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HISTORICAL.
From the Georgia Messenger.
DISCOVERY OF MISSISSIPPI.
BY MANN BUTLER, ESQ.
On the 27th of March, 1512, fourteen years after the dis
covery by Columbus of the main land of America, Ponce de '
Leon discovered Florida, in his romantic search for the foun- [
tain of youth. This was a spting, which was extensively
believed at that day, to possess the virtue of renewing the
wasted powers of life. Notwithstanding this charmed power
in the waters of Florida, the discoverer died mortally wound- j
ed in a contest with the warlike natives. He was soon fol
lowed by various adventurers, British and Spanish. But
Pampilo de Narvaez and Herando de Soto were lhe most dis- 1
tinguished. The former is supposed to have landed on the
12th of April, 1529, near the bay now called Apalachee.
After passing six months in exploring Florida, he coasted ,
the southern margin of this State, and the whole party, except
four, were shipwrecked near the mouth of the Mississippi.
The survivors, after years of captivity and hardships among
the Indians, reached the city of Mexico. De Soto, whose
fame you so well commemorate in one of the northern coun
ties of the State, possibly in the path of his ancient explolation,
next followed. This most remarkable adventurer, even at a
time and in a nation of unsurpassed enterprize, ns if destined
to realize the wildest visions of romance, had participated with
Pizarro in the conquest of Peru. He had realized, in that
fairy work every thing it might well b? supposed, that love
of fame could desire. Still this favorite of fortune, the pride
• of the knights of old Castle, panted to enterw ine his heroic and
wayward fate with th** " Jeb forests of Mississippi. His keen
, passion for adventure kindled at the news brought to Spain by
the surviving associates of Narvez; and he easily obtained (
from the partiality and confidence of Charles V. then Em- ,
peror of Germany and King of Spain and the Indies, the 1
government of Cuba and of Florida.
In May, 1539, all but 300 years ago, the Adelantado of
Florida landed at the bay of Espiritu Santo, the Tampa Bay
■ of our modern topography. Hence, after establishing a depot
at the Bay of Achu-i, the modern Pensacola, and concerting
communications w ith his noble wife, w hom he had left in dirge
. of his government at Havana, he proceeded into the interior.
Vyithout expatiating on lhe desperate and gallant contests'
between the native sons of the forest, (most probably the an
- cestors of the Seminole?,) and their warlike invaders, I will
♦ bearly select a few of lhe most prominent and interesting
points, which have been identified in this, the noblest ol the
European explorations of Alabama, Mississippi and Arkansas.
Tuscaluza, or Tuscaloosa, as it is now written, is first present
ed. He was, says the Peruvian historian, “one of the most
•oolitic, proud, and warlike of the native chieftains of the
south.” He has left bis name indelibly stamped in a river, :
and the capital of the neighboring States of Alabama. His
territories must have comprised a great part of what are now
the States of Alabama and Mississippi.
The Spaniards entered his town of Mouvila, (evidently
the origin of Mobile,) which is supposed to have stood about >
the junction of the Tombeckbee with the Alabama river, j
Here was the scene of one of the bloodiest battles between
the natives and their invaders. The ruins of this town, sack
ed and burned by the Spaniards, became lhe tomb of the he
roic chief of Tuscaloosa, and “several thousands of his sub- 1
jects. The plain around the town was strewn with more than
2,500 bodies. Within the walls, the streets were blocked up
by the dead.” “In one building a thousand perished in the 1
flames, a greater part of them females.” It is some compen- i
sation for this domestic havoc, that its authors did not entirely
escape from the calamities they had brought upon these dist
ant shores. Eighty-two Spaniards, cased as they were in ar- |
mor of steel, perished, and forty-two Spanish horses were ,
killed, by the Indians, and mourned, says the same historian,
•*‘as if they had been so many fellow soldiers.” The bag
gage and stores of the Spaniards were monsumed in the flames
of the town. The next point reached by the expedition, of
immediate interest, to us, is the province and town of Chicuza,
Dr Chickasaw. This is supposed to have been in the upper
part of this State, on the western bank of the Yazoo, about;
240 miles northwest of Mobile. Here the Spaniards expe- j
-rienced a desperate night attack from the Indians, losing
many of their men and mrtre of their horses, then unknown
in America and so precious to the invaders.
