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/CHitONICI.K AND SKNTINKL.
AUGUSTA.
WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY 8.
From our Correspondent.
Milledoeville, May Gth, 1839.
The Convention assembled at the State House
this day at 10 o’clock, A. M., and was called to j
order by the appointment of Joseph Dav, (Speak
er ot the House of Representatives,) Chairman,
and Fuedeiuck H. Sanfoiui, Secretary. The
Governor’s proclamation,announcing the member
elect to the Convention, was then road, nip’ l^e
members present answered to their nam 6 — on b'
10 failing to appear.
Mr. Ke.vax, of Baldwin, the" moved to dis
pense tvith the oath prescribed by the Legislature,
butafterwards withdrew it, and moved to proceed
to elect a President, and other officers ol the
Convention. Mr. Ghat, of Jones, nominated
the Hon. James M. Wayxe, of Chatham, for
President, and no opposing candidate being
in nomination, he was appointed ncm. con. On
being conducted to the chair, by a committee con
sisting of Messrs. Gray, Stocks, and t one, Judge
Wayne made a very handsome and highly ap
propriate address. The Convention then pro
ceeded to elect a Secretary, a number of gentle
men being nominated as candidates, Mr. Kenan
moved that a plurality of votes should elect—
carried. Upon balloting, the following was the
result:—
Lucien LaTaste, 135
F. H. Sanford, 87
Scattering, 88
Mr. LaTaste was therefo c declared duly elect
ed Secretary, he having the highest number of
votes. J. R. Edson was then elected Door Keep
er, and A. L. Robinson, Messenger.
About three hou s having been consumed in
making these appointments, and discussing sun
dry unimportant points of order, the Convention
adjourned until 3 o’clock this afternoon, in order
to complete the organization.
The State Rights Convention, for the nomina
tion of a candidate for Governor, will assemble in
the Representative Chamber th evening, at
half past seven o’clock.
As the mail closes at 3 o’clock, of course I am
unable to give you the proceedings of this eve
ning.
P. S.—ln your paper of Saturday morning
last, you committed an error in saying that the
Legislature had prescribed certain limits for the
action of the Convention under oath. The oath
extends only so far as to preclude the C onvention
from touching any other articles of the Constitu
tion except that relating to representation. The
oath has no relation to the other restrictions con
tained in the bill.
The Southern Recorder of yesterday says:—
Perhaps a stronger evidence ol the deplorable
state of things, in regard to pecuniary matters, of
some of the States South and West ot us, could
not be presented, than one that passed before us
the other day. A gang of some sixty or seventy
negroes, passed through this place a few days ago,
ffrom Mississippi, seeking as we understood, a
market. Such is the pecuniary embarrassments
of that State, us well as others, that in order to
lessen the sacrifice on the sales of negroes, which
sales have to be made, they arc brought back to
the old and impoverished States, for sale, from the
very region of inexhaustible fertility'. 1 his is n
strange and unnatural state of aftairs, and speaks
trumpet-tongueu of the lamentable pecuniary
situation of the States from which they come.
We arc informed, that a great number of planta
tions, of the greatest fertility.are lying uncultivat
ed and uncared for, the laborers having been sent
oil, to Orleans and other places, to find a market )
to pay the debts of the owners. This is a gloomy
representation, and we lear no iess true than sad
Atrocious Murder.
The Natchez Courier of the 30lh ult. contain 3
the particulars of a deed of blood perpetrated in
that city on the morning of the 29th. An indi
vidual named Tewksbury had a quarrel with his
wife on the day previou s, in which he received
some severe contusions. Among those who in
terferred was a Mr. Ogg, between whom and
Tewksbury blows were exchanged. On the 29th,
Tewksbury mot Ogg and levelling a pistol at him
shot him in the breast. Ogg tell, and in a few
moments expired. Coroners verdict wilful
murder.” Tewksbury was immediately taken
* into custody, and alter a tedious judicial investi
gation, Justice McClure decided that he should j
1 not be admitted to bail. lie accordingly, in close !
confinement, a a aits his trial at the next term of
the criminal court.
Another Steamboat Burnt.
We learn from the Louisville Journal of the
271 h ult. that the steamboat Glasgow, a few days
before, on her passage from Louisville to St. I
Louis, took fire on lbs Mississippi a few mi'es j
above the month of the Ohio, and was consumed. J
The boat and cargo were a total loss. Two per
«rn»perished in the flames.
i
from the V. York Commercial Advertiser of the 3rd
Later from France.
