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VOL. I—MO. ai.
GEORtiIA TTIMLES
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l ' i \lAle*l«cvillc. at THREE DOL
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i. vltS, at the end of the year,
"ldvertiseinents inserted at tli« usual
' oL. said wiiliout a specified mim
?•Lotions, will *« pubished until
'J out and charged accordingly. .Sales
i IV Administrators, Executors, or
*■;„r,. required, by law, to he held
'" '■'Tuesday in the month between
< ’ J ,t tcn in the forenoon and three
Halienionii. at the court-house in the
which the property is situate.
• t i„.so sales must be given in a
crazetle sixty days previous to the
r I Sales of negroes must be at
•aucliou, on the first Tuesday of the
■ i.ftwccn the usual hours ol sale, at
1,. „f public sales in the county
ltK letters Testamentary, of Adiuiu-
L or Guardianship, may have been
„i | irs i living sixty days notice tliere
" of the public gazettes ol this
1 ini at the doer of the court-house,
1 su ch sales are to le held. Notice
of Personal Property must be
mlike manner, forty days previous
j, v of sale. Notice to the Debtors
C jitors of an Estate must lie pub
( for forty days. Notice that appli
mU be made to the Court ot Ordi
f r leave to soil iiaud, must be publish
,r months. Notice for leave o sell
must be published lor four months
B a ’ n y order absolute shall be made
on iiy lh« Court
.fils! |»us>ii*lu’d.
noTmics \ State Eight's Advocate I
Office, Milledgeville. j
thk prizes
DRAWN IN TIIK
lialaf-bi iiPjUL-iJIAV
OF TIIK
m\"A fiualif >, and the lid !ui\ :i»i;
improvemeuts;
WITH THE
\w !;k*s\ \.hi: a i:.
iftllVom the Muiitt in til UooLln,
,(.u. till f vti iniiiitlioiio;'t!>uul>} (ill
1 ouimivsiojtcr.s*
('net' Tlirvo Dtillnrs.
i. u icrest w ineu is man lfesied 111 rough- 1
tie St ip. In be possessed of inform.i
to the interesting section
s!!i« Cherokee country, and the
rias'-e "f all information that can lie
i... n regard to its geographical posi
-tbe quality of its land—iw bountla
cmiiscs, roads, &<•. lias induced
abinbers liereof, at the cnlri-.ttie* ol
persons, bv industrious application,
ii r siilcralile expense, to uudertako
iih kSion ot this little volume. They
f: ,;. , with the hope, that ils nselul
will l:e appreciated by all who are ill
icit in liie acquirement ol Ibis iinpor
!o.-ie n ol'imr Stale. The publishers
oil! i tli.it they (lonot over estimate >
n: i.n.iii,ot it imparts, and the great i
iiiciiiT ami facility, by which it can j
quin'll; and, altbo’ there may lie in-,
.••.-in it descriptive character, rlro.ii
ii'ility that entirety carnet returns
but always made by the District Sur
rs) yet. as u is ihe most correct that
• .sued, without a personal know
if> very lot, it must lie considered the
nil an, noil Ihe nature of llie case ad
os. Os one fact, the reader isgiiaran
tr.at tliis Hook wears a enrreet and
al stamp —-as it was copied with no
■y irmu the Numerical Hooks, now ol
n the Executive Department of the
!. alter those Hooks were thoroughly
[linedby the late Hand Lottery Gone
ii"n>rs. The accuracy and fluidity of
I'ialnv cl each lot, vv as asi i rl,lined, !■ \
cr.il reference to the field notes of llie
n '■ .. .1 v "i5.,111.1 their del.ieiied pints
In'-■ ■:■ >ulerata, may lie stated, lliatthe
"I > aeli lot, in us district ami section,
i. 'lrawn. m u hose eapl.ui’s district.
||"l| .1 cun lily, are equal IV, and rutin -
.tl'.ntie. Il iiti-l lie a ilesirnble I'lip ct
" i mi' drawer, anil the purchaser, to
a Hook nf Ihe kind we lierewtlh s-ali
-11 in. puiilic ; as It embodies iri a eoiu
■ed iin portable form, all the lne
■!,,'i nd riu.. l i"ii u hieb both purchaser
ovi'i canid have, without ocoular
1; ■ t irmu it,formation dially pm
o., ii procured otherwise.
