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MORNING NEWS.
BY JOHN H. COOPEIt.
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T. THOMPSON, EDITOR,
TERMS i
DAILY PARER $4 00 I TKl-WF.RKLY $2 00
All New Advertisements appear in both pupers.
ton with their mother, under the protection of
n youngdr brother, to whom Secretary Eowins
cave a clerkship, the duties of which ho is dis-
gave a clerkship,
charging faithfully. The father of Mitchell
was a Presbyterian clergyman, settled at New-
ry. The family are well educated and agree
able.
THE GRAI’E-VINK SWING.
BY W. GILMORE SIMMS.
Lithe end long as the serpent train,
Springing and clinging from tree to tree,
Now darting upward, now down again,
With a twist and a twirl that aro stranga to sea ;
Never took serpent a deadlier hold,
Never the cougar a wilder spring,
Strangling the oak with the boa’s fold,
Spanning the beach with the condor’s wing.
Yet no foe that we fear to seak—
The hoy loaps wide to rtiy rude embrace ;
Thy bulging arms bear us soft a cheek
As over on lover’s breast found place ;
On thy waving train is a playful hold
Thou slmlt never to lighter grasp persuade ;
While a maiden aita in thy drooping fold,
And sings and swings in the noonday shade !
oil I giant strange of oar southern woods,
1 dream of thee still in the well known spot,
Though our vessel strains o’er the ocean floods,
And the northern forest beholds thee not j
I think of thee still with a sweet regret,
Ab the cordage yields to my playful gruBp—
Dost thou spring und cling in our woodlands yet?
Does the maiden swing in thy giant clasp ?
Couldn't Allow It-—A gentleman tells ns a
good story of one of his domestics. Having
employed a new femalo servant, he snt down
in the parlor, the evening after, to “a civil game
of whist” with his wile and a couple of neigh
bors. The next morning ‘ my Indy," “the
Important Legal Decision.—One of the
most important legal decisions ever made in
this country, with regard to the rights of rail-i - —- - ,
. . i„ i,„ t (i. OotTt of Er- 1 what use there ts for hiring a City Gtrntd, when
road companies, was made uy tm. t ovrrt oi ui , ^ ) >v force
For the Morning News.]
SAVANNAH, Jan. 31, 1850.
Mr. EriltoR:—Can you inform the public
rors and kppea’ls of the State of Now Jersey,on a parcel of thieves can with impunity, by force
.... . • . .a S.n..» rsf tllrt TMirtlO
help,” observed that "the card-playingmnst.be
put a stop to, or she should be obliged to leave
—she didn’t approve of the practice, and never
allowed it in families where she liver!!”
[ Boston Post.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1850.
Thursday last, in the ease of Briggi against
tho Curndon and Amboy Rail oarl Company,
involving in its results upwards of a million
of dollurs. The correspondent of the New
ark Daily Advertiser furnishes the following
history of the case, which will be read with iri-
|3P A New York paper gives an account of
a cowhiditig afl'uir which recently came off in
that city, in which a woman was tho cowhider,
and a man tho cowhidoe. Tile circumstances
are given as follows :
The lady keeps a hoarding-house in this city,
and the gentleman who had received the vis
itation had been one of her boarders. 11c was
sick, and she comforted and nursed him. When
ho got well lie left without paying his bill.
This she could have borne ; hut the ungrateful
scamp was baso enough to spread reports pre-
jndical to her character. These reports com
ing to Mrs. ’s ears, she thereupon provided
herself with a nice, long, limber, well-twisted
cow-skin, and depositing it in her private room,
sent a courteous invitation to the gentleman to
pay her a friendly visit for ‘'uuld acquaintance”
sake. He, suspecting nothing sinister, called
at the hour appointed, was ushered into a room,
and requested to take a seat, until the lady
should he ready to receive him, ns she wns t hen
engaged. She soon appeared—her black eyes
u-bloxe with fury, and the pliant instrument of
vengencc in her little fist. Having locked the
door she “went to work with a will,” as the
sailors say, and after far exceeding the limits
of “forty, save one,” in the number of lashes
she tnfleted, took the well-striped ingrute by
tho shoulder und turnod him into the street.