Uy the packet ship Polond, Captain Anthony
MUh V ° reCe ‘ Ved ° Ur P,,riS f ' leS tu thc 3ut, ‘ oi
On the 28th, Marshal Soult, had another in
tcrvtew with tlie King, in which lie proposed, it
I s . “ , new ,ls( of ministers, as follows:
tlie* Conned'^— ni " iStCr ° f War aud l )rC!iide, “ 0<
Foreign affairs, the Due do Broglie; hoc
minuter, M. Passay; finance, H. Humaiw
the navy, Admiral Duperre; justice, M, c [ the ;
commerce, M. Duchatcl; public instruc [S
M. ieste, or M. Cunin-Gridaioc thc t'ham
or M. Dupin, to be the presider * "
hero! Deputies. , ,
The Due de Broglie 1 couscnl , Cll ' T
■aid. to come in i° X
rlnrimr .• Jesaion ot thc Chambers,
curing the approachir . .
One • -‘P ers sa >’ s in an intor
une or the Part.,, t u e oQ»h M Thiers px
view wiib the V * 1 ,' . “ ? f
Dressed bis ,• •■ngnees to accept a foreign mission
tor the J of removing the difficulties his pre
sence r -oaioned, in the way of forming a minis
trv. ut that Messrs. Passy, Sauzct and Dutiiure
used to join any ministry ot which M. Thiers
should not be a member, and that the arrange
ment proposed by Marshal Soult had therefore
fallen through.
The Moniteur Parisicn formally contradicts
the reports set on foot by some of thc other pa
pers, that military preparations had been made in
Paris, in apprehension of popular commotions.
Intelligence had been received in Pans of sig
nal punishment having been inflicted by the
French frigate Heroine, upon thc natives of
Chatham Island, for attacking thc whaler Jean
Bart. Two villages were destroyed.
The Belgian Senate adjourned March 27, after
concurring with the House in accepting the treaty
as agreed upon by the live powers.
Sir Herbert Taylor, private secretary to George
111, died at Rome on the 13lh of March. He en
tered thc army in 1794, and obtained thc rank of
major general in 1813.
Commerce ol New Orleans.
It appears from official statements of the col
lector of the port of New Orleans, published in
the Louisianian, that thc total amount of exports
of domestic produce from that city during the
quarter ending 31st March, was as follows;
Coastwise, §8,357,788 51
To foreign ports, in American
vessels, 7,860,850 00
To ditto, in foreign vessels, 2,007,478 00
Total value, §18,220,116 51
The shipments up thc Mississippi river arc
not included in the above aggregates.
Front the Philadelphia United States Gazette.
Important Decision.
The supreme court of Pennsylvania, it is said,
have recently decided that the pay and emolu
ments of officers in the revenue of the United
States arc subject to taxation for county, and it
may bo inferred for corporation purposes. No
opinion was expressed as to naval and military
officers, as they may be employed and spend their
pay abroad. If settled here, they seem to come
within the decision. The answer to the objection
that they were officers of the superior government
was, that thc principle on which the decision was
made is thc same as that on which the stock of
the United States bank, held by a resident, was
declared taxable, ns of a slate institution. If the
officers of the United States have not heretofore
been taxed, this decision is one of importance to
the country, and especially to the city, whcre’the
great body of the officers of thc general govern
ment is located, whose salaries, even including
judges, are now considered rateable; the same
court having decided that the office of a president
judge of thc common pleas is subject to taxation.
Although his salary cannot constitutionally be
reduced, thc court said there was no more reason
to exempt a judge from contribution to the public
burthen, than any other person. On referring to
the blue book, we find, on a rough estimate, that
there are at least one hundred custom house offi
cers, with aggregate salaries of from 1 10,001) to
112,1)00 dollars. If to these salaries arc added
the salaries of all thc officers in the post office
and mint, with many connected with the war and
navy departmenrs, salaries to thc amount of at
least 200,000 dollars become rateable to the coun
ty and city tax.
The geheiial hanking law tir New Yoke.
—Since the 10th day of July, 1838, there have
been filed in tbc ollice of the secretary of state
109 certificates of banks under the above law.
The amount of capital actually subscribed in these
institutions is §25,769,175, and thc amount ol
prospective capital §856,980,000.
From the Newark Daily Advertiser.
The New Indian Evieinr,.—Probably no
event has occmrcd in thc progress of our country,
since the establishment of the Federal Govern
ment, more interesting in itself, or fraught with
more important consequences, than the settle
merit of the native tribes beyond the western
limits of the Union. There are now in the ter
ritory set apart by Congress for the r permanent
residence, about 95,000 Indians belonging to 22
separate tribes, and speaking as many different
languages. About 20,000 of thc whole number
belong to tribes native to thc soil. But the es
timate does not include the wild Indians of the
prairie or mountains, or those residing north of
the Missouri, or around the sources of the Mis
sissippi, as all of these are without the limits of
the Territory.
