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A BEE HUNT
BY wAsffINGTON IRVING.
The forest ih which We were encamp
ed abounded in bee trees: that is to say, trees 1
m the decayed trunks of whfch wild bees
had established their hives. It is surpris- ■
ing in what Countless SWarms the bees have '
overspread the set west, within but a mod-|
erale number of years. The Indians con-|
sider them the harbingers olthe whiteman,
ns the buffalo is of the red man; and i
say that, in proportion as the bee ad-'
vances, the Indian and buffalo retire.;
We arc alway accustomed to associate I
the hum of the bee hive with the farm
house and flower garden, and to con
sider those industrious little animals as
connected with the busy haunts of man
and I am told that the wild bee is seldom to
be met with at any great distance from the
frontier. They have been the heralds of
civilization steadfastly preceding it as it ad
vanced from the Atlantic borders: and some '
ancient settlers of the west pretend to give |
the very year tvhen the honey bee first |
crossed the Mississppi. The Indians with ■
surprise found the mouldering trees oftheir |
forests suddenly teeming with ambrosial •
sweets, and nothing. 1 am told, can exceed |
the greedy relish with which they banquet j
for the first time upon this unbought luxury I
ofthe wilderness.
At present the honey hee swarms in my-j
riads, in the noble groves and forests that
skirk and intersect the praires, and extend |
along the alhwial bottoms ofthe rivers. It i
seems to me as if these beautiful regions I
answer literally to the description of the
land ofpromise “a land flowing with milk
and honey;” for the rich pasturage ofthe
praires is ca'culatedto sustain herds of
cattle as countless as the sands upon the
sea. shore, while the flowers with which
they are enamelled render them a very
paradise for the nectar-seeking bee.
We had not been long in the camp when
a party set out in quest of a bee tree; and be ;
ing curious to witness the sport, I gladly j
accepted an invitation to accompany them.
The party was headed by a veteran bee
hunter, a tall lank fellow in homespun
garb, that hung loosely about his limbs,
and a straw hat not unlike a bee hive; a
comrade, equally uncouth in garb and with
out a hat, straddled along at his heels,with
a long rifle on his shoulder. To these
succeeded half a dozen others, some with
axes and some with rifles, for no one stirs
far from the camp without his fire arms, so
as to be ready either for wild deer or wild
Indians.
After proceeding some distance we came
to an open glade on the skirts of the forest
Here our leader halted and then advanced
quietly to a low bush on the top of which
I perceived a piece of honeycomb. This I
found was the bait or lure, for the wild bees.
Several were humming about it,and diving
into its cells.. When they had laden them
selves with honey, they would rise into the
air, and dart off m a straight line with al
most the velocity ofa bullet. Thchunters
watched attentively the course which they
took, and then set ofl’injthe same direction,
stumbling along over twisted rootsand fal
len trees, with their eyes turned upto the
sky; in this way they traced the honeyladen
bees to their hive, in the hollow trunk of a
blasted oak, where, after buzzing about for
a moment, they entered a hole about sixty
feet from the ground.
Two ofthe hunters now plied their axes
vigorously at the foot ofthe tree to level it
with the ground. The mere spectators and
ameteurs.in the meantime drew off to a cau
tious distance to be out of the way of the fal
ling tree and the vengeance of its inmates.
The jaring blows ofthe axe seemed to have
no effect in alarming or disturbing this
most industrious community. They con
tinued to ply at their usual occupations,
some arriving full freighted into port,
others sallying forth on new expeditions,
like so many mercant men in a honey-ma
king metropolis, little suspicions ofimpen- J
ding bankruptcy and downfall.
Even a loud crack, which announced the I
disrupture of the trunk, failed to divert.
their attention from the intense pursuit of i
gain, at length down came the tree with a :
tremendous crash, bursting open from end
to end, and displaying all the hoarded treas
ures ofthe commonwealth.
