The New York Herald Newspaper, November 7, 1842, Page 1

Vol, VIIL.—-Ho, 303 --- Whole No. 3159. NEW YORK, MONDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 7, 1842. Price Two Cents, AMERICAN NOTES FoR GENERAL CIRCULATION. {CHARLES DICKEN: poriaes _ — [Cuapman anv Haut.) & Mr. Dickens made himself so pleasantly familiar with the pablic of the British isles, in his monthly meetings with it under the guise of the facetious and fine-hearted “Boz,” that lis announced departure for the land of Brother Jonathan, and his consequent exposure to all the dangers of the sea, was looked upon as something little short of a national calamity. There was, however, some consolation entertained by hisclients in the anticipation that, if ever he came back, it would be with a port-folio replenished with such sketches from the life of the people at the other side of what isirreverently styled the herring- pond as would throw even the Pickwickian fancies into manifest depreciation—into a perfect clear eb- secure. From Sam Slick’s New England, into the heart of Old Kentuck, and thence, with an angle down to Mrs. Trollope’s land of promise on the Mis- sissippi, the hunting grounds for the oddest ‘ criturs” of game for sportsmen of the Yorick vein, would have seemed to extend far away ; and what shafts like those feathered by the hand of Boz totake down these fere nature? That they would, moreover, be dished up with the most pungent sauce con- s-euythy Aavaren with unspea! able relish, ‘was, no doubt, also a dream fondly indulged in. Any such airy fabric must quickly vanish upon the ing) ion of the two volumes, which this day make their ap- pearance in all the bibliopole establishments in the island. EXTRACTS. LANDING AT BOSTON. **When I landed in America, I could not help being strongly impressed with the contrast their Custom House presented, and the attention, politeness, and good humor with which its officers discharged their duty. “As we did not lard at Boston, in consequence of some detention at the wharf, until after dark, I received my first impressions of the city in walking down tothe Custom House on the morning after our arrival, which was Sun- day. lam afraidto say, bythe way, how many offers of pews and seats in church for that morning were made to us, by formal note ot invitation, before we had half finish- ed our first dinner in America, but if I. may be allowed to make a moderate guess, without going into nicer calcula- tion, I should say that at least as many sittings were prof- fered us as would have accommodated a score or twoof grown-up families. The number of ereeds and forms of religi nto which the pleasure of our company was re quested was in very fair proportion. “ When I got into the streets upon this Sunday morn- ing, the air was soclear, the houses were so bright and gay ; the signboards were painted in such gaudy colors ; the gilded letters were so very golden ; the bricks were so very red, the stone was so very white, the dlinds and area railings were so very green, the knobs and plates upon the street-doors so murvellously bright and twiok- ling, and allso slight and unsubstantial in appearance, ery thoroughfare in the oty looked exactly like scene in a pantomime. It rarely happens in the business streets that a tradesman, if! may venture to call anybody man, where everybody is merchant. resides tore ; so that many occupations are often car- ied on in one house, and the whole front is covered with boardsiand inscriptions. As I walked along I kept glanc- ing upatthese boar js, confidently expecting to see afew of them change into something ; and I never turned a cor- nor suddenly without looking out for the clown and pan- taloon, who, I had no doubt, were bh ding in a doorway or behind some Fgered close at hand. As to Harlequin and Columbine, overed immediately that they lodged (they are always looking after lodgings in a pantomime) ata very small clockmaker’s, one story high, near the ho- tel ; which, in addition to various symbols and devices, almost covering the whole front, hada great dial hanging out—to bo lemped through, of course. “The subui if possible, even more unsubstantial- looking than the city. The white wooden houses (so white that it makes one wink to look at them), with their erega ison. blinds, are so sprinkled and dropped about all directions, without seeming to have any root at all in the ground ; and the small churches and chapels are so prim, and bright, and highly varnished, that I almost be- jeved the whole affair could be taken up piecemeal like a child’s toy, and crammed into a little box. “The city isa beautiful one, and cannot fail, 1 should imagine, to impress all strangers very favorably. The pri- vate dwelling houses, are, for the most part, large and ele- nt, the shops extremely good, and the public buildings andsome. The State House is built upon the summit of a hill, which rises gradually at first, and afterwards by a steep ascent, almost from the water's edge. In front is a | es enclosure, called the common. The site is beauti- , and from the top there is a charming panoramic view of the whole town and neighborhood. In addition to ava- riety of commodious offices, it contains two handsome chaml 3.im one the House of Representatives of the State hold their meetings; in the other, the Senate. Such proceedings as I saw here were conducted with perfect gravity and decorum, and were certainly calc: to in- spire attention and respect.” AMERICAN LAW COURTS AND LAWYERS. “To an Englishman, accustemed to the paraphernalia of Westminster Hall, an American court of law is a8 odd ae elated court of law would beto an American. Except in Supreme Court at Washing- ton (where the judges wear a p! black robe,) there is no such thing asa wig or gown connected with the admi- nistration of justice, The gentlemen of the bar, peng barristers anid attorneystoo (for there is ne division those functioné as in Englan: ,) are no more removed from their clients than attorneys in our Court for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors are from theirs. The jury’ are quite at home, and make themselves es comfortable as circumstan- ces will permit. Thewitness is 60 little elevated above,or put aloof from, the crowd in the court, that a stranger enter. ing during a pause in the proceedings would find it diff- cult to pick him out from the rest. And it it chanced to be acriminal trial, his eyes, in nine cases out of ten, would wander to the doc! is search of Kayo sopner vain ; = that gentleman woul} most likely unging among the most distinguished ornaments of the legal professio sin his counsel’s ear, or making out of an old quill with his pen-knife.” “I could not but notice these differences, when I visited the courts at Boston. I wasmuch surprised at first, too, to observe that the counsel who ii ited the witness riting: the pps and remem! that he was alone and had no ‘junior, quickly cor myself with the reflection that was not quite so expensive an article here, as at home ; and that the absence of = apepaenngp er ; e regard as ‘ine le, had doul avery fav le influence anes ny “In every court, ample and commodious provision is made for the accommodation of the citizens. This isthe case all through America. In every pa lic institution, the right of the people to attend, and to have an interost in the procecdings, is most fully and distinctly recognized. ‘There are no grim door-keepers to dole out their tardy civility by the sixpenny-worth ; nor is there; I sincerely e, any insolence of office of any kind. Nothing national is exhibited for money ; and no public officer isa showman. We have begun oi late years to imitate this example. [hope we shall continue to doso; and in the fulness of time even deans and chapters may be converted.” THE LADIES OF BOSTON. wav?) “ The tone of society in Boston is one of | fog polite- ness, courtesy, and good breeding, The ladies are un- questionably very b-autiful—in but there I am Loe ey tostop. Their education is much as with us; ier better nor worse. J had heard some very marvel- Jous stories in this respect ; but not believing them, was not disappointed.” DINNER AT BOSTON. ‘ The usual dinner hour is two o’clock. A dinner party takes at five, and at an evening party they seldom sup later than eleven ; so that it goes hard but one gets home, éven {rom a rout, by midnight. 