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heen heard of, I will endeavor, as far as I j n
can, to discribe the machine, and explain i C
the manner ol using it. i p
The machine consists of a very strong j d
pair of wheels, say 19 feet diameter; the fl
axis is about 15 or 10 inches diameter.? s
Net u- to, and the inside of one of the wheels, I li
? third wlicel, something less than the others, i j;
?> famed on the axis as a hub. A large j \
rope hawser, is fastened to the periphery r
of the small wheel and coils upon it. To r
the end of this hawser arc hitched lour oxen i <_
*?a large chain is made to fasten to the j i
centre of the axis round the stu nj>. The ! |
oxen drawing upon the hawser, turn the i t
small wheel and ax:s, while ihc two large c
wheels remain stationary, only supporting <
the operation. Tim stump when thus e.\- 1 <
TraeteJ is borne off. swinging under the ax:s,: i
to the hue whe.e tlic fence is to be made. '!
It may be necessary to add that where ;;
the stump is large and holds a strong grasp ; i
upon the earth, the most prominent lop ! I
roots should be cut off .*3 or i feet from '
~ 1
rue siuuip. , .
TI?o fence is constructed by throwing the ..
s.mnps into line, and stopping in here and j
there a root to secure the widest openings. J
To those acquainted with the durability of.
pine stumps, it is iiardiy necessary to oh- ;
servo that the fence constructed of them ,
will remain sound lor at least one generation.
i
The machine constructed as above and
applied by four men and four oxen will ex- ;
tract from 70 to 80 stumps'per day. Its use
fulness needs no comment. There is nothing <
visionary about it. The experiment lias
been tried upon a large scale, and many a
farmer who heretofore dreaded the pine j
stump as an enemy which would survive i,
himself and annoy his heirs, now swings j
his undisturbed scythe or cradle over the j
strong ground which his (alien foe once ;
occupied.?Centrcvi/le Times.
We sec it sta'ed in a Maine paper, that j
the bounty, which will be given by that state j
upon wheat grown therein, the present sea- j
son, will amount to 8150,000. I
Farmer <$ Gardner, j
East India 8Cotton.?There annears to i
m t ' 4 I
be a great increase in tiic growth and im- >
port of cotton from oi.r East India posses- j
sions during the last year. Up to the 17 h
of December 1833, the import of East India
cotton in'o the kingdom, was 111,140,;
v h 1st up to the 17t:i of December 1830,
no less than 222.535, bags were imported; i
I
the increase, therefore, is verv nearly at the ;
rate of a hundred per crnt, "during the last!
twel 'e months. iShould this increase be ;
permanent,-and should the lu'ure increase |
be in any propor:ion to that of last year, j
the cotton trade with the East Indies will, J
in the course of a dozen years, be one of the j
most valuable branches of trade in the !
the empire, *to the shipowner, the mer-i
chant, the manufacturer, and to the people j
bothoflndia and the British Islands'. . To
the British ship owners this trade will be j
particularly va uable, both from the Ieng'.h j
of the voyage from lad a and lirom the ab- j
ssencc of foreign competition in this branch j
ot the carrying trade, it wi:i not ue k-ss {
valuable to merchants engaged in the trade j
to India as furnishing a saleable return for j
British goods imported: and if, as has J'
been contended, Iree labor is cheaper than i
slave labor, it will be not less beneficial to
tha manufacturers and people of this country,
by rendering the saple of our great
manufacture cheaper, and of course, by
cheapening the labrics made from it. Up
to the present time, the cotton of tae E ist
Indies is considerably inferior to the cotton
of the United States in quality and
condition, owing to the inferiority of the
seed, the culture, and the mode of prepar- j
ing it, but since Europeons have been al- i
lowed to hold and cultivate land in India, |1
we may reasonably expect as great an ;
improvement in the co.ton of India us in (
the indigo, which, Irom being almost un- !
saleable, has almost superseded tint ol all :
other countries- We believe that the pub- 1
lie have as yet a very inadequate idea of I
the value and extent of the trade which
the abolition of the East India monopoly 1
11 /-? * '\ , F (lit /,/ i?ii(mi- !
Will Opcu IIIU t'liivi j'l iu;a Luuiui \ . ;
* | 1
Prevention of Stc<*ui'roat boilers from 1
Exj'losion.?Dr. M hitohead, professor of; 1
chemistry, and formerly of Oxford Uuiver- :
sty, writes to the editors of the National j1
Intelligencer, that ir is a mistaken notion i
tint the upper part of the boiler does not i
decompose the water, and thus produce i
hydrogen gas, as well as the lower exposed !1
direc.ly to the heat. Nor is the snfoy |!
valve of any use, or in any w a;, affjcted j
by that gas. He thus concludes: j .
