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Posers.
There is an old proverb, " Take care what you say before children and fools," which if attended ·to would save many a parent from getting into scrapes.
A little child, sidling up to a visiter and taking a sharp look at her eyes, was asked by the stranger what she meant by it. I wanted to see whether you had a drop in your eye. I heard mother say you had, frequently.
A boy asked one of his father's guests who his next door neighbour was, and when he heard his name, asked him if the gentleman was not a fool. " No my little friend," said the guest, " he is no fool, but a very sensible man; but why did you ask the question!" "Why," said the little boy, "" my mother said the other day that you were next door to a fool, and I wanted to know who lived next door to you."
I knew an instance where a child in a religious family, after the clergyman, who was on a visit there had held family worship, ask her mother in- nocently, " What is the reason, ma, we never liave worship only when Mr. R- is here?"
A Careful Spouse.
At a polytechnic exhibition in Liverpool, got up by the Mechanics' Institute, a newly married man cxpressed a determination to " go down in the diving bell."
" Oh don't my dear," exclaimed the bride, " it must be dangerous."
The bridegroom was obstinate; and at length, finding her entreaties unavailing, his lovely Beattrice sank her demand into a compromise. " If you will go down my dear," said she, " and peril your wife's, happiness, let me beg of you to go down in your old coat!"
A Valuable Recipe.
The following morsel of information has been going the rounds of the papers for the last three or four weeks:
TO DRIVE FLIES FROM A ROOM .- Take half a teaspoonful of well pulverized black pepper, one teaspoonful of brown sugar, and one tablespoon- ful of cream, mix them well together, and place them in a room on a plate, where the flies are troublesome, and they will soon disappear.
Our friend of the United States Gazette bears testimony to the excellence of the prescription, after this fashion:
We can vouch for the correctness of the above recipe. We tried the experiment with the cream, pepper, and sugar, and in a very short time two- thirds disappeared, viz : the cream and sugar. The flies would not eat the pepper.
MARRIED.
In Dayton, O., on the 31st August, by the Rev. D. Winters, Mr. HENRY J. Ross of Cincinnati, to Miss MAR- GRET TRUBY, Of the former place.
In Danville, Ky., on the 4th inst., by the Rev. N. L. Rice, Mr. WILLIAM W. RICE, of Louisiana, to Miss MARIA L. RICE, daughter of Mr. G. P. Rice, of Danville, Ky.
On Wednesday, the 10th instant, by the Rev. E. W. Sehon, Capt. REES PRITCHARD, Jr., to Miss MARGARET HAMILTON, daughter of Mr. Isaac Hamilton.
On the same evening by the same, Mr. JOHN Q. A. CHAPMAN to Miss ELIZABETH COFFLIN.
On Thursday, the 11th inst., by the Rev. William P. Strickland, Mr. JAMES F. DOGGETT, Esq., of Hillsbor- ough, to Miss LAURA, daughter of the Rev. J. Cathell, of this city.
On Thursday, the 11th inst., by the Rev. George W. Maley, ENOS B. CLARK to MARY DICKSON, all of this city.
On Saturday, 13th inst., by the Rt. Rev. Bp. Purcell, EDWARD J. HUGHES of St. Louis, late of Paris, France, to Miss ELIZABETH LEWIS, daughter of Mr. John Lewis of this city.
DIED.
On Saturday morning, the 13th instant, Mrs. ANNA O. LAWRENCE, Wife of Lorenzo Lawrence, deceased, aged 58 years.
On the same day, EDWIN M. son of Samuel G. and Frances D. Frazer, aged 1 year and 4 months.
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Early Sciltement and Settlers of Kentucky.
As a valuable and authentic contribution to the early history of the west, I have copied from the Kentucky Ycoman the following interesting synopsis from the pen of Gen. Robert B. McAfee, a pioneer himself, and son of one among the first who settled the State. More copious and accu- rate information within the same compass does not exist:
The interment of the remains of Col. Daniel Boone, and his wife at Frankfort, will of course call public attention to the early history of Ken- tucky; and it may not be amiss to review and no- tice some incidents never yet published, as I deem it a matter of some importance that our history shall contain the truth as near as we can ascertain it, especially as to the dates of im- portant events.
