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. • A ll Letters directed to this Office, or the Editors, must be
post-paid, to eutille them to attention.
P LA N TER* SHOTElT
SAVANNAH, GA.
THIS establishment is nr#w open for
the reception of boarders. It has recent
ly been fitted up with new furniture of
the neatest style, and is now under the
management of the subscriber, who
pledges himself that nothing on his part
shall be wanting. His TABLE shall be served with the
best the market and country can afford, and his HOUSE
attended by the best and most trusty servants.
Gentlemen and their families ran be accommodated
with front rooms of the neatest style, No Bar will be
kept open in the bouse to disturb those who may please
to favor him with their patronage.
Persons arriving on thp Railroad, wishing to slop at
this Hottse.will direct their baggage to be sent lo the
Planter’s Hotel. J. SLATER.
Savannah, Sept. 29, 1840. 16—6m
Notice.
T Til I!'. subscriber will in future charge the customary
A fee of ONE DOLLAR, for each note attended to
by him in the Central Bank: also for taking out and for
warding grants, duplicates, testimonials, Ac., One Dol
lar each.
All communicatious, postage paid, will meet with
prompt attention. WM. G. LITTLE.
Milledgeville, Oct. J, 1840. 16
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merit
YOL. XI.
M1LLEBGETILLE, (61.) X16CH
Valuable Hills and Land for Sale.
THAT valuable Property, belonging to
the estate of Gen. Win. P. Ford, known as
his “Mill Place,” in Randolph county, three
and a half miles from the Chattahoochee, is
now offered for sale. The body of Land on
which tile Mills are erected,contains some fourteen or fif
teen hundred acres, some of which is “just as good as
dirt generally gets to be,” well adapted to the cultivation
of cotton and grain. The Millshavc superior fixings for
sawing and grinding, not surpassed bv any in the country.
A further description is deemed unnecessary, as persons
desirous of purchasing, will view the premises, and by
calling on the subscriber, be will take pleasure ill shewing
tiie property. JAMES P. HOLMES,
For the Executrix.
Fort Gaines, Dec. 1, 1640. 2f—tf
FOR SALE.
Two 40 acre lots—one in the 15th
district of the second section, being Num
ber 389; the other situate in the 4th district
of the first section, being No. 311. Per
sons wishing to purchase, will apply to the subscriber
at Moniitville, Troup countv, Ga. Nov. 30, 1640.
24—Lit NATHAN V. BODDIE.
WILLIAM D. MIMS,
ATTORNEY AT t.AW,
W ILL practice LAW in the Courts of the Flint Cir
cuit, und iu the counties of Jones, Twiggs and
Talbot.
References.—Col. E. Hamilton, Fort «fc Clopton, Ira
E. Fort & Co. W. A. Ross, Solomon, Griffin & Land,
and J. J. Gresham, Esq., Macou; l'arrer A Haves.
Charleston; Wimberly A Jones, Savannah; Barnard
Hill, Esq. Talbotton.
OFFICE over White & Carter’s store, Cotton Ave
nue.
Macon. Jan. 12, 1640.
32—52t.
ALFRED A. OVERTON,
•‘tlfornry at Lntr,
MADISON, MORGAN COUNTY, GEORGIA.
January 26, 1841. 13t—112
PUBLIC H O U S E.
CLINTON, GEORGIA.
THE Subscriber, respectfully informs his
friends and the public generally, that he has
opened PUBLIC HOUSE in this place, in
the house formerly occupied as a Tavern by
Messrs. Gray A Jones, fronting the public square, and
assures his friends, that no pains will be spared to render
those comfortable who may favarhiin with a call.
MICHAEL SULLIVAN.
January 1, 1841. 20—3t
WESTERN BANKOF GFORGIa77~
Rome, December 30, 1840. j
t4/~VRDF.RED. That the Stockholders in this Bauk
Y / he required to pay TEN DOLLARS per share,
on the Stock held by them respectively, on or before the
fifteenth of March next ensuing.”
By order of die Board,
30-9t R. A. GREENE, Cashier.
A CARD—TO TIIE LADIES !
MRS. C. HOFFMAN,
AUGUSTA, GA.
R espectfully informs the ladies of mu-
lcdgeville, and likewise her old friends in the Coun
try. that the .Hill inert/ and Dress making bu
siness iii all its branches will still be continued, and she
may he found at her old stand in the Bnildimc^
second story, opposite the late Planters’ Hotel, where
she will he ready at all times to furnish her customers
with the very latest style of French Millinery; latest style
of London and French Dress Making. Ac. Ac. at very
short notice. Mrs. H. would respectfully inform her
friends, that ill the selection of her Goods and articles for
Millinery, she has as heretofore exercised her best taste
and judgment.
Er All orders entrusted to her care shall receive
prompt attention, and all work executed in the latest
fashion with neatness and dispatch. Having received
the latest fall fashions and engaged superior hands, she
feels confident of giving satisfaction to all who may pat
ronize her. November 9, 1^40. 131 tf
FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC GOODS,
AT
|)1CK St HO LUES,
Jfo. ]7 ? Vend nr Range, Charleston, South Carolina.
H AVE now in store, 500 hales and cases, Brown and
Bleached GOODS of the most popular brands,
with an extensive supply of PRINTED and STRIPE
goods—also, a large and general assortment of all the
leading staple articles necessary to make up a complete
stock for the most extensive Country Store.
As Agents lor several Manufacturers, we are constant
ly supplied by direct importation, with a general assort
ment of Woollens, Cottons, Linens, Hosiery, Silk and
Cotton Umbrellas, Ac.
o* All of which we offer at our usual low prices for
Cash or Notes with Town acceptances.
DICK A HOLMES,
Commission Merchants If Auctioneers.
February 1, 1841. 32—3t
' 4 0VI\GTO.Y I E.41ALE SCHOOL.
-ST J1-; rail the attention of all who feel an interest in
W Educating their Daughters, to the following:
The FEMALE SCHOOL in Covington, Newton
comity, Georgia, will commence on the first Monday in
January next, underthe care of MISS KELLOG. whose
competence to discharge the duties of tutoress is unques
tioned by all who know her; all the branches taught in
Female Schools, will he taught by her to perfection
Professor Hadaman will give lessons in French, and
Mr. Gotenburger, will give lessons in Music.
Covington is a very healthy place, and hoard cap he
had in good private housesor Taverns at moderate prices.
° JOHN N. WILLIAMSON,) H
CARY WOOD, > -
RICHARD KENNON, ) g
December 30,1840. fit 30 x
BROUGHT TO JAIL, in Mil-
I ledgevillc, Baldwin connty, on the
12th inst. a runaway Negro about 35
or 40 years of age, 5 feet ti inches
high, light complexion,quick spoken,
_ snvs his name is JACK, and belongs
... U uVTleiulerson, near Tallahassee, Fa. The owner is
requested to come forward, prove proverty, pay charges
and take him away. February 15, 1841;
; !5 LEWIS A. BOX, Jailor.