a look will contain a Numerical list of
" dtuinmii in the differentsections of
bini l.otlery, excepting such as are
Mi third quality; and if any of the
I quality has any improvement on il,
11 also will he embraced. To each
be affixed a letter «, A, nr r, w liicli
pistes tin. quality; it for the first, A
b ti'/ntl, anil c lur the third ; and have
" tied the Nos. ol acres improved—
“b'Ur's name, the district in which
l at " in as fortunate drawer, and the
la which he resides, and the No. of
1 ■■ ' and llie district and section in which
hjcated. \\ henever a district is not .
E «|"I particularly, the reader will
1 \ 6at all the lots in said district, (as
J fJ l:iand other districts,) are returned
nillly—T, leach district ilslmundary
*■' ■ with sente brief, but applirahh re
puhlislw-rs fnrliear any further e\or
'tins, tin i r “littleeffort" -prefering
116 merit and usefulness slull speak
- audibly its own praise. Such as it .
?™ 11 ''hoped, it will he pronounced |
- 's r < spectjiilly deilicaled to tho pce
"oeorgia, by
the publishers.
?r s. (postage paid,) enclosing Three
'■’• will he promptly attended to. .VI
SLADE. -Mill, dgevtl.il',
K »» rw l"«'*teH to announce that M.\|.
will, Ll 1 V 'l W - ' NUNES ot Mi I
,r | r ‘ J " "* candidate for Di'inpltoiltu
'.at the next election.
jisko a»A«n» autaatwa aamMta«*a.
i lajiAKTOsr &
War* House ami Commission Merchants ,
MACOX, (i HOIK* IA.
■BLANTON & SMITH,
\M3 mission Merchants , Macon, make liberal ad
| vances oil Crtton in store, and on shipments;
i also on NOTES and other properly deposited in
' their bands.
j Their Ware-Houses arc more convenient to the
; business part ot town than any other, possessing
the advantages of a Y\ harf, and are more exempt
I Irom danger by lire than any other in Macon.
m. ix hi
SATE of Milledgeville, and his mother, have
i taken the csUihlishment in Macon, formerly
kept by CharlesWilliainsou, Es(j. known as the
IVA SUING TON Ii I LL.
I lie house has undergone thorough repair, and
with other improvements, a Dining Hoorn, eigh*
ly feet in length, lias been added to the south
, w'ing ol the building. The bedchambers have
i been rc-pyintcd/and llie furniture is entirely new,
j particularly beds, ills servants, the same as
were employed irt his house at Milledgeville.
From the central situation of his establish
ment and Jiisloug experience in the business, he
confidently looks to the public lor a liberal share
of patlrouage.
Macon, Ocf. 23, 1832, 30
SUBSCKIBEU continues lo niukeiuks
*- and gudgeons for tub-mills at ten dollars
a set, ami oilier castings for saw or griss mills,
at sixty-five cents per pound.—lie also repairs
■guns ami pistols at very high prices, and shoes
; horses at $1 l>o if the cash is paid-down, or if
done in payment of a debt, but if charged, $1
I 50. lie also sells new scooters at 14 cents per
' pound, or makes them w hen theirori is found at
| 37 i each.
I. T..CUSHING
j February, 1833. ts
jaojj uKßrartmra
c lip’every description, executed with neatness
w "and despatch at THE TIMES and STATE
EIGHT’S ADV OCATE Office, by
M. I). J. SLADE.
ADMINI.NTUATOtt’S SALE.
Postponed.
i GHEEABLY to an order of the Inferior
| Court of Bald win county, when sittingfor
1 ordinary purposes, will be sold at at the Court
; house ia the town of Milledgeville, on the first
Tuesday in August next, within the legal hours
of sale three lots of one ucre each, in said town,
known as lots No. 1,2, and 1, in spuare number
70, as the property of John Troitftnan deceased.
Sold for llm benefit of the heirs of said deceased.
