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THE PRINTER.
He stood there alone at that shadowy hour,
By the swinging lamp dimly burning ;
All silent within save the ticking type, >
All without save the night watch |^ n( j f
And heavily echoed the jg , ’f rozen ground.
As slowly he paced
mansions so lately that shone,
And dark vgy 0 f festivity gleaming,
W.ttarts that were beating in sympathy then,
Were now living it o’er in their dreaming ;
Yet the printer still worked at his lonely post,
As slowly he gathered his mighty host.
And there lay the merchant all pillowed in down,
And building bright hopes for the morrow,
Nor dreamed he that fate was then weaving a wand,
That would bring to him fear and sorrow;
Yet the printer was there in his shadowy room,
And he set in his frame work that rich man’s doom.
The young wife was sleeping, whom lately had bound
The ties that dr ath only can sever ;
And dreaming, she started, yet woke with a smile,
For she thought they were parted forever;
But the printer was clicking the type that would tell
On the morrow the truth of that midnight spell.
And there lay the statesman with feverish brow,
And restless the pillow was pressing,
For he felt through the shadowy mist of his dream
His loftiest hopes now possessing ;
Yet the printer worked on ’mid silence and gloom,
And dug for ambition its lowliest tomb.
And slowly that workman went gathering up
His budget of grief and of gladness;
A wreath for the noble, a grave for the low,
For the happy a full cup of sadness;
Strange stories of wonder to enchant the ear,
And dark ones of terror to curdle with fear.
Full strange the tales which that dark host shall bear,
To palace and cot, on the morrow ;
Oh! welcome, thrice welcome to many a heart,
To many a bearer of sorrow,
It shall go like the wind and wandering air,
For life and its changes are impressed there.
Mormon Marriage.
The Seer continues its exposition of Celestial
Marriage, as it calls the marriage institution of
the Mormon Church. We make the following
extracts:
When a man who has a wife teaches her the
law ofGod, as revealed to the ancient patriarchs,
and as manifested by new revelation, and she
refuses to give her consent for him to marry
another, according to that law', then it becomes
necessary for her to state before the President
thej reasons why she withholds her consent. If
her reasons are sufficent and justifiable, and the
husband is found in the fault, or in transgressions
then he is not permitted to take any step in re
gard to obtaining another. But if the wife can
show no good reason why she refuses to comply
. with the law which was given unto Sarah of old,
then it is lawful for her husband, if permitted
by revelation through the prophet, to be married
to others without her consent, and he will be
justified, and she will be condemned, because
she did not give them unto him, as Sarah gave
Hagar to Abraham, and as Kachel and Leah
gave Bilhah and Zilpah to their husband, Jacob.
It is the duty of a man who takes another
wife to look after her welfare and happiness,
and to provide for her the comforts of life the
same as for the first; for the Scripture, in speak
ing of such a man, says: “If he take him anoth
er wife, her food, her raiment, and her duty of
marriage, shall he not diminish/’ (Exodus
21, 10.)
There is no particular rule as regards the resi
dence of the different branches of a family. It
is very frequently the case that they all reside
in the same dwelling, t and take hold unitedly,
and with the greatest cherfulness, of the different
bandies of household or domestic business, eat
ing at the same table, and kindly looking after
each others welfare, while the greatest peace
and harmony prevail year after year. Their
children play and associate together, with the
greatest affection, as brothers and sisters; while
each mother apparently manifests as much kind
ness and tender regard for the children of others
as for her own. And, morning and evening,
when the husband calls together his family to
worship the Lord and call upon his name, they
all bow* the knee, and, with the greatest union of
feeling, offer their devotions to the Most High.
It is sometimes the case that the husband
provides for his wives separate habitations, as
Jacob did for his four wives, each of whom had
a separate tent. (See Genesis, 31, 33.) Where
all the wives are equally faithful, the v husband
generally endeavors to treat them all without
partiality.
Jealousy is an evil with which the saints in |
Utah are but seldom troubled: it is an evil that
is not countenanced by either male or female; j
and, should any indulge such a passion, they
would bring a disgrace and reproach upon them- !
selves which they could not easily w ipe aw ay.
