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The Western Herald.
VOL,. I.
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BY O. P. SHAW,
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following named gentleman are requested
md authorised to act as our Agents, in their respective
:ounties. „ „ _
In the county of Baldwin, Thos. F- Greene, Esq.
Bibb, The Hon. C. B. Strong.
Butts, L. A. Erwin, Esq.
Columbia, L. Flemming, Esq.
Crawford, Hiram Warner, Esq.
Coweta, James A. Abraham, Esq.
Campbell, Thomas A. Latham, Esq.
Carroll, Thomas McGuire,and John A. Jones, Esqs.
Chatham, John Boston, & Cos. M. H. McAllister, Esq.
Clark, Col. Joseph Ligon, and O. P. Shaw,
Thomas VV. Bolton and John Dawson, Esqrs.
CM, J- R - Brooks, Esq.
’ ‘hirnkte John P. Brooks, Esq. . , „
heKalb, Willia.A T. Howard,and Josian Choice, Esqrs.
Decatur, James Ben, Fsq.
Fayette, N. Blanchard, E9CI
- Col. James C. T’prrelt.
Head of Coosa, Geo. M. Lavcnricr, Esq.
Floyd, Alexander T. Harper, Esq.
Forsyth, Thomas J. Golightly^Esq.
Gilmer, Benjamin J Griffith, Esq.
Ghmn, Col, S. M. Burnett,
hwiar.F: Dr. T. W. Alexander,
Greene, Cos!. V.P. andF. h. Cone Esq.
Habersham, Maj. T. H. Trt.ope, : “‘ d Col. T. J. Lux 1 .
Hall, W. Harben, and J. W, Jones, Esqrs. V
Henry, William Crayton, Esq.
Harris, Gen. Daniel McDougald.
Hancock, Col. N. C- Sayre,
Heard, Col. Wm. H. Houghton.
Jackson, W. E. Jones, Esq.
Jasper, E. Y. Hill, Esq.
Laurens, Col. Ketlum.
Liberia, C. Hines, Esq.
/., Maj. Thomas.
Mclntosh, Col. D. H. Brailsford'.
Morgan, W. J. Pcarman, Esq.
Madison, William Maroney.
Monroe, Col. A. H. Chappell, &\Vm. L. Fambrough.
Muscogee, W.T. Colquitt & S. W. Flournoy, Esqrs.
Mew ton, Messrs. Hopkins St Sanders,
Oglethorpe, John Moore ,Esq.
Patdding, Joel Hicks, Esq.
Putnam, James A. Mcrriwether, Esq.
J‘ike, Dr. J. S.Long, and A. W. Pryor Esq.
J’i d<i.s!.-i, Dr. Kibbler,
AURA HI A, LUMPKIN COUNTY, GEORGIA MAY 31, 1833.
Richmond, Messrs. Randall & Mason.
Randolph, Gen. H. Jones.
Scriven, Jacob Bryan, Esq.
• Twiggs, The Hon. Lott warren.
Talbot , Drs. Phillip's & Buge.
Troup, Col. J.C. Alford.
Taliaferro, Bradford Thompson Esq. & Col. Janes,
Upson, Col. John Thomas, and Thomas Bell, Esq.
Wilkes, Daniel Chandler, Esq.
Warren, Gray A. Chandler, Esq.
Walton, Col. E. G. Bell, and John T. Morrow, Esq.
POBTSZ.
TO THE MEMOItY OF A FItIFND.
in had thought thou could’et have died,
I might not weop for thee,
But I forgot when by thy aide,
That thou could’st mortal be.
It never through my mind had passed,
That time, would e’er be o’er,
When I on thee should look inylast,
And thou shou!d*st smile no more.
In thought upon thy face I look,
And think, twill smile again,
But then the solemn thought I brook,
That l must look in vain.
But when I speak, thou dost not say,
What thou ne’er left uns aid,
And now r I feel, as true I may,
Companion thou ar’t dead.
There was around thee such a dawn,
Os light ne’er seen before,
As fancy never could have drawn,
And never can restore.
But tare thee well, where c’re thou art,
And do not me forget,
While I perhaps may soothe my heart
In thinking of thee yet.
STOLEN KISS:
OR THE PHILOSOPHY OF MATRIMONY.