After many similar adventures, all testifying to the undaunt
ed bravery and persevering fortitude in the natives, the Span
ish party came in sight of the Mississippi, on the Rio Grande,
as they called it. Below the lowest Chickasaw Bluff, the pre
sent site of Memphis, just ten miles above the northern limits
•of this State, is an ancient and convenient passags over the
great river. Here De Soto is supposed to have crossed the
Mississippi, and left the territory of our State. It does not
comport with the purpose of this discourse to follow this gal
lant, but unfortunate wanderer beyond the limits of the Missis
sippi. J will barely mention, that after penetrating to the
highlands of White river, 200 miles from the Mississippi, to
Little Prairie the Salines and Hot Springs of Washitta; ..the
Spanish captain reached the country about the nihuth 'Of
Red river. Here he sentout a party to explore the coutry far*
ther to the South. ihe frequent bayous, the impassible caries
breaks, and the dense woods, permitted them to proceed
40 miles in eight days, thus obstructed me party returned with
the dishartening intelligence they had procured. This disap- !
pointment, added to the sorrows of his whole career in these
regions, so different from his fate on the golden coast of Pc-*
ru, and a defiance sent him by a tribe of Indians near Nalcli'ez*
completed the work of melancholy, and broke the heart of
De Soto. He fell a pray to a mortal disorder ; and to conceal
the body of the dauntless associate of Pizarro, the Governor
of Cuba and lhe first explorer of the south-western regions,
“the corpse, wrapt in a mantle and in the stillness of ni'4it’
was silently sunk in the Mississippi.”
Thus the discoverer of the Mississippi slept beneath its wa
ters. “He had crossed the continent in search of gold,” says
lhe eloquent and most learned Bancroft, “and had found
|f|fgiwro ot
nothing so remarkable in his buriel place.” Three hundred,
out of one thousand, who had embarked with De Soto, alone
lived to return to Mexico and to his heart broked wife, the
noble Boabdilla.
From the Natchez Free Trader.
GIBSON’S GUIDE AND DIRECTORY.
This “Guide and Directory of the State of Louisiana and
the Cities of New Orleans and Lafayette, has just been pub
lished, in a duodecimo form of 400 pages, ornamented with
maps and engravings by John Gibson, Esq., editor of the True
American. We hail the appearance of this volume with no
common pleasure and in the name of the merchants, bankers,
and business men of Mississippi, thank Mr. Gibson for his
production, which presents such a mass of well digested infor
mation, as necessary to the stranger traveller as to all who
transact business with the emporium of Louisiana.
A lithograph map of the city is perfixed to the volumes,
showing the streets, municipalities and sites of public build
ings.
We take a pleasure in summing up the subjects embraced
in the directory : A list of the officers of the U. S. for Lou
isiana, and an historical notice of the State, its boundaries,
product and government, its officers, executive, legislative, ju
dicial and ministerial; the terms of courts in each parish, dif
ferent divisions of the Stale, as parochial, Senatorial, Con
gressional, judicial, electorial and military.
Improvements and institutions, as railroads, canals, colleges,
public schools, its revenue and expenditures, salaries, and
terms of officers, etc.
An historical notice of the city of New Orleans, from its
foundation, with a reference map; government, division, offi
cers, alleys, public buildings, wharves and projected improve
ments, revenues and expenditures, salaries and terms of office,
corporations, companies and societies. The press, the clergy,
physicians, etc., etc., etc.; the names and residences, and
places of business of its citizens, and generally every thing
useful and interesting ; the whole embellished with upwards
of fifty beautifully finished lithographic views of the principal
public buildings.
We cannot but think that a large number of copies of this
work might be sold in the State of Mississippi, as its use in
the counting rooms of our merchants; the bureaus of our
banks and in the sitting rooms of our hotels, must be acknow
ledged by all. The tables of reference and statistics, the his
torical notices, and the care with which the residences and
places of business of all the citizens are noted, confer great
credit on the gentlemen engaged in preparing the details for
the press. These gentlemen, we learn from the preface, were
Frederick Wilkinson, Esq., Deputy Surveyor General of the
State, Thomas W. Collins, Esq., the historion, Major Long,
late Civil Engineer of the State, and Professor Doct. E. 11.
Barton, who furnished valuable" papers in relation to medical
institutions, climate, diseases and mortality in the city.
We condense ». lew data from the historical part of the vol
ume :
HISTORICAL DATA OF NEW ORLEANS:
A. D. 1718 Bienville changed the seat of government for
the province from Biloxi to the site of New Orleans, and left
fifty men to clear the ground and erect the necessary buildings.
1718. The river was extremely high, overflowed the site,
then not protected by dykes, and the city, was for a time,
abandoned. A sharp controversy was, this year, carried on
by a party in the government of the colony, the object of
which was to remove the seat of Government to Natchez.
