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CHRONICLE ANL) SEN'ITNEL
AIIGUST.I.
Friday Morn ins, Feb. 16.
■“This question shall be discussed?' I his
ia the conclusion «( a long editorial article in
£he Peoples* Press of yebtenlay, replying to the
CommaiMcstion of our 'correspondent “A friend
to the South.” May 'wo respectfully ask -what
question? Is it the Sub- Treasury scheme! or
the Bank question! or is it the “question” of
Mr. Calhoun's consistency!
FROM LIVERPOOL—DIRECT.
The British ship Nimrod, arrived at Charles
ton on Wednesday evening from Liverpool, but
(brings no later dates than those previously te
ceivcd by the way of New York. The Editors
.of the Mercury ha-dt been furnished with a Circu
ital of the Ist January, from which they make
the following extracts:
“‘The stock of Cotton taken out of the Liver
pool market during J 837, exceeds that of the
previous year by 45'000 bags.
The state of the Cotton market in itself, at the
present time, calls for no particular comment;
-the consumption is extremely large; and though
-the coming crop may be quite adequate to the
increased consumption, yet present prices are
federate. Added to (this, the state of the coun
,try is prosperous, commercially speaking, and
-give* no reason to apprehend, at least, any imme
■shale recurrence of those disastrous circumstances
we ha*e recently experienced.
Slock of Cotton on hand Ist Jan. 1838: Ameri
can 83,160; Brazil, 28,WW; West India, Deme
rata, Smyrna, dec. 15,83#; Egypt 17,680; East
India, 109,310. Total 259,340 bags.”
Upwards of fifty thousand dollars’ worth of
property has been destroyed by a fire which oc
curred tn New Orleans, last Friday. The prin
cipal sufferers are Mr. Cl. Dimond, Mr. Keller, Mr a
rCogswell, and Messrs Valentine and Banduc.
New Orleans has (exported to Europe this j
season sixty .thousand more bales of cotton than
was shipped last year previous to February 10.
Shelias received this season 133,234 barrels
-of floor, against 81,8 H? barrels, same time the
season before this.
She had in port Ifcct Saturday, 230 vessels
same timc'iast -season. St 68.
Ixfamous Fohoe hvt, —The Charleston Pat
/net-ef Tuesday says.- “The letter addressed to
(the Post Master in this-oity, dated from Lexing
tion, ,(Ky.) giving aoebunt of an extensive fire in
that city, turns out to be a gross fabrication. We
have conversed with a -respectable gentleman
from Kentuoky, who slates that he is intimately
acquainted with tfaethand writing of the Mayor
-of Lexington, and who {imvnounces the pretended
letter a forgery. Bfe'sdds, in proof of hi« aver
ment, if corroboration were needed, that the nama
ot the Mayor of Lexihgtan is James G., and not
<G. G. McKinney, the one by which it is sub
-seribcil.
There is a sunfrffaVriT Funds to meet the Span
ish claims, which amount to 27$ per cent over
•(he claims themselves. This goes to the claim
-airts themselves also.
T ;
The Federal Union of Tuesday last, says:
“The steamboat Wave, owned by our enterpris
ing fellow-citizens, Messrs. Nichols & Doming,
lias made her second trip to Darien since Christ
mas. She arrived at this place on Saturday last,
having made her trip to Darien and back, in ten
slays. The river being quite full, she rode suc
cessfully over the strong current, from the boat
landing to the fe<7t ot .this bridge, opposite the city,
where she was delivered of her freight, consisting
of groceries, fresh shad, Iruit, &c., and safely re
turned through the leek to the landing, from
whence she sets out agMn to-day.
The Natchez, Miss., Shipping company, from
the Ist of October to the middle of January, com
pressed and shipped upwards of 15,000 bales of
-cotton for the Liverpftol Market. This is said
to have been an unfortunate year for steamboats
on the Mississippi, and the want of freight there
has had a tendency to reduce the towage of ves
sels to and from the (different ports in the State of
Mississippi.
Tkeasuuy Notes.—The New York Com
mercial Advertiser publishes the following cau
tion:
Treasury Notes.— The public arc cautioned
against a fraud that has been discovered in these
notes.. It consists of changing the rate of inter
est from" two to five per cent. As notes have
been issued beating both these rates of interest,
in other respects precisely alike—this when
skilfully done wiih the pdfi by ciossing the T to
make an F; and changing wo into ive, is very
difficult to discover, and thus the unsuspecting
’ are.swindled out of throe per cent, fur they arc
only taken at the true rate.
Pir i l adeltii I a Mo.veV Mauket.—The Com
mercial List of Saturday says—
The pressure is abating. Money is gelling
mote plenty, and the bunks are discounting more
liberally, or at all events arc not making any far
ther curtailments. Remittances from the West
ind South -come in belter' than was expected,
which has afforded considerable relief to our mer
chants, A large amount of the funds received
is in AlabamaorNcw Ofleans money, which has
increased the rates of discount upon such funds.