Terms on the dav of sale.
HIRAM B. TROUTMAN, Adnfr.
May 14 7—o
WU&uu .Nll'l’mki Joiicm,
ATTOIUIEV AT LAW,
’ISfIJ.L still continue to practice Law. Any
v? business confided to bis management will
! be promptly and faitbfullyalteniled to.
I Milledgeville, March 22, 1533.
THK NUMKRUCAIi ROOK
or uU Prizes
AN!) drawers names and residence,
Gold Lottery, lately drawn, is now J
preparing, and will shortly issue from the Geor-!
gia Times Office, price Ten Dollars, bound.
Orders for the same, will be received by
M. L). J. SLADE. !
May I, 1833 i
\\ A tu bs-:h a k e r,
rjSIIE subscriber respectfully informs bis friends
a. and the public, that he lias taken a part of
the store occupied by James M. Green & Cos.
where be will attend to VVatchrepairing in all
its branches—Also, Engraving of every de
scription. Ladies and Gentleman's visiting
cards, neatly engraved—door plates, newspaper
cuts, &e. .
N. B.—Jobingand copper-plate printing, neat
ly executed—Gold melting—the patronage of the
public is respectfullysolicited.
VVM. VV. IIOOPEB.
Macon, May 12. 18tf
himinun) Crawford
| |E Columhiacoiinty, is a candidate for Comp
" " teller General, at the approaching election.
May 15 its—3t
FOUR months alter date application
will be made to the lion. Inferior Court
of Jofferson county, when sitting for ordinary
purposes, for leave to sell the land and negroes
belonging to llie heirs of John Marsh, dec.
ASa HOLT, Guardian.
Mayß, 1533. 1,8-lm
NOTICE.
rgMIE subscriber oiler? for sale a valuable sel
ls tlenicnt of Land on Long Cane Creek, (i
miles souili of LaGrange. There is on said pre
mises a large improvement w ith aSaw and Grist
Mill, (in good order) commodious buildings,
good orchards, a cotton machine, &c. Persons
wishing to purchase will please call on me.
ELIJAH HARALSON.
Troup county, Ga. May 4, 1833. 11l gtp
Will be pitbiived inti few days,
SiO 5K8&123 itJ? 0)4)1/ail? a
ADOPTED in Convention, by the Judges of
_ the Superior Courts. Price One Dollar.—
Orders enclosing the sunt of one dollar, address
ed (postage paid) to
M. D. J. SLADE.
May I, 1833
FOBt SAI.Il —LOTS OF I. V\ l>
mios. ISiiS, mil I»i*4. 1 til Sec.
Il I S'), ‘id “ 2(1 do
21, ‘ifith “ “ do
17. 1 Ith “ “ do
AIso—GOLD LOT 1187,:id Dist. 4th
t Section.
Apply to JOHN M. CARTER.
I Milledgeville. May -’0
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GEORGIA TIMES
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| Jl ISCELI. A A EOL S.
From the Lodiets Magazine.
L'KOAVAIAO THE WISEST,
Not many years ago. it happened (hat a
young man from New-York visited London.
His father being connected with several of
llie magnates of the British Aristocracy, the
young American was introduced into the
fashionable circles of the metropolis, where,
in consequence ol his very fine personal ap
pearance, or that his father was reported to
be very rich, or that he was anew figure on
, the stage, he attracted much attention, and
l became quite the favorite of the ladies. This
was riot at all relished by the British beaux,
but as no very lair pretext offered for a rebuff,
they were compelled to treat him civilly,
i Thus matters stood when the Hon.Mr..VI.P.A:
| lady m idea partv to accompany them to their
■ country seat in Cambridgeshire, and the A
merican was among the invited guests. Nu-
I tnerous were the devices to which those de
'volec* of pleasure resorted in order to kill
that old fellow who will measure his hours,
when lie ought to know they arc not wanted,
and the ingenuity of every one was taxed to
! remember or invent something novel.
