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A DV EIMSE NI EN 'I'S
ROBERT P. IVIcCONAUGIIY,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
OFFICE in York Street, next door to
the Public Office:4, in the room lately
occupied by John L. Fuller, F.sq.
Gettysburg, April 18, 18:16. :3m-3
Itlo.llo V A.I.A.
DANIEL M. SMYSER,,
.ITTOR.>d'I:3T 1. 1 11 85/1,
inif AS removed his Office two doors North
AL:mi of the tavern of Mr. John Barrett,
(formerly Ziegler's) in South Baltimore
Street—and three doors Nurth of Middle
Street.
The Law partnership between T. Ste.
vees, Esq. find 1). r%l. Smyser will continue
as herctoforo,business in the criminal courts
excepted.
April 25, 1836.
HAT MANUFACTORY.
REMOVAL.
FI L IHE subscriber respectfully informs his
friends and the public generally that
he has
lIEaIOPEDIENS SHOP
to the new building in South Baltimore
Street, nearly opposite Mr. David Jr-
Creary's Saddle Manufactory,
WHERE HE WILL AT ALL TIMES HAVE ON
HAND, AND HE PREPARED TO MANUFAC•
TIME AT Tun SHORTEST NOT/CE,
Beaver, Otter,
Castor, Boramta,
& Wool BATS,
—ALSO—
Sl= EATS,
EQUAL TO AN V THAT CAN DE PRUCUMED IN
THE CITIES
hats are good mid substantial, us
well as neat and fashionable; and all hats
Oita do not wear as warranted, will be re
duced in price. Ile hopes, by strict and
careful attention to business, still to merit
and receive a share of public patronage.
SAMUEL S. MCCREARY
Gettybarg, May 16, 1836. / tf-7
INIENV & CHEAP GGOl).'
S.I.IIIUEL IVI THE ROW' ?
INFORIIS hiS Friends and the Public,
ho has commenced business at the
Old stand of M mLett & %V ITH enow, and has
just returned from the city with
A LARGE AND SPLENDID ASSORTMENT OF
cmeyns,
SUITABLE FOR TUE SEASON
CONSISTING OF RVERY VARIETY OF
Dry Goods, Groceries, Hard
ware, Queensware, 4•c. ere.
ALL of which he is determined to sell cheap
fol CASH or Country Produce.
April 4, 1836.
BOOTS & SHOES.
411
atstAt
•
A LARGE ASSORTMENT OF
11 1. BOOTS
AIN D MVP
• SHOES
Just received and for sale by
J. GILBERT, Gettysburg.
Orllaving made arrangements at home
for that purpose, BOOTS and SHOES
can be ►nade to order in a workmanlike
manner and at the shortest notice.
April 4.1830. tf—l
coJCIA, San DLL .IXI?
TRUNK FACTORY.
THE Subscriber returns his thanks to
the Public for the very liberal support
extended to him, and would respectfully
state that he is at all times prepared, at his
old Stand in Chambersburg Street, a few
doors Weal of the Court•flouse, to
Make, Trim and Repair
Rarouches
- CARRIAGES
of all kinds, in a neat, fashionable and sub
stantial manner, of GOOD NA:JET-Ems and at
the shortest notice.
lie is also prepared to manufacture, and
has now on hand,
SADDLES 10\
BRIDLZS,
MARTINGALES - "), ` xa
Saddle-bags, Portmanteaus,
Trunks, Harness,
AND EVERY OTHER ARTICLE 1 N /11S LINE OF ROSINESS
The Public are respectfully invited to
g i ve hi m a call before purchasing elsewhere.
KrAn kinds of illarketing taken in ex-
change for work at , fair prices.
EDWIN A. ATLEE.
Gettysburg, May 2, 1836. 11-5
,Ipprentice IT/Witted.
AN Apprentice will be taken to the above
business, if application is made immediately.
One from the Country, aged about 15 or
16, would be preferred.'
COCaOIdiSIFDQ
sweetest flowers enrich%
From various gardens cull'd with care."
MAY.
BY N. P. WILLIS.
Oh, the merry May has pleasant hours,
And dreamily they glide,
As if they floated, hke the leaves,
Upon a silver tido.
