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WILLIAM E. JONES. AUGUSTA, Ga. THURSDAY MORNING. APRIL 18, 1839. ~~~ v '"' T XT
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CHRONICLE AND SENTINEL.
AUCUSTA.
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, WEDNESDAY MORNING, APRIL 17.
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New York Charter Election.
The Commercial Advertiser of the 12th says:
The political contest is over—for the present—
and the result is of the class sometimes denomina
ted astonishing. We a e beaten, handsomely
and thoroughly—whether by fraud or surprise, or
our own negligence, or fair fighting, we will not
now stop to inquire. Never mind. All we have
to do is to hope that our new mayor will prove as
good a one as his predecessor—and turn him out
as soon as ever we can. Common Council ditto’
ditto.
Varian’s Majority is about 1000.
The following gentlemen have been elected
Directors of the Georgia Insurance & Trust
Company, for the ensuing year.
Thomas S. Metcalf, James P. Stuart,
Adam Johnston, David L. Adams,
Amory Sibley, William Holmes,
Andrew J. Miller, William M. Howland,
Artemas Gould, Josiah Sibley,
William P. Rathbone, Hosea Webster,
John M. Adams, George Collins,
William H. Morgan, Stephen Hills,
Edward Thomas. Austin R. Gordon,
Samuel Hale, Albert O. Parmelee.
Solomon Knecland,
At a meeting of the hoard, on the Bth instant
Thomas S. Metcalf, Esq., was unanimously
re-elected President.
Post Offices in Georgia.
The following post offices have been establish
ed :
Good Hope, Walton county.
Union Point, Greene county.
Rehobothville, Morgan county.
The post office at Rousseau, Columbia county’
has been discontinued.
The name of the post office at Mattocks, Tatt
nall county, has been changed to Surrcncy’s.
The following postmasters have been appoint
ed :
James Richardson, Good Hope, Walton county
W. P. Lawson, Union Point. Greene county-
Hiram Pendergrass, Rehobothville, Morgan co.
S. B. Murphy, Irwimon, Wilkinson co.
D. Pitchford, Mount Yonah, Habersham co.
J. P. Welch, Hebron, Washington co
Robert C. Surreney, Mattocks, Tattnall co.
W. Crook, Hopkinsville, Chattooga co.
J. M. Cantrell, Campbellton, Campbell co. j
From the Charleston Courier of yesterday.
Com inercitil Convent ion.
Cn ait l ksto v, April 15th, 1839.
The Delegates assembled, at the Theatre, Meet
ing street, at lOo’clo,k, A. M. On motion of
Kjr Boyce, Esp. C l. James Gadsen, of Flori
da, was called to the Chair, to organize the Con
vention, and Richard Yeaton, Jr., of Charleston
was appointed Secretary. The Ch irman then
called on ihe delegates to come forward and reg
ister their na nes. The registry having been
ma le accordingly, the Secretary reported the fol
lowing as the result.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
Charleston. —Robt. V. Hayne, James Hamil
ton. C. G. Mcmrningcr, Kcr Boyce, Abraham
Tobias, Samuel Burger, Taaddeus Street, James
Robertson Henry L. Pinckney, John Robinson.
Noil McNeill, C. ’Surckmyer, L. G. Capers Tho
mas Bennett, S. P. Ripley, Charles Edmondston,
Jff Abraham (Handing, Andrew McUowall, H. W.
Conner, John C. Ker, Daniel Ravencl, David Al
exander, Arthur P. Hayne, L. Trapmann. James
Adger, J. N. Cardozo, John A. Stuart, Richard
.Ycadoir, Jr., James S. Bowie, Hugh R. hanks,
Robt. Collins, Benj. F. Hunt. Geo. A. Kelsey,
31. C. Mordecai, Robt. Martin. A. G. Magrath, 0.
M. Furman, Rene Godard, M. I. Keith, Henry
Gnurdm, Alex. Black. J. F. Entz, Then. O. El
liott, Alfred Huger, Robt. W. Fort, Geo. A.
Trenholin, Alex. McDonald, Henry A. Middle
ton.
■ Kershaw, —Win. J. Grant, Christopher Ma
theson, John Boykin, James K. Douglass, Alex.
Young.
Richland. —Win. C. Preston. David J. Mc-
Cord, B. F. Taylor. James L. Clark,David Ew
a t, Wm.G. McNeill, John S. Preston, M. H.
Deleon, Wade H impton. F. H. Elmore, J. 8.
fohen B. L. McLauchlin. A. Wallace, John
Frost. R. 11. Goodwyn, J. D. Mordecai. Langdon
Cbeves Jr., John McLean James Fenton, John
i Caldwell, R. W. Gibbcs, Theodore Stark, Thos.