1 never could find ont any difference between a party at Boston anda party in London, saving thet at the former place all assem- blies are held at more hovrs ; that the conversa- tion may possibly be a little louder and more cheerful ; that hye ps boa tae he aacend to the very top of the house to take his cloak off, that he is certain to see, at every dinner, an unusual amount of poultry on the table ; and at every supper, at least two mighty bowls of hot stewed oysters, in any one of which a hel!-grown Duke of Clarence might be smothered eamly.” AN AMBRICAN RAILROAD. (WHAT WiLh Mas. TROLLOFE “ There are no first and second class pee dat ‘us; but there is a gentlemen’s car and a ies’ cor; the main distinction between which is that in the first every- body smokes, and in the second nobody does. Asa black man never travels with a white one, theres also anegro car, which is a great blundering clumsy chest, such as Gulliver put to sea in, from the kingdom of Brobdigni Thereisa deal of joiting, a great deal of noise, deal of wall, not much window, a locomotive en- One ashriek, and adel * ears are likes . bby ny hog hies se holding thirty, forty, people: seats, instead o| Mretolting from end 46 end, are placed crostwise, Each seat holds two persons. There is a long rowof them on each side of the caravan, a narrow passage up the middle, andadoor at both ends. In the centre of the c e there is usually a stove, fed with charcoal or anthracite coal, which is for the most part red hot. It is insufferably cloao, ond you see the hot air fluttering between yourseif and any other object you may happen to look al, like the ghost of smoke. . “In the ladies’ car there ere a great many gentlemen who have es withthem. There are also a great many ladies who have nobody with them ; for any lady may travelalone from one end of the United States to the other, and be ceftain of the most courteous and considerate treat- ment everywhere. The es or check-taker, ice » or whatever he ma wears no uniform. He pone ‘and down the car, and im and out of it, as his fancy Jeans the door with his hands in his pockets and stares you, if you chance to bea stran- f.%,5 of euters into conversation with the about im. A great many newspapers are pulled out, and a few of them are read. Everybody talke to you, or to anybody else who hits his fancy. If you are an Englishman, he expecta that that railroad is pretty much like au English road. If you say ‘No,, he says ‘Yes? (interregotively) and asks in what respect they differ. You enum B heads of diilerence, one by one. and he says ‘Yes? (stiMl in- terrogatively,) to each. Then he guessed that you don’t travel faster in England ; and on your ‘replying that you do, says ‘yes,’ (still interrogatively,) tnd, it is quite evident, don’t believe it. After a long pause ne remarks, ‘partly to you, and ly to the nob on the top of his tick that A Yankees ad race oned to be considerable of a go ahead people too;’ upon which you say ‘Yes,and then he says “Nes? ‘egain (affirma- tively this time ;) and upon yonr looking out of window tells you that behind that hill, and some three miles from the next station, there is a clever town in a smart lo-ca- tion, where he expects you have con-cluded to stop. Your answerin the negative naturally leads to more questions in reference to your intended route (always pronounced rout ;) and wherever you are going, you invariably learn. that you cant get there without immense difficulty and bay Fy and that all the great sights are somewhere else. “If a lady takea fancy to any male passenger's seat, the gentleman who accompanies her gives him notice of the fact, and he immediately vacates it with great polite- ness. Politics are much discussed, so are banks, So is cot- ton, Quiet people avoid the question of the Marsico Sor thave willbe weawelection' ia three years and a hulf, and party feeling runs very high; the greal constitutio al feature of this institution being, that directly the acri- mony of the last election isover, the acrimony of the next § which is an unspeakable comfort to all strong politicians and true lovers of their country—that is to say, to ninety-nine men and boys out offevery ninety-nine anda quarter.” NEW YORK—SAM VELLER GLANCE. Warm weather! The sun strikes upon our heads at this open window as though its rave were concentrated through a burning glass ; but the day it i the season an unusual one. Was there ever such ny street as this Broadway ? ‘The pavement stone: lished with the tread of feet until they shine 3 red bricks of the houses might be yet in the dry hot kilns ; and the roofs of those omnibuises look as though, if water were poured on them, they would hiss and smoke, and smell like half quenched fires. No stint of omnibuses here! Half adozen have gone by within as many mi- nutes, Plenty of newer e3 cabs and coaches too; gigs, haetons dace wheeled tilburies, and private carriages— rather of a clumsy make, and not very different from the public vehicles, but built for the heavy roads beyond the city pavement. Negro coachmen and white; in straw hats, black hats,white hats, glazed caps, fur ceps; in coats of drab, black, hrown, green, blue, nankeen, striped jean and linen ; and there, in that one instance, (look while it passes, or it will be too late,) in suits of livery. Some southern republican that, who puts his blacks in uniform, and swells with Sultan pomp and power. Youder, where that paeaton with a well clipped pair of greys has stopped —standing at their heads now—is a Yorkshire groom,who has not been very long in these parts, and looks sorrowful. ly round for a companion pair of top boots, which he may traverse the city half a year without meeting. Heaven save the ladies, how they dress! We have seen more co- lors in these ten minutes than we should have seen else- where inas many days. What various parasols! what rainbow silks and satins! what pinking of thin stockings, and pinching of thin shoes, end flutterimg of ribands and ailk tassels, and display of rich cloaks with gaudy hoods and linings ‘The young gentlemen are fond, you see, of turning down their shirt collars, and cultivating their whiskers, especially under the chin ; but they cannot ap proach the ledies in their dress or bearing, being, to say the truth, rato of quite anothersort. “Byrons of the desk aod counter pass on, and let us see what kind of men those are behind ye; those two laborers in holiday clothes, of whom one carries is his hand crumpled scrap of paper from which he tries to spell out hard name, while the other looks aboat for it on all the doors and windows ” NEW YORK AT NIGHT. “But how quiet the streets are? Are there n bands; no wind or stringed instruments? No, not one By day, are there no Punches, fantoccinis, dancin; 1, jugglers, conjurors, orchestrinas, or even harrel-organs? jo,notone. Yes, I remember one. One barrel-organ and adancing-monkey—sportive by nature, but fast ing into a dull, lumpish monkey, of the utilitarian school. Be yond that, nothing lively, no, not so mueh asa white mouse in a twirling cage itinerant PUBLIC. ‘The President’s mansion is more like an English club- house, both within and without, than any big kiud of establishment with which I can compare it. The orn: mental ground about it has been laid out in garden walks; they are pretty, and agreeable to-the eye; though they have that uncomfortable air of having been made yesterday which is far from favorable to the display’ of such beauties, “My first visit to this house was on the morning after my arrival, when I was carried thither by an official gen- tleman, who was