Carolina Watchman

              terms of the watchman j • — — two dollars in advan__.\.ani two dollars and fifty cents .. he end of the year ' pfo subscription received for a less time than one year ess paid for in advance . \„ subscription discontinued but at the option ul me . until all arrearages are paid terms of adv£rtisim3 one dollar p r s pan for tha lirst insertion and twenty .;- for each continuance . .,. ' c un notices and court ordem will be charged j per h'r l:iv.n ft tcfnt will be made to those ' \ deduction oi i.i 1-3 p si l •" vh.ujv.-r.isrl.yw :;-,^ lumilforb.d . a advertisem n - will ■" ... ... un;ess ordered for a certain num charge 1 tor ac - ' '-.* ■ "•'■■ ber of ti , „ ,. . i • [, tiers ad ht*s_«d to the llitors must come post paid ;<> ensure attention notes of travel — no ii jjv a southron the first feature which greets the stran ger on his arrival in new york i.s the hustle of enterprize ; steam rules every tning.and it would require but little stretch ofthe imagination to fancy that the ladies walked by steam and the dandies dressed by the same expanding power speaking 0f ladies reminds me of mentioning for the benefit of my fair countrywomen that lure in new york the ladies walk better than any place in the world and derive l,e distinction from lhc fact that they walk much thc chinese or even citi derilla would find but little opposition in the " fancy feet line as these showy loco motives are verv much on the order ol paddy's game bird blessed with a fine nderstanding as our ship neared the batter we soon discovered that its leafy | avenues which once bristled with cannon now presented quite a different scene and instead of the grim soldiers of the olden time,and the stern command of oiiicers ' u were greeted by gay strains of song and ihe chattering tongues of thousands hfch came over the smooth waters of the harbour on the gentle wings of the fresh-land wind history says this island , was discovered in 1700 by henerick hud son a famous dulch navigator from ! whom ihese universal critters are steal ing his tomb stone by calling the magnifi ! cent river which bears his name '; the ! xawth river f the lethargic dutchman could be set ; town at the custom louse exchange or j even amid the tinsel glare of broadway he certainly would die of surprise " man hattan says mr colcraft i.s a name in j indian dialect which signifies " the peo ple of the whirlpool l'rom " hell gate known to romance readers by the vivid descriptions of cooper new amsterdam was governed by two burgomasters five schepens and a sellout now his hon or maypr harper has enough to engage seventeen aldermen 17 assistant alder men 34 assessors and 17 collectors whilst the custom-house has about five hundred servants to attend to ! rncle sam's matters of small change wilh foreign nations and j the population of lhe city is estimated at near 400,000 a beautiful feature of new york is the parks and fountains and they form the lungs of ibis crowded metropolis on j sunday these parks arc crowded by the laboring population of the city where they inhale bad air made cool by the never ceasing jets of the magic croton every body has heard of the croton ! lt i is the grandest work of.the kind in the world and cost 12,000,000 it is con i veyed in stone acqueducts 10 miles — was j commenced in june 1837 and was com j pleted so far as partially to supply the city l in 1842 besides supplying the city with pure water for domestic purposes it is ol ! abundant service in the public bathing bouses and hospitals and has converted a ' very filthy city inlo the most cleanly in the world as the streets are daily flooded with it h is a permanent and ready pro tection againsi tires and new york need never dread such a calamity as befel her inert-ant ile community in 1835 such i benefits added to ihose which contribute to the picturesque and beautiful makes the xew yorkers very jealous of the fame ; t their " dear croton and they become milch offended if any one tells them there is better water in the world than it affords il bundasiu or poinsett's spring were transported in their midst by magic they would sip croton in preference and really ith the fountains of the park bowling green union place and st john's park before them i do not know that their de votion is misplaced amongst the most celebrated edifices of new york i mention the exchange and custom-house the new york university and the hall of justice which has appro priately been called the tombs the ex change is built entirely of sienite orquin ty granite and is a uniform pile of solid masonry occupying as it does one entire ; k of wall street ; it is of imposing 11 not grand appearance tin front is a feeessed portico with 18 ionic columns jfcch ate 33 feet high 1 feet 1 inches in diameter and each weighs about 33 ions au4 are said to be the largest monoliths to the world excepting only the columns 01 a church at st petersburg the ro jnda is ioo feet in diameter and 70 feet ;!'?''