Liberty Advocate from Liberty, Mississippi • 2

1 I' -A i 'IHUktbDAV, I I I I I DECEMBER 20, 1630. By Tuesday evening's mail Irom Natchez, wo learn that Gen. William Henry was nominated tlio Whig candidate for President, by the Harrisburg (Pu.) National Con. i i i i. 11 vcntion, which met on tho 4th instant.

All tho States were represented with tho exception of South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, and I Arkansas, there being prcsont, in all, 254 'A delegates. Tho vote on tho fifth nnd last bal- lot, stood thus: Harrison 148, Clay 00, Scott 4 yJ'J No nomination had been made for Vice Pres- -L 1 ident, at tho Inst accounts. -i Lf i Gen. Jones, of Virginia, is suid to be the Van Burcn candidate for Speaker of tho House present Congress. ijh learn from tho Natchez V'H Daily ourier, of the 23rd that an unfor tunato rencontre took place on tho Thursday ''tJj evening preceding, at the Mansion House in yS that city, between Richard llagan, late me r- chant of New Orleans, and Josias A.

Lyle, of I Natchez, "the result of which was that the Jl( former was dangerously wounded, having re Ij-ccived the ball from the latter'- pistol in the lfuco." Mr. Lyle was held to bail in the sum (j'of for his appearance at the next Crim i t) uoun oi Adams countv. Democrats of this State are in some i(Vlwhatof a quandary as to who they will run speaker of the House, at the meeting of the 'Legislature next month. L. A.

Besanoon is fpoken of by some, while Jesse Speight, of ownues, is preferred by others. The claims jfSof somo few more are urged, but tho gentlemen IjMiuniea seem the most prominent. From the Yazoo City Whig Extra Dec 9. AWFUL YAZOO CITY IN li ULVS It is our melnnclml Vul calamity by fire, which visited our city yesterday Sunday.) Nearly one half of the "i .1 ''ty IS a mass of ashen nnd hnrninrr mln .1 WW? 0 ves cruav mornin-. j.i 'ire broke out in a servant's rnnm rnnnti vith tho Washington Hotel, and was only ar-( 'Acstcd at tho Planters' Bank, on iluin street.

onsuming every thing in its course. The i -uiiaings wero all wood, very dry, and the mm mowing considerably, Spread with ureal raniditv. made the flames Our office was about tho fourth house bu rnt. 1 VL "lamnuis uomg in the second siory, were unable to save but a portion of them. I ur press, a part of our type, and a great num-V," of "tC9, accounis c.

shared the common 'itc of every lhin- else around it XI The principle sufferers and the hief build- fllgs burnt, SO far as WC can nseertain in tl. i.i rosent confusion, areas follows. in The two principle squares on either sido of Jeflerson trcet aro entirely destroyed. Tlio-Wushing-. fro Hotel was the first buildintr ih.

rug Store of II. K. Randolph, the house of fi wiaynaru, occupied by A. S. Perkins as 'Store, tho dwelling house of J.O.

Hunter, the ore of Wm. I). Seal, on the north sido of Jef- street, the dwelling house of Kdward the Store and Ware house of Messrs. Wright, very few goods saved the next lruse, was occupied by Mr. Parish as a Saddler below, and by our Ollice in tho second Vj ifory, building owned by Win.

M'Kinstry 'idK. A. Merrittj tho next was the comer, a 'rgc framo house, occupied by Jennin.s, Mer- i a. 1 i i CSt In Which Was In ran rmnnlitv rl' Merchandize, nrincinallv on cunsinnmpni. buildings consumed on the South side of street, below tho Washington Hotel, "ii'e, the Ofliceof Urs.

Barber lUrnnt. itio i tico of Q. D. Gidbs, Esq. tho Post Office, the 7 'iiuabie papers and letters or which, were with -eat difficulty, principally saved, and the Gro- ry btoro ot Messrs.

Hunter Bell. The tfH did not cross Main street but proceeded twn on 'h0 South-eust side, consuming sever-' Offices, tho Store-house of Mr. James Hay- fn, (vacant) the Sloro-house ol Messrs. Vance Andrews, occupied by Mr. Tibbs as a 'ry Store, the House of N.

