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nut the bank flown for, if it aitC to cheat the
Lre man whoso got sum of it ? IfTs 1ec
.,11 shall gofor makin the hanks redeem its
mu nay in silver and gold or put every devil
of’em into the penitentiary to makin nigger
sliocs Fs a hard munny man and in favor
0 f the Vctos. I goes for the pore man agin
the rich, and if you lect me tlmts what I mean
tn'do Then he begin shakiti hands. Hur
'* f Ol - B nuire Pettybone!— hurra for the bank
aid the veto ! shouted some of the men—
Hurra for Anslcy! d-d the bank! Silence
f ir \r v Johnson’s speech ! Hurra for Har
rison i Hurra for the Vetos! Hurra for
Jackson ! I can lick any veto on the ground!
Silence ! Hurra for Ansly, d—d the bank!
W'li.us them vetos whats agin Ansly 1 D —d
Ansly —lot me at ’em ! Fight! fight! make
a i ing! make a l ing ! Whoop ! hollered Bill
Sweeny, I’m the blossom—go it shirttail!
Hit ’em Sweeny ! Tention Batallion ! says
I, but it want no use—they were at it rite
in the middle and all round the edges, and
all round the edges, and the quicker I got
out o’ that bilin the better for my hide and
taller. Thar they wer, up and down, five or
six in a heap, rollin over and crawlin out
from under, bitin and scratchin, gougin and
strikin, kickin and cussin, head and heels all
through other, none of ’em knowin who they
li ur t or who hurt them—all the same weth
er they hit Anslcy or veto, the blossum or
PeUybono. The kandidates were runnin
about pullin and liaulin tryin to stop it, but
you couldn’t bear nothin but cussin and
bank” and “ veto,” and “ let me at ’em,”
.“I’m your boy,” and sicli talk for moren
twenty minits, and then they only kep ’em
aoart “by holdin ’em off’ like dogs til they got
dun pnntin. It want no use to try to git
pm into lino agin- Some of’em had got
manuel exercise enuff, and was nocked and
twisted out o’ all karacter, and it would be
no use to try to put ’em thro the manuel in
that situation. Lots of ’em had ther eyes
bunged up so they couldn’t “ eyes right!”
to save ’em, so I turned ’em over to ther
captius, accordin to law, and aint sposible
for nothin that tuck place arter I left. No
more from Your friend, till deth,
JOS. JONES.
p. S. I ment to tell you bout my visit to
Makin in this letter, but I’sbeen soflustrated
bout this blamed muster, that I han’t had
time to think of nothin else. I’ll giv you
that in my next. Miss Mary fainted a little
when she heard the noos bout my horse
throw-in me. Dont you think thats a good
sign?
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cellany, His prompt and generous response, is not
more grateful to our feelings than are his warm ex
pressions of sympathy and condolence for our late
misfortunes and bereavement.
We are under the necessity of again crowding out the
“ Fath of Life.’’ We cannot always find room for
the matter we have in type. It shall appear next
week.
The letter from the Indian Springs, by “ A Looker on
in Venice,” is unaccompanied by the name of the
au'hor. In all cases where characters and interests
are concerned we must adhere to our rule.
We have several promises, some of old standing, from
friends whose performances we would prize above
price, which we will dispose of for almost anything.
Wc acknowledge the receipt of a copy of Rev. Mr.
Pierce’s Address, from a member of the Phi Gama
Society.
A few clays must bring us important
news from Washington. The fate of the
iarifif Biff must soon be decided, as Con
gress cannot protract its session much long
er. The house passed a resolution to ad
journ on Monday the 29th ultimo, which
was rejected by the Senate. It was ex
pected to adjourn on Wednesday. Fears
are entertained that it will be dissolved by
the withdrawel of members, without an ad
journment. In other words that it will break
up in a row. So we go. What may we
not expect next 1
FRESHETS.
1 lie papers contain accounts of freshets
in Marryland, District Columbia, and the
Upper portion of South Carolina. At Wash
ington, from the overflowing of “ angry Ti
the whole of Pennsylvania Ave
nue was inundated, bridge carried away,
cellars filled, and much damage done to pro
perty ip them and on tho first floors of the
‘"luses. In Baltimore, the basin rose to an
farming height, overflowing the wharves
an d part of the town, doing damage to the
amount of upwards of an hundred thousand
dollars. At Columbia and Camden, S. C.,
the river overflowed its banks, doing great
damage to the swamp plantations below. It
13 stated that many planters “ have lost eve
ry tiling.”
