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MISCELLANEOUS EXTRACTS. tin '1 policy; for in complained of us ’ believe our object in; was to communicate■ were likely jtcrbe dc military power. they might have] ' uuthorities. I f or lac % ■ rcase . the civil 1 ?ere particular! kne ‘ FROM THE WESTERN MONTHLY REVIEW. THROWING THE TEA OVERBOARD. * * * These 1 reflections occurred to us, in consequence of meeting the other day, charged to give us with a person, and probably the only surviv- tory came dowr; to the jng one, who took a part in throwing the tea dependence WflS^D the general overhoard from the British' ships in Boston j the people. harbor,—undoubtedly one of the measures! We stirred bifiskly in the business, from which precipitated the Revolution. His the moment W left opr dressing room. We name is Joshua Wythe, a relative of the cele- were merry m an under tone, at the idea of brated John Wythe, of Cambridge, whom making so large a cup of tea for the fishes, every Harvard scholar, of the times of the but we were as still as the nature of the case venerable Willard and Tappan, so well re-j would admit. No more words were used members. He lives in this city, is turned 1 than were absolutely necessary. Our most of seventy-five years, appears to’ lie in ro- i intimate acquaintances, among the specta- lnii>t health, and uncommonly cheerful, al-1 tors, had not the least knowledge of us. I though it is believed his circumstances are I never labored harder in my life; and we were straightened. His simple narrative gave us | so expiditious, that, although it was late in vivid impressions of the feeling which actua- ™ ted his fellow townsmen, on the occasion of 1770, there a tradesman, who had daughters in marriage, whom he gave their weight in a fortnne. The young ladies e been bulky, for the lightest of them weighed fifty pounds, two shillings and eight pence ! bringing the tea into Boston harbor. News of the most|interesting character transpired ever y .l&jtv^Ncver was a period so full of rum^rB and-reports, which had not yet ac- the’horrihle and hloody interest to un- _fe't ea table. The patriots saw the fiHr.could not resist the seasoning lragreht beverage, with the discussion of thpsqjhevnes of universal interest, and it was determined that they should not be led into such irresistible temptation, and that it should be removed by throwing it overboard. It was proposed that young men, not much known in towrii' and hot liable to be easily ■'cognized, should lead in the business. ~ur narrator believes that mostof the per- i&ns selected for the occasion were appren- tiebs^d journeymen ; not a few of them, as uraslthe/case with himself, living with tory masJeH^He had but a few hours warning of whatitfaSlptcndedtobe done. The part which he WOk ih'the business is related as follws : , as a journeyman blacksmith with rid Gridby, blacksmiths by trade, ,by profession. Western, at the but afterwards became a numbers were between twenty Of my associates, I only names of Frothingham, and Grant. • We were met ening, talking over the ty- " h government, such as the shifting up the port of Bos- of Mr. Gray’s family, England for trial;- ! sundry oilier*acts of oppression. Our dignatiop was increased by having the arrival of the tQ£*jWpa*ltlri8^ agreed.' d the terapt*ti£n?%id We came to a sud- make sure work of it, oard. We first talk- but we feared the fire unicate to the town. We then them, but we dropped this project, through fear that we should alarm fenvn, bef«~ wa rniilri <r«»t thrmior) — it. 3V*had- . remained on ly concluded that we could take possession of them arid discharge the tea into the har bor, without danger or opposition. The greatest objection to our plan was, that it would take a great length of time to carry it through, and render us more liable to detec tion. We agreed, one and all, that we would go on at the risk of our lives. We proceeded to contrive the mode of accom plishing our business. One of the ships lay at Hancock’s wharf, and the others a few paces out in the stream with their warps fast to the same wharf. A brigade of British soldiers was encamped on the common, less than a mile from the wharf. We agreed, m order, as much as we might to prevent ourselves from being discovered, to wear r-gged clothes,, and disfigure ourselves as much as possible. We concluded to meet at an old building at the head of the wharf, and t o fall in one after another as if by acci dent, sp as not to excite suspicion. After having pledged our honor that