Newspaper Page Text
time—and you is dune it —and—old Mu
ley’s dead.”
Thurlow Weed, the accomplished editor
of the Albany Journal, who has been trav
elling in Europe for some months past, in
a recent letter describes Rouen (Trance)
as a “ditty looking place, with 10,000 in
habitant?, whose prii ci; al traffic, is in eggs,
of which they send seven thousand dozen to
England weekly.” Mr. Weed says France,
in agticulture, is evidently a century be
hind England and America, undone would j
think so from the manner in which the
French arrange their farms, etc. “ Ihe
various products of the soil are cultivated
in patches instead of fields. Ihe country
*eems divided into gardens rather than
farms. There are no fences here, as with
us, no hedges as in England. You see hut i
few cattle or sheep and no hogs. A farmer
of Western New York, who dashes into
his hundred acre wheat field with a force
sufficient to cut, rake bind and thrash it, in
two or three days, would be infinitely amus
ed with the primitive mode of harvesting in
France. Here the wheat is all cut with
the sickle, and then bound by women, who
place tlie sheaves in a sort of scraggy rack
upon the back of a donkey, that moves
along behind the reapers. When the don
key gets loaded (some eight or ten small
sheaves in each of his wooden-bags) he is
marched on to the road where the wheat is
transferred to a clumsy wagon and drawn
lazily hence by three French ponies, tan
dem, to the Granary ! In this way a dozen
people cousume a day in harvesting an acre.
Two thirds of the people I saw at wotk
in the fields were women.”
Small Farms. —We are glad that the
farmers throughout the country are discuss
ing this subject with so much interest and
earnestness.
For a long time we have indulged in ex
travagant faticies in every thing. Large
possessions and large wealth—these ate
counted essential, and few were the men
who could toil contentedly on small farms,
and be satisfied with a limited business ;
but the experience of the last few years has
taught us all that money, beyond that point
which secures us independence, is not an
element of happiness or progress. When
sought for, for its own sake, it is ever a
means of evil. Nor can it be otherwise if
grasped at to gratify a low, sordid ambition.
These truths have made slow, but sure, pro
gress among ail classes ; yet among none
more than the agricultural interests of the
land.
We may mention the growing disposi
tion on the part of farmers to possess only
as much land as they can cultivate well, as
proof of these remarks. And we cannot
but rejoice at it. For, if rightly directed,
their influence will ever be exerted for the
substantial good of all —since it possesses,
from a variety of causes, that admixture of
wisdom and prudence, which is unwilling
to run foolish risks, or try hazardous expe
riments in government, or the policy of go
verment, yet Which is never backward in
making changes whenever, in reason, they
are called for. or urging reforms when ex
isting evils demand them. Just views at
home insure just views generally, with re
gard to every thing else. And when the
farming interests practice on their own soil
whatever a wise economy, comfort and real
independence may demand, we may feel
assured, not only that their influence will
be rightly directed, hut that they will see
to it that those vi.tues are practised in cur
public affairs.
And as a general rule, the possession of
as much land as may he well cultivated
will help to establish these viitues. First,
the farmer who is so situated can apply his
industry better; second, he can employ all
his capital, he can do no more, and obtain
a surer and steadier return from both ; third
he can secure more of those comforts which
tend so much to imptove and civilize all of
us —a good dwelling, good out-honsi s, good
fences, good cattle, greater fertility of soil,
and better knowledge of bis business. Nor
is this all. Whet: men measure themselves
thus, by what they can do, ami are zealous
to do it, they are not so apt to lie led astray
by speculation, by avarice, by social display,
or any of that class of evils which so much
disturb and distress society. They love the
earth they till, they are content to till it,
being proud of the labor of their hands ;
they find and feel under these circumstan
ces, that they can do more good to others,
and enjoy themselves better, because neces
sarily they will look more to what is in a
man than what is around him, to character,
rather than to the number of acres-he may
own, or the wealth he may possess.