The following anecdote, related of a highly
I respectable and talented clergyman, now preach
ing in l!io vicinity of Lynn, Mass. is from the
1 Messenger, published in that town. It appears
I that this clergyman had been settled there for
j some time, and was pretty well along in years,
j when he became Ibnscious that in reference to
wordly matters, there yet remained one thing
needful to give him that weight of character,
which it was desirable he should possess, and
also to enhance if not to perfect his earthly feli
city, viz: a help mate. Immmediately on the
conception of tins idea, he began anxiously to
look about; but having neglected the important
matter so long, as might have been expected,
he imbibed many of those strahge and unac
countable notions, so peculiar to the single bles
sed of either sex, after they have attained a cer
tain age , and these operated to his disadvan
tage in such wise that he found it extrnmp.lv
difficult- fn select one at whoso side he thought
he could, without any “fearful forc-bodings,”
stand before the alter of Hymen.
Now it became known to the damsels round
about here, that Mr. was thus circumstan
ced and many there were who would fain have
relieved his embarrassment. Some joined his
church ; and many more were seen to blush like
the first rose of summer, if, in the progress of
his dispensations from the pulpit, he should
drop his eye toward the pew in which they were
seated —though of course they dared not ac
kifowledge even to themselves any thing in par
ticular; because of the great doubt relative to
the vice versa of the case.
But to make a short story shorter. Travel
ing into town one night about dusk, parson
had occasion to the mansion of an es
teemed parishioner, who among other wordly
possession •, had two or three as fine daughters
as ever graced the county of Essex. He had
scarce knocked at the door, when it was hastily
opened by one of the blooming maidens, who
as quick as thought threw her arms around his
neck, and before he had time to say “O! don’t,”
brought her warm delicate lips to his cheek,
and gave him as sweet a kiss as ever heart of
swain desired. In utter astonishment, the
worthy divine was endeavoring to stammer out
something—when—“ O, mercy, mercy! Mr.
’ ’ exclaimed the damsel, “why
I thought as much as could be, it was my
brother Henry.” “ Pshaw, pshaw!” thought
the prelate, “ you didn’t think any sach thing.”
—But taking her hand he said, in a forgiving
tone, there is no harm done; don’t give your
self any uneasiness—though you ought to be a
little more careful.” After this gentle reproof
he was ushered into the parlor, by the maiden,
who as she came to the light could not conceal
the blush that glowed on iter cheek —and the
boquet that was pinned upon her bosom (for all
this happened in summer) shook like a flower
garden in an earthquake. And when he rose
to depart, it somehow fell to her lot to wait
. upon him to the door; and it may be added,
that in the entry they held discourse together
for some minutes—on what subject, it is not
for us to say. a
As the warm hearted paster home
ward, he argued with himself in this wise. “If
Miss—knew it to beme who knocked at the door,
and I verily believe she did, else how would she
know me in the dark, before I had time to
=pe;tk? and is it probable that her brother would
k’no.ck before entering ? she must be desperate
ly j n —•ish.'aw ! pshaw!—But supposing she did
think me to be her brother?—why, if she loves a
brother at that rate, how much she must love a
hushand— for by the great squash I never lelt
such a kiss in ti.'V life.”
Wc have only to add, i! was not long after
this, that Mr.—had occasion to summon a
brothor in the ministry to the performance ot
one of the most solemn as well as pleasant du
ties attached to sacred office-that the lovely
]\i; ss above spoken of, there became HHs.
_. w hom we doubt not, many of our read
ers well’know, though perhaps they never be
fore heard the above anecdote
It conics, the Herald of a Golden World.
Life and Adventures if Col. David Crock
ett, of West Tennessee. —This is a rigmarole of
more than 200 pages duodecimo, made up prin
cipally of the anecdotes and tales of the redoubt
able Col. Crockett, that have been going the
• rounds of the newspapers for several years past.
The annexed is illustrative of the Colonel’s
1 electioneering tact:
■‘ln the canvass of the Congressional Election
of 18—, Mr. ****** was the Colonel’s oppo
i nent; a gentleman of the most pleasing and con
ciliatory manners—who seldom addressed a
: person or a company without wearing upon his
countenance a peculiar good humoured smile.
The Colonel, to counteract the influence of this
winning attribute, thus alluded to it, in a stump
speech:
“Yes, gentlemen, he may get some votes by
grinning, for he can out-grin me and you know
I an’t slow—and to prove to you that I am not,
I will tell you and anecdote. I was concerned
myself, and I was fooled a little of the d—dest.
lou all know I love hunting. Well I discover
ed a long time ago that a ’goon couldn’t stand
my grin. I could bring one tumbling diwn
from the highest tree. I never wasted powder
and lead when I wanted one of the creatures.
Well, as I was walking out one night, a few
hundred yards from my house, looking about
me, I saw a ’coon planted upon one of the high
est li ibs of an old tree. The night was very
moony and clear, and old Ratler was with me;
but Ratler wont bark at a’coon—he’s a queer
dog in that way. So I thought I’d bring the
lark down, in the usual way, by a grin. I set
myself, and, alter grinning at the ’coon a rea
sonable time, found that he didn’t come down.
