Columbia telescope. (Columbia, S.C.) 1828-1839, June 17, 1837, Image 1
BY A. S. JOHNSTON
NEC DEESSE, NEC SITPERESSE REIPUBI.lCiE.
TOL. SS"XO, 24.
COLUMBIA, S. C. JUNE 17, 1837.
PUBLISHED WEEKJjY.
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$3 PER ANKUM
THIS
:> SQ&raSXA T3LESCCP3
IS PUBLISHED BY
A. S. JOHNSTON,
Every Saturday Morning*,
*JM? EVERY WEDNESDAY AND SATURDAY MORNING
P TRING THE SESSION OF THE LEGISLATURE.
TERMS :
Tkree dollars per annum, if paid in advance, or
fcMrdofiars at the end of the year.
A|>TIITISU(S.VTS conspicuously inserted at 75
square for the first insertion, and 37 i cents
Jpr eyery.,*ubeoq?ent insertion. All advertisements
ordered to the inside every publication ? or inserted
*)flttrwi? titan regularly, to be charged as new for j
VTVT insertion. Advertisements not having the
tMMfter of insertions marked on them will be contin
ordered out, and charged accordingly. All ,
Recounts for advertising, above $25 and under $50,
35pereent?, Jeductkm ? above $50, 40 per cent, de- j
J%late of South Carolina.
PROCLAMATION.
BIT His ErceMency PIERCE Af. BUTLER,
Governor and Commander in-Chief, in and
over the State aforesaid.
Whareas, information has beea received bv
tti?*?p?ftinent,that a certain free colored boy,
feMfed TaM, was feloniously stolen, and tak^
?fcaway, by a certain person unknown, from
file resdence of his toother, named Ruth Og
Hub J, at Bachelor's Retreat, in Pendleton Dis
tliet. Now, know ye, that to the intent that the
ttid bey To* may be restored to his friends,
ted that the said felon may be brought to le^al
trial and coadiom punishment, 1 do hereby of
fer a reward of Tico hundred Dollars tor the
apprehension and conviction of the thief. ?
Afld, al8o, 7Vo Hundred D'Alars to any person
Wko shall return the said boy Tom safe to liis
friends. Said Tom is about 9 or 10 years of
age* perfectly black. & ha? a phasing counten
? co. The perso* who carried him away, is
CQppoaed to hare fled to the lower part of
Qeosgm or Akbema.
Given wider my hand and the seal of the State,
?*<;fearlestoB, this eighth day of May, in the
yw of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
a*d tnirty seven, and in the sixty-first year
?f the independence of the United States of
America. PIERCE M. BUTLER.
.H the Governor.
JMM KiJKhM AM. Dep. Sec. State May 12.
Francis Ogicr,
DRUGGIST AND APOTHECARY.
> E^PECTFU LLY informs his friends and the
V public^that ^baa purchased from vr. S.. Per
" mat Patent Medicines, Surgeons In
ants. Oik, Varnishes, Paint Brushes,
llufli.MCnf'inr with a great variety of articles,
wnfiy kept ia an establishment of this kind, all of
wiueb- are warranted genuine, and ef the best
j*'
a .
A regular ?cppJy Will be kept up and sold at the
1 tmrt prices and no effort on the part of the
^ttbecriber^1^* be wanting to give general satisfac
tion. Jfshare of that patronage heretofore so libe
jUnnilrdln this establishment, is most respect
r solicited on the port of the subscriber, which
t bit long experience and attention to business
1 (0 merit
cat Dir. S. PfemvaTs old stand, Main street
t to HHgjpTiate Edgar's Hotel.
^ WANTED.
A yoath about 15 or 16 years of age of good moral
?ctaacter, as an Apprentice to the business. Apply
aa above.
Z NOTICE- ? In conformity with a Reso
Jt~ lotion ofthe St >ckhokfers of the Bank ofChar
Tettxm&.C. adopted by ageneraftneetin^of the same,
IBM tii tlio frl of February last, providing for an in
crease of their capital in conformity with the pr6vi
aapoaof the chafer of said Bank, from Two to Fouj
Millions of Poflars ?
Pttblic notice' is hereby given, that the Cashier of
tike Bank of Charleston, C . will, at its Banking
-? Khr, in wmd city, receive on the 5th July next, the
< tH H instalment of Twenty-five Dollars on each of
theevMSicg Shares in the capital Stock of said Bank,
* jfiriom a share holder in person, or from his agent, or
' ^ikttoroeyi jiilr anthorized, and from no other person
ifflMMfrer. The transfer books will be closedon the
> " 3pt of June nest jfor the purpose of making out an au
ftfcqraad list ofthe Stockholders.
In the event of any Stockholder declining, or ne
. greeting to subscribe for his or her proportion of the
Stock, in all asses the privilege of the new
?nharri prion shall he sold at Public Auction for the
JbtRStft ^*he Stockholders generally, at the discre
.tioofp^e Board of Directors.
second Instalment on the 5th of January, 183S.
fee'third Instalment an the 5th of March, 1838: and
rtfe* forth and last Instalment on the 5th of July,
1S& By order of the B >ard of Directors.