1721. This year the passes of the Mississippi were sur
veyed by De Pauger; there were eleven f.-et of water on the
mud bar at the mouth.
1723. This year Charlevoix reached New Orleans from I
Canada, and found in the city one hundred cabins, and two
or three dwelling houses with one store. Population 200.
The price of a negro was $126; a barrel of rice $3 : al
a quarter cask of wine S6J ; and a quarter cask of brandy !
S3O. A terrible hurricane this year blew down most of the
cabins, and drove three vessels on shore.
1727. This year the Jesuits and Ursuline nuns came to
New Orleans. Trading vessels arrived from Bordeaux, Mar
seilles and Cape Francois.
1763. This year Pope Clement, the 13tb, expelled the
Jesuites ; their property was confiscated, valued at $138,000 ; |
the same is at this time, exclusive of improvements, worth ;
$15,000,000.
1764. British vessels this year began to visit the Missis-§
sippi. They fastened to a tree on the bank above the citv j
ami traded with the inhabitants, after the manner of flat boats,
and gave long credits, as every body in New Orleans and on
the coast was honest then. The colony was ceded to Spain
this year, which was also signalized by the appearance of a
disease resembling the yellow fever.
1769. Don. Alexander O’Rielly, took possession of the city
in behalf of Spain. The population was 5,500 whites and
nearly as many blacks. Trade languished and population
diminished under the oppressive and restricted policy of the
Spanish.
1785. This year, some of these restrictions being removed,
French merchants settled in New Orleans, and General Wil
: kinson first conceived the idea of a regular American trade ;
. down the river.
1788. General Wilkinson this year, procured permission of
i one or more launches, leaden with tobacco from Kentucky.
| A great fire broke out in Chartres street and consumed nine
hundred houses.
1789. Many Americans settled in the colony.
1 791. I rench comtnedians first arrived in the city, having ■
j escaped slaughter in the rising of the slaves at St. Domingo.
I 1792. Baron Carondelet arrived as Governor of the colony.
| He divided the city into four wards and lighted the streets.’
He trained the militia, consisting of five companies of volun
teers, one of artillery and two of riflemen; each of one hun
dred men.
1794. lhe first newspaper in Louisiana was established
this year and published in French, called “ La Monitcur tic la \
i Louisiana.”
1 796. Ihe Canal Carondelet was finished by the Governor
of that name. A conflagration and a hurricane destroyed !
much property this year.
1799. The United States trade had become so important
that the President appointed Even Jones consul for the port
of New Orleans.
1801. This year, by the treaty of St. Ildefonso, Louisiana
was ceded to the French Republic.
1803. By the treaty of Paris, the First Consul of France
ceded to the United States the Province of Louisiana, which
was solemnly taken possession of on the 30th November. At
that time the population of the ciiy of New Orleans was 8000,
and of the whole province 49,473.
1804. Congress made New Orleans a port of e::try and de
livery.
1805. This year the territorial government granted an act
of incorporation to the city.
1810. This year the population was found to have trebled
in seven years of the Ami rican dynasty.
1812. On the 10th of January this year the first steamboat
that ever descended the Mississippi, arrived at New Orleans.
She made the passage from Pittsburg in 259 hours.
Outrage, on Texas Indians.— We learn from a petition or memo
rial in the Texas Chronicle of May 12th, addressed to President
Houston, from the Red River County, under date ol’ April 29th,
that Col. R. Potter, late of North Carolina notoriety, lias wantonly
involved the frontier inhabitants in danger. On a vague suspicion of
the Coworseshadda Indians had stolen his horses, he arrested a party
of them and tried them; they escaped and he followed them with an
armed body, fired upon them, killing three and having two of his
men killed. He carried off’with him all the Indian women and chil
dren be could lay hands upon.
The inhabitants have implored the Indians not to wreak their ven
geance upon the settlers until President Houston has had time lo
interfere—they state that Potter’s horses have not been stolen al all,
but may be found on his pasture range.— \Mississippi Fret: Trader.
VILLE, TUESDAY JIIOItNINC, JLLY 24, BS3S.
(htr Cons€ience—“Otir Cimntry’'"Our Party.
Animal Burlesque.— Did you ever remark, reader, the ex
hibition of a species of burlesque, "in the department ol ani
mals? Strong contrasts are often observable in the bearing
of this “ portion of the community.” We could not resist a
hearty laugh, recently, as we saw a pocket edi'.ion ol a poodle,
bedizened with tinkling bells and red ribbon, following one ol
Harrington’s lordly St. Bernard mastiffs, and expressing its
personal dislike of the canine giant,, by a series of foetus barks,
or barklels, as Lamb would have termed its small vociferations.