One hunter immediately ran up with a
whisp of lighte’d hay as a defence against
the bees. The latter, however, made no
attack and sought no revenge; they seemed
stupified by the catastrophe and unsuspi
cious of its cause, and buzzing about the
ruins without offering us any molestation,
Every one of the party now fell to, with
spoons and hunting .knife, to scoop out the
flakes of honey comb »yith which the hol
low trunk was stored. So.me of them were
beautifully white, and the honey in their
cells was almost limped. Such of the
combs as were entire were placed in camp
kettles to be conveyed to the encampnjent;
those who had been severed in the fat!
were devoured upon the spot. Every ■
stark bee hunter was to be seen with a rich ■
morsel in his hand dripping about his fin
gers, and disappearing as rapidly as a;
cream tart before the holliday appetite ofa.
school boy.
Nor was it the bee hunters that profitted
by th** down fall of ibis industrious co min u
nitt, as if the bees would carry through the '
similitude of their habits with those oflabo
rious and gainful man. I beheld numbers
from rival hives, arriving on the eager
wing, to enrich themselves with the ruins
of their neighbors. These busied them
selves as eagerly and cheerfully as so
many wreckers on an Indian an that has
been driven on shore; plunging into the
cells of broken hone.yVbmbs, banqueting
greedily on the spoil, and then winging
their waybill freighted to their homes. As
to.the poor proprietors ofthe ruin, they
seemed to haVe no heart to do any thing,
not even td taste the nectar that flowed a
round them, but crawled backward and for
ward, in vacant desolation, as I have seen
a h'dor fellow with his hands in his breech
es pockets, vacantly and despondingly a
bout the ruins of his house that had been
burnt.
It is difficult to describe the bewilder
ment and confusion ofthe bess of the bank
rupt hive who had been absent at the time
ofthe catastrophe, and who arrived from
time to time, with full cargoes from abroad.
At first they wheeled about in the air, in
the place where the fallen tree had once
reared its head, astonished at finding it all
vacuum. At length, as if comprehending
their disaster, they settled down inclusters
on a dry branch ofa neighboring tree, from
whence they seemed to contemplate the
prostrate ruin, and to buzz forth doleful la
mentations over the downfall of their re
public. It was a scene on which the “mel
ancholy Jaques”might have morralized
by the hour.
We now abandoned the place, leaving
much honey in the hollow ofthe tree. “It
will all be cleared off’by varmint,” said one
oftherangers. “What vermin?” asked I.
Oh bears, and skunks, and rackcoons and
’possums. The bears is the knowingist
varmint for finding out. a bee tree in the
world. They’ll gnaw for days together at
the trunk till they make a hole big enough
to get in their paws, and then they’ll haul
out honey, bees and all.”
CHEROKEE GUARDS.
As we anticipated, the nullifying press
condemns the measures of the Governor,-
now in progress, to sustain the laws in
the Cherokee counties, to bring a mur
derous banditti to punishment, and to pro
tect the peaceable Cherokees who are
disposed to accept the treaty, and to emi
grate to the West, from the ruffian vio
lence of the Ross paity. They say that
a guard is not needed; and in proof of
the assertion, they refer to the opinions
of governor Lumpkin, expressed on for
mer occasions. It has be< n the policy of
Governor Lumpkin, to introduce the
mild and peaceful sway of the civil au
thorities into this portion of our domain;
and to a very great extent, this virtuous
and beneficial system has been accom
plished. Witness the entire organization
of the eleven new counties, with justices’
courts, inferior courts, and superior courts,
pervading the whole of them, and giving
to their entire populate n, the blessings
of a peaceful administration of wise and
voluntary laws. But the facts which
we stated in our last number fully prove,
that in some instances the grasp of the
civil authorities cannot reach offender: ;
that armed bands of atrocious criminals
have for a long time been able to evade
or resist the ordinary ministerial officers
of the law; that their impunity gives a
species of license to crime; that the pro
perty and lives of our citizens are not
sufficiently guarded; and that those
Cherokees who are friendly to the emi
gration of their tribe, are believed to be
in imminent danger, and are deterred by
fears of personal violence, from the free
exercise of their will in approving or
rejecting the treaty.
The nullifying papers do not object
more violently to the establishment of
this guard, than to the appointment «-f
Colonel William N. Bishop as its com
mander. Nothing can be more uncandid
than their Conduct on this Occasion. Ri
ley made charges against Bishop, which
were supported only by his own name.
