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FATE or LAI'H V ZICCLOI.C tri. imp*'>vwrntcr. or rLO*CMcr. “1 un ih daughter of that land Where tbs poet’* flft and ihepainin'* bond Arsmaxt divin*. 1 am of F.irtbee. ’— t, E L Liras Zicciola, (ho daughter of a celehfti ted physician at the age ot IB was one of the most attractive personage* in Florence. How ever Italy may have degenerated, none ran deny her the merit of fully appreciating gen tu and talent. In the present case, Liura's lame a* an itnprovlaatrice and poetesv cmmrtd her llrti notice and acceptance which she was uueuiitlcd to claim on tlie ground of personal beauty, wealth or birth. Whilst “he was de iiqnug the Plnrciiiitie Princes in (heir Palla cltan hall*—whilst crowded audiences listen ed to her lay* of love or chivalry—little did the admiring throng suspect that the Impas sioned poetess was then sutlermg the pangs of uitreqinlted love! Hut no it was: Laura was susceptible ol the charms of personal beau ty, though entirely destitute of that godly gift hurt elf. Signor Slcphiuo was the youth up on whom our heronu had must unfortunately fixed her affections, and in all respect* the Higitor justified the taste of his youthful wor shiper. The Signor was a cadet of one of those noble houses who claim descent from the cotempororic* of the Ciesar*. Hi* parson was of tile most graceful form, his head wor thy of the Apollo, his mind richly stored with the learning of the ancients, and with all mod ern accomplishments. Signor Slephano had been one of the first to discot ci and foster the go .tins of the youthful votary of the muses, lie had repeatedly protected her from insult, and h id at all times treated her with a kind ness that went to the heart of the 100 suaceptl blc girl. Slu- became passionately attached ; but alii* ! Signor Stephniio observed nothi rig of this, or, if be did casually notice that I,aura’s eye brightened when he entered her present*, or a sigh escape her when lie departed, lie as cribed il to another source than its true one ; he thought it merely the natural gratitude of u sensitive heart toward a liberal benefactor uml n powerful protector. Laura loved, but not w ithout hope : the Sig nor was unmarried, nor was it known that be was attached to any lady, neither was the Stg nor a man of gallantry, in the ordinary accept ation of the term, so that the ftMlG** hoped that the Signor’s habitual kinaneht might at last ripen into a deeper feeling.—Matters had gone on thu- for muiiy years, and the girl Mad ripened into womanhood, but neither her feel ings or his lmd changed. Still she hoped— Inti the hope was blighted ! Slephano had been appointed un attache to a mission to the Court of Madrid, Whilst there hi: hud become enamored of a dark eyed Castilian, Donna Is abel du Murcia. Her lie wedded, and Laura Ziceiola was thrown into despair. No longer had music or poetry charms for her. Mile gradually sunk into dcspoutleney ; her for mer haunts and habit* were ncgti eled, uml she sat moodily brooding over in r hopeless passion. Her father Doctor Ziceiola, died about two years after tiiis evant, nnd Laura found herself her own mistress, in the posses sion of a small independency arising from her father’s savings ami tho result of her own ex ertions. We are not sufficiently rend in the intrica cies of the human heart to know wluit it was that Induced Laura shortly after to settle her affitirs tu Florence and {kipart for Madrid. This, however, she did , and she settled herself in a small housOftvith a respectable elderly fe male as her companion. Stic gradually re sumed her habita of improvisation, and her fnmc quickly Haw through Madrid. Signor Hlephaijo, among others, heard of ihe'fame oi his country woman and profege. He mention ud the circumstance to the UOunu, und-tt was agreed between them that the talented Flor entine should he invited to their house, not ns n public performer, but as a friend and country woman. Poor Laura's heart beat high us she entered the mansion of him tier soul held most dear; nnd when he greeted her in his usual kind manner, her feelings overpowered her, nnd she burst into tears. Hoih Donnn Isabel nnd the Signor were somewhat astonished at this display ofsoumtulil v, und, for the first time, n suspicion of the trutli glanced through the mind of he?'former patron. After this time, the Signoreauiiouly avoided Inking the least notice of the poetess. She perceived it, and knew that her secret had been discovered. Ashamed and mortified, she gave up all society, and now she found that the ob ject of her tenderness did not in the slightest degree respond to her feelings Hope a to gether fled ; and as love can hardly exist with out hope, the v ioknee of her attachment some what abated. Signor Slephano had returned to Florence w ith his bride, and now Laura no longer bad reason to avoid society ; her old habits returned except that her exertions to please were gratu itous, and she was a welcome guest at the houses of the highest nobilitv. Some years after this, Don I’edrode Lara, a General in the Spanish service, am! Governor of Mexico, hud obtained leave of absence from the colony, and had returned to Madrid for the purpose