Certificates of deposit on Mobile have been sell
ing for the last few days at 7 percent, and large
Dank notes at 8$ to 8$ per cent discount.
The question of a resumption of specie pay
ment is in s'atu quo, ar.d we presume will n it be
agitated until the re-assembling of the Bank Con
vention in April, unless some important action
by Congress should take plate in the mean lime, j
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From the N V. Daily Exprts, Feb. 11
1 MONEY MARKET—CITY NEWS.
We copy the following valuable statistics from
ibe Mercunlilo Journal, showing the great,difler
ence in the business of the last year, and that of
the year preceding :
Value of Imports at the Port of New
\ ork lor the first three quarters of
18a7 - , $60,403,830
Do. for the fourth quarter (estimated) 8,133,864
08,536,700
Valueof Imports for the year 1836, 113,880,191
Difference of 1837 compared with ’36 50,349,494
Duties accrued in 1837, $9,480,124
Do. do. 1836, 17,114,305
Difference compared with
>836. $7,634,181
From the Globe, we have the following s!ele
ment of the operations oflhe Mint. The Direc
tor of the Mint allows that tne coinage for 1837
wits:
In gold, 1,035,910, in half eagles.
Do. 112,700, in quarter eagles.
In silver, 1,814,910, in half dollars.
Do. 63,1 11), in quarter dollars. •
Do. 104,200, in ten cents.
Do. 103,860, in live cents.
In copper, 55,583, in cents.
Total . $3,299,898
The whole amount of coinage which has taken
place since the commencement of the Mint in
1793, is:
In Gold, $22,300,340
In Silver, 42,835,192
In Copper, 790,916
Total $72,831,448
Anon-nos i.v the District of Commit*,
—We again advert to the recent action of the U.
S. Senate on this subject, in older to show how
thoroughly justified Mr. Pinckney stands, for his
course in Congress on the same subject, by the
words and conduct of those, who once so bitterly
condemned him.
In (lie course of the discuss’on, on Mr. Cal
houn’s resolutions, the resolution relative to the
District of Columbia being under consideration
Mr. Preston moved to insert the words “also a
violation of the public faith implied in the ces
sion of this District by the States of Virginia and
Maryland.”
The otiginal resolution was in thb following
form, containing neither allegation of dhconsti
tutionality, nor of violation of public faith:
“ Jtesnlved , That the intermeddling of any
State or Stales, or their citi/.ens, to abolish slave
ry in this District, or any of the Territories, on
the ground, or under the pretext, that it is immo
ral or sinful, or the passage of any act or mcas
ute of Congress, with that view, would he a direct
| and dangerous attack on the institutions of all
the slaveholding States.”
Mr. Calhoun said he had always been of the
opinion that any interference with slavery in this
District would not only ho a violation of (he
public faith to the Stales of Virginia and Mary.,
land, hut would also ho a direct violation of the
Bth amended article of the Constitution. He
had not, however, thought proper to assert it, as
he knew that there was a majority in the Senate
of a different opinion, and as his object was to
place the question on no particular portion of the
Constitution, hut on its general character and
structure, which he thought was much stronger,
and much less liable to be disputed. He would
neither object nor assent tojllie proposed modifi
cation, and would leave, it without further remark
to the decision of the Senate.
Mr. Preston’s amendment was then agreed to*
Now let it be remembered that the very thing
for which Mr. Pinckney was chiefly abused and
brand as a traitor to the South, the vo~y head
and front of his offending, was his not insisting
in his resolutions on the unconstiiuiionality of
abolition in the district. It was not enough that
he had expressly denounced it, in terms, “as a
violation of public faith, unwise, impolitic and
dangerous to the Union” —it was in vain that
he protested his belief of its unconstiiuiionality
and that he had forborne the insertion of that
belief only for the sake of harmony—the storm
of censure and persecution raged on with unaba
ted fierceness. But now what do we behold—
Mr. Preston moving to add to Mr. Calhoun’s res
olulions, in substance, and almost in exact terms,
an important portion of Mr. Pinckney’s much
abused resolutions, and Mr. Calhoun apologizing
for not inserting what Mr. Pinckney hud insert
ed, and far omitting what Mr. Pinckney was rc
v led for omitting, on the very ground on which
Mr. Pinckney had vainly placed his defence, viz;
his knowledge that a majority was against him,
ami his desire of harmony. Thus then we find
both Mr. Preston and Mr. Calhoun walking in
the footsteps of Mr. Pinckney, and completing
his justification and triumph. Verrily time
brings us acquainted with sltange bed fellows.—
Charleston Cour.
The New Orleans papers of Saturday are si
lent as to the affairs of ’Texas
“The Merchant” appears to anticipate that the
governor’s veto will ho used to defeat the hill con
trolling the hanks in Louisiana. Should their
law-makers -efuso relief, the impression is gener
al that the business men of New Orleans will ho
much cramped in all their Uansaclions of tins
year. —Mobile Mer. Ailv.
