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About The Democrat. (Columbus, Ga.) 1830-18?? | View Entire Issue (June 2, 1832)
'•r* . ■< *u uarozint. "'.IE TAYLOR’-ft GHOST. In a certain northern city, which a ' flaitermg Frenchman has Bics-canuxi the modern A mc-us there dwelt a solxr citi 7ieu, by ua.lt a baser. Fortune had MBie and upni; hi& affair*; and finding that the acrid li.fi used bun well, be wisely determined to use himself stdl better. CifK mice id-.itted turnips and the hero of our <de m numMc imitation of so srneat an riafflple, took a gnuj farm within an easy waik of tiie f it of philosophy, iie iujf however a prudent as well as a pros per'MJs man, he only rusticated dttrinj the dsy»b'.i* retor.**d to “set the •poiigt, I’and 1 ’and talk over pies and pastry in tl:c evening, lu t ie»e morning and evening peram bulations lie frequently met with a little cnppl body, hobbling along m the “dot aad-carry-o.ie” style. A few friendly salutations passed between the pedes- ] than*; and at length Muster Brow nbread . came to understand that Master Thim bles was the tailor of the very villagem' winch hts own farm was situated. Hav mg obtained this piece of information, be inquired no further; but, l,ke many other pr uound speculators, coneieved he new all t.iat waste be known on the subject. It happened that iu the same t illage there resided another tailor also named Thim bles, and also a cripple; but inasmuch as Dame Nature had been still mo-e parsi monious in the article of legs to tyunbles Secundus than she was to Thimbles Pri mus, he (viz. Secundus) was forced to content himself with sitting always on the hoard at home and keeptog in good order the patches and politics of his native vil lage. His utility, however, could not ex tend Ins days beyond their allotted span; he sic erted, died, was buried: and for some days Mr. Brownbread observed, that the village bad a melancholy look more black coats than usual were requi sition and a certain gravity in every coun tenance, indicated that ti.u community had sustained a public los*. The worthy baker, actuated by natural sympathy, in quired who had been taken awuy from the evil to come, and was answered w ith a sad shake of the liead—“Poor Thimbles the cripple tailor.” On hearing this he thought with an affectionate remembrance on the kind greetings, which had passed between him and the (supposed) de funct. Some natural tears dropjied, but he wiped them soon. The old consolation came to his mind— mors omnibus lumrnu nis. (| won’t swear that lie thought in Latin, hut that’s all one.j lie became, at l ist reconciled to the idea that poor Th.mhles had gone to “that bourne whence no traveller returns.” Matters were in tins state when the ba ker one chill December evening, to bar out the biting frost had stopped an hour or two longer in the village and taken an additional cupot the “barley breed* But the best of friends, and more the best of wliis ejr, will not make a prudent Scotch nian sit too long. Our hero buttoned his coat, shouldered his cudgel, and, While’s holding fast his gude blue bonnet, While’s coning o’er sonic auld Scotch Sonnet, Had just reach a bottom in the Toad, where he could hear the winds whistlin'' above; but all around was calm as the peace that hallows the heart of the righ teous. The baker perhaps, might have moralized; but stump—stump —he heard, or thought he heard, the well-known sound of the tailor’s crutches, as plain as if the green turf had not spread Us folds over the fragment of his limbs. The ba ker was no coward—he ran not at the first alarm but calmly fixing his eye on the horricou, lie saw tlie very ghost of the tailor’s dandy hat, alternately raised and depressed keep time to the fast advancing clatter of his spectre crutches —un fan tome bniteuz what mete man could with stand? The baker took to his heels, and with a ghastly visage, and hair on the end, regained the party he had left just in time lor each guest to carry the painful tale, with all appropriate additions and amendments, to the remotest corners of the parish. The winter had nearly passed awav before any prudent man dared to venture across the “Powburn hyllw” under cloud of night; and even the minister’s exhorta tions were never half so afficaciousas the fear of “the Cripple Ghaist” was. in mat ing frail fol -s keep good hours: nor was it till the long warnings of summer, that our friend, the baker discovered there had been two tailors —the one resting qui etly