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MILLEDGEVILLE, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1830.
VOLUME 1, KUMBER 12.
tee federal c isiok
j s p U lilivii.-.i every Salufilij at Iuri-l dollars per an-
njum, in *»'lv r.ce, or Four if sot p uilbj fore i[ieeo<lof the
ve»r.' Tnc Office is on IVaynt-Street, opposite Mc
Combs’ Tavern.
All Advertisements p-iblislv J al the usual rates.
tCF” Each Citation by the Cleiks of the Courts of Or
dinary that application has been ‘made for Letters of Ad
ministration, must benoblisi ed Thirty days at least.
N tice by Emcutors .and Adni.mstralor* ior Debtors
ami Credit rs to render in their accounts must be publish
ed SlX WEEKS.
Sa'es of n.!»rof*3 by Exscutnrs and Administrators must
be advertised Sixty days before the day of sale.
S iIl*s of personal properly (except negro- s) of testate
and intestate ©stales by Executors und Administrators,
must be advertised Forty days.
Applications by Executors, Administrators and Guar
dians to 'he court of ordinary for leave to sell Land must
be published Four months.
Applications by Executors and Administrators for Let
ter Uismissbiy, must be published Six months.
Applications lor foil closure of Mortgages on rer.1 Es
tate must b< advertised once a month lorsiix months.
Sales i*f real estate by Executors, Administrators and
O.i ir.lians must be published Sixty days before th- day
of sale, riiese sales must be made at the court-house
dour between the hours of 10 in the morning and four in
the afternoon. No sale from day to day is valid, uide“s
to expressed in the advertisement.
Orders of Court of Ordinary, (accompanied w ith a copy
of >he bond, or agree.meiii) to make titles to Land, must
be advertised Three months at least.
Sheriff’s sales under ex-cutinns regularly granted by
the courts, must be advertised Thirty days.
Sheriff’s sales under mortg .ee executions must be ad
vertised Sixty days before the day of sale.
Sheriff’s sales of perishable property under order of
Court must be .advertised generally Ten days.
All Orders for Ad ertisements will be punctually at
tended to.
■%+ All Letters directed to the office, or the Editor,
must b.j post-paid to entitle them to attention.
■v -
mSCEZJjAMY.
B¥&ON ACADEBSTST.
JT|jp! IE Trustees of the Byron, Beker county Ac .demy,
Jb wishing to employ some person to take « barge of
too Male Dipartment in said Institution, will receive
seat, r. proposals until ’he fust day of October ru st, it
xvill bs expected that p-.r-ens m king application ior tin
s itne iv :!| j>l ;jse sen 1 what their term- will be, rid what
they will tea-li. Application, post paid, will be duly at
tended to, I’V ROBERT HARDIE, Sec'rij.
Sent 1* ’ tt Sr
T
Cf JLU Ma eta
HE Copartnership in the FRACT1CE ol the LAW .
heretofore existing between Samuel Lmcthtr «§• .?/-
/red Irerson, is thi« day dissolved by mut :al consent—
A Iverson having transferred his interest in said Part
nership to John L Lewis.
A Copartnership has been this day formed between
Samuel Lowther & John L Lewis, ho will attend to
the P ictice of the Law in the Ocmulgec. Flint and '■'outh-
ern Circuits. They will generally b«- found at their office
in Clinton, when not absent on 'be Circuit.
A. Ivf.rson will, during the present year, remove to
Columbus, and practice Law in all the counties of the
C’oatahoocliic Circuit and in those of the Southern Cir
cult where Ins services may be required. The services
vf Iverson will he rendered in winditurup the business
oi'Lowther it lveroca in the Ocmulgee Circuit.
SAMUFL LOWTHER,
ALFRED IVF.RSON,
JOHN L. LEWIS.
Clinton, .June 10. 1330. -234’n Im
LA3T WOHCSB.
