MOD Ours are the plans of fair delightful peace, unwarpd by party rag to live like brothers :. '. : ' ! ... Ji? " ..1 'nftEEBMDtil-ARS Per Annum ? ONE HALF IN ADVAJtK. 3 TUESDAY, JUJYE , 1837. 4,. J If if VOLUME XJLXTliI, NlJiTXBER 30. !S PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY, By Joseph Gales f Son. I. TERMS. T11 nK DottAns per annum one halfinadvanop Those who do ndt,either at the time of subscribing or gubsequently.give notice of their wish to have the Taper discontinued at the expiration of the " year,willbe presumed as desiring its continuance until countermanded. A0TERTISEJT1EIVTS, Not eiceedingxen '?, will be inserted three i fora Dollar; and twenty-five centsforeach subseqoent publication: those of greater length in proportion. If the number ofinsertions.be not marked on them,they will be continued until Or. dered out and charged accordingly. MONEY MAKES A MAN BOLD. At length From the New York Transcript. This is an axiom that few perhaps will deny. The celebrated' Dr. Witherspoon, President of Princeton College, going to preach on a Sunday to a neighboring country congregation, -as he passed thro' the square to the pulpit, said to one of the ruling elders, John lend me a crown." The crown was lent, and the Rev. Dr putting it into his pocket went into the pulpit and preached a bold, eloquent and powerful pathetic Sermon. Descending from the pulpit after service, he pulled out the money and said to John, u here is the crown." "sQh keep it,"says the Elder. '"No, no,1' says the Dr. "I on ly wanted it when I preached For a man is always much bolder with money in his pocket. This anecdote of one of the most sensible men of his day, is not only true as an isolated fact; but it is also true as a general principle applicable to almost ail mankind, lhe man with money in his pocket is invariably bolder than him who has none. Experience teaches this abundantly. Go into company where any thing is to be expended or any thing to be purchased, and if you are ever so wise and virtuous, or otherwise ever so fear less, vou feel on this occasion exceeding ly timid, ashamed and even sheepish. While your neighbor, who has not half pur merit, who has money, is as bold as a lion. It you enter a market or shop to buy an article you want, although your credit is ever so good, you feel a want of confidence in yourself, and cannot drive a bargain half so readily or adroit ly as if you have the cash to plank down tor the purchase. If you are in debt, and one of those ugly articles a dun comes across you, how insignificant and hum bled yqu feel in your own estimation, and what a sorry apology you make. Where as, if you have money to pay with, your spirits are elastic and light; you are bold as Bonaparte himself. As a politician, you present a poor humiliating, posture without moneys anil are compute! as a nought in arithmetic, as of no account whatever. If you enter a gentleman's heuse to attend a drawing room party or soiree, if you are known not to have mo ney, no matter how wise or virtuous you may be, you feel humbled to the dust al most, as you hear some rich fool call you in a whisper "a poor devil." And whether you are a minister, a law yer, a doctor, a merchant, an editor, a mechanic, or any thing else in life or in business if you have no money, or next to none, your feelings tell you that you are despised by others who are rich, and who have their pockets full of cash, and your mortification at the contemptuous treatment you receive, is almost over whelming, gome may praise you for your talents, admire you for your amiability, eulogise you for your virtues and patrio tism but the epilogue to all this nne dramatic eulogisrn is, poor fellow, he is poor and has no money Money then, not only makes a man bold and fearless, but is considered, as the chief evidence, the undoubted criterion of merit. If a man is rich, the world says he is a good "van," even if he is leprous with half the vices that curse humanity, and a jackass with a pair of panniers on his back, stuf fed with dollars, is reputedly a much wiser and better and admirable animal than the noble lion, who ranges Igrd of the forest, and is king by consent of his fourfooted kinsmen. The meanest fool, the veriest knave, with plenty of money, an make his way near to the throne while 'ie wisest and