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printed notes, in circulation. All note . paiJ into the Bank are immediately can- celled, by teitin off the signature, and afterwards deposited. and preserved for . twenty years, as a matter, of public ac- cbmmodation, in case there a'ul should be required as evidence in a pecuniary transaction The descent into the sub terraneous receptacle, where long ranges of wooden boxe full of these ragged re- ; lies are piled'up one upon another, re minded us of the catacombs at Paris, and here" i. . Each in its mrrow coll for ever laid, The sons and daughters of curruption sleep!" J Xi one of th curiosities of the place we were shewn the thousand pound note, with which Lord Cochrane paid his fine; follows : My health having suflVred by ion ana ciose conimemeni, and mjr up- pressors being resolved to deprive me of - - - property or life, I submit to robbery , to protect myself from murder, in the hope that I mav yet UvVto bring th- deli n - quenU to justice. Cochrane.- in tne bjllionJepartment, there 'were a profusion of uld ingots, and sixty-ounce pieces, "which last were about the of a large cuke of Windsor soap, nnd almost tempt ed one to utter an exclamation against the obliation of the eighth commandment of the holy scripture. Large heaps of Spa nish dollars, in a bigtrer ami biser coin scarcely excited atleutioii by the side of these golden treasures. Familiarity may, a in the case "oi grocers and fig, pro duce a similar indifference in the guar dians of these vaults; but I should, at leat advice the directors t subject vis itors to the dancing exercise which Zi did records iu his history of the election of Kin Rabussan's treasurer. In. the treasurer's office were piles of bags, con taining a thousand sovereigns in each, and 1 was not aware before, how inconve nient would it te to carry such a sum about one's person We next tasted of the punishment of Tndi1u., by having a small bundle of notes put into our hands, amounting to nearly three millions, which w- passed from one to another with the usa tl variety of intonation, of which the wondering exclamation of 4 Dear im P admits. MISCELLANEOUS. : AN IU1S1I EM1GKAN T. We find, in the Sheffield Iris, edited by '.he poet Montgomery, a file of which has been put into our hands by a kind friend, many interesting articles for our miscellaneous department. We present this evening the following extract of a letter from an Irish emigrant, dated at St. Louis, Missouri, Oct. l j, 1820, to a person in the county of Down, Ireland, who was about to emigraJe to this coun try. 1 X r. Coi " In an excursion I lately made, I found many people comfortably situated, 1 but much greater numbers Just commen cing new settlements hi the woods, and for want of . friends labor under many difficulties. Amongst others I conversed with a compatriot, with whom 1 spent a night at his dwelling. In order to come at his sentiments, I praised his line plan tation, and failed not to remind him that he could never have had such an one in Irt-fanJ. I eulogized the laws ofthe V nited States, Vc. Arrah in troth, said he, yen know it better than me, and you tell "the downright truth May b 1 hav'tit now 200 acres of good land for 2 dollars the acre, and that while grass grows and water runs without paying a farden's rent for it j neither, nor a half penny more of taxes than just two dol lars every ear. And for this tax the governor and the Vest would take off their hats to me, to get the vote it enti tles me to. And as I was saying, may be I hav'nt plenty of cows and. hogs j I can't drink my tay aiid my coffee, and wear a cood coat, and make my whiskey if I like it, and no gau'er.to set his nose nenr it Or if I dont like to make my whiikey, I can buv; it for .three shillings the gallon. I- caa make the tobacco grow in my gaiden Jike kail or cabbage; and lean mke mV susax of the sugar trees that crow wild or my land. Be- sides, I can, while in the humor of shooting, take my gun (without a license too) tnd shoot plenty tf Wild deer, and turkeys, and geese, t and rabbits and squirrels, and boil them and ate them when I hive done. jAnd then this is such a good country for fruit, that Adam Lad'nt better apples tha'n I have, so that I can mike cider or ray own. But the best of (t all is, I wbuld'nt take off my hit to the governor;1 nor Mr. Kennel, nor Mr. Captain neither, Tor I hare free land and am now an American, aye, and the best of" them. Hut , indeed to , tell you the truth, 1 shCTered a good dale in the beginnin in cuttiti the trees down and in bring unhappy and thinkin on home and all that. For three years after I came o this country, when the. hot summer sn was settin me a shakin in the 'agees jutt tike a quaker. Oh ! often would I say. Olusba the sorra take him no, but the Lord forgive him, for he