It is believed that a man by the name of Fin- ley first visited the interior of Kentucky from North Carolina, between the years 1763 and 1767. In one of his hunting trips, he was ac- companied by Daniel Boone, who, in 1769, in company with Finley, John Stuart, Michael Sto- ner, and, one or two others, came to Kentucky, and explored the country from Red River down the Kentucky. In one of their excursions Boone and Stuart were taken prisoners, and after some seven or eight days of captivity, made their es- cape. This was about the last of December, 1769. When they returned to their camp, they found it broken up, and their company gone. They then moved their quarters, and, it is be- lieved, took up their residence in a cave, now in Meraer county, on a tract of land now owned by A. G. Talbot, Esq., (formerly Col. John Thomp- son's) on the waters of Shawnee run. The cave is, at its entrance, about twenty feet wide, and eight or nine high. Over the mouth of this cave, on a high bank, a tree is marked with the ini- tials of Boone: D. B. 1770. This cave is a good deal filled up, but on digging a few feet under the ground, coals and burnt chunks were found. 'This point gives locality to some of Boone's wanderings; and it is believed that here, or in its vicinity, his brother, Squire Boone, found him in the spring of the year 1770, and furnished them with amunition. Stuart was killed by the Indi- ans about this time, and Squire Boone returned to North Carolina for more amunition, and after he came back, remained in Kentucky until the spring, 1771, when they both came back home, where they remained until August, 1773, when they raised a company of about forty men, and then started to move with their families to make a permanent settlement in the country, but were attacked by the Indians, and Boone's eldest son was killed, which frustrated their whole arrange- ments, and he returned to Clinch river, in Vir- ginia. And in the meantime Capt. Bullitt, wiih Hancock Taylor and Douglass, as surveyors, with the Mc Afee company, came to Kentucky in June, 1773, to mark out and survey land. Bul- litt went on to the falls of Ohio with Douglass, and the Mc Afec company, with Hancock Tay- lor, came up the Kentucky river, and Robert McAfee had a survey of six hundred acres made on the 16th July, including the now town of Frankfort. They then crosscd the country above Lawrenceburgh, and struck Salt river (which they called " Crooked creek") at the mouth of Hammond's creek, and surveyed nearly all the
| land up to a point two miles above Harrods- burgh, and on the 31st of July started home and went up the Kentucky river, crossing the Cum- berland moutain into Powell's valley, where they met Boone and his company a few days before he was attacked by the Indians. In May, 1774, Col. (then Captain) James Harrod, with thirty- one men, started from the Monongahela for Ken- tucky, and was soon after joined by ten others, making forty-one in all. They came down the Ohio to the mouth of Kentucky, and then up that river to the mouth of a branch now east of Sal- visa, called Landing run, (now Oregon,) and thence to Harrodsburgh, where in June, 1774, they laid off a town and built five or six cabins or more, allowing each man an in and out lot, where they remained until about the 20th July, when James Cowan was killed by the Indians at " Fountainbleau," a large spring two or three miles below, when they broke up and returned home, and on their way joined Gen. Lewis and fought the Indians at the battle of the Point, Oc- tober 10th, 1774.
In the meantime, Boone, having retired with his family on Clinch river, in Virginia, was com- missioned as a Captain; and about the first of June, 1774, he was sent by Governor Dunmore to the falls of Ohio, to warn some companies of surveyors of the hostility of the Indians; and Boone in his route came upon Harrod and his company at Harrodsburgh, and aided in laying out the town; and, in company with a man by the name of Hinton, built a double cabin, which went by their name until burnt by the Indians. Thus Boone had the honor of laying the founda- tion of Harrodsburgh, nearly a year before he moved his family to Kentucky.