And, indeed, it is very rare that there are any
causes for jealousy, for the citizens of that Ter
ritory think more of their virtue than they do of
their lives. They know that, if they have any
connections out of the marriage convenant, they i
not only forfeit their lives by the law of God, I
but they forfeit their salvation also. With such j
views resting upon the minds of both old and
young, the people have the greatest confidence
in each other’s integrity ; they can entrust their
wives and daughteas, without any distrust, to
the protection and care of their neighbors. Un
der the strict and rigid laws of virtue which pre
vail, and are carried into general practice, wives |
are not in constant fear of the inconstancy of
their husbands; parents are not fearful of their
childien being seduced and their characters be- |
ing destroyed; neither are they fearful that their
children will form contracts of marriage with
out their consent; for such a thing is not allow ed
in the whole Territory. Such a state of things
actually existing, not in theory alone, but
in general practice, removes every cause for |
jealousy, distrust and want of confidence, and
Jays a broad and permanent foundation for peace j
and union. If a man ill-treats any of his wives,
he is looked upon as having violated the law of
God, and it is difficult for him to recover
f om the disgrace.
1 here are more quarrelings, and jealousies, and
disunions, and evil speakings, jn one week
v , vaousand families, taken at random
arn< m§ere j n the United States or England, than
a !3uld be seen throughout all Utah Territory in
five years. And there is more unvirtuous con
duct practiced in one day in New York City, or
Buffalo, or Cincinnati, or St. Louis, than would
be practiced in Utah in a thousand generations,
unless they greatly degenerated from their pres
ent standard of morals.
When a man and woman enter into matrirno
| nial contracts and convenant to be each other’s j
companion until death, they have claim upon !
each other for this life only ; when death comes, 1
their marriage contracts and covenants expire;
and in the resurrection, however much they may
desire to enjoy themselves in all the endeaing
relationships of husband and wife, they will find
that their contracts and convenants which were
made for time only, give them no title to each
other in eternity. Therefore, they will not be
permitted under any conditions whatever to live
together as husband and wife. But can they not j
renew their contracts and be married again in
that No; for Jesus says, “In the resur
rection they neither marry nor are given in mar
riage, ’but are as the angels of God in heaven.”
(Mathew 22: 30.) Those who have not secur
ed their marriage for eternity in this life, can
never have it attended to hereafter; therefore, if
they should through fathfulness even be saved,,
3 r et they would be no higher than the angels, and
would be compelled to live separately and sing
ly, and consequently without posterity, and
would become servants to all eternity, for those
j who are counted worthy to become kings and
priests, and who will receive thrones and king
doms, and an endless increase of prosperity, and
inherit a far more exceeding and eternal weight
of glory. Such will need myiiads of servants as
their kingdoms and dominions increase; and
the numbers requisite will he found among those
who kept not the higher law, but still rendered
themselves worthy of an inferior reward.
No uninspired man has authority from God to
join together the male and female in the marriage
convenant. Marriage is an ordinance of God,
and we read that “What God hath joined to
gether let no man put asunder.” (Matthew 19 ;
6.) Where man usurps authority to officiate in
the ordinance of God,and joins together the sexes
in marriage, such Unions are illegal in the sight
ofGod, though they may be legal according to
the laws and governments of men. The power
to officiate in the ordinances of God has not been
made upon the earth since the great apostacy,
until the present century. Something like
seventeen centuries have passed away since the
authority was lost on the eastern hemisphere
to administer in any of the ordinances of God.
During that long period marriages have been
celebrated according to the customs of humau
governments, by uninspired men holding no au
thority from God ; consequently, all their mar
riages, like their baptisms, are illegal before the
Lord. Point out to us a husband and wife that
God has joined together from the second centu
ry of the Christian era until the nineteenth, if
any can. Such a phenomenon cannot be found
among the Christians or Jews, Mehometans or
Pagans. All are without prophets or inspired
men, all are, without divine authority: none
have had power to seal on earth the marriage
convenant that it might be sealed in heaven;
none during that long period have heard the
voice of the Lord commanding them to officiate
in those sacred ordinances.
Marriages, then, among all nations, though
legal according to the laws of men, have been
illegal according to the laws, authority, and in
stitutions of Heaven. All the children born
during that long period, though legitimate ac
cording to the customs and laws of nation, are
illegitimate according to the order and authority
of Heaven. Those things which are performed
by the authority of men, God will overthrow
and destroy, and they will bo void and of no ef
fect in the day of the resurrection.
from tbe Savannah Courier.
