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[COSAM EMIR BARTLETT— EDITOR] THE DEMOCRAT, will be published every week in Columbus Muscogee County, i. tor gin at Three Dollars per annum if p <ia in advance] or Four Dollars at the end of the year. It is expected that all application for subscription from a distance will be accompanied with the money. Advertisements will be inserted at reasonable fates Sales of land and negroes', by adminis trators, executors or guardians, are reijuiied by taw to be he'd on the first Tuesday in the month, between the hours of ten o'clock in the forenoon if three in the afternoon, at the court house of the county in which the property is situated. Notice , «f these sales must be given in a public Gazette aixty days previous to the day of sale. Notice of the sale of personal propertv must be givei in a like manner forty days previous to ! the da' <>f sale Notice to debtors and creditors of an estate, must be published forty days. Notice that all application will be made to the court of ord nary for leave to sell land must be published four months. PhUM LC 11, fur publishing at Columbus, (ja a Colittral and Misr.eHan.ious Newspaper, t« be entitled the DEM OC It A T. ju presuming to the pu->ic his Pros pectus for anew paper at Commons, the subscriber dous not deem it necessuiy or expedieot to go into a minute detail of his political doctiines, or of his particular views in regard to the various topics which now engage public attention, lit* pre sumes that his character as an editor is too tvtdl known in Georgia to allow him to gain credit among any party, with mere professions and empty promises. The public wdl be apt to look to the past in for wing their estimate ol ttie future, and by that ordeal is he willing to be tiled, in the numerous political discussions, which the events of the day h ive called forth, his opinions of men and things have been free ly expressed, and aie doubtless familiar to many of those to win m lie now looks for patronage and suppori. Those wfio have hitherto approved of his sentiments and been sa'isfied with the ■>.aimer, in which he ha* uiged then), will, be trusts, still con tinue their confidence, without ihe lenew [hl of pledges, 01 a formal confession of Ufa i'll. I In reference however to the present ite of parties, he begs leave to teinarx, ■nt he irusts the absence of all political excitement, will prove propitious to the pause of ti um; ami that now ail paities, by jjvlmtever names they may have been dis tinguished, wiil be permitted to labor f*r j|b' general wtlfire, unobstructed by the I|‘ lousy, nr the rancor of by-gone feuds. ■*ll6 undersigned will endeavor to eiiend i ■till fuither th's cordiality of leeling, and to • ll.iy the occasional symptoms ol ex cerb ptiou to which a warmly contes'ed election -jginy give rise; and in this, and whatever Mse he may undert he for the purpose ol advancing the prospi iiiv of the state, he wi | count on the cordial co-operatiou ol ©Very good citizen, however they may Wave previously differed on points of polit ijical faith. ■ Attached to the doctrines of the Revoiu m, and hohiiog in high vener tion (he of those h* roi sand sages by Hr horn our liberties weie achhved, and our Miresent admirable lorni ol government es ■ablished, the subscriber will endeavor to Hr-nif st the sincerity of his profit ssiops, by Hxciting a feeling of attachment to the HJhion, and encouraging an entire confi lire in the institutions of our country, sJI - will inculcate the doctrine that it is tier to bear a slight and temporary evil, Against which we have a constitutional Wemedy, than to hazard all for which our jHitlie: s fought and so many maityrs labor -99! and bled He will not in any respect, ■jDverionk or disregard the rights or the in terests of bis own slat -; vet he must always apiew particular rights tod interests, as re wjatively connected with others, and he will Hmver consent to tine sacrifice of a greater aSfi r a lesser good, I The subscriber will endeavor to make ■uae Democrat a vehicle of general *nleUi «>mce, anu an interesting per o heal to the of literature, the agriculturalist 'Sic merchant aud the mechanic. C. E. liartlrtt. A NEW MAP OF GEORGIA. subscribers have now under th< ■J n uids of the engraver