On the 11th day of March, 1775, the McAfee company, by the way of Cumberland gap, arri- ved at McAfee's station, on Salt river, seven miles below Harrodsburgh; and on the 15th day of March Capt. Harrod and the greater part of his company passed them, having came down the Ohio and up the Kentucky, and re-occupied Harrodsburgh, (then called Harrodstown,) which was never afterwards abandoned. The McAfee company, after clearing several acres of ground and planting corn, and apple and peach seeds, started home about the 10th or 11th April, leav- ing John Higgins and Swein Poulson to attend to the land and crops. They met Henderson and his company at Scagg's creek, on the 21st April, about ten or twelve days behind Boone, who, I believe, reached Boonesborough on the 11th of April.
In July, the Harrodsburgh and Boonesborough men who had wives returned for their families, and both parties got back in September follow- ing. Mrs. Boone and her daughters, and Mrs. McGary, Hogan, and Denton came in company; and each party arriving about the same time at Boonesborough and Harrodsburgh. Soon after, Col. (then Capt.) McGary commenced a fort about two hundred yards below their cabins, on a bluff bank of the creek, where the public square of the town was afterwards laid off. The vari- ous events which afterwards took place in the country, it is unnecessary to notice in this com- munication, except to say, that this fall Col. Ben. Logan came to Harrodsburgh with many others, while Simon Kenton, John Haggin, Michael Stoner, Robert Patterson, John and Levi Todd, and many others, took possession on the north side of the Kentucky, of various points, inclu- ding Lexington. The year 1776 found hundreds
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more adventurers who were searching for homes | at a distance. A return was made of the people in Kentucky, which was represented as a ter- in the fort, as follows: restrial paradise In 1777, the Indians, aided by CENSUS OF HARRODSBURGH, MAY 7, 1777. the Canadian Britishi, made a simultaneous at- Men in service Do not in service 4 - 81 tack upon all the settlements in Kentucky, par- ticularly on Harrodsburgh, St. Asaph's (Logan's Women fort,) Boonesborough, Lexington and Bryant's Children above ten years old 24 - 12 station. At Harrodsburgh, the attacks com- 58 menced carly in March; and I cannot give a Children under ten years Slaves over ten years old Negro children under ten ycars 12 more graphic sketch of the trials and dangers of 7 the early settlers, than is to be found in the journal of Captain John Cowan, who was then Total 198 in Harrodsburgh, which will give date to many events of some importance. His journal com- mences March 6th, 1777, as follows, verbatim:
" The Indians killed Billy Ray and Thomas Shore at the Shawnee Springs. A party went out to the place in the evening. They buried Ray and Shore, and found another man alive and unhurt under a log in the cane. James Ray,- afterwards Gen. Ray, then fifteen years old- made his escape and alarmed the town, (Har- rodsburgh,) and the people worked all night re- pairing the fort.
" March 7th .- The Indians attempted to cut off from the fort a small party of our mcn-a few shot exchanged. The loss on our side, some cattle killed and horses taken, and four men wounded. Their loss one killed and scalped and several supposed wounded." This attack was a little after sunrise, and a few minutes after a Mr. Thomas Wilson and his family had escapcd into the fort from one of the cabins huilt in 1774. The Indians burnt the cabins.
" March 9th .- Ebenczer Corn arrived from the Ozark.
"March 13th .- Ebenezer Corn set off for the settlement (Virginia.)
" March 18th .- Butler and Myers arrived from Boonesborough, with accounts of one man killed and another wounded. On the 7th inst., a small party of Indians killed and scalped Hugh Wilson near the fort, and cscaped.
" March 28th .- The Indians made an attack -the stragglers about the fort to the amount of thirty or forty-in which they killed and scalped Garrett Pendergrass, and took prisoner and killed Peter Flinn.
"April 3d .- Alarm about daylight.
"April 8th .- News of Jacob Huffman killed by Cherokees at Rye Cove, (place not now known.)
"April 9th, Wednesday .- Indians about.
"April 10th .- Todd and Calloway elected Bur- gesses. These werc the two first representatives to the Virginia Legislature from the then county of Kentucky, which was made during the session of 1776.
