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CmtONMJUK AND SKNTWKI,.
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THURSDAY MORNING, A1 CUSP S.
FOR GOVERNOR,
VII \RI K S 1)0 1 C11i:1C T V ,
OF I UUI COI'NTT.
We are gratified I > loam from vnrioua source*,
in relation to the approaching election for (lover
nor. dial the prospects of our hiici'cm are*every
way flattering. Indeed there ran he no reason
why they should riot he ho; the two last elec
tion* having shown us to be in a clear and deri
sive majority of the people of the flute, and ou r
candidate having ever been one of the strongest
men in the State in point of popularity. Judge
Dougherty has ever been a lavorile with the State
Rights party ; a predilection eminently deserved
by liis ability, independence, firmness, mid unwa
vering stability ns a politician, and his plain, un
ostentatious, and republican simplicity as a man.
He is indeed one of nature's noblemen —frank,
generous, social yet dignified—cairn, self-possess
ed yet not arrogant—firm anil unbending in bis
principle*, nor yet intolerant—blending together
u clearness and vigor of intellect, equal to any
elation, and a sternness of integrity worthy of
all confidence, he is literally u man of the people,
and one ot the noHiest specimens of the true Amer
ican citizen. He i . just sueli a man as we delight
tii honor and support mid just the man, whom we
doubt net the people of Georgia will honor on the
first Monday in October.
A H do of New (lotion, from the plantation of
the Rev. J uriah Harris, of Columbia county, was
■brought to our market yesterday morning. It is
from the plantation of Mr. H. in Uurke county,
and is the first hale brought In tins market this
season. It has not been offered for sale, and is
stored with Messrs. D’Antignac & Hill, Ware
house ami Commission Merchant*.
We cut from the Tennessee paper* the follow
ing hits at Col. Polk, the Van Durcn candidate
for Governor.
From the Snshvillr Runner.
Here he goes—There lie goes.
Col. Polk, the (iovermncnl emissary, abandon
ing nil the appointment* he had made for revolu
tionising Cheatham’s and Campbell’* districts,
■•put out" this morning in “hot haste” for Hast
Tennessee. “Here he goes,” cried the people of
Charlotte, as he paused through that place like a
streak of lightning. “There he goes,” exclaim
ed hi* desponding admirers of Nashville, when
they caught a glimpse of his coat tail as he jump
ed in the stage this morning. What on earth
lakes Polk to East Tennessee again, says a l.oco
Coco ton leader of his party, as the stage driver
orueked his whip.
Lender. Hush. There's h—l to pay there,
and Col. Polk says they have written him that
it is absolutely necessary fur him to return forth
with.
Ineu Fuco, Absolutely necessary ! I don't
understand this sort of doings. Vou nil told me
that the Colonel had revolutionized East Ten
nessee, and upon your assurances 1 have bet ;ny
money, which 1 now see is as good as gone.
Lender. Them d—d Journals! They are
reading them upon him in the Hiwassee and
'French Broad crountrv.
ItOOkFuco, Journals! Whitt do I care about
Journals'! All I know is that I have been egre
giously bamboozled and hit. Col. Polk said ho
ha l turned East Tennessee up side down. Vou
told me he said so. Confiding in these statements
1 slaked my funds on the result, and now, behold
our loader, seized with a panic, abandoning all his
appointments here, is “o p h” for that section of
the State in which we were told; he had fixed
every thing as well us “hands could do it.” ,My
money is gone, 1 see it clearly.
Leader, WcH. don’t he i*r a passion. I.et us
go in and talk it over.
I,urn Fi ei. Thank you. I havn’t time. I
want to go and draw as many of my bets as 1 can
and “hedge” for the balance. ( F.r l.)
Lender. {Sains.) This is a h—l otV, business.
However, what can’t he cured must he endured. 1
never expected he could ho elected. I thought
he would be able to Lick up a dust and raise an
excitement that might be serviceable at the next
Presidential election, Lnil.this II giru of his, spoils
all. Every body will see that like a broken down
nicer he luis"swiiehed his tail,” and that the game
is up. It’s a clear ease. I shall go to the Springs.
i'rom the Knoxville Times.
The John Gilpin Race
Os Col. Polk, from the Western to the Eastern
end of the State, has excited a great deal of mer
riment, among all those who were so fortunate
«s to witness it. At every pU.ee through which
lie passed, his presence, as was to he expected,
created surprise—a surprise, however, which in
variably ended m a good, hearty laugh.
“ The dog* did bark, the children screamed,
Up flew the windows all ;
And every soul cried out, ‘well done !’
\s Uml as he could haul.”
The Colonel’s friends were not a whit less as
tonished than the people. His arrival, to lie sure,
raised quite a hubbub among them hut they hard
ly knew whether to receive him with smiles or
tears! They wisely concluded llmt it must be a
desperate ease, which required sueli a race against
timi . But he gave them no opportunity cither
to congratulate or condole. Before they could
exclaim,
“ What news ; what news 3 your tidings tell;
Tell me you must and shall—
vSay why ''are-headed you are come.
Or why you come at all I" —
the Colouel runs out of hearing.
