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2 TH E COU R1 ER, By J. G. M ’ Whorter. TERMS. Tile Paper is published every MONDAY, WEDNES- ’ RAY and FRIDAY afternoon, at $6 per annum, payable n advance. COUNTRY PAPER—Published every FHHDAY after noai; at $3 per annum, in advance, or $4 at the expiration of the year. No Subscriptions received for less time titan six months. ADVERTISEMENTS, not exceeding a sqnare will be inserted the first time at 75 cts.per square and 37J for each continuance. Advertisements of one square, published Weekly, at 75 cents for the first insertion, and 50 cents, for each contin uance. Persons advertising by the year will bo charged 30 dol lars including subscription and will be entitled to oue square in each paper. When parsons leave standing advertisements of several squares, special contracts may be made. No deduction wiK'be made in future from these charges All advertisements must have the number of insertions marked on them;otherwise they will be inserted till for bid, ami charged accordingly. SHERIFFS, CLERKS, and other public officers, will have 25 per cent deducted in Their favor. cholera. Jfrans of preventing the Extension and mitigating the violence of Cholera, TRUE MEANS OP PREVENTION. We are now to consider the means best calculated to preventan extension of the di sease, when once it has appeared. This is as much as can be accomplished by hu man powers. But although we cannot alter or amend those conditions of the at mosphere, which gave origin to, or are essentially connected with, the disease, nor change the localities in which it for the most part has its home, we can do a great deal towards depriving it of its hor rors, by diminishing the exposure to those occasional and predisposing causes which are found to be so destructive. The sani tary regulations promulgated and enforc ed with this view, are ranged under three heads. Ist. Those which regard the place; 2. Those in reference to habitation; and 3. Those relating to persons. SANITARY REGULATIONS. Ist. Those lohich regard the place. The streets should be daily cleansed of all of fal, dirt, and any impurities whatever, and the gutters frequently washed with running water. In no yard or open lot should any collections of dirt or animal or vegetable matters be allowed to remain, nor any ditch or pool to be left unfilled with earth. No alleys, and narrow streets, should be tolerated. 2. Those which regard the habitation.— The cellars should be kept dry, and the sinks cleaned out, or occasionally water with a little chloride of lime, introduced into them. This substance should be sprinkled over the doors of those cellars more particularly, through which there is not a free current for air. Dissolved in water, with the addition of a little quicklime, it should be applied as a wash to the walls of cellars, closets, and rooms in which many persons work together.— Free ventilation of the sitting and bed rooms should be enjoined and practised —the floors dry-scrubbed, and, as well as the bedding and bed clothes, aired at least once a day. Arrangements should be made for suitable ventilation and con stant renewal of the air in all kinds of rooms or halls in which a number of per sons congregates together, as in schools, churches, manufactories, &c. The air should be introduced in such away as not to blow in a current upon the persons in the room, or to suddenly chill them af ter being heated. No person should, if it can be possibly avoided, sleep in cellars or underground apartments of any kind, since experience has universally proved the greater liabili ty of persons thus lodged to be seized with Cholera. Those who sleep on the ground, or on mud floors little raised from the sur face, are in much greater danger than oth ers sleeping in the second or third story-i of the same house. It was ever remark-.’, ed by Dr. Livingston in China, that in some houses, persons who slept on beds sometimes escaped, while those who lay on the floor, on mats, and the like, in the same apartment, had the disease in its worst form. Most of the cases which came under Dr. Livingston’s care, were, at the time of the attack, in small ill ven tilated apartments, commonly on the ground-floor. A number of persons in the same room tends to deteriorate the air, and if they sleep in it, the chances ofdisease are great ly increase—hence crowded bed-rooms* are especially prejudicial. 3. Those relating to persons.