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MIL.LEDGEV1L.LE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JUNE 30, 1831.
NO. 23 OF VOL. XJT.
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j-j. |'| )e Rr.copiiHR in published weekly,011 Han- sure, but it well beenmo such a hell. There the pirates had run upon the rocks during the
cook street, between Wnyneniiil .lefforson, at Three | they sat in total, in positive forgetfulness of! chase, on the coast of Cuba, those who were
Dollars per »i>»i]i». payable in advance, o^r 'oui ol-| cver y t i,j n g but the hot game they were hunt- , not shot down, leaped from the vessel to the
'*a nvKRrts^tKNTrfc'ioisp'icaiouBly inserted" at the usii- j «ng down. There was not a man ill the room, rocks, and made their way into the woods un-
1 rates. Those sent without a specification of the j except Tom Cogit, who could have told you der a heavy fire from our seamen. Manuel
u'jinher' of insertions, will lie published until ordered! the name of the town in which they were liv- fought like a lion, and was the Inst to throw
, utl aud charged accordingly. ... ., ing. There they sat almdst breathless, watch- down his arms and take to llight. He had
cii^^Sdi^^^^^'^wt^^M I every turn with the fell look in their can- tarried too long, however, to escape.
on the
ten in
'first Tuesday in die month, between the hours of; nibal eyes, which showed their total inability he reached the bows of the schooner an old
„ the forenoon and three in the afternoon, at the to sympathize with their fellow beings. All boatswain’s mate was upon him. All hopes
Court-house of the county in wliiclijtlie property is si-, form* of society had been long forgotten.— of escape vanishing, Manuel, nshlslustrc-
B —Notjcesjif t.hese^siilesmusti^B ^ven m^;a -j 'p| icrc was , 10 snuffbox handed about now, for source in the emergency, threw himself on
courtesy, admiration, or a pinch; no nlfectati- his knees, and with uplifted hands, implored
lie duetto sixrv days previous to the day of sale
11 nl' iwieonnnl urmiArtv iniiRt hf> friv
rot'R months. | wiiu ui any other time would have been most
All business in the lino of Printing,'will meet with; annoyed, coolly put it in his pocket. His
prompt attention at the Rf.cohdeh Offick
I,tii-runs (on business) must be post paid
mnginnble—one extremity to his own brawny
cheeks had fallen, and he looked twenty years I shoulder, and the other to the pirate’s ear. I
older. Lord Dice had torn ofT his cravat, and got up in time to throw aside the muzzle bc-
i»i i_i i;i his hair hung down over his callous, bloodless I lore it exploded ;—another instant, and Manu-
A GAMBLING SCENE. _ 1 cheeks, straight as silk. Temple Grace look- el would have been saved much of the incon-
Frorn the Young Duke—by the Author of Vi-, c d as if he were blighted by lightning; and ! vcnieuce to which he was subsequently sub-
vian Gray. this deep blue eyes gleamed like a hytena.— jected. lie was the only prisoner wo made.
[VVe beg to lay before otir readers, as •• j 'rhe liaron was least changed. Torn Cogit j Manuel was conveyed to Thompson's 1s-
specimon of the work, the following gamb- who smelt that the crisis Was at hand, was as (land, our head quarters, and delivered over to
i 1 " c quiet as a bribed rat. | the Commodore, who had occasion to admire
On they played till six o’clock in the even-1 the fearless intrepidity and Herculean strength
ig, and then they agreed to desist till after din-1 of the pirate.
Lord Dice threw himself on a sofa.— | One fine evening Manuel was brought up-
sed, rushed on deck to sec tho cause. Ho
was just in time to throw his . rim around my
body, as Manuel, with mo in his grasn, leaped
overboard. My clothes gave way, aud tho rob
ber went nlonc! Stirred to fury by the spirit-
moving scene, I sprang into our little boat,
closoly followed by my messmate, and without
Before | time for thought, pushed olf in pursuit of Mu-
uel. We should have shot him from the deck
—it was now too late, though hailed to give
room to do so. \V e were close upon him ; as
we shot up with him, B. struck him a stunning
blow with the blade of his oar, seized him by
the hair, and Manuel, nothing loath, half lug
ged, half leaped into the boat, lie saw his
advantage. >Ve were now adrift in the only
boat belonging to the schooner—the tide fast
carrying us into the broad waters of the hay—
the nut-shell of a skill'scarce large enough to
iing-sceno, the singular power of which, pla
ces the author in a high rank as a novelist.—
We do not recollect any thing of the kind in
a work of fiction, as being more effective.]