XViLEY W. *AIXHEa,
’fit B WING locate i himself at McDonough, Henry
simple dome ftpwe been filled up. The band olj get further in the ear than the drum which
_£lJL county, tenders his Prof; ssional services to the
P>e as Attorney and Counsellor at Law. Hevvili.it-
tend the Caur.s of ihe various cjunti r 9 in the Flint Cir
cuit. Aug 28 8 9t
FaiCTOHiVtiB
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OOiSiGJBSIClT ETSmSSS.
merjian d giutetully ackuoAbdgc the liberal
patronage with which they have been favored in the
nbovc line, and respectfully inform the public that they
continue its transaction in the City, and that their faith
ful and undivided attention will be devoted to the busi
ness of iheir patrons.
Liberal Cash advances may be expected on Produce,
&c. in Store, when dcoircd
STOVALL & SIMMONS.
Angus! i, Aug. 7. 1830 5 12t
Ttf NEIVMAP OF QEOUGLl.
"1 HE subscribers have now under t ie hands of the
Engraver in New York, a complete and splendid
Map of the Slate of Geoigla, the greater part compiled
from actual survey, with all the district* carefully laid
down and numbered, the whole completed with great la
bor and ex .ctuess from the lalest and most authentic in
formation, in a style not interior to any thing of the kind
yet presented to the public, with a table ol distances Irotn
tit a Seat of G tvermnent to every comity site or place of
importance in the State. The districts in the new pur-
_ ch ise and lower counties are all numbeied in the corners,
f eo as to enable a person to ascertain the exact situation
of any lot of land, and will b- p unted and finished off in
the neatest manner—a part of them canvassed, varnished
’ and laced on rollers, the balance will be on thin paper
nicely folded in morocco covers, and will be I or sale in
SMilledgfcvilie bv thefirstof Octobei next. Those on ral-
j lers at Fine Dollars, ami the pocket map of the same size
fa at Four hollars.
l ; Persons -eauling it a distanc • wishing to procure tbe
■ j imp can do s» by sending by their nr mbers, <is a sufli-
# *eient number of them vill he kept in Vfilicdgeville during
f*the session ol the Legislator!.
C HILTON WELLBORN.
July 31 ORANGE GREEN.
B ROUGHT TO JAIL in Marion, T - ’Ugs county, n
iicgr» man, who says his name is JACK, and
that lie belongs to George CliOon of Clark tji.nty. Jack
is about 5 led 7 nr 3 inches high—has two small scars
under the left «jc, and has received an injury in the
left hip which nukes the left leg rather shorter than the
other. The owner will come forward, pruve property,
pay costs, and take him away.
ft AMU EL JORDAN, Jailor.
Sept 18 11 3t
NOTICE.
A LL persons having demands against the estate ol
Zacharinh Phillip*, late ef i'. niton conniy, deceas
ed, are requested to present them in terms of the law du
Fv authenticated—in.I those indebted to the estate are
also requested to make immidi.ite payment to
ROBERT M. ECHOLS, Jldm'r.
Sept 18 II 6t
GEORGIA, Pulaski county.
Court of Ordinary, July adjourned Ttnn, 18.30.
R ULE NISI.—The petition of Lewis Wood, admin
istrator of Elisha Evans, deceased, shewetb that
e has fully completed the administration of said Estate,
nd prays to be dismissed therefrom—Whereupon, it is
rderedby the Court, That a copy of this rule be publish-
d once a month for six months in one of the public ga-
i^ttes of this State, requiring all persons concerned, to
hew cjusc (if any they have,) why said Letters Dismiss-
ory should not be granted.
A true extract from the minutes, 30th July, 1830.
JOSEPH CARRUTHERS, Cl’k c. o.
Aug 21 7 6m
~ JOB PRINTING,
NEATLY EXECUTED AT THIS OFFICE.
(FROM THE NORTH CAROLINA STAR )
Thu following lines are given in the York Republican,
as (be production of the late highly gifted Dr. John G.
Godman, and s.ii'f to have been written by him while la
boring under heavy embarrassments.
DISAPPOINT ENT’S CAVE.
Within the windings of yon darksome vale,
Where baleful mists and lowering clouds repose,
Where mingled sighs and groans float on the gale,
Dwells the dark ruler over many woes.
W here yon doll stream so slowly winds along,
And sudden sinks within that yawning cave,
W hose top w-itb aconite and mg’ t-shade hung,
rin ows hoarsely back an echo to the wave ;
The frowning demon. Disappointment, sits
Upon'her rocky adamantine throne:
Around her sighs and wailings rise by fits,
Commingling oft with many a mournful groan.