I wondered what was (he reason. I took an
other steady grin at him. Still he was there.
It made me a little mad; so I felt round, and
got an old limb, about five feet long—and, plant
ing one end upon the ground, I plao and my chin
upon the other, and took a rest. I then grin
ned my best for about five-minutes, but the
and and ’coon hung on,—So,finding-I could not
bring him down by grinning, I determined to
have him, for I thought he must be a droll chap.
I went over to the house, got my axe, returned
to the tree, saw the ’coon still there, and began
to cut away. Down it came, and I run forward;
but and n the ’coon it was not there to be seen.
—I found that what I had taken for one, was a
large knot upon a branch of the tree —and, up
on looking at it closely, I saw that I had grin
ned all Hie bark off, and left the knot perfectly
stmnnil
“Now fellow-citizens,” continued ihe Colo
nel, “you must be convinced, that in the grin
ning line, I myself am not slow—yet, when I
look upon my opponents countenance, I must
admit he is my superior. You must all admit
it. Therefore, be wide awake, look sharp, and
do not let him grin you out of your votes.
During the Colonel’s first winter in YY ash
ington, a Caravan of wild animals was brought
to :he city and exhibited.— Large crowds attend
ed the exhibition; and prompted by common
curiosity, one evening Col. Crocket, atten
ded.
‘ I had just got in,’ said he, ‘the house was
very much crowded, and the first thing I noticed
was two wild cats in a cage. Some aeqain
tance asked, if they were like the wild cats in
the back woods,’ and I was looking at them
when one turned over and died. The keeper
ran up and threw some water on it. Said I,
‘Stranger, you are wasting time. My looks
kills them things—and you had a damn sight
better hire me to go out here, or I will kill every
damned varmint you’ve got.’ While 1 and he
was talking, the lion began to roar. Said I,
‘turn him out turn him out, damn him, I can
whip him for a ten dollar bill, and the Zebra may
kick eccasionlly during the fight. This crea
ted some fun, and I then went to another part of
the room, where a monkey was riding a pony.
I was looking on, and some met .ber said to me,
‘Crockett, don’t that monkey favor Gen. Jack
son?”
‘No,’ said I, ’but I’ll tell you who itdoos favor,
—lt looks like one of your boarders, Mr.
of Ohio. There was a loud bust of laughter at j
my saying so, and upon turning round, I saw
Mr. of Ohio, in about three feet of me. I \
was in a right awkward fix, but I bow’d to the
company and told ’em I, had either slandered
the monkey or Mr. of Ohio, and if they
would tell me which I would beg pardon. The
thing passed off and the next morning as I was
walking the pavement before my door a mem
ber came up to me and said, ‘ Mr. is going
challenge you’—said I, well tell him I am a
fighting fowl. I ’spose if I am challanged I
have a right to choose weapons?’—‘o yes,’
says he. * Then tell him,’ said I, ‘I will fight
with bows and arrows.
Kentucky Humor. —YVe think we recognise
a little of the humor of our old friend Alalley, in
the following hit at the Nullifiers. VVe extract
it from his paper printed in Flemingsburg Ken
tucky.—
And pray goad Mr. Printer, who is this NEL
LY FIERS that’s kicking tip such a thunder
ing helleo in South Carolina—she must be a
rip-roarer—a real swinge cat, I sorty reckon.
My honey and thundcrations! if she and my
wife were only to be together one a eek, I’d
guess as how they’d storm a fort or two —for
my wife has a tung that can run from the first
day of Jiniwary “to the last day of December
without being greased—and I am told as how
this Nelly Fiers aint slow at a game —but
if she can hold out with my she must have
the wind of a gray hound and the strength of a
lion. My wife says as how Sal Tattle told her
that Granny Iloble said, this Nelly Fieis was
going over to that are city of Washington to
ring old Hick’ry’s nose for him—just as she
would a young heifer’s to make her stand still
while they milked her, but if” my wife was there,
if there would’nt be a real dog fight I wonder—
for Jacksons’s a tarrapan and my wife’s a real
Jackson-mnn up to the hub.
Now I’ll tell you what, I always was Clay—
my wife, she kept such a ding-donging at me all
the time, that she made me promise to vote for
Jackson at the last election, and I tho’t as how
I’d foal her masi tarnally, so I slip’t off and vo
ted for Clay, and come home and told Nancy
I’d went for Jackson—but what do you think?
