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VOL. VI. NO; 35. NORWALK, CONN. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1823 WHOLE NO. 287
GROCERIES, CROCKERY, &c. LEWIS ARNOLD, ( Fab field County,Superi- ;.XXXXXSX>
^ " ' - N ::v& ' . - - ^ --rmz v>*'' -i:••: - -i •'> vi • -v, w::i " • ...... ! . . '; •ij ' It having been fascertainficl that the waters' number of citizens attended t6 witness the va- in front of the Capitol, heretofore a great part ' Christian rious processes of this important species of of it a swamp, will offer to the view the Botan of the Great Miami and Sciota rivers, which J>ERSONSJR! wishing to procure this valu^ were intended to be conveyed to the summit manufactures. The position of Brooklyn is ic Garden and a planted and ornamented Mall. b'eble»nu publication are informed that it will of the middle route of the projected Ohio ca eminently advantageous for such an establish In the City, within the past seasbh, sixty Tuesday., OcAober 2SV182& be for saleale at this Office in a few days—Price nal. will not afford a sufficient supply in a dry ment, situated so near the great commercial private btiildings, many of. them large and 10 Cents, October 29. ?' VIRTUEJITIB ERTY, AND INPKPENPEMCE." .season, further surveys have been abandoned emporium of the United States, and at the handsome houses, have been erected. A new Baptist .Church has also been added to the 14 The citizens of Philadelphia have subscib- point where so many channels of water trans V Blacksmithiiag. . One of the most severe storms of rain and places of public worship which the city alieady ed §4R8 for the relief of John Cotton, the sea portation concentre, and the proprietor will T^HE subscriber would inform the public; hail that we recollect ever to have witnessed, contained. Besides these public edifices a man \vhose arms were shot off in a contest we hope, find his enterprise adundantly re that he has purchased the Blacksmith es was experienced here last Saturday. It com large building has been reared opposite the with the pirates, and he has now gone to Bal warded, while he is so honorably contributing tablishment lately occupied by D. B. Thorp, • menced. about quarter past one, P.M. and Department of State for the Branch of the timore, for further assistance. §1000 of the his part toward the substantial independaiice situated on the Town House Hill, where he continued nearly an hour, during which time of the country.—Troy Sentinel. United States' Bank, which, when finished, th^earth was wrapt in almost total darkness. money which has been collected, is to be de intends carrying on the business in all its va The capital prize of twenty Thousand Dol will form a conspicuous ornament to the, city. The pattering of the rain, which descended posited in the saving bank, and the other to be rious branches. Having employed first rate lars, in the lottery drawn in New-York last Several new Wharves have been built, indica in torrents, the rattling of the hail, the roaring employed as a capital to set him up in the gro workmen he can assure .those who may favor, week,was sold to two young men at work upon ting that our commerce is growing,new streets of the thunder, the brilliant flashing of the cery business New-York. , him with their custom that his work will be the basin at Albany. One of them is from O- have been opened and old ones improved ;.a- done in the first, style, and upon the shortest ' lightning, and the gloomy aspect of the heav Distressing occurrence.—On Sunday eve mongst them, the circular avenue around the ens, all conspired to render the scene grand ning 12th inst. the dwelling house of Mr.John hio, and the other from Connecticut. notice. Cast steel edge tools of every des-> Capitol is opening to twice its former width, cription made and repaired in the best man- add terrific beyond description. Whitman, of Milburn, Maine, was destroyed Up wards of §5000 has been collected, in and the facilities of communication generally by fire, and shocking to relate,all his children different places, for the sufferers by the late" 1,ER-_ S. SCOFIELD. throughout the city liHveJjeen extendedJind Norwalk, Oct. 27th, 1823. 85 It-is said that Mr. Edwards, the gentleman (5 in number) perished in the flames—the el fires at Wiscasset and Alna, in Maine. improved.—Initll. y? appointed by Gov. Wolcott to supply the dest, a female, was 20, and the youngest 6 At a late term of the Supreme Court of R* MR. JEFFERSON.—Thomas Earle having BlacksiftitUiYvg, place ofMr.Boardman, in the U.S. Senate, is years old. The parents were absent at an Island, there were no less than fifteen petitions lately written an able pamphlet on 'the right" TX^ILL be continued at the stand former-, strongly opposed to Mr. Crawford, asf a candi evening lecture,and it is probable the children for Divorce, eleven of which were granted of states to alter or annul charters, and the ly occupied by David A. Lockwood, date for the Presidency. This appointment, retired early to bed, and were insensible of and four continued to the next term. decisions of the supreme court thereon exam work will be done as soon as called for— #f course, does not suit Maj. Noah, and he is their danger till too late. It was appalling to Capt. Symmes has lately discovered a bird ined,' a copy of it was sent to Mr. Jefferson, horse-shoeing and ox-shoeing, and all other out upon the Governor in a great rage for ma see their bodies, wrapt in flames, falling from and vegetable which he believes to be indigen work in the above business will be done in the chamber into the cellar,while the distract from whom the following letter has been re king it. Among other pretty things, he says, ous to the centre gravity of the earth. ceived in reply : the best manner, at the lowest prices, and at 'We have here.another proof of the limited ed parents were with difficulty restrained from The greater part of the machinery of the ' That our Creator made the'earth for the short notice. Also, horse-shoes kept constant faith which democrats can repose in the fed rushing into the fire. steam-packet New-York has been got ashore, use of the living, and not of the dead ; that ly on hand—please to call and satisfy your eralists of '98.' He declares that Mr. Craw A letter from a lady in Harris, Oneida co. and hopes are entertained that she will final those who exist not can have no use nor right selves. BUNDY &. LOCK wool). ford is the candidate of Connecticut,—says (N. Y.) to her friend in'Whiting, (Vt.) states, ly be got off. . in it, no authority nor power over it; that Norwalk, Oct. 20th, 1823. 35 that the appointment will not be confirmed by that while four ladies were taking tea togeth x Apprehensions existed at Antigua, at the one generation cannot- foreclose or burthen the Legislature,—and doubts whether Mr. er near that place, two of them sickened and its use to another,which comes to it in its own C\oU\-Dressing. Wolcott will again be a candidate. Perhaps last dates, of an insurrection of the negroes. died at the table, and the other two died the right, and by the same divine beneficence ; T'HE subscriber respectfully informs his it may be of some benefit to the Major to in The Providence American remarks, that next morning. On an examination of the tea that a preceding generation cannot bind a friends and the public in general, that he., form fiim that the people of this state can kettle, it was found that a hard worm had been the administration of the War Department, succeeding one by its laws or contracts, these continues the business of Dressing Cloth in'" as yet manage their own concerns without since it devolved on Mr. Calhoun, has been boiled in it, the poison of which was the cause deriving their obligation from the existing all its various branches at his old stand three-: distinguished by its system,economy and strict his assistance. . of their death. majority, and that majority being removed, miles from Norwalk Bridge, where every