Georgia Historic Newspapers

    .estimation, and hail been definitely set- j
tj,•.' .*• ! .r.. majority; Ui.it tt was,
alto -•'Till.' Uiqnri. I • • :!OIV .oil UorfilsO.l- 1
am* !•»<- o.ie of tho to. >i» it) to propose .1!
re-i ooMifeiMtiot! at the moment their act
ha.! in-come a matter-of record aud with
out pre. mug that nuv tie/ light could!
he ..rovvu co the .*■'\ 1! • «•; . t’.al it such a
pr -it it sho. I<i be eat r.d.diti, r. would 1
in i ; tie la ..iiiiojisiui '•* -1) v.ii'-n any !
on jio. it w. - Jelic-ti 1% . ib- and, aj a-tiuail;
intti ority might, ,»i :»u. moment agm 1, ,
and ._ mi aio’. .ad 00:1111 .t re-cottsid
tr.ic' a ti, lie r> lore i.oiK ii he con-'
ventio >vo>iid cKjees.- 1 < dee d/ 1 clisup- j
pro! ition by p issing sdently to tin; liu
fciit -*s iicfore them.
There was much warm, ami some.
acr nioaio is feeling exlilmc 1 by uaaiuer;
ot uie speakers ; a ntjitnrc eppuared al- j
most mevttabl *, and tint lios.nn ot \\ asii
iiigioit seeiiiel to 1 dior null the most
atiiuei- soiic.. tide for its issue, iiapp.ly
for the Ulined States, the Convention
Cos .I lined some individuals po-.-m-.-cii oil
lailents and virtues o. tin highest order,
whose in-.iris were deeply inter, ste.l n.
the est ibiislna. i.t of anew and etiicieni 1
for.it of government, and whose penetra
ting mi.>ds had already (icjuured tin evils
W.bieii would spring tip hi our new I . es
tablished republic, should the [ireseat at
tempt to eoiisoiid.de it prove abortive.
Among these personages, die most prom
inent ivat Dr. rr.mkl.ll. He wa esteem
ed the mentor of our day so a
mind naturally strong and < pucous,
enriched by much r> ad ig, and the* . \pe- I
rienee of in iny y . if.-, i>. elded a inan
-111 oi cominn.Melting h.s thoughts, pc
culi.trly Ins ow. , m which simplicity,
beauty, ami .-irength wire equally con
spicuous. As soon us the angry orators,
win hid preceeded Inin, iiatl left linn an
op urn;, the doctor, evtd. utly impressed
with tin weight oi tii subject before tin in,
and tjn’ difficulty of managing it success
fully/ “We have arrived Air. i’r« s.(leiit,”
sa.il he, “at a very iiintuentutis and int. r
estmg crisis m our deliberations, i: tKi
to our vnws have been as harmonious,
and our progess as great, as could rea
sonably be expected, ltut now an to
looked for and formidable obstacle is
thrown in our way, which threaten- to
an. st our course, ami «l not skilfully re
moved, lo render ail our fond hopes of a
Coastituti 11 abortive, file ground wmch
has been taken hy the delegates of the
four smallest .States was as unexpected
bv .iic, and as repugnant to my feei.ngs,
a- it can be lo any other member of thi.-
Coriveution. Alter what 1 thought a lull
an I impartial investigation .(’the subject,
i recorded my vote in the affirmative side
of tin qii. stio i, and 1 have not vet heard
any t!>. ig winch ..ducts mi to change
in opinion. But i will not conclude tis
impossible for me to be w rong. I w ill not
suv that those gentlemen wlm dilfcr front
rue ire u uler a delusmn; ttmcli less will
i charge them with an intention of .eed
le -si. embarrassing our deliberate) s. 1
is possible some change in, our late pro
ceedings ought to ' .ke place upon .pnnci
ciples of political justice: or that, nil
tilings co isid red, the m,.jo lty may see
cause to recede from some of their just
pretentions, as 1 mailer of prudence ami
expediency. For my own pari, there is
nothing I so much dread, as a failure to
dev.se and establish some efficient and e
qual form of govcrnitien' for our infaat
republic. The piesent eil'ort has been
made under the happiest auspices, ami
has promised the most favorable result;
but should this effort prove vain, it will
be long ere another can lie 111 idi with a
nv prospect of sue, • ss. Oursti n t . and
our prosperity wdi 'depend on our unity;
ami 1 tie secession of even four f 1 e
sin .lllst States, interspersed as , iiev are,
