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Le* le of ily Hi- >n- is ;k- ik- ily ;k- lex jnt kor- :ri- ild at hint lat \the a* by |>ns, res, to rM JOSEPH W. HAMPTON,- The powers gromed under the Cunslitulion, being derived from the Pcople'of the Uiated States, may ba resumed by them whenever perverted to their injury or oppression.”—3/aiison.- -Edifor and Publisher. VOLUME I, I CHARLOTTE, N. C., PECEMBER 21, 1841. \ NUMBER 41. TERMS: The ^^Mccklenbur" Jeffersonian^^ is published weekly, at Tiro Dollars and Fifty Cents, if paid in advance; or 'I'hree Dollars, if not paid before the expiration of thheb months from the time of subscribing. 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A liberal discount will be made to those who advertise by the year.' Advertisements sent in for publication, must be marlied with the number of inser tions desired, or they will be published until forbid and charg ed accordingly. Letters to tJie Editor, unless contahilng money in sums of Five Dollars, or over, must come free of postage, or the amount paid at the office here will ’be cliargcd to the writer, n cvi^ry instance, and collected as other accounts. Deferred Articles. Weekly Almanac for December, 1841. D A VS. Sun RISE ScN SET. .1/0OA’’*' PHASES- '-ii Tuesday, ^2 \Vednesday, ~3 Thursday, ~4 Friday, *J5 Saturday, Sunday, 27 Monday. i;i 7 13 7 13 7 13 7 13 7 13 7 13 7 •1 47 4 ‘17 4 47 4 47 4 47 4 47 4 47 D. II. M. Last Uuarlcr, 5 7 U -AT. New ZVIoon l i 4 19 K. Fu'st Quarter, ‘2U 9 33 K. Full Moon, ~5 1 19 31. NOTICE TO ^^ojunioit ^cfioc^ ^^oimnittcc^. |HE Board of Saperintendents of Common Schools for Mecklenburg County, hereby no tify the School Committees in the several Districts, that a meeting of the Board will be held at Char lotte, on Tuesday of the ensuing January Court,— at v/hich tmie the said Committees are required to make a Report of the number of Children in their reepective Districts, In those Districts where no election has been held for Committee-men. the va cancy will be filled by the Board at the meeting as uboA'e appointed. Returns should be addressed to the “Chairman of the Board of Common School Commissioners,” and may be left, previous to the (I'ourt, either with the undersigned, or with Charles T. Alexander^ Esq., Clerk of the County Court, in Cliarlotfe. WM. WILSO.'J; Chairman. December 7, 1811. 39...tc Charlotte Journal, copy. COi^H IWAKING THE Subscribers having entered in to copartnership, will carry on the above business in all its various branches, at the old stand formerly owned by Mr. Carter Crittenden, opposite the Jail. All work WARRANTED;—and Re pairing done at the shortest notice, for moderate thar'^es. CHARLES OVERMAN, JOSHUA TROTTER. Charlotte, June 15, 1841. . 12m Notice. IW'ILL Hire publicly, at the Courthou:e in Char lotte, on the first day of January next, for the term of twelve month?;, (if not hired privately be fore,) the following Negroes, viz : BONAPARTE, HENRY, RACHAEL, and DOVEY. Also, will be Rented aVthe same time and place, for one year, the Houses formerly owned by the late James M. Hutchison, on main street, adjoining Col. Alexan der’s Hotel. T. L. HUTCHISON, For his Son. Dec. 14. 1841. 40...is RIGHTEOUS LAW OF MARYLAND. It is hardly possible to conceive a more malici ous act than that of placing^ obstructions on rail roads, by which are endangered the lives of hun dreds, not one of whom may ever know the villain who thus designs to kill or w^ound them. Reason would be lost on such a wretch, and it is only the fear and the certainty of punishment that can re strain his evil propensities. In the hope and that the I'oople may know there is a hw provided for his punishment, we republish the following law, passed at the last session of the Legislature. AN ACT to protect the lices of persons travelling on Hiiilroads icithiu the ^taie of Maryland.—I'assed February 1-, 1810. Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General Ansemhly of Maryland, That from and after the passage of this act, if any person or persons shall place any thing, or cause any thing to be placed, on any Rtulroad in this State calculated to obstruct, overthrow, or divert trom the track of such railroad any car, vehicle, or carriage travelling or passing on such railroad, with the view or intent to obstruct or overthrow ajiy car, vehicle or carriage, such person or persons so olfend- ing fchull be deemed guilty of felony, and, upon con viction thereotj shall be sentenced to the Penitentiary for a period of not less than two years, nor more than ten years. feEc. And be it enacted, That if the death of any person shall be occasioned by ihe overthrow or obstruction of any railroad car, vehicle or carriage, produced by the placing of any thing or obstruction on