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<1 Vo were breathless with wonder
** irf ir j till ntlaul, overcome with ttis luten
*.tj of our emotion*, wifwcpt aloud
wouLi not join the rroaking multitude
wit pratroftH.. superior joy* of childhood ;
i t .ve firmly lielicve in the dorti ina of iom
j i tiioti, In ail ago* and condition* ; but we
j* i t fain coitfe** that the {{loriouH earth lost
In hos it* exceeding brightness with it* vn
ili g rayrterie*. Oh, for those day* when the
v j >1 wa- one broad, bright fairy laud, full of
v lerfiil enchantment* and delightful spell*!
Y’i it though some Wiokffd spirit, in the shape
oi : it unwelcome Shower, wouldevcr ami anon
t. . . from th n rwnesliv-desired good J What
t. <■ gh some frightful Ogre, in shape of an tm
■if am rouble Icstson, would thrill wa with an*
gaisli on the threshold of Ihc rerilulion liour 7
Wlmt though some lull giant, in shape of nn
u i’ inly headache, would steal from our ex-
Is. mt palate the delicate viands 7—Still it
’ . one broad bright fury-land, where we
’ c continually stemblingon hidden trastircs;
i never, lest we should be impected bv our
ih ,Hody oflmvingnrrlvcd at serostd childhood
’ . we bid farewell to r> collections of tlmt
sweet spring time, when
‘Life, with all ilsrbnnge, did arun
A litful, hut delirious dream,*
Tut; f .wr, or Knet cn. -The trial of KoM ,- r,
the murderer of the German lew pedler, Zel
iSi m. k, which bKk place in Lancaster, I’u a
’vr ik sioea,appears to have excited great in
te r <t in all emotes, but especially among (hose
if the Jewish per.simalon, many of whom were
in attendance from various part* of the United
SSuie*. Wo understand, from an eye witness,
t: it the prisoner when arraigned, shotted no
si ‘ii* of conscious guilt, nor did be, during llm
I'toaress of the first part of the trial, evince
any sign* of emotion until VVilmer, hi* alleged
‘outplica, mt* discharged. From that hour
l.t drooped, and when \\ timer wan placed up
na the stand a.< a witness again*! him, lie tur
i J deadly pale and trembled like nn aspen.
The si run;; t svldenro against Jiim, was his
v\. n ex pres ‘iom to this young man. whom he
l . 1 engaged as u servant at I'd uollar* per
lit milt, and partly made his confident, telling
hint where lie had burled some clothes near
Latte aster. The doth* w ere discovered at the
rpol designated K j,u id recognized as those of the
( ( (•eased. Wilmor’* statements respecting the
a turned name the prittoner had pa.- ed under,
re shut corroborated by a reference to the
bonks ut the railroad office, and other cnciitn-
Rtanct's. There were many other links in the
chain of circumstance* proven, and, ns we ta
t>d in n former paper, tun jury retired but a
; w minutes and returned a verdict of guilty
of murder in the first degree. When the
prisoner was brought out for sentence, and
t m usual question, if hi had any. thing to say
v by se t tonne of death should not bn passed
Upon bint, bis counsel rot*o and stated that Itr
fad five reason*, tlie principal one of which,
(v c ttnchirsluml to be is tloit ns ,Vlr. Collins, who
i clod a* presiding judge at the tune of the nr
i mgement and coinmeticmrfent of the trial,
had snuy; been declared by the Supreme court
t i be not entitled ton seat on the tiencli, a* lie
1. id received nil illegal appointment, the pris
oner bad not been tried by a competent triiui
nal; a motion in arrest of judgment was filed
for that and other reasons. The court, there
I ;o, deferredaentenco until tlie motion should
bv argued in Noveuilwr next .—Hallimort Siu .
C ANoon. Children ami fools, they say, spenk
t’;. • trutli. A story Is travelling the round*,
watch represent* that a good lady, in welotun
it; iter friends, said, “Do make yourselves at
h< lie ; I’m lit home myself, and wish you all
W’ re !’ This i* nearly a* good as tlm slot )’ oi
on of tlie most distinguished statesmen in
■i .saeitusetts rnllter remarkable for Ilium
i nuvv, lulls of hi* boyhood. Ills mother
i t long been expecting a visit from n neigh
I I s family to ton. Among ihc company ex
f ( ted was nil out of town t isitcr of tlie family
id. resaid j and ill honor of the occasion, ail
t:i little niucties bud been prepared and eon
emued and prepared again two or three time*
< i t. At length having all right ; and being
i*. fill that her labor would l>e lost again, the
ii- , cite day dispatched her son to invito tlie
(. ipsmy to come tlmt afternoon. lie urquit
himsclfof the message a* follows: “M.i’-
ht. says she, ant* you and your company to
to ic pvi ti our house tins afternoon, and
4 • i -He v l,dies to tlie Lord it was over.” - A'.
