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Newspaper Page TextiOUTHERM RECORDER* „v GRIEVE Ac OKItlE. MIEEEDOEVUXE. dCtltGU, TVCIBiV VIOKKIINU, FEBRUARY 3, 1333. No. 3— VOI.. )VA iniSCEU/AIV. Y-f The Recorpkr i« published weekly* on Hancock between Wayne ami Jefferson, at Tfiroc Dollars ner nuin» payable in advance, or Four Dollars, if not paid be- J n the end of the year. ° a»vekT1SR*knts conspicuously inserted at the usual Those sent without a specification of the number of [naertions, will be published until ordered out, and chdr^ed n "d nejfroea,by Administrators, Executor*, OtmrdiniM, are matured hv law to be held on the first , Tnealttv » n ,,ie month, between the hours of ten in the fore- : farm, upon llic high grounds about four niileg die noon, nnd three in the afternoon, at the Court-House of the i tan(< j\ s m igf,t be expected from a man in such «ie« l in^ ,| ^^ v ^ e '”™p' 1 ^ 0 i>re''!ou» *!. K .!!!. y . r f!? ec . , .® b !!. c !u' *, the clay of " a * e JOHN MACTAGOART. * HtGHl.ANV STORY. A limit ninety years ago, a decent Highlander, of this name, rented two larnts U|ion the promon tory of Kintyre, in Argyleshlre—one of them a corn farm upon the coast, nod tho other a sheep ' v„[iees for the sale of personal property most tie eiven . like manner, forty ilnvs previous to the dnv of sole.— 'i|.o notice to the debtors unit creditors of an estate, must ,, published for forty davs. Nut ice that application will he made to the. Court of Or- jj, mr v for leave to sell lend, mutt he published for four ""(if businessthe ' ine Printing, will meet with prompt .Mention at the IlF.cmttiF.n Order.. t’vTTKns (on business) must he postpaid. Executive Department, On. I Millkdorville, Jiinunry 19, 1835. ( In n irinanceof the provision of nit net of the Gene r nl Awetnlily, passed 23d December, 1834, “ To sell and dispose oj tiro acres <>J t/ic Stale's intere-l in Ike trtilern hunk of the 0 once river, near MilledgceiUc, amt to rest in the purchaser certain privileges therein named.” it is O RDERED, Hint notice he, given in the gazettes of this place, that, on the 25th of February next, will he sold, nt public outcry, at the Shite House, at (he hour of eleven o’clock A. M. the State's interest in TWO Acres of l.lintl, nil the western hunk a l Ihe Oconee River, to embrace, in the cetnre of taiil two acres, the west end <>f Farisli Carter's bridge, with .licit privileges anil liabilities as are mure particu- Urlv defined in said act, and which will he published on the day of sale. Reorder of the Governor, R. A. GRF.ENE. Sec Ex. Dop’t. Jsnuary27 t t Ids Jj* The Gazettes of Milledgeville will publish the above until the day of sale. FYVIE price of almost every article of provision l having increased some 25 and others 50 per cent . tha undersigned, ill consequence, announce to their friends and the public, that they wilt, from ami alter the 1st of nest month. (February,) advance the ptice of hoard and lodging to the following rotes, viz : Board and lodging a single month, $ 20 For a longer time than one month, 18 Board without Lodging, 15 For fire during the months of Nov. Dec. ) January and Fobrnary. per month. j B II. MITCHELL. DROWN & DEANE, TIIO’S R. IIUSON. Milledgsvllle, Janury 19, 2 2t FREDERICK II. SANFORD, .Ittorney at F-atr, FORSYTH, MONROE COUNTY, GEORGIA, W ILL diligently attend to all business confided to him. He will practice in the several Courts of Ibe Flint Circuit, and in Jones of the Ucmulgre. January 20. 1835. I 3t Nos. 30 A 33 William SI. Ncw-Vork, DXTWKr.fr FISK *N11 WALL STREETS. T HE SUBSCRIBERS having taken the above Ware-Houses for u term of years, inform the , caping from it was within the reach of the honest racter. He had a wife and some sons and ilaugh lera, all of whom hud arrived at maturity, and few men bore a better appearance at either kirk or market. One snowy day in the winter of 1748, a young female, dressed in a style above the vulgar, hut apparently travel-worn and weary, passed John's house upon the coast, and contrary to the custom ofiviiy-farers, did not come in. The circumstance excited some suprise in the iuin.iies, who remark ed that it was strange to sec an individual til ilmt kind travelling on such a day, and passing with out refreshment, the last house she would see lor several miles. In the afternoon, as the storm seemed likely to be worse before it would be bet ter, John thought it necessary to go up to his hill farm, to give some directions ahool saving the sheep, lie set oil' two hours before night, mount ed on his favorite grey marc; hut though that ani mal had long been accustomed to all kinds of highland weather.it was dusk before she advanced half way up Ihu'mmir. and the snow was then tak ing iier op to the belly, and threatened to retard her lorther progress altogether. John began lo feel himself in some danger; but yet his horse hail so often served him in cases of peril, that he did not in any means despair. Whilst John was reflecting upon his own case, another of a much more hapless description was presented to his «iew. Almost at his horse's leer, cowering hennth a little bush, anil half buried in the snow, lay the female who had been observed to pass his door in the course of the day. John instantly dismounted, ami, raising the head ol the unfortunate woman from the ground, learned, from a few whispered words of almost expired anguish, that she was in a condition the most distressing that the imagination of the reader can conceive. '• Leave me, however," she said in Gallic to the fate which I have provoked—for to me death is better than life." John answered in a few sooth ing words, lint found himself unable, lor a few mo ments, to convey any hope that he could save the life of which she seemed so indillerent. To go either hack or forward for assistance, seemed in vain; for before he could expect to regain the spot, the wretched lady must have perished from cold, and probably would he buried deep in the snow. To remain with her seemed like unavail ing. for he could not expect to keep either her or himself in life for any considerable length of time, in the midst of such a storm. If the reader will pause lor a moment, and consider nil the circum stances of the case, he will feel that the perplex ity must have been extreme ; and perhaps he will hardly believe beforehand, dial any means ol eg- merchants of this place and vicinity, tbnt they nre opening-nil entire iV6w Stock of Dry GootU, ol their own Importations nnd re cent I'llrrliases, calculated for the South ern Trade, which are offered for sale for each or approved credit. They arc induced to open their goods this early, to remove objections that are often made, that the stocks of otir city are not complete at this reason of the veer. DORE.WUS, 8UYDA.US & NIXON. January 1, 1835. 