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Francois. A scratch; I have not failed! (give* the
packet.)
Richelieu. Hush '. ( looking at the contents.)
Third Secretary (to king.) Sire, the Spaniards
Have re-enforced their army on thefrontiers.
The Due de Bouillon—
Richelieu. Hold! In this department,
A paper—here, sire, read yourself; then take
'The count’s advice in’t. _
Enter De Beringhi n hastily, and dravs aside Bandas.
(Richelieu, to secretary, giving an open parchment.)
Baradas (burstingfrom De Beringhen.) What! and
rest it from thee !
Ha! hold!
Josehh. Fall back, son; it is your turn now !
Baradas. Death ! the despatch !
Louis (reading.) To Bouillon, and sign’d Orleans!
Baradas, too! league with our foes of Spain !
Lead our Italian armies—what! to Paris!
Capture the king; my health require repose ;
Make me subscribe my proper abdiction;
Orleans, my brother, regent! Saints of Heaven !
These are the men I loved !
(Baradas drive, attempts to rush out, is arrested. Or
leans, endeutauring to escape more quickly, meets
Joseph's eye, and stops short?)
(Richelieu falls back.)
Joseph See to the cardinal!
Baradas. He's dying! and I vetshall dupe the king!
Louis (rushing to Richeileu.) Richelieu! lord card!
na!! 'tisl resign!
Reign thou!
Joseph. Alas! too late ! he faints!
Louis. Reign, Richelieu !
Richalif.u (feebly ) With absolute power?
Louis. Most absolute! Oh ! live !
Ifnotforme, for France!
Richelieu. France!
Louis. Oh this treason !
The army, Orleans, Boullion—Heavens! the Spaniard !
Where will they be next week ?
RICHELrEU (starting up ) There at my feet!
(To First and Second Secretary.)
Ere the clock strike ! The envoys have their answer !
(To Third Secretary, with a ring.)
This to De Chavigny; he knows no rest;
No need of parchment here; he must not halt
For sleep, lor food. In my name, mine! he will
Arrest the Dae de Bouillon at the head
Ofkisarmy! Ho! there, Count de Baradas,
Thou hast lost the stake ! Away w ith him !
Ha! Ha!
(Snatching De Maupral's (hath warrant from the officer.)
See here De Maupral’s death-writ, Julie !
Parchment for battledores! Embrace your husband!
At last the old man blesses you!
Julie. Oh joy!
You are saved; you live ; I hold you in these arms.
Maufkat. Neverto part—
Julie. No, never, Adrien, never!
Louts, (peevishly.) One moment makes a startling
cure, lord cardinal.
Richelieu. Ay, sire, for in one moment there did pass
Intothis wither'd frame the wight of France!
My own dear France, I have thee yet; I havesavedthee!
I clasp the still! it was thy voice that call'd me
Back from the tomb! What mistress like our country ?
Louis. For Mauprat's pardon—well! But Julie,
Richelieu,
Leave me one thing to lave!
Richelieu. A subject's luxury !
Yet, if you must love something, sire, love me !
Louts (smiling in spite of himself .) Fair proxy for a
young fresh demoiselle!
Richelieu. Your heart speaks for my clients.
Kneel, my children,
And thank your king—
Julie. Ah, tears like these, my liege,
Are dews that mount to Heaven.
Louis. Rise, rise, be happy.
(Ricdelieu beckons to De Beringhen ) |
De Beringhen (falleringty.) My lord—you are
most —happily—recover’d.
Richelieu. But you are pale, dear Beringhen ; this air
Suits not your delicate frame ; I lonsr have thought so :
S%ep not another night in Paris. Go,
Or else your precious life may he in danger.
Leave France, dear Beringhen !
De Beringhen. I shall have time,
More than I ask’d for, to discuss the pale.
[Exit De Beringhen.
Richelieu (to Orleans.)' For you, repentcnce, ab
sence, and confession!
(To Francois.)
Never say fail again. Brave boy !
(To Joseph.)
He’ll be-
A bishop first.
Joseph. Ah, cardinal—
Richelieu. Ah, Joseph !
(To Louis, us De Maujirat and Julie cqnverse apart.)
See, mv liege, see through plots and counterplots,
Tiiough gain and loss, through glory and disgrace,
Along the plains where passionate Discord rears
Eternal Babel, still the holy stream
Ofhtmian happiness gldes on!
Louis. And must we
Thank for that also—our prime minister?
Richelieu. No, let us own it r there is One above
S ways the harmonious mystery of the world
Ev’n better than prime ministers.
Alas!
Our glories float between the earth and heaven
Like clouds which seem pavilions o, the sun.