Her seat is raised of youthful lover’s bones,
VY ho oft, witli bounding hearts, had hop’d their prize,
So lov’d to gain ; hut fortune them disowns,
And Disappointments mock’d till death their sighs.
High o’er her bend for canopy is hung
Tbe hopes of youth, fringed round with age’s sighs,
And o’er her neck as drup’ry careless flung,
Fbiated false promises of future joys.
Her feet are set upon the hearts of those
\\ ho once for pleasure or for peace dar’d sigh,
Her sceptre twin’d with all the train of woes
Thai fall in show’rs on whom site passes nigh.
The maid, the wife, Ihe widow fill’d her court,
The youth, the middle ag>;d and old, old mau,
Alike had been her subject and her sport,
Since first on earth her painful reign began.
ToihL of Rachael.—A few miles further on
ire t hn ruins of the vi'inge of Ramma; frag
ments of wails only n fitw feet high, are now
the ve-t.-ges of the place where the prophet
0 beautliuliv predicted the mourning lor the
1 noco'it. Th* re is a spot on the plain at no
great distance f. otn the ruined vdiage, of much
higher interest—the tomb of Rachael. It is
one of the ft w places where the observer is
persuaded that tradition has not erred; as it
!u!fi s literally the words of Israel in his
last hour, when dwelling on the only indelible
remembrance that earth seemed to claim front
im.—The long exile, the cenverse with the
angels ofGod, the wealth and greatness which
had gathered round h m, all yield to the lov
ed and faithful wife; ‘And as for me, Rachael
died hv me in the way from Rethleheni, and
I hurried her there.’
The spot is ns wild and solitary as can well
be conceived; no palms or cypresses give their
‘■helter from the blast; nut a single tree-
spreads its shade where the a^hesof the beau
tiful mother of Israel rest. Yet there is some
thing in this sepulchre in the wilderness, that
excites a deeper interest than more splendid
r revered ones. The tombs ol Zachanas and
Absalom, in the vally of Jehosophat, or of the
Kings in the plain of Jeremiah, the traveller
looks at with carh ss indifference; beside that
of Rachael his fancy wanders ‘to the land of
the people in the East,’ to the power of beauty
(hat could so long make banishment sweet; !o
the devoted companion of the wanderer, who
deemed all troubles light for her sake.
The Turks have surrounded most oft ho bu
rial places of tbe chief characters of the Old
Testament, with more pomp and stately ob
servance than this; over that of David and
Solomon, on the dechvifv of Zion, a mosque i-
erected; th^ cave too of Machpcla, at Hebron;
i« covered by a large and ancient mosque, and
all around the soil is held inviolable. ’I he
cave is in the middle of the interior of the edi
fice: its dark and deep entrance only is risible;
and it is rarely entered, even by the steps of
th faithful. For more than a century, not
more than two or three Europeans are known,
either by daring «>r bribery to have visited it;
the la«t was an Italian Count, a traveller who,
Lv paying verv high’ was allowed by his guar
dians to tread the floor ofthe mosque, and de
scend into the obscurity of the hallowed cav
ern; this was thirty v ars since—It was a great
nit v that so memorable a scene should be clos
ed to the curious eve; the hold valley in
which the anrir-nt town of II jJ horne stands, is
often visited by the step of the pilgrim and
the traveller; but the penalty of death to
everv Christain who enters within the walls of
♦ he mosQue. is too dear a payment for the grat i-
flention. The cave is said by the Turks to he
deep and very spacious, cut out of the solid
rock- and that the resting places of the cele-
ted patriarchs still exist, and are plainly to be
discerned
The tribute paid however, by the followers
ofthe Prophet to the burial place of Rachael,
far more sincere and impressive than the
walls of marble or the gilded domes; the de
sire which the Turks feel that their ashes may
rest near hers, is singular and extreme. All
around this simple tomb, lie thickly strewn
the graves of the Mussulmans. A trait such
a«»his, speaks more for the character of this
people than many volumes written in their
praise; for it cannot be for any greatness ,or
wisdom, or holiness, in the character of
her who sleeps beneath, [for which qualities
thev chow so much respect to the sepulchres
of Abraham and David and his son]—hut sim
ply for the high domestic virtues and qualities
i which belong to Rachael; she was a devoted
wife and an excellent mother; as well as the
parent of a m ; ghfy people; and for these
things do the Turks venerate her memory.