most virtuous man, with out it, must lay like Lazarus at the gatel A celebrated writer says " wealth is power," and we add, it isalso courage, conduct and virtue. Line the pocket, and the pocket and the man can storm the rock Gibraltar ; empty it and he is frightened at a fly. Money is the god c this wbrld ; all who have it, are of the orthodor faith ;' those who haVe not, are considered heretics, and "worse than Jnfidels.f ses for many miles around. he was so much tickled by the encomi ums which were showered down upon him from every quarter, tlfat he was un willing to rest contented with the fame of being merely the bestblacksmith with in ten miles of his forge, but he felt with in him that he was qualified and destin ed to exhibit surpassing skill and inge nuity in labors which no blacksmith ever before attempted. He had come into possession, it mat ters not how, of a valuable gold watch, the manufacture of some of the most in genious workmen of the age. He often examined the watch, studied the move ments of the wheels, the surprizing pow er of the springs, and listened to itsltcA: ing with much delight. The watch kept excellent time, but Mr. Brown gradually convinced himseli that; it was out 01 re pair ; that.it did not go regularly ; that A ( . j !..- it was lmpenectiy constructed : mat in some unexpected moment it might stop, and involve himseli and lamily, and in deetl the whole neighborhood (for there was no other good time piece in the vil lage) in difficulty. He. conceived that it was in his power,tfjf con fining himself more strictly to mechanical principles, to improve ; its construction, render it more simple in its action, produce a ' more uniform and petter motion, and thus introduce a new era in the art of watch making. It was in vain that some of his more sensible neighbors advised him to stick to making horseshoes and agricultural implements, and leave watches to those who were well acquainted with the diffi Secretary, he felt the most unaccounta ble wakefulness that could be imagined: he . . ft . . was in perlect health, had dined early, and had nothing whatever on his mind to keep him awake. Still, he found all his attempts to sleep impossible, and. from eleven till two in the morning, had never cioseci an eye. At length, weary of this struggle, and as the twilight was break ing, (it was in summer,) he determined to try what would be the effect of a walk tn the Park.. There he saw nothinsr but the sleepy sentinels. But, in his walk, happening to pass the Home Office seve ral times, he. thought of letting himself in with his key, though without any par ticular object. The book of entries of the day before still lay 011 the table, and through sheer lisllessness he opened it. The first thing that he saw appalled him; U"A reprieve to be sent to Fork for the coi ners ordered for execution. " The execu tion had been appointed for the next day. It struck him that he had received no re turn to his order to send the reprieve. He searched the " minutes;" he could not find it there. In alarm, he went to the house of the chief clerk, who lived in Downing street, knocked him up, (It was then past three,) and asked him if he knew any thing of the reprieve being sent. In great alarm, the chief clerk "could not remember." "You are scarce ly awake," said Sir Evan ; "recollect yourself: it must have been sent." The chief clerk said that he now re collected he had sent it to the Clerk of the Crown, whose business it was to for ward it to York. "Good," said Sir Evan. "But have cult, delicate, & complicated operation, you his receipt and certificate that it is But no ; Mr. Brown was remarkable for gone?" a pig-headed obstinacy, and prided him- "No!" self on never having acknowledged him- "Then come wjth me to his house; we self in error, or having relinquished must find him, it 4s early." It is-now measure which he had once resolved up- four; and the Clerk of the Crown lived on. He seized his hammer, his pincers in Chancery-lane. There was no hack- and screw driver, and went to work. ney-coach to be seen; and they almost The watch was soon taken to pieces, and ran. They were just in time. The Clerk his neighbors were assured that he would of the Crown had a country house, and the probability of any one of these occur rences, a mathematician wotlld find the