GANO.
*f\ THIS thorough bred Race Horse, having
AjTTN proved lame cilice he was transferred to the sta-
‘ 1 / A. hie of Col. Hampton, it has been deemed advi
sable by his owners to let him make a Spring Season, at
his stable on the Lafayette Course. To afi'ord breeders
an opportunity, therefore, of raising eolts of the most ap
proved blood, he will be permitted to visit a limited num
ber of .Mares, not exceeding 30, at $75 the season, and
$1 to the Gioom.
Ample preparations will he made for the accommoda
tion of all Mares sent to him, and they will he taken care
of on the most approved plan, at 50 cents per day, and
no charges for negro boys attending them.
Tin* performances of (»ano on the I urf, arc too well
known to require repetition here. He is a beautiful ma
hogany bav, 16hands 1 inch high, of great symmetry, and
possessing superior hone and muscle. He was sired by
Eclipse, out of Betsey Richards, a full sister to John
Richards.
All expenses will be required to be paid before the Mare
leaves the stable.
THOMAS J. WALTON,
AUGUSTUS LAMPKIN.
Augusta, February 2, 1840. 34—5t
REINDEER.
THIS thorough-bred Race-horse (own bro-
, ttiier to Alice Gray.) will stand the next season
_( \ at Hillsborough, Jasper county, under the care
•if Mr. John Wtne.ns, and will he let to mares at the re
duced price of $25 the season.
REINDEER was sired by the celebrated Henry, the
competitor of Eclipse; his dam Sportmistress by Hickory,
(the best son of imported Whip) his grandam, Miller’s
Damsel, the d;un of American Eclipse; she was sired by
imported Messenger. Great grandam, the imported
mare by Potoxas, great great grandam by Gimmick—
Snap Dragoon, by Snap—Regulus— Bartlett's Childers
—Honey Woods Arabian, out of the Two True Blues.
REINDEER is a chesnut sorrel, 16 hands high, of
large hone, strongly wade, short back, fine eyes, and of
commanding appenrance. He was bred by Thomas
Pearsall, of Long Island, New York, will be 9 years old
in May next. There is not a better blooded horse in the
United States, either native or imported
Act to Abolish Imprisonment for Debt.
An at:’ supplementary to an act to abolish imprison
ment for debt m certain cases:
Be it enacted by the Senate and Honse of Representa
tives of the l nited States of America in Congress assem
bled, that the act entitled “An Act to abolish imprison
ment for debt iu certain cases,” approved February twen
ty-eight, eighteen hundred and thirty-nine, shall be so con
structed as to abolish imprisonment for debt on process
issuing out of any court of the United States in all cases
whatever, where, by the laws of the,Estate in which the
said court shall he held, imprisonment for debt has been,
or shall hereafter be abolished.
R. M- T. HUNTER,
Speaker of the House of Repseseutatives.
RICHARD M. JOHNSON,
Vice President of the United States,
and President of the Senate.
Approved January 14, 1841.
37 M. VAX BUREN.
GENERAL AGENCY.
T HE undersigned will attend to the renewal of all
NOTES that may he entrusted to his care in the
Central Batik, for the customary fee of one dollar for
each renewal, also to the taking out and forwarding of
Grants and Copy Grains for fifty cents each. Ail letters
post-paid will meet with prompt attention.
ALFRED M. HORTON.
Milledgeville, February 16, 1841. 35—tf
•*!
1841.
XO. 88.
T HE undersigned renews lhe oiler of In* services lo
his friends and the public, in the transaction of a
general agency in ibis place. He will attend
to the renewal of all Notes, &o. that mav be entrusted to
his cure in the Central Bank, for ihe rustomary fee of One
Dollar for each renewal; also, to the inking pul and for
ward mg Grants, for Fifty Cfnts each.
fVT Letter* enclosing money ami Notes (post paid) w ill
meet wilh prompt attorn ion
JOHN R. ANDERSON.
Milledgeville, April 13,1810. 43—if
Georgin, Rahhrin county.
A N ELECTION will be held on Saturday, the 20th
of inst. for a JUSTICE OF THE INFERIOR
COURT, to supply the vacancy occasioned by M. J.
Ke nan’s declining to serve.
ALSO—for a CORONER, to supply the vacancy of
B. Fumey, resigned.
J. S. THOMAS, j. i. c.
S. T. BEECHER, j. i. c.
C. D. HAMMOND, j. i. c.
S. BIVINS, j. t. c.
Mareh I, 1841. 3t—37
N otice is hereby given, that-four small notes for
$30 each made by George W. \\ ardlow, principal,
and Oran B. Tucker, and James Dykes endorsers, have
been fully paid off and satisfied to me as holder of the
same. All are cautioned not to trade for or in any wise
meddle with the same, as the makers are not again re
sponsible for their payment.
GABRIEL B. ROBERTS.
Hawkinsville, February 15. 1840. 36—3l
O’ Georgia Journal will copy 3 times, and charge
Hansell Jk Brautiv, Hawkinsville.
Lost or Mislaid,
O NE Note of hand given by John Moony for One
hundred and fifty dollars, and made payable to Ann
I*. Coffee, or bearer, dated some time in tiie spring of
1839, and became payable by the 25th of December, the
same year. CHRISTOPHER C. COFFEE, ag’t.
Madison Co. Florida, Nov. 21,1840. 25
DEKALB SPUING RACES
W ILL commence on Tuesday the 4th of MAY,
1841, one Mile and n half front Decatur, and
continue for FOUR DAYS, free for any nag.
First day, mile beats for 3 year old colts, entrance $25
Second day, 2 mile heats, free for any age, “ $30
Third day, three mile heats, “ $35
Fourth day. Sweepstake for Saddle Horses, “ $15
One half the entrance money added to the purse of
each day, and the purses made as liberal as the circum
stances of a newly organized Chib will allow. There
will also, be a sweepstake for three year old colts on the
first day, entrance $50, three or more to make a race,
to name and close by the 10th of February next.
ROBERT F. HILBURN; Secretary,
January I, 1841. 18t-
-29
Georgia, Cobh County.
TOLLED before me, Thaddeus II.
McLusky, a justice of the peace one black
MARE COLT, with a blaze in its face,
I Kith hind feet white, about two years and
six months old; also—one BA \ COLT,
with a blaze in its face and both hind feet
white, two vears and a half old: also—one SORREL
COLT, about two years and a half old—appraised by-
James Terrell and William Stancell, to sixty dollars.
Feb. 11. 1841. T. II. McLosky^j. p.
A true extract from the estrav-book. Feb. 24, 1841.
