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About News & planters' gazette. (Washington, Wilkes County [sic], Ga.) 1840-1844 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 7, 1841)
POPULAR ERRORS IN MEDICINE. BY AN EDINBURG PHYSICIAN. Many people put great faith in the whole, romne.ss of eating only one dish at dinner. They suppose that the mixture of substan ces prevents easy digestion. They would not eat fish and flesh, fowl and beef, animal food and vegetables. This seems a plau sible notion, but daily practice shows its absurdity. What dinner sits easier on the Stomach than a slice of roasted or boiled mutton, and carrots or turnips, ap*f the in dispensable potato ? What ran ever felt the worse for a cut of cod or turpot, follow ed by a beefsteak or a sJme of roast beef and pudding. In shoe: a variety of whole some’ food does not seem incompatible at meals, ifone do eat too much—here the error lies. It is n ecvrtmon practice with bathers, af ter having walked on a hot day to the sea side K <o sit down on the cold damp rocks till thy cool, before going in the water. This is quite erroneous. Never go into the wa ter if over-fatigued, or after profuse atvl long continued perspiration, hut always prefer plunging in while the first drops of ‘perspiration are on your brow. There is no fear of sudden transitions from heat to cold being fatal. Many nations run from the hot bath and plunge naked into the snow. What is to be feared is sudden cold after the exhaustion of the body, and while the animal powers are not sufficient to produce a reaction or recovery of the an imal heat. There is a favorite fancy of rendering infants and farther advanced children, har dy and strong, by plunging them into cold water. This will certainly not prevent strong infants from growing stronger, but it will, and often does, kill three out of every five. Infants always thrive the best with moderate warmth, and a milk warm hath. The same rule applies to the clothing of in fants and children. No child should have so light clothing as to make it feel ... cold ; warm material;’ ilarse and wiuo nmaiKcdrMng, and exercise, are in dispensable for the health of the little ones. But above all things, their heads should be j kept cool and generally uncovered. Many people so laud early rising, as would lead one to suppose that sleep was one of those lazy, sluggish and bad practi ces, that the sooner the custom was abolish ed the better. Sleep is as necessary to man as food, and as some do with one third the food that others absolutely require, so five hours sleep is sufficient for one, while an other requires seven or eight hours. Some men cannot by any possibility sleep more than four or five hours in 24 ; and therefore the inherent selfishness of human they abuse all who sleep longer.— j : oone J*’- -M be taunted for sleeping eight i hours if lie can. 1 D Many people do not eat salt with their food, and the fair sex liavo a notion that this substance darkens the complexion g a ] t seems essential to the health of every hu man being, more especially in moist cli mates. Without salt the body becomes in fested with intestinal worms. The case of a lady is mentioned in a medical journal, who had a natural antipathy to salt and ne ver used it with her food ; the consequence was, she became dreadfully infested with these animals. A punishment once existed in Holland by which criminals were denied the use of salt ; the same consequence fol lowed with these wretched beings. We rather think a prejudice exists with some of giving little or no salt to children. No practice can be more cruel and absurd. From th s New York Courier and Enquirer, MURDER. We publish some days since a notice that an individual of the name of Samuel Adams, a printer residing at the corner of Ann and Gold streets, had left his office at about three o’clock in the afternoon of Fri day the 17th instant and had not since been heard of. Facts now transpired, which leave but little doubt that he has been in humanly murdered. On the night of his disappearance, Mr. Wheeler, a teacher of writing, occupying a room in the Granite building corner of Broadway and Chamber street, had his at tention attracted to a noise in a room adjoin ing to his own, occupied by J. C. Colt, —a noise like that of two men scuffling and at last like the fall of some heavy body. They knocked several times at the door but got no answer. And on looking tho’ the key hole, two hats came within the range ofhis vision and the body of Colt apparently bent to the ground rubbing on the floor. His curiosity being excited, he