chances very hard against It ; bat the calculation would be prodigiously raised against the probability of the; whole. If it bei asked, whether a sufficient ground for this covered drama, which already, iU the course of the present century, has passed before us, and closed in rain. h If the project shall be successful, we are again to see the paper missils shooting in evety di rection through the country a derange ment of all values a depreciated circu lation a suspension of specie payments then a further extension of the same detestable paper a still greater depre- ciatioir, with failures of traders and fai lures of Banks in its train to arrive at last at the same point from which we de parted in 1817. Suffer me to recall to the recollection of the House a few more of the striking events of that day. The first Bank of the United States expired in March, 1811. Between the 1st of Jan. 1811, and the close of the year 1814, more than one hundred new banks were established, to supply this more uniform and belter Currency. For ten millions of capital called in by that Bank, twenty ntil.lions of capital, so called, were in vested in these.- In the place of five and now exhibit to them a sample of watch- meaning to have a long holiday, he was making that would surprise them. His at that moment stepping into his gig to design was to dispense with the balance g to his villa. Astonished at the visit of wheel entirely, and to rely altogether on the Under Secretary of State, at such an the little wheels, the number of which he hour, he was still more so at his busi soon found it necessary to increase, al- ness. though such an idea had never entered 4Heavens!" cried he, "the reprieve is , into his original plan. He toiled with- locked up in my desk!" It was brought. out ceasing, dui soon tounu waicn-maK- oir avuu seni 10 uie posi-omce tor the ing a more difficult business than he ima- truest and fleetest express. The reprieve gihed. After many weeks of labor, he reached York next morning, just at the completed it, and his neighbors were moment the unhappy men were ascending called in to witness the triumph of inge- the carl J nuity aud strict mechanical principles With Sir Evan Nepean, we fully aree over the errors and prejudices of the age. in regarding this little narrative as one of This was an eventful moment in lhe the most extraordinary that we ever life of Tom Brown. Some of his friends heard. We shall go further even than who had unbounded confidence in his he acknowledged, and say, that, to us, skill as a workman, were prepared to it bears striking evidences of what wc witness an invention which would become should conceive a superior interposition, the wonder of mechanics, and be a ben- It is true, that no ghost appears, nor is efit to the whole human race ; others al- any prompting voice audible; yet the re- ternately smiled and sneered at his folly I suit depended upon so long a succession and presumption, and gathered around, jot what seemed chances, and each of prepared to witness the total failure oMinese cnances was at once so improbable the experiment. lhe watch was put in and so necessary, that we are almost motion ; its movement at first promised well ; but it was soon seen that it pos sessed ho power within itself to produce regularity or uniformity of action. In a few brief minutes, although its motion was considerably accelerated, it became evi harsh interposition s to be dis- 1 in saving the lives, of a few wretched culprits, who, as is frequent in such cases, probably returned to their wicked trade as soon as escaped, and only! plunged themselves into- deeper in iquitythe answer is, that it is not for us, t,n our ignorance, to mete put lhe va lue of human life, howeverc; iminal in the eyes of Heaven. But there was an other interest concerned, and'one of evi dent! value. Iflthnse coiners had been hung. Sir Evan Nepean could scarcely have escap ed utter ruin ; populjtr wrath, would have nared out against him from one end of the country to another ; he would have been charged with their mutder. No man under such circumstances could have retained office a week. We have seen a half millions, about the amount of cir '-5 .1 a - ' . ' a circumstance or the same nature, but culation in note3 ot that Bank withdrawn of a much slighter eclor, drivela late