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No paper discontinued until all arrearages are paid, unless at the optin' of the Proprietor - f7Ailvertisenteiits inserted at 75 cts. per square, (14 lines or less,) for the first and half that sun for each subseqent insertion 87The number of insertions to be mnnrked on all Advertisements or they will be publish ad until ordered to be discontinued, and charged accordingly. . One Dollar per square for a single in -ortion. Quarterly and Monthly Advertise ments will be charged the samne as a single nuertion, and semi-monthly the same as new ones. - - All Obituary Notices exceeding six lines, and Communications recommending Cand dates for public ollices or trust-or puling Exhibitions, will be charged as Advertise ments. 10-All leffers by mail must be paid to in sure punctual attendance. Froi th. N. 0. Daily Delta. TRUE HISTORY OF Lafitte, The Pirate. Many thrilling romar9ces have been written, and mitch bad poetry perpetra. ted, upon theilife and adventures-the piratical and bloody, deeds-the hair breadth escapes and marvelous exploits of Lafitte, the famed pirate of the Gulf, who succeeded -our illustrious friend Sancho Panza, as Governor of Barnt aria. Ingraham, Lippard, and some half a dozen otherspawners of startling narratives, have tried their hands at Lafitte, and in due course of time, we may expect that the eternal Sames will catch him in his wide-spread net, cast for heroes and bloody incidents. It is very repulsive to our feelings t be compelled, by a sense of duty as stern historians, to dissipate much of r 5. this romance. It afflicts us to the soul to give up a delusion, a romance which has nourished our youthful fancy, and solaced many an hour of idleness. It - - is like waking from a pleasant dream, or shaking off the pleasing influence of chloroform. It imposes upon us a du ty as repulsive as that of the great his torian of Rome. Niebuhr who so iuth lessly attacked all the pleasing tradi tions about Romulus and Remus, the -, sucking wolf, and the rape of the Sa bines, and proved that they were mere allegories-not like the stories of Sin bad the Sailor, of Baron Munchausan, of Captain Riley, and Counselor S ,positive, substantial facts. But the truth of history must be vin dicated, as Colonel Benton once re marked, in commencing a speech which his opponents said was an elaborate compound of no-such-things. Anil so we must, though it snap the heart strings of our fancy, and throw into pie our earliest traditions, avenge the truth of history, of many foul's wrongs has it received at the hands of the novelists and false writers, by testing some so ber and discomtaginug somew sober andi discouraging truths of LAwr rr:, Ta u: .BLooDY PIRATE OF *THE (tuLF. 'Sir, repeat that again,' we eagerly remarked to a venerable French p.en tleman, in whose pleasent lit tle skiff we were quietly tacking across Pascagoula Bay, not many (lays ago. 'Did [ understand you to say, thaut you were intimate with L-ititte, the pi rate, that celebrated buccaneer, thuat bloody pirate of the Gulf, the terror of whose name spread from sea to sea, unm til, with his long, lowi, black schooner, that outsailed the wind, he becanme such an object of dread that mothers silenced their children by whispering his awful uname?' We were out of breath with excite mnent and curiosity, asn we finished this comprehensive interrog~atory, and turn ed to the smiling, goodl natured famce of the elderly Frenchman. 'Yes,' he commenced, with torturing slowness and deliberation, 'I knew the man that land-lubbers have writtenm such wild stories about, though I should .never recognizedl him in your descrip tion. He was nothing of that sort.' 'Was he not a pirate?' we exclaimed, * ~ with biting scepticism and defiance. 'Nothing of the sort.' 'Nor a freeboter, a buccaneer, a skimmer of thme seas, with a flag of cross bones, and a, long, low, black, rakish vessel?' 'Nothing of that sort.' 'WVell, sir, you astound me. Per huans you will not denv that lie ever Most emphatically I do deny- that he ever did both.' 'That he was not a sailor any more than a pirate?' 