The Young Duke had accepted the invita
tion of the Baron de Berghem for to-morrow,
and accordingly himself. Lords Castlcfort and
Dice, and Temple Grace, assembled in Bruns
wick Terrace at tho usual hour. The din
ner was studiously plain, and very little wine
was drunk ; yet'every thing was perfect. Tom
Cogit stepped in to carve, in his usual silent
manner, lie always came iu and went out of
a room without any one observing him. He
winked familiarly to Temple Grace, but scarce
ly presumed to bow to the Duke. lie was
very busy about the wine, and dressed the
wild-fowl in a manner quite unparalleled.—
Turn Cogit was the man for a sauce for a
brown bird. What a mystery he made of it !
Cayenne, and Burgundy, and limes were in
gredients, but there was a magic in the incan
tation. with which he alone was acquainted.—
He took particular care to send a most perfect
portion to tiie young Duke, and he did this,
as lie paid all attentions to influential stran
gers, with the most marked consciousness of the
sufferance which permitted his presence: never
addressing his Grace, but audibly whispering
to the servant, “Take this to the Duke;” or
asking the attendant, “ whether his Grace
would try the hermitage?"
After dinner, with the exception of Cogit,
who was busied in compounding some won-
dc rful liquid fur the future refreshment, they
sat down to Ecarte. Without having exchang
ed a word upon the subject, there seemed a
general understanding among all the parties
that to-night was to be a pitched battle, aud
they began at once very briskly. Yet iu spite
of their universal determination, midnight ar
rived without any thing very decisive. Ano
ther hour passed over, and then Tom Cogit
kept touching the Baron’s elbow, and whis-
p-ring in a voice which every body could un
derstand, All this meant, that supper was rea
dy. It was brought into the room.
(laming has one advantage—-it gives you an
appetite : that is to say, as long as you have
a chance remaining. The Duke had thou
sands,—for, at present, his resources were un
impaired, and lie was exhausted by the con
stant attention and anxiety for five hours. He
passed over the delicacies, and went to the
side, table, and began cutting himself some
cold roast beef. Tom Cogit ran ftp, not to
,his Grace, hut to the Bnroil, to announce the
shocking fact, that the Duke of St. James was
enduring great trouble; and then the Baron
asked his Grace to permit Mr. Cogit to serve
him. Our hero devoured—I use the word
advisedly, as fools say in the House of Com
mons—he devoured the roast beef, and reject
ing the hermitage with disgust, asked for por
ter.
They sat to again, fresh as eagles. At
six o’clock, accounts were so complicated,
tint they stopped to make tip their hooks.—
Lack played with his memorandums and his
pencil at his side. Nothing fatal had yet
happened. The Duke owed Lord Dice about
five thousand pounds, and Temple Grace
owed him as many hundreds; Lord Castle-
fort also was his debtor, to the tune of seven
hundred and fifty, and the Baron was iu his
hooks hut slightly. Every half hour they had
a new pack of cards, and threw the used ones
on the floor. All this time, Tom Cogit did
nothing but snuff the candles, stir the fire,
Bring them a new pgck, and occasionally make
a tumbler for them.
At eight o’clock the Duke’s situation was
worsened. The run was greatly against hint,
and perhaps his losses were doubled. He pul-
led up again the next hour or two; but never
theless, at 10 o’clock owed every one some-
thins:. No one offered to give over; and eve-
tier. Lord Dice threw himself on a sofa
Lord Castlefort breathed with difficulty. The j oil the top-gallant, forecastle of the. ship, to
rest walked around. While they were resting ! breathe the fresh air and cool his irons, when
on their oars, the Young Duke roughly made his aquatic predilections entirely overcame
up his accodnts. lie found that he was minus 1 his consciousness of present security and
about one hundred thousand pounds. lease; and, dashing through the mass of as-
Immense as this loss was, he was more struck, tonisluul seamen, plunged into a rapid sea-
more appalled, let me say—at the strangeness I ward tide, which bore as many greedy sharks
of the Surrounding scene, than even Ills own 'within its. bosom as "hubbies” on its surface
ruin.' Ashe looked upon his fellow game-1 “onward.” But he "was, as it were, a child” I headlong' whims into tho sen. An unsuccess-
sters, lie seemed for the first time in his life, to ! of the ocean ; and the monsters of the deep j lul clfort to do this brought my messmate and
gaze upon some of these hideous demons of j turned from him as one of their familiars.— i myself both upon him for
whom he had read. He looked in the mirror Tho pirate had drifted, perhaps a hundred fa-, boat lurched, and he fell
more prudenco and economy in the manage
ment of our affairs. It is foolish to think of
keeping tip tho same annual expense Alien
our income is only one half of what it used
to be. On this subject we published a most
sensible article in our last number, taken flora
the Southern Agriculturist, They who arc
willing to live as their fathers did, and ride in
slicked chairs instead of carriages, will do well
to read it.