Main Robberies —An rests. —Wo learn
from the Cincinnati Republican that the Great
Northern Mail, from Columbus to Toledo, was
robbed ic is supposed, near Lyme, Huron county
Ohio, Both the mall bags were cut open. The
amount of loss sustained has not yet boon ascer
tained. Upon the arrival of the mail at Lyme,
on the Ist instant, the postmaster at that ollice,
Mr. Lyman Strong, with great promptitude, in
stituted an investigation, and strong suspicions
resting upon a man named Houck, who was a
passenger in the stage, he forthwith went in pur
suit of him. Ho overtook and arrested him at
Granville, and brought him to Columbus on the
morning of the 4tlrinst., whore he was fully com
mitted for trial.
On the26lh u!t. the postmaster at Kingsville,
Ashtabula county, Ohio, Stephen Monger and
his son, Harrison Monger, were arrested by Mr.
James Brown, one of the agents of the post office
department, on suspicion of robbing from the
mail. They were committed, and will receive
their dial at the next scs-ion of the U. States
Court, to bo held in Columbus in May next.
It is slated that ten persons including those
mentioned above have been arrested in Ohio
alone, within the last two months, for depreda
tions on the mails.— Bull. Jlefiublican.
Cuubch Bells. — A writer in the Philad 2.
phia United Slates Gazelle of Monday, informs
us that there are now in this city in the pub
lic. stores about seventy bells from the convents
and churches of Spain—all of excellent tone,
and for sale at exceedingly low prices.
He gives the following account of lueir his
tory.
Don Oatlos melted up the bells into cannon,
and the Queen’s government sold them in many
. instances for old copper. It is well known that
tile Spanish hells ure among iho linest, if noi
he finest in the world. Largo numbers of these
hells were sent to Marseilles, ami sold for old
copper hy order ol the Spanish government. An
un man gentlemen at Marsellios lust winter
purchased about sixty of them which were per
toot,amt shipped them to N York for 100 purpose
; ol preserving them on account: of their superior
one and finish. Orders were gin it that
i ley s ieul.l ho entered at tho custom lr ouse
> as old copper, which was refused, and the hells
; note placed in the custom house stores, subject
to a duly ol *5 per cent on the cost. The con-
signees ut lire hells have received orders to sr 11
them at cost. One of tire oldest and mm,
experienced hell founders in New York hat
examined them, and says they ure such as cannos
he made in this country <ty probably any vvheret
at this time', that the tones are inimitably beau
tiful arid that one or those bells weighing 100
pounds has as much power and strength of tone
as an ordinary hell weighing 300 pounds; tho
hells are in perfect preservation and weigh from
100 to 7000 pounds.
The consignees have received orders to sell the
hells at cost; this with the du’y inclusive, will
h'ing them somewhere between -7 and 30 cents
per pound. Persons desirous ol knowing more
ol these hells, or oi purchasing one or more of
them, may learn any particulars they wish, try tli *
reeling ale ter post paid, to Messrs. Pilch. &, (Jo/*
No- 55 Exchange place, New York.
It the hells arc not sold within two or three
Months they will be broken up and sold for old
copper; lire broken metal entering free of duly,
koine ot the hells are COO years old, and besides
their other good qualities, have the merits ot anti
quity as a claim for their preservation.
OSEC)LA—or PO VVELL.
TlmN. Y. Star contains a letter from Mr.
(i. C'atlin, dated at Fort Moultrie, Sullivhu’a
lain nil, near Charleston, January 24- lie
was adding to his Indian Gallary, by taking
the portraits of the Indian Chiefs, who are
confined there. There were k!5(.) Seminole
prisoners ol war,chiefs, warriors, women and
children. Mr. Gatlin gives a brief account
of Mick-e-no-pah, the first civil chief of Hie
nation —bin most of his letters is devoted to
the chief,whose name heads this article. The
following are extracts;
“There is one restless spirit among them
of a different cast—one who sits and broods
over his nation’s calamities with a broken
heart, and pines and sickens in an agony
which none but himself cun know or feel—i
mean Osceola, (Powell,) or, as he and all the
other chiefs distinctly pronounce it, As se-o la.
From the lime I have spent with tins Chief,
and the familiar interviews 1 have had with
him in conversation, I have been able to form
a preily correct notion of the feelings and
character, ns well as history, of this extraor
dinary man. A Creek by both, he left his own
tribe whilst a hoy, and sought mi asylum
amongst the Seminoles, where he has been
reared, and where he has flourished since. His
father was awhile man’ by the name of Pow
ell, who abandoned him and sent him a va
grant upon the world to cater for himself
lie soon became a favoriie amongst the
Setninoles; and from his force of character
and genius alone, he lias risen to the highest
honors of the nation.”