59 I2t farmer. A real exigency, however, will sometimes sug gest expedients which no deliberate ingenuity could have devised. John instantly resolved up on a sacrifice which, in calm blood, hardly any thing could have tempted him lo perlurm. With his skene dhu (an unclasped knife then worn hy e- very highlander) he cut the throat of his highly valued mare, took nut (he entrails, nnd in (he hol low of the warm carcass, deposited the unhappy woman, now almost about to become a mother. Then stripping off his upper coat, which as he T HE Board of Directors of die Georgia Rail I remarked, was of no use to a traveller without a Road Company, having secured the. right of way ! horse, lie spread it over the lail v—and having whis ht nlmnst all instances, and the Engineer having re-. p,. rei | Xer that he would return with itssisi- ported highly favorable, as lo the localities over which ! al(ce nr himself perish ill the attempt, he set off the rand must pass, (to which report the Stock hold- , hi , hj „ f arnl with ;| || llie ,,,ee,| tl, a t the fh nre referred,! and the Direction havin'; ordered , , .. 1 . . . , the Engineer to proceed forthwith to the location of nature o( the way would au.mt of. As he had the road commencing at Augusta ; iVotire is there- \ calculated the snntv was not so deep upon the fort here'tnf given to Hie Stockholders, that an instill-j high ason the low grounds, and he therelore reach- ineut of fifteen dollars per share is required to ho paid, ed his deslinaiion in about an hoir (jicorgin Kail Road Olilce, Athens, till* January, 18:15. on the 23d day of February next. And for the great er convenience of the Stockholder*, the following pla ce* of payment and receiving Agent* nre appointed, 'The whole strength of the household was im mediately put in requisition (or the benefit of tfie poor wanderer. The single female servant was t0 * ,t: _ , _ ,, ., ... . . . I left to prepare a warm bed for her reception, along ii . a with eveiy other comfort winch the establishment county, will pay at Augusta, to Col. William tiini- j . . , . , , mins. * J j could furnish, lhree shepherds, each provided Those in Taliaferro, toCol. A. Janes, at Crawford- ! with a blanket, and Jnlin himself, carrying the ville. Highland catholicon. a bottle of whiskey, boldly Those in Greene, to John Cunningham, Esq. »< : faced the storm, and after a toilsome march, reaclt- Greeneshoro’. j ed ihe place where she lay. To the great joy of Those in Morgan, to E. A Nisbet, F.sq.at Madison. M„ c , aagBr , t his expedient for preserving aniina- Aud those in Cl rk. Jacks,.,,. Oglethorpe, and oth |m)) ||ilU bet .„ alle , ltiei , with success. Supported Athen? ,my 1 reasurer in by ||)e liR , ||ra( o( - h(!r rl(l |e receplicle, and In the event of sickness, absence, nr nnv other , protected both from the wind and the snow, the cause, on the part of the aforesaid receiving Agents, i lady was still alive, though no doubt in a very pre- «r either of them, any applicant uliould get dimippint- [ carious state. To the further joy of Mactaggart ed in making payment a* aforesaid on the proper day | — aji she murmured forth her thanks for his kind ** herein appointed for the purpose; then, in all such , exertions, it was in such a lone as assured him, cMe-*, (should any happen,) payment must be made j jj, at j /t fi nt )j ni r herself Ihe object of such a provi- w ,|i ,l „ I?, 1 di*y 8 tlicreafior, nHhe Treasurer .a Athens, j . , (le|jv( , raI)0ei „ h(1()? ,, ail , Jeeil generated ( ertiheates of Stock, setting forth the nuniler of . s .hares held, and the amount pal each alu.ro, will | w !"ch promised in restore h«r 10 the appro,-,at,.,., he delivered to all the Stockholders, on payment nfj »l existence. With hands not the most gentle Ihe instalment hereby called for, according to the pro- that could have been wished, hut fueling* the fen- viri m* of the 18th section of the Charter The Di- j derest that could have been manifested, John, as- rection will also, at the time oi payment of the afore- listed by his shepherds, removed her from her **id instalment, furnish each Stockholder with a copy p)^ee ol shelter, arid wrapped her carefully up in of the Charter and Dye-Laws of the Company. j llle blankets; after which the refreshment of the By order ol the Boan^ ^ WILLIAMS, Sec’y. I bol,,e Wi,! * °fl* ered as kindly as it was thankfully 52 (it j received. She was then carried forward by two of the i.ien, relieved by the third, while John himself STTAXE RIGHTS 1IOTKL* ! piloted the way to the cottage. Alter a tedious January 8, 1835. ill UGOitGG A. BROWN Iihh a*- sociate.d with him. in the. care him) | .management of Ihe Stiltt* HiRlltN Hotrl, in Milledieville. Mr. John A. 1 Dean, who has been lone accustomed lo *och hn*ine*«. The p*!»h)i*Jimeid (liereafler to he conducted hy BROWN &. DKAN.) will he careful ly and punctually attended to, and abundantly suppli ed in every department with whatever maybe need ful for the comfortable accommodation of boarders and traveller*. Milledgeville. January 20 I 4t march, in which the spirit of humanity and the spirit of barley, contrived to sustain John and his men against every difficulty, the prucenaion reach ed the house, in perfect safety, where the lady was immediately placed in bed, and administered lo after the manner proper to individuals in her situ ation. Not long after her arrival, she was delivered of a female child, and, notwithstanding the absence of many comforts and appliances which, in the usual circumstances, are (bought indispensihlr. both mother and daughter did well. In due time they were removed to the faim house upon the GLOBE TAVERN, Monticello. rVIHE subscriber informs the public „ viu , w ! m V takHU I