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Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1836-06-23

Broad Cloths. Quilts, couo,erpancs,
lue, black, green, napkins, sc SC.
vn, olive, clarct, COH0ns.
lin. drab. rifle green, Plain s. fig'd Jackonet
don smoke, steel & Cambria,
ord miX'd. Cambria nuslins & bish-
Cdssimercs. op lawns,
lk, blue, drab and Look, swiss Il null
d. elegant ribb'd, musns,
e new patterns. Embossed dimi,ies,
met Of all coils and Plain cambrc,
rices striped do.
SILKS. Fine steam loom sheet,
& cold Lusirings, 'ngs x sn'''ngS, OF
& blue blk Narce. All prices 1u"'h'eS'
ne., Hosiery.
-k 8. cold gros dc Heavy blk English silk,
nples. DO. white do,
'd Florcnces s; blk Elegant embossed un-
,odcs, bleached llose, from
s. blue blk gros de rs to 6s9.
erlins, ''ain do,
Italian lusiring, Bleachcd do.
& blue blk Poul de Lambs wool X moinIr
,ie. do.
a silk of all descrip- Ladies segovia & wors-
Ons, ted DO.
cy Silk. of various Misses hose Of all de-
inds, for dresses srriphon',
!Sbo,,Is Ladies' slate & brewa
al SCALE, Mari. cold cotton hose.
o's, UioteS.
S-4 Blk do, Ladies s. Gents Hos
s-4 " hi,e do, ka, Of the best quail
caret, blk. white. hy,
non, s. blue thibet Blk & white silk do
thor fancy Shawls. Misses loves.
rmishing Goods. Ribbons.
en- danlask Of all No 10 g. 22 Sar'n RID
'id,hs, BON,
en- damask table Gauze lusiring. very
loth., rich, patterns e. T.
h & Ru.sia Sheet 1allatta ribbons, Of all
,gs- co'r's NOS
sia s. birds oye di- A large assortment o'
pes, cap 4 peN h'pooh'
!. B.-1he above Goods have been purchased
II the Spring importations, and selected WIN
,, and are warranted to be as cheap as any
r offered in this town.--lhosc wishing to sup.
themselves with any of the above mentioned
cIes, would do well 10 call and examine ior
lsel,es previous to purchasing.
Law 49,
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1836-05-28
EXTRACT FROM THE
Speech of Mr.. Wise, of Va.

Speech of Mr.. Wise, of Va.
Commenced on the l4th. and concluded
on the 10th April, 1896, on resolu-
ton of Mr.. Dromgoole. and his amend
ment proposed thereto--upon the sub
iect of the public moneys--the Trea-
sury OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Banks
REUBEN M. WHIrNEY's agency, &c.
Mr.. WISE concluded his Speech as
follows:
Sir, we have heard much about mo.
nopolies. The word is the watchwofd
of "the party."--Was there ever such
monster monopoly known as that Of
r. M. Whitney and Co. which, with
out responsibility and ,0itA the means
of preventing Investigation, yields &
controls the entire funds of this Gov.
ernmen, with surplus revenae Of
$50 ,O0O,0 900, and holds at command
the entire credit and trade of the coun-
try, and the value of its property l
tell my colleague and my country, that
the position Of r. M. Whitney is too
strong and dangerous for any man to
occupy, with all the restraints and linn
lta,ions OF the most guarded law about,
him. Is this power 10 the hands of q
public plunderer, licensed without law,
irresponsible without Office, secret
without the means of detection, safe be-
cause supported by "the party," for
supporting "the party" not to be
dreadeds Are the people TO feel panic
and pressure, and the heavy hand OF
oppression in every form, g. not know
whence it comes 7 Is their treasury
to be wasted, their trade & commerce
to be destroyed, their property struck
down, their prosperity destroyed, and
their liberties to be endangered by a
secre. money-leech 7 And are they
to be kept in ignorance of his 'agency,'
covered up under the pretext of priva-
cy. How is il, l demand for my peo-
pie that one man, and he not an officer.
not known to the laws, not sworn, not
responsible, unsearchable, and whose
ways are past finding out, is permitted
to WELD the political and pecuniary
power tenfold greater and more dan
gerous than that complained Of in the
United States Bank, ip a countfy like
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1836-05-28
WASHINGTON, May, FL.