of ar ranging his affairs in the mother country, and ultimately settling altogether in the New- World. The Don hud been repeatedly thrown into the society of the impronsntrice, and the more he saw of her, the more he eonaidcred her ns eminently suited to make him happy. He thought that the genius nnd talents of Lau ra would, in the colony, shine out with a res plendence which would make him the most envied of Governors. He offered lus hand, and her youthful passion being extinguished, she accepted it, if not w ith the expectation of en joying exquisite felicity from the union, at least with the hope of moderate happiness. Ihjl Pedro and Ills bride departed for .Mexi co, nnd, after a prosperous voyage, the thu .tier of the cannon announced the return of the Governor; but before they landed, the Don found courage to mention a circumstance which should have been stated earlier. Don Pedro, during Ins previous residence in Mexico, had formed a connection with a female of half blood, her father being a .Spaniard, her mother an In dian; this woman was residing in the palace w ith her family. The fact of lire Don having a mistress dal not at all affect Laura—she con sidered it all in the course of things ; so she good-humoredly asked the Governor Ins inten tions with regard to his family. The Don re plied that he would take core that Laura should not be tucominodcd by the female, and that he would remove tier to a se pc rate establishment as soon as possible ; and at the same time prom ised that no renewal of that intimacy should take place. For some vvcccs after the arrival of the Gov enor and his lady, they lived very happily. He was a man of sense and could well appreci ate the genius of hi* wife. Fp to this time he had not found courage to intimate to his mis tress that she must remove, and that all inti macy had ceased. At last the blow fell upon her like a thunderbolt. She was a half educa ted. passonate creature— a slave to every im pulse. .She threw herself at Lara’s feet, de preciated the separation, promised to avoid alt ” i I IWZ-rfmlv let her rest un ’ , , ’ , * —only let her ! ltr\ vw W tr - die subscript j „ sfiti, of n, ,-pro’ c-! ■tieut U 7 eV L •Vl • or : hersotfl were awakened. She meditated re venge y ntid with the cunning of her nation, she found means of accomplishing it. Don Pedro was absent in the interior on bu ■tins**. The woman foitud access to the aparttn nil of La ora,and infused poison into some fod which I had been prepared for her. When she auppo- 1 *cd that the poison had partly performed its 1 work, sha rushed into th room, and there ! found herin theagonie* of de.atb. With a de moniac laugh of triumph she boasted of what i she had done, and was immediately seized by I the servant* and removed to prison. Laura i died a victim ton jealousy arid revngc. La >ra returned to lit* palace uud found that his I accomplished wife hud been murdered. Stern | w as hi* revenge—his former mistress was con demned to be burned at the stake ! Don Pe dro instantly left the country, returned to Ma drid, and retired to a monastery. Ijondon Court Journal. A Handsome Gift. —We learn that Hub ert W. Ntykcs, Esq. has presented the Methodist Episcopal Church with anew and handsome edifice at Gloucester Point, as a Meeting House or Church, for the citizen* of that vicinity,—-The building has just been completed, and is lift feet front, by 50 feet deep. Thu Jot on which it is erected, is HO feel front, by d3O feet deep, uud the whole cannot lie wot til less than :?vOOO. It is intended for use immediately, as a place of public worship, will be called the Gloucester Point Chapel, and opened in the beginning of July. The whole proper ty hus been conveyed to trustees—viz: I Jame* barren, Richard Benson, J. Harm* steed, J- Cullagliuit), Jr, E. J. Y ard, and J. . Whiteman of Philadelphia, and Joshua P. Drowning, John Moore. Arthur Powell, Thomas Githcns and Edward Dotigheitv of i New Jersey. The ground connected with \ the building, will lie ample fur a burial place, ! is well as for the erection of the necessary i shed, A more eligable site for such a building could nut have been selected, and doubt not that the results in a moral and religious point of view, will prove of the happiest kind. The trustees, -who ujc j highly respectable citizens, have already ! commenced the necessary steps for obtain ! ing a congregation—a matter that will be ! accomplished w ith little difficulty, as there is no rcgulai place of public worship within several miles of this new Church, alitinigh* the surrounded country is thickly- popula ted. Mr. Syke* deserves no little credit J for this laudable and liberal act, and lie I will we trust, excuse ua for making thus public, what he may have intended to have been passed over in silaoce. -—lnquirerJ An Escape.