Newspaper Page Text
they were theatrical. This evening;, not
withstanding the safety, thr patent lever
was missing, tin 4th his cam , the sth his
ring, and the Cth hia pocket book which
contained all Ins money.—This was a sad
aflf u;and reduced him to the necessity
of pawning his clothes for lii9 lodging.
Labor or crime was his only alternative.
Too proud to labor, he resolved on rob
bery; and on being detected, lie was
th‘U>t into prison, where an old friend of
bis father discovered him with a safety
chain upon his ancle, suspended from a
staple in the wall.
From the Georgia Courier.
THE ART Ob’ COOKING.
FLI NT SOL IV
Called by the Virginians Uroth—by the
Louisianians, Gumbo.
Ask Juiige , and he will tell
you parti< ulnrly, all about it. It is
somehow in this way:—
Take one gallon of pure spring wa
ter (perhaps river water filtered,
might do os well) —(Pump water not
good—people in Augusta can’t drink
if, without putting in some spirits,
merely to correct its deleterious effects.
and not for the love of the H uur, as
every body knows )
Put the water into a kettle, and put
the kettle over p good fire, made of
hickory wood (perhaps blaik jack
would do as well.) make the kettle
boil, (1 say the Kettle, not the wa
ter) and the-., just before the Kettle
b’ gins to boil, (and not after it lias
boiled,) but jost in the precise moment
of time, when it begins to boil; (as was
the rase with my Uncle Toby, when
he made love to the widow Wad man,
as he was sitting down by her, Hnd be
fore he had sit down, hut just as he
was iu the act of sitting down, he told
her he was in love.) So in this case,
firs’* as the kettle is in the act of boil
ing. put into it a gross of flints (oil
4 “ *hen, when the kettle
liviiTy begins to boil, put in bait u uu*-
en slices of fat bacon, (perhaps a fat
goose, or a brace of pullets might do
as well,) udd to these, a quart of vie
mb<Jli, (perhaps rice might do as
w ii,) add to these, two or three hand
fulls of herbs or vegetables, (such as
leans, peas, or a head or two of Bun
romb Cabagc;) to these, add a little
pepper and sal', merely to season the
whole; then stir the mass with a stick;
(a puddle perhaps, or a large spoon
•night do as well,) for about an hour,
and then, pour the whole into a trench
er, (a pewter basin would do as well,)
and then, when it is coal enough, it
will be fit for use; it will require (to
time it gpod,) nothing more, except
eating.
It is remarkable, that, though the
bacon, goose, or pullets, (as the ease
may be,) and the beans, peas, rice,
cabbage, pepper and salt, do, by no
Wes ns, enter into the component parts
<>t the soup, yet, all combined have the.
wonderful quality of strutting the oil
from the flints, and makes a most a
geeeable and nutritious diet. And
what is equally strange the flints re
main just as good as they were before
—aid the experiment may be repeat
cd* again, and again, wi'h r- n and suc
cess. It is something like luv .i-ngoet
or loadstone, which will iu.p..4 1 u
other substances, ad infinitum , their
own i are qualities, w ithout diminish
ing iu the smallest degree their own
properties of future usefulness.
Now if the benevolent ladies of Au
fiusta. (who are always going about
doing good, such as showing their
petty bonnets, and pretty feet, and
echoing street yarn, particularly
when The weather is very dry, and the
sf eets consequently very dusty per
il ps it would do as well after a rain
when tin streets are *ery muddy, and
as.it a disputed point, which is the
best, they go at ail seasons, to make
• r* -work of the matter. And -so it
was some twenty years ago, among
ti e quality folks of Savannah, when a.
OiflVmice of opinion arose among
th h , win (her the cordial should be
drai k before, or after the cloth was
removed—To make the natter sure,
?±]*y took it before, aud after the cloth
was removed. —And, as it is now a- 1
mo g some of thr gentlemen of Augus
ta, who differ as to the right to take
whiskey, whether, morning, noon, or
night—to bo sure of doing right, (they
ire always in the wrong,) they take it
morning, noon, and night*
(I say, as the ladies; are always go
ing about doing good things, suth as
going to see Mr. Heer Clin- dance
upon a rope, with a wheel barrow, for
his partner—footing it about the town
to force religion and cold water down
the throats of the gentleineu.]———
Bless me, if 1 can recover my
breath, alter such a horrible long pa*
renthesis—l would say—ls the dear
ladies of Augusta, would but furnish
each poor family, with a few dozen
flints, they would be enabled to live, a
twelve month, or two upon nothing at
all, at all.
And then, there is so much chanty
in it—and it will get in the newspa
pers, [for what is the exercise of char
ity if no body knows it?] and the dear
I-dies delight in acts of charity, their
b arts constantly swim in the milk of
human kiudness—the ladies are al
ways going about doing good.] Why
not then give to the poor, a few dozen
oil flints, to make soup. Aud they
w ill do so. lam sure, now they have
leal nt the art of extracting the oil from
flints.
