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Ready Money.
Archdeacon Paley, speaking of his la
dy and daughter used to say, “I never let
my women, when they shop, take credit.
I always make them pay up ready money,
sir; ready money is such a check upon
the imagination.'’
A Good Hit at Transcendentalism.
A northern paper contains the follow
ing take-off, which is not a bad hit at the
moonshine of trans-cendentalism : —“A
pound of butter is the sole type of exis
tence in the life actual, for cheesedom is
but a formula. Firkindom is but the sa
pient recipient. Avoirdupois is the weight,
but don’t grease your fingers. On the
time-trodden subjects of old shoes what
metaphysics have been expended ! Ere
bus-like, nevertheless, it frowns repellent,
leaving respectable humanity to go bare
foot, or ‘toe the mark,’ in coriaceous in
teguments.”
A C rabat ~ AU for Love.
Over the water, they sometimes have
singular modes of deciding who shall
have a damsel. One of our late foreign
papers says“On Monday evening four
weeks, the fancy ‘what love a mill’ had
a fistic treat in a field, in the parish of
Boarstall, but near to Brill. The com
batants, Jack Hall and Jim Poister, two
young men of the latter place, each
claimed and insisted upon having the
same ‘gal.’ This could not be. A fight
was to take place to decide which was
the best man —he to have ‘the ladye
fayre.’ Each was duly waited on, and
some hundreds witnessed the display.
After fighting for about 70 minutes, Jim
cried out, ‘enough,’ and left the trium
phant Jack to claim Mary as his own.”
True Philo ophy.
I saw a pale mourner stand bending
over the tomb, and his tears fell fast and
often. As he raised his humid eyes to
heaven, he cried:
“My brother! oh, my brother !”
A sage passed that way, and said
“For whom dost thou mourn ?”
“One,” replied he, “whom I did not
sufficiently love while living, but for
whose inestimable worth I now feel.”
“What would thou do if he were res
tored to thee ?”
The mourner replied, “that he would
never offend him by an unkind word, but
he would take every occasion to show his
friendship, if he could but come back to
his fond embrace.”
“Then waste no time in useless grief,”
said the sage ; “but if thou hast friends,
go and cherish the living, remembering
that they will one day be dead also.”
Self Defeuce.
Depend on your own efforts. Dare to
think for yourself, judge, decide, act.
Personal independence of action indi
cates strength of intellect, and has the
effect to cultivate it. A timid mind is
inactive; and a habit of indecision weak
ens the power of the mind to arrive at
definite conclusions. Some are turned
and influenced too much by the judgment
of others. They almost think by bor
rowed thoughts. To consider the opin
ions of others is always safe —to despise
them, presumptuous ; but reformers are
found only among independent thinkers.
Sir Isaac Newton, in all his higher and
unsurpassed scientific attainments, was
his own teacher. The same may be said
of Bacon, the author of inductive philos
ophy ; of Laplace, the paragon in math
ematics; of Locke in metaphysics, and of
every man who has been a pioneer in any
particular department.
In a Predicament.
The Portland American makes the fol
lowing, showing what it is for young men
to be in a “predicament.”
“Hallo, Jim, how are you ?” inquired
a young man of a friend, whom he called
upon and found confined to his chamber.
“I am not well.”
“Not well! what’s the matter ?”
“I’m in a predicament.”
“In a predicament! how so?”
“I have not paid my board these six
weeks.”
“Is that all! why, my dear fellow, you
do not pretend to say that this is the cause
of your illness ?”
“Yes, but I do ! they w.m’t allow me
to go away till I pay my board, and they
won’t allow me to eat till I settle up.”
Derby Stakes.
A loungy looking fellow, as spare and
long-legged as a grey-hound, (says the N.
O. Picayune,) ran off the other day with
a piece of beefsteak from the stall of Mr.
Derby. He was closely pursued by a
promiscuous and miscellaneous crowd of
butchers’ boys, little negroes, market dogs,
Spanish fruit-sellers, and what not, but
was finally overtaken as he passed the
cathedral. One of the pursuers, who had
evidently some knowledge of sporting af
fairs, said that it was just about the hard
est and best contested race for the Derby
stakes he had ever heard tell of.