It is a scene of no common interest, when a
fnneral train issues from the gates of the city,
and passing slowly over ihe plain of Rephidim,
draws nigh to the lonely sepulchre, with an
earnest desire that the parent or child whose
remains they hear may sleep in a spot so vene
rated. Was a Jew to cross the procession at
this moment, he would be treated with deep
curses, and looks of hatred and scorn, by the
very people who are about to kneel around the
ashes of one of his ancestors—Deeply fallen
nation! forbidden even to draw near or how
down at the place that is full of the remem
brance of its ancient greatness. So rigidly
are the Jews excluded fn-m entering the mon
ument, that tbe four arches which support the
moffrm.rs ste-^round the place, and the tur
ban is .bay* 4, earth, wdiile the luneral
wail passes Qv**\tfiu solidary w^ste, solemn sod
impressive jurif the spirit* of the prophets
•bemselvs had come-back, ami saw the daso
lation of their land.
No splendid pillow's of wood or stone, with
inscriptions in letters ot gold, are here; not a
single memorial which these people are other
wise so fond of erecting in their cemetries.—
It seems to be sufficient, that they are placed
beneath the favorite sod; and small nnd nu
merous mounds, over which the survivor som-
times comes and weeps, which marks the pla
ce* of their graves. If it be beautiful, in the
cemetry, of Pere la Chaise, to see the widow
or the orphan planting flowers over the ashes
of the departed, and bathing them with -heir
tears, it is surely more impressive to see the
Oriental, in his simple and flowering garb, like
the teat worn perhaps in patriarchal days,
mourning over the lonely grave in the wilder
ness, where human pride and vanity cannot
come.—Travels in the East.
closes the passage to the brain. These bugs
and other insects produce a tingling and un
pleasant sensation sometimes very alarming^! brass co^n which contained the ashes of thi^
by crawling abont the drum of the ear, but
rhey soon make their exit or can be driven out
without much trouble,
From the Trenton ( v V-. J.) Gazette.
THE LOST C'ilLD FOUND.
*i\TL DESPKRANDLM.
Never was the advantages of a strict ad
herence to the adv-co contained in the two
words above given, more folly illustrated, than
in a circumstance which lately occurred at Im-
laystown, Monmouth county in this State, and
which I shall proceed to relate as briefly as
possible.
On Tuesday the 24th August, a hoy about
8 years of age, named Edward Foster, son ol
Elanson Fo ter residing near Imiaysiown, wan
dered frum his school fellows at noon into a
small wood in quest of wild plumbs; and not
withstanding the most diligent search was made
by the neighbors for the little truant, not the
remotest hint could be obtained for six days,
ofthe c >urse he had taken.
On missing the child at night, his parents be
came alarmed, and commenced searching for
him with lights, assisted by a few neighbors,
>n the Woods and fields adjoining the school-
house whence he had strayed. This search
proving fruitless, it was given up until day
light should render it more effectual. Early in
the morning at least fifty persons renewed tin
-•e.irc.h and continued it until night; when it
ended as before in disappointment. Foiled
but not discouraged, the neighbors, many o*
them, will) some sympathising friends from A!
