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CHRONICLE AND SENTINEL.
A IJ GUSTA.
FRIDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 28.
Virginia Legislature—New Jersey.
The following resolutions, which conclude the
repoit of the Committee appointed hy the Mouse
of Representatives of Va., to whom was referred
the resolutions of the Legislature of New Jersey,
speak the language of freemen who duly appre
ciate the value of our institutions, and feel justly
indignant at the late violent assault which the
elective franchise has received hy the recent pro
ceedings of the Mouse of Representatives, in ex
cluding the New Jersey members from their scats.
The frequent outrages which this branch of the
National Legislature have committed upon the
laws and constitution, call loudly for redress; and
we trust that the day of reckoning is near at
hand ; when the people, aroused from the lethar
gy which has so long spell-bound them, will
assert the dignity of their station, and teach those
who arc their servants their duties to the country,
its laws and constitution. They have hut to will
it, and the work will go bravely on, until the
national councils will be freed from the malign
influence of men, who seek no distinction but that
of the biawling, vulgar partisan, advocate no
cause but that which promotes the views of their
party leaders, and pursue that course which
promises a reward for their humiliating degrada
tion, even if it sacrifice the best interests of the
' country: —and in their places will be found those
who, rising above tne paltry considerations which
vibrate through the souls of such men, (if indeed
they have souls,) will stand forth nobly and fear
lessly in defence of the constitution and laws.—
1 his is no chimera. There are to be found men,
rare we confess, in whose bosoms the fires of ’76
still burn, who would most nobly sacrifice all
personal and parly aggrandizement for the pub
lic good.
Virginia Legislature.
Ho use of Delegates, February 19.
Mr. Southall, from the Select Commute, made
a report on the New Jersey case, concluding with
the following resolutions:
1. Resolved, That the late acts of a portion of
the Representatives from the several States, by
which five of the persons who wereduly commis
sioned under the great seal of the State of New
Jersey, as her Representatives in the 26th Con
gress of the United States, were prevented from
exercising their rights, and discharging their du
ties as such Representatives, were a flagrant a
buse of power, a palpable violation of the Parlia
mentary law established by reason and unvary
ing usage, a precedent of most alarming and
dangerous character, and an outrage upon the
rights and feelings of the People of New Jer
sey.
2. Resolved , That each State of this Confed
eracy should make common cause with her sister
Slate of New Jersey—should deem the injury to
all—and should use their best efforts to restore
the said State to her constitutional position in
the Unii n.
3. Resolved. That each State,as the law now
is, has the sole, absolute, and unqualified right to
prescribe, the mode and manner of its elections
of members to the Congress of the United States,
as well as the form and character of the commis
sion nr return, which its repective Representatives
should hear wiht them to that body.
4. Resolved, That the Governor of this Com
monwealth, transmit a copy of the foregoing re
port and resolutions to the Senators and Repre
sentatives in Congress from this State, with arc
quest that the same belaid before the two Mouses
of Congress—and that he be requested to com
municate a like copy to the Executive of each
State in this Union, with a request to submit the
same to their respective Legislatures.
Mr. Southall moved that the report and resolu
tions be laid on the table and printed—which was
agreed to.
[Mr Chapman said that he had no objection to
printing the report—but that the minority of the
committee expected in a few days to make a coun
ter-report, whicn-he should also ask to be prin
ted.]
Mr. Kites.
The Richmond Whig of the 24th inst. contains
the first part of a long letter from this gentleman:
in teply to the letter of a friend, who requested his
views on the subject of the pending election for
President; and what course lie thought ought to
be pursued by those Conservatives who op
poselbe leading features of the present Admin
istration. As the length of the letter precludes
its insertion, we extract the following notice of its
contents from the \\ big :
Mr. Hives.—The Tories.