"The remedy against explosion is iiap. j '
pily as simple <md as easy as t ie disease . r
itas hithrto proved fatal and frequent; and t
it is, to coat over the whole interior of cv- j I
cry iron steam bodcr with copper or any j '
other suitable mettle or alloy, which will; i
prevent the disengagement of hydrogen gas ! c
by the decomposition of steam cr water, j r
tiiose metals not having tlie same high do- i
gree of attraction for the oxygon of the i
water as to produce its decomposition, and (
the consequent production of hydrogen. 1
The above theory receives strong con- 11
firmation from the consideration of a vcrv '1
rv'markahic fact, namely, that on the waters : i
ol the sea board, where the boilers are en- ! s
tin ly of copper, explosions are seldom I <
known to happen, or when they do, may be J i
traced to culpable negligence; whereas on ' I
our interior waters, which are fresh, the S:
boilers are constancy exploding, without j1
any apparent cause. * The mystery, how-'
ever, will cease when we recollect, that j
they are all made of iron.-'
}
r.'om ihj York, Pa. Gazelle.
Sew and Important Intention.?Wo hud !
the pleasure, a few days since, of witnes- j
sing the opera-ion of a Rotary Steam En-?
gine, invented anu constructed by our in- \
genous townsmen. Mr. W m. C. Grimes, j
This machine will, if we mistake not, take 'l
jink among the most important mcchani. i
cii inventions of the day; and in its con-'
s ruction, at) object has been obtained that:
ha-3 baflM me-? #:>-:?? of many
lcchanies ofthis and other countries. M?\ v(
r rimes has established the possibility of e:
roducing, by tiie application of steam, a ci
irect rotary motion, without the aid of any h'
ly wheel, or the intervention of cranks, p
hakle bars, slides, cams cxccntrics, &c.
uthcrto deemed essential in using steam
lower. His engine is, consequently, much ^
nore simple and perfect, less liable to do ?
angement, and more easily understood
md ke; t in order, than any other. It is so
^instructed that, for the purpose of ccono- 11
nv, advantage may he taken of the pro.! I
vrib's of the elasticity and expansive pow- ; I
r of steam, thereby saving ffty per cen\| v
jf steam at the loss of twetvy.five percent, j r
?f power?it possesses, in common with 11
alher steam engines, the power of revolving 1
n either direction, and the peculiar ad van- v
[age, that its power may lie reversed in- r
stan'aneously, without tlio aid of any ad- jv
[li'ional machinery. Another advantage,::
l!??it \i ill (? > rcnilJi- r>nnrrM'.iiltCil bv tllOSC ! t
"1,4 *v * n -j - - i
who arc conversant wiili t!ic rotary engine,! c
and arc aware of the principles that have I
been heretofore employed inatteinptsto ob- *
tain a rotary motion is that although a re. <
volving piston is emploved in the engine of f
Mr. Grimes, yet it possesses no seams or j?
stops to destroy i's durability or efficiency, 1 *
The machine, the operation of which we >
were invited to witness, is one of about S ! <
horse power, and occupies scarcely as
much space as a small cooking stove. *
??? ? *
NATURAL HISTORY. '
The King Snake.?There is a largo *
species of speckled snake, commonly cal- :
kd in the southern states, the King Snake,
perhaps because he is the most formidable J
enemy of the rattresnake. It seems to le j
the chief object of his existence, to pursue '
and destroy the latter, whose retreats and *
presence is discoverable by the emmission 5
nn/?i)l!oi* ciMfi!' roenn >tll lM<r of llie '
\Jl ?. 1'1-V.UllUt OlllV.ll IVOVtlK/ll-.g ... . .
cucumber vine. The King snake, to all j *
other than reptiles, is the most harmless of! J
creatures, you may strike him, he shows 1
no resentment, ho hisses not, he turns not, 1
nor does he exhibit any terror nor sl?v\ ;
gishness. Drawn by the smell of cucurn- J
hers, he frequently enters gardens, but his
appearance excites no alarm in any human \
being that knows that he :s tbe King snake; J
and on the contrary, women and children I
will approach h.m, turn him about with a 1
stick, and playfully annoy him, with impu. 11
nity; he is only a relentless enemy of the c
rattlesnake, whos; strength and venom 1
avail nothing against the activity and mode k
of attack of die King snake, wiio is always
victor in every combat. f
Ye the rattlesnake is a terrible repair.? k
There is a peculiarity truly appalling in the 1
sound of his rattles, being unlike the noise J
of any other creature; and when you hear ^
the first time, the true instinct of nature im- (
presses on your quailing heart that danger (
and death are near. Never shall I forget 1
one horrid evtn of my life! I was fishing (
in a southern lake, one summer c'av, when *
an unusual disposition of sleep came over 1
me. I stuck tiie end of my fishing rod in *
i i . > . r i ! t
the hunk of the lake, ana sougm u Doauiuui j
place of shade, formed by the interlacing 1*
boughs of gigantic live oaks, and towering j1
magnolias, perfumed by the delicate odour j
of u beautiful wild orange, then in bloom, j ?