in New Yotk, M complete and spteudid m;ip of tho state ■ l Georgia, the greater part compiled Irom survey with all the districts careful mm laid down and uumbered, the whole cum- Ejtb'ted with gieat labor and exactness lrom HShe latest and most authentic information, Sd a style not inferior to any thing yet pre hkfented to the public, with a tab'** ol distan ce-. from the seat of government to every ci’unty site, or place of importance in the fj 'e. The distiicts in the new purchase SHci lower counties are all numbered in the corners so as to enable a person to a seer- Min the exact situation of any lot of land will be painted and finished off in the niannt r, a part of them canvassed mshed and put on rollers, the balance t|i thin paper nicely folded in morocco <p>vers and will be for. sale in MiUedgeviUe the Ist of October. Those on rollers I five dollars, and the pocket map of the ne size, at four dollars. Persons resid :at a distance wishing to procure the p c n do so by sending by the members a sufficient number of them will be kept Mrlledgevdle during the session. Carlton W'elbom , Orange tireen, oct. 1830 AN APPRENTICE\ X7~ILL be taken at this office. A V (mart active lad of {oodmvial cha tter. JNciut; other need apply. PROPOSALS , For publishing by subscription, a compendium of the Imies „J the State of Lieoigio, by Arthur ros'er. Conts-murr nil the statutes, and tho substance . all thei resolutions of a general and public na ture, and now of force, winch have been passed in said State from the year 1820, to the year I82'», both inclusive, with occasional explanatory notes and references, and a list of the statutes repealed or obsolete I’o which is added an appendix, containiiig'the eons'itution of the slate of Geor gia. as amended: also references to such local acts as relate to towns, counties, internal naviga tion, county academies, Ac and a collect ion** T the most approved forms used in carrying the above laws into effect; with a copious index to the whole It will lie something like a continua tion of Prince’s Digest, noting the laws in said Digest, repealed or altered It may be obse ved, that the legi Mature of Georgia are in the constant practice of repealing, altering, or amending laws P a *soil at their previous sessions, so’that without such a digest, or compilation of them, as is now respectfully offered to the public.il actually re quires a lawyer, or a person who has devoted much time to the examination and c »mf>tris >n of the ditf rent enactments of each succeeding ses sion of the legislature, to be acquainted with all the laws which arc of force. And having wilnes sed with much pleasure the immense public utili ty and popularity of the digest compiled by Oli ver If Prince and also having no don' t but a similar compendium of tbe laws from the time of that pub'ication down to the present with the ad dition of the precedents, on forms, which will be placed in the appendix, and which will add great lv to the public utility of the work, and to the fur therance of justice would tie very acceptable to the public, the compiler has ventured upon the arduous and important undertaking. However, not reiving altogether on hi- own experience of having been a member of the legislature during the passage of’he most of the Laws now proposed to be published, and at the administration of them for eight y i ars, as justice ol the inferior! court, in a county where much business of an in tricate naturo is transacted in that court and the ! court of ordinary; after collating vhe manurcript \ it has been placed in the hands of gentlemen ein- 1 inent in the law, who alter a strict and careful ; examination have politely tendered to him the subjoined certificates. f have examined a digest of the Laws of Geor gia from I*2o to inclusive, bv A. Foste,, esq. and think tho work executed with great judg ment and neeuraov. The work is intended as a continuation of Prince’s Digest, and is. in my opin ion, well calculated to answer that valua de pur pose Although the author is not professionally a Lawyer, he seems, in ascertaining tne statutes now of force, to h ve added much care examina tion and'studv, to h’s advantages as a practical le gislate, during most of the period embraced in his work. JOHN P. KING Augusta, July, 