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J. vv. & VV. S. JONES. AUGUSTA, Ga. TUESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 25, 1840. ‘
- Vol. IV.— No. 23.
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AUGUSTA.
MONDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 24.
Our Reading Room.
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Western Bank ol Georgia.
We learn from a gentleman of high standing,
direct from Rome, that this Bank is again re
deeming its Bills with current Bills, whenever
they are presented, and he further informs us that
the Cashier, 1 hidan A. Green, Esqr., assured
him their Bank would continue to do so in fu
tuie.
Twenty-Second of February.
The hinh-day of Washington was celebrated
in this city in a manner highly creditable to our
citizens. The Volunteer Companies turned out
in a spirited manner, and at eleven o’clock a pro
cession'feas formed in front of the United States
Hotel,byfy.'hich the Orator and Reader of the
day were escorted to the Presbyterian Church,
where after divine service, Washington’s Farewell
Address was read by the Rev. C. F. Sturgis, and
an impressive and excellent oration was delivered
by William R. McLaws. Esq. We had not the
pleasure of hearing it, as we were absent from lha
city, but we heard it highly spoken of by those
who were more fortunate than ourselves.
Extr.cts of letters received in this city dated
Savaxxah, February 21.
“We have to-day Liverpool dates to 3d Janu
ary, per Olive Branch. They report an advance
of i. Money easy and a firm market, and quote
a 7jd. We have four ships in to-day, and I
| understand they offer to take Id for round bales.
The wind is favorable for arrivals, and we may
look for several more in all this week, and I
think freights will settle dow n to | a J for square
and round. These arrivals will help the market
more than the accounts.”
February 21.
“By the Olive Branch fr.im Liverpool direct,
we have letters to 3d January. Upon a declara.
tion of stock on the Ist. the market became brisk
and an advance of Jd was obtained during the
three days, upon American descriptions. Money
was abundant in London at 5 per cunt interest,
and trade in Manchester brisk.”
February 21.
“ The Olive Branch direct from Liverpool ar
rived this morning, bringing dates to4th Jan
uiry. We have no letters but hear that cotton
had advanced i d since stocks were declared and
that the stocks of American proved 27,000 bales
less than was expected.”
The Philadelphia Commerc’al List of the 15th
says:—‘•On Monday last the ice gave way in the
Delaware River, and the City Ice Boat towed up
the Brig Stranger to the city. Since that period
• number of vessels have arrived and cleared.—
There has been a considerable freshet in the inte
rior, which has brought down an immense quan
tity of floating ice, in some cases 18 to 20 inches
in thickness. The impression is rapidly gaining
"V giound that no destructive measures will be re
sorted to by the Legislature with reference to the
Banks. Goods having arrived, as soon as confi
dence is a little more restored, considerable activi
ty may be expected in the market. The weather
is mild and pleasant.
Extract of a letter received in this city, dated
Philadelphia, Feb. 17, 1840.
“ I regret to say that your cotton lias come to
a very dull market—scarcely any sales making,
and the best Orleans will not command over 11J ;
and I do not see any prospect of improvement;
our stock is about 2300 bales, and 1500 more
dally expected.'
Correspond nee of the Aational Intelligencer.
New Your, Feb. 17, 3 P. M.
The sales of Cotton to-day are 350 bales at
steady prices. In fl >ur, no movement—Booo
bushels bard Long Island wheat were purchased
last week for the English market at 125 c per
bushel.
Storks sold largely at the Board this morning,
and at rather higher prices.
Domestic Exchanges may bo quoted as fol
lows; Philadelphi 6£ a Baltimore 5J a6,
Richmond a7, Charleston 3J a4, Savannah
7, Augusta 8$ a9, Macon 10 all, Mobile a
8, New Orleans 4J a j.
The Silvie de Grasse, which sailed this morn
ing for Havre, takes $106,000 in specie.
William Selden of Virginia has been appoint
ed Treasurer of the United States, in the place
of John Campbell, superceded.
from the Savannah Telegraph of Friday.
Latest Irom England.
The Br. ship Olive Branch, Capt. Sedrick, ar
rived this day, sailed on the sth of January, from
Liverpool, and we understand has accounts to the
4th of last month—having consequently five days
later intelligence.
She brings the good news that the Cotton mar
ket remains steady—Sales of the week 14000
bales, prices ranging from GJ to 7Jd.