—-Person al cleanliness should be rigidly promoted by regular ablution or bathing in water of such a temperature as the feelings and experience of the individual teach him to be most agreeable and salutary. Fric tions of the skin \<ith a coarse towel or brush are particularly commendable, and in persons who have been suddenly chill ed, or whose feet are habitually cold, those parts may be well rubbed with warm salt and water, or fine salt, or mus tard flour. The clothing, and especially the covering of the feet, should be thick enough to protect the body against sudden changes of temperature, or from sudden cooling after being overheated. Flan nel or domestic muslin will be found to be the safest for inner garments. Exposure to the night air, or dews, should be avoided; and by persons una voidably summoned abroad, clothing thicker than that usually worn in the day should be put on. After being suddenly chilled, or wet by rain, a warm bath will be advisable. They Avhose business calls them a broad early in the morning, should not leave the house without eating something —such as a piece of stale bread, and some cold meat seasoned with a little mustard or pepper, and Avashed doAvn with ginger tea, or the like, which can ®»sily be prepared the preceding evening. I he meals should be light, and repeated at suitable intervals, so that the body may never be oppressed by quantity nor Avea kened by hunger. The food should be plain and easy of digestion, consisting of those meats, Avhich general experience has shown to be nutritious and healthful. More reserve than ordinary will how- ever be requited in the4ise of smoked and salted meats,- and especially of fat pork, the eating of which, in some places has been spoken of as an exciting cause of Cholera. Lobsters, and the like, are a vowedly pernicious. All crude and indi gestible vegetables, and unripe fruits ought to be carefully shunned. No ma terial change of the beverages used in fam ilies, at morning and evening, will be re quired. To milk, so largely taken as food and drink, ih different parts of the country, exception need not to be taken.—- But this remark does not apply to sour milk (bonny-clabber) which ought dur ing the prevalence of the Cholera is to be entirely abstained from. The increased predisposition to a fatal attack of Cholera, which has every where been found to result from habits of intem perance, ought to be a sufficient caution on this head. Those unaccustomed to the use of strong drinks should not by any kind of persuation or false reasoning, have recourse to them—and the habitual ly intemperate, those prone to excess, can not too carefully or speedily begin a re form. Abstinence from ardent spirits at all times desireable, is, in seasons of pes tilential visitation still moreiiecessary. A substitute will be found for alcoholic stim ulation, in the use of ginger and cayen ne, as condiments with food. In the case of the man who has desisted from dram drinking, these articles may be ta ken at stated times; the first, in the form of tea, the second, in the form of pills. The poor and needy whose food is scanty, and of bad quality, such as wa tery vegetables, bad bread, &c. should be supplied with a better nutriment, in the form of good animal broth, good bread, a day old, and a suitable allowance of milk. In Gallicia a better diet furnished to the lower classes, at the expense of the Austrian Government, appeared to have contributed; as much as any other mea sure, to prevent the spreading of the dis ease. In a sugar manufactory at St. Pe tersburg, where all the workmen had in creased allowance of food, of a whole some kind, no individual was attacked. It may indeed be said, that pure air and good substantial living, and a tranquil mind, will be found among the best pres ervatives against Cholera. Temperance and regularity of life, in all respects, which are so servicable in protecting against most diseases, are re quired to be observed in a peculiar de gree to Avard off an attack of Cholera. The Committee, in conclusion, deem it their duty to distinctly recommend that suitable measures be taken by the proper authorities, for ihe establishment of tem porary hospitals in different parts of the city, for the reception of cholera patients, who have not adequate lodging and ac commodations at their own dwellings; and also, that provision be made for re moving all those persons who live and sleep in cellars, or other close, damp, and ill-ventilated rooms in streets, alleys and courts, in Avhich the disease once show ing itself would, Avithout some such pre cautionary measures, commit dreadful ravages. Immediate specification may be made of a great number of under ground rooms, used for lodging and sleeping, in the row of buildings between Front and Water streets, and of cellars in various parts of the city, in Avhich men both work and sleep. Not only are in the tenents of such rooms more prone to the disease, but they are also less advan tageously circumstanced for recovering from its attacks: nor can they be properly attended by physicians, nurses, and 1 friends, without detriment, and even dan- { ger to these latter, Avho Avould then be respiring a damp, close and imprse air, 1 and be liable to have their bodies chilled : after passing from the outer Avarm air in- ; to such a medium. THE HARDEST FEND OFF. OR TH BEAR AND THE ALLIGATOR. On a scorching day in the middle of June- 1830, whilst 1 Avas seated under a venerable live oak, on the ever green banks of the Teche, Availing for the fish to bite, I was startled by the roarings of some animal, in the cane brake, a short distance below me, apparently getting ■ ready for action.