Kovster. Messrs. Jackson Edmonds as a and tho IIouso occupied by tho Union tiling Office, which adjoined tho Planters' 'j Jink. All the above named houses aro entire- IjjJ destroyed. Moft of the materials of the I Jnion" office wore saved.

Tho Commereiiil I j'', link was for a long time in great danger, but 4 A 'fas saved. Tho Planters' Bank was on fire I S. i i. i i 'an tho adjacent buildings, was, with very i Teat exertion saved. 1 ho hm nmt rm ilw.

i v. )l Jposite side of Main street were on fire, sev- Viai times, out wero saved, with rt. Our citizens turned out to a man and addrcs- 'd themselves to tho flumes liko men. Notii- but their intrinid and undismayed vigor saved what is left of our unfortunate City. jiey wero however, without uFirc Engine and it well supp ied with water Wecannoi in tins hasty moment state, with ay probnllo correctness tho amount of prop- 'ty lost, but it is very great.

Our particular ienus linn cw right ore perlinps lie greatest ascrs. Out of seven houses they have one ft. Tlierrit, Jennings are also heavy Amongst oilier things we arc ex- jpmcly sorry to add that they lost $10,00 dol- tlfa in cash. iVo lives were lost and no one j'1 friously injured that wo have heard of. fit is only by the prompt courtcey and ready iliteness of tho proprietorsof the Union Ctlici; 1 i i i at we arccnabletogive this slip to the public; iir own Frets, as wo 6tated, being destroyed have been favoured with tho uso of theirs 1'iich was by great exertion saved from des-bction, and for which we tender them our tartyand sincere acknowledgments.

Such Vielv favours wc shall not forget. The confusion into which our office is thrown JI in all probability prevent us from issuing i i regular paper on Friday, But thereafter Wbio will go forth to its patrons as usual. From the Richmond Whig. Tho wisest nro at a loss to predict the termination, ordivine iho result, moral, political and commercial, of tho existing pecuniary embarrassments of the country. A few moro sanguine than the rest anticipato an early resumption of specie payments, ami a general change for tho better in all departments of business.

Oihers indulgo tho hope and ven ture tho prediction, that the legalization of the Sub-Treasury scheme at the opening of Congress will work like a charm, and re-invigorate, instantly, thedrooping energiesof ihe country- Others, again, bowed down to tho earth by the existing pressure, have no time to look to the future; and others whose fears are stronger than their hopes, sec a future still moro gloomy than the present and anticipate a series of years of throes and convulsions, in the commercial world, only to bo terminated by a res torntion of the old order of things, and the re-establishment of a Nntiona! Bank. JYon nostrum it is not for us io decide, when so many wiser cannot agree. But vben wo lake into consideration the vast resources and indomitable energies of this youthful and vigorous nation if we do not find even there grounds to justily lie most cheering anticipations, we surt'ly see enough to warrant the hope that the gloomiest forebodings will not ho realized, may, as all others who have gonefbefore them, be ready to resort to any expedient, to submit to any terms which their corrupt and ambitious rulers may impose' as the means of relief. They become weary of the eternal struggle, which preservation of their ilberties renders necessary, when wicked men bear rule; and they may become content to seek quiet and reposeven in the embrace of despotism. This is a danger seriously to be apprehended.

The Government party already look to the consummation of their wishes, by a continued harrass- mcnt of the people, and by (atiguing them into submissions. Wielding nil the pow ers of the Government, they steadf istly refuse to co-operate it the adoption of any measure of relief. Our greatest fear is for the public morals and tho public liberty. A large portion of the present mercantile community may be reduced to bankruptcy, and thousands and thousands of the people of the country may have ruin and beggary staring them in the face all private and public improvements may be arrested; but these are evils, however much to be depre cated, and however justly they may draw down upon their authors' heads, universal and bitter execration theseare theevils which are par tial in their opeiation, and in a national point of susceptible of reparation. But there is a danger amidst the thioes and agonies, to which the people may be suhjectej, they unless it he a measure which will invent them with absolute control over the public liberty.

