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Front the Southern Literary Messenger.
COURTSHIP A MARRIAGE.
There lived in a country, not a thousand
miles from Edinburg, a decent farmer
who, by patient industry and frugality,
and without being avaricious, had made
himself in easy circumstances. He en
joyed life without being profuse; for he
tempered his enjoyments with modera
tion. At the age of sixty he, still retained
the bloom of health upon his cheek.- —He
lived till that ag? a bachelor; but bis house
hold affairs were regulated by a young
woman, whose attentive zeal for her mas
ter’s interest made it easy for him to enjoy
his home withot a wife. She vyas only
in the character of his humble servant,
but she was virtuous and prudent. Betty
allotted the tasks to the servants in the
house, performed the labor within doors
during harvest, when all others were en
gaged. She saw every thing kept in or
der, and regulated all with strict regard
to economy and cleanliness. She had the
singular good fortune to be at once belov
ed by her fellow servants, as well as res
pected and trusted by her master. Her
master even consulted her in matters
where he ktewshe could give advice,and
found it often to his interest to do so.
But her modesty was such, tint she never
tendered her advices gratuitously.—Pru
dence regulated all her actions, and she
kept the most respectful distance from her
master. ■ She paid all attention to his
wants and wishes; nor could a wife or
daughter have . been, more attentive.
When he happe.ned to be from home, it
was her province to wait upon him when
he returned, provide his refreshment, and
administer to all his wants. Then she
reported to him the occurrences of the day,
and the work which had been done. It
did not escape her master’s observation,
however, that though she was anxious to
relate the truth, she still strove to extenu
ate and hide faults of those who had com
mitted misdemeanors. Her whole con
duct was such, that for the period of fifteen
years, the breath of slander dared not to
hazard a whisper against her.
It happened, however, that a certain
waide/t lady in the neighborhood had
cast an eye upon the farmer. She was the
niece of a bachelor minister, and lived at
the manse in the character of housekeeper.
But, with all opportunity to become a com
petitor with Betty, she could never gain
her character. Those people who want
personal attractions, take strange means
of paying court, and endeavoring to open
the way for themselves. What they can
not effect by treaty, they endeavor to do
by sapping. Scandal is their magazine,
by which they attempt to clear their way
from all obstructions. This maiden lady
made some sinister remarks, in such a
way, in such a place as were sure to reach
the’farmer’s ear. The farmer was nearly
as much interested for the character of his
servant as he was for his own and so soon
as he discovered the authoress, made her
a sutable return. But he made ample a
mendsto Betty for lhe-injury she had suf
sered, and, at the same time, rewarded her
for her services, by taking her for his wife
By this event, the lady, whose intentions
has been well understood, and who had
thought of aggrandizing herself at the ex
pense and ruinof poor Betty,found that she
had contributed the very means, to ad
vance her to the realization of a fortune
she had never hopedflir. May all inter
meddlers of the same cast have the same
punishment: tl eyare pests to society.
Betty’s success had created some spec
ulation in the country. Though every
one agreed that Betty deserve her fortune
it was often wondered how such a modest
unassuming girl had softened the heart of
the bachelor, who, it was thought, was
rather flinty in regard to the fair sex. Bet
ty had an acqnaintan. e, who was situated
in nearly the same circumstances with
herself, in being at the head of a bachelor
farmer’s house; but it would appear that
she had formed a design of conquering
her master. If Betty used artifice, how
ever, it was without design. But her
neighbor could not, it would appear be
lieve that she had brought the matter to a
bearing without some stratagem; ahd she
wished Betty to tell he? how she had gone
about “courting the old man.” There
was, withal, so much native simplicity a
bout’Belty, and the manner ot relating her
owm courtship and marriage, is so like
herself, that it would lose its naivete unless
told in her own homely Scotch way, Bet
ty, into all, had a lisp in her speech, that
is, a defect in speech, by which the s is
always pronounced as th. which added a
still deeper shade of simplicity to her man
ner;but it would be trifling to suit the or
thography to that common defect The
reader can easily suppose that he hears
Betty lispingt while she is relating her
story to her attentive fi iend.