New Yotik agaixsttbk Sub-Theasubt.—
The anti-Sub-Treasury resolutions from the
House passed the Senate of New York on Thurs
day, by a vote of 16 yeas to 9 nays. Being
slightly amended, they were returned to the
House, and immediately passed that body by a
vote of 92 to 7. Thus decidedly speaks the Em
pire State against the Sub-Treasury scheme of
Spoils’ party. —National Intelligencer,
Correspondence of the Philadelphia A. American.
New Your, Feb. 14, 3 p. m.
At a meeting of the Board of Directors of the
Manhattan Bank to-day, it was resolved, that a
report of a Committee of the Board made Jan.
15th, and another made Jan. 27th, should be
printed. These reports show that a very large
proportion of the resources of the bank have been
used in loans on demand, secured by stocks and
notes, and that this part of the business ought to
be very largely reduced. The reports do not es
timate the loss as great, and they do not attach
blame to any officer of the bank for having made
them. The subject has ceased to be talked of,
but the publication of those reports (o-morrow,
will bring it up again for one day.
The field of icc at Throg’s Neck was broken
through by the New Haven boat yesterday after
noon, and the navigation of the sound will be re
sumed immedia’ely.
The market for Gennessee flour is rather firm
er again. Sales to-day at $6 50. This is owing
to the opening of the Sound, which makes a de
mand for Eastern ports, where the article is very
scarce.
Cotton is selling pretty freely for exportation.
Prime Uplands, very handsome, I saw sold to-day
at 9| in round, and 10 cents for square bales.
Correspondence of the Aational Intelligencer.
New Youk, February 16, 1840.
The Manhattan Bank has made a report of its
affairs, not over-satisfactory nor extra-promising
fur its stockholders.
Resolutions have passed the New York Assem
bly almost unanimously, asserting the right of pe
tition, and directly censuring the late action in
Congress upon that subject. The first resolution
passed ayes 85, nocs 10, and others without a
division. The Van Buren men, of course, acted
with the Whigs on this subject, and it was not a
pirty question. The action here is quite a
significant sign of the times. It shows what an
important phalanx of Southern defenders the
Northern men with Southern principles, are, and
ust how much dependence the South can put
upon them; hut no matter for this, though, as the
South loves lobe duped on this subject, and is
completely duped by the whole force of the ex-
Regency of the State.
The fact is, the only defence of the States and
their institutions, under the Constitution of the
United Sta.es, is the Cans rvatism of the
Whigs. The Locofocos of the Park, with wh >m
Mr. Calkoux has just shaken hands, believe in
no contract that cannot he repealed by a majority
at will, and in no Constitutions the majority may
not in an hour upset. They temporize, it is true,
but with Southern slav i institutions, as with
Northern banks, if the People will them down,
down they must go, Thsir ideas of the largest
liberty embrace all mankind—the emigrants of
all races, and the colors of all human kind. If
the Whigs of the North were in abolition what
they are charged with being often, the Van Uu
ren men would, and must of necessity follow, for
their principles dispose them to abolition for the
whole human race, as well as to (he abolition of
all restrain : ng law ; and whenever the Whigs
take a step like that just taken in the New York
Hou-e of Assembly, the Van Buren men, of
course, go with them on such a subject as fares
the furthest. However, the South so loves lic
ing duped, of late, that it is scarcely worth the
while to show them how it is done. I commend
the action of New York, though, to the attention
of the Southern Whig Press. The Northern
man with Southern principles has ten whole men
in the popular body of the great Sta.e of New
York! The rest ran away ia action, and could
not stand fire!
New York, February 16.
There are no arrivals of importance. Wc
continue hourly to expect later news from Eu
rope.
The Eastern mail brings us nothing extraordi
nary, A great Temperance Convention is assem
bled in Boston.
There is nothing new in the city. Our river
is open some distance, and, to ascertain how far,
a steamboat to-morrow will go up to see. The
Sound is again passable, and boats go through it
daily.
The Southern mail (3 o'clock) has not reach
ed our post office. It is to be hoped the Post
master General and the Baltimore and Philadel
phia rail road will soon make some anangement,
for never was a quarrel, to the Public, more vexa
tious.
New Yobk, February 17, 1840.
The steamship Liverpool on her voyage out put
into Fayal, one of the Western islands, for a
supply of coal, December 31, and sailed agai.i
January 3. This news, via Boston, relieves the
anxiety of the insurance offices, which where
pretty fall upon the gold and silver taken out in
her.
