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UNCLE NAT.
- \ Yankee’s a Yankee, find him where you will—
Try him as you may. he’ll prove a Yankee still.”
Not long since there lived somewhere in ;
New-Engtand an old fellow whose fame was
extended many miles from the little spot which
he called home, known by the name of Uncle
Nut; and lie belonged to that class ot men,
who instead ofeating that they may live, rather
live that they may eat. That he had been no
pretender in this business, would clearly and un
equivocally appear, by a simple glance at his
latitudinal and longitudinal dimensions.
He was a hero of a pot of beans, and place
him in the region of estables, and no laiuiiudy
would have occasion to complain ot incivility
on his part, for on such occasions he never tail
ed to pay her a highly flattering complim. nt—a
compliment that coufd by no means be mistaken.
Uncle Nat never was guilty of /coring one dish
to tell the fate of the others; and those who
came at the eleventh hour usually tound a strong
argument for fasting.
Now our hero from his youth up, indulged a
propensity to see the est, but it was pot till
grav hairs had made their appearance, that he
resolved to make a tour of the Western and j
Southern States, and he was urged to this con- j
elusion, by the firm conviction that be could j
not die in peace and quiet until his vision had :
been blessed with an actual view of those j
scenes, which he had so otten heard described. j
Not many years ago, Uncle Nat, feeling that
the time had note come, on a fine May morning
placed his saddle bags upon an old nag, velep
ted Hugs, then mounted himself and summon
ing his only companion, a favorite dog, Squire
House, by” a signal to the said Rouse well
known, away he went, bidding an affectionate
adieu to various old dames, whose skill in cook
ing he had not unfrequently had occasion to
commend, and doffiing his broad rimmed hat
m civility to every old maid, with whom, in days
of yore, he had enjoyed many an innocent frolic.
After having pursued his journey for many
days over hill and dale, he at length found Him
self beyond the limits of New-tngland, in the
famous state of Ncw-Vork. It was at the
close of a beautiful day that he urged his old
nag, by a few striking appeals from the whip,
into the village of- .where to his great
satisfaction, he saw a large collection of people
—for Uncle Nat always sup; -.sed that there
was spoit in progress, where he beheld a busy,
moving crowd. As he approached, the char
acters of the individuals who composed it, were
to our hero well known, as the language ot jock
ovs, its dialects and idioms, was perfectly fa
miliar to his ear. Into this group, sans cer
emonie, Uncle Nat entered, with an open hear
ted “ How do ye do” to all, and a stranger
would have supposed that he was one ot their
own number, late in his arrival. It was a grand
fair for running, trotting am! trading horses !
Here Uncle Nat felt himself at home, and was
n stranger alike to embarrassment ami jock
avS It bavin.” been whispered among the
group, mat ne was a Yankee, ttieir cunning
grimaces indicated that the tricks which his
pre ecessors had practised were now, if possi
ble, to be severely visited upon this inoffensive
new comer.
Uncle Nat appeared te be a good-natured.
Credulous old fellow, easy to be imposed upon,
■which not a little sharpened the zeal and ear
nestness of the Dutchmen, who now needed
nothing, by way of stimulus, already rejoicing
nt the anticipated dismay of the Yankee, when
he should find himself duped. Squire Rouse
in the mean time seemed to be in an element to
which he had been accustomed, and to have for
gotten that he had endured the fatigue of a long
journey.
“Is your horse a trotter?’’ asked one,—
“ Why,” replied Nat, “ as for the matter of that,
I guess the cruder will jog along some !”
“Will you plank a ten dollar, and trot a mile?”
continued the stranger—
This was a hard question for Uncle Nat to
-answer—he did not tear that Hugs would be
distanced, but the journey which had been al
ready long, was not half performed. After
having carried the matter to the tribunal of his
better judgment, he was about to refuse, when
a second came up from the group, which had
been holding a private consultation—
“l say Jo,” said he, “you don’t want to trot
your Ranger with that old shabby bundle of
skin and bones—“ ’twould be an everlasting
disgrace to him.”
