Ponola [sic] weekly register., May 06, 1843, Image 2

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THE REGISTER.
"Xutliui addiclus jurare in verba nutgislri."
SATURDAY, MAY 6, 1843.
"A looker on here in Vienna" will ap"
jx;ar next week.
Loss of the Belmont
We regret to learn that the excel,
lent steamboat "Belmont," Capt. Wal
lace, was snagged and sunk to her cab
in floor, on Sunday last at half jxist 3
o'clock, 3 miles above the mouth of Cold
Water. She had on about GOO bales of
cotton principally owned by planters, of
the upper part of this county, all of
which is much damaged, and the great
er part with the boat worth $5000
GOOO a total loss.
The Little Stewart had taken on CO
or 70 bales when our informant left, &:
the Captain was using every exertion
to secure the remainder which was float
ing down the river. No insurance
We learn these particulars from a citi
zen of this town,' Maj. llainey, who was
a passenger on board, and from whose
account it appears that no blame attaches
to the ofliccrsof the boat.
The Leg Treasurer.
A rumor has reached here
that Ex-Treasurer Graves
. has 'reached Jackson"
whether captured or not we
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aon t know, it 13 irom a
gentlemen who came passenger to Ox
ford from Jackson in the Stage. It
needs confirmation.
nable symmetry, of about the medium
size and height, clothed in the purest
snow white and the back alone presen
ting itself to view. It was visible a few
moments, when gradually tho figure
changed to the simple light, the lights
retreated to the fragments, these again
came together and the moon resumed
a natural appearance. . .
The family of Mr. King, consisting of
his wife and a" daughter thirteen years
of am, with another young lady, all wit
nessed what is above related. Mr. King
lives about five miles east of this place.
He protests that in calling on us to make
public these facts he has no motive but
to tell a plain, unvarnished tale ot truth
and leaves others to judgeof its import
that he was not in the least alarmed or
agitated, but as much in his sober senses
as heeler was in his life and in order
that no one should have occasion to
doubt the sincerity of his narrative, he
has authorised us to give his name and
to refer to his family as witnesses of
the scene with himself. To what causes
it is attributable he does not know
whether it was an optical illusion affect
ting his whole family at once an oper
ation of nature never before witnessed,
or something of a miraculous character
he does not undertake to determine; but
avows that his statement, from which
we have deviated, if at all, in no essen
tial particular, is true and will at all
times be maintained to be true on his
honor and character as a -man, as ie
will .convince any more fully who may
choose to inquire of him further in rela
tion to it.
(7- The Shakespeare steamboat
passed up the river on Tuesday last
having been up the Yockina since she
left here. This boat is quite a novelty
in these waters, being nothing else than
an ordinary canal passenger boat, furn
ished -with an engine. She skims the
water like "a bird, making every bend
without stopping her headway, and out
stripping for -speed every boat which
has entered the waters f the Tallahat
chie. She would do a good bus! ness'on
the Yalobusha, Yockina or other small
6t reams.
Wonderful Phenomena.
Singular appearance of the mcon d
hlack spot on the surface the moon
split into fragments lights shooting
oil from it and forming into the shape
. of a man !
Mr. James D. Jing a respectable cit
izen of this county, and a gentleman of
undoubted veracity, called at our office
o Wednesday and gave the following
details of a most remarkble appearance
of the moon, for about an hour between
seven and nine o'clock on Tuesday night
last. -
He slates that being in the habit of
noticing the appearances of the moon at
this season of the year with a view to
the common prognostication of whether
it would be "wet or dry," he observed,
while looking with that object on Tues
day night, that itappeared at first much
larger than common, nearly three times
the usual size, and more like a circular
sheetof fire than like an ordinary moon.