watched in company with a young man who lived with him, the room through the night, heard Colt apparently at work, and in the morn ing he was seer, to bring out a box, having the appearance of an ordinary packing box about four feet square, and place it iu the passage. The box was directed to a firm in Louisville, & parked via New Orleans. Colt then went out atic returned with a Car man who took the box away. Air. Wheeler thought no more ol tho circumstances which had excited fits atten tion, until the disappearance of Mr. Adams and learning accidentally that Colt was in debted to Adams and had been seen with him, he thought proper to give information of the facts to one of the Lower Police offi cos, who paid no attention to them. Mr. Wheeler then communicated with Mr. Jus tice Palmer and it is chiefly to this magis trate’s activity and energy, that tht prob able murderer has been discovered. ‘”o£-j.rcljlng Colt’s room, a glass was found, broken, theffoor and walls appeared to have been spotted'vV-b blood, but after wards washed and /nkhrown over \he spots. A largdfhatchet was found the baY die of which jiad been, scriped. On Colt* arrest and'examinatioi) he said he had nor been in in's room on tlje night of the 17th, nor had he put a box in the passage. It being now evident that he told an un truth, search was nexPmade for tho cart man who had carrieyit away, and, through great exertions, he Aas at last found by Mr. Godfrey, the Superintendant of flacks, and exam to il qf Saturday nierht. He at once stated that he recollected the circum stance perfectly, and that he had carried the box on board the ship Kalamazoo, lying at the foot Maiden lane, and bound to New Orleans ; that Colt had accompanied him and took a receipt there in person for the box. Yesterday morning, the magistrates and police officers proceeded to the Kalamazoo to obtain the box. It was found in the low er hold, and the stench which proceeded from it, at once indicated that its contents were in a state of putridity. Being brought on deck and opened, there was to all ap pearance the body of Adams, in his shirt, in a high state of decomposition, wrapped in canvass, apparently an old awning. It was then carried to the Dead house in the Park and a Coroner’s Inquest held in the old Alms House over it. This inquest sat till a very late hour and we were not a blc to obtain the proceedings in time for this morning’s paper. The body was in a state of decomposition | a rope was round the neck and extended to [ the knees by which the knees were drawn j up to the breast, the whole base of the fore j bend was crushed, there was a fracture of | both the right and left parietal bones and a cut on the right side of the chin, which had penetrated to tho stock on his neck.— We understood the body was fully indenti fied to be tha\of Adams, notwithstanding its mutilated state, and that it had already become greatly petrified, particularly by a sore near the ancle which he had had for many years, ant’, by a ring on the finger. We understand also that Justice Tay lor on searching Colt’st run k at his board ing house in Monroe strict, near Market, found in it the watch whit*. Mr. Adams wore, and which lie had lately taken in payment of a debt. It seems that Cr’t was in the debt to A dams for thf]'.. uiting'of-- work on book keeping, of which Colt was the autksit, and -fiat a shipment of these books had been made to Philadelphia, with an understan ding that tho proceeds should he taken by Adams in payment of the debt. It is sup posed that some quarrel arose between them in relation to this transaction, at least this is the most charitable construction to put upon the horrid affair. W e are told that Colt’s connexions arc respectable. lie is rather genteel looking and appears about thirty years of age.— Mr. Adams was a married man, but had no children. He is said to have been ofa mild and pleasing disposition- A Coroner’s inquest was held upon the body, which resulted in the verdict of “wil ful and deliberate murder” against John C. Colt. MISERIES OF EDITORS. “Which not the sternest of our foes could hear; j Nor stern Ulysses tell without a tear.” PorE’s llomer. 1. A kind visitor, whom you would! make almost any sacrifice rather than of- j ft.uj—without *lm least ill intention in the world, but merely moved ana initiated hv mother Eve’s fatal vioe, curiosity, rurnma ging your private desk, if it happen to be commodiously open, examining your letters and other correspondence; resorting to your composition drawer, on the ground of intimate acquaintance ; deranging and in specting manuscripts, when you had as lieve he had iutruded into your wife’s dres sing-room ; or, peeping over cases, and in terrupting compositors, to see the original articles, which you did not intend to show him, or any one else, except through the medium of the press. 