The last. Jeffersonian Republican contains a
long and splendid letter from Mr. Rives, fully dc
fining his position, (of which no man within the
* twelve month iiasen'ertained a doubt) and avow
ing his tin Iterable opposition to the re-election
of Mr. Van Duren. Mr. Rives briefly hut trium
phantly vindicates himself from the aspersions of
the Court adherents, and exhibits in a strong
point of view the rectitude and patriotism of his
own course, by a masterly exposition of the bane
ful measures and ambitious designs of Mr. Van
Bursn. He could not consistently with the Re
publican principles whi di he has ever cherished,
d fad to oppose an Ad ninistration, which has per
severed against the voice of the people, in urging
upon the country schemes tiie most ruinous to
H, the national prosperity and utterly destructive of
our Republican institutions. He demonstrates
the present Administration to be Federal—ultra
Fedeial in all its lending measures, and on ac
jj| count of that and its hypocritical professions, to
bo wholly unworthy the confidence and support
of a free people. He takes a review of the opin
ions and acts of Gen. Harrison as shown by the
recards of the country, and he pays the old Farmer
I
of North Bend a high tribute of praise, which a
grateful country will delight to echo. He runs a
parallel between Gen. Harrison and Mr. Van Bu
ren—contrasts their opinions on many important
subjects, and their acts at several critical periods
of our history, and awards, as every impartial
man must, the crown of merit and the badge of
Republicanism to the retired chief and calumnia
ted patriot of Ohio. He refutes, by the record,
many oftheTory calumnies upon Gen. Harrison,
, and pronounces him emphatically, as ho is, the
“ Republican candidate.” In reference to the
charge of Abolition, he says:
“ The most prominent of these charges, which
is still wantonly retreated, is that Gen. Harrison is
an abolitionist. I have recently investigated with
care, all the evidences of his principles and con
duct on this as well as other important public
questions, and I am thoroughly convinced that if
there bo one man who has entitled himself to the
gratitude of the South beyond all others, hy the
noble and disinterested zeal he has at all times
manifested, die sacrifices he has freely made, the
single-heartedness with which he has exposed
, himself to persecution and political proscription
in defence of the Constitutional rights of the
South and the peace and safety of their firesides,
against all interference, whether of fanaticism or
! political ambition, that man is Win. Henry Har
rison of Ohio.”
Spirit ol the Times.
The last,number of this valuable Chronicle .of
Sporting and Agricultural Intelligence, comes to
us richly freighted, in addition to its usual quan
tity of matter, with two beautiful steel plate en
gravings, portraits of Shark and IlEiioEroni>,in
excellent preservation. Totiie admirers, and who
is not ? of that most noble of all animals, the
horse, this enterprise on the part of the Proprie
tors. must form an acquisition to his work, as
interesting as it is beautiful and valuable.
Mods. Adrian.
This Prince of Magicians reached this city
yesterday evening from Charleston, where lie lias
been delighting the good citizens for some time
with his inimitable and unrivalled powers.
Mons. A. assures us that ho has recently re
turned from France, whence he brought the richest
and rarest cabinet that lias ever been introduced in
this country, with which he contemplates giving
an exhibition as soon as he can prepare for the
reception of visitors. If there are any who have
never witnessed his very extraordinary exhibi
tions, we commend them us well as those who
have seen, to go. And we promise them that if
he does not show them a trick, by which they
can ward oft'the pressure of the times, he will at
least so interest them as to ref-eve their minds for
a time from the cares of business.
Messrs. Black and Cooper
The admirer, as we have always been, of an
independent, untramelled press, it gives us pleas
ure to lay before our readers the following article
from the Southern Recorder, on the subject of the
vote, these gentlemen gave for Printer to Con
gress.
Although the article meets our uuqualified ap
probation, wc confess that, we should have been
more pleased, had it made its appearance at an
earlier day. For the delay savours a little of a
wish to consult the popular current.
“To ourselves, and we believe we say not too
much when wc add, to the great body of the State
Rights party of Georgia, tiie vote of Messrs.
