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COLUMBUS HF.NTfNF.fi AND SERALD. VOL. X.J PUBLISHED KTERV THURSDAY MOIMXU BY I JOSEPH STUIIGIS. O* BROAD mET, OVER AI.LES AND YOUBG’b, m'ixtoih row. I’E RMS—-Subscription, three dollars per an num payable in advance, oprou/, dollars, (in ail case . ex. cted) wkere payment is not made before the expiration of the year. No subscription received ‘or less than twelve months, without paynen: iua<ivauce, and no paper discontinued, except at the option o! th : Editors, iinlil ail arrearages a r epaid. advert IS EM ENTS eon- p'cuonsiy inserted at oxt dollar per one 1. indeed word's, or less, for the nrst insertion, anti fifty ce.xts for every subse quent continuance. Tlio. ■; sent without a specifiea tion of tlio number of insertions, will be published until ord :rcii out, ar.d charged accordingly. 2d. Yearly advf.b tisemests. — For over 24, and not exceL Ting So lines, fifty dollars per a-invni ; for ovr 12, and not exceeding 21 lines, thirty-five dollar per annum \ for less than 12 lines, twenty dollars per annum. sd. All rule and figure work double the above piic^s. Legal Advertisxmf. xts published at the usua ! rates, and with strict attention to the requisitions of the taw. All Sales regulated by law, must he made before the Court louse door,between (lie hour* of 10 in the morning and 4 in the evening—those of Land it. the county where it is s;tua‘i ; those of Personal Property, where tbs letters testamentary, of admin istratlon or of guardianship were obtained—and are required to hr previously advertised in some public Gazette, as follows: Sheriffs’ Sai.es under regularexectt’ions for tiiik ty days, under mortgage ti las sixty days, before the day of sale. Sales of Land and Negroes, by Executor'', Ad ministrators or Guardians, for sixty days before the day of sale. sales of Personal Property (except Negroes) forty \ DAYS. Citations by Clerk? of the Cour's of Ordinary, upon application for letters of administration, must be published for runny days. Citations upon application for dismission, by | Executors, Administrators or Guardians, monthly j for six months. Orders of Courts of Ordinary, (accompanied with a copy of the bond or agreement) to make titles | ■ro land, must he published phree months. ! Noticf.s by Executors. A Iministrators or Guardians, of application to the Court of Ordinary for leave to sell the Land or Negroes of au Estate, four MONTHS. Notices by Executors or Administrators, to the Debt ors and Crodhorr ■>< an Hstat*\ so- six weeks. Sheriffs. Clerks of Court, will be allowed the usual deduction. Letters on business, must he tost paid, to entitle them to attention. MANSION iuorsir. JACOB BA it ROW, U J ESPEOTFUI.LY informs the pubitc that he jK.sL has opened a HOLFtSE in the business part of Broad Street for the accommodation of Travellers, and has built new stables on his o vn let by the solici tation of his customers. March 21. ‘ 5 ts y.v w. THE subscribers havingconirbcicd theitlscdvc.a the practice cf LAW, will attend all the County Coin is of the Cht.'tahoeel.ee Circuit, and the adjoining coun.ies ol Alabaeis., Office in Mclntosh Row, iin mediately over Allen f’ i oiigg's Store. ALEP F.I * IVERSON, June M. 19tf J. M. GfTKRH V. COLUMBUS IIOTTVL, 1810, f pPltle subscriber respectfully informs his friends and Jj_ the public gen -rally, that he “till continues to occupy tho above establishment, where he. promises refreshment and comfort It; the traveller and border. His own persoi.il at to. Don will be ghicn to his busi ness. in which bo hopes io giv general satisfaction, ami share a libera! patronage amongst, his brother chips. . .J'v“S,ld If. I -VEKA EG. Columbus, Ga., Jsn. Cl, iß4e 61 ts <• vuti >TAT.Gt oil SODA vr tr:-.;;. f KJV IE subscribers are now prepared to iurni h their j M. cnsto n .TS an.l the public v/ub .Carbonated oi J So.il Water. i j I’.i oi app trains is corrtri.r.i’d in such a manner, j lifii of soeii materials as to prevent the pcssibiiily t j mv inotalic or delenoiis impregnations. TAYLOR & YVALICKiI, j Sign of the Golden Mortar, Broad si. Columbus. ! April 2L I_OY POUT & HAMILTON, ATTORN “AS AND C ‘ *.\’SEM.-OP.S AT I AM, Lumpkin, Stewart e ujoy, Georgia- j V. L.i.t \M .t. FORT, . JOHN 0. HAMILTON. September P, ls-10. ’h t V\l. IT A til. K I’LAJfT VI ION FOll SALE dTIiJN I'AINING Two Hundred Two and a Ha! H.. 0 Acres of Land.mixed with oak and pine. ‘1 here ire eighty acres cleared. Also, a comfortable dwel inu. with all necessary out offices, a good gin house Did packing screw, a peach and apple orchard. the ;■ ntiro under good fence. It is situated within 1 miles of Columbus, joining the plantation formerly owned! oy Thomas C. Evans, Esu. Persons wishing to juir jijase cannot find a more desirable location than the aiio ottered for sale by the subscribers. JOHN CODE, Dee. 6. 44tf JOHN Q.ITIN • THOMPSON’S UTERINE TRUSS. Jhi effectual and radical cure for polapsus \ uteri . THE suhsrribers have taken the agency for the above valuable instrument, and have now on liand and wilt constantly,keep a variety of patterns, which they will sell at iVI inufacturers’ prices. These Trusses arc superior to any instrument ot the kind ever invented, and are now extensively employed bv i coin of the most eminent practitioners in the United I States. We annex the certiffcalrofthc late Frefessor Eberle. | who used them with great success in his own practice, j * CtxoiNtfv r ri, Ohio, May 51th, 1839. j ‘ l have carefully examined the Uterine ‘1 rnss in- 1 x by Dr. Thompson of this Slate, and I can con- j li.lei'll? declare, that it is unqttvstion dflv the mov I perfect atitl useful instrument of the kind that lias evei j been offered to the public. It differs essentially in j construction from the Utero Abdominal Supporter ! constructed by Dr. HuH,and is in all respects a far! mperior instrument.’ The subscribers have also r.'iciv;d the agency ff>r F>r. Chase’s Improved Surgical Truss, which is uni versally- admitted to be the most certain and lasting cure ever discovered for Hernia or Rupture. TAYLOR & tVAKHR. Druggists, Sign of the Golden Mortar, Broad-si. Columbus. June 20. 1539. 28‘t WARE HOI AND COMMISSION BUSINESS. f'g'y’lK tin lorsigned would inform his friends and a the public generally, that he will continue the nb.>ve business at his Old Stand in Front street, oppo site the new bn :k building of James 11. Shorter, Esq. ml that Ins personal attention will be exeli.