Amt are the playthings of the casual wind ;
Still, like the cioud which drops on unseen crags
The dews the wild flower feeds on, our ambition
May from its airy height drop gladness down
On unsuspected virtue; and the flower
May bk ss the cloud w hen it hath pass’d away f
Thus ends this excellent play. It certainly reads
well, and we have no doubt that it will also act well,
for great attention has been jxtid to- the stage arrange
ment, and there are some very striking tableaux. The
interest is well kept up, even to the last; the lost pack
et, which is no unimportant part of the machinery of
the plot, remaining unaccounted for until the end of
the piece, maintains the suspense and holds the atten
tion enchained. The incidents, with but small excep
tion, are matters of history, and the character of the
great Cardinal-King, as here drawn, is in accordance
with the majority of the accounts of him, which have
been transmitted to us by his cotemporaries.
We had intended to have pointed out to thee some
parts which struck us as deserving animadversion; but
we have kept thee so long already, that wg will not in
flict on thee the exercise of the ungracious office of
finding fault. Vale. M.
ORIGINAL.
For the Southern Post.-
Detached Letters of a Correspondence—Com
prising a Tale.
CONTINUED FROM APRIL 13.
Sister Eva—Wc have compassed much of the prai
rie and wilderness, since my last letter to you, and al
though I do not flatter myself with the idea of making
my descriptions, of the various occurrences, as interes
ting to you as they have been to myself, yet the very
great pleasure I receive from imparting perhaps, anew
range of thought to you, induces me to adhere to my
promise of writing to you. Fortunately for the con in
uity of our correspondence this outposting campaign
has not been interrupted by die hairbreadth ’scapes by
flood and field, which makes a warso interesting, from
the cabinet of the statesman to the boudoir of the belle.
You will no doubt feel but little trepidation for me,
when you know that my duty or fate is not to
stand the brunt of battle and the hot contest of fiery
souls, but to stand in distant perspective, regaling my
professional appetite with the hope of broken heads,
legs, and arms, to enrich the repast of a surgical feast.
Besides this official neutrality I would relieve that pain
ful apprehension and anxiety on my account which
your letters portray, upon a more rational basis. In
my rationale upon the ecomony of nature, I can disco
ver a more general scope of action to my own legs,
than is usually conferred or admitted by the Hotspurs
of the battle field. I can walk, it is true, and that tes
tifies to one end or design of these tongs-like appen
dages, and I can run also, which proves that such an
attribute, was bestowed for some useful purpose. Now
it appears to me that the “ ultima ratio" of legs is ne
ver so much in force as when a man’s scalp is threat
ened. Thus, upon natural and revealed law concur
ring in such emergencies, as a law-abiding man, I shall
give honor and action to my heels, above all other ad
juncts of the human system. This doctrine seems to
have more advocates than myself in camp, neverthe
less, you will soon discover that I do not feel myself
much honored by the exemplification which attests it
To begin my little narrative where it terminated in my
last letter to-you, will jptrodties an acquaintance of old i
standing in my letters; and although you have so often
begged me to write more of myself and less of him,
still, as the only journalist of the regiment, from whom
you can derive any information, 1 must insist on your
patience to take events in the order in which they hap
pened, however so little they accord with your state of
mind at the time you read them. You will recol
lect that my last letter closed on the incidents of the
night when we camped in a bay of the large prairie,
and where we had an accession, novel in its features
to our company, in the shape of the dusky Bedouins of
the new world. Wearied, and my ears becoming ob
tuse to the perpetual screaming and shouting of the
Pawnees, I sank at last into slumber, and was swim
ming in the current of one of those’ felicitous naps to
which the time between sunrise and breaktast is go
propitious, when I was torn from the world of phan
toms, and ushered back to the things of ea-th again.
My deputy surgeon, the owner of the nagycleped “tin
pedlar,” and old Scipio or Sip, by syncope, the pack
horse driver, were the rude assailers of my rest, and
you can readily acknowledge that the vociferous alter
cation of a negro under excitement, is more than equal
to such a result. Sip, as I have before written to you l
claims the “Old Dominion” as his place of nativity,
and being free, has followed the great tide of emigra
tion with as few reasons as the great majority of wan
derers. His state of mind during the night just past is
so well depicted by that declamatory interrogation and
multifariously compounded oratory, so well adapted to
the dialogue and colloquy of niggers, that I should be
diffident in attempting a delineation other than by in
troducing the dramatis personae. While engaged in
the short duty of a camp toilet, and manifesting more
concern for my own persona! appearance than seemed
respectful to the dignity of Sip, he stood- in my tent
door, with his nostrils swelling like a tired toad frog,
and his nether lip tremulous in its muscular vibration
for an outbreak, and his patience outdone by my ap
parent interest in a trifling matter to him, he relieved
himself pretty much as follows :
“ Well, Mass Delon, you done wake up at last, I
spose ? I ben here forty time to see you, an I jis come
to talk to you ”
“ Sip’s afeard of Ingins, Mr. Surgeon interpolated
my deputy.