“Weel, Betty,” says her acquaintance
•come, gi’e me a sketch* an’ tell me a’ a
bout it; for 1 may ha’e a chance mysel.’
We dinna ken what’s afore us. We’re
no the waur o’ha’ein’ somebody to tell us
the road, when we dinna ken a thecruiks
and thraws in’t?
‘Deed,’ says Betty, “there was little a
bout it ava Our maister was awa at the
fairae day selling the lambs,'and it was
i gey late afore-he cam’ flume. Our mas
| ter ven a seldom steys late, for he's a douce
man as can be. Well, ye see, he was I
mair herty than I had seen him for n lang
time; but I opine he had a glide merket ■
I lor his lambs, and ther’s room for excuse
whan ane drives a guce bergen. Indeed ;
to tell even on truth, he had rather better
than awe drop in his e’e. it was my
usual to sit up till he came, when he was
i awa.-—When he cam’ in and gaed up
;stairs, he find his sipper ready for him.
I 'Betty,’ says he, very soft like. ‘Sir,’ says
I. ‘Betty,’ says he, ‘what has been gaun
]on the day—a’s right, 1 houpT’ *Ouy, sir, :
■says I. ‘very well, very wee!,’ says he, !
in his ain canny way. Hega’e me a clap
on the shouther, and said I was a guide
I lassie. When I had telt him a’ that had
I been dune throu’ the day, just as 1 aye
■ did, he ga’e me another clap on the shcuth
er, and'said he was a fortunate man to
ha’e sic a carefu’ person about the house
1 had never heard him say as muckle to
my face before, tho’ he aften said mair a-
j hint my back.. 1 really thobht he was fey
! Our maister, when he had gotten his sup-
I per finished, began to be very joey ways
and said that I was baith a’ gude and a
bonnie lassie. 1 kent that folks arna them
I seis whan in drink, and they say rather
: mair than they wae do if they were sober
Sae I cam’ awa’ doon in the kitchen.
“Twa or three days after that, our mais
ter cam’ into the kitchen—‘Betty,’ says
he. ‘Sir,’ says I. Betty,’ says he, ‘come
upstairs; 1 want to speak t’ye,’ says he.
Verra weel, sir,’ says I. Sae 1 went up
stairs after him thinking a’the road that
he was gaun to tell me something about
the feeding of the swine, or kil'ing the
heeler, or something like that. But whan
he tilt me to sit doun, I saw there was
something serious, for he never bad me sit
doun afore but ance.and that was whan he
was gaun to Glasgow fair. ‘Betty,’ says
he, ‘ye ha’e been lang a servant to me,’
says he. ‘and a gude and honest servant.
Since ye’re sae gude a servant, I aften
think ye’ll make a better wife. Ha’e ye
ony objections to be a wife, Betty? says he
‘I dinna ken sir,’ says I. ‘A body canna
just say hou they like a bargin till they
see the article.’ ‘Weel, Betty,’ says he,
‘ye’re very right there again. I ha’e had
ye for a servant these fifteen years, and I
iinever knew that I could find faut wi’ye for
onything. Ye’re careful, honest, and at
tend!, an ’ ‘O sir,’says I, ‘ye always
paid me for’t, and it was only my duty.’
‘Weel, weel, says he, ‘Betty, that’s very
true; butthen I moan to mak’ amens t’ye
for the c’ il speculation that Tibby Lang*
togue raised about you and me, and forby,
the warld are taking the same liberty; sae
to stop a’their mouths, you and I shall
be married.’ ‘Verra weel, said I; for
what could I say?
“ Our maister looks into the kitchen a
nother day, an’ says ‘ Betty,’ says he, ‘ 1
am gaun to give i‘n our names to be cried
irr the kirk, this and next Sabbath.’—
i ‘ Verra weel, sir,’s ys I.
“ About eight days after this our mais
ter says to me; ‘ Betty,’ says he. ‘ Sir,’
says- 1. ‘ I think,’ says he,‘we will hae’
the marriage put owre ueist Friday, if ye
ha’e nae objection.’ ‘Very well sir, says
I. ‘And ye’ll tak’ the grey yad, and
gang to the toun on Monday, an’ get yon
bits o’ wedding braws. I ha’e spoken to
Mr. Cheap, the draper, and ye can tak’ off'
ony thing you want, an’ please yoursel,
for I canna get away that day.’ Verra
well, sir,’ says I.