which had sprung up in luxuriant grandeur i 1
under the leafy eatiopv, the seed of which 1
had probably been dropped in this lonely J
spot by the Indian hunter or the wandering
wild bird. At its base, on a carpet of \
green moss sprinkled over with its fallen
and snowy bloom, I stretched myself in
luxurious langour tor an hour's repo~o. I 1
slept. When I awoke, I turned on my j*
side, and perceived some distance from me, 1
two brilliant orbs; and instantly a tremulous, J
mingled sensation of an indefinable nature
came upon my faculties. Something of an
instinctive dictate or impulse counselled 1
tnc to avert my looks; but then there was s
such an absorbing, wishful delight in ga- c
z'ng into eyes, that intently and meltingly
gazed into mine, that even the tnMhuious
pulsation of fear fixed my frame, and 1
I remained so facinated that I could see
nothing but the most beautiful colors. In I \
sho'1, I was totally los4, so completely he- !
wiider. il with commingled emotions, that
f could not withdraw mv gaz? nor even
. 3
move.
Suddenly, the melting eyeballs glared i
ivith sparks c>f fire?there was a move, i
ment?I was still in a dreamy s ate?butj:
still distinctly saw an enormous rattlesnake;!
\ ing in his coil, his tail quivering with a j 1
vibrating motion, his head erect and drawn ' ,
- % . ! r
Duck, wiili the jaws distended, and the j ~
mgs bur re !?within three feet if where Is
I fay. Irs gaze had been disturbed ; and i
when I hoard t ie ha'cful rattle sing, the
ull consciousness of my dangerous situa-j
ion aroused id :, and through all my frame j
[ felt the ex'rem tv of terror; and just as 1 j
was about obeying a frenz cJ impulse to
ise and fly?God of heaven ! I felt the
ieadiy reptile us I thought, coiling around
ny neck; i saw part of his body?I felt
he cold and slimy skin upon my neck,1
ind the shiver of horror went through
2very joint and member of my frame.? j
Such a f eling of agony ! n.y eyeballs j
svere filled with scorching fire; my veins j
were frozen; ali tilings became of a blood :
red hue?and then of a sickly and loath,
some yellowish green. There are moments
af existence, which involve the sensation j
of years, and when the whole detail of a
thousand fi lings scarcely occupy the brief
space of a leisure thought. Nature could !
endure no more, and I lost all sense.
Atlength I had the painful tingling sen-!
sation of returning life through my veins,
and when in full consciousness I arose
from the earth, 1 saw near me, tranquilly
and quietly, a living King snake, and furthcrofl",
the lifeless length of a tremenduous
Rattlesnake. I sat upon a log and reflected;
and 1 am now satisfied thai the King
snake had crept over my neck to my res- 1
cue?there being the live oak at my feel 1
and the lake immediately back of the or- 1
ange tree on whose massy root my head
had been pillowed?so that ids t e.irest
route td the enemy was ever tny body. But j
aWugh rrv 1 f* was n?r;v"'en*iahv
2d, yet the effects of that scrnc ave the
diaustation ot'a great portion of my ex- p
liability, ami the introduction of grey c
eirs, and premature debility, in all my a
owcrs of mind and body. e
Anecdotes of the South. p
o
Extract from an anticle by Dr. Cooper in the J
>. L. Journal.
THE VERDICT OF HISTORY.
"During ID or 12 years of Mr. Middle's o
lost able administration of the Bank of the r
Jnitcd Stales, the paper issues of the S.ate <!
lanks we re kept within bounds; b'a ices i
tore not permitted to accumulate, the cur- *
cncy of the country was in as good a state t
is could reasonably be expected. Our pa- t
ler was every where convertible into cash, I
vithout diflicuby. The finances of Govern- t
ncnt entrusted to that Bank, were managed r
vitb a cheapness and facility, that left nolh- <
ng to bo desired; and the whole currency r
>ftl?c United S'atcs cxoricd the approbation [
)f the best informed financiers of Great (
Britain. Nor is it to be denied by any man t
vho lias a character to lose, that the notes t
)fMr. Middle's Bank were several years r
^referred to coin. During thirteen years. (
i50 millions of the public money were transerred
to and from all parts ol the Union,
.vitlioiit the loss of one cent, through the j
ixeellent management of that Institution.