“I wish you would make dat man hush, Mass De
lon ! I wish you would make him hush. He ben jaw
in me all dis mornin. He termin a nigger shant say
nuffin—but look-a-here man ! I gwine to talk to Mass
: Delon es I git my old head bust open.”
“ I was only jokin, Mr. Surgeon—Sip W'ants to mar
j ry an Injin woman!”
i “Now, look here, Mass Patten, if you gwine to git
; yerbs for Mass Delon, go long off and dont come here
!to insult a nigger feelin ! What de debbel Sip want
; wid squaw ? No, I gwine to quit dis here war ! What
!de debbd I come here for any how. Bress your soul,
I es I ebber git to Fort Gibson agin, I gwine to heel it
cross de Massisip ”
Not entirely comprehending, as yet, the burden of
Sip’s complaint, I ventured upon a professional en
quiry.
“Well, Sip, what ails you—arc you sick—shall I give
you a little medicine, old fellow ?”
“ What ail Sip ! I tell you what ail him—look a here,
Mass Delon, what de debbil Sip got to do wid Injin—
dang dey hart—what Sip want wid dent wild beast—
look at urn dartast night, a hollurin all night, an aint
got no breeches on nudder, and aint comb dey head
since Christmas Bress your soul. Mass Delon, what
sorter folk is dey any how ? Call a nigger great friend,
eat wid a nigger—drink likker wid him—an de fust
thing he know dey scalp de wool oflf he head, clean.”
“ Oh, pshaw ! these Indians are friendly, Sip."
“Dar now, dat what I say—friendly Ingin ! go long
and look at um dare, you see nigger wool hangin round
dey dang neck—you call dat friendly Ingin, ey ? Mass
Delon, dry is a mean white man in dis rigitnent, I tell
you for true. Now, what you link—dat Sargent come
to me at Jefferson Barrack—he say Sip! I want you to
go to Fort Gibson, old haus ! I giv you Uncle Sam mo
ney for drive waggin—well Sip come to Fort Gibson—
he say Sip, drive pack horse to Blue Riber —well, I
come dar! He say Sip, drive pack horse to Salt Ri
ver—no, I say I must go back —come Sip, git you heap
of money —go red on de back. Well, I git dare to Salt
Riber. He say aha! you black dog, you no drive pack
horse now I gib you de debble, Well, I go to Colonel
Dtdge, he say all right. Now, what you call dat. —
He’s a mean man, an old Dodge too, I wish he dodge
back agin. I tell you, if I gits a chance I gwine to
‘Old Virgtnny’ swiss.”
“ Well, start Sip—they aint no Injins twixt here aw
Old Virginny—give my love to a'l the niggers when you
git thare.”
“ Dat what make me bile over! I wish old Dina had
nail both my cars fast to the door post—dis what I git
for come way here spekalatin—now, quest’n if Dina
ebber see her old nigger Sip agin.”
Having relieved himself of his spare steam. Sip made
an indignant exit, not a little chagrined at the man
agement of the recruiting officer, who had so adroitly
woven the web of necessity around him, and nodoubt
using that faculty of rc-duplicating resolutions to act
differently, which, is so apt to haunt every one involv
ed in unexpected consequences. Indeed, I felt some
conscientious agitation, that originated from feelings
and motives not distantly allied, to those which sum
moned up departed joys to tire memory of Sip, and the
gaudy phantoms of the future, I felt tremulous, might
dissipate and leave me no less exasperated than it did
him. But the current of these coming shadows were
cast away by my sub-surgeon, who was standing, with
a complacent grin, reflecting with no ordinary plea
sure, on the distress manifested by Sip.
“I told you yesterday about them Cumanchecs giv
in bringier to me and the Santa Fe traders, didn’t I,
Mr. Surgeon ?”
“You said something about it, Patten—what was it ?”"
“ The way my eyes stretched open this mornin was
‘ wide awake and duly sober,’ and sayin to the dust,
‘ come in !’ , •
“ What about ?”
“ Why, one man that joined our guards at Santa Fe
and come to St. Louis with us, is among them Injins—
my Lord, he’s a caution to fight.”
“Ah! well I suppose he was the white man who
had the gun yesterday.”
“Adzactly—he’s the man—he’s fit a little every
where, I reckon—he was tellin us about Gineral Boli
var and Santa Anna afore he sot his nose agin the
Taxis. But I haint told you about the fight with the
Cummanchees!”
“ No!”