The Burial Place o 1 Gen. Greene.
S. T. Chapman, Esq. :— I noticed in the Georgian of
yesterday morning, some remarks made upon the follow
ing extract from the Providence Journal:
“General Greene died in Georgia, and to this day
no man knoweth of his sepulchre.”
In the course of the remarks, the Georgian states, “we
are informed that there is still living in Savannah, one
\*ho having attended his funeral, can point out a small
circle within which was his grave. The person to whom
we allude, is Andrew Marshall, the aged Colored Pastor
of one of the Colored Baptist Churches in this city.”
I am aware that Mr. Marshall is very familiar with
the traditionary history of Savannah ; more so, perhaps,
than any person now living, who has enjoyed equal means
of information. From his lips I have received statements
concerning the revolution, and the period immediately
succeeding it which were afterwards confirmed by in
telligent soldiers of 1776. Pfr. Marshall, however, I
think, cannot designate the spot where the remains of Gen
eral Greene are to be found.
Judge Johnston, in his life of Gen. Greene, says :
“On the morning after his death, his corpse was brought
down by water, and received oil the river bank by the
military and municipality of the place. The citizens ail j
followed in procession to the grave yard, which to the
honor of Christianity, is in Savannah, common to alii
sects, or all mankind ; and the funeral ceremony was
read over the corpse by the Honorable William Stephens,
as there was not at that time a minister of the gospel in
the city. The body was then deposited in a vault, but the
identical vault still remains a subject of inquiry.
“The graves and vaults areal] disposed in regular rows; [
and there are four contiguous vaults, in one of those rows;
in one of which four it is ascertained the body was deposfe
ted, but which of them, still remains in doubt.”
Some years ago a committee was appointed by the j
City Council of Savannah to search for the remains. This
committee examined several of the vaults, but eircumstan”
ces prevented them from extending the search to all. I
do not remember the names of the gentlemen composing
the c >mmittee, but think two of them were Charles Har
ris, Esq., and Mr. John Ash.
Judge Johnston also says “that he had been repeatedly !
told by Judge Stephens, that the body of Gen Greene j
lay in the tomb of the Joneses.” That tomb, when the
Judge wrote, had not been searched ; and it was his opine j
ion, that there was much evidence to prove that it was!
placed at first in that of the Grahams. The Judge does not
furnish the evidence for thinking that General Greene i
was at first placed in the vault of the Grahams. There 1
is a gentleman now residing in Savannah, who has given I
me the following history of the affair, and I have no doubt
that Judge Johnston had received the same account.
General Greene received from the State of Georgia a
confiscated estate of a royalist, whose name I will not ;
mention, together with the family vault in the Cemetery |
as an appendage. This vault afterwards became the pro- j
perty of Mrs. . My informant also states that I
some time after the interment of General Greene, the
above lady, accompanied by several of her confidential :
servants, went to the Cemetery, removed the body and j
buried it near the spot upon which the Quoit Club now
assemble. It was said that in this vault had been placed j
the remains of two British officers and Mrs. , wlm !
was a staunch royalist, regarded it as an indignity, that
a rebel General should be placed beside two of the King’s
officers.
There is also another tradition, that Gen. Greene was
placed in a vault belonging to the ancestors of Captain
Robert W. Pooler, of this city. This gentleman informs
me that his mother had frequently told him that Gen.
Greene was placed in her family vault —that the C om
mittee above referred to examined this vault, but couldnot
find any traces of the remains.
He also savs that it was generally understood that the
heavy Silver Plate on the lid of the coffin was removed by
a negro man named Joe who was employed to close the
vault. This boy Joe, was a notorious thief ; having been
particularly expert in stealing pigeons, he was generally
known by the name of Pigeon Joe.
Which of these statements the most re
liable I do not pretend to say, hut it is my opinion that
any search for the remains of Gen. Greene in the Ceme
tery will be unsuccessful.
Very respectfully,
GEO. WHITE.
(£! )t &mus mitr Sentinel
Columbus, Georgia.
WEDNESDAY MORNING, FEB. 16, 1853.
Telegraphed Expressly for the Times & Sentinel.
ARRIVAL OF Tll E 8T E AJI E R
NIA GAR A.
Mobile, Feb. 15,4. 48. P. M.