we would not reveal our secret, we separated. At the appointed time, we all met accord ing to agreement. We were dressed to re semble Indians, as much as possible. We L, should not have, known each other, except Wh by our voices, and we surely resembled de- Tea, vils from the bottomless pit, rather than men. We placed our centry at the head of the wharf, one in the middle and one on the ff; bow of each ship as we took possession. H We then proceeded rapidly to business. ** We boarded the ship which was moored by the wharf, and the leader of our company in the evening when we began, we had discharg ed the whole three cargoes before morning dawn. It may he supposed that there was much talk about the business next morning. The tories, civil, military, spies, made a great fuss, and called the business divers hard names. Proclamations and rewards, to procure detection, were all to no purpose. We pretended to be as zealous to find out the perpetrators as the rest. We often talk ed with the tories about it. We were so close and loyal, that the whole affair remain ed in Egyptian darkness. A Rational Insect.—The following in stance of ingenuity in a spider, was witness ed by the writer of this article. A web was observed to be tightly stretched across a garden path, about five feet in breadth, the reticulated portion occupying the centre, and one of the principal threads to which this part was attached, had a vertical direc tion ; upon examining in what manner this was fastened to tfce ground, it was found that the ingenious insect, instead of having permanently fixed it to the gravel path, had coiled it round a stone, a little larger than its own body, and had raised this about afoot from the walk, where it wus swing! air, giving thb necessary ^degree qf to the net work of the web, hut mg a sufficient resistance taJ&T, ,/• »iie casion its befor e we could get through with -observed that very few persons board the three ships, and final- Athens, Oct. 19, 1827. ELECTION RETURNS. We pt&Jish thii'returns of 64 counties. Six coun ties, viz. Appling, ’-taker, Carrol, Emanuel, Thomas, and are, still retrain to be heard from. In review ing the ordeal through which the state has passed, and contemplating thy final issue of her struggle, the language of a cotempi airy journal is particularly ap plicable.—“ Truth ana reason are omnipotent, and they have prevailed, afur as fierce a struggle as crooked principles, and SUgitious practices ever wa ged against them. No enlightened republican, no sound friend to Georgia, can contemplate the result, without a glow of honest and manly delight;—not the comparatively paltry exultation of party triumph —but that proud, dignified, we had almost said, hal lowed emotion, with wiicli a patriot surveys the res cue of his country jfron joppending calamity, ascer tains her prcsent.«afa|y, ind Welcomes the dawn.of her future pros * ' ' 1 Counties. Laurens. Liberty. Lincoln. Monroe—Warren, St. George, Walthour—Way, Quartemian, ... Remson—McDowell, Curry, Lowndes. Blair—Carter, Madison. Groves—Maroney, Daniel, Monroe. Brown—Lawhon, Phillips, Simmons, Morgan. Leonard—Davis, N esbit, Jones, Muscogee. McDougald—Woolfolk, McIntosh. Powell—Braiisford, King, Montgomery. Ryalls—McRae, Newton. Luckie—Kolb, Perry, Oglethorpe. Jourdan—-Freeman, Billups, Town send, Pike. Wilson—Gray, Pulaski. Clayton—Lanier, Daniel, Putnam. Hoxey—Hudson, Shorter, Vamer, Ma son, Richmond. McTyre—Holt, Mealing, Dillon, Rabun. Miller—Paris, Striven. Smith—Byan, Lanear, Tattnall. Tillman—Surrency, Thomas. Rae—Hadley, Telfair. Cofiee—Wilcox, Troup. Sledge—Kennon, Taliaferro. Janes—Thompson, Twiggs. Wimberly—Bunn, Durham, Dcnnard, Upson. Holloway—Sturges, W arren. Moncrief—Thomas, Wilson, Gray, VV alton. Moore—Echols, Blasmgham, Wilkinson. Beall—W iggins, Exmu, Washington. Tennilie—Safiolil,Shehce, Long, Wilkes. Wootten—Brown, Render, Mills, Lyman. Wase. Fulwood—Davis, Wayne. Harris—Robson, of Thursday after hood of Kensing- ammersmith, with pe culiar severity, the roads literally assuming the appearance of rivers, in consequence of the rapid fall of rain. The thunder claps, between five and six o’clock, sounded as being alarmingly near the earth, and exceed ed in loudness and extentjmy thing remem bered by some of the oldest inhabitants ;— to use the language of many persons, they “ shook the frame,” and occasioned the most powerful vibrations in the air. One of these thunder claps occasioned much con versation, as well as consternation, as it seemed to burst immediately