Would, in my maid, paralyze and remit r
useless any plan winch the majority coaid
devise. 1 should therefore, he grieved,
M . Fr. s I cut to see matters i»ro ghi
to the test, wliicli lias been, perhaps too
rashly, tlireatned on the one hand; and
waicii some of my honored colleagues
ha. * treated too lightly on the other. I
am •*. invoice ! that it is a subj. ct which
eh.mid he approached with caution, trea
ted with tenderness, and deoiled on with
cu.iaor and ability, it .s however, tube
feared, that the m 'tubers oi this .conven
tion .re uot m a temper, at this moment,
to approacti the subject on which we differ
in .ins >piu. 1 would therefore propos ,
Dir. President, tli.it wrthou proceeding
further lit tins business at this time, the
Coincutmii shall adjourn for three days,
in order to let the present ferment pas.-
off, lad to afford time for a more full and
dispassionate iuvcsi gntion of the subject:
and would earnestly rtcoinnn >d to ih<
luemliers of tins convention, that the\
Spe I tiie time o 1 is recess, not in asso
ci iiiag will their own party, and devising
new’ arguments to fortify them.-. Ives in
their own opinions; but that tiny mix
Willi nemlrers of opposite sentiments, lend
apa ienr ear to their reasoning, and
cainl.dlv tllovv them all the w. iglit to
which they may lx: entitled, and when
We »<s ■ mile agai 1, I hope it will lie with
a determination to form n const.union, u
ltot such a one as we can indivitiallv, and
in all respects approve, yet tin best,
which •r ider ;x.sting c reinnstaoces, can
b* ■ .*.t iiwm,’ [Her* the couiiteuau of
‘Wash niton hrght.aed, and a*’ eer ng
ra. s cu.*d ta break in upon the i:lnoin
\vh *llll.l receatlv cover ti ..mr polite and
lmr /mi.] Th<* doctor continued, “He. j
fore I sit down, Mr. president, | will
6ti • 'est another matter; and I mu r illy
s.tr ,r -"d that it Inis noi been pro|Hised In
some other iw-inher at ari earlier period
of'tar leiihr rations, I will suggest Mr.
pre fd fit, the pro;»ri(>tv of noinimttmg
B.i I before we separate, a
ch it lin to Jir eouieat'o «!h w . doty it!
•hall be uniform!? to inanMo with otJ
and introduce the business of each day, |
Iby u.i address to the Creator of the j
uuivcr c, ami ti.e Governor ol all nat.oiis,!
i. seech him to preside in our conn
-1 eils, tidighl'-n our inimls with a portion:
1 «> 'heavenly wisdom, influence our hearts j
: w ih a love of truth and justice and crown
jour i 1 Ivors with complete and abundant!
| -a./'ess.”
The doctor sat down ; and nevet did I
: behold a countenance at once so digii’fi
. f and and tieiiglifed as was that of Washing
ton, at the close of this address! nor
were the nu mbers of this Convention,
! generally less affected. The words of the
venerable Franklin fell upon our ears
j with weight and authority, even greater
I than vv>* may suppose an oracle to have
j had oi a Roman .Senate A silent adtoi
| ration uperccded, for a moment, the ex
pression ol that assent and approbation,
1 'lnch was strongly marked on almost
j every countenance; l say almost —for
| one man was found in the convention,
1 Mr.—, of.—, who rose and said, with re-
I gat’d to the til’s* motion of the honorable
j gcu.tlema.!, for an adjoin* incut, be
would yield his assent; hut lie protested
igumst the second motion for the aj>-
po.nuucht of a chaplain, lie then com
menced a li.gli str niied eulogtum 011 the
as* < moi vg.* of wisdom, talent and xpe
fie >ce, which the Convention embraced— '
declared the high sense he entertained J
ol the honor winch his constituents had
conferred upon him, in making him a
member ol that respectable body ; said
j he was confidently of opinion that they
wer.* competent to trai saet the busiin-ss
which iiad been 11 trusted to their can :
that they were equal to every exigence
which might occur; and concluded by
saying, tl at, thereloie, lie had not seen
•In ..ect ssity ol calling m foreign aid.