at- " accountability, and he has effected actual re A lad about 12 or 14 years of age, an ap another comes in its place with a will equally tention shall be paid to customers, and their Anew arrangement has lately been made ductions of expenditure, of between and prentice to a saddler at Petersburg, Vir. was one free to make its own laws and contracts :— Cloth fulled and dyed to any sampler, in the by the Post-Master General for the collection two millions annually. iatelv ran away with by a horse on which he These are axioms so self evident that no ex neatest manner. Cloth left at the store of of newspaper postage, by which newspaper was mounted, and falling from the saddle, his There are now living in Bristol, in good planation can make them plainer: For he is Wm. M. Betts,or D. & S. Lynes & Co. shall (' pulishers are required to furnish a quarterly feet hung in the stirrups, and thus he was health, twelve persons who were engaged in not to be reasoned with, who says that non betaken, dressed, and returned as soon as account, under oath, of all the papers they dragged a considerable distance on the pave Gen.Sullivan's expidition on Rhode Island in existence can control existence, or that noth possible, by SAMUEL DAVENPORT. put into the post-office. The P. M. General ment, until released by a kick of the animal. 1778. What is a little singular, is, that six of ing can move something. They are axioms, Norwalk, Oct. 20, 1823. 34 says this plan has been adopted from a con- He was lifted up entirely lifeless, his brains them were attached to one company, and en too, pregnant with salutary consequences.— victionjthat not more than half theamount that Kew Goods. dashed ont upon the rocks,and his body bruis listed in 1775, under Captain Caleb Carr, of The laws of civil society, indeed, for the en should be received from newspaper postage is ed in a shocking manner. Warren, who is also living; the other six couragement of industry, give the property JT\ &. S. LYNES & Co. have recently ad- realized at his office. It is calculated that * ded to their present assortment of Dry- A few days since a female in Elizabeth- composed one mess, were drafted at the same of the parent to his family on his death, and #50,000 a year will accrue to the Depart Goods,the following articles,which are offered Town, N. J. in perfect health, was employed time, marched together, and joined the army in most civilized countries permit him even to ment by this arrangement. to the public, at their usual low prices for Cash. to make a shroud for a deceased neighbour, the same day. give it by testament to whom he pleases.— Blue, Black, Mixt and drab Cioths ; com- ~ The editor of the Salem Gazette thinks the but she expired soon after it was finished, and New-Jersey Canal.—Mr. Clinton and Gen. And it is also found more convenient to suf mon and superfine Cassimeres; Satinets, as next Congress will have but little work to do. was clothed with it herself. Bernard returned to this city on Wednesday fer the laws ofour predecessors to stand on our cxcept such as it cuts out for itself, and that evening from a tour through New-Jersey, for sorted Flannels ; 7, 8, 10 and 11 Rose Blan Murder.—Two men, named Andrew Fer implied assent, as if positively re-enacted, un the session might be dispensed with, were it the purpose of surveying the route of the con kets ; S, 3 1-2, and 4 Point do.; Drab Kersey; guson and Julius Dagger, have been commit til the existing majority positively repeals * not necessary to make Appropriations, in or templated canal from the Delaware to the wa them. But this does not lessen the right of Dorchester & other Tickings ; a general as der to keep the salary-men from starving. It ted for trial to Monroe county jail, Indiania, sortment of Bombazettes ; Rattinet ; Oil charged with murdering Isaac Edwards, of ters of the Hudson, through the couuties ol that majority to repeal, whenever a change will, he says, contain an unusual number of Essex, Morris, and Sussex. We understand Cloths ; Tartan and Caroline Plaids ; Imita Lawrence county in that state. It appears of circumstances, or of will, callsfor it. Hab distinguished and able men ; among others, that they traversed the whole line to its term it alone confounds civil practice with natu tion Plaids ; Valentia and o her Vestings ; Webster, Clay, Edward Livingston, General that the murdered was pursued by his mur Furniture and other Calicoes ; Cassimete derers from a wedding, at which they all had ination at Easton, Pennsylvania, and are fully ral right. Of the merits of the pamphlet I Jackson, and Col. Hayne, men who would satisfied ofthepracticabihtyand advantages ol say nothing of course ; having found it neces Shawls, a general assortment ; Superior 8-4 be celebrated in any country for their brilliant been guests. Ferguson and Dagger.gaveEd- Scarlet and Black Merino Shawls ; 4 and 6-4 wards to understand that they intended giv such a navigable communication. It is esti sary to decline giving opinions on books, even talents and^powerful eloquence. mated that the whole expense of the canal when desired.' do.; Silk and Tabby Velvets ; green &. red ing him a flogging. Upon which he, like oth Baize ; Buckskin Mittens by the doz. or pair; The legislature of Tennessee have passed er men, unwilling to have corporeal punish would amount to §800,000, and that the an Two Grecian youths have lately arrived in ^resolutions directing their members of Con nual amount of tolls, when the work is com India Levantine ; figured, plaid, and plain ment inflicted without resistance,drew a knife this country from Malta, sent by our Mission Silks ; Cassimere points; black and colored gress not to attend a Caucus at Washington. in self defence. The ruffians, then armed pleted, would not be less than §150,000. aries, to be educated at Andover. This high estimate of the amount of tolls is Crapes; figured do; blk and white Gymp; Advices from Natchez to September 24lh, themselves—Ferguson with an axe, and Dag On the 11th inst, the house of Mr. Todd of justified by the consideration that the canal Childrens' stockings aad socks ; blue and scar state that no new case of the epidemic had ap ger with a club. The fatal blow was given Edenton, N. C. was destroyed by fire, and will not only pass through a wealthy, agricul let Camblet ; Velvet Ribbons ; Spool and peared in that place for the last four days.— by Ferguson, with the axe, upon the shoulder two of his children perished in the flames. Floss Cotton ; sprig'd and dotted Swiss Mus The board of health, were directing the usual of the deceased. On examination it was tural, and manufacturing district; but also through a section of the state abounding m lin ; Plain do.; Jackonet aud other Muslins ; precautionary measures preparatory to the found that the axe had penetrated to his MARRIED—At New-Haven, by the Rt. Cotton yarn, from No. 5 to 14 ; Batting Cot return of the absent citizens. The total num heart, in which a wound was discovered an rich mines of various descriptions.- immense Rev.Bishop Brownell,the Hon. Heman Men, quantities of the Lehigh coal would also come ton ; Domestic Shirtings ; fine Cotton, do. ber in the place on the 19th, was 784. inch and a half long—Not satisfied with this, of Vermont, to Elizabeth L. Hart, daughter to this city through the same channel. The Horse Rugs, fa.c.