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.i CHRONICLE AND SENTINEL.
A U « U S T A.
% WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 14.
It is a source of gratification to announce the
election of Col. Janies Delict, the Whig candi
date for Congress in the Southern District of
Alabama, by a handsome and decisive majority.
Col. D. is spoken of by several of the Alabama
papers as one of the ablest and most eloquent men
in that State, and eminently qualified to fill a
scat La the House of Representatives. lie is a
staunch, consistent and unwavering Whig, and
boldly and openly advocated the cause of Mr.
Clay and a National Hank, before the people of
the District, which has elected him. The fol
lowing is the state of the polls in all the coun
ties in the District :
Delict (Whig) Murphy, (V. B.)
Mobile, 904 911
Baldwin, 152 170
Dallas, 840 644
Monroe, 675 334
Washington, “ 28 maj.
Clarke. “ 385 “
Wilcox, 3(i9
Matcngo, 22 maj.
2902 2472
2472
Delict's rnaj. 4:10
We heartily concur witli the following senti
ments from the Tuscaloosa Intelligencer, but at
the same time must express our utter disgust to
hear the friends of Mr. Van Buren, who enjoy
their wealth as much-as their opponents do, al
ways mouthing about their “ democracy” and
friendship for “ the people,” the “ rights of the
poor,” etc. In this country, whore the road to
wealth is open to every m in, and every man is
* striving to become wealthy; where property
changes hands every generation, and the descend
ants of the rich become poor, and those of the poor
become rich, it is the veriest nonsense to claim for
either class peculiar rights. The genius of our
institutions makes no distinctions between up
right, good citizens, without any regard to their
wealth.
“ Honor and fame from no condition rise,
Act well your part, there all the honor lies.”
CCJ- We regret to see respectable Whig papers
urging as an argument against Mr. Van Buren,
that he travels in a genteel carriage ! Such slang
is unworthy of our cause. Thu President of the
United States should travel in a genteel vehicle ;
and we are glad to learn that he has discharged
from service the “ second handed barnuch” in
which he visited Monticcllo, and of which Loeo
focos talked so much. Although the mere trap
pings of wealth can never supply the place of cor
rect, honorable feelings, which can alone form the
gentleman—yet wo ser no reason why a public
man should not enjoy his wealth—Tom. Euwin
of Ohio, for instance, was as true a gentleman
whilst digging for salt at Kanawha, as when oc
cupying his seat in the United States Senate.
From the Charleston Courier of yesterday.
Capture of Forty-Si* Indians.
The steam boat Chhrlestoiy'Capt. Love, arriv
ed at this port yesterday afternoon, from Fort
Mellon, via Black Creek, having on board Lieut.
Hanson, of the U. S. Army, with several U. S.
soldiers, who had in charge 46 Indians, consist
ing of men, women and children, captured at
Fort Mellon, on the 7th hist. The Indians, it
r appears, had come in to receive the rations which
■ is had been the practice to distribute among them,
when Lieut. H., being in possession of informa
tion, (received by express the day previous,) re
specting the massacre of Col. Harney’s detach
ment, promptly determined to make them prison
ers. In accomplishing this, however, it became
necessary to shoot two of the Indians, who made
an attempt to escape. Pho Charleston proceed
ed to Castle Pinckney, where the Indians will,
doubtless be imprisoned until orders cun be re
ceived as to their final destination.
We must express our gratification at the
course pursued by Lt. Hanson, and hope that the
promptness and decision he has exhibited on this
occasion, will bo followed up by other officers,
should a like opportunity offer. No confidence
can be piaced in any treaty, or arrangement with
this trcacheious people, and in their entire remo
val or extermination only can the inhabitants of
Florida hope for safety.
Since writing the above, wo received the fol
lowing, from our correspondent at St. Augustine.
Office of the News, j
St. Augustine, (E. F.) Aug. 9, 1839. S
Lieut. W. E. Hanson, in command of Fort
Mellon, on receipt of intelligence of the massacre
of Col. Harney’s command, immcliatcly seized
some 40 Indians who wore encamped in the
neighborhood of the post. So prompt and ener
getic a course of conduct is worthy of the hi ghest
praise, and reflects great credit upon the decision
and firmness of Lt. Hanson. It seldom falls to
the lot of a junior officer, to exercise any discre
tion, or assume responsibility—but in this case
we cannot but feel rejoiced that the post was in
command of a gentleman, w ho has acted with all
due regard to the rights of others, as well as what
was due the interests of the service. Lieut.
Hanson has abandoned Fort Mellon, in conse
quence of its unhealthiness.
From the Alabama Stale Intelligencer.