in his tomb the other all flesh snd blood (save his timber leg) still hobbling on “life’s dreary road.” When Charles Yorke was returned a member for thr University of Cambridge, 1770, he went round to thank those who voted for him. One of these was Mr. who had a large and very uncomely phy siognomy. In thanking him, Mr. York said:—“Sir, I hare great reason to be thankful to rnv friends in general; hut 1 confess myself under a particular ob ligation to you for the remar able coun tenance you have shown me on this occa sion.” A husband, whose ears were constant ly assailed by the unruly tongue of his wife, liore the sound of her incessant a larm with the greatest patience. It is ve ry clear, said one of his friends, “that vou tire afraid of your wife.” nin not it frtlid of her,” said the husband, “but of the noise she make*.” The Yew hurvport, Mass. Herald snvs th<• jad in that town is now, and has bee i fi»r the last six weeks, without a te nant. FOlillM/V FRoJfFk VNCE The New York Courier and Journal of Commerce of the 17. h contain* Havre advices to the I Tib of April, received ly I t. ship Fortune. The cholera was spreading dreadfully at Paris, ai.d creating much alarm. It was attacking all classes of citzens with out distinction, though tiie physicians hav if g acquired skill ly experience were able to counteract it more aifectuately, and the iiuiniier of deaths was rather <h □uiii-bed. ‘i he Official Bullet in to the 4th April at midnight, states the whole number of peisons attacked by ti e Cholera at Paris at 1 305. Letters from Havre with ac counts one day later, slate the who r number then, at about 17fK). whk h woukl make an increase of 3 .jit in “4 hours. Th** departure of the n ail allows us to make ixit few translations. Those sc have wul sji.iw the stale of the public mind, uiuhrj this dreadful| visita tion. It is said the news from Italy ljecome- 1 every day more warlike and that although the Emperor ot Austria give* assurances of his pacific intentions from Vienna, that his troops are daily approaching cheer to j the l reach division at Ancona, and his ! army materially increasing in nuiibcr in j that quarter. The Chamlver of Deputies of France has voted the Budget of the Minister of Frances, with.nit amendment. The Chol era seem- to have cured them of the i captious disposition they have hitherto shewn. /’oris sth April 1332—The official bulletin of Cliotar* from the 3d at 4 o’- clock in the aitemoon until middne of yesterday, the 4th April, states the number of deaths at 10. ——of which 03 are men and 44 women, and the whole number of new cases 326—0f which 2i are soldiers of the garrison. Tins list only containing the new cases which have appeared in the last twenty hours indicates a daily inciease m the number of person* attacked, from which it is presumed that the epidemic has not yet reached its height. However, those physicians who have become weli ac quainted with the disorder have observed that in general the symptoms are more a larming than during the first week it made its appearance. M any persons at tacked, to whom medical aid’ was admin istered in time, will, there is almost a certainty lecover. I lie people oi Fans whose minds are preoccupied with ideas of poison diieei their attack w ith as lit'le reason and with us little moderation as the cholera. Yes terday and tn-day a bewildered populace | frightened by the terribie disclosures ol the I’refect oi Folice which denounced j tn the public a band of poisoners,—assas- sinated m the street Saint Dennis,at the market at Vangerard and near the Hotel de \ die, five individuals suspected oi having | mixed poisonous substances in the wine of the tavern keepers, others only esca ped troin the exasperation of the people through the protection of an armed force, which however was not everywhere iuc cessful m saving the victims of thc stipid belief that it was possible to poison water in the wells and fountains. Thecal on the National Board under circumstances where the maintenance of public trauqjd ity is important to every citizen, did not bring out one tenth of that body to tleir different places ot assembling, Thetroips of the numerous garrisons of Paris were almost alone employed to suppress die internal feverish agitation in the captul which does such serious injury to com merce. I'our n clock P. .1/.