over the hous es. It transpired that a fire-ball was the result of such shock. An old waterjnan, standing under shelter in an alley leading down to a dirty place, familiarly known as the “ Wapping” of Hammersmith, near the new Bridge, at that place had just success fully beckoned a milkman to come and par take of the protection against the storm, when he perceived, what he terms a “ Fire ball/’ immediately succeeding (he terrific commotion just mentioned, pass through thisalley, or narrow opening between hous es, and shoot into the river. He describes the appearance to have been, a ball of fire, about the size of a man’s head ; or rather a solid but rough globe of flame of such size. It sunk near the middle of the river. Tie old waterman adds, that ft is about 19 years since he saw any thing of the kind; he then perceived jofsorhi and near the same place—the ball of fire then descended into the River Thames.— Credat! OC- Cami U Chatham, Clurk, Columbia, Crawford, Coweta, 3, July Paris, July 21.—Mr. Malot, a man of letters, and an enlightened lawyer,, who had for a long time exercised the functions of a Magistrate at Avallon, has just died, p leav ing behind him a rare proof of conjugal ten derness. On entering his study after- hiB death, there was found in a secret chest, of which he alone kept the key, the body of his wife, who had been dead for twenty-five years, embalmed and admirably preserved. It is supposed, that he had prevailed on the grave-digger to exhumate the body, from which, even after death he was unwilling to separate himself. Mr. Malot succeeded in a very stem and resolute manner ordered the captain and crew to open the hatchways, and beeping from the knowledge of everyone hand up the hoisting tackle and ropes. The *be deposit which he preserved in his house, Captain asked us what we intended to do? J J — u ~ J “ L ‘* The leader told him that we were going to unload the ship of tea, and ordered him and the crew below, assuring him, that if they obeyed, no harm was intended them. They instantly obeyed without murmurs or threats. Some of our numbers jumped into the hold, and passed the chests to the tackle. As they hoisted them to the deck, others and every day he, doubtless, went to nourish his grief by weeping over the inanimate re mains. The' same grave has now united them forever. I ’lllljSailii Artificial Eyes.—Mr. John -Scudder, of New-York, advertises that on application to him, he will supply the loss of an eye by an P H artificial one, to imitate the real eye, and knocked them open with axes, and others j move with it in any direction, and so near- raised them to the railing, and discharged :ty resembUng iife, as “ to deceiveihe most their contents overboard. All that were not sceptical.” His eyes are made of the finest needed for discharging the tea from this ship, French enamel, highly polished, and he suvs went on board the others and warped them - wi,! last twenty years if not broken, and may into thft wharf, where the same ceremonies ’be worn with ease,>and without the least were repeated as at the first ship. While P a ^ n we were unloading great numbers e collected in wharf to see what A singular instance of the effects-of the was going om They crowded about us so [Censorship of the Press in France has just as to be much in our way. We paid no at- ; occurred. An article of mercantile mtelli- tention to them, nor did they say any thing Offence was suppressed because it contained to us. They evidently wished us success, the following words :—“Les brutes Bour ns none of them gave any information against- hqns, sflgTepWussfii. e. “ the raw Bour ns. Our sjjffflfefcWerenotattned. and could bons (meaning the sugars of the isle of ' Hot stop any who insisted on passing. If we Bourbon) are falling.” It appears, there- Uad been able it would not have been a good i fore, that the brutes must no longer be con- Carroll, Decatur, DeKdb, Dooly, Early, Effingham, Elbert, Emanuel, Fayette, Franklin, Glynn, Greene, Gwinnett, Habersham, Hall, Hancock, Henry, Houston, Irwin, Jackson, Jasper, Jefferson, Jones, Laurens, Liberty, Lincoln, Lowndes, Lee, Madison, McIntosh, Monroe, Montgomery Morgan, Muscogee, Newton, Oglethorpe, Fike, Pidaski, Putnam, Rabun, Richmond, Scrivtn, Troup, Taliaferro, Tattnall, Thomas, Telfair, Twiggs, Upson, Warren, Walton, Wilkinson, Ware, Washington, Wayne, Wilkes, ■ 243 SOS* 271 U 5 123 485 $86 477 376 14 776 97 0 92 5 2 88 25 8 14 57 0 214 642 5 520 44 190 329 250 328 210 370 222 16 82 119 99 93 445 49 183 322 112 