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fir*"*
And tbe bemidtaf Of a hundred iUmm ,
*.*j;it h*tb Ut tub woodlaud'a gloom.
?? 1 have ma tbe kmgbt uiiJ bit (rain ride part,
With kU bnnnerboww on kM,
OV nil my feavea there wu brlghtueae cm,
From bu glaemy panoply
"Zto pilgrim it my feti bath laid
Hl? t*lm branch 'mldrt tbe flown*.
And teM Ut beada, au<! met kly preyed,
K>M't-g at vejper hour*.
'< Amftha merry men of t he-wild and glun,
In the KNin array I Lay wore,
ItvitmlMlfeMawiib th? red uluo'a chccr,
AaJ the hunter'* ioiu of yort.
* And lha mlnrtrel retting in my shade,
'? Uttbmndeihe forett ring *
WHli tb? lordly Ulna of tbe high cruaade,
,Once laved by chief end Uug.
* Bnt now tbe noble form* are gone,
Thai walked the earth of old;
The toft wind hatb n mournlul lone,
i The Many llgbl look* cold.
" There la no glory leAoa now,
Lib* tbn fflonr of the dead;?
S wnulil llul where they dumber low#
' My lite* leave* were *hed!"
Ob! thou dark tree, thou lonely tree,
. Tknt afcnrneit for tbo past!
A praMOt'* borne in thy almde 1 tee,
gmbower'd from every blart.
4 lovely and a mirthful aonnd
Of laughter meet* mine ear;
Vor the poor men** children aport around
On tbe turf, wMb nought to tear.
And roettlend that cabin'* wall
A happy dimmer * low;
And tbaopae door itaud* free to uK,
For it redu not of * foe.
And tbe village bell* are on thetirerru
Thai rtlrsUy leaf, dm k tree!?
How can I mourn, 'rnld.t thinga like their,
Fpr tbe ilormy pe?t, w ith thee?
UOME, 6WEET tlOMi:.
.? favourUe ttng.
'ft(ld|>le*?ufptend pelecet. though we mny ronm,
V* It evtrto buuible. thero'a no pltro liku lniu?e;
% charm from (bo tkietternii to hello* tit llu-re,
Which, March through tbo vtorld, <? uv'cr >u?t
with rltti where.
Uomc, borne! tweet houic' thwe'? uo placo
like bone. I
>Au ealle from borne, tploudour d*z*let In vein,
dgive in? my lovely thelch'd collate
The bird* tinging gvlly tbut cunt et uiy cull?
Ogive dm bSM peace of utiud, dourer thun ell.
And O, will it aever egelii he my lot,
Gnreptored to g*a* on uiy tweel little cot!
Wherever I rove, there it no piece I two
So deer to my botom?to lovclv et Mac.
Houm,4;c.
Uow tweet'tit toilt 'neetli efather'* fond unite,
Thueeretofe mother to Mtolhe mid betuile; ,
Let otbeit delight 'mid new pteiourv* to routn,
|Pbt give ?lv* WM t'>M p'LluUfLI ol Itwtuc. |
The following Uamorout article is extract
ed frtxa a letter to the Editor of the Cluu le*
ton Courier, written by a gentleman who U
on a tear of observation through the south
em end western ketce.
A DISSERTATION ON "COTTON."
. St. Louis, Missouri, March 25th, 1827.