Soon a for Gen. Jackson's Election, it i
>een:s to have been determined to control f
lie Bank of the United States and to bend i
i: to the party purposes of the administra- i
rm . jv _. _ -. . " T .
ion. i nc nrsi open arcmpi was 10 June,;
L829, supported by Mr. Woodbury and Mr. i
Fiil!, to effect the removal of Mr. Mason,'
President of the Branch Bank at Portsmouth,
n New Hampshire, from his office, because
te was not friendly to Gen. Jackson's elecion
and administration. This measure was
supported by the S?cretary of the Treasury,
Mr. Ingham, who undertook to state to the
Bank "the views of the Administration in
elation to this appointment!." The Prosdent
ofthc Bank,with concurrence of the Di.
cc ors,replied to Mr. Ingham,thutjie rightly
lpprehendcd his views; but acknowledged
io responsibility to the Secretary of' the
IYeasury touching the political conduct of
he officers of the Bank; that being a subect
on which they consult no administration.
Flint the Bank has duties to perform toward
he country, but not toward any party, whose
pretensions it would not acknowledge or
compromise with. In the present case,
he best mode of satisfying all parties, was
0 disregard them all.
The President, Jackson, who had re peaediy
spoken of the bank of the United
States, without objection or reprehension,
low began to formal attack upon that injtitution,
in his Message of 1929. This
vas continued in 1830, 1831, 1832, and
iverv succeeding year, till by a series of
complaints against that bank, frequently
sw.i-.trhf] l\if rVnrri*ac>9 nrn'on^vinrrlif hn/il*
CDltMUU UJ VUll^lVOOj UUl |iV^iOV.| V/U^IVid
by the whole power and patronage of {
governmcn4, he finally prevented the renew, J
il of the character, lie withdrew from the
nnk the deposiles of the public treasury, '
igainst the opinion of constitutional author!- I
v. he took the money under his own com. 1
nand, I Jc distributed those enormous sums
o various local banks dispersed over the
jountry, increasing through their means the
nfluence and pa'ronage of the executive:
md having thus locked up the public treas- 1
ire among the banking institutions which \
:c thought fit to favor, his successor may j
tow look for it :n vain. The banks thus '
avorcd, have stopped pay men*,'even against 1
he government, whose deposits they hold, ?
md laugh to scorn the public creditor. At 1
his moment (June, July) it is generally ru- *
!l?* IwJmvvi.l f tlin I (
IISJH U) UiJU HO UUitt(WW) inav U?V.
vhole system of government would actually
lave stopped, it* the wise moderation and
lonest public feelings of Mr. Diddle, bad
lot induced !;im to make advances of large
iumslo relieve his opponents from ti?e dilirallies
in which they were involved. Iniced,
throughout the whole of his reniarkn;!e
controversy with Gen. Jackson, the ad.
nirable mildness and moderation of Mr.
diddle, exhibited a striking contrast to the
dolent invectives of the President of the
Union.
Gen. Jackson's opponents address him
hus.
Sir,?You attempted to bend the bank of
he United States to the party puiposes of
our administration. The directors resisted
lie attempt. Then and not before, you
lecame the persevering enemy of that instiution.
You seized despotically on the treasury
!epo=i.t'S,Jjuder pretence that they were un;afb
in the national bank: a pretence in
vhich you stood alone. You pro missed to
rrcvide the means o! a safe custody for the
>ub!ic money. Where is that money??
iVhere is the treasury? In that bcggerlv
epository of empty boxes, the public treasire
will be sought for in vain. Say then,
vhere is it? Gone, dissipated, thrown away,
_ . * _ I
van;o:uy wus.uj. i
You and your pnrtizans promised a spo:ie
currency in place of paper money within
l twelve-month. From Maine to the cxreme
South, hardly a coin is to be seen.
You promised to equalize t,ie exchanges,
ts if they needed it. fr. on have thrown them
tl! into inextricabl:', unutterable confusion*
You found agetieral disposition to main,
ain mercantile iionor and punctuality.? t
ifou have prostrated and degraded the iner- \
tantile character of the Union, by forcibly 1
etaining the assets that ought to be applied j
o the discharge of honest debts. You
have actually (not perhaps intention, i
illy) encouraged by your experiments on 1
Western lands the most enormous and
fraudulent speculations* which your Trca- j
jury circular has added, under pretence of 5
repressing them. ]
You have quitted the Presidency, and |
your career of mischief it is to be hoped is ,
over. But you have furnish* d a very prom'
inent example, that however ignorant, or ,
despotic an Furopen monarch may be, he
cannot bi more so than a Republican President.