chief twenty-two millions were pushed out. Judicial officer of London from his office Then came a suspension of Specie pay- in a moment. No ministerjcould have ments, in August and September, 1814. ventured to screen him ; office in Eng-1 As an immediate consequence of this and would have been shut imon him for suspension, the circulation of the coun ue ne wouiu prooaDiy nave Been an-, try, in tne course ot nneen months, in ven to hide his head in some fojreign coun- creased fifty per cent., or from forty-five try, even if some Parliament! rebuke, or to sixty-five millions of dollars; and the Royal mark of displeasure, hajd not broke fruit of this more "uniform currency was 1 t wf.' m I.I w. v his heart. Yet thus, all, who know the tne failure ot innumerable traders, me subsequent services ot Sir bv$.n Nepean chanics, and even fanners; of one hun as becretarv to the Adiniraltv. dunne- dred and sixlv-hve banks, with capitals , t - j r r- - y - - the long period of our naval ji or y in the J amounting to thirty millions of dollars ; revolutionary war, know tha6?a humane, and a loss to the United States alone, in honest and intelligent man, would have the negotiation of her loans, and in the been lost to himself and his fjcountry. receipt of bankrupt paper, to an amount lhe actual neglect was the town LIerk7 exceeding tour millions ot dollars. 7 but it would have been throwj back from A I f . t I me nuerior on the principal according The Boston Atlas gives one of ten thou f i Ilia inn nnnp v f rnnn I n i it tt I r q nd I doubtless, if Sir Evan had mlde the en- Sand staces of the baneful operation of quiry the might before, whichlhe made in thc 44 Experiment" on the poor. his waking hour in the morrttng, thc 1 e-1 The Better Currency Ji Fact. An it was, would have been his ruin. prieve would not liave suffered the haz- elderly and respectable female, in reduced ards of delay. The adventure, slight as circumstances, presented yesterday m the market a twenty dollar note ot the Plan ter's Bank of Natchez, one of the Deposite ret Banks. It was all the money she had in the world but she found that it would not buy her a pound of beef. Under these circumstances, she applied to one of the men ol whom she had been in the habit of THE SPIRIT OF PROPHECY. The folio wing, from the Speech of Mr. j la. y, in the session ot i.b4-yao, is prophecy itself. It could no have been making little purchases, for advice. a more faithful delineation if written at this time, describing what has occurred, instead of foretelling what vfould be the consequence of the madness pf misrule " Mr. Clay thought it extremely for tunate that this subject of Executive pat ronage came up at this sessions, unincum- beted Dv any collateral question. A.i She toltl him that she was poor, and chief ly dependent on the pecuniary assistance she received Irom her son, who was settled at Natchez and who had been in the habit her such small and occasional remittances as he could spare from the re suits of his constant and laborious indus try. His last remittance, which was all the money she had in the world, was this compelled to regard the whole as matter of influence not to be attributed to man. If the first link of the chain might pass for a common occurrence as undoubted ly fits of wakefulness will happen with i 1 .l.ll A ! TT1 V : . 1- tUa, Let uocc'w.n ,o i.-,.- tlia R.mnv!.! twenty "oiiar note on me riamers lianK. the Deposites, the Treasury Report su5- He . ,ad n?thfr Yay ot ierait1t,P? ,than b7 famine it. ant lhe Protest btlhe Ftesi- vui..w u,u debt asainst the Resolution ox the Semite. The Bank mingled itself m cushions, and the partisans jt Executive power availed themselves ofMhe prejudi ces which had been arttully excited against that institution, to deceive ad blind the People as to the enormity of Executive pretensions, lhe liank has been doom ed to destruction, and no one now thinks out a'ny discoverable ground in the state th recharter of it is practicable, or ought Broke remit was that of a Deposite Bank. De c.. I rpivpd hv tlp falep nrnmispn nf hp flnvprn our uis-r : rj ". . . " menr, ne prooaoiy inougtu inaijinis on vbuld be redeemed by the Pet Bank in this city. The friend to whom she applied, took the bill to one of the Deposite Banks, and asked at what discount it would take the bill. The answer was, that it could not take it anv price. Being thus driven to A 1 I . A I A. rc t ii rpn v iu m vi 1 t j m til V a v kt 7 v uk7 v m dent that the experiment would not sue- 01 either Dody or mind still, what could toiDe attempieu. 