D(M Si*?It was about the 10th of Janu
ary that I taw you last: when I promised
should any thing occur worthy of note, to let
you hear from me) but all I taw and beared
of, ou my Journey* was to monotonous that 1
dreaded the inevitable nocc?*ity of falling in
to tautology and so transgressed;
For when I took tnp last walk along the
wharves In Charleston, and saw them piled
Mp with mountains of cotton, and all your
stores, ships, steam and canal boats, cramcd
with, and groaning under, the weight of cot
tomi 1 returned to the Plantcrra Hotel,
where 1 found the four dally paper*, as well
?* the conversation of thu boarders, teem
ing with cotton! cotton! cotton!!/ Think*
X to myself "I'll soon changc this *cenc of
cottonBut, aiasf How eusily deceived
is poor short-sighted man! Well, I got into
my gig, and wormed my way up tltrongh
Queen, Meeting, King, and St. Philip'c
street*, dodging from side to vide, to ttecr
dear the cotton wagons, 1 came to the new
Bridge ferry. Here I crossed over in the
borte-boat, with several empty cotton wag
gons, and found a number on the other wide,
loaded with cotton, going to town. From
thle I continued on, meeting with little else
. than cotton field, cotton gins, and cotton
wagons?but " the wide, the unbounded
nrotpect lay before me!" I arrived at
Jacksoborough, which its inhabitant* ac
knowledge to be a poor place, though there
is much rUton raised in It* nelghborluxxh
1 next reached Waltcrborough, which, I
should say. le another poor place; but the
citisens informed mo that there was much
mood cotton land, og from the elf/. From
thence, after meeting a number wagon-, load
ed with cotton, 1 arrived at Ham well; where
the cotton fleldsand cotton gins extend even
unto the village* and where all the tulk of
him that laboureth, and he that l? learned
In the law, and him that sits on the judge*
?eat, I* el cotton, \fter leaving Barnwell, I
Overtook A vent number of cotton U>nd*d
wagons bound for Augusta; and at the ferry
three ?Ue* below the town, I had to welt
tor ten of them to cross before I could go
qvkt. I new came to Augusta* and when l
?saw the cotton wagons h Broadmrm,
whisUed! but Mid nothing??! But this was
i thosedoeen tow
mo?? than n thon
eaok) and several
still atari. And fm biutt
niff coifon warrnotitc*
32P
with 1
there it inmlcu im <to
coittm or the b**e?. , i
; and as I pained through Its
J to enquire thu way of an
rj who iufotuied me wf tltree
roads leading to MilltdgCviUc. but two of
them, be observed, were cut all tp pieceahy
cotton wagons} (iu>U (ind know* that 1 met
enough oo the other;) tmt there we# a third,
if could find it, which was less travelled; and
1 after directing, me, 1 asked hint if that spa
clou* building mbur u< wai intended for a
barrack.* Barrack* No! saye hot that U
my cotton warehouse I Will, Mid 1, you
were determined to have lootu enough. I
did think so. said lie, hot It U choke lull of
cotton\and I have a good deul on hand tijfc
h is to lie out dornit' Good Lord dcliwr us,
said I, and departed. I now overtook ItonU
of cotton plauters from Horth Carolina,
South Carolina, and Georgia, with larg?
gangs of negroes, bound to Alabama, Mis
sissippi, aud Louisiana; " where the cotton
land u not worn out.'* Besides these I over*
took auuiubct of empty cotton wagon* return
ing home, and a great many loaded with cotton
going to Augusta. Two of these wagons mart*
mg one dny, directly opposite u?v, the follow
ing diuloguc took placc hctwoeu the drivers.
"What's c'jtton in Augusta?" says tba ??uc
with a loait 44 Cotton," says we other/
The euquirer sup|K>*ing himself not be un
derstood, repeats, 14 what's cottcn in Augus
ta.'" M It's cotton,*' says thu other. " I
know that," wys the first, 44 but whut la it?"
44 Why," say the other,441 tell you its cotton!
cotton is cotton! in Augusta, and every
where else, tlutt over I heard of." I know
thut as well as you," says the first, 44 hut
what docs cotton bring in Augusta.*" "Why,
it brings uutbing there, but every body
brings cotton,*' 44 Look here," says the first
wagoner, with an outh, 44 you had better
leave the state; for I'll be d d Uf you
don't kuow too mudi for Georgia."
I continued my joururv, pasting cotton
fields mi the right liand and on the left;
through Sunders*file, where the talk was
still ot r&mrn; until 1 arrived ut Holt's ferry,
on the Oconee, where I saw three large pole
boats loaded with bales of cotton twelve tier
in height, From thence, 1 went to Mill
' edgcvillc, where 1 found wagon loads of cot
ton coming to, passing by, and going through
it, in evcrdirectiou; und the prevailing topic
of the place, 44 what an infernal ?hum* it
wat, that *uch a quantity of virgin cotton
land t/iouhl be ouffrred to remain in thefto?
*etsion of the i/ifernul Creek Indian*?"
From Milledgcville 1 went to Macon, which
they say is surrounded with most excellent
cotton land; and us a proof, I saw many
stores full uf cotton; and many large boat*
on the Oukniulgcc, loaded also with cotton.