“From such (acts, it appears he is entirely a
“self made man,” and orient an cxlraordma
ry character, which is conclusively proved by
the fact that ho is acknowledged, and follow
ed, by all the chiefs. Though he is but a de
mi savage in blocd, yet bespeaks not a word
ot English; and in Ins actions and feelings is
ns perfectly an Indian as any man I ever
saw. * * * * * * * i
“I thought at first, like thousands of others
who lake but a glance at Hiltl, that he was
effeminate and womanish, but on a little ac
quaintance and familiarity with him, I be
came fully convinced, that the true charac
ter of this man is not to bo learned by the
transient visitor, who sees him but a moment
and that rholnenl a prisoner, withering un
der a broken spirit, endeavoring to raise a
smirk and a smile, to meet the gazing world
who are flocking to see him. These smiles
are soft and beautiful, and are many; but
those who, like myself, have heard Inn pour
fourth his griefs m the simpering tears of ac
tual childness, and then instantly rally, and
rouse limiftclt into the indignant stearnness
of the warrior and hero, will easily see that
those smiles are based upon an agony that
regularly prays upon Ins substance. IPs
taco is certainly one of the most expressive
kind lever have seen; capable of the most
vivid and sinking exhibition of the human
passions that can possibly be imagined, bear
ing upon its front the itiost predominant
characteristic impress of stearncss and re
serve, and excessive perseverance in the
pursuits of life.”
“He has a mind of a wonderful construc
tion, calculated to fortify and yet destroy it
self—a lurking cunning, capable of gilding
wdh the warmth and glowing pleasantness
of sunsiiiiie the whirling tempest that’s ra
tr u c in his soul, and even in his mirth and
childishness destroying him. Uc smiles and
fawns and languishes before the gazing j
worhl; but in his solitude, or when he tells in j
confidence ins tales of grief, though mild and |
smiling, dew drops moisten his eyes at one ,
niorneiP, yet the burning hero rushes through
their sockets at the next —his brows jottncr
their hulls of (tie—his nostrils and Ins bosom
swell with impatience —and his clench teeth
are set in silent oaths of irrelraclablo re- 1
venge. Naturally of a restless and impatient 1
deposition — in Ins captvc interviews with 1
the civilized world he smiles — but in his sol- J
ilude he gnevts and pines with a broken
heart. Tne world who have ha rely seen (
him, shake the hand of a laughing fawn; but
those who listen to his gnels as 1 have done 1
will see the stearnn ss of a Roman, and in 1
Ins agony a beautiful statute of Vengeance. I
A mmri thus organized and enthralled by
snub circumstances us has fallen to his lot, |
must soon destroy PS lenauienL i here are _
elements in such a spirit that wage a deadly j
war with the body then thwarted and chained |
down to a prison —Ins physical strength is (
rapidly giving way and I would be very mileh ,
surprised il he should survive many months,
or even weeks in Iris present confinement,
and under his present ugorVy of feeling.”
Mr. Gatlin’s prediction was verified sooner j
than he expec.ed— Osceola has already i
breathed his last. — Charleston C our.
QuAi.iriiTlo.vß ron Matiumovt —No wo '
man ought to bo permitted to enter upon lire J
duties ofconnubiality wi.boul being able to make
~ shin, mend a coat, seat unwlnsperablos, hake
a |oaf of bread, roast a joi lof meat, br oil a steak, ,
make a pudding anil manufacture frocks and et ,
celetas for lotto responsibilities.
If only those possessed of these qualifications
were permitted to become wives, how many years
do you think, reader, it. would take a good arilh
meti-ian 10 ciiculats the number of old maids I
w> . i
Aiikust or r'vo men on chauoK ok
’ UI'KUKU COMMITTED IN IRELAND.—A lew
moiitlis back the police magistrates in litis
city received documents sent out by the Bn
li(iil «"Vernmont in telatinn in a murder coin
niiucd in Ireland, the perpetrators of which
! ' vc rc supposed to bo in tins rountrv. 'l'be
parties accused wore a lather and son of the
naiiio o| liaiiibor, who wore charged with
bavin; in September, 18*J1), at Halymong
, County Ainurgb, killed one of the military
police, who wm, assisting the civil authorities
1 111 executing a writ, of ejectment on the pre
inises at tho accused. On these documents a
: warrant was issued for the apprehension ot
. the accused, and within the last two or three
days too officers arrested the father and sou
. m this city, who had hitherto escaped disco
i very by adopting the name of McCauley,
i Ihe senior prisoner admits i hat one of the
i gens d armes was killed on the occasion allu
ded to, but denies that he killed him,and gives
a version ol the story, which if true, goes to
some extent in palliation of the killing. Ac
cording to his statement when the gens
d armes were outline bis family out of their
house some ot the family resisted, and one of
the gens d’armes shot dead one of ihu old
man s suns, find tho one who was Killed was
in the net of bayoneting tho old mini's second
son, when one of the family tired at him and
Killed him. The prisoners were yesterday
brought before bncol the judges under a writ
ol hubtus corpus, but he declined to interfere
in till* matter; and the papers m relation to
life arrest ot the prisoners have been forwar
ded to the Governor, in order to obtain bis
authority to deliver them up to the British
authorities. —Journal ol (Jovtvterce,
Visiting Cuba run health. —Excellent
preparations have been made near Matanzas lor
ibo accommodation ol invalids from ibe United
Slates. Ihe want ol suitable lodgings prevent
many from | assing ibe winter in that beautiful
island, who fell the necessity of Hoeing from its
boisterous approaches in New England. The
place now organized with express reference to the
convenience o) this class ot strangers, it is located
at San Pedro de Hudson, eighteen miles from
Matunznn. Board rangcß Kl about fourteen dol
lars a work.—The keeping of a horse is len dol
lars a month l lie hire ol one is thirty dollars a
month. Steamboats leave Havana and Matan
zas every other day—the fare being six dollars.
