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Written at the ogt of seventeen.
AUTUMN.
IT >il our abler melancholy,
Hail our Autumn winds so squally,
Hail the scenes of youthful folly,
Once again come round ; »
Here wa fondly looked to meet thee,
Here we rise to hail aud greet thee,
Here uo summer’s sou can heat thee,
On this neutral ground.
Lovely prospects here attend thee.
Lovely objects will befricud thee,
Lovely hopes may Heaven send tlico,
Each returning year.
When thy votaries adofc thee,
When thy hopes are bright before thee,
When the loves nrcsmiling o’er thee,
Sister do not fear.
You have seen the summer bowers,
You have heard of spring’s sweet flowers,
Winter’s cold but healthful hours,
In the realms of fairy:
For myself I likp the season
When the mind may calmly reason.
Where the scenes are lone and pleasiug,
Neither bright nor dreary.
Whoa the farmer’s heart is glowing,
When his barns arc overflowing.
When the Autumn winds are blowing
Through the leafless trees;
Tlieu I’m m the realms of Fairy,
Then I fed no longer dreary,
Then I love to walk with Mary
Through the Autumn breeze.
E. M P.
NECESSITY OF BEING WELL IN
FORMED.
The young are apt to disregard the value of
knowledge, partly, we fear, from the pertina
cious constancy with which teachers, parents,
and guardians, endeavor to impress ihem witli
its inestimable wotth. “Knowledge, is better
titan house and lands,” is tin* title of one the
first picture books presented to a child, and it
is the substance of ten thousand precepts which
are constantly dinned in his cars from infancy
upwards ; so that truth becomes tiresome and
almost detested.
Still it Is a sober truth—of which every
young mar should feel the force, that with the
single exception of a good conscience, no pos
session can be so valuable as a good stock ofin-
formation. Some portion ol it is always com
ing into use, and there is hardly any informa
tion which may not become useful in the course
of an active life.
When we speak of information we do not
mean that merely which has direct reference
to a man’s trade, profession, or business. To
be skilled in these, is a matter of absolute ne
cessity, so much so, that we often see, for ex
ample the merchant beginning the world with
n-> other stock than a good character and tho
rough knowledge of business, and speedily ac
quiring wealth and respectability, while auoih-
er, who is not so well informed in his business,
begins with a fortune, fails in every thing he
undertakes, causes loss and disgrace to all who
are connected with him. and goes on blunder
ing to the end of the chapter.
But a thorough knowledge of one’s business
or profession is not enough of itself to consti
tute what is called a well informed man. One
who possesses this kind of information only,
is generally regarded as a mere machine, un
fit for society or rational enjoyment. A man
should possess a certain amount of liberal and
scientific information, to which he should al
ways he adding something ns long as he lives ;
and in this country, he should make himself
acquainted with his own political and legal
rights.
“Keep a thing seven years and y ou will
have use for it,” is an old maxim which will
apply admirably well to almost any science,
language or art, and in a few years you will
find it of service to you. This truth is so im
portant that I would add to it, by way of com
mentary, employ that leisure which others
waste in idle and corrupting pursuits in the
acquisition of those branches of knowledge
which serve as well as instruct natural his
tory, or the numerous kindred branches of
study.—Ala. paper.
If, and his Progeny.
If every body would just mind his own
business, there would be more business done.
If wo talk less about other people, other
people would talk less about us. -
If we conversed less about men, and more
about tilings, we would have better friends,
fewer enemies, less trouble, and more sense.
If my child was to be a shoo black all
bis life, I would give him a classical educa
tion.
If the mistress would scold less, she would
have less reason for scolding.
If you often charge the servants with lying,
they will soou become liars, if they are not so
already.
If young ladies now-a-days did not become
women at thirteen, men would have better
w’ivcs.
If you want to' get rich—work bard and
spend little.
And finally—If you would not be everlast
ingly dunned, pay the Printer!
EXTRAORDINAY DEFORMITY.