The average breadth of thc territory is some
thing over 201) miles, and its length about 60n.
It contains an area of about eighty mi It. tins of
acres of the public land, and is healthy, well wa
tered, sufficiently timbered, and a great deal of it
remarkably fertile, and is well adapted for agri
cultural and p istoral purposes. Lead ore, iron
ore, and salt springs have been discovered in it.
And it is said that all who reside there are well
pleased with their situation.
Some few of these, the Choctaws, thc Chicka
saws, the Cherokees, have, to some extent, writ- I
ten laws for the internal government of their re- !
speetive tribes. The Delawares are about imita- I
ting their example. With these exceptions, the j
whole of these 95.000 Indians, divided into up- j
wards of 20 tribes, who speak different lan
guages, and many of whom entertain for each !
other mutual hereditary animosities, have for
their government no internal mal 1 w. It is
manifestly both the duty and ihe policy of our I
Government to provide against the consequences
of this critical state of things. And it was with
that view the Senate once passed a bill for a Ter-
Trained by a convcn
‘ • ritoriiil Government, lives, requiring only that
turn of the tribes tbr Governor should be np
y, the Supcrintemhidcnt and Senate, and that the
as pointed by tluapproved by the President, and
laws shouldthe appointment by the Indians of
I- providinodelegate to Congress. We trust the
it one lurlllbe resumed and successfully prosecu
- aub'the next session of Congress,
if b
From the Natchez Free Trader, April 17.
Cold Blooded Murder. —We have just
learned that a murder was committed on < hoc
taw Bayou, Parish of Concordia, Louisiana, about
thirty miles distail above this city, on Satur
day last, which for fiendish deliberation and bar
barity, caps the climax of all acts of the kind
which we have heard of lately. The circumstan
ces were these ;
A man named J. A. Johnson (the murderer,)
and a Mr. Jones (the victim.) lived on adjoining
lands on the Choctaw Uayou. The police jury
of the Parish in defining and laying out the pub
lic roads within their jurisdiction, having found it
necessary to run a road thro' a part of Johnson’s
land, he, Johnson complained loudly at the pro
ceeding. and declared intentions of violence
against any one who might use the road; and to
prove that he was in earnest, erected a sort of
gate or fence on the spot where the road entered
his lands. Thus standing the matter, it happened
that on Saturday last, Jones had occasion to tra
vel the public road so made thro’ Johnson’s land,
the course of which was a.ongsidc his house.—
Johnson from his window saw Jones passing over
the road, whereupon he attacked him with the
threat that if he did'nt go back he would shoot
him. Jones replied that ihe road was public and
that such threats were unnecessary. Further alter
cation did not take place but a discharge from
Johnson’s rifle laid Junes weltering in his blood.
The murderer fled from the scene and in his flight,
communicated the circumstances of the bloody
affair to persons whom he met. These persons
on repairing to Johnson’s house found Jones on
the ground, a litoloss corpse.
Johnson was in this city on Sunday and Mon
day, but the tidings had not then arrived. As
soon as our vigilant sheriff and his assistants got
notice of the affair, they started a close and un
ceasing watch for the criminal, but helms not yet
been found, and it is thought that he has fled
from this vicinity. It will be a pity indeed if such
a heartless and inhuman villain should escape
Ihe full reward of his bloody crime. When all
laws both civil and divine arc thus recklessly
braved, public justice cannot be too active.
Another Atrocious Murder was perpe
trated at Richmond, Madison parish, Louisiana,
about 100 miles above this city, on the 15th inst.
A few days before a dispute had taken place re
lative to the shipment of some Cotton. On that
day a Mr. Booth, one of the parties concerned,
with a pistol in his hands, suddenly accosted a
Mr. Rusk, another one of the individuals arrested
with, "Sir, I understand you have threatened my
life” and instantly shot him through, Husk fell
and in a few moments expired. Booth was in
stantly arrested by th Sheriff and committed for
trial. When our informant who witnessed the
assassination, left, great excitement prevailed.