Board, by the day, at eilhei place, is two dollais
and fifty cents. A horse costs from sixty-eight
to one hundred and fifty dollars. Those who «an
afford the expense, should ship their own, the na
tive breed being small and inferior. Invalids, to
derive the most advantages from the mild air of
Cubit; should leave hero by the first of October,
and remain till May. Physicians in recom
mending a voyage to their consumptive patients,
should keep this circumstance in recdllecliou.—
Jlcilical Journal.
M. Poisson, at a lale sitting of the Academic
des Sciences, gave a solution ofa curious problem
in the system of games of chance. When seve
ral persons assembled to play a game at which
two only are engaged at a lime, being succeeded
by the rest in turn, is tbb advantage in iavor of
the two who commenced the game or of those
who lake their places afterwards f Calculation
proves that the advantage is on the side of the
first players in the proportion of one fourteenth.
Consequently, if the slake is 14fr. for each per
son, the two fits! players have so to speak, actu
ally gained Hr. by merely sitting down first to
play; the others, therefore, ought to increase the
slaku to lot', to bring chances to an equality.
Aunuaox.—Mr. Audubon has given notice
in our paper, as well ns in the other gazelles, t
that ho expects trt complete his great work “On |
the Birds of Arncricari,” biirly in April or May |
next. Seventy numbers have now been issued,
and it was thought that ten more, would complete
the work; hut several nfcw species of birds have
been discovered by the Prince of Musignano
(Mr. Bonaparte) Mr. Nuttall Dr. & Townsend,
and these must have a record in the splendid
work of Audubon. The whole number of perfect
sest subsciibed about 160, of which one
half arc in America, and not more than ten or
fifteen copies will be prepared beyond those call
ed foi by the subscription list.— (J. S. (iaz.
The Mechanic.—ls there is any man in
society upon whom we look with esteem and t
admiration, it is Ibo honest and industrious t
mechanic, who by bis own unaided exertion i
has established Cor b mself a respectable sta- i
lion in society; who commencing in poverty, 1
by bis skill and assiduity, surmounts every t
obstacle, overcomes every prejudice, and sue- I
ceeds in establishing for himself a reputation s
whose value is encbanccd (or those who come t
after him. Such a man vve prise as the no- (
blest work ol which human nature is capa-, it
h!c, tlie highest production site can boast, r
And let it ever be borne in mind by the n
young mechanic just entering on the stage of s
active lile—let it ever be at the foundation, t
and be Ibe moving spring of all his efforts, s
that this situation he t.< tst strive to attain, a
It cun be attained by all—untiring industry 1
and a virtuous ambition never fail of their rco t
ward. They never yet wore exerted in vain, <i
and never will be, while honesty and justice t
are loit in the human heart. It, was well re- t
m irked, by an eloqieut writer that the Me- v
cbanic, who had no inheritance but health, no t
riches but virtue, is ibo sole" king among v
man, ami the only man among kings. ti
A Stuanoeu in these Pautm.—According
to the Taunton Whig they have a Mississippi (,
roarer ill that peaceble village, who ought to be ii
kept quiet, if possible, or they will see harder n
limes there than the alewives when they jjet in- b
to Court. The dcsoiption which tlio “larnal a
crilur” gives of himself, is ibis: I,
I’m very like a whale, with a little shade of c
the big elephant—ami a slight touch of the wild h
catamount; I’m a real catastrophe—a small crca- o
lion, mount Vesuvius at the lop, with red hot It
lava pouring utit of the crater, and routing na- a
tions; my eyes arc two blast furnaces—tears red c
hot melted iron, and every tooth in my head a si
granite pillar; my feet aie Virginia plantations— o
legs, branch railroads of whalebone—fists, rocky p
mountains, and arms, Whig liocrly poles, with b
cast sieel springs. Every step I lake is an "
earthquake, every blow I strike is a clap of ft
thunder, and every breath I breathe is a tornado: ti
my disposition is Dupont's best, and goes off in is
a flash; when f blast, there’ll be just nothing ,b
left but a hole three feet deep in circumference Ci
and no end to ibe depth. My gig is a wildcat, k
with hoop snake wheels—my learn a tandem ol w
sea serpents, with rattlesnake reins, fout roar- '1
ing lions for body guard; and I advance and re- g
tret like a hurricane. n
Conscience Sticken. —Tlio Teller o! c
one of ibe Boston Banks received on Toes- „
day morning a letter enclosing a live dollar K
bill and the following: p
Dear Sir; Hero is live dollars you overpaid b
mo some time since; May God and you for- g
giv.nte for not returning it bes >re- ‘t
<v
From ihc J.,Kill's Book.