so kind as to charge ‘himecif, witl ‘my presentation to the President. “We entered a large hall, and having twice or thrice rung a bell which nobody answered, walked without fur- ther ceremony through the roomson the ground-floor, as divers other gentlemen(mostly with their hats on,and their hands in their pockets) were doing very leisurely. Some of these had ladies with them,to whom they were showin, the premises; others were lounging on the chairs ant sofas; others, in a perfect state of exhaustion from listless- ness, were yawning drearily. . ‘ “The greater portion of this assemblage were rether ene, ge supremacy than doing anything else, 8 they had no particuler business there, that anybody knew of. A few were close) eyeing, the moveables, make quite sure that the it, (who was far from Po} ) had not made away with any of the furniture, or sold the fixtures for his private benefit. “ After glancing at these loungers ; who were scattered over a pretty drawing-room, opening upon a terrace which commanded a beautiful Esipest of the river and the adjaceat country ; and who were sauutering, too, about a larger state-room called the EasternDrawing-room; we went up-stairs into another chamber, where were cer- tain visitors, hfe Rae audiences. At sight of my con- ductor, a black in p! clothesand yellow slippers who hive Gliding rae nae ant by paap ing Parser e ears of the more im, madea tion, and glided oft to ‘nuance hi Sea Arcee “Wehad previously looked into another chamber fitted all’ round with a great bare wooden desk er counter, whereon lay files of newspapers, to which sundry gentle- men were referring. But there were no such means of beguiling the time in this apartment, which was as un- ee hamaieeny asany ae aan in one cf our ru ments, or any p' jan’s dining-room du- Fing his hours of consultation sthomel 2 “There were some fifteen or twenty persons in the room. One, a tall, wiry, muscular old aed from the west; sunburnt and swarthy; with a brown-white hat on his knees, and a giant ella resting between his legs, who sat bolt upright in his chair, frowning steadily at the car. Ry and sagen ae the hard lines about his mouth, as if e had made wu; mind ‘to fix? the President on what he ‘im. had te say, wouldn’t bate him a grain. Another, a Kentucky farmer, sixcfeet-six in height, with hie hat on and his hands under his coat-tails, who leaned egainst the wall and kicked the floor with his heel, as thoug! had Time’s head under his shoe, and were literally ‘ killing’ him. A'third, an oval-faced, biliouslooking man, wit sleek black hair cropped close, and whiskers and beard ed down to blue , who sucked the head of athick ind from time to time took it out of his mouth, to see how it was getting on. A fourth did nothing but whistle. A fifth did nothing but spit. And indeed, all these gentlemen were so very persevering and energetic in this latter particular, and bestowed their favors oo ba dantly upon the ci thatd take it for granted the pre. sidential housem: fave high wages, or to speak more Ney an ample amount of ‘compensation,’ which is ——a word for salary, inthe case of all public ant We had not waited in this room many minutes before the black messenger returned and conducted us into ano- ther of smaller dimensions, where, at a business-like ta- ble covered with papers, sat the President himself. He looked somewhat worn end anxious, and well he might, being at war withevery body; but the expression of his face was mild and pleasant, and his manner was remarke- bly unaffected, gentlemanly, and agreeable. 1 thought that in his whole carriage and demeanor he became station singularly well. “ Being adv that the sensible etiquette of the repub- lican court admitted of a traveller, like myself, declining, without any impropriety, an invitation to dinner, whic! did not reach me until [had concluded my_ ai ents Robes: Washington some days belore that to which it referred, 1 only returned to tbis house once It wason the occasion of one of those generel assemblies which are held on certain be em between the hours of nine and twelve o’clock, re called, rather oddly, levees, “Twent, with my wile, atabout ten. There was a pret- ty donse crowd of carriages and people inthe court-yard, and, so far as 1 could make out, there were no very Clear regulations for or setting down of company. There were certainly no policemen to soothe startled horses, either by sawing at their bridles or flou ish- ing truocheons in theirey+s ; and Tam ready to make oath that no inoffensive persons were knocked violently ‘on the head, or poked beim f in their becks or stomachs, or brought to a stand-still by any such gentle means, and then taken intoy custody for not moving oo. But there was no confusion or disorder. Our carriege reach- ed the porch in its turn, without any biustering, swearing, » backing, or other disturbance; and we mounted with as much ease and comfort as though we had been escorted by the whole metropolitan force trom A to a ‘suite of rooms on the und floor were lighted up, and a military band was Playing in the hall. In the smaller drawi ode) the centre of a circle of company, werethe daughter-in-law, who acted as seen pct piel is Sense e upon himself the func- tions of a master of t e ceremonies Pereaw ‘no other offi- cers vr attendants, and none were needed. “The great draw: m which read: 4 tioned, and the other chambets on the poeest nena) men. crowded to excess, ‘The com; w: ‘our sense of the term, select, for it eom eons of very many grades and classes; nor was there great displa' of costly attire ; indeed ‘some of the may have been, for aught f{ know, grotesque ‘anough. ut the deco-" rum and propriety of behaviour which. were un- broken by any rude or disagreeable i ‘and every man,even among the miscel as crowd in ine hall sof were admitted without any orders, Be vee to look on, appeared to feel that hewas a part of the institution,andwas responsible for its preserving @ becoming character, and pearing to the best ad’ ’ That these visitors, too, wistever their station, were not without some refinement of taste and appreciation of intellectual gifts, and gratitude to those men who by the peaceful exercise of great abilities shed new charms and associtions upon the homes of their countrymen, and ele- vate their character in other lands, was most earnestly testified hy their reception of Washington Irving, my dear friend, who hai recentiy been appointed minister at the court of Spain, and who was among them that night, in his new character, for the first and last time before goinj abroad. I ¥incerely believe that in all the madness of American politics few public men would have been so earnestly, devotedly, and affectionately caressal, as this most charming writer : and I have seldom respected @ pudlic assembly more than I did this eager throng, whe saw them turning with one mind trom noisy orators and officers of state, and flocking with a generous and honest impulse round ‘the man ef quiet pursuits; proud in his Promotion as reflecting back upon their country ; and grateful to him with their whole hearts for the store of graceful fancies he had poured out among them. Long be he dispense such treasures with unsparing hand; and long may they remember him as worthily Amenicay Newsraren Press. When any man of any grade of desert, in intellect or character, can climb to any public distinction, no matter what, in America, without first grovelling down upon the earth, and bending the knee before this monster of depra vity; when any private excellence is safe from its attacks, when any social confidence is left unbroken by it, or am tie of saohah oteasy and honor is heli in the least regord; when any man in that free country has freedom of opinion, and presumes to think for himself and speak for nimself, without humble reference to censorship, which, for ite rampant ignorance and base Jishonesty, he utterly loathes and despises in his heart; when those who most acutely feel its