These 'charges Bishop has proved to be
false, by the testimony ofa host of wit
nesses And yet the nullifying papers
speak as if these charges had been sus
tained: they affect to be ignorant of their
triumphant refutation. We believe that
Colonel Bishop erred, when he caused
a grant to issue on the application of a
person who was not the drawer, or the
grantee or representative of the drawer.
But all men are liable to misunderstand
the law. In the transaction between Ri
ley and himself, Riley was the wrong
doer and aggressor; and Bishop, far from
being precipitate, violent, or unjust, only
acted with becoming firmness and energy.
We doubt whether a better selection could
have been made for the command of this
guaid, which is intended to be merely aux
iliary and subservient to the regular ad
ministration ofthe law.
This guard will have a most beneficial
effect. It will give an emphatic warniu<r
to the Cherokees, that Georgia will not
suffer her laws to be violated with impuni
ty; it will be at hand, immediately to
check the lawless violence of the tools
and followers of Ross: and it will en
courage those who prefer the interests of
their tribe to the avarice and ambition of
this peifidious chief, to exercise an inde
pendent judgment in accepting the treaty.
Recent information from the Cherokee
counties confirms the opinions which we
have heretofore, advanced on this subject.
We learn from good authority, that the
individual most active in breaking the
jail at Cassville, to effect the rescue of
Iridian offenders, is one Joseph Lynch, a
half breed Cherokee of the Ross pariv,
arid a son-in-law of John Martin, a Cher
okee of distinction and influence in that
party; and that the plot for the rescue of
the prisoners was formed at the house of
the latter Indian.
We also learn, from a source to be re
lied on. that a Cherokee named Hammer,
of the Amuchee Valley, lately declared
himself friendly to Ridge, and that for*
the expression of this sentiment, he was
immediately assailed, and beaten to death,
by a party of Ross men.
The formatiqn of the Cherokee guard
is a measure no less prudent than it is :
energetic : and we doubt not, that the ap-!
prehension, that it will have a powerful
effect in settling our Indian difficulties, [
has stimulated the opponents of the ad-.
ministration to a more bitter and vehe
ment denunciation of this bold and sea
sonable measure.— Federal Union.
UN lON CON VENTION.
Milledgeville, July 1, 1835.
The Union Democratic Republican
Convention assembled this day in the
Representative chamber at 10 A. M.
On motion of James Liddle Esq. of Jack
son, General John Bates, of Hall county,
was called to the chair.
The following delegates appeared and
took their seats, viz:
Baldwin— Tomi Ison Fort, John A.
Cuthbert, and William A. Tennille.
Bibb Edward D. Tracy, Robert
Collins, William Solomon:.
Bullock— S. Williams, John Lockhait.
Burke— Charles William
Hines, D. M. Holliday,-Wigins.
Car roll— James 11. Thomas
Roddy, Jacob Autry.
Cass— A lien Dye r.
Chatham— Robert Taylor, Joseph L.
Shaffer, W. 11, Stiles.
Clark— Stevens Thomas, Junius Ilyl
lyyr, John Lowe.
Cobb— Edward Mays, Jackson H. Ran
dolf.
Columbia— James Luke, IT. T. Mus
grove, Turner Clanton, William Hunt.
Coweta — James Thompson, John B.
Tindall, Levi T< Welborn.
Crawford— hornus Crutchfield, G. B.
Hunter.
Decatur— George L. Barry, James 11.
Trulttck.
Dekalb— Stephen Mays, John Dobbs,
Moses Murphey. James Dimotid.
Dooly— David Graham, Micajab John
ston.
Early— John Dill, William P Ford.
Elbert— James O'.liver.
Fayette— Morton N. Burch, A. Chand-
1 ler, Joseph Lamberth.
Floyd— William Smith, Phillip W.
Hemphill.
Forsyth— George Kellog, Henry L.
Sims.
Franklin— Gabriel Martin, Thomas
Morris, Lewis D.Holsenbeck, A. T. Ashe.
