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^.4 - ! '' ' - , ? >w -^r ^ A . 41 * V * _THE CAROLINA SPARTAN^ by cavis & trimmer. Dctrotrfr to Bouttyvn ftigfyts, politics. 3-^ricitttxirr, nub 4HiscfLlnn\}. $% per asrum. VOL. XIV. ?? ? SPARTANBURG, S. C., THURSDAY. JTTT.V ft 1 an ^ ' " "" - '?. > . r - ? ? ' ' ' ; * * ' * -f T?E CAROLINA SPARTAN. ? BY ?AVIS & TRIMMLER. 5 |< T. 0. P. VERNON Associate Editor, h Prioo Two Dollars per uuuum in ndvanoe, or *2 .50 at tb* end of the yen*. If not |?aid until j after the year expires $3.00. w Payment will be considered in advance if made r( within three montlia. p *? No subscription taken for less than six month*. *y Money may bo remitted through postmasters nt our risk. Advertisements inserted at the usual rates, and tr contracts mode on reasonable terms. tl The Spartan circulates largely over this and j, adjoining districts, ond offers an admirable modi am . to our fWends to reach customers. '' Job work of all kinds promptly executed. hi Blanks, Law and Equity, continually uu hand or 01 printed to order. ll CAROLINA SPARTAN. ? Social and Moral Condition of Africa. e' Thomas Fowel Buxton, the famous Exo? w tor Hall abolitionist, as Chairman of the |(1 n > o -? . r jl. iwtiaiviim vuiuiuiiiho 01 me oocioiy tor la the Extinction of the Slave-trade, has re- ?" cently issued a book, depicting in frightful l,: colors the social and moral condition of Af- ^ rica. From bis previous offorts to put an g; end to slavery and tbo trade, it must l?o an supposed that lie would be the furthest pos- ra sible from the admission of any fact which cr might tend to show that such a trade could j(j be alleviated by afly consideration upon hi earth. * ?l? It will be seen that ho begins with Da- m: homey, just above the liighl of Benin, upon J" the western shores of Africa, and traveling ?? down along that coast, passed over the by country from which the great majority of Wi slaves have been taken, and of whoso c??ndition, for the purposes of this investigation, Cl'( it is most importaut that we should be nd- i|? vised: is At Dahomey, Mr. Giraud says lie was do at the King's fete in 1630, when about 500 w' or 000 of his subjects were saciiliced for rel his recreation. Some were decapitated, ^Ul and others precipitated from a lofty fortress, |?? and transfixed on bayotiels prepared to ro It) coive them; all this merely for Utnusomcnl. Di The Ashanlees, at the same time that dii they were vigorous slave-traders, were no torious, for their labor would be a source of or greater wealth than the price received for bit their persons. But the mn?i tmUf.mt..*,- tin proof that such murders aro not inevitable, pJl is the fact, that they did not ensue in the English settlements at the period of the ex] Hbolition. The natives around Siurm be sw one made up their quarrels, and suspended co< their wars without outrage or bloodshed. kit There may he a danger of riveting the sel chains of domestic slavery, but there rooms hu to be no fear that, with reasonable preoau w:l . tions, any dreadful massacre should occur, tin In the present state of things, human life ?l" and hummi suftoiing are very lightly regarded; and so great are the cruelties and flei abominations now per|ktinted, tbat oven in- Co judicious interference could hardly tender roc the condition of Africa worse than it now ha is: any change must be an improvement. ,,u Laird tells us that the inhabitants of the delta of the Niger were so demoralized and lui degraded, that he could not have conceived eucb a people to exist, within a few miles cd of ports which British ships had frequented '? for a century. At Calebar, skulls were l,,< seen "kicked about in every direction." hni Captain Fawcker, who was detained in Benin, in great distress, in 1825, says, "near '"r the palace of the King of Benin me several yd fetish palaces, the depositories of the usual >" human sacrifices and bloody rites. Mossrs. kn Bowditch, Tcdlie, and Ilutcbiiison, were employed on a mission to Cooma*sie, the capital of Ashantee, in 1817; on their very first entrance into the city, while waiting Ad in the street for leave to attend the King, chi Mr. Bowditch says, "Our alienlion wns bfti forced to a most inhuman 9j?ectacle, which 1'" they paraded before us for some minutes: Rcc it was a man whom they were tormenlin g chi previous to sacrifice. His hands wero pin- mc ioned behind him, a knife was passed vv* through his cheeks, to which his lips were &tr< noosed like the figure of an 8; the one ear wus cut ofl and cairied before him; the ftV' other hung to his head by a small bit of ceij skin; there were several gashes in his back, ?f 1 and a knife was thrust under each shoulder llw blade; ho was led with a cord passed ?C1 through his nose, by men disfigured with immense caps of shaggy black skins, and lho drums beat before biin." I1'" Many slaves are killed at their various 'ng "customs," (the rites practised on tho death ^ur of individuals of any consideration;) "the hoe decease of a person is annojuced by a dis- Pa' charce of : 1 - 1 """ j |i>u|'ui uuneu Hi Ills | "v" rank, or the wealth of his family. In an ?f ' instant you seo a crowd of slaves hurst Iroin on< the house and run towards the hush, tint- an toring themselves that tlnf hindmost, or cr" those surprised iu the house, will furnish ' the human victims for sacrifice, if they can ,n8 but secrete themselves till the custom is cu" over." One or two slaves are