Washington fix'd his eyes upon the
speaker with a tn xtnre of surprise and
n lignuti n. while la* uttered thi imp. r
-1 it and imp ous speech! ami then
looked round 10 ascertain in what man
ner it affected others. They did not
leave him a moment to doubt—on one
deigned to reply, 01 take the smallest
notice of the speaker,—but the motion
for uppoiptiim a chaplain was instantly
seconded, and carried; —whether under
the silent disapprobation of Air. ,or
bis solitary negative, I do ot recollect.
The motion for aq adjournment was then
put, and carried tin mimousty—and the
eo v. ution adjourned accordingly.
I tie tlirec days of reei ss were spent in
the manner advise * bv Dr. Franklin, the
opposite parties mixed with each th. r,
and a tree and frank interchange of sent
iments loot; place. On the fourth day we
assembled again; and if great political
I ght had not been thrown on the subject,
every uhfrtendly feeling had been expel
led; and a spirit of conciliation had been
cultivated, which promised, at least a
calm and d.spassionate nconsideration
of the aiibji ct.
As soon as the chaplain had closed his
prayer, and 1 lie minutes of the last sit
ti g were ran I, ail eyes were turned to
the Doctor H< rose, and in few
words stated that during the recess, lie
It id lisfeie and art'-utively to all the argu
ments, pro and eon, which had befn ur
ged bv both side- of the house, tlrai lie had
I self -udmu* l >, and thought inure on
the subject : he saw diffiettbies, and ob
jections, winch might be urged hy indi
vidual States against every scheme which
had been proposed ; and lie was now
more than ever convinced that the eoe
stitulion w hich tiav were about to form,
in order to In just and equal, must he
'banded on tiie basis of eon prom. -' and
mutual concession. With such viev a 1
feelings, he would now move a ree«n.- l
eration of tie rote last taken on the or
ganization o! the senate. The motion
was seconded, the vote carried, the for
mer vote me 1 tided, ad hy a successful
motion and resolution, tiie senate was
organized on tin present plan.
VENTRILOQUISM.
The following hunmion- account of a
celebrated Ventriloquist of the last
century, > • from the work recently re
puofisiied 111 tiii- eounlry, bearing ilm*
above titie, by tiie late John Berntu'd,
“ Hons, .osignotr* was the most won
derful oi ail tiie species which in my
experience have flooded the (Stage,
ilis aiuiity iay not in simp y imitating
the human voice, (the common prov
inee oi" ventreloqiost*, and ti»e most at
tainable.) I>ut those of all birds & beast*,
ami ail noi.-e whether natural or irie
ebHiucat. it was diiti.-uit 10 say wtiich
w ~s most to be admired in bis organ— ■
ns astounding power, or its minute li
quidity; for he could give you as cor
rect an ide.i ol the sailing of a huge
piece ot timber as of ihe song of a Iht
net. llis entertainment was divided in
to three parts, wnh two appropriate
scenes, which he carried with him: the
hi st represented an avi.iry ami menage
rie, in winch he ersonuted ttie Keeper, j
and as fie approached every aniinai or
fin’d, gave its distinct growl m whistle;
the next was in the interior of a w ork
shop in which he pretended to he muk
..iga iiox, ami imitated the sounds of
.111 tue implements employed These
were rendered characteristic hy his
l dress, and somewhat humorous by his
l broken English exclamation*. But the
j third and most extraordinary scone was
I .its performance on a violin wiilioitt
strings, ol a variety of difficult music—
Here the liiu.'iou evceed* conjecture;
I mid. what to me wa» more delightful,
all Plymouth came to purtake in it.
