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ITT The exeriions of his friends are respect fully solicited NATHANIEL B. JUIIAN. April 2, 1831 05= Editors ol papers in Georgia and the adjoining States, willing to reciprocate the courtesy of an exchange will please give the a bove a few insertions Communications addressed to the undersign ed, must for the present, be directed to Milledg ville, post pout N B J HENR Y B. MERSHOX, ATTORNEY AT LAW. ATAS located himself in Talbotton, & -“"“■will prac'ice Law in the neighboring coun ties w3m. Talbotton, May 14 1831 PERFUMERY • ROWLAND’S Macassar Oil, Bears do. Diamond Cologne, Temple do. Lyre do. Lavendar Water, Honey do. Spirits Rose, Fine scented Hair Powder, Genuine scented Olive Violet and Rose Soap, Soda Soap Saponaceous compound, —Also —2 doz. large braids of Hair, Rolls, Puffs and Ringlets of various colours. For sale by L. J. DAVIES it CO. March 19 23 ts New Cioods anti CHEAP GOODS. THE subscr her has recently received, and is now opening on Broad Street, a general as sortment of Groceries, Hard Ware Cutlery, Looking-Glasses, Combs, Shoes, Boots, Hats, and ready made Clothing. All of which he of fers at low prices for Cash by the wholesale and retail,. March 19. F FF.ATHERSTON JOHN TAYLOIL ATTORNEY AT LAIV, Will practice in the several counties of mus cogee, Randolph, Stewart, Lee Marion. Talbot, Harris, Meriwcather, and Troup, in the Chatahoochee Circuit: and in the Counties of Thomas, Decatur, Early, Baker, and Dooly, in the Southern Circuit. He may be found, when not in attendance on the circuit, at his room at Mr. Dillard's Tavern in Columbus. —Feb’y 12th No. 18 t-f-o EXECUTOR'S HALE. WILL BE SOLD on the first Tuesday in June next agreeable to an order of the In ferior court of Muscogee county, all the real estate of Elijah Jewett, deceased, in said coun ty, consisting ofalot in the town of Columbus, on the corner of Randolph and Broad streets, on which is a large two story framed house with •tlier out houses. Terms, a credit until the2sth December next, the purchaser giving bond with approved security. JOHN LOOMIS, Ex’r. March 15th 1831 23 tds LOOK AT THIN. I HEREBY forwarn all persons from trading for two notes of hand given bv myself to John Mote, for five hundred dodars each, one due the 25th day of Decenilier 1831, the other due the due the 25th o fDecember 1833, ns the above notes were fraudenlly obtained Ido not in tend to pay them tiiis 11th March 1831 1 PHILIP PLESS. Match 19 33 ts MISCELLANEOUS. THE HAUNTED HOGSHEAD. A YANKEE LEGEND. BY RICHARD THOMSON, ESQ. Author of li Tales of an Antiquaryetc. “Oh, wondtrful! wonderful! and most wonderful! and yet again wonderful! and after that, out of all whooping/”—Sheks peare. ou don’t live in Boston, then, do you? No; I calculate you are from the old coul try, though you speak Fnglish almost cs well as I do. Now, I’m a Kentucky mar, and my lather was to Big-borie Creek, ij old Kentucky, where he could father eve ry man in the state, but I could lick mj father. Well! when I first came to Bos ton, I guess, I was a spry, actiVe young fellow, and cruel tall for my age; for its a pretty considerable long time ago, I cal culate. So first I goes out to look fir Uncle Ben—you’ve heard of him and hs brown mar, I reckon—and I finds Unce Ben at Major Hickory’s, Universal Trans atlantic Hotel, by Charles Bay, in Eait Boston, taking a grain of mighty fine es egant sangaree, with Judge Dodge anl President Pinkney the Rowdey, that buit the powerful large log mansion-house ii Dog’s Misery, in the salt-marshes ou beyond Corlear’s Hook, in New-York. I was a little hit of a favorite with illicit Ben, and so he says to me— “ Jonathan Wsays he, for he calls me Jonathan W. for short; “I’ll tell yoi w hat it is, says Uncle Ben, “you come out mighty bright this morning, I motion that you take a drop of whiskey-toddy or so.” “Oh yes, Uncle Ben,” says I; “I should admire to have a grain, if it’s handim.” “Considerably superb,” savs he, “it’s of the first grade, I guess, for Major Hicko ry keeps wonderfully lovely liquors; and 1 can tell you a genuine good story about them, such as, I guess, you never heard before, since you was raised.’ 