'lie was neither.' At this, we broke out into a laugh, and coinlitnented our venerable friend upon his skill in running a circular up an land-lubbers. The elderly gentle man rather dignifiedly remarked that he didn't joke serioaus natters; and as Lafitte was an old friend and acquaint. unce of his, he should take npgsuchlib erties with his histof. y "Old friend of Lafitte's?' we said t ourselves. "IHero's a pretty muss we have got into." Out in a little shell of a vessel, ten or twelve miles from shore, with a particular friend of one who, we are assured by the veracious Ingahan and.a dozen others, was the bloodiest villain that ever skimmed the seas. We involuntarily raised our nuibralla, the only convienient weapon at hand, to repel any effort Lafitte's friend might make to punch our impertinent inquires into the mysterious life of the -pirate. At last, the mild,.countoriante-ef' our companion dispelling all apprehensions of violence, we feebly, and with a per ceptible softening of our voice and man ner, remarked: 'Then, my venerable frienr,- if La fitte was not a pirate, a f'teebenter, a skimmer of the ses; ?bti in the name of Heaven was he?' 'A blacksmith!' he promptly re'pli ed. A blacksmith!' Oh, son of Jupiter! Oh, husband of the lovely Venus! Oh, Professor Ingraham! Oh, George Lip. pard! ! "A blacksmith, sir; it is incredible' impossible. How could he sail a verse: if he was a blacksmith?' 'lie never did sail a vessel, and couldn't do it any more than you.' We had been within an inch, a f:w moments before, of capsizing our vessel in a ve r" short administration of the hel-n of State. "Lafitte,' our companion continued gravely and deliberately, "was born in Borleaux, and served lits time at the blacksmith's trade. i-Ic came to this country when qjuite a youn g man, amul kept a little Shop for sone time on the Levee. I lere he remained for several years, making an honest living at his trade, whenl, one day. he was prsuiid ed by some S;.aniards on the levee, some of whom are now living in your city, in wealth and respectability.--to gro into the sm_uggling trade. Ile wenat in to partiersii p with the owner of a ve sel trading between New Or!calas anti the West Indian islamds. lie remiaini ed in the city to dispose of the goods smuggled, whilst his partner managed the slhip.--M\eeting with great success lie emplovel several other vessels, antid taking advantage of the conifusion inci dlent to the situation of Louisiana in its tranasfer fronm Spaini to France, andal from 'France to the United States, he located hinsclf at I Uarataria, a 1ay a p ciing int. the ( hilfI ol Mexico, where hi, ves.ls i unl:aled. X111l their cargoes wr e:in 'wall hb *t- :i al firogu-m thme lisia ii a t wer takeni acro' s,: the river ini biats, dxni.;.d as thi.se (f plnter-s. Th'le atrticles th i us smuggh'sl, werei disposed ofi by numerous)'l agents. and1( hanidsomne pr.aits were tmade mt; them. After a while, tihe adtiation of the Government beingt~ att racted to is operationms, a nval fo rce. undaer time senat d1own to break thaem tip. L-itte amid his men made oaut to escape, bu't al their property was coumliscatedl, their housIleA burned to the gr und and no~lI 't a vestige tnow reimins of the estalish Inent. Thus dr-iveni oult to sea, Lialit te's men taoo k to) theitr vessels, and were dodgitig abmout the islamnls in thle Gulf, wheti thme Enaglish invaduing force ax rived at thme mouth of the Mississi; pi.--Pro posalIs were then silbmiittedl to Laifitte, to allow binm a handsomiie uatnuity and an hon~orabale posit iaon in the En glisha navy~, if lhe wouhmIdl ilt thle rmi tish fore upi to thme city, 01r informt thmem of thle miost prac ticale route for reachinlg tihe city. Lafitte iiunneditelyv wrote to Go v'ernor Claibonie of' the lippsal and begd ho b peri.1tted to figh unider the flag of the United States. Thel~ Go vernor submitted his petition to, G3ener al Jackson, who freely gr'anlted their pardor, anid gave thmemt an hnotrabale position in the litnes on Sth Jaiiuar y, when, in charge of the~ 18-pouniders they did effective servie. This is briefly the hlistaory of L~afitte. Ie has beeni uchi vilifled anad traaduced. 