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From the tow York Spirit of Tides. -' j-h;k fhvm M AJ. JONES,. i ; PiKfivitLS, April 5th, 1844. Jear -Smtlref since Tred 'tnat piece Vfcl k a h u ndred miles jest to shake hands, with me, I've been monstrous anxious to git 'quainted with you; ii But it's sich a ter ribie long ways to New York, and cotton's down so low, I don't niuch think I'll ever nave the pleasure of seem you in this world, f But: thereV onk Atitmn library frifcn a gut .OTerdninYbTa; people, v and thai Ul we can form; quaintances and friendship? by our writens without ever teein one another, and bein as sortie of ui aint no great beauties, perhaps it's as good a way as enny. I'm told you'r a mort strous grateVrdb'.aVde'reVge-'ie!ler. and .you may oe Domieation ugly for all I know ; but this one thin I'm certain of? you must be a smart man, and a man of first rate taste, or you wouldn't like my nuns so much. -1. would o' rit you a .let ter before, but the fact is, sense last Feb ruary, I haiat had much, time for nothin. Ihe baby s been cross as the mischief with the hives,' and Mary, she's been aiitn a good deal, and then you know; this time of year wo planters is all bissy fixin for the crap,. ... Nothing uncommon haint tuck place ffdwn here lately, only tother day a catas- toff,t k n - .J e iL.i uarucu in our lamuy. mai come monstrous nigh in putting eend to the whole generation of us. I never was so near skeerd out of my senses !afore in all my born days, and I don't believe old Miss Stallions ever will git over it, if she'wasto live a thousand years. But I'll tell you all about it. "; : Last Monday mofnin alf of us got up well and hearty as could be, and I sot in our room with Mary, and played with the rVibylill breakfast tirrfe, UtlTe ffilnkin what was gwine torhappen so soon. The little, feller -was jumpin andjcrowin so I Couldn't hardly hold him in my arms, and spredin his little mouth and laughin lib- j know'd every thing" we sed to nrm. Bime?T by aunt Prissy came to tell us breakfast was ready,-and we alj.wsnt into tother room to eat, cept sisie.r Itesiah, who sed she would stay and take care of little Hen ry Clay, till we was done. Mary's so careful she won't trust the baby with none of fhe niggers a" single minit, and she's al. ways dreadful uh-easy whn" ResiaW-gct it, she's so wild and so careless. ( . Well, we all got down to breakfast, and Kesiah, she scampered up stairs tojher room with the baby, jumpin it up, and kissin it, and talkin to it as hard as she could. r . .V " Now, sis, do be careful of my precious little darlin," ses Mary, loud as she could to her, when she was goin up stairs. Oh, eat your breakfast child, and don't be so terrified 'bout the baby," ses (tr ah elfa minit' s peace when it's out of your signi. , " Tnat's a fact." ses ffistef Calhne, "she von. I ici uu'juujr uu uuiuiu iur muc iicu- ry but herself. I know I wouldn't be so ciazv 'bout rip .child of mine." M VVelMbtfUyou kaow sister Kiz is so careless, I'm always sb' fraid she'd let it swallow something, or git a fall, some wav. Jx Tut, tut," ses the pld womant " ther aint no sense in bein -all the time scared to deth 'boul nothin. People's;, got, enough to do in this werld to bear their trouble iwhen it comes, 'thbut staddyin it up. vTake some of them good hot corn muffins," es she, '-they's mighty nice." We was all eaten along the old" yfa Unan was talkin 'bout her garden" and the . U. I, t.. ' " J " J 1 "to my mouth-when I heard Kesiahjscream Oh mv I-nrd ! tha hahv !ih habv!" Mr.tct and i urn a tpsi raisin rn v rnnee tuu jihd whan it come rite down stairs into the -floor. Thunder and ligntnin couicn i ' M 1 knocked me on my seat qu.icker Hiown went the coffee, and over went -the table with all the. viitles- Mary screamed and Miss Stallions fainted rite away in ber cheer I "was so blind, I couldn't hardly gee, but I never, breathed a bteath til I grabbed it up in rrfV arms and ran round the house two or three times, 'fore I had the hart to lookyal the poor little thing to see if it wasJdd. Bv this time-the sralls was holL of rae holloring. ." April Fool ! April Fooj!" hard as they cpufd, and when , I come to j ldok. I had nothin in my arms .but a bun- die of rags with little Henry Ulay s clothes I shuck all over like .1 had a ager, and felt a monstrous sight more like cussin than laughin. " April Fcol;dihgnatioa !" ses I ". fttd's fun 'but I'm dad blamed! if tbereVany lunlnanj sicih jlons,i",anclli wai jest gwine jo Jblow out aiittle, when I heard Mary, f cieamin