(£?“ In our last we published an account
of recent Indian murdersin Florida, in which
it was stated that a party of volunteers, un
der Colonels W. and W. J. Bailey, were in
pursuit of the Indians. We learn by the
last Floridian, that the volunteers have over
taken the enemy, “ flogged the murdering
party, killed eight in battle, and took one
prisoner, whom they hung, and were in hot
pursuit of the residue. It is said they were
overtaken in Madison county, near the coast,
on their way in to the regulars.” We hope
this may prove true —not always the case
with Florida news.
(t? 3 The principal merchants of Macon
have published a card in the papers of that
city, in which they state that having been
secured by the pledge of property by the
City Council to the amount of seventy-sev
en thousand dollars, they will receive the
change bills of that corporation at par, in
all the transactions of trade.
05 s * A gentleman residing at Social Cir
cle, Walton county, has sent us the follow
ing particulars with the request that we will
publish them, and also request its circulation
through the press, in order that whatever
light they may throw upon what now seems
a dark mystery, may be given to* the public.
The circumstances would seem to warrant
the belief that a murder bad been perpetra
ted, and, perhaps, the description of the ar
ticles found may lead to the discovery of
the fact. Should it meet the eye of any
one who has missed a friend, whose clothing
resembled that described, that circumstance
might lead to an investigation, and finally the
matter be brought to light.
The facts, as related by our correspon
dent, are as follows : “ About the first of
March last, a gentleman by the name of
Rainey, residing in DeKalk county, on
Peach-tree Creek, near where the road cros
ses leading from Decatur to Martin’s Ferry
on the Chattehoochie, while going to Deca
tur, discovered in the road, near the creek,
considerable quantities of blood, and traces
of a scuffle. Shortly after a man’s and a
woman’s saddle were found in the creek,
near the place, but more recently several ar
ticles of clothing have been discovered—
comprising two bleached homespun shirts,
two pair linen pantaloons, one pair having a
watch fob, one pair pongee silk, one blue
janes double-breasted vest, one striped with
blue and turky-red, one pair cotton drawers.
A vest, shirt, and pair of pantaloons bear
the marks of violence, being cut in many
places in the sides; and considerable blood
is yet to be seen on the collar and other parts
of the shirt.”
In another column we give an ac
count of the funeral ceremonies observed
on the truly solemn occasion of rc-interring
the officers and soldiers who fell at Dade’s
massacre, and all the officers of the army,
who have been killed in battle, or died in
Florida during the war. By the “ Savan
nah Republican” of the 20th instant, we are
putin possession of a list of th^inames of the
officers and soldiers, whose remains were
interred, in which is enumerated three Lieut.
Colonels, four Majors, seventeen Captains,
eleven first and nineteen second Lieutenants,
one Surgeon, five assistant Surgeons and
upwards of one hundred regulars, of Major
Date’s and General Clinch’s commands.—
When it is remembered that these are only
a small portion of the regulars who have
fallen in Florida, and that the hundreds of
citizen soldiers, men, women and children,
who have been butchered by the ruthless
savages —and whose names would swell the
list to thousands —are not taken into the ac
count, we are enabled to form some concep
tion of the horrid consequences of this wai;
and when we for a moment reflect that it
has been in a great measure instigated and
proti acted by the cupidity of designing and
intriguing men, we are constrained to exe
crate the wretches, so lost to every moral
feeling, to every emotion of humanity.—
Some may doubt an insinuation which im
plies such depravity in the human heart, but
if we mistake not there are those who could
make disclosures in regard to the inception
and continuance of this disgraceful war,
which would go far to establish the fact that
to pecuniary interests are chargeable as
great a share of its consequences as to the
innate malignity of the savages.