"April 25th-Linn and Moore set out for the Mississippi. Fresh signs of Indians seen at two o'clock. They were hcard imitating owls, tur- keys, &c. At four o'clock sentry spied onc, and shot at three soon after.
"April 28th .- Indians seen within two hun- dred yards of the fort. A party went out, but nothing done.
"April 29th .- The Indians attacked the fort and killed Mr. McConnell.
" April 30th .- Butler arrived from Boonesbor- ough, and informed us that on last Thursday a body of Indians, in number forty or fifty, at- tacked that place, and killed and scalped Danicl Goodman, wounded Daniel Boone, Isaac Hite, John Todd and Michael Stoner.
" May Ist .- Scattered parties of Indians seen
" May 4th and 6th .- Indians seen several times these two days, and fired at the distance of two hundred yards.
" May 12thi .- Messrs. Squire Bond and Jarcd Cowan arrived from the settlement.
" May 16th and 18th .- Indians seen and hcard.
" May 23d .- Captain Todd, Calloway and company, set off for the settlement, (Virginia.)
" May 25th .- Indian snapped his gun at a man within forty yards of the fort, at dusk.
" May 27th-An alarm this morning. An ex- press arrived from Logan's and informed us that Boone's fort, (Boonesborough) was attacked on Friday morning last and a brisk firing kept up until Sunday morning, when they left the place.
"June 2d .- Indians scen round the fort. An express arrived from Logan's, and says that the Indians attacked that place last Friday, and killed William Hudson and wounded John Kennedy and Burr Harrison; and that during the heavy firing at Boonesborough, 23d and 24th May, there were but three mcn woundcd, and hoped not mortal; that the Indians tried hard to burn the fort, but were prevented with considerable loss.
" June 5th .- Express returned from Boones- borough, and says that Tuesday last they went within one and a half miles of the fort, and found a large body of Indians there and did not venture in.
" Capt. Harrod and Elliott set off to mect Bowman and company, (Col. Bowman was on his way with a regiment of men to protect the country.)
" Glenn and Laird arrived from Cumberland and saw Linn and Moorc were safe embarkcd in that river on their way to Ozark.
"June 20th .- Coburn arrived from Logan's, and says Burr Harrison, who was wounded the 30th of May, died of his wound on the 13th inst. Daniel Lyon, who parted with Glenn and Lard on Green river to go to Logan's fort, had not come in yct. A part of a leather hunting-shirt was found, which was thought to bc his. Indi- ans seen to-day, and much sign ..
" June 22 .- Linn and Moore arrived from Kas- kaskia with accounts favourable as could be ex- pccted. [As to what was their business it is not stated, except that they were sent as spies.] This evening, the Indians killed and cut off the head of Barney Stagner, above the big spring. [Stag- ncr had taken his horse out to graze, and had been oftcu warned not to venture so far from the fort.]
" June 25th .- Expresses arrived from Logan's and Boonesborough, and say that the Indians did not do much damage at Boonesborough, except killing cattle, and that Logan, who set out for the settlement on the 6th iust., has returned; and it is expected that Colonel Bowman is on his march out. A party of Indians (thirty) crossed Cumberland last Saturday, going towards the
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settlement; and Todd and Calloway and Harrod and campany had got in safe.
" July 6th .- Killed a buffalo bull at the fort. (He had come up with the cattle.)
"July 11th .- Capt. Harrod returned; says Col. Bowman is on his march here.
"July 14th and 15th .- Reaped wheat. (The first ever sown at Harrodsburgh. It was raised . in a field west of the fort of not more than four acres.)
"July 16th .- Captain Harrod with a company set off to meet Bowman and inform him of the state of the fort.
"July 26th .- McGary arrived from Fort Pitt (Pittsburgh.) No prospect of peace or recovery of horses taken by the Indians.
" Harrod and his company returned, and say Colonel Bowman parted with them at the forks of the road, and is gone to Boonesborough.