With what indescribable contempt did the monster look down
I upon his little assailant, in the brief moment that he turned
round his head, and then moved on, overshadowing the aspiring
I cur with hisimmense tail! Dignity was enthroned in his whole
manner and aspect. A similar disparity is sometimes various
ly exhibited in a higher order of animals. The city reader
will remember a managerie incident, which occurred here
some years since. A tiger, by some means or other, escaped
from his cage, while the keeper was in the amphitheatre. He
ran from side to side, “seeking whom he might devour.” At
length his fiery eye rested upon the keeper, who had taken up
his position under the lee of a huge elephant, that had watched
the motions of the enraged animal, from the beginning, with
great gravity. The tiger sprang violently toward his master,
I but suddenly found himself encircled in the lithe proboscis of
the elephant, and presently after whirling in the air. Twice
he returned to the charge, and twice he was sent half across
the amphitheatre, the last time with a force that brought him to
the ground, with exceedingemphasis, and in a state so disabled
as to capture him easy. —The ponderous decorum with which
the elephant conducted the affair, and the chagrin and dis
comfiture of his adversary, are said to have afforded a rich
scene. It pitched battle, which the latter never forgot.
Apropos of elephants. A friend once described to us a laugh
able scene which he saw in Baltimore, wherein this “ half-rea
soning parent of combs” (vide Dr. Johnson) bore, as usual, a
conspicuous and powerful part. Five or six men were “ being
led” by the animal —(they supposed they were leading him) —
to the steamboat at lhe wharf, where he was to embark with a
menagerie for Philadelphia. He clanked up, in chains, to the
end of the pier, just as a sudden pufl’of the steam escaped from
the valve, preparatory to starting.—The elephant looked indo
lently up at the white vapor, flapped his ears, and turned dog
gedly round, saying, as plainly as actions could speak, “I
don’t go in Z/ictiboat!” For the next twenty minutes, he was
seen, by the passengers in waiting, slowly moving up the long
street, in sullen dignity, while the attendants, uttering divers
soothing expostulations, pulled strenously back upon the ropes
and chains which highly encumbered the resistless animal’s
legs. When the boat left the wharf, the party were still faintly
discei ned in the distance continuing their toilsome and vexatious
j ourney.— [Knickerbocker.
A GOOD STORY—IF TRUE.
The story of th* man of bis Majesty’s 71st Regiment fall
ing overboard from the Chambly steamboat, between long
point and Montreal, and so miraculously appearing on the
beach before his comrades had disembarked, reminded me of a
circumstance that occurred during my servitude on board the
Dolphin man-of-warjaound to the West Indies. We were go
ing at the rate of about three knots and a half an hour, when
Torn Garboard, belonging to the foretop, (who by the bye was
a bit of a wag,) sleeping in the lee forechains, by a sudden
lurch of the ship was thrown overboard.
A man overboard, was the general cry fore and afyf—and
every one ran to offer or give assistance to the drowning man.
Torn, who was a tolerable good swimmer, as every body
thought, but nothing extraordinary, woke on finding himself
in a deep water, and began to use his paddles, and the ship
passing ahead as I was saying before, at the rate of three knots
and a half. Toni was soon lost sight of under the counter,
(for although our ship was not on Sir Robert Sepping’s plan,
yet she was pretty full abaft,) when Tom was lucky enough to j
get hold of the rudder chains. The hands all ran aft expect- ■
ing to see him astern and to lower the jolly boat to pick him j
up—but no Tom was to be seen. “ He’s gone,” said they,
“ to Davy’s Locker,” and efforts ceased.
Our ship was very deep bound out to the West Indies ; con- ,
sequently our gun-room ports were low in the water. This I
Tom saw, and as it was getting dark he thought he would wail j
till they beat the quarters, and piped the hammocks down, be- j
fore he got on board which he did, and then popped into lhe
lady’s hold, where the gunner keeps his wads and spare mon
key’s tails, and there remained till the middle of the first watch
when he sallied forth and made free with ourbread bags, tak
ing enough to serve him for three days.
At the end of this<ime we were jogging along at an easy
rate, with scarcely any wind, about a knot, when Master Tom,
unobserved, slips out of the port he came in at, and dropping
astern, began to hail the ship. “The Dolphin ahoy!”