But the town, it is supposed, will grow much
foster when it beconu* the teat of govern
ment, and hat more bunkt. From thence I
moved to the westward, ctvsMHg Flint river,
and from there io the Chattahachic, found
cotton land speculators thicker tliau locusts
in Kgypt. And going through the Creek
Nation, I every now and then, would |tas? a
cotton patch, but when 1 got out of the
Nation, by crossiug Line creek, the planta
tions from there to Montgomery, (14 miles,)
outstrip any thing 1 liuve seen in cotton
planting. The land is nearly level; the fields
of one plantation joining by a fence those of
another; and all cxtemiing buck from the
road farther than you can distinctly see; und
thu cotton pretty even, and about as high as
thu fences, and hus the appearance ( is Ri
ley says of Zahara) ot a complete horu'41 of
cotton. They hav e, almost all of them, ov?r
plauted; and hud uot more than one hnlf
of their cotton picked in: each plantation has
a cotton gin. I next came to Montgomery,
which I found over-stocked with cotton, and
no bouts to take it away. Hut while 1 was
there tl)e Elizabeth came up, and took off* a
thousand bales, which hurdly made a hole in
it. From Montgomery, 1 went to Blakely;
and on my way, saw many cotton plantations;
and met, and overtook, uearly one hundred
cotton w agons, travelling over a road, so bud,
that a stute prisoner would Imrdly walk
through it, to muku his cscapc. And al
though people say, that Blakely is done over,
there was not u little cotton in it. From
there, 1 crossed over to Mobile in a small
steam bout, loaded u/i to the toh of the tmoke
fil/ie with cotton. This place is u monstrous
receptaclc for the article: look which way
you will,you sec its and see it uiot iug; keel
boats, steain bouts, ships, brigs, schooner*,
wharves, stores and press houses, ij| ap
peared to bo fulli and I believe, that in tne
three days X , was there boarding with about
oneluiuurcdrof/o/j factors, cotton merchant*,
and cotton plunters, 1 must have heard the
word cotton prunounccd more than 3000
times.
From Mobile I went to New-Orleans, In a
scliMtHtr; und the was stuffed full of cotton.
1 arrived at New-Orlvpoa on tin- 7th of Feb
ruary, on the night of which Mis* Kelly wui
to make her ft tut nppearam c there; uml 1
went to the Theatre. I was directed to ko
up a certain street in the upper Fuubourg,
and turn into tlie flint coitipiruou* brick
buildup, lighted up ??i? the right. 1 did so,
and to! and behold! I fou..u myself in a
bteam cot ton -/?r at house, where they work,
watch and watch, by candle light, screwing
cotton, After an examination, however, I
went to the play: ami after thut was out,
] enquired the way to a licensed Fharo Hunk,
und was told that I would find one at
the Louisiana Coffee-House, ju*t below the
CQttOH'firr**, ottjxwitv a luff! cotton ware
house-. 1 don't know how many hundred
ih<His;utd bale* of cotton there were in New
Orleans but I wak there only six day*, in
which time there arrived upward* of 30,000
babra?and wlieu we diwppcd out into the
stream, in a steam boat, to uor*nd the river,
the levee, for a mUc up and down o|>|x?ite
the shipping, where they were walking bale*
<x? cud, looked to M it waa aliw. A Keiitucki
uu who was on board, swore the cotton had
pma uj>on the town* " don't yem see," says
he, " the bales inarching up the the Irry."
I must here begiu to abridge, or I shall tie*
vex get through. Well, coming up the ri
ver, I saw many cotton plantation*'arid ma
ny boats at Baton Rouge, IWyeu IMrah, and
other li?mediate plrnc, loading with cot
ton. Aatd in passing the mouth ocIUd river,
we took Oo board five rrtorc passenger* whb
live oeat Hatch it or hen, Thdy likf that
To letllo up*
&
Ion// At Matches, thvjrs were a number of
flat, keel. aiul steam boats, loaded wHU c O*
fsaiaud one of the latter, Willi tho fourbnata
>l?e had In tow, had 3100 bah*. Mississippi
isa great cotton state, him! the quality Is sod
tu be vt;ry fine. At the mouth of Arfcan
im river, we took on board about fifty ue
Sroee and two uvciseet*, w bo had wade a ve
ry excellent crop of rfttfon in the terrkoiy#
but fbeac' it too unhealthy a place to reasah*,
and were going buck to North Alabama.