37 DANIEL COLLINS, c. t. c
FIFTY DOLLARS REWARD.
L OST by the Subscriber on the Road from Eatonton
to Coleman’s Ferry, a large Calfskin Pock
et Book, containing Five hundred and eighteen dol
lars all hut five dollars iu hills of the Central Bank.—
Also, stutdry receipts and papers belonging to me.
Any person finding the same and delivering it to the
subscriber, shall be entitled to the above reward, or one
hundred dollars for the money and any person who may
have concealed or attempted to conceal the same.
W. W. CARLISLE.
Monticello, Feb. 20, 1840. 37—3t
esc-.jra FIRE-PROOF
.WARE HOUSE, Cl
And General Commission Business.
T HE subscribers intending to continue the Contmis
sion Business the ensuing year, at their old stand,
on Jackson street, offer their services to their friends and
the public, assuring those who may favor them with their
business, that they have storage sufficient to place all the
produce they may get, under houses, and w ill not have
Cotton exposed'to the weather, nor have it placed in a
spot where it cannot at all times be found for shipment;
and they say the safety of their warehouses, from Hoods,
or high" rivere. have been recently tested, as there was
not a hale of Cotton wet by the late high flood. The
location of the warehouses, to men of business, are
particularlv desirable, being in the immediate vicinity of
the Rail Road Depot, Globe Hotel, Mansion House, and
Banks.
They feel grateful for former patronage and solicit a
continuation, assuring those who may favor them with
their business, that no exertions shall he wanting to pro
mote their interest. Their charges will be as moderate
as other commission houses in this place.
S. KN’EELAND & SON.
Augusta, June 28, 1840. 16-3m
AMERICAN HOTEL,
Madison, Morgan County, Ga.,
WILL be ready for the reception of Board
ers and Visitors early in January next. The
subscriber is now making arrangements to
j rr~tii P'" aT1 addition to his house, which will make
it 71 feet ioug and 48 wide, all of which he intends fitting
up in convenient and pleasant rooms. The building
will be of brick entire, and is situated on the public
square, nearest the Railroad Depot, and within a very
short and pleasant walk. Ills large new stable will soon
be completed, and will lie well prepared for keeping hor
ses; his ostlers aud servants will be of his own family of
negroes, and such as are capable and trusty, and although
the"subscriber has had no personal experience in tavern
keeping, but from ills long business habits and general
observation, he flatters kintself with the belief that he can
satisfy the comnimunity, and keep a house worthy ol pa
tronage. JOSEPH M. LVANs.
October 17. 1840. 21—2m
December 1st, 1840. 24—26t
N T. LAMAR,
JOHN VVYNENS,
Itrralur Nupcriar Court—Yor’r. Tern*, 4840.
Felix (i. Arnett, surviving co-partner j
of U. Harrison & Co., I
versus 1 Bill for Discovery
Alonzo Bigalow & Timothy Clough, j and Relief.
surviving co-partners of I
R. Oimstead & Co. J
I T appearing to the Court, that tiie defendants are not
to he found in said county, and it also appearing by
said hill, that defendants resides without the jurisdiction
of said Court. . , . ,
It is ordered therefore, On motion of complin mints solt-
licitor that service of the same he perfected on die said
Alonzo Bigalow and Timothy Clough, by a publica
tion of this rule once a month for four monlhs in some
public gazette published iu this State, previous to the
next term of this Court.
A true extract from the minutes of the Superior Court
of Decatur county, November Term 1840.
27 A. D. SMART, c. s. c.
sJt
Brought to Jail,
ON the 5th of December, 1840, in
Emanuel county, one negro man,
.„ — right eye,
no other mark on him to be seen;
he says that bis name is ELLEC, and that he belongs to
Richard Coal of Lowndes county, the owner is hereby
requested to come and prove property, pay charges, and
take him away, or he will be dealt with as the law directs
HENRY DURDEN, Sheriff.
December 5, 1840. 27—tf
MISCELLANY.
ADDRESS TO TIME.
Gray monarch of decay !
Stern conqueror of Kings!
Beneath whose all unbounded sway,
The mightiest nations melt away,
And are forgotten things !
Oil! spare but one poor gift to me,
And I resign the rest to thee !
If aught of manly grace.
Or youthful bloom be mine,
Take from thy subject’s form and face,
Each faintly marked aud fading trace,
Stem spoiler, they are thine ;
Bitt dip not thy relentless dart.
In the deep fountain of tny heart.
Take health as thou before
Hast taken from my frame;
Take all the little treasured store,
W hich memory holds, of hard-earn’d lore,
For these are thine to claim ;
But leave me still the power to scau
Kindly the tvoes of suffering man!
If tvrannay must sting
My soul to sternness here,
And front my heart, by torture, wring
Those gentle sympathies, which spring
Where man to man is dear;
Then bait me with the sons of pride—
By them he all my firmness tried !
But ne’er by guile or woe,
That tender organ tear.
Which o’er the weak—the fall’u—the low
Vibrates with sympathetic glow—
Those slender springs lets spare;
And if denied the means to heal.
Still let me have the power to feel!
From the Pcnnsyhaniu Spirit of the Times.
MONODY
ON THE DEATH OF THE
BANK OF THE UNITED STATES.
By Philemon Phillific.
Not a sound was heard, save the Cashier’s wail,
As the last doubloon was counted.
Not a Clerk discharged his tailor’s bill,
When he from his desk dismounted.
The teller told his tile of woe,
And Payer refused to pay;
The Attorney he turned his hack to go,
And the Runner he rau away.
And short were the oaths of the President,
As he fiimbled amid flic dross.
And filling ills pouch, as he always meant,
He charged it profit and loss.
Not a single qualm disturbed his breast,
On accoun of the slight default;
He swept the hoard of all that was left,
And locked up the empty vault.
He thought as he heaped the shining pile,
And rolled up the greasy notes,
lie had saved enough to last him awhile,
And purchased a few more votes.
Yet little he reckoned that his rotten suit,
Would find hut few espousers,
And less he thought that his cloven foot,
Stuck out from beneath Ins trowsers.
’Tissaid at night a parting wail,
Re-echoes from wall to wall.
And a troubled ghost of aspect pale,
Disports in the Banking Hall.
At times it will perch on the marble dome,
Or hide in the discount closet;
And oft and again in a solemn tone,
Cbauntover the word “deposite.”
Dim is the light in the corniced room,
Where the Directors oft’n sat,
And naught enlivens the mid-day gloom,
But the sports of the owl and hat.
The ample throne with its tinsclry.
Of the fallen would be King,
I? the scene of the spider’s tyranny,
And the home of the creeping thing.
Yet who can gaze on the hydra form.
When the qtiick’ning spark has fled,
And feel that the spirit of the storm,
Is slumbering with the dead.
The angry glare and defying scowl,
Lived to the latest breath.
