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THE NEW ERA.
What is it but a Map of busy Life?—Coicper.
NORFO iTk aS' I)POR7 fs5fiOUTH?
FRIDAY, AUGUST 22, 1846.
OUUFTTaG!
FREE TRADE—LOW DUTIES -NO DF.UT—RE
PARATION FROM BANKS -ECONOMY- RE
TRENCHMENT-AND STRICT ADHERENCE
TO THE CONSTITUTION.
TRIBUTE OF RESPECT.
At a Court held for Norfolk County, the 19th day
of August, ISI5:
The following- Preamble and Resolutions were
offered by Robert E. Taylor, Esq., and unanimous
ly adopted by the Court :
Whereas, Colonel JAMES H. LANGHORNE, a !
member of this Bar, distinguished alike for his
high-toned character and professional ability, has, '
by a recent dispensation of Providence, been taken |
from among- us; and the Court and Bar of Norfolk i
County deeply sensible of the loss which has been j
sustained in bis death, cherishing- the fondest re
collection of the deceased and of his many virtue .
knowing that in him the poor have lost a friend, so
ciety an ornament and his country a true and chiv
alrous citizen, sympathising with his family in
their melancholy bereavement,and desirous of tes
tifying th'-ir respect for (lie deceased ; therefore
< Resolved, That the Court ;»nd Bar of Norfolk
County tender their sincercst condolence to the
family of the. deceased.
Resolved, That they will wear the usual badge of
mourning for thirty days
Resolved, That these Resolutions be entered on
the records of this Court, and that a copy thereof
I'C transmitted to the lamily of the deceased, and
be published in the newspapers of the town of Ports
mouth and Citv of Norfolk.
Copy—Teste:
WM. J. HOWLAND, D. C.
“THE UNION.”
We have before mentioned the faet that Mon
day’s Union never arrives here until the mail of
'l hursday morning. This is the more vexatious,
at this time, a9 there is a feverish anxiety in the
public mind to {jet all the news at as early a day
as possible. Will those who have that duty in
charge, please send the paper of Monday by the
ordinary mail and not by the way of Richmond,
which throws tis back just twenty-four hours.
TIIE DAGUERllEOTYPE.
We are pleased to see that our friend White
huhst has opened his rooms again for a short
time among us. in order to ratch the living im
press of our citizens, lie has made great improve
ment in his Art since he was here last, and now
it takes but a moment’s sitting to obtain a perfect
likeness, instead ol the three or four minutes that
were before found so difficult to maintain an im
mobility of'feature. Accomplished, gentlemanly,
and a batchelor, it is a real treat to visit Mr.
hitehurst at his Rooms. Wo are certain the
.Ladies will call on him, to view his beautiful pic
tures, and the beaux will go also to protect, and
view, the beautiful ladies. See his Advertise
ment.
HAMPDEN SIDNEY COLLEGE.
We have received a catalogue of the officers
and students of the Medical Department of this
institution, located in Richmond. From it we
gather the gratifying fact that it is increasing in
public favor. We trust that our students of
Medicine will look at home for that instruction
they need, which they can get as well, if not bet
ter than abroad. In 1830 the number of gradu
ates was only 14. They have been gradually in
creasing each year, and the last session, the
matriculates numbered 71. The whole expenses
per session, is only $135, including six Profes
sors, tickets to whose Lectures are 820 each._
Board may be had in the city at from $3 to 05
per week. The papers of Richmond speaks very
highly of the talent engaged in the College.
A GOOD INKSTAND.
We see that the editors of the Baltimore Sun,
acknowledge the receipt of “ a good inkstand,”
from a dealer there. If that desideratum is ob
tained, we will thank the editors to send us one,
with bill of costs, which shall be duly honored.
TOBACCO.
The Senior Editor of the Richmond Whig in
returning to his post, after an absence of some
weeks sn the interior of Virginia, congratulates
the community on the greatly improved prospects
of the corn and tobacco crops effected by the late
Tains.
PRIVATEERING.