—The great eleva tion of the temperature has changed a little the external character of the epide mic. 1 hose attacked become less cold and inn pie, and heat is restore it with more facility, hut a tendency to typhus is perceptible w ith some. The tongue, the dry and red slips, a slight delirium, evince an alteration in the symtoms hitherto observed, and renders necessary a change in tlte mode of treating the disor der i his day the attacks on persons sus pected of poisoning have not been renew - | cd and Parts has been more tranquil. The ! police has as yet discovered nothing winch has given cause to suspect that there is any ground for Mieving there have been ac tuarl cases of poisoning, hut they are on the tract ot intrigues which have been set on loot to make people believe iu attempts of this nature. 1 here are certificates from Messers. Orpia, Baruel and Besyeaux, and one from Julia de Fotrianylle, member of the Sanitary Commission of the Medical School, which attest that the substances submitted to them contained no poisons whatever. However, such is the irrita tion ol the public mind at Paris, that these proots are not considered sufficient. I hey accuse the physicians themselves of poisoning the people, and it is there fore not to he wondered at they do not give credit to the physicians when they assure them that there have been no ca ses of poisoning. This state of things is the more unfortunate as the lower classes continue to drink to excess and are thus prepared to become new vietuns to the coleru. I hey are impressed with the i dea that the cholera has never existed, and will be very difficult to make them sensible of their error. Some fresh oc cuirenees have just come to our knowl edge, which show to what extent the ex nsperution of the popnlance is carried, line morning au individual having 1 wen surprised in « ciowd, stealing a five franc piece from the pocM of a person stun- i «Jirg rear him cries down lnm poison, was HtthicdiaYt lv heard; tlie uuftwHinate i raun was knuestd down a ladl dog m t upon b’m trhirh tore bis breast; at la.-t be was earned from die place de, f iritl , v litre the affutr happened, to j tiie bridge of Arcole and thrown in the river. Tiie incredulitv as to the evidence of cholera, is not vet overcome. This -if- ! ciitrVar.ce is the cause that a number of! sick are not carried to the hospitals ex- . cept when at tbe last extremity and when ; all the efforts of art are u«e|<'s.«. The i news from tiie departments do not this! day bring accounts of any well authenti- i cated cases of cholera, except at Colais, j wlierc, it appears, the disorder has shown ■ itse-It in spite of the quarantine regain- | lions—w Idle it continues unknown at Ha- j ire,Dieppe, and other seaports where a 1 iree intercourse with England has been i permitted. Doiii> ri( rn:?i~ j C ktroi.ee J^ne/s. —The follow ingcotr.- mumeiiUoi!, taken from the Athens han u*r of the 22d instant, will be read with' i merest. ‘Having r*eent!y retuned from the Cher okee Natiou, 1 feel it my duty to give such intelligence as may he of some interest to the public. “ 1 learned from a native, that when the Delegation returns from W ashington Ci ty, it is contemplated thai the principal part of tiie Idians would hold a meeting 1 in agitate the propriety of y.elding to tiie , wishes of the General Government; and 1 he gives it also as his opinion, that there ! will he a treaty effected during the present , summer. 1 ascertained while in the na ; tion, tiiat many of the persons who have opposed the views of Georgia, have here tofore obtained valuable reservations in Hall and Haliershum an sold them, and are now comfortably settled on the most i desirable spot,- in the nation. I heard of : one individual who Inis been favored w ith tw.j reservations, one in South Carolina and one in Georgia, and was moreover permitted to give maud draw a valuable prize in one of Georgia's Land Lotteries. 1 Ins man is now living on a beautiful ; farm ill tin: Cherokee country, willing, no doubt, to take another r-serv ation, or re j ceivc a oomtortahle portion of the money that may be fuiniiy pii.d ! v the Govern meat for the Indian com.trv. One thing, , perhaps unknown to inur.v, I would inen t.on. I have been informed, and my in j formation proceeds from a source that j may he confidently relied on, that some 1 individuals claiming the right to eminrate, , hive been engaged in purchasing the In i dians’ improvt ineiiis at a reduced price ; | paid too in merchandize at a high percent i and having them valued as their own im : provcuients, trie Indians still suffered as j before, to remain