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<« Stop the mnaway ! Fifty dollars reward ! 
Whereas my waiting fellow, Will, having. 
eloped from me last Saturday, without any 
rovocation, (it being known that am a 
Heche master) the above reward will be 
paid to any one who will lodge the aforesaid 
slave in some jail, or deliver him to me on 
my plantation at Liberty Hall. Will may . 
be known by the incisions of the whip on 
his back ; and I suspect has taken the road 
to Cosoohatchie, where he has a wife and 
five children, whom I sold last week to Mr. 
Gillespie.” 
A. Levi. 
_ Yet in this country where even the 
women exercise the most detestable 
cruelty, they usually give their children 
to be suckled by negro-women. It is 
not uncommon, we are told, to hear 
an elegant lady say, Richard always 
grieves. when Quasheebaw is whipped, 
because she suckled him! What a per- 
version of all natural affection is here! 
The child is to be taught to harden his 
heart against the cries of her who suckled 
him !—What hope is there of the man? 
We have felt it our duty to select and 
dwell upon these circumstances, in the 
hope and belief that no good man can 
peruse them without indignation. The 
cause of the abolition is not yet to be 
abandoned. England indeed may re- 
solve upon it too late, for the work of 
retribution is begun. 
We will turn to more chearful topics, 
to the delineation of natural objects. 
The mocking-bird is the pride of the 
American woods; it is perfectly do- 
mestic,' and the natives hold it sacred. 
<« But thereis a bird called the loggerhead 
that will not bear passively its taunts. His 
cry resembles clink, clink, clank ;_ which, 
should the mocking-bird presume to imitate 
it, he flies and attacks the mimic for his in- 
solence. But this only incurs a repetition 
of the offence; so true is it that among 
birds as well as men, anger serves only to 
sharpen the edge of ridicule. Itis observ- 
able, that the ‘loggerhead is known to suck 
the eggs of the mocking-bird, and devour 
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_ the young ones in the nest.” 
+ When weary of mocking others, the 
bird falls into its own strain, and so joy- 
ous a creature is it, that it will jump and 
dance to its own song; by day and by 
night it sings alike. The author was 
listening to one by moonlight that usu- 
ally perched within a hundred yards of 
hislog-hut. A negro was sitting on the’ 
threshold of the next door, smoaking 
the stump of anold pipe. ** Please God 
Almighty,’ exclaimed the old woman, 
VOYAGES AND TRAVELS. 
“ hoc sqvevt that mocking bird sing ! he never 
tire!” ; 
«< Eagles were often seen on the planta~ 
tion. 
and a fish-hawk is eurious. When the 
fish-hawk has seized his prey, his object is 
to get above the eagle ; but when unable to 
succeed, the king of birds darts on him 
fiercely, at_ whose approach the hawk, with 
a horrid cry, lets fall the fish, which the 
eagle catches in his beak before it descends 
to the ground.” 
The writer of this article has seen the 
same thing happen in a contest between 
two sea-birds for their prey. ‘Mr. Davis 
has given us but few observations on na- 
tural history: a study, which, he saysy 
he has ever -considered subordinate, 
when compared to that of life. ‘This 
undue depreciation of a most interest- 
ing pursuit is to be regretted, because 
this author evidently possesses a quick 
and observant eye, and those ever- 
wakeful talents that could enliven any 
science. He disbelieves the tales of the 
fascinating’ power attributed to the eye 
of the snake, accounting by fear for the 
effects said to be so produced. It is 
well known, he says, that birds will 
flutter their wings, and exhibit the ut- 
most agitation at the approach of a fox 
near the tree on which they are perched. 
There is a reprehensible petulance in 
the ‘manner wherewith Mr. Davis as« 
serts, that this fact could not escape the 
observation of any man, who, incited by 
the desire of knowledge, has made a 
tour into the country, and that it must 
be known to eyery one who has not 
passed his life in the smoke of London; 
Salisbury, or Bristol. Foxes are not such 
common animals that every traveller 
should see them at the foot of a tree, 
We will venture to affirm, that aman 
may walk from one end of “England to © 
the other, and not see a fox during the 
whole journey, unless: there be a pat 
of hounds at his heels. = 
Once the traveller saw a negro-woman 
quiet her child by shaking the rattles of 
asnake. ‘These little traits which the 
painter or the poet would have seized, 
he has seldom overlooked; he tells us: 
of the long and beautiful moss, that 
spreading from the’ branches of one tree 
to those of another, extends ‘through 
whole forests. - This moss, when dried, 
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The rencounter between one of them’ 
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serves many useful purposes: it is sold - 
at Charlestown to stuff mattrasses and 
chairs; the hunters always use it for 
wadding. The axe of the negro chop- 
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