coast, where her protector’s family resided ; and as 7 ,u | l ]? e ,ov \ n of Mout'cello* i the persons concerned were highlanders, it is need- rt ", e , h t j •«-«»-r -•« * v '; y tbem w,,h , attention ahull he good. The fatigued and weary tro- greatert kindness, and welcomed to stay as long veller will not object to the refreshment* afforded by i }, s site pleased. Though naturally anxious to his BAR, and he Hatters himself that the STABLE j he made acquainted with her history, neither Mac- department of his House, will not he surpassed hy - taggart nor his wife could venture to make any any in the country. He is well acquainted with the , direct enquiries about it. They soon learned. people of this and the adjoining counties, (having fur a long time supplied them with horses and mules) and while he invites drovers to rail on him, he promises to assist them as far us he can in selling their stork. Lots with good troughs will he always Kept for their accommodation. In inviting the public generally and the former mid late patrons of the GLOBE, particu larly, to call upon him, he assure* them that nothing ahull he wanting on his part, to establish again for the Globk, its former reputation as a Public House. WILLIAM GOOLSBY. Dec 23. »f NTATE BIGHTS HOTEL, what indeed the lady was more anxious to com municate th in they co learn, that she was h wife ; but her superior manners, and the mystery she as sumed, deterred them from asking further. For some months, though far from the despair in which she had been found hy Mactaggart, she ap peared in very low spirits ; hut the cloud gradual ly drew off, and after twelve month's residence under the roof of the protector, she became as cheeifol us she had formerly been dull Before (Ins time John had become excessively fond of his guest, anil also attached lo her child, whom he was the more inclined to cherish, inasfar at several of By Ii. F. Bitiih'l. mtm-m l||.; „„ leave to leliiler His i c;ii along with a great number of his neighho.rs •lfic*re I hanks l»» hi* friends | || ls heart indeed was completely devoted to these •nd the public. foMl.ol.hc-1 1W( , h.iereaiing strangeis, while the lady, on her FJJ1IIF. undersigned begs j his own children ni thistmie emigrated to Ameri ; p* 71™ 1 w* k, ; ,d T 1 v ,i,h n , ' n “, ffe T n ,,nl)r 7 Hi., h. •UlleAflllflueilu nr, | •«'»' »' »•''•••Ah'". '>»« dny. huwfF.r, nf- cupy tu* old fiand hi ill* ! ttr "he had been nileen months in h < house, she town of Csntnn, Cherokee cuuniy. Hi* lloumlis* j went nut with her child in her arms, as if to take undergone some additional rrpsir*. |j« make* no ‘ * •• “ pr*»ml*e* Call and see The removal of ihe /)fSM|ii or some other ran** om indured hint to tower iii« rliarge*«-«ii»n sndiiorse |*sr day $ I W, other charges proporthieate rr The Soqlhen, Recorder will insert the shove four limes, and.formrd «<M»*«t. CaRl«AH, Jsausry 8, |Ut M 4t deman. whose family residence was upon the op posite coast of Moreen. Like Romeo and Ju liet, these two young persons lift'd formed an attach ment in dehence of an inveterate feud between their parents. When Stewart of ■ ■■■■■— learned the state of his son’s affections, he hastily procured * commission lor him in the navy, and had him sent off to the station at Minorca, before he could take any measures for acknowledging hi* bride. On this event. Flora Maclean confessed to her father that she had been secretly married to her lover; but the old man was so averse to an alliance with his rival and enemy, that he com manded her never to say a word of the circum stance ; and when a rumor to that effect was cir culated, took every opportunity of contradicting it. The passions cf her father were of so dread ful a character, that though she soon after found herself in a condition which rendered the avowal of her marriage more than ever necessary, she durst not lake such steps. For some time she hoped that her lover might find some means of rescuing her, but in this she was cruelly disap pointed. By the vigilance of her father, every means which he took to correspond with her was balked. At length, confounded with the unusual distress into which she was plunged, without a friend to consuii as to her future course, and desperate under the extreme cruelty of her pa rent, she left her home, and wandered forth she knew not whither, and with no object but to perish in a laud where she might be unknown. Being rescued, in the manner already related, at once from death ami from ilispair. she contri ved, while living under the roof of her deliverer, to correspond with her husband. The elder Stewart, in the mean time, died, leaving his son to inherit his large estates in Morven ami Bread- alhnne. The youth accordingly returned home, and, as had been concerted, his spouse at a cer tain time left the house of John Mactaggart, in order to inee* him. The secret manner of her departure, was the result of considerations aris ing rather from the artificial ideas of society, than from natural feeling. Though grateful and affectionate in the highest degree to her kind protector, she feared to let her extraordinary *tory follow her into her sphere of life in which she was henceforth to move. Judging, therelore, that to inform Mactaggart of her intertions could not be done without the risk of a divulgement of her secret, she tesolved that even he should ne ver know whom he had saved. Fvery idea of a pecuniary remuneration for his kindness, wai precluded by the comfortable circumstances in which he seemed to live. John, however, was not destined to be always prosperous. Already deserted by all his chil dren, who joined the tide of emigration then roll ing toward North America, he endured a shock more severe than he could well endure, in the loss of the lady ami her child. Ilis worldly wealth had been much diminished by the provi sion he was required to make for his children ; hi* own listlessness of mind tended further to in jure his affairs ; and, finally, one or two bad sea sons completely ruined him. Just at this crisis, his wile died, and poor John was left quite alone in the world, to struggle in his old age with hard ships he was ill able to endure. He then wan dered from his home, with much the same ob ject as what had been once entertained