on eorgia land. These things ought not to be. The Government might to ascertain at whose door the sin belli. And here Messrs. Ed itor®, suffer me to ask, how would this sit tipo'j the ears of our Noitbern enemies, who are crying against Georgia “oppres sion and cruelty I” There appears to be no disposition on the part ot tbe Indians to interrupt the survey of the country, which is nmv rap idly progressing: some of tlie surveyois are nearly half done, o hers have but just commenced. The different periods at which they entered upon the discharge of their duties, will postpone the comple tion of the survey until some lime in Au gust.” F am the Federal Union. Condidale, fur ( ongress. —lt st*cms to be generally conceded that the Western I part ot the State is entitled to a member in Congress—and under the influence of this concession, the names of several gen tlemen have been presented to the public from that populous and wealthy section, j U ithout pretending to enter into an in vestigation of the merits or claims of ei | ther, I shall take the liberty of offering | that of Col. James C. Watson, of Co lumbus. Ifan integrity that never wavers talents of a very respectable grade, an honesty of purpose which none have ever questioned -and public stations filled with honor and fidelity, are to he deemed of a ny value—then it would seem to me Gen. Watson can not be well overlooked, i know nothing of the wishes or feelings of Gf.n Watsoh upon this subject—but Ffeel confident that it his friends desire the use of Ins name, he will not withhold it from them. Should the choice of a Western candidate however, fall upon either Dr. Powell or Col. Milton, the out selected w ill receive my hearty and cordial support The Cherokee Phenix in the course of its remar s upon the articles from their friend the Journal of Commerce, ad vising them to remove from Georgia, says— The advice, coming from the source that it does, and liclieving it entitled to "n nt respect, we esrnestiy recommend it to a candid consideration of our people. When w e recommended it to them, we do it with a confident hope, that they will not seek their own selfish interest, but the irterest of the whole nation. I he Lditor closes his remarks as fol lows. AV e are induced to make these, remarks because we have understood that a pro position of a Treaty will be sent on to the Principal Chief in a few dnvs from the War Department. How far he mnv be influenced from the advice of our friends abroad we will not pretend to snv; hut of one thing we are confident, that no thing on earth will induce him to work a gainst what he Inline* llit good uod in terest of his country. i ron f« Georgia joutiu'. I CHF.ROREES The disposition now ev meed Lv the Northern and Eastern people to get rid of tiie Cherokee question air.saljy, and the expectation that the general government will be a! le to make a treaty, we have already mentioned. As yet, however, we hear nothing certain. No doubt various cgents are at work to forward the object; and in this we give them credit for the best motives. It is on ly tn be regretti and that they did not soon f r see the matter as they now see it. Fer lia|e? one of the most« ffertual aids to tiie accomplishment of this object, is the pro tection afforded by the L otted States to the emigrating parties.—The moment the snell of terror was broken, and a poor Cherokee ascertained that he could secure the price offered for liis removal to a letter< country, n itlmut beuig killed by order of: his chiefs, there was an end of tiie aristoc racy. A strong conviction that Georgia will not submit, and the impossibility nd mitted by the mos* dispassionate that she should submit to the creation os a savage community in her Imsoin, lessees, we may suppose, tin- zeal of the Indianites; while the obvious impolicy of strengthening nul lification at this time can not he without ; its influence among the leaders. None now, we believe, would really rejoice in I an attempt tn enforce the decision, ex cept the fi w who are ready for a dissolu tion of the Union. Alrho the Cherokee ; delegation now at \1 nsliington have not | as yet the power to treat, the way seems j opening for cession, which we think wd! 1 certainly take place at sometime; and' probably liefbre tlip expiration of General Jackson’s first term. General Newman’* information, however, that the Cherokee delegation had “consented to rrromtnend their people to make a treaty w ith the gov ernment” turns out to be premature. The New York Evening Post in some very proner remarks on the late accident in that city, says. As respects solidity we hare been going behind hand for years in the art of building. Our houses have lost mi strength more than tbev have gain ed in external appearance. It takes mote t;nw to demolish one of the secure house sos the last century, than it does to erect two o: the same dimension according to the present mode. The- bricks of one of the«e old fabrics do not tumble off clean and fresh as w hen taken from the kiln, hut become so much broken in lieing se vered as to rend.