- —Miss Phyline Belknap, living witiiin about two tniles of this village, met with an accident on Friday week, which came near depriving her of life. Her mother’s residence is near the Halsey ville Greek, and having occasion to cross it, she attempted to do so at the usual place, tvbieh was upon some planks stretched “Serous the creek for that purpose. The late high water having removed one lifrm its place, and the water being shallow, she. hazarded wading to the end of the other. Just as she had gained it, nnd was stepping upon it, her foot slipped and she fcllWfto the stream, which whs quite quick, and at the place, and tor rods below, ran over a continuous surface ofrock, very uneven, nnd iiiTnany places approaching to ledge*. She vva* hurried flown the stream with con siderable velocity, being buoyed up by her clothes, to which circumstance may be at tributed the preservation of her life. The water though n6t deep was under such motion, and the surface of tho rock over which it rutvso smooth,'s to render abortive every effort to stop. Down the stream she was hurried over a projecting rock into the abyss below, and anon with the velocity of an arrow again shot off with the current to go over another and another fall, und in this manner floated about thirty rods. During all this time Miss R. ever cised much presence of mind in holding her breath ft* site plunged beancth the water ns she went over the rocks. At last she limited into on eddy and was rescued in a very exhausted state by a heroic sister, who had witnessed her distressing vovtige. Tne unfortunate lady is now, we understand, doing well.— Transburgh Advertiser. Doinsrs in Mississippi.— On the full Inst, iht; deputy sheriff of “ iirrt'n county, (Mis*.) according to the Yic&aburg “ lug, proceeded to litg Black, lo levy an execution on the pro perty of Win. Folkes. Koikes had threaten ed to kill the sheriff, or any oltieer who enter ed his premises lo distrain his property, and some time previously drove off n constable. The deputy sheriff, >fr. S: ifford, arrived with a double barrelled shot gun and two pistols, re solved to execute the law, •repnued with two unarmed assistants to the gin house, where Koikes’ cotton was stoned. Koikes heard of his arrival, and sent him word that be intended to kill him as soon as lie loaded his gun and eat his dinner; and in accordance with lus threat. In’ was soon seen marching to the gin house with the gun on his shoulder. Stafford saw him coming, and to avoid exposing hisns ! ststunoe to danger, he marched out into the field, and ordered Koikes at a distance of forty yards, not lo advance further. Koikes imme diately levelled his gun and took nun ; but his cap burst, while Stafford at the same instant lodged several buck shot in the arm and side of his assailant. Koikes immediately com menced applying another cap in order to take another fire, but when he saw Stafford take atm with the other barrel, he commenced a retreat, Stafford pursued and caught him, and disarmed him of his gun, as well as two pistols and a knife, which he had in his bosom ; and after conquering the outlaw, he returned to town with properly to satisfy the execution. After conquering Koikes, and convincing him that the law in Warren county “must hav e its course.” Mr. Stafford sat down with his an tagonist, and whilst his unis were loading the wagons, and gathering up the goods and chat ties, the two had a long and friendly chat on politics and matters and thing* ingcncri!. It is helired by many that Mr, Folkes is deranged on some subjects. While he keeps his creditors out of their money, he hits kept his cotton for two years, declaring that he w til never sell it till he gets twenty cents a pound for it. He has some very --traoge and pecular notions op the prices of cotton, and declares that the merchants and sheriffs are his great areh enemies. Mississippi. —The Yazoo, Miss. .Manner of the ISth ult. speaking of the distresses in that place, says :— * Many interesting families have, daring the past week, been deprived of the assistance of their last ser *">"t—but the fair matrons, with courage TITY) Konun, brush the rising tear his preev’ks, and with a becoming niKhssivthv firmness, incite *v* ‘hnvfamities to begin •on. ’tne ttiv ‘* i*\ t„- THE WfftlNTfiSJl; OOUNTT KirAlD, Horrid AJJait .—On tjie loth of November, Mr. Lukf who replied in th • rear of 173 < hryt|o street, a flute maker by trade, left tills city for st. Louts. Mo., mi nutates* rel siiveto *ofll*• land owned by him in that place, lie left hi* wife in possession of his premises, two lower rooms of the house, tho uppoi part of which was occupied by a gentleman'* fami ly named I luck horn, About the middle of May the outer door of Mrs. Hhroeder’* premises wus forced open by some person unknown, and a valuable gold watch stolen from her bedroom. Yesterday morning the people above stairs had tlu.tr attention arrested, by the fact that Mrs. H. had not been seen, Which was a thing unusual, as she was gunerally a very early riser. About 12 o'clock Mrs Bnekhom, on at tempting to open the door found that the lock hud been forced, nnd recollecting that, during the night, n dog was heard to bark in the yard, sin- ut once suspected lloul play, und calling another person, they went into the bedroom of Mrs. Hhroeder. They (bund her on the bed and trying to raise herself upon Iter hands. Her face and head were covered with blood, with which the bedcloths too were completely saturated, and the gore still streaming from her mouth. Dr. Belcher was sent for, who, on examn ing ,1/rs. H, found