Jo hesitated a moment,’and’gave a kind of
half suppressed mutter, w hen the other resum
ed—
“ Why I can run faster rnysclf than that old
nag can trot”—
“ I’ll plank a hundred on that”—interrupted
Uncle Nat, whose ire had been somewhat kin
dled at the outrageous abuse which had thus
been heaped upon old Hugs.
“ ’Tis done,” said the stranger, “ but pause.
I’ll bet a hundred, that I can jump up behind
your back three times , before you shall have
gone twenty rods 1”
Uncle Nat could stand'itno longer—the old
purse was drawn out and the cash produced. Ho
proposed to deposit the cash in the hands of
a stranger, who at that moment arrived, after
the conditions of the bet should be fairly stated
and well understood, to which the other con
sented. The stranger was requested, and af
ter some urging, agreed to comply with their
wishes.
“ Now,” said Uncle Nat, “ be puts up one
hundred, that he can jnmp up behind my back
three times hefo’e I can trot my horse the dis
tance of twenty rods—if he docs you are to de
liver the two hundred to him ; il he does not
then I am to have the same.”
“Is this statement correct ? said the stran
ger. Both said aije. The jockeys could hard
ly refrain from laughing as they looked upon
the old Yankee, who did not suspect any play
upon words! “ Poor old soul,” said they,
“he’ll be bled for a hundred”—
“ Perhaps I may,” said Nat, happening to
overhear, “ and perhaps I may not—various
opinions n that point.” Old Hugs was now
mou ed ‘id aroused from his stupidity, by the
Application of IJncle Nat’s huge heels to his rib
j risible sides. “ Now,” said he, “ I must get
i Hugs warm, and will ride him up yondei
guess”—so away went the trio, l nele Nat,
Hugs and Squire Rouse, to the great merriment
of the jockey club, who were now congratula
ting themselves that Dutchmen were no more
to be duped by Yankees; and it would have
done one’s heart good, to have witnessed their
joy, when uncle Nat returned with Squire
Rouse nt his side. Up he came, and
appeared a little dejeeted as he began; “ Any
how, you, old Hugs is rather stiff, and I’m a/eard
he won’t do as he has; hottsever, I’ll tty; but see
here, Mr. Better, you must agree that you won’t
hurt me.”
“ O yes, I’ll not hurt you a hair;” “ that’s
right,” interrupted Uncle Nat, “and you’ll agree
not to jump ahead of my saddle.”
“ Certainly, certainly,” replied the other, who
imagined that Uncle Nat would like to retreat;
“ if I jump or go further forward than the hind
part of the sa idle, then it is no bet.”
“ This is your agreement, is it ?” inquired the
stake-holder; as before they answered aye.
Whereupon Uncle Nat insisted that a fleet horse
and an expert writer should accompany them,
in order that no difficulty should arise on this
j point; and to gratify his notion, as they call it,
| this was agreed, to and while these were being
| provided, Uncle Nat dismounted. The twenty
I rods were now measured and the last scene of
; the drama was drawing to a close. “Wake up
j —wake up,” shouted Uncle Nat, as he was ap
plying his whip to Ilugs legs, “a hundred’s to be
lost or won 1” Uncle Nat now mounted, to the
surprise of all, and to the great dismay ot the
Dutchman better, with his back towards Hugs’s
head, and when the signal was given, away he
went, yet slowly, exclaiming “ three timet—re
member /” with Squire Reuse at his side.—
Here was a sau change in the Dutchman’s pros
pects —instead of jumping up three times, after
the Yankee had started, as he expected, being
all the while behind his back, he stood still, and
was dejected with a grief, purchased at the ex
pense of a hundred dollars ! After having trot
ted his twenty rods, and having performed a,
grand right-about, he returned at a rate which
confounded the already astonished Dutchmen,
and approaching the stranger —“ I’ll take that
money now, I guess,” said he, and the money
was delivered without a murmur on the part of
the lately elated jockey. “ Come in my boys,” j
said Uncle Nat, “come in, we’ll have some
supper now—by golly, I’ll pay for’t—come a
long, I say— My name’s old Uncle Nat, the!
j Yankee !”