I DespiU:h.
■ Ktitot's Rail-road Vet rncNT,—Yestcr
da noon, a seriwu* accident occurred at
ii Oiuiidcn and Amboy mil-road depot in
Amboy, lo the train of car* from Camden
it ipa (act i ter* for New York, The road
i unn inclined plane for about one mile
i it tlie depot, and jit the cotnmcneennmt
( f tilts slight desi'Ctll, the locomotive 1* (!e
----tn betl from the cars, ffiC train allowed to
(V -end, and is stopped ftrvakii’an.
’ iwferday, it appears, anew brcnkinan tvns
tta fho line who did not understand his
! i iucss, and ill putting his fool on the
l>v >l. it caught so that he could not move
The consequence was,,the entire train
■ie rapidly down, with the help of the
nil, and smashed up against two large
:gc ears, and what is called the foun
dation. Two voty handsome passenger
c;i: were literally liroken to atoms, and five
• sons, including the brcnkinan, seriously
, ured, one of whom it is expected will not
n over. The accident must have occurred
gross carelessness, and it is a wonder
t; it the train did not break every tiling
>• ay and run oil’into the river—ls it had,
: onerous lives would undoubtedly have
t en lost,
*
AweWi'aa Ingenuity in Evading the
—Theieiy first object of the Ameri
cans, after a law has been passed, is to find
i-t how they can evade it. This exercises
ti ?ir ingenuity: and it is very amusing to
observe how cleverly they sometimes man
age it. At Baltimore, in consequence of
the prevalence of hydrophobia, the civic
authorities passed a law, that all dogs
should he muzzled, or rather the terms
were, “that all dogs should wear a muzzle.’’
cr the owner of a dog not wearing a muzzle
should be brought tip and fined, and the
re;illation further stated, that any body
convicted of haring “removed the muzzle
from offa dog should also be severely lin
ed.” A man, therefore, tier, a muzzle to
Is dog's tail (the act not stating where the
muzzle was to be placed). One of the city
o licers, perceiving this dog with his tmiz
zie at the wrong end. took possession of
the dog, and brought it to the town-hall.
Its master, being w ell known, was summon
ed and appeared. He proved that he had
complied with the act, in having fixed a
mizzle ou the dog, and further, the city
Oificer having taken the muzzle of the dog’s
t il. he insisted that he should be fined five
dollars for so doing.— Ccpt. Varryat'x
Tliarryin Afneita.
• ran rut diiikn heru.o.
“f>TI( K TO YOU it COLOL'HK”
Mr R a iron:
i By your p*rmlinn, I wuhto.makea few
; rnmark*iriyoqrcolumn* 9o thasorject of'Tctn
i poniiicu’ Hiul uni prompted to do so, by having
| seen a communication signed “Fide*” in your
i ‘tliUuii of Tuesday last, advising nil Kepubii
j cn* to guard against the approaches of Fan
! *fiei"fti. Your correspondent in his remarks
iuw thought proper to accuse the member*
I of Temperance Societies w ith Intemperance
| in their conduct, by wishing to draw n line
| between thrmrelvrs, and those individuals
who are not enlisted on their side. Now *ir,
it is thU very line tlmt doc* actually exist,
which Temperance Hocieties are calculated to
efface. Itisan “old adage ’ and one founded on
the highest authority, that “he that rs not for
j us is against us,” and as fur as example goes,
! litis truth is forcibly illustrated inthis instance.
Tlie time has arrived, in which no individual
need ask whether Intemperance is an evil or
not, but the great question, with every one
should he,shall I by quibbling and raising every
objection which ha* the least appearance of
palpability, retard the progress of the great
cause, or shall I use my utmost energies and
■ train every nerve, to assist in tlie propagation
of those principles, l>v acting upon which so
ciety can alone be ml of the crying evil of
Intemperance ? “Fide*” proceeds to *Aetr
that Fanaticism lias in every age had its day :
■ Most learned judge” say I: Is ot the whole
of his communication strongly tinctured with
Fanaticism? Me Says, very wisely, that
tempi ranee is vety beneficial in its proper
sphere ; and where shall we look for the arena
over w hich (lie genius of Temperance should
exert its influence I Does it not exist in al
inost every part of tlie world? Surely it will
lie admitted by every reflecting mind, that
Temperate principles should be propagated
wherever there lives a child, who, can spell
Hum : and fanatic indeed would that individ
ual ha, who would limit or proscribe the doc
trines, tlie efforts, or tlie influences of these
most valuable institutions.