It is painful to lo ik upon fallen greatness.—
To see one whose intellect has commanded our !
admiration ; whose mind seemed able to grasp 1
the universe within its bounds, and to be as pat
riotic and as pure as his arguments were unan
swerable. For such a min i to become the prey
of the gros-est error; for it to employ its old age j
in undoing what its most masterly efforls have ;
been employed to accomplish—to see it fall into i
the grossest inconsistency, and advocate schemes 1
on vitally important questions of political econo- 1
my, ns opposite to each other, ns light is from j
darkness; to seethe mighty intellect condescend
to consort with those whom it once, in just in
dignation, despised—denounced as the support
ers and minions of a corrupt Executive; is not
only painful, hut it is almost disgusting. Disa
greeable ns the lesson is. it tenches us the little
confidence that ran he placed even in the loftiest
minds, when they are given up to an uncontroll
ed and insatiable ambition.
One distinguishing trait of Mr. Calhoun’s
character, is the entire possession which any
scheme he may conceive, seizes his whole mind.
He sees in it a perfect panacea for all evils—a
remedy which will purify the government of all
disease and render perfect all its functions. A
scheme, to his enthusiastic vision, which is not
only the best, but the unit / out! that can save onr
Republic from all the horrors of a despotism.—
We look upon him as a political mniwmaniac—
one not to be trusted upon any question in which
his diseased brain is required to perform the func
tions of a healthy mind. That he has stumbled
upon the right side of several questions, we
cheerfully acknowledge, and that his oratorical
talents have done much to advance the cause of
truth, on several occasions, is undeniable; but
how could he fail to he right, when he lias occu
pied both, sides of so many important ques
tions?
In 1818, we find him denying to the States
any rights at all; making the Federal Govern- j
ment absolute, and irresponsible ; in 1833 so
far on the opposite extreme, as to declare that
a State had a right to nullify any act of Congress
which it thought unconstitutional. In 1816, ho
delivered a speech in Congress, in advocacy of a
Tariff for protection ; in 1833 we all remember
the ground he assumed, and so ably sustained,
against his former opinions. In 1830 he was
the avowed friend of a magnificent scheme of
Internal Improvement by the General Govern
ment; he is now denouncing Mr. Clay for his
support of a much more confined scheme, —hut
which the Kentucky Senator has now entirely
abandoned, unless it be called for by a majority
of the People,
In 1816, Mr. Calhoun was the warm friend of
the United States Bank, and his arguments on
that question will hand his name down to poste
rity, as a worthy representative, in point of ge
nius, of the Palmetto State—now he is in favor
of the abolishment of all Banks— it is unconsti
tutional, forsooth in the Federal Government to
receive its dues in the same currency in which the
commerce of the country is curried on !
Destructive Fire. —A fire broke out in
Lexington, Ky. on the 19th ult. consuming 8
houses and a great quantity of merchandise. At
the commencement of the fire some horses broke
loose from one of the stables near, and ran over
three or four persons in the street, seriously injur
ing a lad by the name of Metcalf.
Bernini; Mine.—Mr. Dougherty’s Mine on
the Broad Mountain is still on fire, and burns
with increased fury. Mr. D. has advertised for
proposals to extinguish the fire; hut we appre
hend he would scarcely find a contractor who
would wait for his pay until the job is finished, as
from the length of time it has been burning and
our own personal examination, it will probably
continue to increase in fury until the whole Ju
gular vein of half a mile in length above the wa
ter level, shall have been consumed. It is now
the greatest curiosity in our region—and will
doubtless attract the visits of many from our East
ern cities, who would rather view a volcano in
this healthy neighborhood than visit Vesuvius.—
Reading Dem.
Brunswick and Altamaiia Canal.— Wc
were informed by a gentleman visiting this place
a day or two since, who has been recently tra
velling through the South Western part of this
State, that reports are in circulation highly pre
judicial to our city, being nothing more nor less
than that our canal has hern abandoned, and the
work entirely given up. We assure the friends
of Brunswick that nothing could he more foreign
to the truth. The canal is rapidly progressing
to completion, and will certainly he finished and
in operation during the corning year. This work,
it is true, has been somewhat retarded, hut the
excavation is now more than three quarters done,
and will he completed in the course of the next
winter, it being the determinat'd! of the contrac
tors to put on a force sufficient to accomplish it.
The Chief Engineer is also engaged in making
the necessary arrangements to commence build
ing the locks forthwith. We make this state
ment simply that our friends in the interior, and
those living at a distance may not be deceiv
ed by the false rumors of our enemies—to those
living nearer, it is not necessary. —Brunswick
Advocate.
It is stated in the Philadelphia papers that the
Hon. George M. Dallas proposes an early return
from St. Petersburg ; having been resident there
as American Minister something more than two
years. This is longer than the usual terra of
Pennsylvania ministers. His predecessor and
brother-in-law, Mr. Wilkins, made a special ar
rangement with Gen. Jackson for two years. —
Mr. Buchanan staid abroad hut about fifteen
months, and pocketed $27,000. It is suggested
that Mr. Cambreleng is to succeed Mr. Dallas at
the Russian Court.