J. HAMILTON, President B. C. S. C.
TV papers at Columbia, Hamburg, Cheraw and
?^Sttadeo, are requesthd to publish thk advertisement
t week until the 5th day of July.
f?
A#
Southern Tonic.
success of the Southern Tonic is unprece i
Ti dented. It has been anxiously soueht alter by
classes in every part of the United States, andi.s
-widely extended mstrtbatiou has been owing to the
?Mr requests received from every section of the
^??kanrf Sooth West. Although it originated in in
tfafirri prt nf the country but a few years since, it |
in?w found in afl the p-incipal towns and villages
in tke Union, and its virtues as a Cure for Ague and
# jrer, and as a general Toxic are appreciated by all j
friw have used it. Beinj as it processes a compound [
<of Southern Vegetables, it is needless to offer the as
jqpuice that there is no Arsenic, Mercury, nor any
thing in the least hurtful to the human constitution in 1
ft. It will be found a valuable Medicine in all cases
Dyspepsia and disorganised Stomach and Bowels, J
*a4 hatients convalescing fr?>tn Billious Fever, will
rijw the most important benefits from the use of '
the Southern Tonic. It may be administered to
dkfldrea and infants of the most tender age, with j
iks lUiaost safety. Prepared by Coster & Coxe at
4l?ir laboratory, at Montgomery, Alabama.
For sale by their appointed agent.
J). & J. EWART, & Co., Columbia, S. C 1
Aprfl 22nd 16
^lOMM ERCI A L BANK-^Checks for Sale, on ?
-H*/ Mobile, Alabama.
March 4 9
Laic JYotice.
npug Subscribers having formed a copartnership
* jK Practice of LAW, under the title of
?A TOE & FAIR, will attend the Courts of Mont- j
ranery, aad the adjoining counties in Alabama, the
Federal Court at Mobile, and the Supreme Court of
the State. Office in the town of Montgomery.
ISAAC W. HAYNE,
May 27 4 E. Y. FAIR.
Swaim's Panacea.
A few dozen of the above just received from the
manufactory, which are warranted genuine.
Apply at the Drug store opposite the Golden
pw. GI t&ES May 27
Secretary's Office, )
Columbia June 6, 1837. \
To all to whom it may concern, Be it known,
That I Altamont Phillips of the city of Philadelphia
| and State of Pennsylvania, lately appointed and Com
missioned by his Excellency the Governor of this
State, "a Commissioner to take the acknowledgment
or proof of any Deed, Mortgage or other Conveyance
? of any Lands, Tenements, or Heredatiments, lying or
being in this State, or of nny C ontrart, Letter of At
torney, or any other Writing under Seal, to be used
or rerorded in ihis State ; to administer, an Oath or
affirmation to any person who may be desirous to
make such Oath or affirmation before him: and to
| take and certify Renunciations of Dower and In
heritance of lands in the State aforesaid," did :>n the
first day of this Instant take and subscribe an Oath
beforeUohn R Vodges, Esq. one of the Aldermen and
ex officio, a Justice of the Peace in and for ihe said
City "That he will well and faith ully execute and
perform all and singulartheduties of his said appoint
ment as Commissioner of the State of ^outh Caroli
na to take acknowledgments, &c. for the State of
Pennsylvania, under an Act of the legislature of I
the State of South Carolina, passed December 17,
1834, entitled, "An Act t<> authorise the appointment
of a Commissioner or Commissioners to take the
ac knowledgment of deeds and other instruments of
writing under seal and for other porp^ea^" which
saifi Oiti? is drly filed in the oHJSeof the Secretary
erf State, at Oiumbia, pursuant to the requisitions
of the said Act.
C. H. SAXON, Sec, of State. J
I, OS I,
A GOLD PENCIL CASE, with a Topaz head.
The finder will be suitably rewarded by leav
ing it at this office.
June 3 22
A ?ard.
TFTE Subscriber expecting to be absent the en
suing summer has placed his notes and ac
counts in the hands of Mr Wm Glaze, Jeweler, who
is duly authorized to receive payment and receipt
for the same. .
He has a negro girl to hire, who is a good Cook,
Washer and lroner, for particulars enquire of Mr T
Dickinson.
WM. GREGG.
May 20th, 1837 21
Notice.
THE Subscribers having been appointed the
sole Agents for the sale of the SALUDA MA*
NUFaCTUkED YARNS and CLOTHS, would
inform the Merchants and Public, that they will at all
times be prepared to fill orders for those goods punc
tually. All oruers must he addressed to
D&J EW,\RT,&CO.
On hand for sale, 16, OCX) lbs country cured Bacon.
D. & J. E., & CO.
Ma v 26th 23
Clark's Hotel.
THE Subscribers feel grateful for the very libe
ral patronage that has been extended towards
them, sincethey opened the above Hotel, and beg
l?ave to inform their friends and the public that they
have reduced their prices of Board to the foHowiug
rates :
For Transient Boarders.