'Thm crimimtnly of his smuggr~lingt now cond~iSted in its beine more oven than much of the smugglingow carrigd or in Qur city." Our companion then proceeded to re lace many interesting incidents iniLa fitte's life, some of which we will endea vor to lay before our readers in futur< ninbers of our paper. lie concludes his narrative by describing Lafitte's per sonal appearance. "He was a tall ra ther raw-boned man, of lively black eye pleasing face, sallow complextion, aic good address. There was nothing o the pirate or free-booter about him, Ilis nature was kind and benevolent and his heart was in the right place." [From the Model Americn Courier.] The Slight misunderstanding A SCENE IN THE R. R.- CARS. BY PAUL CRYTdYN Not long since, a sober, midkle-aged gentleman was quietly d' zing in one of the Eastern Railroad trains, when his pleasant, drowsy meditations were in. ter.-upted by the sharp voice of the in. dividual by his side. This was no less a personage than a dandified, hot blood. ed, inquisitive Frenchman, who raised )cis hairy visage close to that of the 'gentleman he addressed. "Pardoinnez, sare; buf wot you de viz 'e nictair-hein?' As he spoke, lie pointed to a pair of beautiful steel plate engravings, in frames, which tie quiet gentleman Tield in his lap, and which suited the fancy of the little connoisseur precisely. The quiet gentleman looked at the inquisitive foreigner with a scowl, which he meant to be very forbidding, and made no reply. The Frenchman, noth, ing daunted. once mchre approached his hairy visage to that of his companion. and repeated his qjuestion-= "Vat you do viz ie pietair--hein?' "I am taking them to Salem,' replied the quiet gentleman, grhfily. "ha!' von take 'eni to sell 'em?' chimed in the shrill voice of the French. Inatii. "I be glad of zat. by gar! - I like 7e pictair. I buv-'emn of you. IH'w much von ask?' "Thev-are not for sale," replied the sleepy genttltnan, more thorougzity a wake, by the way, and not a little irri tat 1. "Ileina?" grunted monsier, in astun, islainent. ''Vat yons, say sare?' "I say I don't want to sell the l4c tures,'' cried the other at the toj. of his voie . "Byv gar! e'est exclaimed the French man, Lis eye begiinning to flash witi lassinii. "It is one stratnge circum stance, parbileu I ask you vat you td viz z pietair. acnd yo'u Say you will liul sell 'cim. Vat yoi canio, sare--hin?' "1 mean what I say,' replied the tth er sharply." "I don't want to sell th< engravi1'.s, and I li'u'nt tell you I diid.' "3lorblu!'" slttered mitosie'r, in tone loud enoulgil to attract tle atten tioni of those of I is 1s fellow- asseligen who were lint already listeini, ''Mo r bll! von nwan'il to Sa v I 've not an 'If Car' Non in''usitu r! iy gai', I heam ver' wvell vat ;'ou tell mei~! You sas~ you~ sell z'.- ietair'. Is it because' I b. olie I":elieiliisalil, zat retn will nut sell tt 'i'ieo ir1ri tate-l getleh&tminal, lhoill ti rid1 liiaueelt of' t iie aili.mlle *, nm-irt his ha"k 11 0on1his assailanit, and ni.a-It iu- ~iisitui' was n-it to lie Iut o ii . I le l.1irl hiis in'l una tit' si tollI dN of' the (tilerl, anid s.iliig hiis sili whbite teeth exelimed "'acrlist ie: liu ~ir. zis5 is- t imuchl oin ave give iiie oi e i1:sub . andi I s al 'ave satisfacetion!' '' M,. gal', uisieur~C w Colt ined I1i Flrenehmi an '"von arme not "ie genitle iL l! I slhall call yvou oneC lIotl ooln va t von call 'e m?---cowarid! "Whiat do you meanhi' reCtorited th< other, afraid the affaiir was begimnin to be serious. "I hav'ut insulted yot "'Paridonnez, monsieur, liut it is om grandi inlsult' In AEmelien, Ierlial itot ---Itut ili Franice onie helo .V you: bl'aiii ollt. for zal! "For' whlat, p ray?' "'For vat? P'arble o! you call mue onm nmenteurv-how you speak 'emu---iar'? yol call ime one liar'' "Oh, no, sit'. You misnider'stood- -' ''No, by gair! I 'av~e got ears. Yoi say von will sell 'ze lie ti'; and wheno tel you vat you say zie conitrai.'e--zati is liot So! "'lint I did' it tell v'on I wonhbl st-h the mietur ies, rturonst rated' thm moan wi t the en gralV ing~, beg iniing. to feel alarti e i at thme passiont in.antifeed by th other. 