then sacri- lou ficed at the door of the house. A scene of lu,k this kind took place at the death of the mo- ' tlier of one of tho principal chiefs, August ' 2d, 1817, of which Mr. liowditch was an eye- ' witness, though it was considered hy no Kit means a great custom. "We walked," ho bro says, "to Assafoo at twelve o'clock; the vul- bes tures were hovering round two headless ma trunks scarcely cold." Then camu troops of fhn woman, uuoring dismal lamentations. "The win crowd was overbearing; horns, drums, nnd dia muskets, yells and screeches, invaded our nbc hearing with as many horrors as wore and crowded on our sight. Now and then a the vid|tp was hnrriod by, generally at full on spaed; the uncouth dress, and the exulting ask coui\|?onfnjc.es of those who surrounded but tbero, liaaoing thoni to so many fiends." lie can dtyKfribo* many other barbaric ceremonies; I inn finally, tbo drums announced tho sacrifice ! gre of the ficl'ms. "The executioners wrangled dot and.Struggled for the offico; and the inditFcr der ence with which the poor creatures looked on u, in the torture he was from the knife ti assed through his cheek", was remarkable, h he right hand of lite viclitu was then a rpped otl", lie was thrown down, aud his ti e.?d was sawed rather tlian cut oil"; it was u ruelly prolonged, 1 will not say wilfully. ?' welve more were dragged forward, but h e forced our way through the crowd ami fi sliied to our quarters. Other sacri6ccs, b rincipally females, were made in the bush f< hero the body was buried. It is usual to c wet the grave" with the blood of a free- d lau of respectability. All the retainers of te family being present, a slave from bo- ti ind stuns one of these freemen with a vio- tl nt blow, followed by a deep gash in the 1 aek part of the neck, and bo is rolled in d a the top of the body of the deceased, and w te grave instantly filled up. A sort of C irnival, varied by tiring, singing, drinking ^ id dancing, was kept up in Assafoo for p vernl days, tbo chiefs generally visiting it b rery evening. o On tbo death of a king, all the customs tr Inch have been made for the subjects who J tve died during bis reign must be simul ti ncously repealed by tbo families, (the liu n >n sacrifices as well as the carousals and h igeantry,) to amplify that for the monarch; A Inch is also solemnized, independently, at H e same time, in every excess of cxtrava o inco and barbarity. The brothers, sons tl id nephews of the king, affecting tempo- M ry insanity, burst forth with their mui- b its, and fire promiscuously amongst the w owd; even a man of rank, if tlrcy meet iii tu, is their victim, nor is their murder of in or any oilier, on such an occasion, vis- si id or prevented; tbo secno can hardly be ai lagined. The king's Oct as, who wil l be lu eutioned presently, are all murdered on w s tomb, to the number of 100 or more, tl d women in abundance. 1 was assured n< ' several, that the custom for Sai Quantinc d? is repeated weekly for three months, and ri ill 200 slaves were sacrificed, and 25 rreie of powder fired each lime. Hut the aj stonr for the king's mother, the regent of l? e kingdom during the invasion of Fiintee, ?' the most celebrated. The king himself w voted 3000 victims, (upwards of 2000 of ec torn wore Fantee prisoners,) and 25 bar- ac s of powder. Five of the largest places nislied 100 victims, and 20 barrels of en wdcr each, and most of the smaller towns w victims, aud two barrels of powder each, to ie.-e liumait sacrifices are frequent and or hi lary, to water the graves of the kings. tu Mr. Dupuis, who w as atCoomasMc a yeni ki two later, gives a similar account of the Cj rody customs of A-?ban tee; be tells us dr it before the king set forth on his cam "? i>ril Kir^lll.t I', ill! .? I>" I? 1? -..-..IC 0 - fs ? ? "" ^8 " '7 1,1 g 32 male, and 18 female victims, a# an natory offering t<> lii * g?uls, but llie an* b? pi a from llie priests being deemed bv the K; 1 net I a? still devoid of inspiration, the tei ig was induced to moke a custom at the n mlchros of bis ancestors, where many uf ndred ble?l. On the conclusion of the be ir 2000 prisoners were slaughtered over to j royal death-slool, in lmnorof the shades q, departed kings and heroes. ?i< The King's own account was not cxag- (J, rated, for two iexpectable Moslems at ,n omashic, in describing to Mr. ]>upuis the or no of the (laiiiiiu war, declared that they wl J witnessed the massacre of 10,000 old j>;( >n, women, nnd children, besides numbers so chieftains, who weTe put to death by tor w] es the mast revolting to humanity. otl It appeared that the King rather conceal- all bis buiuhu sacrifices while l>upuis was tli Coontassie, for two reasons; the one, thai 0f sy concerned the mission, as tho King W| J been imploring bis idols to incline (lie E; il l of the great King of England low aids n, n; the other, that it might not bo rojaJri- \%| that the sovereign of A?hanleo delighted f0| spilling human blood; which, it was ;l ow n, gave n.s much offence to while men ha it did to Moslems. (Oupuis, p. 140.) <}? r ...t! - ? - - i Auojoin auoilter ci^h ol atrocity alnidg- I js likewise from Dupuio; "On tlio 13ilk the |>]( iii custom was ushered in by tho dis- re( irgo of fire aims, a in) llio sound of many wi barous instruments. Numbers of vie inj is wore olfered up lo the gods, although w ( retly, in the puMcfl nnd tlio houses of the mi eftuips. Tho cily itself exhibited the he >*t deplorable