In a few moments a very dark and deep
black spot wa3 plainly disc rnible about
the centre of the moon's disc, which im
modiately commenced playing up and
down, backwards and forwards on the
surface, and as the spot approached the
upper edge it grew less, and a faint
light distinctly shone through it. This
spot finally became stationary in the
centre, when the moon divided into three
seperate fragments, each giving distinct
and seperate lights, being of irregular
forms and appearing as though the spot
had split them ofl. Then the moon
gradually returned to its original appear
ance, and front that again looked natu"
rally.' ' -.
What he had already seen was so re
imarkable that Mr. King, with his fami
ly, continued the observation, and but a
:few moments had elapsed- before the
'black spot again appeared, and again
ithe .moon divided this time into four
distinct, irregular parts or fragments
And immediately a light resembling the
tail oCa comet shot from the lower frag
, mcnt at the south-east corneiyapparent
ly some " three or four feet downward
while another much larger, from the
upper portion or north-west corner
struck offdirectry upwards, to the length
of between five and six feet. This last
now went off and left the corner appar
ently four feet or more and formed into
the shape of' a man! standing erect.
The figu re was of live most erfjet imagi-
Public Meeting.
At a' public .meeting of the whigs of
Ponola county, assembled at the Court
House on 2nd day of May 1 043, for the
purpose , of appointing Delegates to at
tend the whig convention, to be held at
the city of Jackson on the 2nd Monday
in June next; upon motion of It. E. Bra
ban Esq-, Col. Isaac N. Davis was call
ed to the Chair, and U. Tyson appoin
ted Secretary.
On motion of Miles II. McGeehee Esq
the chair appointed a Committee of ten
to nominate suitable delegates to attend
said convention, when the Committee
retired and nominated the following
Delegalo3.
D. While, J. D. Ruffin, Miles II. Mc
Geehee, Dr. E. B. Hibbler, T. B. Hill,
C.Miller, Wm. Hunt, Wm. B. Pollard,
r Br WMteV James ErWin, S. A. Hen
derson, U. Tyson, and F. A. Tyler.
Upon motion of W. W. Smith the Chair
man was added to the committee.
On motion of Col. T. B. Hill, Resolved
that the proceedings be published in
the Ponola Weekly Register; whereup
on the meeting adjourned.
I. N. DAVIS, Chairman.
U. Tyson Secretary.
the- session before the last aided by
our able representatives, we were ena-,
bled to correct, and restore the bill to
the form in which it was originally in"
troduccd by mo in 183G. Thus then
there arc about seven hundred thousand
acres obtained for the State, and it is of
the utmost importance, that the sales in
the Grenada district, in which arc these
rich and valuable lands, should not take
place," until the locations now being
made bv the State in that district, shall
be completed. There is a section in
the act of March 3, 1813, which requires
the immediate attention of the pre-emp-tors.
. It is as follows: .
-"Sec 5. And bo it further enacted,
"that claimants under the late pre env
"tion law, for land net yet proclaimed
"for sale, are required to make known
"their claims, in writing, to the Regis
ter of the proper land office, within
"three months from the date of this act
"when .the settlement has been already
11 made, and within three months from
"the time of the settlement, when such
"settlement shall hereafter be made,
"giving the designation of the tract, arid
"tho time of settlement; otherwise his
"claim to be forfeited, and the tract a
"warded to the next settler, in the or
"der of time on the same tract of land,
"who shall have given such notice and
otherwise complied with all the condi
tions of the law."
I was entirely opposed to this provi
sion, as giving unnecessary trouble, but
it is the law and a compliance is expedi
ent. This is a notice of claim which is
required, not the money. I hope all
the editors of the State will publish this
lateralis it is very itaportaat, that the
settlers should be apprised of this pro
vision, and also of the postponement of
the sales, as many of the pre-emtors are
making great sacrifices to procure the
money to purchase their lands, under
the apprehension that the saie would be
speedily ordered.
Yours, very respectful lly,
R.J. WALKER.
To the Editor of the Free Trader.
"Letter from Senator Walker
Washington Citt," March 30, 18:43.
Dear Sir: I have just received a let
ter from the Commissioners of the Gen
eral Land Office, which it is important
should be made known immediately.
