples, and begnn sing
ing the evening hymn, but the General
(Lew her close to him, and putting aside
the glossy curls that hung over her polish,
ed forehead, said, as he gazed on her,
"I have made shipwreck of the happi
ness of ail that I loved. As your aunt said
—I have followed apAanloffi -I fear
something has happened to our friend Al
bert, and my stay here is short."
Isidore shuddered, trembled and seem
ed almost fainting.
"Grieve not for me," no said. "I am
an old man, and can scarce expect to re
main much longer with you. Should you
see no more of Fitzgerald, get ihe Indi
ans to take you to the neatest sea-port,
and go to Germany to your Aunt Waldorf.
She is noble and well educated, and can
not, when she sees you, refuse you her
protection. But you may trust our young
friend without fear."
He drew her head to his bosom, and
raising bis eyes to heaven, seemed for a
while absoibed in thought. The noise
of voices distln bed them, the door was
thrown open, and Fitzgerald entered with
a joy beaming face, exclaiming, *‘ I have
come for you, my dear sir"—but the pale
cheek and the trembling hand of lsid< re
checked his eagerness, and when he took
the old man’s he was startled at its fever
ish heat,
"You are ill," said he, "but you will, I
trust, Boon be better, for I have many
comforts for you io iny snug warm vehi
cle."
The geooial looked kindly on him, and
pressed his hand aud sighed deeply. The
ludiatfs entered with his baggage, which
they assisted him to open, and he produ
ced many little comforts that seemed to
revive his friend, for he sat up and con
versed quite cheerfully. Isidore resigned
her place for the night to Albert, and took
some repose, of which she was much in
need. Several days passed in lhe same
way, and Albert began to fear the old
man was failing fast.
One morning, after a very restless night,
he said,
"My dear young friend, I fear I shall
never be able to go to your home, but I
shall die in peace if you will be a father
to my child."
Again the blood rushed to the cheeks
and biow of Fitzgerald, and fora moment
he was silent, but recovering himself, he
said,
‘‘l will protect and defend her with my
life : but my dear sir, will you n<>t give
me u nearer and den l er claim to protect
her? Give her to me for a wife !"
The old man started, and looked up to
Fitzgerald—
“ Wife I wife I—she is a mere baby.”
•’I know B.;e is young; but she is old
enough to take good care of you, my dear
sir, and old enough to make me happy.”
“Young mau, son of my friend, do no
thing rashly—a wife is nut the plaything
of an hour, a toy merely to look upon—
but a companion for life ; choose one that
will be a companion, a friend, one who
will at ail times be ready to assist you
with mind and heat (-—you have a vigorous
intellect, a mind stored with useful know
ledge and should have a well-educated &,
intelligent wife.”
Fitzgerald sighed, he recollected how
often his mother bad cautioned him against
being fascinated with beauty ; but the soft
voice of Isidore in the next room, singing
one of his favoriie hymns, put all reason
and reflection asleep—
“ She must be mine, father, i f you d
not object, and she will accept je.**
The general smiled—
“Ol», she will not refus- yot —. Ja’ s,
I know too well how headstre jg nd ,f.
willed thd young are. If yes are deter
mined to marry her, I will s y no more.
For myself, I should be pro', • to her
your wife.”
Albert’s eyes sparkled with joy, and he
soon made known his hopes and wit es to
the beautiful and geutlu Isidore.”
The weather was delightful, and Al
bert felt extremely anxious *o be on his
way, but the general was evidently fail
ing. O n e day they had been talking of
the..* journey, and had just raised him in
to the arro Chair that he might see the
sun set, whsn i‘.*e oh’ Indian entered with
a large packet. rr ho genera’ opened it
with eagerness, and saw that his claims
on his country were acknowledged and
settled. He su tt conv- lively frem
his chair, “It is tou late !’ r he exclaim
ed ; then clasping his emaciated hands
together, crushed the papers between
them, and fell dead upo~ be floor ’ ,
(to he CONTK’VSD.)