The trees are full of crimson buds,
And the woods aro lull.of birds,
And the waters flow to music
Liko a tuno with pleasant words.
Tho verdure of the meadow lund
Is creeping to the hills,
The sweet, blue.bosnned violets
Are blooming by the rills;
The Nock has a load of halm
For every wind that stirs,
And -the larch stands green and beautiful
Amid the sombre fire.
There's perfume upon every wind—
Mueic in every tree—
Do we for the moialtiro loving flowers—.
Sweets for the sucking bee;
The sick come forth for the healing breoze,
The younr ari3 gathering flowers;
And life is a tale of poetry,
,That is told by golden hours.
if 'tie not true philosophy,
l'hat the spirit when set free,
Still lingers about its olden halite,
In the flower and the tree,
It is very strange that our pulses thrill
At the Whits of a voiceless thing,
And our hearts your,' so with tenderness
In the beautiful time of spring.
C3aIdUC.OIOT.O
FOR THE ETAR AND BANNER
M 11. F:DIT011--S1r: liking a reader of your paper, 1
a short time ago, cast my eyes upon an article in it
treating of the Contest of the Philomathwau nad
Phrenakosinian Societies of Pennsylvania College.—
So far as the article extended it was correct, and a
greed pretty well with my sentiments on the subject;
but yet, methinks, that wheneter any thing of the
kind is mentioned in the public papers, it would be
well enough for the person who hands it to the Kin
ter, to state to the public also what faults there may
have been, both as regards the performers and the
performances: Therefore, as the author of the article
alluded to*, did not observe any, or at least did not
mention any, Las a spectator of the occasion, will
proceed to state, in a few words, in so far as lean re
collect, what appeared to me to be faulty.
First, then, as regards the performances, I would
sac, as a general matter, I was pleased with the
whole of them; but as regards particulars, I would
remark, and this remark I consider applicable to all,
they were too long. None -of them amid havi3 ex
ceeded fifteen minutes in time.
The Essay of Cif/OILER L. bordered a little too
much on Abercrombie, and was almost too metaphy
sical for an audience, composed principally of young
persons, who, I suspect, have never paid any atten
tion to that branch of literature. That of Gronoa's
was more adapted to the taste of the young; for it
was entirely of a flimsy, figurative character: but as
there were a good many present whose deep-search
ing geniuses wait for substance of a weightier nature,
he should not have so entirely slighted and disap
pointed them.
Next came Gorrttza, who gave us some very
beautiful descriptions of the great public edifices of
Remy, and of the persons who occupied them; and
who, I suppose, by his flaming elocution and vehem•
cut gesticulation, was thought by many of the bearers
to have borne the palm of the evening : But when
Ciinis•rinw arose, he soon, by the calmness of his
speech and manliness of his gesture, showed me, and
I have no doubt, the majority of the audience, the fol
ly of Gottlieb's wishing to thwart nature herself by
introducing, or at least trying to introduce too much
art The substance of the oration Ido not sufficiently I
remember to state any thing about particulars in it.
Now comes old JAMES It, and with the number
and variety of his figures and allusions almost enchan
ted the assembly, especially the female part of it,
whose tender passions are generally very much lifted
up by such descriptions as the gentleman, just men
tioned, gave us; but yet, if I understood the question
of debate rightly, and the side which he supported, I
must say,that I thought he was generally pretty far
from proving his point. His arguments were as the
Asymptote. a line which approaches a curve nearer
aud nearer, but though extended ever so far would
never, never meet; so it was here—the arguments
proceeded in the way of a climax, nearer and nearer
the point, but owing to a thing the gentleman could
not touch, viz. Christiantty, they would not prove it:
But, on the other hand, TOBIAS W. showed clearly
wherein lay the fault of James R.'s arguments, and
also established his own pretty well. The chief fault
that I observed in Tobias W.'s performance wat,that
he utterly neglected his pauses, or rather, ho placed
all wrongly. But wo must cease with this part of the
subject, and for the sake of hi evity merely touch up
on the other—which is, what we thought faulty a
bout the Performers.