The Eastern steamboat leaves to-day, for the
first time since the Sound was closed, with the
mail for Boston. Large masses of ice are com
ing down the North river.
Slocks to-day have been quite lively in Wall
street, with the exception ofthe Manhattan. The
patchwork report from that institutions on Sa
turday did not last over that day, and the conse
quence was a decline to-day to 97. The Public
nre very much dissatisfied with the management
of this bank, and it is now clear that its money i
i has tieen loaned to the brokers to shave notei
with, when it had none for legitimate business
and merchants.
1 he agent who has been coasting along Lon);
Island shore for the discovery of the dead bodies
lost by the Lexington, has returned without find,
ing any. It is not at all improbale, however, lhal
some will be found by-and-hy.
Correspondence of the Baltimore American.
Washington, Feb. 17.
USITItI) STATES SENATE. —PUBLIC LANDS.
Mr. Dixon, of Rhode Island, presented the Res
olutions of the Legislature of Rhode Island, ask
ing Congress to divide the proceeds arising from
the sales ol the Public Lauds among the several
■Hates of the Union. Mr. D. in presenting these
Resolutions, remarked that they were similar to
the Resolutions which had been before offered,
referring to that subject. No Stale, Mr. D. re
marked, had done more to secure the possession
of the public domain for the Union than Rhode
Island—the citizens of no State had done more
to achieve the Independence of the country in her
Revolutionary struggle. The Public Lands, Mr.
D. contended, belonged to the old States, and was
their property in common with the new States.
After the resolutions had been read, Mr. Cal
houn remarked that he did not believe that the
respected State of Rhode Island hail ever seen the
bill of his which proposed the cession of the Pub
lic Lands among the several States of the Union
in which the lands were located. He believed
that the State of Rhode Island had got their in
formation from letter writers or newspapers which
presented fiction for truth. Be that as it may,
the resolutions, said Mr. Calhoun, do not fairly
state the character of my bill, which proposes a
partial equivalent for the lands ceded to the Stales.
My bill also, said Mr. Calhoun, U designed to
diminish patronage, which gentlemen on the op
posite side so much desire.
Mr. < lay said that in his humble opinion the
resolutions of Rhode Island pretty nearly, if not
altogether, sta,ed the effect of the character of the
bill of Mr. Calhoun. The bill proposed to cede
all the lands belonging to the United Stales to the
States wherein the lands lie. It was true that one
half the receipts were to be returned to the Govern
ment, but the States were to be the collectors of
this one-half, and though they might not like
some of our collectors, run away with the one
half, yet it would doubtless be very inconvenient
for them to meet the debt required of them by the
Government. Many excuses would be made,
and much time and accommodation asked. He
d mbted even if some would not ask to be reliev
ed from their debts upon the ground that the land
belonged to them, or for some other reason.
Mr. Calhoun said he was not to be provoked
into a discussion at this time. When the Com
mittee on the Public Lands took up this question,
he should go into it, and be ready to meet the
Senator from Kentucky or any body else. He
should show that his bill was an important meas
ure of public policy, and that it would not result
as that Senator supposed. “As for the opinions
ofthe Senator born Kentucky,” said Mr. Calhoun,
“ I have no confidence in them—none whatever.”
Mr. Clay.—l am equally unwilling to protract
debate or throw hindrances in the way of the Sen
ate—but I wish to say to the Senator from South
Carolina, that I heartily reciprocate all that he
has said in regard to tbeconfidei.ee he had in my
opinions or remarks.
Igo a little further, said Mr. Clay. I have no
respect for his opinions, past, present, nr to come.
Whenever the Senator from South Carolina, rises
in his place and with his usual egotism sends out
a challenge, and one to me, I shall in my poor
way make as good a defence as I can. That Sen
ator’s frequent description of his powers are no
doubt equal to his genius.—l grant that he has
that, but I must say that I am tired of hearing from
him these continued exhibitions of his personal
powers, morals and intellectual strength.
Mr. Calhoun said—l shall not rise to notice
the personalities of the Senator. I have but risen
to say that I have not misstated the character of
my own bill. I scarcely ever speak continued
Mr. C. that he does nut rise to answer me. To
day he has come in between me and the Senator
from Rhode Island. I consider that my proposi
tion was wrongly staled by the Legislature of
Rhode Island, and I have but corrected the mis
take.
Mr. Clay said—l appeal to the Senate as to
who began the personal allusions complained of.