infamy and the reproach it casts upon the vation, and who most denounce it to each other, dare to set their heels upon and crush it openly in the sight of all men; then I will believe that its influence is lessening, and men are returning to their manly sen press has its evil eyein every house, every appointment in the State, from a Ps esident to a post- man—while with ribald siander for its only stock in trade, it is the standard literature of an enormous class, who must find their reading in a newspaper or they will not read it at all—so long must its odiuin be upon the coun- try’s head, and so ng must its odium be plainly visible in therepublic. To those who are accustomed to the lead- ing English jowmnals, or to the respectable journals of the continent of Europe—to those who are accustomed to any thing else in prmt and paper—it would be impossible, without an amount of extract, for which I have neither space nor inclination, toconvey an adequate idea of this frightful engine in America, STEAMER ON THE POTOMAC. * It is ten o’clock at night—say half-past ten—moonlight, warm, and dull enough. The steamer, (act unlike @ child’s Noah’s ark in form, with the machinery on the top of the roof,) is riding lazily up and down, and bumping clumsily against the wooden pier, as the ripple of the river trifles with its unwieldy carcase. The wharf is some distance from the city. There is nobody down here; and one or two dull Jamps upon the steamer’s decks are the only signs of life remaining, when our coach has driven away. As soon as our footsteps are heard upon the planks, a fat negress, particularly favored by nature in Tespect to bustle, eme: from some dark stairs, and mar shals my wife towards the ladies’ cabin, to which retreat she goes, followed by a mighty bale of cloaks and great- coats. I valiently resolve not to goto bed at all, butto walk up and down the pier till morning. “ T begin my promenade—thinkiig of all kinds of dis- tant things and persons, and of nothing nvar—and pace upand down for halfan hour. Then I go on board again, and getting into the light of one of the lamps, look at my watch and think it must have stopped: and wonder what has become of the faithful secretary whom | brought along with me trom Boston. He is supping with our late Jand- lord, (a field-marshal, at least, no doubt,) in honor of our departure, and may bc two hours longer. I walk again, but it gets duller and duller ; the moon goes down ; next June seems farther off in the dark, and the echoes of my footstess make me nervous. It hus turned cold too ; and walking up and down without any companion, in such lonely circumstances, is but poor amusement. So I break my stsunch resolution, and think it may be, perhaps, as well to go to bed. go on board again—open the door of the gentlemen's cabin—and walk in. Somchow or other—from its being #0 quiet, I suppose—I have taken it into my head that there isnebody there. ‘To my horror and amazement it is full of sleepers of every stage, shape, attitude, and variety of slumber ; in the berths, on thechairs, on the floor, on the tables, and particularly round the stovg, my detested ene. my. I take another step forward, and slip upon the shi- et a black steward, who lies rolied in a blan! on the floor. He jumps up, grine, half in pain and hal! hospitality—whispers my own name in my ear—and, gro- peeence the sleepers, leads me to my berth. Stand- ing beside it, 1 count these slumbering passeng: rs, and get past forty. There is no use in going further, so I begin to undress. Asthe chairs are all occupied, and there is no- thing elseto put my clothes on, I deposit them upon the ground , not without soiling my hands, for it is in the same condition asthe carpets in the Uapitol, and from the same cause. Having but partially undressed, I clamber on my shelf, and hoid the curtain open for a tew minutes while 1look round on all my fellow travellers again.— That done, Tlet it fall on them, and on the world—turn ro and'go to sleep. ._ “1 wake, of course, when we get under weigh, for there in agood deal of nowe. The day is then just breaking.— Every body wakes at the same time. Some are self-pos- sed directly, and some are much perplexed to make out where they are until they have rubbed their eyes, and, leaning on one elbow, looked about them. Some yawn, some groan, nearly all spit, sad asen get up. -lem among the risers ; for itis easy to feel, without going into the fresh air, that the atmorphere of the cabin. is vile in the last oe Thuddle on my clothes, go down into the fore cabin, get shaved by the barber, and wash my the washing and dressing apparatus for the passengers generally consists of two jack towels, three amall wooden basins, a keg of water, and a ladle to serve it out with, six square inches of looking glass, two ditto of yellow soap, acomb and brush for the head, and nothing for the teeth. Every body uses the comb and brush, except myseif— Every body stares to see me using my own; and two or three gen'lemen are sirongly lasoeed to Dexiter meon my es, but don’t. When I have made my toilet, I go upon the hurricane deck, and set in for two hours of hard walking up anddown. The sun is rising brilliantly ; we are 1g Mount Vernon,where W: ston lies buried; the river is wide and rapid, and its banks are beautiful. — All the glory and splenuor of the day are coming on, and growing brighter every minute. “ At eight o’clock we breakfast in the cabin where I the night, but the windows and doors are all thrown open, and now it is fresh enough. There is no hurry or greediness apparent in the despatch of the meal. It is lon- ger than a travelling breakfast with us, more orderly, and more polite.’ VIRGINIA CHARIOTERRING. ‘Soon after nine o’clock we come to Potomac Creek, where we are to land: and then comes the oddest of the journey. Seven stage-coaches are preparing to car- Ty uson. lacinpl themare ready, some of them are not ready. Some ofthe drivers are blacks, some whites.— There are four horses to each coach, and all the horses, harnessed or unharnessed, are there. passengers are fetting outof the steamboat, and into the coaches, the rage is bein ferred in noisy wheelbarrows , the horses are frightened, and impatient to start ; the black drivers are chattering to them like so many monkeys ; and the white ones whooping like so many drovers ; for the main thing to be done in all kinds of hostlering here, isto make as much noise as pessible. The coaches are something like the French coaches, but not n: a 80 good. In lieu of springs, they are hungon bands of the strong?st leather. There is very little choice or differ- ence between them ; and they may be likened tothe car portion of the swings at an English fair, roofed, put upon axle-trees and wheets, and curtained with painted cen- vas. They are covered with mud from the roof to the wheel-tire, and have never been cleaned since they were first built. “ The tickets we have received on board the steamboat are marked No. 1,80 we belong to coach No. 1. I throw my coat on the box, and hoist my wife and her maid into the inside. It has only one step, and that being about a yard from the ground is usually approached by a chair : when there is no chair, ladies trust in Providence. The coach holds nine inside, having a seat across from door to door, where we in Et our : so that there is only one feat more cult in the rmance than get- ting in, and that is, getting out again. There is only one outside ger, and he sits upon the box. As J am that one, I climb up ; aud white ae are strapping the lug: age on the roof, and heaping it into a kind of tray behind, ave @ opportunity at looking at the driver. “Hels a negro—very black ingeed. He is dressed ina coarse pepper-and salt suit excessively patched and darned (i bed it Aes the knees,) grey stockings enormous un- Macked hig Jow and very short trousers. Hehas two add glove: : o1 Parti-coloured worsted, and one of leather. He has ry short whip, broken in the mid: dle and band: op. a » And yet he wearsa low crowned, broad-brimmed, black hat . faintly shadow- ing forth 9 kind of insane imitation of an Engiish coach man! it somebody in authority cries ‘Gu ahead !’ as] making these observetions. The mail takes the lead four horse weggon. and all the coaches follow in pro- cession, headed by No. 1. i, By the way, whenever an E inman would cry ‘All right? an American cries ‘Go shead!’ which is some- what expressive of the national character of the two countries. “The first ee mile of the road is over bridges made of loose planks laid across two pareliel poles, which tilt up as the wheels roll over them ; and in the river. The river has e clayey bottom end is full of holes, sothat half a horse is constantly disappearing unexpectedly, and can’t be found again for some time. « But we get past even this, and come to the road itself, which is a series of alternate swampsand gravel-pits A tremendous place is close before us, the black driver rolls his eyes, screws his mouth up re round, and looks straight between the two leaders, as if he were seying te himself, ‘ We have done this often before, but now [think weshall have a crash.’ He takes a rein in each hand ; jerks and pulls at both ; and dances on the splashboars with both feet, (keeping his sent, of course,) like thy lat lamented Ducrow on two of his coursers. Wecome to the spot, sink down in the mire nesrly tothe coach windows, tilt on one side at an angle of forty-five degrees, and stick there, ‘The insides scream dismally ; the coach stops ; the horses flounder ; all the other six coaches stop ; and their four-and-twenty horses flounder likewise ; but merely for company, and in sympathy with ours, «Then the following circumstances scour ;— “ Black Driver, (‘0 the horses) — Hi? “Nothing happens. [asides scream y “ Black Driver, (to the horses) — Ho | ‘* Horses plunge, and splash the black driver, bs Gentleman nai, (looking out)—-‘ Why, what on “ Gentleman iety of hes and draws page te eee atnae tk Seite eomniiae home, he ("Black driver, (still to the horses—* Jiddy ! Jiddy ? “ Horses pttll violently, drag the coach out of the hole, and draw it up a bank ; so steep that the black driver's legs fly up into the air and he goes back among the lug. gage on tl But he immediately recovers himself, Il tothe horses). 3 back upon No. 2, which rolls baek upon No. 3, which rolls back upon No. 4, and so on, until No. 7 is heard to curse ¥ @ quarter of a mile behind. r (louder than before)—* Pill !? Horses make another struggle to get up the bank, and ain the coach rolls backward. Black Driver (louder than before)—‘ Pe-e-eill !” Horses make a desperate struggle. jm Bleek Driver (recovering spirits) —' Hi, Jiddy, Jiddy, * Horses make another effort. “Black Driver (with great vigour)— Jiddy, Jiddy. Pill. Ally Loo ** Horses almost doit. Black Driver (with hiseyes starting out of his heed)— ‘Lee, den, Lee, dere. Hi. Jiddy, Jiddy, Pill. Ally Loo.’ Lee-e-e-e-e They run up the bank, and go down again on the other side at a fearful pace. It is impossible to stop them, and at the bottom there is a deep hollow, full of water. The coach rolls frightfully. The insides scream. The mud and water fly about us. The black driver dances like a madman. Suddenly we are all right by some extraordi- nary means, and stop to breathe. «A black friend of the black driver is sitting on a fence. ‘The black driver recognises him by twiriing his heac round and round like a harlequin, rolling his eyes, shrug ging his shoulders, and grinning from ear to He stops short, and turns to me, and says:— rt We shall get you through sa, like a fiddle, and hope a please you when we got you through, sa, O.d ’ooman at home, sir?’ chuckling very much. “Outside gentieman #a, he often remember old ooman at home sa,’ grinning ain. “* Aye, aye; we'll take care of the old woman. be afraid.’ “ The black driver grins again, but there 1s another hole, and beyond that another bank, close before us. 80 he stops short: cries (tothe horses again) ‘Easy, Easy den. Eue.. Steady. Hi. Jiddy. Pile Ally, Loo, but ne. ver ‘Lee!’ until we are reduced to the very last extrimi- ty, and arein tho mid:t of difficulties, extrication from which appears to be all but impossible. “And so we do the ten miles or thereabouts in two hours anda half; breaking no bones, though bruising a any 5, and in short getting through the distance, AX: ly Loo! Hi- Don't ‘like “This singular kind of ceaching icksburgh, whence there is a railway to Richmond. The tractof country through which it takes its course was once productive ; but the soil has been exhausted by the system of employing a great amount of slave labour in forcing crops, without strengthening the land, and it is now little butter than a sandy desert overgrown with trees. Dreary and uninteresting as its aspect is, | was glad to the heart to find anything on which one of the curses of this horrible institution has fallen ; and had greater pleasure in contemplating the withered ground than the richest and most thriving cultivation in the same place could pos- sibly have afforded me. “To this district, as in all others where slav: sits brooding (I have frequently heard this admitted, even by those who are its warmest advocates,) there is an air of ruin and decay abroad, which is inseprrable from the sys- tem. The barns and outhouses are mouldering away— the shed® are patched and half roofless—the log 5 (built in Virginia with external chimneys mad: of cl: z or wood), are equalled in the last degree. ‘There is no lool of decent comfort anywhere. The miserable stations by the railway side—the reat wild woodyards, whence the engine is supplied with fuel—the negro children rolling enthe ground before the cabla doors, with dogs and pigs —the biped beasts of burden slinking past—gloom aud dejection ate upon them all © In the negro car belonging to the train in which we made this journey, were amother ond her children who had just been purchased; the husband and father bei left behind with their oldowner. The children cried the whole woy, and the mother was misery’s picture. The champion of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, who had bought them, rode in the same train ; and, every time we stopped, got down to see that they were safe.— The black in Sinbad’s Travels with one eye in the mid- dle of his forehead; which shone like urning eoal, ‘was nature’s aristocrat compared with this white gentle- man.” A BROWN FORESTER OF THR MIssIssIFPI. “* We had another odd specimen on board, of a different kind. This was a thin-faced, spare-figured man, of mid- dle age and stat dressed in a dusty drabbish-colour.d suit, such es I never saw before, He was perfectly quiet he journey; indeed I don’t remem. ber having so much as seen him until he was brought out hy cirenmstances, asgreat men often are. The con- junction of events which made him famous happened, briefly, thus. “The cenal extends tothe foot of the mountain, and there of course, it stops; the passengers being conveyed across it by land carriage, and taken on afterwards b: anothercanal boat, the counte: awaitsthemon the other side, T! of passage-boat; one is called the Express, and one (a cheaper one) the Pioneer. The Pioneer gets first to the mountain, and waita for the Express people to come up, both sets of ngers being conveyed across it at the . "We were the Express company; but when we had crossed the mountain, and had come to the second boat, the proprietors took it into their heads to draft all the Pioneers into it likewise,so that v e were five-and-forty at least, and the accession of passengers was not at all of that kind'which improved the prospect of sleeping at night. Our people g:umbled at this, as people doin such cases ; but suffered the boat to be towed off with the whole freight aboard nevertheless; and away we went down the canal- At home, I should have protested lustily, but being a fo- reigner 5 my peace. Not so this passenger. He cleft a path among the people on deck (we were nearly all ondeck,) and without addressing anybody whomso- ever, soliloquised as follows ««'This may suit you, this may, but it don’t suit me. This may be all very well with Down Eesters and men of Boston raising, but it wont suit my figure no how; an no two ways about that; and so I tell you. New: I’m from the brown forests 0: the Mississippi, J am, and when the sun shines on me, it does shine—a little. {t don’t glimmer where I live, the sun don’t. No. I’ma brown forester, I am. Iain’ta Johnny Cake. There are no smooth skis where] live. We're rough men there. Rather. IfDown Easters and men of Boston raising like this, I’m glad of it, but I’m none of that raising nor ofthat breed. No. This company wants a little fixing, étdoes. I’mthe wrong sort of man for ’em, J am. They won’t hke me, they won't. This is piling of it up, a little too mountainous this is.’ At the end of every one of these short sentences he turned upon his heel, and walked the other way; checking him- self abruptly when he had finished another short sentence, and turning back agaia. “It is impossible for me to say what terrific meaning was hidden in the worls of this brown forester, but I know that the other péssengers looked on in a sort of admiring horror, and thet tly the beat was put back to the wharf, andas many of the Pioneers as could be coaxed or bullied into going away, were got rid of. * When we started egain, some of the boldest spirits on board made bold to say to the obvious occasion of this im- provement in our prospects, ‘Much obliged to you, sir ;’ whereunto the brown forester (waving his hand, and stil! walking up and down as before), replied, ‘No, you an’t. Yon’re none o’ my raising. You may act for yourselves, joumay. [have pinted out the way. Down Kastere nd johnny Cakes can follow it they please. | an’t a Johnny Cake, "t. Iam from the brown forests of the Missis- sippi, J am’—and so on, as before. He was unanimously voted one of the tables for his bed at night—there is a great contest for the tables—in consideration of his public services ; and he had the warmest corner by the « ove throughout the rest of the journey. But I never could find out that he did anything except sit there ; nor did I hear him again until, in the midst of the bustle and turmoil age ashore in the dark at genie} e Jag Pittsburg, 1 stumbled over him as he sat smoking acigar on thecabin steps, and heard him muttering to himself, with a short laugh of defiance, ‘I an’t a ea A Cake, gn’t. I’m from the brown forests of the Mississippi, J am, damme ! lam inclined to argue f om this that he had never left off saying so ; but I could not make affidavit of that part of the story, if required to do #0 by my Queen and country.” JONATHAN IN TH DUMP! “At dinner (on board the steamer) there is nothing to drink upon the table but great jugs full of cold water No- body says any thing, at ny meal, to any body. All the passengers are very dismal, and seem tc have tremendous secrets weighing on their minds. ‘There is no conversa- tion, no ene no cheerfulness, no sociality, except in g, end that is done in silent fellowship round the when the meal isover. Every man sits down, dull ind languid, swallows his fare an if breakfasts,dinners,and ra, were necessities of naiure never to be coupled recreation or enjoyment ; and having bolted his na gloomy silence bolts himself, in the same state. But for these animal observances, you might suppose the whole male portion of the company to br the melancholy hosts of departed hook-keepers, who had fallen dead at the desk : sach is their weary air ot business and calcula. tion. U dertakers on duty would be sprightiy beside them ; and a collation of funeral-baked meats, in compari- son with these meals, would be a eee festivity. “The people are all alike, too. ‘There no diversity of character. They travel about on the seme errands, say and do the same things in exactly the same manner, and follow in the same du round.” A NATIVE CHIEFTAIN, “ There chanced to be on board this boat, in addition to the usual dreary crowd of passe , one Pitchlynn, a chief of the Choctow tribe of Indians, who eent in his card tome, and with whom [had the pleasure of a long conversation. “He spoke English perfectly well, though he hed not begun to learn the age, he told me, until he was a young man grown had read many books, and Scort s poetry appevred to have left a strong im jon on hi mind, espreially the opening of ‘ The Lady of the Lake, and the great battle scene in ‘Marmion,’ in which, no doubt, from the congeniality of the sutjectsto his own pursuits and tastes, he had great interest and delight. He appear’ d to understand correctly all jad read, and whatever fiction had enlisted his sympathy in its beliof, had dons #0 keenly and earnestly, | might almost say fiercely. He was dressed in ou ordinary every day coy with iumo, which huog about bis fine figure loosely, indifferent grace. On my selling im that 1 Pe ow Not to see him in attire, he threw up his r arm fora momeni,asthough he was some heavy weapon, and answered, as he let it fall again, thet his race losing many things beside the dress, and would soon be och he fath no more, bathe wore |, proudly. and was now re- ington on some ne- seventeen mont turning. He had been chiefly at W. gotiations pending between his tribe andthe Government; which were not settled yet (he said in a melancholy way) and he feared never would be ; for what could a few poor Indians do against such well skilled men of business us the * “He had no love for Washington ; tired of towns and cities very soon; and longed for the forest and the prairi “T asked him what he thought of Congress ? swered, with a smile, that it wanted dignity in an Indian's Ie would very much like, he said, to see England be- fore he died ; and spoke with much interest about the great things to be seen there. When I told him of thatchamber in the British Museum wherein ire preserved household memorials of a race that ceased to thousands of years ‘ago, he was very attentive, and it was not hard to see that he had a reference in his mind to the gradual fading away of his own people. «This ted usto speak of Mr. Catlin’s gallery, which he praised highly,observing, that his own portrait was among the collection, and that ail the likenesses were ‘elegant’ Mr Cooper, he said, had painted the red man well ; and so would I, he knew, if | would go home with him and bunt buffaloes, which ne was quite anxious I should de, When 1 told him that supposing I went | should not be very like- ly to damage the buffaloes much, he took itas a great joke and laughed heartily. “He was a remarkably handsome man : some years past forty, I should judge, with long black hair, an aquiline nose, broad cheek bones, a sunburnt complexion, and a very bright, keen, dark, and piercing eye. There were but'twenty thousand of the Choctaws left, he said, and their number was decreasing every day "A fewo his brother chiefs had been obliged to become civilized, and to make themselves acquainted with what the whites knew for it was theironly chance of existence, But thry were not many ; and the rest were as they always hai been, He dwelt on th d said several times that unless they tried to assimil emselves to sheir conquero: y must be swept away before the striaes of eivilia ty “ When we shook hands at parting, I told him he must come to England, as nged to see the land so much ; that 1 should hope to see him there, one day, and that | could promise him he would be well received and kindly treated. He was evidently pleased by 1 nee, though he rejoined, with a good-humored smile and an arch shake of his head, that the English used to be very fond of the red men when they wanted their help, but had not cared much for them since. “He took his leay ly and complete a gi ntle- in of Nature’s making ever 1 beheld; and moved among the people in the boat, another kind of being.” REPUBLICAN INDEPENDENCE. The republican