The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1836-05-18

Col Crocket.-It is said that Colonel
Crockett is still living. The following is an
extract of letter from gentleman in
Louisiana dated April 18th, to a member
of Congress:
"Crocket was found (within the Alamo)
in an angle by two houses, lying on his
back, frown on his brow, a smile of scorn
on his lips his knife in his hand, dead
Mexican lying across his body, and twenty
two more lying pell nell before HIM in the
angle.''
Our fathers courted our mothers in the
kitchen. The sons court the daughters
in the parlor. They listened to the music
of the spinning wheel and loom we to the
pianoforte. They wisely selected wives
whose sterling worth consisted in working
with their own hands. The sons foolishly
seek those who have fortunes, and hire
" help" being too delicate to do ought them
selves.
Notwithstanding the efforts to suppress
the slave trade, the western coast of Africa,
below the colonies swarms with savers.
One vessel was recently taken, with n cargo
of 600 human beings on board and a few
months ago twenty-five sail of slave ships
were lying at the port of st. Pauls.
The mail is now only twelve days and n
half from New Orleans to New York.
Travellers can pass from Richmond to
New York in AZ hours, aud from Baltimore
to New York in 81 I-2 hours.
Grandfathers.-The love of grandsires is
in fact, proverbial, and may be easily ex-
planned. When men love their children,
they only do what they reckon on from the
first, and the pleasure is shared by almost all
mankind. But when, after the lapse of
generation, mans heart again leaps at the
touch of infancy, smiling on his knee, and
calling him sire, the buds and blossoms of
affection are called forth as by the warmth
of second spring,-feelings, supposed to
have departed for ever, are revived, and
take their old station in the hcart,--memory
pours its sunshine on the scene,-ie seems
secretly to triumph over time,--and the
spirit of love that frightened his better days
appears to brood over the ruins of his age,
and render them beautiful"
A place north going to.--In the wild
spirit of emigration, which forms marked
feature of our countrymen, we would recon-
mend, especially to our Yankee brethren
who like cheap bargains, and to those who
are being gouged at our boarding houses
in Atlantic cities, to repair forthwith TO
Parkersburg, in the State of Virginia, on
The Ohio River. The Republican of that
place says the best beef and mutton arc
three cents pound, fresh butter Fifteen
cents, fresh eggs six cents the dozen
~ Y. Star.
Virginia Elections.-The Richmond
Enquirer of the 9th inst, gives the follow
ing az the latest accounts of the polls.
Democratic Delegates elected 75-Whigs
81.
PRESENT MAJoRITY of the Democratic
Party 81.
Five counties only to be heard from
which will propably give three Delegates to
the Democrats, and two to the Whigs-and
one Doubtful.
The unfortunate cooper, named White,
who, with his family, were all crushed to
death beneath an avalanche, at the breaking
up of the ice at Montreal few days since,
have been extricated, in a shockingy man
ged state. The two children were found
cIasped in their mothers arms, and the IA
ther in the act of protecting them.
At the explosion of the Eagle powper
mills near St. Louis, last month, secen hun
dred kegs of gunpowder were ignited at
one time, ten buildings, occupying three
acres of ground, were destroyed, and the
shock was sensibly felt throughout an area
of twenty miles-but not single life was
lost.
"The town of Northampton, Ms. have
voted that henceforward all drunkards shall
be posted"