-u.vl_v devo ted to the ame. By strict attention thereto,he hopes to have a continuance of the liberal patronage hereto fore bestowed upon him lie will us usual attend to the sale of Cotton, from wagons or in store; and from a .*enoral acquaintance with the purchasers and true situation of the market he bebev'-s he can generally m ire thau save the com nission in the sale of cotton. \VM. P. VU.XGK, Columbus, Sept. ID, 1539. S3v He h is in store for sale, Liverpool and 3.own Salt in sacks, Chewing Tobacco and Sugars, Ciiamoaig 10 Wine, in baskets and boxes, Bagging and Bale Rope LOOK AT THIS. RUN* AIV U'f.un the subscribers, about the first j March last, a negro uian by name Presley, i about forty years ot age, somewhat rey h.ur, very 1 thin, or perhaps no hair on the top of the h ad. quite ! black eves small and deeply sunk in the h ad. wide between the teeth,’broad shoulders, ami stoops, he is I rather intelligent, though .unprepossessing in appear-i ance, makes greai prolcssioit ot religion, and pray> tti ; public every o uioriunitv. He was m the iictghoorhoo<i ; of Greenville, Meriwether county, som ■ til ecu days after leaving this place; where he leu on the 29sh nit. taking his wife with him, who belongs to Freeman McClendon, living near Greenville; she is by the name of Julia, twenty vears of age, common size, a bright copp r color, and ver iiktly. It is believed r lat they were taken off by a white man, and probably t avelltug west in a gtg, as such nforinatioti reached Mr. McClendon. A suitable reward will he given for the apprehen on of said negroes and thief who eairied them away ad information given to either of the subscriber? FRF.EMAN McCLENDON, JOHN C. MANGHAM. \ aril 16, IS4O. 9tf aEW BOOKS. THC subscribers have just received a large sup ply of Law, Medical Theological, Miscellane ous and School Books, to which they invite the atten tion of the public. NORTON dt LANG DON. October 7, 1640. 34 St | & KUGiIiCS, Attorney at Law, Guthber i ia.fi Georgia. Jan. 2j. 1640. £) ts *'A€rsi.vcii: ; COMMISSION BUSINESS, CHARLESTON, SOU TH CAROLINA. \ IE subscribers continue their business at lhei> iS. old stand, on Biyee Cos. whxrf, Chaileton, and aie prepared to make liberal advances on Cotton consigned to their care. COuLINS & CLEVELAND. S.-pf ember 5, 1840. 29 2m U7\R VIIOUS2 AND COMMISS I >:* BUSI.VSS9. THE undersigned having associa ( <*> H fed themselves under the firm of Hall, lit--.- ... Ruse Hi Cos. for the purnose of traits- acting a general Commission and *..-o vVarch-iiise business; would inform tfieir friends and the public, that they are now prepar ed lo atteii 1 t any business entrusted to their charge. Their VVdiehou-e being constructed of Brick and detached from all other buddings, may be considered in all respects as entire Fire-proof. Planters will therefore find it for their interest to store with them on account ot the great saving in the premium of Insur ance, and the additional safety to those who do not insure. They are prepared to advance liberally upon cotton and other merchandize stored with then, and their rates c>f storage and commissions, and all other char ges will he as low as those charged by other houses in tiie 3 ati'c line of business. 7. A. DEBLOIS, H. T. HALL, if. N. RUSEi j TilliV TTAVE NOW IS STORE FOR SALE. COl| bags prime Havana Coffee, Si) 1 ) piec s best Kentuekv Bagging, 150 coils best Kentucky Rope, 25 bales domestic Goods received direct from the manufacturers. August 29, 1840. 28r.fi CO El MISSION BUSISESS. * rnniHW subscribers nave tins day formed a connec-] J3. lion, under the firm of ROWLAND f; BAR-j S TOW. or tiie purpose of transacting a CjEKEK> | AL,€OM.JIIS.iION BUSINESS? in BAVAN- | NAIL ) J d r ;iotilar attention wn be paid to receiving i and forwarding Produce and Merchandise. ‘They I ar. not in eresied in any of the Tran -put tat ion l ines, at*'] assure their friend-, that, in aii cases, such con veyances shall be sefect-d as to promote their inlet - cst. Wff.T.IAM H ROIVLANtJ, ! ELIAS B BARSTOW. Savannah, 2u h June. 1840.-5 in6l-22 TAVBiIJI F. t U s tUi. 4f Ft, >t previously disposed of, will be sold cn Tm*s- ! j*. day. the 1 r-th day of Septcmbc next, by the sub scriber, nt. public auction, that well known Tavern and ! furniture, known as the TALhOTTON HOTEL.! This house is well established art iin good repair with ! all ttecc-s try outhouses convenient. Persons desiring ! to piiretu- e surh properly are requested to c ii and | examine the premises* terms ill be made, liberal, and | lmlisnottihlc iitles piveti. .B. WHITiIURST. Talbotion. Ga., A ugtisi 11 1840. 25 tds. PHOENIX HOTEL, T.umvkin, Suwart County , Georgia. f T'vlE subscriber having taken tiie above house, JsL situated on tnc North Erst corner oi the court hoitrfc sqiui.e, foruierly < veupied bx Mr. Beachani. takes pleasure in informing lit:; friends pud,the public gem-raliy. that this new and eoinmodiutly establish in nt is now completed,And in every way fitted up fir tlm accommodation ot hoarders and travellers • the .suliS'i Iher wiil give lit-, personal attention to the super vision ot the house, and no pains or expense will be j spared to render all comfortable who may favor him I with a call. N. P. ii is stToTfis arc escwDau't.- nd will at all times ! be uotm'i'iilly supplied with provender, and attended ] hv a ste:nh. industrious and tru ;y outlet. who will at ! all tiiivs hi in his place and subject io*he c,,mnisn-ls of ti e visitor. GIDEON H. CKOXTON. .Tan 25—01-ts DisxhUA iOX. I P'XX;*? cnn.irtnership heretofore existing under firm j jJL ofDrs. CHD’LEY & S'iTiLE.Y, is this day ! dissolved hv mutual consent. ‘J he hook* arid accounts I are in ihe hands of Lr. Schley, v. ho is authorized to J settle them. Persons halt bu dto: he firm <re respect- | fully requested to call as earlv as possible and settle, j W. S. Oll’.Pf EY, V M. K; SCHLEY. July 23, 1840. 24 ts LAW NOTICE. rTTVIE undersigned will attend to ihe PRACTICE 1 f* OF LA'.V, in the name of JONES & BLN NING. in most of the counties of this Circuit, and a few of the adjoining c.iutlpes ot Alabama. Their Office wiil be found near the Oglethorpr House. SEABURN JONES. H 1 •: NR Y L. BE NNIN 3. Sept. 18,183?. $3 ts pr’ SALE f tract of land, known as The Broken Arrow Bend, on the Chattahoochee river, seven miles beiow Columbus, on the Alabama side of th.c river, containing fourteen hundred and forty-two acres, nine bun rc 1 of which are equal, if not stmerior. to any land on the river; with live hundred acres of cleared land under good {.mce ar.d in a high state of cultivation; the bahioc -of the tract :s thin oeir out hickory, and 1 june lands, with good water and healthy situations IW ; residence, eti winch put is a good house tor an over suer and r -aro houses lor tiv.y ncgioes. Poisons w ish ing to purcliase e. river plantation would do well to ex amine it while the crop is growing. JOHN CROWELL. Sen. , Fort Mitchell, August 12. 