Wi are not a little surprised to see among our
cotemporaries, some who seem to have become the
apologists, if not the advocates, of doctrines upon
this subject most diametrically opposed to our in
terests, and we think to the interests of humanity
throughout the world. The position assumed is
none other, than that we are bound to respect the
authority and character of foreigners, who may
choose to volunteer under letters of marque and
reprisal to destroy our commerce and carry on the
business of privateering, for the purpose of plunder
ing. Now we take these principles of National
law to bo clearly settled, that all nations are hound
in time of peace to do to other nations all the
good, and in time of war as little harm as they ran
do, consistently with their own real and proper
interests. That whatever unnecessarily increases
the evils of war is to he reprobated as in violation
of the law of Nature and of Nations. What, let
us ask, is to be the effect of the doctrine that
Foreign Privateers are to he protected by a com
mission, and regarded as regular beligerants?
Take for instance the government of Ilayti : sup
pose a rupture between that government and Great
Britain : Ilayti has no marine, no commerce to be
endangered: war is declared, letters of marque
are issued to all who may apply from the four
quarters of the earth ; desperate adventurers bent I
upon enriching themselves at the expense of the '
British commerce crowd, with their vessels, upon
every sea ; they seize upon every merchant ship 1
that comes within their reach; prize upon prize is
taken and becomes the property of the captor as a
reward for what? for his patriotic exertions for
the service of his country ? he is not in the service
of his own hut of a foreign country. Is this re
ward given to inaite ethers to pursue the same j
.....
course? Suppose ii succeeds, myriads may flock
to the same work of destruction like the vulture
seek in gr his prey wherever it may be found. The
British commerce is swept from tlie ocean, and
millions of the property of her citizens falls into
the hands of those who arc thus ready to rob any
and all who may he worth the hazard; and are wo
to he told, that Great Britain must respect, as
prisoners of war entitled to the protection of law
ful combatants, such unprincipled marauders as
these ? Does any one suppose that Great Britain
would so consider and treat them? Then, indeed,
would she have reason to complain of infringement
upon the rights of her subjects, and the perpetra
tors might well expect that she, to restrain and
prevent such aggression and injustice, would
strive to deter them as she, with all other nations,
would guard against the dangers of being visited
by Spies by hanging them without mercy, know
ing that by so doing they were acting a merciful
and necessary part toward multitudesof their own
people.
Again, suppose Hayti were to declare war upon
us. Is she to be allowed to proclaim throughout
the world, “come plunder, fob, despoil, take to
yourselves all that you desire of American proper
ty, we will give you a piece of parchment that shall
secure you from punishment if taken, destroy with
impunity;” and are we to he gravely told that
such plunderers on every sea, and every people
and nation against whom they can induce some
petty state, as despicable as themselves, to declare
war, are to be treated as any other than liostes
Imtnani generis, or pirates?
Apply this to Mexico and let it bo asked if she
he at liberty to bid the desperadoes of the world,
welcome to a feast of blood? We have declared
the fitting out of vessels and preying upon our
commerce by our own citizens under commission
from any foreign prince or power to he piracy, and
punishable with death. Treaties have been often
formed in which it has been expressly declared that
such acts by the citizens or subjects of ilm contract
ing nations shall be regarded as piracy. These trea
ties we regard as merely declaratory of the Law of
Nations and of Nature. For none can doubt that
the course before described would tend to increase
the evils and the horrors of war without any cor
responding benefit. It does not serve to redress the
wrong, for which, alone, any just war is ever
undertaken. For the wrong doer will he the
first to resort to such unjustifiable and inhuman
measures for accomplishing his object. Thus it
will become a dangerous engine of oppression,
tending incalculable to increase the evils of war.
We should not hesitate to take and act upon “the
responsibility” of asserting our just claim to the
respect and non-interferance of other nations in
the event of war with any. It is the dictate of
humanity, of justice and national right. And if
wo do not much mistake the temper and spirit of
our present Executive our rights will he folly
maintained upon this as upon all other points.
FURTHER PARTICULARS CONNECT
ED WITH THE MURDEIt OK YOUNG KEN
DALL.
We copy the following particulars from the U.
S. Journal of Tuesday Evening, preceding and
leading to the fatal result of the death of young
Kendall, and the maiming of Bailey. We pre
sums that these are the main facts, and a correct
statement of all the attending circumstances:_
“The origin of this lamentable tragedy, we
understand, was of a vpry trifling nature. The
three young men were of about the samo age,
some twenty-two or throe years, and had been"on
terms of decided friendship. We give the par
ticulars of the whole matter as wc have learned
them after much enquiry, and believe them to be
substantially correct.