The successive failures OF the mail
from New Orleans assure Us, if other
information were wanting, that the ris.
ing and arming of the CREEK Indians
has cut off the intercourse by the usual
route through Alabama, Georgia, &c.
The news from that quarter is Of dis.
astrous import, so far as the probable
waste of human life 10 a war with
treaeherous and desperate savages can
be regarded in that light, as it must be
by every one Of civilized nature or hu-
name feeling.
Colonel WHITE, the Delegate from
Florida, who has returned to this city
from the South, brings Information
that the greatest alarm pervades the
whole frontier, and that the planters
and their families, &c. are focking 10
numbers and 10 haste into the town Of
Columbus, &c. for safety.
A letter from the Governor Of Geor.
gia, under date Of the 18th instant, to a
member of Congress, fully confirms the
information received at the War De-
partment, from Major McINTosH and
from other sources.
From Florida, the information con-
tinues to be equally distressing. From
the St. Augustine Herald of the 18th
instant, we learn that the Savages had
renewed their depredations 10 every
part Of the country, by dividing them
selves into small bands. The tracks
Of Indians mad been seen within FIVE
miles of 81. Augustine, and the inhabi-
tants OF that place we're apprehensive
of an attack from them. Gen. CALL
the Governor of Florida, had issued a
proclamation calling for mounted vol
un.esrs to stay these ravages.
A Letter received in this city from
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1836-05-28

upon the back of his neck, with noise
which would lead you to believe that
j, does not weigh less than sixty pounds.
OF course the head is severed in the
twinkling of an eye The execution
er picks it up and throws it into has
ket, and along with it places the body.
This is the famous guillotins, an To-
strument of death !; which certainly
shows some advance 10 civilization,
for it makes death as easy as violent
one is likely ever to be. This famous
instrument, it is said, was invented by
a French physician, about the com
mencement of the first revolution. II
is farther said, with what truth l know
not, that the inventor Of it lost his own
life, in the revolutionary fury, by the
instrument of his own invention.
This dreadful instrument was work.
ed with satanic vigor during the scenes
of the first revolution. Almost every
place in Paris where it could be used,
was desecrated by its employment the
Place Bastile, the Place du Trone, and
and above all, the Place Louis Seize,
between the Garden Of the Tuileries
and the Champs Elysees.
Not only SO, but it traversed the
provinces, and in its journeys of death,
made its bloody way into almost every
village and city Of this beautiful coun-
try. Such was indeed the reign Of
terror.
1t cannot be said that capital pun
ishments are very frequent in France
at present. But it so happens, that
six have taken place within two months,
in this city, and another is about to &C.
cur.
A great excitement is getting up on
this subject. This week an immense
petition will be made, calling upon the
government to abolish the punishment
Of death for any crime.
In a large company, a gentleman
telling some of his adventures (who
had been according TO his own account,
all over the worId) remarked, that in
the course Of his travels, he had seen a
cabbage, the outside leafof which was
so large, that 40 army Of 1900 men,
Gin battle array) fought a pitched bat
| le under the shade of il.
A gentleman present Observed
"Why, my dear sir, that is nothing
When / was in Japan saw $4,000
msh at work on copper kettIe."
@Why, is it possible, sir !" replied
the other, "what did they intend to dc
with such monstrous boiler ;"
"Why, merely to boil that cabbage
in, you just now spoke Of"
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1836-05-28

unfair in this arrangement. III Q ma
jori,y of the people Of Virginia desire
the exclusion of Martin Van Buren
from the Presidency, surely no repub-
lcan will say that it is wrong for them
to adopt means to express that sen,i-
ment, though they may be divided in
their Individual preferences between
Judge White and Gen. Harrison !
The Committee would again mos,
respectfully but earnestly urge their
friends throughout the Staie-all who
prizs the freedom Of opinion and the
purity of elections all who wish to
break the letters which a secret and
irresponsible cabal are attempting to
fasten upon us--all who regard the
offices Of the country as sacred trusts
for the benefit Of the people, and no,
as rewards, TO be distributed by the
successful aspirant, for partizan SER
vice all, in short, who are in favour
Of the Constitution, as administered by
its trainers and expounders-to rally
for the onset, and unitedIy resolve that
they can, and that they sDiU overthrow
",he domestic spoilers" who would
snake US slaves, and tell US IT'S our
charter"
O. Editors throughout the State
are respectfully requested to publish
the above.
One Of our contemporaries gives il TO
his delinquent subscribers in the fol-
lowing unmeasured terms: "The man
who will defraud the printer will rob
his fathers grave. No crime is too
black for him to perpetrate. He shou ID
be compelled to live on chestnut burs !,
sleep upon hatchets, be mpaled at his
death, sent to the lower regions with
the maledictions of all the printers
devils in the universe, and kicked a.
bout like football by the Intervals as
long as there is single thread OF him."
..n<.n.
The Van Rurenltes call Gen. Harri.
son an OLD WOMAN How soon they
forget the scene at the White House.
when their chief of heroes, magnanmous
Andrew, worshipped at the feet ola PET
TICoATED SHRINE, and kicked his Cabi-
net into pieces, because they would not
bow to the same. How transient the
memory of the reign of the Petticoat and
Mrs. Eaton Apollo.
"SALT RIVER" EDIToRs.-Oneo of the
greatest sages and statesmen Of our
country, in series of moral rules, saya:
-"There ID class of ill-tempered and
rude men in society, who have taken up
a passion for politics. In the present fe-
vered state of our country, no good can
ever result from any attempt to set one
of these fiery zealots to rights, either in
facts or principles. They are determined
as to the facts they will believe, and the
opinions on which they will act. Get
by them, therefore, as you would an an.
cry bull; 1t is not for man of sense to
DISPUTE THE ROAD with SUCH an ami
NAL"
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1836-05-28