Reuben and his Mother.
“Reuben, what upon earth did you
tread on that cal’s tail for ?”
“Coz I wanted to hear her squall and
show her teeth, mother.”
“Did you, love? It’s astonishing how
much smarter my children are than other
people’s.”
We see it stated that the Lowell Rail
road, which when projected, was calcu
lated by an intell ge it committee to yield
a net income of only $36,000 a year, has
by the facilities afforded by railroad com
munication, been increased to a net rev
enue of §160,000 a year.
Why* and When*.
Why is a pig in a parlor like a house
on fire ? Because the sooner it is put
out the better.
Why is the sun like a good loaf? Be
cause it is light when it rises.
Why is a bird a greedy creature ? Be
cause it never eats less than a peck.
Why is a temperance medal like an
umbrella? Because it keeps you dry.
When is a fowl’s neck like a bell ?
When it is rung for dinner.
Why isn't a boy like a pretty' bonnet ?
Because one becomes a woman —the
other don’t.
Why is killing bees like a confession ?
Because you unbuzz ’em.
From the Montgomery Ad»erti<*r.
The meeting of the Democratic party,
held in this city on Monday last, to select
Delegates to attend a Convention of this
District, to nominate a candidate for Con
gress was numerously attended. The
Preamble and Resolutions published in
this day’s paper, after considerable dis
cussion were adopted. There were some
present who dissented from that portion
of the proceedings which expressed a
preference for Mr. Calhoun and Mr.
Woodbury. The object of these dissent
ers seemed to be not to affect either of
the gentlemen named, but to give their
support to the nominees of the National
Convention; still we are disposed to re
spect their motives, and to render to them
the most ample justice. Our little expe
rience in party warfare has led us to be
lieve that men cannot always see and
think alike that something must be
yielded to the freedom of opinion.
We have heretofore advanced the opin
ion that the candidate for Congress in
this District, to run against the Whig
nominee for the same office, should be
the friend of the 1 lon. John C. Calhoun.
We have no idea that a politician of any
other stamp can succeed. It is useless to
disguise the fact, that neither Van Buren,
Johnson, Buchanan or Cass have any
personal popularity in this portion of Al
abama. The Presidential election is by
far the most important matter now before
the people, because there is involved in it
ail the prominent questions of the day.
To be for Mr. Calhoun, is to be with the
Democratic party of the South, and to
sustain his measures, is to sustain the
Republican doctrines of the age. There
are a number of voters in this District,
who, in the contest of IS4O cast their
suffrages for Gen. Harrison, who will
now vote for Mr. Calhoun, and vote for
a candidate for Congress who ogress with
Mr. Calhoun.
To all such, we hold out the right hand
of fellowship. We ask them to support
our cause, even at the hazard of being
pronounced “ political renegades ” from
the Whig party. We earnestly trust that
“ the Flag of the Union,” may not yet
have to mourn over its indiscretion. We
intend not to deceive the Democratic par
ly by crying out strength, when they have
no strength. We will not say to them
that they can elect Air. Van Buren, when
we feel assured that they cannot elect
Tiim. We will not aid in again placing
him before the Democratic party of Ala
bama for the highest office in the gift of
the people of the Union, merely to grati
fy those u'ho arc determined never to be
convinced that he is not the man for the
times in which ice live.
These are our views humbly entertain
ed, and candidly mid fearlessly expressed.
Let them count for what they are worth.
Democratic Meeting.
In accordance with a previous notice
given in the Advertiser, a meeting of the
Democratic party of Montgomery coun
ty, was held at ihe Court House in the
city of Montgomery, on Monday, the 22d
inst. The meeting was organized by
calling Col. Isaac W. Hayne, to the Chair,
and requesting Air. E. W. Martin, to act
as Secretary.
James E. Belser, Esq., explained the
object of the meeting in an able and elo
quent address, after which, he offered the
following preamble and resolutions, which
were adopted:
It seems now to be generally conceded,
that a Convention of the Democratic par
ty of this District, should be held to nom
inate a candidate for the next Congress
of the United States. Our opponents
have already made their selection, and
the sooner we make our nomination, the
better it will be for the cause we advo
cate.
