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