From 1 to 60 Day* (with Private Table) pr.
Day . $2,00
From 1 to 60 Days (at Regular Table per
Day $1,50
For Regular Boarders.
Over 60 Days including Lodging) pr week - $6,00
" 60 M ^without Lodging) pr week - - $*,5u
ROACH & THOMPSON.
May 27 --r? - 21
Unionvd le, May 23, 1837.
~^fR- JOSEPH MAYES tolls before me a sorrel
ifJL Horse, with a star on his forehead, between
14 and 15 hands high, about 17 years old, rough shod,
and raised by said Mayes, on Fairforesr, Union Dis
trict, near the Spartanburgh line ; appraised at thirty
five dollars. R. COLEMAN, J. P.
June 3 22
Dr. J. M. Ctage
HAS located himself at Unionville. He may al
ways be found at his office, near the Court
House.
Unionville, May 30. 6t 22
Training- Stable.
THE undersigned proposes opening a public
Training Stable, on the 1st day of August, at
the Columbia Rare Course, where gentlemen hav
ing promising colts, will have an opportunity at a
moderate expense, of resting their dualities There
is no doubt many a gem in this and nur sisier States
doomed io obscurity, or perhaps to wear the Collar ,
who by this means might be brought into public no
tice and fashionable life, and, what is more "up
into" a neat ten thousand in the pockets of its own
er. Man a a thorough bred animal is sacrificed, from
the difficulty of ascertaining its real value, by a
regular training.
After a horse has received the common walking
exercise, which any one can give him, for two week>;
seventy days will tell the tale , at least, so far as to
point out the propriety of continuing or training him
out.
A horse for training, should b? sent in good order
in full strength and vigour, with something to work
^on, but not hog fat. The subscriber cannot be bet
ter understood in this particular, than by saying a
gentlpman should send his horse in such condition as
he would have it lor travelling, sound in health, and
firm in flesh. When too low in flesh, the bore is too
weak t undergo the necessary exercise.
The terms, or cost of training, will depend on cir
cumstances. With the horse there should be sent,
an able bodied man or boy, to rub , and a boy to rid ,
of sufficient strength to pull a horse, and of weight
propor.ioned to the age of the animal ? for a three
year old 90 lbs, 4 years 102 lbs, 5 years 1 12 lbs, 6
years 121 lbs, aged 126 lbs ; for fillies and geldings
three pounds less ; a Training Saddle, Bridle, Mar
tingale, Circingle, Roller, two Blankets, two Hoods,
a set of warm Woollen Cloihing, and two sets of
Linen or Cotton, a Curry Comb, Brush, Pick, Buck
ct, Halter, &c. complete. All these things being
furnished, the subscriber will supply the provisions
fori he horse and boy, together with his pers nal
services and the use of his stables, litter &c. at $2 a
day. If provisions are furnished by the owder, the
entire charge will be $50.
The do/hing may be made under my directions
i by the boys at the stable if the rough material be j
sent. The entire outfit will cost in this way about
$42, and will iast, if taken care of, five years If
the rubber and rider are not sent, tbey will have
to be hired, probably at a higher cost than they J
could be furnished by the owners
Gentlemen wishing to send their horses to be
trained, will b ? good enough to drdp me a line when |
they will send, and how many, that their stalls may
be putin readiness. Every possible care and atten
tion will be given, but no liability*ncurred for acci
dents. When a horse is ready to make a trial, the
owner will have notice, that he may witness his per
formance, or depute some friend to do so.
The following gentlemen in tliis State, Georgia
I and VL-ginia, have been kind enough t<> offer their ^
names as references, both in regard to the qualifica
tions and integrity of the subscriber. In South
r-Carulina, Col. Wade Hampton, B. F. Taylor, J.
McLean; in Georgia, Capt J.J Harrison, in Vir
ginia, Col. W. R. Johnson and J. Pucket.
GEO. G.WALDEN.
Columbia S- C., June 1, 1837 23
Committed.
TO the Jail of Richland District, as a Runaway,
a .Ne^ro man, who calls his name NED, and
says he belongs to Vincent Carr, a Sugar Planter,
on the Mississippi river, in the State of Louisianna,
and says he runaway on April last. Ned is about
! twenty five years ot age, about five feet five inches
high, dark complexion, has lost his two upper front
! teeth. Ned says he was raised in Charleston S. C.,
by John Maybank, and sold by him to Harry Bow
man, and hy Bowman, to his present master, Vin
j cent Carr. The owner is notified to come forward,
! prove his property, and comply with the law in other
f respiects.
JESSE DEBRUHL, S. R. D.
March 28. 1837 12
CANADA CORN.
We consider it proper at this time to call
the attention of the fanners in gerir-ral and
particularly those who have suffered a icss
of their crops from the tmfavorableness of the
past season, ? to the yellow early Canada corn,
which has been cultivated here with such suc^
cess, as to leave little room for doubt as to its
superiority in overcoming the difficulties to be
encountered in our ever-varying clcnate. ?