any railroad, in violation of the first section of this act, then tlie person or persons so placing the thing or obstruction, shall be deemed irLulbj ot murder. Sec. o. And be it cnacted, That if any person or persons shall break or injure in any manner any rail road in thio State, with u view or mtent to obstruct or overthrow any car, vehicle, or carriage passing or travelhng on such railroad or bridge, such person or persons so ofl'ending shall be subject to all the penalties and consequences of persons guilty of the ofiences specified in tlie first section hereof; and it', in consequence of such breaking or injury, death en sued, the party ojf ending shall be deemed gitilhi of murder, and be m all respects subject to tlie same pen alties and consequences as tliose prescribed against persons olteuding against tlie second section of this act. Variety. Extract from the Boston Atlas of Oct. 1840, un der the head “ Our political prospects:^' “ Important and obstinately contested elections iiave taken place, allbrding to all who pay any heed to the signs of the times, satisfactory data for a conclu sive and decisive opinion relative to the current oj public scatimcnt, and the prospect of rdief to the copntry from its present thraLdom. The voice of an indignant people hiiis beeriagum and again heard in a deep thuader tone through the ballot boxes. Tiie result of every State election that has occured since (the extra session) is replete with interesting, and to the Jriends of coiistitaiional freedom, most ex- COUIIAGINO FACTS.'' We go that for our side, this fifteenth day of No vember, 1841.—Boston Post. Jlesvo %}ivins WILL BE HIRED, to the highest bidder,'for the term t)f twelve months, at the Courthouse door in Charlotte, 071 Friday, the 2\st instant, TEN OR FIFTEEN VERY VALUABLE NEGROES, belonging to Mrs. Graham, (insane.) BENJ. MORROW, Guardian. December 14, 1841. 40...th Neijjroes to Hire. O ON THE 27th INSTANT, at my residence, I will Hire to the highest bidder, for the term of twelve months EIGHT OR TEN VERY LIKELY NEGROES, (Women, Men, and Boys.) belonging to Dorcas M. Lee, minor. ALSO, At the same time and place, will be Rented, for the ensuing year, a VALUABLE PLANTATION belonging to the said minor. JOSEPH REID, Guardian. Mecklenburg Co., Dec. 7, 1841. 39...S “With Scissors sharp and Razor keen, I’ll dress your hair and shave you clean.” Buonaparte, the Barber, RESPECTFULLY informs his customers, that he has removed his estabhshment to the east end of Col Alexander’s Long Row, a few doors east of the Courthouse, where he will be pleased to see them at all times. He professes to be master of the “Tonsorial Art,” and will spare no ef fort to afFordre enti satisfaction. - Charges moderate, to suit the times. [Charlotte, March 9, 1841. 3$oo&s)sini)fins. T^^ILLIAM HUNTER would inform his custo ▼ T mers and the public generally, that he still continues the BOOK-BINDING BUSINESS at his old stand, a few doors south-east of the Branch Mint He will be happy to receive orders in his line, and pledges himself to spare no pains to give complet satisfaction. j - Orders left at his Shop, or at the Office of the ‘Mecklenburg Jeffersonian,’‘ will rcceive immediate a.tentioii [Charlotte, March f»; 1S41. LORD MORPETH AND THE NEW Y^ORK HUMBUGGERS. We could iiardly feel contempt for Old England and all iier titled puny scions of scrofulus old Knights, when we reiid tfie sycophantic and fulsome account of the dinner given to Lord Morpeth, bv sundry man-worshiping citizens of New Yoik.-^ We suy we could hardly feel contempt for Eng land, so great was our contempt for our own country-mcn. Freemen from the pulpit, from the ermine, from the bar, and from the city-box, kneel ing at the footstool of some body from England, with a name as long as a pump-handle, dressed in a bot tle green coat and yellow breeches, and lisping out, "Ah, damn me, Hofiman, w’ill you wuneV'* IIow long will our citizens make themselves the laughing stock and the bye-word of the old world. Who can give Lord Morpeth such a dinner as the cook of his own castle! Why feed him, then? Who can praise him like his own serfs? Why praise him. then? Who can give him such wine as the priest of his Parish Church? Why lead him to drink, then ? Has he writen his name high upon the scroll of fame'.- Has he simk any of our vessels—killed any of our officers—searched and robbed any of our merchantmen? Has he served with Captain Drew, or patrolled the frontier, under that blood-hound. Captain Prince? Has he a squint in his eye, or w^art on his nose, or a crook in his back, a huckle-berry above our persimmon? If not, then let him come and go, as Americans come and go in England; and, when he wants flattery, let him pay for it, as he does at home. We could not but admire, among other thino-s, the finishing touch, given to the account of the noble jlin- ner, by the reporter of the Herald—wherein he says: The dinner was very sclecl, there being present no Reporter for any paper save our own.'