■ ‘Sae I gaed awa to the toun on Monday
and bought some wee bitts o’ things; but I
I had plenty o’ claes, and I coud’na think
;o’ being stravagant. I took them to the
i manty maker to get made, and they were
i sent home on Thursday.
“On Thursday night our maister says
to me, ‘Betty,’ says he.‘Sir,’says I. ‘To-
■ morrow is our wedding-day’ says he, -an
Iye maun see that a’ things are prepared;
i for de denner,’ says he, ‘an s.-e every thing
dune yoursel,’says he, for I expect some
company an I wad like to see every thing
I feat and tiddy in your ain way,’ says he,
I ‘Verra weel, sir,’ says I.
i ‘I had never taken a serious thought a
i bout the matter till now, and I began to
. consider that 1 must exert myself to please
;my maist< r and the company. Sae I got
: every thing in readiness, and got every
thing clean; I con’d na think ought was
I dune right except iny ain hand, was in it.’
‘On Friday morning our maister says
to me, ‘Betty,’ says he, ‘Sir,’ says I. ‘Go
away midget voqrsel dressed,’says he
•for the company will soon be here, and
ye maun be decent. An’ ye maun stay
in the room upstairs,’ says he. ‘till ye’re
, sent for,’ says he. ‘Verra weel, sir:’ say I.
' But there was sic a deal to do, and sae ma
ny grand dishes to prepare, for the denner
to the company, that I could not get a-
I way,’ aud the hail folk were comin afore
I got mysel dressed.
I ‘Our maister cam doun stairs, and telt
, me to go up that instant and dress mysel.
; for de minister was just comm doun the
I lane. Sae I was obliged to leave every
! thing to the rest of the servants, an’ gang
up stairs and pit on my clothes.
‘When 1 was wanted, Mr. Brown o' the
! i Haaslybrae cam an took me into the room
■■ among the gran foux an the minister. I
■ ( was maist like tofaintjfor I never saw sae
many gran folk together a’ my born days
afore, an’ I didna ken whar to look. At
last our maister touk me by the hen,’ an’
I was greatly releived. The minister
saida great deal to us; but I canna mind
it a’—and then said a prayer. After this
• I thought I should Ik; ve been worried wi’
: folk kissing me: many a yin shook hands
] wi’ me I had never seen afore, and vvish
: ! cd me much joy.
■ ( 'After the ceremony was o’er, I slipped
awa’doun among the rest o’ the serqants,
■ to se il denner was all right. But in a
; wee time our maister cam’ into the kitch
; i en, an’ says. ‘Betty,’ says he, ‘sir.’ says I.
j ‘Betty,’ says he, ‘ye must consider th.it
'ye,re nolvngei my servant, but my wife,
| says he. and therefore ye must come up
stairs and sit amongst the rest ofthc com
pany,’ sayi he, iVerra weel, sir, says I.
Sae what could I do but gang uy stairs to
the rest of the company,an sit down among
them? I sat there in a corner, as well
out o’ sight as I could for they were a’
speaking io me,an I didna ken how to be
have amang sic a Znaw company, or how
to answer them. I sat there till it was
geay late, and our maister made me drink
the compana’s healths, and they gaed a’
away.
“When the company were a’ gaen awa
I went doun to the kitchen, and saw that
every thing was right; and after I put a
candle into my maister’s bed room, I took
another gaed away up to my ain wee
room, in the garret. J ust when 1 was cas
ing off’ my s.hune, I heard my maister
first gang into his ain room,and then com
straight away up to mine. I think I can
hear him yet, for it was siecan ex
traord’nar thing, and I never saw him
there afore; & every stamp o’ his feet gaed
thunt, thunt to my very hart. He stood at
thecheek of the door, and said very saft
ly, ‘Betty,’ says he, sir, says I, ‘But what
brought ye here, six,’ says I. ‘Naething
says he; * verra weel, nathing be it, sir.’