-r them unfit for further nse. The spirit ot false economy in building lias been carried to such an ex tent, that citizens are hardly safe in pas sing the streets.” riie editor of the Havre Journal states that he has been assured that fifteen or twenty thousand persons will repair to 'hat city from countries bordering on the frontiers, tor the purpose of embarking for the United States during the ensuing summer. Already the government, fore seeing the inconveniences attached to this continual emigration of persons, who, for the most part, arrive without resources, in the French ports, have prohibited the admission on the frontier, of all such as did not possess means of pm-sing through the country, wutliout lieing obliged to re sort to charity on the w av. But it was said this means did not prevent these un fortunate | rsoris from arriving in the sea ports in the most destitute condition, and remaining there sometimes a very long time before the departnre ol a ves sel CoLUMRiA, S. C. May 13. Dr. Cooper's CW.—Tl.e Board of i Trustees met on Wednesday evening for the purpose of investigating the charges ; against Dr. Cooper. There were but j fourteen members of the board pre | sent. In consequence of th)- small number present it was resolved to postpone the t ml until the regular meeting of the hoard in December. Dire. —About “ o’clock yesterday mor ning our citizens were alarmed 'by the cry of fire which proved to have had its origin in the kitchen of the dwelling house ot Mr. Peter Jarain, at the Sonthernest corner of St. Philip and lane streets. The fire arose from the negligence of some of the negroes, who returning late from market permitted the flame’of a candle or torch to reneh some clothes hung upon a line to dry. The house—a two story building— and kitchen were both destroyed. r i hev were the property of Mr. i hoinas Duggan; and were not, we are told, insured. The furniture was Pretty generally saved. Several of the city Engines repaired promply to the spot and altho assistance came-too late for the safety of the one building the progress of the flames was arrested and the ad journing house in which Air. Duggan bins If resided, though immediately con tiguous, was saved—We arc told 'that a colored woman was found dead in the neighborhood of the calamity, sonic few hours after its occurrence. No marks of violence upon her person appearing to justify any other conclusion, it is thought most probably, that she came to her death by fright. Charleston Paper. Committee of the House ofßepmw n- i ,at,v '' 8 °" tl,e resolution of inquiry into circumstances connected with the alleged , . ,n proposed contract for sup plying tlu- emigrating Indian, with . lions:—Mesars. Km,,Wry of Ohio. Drav- : ton, K Carolina: Everett, of Miwsai-hti-‘ setts; Wayne, of Georgia; Muhlenberg, of I eiineyKemu; White, ofL/ n.Huh- j bard, of N f J jm;>tijr Trent the Federal Vtiivn. On Tuesday evening Ukh insr. whih Mr. Robert Long and wife of Jones eoun ty, were on a visit at a near neighbors, early in the night their dwelling was dis covered to be on lire—the alarm was im mediately giveu and they fl; w with all possible sjieed to the place having remem bered that their four youngest children had been left in the h<ai>e and no othpr individual on the premises save a negro woman. Unfortunately tliey were to o late the flame was too gn at v. hen first discovered and when they arrived at the unhappy s;x»t the house was quite to tbs ground their children whom they lovt-d tenderly were missing and they trembled to learn their real condition. After the heat had in a good measure subsided and ♦lie tmbears grew cool, their bones were found; the smaller two had been consum ed as they were placed in the bed: tbe larger were found in a distant part from tlieir bed, having wandered tlntin-r proba bly in quest of the door. Let the above suffice a» w arning. Parents—as you love