We are far from concluding that our
political difficulties are at an end. We
think that the danger of our day is fast
approaching; the Whigs are on the alert,
endeavoring to undermine our principles
never have we been more deeply im
pressed with their importance, never more
determined to battle for them.
We are the advocates of a strict and
rigid interpretation of the Federal Con
stitution. We have adopted the Resolu
tions and Report of ’9B and ’99 as our
guide; the doctrines therein advanced
and maintained, constitute the articles of
our faith, and to the support of those doc
trines we have pledged our allegiance.
Those with whom we are contending,
have inscribed on their banner a Nation
al Bamc, a Protective Tariff, a distribu
tion of the sales of the public lands, a
National Debt, the assumption of State
liabilities, and the abolition of the Veto
power. To all and every one of these
latitudinarinn measures, we are firmly
and unalterably opposed. In the true
spirit ot harmony and concession, we
most respectfully call upon the Democ
racy of this District to come to the res
cue —we ask them to plant their stand
ard on the ramparts of the Constitution,
and to aid a common brotherhood in re
deeming their District from Whig mis
rule.
4. Resolved, That this meeting cor
dially responds to the call of their politi
cal brethren in the counties of Barbour,
Bussell and Macon, for a Convention of
the Democratic party of this District, to
nominate a candidate to serve them in
the next Congress of the United States.
8. Resolved , That the Hon. John C.
Calhoun, of South Carolina, and the
Hon. Levi AVoodbury, of New Ilamp
shirn, are our choice for the Presidency
and Vice Presidency of the Union
that we admire them for their arduous
public services, their strict and unwaver
ing devotion to the principles of liberty,
and their unsullied and private reputa
tion.
From the Cincinnati Message
John Tyler.
The man who can utter sentiments
like*the following, must have something
ennobling in his nature, notwithstanding
the reproaches and denunciations of dis
appointed politicians. We confess we
never admired the President as a politi
cian, but his eloquence we have admired,
and are not of those who would rob iiim
of the laurels he has won in the sublime
and beautiful.
The sentiments contained in the fol
lowing extract from a speech recently de
livered on the occasion of a visit by the
“ Washington City Benevolent Associa
tion,” are such as do honor to an Ameri
can heart. After being addressed on the
part of the Association by James Hoban,
Esq., the President replied:
“ In speaking of the emigrant and exile
from other lands in a more public man
ner heretofore, I gave but expression to
what I regard as American feeling’, and
stood upon American ground. I sdiould
have stripped the past of its glory, and
cast a reproach upon the memory of our
illustrious forefathers, had I held a differ
ent language or given utterance to other
sentiments. Why, what are we all but
emigrants? From whence sprung the
eighteen millions of people inhabiting the
States of this great confederacy ? Who
arc those bold and fearless men, who,
two hundred and thirty six years ago,
made the first foot-prints of civilization
on the beach of Jamestown, in my own
native State ?
And who were those who, at a later pe
riod leaped upon the Plymouth rock, and
made the wilderness vocal with their
songs of praise and thanksgiving to that
great Being who had conducted them in
safety over the trackless ocean, to a land
of civil and religious liberty? Who
brought hither the magna charta, the
great"common law privileges, the trial by
jury, and the habeas corpus ? Who first
unfurled the banner of equal rights and
planted it on the ramparts of written con
stitutions ? AYho but emigrants, and the
descendants of emigrants, have erected
in this new land an altar of liberty, with
its top as high as the heavens, and its
base as broad as a continent emigrants
wffio fled the oppression of the old w r orld,
and their descendants ! Let, then, the
lovers of liberty from every clime, come
hither and worship at the altar in spirit
and in truth, and he will be hailed ns the
younger brother in a family of emigrants.
He comes to assist in reclaiming a wil
derness of vast extent. He comes to
chant forth his matin and his vesper
songs in places where the light of civili
zation has not penetrated. He comes to
kindle the fires of liberty on hill-tops and
in valleys as yet but indistinctly known.
He comes to convert the heathen roam
ing over those vast plains which stretch
to the Pacific Ocean —to cast down the
idols of a superstitious worship, and to
rear on their ruins temples to the true
and living God. For such purpose and
for such objects, I say, for one, let him
come, and may an overruling Providence
protect him on his way and crown his
efforts with success. The panoply of
our laws is over him, and its aegis pro
tects him from harm.”