The New York Star has an excellent article
on the subject of Mechanics, and the estimation
in which they are held abroad, and very properly
opposes the adoption in this country of the opin
ion which assigns to them an inferior degree of
appreciation. It will be admitted that on the
score of usefulness those who practice the me
chanic arts arc surpassed by no portion of socie
ty, and there can be no good reason why knowl
edge and intelligence in a mechanic should not be
entitled to as much consideration as in a profes
sional man. Mechanical pursuits in general
interfere in some degree with the sort of social
intercourse which accompanies wealth, and con
sequently may unlit those who follow them for
frivolous indulgences, known to what is termed
the fashionable world ; but it must be borne in
mind that these frivolities are entirely unessential
to the making of a great people, and are at best
nothing but the small change which passes cur
rent in society. If we look back to the history
of our own and other countries, we shall find
that in numerous instances, the founders of fami
lies claiming pre-eminence have been practical
mechanics, whose worth and intelligence have
conferred a respectability on their offspring,
which possibly would never have been acquired
through their own instrumentality. The notion
of graduating a man by his pursuit, instead of
his intellect and enterprise, is absurd, and those
who would do so, do great injustice to others as
well as to themselves. —Baltimore American.
Correspondence of Brigg's Bust-n Bulletin.
Bangor, April 28th, 1839.
Destructive Fire at Fort Fairfield.—
Serjeant Brown, of the land agent’s party, who
arrived last night from the Aroostook, reports a
fire at Fort Fairfield, which broke out in the
guard-house between one and two o’clock P. M.
on Monday last, 22d inst., and consumed the
guard and store house attached, with all their
contents, consisting in part of 125 barrels of
pork, about 300 barrels of bread, a few boxes of
fixed ammunition (cannon cartridges,) &c..
amounting to near $lO,OOO. A military guard of
150 mrn was left by the major general ot the 3d
division, to protect the properly of the state, but
they were probably engaged in other duties when
the fire broke out. It is attributed to accident.
A Leak in the Treaburt. —The last move
of Mr. Woodbury is thus stated in the Kt. Louis
Republican of the 11th ult:
"Lately the Bank of Missouri was required to
transfer a large sum of the money which had ac
cumulated in her vaults, belonging to the Govern
ment, from the land olliccrs, to New Vork. We
have understood that the arnounlwas about $700,-
000. Following this, comes a circular from Wash
ington, directing the officers engaged in purcha- I
sing subsistence and supplies for the army, for the
Indians, &c. &c., to make all their purenases up- I
on time, and not to i onlract to pay for any of
these things until after the first ul July next.”
The facts here stated are well calculated to as
tound Ihe people. The transfer of the specie
from St. Louis to New York, is a natural result
of the sub-Treasury system now partially en- \
• forced by the administration—but that the fi- |
nances of the Government were so embarrassed. !
and the ten millions of treasury notes and the
proceeds of the sale of the United Stales bank
I bonds, so near yif not entirely exhausted, as to
j leave the general government without the present
j means of paying its obligations, and to requireit
to make its purchascsof supplies on time, at of
| course, a material advance on cash prices, we
hardly supposed to be possible. There must be
! some secret leak in the vaults of the Treasury,
which is letting oil’the ample supply of funds
furnished by Congress, and the receipts from
customs- -perhaps the leg treasurer- arc at work.
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Certainly some unusual »nd unexpected demand
linalieen made on the government, which it will i
become the next Congrcuilo in<(uire into.— Unit, i
I‘ulriol. I
lutkkkstinoI utkkkstino M dinnct. —A man named Ra- i
muel Wilson, was marriid to a Mias Eliza Row
ers, of Portsmouth (N. M.) jail, on 'he 12th ult.
and in three days the renter, Ramuet took rosi- (
deneo in the state prison at Concord. lie is to
remain there two tears.
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A Limit Ki!»rii>oM.-t-It requires from Jif- i
teen hundred thousand In tivn millions of dollars :
annually, to keep up the government of the city j
of New-York. \
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Thames Tunnel.—Mr. Brunei has recently i
stated that the advance of the Thames Tunnel i
was now at a rate of three feet pe t week; they
were now O f feet unfy from low water mark.
Villain |. —The Supreme Court of Ohio,
now sitting in this city, devoted last Saturday,
the ‘2oth lost., to the hearing of applications for
divorce. The evidence adduced in one cave, ti/-
vealed a caret r of villainy which has seldom been
exceeded. The husband of the applicant came
to Pleasant Valley, New York, several years
since, and introduced himself to a Presbyterian
clergy man of that place, as a graduate of some
College in (Quebec, lie stated that his father
was a wealthy man of Upper < amnia, who was
anxious that he should go to Europe, and com
plete his education at one of the Universities of
Edinburgh; but that Ac was anxious to remain
in America, and prepare himself foi the ministry;
and that in consequence of his declining to fol
low the plan marked out by hia father, ho was left
without means to prosecute his theological studies.