There is no class of persons from whom wc
hear greater complaint about tho impossibility
of making any thing, than wc do from the
farmers. It seems to be generally admitted,
that capital invested in agriculture is altogeth
er unproductive. We have heard very intelli
gent tanners say, that they can not make more
than two or three per cent on their capital,—
We are very much inclined to think that there
hold ns all—and two slight youths to contest' must be. some error in this calculation. Per
ils possession and his liberty! He sprang like haps tiny do not take into estimation the in-
a madman to the assault—in another instant j crease of theirslaves, their live stock, and the
wc were rolling in the bottom of the boat, lock- support of their families. A man who lives
in each others arms—in no paternal embrace, on his farm should make some allowance for
believe me. 1 shall never cease to recollect the provisions consumed by a part of his la
the dcath-like silence of the first fearful mo
ment we struggled for the mastery ; and, long
after the hand of Time had softened the out
lines of that night scene, , r>'-e I heard the n ild
shrieks and stifled groans that issued from that
lonely boat. The conflict was long and doubt
ful—not an instant was the close hug in which
we were entangled relaxed—there was not
room to strike a blow—the pirate had not time
to draw a Spanish knife concealed beneath
his vest—with hands and teeth fixed oti each
other's throats, smothered groans aud blacken
ed visage spoke its progress. He strove tit
times to overturn the boat—at others to pitch
ry one, perhaps, felt that his object was not i pil
obtained. They made their toilettes, and went of
at himself. A blight seemed to have fallen o-
ver his beauty, and his presence seemed ac
cursed. lie had pursued a dissipated, even
more than a dissipated career. Many were the
nights that had been spent by him, not on his
couch ; great had been the exhaustion that he
had often experienced ; haggard had some
times even been the lust of his youth. But
when had beeu marked upon his brow this har
rowing care ? when had his features before
been stamped with this anxiety, this anguish,
this baffled desire, this strange unearthly scowl
which made him even tremble? What? was
it possible? it could not be—that in time he
was to he like those awful, those unearthly,
those unhallowed things that were around him.
He felt as if he had fallen from.his state—ns
if he had dishonored his ancestry—as if he
had betrayed his trust. He felt a criminal.—
In the darkness of his meditations, a flash burst
from his lurid mind—a celestial light appear
ed to dissipate this thickuing gloom, and his
soul felt as it were bathed with the softening
radiancy. He thought of Mary Dacre, he
thought of cvery thing that was pure and holy,
and beautiful, and luminous and calm. It was
the innate virtue of the man that made the ap
peal to his corrupted nature. His loss seem
ed nothing; his dukedom would be too slight
a rausom of freedom from those ghouls, aud
for the breath of the sweet air.
lie advanced to the Baron, and expressed his
desire to piny no more. There was an imme
diate stir. All jumped up, and now the deed
was done. Cant, in spite of their exhausta-
tion, assumed her reign. They begged him to
have his revenge,—were quite annoyed at the
result, had no doubt he would recover if he
proceeded. Without noticing their remarks,
lie seated himself at the table, and wrote
cheeks for their respective amounts. Tom
Cogit jumping up and bringing him the ink
stand, Lord Castlefort, iu the most affectionate
manner, pocketed the draft; at the same time
recommending the Duke not to be in a burry,
but to send it when he was cool. Lord Dice
received his with a hcvv.—Temple Grace, with
a sigh—the Baron with an avowal of his readi
ness always to give him his revenge.
The Duke, though sick at heart, woulJ" not
leave the room with any evidence of a broken
spirit; and when Lord Castlefort again repeat
ed "Bay ns when we meet again,” he said:
"1 think it very improbable that we shall meet
again, my Lord. I wished to know what gam
ing w as. 1 had heard a great deal about it.—
It was not so very disgusting; but I am a
young man, and cannot play tricks with my
complexion.”
He reached his house. The bird was out.