The Constitution. —The editor of the Apa
lachicola Gazette, would know whether the Con
stitution framed at St. Joseph, was adopted at the
recent election, or not. He says that we live
hard by the State House, where the big folks
keep offices, and that we ought to know all about
these matters. Well neighbor, we do. On yes
terday the returns were forwarded from the Ex
ecutive Office to Judge Reid, who was the Pres
ident of the Convention, containing the votes
polled for and against the Constitution, in all the j
counties in the Territory, except Alachua, which ■
returns show the result to he 64 votes against I
the Constitution; and the verbal reports from
Alachua assure us that the vote of that county
cannot elect the Constitution.— Tallahassee Slur,
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine.
“ I Hate Railroads.”
I hate railroads. Any one can love railroads,
or like railroads, or praise railroads, hut 1 hate
railroads. I hate to he obliged to arrive at a rail- j
road office a quarter of an hour before starting. 1
hate to he obliged to go and stand between certain
pieces of wood nailed across and along to ask for
a place. I uate to he made to go in at one end
and out of the other, just as if I had already com
menced my imprisonment, and as (hough the
turn-key had fastened down upon me oil his Iron, i
steam and coal. I hate to see all my luggage |
and baggage taken from me and placed, “ nntlgro j
moi,” on a stone pavement, quite naked and un
protected—boxes, trunks, shawls, ruffs, hooks,
umbrellas, maps, Sandwich boxes, all in one hur
-1 Uy-barky— and then to he told that I may go
| mill claim my luggage, and arrange my luggage,
;nsl as I like. I hate to have to do with porters
who never touch their hats, and who cannot, lie
civil because you are forbidden to give them a li
ver sixpence. I believe the poor fellows have
not even pockets in their breeches. lest a stray
shilling should by chance find its way into them,
lhate to he made to wait for a steam-engine, and
for a steam-engine never to wait for me. Horses
will wait, and men will wait—and even some
times, when you are young and handsome, or old
and wealthy, or neither, and very agreeable, (pre
cisely my case,) women or ladies will .wait for
you; (ay, ami the Lancashire witches, too;) but
a steam-engine will not wait, for all iUcnjoymenls
appear to consist in rattling away, as hard as ils
lungs will admit, from Dan to Beorshcha, and
from London to Jericho, without so much as kiss
ing its hand to the nymphs and maidens on the
road.
Then I hate to bo “ numbered.” I had rather
be named than numbered—and both are very
disagreeable. To think that I was No. 71, and
my daughter No. 73, though I am only 40, and
my daughter only 18. It is a monstrous unplea
sant thing when the “ guard” asks No. 71 if he
will give his ticket, and if No. 74 wishes to get
out at “ Tring.” Then sometimes No. 74 “ takes
the liberty of observing to No. 70 that it is a
very fine day,” and “begs pardon of No. 73, and
would he glad to know if he would have any ob-
I jeelion to change places ?” This ticketing sys
tem looks so much like the incipient portion of
prison discipline—like the preparatory steps of a
police surveillance —and so much resembles the
system adopted at Paris, where a poor old apple
woman is numbered 13.194, and her apple stall
17,643.—her dog, who is blind,and asks for alms
with a leather saucer in his mouth, 33,375; so that
the police agent, if he has to make a charge
against the aforesaid dog, begins his complaint
as: Monsieur Commissaire, as I was proceeding
down tile Hue St. Honore, in the section 10 of
the district D, I saw 33,275 seated near 17,643,
which was presided over by 13,194.”
And then followed the charge of the dog beg
ging, and of the policeman reproving, and the old
woman getting angry, and the dog barking, and
of the table falling, and of all being taken into
custody; the result of which is, that 33,275 is or
dered to beg no more, 17,643 to fall no more,
and 13,194 to scold no more a policeman such as
263, belonging to section Y, of the arondisement
No. IX. Well now, for my part, I hate this
numbering and ticketing system—just on the
very principle that I always did hate algebra.
“ Figures arc figures, and letters are letters,” said
my dear maiden aunt Betsey; and she meant by
that a great deal more than the ignorant would at
iirst imagine. In fact she meant “ down with
algebra,” and “long live the four rules of arith
metic.” She would have had a horror of num
bering a man, for she used to repeat the portrait
of man by liulfon, and say “every thing pro
nounces him the sovereign of the earth.” Then
1 hate to he boxed in the coach or rail wagon,
with a projecting impediment against ail love and*
affection between myself and my next-door neigh
bor. Why, some of the pleasantest hours of my
life have been when some soft, gentle creature, in
the form of a female stage-coach companion, over
come by sleep, or wearied out with laughing, has
at last placed her soft head on my soft shoulder,
and gently slept for two or three hours, uncon
scious of all that was passing around her, and
absorbed in visions of bliss, or in dreams of noth
ingness. But none of these shoulderings, none
of these tender and delicate attentions can he
practised or enjoyed in a steam-carriage. Oh,
no I on the monster goes, sometimes at 20, then
at 30, and often at 40 miles per hour, hissing,
foaming, firing, snorting, groaning, and even bel
lowing, dragging behind kirn so many isolated
beings, all divided by bits of lined and padded
wood, called “ head cushions,” from eacii other,
tin aide to speak to a neighbor, much less to make
love to one.