4 And then he up and told such a tale, that lie helps all crowded round him to hear it, and swore it was better than a ser mon, so it was. And as you’re a stranger from the old country, and seem a right shek-away sort of a chap, without a bit of the gentleman about you, and are so mighty inquisi/fae after odd stories, why I don’t mind telling it to the ’Squire my self; and you may depend upon it that it’s it rs-om Uncle Ben himself, or July tete I his old woolly-headed nigger. You must know, then, that the Univer sal Transatlantic Hotel was built an aw ful long time before I was raised; though my Uncle Ben, remembered a powerful grand wood house that stood there before it, which was called the Independent Star of Colombia, kept by Jacobus Van Soak, who came to Boston from the old ancient; veteran Dutch settlers of New- York. It was some time after fall in the year, ’77, that a mighty fierce squall of wind blew down some of the wall ofthe house where the cellar was, quite to the very foundation. I reckon that the old host was a leeth bit madded at this, he j was; though he bit in his breath, and thought to drive in some new stakes, put J up fresh clap-boards, and soon have it all slick and grand again; but in so doing, as he was taken out the piles underneath the house, what does he find but an awful great big barrel, and a cruel heavy one it was, and smelled like as if it was a hogs head of astonishingly mighty fine old an cient rum. I’ll lay you’ll never guess how they got it out of the cellar, where they found it, because they never moved it at all, I calculate; though some of the helps and neighbors pulled and tugged at it like natur! But the more they worked, the more the barrel would’nt move; and my Uuncle Ben said that mighty strange sounds came out of it, just as if it didn’t like to be disturbed and brought into the light; and that it swore at the helps and niffgars in English and Spanish, Low German and High Dutch. At last, old Van Soak began to be a lectlc bit afeard, and was for covering it up again where he found it, till my Uncle Ben vowed it should’nt be buried without his having a drop out of it, for he was a bold active man, that cared for nothing, and loved a drop of rum, or sangaree, or whiskey toddy, or crank, or anv other fogmatic, to his heart, he did. So down in the cel lar he sets himself, drives a spigot into the barrel, and draws him a glass of such mighty fine elegant rutn, as was never seen before in all Boston. “Handsom ! considerably handsaw / mighty smart rum, I guess,” says my Un cle Ben, as he turned it down, “mild as mother’s milk, and bright as a flash of lightning! By the pipe of St. Nicholas, I must have another grain!” So he filled him another glass, and then Jacobus plucked up heart, and he took a grain or two, and the helps and bystanders did the same, and they all swore it was superbly astonishing rum, and as old as the Kaats kill mountains, or the days of W’outer Van Twiller, the first Dutch Governor of New York. Well! I calculate that they might at last he a Icetle bit staggered, for the rum ran down like water, and they drank about, thinking, you see, that all the strength was gone; and as they were in the dard cellar, they never knew that the day was progressing powerfully fast towards night; for now the barrel was quiet ugain, and they began to be mighty uieiry together. But the night came on cruel smart and dark, 1 reckon, with a pretty terrible loud storm; ami so they all thought it best to keep under shelter, and especially where such good stuff was to he had free, gratis, for nothing, into the bargain. Nobody knows w hat time it was, when they heard a mighty fierce knocking on the top ot the barrel, and presently a hoarse voice from the inside cried out, “Yo, ho, there brothers! open the hatch way and let me out!” which made them all start, I calculate, and sent Van Soak reeling into a dark corner ofthe cellar, considerably out of Ins wits with fright and stout old rum. “Can’t open the hogshead,” cried the helps and neighbors, in mighty great fear; “it’s the Devil.” b “Potstausend!” says my Uncle Ben; for you must know that lie’s a roistering High German:—“You’re a cowardly crew,” says he,“that good liquors thrown away upon. “Thunder and storm!” called out the voice again from the barrel, “why the Hender don’t you unship the hatches? Am I to stay here these hundred years?” “Stille! mein Ilerr!” says iny Uncle Ben, Buys he without being in the least hit afeard, only a teeth, madded and won dered he was; “behave yourself ban diem, and don’t lie in such a pretty particular considerable hurry. I’ll tell you w hat it is; before you come out I should like to make an enquerry of you:—Who are you? where was you raised? how have you got along in the wmrld? and when did you come here? Tell me all this speedi/y, or I shall decline of letting you out, I cal culate.”