I he young men mot at Jame3’ Drug Store,
corner of 14th street anrl Pennsylvania "avenue, !
and near Fuller’s City Hotel, at 'about 4 o’clock! j
where they had some conversation commencing j
to a friendly manner, but owing to a ntisconcep— 1
lion of a term used by Mr. Kendall, terminating '
angrily. Elliott understood Kendall as imputing i
to him a want of courage in the matter they were !
conversing about, and was making some demon- !
strations of resentment, when .Ikily interposed :
and said there should he no fighting. Elliott then ■
said he would fight Kendall if the latter could ;
get a gentleman to act as his friend Kendall
said he would ask for no friend, but told Elliott
that he would rather get a cow hide and cut his
skin off. Elliott then said that Kendall could
get no I'cnllcwmi to be his friend. Here Bailey
stepped up to Elliott and said ho considered him
self a gentleman, and would see Kendall out in
anything he might undertake, and he asked El j
liott to withdraw what he said. This Elliott re- 1
fused to do, whereupon Bailey struck him in the '
face and blacked one of his eyes. The parties
then separated, Kendall and Bailey ooin.r m „ne
direction and Elliott in another. The first two
soon met a personal friend and informed him of
what had been done, in a goodmatured manner
though Ikiley expressed his sorrow for the occur
rence, and took blame to himself f.,r not controll
ing his impetuosity. They, however, anticipated
no serious difficulty in the matter.
“ Soon after this conversation took place, Ken
dal! and Bailey passed down 14th street and
across to the south side of Pennsylvania avenue,
in front of Fuller’s, whilo Elliott, who had re'
turned to James’Store, was standing in or near
the door of the same, apparently armed. Ken
dall then crossed the Avenue towards him, ma
king some menacing gesticulations, while Elliott,
who had a gun-barrel cane in his right hand
changed it to the left, hand, and with the right
drew a revolving pistol from his pocket, which
he partially concealed under the flaps of his r t.
Kendall approached him. seized hold of the cane
and wrenched it from Elliott’s hand, whereupon
Elliott presented his pistol and fired one barrel,
the ball missing Kendall. At this Kenda" threw
the cane, which ho had previously wrenched from
him, at Elliott, who then discharged a second
barrel of his pistol at Kendall, and shot him
through the heart. He fell and died instantly — ‘
Bailey had started across the Avenue in the di- '
rection of Elliott, who then aimed and discharged i
n barrel of his pistol at him. But Bailey dodged :
and was not hit. Elliott aimed and fired another I
barrel; but Bailey dodged and again escaped, and 1
at this instant caught up a large stone and inn,perl i
nearer to Elliott, who again fired and this time
hit i,alley in the left arm, near the elbow, shat
tering the bone dangerously A fourth time El
liott attempted to shoot ftailey but the pistol
snapped. l|o then broke and run and was close
ly pursued by Hailey into Fuller’s Hotel, in the
rear ul which Elliott made his escape. He was
afterwards taken, and has been committed for ex
amination— the Justices refusing all amounts of
bail.
Mr. Bailey is suffering severely from his
wound, but is toll of courage, and when the cotin
oil of physicians last night informed him that they
had decided to attempt to save his arm, though it
might ho stiff, received the intelligence with man
ly firmness. \
l*. S.—Since the above was prepared, an ex
amination had been going on at the City Hall,
before Justices Morsell and Goddard. The ex
amination had not been concluded when our pa
per went to press.”
FEVER AM) At;I F.
I'he Democratic party in North Carolina has
given Dr. Bond, and the Whig party, whose can
didate in the Halifax District he was, for a seat
in Congress, the Fever and Ague, and we are
glad to perceive that he has employed the firs*
editorial column of his “ official ’’ journal in Hali
fax to announce his Pills, which he has entered
extensively into the manufacture of. If, however,
he is no more successful in curing the disease than
he is in getting into Congress, wo pity those who
buy his pills. His editor is turning his longing
eyes to the flesh jsits of office.