He commenced by stating in an uncourteous, un
usual, and unparliamenlary way, that ne had no
confidence in my opinions. He wishes to make
an attack upon me and then assume the position
of one acting on the defensive. This is bis usual
and his wiley course. What arc the facts? The
Senator from South Carolina rises to correct the
proceedings of the Legislature of Rhode Island.
He wishes to say that the Leg'slalum have miss
tated his bill. My opinion is that they have not
and so believing I have corrected the Senator’s
errors. Pressed by the sensitiveness of his na
ture, and his natural egotism, continued Mr. Clay
he leaveshisown position, uses different language
and makes an attack upon me.
The Senator and myself are antagonislical to
each other. We are so naturally, in character
and principle. I feel that we shall remain so. I
am content.—But whenever that Senator wraps
himself in his mantle cf self defence,,dies upon
the sympathy of his friends rather than upon the
justice of his cause—when he chosesto challenge
me to meet him in any honoiable way, I will meet
him, and in his language repel attack.
From the U, S. Gazette.
Mn. Joseph R. Chandler,—Sir:— Permit
me, through the medium of your Gazette, to
make a few remarks in regard to the present debt
of Mississippi. In 1833, from September to De
cember, there were several thousand slaves car
ried to, and sold in that state. The success with
which the traders met induced a number of keen,
enterprising men to embark in that unfeeling
traffic the succeeding fall. In the fall of 1834
(he trade was tripled. The traders sold out, at
fine profits, for bills on New Orleans at four
months time Previously they had required cash
in hand. The trade had now been universally
profitable for two years.
The speculators from Kentucky, Virginia,
Tennessee, North and South Carolina, Georgia,
Missouri aud Maryland, directed their attention
to it, to the neglect of other important enterpris
es. In the fall of 1835, slaves, in great multi
tudes, were driven to the slate, quadrupling any
previous year. The demand abroad advanced
the price. The competition forced the traders
to give from twelve t • fifteen months lime, add
ing ten per cent. interest; but the prices advanc
ed from S7OO to SIOOO, and at the close of the
sales to SI2OO. average. So soon as the planter
learned he could purchase on time, by bills on
New Orleans, the advanced price ceased to bean
objection, and he bought liberally. The traders
now soon sold all they had, returned home with
the accepted bills, cashed them in bank, and not
only embarked in it again more largely them
i selves, but induced their friends and acquaintan
■s ces also to engage in it. Every comer of the
,s slaveholding states was now ransacked, and every
dwidling visited by the trader. Prices advanced
B still higher and higher. The fall of 183fiisa
■8 time long to lie remembered. All the public
highways to Mississippi became lined—yea lit
*l crallv crowded—with slaves. When they ar
rived, the immense number (swelling the rise of
40,000) made the callous hearts of all the traders
ache. I hey pitched their tents upon the brow of
every hill, surrounding each town and village in
the slate, awaiting the call of purchasers. No
one came. I'he winter of 1837 approached, and
but few, very few, sales were yet effected. At
u ll ,o y adverti-ed they would give one and two
,1 years time, by bills of New Orleans, adding ten
per eent. interest discount.
„ terms were accepted by the planters, and
many were induced to purchase a second, and
’ even a third supply at from 12 to SIBOO each,
u All the slaves were soon sold. But by this time
e 'he merchants began to give way. N, arly all
e the bills made by the planters in the fah of 1835
r and spring of 1836, at from twelve to fifteen
months time, were protested for non-payment,
j The bills for the whole of the purchase in the
winter and spring of 1837 were protested for
non-acceptance. 'The negro speculators became
B alarmed. They went to work in February and
March, and in three months time had secured
their debts by deeds in trust and mortgages upon
nearly the whole properly of the stale. In three
I years, the slave population of Mississippi increas
ed from 70,000 to 150,000 slaves! at an aver
j age cost of at least SIOOO each ! making the debt
for slaves alone, in three years, swell to $90,000,-
’ 900 !! From 1833 to 1837, cotton bore an ex
' orbitant high price.