‘But,’ says he, remember you are no lon
ger my servant but my wife, says he, Ve
ra weel, sir,’ says I; I will remember that
‘And ye must come down stairs;’ Verra
weel, sir, says I: for what could I do? I
had always obeyed my maister, and it
was nae time to disobey him now.
‘Sae, Jean that was all that was about
my courtship or marriage.’
From the Boston Evening Transcript.
SKETCHES ALONG SHORE.
Cumberland Island,May 1835.
I notice that a correspondt nt of yours
—for Ido sometimes see the Transcript—
has touched at this out of the way place,
and apparently smacked his lips with the
savor of the first fruit which one of the
plantations is famed for. It istruly worth
seeing, and I should count it no fruitless
enterprise for any man, not much in a
hurry, to tarry here fora goodly season
It is distant some seven miles from St. Ma
ry’s, (of which I spoke of in a letter that I
hope is received ere now) and is one of
the termini ofthc waler parties. Il is a
wilderness of a place to look at; but to live
in a paradise. The principal point of at
traction is the place now inhabited by the
descendants of Gen. Greene, of the third
generation—a family (I must do'.hem the
justice so say) retaining a noble propor
tion of the same spirit which gave their il
lustriousancestor the boundless popularity
be enjoyed here during his lifetime. The
house is a planter’s palace, and indepen
dency complete. Little intercourse can
he had with the world at large, though a
steamer fromSavanuah touches here some
times; & there are but two or 3 other fam
ilies on the whole length (twenty miles)
of the jcland; il was necessary, therefore,
for a man disposed, like mine, host, both
to employ and to enjoy himself, to furnish
his own premises with the wherewithal.
Ever\’ thing that he want’s then, he has
—with the exception < f that which nq
gold can give, or land procure, and that is
abundance of society, at all times. What
he has however, is forthat reason far more
precious to him; the domestic circle a char
med one, “where none intrudes,” at least,
and where each one tells fur his full val
ue. The visits of his friends, too, are up
on the same principle, appreciated and
protracted and made much of; and h- nee,
by the way, from this solitude of situation
appurtenant to the plantation system —a
good deal ot the sanguine sociability, and
the “old fashioned” hospitality, (as we call
it) not old here, for which the South has
acquired a reputation so enviable, and yet
sojust. It is a thing scarcely known at
i the North,and scarcely conceived of—this
casting one’s self, as 1 have, so complete
ly on the bonhommies of the planter—
landed by a steamer on the < dge of his
plantation with my canvass-bag in my
i band, to stay with him at all events for
days, and it might be weeks, without the
' slightest previous acquaintance, and with
i no means of making one, etiquettically.but
I through the common place medium ofmy
■ letters. Ifletters none 1 had, indeed, it
I would probably be much the same; aud 1
confess I have gone without them some
times at the South, when tendered me, or
declined or delayed to present those which
were given me, that I might experiment
the more on the kindness which thus far
never has failed rne, Jt is unjustifiable,
however and perhaps hazardous, as impo
silious have been not seldom practiced in
that way,and the sufferers have a right to
j be cautious. Yet it is delightful to feel the
confidence thus reposed in one, even when
> the draft on our host’s politeness is made
■ barely “at sight.” It is delightful when
■ no claims are urged on his courtesy, to be
placed so speedily and satisfactorally at
one’s ease—taken in almost as one of the
family, returned from his travels, and let
go again, at the end of a week, with a re
ality of the feeling, quite equal to the ver-
' isimiltude of the form. I have forgotten
the subject I started with in this digress
ion. but no matter; it will do for another
1 mail, and 1 shall feel relieved by sending
: home even my humble testimony to the
justice ot the tribute which strangers ever
; have rendered to the warmblooded and
I generous hospitality of the South. I con
i fess, in fine, that with all her faults—and
I wish they were fewer—l wish her mis
fortunes were as few—l cannot but love
her still. So true it is that
t he who sees
Her, lingers, and looks backward, with a sigh-
For Beauty ne’er lobe forgotten; so shall 1.
; But waiving poetr\\ the bell rings for
j the steamboat at the pier. Sentiment and a
; steamboat: Adieu.
SKETCHES ALONG SHORE
Cumberland Island, May 1835.