Tallahassee, under date of May 9TH,
states that, on the night before, an at
tack was made by the Indians upon
St. Marks, only 16 or 18 miles dis
tan, from Tallahassee "This," says
the latter, "is bringing the war near to
US and l verify believe that the coun-
try will be abandoned if they make a
desperate rush to take it,"
We have room only for the following
additional particulars:
From the Charleston Patriot, May IA.
There is no longer doubt of gen.
eral Creek war. Fifty families have
been murdered, and 1000 people fed
to Columbus for protection F!
The state Of that frontier is mos.
disastrous. There are not 500 effee.
tive men between the Creek and Sem
inole lines, and all Florida will be de-
vastated if the Governors of South
Carolina g. Georgia do not send noun
led men to the Florida line and to
Tallahassee. The Seminoles are adj
vancing on Tallahassee. The Creeks
will be forced upon it.
Col. WHITE has sent an express to
Gen. SCOTT, and made an appeal to
the Governors Of South Carolina and
Georgia to send mounted men 10 Tai
Iahassee and the Florida line, to save
Middle Florida from robbery aud muir.
der in this disgraceful Indian & Sem
mole war. We hope the Governor
will act with bis known promptitude
and energy.
CHARLESTON, May 10.
The Governor of Florida, the Hon.
r. K CALL, has issued General Or
ders for the assemblage, either as a
volunteer force or by draught of 100
mounted men, for the defence of Mid
die Florida. Orders had been pregi-
ousy issued for the organization OF
similar force, to protect the frontier of
East Florida.
Governor CALL makes an earnest
appeal to the patriotism Of the people
of Florida, stating tina. the Indians are
now in possession Of nearly the whole
Of that Territory, and so emboldened
have they become, that an attack was
recently made by them on plantation
within Is miles Of the capitol Of the
Territory, in which blood was shed
and scalp was taken.
BALTIMORE, May 20.
The ten companies Of United States
troops, which have been ordered by the
War Department to repair to Fort
Mitchell, Alabama, ia consequence Of
the Creek Indian troubles, are taken
from those which have been stationed
along the seabord. They will be un-
der the command of the veteran, Gen.
FENwIcK, Maj. IRw1N's company will
embark o-day from Fort M'Henry,
in the steamboat for Norfolk, and pro-
coed thence to Charleston. Our es-
teemed fellow citizen, Capt. THoMp-
SON, Of the United States Artillery,
accompanies General FenwiDk as his
Aid. Three companies lef. N. York
for the South on Wednesday.
american.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1836-05-28

o.. The great Zimmerman justly
observed that-sThere is always some.
thing great in that man against whom
the world exclaims !; at whom every
one throws stone and on whose char.
acter all attempts to fix 1000 crimes
without being able to prove one.'
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1836-05-28
Bird Marder.-It is related OF that

Bird Marder.-It is related OF that
pretty bird the American Robin-red-
breast, that il its young are taken from
the nest and placed in cage within
reach Of the parents, they will not fail
to come and feed them tenderly until
such time as the young are perfectly
fledged. II then the old birds deem
their escape from The cage impossible,
they will speedily bring them poison
berries and kill them-thus refusing
them life in captivity, since they can.
not enjoy it in freedom. If, before lis
young are ha,ched, this bird perceives
that iis nest has haen discovered ~
straightway abandoas it and builds
else where.
Guessing time In the ancient town
Of Lynn, as parson, afterward judge
Treadwell, was one Sunday endeavor'
ing to mend the understandings of the
people, he observed that many ofthem
seemed more disposed to recline in the
arms Of Morpheus, than repose in the
bosom Of Abraham. Stopping there
fore in the midst Of his sermon, be
looked round and said-"If l were TO.
guess, l should guess that tao thirds
Of you are asleep" A shrewd and
eccentric genius, named Martin, rails
ing his head from its comfortable rest
ing place, replied, 'If were to guess,
| should guess there are not more
than one haLfP
The next day, martin was arraign'
ed before squire Cares, on charge of
having disturbed divine service. Mar
tin made his own plea and was excos-
ed on the ground that the parson had
left off preaching-that it was no lon
ger divine service, Blu. guessing .ime.'
Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1836-04-28
From the N. Y. EVANGELIST.