1830 Augusta, July 28, 1830. I have attentively examined a Digest of tt La-vs of Georgia, from 1820 t*2 1820 inclusive and find the work is executed with much j"d_ ment and accuracy, b> A Foster, esq.of Colum bia county,. i have no doubt the work will prove valuable to every :iti<en who feels desir oils to become informed of the statutes now of force in the state, and would recommend all jus tices of the inferior court, justices of the peace, cleks, sheriffs. Ac. to possess themselves of the week as soon as published. THOMAS GLASCOCK. Wrightsborough, sth June. 1330. Sir—As far as I have yet had an opportunity of examining the manuscript copy of your digos. ot the laws of the state of Georgia, I highly ap prove both of its plan and execution. The voi time canuot fail to answer well the purpose for which it was intended In the appendix there are a number of precedents or forms, which ap pear to have been modeled with accuracy, and in strict conformity to the digested statues from which they were drawn; and without doubt will add much to the value and usefulness of ‘He work, as a mean (in the hands of the jus,.-.- o the peace, justices of the inferior courts, clerks, sheriffs, young pra< tilioners of the law, and oth ers) in crryiug the above namod laws into effect with greater facility. I am sir your obedient servant, PIERSON PETIT. Arthur Foster esq. The work is now in the hands of Judge Schley, who has kindly promised as early as other en ?ageinents will porinit to take it through a care iil and minute investigation, and correction, if correction shall be found to be necessary and proper The great public ntility of such a wor« muit be obvious to all; aud the compiler, who has de voted to it much time and Irborious study, Hatters himself that the testimonials presented above, will fully satisfv the public, that, that utility has not been lossened in tho slightest degree, by any defect on lub part, in its general design or the ac curacy of its execution (ETAt the suggestion of the professional gen tlemen whose names are affixed to the above cer tificates, and others who have generously taken an interest in the work, and with an anxious de sire to make the work as extensively useful as possible to the public, the compiler will introduce into it seveial highly important laws of the Uni ted States, in common use among the people, and which are often difficult to be tound; among which a-e th’se i relation to the naturalization of aliens the remaval of eases from the state to tho United State courts, the mode of voti g lor president and vice president, by electors, and of making the returns, and the time of holding such elections, TERMS The work will contani about 400 pages, and will be printed after the style of Prince’s digest, which is to be taken as the standard, and bound in law binding; will be published a- soon as a suf ficient number of subscribers can be obtained to warrant its publication, and will be delivered to subscribers at their residences, at $3 50 per co py Any responsible person obtaining fifteen subscribers, and becoming accountable for tho saine,.shall be entitled to one copy gratis. Publishers of newspapers in this state, who will favoi the above with such occasional insertions as they may think proper, till the Ist November next, shall receive therefor a copy of the above work. NOTICE. FOUR months after date. application will made to the' Honorable the Inferior couit of Muscogee county, when settmg f-r ordinary pur poses for leave to sell the real estate of Elijah Jew •ti, late of said county dec’d JOHN LOOMIS, Ex’r. Oct, 16th, 1830 l-w-4-m. NOTICE. Aj,L persons indebted to the estate of Elijah Jewett, lata of Muscogee couny deed, wiil make immediate payment to the subscriber aud those to whom the estate is indebted, will render in their demands in teims of the law, Ult * JOHN LOOMIS, Ex r. Oct Ifi, I&3D. »-<>w COLUMBUB, GEORGIA, SATURDAY yOP MNC, NOVEMBER 27, 1830. From the N. Y. Journal of .miner ce A GHOST STUR« 1 About four years ago, a ccnurc/J female . presentee) herself iu the Police Office, ana related under oath, withm/i the it-run Hp pearattce of any aberration ot intellect, the following story. She hoi baeu a s*rvan\ in the employ of several iiighly respecta ble gentlemen of this city, was married and afterwards removed to Poughk.esiu. Du ring the absence of’ her husband, a tall, slim man, with dark brown hair, and yel low complexion,about 25, appeared to her one night, and stated that he ntd been kil led by two females, who infused poison in to some l.quor he drank, and then robbed •uni of S7O, and his g Id watch worth about J*3oo. fie then suldtny disappear*!.