The editor udds: “Some persons may ques
tion this story; but there is a back and a pair
of shoulders in this city that know it is an
“owetf true tale. ’’
The City Printing.— Unprecedented Lib
eralily—We cannot refrain from congratulat
ing our citizens on the very fuvorable t&rms
which have been effected for the City Printing
for the present year. Having been accustomed
to the payment, annually, of some $000 or $700
for tho publication of tho Proceedings of Coun
cil, we doubt not that they will duly appreciate
the liberal spirit of the publishers who have
generously offered to do the business gratui
tously. It may be that tho job is not worth so
much now ns it was formerly, when there were
but two papers in the city to bid for it; but
wo confess that we are iit a loss to account for
so sudden and so material a depreciation in
the price. If our paper 1ms had any influence
in the matter, we trust tho citizens who ure so
largely benefited, will give us the credit due.
Such tin acknowledgment of obligation would
bo almost ns gratifying to us as it would have
been to have obtained the business at our own
oiler.
We acknowledge ourselves outdone, how
ever, and will not undertake to emulate the
liberality of our competitors; though wo will
endeavor to keep our readers, from time to
time, udvised of the actings and doings of our
City Fathers, by publishing abstracts of so
much of their proceedings us may be of gen
eral interest, for which we shall chnrge neither
our patro ns nor the city anything.
Kossuth and IJis Hungarian Prisoners.—
The Ozar bus agreed to tho terms proposed
her Poles
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by the Porte: and Dembinski and other
who served in Hungary, aro to ho expelled,
and their cuuntrymcn resident in Turkey, who
w r ere not concerned in that insurrection are
to remain unmolested. If, however, any ono,
without reference to tho country under whoso
tectiou ho may be, shall whilst resident of
the Ottoman empire, be guilty of any act hos
tile to the government of the Emperor Nicho
las, he shall, at the demand of the Russian En
voy, be expelled from tho Sultan’s dominions
Kossuth and tho Hungarian refugees are to
be confined in a fortified town in tho interior
they are to bo close prisoners, but|their place of
residence will bo under the constant surveil
lance of the Turkish authorities.
The Correspondent of sho Morning Herald
however, writing on the sumo day, assorts that
tho Emperor of Russia has refused to accept,
the Sultan’s guaranty for the conduct of the
Poles, and that the mutter is as far from being
settled as ever.
Burglars Aiiout.—On tho night before last,
tlireo different stores wore entered byhurglats.
Mr. Sam’lA. Wood’s Shoe Store, in Bryan st.,
was forced open, but we believe no property
was missed. The door of Mr. N. Lyon’s Hat
Store was forced open, and the door of the iron
safe exploded with powder, the report of which
must have alarmed the robbers, us they took
none of themoney which wns in the safe. The
Scgar Store of Mr. T. M. Rosis, Buy street,
was also broken open and u omo money and two
small boxes of segiirs taken.
It becomes our citizens to bo on the lookout
for these marauders, as there cun be little
doubt that there is a gang of bold und during
rascals lurking about our streets.
EdP" See first page.
tjD°“The Niagara Fulls Suspension Bridge has
just declared another quarterly dividend of
3 perct. The Stock is rapidly increasing in
aloe.
Tho case upon which the principle de
cided in this instance, was that of an appeal by
the Company from judgements originally ren
dered against it in suits brought by Peter Briggs
before a Justice of the Peace to recover the
penalty of $100, prescribed I y law for extra
charges on freight between New-York and Iren,
ton. An appeal was taken from these judg
ments to the Supreme Court, which affirmed
them. The cuse was thence removed by the
Company to the Court of Errors and Appeals,
where, after argument, the decision below hus^
been sustained by the votes ol a majority ol
the Judges.