WEST POINT EXAMINATION.
The following is the full list of Visitors
appointed to make the anual examination
of the institution in June next.
MASBACHU SETTS
Rev. Mr. Leland, James Russell, Esq.
Rh<>de Island.
Gov. Fenner,
New York.
Washington Irving, Esq* Gen. Mor
gan Lewis, Gen. SJ. Root, Gen. Van
Rensselaer, Gov. Yates, Perley Keves,
E>q.
New iersey.
Hon. M. Dickerson,
Pennsylvania.
Col. C. Banks, Hon* f. R. Burden,
Hon. T. H. Crawford.
Delaware.
Janies Rogers, Esq.
Maryland.
Win. S. Heath, Esq.
Virginia.
Hon. Mark Alexander.
Kentucky.
W. Pope, Esq. J. Haskin, Esq.
Georgia
Hoo. J. Forsvth.
Tennessee.
Rev. C. Coffin,
Onto.
Hon. Thomas R Roes.
Michigan.
Jon Norvell, Esq.
U. S. Ah mv.
Geo. Fenwick, Col. Bankhead.
Ginger for Heaves in Horses.— A cor
respondent of the N. Y. Farmer, says
that his horse, who is now in his twentieth
year, has been cured of the disease call
ed "heaves" by the use of ground ginger,
a remedy recommended to him for the
purpose. A table spoonful was giveu to
him daily for several weeks, mixed io his
mess of Indian meal and cut straw. The
horse has been troubled with wheezing
and a hard cough for a year or fw<>, and
had lost flesh so much that he seemed tu
have nearly finishes his term of service.
Since the uso <>f\he powdered ginger, he
has become quite fat, and appears to be
some years younger, and in good spirits.
Hints to those who Ride on Horse-back
Riding on horseback seems io be q»>ne
fashionable among lhe ladies lhe present
season, &, the fact that Miss Fanny Kem
ble rides, will make it no doubt, the rage.
There are a parcel of well dressed, whis
kered young men who'ride about town,
wholh ihe ladies make use of as attend
ants in their rides, and who doubjless will
better serve the state in this capacity than
any other. Bui as we have observed se
veral of them to be totally ignorant <>f their
duty on such occasions, and to conduct
themselves and their horses in suclt away
as to be mere incumbrances to the lad.es
they attend, we beg leave to give them a
word of advice respecting the important
business on which they have so rashly and
ignorantly entered. Any thing that ought
io be doue at all ought to be done wetl
In the first place, they should neither
ride before the lady nor behind her. II
one gets in advance of ihe lady, he will
hardly be taken to be of the same party, if
one follows on behind he may be suppos
ed to be the lady’s footman, bnt will hard
ly be taken to be her friend' But what
is of more consequence, it is extrtxuely
important to ihe safety of the lady, the
convenience of the riders, and the com
fort of the lookers on, that the gentleman
should not get (as we often see him) on
ihe wrong side. Lei him by no means go
rubbing along against the lady’s stirrup.—
He should be on the other side, at tbe la
dy’s right hand so that he may without
difficulty approach close to her, should it
be necessary to whisper a soft thing in her
ear, or to catch at her horse’s reins to
prevent his stumbling. It is true, the la
dy’s face is turned the other way, but on
sOch an occasion, one ought to make a
magnanimous sacrifice of one’s vanity to
the lady's comfort and safety, and though
while her face is turned from <i«, she is
no longer in danger of being captivated
by ones nicely combed whiskers, or
smoothly brushed hat,yet this is almost, if
not entirely compensated, by the power
»f approaching cluse to her, and pouring
into her ear such a copious torrent of fash
ionable nonsense, as no female heart can
possibly resist.