Davis, James Douglass Patrick Noble.
St. John’s, Berkley. —Samuel Dubose. Isaac
Porcher, Jr.. Stephen G. Dcveaux. John H. Daw
ton. James Ferguson, S. W. Barker.
St. Stephen'::. —Win. Dubose.
Colleton District.- —John S. Brisbane, Robert
M. Allan, Malichi Ford. Thos. Raysor, D, S,
Henderson, J. W. Burliridge.
Georgetown District. —E. T. Hcriot, J.
Harlcston Read. Jr., James G. Henning.
Eigfield District. —N. L. Griffin, L. T.
i Wigfall, H. Burt, Thou, Smith, J. R. Wever, !
’ Rt hard Parks. Whitfield Brooks. Henry Shultz, i
T. H. Nixon, Gilbert Tennent, Edmund Penn, t
J. P. Carroll, M. L. Bonham. H. L. Jeffers, W.
V W. Starke.
«•- Barnwell District —W. J. Duncan, E. Dellin
ger Jr.. J. 11. Hammond, J, G. Frown, B. H.
> .Brown, J. G. W. Duncan. A. P. Aldrich, 'J'. S.
R.nisome. Janies Patterson. S. Stansell, J. J.
■ Ryan Thos. Addis >n. M. I). Maher, S. D. Park
er. S. W. Trotti, E. Lartigue, C. F. Tobin.
’ Banforf I) strict —Alex. J. Lawton, John
Fram non Sidney Smith, Alfred Raoul, Robert
Chl'i 1 1 n B. Mcß ulc.
ifOrangehnrgh 0 ’strict— D. F. Ja nison. David
■Shuler, W. L. Lewis, Samuel B, Dwight, Wm.
P. Kusidl, John M. Felder.
Abbeville District —Joel Smith, A. H.
James S. Wilson.
Pendleton District —Francis K. Huger.
Greenville District —B. Dunham.
Laurens District —Beaufort T. Watts, R. H.
Spear, J. Watts, H. Saxon.
Union D strict —David Johnson, J. M. Gad
berry. John li. Dogan, R. J. Gage, F. W. Spears
J. Wright.
Chester D : strict —John Dunovant, Jesse Corn
wall, John McKee, Jordan Bennett, John T. M.
McAfee.
Fairfield D'strict —B. F. Davis, Win. Harper,
J. H. Means, R. Cathcart, Wm. S. Lyles, Tims.
McCullough, S. G. Barkley.
Darlington District —E. W. Charles.
Newberry D. strict —James P. Caldwell.
Sumter District —F. Sumter, James Hayns
worlh,J. N. Frierson.
NORTH CAROLINA.
Asheville —Mitchell King, Wm. Patton, Dr.
S. H. Dickson.
Georgia.
Athens. —Wm. Dearing. Ashury Hull, Burrell
Pope, John J. Huggins.
Augusta. —John Phinizy, John Rones, John
Kerr, Jno. G. Winter, Louis A Dugas, James
Rhind, Samuel M. Thompson, James W. Davies.
Tims. O. Casey, Wm. M. D’Anlignac, JamcsT.
Gray. Pleasant Stovall, Isaac Moise, John Mil
ledge, Andrew J. Miller.
Darien. —Benjamin Green.
Macon. —E. Hamilton, J. Cowles, J. B. Row
land, Chs. Collins, E. Alexander, D. C. Camp
bell. Thomas Hardiman.
Washington County. —Quintillian Skrine.
Crawfordville, Tal uferro County. —A. H.
Stephens, T. Chafin, John M. Anthony.
Madison, Morgan County. —John Robson,
Wm. C. Saffold.
ALABAMA.
Montgomery. —Charles T. Pollard, Elbert A.
Holt. Jesse P. Taylor, Abner McGehee.
Pickens County Amos Davis.
TENNESSEE.
Knoxville. —Wm. S. Kennedy, John H. Cra
zier, Thos. C. Lyon.
Athens. —Spencer Jarnaghin.
Greenville. —Alexander Williams.
FLO 111 DA.
James Gadsden, Wm. J. Mills, Hardv H.
Phillips.
RECAPITULATION.
South Carolina, 170
North Carolina, 3
Georgia, 33
Alabama, 5
Tennessee, 6
Florida, 3
219
On motion of Gen. Hayne, the Hon. Ashbi-hf
Hull of Georgia, was appointed President of the
< 'onvenlion, and he was conducted to the Chair,
by a Committee, consisting of Messrs. Hayne,
Pollard, and Jarnaghin.