He gave orders for himself nor to he disturbed,
and he went to bed ; hut in vain lie tried to
sleep. What rack exceeds the torture of an
excited brain, ;i>icl an exhausted body ? His
hands and feet were like ice, his brow like tire;
Lis cars rung with supernatural roaring ; a
nausea liqd seized upon him, and death lie
would have welcomed. Iu vain, in vain lie
courted repose—in vain, in vain he had re
course to cvery expedient to wile himself to
slumber. Each minute he started from his
How with some phrase which reminded him
pertuq
thorns from the ship before a boat was manned
and despatched in pursuit. But Manuel was
no drowning rat to catch at straws; he was
hound to the Island, its tangled and impene
trable mangroves for a shelter front the spoil
er; lie yawed and dipped like a crippled duck,
as the boat shut tip with him. It was vanity,
even in a Cuba fisherman who strangles the
shark in his own coral depths, to strive with
the light cutter of a sloop, that leaves the dol
phin in its wake. After a fierce struggle, dur
ing which Manuel nearly succeeded in his ef
forts to capsize the light boat, when he would
have drowned the crew like so many puppi s ;
they hauled him by the hair into the gig;
where, like the savage wolf taken by the hun
ter, iie crouched without a growl, in sudden
the first time. The
teavily across the
stern with both upon his breast. He had
crushed my right hand iu his teeth—my left
and both of IBs were upon his throat to stran
gle hint—one of the pirate's arms were under
us, and our teeth were closely fastened on the
otlirr. The pirate was evidently fast giving
way—my hand dropped from his relaxed jaugi
—his face blackened under the pressure of
our gripe—lie soon ceased to breathe —
We now, for the first time, gave an ear to
cries at no great distance from us—erics for
assistance—screams of a drowning mail. We
recognized the voice of one of our crew. H
“ It is a mnxim among these lawyers, that
whatever has been done before, may legally be
done again; and therefore they take special
care to record all the decisions formerly made
against common justice. and tho general rea
son of mankind. Those, uhder the name of
precedents, they produce ns authorities t» jus
tify the most 'iniquitous opinions, and tho
judges never fail of directing accordingly!
“ In pleading, they studiously avoid enter
ing iuto the mcritB of the cause ; butane loud*
violent, and tedious in dwelling upon all cir
cumstances which are not to the purpose*-*
lAir instance, in the case already mentioned,
they never desire to know what claim or title
my adversary has to my cow ; but whether the
said cow were red or black ; her horns long or
short; whether the field I graze her in bo
round or square ; whether she was milked at
home or abroad ; what disease she is subject
to, and the like ; after which they consult pre
cedents, adjourn the cause from time to time,
and iu ten, twenty, or thirty years, come to an
issue.
It is likewise to he observed, that this so
lidly which is unproductive. We have known jeicty has a peculiar cant and jargon of their
many farmers to become well off by the in- own, that no other mortal can understand, and
crease of their slaves alone. Independent ofi'vhereiu all their laws are written, which they
this consideration perhaps they did not make j take special care to multiply; whereby they
one per cent, more than the support of their | have wholly confounded the very essence of
families. But it is certainly true, ns a general truth and falsehood, of right and wrong; stj
observation, that very little is to ho made by
farming, without good management, industry
and economy. With tho exercise of these
three things, a handsome profit may he made.
VVe give the following fact to prove it, which
comes within our own knowledge,
There is a gentleman living in this place,
that it will take thirty years to decide, whether
tho field, left me by my ancestors for six gene
rations, belongs to me, or to a stranger three
hundred miles off.
“ In the trial of persons accused for Crimea
against the State, the method is much more
short and commendable: the judge first sends
expectation of his fate, was'taken on board! done? The pirate might be only partially
the ship and more securely ironed. ’ [strangled; if left while we were saving the sea-
The prize schooner, (the Pilot,) a few days man, ho might recover and renew the fight.—
after this event, was ordered home for adjudi- VVe were already exhausted to the last extre-
cation, and Manuel was sent on board to stand mity—,i few words passed to this effect be-
his trial on his arrival at Norfolk, the place of j tween us—and we. resolved to rid us of the pi-
destination. Stribbling commanded the schoo- rate. 'Vc launched him headlong into the
ner; myself and midshipman B. of New-Jer- s ® a , arid a few hubbies “shewed where lie
sey were his only officers; for a crew wo had ; " as.” Taking the seats which had been over-
ten or a dozen skeleton invalids, worn out by thrown in the struggle (for we had lost our
pense and product of this farm, and he will
find that there is a very handsome profit made,
had doubtless jumped I rent the schooner to Let him consider too, that this was a poor
swim to our aid—and wo drifted so fast with
the tide, tho poor fellow was exhausted, and
had lost sight of the boat. What was to be
who owns a small farm not many miles distant, 10 sound the disposition of those in power,
which was originally very poor, and which was j after which he can easily hang or save a crimi-
enfirely worn out, (bar years since, when he ! ,ln l> strictly preserving all due forms of law.
purchased it. On this farm he works two j “ In all points out of their own trade, they ’
hands only ; he has about seventy acres open J 1,ro usually the most ignorant and stupid ge-
and in cultivation; thirty in wheat, thirty in nerntidn among us, the most despicable in
corn, and the other ten acres in rye, potatoes, common conversation, avowed enemies to all
&e. Wc saw the crop, now growing on this j knowledge nod learning, and equally disposed
■k lo pervert the general reason of mankind, in
every other subject of discourse, as in that of
their own profession,”
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FJIOM TIIK LONDON mirror.