for me to come to het iaolher.jA. C5-;.!: I V "' v.?When wi got ia;the , dinin room, tKa'i the old woman -was keeled over in her cheer; with her, eyes -sot in her head' and a com muffin tickia out of her. mouth. Mary; was f akipo'ri at a . terrible rate, and all she co'aTd do was jest to clap h ef ban ds and holler". Oh mother's, dyin I motheVi dyin l har'i the baby f ; Ob ra y good 1 tuck. Mary in my lap. and 'fplained it all to her aad tried to quiet the poor gall t and the galls got at the old woman i but it took all sorts of rabbins arid ever so much assafedpy and campfiire and hartshorn and buruFhen'a feathers to brihgTher loo, and then she wouldn't stay brung too more'n a minit 'fore she'd keel over a'gln, and I do 'blieve if they hadn't brung little Henry Clay to her so she could see him and feel him and hear him squall, she never would got her senses agin. She aint more'n half at herself yit. All the galls kia do they can't make her understand the April Fool business, and she won't let no body else but herself nurse the baby ever sense. " As soon as I had time to think a little, I was monstrous glad that it wasn't no worse, I cuuldnt stay mad with the galls. But I tell yp.tf, what, I was terrible, raihy for a few mi nits. I don't believe in this April foolin. Last year the gals devil'd me almost to deth with tneir nonseose, sowin up the legs of my trSsers, borein holes in the water-gourd, so I wet my khirt bosom all over when I went to drink, and heatin the handle of the tongi, and cuttin the cowhidte bottoms of the .cheers loose so T felf through Ym when f went to ssl down, and all sich devilment, t know the bible ses there's time for all things ; but I think the least a body has to do with fool businesst any time the belter for'em. I'm monstrous tired of sich' dolns myself, and if I didn't think the galls had got their 11 of April foolinthis time, I'd try to git Ttjmynwic nest eorprmirxt inrty m - first day of April in it. No more from your friend til deth, JOS. JONES. I. S. f seed in yonr paper tother :!ay whar some of the everlastin eternal John Smiths has been castinsome insinewalions on my wife's caracter. 1 red it to Mafy, and she's been poutin 'bout it ever sense.' She ses he's a good for nothin nasty mean 1 wretch, fo be pesterin himself 'bout what dorS't consarn him, and castin slurs on de cent people, and if she only know'd who it was, she'd scald his 'bomioable ugly eyes for him. s-t fold her it wasn't no use to try io do that, for the Mississippy ; wouldn't begin to drown all (he mean scamps that go by that n;ame, I wish' you would jest , tell your Petersburg correspondent that we're decent christian white people out here in Georgia, and he mustn't won der if we" is a little smarter than his people, who live way up thar in the fork whar they swallow more coal smoke in a year than would bust a balloon, and whar they're so black and dirty that it would take six months bleachin icf a "New Jersey paper-mill to make 'em pass for white, folks. J. J. Prom the Wilmington CAtonicte, 8th insf, IMPORTANT DECISION. . Before the Superior Court for the Coun ty of Northampton,, session last week, Judge Pearson presiding, the case of the Northampton and Roanoke Rail Road vs. Francis E. Rives, was tried. This case grew out of Iba' fact that Mr. Rives had some portion of the superstructure -of the Rail Road taken up in Januarv last, he hav ing purchased a part of the read at Sheriff's sale Superior Court of Law for Northampton County, Spring Term', 1344. , State vs. Rives. This case turns upon the question wheth er the Rail Road which hat been obstruct ed is a public highway, for if it be a pub lie highway it is indictable to obstruct it, as 'well when the obstruction is made bv the Company or bv one succeeding bv pur chase to .the rights of. the Company, as when it is made by a third person, i That the Road is a public highway I consider Battled by the case of the Ral. R. R. Com pany ys Davis. The right of the legisla ture to condemn private property for. the a ' purposes ot tne road, as the land over which it runs, the vfood, stone, gravel, zhd 'earth, reouired for its construction and : repair can only be derived rom the fact mat me roaa is tor ine puouc oenent, anq is to be cOd as a public highway. To J consider the road as mere private property, ii to suppose the Legislature ha takeathe am. t oronertv oi certain cuizeBi -wimout laein consent, and Tested tiarpioperjyjn ceri tain other citizens for heiriadhidual ben efit whereas to censjr it ,as a public highway witt