The principal ground urged by the Company
in defence, was that they charged no more than
their Ch irtcr allowed them on their originul
railroad extending from Corndon to South Am
boy, from which point the freight was carried
in boats over waters, entirely out ot the juris
diction of New Jersey, and that they could
chnrge upon these whatever juice they chose.
They acted moreover in adjusting their charges
under the advice of nhle counsel. The Courts,
however, have now decided that the Compa
nies misconstructed their charter, the restric
tions of which extended over their whole line
from city to city—boats included.
Five of the Judges of tho Court of Errors
the Chancellor, and Messrs. Randolph, Speer,
Schcnck and Sinnickson) voted for affirming
the decision of the Courts below, and three
(Messrs. Ogden, McCarter and Porter) were
for reversing it.
Judge Randolph read a long written opinion
in the affirmative, while the Chancellor (Hoi
sted,) and'Judge Speer gave oral opinions, ta
king somewhat different views ol some points,
lint concurring in his final conclusions. 1 he
Chancellor intimated, I understand, at. least
a doubt of the right of the Company to cha'ge
any thing ujion their boats exclusively, connect
ed as they aro with the road.
Judge Ogden, who was fora reversal of the
decision below, also read an opinion, itf which
he concurred with the majority of the Court,
that tho company had given an erroneous con
struction to their charter, mid that the restric
tion upon their rates extended over the entire
route from Philadelphia mid New-York, but he
argued that the facts proved did not bring the
case within the penal act under which the suits
were instituted : that the act did not reach the
case, and so voted in lavor of a reversal upon
thut ground.
The principle is therefore settled, that the
tariff of charges for freight is more than the law
allows, and that the company is therefore liable
to pay the penalty of $100 for every ofi'encc.
A large number of eases are said to be in the
hands of lawyers in this and the adjoining
Stales, all of them waiting for this decision:
and when it is remembered, that the company
have transported tin immense quantity of mer
chandize at the rates now declared to be ex
cessive, it will be seen thut they are exposed to
a very largo loss of money; notwithstanding
that they acted under what was supposed to
be sound legal counsel in the matter.
We know of immense cluims against this
company for forfeitures by excessive charge,
held in the States of Maryland and and Penn
sylvania, all of which are determined by this
decision. The company has for a long time
enjoyed a monopoly of the carrying business
between the cities of Philadelphia und New
nter stores in it public part of the city, jiartic
ulnrly on such rt moon-light night ns Wednesday
night last. ? If you have not yet learned the fact,
permit me to inform you, that on that night, n
shoe store near the market was entered by force;
another shoe store adjoining was attempted; a
hat. store in Gibbons’ Building, was also enter’
ed by force. The iron chest in this last store
was blown open by powder, hut the thieves
seem to have been frightened by the explosion,
and inado their retreat without taking much
money w’itli them. I believe, Mr. Editor, that
one or more watchmen are placed in tho market
every night, and one in each ward. Now. could
they have been attending to their duty? We
must presume, either that they were concerned
in committing the depredation, or that they
were asleep.
Permit me to suggest through the medium
of your jiafier, thut an Ordinance should be
jmsssed, forfeiting one month’s pay ol every
member of tho City Guard, from tho Cajitain
down, whenever a forciblo enterance is made
into any house fronting on any of the streets.
A CITIZEN.
[For tile Morning News,]
Mr. Editor—A friend, a busy merchant has
just related to me the hardships af his case, on
being summoned to-duy as a Talisman Juror
or the trial of a criminal at the Court House,
and of his misspent forenoon.
Ilis description of the ordeal lie had to pass
through, brought to my mind a scene of a sirni-
jar kind in Pincville, graphically described by
Major Junes, in his Courtship. I beg you to
publish the article from the book as 1 have
marked it., for it is too good to be lost, and
apologize to the Major, whom "you are well ac
quaint:! with, for the liberty I have taken.