Natural Wonders —lt is very sur
prising that two <4 the greatest natural
curiosities in the world are wchin tliu (J
oiled Statf.j* and yet scarcely known to
the best informed of geographers and nat
urahs B '. The one is a beautiful water-fall
Franklin county, Georgia; the other a
ctupendous precipice in Pendleton dis'rict,
South Carolina: they ate both faintly
memicned in the late edition of Morse’s
Geography: but not is they merit. The
Tuccoa falls are much higher ihau the
falls of Niagara. The column of water is
propelled beautifully over a perpendicular
rock, and when the steam is full it passes
down without being broken. All the pris
matic effect seen at Niagara illustrates the
spray of Tuccoa. The Table Mountain
in Pendleton district, South Carolina, is
an awful precipice of 900 feet. Many per
sons reside within five, seven, or ten miles
of the grand spectale, who have never
had curiosity or taste enough to visit it, —
It is now, however, occasionally visited
by curious travellers, aad sometimes men
<»f science. Very few persons who have
once cast a glimpse in the almost bound
less abyss can again exorcise sufficient for
titude to appraach the margin of tho chasm.
Almost every one, in looking over, iuvol*
unlarily falls to the ground, senseless, and
neverless, and helpless* and would inevi
tably be precipitated and dashed to atoms,
were it not for measures of caution and
security, that have always been indispen
sable to a safe indulgence of the curiosi
ty of the visitor or spectator. Every one,
on proceeding to the spot whence it is us
ual to gaze over the wonderful deep, has,
in his imagination, a limitation, graduated
by a reference to instances with which
his eye has been familiar. But ip a rrto*
meat, eternity, as it aerie, is presented to
his astonished senses; and be is instantly
overwhelmed. His system is no longer
subject to his volition or his reason, and
falls like a mass of pure water. He then
revives, and in a wild delirium surveys a
scene which, for a while, he is unable to
define by discription or imitation.
How strange it is that the Tuccoa Falls
aud Table Mountain are not more famil
iar to Americans! Either of them would
distinguish an empire or state iu Europe.
Singular cause of Death.— James Tur
ney, Esq. late attorney General of Illi
nois, died on the slh inst., near Carroll
ton in that State. Mr. Turney had recent
ly become impressed with the truths of
Christianity, and had abandoned the pro
fession of the law for that of the Gospel.
While recently engaged in performing the
act of baptism oa a brother who had a
wooden leg—tbe latter, while in the wa
ter, accidentally set the steel point of his
artificial leg ou the foot of Mr. Turney,
which, inflicted a severe wound, and the
wound ultimately mortifying, occasioned
his death.— Baltimore Patriot'
ASYLUM FOR THE BLIND.
We understand that the subscription
for this institution amounted yesterday to
the sum of Twenty Thousand Dollars.—
This sum is exclusive of the collections
realized at the fairs iu Salem aud in this
city, adding those to the amount of private
subscriptions, the whole amount will be
very near $35,000, leaving $15,000 io be
provided for within the present month,
according to the condition of Mr. Perkins'
donation. Let not our fellow citizens
draw their purse-strings, thinking the bu
siness completed. The last SIO,OOO will
be raised with more difficulty than attend
ed the getting of the preceding $40,000,
as it will be collected, probably, in small
sums.
As an instance of the liberality of pur
chasers at the Fair, we mav mention that
on Tuesday evening one of he lady direc
tresses received a note from a gentleman,
inclosing three hundred dollars requesting
her to invest it in a pen wiper.
Boston Journal.
Fashion. "Have you Lud Beeron's
Abecdus ?” enquired a pretty brunette, the
o her day, of Muproo &, Francis.
"What Madam ?’’
Have you Lud Beeron's Abecdus, I sayl
"No, Madam, we have not.”
"You oertenly must have it, Sir for I
observed it adverchised in the newspa
pers."
"Will you write it upon this paper,
Madam z"
“Ah, Lord Bryron’s Bride of Abydos.
Yes Madam, here it is.”— Galazy.
SPLENDID FLOWER.