Prom NeVr-Orieuuetothemo*huiTeunee
?ee river, we pass** about thirty steorn
boau, and wore than half of them were la
den with cottonj ai*o, about fwerfty fiat
boats a (lay for ten days, and about half of
them were loaded with ce/'sa. Aad In tho
Tennessee river, we pasted about fifty fiat
boats, nearly all loaded wltkcoffo/t. \Vben
we got up to the Muscle Shoals, there waa
more cotton hi waiting than would All a do
*eu Meant beat*. I went by land from Flo-j
rcnce ami Tuscumbia.toHaaUvUle. There
Uavnat deal oicottoM made about the shoals,
in North Atabamai and they go all for quan
tity and not for quality; Uianed cotton was
MelUng there lor about six cents) and most of
the lesser planters have sold their*s In the
seed, at one and n half. After teav big Hunts
ville, I entered Tennessee; passed through
Halem, Wiachester, V'MmuviUo and Mur
freesboro', to Nashville) aad on my way,
saw^an abundance of cotton and cotton fields.
The Tonnesaean* think that no other state
isof any account but their own; Kentucky,
they say would be if It could grow cottont
but aski?,itiigoedforn<*hiog. They cal
culate on 40 or 50,000 bales of cotton going
from Nashfill* this season; that is if they
can get boats to carry it all.
Prom Nsshritte, X descended the Cum
berland river in a steam-boat, between two
keel boats, the Cherokee and DrcumttA,
(poor Indian names, that have rang from
Nickajack to MiehUlmackinac! now doom
ed to bear the burthen of the whites!) all
three piled ap with cot/on-, am! after getting
below the shook, toClarksvillc, they stopped
and took in 30 bales more. 1 left this bo*t
at Smithland, at the mouth of Cumberland,
whore there waa soother large steam-boat,
loaded with cotton for New-Orleans. After
seeing, hear.))*. ami dreuming of nothing but
cotton for seventy days ami seventy nights,
I began to anticipate relief. For on the
route I took, whether by night or by day, by
stage or by stcuiu tnwt, wake up when or
where yo?4 would, you were sure to hear a
dissertuiion no tvttvn. One night in Mobile,
1 was wukffd up about two o'clock, by two
mcreirint'* clerks, who slept in the name
rorno, ami ?cre just going to bed. They
were talking of lottery tkkets; and so) s one
to the utlivr, "if you were to druw the
SJ0.0DO prigc, what would you do with it?"
" Do with it s4>s the other, " why, 1 would
take the $2J,0u0 of k and build a lai-g<*, fire
poof bvkk st<?c; and with the other *35,000,
I would fill it with cotton, at 8,1 cents, the
present |?rtce, uiki keep It tlJl it ro^e to IT,
and then 1 would sell,1* llut this U only one
hem, of a thousand. On the 19th of March,
there came along a steam boat fiom Louis
ville, bound to St. Louis, and I took my pas
sage in Iter. She had not a bale of cotton on
board, nor did I hear it named more than
twice in 36 hours. We ran down the Ohio
to its mouth, thence up the Mississippi, and
1 hud a pretty tolerable night's sleep; though
I d rcampt of cotton. Having business in Illi
nois, 1 left the steam boat and walked three
or four miles, to Kasksskia. Here I went
into a public house, and being somewhat fa
tigued, called tor refreshment. They shew
ed me Into a room by myself, aad brought
me some hot coffee, warm beef-steaks, ?c.
and 1 felt so happy, that I could not help ex
claiming in the language of 8haksi>csrr.
" uow hi the winter of my discontent made
glorious earn uter,H by iuy escaping from the
realms of cotton. But 1 had scarcely began
to eat, tthai 1 hearda mmt terrible to do, in an
adjoining room; the noise grew louder and
louder, HUI at lost, the door of my apart*
incnt wwburst open, and in canto throe men
clenched together in u fight. " Cotton!**
exclaims i?e, w1m? appeared the moat In
earnest, "give up the money!?I'll have my
money Cotton! You're cheatedme, (hitting
Cotton at tf?e suutu time) Cotton!** J now
laid down Ay knife and fork in a paroxism
of depuirtand exclaitucd with the poor lit*
tie Frenchman, ** by garl here Is Moosicur"
Cotton, '* come agen!"