“ He galloped off with ail his might,
As he had done before.”
When he will pay us a visit again, is uncertain.
The firing of the cannon with which the Whigs
greeted (he arrival of the Governor at Wurrens
burg, may so alarm him as to materially alter his
plan of operations. There is no calculating with
certainty. Before tlie week is ended, he may be
here on his way to the West.
“Norstop, till where he did got up,
He does again get dow.i.”
If he so concludes, we sincerely hope he will
give the public .previous notice, tor considerable
anxiety is manifested tube p esenl, by those who
alid not witness his last performance The uni
versal cry is,
“ Now let us sing, long live the king,
And (lilpin, long live he ;
And when be next doth rule abroad.
May 1 be there to see !”
An Explanation. —“ Come, niv friend; lip
m the rhino.” “What’s tip us the rhino ?”
“Why, out with the dust.” “I don’t understand.’'
“Why post the pony,” “Post the pony !”
shell out ” - Really, I am at a lo'ss."—
“Why. fork up.” “Inexplicable!” “Zounds
man, cash down.”
( lie H tlmingUm IV. C. Chronicle says that
Chaika Sheperd, ilie Van Bun n candidate in the
Fourth Coii.'.ioMoiiul Distiict of llmt Htatc, is
elected by a large majority over Biiiilli', W big.
\
/ !• rum the New York Herald, if the 2d,
* liiijioi Hint from t lie otpfs
I *»rt gfnj iijjHo
Hast evening important despatches were re-
J( I reived from General Hrolt, by Mr. Poinsett, Sec
retary o( War, now adjourning at the Wuverly
House, Broadway. These despatches convey to
Y the Secretary the news id the entire success of the
n fieneral’s mission to the Wisconsin Territory, on
the Mississippi, where tic undertook to pacify
certain hostile demonstrations made by the In
’ dinns, against tire territory possessed by the U.
r Stales.
,1 It seems that one of the tribes of these Indians,
who evacuated a portion of that territory, by a
late treaty, and had gone beyond the Mississippi,
c hail retraced their steps in small squads, and
d were making inroads on the grounds belonging
to the citizens of'the I tilted States, Tills spirit
ol hostility on the Indian border had broken out
1 also in se eral skirmishes among the Sioux, Me
iionwes and other Indians ; and, on one occasion,
I about 100 It'll a prey to these war-like incursions.
The mission of (ieneral Scott was principally di
rected to the settlement of the differences between
M I our own citizens and one of the tribes who had
r j begun to violate a treaty—and in this mission
Y the ( r<*neral Ims bren eminently successful. J
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I From tin’ National Intelligencer,
Sketches of the Personal mid Public
diameter of Daniel Webster.
it , Mess. July, 18.10.
3 I
I 1J aaitSi a ; Vou remark that Mr. Webstcris
cold and distant ill his manners. Have you not
j been accustomed to view him through the mngni
| lying glass of his great reputation, and has not
r this magic of your own fancy thrown over him a
I lalse coloring, which belongs rather to you than
1 jto him? Have you not been accustomed tosec
; bin: at Washington, where, while other great men
| are smiling, and ; rolling, and playing the villain,
Webster is deeply pondering upon his duties 1
I where, while others are trying to make friends
and flattering their way to preferment, he is curo-
I worn liom the laboratory of thought, where he
j has been subjecting “Nullification,” or the “suh-
Tre.istiry,” nr some similar sclieme, to the cruci
ble ol truth ! In either of these eases, you could
not see Mr. Webster in a right light. Let me
lake you, in imagination, to his residence, which
you know is at Marshfield, near the seashore, and
some twenty miles southeast from Huston.
A tew years since, Mr. Webster was near his
grounds, and close to the bank of u small stream.
The showers had been plentiful, and this river
was now lull to the brim. An old man came
along an fool, and meeting Mr. Webster, without
knowing him, inquired the way to a certain house
in the vicinity. Mr. Webster told hint that ho
must lake a path which led across the stream.
The old man remarked that the river appeared to
he deep, and asked if there was no other way of
renehing the place ol his destination. Being in
formed that there was no other, ho seemed to be
in some anxiety, when Mr. Webster ofifered to
carry him over. After some parley, this oll’er was
accepted, and, mounting a pair of broad shoulders,
the old niaii rode safely iterat'd the stream on
Daniel Webster’s hack. Hut there was nothing
in the circumstances which scented to strike hint
as peculiar, save the good nature of the act ; and
in this way he mentioned it at the place where
lie was going to. The story led to some inqui
ries, and the old titan soon learnt who it was that,
as a friend in need, had been a friend indeed.
Perhaps, my dear sir, if you have found Web
ster haughty at Washington, you could learn bet
ter at Marshfield.
The late Mr. Wirt was a man of elegant, yet
winning, manners. He had not the sunny ad
dress of Henry Olay, which makes every man's
heart lie approaches melt like wax within him ;
nor had he the fascination of Calhoun, which
would he irresistible, were it not for the sinister
rattle that comes faint hut distinct to the ear; nor
had he the elaborate and bloated pulilcinns of
Denton : nor the smooth and flippant courtliness
of Van Huron ; hut he had the best style of Vir
ginian manners of the old school: he was hearty
yet dignified ; sincere, though polite. He had
otten met Webster, and as they were of the same
polities they had a mutual respect for each other.