“ Well, afore we left Santa Fe, our men got to lighten
with some vagabonds from Fuebla. Lord knows, they
are nigh upon the meanest people in creation. You
see, they was a heap on etn come up to Santa Fe to
worship the old Priest, and when they was a marchin
to one of them big Churches with him, our men was
standin lookin on, unconsarned, and up comes a sol
dier and told us to kneel down while somethin they
called a 1 host,’ was passing, but they didn't understand
him, and he jobbed one with a bayonet. He was a big
Missuri w'olferine that got struck, and he j irked the
soldier’s gun from him and mashed his cocoanut into
saft soap at one jerk.”
“ What! did he kill him ?”
“ That he did ! well then began the head fight I ever
seed. This here man in camp was standin with us,
and up comes some so diers and was gwine to chaw
up old Missouri at once, but he hilt his gun and fit like ]
a wolf, and we joined him—we went it with a rush, and j
killed five on cm dead as * nits.’ ”
“ Why, how did yo t get away alive?”
“ Well, I’ll tell you. The Santa Feans say the Peu
bla’s are the swfullest rascals in creation, and some ol
them joined us n ths fight Tey had us all up before
THE SOUTHERN POST.
the Alcalde, but he was a sharp fellow—hegrirrited and
winked, and told us to put off quick and nobody should
follow us."
“ Well, Patten, I suppose this fighting man of voure
is rather a wild horse-stealing renegado, who eschew*
the gallows that portends his advent into the civilized
world.”
“I tell you, Mr. Surgeon—l wouldn’t tel! him that
word for all the lands this side of the Mississippi, ’erze
I know its gone horse to do it. He aint none of your
Vagabonds. He’s got larnin of all sorts —but yander he
stands among them Ingins—let’s go and see him. If
I was to say that word Sally Patten ud be a widder
'oman fore night.”
“ 1 never heard you say that you were a married man
before, Patten. Indeed, 1 should not have believed
you to be so.”
“Well, I reckon Sally Patten and her four children
think so; and that’s sa’sfactory!”
“ Don’t you get jealous when you desert bed and
board for so long a time ?'
“Jealous? me jealous. Mr. Surgeon you don’t know
Sully. Lord bless you. if a man was to give her any
that ar sort o’ sass, she’d give him a whack with her
soap paddle would make his head ratdelike a cow-bell
lor a month atterwards.”
We had ieft my tent, as Patten had suggested, and
in passing from thence to the space allotted to our In
dian guests, had given vent to the colloquy just detail
ed. The individual who was the subject of our re
marks, and indeed a great pj’rt of my last letter to you,
was standing with his face from us, and listening to
the eager guttural declamation of one of his tawny
horde, and did not obsrrve our approach. When we
had arrived within a few steps, his attention was di
rected to us by a short exclamation from the savage
who had been addressing him. In turning, his eyes
settled on Patten, and I at once discovered, from the
that they were ail ed by son.e association of in
teresting events or reflections in each other, perhaps
those which Patten had partly stated to me. But I
knew instantly that he was once the harsh, ambitious,
fearless hoy we knew as Allen Belt! Patten introdu
ced me to him as “ Surgeon to the Regiment,” without
giving my name, or I am certain he would have known
me in a moment, but having nine years to change in, I
resolved to wait until such a time as he manifested
some memory of auld lang syne, by the resemblance I
might still bear to what I had been. As soon as he
had looked in my face I discovered that he was agita
ted and almost overpowered, by the remembrance of
the times of the “ Father Land.” I was not much less
so, indeed I may say more; fir until that moment, I
had not formed the faintest idea that I should see any
Other than some rude wild adventurous borderman,
whose rough unpolished soul was alone suited to the
bold and stirring incidents of savage contest. He lean
ed on his carabine, his head sinking on his arm in most
absorbing reflections, so wrapped up in them that he
appeared unconscious of our presence, and wholly for
getful of the courtesy always expected upon similar oc
casions.
There was an intense clinging of his mind to past
events, or he would have witnessed the amazement
and stupefaction which fettered me in chains as strong
as the Promethian links which memory forged around
him, and l felt relieved when he raised his head. His
face was partially turned from us, but yet I could see
the trace of a “stranger tear,” which had coursed its
pearly way down his sunburnt cheek. But ah, sister !
I am writing to yon of what occurred ten days since,
and the substance of which was indirectly alluded to
in my last letter, and nothing have I said of the inter
mediate time. And if my recollection i3 true of the
contents of this, I have stated nothing which might not
have been done at that time, and although you have so
affectionately and repeatedly enjoined me to write more
of myself, yet I must beg you to forgive in this instance,
on account of the amazement which I must have ne
cessarily felt, in thus commingling the sweet memory
of the past, with the hope, spirit and adventure of the
future.