*******
j In the history of our hero there are many rare
specimens of a true Yankee—but he is now no
: more ! We copy from a letter, which we have
just teceived, our intelligence in regard to his
! unhappy fatc
“No news for you—not a bit—save that
they have just found old Uncle Nat, who disap
peared some time last winter. lie was seen
floating in pond, frozen up in a huge
filrp of ice. as stiff as a Doker —some say with
his whip in his hand.” Thus has ended the
temporal history of the master of “ Squire
Rouse.” — Lansingburg Gaz.
I To the Editor of the JY. Y. Daily Advertier.
Downingville, 29th June, 1833.
Dear Sir —This is going to be rathora lengthy
! letter. We’ve had real times. I began to feel
j pretty streaked for our folks when I see what
was done on Boston Common, and over there in
little Cambridge. I told you 1 was going on
| here to get things to rights : and when I got here,
[ found ti e -i in a terrible taken about that orow
ner’s lie down in Yotk bay. There was nothing
at all going on.
I went full drive down to the meeting house
and got hold of the rope, and pulled away like
smoke, and made the old boll turn clean over.
The folks come up thick enough then to see
what was to pay. and fill’d the old Tabernacle
chuck full, and there was more outside than vou
could count. Now,” says I‘l spose you think
there’s going to be preachin here to day, but
that’s not the business.’ ‘The Gineral is corn
in.’ That was enough—‘now’ says I ‘be spry.
I tell’ed the Gineral last winter he’d see nothing
till he got down here, and if we dont make him
stare, there’s no snakes.’ Where’s Capt. Fin
; ny ?’ says, I, ‘here I bee’ says he, and there he
| was sure enough, the critter had just come out
of his bush-pastur, and had his brushhook with
him. Says I ‘Capt. Finny, you are to be mar
shal of the day., Upon that he jumps right on
eend. ‘Now’ says I ‘where is Seth Sprague
the schoolmaster ?’ ‘Here I bee,’ savs he ; and
there he stood with his pitch pipe up in the gal
lery just as if he was going to give out the salm
for him—‘you just pocket your pitch pipe,’ says
I ‘Seth, and brush up your larnin, foi we’ve
: pitch’d on you to write the address— ’ ‘Why Ma
jor,’ says Zekial Bigelow, ‘I thought I was to
do that, and l,vc got one all ready. Rut says 1,
you dont know nothing about Latin; the Gineral
can’t stommak any thing now without its got
Latin in it, ever since they made a Doctor on
him down there to Cambridge tother day, but
howsoever says 1, ‘Zekiel you shall give the ad
dress afteiL all, only jest let Seth stick a little
Hog latin into it here and there.’ ‘And now’
says 1 ‘ail of you be spry, and don’t stop stirrin
till the pudden’s done.
t hen they began to hunt for hats and down
the gallery stairs they *went. And if there’d,
been 40 tbanksgivins and independence days
comm in a string, I don’t believe there could be
more racket than there was in Downingville that
aildrnoon and night.
By lo o’clock next morning all was ready.
1 -'.ad them all stationed, and S went out and
come back 3 or 4 times across the brook by the
potash to try era. I got a white hat on, and a
shag bark stick; put some flour on my head, and
got on my sorrel horse, and looked just as much
like the old gentleman as I could. Alter tryin
them 2 or 3 times I got em all as limber as a
with, and the last time I tried em, you’ve no idee
it went off as slick as ile.
‘Now,’ says I “tenshon the hull 1” ‘Stand at
ease till you see me again,’ and then I streaked
it down to old Miss Grauc’s Tavern, about two
miles off, and waited until the Gincrel conic
along, and after I had mixed a 2d glass of switch
ed up they came, and the Gineral looke’d as
chink and lively as a skipper.
•Now” savs I “General wo are going right
into Downingville, and no man here is to give
any orders but mvself,” and I saul this loud
enough for Mr. Van Bih mi and Governor W ood
bury and all on cm to hear me, and they was all
as hush arter that, as cows in a clover lot. 1 hen
we all mounted, and on we went—l and tne
Gineral a leetle a .head on cm. And when we
crossed the Brook, says I “dont be afraid ot the
string pieces here Gineral —*c aint in York
now.” “I’ll follow yon Majer,” says lie “thro
thick and thin—l feel safe here.”