It is a national blessing, in every way, to
multiply small farms. Show us a slate that
has the most of them, and we will guaran
tee to find there the greatest amount of sub
stantial wealth and real happiness. Econo
my, it is said, is a mine of wealth. Ener
gy is the means to supply this mine ; and as
ihe truest economy and the stoutest energy
are employed on them, the more small far
mers we have, the greater will be the
strength and wealth of the nation.— Er. pa-
P er -
Animal Economy. —As a Yankee pedlar
of the genuine Commercial breed, was one
day in front of’ a country tavern, watering
raw honed horse, whose ribs might he as
easily counted as marbles in a hoy’s pocket,
a roguish looking horse jockey, accosted
the pedlar, thinking to have some fun with
him, as follows :
“ I say. I rather imagine it don’t cost
.much to keep that creatine in feed, does it?”
- Wal, now, what would you give to
know!-—I make it a rule never to trade for
nothin } ’’
“ Well,” si4 tlie jockey, “if you can
feed him on anything cheaper than laths and
brickbats, and support life, I’ll treat,”
“Done!” said Jonathan putting both
hands into his pockets and looking up into
the jockey's face, “I’ll take you up, stran
ger. I just gets a lot of sharings and a
pair of green spectacles on the animal's nose,
and the foolish creature thinks its grass ! at !
that rate he eats a barrel a day! Now.
Stranger, Wl take a sweetner, if you please.” 4
Boston Transcript.
The influence ofl Sisters. —Many a young J
man owes his preservation from vice and ru
in to the influence of n sister. \\ hen in
danger of temptation—when his own prin
ciples were insufficient to resist the vice of
evil influence that was coming in upon his
heart—when lie was in danger of becom
ing profane, licentious, intemperate, it was
her society, her conversation, her prayers
that rescued him. Nothing else would have
saved him hut affectionate entreaties and ;
fervent supplications to God; and society j
now embosoms many a virtuous and pious J
man, who has been rescued from impend- i
ing ruin by the conversation and influence
of a sister. Indeed, it will be found that
most of those young men who are peculiar
ly liable to bad influences, and who were in
danger of ruin, who have been rescued, 1
have been recovered by this influence, ami j
owe their happiness now, and their hopes |
of salvation, to those whom a beueficient j
Providence stationed as the pute compan
ions or their early years.
It should he added, on this head, that
this is an influence which is evidently de- .
signed to he excited in favor of religion, and
which should be sacredly employed to pro
mote the salvation of the soul. So far as it
goes, even in ordinary circumstances, it is
one of the greatest auxiliaries to piety. —
She who preserves her brother from pro
faneness and intemperance, and an impure j
life, is doing much in aid of the proper in- |
fluence of religion in the world. She is j
keeping him from throw ing himself forever I
from the means of grace, and from the j
hopes of salvation. She is making it pos- |
sihle still to reach his heart by the appeals
of the gospel. She is retaining him where
the means of grace may have access to him ; !
she is keeping him where there is a hope, a j
possibility that he may he saved. Os all j
persons, she probably, lias most entirely his }
confidence and affection. There is not one j
of his companions whom he would not soon- j
er abandon than his sister. Theic is, per- |
haps, no amusement which he would not j
give up or a place of resort that he would j
not forsake at her affectionate entreaty. — j
There is perhaps, not a hook which lie j
would not read to gratify her feelings, or a
good influence under which attachment to
her might not bring him. She has his heart
at all times—at all limes can speak to him j
on the subject of his soul's salvation. lie j
will not turn rudely away from her, as he
will from one of his own sex; nor will he j
despise her entreatir s as he may those of;
ministers of tlie gospel. And she has one
power which is in advance even of this ; for
a brother, though lie may not he religious,
though an infidel, though a companion even
of the evil and the licentious, she may pray.
And what young man is there, who, in his
i sober moments of reflection—and all young
men have such moments —would be unmov
ed at the knowledge of the fact that a sis
ter was pleading with God fur the salvation
; of his soul,and resorted to this method—the
last method which piety and love can use
to save tlie soul, when all other means shall
fail to rescue the young man from eternal
perdition.— Charleston Observer.