necdi, that made among the agees and favers, the woods, . ,- -JZA. r, .u- and. the bears, &nd the painted Ocb !i it was'nt so at home bad a cow, and a pig, and a garden, and 01. a day. . Work, was after w or kin hard from I could go home al nrg lark. I could then go to 1 11 nishts in a neighborjs house crackjn tne . - r ' . iokei bv a turf fire. If I had there but a kor'e head, I would have a neighbor Iwith'ui every hundred yards of me that i would njn to see me. But here? every one can get so much, that they calls j them,, neighbors that lives two or three mile .off Qch ! the sorra take such ! neighbors, would I say. And then I would sit durn and cry and curse him that 'made me leave home. To be sure I am I wisef and happier now and can see that . - 0 , i my state is much better than ever it could Unr Unr.r I .-..Ion I Ifttt tCl toll .nave.Deen i ,70" tne nal i iv y et lorgi have been in poor Ireland. But to tell aked truth, after all, I can hard- rtrivf thp rwnnn that advised me to come here. I dream of my little house and garden aud would sometimes almost clwnge all I have for them again'. You here see tin nature of an Irislxman's heart, the power of habit, and the strength From the Herald of the Valley : EFFECT OF FLANNEL WORN IN CONTACT WITH THE SKIN. To the Editor. Dear Sir Having been frequently questioned on the propriety of wearing flannel next to the skin, and, as I have al ways esteemed it a highly injurious habit, earned to the extent it is at the present time1, 1 think it my duty, for the. benefit of enquirer, and as many others as it may concern to imke public my opinion, and reason therefor. r?rom persons of debilitated habit, having been' relieved of disease by wear ing Jjannel next their skin more espe cially affections of the luns, the prac tice has been adopted not only as a re medy for, but it is without restriction, advised as a preventive of such com plaints ; and it is evert advised to those in perfect health, and frequently adopted by them I suppose to lender them more hen 1 thy. is undoubtedly, a highly advantageous remedy in many winter diseases, more especially catarrh and rheumatism'; and have no doubt but that persons of a consumptive constitution, hye had their lives prolonged by wearing Flannel through the whole ofthe cold seasons of the year. .But such persons have. been foi some years past, much in the habit of abusing this remedy, by continuing the applica- tion of it throughout the year. Lmaci- ated as they may be, they suffer them selves to be still more , reduced, by an excessive and constant pcrspiiution, in duced and kept up by the heat and. fric tion of flannel, iu addition to the heat of summer. in the winter of 1S13, whilst I was a stodent of medicine, being consid erpbly alarmed at a cold I had contracted of. unusual servet ity and duration ; I was induced to resort to the nse of a waist-coat, and drawers of flannel, frcm wiich I derived considerable advantage. At the 'commencement of the ensuing summer, being somewhat apprehensive i ot4a breast complaint, in consequence of' die? severity of my winter's attack, I ! r wjis inrtucen to oelieve in conformity with ; the generally received opinion, that it was , necessary to continue the use 01 the flan- j I at ! nel through the summer, . for the more complete restoration of ray health.. -In the course of a few weeks the waist re af "became so intolerable that I threw it off, but continued- the drawers. In a fewuioie weeks, I perceived the skin, tlwt was in contact with flannel, had a leb healthy appearance than that of the rqst of my body, and the muscles were softer these appearances continuing to increase, I, in a short time threw them I aside. More effectually to convince mv- , !bv". .a self, whether this really were the effect nnel, rn the-swtnmcr, 1814, after eiamtinnc uotn mv arms, anu tiaving .1 thera examined by some of my fellow students, tneir appearance uemg ttie sanie, I drew a flannel 'sleeve on one oi them next to the skin, and wore it six weks iu the months of July and August; 01) withdrawing the sleeve, the difference 111' the anuearance 01 tne two arms was remarkable ; the skin of the arm that had been enveloped in flannel was .pale," flaccid and papillous, somewhat resem bling the skin of a picked fol the muscles were softer, and less elastic than tlfose of the other arm, nicu uas 111 evT ery respect, of a' healthy appearance. On removing the flannel, the skin int a fejw days recovered its natural appear- . I Since making the above mentioned observations on my own person, I have frequently had. the opportunity oi. mak ing similar1 observations 011 the persons of my patients who were wealing flannel j ia the varm months. ' tXvL bnU a inirlature view of the ema- l"o! re . nn thPIU IFOm , eea Dy me eaeo puuu... various applications mauc iu Tobacco' leaves tor example, applied to the ski affect1 the- stomach so much as to produce vomiting ; and to stop-obstinate vomiting laudanum and other; ano lynes, are frequently applied to the skin over the region of the stomarch, with the happiest effect. To prove a sympathy between theitiifl and the lungs, (if such a thing is questioned) we need only refer to the effectt of flannel, which being worn next'tothe skin, will generally in the courseof. 