1 iear, saio mr. viay, tCj, TWENTY DOllah note Oi they ceed ; it soon began to hz and whirl, and be less in the common course ot things thai the reopie win nave just anu severe afforQ to pay ,ut F1Y DOLLXUS ! wnistie, ana sputter away at an aston- man mai a man mus waning snouid take cause 10 regret us ucsnupiuu. x uc Thus is a poor and destitute woman inning i a lc, luuvii n tut. mm itt 4 nit "ivw ubitu iu uj; unu lung a nam uuiiiiiiiDiimivH j-- j mere tiction ot the Jixecu ti ve deir wiavillll III auu muse ut ilia n itiiuo miu I m uiv 1 ui ti al l nu v nuwn in me lliuill' jim. , uuu um, -" ..y..-.. " I ded Ol t'lTeP tOUTtllS Ol a SUm, WlllCh I were confident of his success. He was ing? Yet, if he had, like others, con- admire, the imperturbable tmner or the unable to control its mo ve-I tented himself with taking a walk round 1 wisdom of its enlightened President. ments, and after a little time it made a his chamber, or eniovinar the cool air at No countrv can possibly possess a better loud and start line- noise, resembling a his window, not one ot the sucr.epdino- ireneral currencv than it supplied. The fearful explosion of gunpowder, and slop- events could have occurred, and the men injurious consequences of tliie sacrifice of ped! Instead of improving the watch, he must have sacrificed. Or if, when he this valuable institution wulsoon be felt. - i . . ' i -. . -i .. . r . a i had destroyed it : or at least had so much took this walk, he had been content with There being no longer any sentinel at the! injured it, that it will be a long time be- getting rid of the feverishness of the night head of our Banking establishments to lore the best watch makers in the coun- and returned to his bed. the chain would warn them, by its intormatjon and ope- have been broken: for, what was more rations, ot approaching danger, the local out of the natural course of events, than institutions, already multiplied to an . - . . . i . . . try men who have devoted a large por tion of their lives to the business will be able, with all their skill, to restore it to its original regularity and excellence of condition. Boston Jour. 1 I , L"i A REMARKABLE STORY, From a notice of Illustrations of Human Life, a new work by the author of Trt maine and Be ffer, in the New Month ly Magazine for April. The story to which we shall now ad vert, has the double value of being told, oh Mr. Ward's personal knowledge, and ' TOM BROWN AN ALLEGORY. We hive heard of a Blacksmith of the of Tom Brown, who was somewhat ebratM for his skill in the villas in wich he resided, and who was 'eded ! to be the best shoer cknow of hor that, at two in the morning, the idea alarming extent, and almosttdaily multi- should come into.the head of any man to pjyipg, in seasons of prosperity will make go to his office, and sit down in the rooms jree and unrestrained emissions. All of his department, for no purpose ofbu- the channels of circulation will become siness or pleasure, but simply not know- gorged j property will rise extravagantly ing what to do with himself? Or if, when high, and, constantly lookfng up, the he had let himself into those solitary temptation to purchase willbe irresisti- rooms. the book of entries had not lain ble. Inordinate speculation will ensue, on the tabje; (and this we presume to debts will be freely contracted, arid when kinv hppn smnno- the chances, as we. can I the season of adversity comes, as come srarcelv Runnose books of this official im-ltf must, the Banks, acting without con portance to be generally left to their fate cert and without guide, obeying the law among the servants and messengers of of self-preservation, wil, all.at the same the office; or, if the entry, instead of time, call in their issues; the vast num- of illustrating the extraordinary chances being on the first page that opened to his ber will exaggerate the alarm, and gene v . v 1 . ' . 1 II I I .! " a. ... 1 -. -. rl iin n nn n n fr whirh hlitnftn lira la cnmotimoa cntfr. avo harl Haon rn nV n npr. P.VP.n inP Kf. Ifll IllHl ress WlUP-SIireau luiui 4iiu an ed to depend. The circumitartces oc r.ond.at he never mierht have taken the explosion of the whole Banking system, . . r. .'