that one of the eyes had been perforated to the brain, that the scull o ver the right temple had been fractured in two places, and other wounds inflicted in various parts of the body. The wretched sufferer was as vet compara tively sensible; und on making inquirei* of her, it whs found that the wounds hud been in flicted w ith n small bar of iron about 18 inches in length by 1 inch in w idth, which was found among the bedclothes. Who the perpetrator of the dreadfulul outrage was she was unable to say. Alderman Purdy was railed in, and he upon farther inquiry and examination ascertained that a large chest of clothes had been broken open, and though none of the clothe* had been abstracted, it was supposed lll.it some money had been stolen therefrom. It was ulso believed, that at the lime the watch was stolen, some difficulty occurred be tween Mrs. S. uud a son of her'* residing in 1 this city; and that a number of new flutes: “Which the young man had laid eluim to, but which s e r msed to give him, where missing ; from the premigga. Huspiciou accordingly feli upon the young man, and a warrant was there fore is# u*d for hlzapprcht union. He had not nowever, up to Inst evening, been found. The I poor woman was at the laswccmmts still living,: buljiot the least hopes were entertained of her j recovery. She 1* abput 5 ) years <>u ;e. The coroner last < veiling held an ant*-mor tem examination in the case ; hut w e did not Team thut ady particulars in addition to thef above were elicited. | Ibid. Ocean Meant I'essrli for Ihe Atlantic Coast - Last Saturday, we mentioned the sale j of the steamer Natchez, forSlt) O i l, and a short tone since, the disposal of ihe Neptune for 823,0 30. Built of these vessels cost over 8125,- i( OJUeurli, and we?e hardly oue year Old w hen knocked off at the above prices. The fact is, our builders construct such steamers that it isevc? impossible to sell them after they have made one or two trip*, at a quar ter for their original cost. Ther never has been n steamer built m l|)i* country, for the coast navigation, that was lit for Uiere never will be, so long a* they follovHne ttff. l els of the rues ■teamera. ‘/'he Neptugo, Nat ciiuz uud Charleston, are but river steamboats of a large av/w—they are long, hut have no hrertth, said two or three trips li sen generally . knock them up. VY <• believe iff? Nntjjcz is the strongest and most durable vessel of The kind j ever built ui the United Stute.sf but *1)1* would never cross the Atlantic. Wc want such boats as the BtVjral William and Strut it*. navigate our coast, und four steamers Hke them would keep up a regular and quick commimicaftufi 1 w ith all the southern seaports. *w Cheerfulness t.^ f wives.-s-Doz well remarks that a cheerful woman may be of great assis tunciito her husband in business by wearing a etici'ijul smile continually upon her counte nance; A mast’s perplexities and gloominess are increased a hundred fold when Ins better half moves about with a continual seotvl upon her brow. A plesant cheerful wife is a rain bow set in tlx sky, when her husband's mind is tossed with storms and tempests ; hut a dis satisfied and fretful wife in the hourof trouble, is like one of those lie lids who delight to tor ture lost spirits. Miss Lasher lately recovered one hundred and thirty-nine dollar and some odd cents from one Mr. Smith for refusing to marry her. I The trial w hich took place in Randal Cos., Ohio, is only remarkable for Ihe legal point decided by the lury. The promise and ail that, appear to have been made out, but the delinquent defended himself on the gtouud that tile “lady love” wore false teeth in front, and not only so, hut that she actually wore curls alien to herown brow, und worse still, curls of a different coloi from the natual growth of the j soil! This was certainly making out a pretty I strong case for the defence, hut the jury over ; ruled it, and gave the enormous damages al ready mentioned.— N. Y\ Gazetttc. THE DROUTH AND THE HEAT. The heat during the last week has been ex ceedingly oppressive. The Thermometer ranging between 1)3 and 98. The surrounding country too, as w ell ns our city, is suffering under u drought of several weeks. In the ci ty. garden vegetables are literally parched and dried up, and in the surrounding country, the corn is almost in the same situation ; and yet there are no prospects of rain. We understand that some ten or twelve miles north of this place, on Friday night last, there w as a severe iiail storm which, like the one that fell in the same direction a few weeks past, has done a great deal of damage. Without there is an early rain, the planters in this vicinity w ill lose their crop of Corn and tliecntton will be mate rially injured. We trust however, that the “Beneficent Being” who, in the exercise of his w isdom, orders all things for the best, will at an early period visit our parched soil with a few of ihose “general showers,” without which, the industrious Farmer toileth in vain! Mil. Jour. “A Worthy Subscriber Lost.” —Under this head the Pittsburg Gazette mentions the re cent loss of a subscriber, who had taken that paper without intermissions, for upward of fifty-two years, and always