certala iffiim1&ljn-ivaU feresVItilIy'sta1is tfietKoh'tjpftti0 Legisiqtore to mak tSe aoferanatioii. It Is a princilt ;ofthi fcoSmon Jaw which expands -and adapts itJbifto new' cases aa they arise that ;whcn ng b that right is la vad ed, the offend er i Si&dictmet ofaiJ' ro-.J ash . HJike iKe-ohfruti det:xonsfaUoa:;r ny, although the Co rotiy has a private tritefsst that interest is afic(cnj7 is sec onds::, ,!o.mus' be enjoyed ao as not Ho defeai'Hne- pyamount object,! and-one which' isWsejinaCto the creaticin and ex istence of ihJQd-ltepubli(right If therefore tb Company should take Up the whole or a part of the road, not with a view to repair or to replace it with better materials, but with a view to obstruct and hinder the public ia fhe Use of ft, it would fall within the principle, and the iudivid- uals offending would be Iiables to indict meni. liis oroaa proposition is decisive of the question. To advert to the several counts. The third count , is aj common law for obstructing a public highway ; up on this the court decides against the de fendant. The second count ia under the statute of 1833, which plrcyidesf a remedy for a wilful and nalicioui injijry. to the road. The facts do not show that the de fendant acted maliciously in trie sense. in which the term is used in the statute ; the court upon this cou tit .det'iie n favor of the defendant. The first! count is. under a clause in the charter which) provides a remedy for wilful injury to, the road, by giving the company the right tf recover a penalty, and also making the offender lia ble to indictment. -This remedy will hot reach the Company, or on acting under the authority of the Company, and it is in sisted that .the Defendant. haviri succeed ed to the rights of the Company by pur chasingat Sheriff's sale, is nbt liable as I ti ll u :. v it .' to the mode in Which no i?-.,'. ..... . I -. . f 'll. . it'll 1 the Court is ef opinionfthat no title passed, because the superstructure then m use and constituting the Road was nof subject to execution sale. It is clear that nothing can be sold under ea cu tic ol which the debtor himself canpotiell. The company may sell the materialsoefore tHey are laid down, but as soon as he become a part of the Road, the publy right attaches, and. neither the Company lor a purchaser can tear up and remove tfkt part of a public highway without violing thelaw. Ad mitting that the President and pirectors, if they see proper to volate thir charter and subject tbemselveito indictment,. have power to tear up the Road and can then pass title to the raater&ls, it by no means follows that the title dn pass upon the se verance, still less thatthe law -will lend its aid, and pass title by a judicial sale fo' property wntcntne aejior canno; sett witn out being liable to injpctment and which in this instance the Company! cannot sell without violating its duty to fits creator, and thereby forfeitiar its existence. - It is said that the Compant having in curred debts, will no by the principles of our Law be permitttd to hold property which creditors cannot reach.! The: Com pany, at tne time ot its creation, agreea to perform certain services to the public al ter its creations it iacurred liabilities to individuals -, as both cannot be discharged, the right of the public must be preferred, because it is first in time and first in im portance, and because the individuals who give credit did to with a full knowledge mat me company naa ibis pponc auiy 10 perform, and one claiming under a credit or has no right-to complain because he is not permittee to uo mat watcn wpuiu prje vent the performance of tsfpnblic? duty.' . - i . The Court, therefore, upon!the.first count also decides against ine aeienaant. ; The defendant is. fined the um of twen- tv.five dollar?, arid, will be in custody un til the fineand costi are paiK. Ai small fine is imposed because amlsatisfied ; Mr. r: iIa i,m..:a kfoMooi ;M unci .vcu v -mmi the assertion of what he believed a right, and I have no reason to apprehend a rep etition of the offence. J : - EiClTAtlfM. PEARSON. A LETTER FRO 3d WILDCAT. FROM THI ARKANSAS INTELLIGENCER, A t ,30, 1S41. t Nothing will aSri us gt eater gfatirT cation than to publish Wildcat's letter to General WoirtH, (referred't4' below :) and no one sympathizes with bim more than we do for the pitiable' condition to which f amlf - ' . . m be and bis people axe reduced bytbeir in Tincibje conquerers and bv false friends : JDear $ni : In your paper.ot the 2d in stant yon have noticed me as intend to be a member, of a political convention of the white people of the United States. Thb 1 beg you will correct. I J do not design mixing br;bemg present: at the, time and place alluded to.T Tou can do me and ray people a much mere acceptable service by neann' and'; speaking, our grievances through your columns than by placing my rwT-r- :r-77J .r----- I name so co nspicnousiy to rmtcuie. a ora ve i t .rwt,Tnrrf wn- IUU IWUIIVIU ,JW . wa. ...