1840 26—ts ; BOOKS ANO STATIONERY. I mrORtON & J.ANODON, Booksellers, Co-j i lumbus, Georgia, have just received, and offer j I tor sale, on ihe most rear: nab e terms a large and ! general irtinent of School, Classical Law. Aiodi- j I cal,Theological, Historical an 1 Miscellaneous Works, , | Also, Bl ink Books, Paper. lrk,U>ulls, Paper Hang ings, Borders’, fine Cutlery. Fancy Articles', Music, j I Musical instruments, and Stationary of very de- j ; scttpiioii. Teachers. School Committees etui Literary j I Institutions supplied at the lowest prices. Columbus. Ov. 14. 1849. 35 ?t A t-ARP. fJSN.IE subscriber offers ins services to the Mer ; Tl chants. J.a vers, &c. of thi tty, as a general accountant. T.ioso whose business would not afford to keep a , emu i.ent Book Keeper, have noiv un op- i pariuiiity of getting tlnir Books and Accounts written I up and made out neatly and correctly every month, if j required, for a moderate comp’ n-a ion. IP’ wiil also attend to any ether description cf writ ! ing or cu.'iectirg, such as making out Heeds, JVI -| gages. Colton B.i.s, Invoices, i-c. and respectfully i sot it? parroiKige. H. G. DONOVAN. ‘ Columbus, Oct. 14, 1840. John | WILLIAM HENItY HARRISON’S I IFF, bv different authors, lor salt by ’ N ORTON & LANG DON. October 7, IS if ‘*4 8t TO COTTON PLANTERS. rNNHE subscriber is now offering for sale a quantity Jti. of valuable land. Persons wishing to establish I cot on plan ations in anew country, in the finest cotton j grow ing region of the Bouth, wculd do well to exam- \ ice those lands. They he mostly in the county of j Macon, and valuable tracts miimaia'ely in the vicint- ! tv of that bCatnnr'l and r ora unite region denominated j the CiiUHUemtgga ridge, where the atmosphere is pure t and elastic, and abounding v. uh fresh bold fountains of j cool fine water as can be found in any mountain region j of the South. There are also in tiv neigl.borhoi lof i tin >c lands two or three well improved plantations for ! -a e—some believ.d to be as pr< uctire as anv in j Ala'tama, as ten bales of cotton to the hand have been 1 made. Persons wishing to purchase apply to the subscriber, at Vatverdi P. O Macon county. ALoama. August 16 -7 3m. H BLACKMON. The Columbus Enquirer and Georgia Jeffersonian j l will cop th -above three months and forward their accounts to the subscriber. H. B. COItHttISSION BUSINESS. A PAL ACHIOOL A FLOR IDA. THE sttlis’ribers having formed a connection for tne transaction of a general Commission Busi ness at Apalachicola, tinder the firm of LOCKHART & YOUNG, solicit a share of public patronage. HUNKY LOt"KHART. late or AVanen co., Ga. \\ M. H. YOUNG, form Twig s co.,Ga. REFERENCES: STttv.tßT & Fo.vtaine, t ilii-b, Dawsqs k Cos. } Columbus, Ga. Matthew RoCiXsOT.Esa. S Willi utt Boyxto.v Lsq. * L kin Ga \V. A. kAHSoig, Es. S r Frederick Beali.. F.sq.. Fi, r< ncc, Ga. A Li. ex & Glennvflie, Ala. L. C. Habi;iso>. Esq., Irwintou, Ala. October 1, IS4G. S3 4t •VT: r/JLD THESE TRUTHS TO HE. SF.fiF-E VTDE' Trn , THAT ALL MEN ARE BURN EQaJAL.* COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 28, 1840. THK SFiMINOLE>. Fiom the lime oi the ciiitßtr.eal cruiiitius of old Ponce tie Leon in search of the Foun tain ol Youth; the avaricious expedition ol Pampinlo de Narvez in quest. and the chivalrous emerprise of Hernando de Soto, to discover and Conquer a second Mex o>, the natives of Florida have been contin taiiy subjected Jo tiie invasions and encroach ments oi white men They have resisted them Lot fruitlessly, and are now batiiintr amidst svvamps and morasses, for the loolboid d‘ ttieii native soil, withal: ibe ferocity of despair. Can we worn! ra* the bitterness of a hostility iliat has been banded down from father It) son, for upwards of three cent cries, and exasperated by the wrongs and’ miseries of'each succeeding gen eration? The very name of the savages with which we are lighting, betokens ihetr fallen and homeless condition. Formed of tiie wrecks of ouce'powerful tribes, nr.d driven Irom their ancient seals of prosperi.v and dominion, they tire known by tire name oi’ <lie berninoles, or ‘Wanderets.’ llarlram, wiio travelled through Florida ..1 the latter part of the last century, speaks ol passing through a great extent of ancient indtan fields, now silent and deserted, over grown will) lorests, orange grove-, and tank vegetation, the site of the ancient A ! achua, the capital of a famous and powerful tribe, who in days of old could assemble thousands at hull play and other athletic exercises ‘over these then happy fields and green plains. 5 ‘Almost evety step we take,’ adds he, ‘over these fertile heights, discovers ihe remains and (races of ancient human habitations and cultivation. 5 About the year 1733, when Florida was ceded by the Spaniard to the English, we are told that the Indians generally retired from i Ihe towns and (lie neighbothood of the whites, j and burying themselves in tiie deep forests, j intricate swamps and hammocks, and vast I savannahs ol tiie interior, devoted ttiein | wives lo a pastoral life, and the rea ing of ! horses and cattle. These are the people that received the name of Serninoles, or Wander ers, which they sliil retain, i Barnaul gives a pleasing picture of them at the time lie visited them in ‘.heir wilder ness; wh re their distance from the abodes ot tiie white mart gave them a’’ transient and quiet secuiity. ‘This handful of people,” says lie, ‘possesses a vast territory, d| East and Ihe greater part of We-t Florida, which being naturally cut and divided into thousand of islets, knolls and eminences, by lire innu merable rivers, lakes, swamps vast savan nabs and ponds, form so m my secure retreats and tempora y dwelling places that effectual !y guard them from any sudden invasions or attacks from their enemies; and being such a swampy, hammock/, country, fur nishes such a plenty and variety of suppl es for (he nourishment ol‘ varieties of animals, that ! can venture to assert, that