—These notes of prep- j eration were quickly succeeded by the I sound of feet, trampling down the' cane and scattering the shells. As soon as I recovered from my surprise, I resolved to take a view, of what I supposed to be tAvo, prairie bulls, mixing impetuously in bat tle, an occurrence so common in this country and season, when as Thompson ' says, “ ——Through all his lusty veins The bull deep-scorched, the raging passion feels.” When I reached the scene of action, how great Avas my astonishment, instead of bulls to behold a large black bear reared up on his hind legs, with his fore patvs raised aloft, as if to make a plunge. His face Avas besmeared with foam sprink led Avith red, Avhich dropping from his mouth, rolled down his shaggy breast. Frantic from the smarting of his Avounds, he stood gnashing his teeth and growling at the enemy. A feAV paces in his rear Avas the cane brake from Avhich he had issued. On a bank of snow white shells spotted Avith blood, in battle array, stood bruin’s foe, in shape an alligator, fifteen feet long! He looked as if he had just been dipped in the Teche, and had emer ged like Achilles, from the Styx, with an invulnerable coat of mail. He was stand ing on tiptoe, his back curved upAvards, and his tongueless mouth throAvn opendis placed in his Avide jaAvs, tAvo large tusks, and roAvs of teeth. His tail, six feet long raised from the ground, Avas constantly waving, like a boxer’s arm, to gather force. His big eyes starting from his head, glared upon bruin, whilst some times uttering hissing cries, then roaring like a bull. The combatants Avere a feAv paces fl part when I stole upon them, the '-first round” being over. They remained in the attitudes described about a minute, swelling themselves as large as possible, but marking the slightest motions with attention and great caution, as if each felt confident he had met his match. Du ring this pause I was concealed behind a tree watchingtheir manoeuvres in silence. I could scarcely believe my eye-sight. What thought I. can these two beasts have to fight about? Whether they did fight upon the present occasion with out cause I cannot say, as I was not pres ent. A bear and a ram have been known to fight: and so did the bear and the alli gator, whilst I prudently kept in the back ground, preserving the strictest neutrality betwixt the belligerents. Bruin, though evidently baffled, had a firm look, which shewed he had not lost confidence in himself. If the diffi culty of the undertaking had once decived him, he was preparing to go it again. Accordingly, letting himself down upon all fours, he ran furiously at the alligator. The alligator was ready for him, and throwing his head and body partly round to avoid the onset, met bruin half way, with a blow of his tail, that rolled him on the shells- Old Bruin was not to be put off with one hint; three times in rapid suc cession he rushed at the alligator, and was as often repulsed in the same manner, being knocked back by each blow just far enough to give the alligator time to recover the swing of his tail before he re turned. The tail of the alligator sound ed like a flail against the coat of hair on bruin’s head and shoulders, but he bore it without flinching, still pushing on to come close holts with his scaly foe. He made his fourth charge with a degree of dexterity, which those who have never seen this clumsy animal exercising, would suppose him incapable of. This time he got so close to the alligator be fore his tail struck him, that the blow came with halfits usual effect. The alli gator was upset by the charge, and be fore he could recover his feet, bruin grasped him round the body below the fore legs, and holding him down on his back, seized one of his legs in his mouth. The alligator was now in a desperate sit uation, notwithstanding his coat of mail, which is softer on his belly than his back, from which “The darted steel -with idle shivers flies.” As a Kentuck would say. “he was getting up fast.” Here, if I dared to speak, and had supposed he could understand Eng lish, I should have uttered the cncoura ging'exhortation of the poet — “Noav gallant knight, now hold thy own. No maden’s arms are round thee thrown.” The alligator attempted in vain to bite, pressed doAvn as he Avas, he could not open his mouth, the upper jaw of Avhich only moves, and his neck Avas so stiff he could not turn his head short round. Tne amphibious beast fetched a scream in despair, but being a “warrior by flood and by field,” he Avas not yet entirely overcome. Writhing his tail in agony, he happened to strike it against a small tree that stood next the bayou, aided by this purchase, he made a convulsive floun der which precipitated himself and bruin, locked together, into the river. , The bank from Avhich they fell was four feet high, and the Avater below se ven feet deep. The tranquil