solitude, and the few who j0 re courageous enough to apnea; in the in Jets, lied at (be upproacb of t cnplain, flr i barricaded the doors of their bills, to eri rid tbe danger of being shot or hucrifi- of I." 4 Tlie following day a similar train sl, horrois succeeded, mid at ill I h?, left in t04 penso, for my own linguists and messou- w| s were not hardly enough lo knock at |,il i royal gate. Tliey dreaded, as they said, js i fctisli men, who guarded tho avenue, ]it, 1 who alone were suffered lo enjoy free |ys reus." From the Moslems ho learned ther that seventy men and women bad cr, m put lo death the day previous in the jm ace only, besides those who wore sacri- i,|< id in private houses or in tho forest. Most f,,| hose unhappy beings were Gaiunn pris- si, irs, who had l?een purposely reserved as flu offering to the gods; tho others were pj, ninals or disol>edieirt slaves. is I find another instance, not tho less touch- H, luui,n>< ? !1- ' ircvrtu.iu iijvma niinjmu, hmi mure eiisiij , ccived by llie mind than these hoca- j8| ?bs, and not less clearly proving tlio ac- frc I co-existence of a keen pursuit of the mi ulo," with a remorseless wrule of the lives eJ its objects. tin 'March, 2d, 1837.?1 learned from the tin ig," says (lie liev. Mr. Fox. "that they tb< uglit 350 Foulahs from Foolokolong, po ides 100 they killed. I asked him how a < ny of these Foulahs were at Madina, *a< ving myself seen a few in the town,) i co en he answored only twelve, and imme an toly called an interesting little Foulah of uh ut six years of Hge, who came trembling sul ! weeping a* be approached. Ilis fa vit r, I learned, was killed in the attack up- ho Foolokolong. I therefore ventured to sic his sablo majesty to give the boy tome; tin . no, he said be could not, and why) lie- po ise, horrid to relnto, ho had dedicated this vo ocont and unoffending child to a gree- to e, or rather to the devil; and who will an iblless by some cruel means Ikj put to be ith, previous to ttie intended attack up Irt Kimmington, to insure success! Man- f.e nmba, I am told, is rather nervous in liii iiiguage against Koi, because ho does not Hcritice one of his own children; and hesi sled not to say that it was because ho die ot do this, that the attack upou Dunkn sen was not more successful. 1 would fait ave rescued this pour lit tic fatherless hoy rein the unmerciful grasp of these wiL aibariaus, by giving a haudsoiuo presenl ?r his redemption; but even had I succeed d, another would doubtless have iiniue iately been substituted in his stead." After the account of the home practice o be Ashantoes, we cannot bo suipriscd al be barhariaties they exercised upon tlx tritish prisoners who fell into their liandt uring the war in which wo wore engaged nth them. After.lhc battle in which Sii fiiarlcs M'Carthy was unfortunately killed, fr. Williams, nn ollicer, who was taken risoner, said, that whenever tho Ash an tee; eheadod a prisoner, they made him sit on ne side of a largo war drum, while they >ok off their victim's head on tho other. Mr ones, a merchant and captain of the miiia, having received live wounds, was im icdintely sacrificed; this, however, would ave happened to him, had ho bcou an .shanlee; for any ono who has received ve wounds in any action, whether frieud r foe, is devoted to tire fetish. It is said rat tire Ashan'ee chiefs ale Sir Charles I'Carliiy's heart, that they might einbibe is valor; and that iris dried ilesh and bones ere divided amongst them as cbarius to ispire courage. lit lire Landers' narrative, instances ol milar atrocity are to bo met with. We po informed that at Jentia it is the custom >r two of the governor's wives to quit the orld on lire same day will) himself; and lat the governor of that place, himself of icessity goes down to the grave on the tmise of his sovereign, the king of Yarba. Mr. Laird speaks of the decease of nn jod chief white he was al Fundrth, who ft 15 wives; and he tells us that on the ghl this man was to be buried, the king out to tho women's nirartiueut, and select1 one, who was to he hung, in order to tcumpany her husband to lite next woild. Of the oilier barbarous customs of Afrit, the continual appeal to the order of "red ater," or poison, is one of the worst. This, o, also shows the very low iate at which unnn life is valued. At lddah Mr. Old Id saw a procession of the wives of the rig's son, just deceased, who were proeding to establish their innocence of his >ath bv drinking poison; and he says, that >ut of sixty of these poor infatuated wretch, thirty one died." I shall close this gloomy catalogue of irbarilies with an account, extracted from tnder, of some of the atrocities perpetraJ in Ihidagry. He says, "Tlio muider of slavo is not considered oven in the light a misdemeanor among them, liadagry ling a general inait for the sale of slaves the European merchants, it not tuifielently happens that the iu.itket is overjcked with human beings; in which case eir luaintenance devolves on the govern out. Thieves and other offenders, togetli with the reiouAiit of unpurchased slaves Ito are not drowned along with theii coin itiiotis in misfortune and miseiy, are iorved by them to be aaciifiCed to their god; liich horrid ceremony takes place at least ice a month. IVisoucr* taken in war are so immolate 1, to appease the manes of o soldiers of Adoilee slain in battle; and all atrocities, the manner in which these lotches are slain is tho most barbarous, ich criminal being conducted to the fetish ?e, a tlask of rum is given him to drink; .