• the dome is supported by 8 beau i'!1 corinthian columns each over 40 ft i§h the effect on the beholder of this s^pendous building is very astonishing 10 custom-house is a correct imitation 4 e celebrated parthenon at athens is nearly as large as was that cele brated temple it is built of white mar e and is fire proof and till the architec 7^1 ornaments are finished ia exquisite ynid taste thc tombs is built in '/' ' egyptian style and its massive capi s furmqunting theban columns and its ej?lefs witb winged globe ornaments thjrtv .**}' serpents makes one think \ , ius i trulv the rendezvous and a the wicked at the new york gla7eisi.ty ma be 8een a vicl1 stained s window of gothic style which is %, 7 lu«!l and 24 ft wide this lights which is rich in architectural the carolina watchman _ bruner & james ) u .^ > " keep a check upon all your editors sf proprietors v is safe ( new series ruleks s^&s^t \ number 19 of volume i salisburytntc september 7 1844 beauty and its lofty ceiling and mysterious gothic tracery transports us on viewing it back to tbe dim ages of romance and dc j votion i might mention in this list the city hall and the alms house at belle vue but i fear to tire the reader with their ; architectural details n york contains about one hundred aud sixty churches — these are handsome edifices and their gilded interiors illy consort with their rus set and homely outward appearance new trinity church situated on broad way is to be the most splendid church in america but the intention of raising the highest steeple on it is perhaps likely to be abandoned as the building has recent ly given way and they may have to de j sist or begin denovo as the great western was in port with a gentleman 1 visited her and received the polite attentions of the gentlemanly ■ naval officer who commands her near ly along side of her in a dry dock lies the j mexican war stc.amer montezuma wait ing to be overhauled and presenting a re volting contrast to the u s ships of war north carolina and princeton lying off the battery i saw in this part of the dock a beautiful little sailor's chapel floating on the waters and i am told there is regular service in it it is a popular chapel with the mariners and is sailed a bout as it is required the stranger in n york will be struck at the immense num ber of establishments for the preservation and beauty of the hair and i must say for new york that if her citizens would de vole as much attention to the inside of the head as they bestow on the outside they ; could soon lay claim to the palm of athe nianship in america and boston would j not long lay claim to that distinction in my next i shall tell you something ofthe hudson and the albany stock farms a g s correspondent of the s c temp advocate july 20 1814 a west india hurricane the hurricane of august 13 1831 at aux cayes from unpublished not.-s made during two years travels iu hayti those who remember aux cayes before the disastrous hurricane of the 13th august wasted nine-tenths of the city and bit two-thirds an ir retrievable ruin speak with rapture of the ver dure and agreeable variety whicli the lanes and pathways presented for morning and evening walks from the sea it was greeted by the ma riner as the city of palms nothing could sur pass the fresh aspect of houses and gardens amid well watered savannas in such a climate its streets had been polluted by the slaughter of the revolution but the fire had never carried de vastation here as elsewhere people who saw it before its last calamity saw an unchanged city of the ancient colony ; and il the wild green aspect ofthe plains could only have been ima o-ined to be the bright carpet of its former indus try there was nothing cither in the orderly man ner in which the streets were kept or in the the state and entertainment of the houses or in the social intercourse of the inhabitants their appearance and courteous affability which were calculated to recall by-gone times of the old and haughty regime the new houses of port-au-prince greatly surpass the best ofthe domestic architecture here ; but the general as pect ofthis place before its destruction was su perior to it its air is better — its climate a chilly spring time compared to the warm suffo cating blasts of the presidential city and its police and military government an example of activity to the sleepy negligence that prevails elsewhere in atmosphere it has no advantage over the cape it did not at all appro.ach the northern capitol in splendor but one-half of its inhabitants did not roost like bats in walls and ruins that night ofthe 12th and morning of the 13th of august which in a previous part of my journal i had recorded as a time that 1 pass ed naked amid storms in the savanna of iatilla where 1 had heard what seemed to me the hav oc of a hurricane beyond the mountains was the very tempest which made the city of las cayes in almost an hour the place of ruins that it was when i visited it those who witnessed the dreadful visitation tell me that the appearance of the weather did not differ from that ofthe days in which