—ln a lew intuuies, she distinctly heard tho pat ting of feet along the chambm li> or, though I sise could not at first distinguish any objne . j At length the form hecim- visible, as it moved 11 wa ds tier bed, —-md when it be- gan to address nor, alio obs'-rved that it v a different poison from tile other, wrapped iu a windin -sheet, with light hair and pale blue eyes.. Il piucee<ied to infill to tier licit lie also had btieo mu den and uy 'lie same females, and robbed ol $ 180.— that he was levelled hy them with a uuge club pounder andafer being beaten to death, iucl<> sed iu a lage Russia sheet yud thiown hy two men into the dock oear New Sl'p, "ti the L isi River. The phantasm, as it fin ished the relation, underwent a horrible change, and (iisappeard, leaving her spell bound and terrified at what she had heard and seen.—A third ti ne, a similar tiead was heard upon the fi ihr, an i a figtue ui marble look <nd deathlike cheeks, appai en3y about 45, stood beside her. i. (old h. r that he was the third victim ol the un hnllowed crimes of the two females and their nssuciatea:—dint they rushed on him wiM* drawn knives, utit'iilsg Horrid imprecations, and buried them in tus blood ; he staggered and ft ) ; aud though ho lifted up his hands for mercy as he wan in the agouies of death, ne only plunged their Knives the deepei, until he fell back and expired, The deponent gave names, and dates &. daces- and accompanied her story with np n opi into expressions of hot ror at die crimes od invoked the eternal judgement of Hea n upon the heads of the perpetrators, had come down from Dutches County, he said, for the solo purpose of giv.ug this ii'formation :—site had no peace day or night, aod the same images often aj puared ■o her. The Magistrate had her statement re . .riled, not as there was it., hing in her •mnner of deportment to believt her ' osa.it, io regarded it as an idle illusion of her im gination. About tbe niiddlo of the lust week, an el erly man of very respectable appeatanct, n.ut smy years of age, in tho garb of a Quaker, entered tbe Police Office accom panied by a goodlookiug colored woman, • and called one of the Magistrates aside, tel ling him that they had a revelation of horri ble import to communicate. Tiny weir interrogated by Mr. Stephens, the chief clerk, who soon recognsz'd the resemblance of their story to the features of the onb- he bad heard about fmr years ago. The fe male related the same details, agreeing in manner, dales, &c. with surprising accuru ry. The Quaker Aeclaied that he had known the woman who came with him a bout five years; and had often been told by her that a number of persons had been nt it dered in this city, whose ghost had, at oft en times appeared to her, haunting and dis tressing her. That he was fully gatisfi’d ot the truth of her story believing that be ings of another world may have communion with this, and possess a powei to mingle in the transactions of men, to an extern of whicn we are necessarily ignorant; That ho himself was once accosted in Broadway, and asked for a few pence, by what lie first supposed to be a tnan, dressed like an old revolutionary soldier, who suddenly disap peard, leaving no doubt in his mind it was a ghost; nnd that he was apprehensive if the murdererg spoken of had a chance, they would kill both him and the woman. That he had conversed w ith one of the si' ll des cribed is a participator in the murder, who had admitted to him that he saw i man mur dered in Thomas-st., and that the drops of blood had never been washed from the fl or where it was penetrated. Such is the substance of the story, which we give in its tru<* colors, without gloss or j exaggeration. I' affords a remarkable ins'- anceofthe power of imagination over a mind in other respects rational. Woma.n’9 Tongue. — A Doctor visiting hi* pa tient, a Lady, requested to look nt her longue. — is he