Gwinnett— Robert M’Affee, Thomas
Edwards, Fredrick T. Doney, A. A. Ca-
, n- T
Hall— John Bates, John M A flee, D.
H. M’Clusky, Samuel Findly, John Bar
r< tt.
Hancock— Gideon Holsey, C. Battle,
J. G. Lewis, WilliamS. Hammill.
Ha rris— Randolph Mitchell, Hopkins
Holsey.
Heard— B. W. Dent, Joseph Morrow.
Houston — John Killen, Hardy Hunter,
John Bozeman, Arthur A. Morgan,
Jackson— James Liddell, David M.
Burns, Robert Mo< n, John G. Pittman.
Jefferson — Richard K. Beal, Robert A.
L. Atkinson.
Jones— A. Jaratt, J. W. Gordon, Sant-
I uel Louther, Daniel Gunn.
Lincoln— Rein Remson, Micajah Ilen
ly-
; Lumpkin— Josiah Shaw, Charles A.
I Ely.
Madison — Samuel Groves, Isaac N.
Culberson, William Adair.
Merriwether— Abner Reeves, Wiley
P. Burks, W. B. Ector.
Monroe— J D. Lester, M. W. M’Craw,
L. L. Griffin, John Pitman, J. W. Tin
sely.
Morgan— Thomas Swift, Isaac Wal
ker.
Muscogee— B, Hepburn, Alfred fver
-8on!, Joseph Coleman.
Newton— lsaac P. Henderson, Rich
ard Kennon, Thomas Wright.
Oglethorp— Thomas Howard.
Pulaski— C. F. Button, Delamar Clay
i ton, N. W. Collier.
I Putman— Anderson H. Kendrick, Da
' vid Ross, James Whitefield, Robert
■ Blesoe.
Randolph— Allen Moye, Jonas Dan
iel.
Richmond— Charles Carter, Walter
Harris, James G. Stallings, Thomas
Glascock.
Scriccu— W. W. Black, A. Herring
ton, W. M. Henderson.
Ste.wait— M. A. Chisolm, James Uriah
i Home.
i /Sampler— Edwin R. Brown.
Talbot— James B. Hootan, N. B. Hoo
tan, N. B. Powell, Joseph Sturgis.
I 'lelfair — Mark Wilcox, Peter IL Cos-
fee.
Twiggs— D. W. Shine, Robert A.
Evans, George W. Welch.
Upson,— Daniel Kendall, Stephen D.
Heard.
Walton— Thomas W. Harris, Charles
D. Davis, Creed M. Jennings, Jesse
Mitchell.
Washington— *Wm. Fish, Thomas
Wicker, Isham H. Saflbld, S. O. Frank
lin.
Wilkes— Thomas Wootin, J. R. An
derson, Nicholas Wylie, James M. Smyth.
Wilkinson— Henry Eady, Adam Jones
S. B. Murphy.
On motion, the Convention proceeded
to the election ofa President, and upon the
ballots being counted, the following was
the result:
For Wooten, 131
Scattering, 14
Whereupon Colonel Thomas Wooten,
ofthe county of Wilkes, was declared duly
elected, and a comittee consisting of James
Liddle, Joseph Sturgis, and Henry L.
Sims, Esqrs., was appointed to conduct
him to the chair, whence he addressed the
convention.
On motion- of Joseph Sturgis Esq.,
George W. Murray and Charles D. Ham
mond Esqs. were appointed Secretaries.
The President laid before the Conven- '
tion a letter which he had received frOtti I
the Central Committee, requesting tho
Convention to nominate two citizens to |
supply the vacancies in the Congress of |
the United States, occasioned by the pro
motion of the Hon. James M. Wayne to
the bench ofthe Supreme Court, and the
resignation ofthe Hon. William Schley. ]
, On motion of John A. (. utlibert Esq., a
committee, consisting of one from each ju
dicial circuit in this State, was appointed
to draft rules for the government ofthe
' Convention.
j Whereupon the president appointed,
from the Ocrnulgee circuit,-John A. Cuth
bert Esq. from the Northern circuit, Mi
cajah J. Henly Esq.; from the Western
circuit, John Bates, Esq.; from the South
ern circuit, George W. Welch Esq.; from
the Cowetacircuit, James H. Rogers Esq.;
; from the Chatahoochee circuit, Hopkins
Holsey Esq.; from the Eastern circuit,
William H. Stiles Esq.; from the Middle
circuit, Charles Carter, Esq.; from the
i Cherokee circuit, Henry L. Sims Esq.;
from the Flint circuit, Edward D. Tracy,
i Usq.