On this condition, and this condition alone, ill 'hey consent to contribute the slightest assis tance to repair the mischiefs of their own ere ation. Here they take their position, and will not move a peg; confidently anticipating the realization of their hopes. They know they possess the means of plaguing and oppressing the people, and they are determined not to desist, till the people succumb. Let the people no longer able to endure the ills inflicted upon them, cry out to their rulers with one voice. aciinowieugc your power it is useles to resist you you have destroyed the best cur reney any country ever enjoyed you have ru ined ourMate institutions you have paralized commerce and bronghton intolerable pressure upon the country to resist you further would ruin every thing: We submit -do as you list take your Govirnmcnt liank4 we know it will be an engine of despotism in your hands but tako it it may dispose ycu to givu us a little relief and to leave us to the quiet enjoy-ment of the little that is left:" When this voice of submission fehall greet tho ears of our Federal Rulers, they may profess a little sympathy of the sufferings of tho people; but until then, they will exult tho more, to the great displeasure of their victims.

JOHN C. CALHOUN ON A NATIONAL BANK. We extract tho following paragraph from tho speech of Calhoun in 1G34, on tho removal of ihe deposites. Nut. Cour.

"I might say, with truth, that the Rank owes as much to mo, as to any other individual in tho country; and I might even add that had it not been for my ellorts, it would not have been chartered." "It is said that the Bank had no agency, or at least no efficient agency, in the restoration of specie payments in 1817, and that it has fai led to furnish tho country with a uniform and sound currency, as had been promised at its creation. Loth of these alienations 1 nrunounco to be without just foundation. To enter into a minute examination of them would carry me too far from the subject, and I must content myself with saying, that having been on the political stago without interruption from that day to this having been an atteniivo observer ol tho question of tho currency throughout the whole period that the Lank has iecnan indis pensable agent in the restoration of specie payments; that without it the restoration could not hive been ejected, short of the utter prostituHon of all the monie.d institutions of the country, and an entire depreciation of Bank paper that nan not omy reswreu specie payment, but has given a currency far mora uniform, between the extremes of the country, than teas anticipated or even areamea oj at lue.iimc oj as creation. Scraps from the German of Jean Faul Idleness, St. Ambroes says, is tho devil'.

pillow, wherclore many good christians, who thinli tho devil deserves noim' uke it away from him and put it under their own heads. Necessitv. The most cheerful children are always tho best, and necessity, if she is the mother of invention, is also the grandmother wickedness. Reading. There are readers who not no farther than the title page of books, like the Indian fox, who devours only the heads of in sects.

How delicate. There is said lo be an old woman "down east" who makes upplo-pios without paring the apples! Sho thinks it the height of indelicacy to take ofT their clothing. The Hon. Daniel Webster was in Paris on tho 24th of October. Mi- wr- From the ITisviUe, (Ky Gazette.

BYRON LOVE OF LI BERT V. An English author of liberal principles, has written an eloquent essay on "Byron and Goethe," and in a spirit that is thoughtful and highly laudable. Poor Lord Byron, whom every puny poetaster and Lilliputian witling now thinks himselfentitled to rail against, is spoken of in terms that do credit to the writer head and heart. Wo subjoin a pussngo, with the generous tono of which we have been much struck: I 'Never did ho desert ou ause; never was ho false to human sympfhy. Solitary and u.jfortunnte from his infancy, cruelly wounded in his first love, nnd still moro cruelly in his marriage; attacked and calumniated in his acts and intentions, without defence; annoyed by pecuniary difficulties; forced to quit his country home; 1ms child friendless, wc have seen since his death; pursued on the continent, by a thousand ubsured tales, and by the old malig nity of a wor that ninde even his sorrows a crime, he preserved in the midst if his inevita ble reaction, his loc lor Ins sister, his nis pity for misfortune, his fidelity lo the affection of the years of his childhood and youth, even from his old nurse Mary rBy to liord Uare.