I spoke of this plantation, when I last
: wrote, as an independency—a principali
; ty, almost, I might have called it—though
not more so than is frequently to be found
in the possession of a Southern planter
Take the house itself for a specimen ot:
the system. It is big enough for half a
dozen such' families aS reside- in it, ac
cording to Northern notions of snugness,
and Northern necessities of condensation
a very spacious and imposing edifice, ■
of four stories, with airy piazzas, and cen-1
tral entries sot the breeze to run through, j
in the style proper for the climate, and
the climate, by the way, requires the!
habitations of man, as a matter of course, :
to be made and managed upon principles
just the reverse of ours, so far as the wea
ther is concerned. The material is one
which you never see in New England;
there is no sample of it as a building ma
terial, north of Caroline, so far as 1 know,
though it is much in use on some of the
West India Islands, and occasionally in
the old countries of Europe, as in one oi
the provinces of France I refer to the
tubby or iappy work us they call it. It
is a mixture of shells with sand and lime,
in certain proportions, the shells, however,
making the principal substratum. Os this
mixture are thh walls of this house
wholly composed. It is durable; al
most indistructiblc by time. One of the
light houses on the coast, near here, was
founded a few years ago upon solid blocks
i.f tabby, which were hewn out, like liv
ing rock, from the immense walls of the
old houses constructed by some of Ogle
thorpe’s earliest settlers, more than a cen
tury ago. It is neat and clean also ; and
what is more important still in this cli
mate —omitting the consideration of econ
omy to the planter, who has all the neces
sary labor on his own premises—it is
said to be remarkably cool and comforta
ble, and so far as my present experience
may go, it is decidedly in favor of that
conclusion. The rooms are very large
and high; the dining room, for example,
a sort of feudal hall, and the chambers in
like fashion ; a great advantage, certainly,
for a country like this, and for any coun
try in summer, over smaller quarters.
Os course there is space enough for every
inmate to enjoy, when he chooses, a little
solitude of his own, almost beyond the
reach of the rumors and bustle, the house
hold hum, and the tinkling of twilight
music, that echo far away in the ample
arches of this baronial retreat. /I’here
is space enough too fur the usual rendez
vous of such a residence, when we feel
sociable or studious, talkative, walkative,
or what not. There is a library, with a
choice collection of good old books.—
There is a modern parlor in the opposite
corner, where the newer generation, the
issues of the prolific press of these days,
with a suitable accompaniment of news
papers, magazines, engravings, memori
als of the family, and relics of the revolu
tion, may be seen ; and where Lafayette,
and Washington, and Greene himself, in
every shape of preservation which grati
tude and genius have been able to give
them, seem to look with living eyes from
the walls covered but with cold canvass
that still survives decay. The handwri
ting of the illustrious worthies of the war
lie thick around you. The rusty chess
board, which Greene carried with him
through all his camps, sleeps on the an
tique-looking table in the corner, as still
as the dust us its gallant owner. If you
like music better than pondering, why
here are the pianos, and guitars, above
and below ; and theie, on the other hand,
are spacious gardens, whose avenues are
| lined with every speciesol Sou'.hren trees,
i for lounging and shelter from noonday
heat; and acres and acres of those splen
did orange groves—twenty acres, I be
lieve—stretch away almost as far as the
view reaches from the windows. From
) the upper stories, however, the distant for
l » st looms up nobly--and the edges ol the
I island all round, the light-house on the
I beach, and the blue expanse of the broad
i v, aves*beyond, sprinkled with snowy sails,
I aud shining, like melted silver, in the
i blaze of a glorious morning.
1 have omitted a description of the so
i cit ty of the island, for that is a pleasure
■ which 1 am better able to remember than
I to do justice to with the pen ; and it would
' be decidedly gauche to dwell at this stage,
I on the quality ofthc hunting ami the fish
ing—the hounds ami terriers—the saddle
horses und pleasure-boats—the deer, lox
es, raccoons, ’possums, rabbits, and par
tridges—the prawn, shrimp, mullet, oys
ters, turtle—und the rest, to the end us the
chapter. It’s too bad to jumble them up
together, 1 know—ladies and lobsters in
the same line—but mine host culls me
for a foray in the woods. I see he has
slung his rifle over his shoulder, and as
he has been known to shoot five or six
deer for a day’s work,besides minor game,
1 have a right to expect what they call
sport— that is, slaughter. It’s a horrid
ugly practice, but Aye, aye, sir ! com-
ing, coming! Good bye.