I will but make general what I have to say on this
point; because I believe what suits one in one respect,
suits another in another respect. The performers on
this occasion, as on all such occasions, attended too
much(to use a common expression) to the rigging off
of body, the external man. There was too much of
the white stockings, the new black dandy-coat, the
red and white waist-coat, the diamoud,or at least the
imitation of the diamond breast-pin, the golden or
yellow guard, the green spectacles, &c &c.
Now, these things may do among the gay and the
fashionable of our cities and towns; but let me tell
you, when the Country-man or Mountaineer is pres
ent, who comes to see the mind well dressed and the
body in a more natural plainness, such things look
rather a little disgusting than pleasing, and have too
much the appearance of wishing to make,at least,thc
body shine, if even the mind is not so bright. some
one will, no doubt, say, there's the exhibition of a
country-emu's taste; but the country-man replies, if
my taste for things that feed the mind is correct, I
care not how corrupt it may be as regards those of
the body
A FARMER'S SON.
•Tho article allutled to wag an Editorial notice of
the "Couteftt," and referred only to the perfortaances
wholly, not particulsrly.l—En. STAB.
BY ROBERT WHITE rannzintorr, EDITOR" PT.TBLICELEP. AND PROPRIETOR.
"I WISH NO OTHER HERALD, NO OTHER SPEAKER OF MY LIVING ACTIONS, TO KEEP MINE HONOR FROM CORRUPTION:"
MEXICO, May 12th, 1636
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valai ElUtTbEjaitlol2Vo
FOR THE STAB AND BANNER.
ID' ✓1 Scrap for the Carious.
"Here is wisdom. Let him that bath understanding
count the number of the beast: fns it is the number of
a man; and his number is Six hundred three score and
six "—(Key. 13th chap. 18th verse.
1134 will appear from the following that the Em
peror NAPOLEON BUONAPA SITE IA the man!
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Petersburg,( Y. S.)
QUIOR COURTSHIP, OR THE
WOOED AND WON.
A remarkable example, showing that a wise man,
when he rises in the morning, little knows what he
may Jo before night.
-Now I love
And so as in so short a time I may,
Yid to as tim:• shall never break that so,
♦nd therefore su except of Elinor."
One summer morning, the Doctor, on his way
back from a visit in that direction, stopped as on
such opportunities ho usually did at Mr. Bacon's
wicket and looked an at the open casornent to see
if his friends wore within. Mr. Bacon was sit
ting there alone, with a book open on the table be
fore him; and looking round whoa ho heard the
horse stop, "Como in. Doctor, for," said ho,"ifyou
have a law minutes to spare, you wore never more
welcome."
The Doctor replied, "I hope nothing ails either
Deborah or yoursolfi" "No," said Bacon, "God
he thanked, but sotnothing has occurred that con
cerns both."
When the Doctor entered the room, ho perceiv
ed that the wonted serenity of his friend's coun
tenance was overcast by a shade of melancholy
tho't. "Nothing," said he, "1 hope has happened
to distress you?" "Only to disturb us," was the
reply. Most people would probably think that we
ought to consider it a pioco of good fortune.—
Ono who would be thought a good match for her,
has proposed to marry Deborah."
"Indeed," said the Doctor, "and who is ho?"
fooling, as ho asked the question, an unusual
warmth in his face.
"Joseph liebblethwait, of the Willows. He
broke his mind to me this morning, saying that
ho thought it best to spook with me before he made
any advances himself to thu young woman; in.
deed ho had no opportunity of so doing for he had
soon littlo oilier; but he had enough of her char
acter to believe that she would make a good wife,
and this ho said, was all ho looked for, he was well
to do in the world."
"And what answer did you make to this matter
of fact way of proceeding?"
"I told him that I commenced the very proper
Course, that he had taken, and 1 was obliged to
him for the good opinion of my daughter which
he was pleased to entertain; that marriage was an
affair in which I should never attempt to direct
her inclinations, being confident that she would
never give inn cause to oppose them; and that 1
would talk with her,and inform him of the result.