The man who invented such contrivances as
these was some fierce Malthusian, some unregen
erated Godwin, some deplorable, cross, fusty,
wretched, disappointed, ugly old bachelor, who,
after having made as many offers of marriage as
he was years old, took to hating the softer sex,
and condemning the rest of his species to travel
with some No. 75 or 77, in a coach from Lon
don to Manchester, without scarcely being able
to see her features. Then I hate to be fastened
in a coach, from which I cannot escape, except
with the certainty of immediate death, without
the ’permission of a steam engine. 1 have seen
horses for forty years. I have seen them on a
theatre and in a field of battle ; in camp, a sta
ble, a carriage, a palace, a drawing room, and
every where I have found them obedient, tracta
ble, kind hearted, gentle, timid, noble. When I
say “ whoh,” or “ whoa,” to a horse, why, he
whoh'a at once—or, in plain English, he stops.
But you may shout “ whoh” or “ whoa,” to a
steam engine, till your heart shall break and your
very lungs shall hurst, and he will pay no sort of
attention to you whatever. There you are, six
of you, isolated, each so many indies of coach,
great or small, Daniel Lambert, or good Mr.
Beardsall, the anti-temperance Baptist minister
of Manchester, as thin as a shaving; and quite as
dry—you must have the same number of inches
and'no intrusion on the territory of your neighbor.
Yes, there you are fastened in, boxed in, so well
secured, that, if you had to make O’Uouke’sjour
ney to the moon and back again, you need not be
afraid of heingjolted out.
How infinitely preferable is the dear old-fash
ioned system. When there is a long hill and line
prospect, the horses stop, the guard gets down,
opens the door, invites you to alight ; you offer
your arm to a lady, or, what is more agreeable,
the rest of your fellow passengers descend, but
the lady “prefers your pleasant society,” and re
mains tete-a-tete with you, whilst thoughts breathe
and words burn. But nothing of this “senti
mental” travelling ever takes place in a railway
coach. Poor Sterne would have been sadly put
I to it if lie had thus been compelled to journey in
! the French provinces ! Then I hate never to be
I jolted, never to be rumbled about, to he whirled
along iron bars, just like bales of goods, without
a road, and only with rails. Then I bale not to
alight when the horses ought to change;and when
coals are taken in, instead of a fresh team, and
cold water, instead of oats and beans. I hale not
j to hear the horses shake themselves, after having
run their stage; not to see the fresh and bright
blood four-in-hand, harnessed so brightly, and
looking so pretty and prancing, ready for starting
waiting our arrival; not to receive the visit of the
agile bar-maid, or buxom landlady, arranging
their lips so invitingly, and asking you: “If you
would like to take something?”
Why we are deprived of their soft and sweet
invitation, only to have in exchange the groan
ings of a huge iron tea kettle, bursting with rape
or with steam 1 I do protest most heartily '
against the substitution of ugliness for beauty, hot
steam for sweet breath, and angry roaring for i
smiling looks. Then I hate it “to lie expected” i
that I am to eat Banbury cakes and drink bottled i
ale a precise distance from London, and so to eat
and so drink, wet or dry, light or dark, cold or 1
warm, in the open air. No soup—no glass of I
li»i brandy ami water—no lunn sandwich—no I
quiet mutton chop just done to a turn, and nil
ready for eating in a quarter of an hour—no din- i
ner—no breakfast—no supper; but Banbury I
cakes and cold ale, from January to July, and I
from July to January. "If this monopoly shall
be submitted to.” said I, “we shall soon be pro
hibitod from eating ami drinking any thing else;
and besides this, we shall be compelled each man
to eat so many rakes and drink so niueh beer,”—
Then I bate to go every .where m the same rate.
Over the moor, through (not up) the hill, along
the valley, across the river, every where, though
the country he dull and uninteresting, verdant
and laughing, or bold and romantic—every
where, along we rattle and along we roar at the
rate ot forty miles per hour,excluding stoppages.
I once saw an Englishman (but then be bad a
cork leg) stump through the Louvre in sixteen
minutes. He boasted of his feat of rapidity,
though he had but one foot; and I believe he un
dertook to see Europe in a month. Just so acts
that steam-engine fellow, who draws you along
up hill and dawn dale, without giving you per
mission or time even t« exclaim “how beauti
ful !”