‘■> ext day one of the ’Squires come to my house,
and while I was out told I voted for Clay—and
so by hokee the house has been too hot for me
ever since. But I’m told as how this Nelly
Fiers has turned all Carolina inside out, just as
a boy would turn a meal bag to shake it—well,
by jingo, she must be a screamer, raised in a
nigger quarter I know, led on sweet taters and 1
gets her living by cleaning hogs’ noses for old
Kentuckians. Well if ever I can get my eyes
on Miss Nelly, if I don’t squintinizc her mighty
prodigious close, for I’ve a sort o’liken arter all
great wimmen, and would like ’em still better if
my wife’s tung was not continually ringing in
my ears like an old sheep bell, only ten thou
sand times more quick and keen.
Well, after hog-killing time is over, I’d advise
Nelly to come over into old Kcntuck and get j
soap enough to wash her clothes and anew 1
kind ol cotton ceed, eighty of’em will weigh a
pound—and I can throw one of’em into a squir
rel’s eve, a hundred yards every crack, out of
my old Kentucky bar of Iron. Hoop ! for old
Kentuck. I’m Kcntuck up to the hub, and two
inches deeper.
BILL SCRATCIITALE.
AN AFFAIR OF HONOR.
Extracted from the London .Monthly -Maga
zine.
America has lately added to our examples of
transatlantic galantry in these matters. A pair
of doctors, quarrelling for something or for no
thing, took out their pistols. They fired and
missed during a round or two; but their open
determination was death. Accordingly they
went on with their shooting, advancing nearer
and nearer to each other at every round, until
the arm of one of them was broke. But this
was not the compact. They mustgo on. The
••• -- J- * * * • • , * • I 1 . tt (Xy A,
and broke his antagonist’s arm.—This ofoourse
could satisfy neither of the heroes; at last they
both gained their object.— ( hey fired together;
the challenger received the ball in his heart, and
died on the spot.—The challenged received the
ball in his lungs, and died in three hours. While
he was lying on the ground, he inquired the re
sult ofllis last bullet; and on being told that it
bad done its business, expressed himself “a hap
py man,” and said, that he could now die con
tented.
And this is duelling—the honorable arranger
of scruples, the delicate washer out of stains,
the. cirer of scandals, and general peace maker
of society. Or is not this an unequivocal bar
barism, wilful murder?—a determination to shed
blood without mercy? And vet our laws slum
ber over such things. The judge pronounces
a formal reprobation, about which neither he nor
any body else cares a jot. The jury smile, the
criminal arranges his curls, and prepares for a
new celibrity among the (air. The verdict lets
him loose—the mob huzza him. The ladies
adore him; the gentlemen extol his heroism; and
thus a scoundrel, black with malice and revenge,
and diped in blood from head to heel, a human
tiger, is triumphantly sent forth 4o prey upon
mankind.
Common sense is as rare among nations as
among men; and no stronger proof can he re
quired of the fact, than the toleration of dueling
in any civilized country. The whole spirit of
duelling is not merely an anomaly in public
manners, but an insult to that first principle of
law, which declares that no man shall be a judge
in bis own quarrel, much less the executioner. ;
As to the actual circumstances, what can be a
more extraordinary violation of common reason,
than that the formality of a murder shall make
the murderer innocent. The duellist puts him
self in a situation to kill; and in the generality
of instances, without the common excuses for
bloodshed. The duel is seldom a matter of
passion, often of no actual injury whatever. In
nine instances out of ten, it is a murder for eti
quette. But we are to be told that the challen
ger exposes his life equally with that ot the chal
lenged. Yet if two butchers in a market, attack
each other with their knives, and one of them is
killed, the other is hanged. Yet here we have
more than the palliatives that are to make the
duel innocent. YVe have the equal danger, the
violent passion, and the coarser and more vio
lent habits of life or profession, probably drunk
enness at the moment; still, with all these pal
liatives, (he butcher is hanged. But if the
butcher, instead of rousing his passions bv a
curse 01 a blow; if he had appointed Ilvde Park
for the place of putting him to death, instead of
the site of Clare Markes, and had blown ou* bis
brains with a pistol, .instead of stabbing him to
the heart with a knife, the butcher would have
figured as a well-bred person, who had done a
well-bred deed, the murder would have been an
affair of honor, and the murderer would have
established a character in society as one ‘who
had killed his man.’
The argument, that society is kept in order
by the fear of the pistol, is nunsense, and is re
pelled by the fullest evidence—that the most
| civilized nations of the ancient world knew no
thing of duelling; that in the most intelligent and
[ accomplished classes of society which are espe
cially prohibited by custom, from this guilty
mode of arbitrating their differences, (the cler
gy and the judges, for instance) we find no want
of mutual civility; and that there are more duels
concocted among the vulgar and unmannered
haunters of the coffee houses and the billiard
tables, than in all other society.