-11 1 sary. It is true, I design visiting Washington city on business of myself and my people, and of infinitely more consequence to. us than the political frolics of the white peo ple. The object of my intended visit is good. I wih the world to know in ad vance, and I wish you to ..state it r . I have been at war with the U. States : I defended the soil of my birthplace with my blood. It was dear to me and my peo ple as our homes and as the country of our fathers, But that war is now ended. My peopl were overcome by a stronger party, w nat tne swora aia noi aestroy your money bought. Like the rain that falls upon tho earth fromthe heavens, the memory, of that war is absorbed and forgot ten. We emigrated to tbis country; Upon the faith' of your people ; promises were made us of another home, a separate and distinct soil, where we could gather again the fragments of a distracted and unhappy people. The hand that could, conquer should possess the heart to fulfil the prom ises made to a, subdued people. : None knows our condition better.. than you do. Look at us I a distracted people, alone; without a home, without annuities: desti tute of provisions, and without a shelter lor our women and children ; strangers in a foreign land, dependant 'upon ihe mercy and tolerance of our red: brothers, (the Cherokees ;) transported to a cold climate, naked, witKotit game to hunt or fields to hlflnf nr hntc in envpr our noor little cbil- j j ' . I wish to write a letter to General Worth ; and, if you allow rae, will send it through your paper. No more now .. Your friend, , CJO'A-UUU urituKj Cherokee Nation, March, 1844. A TRIBE OF SAVAGE D WARF. In Harris' " Highlands of Ethiopia'1 is the following account of a singular race;of beings. . Beyond the extensive wilderness that bounds Caffara on the South are the Do ko, a pigmy and perfectly wild race, not exceeding four feet in height, of,:tf dark olive complexion, and in habits even more rlnplw annrrtvimatPfi ' to the. DeastS tnai nprish.' than the bushmen of Southern Africa. They have neither idols, nor tem pies,, nor sacred trees : but possess a glim- mermg taea oi a supreme jaeiug, iu wuuiu in misfortune (such as anv ot their reia tives being slain by the kidnapper,) they nrav standin? on their heads, , with their feet resting: aeainst a tree.'XYere, if, ib- deed thou artj why doci thou suffer us to be tilled ? We are only eating ants, and ask neither food nor raiment. Thou bast raised us up. Why dost thou cast us down?" The country inhabited by the. Doko is clothed with a dense toresi o bamboo, itf the depths ef which, the peo- nle rnnstnict their rude wiewams of bent canes and grass. They have no king, no laws, fib arfs, no arms ; possess neither flocks nor herds : are not hunters, do not cnltnrtrtc the soil, W ibrt entirely upon fruits, roots, mrce, serpen", repu , r and honev: both ll f L .k .(ha llb liife the trear, irom on me.r T-I 1 .ofMntd hv whistling, and - - j a . il J krJ m 3UJ ui , V j: . having torn them J & . 'I j. . a iil 1 1 : Ion? nails, devour inem raw , u u knX..ta ahnnnri With AlnnAnt9. em raw the forests aoouna wnn Biepuan,; uuu- loes, lions and leopards,, they have no auuHuu ...... I -. means ornoyic or entrapping tnem. A large tree, called Loko, is found, mongst many other species, " j extraordinary height the rootsot wmcn, ! when scraped: are red, and serve or iooo 1 mnnrrct montf nthpr snftcies. aitainine an I . . . TheyeAo meytte are : the principal fruits, and to obtain. nese, -women as wen uieu, ascend the trees like : raonteys, ana in their auarrels -and scfambles, notonfre- quently throw each other down from the ed on Saturday evening by loud groan ia branches. Both sexes go perfectly naked, the story above bim. Thinking some m and have thick pouting lipV) drminntive tault had perhaps been committed, he took eyes, ana nat neses. r x c m..