Five acres of this corn was raised the past sea
son, by Mr. Hatch of the Pousfhkcepsie Hotel,
on l.is farm two miles b -low the viltoge. It
was planted on the first of June last, has yield
ed sixty bushels to the acre, perfectly sound
and in as fine condition as any we have ever
seen. We understand that it was perfectly
ripe by the 10J? of Sept. and will generally
come to maturity in about ninety days. The
land on which it was raised was in good condi
tion. Mr. Hatch has already been applied to
by 54 of our first farmers, for one hundred
and fifty seven bushels of this, corn asd seed
next year, ? Pou^hkeepise Eagle.
The above described corn for sale by
R. E. RUSSELL.
Seedsman arid Florist.
Columbia, S. C.
POSTPONEMENT of the Drawing of the
Splendid Scheme of the Alexandria Lottery ,
Class E, (Highest Capitil $75,000,) from
the 27th of May to the 23d of September,
next. ;
From the general embarrassment of the times, the
deraneed state of the domestic exchanges, and the ;
difficulties attending the disposal of Bank Bills oat ?f
their immediate circles of issue, we have been solici
ted by agents and Venders to postpone the dm wing
of the above scheme, for a short time, until ihe pre
sent crisis >n the affaire of the country shall have
passed away.
We have therefore yielded to these solicitations,
and postpone the drawing of the Alexandria Lottery ,
Class E, from the 27th of May, to the 23d day of
September next, token the drawing will positwey take
place.
Adventurers having purchased tickets in said class,
and who do not wish to hold them until the drawing,
can hhve their money returned by the agent or bro
ker from whom they purchased ? or can exchange
them for tickets in classes to be drawn at an earlier
day, as it may suit their pleasure.
The Managers have consented to this postpone
ment with extreme reluctance, as it has always been '
their policy to draw every scheme at the time an
nounced. The unparalelled state of the country, is
i he only cause of this one departure "from the usual
custom.
All the other schemes now before the public, will
be punctually drawn on the days announced.
D. S. GREGORY & Co. Managers.
Washington City , May 13, 1837.
$75,000.
15 Vrcnon Numbers in each Package.
The most splendid Lottery ever drawn in the
United States.
Alexandria Lottery, Class E.
To be drawn at Alexandria, D. C. on the 23d of
September, 1837.
75 Number Lottery ? 15 Drawn Ballots .
RICH AND SPLENDID PRIZES.
1 Grand Capital of 75,000 Dollars. .
1 SplendidJVixe of 25,000 Dojjjar|. 1
1 do 10,000 Dollais.
1 do 9,000 Dollars.
1 do 8,000 Dollars.
1 do 7,500 Dollars,
1 do 7,000 Dollars.
1 do 6,000 Dollars.
$5,000 ? $4,000 ? $3,000 ? ?2.732 ? $2,500 ? $2000
5 of $1,750? 5 of 1,500.
60 prizes of $300
60 do 250
60 do 200
60 do 150
, &c. See.
Tickets $20 ? Halves 10 ? Quarters 5 ? Eights 2 50.
Certificates of packages of 25 Whole Tickets $270
do ?'o 25 Half do 135
do do .25 Quarter do 67 50
do do 25 Eighth do 33 75
^JT Orders for Tickets and Shares or Certificates of
Packages in the above magnificent Scheme,, will
receive the most prompt attention, and an official
account of the drawing sent immediately afteif it is
over te all who order from us. ? Address, ; ,
D, S. GREGORY & CO., Managers,
June 10 23 Washington City, D^C.
50 prizes of $1,000
50 do 750
50 do 600
50 do 500
50 do 400
7.1,000 ! ! !
The most Brilliant and Richest Scheme ever drawn
IN THE UNITED STATES!!
15 Drawn Nos. in each Package of*25 Tickets!
ALEXANDRIA LOTTERY,
For Internal Improvement in the District of j
Colvmbia
CL.JMSS E.
To be drawn in the City of Alexandria D. C. Saturday,
September 23, 1837.
D. S. Gregory <fe Co [successors to Yates & M'lntyrej
'Managers.
BRILLIANT SCHEME.
75,000 Dollars
25,000 Dollars
20,000 ^Dollars
10,000 dollars
9,000 Dollars
8 000 Dollars
7,500 Dollars
7,000 Dollars
6,000 Dollars
5,000 Dollirs
4,000 Dollars
3,000 Dollars
2,732*Dollars
2,5BWoBSfr
2,000 Dollars
8,750 Dollars
7,500 Dollars
50,000 Dollars
37,500 Dollars
30,000 Dollars
25,000 Dollars
20,0^0 Dollars
1 Prize of 75,000 Dollars is
1 Prize of 25,000 Dollars "
1 Prize of 20,000 Dollars
1 Prize of 10,000 Dollars
1 Prize of 9,000 Dollars
1 Prize of 8,000 Dollars
1 Prize of 7,500 Dollars
1 Prize of 7,000 Dollars
1 Prize of 6,000 Dollars
1 Prize of 5,000 Dollars
1 Prize of 4,000 Dollars
1 Prize of 3,000 Dollars is
1 Prize of 2,7321 Dollars
1 Prize of 2,500 Dollars
1 Prize of 2,000 Dollars is
5 Prizes-of 1,75C Dollars are
5 Prizes of ; 1,500 Dollars are
50 Prizes of 1,000 Dollars are
50 Prizes of 750 Dollars are
50 Prizes of 600 Dollars are
50 Prizes of 500 Dollars are
50 Prizes of 400 Dollars are
Tickets $20, Shares in proportion.