Mr, Hayden's Picture of Napoleon muring
at St. Helena.—This picture lias, we under
stand, been painted for Sir Robert Peel, whoso
taste and munificence in patronizing the fine
arts cniinut he too highly praised. It is
throughout a masterly performance, and one
ot which the English school of art has just
farm, the other day, and have no hesitation in
saying it will measure, with good seasons,
three hundred bushels e.f wheat, and seven
hundred bushels of corn. The fodder on this
farm last year was worth eighty dollars. The
present crop of rye and potatoes, &c. we dont
know how to estimate it, but it looks well.—
Let any one make the calculations of the ex
disease, and dismissed the squadron for infir
mity. Besides the officers, there were but
two able bodied hands on board. From some
cause unaccountable to me, b 1 ordered
Manuel’s irons to be knocked oft - , and suffer
ed him to go at-large during the passage home.
Nor did he seem undeserving this forbear
ance; but behaved with propriety, and soon
ingratiated himself, and won the pity of every
one on board the schooner. He attached
himself, particular!) to me; and night and
day, Manuel was in conjunction with my
watch, actively engaged in the duties of the I
II. 1 .-I
oars at once,) and directed by voices becom
ing feebler every moment, with great difficulty
we paddled to our poor fellows and picked
them up. It was as we supposed—they had
swam to our assistance, hut were unable to
reach the boat. VVe were now four in all. 11.
and myself, entirely overcome, stretched in
the bosom of the boat—drifting very quietly
into Hampton Roads at midnigh, without an
oar, sail or rudder. Happily for us, the selioon
worn out plantation four years ago. Since
that time it has been manured, with very little
trouble. This is the effect of industry, eco
nomy, ami good management.— Greencville
(S. C.) Mountaineer.
—toooo:—
WOMEN'S CURIOSITY.
This trait, which the most curious men say
gusli school ot art has j
cause to be proud. VVe intend to let Mr. Ilay
den describe it in ids own vivid style :
“ Napoleon was peculiarly alive ta poetical
association as produced by scenery or sound;
vil.agc bells with their echoing ding, dong,
dang, now bursting full on the ear, now dying
in the wind, affected him as they affect every
er’s signal guns, of which she Had fired seve
ral, brought a boat full manned from a vessel j ir.g tbe. window of his room, which gave the
in the Roads. This was sent in pursuit, and 'poor dear woman so much trouble that it al-
ssel. lie often sought an opportunity of! soon came up with us. VVe reached our] most threw her into hysterics. Indeed her
conversing with me on my loach mid-watch, I schooner about two in the morning, worn out malady rose to such a pitch from his desiring
whefi the helmsman even was nodding or, the and exhausted with fatigue. i to be alone, that in a moment of extreme and
tiller, dreaming, perhaps, of sailing on whole The rest is very easily told. Manuel was irrepressible euriosity, she went bolt up to the
oceans of “Jamaica,” and also ail on board' not dead when we threw him overboard—the man's door, and asked him if he did not want
is most peculiar to women, does sometimes body alive to natural impressions, and on tho
subservo more useful purposes than the ac- j p v8 h* nil his great battles, you find him steal-
cunnilation of subjects for scandal aud grattii- [ "'K away in the dead of the.night, between the
tons distribution at tea parties, for it appears | l "° hosts, and indulging iri every species of
that it is almost if not entirely owing to its , poetical reverie.