The third number of the Baltimore Medical
and Surgical Journal contains an engraving
which represents a singular case of deformity
jn a worn in, now twenty years of age, living
in Asbville, N. C. She was born destitute
both of arms anil lc?s, the situation of whichis
indicated by small rounded projections, thtHJ*
being in fact, a mere human trunk surmounted
by a head. She possesses, however, a remar
kable power oflocomotion, and can transport
h rsclf over the door with case, by submitting
berbody torn kind of rotary motion alternately
.Iron right to left, ana the contrary. By con
fining the handle of a broom between her chin,
and shoulder, she can sweep the floor with con
siderable dexterity. She can also sit erect,
lean back, or rock herself in achftir as well as
any person, and when any tiling is given her,
she makes a sign for it to be placed upon her
shoulder. If it be qriy solid article of food, she
eats it from that situation. Sho'ls-of a full and
plump habit, healthy, and possesses a remark
ably lively disposition.
L little and to the
..i ;for somebody.
purpose, «nd yfln
Prom the Charleston Courier.
CHOLERA INTELLIGENCE.
It is with the most heartfelt sorrow that we
inform our readers that the accounts from the
Savannah River Plantations are even of a less
favorable character than those previously re
ceived. We are informed that the negroes
have very generally been removed from the
Plantations, and the crops are entirely aban
doned—that new cases, of a severe character,
had occurred among them, alter their removal
—and there were uo appearances of the disease
subsiding, until after it had taken its range, aud
done its work of death.
The reflections that arise from the contem
plation of this distressing state of affairs are
gloomy indeed. The desolation that sweeps
from the face of the earth so large a number of
human beings is of a dreadful nature—and ad
ded to this, the great loss of property that en
sues, causes us to dread the result, and to make
us humble ourselves before the all-wise Provi
dence, who thus sees fit to bear upon us with
so heavy a hand, and chasten us by the inflic
tion of a calamity, which has, perhaps, never
been exceeded in our heretofore highly favor
ed and happy land. That we may bear with
these auctions with humility and with faith,
should be the prayer of of every virtuous citizen
—and all should unite in earnest supplication
to the Almighty to stay the hand of death, and
relieve our country from the scourge of this de
stroying malady.
Since writing the above, me have been fa
vored with the sight of letters, of similar im
port to those communicating the above infor
mation. Feeling it to be our duty to commu
nicate facts as they are, we shall continue to
give every information as to the progress of
the disease that we can obtain, which can be
depended on—while we shall be careful not
to exaggerate in any manner, or order to avoid
creating unnecessary alarm.
The following is an extract of a letter from
an eminent Physician at Savannah, to a gen
tleman in this city :
Savannah, Sept. 16.
“It grieves me that I have nothing but disa
greeable tidings to communicate. The two wo
men I mentioned yesterday are still alive, and
I have hopes for Amy. Caesar and Lucy are
down this morning, with others in the premon
itory stage—in this condition the disease is
manageable. I am in strong hones that wo
will make the negroes confess when they are
indisposed—no easy matter—for instance:
Cresar, mentioned above, notwithstanding be-
iug cold, with his bauds cramped, and diar
rhoea this morning, only acknowledged he was
sick by hard questioning. Within a few plant
ations, 800 negroes have died in two weeks.
I am told one gentleman has lost 85. Ypur
negroes want for nothing, and they seem dis
posed to assist each other, which I have not
elsewhere observed.”
\\ e have also been favored with the follow
ing extracts:
“Pcbysbcrg, Sept. 16,
“I cannot describe to you the destruction of
property on the Savannah river by the cholera.
I have had but six cases, have lost but oue,
and the others are out of danger. My people
are all moved into the pine land, .which has
proved a specific. The losses on the Estates
on the river are enormous, one gentleman has
lost forty, another fourteen, another half his
working hands. Almost all the persons on
the River have abandoned their crops, and
carried their negroes on to the piue lands.”
“SAVANNAH, SEPT. 16.
J‘I do not believe that the negroes are taken
sick and die in three or four hours, but think
that they conceal that they are sick, or do not
observe it. It is full time to begin to apply the
remedies, when you find they have had more
than one operation in a day. Two or three
modes of practice have been resotted to, but
what lias been beneficial on one place, has
failed on another. More could be cured if
better attendance could be given to them, but
it is impossible where so many are sick at once.