The steamship Niagara arrived at New York yester-
I day, bringing three days later intelligence than the At
lantic.
The cotton market at Liverpool was firm. Sales
for three days prior to the sailing of the steamer amount
ed to 55,000 bales.
Middling Orleans 5 3-4 a 5 7-Bd,
There is an advance of a 1 -16 a 1-S of a penny, caus
| ed by erroneous impressions previously entertained of
| tke amount of the incoming crop.
Speculators took 15,000 bales ; Exporters 3,000 bales.
Sales on Friday proceeding the sailing of the steamer,
reached 9,000 bales.
There have been imported since the sailing of the
last steamer 27,000 bales. Stock on hand 593,000 bales.
The New Orleans market is dull. No sales of mo
ment to-day.
The Mobile market is also flat and sales to-day are
inconsiderable.
Disunion and the Georgia Press.
Several of our eotemporaries are still ringing the
changes upon the worn-out theme of Disunion. It is a
raw head and bloody bones, which they periodically ex
hibit for the purpose of frightening their timid readers
and of injuring the Southern Rights wing of the De
mocracy. Why, gentlemen, it is a very old tune, with
i which the public have become disgusted long ago. It
j is an old thread-bare expedient which every body uu
| derstands, and no one more thoroughly than the
managers who resort to it. You only make yourselves
the laughing stock of a discerning public, in allowing
them to suppose that you really expect to frighten them
with this ass in a lion’s skin. The cars are too prom
inent to impose on a boy of 10 years. And our breth
ren of the press who are guilty in the premises will
pardon us for suggesting that a repetition of the same
old story so often, exhibits a scarcity of ideas, which is
truly lamentable-
Neither the Editor of this paper nor the South
ern Rights party ever were disunionists per se. —
We believed that a bold and determined assertion
of our rights at all hazards was the surest and most
certain mode of preserving the Union, and of securing
our rights. W r e publicly proclaimed that if the South
would unite in the demand of justice at the hands of
the North, that justice would be rendered. W r e
taught that the Union was as dear to the North as it
was to the South, and that war was as terrible to them as
to us. Ou all these issues we suffered an ignominious
! defeat. Submission to wrong was decided to be pref-
I erable to a bold and manly resistance, by every South
j ern S.ate except South Carolina, and she, in the gener
! al defection, thought it prudent to forbear for the pres
| ent the assertion of her independence. Under these un
j toward circumstances, the Southern Rights Party fell
| back upon the Georgia platform, ready and willing when
i the emergency occurs which is contemplated by those
; resolutions to buckle on our armor and rally in the
f front rank around the flag staff which the Union party
i par excellence erected.
We would here, respectfully, ask the Editors who
indulge in the old cry of disunion,] what they meant by
! the Georgia Platform? Was it also a cheat to gull
the people ? Or was it an houest declaration warm
from the hearts of freemen ? Then, if there be treason
in disunion sentiments, you are as guilty as we. You
are prospective disunionists, if you are honest. We
were never anything more. All this is so palpable to
the most unlearned reader that we feel we encumber
our columns by referring to the subject. “ Let the
dead bury their dead”
One more word as to our connection with the Demo
cratic Party.
The Union party had determined upon submission ;
the Southern Rights party was broken, scattered and
overwhelmed by defeat. We stood by the flag staff as
long as a rag fluttered in the breeze. But tim6 rolled
on —and new issues were presented. We were called
on to choose between Scott, the friend of and
the candidate of the abolition wing of the whig party ;
and Pierce, the creation and choice of the southern de
mocracy and a statesman who uniformly sustained the
constitutional rights of the south both in congress and out
of congress. We could not hesitate between them.—
We threw our heart and pen into the scale of Pierce :
and if we did anything in that contest lo overthrow
Federalism and Abolitionism in the person of Scott and
his backers, and to elevate a man to the Presidency
whom we firmly believe to be a State Rights Republican,
we thank God, and are content to bear the eoßsequon
ces. If this defense is not satisfactory to that part of
the press in Georgia which is disposed to censure us they
will please continue to sing “that same old tune” of
disunion until their own dull ears are tired of the
melody. We will promise them a quiet time of it in
future, though we fear their audience will be “a beggar
ly account of empty boxes.”
The Georgia Courier.