210 365 8 377 A 50 350 74 421 96 393 325 216 259 154 274 140 277 15 355 112 23 112 83 20 206 136 60 146 73 1 218 674 447 605 421 330 538 117 28 102 1 0 153 151 0 130 30 1 140 931 0 955 2 822 26 315 440 77 405 523 543 537 443 134 838 92 0 80 36 41 63 733 25 742 16 635 28 635 120 585 146 295 522 254 5S6 186 449 63 862 635 295 568 436 190 9S3 463 0 466 3 457 4 408 474 353 530 74 574 278 326 237 326 17 510 31 100 2 55 1 124 526 0 518 184 390 188 324 0 795 702 489 688 460 0 372 133 86 439 770 484 747 674 144 710 474 15 412 21 6 350 214 0 173 3 12 190 191 115 213 80 64 248 86 75 19 0 1 158 13 29 0 24 42 260 32 280 86 71 342 43 116 40 103 7 147 868 748 '837 734 116 985 112 25 7 120 557 294 546 179 502 237 140 108 133 106 52 106 653 394 642 425 431 462 455 41 464 35 393 69 312 415 319 436 100 423 267 39 229 81 14 399 755 12 779 27 724 65 152 : 132 102 153 32 243 532 0 449 268 143 300 190 97 140 30 19 265 98 60 98 69 82 72 339 0 335 3 307 8 194 0 124 10 26 152 137 0 97 138 1 263 441 172 375 197 110 410 .•I 442 375 421 369 . 97 515 766 0 707 7 621 37 565 448 567 441 307 517 132 79 109 129 ^ 4 714 463 0 350 229 108 447 69 63 65 27 5 128 297 322 309 321 190 217 22289 9145 20642 11785 10472 10751 THE LEGISLATURE. The first name to each county is the Senator. AppliNg. Thomas—Legg Appling. Thomas—Leggett, Baker. Porter—Howard; Baldwin. Williams—Howard, Watson, Bibb. Baber—Lamar, Bryan. Maxwell—Bacon, -Bulloch. . Ipenmark—Rawls, B&rke. Lawson—Byne, Dye, Bailey, Butts. Cargile^-Hendncks, * Chatham. - Davis—Habersham, Stitcs, Be van, Clark. Clayton—Dougherty, Moore, Hull, Columbia. Crawford—Cartledge, Burnside, C ton. Camden. Brown—Copp,IfuU, . Carroll. Alexander—Adrain, \ Crawford. Blackstone—King, f A Coweta. Hicks—Pentacost, -• -tV DeKalb. Ezzard—Brooks, Aikin, Dooly. Scarborough—Scarborough, Decatur. Hawthorn—Bell, Effincham. Burton—Strickland, Elbert. Allen—Heard, Tait, Davis, Emanuel. Swain—Hicks, Early. Fayette. Cochran—Stewart, Fran klin. Anderson—Martin, Freeman, Cleveland, Greene. Stocks—Janes, Lewis, Rea, Gwinnett. Worthy^—Brewster, Greene, Park, Glynn. Scarlette-Bumett, Habersham. Blair—Wofford, Chastain, Hall. DuEiwngham—Bates, Byrd, Ebcrhart, Hancock. Crawford Abercombie, Birdsong, HcNivr. Seilers—Barnes, Glenn, Houston. Campbell—Williams, Irwin. Gilder—Dixon, Jackson. -Martin—Barnett, Bumes, Cochran, Jasper. Philips—Jordan, McClendon, Loyall, Hojl demon, Jefferson. ^Gamble—Holt, Stapleton, Jones. Hendrick—Iverson, Jourdan, FIctraHfi Day, ? .T State of the Country.—An article in the Savannah Republican of the 9th inst. gives an exemplification of the increase of trade at that city during the year ending the 36th September, in which time it is stated: “There were shipped from the port of Savannah 219,073bale8 ofUpland Cotton,and 14,465 bales of Sea Island, making 233,558 bales—also 14,285 tierces of Rice, and 550 hogsheads of Tobacco. The whole valued at the present depressed prices will amount to eight million five hundred thousand dollars. To this may be added Lumber and other valuable articles exported, an estimate of which we have not been able to procure, that would greatly jpereaso 4bo amount of the year’s exports. Contrasting the ex ports of the years 1826 and 1827, wc find the dil encc in favour of the later year 42,980 bales rf. Rice, and 380 hogsheads d of cotton this year would tats fjjrtihe,Ipivoefcg 0 f the river which has prevented a arriving at our city.. A Charleston paper gives a statement of a similar iat port; but we are not certain whether at either place the value of the articles exported, at the present prices, will reach the amount of several former years, when some of them particularly bore nearly double the present price. However, it shows an increase of the producing power, either by ex tended population or greater effect given to the active means, but probably a portion of each.—At New York also, the receipts of the customs for the first three quarters of the present year are represented to exceed the whole of that of the preceding one, which had not fallen short of the estimates made some years ago by Mr. Crawford, whose penetration and discernment were so distinguished while acting as Secretary of the U. S. Treasury, at which time he demonstrated the probable progress of the revenue, and its capability of completely liquidating the na tional debt by the year 1835. The whole gives sa tisfactory intelligence of the state and prospects of the national resources to meet all pending demands, while the near approach of the time when it will be accomplished, necessarily excites a reflection on what shall be the after disposition of those funds ex ceeding the unavoidable expences of government. To hoard beyond a sufficient amount for probable contingencies, must strike every prudent person as extremely injudicious as well on account of its cor rupting tendency, as the injurious effect vast funds lying idle would have on internal commerce and in. dustry; and to abolish many of the duties cannot be for a moment contemplated, when the prosperity of so great a variety of interests is involved in their continuance.