the pre ceding droughts had prevailed it had been excessively hot during all the day of the 12th the haze which in these climates accompanies steady dry weather had enveloped every thing so that the plains looked all dim and measure less like thc sea and the mountains skirting the horizon shone like departing clouds faint and indistinct the he a vache with its low angu lar outline hung like an island between the heavens and the ocean and the vessels that ap peared on the horizon seemed as they came iloaaiig above the waters like kehama's ship ofthe air but these are the ordinary signs when dry weather prevails and no one could see in them the presage of that calamity which in one " fell swoop was to make aux cayes ; a city of wo lamentation and death towards sundown lhe white and sparkling sky over which not a vapor had been a floating mass began to gather cloudy and dull and so quick and dense thronged the hurrying clouds about the sun — so dark so lowering and so sudden that every one seemed lo feel a curious wonderment at how whither and when they , came for the earth and the ocean were still i without a breath of wind whilst every one j was busy looking out what at least seemed | strange the shining sea that had lain all day as : it were one sheet of molten glass was seen sud denly heaving and swelling but without a rip \ pie on its surface ou looking out for the cause ' ofthis occurrence the waves were seen break ing white on the rocks ofthe vache island but still though they were broad undulations not a single billow was curling on the water in the mean time the sun went down not in one red suffusion of light betokening a windy uprising but while and intensely bright with the black masses of clouds closely gathered around it the edges of whose dense folds were touched with a sharp brilliant effulgence as intensely bright as the burnished silver lustre ofthe sun itself all this was remarked as strange — very strange still there was no dread of any coming tempest it continued oppressively hot and every one wished for the coming of the usual night wind the stars set and rose and the night darkened but still there was no land hreeze the mys terious heaving of the sea continued to increase and the black vapors to accumulate but not as if coming up from any quarter ofthe wind but as if they concentrated those exhalations that had filled the air with such obscurity during the day and gathered themselves into curtain above making literally correct the metephor of young the poet when he described the darkness as " night's pitchy pall the first sound of the stirring elements that broke upon the still horror ofthe night was the shock of an earthquake it subsided with the usual trumor ofthe earth and air and those who heard and elt it said their " mesericorda and went to sleep again half an hour after a se cond came — it did not pass away so silently ; but with it rose a gust of wind shrieking and yelling as if a warning spirit had suddenly rush ed from the heavens to visit the earth with an awakening exclamation of dread and dismay this was at about half-past two o'clock from that moment the heavens and the ocean seemed stirring and full of strife the shrieks ofthe storm came uttered in rapid succession till all was turned into one wild rush and turmoil and nothing was any more to be heard but a sound as il ah creation was the roaring blast of a mighty furnace as for the sea it was literally stirred into foam and the air into a rushing mist which those who were familiar with the phenomenon of a steam-engine could compare to nothing but the velocity and noise ofthe dis charged vapor when the valve is opened and the white and hissing steam shoots upward like a rocket it was so intensely dark and the air withal so palpable that nothing was to be seen except when the lightning shot or flashed ath wart and through the dense blackness there was nothing heard but the furnace-roar of the elements — no thunder not even when the elec tric fluid struck an object for of the numerous palms that perished standing most of them were stricken by the lightning those who looked j up to heaven from their roofless dwellings for : mercy say they beheld the light as if it issued : from the clouds in a ball of fire from which dart ' ed the quick effulgence in all direction the j transitions from light to darkness were so in tense that nothing in either case could be seen ', in one moment the shining whiteness " blinded i the eyes with excessive light ;" in another it i was a blackness in which every thing seemed | amass it was so painful that those who could i have looked up to heaven in hope were com j polled to keep their eyes on the earth in des ' pair during all this time the swell of the sea kept i increasing till it rose five feet over the surface ; of the land the waters of the stream which passes through the town and whose sinuosities give so pretty a variety to the street scenery were driven back and what the ocean did not j overwhelm the river inundated nothing yield | ed a sound amid all this turmoil there was '■ no thunder the earth still quaked and tho the houses were crushing on all sides nothing ! was heard of their tall even by those within them the mass of the building as soon as one piece of the timber parted from the other seldom fell down at once but were whirled in to the air and spread ahout descending like showers of arrows in this havoc of course j not a ship was saved ; in the inundation scarce a child escaped those who could stand be 1 yond the five feet of water lived out the two hours of horrid endurance there were pauses in the storm in which all 1 was so silent that beyond the frothy settling of ! the sea as the bubbling white foam subsides in thc wake of a fast sailing ship nothing was to be heard ofthe stirring elements in the death j like pause the lamentation uttered every where j came like a still small voice " after the deaf j ening roar of the termination of the tempest — i the yell ofthe storm then rose again and then the turmoil resumed its stir and strife amid lightning and earthquake the misty rush of \ the air continued then suddenly hushed and suddenly gathered again and again till about '• half past lour in the morning when it subsided when the day broke the hurricane was lull '■ ed into a pattering of heavy rain it remained : so with slight intermissions till the afternoon when the sky cleared and the heavens smiled and the waters sparkled and the earth seemed to rejoice as usual and the fields looked fresh and o-recn as if nature had never lost its usual be iiignity there were seven hundred and twenty souls that perished — some crushedto death as many as seventeen in one house many were drown ed by the deluge particularly the young people it was not possible to bury them with the usual ceremonies ofthe church or in the usual places j of sepulchre their graves were dug in the street opposite where they were found dead and the earth clused upon the sufferers " unknell ed unconfined and unknown the locofoco central committee of penn sylvania have issued an address calling toge gether thc delegates who met on the 4th of march to hold another convention on the 2d of september for the purpose of nominating a candidate in place of mr muhlenburg a mr bank lately married a miss gold in ohio vve doubt if the legislature will be able to put down that bank or prevent it issuing small bills we believe a bank ou such a foundation cannot fail ; so long as it holds on to its gold its credit will remain good a pig made its appearance at new brighton on tues day and continues to enjoy good health and spirits which has but one eye in the centre of its head.^with head and neck similar to a rhinoceros a large horn pro jecting from the upper pin of his aiiout ar f sun experimemt with capt war ner's explosive destructive \ the great experiment with captain j warner's destructive po>$er took place at brighton on the evening of the 20th july an immense concourse of persons repair ed to the scene from london and from all parts round brighton ; so that the strand the pier the cliffs the buildings the sea were crowded with spectators to the num j ber of thirty or forty thousand after va nous inevitable delays the john o'gaunt , a barque of three hundred tons burden in measurement was towed by the sir wil liam wallace steamerto its station about a mile and a half from the shore opposite the battery two men remained on board the barque till the last to regulate its steering ; and they left it in a boat just be j fore the final operation captain war ner was on board the sir william wal \ lace and when he was about to use his \ destructive the crew of the steamer were ; all sent below the problem to be solv j ed by the experiment was whether those ; on board a ship in chase could use the ex plosive power to destroy the pursuing ship • the delays increased the doubts which : many entertained at length the union j jack was hauled down — announcing that the blow was to be struck the steamer j was now about a quarter of a mile from . the ship which she had in tow every eye was fixed upon the barque captain warner lowered something into the sea and both the vessels made onwards ; the ship came over the spot where its destruc tion lay : a burst of smoke like vapor — water sent upwards from the sea higher than the masts — enveloped the ship ; the mist cleared off and the vessel was seen to have been struck amid-ships the water showing through its timbers its mizen gone by the board its mainmast shot a way " like a rocket ;" it keeled over its head went down and in two minutes and a half from the explosion it sank leaving nothing but the still standing fore-mast head above the water and all was over the multitude were wonder-stricken at the utter destruction caused by the some thing which capt warner in the deep bosom ofthe ocean buried this experiment the liverpool times says has been alluded to in the house of commons where a certificate was read by lord ingestre and signed by him and captains dickenson and henderson to