And avarice sped in the parting howl,
Of the monster, strong in death.
WOMAN.
pliment with which women were wont to be addressed
as beings of a superior and almost sacred order.? We
do not ridicule, hut approve and delight in it, believing
that it flowed from a right source, and fulfilled a salutary
purpose. It has ever been the mark of a noble spirit to
treat the softer portion of humanity, not only with ten
derness, hut with homage and reverence. Our German
ancestors believed that a sanctum illiquid resided iu the
female breast, and a form of the same feeling has diffuc-
ed among their descendants that dpvotion and fidelity of
attachment which gives to life its dearest enjoyments, and
to society its surest solidity. Bacon has pointed out to
us the generosity that inspires the inferior creation w hen
they find themselves maintained by the countenance of
man, who, lo them, is instead of a god or mrlioar natura.
So, not to .-peak it profanely, woman is to us a mtlior
nature, in whom tire image of the heavenly character is
less defaced, and from whose presence we derive or re
new those kindlier or purer feelings, which the toil and
travail of business aud the world would otherwise ex
clude. Cruel and collons should mativ of us indeed tie,
if we did not ever and anon seek, with reverential do
cility, in the converse of meek-hearted women and inno
cent children, that softening of the soul, without which
we should lose our human feelings, aud he converted,
each of us, into something worse than the fox or wolf.
In a rude or sensual age, this influence is peculiarly ne
cessary to purifv and elevate the passions: But even
in a period like the present, of false liberality and cold
calculation, when, ns we think, the mere intellectual part
of the female mind is unduly advanced over the heart
and imagination, a return to the loving worship of that
moral grace, that simple rectitude, and pure affection, of
which woman is to us the earthly impersonation, would
be a strong remedy agaiqst the evils we suffer. We re
joice, therefore, to recur to those tributes of tender and
submissive admiration, which taught the poets of the
school of romantic love to represent the fair forms of
their mistresses and tiie gentle minds which animated
them, as something more nearly allied to divinity, than
we, that are of coarser clay.
THE GLORIOUS CREDIT SYSTEM.
“Talking of banking,” said a friend of ours the other
day, “ I’ll tell you a curious fact relating to the craft.—
When old B , the banker, felt his health declining,
he called for his son, and said, “ William, I have sent for
you to talk lo yon very seriously. I have long observed
the steadiness of your conduct—I hope you will coutinue
in the same course. By my will you will find that I
have divided what I have, equally among you; you can
prove what amount you think prudent before the Bank
Commissioners, for there is a perfect understanding be
tween me and the Directors, hut I am not, in fact, worth
a shilling. Our hank is rotten, and has been so for
years!”
“Good heavens!” said William, “I always thought
you very rich—have you not a large sum sir, in the iron
box!"
“ Ah, William,” said the old man, “ that iron box was
kept to blind the green’nns. The iron box is empty, and
lias been for years. Continue, however, my dear boy.
to attend to banking—keep up the ‘generous confi
dence’—some lucky turn may happen—the hank is all 1
can leave you; make the most of it—keep the secret and
the secret will keep you for years. Don’t put down a
single carriage or horse ; you would be thought nothing
of, were you not a Whig’ and lived like a prince.”
William did as his father hade him—proved half a mil
lion before the board of commissioners—continued three
years, hut crushed at last, aud paid ten cents on the dol
lar. He now- resides in an elegant country mansion,
enjoying an enviable reputation, and is generally looked
up to as a most emiueut financier.
THE EMPIRE OF MIND.
Every franchised citizen iu this land ol freedom is a
sovereign. As well might one sovereign State usurp
authority over another, and attempt to divest it of rights
aud its sovereignty, as for one freeman to attempt to
lisurj) the rights or control the free aud lawful attributes
of another. He who attempts to usurp the rights of his
fellow citizen, arrogates to himself the prerogatives of
the Almighty, and is an ENEMY und a TRAITOR to
the unalienable so\ ereignty of mind. And he who assails
his fellow-citizen for this exercise of the attributes of
his individual sovereignty, is an enemy and a traitor to
the rights of man. There is a vast difference however,
between the right to express opinions and the opinions
themselves. For the former, man is responsible alone
to !iis creator, for the latter lie is accountable to the pro
visions of the social compact under which he lives.
Neither the power of man nor the rage of devils can
overthrow the empire of individual mind. The body
may be killed—the name may be cast out as evil, and the
reputation aspersed, but the sovereignty of the mind is
impregnable, invincible, aud triumphs in its own glori
ous supremacy. Its own volition alone can turn its in
dependency into setvility and it* glory into shame. The
avenues to heaven are not more precious to the enlight
ened devotee of rational freedom, than are the enjoy
ments of his heaven-bom rights. He would not more
readily suffer martyrdom for an utterance of the one,
than death in defence of the other. The justice which
guarantees to man his rights, cannot permit those rights
to he assailed with impunity. Let man beware how he
interfere with the sovereignty of his fellow.
Marriage.—When a man of sense comes to many, it
is a companion whom he wants and not an artist. It is
not merely a creature who can paint, play, dress and
dance; it is a being who can comfort and console him.
A REAL GAME COCK OF THE WILDERNESS.
A live Hoosier, who was returning from one
of the Fancy Balls fa New Orleans on Satur-
day night last, while on his way home to his
flat .boat, cut up such extraordinary shines and
antics that the watchmaD thought him every
way entitled to an introduction to our worthy
Recorder. Two or three nights previous, he
had seen Dan Marble in the “Game Cock of
the Wilderness,” and the thing pleased him so
well that he rigged himself out on Saturday
evening as much like the game chicken as pos
sible and went to the ball. While there he,
gave occasionally a crow, and took occasional
ly a drink until at length he found himself
somewhat loaded down by the head although
elevated in spirits, and perfectfully ripe for
any thing.
T he putting out of the lights, at some 2 o’
clock in the morning was a signal for our hero
to put out for home. He felt himself so well,
to use his own words, “that he couldn’t hold
himself still,” and so wide awake, that every
corner he came to, be would flap his arms vio
lently against his sides, and crow so much like
a chicken that every rooster in the neighborhood
thinking it the signal for day break, joined in
the chorus. Chapman himself in his happiest
effort, never could excel this second Sampson
Hardhead.
He had just given a specimen of his skill in
crowing at the corner of Poydras and Tehou-
plas streets when a watchman came up and
told him he must make less noise.
“Noise! Ooh-a-ooh-a-ooh! Do you call that
a noise!” said the fellow giving another sample
of his abilities at crowing.
“Noise! yes—you must shut up. Who are
you any how?”
“I’m the Second Game Cock of the Wilder
ness—look out for my gaffs,” at the same time
jumping sideways at the Watch wan, hitting
him with his right foot and elbow, and sending
him stumbling into the middle of the street. °
“You’re a hard chicken, at all events,” said
the watchman, recovering himself and walking
up to his new species of customer a second
time. “Blow me if I can get the hang of you.”