Our Doctor says that if he could be present,
and give the medicine himself, and see its op
eration, that he could save more ; and almost
every bad case that came in while on the plan
tation, lie cured them. Mr. Merchant's over
seer is the only white man on the river that
lias died. The mate of a vessel diod here, but
he had worked all day, drank ice water all
day, and in the evening plunged into the river
to bathe. He was taken sick, but medical as
sistance was not called in until he was deliri
ous. I saw three cases just taken, in which 2
table spoonsful of common salt, dissolved in a
pint of iiot water, was given a? warm as it
could be drank, which was very useful as an
emetic, aud will act almost as soon as taken,
aud even while drinking it. Divide it in two
doses, and if ono is thrown up, give the other
half. I could not feel the pulse of the pa
tients ; they were cold, and fast running into a
collapse ; countenances as usual in these cas
es. I never saw such an alteration in 10 or 15
miuutes in the face. The pulse teturned—the
hands became warm—20 grains colomel was
then given aud repeated in-two or three hours,
abdomen blistered, and cataplasms applied to
the arms and thighs, and the body rubbed, &c.
They are all getting well. I hear it is near
the Salt Ketcher and Beaufort.
“The panic here has subsided, and no one
is prevented from going and coming. It is
spreading, but the negroes arc removed to the
pine lands.* 4
-from the N. Y. Timejt.
A young and very handsome girl, belonging
to one of the most respectable families in the
state, was, on Sunday morning last, taken from
the steps of a house in Mott street, to the Du
ane street hospital, far advanced in cholera,
and died before nightfall. While under the
charge of the physicians at-the hospital, she
informed them of the circumstances which had
led her to her dreadful downfall and subse
quent death. She had for a length of time
been assiduously courted by an insidious and
an accomplished young man of good standing,
who, on Sunday evening Inst, succeeded, after
much persuasion, in enticing her to the house
fro n which she was removed to the-hospital.
About 3 o’clock on Sunday morning, she said
she was attacked very seriously with all the
symploms of cholera.
The heartle.ss villian who had deceived her,
and had almost forced Tierlnto Urejawsof dcr
struction and death had deserted her to her fate
as soon as the symptoms of the disease made
their appearance, deleft her to the tender mer
cies of the beldame who kept the gate of perdi
tion which the victim lay within ; but who im^
mediately, on hearing the fact, turned the poor
creature into the street to die. She was ta
ken up from the pavement by soma persons
w ho accidentally witnessed her cruel reject-
ment, and carried. by them to the hospital.
During the few hours she lay there, she inces
santly wept for her horrid fate, accompanying
her lamentations with prayers for the welfare
of him who had brought this untimely ruin up
on her head—and whose name, though repea
tedly importuned to disclose, she carried to her
grave unuttered.
From the Savannah Georgian.
BOARD OF HEALTH, 1
Tuesday, Sept. 16.—1 o’clock, P. M. }
The Board of Health announces to their
fellow citizens two deaths by Cholera, and
two new cases, since their last report—all
colored persons, and brought from the coun-
trv.
CHARLES S. HENRY, Chairman:
S. Sheftall, Sec’y B. II.
WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 17, >
1 o’clock, P. M. f
The Board announces to their fellow' citi
zens the occurrence of one case since their
last report which has been taken to the Hospi
tal, and which has several of the premonitory
symptoms of Cholera. It is a white female.
The two cases of blacks reported yesterday
from the Hospital, have terminated in death.
The B.oard take pleasure in expressing their
belief front the regular report of their examin
ing committees made this day, that there is no
general tendency to the disease in the city,
& that it is quite as healthy in the limits ol the
city, as during any previous year at the same
season.
CHARLES S. HENRY, Chair’n,
S. Sheftai.l, Sec’y B. H.
From the Charleston Courier.