*fac. Stc. A letter from Bainbridge, Ohio, states that Dagger struck him twice with the club upon of Elisha Hart, Esq. of Saybrook, Conn, and profits would therefore be immense, and add the physicians of that place report 455 cases his head. sister of Mrs. Commodore Hull. More JVew Goods. v greatly to the wealth and population ofN. Jer of sickness within 7 miles of the town. It is stated in the New-Orleans papers that DIED—In this town, on Thursday evening "V^M. J. STREET has added to his stock sey. It is said the recourcesol that state are * * during the past week, the following The last Georgetown Metropoliton says, on the 2ist ult. the convicts in the jail of that fully adequate to the undertaking, if the Gov last, Mrs. Hunnah Keeter, wife of Capt. Jo * ' we are sorry to learn that the indisposition oi eity attempted to escape. As one of the turn seph Keeler, aged 34. Goods,which will he offered at the lowest mar ernment and the people will but enlist in the ket prices, viz: Black, blue, mixt and drab Mr. Crawford, is still considered alarming.' keys was opening a door leading to the yard, enterprise with becoming spirit, which it is Mr. Clay we.believe has recovered. a rush was made upon him to get the key, but Cloths, assorted qualities ; blue and drab supposed will be the case. Interesting reports VENDUE. mixt Cassimere ; Satinetts and Flannels, as y. Storm in Louisiana.—Accounts from St. lie thwarted their plan by throwing it through may shortly be expected from the distinguish DY order of the Court of Probate for the sorted ; Tartan and Caroline Plaids; black Francisville, dated 17th Sept. state, that one the grating into the street. By this time an ed gentlemen who have been engaged in this district of Stamford, will be sold at public Bombazine and Bombazettes ; Fig'd col'd do. third of the crops of cotton and corn have alarm had been given, and the guards and tour of observation. We understand they ex auction, on the 26th day of November next, citizens assembled. Finding themselves un black and green French Crape ; Cassimere been destroyed by the late storm. Many press themselves highly gratified with the fa at 1 o'clock, P. M. on the premises, the fol able to succeed by the front door,part of them Shawls and Points; Point Blankets and Rugs; bridges had been carried away. A new bridge cilities afforded them in the execution of their lowing property, belonging to the estate of endeavored to escape from the roof of a low Dorchester and other Tickings ; Imitation over Bayou Sarah is destroyed. The injury duties,,and the characteristic hospitality evin Wm. Keeler, dee'd, late of Stamford, viz :— building in the rear—here their progress was Plaids and Checks ; Furniture Calicoes ; Ma- done in the Parish of Point Coupee is still ced by the citizens of N. Jersey.—Statesman. Use of the S.W.chamber in the house in Nor- drass hdkfs ; fine Imported and American greater than in Feliciana; and to add to the arrested, but it was not until several shots had walk, heretofore owned by IsaacKeeler,dee'd, been fired among them that they would retire WASHINGTON CITY.—Respecting the state Muslins. Also, 1 Bale unbleach'd Sheetings. ' general calamity, the river had undermined and of fifty-two rods of land lying near said Large additions expected this week. its banks in several places, and acres of ground into the prison. In the mean time others tri of the Pubiic Buildings, and the (Japitol as house, during the life of Mary, the widow of October £0th, 1823. in one or more places, nearly opposite, have ed to escape by cutting a hole through the the principal one, considerable progress has David Keeler, deceased. Also, an additional floor of the sheriff's office,but a few shots soon sunk beneath the water. been made, during the season, towards the right in said house, and the barn adjoining From Kew-Xork—direct. drove them from this point. All was now completion of this magnificent edifice The N In the Red River country, the injury to the thereto, viz : one half of front room,one third quiet, and the mayor and part of the military interior ceiling of the great central dome is T^HE subscribers are now offering to the cotton is said to be incalculable, whole fields of the cellar and also of the garret in the entered the prison,where they discovered that finished—a more extensive labour than any .public a general assortment of DRY- being laid prostrate. In some districts it is house, and one ninth of the barn. Also, at one of the leaders was killed fe another mor one can well conceive who has not seen it— GOODS, consisting of Superfine and Com doubtful whether any sugar will be made. Stamford, on the 28th day of Nov. next, on mon Cloths, Cassimeres, Sattinetts, Flannels, tally wounded—3 others slightly wounded. and the scaffolding is struck. This great hall the premises, at 1 o'clock, P. M. the house Plaids, Baizes, Cassimere Shawls, Bomba It is stated in a NewOrleaus paper that the cannot be completed at once, because of the The Western Carolinian inform us that as lately occupied by said Wm. Keeler, with a zettes, fee. &cc. together with a good assort ravages of the Crawfish during the last high sculpture of the entablature (we believe it is a gentleman on horseback was driving home good garden—Also, a barn and hatter's shop, ment of cheap Domestic Shirtings and Sheet water in the Mississippi, have been more ex called) which surrounds the hall and forms the a negro, who waj tied with a rope, and other Also, a quantity of unfinished hats, and of ings, with a variety of Fancy Articles. tensive than ever before known. In repairing base from which the dome springs; but this wise shackled with heavy irons, weighing 38 household furniture. The house and shop Persons wishing to purchase will do well the Levees the planters have found them per work is rapidly advancing. The rooms in pounds, he becoming wearied, flagged, on furnish an excellent stand for a mechanic of to call at the Old Stand where good Goods forated to an alarming extent, and the little the back part of the centre building are mostly which the man goaded him on rather harshly, any description. Conditions made known at are always to be had. * * CROCKERYand enemy is found embedded in crowds. It be plaistered and painted, and the Office of the # which induced him to revolt, and he seized lime and place of sale. GROCERIES, of the first quality, as usual, comes a question of great importance how Clerk of the House of Representatives is re the man by the leg, and pulled him off his C. HAWLEY, Adm'r. for sale CHEAP. they are to be exterminated, defence against horse: a scuffle ensued, during which the man moved into a suite of these rooms, which have the waters being the first object with those who DEBBY KEELER, Admr'x. LEWIS MALLORY & Co. got a knife out of his pocket, and attempted been handsomely fitted up for its reception.— Stamford. Oct. 23d, 1823. 35 Norwalk, Oct. 20, 1823. 34 reside on the banks of the American Nile. to stab the negro, but the latter managed to The spacious and elegant room which is to A Miliedgeville paper says there will be a wrest the knife from the former, and cut the receive the Library is also nearly finished.— lyTY Wife Mary-.\nn has eloped from my Dvy Goods., Groceries^ and third less than an average crop of cotton this rope by which he had been previously fasten The alteration has been completed in the bed and board without just causeor prov Crockery. year in that state, owing to the rot. The ed. The odds was now fearfully against the Representatives' Chamber, to make room for ocation ; this is therefore to forbid all persons same paper also states that for 12 years there white man;the negro tied him with the rope he the additional members who come in under trusting or harboring her on penalty of the PLI B. BENNETT has recently added to has not been so sickly a season as the present had cut loose from himself, to a tree, mounted the new census, and does not detract from, as law, as I will pay no debts of her contracting his Stock the following Articles, many of which are well adapted to the approaching in that part of Georgia. the horse and rode off. we apprehended, but rather increases the after this date. WILLIAM SMITH. season Blue, black, mixt and drab Cloths Wheat.