no part of the globe so abounds with wild game, or creatures fit lor the food of man. ‘‘Thus they enjoy a superabundance of ihe ‘necessaries and conveniences of hie, with the | security of persons and property, the two | great concerns ol mankind. “The’ hides of ! deer,bears, tigers and wolves, together with | honey, wax md oilier product ons of liie • country, purchase their clothing, eqttinage, end domestic utensils from tiie whites. They seem to be free from want or desires. No cruel enemy to dread; nothing to g vo them I disquietude, but the gradual encroachments t>( the white people. Tims contented and undisturbed, they appear as blith turn free as the birds ol the air, and like them as volatile and active, tuneful and vociferous. ‘1 lie vi sage, action, and deportment oft he Serninoles form the most striking picture oi’ happ ness it; this life; joy, contentment, love and friendship, j without guile or affection, seem inherent in i them, or predominant in their vital ptinciple, | lor it leaves them with but the last breath of ( life. * * * They are fond of games and gambling, and amuse themselves like children, !in relating extravagant stories, to cause sur prise and mirth. 5 The same writer gives ar. engaging picture of his treatment by ihese savages. ‘ Soon after entering the I'orestP, we were met iti ihe path by a small company of In dians, snrvTtngand beckoning to us long before we joined them. This v;as a family of Tala hasochte, who had been out on a hunt, and were returning'home loaded with bat hacued meat, hides, and honey. Their company con sisted of the man, his wife and children, well mounted on fine horses, with a number of pack horses. Tiie man offered us a fawn skin of honey, which I accepted, and at partingpre settled him with some fish hooks, sowing nee dles. etc. ! ‘On our return Jo camp in (he evening, v/e we saluted by a party of young Indian war- I riors, who had pitched their tents on a green lemirterce near the lake, at a small dis.ance { from our camp, under a litlie grove of oaks land palms. ■ This company consisted ofsev jcn young Se-hinolea, under the conduct of a young prince or chief of Talahasohte, a town southward in the isthmus. They were I all dressed and painted with a singular e!e ----j gattce, and rieJiiv ornamented vvirli silver plates, chains, els. after ;!.e Seminole mode, ; wii ii waving plumes of feathers on their | crests. On out coming up to them they a ! rose and shook hands, we alighted and sal a j while with them by their cheerio! fire. ‘The young prince informed our chief that | lie was if) pursuit of a voting fellow who had i tied from the town, carry mg nil’ with him one of Ids favorl'e young wives. He ssio, merrily he would have the ears of both of them before he returned. He was rather above the middle stature, and the most per- Itcl human figure I ever saw: of an amiable, engaging countenance, air and deportment; free and familiar in conversation, yet retain ing a becoming gracefulness cud dignify. \\ e arose, took leave of them, and crossed a jiit'le vale, covered with a charming green ’ lurf, already illuminated by the soft light of j ihe lull moon. ‘S on after joining our companies at camp, jour neighbors, tire prince and his associates, j paid us a visit. We treated them with the i hrst fare we had, having till this time pre served our spiritous liquors. They left us ; with perfect cordiality and cheerfulness, ; wishing us a good repose, and retired to their j own camp. Having a band of music with . them, consisting ol a drum, times and rattle jgouid, they entertained us during the night ! with their music, vocal and instrumental. There is a languishing softness and nielan- . eholy air in the Indian convivial songs, es pecially of the amorous class, irresistibly mov ing attention and exquisitely pleasing, espe cially in their solitary recess, when all nature is silent. Travellers who have been among them in more recent times, before they had embarked in their present desperate struggle, represent ti.ern in much the same light; as leading a pleasant, indolent life, in a climate that re quired but little shelter or clothing, and where the spontaneous fruits of the earth furnished subsistence without toil. A cleanly race, de lighting in bathing, passing much of their time under the shade of the’r trees. w,;h heaps ts ortiig-.- and other fine fruits or their re freshment; talking, hogihng. dancing and sleeping.—Every chief had a lan hanging to his sice, made of the wild turkey, the ber.uii I‘ul pink colored crane, or the scarlet fta.nitigo. With this he would sit and fan himself with great stateliness, while the young people danced before him. The women joined in the dances with the men, excepting the war dances. They wore strings of tortoise she Is and pebbles around their legs, which rattled :n cadence with the music. They were treat ed with more attention among tiie Serninoles. U;3ti among most Indian tribes. — Cuuju; Papers in ihe Knickerbocker. From the JVrtt) York Sunrity ?>h r'u, 7. I AN AMUSING SPEC J MEN OF HUMANITY 1 Who ever travels through any of the New ! England Staler, and twigs as he journeys i the eccentricities ol some ofithe natives, can not fail to be amused; and may it lie choose, ‘ derive many new ideas in respect to etymo- i logv and dive-sity of character. Some years since an acquaintance of ours ; set out, ort horse hack, from the eastern part j of Massachusetts for the Green Mountains ! of Vermont. While travelling through the j town of New Salem his road ltd into a piece i of woods, of some five miles in length, and long before he got out of which tie began to entertain doubts whether he should ever be biest with the sight of a human habitation; but as all tilings must have an end, so at last had ihe woods, and the nut brown house of a farmer greeted his vision. Near the road was a tall, raw-boned, overgrown, lantbern j 1 wed boy, probably seventeen years of age, digging potatoes. He was a curious figure to behold. What was lacking in ihe length of his :ow breeches was amply made up ibr behind: his suspenders appeared to he com posed of birch bark, grape vine and sheep skin; and as for bis fiat, which was of dingy white felt—poor thing! it had once evidently seen better days, but now, alas! it was only 1 lie shadow of its glory. Whether the tem pests of time hail beaten the top in, or the lad’s expanding genius had burst it out, was (i Ifictill lo tell; at any rate it was missmg— and lhroui h the aperture red hairs in abun dance stood six ways for Sunday. In short, he was one ol tiie roughest specimens of domestic manufacture that ever mortal be held. Our travelling friend, feeling an itching to scrape acquaintance with trie critter, drew up the reins of Ins horse, and began: ‘‘Hallo, my good friend, can you inform me how far i: is to die next house?” Jonathan started up—leaned on his lme handle—rested one loot on the gantbril of his sinister leg, and replied: ‘‘Hullo yourself! bow’d dew?