The City of Dort, in Holland, preserved
by Milkmaids. —During the wars in the
Low Countries, the Spaniards intended to
besiege the city of Doit, in Holland, and ac
cordingly planted some thousands of sol
t diers in ambush, to be ready for the attack
when opportunity might offer. On tlie con
! fines of tlie city lived a rich farmer, who
j kept a number of cows in his grounds, to
| furnish the city with butter and milk. His
i milkmaids, at this time, coming to milk
their cows, savv under the hedges the sol
diers lying in ambush, but seemed to take
no notice ; and having milked their cows,
went away singing merrily. On coming to
their master’s house, they told him what
they had seen ; who, astonished at the rela
tion, took one of the maids with him to a
burgomaster at Dort, who immediately sent
a spy to ascertain the truth of the story. —
binding tlie report correct, he began to pre
pare for safety, and instantly sent to the
States, who ordered soldiers into the city,
and commanded the river to he let in by “a
certain sluice, which would instantly lay that
part of the country under water where the
besiegets lay in ambush. This was forth
with done, and a great number of the Span
iards were drowned ; the rest, being dis
appointed in their design, escaped, and the
town was thus providentially saved. The
I States, to commemorate the memory of the
| merry milkmaid’s good service to the enun
j try, ordered the farmer a large revenue for
I ever, to recompense him for the loss of his
house, land, and cattle ; and caused the coin
of the city to have a milkmaid, milking a
cow, to be engraven thereon, which is to be
seen at this day, upon the dort dollars, .stiv
ers, and doights; and similar figures were
also set up on tlie water-gate of the Dort :
and the milkmaid was allowed for her life,
and her heirs for ever, a very handsome an
nuity.
Important Railroad Improvement. — Ail
English paper states that the patented pro- !
cess lately discovered in that country, by
Mr. Payne, for preventing dry rot and de
cay in timber, in additon to the aid it affords i
in some of the most important undertak- 1
itigs in the present age of scientific inven- j
tions, is likely to be brought into use in a
way which will add facilities to the present
system of forming lailways, enabling their
construction to be effected by one third tlie j
present cost, and causing a saving in wear
and tear of locomotive engine*, carriages,
&c, w hich, in the present embryo state of
the invention, it is impossiple to appreciate.
A line of rails about 176 yards long, it is
said, is laid down near the Vauxhall Bridge
road, of Scotch fir, with the fibre in a hori- j
zontal position, or. which a locomotive eat- j
riage has been tuning continually fora fort- !
night—equal to a train running twelve times
a day for months on a railway ; yet, of such
metalic firmness has the texture of the wood i
become, from the operation of Payne's pre- ;
servation process, that, although a lead col
ored mark shows plainly the track of the
wheels.it remains us perfect as the outside,
and not even a saw mark is yet obliterated.
The process alluded to above consists in ex
hausting the wood by the air pump, and
theu saturating it w ith iion and lime in so
lution, until it becomes semipelrified and in
3<d if Ji it it
soluble increasing in weight from 15 to 20
per cent., and becoming impervious to tlie ,
action of the ntmospheie, and cut.rely inca
pable of suffering by abrasion.
Great Seizure of Valuable Smuggled
Goods. —Our Custom House officers made
a rich seizure yesterday, of valuable jewel- I
ry, attempted to be smuggled into port. —
In the morning the packet ship Utica, Cap
tain Hewitt, from Havre, was announced
below. The steamer Hercules w ent down
and lowed her up to the city. Mr. D. S.
Crane one of the Inspectots of the Custom
House, was in the Hercules r.nd went on
board the Utica. One of the passengers lie ■
noticed behaved somewhat strange,so much
so that lie was induced to keep his eye up
on him until the boarding officer came on
hoard, when the ninn was searched, and
watches, jewelry and spoons to a large
amount, were concealed in his boots, pock
ets, ,itid in various pails of his pet son. A
Mr. Oatz mill wife, jewellers, of this city,
came in the Utica as cabin passcngeis, and
were obseivcd when the man was seized to
step into their states room, which was im
mediiitelv searched. An under coat made
for the purpose to fit the lady was found,
w ith flfiy watches handsomely quilted in it,
and also a shirt for a gentleman filled with
watd es, till belonging to Mr. Gal?. “I heir
baggage has been taken care of Iv the ol
fleets, and will he examined this morning.
—N. Y. Courier $; Enquirer.
Looking Aloflt. —Some years ago. Dr.
Godmafi, of Philadelphia, now deceased, re
lated that iu a voyage to sea early in life, he
had seen a lad wbo had just begun to he a
sailor, going out lc> some projecting part of
the tigging. His arti.’s were supported by
a spar and he was looking below I in for a
rope which rati across, on which bis feet
should be. The rope flew from sub •oside,
and it was evident that the poor fcl!oV v’os
becoming dizzy, and in danger of falling',
when the mate shouted to him with all his
force, “ Look aloft! you sneaking lubber!”