hy Flora Maclean—namely, to sink in some place where his poverty and misery would bring no discredit upon his name nr kindred. As he afterward con fessed, he was not wthout money ; but it was on ly enough to furnish the means of putting him under the earth, without assistance from stran gers—an object he cherished so warmly, that no extremity of want could have induced him to break in upon the little sum. Ilis course was eastward into Perthshire, and for some days he wandered reg;mlle*slv on, receiving here and there loud and lodging from people nenriy as poor as himself. At length he was overtaken in Glendocliart hy a very seveie snow storm with which he struggled lor some hours, till he was nearly exhausted. “| once.” he thought to him self, •• saved a fellow creature from dying in the snow: it now seems likely that such will be my own fate.” He was just about to give up all hope, when he arrived nt thr, gate of a respectable mansion. and N on applying for admission, was kindly received into the kitchen, and solaced with some warm soup hy the cook. While he !»at hy the lire, pondering on fancies, all of which were bitter, a lady came down to give sonr.e household orders, attended hy a girl of tour or five years, old who began to play about the kitclisn. K'he lady, seeing the old man's eye fixed upon the child, asked if he hail ever seen her before.— *• Ay.” said Mactaggart, in his native language, •* I have seen both you and her before; it was on a white day that I saw you first, but, alas! the blackest day to me that ! ever knew ” The lady was Flora Maclean. Overcome hy her feelings, sin* screamed, and threw herself upon the bosom of her kind protec or, where she remained lor several minutes in a passion of tears. The noise brought her husband down to see what was the matter, and she speedily explained to him that this old man was h<* who (lad saved her own life ami that of her child. Jo ii Mactaggart spent all the remainder of his life hi this happy mansion, and never took a meal any where but «t the same table w;ih Allan .Stewart and Flora Maclean.—Edinburg Journal. wa* fl#iry Clay, fronting tha man whose mea- | ed; and like all nature’s medicines it is superior i rale of Hanover, fHat the father of Lftfaxette fall, utuf sores ha had so often reprobated, with a counte- to any which science can produce. F*«fly rising Ml him an orphan, a victim to that war. ami o the nance ever expressive, now more expressive than I and early exercise may more properly he tailed | °f ftorcdilnry succession frmn ehicb it ever—Urn lip curling in pride, as it were, his brow ! food than medicine, as they are designed for rlai j * n J2, nM „ .. r Q . _. elevated/his face glowing with a satisfaction that j ly u-e, and protect os from dfrily disease rather V**’ !... hm.*? Tr 7 r ..etneil ,o « . mi'h. ..nv- M yon, pixee if j -iron ,o ren.ov. Rvrry .1,1" «c,p« mere ,.o,h U^VroZ «J I would Itave used your means lo win it.” I hen ] invites us, nay, requires of us, fo tram up our virtue of ilm principle of heredittrv suncewton, varn there was White, with his patriarchal look in the Children to use them. The rnorir’i'ng is the most ’ ,,,r ** “ ~ ‘ favorable season for exercising (her frame, a* well as for making utefol impressions on the mind und heart, of important facts, moral principle, or reli gious feeling : and whosoever tries to conduct the education ol his child independently of this prac tice, will lose some of the most favorable opportu- must.—Dwight'9 Father'$ Book. ORATION ON THE LIFE AND CHARACTER Of Gilbert blotter Dc Lafayette, Delivered at ihe requeel of both Umars of the Congress of the United Stales, before them, in the House of fleprtsenta ives, Washington, on Ihe 3l«f December, 1831. by Joun Quincy Adams, a member of the House. Fellow-rUisens of the Senate and House of lieprenentativesof the United States: If the authority by which I ain now called toad- dress you is one of the highest honors that cmild he conferred upon a citizen of tha Union by his country- men, I cannot dissemble to myself that it embrace* at at Ihe same time one of the most arduous duties that could he imputed. Grateful to you for the honor conferred upon me hy your invitation, a sentiment of irrepressible and fearful diffidence absorbs every faculty of my soul *n contemplating tin* inngniiudti, the difficulties, and the delicacy of the task which it ha* been your pleasure to a«sign to me. I am to speak to the North American States and People, assembled hero ill Ihe person nf their honor ed and confidential Lawgivers and Representative*.— I am to speak to them, hy their own appointment, up on the Life and Character of a mm whose life was. for nearly threescore year*, the history of the civili zed wo Id—n| a man. of \vho*e character, to say that it is indissolubly identified widi the Re' -dnion of oil'- Independence, in little more than to mark the features of his childhood—of a man. the per*oiiifi. d image «»! self-circun»«e.rihed liberty. Nor can it escape the most superficial ohiervnt on.thM.in sneaking to the fath ers of lb*’ land upon the Life and Character of LA- FAYETTR. I cannot fnrhenr to touch upon topic* which nre yet deeply convulsing the world, both id opinion’and of action. I am to walk between burn ing ploughshares—to tread upon fires which liavt not yet even collected cinder* lo cover them. If. in addre-siug their countrymen upon their most important interests, the Orators of Antiquity were ac- cudomed to begin by siippl'cation to their gods that nothing unsuitable to he said or unworthy to he hoard Chair, between Clay and Webster—then Daniel Webster himself, the illustrious expounder of th« Constitution, who, as an Orator and a Statesman, will go down to posterity with a lame n ore daz zling than any other American, the Edmund Burks of this country, whose efforts the coming student will read with the same glow of enthusi- asoi that we now read Cicero and Demosthenes- then John C. Calhoun, the hrilliair thinker, Ihe dazzl ng statesman, a man full of thought, with which, if | may he allowed the expression, he ever seems to he boiling of* r, a man who strikes off axioms ii sentences, and who will say more in an hour titan any other man in this country can say in three hours—and last of