ARMY MOVEMENTS
A detachment of U. S. troops, consisting of
companies C and D, 4t!i Regiment of Infantry,
and dl recruits under the command of Jjieut.
Gore, in all amounting: to 146 men, under the
command of Rrevct Major Graham, arrived at
New Orleans on the 9th instant from Jefferson
Barracks. They are on their way to join the
forces already in Texas.
Gen Worth, the commanding: officer at St.
Augustine, has received orders to send three com
panies of United States troops from that post to
New Orleans. The Red River Republican of
the 2d instant states that the fine regiment, which
left Fort Jesup on the 25th ultimo, had not pro
ceeded far from their old post before Col. Twiggs
and one or two other officers were attacked with
fever, and obliged to suspend their march.
LATER. FROM MEXICO.
We are indebted, says the Mobile Herald of
the 13th inst., to a gentleman of this city for the
following extract of a letter received by him from
Pensacola, dated the 1 1th instant :
“ The French brig Mecurie has just arrived
from Vera Cruz, bringing dates of the 27th ult.
No war had been declared at that time, but the
Americans were all leaving.
“There is anolher hrig just coming in. She
is supposed to be the Porpoise.”
'Plie Water Witch was to have left Vera Cruz
on the 28th or 29th ult., and ought to have been
at New Orleans some days ago.
As to war, we have it on good authority, says
the Mobile Herald, that no declaration will he
made until Mexico shall have received an official
notification of tlie consummation of annexation.
Months will elapse before this can be done. That
such a declaration will be made is now reduced
to a certainty. In the interim Mexico will be
able to see what she can do in the way of making
something more destructive than a mere shooting
of paper pellets.
SLAVERY IN MISSISSIPPI.
By a provision in the Constitution of Mississip
pi. tho introduction of slaves into the State is pro
hibited after the present year. This prohibition
extends not only to tho introduction of slaves as
merchandise, but settlers within the Slate cannot
import them for their own use. 'I'his state of
things induced the Legislature, at its last session,
to authorize the people to vote on a proposition to
change this provision. It excites general atten
tion. 'Plie New Orleans Bulletin thinks that the
j popular sentiments is against any change.
’ IF THE LADIES TAKE THE THING IN
HAND, IT WILL BE DONE,
j The ladies of New York have resolved to mar
! ry no man who does not tako a newspaper—and
i furthermore, they won’t allow a fellow to look at
i them who owes the printer for more than one
year’s subscription.
McNulty in ohio.
The Ohio Eagle says C. J. McNulty attended
recently a Democratic meeting in Knox county,
■ in that Slate, but when he rose to speak, the
j Democrats left the house. He declafed, in refer
! cnee to his defalcation, that “ he had done noth
; ing which he would not do again, if placed in the
same situation.” The Eagle says the Democrats
of Ohio will n'wer tolerate him again.
A VALUABLE TABLE.
The following valuable table was calculated by
James M. Carnet, Esq., of Essex county, Va.,
and first published in Mr. Ruffin’s Farmers Regis
J ter:
j 1 able. A box 24 inches by 16 inches square
* and 22 inches deep, will contain a barrel, or 10,
! 752 cubic incites.
A box 24 by 10 inches square and 11 inches deep
will contain a half barrel or 5,370 cubic inches.
A box 16 inches by 10 8-10 inches square and
! 8 inches deep, will contain a bushel, or 2,150
| 4 10 cubic inches.
j A box 12 by 11 2 10 inches square and 8 in
deep, will contain half a bushel or l,075cubic, in
ches.
| A box 8 inches by 8 4-10 inches square and 8
inches deep, will contain one peck or 537 6-10
cubic inches.
A box 8 by 8 inches square arid 4 2-10 inches
} deop, will contain one half peck, or 208 8 40 cn
: bic inches.
A box ? inches by 4 inches square and 4 8 10
i inches deep, will contain a half gallon, or 131
4-10 cubic inches.
A box 4 inches by 4 inches square and 4 2-10
inches deep, will contain one quart, or G7 2-10
cubic inches.
These measures come within a small fraction
of a cubic inch of being perfectly accurate as near
indeed as any measures of capacity have ever yet
been made for common use j the difficulty of ma- j
king them with absolute exactness has never yet j
been overcome. 1
F rota the N. Y. Mortimer New?.