the effect that the explosion was not the result of any combustible matter on board or alongside the vessel and that it was done by the hoisting of a signal from the shore the time of giving which could not be known by the experimentalist nu merous have been the guesses as to the means by which the result was produced the most probable is that the instruments oldest uclitm were loaded magnetic shells rendered buoyant by cork which attrac ted by the iron of the ship would possess sufficient force and friction to explode the detonating materials the debate in the commons elicited from sir robert peel sir howard douglas sir charles napier and other members opinions very unfa vorable to the practicability of the inven tion the premier in a long speech in which he went over the whole of the ne gotiations and correspondence between the inventor and the government since 1811 threw " cold water on the project the feeling of the naval and military members who spoke was decidedly op posed to the project and with the excep tion of lord ingestre the inventor's friend who brought forward the subject there i was not an individual in the house who ! spoke encouragingly of it the steamboat st louis a western jeu d esprit from the chicago daily jocrxal the following letter directed to the prince de joinville care of capt jean shook was picked up on board the steamboat st louis in the vacant state room of a french gentleman who left the boat at mackinaw on his way to sault st marie : my friend : as i've made ver much de progress in de english langage in dat tongue i shall say how wis rapture and pleasure my heart he did dance to find dis boat named from de patron de france ; oui mon ami de fact i assure you quite true is dis bateau magnifique is called de st louis you remember my friend dat a voyage you took wiz dat frenchman distingue lc captain jean shook : how to him a snutl'box most superbe you present because he talk french with such perfaite accent eh bien here dey talk all langue wizout de least pain : grec anglois italien french dutch and profane dey have acteurs and poetes and musicien here and von tip-topographical grand engineer vid de song and de dance de salon shall resound and de jest and de brandy smash too shall abound toujours you shall laugh while on board here you are gc mosh — sacre bleu — you get some sleep nevare and de table ! — mon dieu mon prince — nevare no ne vare shall a man eat so mosh as he have to eat here : four times every day is de table s.?rve up to breakfast to dinner to tea and to sup ; four times every day you shall eat four times more as ever you eat in four day on de shore ah paris ! your triomphes de table dey few is when compare wiz de table on board de st louis : dere is fowl dere is flesh and mas.ni-.qje becasse which de man who don't eat shall be writ down an ass dere is fish dat will fill de soul full of delight and wild duck wiz his sauce dat will fill you up quite ; den de beds of repose dey are quiie soft enough ; as macabees say to " lay on macduff f | and de julap de minte so delicious is he jove his nectar would leave oui and his ambrosie , oh my friend if once more you should see l'arnerique stay on board de st loui at usast for one week : introduce yourself straight to le captains floyd ! you will be as jean bull say too happy — be gar mais adieu ! i must stop tho i've much more to say i mais de became he wait on me j jean bon st andre martha's v ix e yard correspondence of the boston courier ebgaktowx aincst 14 is 14 this island with the others in the group was discovered by gosnold in 1 (;:>__. the yinevard was granted to thomas mayhexv in 1g41 ; about that time mr foster opened the first english school on the island experience mayhcw says in his " indian converts that a few en glish families first settled at great harbor nuw edgartown in 1642 the lirst minister was thomas mayhew the son and only child ofthe governor by whom he was sent .•* being then a young scholar about twentv-one years of age with some others to form a settlement at ed gartown from these items the early settlement ofthe vineyard is made known while xew hamp shire and vermont and a large part of massa chusetts slept in the solitude of primeval nature this island ofthe sea was beginning to emerge from barbarism and soon became a point of in terest a gentleman from the north of ireland told me he well recollected reading when a boy a book containing letters from one of the first settlers of this island describing its valuable agricultural properties and giving an animated sketch ofthe humming-bird which was then a great curiosity in european eves how long the island had been inhabited by indians previous to the discovery by cosnold jve know not perhaps when the romans were extending their conquests to the britanic isles or even while the egyptians renowned in arts were building their pyramids the aborigines of martha's vineyard were constructing their wig wams and launching their canoes in the beau tiful waters of their bays banks of clam-shells