“You will soon—Ooh-a-ooh-a-ooh!” replied
the droll customer, hopping tip and giving the
watchman another side winder,” as the (alter
called it in Court. This was too much, and
the watchman accordingly called in the assis
tance of one of his brethren, and soon had the
game cock safely under lock and key.
On being pushed into the dark rooms, he
broke out with—
“Well this is a pretty place I OituK.—
It’s as dark as a box of blackin. Let me out
or I’ll butt the door down. I wish I had my
big lamp to light up with. It’s a perfect prai
rie on fire. I sot it out once, the darkest night
that ever came over, and all creation riz think-
in’ it was day light. Let me out I’m a liberty
pole and can’t bear confinement.”
In the morning, on being brought before the
Recorder, he said his name was Bill Bloom,
but that he had taken that of Sampson Hard
head, jun., because it pleased him better.
“Well Sampson,” said his honor, “what do
you follow?”
“Crowing principally,” retorted Hardhead.
“I’ve taken up the business lately.”
“You was fighting the watchman last night,”
said the Recorder.
“Fighting! You don’t call that fighting, do
you? Why if I’d been really fighting with
that chap I’d have jumped clean down his
throat and stormed hi# — e — - r *
Ulglll.
“State the circumstances of the arrest,” said
his honor to the watchman, ta
The latter was proceedii^J when the Hoo
sier sung out—
“Squire, that varmint is telling lies so fast
that you can’t find time to believe him. Look
here, Squire do the thing that’s right by me,
will you; don’t believe that chap.”
“Silence,” said the Recorder.
“I shall fine you ten dollars for this offence
but if you are caught here again you won’t get
off so easy.”
“Go ahead,” said the Hoosier, as he walked
out of tbe office. He took one more crow,
however, on the steps, and then made for his
flat boat.
A Jenimy Green.—An intelligent English
man, a few days since, says the Boston Cou
rier, went to one of our fashionable livery sta
bles, and ordered a horse and sleigh for the
purpose of a ride. While one of the men was
harnessing the horse, the keeper of the stable
said, “Put in that buffalo,”—the meaning of
which our Yankee readers will understand
without explanation. The terrified English
man exclaimed, “No, no, no, I want a horse."
“The order to put in the buffalo was repeated,
when the gentleman declared, in an agony of
excitement, that he would not undertake to
drive a buffalo, nor risk his life with any such
wild animal in a sleigh, but would have a horse
or nothing. His alarm was at length allevia
ted by seeing a bujalo skin placed in the sleigh
to protect him from cold.
When the British and American armies were
near each other in the neighborhood of Ger
mantown, five Hessian soldiers, who had strag
gled into the woods and lost their way, were
met by an Irishman who was a private in the
American army. He immediately presented
his piece, and ordered them to surrender, and
they, surprised by his intrepidity, and suppo
sing that he must certainly be supported by a
party, threw down their arms.
“I yield myself to every chance," said Cae
sar, to those who exhorted him not to expose
himself to the rage of his enemies: If I must
die to-morrow, be it so!—it will not be because
I seek death; and I shall not avoid it from my
repugnance to submit to it: it is for the Gods
to fix the time of my death; but the manner in
which I meet it, is in my own power. If the
Gods ordain tbe dreams of Calphurnia, it is not
that I may seek to preserve my life, but that I
may prepare for death: I am full of days and
of glory; what has not Caesar performed with
honor equal to any of the ancient heroes?—
Cassar, yet lives, but Caesar is always prepared
to die.”
Skeleton in Chains.—Some workmen, enga
ged in digging away an embarkment in Jack-
son street near the Navy \ ard at Brooklyn the
other day, dug up a quantity of human bones.
Among the rest were the remains of a skeleton
with iron manacles on the wrists. It is highly
probable that the mouldering bones are the re
mains of some of the victims of hate and op
pression, which marked the conduct of the Brit
ish during the fevolutionasy war.—Baltimore
Ocean.
*t
Antiquities of Texas.—The remains of a
large city has been found in Sabine County,
17 miles east of San Augustine.
Another Iron Mountain.—It is stated in tbe
Woodstock (Va.) Sentinel, that it has recently
been discovered that a mountain in that vicini
ty, known as Paddy Mountain, is almost entire
ly a mass of iron ore; the ore in huge rocks
projects from tbe earth in all directions, and
upon actual experiment proves to be very val
uable, yielding seventy per cent, after being
fused.
MASQUERADE BALL.
Mister Editor.—due o’ my sayings is, "be
gone dull care," as the ondutiful boys remarked,
when they turned their daddy out o’ doors; so
acting on them principles—I don’t mean the
principle of turnin’ one’s father out o’ house
and hom—I thort to git rid of some connip-
shus feelins, that I had about me by dancin.—
So I begun a shufflin a fancard tu, and dance
up tu yeur partner, all by myself; but I swow!
I mout as well ha’ tried to made a band of mu
sic out o’ a hand o’ bull frogs as tu git rid of
mellankolly by dancin without o fiddle. Jest
then, what in natur should I think of, but them
masked bawls, that the bills pasted on tbe cor
ners of the streets telled on. Wal, away I
goes tu the next corner, and there was the
hull account, that said, “admittuns, gentlemen
tew dollars; ladies nothin." “I vow,” says I,
“supposin I go in wiramins clothes—tew dol
lars for one dance is an ornil extorshun—if I
had our Sail’s Sunday arternoon gown and
bunnit, I would.” Neversumdever as I rek-
koned a good dance would shake off the des
perate blues, I put on a clean dickey, dressed
out horrid nice, took tew round dollars and
tew bits, and started of for the St. Phillipe-st
bawl. So arter I got there, a feller begun a
feelin’ me all over, and a runnin his hands intu
my pokkits, and a peekin intu my hat, jest as
sassy as tho’ I’d stole some thin.’ “Stranger,”
says I, “take your hand rite stret out o’ my
pokkit, or else there’ll be trouble.”
“Why,” says he, “I’m a searching on ye for
dangerous arms.”
“Wal, you are a knowin creature,” says I,
“tu look for a man’s arms in his pokkitr, the
fist on tu the end of this dangerous arm,
wont smite ye nor nothin, I rekkon, if you
aint a lee tie more civil.”
“No,” says he, “its weepons I’m a looking
arter—there, let’s have that jackknife.”
“Oh, you thort I was a goin in tu stick
somebody,” says I, “I aint eery savagerous
with weepons, but I can rassle and fite, wusss
than tew parties at ’lection times; but if
you’re afeard on me, you may keep the rotten
nife, cos it’s so soft that it’ll blunt all up, jest
if a hard faced man looks at it!”