“ Hallo,” says the quarter-master, who was about getting a
pull on the main brace.—Says Tom, “If you don’t take back
the main sail and heave to, I shall sink, for no man can swim
to the West Indies without provisions.”
Every body run aft in amazement, for it had been blowing
fresh during the time we had supposed he had been overboard ;
but there was no time to be losl—so the boat was lowered, and
poor Tom was picked up to the great gratification and aston
ishment of every body on board.
On our arrival, as the captain was on shore, dining with the
governor, the talk turned upon swimming. The governor
was extolling the powers of a black man he had, and the cap
tain declared no man could swim with Tom Garboard, of the
Dolphin’s fore-top ; however, to make a long story short, the
captain and the governor made a very heavy bet—lhe time was
appointed—Tom requested one week to get ready.
The carpenters were ordered to make what chests and con
veniences Tom required. The purser was instructed, at his
request, to supply a fortnight’s provisions. The day came,
and Tom went on shore at the wharf appointed, when he be
gan to stow his grub. The black fellow looked at him with
astonishment. “What you do dere, massa?” says he. “What
am I doing here? says Tom, “ why I am takingin my provis
ions, to be sure, and I advise you to do the same ; for not a bit
of this do you get on the road.” “Why massa,” says the
negro, “me no more swim nine or ten miles.” Says Tom, as
if in amazement at the short distance, “why man, I’m going to
Tobago, which I believe is over two hundred miles, and shan’t
be back for a fortnight.”
The spectators were astounded. The black refused to swim.
The governor lost his wager, and it was not until we were
homeward bound, that Tom told the secret. — [Montreal Iler.
From the New- York Spirit of the Times.
A CARD—TO THE PUBLIC.
It is with mingled feelings of sorrow and humiliation that
one who is largely a debtor to public favor, ventures to present
herself before the public, lo solicit its candid attention for a
brief space to some circumstances which, through several chan
nels, have alieady been spread before them with a rude and
unfeeling hand.
Nothing but a just self-regard, and a natural desire to pre
serve pure and unsulied that estimation in the public mind
which it has ever been the writers ambition and endeavor to
attain, could induce her to come forth from lhe solitude of her
own grief, and present herself to the eyes of the world in re
lation to subjects which chiefly concern herself. But cherished as
been fop six years past in my professional career by ti e
kind indulgence ol a generous community, 1 cannot permit
my affection as ti sister, or my honor as a woman, to be assail
ed without some attempt to repel the unjust attack. Alas, some
of the arrows, which were doubtless intended for me, glanced
from their mark, and struck the bosom of another with a deep
and deadly wound. Would that mine could* have been the
shii Id for that tender flower, which has been rudely trampled
to the dust by the selfish and the unfeeling !
It must be too sadly evident that I refer to a tragedy of which
N. York lias recently been the theatre, and mv half-sister, Miss
1 Louise Missouri Miller, the hapless victim. That scene
has been to me so full of wo, so heart-rending, and so revolt
ing in all its features, that I would fain throw a veil over it to
conceal not only the scene itself, but its principal actors, for
ever from my view. But, in spite of every effort, they are con
stantly before me, and 1 can only ask of the indulgent reader his
patience for a moment, while 1 "disclaim at once, and for ever,
all connection with the tragedy, and with those who made
themselves most conspicuous in it.
It would seem as if those who obtained possession of the
person of my late unfortunate and lamented sister, fearful of the
just retribution which might be expected from that public by
whose favor they “ live and have their being,” considered it
expedient to fix the general attention upon others as the au
thors of the calamity to which allusion has been made ; and
the humble individual who now makes this appeal was selected
as one of the objects of attack. In the fulfilment of this de
sign, it has been in some instances boldly asserted as a fact
proved before the jury summoned by the Coroner to look upon
the pale corse of the victim, and investigate thecauses which
led to her untimely death, that I, alarmed at the professional
success of my sister, “ wrote to request” that she “ might he
taken from the stage for a short time, or for ever.” This
statement is in all its parts utterly FALSE. In the first
place, I never did write to any person whatever concerning mv
sisters professional career, nor in any letter of mine was the
subject in the remotest degree alluded to. In truth, during my
recent absence from New-York I wrote but one letter, and that
from the bed of pain and sickness, merely to announce my
continued existence to one who has a natural right to this mark
of my remembrance. I had neither leisure nor health, even
had I entertained the disposition, to take upon myself the su
pervision of my sister’s affairs. Leaving Philadelphia on the
Ist of January last, 1 arrived in New-Orleans on the 26th of
the same month, and commeced, my engagement at the St.