Just as we got on the nole, tother side of the
Brook, we came in sight of Downingville—and
says I there’s where I live, when I’m to hum,
and the sight of our house makes me crawl
all over, I’m sick ot Washington and if Down
ingville folks only know’d half what I do about
one feller you’ve brought along with you, they’d
want to take him like a streaked snake by the
tail; and snap his head oft Aint that a snug
farm ?” Says I. The Gineral rizup in his stir
rups, and says he “I’d go, east of sun rize any
day, savs he, to see sich !a place.” I thought I
should “go right through my shirt collar, for the
Gineral was tickled to pieces. Nothing has
held a candle to that he’s seen.
Seth Sprague has put his children all on the
school house—you could’nt see an atom of the
roof—with green boughs, and singing a set of
pieces he had made; and when I and the Gine
ral passed by they made it all ring again I tell
you; whether it was his facing the sun or what,
buthe looked as if he was e’nyjista going to
cry, (for he is amazin tender hearted enter.)
Jist then Sargent Joel who had charge of the
field piece in front of the meeting house, touch
ed her off; anddidn’t she speak? This compos’d
the Gineral in a minute —says he “Major I
should’nt want nothing better than a dozen of
them guns to change the boundry line along here
jest to suit vou;” “but look Majur what on earth j
has got into Mr. Van Buren’s horse?” sure j
enouo-h Sargent Joel had put in a leetle too i
much wadilin, it any thing, and Enoch Bissel, as
sly as a weazel Clipped in a wad of grass, that
hit Mr. Van’Buron’s horse and set him capering,
till he kinder flung him. I was as wrathy as
murder—says I “where is he l ” and I arter him
full split—he was clippin it across the orchard,
so that you might put an egg on his coat flap,
1 and it would’nt role oft,
I streaked it round the corner of the stone
fence to head him—but afore I got to him he
had ketch’d the horse, and was clearing out of
the County—and afore this he is slick enough
in the Province.
They tell different stories about it, but Dea
can Willoby seen the hull on it: and he says Mr.
Van Boren hung on like a lamper eel, till he
kinder jerk’d up like a trounced toad, and he
came down on the horse’s rump jist as he kick
ed up behind, and that sent him clean over the
fence into the Deacon’s potatoe jpatch. He
turned over so fa-t in the air you could not tell
one eend from the other; but his feet struck first,
and he stood there, the Deacon says, and made
as hansome a bow to the folks as if nothing on
earth hau happened to him.
The review of Capt. Finny’s company did
take the shine off them are Boston and Salem
sogers, I tell you; but they was all so keen arter
the Gineral, that all I and Capt. Finny could
do, we could’nt keep the line strait; and they all
got into such a snarl that you might as well try
to straiten a shceps’s wool.
The bell was ringing all the while—two peo
ple was up there with stone hammers poundin on
uer, caz>- uncle Josh had gone and took the bell
rope, and tied one een’d on’t to the steeple, and
carried tother eend over to the Deacon’s dum
bly more than 12 rods oft’; and every inch on’t
was hung full of flags, and where there want no
flags he had got all the cloth out of the fullin mill
and the gals and Downingville boys had gin all
theii handkerrhers and gowns and flannel shirts
and it was so high up and the wind kinder struck
em all together so you could’nt tell a < h eked
shirt from an old Continental- The Gineral
was tickled half to death : says he ‘Major that
looks about right.’ ‘lt does so’says I,‘if that
aint Union 1 dont know.’ He’s as keen as a
briar to catch any thing cunnin; he dont care
where he is: he snorts right out.
As soon as we got down to the meetin house
door. Zekial Bigelow gin him the address. It
was stuck as full of Latin words here and there
as burs in the wool of a stray sheep; ank Zekial,
who knows ecnv most every thing, dont know
Latin yet —he keeps the packing ya.d, and'salts
down fish than any man in the 3 counties
round; and it was real curis how he got along.