Cooper and Black, for the Globe, broke upon us
like a thunder-clap from a cloudless sky. These
gentlemen are representatives of the State Rights
Parly of Georgia—the contest was between a
paper which had done more injury to the Stale
Rights Party than any other; which had heaped
more abuse upon the members of that partv, than
came from any other source; which had denoun
ced State Rights principles as treason, and State
Rights men as traitors; which has warred upon
our party in Georgia, aiding our opponents by
every means, even i.i our State elections—and
doing all that the most active and untiring per
severance and malignity could do, to keep in the
minority, and utterly powerless, the very parly
whose representatives these gentlemen are—this
was one party, in this contest. The other was
the National Intelligencer, which although op
posed ta us in many things, and our peculiar
views of Stale Rights among the rest, yet has al
ways treated the Slate Rights party with respect
and courtesy ; has never used in influence to aid
1 our political opponents in our State elections;
and whose character and standing is infinitely
above the vulgarity and billingsgate, the favorite
! weapons of the other. The one commanding at
least the respect of all parties, by its dignified
c induct—the other has ever been the object of
the contempt and scorn of all parties. Between
such, we should have supposed there could have
b en but one determination on the part of the
i Georgia Delegation—and extreme lias been our
, aitonishment that it should have been other-1
wise.
But there are yet other, and if any thing, '
stronger reasons for surprise and mortification on
i the part of our party, at the vote of a portion of
our delegation for the Globe newspaper, Ilian
those to which we have alluded. The State
Rights parly have been, arc now, and will con
-1 tiline to war with the present Federal Adminis
i tration, should it even pretend to a creed thor
oughly republican, even in the State Rights view
of Republics because they believe the Ad- 1
ministration to be thoroughly corrupt, and he- ■
cause it exacts the influence incident to it, to the j
corruption of the country, and to tha destruction
of the public morals and virtue. They believe it
to be as notorious in its system of bribery, for po- j
lilical poser, as was the administration of Robert
Walpole of England. They believe that the
corruption of the Federal Administration must
be overthrown, with its authors, or that our free i
institutions will remain to us only in name.
The Globe is, and has been, the great advo
cate, and we may add, the most potent upholder ,
of this rotten Administration ; the boldest advo
cate of all its iniquities; the successful champion
of all its abuses. The Intelligencer has, on the
other hand, been fearless and faithful in the ex- |
posuro of its iniquities, and in setting before the
people the array of its enormities. Surely the |
State Rights Party had reason to expect, that in I
a choice between the friend and the opponent of
government corruption, its representatives could j
have spoken but one language. No one can ;
wonder that there seems to bo but one feeling of ■
surprise and disapproval, that any ol their mem- ;
hers should have been found voting for the Globe. |
On personal grounds there seems to be as little j
AUGUSTA, Ga. SATURDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 29, IB4oT~
i j apology for the course of those who thus voted. [
Even the friends of the Administration, although j
they use it for their purposes, unite pretty much
in the sent - ment of Mr. Forsyth, in designating
it the “dirty sheet,” and with Mr. Calhoun, in
declaring that “it will never be caught telling
j truth, if falsehood will answer the purpose.”
j 1 lie Globe has no claims, political, personal, or
any other way, to countenance from the Stale
Rights Party, hut every thing to call forth their
strongest condemnation ; their utter and indig
nant repudiation.
“Had the members who voted for this most
malignant and unprincipled enemy of State
i Rights and State Rights men. even thought it im-
I proper to support the Intell.gencer, the party hud
a right to expect that they would have followed
I 'he course ol the State Rights Speaker of the
House, and others, in voting for While, or some
body else. As it is, we can only express to those
gentlemen the regret and mortification of the
great body of those they represent, and their ut
ter disapproval, so far as we can ascertain, of
their course in this matter. When Francis P.
Blair and his Globe are supported by the Slate
’ Lights Party of Georgia, it will be when they
have lost all remembrance of the insults and the
injuries which that man and his paper have heap
ed on their principles and on themselves.”
Public Meeting in Charleston.
Our readers were apprised some time since of
the visitof the Founder of Hamburg to Charles
ton, to submit to its citizens various weighty mat
ters connected with the interests of the two
places. In the Charleston Courier of yestciday,
we have the report and resolutions of the commit
tee appointed by the meeting, the latter of which
is subjoined.
Resolved, That it bn recommended to the
Board of Directors of the South Carolina Canal
and Railroad Company, to consider the expedi
ent y of establishing, vv ith the least practicable de
lay, capacious ware houses, both in Charleston
and Hiunhuig, in furtherance of the measures
suggested in this report.
Resolved, That it be recommended to the sev
eral Banks of this State, to take this subject into
consideration, and it consistent with their inter
ests, to establish Branches or Agencies at Ham
burg, with a view to aid in the object propos
ed.
