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the viper in your path, do you turn with a shud
der and fly from it I Or do you not, in your
hearts, try to tind excuses, and sometimes call
Up that most untrue and ruinous of old adages,
* reformed rake makes the best husband.”—
Then, how is this evil to he remedied 7 Young
ladies, it rests with you—and until you can gain
moral courage enough to bravo the ridicule of
the world, and treat ilie seducer, at least, as you
would the seduced, frown upon his advances,
and consider them insults, look upon his very
presence as contamination, his acquaintance a
degradation—then, and not tiil then, will society
he purified —then, and not tiil then, will the evil
be abolished. Let the rake know that he has
no refuge with us-—that scorn and contempt will
be his only welcome, and then we may hope
for better tilings— Western Continent. ’
A BELGIAN JOt ItN U-IST’S VIEW i$ OF Till: WAIL
We find in the New York Herald the follow,
ing article on the Mexican war ami its conse
quences, translated from the Belgium Debut .So
cial Organe dc la Democrasic;
“No matter how the Mexicans may act now,
or how much they may boast and display, they
are ruined! That nation is already exhausted
by the exactions of a military government, and
abused by a gang of rapacious and ignorant clcr.
g.vmen. The United States have now in their
hands the fate..l’ Mexico ; and the friends of civil
iiation whole world, ought to desire
that the United States will never surrender that
fate into the hands of an impious association of
inhnks and soldiers.
“ Upon this subject, the government of Mr.
Polk has not yet taken any resolution; but we
see, with a great deal of pleasure, that the news- I
{tapers in favor of his administration propose dif
ferent plans of direct and indirect occupation of I
Mexico, till that important country is made capa- j
hie of appreciating liberty. These papers are ‘
of opinion that the expenses of that occupation
will be covered by the customs received by the
United States from the Mexican ports. None of
these papers have even mentioned the idea of
having any diplomatic difficulty with other conn- !
trins. They think (and with reason) that the j
European cabinets have at present, and will have
for the future, more and more domestic embar
rassments, which willjbc quite sufficient for them
to manage without interfering with the business !
■of the new world.
“One of the firstAnd greatest services which
the occupation of MAico by the United States
will render to humanity will be the piercing of
the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, of which Mr. Polk’s
government is seriously thinking, intending to
begin it this very year. This glorious enterprise,
which the friends of Mr. Polk affirm will he lin
ished in time to be ascribed as one ol the groat,
est remembrances of this magistrate’s administra.
tion, will render still more ridiculous, if possible,
our monarchical governments of Europe, when
they will be compared with the great republican
government of the United States.
“In tact, for many centuries, Europeans have
boon talking about piercing the Isthmus of Suez,
which is under their hands ; and all the govern
ments united together, or separately, have not
yet produced a settled plan for that enterprise, j
■lnin a few years, the French government has
projected a canal across the Isthmus of Panama,
and have taken possession ol the principal part
of the Island of Tahiti, as a depot for obtaining I
supplies between Panama and China; but the ]
Isthmus of Tehuantepec will be nuibed by Mr.
Polk before Louis Philippe and have !
finished reading the reports and survey* of the ’
cxplorators that they have sent to Panama ; and !
then the Sandwich Islands, where the Americans !
have already a port, will serve them as a depot
in navigating to China by the occidental road.
“ How excellent has been the operation made
by Louis Philippe and his minister! They have
conquered, with a great deal of difficulty, a king, j
doni of some miles, and they possess now a hotel I
which will never accommodate a single traveler.
“ By expressing their gratitude to the people i
of the United States, who take care thus to hind ,
all the nations ol the world to themselves, the
learned men of all countries will confidently
hope that that people may never be prevented
from accomplishing their great mission.”
Sufferings ok California Emigrants.—
Horrible Story. — The St. Louis Republican in
noticing the arrival in California, of the emi
grants from Missouri, under Col. Russell says :
About the 24th ot February, five women and
two men arrived at Cnpt. Johnson’s, the first
house of the California settlement, entirely nak
ed, and their feet lrost bitten. They stated that
their company had arrived at Truckey’s Lake
on the east side of the mountains, and found the
snow so deep that they could not travel. Fear
ing starvation, sixteen of the strongest, (eleven
males and five females,) agreed to start for the
settlement on foot. After wandering about a j
number of days, bewildered, their provisions
gave out. Long hunger made it necessary to
cast lots to see who should bo sacrificed, to
make food for the rest, but at this time the weak
er began to die, which rendered the taking of
life unnecessary. As they died the company
went into camp and made of the dead bo. !
dies of theircompanions. Nine of the men died
and seven were eaten. One of the men was
carried to Johnsou’s on the back of an Indian.