Id Flint’s Histoiy of Mississippi Vai.
ley, ho relates the following. Among
flowering acquatic plants, there is one,
that for magnificence and beauty, stands
unrivalled and alone. Wo have seen
it on the middle As Southern waters, but of
the greatest size <&. splendor on the bayous
and lakes of the Arkansas.—lt has differ
ent popular names.—The upper Indians
call it panocco. It is distinguished by
botanists aembling the large stump of a
cabbage, and from depths io the water,
from two to three or ten feet. It has an
elintteal, smooth and verdant leaf, some
of the largest being t- e size of a parasol.
These muddy bayous and stagnant waters
aro often so covered with the leaves, that
the sand piper walks abroad on the surface
of them, without dipping her feet in the
water. The flowers are enlarged copies of
the nymphea ordorata, or N. England
pond tally. They have a cup of the same
elegant conformation, and the brilliant,
white and yellow of that flower. They
want tbe ambrosial fragrance of the pond
lilly, and resemble in this respect, as they
do in their size, the flowers of the laurel
magnolia. Oo the whole, they are the
largest and most beautiful flowers that we
have even seen. They have their home
in dead lakes, in the centra of cypress
swamps. Musquetoes swarm above.—
Obscence fowls and carrion vultures
aeel their flights over them.—Alligators
swim among their roots, and mockasin
snakes on their leaves. In such
lonely and repulsive situations, under such
circumstances, and for such spectators, is
i.rraved the most gaudy and brillliant dis
play us fl »wers in the creation. Iu the
capsule are inbedded from four to six acorn
shaped seeds, which the Indians roast and
eat, when green; or they are dried and
eaten as nuts, or are pulverised into meal
and fotm a kind of bread.
Be slow in chosing a friend, aud slower
to change him ; courteous to all, intimate
with few ; slight no man for his meanness,
uor esteem any for their wheltb aud great
ness.
Love of Notoriety, —The Philadelphia
Gazette published lately a marriage be
tween J. S. P. and S. A. W.—Mr P.
immediately made a public statement
that no such marriage had taken place, or
was likely to occur. The editor of the
paper, iu publishing his letter, says, "We
adopted the precautionary measure ofse
curing tbe name of the person who brought
the notice to us. It happens to have
been the identical Miss S. A. W. herself,
who brought us the fabuloos account of
her nuptials.”
A gentleman in Lynn, Mass passing a
loug the street the other day, met a little
boy paddling through the snow without
shoes or stockings. "My dear little fel.
low,” cried he, "You wiL freeze to death
—have you no shoes nor stockings t”
es, replied the boy, "but I am going to
save’ ent to wear to meetin.’’
A Sms ■ll Matpimontal Breezb.—l
Arrah, Pan, and why did I marry ye—
just tel! me that—for it’s myself that’s
bad to maintain ye ever Mince the blessed
day that Father O'Flanagan sent me
home to yer house?’ —‘Swate jewel, Pai»
nut relishing tbe charge, ,and it’s tnyseli
that hopes I may live to see the day
wheu ye’re a widow, wapering over the
cowld sod that covers me—then by St*
Patrick I’ll see how ye get along without
me, honey.’
AUGUSTA. \
FRIDAY, MAY 17, 1833.
The Hon. Lxvi Woodbury, Secretary of the
Navy, and Col. Hexdersox arrived in Charles
ton on Wednesday last.
W. H. Stiles, Esq. has been appointed by. the
Governor, Solicitor Gen. of the Eastern District
of the State, in the place of Col. J. VV. Jackson
resigned.
The U. S. Telegraph says, “We learn that Mr.
Randolph left Alexandria to attend a wedding
party in the neighborhood, and purposes to re
turn and deliver himself up to the civil authori
ties in a few days.”