—wall, ! just can. Taint near so fur now as il used to be afore they cut the woods away--then ’twas generally reckoned four mile, but now the sun shrivels up the road, and don’t make tnore’n lew. The fust house you come to, though, is a barn, and the next is a haystack; but old Hoskin’s house is on bevant. You’ll be sure to ‘meet his gals long afbr? rou get there; tarnal rouipt’ critturs, they plague our tniks more’n little. llis sneep git into our paster everv day, and his gals in our orchard. Dad sets the dog arler tiie sheep and me ar- j ter the gal. I —and the way he makes the wool, and J tiie petticoats fly, is a sin to snakes.” ‘I see von are inclined to be facetious, young man—pray tell me hotv it happens dial one Oi ~0111 |eis is shorter than the o! tier?’ I never ’lows any body to met! He will) my grass tanglers, mistur; but scein’ it’s you I’ll tel! ve. i was,born so al m;t tickler request, so that when 1 hold plough, I can go with one foot in the furre'r, and T’other cm lain], and not lop over; besides, ii is very convenient when i mow round a side hill.’ ‘Very good, indeed—how do your potatoes come oil this year? ‘They don’t come al all: I digs ’em out; and there’s an everlastin’snarl of’em in each hill.’ ‘But they are small, I perceive.’ ‘Yets, i knows i:—you see we planted some vvhoppen’ blue noses over in that ere patch there, and they florislied snail firetllv that these ere stop! growin’ jist out of spite; cause they know’d they couldn’t begin lo keep up.’ ‘You appear to be pretty smart, and I should think von could afford a better hat than the one you wear.’ ‘ Tiie looks aint nothin’; its ail in the beha vior. This ere hat was my religious Sunday, go-tn-meetin’ hat and its just as chock full of piety now, as a dog is full of fleas. I’ve got a better one, to hum,-hut I don’t dig ’talers in it. no how.’ ‘You have been in these parts some time, I should guess?’ . ‘1 guess so tew. I was horn’d and got my bro’t’n up in that ere house; but my native place is down in Po r duuk.’ ‘ Then you say it is about three and a half miles to the next house?’ ‘Yis sit, ’twas a spell ago, and I don’t be lieve itsgrow’d much shorter since.’ ‘Much obliged. Good by.’ ‘Good by to ve—that’s a darn slick mare of vourn.’ ~There, reader—there is a Jonathan for you of u e first water. You don’t find his equal every where. The Siamese Ticins. —There are very few persons who know what lias become ol Chang and Eng, or where they are. They may by gratified to learn that they have “settled down lor life,” on a fine farm in Trapp Hill, a post town in Wilkes county, N. C. They write us that they are delighted with their farming operations, and are as happy as lords.—Bos ton Transcript. Charity Rewarded: —During the gener al massacre o‘ the French in Spain, one M. i Pierre Bergiere possessed a large fortune in i Valencia, and was remarkable for his singu | lar charity. I’ was not enough for him to as ! sist the poor, the sick, and the prisoner, will) j j continued alms, he visited them and minister -5 ed to their wants himself in the sick mom and jin the dungeon. Yet his well known virtues I d ; d not exempt him from the general proserip -1 tion of his.countrymen, and he, too, having been confessed and absolved, was thrust out to the executioners. The wretch who was about to strike him was one whom he had frequently relieved in prison, and, upon re cognising him, withheld bis arm calling, how ever, to mind, that Bergiere was a French man, he raised it again but his heart again smote him, and saying, “Art thou a devil or a saint, that l cannot kill thee?” fie pulled him ■ through the crowd and made way fur his es -1 cape. Anecdote of the Russian Government. — When one of Alexander’s visits to Warsaw was announced, there was not time to c ear the streets of a quantity of mud which had been scraped in heaps. The poiioe (Rus sians) ordered the windows on the ground fl ior of the houses in these streets to he open ed, and threw the mod into the rooms! One of the bells of Moscow was professedly ban ished to the borders of the icy ocean in Sibe ria, ihree or four hundred years ago, for hav ing tol'e 1 the accession of some pretender to the throne. This man passed himself off as an emperor who was reported to have lieen strangled; hut the deceit was discovered, and his accomplice, the bell, punished by the - knout, as it was found impossible to send it to Siberia, according to ttie sentence. On his accession the present emperor published an ukase, allowing the hell to return to Mos cow, hut not to sound; on t.'rc birth of a son some time after, Nicholas, in a second ukase, g ! a tiled it a full pardon, and it is now allow ed to sound. Prince Roman Sangusko was banished to Siberia aster the revolut on. His father had never given him an establishment, but the Russian Government obliges him In pay to tii -m, annually, the income hi* sou [ ought to have received. A Jew, whom he I (tiie Ia t her) had formerly, been instrumental , • in bringing to justice, had returned fiont ban J ishrnent, and incurred she same puni; hmeut: I to aggravate Prince Roman’s punishment, ! this man was chosen as his companion on tin | journey and chained with him to the same iron bar. From forty to sixty are coupled in | the same manner, and then strung together jon the same chain. When they hail lor the [ mght they are no! Unchained, but are crowd I ed into a sins!! space enclosed hv high stakes I pointed at the top, without any roof, and so small that there is not always space lo lit side by side. A gentleman from Cracow, being at Warsaw, was imprisoned because iis wore a ring engraved with the letters N. F., which, it was insisted, must mean, “Nou veile Pologne.” He was oblig'd to send to Cracow to obtain certificates that these let ters were tiie initial of his mother, and that she had given him the ring.