From this statement, it would seem that the wo.
men endured hardships better than the men, as
none of them died. The company left behind
numbered 60 souls, ten of them men, the rest
women and children. They were in camp j
about 100 miles from Johnson’s. Revolting as
it may seem, it is stated that one of the women j
was obliged to eat part of the dead body of her i
father and brother, and another saw her hus- I
band’s heart cooked!
Melancholy End.— Young Semtnes, who
some years since shot Professor Davis at the
lrginia University, brought his life to an end
y his own hand, the morning of the 9th inst. at
the house of his brother in Washington, Geor
gia. He shot himself with a pistol, the hall cn
tering t e left eye and penetrating the brain,
and lingered in a state of total insensibility from
about 7 o’clock, A. M., (when the family was
exited to h.. room by the report of a pistol) an.
and hall past I, P. M., of the same day. W hen
hi. room was entered, he was found in a chair,
jdoced at a table. A pistol was lying across
nis Jap, and on the table was an open razor,
On the table was aUo found a note, stating, in
the form of a certificate, dated July 9th, 1947,’
that his death was occasioned by himself, and
wa* brought about either by pistol or razor.
Chari. News.
Cmocp. —Half a tea.spoonful of Snluratu* in
a table.spoonful of Molasses is said to lie a good
cure for this dangerous disease—this proportion
,r \ patient five years of age and half the iiuan.
ti‘Y for an infant, “ 1
The Women of California.--- I’hc Journal
of Commerce is publishing some interesting let
ters Irom California respecting the people and
their habits. As this country is ours, it is well
i to know something of our new fellow-citizens
, there.
: The writer states that there is no such thing
! in all California as a hired female servant. The
; Indian girls are sometimes brought wild from
| the mountains in their iniancy and pressed into
i service, hut at the age of twelve or fourteen
j the y are sure to run away,
i A California woman, though she may be na
ked and hungry, will not enter into regular ser
! vice. She thinks it a degradation, and often
times will rather sacrifice her virtue than enter
into any kind of servitude.
Neither are there any tradeswomen in Cali
■ forma* of any class whatever. Most es them
are pie tty good seamstresses, hut charge most]
unreasonable prices for their labor. They will
not mpke a shirt of the coarsest kind under one
j dollar]; and then they must he found in needles
| and thread. For washing they charge a shill
ing for each piece, and some of them make con
i side ruble this occupation ; but they
| are very The washerwomen must
’ have as many and as rich dresses as the persons
i she washes for, or she would feel debased in
j her own eyes.
i Ecouomy, huwevor, in any class, is the last
tiling thought of.
j The females, as well as the males, are a very
j healthy and robust people, and mostly live to a ]
1 great ago. Their fecundity is extraordinary.— j
Those instances are very rare, where a female
j does not have a birth within each two years af
ter her marriage, and many of them have a birth
j every year.
The writer, (who is at Monterey,) says :
“There are now no loss than three women
in this town who have had a birth each year
since their marriage; and they have all been
married twenty years or more each. I have no
doubt, on the whole, that all the women who
have been married within the last twenty years
in California would average each the birth of a
child every fifteen months.
“The same cannot he said with regard to
the idleness of the females, as may with much
truth be said of, the men. The women are al
ways occupied in some useful employment, cith
er in their huuscs or out of them, and do a great
deal more service in their families than the
men ; and there are many women in all parts
of this country, who actually maintain their
husbands and their children by their own per
sonal labor ; the husband acting as a mere cy
pher in the family, when he does not by all dis
honorable means in his power, try to deprive
his wife of her hard earned dollar, to carry it
to the gambling table or the tavern. This in a
great measure is the reason, and has been for
years, that many women have sacrificed the
connubial bond, which is very rarely the cage
where the husband behaves to the wife as all
husbands ought to behave.”
From 1 lie Augusta Chronicle .V Sentinel.
AN ECCENTRIC CASE —roR consultation.
Raysville, Ga. July 7, 18-17.
Messrs. Editors : At the request of several
gentlemen, Lsend you an account of axstrangc
and pcculiany ecciwtric physical pheqLmenon,
which has occurred in this vicinity in Lincoln
county. The primeval disease is one of no sur
prise ; wo often meet with it in its most Pro
tean forms, but its sequence in this case is a
matter of wonder and astonishment to all who
have witnessed it, defying every effort at a cor
rect diagnosis.