“Fide*” asserts flint our government is one
of pul die opinion, this is n fact, which the friends
of Temperance nre endeavouring to impress
more indelibly on the minds of men, and such
appears to bn the state, of pttblick opinion, at
the present day, on this topic, that we art en
couraged to hope that it will ere long be dis
cussed freely and candidly in every Legislative
Assembly in this great country. Our friend
bids ii i examine the world, mid really 1 think
siieli an examination would tie highly instruc
tive to himself. Me argui t that the arts and
sciences do not fiourish, that life and property :
are not secure, that commerce does not pros
per, that woman is not free, and tlmt liberty
does not exist, in any other coulry butourown. I
So much for tlie influence of those glorious in
stitutions which have long been held up to the |
admiration of the world! Allow nve Kir, to
ask you if these assertions are not libels upon
common sense? Do they not indicate Fan
aticism of the first water, are they tlindictates
of Temperance or its opposite 7 Surely the
gloomy re giant to which “Fidcs” alludes must
exist in the immediate! vicinity of his own
liiain. Mis allii-imis to tlie ordinance l i. ’
prohibit the sale of liquors, to those p> t
who sojourn in the I'ily of Darn i
fetched idea livery man wlm lias tin mi, .f
sagacity dev eloped even ma slight degri e.musl
allow that that law is tlie must wholesome
which i if- els tlie “greatest good to the great
est nuniU i,” .ml with tins conviction, lie cer
tainly mu i approve the law to vv Inch he al
lude*, and which exist* in other places us well
ns Darien, although from the evil tendency of
Intemperance it is often violated.
I could have forgiven ’Tides” his other as
sertions had lie left the “Delicate Lilies” as
lie styles them unimpeuchcd t but sir, i consid
er his attack on the ladies as unmanly and
unwarrantable by any principle of action I:
would ask him if there is a spot in this w orld,
on which the sun of civilization has shed his
benignant rny in w hich the influence of Mod’s
•last nW be*t gift to man'is not lelt ? Was she
not created as a help meet for man ? And how
can she help him hotter, than by soothing his
coni .set passions, by assuaging his griefs, by
ministering to his comforts and cheering his
pathway of'life by becoming his ‘guiding star.’
All this site can; mid does ton very greatexleat
effect, when she becomes the advocate of
Temperance; amt proud indeed may the mem
bers of every Temperance Society be, whose
list is irradiated by the names of the fair ones
of our Country, rendered doubly lovely, by
their association with this cause of virtue and
benevolence.
Hut independently of the influence which
woman should exert in tiie manner before
mentioned, she has also the prescriptive right
to be heard in the cause of Temperance. Is
she a mother/ How often is she called to la
ment the profligacy of an abandoned son 1 Is
she a daughter l Hundreds of instances are
not wanting to prove that excessive drinking
on the part of the lather has rendered her situ
ation that of the orphan, and the destitute!
I* she a wife ? Let the multitude of recorded
instances bo heard, when they tell us of the
ruthless wretch who forgetful of the sacred
pledges by which lie engaged to become her
protector, has rendered himself her greatest
curse, by his habits of intoxication. These
facts all join in support of the argument that
“w oman” should, and must be heard in her
plea for deliverance from the tyrant whose
power wo deprecate.
I would endeav our to set “Tides” right as to
his regard for the poor and destitute. Every
man in his right mind, first proceeds to find
out the cause, before lie endeavours to remedy
its effects—and it will require a very faint
stretch of discrimination on the part of “Fidcs” .
; to discover, that the greatest avowed sources
| of poverty and destitution in this country, par
ticularly, are Intemperance, and that Fanati
cism which is its usual associate.
CAROLUS
Sep 14-
T -t D COUNT?; HERALD.
A FKIGHTFCL “FIX.”
While at Fort Knelling, Capt. Marryatt
hern me acquainted with Capt, Hcott. of the
U. K. Army, a native of Vermont who is
one of the greatest Nimrod* in the country,
nnd probably the best in the
world. Two potaloea being thrown up in
tlie air; he will watch Ids opportunity and
pa** hi* rifle ball through them both, and
this astoniahihg scathe is said often to have
performed. This pot*toe piercing business,
however ha* nothing to do with one of the
hunter (luptaiu’s perilous adventures, as
related by himself to Capt. Marryatt, in
these word*, to wit:
I was riding out one day in Arkansas, and
it so happened 1 had not my rifle with me,
nor indeed a weapon of any description,
not even my jack knife. As I came upon
the *kit t* of a prairie, near a small copse, a
buck started out, and dashed away a* if
much alarmed. I thought it wa* my sud
den appearance which had alarmed him;
I stopped rny horse to look after him, and
turning rny eyes afterwaids in the direction
from whence it had started, I perceived, as
I thought, on a small mound of earth raised
by außiiirnnl called a gopher, just the head
of the doc, her body concealed by the high
gras*. I had no arms, Ixit it occurred to
me that if I could contrive to crqu l.up very
softly „ihc high grass might ronceul my ep
proaeh,tid I should be aide to spring upon
iier arm secure iicr ny main strength, • “it
I ran tonnage this,” said I to my self, “it
will be something to talk about.” 1 tied
rny horse to a tree, and commenced crawl
ing veiy softly on my band* and knee* to
wards the gopher hill; I arrive 1 close t > i .