IHE INDIAN GIRL’S PUNE HAL.
Hl' MRS. SIUOU ItSi KT.
‘Dikd,! ll the vicinity of Montrose, VVisconsi
trriloiy, iho only daughter of Moko.au ludiai
woman in the Sac tribe, at thu age of IS of a Hi
Bering consumption. A few of the tribe, and
lew 6t the pale faces were in attendance—yet in
one wept over iho maiden’s grave, lint the poo
mother, —thru/,I of the Upper Jiississippi.
A wail upon the | fairies,
A cry ul woman's woo,
I hat mingleth with the autumn blast
All Allolly and low.
It is a mother’s wailing;
Hath Earth another tone
Like that with which a mother mourns
Her last, her only oncl
Pale faces gather round her, '
They mark the storm swell high
Which rands and recks the tossing soul,
Vet their cold hUib eyes ere dry.
Palo faces gaze upon hsr, ■. .
As the wild wind waft her moan,
Pul she was an Indian mother—
Ho she wept those tears alone.
Long, o’er .that wasting idol,
Svlie watch’d, and toil’d any pray'd,
Though every dreary dawn reveal'd
Some ravage Death has made
1 ill the lleshless sinews started,
And Hope no opiate gave, . .
And hoarse and hollow grew her voice—
An echo irom the grave.
She was a gentle creature,
Os raven eye and tress, >,
And dove-like were tire tones that hrolth’d
Her hesom’s tenderness,
Save when some quick emotion
1 lie warm blood strongly sent,
To revel in Iter olive cheek,
So richly eloquent.
I said consumption smote her,
And the healer’s an t*!ts vain,
lint she was an Indian maiden,
None, save that widow’d rnothef.
Who now, by bei open tomb.
Is writhing like the smitten wretch
Whom judgment marks for doom.
Alas! that lonely cabin,
That couch beside the wall, .
1 hat scat beneath the mantling viiife,
They’re lone and empty all !
What hand shall pluck the tall, green corn,
That ripeneth on the plain, < •
Since she for whom the board was Spread,
Must ne’er return again]
Rest, rest thee, Indian maiden!
Nor let in v murmuring shade
Grieve thalthosepale-bnM’d olifts, williacorh,
Thy buriul-rite suivey’d.
There’s many a king, whoso funeral
A black rob’d realm shall see,
For whom no lear of grief is shed,
Like that which fulls for thee.
Rcsl.rest thee, forest maiden!
Uenealh thy native tree,
The pround may boast their little day,
Then sink to dust, like thee;
But there’s many a one whose funeral
With nodding plumea may be.
Whom Nature nor affection mourn.
As now they mourn for thee,
September 23d, 1837.
HOME.
“The patriotic boast where e'er wo roam
' Dur first, best counlry over is ut h nne.”
I here is on trait perhaps, more common or
more amiable in thu human character, than
the aliuclnnent which each individual feels
(or his native place—With what resistless,
tender and soul subduing influence docs rc
mernberanfce ot past scenes and pleasures
rush upon the mind.' Our native hillfl and
valleys, the tuneful broods, the groves, the
meadows, and fields which witnessed the in
nocent sporting* of our youthful years, aris
ing before the imagination, arrayed in all
their beauty. With the loneliness of adec
lion we look back to the sacred spot where
repose Iho ashes of departed kindred and
friends. In the chaste and pious meditation,
we feel a pleasant melancholy steal over the
soul—which wo would not exchange /brail the
sj/arl ling joys ol transient and unsubstantial
amusement. L’u', a yoking from the pleasing
reverie, we find perhaps that we are in a die"
taut land, surrounded by the faces pf stran
gers. In vain do we look aiound for the
friends and companions of youth, but all is
mid, lonely and desolate. Toll ns net that
the gules which fun us arc perfumed with
orders; that the gentle zephry brings health
and balm on its wings; that rosed and jessa
mines fill the soft air with matchless Iragancc,
and that the verdant mantle of nature is
spangled with flowers of the richest d es. For
neither the spicy gales; nor Ihc roses and jes
samines, nor nature’s fairest livery equal the
air, the beauty, the enchantment, ofour native
land. To us the whispers of parental Jove,
tenderness, and affection, would be more
gra'el ul and soothing than the gentle tann
ings of the soft south wind, ortho breath of
die perfumed zephyr. To us more pleasing
would be the sight ofour parental mansion,
.hough hang with icicles and surrounded
villi the desolate emblems of winter, thun
,he verdure ul raced to a distant land.