As soon as I mentioned it to Deborah,she coloured
up to her eyes,& with an angry luok,of which I did
not think those eyes had been capable, she desired
me to tell him that ho had better loose no time an
looking elsewhere, for his thinking of her was no
use.'"Do you know any ill of him said I. "No," she
replied, "hut I never heard any good and that is
ill enough. And Ido nut like hie looks."
"Well said, Deborah," cried the Doctor, clap
ping his hands so as to produce a sonorous token
of satisfaction."
"Sorely, my child," said 1, "ho is not an ill
looking person." "Father," she roplied, "you
know he looks - as if he had not ono idea in his head
to keep company with anothoi
"Well said, Deborah!" repeated the Doctor.
"Why, Doctor do you know any ill of him?"
"None."
'"But as Deborah says, I know no good; it must
have come within my knowledge. I cannot help
knowing who the persons are to whom - the peas.
entry in my rounds look with respect and good
will, and whom they consider their friends as well
as their betters. And in like manner I know who
they aro from whom they expect neither courtesy
nor kindness."
"You are tight my friend and beborah is right.
Her answer came from a wise heart; and 1 was
not sorry that h3r determination was so promptly
made and so resolutely pronounced. But I wish.
Wit pleased God, the 6114 had been one which
she could have accepted with her own willing con.
sent, and, with my full approbation.
"Yet;" said the doctor, "1 have often thought
how sad a thing it would bo for you over to part
with her." •
"Far more sad will it be for mo to leave her un
protected; as it is but too likoly, that in tho °Min-
ary course of nature, I one day shall; and as any
in that. samo ordinary 'course, I so possibly may.
Out beet attention', even when they have been
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C URIOSITY
ROBERT GREEN
most prudentially formed, fail often in their Issue.
I meant to train up Deborah In the way she should
go by fitting her for that state of life in which it
pleased God to place her, so that she might have
made a good wife for amnia honest man In the hum•
bler walks of life, might have been happy with
him."
"And how was it possible, replied the doctor
that you could have succeeded -better? Is she
not qualified to be a good man's wife in any rank?
Her manner would not do discredit to a mansion;
her management would make a farm prosperous
or a farmer comfortable, for her principles and
temper, and cheerfillness, they would render any
home a happy one."
"You have not spoken too highly in her praise,
Doctor. But as she has from her childhood been
all in all to me, there is a danger dual may have
become too much so to her, and that while her
habits have properly been made comfortable to our
poor means, and to her prospects, she has been
accustomed to a way of thinking. and a kind of
conversation which hos given her a distaste for
thoso whose talk is only of sheep and oxen, and
whose thoughts never get beyond the range of
their every day employtnents. In her present cir
cle, 1 do not think there is one man whom she
would not have the same intellectual objections as
to Joseph Liebblethwaitc; though I am glad that
the moral objection was that which fiat instinc.
Lively occurred to her.
"I wish it were otherwise, both for her satte,and
my own; for hers, because the present separation
would have mom than enough to compensate
and would in its consequences, mitigate tho ovil
of the final one, whenever that may be; for my
own, because I should then have no cause what
ever, to render the prospect of dissolution other
wise than welcome, but be as willing to die as to
sleep. It is not owing toany distrust in Provi
denco that I am not thus willing now—God for
bid! But if I gave heed to my foelings, I should
think that I am not long for this world; and surely
it were wise to remove the only cause that makes
me fear to think so."
"Are you sensible of any symptoms that can
load to such apprehensions?" said tho Doctor.
"Of nothing that can be called symptom. lam
to all appearance,in good health,of sound body and
mind, and you know how unlikely my habits era
to occasion any disturbanco in either. But I
have indefinablo impressions--Sonsations they
might also be callcd—whicla as such I cannot but
regard thein."
"Cau yon describe those sensations?"
"No bettor than by Baying that they hardly a
mount to sensations, and are indescribable."
"Do not," said the Doctor; "I entreat, give way
to any feelings of this hind. They may lead to
consequences which without shortening or en.
dangering life, would render it anxious and burth.
ensome,a❑d destroy bothyour usefulness and your
corn fort."