— Athenceum. FINALE TO A COURTSHIP. ‘Flora ah! dearest Flora Flora I am come to —oh ! you can decide my late —I am come, my Flora—ah! ‘1 see you, Malcolm, perfectly. You are come; you tell me interesting, intelligence cer tainly. Well what next?’ ‘Oli, Flora! I am come to—do— ’ ‘To offer me your heart and hand, I sup pose?’ ‘Ves!’ ‘Weil do it like a man then, and not like a monkey.’ ‘Plague take vonr seif possession !’ exclaim ed 1, suddenly slat ting up from mv knee, up on which I ha fallen in an attitude (hut might have won the approval of Madam de Maillard Fruise: ‘you make ire ashamed of myself.’ ‘Proceed, sir. ‘said Flora. ‘You like brevity, it would seem. 3 Yes,’ replied Flora. ‘Then—will you marry me?’ ‘Yes.’ ‘Will you give me a kiss” ‘You tnay take one.’ I look the proffered kiss, ‘Now tiiis is going to work rationally, 3 said Flora, ‘when a tiling is to he said, why may it not he said in two seconds instead of siul leritig and stammering two hours about it?’ Oh! how cordially do I hate all mysteries!’ exclaimed (he merry maiden, clasping my hand energetically. ‘Well then’ said i, ‘humbug apart, ‘what day shall we fix for our marriage.’? ASTHMA.’—A friend informs us, says the Floridian, that a gentleman in South Carolina, has lecti cured of asthma, of many years standing, by tiie use of the root of the cotton plant, green or black seed. A strong decoc tion ol the rout; a tumbler full to be thunk iliree times * day. THE TOMATO.— VV e are receiving new evidence ol the utility of this grateful gatden vegetable in preventing and curing indiges tion, and disease of the liver and lungs. A writer in the Farmer's Register, says it has been tried by several persons, to his know ledge, with decided success. They were aIH cted. says he, with cough, the primary cause of which, in one case was supposed to be diseased liver —111 another, diseased lungs., It mitigates, and sometimes effectually checks a fit'of coughing. Ii was used madned state, with a'little sugar mixed with it, lo ren der it more agreeable to ihe taste. The wri ler expresses a conviction that if freely used in July, August and September, it would prove c complete ahtidols to bilious lever. The tomato, to have it in early use, should be started with us in a hot bed: though if raised in abundance it may he dried, which is our practice and may be at command through the year. The mode of drying is as lollmvs: “Full ripe tomatos are scalded in hot wall r, j to lacilitale tiie operation of taking off'(he skin; i when skinned they are well boiled with a Inile , sugar and salt, but no water, a.,d then spread in cakes about an eight of an-inch tb.ck in sun. They will dry enough in three or four days to pack away in bigs, which should hang 111a dry room.” We consider Affe t>v malo and rhubarb t He most healthy products of the garden. . A Crow wiser than its generation. —We respectfully tell our bi other-of the Dumfries Courier to stand about, tor we have.some thing to narrate that will make him prick up his ears, the truth of which will be vouched to the letter. The proprietor pi’ Doonside, in this’ neighborhood, whose fancy for the rare and eccentric leads him to have many curi osities about his fine residence on the hanks of the Doom, some time ago took a young Crow from his rookery, winch became very i;>me, and which Mr. C. taught to speak several words as plainly as most parrots that have been taught to pronounce the English language with propriety. The sooty favorite was christened ‘Jim,’ artel grew up to crow hood on the hest term3 with a dog named ‘Whirlie,’ and a fine tom cat —the trio form ing a iamilv partly more loving and fond than most lamilv circles in a higher class oi crea tion. When ‘J ni’ go? his bait, l;e never for got his companions, but would £ut?ei on a!! sides ofi is f s an I shout ’ Whirlie, \\ iiirhe, Whir lie!’ till the dog came to partake, and so well was ihe cat accustomed to the sound, that she invariably attended when she heard ‘Whirlie’ called for, so that, to accomodate ihe party, tl e meal was generally enough for s!l the three But the crow would not give a peck till ‘Whirlie 5 and he cat were present to start fair; nor would it go to roost till all the three came to nestle at the fireside together. But nature breaks up the -strongest ties among crows as well ns men. The feathered won der turned out not to be a Jim but a Jenny crow, and as she could not go to seek a mate, by reason of her cropped wings, a mate came and sought her. Nor was his suit in vain. ‘Jenny’ eloped, but the deuce was that the cat followed her, and after site had built her nest on the lowest branch oi a tree, G'imalkin dis- covered her retreai, and tore it down. Her liege lord again prevailed on her to make a fresh attempt, and the lady of the house, with characteristic f-elings. aided her in licriffirt at building, by gathering twigs, with which ‘Jenny’ hopped to a high branch and com- • pleted her nest, which, when last seen, had j •several eggs in it; But the mischief was, wherever poor ‘Jenny’ was fed hv her lord and inns?e r , she. as usual, screeched ‘Whiilie, ; WhirlieF and the rat, sorely troubled at the ; separation, and able to hear it no longer, scrambled up the tree one night last week, la v down with the crow upon the nest, and broke the eggs. The poor crow was thus forced to returne to Doonside H u e. where she co quets a little with the res'. ‘Jim.’ but again feeds and roosts with her old companions— Ayr Advertiser. HERE GOES THE POKER’ The British Whigs, with pockets lined with British gold, and incited with tiie hopes to engraft British principles in the conduct of our Government, are boasting very loudly, and endeavoring to intimidate tiie unterrified Democracy by offers of large bets. To test this sincerity, a wealthy gentleman, residing in Harrison county, Virginia, has authorised us to publish the following proposition.— While we are opposed to betting, particularly 0:1 the result of elections, there are so few of ; our friends able to make or take bets, that we ! are constrained to give publicity to the wishes oi our correspondent. Letters addressed to Levi D. Slamm, editor of New Era, post paid, will he promptly attended to. Sik :—I authorize you to make the follow ing bets for me : that Martin Van Buren will be re elected President of the United Slates. §•‘3,000 that Van Buren will get the elec toral vote of New Hampshire. SO,OOO that he gets the electoral vote cf New York. $3,G00 that he gets the electoral vote of! New Jersey. $3,000 that lie gets the electoral vote of Pennsylvania. $3,000 that he gets the electoral vote of Virginia. $3,000 that he gets the electoral vote of South Carolina. $3,000 that he gets the electoral vote of Alabama. 