By thus turning away his eyes faun the
danger, the dizziness was prevented, and
he found his footing. And this incident, the
Doctor raid, often occurred to his mind in
after life, when his tumbles gtew heavy up
on him, and he hardly could find ground
whereupon to tread. At such times he
henid the mate's shout in his ears, and tin ti
ed his eyes “aloft” to the prize upon which
he had fastened his hopes. We cannot
part with this beautiful illustration, without
asking each of of our readets to apply it to
a still nobler purpose : to steady themselves
in al! the tempest of adversity, by looking
towatds that life in which there is rest and
peace evermore—and when our flesh ; nil
heart shall fail us, and we can find no sup
port under our feet, to seek it bv “looking
ahflt” to Him “ who is the strength of our
hearts and our portion forever.”
Rceiprfor Curing Hams. —We have been i
handed the following recipe for curing
t hams by one of tbe must eminent prnctition
■ ets in this city; the saleratus is at least
new to ns, and we publish it, although it
may not be new ingredient in the recipe to
others. In Cincinnati, where large quanti
ties of hams are annually cured, pepper, al
spice, cloves, nutmeg, cinnamon, and other
little ingredients are usually added ; but to
the tecipe :
Cover the bottom of the cask with coarse
salt, lay on the hams with the smooth or
skin side down, sprinkle on fine salt, then
another layer of hams, and so continue until
the cask is full. This ought to he of a larg
er kind, A cask holding 04 gallons is
small enough, and it would be better if it
held 120 gallons. Make a brine in the fol
lowing manner:—G gallons water, 9 lbs.
salt, 4 lbs brown sugar, 3 oz. salt pette, 1 oz
saleratus. Scald and skim, and when cold
pour the brine into the cask until the hams
are completely covered. The hams should
remain in this pickle at least three months,
and a little longer would do them tin harm.
p © il nr a © a l □
Whig Banner. —A Convention of the
Yonng Men in Baltimore, recently address
ed Mr. Clay a letter, desiring him to cut a
j Staff wilh his own hands, from the growth
■ of the soil of his own home, to support a
! Flag which will he ofleied, “ for the patriot
ic and friendly competition of their court
j tty men.”
We annex the reply of the distinguished
; Sta'estnan of Kentucky.
Ashland, 10 th November, 1813.
I>r.ar Sit: . 1 duly received your favor as
Chairman of the Whig Banner Committee
of Baltimore, requesting a Stafl to he cut by
1 my hands at this place, for the elevation of
the Banner to lie ptesented in behalf of the
Whigs of Baltimore, to such State Delega
tion as shall have the largest proportionate j
number of Delegates in attendance.
I shall lake great pleasure in complying j
w ith this request. A slit kof white or blue |
?sh (the lie-t description of timber, 1 think, j
(if ait the kinds which grow in our forests) j
has been alieady cut, and is in progress of :
preparation for the Stall’. When comple
ted 1 will fin ward it through such channel j
as will ensure its safe arrival.
The conception of a plan of a Young I
Men’s (. Convention to ratify the nominations I
previously made by the \\iiig National Con- i
vention, was vety fortunate, audit will lie
productive of the best efforts. Nor could j
any place he more suitable for the assem- ;
binge of such a Convention, than the Mon
umental City, which covered itself with glo
ry during the Last War, and has recently
again won imperishable laurels. Long may
chey continue to grace its patriotic brow !
\ our faithful ft lend and obedient servant,
H. CLAY.
Levi Fahnestock Esq.