"I have this feeling, Doctor, and you shall pre
scribe for it, if yon think it requires either rogi.
men or physic. But at present you will do more
good by assisting me to procure for Deborah such
a situation as she must necessarily look for on the
event of my death. What I have laid by, even if
it should be most advantageously disposed of,would
afford her only a bare subsistence; it is a resource
in case of sickness, but while in health it would
never bo her wish to eat the bread of idleness.—
You may have opportunities of learning whether
any lady within the circle of your practice, wants
a young person in whom she might confide, eith
er as an attendant upon herself, or to assist in the
management of hor children or her household.—
You may be sure this is not the first time that I
have thought upon the subject, but the circum
stance which this day occurred, and the feeling of
which I bare spoken, have pressed it upon my
consideration. And the inquiry may better be
made, and the step taken, while it is a matter of
foresight, than when it has become a matter of ne.
cessity."
"Let me feel yuor pulse:"
"You will detect nu other disorder there," said
Mr. Bacon, holding out 64 arm as he spoke, "than
what has been caused by this very interesting
conversation, and the declaration of a purpose
which though for some time intended, I have
never till now fully acknowledged to myself."
"You have never, then, mentioned it to Debo
no other way than by sometimes incidental.
ly speaking ofthe way of life which would be opon
to her. iu case of her being unmarried at my
death."
"And you have mado up your mind to part with
"Upon a clear conviction that I ought to do so
—that it is best for herself and me."
"Well then, you will allow me to converse with
her first, upon a different subject. You will al.
low me to see whether I can speak more success.
fully for myself than you have done for Joseph
Hobbletwaito. Have I your consent?"
Mr. Bacon arose in great emotion, and taking
his friend's hand, pressed it fervently and tremis.
lously. Presently they hoard the wicket open,
and Deborah came in.
"I dare say, Deborah," said her father compos.
leg himself, "you have bean tolling Betsey Allison
of the advantageous offer you have this day refug
ee,
"yes," replied Deborah,"and what do You think
she said? That little as she likes him, rather than
1 should bo thrown away on such a worthless tnan
she could almost make up her mind to marry him
herself?'
"And I." mud the Doctor, "rather than such a
man should havo you,l would marry you myself.'
"Was not I right in refusing him, Doctor?"
"So right that you foyer pleased me so well be.
fore, and never can please me better unless you
will accept of me in his stead."
She gave a little start, and looked at him half
incredulously and half angrily withal, dB if what
he had said was too light in its manner to be seri.
ous, and yet too serious in its import to be spoken
-MAW
in jest. But when ho took her by the and
said, "will you, dear Deborah?" with a pressure,
and in a tone that loft no doubt of his earnest
moaning, oho cried "Father, what am Ito say?
spiiak for me." "Take her my friend," said Mr.
Bacon, "my blessing be upon you both, and if it
be not presumptuous to use the words, lot me say
for myself, Lord, now letest thou thy sir.
vent depart in peace." •
VAItIEVY.
From the Baltimore Transcript.
A RIVER ALTERING rrs COURSE.—The
Hartford Times expresses some fears that
the Connecticut river is about to alter its
course so as to run away from that city
entirely, and leave before It nothing but a
black and stagnant bayou. The east bank
for a few miles above Hartford is said to be
rapidly wearing away, and the editor pre
dicts that the water will soon make a short
cut from Olinsted's bend, about two miles
above the city, to the mouth of Solomon's
river, the same distance below.
Notmo.—At a recent meeting of the
Board of Aldermen, at Boston, $50,500
were appropriated for the salaries of the
teachers in the public schools; $22,509 for
the usual expenses of tho primary schools,
and $12,000 fort he compleilon of two school
houses. Totals9l,ooo.
A !Ilia:rimENT PROJECT is on the tapis
at New York, It is proposed to build a
pier in the North River for the accomoda
tion of the shipping which shall cost about
:5;4,284,000.
FIRE AT GREENERSTI.—Fires have been
very frequent within a few days. At Green
bush, opposite Albany, one occurred May
13th, which consumed :40 buildings. laying
a large portion of that village in ruins.—
Loss 525,000.
Margaret McCue, a woman 26 years of
age, died in New York on Sunday in conse
quence of addiction LI excessive use of at
dent spirits. •
The City Council of Philadelphia have
passed an ordinance, authorising the city to
subscribe $300,000 for the completion of
the Danville and Pottsville Rail Road.