SEAMEN.
We recently mentioned the deplorable slate of
•Mir commercial marine, and the scarcity of sea
men necessary to onr national defence, criovviixr
out of the anti-commercial policy which has been
pursued since the war. The heavy tax upon
shipping1 and ship building, and nil thn discour
agements of commerce, have kept down our
marine to a point very little above that which it
occupied 25 years ago. In answer to this the
Express states:
The JVeic* ought to know that one of its own
party—Thomas II. Renton—has boon doing all
in his power for many years past, to break down
the efficiency of our naval and merchant marine,
by destroying the best and only good nursery of
seamen we have, in the fishermen of New Eng
land.
“ The only good nursery !” Had we met that
assertion in a Chinese primer, we would instant
ly have ascribed its origin to the Express, be
cause it is one of those reckless assertions in defi
ance of all truth and reason which peculiarly
characterize that print. New England employs
12,000 men in fisheries. There are 100,000
American seamen in the foreign trade. 120.000
in coasting vessels, and 15.000 in whalers. Yet
ttie cod and mackerel fisheries are the “onlygood
nurseries,” according to the Express, and with
equal hardihood it alleges that Col. Renton tried
to “ break down the efficiency of the naval ser
vice.’’ That is to sav. thpre are imported into
the United States near 7,000.000 bushels of salt,
which paid 10 cents duty ; of this 3,000.000
bushels were consumed hy fishers, who obtained
a drawback on exported fish equal to the duty on
the salt they used. The farmers, and pork and
beef packers used the other 4.000,000 bushels,
and were allowed no drawback on their exports
of heel and pork. Col. Renton simply proposed
that the salt duty should he repealed, and with it
of course the drawback. Thus all who use salt
would bo put on the footing of the fishers, and
thpy would be hotter off than before. He also
proposed to reduce the duty on iron, cordage, and
all the materiels they use, in order still further to
benefit them, and this the Express, with ineffable
impudence, calls “ speking to destroy the only
good nursery for seamen.”
From the Morning’ News.
THE ART OF (NOT) SINKING.
Why do so few young ladies learn to swim?
They miss it sadly, in such neglect of an art at
onoe so easy, so healthful, so invigorating and so
useful. We know of more than one of the most
fashionable belles of New York to whom the cen
sure for this neglect has no application ; and who
could on emergency, save their lovers, if neces
sary, as is related by the Express a day or two
ago, which tells of “ an incident which occurred
at Glen Cove yesterday, and which does infinite
credit to two or three persons there, one of whom
is a young lady, but little more than 14 years of
age. A young man, while bathing there, got be
yond his depth, and being unable to swim was
sinking fast, when ho was perceived by Miss
Willis, daughter of Wm. H. Willis, of this city.
The girl was an expert swimmer, and being in
the water at the time, quickly as thought she
darted for the sufferer. The drowning man
caught the girl with all the strength of a dying
man, and the girl in turn made an effort to extri
cate herself by biting the clenched hands that
held her fast. She was unable to do so, and both
were about to be drowned, when they were hap
pily discovered by some laboring men near by and
saved.”
Why do not the ladies who preside over the
numerous extensive boarding schools in this city,
while they teach their pretty pupils so many
peaceful accomplishments, as well as more solid
acquirements, place it also in their power, at least
to save their children, if the occasion of a sudden
fall into the water should ever make it necessary.
They may not perhaps be tempted into the water
to save either lover, husband, or self, but what
woman would not be willing to learn to swim
even in the “ lake of brimstone” to rescue her
child ? Thomas's floating bath at Castle Garden
affords all the facility needed for the purpose—
and, indeed, in its different divisions, leaves no
excuse for any body to remain ignorant of the art
of swimming—to say nothing of the cost and
pleasant refuge it affords from the diurnal heats
we hapless denizens of the city in these latter
days are compelled to endure.
DOES SHE WORK ?
We cut the following- from the N. V. Empo
rium :—
The editor of the Vcrgennes Vermonter got
himself into a furious passion, the other clay, on
account of a silly question asked by some loafer
gentleman who happen to be strolling over these
parts. My dear Mr. Vermonter, bold your wrath,
the fellow isn’t worth it. Listen to the sensitive
editor:
“ Ila ! hall ha !! !—A young upstart, of the
mushroomj order, carne to our town some lime
since. He visited among many of our best fami
lies, and
“ In making enquiries of a respectable family
respecting a young ladv of our acquaintance, be
was told she was probably engaged in doing some
work about the house at the time spoken of.