Henry Clay and our Naturalized Citi
zens.—The following characteristic: and
high-minded expression of opinion, is taken
from Henry Clay’s speech in defence of the
American System, delivered in the Senate
of the United States, Feb. 3, 1832
“The honest, patient and industrious
German readily unites with our people, es
tablishes himself on some of our fat lands,
fills his capacious barn, and enjoy* in tran-
’ quility, the abundant fl uits which his dili
; gence gathers around him, always ready
to fly to the standard of his adopted country,
1 or of its laws, when called by the duties ot .
i patriotism. The gay, the versatile, the .
philosophic Frenchman, accommodating j
himself cheerfully to all the vicissitudes of j
; life, incorporates himself without difficulty
in our society. But of all the foreigners,
none amalgamate themselves so quickly
with our people as the NATIV ES OF
THE EMERALD ISLE. In some of the
visions which have passed through my im
agination, 1 have supposed that IRELAND
was originally, part and parcel of this con
! tinent. and that by some extraordinary con
’ vul.-ion of nature, it was torn from America,
j and drifting across ihe ocean, it was placed
i in tlie unfortunate vicinity of Great Britain,
i ihe same open beat tedness, the same
j caieless atul uncalcnlating indifference
| about human life, chatacterize the inhabit
j ants of both countries. Kentucky has been
j sometimes called the Ireland of America.
I I have no doubt, that if the current of emi
’ gration was reversed, and set from America I
upon the shotes of Europe, instead of bear
ing from Europe to America, every Amer
ican emigrant to Ireland would there find,
as every Irish emigrant here finds, a hearty
welcome and a happy h< trie.”
Mr. Clay as Speaker of the House of Re- j
presmtatives. — h has been veiv happily re- ]
j inaiked by the editor of ti e Wilmington
j (N. C.) Chronicle, that :
1 “Mr. Clay was Spenkei of the House of
I Representatives during nine sessions of
j Congressand part of another, oral neverhada
’’ decision of his reversed. This is a striking
; evidence that lie has in an eminent degree
• the qualities which fit men for governing.”
The fact is indeed a high compliment to
Mr. Clay, and reflects as honorably upon
Iris judgment as it does upon his uncompro-
I mising sense of justice.
Mr. Robert Tyler addressed n crowd of
! persons a( a recent term of the Northamp
ton Superior c outt in Jarkson, N. C. Le
| it,o asked who vvoit'd probably he the nomi
nee of the Loco fobO National Convention,
; he replied as follows, accotding to the Ral-
S cigb Register :
| “ Gentlemen it is difficult to answ'er that
j question, hut if Calhoun is the nominee,
j ('lay will beat him 190,000 votes—if 4 an
! Buren should he selected, Clay will heat
j him 170,000 votes; but if the Administra-
I teem tuns, it will succeed against Clay with
i out difficulty. In fact, gentlemen Clay has
J his all staked on the hazard of a single die.”
j •• Yes,” interrupted a whole smiled Whig,
“ and he’ll throw sixes, Sir, and no mis
take.” Bob looked blue, and a hearty
laugh repaid the witty repartee.
LEGifttLATDVE.
Bills passed by the Senate.
i To repeal the 4Slh section of the 14th
division of the penal code, and to add anew
j seefion in lien thereof.
To amend the act of 1805 for the better
| selection and chawing of Grand Jurors iu
j the several counties of this .State—Yeas 43
nays 21.
A hill declaratory of the laws of this
State relative to appeals in the Superior
Courts.
A bill declatatory of certain portions of
the attachment laws of this State.
A bill to c hange the names of certain
persons.
Bills Lost.
! To authorize Executors, Administrators,
i Guardians and Trustees to vest trust funds
j in their hands in the Stocks of the State—
j Yeas 35, nays 45.
To allow defendants in execution, or bona
I fide creditors, to redeem real estate hereaf
j ter sold under execution &c—Yeas 4, nays
GS.
Bills passed by the House of Representatives.
To appropriate money for the support
of Government for the year 1544 and 1845.
To repeal all laws for compensation of
jurors in Franklin county.
The consolidated hills, to allow certain
j persons to plead and practice law—to in
j eorpoiate certain Churches and Camp
t grounds—to change the names of certain
| persons—and to establish, remove and re
j vive election precincts in sundry counties,
j To exempt from levy and sale, by pro
cess of attachment, certain articles exempt-
I ed from levy and sale under execution by
i the net of 1822—Yeas 87, nays 77.
j To authorize the Inferior Court of Lown
des county to employ some competent per
j son to transcribe such portions of the rec
! orris of the Snpei ior Court, as they may
| deem necessary.
j To amend the 12ih section of an act,
amendatoty of an act to revise and amend
! the judicial v system of this State, approved
i February 1799.
Foi ihe relief of Sheriff’s, Coroners and
) Constables in certain eases.