all in the linn, came Mr. Buchanan, the famous witness between Jackson and Clay, whose story, f dare say, your readers will remember. Evidently, nearly all were embarrassed. As Jackson came in, he bowed to the Senate, and such Senators as were on speaking terms with him, returned the salutation,—but there was no response. I venture to say from Clay. Calhoun and Poindexter. Here was the old Lion himself with his hri*tling giey hairs, in the very Chamber of the body whom he has denounced in hi* pro test. The old gentleman was not easy. Now hi9 eyes were upon ihe empty galleries, and anon he would be talking to Forsyth. King of Alabama, came to his relief; and then Judge White gave him a whisper. Clay sat in front playing with his cloak,—and in the midst of all this grave like si lence, for gnve-like it had become, a* if to ridi cule the very gravity of the scene, sent ihe mes senger boy Grafton,” to bring him a pinch of snuff from the box of Senator Prentice, from whom he draws liberally for this favor Webster was on socially good term* with all, and therefore, unembarrassed. Calhoun talked to Buchanan with all Ins might. Poindexter, who probably has warmer friends and bitterer enemies than any other man in the Senate, sat looking near, unut terable things. John Q Adams had on his so lemn, decisive, and somewhat obstinate face, and Forsyth his mingled look of pleasantry and scorn. Benton, the great architect of mischief, was busy writing in the distance. Ami over all, in the Y r ice-Pre.*/dent*s Chair, was the little magician himself, with (hat everlasting smirk of his mouth —now more strongly marked than ever—having on hi* easy and happy, self-satisfied look, as if he were but a spectator in this extraordinary assem blage of so many opposite characters in one room, all crowded in the small area of the Senate Cham ber! a I am no phrenologist. If I wore, I think I could have seen more in the spectacle, but I do profess to believe something in Physiognomy, and I never before saw more powerful illustrations of the force of character as displayed in men's laces, thus having (he opportunity of making im mediate comparisons and seeing so many remark able men, all of them under name degree of re straint. How many were the thoughts that ran through all their mind I How many different ca reers each man had run to stand in his present position! How opposite were they all in their chnracte rs! For over twenty minutes the specta cle was to he seen, and all this time, in an extra ordinary silence; but when it was over, 1 had just began to see what was to he seen. WESTERN PHRASEOLOGY. The title *»f emigration und the march of improve ment are fast sweeping away, or diiving still fur ther from us, the race of originals which so lately disputed with the Indian* the ocupancy of the “Ter ritory North West of the Ohio.” The broadly mark ed peculiarities of character which were presented forty year* since by the hardy navigators of Hie Ohio, are now to he. s .tight at the sources of the Arkansas or of the Yellow Stone. They arfe too ! the pns*e**ion of the Western Wilder. «** ol North good to he lost, however; ami the following ex- j America a prize, the cepahili'.i.H of which are now trocl from (lie Jo„ro-,l of „ " Vnvogr on III* lio- Ih' msv rr, will, r gr.whnr „„d mngnill. «t ,, , ,. | | * . * , . . ' | cence unexampled in Ihe hl«tnrv nf the world ; l.ntof per Mmis.ipp,. pul,lulled in .he l„l .Mil, ary w|li(;k lf t J l „„ ni „ ll | p,„„ ! , i '| 0 „ |„,d re,n„i.,»,l in and Naval Magazine, possesses a value as a deli- eil | 1# , r ()f ,| Jf . |Wl( p r \oeen. who w. re sinking ihnii neat ion ol men and manners, aside from its sprink- j Kingdoms upon the imur of the strife, the hufblomul ling of positive humor; (the heaver, with their hunter, the Indian s»veg*‘, As the steamer was passing a small * white set- ; would, at this day, have been, as they then were, the tlement' at the lied Banks ol Illinois, a * Sucker,' j only iuhahhenis. as the frontier inhabitants of iMissouri term lit* ir ! * n mis war, GEORGE WASHINGTON, then at neighbor, of the oppo.i.e Sro.e, appeared upon j '' ,r '^edy- nor m. ihe ode nt Ihe Drill,I. ,1 •. ,, „ | ... , „ • t i German King, a youthful, hut heroic c mbatnnt; am 1 , th« Imnk, end w.lh violent R-.t,. .ilniion, b«"«d m( ,* WHr ' ,| 1B „f L-I.vo le .v,„ on the to he taker, on board. A boat was sent for him, | oppo9ltH exposing hi* lifV in fbn heart of Genua- and as he readied the deck ol the vessel he thus ( „ Vf f or0 f the Ki >g - f Frauen, accosted her commander; •* I say Captain, see-i On that Day, the sixth ol Sepfcmher. one thmi*and ing 1 ha’ut no plunder along, I reckon yon think , seven hundred H"d fil'ty-sevau, wa* Imrn GILBERT you wont make no great haul in me. but I've got i MOTIER DK LAFAYETTE, at the Castle of Clin- the pewter about me, and the way it’s easy for j vaniac, in * A “ r ““'*“““"** i.s- > me to pay my passage is no man's business.— j But* stranger, let's have a horn of your bold fa e, if you've got the article aboard.” •You will find what you want at the bar,* re- i plied the Captain, and thither the •3u«ker pro- \ ceeded. Tne whiskey bottle having been set he- oo*l y modified nnd blended with different form* of re ligion* faith, and they were waging war against «acb other, and exhausting the blood efrd treasure c? flieir People for causes in which neither the Notions had any beneficial or lawful biter**!. In this war the father of Lafayette fell In t1ie cans* of hi* King, hut not of his country. He was an oAL cer of an invading artny, the instrument of Hta Suve- r ign’s wanton afllhitivn and lust of conquest. Tlier People ot the Electorate of Hrfnnver Had done Mo wrong to him or to Id* country. When Ids son eima to an age capable of rniderstandhif the irreparable loss that he had suffered, and lo reflect upon the came* of Ids father's fate, lher« was no drop of conselatioor nriogfed in the cup, from the consideration that he had died far Ids country. And wfien the youthful mind was awakened to meditation upon (lie rights of Man kind, the principles of Freedom, and theories of Go* vernment, it cannot he diffcult to perceive, in the illus trations of his own family records, the source of that aversion to hereditary ruts, perhaps the most distin* gu'shing feature ol his piditic.nl opinions, and to> winch he adhered through all the vicissitudes of hie life. In the same war, and at the same time, George Washington was armed, a loyal subject, in support of hit king; hut to him that was also the cnu>« nf his country. His commWsion wut not in the army of George the Second, but issued under the antlmrify of the Colony nf Virginia, the province in which he re ceived his birth. On tl-.