The patient is a delicate female, 40 years of
age. She is laboring under some disease of the
spinal system, attended with an evident spasm
of the diaphragm, which affects no other part of
the system, her pulse is not at all excited, her
mind is not perturbed or foreboding, her stom
ach and appendages not diseased, her head free
from pain or fullness, her digestion is not im
paired. Sho walks about the house, is calm,
quiet, and composed, her throat is not alfected
in the least, no disease of the glottis, larynx or
trachea exists, consequently she has no cough,
as her lungs are not affected; but connected
with all this apparent freedom from disease, for
nine succossivo weeks without recess, save
three days, she has been laboring under a loud
cackling sonorous sensation , or sounds resem
bling the noise made by the male chicken ! The 1
sound is easily distinguished half a mile ; per
sons approaching can hear it distinctly that dis
tance ; it produces no pain or other unpleasant
symptom ; the paroxysm or cackling sounds ap.
proximate so close as to prevent her from talk
ing or chewing in continuation.
She is notwithstanding quite lively, but from
the fatigue incident to it, she perspires freely,
and recently has been rather constantly confin
ed to her bed. At night the “ sounds ” decline
some, not sufficient, however, for her to rest in
perfect quietude. She then feels some muscu
lar debility. With the morning she resumes
her usual occupation of “cackling,” and as the
day advances she grows more violent with her
“ musical tones.” These sounds are produced
at inspiration ; as before observed, ehe has no
spasm about the throat, and her mind, die. for
bid the idea of its being hysteria. The patient ]
has been seen and examined, and a concurrence 1
of opinion exptessed by Prs. Collins, Crawford ‘
and Ilanson, of Columbia county ; Drs. Bentley,
Dill, Jennings. McLean, Morgany and myself,;
of Lincoln, and several others I am informed |
have visited the case. The patient has excited
the wonder of every one here, and all flock to
see her.
No physician who has ever seen her, can di
vine the causu of the “ sound.” The old ladies
o! the vicinity suppose her • witched ’ or • trick
ed,’ ami I assure you silver bullets are flying in
all directions about now. The case is one of
peculiar interest in Neurology, and worthy the
attention of the ablest men in medicine ; it
would probably stagger the credulity of Marshal
Hall, and put at icst his powers of diagnosis.
We ask the united opinion of medical men
throughout the land, in reference to this strange
and singular sound. After a careful search
through an extensive library of old and new
works, we can find no parallel for it , this opin
ion coincides with those who have seen it. We
can suspend the “sounds,” hut as yet we have
not been able to control them .All
who have seen it imagine at the outset, thafthe
sound can bo easily suspended ; a single p-ial,
however, will he sufficient to convince the most
skeptical. Ihe treatment now adopted prot\.
isos to ho successful; should it, duo notice shaft
be given. In the meantime, we would be glad I
[DIMg'MYo
to have the opinions of medical gentlemen in
extenso upon the case, which will doubtless sub
serve the interest of humanity.
H. RAMSAY.
Burning the Court House in Dooly.—
The Albany Courier of the 24th inst. says.—
The Superior Court of Dooly county, held its
adjourned session last week. The Grand Jury
after four days incessant labor in the examina
tion of 67 witnesses, returned a True Bill a
gainst three of the citizens of that county for ihe
burning of the Court House. They have giv
en security for their appearance at next regular
term of the Court.
The individuals indicted are Edward O.
Shefleld nnd Young P. Outlaw—She rift - and
Deputy. They are bailed in the sum of 53,000
each. Also Henry I’attee is indicted and bail
ed in the sum of $2,000. — Jour. <Sp Mess.
Paris Morals. —The Paris correspondent of
the Boston Atlas gives some insight of the up
per morals of the social machinery of the gay
metropolis. He states that before the ship
bearing Capt. Gliding (the King’s aid-de-camp,
detected in cheating at cards.) left the channel,
Gen. D surprised the Duke do Nemours in
such an equivocal situation, that his paternal
feelings could not brook restraint, and be inflic
ted several blows, with a cane, upon the future
Regent.