; The Convention then took a recess until
three o’clock P. M.
Three O'clock, P. M.
Messrs, Alfred Iverson and Joseph
Coleman, delegates from the county of
: Bulloch, and David Ross from the county
of Putman appeared ami took their seats.
John A. Cutbert Esq., from the commit
’ tee appointed to draft rules for the govern
ment of the convention, made a report con
taining the following rules, which was
' adopted: .
' Rule Ist. The rules adopted by the
j House of Representatives of the State of
Georgia, for the government of their pro
ceedings, shall govern the proceedings of
this convention, so far as they are applica-
I ble to this body, and not incompatible with
'any specific rule it may establish.
I 2. On all questions, each delegate shall
be entitled to a single vote.
| 3. In the choice of candidates, the votes
shall be by ballot, without announcement
in convention. It shall require two thirds
• ofthe votes given in to constitute a nomin
' ation; and ifon balloting there shall not
be as many as two thirds ofthe votes for
I any one candidate, the balloting shall be
I repeated, until some individual shall re
j ceive as many as two thirds of the votes
i given in.
John A. Cuthbert Esq. laid on the ta
ble the following resolution,
Resolved, That this convention will, af
ter the nomination of President and Vice
President of the United States, nominate
candidates to fill the vacancies occasioned
by tl e appointment oftheHonorable James
M. Wayne to the bench of the Supreme
Court, and the resignation ofthe Honora
ble Willi tin Schley.
Ou motion of Charles D. Davis Esq. of
Walton county, the convention proceeded
to the nomination by ballot of an individu
al to be supported by the Union paity, for
the Presidency of the United States, and
the following was the result:
For Martin Van Buren oi New York, 150
votes.
“ Hugh L. White, of Tennessee, 2 “
“ Thomas H. Benton, of Missouri, 1 “
They then proceeded to the selection of
a candidate for the Vice Presidency, on
which
Richard M. Johnson, of Kentucky, receiv
ed 130
William C. Rives, of Virginia, 10
John Forsyth of Georgia,. 2
William Smith ol Ala. 1
Richard Rush, 1
On motion of Chark s D. Davis, of Wal
ton county, it was
Resolved, That the President appoint a
committee consisting of ten, to prepare
and report an address to the Union party of
Georgia.
The convention then adjourned until
nine o’clock tomorrow morning.
Tuesday, July 2 1835.
On motion of Gt n Glascock, ttie con
vention reconsidered the resolution for the
appointment of a committee to prepare an
address to the Union party of Georgia.
. On motion of John A Cuthbert Esq. the
j resolution to nominate candidates for the
I vacancies in Congress, wastaken up, and
j agreed to.
; The convention then proceeded to bal
. lot accordingly; when Jabez Jackson Esq.
[received one hundred and twenty seven
1 votes, and Col. Jesse F. Cleveland receiv
jed one hundred and twenty votes, which
j being a majority of two thirds, they were
[announced as candidates for said vacan
cies.
Colonel Lewis L. Griffin, submitted a
resolution r; commending to the Union
party in each county in the Slate, to nom
inate and support a full ticket for the legis
lature, which was agreed to.
On motion of Charles D. Davis Esq.
the re considered resolution was amend
ed, so as to appoint two delegates from
each judicial circuit, to prepare an ad
dress to the people of Georgia; and agreed
td.
The following committee was appoint
ed under it:Messrs. Davis & Hillyier.from
the Western circuit; Burch and Ector,
from the Coweta circuit; Lester and Tra
cy, from the Flint circuit; Taylor and
Shaffer, from the Eastern circuit; Cuth
bert and Fort, from the Ocrnulgee circuit;
Betton and Welch, from the Southern cir
cuit; Simms and Shaw, from the Cherokee
i circuit; Groves and Henley, from the
Northern circuit; Holsey and Iverson,
| from the Chattahoochee circuit; Glascock '
and Luke, from the Middle circuit.