Wirt remarked, however, that, in spite of the
many circumstances likely to draw them together,
there was a kind of distance between them.
At length, Webster had occasion to call on
Wirt, at his office, for he was then Attorney Gen
erul. Wring engaged in writing at the moment,
he asked Mr. Webster to sit down a few minutes
at the lire, while he continued writing at the fur
ther end of the room. Webster took his sent
Presently, Wirt’s dnughtei, a beautiful child of
five or six years old, came in, and, not seeing
Webster’s face, mistook him for her father. She
walked round, and, placing her anna over Web
ster's knee, looked up familiarly in his face. At
this instant he withdrew his gaze front the lire,
and looked into the eyes of the child, who shrunk
hack in feat*. As soon, however, as the image
of the child had reached k\ ebsler’s brain, a smile
came over his face, and the little girl, completely
won by it, smiled hack again, and instantly re
turned to her former position of familiarity and
confidence. Wirt noticed this little scene, and
his bosom was of a nature to feel it. He did feel
it; mid coming forwntd. shook Webster's hand
heartily, the tears brimming in his eyes. From
that time, according to the report of his own words
he felt that to suspect Webster of coldness, either
-of manner or heart, was to do him injustice; and
, lie himself confessed that he believed the kind of
non-conductor which had separated them before,
r was a want of simplicity and naturalness in his
» mode of approaching him.
t I 1 have hut this remark to make, that if Webster
r lis distant and haughty in his manner to thocouti
,l ly and at court, it seems not to be indulged either
to an old man who wishes to cross a stream, or a
a child whose face reflects the soul as the lake
gives back the image ol Heaven. May we not
suppose that \\ ehstor has not forgotten his vil
lage breeding, and that, being simple in his feel
ings. simplicity is best adapted to draw out his
kindly nature !
I am yours, truly.
i. The H.ittle of Hrmidywine.
I» We had been in the saddle about an hour, un
'* | der the intrepid Pulaski, who with his own hands,
is examined our swords, pistols and other equip,
h m alts, as if assured that the struggle would be a
e deadly and a long continued one. The day was
one of the most beautiful that ever broke over the
earth. We were about half a mile from the
main bodv, ranged along a green slope, facing the
west our horses about four hundred in number,
fi standing as so many marble statues; until just
,! as the eastern sky began to redden and adulate,
0 and cloud after cloud to roll up and heave like a
*" great curia nup the wind, and the whole heaven
seemed discharging all its beauty and brightness
; upon one spot. 1 happened to turn about and
( saw the taP Pole (Pulaski) bare-headed, tilting
; his horse, like some warlike presence come up out
i of the solid earth to worship upon the very sum
| mit of the hill behind us; it might he. (for the
P | noble carriage of the man. the martial hearing of
j the soldier, would permit eitlierinterpretation.it
I might hu in the awful employment ofdevotion or
~ |in the more earthly one of martial observation—
~ j hut he suddenly reined up his charger, shook
I :he heavy dew from the horseman's cap, replac
j ed it and leaped headlong down the hill, just as
m
t the bright Slash passed away on she horizon;
, followed by a loud report, and the next instant a
part ol our ranks were covered with dust and
turf, thrown up by a cannonball that struck near
the spot he had just lelt.
Our horses plucked up their cars at the sound,
y and all at once, as if a hundred trumpets were
"'playing in the wind, came the enemy in his ad
* I vancc. Pulaski unsheathed his sword, called
out a select body and set oil at full gallop, to a
more distant elevation, where we saw the enemy
advancing in two columns; mic under Knyphau
. j sen, which moved in steadiness, in a dark solid
, I rmlss, towards the spot occupied by general Max
i well; the other, under Cornwallis, which seemed
, to threaten the right (lank of our main body. In
f telligenee was immediately sent to Washington,
. and reinforcements called in, from the spot we
had left.
We kept our position, awaiting for a whole
hour the sound of conflict; at last a heavy vol
, ley rattled along the sky, a few moments passed,
and then another followed, like a storm of drum
j heads. The whole air rung with it: another
, and another followed ; then gradually increased
J in loudness, came {real after peal till it resembled
t a continual clap of thunder, rolling about under
, an illumined vapor. But Pulaski, with all his
impetuosity, was a general, and knew his duty
too well to hazzard any movement till he should
. bn able to see with certainty the operations of the
, enemy in the valley below.
I Meanwhile, several little parties which had
, |hnen sent out, came in, one after the other, with
t the intelligence that Knyphausrn had broken
’ down upon Maxwell in magnificent style—been
beaten back again; but that he had Anally pre
vailed and that Maxwell had retreated across the
! river. A thin vapor hud risen from the earth be
low us and completely covered the enemy from
our view. It was no longer possible to follow
him, except by the sound of his tread, which we
could feel in the solid earths’jarring ourselves and
°ur horses; and now and then,a ijuiekglimmer
mg in the midst, as some standard raised above
it, some weapon flourished, or some musket shot
through it like a rocket.