The following is a* very interesting letter
from a gentleman who is a manager on a
plantation on Savannah river, dated 16th Sep
tember :
“I am happy to inform you that we are
much more fortunate than any of our neigh
bors, in these distiessing times. We have had
about 20 cases of cholora hero since last Sun
day week, aud have succeeded in curing eve
ry case. Not a death but the first one I mcn-
tioned to you. I employed a French Doctor,
by the name of —- , who had for a long
time been in the French army. He has com
posed a medicine himself, that has cured every
case as yet, both in this place and one other.
Since he hud charge of other plantations al
luded to, there has not been a death, previous
to which some deaths had taken place. I
know the good of his medicines, as I was se
verely attacked, with the disease myself last
Saturday morning, and cured by him. We
have six negroes now sick, but all are getting
better. I do not push them at their work, as
they are yet weak, but I think a little exercise
is beneficial to them, as it keeps the blood in
circulation. I think as long as we are fortu
nate enough to cure the disease, it is better to
let them remain on the place, where they have
medical aid. I understand that those who
have abandoned their plantations, and taken
their negroes to the pine lands, have found it
useless, and some are returning with them.
There are mow but few overseers on the river,
almost all of them have gone off, and some have
left the negroes on the plantations, which 1
think is very unfeeling. •
“It is alarming to hear of the deaths all a
round us. One overseer told me yesterday
that he lost six within three hours the previ
ous day. My negroes.were much depressed
tiie beginning of the last week, and I could get
little work from those that were well, but when
they saw the Doctor was curing all the cases,
they cheered up. They were at first very
anxious to go to the pine land, but when they
saw that I stuck to the place myself, they felt
contented, and went to work with a good heart.
The doctor will not allow them to eat pork
and fish, but says they must have fresh beef,
which I have procured.”
This is certainly a most cheering accouut of
the good effects of close attention to the ne
groes—and is also a high compliment to the
skill of the physician who attended the place.
We hope that the prescription of this gentle
man will be obtained, and if found to be bene
ficial, we feel confident that the physicians of
this city (who are as liberal in their view’s, & as
eminent in their profession as any in the Un
ion) will readily adopt it—and thus armed with
a specific, that will almost invariably conquer
this heretofore dread enemy of the human
race, all alarm will subside among our citizeus,
at its nearest approach—and all our energies
be deyoted to assisting those that may unfortu
nately be attacked, should the disease reach us.
One half the danger will be over when our
citizens make up their minds coolly to await
the result ; and while we pray that it may be
averted, feel assured, that if we should be sub
jected to its effects, we have a confidence that
it can be checked.
RETURN OF THE DRAGOONS.
By a gentleman direct from Fort Gibson,
we are happy to learn, saystho Arkansas Ga
zette, that the detachment of United States
Dragoons, under Col. .Dodge, returned to that
post, on the 15th ult. from their expedition in
to the country of Pawnee, Camanche, and o-
thcr indians, inhabiting the vast expanse of
territory, several hundred miles south and west
of our frontier, w ithout the occurrence of any
unpleasant collision with the various *ribes
w itli whom they opened an intercourse. They
have brought in about tw enty Indians, com
prising Delegations from the Paw’nec, Cani-
anclic, Waco, and one or two other tribes,
with all of whom, we understand, treaties of
amity have been concluded by Col. Dodge.
Some of these Delegations have come in with
the intention of proceeding to Washington
city. Col. Dodge, we understand, procured
the release of a little boy, about ten years of
age, son of the late Gabriel N. Martin, of Mil
ler county, who was carried off by the Indians,
some months ago, at the same time that his
lather Vas murdered by them. The child was
In very bad health at the time of his capture,
but has been restored in perfect health. A
negro man belonging to Mr. Martin, who was
capttrod at the same time has also been res
tored.