. . ' I . . . - - r- i ijilli . .'-,. 13 I, r Piirror tn tho urolf Irnnxvn Vii- H'lori n I tmnhlA nt (ffpninrr IhO nOfP ? Or IT ne find I OT tne RSiaUl ISIllTienC Ol U. WW Uaillk Ul . . 1. .... ..'..! r . i -l. I I TT ?LJ Oi i III U . IU;. .. I : n t a nean. when in the Hnm llangrtm(nr. I tho hiat cleric hnn hepn Jive minuies later I tne U niietl Oiaies. Will U6 uie uiuuiaic . tA- . . . . I . ."'.. -r. . I ll lhe oonular version ot the atorvhad been, at the U erk ot the urown's nouse,- anu enecis." r ! mm . I-. . i.l" A that he was warned by a vision, to save instead ot finding him at tne moment: ot the lives of three or four men condemned getting into his carriage, had been com-j Mr. Binnev, a distinguish Whig' Rep ioaie,but reprieved; and who, but tor pelted to incur the ae.ay or onng.ng mm resentative frora the cUy of Philadelpliia, me vision wou d have perished, throuffh back from the country, an me preceumg i. . . v -.- the Under-Secret.rva nealer.t in ftrr-Lvent. wm.lH have been useless. The tlius spoke in Congress in Jan. iw: warding the reprieve. On Sir Evan's be- people would have died at York, for e- i "Sir, the project of the Secretary of the inesttbsequently asked how far this sto-lven as it was, there was not a moment 1 Treasury astonishes me it has astonish- m was true, his answer waa "The nar-1 tn snarei thev were stoDoed on the vervled the country. It is herejithat we find J 1 - - -- ' - " 1 j J ( I j - , ' . i - . i i I - .. - I . - nt inft nMSftnt mnnnv rauve rumancea a nine: out what it ai- irerp-e or execution m uictuauv buuiw 6u, Ittdes to was the most extraordinary thing ! The remarkable feature of the whole, I St is in the clearly avowed design to bring . . - . . .. . . . . .... ili i? ; : U : 1-4 U ' r that crer happened to me." The simple l is that the chain might nave oeen snappeu a secona ume, upon . wuu uie cure oi facts, as told: by himself, are theses at every link, and that every lint was Ian vnregutatea, uncomiQum laie jsarw une night, during nis oince as uncer- equally important, m vnc caicmanon ui fpcr immwi. m5'" vv bb ui for the could by au- 10W- ever insignificant, was to herself of the ut most consequence, inasmuch as it was her all. Thus it is not merely those who have k earned nothing"' & therefore OUGHT TO STARVE" in the language of the Globe whd have been stripped and plun dered by the accursed policy of a Cabinet of swindlers and vagabonds but the hon est and laborious poor the very class in terested above all others in the preserva tion of a sound and uniform currency. after, and hd not been in the city three; days ere he committed the crime for which he yesterday forfeited hisrlife. j J-nree days since he was visited in prison by the Mayor. Denis Prieur. who asked him how he felt. " As well as a man in mv situation can V feel, 91 was his answer:" but I should' like to have, something to drink.'2 v . j borne brandy was brought him -whichs he drank eagerly; after which Mr. Prieur told hun he did not come lor the purpose of giving him any hope's of a pardon. 41 And if you should do so, I'd not be lieve you,' said Tibbetts. "Would you not prefer imprisonment to death, and that on a scaffold?'? I Ah, no!" said he, with a bitter smile't "if my sentence could be remitted, for; only a year's imprisonment, (and I know, that they would not let "me off forso r short a period j I would prefer to die in- . stantly." tLife is said to be sweet," observed: the Mayor. "Ali, it may be so to you, and such as 1 you, surrounded as you are by the, com-; forts and luxuries of life, x But look at me, (holding up his chains.) Eleven : long years of my life have I passed in a miserable cell, chained thus like a galley slave, disgraced and deserted by all and every thing that could, render life dear! tome, vvnat sweetness men iniuic you las such a life for such a person as I am? No sir,(seeing Mr. Prieur was about to s peak, j as a boy, it is true, I was head strong and wayward, but not naturally; vicious,. It is true that 1 hated these who hated me, but I also loved those who were kind to me. But this I take no credit for; I but obeyed therein the in stinct of Nature. But upon one occasion,; or indulging in a damnable propensity,; that