Charles theatre on the Monday following. After a brief space
I was struck down by the strong hand of sickness, and for thir
teen long weeks during my absence was 1 stretched upon the
couch of disease, (by my physician supposed to be my death
bed,) and little place was there in my bosom for “ envy, ha
tred, or uncbaritableness” of any kind, —least of all towards
my sister.
Neither is it true that I was opposed to her appearing upon
thestage. Children of misfortune form our very birth, it wasdue
to our characters that we should by our own efforts protect and
maintain ourselves. Thus forlorn in the world- and prompted
to the exercise of every faculty of our minds, little did we
think that the success of either could have any other effect than
to bind us closer in the bonds of sisterly affection. It is a tri
bute due to the memory of my departed sister to sav, that to
no person living did the partial success of my histrionic efforts
afford half the pleasure it seemed always to "give her. To
wards such a sister, and a child, too, in years, how could I in
dulge an unworthy thought? Under these circumstances, my
sister’s determination to enter upon professional life was never
opposed by me, although I have given her warning (alas! un
heeded) as to the professional path and instruction which she
should avoid. We were in no sense rivals, and my sister’s
success would have afforded me the most pure and unmingled
gratification. During the brief years allotted to her on this
troubled theatre of life, we lived together in peaceful affection
and the most entire harmony, notwithstanding revelations and
confessions put into her lips for base purposes, now that they
are sealed forever in death.
It my kind and indulgent readers have bad (he patience to
follow me thus far, they will perceive that my sole object is to
vindicate myself—not to accuse others. I leave all those who
pursued my gentle sister, like a fawn flying before the hunters,
to their own consciences—to public opinion, and the just retri
bution of their God ! For me, “ 1 had no part nor lot in the
matter,” and can only grieve that any one should be so unchari
table as to suppose that she who now weeps over the new-made
grave of her sister, could be so base as to assist in driving her j
there, as to the only refuge where she could lie down in peace
and security. I take my leave of this, to me, most affecting
subject, now and forever. My tale is told—my task is done,
and I leave my character, my motives, my hopes, and my fu
ture aspirations in your impartial hands. If you condemn
me, I have no tribunal of appeal. You sentence, as to myself,
will be final. Let it be just, and I have nothing to fear.
JOSEPHINE CLIFTON.
Astor House, New-York, July 6th, 1828.
Proposal for a cessation of hostilities!— There is “ great
coil” about these days in Tennessee and Kentucky between
the friends of four distinguished horses standing recently in
those Slates, and the way the writers on both sides rub down
each other’s shins brickbat fashion, is a huckleberry over any
body’s persimmon in those parts. In Tennessee and Alabama
“ the line of party” appears to be as strictly drawn between
the friends of Luzborough and Lqviaththh as between the
Whig and Tory parties in the olden time. We are glad to see,
however, that the newspaper war between-the billigerents is
maintained with good temper, though with the utmost spirit.
In Kentucky, ever since the Dog Days set in, a wordy war
has been raging between the friends of iWetZoc and Woodpecker.
We beg to offer our humble services as mediator between the
four rival parties, and to suggest four sweepstakes of 1,2, 3, '
and 4 mile heats open only to the get of the four horses, —
the four to come off over some central course, or two to come
off in Kentucky, and two in Tennessee, or Alabama, with a
subscription of § 300 each for the Mile heats stake, and of
$ 1000 each for the Four mile stake. What do you say to
this gentlemen ?— lb.
From the Foreign Quarterly Review.
How the Schildburghcrs purchashed a monger, and with it
their own ruin.— “ Now it happened that there were no cats in
Schilda, and so many mice, that nothing was safe, even in the
bread-basket ; for whatsoever they put there, was sure to be
gnawed or eaten ; and this grieved them sorely. And upon
a time there came a traveller into the village, carrying a cat in
his arms, and he entered the hostel. The host asked him
what sort of a beast is that? Said he, ‘lt is a mouser.’ Now
the mice at Schilda were so quiet and so tame, that they never
fled before the people, but ran about all day long without the
slightest fear. So the traveller let the cat run, who, in the
sight of the host, soon caught numbers of mice.