I never was so surprised in my life as when I
heard bout them audacious hunk robbers. I
think they better alter the law about jurys, so
that when they want to try criminal cases here
after, they can jest send to the Penitentiary ami
git twelve fellers atonee to come and be jury
men. They’d answer the purpose jest as well,
and then honest men wouldn't be put to no trou
ble to go to court, jest to be objected to by the
lawyers on account of their good characters.—
Besides, its a insult to a decent man to he put
on a jury now, in a criminal case.
Ther wus a tiial in our county not long ago of
a feller what had killed a man and robbed him
of a heap of money. Ther was lots of lawyers
here in his favor, and when they come to pick
out the jury, ther wns hardly twelve men in
the county thut the lawyers thought mean en
ough to set on the case They was two days a
gittin a jury, and every time they called up a
decent lookin man.the prisoner’s lawyers would
look at him and suy “give him the hook,” and
if he sed he had’nt formed and expressed no
ojrinion as to the gilt of the prisoner, (which
most every mnn that cared anything about law
or justice had done) they’d look nt him close
and then whisper to oneanother, and if they
had’nt never heard of his robin anybody’s hen
roost or stoalin anything, they’d sav “object!”
Moso Sunders was called up, and Mose aint a
very good lookin feller, though he’s a honest
man as ever lived. They looked at Mose
w hile, and he felt sort o’ bashful I spose, and
looked sort o’ mean, and they said “content.”
Well, the ease was tri d, und it was such a per
fect open and shut business, that they could’nt
help bringin the feller in guilty in spite of the
[Cuirespondence of the Morning News.]
WASHINGTON, Jan. 26.
The dinner given by the President to Gover
nor L'jhazy was a very magnificent affair, and
the Hungarians expressed w ith lively gratitude
their sense of the high honor conferred upon
them. The party wus composed of officers of
the nr+ny and nnvy, and other distinguished
jiersons. The President cordially repeated
his kind w ishes for their personal welfare, and
that of their absent friends, who w-cro so dear
to them. Gov. Ujhazy’s rejily wus eloquent
und full of de6p pathos—-just such a reply as
would gush from the heart of a patriot, who
had risked and lost all in defence of the liber
ty of I113 coutitry- He possesses, in a high de
gree, the rcquifltcs of tho orntoi—a deep son
orous voice, forcible, fluent speech, and a dig.
nified and impressive manner. Tho Hungnri.
ans attended, the same evening, the Assembly
where their reception was most fiattering
They here beheld much of tho beauty and
fashion of the sister Slates. The vexed slave
question was at rest for that evening, while the
belles from the North and South vied with each
oilier in the simple elegance of their attire
their beaming, intelligent countenances, nnd
that innate refinement of manner, so character
istic of tho American lady. Some newspapers
have alluded to their being coldly received
lieie, which is far from being the dase, for po
litically and socially, every possible attention
has been shown them.
The Revenue Collection Bill will not soon
be taken up by the House. It is difficult to
suy now upon what measure, if any, the
House will act. Tho Secretary of the Trea
sury is preparing to cut down expenses to
the limit determined upon by the last Congress,
to wit: $1,560 00—consequently the revenho
cutters ure laid up, und the principal custom
houses have received orders to reduco the
force employed. Fifty custom house officers
were discharged in New Y'ork recently, and
the jiuhlic would he benefitted if double us
many more were compellel to go.
Congress was not in session to-day nor yes
terday—one might as well take a recess till all
the Northern Legislatures have blown out their
blasts. It is plain that, while the sluve ques
tion is agitated in State Legislatures, Congress
can do nothing towards adjusting it. Congress
will agitato, agitate, and do nothing. Ulii-
niately this matter is to be compromised. The
North will give in. I hope to see a strong
movement in favor of conciliation from the
West. Judge Butler’s speech on the fugitive
bill is very imprqssive. He gave great effect
to the last sentence, nnd the emphatic motto
of “Equality or Independence.”