To be had at Managers Office 26 Broad st. Charles
ton, S. C., where Tickets :n all Lotteries managed
by D. S. Gregory & Co,~taay be had. j
June 10 23
?
JYotice.
THE Subscriber begs leave to inform the gentle
men of Columbia and its vicinity, that Be has
commenced the Manufacturing of BOOTS and
SHOES, opposite the Branch Bank.where he hopes
by strict attention to business, to receive a share of
public support.
N. B. Repairing done with neatness and punctu
ality. LESUE SMYTH,
June 10 Ira .23
Regimental Orders.
Head Quarters, )
Columbia, Dec. 5. 1836. (
A COURT MARTIAL, to ccnsist of Major Win.
Hopkins, President; Captains Wade, Lykes,
Black,Henly, Douglass, and Lieutenant Branthwaile,
Members ; will convene at the Town Hall.in Colum
bia, on the first Mondays of January, April July, and
October, 1837, at 10 o'clock, A. M to try Defaulters
at Company, Battalion, and Regimental Musters, as
well as for disobedience of orders or non-perform
ance of Patrol duty.
Officers commanding Companies, will summon*
their defaulters to attend the Court on thedays above
specified, and will make a return to the Courtof the
persons soramoned to attend.
By order of
Col. G. LIGHTNER.
June 10 21 W. B THOMPSON, Adj't.
From the Annual.
NIGHT. ? BY BARRY CORNWALL.
'Tis night ? 'tis night ? the hour of hourt,
When Love lies down with folded wings
By Psyche in her starless bowers,
And down his fatal arrows flings ?
Those bowers whence not a sound is heard.
Save only from the oridal bird,
' Who 'midst that utter darkness sings
Sweet music like the running springs ;
[ This her burthen, soft and clear ?
i 'Love is here ! Love is here 1'
'Tis night ! the moon is on the stream.
Bright spells are on the soothed sea.
And Hope, the child, is gone to dream
Of pleasures which may never be !
And now is haggard Care asleep,
And now doth the widow's *orrow smile,
And slaves are hushed in slumber deep,
Forgetting grief and toil awhile.
What sight can fiery morning show
To shame the sure or pale moonlight ?
What beauty can the day bestow
Like that which falls ivithgnntle night 1
Sweet lady, sing I net aright ?
Oh, turn and tell me, for the day
Is faint and fading fast away ;
And now comes back the hour of hours,
When love his lovelier mistress seeks,
Sighing like wind 'mongst evening flower*,
until the maiden Silence speaks !
Fair girl, methinks^-nay, hither turn
Those eyes which 'midst their blushes burn ?
Methinks at such a time one's heart
Can better bear both sweet and smart ;
Love's look ? the first ? which never dieth ;
Or death? which comes when beauty flieth?
V* hen strength is slain, when youth is past.
And all save truth is lost at last !
From the Knickerbocker.
REMEMBRANCE'
Oft at the hour when evening throws
It gathering shade o'er vale and hill,
While half the scene in twilight glows,
And half in sun-light glories still ;
The thought of all that we have been,
And hoped and feared on life's long way ?
Remembrances of joy and pain,
Come mingling with the close of day.
The distant scene of youth's bright dream,
The smiling green, the ruatling tree ;
The murmur of the grass-fringed stream,
The bounding of the torrent free ?
The friend, whose tender voice no more
Shall sweetly thrill the listening ear,
The glow that Love's first vision wore,
And Disappointment's pangs ? are here.
But soft o'er each reviving scene
The chastening hues of Memory spre- *1 ;
And smiling each dark thought between,
Hope softens every tear we shed.
O thus, when Death's long night comes on,
And its dark shades around me lie,
May parting beams from Memory's snn
Blend softly in my evening sky ?
G. W. G.
NEW ORLEANS POLICE REPORTS.
We doubt whether the Police Reports of
London famish more whimsical cases than the
following, which are copied from the New
Orleans Commercial Herald of Mav 20 :
K-r ~ ? f ?
I Effects of a Frolic}? A toll, well-made,
handsome young follow, named Henry Rhodes,
was put to the bar on a charge of breaking the
peace.
Rec. Stand up. Rhodes. What do you fol
low for a living?
Pris. I'm a sailor, sir.
Rec. Where were you born?
Pris. Dauphin county.Pennsylvania. Oh.