« borders of tbftt province; the war in its most horrid forms was waged—not a war of mercy, and of courtesy, like that of. the civilized embattled Legions of Europe ; but war in tha knife-— the war of Indian savage*, terrible to man. but more* terrible to the tender sex, and most terrible to heljs^ less infancy, in defence of his country against the ravages of such n ear, Washington, in the dawn of manhood, had drawn his sword, as if Providence, with deliberate purpose, had sanctified for him the praelice of war, aM-drte«tahle and unhallowed as it is, that he might, in a muse, virtuous and exalted hy its motive and it* end, be trained and filled in a conge-- tiial school to inarch in after times the leader of lie-' roe* in the war of his country's independence; At the time of (he birth of Lafayette, this war, which was to make him » fatherless child, and m which Washington was laving broad and deep, in fhc defence nud protection of his native laud, tho founda tions of his unrivalled renown, was but Sit its early stage. It was to continue five years longer, and was to close with 11»»- total extinguishment oftbeeolo-' ttial dominion of Franco on the Continent of North* America. The deep humiliation of France, and th<r triumphant ascendancy on this Continent, of her fl ight escape Irom their lips, bmv much more fmcihlo v *b were the results ol this great national conflict.— is my obligation to invoke the favor of Him" tvlm touched Isaiah’s hallowed lips with fire.” not onK to extinguish in (he mind every conception nnadanted (t; (lie grandeur and sublimity of Ihe Iheuie, but fo draw from llie bosom of the deepest conviction, thoughts congenial to the merits which it lithe duty of the Dis course to unfold, ami word* not unworthy of Ilia dig nity of the Auditory before whom I appear. In order to form a just H*thnate of the Life and Character of Lafayette, it may he necessary to advert, no: onlv to the circumstances connected with his birth, education, ai.d lineage, hut to the political con dition nf hi* country and of Great Britain, her national rival and adversary, at the lime of his birth, and during his years of childhood. On the sixth day of September, one thuiisnnd seven hundred and fifty seven, the hereditary Monarch of the British Island} was a native of rinatiy. A rude illiterate old *oldi**r of the wars of thn Spanish suc cession : lillla versed even in the language of the Na- lions over which lie ruled: educated to the maxims and principles of ihe Feudal Law; of openly licen tious life, and of moral character lur from creditable': —he styled himself, hy the grace of Hod. of Great Britain. France, and Ireland. King: hut there was another and Real King of France, no better, perhaps wor-e. than h m«e':f, and wiltt whom he was then at war. Thi* wh* Loom, the ft teen'll of the name. g«*»,if grandson of his immediate predecessor, Louis the fourteenth, sometimes den 'minuted the (Le tt. The e two King* held llielr thrones by Hie law of hereditary surce«'iou, variously modified, in France by the Ro man Catholic, and in Britain hy Pioteainiil Ref.irmed Christianity,' They weio at war—chiefly for conflicting claims to a walk, and lo the inexpreasible grief of Mactag gari, she never returned. The story, reader, does not end here. Its con clusion was as remarkable in one reaped, as Ms commencements and that we shall giee. In ibe first jiher, however, it must he explained that Ihe Udy wa* a daughter of Maclean r»l ■■■■■—, to Ihe Island of Moll, privately wedded lo • young gen* AN UNUSUAL SCENE. Mr. Brooks of the Portland Advertiser, has given an admirable description of the scene pre sented by the assembling in the United Slates Senate, of Clay, Jackson, Adams, Buchanan, &c. Ate,, almost in personal contact, while wait- ing the tielivery of the Kulogium upon La Fay ette. ** The spectacle, to witness which, I have said, that I deprived myself of the pleasure of hearing tho Eulogy, as ir cannot be printed, of course cannot well be described on paper. A painter alone could do it justice, and the mast eminent of painters could do it but faint justice. I felt a curiosity to witness the assembling and the meeting of all the very prominent men of the na tion in n single room, anil that not a very large room, where there could he bui little dodging. I went into the Senate chamber at 12 o’clock, when the Senate met : not six spectators were present, anti of course there was but lifle noise, such as comes from the hustle of a multitude,—and soon after, when the Journal was read, out went the committee of arrangements in behalf of the Sen ate, headed by Air. Clay—nnd immediately after, under this escort, came in Geneial Jackson, then the whole Cabinet, then Mr. J. Q. Adams, and the committee of arrangement* in the House- alt seating themselves in the narrow area of the chamber, between the Henators’ teats, and just under the Clerk’s desk.” •* Here was the spectacle I desired to see. On ihe right wa-* Jackson, then, in the same row. in regular order, Forsyth, the Secretary of .Stale, Woodbury iff the Treasury, Dickerson of the Navy, Cast of the War, Barry of the Post Office Departments, and Butler, ihe Attorney General. Fronting these, on the extreme left, was J. <1- Adam*, the Ex-President, then the Committee* of Arrangements for the House, then Henry Clay, with Itia leet quite touching Gen. Jackson's, di rectly in his front, then Hugh L* White, then Daniel Webster, then JolioC. Calhoun, and then James Buchanan. Here was an Kx-Presidrnt who bail defended Jackson in the most doubtful hours of his life. Probably • man of more vari ed acquirements than any other man in Ibis coun try, the model of ihe intense and devoted arhw- lar, now within a very few leet of ih# man who had rivalled him in popularity before the people, anil with whom, now, on account of political con flicts, He woe not eve* on speaking terms. Here d n fmv mouths idler Ilis birtu, his father fell in buttle at Mi'ufeu. Let us here observe the influeue* of political insti tutions over thn destine* au f characters of ninn.