—The Troy Sentinel states that one A negro who had been purchased by a ne beauty of the Hall. Other alterations are New-Canaan, Oct. 20, 1J!23. *35 and Cassimeres; Pelisse Cloths ; Sattinetts ; of their merchants paid last week lis. per gro speculator at Mobile, and who was about making in the lobby, to establish an easy and Devonshire Kersey ; Drab and Olive Velvets tushel, for 1200 bushels of wheat, all raised to be torn from the bosom of his wife and fam appropriate communication between the Hall CIDEPv. Tabby do; crimson, red, white, and yellow by one man ih Vermont, and brought to that ily, committed suicide after murdering the of Representatives and the Clerk's Office TY7ANTED, four or five hundred Barrels Flannel ; green Baize; Bombazettes ; Fig'd eitf Aon: ijmlinglon in a canal-boat. The whole of his family. He said, as they must in the central building. Whilst these things * » first quality pure Cider, made from and black Ratinett; silk and Valentia Vest price of wheat in New-York is only 10s. 6d. be separated on earth he chose rather to meet are going on within the edifice, the work sound Apples, for which 75 cents cash will be ings ; Swansdown do.; 8-4 9-4 Rose Blan . The Sentirtai adds, 'It is a fact, that the first them untimely in heaven, than to endure the without has not been neglected. The exteri paid—to be delivered at the store of E. D. kets ; 3 1-2 fe4 Points do.; Caroline and Im quality of wheat does, and probably always pangs and pains of a life of misery. or of th« great dome has been finished, and Hoyt & Sons, Norwalk. The barrels are in itation Plaids ; Scotch do.; Black Cassimere will command a higher price in this market, The Boston Dai. Adv. mentions the fact the basement of the extensive eastern portico readiness at. their store, and must be taken than in any other on the banks of the Hudson, and colonnade has been reared to a level with Shawls; Scarlet do. do.; White and colored that two of the islands which defended the from there and filled at the press. do.; do. with Borders ; Cashmere, Velveteen by reason of the extensive flouring business harbour of this city from the swells of the o- the principal floor. PIIILO JUDSON. in which many of our capitalists are engaged. The improvement also which was ordered and silk Shawls; black and green French cean have disappeared within the memory of New-York, Oct. 26th, 1823. 35 Crapes ; Canton do.; Caroline and otherGing- Great yitld.—The Burlington Sent, stales persons now living, and says that two or three last session for the President's House, has been executed with much promptitude, and harns ; Bed Tickings ; Unbleached Sheeting that a gentleman of that county raised the of those remaining are in a fair way to share Stenography. and Shirtings ; black Canton Hkfs.; silk and past season, upon 3 acres and l-l 0th ofland, the same fate unless means are used for their the noble circular colonnade on the south OR SALE at the Gazette Office, "TM front of that building has advanced almost to cotton Flagg do. ; Black Sinchews ; green 215 bushels of wheat, which he sold for seed preservation. If this be the case, it is certainly *- Young Stenographer's Guide, containing and white Florence ; Cambric & Book Mus at §1 50 per bushel. 'The particular mode one worthy public attention, and it would be completion. This fine building now wants all the necessary rules and examples for wri only the nothern portico to give it all the beau lins; Book do.; plain and fig'd Leno ; do.Jack e»f cultivation we have not learnt, but presume a pity for want of public care, to lose those ting Short-Hand expeditiously and correctly, onet ; Sarsinet Cambric ; white and figured he pursues the best one, namely, to use no ornaments and defenders of our beautiful har ty of its original design, and we trust Con —Abstracted from the best system ever used. gress will not suffer it to remain another year Cravats ; Linen Cambrics ; Irish Linens ; more land than he can cultivate well.' bour.—Bos. Statesman Price 12 1-2 Cents. Oct. 23. brown and black do.; Velvet Ribbons; Cam without giving to it this finishing ornament. Another Steam-Boat lost.—On the 20th ult. Mr. Chantray, the celebrated sculptor at bric and common Dimity; 3-4 & 4-4 checks; The activity which has been displayed dur LEGHORN HATS. the steam-boatVirginia,on her way from Lou black worsted Hose ; Bobinet Lace; Men's Pimlico, near London, is now engaged in ing the season on the national works at the T^HE subscribers have constantly on hand isville to St. Louis, struck on a snag in the preparing a colossal statue of Washington, to Beaver and Ladies' kid & silk Gloves; buck Seat of Government, has we are happy to say •*- an assortment of Leghorn Hats, which Mississippi, 70 niilera~tyoveNthe mouth of the skin Mittens, fcc. fee. be erected in Boston. The inhabitants of been emulated by the industry evinced on city are offered to the public very low, for Cash. Ohio, and sunk, with all her cargo. Massachusetts have subscribed nearly $15,000 Also, a general assortment of Groceries, objects by our municipal authorities, and, we Likewise, a quantity of Ladies' Straw Hats. for this object. Crockery, Hard, Hollow and Glass-Ware. A steam boat has been introduced into the may add,by private enterprise. That portion D. fe S. LYNES fe Co. Norwalk, Oct. 20, 182S. canal, at the west. At the rate of 4 miles an The Providence Journal states, that at the of the City Hall which was obtained by the Norwalk, Oct. 27th, 1823. 35 • hour, he was thought to produce less agita iate Cattle Show in Rhode Island, ' Dr.Benj. government for the use of the Ciicuit Court AKEN up by the subscribers on the first tion in the water, and to do less injury to the Dyer, of Providence appeared clad in a com has been finished, and the Court, with all its rPHE Court of Probate for the District of T day of October inst. near Shiphan in banks, ^han a boat of the same size, going at plete suit of silk, of a superior quality, manu offices, removed thither. Other apartments Stamford hath allowed seven months Stamford, a Sail Boat,about twenty feet keel, the same rate, towed by horsesin the usual way. factured in his own family, even from the are preparing for the Orphans' Court of "the from this date for the creditors to the estate rigged as a sloop—the mainsail good, the jib A part of the embankment at the last Canal culture of the trees to the growing of the worms, County, and others still, for professional offi of Nathaniel Taylor,dee'd, late ofGreenwich, much worn—lettered on her stern " CON lock in Albany has given way. The damage producing the material.' ces, fee. The sum of 9000 dollars has been to exhibit their claims for settlement. Those SORT, PEEKSKILL." The owner can will be repaired in a few days, and the boats Mr. John L. Gilliland has established ex expended in filling up the low grounds on the who neglect to present their claims withinsaid have her by proving property and paying char , be able again to pass the lock. tensive glass works at Brooklyn, L. I. On Tiber; much progress has been made on the time will be debarred a recovery. ges. GEORGE SCOKIELD, The important subject of a canal to Buz Wednesday the 1st inst. the manufacture of new route to which the Canal is to be remov JOSEPH TAYLOR, Jr. Adm'r. . JOHN R. SCOFHSLD. . zard's Bay has been revived in the papers. flint glass was begun at that place, and a large ed, and in a year oi two, the extensive tract Greenwich, Oct. 13th, 1823. S5 Stamford.Octofcer 13, 1823. *33