“Now when the people were told this the host, they
asked the man whether the mouser was to be sold, for they
would pay him well for it. He said, ‘lt certainly was not to be
sold, but seeing that it would be so useful to them, he would
let them have it, if they would pay him what was right;’ and he
asked so liitle, and concluded a bargain with him, be agreeing
asked a hundred florins for it. The boors were glad to find that be
to take half the money down, and to come again in six months to
get the rest. As soon as the bargain was struck on both sides,
they gave the traveller the half of his money, and carried the
mouser into the granary where they kept corn, for there were
most mice there. The traveller went off with the money at full
speed, for lie feared greatly lest they should repent them of the
bargain and want their money back again ; and as he went
along he kept looking behind him, to see that no one was fol
lowing him.
“ .Now the boors had forgotten to ask what the cat was to be
fed upon ; so they sent one after him in haste, to ask him the
question. But when he with the gold saw that some one was fol
lowing him, he hastened so much the more, so that the boor
could by no means overtake him ; whereupon he called out’to
him from afar off‘What does it eat? what does it eat?’ ‘What
you please, what you please,’ quoth the traveller. But the
peasant understood him to say, ‘ Men and beasts, men and
beasts therefore he returned homewad in great affliction, and
said as much to his worthy masters. On learning this they be
came greatly alarmed, and said, ‘When it has no more mice to eat
it will eat our cattle ; and when they are gone it will eat ns.
To think that we should lay out ourgood money in buying such
a thing ?’ So they held council together, and resolved that the
cat should be killed; but no one would venture to lay hold of
it lor that purpose. Whereupon it. was determined to burn
the granary and the cat in it, seeing that it was better they
P. 1.. ROBINSON, PROPRIETOR.
should suffer a common loss, than all lose their life and limb.
So they set fire to the granary.
“ But when the cat smelt the fire, it sprang out of the window
and fled to another house; and the granary was burned to the
ground. Never was their sorrow greater than that of the Schild
burghers, when they found they could not kill the cat. They
counselled with one another, ami purchased the bouse to which
the cat had fled and burned that also. But the cat sprang out
upon the roof and sate there washing itself, ami pulling
paws behind its ears, after the manner of cats. And lhe
Schildburghers understood thereby, that the cat lifted up its
hands and swore an oath, that it would not leave their treat
ment of it u revenged. Then one of them took a long pole
and struck a the cat, but lhe cat caught hold of the pole and
began to clamber down it; whereupon tiie people grew greatly
alarmed and ran away, and left the fire to burn as it might.
And because no one regarded the fire, nor sought to put it out,
the whole village was burnt to a house; and notwithstanding
that the cat escaped. And the Schildburgher fled with their
wives and children to a neighboring forest. And at this time
was burned their chancery, and alt the papers therein ; which
is the reason why their history is not to be found described in a
more regular manner.”
What the Dogs think of us.— What do they think, those se
date reflecting animals, of the world in general, and N. York
in particular? It is all folly to pretend, when we see a clever
spaniel, a sedate mastiff, or an ingenuous mongrel, composed in
a posture of elegant rest, that he is thinking of nothing but
the bricks which are nearest his visual organs. It is all non
sese to contend that in such a state of quiescence he is merily
allowing his food to digest. He is thinking of something de
pend upon it. “He is nothingof a critical.” He is watching
the conduct of bipeds, and making his own comments thereon.
We have always been of this belief—and passed one of these
sedate, reflecting quadrupeds with more trepidation than a
young woman runs the gauntlet to the church door of a Sun
day, between the parallel line of scapegrace youths in panta
loons ; who place themselves there to count the girl’s ringlets
as they pass. They do think ; dogs do most assuredly think
-—but what do they think of? It is a deeply interesting inqui
ry, and worthy not only of our asking, but of our solving.
Professorships are established in colleges for the prosecution
of inquiries less important. Books are written upon subject less
momentous. Arguments are held, and men go to loggerheads
individually, or in masses as nations, about questions of less
consequence. The inquiring mind is agitated. Curiosity is
awakened. Philosophy is put to its proof. Natural history is
interested. We must know what the dogs are thinking of. “Go
to the ant, thou sluggard? ” saith Scripture. In all reverence
to Solomon, we fancy he had better send us to the dogs. Who
can study a pismire’s face! Who can avoid studying a dogs?