— Georg* th»* Sncoml was a Ganon'i Prince; lie had been made King "f llie Britidi Id mil* hy the acci dent of III* t irlli ; that i* to «ny. henuixe hi« trent grandmother had been tin* daughter of Jatne* the him, he poured tmt what in frontier pliraae i* Fir<t : Hint great ginmImoil»«*r had been married to termed • a buck load.* Measuring the quantity | die King ol Baliemia, and her vntingeM daughter had with an experienced eye, ere he replaced the hot- J"’®" ••tarried to the Llcctorof Hanover. George.he J .. ■ Second s father was her son, .md. when James t ie (l« <in (lie enunror. I.r remnrknl with a | fcB0 „ d | lai | „ |w ||,d fr..... hi. Ihr.m* „„| hi. cu. oi the eye TRilier.. heavy cliarne. airaniier, ; eolln|ry „ y i, 11 |i gim ,i mi „( t .l, (V„|,le. revolle.l ami with K'e:» flel.beratim. ivaa about lo rel.irn j llglli ,„, hi, tvranny. and when hi,two daughter,, who the excess, when, changing his mind suddenly, f succeeded him, had died without issue, George the Iih exclaimed, • it's only a relative drink, any how,’ i Firrt, the son of the Eieclrnss of Hanover, became and so saying, tossed oft* the glass undiluted. , King of Great Britain, hy the settlement of an Act Having paid his sixpence, he returned to the for- i °f Parliament, blending together the principle ot ward deck *• Captain,” said he. addressing him with the fa miliarity of a seven years’ acquaintance, * the way dot them there Sac rascals know how to come o- ver a fellow i* a caution, I tell you. The devds hereditary succession with Dial of Kctormad Pro' tertant ('hristiaiiily, and the rites of the Church of England. The throne of France was occupied by virtue of the same principle nf hereditary succession, differently ■dified. and blended with the Christianity of Rome is abroad now, and cruise about in open ground, From thi* line • f succession all h*md«sw and they thmk to have their own fun; blit wait | blyexcluded, ” till old Whitesides spies, and the tall timber commenced They wont : inflexi- The complete expulsion of Franca from North Amer-- i<a seemed to the Miipprfichl vision of men to fix the British power over these extensive regions on fouu- dafions immovable ns Ihe everlasting hills. Let us pirn fa imuginatio i n period of only twen ty yeuri.btid alight upon the borders of the river Bran dywine. \Va*him;fcin is CoinmantW in-cliief of thw armies of the United Stole* of America—war is againr raging in tin* hearl "f his native land—hostile armies’ of one nud th<« *eme name, blood, and language, ere arrayed fur l»aft f e on the banks of the stream; agrf Philadelphia, when; the United States are in Cen- grass assembled, nud whence their Decree of Indepen dence line g"iie forth, is the destined prise to the con flict of’the day. Who U that tail, slender youth, ol foreign air and aspect, scarcely emerged front the year* of boyhood and fresh from Ihe walls ot a cwl- inge : fighting, a volunteer, nt the side of Washing ton, bleeding. Miicoiiscioiisly to himself, and rally ing hi* men to secure the retreat of the scattered American rnnks ? It is Gilburt Motikr d* Lafay- xttk—the son nf the victim of Mmden ; and lie is blfciling ill the tanof North Americao indepen dence and of Freedom. We pan** o»»e moment to inquire what eras thi* cause of N trill A tu ricot Independence, anrf what were ilie motives nnd Indureimttif* to tho youth ful stranger to devote himself, his life, end fortune, to it. The People of the British Colonies in North Amer ica. after a eon tro vers v often years duration with their S"vereign beyond thvseas. upon an attempt by Inin and his Parliament to tax them without their con sent. had been constrained hv necessity to declare themselves independent—to dissolve thelie of their al- fagiauce to him—to ruitmiuce their right to hi* protec ts o, and to nesume their station among the indepen dent civiliged Natio n of the Earth. This had been done with n deliberation and solemnity unexampled i" the history of the world—done in the midst of e civil war. differing in character from any of those which for centuries before had desolated Europe.- - 'The war had arisen upon a question lotlwemi the rights of the People and the powers of their Govern ment The di*ci!M*iniis. I» the progress of Ihe oosilre- sy, had opened P> llie eonteotphtltens of wen ihe firsr foundations of civil society and oi government. The war of Independence began hy 'itigntion upon a petty' stamp on imp'T, and x tax of three pence a pound uj»- oti tea; hut the** br»k« op the fountains of the great deep, and the deluge eninnd. Had Ihe British Par liament the right to fax the People nf the Colonies iir anotherheiuisptiere, nM represented in the Imperial Legi*f*mr<* 7 They affirmed they had: the People of the Colonies insisted limy Iih\J not, 'There were ten years of pleading before they came to an issue; a nth nil the fexiiimate ■ouicesof power, and all the primi tive aieiiteufs of freedom, were scrutinized, delta fed, analyzed, nud elucidated, before *li« lighting of the torch of Ate, nud her cry of havoc upon letting slip the dog* of war. When (be day of conflict came. (lie issue of the’ cnntesi was tiec« sxarily changed. The people of the Colonies had maintained the contest on the orincipl#' of resisting the invasion of chartered right*—first by argument and rciuonsfraure, nnd, finally, hy tippenl tw the sword. But with the w ar came tin* necessary ex ercise ot* sovereign powers. The Declaration "f In dependence justified itself as the only pos*ibla remedy for in*uflerabl« wrongs. It seated itself upon the first foundation* of the law of nature, and the incontesta ble doctrine of human rights. There was no linger any question of the consti«iitioual t powers of die Bri tish Parliament, or nf violated colonial charters.