This, together with the increased force, indu
’ ecd the planter to direct all his energy to its cul
tivation, relying upon purchasing every article of
consumption. He neglected to raise his corn and
6 P os h ;he had to purchase more mules, horses and
t ploughs, open more lands, and increase his bills
e with the merchants, whom he totally neglected to
, P«y- When the crash came in May, 1838, all
B the paper held against the planter by the mer
chant, or nearly all, was transferred to the banks,
or sued upon by the merchants. The c owd of
j. business in the different Courts delayed judg
-0 ment, and when ju Igrnent was at last obtained,
the sheriff's and marshals could find nothing
1 ! carcely to levy upon. Bankruptcy and ruin
t among some of the merchants were inevitable :
and in their full they crushed the hanks. 'The nc
’ gro trader stood by with cold indifference, and be
held towns depopulated and large plantation at-
I tor plantation laid waste, growing up wiih thorns
I and briers, without feeling one pang of remorse
for the ruin and wretchedness they had brought
upon the country ; laughing at their own safety
and security.
, A change has taken place. By a late decision
' in the Federal Court at Jackson, it was decided
that according to the amended constitution of M is
j sissippi, which took place in 1832 and winter of
s 1833, all contracts for slaves since May, 1833, are
made null and void, the constitution forbidding
• the introduction of slaves for sale. Two-thirds
of the present debt of the state is for slaves bought
since May, 1833. The mortgages to the negro
i traders are now all laid aside, and cease to trouble
, the minds of the planters. Millions of dollars,
' that were considered hopelessly lost, will now be
made. Banks, that had encumbered the planter’s
, properly with second liens, will now obtain their
money. Merchants,that had obtainedjudgments,
‘ ha'e once mote set the sheriff to work ; and the
planters, instead of applying all their means to
‘ the liquidation of the negro debt, feel themselves
able to pay banks and merchants. When the
, crop of 1841 has gone to market, you. and the
whole world will be astonished to find exchange
turned in favor of Mississippi. Nevertheless, it
I will be so. She is now less legally involved, for
her resources, than any stale in the Union ; and
will, in two years, number among the wealthiest
states of the Union. A Hcectatob.
■ Jaduary 28, 1840.
From Blackwood's Magazire.
The Fireman's Trial by Fire.
A TRUE TALE. — BT R. D, U.
All the world remembers, no doubt, the burn
ing of the distillery belonging to Mr. B-—, at
Dublin. On that occasion an adventure happen
ed to me which never had, and I ho te never will
have a parallel. I reside in Dublin, where lam a
physician. The evening of the fire, I had gone
to the neighborhood of Harold's Cross to super
intend the bathing of one of my patients, whose
case was, to me, an object of peculiar interest.—
As I was returning about 11 o'clock at night, the
glare of light reflected by the clouds in the north
west, attracted my notice, and I immediately di
rected my steps that way. The distillery was a
long structure, supported at one end by an old
building forming two wings, and at the other by
a similar but perfectly new edifice, in fact, not
yet finished.
On my arrival, the large yard presented an ex
ceedingly animated spectacle, as may Ire readily
conceived. ’Three engines poured torrents of wa
ter over the roofs and into the windows from
which the flames wcie bursting. It was like a
battle of the two elements. The whole yard
swam in water, which reflected the gushing
flames, rendered dazzling by the motion of the
men who stood in it ankle deep. The engineers
were mounted on their machines, giving orders to
those around and above them, bawling through
their trumpets to those stationed on the roofs who
sometimes disappeared altogether amid the vo
lume of smoke which swept gradually upward,
and then re-appearing, they seemed like bronzed
statues, relieved by a back ground of glowing
flame. I was not long inactive in such excite
ment. and in a few minutes found myself diench
ed with water and perspiration. One of the du
ties in which I took part, was rolling out from
the wareh >uses in which they were stored, the
barrels of spirits, which it was feared would take
fire, end render ten-fold the destruction and ex
tent of the conflagration. To do this it was ne
cessary to pass over a platform of mason work
which uncased a vast copper boiler, very deep;
the mouth or opening of which was on a level
with the platform, and of two or three feel diam
eter. At some six feet above our heads was a
floor, the beams of which rested in. and extended
through the wall, which alone protected us from
the flames. . J .fler I had made two or three turns
on this platform, one of the speculators who had
witnessed my exertions, directed my attention to
the ends of the joints, which were just taking
fire; the floor would undoubtedly soon fall, and
perhaps drag down with it the opposite wall, the
mortar of which was still wet. I retreated a few
steps, hut at this moment I saw at the other side
of the platform a man lielonging to one of the
insurance companies, who made a sign to me to
give him assistance. Casting my eyes upwards
to the floor above, and was scarcely mounted on
it before a mass of mason work fell upon us. I
know not how 1 escaped being killed ; the ladder
was broken in splinters; a whirlwind of smoke,
ashes, and flume encircled me, and I wag lost—l
soutd not find the place I had left. I became bo
e wildcred ; I attempted to run ; a rush o*f flame
r stopped me. Then I was just about to be crush
-1 ed by a fulling beam, for it rained fire around me,
i when I felt my footing give way, and my cars
' were greeted by the sonorous sound of surround
■ ing metal. I had fallen into the large copper boil
• er. Well, thought I, when my first fears vanish-
I ed, after all lam in greater safety here ti.an above,
1 amid falling limbers and surrounding flame.