stream re ceived the combattants Avith a loud splash, then closed over them in silence. A a*ol -of ascending bubbles announced their arrival at the bottom, Avhere the battle ended. Presently bruin rose again, scrambled up the bank, cast a hasty glance back at the river, and made off dripping to the cane brake I never sa\v the alli gator afterwards, to know him; no doubt he escaped in the Avater, which he cer tainly Avould not have done, if he remain ed a few minutes longer on land. Bruin Avas forced by nature to let go his grip un der Avater to save his own life, I therefore think he is entitled to the credit of the vic tory; besides, by implied consent, the par ties Avere bound to finish the fight on land, where it began, and so bruin understood it. II this record should be carried up to the supreme court of the United States, I think the judge Avould decide in bruin fa vor, by this modern principle oflaw; one thing is certain, viz: They Avould decide that they had jurisdiction by implication] per force of which, what is it that cannot be Breaking up of Gambling-Houses. The same scene, which Avas lately ac ted in Norfolk, Avas repeated in this City on last Monday night. It is said, that a young gentleman had been assaulted by several gamblers in consequence of which a strong feeling of resentment Avas excited among several of his friends—and the spirit spreading, 2or 300 young gentle men, accompanied by the captain of the night guard, and eight of his men, enter ed into ten gambling houses, and took out the Roulette tables and other fixtures -—which Avere the next morning burned in the main street near the Eagle Hotel, by order of the proper authorities. No injury was done to life or limb. The Compiler, which has taken a very active part in putting doAvn the gambling houses and these gamblers, gives a very partic ular account of the scenes that were vis ited and publishes a very curious mem orandum, Avhich Avas taken from a Book, kept by one of the gamb.ers. It purports to be a statement, under the heads of Gain and “,Loss,” of the transactions of one table from the 3d December, 1832 to March 8, 1833—from which, it ap pears, that in the above period 86,735 was won, and 770 lost— leaving the com fortable nett gain of $5,965! But it is like Shakespeare’s occupation of gather ing samphire on the Cliffs of Dover, “a dreadful trade!” There has lately arrived from Ameri ca, in Paris, a curious design of an am phibious machine, Avhich combines all the properties of a steam boat and a land carriage: When on the land is runs up on four wheels, and on arriving at the bank of any river or lake, which it is ne cessary to cross, the Avheels stop and a paddle placed under the middle begins to play, and carries it over the water Avithout any difficulty. It is the invention of an engineer named Whiston, is in the form of an alligator, or Ameri can crocodile; its construction is very simple, of small expense, and is easily ta ken to pieces, and quickly put together a gain.—London Morning Herald. From the Federal Union. Eight district, Carroll county. August 20, 1834. Gentlemen.—When I left Milledge tother day, you know my dander was pret ty considerably raised at them are Central Bank fellows for refusing my note, when it was as good as could be made in the eight of Carroll, and in my wrath I swore that I would make them smell the patch in, by quitting their party, and joining old Squire Ransom of the eighth, who every body knows is good States-right man up to the handle. My temper you know is none of the goodest, and on my way home, I chanced to stay all night in DeKalb, and after feeding my critter, the first thing I heard was polyticks; so says I, here is a chance to give it to them insolvent bank i fellows; and the first question I axed was mister, do you always stand up to your corn and fodder and never deny a cow in | you own mark? Says he, I dont under ! stand you; then says 1, in plain English, what’s your creed? A rale States-right, wig, nullification man was the answer. I ris right on end, and called for a wag of his potatoe grabbier, and says I, mister, you are worth your weight in coon skins, as we say in the eighth, and I’m ditto. Then the way I give it to them Central fellows about your town want slow, and in less than three minits, mister popped up and swore I was a rip staver. This was on the eleventh, and the next day Avas the great celebrashun in Decatur, and misster said I must go, and if Daniell, Chappell, Bell and Tommy Tompkins of Green did not cum, I must be spokesman—Said I, mister, that is a pretty tuff pill, and altho I could face the Devil in any part of the eighth, I di dent knotv so Avell about mounting the stump, to be grinned at by such an everlasting squad of people as will be there. Never mind, said mister, you are the verry fellow Avho can take the rag off’ the bush, and beside, all the big folks Avill be there to back you. No danger; go ahead. Says I, mister, you talk pretty, and 1 begin to think you are a bout half right, so I consented!