Loud Castlrreaoii and tiik Ghost. —Lord
•iastlereagh, when commanding, in early life a
r.ililia regiment in Ireland, was stationed one
light in a large desolate country house, and his
>ed was At one end of a dilapidated room, while
it the other extremity a great fire of wood and
urf bad been prepared wiihin a huge gaping old
ibimney. Wakinj; in t!;e miAllo of the night,
io lay watching from fits pillow the gradual dark
less of embers on Ihc hearth, when suddenly
hoy blazed up, and a naked child stepped from
miong them upon the floor, Tho figure advanc
'd slowly towards Lord Castlereagh, rising in
ilatnc at every step, until on coming within two
ir three puces of the bed, it had assumed the up
leuranco of a ghastly giant, pale as death, with a
deeding wound on Iho brow, and eyes glaring
vith rage and despair. Lord Castlereagh leaned
rom his hod and confronted the figure in an atti
ii'lo of defence. It retreated before him ditmn
shingasit withdrew, in tho same manner that it
lad previously shot up and expanded ; ho follow
id il pare hy pace, until the original childlike
onn disappeared among the embers. He then
vent back to his lied and was disturbed no more.
I bis story Lord Casllcroagh told with perfect
Jgavity at one of his wife’s supper parties in Da
is in 1810, when Scott was aiViong the hearers.
[ have olten heard him repeal it—before the fatal
lalastroplie of August 1822 afforded iho solution
d the text—when tie merely mentioned it as a
angularly vivid dream, the product probably of a
feverish night following upon a military debauch,
but affording a striking indication of the coura.
geous tamper, which proved true to itself amid
the terrors of fancy.— Life rs Sir Water Scott.
-j-j SSO.
i' , A I Byron ont*
paw or "n ,r ," m 11 'vhoni he never
* n decline iV* * 1,e (. ,,re ; shn said she was in’a
vvorli? Kh d . dy ! M,r . f " 8,,b1,t beforo she ,e,l,he
"■ ", hn '"•* tlm opportunity to Ic, him
“ x mV,,UI ‘ ,loa “ ,lru " lc reading o(bw
ponry Im.l a (Forded her; X con,
jr , (1 / > mm to burn her letter—
ll. I'' 1 " *'" to a friend‘l can
not, do if, lor I look upon u « s a teller thing
loan n diploma hum Ciidtingcn.
Pkoouahitjes or E,v rtIKSSION ._f n K Cn .
tuchy a traveller on the other side of the ta
ole,will address you with
“[ say, sir.tiger, give us a lectio of sprinkle
ol tfiat bread it you please ! ’
It you ask a countryman how much plun
der (marketing, &e.) he has, your answer will
“A right -smart chance,”
In JLtbaissippi lor an expression nfgastrd
mimic pleasure, you will hear an exclamation
similar to tliis
“Frank, this is not bad to take.”
The ox ms arrangement of the tea table,
such ns sweet meats, ten cakes, &c. are gener
ally known as the “little fixing’s.”
llow to Raise tub Strain.— Dr. Paris
leh.s us that when Dr. Dunning wished to
make an extraordinary display of chxjnerce,
he always put a blister on his client a few
hours before Ilio c li mo lie was to speak, in or
der that it might irrilutu the brum by sympa
thy during bis speech. ,
(■amhum; Houses in Pahis.— A Paris ps
per ol jtliß Ist ult. says:—“To night at 12
o clock, nil the gambling'houses, that scourge of
our cily, are to b« shut up for good and all, the
Chambers having limited their existence to the
Ist of January, 1838.’’
Imaoinaiiy Kvti.s.— If we except tho
blessmgol strength, health,and the testimony
ot a good conscience,all lee other eonvenien
es and pleasures o( life depend on opinion.
Except pain ot body and remorse of consci
cnee, nil ottr evils are iinaginiriary.
—..■..1,,,,... 111 p._ ■!! I
BEACH INLAND LAND FOR MALE.
I'H/- subseribor offers lor sate hit
plantation in Itcacli Inland, now knowi,
l>s t '"' ‘" niH h I’lnee.—lt is hi I imioil about
Yr w ‘ 8 miles below Augusta,on the Savannah
n| ul contains about 21 JO acres,
consisting ol river swamp, marsh, hammock and
pine I,arid. There are upwards of 300 acres clear
ed, 250 of which are itt lire marsh and well ditch
ed, arid have produced several crops of corn and
colton. ll is also well adapted to I!ice, mid can he
overflowed. It produces without culmraiion a
grass equal to any Northern grass far rattle, and
the uncleared swamp being covered with rune and
must-bearing trees, ii adorns an extensive summer
’ and winter range for stock ol all kinds, equal tu
any in the United States. The tract may lie con
veniently divided inio two or moro plantations, and
the subscriber will soil ouo or more to suit those
who may wish to buy.
'The price will he moderate and long credit given
to approved purchasers. Persons desirous of buy
ing can see the place and a plat of it, by applying
lo the subscriber, nml in his nltsenoo lo his overseer,
at Silver Hind, 12 miles below Augusta,and receive
necessary information, by addressing the subscri
ber at Silvnrton I*. O. S. (J. . .