Well, sister, I have written this long and foolish letter
to you, (for which I knew you will scold me,)’ and
not one word have I yet said uriimt Camille: And not
one word either of the ever-during and unbounded af
fection which f feel for you ! How strange it is, sister,
when there is nothing under the blue canopy of hea
ven that glitters above us with a thousand radiant gems,
that I love so ardently and devotedly as I do yourself,-
and the moment that the tender tear of affection steals
down in memory of you, the same moment brings up
the image ot that li tie “ transgressor,” Camille ! You
wrote to me that she always calls oro you to sit a whole
evening on the mail-days that carry my letters. And
that she was constantly looking up from her work and
asking “ what does he say, Miss Eva ?’ when vou were
reading my last letter, and you would not tell her that
I had even written her name. Very well, Miss Eva—
if you persist in this way of tantalizing and frightening
me out of what vou call a boyish preference, I shall
take my leave of Old Virginia “for aye,” and like the
great Africamis, exclaim, “ Ingrata patna wquidem
ossa men habehis.” I expect you have forgotten all of
your Latin by this time; but I will construe it for you,
by telling you that it is something awful, and Old Vir
ginia will he ruined. But now I must close, and really
upon reviewing, I do feel intensely mortified that I have
not freighted my letters with a thousand grateful and
tender caresses for you. Farewell. I hope, in my next,
to draw for you some contrasts and illusions civilized,
and savage. Remember me as your ever affectionate
brother.
[TO- BE CONTINUED,]
For the Southern Post.
THE SEA.
I love the sea, the noble sea !
Even in its most dreadful form,-
Whether at rest its waters be,
Or maddened by the raging storm.-
I love the everlasting tide
That dashes hoarsely on the shore,
And murmurs Pack with swelling pride
To sever, and return no more.
1 love to gaze upon the foam
That rises up so bright and free,
And oh, next to my native home
I love the grandeur of the sea.
For it recalls some happy scenes,
That round my feelings hover yet,
Where memory’s brightest, purest dreams,
Shall linger till life’s sun has set.
It tells me of the lonely isle
That sleeps upon its stormy breast,
Where once affection’s holy smile
Lulled all my gloomy fears to rest.
And these bright eyes at\d fairy forms
All rise like magic to my view,
As will the fearful night of storms,
That howled above the waters blue.
It tells me of that deep, deep hay
And distant city’s living hum,
The curfew knell at-dose of day
And early beat of signal drum.
And all the youthful scenes of life
Rise up afresh before my view,
Till tired of the pleasing strife
They vanish o’er the waters blue.
But oh, of all the lovely scenes
That nature ever gave to me,
Or fa ncy pictured in her dreams,
I love the glowing moon-lit ssa.
’Tts this that makes me dream of heaven
And points me to that world of light,
Where those whose sins havebfen forgiven-
Shull rove the fields of ether, bright.
For it receives upon its breast
The image of the upper skies,
And when its w aters calmly rest
Another heaven liearns in our eyes.
Oh who that loves yon starry dome
All spangled with the stars of night,
Thnt does not love the dark sea’s foam
Brtghtning with heaven’s reflected light. t
.V«, Ga. t. *r r ,
Soiitfjrt'tt {lost.
OFFICE, ON THIRD - STREET 1 , ONE DOOR FROM MULBERRY
STREET, AND OPPOSITE THE CENTRAL nOTEL.
MACON:
SATURDAY, JULY 27, 1839.
ERRATA.
The article on Education, from the “ Southern Lite
rary Messenger,” commencing on ourfi stpage is con
cluded—and is erroneously printed "continued.”
GEORGIA FEMALE COLLEGE.
The examination of this institution commenced on
Monday last and continued until Thursday evening.
The examination of the first day was taken up with
the primary department, and did not create so much
general interest as the successive days. We have been
in attendance throughout the entire examination, and
must say that the first day’s exercise was as equally
gratifying, if not more so, than any other. This arose
from observing the great regard paid by the Teachers
to the elementary branches ol Education, which has
heretofore been so much neglected in our Colleges and
higher institutions of learning. The exercise was a ri
gid and a most one, and the method of
teaching appears to have little of the railway process up
the hill of science. The exercises of the succeeding
days were witnessed by very large and gratified audi
ences, Many of w hom were from distant parts of the j
State.
We were particularly gratified with the examination
of the classes of Languages. The pupils appear to be
well acquainted with the principles of grammatical an
alysis. In the French classes, the analysis is made by
the pupils in the French Language, and they convert
English into French with great facility,- A gentleman
who examined some of the w ritten exercises, informs
us that they were written with great correctness and
propriety,showing but few inaccuracies; and that these
exercises are the result of the pupils unaided efforts, we
have the strongest assurance. The whole examination
of these branches was highly creditable both to profes
sor and pupil; and when we reflect that the Institution
has but just gone into operation, that its departments
are not yet fairly organized, and that the talented Pre
sident and his able coadjutors have not yet really had
time to introduce the manifest improvements which
they contemplate ; that on the other hand, the progress
of the pupils under all these adverse circumstances is
quite satisfactory,and, in many cases, even extraordin
ary; wc cannot but iindulge the joyous hope that this
excellent institution will soon fulfil the most sanguine
expectations of its founders and friends, and that it is
destined to be the means of bringing about a mighty
and much needed revolution in the existing systems of
education.