corporal (his step father) beat me so brutally, that I seized a musket and shot;- urn. I was imprisoned, and led to be- eieve that if I behaved well I should be released in a year or two; but year after; year rolled on, and I was, a wretched; prisoner; the bright morning ot my lite was wasting away, unsolaceduncheered; no release came, my heart sunk within me, iny hopes were blighted and with! . my hopes died my youth. I then .gave loose to the worst passons of my, nature, and joined my miserable companions in their worst pursuits. Finally my prison doors were unbarred I was par doned; I entered that prison not a de praved boy I left it a desperate man. I came to this city and joined the volun teers for Florida: before sailing I was? arrested as a suspicious character, but being released, went with Colonel Smith returned to this city and the rest you know. Mr Prieur then hinted that the vice which led him astray was drinking. "No, sir," said he furiously, "gamb ling! damnable gambling! for that was I . beaten by the man whom, in revenue, I. killed, i deserve to die but not for the offence for which I now stand committed: I deserve todie, however, for deeds that have lately done." He was questioned on this head, but obstinately refused to reveal, a sylla ble.. -'Mrs Prieur, who is, by-the-bye, a practical phrenologist then proceeded to examine his head, 10 ascertain, if the or gans of firmness and destructiveness were not strongly developed, anu nna-: i ng such to he thecasel; he spoke of iti. The prisoner said nothing in reply to him on that head then, but, the day be fore yesterday, he asked for pen, ink and paper, and wrote tne touowing: Mt last' Will and testament. "Give Dennis Prieur my. head. 4 T0M TlBB ETTS. ?' ! THE CONVICT. FROM THE NEW ORLEANS COMMERCIIL BULLfTIK. -Thomas Tibbetts. This cxtraordih arv individual, who was hung yester day morning, was born, we believe, in this State. However, be that as it may, he has spent the, best (or rather the worst) part of his life in it. At the age of ten vears, he was a drummer boy in the army, and was stationed with his step-father, fa corporal,) in Louisiana. Having been beaten, as he says, very severely by his step-tather, in a fit of revenge he seized musket and laid him dead at his feet, For this he was tried and sentenced to be imprisoned twenty-one years; the sen tence or death being thus commuted on account of his extreme youth. Aiterre- maining imprison for the space ot eleven years,he was,in January,1836, being then but twenty-one years of age, pardoned out by-Uov. White, tie arnvea in mis city just at the time that tne Louisiana volunteers were about to embark for Florida; and having enlisted under Col. Persifer Smith, he went with him to Flo rida. After serving there four or five months, he returned to this city and al most immediately went up the river. He returried here, however, in & fortnight At a Public Dinner given to MrWise at Williamsburg, a few days ago, Presi dent Dew of William & Mary College4, made the following remarks: i "President Dew being called otvibr a Toast, said that he would tell an anec dote by way of introduction and expla nation the sentiment which he should give.He said that among the character istics of the interesting people of Ireland, was that peculiarity in thought and ex pression, which led, both in Speaking and writing, to the frequent perpetration of blunders termed bolls. He.stated; that . he had somewhere met with an account of the bill of an Irish Farrier, presented ., to an English Nobleman, couched in phraseology which had suggested the--Toast that would be offered. - It ran as follows: " To curing jour honor's mare until she died, 12s. 6d." ; , Mr. Dew then proposed: The monetary system of the United States; cured to death by Doctor Jackson Ala poor YorickP A gentleman paying his addresses to a young lady, the daughter of a . wealthy planter, and of course entitledtto the non or of being very accomplished, inqaired ornerii sne was not lonesome, - ing no society in the neighborhood, anu how she spent Uer timef one was not lonesome that she amused her self with reading and writing. He asked her which she was mosi wn nii- mie ? Nar v one,7' savt v lady, ! writes small nana, :: ' vr t If -I 4 vfW.

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