He was generous of his money to those to whom he could be useful, from his literary friends lo the wretched libeller Ash-. Impelled by the temper of his mind, by tho period in which ho lived, by the fatality even ol his mis sion, towards a poetry whose place has new to be filled, towards the incomplete tendency we have sought to characterize, he by no means set himself upas a standard; he presaged the future; he vindicated the prescience of genius, in this definition hitherto misunderstood, nnd yet tl.e best we know of, "Poetry is tho feeling of a former word und a he ulways pre ferred activity for good, toall his art could do. htirruoiiUed with slaves and their oppressions, a traveller in countries where remembrance ever seemed extinct, witness of tho progress of the Rc.stoiaiion, and of the triumph of the prin ciplcs of tho Holy Alliance, he never swerved from his courageous opposition; he publicly preserved his laiih in the thoughts of the people, in tho final triumph of liberty, in the duty of devoting body nnd soul to hasten it whenever the occasion should present itsell. I he passage following, ihe very abstract of the law of our present ellorts, is from Ins pen. "Onward! it is now the lime to act, and what signifies self, it Mng bpm-K linn which wouhj uu wormy oi lie past can be bequeathed unquestionably lo the It is not one man, nor a million' but iho spirit ot liberty which must be spread.

The waves hich dash upon the shore, are, one by one, broken; but yet the ocean conquers, nevertheless. Itoverwhelms tho Amanda, it wears the rock, and, if the Neptunians are to be believed, it has not only destroyed but made a At Naples, in the Romagna, whereev- cr he saw a spark of life stirring, be was ready for exertion or for combat, could it but break into come. His life was of splendid ruir lofty thougls and great actions! he stigmatised base ness, hypocraey and injustice, whencesoevcr they sprang. Thus lived Byron unceasingly tossed betw een present ills und future hopes often unequal, sometimes sceptical, but always suffering, even when ho seemed to laugh; al ways loving, even when he cursed The French gentleman at Washington, whose scholastic perplexities have been so feel ingly described, has made his last bow, and issued his card of departure pour pre ndi conge, He goes full of vivacity and hope; und may we not trust for his sake, that ho will accomplish the thing whereupon he sends himself, and "re turn to his mutton," at last, possessed of all ttie elements ol prosperity. rhiladtlphia Ga telle.

FOR DF. INTELLIGENSAIR NATIONAL. P. P. C.

"Adieu! et si e'est pour toujours Pour toujours encore 'Fair dee vcllo, mid if fore evair Steal fore evair fair do vello!" BYRON. Messieurs: I am prepare misel to taik mon passage in do sheep; he is coll do "grand Ves-tairn." Do banque no give specie. 1 make von suspense. Je m'en vais. 1 have finish my experiments com mo teeshair of do Frensli and do Inglish Dare is vou imbecile pocto Anglais, he av von giando opinion of de teeshare, hot ho nevaire leesho Frensh j'en suts sur.

He say: "Delightfool task too rear de tender toad, Too icesh do young idee hoo too sliout." Diablo! I ville uot teesh too shoot, an I no love to shoot my sol--he! qu'en dites vous? lave recevo von grand inspiration. I re-noneee for evair du delightful task. I part for Paris. 1 villo studJi dugrando art Part do la gastronomic; dat is, 1 villc apprendre to prepare do ragout, de fricassee, do voi-nu vent, de cote-lettes en papillottes de de diable! I no rcmombair duns ce moment du carte, but 1 ville not deserter do goo people do I love him motsh; ho is verri complaisant to me; 1 villo regaler him, ven I finish mi stud li, vit teoshmg do tonguo not da Frensh de Inglish hot do tongue ov hiscstomac; a man-'er des nlats deli oleuv ho ville ave grand plarir, and 1 ville bild von, loo, tree house. 1 ville maik vou'fortnne foro do cuisinier is bettair den do prol'esseur de langue a moins queco ne fut une langue de becufdo To you, jontlcman, je rend beaucoup do re-mercimcuts you ave procure mo menui frend an do oil recevo misel vit motsh lairing.