About an hour after, a horseman dashed
through the smoke on the very verge of the hori
zon, and after scouring the fields, for a whole mile
in view, communicating with two or three others
who set olf in different directions; one tons
with orders to hurry down to the ford, where the
commander-in-chief was determined to fall on
Knyphausen with all his power before Cornwal
lis could come to his aid. It was a noble hut
hazardous game—and Pulaski, whose war horse
literally thundered and lightened along the brok
en and stony precipice by which vve descended,
kept his eye wearily to the right as if not quite
certain that the order would not be countermand
ed.
We soon fell in w ith general Greene who was
posting all on fire, to give Knyphausen battle,
and in the next moment saw Sullivan in full
march over a distant hill towards the enemies
flank. This arrangement would doubtless have
proved fatal to Knyphausen, had not our opera
tions been unfortunately arrested at the very
moment wo were prepared to fall upon him, man
and horse, by the intelligence that Cornwallis
had moved olf to another quarter. It was a mo
ment of irresolution—doubt. It was the death
blow to our hopes to victory. Greene was re
called, and Sullivan commanded to halt.
Hardly had this happened, our horses being
covered with sweat, and froth, fretting in the hit
like chained tigers, and covered with dust, it be
ing an excessively hot and sultry day, when a
heavy connonade was heard on our right flank,
and Greene, to whose division we had been at
tached, was put into motion to support Sullivan
who had left home some hours before. The
truth now broke upon us like a thunder clap.—
The enemy had passed, concentrated, we sup
posed, and fallen on our right.
1 shall never forget Green’s countenance, when
the news came—he was on the road side, upon
an almost perpendicular bank, hut he wheeled
where he was, dashed down the bank, his face
white as the blenched marble, and called to us to
gallop forward with such a tremendous impulse,
that we inarched four miles in forty minutes.—
We held on our way in a cloud of dust, and met
Sullivan all in disorder; nearly a mile from the
ground, retreating step by step at the head of his
men, and shouting himself hoarse, covered with
blood and sweat, and striving in vain to bring
them to stand, while Cornwallis was pouring in
upon them an incessant volley.
Pulaskidashed out to the right, over the fences,
and there stood awhile upright in his stirrups,
rcconnoitering, while the enemy, who appeared
by the smoke and the dust that rolled before them
in the wind to ho much nearer than they really
were, redoubled their elforts; but at last Pulaski
saw a favorable opportunity. The column wheel
ed ; the wind swept across tbeir van, revealing
them like a battalion of spirits, breathing fire anil
smoke. He gave the signal; Archibald repeated
it; then Arthur, then myself. In three minutes
wo were ready for the word.
\\ hen Pulaski, shouting in a voice that thrilled
through and through us, struck spurs into his
charger; it was a half minute so fierce and ter
rible was his charge, before we were able to come
up to him. What can he mean! Gracious
heaven! My hand convulsively, like that of a
drowning man, reined up for a moment when I
saw that 1 was galloping straight forward into a
field of bayonets; yet he was the first man ! and
who would nut have followed.
We did follow him, and with such a hurri
■ cane ol fire and steel, that when we wheeled,
1 our path lay broad before us, with a wall of
I lire on the right hand and on the left; hut not a
1 bayonet or a blade in front except what were un
-9 der the hoofs of our horses. My blood rushes
‘ now, like a flash of fire through my forehead,
1 when I recall the devastation that we then made,
1 almost to ihe very heart of the enemy’s column.
■ But Pulaski, he who afterwards rode into their
9 entrenchments on horseback, sword in hand, was
accustomed to it; and broken over them once,
r aware of his peril if he should give them time’.o
- awake from their consternation, he wheeled in a
r blaze of fire with the intention of returning
1 through a wall of death more perilous than that
■’ w hich shut in the children of Israel upon the red
I sea.
But no! the wall had rolled in upon us, and
- vve were left no alternative but to continue as we
s had begun.
The undaunted Polo rioted in the e.xcees of
his joy ! 1 remember well how he passed me.
covered with sweat and dust, riding absolutely
upon the very points of their bayonets. But at
i- last they pressed upon him, and horsemen after
>, horsemen tell from their saddles ; when vve were
i- all faint ami feeble, ami even Archibald was tigbt
a iug °>i foot over his beautiful horse, with Arthur
s battling over bis head, we heard the erv of “Sue
e ‘‘or! succor?” Immediately we fell the enemy
e give way, heaving this way and that, finally con
i' rentrating beyond us.
“Oner more once more!” cried Pulaski, and
;l away he went breaking in upon them as they
■, were forming and trampling down whole platoons,
ii in the charge, before a man could plant his hay
i ones or bring his gun to aim; our aspect as vve
s came thundering round them was sufficient; the
! enemy fled, and we brought off our companions
r unhurt.
t I have been in many a battle, many a one that
. made my hair afterwards stand when I dreamed
ot it—but never in one where carnage was so
f dreadful, and firing so incessant ns that width
t followed the arrival of Greene. But the enemy
r had so effectually secured his exposed points b,
. ranks of men kneeling with planted hayom;
; that vve could make no impression upon them,
- although vve rode upon them again and again,
s discharging our pistols in their faces.