General Taylor is becoming more popular.
His drawing-rooms were ihronged last night.
UNION.
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The Mesmerised Children. — Singula
Phenomenon.—We copied lust, week says the
Baltimore Sun, from the Clenrspring (Md.
Sentinel, an account of ihree children of Mr.
Michael Jones, of that place, being in a very
singular condition, apparently ns if under mes
meric influence. The editor of tho Sentinel
lias since visited them, and has discovered that
they can be temporarily relieved by what the
megmerisers term the reversed passes. One of
them has been entirely relieved by this process
but two of them are still effected, and one it ‘
feat ed will die, a» its limbs have become per
fectly paralized, so as to prevent its walking
The futher has been compelled to desist ope
rating upon his children, as it has impaired hi
health very much. It effects his nervous sys
tern powerfully, and although only operating
occasionally, for a week or ten days past, he
lias become reduced in flesh very much. The
Benttnel says:
“It was truly distressing to see three such in
teresting and heulthy childrerf thus strangely
effected. When free from the mesmeric in
fluence, they are very kednte, quiet und modest:
while on the contrary, when in tho mesmeric
state, they are extremely insolent and rude to
their parents and strangers.—They .take de
light in inflicting unmerciful blows upon each
other, and at times strike their parents und vis
itors.
“They appear to delight to be asleep, as
they term it, during which time they laugh,
dance, run, and strive by every means in their
power to get out. We took the mesmeric
fluid off of them, probably eight or ten times,
which required not exceeding 10 to 30 seconds
each time. Any person can relieve them with
the reversed passes, provided they are willing,
otherwise they connot be awakened. At the
time of indicating this, which has been two
hours since last arousing them, we feel a con
siderable rclaxatiou of the nervous system, to
gether with pains in the head, arms and ex
tremities, which we alone attribute to our hav
ing extracted the nervous fluid from them ”
The children assert that a pedlar, who had
called at their father’s house, j>ut them in the
singular way in which they have since been.
The Southern Convention.—Resolutions
were introduced in the Legislature of Mary
land, by Mr. Causin, on Saturday last provoid-
ing for tho sending of Delegates from that State
to the Southern Convention to he hold at Nash
ville, in case Congress should pass the Wilmot
Proviso or abolish slavery in tho District of
Columbia.
Similar provisions have just been made by the
legislature of Alabama. Indeed the action
of every Southern State from Maryland to Texas
has shown a most harmoneous concurrence of
sentiment in regard to this great movement.
Tho Maryland legislature are considering the
propriety of making it lawful in that State to
receive the testimony of colored men against
those persons from non-slavcholding States,
who temper with tho slave population.
York,and have profited well by their privileges. \ lawyers. But ther aint a man in the county
' that is got any confidence in Mose Sanders af
ter that—his charucter is completely ruined,
cause everybody thinks the lawyers would’nt
tuck him on that jury if they did’nt know he
was u rascal. For my own part I would jest as
They arc very wealthy, and will, we doubt not,
be held to a pretty strict account by those who
have so long suffered from their exorbitant
charges.
The Mitekeil Family—The editor of the
Albany Journal, in writing from Washington,
mentions having met at the President’s levee on
Friday evening last, two sisters of Mitchell,
the irish Patriot, whose efforts ;q enfranchise
bi> dewp trodden country have been rewarded
b; exile and outlaw ry. Th y nr*- jn -Washing
Mexican Indemnity.—A payment of $1,-
4(50,000 lias been made through Messrs. How
land & Aspinwall, of N. York, as Agents under
the Treaty with Mexico.
Gold in North Carolina.—The Ashboro’
Herald states that from the labor of two men,
for twelve days, Mr. E. P. Miller, of Suw-
yerville, Randolph county, N. C., realized five
und a half pounds of virgin gold. This bouts
California.
Hon. Thomus C. Hackett, member of Con
gress from Georgia, it is stated, is lying dan
gerously ill at Washington, of typhoid fever.