‘ What!’ exclaimed the * swell,’ with affected
astonishment, ‘ does shb work ?’
*• Pray who are you sir? A man, who gets a
precarious living by an inferior occupation, who
is capable of surprise at the assertion that a lady
works, be it understood that he is altogether too
good for us Vermonters. He had better go home.
In this part of Vermont we wish it to be distinctly
understood that all sensiblo men are in the habit
of despising indolence in women, rather than in
dustry. The man, however well off he may be,
who makes indolence a profession among ns is
termed a loafer, and that lady who is unfit to
work, is unfit to bo the wife of any man in a
country where fortune is so precarious and subject
to so many changes as in ours. Industry is the
bnast nf Vermont—of New England—of America.
It is tbo rock of Republicanism—thesoul of Intel
I ligenee and Religion.
»• Shame on the man or woman who dares des
pise it. Go home, sir!”
SomBTiTirro nf.w.—At Jordan’s rpstorant. in
: Broad street, near Purchase, tnny be seen a hen’s
g, which contains also another egg inside, of
; about the sire of a robbin’s. The shell on the
smaller egg is perfect, and seems to be as bard r.s
that nn the larger one. Eggs with too distinct yolks
are not very uncommon, but this is something dif
ferent from any thing we remember ever to have
seen noticed.— Boston Times
An intelligent woman who is homely, is like
the otto of roses, possessing all the useful parts of
the flower, although not its beauty. An ignorant
woman who is beautiful, is like an artificial flow
er, fit for an ornament, hut of no use.
From the Si. Louis Reveille.
A LYNCHERS OWN STORY.
“ / never fight tohm angry, gentlemen.”—James
Bowie.
( Continued.')
“ I should think so !” “ Wake snakes!” “Go
abend. Judge!” A dozen eager acclamations
evinced the zest with which the climax of tbo
story was expected. The narrator, however,
proceeded with a sangfroid that was inimitable.
“ I hadn’t gone hut a few miles, when hack
conies Jake, meeting me. 'The fox, gentleman,
had smelt a trap and put, witli his wife and wag
on, leaving the boy to take care of himself. Of
course ! didn’t drop the matter, but followed tip
and soon got on the trail, I tracked him back a
good many miles from the river, hut missed him
near a lake which was back of our plantations,
and lost a good deal of time. Towards afternoon,
returning by another road towards the river, be
tween the bayou and Dr. Boll’s new clearing, T
heard voices and in a minute, drove right up to
the crowd of neighbors, who had got my visitor,
his wife, and his “dear born” right in the middle
of them. The fact is, gentlemen, one or two of
them had got notice that there werewolves about,
and were on tho look out for the varmint, as my
acquaintance drove in among them.”
“ Ha! ha! ha!” A general chuckle of delight
was succeeded by a grin of anticipation.
“ I found my friend, gentlemen, talking right
and left, like a lawyer—making every thing
straight and agreeable, when suddenly he caught
sight of me, at the next moment of Jake; and,
gentlemen, if ever man gave up the ghost before
tho breath was out of him, it was that fellow ; his
eyes glazed, a dark circle settled around them,
while his lower lip, blue, and quivering as the
blood left it, after making an effort, as it were, to
recall the relaxed jaw to its duty, finally fell with
it ; there the man sat, staring at me—motionless,
with the exception of his throat, which worked
spasmodically in the effort to supply itself with
moisture from tho parched mouth. Gentlemen,
! he was the picture of a small rascal caught in a
tall snap! I first blushed that he was a white
man, and next that he was an American !”