institutions of America undoubted): lead the people to ass.rt their self-respect and their equal ity ; but a traveller is bound to bear those institutions in his mind, and not hastily to resent the near approach of a class of strangers who, at home, would keep aloof. This characteristic, when it was tinctured with uo foolish pride, and stopped short of no honest service, never oftended me; and I very seldom, if ever, experien, ced its rude or unbecoming display. ‘Once or twice it was comically developed, as in the following case ; but this was an amusing incident, and not the rule or near it, “T wanted a pair of boots at acertamtown, for! had , but those with the memorable cork soles, which were much too hot for the fiery decks of a steamboat. I therefore sent a message to an artist in boots, importing, with my compliments, that I should be happy to see him, if he would do me the polite favor tocall. He very politely returned for answer that he would ‘ look round’ at six o’clock that evening. “T wos lying onthe sofa, with a book anda wine-glass, bout that time, when the door opened, and a gentleman in a stiff cravat, within a year or two on either side of thirty, entered, In hi hat axd gloves, walked up to the looking-glass, arranged his hair, took off his gloves, slow ly produced a measure from the uttermost depths of his id requested me, in a ianguid tone, to ps. [ complied, but looked with some curi- osity at his hat, which was still upon hishead. It might have been that, or it might have been the heat—but he took it off.—Then, he sat himself d.wn on achair openate to me; rested an arm on each knee, and leaning forward very much, took from the groazd, by a great effort, the specimen of metropolitan workmanship which I had just pulled off-whistling, pleasantly, as he did so. He turned it over and over ; surveyed it with acontempt no language can express ; and enquired if I wished him to fix me abvot like that? Toourteously replied that provi- ded the boots were large enough, 1 would leave the rest to him; that if convenient and precticable, | should not ohject to their beer some resem lance 'o the model then before him; but that I would be entirely guided by, and would beg to leave the whole subject to his judg- mentanddiscretion ‘You #n’t partickiler about this scoop in the neel, I suppose then ? says he ; ‘We don’t follerthat here.’ I repeated my last observation. He looked at him- self inthe glass again ; went closer to it to dash a grain or two of dust out of the corner of his eye ; ard settled bis cravat. All this time, my leg snd foot went in the chair. «Nearly ready, sir? I inquired. ‘Well, pretty nigh,’ he said 5 ‘ keep steady.’ I kept as steady as I could, both in foot and face ; sod having by this time got the dust out, and found his pencil-case, he measured me and made the necessary notes When he had finished, he fell into his old attitude, and taking up the boot again, mused for some time. ‘And this, he in English boot, it? This is a London b h? ‘That, sir,’ | replied, ‘ is a London boot.” He mu iter the manner of Hamlet with Yoric! should say, ‘1 pity the tion of this boot?—rose, pat up hit pencil, notes and pa- glancing at himself in the glassall the time—put on is hat, drew on his gloves very slowly, and finally walk- ed out. When he had 2 about a minute, the door re- opened, and his het and his head re-appeared. round the room, and at the boot again, which was still lying on the floor—appeared thought/ul tor a minute—and then said, * Well, good arternoon.’ ‘Good afternoun,’ said 1; and thus was ended the interview.” THR FALLS OF NIAGARA. Between 6 and 6 o'clock in the morning we arrived at Buffalo. where we breakfasted, and, being too near the Great Falls to wait patiently anywhere else, we set off by the traia the same morhing at 9. Whenever thetrain halt- ed I listened for the roar; afd was Cgc straining my eyes in thedirection where | knew the Falls must be, from seeing the river rolling on towards them, every mo- ment expecting to behold the spray. Within & few mi. nutes of my stoppiug I saw two great white clouds rising up slowly aud majestically from the depths of the earth. ‘That was all. At length we alighted ; and then, for the first time, I heard the mighty rush of water, end felt the ground tremble underneath my fect. The bank was very steep, and was slippery with rain and half melted ice. ‘1 hardly know how | got down, but was soon at the bottom, and climbing with two Englishofficers who were cross- ing, and had joined me, over some broken rocks, deafened by the noise, half blinded by the spray, and wet to the skin, we were at the footof the American I could see an immense torrent of water tearing headiong down from some great height, but hi tion, or anything but vague immensity. ‘we were seated in the litte ferry boat and were crossing the swollen river immeviately bi fore both cotaracts, I began to fvel what it was ; but 1 was in a manner stunned, ond uniable to comprehend the vastnessof the scene. It was no un- til I came on Table Rock, and looked—great Heaven, on what a fall of bright green water !—that it came upon me in its fall might and majesty. Then, when ] felt how near to my Creator I wi nding—the first effect, and the enduring one-instant and Iasting—of the tremendous spectacle was peace—peace of mind—tranquillity—caim recollection of the dead—great thoughts of eternal rest ‘and happiness ; nothing of gloom and terror. , Niagara was at once stamped upon my heart an image of beauty ; to remain there changeless and indellible until its pulses cease to beat forever. Oh, how the strife and trouble of our daily life receded from my view and les sened in the distance daring the ten memorable days we. assed on that enchanted ground! What voices spo! « from out the thundering water ; what faces faded from the earth looked out upon me from its gleaming depths ; what heavenly promise glistened in those angel's tears the drops of many hues that showered around and twined tbewiosbr about the gorgeous arches which the changing rainbows made. J never stirred all that time from the Canadian side, whither | had gone at first ; Inever crossed the river again ; forI knew there were people on the other shore, and in such a place it is natural to shun strange company. To wander to an1 fro all day, and see the cataract from all poi of view ; to stand upon the ge of the great Horseshoe Fall, marking the hurried wa- ter gathering strength a: roached the verge, yet seeming, too, to pause before it shot into the gulf below ; to gaze upon the river’s level up at the torrent, as it came | streaming down to climb the ‘hboring heights, and watch it through the trees, and see the wreathing water tothe rapids hurrying on to take its fvarful plage; to linger int! shadow of the solemn rocks three miles be- low ; watching the stirred by no visible cause, it heaved and «ddie4, and awoke the echoes, being troubled +t far down beneath th face by its giant leap ; to ave Niagara before me, lighted by the sun and by tne moon, red in the day ’s decline, and gi evening slowly fell upon it; t» look npon it every day, and awake up in the might and hear its ceaseless voice ;—(his was enough ! Court of Common Pleas. Before Judges Inglis and Ingraham. Nov. §.—This court has been buaily oceupied during the week, particularly in adding to the roll of indep: ndent freemen those who have abjured their old governments ana now swear, before God and man, to uphold the con: stitution and laws of this their adopted country, About 600 sturdy fellows, 300 of them on Saturday, produced their papers and pateed to citizenship. Peter Bates vs. Daniel A, Webster.—Mr. Bates loaned the defendant $500, and the defendant very honestly seeks to retain possession of it by setting up a plea of usury, averving that $5 more than legal interest had been taken for 60 days. The jury, however, placed most confidence in the testimony of denial, and found for plaintiff. For plaintiff, Messrs. J. M. Webster, Cowles and Barker. For defendant, Mr. Dutcher. Stephen Davidson vs. Robert R. Russell, et. al.