'u wmiderstood-' "'"' tel i, It is not posoebl' WherL it youi do viz ze pic tair vaty ?' "I said taking them to Salem. "Yes,"p I exclaimed monsieur, more angr pn ev.er -you say you take 'cm t 1em.' "No---n "interrupted the other; "not to ael a but tb Sa- -enm-the city of Sai "Ze city) of SeIl'er" exclaimed the French' n, amid the roars of laugh. ter that grouted his ears. "Zarcaste! Zat is on grand mistake Pardon mfoneier! del bete! Ze city of Soil' em? IIa! -l"41! I wil! remember zat, by gar!' And he sriked his moustache with his fingers; beild the man with the pictures .on O nre gave way to his drowsy :aolinatio s. Ft m Wright's Caesket. THE T CHER A STUDENT. B I. L. CA MPBELL. 'I in bo wing very much interes ted in my usiness,' said a teacher friend of mitio a few days ago, in the presence of8veral others of the same profession; it delights me to see the sparkeing e e-the index of a -mind grasping at new ideas. 4nd then, as week after sieek, and mont 1 afer nionth pass away, :;find that many, !hose at tention coul with all myeffbots,secarco ly be arrest .at first,, begin now to drink in knrledgoewith pleasure--es, even with Obgerness.. 'Their minds seem already "o have undergor6 an imn portant ch ags-they seen to grow stronger auatronger at every step Tas they p'rogres' 'If I coul1'jof the same pleasure in my schoo 'attid another df less zeal in the cins ofa Ednuation,; 'talii would no to 4r be an up-bill business with me. it even when' my schlars have the qut lions prined at the bot tomi of the }ge, and hal'o op'ortunity to prepare a vers befgrehand, there is a dullness onout their recitations, which makes, it at kojne task tolisten to them.' k This is en =tio to show tWat.. they :must have been teacher& of 'ery different character; else that'their schools must have differ ed widely in capacity. I have some acquaintance, both with these teachers and their schools. The schools are ah ut epinl, as regards number and age of pl-ils, and in every other respect, except. the progress they are making in mental impri. vement. The differ ence is foun. elsewhere. One of the teachers is in every sense a student, the 'tier is not. If called upon to give a reas.n why teaching is a business in which so few ake an interest. I uo'uld reply--because there are, coItmar'tively, few teachers who are stulents--I mean students of what relates most to their business. Can any one he expected to contr l and mmanigc that about which he knows little or notling? 1low is one who has never vet ascertained the moral and in te letmul peculiarities of' any mind, to lie able to govern that mind in all its opeiraitions? As well mtighut you expect rieb, s~ weet music fromi an instroneiint, whtile the performe'or is ignorant of every niote' andt ebordih as to look fir a fullI di: -:elopmeni'It of all thme rieb andl vi ed fa. cuieis >f* the' v'u hf'uI minid, while that im:inid is~ la the- 'iudts 'if one' who lkno'ws pow ers. I nmran ce if hiumiman ntmi~ Iioranice of '.hte ii uiat riies of dsoi tionm amiong childi en andi' 'outh, is dloubt less the reail c:umse ofso numny failures ini disci pliin. But it is not so much mioal as menital dhisciplineC, 1 wish now to spea~k abotiut To be ablc to control the imids of the yon g, so as to lead thiem along thme pathis of' knowledge anid science, amin mke thmem gathmer upl with I.Lasuire, yea, with eagerness, that which will increase their strength. and bie of' use to thmerm all thme way along the great ji~nuneiCy of life, we most know the priesent caipacity of' each-we must -know what each is able to bear-we ummst know in what fornm each can most easly take hold1( of' what is presented. There is no0 text-book in anv* science that givecs full andi clear explanations of' every' point, insuch a form as will suit iinds *'f e very capacityv There are pairts in every system of Gr'ammar, Arithmmetic. A lgebra, the natural scien t es, anmd indiseed , in the whole circle of huimnan learin1g, whieb should be pro sentedi to diifet2 ~m mids inl v'aied -iunless he is, ini the first place, well versed in the ulcuta4 peculiaritica oJ his pupils. in the secojkd