From the Baltimore Chronitle. ti
On Hiaddock’s Death.
To the Editors of the Chronicle. j.
■Seeing in your paper of yesterday moining an
article copied from the National Intelligencer, re- j
lating to the manner in which Gen. Braddock ■
lost his life, and as it is at variance w ith the gen
erally received opinion derived hum official ac
counts of the battle in which ho fell, I have
thought the publication of a letter from bis aid
de-camp, Capt. Ormer in my possession, addres
sed to Governor Sharpe and bearing a semi-offi
cial character, might prove interesting to your
readers, and suggest a doubt ol his having fulien
by assassination. The circumstances of having \ (
had five horses shot under him shows his situa- I
lion perilous enough to lead to the supposition I .
that the wound which killed him was from the j '
lire of the enemy by which his little army was |
surrounded. A SUBSCRIBER.
Fort Ci’M kkulami, July 18, 1775.
My Dr.AU Snt: 1 an bo extremely ill in bed
with the wound I have received in my thigh that
I am under the necessity of employing my friend,
Capt. Dobson, to write for me.
I conclude you have had some account of the
action near the hanks of the Monongahcla, about
seven miles from the French fort; as the reports
are very imperfect, what you have heard must be |
so too. You should have had more early ac
counts of it, but every officer whose business it
was to have informed you was either killed or
wounded, and our distressful situation puts it out
of our |lower to attend to it so much as we would
otherwise have done.
The 9tli instant we passed and repassed the
Monongahcla by advancing first a party of 300
men, which was immediately followed by anoth
er of 200. The General, with the column of ar
tillery. baggage, and the main body of the army
passed the river the lust time about one o’clock.
As soon as the whole had got on the fort side of
the Monongahcla, wo heart a very heavy and j
quick fire in our front; we immediately advanced
in order to sustain them, but the detachment of
the 200 and 300 men gave way and fell hack on
us, which caused such confusion and struck so
great a panic among our men, that afterwards no
military expedient could be made use of that had
any effect on them ; the men were so extremely
deaf to the exhortations of the General and the
officers that they fired in the most irregular man
ner all their ammunition and then ran off, leaving
to the enemy, the artillery, ammunition, provis
ions, and baggage; nor could they be persuaded
to stop as far as Guest’s plantation, nor there on
ly apart, many of them proceeding as far as Col
onel Dunbar’s party, who lay six miles on this
side. The officers were absolutely sacrificed by
their unparalleled good behavior advancing some
times in bodies and sometimes separately, hoping
by such example to engage the soldiers to follow
them, hut to no purpose.
The General had live horses shot under him,
at last received a wound through his right arm
into his lungs, of which he died the 18lh inst.— 1
Poor Shirly was shot through the head, Captain
Morris wounded. Mr. Washington had two
horses shot under him. and his clothes shot 1
through in several places, behaving the whole ’
time with the greatest courage and resolution.— I
Sir Peter Hackett was killed on the spot, Colonel I
Burton and Sir John St. Clair wounded, and en- ‘
closed f have sent you a list of the killed and 1
wounded according to as exact an account as we 1
are able to get. i
Upon our proceeding with the whole convoy to I 1
the Little Meadows, it was found impracticable t
to advance in that manner ; the general therefore 1
advanced with twelve hundred men, with the ne- i
cessary artillery, amiijunition and provision, leav
ing the main body of the convoy under the com
mand of Col. Dunbar, with orders to join him as
soon as possible. In this maimer we proceeded
with safety and expedition till the fatal day. I
have just related, and happy it was that disposi
tion was made; otherwise the whole must have
either starved or fallen into the hands of the enemy
as numbers would have been of no service to us,
and our provisions were all lost.
As our number of horses was so much reduced
and those extremely weak, nnd many carriages
being wanted for the wounded men, occasioned
our destroying the ammunition and superfluous
part of the provisions left in Col. Dunbar’s con
voy, to prevent its falling into the hands of the
enemy.
As the whole of the artillery is lost, and the
troops are so extremely weakened by deaths,
wounds, and sickness, it is judged impossible to
make any further attempts; therefore Colonel
Dunbar is returning to Port Cumberland with
every thing he is able to bring with him.
I propose rema ning here until my wound will
suffer ini' to remove to Philadelphia; from thence
I shall make all possible despatch to England.—
Whatever commands you may have for roc you
will do me the favor to direct to me here.
I am, with the greatest sincerity, your most
obedient and most humble servant,
ROBERT ORME.
By the particular disposition of the French and
Indians, it is impossible to judge of the numbers
they had that day in the field.
As the General’s chariot is to be disposed of, I
should be glad to know if you would have it
again. It lias been at this place since our depar
ture from hence. If you propose taking it again,
1 will send it to you, and bring the General’s
coach l ack. Capt. Winn’s compliments attend
you, with Mr. Washington’s.
P. S. Writing to you as a friend, I flatter my
self. you will excuse the hurry in which this is
wrote.
To the Hon. Gov. Sharpe.
From the Ohio City Transcript.
A Scrap of History.