—Mr. R. had pw misfortune to own @ vessel, as many have, (touch. ing assessments)—to own Bey on some parts of our island. She was brought hore by Davidson, who libelied her for wages asserted to be due tobimas mate The vessel, (heing the good sloop Betsey, recently employed asa lighter at the south.) was released from thy U. & Court, and action met here. ‘The demand was for $297. Verdict tor plaintiff, $109 25° U. 8, District Court, Noy. 5—Dscision,—In the case of Andrew J. Mead, the Court held that a debt contracted by 9 voluntary or invol- untary bankrupt, slthough not yet payable, must be con. sidered as owing by him, and that creditor in such - hes an equal right to come in with others and prove ‘Tre Last Post First Marshal, of embezzlement, was t hour in the aft which w d by Childs, the printer. tion is suppos moust to upwards of $20,000. John Ahern is also implicated in receiving a portion of the hos- pital money and there are some reason to suppose that there was a perfect understanding between these two rogues to pluck the pubiic treasur, Swicipe.—Mr. Peter Shicl, keeper of the Hoboken Branch Porter House, corner of Beach and Washington streets, was found on Sunday morning in an o yt at the rear of his house, with his throat cul and a razor, with which he had committed the act lying within a few feet of his dead body. Although not of excessive intemperate habits, yei for the past few weeks he has indulged so free- Jy as to cause partial insanity, during the effects of which he destroyed himself. He has left a young and interesting wife. A Moapex.—James McDonald, club on Thursday, the 27th in James Leary in revenge for some supposed injury receiv- ed the evening by the falling of a ‘musket thet was inthe hands of McDonald, died yesterday from the inju ved. Leary isin prison and wiil now be tried ior vho wae struck witha nt, by aman named Count or Gexenat Sessioxs meet this morning when the gran’ and petit jurors will be called and the Court wiil then adjourn till Wednesday. ‘The Board of Aldermen will meet to-night. tamoany Hate Trexet.—The name ot MichaelWalsh has been placed on the Democratic Assembly ticket in place of that of M. H. Vandyke,and he is therefore accord= ing 10 ali party usuge one oi the regu-arly nominaced can- didates tor Assembly. “Circuit Court. Before Judge Kent. Nov. 5.—Wm. J. Burritt vs. L. J. Comstock, et. al.—This great action for libel, which hes occupied four juries, at this Court and the Sessions, long enough te expend some thousands of dollars worth of time, ended on Friday eve- ning. Mr. Jaudon, for defendants, made quite a brilliant display, burling pills and patent medicines at the head of his opponent with no unsparing hand. At the close of his remarks he anticipated the bitter rejoinder which was to come from his friend Mulock, (counsel on the other side,) but bade bim defiance in the following medical distich :— Wonder who made it? “Come on, begin the grand attack, With aloes, squills and ipecac— And then with certain pipe and squirt gun, There'll be a monstrous deal of hurt done.” Mulock did come on, and administered a dose apparent- ly sutticient to relieve the deep wounds said to have been experienced by his client, bot all did not answer, as he had rather a tough subject to'work upon. The history of the © known, Dr. Thayer, residing in the upper part of the Bowery, and proprietor of Taylor’s Balsom of Liver: wort, died some months ago. On his desth bed he be- questhed to Mr. Comstock the care of his widow ard two ind @ most interesting bequest it was— and beautiful, and the children per- le also left for their support the ips tion of his medicine, ((rom which, had he lived, he would rapidly have accumulated a fortune,) and the drug store which he oce~pied. Mr. Thayer's brother und other relatives also claimed to have the prescription, and Com- stood fearlessly by the widow of hisfrie.d Burritt ed the opposite party, and an advertising newspaper ir grew up between them, in the course of which Bur- ritt was accused of having forged certificates as to the medecine, &c., and hence the action. The jury found tor defendant. Henry Parrish vs. John Straeder, jr.—Mr. Parrish hav- ing, as & merchant, amassed a handsome fortune,was desi. rous of spending it as a gentleman should, taking his ease, and enjoying what money could obtain fur him—(would that the miserable cogeys who become buried in wealth and rubbish and think only of using vheir means '9 an'rep and beggar their poorer neighbors would teke example by him)—was desirous ot obtaining a splendid pair of coach horses, and applied to Mr. Townsend Cocks, a somewhat elderly man, who is acquainted with every point of a horse as clearly asa maiden is with the features of her lover, to purchase him such, with the uli-gratifying ad- denda in such a case, “‘not to mind the cost,” that is, if it did not exceed $1200. Cocks heard of a pair at Springfield, Mass.,and set outto purchase them On arriving there he found that Mr Straeder, the defendant, ond Judge War- ren, both belonging to New Brunswick, N. J., had got the teach. of hie en bed already bought the hors them $600. Cocks admired the b if 5. & W. would sell them. Not getting a definite answer he followed them to the city . edto Mr. Parrish. All parti and Mr. P. made purcha to their being sound. Straeder agreed that should be suited, and, if this pair would not would procure others to? trial the horses did not suit vir. Parrish, sent by Mr.Cocks to Stra-der, (then in New Jernyiy to that effect, who gave him another pair in exchang he next day it was ascertained that one ofthe new ones was lame, aiid Straeder agreed to take the horse back. He ad- vised that the lame one should be sold at Tattersalls, which done, and the animal brought but $62. Straeder never replaced him, andthe match horse was sold, after being kept through the winter, for $110. The plaintiff conse- quently brings action, laying his damages at $2,000. On the trial the defendant complained at the horse being sold so low at Tattersall s,but Mr.Cocks said Stracder was pre- sent and might have prevented it had he chosen to do so. For himself he did not think much of the horse; he saw when he first looked at him thet be had alump on the hi snd sappossd him to be lame, but Straeder said he wos not so—besides he was bad in many other respects, in facthe was a “perfect brute.” Counsei.—Perfect brute—what do you mean by his be- ing a brute. 1rexss.—Why, I mean that he was ad—d hog. Counse1— Oh, you mean thet the horse was ad—d hog; very well, sir, Wirness.—I mean | would’nt give two-and.sixpence for the whole of them. chadney after a sharp contest, gav2 a verdict in favor of plaintiff for $816,40. ‘or plaintiff, Messrs. J. W. Gerard and A. M. Sherman. Fos defendants, Messrs. George Wood and L. B. Woed- ruff. Nicholas §. Ludlum vs. William Van Hook.—This wan an action on aclaim of $700, (reported some time since,) for errauging the books of the late Mr. Boggs, the d sion of which was left to one of the jurors (Mr Elea: Hand.) Mr. H., we understand, has ‘awarded to Mr. L. the whole amount claimed. Bankrupt List, SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK. Nov. 5—Charles Brugiere, (late firm C. Brogiere & Co,) merchant, N.Y —Jan. 14. William Brugiere, (late firm C. Brugiere & Co.) mer chant, N. ¥.—Jan. 14. John H. Smith, late merchant, N_¥.—Jan. 14. Samuel R. Childs, physician, N. ¥.—Deo. 10. Ward Newman, Inte leather dealer, N. ¥.—Dec. 8. Leonard T. Coles, (late firm Coles & Berry, distillers) Williamsburgh—Dee. 8, William T. Brown (late firm Brown & Urquhart,) mer. chant, N. ¥.— Dee. 8. James Mitchell (late firm §, & J. Mitchell,) Nantucket, now of N. Y.—Dec. 8. Thomas K. Park, Rye, Westchester co.—Dec. 8. Robert C. Hartshorne, late merchant, N. ¥.—Dec. 8. Samuel S. Ketchum, Shawangunk—Dec. 3. 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