To authorize the recovery of open uc
| counts by law in favor of certain classes of
persons, on the same proofs now allowed
I only in favor of tradesmen and merchants.
| To repeal the act of 1841, adding the
i residence of Levi Phillips of Campbell
i county to the county of’ Coweta,
i For the relief of the securities of John
i Harrell.
To add the residence of John Persall of
Henry county to the county of Newton.
To amend an act authorizing the Survey
or General to issue grants to certain persons
for certain specified lots of lutid.
To amend tlie act of incorporation of the
Irwintou Bridge Company—Yeas SO, nays
78.
To repeal in part the act to revise and
amend an act for ascertaining the fees of
public officers in this State, passed Decem
ber 1702, and for other purposes.
To change the time of holding the Spring
terms of the Inferior Court of Clark county.
To tax the keepers of billiard tables.
To alter and fix the time of holding the
Inferior Courts of the county of Decatur.
To repeal all laws requiring the State to
pay expenses incurred on account of small
pox and other pestilential diseases; and to
require the Governor to procure vaccine
matter for public use.
To regime the payment of interest nt |
the Treasury.
I The hill of the Senate, to amend the road ;
laws of I his State, so far as respects the !
county of Effingham*
Bills Lost .
i To authorize the county of DeKtdb to
retain the tax of said county for 1844, for
the relief of the county from pecuniary em
barrassments growing out of the destruc
tion of their court house by fire.
To aliow the county of Dooly to retain
the State tax of 1844, for the use of the
county.
To authorize the county of Emanuel to
retain the tax of lS*i4.
To alter and amend an act, passed De
cember 1811.
To repeal that pnit of the act of ISSB,
consolidating t he of!',cers of tax collector and
receiver in certain counties, which relates
to the county of Habersham.
To authorize the issuing of hail process
on debts not doe in certain cases,
i To prohibit Sheriffs and Constables from
! levying on and selling any of the propeity
I of n debtor exempted from sale by law ;
and to provide a punishment for the same.
1 To prevent the stntutes against usury
and gambling being pleaded, except in cei
tain specified cases.
To define the advetlising fees of all Sher
iffs, Constables, Coroners, Tax collectors
and City Marshalls.
I A hill supplementary to tin act. amends
j tory of the judiciary act of 1799, and to
j prevent the fraudulent enforcement of dor
i mant judgments.
| The hill to relieve the estate of Wm.
1 McDowell, deceased, of Jasper courtly,
from a double tax, was indefinitely post
poned.
To reduce and define the fees of tax col
lectors in the several counties of this .State.
To change the line between the counties
of Floyd and Cass, so as to include the tesi
dence of David Hunt and others in Floyd
county.
To authorize the Commissioners of the
poor school fund of Crawford county, to
pay arrearages rlne J. A. Spilier and others
— Yeas IG. nays 147.
To amend the 4th section of an act of
1522, to amend the 2Gth section of the ju
diciary act of 1799, and to prevent the
fraudulent enforcement of dormant judg
ments.
To compel Justices of the Peace to g'vc
bond Jinl aecuiity.
To regulate the trial of claims to pers*.ri
al property lcded n without the county
where the execi.'tf’u was issued.
To authorize the Governor to have sur
veyed and sold a certain portion of vacant
! land !n Early county, the pnn’oeda to he
j paid into the Treasury.
I To prohibit members of the Lcgislainte
fiom receiving pay in certain cases men
tioned.
Appropriation Bill. —The following are the
prominent items of appropriation for the
j political years of 1844 and 1545, as fixed by
j the bill which lias passed the House of Uep-
I resentatives :
The Salaries of the Gov err or and other
1 officers of State, as fixed by existing laws :
members of the General Assembly $4 per
day, and $4 for every twenty miles going
and returning—President atu! Speaker, 86
per day. Secretary of the Senate and
Cletk of the House, B£CO salary, and $5 per
day—other clct ks $4-—Messenger and Door
keeper, $4 per day, and s'l additional for
incidental expenses.
Contingent fond; 20 000 for each of the
years lS44nnd 184.3, and Slfl.OOOf-r arrear
ages of 1843. Printing fund; 818,000 for
1544, and 8-1,000 for 154;3. Military fund ;
BG.OOO for 1844 and arrearages of 184,3, and
53,000 for 1545. Lunatic Asylum; 81.000
for the two years. For the Penitentiary, no
appropriation is yet made.