——— e — ani ——a— wwwo— x w
JOHN S. COMBS,
HAVING established himself in Savannah
as Factor and Commission Merchant.will
I devote his attention tdthe interest of his friends.
REFERENCES.
Messrs. Holcombe, Peck& Co. Charleston
Messrs. J. W. &I. T. Heat d, J
.T. K. Kilburn &. Co. > Augusta.
Stovall and Simmons, )
G. B. Lamar, Esq. Savannah.
D. & A. R. Ralston. Macon.
Savannah. June 12 wtf 70
NEW STYLE BONNETS.
I Snowden Shear
HAVE received this day from New York a
st, pply of Ladies’ London Imperial Bon
nets of the latest style—also extra fine und very
superior plain Straw Bonnets, and a large sup
ply of superior Tuscans.
Also a supply ol Gentlemen and Youths’ very
superior Palm Leaf Hats, trimmed very neatly
in the New York style.
I april6 ' ts 11
I
TAKEN UP ASTRAY.
A LARGE Sorrel-Roan HORSE that has
.ZtA- been staying about my place, near Au
gusta, for twelve or lourteen days, 9 or JO years
old, with white hind feet aui blaze in his lace,
which the owner can have by paying expcnces
and for this notice.
ROBERT W MeKEEN.
apnliJO • IS ts
A U G U S TA,
M O~N DAY, JUNE 29 . 183 ff . '
ORDER O~F CELEBRATION I
Os the sixtieth Anniversary of the Independence '
of the United Stales.
The Committee appointed to make arrange- ,
ments fur the celebration of our National Anni- >
versary, have appointed Mr. John Kerr Mar-'
shal of the Day
A procession will be formed at half past JO
o’clock, A. M., in front of the Planters Hotel, 1
and proceed to the Presbyterian Church, under ’
the command of the Marshal of the Day, where, I
after Divine Service, the Declaration of In de- ;
pendence will be read by Dr. F. M. Robertson, i
and ah Address, suitable to the occasion, will be
delivered by Herschell V. Johnson, Esq.
The Order of Procession will be as follows;
1 Volunteer Corps.
2 General Officers and Staff.
3 Officers of the 10th Regiment,
4 Officers of the Army.
5 Orator aud Reader,
6 Reverend Clergy,
7 Magistrates of the City and County,
8 Medical Faculty and Students,
9 Members of the Law School,
10 Citizens.
fj* The Pews on the right and left of the
Centre Aisle, near the Pulpit, will be reseived
for the Military. ■
The Authorities of the city and county, Rev.
Clergy, Medical Faculty and Students, Mem
bersof the Law School, and the citizens gener
ally, are respectfully invited to join the proces
sion in the above order.
The Gun, under the command of Capt. A. P.
Shultz, will be fired at the intersection of Broad
and Washington streets. Occupants,ot build
-1 ings in the vicinity of the gun,’ will take the
1 precaution of raising their window sashes, to
| prevent the destruction of glass.
. Andrew J. Miller, E. E. Ulmo.
i James B. Bishop, Robert Clarke,
| James B. Walker, John W. Stoy,
i Wm. M. Martin, Joseph A. Beard,
j Wm. F. Pemberton,
Committee of An angements.
Since our last issue, which contained the re
ported arrest of an individual, charged as the
chief robber of the Darien Bank; we have seen
a letter from that person to a gentleman of this
city on the subject. Mr. O’Meara was not ar
rested in New Oilcans, as reported, but about
23 miles west of Columbus, in Alabama, by two
persons who followed him. He says, he was
“detained a night and day in custody in a tav
ern in Columbus, and then set at liberty withuot
any examination.” He ascribes the suspicion
under which he was arrested to a person of this
city, who travelled with him 30 or 40 miles in
the stage, when he left Augusta. He has prose
cuted the two individuals arresting him, for
; false imprisonment, and says of the alleged ex
citer of the suspicion, that “ every dog shall
have his day.” The very natural appendage
to the report, of G 5,000 dollars of the stolen mo
ney being recovered, is likely to be no truer,
than the foundation of suspicion against the ac
cused. We gave the public the current report
I here—they now have Mr. O’Meara’s statement,
■ which we have condensed and published in jus
| lice to him.