I ville remeuibair you; I villo inviter you too reed vit mo von good fricassee ven I come reiourner too ashmgton. En attendant je vous prie i nr.mit 1 uii.3 vlcu pour voire prospente. Avee Jcsquols j'ai I'honneur d'etre do langue Francaisc un malhoureux maitre. la "My son hold up your head and tell us who was the strongest man!" "Jonah." "Why so?" "Causo tho whalo couldn't hold him, after he hmi down. Mercury.

Convenient very convenient formula as a renlv in new publications that were constantly In 1. ri "ii viz: "Dear sir I have received 1 wo'k, and 1 have no doubt i Mian it." bo highly delighted after I have read It PR IN ILLINOIS. To tho Editors of the Baltimore 1 Clipper. Cavv lllinnid. Sent.

1. 1839. Feel in about these times sorter sewed up udih ii. htocs. I've come to DUttV much of a judgematical conclusion to give you a rale sentimental ideo about matters and things out in these diggins and if 1 du hnppenter spraul out farce aforo Pin done, you need nt In-I'nli BlrnniTA nil! CIlUSO lllV dllth dtT is rix and when steoin is up, mid salety v.liHa i1'.

ilia leust leetle motion sets me a bilin rit over, nnd laint tho natur of this child tnmilverizo the matter, caus if I undertook to soft-soap it over with boblogick, you'd calcur- late was in ior long yurusjauu i guus- j-always gol enuf of them down east to du you. Now when these New Ingland fellers git out Imrp. ihn I'usi thinff thev du is to kinder snuott down into a log cabin, and tho kind of plunder thev hev here, nuts mo in mind ol mind of Doctur Fianklin'soration about New Ingland whitewashes, only taint quite as extensive. Their bake kettle sarves lor sorts oi uaKiu iuu-tin and siewin contrivances, and their inilkcn stules du putty generally fur cheers. When ihev are short on't for cardies, a feed in trof is iest iho caper and tho kindofgoards they raise here, make sicli porringers lor tno cniiuren-w niuimnel poan out on, as hai'nt ben beat for sometime.

A poker sarves lor a shovel anu toiiL's, amUscurerfor souallin children. Men, women imi children cat drink and snooz in one crib; and if an old crouey pays a visit, he gets touted up a ladder on to ascunllin flour, what's allowed for transcient customers. The kind of eat in. they have here, I'll venture won't give a man the dispepsia; flour duins and chick en lixens lor breakfast; corn uums anu porn for dinner, and common duins and capital fix-ens for supper. Wul, now, tho way they git along in these diggins I guess ain't to be sneez ed at.

They are always a contrived and con- nermizen, and never come out at the leetle eend of the horn, and then comes the emmer-granters to squott on the land and them what's bought fust are the best fellers. For when they get land for adoller and a quotter an acur, and them ero same fellers are peddlin on't for eighty dollers a foot, its goiigin, and arler all they'll scratel to see who'll git tho most on't; and keep kinder transmogrifieii on't over, and swoppin and peddlin round, so't the way some on 'em feather their nests, is putty considera ble, and then you I see 'em beginter build log houses, accordin to the newest and most fash lonublest livens, and when thev hev cot ono or tu thousand acurs of that are orarie. vou'l so 'era bcgiulcr raize hogs and critters, and eat os much pork fixens, that they' scratch their- selves almost to death with the Illinois itch. Then to put on the prink, they'll bown with the cow gribbs and hen roosts and chicken coops, and lay out towns and cities, and plant multi caulis nurseries, and build steam mills and wind mills, nnd set the steamboats a floating ur and down tho Mississippi to sich a tamal ratH, that they'll leave blue streaks behind urn asab- dady's journey, and finally they'll irit to mor chandizen and speculatin and inventin, and tho lust thing you1 see, they'll como rite out of tho kinks jist liko unravliu stackins. Now, 1 guess you Hunk Tin jokin, but ifyoudu, you are as jist as much mistaken, as if you'd scorth'i your shirt flaps, caus, I'll tell you jist how tis, you see tho land is so amazin rich, and as far- tile that enny thing that's planted shutes rite up.