The following- extract from a letter of the Hon.
Dixon 11. Lewis, of Alabama, in answer to one ad
dressrd to him by a portion of his constituents, we
take from that able and thorough young Democrat,
the Montgomery Advertiser. The eminent ability,
high integrity, and long experience os a Member of
Congress, joined to the characteristic candor and gen
erosity that have ever distinguished Dixon Lewis, en
title his opinions respecting public men and public
measures to the highest respect and consideration.
You are right, gentlemen, iu anticipa
ting that my preferences are for John C.
Calhoun for the Presidency. No previ
ous occasion having called for a public
avowal of this preference, I avail myself
of the opportunity which your mention
of the subj ct requires, to make known
my views on a question which may more
or less enter into the election, and which
in the absence of any authorised state
ment of those views on my part, might
become the means of dividing our friends
in a manner seriously to affect the result
of the approaching canvass.
My preferences for Mr. Calhoun are
founded on the conviction, that he is the
most efficient and available representative
of Democratic principles in the approach
ing contest for the Presidency that he
stands an equal chance with any other
candidate to receive the nomination of a
National Convention, and that, if nomi
nated, he can unit a in his support more
of the elements of opposition to a Nation
al Bank, a Protective Tariff, a Bankrupt
I .aw, a Distribution or an Assumption
Law, and to all other measures of Feder
al Whig policy, than any other man that
can be nominated.
That in every part of the country, but
particularly in the South thousands
who in the last election swelled the ranks
of our adversaries, were opposed to the
above mentioned measures of the Whig
party, there is now' no reason to doubt.
Os the Southern " higs, not a few are
opposed to a United States Bank, while
many are daily becoming more and more
distrustful of the whole paper system.
A still larger numbor are opposed to a
Bankrupt Law and to the Distribution
Act; and in spite of their unnatural and
corrupting party association with the
Federal Whiggeryof the North, a major
ity of them are at this time opposed to a
high Protective Tariff. With so many
elements of Democratic principle in their
party composition, it is difficult to imag
ine the bitterness and violence of that
personal dislike to an individual, which,
at the last election threw such numbers
of them in opposition to the Democratic
candidate, and which, if the same can
didate is again presented to them, may
again produce a similar result. 11l the
meantime, the indications are every where
abundant, and I am happy to find them
no where more so than in Alabama, that
if Mr. Calhoun is the candidate, the more
Democratic and Free Trade portion of
our late opponents will sustain him in
opposition to a Whig candidate, who, on
account of the devotion of that party to
Alonopoly and Privilege, must, from in
exorable necessity, be a High 'Tariff man.
Nor is it to be disguised, that our hopes
of success in the approaching contest
must depend on accessions to our cause
from the ranks of our former opponents.
To effect this, I know no candidate more
efficient than Mr. Calhoun, nor no issue
so likely to rally the whole anti-monop
oly spirit of the country, as the great
Democratic doctrine of Equality of Rights
and Freedom of Trade. In fact, this is
the only issue which now divides the
two parties, which the people have not
already settled. The Bank, Bankrupt
Law, and Act of Distribution of the Ex
tra Session, have each received the irre
vocable seal of popular condemnation in
the late elections, and under a candidate
uniting the entire Free Trade party
throughout the Union, the contest of 1844
would strike the last shackle from the
limbs of a free people, in the shape of a
Protective Tariff.
But, gentlemen, in expressing my pref
erence so fully for Mr. Calhoun, I feel
that I should perform but imperfectly my
duty to myself, to you, and to the com
mon party to which we belong, not to
say, that I am at all times ready to yield
my individual wishes to the ascertained
choice of a majority of the Democratic
party. To the distinguished gentlem an
most likely to divide with Mr. Calhoun
the preferences of the party, I have once
given my warm, cordial, and active sup
port, under circumstances involving a
most painful separation from many of
my then political friends and a majority
of my constituents. With less of confi
dence in his ultimate success than I might
perhaps feel in supporting another can
didate, hut with scarcely less zeal, if the
will of the Democratic party shall fix up
on him as the candidate, I shall at once
yield him my active and unhesitating
support.