Then I hate the horrible shriek of the wheels
and carriages some three minutes before they
stop, so horrible that your very teeth chatter, and
your very head and ears ache and burn. 1 hope
Ur. [,anliner will have the politeness to examine
tliis crying evil, and invent some remedy for this
awful system of setting our “teeth on edge.”—
Should be not succeed in this matter, iron rail
ways will soon be deserted.
Then I hate not to be allowed a moment’s time
to tell a follow traveller, “Do look at Strafford
Castle,” for, before 1 have finished my sentence,
we are a mile oil'. And I hate not to liaveja
minute even to look at the Cheshire hills, or the
Welsh mountains, hut to be hurried by them all
as it it wore a sin to look at a hill, ami an offence
against Nature to admire a mountain. Then 1
hate the insolent notice to passengers, couched
in the following terms, as though the steam di
rector* were Government inspectors of their pas
sengers’ health and stomachs:
“No smoking is allowed in the station-houses.
A fiuH-stantiul [hang their impudence!] breakfast
may he had at tho station-house, at Birmingham,
by parties going by the early train; but no pea
sou « allowed to soil liquors or eatables of any
3dj«£ upon the line.”
Now, really, this way of treating “their pat
rons-, the Public,” Ido hate most cordially.—
Why should not lale breakfasts be allowed as
well as early ones? and why not “light” break*
J’s.-ds lie allowed as well as substantial ones? and
■why should not smoking be allowed in the stu
ftion-houses? Surely we do not travel by gun
powder as well ns by steam. If we did, there
would be some danger in a segar; but there can
be none possibly from smoking in a station-house.
“It’s the old system of straining at gnats and
swallowing camels,” said friend Lloyd, the Qua
ker banker at Birmingham ; “the smoke of 10,-
000 segars would never equal that of one steam
engine. Yet the coal smoke is healthy, I suppose,
and the segar smoke otherwise.” Bravo! Friend
Lloyd. 1 think thy criticism well merited.
Then I hate to he left alone without tho en
gine at all, as I was lately, between Wolverhamp
ton and Stratford, because the engine would not
work well, and on it ran alone, leaving all the
carriages forsaken, whilst the engine, being first
unyoked, worked its course to Pankridge, and
there got mended. Some three-quarters of an
hour afterwards the passengers heard it roaring
hack again, and then again we were dragged,
nothing loath, the rest of our way. The guard
gave no explanation. Horses there were none;
coachmen none. The engineers had brattled off
with the engine, And the “boxed up,”will-ini
primmed passengers were obliged to remain in
quietness and sulkiness till it pleased the master
to return. Then 1 hate to have a leg torn off my
poor body if I get out of a carriage before it is
locked, or an arm quietly borne away in triumph
by another train, if I happen to pul it for a mo
ment out of the window; or both eyes put oat
with dust and scalding steam, if I only forgot to
close the windows as we pass through a tunnel.
Then I hate not to be able to stop in less than
five minutes, and then at some three miles dis
tant, in case I desire to change my route or
alight; or should illness suddenly assail either
myself or a fellew passenger.
Then 1 hate, when 1 arrive at. the end of the
journey, to have to watch for my luggage as a
cat does for her mouse, and pounce upon it and
drag it away, (in spite of the furies,) or else have
it carried off in triumph by some one more nim
ble than myself. Then I hate to have to travel
some two miles from the station-house to the
town or city to which lam about to proceed,
though the night lie darkand gloomy, and though
the train he some hours “en retard.” All this I
hale—yes, hate most cordially; and so, really
and truly, I hate all railroads ! More celerity is
the only advantage secured by these inventions;
and, as I am no Manchester warehouseman, Li
verpool merchant, or Birmingham manufacturer,
1 cannot appreciate (as perhaps 1 ougiit to do)
this steaming through England.
But as the people will make railroads, why,
others will go and sec them ; and thusmore from
pity for the, poor shareholders than from a vvisli to
travel quickly, I consented to be shot through the
air from Paddington to Harrow, Watford,Tring,
Towaster, Daveutry, Kugby, and Coventry, to
Birmingham; and thence through Wolverhamp
ton, Strafford, Whitmore. Hartford, and War
rington, to Manchester. I shall not describe the
perils of the journey. If I had been a young
man, a young Quakeress might have stolen ray
heart. If! had been a timid man, the various
awkward signs and movements of the “roarer”
might have shaken my nerves. If I hail been a
hungry man, the Banbury cakes and ale would
b»,ve been a poor substance for a steak and a boil
ed potato. And if I had been a crusty man, the
cejfis eyes of my opposite neighor might have
made me ill-tempered.