Mr. Hull, on taking the Chair, made a brief
but happy acknowledgement of the honor confer
red on him and the State he represented, by call
ing him to preside over such an assembly.
On motion of Col. Gadsden,
Resolved, That the Chai appoint one Vice
President, for each State and Territory, repre
sented in the Convention.
The following gentlemen were accordingly ap
pointed by the Chair, V ice Presidents of the Con
vention :
South Carolina—Chancellor Wm. IlAnrEii.
North Carolina— Mitchell Kino.
Tennessee Scencer J.uvnagiwn.
Georgia— E. Hamiltov.
Alabama— iiarles T. Pollard.
Florida.— William J. Mills.
On motion as Ker Boyce. Esq.,
Resolved, That the reporters of the city news
papers be allowed to lake seats on the stage.
On motion of Chancellor, Harper, the following
Committee of Twenty One was appointed by the
Chair, to prepare business for the Convention.
Committee of Twenty-One,
Wm Harper, "j
Rout, Y. Hayne, I
G. A. Trknholm, I
J. K. Douolas, Carolina.
F. 11. Elmore,
C. G. Memminger,
A. B LANDING, J
Wm. Dearing, "j
A. J. Miller, |
D. ''. Campbell, \ „
A. H. Stephens, or B m *
J. PiiiNizr,
.1. Cowles, J
J vo. H. Crozier, j
in 1 1 T len ilessee*.
J IIOS U. IiYOV, 3
Aeiineii M Gehee, .
T , A , T > Alabama.
h. A. Holt, 3
Mitchell Kino, r ,
Wm. Patton, $ North Carolina.
J am. s Gars”en, Florida.
Wm. J. M lls, y
Gen. Hayne offered a scries of resolutions,
which were, on his motion, referred to the Com
mittee of Twenty-One.
On motion of the lion. H. F. Elmore,
Rest Ivcd. That a Committee of Ten, to con
sist principally of Merchants from the interior of
the Stoics and Territory, represented in this Con
vention, be appointed to ascertain and report
whether goods have not been imported and sold
at the Southern sea ports, upon as good terms,
and at as fair rates, as they can be procured at
the Northern—and whether the Country Merch
ants rannot now procure at the Southern sea
ports as full a supply and as good assortments,
upon as fair terms and as favorable periods of
payment, as they can lie procured elsewhere—
and whether there exist any and what advantages
in m iking purchases from the direct importers at
the South.
The Chair nominated the following Commit
tee. under the foregoing resolution: —Hon. F.H.
Elmore, Columbia, S. C., Alexander Williams.
Tennessee; H. H. Philips, Florila; Robert J.
Gage, Union District. 8. C.; Jno. Dunovant.
Chester District, S. C.; C. Math rson, Camden,
S. C.; John Bones, Pleasant Stovall, Augusta,
Geo; C. T. Pollard, Alabima.
On motion of Gen. Hamilton.
Resolved. That when this Convention shall
adjourn, it adjourn to meet again at 12, M. to
morrow.
Adjourned.
RICHARD VEADON, Jr.,Secretary.
From the Petersburg Intelligencer, April 9.
Great Match Race— slo,ooo a sire.—
We arc glad to learn that the mutch between Bos- j
ton and Portsmouth will come off at the time ap- i
pointed. Sa'urday last was the day on which
I he parties in the race might have been off by the
payment of $2 000 so lei t. The day passed and
no proposition to that effect was made. Now if
the race does not come off. the party in default
will have to plank down $3,000. We conclude, 1
therefore, tliat the race will certainly be run. ,
*' ~~ a -Tfiae
Proceedings of Council.
[EXTRA MEKTINO.]
Saturday, April 13th, 1833.
Council met pursuant to adjournment.
Present—the lion. A. Cu.mmi.no, Mayor—Al
dermen St. John, Bush, Nelson, Dye, Thomp
son, Rankin, Harper, ami Bishop.
The Minutes of the last meeting were read
and confirmed.
The docket of the Police Court was then
taken up and the following cases tried, for viola
tions of the IBlh section of Ihe General Ordi
nance.
Thomas Tolc, guilty, fined 51 00
F. Blodgct, not guilty,
Morton Kelsey, guilty, fined 5 00
D. Thompson, “ « 10 00
Isaac Hendricks, “ “ 1 00
Mr. Parish appeared and took his seat.
The petitions of W. Whitlock, J. L. P.Clary,
Mrs. Elizabeth May, and Wm. Shear, were or
dered to lie on the table.