05= Mr. Colt the inventor of the terrible
explosive engine, has bdfen making experi
ments recently at Washington. On this oc
casion he shivered a vessel, which had been
prepared for the purpose, to atoms at a dis
tance of five miles. The Intelligencer says
that there was an immense concourse of
spectators present, including the President
and heads of Departments. Mr. C. was
near Alexandria; a signal gun was fired
at Washington, and in about twenty seconds
thereafter a huge column of water rose sud
denly into the air, and when it descended
no trace of the vessel was to be seen. Af
ter such en exhibition we do not wonder
that the Ashburton Treaty, as it is called,
lia9 been “happily concluded.” Why would
it not be as well for nations to be satisfied
with such evidences of what one another
can do in the murdering art, as to insist up
on practical demonstrations ? It would an
swer the interests of civilization just as well
wc think.
@<dn ®in it it am s4} mib ib au v
CC-T* We are indebted to the Hon. John
C. Calhoun for a pamphlet copy of his late
speech on the Tariff Bill.
ft?* The treaty lately concluded by Lord
Ashburton and Mr. Webster, has been, af
ter a protracted discussion, ratified by a con
stitutional majority of two-thirds of the Se
nate. Nine Senators only, among them Mr.
Benton, who, it seems, was violently oppos
ed to the arrangement, voted against it.—
The injunction of secrecy not yet having
been removed the provisions of the treaty
are yet unknown. It will probably be made
public immediately upon its being ratified
by the English Queen. It is a matter of
no small interest, and will, doubtless, make
political capital for some party.
Since penning the above paragraph we
have seen the treaty, which is now going
the rounds of the papers, though no one can
account for the manner in which it has been
made public before its final ratification. Its
provisons are chiefly directed to the settle
ment of the long disputed boundary ques
tion, the suppression of the African slave
trade and the mutual surrender of fugitives
from justice. Other points of issue, such as
the Caroline and Creole cases, have been
adjusted by diplomatic correspondence, in a
satisfactory manner, we understand, to both
nations, and are omitted in the treaty. This
correspondence riot having transpired some
dissatisfaction has been expressed by the
Southern press at the terms of the treaty ;
but we are gratified to see that neither in the
Senate, or by the press, has this important
subject been made a party question, and that
most of the influential journals of the coun
try on both sides, South and North, are giv
ing it their hearty support, as the terms of
the arrangement become better known.—
The “ Charleston Mercury,” democratic,
discusses the provisions of the treaty in a
very candid tone, and expresses its approba
tion of the terms agreed on. The “ New
York Evening Post,” also democratic, is
decided in its approval of the treaty. The
only whig paper that we have yet seen which
denounces it, is the “ New York Courier
and Enquirer.”
A better understanding of the subject
can probably be gleaned from the following
article from the “ Albion”—a paper which
represents the British interests—than were
we to give the treaty itself:
The African question is well disposed of.
All theories and discussions as to the right
of search, &c., are put aside, and the United
States settles the matter by agreeing to keep
up a squadron of vessels on the coast to sup
press the Slave Trade, and to preserve its
flag from the abuse that has heretofore been
made of it. This arrangement will be per
fectly satisfactory to the people and govern
ment of England.
But in the arrangement of the North
Eastern Boundary, England has made some
sacrifices, and gained but little, except the
settlement of a long standing and irritating
question, and that we admit is important.—
The line awarded by the King of Holland
is adopted, with the exception of a small de
viation from Lake Pohenagamook, of the
river St. Francis, to one of the head branches
of the St. John. (See the Map.) For this
small'acquisition, Great Britain yields the
use of the river St. John for floating down
American timber and other articles—gives
up a large strip of land from Lower Cana
da, and agrees furthermore to the surrender
of Rouse’s Point, on Lake Champlain, ter
ritory which is undoubtedly British, and
which is of the utmost value to the United
States as a military position. The loss of
the Southern portion of the Madawaska
Settlement, which will be now transferred
to the State of Maine, is also to be lament
ed, for it is a wealthy, industrious, and pop
ulous community. The settlement was
made under grants from the crown, and has
always been under the British jurisdiction,
forming no inconsiderable portion of the
province of New Brunswick. The inha
bitants are chiefly of French descent. Tho
Americans surrender no inhabitants.
It is proper, however, to state that all
these sacrifices have not been made by Lord
Ashburton ; for Rouse’s Point, the Mada
waska Settlement, and the line of the St.