Colored Lodges.—The correspondent of
the Baltimore Clipper says there is, in Wash
ington City, a Lodge of “Odd Fellows,’’ com
posed of colored men, and working under the
Manchester Unity System, the headquarters
in this country being in New York ; a differ
ent affair altogether from the Independent Or
der of that name which obtains in the United
Sintes, and which does not sunction the admis
sion of others than while men to fellowship.
A short time hence, says the writer, a public
meeting is to tnke place in one of the churches,
uu oration delivered, and then a dinner enjoy
ed. . There is likewise a colored Lodge in Bal
timore, numbering a bundled members, under
tfce core of the Manchester Unity Gru-d Lodge
in New York.
Cp” A thrilling piece of intelligence was
bri.u :ht by the last steamer, which, owing to
the cutting of the wires, or to some other
cause, did not reach us in the first telegraphic
despatches. Ilis illustrious highness, the Prince
of Wales, has had a most miraculous escape
from being shot in the jacket or trousers ! We
gather the thrilling particulars from the New
York Messenger, which paper “stops the press”
to lay them before the American public. The
Royal youth, it appears, was, on a certain day,
(the precise date is unfortunately omitted hv
the Messenger,) allowed to accompany his
Royal Highness, his father, on a shooting ex
cursion—Her Majesty, his mother,| and her
usual attendants, being present as lookers on.
One of the party shot a bird, and, ns it fell,
the heir of England ran, ns any other child
would do, to pick it up; but in doing so, the
eager boy placed himself between a liaro and
the muzzle of Lord Canning’s gun, which
was levelled at it. While in this imminent
peril, “Col. Grey, observing the danger, rush
ed forward so as to cover with his person the
object of a nation’s hopes, nnd, in so doing, re
ceived in the skirts of his coat upwards of
twenty shots fiom Lord Canning’s gun.”—
“Lord Canning,” says the London Globe,
“fill down iii a fainting fit. Lady Canning,
thinking it was her husband’s gun had burst
and injured him, went oft" also. The sensation
of the Queen and her Royal Consort, was in
describable," &c„ &c.
In the English papers the whole affair is do-
scribed with a circumstantial tediousness that
could not bo excelled if its subject was the
bursting of unotlicr “peace maker,” or the ex
ecution of another Baltiivany. Afier its minute
relation of the accident, the Globe significantly
adds, “perhaps the risk incurred by tho Prince
is a little over stHted.” What effect the
bird-shot might euvehad on his Royal High
ness is at least problematical. It was cer-
tianly very kind of them to find a lodge
ment in ihe short skirt of Colonel Grey’s
shooting jacket. The papers say that the ac
cident will no doubt turn out very profitable to
that gentleman. He should be presented with
a r.ew hunting cout, and the freedom of rhe
city i f London, in. a hunt.
leavhe spicioned ofstealin a sheep, as to be put
upon a criminal jury by tho lawyers now-a
days
No more from
Y’our friend til death,
Jos. Jones.
[Correspondence of the Morning News.]
MILLEDGEVILLE, Jan. 30, A. M.
Y’esterday the House of Representatives got
through with the ad Valorem Tax Bill. The
substitute offered by Mr. Gartrell wns re
ceived. This is the only Bill of importance
passed upon by that body yesterday.
Yesterday afternoon the Senate passed the
following Bills:
To compensate Solicitors’ General for ser
vices rendered the State in the Supreme Court,
in i riminal cases.
To revise, niter and amend nn Act entitled an
Act for preventing controversies concerning
the boundaries of Land, and for processioning
the same; ajiproved Feh’y 2, 1798.
To amend the several Laws of this State in
relation to writs of certiorari.
Bill of the House passed in S“nati—
To authorize Nancy Weston, tho wife of
James Weston, of the county of Cass, to exer
cise all the rights of a feme sole. This Bill
was amended in the Senate, so as to make it
related to the Bill “for the preservation and
protection of the rights of married women,”
which had been rejected by the Senate.