If I was flusterified afore, what was my
feelins when I got in and seed a lot o’ the
pootyest gals this side o’ Jordan—an amazin
big room—shandyleers, and lots o’ handsum
furnitur, and fellers finefied of like folks at
thanksgivining dinner! It used to be a rule
with Uncle Bill, when any great calamity cum
acrost him in i—-—. • _*
tu the notch and grin it out o countenance;
that’s the way he did at Bunker Hill when
the British cum on in solemn column! and so
did I at the marsked bawl when I seed such
an orfhl site o’ gals. Every darnation gal had
a pair of eyes, a darned site wuss tu face than
a British bagginet, and some on ’em had such
killin’ ones that they were obliged tu tie a
black rag over ’em, so as not tu hurt any body.
I swanny! sich queer dresses—jest like the
Greeks and Turkies; some on ’em did’nt cum
down as low as they’d orter, in my opinion.—
Wal, a feller cum up tu me with a leetle spy
glass in his hand, and arter examinin pooty
narrerly, says he “aw my de-arfellow, do me
the vewy gweatpleasure of accepting atb pawd-
ner”—that’s jest the way he torked.
“I guess you mean a gal tu dance with,”
says I!
“ Ya-a-s, awpawceivc you ate not awcustomed
to fashionable saweiety, dem me," says he.
then hotnminy aint ground corn. So he takes
me tu a rousin’ gret gal, with a marsk on, aud
says he, "ma de-ar Gordeliaw Juliaw Mary
Emmaw, allow me to introduce Mistaw—what
is your name, saw?"
“Jehosaphat Jenkins,” says I.
“ Ye Gawds! what aw name! Mistaw Jehaw-
shaw Jenkins, maw love."
I wanted tu laff so I was almost dead, but
I dasu’t; aud says I, “liow do du, Comely, I
rekkon that you and I are halkilalin tu dance
together.”
So up we got and gined a coirtillion, and du
you bleve jest as I got on the floor a leetle
small feller cum a lookiti at me jest as fierce
as tho’ I had his gal, and called me "sarcray
carnal.”
“What does he call me a canal for?” says
I tu the gal;
“Ob, he is a swearing at ye in French,” says
she.
So I ony looked sour vinegar at him and
skeered him rite off. By golly! when I du git
a dancin there aint no stoppin on me, and I
got so warm that I offs jacket, rolls up my
sleeves and j>ut thru, like “soap suds down a
sink spout,’’ as our Dan says, and keep on,
till I happened tu look around and I vow, if
I warnt a dancin all alone by myself, all the
rest had got done and sot down, and were a
laffin at me as loud as they could holler, Gor-
ashus! didn’t I feel small. I was jest a clerrin
for hum, when the gal took me by the arm,
walked me up tu the bar, and what du you
think the gal wanted! Why, she wanted rue
tu treat her\\ Wal, she swallowed down
enn-about a glass ful o’ gin, and I had tu pay
for it. Gosh! I didn’t wait any longer, but
div past tbe doorkeeper, and scooted for hum;
and whenever I see any body drinkin gin, I
shall always think of that gal at the masked
bawl.
Yures truly Jehosaphat Jinkins.
Captain Saberthsh’s Opinion op the
Fair Sex. I have known a good deal of the
sex in my time, aud I can conscientiously say,
though they have not used me over well, as
the reader may perceive, that 1 have ever
found them a thousand times better and clev
erer than we are; and if they do not possess,
in the same degree, the power of dull and
heavey application necessary for the acquire
ment of learning and science, they far surpass
us in quickness of observation, justness of
feeling, and accurate discrimination of charac
ter. That you frequently hear a different
language held, is not to be denied—but then
you may set down as louts and idiots, all the
men who speak disparagingly of women; they
have found their own inferiority, and would
strive to conceal it if possible. As to the
boasters who boast of favors received, they
are simply liars and scoundrels; and for the
plainest of all reasons—the truth of a boast
is treachery and falsehood to the woman who
gave occasion for it. That notwithstanding all
their good qualities,the pretty dears sometimes
prove devils, and even devils incarnate, is
very true; but then it is only the natural con
sequence of their having fiends to deal with.
Resumption Meeting.—A very large meet
ing of those favorable to immediate resumption
by tbe banks of Pennsylvania, was held in
Philadelphia on Tuesday, at which George M.
Dallas, late minister to Russia, presided. Re
solutions were adopted in favor of an immedi
ate resumption of specie payments by the
banks; also approving of the conduct of the 69
members of tbe house of representatives of
Pennsylvania who voted for the resumption
bilL—Baltimore Sun.
St. Lotus.—The St Louis Republican says
that tbe commerce of that city has increased
about fifty per cent, over tbe preceding year,
notwithstanding the pressure of the times, and
low waters in the rivers tbe past summer.
EASTERN PARABLE.
A men was travelline fa Syria, leading his
camel by the bridle. Suddenly the animal is
seized with a panic offear, he raises himself
with impetuosity, foams and bounds in- a man
ner so horrible that his master abandons him in
anguish and tries to save himself. He perceiv
ed atsomedistancefrom the road a deep stream,
and he still heard the fearful neignings of
the camel, he sought refuge there and fell
over the precipice. But a shrub held him up.
He cluing to it with both hands, and cast on
every side his anxious eyes. Above him is the
terrible camel, of which he does not lose sight
for a moment. In the abyss belowis a dragon
who opens his monstrous jaws, and seems wait
ing to devour him. At the side of him he per
ceives two mice, one white, the other black,
who gnaw in turn at the root of the shrub,
which serves him for a support. The unfortu
nate man remains there, frozen with terror, on
seeing no retreat, nomeansofsafety. Sudden
ly, on a little branch of his shrub, he discovers
some fruit. At that moment he ceases to ob
serve tbe rage of the earned the jaws of the
dragon, the frightful activity of the mice. He
reaches out his haricl towards the fruit, he
gathers it, and in its sweet taste forgets his
fears and his dangers.
Do you ask who is this madman who can
forget so quickly a mortal peril? Learn then,
friend, that this man is thyself. The camel
represents the sorrows of life. The two mice
who are gnawing at the roots of the shrub, are
day and night, and in this situation the fruit of
pleasure attracts you. You forget the anxities
of life, the threatenings of death, the rapid suc
cession of day and night, to seek the plant of
voluptuousness, and the borders of the tomb.
WOMEN AND LADIES.
Time was when, in good old Scripture par
lance, the term woman was regarded as an hono
rable appellation for adult females. But this
term was too republican for our republican
community—for all such were ‘woman,’ and
the tenn implied no distinction between the
nobility and the common herd. And so those
who wore the greatest amount of silks and
satins, flirted tbe most gracefully about town
and in fashionable parties, and did no work,
must take a higher and more honorable name,
and be called Ladies. But in this country,
honorable names like fashionable dresses, are
coverted by all parties ; and soon. 'L.renautr.