In reply to a letter from me, urging the
postponement of the land sales in the
Grenada District, the Commissioner
says: "This office docs not contem
plate recommending the proclamation
of any lands for sale in that district at
an early period. Indeed you may re
collect, that in accordance xcith your
wish, and to procure 'further legislation
with regard to the district lines, the pro
clamation of sales at that office has al
ready been postponed." The land sales
then in the Grenada District, -will not be
proclamed, until after the close of the
next session of Congress, and from my
correspondence whhjhe..Commissioner,
last year, as well as this, I believe the
sales will not be proclaimed until 1845
Knowing how inconvenient it would be
to the settlers to pay the cash for their i
lands last year, or this, I thought it my
duty to remain here, a short time after
last session, as well as this, until the
postponement was effected. This post
ponement was most important to the
State as werl as to the settlers. It was
my good fortune, at the special session
of 1841, to obtain an amendment to the
land bill, by which the five hundred
thousand acres granted to the State for
internal improvement, were authorized
to be located oathe lands not yet offer
ed for sale in the Choctaw session, and
without which, the grant would scarce
ly have been worth accepting. A sim
ilar grant was also obtained for near
ly two hundred thousand acres for
school lands for the Chickasaw counties,
and of which they had been deprived
by the treaty. In 1836 this last bill
was introduced by re, and then passed
through both Houses, and became a law.
. ... . . .
tjuf on its progress tnrougu the com
mittee of the Senate, on motion of Mr.
Ewing of Ohio, it was amended, by con
fining it to lands subject to entry at pri
Brigand Domestic Life.
One incident was related to us, which
is not calculated fo show their domestic
ransactions in a very favorable Iiht.
in spite of the usual romantic ideas of
tho eternal fidelity of brigand's bride.
The chief of a band which infested this
province had a. young wife cry. much
attached to him in all his perilous wan
derings, and presented him with a son
and heir worrhy, she hoped, of imita
ting the glorious exploits of his sire.
This unfortunate little lamhino howe
ever, so disturbed the peace of the
brigands tent with its infantine cries that
he threatened more than once to put an
end to its wailing; and one night, when
returning savage ana disappointed from
an unsuccessful expedition, he was a
gain provoked by its squalls, rising sud.
denly in a fury, he put his threat into
execution before the eyes of the terri
fied mother.
From that moment love gave place in
her heart to hstred and the desire of
vengeance; whilst her husband, enraged
at her continually regrcting the child
and perhaps suspecting some vindictive
intentions on her part, resolved, after
some domestic squabbles, upon putting
her also to death. One night, having
confided his project to his nephew,
I whom he had left at the head of the camp
of brigands, he told him not to give the
alarm if he heard the report of a gun,
as it would merely be himself giving a
quietus to la Giuditta; and with this
warning he departed to his own tent,
a little distant from the others. Now
it so happened that his loving spouse
had fixed tipon this vcryevening for
the performance of her own long-nur
sed schemes of revenge; and having de.
ferred her own fate by her mere than
usually amiable demeanor, and artfully
got her victim to sleep, she discharged
the contents of a rifle into his body; and
cutting off his head, escaped with it to
Reggio, where she claimed a reward
from the authorities for his destruction.
The nephew heard the report f the
rifle in the night ; and being before warn
ed merely muttered to himself, "'o zio
ch'ammazza la Giuditla,"1 and turned
quietly round to sleep again.
SlrulCs Tour in Calabria.
. Open Rebellion.
The world is well acquainted with
the military career of Major Joe Bunker,
and among his memoirs should'be inser
ted his extraordinary sentence for dis
obedience borders upon private Hiram
Jones. Hiram was ordered out into a
swampy ground, to take a certain sta
tion, and stand guard. He said Ite would
'be dod derned if he'd go."
"You wunlV said the Corporal.
: "No, I rami!" said Hiram.
"I'll report you to the Major."
t t xa a it
"iteport ana De uernea: 1 ain't a
va'e sale. This obnoxious provision , at ' agom' to stand in the mud and catch ih
agcr, for you nor the Major nulher."