I have, gentlemen, said this much on
the Presidency, because, to have said any
thing, I could not in candor have said
less, and to have said nothing, would
have subjected me to the danger of mis
apprehension on the part of some, who,
knowing my friendship for Air. Calhoun,
might have attributed by silence into a
determination to come under no party
p'edges, and any suppression of the ex
tent of preferences into an intention, to
submit them to no party restraint. Nor
have 1 attempted to give prominence to
the subject as a topic of discussion during
the approaching canvass, but on the con
trary by a candid statement of views,
which I hoped would be satisfactory even
to those who differed with them, I have
endeavored to sink the question, so far as
our friends were concerned, at least un
til the election was over. No friend of
the Democratic party inihe approaching
election, can wish to see a subject agita
ted which, in the fierce conflict of opin
ion, may terminate in that division of
feeling, which is perhaps the strongest
hope of the common enemy.
Nor can the cause of Air. Van Buren
or Air. Calhoun be promoted by such
means. On the contrary, they are both
already sufficiently prominent to have
their respective claims attentively, and I
hope, fairly considered by the National
Convention, and the dnnger to both is,
that their prominence may "arouse a col
lision betwreen the friends of each, which
may prove fatal to both, by causing their
respective friends to prefer the success of
any other candidate to that of their rival
antagonist. The success of either de
pends on uniting to a great extent the
respective friends of both, and this alone
should teach us a lesson of moderation.
As the friend of Air. Calhoun, I feel that
his prospects of success are too brilliant
to be sacrificed to a spirit of intolerance
growung out of party divisions, w-hile as
a Democrat I feel much more the neces
sity of preventing the ascendancy of a
party, whose whole system of public poli
cy is but a scries of invasions through
Banks, Tariffs, and other unequal laws,
of the private rights of the citizens and
the freedom of trade—injurious, as I be
lieve, to all sections, but peculiarly disas
trous to the South.
In taking leave of this question, I de
sire to say that I carry into the canvass
not even my above avowed preferences,
much less a spirit of championship for
one candidate over another. As the can
didate of the whole Democracy, my ob
ject is not to form, or to assist in the
forming of any public opinion on the
subject, but to defend the great principles
of the Democratic party, whenever and
by whomsoever assailed, and to do so as
promptly if assailed in the person of one
candi Jate as of another.
With renewed assurances of my heart
felt thanks for the kind and generous es
timate which you and those you repre
sent have placed on my public conduct,
I am, gentlemen, truly your obedient ser
vant,
DIXON H. LEWIS.
To Messrs. J. L. F. Cottrell, and
others, Committee.
The town of Quincy, Mass., with a
population of 4,000, last year paid §BO,-
000 for schools and school houses.
Correspondence of the St. Augustine Netvs.
Fout Kino, May 15.
Our population is increasing every' day.
There passed here yesterday', nine gentle
men from South Carolina, on their way
home, to bring out iheir forces. They
intend returning immediately to make
preparation for the coming of their fami
lies in the fall.
May 15. “The cry is still they
come !” Twelve men arrived this morn
ing in quest of land, from Georgia, and
this evening four more from Soufh Caro
lina. 'The dismal howd of the wolf in
our hammocks, will soon give place to
the more cheerful sound of the woodman’s
axe and the tradesman’s hammer.
Yours, <fcc.
The Propose t ’I rcaty.
At a time like this, when there is a
prospect that the great grievance of a re
strictive Tariff will be thoroughly remov
ed by the action of a Democratic Con
gress, the country cannot but distrust a
proposal to interfere, coming from such a
source and proposed in such terms as
that of Air. Webster; ai.d though a Com
mercial Treaty so far as it may go to the
unfettering of the trade of the world,
might be greatly beneficial, we should
hesitate long in confiding its negotiation,
though w'ith that purpose avowed, to one
who accompanies the proposal with sen
timents altogether inconsistent with free
dom of trade —to a man who shows
what kind of “ stability ’ he desires and
would be content to bargain for, when he
regrets that things are not permitted to
remain fixed as the present Tariff would
fix them —and who, while talking of
Free Trade, proposes farther restriclions
on our commerce, in accordance with
“ the commercial policy of England,” to
which, and not to the pre-eminent advan
tages both for manufactures and com
merce enjoyed by that nation, and which
have so long postponed the extreme dis
tress her mistaken policy is now inflict
ing upon her people, he attributes her
wealth and power.