— Thenceforward the American Notion »np|K>rled its existence hy w ur ; and the British Nation, hy war, was contending for conquest. As, between the two par ties, til* single miesiion el issue was Imlepeudenc— lint in the confederate existence of the North Ameri- Union; LiarnrY—ool only their own liberty, but iVioi. Die Fiiuw-.nl), III the ngv . fVi, Die viml |.rtu<-ij>l« ill tjt».Tly (o itie wliolnr.e, ofeivl- I zeil nmn. »«»invulved. (lie conflict, nrut tMmcdint,- of lnili’|HMidi>rV:e, tft*t ft drew ! into nd inn (lie room) Mini, cetnnl litculti,, of l4f,y«u«. then ' hi, ,g«. lie scRicelv intelligible In tiny but a frontier man, if repented in the dialect in which it w„ told, we shall not endeavor to lollotv him. kferbut there’s mischief working among them. J tt.ont'M in childhood, to an iihwdole throne, in | refer- j Tit, war win revolutionary. It began hr lit, dixe- I fell in with a cmnp t'other day at the rapids; ; ence lo mmter.e/. tleacmtlatr, front that same sec.'# f lotion nf the Driti-h Government in the Colonic.; tho they came iniglnv near laying us out cold as a tor. then in the full vigor of manhood. 1 People nt which were, by that operotien, leD wiihotil wagon-lire - hut'the wav I come Charley over The *r»t reflection llmt mi cur to a rational be. «»y Government whatever they were then at om ’em i, nn man's business’ The ’Sucker' then '"*• hi ciiilemiiUtia, llteic two result, nf the prinei- and the r|«n "me. miuutaiMng their independent n»e ... . j. ii, i cifde of liereddarv .necosiiaM'a* refarled to for dmig. thmal aiHence hy war, end lormtng new social n»n- CODtmeuced hi, .lory, but as it would probably m(e , 1|f Nlt|i( , n ,, u * , W( , |lrr „ M1 . , pact* for their own government theiieefnrwnrtf. The imfu to occupy the thronei nf Britain and ol France. | construction id civil roeiety ; the ettentnnd the Ii mi nt ihe lime of llieir respective ecce.sinus, could not j latinos of organized power ; the establishment of ■ have been found upon the face of the Gluhe—George system of government combining the greater en tile second, a foreigner, ihe smi anil grand if for- j largenmilt of individual liberty with the meet ncrfecS signer*, burn buyond the *♦•«», educated in iiurnnge. j preyervafion ol public order, w ere the conthutai ftecu- iunI manner*, iglinrant rt Ihe (’"itsiiiiiliou. nf tti»* i paiiona nf a*ft**y uiind. Ihe coil*© iStiitei of thi# leiWs, even ot die Language of the People over whom elate of things to the history of man kiwi, mtfmpe- he WHS to rule; ami Louis die Filieenlh, an infant, in-] C‘»lly or Europe, were foreseen hy none. Europe capable of discerning his right hand from hi. left — i nothing hut die war; a People alvnggRng tbrli- Vet, .tranee »« it in«y so-nil lo the ear nf u«»”|>hli|i-! herty, and egninsi oppressions and the Panple in ruled re t.l III. Ihe Brin.li Nstimi » ere wedded lo the j every part of Europe sytu|««hized with the People of belief I list 'Ids aei of letheuirni fining their Crown I 'he American Colonies. mam die hea ls ("I thi. succes.imi uf loud .Iraiigera, | Willi their Gmeminent* it waa not so. The Peo- iva, llie hrigiiiv.i end mini gl .r|om rxemplifi ation of pie of ih” American Colonies were insurgents; ,11 llieir national iroeilnin; and not less «irange, il might Governments ahh-o insurrection ; they were revolted in die ins, 'action „f an reason could seem I colonists. The greet maritime PmvM» of Kurnpe trutige. was that deepr.ouvicli n nf llie French Pen- | had Colonies of their own. to which die ejainple of HkalTH or Chii-drek.— Rising early, is a habit of high importance to fix in children; and in forming it, there is far greater facility than hi other cases. There is a natural propensity in children generally, to early rising which needs only to be gr.ttifiu l and encouraged. They usu ally retire to lied some hours before their parents ; and at. daylight, or at least sunrise, are generally awake and anxious tu rise. Many nf Ihein are actually bred up with difliculiy. tu Ihe habit uf taking morning na,.s! which when once formed, generally prevails through life. Lei the father deny himself so far as to retire early, and become an early riser also. Ilis health, enjoyments nnd usclnlnrst, he may depend upon it, will be per ceptibly henefitled. Long-lived persons have been found, after an extensive inquiry, lo resemble each other only in ibis important practice.— And this may he connected with another prevent ative of disease-active employment. The morn- big is the season for arumy I the frame ia invigo rated hy repose, is prepared for exertion, and mo tion jive, pleasure. The pure alinntphere so much more bracing then at oilier hours is an much sweeter and more oxhilrraling than Hie mi ol a , le, al llie .sine period, that their clliel glory anil happiness con.i.teil in ihe valiemenoe of llieir af fectum for llieir King, hrraas, lie was descended in an unbroken male line of gnneolngy from Saint Louis. One nf Ihe fruits of Ini. line nf hrrtnlltnry suecei. .ion, ntmliAad hy sedan.n priiiciph a of religion waa. lo make the |ieaea and war, Ihe happinn.i or ailMry of Ihe I’eoi'le ol the llrillah Empire, dependent upon the lorliines of Ihe Eleuloraln nt Hanover-*ihe |.er«nunt domain nf llieir iiniairled King. Thi. we. a result ealamilnu. alike In Ilia People uf Hanover, of Britain, nud id France l lor il wa.eNZ ul Ilia turn caiwe. of Ilia dreadful iver |lum waging lu lWeeii Ihem I and as Ihe e. tin** prittrlpsil theatre uf the! dt.nttniiM ' and leirst resistance against oppression mi|bt lie contagious.— The American Colonies ware eligmetixed in *11 the oflieiel acts of the British Government ,t rtheli; and vebellinu In ihe governing pari ol mankindI le *» the am uf witchcraft. The Governments or Europe, therafiue. w ere, et heart, nu the aide of (no British Government in this war, end the_Fhoplo ol Europe were on the side of the American People. Lnfayetiii. by hispesilion and conditie* MS Wit, was one of ihose who. g.i.srned hv the ordinary impulses which influence and eoulri.l the «“»*•>«' «f men, would have sided in seiiliineul with IM Hrmsli or Boy. al cause. Lafayette ' inii fi, "ns |niuo^isi nu hub hi iugi uiiniirilR HUH till conftiied chamber, UashOan prcparedtoM biealb-1 wee. Il wet at Monies, M Hie brail ot the Eleslo- 1 bigbeat alia w aa lairn e subiest nf the moat otieeloM „ ,.fandid Honan hy af Euro*#. ,end « the ra«b of he» pre»d on* eUvaM* H-Wlily.

Georgia Historic Newspapers

Southern recorder. (Milledgeville, Ga.) 1820-1872, February 03, 1835, Image 1