Lord! that ever I should be here ? Harrisburg,
seat of government ? good Lord! what shall I
do ? Harrisburg Hotel, my father and mother
keeps it ? what would they say to see me here?
five brothers and four sisters ? none ever got
drunk like me ? no, four brothers and five sis
ters ? oh dear, I don't know how many I have
got ? I'm so confused ? five sisters ? all of them
sober ? four brothers ? all earn their living with
I the needle. Oh, Lord ! have m?rcy on me ;
l how shall I get out of this place? I am a
respectable youngr man, Mr. Judge; I am, in
deed : do for God's sake, forgive me but this
once, and I never will do so any more, upon
my soul I won't. Oh, there's my poor father
and mother, and all my brothers and sisters,
sitting comfortably at home, eating fheir
breakfast, and I'm here in this disgraceful fix.
Oh, do, for Ged's sake, Judge, let me go. J
am sober now, and I'll keep so. 'Let me once
rret out of New Orleans, and I'll go straight
home and never leave it again; upon my word
and sacred honor I won't. I'll stay with my
mother and sisters; or I!!l get married. I'll do
any thing to get out; and if you ever come by
our house, Judge, you may stay all night, and
we won't charge you a cent; upon my soul we
won't; and you may kiss all my s-s'ers as aint
married; upon my sacred word and honor you
may. Oh, let me go ! do, for God's sake, and
I'll do any thing in the world for you. Oh,
Lord! mercy on me, what am i come to ?
Rec. Well, now, Rhodes you seem really
to be -ensible of the folly of getting drunk and
disturbing the peace. Supposing, let you go,
how long will you promise to keep sober!
Thi* seemed 'o be a real puzz er for poor
Rhodes, for he seemed to hesitate for some
time, as if doubtful of the strength of his pro
pensity for liquor; at last, with a desperate
effort, he exclaimed ?
*'From 11 cuv ? from now ? to? to ? to ? for
ever."
Rec. Then you'll be discharged.
Pris."G od Almighty bless the whole scrape
of you.
Something New under the Son. ? Old
Solomon should have lived in the present pe
riod, and he would have swallowed his own
words.
A litlle, bright, black-eyed, broad, bronzed
cheek child of Erin, named Mrs. Johannah
Barr, came to the office to obtain a warrant
for one Mrs. Mitchell, who. as she said, had
refused to give her satisfaction in a fair fight.
On being asked to relate her story, she stated
that Mrs. Mitchell came into her part of the
house to look after some potatoes alleged to
have been lost, stolen, or strayed, and that
ifrrs. Barr refused to give her iiigress or egress
through her premises.
"Divil fly away wid your dirty potatoes,"
said Mrs. Barr, "what would 1 do wid'em?
seein' I've plenty of my own!"
4{ You'll be so good as to let me search for
'em in my own house, madam," said
Mitchell.
"Divil of a house of yours is it, seein' we
pay the rint," says Mrs. Ba^r.
.?'Then, if you won't Jet me look paceably,
i 's*a big bating you'll be after tasting, instead
of a potaty," said Mrs. Mitchell.
i "And with that," says Mrs. Barr, "she flew
at me, and told mo she would cut the livers
out of my own body, and stick a fork in my
gizzard, and she koocked me d.nvn, and beut
me, a id kicked me about, and b'azed my eye,
and cut mv lip, andjtore my frock, and scraped j
the skin off my leg, and punched uie in tho j
belly, and kicked me in the back, and squeez
ed the breath out of my body, besides trying to
cut the livers out of me, and sfickiog a fork in
my gizzard, and said I was a dirty b ? h, and
my body's as clean as any woman s, and I
aint ashamed to show it, and all tny clothes is
clean, as your honor may see, and I've a de
cent husband, and four beautiful boys, as big
as any body's. And I said to Mrs. Mitchell,
says I, come into my own house, says I, and
we'll both on us strip, and see which is the
dirty divil says 1, and then I can fight you fair,
says I, in my own house, where you can't take
the law on me, and we'll have a fair fight, and
my man, and your man, says I, can look on
and see fair play betoon the two of us, and
she wouldn't fight me a fair fight, because she
knows I'll bate her to death, lijtidl.jist want
your honor to give me a warrant to make he#
light me a fair fight and send somebody jist
to stand by, and see fair play."
Rec. If 1 send any body, 'twill be to arrest
yo'J.both. Now go away, and do:it disturb the
peace, or you'll both be sent to prison.
All about ? Hj>rse ? A crazy looking
character, unwashed, unshaved, uncombed,
and unbrushed. stood at the bar to answer to
the charge of having stolen a horse, saddle,
and bridle from the beef market, where the
owner of the same had hitched it over night.
Recorder, Stand up, sir, what's your name?
Prisoner, Peter.
Rec. What's your other name?
Pris. Never had any other dame.
Roc. You did'nt, eh! What do you follow
now for a living, Peter ?
Pris. Nothing.
Rec. What have you ever followed ?
Pris. Nothing.
Rec. You've been profitably employed.?
And did you want this horse, saddle, and bri
dle to assist you in doing nothing ?