It is said that in one district of the state
of Missouri, within a circumference of six
teen miles, there are seventy-three mines of
lead and iron, which had produced in one
year more than 70,000,000 pounds of ore.
RonirisoN behaves himself very well at
Bellevue. Yet he shows a prodigious flow
of spirits. An old friend from Connecticut
called upon him a few days at tho prison.
Ho found him engaged in smoking segars,
drinking coffee—and reading novels. He
is excessively addicted to segars and noVels
during his imprisonment.—N. Y. Herald.
NOVELTY.—WO understand that a step m
boat is fitting. out in England, having two
retorts, which are to be placed in the fires
under the boilers, to generate•gas with
which the boat is to be lighted up in her
cabins, engine rooms,and about deck. Pipes
are also arranged to-carry the gas to the
mast heads, where large flames are to be
kept during the night. —Hudson.
WHEN GREEK MEETS GREEK, &c.—Two
Eagles were lately seen fighting in the air
in fierce combat, in Woodbury co. on Tues
day. After a deathly grapple they both fell
to the ground. One was picked up dead,
covered with blood, and with a deep wound
under the wing. He measured six feet
from tip to tip. The conqueror flew away.
The Miner's Journal says,—"Mechanics,
miners and laborers, in fact operators of all
sorts,are in demand here,and will find plenty
of employment. This is a state of things in
which every one must take pride and plea
sure because a sure evidence oT growing
Importance and prosperity."
A SPECULATION.—About a year ago.
says a New York Paper, a merchant of this
city purchased a farm on the banks of the
river in Hallett's Cove, known as Judge
Lawrence's farm. The purchase money
was thirty thousand dollars. A few days
since he sold the same farm for fifty five
thousand dollars cask.
HORRID EFFECTS OF INTE3IPERANCE.--A
man in Delaware county,named Thompson,
was lately sentenced to the Penitentiary for
biting off a piece of the upper lip, the eye.
brows, and ears of his father, in a drunken
frolic. •
Scene at a Temperance Meeting.
An amusing scene was exhibited by Doc
tor Underhill during his lecture at the Tem
perance meetin. , held last Tuesday evening.
Imagine that the Doctor, anticipating that
his sturdy constitution would sink under the
fatigue of an hour's lecturing, without some
artificial stimulant to cheer his spirits and
strengthen his nerves, had taken a bottle of
"Old Madeira," to church and hid it be: .
hind the pulpit, for use when his flagging
spirits should require the drunkard's nerve
to sustain him. In thecourse of his lecture,
the Doctor gave a chemical analysis of the
properties of alcohol, of the process of sepa
rating it from its adjunlts, and the different
proportions of it in brandy, wine, &c. The
Doctor was proceeding to o show the effects
of "the critter" on the human system; when,
to give more buoyancy to his spirits and
more fluency to his tongue, he drew forth
his bottle of wine, and proceeded to fill a
glass with the delicious beverage. At this
moment a wag, who, unknown to the Doc
tor, had taken to the meeting ,a bottle of
brandy, and some water and sugar, that ho '
too might refresh himself with his favorite 4
bevePage, drew forth his bottle and pitcher,
and placed them on the other end of the
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table• The Doctor was about to raise the
glass of wine to his lips,when his eye caught
the wages the latter was preparing to mix
his brandy sling. The doctor started back
with horror s and sat down his glass apon that
table, and the following dialcigue ensued:,
Dr.—Stop,,sir: stop! do you know What
you are doing? That brandy is half alcohol!
Drt>lsay it is worse-than Upaii, and iti
use'Viill bring you to a drunkard's grave!
Wirg.—Ahl hut what have you got there;
doctor, in , your bottle?
Dr —Why? why, Its Madeira wine— ,
"good old Madeira"—the pure juice of the
grape. , ,
Wag.—Doctor, do you undetetand Chetzt.;
jetty?
Dr.— W hy, yes, I mite some preteti=
sior.R to it.
Wag.—Nell, then, can you tell me what
per cont. of alcohol this brandy contains?