83,000 that he gets'* the electoral vote of Tennessee. $3,000 that he gets the electoral vote of Arkansas, and 83,000 that he gets the electoral vote of Missouri The whole of the above bets ($40,000) must he taken together, and the money staked immediately. Any British Whig can perceive that the above States are sufficient to elect! Mr. Van Buren, to say nothing of his chaucos in Maine Massachusetts, Maryland, Georgia, j Louisiana, Mississippi, Illinois, OIL . . id Mi chigan as many of which States as ho gets will do for a majority. If the British W nig have as much confidence in the election of Harrison as they pretend, or their foreign fund is not exhausted, I hope they will show their sincerity by accepting my oiler. As I have read in your paper an account of some of the British Whig office-holders suing the stakes-holder of some bet made in your city, to recover his motley, I shall require the take r | of this bet to enter into bonus not lo pursue I such a dishonorable course-—and that the bet! shat 1 be considered as drawn, if either candi-! date dies on or before the fourth o; November; j and I wili do the same on my part. lam yours, truly, SILAS M. JONES. MAJOR EATON “COME AGAIN.” We extract the following article from the Ohio (Columbus) Statesman. It, treats Major Eaton with much kindness—too much, we think. That gentleman has often been charg ed with the disunion of the republican fami ly, in 1830 and if he hopes to play the same part with like success again, he wiil find him self touch mistaken. For our part we think the. administration is happily rid of him, and we are quite as certain that the Whig party ! will not congratulate themselves upon his accession. We know some wings whose ; aversion 1o Mr. Van’ Buren will not be in- creased by the knowledge that it is participa ted by John Hi. Eaton, llis present rupture with the administration confirms our convic tion, and Mr. Van Huron's declaration, that the latter gentleman had no part in the mis understanding between Gen. Jackson and Mr. Calhoun. —Raleigh Standard, 7th inst. Maj. Eaton has, since ’3(5, been Minister Extraord nary to Spain. Asa matter of econ omy, the station was reduced last year to a simple Cl arge, hence his return home. On Major Eaton’s return home Vo Washington, in closing his accounts with the Treasury dc parlment, several items were disallowed as “of an unusual character.” We publish an extract from the Report • f Mr. Forsyth, Sec retary of State, to Congress, dated Dec. 30, 1838 and regrot that, so trilling .an affair should operate so-prejudicial to any one’s reputation as it must to that of Maj. Eaton. “John H. Eaton, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Madrid: For amount charged by him for con tingencies from the commence ment of his mission in 1838, to June *2O, 1839, consisting of sta tionary, postages, fuel, newspa pers, house rent, office furniture, coach hire, books, pictures, of an office messenger, carpeting, and exequators of consuls, <|*2,675 00 Note —Many of the items charged being of o n unusual character, wit! not be allowed in Ike adjustment of the Treasury. Mr. Eaton has been written to on the subject.” Maj. Eaton mack a speech at the dandies, \ “log cabin” last, night which we may notice j hereafter. lie comes out a full blooded Tariff and Bank man, and does not like John C. Cal houn. it seems. We dislike to say aught of a j .ran we have long, and so often, and ardently defended from the deadly shafts of the Nicholas Biddle federalists, aimed at his feelings with the venom of fiends. Had the State Department allowed Mr Ea ton’s account Mr. Van Buren would have been held no to public reprobation as pay ing fayor i'es illegal accounts —and another siring of extra , agant charges would have followed.- Now, Mr, Van Buren is too econirnical, and should be turned out of office because he refu ses to pay “unusual” contingencies! It is no \ surprise that vte daily hear of the whigs who sav that they have bean ‘ humbugged.” and i will no longer support the Harrison party, From the IVaehvillr Union. TO THE OLD PATRIOTS OF THE* SOUTH AND WEST! Andrew Jackson your old chief, ‘is a pri vate citizen Vou followed him to the field; j you fought with him; you conquered with him; you rejoiced with him. Your fame and j his fame, your principles and his principles are identified. He has left the impress of his spi rit on the people with whom he lias associated Trough life, noble, generous, brave and inde-1 pendent. He has breathed new life into the; Republican institutions of his country —and is 1 recognised both at home and abroad aa the greatest man of the age. He is now a private citizen. lie asks the: privilege only which the Constitution guaran tees to every’freeman, however-huruble. Ilis old friends call upon as they would upon any other distinguished citizen in who.-, thev have confidence, to meet with them a- public, din ners prepared in honor of him and the prinei-i | pies which characterized las late adrninistra- j j tion. Whenever his health has pe.-milted, he has joined them, and at ether times has writ- i ten letters of apology expressive of ills views j with regard to trie great contest now waging j between the two contending parties in me: country. His old principles are dear to them 1 —the country’ which he defended, and its in i stitutions, which he has cherished, are the ob- I jects oi his first and last solicitude, j Among the letter? he has recently written to his friends who have invited him abroad, is , the fallowing to the committee of the citizens l of Weakley couniy ‘ * “Hermitage , S,yt. 1, 1840. “ctKntlemex —l am truly sorry tliat the stare ot my health prevents my acceptance of tiie kind in. i ation you have been pleased to convey to me, on behait of the citizens of Weakley county, to partake of a public din ner with them at Dresden. I can scarcely hope to enjoy again, with any considerable portion of my countrymen, the pleasures of the festive board; but I am not the less sensi ble to the kindness which prompts such invi tations, and which on this occasion, particu larly, merits the vvanu st expression of mv gratitude and thanks. “hi regard to th< struggle between the De mocratic. and Federal parties, which is now agitating the country, I now place my confi dence where 1 have a.ways done, in the dis crimination. virtue and firmness of the people, and ldo not doubt or fear the result. The Federalists’ call themselves Whigs, but the people cannot but see that they hold no prin ciples in common with the Whigs of our glo rious Kevohmion. They will be Federalists when they get power, by whatever name they may choose to call themselves before they get it. They will go for a National Bank—for Internal Improvements bv the General Go i verument—for a protective Tariff, unwarrant- I by the Constiluiion—and for that policy, generally, which strengthens the General Go vernment. by taking power unnecessarily from the States and the people. The Demo cratic party, on the contrary, have no profes sions to make which are new or doubtful.