A Good Haul.—Alderman Ferris and As
sistant Alderman Ballagh, accompanied by
the Superintendant of Duane street Hospital,
and Mr. Magrath the constable, yesterday re-
connoitcred the Sixth Ward, for the purpose
of removing vagrants and getting such places
cleaned out as required it. In the course of
their visitation they took into custody seven
teen vagrants, consisting ef seven colored wo-
men, nine white women, and one white lad,
who all together formed as disgusting, & at the
same time pitiable a group, as perhaps w’ere
ever collected together. The women with
one or two exceptions, were persons of pro
fligate habits; some of them wore very im
perfectly clad ; and the habitual use of bran-
day, accompanied by disease and poverty-had
stamped them with the features of wretched
ness in the extreme. Most of them w’ere
found at a house on the corner of Little Wa
ter and Anthony streets. According to the ac
count of the gentlemen who visited it yester
day, it is the very temple of every thing that is
filthy and abominable. After undergoing
an examination, Sarah Ann Pierson, Eliza
beth Freeman, Sarah Ann Johnson, Algea
Redmond, and Catherine Fields, women of
color, were committed to the Penetentiary for
six months each- Jane Price, Mary Smith,
Catherine Simsan, and Ester Elston, were
committed for sixty days; and Elizabeth Da
vis and Maurice Hacketts, white people for six
months.—N. Y. Jour, of Com.
The National (Tenn.) Banner of the 24th
ult. says that the President is in the enjoy
ment of excellent health.
Nashville, Sept. 10.
The President.—The President of the U-
nited States, as we are informed, left the Her
niitage on yesterday for Washington City, via
Knoxville and Virginia. We further learn
that he was in the ejoymeut of an excellent
state of health.—Danner.
noon in perfect health, in order to hold Elbert
Court—was attacked a short time after retiring
to bed, on Saturday night—was speech
less in a few moments, and lingered in great
pain until his dissolution. The character of
his disease I have not yet ascertained, having
seen none of his medical attendants. 1 have
not time to communicate further particulars.”
Respectfully, &c.
Since the above was in type, we learn by a
gentleman who attended Judge Crawford’s fu
neral, that the physicians who attended him
pionounced his disease an affection of the heart,
and that he rem» med perfectly sensible to the
last.
Cobbet's Life of Jackson.—Published in
New York, by the Harper’s has excited such
curiosity that before two o’clock of the day of
publication twelve hundred copies were sold
—Georgian.
OUTRAGE.
On Sunday afternoon, four persons who had
apparently been on a shooting expedition on
Long Island, entered the garden of Jacob
Morris, Esq., of Gowanus, near Brooklyn, and
began helping themselves to the fruit, without
asking any favors.
On being ordered away by Mr. Morris, one
of them fired his piece, and wounded him in
the thigh. They immediately afterwards fled
and, taking a boat, escaped across the river to
this city. It will be perceived that the mayor
of Brooklyn has offered a reward of $100 for
the apprehension and conviction ol the oflend-
ers.—N. Y. paper.
Mr. McDuffie has signified to the Goveror
the resignation of his seat in Congress, on ac
count of his health. The Mercury says, that
writs of election will b“ forthwith issued, and
that it will take place on the 2d Monday and
Tuesday in October.
Accounts from Louisiana and Mississippi
state that the sugar crop is uncommonly pro
mising this year, but that cotton has been some
what injured by late heavy Tains.—Georgia
Courier.
Outrage —A villainous attempt was made
to destroy the ship Tallahassee, bound to New
Orleans, a day or two since. The Captain had
sliippod his crew during the course of last week,
we presume at a rate of wages which gave um
brage to the sailors boarding house keepers, or
the seamen in port; at any rate, a large num
ber of sailors collected around the ship on Sat
urday and Sunday, and were very abusive to
those aboard, besides threatening to burn the
vessel. Handbills of an inflammatory charac
ter were posted about the neighborhood of the
place where the ship lay, aud in the vicinity of
the boarding houses. During the night of
Monday last two holes were unperceived by a-
ny one on Board, bored in the ship’s bows;
and they were not discovered till the next
morning, when there was two feet water in the
hold. Treenails were then driven into the
holes, and the ship pumped dry, and it having
been ascertained that the ship was uninjured,
she proceeded on her voyage yesterday fore
noon. Although this nefarious attempt to de
stroy a large amount of property has been thus
fortunately frustrated, it is of a character which
ought not to go unpunished, if the perpetra
tors of it can possibly be discovered; and we
think our insurance offices, whose interests are
so immediately concerned, ought to institute
a strict inquiry into all the particulars.—Cour
ier S; Enquirer.