This hill has not yet passed the Senate.
There may consequently still some altera
j tions he made. As it now stands, there is
a reduction under last year’s current expen
ses of BGl,ooo. — Recorder.
B ® 0 ihO
LETTER FROM MAJOR JONES.
NO. XXVI.
To Me, Thompson :
Pineril/e, Dec. 4, IS 13.
Dear Sir—Your last Miscellany has stir
red up a monstrous rumpus down here in
Pineville, and 1 haint thought about much
but Mary’s health, politics and hog-kilhn ev
er sense I got my paper out of the office.
1 don’t blieve ther’ll be lukyfokys enough
| left in Pineville for seed, if things goes on
jest as they’ve been gwine lately. Mr. Clay
grows more atul more popler every lie the
loky foky papeis tell on him, and the hoys
is comill in to the support of old YVithlama
cnochy jest like they used to fall in at roll
call in Florida. Old Nippers and two or
three more old died-in tile-wool loky fokys
has been eloin titer best to drum up some
recruits for the hero of Lether’s Ford what
captured the gold diggers, hut its no go—
they couldn’t raise a cor petal's guard with
out pressirt thcr wives and children into the |
servis, which you know is agin the consti- i
tutinn. I can just tell you what it is—old
Withlarnacooehy's popilutity is the rite sort
—it wasn’t got by leclioneeiiti, hut jest come
natural— : t is deep in the people's harts,
and with them what was in the Florida war
with him, its gone clean through and Clinch
ed on ’(other side, and couldn’t Ire moved
by all the lies the loky foky papers couid
tell from now til kingdom come. It wont
he no kind of a fight, now mind I tell you
—the next time Luthers’ Ford meets the
enemy lie’ll find himself belungin to the
Coons.
But speakitt about General Clinch, I
want to tell you a little circumstance about
him, which will show the natural goodness
of the man, and w ill give you a idee of
of the reason why he is so rnazin popler
with the Volunteers in the war, when near
ly every other general come home a great
deal mote unpopler than he went. You
know 1 was in the Florida Catnpnin of
1836, in the first beginin of the war—it was
tliar wher 1 got my military perpensity, and
it was thar wher I first come acquainted
with General Clinch.
The first time I saw him was the day we
got to fort Diane after one of the most al
fired hard inarches ever I went any where
It was just after the battle of the Withla’
macoochy, and about half the reglers the
general had was lyin up in the hospital or
limpih about the yard inside the pine pick
ets on crutches, or with ther ai ms in a sling.
I never saw a set of fellers so peppered ns
they was—some of ’em had more hall holes
in ther clothes than they had buttons on
ther trowsers, and the old general himself
wasn’t much better off than the rest of'em
He had some bullet holes in Itis old blue
jacket and one hole rite through his lether
cap, so close to the top of lushed that it
made me always sort o’ squat when I looked
at it. atul thought how monstrous close the
bullet did go not to do no more mischief.
1 never shall forgit that hall hole, for I used
1 to think it was the most temaikable cockade
1 ever saw on n ifficei’s cap—’taint every
| Brigadier General that puts himself in the
j way of gittin sit h badges of distinction.—.
j But I’m making a transgression agin. I must
! butty along In the circumstance what I com-*
j menred to tell, and w hich i shant forget nu
J sooner than the bullet-hole.
I The general received us Very kindly, and
saitl he was monstrous glad to see the Geor
ginns cumin to his assistance, for he was
most out of provisions and amunition, and
j he hadn’t more’it enough well sogers totake
rate of ti e sick—but he didn’t make no
great fuss and palaver like most of the t.ffij
cers did, and the boys begun to take tip ffig
notion that be was n pretty considerable?
stiff sort of a old customer, and didn’t care
much whether he was popler with ’em or
not. But we was camped theie some time,
j and as we had a oppoitunity of findin him
j out, the hoys begun to like him lietter and
j better the mote they kuowd of him.