^ “ De Gustibus non disputoyndum}^ The Bostonians, it is true, feasted, and trotted out the Prince de Joinville, and matched him with that sprig of doubtful origin of another gender, the Coun tess Vespucci; but then the Prince do Joinville was the son of a King—a King who fiddled through our streets—taught young freemen to repeat, “ Com- mes vous portus, vous Mons cous ”—or something equally foreign and interesting—and footed it to Pittsburg, with a shirt and a horse-cake packed in a checked handkerchief, and hitched to a crab stick ; besides, this same King had paid 25,000,000f, ra ther than to go to war with us in Old Hickory’s lime, and Boston received two-thirds of the money, and could afford to gild a chair for his son; let him dance on a chalked eagle in Faneuil Hall, and hang his brothers and sisters in crimson and gold, from John Hancock round to the front door; but Lord Morpeth, who is he? A writer of a tale in the Keepsake-r- a son of a son of the Howards—a no bleman of England—born in a castle, with Turrets, fed whh a golden pap spoon by a dry nurse, in a cocked hat, and ribbed trowsers, and baptized in a silver font by a bishop in white sleeves. Away with such sychophancy. We want a war, if for no oth er reason, to teach the men of the present day how to behave before Inde.z. From the Philadelphia National Gazette. ‘‘ONLY HALF A DOLLAR”—A DOMESTIC SKETCH, ADAPTED TO THE TIMES. We dined v/ith our friend Tomson the other day. It was the first time we had been to see him since he quit his large house in Walnut street, and mov ed to his present small one. Every thing looked comfortable enough al /Ut his new dwelling, except Mrs. Tomson, and she declared there was not room enough to turn about •;! such a little hole. Tom- son, however, has borne his reverses with admira ble fortitude and good humor, considering how im mensely rich he was, or was supposed to be, which is the same thing, a fiv.' years ago. Misery loves company. It is one thmg to fail or curtail now-a- dciys, when nearly (/ery one is doing the sanie thing; but it w'as qn.tc another thing four years agOj when all the \v(U'!d rode a high horse. To return to our friend T. omson—his lands, his loans, have turned out to have no more substance than the lather of Glenn’s caponaceous coinpound. His fourteen sections in Indiana and Illinois are from some cause or other—remoteness from the maiket, prevalence of milk sickness in the neigh borhood, or something of this kind—worth less than the original Government price. The Iluga-mug and Derry Down Railroad Loan, and the stock of the t lipllap Ijank, in which he was interested to the amount of forty-eight thousand dollars, are now quoted so low that he considers them worth little or nothing. But as we remarked when we sat down to din ner, “ every thing* has so depreciated in value that no man can tell what he is worth,” and so wo place no positive estimate upon his property. We have said the house is comfortable, and so it is.—He has persuaded Mrs. Tomson to part with a few of the most splendid articles of her furniture, purchased witliin the last five years, because Mrs. Tomson has the good tasto to see that they do not become her present contracted ea-tablishment. A>s wo wtre dinhig, the conversation was partly about thcciiange in ]\Ir. Tomson’s styleo: living. We have ahvavs been very intimate, and jje tells us all about his affairs. 1 have told Mrs. To’nson,” said he in the course of the talk, “at least one hundred times, within »he course of t.ho last month, that I find that uur expen ditures must not exceed two thousand five hundred dollars a year.” “ 1 will vouch for your having said so a thousand limes,” rejoined our hostess. 1 hear nothing but retrenchn U, economv, and re form ! The cry is as loud and frequent in this house as it used to bo aruoni^ the Harrison men be fore the election.” Mrs. Tomson then addressed herself to us particularly; •• Why, sir, I asked iMr. Tomson to order a quart of icc-cream. He knew’ you would dine with us—but no—it would cost eighty-seven and a halfcents—and so he must econ omized, and now' we have no icc-cream!” After the delivery of this speech, Tomson took out his pocket-book and made a memorandum in it. We remarked that the streets had not looked ve ry nice recently, and ventured to suggest that the new city administration had not yet got w'arm en ough in their places to take a peep out of the win dows and see in what a dirty condition are the tho roughfares. To this reinak Mrs. Tomson assented, and added that for her part she regretted nothing so much as the giving up of her carriage. “ Indeed,” she added, I hate cabs, but this morning I was out shopping, and the streets were so uncleanly that I got into a cab in Second street, and rode home.” Were you tired, my dear, so that you could not walk?” asked Tomson. “ .