oponed her mouth and put tbe end of it out; the Doctor said put it out a little further, madam, and was under the necessity of repealing it sever al times; the Lady only putting it oui a trifling i , distance each time. At length the Doctor re marked, put it out as far as possible, madam . “Mercy Doctor,” says she,“you rnusl think there i is no end to a woman’s tongue ” Irish mode of challenging a Jury —An Irish of ficer, not very conversant in law terms, was lately tried for an assault. As the Jury wore coming to be sworn, the J udge addressing the major, told him that if there were any amongst tlieiu to whom he had any objection, that was the time to challenge them. ‘ l thank vour lordship, said the gallant niisoner, “but, with your lord.dhp’s permission, 1 11 defer that ceremony till after my trial; and if they dont acquit me, by the piper of Leinster, I’ll challenge evoiy mother’s son of them, and have them out too.” A Singn'ar Fart. —lt is mentioned as an histori cal sinjrularity, that all the English Kings who married French Princesses, incurred the displea sure of their subjects, and suffered violent deaths; *s Edward 11, Richard 11, and Charles I THE BLACK L AKE Strange thoughts at times come o’er me, thoughts that firing A withering and a bligh' ;—pangs have I fi.lt, But nut the pangs of guilt. My ctiiiiii was <it times a moody sort of a I fellow, ii would sit lor hours with his el !bow on bis t tile and ids feet crossed over the <n i displace iu coinpleia abstraction.— Whenever he had tulteu into one o( muse rev«ri.*rs, farewell o college duties' his books'.veie thrown aside, ami you might us well interrogate a statue as attempt to draw hi t, into conversation.* These sis liowevei were periodical, aud weie geu< tally suc ceeded .<y a correspondeut elnvat.au of spir its, as the sun always shines after a sioim Notwithstanding tins however, lie Ins uii versatly ranked among the ‘good fellows’ ol (he class; and I never knew one who could mote agreeably entertain a merry circle when in his humour, or help to w hile aw iy a tedious hour. He was none of your dry i etuilers of common place remarks or thrice told tales; his was tire language of genuine feeling, the spontaneous outpoui mgs of the soul. Often however something like a shade of melancholy would come over him even in hi* gaiety, and this lem • o additional interest to Ins conveisatioii. There appeared to be something connect ed with his early associations wrnch at times crossed him with a blighing intluence, and which lie eitliei brooded over with unavail ing sorrow, or so stiove IU vatu to forget. I’ll secret, however, whatever it was, was stiff red to fi-s'er in his own bosom, for he seldom spoke of himself, unless it w tie to relate some insulated occurrence from which nothing satisfactory could be gallie.r --"1. It was at one of these nines, a cold evening in December, wueu we had throw u nr hooks aside and drawn around lire fi.e 'till some ot our most inveterate stuty t< I ters who had been amusing us with talcs ol ii© marvellous, that he ri luted the follow ing: 'L———and R -—were my first an ! I might almost gay my ouly associates. YV' had nuucled together in tbe tenderness ot m/incyaiid the ret klcsness of boyhood, our spurs and pursuits had ever been the same, and from a long and uninterrupted in tercourse our feelings had become entirely assimilated. The petty disagieemeuts com mon among children never existed between us, even in our » hool boy days our mli m icy was proverbial, in ail cases of trou ble we were each oilier'a champions, and an insu It offered to one was resented by all. These were the halcyon days ol luuo cence and peace,—-the school boy rumtde, the moniiug walk, the evening recreation, and the holiday sports all wete ours, and it in?* .'Vfvlditioual pleasuio that we were permitted to share them together.