The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1838-02-14

security for all they owe it-whicii The At
la. regrets. more, probably. than il does tho
perjury committed by a wLig cashier. The
Arlss ,ays tina, the Lafayette Bank was
one of the Secretary Of the Treasury's a.
gents, and applied for, and received its share
of the spoils. FALSE. The Lafayette nev-
erwas a deposite Bank. The Atlas shosld
have got Myron Lawrence, ESQ.,, the federal
gentleman who examined the Chelsea Bank,
to look into the affairs Of the Lafayette, if
it wished to ascertain how il stood. How
much is the largest debt owed by any one
house to the American Bank, Squire At
last Two or three hundred thousand dol
lars Who has the "spois" herel In
truth. however, there is not much differ
ence between those blown up banks-they
are all rotten, and inherited their disease
from their parent-ths present banking sys-
fem; that must be cured before il can pro-
duce healthy offspring.-BOstOn Post.
Death of Oeeola, or PopsH.-The
Southern Patriot states that this celebrsted
Indian died on the night Of the 3Oth ult. at
Fort Moulirie charleston Harbor) of an
affection Of the throat, after an Illness of n
few days.
The N. Y. Star has the following ac-
count Of the death scene:
As we had reason to anticipate from the
dependency spoken of by Mr.. Cstln in
his letter, day or two since published in
the Star, together with the severe attack Of
quinsey sore throat which this chief suffer-
ed few days before Mr.. c. left Charleston,
he has fallen victim to these combined
causes, and now.
LIES ftful fever DER,
Sleeps quiet in his grave"
He died on Tuesday night at Fort
Moultrie, on Sullivan's Island, in the hsr-
Der of Charleston. Mr.. Catlin informs US
that few DAYS before he left, Osceola, was
suddenly attacked one nigh, with a violent
inflammation Of the throat, which proved
quinsey. The officers and surgeon thought
him dying, and sat up with him. BY CO.
2ious bleeding in the arm, he recovered.
1t was at this moment that Mr.. c. saw
Osceola under circumstances Of so impress
sive a character that he can never erase
them from his mind. For some distance,
before reaching his quarters, he heard his
deep and heavy groans, and on entering
found the noble chettsin-who cou Id ell
dnre every hardship in FTorida's de.olate
hammocks, and who dared to peril nny
danger "that man dare go"-prostrate on
his back, unHerved, and conquered by dis
ease. His proud spirit in its grandeur
cha6ng life's torrent in 4 compressed ra-
vine against the destructive and perishable
embank,uents that impedcd its bounding
course. For, nobly formed as his outward
person was, he felt tina, it was too circum-
scrlbed to contain a soul like his, and that
with all other things earthly. it carried the
fatal impress Of death.
In his extreme suffering he had torn of
his Angola Turban, and his black cluster
ing tresses now flowed in disheyelled Wild
ness down his nobly formed neck and
shoulders, and over the lap of the favoriie
wife on whom his head reposed. The 9TH
er was bathing his chest, and it was thus
that the group were arranged when the ar-
tist saw this graphic scene. Osceola, man
fully as he breasted mortal nature, could
not conceal the pain he endured. His feu-
lures were distorted, or thrown into an ex-
preston Of mingled despair and resolnte
firmness to meet his fate; the eye rolling
IN wild frenzy beneath the fretted brow
the chest heaving like the ocean pillows
the throat lsboring in the apparently last
death struggle Of the deep gurgling rattle,
which gave to that fine mouth, that once
could utter such winning eloquence, the
expression of dark despair, that implored
some plying hand to put an end to his mis-
cry. There was nothing in the dying
gladiator, or the writings of Laocoon-
nor of all that sculpture or painting has
conceived to express the moral sublimi,y Of
human suffering, that could ssrpass this
scene-ttat received deeper coIorlng from
the darkness of the chamber, only faintly
illumed at times by the gleam that ftfully
glared from the Fireplace upon the noble
wreck that was perishing on its hearth.