^o, but I didn’t w’ant to walk, and the cab was only twenty-five cents.’' Tomson took out his pocket-book and made another memorandum of it. ‘•You were out, my dear, shopping this morn- ing, you say. What did you buy?” inquired Tom son. “ Nothing at all, I saw fifty things I wanted, but I knew you would begin a lecture about econo my the instant you should see them.” “ Well, I admire your self-denial in buyingnothing.” No thing ! Oh no. 1 bought this little pink plush cravat for myself—the cheapest thing 1 ever saw. They ask a dollar and a quarter in Chesnut street for the same article, and what do you think I gave for it? ’ “Well,” replied Tomson, ’‘have you not a pink silk one, and do you need this new one?” “ Not positively, but then it was only three quar ters of a dollar.” Tomson took out his pocket-book and made another memorandum in it. “Well, Mrs. Tomson,” said we, “you certainly have not given your husband cause to lecture you to-day on retrenchment, economy, and reform, if three-quarters of a dollar is the amount of all your shopping.” “Stop,” exclaimed the lady, “I have not shown you one pruchase I made—cheaper than the plush cravat. Do yoti see this pair ci milts ? What do you think I gave for them?”—We could not guess, but Mr. Tomson asked of what use they were. “ Oh, none at all,” answered his wife, “ but they are so pretty, and so very cheap. I gave on ly half a dollar for them!”—Tomson tOok out bis pocket-book and made another memorandum in it. “ Tomson w'hat! are you writing in that book ?” w'e asked iriquisitively. “Well, I will show you,” said he, and then placed the book in our hands, w’here we read in pencil, the following entries: October 25. Credit J. T. for ice-Cream not bought, 87^ cents. Charge Mrs. T. for cab hire w’hen she could walk, only 25 cts. Charge Mrs. T. for pink plush cravat, not w-anted, only 75 cts. Charge Mrs. T. for mitts, not wanted, only 50 cts. $1 ,50 After we had examined these entries, during which time Mr. and Mrs. Tomson sat silent, he took the book, wrote something more in it, and then returned it to us, with this calculation: $1 50 Muhiplied by 365, the whole number of days in a year. 750 900 450 You see.” said Tomson, “only twenty-five cents, only seventy-five cents, only half a dollar, is at the rate of more than five hundred dallar.s a year out of my pocket,—more than one-fifth of the sum that I am able, as an honest man, to spend,—and all foi: things not wanted!” It was time for us to go wdien Mr. Tomson had concluded this remark, so we left him and the im prudent Mrs. Tomson. But we remembered the last item in the pocket-book against,—“ only half a dollar, and ^ve thought if all our friends, in these hard times, would only remember how few cents a day make a hundred dollars a year, they would look well at it before they would spend only half a dollar. Madman and Sportsman....A. physician of Mi lan, who undertook the cure of madmen, had a pit of wat'jr in the house, in which he kept his patients, some to the girdle and some to the chin, according to the greater or lesser degree of madness with which they were affected. One of the madmen, who was on the point of recovery, happening to be standing at the house door, saw a young nobleman pass, with his hawk upon his fist, well mounted, and with the usual equipage of hawking dogs, fal coners, &C.J behind him. The madman demanded to know to W'hat use was all this preparation, and was courteously answered, to kill certain birds. “And how much,” said tlie madman, “ may be the worth of all the fowls you kill in a year?” The nobleman^ replied, “ five or ten crow'ns.” “ And uhdt, &aid the madman, “may your hawks, span iels, horses, &c., stand you in the year?” “About five thousand crowns ” replied the gentleman. *• Five thousand pounds !” replied the madman j and gazing at him a moment with the wild earnestness of an approaching frenzy, he seized him by the shoulders, and forcing him into the pit, immersed him several times in tiie water, (the usual practice of his master with his more desperate patients.) Ilav’ing tnusducked him, he led him back to the door. ‘•Ilaikye, my friend,” said he, dismissing him, taKe n;y advice, and uiake all possible haste from tills house for, &aould our master come home, he’ll drown you but what he will cure you.” e neaa or tnis article. “ What countryman are you, Dupree? “ It’s a Frenchman, I am, plase your ace,” answered Theodore. CITY POLICE. A J;J, iS41.