pitee," perfec tl tly familior with all that is excejlont and c all that is defective in the briols placed 1 in their hands? And, firallh of . what avail will all tilis be, unless be has his own mind so throughly filled with the subject of study, that l4'W,1Vbe ready to explain every thing that may need r explanation, and be able te bring forward I from various authors, fis well afrom the a res urces of his own tBind, enough to n make every thing clear and interesting r to the minds of his pupils? Ile should ti he able to make the youthful learner I feel, that books are not the only rich is and pleasing source of knowledge. Il Do you ask how this is to be done? sc I know of but one way. IIe who pre. t tends to teach, must first learn. Let a, him not fancy, when he sets out to teach, 11 that wThat he has gathered up during ei his school days will serve his purpose pi now. Then he studies with help-now I he must study to give help. lie must n now be;prepared to give the assistance gi lie then received. Teachers should be r< taught to burn the midnight lamp--t taught to gather up the thoughts of R1 many others, and make them their own ai --taught to fall back upon the resourpes o1 of their own minds. They shoild feel L that it is their business to make foot- ti holds along the steeper parts of the hill tI of science, so that others -who are more ut feeble, may be able to ascend. L fa 'THE FABLED UPAS TREE.'-What passes with most as a fable, is after all e a reality. Brooke's Journals of a resi dence in Borneo are entitled to all credit, for their author ranks as one f k the most remarkable men of the sage- e having by his individual enterprise, put *f in train a series of events resulting in the conquest. and probable civilization of the t savages df that Island. ti While making geological examina- V tiorisin search of coal, he with his h< friends discovered an isolat ed upas tree, a (antearis toxicaria,) nearly forty feet F. high. Its trunk was almost straight, its -r .bark smooth, and of a red. tad color, ,and its head a dense mass. of dark green gloss foliae. The around be- to . of htdys crowded: Ithi.Aombs; yet vegetation flourishes iu frlitly a-i rond its roots. In tapping it, no bad effects were ex- e perienced from the efiluvia. But on cutting it to obtain a portion of the wood. bark and juice, a man was so mtch i stupefied that he was obliged to desist. ' It is ascertained that the bread fruit P tree, the mulberry, and the cow tree of " South America, belong to the same na tural order as the deidL Upas. 0 N. E. Puritan. SMACKING IN A RAILWAY TUNNI-L. b -That perverter of female innocence. Cromwell Doolan, had, with his accus. r tonmed gallantry entered into cotnversa tion with Miss Mary Bull. le saw her name on the fly-leaf of her pocket edition of "Childe Harold;' and, to her t astonishment, after a fair allowance of L coquetry on her part, at length explain. I edll toued the mystery. MissM ulfutdand laughed more than was quite becoming which tended to increase Mr-s. Bull's ill humor. Wordls are searcely had enough for foreigners; she reual famied again. Presently, theiy enteredl one of the tunnels. whicht C1Icu.c alnost immedliately on hv ini.: thne station, and come in quick sue ces-sion. b'etneen it. and Aix-la-Chiapelle. Cromnwell wvas ini onie or his olId humor-s, and full of funi. As th ugh.t struck hiim; he would Iay ofl' the oldl ady for her ill breeding; and lhe imparted his plan to Filazree. Shortly after-, they were h whisked into a tunnel, and all was darkness. Smnacki smack! from Cromi well, and ditto, ditto fromn Mr. Muftlini, as they faithfully imitated loud kissing. It was pitch dark, andl the old lady was about?' Smacek! smack! again. "Char- U lotte!-!Mary!,-Girls' Smack! smaek! I (a titter from both young ladies.) "Gcntlemnen!-mny daughters!---do you hear? Sacre?' liene that peculiar light which warns the traveller by rail way that he is .just about to emerg' inato light glimmered through the car, both yotung ladies looked as innocent as if nothing had happened, (and nothing had happned.) Filagr-ee looked at a his boots, aind our hero scanned mamma, c us if lie hadl niever- seen her until that t muomeint. Ma her-self looked dlaggers. 