—There is something connected with (ho attach menis of our childhood that operates on us like a spell, which the world with its routine of pleasurus and cares may weaken but cannot destroy, aud eveu lue dim eye of age will biigtiieu at rite recollection ot those days wnen with light and merry heart he sported A" ay tile’s morning. lam still young with the hopes and expectation of youth beating high within me; but were it in my power, 1 would not exchange one hour of those eariy days when our toeiings were tenderness and our hearts all love, for all rite college bonouis that can be bestow ed. But iam becoming sentimental. ’Yuais iolied on, aud brought with them joyous anticipations and brighter pruspecu, without leaving a pang to embitter the rec ollection of the past. We had exchanged the iaicty and lomuntic dreams of childhood for the buoyancy and more determined ar dour of youth, aud beheld lie future spread ont before us iu bright prospective, without a cloud to darken its sunshine. At the time of w hich i am uovv speaking we had returned home to spend a spring vacation after having completed a course of st.idy preparatory to euteriug college W itli the true classical maun of the youthful votary of science, we wandered among the haunts of our childhood, exausted our vocabulary of ancient mythology upon its hills groves, and fountains harrangued the Fauns and Drvads with murderous quotations from ' Vigil’s pastoials, corn ted me muses by the woods and waterfalls, iu the barbarco* Groek ’till the very Liras were frightened from their h Hints, and to complete all wiote sonnets and repeated poetry by mount.gut. A tide of a'bums mime iately flowed in up on us. We coftld meet no friend aud attend no parties of pleasure but one ot those un welcome visitants stared us in the face; and could the mosi ardent hopes ands iendly advice that was ever conceived in wretch ed apologies for poetry tor the benefit of those of whom we knew as little as we car ed, have conferred beauty, happiness, or honour, shuiely that village h id beep, a Par adise of the Peri, and ourselves immortal, i detest an Album From the humble du odecimo of the school miss with its ruled foolscap and marbled sides, to the superb fulio of the fashionables with its morocco dress aud peifuioed gilt embroidery, they are a farrago of love knots, drawings, and j keepsakes of black and yoliow hair, inter ] spread with odious specimens of penman ship in sublime qu< taiiorvs, orgitial dogger el, threadbare compliments, and sickly seu tiin«iiialisoi. True the pure aud g* nuiiie expressions of affection and estei m w ill ot « Bsia tally shine forth from the nm)st of this garbage; but it is like'iie taper in the laza retto, serving but to light up its loathsome j lies:-. —Bui it is nme to pass to a subject of ' more painfll interest, a subject winch brings with it the most harrowing reo If' - lions, which has ii-.unted mv day dreams A | my uuduight * umber*, aud thiown over me ’VOLUME FIRST— NUMBER 7. m my ho.iis of gaiety the bean cbii dp groom n| tlie eiave. *lt was one of the liveliest mornings of My 1 shift not attempt a description, tor P r "* e ' s hot Ibe lunttu igu ol t ii* Inver » I in* tin e, aud since reading my* last sonnet m J <: " and blood 1 nave abandoned all thoughts ol dying a poet. IV had wandered out to w fell tho grade if and. velopement of its beau ties lioiti the dim twilight aud grer dawn the matin song of the bird, lo the shooting of the fiist sunbeam: and to propose re w plans ot enjoyment for Cue day. Ihe re was a solitary lake which lay a lew miles dis tant among the mountains, remarkable for tbe romantic scenery which surrounded ft, and (<>r the dark transparency of its w.ilms. It was declared by the. oldest settles to ho in many places unMthoniahle, the credulity ot f.n mer limes nid in igiufi a us wonders, ami it Was the scene of many nust* rtous la e and traditionaiy legend. To the timid 1 hero w -s something fearful hi the ve,ry (nought ol a hottoio e-s hike, and im ing to tins and other wild and supeistiiious notions which still pi evaded, it was little frequent e i; u-.r among the numerous fishing exploits of our boyhood, had we at any time the hard hood to visit it. Cot now the very ii"Velty of the Imig was a sufficient induce '""tit, and me piuposul of an t xcursion to *B o k L-.ke* was no sooner made than ho ceeded to by all A small seine was imme diately procured aud our pteparaiions be ing lieivly completed, long before the mid dle of the day we had clambered over the intervening rocks, threaded the pathless I nickels of exuberent bushwood, and were standing on the side of one of the loveliest I *kes I ever beheld. There it lay, spread • >ut