The Yankees arc proverbially ready of
! invention, and the American did honor to bis
| character as a man accustomed to freedom of
! thought. He was frank and gay, and entered
into the sports and amusements, with that
unaffected enjoyment which communicated a
, part of his fresh feedings to the most worn
out fashionists in the party. His good na
ture would have been sneered at bv some of
the proud cavaliers, had he not been such a
shot, and he might have been quizzed had
not (lie ladies, won by his respectful and
pleasant civilities and his constant attention
f in the drawing room and saloon, always show
edjtheinselves his friends. But a combination
was at last formed among a trio of dandcis,
stanch patrons of the Quarterly, to annihilate
the American. They proposed to vary the
eternal evening waltzing and piping, by the
acting of charades and playing various games,
and having interested one of those indefati
gable ladies, who always carry their point in
the scheme, it was voted to be the thing.
After some few charades had been disposed
of, one of the gentlemen begged leave to pro
pose the game called Crowning the Wisest.’
This is played by selecting a Judge of the
game, and three persons, either ladies or gen
tlemen, who tire to contest for the cown by
answering successively the various questions
which the rest of the party are at liberty to
ask. The one who is declared to have been
llie readiest and happiest in bis answers re
ceives the crown.
Our American, much against Ins inclina
tion, was chosen among the three candidates, i
lie was aware that his position, the society
with which he was mingling required of him
the ability to sustain himself, lie was to be
sure treated with distinguished attention by
his host and hostess, and generally by the
party hut this tvas a favor to the individual,
and not one of the coinpuny understood the
character of Republicans or appreciated the
Republic. The three wortlieis bad arranged
that their turn for him should fall in succos
sion, and he the last. The first one, a perfect
exquisite, and with an air of most inellablc
condescension but his question.
“If I umJcrsand rightly the government of
your country, you acknowledge no distinctions
of rank, consequently you can have no court
standard for the manners of a gentleman, will
you fat or me with information where you best
school of politeness is to be found!”
“For your benefit,” replied the American,
smiling calmly, “1 would recommend the
Falls of Niagara—a contemplation of that stu
pendous wonder teaches humility to the proud
est, and human nothingness to the vainest. It
rebukes the triller and arouses the most stu
pid; in short, it turns men from their Idols; &
’ when we acknowledge that God only is Lord,
1 tve feel that men are our equals. A true
■ Christian is always polite.*
There was a murmur among the audience,
but whether applause or censure the Ameri
can could net determine, as lie did not choose
to betray any anxiety for the result by a scru
tiny of the faces which he knew were bent
on him.
The second now proposed his question.
He allected to be a great politician, musta
clioed and whiskered like a diplomatist, which
station he had been coveting.—His voice was
bland, but his emphasis was very significant.
“Should I visit the United States, what sub
ject with which I am conversant would most
interest your people, and give me an oppor
tunity of enjoying their conversation?*
“You must maintain as you do at present,
that a monarchy is the v. iscst, the purest, the
best government, which Die skill of man ever
devised, and that a demo -rasy is utterly bar
barous. My countrymen ire proverbially fond
of argument, and will m* etyou on both these
questions, and if you choose argue with you
to the end of your life.”
Tho murmur was reno eil,but still without
any decided expression of the feeling with
which his answer had been received.
The third then rose from his seat, and with
an assured voice, which seemed to announce
a certain triumph said.
“I require your decision, on a delicate
question, but the rules of the pastime warrant
it and also a candid answer. You have seen
the American and the English ladies; which
arc the fairest.”
The young rcpublicon glanced around the
circle. It was bright with flashing eyes, and
the sweet smile - which wreathed inanv a love-
MILLEDGEVILLE, GEORGIA, JUM: i. 1833.
ly lip, might have won a less determined pat
riot front his allegiance He did not hesitate,
j thought he bowed low to the ladies as he an
; stvered.
I “Tho slandard of female beauty is, 1 be
lieve, allowed to he the piwer of exciting ad
miration and love in our sex, consequently
‘ those ladies who are most admired, and helov
jed, and respected by the gentlemen, must be
j the fairest. Now l assert confidently, that
! their is not a nation on earth, where woman
, is so truly beloved, so temleily cherished,so
j respectfully treated, as in the republic of the
j Lui led Stales; therefore, the American ladies
I are the fairest. But,” and he again bowed
| low, “if the ladies before whom I have now
: the honor of expressing my opinion, were in
Imy country, we should think them Amcri
| cans.”
i The applause was enthusiastic ; after the
; mirth had subsided so as to allow the Judge
to i>e heard, ho directed the crown to the
, Yankee.