Pris. No : the horse wanted me. He *as
standing in the mud and wet gutter, and look
ed uncomfortable, ar.d as if he wanted to be*
come acquainted with some other part^of the
country ; and so I let hhn loose aud got on his
back, to see that he did'nt come to any harm.
Rec. That was very consider ite on your
purt ; so you did take the horse away ?
Pris. No, he took me.
Rec. And whereabouts where yon going
with him ?
Pris. Just wherever he thought proper to
take me. I saw the horse wanted anexcnange
of situation, and wanted to see the beauties of
a fresh pic re of the country ; and as this city
is going to be engulfed any how, and swallow
ed up by an earthquake shortly, I thought it
was best for both of us to bu out of it as quick
as possible.
Rec. So, the city is to be swallowed soon ?
Pris. Certainly, the* wor4d is going to be at
. on ft iatirft rufthrPP nqnn T ?ti
the banks have broke. ~
Rec. But that's no excuse for your commit
ting a robbery.
Pris. All the world is swindlingand robbing
one anotfier, and the sooner every thing is
stole, the sooner will all be at an end.
Rec. 0ut vou are aware that you could be
punished for stealing this horse?
Pris. No: nobody cm punish me now. I
died a long time ago, and all my punishment
ls^over.
It was evident that the prisoner was par
tially or wholly deranged. H? rode on the
horse to Lafayette, knocked at the door of a
house, and told the tenant he had come to
marry his daughter. The people of the house
turned him out, and he said he would report
them to the angel Gabriel, who was his grand*
father, and whose daughter was his mother.
Presently they saw the horse grazing along
the side of the road with Peter, or Sf. Peter,
as he called himself, sitting on the horse's
back, with his face to the tail. Upon being
asked where he was going, he replied that he
It- ft that to the horse; that a general destruc
tion was coming, and that horses, having more
sense than men, would be enabled to escape
from the universal calamity; whilst all men
and women would be swept away by it.
Rec. Where do you board, Peter ?
Pris. No where.
Rec. Where do you sleep?
Pris. I never sleep.
Rec. 1 suspect he is.jmor#koave than tool.
Take him over.
The horse, saddle, and bridle, were then de
livered up to the tfwner, a Dutchman.
A Frenchman, who had a dispute with a'
Turk in Constantinople, and had stabbed him,
was condemned to death. The Criminal
thought on inland to save himselfiffcnd as he
knew that the < ~peror was a great lover of
elephants, he p posed to himto spare his life,
and he would, n return teach one of these
animals to sjjeak. The emperor,, who knew
the sense orthe ele; Iieut* thougjitit possible,
that by pains and art, JfheyajigAt tie taught to
do so; lie therefore accepted the proposal of
the prisoner, and besiifes, promised a handSome
reward if he fulfilled; his promise in a certain
time. * The Frenchman said that ten years
would be wanted to instinct such a very large
animal, if he was to teach it to speak Turkish
quite perfectly; but he would be content to
suffer th-' most cruel death at the expiration cf
? hat time, if h j should not fulfil what he had
undertaken. After they had agreed to this,
h? and a yt>ung elephant were confined in a
tower, and supplied with abundance of provi^
sions. After a little time he was visited by
some of his countrymen, who testified their
astonishment at his mad promise. "You bring
destruct'on on yourselfby it," said one of
them. 'Don't tear, gentlemen,' said the pri
soner, Men years is a great period of human
life; 1 assure you that before these are expired
one of us, either the emperor, the elephant or
i shall be dead.'
Anecdote of the Vice President. ? The Louis,
ville Journal, says, that when the Tecumseh
killer was in Louisville on Saturday.Ja6t, one
of hi* friends, a free negro of thn name of Bill
Harris, called on him on board the General
Gaines. ''How d5 you do, Uncle Bill!" says I
the Colonel. "Very well," says Bill. "How
do you do, Colonel!" "Quite well, '(Jocle
Bill?How is your family ?" "All well, I thank
you ? How are your daughte: i, Colonel 1" ?
"Very well, very welj?" said the good Colonel
hurriedly. This dialogue ac nally took place
in the presence of rainy respectable gentle
men on board the Gen. Giines.
Deploralile Conditvm of the British Legion
at tutorial ? Of the dreadful t?late to which
ihe British Leg:on found itself nt Vittoria
during the January', February, add March,
of last year, a writer in the' Monthly Reposi
tory gives the following- most sickening and
heart rending account.