We long ago noticed the establishment of a very spir
ited paper in Lumpkin Geo,, by Messrs. Castellaw.
By oversight of one of our compositors, a very compli
mentary notice of the Soil of the South , taken from
that paper and published in the Times & Sentinel, was \
not credited. The Editor of the Courier is very justly j
offended at the oversight, lie cannot regret it more 1
than we. The whole value of the notice was lost by the
omission of the proper credit. We assure our valued j
contemporary that if we have “none of that spirit which
will raise mortals to the skies,” we certainly are free
from all taint of that “which would drag angels down,”
Dramatic Exhibition.
MR. and MRS. CRISP have arrived in our city.
We call on our citizens to welcome them on Thursday,
Friday and Saturday evenings, at TEMPERANCE
HALL, by a bumper audience.
Our private letters assure us that Mr. and Mrs. Crisp
are worthy of the attention which we solicit from the pub
lic in their behalf.
The press from New York to New Orleans speaks in
unqualified praise of their Dramatic Talent.
Their performance last night was very brillian and elici
ted unbounded applause.
Ole Bull’s Concert.
The public will be pleased to learn that Ole Bull
certainly give a concert in this city at Concert Hall, on
Wednesday night 16th inst. He is unquestionably the
greatest musical genius of the age. Mr. Crisp, who
had engaged the Ilall for his Dramatic corps, has kind
ly consented to give way for the great Violinist. His
courtesy will be appreciated by our community. For
further particulars, see advertisement and small bills.
Compendium of News.
Louisiana. —On the 9th, the Senate of Louisiana drew
; lots for the classification of its members. 9 Democrats
and 7 Whigs drew tickets for the shortterm, and 9 Demo
crats and 7 Whigs drew the long term-
Mr. Pierce introduced a resolution to amend the
Constitution so as to make the sessions of the Legislature
biennial.
Congressional. —in the Senate, on the 7th, the joint
resolution affirming the doctrine ofMonroe was taken up.
Mr. Clemens delivered an eloquent speech of an hour,
against the policy of taking Cuba, of acquiring it by pur
chase or any other way. He was content to wait with
I Mr. Soule till it should come to us after a successful revo
lution by the Cubanas, because he knew that he and the
Senator would both be cold in the grave and forgotten be
fore that revolution tvas commenced, much less comple
ted.
He dwelt with the utmost severity upon the extrmese
into which the doctrine of progress would force this na
! tion. He was confident that a hundred Cubas could not
induce Great Britain to a war with the United States,
and have the bloody banner of “bread or blood” raised by
j her own starving multitudes.
Mr. Cass replied, reading some extracts from Ameri
cans in Paris, sustaining his views on the subject.
Mr. Douglass obtained the floor and the subject was
j postponed till Monday next.
j In the House of Representatives of the 9th ult., the
j certificate of the electors for Vive President of the United
: States were read, counted, and registered in the House of
! Representatives in the presence of tho members of the
two branches of Congress. The President protein, of th e
Senate, why presided on the occasion, announced that
i Franklin Pierce, of New Hampshire, was duly elected
| President, and Wiiliam R. King, Vice President of the
! United States, for four years, eommenciug on the fourth
day of March next. In pursuance of a joint resolution,
subsequently adopted, Mr, Hunter was appointed on the
part of the Senate, and Messrs. Jones, of Tennessee, and
Hibbard, on the pa.it of the House of Representatives, as
a committee to wait upon General Pierce and Inform
i him of his election.
Washington, Feb. 11. —In the Senate, to-day Mr.
Mason, of the Committee on Foreign Relations, pre
sented tliirreport of the committee relative to the eo
tablishment of the Balize colony. The report concludes
i with a resolution, stating, in substance, that no action
: is required on the subject at present—that tho Clayton
! and Bulwer treaty contains nothing that can be eonsid
! ered as affecting or recognizing the right of Great
; Britain to the English settlement at Honduras.
Latest News.
We learn from the Mobile papers that a large de
falcation has occurred m the Post office at that place.—
The matter is undergoing judicial investigation before
B. B. Broedin U. S. Commissioner.
Mr. Litcher, U. S. Minister to Mexico has arrived at
j Washington city.
The committe on Foreign Affairs in the Senate has
| reported against the resolution of the Senate on the
j Clayton and Bulwer Treaty.