paid in advance. There was not the slightest feeling of dissatis faction with the paper, but it was given up, no doubt reluctantly, because lhe fating si; hi of the venerable subscriber, at length produced an inability to read. Relations so Ions; endur ing. must have produced pain in the severance. And one should think that friends of fifty years standing, could setreely, for any cause, be put asunder. —Balt Pat. The Evansville la. Journal of the 28th ult. says:—“John Station, recently from Eng land. was bitten by a rattlesnake, one day last week, and died within thirty hours thereafter of the wound He left a wife and six young children, destitute of means; of support.” A VaSBEi. Pupomei.y Hi NX,— Our mercan tile rcudeis w ill doubtless recollect the late tri al of Field vs. the Ocean Office, for Die msur unceof the brig Frauds, which sprung a leak, and was run ii-norc on Cranberry nemo. Field was in osier and ow nor, and recovered hi in surance against the office, w hieh set up fraud as a defence. —About SFAKJuf the insurance has been paid—and the abandoned brig has long since passed into other hands. Hue is now at Yarmouth, NovaHcotia, undergoing repairs. While examining her bottom, the carpenters found that five large holes had been Doted in one of her main timbers below. The boles wore stopped up by moveable plugs. On the inside the plug* were hid by a shoit piece !of wood “graved in” over the hole*. The sup position is, that after the brig was run ashore, | this piece of wood was removed by a chisel, there being no nails m it, and the plugs driven ■ through the bottom. Hhe theu ol course leak ed very fast —an affirm was raised, and all haste made to gel her into shoal water. This was effected—and as she lay high and dry ut j low tide, the holes were replugged on the uiit side, so as not to attract the attention of the surveyors who examined her. A merchant in Yarmouth, and the United States consul there, upon learning these fact*, apprised Col. Adams, . President of the Ocean Office, of them, and sent hun up the fragment of the timber thus ! bored, and il may now be seen in that office. Potion Putt. The North Cajiouxa Dihi..—There is no doubt that the report of a duel between Mr. Jo: Seawv 11 Join s, of N.C. and Mr. Henry Wright VV ilium, of New York, is a hoax; and we regret [ to believe that Mr. Jones i*. in great part, re i sponsible for the authorship of the report. The Raleigh fN C.) Register pronounce.* the storv a hoax —“on what it deems conclusive evi -1 deuce.” It is a very small business to get up I such a hoax.— Hall. Patriot. A Pttßtenger in an Airkiranl Predicament. \ —A gentleman,Mr. K, who went out In the Eriesleamer last week, from Buffalo, had taken i a berth in one of the stale rooms on deck, the stale room next to his having been secured by -a gentleman and hi* wife. Mr. It. wishing to (elire early, went by mistake, into the married t gentleman s state room, and thinking it to he j Ins own, stowed himself away very snugly in the tipper berth, and was in a short time sound asleep. The lady, who had been reading in 1 the Cabin, wishing to go to bed, and not seeing ! i her husband at hand, went to her stateroom, ] i and was surprised to find him (asvhe aumioshd j : asleep in fits berth. Not wishing to Wake him. she undressed herself, and wuejusl on the point ! of getting into her berth, when the supposed j : husband sprang up and exclaimed, —“who’s there!” A* may naturally be supposed, tin lady screamed and crouched in one corner of j Lthe small room; and it happmad just at that ‘ fmoment that the husband made his appear anee. Being rather a testy gentleman, and j perhaps withal occasionally haunted fry the 1 “green eyed monster, •’ he did not wait for an i explanation; buleeizmg the tresspasser by the i shirt collar, pulled him Iroiu his berth, nnd without even glopping to venture a remark j upon his questionable situation, attempted to thrust him upon deck. Mr. If. on the other fmiud, having too great a respect for decency to grget ail his fellow passengers tan* calotte , ! ! was coin polled to defend himself against being thus summarily disposed of-—and while en deavoriug to posh bun through the door, the married man was himself forced upon tbit deck, and locked our of Ins own room. The Cap i tail).and a crowd of passengers immediately assembled-—Mr. It threW open the window— Wild*red an explanation—it was accepted, and he permitted to dress and retire. iTn ; chagrin of the testy gentleman cannot he de i seemed. Ile hail not only made n fool of him- ’ a*elf before nil the passengers, But had very im- j I politely exposed a stranger in the very face of itis own wife, who like u virtuous woman, sat passive duriiijyhe whole ridiculousm-us. ? AnoiKCr Revolutionary Tatriot Gone.