Francis were all awarded to the United
States by the King of the Netherlands ; in
deed, keeping the Netherlands award in
view, the present arrangement is not so ve
ry objectionable, for the additional losses are
only the strip of land in Lower Canada, be
fore spoken of (the value of which we do
not exactly know,) and the surrender of the
use of the river St. John to the people of
Maine. In reference to this navigation of
the St. John, it is doubtful how far it may
he a loss or injury, or even a disadvantage
for the quantity of timber and produce that
will be sent down that stream and its tribu
taries from the American side, will vastly
augment the business of the river, and rapid
ly advance the wealth and prosperity of the
city of St. John. The city of St. John in
fact is the only port of outlet for all the vast
territory the Americans will acquiie ; every
log of timber cut, or bushel of wheat raised
on the Aroostook, must pass through it to
find a market. This must advance its com
mercial importance, and with it the impor
tance of the province. These considera
tions will, we trust, console New Brunswick
for the loss of the Madawaska Settlement.
ft?* The “Crescent City” says “Professor
Ingraham has been detected in a number
of plagiarisms. He is a very small vegeta
ble.” We have long considered the gen
tleman an eminent professor of the science
that begins with a Hum and ends with a
bug.
ft/*’ Wheat is selling at 45 cents, oats at
13 and corn at 20 per bushel, at St. Louis.
Flour $2 50 per barrel.
We would recommend to the peru
sal of our country readers tlie article which
will be found under the Farmer’s head, en
titled “ Manufacture of oil from Lard.”—
Among the various inventions of tho day,
we know of none which promises so much
to the Southern planter as the discovery of
the process by which oil is rendered from
lard. The time ha9gone by when the South
ern planter could rely solely upon the pro
ceeds of his cotton. It is no longer the
policy of the South to regard cotton as her
only staple. The opening up of south-wes
tern lands has increased the production, and
greater competition, and the various inter
ests of foreign and domestic commerce have
rendered the prices extremely fluctuating ;
both the crop and demand affect the price,
and of late years there has been but little cer
tainty that the growing crop would realize
the prices of the last. Policy then would
dictate that the planter should no longer
make cotton his sole dependance, especially
when the current prices are but poor re
muneration for the expense of producing it.
A considerable number of our best planters
have viewed the matter in this light, and
while they have never entirely neglected
our great Southern staple, have turned their
attention to raising stock, hogs, small grains,
&c., and it was, no doubt, this very reason
that induced many to entertain a favorable
opinion of the silk culture some years since,
which, by the by, had it not been strangled
in its infancy by over speculation in the
morus mutlicaulus, would have been found
a fruitful source of income to our smaller
class of planteis. Radical changes in the
agricultural policy of a country is no new
thing. Even our own section has under
went a very great change in this respect. —
The time was when Indigo was the staple
production of Carolina. About the year
1736, if we mistake not, Indigo to the value
of millions of pounds sterling, was exported
to the European markets, where it was pre
ferred to that of the French or Spanish, and
was actually afforded at a lower price.net
ing a handsome profit to the producer. By
means of protective duties, however, and
from other causes the article depreciated in
value, and was finally neglected until now
no trace of its culture remains. Perhaps no
section of the Union is better adapted to
the cultivation of Indian corn, and conse
quently the raising of hogs, than our own
but the uncertainty of a market, and the un
favorableness of our climate for the curing
of pork, has heretofore operated as a great
check upon this department of agriculture.
Such were the unfavorable prospects of last
year, and such the high price of salt, that
we know some planters, who fattened consi
derable droves of bogs, to have turned them
out to pasture, rather than run the risk of
obtaining a fair market for their pork.
It strikes us that the late discovery by
which our corn may be turned into anew
and highly profitable branch of trade, will in
a great measure obviate the risks hitherto
attending its extensive cultivation, and that
the Southern planter will now find it to his
advantage to devote a portion of his capital
and time to the production of lard. The
article in our paper to which the reader is
referred gives a detail of the process by
which oil is made from lard, with some re
marks upon the quality of the article pro
duced. If the statement be conect—and
we have no reason to doubt it, for every
paper from the North and West contains
similar accounts —and oil, superior to ordi
nary sperin oil, can be afforded at 57 cents
per gallon, it certainly must become in gen
eral use, and in its manufacture consume all
the superfluous lard that may be produced.