Norborne B. Powell Esq. submitted a
I resolution for the appointment of a com
I mittee to inform the gentlemen nominated
as candidates for Congress,of their nomin
ation, and to request them to signify their
acceptance to the Central Committee:
which was agreed to; and Nessrs. M. B.
Powell, J. W. Gordo i, Isaac Walker, i
William P. Foard, and Dennis L Holli
day, were appointed said committee
James Thompson Esq, submitted a res
olution approving of the nomination ofthe
I Honorable William Schley a? a candi
date for the Executive office; which was
(unanimously agreed to.
I On motion of Burton Hepburn Esq the
thanks of the conventio were presented to
' the President and Secretaries of that bo
dy. ,
I The convention after a short, appropri
ate, and most feeling and affectionate ad- !
dress from the President, adjourned sizie i
j (l ie- ‘ I
a t <; u s t
M 6 X D AY, Jul, Y 0,1835.
iTrWe are requested to state, that the sale of
cleames Haul, Stock will nnnence at the
I Lower Market, to-morrow at 11 o’clock pre-
■ cisely.
We have had the pleasure of examining
j some ofthe colored Plates at a new work about
Jto be published by Professor Holbbook, of
j Charleston, 8. C., on American Herpetology.
j Many of the reptiles being well known to us,
jwe are able to bear testimony' to the accuracy
!of the deliniations. The work will consist of
[ four volumes, each containing 20 to 30 colored
I engravings, and embrace, descriptions of the
organization) habits and localities of the ani
, rnals—to be completed in four or five years,
i The first volume is expected soon tobepublish
: ed. ■
Appointments bis the President. — Wii.t.l-tM
[ Marvin, to be Attorney for the Southern Dis
trict of Florida. John A. Parker, to be Con
j sul lor the port of Brazoria, in Texas, Mexico.
THE CELEBRATION.
■ The Anniversary of our Independence was
[ celebrated in the order prescribed, with more
| than usual spirit and enthusiasm. The Decla
[ ration was read by Dr. Robertson with patri
i otic emphasis, and one of the best Orations
i delivered by Mr. H. V. Johnson, that we have
ever heard on any occasion—lull of thrilling
appeals to the soul of the patriot, and enriched
with constitutional principles and historical
incidents of great interest. A crowded audi
ence testified their delight by the most animat
ing applause. The day M’as spent at the public
Hotels and private dinner parties in a round
of pat; iotic exhileration. In the same Church
ai 4 o’clock, the Temperance Society very appro
priately celebrated its independence of the
Demon of Intoxication, and with a numerous
audience, listened with delight to the voice of
infant music, as it swelled, in angelic sweetness
from the gallery. The children ofthe city and
Sunday School scholars had been practised for
the occasion and acquitted themselves most ad
mirably. Judges Holt and Longstreet ad
dressed the meeting, urged its zeal in so good a
cause, displayed its importance to all the inter
ests of life and animated resolution by shew
ing the extent of its present success and the
increased probability of its final triumph. We
; learn that 53 new members xveie added to the
[ Society.
A SOUTHERN ENTERPRISE.
But few have understood, from the manner
oi its announcement, the nature, extent and im
portance of the undertaking in which Mr.