strong developciueiit in the phrenological . “ It " as impossible to think of such a genius
structure of Mrs. Bangs, that the Now-York | 1,1 captivity, without mysterious associations
bank rubber was detected, and ton thousand] 1 ’*. (he sky, tno sea, the rock, and the solitude
dollars secured to her husband. Such a wife !".’(h which lie was enveloped. I never ima-
should linvr all her inquiries promptly an- 1 P-Lioil him but as if musing at dawn, or mc-
swered ; and though a man were a Blue Beard,j jancholy at sunset, listening at midnight to the
no chamber should he too sacred fur her liKl heating and roaring of the Atlantic, or niedi-
qnisition. It seems that Mrs. Bangs smelt j tatiiig as the stars gazed and the moon shone
the rougue, Smith, on his first entry into her j 0,1 : in short, Napoleon never appeared to
house, at the corner of Elm and Broome i , e . “Utat those moments o( silence aud twi-
streets. He had a suspicious way of half trios-j ,'J- 11 nature seems to sympathize with
buried in profound sleep; at these moments
lie would bewail the untimely end to which lie
was speedily approaching—protest his inno
cence of crime—and endeavor to awaken my
sympathy in his behalf. lie would then weep
like an infant; and signs which I now com
prehend [for I was then not a Mason] were
made to bear witness to his veracity and inno
cence. He was under the impression that we
had been sent to sea to punish him for h
sudden plunge into the water soon revived the] a “pitcher of "nter!” But one is “ naturnl-
alruost extinguished vital spark—lie revived ] ly curious to know, you know,” as l’attl J’ry
and swam ashore, about a mile : He was pur- says. Besides, there watf something §o “ ve-
sued and taken by a party of L’.J.S. troops [ ry mysterious” in his opening the one shutter
two days after, whom he resisted to the last-
suffering several shots to be fired before yield
ed. I conveyed him to the Norfolk prison, a-
midst the shotfls of assembled multitudes, and
delivered tiie stern villain into the hands of
Justice. IIis throat was swollen and his face
dawn stairs to breakfast. .In the mean time
he shutters were opened, the room aired and
in less than an hour they were at it again.
They played till dinner time without inter
mission ; and though the Duke made some
desperate efforts, and some successful ones,
iis losses were nevertheless, trebled. Yet
1° at e an excellent dinner, and was not at all
epressed; because the more he lost, the
tore his courage and resources seemed to cx-
and. At first, he had limited himself to ten
nousand ; after breakfast it was to have been
wenty thousand; then, thirty thousand was
he ultimatum; and now he dismissed all
noughts of limits from his mind, and wasde-
erminetl to risk or gain every thing.
At midnight he lost forty-eight thousand
ounds. Affairs now began to be serious.—
hs supper was not so hearty. While the rest
ere eating, he walked about the room, and
egan to limit his ambition to recovery, and
"t to gain. When you play to win hack, the
an is over: there is nothing to recompense
oufbr your bodily tortures and yourdograd-
. 'eeliiigs; and the very best result that cau
' PPen, while it has no charms, seems to your
ewed mind impossible.
Jn they played and the Duke lost more.—
13 mind whs jaded. He floundered—he
I , “ e3 perate efforts, hut plunged deeper in
•a slough. Feeling t‘<at, to regain his ground,
n card must tell, he acted on each as if it
iitv rr 1D ' ani * *^ e c °nsequences of this insa-
) (tor a gamester at such a crisis, is really
sanej were, that his losses were prodigious.
m tY'°i' ler morning came, and there they sat,
e Ueep in cards. No attempt at breakfast
no affectation of making a toilet or ;f
moved on with its leaden pace ; each hour he
heard strike, and each hour seemed an age.—
Each hour was only a signal to east olf some
covering or shift his position. 11 was at length
morning. With a fccljjig that lie. should go
mad if he remained any longer iu bed, he rose,
and paced his chamber. The air refreshed
him. He threw himself on the floor; the cool
crept over his senses, aud he slept.
From the Fredericksburg Political Arena.
We find the following well told tale in
the Alexandria Gazette—It is }io fetion ; we
have the pleasure of knowing the Remini
scent, now a Lieutenant in the Navy—and
long ago heard the substance of the story:
MANUEL CARTUCHO—a pirate.
I was one evening in company with several
officers of tho Navy, when the conversation
turning upon the then recent trial of Com.
Porter, by an easy transition settled upon the
crimes, and that a hard-featured old boatswain j turgid—he could scarcely articulate, and when
mate on board was to be his executioner; lie questioned by me pointed to his throat. 1
lived in daily expectation that the next sun could have done so too witi: as much propric-
would witness his execution; audit seems 1 *}’• ' vi,s (tied by Judge Marshall, con
duit he had prepared for the event. demited, and pardoned by Monroe. Manuel
We made Cape Henry light the morn-j '' IU l< rror boiicst traders “ in the
ing of the tenth day, and having a fine caster-
ly breeze, we were made happy with the pro :cooem:
inise of the pilot of reaching Norfolk before “ Hard times"—" Scarcity of money"—No-
thc setting of the sun. The gale “freshened j thing to be made."