The Badger Case Settled.
In the Senate on the 12th inst., the nomination of
| Badger to the Bench of the Supreme Court was post
j poned until the 4th March next. This is the second
instance in the history of the Government in which the
insult of selecting a Judge who did not render in the
1 circuit over which he was to preside was ever offered
to the American people. We hope it will be the last.
We are glad the Senate had moral firmness to assert a
sound principle even in the face of an associate who is I
as distinguished as Mr. Badger.
New Jersey U. S. Senetors.
John R. Thompson was elected, on Friday 11th by
the Legislature of New Jersey, ns United States Sena
| tor in the place of the Hon. Robert F. Stockton, re
signed.
Congressional.
The U- S. Senate was engaged on Friday 11th, in
debating the claims of the creditors of Texas. The Hon. I
Samuel Houston, of Texas, addressed the Senate and
denounced strongly the conduct of the speculators in
Texas Bonds.
Liquor Laics. —The Legislature of Rhode Island
have passed the anti-liquor law. The people of Vermont
have adopted by a heavy majority a very stringent anti
liquor law.
Senators. —Mr. Stockton has tendered in his resig
nation of his seat in the Senate to the New Jersey Lio--
islature.
There have further ballotings for U. S. Senator in
the Maine Legislature; but no choice had been made
at latest dates.
On Saturday 12th, a fire occurred in Savannah on
Maket square, and destroyed the store occupied hy
G. B .nkmaun, and J. Siehel.
The Arctic Expedition under Dr. Kane is organizing
in New York rapidly, and will be ready to sail in May
a?xt.
A Resemblance. —“ Colonel Wilson is a fine
looking man, ’ said a friend of ours the other and iv.
\es, replied another, ‘*l was taken for him
once.
“\ou ! why you are the ugliest man lever saw.”
“I don t care for that ; I was taken for him ; I
endorsed his note, and was taken for him—bv the
sheriff’s officer.” y
Indian Portrait Gallery,
We have had the pleasure of inspecting the 3d
volume folio edition of this interesting work, and
take pleasure in commending it to the public. Wc
find in the Mobile Register , the following just and
appropriate notice of it, which will be read with in
terest.
The Red Men of the United States.—ln
the museum chamber of the Patent office, at Wash
ington City, there is a very large collection of por
traits of the principal chiefs and warriors of the va
rious aboriginal tribes of our country, who have at
different times visited the national capitol. It be
came the policy of our government at an early pe
riod to have these pictures executed by skillful ar
tists, as memorials of the singular people who once
held entire dominion, but who hajje been steadily
hiding away before the progress of our population.
The Gallery now embraces several hundred pic
tures, presenting, individuals from almost even
“nation,” in their peculiar costumes aud decorations,
and with their appropriate implements ot war or
peace. It is altogether one of the most interes -
ing spectacles in Washington ; and we have often
passed in gazing hours on the marked physiogno
mies of these Red Patriarchs of our land, many
of whom, Tecumseh, Brandt, Pushmateha, and
Black Hawk, have been celebrated for their warlike
deeds, and others, as Guess, (the inventor of tho
Cherokee alphabet,) Red Jacket, (the Seneca ora
tor,) Turtle Field, (the native missionary,) and
Ross and Ridge (wise couiAellors and diplomatists.)
were equally distinguished in the paths of peace.
The idea of the Gallery was, we believe, orig
inated by Col. Thomas L. McKenny, when he
was at tha bead of the Indian Bureau, attached to
the War Department, in which the Gallery was
first established. Long in that office, Col. McKin
ny also engaged himself in collecting from the va
rious Indian delegations, who visited the capitol, as
full information as possible in reference to the his
tory of their tribes, the biographies of tho warriors
and chieftains themseives, and everything that
could throw ilight upon the institutions, manneis,
customs, languages and fortunes of the aboriginal
I race. The opportunity was evidently the finest
that could he desired tor the purpose.
I lie numbers of this magnificent work having
been completed, they were collected and bound up
in the most superb style, forming three large vol
umes, which have never been surpassed in this coun
try. We regard the work as forming in its com
plete state, the most valuable addition ever made
to our aboriginal history, and as the proudest
achievement of the American press.