But I provided myself against youth and fall
ing in love, by having a daughter of eighteen by
my side—against timidity, by tearing only God
and my own conscience—against hunger, by
■eating a good luncheon before starting—and
against ill-humor, by remembering that cross eyes
are to be set down as an infirmity, and not as an
offence. JSo, in spite of ail misfortune and an
noyances, we got safely to Birmingham—sup
ped and slept pleasantly at “The Stork”—and
learned with pleasure that the Kadieal party had
been for some time past on the wane, ami that
the Conservatives had waxed stronger and bold
er, and had begun to speak out.
ConiiKOTi.vr; a Bli’Niibii.—Lieut. O’
when a Cadet at West Point, visited the city of
New York, in company with a friend, and was
particularly struck with the city hall, which he
examined with the eye of an architectural cox-
KoissKun. —“ Well,” said his friend, “ You seem
rather pleased with that affair, O’ , what
do you think of it ?” “Well, I’m thinking, by
ihe powers, without any disrespect to you here
at all, that that same euilice was never built in 1
thiH country.” Such a beautiful bull, nml ,10
agreeably enriched with the slightest touch of
thi’ brogue, was-irresistable, and a smile fruin his
companion brought before die young Irishman '
the error he had made, “ Cell,” he exclaimed in
his hurry to correct himsel, “ I did - nt mane that I
at all, 1 intended to have said, but 1 spoke with- 1
out thinking, that the man that built it was never
in this country.
1 iik Clerk ash tkk Butte* Woman.
Yesterday afternoon, as a clerk, of one of our
markets was travelling around investigating the
weight ol huttcr, he came across mi old lady,
whose reluctance to display Iter oleaginous luxury
excited suspicion. Bent, upon examination, he
hastily snatched tip a lump from a large tub full I
and threw it into his scales. It was awfully dr 1 - !
tieieut. He tried another, it. was ditto ; another. !
and still the same result—the old lady's thee elon
gating at each successive failure about *• a feet.”
“ Mister, said she, “it you lake any more of mv
butter, you’ll gel in trouble, I guess.” Nothing |
daunted hy her threat he continued ; when en
raged beyond endurance, the old lady, a strong,
muscular woman, “ yoked” him, and after a se
vere tussle, during which victory seemed to lean
alternately on both belligorants, and a crowd of
, amused spectators gathered around them, she
, fluidly threw him down, jumped on him, and
, taking from him the lump of butter he still held
. in his hand, she smeared it all over his face, fill
. ing his eyes, ears, mouth, and nostrils, full almost
to suffocation. Then springing upon her feet,
. site plunged her hands into her flutter tub, and
[ mashing the lumps completely up into one unc
tinus mass, “ Now,” she vociferated, “weigh my
’ flutter, ifyou can, you puppy—and touch it, if
, you dare.”
I It is needless to say that the clerk “mizzled,”
, and you cannot, now Insult him more than by
requesting of him some information as to the
I statu of the butter marker.—jV. Y. Timex.
Wonderful Oats. — We think our farnwrrs
out this way will stare at the following :
Oats.—A sheaf ol Oats from lowa territory is
! now In be seen at Cincinnati, the stalks measnr
. ing near 7 feet long and covered nearly one half
■ its length with branches filled with fine liwge
grain. The straw at the butt is nearly as huge
as a man’s linger, and resembles a corn stalk.—
■ The product is said to he 1(10 bushels per acre
Generosity.—The Abolition Society of the
Republic of Hayti, has presented the widow of K.
i’. Lovejov, who was killed hy a iuol> at Alton,
111., with four bags of Ciiffcc,
The St. Louis Republican boasts of the com
crop of a gentleman near that city, seventeen
stalks of which produces une hundred and hnen
li/ thrifty ears. This is pretty severe; but they
. always do things on the largest scale out west.
, Passing a lad bruising weeds in a corn-field,
1 we hailed him with “ why don’t your father
make a better fence mound bis corn and keep it
- better worked 1” «He a’in got time, be says.—
- “ Where is he to-day V’ “ Gone to Capt. ’s
t to a shootin’ match, and to hear the candidates
e speak.” True, thought we, tine poor man has
t no time to attend to his own business I
1
t From the National Gazette.
t Mr. Wakcly, the coroner of London, made the
• following remarks upon the use of the stomach
' pump in extracting poisons generally, at a lucent
j, inquest held in that city. In reference to lauda
num, he said, that since he had become coroner,
■ one or two circumstances had occurred which he
1 conceived would be a great benefit to the medical
r profession and the public at large to be put in
possession of. At an inquest held at Chelsea,
• upon a gentleman named Bush, the surgeon »ta
-1 led thul he used the stomach pump twice, and on
• discharging the water injected into the stomach,
1 not the slightest smell or indication that landa
-1 num hud been taken was perceptible.