mid the doe had not stnrtcd I 1
with both hands ready ‘ r a
pared to spring, *1 wiv m
tlmt I toiglt! el n*; l’lu I
appeared that the animal vv u • uid. J 1 - -
quisili vo.-Rn i wtslo dto gam .i .lit >■! <t ■ .
ami it slowly I used ll* head from the inw
’as I did mine. lota oi • v i u
prise nnd consternation, : fin I J.n -■• id
of doe, I was face to face with i
male panther. It wn* this brute w Inch h -
scared the buck, and now e usllv scared
me. There I was, at hardly one yard’s
distance from him, without urnu of any
(liacidption, and almost in the paw* of the
panther.
’ 1 knew that my only chance was keeping
mt eyes steadfastly on his, and not moving
hand or fool, the least motion to retreat
would have been hi* signal to spring; so
there I was as white a* a sheet, with my
ryes fixed on him. Luckily he diJ not
know wliut wa* passing within me. For
some seconds the animal met my gaze and
I began to give myself up for lost! It’s
time for you to go, (brought I,or lam gone;
will you never go? At lust the unimal blink
ed and then his eyes opened like ball* of
fire: I remained, fnsrinnted, as it were; he
blinked again, turned his head a very little,
tlieu turned round and went away ut a light
ranter. Imagine the relief. I hastened
hark to my horse, and avvav also went I at
a light ranter, and with a lighter heart,
greateful to Heaven for having preserved
me.
Captain Marryatt, when he first came to
this country, openly avowed at Now York,
that he was not to be quizzed or deceived
by any nets nr stories—but would searrli
out every thing himself, and be quite sure
of no mistake. With this impression, no
doubt, he published bis account of two
v otme Indira changin': bonnets ill a stage
C nil II ells tur tali w i ill great glee,
i* ci orai n rlWcol Urn Ai • iithu propensity
t-'i ‘ti do.’ ;>iionld be meet (he following,
!,r will too’ x pro’ aldy read it with staring
i vc* and aJm,u s erectis. Philad. Ga
zette*
A\ lien the gallant Captain was at the
Troy House, loudly boasting that he was
not to be humbugged by the Americans, as
his predecessors in the travelling nnd book
making line before hint had been, a young
lady from Vermont, that part of the State
which we here designate as being over the
mountain,’ who had been a pupil at the
Seminary here for some time, was waiting
in the South parlor for the departure of the
Mail Koud Cars by which she was to set out
for home. The Captain’*boast was heard
and rememhefed. Some fete weeks after
this the young lady having occasion to trav
el a few miles by stags, from her lather’s
was surprised to recognize ns a follow pas
senger’ the not-to-bc humbugged Captain.
At the first stopping place, while the driver
was watering his horses, and the Captain
brandying himself, the young lady look the
opportunity to inform another lady, who
was also a passenger, and a ‘total stranger’
to her, of the name, Ac., of their gentleman
passenger, together with the boast against
humbug, which she had heard him make at
the Troy House. Before Peter Simple’s
return to the coach, the plan was matured,
iu accordance with which, the conversation,
exchange, and payment of the four dollars,
just ns put dovv pin the book, took place.
At the next v illage the journey of the la
dies terminated. The hats and money were
changed back, and the incident almost for
gotten. until the Diary brought American
‘characteristic’ before the public, and back
to the recollection of those whom the Cap
tain says were “both voting, both J
looking, and both ladies and evidently ■ .'.al
strangers to each otheW”
The C■- Oii'iia Om v ?':qd,— A cabin bv Oil
board a an-of-vvar, I ivi” wrelesstv bro
ken the captain’s watch, ’which lie found in
his cabin, and knowing that he - , -id r,
severely whipped when was disc >■ iv-1,
hid himself upon deck. In a short time the
captain called him. and Jack know ing the
consequence, went trembling and crying to
him, confessed his fault and then said.—
‘wont you wait till I say my prayers before
vou whip me.’ ‘Yes.’was the reply. ‘Well
then.’ replied Jack, looking up and smiling
triumphantly— l'll never say'em—Stark
County Democrat.