We regret to announce the death of Judge
Wm. H. Crawford, who died last week, near
Elberton, to which place he was proceeding to
hold the September Court.—Georgia Cour-
Frotn the Southern Banner.
DEATH OF JUDGE CRAWFORD.
In announcing the decease of this distin
guished individu d, it is not our intention to be
come either his eulogist or biographer—we re
sign the task to abler hands.
The following extract of a letter from a gen
tleman-in Lexington, to the editors of this pa
per, contains all the particulars that have as
yet reached us on the me’ancholy subject.
We understand that his remains were interred
in the family burying ground on bis plantation,
on Tuesday last.
Lexington, Sept. 15, 1834.
“Our community is this morning shrouded
in gloom by the death of our distinguished fel
low citizen, and estimable neighbor, Wm. H.
Crawford. This melancholy event occurred
at 4 o’clock this morning, at the House of
Mr. Merriwetlier, 14 miles from this place.—
i Judge Crawford left home on Saturday aftdr^
GREAT CALAMITY.
The new’ cotton and wool Factory, lately e-
rected at this place, and principally owned by
Messrs. Doaring and Nisbet, was burned to the
ground on Friday morning last, together with
the whole of its splendid and extensive ma
chinery. The fite was discovered about 2 o’
clock A. M., after having advanced so far as
to render all efforts to save the building or
machinery unavailing. It is supposed to have
been communicated by spontaneous combus
tion, as it was at first discovered in the attic
story, where a quantity of refuse cotton had
been stowed away.- Nothing of consequoncc
was saved. The actual loss is estimated by
the proprietors to be not less than $40,000;
not a dollar of which was insured. Tho de
struction of this splendid establishment is not
only a great aud serious loss to the proprietors,
but may be justly considered as a public calam
ity. We call the attention of the Town Com
missioners and our citizens generally, to a
communication in another column, on the sub
ject of organizing a fire company.—ib.
VERMONT AND MAINE-
The cause of the Admiuistratiou is gnimug
ground in Vermont. One, perhaps two mem
bers of Congress, will be elected, friendly to tho
admiuistratiou—(a new eveut iu Vermont 1)—In
Maine all the arts of the Bank, aud the money of
its friends iu Boston, liavo failed iu their object.
Dunlap is re-clected governor, and the democrats
have carried both Houses of the Legislature.
Thus, they will elect a Senator friendly to the
Administration,- and hostile to the Bank, iu the
place of Mr. Sprague, who will be taught a lesson
he deserves, for disobeying tho instructions of his
constituents.
Thus, in New Hampshire and Maine two anti-
Bank Sonators will be elected, in place of Bell
aud Sprague—Rich. Enq.
Courier and Enquirer. The Editor of the i-
S. Gazette is in doubt whether it is ben-
pay it a visit in a balloon in October L
when it is so near or wait till 1912, bv l- 1
time great improvements will probably
made in aerostatics. We shell vvait. ’ ^
A Snake Story—but true.—On board .1
ship William Byrnes, which arrived here *
few days ago, from Mazattan, in the Gull t
California, amongst the dye wood which ~° !
taken in at that place, a snake of the boa
strictor species, seized with a des* to .
grate, contrived to find his way on board a’j
esconce himself snugly in the state room
the mate, whose companion he determined f
be, although every effort was made to enpj 3
him, without avail, during the passage! \
discharging a part of the cargo, on Momfe"
the skin of his snakesiiip was found, l lav i‘^
changed it for another coat. A search was th» ?
made for him, when he was at last discover
ed in the cabiu, and, by throwing a cloth ou r
him, he was secured and put in a bottle, wli trc .
a stopper was placed upon his farther pe, u
grinations. The snake is about three ami j
feet long, the thicknos of a man’s finger, and
gradually tapers off to a point the size of ,,
ordinary darning needle. For a day lie may
be seen at this office, confined in a glass bottle
alive, and perfectly in spirits, though dartin»
forth his tongue with all the venom of a disap!