From Kaskasfcia 1 rode up' on horseback
to the opposite shore (and saw a pretty good
sample of the American Bottom, as it is
called. I past five villages on the way,
three Frencl^ and three American) though
for twenty mile* of the road tin:re la but one
house. 1 a*?v an abundance of game on the
n?d-*?ueh as deer, wild gtesc, turkies,
ducks of uU kind*. ice. From Illinois Town,
1 crossed ox er to this place in a horsc-boat,
similar to the onu at the brige ferry in
Charleston, tit. Louis is a most excellent
site f<>r a town; at will no doubt, at some dis
tant d:?y, become a second Babylon. There
are about a doaen Indian mounds in and near
this town; and they of themselves to a man
of fortune, and of a philosophical tarn, are
worth a journey fct" to tee. They were
originally, (and inneed are bow,) square, all
except , one, the largest. 'ITtry measure
from 50 to yoo feet on the sides; each aide
fronting a cardinal pnhit ?f the compass.
Tltcy are tiwiu 10 to 40 feet in height; flat on
the top, all except the largret; and are statu
tes on the highest ground. T lie largest a??d
kigheat is a tabular oldong bank, about 200
feet long, umtuvctiooks all around if. There
is another, t<*? curious to be deagrilMsd
in the balance of this letter.?-The^f W u
low place in the griojud, about 100 yards
from cacji, from whcuce the earth was
taken.
I ahull leave here day after to-morrow, in
the stage, for Vineennesi and thence down
Wabash, to r.ogllsh Prairie, New-Hariwotty
andBliawneeTowtu < - . * J l
P. & Yew havo^eard my vtehingthe old
General: but I am Mill an Adam* man, and
toare about twe*thirda of fltinoU and Mis*
MRSSJr meant. ?
?Two,
W ?
- the bet, and ke wm not * little
wken ke received'for answer, that it
Jmiu a dispute a* to the direction the
brick meeting steeple would tuko should H
ever fell,? The one bet it wquld. /nil ?U/,
the other ww .\\ xv York Chmiick.
Anecdot* of General Jacfaon?On a Sun*
?lav during the Into war, having given di
rection* tkat thvre should bt no working or
uautceaaory uni?? hi tke ?un|*i one of kl*
officer* um? to kiui and complained that'
*ome mttkudUt aoldlor* bad assembled in
violation of kU order*, and opened a pruyer
nieeUng. " (Jo then and Join them." said
the General, "and request tkem they will
not forget me in their prayer*. God forbid
tkat praying should be oa uncommon uoUu
lu my caiup."
Shrewd Antvxr.?A woman naked a doc
tor whether taking snuff. wu* not hurtful to
the brain. " No," said the doctor, " for ke
tkat ha* any. will not take anu?"
Coutitry.?AVhcn Socrates was aaked for
hie country, ke replied, I was born in tko
world. Every land, taith Ovid, it to u vuli
ant man kla native country.
Svficrfluoui Ilcqucit.?Voltaire, having
lampooned a nobleman, waa one night on
his way home. Intercepted by him, and
cudgelled for hia llcentioua wit; on which ho
applied to the Duke of Orleans, then regent,
and begged him to do hint justice, ??Sir," re
plied the regent amiling, ** U ha$ keen done
already
Damage* by Fire. ?- A celebrated glutton,
who hud hired a new cook, made a singular
demund on a respectable Arc office, in which
he waa insured. The cook, by carelessness
or want of akill in kla profession, entirely
spoiled a dinner ke wua ordered to prepare
for a large party. Tke modern Helingabo
laa tnad#<appliintiou for thirty |>ound*, the
value of good* damaged by Jire on tke pre*
mites.
Hhovtouldnot be married??The Hamp
shire Gatette tells of a farmer iu the town
of B' ?? , in Hampden county, who haa a
wife and 23 cows. i*bc wife takes care of
the whole drov? during the busy season of
bay making, brings them from pasture, gets
their milk, and make* It into cheese, to the
amount of one or two tons a year} and all
thia besides doing the cooking, washing, and
other work of thcffamily. A very conveni
ent wife; and for ought we can kuow, a most
delcctuble companion. The dark shade in
the picturc of litis happy couplc, is, that
they have no children.