The very atmosphere was impregnated with
disease; and the ordinary morning salutation
of officer to officer was ? * Well, who else is
dead?" The medical staff was almost tllierly
inf fficie it ; the members of it then few in num
ber, were almost all at the same time lying ill
with fever, and those who remained on duty
were unable to csntend with the difficulties
they had to meet with. The Spanish 4Qthorl
ties refused them every description of assis*
tance; the men in hospital wanted bedding?
no no was to be obtained; the windows of the
corridors in the wretched convents which wore
converted, into hospitals, required to be glazed
? nothing of the kind was allowed ? aod there
lay the miserable sick on the ttaoeor mud
floors, covered with vermin, with scarcely a
rag or blanket to share between half a doaen
of them; their heads laid against wall th6 throb*
ing with lever heat, and their naked feet e*.
posed, underneath the open windows, which
looked down into the quadrangle court-yard ,tu~
the bitter inclemency and piercing cold of the
night air. Hence, when most of the Unhappy
sufferers began to rally from under the imme*
diate danger of the fever itself, their feet mor
tified, many of tbem died, and a large propor
tion of those who survived loift their toes and
feet, either by nature itself throwing -the
dead parts, or by amputation. The mortality
was such that for weeks thirty or forty wrre
buried daily. ^ Their bodies were throwrt in
discriminately into a cart, and carried to Jlle
place of interment, which wa8'? large hole
dug in the ground, into which they wene pre'*
cipated load after load, and which rMietnOd
open until sufficiently filled to allow its fetng
easily covered over with earth4 Whew eflU
cers died, it was at first attempted ''W aury
them with military honors, and the usual dead
march accompanied the procession 4 com
mon, however, did this soon become, that the
little children in the streets caught the air of
the dirge, and it was. affecting to heorliieni
humming, singing, and drumming to tham^
selves with sticks, as they played with eakli
other at the steps of tho street doors. .
Disturbances in Manchester, Tuesday night
The effects of the embarrasments in which so
many great commercial Jiousee have been -
recently involved in this neighborhood, are
unhappily extending rapidly to tho laboring
classes. A great number of hinds have been
thrown of employ, and. a, still greater number
can only obtain a miserably- limited pittance
arising from two or three days of ill paid work
per week. This is particularly the o^oO
With the band-loom weavers of Ihe coarso
in this town and neighborhood
4SSL
of that wretchefTSTasS look pfitce in
St. George's road, a district in which tbqr
principally reside. A good deal of excitement
prevailed among these unfortunate men,and in
the afternoon about one hundred ofthemfprm*
ed in a procession, and made thefr way to*
wards the centre of the town, preceded by . a
man bearing a pole, to which were affixed two
loaves, to indicate their want. numbers
speedily accumulated uptil they amounted to
between two and three hundred; as^they went
along, parties -of tbem entered the provision
shops, and obtained by intin^dation supplies of
bread ormoney, threatening violence ii they re
fused. In the evening they dispersed ; but
great numbers assembled this morning, but
hive been induced to refrain from violence by
the advice of some gentlemen who addressed
them, and a deputation was appointed from
tbem to wait upon the horoughbreeve and
constables witha memorial statingthe distress*
ed situation in which many thousandsbf them
were plaeed, and entreating a public meeting
might be called, that the gentlemen of the town
m?ght take their case into consideration^-'
They were directed to call at theiowafhall
this evening for an answer, when the authori
ties in question, together with the churcJuper*
dens and other gentlemen, having consulted on
the subject, the deputation were informedibat
applications for relief from any ot their body
really requiring it should be ^womptly attended
to at the church warden's office. ^Whether
this arrangement will suffice remains to be
seen; but really considering the. magnificent
sums lstely raised in this town for the relief of
the "Highlands andjslands," and other chari
table purposes, it does scein strange tligt no
thought bas been bestowed upon those at homo
? those who are starving by thousands under
our very noses !
The Globe and other Administration pajfcre,
with the most consummate impudence, now
say that tH&jpresent troubles in oor business
affairs arejust what they have predicted all
along. We know nothing that equals -their
assurance, unless it be the exclamation of the
Irish pilot, when he run a ship on the rocks.
He was conducting a ship into a port {' the
captain, seeing that he was a "leetle corned,"
and thinking he was deviating from the 'chan
nel, asked him if ho was n<* gmner wrong. ? -
"Arrah, let me alone for that/' said he/ With
a rich Irish brogue, ?'dorr't f know every rock
in the hubo:?" The last word was hfcrdfy otter
ed when the ship struck hr?avily;upon> striken
rock, when the pilot instantly continued?
"and ihat is one tkem." ? Kennebec JourruA. ?
It is well th**t the Distribution bill parsed
as soon as it did. Had it been delayed' an
other year, a vastly increased amount of the
public lands would have passed into thelianJs
of speculator*, and the whole revenue from
th?m would have been lost. We thought it
bad enough that the deposite banks should
have the use of forty roiUtfine of the pub ic re
venue, without interest, t^spbculate And shave
with; but that was only the bepomog^ the
spoils upon the Treasury. Wo have I|?fthe
int.; rest ? we are now in danger of foeiogl the
principal. Thp deposite banks have afl flailed
if they pay over their quota of the deposites,
it will be in theirown bills* some, if pot many,
of which will be little better than Waste paper.
It is thus that the public treasure which was
wrested fom the United States Bank* in vio
. lation of law, has been .squandered ao4 lo?t.
What imposition and outrage shall wt Oftxl be
required to suffer ? ? Kcnacbcc JoumoL