It limy be interesting, if not new to our readers,
tube informed in what way the State of Connec
ticut became possessed of that portion of the
State of Ohio, known as the Western Reserve.
The original charter of the State of Connec
ticut was granted by Charles 11., in 1062. That
charter defined the limits of the State as fol
lows ;
From the south line of Massachusetts on the
north, to Long Island Sound on the south, and
from the Narragansett river on the east, to the
Pacific ocean on the west.
It will be seen by reference to a map, that these
boundaries would enclose not only what is now
the state of Connecticut, but also portions of the
stales of New \ ork and New Jersey—nearly
one-half of Pennsylvania—all the nothcrn por
tions of the states of Ohio, Indiana and Illinois,
and a goodly part of the territories of lowa, Mis- i
souri and Oregon. There was a clause in the |
charter, however, which excepted from its opera- !
lions such portions as were then occupied by !
prior settlers. This exception excluded sucii |
parts of New York and New Jersey as were j
1 within the prescribed limits. A dispute arising j
I between New York and Connecticut, as to the I
j boundaries between those states, it was settled by !
I commissioners, appointed by the king in 1664, ;
j who decided that Maronec river should be the
! western boundary of Connecticut,
j For nearly a century thereafter, Connecticut '
i neglected to claim or settle any part of tliejr ter
ritory west of New York, and' the charter Wing j
granted to William Penn in I 681, embracing all j
that part of the same which lies within the pro- 1
sent st.-.te of Pennsylvania, a dispute ultimately
nroi.c between the itv i colonies, as to the right of
j -ession in the disputed territory. Butcolo
; mas sold the same land, each guarantied to the
I purchasers undisturbed possession. This excit
ed innumerable quarrels, and resort was often
bad to three of arms to expel the intruders.
In 1770, the legislature of Connecticut trails, j
j Vi
muted to Lngiar.u certain questions tele preset;- j
led to the most able lawyers, respecting her title j
to lands west of New Vork. The answers wore |
favorable tn her claims, and determined the colo
ny to maintain them. The revolutionary war
happening soon after, suspended lurther proceed
ings until after the close.
in 1781, the two states agreed to appoint com
missioners to determine the dispute. An act of
congress was passed granting to these commis
sioners full powers to act in the final settling of
this long pending controversy. The commis
sioners met at Trenton, in November, 1782. 1
After a full hearing of the matter in question,
they decided that Connecticut had no right to
the lands in dispute. Here the matter, so far as
Pennsylvania was concerned, rested.
SgThe slate of Connecticut, notwithstanding,
still laid claim to all lands lying west of Penn
sylvania. and extending to the Mississippi river.
To avoid future troubles, however, the legisla
ture agreed to cede all of these lands locongress,
with llie exception of a tract of one bundled and
twenty miles in length, lying immediately west
of the west line of Pennsylvania. This cession
was accepted, and was considered to be an indi
rect acknowledgement that her claim was well
founded.
This tract is known ns the Western Reserve,
and includes the counties of Ashtabula, Trum
bull, Portage, Geauga, Cuyahoga, Medina, Lo
rain, Huron and Erie. A part of the tract was
granted by the slate to the inhabitants of New
London, Fairfield and Norwalk, whose property
had been destroyed by the British troops during
the war. The remainder was sold in 1795, and
the money arising from the sale appropriated to
the purpose of constituting a perpetual fund for
the support of schools in the slate,
Madame Malibiiav and the King of Na
ples.—lt is a rule at Naples that every actress,
before she appears on the stage, must he presented
to the King, and ask of him the favor of being
present at her debut. The day hclore that fixed
for her first appearance, Malihran paid the re
quired visit to his Majesty, who received her very
graciously. “Sire,” said she, “I am come to
beg of your Majesty the favor, if it does not put
your Majesty to any inconvenience, of not com
ing to the theatre to morrow!” The king, greatly
surprised, answered, “ Why so ! I thought you
came on purpose to ask me to attend !” “ Yes;
but sire, the fact is, I have been told that in Na
ples when your Majesty is in the
thought proper to applaud unless the example is
set by your Majesty, and I am afraid you will
forget it.” 'Fhe king laughed and reassured her,
but finding that Madame Malihran still hesitated,
he urged her to state frankly the reason of her
embarrassment. “Sire, since yogT- Majesty is
good enough to allow me. I wilf'lvWfUion one
thing more: 1 am so much in the (nSf of being
applauded by the public tbe moment I come on
the stage, that if I do not hear loud applause
before I am to begin, I cannot do any thing de
cently.” “ Very well,” said the monarch, “I
will begin the moment you come on the stage.”
Madame M:“ibran left the palace highly flattered
by her reccj*jon. The next evening, while she
was waiting by the side-scenes for the signal for
her appearance in front, she cast her eyes up to
the royal box. which was in front of her, and per
ceived that she liate"aught the monarch’s eye.
Immediately she heis>ut her hand towards him
and went through the action of applauding, to
remind him of his promise. She succeeded ad
mirably, for the king, charmed with her origin
ality and grace, gave the signal at once, te> which
the whole house responded by unanimous accla
mation.—New York Mirror.
A Leaf from the Public Album kept at
Niagara Falls.