2. Rf’Cfiving a manuscript, of which it seems doubtful whether the writer intended to represent European , Cha/daic, or Chi nese characters ; and, after patient at tempts to decypher the hieroglyphics, re sorting to the author and hearing his un feigned expression of astonishment that you did not find all as plain and legible as a now tin pan. 3. Just as you are in the very busiest part of your daily duties, in preparing vour paper, having an obliging call, with a very verbose communication of a private nature, which you are required not only to receive, but to hear read, amid the din of other culls—“ Proof is ready!” “ Waiting for Proof, Sir —and the prospect of a late paper, and subsequent complaint in antici pation, grinding on your feelings. 4. Inquiries—“ Who wrote that article ?” when yon have no fair right to inform, and when it seems unkind to refuse, and incred ible to say you do not, know. 5. In a busy moment receiving a person al lampoon, which you are resolved not to publish, yet wish to give your reasons, without time to explain them. N. 8.-The writer, full of the justice of his cause, and perfectly incredulous that there are two sides of a question. 0. A modest request from a good friend, just as your paper ought to be on the press, that you would prepare a special article to suit his particular view—which article must be long, heavy and uninteresting to all but the applicant. 7. And lastly, for the present, a quick succession of complaints, such as—“ Why icas our advertisement omitted ? That com munication will be quite too late next week — The other papers have that news more in de tail—l wonder you should publish so many light articles , and leave out commercial ones. This is an important time, and politics ought to be your principal object—Literary articles ought to claim a part of your attention till, with forlorn gaze., you measure with your eye the extent of the columns of your paper, and wistfully exclaim : “ Ye gods ! annihilate but time and space, And make us Printers’ happy !” Postcript —Another Dreadful Misery.- While you are collecting news from a doz en or twenty different papers, when you ‘have to keep in your mind’s eye tho leading natures of all, to have your papers mispla ced, and your arrangements all broken in upap by the busy interference of half-a dozen good-natured, friendly loungers, who after having agonized your feelings into a high fever, retire, one after another, hum ming a tune of “ What's this dull town to me ?” or giving some other indication of their idle propensity or negligentaire. New- York New Era. HABITS OF DISTINGUISHED MEN. Huet was so studious that his wife was obliged to drag him from his books to his dinner. Thuantis studied seventeen hours a day for seventy years ; that he might lose no time, sotno one read to him while dressing or at meals. Cicero says of himself, that he occupied his mind with literature and philosophy, at home and abroad, in the city and the coun try, walking or riding. Pliny, in a letter, mentions that even in bear hunting ho employed the intervals of the chase in reading, but this was contrary to the rule of doing one thing at a time. Gibbon says, in his life of himself, “ I would not exchange my love of study for all the wealth of the Indies. Bayle mentions an author that was also a printer, who printed a large book directly from his head, like Minerva from the head of Jupiter. The same writer mentions an other author who wrote the whole of a large book, with only one quill. Erasmus composed in his chaise, while on a journey to Italy. Sheridan sometimes wrote his plays on tho paper that came round his tobacco. COMPLETE LIST OF ACTS. Passed the Ist Session of the 27 111 Congress. An act making appropriations for the present session of Congress. An act authorizing a loan not exceeding the sum of 12 millions of dollars. An act for the relief of Mrs. Harrison, wi dow of the late President of the United States. An act making appropriation for the pay, subsistence, &c., ofa home squadron. An act making further provision for the maintenance of pauper lunatics in the Dis trict of Columbia. An act to revive and continue in force for ten years an act entitled “ An act to incor porate the Mechanic Relief Society of Alex- ! andria.” An act to repeal the act entitled “ An act to provide for the