Mil V I ' _ '• ; r«m" V.jj the public safely requires them to be kept in d'ause of humanity. It did anstvelr tm Qntta se&md of ttay tehtmed Vtlndi gave thenvblfth. T^iey trtay bfc sseh perfect ignorance: and in regard to its Influ land, whfc'n'Wilberforce and Clarkson lifted ^. FFLOST THE NKW-UORK ASTKRTEAJC. with a still gteWer fovce amounting to about in our penitentiaries, and jails,and poor bous 1500, arid attacked simultaneously in two op es. They may be found inhabiting the abodes ence on ihe white population, that the most la up theft cry against the wrongs of Africa ; BELSHAZZAR. *• , > posite quitters, but after.deceiving a few sjtots of poverty, and the Haunts of vice. But if mentable proof of its deteriorating effects may and the consequen ce of their unwearied la-Pr^ 'ilour of an Empire's overthrow! : Trom the terrific * gre&Vgtuis,* they made a We look for them in the sopiejty of the honest be found in the fact that excepting the pious bors has been the formal abolition of th'« ! The Princes from the feast were gone,' * "hasty departure. They riiight perhaps have and respectable--1!!- we visit the schools in whose hearts are governed by the christian slave-trade- by every christian power-ill both The Idol flame was burning low; been entirely cut off by these repeated as which tt is our boast that the meanest citizen law of reciprocity between 1mm and man, and continents, and such a total revolution impu fo 'Twas midnight upon Babylon. saults, had it not been for the interference of can enjoy the benefits of instruction—we the wise whose minds have looked far into the lic sentiment, that all who are riot imniedi-. relations and tendencies of things, none can ately interested, in. the -nefarious traffic ar« That night the feast was wild Anil high; & British schooner which providentially made might also add, if we visit the sactusries be found to lift their voices against a system ready to denounce it as the most high-lianded That night was Sion's gold profaned; its appearance in this season of distress. A Which ale open for aH to worship, and to hear so utterly repugnant to the feelings of unso outrage that ever was practised by fraud and The seal was set on blasphemy; cessation of hostilities was effected by the me the word of God; we shall not find them phisticated humanity—a system which permits power against simplicity and weakness. If The last deep cup of wrath was dralnfed. diation of Cap?. Laing, the distinguished Af there. The Soodra is not farther separated rican traveller who was oh board, and twenty from the Brahmin in regard to all his privi all the atttocities of the domestic slave-trade the philanthropists of America will summon Mid jewelled roof and silkeh pall, marines were landed to guarantee the observ leges, civil, intellectual and moral ; than the —which permits the father to sell his children up their energies to a like effort—i I they will' BelshaZ2ar on his couch is flung; ance of the truce till the difficulties should be negro is from the white man, by the prejudi as he would Ids cattle—a system which con never cease to warn their fellow-citizens of A burst of thunder shook the wall— finally adjusted. The commander of a Co- ces which result from the difference made be signs one half of the community to hopeless the extent and nature of these evi!s-r—if they He heard—but 'twas no mortal tongue: ! lombian armed vessel presented the colony tween them by the God of nature. A barrier and ulter degradation, and which threatens will properly set before the public the politi in its final catastrophe 10 bring down the same cal aiid intellectual and moral degradation of 'King of the East,.the trumpet calls, with a fine prise schooner of Sixty tons, which more difficult to be surmounted than the in ruin on the master and the slave. the blacks, and the danger which results from That calls thee to a tyrant's grave; may be considered as an important addition stitution of the Caste, cuts off, and while the present state of society cotinues must always There are two considerations in view of this degradation the same spirit which an A curse is on the palace walls— to the establishment. When it is remember which we ventured to remark that the slavery swered to the plea of Wilberforce will answer A curse h on thy gtiardian wave. ed that in this contest tfte whole effective force cutoff, the negro from all that is valuable in of the colony was twenty-eight men and boys, citizenship. In his infancy, he finds himself, which exists hi our country is more ominous them, nrul the effect of their labors will be 1A surge is in Euphrates1 bed, and that the whole loss was only three killed he knows hot why,the scorn of his playmates, in its character and tendency than any simi seen iu the sympathizing effects of all the en That never filled his bed before} and four wounded, we may regard the result from the first moment that their little fingers lar system which has ever existed in other lightened and benernlent. We doubt not A surge, that, ere the morn be red, as proving at once the bravery of the settlers can be pointed at him in derision. In youth, countries. The first is that slavery contra that the public may be excited on this subject^ Shall load with death its haughty shore. and the cowardice of the natives. In the tre lie has no incentive to prepare for an active dicts the primary principles of our republican and'lf excited they may put forth such an ef government. Slavery was not inconsistent fort as .will alleviate the evils in question, and 'Behold a tide of Persian steel! pidation of the assault, doubtless neither Mr. and honorable manhood. No visions of use with the principles of Grecian and Roman de long delay, if not utterly prevent their final A torrent of the Median car; Ashmun nor the colonists would be able to fulness, or respectability, animate his pros mocracy. It is in perfect harmony with the catastrophe. The excitement required is hot Like flame their gory banners wheel 5 form a very coo! and deliberate estimate of pects. In maturer years, he has little motive systems of government, which, excepting a momentary, feverish, half delirious excite Rise, King, and arm thee for the war. the number of assailants; but after making to industry, or to any honorable exertion every allowance for their seeing things dou He is always degraded in the estimation of •Great Britain, and Switzerland, prevail in ev ment, like that produced - by the agitation of BeishaZzar gazed: the voice was past— ble on such an occasion, it must be consider the community, and the deep sense of that ery province of the old world from the Froz the Missouri question—it must be something The lofty chamber filled with gloom ; ed as proved, that one hundred well armed degradation enters into his soul, and makes en Ocean to the Cape of Good Hope, and more calm and permanent. It must not be ii But echoed on the sudden blast, freemen, fighting for their liberty, and their him degraded indeed. We know that there from the Bay of Biscay to the Pacific. But sudden torrent passing away with the cloud The rushing of a mighty plume. children, and their homes, may defend the are individuals, who in spite of all these ob it stands in direct opposition to all the ac that gave it birth : but a river whose broad* colony against all the hordes that can ever be stacles to moral, and social improvement, knowledged and boasted maxims in which is deep, peaceful streams are supplied by peren He listened—all again was still; laid the foundation of our political institutions nial fountains, and whose pure waters, like He heard no chariot's iron clane— mistered by the holy alliance of Africa. And have acquired a character of respectability, and piety. But instances like these, occa The other consideration to which we refer is, the waters of Jordan shall wash away from He heard the fountain's gushing rill, here we cannot but remark that this affair il lustrates very strikingly the difference between sioned by the peculiar circumstances or pow that which spreads terror over every aspect in our national character this foul and loath- "; The breeze that through the roses sang, some leprosy. ^ the wild men of that continent, and the wild ers of the individuals, cannot be brought to which the subject can be viewed, and which He slept: in sleep wild murmurs came; men of America. If that establishment had disprove the general assertion, which we seems to tell us—for all these evils there is no (Concluded next week.) A vision'd splendor freed the sky ; been attacked, by 300, or 000, or 200 Indians make without the fear of contradiction, thai remedy. It is the fact that the slaves, and Ke heard Belshazzar's taunted name; —we should have known its fate only by con the blacks are degraded, without any proper those wl.o have been slaves, and those whose Indian Treaty.