K m*(gnofi. was a fellow of very nu
i memos ideas; he hail met with mlven
i4i*’e- in nil quarters of Europe, which it
wa» ids sole amusement to recount. ,*\-
, in mg Hu* number one that occurred to j
1 *nm on the road from Exeter i<> pjr j
• ni'.'iih was nut the I *us| whiuisii id.
lie hud l iJ.cn h,s jdsce m lln- |,)g|it- |
■ eod*’h, but by u mistake or > oriiil vuuce •
was expelled to the outside. Tiie night
wus very dark, and eoou after the coach
set otfitl egan to rain, wni h In regard
to Devonshire, is to say* that tiie water
come down iike n cataract.—Being
neither provided with great-coat nor :
umbrella, he naturally envied the situa- I
t.on of those who sat under him. To
desire their comfort was bnt another j
throb w ith him to endeavor to obtain it;
and in the depth of his roguery there
I'lre, as well as his distress, he resolved
upon the follow mg expedient. Hewn* I
the only passenger outside, end tiis io-i
cation (icing the dicky, the coachman
at the otner extremity of the vehicle was!
inc ipabie of “peeping through the j
hitiukt'l of the dark ' upon his doings, i
He pretended to hug and hush 11 child
in Iks arms, whose fretful whine he com- j
menced and increased till it cut the'
drums of the other passengers’ ears iike j
a razor. Two of these persons hap- j
pened lo he females, one of whom was (
a mother, and the other expected to be.
They instantly exclaimed. *• Dear nit*! !
there’s a poor child on the roof, in this
ram: let s take it in.” The males, as
gentlemen and Christians, were com
pelted to acquiesce: so down went the
sa-.i, and out went a holy's head and
shoulders to address Ror-signole.—
“Here, my gord woman give me the
child. “No, no!” said the latter, mim
icking the voice of I. female; “mine lit
tle dear Adolphus sal not go from her
mamma;” and then lu commenced an
other scries of soprano times (intersper-
I sed with an tibuudauce ol'basso husli-a
| byes) more intolerable than the former.
| “Hood heavens! said the humane fe
| male to her companion: “it's a barbar
ous Frenchwoman! she’ll kill tue poor
: little thing. ftien leaning out of the I
wiik'ow again. • Uivt* me the child,
good woman will you! It will catch
it s death !—Here, coachman, stop, }
su>|>! ’—Stop, ma’am!” said Jehu; “bless
your soul! did you ever he ir of sieh a I
tiling in sch a ram ns this! And if I j
di<l slop, rhe young 1111 on the dicky
would frighten the cattle.”
Itossignoie now pretended to get into
a passion with the chiltl and scold it: at
v. tiicn the women opened upon him; the
gentlemen swore ic between the sipmll
ing. grow ling, screaming and threaten- j
mg. a delightful tumult ensued. The!
j dialogue, as he described it, then ran in
the following manner:—
Chid, sqailing.- 'X a, ya!’
if osignule. ‘Hush, hush, child, child!’!
IVomun within. 'Don't use it so, good!
woman.’
(mid. '\ a, ya, ya! (a crcscndo,)
Rossi /r mill’. You von little devil; you
cry so much.’
R oman. ‘There's a Brute. Mr. Wig- 1
gins!’ j
Cuntlemen. ‘All owing to the French
Revolution.’
C'lild. *\ a, ya, ya!’
Coachman. ‘(Steady, Betty, steady!’
hossignole. You are von littel darn
child!’
Roman. ‘Only hear the French man- 1
ster!’
Hossignole. ‘I will trow you into de
mud.”
Roman. *\Vhat does he say?’
Child. ‘A a, ya. ya!’
Rossignolr. ‘Wont you be hush? 1
trow you away.’
Roman. ‘Ok you wretch!’
Child. ‘Ya, ya, ya!’
hossignole. ‘Disc, <!en, sac re i lie in j
de poodle!’