“ American h—II!” interrupted one of the pi
lots of the boat, who perrhed upon a pile of trunks,
had hitherto said nothing—“ he was a d_d
Yankee, that’s what lie was!” This distinction
was recognized with great applause, of course.
| The “ Colonel” resumed :
1 here was just about a tolerable court on the
spot, gentlemen, and it was agreed to try the fel
low right thar. There was evidence besides
mine, for one fellow had followed him up along
the plantations for twenty miles; but yet the wo
man kinder stood behind him and his due, and I
thought I’d question her too. She was young,
gentlemen, with a simple look—had evidently
neither the heart nor the wit of a woman about
her, and at my first question—something put it
into my head—‘ Are you married to this man?’
she burst into tears, and sobbed as if her heart
would break. I had him taken away at once,
and out it all came—with no thought of injuring
her companion, though ; it was the simple im
pulse to relieve a timid mind by confession. She
was not his wife, gentlemen. She had taught
school in Tennessee, where this man saw her,
and first persuading her to aid him in the circula
tion of abolition tracts, finally seduced and carried
her to New Orleans, where, growing more hold
as he extended his acquaintance with the country,
he had made another arrangement with tho * So
ciety’—one of greater risk—namely, to • run off’
negroes from the plantations along the coast. Gen
tlemen, this is a mighty long story. Barkeep
er—”
“Oh, no, no!” “go ahead, Colonel.” “Drinks”
at the moment was declined, but the shorter opo
ration of taking a fresh ‘chew’ was indulged in,
by way of filling up the pause.
“ 1 had another question to ask the woman.
4 Do you love this man, said I ?” The poor crea
ture wept worse than ever, gentlemen ; she said
her only desire was to go to some friends in Illi
nois, where she hoped to b6 welcome and get
along more wisely. 4 He abuses you, then, said
I.’ 4 Oh,’ said she, 4 I would’nt mind that if f
thought he would’nt kill me!’ In short, as I
hope to live a mild and considerate citizen, gen
tleman, that livid, cowardly scoundrel, had dur
ing my pursuit of him, after threatening his vic
tim—now his burthen—till she w as nearly lifeless,
actually attempted to drown her in the swamp!
f need’nt tell you, gentleman, how unanimous the
verdict was in this case; the woman, for whom
we subsequently made up a subscription, was
moved off towards the nearest house ; the man—a
mighty small figure any how—shrunk to half his
nnlural size; discolored as if the last corrupting
change had anticipated the grave ; his arms bound
behind his back—and shivering on the ground,
too spent toexhibit a spasm—with the rein which
ho had so lately held in his hand, buckled around
his neck fora halter—like a thing too abject, even
to hang—awaited the selection of a crotch for him
to swing from.”
It may he supposed that the picture, tho horrid
features of which were thus in detail described,
had gradually excited the phlegmatic limmer—
not at all. Mis sentences swelled, not from the
i mere impetuous gathering of ideas, but, as it
! seemed, from a very good naCured desire to make
j the story as interesting as possible to his hearers;
l while it in no respect exhibit nervelessness, there
was not a flash of passion during the whole rela
tion. This was not the case with the hearers,
though. The eyes of the ‘Judge’ seemed burst
ing from his head in eager expectation, while the
‘chewing’ operation on his part was a moment
suspended; others were like him; a few again,
by an eager but painful contraction of the brows,
betrayed a softer nature—at any rate, more sensi
tive nerves.
[To he concluded in our next.]
There in 3 French Nativist paper printed at
Now Orleans eallnd /,c Republicain, Wo un
derstand that the Choctaws are ahoutstarting one
to be printed in the real Native American lan
guage. Did our zealous “ Americanborn,” Ameri
can Bible, and so forth, friends ever consider
wi.at a ridiculous figure they cut ? A homogene
ous mass of foreigners, speaking any number of
tongues, came here—drove off the poor Indians—
cheated them out of their lands, and now their
children, still speaking the various tongues of
their pious fathers, set up for Aborigines! What
‘ a pretty picture.—Pittsburg Ariel.
Sr.Awnr.RiNn east.—“ What’s tbo dif
| ficolty between you and Mr. B V' says Mr. C
" There is none, that I am aware of,” says Mr.
I A. with some surprise—" have you heard him
I say any thing against mo?” “ Oh, never mind,
! I don’t want to make tronble between men j pof
! haps I didn’t understand him, hut he can’t be
very friendly to yon—bnl don’t say I said any
thing about it to you.” \ Consequence—Mr- B
rcowIs at Mr. A. for a twelve month, when an
explanation is hlnndcred on, and the mischic'
maker detected.] '
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