1 WVhisk-and into, another tunnel like a I shot. Smack! smack! again. "Gen- s tlemen'-girls!-such conduct"' (Roars < of laughter fiomi the youing ladies.)' Smack! smack! '"Charl 'e~ Mry!' (Renewed laughter.,'"I'll stc~p tlhe I ooach! Guard!...arch.Chnrlonankunn. 1 emen Smack' smack! 4 nvpy then gd: p o dal :ife in the Amy ,y,. S F rom the'Edge id A PLANK RO - MR. EDITOR-=It wil - a(ily admitted by 'lItl . goads, passing through or hi l v bion, bringing it in immediate comm t ication with market by a sa and easy. )ad, isbf direct and immediat' ben it. Such is not the case wit i oads. Many Barnwell Planters t- " ig on the line of the Charleston; oad, find it for their interest, and coo' nd their Cotton from twenty to thirty iles by wagon, to the Hamliirg icet' id some planters on the Geoi iR nad, now wagon"their cotton silty or ghty miles to the Augusta market, l., -eference to sendin it to nidket hy " all Road. But it should be, kepti ind that the common roads in Geor-,T F 1' a are not so uncommonlg bad, as the ads leading from the up-cuunty; There are some objections to a oads passing through lands andplant e b' ' ions, which cannot well be obviadd C ie is, the danger of sparks frm 'the ,- ?i ocom6tive, setting fire and burning tnber land. About twelve nonth ago, ' " , ere were many thousand acres of val ible timber burnt, on the line of the ang Island Rail Road, injuring the rmers on the line; to the amount of 'out half a million of dollarp. Anoth. hbjection to Rail Roads, is the dan- , r oi stock being run over and killed: - any planters on the line of Rail Roads ep up two lines of fence, to keep their tile off the track. Neithe. of these jections 'appljto#P'lank' Roads. It may seem extravagant, at first ht, but on examination, I believ ose who wagion cotton to'Hamburg, ill agree with me,that the value qf the recs and mules killed or :injured to be, worthless,' during thea 4446&m ars,-by pulling through the ' sand on Hamburg to the tveli a apost, * muld build the Plank Road' fri dgefeld to Hamburg. Tb rg.of th& Groonvillo e sge ich can probably be traced o that Luse. To build a Plank Road from Edge Id to Hamburg, ten feet wide, 3 ches thick, resting on 3 stringers x 4, would take 174,240 feet lumber :r mile, supposing the road to be 25. iles, it would take 4,836,000 feet of imber, to build the Road. The Mills the route could probably furnish, 0,000 feet per day, which would re aire about eighteen month for them supply the amount needed. It thus ecomes obvious, that it is necessary to - all in the aid of steam, in building the >ad. Ily taking what lumber the Mills n the route could supply, and erecting Steam Engine, on some ridge where imher is plenty, moving the Engine as xc timber is exhausted, the road could e completed in from six to ten months. will recur to the subject again. SALUDA. EFFECTS--A Suitor for the hand of a oung lady, had been repeated warned 1 mat she was ai violent and ungoverna le temper but persisted in attributing me information to envy or mistake.-.. \t length,' said the lover, relating his iishap to a friend, -I got into an argu ient with my dear Marie about a mere ftc, when she so far forgot herself, ini a iment of passion, as to throw a cup of. 'And what was the effect?' inquired is auditor. "Oh! that completely opened my NAvaL TacTICS.-A captain, one of~ ic old school, being at a ball, had een accepted by a beautiful partner, a idy of' rank, who, in the most delicateo ianner possible, hinted to him the pro riety of putting on a pair of glovese Oh!" was the elegant reply; "noder ind me ma'am: I shall wash ny anda when .rye done dancingi.--.Eng sh Paper. A Certain linnen-draper waited upon lady for the amount of an article pur hased at his shop. She endeavored >remind him that she had paid when e called some time ago; he declared e had no remembrance of the circum tance~o; on which 81he produced his ro eipt. IIe then asked pardon, and said, Iam sorry I did not recollect it." To Lhich the lady replied, "I sincerely be& ieve yo'u are sorry you did riot roeId,