Here, suiting the action to tiie word,
he mode .1 noise as if he had actually de- j
po-ited the infant in the ditch, the cries '
ol wtiich grew fainter us the coach pass
ed on. Ihe uproar that now ensued in
the vehicle would have done credit to
.-d. title-’ watch-house on sit. Patrick's
and ty. The women yelled, and the men
thumped the roof with their sticks, an I
swore out, of the windows. “(Stop,
coachman, stop! murder, murder! she’s
: killed tue child: she's thrown it in the
I d.tcii: will you stop, cnaeiunan?” “In
I three minutes, Mnriu, ’ hi* replied, “to !
change hoises.” “But there’s a child!
| lying on tiie road' “I M send someone
from the inn to pick it up, Marin; >
mnsn’t lose time between the stages.”
Ihe torrent of abuse now turned on
the coachman; are* one of the passen
gers, who was a lawyer, swore that if j
the child did, he would prosecute the
former for manslaughter and the moth
er for murder.
On arriving at the inn, Itossignoie
jumped down, and ran into ihe kitchen
tn dry himsell The house was thrown
instantly into confusion: the French
woman i\ as ordered lo he seized, lan
terns were lighted, and a party set off
to retrace the road, headed by the hu
mane lawyer. No inf.nt however was
to be found: and after groping about
till they were thoroughly drenched,
they returned to the inn. The lawyer
was then told that the Frenchwoman
had made her escape, and that another j
gentleman had taken his place in the ;
coach. Inch was now out of sight.
Hossignole, I think had read that na
tional work, “The Jests of Joe Miller,”
hut was able to inmroveoß the original:
as for exam; le: Walking with him to
the printer’s in Plymouth, we passed a
fish show, where a very fine haddock
’caught his eye, which he took up, in
quired the price oft, and then putting to
his nose contracted hits visage with a
significance not at all creditable to the
ii>h. or pleasing to the fishmonger
“Wind do you menu by that sir?” said
the purveyor of piscatorial*, with his
brow lowered, and his arms stuck in
Ids sides. “That haddock was only
•Might las» night,”- —“lndeed!” saiil
Hossignole, laughing: “we will see.
Here, you littel s oy. I will gift voii six
pence if you nx dat visit how long he
come from him family at sen.” The
boy taking tbe silver put the question ac
cordingly, amidst the laughter of the
simp: w lien tile haddock seemed to dis
lend his tr.lls, and reply iu a distinct
v fire, "Las Monday de week:” The
ii-hiimngcr mol his customers started
buck, overturning the tabs and barrels
iu theft*terror, whilst Ho—iguole, walk
ing »w*v with me, said laughingly.
“Hat's vvlist you Ahiglecsh rail tankin'
de fun *'
Police affairs. —Infant mis atlemiit at
Seduction, —On Tuesday aflimoon, u ;
highly’ respectable gentleman of tins city j
entered flic Police Othce in company
with his niece, a Ireai.til'ul young lady of !
about “J, and with much emotion com
municated to Justice Lownds, the sitting
magistrate the following particulars of a
most infamous attempt, L.v some depra
ved vijliuit, to destroy the innocence of
Irs niece, and the peace and happiness
of all her friends. The gentleman sta- 1
ted that a note had been delivered to his
niece m the course of the morning by a |
female habited as a lady, the import of
which was too obvious to be mistaken.
The note was as follows.
“Dear Do not be angry with me
that I have taken this liberty. I have
seen y’ou, and admire you much. May 1
ask,you to call at No.— Mott-street, this
afternoon, at half past 4 o’clock. I vmsli
to have a few moments conversation with
you. The hearer of this letter will in
form veu who and what I am. There
shall be nothing said or done that the
first lady in the land would not be proud
of hearing. Your friend affectionate
ly’”
'I he gentleman further stated that his
niece handed him the note as soon as he
came home, and that lie, having made
inquiry into the character of the house
in Mott-street whither she was invited to
rep 1 r, had ascertained .hat it was a noto
rious house of assignation. Justice
Low nds requested the gentleman to at
tend yesterday morning, and gave direc
tions to several of the officers to proceed
!to the house and tiring down to the office
early in the morning, all the inmates that
they could lay hands on. Accordingly
yesterday morning, the keeper of the
house hi question, was conducted before
Justice Lownds and examined in regard
to her knowledge of the circumstance
complained of. She admitted that the
note addressed to was written there
by one of her male visiters whom slit*
'.lid not. know hut who was waggishly
1 nicknamed “Me Gooernor of ncntucky, ”
that she saw it and knew its import, amt
that it was carried to the residence of the
young lady and delivered by a female
j vho lived with In r. She positively aver
! red that she did not know the name of
the writer. The female who delivered
the note was also examined, hu
| nothing could lie elicited from her to
j throw any additional light upon tin; nefa
j nous plot.