lentown, again commenced looking for the lost
one; and again night brought naught but dis-
appointment rendered doubly di-couraging
from the length of time the little suffjrer had
been gone. And having effectually searched
the woods and fields for miles the neighbors
were entirely at a loss in what direction to turn
their future efforts. Animated with hopes of
final success for hope seemed to spring from
almost utter hopelessness, the search was still
renewed by some with each returning sun.—
On the Saturday night after his loss, some per
sons returning home from Imlaystown, heard a
child crying near the head ofthe Imlaystown
mill-pond. The nature of the ground which
lay between them a d the place whence tin-
sound issued alone dttered their proceeding
immediately to tne spot. With the dawn of
light ihe neighborhood was roused and the
woods and mead <-vs searched; hut alas! all
was as before in v un. Six nights had now
-lapsed and the afflicted parents retired from
he pursuit to shed tears of bitterness; their
sorrow heightened by the dreadful uncertainty
that hung over the object of their affections
On Monday morning the 30th Aug. two per
sons in the neighborhood having occasion to
be up, before day, again heard what they sup-
posedHo be the famt cry of a child, as if m
pain. The intelligence was quickly spread
through several in ighborhoods and upwards
of 150 persons from all quart-rs turned
out to make a final effort. After searching
the swamps at the head of the mill-pond
some oi the party heard a low moaning, pro
ceeding from some tall white grass, and a sig
nal being given thev surrounded the spot —
When one of the persons p rceivmg a place
where something had entered. Forcing hi*-
way through the grass and briars which we*,
quite as high as a man's head, and where the
water and mud were above his knees, he dis
covered, to his joyful surprize, the little suffe
rer alive; but lying with Ids lower extremities
in the water; his head and shoulders being sup
ported by the white grass winch he had pres
sed down for a bed
He was immediately conveyed with every
demonstration of heartfelt joy to Imlaystown
On being stript, he presenteda spectacle, the re
collection of which must bring tears to the eyes
of ail who beheld him. Emaciated until th
bones nearly projected through the skin. But
enough—my heart bleeds at the remembrance
It appears that being bewildered, he wandered
into the place where he was found, and passed
the first and each subsequent Dight in the same
spot; not having eaten a single morsel for six
days and nights.
The bed the little creature had made for
himself, was within six feet ofthe main creek,
and a few turns would have carried him into
a watery grave. There is now good reason to
believe that he will finally recover under the
judicious care of Dr Fort, and soon be restor
ed to health. The editor is requested to give
this an insertion as a stimulant to perseverance
m other similar circnmstauces. W.
* Despair not.
—-t-sotwooo.-—
Earwigs.—We read an accotit lately, in
some of our papers, of a lady who was distract
ed and almost dying from some insect having
got into her ear, and was only saved by pour
ing brandy in it. It may save much needless
apprehension to state on the authority of the
English work on insect transformations, that it
is an unfounded prejudice that Earwigs get in
to the ear. If the disagrcable odour ofthe
wax does not drive them out, they cannot
this cession, the descendants of Columbus re'
quested that his remains might he removed to**
Cuba. On the 19th of January. I78&, the
Naval Reminiscence—About a year previ
ous to the declaration of war against Great
Britain, the English Frigate Macedonian ar
rived at Norfolk where her commander Gapt.
Carden and his officers, were treated with all
the hopitality for which the citizens of that
citv are distinguished. The Frigate United
States was then lying there, under the com
mand of Commodore Decatur, between whom
and Cap Carden the customary civilities pass
ed. At a dinner given to Capt Carden on
board the United States, the comparative mer
its of the two vessels became the theme of
remark, iu which Capt. Carden maintained
with some warmth the superiority ot his own
new and beautiful ship. Decatur, with great
delicacy replied that he should sincerely re
gret the contingency which would place them
in an attitude of mutual hostility, and waved
the subji.-ct. Little did the gallant Captain
ofthe Macedonian then dream that the short
space of a year and a half would prove to his
mortification the fallacy of his opinion; hut so
it was After the return of the Mace
doman to England, and the subsequent decla-
tion of war, she sailed to join the squadron on
our coast, and after touching tit one of the
Western Islands, a vessel was descried, which
not answering the signals of the day, was
know,) to be either a French or an American
frigate. The greatest enthusiasm pervaded
the ship, and Capt. Carden exultingly ex
claimed to one of his office s, “If she be a
French frigate we will give her 25 minutes—
If a Yankee, we will take her in 120 minutes.”
The engagement commenced, but the Mace
donian having the wind, was enabled to choose
her own distance, in consequence of which the
United States could not bring her to close ac
tioa, until the lapse of more than an hour * * *
When the British flag was lowered, the frigate
was hailed from the United States, “What ship
is thatl” The answer came back, “his Brittauir
Maje sty’s frigate Macedonian John S. Carden
commander;” on hearing which Decatur in a
hurried manner, and with a quivering voice,
produced by a momentary gush offeeling.direc-
ted the officer wi< h the trumpet to ask if Capt.