. “Open the hogshead brother!” said the man in the tub, says he, “and you shall know all, and a pretty considerable sight more; and I’ll take inijrhty good care of you forever, because you’re an awful smart, right-slick-awav sort of a fellow, and not like the cowardly land-lubbers that have been sucking away my rum w ith you.” “Hole mich der Teufel!” said rnv Un cle Ben, “but this is a real rig’lar Yan kee spark, a tarnation stout blade, who knows what a hold man should be: and so by the Henker’s horns, I’ll let him out at once.” So, do you see, Uncle Ben made no more ado but broke in the head ofthe bar rel- •» . ana the laughing and swearing in the cask, a mighty elegant noise there while he did it, I promise you: but at last there came out ofthe hogshead, a short, thick set, truculent, sailor-looking fellow, dres sed iu the old ancient way, with dirty slops, tarnished gold-laced hat, and blue, stiff-skirted coat, fastened up to his throat with a mighty sight of brass buttons, Spanish steel pistols in i. buffalo belt, and a swingeing cutlass by his side. He loo ked one of the genuine privateer, bull dog breed, and his broad sw’elled face, where it was not red with rage, or the good rum, was black or purple; marked, 1 reckon, with a pretty considerable many scars, and his eyes were almost starting out of his head. It the helps and neighbors w r ere afeard before, they were now astonished out right, I calculate; and ’specially so when the strange Sailor got out of his hogs head, and began to lay about iimi with a fist as hard and as big as a twelve-poun der cannon-shot, crying like a bull-frog in a swamp—“ Now I shall clear out! A plague upon ye all fora crew of coward ly, canting, lubberly knaves! I might have been sucked dry, and staid in the barrel forever, if your comrade had borne no stouter a heart than you did.” Well, I guess, that by knocking down the helps and the neighbors he soon made a clear ship; and then, striding up to my Uncle Ben, who w arn’t at all a feard, but was laughing at the fun, he says to him, says he, “As for you brother, you’re a man after my own kidney, so give us your fin, and we’ll soon be sworn friends, I warrant me.” But as soon as he held out bis hand, Uncle Ben thought he saw in it the mark of a red horse-shoe, like a brand upon a nigger, which some do say was the very stamp that the Devil put upon Captain Kidd, when they shook hands after burying his treasure at Bos ton, before he was hanged. “Hagel!” says my Uncle Ben, says he “what that in your right hand my friend.” “W’hat’s that to you?” said the old Sai lor. “We mariners get many a broad and deep red scar, without talking about or marking them; but then we regret the heavy red gold, and broad pieces along with them, and that’s tarnation smart plaster, 1 calculate.* “Then,” says my Uuncle Ben says he, “may make an enquerry of you? Where were you raised ? and whose your Boss!” “Oh!” says the Sailor, “I was born at Nantucket, and Cape Cod, and all along shore there, as the nigger said; and for Captain I belong to, why, he’s the chief of all the fierce and daring hearts which have been in the world ever since time began.” “And, pray, where’s your plunder!" says my Uncle Ben to the strange sailor; “and how long have you been in that hogshead?” “Overlong, I can tell you, brother; I thought I never was going to conie out, 1 calculate. As for iny plunder, 1 reckon I don’t show every body iny locker; but VOL. I—Y O. 32. you re a bold fellow enough, and on ly give me your paw to close the bargain, and I’ll find your pouch w ith dollars for life. I’ve a stout ship and comrades rea dy for sea, ami there’s plunder every where for lads of the knife and pistol, I reckon; though the squeamish Lord Bella in nt does watch them so closely.” “Lord who?” says Uncle Ben, a leeth bit madded and wondered. “Why, Lord Bellamont, to be sure,” answered the strange sailor, “the Eng lish Governor of New-England, and Ad miral of the seas about, under King Wil liam the Third.” •‘Governor and Admiral, in your teeth!” says iny l ncle Ben again; for now bis pluck was up, and there warn’t no daunt ing him then; “what have we to do with the old country, your kings, or your gov ernors? this is the Free City of Boston, in the Independent United States of A meriifi, u ..j ,1... j v™ -e i seventy-seven, I reckon. And as for W i*l. liam the Third, I guess he w as dead long before 1 was raised, and I’m no Cocker ell, I’ll tell you what it is, now, my smart fellow, you’ve got pretty considerably drunk in that rum cask, if you’ve been tivwre ever since them old ancient days; and, to speak my mind plain, you’re ei ther the Devil or Captain Kidd.