The charitable clergyman took him into his family,
and for a year supplied him with every thing—
and several times relieved him when under arrest
for debt. At the close of the year he borrowed
money to return to Canada, saying thut ho still
hoped that his father might he induced to aid him.
From Quebec, he wrote that his father’s properly
had recently been consumed by lire, and requested
the further loan of $3O to enable him to return.
The money was forwarded to him, hut be was
not again heard of. He is next found preaching
and distributing tracts in the Western Reserve,
and finally comes to Hamilton county, Ohio,
where he introduces himself under another name
to a clergyman, as a licentiate of the Presbyterian
church in Scotland, preaches frequently, and at
last he marries the daughter of a respectable phy
sician. He then removes to Kentucky, with his
wife, and employs himself as a teacher. Altera
year’s residence in Kentucky, he purchased a
horse, for which he gave hia note; came up to
Cincinnati, sold the horse, wrote a letter in a dis
guised hand, under a feigned name to his father
in-law ; communicated a very flattering obituary
notice of himself to one of the Lawreneelmigh
editors, and escaped down the river. He is next
heard from at Mobile, from whence lie writes in a
very penitent style, to the clergyman in this coun
ty, upon whom he. hail so shamefully imposed;
and subsequently ss a proof of bis entire reform,
he goes to New York, again changes his name,
represents himself us a Frenchman, again marries,
and in a few months afterwards again writes to
his first father-in-law, saying that he is in prison,
awaiting his trial for bigamy, and beseeching him
not to appear as a witness. The court decreed a
divorce and allowed five hundred dollars alimony.
Cincinnati Cironicfe.
Officers of our x*vr.— The following list
shows the placet of nativity of all the commis
sioned and warrant officers in the U. R. Navy;
Virginia, 192; New York, 171; Pennsylvania,
157; Marylard, 124; Massachusetts, 102; New
Jersey, G(i; South Carolina, 49; District of Co
lumbia, 40; Connecticut, 40; North Carolina,
37; Maine 3t; New Hampshire, 3(1; Rhode
Island. 29; Georgia, 24; Kentucky, 25; Dela
ware. 2(1, Ohb, lb; Vermont 14; Tennessee, 12;
Louisiana, 9, Alabama, 4; Missouri, 4; Illinois,
3; Mississippi. 2; Michigan, 1; Indiana,
rida I; Ireland, 12; England, 9; West Indies,
5; Germany 2; Greece, 2; Sweden, I ; Belgium
1; France, i \ Spain, 1; Gibraltar, 1; Italy, I ;
Sicily, 1; Canada, 1; at sea, 1.
It is a curious sac;, that in the address of Sir
Francis Head to the people of England, on his
mission to Canada, a paragraph directed against
W. L> Mackenzie, the Canadian refuge#, is oto
len, word for word, from Mr. Prentice of the Lou
isville Journal, and was intended by him for a
political adversary who had awakened its wrath !
It is not curious, however, that the paragraph sto
len is the most piquant and pointed in the whole
address.— Halt. Pat.
Taxation in Boston. —The Boston Tran
acript gives a list of some of the highest tax
payers in Boston, from which we find that there
arc six persons who pay over $9OO per annum,
and less than $ 1000; 19 who pay over $lOOO
and less than 2000; 14 who pay over $2OOO, and
less than $3000; 1 over $3OOO and less than 4000;
and 1 over $4(100 and less than 5000. Those
who pay over $2OOO arc Ehen Francis, Thomas
11. Perkins, Jonathan Philips, David Rears, John
Welles, John D. Williams, over $3OOO John
Parker; and over $4OOO, Peter C. Brooks.
The new vaccine virus. —The last num
ber of the liomlo i Medical Gazette, contains a
third letter from Mr. Estlin, continuing the ac
count of the recent supply of cow-pox matter
from its original source to the present time. It
appears that the virus is extensively used in Eng
land, nod has hern sent to the continent and to
America. Its activity is described as being undi
minished by its passage through about twenty
human subjects. Mr. Estlin bus sent some of it
to the national vaccine cstaUishincnt, in London,
to faci itatc its being transmitted to those medical
practitioners who may wash ',o use it, as the gov
ernment grants the privilege to that institution of
receiving letters of application, and of forwaiding
vaccine matter to every part of the kingdom free
of postage.