It will be even universally found, that as du
elling ceases to be the habitual inode of decid
ing opinions, civilized manners become more
habitual; and for the obvious reason, that where
mutual concession has not the stigma of mutual
! fear, it is the natural course of honest and cdu
| cated minds. If we are to be told that the ces
: sation of duelling is the result of civilization,
the argument only shows, that duelling is con
trary to the advance ot society. But the trutli
is, that until duelling has ceased to be the habit
of a country, mutual civility can make no prog
ress. Ireland is still, unhappily, the most duel
ling part of the empire. The consequence re
sults in its being the most uncivilized* A duel
ling regiment is always notorious for general
want of discipline, and for being unserviceable
in the field. A regular duellist, in society, is
generally a ruffian in his manners, if not notori
ously a black-lcg by profession. But the whole
evil, as well as the whole remedy, rests with the
whole laws. So long as the refusal to out at a
a moment’s notice, to kill or to be killed, is con
sidered by society as an essential proof of per
sonal timidity, so long will duelling continue to
be the shame and scourge of our community.
But let the laws declare authoritatively and
steadily, that the reputation for intrepidity shall
not be suffered to turn upon a man’s readiness
to fire in the face of another on the most trivial
occasion of dispute; and the practice w ill perish
in a twelvemonth, and before the next twelve
month is over, be wondered at among the ab
surdities of times gone by.
Let the laws declare distinctly, that even
man who goes out to fight a duel is a murderer,
that every message bearer, second, &c. is an
accessary, and that they shall require nothing
more than evidence of the facts, to deliver the
whole of those conspirators against human life
to the executioner; and the evil will be instantly
at an end. But we shall not have the honor of
setting the example of this wise and religious
measure.
“A la w has been promulgated by the Elector
of Hesse, against duelling, and if put into effect.
-* * - * li-1. .Iw |>iuvivv 111 UiC
state, which is subject to it. Whoever merely
sends a challenge is liable to imprisonment in
a fortress, for not less than three years. If a
duel is fought, in which neither party is killed,
both parties are to be expelled ihe service; to be
deprived of their letters patent of nobility, if
they possess them; and to be imprisoned in u
fortress for not less than ten years.”
There seems no provision here for the case
of either of the parties being killed; but if the
mere attempt to kill, is to be punished by ten
years imprisonment and public exclusion from
all honors, we must suppose that death is the
penalty. The Hessiali law falls short in omit
ing the seconds, and other stimulaters of the
duel; who are generally much more criminal
than the actual combatants, and without whose
interference, it is obvious no duel could be
fought.
We know that the English law at present,
declares duelling murder, but the declaration is
nullified by practice. The revival of the law,
with additional provis : ons for its being resolute
ly carried into effect, is a matter demanded by
every consideration of principle, civil and reli
gious. Let the statute be, that the law against
murder shall be applied without palliative or
evasion, on the simple proof, that men have
gone out to shed blood illegally; and the law
will never he called into action a second time.
No man will be mad enough to send a challenge,
when he is physically certain that the result of
his sending the challenge, will be his own hang
ing at the doorof Newgate. No man will feel
himself stigmatized in the general eye by refus
ing a challenge, when it is literally a summons
to stand in the Old’ Bailey Dock, to be taken
thence to be hanged. An easy provision in the
statute, making duels, fought beyond seas by
British subjects, equally criminal as when fought
at home, would put an end to the contrivance
of running off to Calais or Bolognc to commit
this polished species of assassination; and the
jurisdiction of England would be cleared from
a scandal, and society be disburthened of a
habit, offensive alike to (be commands of Heav
en, and the common understanding of man.
* The west and south oftritanil nr. the i;wst dueling
part-*. The consequent result is they are the most un
civilized.
Singular cause of Death. — . Tames Turney.
Esq. late Attorney General of Illinois, died on
the sth inst. near Carrolton in that State. Mr.
Turney bad recently become impressed with
the truths of Christianity, and had abandoned
the profession of the law for that of the Gospel.
While recently engaged in performing the act
of baptism oa a brother who had a wooden leg
—the latter, while in the water, accidentally set
Ihe steel point of his artificial leg on the foot ot
Mr. Turney, which inflicted a severe wound,
and the wound ultimately mortifying, occasion
ed his death.
i A Merchant in London, who lately advertis
ed for a clerk who could beat confinement, has
been answered by one who has lam eeren yeuri
in gaol!
NO. 7o