as the clay was done,” and already the town These are very common expressions now-a-
of Norfolk began to appear amidst (he haze of J*)) 3 - A e beer them used, especially by those
the evening, as we rounded Craney Island.—
The pilot was a lad, and this was his first es
say in his art. He became confused as the
sounding suddenly shoaled, and packed
ns at high water on the shoals at Crany
Island. Wc labored hard until the moon
was high in air, and the tide had considc-
who want either industry, economy or pru
donee in the management of their affairs.—
Show us an idle man reckless of economy
and prudence in the management of his busi
ness, and we shall most assuredly find him a
boisterous complainant against hard times.—
We have often thought there was something
rably fallen, when abandoning all hopes of extremely ridiculous in these piteous corn-
getting off' until the vessel was disbtirthened P lai,lts ’ v lien they come from those who make
of her stores, (about a hundred hags of cof- no pepper exertions to better their situation,
fee,) we thought of going to sleep off' the Now foolish does it seem to hear a man who
fatigues of a hard day’s work. It was then l,sus no means to accumulate property, sav ,
I thought of our prisoner, and observed to j 11 (here is nothing to b
times.” How absurd is
keeping the oilier closed, that she thought
she would “just dropt in,” not intending to
intrude. It was a sad visit for poor Smith, for
no sooner did Mr. Bangs get a “notion” of
it, than it was all “ hang up” with him. lie
incontiently called upon “Old Hays”—when
you may he sure the proverb that “it is too
late to repent when a certain gentleman is
come.” was as applicable to him as any other
sinner. We hope some of our play wrighters
will dramatize this plot, and call it “ Curiosi
ty Rewarded; or the deplorable cotiscqucnccs
<>f a man closing only one of his window
shutters, aud eating his dinner in his room.”
The dramatis personas would figure well on
the stage.—N. Y. Standard.
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DEAN SWIFT’S DESCRIPTION OF TIIE
LAWYERS.
“ There is a society of men among us, bred
up from their youth in the art of proving, by
words multiplied for the purpose, that white is [ Janff.
black, and black is white, according as they '
the fallen, and when, if there be moments fit,
in this turbulent earth, for celestial intercourse,
one must imagine these would be moments
immortal spirits might select to descend with
in the sphere of mortality, to soothe and com
fort, to inspire and support the afflicted.
“ I nder such impressions the present pic
ture was produced. 1 imagined him standing
on the brow of an impending cliff'and inusing
on his past fortunes. I imagined sea birds
screaming at his feet—the sun just down—this
sails of his guard ship glittering on the hori
zon, and tho Atlantic, calm, silent, awfully
deep, and endlessly extensive.
“• I tried it in a small sketch, and it was in
stantly purchased..,.! published a prinfi aud
the demand is now and has been incessant; a
' commission for a picture the full size of life,
from one well known as the friend of artists
and patron of art, followed, and thus I have
ventured to think a conception so unexpected
ly popular might, on this enlarged scale, uol
be uninteresting to the public.
“ No trouble has been spared to render the
picture a resemblance; its height is Napole>
oil’s exact height, according to Constant, his
valet, viz : five feet two inches and three-quar
ters, French, or five feet five inches and a half,
English ; the uniform is that of one of the re
giment of Chasseurs; every detail has been
dictated by an old officer of the regiment;
anil his celebrated hat has bccu faithfully co
pied from onfe of his own hats now in fcng-
are paid. To this society all the rest of the], ie ^ est ^ csci '*l , * , pn I ever saw ofNapo-
people are slaves. For example, if my neigh-1 e0ll . s a l > P eari,nce was tn the letter of an Irish
bor has a mind to my cow, he has a lawyer to I Sbntjeman, named North,| pub.tsb';- the
prove that he ought to have my cow from me. I, U) . ^ vcn,n S Post, and it is so very charS’'.-
- - tferjstie, it may amuse the visiter. He.saW
him at Elba, in 1 u14, and thus paints fetu t
“ He but little resembles the notion I had of
him, or any other man leversaw. He Ulheequrr-
est figite I think I ever remember to have seen,
mid exceedingly corpulent, liis face is a perfect
squre from the effect of fat, aud, as he has no
S. as he went below, that as our little coc
kle shell of a boat was out, we had bettor
secure the pirate. He told me to do so. I
called Nlanuel to me, and at the same time
told the B’s mate to go below and get his
irons. The pirate understood me, and heard
the rattling of the irons as they were dragged
out below. He thought that at last his time
was come, and that these were the prepara
tions for his execution. 11c became restive—
muttered, and mingled his prayers for mercy
with horrible imprecations. I told one near
me to bring my pistols. He planted his fine
form like a bronze statue, upon the deck;—
transaction of the Anti-Piratical squadron threw up his outstreatched arms to heaven,
commanded by that officer in the West In
dies. Many incidents and pp/sor.al adven
tures growing out of that service v/erc related
by several of the company, one of which ar
rested my attention so forcibly, that my me
mory has retained the subject of the story dis
tinctly, even after the lapse of several years.—
An officer, (a youth of about twenty years of
age,) after a momentary pause in the conversa
tion, began, as nearly as I can recollect, in
these wordsSeveral of you, doubtless,
remember that fierce and indomitable Pirate,
Manuel Cartucho—captured by Stribbling on
one of his boat expeditious, Carr, who left
us just at this moment, was present at the fight,
. 6 u. ui mi, — and I think told me saved his life. When the
-no room. The atmosphere was hot, to be boats boarded the piratical schooner, which
and, as the mooli heamg played about his dark
and rugged countenance, his black eye glow
ed like the living coal. He struck such terror
into the souls of our dastard crew, that they
quailed and blanched before his glance like
stricken decr. I ordered them to seize him.