The following resolutions were offered and
passed:—
By Mr. Thompson,
Resolved, That his Honor, the Mayor, appoint
a Committee to take into consideration the recom
mendation of the citizens, to purchase the “Wa
ter Works,” and that the said Committee ascer
tain the best terms on which they can be pur
chased, to make enquiries into the state of the
Woiks, the actual supply of water, the titles, and
other matters connected therewith, and report to
a meeting of Council on Saturday next, at 10
o’clock.
Messrs. Thompson, Harper, St. John and
Parish, were appointed the committee.
By Mr. Bishop,
Resolved, That his honor the Mayor, be re
quested to fill up the vacancies in the Commit,
lee appointed for the purpose of building the
Wall and Fence around the City Burying Ground
and for other contracts connected with those pur
poses .
Messrs. Bishop, Dye, and Parish, were ap
pointed the committee.
Resolved, That the Mayor and Police Com
mittee be authorized to fill up any vacancies
which may take place among the City Watch,
during the present year.
By Mr. Harper,
Resolved, That the Men hers of Council in
each Ward be a Committee to carry into effect,
in their Wards, respectively, the 2d clause of the
IGlh section of the General Ordinance, (regu
lating slaves living apart from their owners,) and
that they report in each case to the Clerk of
Council.
By Mr. Hitt,
Resolved, That the Street Committee be au
thorised to have Reynold Street, between Mill
and McKinne Street, filled up, so as to pass off
the water now standing in said street, and to take
earth for that purpose from Broad Street, near
the Reservoir, at an expense not to exceed one
hundred dollars.
By Mr. Harper,
Resolved, That the Street Committee report on
Saturday next, the situation of the Drain in
Jackson Street, between Broad and Ellis streets.
By Mr. Hitt,
Resolved, That his honor, the Mayor, appoint
from among the Council, one from each Ward,
four Wharf Directors, on the part of the city, to
act with the Directors of the Union Wharf Com
pany.
Messrs. Harper, St. John, Thompson, and
Bush, were appointed Directors, on the part of
the city.
By Mr. Harper,
Resolved, That the Committee on Drains be
instructed to have the Drain leading from the low
grounds above Savage’s Hospital made two feet
deeper, near its source, with as little delay as pos
sible, by contract, and that said Committee ad
vertise for proposals to effect the work.
By Mr. Bishop, 1 ]
Resolved, That the Committee on the Market
be authorized to have the City Clock put in order,
by such additions and repairs as they may think
necessary, and make enquiry as to salary, &c., of
some suitable person to attend to winding it up;
and to repair the rails around, and enclosing the
Market House, and report the same at the Meet
ing of Council on Saturday next,
By Mr. Harper,
Resolved, That the Committee on the River
Bank and Wharf, be instructed to have the trash
in front of the Street Officer’s Wharf, removed
and to make arrangements to preventits accumu
lation in future.
Council adjourned to meet on Saturday next, at
10 o’clock.
S. H. QUIVER, Clerk of Council.
From the Southern Recorder.
Greensboro’, 30th March, 1839.
Messrs. Grieve Jr Orme ••
Gentlemen —The publicationol thecnclosed
sections of lire law passed the last session ol
Congress, “ making appropriations for preventing
and suppressing Indian hostilities, for the year
1839,” will be useful to many of your readers,
and especially the volunteers who served under
Gen. Charles H. Nelson, in the Florida cam
paigns. The other Editors will consider this
request made to them also.
Very respectfully,
WM. C. DAWSON.
“ For paying the value of the horses and cqui
: page of the Tennessee and other volunteers who
i have at any time been in the service of the
United Slates in the Territory of Florida, anil
which were turned over to the Government by
' the order of the commanding General, or other
j commanding officer, said value to be ascertained
i by the appraisement of sa d value when the vol-
I
| untecrs entered the service, fifty-two thousand
j dollars.
“ That the provision of acts approved and in
i force at various periods since 1813, authorizing
j payment for horses lost in the service of the
United States, hy rangers, militia, and volunteers,
' arc hereby revived and extended for two years,
! from and after the passage of this act; and un
der the action of the Third Auditor, shall be
deemed to embrace all cases not already satisfied,
nt horses lost to their owners in service as afore
said in battle or otherwise, when due care and
diligence he rendered manifest on the part of the
owner; and it the death or loss of rangers’
horses shall have occurred for want of forage, it
being at places where acting in obedience to the
orders of the commanding officers, forage could
not have been procured by proper vigilance on
the part of the owner. No payment however
shall be made for horses or other property lost or
destroyed, when the loss or destruction shall
have been occasioned by the fault or neglect of
the owner, or when by the terms of the contract,
the risk was up n the owner of the property.”