collection, safekeeping, transfer, and disbursement of the public rev enue,” and to provide for the punishment of embezzlers of public money, and for oth er purposes. An act to provide for the payment of Na vy pensions. An act to establish a uniform system of bankruptcy throughout the United States. An act further to extend the time for lo cating Virginia military land warrants, and returning surveys thereon to the General Land Office. An act to authorize the recovery of fines and forfeitures incurred under the charter, laws, and ordinances of Georgetown, before justices of the peace. An act to revive and extend the charters of certain banks in the District ofColumbia. -* in addition to an act entitled “An act to carry into clTect a convention between the United States and the Mexican Repub lic.” An act to amend the act entitled “An act to provide for taking the sixth census or j enumeration of the inhabitants of the United States,” approved March third, one thous j and eight hundred and thirty-nine, and the acts amending the same. An act making an appropriation for the funeral expenses of William Henry Harri son, deceased, late President of the United States. An act to appropriate the proceeds of the sales of the public lands, and to grant pro- C.mr.tion rights. An act making appropriations for various fortifications, for ordnance, and for prevent ing and suppressing Indian hostilities. An act to provide for placing Greenough’s statute of Washington in the Rotunda of the Capitol, and for expenses therein mention ed. An act authorizing the transmission of letters and packages to and from Mrs. Har rison free of postage. An act to make appropriations for the Post Office Department. An act making an appropriation for the purchase of naval ordnance and ordnance stores, and for other purposes. An act making appropriations for outfits and salaries of diplomatic agents, and for for other purposes. An act to provide for repairing the Poto mac bridge. An act relating to duties and draw'backs. An act to repeal a part of the sixth section of the act entitled “ An act to provide for the support of the Military Academy of the United States for the year 1838, and for oth er purposes,” passed July 7, 1838. Joint Resolutions. —A resolution relating to the new light-boats now stationed at San dy Hook and Bartlett’s Reef. A resolution for the distribution of seven hundred copies of the Digest of Patents. A resolution to provide for the distribu tion of the printed returns of the sixth cen sus. A resolution in relation to the purchase of domestic water-rotted hemp for the use of the United States Navy. Joint resolution making it the duty of the Attorney General to examine into the titles of the lands or sites for the purpose of erec ting thereon armories and other public works and buildings and for other purpo ses. An Amusing Mistake. —The Journal of Commerce records an instance of a waste of patriotic sentiment and compliment in tended to be bestowed upon one of the re signed membersof the Cabinet. Twocom mittees amefng a number of other friends of Mr. Ewing, called a day or two ago at the Astor House, to pay their respects to tho Ex-Secretary. He rose on their en trance, and the chairman in succession ad dressed him in a manner befitting the occa sion. When they had finished, Mr. E | wing, instead of making a formal reply, j said concisely, “That will do, clear and i waving his hand appropriately, the commit tee retired, discussing whether their recep tion had been such as they had reason to expect. They had not proceeded fur in thu hall before they met an acquaintance walking with a gentleman whom he intro duced to the committee asthe Hon. Mr. 15- wing. This put anew face on affairs; on returning to the room it turned out that the g< ntleman who had received the honors of the committees was not exactly in his right mind and had happened during Mr. Ewings absence to step in and occupy hischair. MR. BADGER’S LETTER. To the Editors of the National Intelligencer. Messrs. Gales & Seaton : I deem it pro per to offer a public explanation of some of the reasons which led to my resignation, on the 11th inst., of the office of Secretary of the Navy, and, forthat purpose, ask a small space in the National Intelligencer. At the Cabinet meeting held on the 18th of August last, (the Attorney General and the Postmaster General being absent,) the subject of an Exchange Bank, or institu sion, was brought forward bv the President himself, and was fully considered. Into the partculars of what passed I do not pro pose now to enter. It will be sufficient to say that it was then