—On the lOtlvult. a-treaty was concluded between the United States and He heard again the Prophet cry: jecture. means of improvement, or any sufficient in fathers have been slaves, are all marked out and stigmatised with the brand which uature the Seminole Indians. The Indians are toe- •Sleep, Sultan! 'tis thy final sleep; It was not to be expected that an arrange centive to exertion, that they present the has stamped upon ihetn. I11 Greece and vacuate East and West Florida, except a re Or wake or sleep, the guilty dies, ment like the one above mentioned would strange anomaly of a large part of the nation Rome,' as in almost every other nation, servation in East Florida, into which tract- The wrongs of those who watch and weep. place the settlers immediately in a state of that loves to call itself the freest, and happi slave might be made free, and then he was 110 they are to concentrate themselves. The fig Around thee and thy nation rise.' entire security and comfort. Accordingly, est, and most enlightened nation 011 the globe, when the Cyane arrived on the coast, where separated by obstacles which they did not cre longer a slave, but he was amalgamated with ure of this tract is a triangle,one side of which He started 'mid the battle's yell; she had been sent to execute the laws against ate, and which they cannot surmount, from the rest of the community, and the road of is in a parallel of latitude, near the sources of He saw the Persians rushing on : the slave trade, she found them in a suffering all the institutions and privileges to which wealth or honor of office was open before him the St. John and OkIawaha,aud the otiiei side He saw the flames around him swell— condition. The noble and disinterested ex- the other portions of the community owe and his interests were united with the interests following the direction of the Atlantic and Thou'rt ashes; King of BabyIon! eitions of Captain Spence and his crew, in e- their superiority. of the republi'» But here the thing is impos Gulf of Mexico, leaving a margin of upwards recting a house for the agent,"®and a tower of But there is another still more important sible: a slave cannot be really emancipated. of 20 miles 011 the east and west coasts for FROM THE CHRISTIAN SVF.CTATOR. strong mason work for the defence of the characteristic of the condition of our colored You cannot raise him from the abyss of deg white settlements. radation. You may call him free, you may ' The United States promises to distribute REVlUff (if i/je Reports of the American town, are gratefully acknowledged by the population, in comparison with which every enact a statute took of laws to make him free, among theni as soon as concentrated, imple COLONIZATION SOCIETY. Managers in their address to the public. This other circumstance dwindles into insignifi ments of husbandry and stock of cattle and (Continued ) lower which is expected to hid defiance to the cance ; and from which all that we have al but you cannot bleach him into the enjoyment ready said is only a single necessary conse of freedom. hogs to the value of $6,000, and to allow ail " A British prize slave vessel had solicited barbarians, has been callcd Stockton Castle. quence. We mean slavery. And on this Now apply to this subject one very simple annual sum of $5,000 for 20 successive years ami.obtained permission to take water from Africa will hereafter honor the men who are subject we must express ourselves brieily, yet arithmetical calculation.. In 1320 the slave to be appropriated to their benefit as the Pres the Cape. This vessel parted her cable and laboring for her deliverance. Her mountains boldly. We have heard of slavery as it enisl population of the country was 1,500,000. ident of the U. States may direct. The In was thrown on shore. The spirit of hostility, and rivers, her provinces and cities, while ed in the nations of antiquity, we have heard Their annual increase is estimated at S5,000. dians will likewise be furnished for12 months, excised by a dispute between the captain an.! they testify her gratitude, will be the monu of slavery as it exists in Asia, and Africa, and Their number doubles in less than twenty commencing immediately after the ratifica- . one of the Kings added to the powerful motive ments of their benevolence. And tho'friends Turkey, we have heard of the feudal slavery years. Things remaining as they now are, in tion of the treaty, with rations of corn, meat presented by the presence of a French vessel and the public may weep at the loss of those under which the peasantry of Europe have 1240 we shall have S,000,000 of slaves,—111 and salt, and a school and a black and gun waiting her complement of slaves, induced the who perish beneath the stroke of the sun by day, or of the moon by night, while laboring groaned from the days of Alaric, until now ; I860, 0,000,000,—and in 1880, 12,000,009,— smith's shop will be established at the ex natives to attack her, with purpose of plunder. but excepting only the horrible system of the a nation of slaves larger by 4,000,000 than the pense of the National Gov't, at the agency, to Several of our people engaged in Iter defence. in behalf of suffering humaniJy ; yet there is West India Islands, we have never heard of whole present white population of the United be located within the Indian boundary. In the contest which ensued, and which they a consolation in the thought, that they have perished in a cause, for which they need not slavery in any country, ancient or modern, States. What a state of things will this be. in vain endeavoured to prevent, two of the na $ pagan, Mahommedan, or christian, so terrible Twelve millions of slaves. A nation scat Another English Traveller.—The Charles- ' tives were killed : and on the succeeding day, be ashamed to be martyrs. If we honor the in its character ; so pernicious in its tenden tered and peeled,' ' a nation meted out and ton Courier announces the receipt of a book a Brit ish soldier and one of our colonists.— memory of those who die on the bloody deck cy, so remediless in its anticipated results, as trodden down —and God forbid that it should recently published in London, by a Mr. Faux,, Through the criminal inadvertency of an in extending the fame of American valor; the slavery which exists in these U. States. be written in the blood and echoed in the being a journal of his travels in the United English sailor, who discharged a cannon in surely we ought to honor with a double reve We do not mean here to speak of slavery as groans of that generation—' a nation terrible States, in the year 1819. The Courier makes the immediate vicinity of the store house, this rence the memory of those who sacrifice their a system of bonds and stripes and all kinds ol from their beginning hither.' But even in the the following extracts: building took fire: and with it most of the lives to extend the triumphs of American phi bodily suffering. On this point, there is, we short sixty years which must elapse before 1 The South Carolinians train dogs to hunt clothing, provisions, and utensils of the colo lanthropy. It makes us feel proud of our country, to see the zeal, and efficiency, which believe, a great degree of misapprehension a- such a stale of things can take place, how runaway slaves.' ' In South Carolina slaves ny were destroyed." iraong our fellow citizens of t he North. Many much terror and anxiety must be endured, destroy their young in embryo, lest their chil All was now in confusion. The natives have uniformly been displayed by the officers of them are accustomed to associate with the how many plots must be detected, how many dren should be slaves.' ' In South Carolina had received demonstration of the bearing and seamen of the national vessels that have name of slavery, all that is horrible in the insurrections must be quelled. they cover infiim and decrepid slaves, after which the colony was to have 011 the slave been appointed from time to time to the Af details of the African trade, and all that is Plots ! and insurrections ! These are words stripping them naked, with treacle or molas trade. A grand palaver was assembled, con rican station. ' Most of my associates,'' said terrific in the cruelties of Jamaica and Porto of terror, but their terribleness is no argument ses, and then expose them to venomous In sisting of seventeen kings, and thirty-four hall Lieut. Stockton, 'were ready (and I sincerely Rico. But we rejoice in the belief that these against the truth of what we say. If things sects until they die.'