Arrest of Counterfeiters. —Simon
Pomeroy, George \V. Fox, Benjamin Leg
gett. and Sarsli, his wife, were committed
at Buffalo, on Monday, on a charge of coun
terfeiting. The lady, it appears, is the
scribe of the company, and imitates the
signatures and does the filling up of the
bills. Among the notes found in the pos
session of the prisonerswcre.it was on the
Atlantic Bank, Brooklyn; fives on the City
Bank, New Haven and twenty*, tens and
threes on the Mechanics'and Traders, Bank
of Albany: a paltry fraud, resembling our
new fedbacked bills.
A WICKED OUTRAGE.
On Friday night last, as the Philadelphia
tram of cars were going down in the neighbour
hood of Oakland, on the State Road, they run
with tremendous force against a heavy piece
of oak timber, which had been designedly fas
tened across the track by some devils in human
shape. The locomotive wa* upset, rendered
wholly unfit for further service, and the engin
eer considerably injured by the concussion.
The Superint*udenl, Mr. Cameron, ha* offered
a reward of fcAUO for tlie detection of the vile
miscreant, who. from sheer molive* of mali
cious mischief, thus placed in jeopardy the lives
of perhaps one hundred of their fellow beings.
No punishment could be too severe for such
fiendish depravity.— The Keyttone.
Jamaica.—The fact of the emancipation
of the slaves in this island by tha- British
government is not unknown to most of our
readers. The results of this effort of false
philanthropy fully attest the lattei futility
of the attempt to associate, with equal privi
leges, in the bond ofsivil society, the two
races, which the Creator has distinguished
by such marked dissimilarity. The latest
advices from Kingston, present a melan
choly picture of the condition of the island,
torn hy factions and disturbed by the per
petual insorbordination of the negroes.
But few of the latter since the termination
of the apprenticeships have returned to
their labour, but are constantly committing
depredations upon the already impoverish
ed planters, and openly display their plun
der in the markets. The countenance
which they are said to receive from the
government, doubtless add* to their bold-*
ties*. A Jamaica paper says that they arc
holding secret meetings in part* of the is
land, at vv Inch they talk very seriously of
igluing. The towns arc so ill defended,
being without arms and ainunition, that *e
i ms apprehensions are entertained of a
scene similar to that which drenched Si
i? ofdiigo in blood. I.et the abolitionist*
n fieri upon the lesson afforded by the r
lilioii of Jamaica.
.1 /’ , o’ . Atm K - ian, who
rcpruM* i1 \\>. ■•*! j> eiii** out pu**
b£wg’ i iroro Li’ ■ rit<> i ihc Ao aic. mini** .
complaint agjlßvtJ t.n Itonk an. 1 r pa -■ i
get ol tlie same i.!up ivr ruli of iw
hundred soveir go*, i tie account she gave
of the Irunsurti on wa Ihuswiae. ■'she staled
that on the vessel’s arriving at S.alen I-land,
Rook informed her ihe Custom Mouse officers
were, coming on board to search, that if they
discovered her sovereigns, she would Is; put
to great trouble and expense. Rook said he
had a chest in winch ho would conceal the
gold, and lake care of it for her.
The girl, simply believing this story, gave
him the money, which he carried to hi* board
ing house hi New York, where the Complain
ant also went to board.—She informed tlie land
lord of this business and told him not to suffer
Rook to carry away a trunk she pointed out,
in which her money had been put. Rook
however carried it off. She met Rook on the
stair* ns lie vva* about to leave and demanded
her money, lie offered tier one hundred sov
ereigns but site refused to take them, saying
she would have all or none.
Kook brought with him a young women,
whom he represented as his wife. She how -
ever informed another passenger named j
Thomas Fog, that she was not the wife of
Rook but she had been enticed away by him, i
nnd that lt had also persuaded her to nib her j
parents of a large sum of money that she had
done so. She added that lh>ok hud all her I
money, that she. was afraid he would desert her 1
and that site would have no means of getting
home again.
In the police office Rook’s reputed wife de
nied this statement, and declared she was real
ly married to him.
A little girl was also examined, who testifi
ed to hearing Rook ask Ann Kcirnan for her
money.
Officers Welsh and Davis arrested Hook in
whose possession they found seven hundred
sovei etgns.
Kook has been committed to prison.—.V. V*.
E.r.
An Innocent Trick with Delicious
Conskui ences. —The Cincinnati Sun tells
a capital story of a young gentleman in that
city, who restored loan innocent trick to
gel kisses from a couple of young ladies, he
was waiting upon home from a fashionable
parly. At Cincinnati as well as here and,
‘'elsewhere,” the girls haven pretty innoc
ent Custom of kissing each other—by way
of practicing, we suppose—upon bidding
good itigbt, and in fact upon many other
occasions. The gentleman in question bad
watted upon the young Indies—two of the
fairest flowers that ever bloomed among
the Buckeyes—to their father’s residence.