20 hours loosen phlegm in the lungs and break a coug h . I f a re m edy hasthepower to effect such a change as thisi a the laacs, it ran?t, if lon cin tmued,r without 'intermissions, iwye the j effect' gradually to .deteriorate, an( d at last, to destrov- the natural actions of the part unless the constitution opposed 10 it, be unusually roousi. I am very "firmly oppinion, that the incrensed number of deaths from con sumption, that we perceive in the lists of mortality, is owning in a great mea sure; if not principally, to the abuse of the remedy 4n qdestion. . From flie lists of mortality, in seapon towns,; we perceive, upon an average, that aboct one-third of the deaths are from consumption, and a greater number to the south than to the north. In for mer times, the converse of this has been always remarked. Flannel, as a reme dy, his been in use about 20 years 5 and its good effect in winter, Ins encouraged its abuse in summer. Alrn'asf any constitution may be ruin ed from the constant and ill-judged nse of medicines taken inwardly; and the same will, almost as certainly, though more slowly ensue from the abuse of outward remedies. VVM. A. M' DO WELL. Frorn the N. Y. National Advocate. Anecdotes of Ventriloquism. Le Sugg, mentioned below, was the father to M'ws Le Sugg,' the actress, who performed on bar stage 'within these few vears, and who was deservedly a great favorite. As Mr. Charles exhibits this evening at the Theatre the following may not be nrfajCCeptaWe' to-otir read ers : In the rnonth" of August', 1799, Le ugr the Ventriloquist was at Kevv (in England.) Collecting some old rags; which he formed into the shape cf a child, he went to a baker's in the town, when the; oven being heated for rolls, and the rhildi crying, the baker observed, " it was very unpleasant to have cross children." The other, watching an opportunity, exclaim -j ed, " you little devil I will not be plagued! with you any longer;" and immediately; threw the supposed child info the flames ;' the cries increased'for a moment, and then died away. The baker frantic, ex-j claimed, "Oh yon -d d Gillian," and the ventriloquist running into the street, the baker- followed him, crying " stop' him! stop him ! he is a murderer: he has thrown. his rhild into my oven ;" the; women also loaded him with execrations ; but being taken before a magistrate, whom he made ecquaiutwd with the trick, and who requested the ventriloquist would use his power, and bring the child before ,;raj the latter said it was in the baker's pocket ; from whence, as the baker sur posedhe again heard it cry, he ran ofiT, exclaiming, " it is the devil !. it is the devil!" In the month of November, 1799, he was on his journey to March, in the Elyl when he saw some countrymen loading oats, in a field that bad been inundated by the heavy .rains, winch occasioned the harvest to be extremely backward : seed ... . . . . ing an empty cart going to the field, he took this opportunity of entering into dis- course. with the driver of it, threw hisl figure of a sajlor, which he carried witb hhn, and ifMo which he threw his voice into the empty cart. At the same time alighting from his carriage, he said he should like to go and see the state in which the oats were; he accordingly proceeded to the field. The men bean loadings their cart : and when their work was about half accomplished, the, mail coach came on the road, and Le Sugg's carriage rather stopping the way, the coachman and passengers enquired uhoe it was. s They were answered Le Sugg's, and that he was gone to alarm the coun trymen in 'the oat field ; the passen gers prevailed on the. coachman to stop an"d see the effect ventriloquism would have, on these people; they assented an (J did hot repent it. Le Sugg now threw his voice into the cart " I shall be suffo cated.'' The ventriloquist affected much surprise: the countrymen stared at each otheri -see.rningly astonished, the voice stilL'rebeating the cry of " take me oat, father l shall be suflbcated ! 1 shall be smothered 1" . Xe Sugg now enquired of notbin toot, tor , skii: iwu, "7"T"; . , dinrton. Oh f pray nake haste, or I sun to sunset, hsV Vhe trymen now be- . r- ... - . . i . i-rm tnr rine irom suuwu iium htwhislin lea espeaa iy oo ; - , came quhe alarmed, and Le Sugg affec- afair, a wake, ; sympathy, ine-w .-. r eat concern, and at the same -a .i.