He’d throw in the salt, and then the pickle and
I the nitre, jest a leetle’t a time—and when he
come to talk to the Gineral about preservin the
i Union and the Constitution, it was jist the thing
—and when he talk’d about tlv ni are Nulliflers
• —he cut and shaved and made the scales fly, I
tell you—every hair on the Gineral’s head stood
strait on eend—and there stood that criteer Ze
kial right afore him, talking like a book, and his
head was as smooth, and and every hair slicked
down with a dipped candle, and that are kew of
his wo’d tell the lblks behind which way his eye
turn’d jist as well as tho’ they was lookin strait
in his face—caze it kinder lodg’d on his collar
and every time he look’d up, it would’nt stand
still a minute and point right strait up in the air.
Then comes the Gineral’s turn—his heart
was so full he cou’d but jist speak—and I was
jist agoin to begin for him, when out he came.
“My friends” says he, “tho’ I tell’d ’em down
South, my father was an Irishman and my mo
ther too, I am as clear a Yankee, (and he turn’d
and looked round him, slop’d his hand on tny
shoulder,) “as ihe Major himselt” savs he, “and
he knows it.” “So ] do,” says I Gine-c), “I
tell’d ’em all so often enough.” “I will presarve
the Union, I’ll be hang’d and choak’d to death
if I dont; and when 1 want pickle I know where
to find it. lam glad to hear you say that salt
petre once in awhile is good—l always thought
so—and if the constitution spiles in my hands
for the want ofit, I wont stand another election.”
Here the Gineral was goiri to stop, hut says I
in bis ear “you must give urn a little Latin, Doc
tor.” Here he offhai again—
i avs*bo, “my friends—sine qua-non.” “That j
will do Gineral” says t; and then we turned^
and shook all the folks round 1,11 pork
and then we made the baked beans and salt P *
flv. and tho cider too, 1 tell you. ■
had’nt eat nothing since I got on the
Arter dinner I tell’d the Gineral about that are
blasted rascal Enoch Bissel, whotuckd m the
grass waddin. “That’s the same /ellow says
I, “ Major Berry turn’d out of the Post Oii.ce
1 knew he was a scamp, and if he was at the,
ha is now”—“why Major” says the Gineral, |
was jist so with that infernal rascal Rondoill—it
he did’nt deserve what I gin lmn ujorc he attack
ed me, he sartinly did afterwards; and where s
the odds ?” “Plaguy little,” says I, “Gineral.”
To night we’re goin to a quiltm at Uncle
Josh’s. Miss Willoby the Deacon’s eldest da
tcr is sprucin up for it—She is rather too old to
be handsome, but she is a keen enter, and al
ways has something to say. Ihe Gineral and
Mr". Van Buren both talk about herconsiderable.
If the Gineral dont keep a sharp 100 k out, Mr.
Van Buren will go clean ahead on him on that
tack—for he is the perlitest crctur amongst the
women you ever see. The Gineral says hemust
have some of our Yankee gals in the Cabinet
next winter—and I kinder have a notion there
will be some hichen teems doune here about j
afore we quit. j
We shall go strait from here to Sai-utoqua and !
wash inside and out there. I expect we shall
all need washin afore we get there.
This is the longest letter I ever writ in all my
life, but I’m to hum now. It would cost you a
good many of your odd nicepences I guess, to
pay the postage, if it was’nt for the President —
he franks all my tatters—and that ain’t what he
does for most folks.
I may tell you about the quiltin frolic, today
in my next —but won’t promise, for I have jist
as much as I can do here, to do all the chores
for the Gineral—and write near, about fifty let
ters a day for him.
Yours to sarve,
J. DOWNING, Major, Downingville
Militia—2d Brigade.
THE WESTERN HERALD.
AURARIA, GEORGIA, JULY 30, 1833.
•qs-Wc are authorized toanounce the name ofAlaj
JOEL CRAWFORD, of Hancock county, for Governor
at the ensuing Election.
—: TUSSL
We are very sorry, that circumstances beyond human
controle, placed it out of our power to send out the Wes
tern Herald, at the regular time for its publication. The
apoligy ive have to offer, is that our principle workman,
j and foreman in ihe office, was taken very sick on Sunday
last, and has been so indisposed since, that our attention
| to him has been of more importance perhaps, than it
would have been to the office, he is now betier, and we
hope we shall be able by changing the day of publication,
.o Saturday, in place of Tuesday, as heretofore, to proceed
regularly for tho future.