Carden was weli. He was answered in the
affirmative, and in a I w minutes Capt. Carden
was on deck of the United States, looking
anxioudv around for the person of his old
friend D catur. The Comodore being dress
ed in a short roundabout, with an old tarpau
tin hat, and his face disguised and blackened
with powder and smoke, it was not until hn
advanced towards Capt. Carden with his hand
extended, that the Captain could distinguish
him among the multitude of discolored visages
that surrounded him- He there learned the
capture of the Guerriere and the Frolic, and
subsequently remarked to a friend that though
he was pained to hear ofthe tarnished reputa
tion of his Sovereign’s flag, he could not but
feel an inward satisfaction that hi* was not
the first name upon the sad catalogue. After
a tedious detention of several months at New
London as a prisoner of war. the galhmt office*
returned to England, was honorldy acquitted
of all blame by a court of Inquiry, and died in
about a year afterwards.—Journal of Com.
great mail together with a chain which served
as a memorial of his sovereign’s weakness, iras
carried down to the harbour in procession,
under fire of the forts and put on board a brig
of war, to be removed to Havana. The brig
arrived safely in the Harbour of Havana, and
the remains ofthe discoverer of America were
buried rvith all the pomp and ceremony that
could be bestowed upon him.
From the Journal De Thctdmts.
Animal Magnetism —-The following fact,
which is so interesting to tbe history of Mag
netism, has taken place in the department of
Gers, at the residence ofthe Judge ofthe peace
tor the Canton Condor, in the presence of di
vers resj>cctable persons:
John r, a farmer, aged twenty-three, had
an abscess inside ot the upper part of his leg.
The professional men who attended him pre
vailed on the patient to suhrnit to a punct.u r e,
but tbe greatest caution and fortitude were
necessary, as the crural artery, which traversed
tbe tumor, was frightfully enlarged
Count de B , whose magn Deal power
is remarkable, proposed to magnetise the pa*
tient to produce insensibility in that part ofthe
body where the operation was to be performed,
lor the purpose of sparing him those suflVrings
which would he unavoidable in a waking state.
The proposal was accepted. Al the end of
two minutes the patient was plunged in a mag
netic state—Somnolency manifested itself im
mediately, but without any particular con
sciousness. The patient replied to his mag-
netiser, that he sought him in vain, and that he
could neither see the disease, nor the cause
thereof. Dr. Lai*** performed then the sur»
gical operation, which had been deemed re
quisite, with the greatest dexterity. He re-
1 peatedlv plunged the instrument into the open*
ing made by the bistoury, in order to give an
issue to the purulent matter, when it - flow was
impeded by albuminious flakes. The wound
was afterwards bound up. During the whole
operation the patient remained motionless like
a statue, without his magnetical sleep bring in
the least disturbed: and on the physicians pro*
posing that the magnetical state should be in
terrupted, M de B spontaneously awoke the
patient Dr. R. approached him, and asked if
he would submit to the operation. “I must,’*
replied the patient, “because it is necessary.’*
Dr. R. announced then to him that it would be
useless to begin again, as the operation had
been performed already. The astonishment
of the patient was excessive, when proof i>f this
was exhibited to him. He had felt nothing,
experienced nothing, and absolutely remember*
ed nothing, but the act of M. De B. when he
placed the palm of his hand on his forehead to
make him fall asle p*
Extraordinary Descent in a Diving Dell.—An
attempt is now makiug to raise the sloop D
troit, of Albany, which was run foul of and sunk
on the 22^\ of April last, in the channel ol the
highlands, opposite west point, with a cargo
estimated to be worth about $25 000 Bv
means of the diving-bell chains Have been pla
ced under her, forward and aft, which, when
properly connected, are to be used in raising
her. The weight to be raised, is estimated at
from one hundred to one hundred ?nd twenty
ton*. Mr. John Blair who has frequently de
scended in tbe diving bell, in various parts of
the United States has od this occasion far ex
ceeded any undertaking ofthe kind ou record.
H»- descended several times to the bed of
the river, being a dep’h of one hundred and
eighty feet, where he remained on one occasion,
something more thanthree quarters of an hour.