If a feller drops enny thing and looses if, ii sproutes rite out. ou orter jist see urn raise sucker punkins sich unaccountable quan tities some on urn so mortal bi'. that thev nst i-mu a door on one side on urn und sorter walk i i an ox rue in and crib him up and when they take him out, he's a caution for a mmagerie. Vou'd look sorter wamble cropt, if I should tell you tho vines run with sich a perfect looseness, inai iukcs one teller the hull indurin time to stand with an axe and grub em off to keep uiniruiii runnin acrost tho Wassissippi; and then thcres the cat Jish gentry what grows in the Massissippi; so nation big that them are steamboat fellers sorter tackle 'em on to toat 'em off tho sand bars, and they come it with sich a penness, that steem power aint a circumstance. But I wantersay ono word about these New Ingland Tellers, that arc counted sich mortal critters when they are to hum.

They hev lately contrived out a notion what's puzzled these supernatural gentry so much: and that's perpeteieal motion. They've itst cot one a poin. and it goes so like a raven distracted, rooster, that it tares every thing all to smash. They've ben trien a git a moddlo to send to Washington, but they cant stop it long enuf to see how its! put together. Its ben a goin now for Tow weeks comes a Friday, tho hull indurin and it goes faster, so't theres nonoin when the crazy thing will ever stop.

Its as much as thev can du to kee it from ntnnin nmnv. nnA I guess when it does go, it will kick up sich duins as won't be any body's business no how. One thing I hkter forgot. This country is so amazin lartile, that enymost enny thing grows in unaccountable quontities, and artor" all, theres a scarcity (to be grammatical) in whats termed the leminino pander, and what few there is hei'f. Limn a ujiu uuai sicn a distracted rate.

that nearly all the married gentry are gitth to bo widderers, and if there ain't somethin did to put a stop to it, house keepin will a'l go to smash, and we shall bo undid forever. We've tried Brandreth's Pills anj Houck's Panacer, theres steam doctors enuf here to row me up salt nver, and arter all's said and did, taint noac count at all, and Pain putty considerably dis- you come out here, fetch along all the gals you can muster. Old maids will grj.is widorcrs either. Any thing to I'ujJUIllllUil. JoHNATHAN.

Kisses. Some ingenious writer has mado a classification of kisses. He says. "I have found that there are only three regular kisses, "iiu inese may be denominated tho kiss nega-t've, tho kiss positive, and tho kiss superlative. The first, or negative, consists in kissing a lady's hand.

The second, or positive, consists in kissing her cheek. 6 And the third, or superlative, consists in kis-snig her lips. There ure besides, two auxilliary kisses." have not much I 1 1 IMW jvi- 14 ol kissing, but with tho lights now before us, wo incline to the opinion that we should prefer the ''kiss superlative." Can't say positively, I -mu wo see the tcissee. Vicks. Whig.

A STORY OF WATERLOO. AT THE SEIGE OF SAN SEBASTIAN. Here a battery was erectod tho covered way to it passed through the convent, and the batte. ry itself wss constructed in a thickly.poophjd burial ground. A more ghastly circumsfanco can seldom have occurred in war, fortofrins and corpses in nil stages ofdocay, wero exposed when tha soil was thrown up to form a defence against tho fire from the town, and were used, indeed in tho defences; and when a sholl burst thore it brought down tho living and tho doad toiother An oTuor wm giving orders whsn struck tho edgo of tho trenches above him; two coffins slipped down upon him with the sand, the coffins broke in thoir fall, the bodies roled' with him for some distance, and when ho re.

covered he saw that they had boon womon of some rank, lor thoy were richly attired "in bluck velvet, and their long hair hung about their shoulders and their livid faces. The soldiers, in tho scarcity of fire wood. being nothing nice,) broke up coffins for fuel with which to dress their food, leaving the bod ies exposed; and, till the hot sun had dried up these poor insulted remains of humanity, the stench was as dreadful as the sight, i We have cited many of tho horrors of war. and many moro we have not touched upon. Wo leave Shakespcaro to describe.