—We believe it is on all hands conce ded that sufficient means have been kept in train to make all necessary preparation for the public de fence ; and as they progress, the standing expense may rather'be expected to diminish than increase. A general system of public improvement, compris ing roads, canals, &c. &c. therefore presents, we conceive, the only eligible appropriation to be made of them of which we can now form an idea, to be accompar : ed with the largest share of common ad vantage, strengthen the motives for union, and at the same time keep in profitable action the labour ing force of the nation.—But here again, the ques tionable powers of the Constitution present them selves. To apportion funds among the states for such purposes, as has been suggested by some, would be accompanied with strong objections. There are already sufficient openings for collision among them; and as no two have laws and forms precisely alike, we cannot conceive any greater uniformity of views would be obtained in this respect, as each would naturally seek to give them as great a tendency to their individual advantage as possible, and thus in terfere with that general interest and importance they should possess, End would be more likely to acquire if projected and executed by an unbiassed party with an exclusive view to the greatest public benefit.—Though favourably impressed towards this course, we have constantly adv cated a cautious and restrained construction of the Constitution; but while we acknowledge that as great an amount of wisdom and forecast as perhaps ever assembled on any occasion were concerned in the formation of that instrument, yet they could have as little know, ledge of what would be the condition and necessi ties of the country at the end of fifty years, as they could of the rise, progress, and termination of the French Revolution. Therefore, although the general features of it are sufficiently republican, yet we think there are strong reasons for considering seriously whether some of its provisions do not stand highly in need of discreet definition, restriction, and per haps in the case alluded to of a proper concession of power. id amiable Character of Mr; ker, and the great and merited popu. 1 ■* r - his father, gave him a hold upon son party, which even we feared : old party distinction of Democrat Federalist, though it fell short of the t hoped for by Mr. Slicker and his tnends, bad some influencetbn the election. Ii was late too, before the Jackson party resolved to meet the Adams men on party grounds. Mr. McMahon >oo, was called “ a stranger,” “ a foreigner j’ among us, not having lived here more a year. All these and many other difficulties and dis advantages had the Jackson party to con tend with.—Majority in favour of the Jack- son candidates 445.—Republican. The New-York Enquirer states that “an overwhelming Jackson meeting was held at Princeton, Acta Jersey, on Wednesday (week.) There was no room large enough and the meeting adjourned to the fields, where decided resolutions were adopted in favour of General Jackson.” A correspon dent of the Washington Telegraph states that “Friday the concourse was so great that we cou'd not be accommodated in any room in the town ; we adjourned to the Campus in front of the College ;” that “ the resolutions were unanimously adopted by acclamation that the Secretary of the Navy was. during the whole of the" meeting, “ in the house fronting on the Campus, and within hearing of the whole proceeding;” that “ similar meetings will be held in all the counties, and on the Sth of January, that day dear to every freeman, a Convention will be held at Trentor. to select the Electors.” l} r illiam JjL Ci % att>ford.