Tbe pressure he experienced, was so great,
that when drawn up, it was found necessary
to place him in a warm bed for several hours,
before he was sufficiently restored to converse.
The bell is made of black walnut, about two
and a^half feet in diameter at the upper part,
by seven feet at the base, and about six feet in
height; strongly secured with iron hoops, and
loaded at the lower flange with pig iron, secur
ed to the rim by canvass bandage, it is per
fectly simple in its construction, and unprovid
ed with the means of deriving any sup
ply of air. other than that contained within
it, when first let down upon the water. When
drawn up it could be distinguished several feet
b^low the surface of the water, from the his
sing [or singing noise, a9 the attendants ex
pressed it,] which the confined air produced
through the pores of the wood. It is altogeth
er one the most unexampled descents ever at
tempted in this or any other country.—The
Age.
The Remains of Colundtus.—^Thls celebrated
navigator was at St. Domingo, when he was
seized and sent home to Spain in irons. Or
his arrival at Cadiz, tbe King and Queen or
dered him to be released, and apologized for
the treatment he had received. But Colum
bus could never forget the ignominy. He
preserved the fetters, hung them up in his a*
partment, and ordered them to be buried in
his grave. In compliance with his request,
his body was removed from Seville to the Is
land of St Domingo. There bis bones remain
ed uuti! the Spanish part of the Island was
Ceded to France, in 1795. in consequence oi
(From the Williamsport Banner.)
EXECUTION OF EBENEZER COX.
We are indebted to the politeness of a gen
tleman of this place who was present yesterday
the 27th instant, at the execution of Cox at
Charleston, Va. (for the murder of Col. Dunn,
late superintendent of the Armory at Harper’s
ferry,) for some notes from which we are ena
bled to present to our readers an account, ne«
ces\nria!ly imperfect, of the awful scene.
At half past twelve o’clock Capt. Hunter’s
Troop of Horse with Capt. Steward’s compa
ny of Infantry received the Prisoner at the jail.
He walked a short distance and was then pla
ced in a Barouche in company with two Rev.
gentlemen ofthe Catholic Church; a hearse
containing bis coffin being in the train. The
procession moved to the place of execution,
which was open lot, situated at the fast
end ofthe town, between the Harper’s Fer
ry and Sbepherds-town roads. When ar
rived at the gallows, the Military formed a
square around it, and the Prisoner, accompa
nied by the Clergy, and the Sheriff, J.miesL.
Ransou, E^q ascended the plattforrn. After
relious exercises were performed the Clergy
descended and left the Sheriff’alone with the
Prisoner Cox, with much firmness but with
tears of contrition and sorrow stood up and
addressed tbe multitude, amounting to be
tween three aod four thousand persons. He
warned young men to guard against cards and
drunkeness, and bad company; to observe and
pursue the salutary advice of their parents.—
He said that a total disregard to parental coun
sel and the observance ofill advice, hdd
brought him to tbe awful place on which he
stood
After the address, which lasted several min
utes, the Sheriff adjusted the fatal cord, and
having taken an affectionate and feeling adieu,
he descended from the platform. There
standing on the threshold of eternity, Cox,
directed his views Heavenward; raising his
pinioned hands as high as possible, he prayed
audibly for some time, and then he threw his
handkerchief, bed* wed with many a hitter
tear, as a signal to the officer that all was
ready.—The drop descended; the arms of the
suspended criminal fell along either side of his
body, a convulsive motion of the chests was
observed, and the forfeiture of life for life was
paid.
After the expiration' of twenty minutes, the
corpse was lowered into its coffin, aud deliv
ered to his friends, whose purpose was to re*
move it to Loudon county for interment.
On the night pteceedmg the execution Cox
took no rest The ministers of God were
with him, aod he received from their bands
the holy sacrament, both on Thursday evening
and Friday morning He left a written con
fession, which he said he would be willing to
seal with his blood, in which he implicated se
ven other men as advisers to the deed for
which it was bis lot to suffer, ft is said that
those persons have absented themselves. In
his address from the scaffold he made allusion
•o these evil advisers as being the cause of ‘oJa
dreadful fate. A fortnight before estate