But to whomsoever the negotiation may
be entrusted, it is impossible to predict
its result, and it would be folly' indeed'
for the people to throw away their pres
ent opportunity of a great deliverance,
and in the vague hope that a treaty might
be beneficent, postpone the application of
the certain remedy they hold in their
own hands —and forego the indubitable
and momentous good of immediate ac
tion. They know that although it would
be much better if England also would
abolish restrictions yet that it is our
undoubted policy to abolish them wheth
er England does so or not. And as to a
Treaty giving stability which the legis
lation of Congress could not, we cannot
perceive how any Treaty can be more
sacred than the compromise act—-and
we scout as humiliating as well as dan
gerous, the proposal of calling in foreign
ers to aid us in regulating our affairs,
and of seeking by pledges to them to se
cure a constancy for which we could not
otherwise trust our own people.
The object we fear Is not to secure a
permanent alleviation of the burden of
protective duties, but to give stability to
as much of said burden as can possibly
be rescued from the reforming legislation
of a Republican Congress.
Turn the subject as we may, we can
not take other views of it than are briefly
and strongly' stated in the following par
agraphs from the Globe:
We do not believe that Air. Webster
and his “ neighbors” desire to have the
tariff reduced. Their object is to tie up
legislation by an “ arrangement” with
the English, and impose upon the coun
try a fixed and inflexible scale of duties.
'The very men who signed the letter to
Daniel Webster had their paid agents in
Washington, to induce Congress, by their
representations, to pass the last tariff bill.
It would seem that our Government is
about to be re-organized, and its functions
performed by special commissions, com
posedof English and American statesmen.
Read the following from the Madisonian
of Tuesday last:
“ If other Governments, and especia'ly
Great Hritain, should send hither their
best statesmen to negotiate on the subject,
with the like statesmen on the part of our
Government, representing different sec
tions, interests, and parties, then the peo
ple might reasonably anticipate some
thing far more valuable from such con
ferences than is generally realized from
the deliberations of congressional cau
cuses, or even ordinary presidential vic
tories at the polls.”
We never conceived that even the
drunken hurd-cidercampaign would have
ended in such a proposition as above.
-Ilr. Benton in favor of the l)ist ict mode of
choosing Electors.
It being indubitable and conceded that
the nomination by the Baltimore Con
vention will be equivalent to the election
of the nominee to the Presidency, the ve
ry able argument of Mr. Benton which
we copy from the Alabama Tribune is as
strong for choosing delegates as it is for
choosing Electors by Districts; we there
fore commend it to the especial attention
of those of our Democratic brethren who
have treated the district proposal as anew
thing, advocated only by Mr. Calhoun’s
friends, and as militating against State
Rights. The extracts from Mr. Benton
shew that it is an old democratic doctrine,
and that State Sovereignty lo.es nothing
by regard to popular right. It is the mode
in which justice alone can be done to the
people of the States, and that control of
the Presidential election secured them,
which it was the clear intention of the
Constitution to secure.
A militia training took place in Phila
delphia on Wednesday, at the corner of
South and Brown sts., when some of the
Tank and file threw some mud at one of
the officers. The latter made some very
proper remarks, when the offenders were
abashed, and discontinued the outrage.
From the Savannah Republican.
CYntral Rail Road.
Messrs. Locke & Davis Aware
of y'our desire to advance the interest of
Savannah, and as this interest is inti
mately connected with the Central Rail
Road, I presume on your kindness, to
give the following remarks an insertion
in your paper.
I have read the Report of the Commit
tee who have recently given the Road a
partial examination. I say partial, as it
could not be expected that a thorough in
vestigation could take place in the short
period they were employed in the service
but it affords some gratification to receive
so favorable a Report, being satisfied that
it comprises all the necessary informa
tion at the present time.