A number of other Bills of a purely local
character were passed.
The Resolutions and Bill authorizing tho call
of a Convention, as reported by the Joint Com
mittee on the S ate of the Republic, lmve been
taken up in the Senate und set down as the
special order of the day for Friday, the first
day of February next.
The Senate have adopted a Resolution ap
pointing a Joint Committee of both branches
iff the Legislature, with power to send for per
sons and papers to examine into the causes of
compla'nt alleged by the Macon and Western
Rail Road Company against Wm. L. Mitchell,
Chief Engineer of the Statolhiad. Thu Com
mittee on part of the Ser.a’o are Messrs. Long,
J. R. Smith, and Stull.
Yours truly, (].
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Gold Box to Cart. Cook.—On* *f the
pleasantest incidents which we have seen re
corded for some time past, is tho presentatinn
of a Gold Box, with the “Freedom of the City,"
to Capt. Cook, by the Mayor und Aldermen of
New-York. Our readers w ill remember in the
account we published of the destruction of tlia
Caleb Grimshuw by fire, die allusion made to
the gallant sailor, Capt. Cook, who in the lan
guage of Capt. Hoxie, with “a heart as large
as Nelson’s Monument, and that in the right
place, stuck closer than a brother,” and never
ceased his exertions until he had rescued the
passengers of the burning ship, numbering 893
souls. All who read that account could not
fail tube filled with admiration for the conduct
of Capt. Cook, and will feel an interest in read
ing the following account of tho presentation
which took place in the Governor’s Room, in
the city of New-Y'ork, on Thursday last.
The proceedings were opened by the Mayor’s
reading the resolutions of the Common Ciiuir
oil, thut die frodom of the city should be
sented to Captain Cook in a gold box. They j,
wore printed upon white satin and framed. In j
the centre was a.sliield, on the sides the arms o: j
America, and in the distance a representation !
of the burning vessel with the rigging crowded p
with passengers, and the barque Sarah healing f
up to her relief.
The Mayor in presenting the box nnd the res
olutions, said it gave him extreme pleasure! 11 !
comply with the wishes of the Common Council
and that he had a particular regard for a Sailor
the man who abandoned his friends, his count!
all the dear associations of his youth, and make:
the sea his homo. In conclusion lie said, thul
Captuiu Cook did honor to the noble profession
to which he belonged.
The Captain was introduced to the meeting,
the Mayor saying that any person who wished
could cornu up and shake the Weather-beaten tar
by the hand. A rushj took place, and sever'd
voices cried out, as we can’t get none him 1“
us give him throe cheers. This cull was rev
ponded to with enthusiasm. Captuiii Coos
wns quite overcome by the compliments paid
him, and said very feelingly, that lie should rl "
member that hour with pride to the latest !u" ir
of his life.
lie was then approached by Mr. Hoxie, h r ' '
ther to the Captain cf the Caleb Grimsha"'
who said that lie had to thank him on the ]»"'■
of the New York merchants, and in particular
for himself. He owed the Captain a deep deb
of gratitude, fur lie had saved the life of a de» !
brother. He said that the merchants ol M-
York were not backward. They had already I
large sum collected, and they would have 'I
much larger. Hereupon the proceedings tf |
minuted.
Tlie contributions already amount, to $5,19’
nnd it is said that it will he increased to $10,'
when it will be presented to C ipt. Cook in !
purse. The gold box bears the following ■
scription :
PRESENTED
TO CAPT. DAVID COOK, . ,
Of the Bark Sarah, of Yarmouth, N- f '
By tho *
CORPORATION OF THE CITY OF NEW-YOB*
WITH THE FREEDOM OF THE CITY.
FOR SAVING THE LIVES
Of tlie Crew ami Passengers of the ship Caieh Urine
Off rayed by Fiic at Sea, Stmember ‘JOlb, 1849.
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