Dr.--Fifty por cent at least - --perhaps
fifty-three.
Wag.—Well how much does your Old
Madeira contain?
Dr.-4)oy twentyfive per cant.
Wog.—Very well; I have some eXcel.
lent water here. arid will reduce my brand3r•
ton par with your wino and offer you goo
health, air. But stop, does your wine con; -
tam any other ingredients?
Dr.—Why, yes; there are some Wide.'
composed particles of sugar.
brandy
and
I always my brandy
and water sweetened. here is some excellent
sugar; and now sir, I give you my best res.
pects, with a truce to your palaver abotit
Upas and Old Madeira—and confusion to all
Won temperance men. Clug—clughig
—clug---
The argument, if not the illusion, *lig
complete. The Doctor shoved aside his
wine bottle, and renounced all iniridiotia dis
tinctions between the articles,the constituent
parts of which are the same, and the ill
:
of which are only distinguished by e r
the deleterious substances with which most'
of our wines are compounded.--C/evekimi
(Ohio) Whig.
AN Axxxous HEARER.-A parishioner
complained to his parson that his pew"was
too far from the pulpit, and that he .Mllet
purchase one nearer.
"Why," said the parson, "can't you hear
distinctly?"
"0 yes, I can hear well enough."
"Can't you see plainly?" ,
"Yes, I can see perfectly well."
"Then what can be the trouble'
Why, there are so many in front of mei
who can catch what you say first, that by
the time your words reach my ears they tea
as flat as dishwater."
From tho Balti.noro Patriot.
INDIAN MURDERS.
We mentioned yesterday that Maj. Wm.
B. Fnotrnrioir, formerly of Putnam county',
Ga. but lately a resident of Alalatnia, had
been slain by the Creek Indians. It apt
pears that Major F. was on his way to Fort
M itchell,to complain of Indian depredations,
when he was intercepted, murdered, and
scalped by a party of Creeks, a few miles
below that place. A Mr. HOBBS has also
been murdered by the same treacherous Coe.
A young rain, in the same bed , with -14,
Hobbs, made his escape by raising a ph! ,
in the floor and creeping under the Ili
According to the Columbus (Ga.) Herald`:
the 10th instant, more than one buridntaC t .. -
individuals, including all editors, have fled
Georgia for safety. 'Thew individuals; s';
among whom are Rev. J. E. Dawson, Belk
E. Glenn, Dr. Richardson, Col. A. B. Data- -
son, Mr. Pitta. Dr. Battle, Col. Richardson,'
&c. are stated to have "left behind them se
veral hundred acres of land in a high Mani
of cultivation—to become a desolation and
waste."
A postscript in the Columbus Herald
states tliat the settlers had nearly all coma
in, and that several bad been murdered on
the road the previous day. The same paper
contains the following letter from Col. Cao.
WELL to Gov. CLAY, of
FORT MrrcuELL, Ala. May 9,1831 t -:
Bra—l arrived at home yesterday, and
found the neighbors considerably alarmed
about Indian depredations; and in order to
satisfy mvselfofthe intentions of the Indians,
I despatched a messenger after some of the
principal chiefs to come and see me, for the
purpose of ascertaining from them what their
people intended. The Chiefs have not come,
but sent me word that their young Men were
bent upon war, and had assembled to the
swamp near the Federal road with the view
of attacking any Troops that might march
into the Nation.
I have satisfied myself that they content.
plate mischief, and without military aid, the
settlers must be driven from . their homes
with a great loss of property, tf not their
lives. I have thought it my duty to give
you this information that von may call into
immediate service a sufficient force to put
those Indians down, and protect the lives
and property of the settlers. I have the
honor to be, your ob't. eery%
JOHN CROWELL.
N. B. Four persons have been killed in
the last few days and many negroes taken
off. .1 •
The citizens orPhiladelphia have pmsent
ed to Dr. Jesse R. Burden, two,splendid
ver pitchers as a testimony at gratitudo,tor
his honorable course in the State Benatee.6.
The inscription is:
"The Children at Pennsylvania owe it iklbi
of Cvlmtitude to their 13ene6tetor,
DR. JESSE B. BURDEN."