The trial of Marsaud and Raymond, of the
ship Alexandre, on the charge of murdering the *
captain and seven others, and feloniously taking
the vessel to the United States, had commenced *
at Brest, and had been going on two days when
the last accounts reached Paris. Marsaud hud 1
made u full confession, alleging, however, that he
took no part in the murder, and that Raymond *
was the instigator and projector of the crime. *
We learn that an ingenious mechanic has for
some time past, turned his attention to the inven
tion of an instrument for diseng.ging the hones p
from shad, after that excellent fish is prepared for ,
the table, secundum arlem, and deposited in the j t i
plate of the hungry epicure.— Poston Eve. Jour
V\*Ki,t directed MrxiriCßHci.—lt is stated
in the New Orleans Hoc, that Thomas F. M’Kinny
and James Ferry have subscribed UGOO dollars
per annum for ft years, to sustain a female neade
my in Texas. Suck acts of generosity are de
serving of all praise.
There lias been much said of the purity of our
Court, and of the propriety of excluding certain
nobles who have not strictly observed the seventh
commandment. What the Court was in Queen
Charlotte’s time we know. There is an old and
well authenticated story of the Countess ofC
applying to a lady about her Majesty’s person to
gel her (tha couutesa’s) aiaWr, who had cummit
ted a faux pas, restored to Court. The Queen
made no reply, and at length the lady was in
duced to ask wlmt reply she should make the
countess. “ Tell her.” replied Charlotte, “ that
you had not th<j impudence to ask it.” Despite
her faults, the purity of her life, inducing purity
at her court, throw a halo around the character of
(leorge the Third’* consort, and forced tho peo
ple to respect even when they hated her.—Lon
don Times.
Steam Ship* ov Wab.—An English paper
says,—“ The success of the Uorgon, just returned
from a six months cruise’ on the coast of Spain,
has been so pre-eminent that the Lords of the Ad
mirably have given orders for five more pair of
engines on the same principle, to he fitted into
five new frigates. One of these (the Cyclops,)
will be of I :)00 tons burthen, with engines of 320
horse power. She will curry 2f> guns, and be
the largest man-of-war steamer in the world.”
Heavy Salvaok. —ln the ease of the ship Na
thaniel Hooper, stranded on Nantucket Shoals,
several months since, the U. 8. District Court, in
lloston, last week decreed one half of the pro
ceeds—above fdtO.OOO to the salvors.— New Bed
ford Mercury.
Tram the New Orleans Picayune.
i'uu on board a Steamboat.
Playing a Strung (lame with a Poker Player.
Not long since a gambler had a game played
upon him by the deck bands and firemen on board
one of our Western steamers —a game even stron
ger than that played by our Second Municipality
on this class of the community in New Orleans.
It seems that he hud made out to “strike up a
small game” of poker with some of the deck hands,
and that by dint of cheating, putting up tho cards,
ami other tricks known only to those up to and
who make a living by “handling the papers,” he
had transferred nearly all the surplus revenue
from their poekJt* into hi* own. He “cut and
shullled” to all appor.rancn fair fur some time,
but was finally caught at some trick which at
onco let the honest steamboat men into the secret
of “how the thing t~ : dons," and proved that
they had lost their money by any other than the
“clean thing.”
Thu game, as a ms-Wr of course, was “blocked”
at once, and a dornontfrmron immediately made
that tile gamblci should foils over tils 111-gotten
gains. This he flatly r efused to do—said that be
had won tbs money fr.ir, and that he was very
clear of parting with what he had come honestly
by. They still per. L.ted, and he still refused.
The boat <sC, length stopped to wood, when the
men, finding it useless to attempt regaining their
money by fail means, resorted to a plan which
the gambler undoubtedly thought foul. Having
gained the consent of tho engineer to use the en
gine fur a short time, they forthwith put a plan
in execution—a plan rather bordering on that
code of laws generally known as coming under
the especial jurisdiction of Judge Lynch.
They in the first place made one end of a rope
fast round the neck of the wondering gambler,
while the other was tied to the end of the piston
rod, allowing him only two or three feet slack.—
They told him that unless he shelled out their
money instanlcrthey would woik the engine, and
at the same time that they were not responsible
fur any injuries he might sustain. Loth to give
up his gains Ike fellow cast one look at the new f
system of extortion, coolly calculated his chances
and then told them “they might work away and
be d d.”
No sooner said than done; and the gambler,
was immediately seen first chasing the piston rod,
upon nil-fours and then backing out of its way.
Mis eye all the time was as firmly set upon the
rod us ever that of Herr Clina or (iuliriel Havel
was upon the tight rope. After working him
forward and back several times, one of his tor
mentors asked him.