Tho writer proceeds :—“This account of the
aiiair is well known to be true, but I content
myself with giving tho initial of the insulted
father, a brave old soldier, who visited the Uni
ted States shortly after the revolution. The
daughter is a majestic looking woman, some
thirty years of age. The Duke has left for the
South of France, accompanied only by an aid
de-camp, the King having refused to receive
any explanation from him. Few who have not
resided in Paris long enough to look into the ac
tual state of society, can have an idea of ihe de
plorable state of morals. It is a vortex of pro
fligacy, into which the young men, with very
few exceptions, are drawn at au early period of
life. Asa matter of course, they ere long ex
perience the vanity of licentious pleasures, and,
wholly disbelieving the beauty of virtue, natur
ally change from the debauchee to the calculat
ing cynic. Looking in vain into their own dim
and clouded hearts for their reflexion of life,
from the evil view there presented
to their gaze, and live without faith in God and
man.”
The same writer says:—“Mr. Sheridan, a
British attache, much petted at court, died last
week, a victim to his dissipated habits ; he al
ways ascribed his love of intoxicating drinks to
the mint juleps pressed upon him in the United
States. His sister, the Hon. Mrs. Norton,
watched by his death-bed, in company with
Mine. Doche, an actress whose attachment for
him was unbounded.
The New York Journal of Commerce says ■
that one-fifth of the entire population of N. York ‘
is composed of paupers ! It says:
In the calculation, we include only the inn
door and out door poor of the city, alms house, j
and the beneficiaries of the Society for Melior
ating the Condition of the Poor. There arc!
besides a largo number in charitable ifo 1,
stltutlons. We do not speak of the children j
schooled at the public expense, but only of those
who are furnished gratuitously with food, clothes, j
and fuel. Every five families support a sixth, !
at least a large portion of the winter. The of.
feet of these abundant supplies will provide for
their wants in tho winter, excites the improvi
dent to spend the summer in idle wastefulness.
Sucli facts must command the most profound
attention of our citizens. The proportion, which
is now a fifth, and will soon be a fourth. Who
shall say that i( the same system is pursued, it
will never be a half ?
There is on Blackwall’s Island a hospital,
kept at great expense, in fine order, devoted en
tirely to the diseases of lewdness, and used al- i
most wholly for the benefit of infamous houses.
This establishment panders and encourages tho
lowest depths ol degradation; and to break it
up, would be a more serious blow at the houses
which create its business, than any efforts of
the Police.
Tomato Omelet. —A correspondent of the
Madison Miscellany furnishes the following re
cipe for making Tomato Omelet, which ho re
commends as very fine :
“ Take one or two dozen tomatoes, accord
ing to the s'ze of the family, scald them so that
they can he peeled easily—place them in a ;
stew pan over a gentle fire—season with pep.
per, sugar, salt, and a tabic.spoonful or two of
butter. Let them remain till they are ircll done.:
this will take at least an hour and a half.—
When done, take three or four ears of corn,
having first been woll boiled, and scrape orgrate
them into the pan, stirring at the same time.—
In a minute or two the eggs will be done, and
the dish ready to be. served up.
“ I have sometimes added about half au on
ion, cut very fine—it adds to the flavor.”
American Battles. —The following are the
comparative losses of the Rattles of the Revolu
tion, arranged according to priority :
Brit. loss. Aui. loss.
Lexington. April 19, 1775, 273 84
Bunker Hill, June 17, “ 1054 453
Flatbusb, Aug. 12, 1776, 400 200
White Plains, Aug. 26, “ 400 400
Trenton, Dec. 25, “ 1000 9
Princeton, Jan’y. 5, 1777, 400 100
Hubbardstown, Aug. 7, “ 180 800
Bennington, Aug. 15, “ 800 100 i
Brandywine, Sept. 11, “ 500 1200
Stillwater, Sept. 17, “ 600 350
Germantown, Oct’r. 4, “ 600 1200
Saratoga, Octr. 17, “ 5753 sur.
Red Hook, Oct. 22, “ 500 32
Monmouth, June 25, 1778, 400 130
Rhode Island, Aug. 27, “ 260 211
Briar Creek, Mar. 30, 1779, 13 400
Stony Point, July 15, “ 600 100
Camden, Aug. 16, 1780, 377 610
King’s Mountain, Oct’r. 1, “ 960 96
Cowpen’s, Jan'y. 17,1781, 800 72
Guilford C. H. Mar. 15, “ 523 400
Hobkirk’s Hill, April 25, “ 400 400
Eutaw Springs, Sept. “ 1000 550
Yorktown, Oct’r. 19, “ 7072 sur.