New discoveries, several rich vein Mines lias been dis
. covered lately in this vicinity,onLotNo. 1213 12th Ist and
I Lot No. 19, 13th and Ist that is equeal if not superioi to
| any we have ever seen, the first named lot belongs to Col.
Johnson, &W. Ward of Macon, the owner of the other
is unknown to us, the specimens were handed to us by
t N. Nuckolls, Esq.
Col. Caldwell, exhibited to our inspection a piece of
I Gold, found by him, on the Lot at the Sixes owned by
I Thomas G.Gorden ( which weighed 85 dwts. and 23 grs.
-- Our friend of the Western Herald seems to
th nk it somewhat strange that ire should he in
the confidence of the “ Nulliflers of Georgia.”
At the same time we disclaim any pretentions
to the honor of their confidence, we cannot see
I why we should be debarred from knowing that
I which is a matter of common notoriety in this
i place : viz. the determination of its leaders, to
! bring out a candidate in opposition to Maj.
Crawford. Tor ffie fuither infoimation of our
friend, who seems to be most wofully in the
back ground of the confidence of his own party,
we state that this determination has been open
ly avowed by some of the leading members of
that party in this place, and for the last ten days
a matter of public exultation with a few of their
followers. W r e hope, however, that better coun
cils will prevail ; and that the Troup party will
unite, at the present important crisis, and give
to the regular nominated candidate, Mai. C. a
long pull, a strong pull, and a pull altogether.
—Southern Banner.
Our friends of the Southern Banner, are so very sensi.
tjvc and fractious, since they have got in the minority,
that it is almost dangerous for any one to speak of them. ]
We have never witnessed more heal cminating from a
northern climate, than has lately come from that paper.
While we have deeply sympathised for our brother editors
in the Slate, generally, when falling before the attacks of
these sharp shooters, we hoped to schreene ourselv f:om
the fatal consequences of coming in contact with them;
but there is so much vindictive Yankee spleen, in the above
notice, which they have taken of us, that we cannot help
but feel our littleness whenever it may be our misfortune
to come in contact with those who assume to themselves,
the right of judging, and publishing our standing
or our want of confidence with a party, who we arc
proud to say, docs not admit the company of our assail
ants in their councils; for tho want ofconfidence in their
political integrity.
And as to the long, the strong, and the pmcerful pull,
they wish to make for Maj Crawford, wo shall pull the
same way, though we wish to be excused from beinghar-
Messed in the same fills with the wheel horses of the Ban- 1
tier, for fear they may hear something 6aid about nullifica
tion, that will cause them to pull off before the Election.
—• 3RJR :
Our political opponents, have attempted to make new
parties in Georgia, viz. while they dub us who go in for
the rights ol the States, with the srear Croic name of JYitU
| Hficqtion. they to themselves, the name of the
“Democrat Republican I'nioit party,” If lo belong 1
former it is only necessary to support the sovcn-ignJE
the states, and the right to resist unconstitutional
ures, whenever they como in contact with the rtsenM
rights of any state, in the Union, Jwc are
upon the other hand, If to belong to the Democratic
publican Union party, it is essential to support thaZE
trines of the Proclamation, and the Bloody Dill,
Wilson Lumpkin, for Governor, Indorse on
at tho October election, Ratification, in Honor, ofthcltjM
orables.Forsi/lA & Wayne. Jf’c have no ambition
to the Proclamation, bloody Bill, Democratic P tpui!t ,fl
Lumpkin, Forsyth, Wayne, Ratification, Union Pan,,,
wo do not believe that there are many offlic old T;*E
men in Georgia .that can stand all that’s required offiv-B
to have the Ho. mr, of belonging to this newly
lured, self made, a."‘l self named, Democratic, Ue p „bl itJ ,E
Union, party.
In New York on ti’.'e Bth inst. the Thermo,
eter stood at 92 degrees, in the shade.
Mr. White, member of Congress, leccojß
injured by the explosion of the steamboat [B
oness, is not, as was sometime since state*
dead but is recovering from the effects of ti*
accident.