Feb'J sw2vv 2t J, 11. //AM3JONB.
Twenty-live Dollars Reward. " '
I i THE above reward will he paid
tor the apprehension and confine
ment in any sale jail, or delivery to
the subscriber, of two negro men,
Davis mid Peter, belonging to
(■’eorgw Unnby, late of Columbia
county. These Imys are no doubt
lurking about either in ihc Poigh'J
horhood of VVrightshoro' or White (Aik, in bolh of
which they are well known. Ten dollars will- be
paid lor the apprehension of either, or any inlhrmn
iion concerning them, will bo thankfully rrveiveU
by the subscriber. ROBT. 31. <- U NHV.
White Oak, Uolnmlna eo. Feb It) 34
Drought to Colninbiii County Jnil,
ON fie 2( it 1 1 instant, a NEURO
WOMAN, who says her name is Ba
rah; that she belongs to Ephraim l Ifdp
/r vft , '.‘ n S’ n, ' ar lllß high xbhuls of A'pahuAa
HJ Phr v r ‘ v <;r. She is about CO or C 5 years ofage,
dark complexion. = •■ • I
The owner is requested to call, pey
"StirrTl expense i uml take Iter away. •
Jan 87 22w3t KICK'D H JONES. JdfMfc
Due Thousand Ln borers IVauled.
TO work on Ihe Western and Allanlie Rail
Road, loading from Ihe t haltuhoochee River,
fieri, to the boundary line of Te/tliessoo ;■ Affi7i((ed
North-west frnni-Augusta, via llio (teurgia llaii
Road, to Crawlordvtlle, Poland’s Fuel cry, Wulkihs
vi.lc, l.awrcin-eville, Pittman’s Ferry, or via Madi-
Bon, Covington. Dueatnr, 3/urinlta ami Alluloim, at
iho work, which vv/ll boos four years dm alion.ftnd
is Ibo most extensive of any work now in progress
in the United Stales—all dry, a large portion rock,
and (indy shaded with large oak, hickory and pop
lar. Tho country is very fertile, and nbomrds wifn 1
choice produce arm lino limestone water. The
climate is a medium. The days ora not so long
and w arm in mid summer, nor so short and odd in
winter, ns in tho Northern -Voiles, and consequent
ly heller ndupled lor such w ork the year round, and
lor health and general comfort is rot excelled hf
any part ol America, I lie line also ntlords abun
dance of work for //cvv.-rs, Framers and 31 non»(-a
-also lor boys to drive carts. Tho highest customa
ry wages will bo paid in all cases.
Allatoim, (ieo..lan 1, 18:18. W.M. NELIfJH/ '
jin 10 wit 7 Contractor.
N. I!—Lands are na yet vory low and offer great
nducemcul to settlers.
AN ESTRAY HORSE.
ffallen up aim Ofought oclbre me an
V >.*!, estray hors a chi sunt sorrel, shod
(- "Wl) In-lore, sorno while in his face; some
M w bilo spots on his back, (saddle
'* I both hind feet white, about
Hi hands high and about 7years old,
and apprised at $BO.
WM P NOBLE, J P.
Abbeville District, So Ca. .lan 30 f-h ‘I 26:21*
ONE lISUN DR ED DDI.IiAKS llta«v ,v ul »
„ STOLEN from the-Viable of the
( subscriber, living on the Waikins
ttf awi ¥ Bridge Rond, in Burke county, (Jeo
a i a 11 H "" 1 " t'kesnut Sorrel Afnrc,
11 to bo about 7 or 8 years
old, a star on her iorehead, a tear causing a -mall
lump on the inside ol her right thigh, -lands very
crooked on ber hind legs, perbap* some while on
bolh bind feet. 1 will give tho-above reward lor
the thief wit it sufficient proof for bis conviction;
also a liberal rewind with all necessary exprt.-ses
for the mare. MOVES DANIEL
jan 31 vv It 25
dOT Tim Savannah (Joorgian, and Tallaha.nee <»
Watchman will insert iho ntiovc tliree tone . BUII
sen'l I heir ticcnnnts I - this nfli -e.
■ AWfIK months aucr o.uo appi,canon on
k. made to the II morahle the Justices of the Jn
(crior Court ol Columtiia county, when sitting (',>
ordinnry purposes for leave to sell (he whole efthe
real estate ol Elbert B Dunn, late o f said county,'
deccasod, lor the benefit of the heirs of said de
cease.!. ALFRED J. DUNN, adra'r
oct 1(5, 1837 242
iJTtOUR months after date application vv ill bo made'
jj. to tbo lionorahlo Inferior court of Columbia
county, when silting for ordinary purposes, f or .
leave in sell the following lots of I aim), viz; jVb 408 -
in 4th district; 287, 27th district; 78 and 4S, ])th
district; all Early c-<nntv. b-longing to tho estate of
James Blackslone,deceased. *
WM. p BEALL, At
Wj/, \ (lUbUliUv
jan 10—15 acjmini«fr # fj w