four and five feet deep are found by diggino | near the shore showing the populonsness ofthe j place in olden times the abundance of shell i fish and the favorite food of the inhabitants — i arrow-heads are frequently discovered and oc i casionally human bones the whole number | of indian desendants may be reckoned at about | three hundred viz : about 150 at gay head 40 or 50 at christian town at chappaquiddic ] the african race is so intermingled that very | few even of halt-blooded indians are to be found as a people they are orderly temper i ate intelligent and religious ; have places of ! worship and live comfortably in their habita tions many of them are employed in the whale i fishery and are of high repute in that service the burial grounds of edgartown are three — one en the land ofgrafton norton esq in the i village where are only three grave stones sig j ni lying the place of sepulchre of some of the '■ mayhexv family tradition gives thomas may t hew the first governor a burial place here but : no stone or hillock marks the spot mathew mayhew is marked on tlie stone gen died : in 1720 aged forty-five years a sou of his ! is recorded as dying in april 171 1 and his wife ■ anna as departing tliis life april 10 the stone 1 having sunk in the earth the year is not to be seen this ground ought to be purchased by i the town be enclosed and have a monument : erected the next oldest burial place if it is not in fact the most ancient is nearly a quarter of a mile southwest ofthe one spoken of and is : enclosed about halt an acre with a common rail i fence antl contains some si sly or seventy tomb j stones the moss has grown over the iuscrip | tions but i scraped it off in some instances and ! read the record as a specimen ofthe piety and the poetry of | 1786 1 transcribe from one of the stones the ! memorial of mrs elizabeth jenkins who died j july 27 1776 aged twenty-one years squire : cook a lawyer of that period xvas the man to ; xvhom mourning relatives resorted to for epi '. taphs when mr kettell publishes a second edition ofhis specimens of american poets i hope he xvill remember mr cook who thus : speaks ot elizabeth : i " coulil blooming years and modesty and all that's pleasing to the eye against rrini death ben a defence elizabeth had not gone hence the god that gave her called her home ; when power divine shall burst the tomb tln-n pheonix 1 ■ u • - _ from parent dust i she'll soar on high to god most just conspicuous among the monument ol the j dead is the stone marks wiswall's grave one of the ancient pastors of the congregational j church whose memory is still dear to the peo | pie " here lyes buried yr bo ly of ye rev mr samuel wiswall late p;;stor of ye church of chris in this town who departed this life dee 23 a d 1746 aged ct years some ofthe oldest graves have s'ones with out any inscription those going furthest back which i saxv having names anti date were ann worth 1724 aged 53 years john worth esq 1731 aged 65 years the third or newest burying-ground is that surrounding lhe old dilapidated congregational meeting-house comprising about two acres and having many handsome xvhitc marble monu ments and gravestones and capable of i;ei;i_r made quite a romantic and love!y spot by the planting of shrubs and trees and the removal of the unsightly ruin of lhe old church i hope before long that the people will awake to the importance of beautifying this ground and thus make another attractive leature to the most charming populous and ancient village of this picturesque island mr collector thaxter son ofthe venerable clergyman of that name so lonjra pastor here is the man xvhosc knowledge ' and taste point him out to effect this improve ! ment in the burial place and i hope the town ! xviil employ him and give him full power in the ; premises i should do iniu=tice to really thc chiefbeau t tv ofthe place if i were to omit mention of the xvomen of ivj<rartoxvn who xvill not ssii^-r in i comparison with even the fair belies of xexv [ port as a proof that i speak by the book i t xvill refer to thc marriage records where it wu j be seen that lhe gentlemen of this place no j mean judges o personal attractions hare ai ! most invariably selected for their p tne ' fair and blooming damsels ofthe island having i no occasion to take a boat and go elsewhere : ! and i cannot help thinking that telemachus • himself had he visited here instead of culyp • so's isle would not have iclt it again ; but i am trespassing on a theme it may be too light for a person of my grave pretentions and i xvill leave to younger and unmarried men to enlarge upon what i could not wholly over [ look in a description of edgartdwn the taste for trees is increasing in this town ;* and if they xvili only go to xvork this fall and set out sex'eral hundred shade trees on the borders of streets and ornament the burying-grpund aa before suggested xve shall bave a place whose loveliness xvill draw many strangers to our bor ders the town has already ten ships in the whal ing business and