Knowing that the little parting ceremony
was about to be performed, he watched his
opportunity, and just as their pretty lips
were on their way to meet each other, he
poked his face in between, receiving a de
licious kiss on either cheek for his audacity
or ingenuity. Only think of it 1 a double
barrelled shot from Cupid, and both fired al
once! \Vc have half a mind to make a
regular business of seeing the girls home
two at a time. Wouldn’t it be delightful.
Sat. Ere. Post.
Domestic Affections. —They little know,
who talk of the poor man’s bereavements
coldly, as a happy release from pain to the
departed, and a merciful release from ex
pense to the survivor—they little know
what the agony of those bereavements is.
A silent look of affection and regard, when
all other eves are turned coldly avvav—the
consciousness that w e possess thesympathv
an 1 affection of one being, when all others
. e deserted us, is a hold, a stay, a coo -
~t in the dot-pest affliction, which u
ill could purchase, no honor best, vv
Fighv thousand -even bo : \ -
one uewspa| - ,’ ci-cuiat'-! .
through the j off ; . ; ,
Milledgeville, i are seat to >■*! different I
Post Offices.
Attention o f the sight in youth. —ln order
to see well, ais uecessarj to begin early in
life lo lake care of the eyes. Many children
have their sight permanently weakened by
the carelesness of nurses in exposing them
soon after birth to a strong light or to the
brigh glare of a fire. &c. these cannot there
fore be too strongly impressed on nurses and
servants by those who regard the w elfare of
iheir offspring. The eyes of infants should
be gradually accustomed to exercise themsel
ves in scrutinizing distant objects; but ibis
should be done in the most careful manner
without inducing them to strain their tender
sight on such thtnghs as are too remote or
dazzling for them to see w ithout causing a
forcible con-raction of their organs which may
be the foundation of permamentor irremedia
ble.—Curtis on the Preservation of sight.
MOBILE. SEPT. 13.-—We are pained
to say that there is no sign of an abatement
in the epidemic. On the contrary, com
paring the daily mortality with the dimin
ishing population, ure fear it may be said lo
be on the increase. The number of inter
ments since the Ist inst. amount* to the
frightful number of 180, which give* a daily
average for the past eleven days, of a little
over 10. Our population now hardly reach
es 3500: some coir pute it lens. The
cases when taken in hand early, with good
medical advice and good nursing, are said
by the physician* to be generally quite
; manageable, though some prominent cases
I have occurred in which all this availed
| nothing. But the number of the aick is
past the physical power of all the physi
cian* to attend to. There are few houses
without their cases, and the doctors have
found it utterly impossible to answer the
numerous call*. Several of them have been
down with the fever, and some by mere
exhaustion. A reinforcement from the
country or from neighboring cities, would,
we are sure, be very acceptable to them,
and would do a great work of charity to the
suffering. Among the laborers and poor
generally, notwithstanding the exertions of
the benevolent, many of whom are inde
fatigable in searching out the siek and car
rying them aid, the mortality is great.
North and east winds still prevail, with
occasional tantalising variations to the south
west. A permanent change would doubt
less alleviate the symptoms, and probably
i diminish the dangei to the resident popula
lion ; but we believe ourselves, and’ desire
lo impress it on the minds of our friends,
elsewhere, that there is no reliance upon
any thing to destroy it effectually but a
black frost; and no one should encounter
the danger without sufficient advice that
the ene ,■ f >zen.
A fatal accident occurred
lay afternoon ; on tiie
ii.lt i urnpike. Hamilton
lie city with a toad of
t horses to a brutal inan
lo-r oi'.-v profane language, vhen
in ‘.to .t f . , ng one of them he was kick
ed at .i kr.iii-ke in the fore wheel passing
ou r one wri-t and two fingers of the other
hand.—He xpired almost immediately. This
i* another instance of intemperance, as tlie
unfortunate man was a hard drinker, and il
lustrated at the lime of his awful death.—Pitts
burg Intelligencer.
Valuable Dog. —About 8 o’clock, on Tues
day morning a man and a small boy were seen
fishing in a small boat ou the Schuylkill, hav
i ing filarge dog with them in the boat. When
; nearly opposite to Arcit street the man fell
! over board, and the dog immediately plunged
: m ,seized him by the coat, and bore him to the
shore, about sixty yards distant. Tlie man
j appeared to use no exertion, but la v tnotion
| b-*s until he reached lerrafirma. One of our
reporters who saw the affair, supjiosed it lo be
someone trying the skill of bis dog. rather
than an accident : but In either case, such an
j animal is a valuable acquisition.