THE SOLDIER-What reign can hold licentious wickedness, When down the hill ho holds his fierce career? We may, as botless spend our vain command Upon iho enraged soldiers in their spoil, As send our precepts to the Lcviathian To como a shore. GRADUATED JUSTICE. In a certain village in New York, where th footsteps of Dame Justice were last on tho earth. on a warm summer's day, three men were brought before a fair round Dutch ilagist rate. accused orthecrimeof drunkenness.

His honor having premised with a hearty swig of cool punch, began with the first "You rascal, po you kilty or po you not kilty. Pns. (juilty. Jus. Vat you get trunk on? Pris.

Blackstrap. Just. Vat! you get trunk on notting but blackstrap, you willin, you! Den, dis pe mine everlasting sentence, dat you pe finjd 40 shillings 1 he second culprit being questioned in like manner, as to his guilt or innocence, likewise answered guilty. Jus. Now tell mo you wile, drunken rascal, vat you get trunk on?" Pris.

Sling. Jus. Vat! you get trunk on sling, you graceless wagabone! you swillin sod! you Den I give my darnal sentence, dat you po fine 20 shillings. The third nnd last prisoner was now brought forward, and liko the other plead guilty. Jus.

Vut you get trunk on? Pris. Punch. Jus. Ah! you dipplin' rogue you! I fines you just notlingat all, vor I gets trunk on punch minesell sometimes. From the Yazoo City Whig.

In an old number of the Manchester Herald. a paper published in this place some years ago, we find the following lotter in Choctaw, ad dressed to Henry Voso, (since dead) whoso researches into the manners and language of the Choctaws aro so well known. Tho letter is a criticism on the word ponola, (cotton) which it seems Mr. Voso had written 'popko' in a communication by him io a paper published in a tow "a far off," A friend gives a translation, which is inserted below. Tomaha skittcna, Talahacha hot-lassie lunla.

Hinnok-IIushi tushloba, nosi Oautucola. NAHOLA MINGO HENRY VOSE Ollay. Chishno Choctaw numpil li cayo muhoba, Tomaho chitto hopocki lcnajnnholu holaso ickaba, mingo Amos Kendall subbov shonly minta, eno isha. Holaso holoba, num- pilli chucknma ecksho. Connesa nuckola-tuck- alo eno Choctaw pissa, "pokpo cotton" achie? .11 la ho! Tussemba chishno! Ek kek ka! Holaso mooha holoba chomay.

'Cotton, ponola' Choctaw nola. Chishno nish kin oklilli! nish kebc hoshonety Inta. eno tunshpa Iowa, nosi hunuolli Bolbonsha in Nokfish tohba, bopashela. In ollay skay, Oaka Aunnotlif SiaL translation. Little town, on tho Talachia, 5th Moon and 12th Slecner.

Big While man Henry Vosc. bir I think you must speak tho Choctaw not very well. In a big town a far a white man makes a paper; which great man Amos Kendall's horses brings hero to me. The paper is incorrect, and speaks bad languago. ror twenty winters have known the Choctaws, and did they ever call cotton "pokpo!" rou are very siiiyr tour whole paper is wrong; the Choctaws call Cotton, 'ponola;" your viston is darkened, and your head cloudy.

uut am in haste, and in six sleeps must be in New Orleans. Farewell my while brother, and friend, I'm ofT, A citizen of Six Towns. Tallahatchie is the original Choctaw name of the Yazoo River and 1 never could learn how it come to bo known that 'Yazoo' meant the River of Death, 'I la' means death, or to die, and 'Ilia tahah' dead in Choctaw. An editor out west attributes his lack of original matter to his being out of chewing tobacco and having no segars. Picayune.

MARRIED On Tuesday evening last. Mr. HALEY M. COTTON to Miss MARTHA ANN WALL; both orthis county. On the same evening, Mr.

DANIEL MYERS to Miss IIORTENSIA WREN; both of this county. FOR SALE, A VALUABLE TRACT OF LAND, lying on each side of Boaver Creek, near Ebenezer meeting houses. For further particulars, apply to J0IIN GUNBY. Amite County, Dec. 7th, 1839.

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