•From the Heirs London Weekly Messenger.
LONDON THEATRICALS.
I Cove xt Gaiidkn.—Having seen .Mr.
; Hackett at Drurv Lane Theatre, where be
| appeared in the character of a thorough Yun
ikee, our recollections of the inimitably hu
. mour which Mathews throws into his Jona
than were so fresh, that we, like the Athe
nians of old according to .Esop, preferred llie
| imitative spueak of the actor to the genuine
! grunt of the real porker, and set down Mr.
| Duckett's American us a dull mere matter of
| fact sort of person. But Mr. liackctt, on
Saturday night last, made his appearance in
! a character quite original, and which he
has made his own. Nimrod Wildfire hi The
Kentuckian, —a bold vigorous impression
from the stamp of nature, with all the tire and
spirit nf the YVcat Indian character, the pow
erful frame of the Northern 1 • uter, the ha
bits of the back-woodsinau, the roving pro
pensity of the Indian, the courage of a lion
and the rluxloniontadc of a Gascon. To u
| Kentuckian the province of Kentucky is the
| metropolis of the world, a Kentuckian the on
jly real lord of the creation, and the himself
it he greatest. A Gascon declared that the
beds in his castle were stalled with the
whiskers of the enemies he had slain ; but
the Kentuckian avows that he struck a“stran
ger” such a blow that the man disappeared,
and all that was left of him was “a grease spot
on the floor.” The Kentuckian can “whip
his weight in wild acts, dive deeper, stop un
der longer, and come vp dryer, than anv man
in the States.” Ask him about the country,
and he tells you that the soil is so rich that
you may go under as well over it.—He him
self “is half horse, half alligator, vv ith a piece
of the steamboat; and his pony will “run a
race round a paddock with a flash of light
ning.” Nay, more, he “one day saw a thuii-,
der storm coining on about three vaids be
hind me. I’ptit spurs to my horse, and away
we went full gallop—my marc and the show
er,r until after a ride of twelve miles I just got
to the stable door as the shower wetted the
tip ot her tail.” Such is the character of the
Kentuckian, and well did .Mr. Duckett repre
| sent it. He looked frank, generous and free
—i'.onest upright and downright, and as lie
| himself says, like a man who “always goes
| the whole hog.” There was a smack of Im
i mour, a relish, a novelty about this charac
i ter, which wc much enjoyed after the fatigu
j ing repetition of the same round of scuti
-1 mental ploughboys, lovesick farmers,idle fop
i pish gentieificn, and iounging lords, with
! which our stage is infested. This is an ori.
ginal character, but to enjoy il properly re
i quires somewhat more acquaintance with
| the peculiartics of the American character
than is to he met with in an English audi
i cnce.
Wc hope soon to sec some American Smol-
Ict or Fielding arise to preserve to us the nat
ural peculiarities of their country before all j
humor has been evaporated by the alembic I
of refinement. America abounds in origi-1
nality—the bold impress of nature. In ma-j
ny parts of that country the elements of so- :
ciety have just been thrown together, and ,
the various atoms have not yet rounded into ]
that politeness and sameness which at pres
ent renders all English society so monotonous
to the observer of human nature. The farce
into which the character of Nimrod Wildfire
has been let in, like a figure by Teniers into
a water-colour painting, is a poor atlair—the
laugh at Mrs. Trolloppc is only a sneer, and
we much wish Mr. Gibbs bad fallen into bet
ter hands, for she could have acted the charac
ter well. There was one good scene, howev
er, where Mrs. Trolloppc writes a letter to
Nimrod Wildfire, requesting him to patronise
her“ School of Refinement at five hundred
dollars per head.” 'The Colonel, imagining
she wishes to marry him, orders a covered j
wagon, brings in a parson, and comes to car
ry her off to tho backwoods by a roup de main.
in another scene, having been challenged by
sonic foppish English t raveller to fight a duel,
he appears dressed like Robinson Crusoe, in
bis bun ting-shirt, with a rifle on each shoul-
I der, and insists on settling the affair at once.