-.I*, lim .1-.- - -' ii tie ia 111 me net ui swaiiowing ii, a low steals imperceptibly behind him with heavy club, indict* a uolvnt blow on tho ck of the head, and, hs it often happens, slios out his brains. The sen Be loan being then taken to tho fetish hut, and a calash or gourd having been previously gut ;uly, the head is severed from the trunk th an axe, s i the smoking blood gurglus lo i'? \N hiio this is in hand, olhei etches, furnished with knives, cut and angle tho body in order to extract tho Art entire from the breast, which being tie, although it be yet warru and quiver? with blood, it is presented lo the king it, and afterwards lo his wives and genii*, who always attend at llio cclobiHlion these sacrifices; and his majesty and ite, making an incision into it with their th, and partaking of the foamy blood, licit is likewiso offered, the heart is ex hi led to the surrounding multitude. It then affixed to the head of a small spear, d with the calabash of blood, and heada body, paraded through the town followby hundreds of spearmen, and a dense jwd of people. Whoever may express an filiation to bite the heart or drink the >od, has it immediately presented lo him * that purpose, the multitude dancing and (ging. What remains of the heart is ng to tho dogs, and the body, cut in jcea, is stuck on tho fetish tree, whore it left till wholly devoured by birds of prey, (sides these butcheries, they make a grand jrifice once a vear, under their sacred foli troo, growing in a wood, a few miles in the city, These are offered to their ilovolent demon or spirit of evil, quaiter, and liui.g on lite gigantic brandies of o venerable tree, and tbe skull* of tbo vieus suffered to bleacb in tbe sun around 9 trunk of it. liy accident, 1 bad an oprtunity of seeing this much talked of tree, lay or two only after one of tbe yearly iriliees?its enormous branches literally rered with fragments of human bodies, d its majestic trunk surrounded by irregu heaps of hideous skulls, which had been ll'ered to accumulate for many years prelUsly. Thousands of vultures, which had on scared away by our unwelcome iulruin, were yet hovering round and over E?ir disgusting food, and now and then uncitig fearlessly down upon a half de urod arm or leg. ^ I stood as if fascinated the spot by the influence of a torpedo, d stupidly gazed on the ghastly spectacle fore me?the huge branches of the fetish :o groaning under their burden of human sh and bones, and sluggishly waving in i | consequence of the luiaty retreat of the L ' birds of proy; the intense and almost insuf Terabit) heal of a vertical sun; the inlolora1 hie odor of the corrupt corj>so?; the heaps of - human heads, many of them apparently i staring at me front hollows which had once t sparkled with living eyes; the awful stiilI ness and solitude of the pln6?, disturbed out ly at intervals by the frightful screantings of the voracious vultures, as they tlnpped - their sable wings almost in my face?all tended to overpower me; my heart sickened f i within my bosom, a dimness came over my t; eyes, an inexpressible quivering ngilated my j whole frame?my legs refused to support II tue; and turning my head, I fell senseless I ! into the arms of Jowdie, my failhlul slave." ' | The perpetual witnessing of such revolt, i ing scenes and the constant perpetration of i | such atrocious deeds, as have been detailed i' in the foregoing pages, keep tlio African i population in a state of callous baibarity, ' which can only be effectually counteracted by Christian civilizatiou?to impart which ?o them, tho recital of such horrors may well animate our desires, and quicken our I endeavors. In the meantime, it appears our duty to protest against them in all our I official transactions, and to make the A tricans aware, that they can only obtain tho ( advantages of a connexion with Europeans, > I by renouncing practices which outrage the ' I feelings of civilized men. And, as a more II extended intercourse is opening between us 1 and them, now is the time to establish this principle. That many of the Africans have 1 *i a regard for European opinions, and that ! they are already aware that their bloody rites nro offensive to Christians, is, I think, < fully demonstrated by several facts which > have been slated in this chapter. For this i reason it is that those of them who live on i coasts frequented by our traders, have beta- j ken to the practice of perpetrating their i SJiUiriliimrv ormi**niwlo.i! ? "I?1? ? J - ^ <fiir^viV9 Ul Ml^lli; J ; for this reason did the kitit;of Ashanlce en i : deavor to hide some of his butcheiies from i ! llio British Envoy, that "lie might not have ! ! to report that the sovereign of Asltnuleo i delighted in spilling hnman blood." It i was for the same cause that a fiieudly chief < who visited Sir Charles M'Carthy in the ( Asharitce war, had bung pieces of tartan | round his war drums, to hide the jaw bones and skulls with which they were ornament- I ed, "being fearful, from what he had heard j of ih? character of his Excellency, that they i should give offence;" and that King 1 >in i kera desisted fioin the murder lie was about i to commit on the occasion of bis sister's , death, on lieaiing that the British Govein- t merit disapproved of such practices. I I Inauguration of the Warren Statue. 1 (.