Sail Accident —On the 26th inst., Mr. Uen
. ry Mnvsonshot a negro ntan belonging toCap
j lam William B. Mays, of this District. Mr.
Mason fired at a squire! in the woods, and, un
| fortunately, hit the negro, who was hid from
| bis view, by a thick undergrowth, and partiul
j ly, by some trees. —A Jury of inquest wa*
’ summoned, and they reported, that the de
! censed was killed accidently, by the hand of
Mr. Mayson.— Edgefield A'lcertiser, ‘loth ult.
J Horse Thief shot by his Father. —An
old man in lliinotse having lost his horses, dis
covered them, some time after tied to a tree,
lie watted until a person c ime to feed them,
raised his rifle and shot him down. Upon ap
proaching, the old man discovered the thief
to be his own son. He gave his father §3OOO,
which he said lie had made by horse stealing,
and stated that there were fourteen men in the
vicinity engaged in the same business.—
Twelve of them, upon his information, have,
been apprehended, and dre now in the Pike
-county tail. Sixty stolen horses have been re
covered.— Paris Sentinel.
HowhbSavidlt. —A military man “Down
East, ttnowing he could be elected to a cap
taincy if he would consent to a nomination,
j called upon a neighboi who had formerly ser
: ved in that capacity, to ascertain if the office
was one of pecuniary profit. Being told by
the retired veteran that he had held the office
j for five years, and saved five hundred dollars,
he gladly accepted the nomination, and was
chosen captain of his company. After some
three years, campaigning in the way of
“company trainings’’ and ‘‘general musters,”
finding his office to lie a heavy bill of expense,
instead of a source of profit, he called on his
; old friend again for information as to how be
had saved five hundred dollars, while he him
self lost one hundred doallars annually by the
same office. “Why,” replied the old captain,
; “I was worth just one thousand dollars when
1 was elected ;l held the office five years, and
lost five hundred dollars by it ; so I resigned
and saved the other five hundred.”
Give us the New Hampshire Argus for
esprit du corps —there is no mistaks about it
here is a sample:
“The man who will strap his razor on
his Bible, and wipe it on his newspaper, is
neither a Christian nor a patriot, and de
serves to be strung tip without benefit of
elergv, or the sympathy of the corps editor
ial; ye! we have seen an individual do that
same, who made pretensions lo both godli
ness and patriotism.”
\i “a v illi a hard shell and about the
/ -f i n's egg, was lately found
wnon ordinary hen’s egg,
• f Mauch Chunk.— Phila.
We e si, an an egg similar in every;
n s >-ct • - ;rie above, found by an individual
•f this or r.igh.— Eds. Gaz.
Lawyer W. while entering his cold bed
in a cold winter night, exclaimed, “of all
ways of getting a living, the worst a man
could follow would be going about town in
such night as this and getting into bed for
folks.” —Northern paper.
We understand, that Dr. Duncan, in
crossing the Little Miami in a boat on Mon
day the 24th ult. fell overboard, but was
soon rescued. The only consequence was.
that the fishes around were discovered
shortly afterwards in a state of beastly In
toxication. Louisville Journal.
A man in New Orleans, whose physician
directed a rigid vegetable diet, asked if
mt'afjulips came within the restriction.
The name Ldnq is found 6062 times in
the Old Testament. The name God is
found 2725 times. The name Jesus occurs
D26 times in the New Testament. The
| name Christ 555time*. The word Sol'll is
; met with 74 times in the Bible. Jl’hc word
eternity hut once. The double asservstion,-
verily, verily, is to be seen 25 times in
John's Gospel, and nowhere else. There
are 311 interrog lories (?] in Jobe/ Th”
phrase “and God said,” occurs ten tirf •* i;:
! the first Chap, of Genesis. The naine
kus and Christ are neither of them in
Epistle of John. Tlie word foreordained •*
mentioned but once in the whole Bible, Is?
Peter, Ist Chap. 20th verse. The word Per
severance is mentioned but once in the Bi
ble, Ephesians 6th Chap. 18th verse. Tlie _
word atonement is mentioned but once iu
the New Testament. The word Election is
mentioned but six times in tlie Scriptures.
There is no mention made in the Scriptures
of Adam's fail Original Sin, nor the Cove
nant of Grace. The words Eternal Life
are not mentioned from the first Chap, of
Genesis to the last Chap, of Malaclii. The
words Everlasting life are mentioned but
once in the Old Testament, Daniel I2th
Chap. 2d verse. The word Predestination
is not once mentioned in the Bible. The
word predestinate is mentioned twice, ami
twice the word Predestinated is mentioned.