— ] Mr. KbenezerL me. ofSandlnke, iji thisCoun j ty, died nt hi* residence In that town on the 30th mst., aged 77 yH£*. He vv ns a patriot of thu revolution, and there arc few men who have done more serv ice for their country than ! he did. lie enlisted as a private soldier in the revolutionary army, on the 4th of April, 1777, und continued in service to the end of the war. 1 He was in many buttles; among others, that of Stillwater, when Burgoyne was taken, where he contended in close contact with the ; enemy, and was severely wounded with a bay-: i onet, but was able to overpower his adversary; and also in the buttle of Monmouth, where he was also wounded, ile received front his com- I mandcr two badges of honor for hi* faithful | services. At the breaking out of the war of ; 1812, he again enlisted in the army, together with two of lnssons. He was in the battle I of Siickett’s Harbor, under General Browne, j nnd also in the bat:le of Cornwall, where lie was so severely w ounded as to disable him : | from doing any further duty, and he was hon j orably discharged, and afterwards placed on the roll of invalid pensioner*. Ills station in j life was humble—but he was an honest man j and a patriot.— 7Voy Budget. Release of a State Prisoner. —Some time during the last year, Reynolds, alias David Deal, son of Mr. David Deal, of Ship j penshurg, Pennsylvania, a promising youth ; of 11), visited Buffalo, in this state of New York, where he was persuaded to enlist with a company of volunteers to join the patriots for the invasion of Canada. Young Deal, with several others, was soon cap tured by a company of British Lancers, was i tried, and sentenced to death. His situa | tion was made known to his friends, by 1 whose entreaty Sir George Arthur was in ! dinted to suspend the execution of the sen | tence for a lime, and the vouug man was I sent to England and committed to prison, | there to await the approval of the sentence passed upon him in Canada, and its final execution. The Rev. Mr. Cookman, Judge McLean and Dr. Sewall, who were inform ed of the situation of young Deal, and the I distress of his family, addressed letters to Mr. Stevenson, setting forth the circum stances of the case, and requesting his in lluence w ith the authorities of the British government, to save, if possible. the voung man’s wife. Mr. Stevenson made every effort in his official capacity, but in vain ; j when he applied to the Queen, and request-; ed his release as a personal favor, upon which she promptly granted a free pardon, : and the young man is now on his passage j home. And thus an aged father and mother, and a large circle of other family connex ions, are made to rejoice in the restoration of a favorite boy, who, we hope, will learn a le.sson from the consequences of his indiscretion, and long live to thank Mr. Stevenson for his disinterested exertions, and bless Queen Victoria for the exercise of her clemency. The Storm King. —Prentice is ever ready with his jokes. He says Prof. Espy was so w ell pleased with the complimentary resolu tions at Germantown, Pa., tiiat he sent word I to the citizens that they might “draw upon him at any time for a shower, a hail storm, a thun- j der gust, a whirlwind, or a water-spout, and he will Junior the draft at night.”—jf.Y. Star. Hail Hoad Strike. —On Tuesday morning last, a general strike took place among the hands employed on the different sections of the Rail Road between Reading and Ham burg. About three hundred men left work, demanding an advaned in their wages from £1 to $1,12/ per day. On oue section wc understand ihe advance has been made, and the hands have resumed their work. Most ol’ the contractors however refuse to accede to the demand* of the combination. In somp rne* the hands required an increased supply of whiskey. There i* nothing coa ted with the public works that calls so loud ly for reformation as the system persuades in relation to this rumors piosou. One, and half pints are now the daily ratio of each laborer, dealt out in nine doses. This is given universally to young and old, and instead of it being surprising that the use of so much ai dent spirits should leave a demand for more, the wonder is that any who aie in the habitof using itin this regular manner and in such quantities should escape the drunkard’s grave. We hare been in formed by intelligent contractor* that many young men commenced work on the public improvements feeling all that I’Ppug nance to whiskey which nature has wisely implanted in every being whose taste has not been vitiated by the murderous bever age. In a short time however the influence of example brings the poisou to the lips of the novice in drinking, and abused nature soon demands the uccustoincd stimulus— Reading Journal. The tailors in New Orleans arc about reviving the old fashion of putting pockets to pantaloons. They say they have met with serious losses since the present fashion first came in rogue, as their customer* now, for want of a place to carry money, al ways leave it at home ! Cure for the sting of a Wasp or lice. — j A Liverpool paper says that an onion ap plied to the part affected by the sling of an j insect, will invariably give relief. This important but simple remedy should be j generally known. Robbers at Fault.' —Some days bark Mr. Samuel Jones, w ho krpta hotel at Auburn, N. Y., and who has been some time in a consumption, went on to Philadelphia to obtain medical advice, and died there. 