To take out grcutr Mfiot* from a car/tet or
any other woollen cloth.?Dissolve a piccc
of pearl-ash, of tli?v. size of a pea, in half a
teacup of warm water; or a piece twice the
size, in a full tcacup. Pour tome ot the so
lution on a grease spot, and continue to rub
it with a clean brush or woollen cloth, until
it is nearly dry, aud your carpet or garment
will he as clean as ever. 1 have tried it re
peatedly and found it rCTcctuaJ.
JJrituh ?jr/torte*~U is a fact not general
ly- known, that the amouut of export* ot Bri
tish produce to the new states of America
and Until, exceeds the amount of export*
to the United Stateu.
Macbeth waa translated into German in
1826, from the English of btiuk?)>CKrc, by
S/ilkeri represented at Berlin with little
success.
Population of Rome.?'I'he cod of 182J,
it was ;3(1,750 inhabitants, of which 1,488
were priests; 1662 monk*} 1,303 nuns; 2,002
poor in the hospital*; 1,020 prisoner*. For
ten year* past, the number of criminals and
coaacmned person*, was about 1,1V0 a year.
J earned IntenilbUitj. ?While the learn
ed Francis Morrcil was busy preparing JtU
edition of Ljbaniu* for the itrcss, he whs told
that hit wife was suddenly taken ill?** 1
liave but twoorthrrepcriods"sald Morrel,
** te translate, and then I'll come to her."
Presently, after he was informed she was
dying! ??1 have ouly two words to write, 111
be with her immediately." Presently they
brought him word she Wa* dead?wit It great
calmness he said : 1 am very aorrv, for she
was really u mighty good woimmr'
Not long since, as a couple were going to
be married, and had proceeded a* far as the
church yard gate,the gentleman stopped hi*
fair comrade with the following unexpected
address;?" Mary, during our courtship, J
liavc told you moat of my mind, but not ulf
my mind?when we are married J shall
insist upon three things." ??What are
they?" asked the astonished lady. ?* In the
first place," says he, ?? 1 shall lie alenei se
condly, I shall eat ulouc; and lastly, 1 shall
find fault when there is no occasioni can you
submit to those conditions?" ?? O yes, sir,
very ouily," she reuiied, " for if you lie
alone* / *HaU not; if you eat alone, I shell
eatjlnti and as to your finding fault without
occasion, that, 1 think, may be prevented,
for 1 will take cure that you shujl never
ti'tfi/ < "cation."
Let it be carefully instilled into pupil* <4
either sex, that a moderate knowledge of
music, with accuracy and uutc, produce*
more gratification to tjie listener, as well as
to the performer, that the greatest brillian
cy of touch, and rapidity of execution, with
out taste and accuracy. A girl of very mo
derate musical talent may play and sing to
please relatives and friend*?the only per
son* she ought to desive for auditors.
The I.adirt of Gtrm<tny+*?\ tnurtvsl in
Germany give* the following description et
the Havony ladies. "TM Indie* nru models
I of industry! whether at home or abroad,
knitting and needle-work know no Inter rup
* " ' " ' ~ would "' *
Into mcliutely reeumelicr
uitting. * ?> ~
r?.??te<uc.piiS?SKS',
question put U
|>^7? belong to
m. k-M rent for 1
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describee u i
VrM?c?i^'VP^IffPn,? Mf ,.,.
* Nw* these purden*, and hard by the
river side, there fc ? green meadow, a placer
rendered memorable by circaeistancos of
deep end touching interest. On thi? spot
Were masaenwd tome ofthe wretched vie-*
tiuu of the revolution Tko pooploofLy*
<H with e Just sensibility, hnvo.^
?tho field of Borrow,
"A body of the
to this
rie. In crosalng the I
ed over, end being found to' cxcecd tho
allotted number by two pencat, tho com
mauding ot&cer, Vallot, wa* informed of the
circumstance, end we* asked, 'whether the
two should be saved? end in such e case,
which two?' Ho replied, 'whet matter ia
it? who cares for two, more or lets? If they
go today, they do not go to-morrow. They
proceeded, therefore, and 210 men, accom
panied by these two ill-fated beings, whom
accident had Involved in the,massacre, were
conducted to death. Their hands were
tied behind them, and they were bound to a
cable, passed from tree to tree, along a.