- Total, 24,853 9,697
•Tu* World jivst uk Peopled.’—The wife
of Mr. William Tinker, a fisherman in New
York, presented him, on Thursday, with three
little female Tinkers. Mr. Dunn of Detroit, re
cently presented her loved and loving lord with
three little Dunn*. Mrs. K. F. Cannon, of
New Salem, on Tuesday night, presented her.
husband with four small Cannons.
General Taylor’s Personal Appear
ance. —One of the returned volunteers who
fought under General Taylor at Buena Vista,
j has furnished one of our exchanges with the
following graphic and minute sketch of the gen
ral making-up of the old hero. It is so well done
that a portrait might be painted from reading it.
i “ The hero of Buena Vista, around whose
| military brow so many chaplets of fame have
been thrown, in his personal appearance has
many of those striking stamps of nature, which
mark the gentleman and the officer. Os an
average medium height—being about five feet
and nine inches ; he inclines to a heaviness of
frame and general well-developed muscular
outline with some tendency to corpulency; of
square build, now inclines to stoop ; and from
the great equestrian exercise the nature of his
life has led him necessarily to undergo, his in
ferior extremites are somewhat bowed. His
j expansive chest shows him capable of undergo
■ ing that vast fatigue through which he has pas
j sed amid the hammocks and savananhs of Flor
ida, and the still more recent fields of Mex
ico. His face is expressive of great determin
ation ; yet softened by the kindlier feelings of
the soul, as to render the perfect stranger pre
'possessed in his behalf. Ilis head is large,
i well developed in the anterior regions, and
fAovered with a moderate quantity ot hair, now
j tinged by the coloring pencil of time, which he
wears parted on one side, and brushed down
! His eyebrows are heavy, and extend over the
j optic orbit, the eye gray, full offirc, andexpres
j sive when his mental powers are called into
; play, yet reposing as if in pleasant quiet when
in ordinary. II is nose is straight, neither parta
i king of the true Grecian or Roman order; his
lips thin, the upper firm and the lower slightly
projecting. The outline of his face is oval, the
skin wrinkled and deeply embrowned by the
many tropical suns to which he has been ex
posed. His manners are frank and social ; and
nobody ever left his company, without feeling he
had been mingled with a gentleman of the true
olden times. Ife at times appears in deep med-.j
nation, and is then not always accessible. In
his military discipline he is firm, and expects
all orders emanating from his office to he rig
idly enforced and observed, —treats his men not
as helots or slaves, hut exercising only that
command which is necessary for the good of tlic#
whole. To the younger offiicers under
is peculiarly lenient—often treating
faults more with a father’s forgiveness than
with the judgement of a ruler. InJlls general
toilet he does not imitate the Btafn Brummels
and band box dandies of the fashionable
epoch, but dresses his persqpinn unison with his
age and has no great pterlilection for the uni
form. In this, however, he is no ways peculiar,
for a majority of our regular military men seldom
appear in their externals on duty and the sta
tions to which Gen’l Taylor has been assigned
; having been in the warm and sunny South, ren
| dered the heavy blue cloth undress coat, dis
agreeable to the physical feeling. I have
: generally seen him in a pair of grey trousers,
a dark vest, and cither a brown or speckled
frock coat, reaching lower than would suit ihe ■’
starched and prim bucks ot modern civilization.
Jle v rears a long blaclo silk neckerchief, the j
not -looking as iKhe had been torturing
himself to arrange it before a full length mirror.
He sometimes wears a white hat resembling in
shape those used by our flatboatincn, and a
pair oi common soldier shoes, not much pol
ished.’
From the N. O. Delta, August 1.
Gen. Scott in tlic C’ity of Mexico.
j QCAItREt, BSTWKCN SANTA ANNA Sc CANALIZO.
j The National issued the following in an Ex
tra last evening. It seems strange that this
i news should come hy the steamer Massacliu
| setts, which arrived here on Thursday last and
! that up to this time, those in official correspon
l donee with Gen. Scott should not be apprised
!of it. Extraordinary however as it may appear
we have every reason to believe from informa
tion confidently communicated to ourselves,
that it is substantially true—that the main fact
ofGcn. Scott’s entrance into the city of.Mexi
co, is a fixed fact. A few days, and the state
ment will be either confirmed or authoritatively
contradicted, till which time our readers must
bide with what patience they best may.