The fellow gets frightened, and, on being
asked the distance, says that hall a mile is the
right space with rifles. The Kentucky Colo
nel demands, “Do you want me to strain my
rifle?” Mr. Hackett may ground his repu
tation as an actor on his performance of
this character. The Editor of the Literaiy
Gazette has kindly supplied our memory
with the follow ing specimcnti of Kentucky,
; fiont (Ins farce
/ 1 can out talk any man in the United States,
| and give him half an hour’s start,
j 1 have hat! a speech in soak these six
; months. lam all brimstone but my head,
! ami that’s aquafortis.
I I’istols ! pistols are trumpery : they lodge
J :l DJI 11 man’s body, and wound his feel
iingsf.t rifle,now, sends it clean through,
| and no mistake.
Stranger, I’ll bet you 500 dollars I hits
you between your eves without touching
j your nose.
1 Uncle don’t you know I can Out-eat anv
man in the States ! 1 wish he’d staid till 1
untied my neckcloth ; I’d have swallowed
him whole.
You aro like anew pen, and I’ll use you
i up to the stump.
Stranger, it you think to turn me, you may
as well row up the Falls of Niagara in a fisii
kettle, with a crow-bar for an oar.
1 say, stranger, if you try to get through
that ere sand-bunk, 1 guess you’ll burst your
boiler.
\ unity, thy name is woman!—that’s Shnks
peare, and he is a screamer.
lie’ll ride through a crab apple orchard on
a streak of lightning.
Stranger, it you keep your mouth so w ide
open, 1 guess you’ll suii-liuru your teeth.
My father can whip any man iii Kcntuck,
and I—l can whip my lather.
lean out grin a wiid cat. I was in a men
ageric once ; stranger, says t, talk o’your
wildcats grinning; look here, says I, and
I gave one ot ’em a look ; and he turned on
his hack and died*
I never owned a nigger; butt borrowed
one once—he’d a fever and ague ; the fever
1 stopped, hut the ague left him, he was so tar
nation lazy he would’nt shake.
II you plant a crow bar over night in Ken
tucky, it will sprout tenpeuny nails next
' morn ing.
| Give us some music, 300 horse power.
Il it warn’t true, may 1 he tctotaciouslvex
iluuctificd.
Btick ine into a split log for a wedge.
FROM SKETCHES OF ‘WESTERN AD
VENTURES.
David Morgan, a relation of llie celebrated Dan
iel Morgan, had settled upon the Monongabela,
during the earlier period of the Revolutionary
war, ami at this lime bad ventured to occupy a
cabin at the distance of several miles from any I
settlement. One morning m May, 1781, having
sent bis younger children out to a considerable
distance Irom the house, lie became uneasy about
them, and repaired to the spot where, they were
working, armed as usual with a good rifle.—
Whilst sitting upon the fence and giving some
directions as to their work, he observed two In
diansupon tlis other side of the field gazing ear*
nestly upon the party, lie instantly called To the
children to make their escape, while he should
attempt to cover their retreat. The odds were
greatly against him, as in addition to other cir
cumstances, he was nearly seventy years of age,
and of course unable to contend with the ene
mies in running. The house was more than a
mile distant, hut the children, l aving two hiiud-
red yards the start, and being effectually covered
Ivy their father, were soon so far m front that tin
Indians turned their attention entirely lo the old
roan. He ran for several hundred yards with ac
tivity which astonished himself, but perceiving
that lie would he overtaken, lie fairly turned a
hay, and prepared for a strenuous resistance.—
i lie \\ oods through which they were running
were very thin, ami consisted almost entirely ol
small trees, behind which it was difficult to ob
tain proper shelter. When Morgan adopted the
above mentioned resolution, be had passed a large
walnut, which stood like a patriarch among the
saplings which surrounded it, and it became ne
cessary to run back about ten steps in order to re
guin it. The Indians became startled at the sud
den advance ot the lugitive, and were compelled
to hall among a cluster of saplings, where they
anxiously strove to shelter themselves.—This,
however, was impossible,and Morgan, who was
an excellent marksman, saw enough of one of
them to justify him in risking shot. His enemy
instantly fell morttily wounded. The other in
than, taking advantage ol Morgan’s empty gun
sprung frniujhis shelter and advanced rapidly noon
him. The old nan, having no lime to re-load his
gun, was compelled to fly a second time —The
Indian gained rapidly upon him, and when with
in twenty steps tired, hut with so unsteady aim,
that Morgan was totally unhurt, the hall having
passed over his shoulder. He now again stood
al bay, clubbing his rifle for a blow, w hile the
Indian propping Lis empty gun, brandished his
tomahau k and prepared to throw it at his enemy.