of tall willows} the soldiers were
range of
drawn up In an opposite line, whh two pieces
of artillery. At tM appointed signal, their
limbs Sew in every direction. Those whose
t away, fell from the cable
led, v^ed bytho fitvalry.
i Those who wen;
Sew in every direction.
arms were shot away, fell from the cable
and rooo anrtfla
who cut them
wounded, bat yet net released from thu
cable, cried out to their butchers to finish
their works and they did to without delay '
with the bayonet and sabtfe. Their number
was such as to raider tho work of btttcherd
long end fetiguingtmany Were left breathing
and palpitating In the agonies of death, any
next morning many* still alive, were buried
with the dead, by those who came out to plW
Inge and who threw Ume on them still quick
and alive. Such is the narrative of u French
man. Alast the French hatfe many, veiy ?
many such massacres to relate; blood which
agc? of peace and penitence will not wash
away. We saw the spot where the trees
have stood. They a^e now cut down, and
replaced by monumental stuns, to the memo
ry of thoao who perished.
Commerce *s Olden Time*.?In the year
1730,100 vessels of all sorts and sixes enter*
ed the port of Philadelphia, and ITI cleared.
At New?York In the same year* there were
211 arrivals, and 222 elearancck The same
year In the threegovernraentsof Maasschu
setts, Rhode Island, and New-Hampshire,
the entries amounted to 761, and the clear*
ancps to 860. llut it to observed that many
of these were small coasters that entered
and dcarcd several times In the coarse of %
yew#
la the year ending March 23d. 1736,
there was 190 arrivals at the port of Phils*
delphla, and 213 clearances. Among the
clearances were 53 ships, 31 snows, and 13
brigs. The rest were smaller vessel*.
Among the clearances, we And 4 4 for Mew
Castle on Delaware,' noted with the same
formality as the clearances for Loodoq,
though the three lower counties on Dela
ware were then united with the province of
Pennsylvania.
In pie same year there was 34* arrivals at
Charleston, 8. C. and 353 clearances from
which it appears that the commerce of
'Charleston was, at thai time, greater than
that of New-York or Philadelphia. "A
We have heard it sold that York town*
Virginia, now dwindled down to * trifling
village ot fifty or sixty houses, at one period
imported for both Mew-York and Philadel
phia. Can any of far auttyarians a&htft
protrf of the Uutcmewt/ ? .v
From A'.ic*' Urguier.
POPUI,AT|ON-4?OWRK?VVEATrf.
It bus been well observed thst the follows
ing lines of Stutherlyl**deserve(obe written
indiuiuonds." They appear not to KnglanC
only?but to the laboring clasiei In every
country, and, in tho present state of things,
and the actual progress of population k,
some i# our states, with the comparative
decline of power and wealth in others, arc
Mrikbigly applicable to the UbM Btists^.
Kngland, indeed, la over-barthen?4 whU por
pulwtion, because over-b?rtheued with taxes
and monopollt?-*but we have mom enooah
for the thousandth generation; snd h to the
ola?s of persons alluded to, that most plant
and support our banner on the shores of oqjr
I country* or bear It round the world,' %
?? Trala up (by rttiltfrto, Knalend.
j In ih* w^y?ofil?('iiMMiHM!?s?4MnJta dlhmi
With the I'lr.Jof dnclriif?-~
I Whtrn halt (boa wtliw>*~-but in Ikstr industry?
i'lty Imlaarks aliwre?Imt la their breast*??thy
mhrht, ,
Hut lu ill*Jr
Shiift not tWr HuutUn, therefore, be thy
utmUk,
Thy pevtr,?\Uy s?/f/yt?snd thy
wWif
O jrrlrf and skua*.
If la <hls &jeri*hiii<f tawd thsrs shoeld bo Oarcl
Whan* th* new-born lad* doth lirlag luio ill |M
KoBp?wWf...i?UJr?v?iyt???lv-, i! ...
a, say*
M
?plant#
Irectly.