1 There is news in the city from the city of
Mexico as late as July 17th. It came through by
a Mexican courier who came by the way of Or
izaba and Alverado to Vera Cruz. Gen. Scott
j entered Mexico on the 17th of July. He met
with no opposition on his way from Puebla,
until he arrived at Penon, about eight miles
from the city. Here a slight skirmish ensued
between his advance and the Mexicans, when
the latter fell back. Tho civil authorities then
came out to meet Gen. Scott. Stipulations
were entered upon by which the persons and
i property of the citizens of Mexico, were to be
respected; this accomplished, our army marched
quietly into the city of the Montezumas.
This important news reached hero in the
Massachusetts but has been xvitheld for pur
poses that we do not understand. The author,
ity upon which we publish it seems to us un
undoubtod. The courier that brought this
news could cotno from the city of Mexico via
Orizaba to Vera Cruz in five days, if the weath
er is good, seven under any circumstances.—
The Massachusetts left Vera Cruz on the 23d.
It will be perceived that this allows seven day-s
for the news to reach Vera Cruz by the route
we have stated.
We know upon the highest authority, that
there is a letter now in this city, of the 17th
July, from the City of Mexico. The gentleman
who gave us the information has a letter of the
15th, in which is mentioned the preparations of
families about leaving from the approach of the'*
Yankees.
Santa Anna and Canalizo had quarreled
about the defence of the city. Canalizo did not
want the city injured, as there was no hojjfo of
successful resistance. He preferred to Inoet
our troops in the plain and there decido\tho
contest. Santa Anna would not agree to this,
so no oppositon was made. \
The entrance of Gen. Scott into Mexico is ft
rumor—from the letter of the 15th ice knot\
positively of the families in the city to move on I
the approach of Gen. Scott, and of the quarrel
between Santa Anna and Canalizo, as to the j
defence of the city, and we know that there is a j
letter in tho city, of the 17th, from Mexico.
The courier that brought through the letter
ofthe 17th, brought new* of Gen. Scott's enteiv j
ingthe city. We have no doubt of the truth of i
the report. ‘ |
Revival of the Mubbell Clan.— A slip
from the Paulding (Mi*6.) Democrat, with the
above heading, says a man named Fry, who set
tled about a year since in Newton county, had
caused several slaves of Mr. Daniel Sandall, for
whom he was doing business, to run away—one
1 of the negroes abducting the son of'Mr. Sandall,
a youth about 12. One of the negroes, who has
since been apprehended, says they were per
suaded off under the belief that they would be
taken to a free state and set at liberty. Neither
the boy nor the slave that abducted him, have
been heard of, and fears are entertained that the
child has been murdered. Fry professes to be
-a member of the church, and two men, Win, and
Geo. Mclntosh, are supposed to be his accom
plices. It is thought, also, that they have a con
siderable ainouut of counterfeit North and South
Carolina money. The trio have been lately fig
uring about the Lauderdale Springs. Fry is 22
! years of age, 5 feet 10 or 11 inches high, dark
] complexion, blue eyes, dark hair.
’ Island of Cuba. —The New York Sun con
-1 tains some most extraordinary revelations with
regard to the Island of Cuba. The following
I ° °
statement will excite surprise :
“Cuba by geographical position, of necessity ,
and right belongs to the U. States, it may and j
must be ours. -The moment has arrived to I
place it in our hands and underbur flag. &Cuba j
is hi the market for sale, and we are authorized
by parties eminently able to fulfill what they!
propose, to say that if the United States will I
otfer the Spanish Government one hundred j
millions of dollars, Cuba is ours, and that with i
one week’s notice the whole amount will he paid \
over by the inhabitants of Cuba, alone.”
MUSCOGEE DEMOCRAT
BY L. F. W. ANDREWS.
‘As tittle government ns possible ; that little emanating
from and controlled by the People ■, and unijorm
in its application to all,”
< otmiifnis, 1 „r*4 r gust 5, I!T.
To Correspondents.—of Dr. Burdell’s j
pamphlet on the Teeth, on in our
-
f rTn e poetical stanzas of 1 F. A. A.’ lias hanßvmer
it enough to entitle it to a place.
Anonymous Communications sent us through (fee
Post Office will receive no attention.
Delinquents. —Those of our subscribers (thank
heaven, the number is small.) who having been often
dunned and never pay, need not be surprised if they
arc suddenly cut on’ from our subscription list, and
that without remedy, save a prompt discharge of past
dues and an advance for the future.
Gen. Scott’s Position. —The news by the
last night’s mail is interesting, whether true or
not. The New Orleans papers are rather
doubtful about the truth of the rumor of General
Scott entering the city of Mexico on the 17th of
j July, though it has some probability to rest upon.