• On inserting the pump however for the third
1 time, he extracted nearly halfa pint thick mucus,
which was impregnated with opium to an extent
sufficient to kill the strongest horse, ft appear
ed to him that the mucus, must entirely absorb
flic laudanum, and that unless the tube of the
1 pump is inserted amongst it, it would he of no
[ ava ‘l- -Mr. Frazer related a similar instance
where he had extracted the mucus containing
' all the laudanum swallowed upon the thin} ap
’ plication of the stomach pump. The coroner
said he merely mentioned the circumstance, as
it was highly essential that medical profession
’ should he made acquainted with any fact which
J could have a tendency to preserve human fife.
, A Bottomless Meadow.—As the fine of
the Moscow and Ayrshire Railway crosses from
Ayrshire into Renlrenshire, there is a meadow,
about 3 miles long, belonging to Mr. W. Patrick,
I W. >S, through which it has to jsiss, and where it
has to he embanked four or five feel high. The
contractors lately entered upon it, and commenc
| cd the embankment, hut wore not a little surpris
, ed to find that their labors, like those es Tantalus,
, threatened to be of an endless nature; as having
embanked 39 yards, they found that about 10
’ had sunk or subsided below the level of the fine.
I hey next day repeated their work, re-forming
. embankment to the ordinary level; but strange
, to K ®y, the under soil again gave way, and 61-
, though they have since continued day and
. night, to heap earth upon the spot, having but
about 300 square yards upon a surface not ex
> cecding 16 feet, the greedy bowels of the meadow
4 receive it as it is applied, and the workmen are
j not without reason, dcsptiring of finding a solid
foundation.
, This most singular phenomenon attracted a
3 party of engineers' to the spot on Saturday week,
who could account for it in no other way than
tqat the meadow is floating on water; which sup
j position seems the more feasible, that the ground
I rises on each side of the sinking portion, and
, splits into deep cracks or hags. The people of
I the district have flocked in hundreds to have ocu
. lar demonstration of the fact.
' Anecdotic or Judoe Pease.—While this
. distinguished jurist was upon the bench, Mr.
I C a barrister, was celebrated for bis elo-
I | qucncc and flights of imagination. On one occa
t sion when the latter had indulged his fancy more
, than usual and roving in an ecstacy, through the
Elysian fields and immeasurable wilds of ether,
the Judge suddenly called out to him. “ stop Mr.
C , you are going beyond the jurisdiction of
this Court,” with an expression and manner so
C irresistibly ludicrous, as to convulse both the bar
; and the audience with laughter. —Sandusky \
! W7r 'g.
, 1)1111),
1 On the 9th inst. at the residence of T)r, John I
Carter, in this eity, Daniei, FAißcHri.n, youngest
• son of 1). F. Halsey, aged 5 years and 23 days.
0
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MARIAK I.\TCLLI(ii;NCK
( ii l iti,K./ro.N. .\ lll-11 st Kt.
Arrived yesterday —Line brig lien. Sumter, Ter
ra!, Baltimore.
I'timed —SclirGi i Jackson, Jacobs, liallimoro.
A-A To KENT, the Dwelling House and
: d Store, comer of It road and McK iuney sts.
.-Lx 1 lij Kor terms apply to S. DUOAK,
aug It w4t or 1,. I’. U. CAS.
SI I CATION WANTKD, by a young man who
Inis had some experience in business, and por
sesses a competent knowledge of Hook-keeping
and Accounts, (loud references can lie given.—
Any person wishing ndi an assistant will make
application to Mr, Robert Lambert.
_ miff 11_ iv It
city sujiiurr-N salel
00 the first Tue-day in October next, at the
lower market, will he sold within the usual
sale hours, a.negro girl, about sixteen ye irs of age
and likely, by the name of Lace or Lacy, under a
mortgage ft fa from the Court of Common Pleas,
city of Augusta, in favor of John 11. Weaver, vs.
Daniel W ingnrd. Property pointed out by plain
till. Term e-cash, bankable money, on delivery.
K. MARTIN, SheriiU
August 14, I Sill).
CITY SHERIFF’S SALE.
ON the first Tuesday in September next, at Hie
lower market, within the n.asil hours of sale,
will he sold, 12 Windsor Chairs, 2 common and 1
Rocking Chair, 1 mantel Clock, J small Tables,
andirons, shovel and tongs, one bed, &c.. 1 hod
stead ; all levied on as the property ®C Joseph liuul
lonno. L. It. Rhodes vs. said Honilinino. Prop
erty pointed out by said Rhode?. Term ; cash on
delivery. ' E. MARTIN, Shorilf.
August Id,
/(REEN’S PATENT STRAW CUTTER^—-
B B dust received and for sale, half a dozen
(Irani’s twenty-four bladed Patent Straw Cutters,
aug 9 3t\v by P. KLEM iM; ,t Co.
Sgg,-.; Jk W'R RENT.—The property of the un
|s|sa|| dersigned, on Broad, Campbell and Ceii-
J'Alii'H- tre Streets, on .Mclntosh Street. near the
Presbyterian Church, at present occupied by Mr.