I iTY Since the above was written, we have
' seen an advertisement of Mr. O'Meara in a
I Jolumbus paper, detailing the circumstances
i oi his arrest, and manifesting a sensibility in rc
i gard to the unjust suspicions excited towards
I him. which docs him great credit.
i Mr. James Sheridan Knowles sailed from
! New York for Liveipotion the J6th inst. He
i will return in November next, with his wife
■ and daughter.
Yesterday, says the Georgian of the 26th, the
Books of-Subscription for Stock in the Rail
Road, weie c' used ; sou rteen hundred and forty
eight Shares is the amount of individual sub
scription in our city. Taking the Corporation
I subscription, with those in other places, and
I there is more than necessary for the organiza
; tion of the Company.
The Philadelphia U. S. Gazette states that
C a plain Alexander G. Dallas has been appoint
ed to the command of the United States naval
Forces on the West India station.
We understand, says the Charleston Patriot
i of Friday, that the Council at their meeting
! yesterday, passed resolutions to purchase the
lots bounded by Meeting, Pinckney, Anson,
and Ellery streets, provided all the lots within
that square, could be procured for the amount
estimated by the Committee of Land Holders
in their report, to wit. one hundred and fifty
thousand dollats.
Ihe anecdote, [which we lately published,]
teflecting so much credit on the character of
the late Hon. Wm. H- Crawford, of this State,
we have the assurance <>f a gentieinan residing
in this neighborhood, (says the Southern Ban
ner,) wko was an intimate personal friend of
that gentleman, and, at the time the circum
stances related transpired, a member of his di
plomatic family at Paris, that it is substantially
true, so far as relates to the conduct of Mr.
Ci awford.
We are informed, however, that the surmises
, of the National Intelligencer with regard to
the improbabili'y of the proffered agency of
the Duke of Wellington in the matter, are
' likewise true. No intimation, either directly
or indirectly, was made by the Duke to Mr.
Crawford, ot his willingness to exert his influ
! ence in support of the American claim. The
subject of the iavorablencss of the then existing
crisis for urging and securing the indemnity,
was Irequenlly discussed and urged upon the
consideration oi Mr. C. in the private circles
in which lie moved in Paris, but it is said he
declined taking the advantage of the distressed j
condition of our ‘‘ancient ally” -for the noble .
reasons assigned.
SMALLTPOX.
We are happy to inform our fellow-cit- j
izens,that this dreadful pestilence is extinct
in our community and that no further dan
ger is apprehended from its ravages
amongst us.
So far as we know, our town is not only
healthy, but exempt from the influence
of alarming epidemics, with the exception I
of a few lingering cases of nullification, '
from which no dread is at present enter- i
tained, ns the most prominent patients ■
have passed that state of the disease at
which it can be communicated : and as
most of our citizens have been inoculated
with the genuine, Union, Democratic,
Republican matter, preserved from the
systems of Washington, Jefferson, Madi
son and Jackson; which has taken ex
remely well, and is found to be a sure
preventive against the aforesaid malady.
[Standard of Vnion.
Franklin College.— The examination
of the Senior Class of this Institution, tdni
menced onTuesday last and will probably
cluse on Friday. Os the Board of Visi
tors, the following gentlemen only, are in'
attendance:—Jabez Jackson, Esq., Col.
Dawson, Col. Sayre, Judee Polhill, Rev.
Mr. Howard and Judge Dougherty.
HAMILTOiN AND ARGYLE.
The following communication was re
jCeived from six gentlemen of high re
spectability, public spirit, and well-known
interest in the general improvement of
i the Horse. We take pleasure in adding
our wishes to theirs, and doubt not that
the liberal, gentlemanly, add public-spirit
; ed owners of Argyle, relying on the great
i powers and extraordinary success of that’
fine horse, will not hesitate to aciept the
J proposal in the spirit in which it is made*’
j and therefore bring him into friendly
competition with so distinguished and suc
cessful a rival as Hamilton. Andrer
tuinly, by so doing, they would affbrdone
of the most interesting and attractive dav’s
sport that the Southern Turf has ever
witnessed.— Chronicle.