A manufactory in some of our central towns
would afford a market for the lard of our
planters, and find a ready sale for its oil.
(£?“ The organ of Millcrism states that
there is seven hundred clergymen now en
gaged in preaching the principles of Miller,
and that the number of persons who profess
to believe that Christ will make his second
advent next year is estimated to be no less
than one million! Surely “ the moon
comes more near the earth than she was
wont and makes men mad.”
It argues not a little for the good sense
of our southern people that among all the
ridiculous heresies of Mormonism, Miller
ism, Mesmerism, Magnetism, Abolitionism,
Quakerism, and all the humbug isms and
ologies that have turned so many people
fools, none of them have lieen countenanced
at the south, l’erhaps we are not as en
lightened as our neighbors. If this is the
reason why we are not running after every
“strange fancy” of the fanatic’s brain, we
are more than ever convinced of the truth
of the old adage-—“where ignorance is bliss
’tis felly to be wise.”
05** We have seen much in the papers of
late, about the Mormons, but have met with
no account of them, that gave us any defi
nite idea of their true designs and character.
The following extract from a letter to the
editor of the “ New England Review,”
from a gentleman who has recently been
among them, gives rather a favorable ac
count of their progress, though it speaks but
little for the moral character of the prophet:
“ I spent a day in Nauvoo, last week. It
is situated at the head of the lower rapids
of the Mississippi. The city is built on a
bend in the river, shaped like a lioree-shoe ;
it is as fine a location for a city as I ever
saw. It is regularly laid out, and Remains
twelve thousand inhabitants ; three years
ago last April there was but one house in
the place. The buildings ure small but con
venient, and present a beautiful appearance
from the opposite side of the river; they
are building a very large fine atone hotel,
and a very large, magnificent stone temple.
This building is up about ten feet, the stone
work is very massive and most splendidly
wrought. In a large room in the basement
is the baptismal font, supported by twelve
elegantly carved oxen. Hundreds of men
are engaged at work upon it; one tenth of
their labor and their property is employed
in the building of if. They have an armed
“ Legion” of two thousand troops, but in
stead of having all the arms of the State, as
stated in the papers they have only three
hundred stand. Joe is the grand General
of the “ Legion.” I had a conversation
with the prophet; he appeared very affable
and pleasant—looks like a good liver—en
joys a joke. I never saw a more industrious
place; every man, womati and child (Joe
excepted) was at work. Three quarters of
the stories about the Mormons are untrue.
Joe, to those he is familiarly acquainted
with, is known to be coarse, profane and ex
ceedingly vulgar in his speech. His animal
propensities predominate: the Mormons say
the same was true of Solomon.”
(t?*By our last mail we learn that “the
mischief is to pay” between the state au
thorities and the Mormons. An attempt
lias been made to arrest Joe Smith, who
says he wont be “tuck.” It is rumored
that a battle lias been fought between the
militia and the Mormon legion in which
some thirty or forty men were killed or
wounded. Camp news, we suspect.
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OCT 5 * We see it stated iti the papers that
“it is confidently believed” that an agency
of the Bank of England has been establish
ed in New Orleans, and that the issues of
that institution are fast getting into circula
tion in that city. It is also stated that agen
cies are also to be established in the princi
pal cities of the Union. Can this be true 1
We “ have doubts arising.”
CT 5 * Our people generally .feel a degree
of interest in the history and fortunes of the
family of the French monarch, such as they
manifest for no other scions of royalty.—
This may probably be attributed in some mea
sure to the national sympathy of the French
for our own country, but is no doubt greatly
strengthened by the amiable and exemplary
personal character of the present royal en
cumbent of the French throne. Few fami
lies of princes have such strong claims upon
the affections of the good of all nations.—
The following account of tho death of the
late Duke of Orleans is given by one of the
attending physicians:
When I arrived at the house where the
Prince laid, M. Not was there, and M. Ley
came at. the same time that I did. We were
the only medical men about him from half
past eleven till one o’clock. The Prince
was stretched on two matresses. His head,
reclined on his chest, waved from side to
side as his body was stirred ; his respiration
was deep and difficult, his eyes half shut.
