"Spirit
of the Times" "To Speak of Things As They Are." Volume 1, Bowling Green, (KY.) Saturday, November 25, 1826. No1. Transcribed by: Karen S. Hughes, KarenLisbon@aol.com Transcriber's note: The text presented here is transcribed as it was published without corrections to spelling and punctuation. I have placed {????} where words are not legible. This is not the entire text. The portions presented relate to Allen County and its Neighboring counties. |
Last Scenes of Mr. Jefferson's Life, &c. A friend
has been kind enough to place in our hands the following correspondence,
which we have no doubt will furnish as much gratification to our readers
as it has done to ourselves. In the letters of Mr. Jefferson, we find
a masterly refutation of the errors which have been so frequently repeated
as to an important period of public history. In the mode of refuting them
we also see a new proof, of how much Genius is indebted to Method for
some of its most successful efforts.
A few days since Mr. William McCoy, a merchant from Virginia, lost a large sum of money enveloped in a piece of paper, which he advertised in this and other papers of our city, offering a reward of $100 to the person who should restore it. The advertisement has had the effect to draw from the finder the following letter: "Mr.
McCoy - Having found a paper with seven hundred and forth dollars, I return
you two hundre4d at present: the balance shall be returned when I am able,
perhaps not soon, as I am in want of the money, but it shall be faithfully
returned except, perhaps forty dollars as a reward. P.S. Deduct 80 dollars, which will leave the sum enclosed 120 dollars; it shall be paid to you in the course of time." The above letter bears the Baltimore postmark of the 15th instant, three days after the body of it was written.
On Monday
morning Oct. 23d, a personal recontre took place on the public square
in Shelbyville between Maj. Philip J. Scudder and Capt. Wm O. Whitney
in which the latter was killed.
The Knoxville Register contains an account of the tragical end of Col. Simeon Perry of Sevier county, the awful circumstances attending which are not far behind those of the murder of Col. Sharp of Kentucky. While he was asleep in his bed, at the dead hour of night, an assassin entered his house and without warning or notice buried a hatchet in his head, giving him a blow about half way between the hair and the eyebrow and penetrating through the skull some depth into the brain. His wife, roused from sleep by the shock of the blow, saw the person in the act of running out of the house through a back room into the yard. She called to her husband telling him there was some person in the house, but getting no answer she laid her hand on his head to awake him and put it on the wound. Much injured as he was, the unfortunate man was able to get up and have his wound dressed, and lived, retaining his reason excepting when in convulsions upwards of three days, when he died. Shortly after he was wounded, information was received that a certain John J. Nichols, of Sevier county, with whom he had a difference, had threatened to take his life privately, on which Nichols was arrested and these facts being proved before John Brabson, Esq. who held the examining court, and a hatchet being found concealed under Nichols' floor, after his arrest, of a size corresponding with the wound, he was committed to the jai8l of Sevier county to stand his trial at the next January term. {????} Henry is elected to Congress from that District lately represented by Maj. R. P. Henry by a plurality of 57 votes over Col. Crittenden Lyon. Gen. Robert M'Hattan has been elected a member to serve in the 19th Congress in the place of Col. James Johnson, deceased. John Trimble, Esq. is elected to the Legislature from Harrison county, to fill the vacancy of Samuel Griffith, dec'd. Chief Justice Boyle of this state, has been appointed United States District Judge of Kentucky, in the place of Robert Trible, appointed one of the Associate Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States. He has accepted the office, was qualified and took his seat with Judge Trimble in the Federal Court on Wednesday the 8th inst. A writ of election has issued for an election to fill the vacancy occasioned by the resignation of Col. Young Ewing, in the Senate of the General Assembly of this state, on Monday next, the 27th inst. George Lockyer, Esq. of Hopkinsville, is announced as a candidate to fill his place. A Mr. Duncan,
merchant, of Pittsburg, Pa. Died at South Union, in Logan county, on Friday
the 17th inst. After stopping for the night whilst on a journey through
the state. The Missouri Republican says, the United States Lead Mines are now becoming a source of considerable revenue. The number of diggers and smelters, at the upper mines, have greatly increased, and are still increasing, and the quantity of lead made this year will exceed in a fourfold ratio that of former years. The U.S. sloop of war Lexington has sailed for Trinidad, to bring the remains of Commodore Perry to Rhode Island, his native state, for burial. A new gold mine, ten miles higher up the Yadkin, has been discovered in N.Carolina - one lump was found weighing fifteen penny weights. Lace. - A manufactory of lace was commenced in June last, in Newport, Rhode Island, and the proprietors already employ one hundred and fifty females. The lace made here is said to be of a very excellent quality, and that it will supersede, in a great measure, the importation of the article from France. The Rhode
Island Journal says, that the factories of that State along consume thirty
thousand bales of Cotton annually. The Ohio river has risen several feet within the last three days, and is still rising. If the rains above have been as copious, and as frequent, as here, for ten days past, the river will doubtless soon be in fine navigable order to steam-boats. Richmond, Oct. 17. Caution. There are 20 dollar and 10 dollar Counterfeit Notes of the Bank of Virginia in circulation. By comparing them with the genuine notes, the difference is easily detected. The paper of the 20 dollar notes is of a yellowish cast; the engraving inferior, coarser and darker. The face of the female figure is badly executed. The words "Bank of Virginia" are placed in the Border on the right instead of the left; and the word "Twenty" is placed in the left instead of the right hand border. They are dated 25th March, 1822. Chillicothe, Nov. 2 Violent Storm. --- On last Sunday afternoon, a tornado, exceeding in violence any with which this part of the state has been visited since the settlement of the country, passed over this neighborhood, and occasioned much damage in the uprooting of buildings, rooting up of fruit and forest trees, demolishing of fences, &c &c. in those places which were exposed to its fury. We learn that the plantations of Messrs. Orford, Mcan, and Grubb, suffered severely; their buildings being principally unroofed and much property of various kinds destroyed. Hail of an extraordinary size - said by some to exceed that of a hen's egg - accompanied the storm in some places. Fortunately, no lives were lost; and the ravages of the tornado appear to have been confined to a comparatively small extent of country. A duel was fought on the 17th inst. Between Col. J.S. Gibbs and Allison Ross, Esq. of Mississippi. They fought with muskets loaded with fifteen buckshot, at the distance of thirty paces. Both were severely wounded. Singular Marriage. Last week,
Mr. James Maddock, of Leek, was married at Presbury church to Miss Harriet
Smith. The bridegroom calls himself 48 years of age; the public voice
proclaims him to be 54. The bride, who is sister to his first wife, is
a fine looking woman of 19. The enamoured bridegroom, who goes upon crutches,
is 34 inches in height; he has two children now living by his former wife;
the eldest daughter is an elegant girl, at least five feet tall. The party
were conveyed to church in a cart, and Mr. Maddock, by reason of his dwarfish
stature, was accommodated with a seat on his lady's lap. |