HoRR1D MURDER. On Saturday night
young woman, called Ellen Jewett,
about % years of age, was murdered in a
brothel in Thomas-street, kept by wo-
man named Townshend. A YOUNG man
named Richard p Robinson, clerk in the
clothing store of Joseph Hoxie, lOl Maid
en- Lane, was arrested as the author of the
deed. 1t seems that Ellen was a harIot,
of considerable beauty and celebrity, who
had been for some time in the keeping las
it is called) of young Robinson. On Sat-
urday night he visited the house as usual,
and they retired together. About twelve
o'clock, on the girls request, bottle Of
wine was sent to the room, at which time
the person who carried it says Robinson
was in bed, but Ellen was not. At three
o'clock, Mrs Townshend was called up to
let in another of the abandoned Young
men that frequented the place, and was
surprised to see lamp bu rning in the par
lor, which she knew to be the one that had
been carried to Ellen's room. Directly
she perceived the smell of fire, went up
stairs and opened the room, and found it
full ofsmoke, from the burning bed The
fire was soon extinguished, when it was
found that the wretched inmate had been
murdered byth infiction of several blows
with Ratchet on the right temple. The
deed was probably done while she was
asleep, and she died without struggle.
Robinson's cloak was found in an adloin-
ing yard, with piece of Irvine tied to the
tassel and Ratchet covered with blood in
another yard, with piece of Irvine tied TO
the handle corresponding with the piece
on the cloak. The Ratchet has also been
identified by the porter of Mr. Hoxie as one
belonging to the store. The cloak was
identified by the circumstances of tassel
having been broken off and sewed on in a
particular manner.
The alarm was given to the watch and
the police, and early on Sunday morning
Robinson was arrested in his bed. He
denied all knowledge of the affair, or hav-
ing been at the house that night His
clothes were found marked with white
wash from climbing the yard fences. The
motive suggested for the deed is that he
was weary of her, and alterations had
arisen, in which she threatened to expose
his conduct to young lady whom he
was expecting to marry This drove
him to desperation, and he deliberately
planned her murder, and then set fire to
the house to conceal the deed Robinson
Is said to be from Connecticut, where hie
friends are respectable. Ellen Jewett was
also from New England, some say from
| Massachusetts, others from Kennebec riy-
er, Maine. The works of Byron, Scott,
and Bulwer and the newest novels, were
found in the polluted room
When the man who first seduced Ellen
Jewett from virtue traces her history, from
the time he saw her at boarding school,
and the history of the many young men
whom she has ruined, when he learns her
end, if he has any heart, it will fill him
with horror to his d ying day. Should his
name. become known, the voice of society
will blast him. 1t is time the seducer
were exposed.
Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1836-04-28
From the PhtLGnthropist
AMERICAN SLAVE TRADE.


In single number, (Feb. 26,) of the
Southern Telegraph, paper published a
Rodney, Miss, there are advertised fol-
sale
2 Negro men by Saml Mackey, Admr
l do. Runaway for Jail fees, by C
Murray, Jailor.
Is do. do. (" E. Bass,
Negro girl, IGOR II years old c.
Murray, Adm
Strong fellows, " E. c.. Fitz-
so Likely Negroes John Briscoc,
IA Likely Negroes "A. Hamberlin,
Charles Clark, }
81 by Robert Dixon, Admrs
B. NJ. Markham,
In the same paper there is a reward Of
tered tor runaway woman-2 notices,
that runaway men have been committed
to Jall-2 applications for overseerships,
and 3 advertisements for overseers
In preceding number of the same pa
per, besides fair proportion of the same
character, there is the following evidence
ofthe happy and contented' condition OF
the slave:-
Ran away from the plantation of James
Surgette, the following negroes, viz:
Randall, about 81 years of age, yellow
complexion, heavy set, and has had one
ear cropped.
Rob, about 20 or % years of age, slim
built, yellow complexion. and has lost one
eye.
Gotta, about l8 or 20 years ofage, black,
and heavy set
Bush, about 40 years of age, black,
heavy set, and is an African
kentucky Tom, about 80 years of age,
yellow complexion, one jaw broken, and
is somewhat swelled.
George, about 35 years of age, yellow
complexion.
Nelly, Georges wife, about % or "a
years of age, tall and rather bright com,
plexion.-She took her male child with
her.
Viney, (Bush's wife) about 80 years Of
age tall and black.-She took with her a
small boy named Jack.
Harriet, about 90 or 20 years of age,
black and stout built
Sarah, (Randals wife) about IS or 80
years OF age, black complexion, small and
Iney crossed the river about five miles
below Rodney in company with three ne.
gro men that said they belonged to some
person about Matches.
Seven OF the above named negroes had
on new blanket coats when thew wpn, a.
way. The other three, left several wecks
before. Seven of them started on the
night Of the Goth inst, but they all crossed
Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1836-04-28
. From the Philanthropist.