I pon I tearing all the facts Justice
Lownds informed the keeper of the house
that in as much as she declined to give
up the name of the author of the note, he
must hold her responsible for the whole
offence, and should require hail for her
appearance at the General Sessions to
answer to the charge in the sum of one
thousand dollars. The female who
was tin* bearer of tin* note, was requir
ed to give bail in the sum of .SAOO. They
succeed in obtaining bail and were libera
ted.
[V. I*. Jour. 1 'om.SGt/i ult.
ANECDOTE of BARON HOLBACTJ.
Tins singular character was always
ambitious ot being regarded as a man of
universal science; and lie received, one
day, from an American port, a letter from
an intimate friend, which was written in
the following manner:
“ I had a very comfortable and safe
passage here, unmarked hy any particu
lar event, except the following, which I
think well worthy your attention. A
cabin-boy tell from the mainmast on the
deck and broke his leg; it was tied to
gether as strongly as possible, with pack
thread steeped in rosin and brandy; in a
minute alter this operation, he could use
it as well as he did before the accident.
All the crew were present at this process,
and we know not -which to admire most,
the skill of him who undertook the cure,
or i‘s entire success.”
i he baron lo>t no time, in communica
ting this intelligence to the college of sur
geons, vouching for the veracity of Ins
correspondent, and the disciples of Escu
lapius debated together to find out the
means of so marvellous a euro; it is even
affirmed that one among them was about
to publish a learned dissertation, to prove
and establish hy physical reasons, the
manner in which this operation ought to
be performed, when the baron received a
second letter from his friend, which con
tained the following lines:
“I forget to mention one trifing cir
cumstance in the account of the event of
which I informed you in my last; which is
that the leg of the cuhni boy, Vtiiich was
broken, was made ot wood."
PHILOSOPHY
AND HOUSEKEEPING.
The true economy of housekeeping is»
simply the art of gathering up all the frag
ments, so that nothing he lost—fragments
of tim , as well as materials.
If you have a grater quantity of cheese
in the house than is likly to be soon used,
cover it carefully with paper fistened with
flour paste, so as to exclude the air. In
this way it may be kept free from insects
for years. They should be kept in a dry
cool place.
Instead of covering up your glasses and
pictures with muslin, cover the frames on
ly with cheap yellow cambric, neatly put
I on, and as nearly the colour of the gilt as
you can procure it. This looks lietter,
leaves the glass open for use and pictures
for ornament, and is an effectual harrier i
|to dust a* well as (lies. It can easily |»e
recoloured with saffron ten, when it is fa
; deil,
The fumes rtf brimstone nre used jure-,
moving stains from linen At. thus: if a
red rose lie field in the finm •of a brim- i
1 stone mutch, the colour will soon l*egin
ta change, and at length the flower will
become unite. By the same protess.
Innt stains or iron moulds may be remov
ed from linen or cotton cloths, if the spot
be previously moistened with water.
w lien plain tortoise shell combs are de
faced, the polish may be renewed bv rub
bing them with pulverised rotten stone
and oil. ’1 lie rotten stone should Is- sif
ted through uiushn. It looks better to be
nibbed on by the hand. The jewellers
afterwards poiisli them hy rubbing with
dry rouge powder, but sifted magnesia
does just as well; and if the ladies had
rouge, perhaps they would, hy m-slakr ,
put it u|Ton their cheeks instead of their
combs, ami thereby spoil their complex
ions. Frugal llouseicife.