■ Pont you think it best to hand over?”
“ Dont bother me,” retorted the gambler.
“You’ll get sick of that fun,” said another of
tho boatmen, as he was following the piston rod
up in the attitude of a hear.
“ Not as you know on,” rejoined tho gambler,
as bo backed out of its way-
In this way they ran upon the poor fellow for
some time, he still manifesting an unwillingness 1
to give up his spoils. Hy this time all the cabin
passengers bad beard of the fun going on below, j
and went down to witness it. After a few mo- j
ments respite the engine was again set in motion,
. and the gambler along with it. The laugh from
the bystanders was boisterous ami hearty in the
extreme as the poor fellow, intent upon nothing
but bis own safety, followed the piston rod ii|j
to prevent his neck licing jerked off. and then
backed out of its way to avoid being fairly ran
over and crushed. Wc can liken his looks and
actions to nothing save an old bear being dragged 1
by a chain up to some point against bis will and j
backing out the moment a foot of slack was given j
him ; orelse to a savage ami hungry bull dog with '
a rope round bis neck, fiercely endeavoring to 1
get at sonic prey and then being dragged back tho I
moment his mouth was o|>ened to secure it.
“ Fire, and fall hack,” was heard from an in- |
dividual in the crowd. I
“Hoot hog, or d’e,” came from another.
“Twig him—only look !” say* one.
“ Here he goes, there ho goes,” said a second. (
"Ha ha. he he, hi hi, ho ho,” laughs another. ,
“ Aint he in a pretty fix !” cried still a third. |
“ Serves him right,” says a fourth.
“ Hood enough for him,” said a fifth, the piston j
rod all the while keeping him in full exercise, with I
the perspiration rolling down his checks in streams. :
“Aim you most ready to hand over now?” ]
said one of tnc plucked deck hands. . |
“ Dont bother me, 1 say,” retorted the gambler, |
“If you do I’ll lose my lick.”
“ Wont yon give up the money ?” said another !
of those he had fleered.
“If I do, Ido ; but If I do, I’m d d,” eon- !
filmed the companion of the rod. “Iv’p got the •
bang of this game—understand the principles of
this machinery now, and you may work me from i
one end of tho Mississippi to the other before I’ll i
give up the fisrt red cent —that you may.” , |
The gambler was worked in this way until the ■
boat was icady to start,without flinching or shew- |
mg any disposition to give up. Considering that j
they had got tho worth of their money out of him 1
in the. »hape of fun, and that he had worked hard
1
\
*nd afforded sufficient amusement to more than
compensate for their odd bits and picayunes, the
engine was stopped and the man let loose.
After puffing, blowing, and wiping the perspi
ration from his face, the gambler looked at hi*
tormentors with a self-satisfied air, and exclaimed.
“ Vou can t come it over this ehild with any of
your common games. I’ve stoed three pluck
one too often to he bluffed off even if there was
forty against me. Any time you want to get up
another game, and there's any thing to be made
by it, I’m your man.” ,
The boat was soon under way ami all hands
adjourned to their respective callings.
Editorial Address.
Rivington, the King’s Printer, it is known,
was a terrible Tory during the Revolutionary
War, and was always assailing the Rebels. Ethan
Allen, the daredevil of Vcmuut, determined to
give him a licking; and some reminiscences in
the New York Express, show the clever man
ner in which Rivington got rid of the unpleasant
affair :
He hail been bold in his misrepresentations of
the “ Rebels ,” and so personal in his remarks,
that although he had assurances from Governor
Clinton,of safely for his person and propelty, yet
there were some expected visitors that he did not
wish to see. The foremost of these was Ethan
Allen. Rivington was a fine portly looking-man,.
and wore powder. At lust Allen appealed. His
clerk who first saw him, well knew his master’s
horror for Allen. Rivington afterwards gave to
Mr. Dunlap '.ha-following account of the meet
ing ■—“f was sitting after a good dinner, alone
with my bottle of Madeira before me, when I '
heard an unusual noise in the street, mid an huzza
from the hoys. I was in the 2d story, and on
stepping to the window, saw a tall figure in tar
nished regimentals, with a large cocked hat and.
an enormously Long sword, followed by a crowd
of bnys, who occasionally cheered him with- -i
huzzas, of which ho seemed insensible. He came
up to my door and stopped—l could sec no more
—my heart told me it was Ethan Allen. I shut <.
down my window and retired behind my table
and bottle. 1 was certain the hour of reckoning,
waseome. There was no retreat. Mr. Staples,
my clerk, came in paler than ever, and clasping
his hands, said, ‘Master, he has come.’ •! know
it.’ He entered the store and asked if James
Rivington lived her*. 1 answered, Yes sir. Is
he at home V ‘I will go and set, sir,’ 1 said; and
now master what is to b* dons 1 There he is,
sir, in the SSere, and tha hoys peeping at bint
from the street. I bud imp If tip f*y mind—l
looked at the MaJearp—fdssibly took a glass.