I And without making any calculations how I was
to extricate myself from my prison when the fnc
i was extinguished, I settled myself as well as pos
sible in my strange abode, “ to bide my time.”
Alter this I could hear nothing but thj falling
1 of limbers and brick, which seemed to strike, re
bound and descend again in rapid succession.—
It was like a world rolling on above my head. I
thought at one lime the boiler was going to be
crushed but the surrounding mason-work protect
ed it. A considerable quantity of rubbish fell
into the boiler through the opening. To this rub
bish, it will be seen, I owe my life. An enor
mous beam fell upon the upper part of it; the
copper gave way without breaking, so that there
was a great bruise inside,
i In the midst of the noise, which the concavity
of my metal prison rendered perhaps more lerri
! riblc by its reverberation, I believed myself for
1 ever lost. I tried to climb up the sides of the
1 boiler. Vain effort! They were smooth as glass,
i My prison was at least fourteen feet in diameter,
t and almost as high. It was a cage, from which
• escape seemed impossible. I began to estimate
my chances of getting out, when the whole of the
; old wall fell, and the greater part ofthe wreck
fell around my prison.
Despair now seized upon me as I gazed upon
the roaring furnace above me. Burning cinders
fqjßahout me like a fiery snow. I stood close
the sides of my prison-house, to avoid the
F fire-brands. Expecting death every instant, I in-
I slinctively shut my eyes and cast down my head,
I and in my terror gradually sunk upon my knees,
i awaiting the blow which was to crush me. I
• was recalled from thi- stale of agony by the glare
I of bursting flames, which having now free vent,
• shot up as from a volcano, lighting up my copper
house till it shone like gold itself. Although the
f fire roared in the wind, my poor ears rang through
my head, and that which passed above, around,
within me, no one can conceive, no pen describe.
After some time, all this confusion began to be
calm, and I bethought me once more how to es
cape. To climb along the copper sides was out
of the question. I made then a kind of rope out
of my clothes, and, fixing a brick at one end, I
threw it out of the opening in the belief it would
catch into some point over the edge of the open
ing. to enable me to mount by it. Vain hope !
the edge ofthe opening was on a level with the
mason-work surrounding it. I cried aloud in the
hope of being heard. No answer came. I rap
i ped with a brick against the resounding walls of
I my prison; but the noise, which at any other time
’ would have waked hall the town, was drowned
[ in the superior noise without—of the thousands
in the crowd, of the dying and the workmen.
I endeavored to retign myself with patience till
i the extinguishment of the fire. Then the idea
struck me that perhaps I might be heard by call
ing through the spout by which the boiler was
emptied—a pipe large enough to admit a man’s
arm. This hole was in the bottom of the boiler.
I stooped down to put my mouth to the orifice.
My hands were covered with wet gloves, so that
it was not till I put my lips to the metal that I
discovered a frightful truth: the copper was so
hot that I could not touch it! I could not think
of my horrid situation without shuddering. I
jumped up hastily ; I made incredible eff rts to
climb—to leep out. I might as well have tried to
scale the heavens! I cried, I bawled out for
help till I was hoarse. The hissing ofthe flames
■done answered my ejaculations. I rested myself
upon the heap of rubbish, resigning myself to the
thought that I was about, literally, to lie "proven
in a furnace of braes, seven times healed."