Tallahassee, April 6—On Wednesday
evening lust, the dwelling of Capt. James Scott,
residing about two miles from Hailey’s .Mills, in
Jefferson county, was attacked hy a party of 10
or 15 Indians. At the first fire, a Mrs. ’ Perrine,
residing in the family was killed, a I-i.l. nephew
of Col. Hally, shot in the arm. nnd negro wo
man dangerously wounded. ( .ip.ain Scott and
Iris overseer, Mr. Skipper, bravely defended the
house, drove off the Indians, killing two oftheir
number, and invited the remainder back by Iboir
whoops to renew the attack. They did not how
ever return. A few such receptions as the in
truders met with at (’apt. Scott’s, would, we
think, tender them somewhat cautious in their
future attacks.— Floridian,
Floiuda Indians. —About the Ist of this
month, a murder was committed in Ware county
by the Indians on the person of the wife of Mr.
Nimrod Kawlison, The murder was committed
within three quarters of a mile of one of the
military posts—Fort Mooneyack. It is supposed
that there are yet some straggling Indians in the
Okefinokee, hy some of whom this murder has
been perpetrated.
Gen. Nelson's command has been (after some
difficulty) mustered into the service of the United
States, as mount"d men. We believe and trust
they will put a ip to the marauders within our
borders.
The plan advised and about to be adopted, by
the present commanding General in Florida, is
to lay out the territory into districts of 30 miles
square, and station troops in carh district; which
seems to he a most judicious plan, and one which
meets the decided approval of experienced mili
tary men. amongst others of the highest authori
ty, Gen. Clinch. We hope the plan may work
better than those which have been hitherto pur
sued.—Southern Recorder.
Loco Foco OI’TRAf! K ! —Dksthotino the
Hillot Boxes.— The Legislature of New Jer
sey passed a law to divide the township of Har
rington, llcrgen Co., which is ten miles long and
nearly as broad, being traversed centrally by the
Hackensack river and extending to the Hudson.
The new town, should the inhabitants so vote,
was to be located on the west of the Hackensack.
The citizens peaceably assembled a day or two
since, and deposited their votes almost unani
mously for tile division. Four wagon loads of
loafers now arrived from the Palisadoes with in
cendiary banners and hickory poles, broke into
the election room, seized the ballot boxes and scat
tered tbem to the winds, and then departed !—A.
Y. Star.
From the New York Spirit of the Times,
Pete Whetstone’s Last Prolic.
Devil’s Fork os Little Red, }
January 9, 1839. 5
Mr beau Mn. Editor :—Since the last
time I writ you, I have had all sorts of times ; I
took a trip away out South. Well, when I got to
the Rock, I was in a big hurry to keep on, so 1
walked up early in the morning to Goodrich and
Loomis, thinking I would rig out in a suit oftheir
best, but they had’nt opened their store;so 1 steps
into another, and bought me a pair of red broad
cloth britches. The fellow measured me, and
put up a pair that he said would fit me to a sha
ving. So I stuffs them into my saddle bags, and
put out South. Well, when 1 gets out, f was
asked to a party, and I rigged myself up; but oh,
lordy, my breeches were big enough for the fat
man what was blowcd up in the steamboat. I
had my gallowses up to the last notch, but it
would’nt all do, for I could have carried a grist
of corn in them without stretching the cloth. I
hardly knew what to do; my old britches would’nt
do at all. and my new ones hung like a shirt on
a bean-pole. Thinks I, there is .no frolic for
Pete; but just right at this time in pops Major
Greene. “Well,” says he, “Kurnel, aint you
ready logo 1” Says I, “I am thinking 1 won’t
go.” “ Why 1” says he. “Look at my britch
es,” says I, Well, he commenced laughing; says
he, “Them britches were made for Daniel Lam
bert.” “Well,” says I, “Daniel Lambert is a
stranger to me, hut I know they arc a pretty loose
fit.” “Oh, never mind them,” says he; “come
go, and nobody will notice them.” So I went.
1 found lots of people, and an abundance of pret
ty gals. Well, there was no dancing, and the
folks were all sitting round the room; so I slips in
a corner, thinking I would hide my britches.
Presently some gentleman asked a lady to sing; so
up she gits, and he leads her to something in the
corner, that looked like the nicest kind of a chest.
Well, she opened the lid. and it was right chuck
full of horse teeth; she just run her hand across
them, and I never heard such a noise in all my
life. I whispered to the next fellow to me, and
asked what sort of a varmint that was ! “Why,
Kurnel,” says he, “that is a pe-anny.” Well,
the young lady commenced, and I never heard
such singing. I forgot my britches, and started
to walk close up to the pe-anny, when I heard
them littering. “Daniel Lambert,” says one—
then I knew they were laughing at my britches.