You have left the mantle of despotism
to your successor, h is *o he hoped ho. will
J?r> to* w??C to Wear:!
9lieh arc the objections made by bis oponents
to Gen. Jackson's Presidential
amor for those seven years past. Thev
ssume the character of bis!or:cul fU< ts,
sseufially, intimately connected with il c
iresent nationalr mbarrasments; and worthy
if being answered and obviated by Gen.
ackson's friends.
Hydrophobia produced hj the Influence
f the Mind.?1)r. Barbantini, of Lucca
( ports in the Giomaie di Fisica, Chimin,
\-c. torn. X. the case of a man, who; ttemptng
to separate two dogs who were fighting
cith ereat furv. was bit ten sli'ditlv hv one
o 7 # r> - j
>f them, (his own,) in the thigh. The
vound healed entirely on the third day.?
.Jut the dog having wandered from home,
lis master then fearing he was mad, the
text day exhibited all the symptoms of hyIrophobia.
During four days he could
lot swallow either solids or liquids. Some
jaroxysms of madness even occurred, when
)n the ninth day after the bite, the dog re.
urned home. He was taken into his maser's
chamber, and fawned on him as usud.
From that moment all the symptons
jf hydrophobia disappeared.
00. Case in which a great number of
? * -r . , . T>t / If
Larccr. ircrc Hatched in the Hoay oj a man.
?M. Jules Cloquet, has retontly comuunicated
to the Pliilomathic Society the
ollowing curious case. 41 A rag-gatherer,
n a state of complete drunkenness, and
lot knowing where he bent his steps, laid
liniself down in a field near several dead
lorses. L . slept there for twenty-four
lours. On awaking he felt as if he was
swelled odt, and experienced a pain which
le did not usually feel, under similiar cir
:umstances. returned home, but shortly a
lumber of swellings like blisters rose on
lis head, and worms crawled out of his
lose and ears, and other natural openings
>f the body. Alarmed at this phenomen>n,
he repaired to the Hospital St. Louis
Flic swellings on his head were then
ipened, and a prodigious quantity ol
>vorms crawled from them ; his skin proluced
them every instant; and a nurse
Dlaced to collect them as they appeared,
gathered as many as three plates full ol
hem. Several means were tried on the
ag-gathercr to destroy these worms, such
is lotions and baths of sulphureous vapour,
nit fruitlessly. Mr. Cloquet then proposal
friction with mercurial ointment, and
)v this treatment he was perfectly cured.
But the unfortunate man has lost both his
lis eyes, which have been destroyed bv
hose worms, which are exactly like the
rulgarly known by the name of asticats
ronjectured, that the flies which were upon
die dead horses, laid their eggs during tlk
man's sleep in the pores of his skin, ant
die natural openings of his body, and thai
the warmth hatched the eggs which pro
Juced the enormous quantity of worm*
that have been gathered from his body.
The rag-gathcrcr is now in good health ;
ind, although blind, as gay as ever,
promising himself to get'as jolly as here
toforc, but not again to sleep in the fields.'
From the Washington Reformer.
WILLIAMS THE OCULIST.
W e see that this individual is now ii
lie West publishing, among other reconr
nenda lions, extracts from advertise menu
nserted by him in the U. b. Telegraph,
ft is proper that the public should know
hat these recommendations were inserted
is advertisements by Mr. Williams during
lie absence of the proprietor of that paper
?that, upon inquiry, the latter is full)
tonvinced that Wiliiamsisan impostor?
hat his applications have but a temporary
fleet, which leave the eye invariably in a
vorsc condition. Under such circumitances,
it is submitted to the editors and
>ublishors of newspapers to determine
?? r... n... .n.M.nilcillld llll/l
IUW IUI KlCJr UIC |i;9|rvi|jiuiv| uuu aivi.iv.
hey do dot become parties to the fruuJ
iractised by Williams on the credulity o!
he poor and unfortunate by circulating the
luffs prepared by himself, even as udver
isctnents.