—-Went to bed, but thinking what I should say kept me Avide aAvake. Next morning Ave were off; cum to Decator, and the like I never seed afore. Men, Avomen, and children all over the face of creashum. I began to think of my speech, Avhat to say, where to begin and Roav end, Avhen mister said, “stranger, you look white behind the gills,” says I, mister, aint Danell and them are big folks here? He said yes, says 1 thats great, they can talk and 1 re port. Then there was a general moving of the croAvd. Fifes, drums, and fiddles all agoing and I arter them, until they took down the street to the tune of quick time. I kinder thought they were afraid of the torys, and disposed gradaly to slope off, and leave them master of the hill, so says 1, halt—-there is no run in me, but says one, you are mistaken, Ave are going over to the edge of the bushes,the place ap pointed. Says I. are you sartin, stranger —he ansAverd yes, this cooled me a little, so I tracked on the verry spot. Danell was up and a coming, full tilt and a quar ter over. The tariff, and internal improve ment got a good sharking, States-rights was handled as we say in the eighth, glo rious, but avc was dark as midnight about nullification, for I telled him the journals of 31 would pop right afore him, ifhedid •nt mind; says he, keep dark, the people here dont know it. Chappell folloAved but he swims in too deep water for me, and talks too much about sovereigns. All I could gather from his cavorting was, that old Jackson had robbed some bank. At the menshun of a bank, I thought of the Central and you, may depend I felt wolf ish about the head and ears. I elboAved a stranger, and axed him what bank was robbed; says he, Kink George’s in Phili mondelphy; says I, dam Kink George. Bell popped up, he shook his head a time or tAvo, looked as savage as a meat ax, and I kinder thonght he felt like a mon key riding an Elephant, ashamed of Avhat he Avas doing, but the way he mashed old Jackson’s tail about that bank robberry want a little and quit; in fact he is a screamer, and if he would only hold up his face, and look bold like a sheep, he Avould be the yellow flower of the forest. In fact he is a rale fellow, and ris in his stir rups like all wrath, and at one time I kin der thought, his steam Avas so high the boiler would burst, but I avus as badly mistaken as Squire Ransuin was when he swore the moon Avas made of cheese, Little Tompkins of Greene closed the show, by givmgus a rale dish of Troup and the treaty. He is a cute little varmont, hard to head and in the eighth Avould be thought a rip screemer. When Tommy had closed, mister came to me and axed me to speak, but says I, the subject is exhausted, let us stand to our fodder; at this moment, an old gray haired sinner, came muttering along say, ing he would notcelebrate king George’s birth day; I ris right on end, and says I, stranger none of your tricks on travellers, this is not king George’s birth day; with that he pulled out an old almanac, and sure enuff, there it was in black and white 1 2th August, King George IV. born! I felt a little streaked, and kinder thought I Avas sewed up,Avhen up came aStates-right, wig, nulification man, and swore he rath er celebrate King George’s birth day than General Jackson’s says I, stranger, that is a hucklebery over my persimon, if it aint: I wish I may never see the k eighth part of Carroll—he turned on his heel and off he went, wheh mister step ped up, and said that fellow was hasty in his remarks,although it was the truth, he ought to keep it back a little while. What says I, do you wish to celebrate the king’s birth day—mister here stopped me and said he, dont you knoAV Avhen we first appointed this celebrashun, it Avas another day, but thinking the time not far off Avhen Mr. Calhoun and us wig men, might Avant help, we appointed the tAvelfth in order to convince them Ave are as Avilling subjects, as ever lived in Eng land. Says I, mister what do you mean Do you Avant a king?—Do you want war to the knife?lfyou do you are a dam traitor— Avith that he began to heave & set like a ram at a gate post, and I raly thought I should have to use him up.—But in a minit up came three strapping fellows and told me if I was in faA’or of Jackson, and opposed to king George to Avalk tar apin, or they Avould give me my dose. As old Shakesper in New York, says, ‘the better part of valor is discreshun,” Ithought so too, and Avas not many minits in get ting off from those loving subjects, and I would not be surprized, if some on them should find that hemp, was a more certain remedy than nullification. As for my self, I consider them Central bank felloAvs gentlemen, along side of those in Decatur, and for the future I will take the back track, before it is too cold to find Avhere I left off lest old Jackson or some of his strikers should inform me I Avas barking up the wrong tree. Now Mr. Editor, when I get crossed in my way again, 1 in tend to stand