distinctly stated and understood that such an institution met the approbation of the President, and was deemed by him free of the constitutional ob jections; that he desired (ifCongress should deem it necessary to act upon the subject during the session) that such an institution should bo adopted by that body, and that the members of his cabinet should aid in bringing about that result; and Messrs. Webster and Ewing were specially reques ted by the President to have a communica tion upon the subject with certain members of Congress. The institution then spoken ofwas to be located in the DistrictofColum bia ; to be authorized to establish agencies in the states and Territories with power to deal in hills of exchange between the Uni ted States and foreign countries, and in bills of exchange drawn in one Slate or Territo ry and payable in another State or Territo ry; and the exercise of this power was not to depend on any assent expressed or im plied, ofthc States within which such agen cies might be established. In consequence of what passed at this meeting, I saw such friends in Congress as I deemed it proper to approach, and urged upon them the passage of a bill toestablised such an institution, assuringthem that 1 did not doubt it would receive the approbation of the President. . The bill was passed, as the Public know Uid was met by the Veto. Now, if the President after the meeting of 18th of Au gust, had changed his mind as to the con stitU'ional power of Congress and had come to dounvor deny what he had admitted in that mee&yg, (which is the most favorable interpretation that can be put upon his con duct,) it w'as, lrt'nqy opinion, a plain duty on his part to havet) la ,].. known to the gen tlemen concerned of sentiment: to have offi red ;li m for the un pleasant situation were [.laced by his agenejj least, to have softened, by a full explanation of bis mo tives, his intended Veto of a measure in promoting the success of which, they, at his request, had rendered their assistance.— But this the President did not do. Never* from the moment of my leaving his house on the 18th did he open his lips to me on the subject. It was only from the newspa pers, from rumor, from hearsay, I learned that he had denied the constitutionality of the proposed institution, and had made the most solemn asservations that he would ne ver approve a measure which I knew was suggested by himself, and which bad been, at his own instance, introduced into Con gress. It was still in the President’s pow er, by a proper statement in the message containing his objections to the bill, to have supplied these omissions, and in some de gree at least to have repaired his former neglect; but when that paper came to be read it was found that so far from saying frankly that he once favored and had been willing to sanction the bill, but had been led (if such was the fact) by subsequent reflec tion to adopt different views upon the sub ject, he treated ihe measure as one evident ly inconsistent with his previously expres sed opinions, and which it ought not to have been supposed for a moment he could approve. Whether this conduct of the President is susceptible of just defence or reasonable excuse it is not necessary now to inquire. 1 have not heard, nor can 1 imagine any ground for either. Whether an explana tion of it has been offered to any one of the gentlemen concerned I know not, but none was at any time offered to me : and while 1 forbear to make, the remarks, obvious and painful as they are, which the trans action suggests, 1 declare the conviction that this conduct of the President, standing without known defence, excuse or explana tion, constituted (if no other reasons had existed) ample ground for a withdrawal from his Cabinet without delay. It is scarcely necessary to say that I have not supposed, and do not suppose, that a dif ference merely between the President and his Cabinet, either as to the constitutional ity or the expediency of a bank, necessari ly interposes any obstacles to a full and cordial co-operation between them in the general conduct ofhis Administration; and therefore, deeply as I regretted the veto of the first bill, 1 did not feel myself at liber ty to retire on that account from my situa tion. But the facts attending the initation and disapproval of the last hill made a ease totany different from that—one it is be lieved without a parallel in the history of our Cabinets : presenting, to say nothing more, a measure embraced and then repu diated—efforts prompted and then disowned —services rendered and then treated with scorn or neglect. Such a ease required, in my judgement, upon considerations, pri vate and public, that the official relations subsisting between the President and myself should be immediately dissolved. GEORGE E. BADGER. Washington September 18. 