and value your children, w atch over them and protect their helplessness from such disasters. thought these parents when they turned their backs upon their Indies (we tuay call theru) that they would never see them more—little thought they that their adored little ones would be hur ried from their sight. rromtW Correspondent of th) Ch COW H R WASHINGTON, May 17. “The situation ot things at Washington shames all precedent, and almost surpas ses Lehef. Reflecting patriots cannot but feel great apprehension for tbe character and some for the permanence of our In stitutions, when they see a system of per sonal outrage sujierseding order and har mony, aod the reign of violence disloca ting the dominion of the law. As it is understood to he susceptible of proof that the President declared that Houston had acted correctly, and that hickory clubs might to be placed at the door of each House for the terror, and if necessary, ;ho punishment ol the slanderers within, the course which Ins followers have chosen to take, may l>e referred to the high sanction which the President has thus given to breaches of the public peace, and viola tions ofthe privileges of the members of Congress; and the same cause may lead to still more evil and more extensive con sequences. Members and men walk our streets now as in fi ar of their lives; star ing and turning about whenever anew footfall is heard from behind. Instead of intellectual calibre, they are compelled to measure their muscular strength; and in lieu ot the weaponsof mind, to look about them for pistols and dirks. It is not now the man of the mightiest talent, or the most undoubted w orth, who is tlig stay of a party, the object of public admiration, and the most efficient representative of public opinion; but he who possess a Her culean club and a Herculean arm to wield and direct it. When such a state of things exist is it not reasonable to be appehen* tied that we are approaching a crisis in the history ot our Union? Patriotism mav indulge a different hope, hut reason look ing to the constant order of things cannot hut look to the future with a shrinkin<>- and timid eye, “General Houston has been presented by the Grand jury of the District Court now sitting here fur his assault on Mr. Stanberry, as a civil offence and a bill liaving been found against him, he has been arrested under a Bench Warrant and is now in the custody of the Marshal. He will be tried for the offence, 1 presume during the present term. A bill has also been found against Major Heard, for the assault on Air. Arnold, with the intent to kill, and he is lying in jail, awaiting tri id. The punishment if he shall be found nilty, is five years imprisonment in tho Penitentiary. There is a marked differ ence between the course of the pariy to wards Houston and their behaviour to wards Heard. Houston has been made the idol—Heard is destined to the victim oi the party. W bile the former treads our race course as proudly as though lie thought the green turf too base to he touched by his feet, and moves to and fro amidst a circle of admirres; poor Heard has not been visited by a single member of the party since has incarceration Mem bers of Congres rush to offer bail for the one, while the other finds no solitary in dividual of all his former cronies ready to give response for him. In refer ence to one none are so great as to over look him; in the other case, none so poor as to do him homage; and it is probable lint lie may go to the Penitentiary without exciting a single sympathy among all those tor whom he evinced such ta wanton willingness to shed his luood. I do not know whether Congress will deem it necessary to take notice of this outrage on Arnold. The probability is, [ tat lie may not himself bring it forward mt mny content himself with the success with which he avenged his own 1 wrongs; hut some ether member after the recognition by the House of the principle that this kind of outrage constitutes a breach of prevdegc, may submit a resolu tion on the subject, his said that Mr. Cooke has armed himselfaud that in case Dr. Davis should be induced to submit hi? supposed wrong to the fashiuahle inodo of arbitrament, there will he a consid erable degree cf uncertainty as to the is sue.” An Ox weighed nearly four thousand (MHinds is now exhibiting i„ Boston. He is nnlv four years old, of (lie short her - tied Durham bread, and was rased in Greenland, New Hampshire. Thi Tinu *ei:p‘ e »vs, htf is “reuwknl,!.! for utffr t