So I feels my dander rising, and began to get mad;
1 walked right up, bold as a sheep. There was a
sort of a dandy looking genius standing hy the
pe-anny. Says he, “Now do, Miss, favor us
with that delightful little ditty—my favoratc—
you know it.” Then she commenced.
“ When the Relly-aker is-bearnover the sen,
I’ll dance the Ronny-aker by moonlight with thee.”
That is all I recollc t. Whcnshegot through
up steps Maj. Green, and introduces me to her.
Says she, (and I tell you she looked pretty,)
“ Col. Whetstone, what is your favorite V’ Says
I, “ Suit yourself and you suit me.” And that
made her laugh. Well, right allhat. up steps a
fellow that looked as if he had been sent for and
conld'nt go. Says be, “ Miss, will you give me
“ the last link is broken“ Why,” says sire
I “indeed, sir, I have the most wretched cold ini
the world.”—Why, Miss,” says I ■ yon wouldn’t
1 call yours a bad cold if you had seen Jim Cole
1 after he lay out in the swamp an 1 catehed cold.”
' “'y h y-’ »«>•» she, (and lord, hut she look.nl
killing.) “how bad was his cold!” “Why,
Miss,’ says I, “he didn’t quit spitting ice till the
middle of August.” That made her laugh.
“ Well, saya she, Kurncl Whetstone, that cures
my cold.” So ahe commenced.—
“ The last link is broking that binds yon tome,
“ The words you have spoken is sorry to 1.”
Well, arter the lady was over, they all went
iuto supper; lots of good things. 1 sat next to a
young lady, and I heard them saying, “Mias,
with your permission, I’ll take a piece of the
turkey,” and so on. I sees a plate of nice little
pickles.—“ Mias, with your permission, I'll take a
pickle,” and ahe said I might do ao. I reached
over and dipped up one on my fork—it was small;
and I put the whole of it in mv mouth. Oh,
lordy! but it burnt;—well, the ’more I chawed
the worse it was. Thinks I, if I swallow, lam
a burnt koon. Well, it got too hot for human
natur to stand; so says I,“ Miss, with your per
mission,! II lay this pickle hack,” and I spit it
out. Oh, lordy! what laughing. “Excuse me,
ladies, if I have done wrong,” says I, “hut that
pickle is too hot for the devil’s fork.” Everybody
seemed to take the thing in good part, hut one
chap; says lie, “ I never seed such rude behavior
in all my life.” At that I turns round to him;
says I, “ Look here, Mister, if you don’t like the
smell of fresh bread, you had better quit the
bakery.” Well, I tell you, that shot up his fly
trap quick. Arter supper the party broke up.
Oh, eenfound the britches! I wish the fellow
that made them could he fed ou cloth for twelve
months. Even the little hoys make fun of them,
for I heard one singing—
“ Mister, Mister, who made your britches >
Daddy cut them out, and mammy sowed the stitches.
Ever vours,
PETER WHETSTONE.
From Dewee's Travels in Turkey.
The administration of justice is thus pleasantly
exemplified:—
As M. Moara finished his explanation, wc saw
the Cadi on duty. He goes out in the morning
without making known his intended route; takes
his walk with suitable attendants, and slops at
the first bazaar. He seats himself at random in
one of the shops, and examines the weights,
measures and merchandize. He lends an ear to
all complaints, interrogates any merchant accused
of infraction of the law, and then, without court
or jury, and especially without delay, pronounces
judgment, applies the penalty, and goes on in
quest of other delinquents. In these cases, how
ever, the punishment is of a different character.
Notwithstanding the identity of the crime, l.e
cannot treat the offending merchant as a common
thief, that would nave a prejudicial effect on com
merce. The penalty is graduated thus: the
mildest, confiscation ; the moderate, closing the
shop; the severest, exposure. The last is indict
ed iu a singular manner. The culprit is plat ed
with his hack against his shop, and is compelled
to raise himself on his toes until the weight of
his whole body rests on them ; his ear is then
nailed to the door or shutter of his shop. This
punishment lasts two, four, or s x hours. It is
true, the criminal may abridge its duration, when
ever he chooses to let himself down, hut the
|. Turkish merchant is jealous of his reputation,
and nothing hut the last necessity would induce
l him to resemble a thief by the mutilation of his
ears.