pointed politician. His eye has been the ad-
miration of all who have seen him. If r
Eve. Star. ' Xl
More distress !—The New York Journal of
Commerce states, that the amount of specie clea
red at Liverpool for the U. S. during the last
week of July was about £400,001), or near $2,
000,000 ! Now, says the Times, if tho importa
tions of merchandize have, this year so far ex
ceeded the imports for 1833—if nearly $60,000,
000 have been realized from the sale of Cotton
alone, aud this furnishes us “with tho legitimate
means of paying for our increased importations”
—why should we grumble ; why augur ill, “if
the different States should create stocks to the a-
mount of oue hundred millions of dollars for the
purpose of internal improvements, such as mak
ing rail roads, cauals, &c., and those stocks
should be disposed of iu a forcigu market, whore
tho inouey is choaper than with us, and if the
whole amount should fco brought homo in specie,"
instead of iu goods, which we did uot want, aud
of luxuries, which might do us moro harm than
good ? If this nation is going to ruin, as the
prophets have predicted, surely never did a na
tion go to ruin, or suffer distress, iu tho way we
are now doing—ib.
Nominations.—The friends of the administra
tion, aud the opposition, in the State of N. York
both held, their nominating conventions on Wed
nesday the 5th inst. The former assembled at
Herkimer, and »vas numerously attended by’ dele
gates Ironi every county except Alleghany and
Franklin—&. they unanimously nominated Wm.
L. Marcy, as again the candidate for governor, &
John Tracy again for Lieuteuaul Governor.
The opposition, or Bank party, met at Utica—
and nominated as their candidate for Governor
lesse Buel, of AJbany, and Wm. II. Seeward of
Cayuga, for Lieut. Governor. On tho first bal
lot, the votes were, for Seward, as Governor, 46,
Verplauk 44, and Buel 14. Thus the first shall
be last, and the last shall be first—and Mr. V or-
planck is dropt altogether between the two stools!
ib.
Improved Phraseology.—IV^ien Buonaparte
landed at Antibes, M. Marron said, “the O-
gre is landed.” When he reached Grenoble,
M. Marron exclaimed, “the rascal Buonaparte
is at Grenoble.” When he Advanced to Ly
ons, M. Marron cried, “Napoleon is at Ly
ons.” When ho approached Paris, M. Mar
ron shouted, “His Magesty, the Emperor, is
come.” So the letter of Louis Philip to the
Bishops, in 1831, calls upon them to celebrate
“the three immortal days of July”—that of
1832, the “great days of July”—that of 1833,
the “memorable days of July”—that of 1834
drops all laudatory phraseology, and merely
rec< pimends the commemoration of “the days
of July.”—French paper.
Warning to Body-snatchers.—We learn
from the Burlington (Vt.) Gazette, that at the
last term of the Court of Common Pleas two
young men, W. & J. F. Daggett, were con
victed on circumstantial evidence, of disinter
ring the remains of the dead—and were sen
tenced to 3 years imprisonment each, and to
pay a fine of $500 and costs of prosecution!
John F. Daggett is represented as quite a
youth, who had just commenced the study of
medicine. The highest penalty of the law for
this crime in Vermont is ten years imprison
ment and a fine of $1000.
Comet.—The Halley Comet it now visible
in tho east near the constellation Taurus. At
this time its distance from the earth is forty
two millions of miles. On the 13th Septem
ber is distance will bo twenty two millions of
miles, and it will then become brilliant. On
the 1st October its distance will be six millions
of miles, and it will then be neat the fore feet
of Ursa Major, and will be abova the horizon
the whole twenty-four hours, On the 6th of
October it will be nearest the earth, being dis
tant only three and a half millions of miles.
In tho begining of the year 1836, it will emerge
from the sun beams, and again become visible,
at a distance of forty millions of miles —Or.
the 1st March 1836, it will be within twenty-
five millions of miles of tho earth. It will then
recede till it disappears and will not be visible
again until the year 1912.
The above is obtained frdin the New York
From the Glasgow Courier.