ThcCorporal reported Hiram Jones
to the Major.
"Wunt! Did he ay wuntr'' said
major Joe Bunker.
"He said wuntj said Corporal Doolit.
lie.
"Did you tell him it was my order?"
asked the Major, invery indignant con
sternation. "Well, I did, Major," said the Corpo
ral. "Jest go right hack," were the em
phatic words of Major Joe Bunker "go
right back, Corporal Doolittle, and tell
Private Hiram Jones he may go to
grassV Ex pap.
From th$ Saturday Courier.
The Came of Draughts.
BY T. S. ARTHUR.
'But my dear sir, you eannot cer
tainly 1x3 in earnest.1
'Yes, but I am though.1
'What; gamble your daughter away V
'You can call it by what name you
choose, it matters not to me. You must
beat me at a game or her hand eanribt
be yours.
But that is impossible. .You are the
best player within ten miles around,
and I know little or nothing'of draughts,
besides having a distaste for it.
' Well, well, that is your own look out,1
replied tho father with impatience. 'If
vou win her, she is yours; but if you
do not, my word for it, she make3 hap
py the bridal evening of a smarter
man."1
Hut
'I tell you, it is useless to talk, John
Graham. My word is passed, and I
cannot "be moved. If you comply with
my terms, well:; if not there let the mat
ter end.1
This conversation occurred between a
sturdy husbandman, "whose farm fringed
the romantic banks of the Susquehanna,
near the delightful village of Marietta,
in the interior of Pennsylvania, and a
youna firmer living near by. The
heart of the latter had been won by An
na, the blooming daughter of the for
mer and after many days of doubt and
painful misgivings, John Graham, for
that was his name, made bold to speak
to the faiher his desire to possess her,
hand.
Surprised, mortified, and discouraged
at his reception, cUe yuag man left the
house, without a parting word with An
na, and returned to his own home, gloo
my and desponding.
For three days, no one saw him be
yond the bounds of his own farm. Ao.
na, who knew, of course his intention
to ask for her hand, was deeply ditress-
ed at "his sudden depaiture from the
house and pro!onged absence.
It was . near night-fall of the third
day, while sitting at the cottge win
dow that opened towards the road wind
ing up to the house, that she was start,
led from a painful dreamy state, by the
sound of footsteps, and lifting her head
she perceived that her truant lover was
again returning.
"'Oh, John, why have you staid so
long away?' she said earnestly, as she
bounded out.of the door to meet him.
'And wh should I come?' he replied
moodily.
Did not my father She
could'utter nothing further; but coloring
deeply, leaned herliead upon his shoul
der. 'He refused me your hand, AnnaV he
said in an excited tone.
O, no, John he did not do that surelyf
said the maiden, lifting her head, and
looking him with a pale countenance
steadily in the face. j
" 'It amounts to the same thing, Anna,
I must beat him at draughts, or you can
never be mine.1
'John Graham! you are sporting with
me!1 And Anna drew herself up, while
her face, from which the eolor had so
suddenly departed, was lighted up with
something of indignation.
'As I live, and as 1 love you, Anna,
what I say is true.1
Then my father but sported with you
in a merry mood," and the maiden tried
to smile carelessly.
'He was in' earnest said the young
man solemnly.
U 'Then what can he mean?' asked An
na in a perplexed tone-
4 Why he means to deny me your
hand. He has, no doubt, other views for
his daughter.1
For a moment Anna stood silent, and
then leaning her head upon the shoul
der of her lover she sobbed aloud, over
come by feelings which she in vain tried
to keep down.
Just at that moment, the sound of
some one approaching, aroused them,
and looking up they perceived it to be
Anna's father.
'Well, John,1 he said, in a cheerful
draughts?'