I stopped in front of one of these wretches,
who had just been nailed up. I was disposed to
compassionate his case, hut Mohammed told me
he was an habitue, and that if I would observe
his ear closely, I should find it was like a cul
lender. This changed the current of my sympa
thies, and, as he was to remain some time longer,
I ceased to regret his sufferings, and rejoiced in
the opportunity of making a sketch. I drew
forth crayons and paper, and begged the rest to
continue their route with M. Maura, leaving Mo
hammed to assist me in any embarrassment, liul
Mayer would lot quit mo ; so we three remained
and the others proceeded on their way.
My picture wae composed : the criminal, nail
ed by his cur, was standing stiff and motionless on
the extreme points of his great toes; and seated
near him, on the sill of the door, was the guard
charged with seeing the punishment duly exe
cuted, smoking a pipe. Thcquantity of tobacco
in the pipe seemed to he graduated to the lim
that the punishment was to continue. Around
these two personages was u semi circle of idlers. ,
W e took our places at one side, and I commenced 1
my task.
After a time, the culprit, finding he had nothing
to expect from the crowd—among whom, per
haps, he recognized some of his customers —
hazarded a word to the guard.
“Brother,” said he, “one law of our holy
Prophet is, that men should help one another.”
The guard seemed to take no exception to this
precept in the abstract, end continued quietly to
smoke.
“ Brother,” resumed the patient, did you not
hear mel”
'The guard made no other reply than a large
puff of smoke, that ascended to his neighbor’s
nose.
“ Brother,” still persisted the man, “one of us
can aid the other, and do a thing acceptable to
Mahomet.”
The puds of smoke succeeded each other with
a regularity that extinguished the poor fellow’s
hopes.
“ Brother,” cried the despondent, with a
ous voice, “ put a stone under my heels and 1 will
give you a piastre.”
No reply.
“Two piastres.”
A pause.
“ Three piastres.”
Smoke.
“ Four piastres.”
“ Ten piastres,” said the guard quietly.
The car and the purse of the man held a
parley which was visible in the countenance; at
length pain conquered, and the ten piastres rolled
to the feet of the guard, who counted them with
great deliberation, put them in his purse, rested
his pipe against the wall, and picking up a pebble
about as large as the egg of a tom-tit, placed it
under the man’s heels.
<• Brother.” said the culprit, “I feci nothing un
der my feet.”
“ A stone is there, however,” answered the
guard, resuming his scat and his pipe; “but it is
true, I selected it in reference to your price. Rive
mo a talari (five francs) mid I will place a stone
under you so appropriate to your necessities, that
you shall sigh for it when you reach paradise.”
The result may he anticipated : the guard had
his money, and the merchant his stone. How
the affair terminated thereafter, I do not know.
I My drawing was completed in half ou hour, rnd
] we proceeded on our walk. 1
- IV#
Marine Disasters.- —The bad weather on
the coast lor the last ten days, has licen very dis
astrous to the shipping. A number ol distressed
vessels have arrived at Norfolk, and it was feared
that many more had sullered. The Beacon no
tices the arrival cf the ship Marco, 24 days from
New Orleans, hound to Liverpool, in distress,
with loss of rudder, several of her saris, <Stc. Saw
a number of bales of cotton and other articles of
merchandize adrift in the gulf stream. Also, brig
victor, 10 days from Charleston, hound to Bos
ton, in distress, with the loss of rudder, bout, &c.,
and part of deck load of timber. Also, brig
Olive, 10 days from Philadelphia, bound to An
tigua, in distress, having sustained damage in the
late severe weather, lost one man overboard, and
others of the crew injured. Also, brig Emerald,
21 days from St. Johns, P. R.; experienced very
severe weather, during which sustained damage
in hull, spars, sails and rigging, and lost the stern
boat. On the 28th of March, off Chincoteague
Shoals, in 18 fathoms water, Mr. Solomon Gott,
of Itrookville, (Me.) mate, was struck by the
main boom and knocked overboard, and was lost,
Ji'MeiJio Land Claims in Illinois.—He
who first squats on a lot of wild land by putting
up a log house is considered by the regular squat
ters ns owning the. claim. Nevertheless, another
one copies, and in a night gets up another log
house and claims the lot ns his. This second
operation they call jumping the claim. The fol
lowing account of these pioneer efforts, to sustain
law and order, we take from the lettcrof an Illinois
settler, published in the Bangor, Me. Whig.