>n the 17lli of Jane the Bunker llill ' Association inaugurated the Statue of War- ^ ien, at Boston, on which occasion Mr. Ever- I elt pronounced the oration. After which 1 several other gentlemen were called rpoti 1 to address tho immense concourse. Among others. Senator James M. Mason, of Virgin- | ia, spoke, whose remarks, together with the t introductory luiuaiks of the Washington liitelligeucor in regard to it, we give be- ' low: l, "The ceremony of the inauguration of I the Warren Statue at Bunker Hill, on Wednesday last, the anniversary of the bat- i tie, which lias given immortality to the day I and to the name of tho leader and of the 1 I tiehl where ho bravely fought and nobly l fell, was eminently brilliant and successful, e I Tiro Boston p tpers represent the procession c ! as most imposing, 'lire great features of it t (say* the Bust) were the military and the I \l_" / --? ?. .u.oimui; ii.ultiii:v. i no military turned j o | out nobly to in pet the New York troops, i I an I in this did themselves infinite credit. 1 t Our well-disci [dined companies presented a their usual soldierly appearance. 1'ut what 1 t shall we say ot the splendid New Yoik Na ' l tional Guard? There is l.vit one feeliug, 1 v that of adiniralion, at their appearance, tl When passing through wide streets, where s their platoons were fully extended, the pre- k ; cision of their step, the beautiful regularity \, of their burnished arms, their uohlc mi lit a- j ry bearing in every respct, presented ainilita- i ry spectacle of the tines', character. The I scene at the monument grounds was grand. > The pavilion, with a capacity of holding ' | seven thousand pet sons, was soon filled, a and, after the miiilaiy had retired, the j streets presented a compact mass of peop'p. j This vast audience were enabled, by the excellent arrangements, to hear most if not 1 i all the speaking. The exercises were coin f: me need under the direction of Col. Aspin ; s wall, the chief marshal, who discharged his, y duties in a felicitous manner. The services, a consisting of music, unveiling the statue,' c speaking, and masonic ceremonies, were of I I ; an unusually interesting character, and h theie was really eloquent speaking Tlio a addresses of our orator* were received with e gieal applause, and the distinguished gen ! v llernen from other .States who honored the t occasion with their presence were heard ; li with marked and gratifying attention, and 1 their patriotic sentiment elicited thu hcarli v f-t response. It was a beautiful tribute to g the connum patiiotisin of the occasion to' g see lihodo Island, Connecticut, Maryland, b and Virginia meet Massachusetts on l?un- 1 s ker Mill, and utter a common sentiment of ( I a love of liberty and devotion to (lie Union [ which the great ovent of the 17th of June, 1775, may ho saij to have rendered a per- , manent necessity.' | . "llesersing for another day the splendid " | oration of Mr. Kverelt, and the remniks of ' other distinguished gentlemen, wo make room to dav for the brief hat excellent f< speech of Mr. Senator Mason, of Virginia, t \V u he loci in advance this gentleman's ad- I drc$s, not only because it* perusal has given a us great pleasure, but because his political v position, antecedents, and relations impui I- t cd peculiar inleiest to what he should say i on the occasion. We aro glad to find that I his rpecch was conceived in llie host taste, t that he ac<piiiiod himself worthily, appro- t priatoly, nohlv, and we confess to a feeling i of pride that wo can commend it so highly 1 and Ro sincerely. i * Jl ? - 7 Remarks of the lfon. James M. 1 the Bunker Hill Celebration on of June. Mr. 1'llKSIDENT AND GENTLKMKf Hi'm;ku Hii.l Association: IIoi your gracious invitation to witn grand and imposing spectacle, I had I cnmc here ns a witness only. I thought that I should l>o called up come an actor in the sceno. 1 am, first time, present at Hunker Hill, the presence of the descendants and ors of that galiant and devoted b? laid down their lives upon this soil might live as fieeinon. They have my countrymen, a heritage that I unknown to the world since the ntoi days of Greece and Rome?they li you the heritageof an immortal nai more, they have left you the her their example. "Who were they? The country assembled in a hurry. To mee The veterans of old England. Upon the soil of an English colon) That they might convince the world convinced the foe, that they posse* spirit of resistance Ao tyranny f quarter it might come, [applau?e;J gallant man, whom you in honorm yourselves; that gallant man who most distinguished victim upon thu guished field, could he have return it, although he could not have said. Spartan piedeccssor at Thertnop; "(io, stranger, and tell it at Laccden wo laid down our lives iu obedi the laws of Sparta," because (lay, tny countrymen, we had no -1 .i ii i i .iij'uu oi mo itruiMi rnio tiAd cn< empire of American rule had not there was no law but the fixed, iiub purpose, tlie stern and iron rule, ready band to aclrievo what wr tchieved; although be could not br llio Spartan language, he might In lo Massachusetts, "Tell it to your Massachusetts, tell it lo your sister < vnd let it be handed down fioin gei 10 generation, that here, upon Bunl was laid the corner stone of Ameri lepeiidcuce, cemented with our Applause. ] My countrymen have been w Irenolifully told by the juslly-dislin gentleman who was the orator of l hat at Hunker Hill, eighty-two yer Alien the revolution