—' Dirking is the fashion kings. One 01 two of' the most powerful of believe it) to sacrifice on the altar of humani conceptions are erroneous ; and that though go 011 as they are, words more terrible than in Charleston.' 4 At the Planter's Hotel, 12 these were the decided friends of the colony, ty, convenience, comfort, interest and health.' there may be instances of unpunished, and these must be ' familiar in our mouths.' For duelists dined together, each having killed and had armed their subjects for war, in case In April" last Dr. Ay res sailed from Balti sometimes perhaps almost unnoticed barbari notwithstanding all that may be done to keep his man.' ' Slept at the residence of Captain pe ice could not be procured; Dr. Ayros ap more in the brig Oswego with sixty new set ty, the condition of a slave in most parts of the slaves in ignorance, they are learning, and Rugely, a rich planter, who accommodated in peared before this congress, and gave them to tlers,—if their voyage was favorable they the United Slates is generally as much supe will continue to learn something of their own one and the same room, himself and his wif®, understand that lie had purchased the territory must have arrived there two months ago. rior to that of a slave in the West Indies, as power, and something of the tenure by which and Mr. Faux and a negro woman.' ' Saw, on in question and paid for it, and therefore lie A trading company has been formed inBal- the condition of an American farmer is to they are held in bondage. They are sur his way to Colombia, from Charleston, a huge intended to retain ir, and that if they thought timore, which if the plan succeeds will here that of an Irish peasant. Here we are ready rounded by the memorials of freedom. The black pond, having on its banks ten Alliga they were able to expel him they might nialif after afford the means of a constant and reg to make what all will consider the most libe air which they breathe is free ; and the soil tors,each ten feet long, ready to eat dogs or a- the attempt, and he would show them what ular communication with the colony. This ral concessions. We are ready even to grant, 011 which they tread, and which they water ny thing else.' 'People of Charleston so in fighting was :he woidd bring ships, and batter company consisting of a few respectable, mer for our piesent purpose, tiiat, so far as mere with their tears is a land of liberty. Slaves human Nas to allow a poor creature who had down all the towns of those who opposed him chants was formed with the approbation of animal existence is concerned, the slaves are never slow in learning that they are fetter been robbed, and had both his legs broken, to from Cape Mount to the Lino. 'While mak the Board, and will we trust have an import have no reason to complain, and ihe friends ed, and that freedom is the birthright of hu remain all night on the pavement, and until 9 ing this speech,' says he,' I narrowly watched ant connection with the regeneration of Afri of humanity have no reason to complain for manity. Our slaves will not be always ig o'clock next morning, when relieved by the the countenances of Kings Blister and Boson. ca. Its design is, we believe, after having them. And when we use the strong language norant—and when that righteous Providence, humanity of a Prussian Consul, who paid a [King Boson is the most powerful friend .of made a fair experiment, to run two or more which we feel ourselves compelled to use in which never wants instruments to accomplish dollar—this 011 the 1st of May^ when the ther the colony.] Blister showed evident signs of vessels as regular traders between Baltimoie relation to this subject, we do not mean to its designs,whether of mercy, or of vengeance, mometer was 110.' concern, but Boson sho >k his sides very heart and Cape Montserado. These will of course speak of animal suffering, but of an immense shall raise up a Touissaint, or a Spartacus, or ily with laughter. By this I found I had afford the means of conveyance to such as moral and political evil—of slavery as it stands an African Tecumseh. his fellow slaves will PROCLAMATION—By Joseph C. Yales, touched the right chord, and did not spare are desirous of emigrating. The first vessel connected with the wealth and strength, and flock around his standard, and we shall wit Governor of the State of New-York. invectives. The other kings appeared unea sailed at the .beginning of June and carried a more especially with the character and happi ness scenes—which history describes but from Whereas the people of this state have been sy and said one to another, Oh, look, white few passengers. ness of our nation. the thought of which the imagination revolts. highly favored with unmerited blessings from man getting mad, white getting mad ! Boson The present condition of the colony may We have no room to enlarge on the politic Not that there is any reason to anticipate the protecting hand of the beneficent Creator to second the impression I had made, sent be briefly described. It consists of I&0 set al aspect of this subject. We will only ask— such an insurrection as will result in the e- and ruler of the universe, signally manifested one of his people round to circulate a report tlers under the direction of two agents, ar where would be the enterprise and the wealth mancipation of the slaves, and the establish throughout the year past, by continuing to that theie were four large ships a little way dently devoted to the cause, accustomed to and the strength of New-England—if her ment of a black empire. A general insurrec promote the cause of religion in our land, the- to the southward, making into the harbor.'— their business, seasoned to the climate, and green hills and pleasant vallies were cultiva tion in the southern states, might indeed des diffusion of it abroad, and the dissemination • ' This threw all into confusion, and it was well acquainted with the African character. ted no longer by her own independent and troy their ciiies, might desolate their planta of useful knowledge among all classes ef citi with difficulty we could keep the kings to These men occupy a soil of whose produc hardy yeomanry, but by the degraded serfs of tions, might turn their rivers to blood ; but to zens ; by withholding the alarming'and des gether until the business was settled." tiveness it is difficult for an inhabitant of our a Polish aristocracy ? And what would not be finally successful, it must be delayed for tructive scouigeof pestilence ; by causing the The difficulties having been adjusted, Dr. climate to form any adequate conception.