A pismire is next to a nonenity. A dog is a citizen—or next
to it. Do bipeds have hard times ? Think of dog days, and
ask if canines do not also experience pressures. Do men wait
upon the public crib for provender ? So do dogs. Do men
watch the edicts of Government ? Not more intently than
dogs the corporation ordinances. Are men lynched ? So are
dogs. Are men ejected from their premises? The dog is
driven out of his house a hundred times to a man’s once. But
dogs are made like ladies. No offence upon our honor and
gallantry, madam, but they certainly are. Dogs, we have
seen, are interested in all mutations and changes of this shift
ing world. So are you, madam. Neither of you vote—but
both have voices— and truth compels us to say, that when rais
ed in anger, the bark of dog or woman is equally agreeable—
and—alike efficacious. A scolding woman gets her will to
purchase her silence. So does a barking dog, although per
haps it is not yielded to him with so much circumstance of ce
remony. Like ladies, then, dogs who may not control events
may watch them. Like ladies, they may be censorious, have
their own opinions of what passes before their eyes. There
fore beware, ye kite fliers in commerce, ye shinners to meet
promises to pay, ye speculators, in real estate, ye speculators in
banking, and all and sigular, ye dubious business men, how
your manoeuvres are watched by the quadruped citizens. Be
ware also ye preachers, for the Ettrick Shepherd had a dog
who took notes of the sermons. Men are fools sometimes—
dogs are not always.
From the Washington Globe.
THE CREDIT SYSTEM.
i A work has recently been published in Philadelphia, by H.
C. Carey, on “the credit system.”
It emanates from beneath lhe eaves of the marble palace,
and, as might be expected from that fact, is devoted to a labor
ed eulogy on tie paper system and a National Bank. At least
the whole tendency and apparent design of the work, stripped
of its cobweb disguises, is to show that there should be only
one bank in the Union for a public depository, and that the
perfection of a sound currency is to have no specie whatever.
This last seems to be the favorite idea propagated by some other
of Mr. Biddle’s partizans in the Baltimore Chronicle, and is
one of the burthens'which, in a late attempted speech in Con
gress by the author of Swallow Barn, is understood to have
broken him down most hopelessly forever in that body. “The
less specie the banks have, the sounder they are,” was a doc
trine too ridiculous for even all the Opposition to swallow,
though coming from so great a .financier as Mr. Swallow Barn.
We think Mr. CAREY will stagger quite as badly under such a
load.
He says, if confidence is entirely restored and credit is im
perative, less specie is needed. True. But will people take
mere confidence or credit for payment of their debts? . In
times of doubt, and when business is closing up, does not the
creditor want money, instead of promises ?
Again : how is this great confidence and credit to be attain
ed, without money ? We admit that less money is needed, as
people are moral, industrious, and religious. We admit that
if all the world was fit for a milleniutn, some substitute in ex
changes might answer, whjch was not founded on specie. We
admit that in Scotland and New England credit is more gene
ral and safe, and supersedes more, but by no means entirely, a
moneyed currency. But this only shows that if their credit
and confidence cannot be substitutes for money, in all cases,
and for all purposes, they can be much less so elsewhere. Let
the world be fit for a millenium, and credit and confidence may
become such as not only to supersede money, but to supersede
jails, penitentiaries, laws, navies, armies, and even civil govern
ments. But till then the friction, as Mr. Carey calls it, or the
expense ol money, must be incurred, we fear, as well as that
for prisons, legislation, and good government.
His reasoning is, in other respects, exceedingly fallacious.
He urges the credit system without mercy, as an improvement
like that of steamboats and railroads. But can steamboats
and railroads usefully supersede all other modes of conveyance
for all purposes, and all distances? We grant that a "paper
currency may be useful for large and distant commercial ope
rations, like a steamboat, or railroad with its lo< omotive. Even
then, however, it is liable, unless founded on a good basis of
specie, to explosions like that of 1814, 1819, and 1837, as the
steam machinery is exposed to mangle, drown, and burn, its
hundreds, where due care is not exercised. Witness 'he ill-fa
ted Moselle and Pulaski. But more: Who ever supposes that
it will be useful to get up the steam for going only a half mile,
or for the transportation of one person alone ? For small and
ordinary purposes, the use ol "specie is, in the long run, more
safe and economical than any bank paper, and much less, irre
deemable bank paper. The expense of removing and pre
venting the friction of coin in such cases, like many other
modern patents, costs more than it is worth. It is like the pa
tent or improvement to churn butter in rocking chairs.
Mr. Biddle and his satellite Mr. Clay, will not soon find the
mass ot the country converts to that kind of churning. The
practical, common sense people wish, for their labor and pro
perty, something more solid than shin-plasters, and more quick
in the market for beef and bread than mere confidence. One
; admirer of Mr. C. however, deserves notice and commendation.
He attributes a considerable share of the Bank disasters of
1837 to the unwise provisions of the Deposite act and the con
duct of the Bank of England.
In those views we entirely concur, except that he does not
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