The trial of Major Gates has Vrr
published in pliamplilet form in \rw York
From an examination of tho testimony
iflercd before the court there does noi
ippear to be the slightest cause to crimitatc
the Major, bur, on the contrary, ht
leserves great credit for his prudence .w
tot suffering himself to be drawn out from
lis defences and caught in an ambuscade,
is was the evident design of the Indians,
Major Gates was left (contrary to his wish,
is for active employment in the field) in
:hargc of an important depot of stores at
Volusia, on which the left wing of the arliv
solely replied for supplies, and a num.
\nr r>f?nvnli?U_ with instructions to defend
md preserve the depot at all hazards. Il
te had made a sortie with his available
orcc (variously estimated at from 80 tc
130 men, only three of whom were regulai
ioldiers.) the chances are that the Indians
would have rushed into his stackcde from
in opposite direction, murdered and seal>ed
the invalids, and destroyed the stores,
IVhat in such a contingency would have
3cen the Major's feelings, and what the
offerings on the left wing, on its return
o find its supplies cut off, and no succoi
within one hundred miles ? It was prover
jy the tcstimoney, that Picolata and Tarn^a
Bay were the nearest points at whicl
Drovisions could have been procured ; tha
the former was one hundred miles, and th<
latter six day's march, from Volusia.
After enduring more than a year of anx
ous suspense, the friends of tliis woithj
md accomplished officer will be glad t<
learn that justice has at last been meted t(
him ; and they will be moreover rcjoicct
to perceive that he has been promoted t(
the lieutenant colonelcy of the 4th regimen
of artillery.? Amy and Navy Chroncle.
A Snake.?A few evenings since a par
ty of ladies returning from the lake withou
the society of a beau, were suddenly surprised
by the screams of one of the party
r% T>< M few varo* behind h?w -enpan
j ions. The young lady who had screamed ti
became more and more restless, and the g
, others were anxious in their inquires as to n
the cause of her pain. At length she in- tl
formed the party that there was a snake II
fast to her dress ! Oh ! horrid '.shocking! b
the thought ot it makes the blood curdle ! tl
The very mention of a snake drove the tl
whole party into a fit of unspeakable agony! t<
The cars had returned to the city?'twas '
nearly dark?the busy crowd was hurrying v
to their homes us fast as possible?no
Montague or Romeo was there to relieve
the distress of a virgin beautiful to look
upon. But, one |of the sweet girls march- r
ed forward with the gallantry of Lafayette J1
to battle. Raising her weapon, which was 11
a big stick, she gave a mortal blow to the *
viper, and brought it to the ground. Tlu* a
blow was given with great dexterity, and *
attended with the most brilliant success. 1
Having placed her foot upon the conquer- 1
ed foe, what was her astonishment to find 1
ilia' it was nothing more than a cord ! A f
cord ! yes, reader, a cord ! A cord, or '
hoop-rope, which belonged to the bottom 1
part of her dress, bad got loose, and was
dangling through her clothes and the grass ^
?it gave all the symptoms of a snake, and J
no wonder they were frightened.?New c
Orleans paper. '
THE LATE KING OF GREAT DRI- ;
- TAIN". ' ;
The London Morning Chronicle has five s
columns as a biographical sketch of Wil- j
liam the Fourth. He was born on the (
21st of August, 1765. At the age of 13 s
he was a midshipman, and though the sen
of a King, (George III) he was kept on a i
footing with the other midshipmen. Under
Admiral Rodney, he was in the fleet
which, in 1779, captured the whole of a
Spanish convoy. Eight days after he was J
1 in a serious fight with the Spanish fleet, \
under the command of Don Juan de Lan- >
' agra. The reside of his time as a midship- J
man the prince served in the West Indies ]
and off tho coasts of Nova Scotia and
Canada. On the North American station
he served under Lord Keith, in the War
wick, when ho captured L Aigle, a large '
Frencli frigate, La Sophie, of 22 guns, and J
the Terrier sloop of war, off the Delaware (
river, 11th September, 1782. He after- j
1 wards joined Lord Hood, who introduced <
him to Nelson on board the Barflcur. In |
' 1^13 he was appointed third lieutenant of '
the Hebo frigate. In 1786 lie was ap- \
1 pointed first lieutenant of the Pegasus, of
28, guns and soon after was made captain, j
! and ordered to Nova Scotia. He then pro'
ceedcd to tho Leeward Islands, and was I
1 there under the command of Nelson spoke '
j verv highly of him .s an obedient and at-1
tentivc officer. In December, 1781, af1
ter returning to England, lie was apj; intrd
' to the command of the Andromeda frigate,
5 in which he started for the West Indies, i
The 19di of May, 1789, he was create <
? Duke of Clarence and St. Andrews, in the '
' kingdom of Great Britain, and Earl ofi
> Munster, in Ireland. On the 3d of Sep-1
tember lie was made Rear Admiral; sifter-!,
wards he became Admiral of the Red ; and, ]
upon the death of Sir Peter Parker, in i
1811, he was made Admiral of the Fleet. 1
1 ! The union of William the Fourth with '
' I the celebrated Mrs. Jordan commenced iu '
' 1790, and endured for twenty years. She ,
' was one of the most captivating women of ,
her time, and the King was very much ]
1 attached to her. She was of the theatre. I
' By her lie had several children. In 1810, 1
t!icy parted, which gave Mrs. Jordan 1
the greatest pain. His pecuniary enr.bar- 1
ressments, she says, were the cause of the ?