I put my hand to my forehead; it was covered
with a cold sweat. I took from my pocket my
little thermometer, I had to regulate the bath of
my patient. It stood at 40 deg. I placed the
ball in contact wiih the copper sides of the boiler:
the mercury rose with such rapidity that I feared
the tube would bu st. Then I remained some
time in a state of stupor. My courage abandon
ed me, I confess it, when the thought crossed me
of the torments fur which I was reserved when
the copper attained a red heat, which I had reason
to fear would be the cai-e. The thermometer was
at 45 deg. Reaumer: but I knew the experience
ol Fordyce and Ranks had proved that the living
fibre can, for a limited lime, withstand a heat of
twice that power without decomposing. A ray of
hope came o reanimate me, when I thought of
the many examples my own studies had furnished
me. I recalled the instance of the young girl of
Lnrochefoulcault, who entered an oven at a heat
of 142 deg. According to Bonnerat, there are
fish which live in water at 65 deg., in the springs
of Manill s. 1 endeavored to recollect the names
of the plants of which the same author speaks, in
the island ol Lacon, the mots of which are imbed
ded in water ofthe temperature 0f79 deg.
At length I tried to convince myself that the
copper was heated from the fire above, which
would soon'diriiii.ish, and as Iho|el the boiler
would then cool. But. alas ! the continued ri
sing of the mercury dissipated that feeble hope.—
I then sal about calculating at what temperature
lb r metal must arrive before the. air around me
s'iou d become heated to 120 deg., which, I thought
I might support without death. But my head be
came confused, so that I could not follow up my
inquiries. These efforts, however, served to pre
serve my presence of mind. I could even take
notes, and make the following memorandum, a
kind of scientific will, written in view of an evi
dent death. The following I threw out of the
boiler, attached to a brick :
“I am Dr. M ,of street. Whoever
finds this paper, let him come to the boiler, in the
new building, where lam burning to death.—
Bring a ladder with you.”
“Half-past twelve! Quick! Hasbn!"—
(This and two others I bad thrown out in the
same manner.)
“My will is in the left hand draw of my book
case. I wish George N to ha' emy papers.
Those which relate to the affair of 8 , I wish
burned up. My wet clothes produce around mo
a cloud of steam. Thermometer at 52°.
“36 minutes before one. The air is suffocat
ing. lam wet with perspiration. I will write
as long as 1 can.”
“15 l«iore one. Therm. 65°.”
“13 before one. Therm. 60°.”
“10 betbre one. Therm. 66°. My clothes
are now dry as tinder—they are stiff to the
touch.”
• 5 past one. Therm. 77°. I have taken off
my two coats, wh ch I hold above my head.
The outer gives to the inner air an agitation
which makes the heat insupportable.”
“8 past one. Therm. Bi°. My watch burns
—I have taken it out of my fob. My pened be
comes very hot; and yet my body is still cool.
The theory of ,on the radiation of heat
must lie false.”
“13 past one. Therm. 90°. 16 past one.
’ .* f • 11 W • Al/ *
T.ier m. 02°. I have taken off every thing ex-
cept my boot*. lam not able to austain a con
tact with any thing whatever. The air I exhale
hale ~my Unß * “ ppearß cooler ‘l>an that lin
‘•My watch is stoopped, from the expansion of
the metal. Therm. 99°.”
“The flames above me are almost expended.
Ijight begins to fail me. The edges of the boil
er are becoming red hot. Oh, my God ! Water
would boil where lam now writing. Were it
not for .he rubbish, the clothes would burn un
der my feet. I have taken off my bools, the iron
on the heels would scorch the cloth of my coat.’'
“104°. lam going to be roasted alive. My
last thoughts are lor my wife and poor children.
O, God I have pity on me and them. Give to
them the strength which fails me. An ox would
roast here ”
‘‘llo°. My hands are covered with blisters.
Parts of the boiler are red hot. The perspiration
running off me. is drying up my insides. Great
God ! how long is this to last I I shall soon bfe
all withered up. Heaven grant I may die before
1 touch the burning metal! Oh, my dear*»*»
’ } can no longer hold the thermometer
—it has fallen and is broken. Whoever finds
this memorandum is requested to carry it to Mr.
“ ’ street. I resign my affairs his
d.scre the heat inere the smell of the
burning metal will suffocate me. The heat in
creases still. My bowels seem oh, horrid
thirst— my breath going lam covered
bhs. Good God, what have I done I Pity
me—pity me for the love of Christ. I die I
pardon my enemies forgive me, heaven!”
Feeling myself about to sink. I hastened to
wrap my pocket-book in my handkerchief with
a handful of small stones and I collected all my
strength, for the purpose of throwing it out o‘. my
fiery prison. The rapid motion of my arm
through the air had the same effect as if I had
plunged it into boiling water. Now for the first
time, my senses seemed to fail, and a faintness
came over mo, which made me hoj e I was going
to die without falling against the red hot copper.