—Theodore Dupree.—A gt ntlem-m in a chtcked shirt, which hung around his hip-joints in graceful festoons and corded pants, minus suspenders, answered to the imposing title at the head of this article. 2 worship’s Gfrace ' “A Frenchman! of what country are you a na tive ?■’ “ Faix and >rcth, IVe been a native of this coun- tbry more nor eight years; if your lorc^ship can consave. “No 1 can’t. W'here were you born?” “Horned among the polly-w’oos, your riverence; in a bit ov a say-port they call Paris.” “ Ah, indeed I what kind of a town is that!” “ Town I your grace, it’s only a thrifle ov a vil lage, not more nor half as big as Kmsington; ex cepting the paple’s not half so shivilized; they’re a very mane set, they are, and that’s the raysun I left them.” “ What kinc^t)f business are they chiefly engag ed in ?” “ Och, the wdiole population, and the women and children besides, turns out to catch bu 11-frogs and bloody nouns; and some ov them craythers are as big as twQ years’ old pigs, your highness.” “ I should judge from your tongue that you could tell something about Erin, Mr. l5upree.” “Sure enough, my modther was scared by an Irishman about three w^eeks afore I was borned,aud that igsplairrs the cause why I have a bit of the brogue your majesty.” This expknation may not satisfy every body.— Dupree, (supposing that to be his ri^ht name,) w^as caught trippin on a light fantastic toe up the stair case of a house at the corner of South and Second street. He is an incomprehensible fellow, and hav ing casually remarked, last night, that he was a Frenchman, seemed determined to stick to the same tale, this morning. He will have another hearing. Philadelphia Times. Petilio7is.-'-We^go in strongly for the “right of petition;” and therefore intend to pctitition our next Congress-— For the enlargement of the Pacific Ocean, and a bridge across the Atlantic; also, for the filling up of Lake Superior-—to make a little more land—-as it is very scarce this year. For the total annihilation of all mosquitoes, both in Florida, and in the United States. To have the moon taken into the screw dock and copper-bottomed. For the abolition of eating whenever flour is eight dollars per barrel. To fortify corn fields from the depredations of ’coons. To remove Texas a leeile further off—-it being sum’at too handy; also for the removal of the Alle gany mountains beyond the Mississippi—they being at present a public nuisance. if the above petitions should not be read in Con gress, but laid under the table, why, then Congress might as well burst up at once—or we’ll burst it up. * Sunday Mercury. $547.50. -Five hundred and forty-seven dollars and fifty cts. a year. Too Stranger. Have you any news papers ? Editor. Certainly. Stranger. You will give me one, I suppose,sir? Editor. O yes, sir, (handing him a paper.) Those arc fine chickens in your basket; have you any more of them ? Stranger. Right smart of them at home. Editor. That’s a fine one; you will give me that, I suppose, sir; w’ill you not? Stranger. I brought these to market to sell; I should like to sell you a dozen at seventy-five cents. The above absolutely occurred in our ofiice last week, and we doubt not that'it is a lesson not soon to be forgotten.—Slate Sentinel. A Sign.—It looks rather ominous, when a young man is followed by his neighbor’s dog. He must be at least an occasional visitor; perhaps, to speak more gallantly, he is particularly acquainted. “ let tho cat out of the bug.” Barbarism at Home.—At a recent session of the Court of Newcastle county, in Delaware, several persons convicted of larcency were sentenced to receive twenty-one lashes on the bare back. One man plead guilty to three indictments, and was sen tenced to receive twenty-one lashes for each indict ment. But the most extraordinary of all is the fol- lowirtg which we copy from the Dolaw'are Ga zette : “ A young girl plead guilty on ten difTererjt in dictments for larceny, ^ntenced to pay two-fold value of goods stolen to the owners, to wear ten T’s on her outer garment, and to receive tw’cnty- one lashes on the bare back, w'ell laid on, in each case, making 210 in all. And this on a woman, a very gentle looking young girl! tied up to a post, her naked body eposed to the gaze of a lascivious crowd—striped and scored!” It is said that the Governor at ^he intercession of the officers of the court and others, will pardon the girl. It is a disgrace to the Slate' that such a law should remain on her statute booki. Extensive Circulation.