— Virginia become, if she could exchange her more than two or diree generations—it must earth to yield an abundant increase, and thus Ayros felt himself under the necessity of re By the latest accounts tlie controversy with four hundred and twenty five thousand slaves be delayed till the blacks have force enough gladdening the he irt of the husbandman, and turning to the U. States, for the sake of ob the natives seems to have terminated entirely for as many freemen, who, in blood and com to resist successfully the energies of the whole removing apprehension and anxiety from all, taining supplies. He accordingly took pas to their satisfaction, so that the former inter plexion, as in immunities and enjoyments, American people ; for at auy time within six in giving health, peace and plenty : By af sage for this country on the fourth of June, course with them for the purposes of trade has should be one with the proudest ofher children. ty or a hundred years, the beacon fires of in fording positive indications that the enter- 1821. On the 8th of August the settlement been resinned, and the settlers can clear and But the mere politician cannot fail, in esti surrection would only rally the strength of the prize, perseverance and patriotism of the peo was reinforced bv the ariival of the brig cultivate their lands without danger. mating the magnitude of this evil, to look at nation, and the ill-fated Africans, if not ut ple, for some time past, evinced by the un Strong from Baltimore wiih Mr. and Mrs. Such is the history of the American Colo terly exterminated, would be so nearly des exampled liberality of their representatives, Ashmun, and thirty five colonists, besides fif nization Society. Its design is general—the its moral tendency. The great men of the south have looked at it in this aspect, and troyed that they must submit to a bondage with regard to internal improvements, will be teen re-cap i used Africans. Mr. Ashmun was benefit of the whole African race. Its plan have expressed themselves accordingly. more helpless than ever. successful, and extensively useful and advan sent out as the agent of the Government, but of operation is specific, the establishment 011 Judge Washington pronounces it to be ' an Cannot ihe people of the United States be tageous : By enabling the constituted author- / he had also received a commission from the the coast of Africa of a colony of free people inherent vice in the community.' Mr. Jeffer roused to an effort for the partial if not foe the ities under his superintending care and guid- v Colonization Society to act in their name in of color from America. It is not a Missioua- entire removal of the evils attendant on the ance, peacefully to organize a government, case he should find no agent at the cyloriy. ry Society, nor a society for the suppression son usc3 language on this subject, too strong for even a nolhern man to regard ii as strictly circumstances of our black population? We according to a constitution formed and adop He accordingly assumed the direction of the of the slave trade, nor a society for the im refer to all these evils; though they cannot all ted by the people ; securing to them the bles establishment, laid out the plan of a town, provement of the blacks, nor a society for true. In his notes on Virginia, he says ' The whole commerce between master and slave, is be enumerated, for their name is legion. We sings of liberty, and, the undisturbed fruition and began to erect sucii fortifications as might the abolition of slavery. It is simply a socie refer to the condition of all the blacks wheth of their own labor and exertions :—These,and secure it against any attack from the natives. ty for establishing a colony 011 the coast of a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous er bond or free. They are wretched, and innumerable other important blessings^ daily It was soon ascertained that the labor be Africa, and so far as any of these other ob passions, the most unremitted despotism on their wretchedness ought to be alleviated. dispenser! to all, call loudly for a united anc} stowed on these fortifications was not in vain. jects are attained by its efforts, they must be one part, and degrading submissions 011 the They are dangerous to the community, and public expression of gratitude to Almighfy Maiiy of the kings, as we have seen, were attained either as the means, or as the conse other.'—'The parent storms, the child looks this danger ought to be removed. Their God, "beseeching him to continue his benign from the beginning exceedingly afraid that quences of establishing that colony. But 011, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts 011 wretchedness arises not only from their bon favors, and to vouchsafe to them, individual the influence of the colony would be to break limited as are the operations of this institu the same airs in a smaller circle of slaves, dage, but from their political and moral de ly, and as a community, dispositions to cher up all trade—bv which they mean the slave tion, it appears to us to be the only institution gives a loose to his worst passions, and thus gradation. The danger is not so much that ish a grateful remembrance of his unbounded trade—and it is reasonable to suppose that which promises any thing great or effectual nursed, educated and daily exercised in tyr we have a million and a half of slaves, as that goodness and mercy towards them) I do their feelings of suspicion and hostility would for the benefit of the black population of our anny, cannot but be stamped with odious pe we have within our borders nearly two mil therefore, under a solemn sense of dutv, re jjot be allayed by the friendly suggestions and country. A single glance at the condition of culiarities.'—' I tremble for my country when lions of men who are necessarily any thing commend to the good people of this state, the admonitions of the traders. Accordingly Mr. these beings, and at the obstacles which lie I reflect that God is just, and that his justice rather than loyal citizens—nearly two mil observance of Thursday, the Vfith day of De Ashmun and his fellow laborers seem to have in the way of their improvement, is enough cannot sleep for ever.' And speaking of the lions of ignorant and miserable beings who cember next, as a ifay of public prayer and been continually disturbed by reports of the to convince us of this. probability, that the blacks may assert their are banded together by the very same circum thanksgiving. ?- '">• hostile designs of their neighbors, and to have There is at present within the limits of the freedom, he adds, ' the Almighty has no at stances, by which they are 30 widely separa In witness whereof, I have hereunto sub-, built the walls of their little town somewhat United States, a colored population of one tribute which can take side with us in such a ted in character and in interest from all the scribed my n.ime, and affixed the privy sua!- as Nehemiah and his countrymen buildf.d the million, seven hundred and sixty nine thou contest.' It would be easy to collect the sen citizens of our great republic. The question of the state, at Albany, the 13th day of Octo walls of Jerusalem ; ' every one with one of sand. The chancier, and circumstances of timents of many highly honored individuals is, cannut the people of the United States be ber, 1823. " JOSEPH C. YATES. his hands wrought in the work, and with the this class of the community fall, to some ex in the southern States who have expressed induced to do something effectual for the re other held a weapon.' On the morning of tent, under the personal observation of every themselves as decidedly if not as strongly.— moval of these evils ? Without doubt they Gen. Andrew Jackson is elected to tjie Se November 11th they were attacked by a body man. Who is there, that does not know some But it is enough to say in regard to the moral can be roused to an effort; for in a nation so nate ol the United Stales from Tennessee, iu of 800 natives, who, coming upon them by thing of the condition of the blacks in the influence of the system 011 the blacks, that far under the influence of christian principle place of Col. John Williams. The General is ' Surprise, gained possession of the settlement, noitlieni and middle states ? They may be laws exist in nearly all the slave holding as ours, there is a spirit which will answer to till affpr one or two discharges of the eighteen seen in our cities and larger towns, wander Stales, prohibiting their instruction, and even said to be a Calhounite.. The Colonel is a • driving them from Sunday schools, because the voice of benevolence when it pleusd the Ciawfordiie. pounder, they betook themselves to flight.— ing like foreigners and outcasts, in the land
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