But these symptoms disapj eared, and left me a
prey to all the intensity of agony. My .ace, neck
and sbouldeis were covered with blisters. I felt
that decomposition by fire had commenced in my
legs. The fluids of my body seemed absorbed
and exhaled by cutaneous and pulmonary respira
tion. I believe firmly, that it was this want of
fluid that prevented my skin from being convert
ed into one immense blister. The word torture
is too weak to exprers what I suffered. In this
horrible slate of agony, my eyes fell upon the
veins of my aims, which were swelled by the
want of circulation. The flames died away and
left me in darkness—that, frightful daiknets
which rendered visible the dreadful brightness of
the burning copper, which on the side of the out
let, approached to white heat! • • • A
dreudiul thought came over my mind—a thought
inspired by the devil, and distilled in the fires of
hell. The fresh wind of the night brought again
over the boiler the dying flames. A mometary
light showed me the half burned cloths upon
which I had been standing. I seized my panta
loons—l rummaged the pockets—l found some
pieces of money, the heat of which had burned
the muslin. But it was not money I wanted—it
was my knife. I found it, and half opened it.
Ihe blade burned my fingers, I cast it Irom me
crying, “My God, deliver me from temptation !”
My prayer was granted. I heard voices above
me—some one approached me;—they came to
my assistance. I was saved f Six weeks after
wards I began to be able to leave my bed.
About five hundred actions now pending in the
Massachusetts Courts for violation of the license
law, will be stopped by the repeal of the law.
Texas.— The estimated increase of the popu
lation of Texas during the past year is 100,COO.
The administration thinks, that it cannot con
stitutionally use the Banks of the States as de
positories of the public money. Dues it think
that it can constitutionally use the penitentiaries
of the States as depositories of the keepers of the
public money ?— Prentice.
A Texan paper says that a yankee came to
that country some time ago, as he said, to cie; it
was so healthy in Maine, where he belonged,
that folks lived fore'er. After remaining in Hous
ton a year he found that he weighed ten pounds
more than he did when he quit home, whereupon
he resobed to visit New Orleans in August, and
said if that did not finish him he should return to
home and wait patiently for the millenium.
On a subject of great moment to newspaper
publishers, the New York Allas termonizelh in
the manner following, to wit:
“A man who promptly pays his advertising bills,
is one of nature’s noblest works. The fact estab
lished is at once a passport fur him into society,
which he ornaments by bis virtues; but the wretch
who advertises in a paper and does not pay, who
reinorseles-dy can cheat a printer, is unfit for any
hut the lowest and most depraved society, if known
be should be shunned by all honorable men. No
good and pretty girl would encourage the addresses
of such a man for a moment, and when he dies, he
tumbles into pi, rotten and corrupt, leaving behind
him no bright mcmoiy to sweeten bis ashes.”
It is estimated that there are about five hun
dred actions now pending in the Massachusetts
Courts for violation of the license law, which
will lie stopped by the repeal of the law.
MARRIED,
In Greene county, on Thursday the 20th inst. by
the Hon. Thomas Stocks, Major Stewart An
derson, to Miss Mary Watson, daughter of Jo
seph Watson, late of Greene county.
MARINE INTELLIGENCE.
Savannah, February 21.
Cleared —Hr ship James Morgan, Furguson, Liv
erpool.
Arrived —Br ship Orbit, Robinson, London; brigs
L Baldwin, Bassett, New York; Wm Taylor,
Hoey, do.
At Quarantine— Ships Argo, Farley, Boston;
Hamilton, Killham, do.
Went to sea —Br barks Marry, Godfrey, Liver
pool-, Spence, Nicoll,Greenock; Br brig Lady Dou
glass, Logan, Liverpool.
Charleston, February 22.
Arrived yesterday —U SMailschr Thames. Giif
fith, Key West via Indian Key; scbn John A lyne,
Hawes, Matanzas; Jans Bourne, Perkins, St.
Marks.
At quarantine —Line ship Leland, Miller, Bos
ton; ship Charleston, Winsor,do; brig Commaquid,
from do.
Cleared —Ship Harriet & Jessie, M’Known, Liv
erpool Line ship Lucas, Kldridge, Boston; Brschc
Admiral Colpoys, Tucker, West Indies.
Went to sea yesterday —Brigs Jo h n C Calhoun,
Bullen. Havana; Caspian, Swasey, da