Show him up, said I—and I thought if such Ma
deira cannot mollify hius, hpina« f* harder than
adamant. Thera S’:,-* • tfcwful moment of sus
pense. I listMwd—l b j«nl him the stairs,
and hoard his long, ••nrd aisi&ug *n Iftery step.
In he stalked. ‘I,- yoa« iw« Ml i, f. Rivington!’
It ia sir, and no n.£i eaaltl to non tappy to sea
General Ethan C ti jir, nr, by the
table; and afterwards 0 C.is Madeira. He
sat down anti fceg«u—‘Sir, I Not u word
General, till you ta«s a ami J filled—ten
years old, on my own (3ii>nto—another glass,
sir, and then wewill ulk of ehS affairs. Sir, we
finished two bottles, and parts*] ae good friends
as if nothing had ever happened to make us oth
erwise.
Parody..
I knew by the steam that so graciously curled
From the tea-kettle spout, that hot water was
near,
And I said if good punch can be found in this
world,
The soul that is thirsty might hope for it here.
’Twas night, and in bottles that stood ranged
around.
The whiskey refulgent delighted the eye—
Every glass was in use, and 1 heard not a sound,
But the tinkling oftumblers already drained dry.
And here 1 exclaimed, in this neat little spot,
With a glass in my hand, and my feet on the
stove
How lung could I gu.'zlc the punch piping hot,
An 1 forget that 1 ever delighted to rove.
'Neath the glare of yon gas-light, whose silver ray
gleams
On the edge of that sofa, how sweet to recline,
And indulge the long night in the heatic dreams
That arise from the fumes of good punch and
good wine.
COMMERCIAL.
Latent dales from Liverpool, Mhrch 28
Latest dales from Havre, March 30
Hai-timomi. May 4,
Howard street Flour — The market has been ra
ther unsettled throughout the week, the scarcity
of money having circumscribed transactions, and
prices varying according to circumstances of cash
or credit sales. Some holders, we find to day, are
firm at $7,25, while others are willing to sell for $7,
cash, and at this last named price sales have been
made. The wagon and rail road price, until to day,
has been uniform at $7.
City Mills Flour. —Sales at $7,37 4 and $7,50 —
very small stock.
Susquehanna Flour. —A sale of extra quality,,
early in the week,at $7,50. Sales nfothcr parcels
at $7,374, and yesterday a parcel of 400 bhls. at
$7,30,
Rye Flour. —bast sales were at $5,62J lor Ist.
The inspections of the week, ending on Thurs
day evening last, comprise the following kinds and
quantities.
hbh. half-bbls ,
Howard street, 6431 1-t
City Mills, 1388 6 02
Susquehanna, 21-15 00
Total,
Havrh, March 30.
Cotton. —Our cotton market has continued iu a
state of stagnation throughout the lust eight days,
and our rates for United States short staple descrip
tions, under good fair quality, have undergone a
decline of 1 a 2 centimes per 4k. —In other kinds
we have no variation to notice. The sales have
been 1757 hags, consisting of 1056 New Orleans,
of which 13 at HOf; 703, 115 a 120 f; 323, 120 f;
50a 12S f; 17 good, 132 50; IIS Mobile. 113 a
) I Os; 180 Uplands, 1121.70 a 127 f; 63 Pernambu
co, 1311 a 139 f; 18 liahiu 137 f; 322 Curnana, 120 f
—the whole duty paid. »
MARINE INTELLIGENCE.
Savannah, May 6.
Arrived yesterday. —Ship Trenton, Ilennet, New
*orki Steamboat lie llosset, Wamhcrsie, Angus
a-, Mcamboat bamar, Croswell, Augusta.
Deported. —Steamboat Hamburg, Wood, Augus
ta.
Cit AUi.nsToN, May 7.
Arrived ye-terdoy. —Ship Mlegbany, Michaels,
Phi adelphia; ship Helen, Smith, Boston; scht
George, Pendleton, Baltimore.
I Fen I to sen yesterday —Ship Benj. Morgan,
Johnston, Liverpool: t I- brig Ashley, Pike, !“•»•»
York; schr Ajax, Wheeler, St Jagodv Cuts.