up to my rackt and if I am ever so blind as to be led astray by king George’s men again, I hope the pony club may drum me out of the eight of Carroll. Your’s eternally. GUY RIVERS. Eighth of Car roll. From the Standard of Union. Despotism of Nullification Unmasked. The folloAving certificate, from a man of high respectability, goes only to con firm our opinions of the ultimate object and tendency of nullification. It is not the first time, that confiscation and banishment have been advocated, and as sure as the nullifiers get the ascenden cy in Georgia, so sure will the Union men be subjected to the. Despotism of 1 est Oaths and all the pains and penalties, with which the Union men of South Car olina are now threatened. We cannot too earnestly recommend united and vigorous action on the part of our Union friends, We implore them, to let all strifes and dissentions among them cease, and go to the poles as one man; re solved to maintain the free institutions of our common country, solid and entire. GEORGIA, ) This is to certify, Cobb County, $ that on the night of the 17th August, Gen. DANIEL NEWNAN, called and staid all night with me, and our conversation turning on the subject of politics, he stated to me, that he had no doubt but, at the approaching session of the. Legislature in South Car olina, the Test oath party AVould confirm the oath by a constitutional majority, and that the State Rights party of Georgia Avould folloAV their example, so soon as they had the poAver. and this event he ex pected Avould take place in less than three years. He also observed, that they had the majority of the State now, in his opin ion. And he further stated, that when the State Rights party of Georgia passed the Test Oath, Avhich they assuredly would do in less than three years, all those who Avould not take it would be compelled to leave the State, or their property would be confiscated and sold, and the money appropriated to public use WILLIAM GUESS. Marnetta, Cobb County. Ga- 7th Septem ber, 1834. r THE AMERICAN FLAG. When freedom from her mountain' height Unfurled her Standard to the air; She tore the azure Tobe of night, ’ And set the stars of glory there! She mingled with its gorgeous dies The milky baldric of the skies, And striped its pure celestial white, With streakings from the morning’light 1 Then, from her mansion in the sun, She called her eagle-bearer down, ’ And gave into his mighty hand The symbol of her chosen land ! Majestic monarch of the cloud! Who rear’st aloft thy regal form. To hear the tempest trumping loud, And see the lightning lances driven, When strides the warrior of the storm, And rolls the thunder-drum of heaven! Child of the sun! to thee ’tis given To guard the banner of the free— To hover in the sulphur smoke, To ward away the battle stroke, And bid its blendings shine afar, Like rainbows on the cloud of war, The harbinger of victory ! Flag of the brave ! thy folds shall fly, The sign of hope and triumph high! When speaks the signal trumpet’s tone. And the long line comes gleaming on, Ere yet the life-blood, warm and wet, Has dimmed the glistening bayonet— Each soldier’s eye shall brightly turn To where thy meteor glories burn, ’ And as his springing steps advance, Catch war and vengeance from the glance ! And when the cannon’s mouthing loud, Heave in wild wreaths the battle shroud And gory sabres rise and fall, Like shoots of flame on midnight pall!! There shall thy victor glances glow, And cowering foes shall fall beneath Lach gallant arm that strikes below That lovely messenger of death! Flag of the seas! on ocean’s wave, Thy stars shall glitter o’er the brave, When Death, careering on the gale Sweeps darkly round the bellied And frighted waves rush 'wildly back 5, e J or ? f " ±e broadside's reeling rack 1 he dying wanderer of the sea Shall look at once to heaven and thee And smile to see thy splendors flv * In triumph o’er the closing eve. ’ ’ Flag of the free heart’s only home By angel hands to valor given 1' 7 hy stars have lit the welkin dome And all thy hues were born in heaven FQ jev er float that standard sheet' Whh r fr T h ? S the . f ? e but falis u’. With freedom’s soil beneath our feet, And freedom s banner streaming o’er us! AUGUSTA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26,1834. This is the last paper that will reach our country friends before the election. The ad monition, Ave give for this county, to vote their whole ticket, we hope will be observed every where. Carry the Union Ticket by triumphant majorities—look only to principle and its suc cess, let it operate against whom it may. Our country expects every man to do his duty. If we dally” with the enemy, if we are not “ damned,” in the elegant language of Nullifi cation, we shall be beaten by the activity, unti ring zeal, insidious management and uncom promising hostility of our opponents. And if we fail, in the language of a Nullifier recently, we shall have to swallow, like the Carolinians, “ tesf oaths or fish