Resolved, That we do recommend to those of
our Fellow-Citizens, who' may be disposed to
make partial investments of their capital, to take
the sc'oral matters, contained in this report into
their serious consideration, and particularly so
much ol it as refers to a line of water communi
cation, in aid of the means of transportation of
fered by the Railroad.
Thomas Bennett,
James Rose,
Henut L. Pinckney,
Tutstham Tuvpeu,
Fuankun H. Elmore.
Dn. T. D. Mendenhall.
The enterpising founder of Hamburg, Mr.
Henry Schultz, addressed the meeting, and in a
brief and feeling manner expressed his acknow
ledgments for Uie consideration of the citizens of
Charleston, and especially for the countenance
and support he had received for his enterprise
from the Hon. Mr. Bennett, while Governor.
On motion of Alex. Black, Esq., the report and
resolutions, and the proceedings of the meeting,
were ordered to be published.
Thoie being no further business, the meeting
adjourned-
H. L. PINCKNEY, Chairman.
C. B. Nouthkop, Suc’ry.
The News and the Market.
The New York Express of Thursday, 2 P. M.
says—
The news from Liverpool is to 4th, and had a
most favorable influence in Wall-street. Advi
ces are that Cotton had advanced Jc. money was
plentier,: nd the rate of interest was lowered at
Liverpool. The news is calculated to have a
very happv effect. Later advices will be wait
ed for with great anxiety.
Correspond nee of the National Intelligencer.
New Yoiik, Feb. 22, 1840.
Money on good paper now goes below the le
gal rate, 7 per cent., and the best of paper can
command money at 6 per cent. This is a rale
now about as low as in England. Capitalists,
finding but little disposition to borrow money to
do business, are looking about for investments,
and real estate has got almost low enough for
them to snap it up. When it teaches the real
hard money val te, there is no doubt that they will
put their dollars and cents into houses and lands.
The domestic exchanges grow better upon
some States and worse upon others. The recent
legislation upon banking matters in Alabama has
shattered confidence very much as to that State.—
Nobody here approves of such finance as is so
consistently adopted by the powers that be there.
The forwarding of the cotton crop gradually me
liorates the condition of the exchanges; but we
! all know that withouta National Bank,as soon as
the crop is forwarded, the exchanges grow worse-
There is u general disposition in this State, in
the absence of any probability of a National Bank,
to make a r/uassi New York National Bank sys
tem, equivalent to the Suffolk Bank system of
New England—that is, to compel all the New
Yotk banks to redeem their bills in the city of
| New York. If his bed.me, the Northern States
of the Union, as regards themselves alone, will
have a paper currency every where at par, and in
Boston and New York redeemable in g«ld andsil
! ver. As it regards our intercourse, that is highly
desirable, but it will avail nothing us a national
measure. New Yorkers suffer less, however
! than any of the Southern or Western States, be
cause the centralization of trade here makes our
bills passable every where, and there is, therefore
! a general disposition to better our own currency,
as much as it can be done by State legislation,
j until the Soul It has enough of their system —
Brandon money, Alabama post notes,&e. to their
[ heart’s content. New York and New England
will be about the last parties now to move for a
| National Bank. Norlliern capital will keep itself
at borne ns much as passible. Northern credits
i will be limited to Slates with a currency as sound
;as ours. Trade, of course, will suffer sadly under
J this limited system, but people who want goods
will have to pay cash for them. The spring trade
opens here with such rules of action, and though
it will be very short, it will he very safe. The
greatest suflerer iu the end will be the Treasury
of the United States, and $5,000,000 of Treasury
notes will be but a bagatelle, judging by our f'us
tom-houso, of what Mr. Woodbury will want.
A dozen European packets are now due. It is
singular that wo have no later news. Bills on
London are from 7J to 8. Manhattan Bank
stock has gone up to 85.
The following is a copy of the new Treasury
Note Bill this day prepared by the Committee of
Ways and Means, and now depending in the
House, Feb. 19:
An additional act on the subject of Treasury
Notes.