1841. MR. CLAY. Tho following is Mr. Clay’s letter in re sponse to the letter ol invitation on behalf’ of the Whigs of Baltimore : Washington, 14th September, 1841. Gentlemen —ln the midst of my prepa rations ibr my departure to my home, 1 have received, by the hands of the Gentle men who have done me the honor to wait upon me, your obliging communication bearing date this day, transmitting a reso lution adopted at a public meeting held in Baltimore yesterday, by which it is pro posed to distinguish my expected visit to that City by signal public demonstrations. I pray you Gentlemen, and those who con stituted that meefing, to accept my grate ful and respectful acknowledgments for this new and gratifying proof of attachment and confidence. 1 should embrace with pleas ure, the opportunity of visiting your city at this time ; but jaded as I am by the ardu ous labors of the Session of Congress just closed, and sharing with the companions of my journey, an eager anxiety to terminate it, without delay, 1 regret that I must post pone a visit toyour City to some future day. If, gentlemen, all has not been accom plished at the late session of Congress that the public interest demanded, more, much more, has been effected than I anticipated at its commencement. If wo have been greatly disappointed in the failure of repea ted attempts to establish a sound currency regulate exchanges, and separate the Purse from the Sword, what American Citizen, what Whig will, on that account, surren der himself to the sentiments of an ignople despair ? Who will not say that we will preserve, with redoubled courage, until e very remaining object of the glorious revo lution ofNovcmber last shall be completely consummated ? Shall we be discouraged because one man presumes to set up his in dividual will against the will of the nation? On the contrary, let us superadd to the pre vious duties which we lay under to our country, that of plucking from the Consti tution this sign of arbitrary power; this odi ous but absolute vestige of Royal preroga tive. Let us, by a suitable amendment to that instrument, declare that the Veto—that parent and fruitful source of all our public ills—shall itself be overruled by majorities in the two Houses of Congress. They would persuade us that it is harmless be cause its office is preventive or conservative! As if a Nation might not be as much injnred by the arrest of the enactment of good laws as by the promulgation of had ones ! I am, gentlemen, greatly deceived, not withstanding the astounding developements recently made, if the Whig cause is not stronger than ever it was. Resting, as it docs, upon truth, sound policy, anti enligh tened patriotism, its votaries must be false and faithless, if it does not gloriously tri umph, notwithstanding any temporary dis appointment. Accept, Gentlemen, assurances of the high regard and esteem of Your friend and ob’t, serv’t., 11. CLAY. Messrs Robert Gilmor, ts-c. &e. NEWS ANfcBzETfE. PRINCIPLES and WASHINGTON, GA THURSDAY, OCTOBER 7, Is4l - Whig; Victory !. Wilkes County Election. Below is the result of the Election Wilkes : WHIG TICKET. Senator, Geo. W. Carter, 372 Representatives, Benjamin Wallace, 308 Seaborn Callaway, 359 Dennis Paschal, 357 LOCO FOCO TICKET. Senator, James D. Willis, 396 Representatives, H. P. Wootten, 425 Lewis S. Brown, 420 R I. Holliday, 381 FOIt GOVERNOR, Hon. William C. Dawson, 405 McDonald, 404 What noble fellows some of the Whigs of Wilkes are! How disinterested and undeviating in every good course ! The result of this Election shows how perfectly they have learned that most difficult of les sons—how to overcome self! They have proved their love—for their enemies ; they have returned good for evil, and submis sively bowed their neck to the Loco-foco yoke. Noble hearts ! Generous souls ! Great, glorious and honorable has been the triumph of the State Rights men over themselves, and over the Candidates they selected, and whom they unanimously pled ged themselves to support! Liberally has the party rewarded the gentlemen they had urged to represent it, the men who through out their lives, have spared neither time, trouble nor expense, to advance its cause ! With what pious disinterestedness have some of the State Rights men sacrificed their friends, and bestowed their favors up on their enemies, those who would see them all hanged before they