The Convention adjourned on Tetrsday eve
ning last. After having established tbe folldwing
Senatorial Districts;
1 Murray S t Bibb and Houston
2 Gilmore and Union 25 Baldwin and Jonea
3 Rabun and ' aberaham 2d Twiggs and Wilkinson
4 Lumpkin and Cherokee -27 Warren and Hancock
5 Ca«> aud Floyd 28 Columbia and Richmond
6 Hall and Jackson 29 Burke and ?criven
7 Gwinnett and Forsyth 30 Washington and Jefferson
8 Paulding aud Cobb 31 Bulloch and f mauuel
9 DeKalb and Fayette 32 Laurens and Montgomery y
10 Campbell and Carroll. 33 Dooly and Pulaski
11 Coweta and Merriwether 34 Marion and Muscogen
12 Troup and Heard 35 Randolph and Early
13 Henry and Newton 30 i ee and Baker
14 Walton and Clark 37 ’tewart and Sumter
15 Franklin and Madison 38 Irwiu and Telfair
IS Elbert and' Ylelhorpo 39 Appling and Tattnall
17 Green and Taliaferro 40 Chatham and Effingham
18 Lincoln and Wilkes 41 Bryan and Liberty
19 Morgan and Putnam 42 Mclntosh and Glynn
20 Butts and Jasper 43 Wayne and Camden
21 Pike and Upson 44 Ware and Lowndes
22 Harris and Talbot 45 Decatur and Thomas
23 Crawford and Monroo
Deferred articles for the Country Paper—
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AND
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Commercial Bank of Macon, . - «
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From the Charleston Courier.
ASSAULT ON THE PRESIDENT OF THE
UNITED STATES.
It is with unfeigned regret, that we are
called upon to record an outrage of tbo
most disgraceful character, coiuniitied up
on tliß person of the President of the ti
nned States, by Mr. Randolph late a
Lieutenant in the United, States Navy.—
The perpetration of such and unwarranta
ble act, will reflect disgiace only on him
who was so regardless of his own charac
ter as to attempt it, and furnishes strong
evidence that the President had the inter
est of the Navy at heart, when he stiuck
from its roll of officers, one who has thus
proved himself unworthy of wearing its
honors. The course which Mr. R. seen
fit to pursue to avenge his injuries, real
or imaginary, can only result in effectual*
ly removing from the breast of every hon
orable and high minded man, all the sytn*
pathy which his case may have excited.
This brutal and .unmanly outrage on the
illustrious veteran, who, after having won
unfading laurels in battle, fought for tbo
honor and indepeudeace of his country,
has been twice rewarded by grateful
people with the highest honor of the Re
public, holds up Mr* R. to public view
as one who has not scrupled to wound the
national dignity in the reckless inaulgence
of his own unbridled passions, and cannot
fail to elicit the universal indignation of
the American people, thus wantonly in
sulted in the person of their chief magis
trate.
The particulars of the assault are given
io tho following loiter from our Washing
ton Correspondent:
WASHINGTON, May 7.
A circumstance, without precedent in
our history, took place yesterday. As tho
President was going ou board the steam
boat which conveys tho Southern Mail,
and iu which he was about to depart for
Fredericksburg, to assist at the ceremony
of laying tbe first Slone of tho monument
about to be erected (here, some periQfl
not tecognized at the moment, made life
way violently through the surrounding
people, and throwing himself between
Geueral Jackson and tho boat, made u
dart at the President’s face and caught
his nose between his fingers, squeezing or
twisting it with so much force as to make
the blood start. Some expresiou is said
to have escaped from the perpetrator of
the outrage, as he committed tbe act, and
who was immediately discovered to be
Lieutenant Randolph, who was the friend
of purser Timberlake, (Mre. Eaton’s for
mer husband,) who has been charged with
being a defaulter, who has been tried and
acquitted of the charge, which made a re
cent publication,in a handbill, of a letter of
Dr. Randolph, reflecting severely on Mr.
Eaton, and also a week or two ago, was
dismissed from the Navy. This
dismissed officer, it is known, has beeu
very inveterate iu his feelings andjiis lan
guage, against those to whom he owes bis
discharge; and being a reckieM man, and
smarting under the sense of recent injur
ies, it is scarcely wonderful, although
much to be regretted, that be should have
resorted to this desperate scheme of re
venge. It ’« probable that be will be put
on his trial for the outrage, but as it is on
ly a case of common assault and battery,
the punishment which the law prescribes
will scarcely be Buch to induce any feel-