Young Graham's face colored,and be
ing unable at that moment to speak from
confusion, he looked upon the ground
and was silent.' But quickly recover
ing himself, he replied
I hope, sir, that you will not feel it
necessary to pain either your daughter's
feelings or my' own, longer? by what
I cannot believe to be any thing more
than a j'ist.1
The old man's brow darkened. I am
not used to trifling, sir. You have
heard my terms. Let me assure you
that they must be fulfilled to the letter.
If you do not intend trying Tor her hand,
in the. only way that it can be won, then
give place, sir, to some more worthy
euitor.1
Deeply pained, as well as offended, at
what he considered equivalent to an in
sult repeated, Graham turned suddenly
away from bth father and daughter,
and hastened home.
It was nearly four weeks before the
young couple again met, and then it was
without concert", at the house of a neigh
bor. For the first part of the cv6n;.ng,4
they seemed shy of each other; but af
ter a while we re observed to be earnest!
ly engaged in conversation, as they pa
ced the lawn ia front of the house,
backward and forward, under the love
awakening influence of a bright August
moon. i
Will you not coasentT said Graham,
becoming more animated.
'No, John, I cannot, I loe you,1 and
her voice trembled and faltered; 'but,
leave my father! O, no, no, -never!'
Then you do not Jo ' But he
paused with, the word unuttered.-
There was an embarrassed silence of
some moments; at length the young
man said in a melancholy tone .
'Then, Anna, we had better see each
other no more.1
'John,' said she, looking him in the
face fixedly, 'will you not try to 1
But she hesitated and then hung down
her head.
'Try to beat your father in a game
of draughts you would have said?
Even ifiherc was hope, Anna, of doing
that which there is none, I could noj
give my conseet to o hueailiating an
act. What has ,the playing of a game
skilfully, to do with my ma-king you a
good husband?1 -
But this did not atisfy the vakii -of the
maiden. She" thought that Wif'lovcf'f
ought to be willing to do any thing no
matter how unreasonable at might l
for the sake of gaining her hand. She
could not however, sav uo.re than she
had.
They parted that -evening, gloom
ily enough. But the sight of her face?
and the sound of her voice, had stirred
more deeply in his heart the waters of
affection. -
'She must be mineT he -said to him
self, passionately, as be strode home
wards. By degrees, but with great reluctance,
he began to entertain thoughts of apply
ing himself to the game at which her
father was soskUful;and saefh progress
had he made by the next weeing inci
pient resolution, that Be actually went
over to a neighbors, and after sitting
awhile proposed a game of draughts.
But although his antagonist was but a
poor player, John Graham, was beaten
every time.
'You woulcTnt do to play with old
Woodruff? remarked his companion,
after winning for the sixth time.
Graham colored deepJy, as he looked
up" at the remark, but be perceived by
his friend's countenance that it was in
mocently made.,
Much -diseou raged he went home'that4
night and dreamed that he had played
with Mr. Woodruff, Anna's father, and
beaten him. On" the next evening he
went over again, and spent two or three
hours in playing. Once he beat his an
tagonist. This gave him hope, and as
he thought of it the next day he said to
himself, 'I have certainly improved
a little, and if l keep at it I will certain
ly improve more.1
And old Woodruff will improve too,
and he is far enough ahead,1 Vhispe red
an opposing thought, and his fpirits
sunk suddenly to a freezing point.
That evening he staid moping and gloorr-
mg at home. But on the next night he
tried draughts again, and, felt an in
creasing confidence and sense of coming
skill.
Three weeks passed away in- practi
sing almost every evening, when John
became so much of an adept as to beat
his friend at every game. This mado
him feel quite up-lifted, and he deter
mined to have a trial ith Anna's father
So he dressed himself up and went
over.
Anna met him at the door, and blush,
ed with joy and confusion. The old man
extended his hand with a blunt welcome,
tone, 'have vou come to beat me at, that had in it some remains nf hU for.
mer cordiality.
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ham about thp ivnnii, .. 1111 Cn
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the stock.