—~ll cannot but be gratifying to the friends of this distinguished _niPP, Among'whom we are proud to say, we rank ourselves, to learn his restoration to he.'lth, and to witness his devotion to the service of his country. Disappointed of the Presidency, for which lie was so eminently qualified by iris experience, his talents, and his integrity; his mind was too active and his patriotism disinterested to suffer him to retire into misanthropic seclusion to rail against the world. A republican in principle and a patriot in heart, he yielded without a murmur to the will of the people, which pointed to another as their choice, and re tiring with dignity from the distinguished station which he held in the Cabinet, he has been called to an office of high dignity and importance in his own State, where the same firmness, industry and intelligence seem to mark his course, for which he was so remarkable when at the head of the Na tional Treasury. Who had not rather be Judge Crawford than President Adams, though the one has retired from the service of the country poor, while the other has lived in offices and fattened on the Trea sury ?—Balt. Rep. Baltimore, October 2. Jackson Triumphant.—The election is over and the Jackson ticket has prevailed. The Adams men are defeated, chap-fallen doves! There can be no longer any pre tence that Jackson has not an overwhelming majority in Baltimore. The Adams men themselves have admitted this throughout the canvass, and have declared, that their only hope was, that the Jackson party would not unite. They have not rallied as they should have done, for the Adams ticket hais got a great many Jackson votes. This will not be denied. The election, however, of 1 Messrs. Steuart and McMahon affords the strongest evidence of the strength of the >arty it? this. city. The popular Jackson The Lafayette Grant.—The grant of a township of Land to General La Fayette, by the Congress of the United States, for his disinterested services in the cause of the American revolution, is in extent six miles square, and contains 23,040 acres. It is loca ted in the centre^pLa truly desirable and fertile country, and is adjacent to the city of Tallahassee, the capital of Florida. The citizens of the neighbourhood, by common consent, have called, this township the La Grange Forest, and in ramhjing over a sur face of uncommon fascinations, and through the romantic shades of overshadowing ever greens, the thoughts are irresistibly associa ted with “ Beautiful France,” and the home of him whose life has been unceasingly de voted to the political amelioration of man kind, and the cause of suffering humanity. The location of the grant has been exceed- ingly judicious, as it regards soil, produc. tions, and climate. The country is elevated, being evidently one of the last expiring spure of the Appalachee mountain, which, in ex tending south, has presented a nucleus for the attraction of those alluvial deposits form ing the Peninsula of Florida. The surface of the land is beautifully waving, sometimes precipitous, often hilly, but never moun tainous, and the scenery, though seldom grand, is varied and interesting. The ma jestic live oak, the graceful cedar, and the white flowering magnolia cast their shades over the smaller growths of the forest; while lakes of transparent water variegate the pic ture, and add enchantment to the scene. These lakes are of irregular figures, and surrounded by hills projecting bluff to their margins, and again gently sloping to the waters edge, and the whole clothed with a scattering growth of live oaks, magnolias, and other evergreens, resembling more an artificial park than a natural forest. They abound in fish, soft shell turtle, and wild game, and the lovers of nature or the sports of the field, may on their surface and mar gins, find inexhaustible food for the gratifica tion of their different tastes. Though dig nified with the name of lakes, these water basins are but enlarged springs, the sources of rivers or branches which they supply di rectly, or communicate with subterrancous- ly. The whole country is based on a cal careous porous rock, through the fissures of which the minor streams, and even some of the larger rivers precipitate their waters, and 6eek a subterraneous passage to the gulf. Such is the character of all the beauti ful nvulets rising in, and meandering through the hills of La Grange Forest,—the princi pal of which after passing the boundr&Pjof the grant, environs the city of Tallahasse, and at its limits forms a cascade, and pre cipitates its waters through the crevice of a rock to the caverns beneath. The re-ap- pearance of these streams is not more tein- gular ; impatient of confinement and st glmg for a vent, thait agitated wat