Sec. 1. Beit enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives of the United S'utcs of Amer
ica in Congress assembled. That the regulations
and pr wisions contained in the act passed the 12th
day of October, in the year 1837,entitled "An act
to authorize the issuing of Treasury notes.”
and in the subsequent acts in addition thereto, bo,
and the same are hereby, renewed and made in
full force, excepting the limitations concerning
the times within which such notes may he issued
anil restricting the amount thereof, ns hereafter
provided.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted. That un
der the regulations and provisions contained in
said act. Treasury notes may be issued in lieu of
others hereafter or heretofore redeemed, but not
to exceed, in the amount of notes outstanding at
anyone time, the aggregate of $5,000,000, and
to be reedeomed sooner than one year if the means
of the Treasury will permit, by giving notice
sixty days of those notes which the Department
is ready to redeem—no interest to be allowed
thereon after the expiration of said sixty days.
‘Sec. 3. And bn it further enacted, That this
act shall continue in force one year, and no longer.
An interesting case has been recently under ex
amination in the Supremo Court of the U.B. in
tdation to a boundary line between Massachu
setts and Rhode Island. Mr. Webster makes
the argument for Massachusetts, and Messrs-
Whipple and Hazard for Rhode Island. Rhode
Island makes a claim of 11 miles of territory on
the North boundary.
From the Savannah Georgian, if February itith.
Latest From Florida.
By the steamer Wm. Gaston , Capt. Poinsett,
we have received the St. Augustine, Nows of
21st inst., from which we extract the following:
Sr. Augustine, February, 21.
Numerous signs of Indians have been seen in
the neighborhood of the river Saiitnfee; and large
trails have been seen extending northwardly, sup
posed for the Okce-fee-nokee Swamp.
From New Smyrna. —On the 24th ult., a
party of wood cutlers belonging to the garrison
atNew Smyrna, were fired upon by the Indians,
halfa mile from the fort.—They wounded one
man captured three muskets, and a spare jacket
or so- A sally was made by the garrison, and ns
usual, no snccees. While the troops were pur
suing them, one Indian had the temerity to ven
ture within sight of the garrison with a soldiers
jacket on, and in range of three six pounders.
Capt. Micklcr,oftlie Volunteers,proceeded from
his post, at Hewlett’s Mills on Monday morning
at daylight, and trailed the Indians to theTomoka
river. Why was information delayed in being
sent to Capt. Micklcr on Saturday night, and (
whose duty was it to have done so? |
Sergeant Cereopoly and bis command, recov- |
cred a large portion of the Northern Mail on Mon
day last, which was delivered to the Post Mas- (
ter.—Some of the letters we-e torn. They were
found about a half mile from the road, whither the
Indians had dragged the wheels and frame of (he
light wagon, and left some remains of a hog |
which they had slaughtered, belonging to the
mail carrier.
On Wednesday last, a party of gentlemen star- i
ted in quest of the lost Jacksonville Mail. Pro- |
cceding In the scene of the rnurdei of its carrier, j
they trailed the Indians about two miles in a
northwesterly direction, and came to a small clus- |
ter of trees where they bad rested for some time,
as their horses had lain down, anil where they
emptied the contents of the mail bag. But one
letter was injured, and a few packages of nows- '
papers. The gentlemen who volunteered to
search for this public property, are entitled to the j
thanks of the country, as well as any remunera
tion which the Post MasterGcneral might award.
Its reception would be appropiiated to n benevo
lent object; and as far as money can go, would al
leviate the sorrows of onu who lias been a severe
s .fferer by the murder.
The nj supposed to have amounted to
twelve or fifteen; and the inference drawn by those
gentlemen, all woodsmen and familiar with the
character of the enemy, is, that hut u portion
have g >nc off with the horses, as no foot trails are
visible proceeding South.
The Ojmulgee Bank.— The bills of this In
stitution, as is known to our readers, have been
for some time past, in a depreciated state, even to
a considerably greater extent than most of the
other suspended Banks. Whatever the reasons
may have been for this state of things, we are
happy to believe that the reasons do not now ex
ist. By information derived from the best possi
ble source, we understand that this Institution
lias only bills in circulation to the amount of
about two hundred and severity thousand dollars.
That to meet this the Bank has of cash and bills,
(which only await the opening of the river to
make bettertban cash) to within some nine thous
and dollars of its whole circulation. In addition
to this, the instalment recently called for has been
paid in cash; not by running noteaiin the Institu
tion, but a bona fide payment in cash to the
Bank of one hundred and fifty thousand more.