The Abbeville Whig of the 11th inst. savE
“Dooly, the supposed muiderer ot Patton, hE
been apprehended. He had in bis possessiijß
when taken, Patton’s horse and watch and a-E
bout $29 says that he had traded with Mr.P.E
and separated from him about one mile
the fatal spot where the murder was commit-E
ted.
The Legislature of Rhode Island has otdet-B
ed the several Masonic Lodges in that StatE
to show cause, at its next session, why thciE
charters should not be taken from them. i
Mr. Davis of Massachusetts, is spoken,
among other candidates, as speaker of tkl
next House of Representatives at IVashinj-H
ton.
The New York city inspector reports lit
death of 111 persons for the week ending tl*
6th inst : of which number 24 died of consump.
tion.
A letter from Brigadier General Atkinson
to the Commander-in-Chief, published in the
Globe, states that the Winnebago Indians are
removeing peaceably from the ceded lands.
The Potowatomies intended also to sell out and
remove beyond the Mississippi, after raising
their present crop.
OFFICIAL.
Department of Slate. —The following Bill,
communicated to this Government by tit
Charge d’Affairs of the United Slates in Greit
Britain, received the Royal assent on the II
May last, and has accordinly become a law of
the realm :
A Bill to reduce the duly payable on Cclh
Wool imported into the United Kingdom.
Whereas an act was passed in the first arid
second year of the reign of His present Ma
jesty, entitled “An act to discontinue or alter
the duties of customs upon coals, slates, cotton
wool barilla and wax.” And whereas it is ex
pedient to reduce tho duty on cotton wool the
reby imposed : Be it therefore enacted, by Ik
Kinng’s most Excellent Majesty, by and will
the advice and consent of the Lords Spirilntl
and Temporal, and Commons, in this Parlia
ment assembled, and by the authority of tin
j same, that from and after the first day of June,
one thousand eight hundred and thirty three,
there shall be raiaed, levied, collected and pail,
for and upon every hundred weight of cotton
wool or waste of cotton wool, the produce oi
any foreign country, a duty of two shillings ant
eleven pence, in lieu of the duty of five shillings
and ten pence imposed by said act.
And be it further enacted, That the said duty
shall be raised, levied, collected, paid, and ap
propriated, in like manner as if the same had
been imposed by an act passed in the Cth yea:
of the reign of His late Majesty King George
the Fourth, entitled “ An act for granting du
ties of Customs.”
And be it further enacted, That this act may
be amended, altered or repealed by any actio
be passed in this present session of Parlia
ment.
Athens and Augusta llail Road. —The citi
zens or Athens have had a meeting on the sub
ject of construsting a rail-road from Augusta to
Athens. Tee meeting was respectable, and
from the incipient proceedings, wc anticipate a
vigorous exertion, on the pnrt of that enlighten
ed and enterprising People, to carry into opera
tion scheme in contemplation. A committee
consisting of Judge Clayton, -James Gama!:-
Wm. Hearing, Stevens Thomas, John Nesbit,
Wm. Williams, Jacob Phinizy and Asbury
Hull, were appointed, to prepare a report on the
j subject. We look forward to the proceeding
of this meeting, with considerable solicitude,
and anticipate on the part of our citizens a wil
ling and efficient co-operation in this underta
king. It is time wc should do soir.ething
and we are persuaded, if our People can be sat
isfied of the practicability and advantages of
this project, that they will unite with one voice,
in requesting of the Legislature an act ol k 1
coiporation, and in contributing to its success
ful completion— Wash. JYews.
We have been permitted to peruse a letter,
giving the following detail ot an affray, between
Ridge’s and Ross’s friends at the Head of Coo
sa. Under other circumstances, we should per
mit this to pass off, as we do many other af
frays of the like kind, but when it is considered
, that Ridge is at the head of the Treaty party,
, and Ross at the head of the opposition, we m>)’
i reasonebly, infei that there exists much hos
tile feeling between those two parties, upoa
that subject, and that they are disposed to man
ifest it, towards each other, upon every occa
sion,
Rumor says that the anti-treaty-party aro
nut eh displeased with Ross, accusing Uin*