11 is remains were put in a coffin, and the coffin enclosed in a deal box, which vvris forward ed to New York, and on Thursday evening was landed at the foot of Liberty st. It be ing then too late in tho evening to forward it to its ultimate destination, a man was left to watch it until morning. In the course of the night the man absented him self for a short time from his post, and on his return to it, he found that the box and i its contents had been stolen away. At an early hour in the morning lie complained at the Police office, and obtained the assis tance ofun officer to go in search of the box, and after searching for some time, it vvws (timid lying at the fool no (Imirt hind-steeel. - where it appeared the rubbers had carried it, and parity bruise open the dox. When they of course discovered the nature of their booty, and abandoned iLr~Jour. Com. -* ■ —■ p Lyncher's Punished—A Good - Example. In Yazoo, Niss., some time ago, a Mr. Har ris, for some real or supposed offence, was sevtftely lynched by 11. \V. Dunn, C. W. Rain, and others.—sir prosecuted those two individual* for the out* go, and the ease was tried at the late session of the Circuit Court of Yazoo county. The Jury return ed a verdict for the plaintiff’ of ri'JO.OOO Louis. Jour. Interesting Scene on the Fourth of July. — The New Y ork Express says the teachers of the various Sunday Schools have entered into an arrangement, to have the children celebrated the Day on Statin Island, in a manner worthy of the occasion. At least twenty thousand will embark in steam and tow boats, land on the island and in a grove selected for the occasion, spend the day in a rational and happy manner. Provisions will be furnished, and every arrangement made for their safety and enjoyment. This is a noble plan, and one that will give gen eral satisfaction. Dangerous Ascension of a Balloon. —On Monday night an experimental inflation of a Halloon took place in a meadow near the Beulah Spa, Norwood. A number of men | were employed in holding the vast machine, which was unusually large dimensions. In the space of 12 minutes the balloon was completely filled with heated air, generated in a furnace from chopped straw, btrrh, and nldorvvood ; the ascending power on a sudden then became so great, that it moving the machine from the furnace it escaped from the hands of most of the men. and ascended to a great height, taking up five persons clinging to the ropes and sides of the car. A youth, when thirty feet from the ground, could hold no longer, and drop ped, sustaining much injury ;*the others remained clinging to the balloon, and were conveyed about a mile, when the machine descended in the midst of a field. The principal gardener of the Beaulah Spa, Wm. Stevens, laving lost his hold, got his legs entangled with a rope, and was suspended with his head downwards for several min i utes ; and when the balloon reached the ground, his leg was completely severed, | being attached by tendrons only ;it has since been amputated but he still lies in a dangerous state. One man was caught by the grapnel, and was seriously torn. The other two, though much cut and bruised, have received no material injuries. Mr. lloare, the owner of the balloon, is not hurt, and intends making another attempt. The machine remains where it fell, unin jured—Late British Journal. A. W. Goodrich who was indicted, at Wash ington, D. C. for receiving fifty thousand dol lars, in April last, from Dennis G. Orme, (tel ler in the bank) knowing the same to have been stolen from the Bank of the Metropolis by Ornic. was tried for the offence on Tuesday last. The case went tothe jury without argu ment. and alter remaining in their room a few minutes they returned with a virdict of not guilty. It was proved on the trial that there was no criminal intent: but that the object of his hold ing the money was to screen Orme. from whom Goodrich had received many kindnesses. The London “Morning Chronicle” has changed hands. Lord Durham is said to have bought it. LIBERTY’ COUNTY. W. Primrose, agent for sonic Nothernl Company, claims a large body of land, in *ev-1 erul of the lower counties of this Htute. The 1 claim is said to be founded under bead-right ] grants obtained from Htate, chiefly from I 17U3 1017D4- 16 years hack.—Suits have been j instituted against the citizens generullv in consequence of which, a large meeting of the citizens of Liberty county look place on the 1 Hd inst.. and resolutions were unanimously pas sed. 11l which they say that “whilst they'avow their firm attachment to the doctrine of the supremacy of the law, and their love for the laws of the land and of good order in general and feel the full responsibility or their course’ and regret that any ease should have arisen to justify it; yet they are determined not to em ploy eounccl to defend rights they are already und hav e been so long indisputably their own” —and that they “will now adopt no measures further thau to approve of the course of the Grand Jury, und to unite with them in defend ing their rights in their own way, nndtopfedga | themselves to assist each other according lo j exigency.”