in its solitary beauty, its dark waters coniiastiug with the deep green verduie of it* sides. Hid i» fl cing the amphitheatre of hills around, with lb* ft gieep sides covered with living foli ig<. Hn* aud there huge masses and broken fragments of grey rock f-r ned ns fi owning aud precipitous sides, while beneath the birch and water willow hung over their long slender amis a* if stoo ping to kiss its waters, or sported their yel low tassels upon its surface. There ap peared but very few (daces where the de clivity us the bank and the shallowness of the waier would aomii the drawing of the seine; and even then a suitableness ot depth wis nardly to be depended upon, owing to the sudden slope of iht ledges. IF wever, alter some examination il was tliougnt an expe.imeiii niigtit lie haao dotl. IVi l tleler mined (hot R , aho was ever a c w ard iii the vv.r»M, stioidd wade near tne shme with the end of the seine, I wis to < r copy the middle, while L , i bold and vigoious swiiiiiiier was to sweep out with tiro other into tbe lake. Wo had proceeded in this order for somo d'stance when a sod den jerk of tne cord in my hand, and at the same time a hall still -d cry from poor R ———, admonished me that he had step ped from Hie treachcSkius ledge into ibe deep wateis. I instantly hastened i» Ins relief, and (dunging after him, endeavoured in the liutry of the moment to size him by the hand. He was lin n struggling violent ly at the bottom to extricate himself from the net to which he had dung,and in whicn bv his exeitioi © he had become entangled. But I had scarcely reached him when he fasten and on mo with the convulsive grasp of despair, that deprived me of ail nope of rescuing him or even of disengaging my sell. O the agonv of that unman'! L’te with all its euj yments, friends hopes, and hap piness, contrasted with the foaifui death that now stared me in the face a I rusln and through n>y mind, in m iddoning succession, Aud then to be ilius linked as it were to trio grave,—to bo involved in the expiring snug gles of a drowning man,—what was th re no release !—I felt the chilliness of death creeping ov r in , and with an atmost su perhuman effort I tore myself from him, srose strangling and ex 1 usted, with s< ire sufficient strength to reach the shore. The rem-lining part of this tragical scene I wit nessed an appalled and powerless specta tor L—-—bad by this time reached the spot and with a benevolent lecUfssness of tlis and inger of the attempt, prepared to descend where R was plainly visible through the clear transparency, apparently tel xing in his exertions, and idly grasping at some thing ho fancied above him. There was a plunge,—a dark whirl of the waters as tii« ending eddies came up tipt with fiaro, and when tranquillity wns ag.iined restored I saw him fiercely tugging to disengage him self from the death grapple of the dr* wil ing man. It was in vain. He had bt ea niiidtid once, and his s iffeuing hand' re tained its hold with a power that defied tus utmost exertions. II»w long this continu ed I konw not, —time with me Was aurnhi ted, sickly sensation came over me, and my last recollections are'coufusedly mingled with the struggles of the dying, and the rising of a f w bubbles to the surface to tell all was over. Z. Rural Rrpository Our Minister to Russia. —lrifirinaflon received at New York aod Boston, from St Pctoisburg, confirms, indeed aggiavates, tlio te counts lately published from the Journal f Commerce, ot the strange conduct of our Minister Extraordinary to Russia; the details of which might gratify the curioJity of rune, but could give pleasure to few of our readers We had tiard; v news of this Min ister’ having reached Ins destination, wh n it ta officially announced in our government paper, that , he has returned to England, win h«r lie went, iu the fi *t instance, OB tus leaving the United .’states: 1 amlaltli >ugl» the cause of liis so quickly abandon- J mg Ins post is ascribed by our official paper o sud ,,w decline of health, yet the g >vern!iieut >. er ; gives us to understand that it is wi'li *!.- appro * ballon of the President, that (he Mi ter gees to j spend luo winter in France lfthi*be o, he ii 'St | tcavo carried til*: President’s consent to this ar- I rung uumt out With him.—-Vcl. ha.