Postage. —At Mobile, lately, an action
wasbro’t before one of the country jus
tices by the Fost-master against the cap
tain 01 the steamboat f*tar, trading be
tween Tuscaloosa and Mobile; for the re
covery ol tlu* penalty pit scribed by Ui* tiih
section of the post office law tor carry ug
& delivering letters without handing them
over to the post office to be charged with
postage. The justice declared that
part of the act unconstitutional, and
decided that the penalty couid not be
recovered, and advanced some strong
argument in support of his decis
ion.
NEW ENGLAND FARMERS.
Many thousand farmers 111 New Eng
land rear large families pay all their debts
and taxes promptly, and live independ
ently, well clothed and comfortably hous
ed and provided for, and lay up money,
—on I arms of fifty acres. The idea is,
that these people labor severely. This is
a great mistake. They have much, be
cause they waste no tune. With them
there is “a place for every thing, and ev
eryth gin its place.” Their horses arid
cattle, tools and implements, are attended
to with dock-hke regularity nothing is
put off" til! to-morrow which can he done
to-day. Economy is wealth and system
affords ease. These men are seldom in
a hurry, except in harvest time. Audio
long winter evenings or severe weather,
which forbids employment out of doors,
one makes corn-brooms, another shoes, a
third is a carpenter, cooper or taylor; and
one woman spins; another weaves; a
third plaits “Leghorn bonnets;” and a
fourth makes lace. Little children, and
the aged and infirm, knit stockings. And
the families thus oe u; ied are among the
most healthy and cheerful 111 the world.
It is easy with them to reduce their wish
es to their means, if inconvenient or im
prudent to extend their means to their
wishes. These are the “sort of people”
who fought at Concord and Bunker’s
Hill, Bennington and Saratoga. Two
hundred yankee freeholders were on
board the frigate Constitution when the
flag of the enetnv decended m homage to
I her power.— dene see Farmer.
F ire. —On the 16th ult. the Barn oc
cupied hy Mr Ephraim Harris, Farmer
and Wagoner, near the South Meeting
House in Beverlv. Mass, was destroyed
Ivy fire, together with a large quantity of
hay. five cuffs, four oxen, a calf, and ma
ny farming utensils. This is the second
time Mr. Harris has had his barn burnt
within a bout three months, and the be
lief is confidently entertained at Beverly
that both cases were the acts of an incenr
diary. The Select Men have offered a
reward of SIOO for the detection of the
offender. A girl in Mr. Harris family,
14 years old was arrested on Friday suspi
cion, and a long examination took
tilace, hut nothing was proved against
her.
Clincher. —An american Paper says
this is the method of catching tigers in
India:—A man carries a board, on which
a human figure is painted; as soon as he
arrives at the den lie knocks behind the
hoard w ith a hammer; the noise suddenly
rouses the tiger, when he flies in a direct
line at the hoard and grasps it and the
man behind it clinches his claws into
the wood, and so secures him.— London
Courier.
The travels of a Mrs. Trollope in this
country have been seized upon hy the
London Querterly Review, under the
title of American Manners, and of course
made the theme of vulgar and ignorant
abuse against America. This Mrs Trol
lope, who crossed the Athentic under
special patronage of the immaculate Miss
Fanny Wright, past her time principally
if not altogether, at Cincinnati, in Ohio,
where, as may be supposed from her con
nexion with the above named female,
she could have had no intercourse with
the more intelligent and respectable in
habitants' The Tour of • German,
Prime in England, has been reviled in
the English Review, whilst Airs’ Trol
lope’s “manners” are commended.
The Common Council of Boston, on
the !i4th ult. voted a city tax ol $29.5,000
for the present year, and an nrdor to bor
row 68,000 in addition. The estimate
of expenditure is $457,662. . Income
99,662. Tax last year $235,001).
The Governor and Council of Massa
chusetts, have appointed Monday the four
teenth day of May, inst. for an eleventh
trial to elect a Member of Congress, in
Essex North District.
The West Chester (Perm.) Rail Road
is said to have carried a stimulus to indus
try to the owners of the neighbor
mg (arms, evinced iu solid uni I per
rrisnent improvement, as well Miuuru
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