Oglethorpe Co., Tune 24th, 1835.
Mr. Pemberton:— Knowing that a di
versity of opinion prevails as to the rela
tive superiority of Hamilton and Argyle,
and that many gentlemen oi the up-coun
try, and especially the members ofthe as
sociation formed in this county to improve
the breed of horses, are anxious to have
their doubts settled, a few of us have call
ed on the owner of Hamilton, and request
ed that he should be entered for the four
mile day, at the ensuing Augusta Races.
His owner has politely and liberally pro
mised to comply with our request. We
ask, through the medium of your paper,
to solicit the compliance of the owners of
Argyle, and hope they will be actuated by
a similar spirit. Our object is strictly the
the end of our “Association,” the ascer
tainment of the superior ho.’se, and to re
press, instead of fostering, a spirit of bet
ting; hence the plan we have adopted.
Both of the fine animals alluded to have
acquired a high celebrity, and the associ
ations whose contributions have origina
ted their fame, have some claim to a de
cision as to which of the two is entitled to
pre eminence. Each js too young to re
tire from the field sufficiently grounded in
the public confidence as a stock horse ;
Argyle the younger of the two, and Au
gusta, medium and equi-distant ground.
Thither, then, we trust, Argyle will re
pair at the time and place mentioned, and
that public patronage will subsequently
settle down on the conqueror.
Yours, respectfully,
Several of the Oglethorpe Association.
From the Albany Argus.
A JUST AND PERTINENT RE
BUKE.
At a meeting recently gotten up in Row
an county, North Carolina, by the Nulli
tiers of that section, the honorable Bedford
Brown, the United States Senator from
that State, was invited to attend. The
complexion of the meeting may be more
than inferred from the fact that it was ad
dressed by Gov. Swain, Mr. Mangum,
and DufTGreene; who, the'MiltonjSpecta
tor states, is on a nfssionary tour through
the South preaching Nullification and
Whiteism. The North Carolina watch
man publishes Col. Brown’s reply to tho
invitation—at once a delicate and deser
ved rebuke of the conduct and designs of
these auxiliaries of Nullification, and asso
ciates of the Bank.
Caswell, N. C., 14th May, 1835.
Gentlemen: I have the honor to ac
knowledge the receipt of your note of the
4th inst., inviting me to attend r public
meeting of the citizens of Rowan, to be
held on the 18th of this month, in the town
of Salisbury, the object of which is, as you
inform me, “to consult together on the pres
ent condition ofthe country.”
I I regret that it will nut be convenient
; for rne to leave home at that lime, which
| will prevent me from availing myself of
your polite invitation to participate in tho
deliberations of the proposed meeting.
Permit me, however, to avail myself of
this occasion, to express my sincere grat-
. ification at the almost unexampled prosper
ity which is so happily visible in the “pre
sent condition of the country.”
Recently emerged, as our country has,
I from a political contest; in which it had to
■ encounter the most powerfully concerted,
I and strongly organized, assaults on its
credit, its commerce, and its agriculture,
■ directed by a powerful moneyed institu
tion, il is a subject of the most sincere
satisfaction, that it has come out of that
contest, not. as many patriotic citizens fear
ed it would, with industry prostrated, and
a depreciated currency, but happily with
results the very reverse— an improved
currency and increased resources.
In my opinion, no result, in the history
of the civil administration of OLr*govern
ment, is to be more highly appreciated
than this. It has taught the invaluable
lesson, that the spirit of freedom, which
has at all times pervaded our happy coun
try, is unconquered and unconquerable.
It has most signally and impressively
rebuked those, who, forgetful ofthe nature
of our free institutions, would endeavor to
control the action of the Government and .
the public will, by means of incorporated
moneyed powers—and it has established
our republican system of Government, as
I most sincerely believe, on a still more
enduring basis than ever.
Entertaining these views, as to the
“present condition ofthe country,” 1 will
add that I see in it much to animate the
hopes of the lovers of constitutional liber-