parting. In 1817, he was married to ihe i
1 now Dowager Queen Adelaide. As Duke <
j of Clarence, he advocated Catholic emancipation
in the House of Lords, and made '
f a speech in its behalf. j
June2Gtii, 1830, the Duke become King ,
nf F.ncrlnnd. on the demise of Goor<m the <
f! " "*? "? c j
j Fourth. lie was a man altogether there- ]
11 verse of George the Fourth, and more ;
like his father. George the Third. His <
course as King is in the memory of ihe M
public.?-iW Y. Express,
From the New York Star. '
" I am clear in a well digested opinion,
i that so far as the poor man is concerned ]
he will reap no benefit, but he will sutler ,
, injury from enlarging our specie circuln- ;
i lation by suffering Banks to issue no notes i
i under twenty dollars. Specie in all sums 1
, under twenty dollars will clog the lower
, circulation?fewer exchanges will be made
. ?110 sum under twenty dollars will be |
i transmissible by mail, and the small dealt
ers will be much embarrassed.?The ciru- ,
- lation of knowledge will he greatly impc.
ded. Newspapers periodicals and paniph- !
I lets, will have no medium in which thev .
1 ! -./ .1*1
[ can be paid in places distant irom me
i place of their production ; and many other ,
inconveniences will be felt from the cum- ,
bersome nature of specie. But again, soy I
the radicals, Bank notes are rags. Well! 1
i and what is specie ? Do not bank notes 1
. even now, purchase pecie? It|requircs ;
. to be sure, some few per cent, more than
i the amount they bear on their face to pur- j
i chase it. And what is the reason 1 Not <
, that bank notes are not the representative i
* of the property and industry of the coun- '
I try, hut because specie is an article of j
- commerce. Why are the treasury drafts ,
? upon the pet banks nearly as valuable as
t specie? Clearly because our own govern- ^
j ment, like our foreign creditors, demand <
specie in payment." J
As you were.?A queer old gentleman, <
j of a very irritable temperament had a set- I
} tleinent of accounts with a neighbor who !
j fell m his debt about S40?not happening (
} to be in a very amiable humour, the prot
cess of the law* was resorted to to compel 1
payment in specie. The defendant how- <
ever, stayed the Execution for six months : 1
. and finding that the Plaintiff had some 1
t small notes out to more than the amount of J
- the Judgment, ho buys them up ar.d im-';
, | mediately gets Judgments. As the stay on! <
. I fhi-sc smaller sums ,c for h mjch ^ujr'rr- j
|M?????y?
imp than the first mentioned?the old
entleman, in obedience to a similiar deui
nd of specie c contra will have to furnish
le specie with which he is 10 be paid :
hit that is'nt all: The Defendant has
rought up other papers over and above
ic forty dollars, which will not only bring
lis amount back but a smart sum besides
3 keep it company. The old man says
tis rascaille tricV: But he did'nt say on
rhich side.
Salisbury Watchman
Fishing icith Duck-Eye ?It may be a!eady
known t> some of our readers but it
ras new to us, to learn that the shrub caled
Buck-Eye was fatal to the fish of our
livers and Crocks. Peter Dick says he
ind Dr. J. M. Worth tried the experiment
rery successlully a few days ago, in a Title
pool of water, on the Doctor's plantaion
of Montgomery Connty. The onlv
ireparation consisted of a Basket part full
A the leaves, roots and balls of the BuckEye,
heat and bruised up together, and
hen dipped a few times into the water;
?when instantly the fish, big and little,
jegan to throw themselves simultaneously
>n the shore. This pool, of not more than
lor 4 rods surface, not far distant from a
:reek ; but there did not appear to have
teen any connexion between them, even
n times of high water. In this way they
raught 230 fish in a few minutes. And
;ome hundreds more of the smaller order
ay round the margin of the pool. The
ish were so stuified that they made no reistancc
in being cought iiftiie hand.