Steam Carriages on Public Roads.—Sim
our last notice, these vehicles have continued
to perform their trips with increasing success,
between Glasgow and Paisley. Although the
roads still remai u in a much* worse condition
than is usual at this period of the year, aud,
although the broken stones laid ou them by the
Trustees had don.; considerable damage to t*«e
machines, these obstacles ’have been ontirely
overcome, and the carriages are daily crowd
ed with passengers. As an indication of tho
perfect confidence placed in the vehicles, we
may observe that several parties of ladies and
gentlemen have made excursions to Paisley,
and returned with them as a pleasure trip.
The following is running of morning trips on
the last six days, the time being reckoned be
tween Tradcston and Glasgow, and the Ton
tine, Paisley:—Thursday, 17th July,. 10 o’
clock coach to Paisley, 40 minutes, Friday,
18th July, 44 minutes, Saturday, 19th July,
36 minutes ; Monday, 21st July, 50 minutes,
Tuesday, 22d July, 50 minutes, Wednesday,
23d July, 35 minutes. We have only further
to remark, that the carriage which left Glas
gow, yesterday, at 12 o’clock, did the dist
ance, from the Half House to Paisley, fully
three aud a half miles, in ten minutes, being
at the rate of upwards of 21 miles an hour!
and that, on the two last trips on Saturday, die
anxiety to get places was so great that the
carriage to Paisley took out 28 passengers, and
returned with 39!
A letter from Jamaica mentions that some
German emigrants have arrived at fpat Island,
and w’ere likely to do veil in the mountain dis
tricts. The writer adds that efforts are ma
king to divert-the curren* of emigration from
Great Britain to that quarter, for the pm pose
of obtaining tho benefits of the example andin-
dustry’ of free laborers, and if the former slaves
will not then work, “they must be sent away.”
More apprehension is entertained on* account
of the effects arising from the idleness of the
blacks, than from - any immediate violence.—
Balt. American.
Mr. John llavcnel lias been elected President
of the S. C. Canal and Railroad Company, in
the place Of E. Ilorry’, Esq. deceased; and Mr.
Ker Boyce has been elected a member of tho
Board.—Augusta Sentinel.
Quarter Eagles. This beautiful coin,
fresh from the mint, matH: its appearance a-
oiong us some day s since. It will constitute
the most important, and far the most conveni
ent part of our circulating medium. We have
been fortunate enough to get hold of some
dozen of them, and any • Bank partisan who
really wishes a sight of them, and who will
call on us, and promise not.to get into a furious
passion, shall be gratified.—Delaware Watch
man.
Jackson Money.—In addition to our own
gold, op Jackson ‘Mint drops," foreign gold
coin is beginning to appear. 50,000 sove
reigns were brought by one vessel to New
York last week, and 150,000 more are known
to be on their way. That wicked Jackson
is doing all this mischief.—Mount Hollu Her
ald.
APPOINTMENT BY THE GOVERNOR.
Col. GARNET ANDREWS, of Washing
ton, Wilkes county to be Judge of the Supe
rior Courts of the Northern Circuit, vice the
Hon. Wm. H. Crawford dec.
The representation in Congress from Mas
sachusetts is likely to be materially changed
after tbe next session. Messrs. Everett,
Choate, Gorham, Bates, and perhaps others,
have declined being candidates for tho re-
election.
At a public meeting in Baltimoro on the
8th inst. it was recommended that ti:e citizens
of that town assemble in their respective
Wards as early’ as practicable 1 , for the purpose
of choosing hve delegates in each Ward to
form a Permanent Convention, '“who shall
have in charge to deliberate and aid in effee*
ting any schemes and measures tending to
the advancement of the works of internal iffl*
provoment connected with the prosperity of
Baltimoro, and all plans for maintaining and
improving her trade and commercial resour
ces.”—N. Y. Jour, of Com.
At New York Assizes, Joseph Webb, un »-
gent for the sale of Morrison’s pills was char
ged with the manslaughter of Richard Rich
ardson, by the administering to him a quantity
of the pills, as a remedy’ for the small pov, ana
thereby occasioning the death of the deceased-
He was found guilty, and sentenced to-
months’ imj}Ti50irm<$ti£