1 have done my part, in revealing
tiic art of making flint soup; the ladies
will do the rest, and flint soup will
soon become as plenty as whiskey, or
cold water if you like it better,
Charity Cook.
FROM THE BEAUIORT GAZETTE.
Mr. Editor:
I am a Georgia Indian, residing at pres
ent with my hospitable friend Namtort,
the rest of whose name I will not write,
lest as they have already done with the
chief Solomon Jonny< ake v s, folks should
make game of it. lie tells me that it is
contemplated to remove us to land* far
West. For one I have no objection, pro
vided this Western settlement is not one
of those catchpenny colonies like the Li
beria, to which poor King Cuffee was
sent with so much fu9s to catch the fever
and die. It it's a tolerable country Pd
rather go there and have elbow room than
stay in Georgia, where I‘m afraid the
white people will in time copy after the
Ohio people, and use the Indians as bad as
the others did the free blacks- For the
present l don't complain, yet seeing what
these Ohio people did, l am sorry to hear
that the people in Hertford, which I hear
is a niobbish sort of place and the big
Paintbrush in New Yoik, and the great
White Medicine in Philadelphia, are
coming to Georgia to take care of us, and
keep us in the country whether or no.
What is the reason that they say Red
People better stay, if you think black peo
ple better go. It makes me think ’(is just
done to spite the white men in these parts,
and I don‘t like any body to matte me a
stone to fling a* his neighbor. I shall take
a stroll i ext week and look at the West
Country, and if I like it I*ll stay there
llezckiah Hofcake.
CABIN ET.
/ V.illllE X'TO.W FEB -30. 1830.
fin.™..iii7=rrrrr i ■a,i*-i,T.-., ■ ■■geßßßsaßHgeagi
Wo understand ihat a most villa
tinns transaction was last week acci
dentally detected at Millegeville.
Burritt, one of the Editors of the
Statesman has been corresponding
with a negro fellow at the North, by
the name of Walker, who has forwar
ded him Pamphlets flB or 20 of which
were found in Burritt’s possession)
written and printed there, calculated j
to inflame our coloured population.
On Saturday he was arrested but ini
c* 1 s- quern e nt some technical excep-!
(ions o th* proeeding3 he was dischar
ge. The las. amounts say that he has
taken French leave.
4 Another Richmond in the field’*-
N. B. The attention of the Athenian,
Washington News, and Rural Cabi-!
net, is respectfully solicited to a peru-j
sal of the above. This nota bene is ap
pended to a communication in the
Georgia Courier, of the 15th test, un
dcr the signature 0 f Richmond^
-which appears to have been jliifitedv
by the refusal of the Commissioners of
the Altamaha, to deliver up the public !
hands to the superintendant appointed
under the Road and River act of the
last Session of the Legislature. We
hav perused 5 Richmond and have
been quite forcibly struck with his
grave suggestions in relation to the
Darien Bank—its Bills—the retalia
tory measures recommended to the
Banking institutions located in Au
gusta and to the good people at large.
Richmond is laboring in his vocation
—and so are the Commissioners on
the Altamaha—and both, we humbly
conceive, like must other folks, are ac
tuated by sectional feelings and pre
judices—The conduct of the Altamaha
Commissioners admits of no defence—
and whether the City Council of Au
gusta will discharge the high and res
ponsible truest reposed in them in re
lation to our public roads in a more
liberal spirit and beneficial manner,
experience will best demonstrate. For
ourselves, we are more and more con
vinced, that any thing like a practical
beneficial employment of the public
money,.in regard to internal improve
ment, can never be confidently antici
pated, so long as the Road and River
Systems are blended.
Extract of a letter from one of our
Representatives in Congress , to the
Edtor , dated,
“Washington, 9th Feb. 1830.
My expectation of the hopelessness
of any general revision of the tariff
at present has been fully realized.
The Chairman of the Comminttee of
Ways and Means reported a bill for
that purpose last Friday which had
its first reading—On the question
“shall the bill be read a second time,”
objections were made, followed by
a motion to lay it on the table—That
motion was yesterday decided in the
affirmative, 107 to 79—Thus the mi
nority is denied even the privilege of
complaining. This high handed
measure has changed my opinion of
the time when the Sountliern States
should stand calmly, hut fearlessly, on
the rights which the States reserved to
themselves by the tenth amendment to
the Federal Constitution.
I had been disposed to post pone
their action until 1834, when, as we
have been informed, the public debt
may be discharged. I thought so, be
cause I believed that would give us a
platform from which those persons in
dined to strip us of our rights would
be unable to move us,—l now think
the Legislature of Georgia should
take up the subject at the next session,
and adopt such measures as shall re
suit in the recovery of our rights.