On Thursday, the last day of the examination, an
Address, on the subject of Female Education, was de
livered by the President, in his most happy, forcible and
eloquent manner. We shall forbear at present of say
ring any thing in regard to the matter contained in the
Address, as it will noon be puetd before the public, and
\ merely content ourselves with expressing our admira-
I lion pf its superior excellence. It was a masterly ef
fort, as every one who heard it will respond, and will
suffer nothing by being put in print. There is a gen
eral desire to see it published, and we hopo it will soon
I be gratified.
j In the evening there was an Address delivered by
i Judge Longstreet. on the same suldect. made very in
teresting by his deep and thorough knowledge and in
timate acquaintance with the present! systems of edtt-
J cation.
| iKr We learn that Judge Longstreet has been ap
; pointed President of Emory College.
5W The citizens of Il iuston (Texas) celebrated the
4th day of July with the usual demonstations of joy
j common in our own country.
t
j iKr What does Mr. Messenger mean in his last by
I “ magic in a sop,” and all,that ? We suspicion he means
to call somebody a Judas, though whom, and why, and
■ wherefore, we are unable to determine. Whether it
includes Messrs. Sylvester & Cos., or points to ourself,
would puzzle Old Nick to tell; wc cannot for the life
of us see the applicability of his remarks and “ insini
nations." Dear Mess'! “Oh no we never mention it,”
what you hinted to us about Old Dentatus — nobody
knows it, and of sourse you speak under the rose, don’t
ye?
We kindly wish that Cerberus may have found a
j cooler place to sleep in than our back office. If the Old
Dog had had as many duns poked at him as we have
j had lately, he would not have slept much, we are think
ing—sounded the Lyre (make your devil spell better,
dear Mess’) ever so ravishingly.
Now read the following
IMPORTANT LEGAL OPINION OF COL. JO
SEPH M. WHITB, OF FLORIDA, (COUNSEL
LOR AT LAW.)
The undersigned has been asked his legal opinion
upon the right of Messrs. Schmidt & Hamilton to organ
ize and carry into eflect a Lottery under the laws of
Florida.—lt appears that an application was made by
them to the Legislative Assembly of the Territory for
such a privilege, which was granted by the Senate and
Legislative Council, and vetoed by the Governor. It
was ascertained thatby a previousact inforce, and un
repealed, certain Commissioners therein named, were
authorized “ to raise such sum or sums of money, by
lottery, in such scheme or schemes, as they may deem
appropriate or advisable,” to complete a Court House.
and Seminary. The Commissioners have deempd it
“appropriate and advisable” to adopt this scheme,
which they have a perfect right to do, so long as the act
stood in force, and without limitation as to time. If it
i» urged that such an act, for such a purpose, was not in
tended for so large an operation, the answer is obvious,
that the Legislature has not specified the extent or dura-'
tionof the scheme. The discretion isgiven to the Com--
missioners, who have acted upon the subject, and it is
not in the power of the Governor, Legislature, or Judi
ciary, to hinder, ot obstruct in any manner, the exoution
of such plan as the Commissioners may agree upon.
I ant of opinion, therefore, that Schmit &. Hamilton
have the legal right to execute the scheme agreed upon
; in concurrence with, and under the legal authority of
the Commissioners. I have seen the paper signed by
the parties, and consider it sufficient in law to authorize
the scheme for the disposition of the Arcade, and other
property in New -Orleans.
*OS. M. WHITE, of Florida.
New-York, July 16th, 1839.
HARK YE!
Our friends writing to us to change the direction of
their papers, and on other business, are requested to
| notice the last article of our terms, which reads thus :
“ Letters, on business, either to the Publisher or Editor, J
' tnust come post paid to insure attention.”
ANOTHER INDIAN MASSACRE !
On Saturday night between nine and ten
o’clock, the family of Mr. Green Chairs—liv
ing about ten miles fromtown—were attacked
by the Indians, and his wife and two children
killed !
Mrs. Chairs was sitting by the table sewing,
surrounded by her interesting family, consist
ing of her husband and six children; Mr.