wouid reciprocate their favors or give them a patfiiclc of thanks for their suffrages ! But e have neither part nor lot in this matter ; we can claim (or ourselves not one atom of the glory ! Let it belong to those w|> covet We hear some talk about contesting this Election, on the ground that the Freehold ers who presided, were not sworn. Al though the election is manifestly illegal trpen that ground, as tho law positively re quires thu freeholders to be qualified, yet we hope no such measure will be resorted to. The State Rights party have beaten their friends fairly, with the help of the Lo co-focos—let us take the defeat quietly ; besides, there is no knowing but that the naughty Whigs might do damage to some one of their dear democratic pets, if the con test is gone into again. The party, we hope, will profit by the lessons this Election has taught them, the chief of which lessons are, that “ Their little hands were never made. To scratch out each other's eyes.” LINCOLN COUNTY ELECTION. For Governor—Dawson, 240. McDonald,ls9. Senator—Moore. Representatives—Hardy, Ilaggcrman. Every one Whigs of the true sort. Oh yo Lincolnitos, will ye never learn to pre fer your enemies to your friends ? That’s the fashion in this neighborhood just now, and if you don’t reform, we’ll have to send a missionary among you to teach you the virtues of split tickets ! BALDWIN COUNTY ELECTION. Majority for McDonald, 17. Senator—Kenan. Representatives—Grieve and Thomas. All Whigs. Last year, two Locos were elected. The transient votes gave a ma jority for McDonald in Baldwin. ELBERT COUNTY ELECTION. Daw'son, 847 McDonald, 242 Senator—Johnston. Representatives—Rucker, Harris, and Pat terson. Some Bor 10 State Rights men run for the Legislature in Elbert, and one very popular Democrat; these causes and the kindness of McDonald in going all the way to Elbert to show himself to the Locos, brought out that party, and tended to in crease its vote there. 04?“ The foregoing are all the full re turns we have received. We have imper fect returns from several other counties, and in all our majorities are materially dimin ished. In Taliaferro, a full Whig ticket was elected, but the Van Buren vote was increased. W.-have a majority of 372 in Richmond, and about 6itO in Greene. Nothing indicates more clearly the apathy which prevailed than the slow manner in which the election news comes in. We confess we are not particularly anxious to Team tfn'ltiW,*,. for we are convinced we are beaten throughout the .^ tale - unless chall ß es greater than w, have at . 1..,,.. , i-. . .n- - , I here will liavo taken i,„ r ..'pi inkline be, however, a ‘ . Whisr -A sufficient salt to preserve it from putridity. Murder. On the night of last Monday, a gentleman named Jernigan was brutally assassinated in Greensboro’, by two men named Edward and John Lanier. The circumstances, as we learn were these. Mr. Statham, a tavern keeper in Greensboro, had expelled the Laniers’ from ,is house (or disorderly conduct. Two hiurs after as Mr. Jernigan was proceeding toitu'ds the stable of the Tavern, in compa ny w'h Mr. Statham, he (Mr. J.) was as suulteiJjy the Laniers, knocked down by a blow and his head, and then stabbed thro’ the heart. lie died instantly. The assas sins had beO lying in wait for Mr. Stat ham and mistok Jernigan for him. We have bee.furnished with a descrip tion of these mtderers, which is as fol lows ; Manson E. Lantr is of quite athletic form, about six feet'igh, about 27 yearsof age, has dark or blab hair, brown complex ion, dark eyes, with alien down look, ex hibiting a decided badttountenance. The front and middle fingers a the right hand are mutilated by the passge of a rifle ball between them, the front filter is inclined to turn toward the middle c the hand. He has pretty good comtnai! of carpenters’ tools, and is a good rouglporkman, he is apt to use spirituous liquor if invited, after which he talks freely, but without excite ment he has but little to 80 lhs. John Lanier is about 23”- 24 years old, of erect’and active form, ajout six febt high, dark hair & dark eyes, ofafrown or swarthy complexion, has a scar jjund one ol his eyes caused by a burn whin a child, weighs about 150 lbs. As there is reason to suppose that these villains are attempting toAoape in this di rection, people would do->Jell to be on the lookout for them. A lart'e reward will be paid for their apprehension. < , OCrThe trial of McLqod was postponed, and probably took place on Monday last. Mr. Legate has excepted the office of At torney GencraVof the Uiped States, and entpred qd the duties v e