Old Twopeiccnt lias got the news
Brought out hy the Great Western ;
Anil peevish Mrs. Twopercent,
Whose heart for him does best yearn.
Says, “ Let’s go and see tbe Lower Fall,
That newspaper pore not on” —
• “0, curse the Lower Fall !” says he,
“ Think of the fall of cotton.” —Sea Island
The Falls are clever—quite so; hut they do
not hanswer my ((expectations. I got thoroughly
wetted hy them, and lost my ’at; wen the weather
is ’ot, I prefer looking at an hengraving of them
in the ’ouse. J. of England.
Land of the forest, lake and river,
Pleasant vales, and mountains grand.
Glory, like the sky, forever
Bends above my native land. A. B.
The Falls are cartaiuly very pretty; I think
they would look sweet hy moonlight.
Caroline , of Waverly Place.
If all the water that ever fell
Over the Falls could he
Collected together, in one place,
’Twoultl make another sea.
B. 8., of Sagatuck, Conn.
There came to the falls a poor exile of Gotham,
Who dwelt with delight on the one view he saw;
But he durst not go o’er to the Canada side.
For fear of some d d international law.
B. T.,of Wall-street.
Here tbe cloud-ca.pt cataract
Hoars with earth-convulsing thunder !
From its throne of rocks eternal—
Then, like a conqueror, with wonder
(By daring deeds) the world astounding,
It passes glory’s rainbow under!
Cosmopolite. #
Let those who call water a weak clement, ob
serve its strength here. Nature is generally wise
and prudent, but here she is improvident; the
water power wasted here would, at a moderate
calculation, if properly distributed, be sufficient
for fifty saw mills.
Wheelwright Power, of Connecticut.
The white foam is flashing
With diamonds alway,
The torrent is dashing,
Away, away !
The rainbow is flinging
Its arch o’er the spray !
• And the dinner bell’s ringing,
Away 4 ! away!
The following from the New York Express,
will enable our readers to form an estimate of the
expenses incurred in the publication of a daily
paper. The business it is well known is a cash
one, payments must be promptly made at the ex
piration of each week. The same force as that
employed on the Express would require in New
! Orleans, at least double the expenditure. New
j Orleans Louisianian.
j Editors —Political and Miscellaneous, 1
1 “ Commercial, 1
“ Ship news and markets; 1
Correspondent at Washington, 1
■ Reporters, o
j Clerks, 3
Collectors, 3
News boat establishments, 7
Night printers, ] j
Day do. (with boys,) 10
j Mail men, 2
! Mail hoys, q.
1 Carriers, 12
1 Pressmen, g
] Miscellaneous, [
Total, 65
The “ Editors’ Convention.” at Columbus,
, Ohio, is now sitting. Among other distinguish
! ed individuals present is one who is dignified
! with the appellation of “ Senior editor of the
j Steubenville Mud Machine!” This is ahead of
j us.— Picaj/une.
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' Ail G .mmos.—The fuss that young giris in
1 many of the “down-east villages make, because,
I forsooth, the young men stand about the church
steps and look at them as they come out of meet
ing. is all gammon—they dont mean any thing
by it. Supposing the young bucks were all to
stay at home and not look at them at all, how
would they feel then? How would they b-r! if
their pretty bonnets, caps, frocks and stilt prettier
faces wre passed unnoticed! Miserable, of
course. All they live for is to be looked at and
admired.—A T . 0. Picayune.
Printing has got to so low an ebb, that when an
editor has made a raise, sufficient to buy a new
shirt, he cannot forbear to give his neighbors a
hint of it, byway of boasting a little. A West
ern editor, who, a show time since, had made a
raise of this sort, and not inclined to vain boast
ing hints of it as follows.— Phila. Star.
“Our neighbor of the , it appears, is
much given to the practice of boast ahouting mat
ters of earthly possession. Now although the
editor of this paper, no longer ago than yesterday,
made a raise of a bran new shirt, yet, it is a mat
ter of utter indifl'erence to him whether any body
knows it or not.”
-
Let the toast he dear woman, as the man saidi
ven he kicked an extravagant wife into the fire. 1
The following were written by Mr. Leggett, a
few days before his death. They were the last
lines from his pen:—
Why,what is death but life
In other forms of being } life without
The coarser attribues of man, the dull
And momently decaying frame which holds
The ethereal spirit in, and hinds it down
'I o brotherhood with brutes ? There's no such thing j
As death: what’s called so is hut the beginning
Os new existence, a fresh segment in
The eternal round of change. [Eve. Post.
A 00011 shot.—The crew of the steam frigate
1' ulton, in practising with a sixty-eight pounder, 1
oil Sandy Hook, last week, finally attained such
accuracy ol aim, as to plant a hall in the target a
distance of two miles !
COMMERCIAL.
Latest dales from Liverpool, July 10
Latest dates from Havre July 3
AUGUSTA MARKET,
Co<fo,W-The transactions in this article con
tinue to as the season advances—the only
sales that we know of was the lot belonging to an
•estate, sold at auction, and reported in our paper %
yesterday.