Morgan struck with the hut of his gun, and the
Indian whirled his tomahawk at one and the same
moment. Both blows took effect; and both
w ere wounded and disarmed. The breech of the
rifle was broken against the Indian's skull, and
the edge of Ihe tomahawk was shattered against
the rifle, having cutoff two of the Angers of Mor
gan's left hand. The Indian then attempted to
draw his knife, Morgan grappled him and bore
him to the ground. A fuiious struggle ensued, in
w hich the old man’s strength failed, and the In
dian succeeded in turning him. Flanting his
knee in the breast ol his enemy, and yelling
loudly, as is usual with them upon any turn ol
fortune, he again felt for his knife in order to
terminate the question at once; hut having late
ly stolen a woman’s apron, and tied it around his
waist, lus knife was so much confined, that he
had great finding the handle. Mor
gan in the mean time, being a regular pugilist,
accdrding to the custom of Virginia, and perfect
ly at home iu a ground struggle, took advantage
ol the aw kwardness of the Indian, and got one
ot the fingers of his right hand between his teeth.
The Indian tugged and roared in vain, struggling
|to extricate it. Morgan held him fast, and began
Ito assist him iu hunting for his knife. Each seiz
| ed it at the same moment, the Indian by the blade,
and Morgan by the handle, but with a slight
i hold. The Indian having the firmest hold, be
i gan to draw the knife further out of its theatli,
when Morgan suddenly giving his finger a furi
' mis bite, twitched the kmle dextwiowly through
i liis hand, cutting it severely. Both now sprung
'VU. JEFFERSON JONES. EDITOR.
to their feet, Morgan brandishing his adversary’s
knife, and still holding his finger between his
teeth. In vain the poor Indian struggled to get
away; rearing, pluugmgand bolting like an un
hrokeucoU. The teeth ot the white man weie
like a vice, and heat length succeeded in giving
him a stab in the side. The Indian received it
without falling, the knife having struck his ribs;
hut a second blow aimed at the stomach, proved
more effectual, and the savage fell. Morgan
thri sttlie knife, handle and all into the cavity of
the body, directed it upwards, odd started lo his
feet, made the best of his way home.
Tho neighborhood was quickly alarmed, and
burryiug to the spot whbre the struggle had ta
ken place, they found tire first Indian lying w here
he had fallen, but the second had disappeared.
A broad trail of blood however, conducted to a
fallen tree top, within one hundred yards of the
spot into which the poor fellow bad dragged him
self and where lie now lay bleed in;, but still
alive. He had plucked the knife from his wound,
and was endeavoring to dress it with the apron
which had cost him his lile, when his enemies
approached. The fove of life appeared still
strong within him however. He greeted them
with what was intended for an insinuating smile,
held out bis hand and exclaimed in broken Eng
lish, * how de do broder ! how de do! glad to
see you." But poor fellow, the love was "all on
lus side. Their brotherhood extended only to to
mahawking, scalping and skinning him, all of
which operations were performed w ithin a few
minutes after the meeting.- To such an extent
had mutual injury inflamed boifi parties.
ESCAPE FROM A SHARK.
Hardy in his travels through Mexico, gives tho
following lively account of an escape from a
shark : • I’he Placer de U Picda Negada, which
is near Loretta, was supposed to have quantities
of very large pearl oysters around it—a supposi
tion which was at once confirmed, by the great
difficulty of finding this sudden rock. Don Pab
lo, however, succeeded in sounding it, and, in
search of specimens of the largest and oldest
shells, dived down in eleven fathoms water.