■ VVe shall know all about it, in a few days. So
J get your candles ready, boys, for another grand
illumination 1
The Mails. —We continue to receive com
plaints from various quarters, of detention of
our packets by the way-side. The Taibotton
packet never reaches its destination until Mon
day, although it is put into the Post Office here
on Thursday evening, in time for the mail going
east the same night. Whether it is sent or not,
we, of course, do not know, but if it is, it should
reach its destination next day, if the Post-Master
at Pleasant Hill or Bellvieu does his duty. There
are also frequent failures to receive our paper
in season on the Eufaula and Lumpkin routes,
hut the evil is beyond our reach or remedy. The
poor privilege of complaining is all that is al
lowed us by the sovereigns of the P. O. Depart
ment.
Randolph. —Judge Wm. Taylor and Dr.
James B. Smith, have been nominated by the
Democrats of Randolph county, as candidates for
. the House of Representatives of the next Legis
ilature.
I
ALABAMA ELECTION.
j The following is the official return of the elec
j lion on Monday last in the neighboring county
of Russel, from which it will be seen that tlie
| democrats have been routed “ horse, foot and
muleteers.” The whole regular Whig ticket
! has been elected !
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prf.cincts. ; : j- : : : : ; : ~ : ?
Crawford 58 86 66 79 fift 55 95 75 52 79 -10 118
Girard, 272 83 281 78 262 274 99 78 268 74 355 369
Salem 177 177 177 182 167 173 186 193 195 151 197 370
Wacoochee, 46 64 48 66 46 52 63 66 50 53 102 114
Opelika.... 24 12 21 16 24 23 14 10 22 14 00 37
Smith’s.... 50 32 68 26 71 56 31 30 65 28 76 101
Sand Fort,. 84 105 84101 88 70 112 96 83 96 166 191
Kilgore’s,.. 25 23 22 25 26 20 27 18 26 00 47 48
Siinme’s... 57 44 63 36 60 53 48 40 62 14 77 103
Dime's.... 27 53 29 50 26 21 61 59 29 46 74 79
Total,.. .818 681855 659 830797 73966585257512347566
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The Crop. —The Houston Telegraph of the
19th ult. gives a flattering account of the cotton
crop in Texas. The plantations on the Brazos
bottom, are doing finely, and are expected to yield
a crop far exceeding that of former years. The
Galveston News, of the 14th, reports the same
from settlements on the Neches and the Trinity.
In Louisiana, the worm is making considerable
devastation, in somo districts. In Mississippi,
the prospects arc better. In Alabama and Geor
gia, coin crops splendid, but cotton rather un
nfomising; not more than a two-third crop heed
De expected, on an average.
Quack Advertisements so crowd the col
umns of some of the newspapers, that it is as
good as a puke or a dose of Glauber to open
them. The cheapness too at which the various
nostrums of the day are published, not only serve
to enrich the charlatans, but to injure the health ;
and destroy the lives of thousands. The evil will, j
however, eventually correct itsolf, as the news- j
paper patronizing public are beginning to tire of i
.paying tor such stereotyped editions of disgusting
matter.
Suicidal. —We are surprised to notice that
the ‘Journal and Messenger’ is rather favorable
than otherwise to the contemplated Kail.llond
from Wilkes county to the Central Rood. It
strikes us thut such a road would divert more
trade from Macon than it would bring to li. 1
, ~ THE EXECUTION. ,
As we predicted, in our last paper, an im
mense concourse of people assembled on the
I South-East Commons of our city, on Friday the
30th inst. to witness the execution of Jones
Butler, convicted of the murder of Mary Ann
i Coursey. The final scene at the gallows, was
one well calculated to satisfy every right-think
ing person, that the whole system of capital in
flictions, as at present conducted, and designed
, as an example to deter men from crime, is a sol
: emn mockery of all reason and of all Christian
’ principle, and a gross libel upon the civilization
and refinement of the age. Asa mere spectacle
of brutal jurisprudence, its chief tendency is to
; harden the human heart and contribute to the
gratification of the more revengeful feelings of
’ our nature. We did not witness the closing
j scene, but did walk round, previously, through
the dense throng, and closely scanned the multi,
tude, with a view to discover the prevailing mo
-1 tives which brought the people together.
There was a mixture of curiosity, levity, and re.