hooks:' It depends on this election, to keep all such infernal machinery out of our government. Let us do it. Let us hear early froiri our friends, and let every annunciation be, “ IFc have met the enemy, and they are ours." We really know not all the important mat ters transpiring around us. We did not know of the birth of a new paper in the city—even as long ago as Monday last—the Weekly Trans cript, by George Robertson, formerly connect ed with the Savannah Georgian. It comes too into this “breathing world” not crying, as usual, but, gentle reader, did you ever hear the likel— laughing. And the saucy littlo devil says, whan itgroAvs a little older, it may peep out daily on us,and give" a glimpse of the busy scenes of this Great World ! ” Did you ever hear such < braggart ? Why it is not bigger than the glasa m our window. CHOLERA. The Board of Health of New York have de termined to discontinue their reports in reeard to the cholera. On the 16th there were only 5 deaths. Whole number of deaths 636, from 23d July to 16th Sept.—average a little over 11—i n 1832 average, from July 2d to August 28 was 30-total deaths 2164. Greatest number of deaths, this year, in one day 40—in 1032 104 which occurred on 21st July, an d on 20th 100. ‘ BOARD OF HEALTH, > Wednesday, Sept. 24—3 o’clock, p. At. ( The Board have the pleasure of again an nouncing to the public that no case of Cholera has occurred within the last twenty-four hours. No case of Cholera having occurred for three successive day., and only one in the last six- Resolved, That this Board adjourn ttatil Monday next, at 3 o’clock, P. M., unless sooner called together by the chairman. Thursday, Sept. 25-3 o’clock, P. At. The Board of Health report one case of Cholera ’ which occurred within the last 24 hours, found in collapse this morning case not yet terminated. The subject of this case is an African negro man 35 or 40 years old —a free drinker of spirits. M. ANTONY, Chairman of the Board of HaaltfiT* Paul F. Eve, Secretary. Col. John Billups has been selected by a meeting of Judge Crawford’s friends in Lexing ton to pronounce an Eulogy on the life and character of the deceased, during the session of the Superior Court in that place, in October. o We learn, says the Georgia Journal of the 24th inst., we know not how truly, that Judge Crawford, before his death, had received and accepted the appointment on the Supreme Bench ol the United States, vice Judge Johnson, de ceased. Garnett Andrews, Esq. of the county of Wilkes, has been appointed by the Governor, Judge of the Superior Courts of the Northern Circuit, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of Judge Crawford. The steam packet Virginia, Capt. Rollins, having been newly coppered, aqd put in fine order, Uill resume her trips between Norfolk and Charleston—leaving the former place on Thursday, 2d November next, Her route is inside all the shoals, and rarely if ever out of land. i The steam packet building at NeW York, for Captain John Greene, is to be launched on the sth October, and is to be called the Dolphin. The Savannah papers dispute about the effect! of the Eflingham meeting. Certain it is, how ever, that a very favorable prospect exists, of that Cxiunty’s giving the Union side its decided support. It is admitted in the account Athich' has just readied us in the Republican, that the State Rights ” party (par excellence)'were in the minority in the late public meeting. Suffi cient evidence of this is given in the loss of temper in one of their speakers, whom his own side represents to have said, that his opponents shut their eyes to the truth "from prejudice and ignorance." After the public meeting adjourn ed, the minority organized and passed the fol lowing resolutions, which in common justice to them we publish: Resolved, Thut.the State Rights party of Effin gham County, recognize in the two conflicting parties of this State, none other than the old Troup and Clark par ties. Resolved 1 That the principles of Geo. M. Troup which have since 1825, been the principles of Effingham County, are the true State Rights principles, and that we shall use every honorable exertion to promote and perpetuate them. Rcsolvvd, I hat we are opposed to the principles of Andrew Jackson as put forth in his Proclamation, and sanctioned in the 1- orce Billjthat we conceive the sei* zure of the Public Deposites, and the Pro* test which followed the act' v „ o ateofthe Unilwl ° f,he Sel " Hnnc r . , -* teS thereon, as usurps* r dangerous ta the liberties • bur country, to the gonius and spirit of the Government and the express terms of our free Constitution. I, F. WALDHOUR. Ch’n, Jno G. Mathews, Sec’ry. Duelling,—The following is a clause in the Constitution of Tennessee, recently adopted, ■ y '•Any person who shall fight a duel, or knowingly be the bearer of a challenge for that purpose, or be an aider or abet tor in fighting a duel, shall be deprived of the right to hold any office of honor or profit in this State.”