PmlHafc U'rticL'a^atCha' ornamental parlor, to
the kitchen of the log cabin,all became Ladies.
As the intention of those designations has thus
been defeated, we motion that henceforth none
be allowed the name of Ladies but good
housewives—those who are real helpmeets in
the family, and can if in health, earn thear own
living. These are the true nobilities of the
female sex and should be considered as ladies.
Your meie walking bundles of silk and piano
forte players who would think themselves dis
graced to be caught at work in the kitchen,
should have no higher term to designate them
than woman, and this in the odious and unpop
ular sense which they originally attempted to
employ it in.
VAPOR AND WARM AIR BATHS.
“ Their use is attended by the very best effects,
particularly in chronic ailments, and there can be no
question that their action is chiefly on the skin; and
through its medium on the nervous system. As a means
of determining to the surface, promoting cutaneous ex
halation, and equalizing the circnlation.they are^equaUo
of affections which the encouragement of these pYeccs-
ses is calculated to relieve, they may be employed with
every prospect of advantage. The prevalent fear of
catching cold, which deters many from using the vaj
baths, even more than from warm bathing, is foam
on a false analogy between its effects and those of pro
fuse perspiration from exercise or illness. The latter
weakens the body, and, by diminishing the power of re
action, renders it susceptible of injury trom sudden
changes of temperature. But the effect of the vapor
bath, properly administered, is very different. When
not too warm or too long continued, it increases instead
of exhausting the strength, and, by exciting the vital ac
tion of the skin, gives rise to a ;
enables it to resist cold better t'
ower of reaction, which
an before. This I have
heard many patients remark, and the fact is well exem
plified in Kursia and the north of Europe, where, in the
depth of winter, it is not uncommon for the natives to
rush out of a vapor bath and roll i*,m«4iee in the snow,
and bo »A«h«f by doing so; whereas, were they to at
tempt such a practice after severe perspiration from ex
ercise, they would inevitably snffer. It is the stimulus
given to the skin by the vapor bath, which is the real
safeguard against the coldness of the Bnow. Common
experience affords another illustration of the same prin
ciple. If, in the cold winter day we chance to sit for
some time in a room imperfectly warmed, and feel in
consequence, a sensation of chilliness over the body, we
are mnch more likely to catch cold on going out, than if
we had been sitting in a room comfortably warm.
In the latter case, the cutaneous circulation and ner
vous action go on vigorously; heat is freely generated,
and the vital action of the skin is in its fall force. The
change to a low temperature, if accompanied with exer
cise to keep up the vitality, is then felt to be bracing and
stimulating, rather than disagreeable. But it is widely
different when the surface is already chilled before going
out.
The vitality of the skin being diminished, reaction
cannot follow additional exposure; the circulation leaves
the surface and becomes still more internal; and, if
weakness exists in the throat or chest, cold is the almost
constant result. Many softer from ignorance of this
princple. The vapor bath is thus calculated to be exten
sively useful, both as a preventive and as a remedial
agent. Many a cold and many a rheumatic attack, aris
ing from checked perspiration or long exposure to the
weather, might be nipped in the bod by its timely use.
In chronic aftections, not only of tho skin itself, bat of
the internal organs with which Ihe skin sympad
closely, as the stomach and intestines, the judicious appli
cation of the vapor bath is productive of great rebel.—
Even in chronic pulmonary complaints, it is according to
the continental physicians, not only safe, but very ser
viceable ; particularly in those affections of the mucous
membrane which resemble consumption in so many of
their symptoms."
That the tepid or warm water bath, is a safe and valu
able preservative of health, and an active remedy in dis
ease, is most certain. But many imagine the tepid and
warm bath to be weakening; but experience shows that
they are so only when abased. When not too warm,
and not prolonged beyond fifteen or twenty minutes, the
tepid bath may be employed daily with perfect safety
and advantage by persons in health; while invalids,
whose condition reqnire its nse, are often strengthened
by a much longer and equally frequent immersion.
“ Instead of being dangerous by causing liability to
cold, it is, when well managed, so much tbe reverse, that
tiie author of these pages nas used it much and success
fully for the express purpose of diminishing such liability,
both in himself and others with whom the chest is deli
cate. In his own instance in particular, he is conscious
of having derived much advantage from its regular em
ployment, especially in the cold months of the year, dur
ing which he has uniformly found himself most effectual
ly strengthened against the impression of cold, by.repeat
ing tire bath at shorter intervals than usual.”—Combe’s
Principles of Physiology.
Li*e in Planting Trees.—An English paper mys
that a large plantation of trees, within the last few years,
has been formed without the loss of a single tree, and
this lias been achieved by a simple process; it is merely
putting a small quantity of lime in the hole with the
plant.
aud one quart of honey ; stop it np tight, and shake it
well before using it. Take a wine glass full, morning,
■. *—* “ -eneved.
Remebv for Coughs, &c.—Take as much Smgnet
Root as you can grasp in one hand, wash it well—one
quart of Flax Seed, and one quart of Tar—add four gal
lons water, and boil it down to one fourth that quantity;
strain it well into a jug, and then add one quart of
stop Hup — — 1
;e a wine
noon and flight, until tbe patient is re]
SuisnARv DisrosrrioN or Defaulters.—A petition
has been presented to the Mi wm ip pi Legislature to dis
pose in a summary way with defaulters in that State. It
prays the Legislature to “bang all public agents who
abase their trusts, and banish aft swindle**.”
Musical.—“ Git tar,” as the Yankee sand to his wag
on, when it became musical.
“ I’ll take * stand for wages,” as the printer mid an ap
plying for work.
rmmvi Mh
that ever came tQ-onaotiee ■ reported in the
last Georgia papers, h appears th«t the Geor
gia R. R. Bank is net m(fe heat credit fc> tbe
world, and that it baa been called on provoking-
ly often for the redemption of its notes. Su >
pmemi baa become a measure perfectly con
venient, bat die President bus gone off on n
pleasure excursion somewhere, and the Bank
caatt suspend. So while tbe eyes of die direc
tion are pamfelly watching tbe fading treasure,
there is nobody strong enough to close die
bolts on tbe peraieions tide. An express we
understand has been despatched after the stray
president, to beg him to come back and hang
up the Bank out of harm's way.
The Augusta Banks have adopted the circu
lation of this beaetiftil concern as their par of
currency, thus again, on deliberate calculation,
imposing upon the State an irredeemable and
worthlecs circulation.
[ Charleston Mercury, 23d inst.