with a little exertion the num ber might be doubled in a short time tlie lo cal situation of e igartown for carrying on thi fishery iu the country is unsurpassed in the country and very far exceeds ihe advantages of nantucket and new bedford : and rich men engaged in that business w bid consult their interest by coming here for the facilities all li ed ; and if they should do so the place now numberingtwothousand inhabitants would soon be doubled there is a talk hero about having a steam boat of their own to ply daily between this port and new bedford to go and return the sanu day and carry the mails ; imt wliether the pro ject will succeed or not i do not know martha's vineyard furnishes new bedford with many of the officers for her whale ships and they are am mg the best of her comma i ers the wives meanwhile — cape horn will ows they are called — while away as they can the long and drear absences of tiieir husband and if tempted to leave the island might say in the sweet verses of mrs utemans — oh ! tell me not the woods are fair now spring i • • •:! !: ■: way : well well 1 know how brightly there in joy the young leaves play — how sweet on ..-<:: i of mora or eve the violet's breath may be : yet ask me woo me not to leave my lone roek by :!;■• a a the wild wave's thunder on the shore the curlew's restless cries unto my watching i art are more than all earth's melodies come back my ocean rover ' come ' there's but one place for me till 1 can greet ihy swift sail home — my lone rock by th • sea mason axd dixon s line to answer inquiries which have been made of us by letter from n friend and to stive lhe trouble of enquiry to others con cerning the origin and precise import of this term so often used in public discus sions to designate the line of division be tween the states in which slaves are s held and those in which they are not we insert the following which xve suppose to give a correct account ofthe matter mason and di ion's line — this boun dary is so termed fromthennra s ofchas mason and jeremiah dixon the gentle men appointed to run unit nished lines in 1761 between pennsylvania and mary land on the territories subjed to thc heirs of penn and lord baltimore a tempo rary line had been run in 17h but had not given satisfaction to the disputing par ties although it r stilted from an agree ment in 1739 between llu-m.-clvcs a decree had been made in 1618 by king james deliueating lhe boundaries be tween the lands given by charter to the first lord baltimore and th •• adjud ed to his majesty afu rwards to william penn which divided the tracl ofland be tween delaware bay and the easti rn sea on one side and the chesapeake bay on the other by a line equally intersect ing it drawn from cape henlopen <>'» the 4th degree of north latitude adecrecin chancery rendered thc kii.__"s decree im perative but the situation of henlopen became long a subjeel of serious protrac ted and expensive litigation particularly after the death of penn in 1718 and of lord baltimore in 1711 till john and richard and thomas penn who bad be come the sole proprietors of the american possessions of tiieir father william and ceciliuslordbaltimore,grandson of chas and great-grandson ofcecilius th origi nal patentee entered inlo an agrei :.. i on the 10th of may 1722 tothisagi - ment a chart was appv nded which ascer tained the site of cape henlopen and di - iineated a division by an easl mil wc line running westward irom thai cape t the exact middle ofthe peninsula lord baltimore became dissatisfied with his a greement,andhe endeavored to invali late it chancery suits kingly decrees and proprietary arrangements follow ed which eventually produced the appointment of commissioners to nm the temporary line this was affectedin 1739 bui thecause in chancery being decided i 7a new commissioners win appointed who could not however agree and the question re mained open til 1761 when the linewas run by messrs mason i nd di i ■• the farce ended mr tyler's with drawal — mr tyler has,in along address formally withdrawn his name as a candi date forthe presidency we shall i ol " ■- cupy our space by republishing this ad dress for if we may be permitted io judge our readers by burselves they do not care a fig for mr '!'; icr's reasons for withdrawing,astheydidnoi carcaiigwhe ther he played out the farce by )■ for i he presidency or no — pet int the would bs regicide quennisset who attempted to assassinate lorn i'ml lippe,king ofthe hv<"^i ihrec of four vears ago for which he was bam was arrested in xew orleans on rhurs daynighl weekj mgjj kill^a wjman being the second dr third time he has been arrested in thai murderous demonstrations he is evi dently a dangerous man new application of el we learn from our foreign lil s in the bladder has been d:s ol new application of electric y by danger and without pain i . ' , . - , - * ; . ... •] anthem cat u in this case which is fv __.-%- ] now enjovs perfect health - i^j^-we learn that an eld wo man smed hannah siid tobe i indian raannauieuxj mstanl repor