was inaugura ule ot the ltritish empire ceased u| continent. Other battles were fougl luffering* weroendured, privation tin >o incredible to those who did not hem were sustained without a r out the British r ule ended on this e< ughtv two years ago. [Applause.] >aid Mr. President, that if that j valiant man could have returned fr rattle field and told Massachusetts I iown the memory of that day from ion lo generation, he would have fi eque*l fullilh-d. Four generatior >assed by, and we are here in the til . shall tell it iu Old Virginia, wh urn to her blessed hills, that 1 fo pirit of Massachusetts as buoyant, i >tic, as completely tilled with the ions that should govern patriotism visited Bunker lliil as it was wl tattle was fought. [Loud applause I feel authorized lo ask why th nspiring assemblage; why that ilit tie procession of which I formed. I Arid invitation, a very humble pa hose streamers from every house ni very window, and why was all the >f your beautiful city assembled heir handkerchiefs and strcuinin tanners of welcome lo the com men f this great da\? I shall feel my hoiized to say to the people of ^ hat the spiiit of Bunker Hill yet it Bunker 11 til. |Applau?o] An ny countrymen, something was he very eloquent and honored gur rho represents the State of Conner leprcc.ilion of that dishonored da; hould witness this gieal confederal ;cn into fragments. I tympnllii; >iin. I am here to Jay to say to y< ?le of Massachusetts, that our govt s a government whose only sanciic i 'i. _ . i - * n?: uuuor hum in Hie good laill itatr.s i t' this Union, [applause. | iroclaim lit.it so long as I here are aid gcx i faith in the Stales nn? >eople of tlio Stales the Union will lotnaloil. [UonowoJ applause.] I invoke you here on Hunker 11i ng from my own honore?l Slat vr South ? I invoke of you all t hall require of those who shall rt ou that (hey administer the govt .s il was foil ned l>v our fathers win oiialitutioii, |applause,| ami liol oil would a-k the spirit of liial pati ias departed from u>, if he can d>>u] gain upon the earth which lie-one* d, to inspire you all with that feel in irould require that the gov?-rwm?iit >0 administered under the eot??tit' lonor and in good faith. Mr. l'i thank you again, and the associ rhicli you are llio worthy head, for iven nie tho opportunity of witness real spectacle on Hunker Vftl, 11 ling me to take hack to my jreopl hall do, the assurance that the >] (linker Hill yet lives in Massac i.uud and long continued app'ause. W.i I'.^ ? - - r% I ? \ i. r. ?i.% M li AB L/UNK. ? wing contrast is fclicitotialy note*. iiOokljfil Kagle: ' i "Undo Sam, after canying on I >r tlie past oightv YoaflNfeAving lliri uying territory from Franco anil milling lailronds/wpdcttlntiog in iiul trailing with creation, co villi h snng little balance on hand < y-two million*, enough to *.et up nillionaires, and which in ikea Sair ionaire among tuitions. Since our ion Kngland lie* quad in pled her i lebt, and other nations of Kuropo h ip a wore nearly in proportion, wb ias paid off l*?e debts, bought real ind hat. money laid bv for a rainv < pl wv w fa?Maf Society oi' the Cincinnati. the 1 i (h While sadness and despair prevailed Tl anions the lories and refugees in New York, very ur iue officers in the palriot camp on llie Ilud- iiesn lorer by Were ?ot without gloomy feelings at deal icss this |(|0 tiiouglitof their approaching separation "1 lougnt frum eacj, 0t|,er- Eight years of dangers mov lad not H(|(] hardships, i-liaied in coiuinou and no- pear 011 to >e ^|y SU8jHj?eij) |IH(| welded their hearts to- ly al ' or . gethur, and made it hard to rend theui the | H,1< asunder. Prompted by such feelings. Gen in IJ succo s- era| ]{noXf yver noted for generous impulses, and ma w 10 suggested as n mode of perpetuating the and ! wo friendships thus formed, and keeping alive poin ) ou, die brotherhood of the carup, the formation recti las been H 8UC;w^y composed of the officers of the Mr. l,a ln> army. The suggestion met with universal a dei ia?e lelt concurreuce and the heatty approbation of scatt me; and Washington. on, t ,u8e of Meetings were held, at which the liaron i in iti Steuben, a> senior officer, presided. A plan dwel people wnl drafted by a cominiitee composed of lifteii l?Jom Generals Knox and lluntingdoii and Cap- dista vvm^i lii'" ^haw; and tho society was organized air, Y al a meeting held on the 13lh of May, at grou , asthoy Aaron's quarters, iu ille old Yerplanck twee k'cd lho House, near Fishkill. pile . rom any jjy jta formula, tho officers of the Au:eri- "I and thai CHU UII?yt j? die most solemn manner, com- rents g honor |,jn#d themselves into one society of friends, the t was the l(J cmjure ab |0?g HS diey should endure, or tearii it ili>tin- any of their eldest male posterity; atid in cours cd from faiiuro thereof, the collateral branches who nests I I T might he judged worthy of becoming its child rite unJ. ,u,,j)oriers ,t?j members. In memory of cellai 11)11 tliat t||e HluHtrious Roman, Lucius Quintius seizei lencc to Gincinnatus, who retired from war to the the s at that |)e,tcefu| dmies of the citizen, it was to be hut I aw; the Cil||t?j Society of Cincinnati." The inent led, the 0hjects proposed by it were, to preserve in- destr begun? violate ilia riodits and lil.nrii.?? <".? ? ? ? .W. XUII.U UVH >1111 no c |intj COD{Ci4j?j j t0 promote and cherish who and the naiioull| )IOnor and union between the had i> t iore ylulCa. (y