—A curious instance of the circulation of a bank note is mentioned by'tlie Houston Telegraph. A gentleman who w’as clo sing up some business of a mercantile fir in in one of the w'estern settlements of Texas, a few w’eeks since, paid out a $100 note on one of the Louisian- na banks, and in a few day&afterwards received it again from a person who was owing him. , On making inquiry he ascertained that this bill had made the complete tour of the settlement, “ paying up old scores,” and had actually passed through the hands of twenty-four different debtors and crrd- itors, thus paying debts to the amount of 5^2,400! This incident will serve to show how small a sum of money is requisite to supply all the nece-sities of domestic circulation. “ Head him or die.''—This was the resolutioii upon w’hich Capt. Botts and his family left Con- gress, for the election fields. What is the result I They hav’e headed themselves, and if the elections are to be taken in evidence, they are dead.” Madisonian. “Some of them do look a little blue about ..tho gills, that^s a fact. But they«re the hardest people to beat experience into that can be found. They frequently remind us of, the Irish jockey, who, when his horse v/as running behind his competitor, cried out in agony of glee, “Och! the devilj on ly see how he drives them all before him !” Lo^i. Gazette. An individual w ho had purchased a pair of chil dren’s shoes that dvd iioi suit, going to return them, met the clerk of the store in the street, anl offered them to him to take back: The clerk—a very nice young man—begged to be excused, on the ground, that he was on his way to galian.t a j’oung lady to church, and to be caught on such an occasion with a pair of bahy-shoes!—ho woudiHt, no wav it could be fixed ! One of the Tuscarora Indians passing through Canada, a short time since, w’as asked by a tavern keeper where he w'as frcm, “ Tuscarora, sir,” said the man of the woods. “ Then,” said the Canadian, “you arc Yankee Indian, eh?” “Yes, sir, I am a Yankee Indian.” “ Did you know,” said tho Canadian, “ that there’s going to be a w’ar, and that we shall be over and take the States, and make them a British province.” “Do you think so?” “ Yos, certainly.” “ Then, sir, I think you never was a great w’ays from home.”—Toledo Blade. A Curiosity.—The greatest curiosity in th»i world is now exhibiting in this town, in the person of .Tames Washburn, the wonderful dwarf, deci dedly the smallest man in creation! He is in hi.s seventeenth year, weighs but twenty-three pounds, and is only thirty six inches in height! He is in good health, has fine sparkling eyes, is active, in telligent, in short, a perfect man in mhiiature. He is said to have been born in Vermont, and ccased growing at an early period without any assignable cause.—Massachusetts Spy. Remarkable Occurrences.—In July, 1653, the frogs of an artificial pond, three mile's square, and five miles from Windham, (Ct.) finding the water dried up, left the place in a body, and marched, or rather hopped, towards W^innomantick river.-— They were under the necessity of taking the road and going through the town, which they entered about midnight. The bull-frogs were the leaders, and the pipers followed without number. They fill ed a road forty yards wide for four miles in lengtii, and were for several hours passing through the town, unusually clamorous. The inbabitahts were equally perplexed and frightened. Some expected to find an array of French and Indians; others feared an earthquake, and dissolution of nature.--- The consternation was universal. Old and young, male and female, fled naked from their beds, with w'orse shriekings than those of the frogs. The event was fatal to several women. The men, after a flight of half a mile, in w'hich they met with many broken shins, finding no enemies in pursuit of them, made a halt, and summoned resolution enough to venture back to their wives and children, when they distinctly heard from the enemy’s camp*? these words: Wight ! Helderken ! Dier I Tete ! This last, they thought meant treaty; and pluck ed up courage, they sent a triumvirate to capituhtc with the supposed French and Indians, Thest* three men^ approached in their shirts, and begged to speak with the General; but it being dark, and no answer given, they were sorely agitated be twixt hope and fear; and at length, however, they discovered that the dreaded inimical army was an army of thirsty frogs going to the river for a lit tle water! A certain pious, peace-loving Q.uaker was once beset by a pugnacious man, who aware of broad- brim’s non-resistance principles, administered him a smart blow on his right cheek. The Utjaker iu accordance with the command of the scripture fprth-with “turned unto him the other alp,” which being in like manner slapped, and considering tbo^ letter of the law fulfilled, he deliberateijr pulled oft his coat an4 gave the aforesau‘1 pi^uacious one, h sound thrashing to his .great inconvenience and ts* tonishmcnt.