- y woollv. and in tne temaie, rescues iu . I r 1 . Ik shoulders. The men have no bread.rfThe nails, never pared, grow both on the hands and feet like eagle's talons, and are em- ployed in digging for ants. The people; are ignorant of the use effire. - iney per- -- --- , , forate their, ears in ihfaoc with a pointea bamboo, q ai to leave nothing save tha extejmal cartilage ; but they neither tattoo nor pierce the nose ;! and the only orna ment worn is a necklace composed of thi spinal proces of a. serpent. ; " . THE HERMIT OF TEOITES. ' In the neighborhood of Troves, in thi village of Saint Jouange France, ; it. aii estate well known under .the name of thtt TJttU .C.hM nf 5?.t Ponancr.. t Ther! r -7 ; ! ;i 2 roJ y J for Upwards .of t wentjr team ha resided . . ' . ': iL kjl in ahnlutft seelnsioh. the ip'rfor Gamier. sembhng in all respects a detached fort, isr protected by a triple girdle ot hedges, ditches, and barriers. Tne entrance, gat . is surmounted with the inscription, Franc fief de droit naiurel, and should a travel ler present himself lor admission, up nitf the drawbridge, and a powerful voice ex claims ; 1 'Stand, citizen ! respect my da main, vvno are you, and on waat errana have you come ?" Such ij .he salution of the Sign or Gamier, an old man of threat score and ten, who, from revolving anal cherishing those visionary ani impractical Die iaeas in reierence to religion, govern ment, justice and social reiatiops, designa? ted in view of certain unimportant distinc tive peculiarities by the various denpmini tions of Transcendentalism, Socialism, Fot4 iiensm and Infidelity, has at lenglfc be came a madman. A faithful worshipper of the Sun with all the veneration of a Feruvian, three times a day he offers to the source of light and heat his'devout ad orations, before an altar of green turf, e rected wjlh his own hands in the centra of his domaine. The sound of th vllfW- oeu summoning the faithful to the sacrifice of the massjmpels him to fury. ,!!it 1 uw wuijr sustains irom animal jootfr bit his horror extends to clothiog fabricat ed of whatever animal products, and, alike in winter and in summer, he wears nam thing out linen. At his side han?s a sabre. readv to strike dnwn hi !m;n.... .-cL . mies. No one is admitted to his presence! J u.w II1IIIEIUI1I SUB mninf- I 'i -.ri:: sole conditions of seeming to approve all his aberrations, and of addressing him with the title bf citizen, or with that which ho still roore .affects, of hermit. His grand son alone ; is sentitled to the privilege bX en teritig his. sleeping chamber. The furni ture of this apparlmnt consists of a plajn bed and some moveaoles of no great value, while the seats are constructed of superb polyglott bibles. , , f Extract from MR. WEBSTER'S Speech at the Ratification Convention : . "I could ot speak with personal dis respect of any gentleman whom a large por tion of the people promise to make Presi dent. A laugh. But I must -iff; wito great respect, in regard to Mr. Van Buren, that I have not yet made such proficiency in a knowledge of the English tongue ; laughter; I have not studied so far its shades and varieties of raeaninsr : I havd not compassed all its broad and its narrow phrases, positive, negative, or .erjnivccaF, as always to be sure, or ever.. td beisnre, that when he communicates his sentimenta to the people I know what he mtfair. Ecessiveri laughter and applause. I hope it will not exceed the decorum of tha occasion, I am sure it is consistent with the most perfect good nature, if I say that, in my opinion, that distinguished individ ual might rave himself some considerable) trouble in .writing, and those who read a great deal of reading, frequent laughter, 1 if he would adopt soma settjed, short for- i , . anawpr: nn4,.,:rt. IWI,.. L. , -entleraen meel f - he mornin Wft unL O f . that.each says to the c other, " how do you other answers by sav- do to day r ai;d the answers by siy- ..w?t , iuinnluj, ing 'Tbank you pretty much as nsua." the answer, he would say, " Well 1 1 don't . .it .. . Irnrttv ininl VAnr I milh na . -1 9 lh . verHI mnrh lauzh.V Now7 I think this Yankee form of an8Wcring questions ould befbf CTeat assistance in tbe politicaf corresnoid- ence of the gentleman on a newly ari.wg estion of nationai.concern, if be wotdd. wh.n .,i.,j h: nn:n-.nn uuylit. -e n i.- - - T doQ,t k now thank pretty rauch aa u-uai' Great laughter and applause. Singular!! A clerk was much alarm: a pair oi pisiois ana a ngni, ana went up. . V r - m- m ' mm. m a er CTooinr aome time lie found ho rroaDi nroceded from an old h&ndcav. which was cutting a new set of teeth J ' T , A mmmmmmmm j David Barnum, proprietor ofBtraua'f noiei, Baltimore, is ataa. '!':' Mi-. : : v i-r.. .. r 1. - . Lm-
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