maintain brotherly kinduess to- build ne used WRrj4 each other, and extend' relief to such and no shiJ Oftjoera unj their families as might stand in his o sons in ,ieej 0f ^ of hii colonies, jn otjer t0 0l,(aiu funds for the purpose, the i iierat. oil e)ich otlicer was to Contiibute oue month's deatr . pay, the interest only to be appropriated to ing f cau the relief of the unfortunate. The general ered society, for the sake of frequent conirnu yond nicnlious, was to be divided iuto Stale tructi ed and socieijWH) nii<i these again into districts, fore, guished gtinern| 9 cicty was to meet annu cradl lie da\, Rj|^. on tj10 grsl Monday in May; tbe trunl irs ago, gtate societies on each 4th July; the dis- stove ited, the trjct# as often as should be agreed ou by stone pon this ljJ6 society. lay c it, other 'pjie was to have an insignia, call- fore 1 it would ej ?i'ho Order of tho Cincinnati." It was "Is witness lQ n g0|jen American eagle, bearing on its co nurmur. ;la hreast emblematic device*; this was to scatu jntinent ^ susjiendod by a deep blue ribbon two deiuc ' inches wide, edged with white, iu siguifica John u*t and. tjOJ| 0f t|,e union of America with France, cenli om tlie Individuals of the resj/ectivo Slates, dis- foel t ,o hand languished for patriotism and talents, might inent genera j,0 Udmiued as honorary members for life; hers nind Ins (heir numbers, nuver to exceed a ratio of five t is have ono lo four ?phe French ministers who rario ih now. ||nd officiated at Philadelphia, and the au in f:> 'i? Pencil udmirals, generals and colonels, w ho ing p iind the j);lj gerved in the United States, wore to be poeiti as patri- jnesented with tbo insignia of the order A co1 emitiia- aMj invited to become members. the b u when Washington was chosen unanimously to outwj leu that officiate as President of il, until the first ou, ii general meeting, to bo held iu May, 1784. ing t< is most Thomas ttcMTta.?"The prospect of ed, ai erniMia 8Uch aid from the North reanimated the stauc - jour j^ontijem patriots. Ono of the most emi- was c rt; neut of these was Thomas Sumter, whom A fei id fioin die Carolinians had suinamed the Game attest i beauty jje wu, between foity and fifty years ling waving of age, brave, hardy, vigorous, resolute. Lie A shi ? vlf had served against the Indians in his boy* the I norator* f,ooJ iluring the old French war, and had deatr self an- j i,eetl p,ej?eut at the defeat of Hruddock. In "II i irgini i j diC ||[(!>CU| War ho held the rank of Lieu- ?l?nni remains len;int Ooloiicl of Kifietuea in tho contincn- evine <\ .I,ow; tal line." g0r. said l?y Fkancu Makion. "The victory at its he it erTi.ui J^ii,g\ Mountain had set tho partizun spir- the fi llent in jt t|,roitylioul the country in a blaze. Fran- seen I . 'lc o.s Marion n:in soon in the field, lie had conic, i.>n >r<>- i,t.ofl nimje R brigadier general by Governor The j to witi J^utledge, but his brigade, as it wucalled, rain l,?, p*o- > wa4 foiniod of neighbors and friends, and field, Turnout W;IS continually fluctuating in numbers, and t lie was nearly fifty years of age, and snrall track ' 1 ,L* i of stature, but hardy, healthy and rigorous, from am ti, i>r:ive) i,ut llol biaggnrt, never avoiding the ti honor danger, hut never really seeking it. Tuci- bofon 1,1 1 | turn and abstemious a strict disciplinarian; over I I*1'1 careful of tho lives of his men, hut little south ' mindtul of hi* own life. Ju-t in his deal- touch co,u i ing>, free from everything selfish or inerce- 1 rods i ^l*^^jary, and incapable of a meanness lie static Fi<l his liauntr; and strongholds in the trior swept T" of the 1'ee lire and the Black Itive*. j tainl) T"ineil^W|jg rt tjn Ul.,e |,jir,jy and abstemious as hi i?..or l to ^if. they eat tlieir meat without salt, often A ier*i*e. subsisted on potatoes, wore scantily clad, . l^Arn lot who Wnd nlmost ilestitute of blankets. dy 1 "Marion was full of stratagems raid ox- Sqon ' 'V pedients. Sallying forth from his morass 'he a S " lU ' es, he would overrun the lower districts,! pccul s. ,0";' pass the Sanlee, beat up the small posts in 1 1? c^' ulion in j|lu vicinity ?f Charleston, cut up tho com- ro evident, umnicalion between that city and Caruden; 1 lion. .I'loiii of uud having struck some signal blow, so as tleinn lulling lo Hfotlsd jj y vengeance of the enemy,' wns nig tlni would letiont again into his fenny fastnes blind * aid enn fceS ]|enM tiro Frili?li gave him the by- adfis e. as I DHine of the Swamp Fox, bul those of hi# did s I""1 ? countrymen who Lnoiv his courage, his ?f tl liiisells- I i . i-mines* ?l spirit and ?potle.v* integrity, con- j rcQu< si?.lcred liiin the Bayard of the South." drapt [Irvinpi Washington. , l'n?? The fob1 ? - f \ 1 1 l?v 111o ' 8??