-. ;nt0F ttn th tinaod those parts, is evin b .g . ; - L -i-i-, childtetfwithlhenfc, Av.V! , j,v..-it.i dear,4" and where rW p5' "The voice rpr bottom ofthe cart, I Dod for God's.snke make-haste, unload, it's my rascal of a boy that I hare just left at school with Air. Bhngfield, at Doddmg tb. he is runaway?? The countrymen immediately unloaded, and when they Had got near the bottom, the voice faintly utters, " oh ! take care- oh I yod have run the fork into me oh I am killed.' Le Sugg exclaims,; j " God forbid I oh you villains ; you j have killed my deai boy, I'll have you I both hanged ; and immediately leaping into the cart, snatch es up the figure (which was about three feet high, and wellexecuteu, paiticularty its face -sod -eyes) j exclaims, ohl my poor child is dvad iy One of the pas sengers willing to insist- in the joke, ob served he had better get whittle cold water to wash his temple the countrymen im mediately ran for borne, and the temples of the figures were washed. Le Sugg then threw his voice into the figure, which bltered with a sigh, " where am I ?" Trre countrymen, traiiiported with joy at the returning life, exclaims, " Here, sur ! surJ here, sur ! thank God !". The hg- ure then proceeded with, "sure, I have passed the silent gulf of death, and I am Nhw. landed on the Elysiau. shored The 1 country men: exclaim, tkees. sur, ees, you bees safe on shore on the isle of Lly-i and, thank God, we bees safe too, for we thought just now, we should all be hang-, ed for your gentlemanship." The trav ellers now returned to 4 heir, coach, and Le Sugg with his son. as he called him, to his carriage, after laughing heartily at the adventure, j - One Gille, says the Abbe Chapelle, who has written on the subject, desired me once to enter into his back shop, where, as we were sitting by a corner of the fire-side, and were face to face to each other, he aniused me for the. space of half an hour, by telling me many droll stories of his skill in ventriloquismi- In a moment of silence on his part and of absence on mine, I .heard . myself called byfname in a distinct t tone of voice, which seemed to be so distant, and;at the same time so strange that I was quite a larmed at it. As I soon suspected the cause, I believe, said I to him, that, you mean to speak to me as a ventriloquist. He returned no answer but smiled; and .while I was pointing out to. him jhe sup posed direction of the voice which to me seemed to come through the floor from the top of the opposite house, I again heard distinctly the same voice which said, " it is not on that side," and seem ed now to proceed from the corner of th'e chamber where, we were sitting, and to rise from the ground. I could not get the better of my astonishment : the voice seemed tobe absolutely annihilated, in the mouth of the ventriloquist, it ap peared as shifting its quarters at his plea sure, and coming and going as it had a mind. This ventriloquist happened to be walk- king with an old military man, who al ways assumed a stately air as he went along. His discourse was alway about sieges and battles, and himself the hero of the campaign. To. repress this inor dinate vanity, Gille, resolved to give him a dose in his own way.- Being arrived in a by place nearthe borders of a for- rest, our soldier imagined that he heard some one from the top of a tree cry out "It is not every one that wears a sword knows how to make use: of it." " Who is that impudent fellow ?" (asked the son of 'Mars.)' " Probably, (rejoined the other,; it is some shepherd a bira-nest ing." " Cojne hither (exclaimed the ma-'- voice, which now seemed .to descend a long the tree,) come hither, if you be not afraid !" " As for that, (returned the soldier with a most martial air, aiid set ting himself m a posture of attack,") I shall soon make you easy r7 What are you about then ? (cried Gille, taking him by the arm;) do not you know that you will be made game of?" "A bul-. lying a;r is not always tne sign of true courage," (interrupted the, voice;? which still appeared tohjsliding along the tree.) " This is no shepherd," (observed Gille.) " Cut still I will chastise him for his im- pertience," (cried out the other.) " Wit nes Hector flying before Archilles!" (cried out the voice immediately after,) upon which the exasperated soldier, drawing Ins sword, plunged it with , all his might into a bush that grew at the foot of the tree. A rabbit instantly, started j irom u, anu ran on. " DehoJd Hector, (said Gille,) while you yourself are Ar chilles." The stroke of pleaxanti v ciis- it confoundeaV him. He demanded of his comaariion what was meant. by it, and the other then explained to hirn that He had two voices, which enabled him to act the part of two distinct persons f the 9ne was that which he was then using, and the other which was heard as if at a considerable distance. time in a seeroinffi passion, wnaimcu, - . ' IntpVlng toMeirhahii .BT z. . ;0f .thelf hWP?Hian,e,- th, nor . Cowes in tne tsie -QtWfeht h thrown open fori warehousine Arceri and Portuguese produce free ffom cu? 