One, bolder than the rest, raised an axe to
strike him down. Manuel caught it as it fell,
and wrenching from the seaman’s grasp the axe,
poised it a moment in the air, smiled in bitter
scorn upon the astonished circlo as they shrunk
before him, aud hurled it iuto the sen. The
tiger springs not from his lair so suddenly as
Manuel leaped upon me, seizing mo by the
throat. Another bound, and he was “many fa
thoms deep into the sea.” My messmate B.
had overheard the noise, and although undres-
spends, unnecessarily, twice
makes, to complain of
lie who lives in idleness
I must then hire another to defend my right,
it being against all rules of law, that any man
should be allowed to speak for himself. Now,
made tlies ; hal'd j j,, this case, 1, wlio am the right owner, lie un
it for a man who | d,.,- t wo great disadvantages : first, my lawyer
much as be being practised almost from his cradle in de- „
“ sca ™'!/ °f money.— fending falsehood, is quite out of his element ] whiskers, his jaw is thrown more into'relief; tlu«
ss, will lie very npuo | when he would he an advocate for justice, I description, joined to bis odd little tbree cornei-
may justly exclaim, there is nothing to he made.
But the industrious, prudent, economical man,
will always have, with ordinary luck, good
times, plenty of money and sufficient means of
making something. So far as our experience
has gone, we have seldom seen a man, who
made the proper exertions, who did not thrive
aud do well. And on the contrary, we have
never known an idle, prodigal, foolish man do
much for himself or family. If a sensible
man, with ordinary health and strength, lives
in poverty, it is his own fault.
Wc may depend on it our distresses and
causes of complaint arc, in a great measure,
imaginary. It is true all kinds of produce
have fallen, and the facilities of making mo
ney arc not so great as they were sometime
since. But in order to remedy this evil, we
should adopt a general system of retrench
ment. Let all of our cxpcnccs be curtailed.
This can be done without derogating iu the
least from our comforts and real pleasures.—
If the times have become hard, we should use
red by his brethren, as one that
the practice of the law. And therefore
hut two methods to preserve nty
first is to gain over my adversary’s lawyer with j shoulders very broad, nndhls cheat oih
a double fee, who will then betray his client us * — —-bAf.. f.
hy insinuating, that he has justice on his side.
The second way is, for my lawyer to make the
cause appear ns unjust as he can, hy allowing
tho cow to belong to my adversary: and this if
it be skilfully done, will certainly bespeak the
favor of the bench. Now your honor is to
know, that these judges arc persons appointed
to decide all controversies of property, as ’yvcll
as for the trial of criminals, and picked out
from the most dexterous lawyers, who are
grown old or lazy; and having been biassed
all their lives against truth and equity, lie un
der such a fatal necessity of favoring fraud,
perjury, and oppression, that I have known
some of them refuse a large bribe from the
side where justice lay, rather than injure the
faculty, by duing any thing unbecoming their
nature or their office
His features are remarkably masculine, regular,
and welj formed. His skin is coarse, uu wrinkled
and weather-beaten ; his eyes possess
nnd unaffected fierceness, the most extraordinary ‘
I ever beheld ; they are lui.', bright, and of e bras
sy color. He looked directly at me, end his stare
is by fur the most intenso 1 ever beheld, Tbi
time, however, curiosity made me • match, fbr * ..
vanquished him. It is when he regards you, that!
you mark the sigular expression of his eyes ; iio
frown, no ilMuimor, no affectation of appearing
terrible; hut the general expression of an Iron, in
exorable temper.
We have only to remark, that the picture ap
pears to us.exceedingly well drawn, and e-
qually colored. Objection has been made
to the large size of the epaulettes, and the co- §
loring of the sea. To the first opinion we
may subscribe, but doubt whether the objecti
on ought to extend to thci latter, especially, if
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