Exchange. —Checks on New York have become I
scfcUe for current money, and 3 per cent. 15 days m
sigll.has been paid; for City Hank notes, 2 per ct.
Charleston money 1 cent prem.j Darien f
Hank notes 15 a 20 per cent discount.
Freights. —The river is still too low for Steam- !,
hi ats with freights, continue at old rates.
New Y’ork, August 3.
Cotton. —The transactions in this article during
the past three days have continued to a fair though
moderate extent both for exportatien and home use:
in prices we have also to notice a decided improve!,
ment, the reduction of 4 a cent which succeeded
the receipt of the late unfavorable intelligence from
Europe, having been nearly recovered in the subse
quent transactions; which embrace 950 bales Up.
land,at 104 a 13, chiefly at 114 a 124 ; 250 do Mo
bile at al4 , 200 do New Orleans ID al4 ; and
150 do Florida, 11 al3 cents; forming a total for
the week of about 3200 bales.
The arrivals have been—from
Georgia, 242 bales.
Baltimore, 198 bale S
- 27 hales.
Total, 4G7
Total import from Ist to 31st \
July, 9,391
Export from Ist to 31st July 17,G90
Export from U. 8. since Ist
October last, - - - 1,024,138
Same time last year, - 1,498,195
Same time year before, - 1,077,166
Domestic Goods. —There is no variation to notice
in prices, though the demand is but limited at pre
sent for any description.
Flout, In cur last we noticed a revival of
demand, which has since continued, with sales to a
fair extent ot nil descriptions; there has also follow
ed a farther advance in prices of Western of about
25 a 37$ cents per bbl. resulting mainly from the
continued light receipts, as also the reduction of
stock in store consequent upon the late increase of
transactions; in Southern, also, an advance has been
established to the extent of fully 124 cents. The
sales were, of fresh Western Canal, common to
good brands, at $6,2a a $6,50; Ohio, via Canal,
common brands, $6,124 a $6,25; and Georgetown,
common to good brands, $6,124 a $6,374- Os
Richmond City Mills, a sale of 1000 bbls. Clark k
Co.’s brand, was made for exportation at $7,50; the
common descriptions of Southern maybe considered I
as ranging from $5,75 to $6.
Molasses.- We have no variation to notice from
the preceding state of the market, there being
much dullness yet prevailing. The sales include
only a parcel of 100 hhds. Martinique at 30 ; anal
a small lot of very superior St. Croix at 40 centa
both 4 months.
~ I he sales of Brandy embrace since our
last 60 half pipes J. J. Dupuy at $1 20; 25 do Bon
nemoit & Beckner, $1,274; and 50 do Alexander
. eignette,at $1,30 a $1,324, though now firm at
the latter rate, all on the usual credit. The trans
action in Holland Gin show no fluctuation. Os St.
Croix Rum, -10 puncheons were sold atsl,on time.
New Kngland is heavy at 384 a 39 cents, in hhds.
an 140 hi bbls. Domestic Whiskey is steady, with
sales to a fair extent at 35 in drudge casks, and 35 J
cents in bbls. J
Sugui s Ihe demand continues limited for Mus
covadocs, with a reduction in prices during the
week on common and middling descriptions of J
of a cent per lb; there is also hut little animation
in the market for Box Sugars, especially browns.—
1 he transactions include about 200 hhds Porto Rico
at 6v a S 4; 100 do St, Croix; 9 a 9J; 100 do Mar
onn < i lle ’ a J° Cuba Muscovado, 8 asj;
200 boxes brown Havana,a 8j; and about 150
do white, 114 a cents,on the usual terms.
_ Baltimore, August 3.
Bacon Several small lots of prime Western as
sorted Bacon have been sold at llhf to 13 cents, and
ol interior at every shade ranging from 5 to 8 cts.
Ve quote prime Baltimore cured Hams at 14 to 134
cents ; ditto Western at 124 cents ; Western Mid
dlings 104a 11 cents; and Shoulders at 10cents.
Com. V\ e quote Md. white for shipment at 75
a 7b cents, and yellow at 78 cents.
Flour—Howard street Flour— The market for
oui ot this description has assumed more firmness
vi ithin a lew days, in consequence of the very small
receipts and the light stock now for sale. Sales of
small lots of fresh ground, made from old wheat,
and also of choice brands have been made from
stoics at SJ, and of several parcels made from new
'f' i e r :, L’. a t $'M24. The wagon and Railroad price
is $0,70 for old, and $5,87 for new flour.
City Mlill Flour. — The last sales were $6,50
lor parcels made of new wheat. Within a few
dajs jiast we have heard of no sales, and less than
n? price named above would be taken by some
millers.
tsmquchnnnah Flour.— Fresh ground parcels are
held at $6.
Whiskey. —We note sales of hhds. at 36 a 364
cents, and sales of bbls. at 38 a39 cents. The wa
gon price remains at 33 cents, exclusive of the bar
-5? * Inspections of the week comprise 121
b us. ol which 60 bbls. were received from Phila
delphia.
tCf UEBUMHT DESTIST.. —Hr. Munroe's
operating rooms, second door from Broad treet, on
Me ntosh-st., opposite the Constitutionalist office
march 13
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