TIE .cay Sauery scas forced upon A.
msrieG.-A correspondent writes-t.t is
an assertion so constantly made, that q
Britain laid the foundation of slavery in
these United States, by the introduction Of
blacks, that it is now the undisputed onin.
ion Of almost every man throughout A.
merica This is apparently founded on
! tradition, but not on truth, if the statement
ofthe earliest historian of Virginia be ac-
credited. That gentleman (Beverly-2d
edition, p 35,) affirms that In August fol-
lowing (i620) a Dutch man-of-war land.
ed 20 negroes for sale, which were the
first ofthat kind that were carried into
the country Their purchase appears,
therefore, TO have been a voluntary act O
our own, and by no means forced upon ms
by the mother country. Let the saddIf
then be placed upon the right horse. an
let as remember that truth Is sacred, ,vs,,
If it initiates against ourselves. Enoland
has, with al her glory and renown, a suf
fciency Of evil to answer for. withou,
nnduiy loading her with that of others"
Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1836-04-28
POE T r Y.
PEACE HYMN.

GANA -
Check at their fountain head,
Oh Lord the streams Of STRIFE
Nor let misguided men rejoice
To take his brothers life.
Strike off the pomp and pride
That deck the deeds Of war,
And n, their gorgeous mantle hide
The bIood-stained conqueror.
To Hi5tory's blazoned page,
Touch the pure wand Of truth
And bid is heroes stand unveiled,
Before the eye Ofy Outh.
ny every Preside press
he gospels peaceful claims,
or let Christian nation bless,
What It's meek Master blames.
So shall the seeds Of hate
Be strangled in their birth,
And peace the Angel Of thy love
Rule cert he systrGaehised earth.
Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1836-04-28
No. 3I.,,..VoL. VIIl---April % -.

Group in Childrsm.-Dr. Fisher, in
the last number of the Medical Surgical
Journal, recommends to mothers and
nurses, when child is seized with that
dangerous disease, the Group, to apply i'm
mediately and perseveringly, until medi.
cal aid can be obtained, to the throat and
upper part ofthe chest sponges or napkins
dipt in water as hot as can be borne, and
wrung out so that the water may not ooze
from them. The remedy was first sug-
gested by German physician and has
been practiced with decided and uniform
success.
Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1836-04-28

NeaO Tramslations-Elder J. T. Jones
has forwarded copy ofthe Gospel accord
ing to St Matthew, in Siamese, to the mis-
sionary rooms at Boston. He Will COM
plete the remainder ofthe New Testament,
with all possible expedition. Mr.. Mason
is now busily engaged in transIating the
Scriptures into the Karen language. Be-
fore long we hope to have version ofthc
Shan language. These, with the versions
of our English brethren in Hindostan,
will afford an ample field for the liberality
of American Baptists. The Bengalee
language is spoken by more than 10000,
900, souls, and the Burman by at least
100000, exclusive of other versions
made by the Baptist missionaries in Hin
dostan, in languages spoken by many
millions of its inhabitants Rel. Her.
Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1836-04-28

Wearing Fl0"nels. AS the genial
sunshine of spring advances those accus-
toned to wearing flannel under garments,
are too much disposed to lay them sudden
ly aside. This is an error of great mag
nitude. Keep them on till the east wind
is no longer elaborated till the flowers
are blooming IN the fields, and a uniform
ATMOSPHERIC temperature is established
A multitude, annually, are hurried to an
early grave, In the very meridian of life,
In consequence ofnot understanding, or by
neglecting this simple important advice.
Medical Journal.