* Ashboro1 (N C) Citizen.
From the National Intelligencer.
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i\. J-iO 1 1 li.IV r tlKJJl 1H11.AJJAMS.
The Boston Daily Advocate of the 28th of
'uly, contained a correspondence between
Messrs. Wm. Foster, and John Q. Adams.
Mr. Fester requested Mr. Adams to favor the
jublic with his views on tlie appropriate policy
)f the government in relation to the revenue.
Mr. Adams's reply is as follows:
Quincy, July 1,1837.
Hrm. Foster, Esq. of Boston:
Dear Sir?Your friendly letter of the 21st
alt. has, perhaps, remained too long unanswered;
but when I received it, I had expressed
opinions respecting the present condition of
ai r public affairs, in answer to inquiries
from some of my constituents of the twelfth
congressional district, which have since been
pub-'chcd, and which I presume arc as explicit
as you may think they ought to be at this
time, and which will pass for what they are
worth in the community.
I still believe it the duty of every good citizen
to contribute, according to his ability, toward
forming and modifying public opinion,
because she is more than ever the queen of
the world, but for the regulating of my own
conduct, a long and trying experience has
taught me two lessons, though not always to
square my conduct by them. The first is, to
distrust tiie correctness of my own opinions
upon every thing pro. jclive and conjectural;
the second, never to "flatter myself that my
opinions will have any influence upon the action
of any other human bemg.
Thus, in the present condition of our country,
1 have very decided opinions upon the
rrast; differing, perhaps, considerably from
purs; certainly differing from those of a
arge majority of the people of the United
Sates. And as our views of the expedient action
for the future, might, in a great degree,
lepend upon the conclusions to which we have
:omeupon the past, it is impossible that the
measures which I Jiould deem the only etFec:ive
remedies for our complaints should be acceptable
to the ruling jwwer of the country.
[ am, and during a great part of my life have
seen, in the minority. It is the business of
:he majority to propose and accomplish
measures. It is too much the practice of mi
loritics to expend all their energies upon donees
to defeat the measures of the majority,
rhe question of r?fkt and wrong, so far as
my experience goes, is of use to either party
anly for the purpose ot making professions.
We are now in the midst of a national
bankruptcy, occasioned by the insolvency cf
multitudes of individuals. We are now told
that all the banks in the United States have
suspended specie payments. And what is the
suspension of specie payments bu? setting the
laws of property at defiance? If the president
and directors of a bank have issued' a million
:>fbills, promising to pay five dollars to the
holder of each and every one of them, the
suspension of specie payment is, by one act, a
breach of one million of nromises. What is
this but fraud upon every holdef of their bills?
And what difference i? there between the
president and directors of such a bank, and
Lhe skilful artist who engraves a bank bil\ a
fac simile of the bill signed by the president
and directors, and saves them the trouble of
signing it, by doing it for them! The only
difference I can see in lhe two operations is,
that the artist gives evidence of superior skill
and superior modesty. It requires more talent
to sign another man's name, than one's
own; and the counterfeiter docs at least his
work in the dark, when the suspenders of specie
payments brazen it in the face of day, and
laugh at the victim and dupes who have put
faith in their promises.
You ask what is to be the remedy of this
state of things? There are two remedies, both
of which may be practicable. One is, that
Lhe congress of the United States should ex
r?rr.iRp irs nowers to recreate the currenevr
but they must do this (which they will not)
without consulting banks, their presidents,
md directors. The legislatures of N. York
and Virginia have already shown that the presidents
and directors of banks will advise.?
And the proposal of the president of a broken
bank in Charleston, South Carolina, to begin
with an amendment to the constitution granting
powers to congress, which have already
jecn granted to them, and which they have
;wice exercised to the great benefit of the na:ion,
is an insult at once to our understanding
ind upon our misfortunes.
As little do I relish his other proposal of a
general convention of broken bank presidents
and directors, to enlighten Congress with
iheir advice; a convention of bankrupts to
leach Congress reverence for the obligation
jf contracts, and how to make nothing but
jold and silver a tender for the payment of
debts! Of all remedies for existing evils the
last I would resort to would be a spurious
coin from the mint of nullification. V
The other remedy which I deem practicable
is that of Solon?a sponge upon the accounts
debtor and creditor?wipe out all aid
scores and begin again. This is the bard
money system, and so far as 1 can judge, it is the
essential system of the present adminis-.'
tration?it is to detach the government fronr
all banking, and deal in^ nothing but the pre- * *
:ious metafr. If Mr. Van Buren is made of
*o rrr> throvgh with this operation. I wish