^ a,,d h good wt?m*n are ex- quid ; cellenl thing* for those who know how to gave appreciate their value; there are men. how- n sm< husine-> over, who judge both, with much inisjudg- spate ?o wars, inent, fioiu the beauty of their covering. ileil 1 Mexico, m cod g a hank, A parish clerk having, according locus- ingtl uies out ' torn, published the bans of matrimony be- 1 her v >f twen tween a loving couple, was followed by the i several minister, who gavo out the familiar hymn, j C( l a mil commencing with the word*, "Mistaken from revolu souls, who dream of heaven." renie national , -? ^Wl#l ' aroui avc run | A very modest young lady in Richmond ?l on ile Sam ' got exceedingly ofTonded because a clerk in , Attat estate, i a diy goods storo offered (o show her some i day. | undrftsed linens. ! the f mj. 20. * 9 v mssBemmmBL l I I 1,11,1 A Remarkable Metoor. tio Ulica papers have an account of a bingular phenomenon, which wai wiled on Saturday last, which cAused the h of two per&ous; J-uring the afternoon, a tunnel shaped iug body of a nebulous character, aped at a point over Ulica, moving rapidlong with a humming sound. It struck ground near the dwelling of a Mr. Knot, eerfield, tearing down a fence or two, passing on, gradually settling lower lower. At last, having reached a, I some fire miles in a northeasterly di011 from litis city, near the dwelling of Nathan Hud long, iu Schuyler, it made scent upon his barn, vipped it up, and ercd it tu the winds. Then passing * earing up trues, fences and outhouses i terrible course, it finally struck the ling of Mr. John Warren, which was I from its stone foundation, carried a nee of some fifteen feet through the, aud dashed in spliuters upon the nd, leaving a clean plat of grass belt the place where it had stood and the of rubbish. it the house were a family of six ? paI. aud children. Mr. Warren, seeing crrible object rushing down upon hitn^ ng up trees nnd fences in its onward le, and buzzing like a thousand hornets^ combined, called upon the wife and ren instantly to accompany him to the r, and, suiting the action to the word, d two of the cltildren aud leaped down lairwpy. The wife essayed to follow, jer footsteps were tardy; she was a ino.?an i.istaut too late; the cn&iue of uction tore the building up, carrying ilf and child, together with a little son was behind her, with it. The husband but time to see her ascend with the ling that tore away from above bito, then be stood exposed to tbc day, i^ pen cellar. He went to view the ruin i house; it was complete. Here lay dead nnd nude body of bis wife, the o\ing power having stripped the clollirotn Iter person; there lay his son covwith blood, and senseless; and, just be, his dwelling lay one such mass of dea iuu as prooabiy never was beheld beI broken iui<1 splintered bedstead*, es, tables, pots, k-tiles, chairs, boxes, ca, crockery, tin ware, hats, clothes, s, bottles, bricks, plaster, clocks, beams, s, shingles, and endless et ceteris, rushed and crumbled in one heap belim. ext, in the due sonlhcasterly line of >uise, it uprooted several large trees, red the fences, crossed the road and dished a large baru, belonging to Mr. M. Budlong. This building was of renal very sub?lautin! build, and 35 by 50 ipon its base, yet the destructive eletore it to pieces, scattering large timabout the fields at a distance of front o fifteen rials, distributing the roof in us directions, and actually taking up 3D cylinder threshing machine, weigberhaps four hundred pounds, and der.g it at least eighty feet from the baru. w belonging to Mr. B., standing neat urn, was killed, without nay apparent :ud wound. About eighty rods farther i> a direct line, a smaller barn, belong3 the same gentleman, was demolishnd what is very singular in this ine, but little of the material of which it otMruclcd is to be found anywhere, v shivered board* and timbers alono to its previous existence. The dwelof Mr. Budlong had a narrow escape, ingle or two torn from one corner of roof indicate how narrowly it escaped action. eyond the premises of Mr. B-. for ? mile, prostrate trees and fences e the track of the destructive inessenIt, however, seemed to have released >\1 upon the earth soon after leaving irin of Mr. B., for it was distinctly Lo rise from the surface and dissolve its ?l shape into a general cloudy form, rlietioiucnon was followed by violent and wind. Two men, at work in a saw the strange apparition approach, ook to their hee!*, barely escaping its as it passer! on. It .seemed to rise the earth in four or five minutos from me it was first seen, and the evidences t u* of destruction lie iu a district not four or tivc miles in extent, In a due easterly direction froiu where its first was felt, and in a track about fifteen in w idth. Whatever of material sube presented itself in this track wm* . away, and the ru'.u presented U cer le.mui to behold.'' LADY UKPI KASASTLY SlTl'ATBD.?We from tho hichmood Whig, lli.il a laultilrt passing through tlie Capitol re, Monday, wia constrained to solicit w'wtonM of n^entletnan, under very iai (ircunista^^Kj^She was observed itcli her drestJp^pthe light hip, and ntiifesl sudden anrt alarming trepida- ^ i 4 In response to her call for aid, a gen v in who was passing walked up, nrtd ~ . informal] thai a reptile of some kind" .ought shelter beneath her dies*, lid ud her to shake her garment*, and she <> ?eT?mi (ijncs, without lidding Iteiseli le "varmint.* Tbl gentleman, at ber at, then inserted bis band between the ?ry of her exteiior skirls and tbe crino but bis fipgers coming in contact wilt, make, or whatever it might be, Ire ;ly withdrew theiu. The lady again ber skirts a shake, and out dropped ill red lizard, which was quickly de bed by the gentleman who had exhrb lis gallantry. She, of course, ex perienreal relief, and after pleasantly thanklie gentleman for his attention, resumed ralk. 'kr ror a Felon.?To iemote a felon the body politic the most approved dy is to apply a sulcient ligature ui the neck of the felon after placing a platform of convenient elevation sh the oilier end of the cord to a stout or joist over head, and then remove v'.Mtform.