Shewing as we would suppose nearly the latter
amount of cash means over and above its circula
tion. We say nothing of its assets, its notes and
other properly, the further security of its entire
solvency; we only speak of its cash means to meet
* its circulation, and surely with such a showing,
there is no proper reason why these bills should
b • depreciated below those of any other sound
but suspended Bunk in the State. Henry G. La
mar has been placed at the headofthe Institution,
who is widely known us a man of high integrity
ns well a-i capacity, and a sufficient guarantee (hat
this Bank will do its duty to the public, as faith
fully as any other institution, and with these facts,
wc believe that the ;e bills will be no longer de
preciated to the injury of trade, mid the interests
of the people. —Southern Recorder.
There has been a destructive fire in Springfield
Ohio, by which property to the amount of $50,-
000 was destroyed.
from the Southern Literary Messenger.
’ I is sweet when daily labor o’er.
’Tis sweet when daily labor o’er,
And all is calm ami free.
To tread old Ocean’s sounding shore,
And list the murmuring sea:
To catch the low wind’s funeral sigh
Above where thousands sleep—
And hear the sea-bird's lonely cry
Upon the far-off deep !
And when on Death’s dim, shadowy shore,
At Life faint twilight driven—
Calm let ns view the waters o’er,
And boldly launch for heaven.
’Tis sweet, nt Evening’s tranquil Hour.
’Tis sweet, at Evening’s tranquil hour,
When all is hushed and still,
To seek some favorite haunt or bower,
And muse at silent will.
No doubts distract, no fears annoy,
To vex the peaceful breast;
But all is pure and quiet joy,
’.Mid slu nbering Nature’s rest!
And oh, when earthly cares shall cease,
At Life’s still evening close—
How sw. cl to leave Faith’s bower in peace,
Fur Heaven’s secure repose !
No more to sigh ’neath Grief’s control—
From friends no more to sever —
VV hilc the celestial ages roll,
Forever, ami forever ! c. w. e.
North Carolina, Bee. 1839.
“Hring me Hither, Hither, Boy.”
Bring me hither, hither, boy,
Bring me here my light guitar—
’ Tis the midnight hour, my boy.
And onr feet must wander far;
Who that loves would sleep, when high
Burns each bright and perfect star >—
Hither hasten, then, my boy,
Bring me here my light guitar.
"I'boiigli by day 1 may not speak
All the passions in my breast,
And my words are few and weak,
And my flame is unconfessed;
V el, by night, a spirit high
Prompts my feet to wander far,
And a bolder speech I try,
Echoed by the light guitar.
Through its soft and silver lone,
1 would tell her all I feel—
To her heedless ear alone,
Would I have its music steal.
With a voice no longer, coy,
1 will sing Love’s brightest star —
Bring me hither, then, my hoy,
Bring me here my light guitar.
An Incident of the llcvolntion.
In the summer of 1779, during one of the
darkest periods of our revolutionary struggle, in
the then small village of S (though it now
bears a more dignified title) in this State lived
Judge V , one of the firmest and truest pat
riots within the limits of the “Old Thirteen,”
and deep in the confidence of Washington.
Like most men of his time and substance he had
furnished himself with arms and ammunition,
sufficient to arm the males of his household.
These consisted of himself, three sons, and about
twenty-five negroes. The female part of his
house consisted of his wife, one daughter, Catha
rine, about 18 years of age, the heroine of our
tale, and several slaves. In the second story of
his dwelling house, immediately over the front
door was a small room, called the “armory,” in
which the arms were deposited and always kept
ready for immediate use. About the time at
which we introduce our story, the neighborhood
of the village was much annoyed hy the noctur
nal prowling* and depredations of numerous To
lies.