— i hey adhere to the Constitution as it was ex pounded by the friends of popular Government —as it was administered by Mr, Jefferson, in the days ot 1800, and as it has been since maintained by those statesmen who have re cognised the principle that the people are able to gov ern themselves. v “Thus looking at these parties—Gen. Har rison representing the principles of the Fed eralists, and Mr. Van Bureii those of the De mocrats or Republicans—l cannot entertain a doubt that the people will rally as they did he contest between the elder Adams and Mr. Jefferson, and repudiate, as they did then, those clamis to power which are inconsistent with the rights of the people and the States. “I am, gentlemen, very respectfully, your obedient servant. ANDREW JACKSON.” Thus speaks the man whose long life has | been successfully devoted to his country.— Witii no ambition to gratify, with nothing to hope for or desire on earth* but the happiness of the American people and the welfare of iheir Government, he sees the gorgon head of Old Federalism as it existed in the Hartford Convention, rising again. Tie was in Con gress with Harrison more than forty years ago. He knows him to have been an old school Federalist—lie has known him inti-, matelv ever since, and no man in the United ►States is better acquainted with his military and civil pretensions than Andrew Jackson. We call upon the old patriots of the South and West to stop for a moment and reflect. If ive any of you lost your course and distance? Have the logs of Federalism shutout the light of truth? Jackson brushes them away as with his right arm, and points to Van Buren as a sure and certain landmark by which the peo ple may again guide their ship of state into the harbor of Republican safety. Once more we ask you to read his letter to Dresden —read it attentively. BRITISH INTERFERENCE. . • Late arrivals from Europe show the deep interest which the minions of the Crown feel in the success of Harrison. The Liverpool Standard of Sept. 4, 1840, says’ “At present Great Britain exercises a POW ERFUL INFLUENCE over the social, •poli tical and fiscal atihirs of the United States.— The dependence of the planters in the South and the commercial men in the North, upon the British market, necessarily superinduces a desire for peace on their part, while it gives this country a large amount of control over the public decisions of those bodies. The ultra re publicans of the States do not relish this con trol. They see that it. interposes A BARRI ER AGAINST TIIE WORKING OUT OF THEIR DEMOCRATIC PRINCIPLES.” Here you have it. True, the Republicans do see it. Their fathers did not relish Bri tish control, neither will they. It is time to talk about the cartridge-box in sober serious ness when the official organs of Great Britain talk of a “control” peaceably obtained which out lathers resisted at the bayonet’s point. Freemen of the United States: Shall Great Britain thus ‘•‘•interpose a barrier against the working out of our democratical principles !”— We will wait till November lor a reply.— Nashville Union. . THE CREDIT SYSTEM. ‘The credit system benefits young men’ says Junius. .‘Not so,* said au old mechanic in our presence, ‘and I can prove it (contin ued lie) by the incidents of every, day. You know B, was a clerk lor A, at the corner store’‘Yes, 5 ‘Weli: B commenced business with a capital of SIOOO, borrowed pf his former employer A. He went on in a care ful mariner and paid from S4O to S6O per year on tire thousand borrowed. At the ex piration of several years, I was present at the settlement. Well, (said A.)after_casting; up the items I find you have paid me S9OO and still owe me SIICC.’ ‘lmpossible’ said B. ‘the original loan war; only slooo—-and, you say I have paid you S9OO and yet $1100 ( remains' 5 ‘The figures show it’ said A—and so they did; the interest had amounted to as much as the principal.—This is the credit system, as it afibets young men, new begin ners, &,r,.— Nashville Union. Wr* rrtt’s Wit!—Mr, Webster caution ed Ins blends m his speech from the Capitol of Virginia, against dissensions of opinions. Iri ihe few following words, he gave the cue of Ifarr sori’s silence, and the refusal of the \Y tgs to declare their principles like men’ anti l:ke freemen: “If, nw friends, there be any question or questions <>l public policy upon which you and I hold diff-rent opinions, these are not the topics which will be brought up for dis cussion to day. [Copers.] Believe me, mv fitends, l am not yet quite soft enough for such an operation as that. [Loud laughter ami great cheering] No, my friends, no, no.’ We have as we say in the North, “other fish to fry.” [Cheers and laughter. J , If Mr. Webster espectc' to'catch gudgeons in Virginia bv this non committal policy, he is mistaken. He knows as little of or mor al character as he does of our DerAtergtic prior i'ples. V7s are not vet quite soft enough to be Caught by such flummery and tricks. • So contradictory are the principles of this j “ringed, streaked and speckled” party that they are ail afraid to avow them, lest thev’ : might disagree and quarrel with each other’ The Methodists in Canada.—-Tho Me. thci.i sts in Can ;da now consist cf nearly 7 one j hundred thousand souls. They have sprung j up in a few years from very small beginnings, and under many disadvantages. It is not many years, says the Quebec Gazette, since the only Methodist preacher in Lower Cana da, was incarcerated several months in the . Quebec jail, for libel; and in Upper Canada, there were only a few wandering missionaries. They hive now numerous substantial clnjr- [NO. 37