— Mil. Jour. Improved Sp rits of Cotton. —There is a communication in the lust Soul hern Agrieul | lurahst from Col. Elmore, describing anew species of Cotton selected in Alabama from a | fit Id of the Petit Gulf Cotton. It grows much taller than the common plant, and hears a nuin ; her of short lateral branches ouly four or five inches iu length, uud bearing twin pods or dusters of 6or 7 pods on each braneh. The cotton is finer than any other kind of short staple, commands 4 or 5 cents more, and the product is very milch more abundant. The plant w ith leaves like other cotton, resembles the oakra in other respects, and iu rich land will reach a height ofßorl> feet. The seed is | not vet in general use, and the small quantity to he had sells at very high prices.- It ripens earlier than the other cotton, and stands a bet ter chance, therefore, of escaping the worm, wfiieh is very destructive to late crops in tho Southwest.’ L tbslers and 2\>banco. —.4 ship was not long since, (h iven>shorc on the Isle of Angle sea, nnd went to pieces. The tobacco with which she was principally laden,*waa washed among the ‘•revises of the rocks, and the lob sters that dwell theft:, took to chewing the weed. The next morning the beach was strew ed with the unhappy victims of indiscretion, so sick that they wcie unable to-frwf. Those who have been sickened by e*sayingto become t >hucco chewera, will know how to feel for the unfortunate lobsters of the Isle of Anglesea. Liberal Return. —Miss Clifton, it is said, has subscribed 8100 ft mid Mr. Forrest 83000 to the loan of >*30,000, for the rebuilding the theatre of Molgl--. Bulb those erqiueut per formers might well do this act towards a city which ha.’- b igiiso Hberal to them. Keening Star. * JTjnl'hat Jour. Print**-out South, who is coming in for S2fi.OUO,OOft worth of property in New’- York. vvTil git more than his shape cif fat. He vfli'i havigsi full case, while the'rest lh.- fraternity are often ng/ of sorts. He will be able to gif up a thousand quicker than any man. hut li£ ill ot be able tqdislribute it nny quicker, that’sisn fact. He will always have plrnt;. ofst/twins iu his bank, and he may re new his tympan sheet as he please*. If he is yfenuiue printer, liwwever. he will be likely to make more errors, and exhihit a worse proff than dfe lona fortunate; but in irorkimr off. should he keep good regitscr and not fUt up too much, he may exhibit a fair spe cimigj (if typografftiy, after all. We hope the poor stick will succeed. , Boston Daily Times. Quackery.— ‘'.Warn,” said a quack to a ner vous old lady, “y our ease is a serottmtury com plaint” “Kray, doctor what is that 1” —“It is the dropping of the nerves having fallen into the puarintnin, the chest becomes morberous, and the head goes tiznrizen.”—“Ah ! doctor.” exclaimed the old lady, “you have described my feelings exactly.” Sviocouxo Slaves into Texas.—The Hous ton Stir says that several vessels have been fitted out from New Orleans to proceed to Cuba, and smuggle slaves into our country. The course intended to be pursued in effecting this object, is to run the vessel up tile Sabine? and land them on the United States coast, from which the trensportutioii of them arross the river into our country w ould be the work of a moment. Immtnsf. Robberies.—Steamboat Bobbery. —The John W. Richmond,onherarrival from Providence this morning, was detained some hours in the North river, in consequence of a passenger (J. W. Ferris, Esq, of Boston,) hav ing been robbed of papers valued at 830.000. Part of the money was found, but the thief was not found. Hi piper yet I—The Cashier of the Bank of Utica was robbed last night onboard thesteam boat Swallow, on her way from Albany, of the sum of $400,000. The rogue was not discove red — .V. Y. Times. Hunting Buffaloes. —Irt the months of June, July and August, the Kev. M. Merrill, missionary to the Ottoes, accompanied that tribe of Indians on their buffalo hunt, which lasted more than two months. This party consisted of 800 souls, men, women and children. They killed 1500 buffaloes. Ijook round you—how few do you see grow old in the affections of those with whom there early friendships were formed ! Jealousies, rivalries, envy, intervene to separate the first companions of our pil grimage. Absence of Mind — The Latest. —A few days since, an office-holder remitted the to tal amount of government funds'in his hands to the departmental Washingron, and ne ver discovered his mistake until he received a receipt accompanied by his dismission from office for neglect of duty, by remitting, instead of emigrating, with the spoils. The steamer Natchez, one year old, was sold at New York by auction forSIO.COO. The purchaser was the only bidder, and had a claim against the vessel of 538.000. She cost §130,- 000. Hercopperboilers weigh 89,000 pounds. Young Crockett of Tennessee, a gallant son ofa gallant father, has no opposition to his re election lo Congress. G. W. L. Marr, for awhile took the field against him, but, as the newspapers say, retreated on the first fire, and is now among the missing. A cow belonging to Col. Wolbert, of Phila delphia, of the “short horn Durham” breed, yielded last week 194 quarts, or nearly seven gallons of milk per day on an average. Anoth er cow of the same stock, also in possession of Col. W.. is said to be rated at a higher value thau any other in the country, he having lately refused 82.500f0r her.