Ihe rock is not above one hundred and fifty or
two hundred yarns iu circumference, and our ad
venturer swam round and examined itiu all di
rections, hut without meeting any inducement to
prolong his stay. Accordingly, being satisfied
that there were nooysiers, bethought of ascend
ing to the surface of the water; but first fie cast
a look upwards, as all divers are obliged to do,
who hope to avoid the hungry jaws of a monster.
II the coast is clear, they may then rise wiiliout
apprehension. Don Pablo, however, when he
ca»t a hasty glance upwards, found that a linto
lero, bad taken a station about three or four yards
immediately above him, and most probably, Imd
been watching during the whole time that he had
jbeendown. A double pointed stick is a useless
weapon against a tiutetero, as its month is of
such enormous dimensions, that both man and
stick would be swallowed together. He there
fore felt himself rather nervous, as his retreat was
now completely intercepted. But, underwater,
time is too great an object to be spent in reflec
tion, and therefore lie swam round to another part
of the rock, hoping by this artifice to avoid the
vigilance of his persecutor. What was his dis
may when he again looked up to find the pertina
cious tiutetero still hovering over him, as a hawk
w ould follow a bird ! He described him as hav
ing large, rouud and inflamed eyes, 'apparently
just ready lo dart from their sockets uilh eager
ness, and a mouth (al the recollection of which
he still shuddered,) that was constantly opening
and shulling, as if the monster was already iu
imagination, devouring his victim, or, at least,
that the contemplation of his prey imparted u
foretaste of the geul! Two alternatives now
presented themselves to the mind of Don Pablo ;
one, to suffer himselfto he drowned, the other lo
he eaten. He had already been under the water
so considerable a time, that l e found it impossi
ble any longer lo retain bis breath, and was on
the point of giving himself up for lost, with as
much philosophy as lie possessed. But what is
dearer than life? ’llie invention of man is sel
dom at a loss to find expedients for ils preserva
tion iu cases of great extremity. Una sudden lie
recollected, that on one side of the rock he had
observed a sandy spot, and to this he swain vulh
all possible speed; iiis attentive friend still watch
ing his movements, and keeping a measured pace
with him. As soon as lie reached the spot, ho
commenced stirring it with bis pointed stick, in
such a way that the fine particles rose, and ren
dered the water perfectly turbid, so that lie could
nut see the monster, nor the monster him. Avail
ing himself of the cloud by which himself and
the tiutetero were enveloped, he swam very far
out iu a transvertical direction, and leached the
surface iu safety, although completely exhausted.
Fortunately lie lose close to one of the boats ;
and those w ho were within seeing him iu such n
stale, and knowing that an enemy must have
been persecuting him, and that by some artifice
lie had saved bis life, jumped overboard, and as
is their Common practice in such eases, to fright
en the creature away by splashing in the water,
and Don Pablo was taken into the boutuxorc dead
than alive.”
ttut !—l should like to take your paper,”
said Mr. I.ive-by-borouing, as he looked in
upon us, the other day—and we were about
to place his name on our list, when (lie veto
ing word m*T fell upon our ears, producing
an effect not unlike that which was caused by
a butt from a similar sheepish animal in our
lioylioorl—“I am much pleased with the pa
per; I should like to take it; and 1 certainly
should— bi t —my dear neighbor Timothy
Too-easy takes it, and 1 borrow it ol him every
week.” Now this Mr. Live-by-borrowing is
far better able to pay for a paj>cr than IDs wor
thy neighbor, vet the latter and others of the
locndall family, suffer him to wheedle them
out of the news, which they fund he ought to]
honestly pay for. They are 100 easy for our
good, and 100 easy for their own. We will
thank the persons who lend a paper to any
one who lias never seen a number of it hut we
wish every suberiber would muster courage
enough to refuse it to those who haunt him
every week,or mother words, have fallen into
the weakly habit of borrowing.— Dedham
Advertiser.
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