There was no sign of outward fracture,
merely some severe contusions, with blood
on liis right eye and ejar. Blood was first
let, and produced little effect, except that
the Prince tried to remove the band on
bis arm from the bleeding. We imagined
the Prince might have some consciousness
of his state, but the autopsy has shown this
to be impossible. The violence of the
shock had been such, that if not broken by
the disarticulation and breaking of the bone,
it would have killed him on the spot. Cold
lotions were applied to his head and stimu
lants to the respiratory organs; friction was
employed, still no sign appeared of intelli
gence, but merely automatic movements.
“At mid-day the Royal family came in.
The Queen flung herself at the foot of the
bed ; never did a mother’s grief burst forth
in expressions more full of grief and dis
traction. Tire King asked, was there a frac
ture 1 We gave a negative answer, though
with some hesitation. On this the King tried
to console the Queen, stating that accidents
of a similar kind had occurred to himself.
The patient, however, grew worse. Sixty
leeches were applied to the back of the
head, when the Prince uttered a few fuga
cious words in German. He tried to tear
off the leeches. At half past one sinapisms
were employed ; the pulse became better,
but the respiration worse. The involuntary
motion of the limbs ceased, and a convul
sive tremblin g began. This by degrees sub
sided into tension and stiffness. Anxiety
and despair were on every countenance. —
The Queen in agony, supplicated the Al
mighty for one gleam of consciousness to
be given to her son. She offered her exis
tence for such a boon. The Due D’Amale
—“ What will Joinville feel on such news!”
The King’s resignation was more poignant
than the louder agony of those around him.
The physicians durst not look up ) they had
no hope to give. Several more physicians
arrived ; and at two o’clock the curate of
Neuilly came to give extreme unction to the
Prince. Convulsions renewed. At three
o’clock there was no pulsation but of the
carotids. Medication was suspended. In
this the King and Queen saw the announce
ment of the approaching end of their 9011,
rushed towards him, embraced him in sob
bings, and paid him the lasLadieus. “How to
announcesuch a misfortune to Helena 1” ex
claimed the Queen. At half past four the
illustrious patient expired.
In connection, we give below a descrip
tion of the funeral ceremonies:
Much is related of the magnificence of
the Roman triumphs and ovations, and of
the taste, skill, fancy, pains and money that
were lavished upon them. In Paris the art
of funeral triumphs, and the frequency of
the spectacle must equal what the eternal
city did m honor to her victorious comman
ders. There is a wonderful perfection here
in all the arrangements, in every concomi
tant, military and civil, in the combination
of show, sound, movement, nnd order, for
splendid and appropriate effect. The trans
lation of the corpse of the Duke of Orleans
yesterday from the palace of Neuilly 10 the
Cathedral of Norte Dame was a masterpiece
of its kind in all the details. Along the
whole distance of two French leagues the
throng of spectators beggared all “ calcula
tion, Avenues, streets, squares, windows •
and roofs of houses were filled. ’ The hori
zon answered the nature of the procession';
it was in general heavily overcast, but no
raiti fell; the atmosphere was cool • and
from time to time the sun burst forth and
gave brilliant relief to the accouritrements
of the soldiery and the gilding of the cars.
Not less than fifty thousand men were under
arms. The lines of national guards of the
capital and department extended nearly the
Whole distance. It will be enough at pre
sent to designate the principal traits of the
grand obit, which the Journal des Debar*,
of this morning, tells us was a tribute to
Royalty itself as much as to the memory of
the Prince. His body remained seventeen
days in the sepulchral chapel of Neuilly;
priests watched incessantly about the coffin,
and chanted the offices of the dead; several
times every day the members of the Royal
family united their prayers at the foot of the
altar to those of the pious sentries. When
the detachment of national guards nnd reg
ulars entered to take the coffin for the trans
lation, the King and the Duchess of Orleans
knelt before it and bade such an adieu as
you can imagine ; tlie mother and two prin
cesses were nearly prostrate in another part
of the chapel. The four Dukes, the broth
ers, assisted in placing the coffin on the gi
gantic funeral car, and Louis Philippe sup
erintended.