j Shultz is about to engage. 1! has been report
; ed as having for ils object the establishment of
a direct trade between Hamburg in Germany
and our little neighbor across the river, and
people viewing this as the great scheme of
which they heard, have thought involuntarily
ofthe mountain in labor—they could divine no
great results likely to arise from such an ope
[ ration, if that was to be its extent. But the
trade between the two Hambui gs is only an item
growing out of Mr. Shultz’s interest in one of
them, and a very inconsiderable item, in that
scheme of commercial reciprocity, which he
believes he can be’ instrumental in establishing
between the g reat southern seaports, particular
ly South Carolina and Georgia, and certain
countries of Europe, which are about entering
on a new career of national industry. His
principal aim is the trade of Prussia through
Hamburg in Germany .{The Sovereign of Prus
sia is the present protector of that Free City,
and will, no doubt, make it the outlet for those
manufactures, which he is about to encourage,
and the inlet for a large quantity of the raw
material, which, it is hoped, he maybe induced
to procure directly from the Southern Country,
which raises it. The situation of Prussia is
believed to be this : She has a redundant popu
lation, and her patriotic ruler would’prefer a
more humane disposition of the surplus than is
common with those, who sway the destiny of
kingdoms—their employment in the arts of
peace. She has not Land enough to giveprofit
i able employment in agriculture to her over-run
ning population. Her people have been emigra
ting to find business and subsistence in other
i countries. Manufacturing had been early sug
i gested, by the sagacity of her Monarch, as a
[ remedy for the evil of losing his subjects; but
it a long time met with a cold reception from
the statesmen in his confidence. Recently all
obstacles, except those partially opposed by Na
ture, have been removed, and the kingdom is
about entering on this new career. Even the
ensuing year, which will be the first of her
manufacturing efforts, if we are not incorrectly
informed, Prussia will consume not. less than
50 to 75,000 bales of our Southern staple. Her I
llax and hemp, &c., will be wrought into linen, :
cotton bagging, &e.;‘and if Mr. Shultz succeeds ;
in his views, we shall get them, virgin-pure, *
from the ware-house of the manufacturer, with- I
out any of that intermediate handling, whichso !
greatly enhances their price to the consumer.
Suppose an agency, for example, located in j
Charleston, or Savannah, at Hamburg or here, i
in which are deposited the Prussian manufac
tures wanted in our consumption—the merchant i
or planter makes a simple exchange oi his cot
ton for the same, and avoids paying two or three :
profits in the different hands, through which
such articles usually pass, with the attendant ,
[ expenses of as nianv transportations, commis- [
sions, (See., before, in this their usual circuitous
route, they sloxvly reach their ultimate consunip- ;
tion, broken down with' the heavy weight of
charges which they carry.
Such being the nature of Mr. Shultz’s scheme, ;
calculated to increase the prosperity of our own I
section of the Union, as a. Southern man, we (
support it, without any invidious squinting at , ,
the interest of other parts of our common eoun- j '
try, and we feel but little doubt, but it will so I '
present itself to the enlightened forecast and j ‘
sagacity of the Prussian Monarch, not an un- I
worthy descendant of that great man, who pre- | 1
sented our Washington a splendid sword, flat- 5
termgly insetibed, “ From the oldest to the
greatest General in the world.”
By the bye, this suggests a curious fact in the
history of Mr. Shultz’s life. We knew he pos
sessed and highly prized the writings of Fred
erick the Great, and thence joked at his talents
as a military engineer, endeavoring to make a
fort of Liberty Hill; but the public are not
[ aware how extensive and salutdry an influence
[ ibis great man’s history has exerted over every
scene of Mr. Shultz’s chectpiered life. It is
i well-known he has not always basked in the
sunshine ol prosperous fortune. He came to
our country a pennyless and fiiendiess individ
ual. In his march to his present usefulness
[ and celebrity, one day the sun of his prosperity
I smiled through a cloudless sky—the next, i‘
was as deeply overcast and a lurid tempest
hung threatening over his head. He was not
at all times able to adorn our city with build
ings whose beauty and durability the ravages
of twenty years have not defaced—with a wharf
and bridge, which have so far resisted the under
j mining flood and corroding time; nor did he'
[ build our little neighbor, Hamburg, sitting be-
I neath a cloudless canopy. His eventful life has
I been often darkly shadowed with clouds, which
' threatem i a storm of utter desolation. But
amidst the loudest bowlings ofthe tempest, Mr,
Shultz has stood proudly erect —as humble and