It was on a calm, bright Sabbath afternoon in
the aforesaid summer, when Judge V. and his
family, with the exception of his daughter Cath
arine and an old indisposed female slave, were
attending service in the village church. Not a
breath disturbed the serenity of the atmosphere—
a sound profaned the sacred stillness of the day;
the limes were dangerous and Catharine herself
and the old slave remained in the house until the
return of the family from clinch. A rap was
hoard at the front door. “Surely,” said Catha
rine to the slave, “the family have not yet como
home; church cannot be dismissed.” The rap
was repeated. “I will sec who it is,” said Cath
arine, us she ran up stairs into the armory. On
opening the window and looking down she saw
six men standing at the front door, ami on the
opposite si.le of the street, three of whom she
know were Tories, who formerly resided in the
village. Their names were Van Z.indt, Finley
and Sheldon ; the other three were strangers, hut
she had reason to believe them lo ho of the same
political stamp from the company in which she
found them.
Van Zandt was a notorious character, and the
number and enormity of hi i crimes had rendered
his name infamous in that vicinity. Not a mur
der or a rohliery was committed within miles of
S that he did not get the credit of planning
or executing. The characters of Finley and
Sheldon were also deeply stained wiih crime, but
Van Zandt was a master spirit in iniquity. The
appearance of such characters, under such cir
cumstances, must have been truly alarming to a
young lady of Catharine’s age. if not to any lady,
young or old. But Catharine V possessed
her father’s spirit—“the spirit of the times.”—
Van Zandt was standing on the sloop, rapping
at the door, while his companions were talking
in a whisper on the opposite side of the street.
“Is Judge V at home?” asked Van
Zandt when he saw Catharine at the window
above.
“He is not," said she.
“ Wc have business of pressing importance
with him, and if you will open the door,” said
Van Zandt, “wc will walk in and remain till he
returns.”
“No,” said Catharine, “when he went to church
he left particular directions not to have the doors
opened until he and the family returned. You
had better call when church is dismissed.”
“ No, I’ll be d—d if we do,” retorted he, “wc
will enter now or never.”
“Impossible,” replied she, “you cannot enter
until he returns.”
“Open the door,” cried he, “or we’ll break it
down, and burn you and the houso up together,”
So saying, he threw himself with all the force he
possessed, against the door, at the same time call
ing upon his companions to assist him. The
door, however, resisted his efforts.
“Do not attempt that again,” said Catharine,
“or you are a dead man,” at the same time pre
senting from the window a heavy horseman’s
pistol, ready cocked.
At the sight of this formidable weapon, the
companions of Van Zandt, who had crossed the
street at his cull, retreated.
“What!” cried their leader, “you d — d cow
ards! are you frightened at the threats of a girl ?”
and again he threw himself violently against the
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door. The weapon was immediately discharged,
and Van Zandt fell.
The report was heard at the church, and males
and females at once rushed out to ascertain the
cause.
r On looking towards the residence of Judge'
v > they perceived five men running at full
speed, to whom the Judge’s negroes and several
others gave chase; and from an upper window
of his residence a handkerchief was waving, as if
beckoning for aid.
All rushed towards the place, and upon their
arrival, Van Zandt was in the agonies of death.
Ho still retained strength to acknowldcge that
they had long contemplated robbing that house,
and had frequently been concealed in the neigh
borhood for that purpose, hut no opportunity had
offered until that day, when, lying concealed in
the woods, they saw the Judge and bis family
going to church.
The ho ly of the dead Tory was taken and
buried by the sexton of the church, as he had no
relations in that vicinity.
After an absence of two hours or thereabouts,
the negroes relumed, having succeeded in captur
ing Finley, and one of the strangers, who were
that night confined, and the next morning, at the
earnest solicitation of Judge V , liberated on
the promise of amending their lives.
It was in the month of October, of the same
year, that Catharine V was silling by an
upper back window of heiHalher’s house, knit
ting ; though autumn, the weather was mild, and
the window was hoisted about three inches.—
About sixty or seventy feet front the rear of the
house was the barn, a huge old-fashioned edifice,
with upper ami lower folding doors; the lower
doors were closed, and incidentally casting her
ryes towards the barn, she saw a small hack door
on a range with the front door and the window
at which she was silting, open, and a number of
men enter. The occurrence of the summer im
mediately presented itself to her mind, and the
fad that her father and the other male members
of the family were at work in a field some dis
tance from the house, led her to suspect that that
opportunity had been improved, probably by some
ot Van Zandt’s friends, to plunder and revenge
bis death. Concealing herself, therefore, behind
the curtains, she narrowly watched their move
ments, Hhe saw a man’s head slowly rising
above the door, and apparently reconnoilering the
premises—it was Finlay’s. Their object was
now evident. Going to the ‘armory,” she select
ed a well-loaded musket, and resumed her place
by tlie window. Kneeling upon the floor, she
laid the muzzle of the weapon upon the window
sill between the curtains, and taking deliberate
aim, she fired. What effect she had produced,
she knew not, hut saw several men hurrying out
of the barn by the same door they had entered.