In this capital every thing and every bo
dy was in motion by six o’clock in the morn
ing, sound of muffled drum, minure guns,
hosts of citizens wearing crape, bodies of
priests and college pupils, assemblages of
national guards, and so forth. Fons hours
were consumed in the march of the immense
and diversified train from Neuilly to Notre
Dame. In the apotheosis of Napoleon the
cortege stopped at the Hospital of the In
valids, hut this entered of course into the
heart of the ancient Paris. The car which
bor the Prince’s body was built for the fune
ral of Louis XVIII, and used for that of
Marshal Mortier. It was drawn by eight
horses, caparisoned in mourning, and had
black velvet hangings starred with silver.
The Duke’s war steed preceded it with suit
able trappings; tlie animal is called Sidi
Movsa ; it belonged to an Arab chief who
perished in tlie battle of Algiers, at which
1 lie new Christian master was present. A
black coach with four horses, bore the urn
containing the Prince’s heart, guarded by
four priests. The aichbishop and his chap
ter rode in a coacli with six horses; two
hundred priests, distributed on each side of
the route, sang the offices of the dead, and
a large cross uplifted in the middle between
them, particularly attracted the homage of
the multitude. A carriage, completely
black inside and out, with six horses cover
ed from head to foot with a black pall, was
occupied by the four young Dukes. The
corners of the pall over the coffin wore born
by four Marshals of the empite, Soult of tho
number. He looked broken and grief-full.
A great number of official carriages, a long
cavalcade of military officers and political
functionaries, and masses of pedestrains of
every rank, troops, municipal guards and
gerisdarmeries, admirably equipped, com
pleted the immeasurable procession. It
passed under the triumphal arch, the star,
beneath which the Duke stopped in J une,
1537, when he ushered his bride, with great
pomp, into the capital,’ where she was des
tined, as he thought, to share the throne
with himself. At Notre Dame every thing
had been fitly adjusted for the reception of
the precious deposite by Visconti, the chc
sen architect of tlie Napoleon mausoleum.
The funeral picturesque—the dismal and
the grandoise united—the chant de profan
dis—the catafalque with its canopy forty
yards high, from which velvet cloth, em
broidered with velvet, swept the floor—the
six thousand lights—the fourteen large silver
cariatides—the sable dress of the whole vast
interior of the cathedral—the occasional
salvos of artillery on the adjacent area—the
tolling of the colossal bell, and all the other
church bolls of Paris in a sort of recitative,
consummated this work of marvellous in
genuity, labor, zeal and expense.
Jefferson. —Thomas Jefferson was the suc
cessor of Mr. Adams, as president of the
United States. He was born in 1743, and
died July 4th IS2C, on He same day with Mr.
Adams. He was distinguished as a sound
legislator and statesman; unyielding in his
determination, and a sound patriot. He is
celebrated as the author of the “Declara
tion of Independence.” In private life ho
was said to be benevolent, humane, and
affable. lie was a member of several lite
rary societies in Europe and America. He
published “Notes on Virginia,” which were
translated into the French, in 1784.
MARRIED,
In Monroe County, on tlie lGih ultimo, by the Rev.
James Carter, Colonel WM. LONG, of LaGrange, to
Miss SARAH M., daughter of Job Taylor, Eaq.
Georgia, Itlorgau County:
W HLREAS, Benjamin and Thomas Harris, Admin
istrtnors on the estate of VViJliain Harris, late of
Mid county, deceased, applies to me for Letter* of
Dismission therefrom:
, 1 heso are therefore to cite and admonish all and
singular the kindred and creditor* of said deceased, to
be and nppear at my office within the time prescribed
by law, to show cause, if any they have, hy said let
lera should not be granted.
Given under my hand, nt office, in Madison.
JAMES C. TATE, Clerk C.O.
Ju| y 2 ml 4
Georgia, Morgan County:
WHEREAS, Meritt W. Warren, Administratorort
” tue estate of Bemamin J Tnrver, Into of said
County, deceased, applies tome for tellers of Dismis
sion from said administration :
These arc therefore to cite and admonish all and
singular the kindred nd creditors of soid deceased, to
be and appear at my office within the time prescribed
by law, to show cause, if any they have, why said let
ters should not be granted.
Given under mv hand, at nfltee, in Madinon.
. , o JAM Eel C TATE. Clerk C. a
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