We know no publicati< n we can more heartily and
truthfully commend to the public. It is a rich treas
ury of information in relation to the Indian Tribes
ot our country. It abounds in the most romantic
and thrilling narrative as to their savage wars, their
feats of personal hazard and prowess, their cruel
unci bloody rites 5 their wild and fantastic ccreino
nies, their singular amusements, the eloquej§g °f
tlieii oiators, the wisdom of their sages, Itfiß-tMtho
wit and humor, and grotesque follies abounding in
their midst. Ad the circumstances attending the
perilous progress ot our pioneer and border settle
ments, trom the times of Powhattan and Pocahou
! tas, to those of Oceola and Billy Bowlegs, will be.
found in those volumes—while the embellishments
will bring the fierce chieftain or unlettered orator,
almost personally present before the reader.
T° e . P co ple ot Alabama these volumes have
a special interest. The most powerful, warlike, in
telligent and interesting ot the aboriginal nations
vveie those who occupied lour soil; and much ot
i “ork is devoted to them. Here we have full
i accoun J s °f many of the great men of cur State— *
| sons f the soil on which we tread—distinguished
i 111 then day and generation for valorous and patri
| ° tlc deeds—adequate memorials of whom have
I oeen no where else preserved. Here pas na
| tne grim, stately, and blood-stained forms of such
! w ar £jp r s and chieftains as McGilvrey, Weatherford,
i the Big Warrior, Mclntosh, Yopothleholo, Paddy
i^ Hl Tvr B °y’ Pnshmata
ha, Mushaliatubbe, Jequayah, and Ridrre. of
; the Choctaws and Cberokees. ifliy we should all
be glad to possess the memoriaffrof—these tribes—
tor
4< We have built ouiHionies upon
Fields where sleep.”
j This book should be in every library in tho State
tor none can tie complete without it. As an orna<
mentand fitting companion for the parlor cenlre-ta
ble, it is unsurpassed by any.
j TELEGRAPHIC.
r New York, Feb. 14.
| Thus. S. Fay has been nominated Charge d’Affaires
! to Switzerland.
j. h is re P° rted that the British Squadron on the coast
of Cuba has been increased for the purpose of more es-
I fectually stopping the slave trade.
The week sales of Cotton in this market* reached
: 10,000 bales. Middling New Orleans 10 1-2 C.
New Orleans, Feb. 14.—Demand extremely limi
ted. Sales to 1 o’clock barely 1000 bales.
. F * b : U ~ 4 = . “—Market dull_te
1000 bales. Prices have a downward tendency.
SAILING OF OCEAN STEAMERS.
Collins and Cunard FLincs,
FROM LIVERPOOL.
For 1853.
( Boston Saturday Jan 99 n i
New York Wednesday “ . 26 p Ul . , , ard
New-York Saturday....... “ oo ? llln ?
Boston. Saturday Feb ( r Unar< J
New-York Wednesday.... “” “ 9 r“',f rd
New-York Saturday *’i 2 -Collins
Boston Saturday...... “ “19 unard
New-York Wednesday.... “* * ‘O3 9, u, }f. rcl
New-York Saturday....... “ Collms
Boston Saturday March \ CuDard
New-York Wednesday.... “ ’<? uaard
New-York Saturday.... “ it> Collins
Boston Saturday * “ {<l Cunard
New-York Wednesday... “ Cunard
New-York Saturday......’ < H Bolhns
. .. ~° Cunard
>RO3I AMERICV
Boston Wednesday... Feb in
New-ltork Saturday “ Jq Cunard
New-York Wednesday... ‘ o* -Collms
Boston Wednesday... ’ M-in’h 9 < unard
New-York Saturday...../ Ma 2 sh ’ f u ? ard
New-York Wednesday... q olilu
Boston Wednesday... ‘ “ ir Cunard
New-York Saturday..... ‘ J £ Ur J? rd
New-York Wednesday... ‘ •* 93’ S® 111 "?
Boston Wednesday.....’ 3O , C : unard
New-York Saturday April 9 Cumud
New-York Wednesday.. P “ “ .Collms
Boston Wednesday.. “ ,O £ unard
New-York Saturday... “ £ u “ ard
New York Wednesday..” in £ ol,in ?
Wednesday.
COTTON STATEMENTS.
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Feb, 14, F ; F dy
jJ* 29 1"31 48163 49d94k 11 {34145 34556 15567
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