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"tier iua, atWr, M. ... H
said, though many glances were
ged between the lovers the S
pointed significantly at the check k
and Graham with a face auddcnbV
ed, nodded assent. H
Anna's heart beal audibly inh
som and she feltnnnrr.0j ...... r
vjovu wrin
eating sensation, as she saw
ti,:.t
ll
draw silentlv un tn Mm iu.
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to arrange their pieces on the
It beat quicker still when the JL
gan, and sank -heavily in herbojo" I
tera brief passage tf the piecs,"
square to square for her lover
the game. The pieces were
placed, and again the moves comLI
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inwu; games were played
the parties separated, in all 0f iv
the old man won. Long before the t
mination of the evening's contend
Anna's pulse had become quiet; aitfon.
a red spot upon her check told that ,
r-i .1 . . .
;u none tue less interested. She b.
oonaited to perceive' that wiJ.ef
renewed game the period occupy .
v.viuusung u became longer than
which went" before.
On the, next evening Graham
again, and again the draught boatf,
produced. But some how orvfa
couia not play even as well as he?
the evening previous. Anna wi,
pointed, and he could perceive j(
this not only dispersed him but w,
ed his pride. He felt no pleasantry
as he returned home that Eight, ij
determining not to lower himself a-,.
so much in bis own estimation u;
gamble for the girl be loved. Tt,
half formed resolution he keptfo,
week, during which time Anna's d4
and fears all retu reed upon her, ia
her sick at heart.
But much as be disliked drau4i 3
much as he condemned and eves 3s
pised the principle involved imUs
ulations of Anna's father, all power
love again prevailed, and lie Rocjhtli
home of his lady fair to enter the!
once more for her liarnL Ilut h i
with little better suceess. Still tier 1
was one compensation that followed t. i
ery evening' trial and that aii- i
hours quiet .couimuaioa ith Anna; i "
as long as be would piay with the c : f
man, and lry, as texf course did, i
beat hire, he was a welcome Vvsvtor, v I ?
allowed a fair opportunity to tellnr
again jkw Aoodly Jie loved her.
Six months passed in this wjj.a
young Grahana began to play n ith n
skill and judgement, and not unfre-jK
ly a game would lasi for a whine too;
On such occasio.is the oil manvi .-'
s'ap him on the shoulder, after Ik's..
best JVun, with, "well done' my boj'
Thcgiri will be yours yet!'
Oue day about this time, it hap?
ed that Graham, with his father's
on, was driving his cart along the r:
that passed near the cottage of his s
heart. Woodruff happened to mee!: .
just there, and insisted upon his r:
ping. Graham came in, and after i:c
ing a glass of home brewed beer, m
by the fair hands of her he loved J
old man reached down the ever-pre?; '
checker board. . ?
"This may be a lucky day John"; t
said, looking him archly in the face
"Have you a mind to try?"
The first sight of the board a!r
annoyed the young man; but he'
this feeling, as usual, and set do!
the table.
For a little while Aanna stood t
ing at the game, and then retired t;
tend to her ordinary duties in the t
4jtj- The -motherr too, soon ToW
and the players were left alone. I
dog that had partaken of the ge
bustle on the entrance of they ' ..
man, soon felt the quiet influence 01 ;
room, and stretching himself out c
the floor, seemed as deeply ecgage '
thought as were his biped compa
Not a sound was to be heard, cr
the low noise made in moving the p'
on tne board, or the occasional qu
rattling of them when one was take)
Graham never before seemed to
his mind so clear, not to have solj '
perception of -principles of the
and the old man was as much abr
in what he was doina as eier.
every ten minutes, it there hadB
other observer ia the root &
face might have been seen k,r't
for a fe.w moments ft, the windo;,
behind the young man.
"Jupiter!" suddenly cxclain
old man, with an uneasy roovemcj"-
his antagonist leaned over to P
and into the kingdom. Tha rc'8 1
position of several pieces in tho
borhood of this newly mado acJ j
king on tho board, was eoch as
a1 IVnlrMffm tntlnfr rare d I
disarrange entirely his game,
and
troy his usual position of aJran,a