But allow me to suggest that other ob
jects connected with this institution
should also receive attention. And first
of all, their circulation should be restored
to par. Referring to the recent statement
made to the Governor, there is no appar
ent difficulty in this matter. Next to this
in importance (provided it is any object
to satisfy a large portion of the Stock
holders, and not a diminutive number
only,) the expenses must bcfciirtailed ve
ry considerably by the discharge of some
of its officers, and reduction of the sala
ries of others. The times call for the
most rigid economy in every department,
which will, and nothing else will, meet
the approbation of those interested in the
welfare of the Company. These claims
are imperative upon the Directors.
I would also suggest the propriety of
an application to the next Legislature to
increase the number of Directors to nine
or twelve, so that two at least might be
appointed at Macon, leaving as it w'ould,
a competent number to transact the busi
ness of the Company at Savannah in their
absence.
They, of course, would have passage
free on the Rail Rond, when it is their de
sire to attend a meeting of the Board. At
a proper period I shall make some further
suggestions on this subject.
A STOCKHOLDER.
The U. S. Gazette tells the following
story:
Captain Green informs us of a singular
and almost incredible incident, which
happened to the ship Edward, Captain
Steel, on her passage from this port to
Alontevidco. She was struck by a sword
fish, the sword of which penetrated
through the copper, plank, and ceiling,
and into a barrel of flour, which caused
the ship to leak. On discharging the
cargo, the cause of the leak was ascer
tained. Captain Steel has had the plank
cut out, and intends bringing it and the
sword home as a rare curiosity.
This is not singular or incredible on
the contrary several well authenticated
instances of the same effect from the pug
nacity and power of the sword-fish, are
on record —and there is now, we believe,
in the British Aluseum the plank of a
Frigate with the sword of the fish driven
through it, and I roken off While at sea,
a sensation had been felt through the ship
like that produced by touching a rock,
and she was overhauled to see if any
damage had been sustained, and then the
discovery was made, and the sensation
attributed to the shock of the fish.—
Charleston Mercury.
Similar instances have before occur
red Am. Democrat.
A Pirate. — A gentleman who came
passenger in the ship Adelia, arrived at
this port on Alonday from Matanzas, says
a vessel arrived at that port from the Ca
naries a day or two before he left, with
seventy-five passengers; they reported
that when off the Bahamia Banks they
were chased a whole day by a piratical
looking schooner, manned by Blacks, and
nearly overhauled, when at last the cap
tain of the Spanish vessel mustered all
his passengers as well as the crew upon
deck, armed as thoroughly as possible,
and prepared for a conflict, when the sus
picious stranger, seeing her decks crowd
ed with armed men, hauled off and hois
ted Hnytien colours.— N. Y. Plebian.
Audacious Robberies.
NEW ORLEANS, May 14.
There were two robberies yesterday
committed on board of the steamboats
about leaving for the upper country.
The first was on the Arkansas, upon the
point of leaving for Little Rock, &c.
Two or three trunks were broken open
on board of her, and rifled of their most
valuable contents. In addition, one of
her passengers had §BOO in Arkansas
money abstracted from a side pocket.
Having occasion to use that particular de
scription of funds, he went shortly after
to a broker, to replace his loss, when the
latter sent out to a brother broker and
purchased the amount wanted, which
turned out to be the, identical money of
which our passenger had been robbed !
The thief had shown a good degree of
expedition in “realizing.” A few horn's
afterwards, and while the passengers on
board the Feliciana, just about leaving
for Louisville, and lying close to the
berth of the Arkansas, were dining, some
pick-pockets entered the state-room of a
gentleman on board, broke open his
trunk, and rifled it of all its valuable con
tents. Fortunately, they were not con
siderable, but the scamp got off clear with
the little he did find. This theft was
the more audacious as there were many
gentlemen on board the boat at the time,
“seeing off” friends. It behoves pas
sengers to be on the “quy wivy” for these
light fingered gentry. Picayune.
Another steamboat Accident.
By the St. Louis papers of the 15th
inst., we learn that the steamer lone,
bound up the Missouri, was snagged
while rounding to at a wood-yard, about
feur miles below Boonville. A portion
ol her cargo w r as badly damaged, she hav
ing filled to the depth of about three feet.
She was enabled to proceed up after the
leak was stopped. Picayune.