I One even in a express come from Fort
King, statin that Gen. Gaines w ith fourteen
hnnn’ied men had nitiv there and that they
w as teto iationslv out of provisions and am
unition, and that they must have assistanco
from Gen. Clinch ot the old hart v would
he to pay vvitli ’em in no time. Well, or
ders w as issued that night tor our company
to he ready w ith two days rations, to manii
at rrvilec in the mornir., to escort a baggage
train with part of the provisions we had
brought from Pickalaty <> Gen. Clinch, to
Fort King, twenty fi.ur of the drnttedest
longest miles ever was in any country
Ther never was a greener set of tellers
about rampninin than our crowd—ther
j wasn’t hardly a single one what knowd
j how to conk, anti ther come on a terrible
j heavy rain and put all the tires out fore
i ther Wats any cooktn done. ’I lie consc
j quint ewas ti e next ntornin our haversack*
I didn't have more’ri about half enough in ’em
| to last ns two days—hut nobody thought
j much about eaten when they wasn’t tum
’ grv. We tvas all ready when the general
on the parade ground. A good nianv
of the hoys had item gettin mnekasius of
the friendly Indians, and had ’em on for the
march. The Gefoial saw ’em, and ses he,
“ Gentlemen I would advise you to wear
your shoes—them mockasins are vety pleas
ant things to wear about the camp ground,
hut they won’t do to match ttt, W hen 1
v.-as a young lieutt riant 1 tr’eti the some ex
periment, and paid dearly for my funrV, by
gettin niv feet badly bruised.” Most of the*
hoys tuck off the mockasins and put on ther
shoes—hut you know ther’s always some
fellers in every crowd that knows mnre’n
any body else, and what’ll always doje>t as
they’re a mind to —we had some of this
sott o’ chaps with us, and they kep on ther
mockasins ; hut I reckon they paid for ther
stubborn ness. At first they bragged how
light thei feet was. and some of ’em would
jump up and ciuck ’em together, to show
how much easier they could travel than the
rest—hut wc hadn’t gone mnre'n five miles
afore you could hear ’em cussin the acorns
anil little sticks and roots, and see ’em pick
in ther steps in the sand like torn cats walk
in through wet grass. Every little thing
they stepped on bruised ther feet, and fore
we got half way, they got so they couldn’t
walk and had to be put in the baggage wag
gons. But I’m makinanother transgression
as the preachers say whenevtr they tty to
mix two or three sermons in one.
\\*e marched all that day and neatly all
night before we got to Fort King, and the
next inornin ther w asn’t a man in the crowd
who had mnre'n enough in his haversack for
one good meal, and some hadn’t a ctum.
I her was nothing to he got short of Fort
Drone and we couldn't go there til the next
day. Many a feller went to sleep that night
on the puncheons of the old guard-house
without a mouthful of supper, and got up
in the mornin after dteamin of eatin lots of
bacon and cola ids to find a nchin void in his
stomach and nothin in his haversack to fill
it. We was almost starved, and couldn't
buy, beg nor borrow nothin to eat on the
march. I never was so hungry in all my
horn days, as I was that motion, when we
slatted hack to Foil Diane. Every feller
was serious as a preacher and gant as a
grey liotin, and the way some fellers knees
did knock together and ther legs lap round
otto another was curious. No body didn’t
talk about nothin hut something to eat and
how fir it was to Foit Drane, and some of
’em like to faint away to hear others talk
about ham niiil etrgs, rost turkeys, and sicli
things. Ido blieve I’d gin half I waswoitli
jest for one rash of midlin meat and a pone
of corn bread.
About noon we stopped to rest and git
water, and nte and ten or a dozen more was
layin down in the shade of some bushes med
itatin on the emptiness of our stomachs,
when old bluejacket, os we used to call the
General, made his nigger bring his saddle
bags to u log a little ways off from whar
we was. No body didn’t say nothin, hut
we couldn’t help lookiuthat way, jest to see
what kind of a dinner he wns gwine to
make of it. When lie pulled out a good
big piece of biled pork anil a pone of bread
and tuck off the rappers, I felt the water
start out of my gums and run out thecorners
of my mouth. ‘1 hen when he commenced
cuttin it up in pieces the boys looked more
like starved dogs than humuti creefers-. The
Getieral never said nothin and they pre
tended to look tot her wey, while lie went on
cuttin away at his meat and bread. Bimehv
1 couldn’t help lookin, and thar he hud it ail
strung along the log in little pieces, bread