! venge, strongly depicted in that index to the feel
j ings of the human heart—the countenar.ee—of
I that vast assemblage. The latter feeling pre
! vailed with a greater proportion of those present,
j and it was gratified to such an extent, that even
j the heart-rending and most pitiful appeals of the
j poor wretch to the officers—‘don’t serve me so,’
—‘don’t hang me,’ —‘God have mercy upon
. me ! ’ —together with the horrible writliings of
body and contortions of countenance of the
j doomed youths could not soften it into compassion
for the victim ! There was some exception to
this, however, and we are happy to record so
creditable an instance of humane emotions. At
the moment of knocking the support from under
the platform, several persons were observed to
shed tears, and one respectable looking elderly
lady, unable to control her feelings, cried out in
1 the spirit of wrestling and devout prayer, ‘ Lord,
save the poor stranger’s soul Lord Jesus, re
i ceive the poor stranger’s spirit!’ or words to
| that effect. May we not hope that such a pious
aspiration was heard and answered, as that spirit
ascended to God who gave it!
It is the opinion of the attendants of Butler,
ffert he had not realized the certainty of his fate,
< uiitiKhe heard the music of the‘City Light
Guards\ as they approached the prison. He
1 asked wind it meant, and when told that the
’ military werXporning to escort him to the gal.
lows, he immediately gave an unearthly scream,
J and fell into a strong paroxysm of excitement,
r from which he did not afterwards fully recover,
r causing the officers to tie him, as well as farce
1 him into and out of the carriage and up the steps
sos the gibbet! Oh! it was hard for the poor
. wretch thus to awake from his dream of fancied
i respite or reprieve, only (o be made awfully seri
-1 sible that his time had indeed come, and that
from the ignominious fate of the gallows, there
. was no redemption! The realization of this
f stem truth unnerved the man, and, as many be
i lieve, unsettled his intellect; and in this condi
. tion —the halfway house between raving insan
’ ity and drivelling idiotcy—poor Jones Butler was
; strangled and neck-broken into eternity! After
, a suitable time, his body was cut down and taken
J back to the jail, at the instance of his sister-in
i’ law and one or two others, where it remained
*. until Saturday, when it was inferred in the city
r burial-ground, w ithout any form or ceremony !
, Os the influence of the scene of Friday Fast
■ upon the public mind we sec hopeful indications.
. F.ven the advocates of capital punishments, so
. called, are constrained to plead for the abolition
of the gallows as a public spectacle! They
. suggest that the Legislature do enact, that hcrc
, after executions shall be in private—at the dead
- hour of midnight or at the grey dawn of the morn
■ mg, with none but the officers of the law as wit
nesses of the deed 1 Well, this is one step for
ward to a rational and Christian view of the sub
ject, and is at the same time a demolisher of one
of the chiet arguments in favor of banging, lo
wit: the example to the public ! That being no
longer attained by private executions, we indulge
the hope that it will finally come to be acknow
; lodged, that all other benefits supposed to be de
rivable from the gallows, are as a drop in the
bucket, compared to the great evils which such
a revengeful penal code brings with it. It is
also anticipated that the day is not far distant
when Christian people will be governed by Chris
tian principle in the punishment, of evil doers, and
not fly for refuge to the exploded system of the
ancient Israelites lor authority, under which to
hang people by the neck until they are dead!
Literally understood, that same system sanc
tions the law of retaliation in all its forms.—
‘An eye for an eye ’ —‘ a tooth for a tooth ’ —
brand for brand and burning for burning—were
the requirements of that penal code. ‘They
that take the sword shall perish by the sword,’
is, moreover, as much a Scriptural maxim as
‘ whoso sheddeth man’s blood, by man shall his
blood be shed.’ But wc are not Jews, neither
are we heathen, that we should adopt the ‘ lex
talionis ’ of the one or the savage customs of the
other. We profess, at least, to be a Christian
people and to be governed by the sublime pre
copts of that blessed Redeemer who declared that
he ‘came not to destroy men’s lives, but to save
Uliem.’ Our penal code ought, therefore, to bo
irfcpdelled after the system of this great Reformer
of world. Even our severest punishments
shoijld have for their principal object the reform
at ioh and correction of the offender, instead of his
destruction! This is not only reasonable and
philanthropic, but has the solemn sanctions of
divine teaching, which cannot be set aside by the
vai/ philosophy of the schoolmen or the flippant
denunciations of those who boast of being desti
jhto of‘mawkish sensibilities’ on the subject of
hanging.
But we shall not extend our remarks at the
present, nor enter into the general argument on
the propriety of capital punishment. It js suffi.
dent, that we have thrown off a few thoughts
1 which may serve to lead others to serious con.