"August 5th .- Ten or twelve Indians near the fort. Killed and scalped two of them, and wounded several others.
" July 28th .- Express arrived from Logan's, and says six young men, part of Col. Bowman's company who had left him, were attacked on Monday, going into Logan's, and that Ambrose Gressom was killed and scalped, and Jones Man- nifee and Samuel Ingram wounded, but not mor- tally.
"Sept. 2d, 1777 .- Court held at Harrodsburgh, and officers sworn into commission. (This was the first Court ever held in Kentucky, which shows the care of the Virginia Legislature, in the darkest days of the Revolution.)
" Sept. 7th and 9th .- The Indians seen and at-no harm done.
"Sept. 11th .- Thirty-seven men went to Cap- tain Bowman for corn; while shelling they were fired on by the Indians; a skirmish ensued, and our men kept the ground until reinforced from town. We found two Indians dead and much blood. Eli Jared was killed, and six others wounded, one of whom died that night. The others, I hope, will survive.
" Sept. 17th .- An express sent to Williams- burgh," (Virginia.)
So far Captain Cowan's journal, which proves that Harrodsburgh was at that period the centre of business; a regular census was taken, and the first court ever held in the State was in the fort at this place. I do not know the names of the court; but I believe that John Cowan, Hugh M'- Gary and Ben. Logan were justices of the peace. I have seen a warrant in the hand-writing of M'- Gary, and his judgment on the back of it, which was no doubt a just decision, although not strict- ly legal. The warrant was for slander-one woman charged another with stealing her child's bib or cape. M'Gary decides that it is all a mis- take; that, although appearances were somewhat against the woman, yet he acquitted her, and or- dered the parties to say no more about it. I be- lieve I have given the substance of the case.
In January, 1778, Col. Boone was taken pris- oner by the Shawanees and taken to Detroit, where he was treated with great kindness by Governor Hamilton, who offered a hundred pounds for him, which was refused. It is said that in this extremity Boone very adroitly made use of his captain's commission from Governor Dunmore of Virginia, which was his protection from the Indians as well as the British. Ho however made his cscape from the Indians somc- time in June of this ycar, and got safe back to Boonesborough in time to make preparation for
the memorable siege in that year, after which he returned to his former residence in North Caro- lina, as his wife and father-in-law had left the country. Believing him to be dead, she did not expect to see him again. His worldly affairs be- ing at a low ebb, he was not able to return to Kentucky until the summer, 1781, althoughi some writers say he returned in 1780. But as we hear but little more of him until the battle of the Blue Licks, I am inclined to think it was not until the year I have stated before he got back, and this accountsfor his loss of nearly all his land claims, which he entrusted to others.
As I do not intend to prolong this communica- tion, I will only add one more statement, in rela- tion to another matter. About a month since, a youth by the name of Stopher found a very fine tomahawk, leather shot-pouch, the remains of a powder horn, and an Indian pipe, sticking under a rocky bank of Salt river, at the mouth of a small drain on the west side, about two or three hun- dred yards below the mouth of the Harrodsburgh branch. On the side of the tomahawk is the name of " Thomas Walker," in fine plain letters. This ancient relict has been there some sixty or seventy years, and is yet sound and good, as it was sheltered by the rocks from the rain. I do not recollect at present the first name of Mr. Walker who ran the line between Virginia and North Carolina, or what become of him. The discovery of the tomahawk may throw some light upon the fate of the owner. It was very probably hid there by the Indians, when hover- ing around Harrodsburgh. I have this article in my museum; and if Thomas Walker was ever taken or killed by the Indians, his relatiods will know.
City Market Statistics.
It is impossible by a glance at figures to realise the numbers, builk, weight and value of the im- mense aggregate of animal food consumed in our City Markets; nor would an European who had not visited the United States and observed the extent to which meat is used here among even the poorest families, comprehend or believe such statements.
The number of Beef Cattle sold in Boston last year, was 43,530; Sheep, 98,820; Hogs, 43,060. ·Total estimated value, $2,126,644.