! unpretending in his sunniest hours, as he was
; firm find unshaken when the storm lowered the
darkest. How was this ? Mr. Shultz had not
■ family altar on which to sacrifice his troubles—■
I neither father, mother, brother nor sister; and
Lis personal friends, in the extensive and some
times disastrous operations in which his enter
prising spirit engaged him, were often, from
being involved with him, in similar want of in
spiring advice and strengthening consolation;
in these moments, when every other friend had
either deserted him or gave interested counsel,
the works of Frederick the Great were his chart
—in these he found every thing to sustain his
fortitude and animate his hopes. The most
unconquerable spirit raised Frederick the Great
above the consequences of every disaster—he
rose from defeat with fresh vigor, and finally
triumphed, single-handed, over the combined
forces of nearly all Europe If we remember
correctly, there is an interesting little circum
stance, which had great influence on the future
1 life of this great man. After one of those dis
astrous conflicts which Frederick the Great wa
ged with his relentless enemies, he was obliged
to fly alone and concealed himself beneath a
bridge to escape bis hot pursuers. As they
’ crossed, it was with difficulty he could restrain
the dauntless courage of a very small dog, which
he had put into his bosom to prevent its giving
his enemies an open defiance. /Witnessing the
■ unshaken resolution of his little companion,
his own magnanimity was strengthened—he
i felt new courage inspire his efforts, and his reso
[ lutions mounted to the daring determination to
[ be buried beneath his kingdom’s ruins rather
: [Than yield to its enemies. Mr. Shultz could not
' I have lit his waning fires at a brighter example
■of unshaken firmness. Prosperity alone hum
i bles such men—in adversity, they are like the
[ mountain oak, shaken but unscathed by the
I storm.-- It only m!likes its roots deeper into the
j rocky soil, and rears more loftily its gigantic
, form for the admiration and example of despond
• [ ing mortals.
I We understand Mr. Shultz will set off in a
I few days on this enterprise—we expect not to
■; have another opportunity of wishing him suc-
• ce s, and a safe return to his adopted country.
Executive Department, >
N. Carolina, May 20th, 1835. $
Whereas, Henry Shultz, the Foun
der of the Town of Hamburg, in this
; State, has projected a plan for opening a
direct commerce between Hamburg in
Europe, and Hamburg in America, and
has requested me, as the Governor nnd
Comrnander-in-Chief of the State of S.
Carolina, to certify such facts, and express
such opinions, in relation to his capacity,
public spirit, and usefulness, as may ena
ble all persons interested in the new
[ brunch of commerce contemplated, to
! form a correct estimate of the credit due
, to his statements, and of all the weightier
which his opinions are entitled, touching
the premises : Now, therefore, I do hereby
, make known to all whom it may concern,
that the aforesaid Henry Shultz is, in
my opinion, eminently distinguished for
enterprize, sagacity, perseverance and
public spirit, qualities of which numer
ous monuments, equally beneficial to the
public, and honorable to himself, furnish
ample testimony. Amongst these may
be enumerated the Bridge across the Sa
vannah River, so constructed as to bid
defiance to the floods, an achievement
often attempted before, but never success
fully, and which has greatly benefitted 1
the commerce of two Stales; the Wharf
at Hamburg, highly useful to that city;
[ a line of inland navigation between Ham
i burg and the city of Charleston, success
fully established by his perseverance, as
it was projected by his sagacity, when it
was generally deemed impracticable, and
which has greatly promoted the prosperi
ty of the State; and finally, the r lown
[ of Hamburg, now standing upon a solid
■ foundation, upon a site which he found a
quagmire, in which between thirty-five
and forty thousand bales ol Cotton are
annually brought to market. This town,
standing at the head of the longest Rail-
Road in the world, and communicating
I directly and daily nith the emporium of
i the State, will furnish great advantages for
foreign agents to purchase Cotton direct
fly from the market, instead of purchas
ing it from speculators in New-York,
Fhiiade!phia, and elsewhere, encumber
ed with numerous intermediate expenses.
Additional facilities will be given to the
commerce of the place by a Bank, which
the Legislature will readily charter, if
application is made for it. This town has
been built by the enterprize and indefati
gable perseverance of Henry Shultz,
under the fostering care and patronage
of the State of South Carolina; and in
the progress of its establishment, Henry
Shultz, has had large pecuniary transac
tions with the State, which have all been
satisfactorily and finally adjusted.
“In conclusion, I take occasion to ex
press the opinion long entertained, that
the extension of a direct commerce be-