The report again brought her father and his
workmen to the house, and on going into the
barn, the dead body of Finlay lay upon the floor.
Catharine V afterwards married a captain
of the Continental army, and she still lives, the
honored mother of a numerous and respectable
line ot descendants. The old house is also “in
tlie land of the living,” and has been the scene
of many a prank of the writer of this article, in
the heydey of mischievous boyhood.— Staten
Islander,
Extra! from report oj the second, exhibition of
the Masschusetls Charitable Mechanic Amo
ciation.
Dan. Davis, jr., Boston. Seer. 23,1839.
“ A large variety of electro-magnetic and mag
neto-electric apparatus. These instruments il
lustrate the principles of a new arid most interest
ing department of science. The deflection of the
magnetic needle by electric currents, the earliest
fart known in the electro-magnetism, was discov
ered by Oersted, in 1819; and the induction of
electric cuirents by magnetism, the fundamental
fact in magneto-electricity, was disevered by Far
ady, 1831. These two sciences have since ad
vanced with a rapidity unparalleled in the annals
of scientific discovery. Many of their most im
portant principles are beautifully illustrated by
the apparatus exhibited by Mr. Davis. This
apparatus is all neatly, thoroughly, and skilfully
made, and in some respects, especially in the
winding of the insulated wire, on which the pow
er of many of the instruments greatly depends,
is decidedly superior to similar articles imported
from Europe. Mr. Davis possesses a thorough
acquintanco with the theory of the instruments
he manufactures, ami hence, he has been enabled
to introduce into many of them important modifi
cations and improvements. Some of the most
valuable of these instruments are of his own in
vention ; among the most recent of which is the
double Helix and Electrotome, not yet described
in any scientific journal. Some of the results
obtai.ied by it are new; and it is no exaggeration
to say that it demonstrates, in a striking manner,
a greater variety of principles in electro-rnagne
tisrn and magneto-electricity than any instrument
of which a description lias hitherto been publish
ed.
His instrument for the analysis of shocks, and
two electro-magnetic engines, are worthy of high
commendation, ns bcautilul and ingenious inven
tions. Several of the instruments exhibited by
Mr. Davis, and originally manufactured by him,
were invented by Dr. Page, (of Washington,)
and are now extensively used by scientific lectur
ers in Europe, and highly commended in foreign
philosophical journals. Indeed, it would he dif
ficult to name a philosopher, either in this coun
try or in Europe, whose discoveries and inven
tions in this department of science have, within
the last two or three years, been more numerous
and valuable than those of Dr. Page.
Mr. Davis is tt.e only philosophicalinstrument 1
maker in this country who manufactures appa
ratus of this kind to any considerable extent;
and he is entitled to the praise of having done
much by his instruments to promote a taste for
the sciences they are intended to illustrate.”
A irold medal awarded.
The apparatus was also exhibited at the Fair
of the American Institute at New York, and re
ccivcd the award of a gold and silver medal.
A Toper’s liif.a or Temperance.— “ Tempe
rance is a great virtue, therefore always be moder
rate in the use of ardent spirits. Six glasses of
sling before breakfast are as much as any one man
ought .to take unless he is extraordinary thirsty,
and did’nt drink enough on going to bed. But
even in that case ho should not egcecd twlve, no
how.
A New Candidate.— lt ia asserted positively
tn the Toronto Herald that a petition is in pro
gress, in the Western District of Upper Canoda i
to the Imperial Parliament, praying t.,at it may
bo permitted to join the United Slntea. The
Herald aays the reason is, that the just claims on
the Government, for disbursements by the people
to sustain the not satisfied, and
that distress and even ruin are consequences oft
the new Imperial economy.