The last news from Philadelphia, (and from
a Bank press,) shows that the Bank of the Uni
ted States stock is still descending. “It left
off (says the Inquirer) at 25i a 26.” By way
of threat, the Inquirer adds that their is a ru
mor “that if the Legislature should compel the
United States Bank to go into liquidation, the
directors cf that institution intend to remove
to New York and place the whole of their
means under the privileges of the Bank cf the
United States in Wall street."
THE POST OFFICE.
In 1764, Benjamin Franklin was Postmaster
General, with permission to make <£6000 con
tinental money, if he could out of the whole
Post Office Department in America. The ve
ry next year, he gave the astounding notice
that the mail, which had before run once a
fortnight to New England, would start once a
week tbe year round, whereby answers might
be obtained to letters between Philadelphia
and Boston in three weeks, which before had
required six. In 1774, it was announced in all
the papers, that John Perkins engages to ride
post to carry the mail once a week between
Philadelphia and Baltimore, and will take
along or bring back any led horses, or any
parcel.” When a post rider proposed starting,
notice was given of his intention by advertise
ment, and by the town crier, for several days
in advance. In 1790, the number of Post Of
fices had increased through the country to 75.
There are now more than twelve thousand
Post Offices in the United States. By the law
of the land, the annual compensation to post
masters is not to exceed $2,000. In only 39
offices does the regular commission or per cen-
tage allowed to postmasters amount to that
sum; but their perquisites, from boxes &c., in
many offices, amount to more than the salary
allowed the postmasters by law. Of these 39,
seven only are in New England States; six in
New York; four in Pennsylvania; two in Dis
trict of Columbia; three in Virginia—-three »
Gcorcna.*-tir-3 - ».4/* Omins ox North Carolina,
Louisiana, Tennessee, Kentucky, Michigan,
Indiana, and Missouri. In 80 Post Offices, the
compensation ranges from $1,000 to $2,000.—
A very large number of postmasters, receive
a compensation ranging from $500 to $1,000.
Georgia.—The plan adopted^ry the State of
Georgia, of making payment for the construc
tion of the Western and Atlantic rail road in
six per cent, state stock, meets with great fa
vor among the contractors. For that part of
the line extending from Cross Plains to Ross’
landing on the Tennessee river—a distance of
38 miles—there were 170 proposals handed in.
The whole »f the distance will be immediate
ly put under contract, twenty-five per cent,
cheaper, it is said, than the work heretofore
done on the same road and paid for in cash.—
Niles’ Register.
Who Loses?—There are outstanding at tbe
present time, $750,000 of the notes of the old
United Hank. »»£ —««•«»
posed to be destroyed, as they have almost en
tirely ceased to make their appearance for re
demption.
The Navy.—It is stated that we have, at the
various navy yards thronghont the country, ^
materials for building twenty-sail of tbe line,
forty frigates, and a number of steamers.
Pennsylvania debt.—Tbe Philadelphia In
quirer says that the state debt of Pennsylvania
is estimated at $18, for every man, woman and
child in tbe commonwealth. The tax paying
population, it should be remembered amounts
to about one-ffh of the entire number of souls
within its borders.
"Nerofiddled while Rome was burning.”—
Wkile the United States Bonk is falling to at
oms, Nicholas Biddle is acting as one of a
committee of arrangements for a theatrical ben
efit.
Coming Due.—On the first of April $5,000,-
000 of debentures owed by tbe United States
Bank fall due, and on the first of October,
$5,000,000 additional, for which stocks are
pledged. It is idle for the directors to peti
tion for time to resume—liquidate should be
the word.
Fires in New York.—The aggregate amount
of loss by fire in the city of New York within
the last three months, is said to be at least
three millions of dollars.
REMEDY FOR SCALDS.
[»Y A PHYSICIAN OF PHILADELPHIA.?
I have so often seen remedies for human ills given to
the newspapers, and at once consigned to oblivion, that
I have for a gnat while hesitated to present this remedy
to the public. For fourteen years I have prescribed it,
and witnessed its effects. I deliberately say from four
teen yean experience, thai SO disease or injury to the
human system has a more certain remedy than tnis, for
the most distressing of all injuries, that of scalds and
barns. Tbe relief is almost instantaneous; from a min
ute to half an hour will usually find full relief from pain.
No matter what the extent of the bum, even if all tho
skin is removed from the body.
The first knowledge I had of it was tbe almost miraen-
fons cure of a little boy, who fell into a half hogshead of
boiling water, prepared for scalding bristles from swine.
The entire person and limbs of the boy passed under the
water np to tbe chin, so as to scald the whole neck. On
removing his dolhes, nearly all the skin followed from
his neck, hands, back, abdomen, and almost every bit of
skin from his lower extremities! In this deplorable con
dition, literally flayed alive, with scalding water, the rem
edy was promptly applied, as a momentary application,
until physicians should arrive. Two eminent phywetes
soon came, and on learning the extent of the scald, pro
nounced it a certainly fatal case, and directed the boy to
remain with the remedy over him until he should die.—
In six weeks he was reported quite well, with scorsely a
scar on any part of his person or limbs. The remedy
increases in value from the fact that under almost any
circumstances it may be obtained. It is as follows:
Take soot from a chimney where wood •; burned, nth
it fine, and mix one part soot to three parte, or nearly so,
of hog’s lard, fresh batter, or any kind of greaae that is
not salted, spread tins on linen or muslin, or any cotton
cloth for easier or more pefect adaptation. If in very
extensive boros or scalds, the doth should be torn into
strij« before potting over the scald. Let the remedy be
freely and fhny applied, so as to perfectly cover all tho
burned part. No other application is required until tho
pstient ■well, except to apply fresh applications of the
soot and lard, dee.
In steamboat explosions, this remedy can in neatly all
cases be at once applied, and if done, many valuable lives
will be saved, and a vast amount of suffering alleviated.
—■ >
An Oyster Fried.—The following announcement of
a marriage at Chamhetsborgh, Pfe., appears in the Tele
graph and Advertiser of that place, on the 4th instant.
“ Married, on Thursday evening, the 31st ah- by the
Rev. J. Bowen, Mr. Alonzo Fry, to Miss Susan Oyster;
al of this place.”
A mortal feveronce prevailed sa board aabip at I
and a negro man was appointed to throw or
bodes orthose who bonified from time to time. One
day when the eaptein was on deck, he saw the negro
dragging QQt of the ferreswto a nek am, who was strng.
ghng violently to extricate hmnrff from the aeggo’s grasp,
and rcmnnstrBOHfmoto btttetly on the cruelty sfbury-
mg him ere yen going to do wife that
raan. yea bteefc np ?” said fee captain. Going to from
bi- orarbeasd, masse c*nse he dead. mpliedSe negro.
1 “ JW, yon scoundrel,” says the captsto—“ don’t yon
the ttMitM“IknowheMahenodead- hothsalway*lio
r. neSfpssfer” 7
A young lady
of, replied,—** A
asked what party toe was in fiwor
patty-”