Stockton. Apply to
MeICENZIE & BENNOCff.
duly 2 wtf
N. 11. The occupants of the property for the
year ensuing Ist October next, will give notes pay
able quarterly, and pay for the use of the Hy
drant water.
(TBRTIFICATE OP DEPOSITE LOST.—A!
J persons are forewarned from trading for a
Certificate of Deposite, dated Macon, 21sl March,
1839, from the Cashier of the Hrancb Hank of the
State of (Georgia at Macon, payable to my order,for
the sum of one hundred and forty-six dollars and
twenty-five cents. Said certificate having been
mailed to me, but never came to hand.
.JOSEPH 11. RAMSAY,’
August 8,1839. suit
Ueo. K. Komi ft Dunking Co. f
Hranch -at Augusta.
DEPOSITED in sums of five hundred dollars
and upwards, bearing an interest of six per
cent, per annum will be received at this Cilice
for periods net less than ninety days, subject to the
order of Hie depositors on receiving ten days notice
of their intention to withdraw
nov 20 wtf J. W. WILDE Cashier.-.
GEORGIA
AG KICl! LTD It AT. REPOSITOIt Y* .
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IRON AND HR ASA FOUNDRY,
Corner of Jones and Ciiniming streets, lust corner
abovtttlic ruins of the Planters’ Hotel.
Tlic subscribers offer for sale a large ami exten
sive assortment of Agricultural Implements, tom
prising all that is required to stoek the most exten
sive plantations; Ploughs, Wood’s patent, freeborn,
Davis’, Howard’s, double mould board, tc.; Culti
vators, for corn and cotton ; Harrows of a 1 kinds
and sizes; Wheat Pans; Watkins’ patent and Dutch
Cylindrical Straw Cutters, of (Idlerent sizes ; l orn
Shellers ; Corn and ( oh Crackers; Thrashing Ma
chines, Horse Powers; Turning Lathes, Tyre
Rending Machines, &e.
Our IRON and UR ASS FOU A DRY is now hr.
complete operation ; having a large stock oi mate
rials, and first rate workmen, we are aide to fur
nish all kinds of Castings, &c. of a superior quality
at short notice. ROBERT PHILIP it SON.
July 31 UW4w
A,„—-T TO RENT—A two story Dwelling
IbSSSM ** oUl,e street, between Centre
-.liiiliilillLand Washington, nearly opposite Henry
Mealing’* house, occupied at present hy Mr. Whit
lock. Apply to Mrs. SERA,
aug 12 -wtf
4 TANNER AND CURRIER WANTED.—
. The subscriber wishes to hire a Tanner and
Currier lo work at the tanning business. Liberal
wages will be given to one who is of steady habits
and can come with pood recommendations. His
residence is near Liberty Hill, Edgefield Dist. S. C.
July 89 w4t PLEASANT MORRIS.
(ACTION.
\BOUT three months since there came to this
place a man who said his name was (JFORGE
ARCHER, and by occupation a house and sign
painter; he appears to ho about Uvenfy-five years
of age, has black eyes and hair, spare* made, near
six feet high. After having been here a short time,
he changed bis name to that of George W. Rices.
He is the same who was confined in jail in Sparta,
Hancock county, for larceny, a short time since.—
He left this place about four weeks since, in the
cars lor Augusta, and when last heard of he was in
Charleston, S. C,, where I learn he attempted to
pass a check, purporting to have been drawn by me
in bis favor, on the Rank of Augusta, for $ 114. He
also exhibited a letter purporting to have been
written by me, and directed to him at Augusta,
conveying the check. The letter and the cheek
are both forgeries. He is an artful villain,and the ■
public are hereby cautioned to be upon their guard
against him. V. p. KING.
Greensboro, August 12, 1539. Uw
.HOllllS MIILTICAtJTLIS.
The subscriber will be furnished, with
TEN MILLIONS of the genuine Chinese
or Moms Multicaulis, grown from trees
aSSBfc- imported from the Jarden de* 'A:cities, of
Paris, in 183(1, which will be sold r.ifwr -Milan any
now. ollercd. They will be packed hi nrh a man- •'*
ner that they may be transported to any paitpl the
U. S. with safety,and will beileliverwt-ttr CTgusta,
frei of expense to pnrtlia ers.
All buds will b> warranted to be mature ami a
genuine article. Individuals wishing to purchase
will make application to W. £. HEARING.
Athens, June 11 list!)
RICHARD IN LYON,
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW
HAVING permanently established himself at
Lincolnton, Lincoln county, Georgia, will
faithfully attend to any business entrusted to bis
care. He will regularly practice in the following
courts of the Northern Circuit, and Columbia, of
the Middle Circuit:
Taliaferro, Elbert, Lincoln, and
Wilkes, Hancock, Warren, N.C.
Madison, Oglethorpe, Columbia, M. C.
Lincolnton, June IT, 1839. w2m