Chairs, was leposing on the bed, in the same
room, when an Indian Rifle was fired, and
Mrs. C. fell dead from her chair ! Mr. C.
insfantty sprang from the bed, blew out the
candle, closed the door and windows, and seiz
ing his gun took his stand, with the determina
tion to> kill one Indian at all hazards, when
they should attempt to enter the house, The
Indians however, approached the house in such
a way as to be unseen by Mr. C., and procee
ded to set fire to the dwelling, and out houses
on the premises. Soon after the dwelling
house caught fire Mr. C. started four of the
largest children out at the back door, and told
them to escape to the next neighbors ; they
did effect their escape, and were all saved ; the
eldest, however, a young lady about seven
teen, was discovered by the Indians, who gave
her chase, and were well nigh making her a
victim ; but she litftl taken the precaution, as
she was leaving the house, to take with her a
dark cloak, and when she found herself close
ly pursued by the savages, she suddenly fell in
the bushes, and throwing this garment over her
person, concealed herself from the keen eye
of her ruthless pursuers ; the Indians she says
passed within three feet of her ! This young
lady’s life was saved so narrowly, os to make
the blood run cold, even at the thought; and
it should not be forgotton, that it is entirely At
tributable to her presence of mind.
So rapid was the fire, and so great the con
sternation produced Mr. C. by the sud
den death of his wife, that in making his own
flight from the house he forgot his two young
est children—the one about two years old,and
the other a babe of six months—and they were
both burned to ashes ! Information of this
horrid transaction reached our city during the
night, and our citizens Were aroused by the
beating of the drum and the stirring prepara
tions to go in pursuit of the foe.
Tallahassee Star.
Correspondence of the Charleston Courier.
Washigton, July 18, 1839.
After a protracted silence— post longo in
tervallo—l resume my pen to give you the
substance of a repoit which has for some days
agitated our .usually stoical community. A
deep mystery has hitherto involved the late of
the Hornet, which was supposed to have
foundered, years ago, in a gale ; and every
circumstance, however improbable, which re
lated to her position, when last seen, has been
forfeited out and narrated, with n degree of
minuteness which evinces the deep feeling
which, to this day, exists in relation to her
fate. Anew and startling light has been sud
denly cast upon the mystery, bv the offer of an
individual to exhibit proofs that this ill-fated ves
sel outlived the gale, in which it Was believed
that she perished, and met her destruction from
enemies more cruel than the elements. The
name of the individual it would be obviously
improper to publish until his story shall have
assumed a more definite and authentic form,
and the testimony, by which it is to be estab
lished, shall have been obtained. The amount
of the disclosure here made is that, after passing
th rough the gale, in safety, her magazine was
fired by conspirators, bribed to effect this dia
bolical purpose by the head of a foreign gov
ernment, and that four hundred brave men
were thus instantaneously hurried into eterni
ty, in a moment of entire self-security, and
while the interchange of congratulation for their
preservation from tire prey of wind and wave
was yet unfinished. He who voluntarily comes
forward to make this disclosure states that he
was not himself present at the catastrophe,
but that a friend was there ; anti for this friend
he requires pardon in the establishment of the
truth of his statement. He also asks for a
pecuniary reward for himself. The evidence
on which he pioposes to establish the facts is
the production of the ship’s log-book up to the
moment of the catastrophe, and aho of the
private letters of the officers, with other testi
mony of acorohorativechaiacter. The sub
ject is now before the Navy Board, and has
led to frequent and long deliberation. But
they will not be able to come to any conclu
sion ns to the conditions required by the in
formant. Indeed they have no authority ves
ted in them to make stipulations of a pecuniary
nature. It is said that flic President has been
written to on the subject, and that the ulterior
proceedings in the case will depend on his re
ply. The members of the Board are inclined
t O'attach importance to the statement of this
man, in consequence of some private commu- 1
nication which lie has made concerning the
motive to the instigation of this awful outrage,
which motive they deem satisfactory and suf
ficient. For the sake of humanity and for the
sake of our country, it is to be hoped that no'
effort will be spared to elucidate the whole
of this affair ; and, be the consequences what
they may, to work retribution in those by
whom this scheme was planned, and by whose
influence it was carried into effect. Fiat
justitia, pereat mundus.
It will be recollected that a few weeks since,
a severe and well contested battle was fought,
between a portion of the gallant vo'untfeers,
under the command of Col. Burleson, and a
party of Mexicans and Indians, headed by
Manuel Flores, which resulted in the total dis
comfiture of the Mexicans and Indians. It
was supposed at first, that the hostile party
were under the command of Cordova, but sub
sequent events prove the contrary—he was at
the time at Matamorns, sick ; but had entrus
ted to Flores, the opening of the contemplated
campaign against this country. Flores fell in
the engagement, and many documents were
found in his possession, developing a deep laid
plan fur harrassing our frontiers by instigating
the Indians to' hostilities. Several commis
siotts wero sent to Bowles and other leaders of
the hostile bands, from Valentin Canalizo, the
Mexican commandant at Matamorns. The
death of Flores and the capture of the mules
and supplies of his party has, no doubt] put nn
end to the promised visit of Cordova himself.