—But I’d have you to know, I’m not to be scared by a face of clay, if you were both; lor I’m an old Kentuck Rowdey, of Town I'ork by the Elkiiorn; my breed’s half a horse and half an alligator, with a cross of the earthquake! You can’t poke your fun at me, i calculate; and so, here goes upon you for a viUiun, any way!” My Uncle Ben’s pluck was now all up; for pretty considerably madded he w as, and could bite m his breath no longer; so he flew upon the strange Sudor, & walk ed into him like a flash of lightning into a gooseberry-bush, like a mighty, smart, aettre man as he was. It old of Ins col lar laid my Uncle Ben, and 1 reckon they did stoutly struggle together lor a to na tion long time, till at last the mariner’s coat gave way, and showed that about his neck there was a halter, as if he bad been only fresh cut down from the gibbet!— Then my Uncle Ben did start back a pace or two, when the other let fly at him with a pretty eonsiderubte hard blow, and so laid hiui right slick spraw ling along upon the ground. UncK Ben sajdjm T;r » came to,they found themselves all stretch ed out like dead men by the niggers of the house, with a staved rum cask stand ing beside them. But, now—mark you this well—on one ol the head-boards of the barrel was wrote, “W. R. Tin Vul ture. 1701,” which was agreed by all to stand for William Ktdd, the Pirate. And July White, Uncle Ben’s woolly-headed old nigger, said that he was once a lob lolly-boy on board that very ship, when she was a sort of pickaroomng privateer. Her crew told him that she sailed from the old country the very same year mark ed on the cask, when Kidd was hanged at Execution-Dock, and that they brought his body over to be near the treasure that he buried; and as every one knows that Kidd was tied up twice, why, perhaps he never died at ail, but wus kept alive in that nnghty elegant nun cask, till my Un cle Ben let him out again, to walk about New-York and Boston, round Charles Bay and Cape Cod, the Old Now and 1 :gs Hellegate and the Hen and Chickens. There was a fat little Dutch Parson, who used to think that this story was only a mighty smart table, because nobody rniild remember seeing the Pirate besides Un cle Ben; and he would sometinns say, too, that they were all knocked down by the rum and not by the Captain, though he never told Uncle Ben so, I calculate; for he stuck to it handsomely, and wouldn’t bate a word of it for nobody. W hen Uncle Ben had finished, he savs, “Jonathan W.” suys he, “I’ll tell you w hat it is: I’ll take it as a genuine favor if you’ll pay Major Hickory for the sangaree and the toddy, and we’ll be quits another day.” And so I paid for it every cent; but w ould you believe it? though I’ve asked him for it a matter of twenty times, and more than that, Uncle Ben never gave me back the trifle that he borrowed of me from that day to this! A FRAGMENT. The evening before the hap py day that was to bless me with the hand of Clara, I stood on the back piazza of my father’s country seat, viewing the star ry firmament, and admiring the order and beauty of the objects around me. The clear, serene air, the moon shining with all her splendour, as though endeavoring to rival the king of day—the cloudless & bc-spanglcd heavens, the romantic scei e ry around, all seem and to accord w ith the present state o' y mind, and to allure me forth to feast myself in meditations on the morrow. Such an influence had these circumstances, as well as my own thoughts, over me, that I had uncon sciously strayed much farther than I lmd at first intended, and w hen J began to col lect my thoughts, 1 found myself on the skirts of a forest, which extended seme distance along the back ground of my la ther’s habitation. Fearing my absence might create alarm, I turned hastily to depart, w hen my purpose was arrested by a gentle blast of wind, which bore to my cars the sound of human voic «. At first