The New York Cattle Market gives for the same period-Beef Cattle, 49,002; Cows and - Calves, 2,946, and Sheep and Lambs, 75,713. Total value, $1,552,540.
In Philadelphia, during the same period, the salcs were 37,420 Beeves; 15,121 Cows and Calves; 22,480 Hogs, and 91,480 Sheep and Lambs. Value, $1,831,620.
The number of cattle in Baltimore, for the same year, was 33,500 Becves; 16,000 Cows and Calves; 24,000 Hogs, and 90,450 Sheep and Lambs, of the value of $1,755,000.
In Cincinnati the consumption of Beef Cattle, for the last twelve months, was 31,200; Cows and Calves, 15,310; Shcep and Lambs, 93,650; Hogs, 234,400. Of these, four-fifths of the Hogs, and one third of the Beef Cattle are pack-
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ed up and sent to foreign markets. The value | 24 who sell butter and eggs, and pay $25 of the consumption here, $1,344,400. each, -
RECAPITULATION.
Markets.
No. Cattle.
Value.
Boston, 185,400
$2,126,644
New York,
141,139
1,552,540
Philadelphia,
166,550
1,831,620
Baltimore, .
166,950
1,755,000
Cincinnati, market, 183,416
1,344,400
Export,
194,570
3,033,520
Our finest Beef comes from the region around Bourbon county, Ky., for which not much less than one million dollars is paid annually. The Beef kept regularly at the stalls of the Berres- fords, Vanaken Wunder, and John Butcher, cannot be excelled in any market on the conti- nent. Other butchers here, occasionally kill fine beef also.
I counted during the past year, for one week, the wagons loaded with marketing on the Mar- ket Spaces, embracing the twice-a-week markets on Fifth, Sixth, and Lower Market strects, and the daily Canal, and made out an aggregate of three thousand four hundred and sixty-three. Of these one thousand one hundred and forty- eight were at the Fifth Street Market alone.
MARKET-HOUSES.
LOWER MARKET.
There are in Lower Market street,
60 butchers stalls, which rent yearly for $50 each, - $3,000
60 side benches, for the sale of vegetables, and rent for $12 each, 720
4 stalls or stands, at the end of the Mar- ket House, under the shed roof, and rent for $140, - 140
FIFTH STREET MARKET.
56 butcher's stalls, and rent for $50 each, 2,800 56 side benches, and rent for $12 each, 672
4 stalls or stands, at the end of the Mar- ket House, under the shed roof, and rent for $282, 282 -
SIXTH STREET MARKET ..
48 butcher's stalls, and rent for $30 each, 1,440 48 side benches, and rent for $5 each, - 240
4 stalls or stands, at the end of the Mar- ket House, under the shed roof, and rent for $15 15
CANAL MARKET.
38 butcher's stalls, and rent for $30 each, 1,140
38 side benches, $5 each, 190
The whole amount, -
$10,639
MARKET SPACES.
There are the following number of regularly licensed retail dealers in the markets, who deal in the following articles, and pay to the city the fol- lowing prices, yearly, to wit :-
3 who sell butter, $20, - 60 -
1 sells butter, eggs, and checse, -
35
1 66 66 66
66
66 poultry, - 30
1 66
66 66 checse, « 66
25
4 scll 66 and cheese, $25, - 100
2 66
66 dried fruit, $30, 60
1 sells bacon, and salt mcat, 40
13 bacon cutters, $25, 325
4 cheese $20, 80
1 fish dealer, $20, - 20
6 who sell flour, $25,
150
14 « " fruit, dried or green, $25, - 350
Whole amount,
$1,875
A Chapter in Human Life.
The old proverb in regard to certain indi- viduals is, that they are born with silver spoons in their mouths. Without any apparent effort, every thing appears to succeed in their hands. Life is to them, from beginning to end, a succes- sion of Olympic games of feasting and cujoy- ment. I suppose there are commensurate draw- backs on this state of things; but they are out of sight.
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