'The.iactis not generallynowri to 0, ,-f-i-itc? anil its? t-. . T - ( thisltjme be .essectiajiy ,bneBcia!. port of Cowes,; is one tne'saftgtVnvi 1 Pnrtemnn h nr .Vmfhamntrin iy' so ne.J ' coast, j.ariy ,oosuc w lidyrc pn the French , ofitring' a'mosf cornrnodio vi' of depot for our produce' intendedk,r .v place French market! -French vessel . . . . ... between oowes ana iiaviv aA.il and II aVlV. Ann k. . already carried over several Ari cargoes, iucjt:tj iuiuHig vne rush ir,, nage otities imposed oflate by tlieVrench : upon A raerigan vefiJJ Government niIOliicl.n4aiJig,t ; Mc5 is? that th port charges are more moderate than ? other English; port5' if ,; - lhe;facihfy?and attention of 'pieces, toms, the short distance to London iK eisy-snpfty of provisions ird watr -idmirable Construction ofrthe dry ducLc ,1 i jtt'HO T?fW. fTHtnn 1 : and to our merchants in the iropean trade a safe and convenient halting hia, either for advice, or for discharging cargoes. The Columbian Newspaper prated in XewYork, formerly conducted; Jbv ,r Halt, afterwards by Mr. B. Irvine and. more recently by Mr. A. Snootier, was discontinued on Saturday. 'The reason assigned for the relinquishment f it j, that recent events of a political nature have rendered the CoFiimbian, Apolit ical paper, no longer an object til profit to the proprietor." Mr. poorlcr has however, purchased the jouraal, fprinied for some months past at New- York, cal led The Patronof Industry, for jhe pur. pose of uniting the subscriptions of both papers, and issuing a daily and serai-week ly paper, to be called the NeulYotk Even, ing Post and Patron of Industry and to be devoted to the cause of Domestic Industry. J From .this paper patty polj. tics are-to be excluded; 1 W onderful -preservation ofjjiree boatt crews by a Portland dog. During the gale, which proved so fatal to te Tho. mas and Mary, and their crews 0$ the 4th ult. three boats were seen in Chiswell Cove with the crews in most imoiinect danger from the fury of the waves, which, rising in terrific majesty fury frustrated eyery attempt of the people on shore to render them any assistance, t At this critical juncture, a dog of the Newfound land breed, but born in The island, plun ged into the water, aud succeeded in reaching the nearest boat. Thje cre w im-' mediately put a line into Kis mouth," and the sagacious and brave animal .returned will it to the shore.1 This line was ea gerly grasped by the sailors on tle beach, a rope was fastened to it, and by great exertions and presence of mindj the three boats were safely' pulled on the beach the boats having a;commdnication ivith -each other by means of a long rope. This is not a solitary instance of the vast utility 6f the dogs bred in Portlandjqj cases of marine distress Weymouth gazette. Executions. -Every reflecting and hu mane person must have painfully obser ved, inthe accounts of . the iissizes in Wales, that the crimes formerly unknown in that honest principality are : now fre quent. , The following is an ojHcial &oc ument which occurred fifty yfrs aS0, " To the Right Hon. the lord Ccra missioners of liis Majesty:s "reascry. , . The humble petition, of Ralph Gnf--iith, Esq. High Sheriff of the.Omnty of Flint, for the present year, ly 69, con cerning the, execution, of Edward W wards for burglary. I " Sheweth, That yours petitioner , was at great difficultv and expense, by himself his clerks, and other Inesseflge and agents he employed, in j journeys to Liverpool and Shrewsbury to hire an e ecutioner ; the convict beinga native Wales, it was flmost impossible to -p cure any of that country to undertake m execution i, i - ' ' !?' ' . - Travelling and other expenses that occasion, 151. 10s. I ,i " A.raan at Salop engaged to business; gave him injpart 51 5sl To re1 for conducting him and for, their searcs of him on his deserting from them on w f road, and charges on inquiring forano er executioner A. 10s. 91. '15s- ; After ! much trouble and penr John Babingtonj a convict-id tlie prison with Edwards, was by rn . toVWifew prevailed on to execute felUuT' prisoner. Gave to the wiK u.. -an ta Cabington C. 6s.-12l. 12-. v raia rnr erecting a gauup- - .fl alsarur labor, a business verjl dm1 be done in this country', 4l. ls. . , "For the hire of a cart to convev body, a coffin, and for the bami'ti 10s.: and for other assistance, trouy and petty expenses op-the jrCcasion least 51.-71. 10s. i ! " Which humbly hope your lor, will please to allow your petitioner, w ' &c. London Paper. , and at the 1 dtstc.of aput 70 miles on south of London cither bv ' the
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