“In returning from It, I found an old man, na
med Merry field, of my acquaintance, after men to
rout a party ot fifteen scoundrels who had jumped
his claim the night before. The party M. had
raised and proceeded towards his house, (three
miles) and he had turned out for more. I jump
ed on to a horse and followed as fast as possible. I
found the parly just ready to proceed to the pre
mises. On seeing me and learning that I had
gained my case, a very important one just then,
they cheered me lustily.—We started, twenty
three ol us, not one armed, for our object was
peace, not tear. Wo found the ruffians ready to
receive us, making use of the house, built of large
oak logs, as a fort. Each of them having a rifle,
and pistols, and bowie knives. We parleyed with
them a while, when they told us they should kill
the first man who touched the house. We were
now armed with hickory clubs, and we proceeded
to business by hitching two yoke of oxen to one
corner of the house. The jumpers seeing this
stationed themselves outside at the two corners
facing the one at which we made the attack, their
guns and pistols cocked and aimed at us as they
said to fire when we should give the word to the
ox"n. Without hesitating, wo gave the word,
and down came one end of the house. This set
tled the question. The jumpers did not fire, and
we giving them three hearty cheers—drew the
logs oil to Mr. M’s. house. The day but one af
ter, they came on again in large numbers, where
upon seventy-five of us went down and gave
some of them a severe flogging, burnt up their
hay and made them agree to leave the claim.
Rooukut as well as Murder will out!—
Jno. Sinclair, of Waterloo, who obtained large
discounts from several Banks, two years ago, for
the pupose of purchasing Wheat in Ohio, and
then gave out that he was roblicd, has recently
been committed to Jail. Ho had transmitted a
package to Philadelphia, tohesold which has, we
understand, been identified by T. W. Olcott,
Esq., as a part of the funds discounted for Bin
cl iir by the Mechanics and Farmer’s Bank Sin
clair was a man of property and standing. He
had not the excuse of necessity for his crime.
Such dishonesty should meet its reward.—Alba
ny Journal.
A must no I.vc i dent.— The following amusing
incident occurred in < ambridge, at one of the re
cent trials for the election of a member for Con
gress in District No. 4 :—A colored man, a pret
ty zealous abolitionist, who is in the employ of a
merchant of the city, who resides in was told
by his employer that if he would like to go over
and vote, he would write his vote for him, as he
could neither read nor write. The colored man,
suspecting some trick, declined the offer, but said
he would go to the “office” and get one. He
went to the office of the Liberator, and asked
some one in attendance, for an abolition vote. The
individual, not understanding him, but supposing
he was jesting, handed him a copy of the Libera
tor. Our hero immediately walked over to Cam
bridge, and presented himself at the polls. On
announcing his name, and on its Ircing checked
; ho very gravely deposited his Liberator in the.
ballot box. to the great amusement of the specta
tors !— Doeton Mer, Journal.
Job was a patient man, and his temper was
grievously afflicted with divers ingenious tor
ments. But there were no daily newspapers
printed in the land of Uz, and Job was never
called upon to perform the duties of an editor.
He had only to hear the ills of life resolutely—to
justify himself before his Maker, and resist the
hollow reproaches of a few false friends. He had
no patrons —no populace to please. He had no
irritable correspondents to catechise him for re
jecting communications—no heedless compositors
to make nonsense of his cogitations. Job be
haved remarkably well considering the ciicum
stanecs in which he was placed—but Job had only
to do hit own think ng. — Troy Mail.
COMMERCIAL.
Extract of a letter dated
Liverpool, .March 8, 1839.
“Since our circularof the 2d instant, we have had
a very general demand for< otton from the trade,
consequent upon the improved aspect of things in
the manufacturingdistricts, and the advanced prices
realised in both goods and yarns, and from specu
lators, in consequence of the accounts per George
Washington, received on the 3d instant, being now
confirmatory of the probable shortness of your
crop. The sales since the 1 t instant have amount
ed to 70,000 hales, of which, about 40,000 are to
speculator at an advance of fid to id per lb. at
which the market is steady, with a moderate de
mand. It is said, that there will be a mcetii gos
the spinners at Staley liridge, for the purpose of
taking into consideration the propriety of working
short time. It is, however,clear that this question
is seriously agitated among them.
M \IU.\E INTELLIGENCE.
Savannah, April 15,
Arrivedyederdny. —Ships Alfred, Che vers, New-
York ; Aleyone Muir, Liverpool j brig Augusta,
Livermoie, New-York ; steamboats Lamar, Lyon,
Aliens ti; steamboat I Iglethorpe, Wil iams, Augusta.
Went to sea. —Brig Washington, Evans, Havana.
Charleston, April 1(1.
Arrived yesterday —Barque Elizabeth, Swan,
Liverpool; schr Albemarle, Dowdy, Elizabeth, N.
C.
1 Cleared— sehr Pocahontas. Tat*, Mobile.