1 know it may be said that this is
not a propitious moment for revising
the tariff, that the public debt is not
extinguished, and that it will be time
enough to act some tin ee or four years
hence—But when I connect this pro
ceeding with thetscficme ofdistributing
the annual proceeds of the sales of the
public lands, and of tbe surplus reve
nue after the extinguishment of the
public debt, together with the wild
and wasteful disbursements upon
Roads and Canals. I am persuaded
that no time should he lost in traver
sing the disigns of our taskmas
ters; —Shall we, who bore so willingly
our share of revolutionary danger
and privation and sacrifice for a nak
ed principle , submit to be despoiled
of our substance, because the instru
ments of exac ion are our bretheren?
The object of the British ministry
in passing the tea and stamp acts was
to equalize the burdens of the people,
in their contributions to the pub!
lie treasury—The object of the pro
du( tionists is to strip us of our hard
earnings to pamper a set of heartless
monopolists. To take money out of
the pockets of the many to enrich the
few.—Much has been said about the
comparatively few millions staked on
the success of manufactures, (while
the countless sums vested in agricul
tural pursuits have been forgotten.”
I It will be seen by the list of the
stations assigned ts*e preachers, ij ;
j Bishop Soul, at the close of the. i itt
South Carolina Cons -rence of the ;>f
E. Church, that the ilev. Dr. WiUt . a
Capers, resumes his labors as Presid
ing Elder of the Charleston Diitici
It is understood that a consideration
of paramount duty to the Cliurc.lt* lots
induced him to decline accepting q, c
professorship in our University t<
which he had been appointed.
FOR THE CABINET,
Mr. Robinson,
Permit me through the me
dium of your paper to call the at
tention of the public and partirularh
the Baptist friends, to the Columbian
Star aud Christian Index, a Mis* el
lancous and Religious pap. r publish
ed at Philadelphia, by Rev. \y. T.
Brantly. It is in size a Royal oc
tavo, emitting sixteen pages filled en
tirely with roligious ami moral in.
struotion. The price 13 two dollars
and fifty cents in advance, or two and
lars, when five subscribers pay at nt
time. It is inferior to no work of tue
kind in the United States , and its form
is such as to admit of binding very
conveniently. The volume will con.
tain 832 pages, of closely and neatly
printed matter. No one could ask a
work of the same sort and size un
terms more moderate. If a parent
wishes to inspire his children with a
love of reading, nothing is better caN
culated to do it, than a weekly paper,
The sentiments are good and the style
not frothy and megre. The reading
such a work in a family for one year
may save many a dollar in the edura.
tion of its younger members—[ have
remarked it again and again, that
where there is a family of reading
children, there is an inteligent family
—a reading people are always an in.
teligent people.
VIIILOM.
GOV. TROUP.
We are gratified to learn that our
distinguished Senator, having madt
the arrangements for the protection
and comfort of his family, which be.
came indispensable from the sudden
ami unexpected death of an esteemed
friend, will return forthwith to his
seat in the Senate of the United States.
Journal ,
[We understand he left Athens for
Washington City, in the Stage, os
Tuesday last ]
From the Charleston Courier.
The South Carolina Conference, which
convened at Columbia on Wednesday,
27th ult. closed its session on Friday
evening, sth inst. Aboui 150 Preach
ers received their respective appoint
ments to the work assigned them. Nev
er has there been on Tiny former occa
sion more uninterrupted peace and
harmony among this affectionate b nd
of Brethren. From the continued in
crease of this conference, and its wide
extension, it was expedient to divide if,
which was accordingly effected, with
the utmost unanimity. Hence the-,
will be designated in future the South
Carolina Conference and the Georgia
Conference. The following are the
respective appointments <>f° th two
Conferences, Bishop Soule, presi
ding:—
t o
Charleston District.-Wra Capers. P. K
Charleston, N. Talley, T. L. Winn, Wm
Wightman. Black Swamp, J. S. P P o w<di
Joseph Moultrie. Cooper River Ch. G
IldJ. Cypress, Elisha Callaway, Church
well A Crowell. Orangeburg, Bond Eng.
lish, Win H Ellison. Hollow creek. John
Watts, D J Allen. Miss, on Santee, John
H Massey. Miss, on St. Johns, Pon Porv
and Combahee, G. W Moore.
Saluda District.—Robert Adams, P. F,
Saluda, James Stockdale, Tracey R.
Walsh. Abbeville, Joel W. Townsend.
1 ristam Stackhouse. Newberry, David
Derrick. Laurens, Barnet Smith. K o
ree, Reddick Pierce, Thomas Hearn*
Keowee, Thomas D Turpin. Reedy Rtv.
er, David L Ballew, John Coburn. Mi e
on Savannah River, James DunnHlv.
Columbia District— Wm M Kennedy,
P E. Columbia, Joseph Freeman. C sonde;.
Sam! W. Capers. Santee, John Bir ch
Wm. Murrab. Congarce, Frederick Ro?I-