! There can no longer be a doubt of the foct
thnt ffte Mexicans are using all exertions to
keep alive the dissemions on oUt frontier—
not daring to invade and again tVust to their
[own powers.. Tite following plan of the cam
paign was found* among the other documents
upon the persotr ®f Flores, and hns been traits,
lated, and kindly transmitted to us for pwbli
cation. Nafibnal (Texas) Intelligencer.
JCr Several original articles. In type, and a nunvßer
of advertisements, are crowded ou.'. They shall ap
pear next week.
Lottery of Paintings.
THE undersigned proposes to distribute, by wa v of
Littery, cm Saturday, the 17th of August next, in
this City, NINE PAINTINGS, two of which w-ill be
Portraits of the successful adventurers, and respectful
ly incites the attention of the public to the following
2 Portraits, S ULMt 8200
1 Victoria, (after Paris,) 100
1 Sleeping Beauty, (after Byron,) 50
1 Gulnare, do. 50
l Theresa, do. 50
1 Leonora, do. 30
1 Dudu, do. 30
1 Mora, do. 30
9 Priaes, < 510
IC3 Tickets, at $5, 8540
Those numbers drawingthe prizes Pbrtraits, will en
title the holders of such to a likeness of themselves,
provided they will sit for the same whenever called up
on. The Portraits will be painted the usual size, and
after the Artist’s best style. Frames are not to be in
cluded, but will be furnished to such as may watit them,
at the usual prices, so soon as they are obtained.
Those tickets drawing the other prizes will entitle the
holders to such Painting as may be drawn to its num
ber ; and should the holders of such prizes wish to have
their Portraits taken, the Pictures will be received in
part payment, at the prices estimated in the scheme.
There being 108 Tickets and 0 Prizes, there will be
99 Blanks. 'The u.dersigned will receive each ticket
dtawn a blank at the value of S9O in Portrait Painting,
provided that not more than one blank be applied to
wards the Painting of any one Portrait; and provided
also, the holders of 9uch blanks present themselves and
demand compliance with this proposal within the ten
dans succeeding the Drawing.
Should the whole number of Tickets not be sold by
the 17th of August next, the drawing of the LOTTE
RY will be postponed until the TicKets are all sold, of
which public Police will be given ; as alsoat what place
the Lottery will be drawn, one week before the draw
ing.
The Drawing will take place under the inspection of
Gentlemen whose character and standing in this com
munity will afford abundant testimony that it will be
conducted m a fair and honorable manner.
Specimens of some of the above Paintings may be
seen at the Painting Rooms every day, Sundays except
ed, between the flours of 10 A. M. and 4 P. M , where
: Tickets may be bought for the CASH ONLY.
THE ARTIST.
Macon, July 27 40
DIVIDEND No. 5.
Monroe Rail Road and Banking Company, l
Macon, July 25, 1839. )
?JIIIE Board of Directors of this institution has this
“ day declared a Dividend for the last six months of
Three Dollars per share on the capital stock between
Macon and Forsyth, and a proportionate rate on the
Extension, above Forsyth. The some will be p-id
j to Stockholders or their legal representatives, on and
after the first of August.
JEREMIAH LEAK, Cashier.
j July 27 40
MR. a. R. McLAUGHLIN is duly authorized to
act ns ntv Agent during my absence from this
State. All persons having unsettled business with the
undersigned will please call on him.
ISAAC
Macon, July 27, 18394 Sp
jm TO KENT,
| A large, airv and convenient Sleeping Room;
directly over Messrs. S. J. Ray 4. Co.’s Stores
: Apply to REA & COTTON. ‘
July 27 40
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J benefitted by the use of Peters’ Pills? —No! as
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I tested public opinion that Dr. Peters’ Pills is the meth
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uberance of health, like over-rich soil becomes rank,
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But healthy men have an antipathy to the name of
medteipe ! And no wonder, fir ntneteen-twcnticthsof
all the medicines in the world commence opera'ions
hy making the people very sick, whom it was intetidel
they should make very well; and thus in most catsi
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; she is her own physician, and very particular in the
j choice of her medicine, and the especial one, tiltu she
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! subject, and think better, and more to the point on it,
after he has vivified his system by a dose offriiiti one to
! four of Peters’ Pills. Persons in business, merchants,
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bouses without a regular supply of Peters’ Pills.
This popular medicine is for sale by
HARVEY SHOTWT.LL.
Retail price, 50 cents per box,. wutyfull directions.
July 27 40V t
INOUR months after date, application will b* made
■ to the Honorable Inferior Court of Twiggs conn
ty, while Bitting for ordinary purposes, for leave m sett
the Negro belonging to the e.suu- of 111011108 Zorn,
late of said ooumv, deceased.
CHARLES C. WHITEHEAD, Adm’r.
June I 3* 1