Shall we Change our Name! —Mr. Irving
lias come out strongly, in the Knickerbocker,
against many of the names bestowed upon
our town* and states and cities, and in favor of
restoring the Indian appellations. New- York
he would have changed to Ontario for the
state, and to Alanhuttan for the city ; and h r
the Union itself he would havv it culiid A
ghuni.t, or m melhing equal!) Indian a: •; i. \
cal. As ml Ontario and Mnlm.i:: ■:: v • ’ . ts
not quit, prepared to say that pari ups he i.
not right—[nou committal, tin-j— but w hen
we come to me Aliegnl the mailer requ -to
befooled into with some heedfulness. For in
stance there is a vehement protest from ffe
Cleveland IU raid, which is worthy ol consid
eration.—[TV. 1. Com. Adv.
\\ hat 1 change the name ofthe United States
or North America ? VVe would as soon tii ink.
of destroying our household Gods, or making
war upon our little ones.’ No ! no! that would
be sacrilege 100 great. Wc would cling to that
name, cognomen, appellation, whatever you
in ii call it, as the Jew does to bis beloved, but
desolate Judea. ‘How is a citizen of this repub
lic lo designate himself V Among intelligent
men, in any land, as a citizen ofthe United
states, and throughout the w orld, ns a Yan
kee. In any portion of the world a Y’ankee is
a citizen of the United States. Itisan appel
lation given him by the people of the foreign
chines, it is distinctive ;it tells at once, and
in a way not to be mistaken, that he is of the
Anglo Saxon race that he belongs to ’the im
mortal ihiib-en,’or to some of their descen
dants. Webeleive tlmt the name of Yankee
has ‘magic in it.’ For with that name is asso
ciated all that is noble, and brave and daring—
all that is c rg -tie, industrious und enterpri
sing—all that is inventive, national and acquir
ing—all that is intellectual, mortal and reli
gious There is no man who is an American,
that will disown tlie name of Y ankee. I care
not whether he is from the Sunny South, the
great west, the old dominion,’ or from that
‘laud of mountain and of rock, New England.
Suppose that u son of one of the Southern states
was now in England ; would he not rejoice
and l*o proud to bear the same name, to be
bailed as a citizen of the same country, with
Daniel Webster 7 And he is a Y ankee—full
blooded, without spot or blemish.
Away with a desire for anew name for our
nation. The United States, (‘a string of pearls
around the neck cf liiierty,’) should never be
changed. It is a good name poetically, and
one under which we have grown from infancy
to manhood politically. It is tlie name our
fathers gave us ; let it never be changed.
Singular case of life prolonged without
food. —In the Ayr ( English) Advertiser it is
stated that Agnes Docherty, wife of I’arrah
Gallagher, weaver, in Priestvvlch. aged ffg, died
on Sunday, the 7th ult, of a closing up of the
gullett, just above w here it enters into the sto
mach. For a long time past she had experi
enced a diffeuTty iu swallowing any solid
food ; end, for fifteen weeks previous to tlie
dosing up of the passage, she was supported
on milk and water alone, with occasionally a
little whiskey made into toddy. The passage
closed up completely on the 14th or 15th of
June last, and since then no sustenance of any
description passed into tlie stomach and every
attempt lo administer nourishment in any oth
er way entirely failed. The sensation of hun
ger, w hich was very strong, entirely censed
on the closing up of the passage. And for 23
or 14 days she continued in that state free not
only from pain, but from any other bodily ail
ment w hatever, the vitality of the body being
sustained forthat length of time solely by its
interna] resources, and that too w hen these re
sources had been greatly attenuated and ex
hausted by the comparative starvation of the
five or six months preceding. The only un
easiness felt was a sensation of heat in the
throat, which was from time to time allayed
by swallowing a mouthful of cold water, —
which, however, she could not retain beyond
a few seconds, when it was thrown up again.
This, together with latterly an occasional
moistening of the palms of the hands w ith w a
ter, w hen she felt inclined to faint, w as the on
ly source from w hich it was possible she could
receive nourishment for the last three weeks
of her life. She all along was in a very happy
frame of placed Christian reagnation; and it is
in compliance with herhumbie request, that
this account is made public.
A Dutiful Son. —A jockey in this town
wishing to make an advantageous displav (t i
horse that he was desirous of selling to a by
stander, placed his boy upon ihe back of the
beast, ordering him to ‘ride him arcund a short
distance,’ The boy, though well insirrc'.ed ir.
his trade, unfortunately in this instance, knew
not w hether the horse was already his fath
er's or yet to be bargained for; being anxious,
therefore, to learn the will of his fathei. he
stopped after riding a short distance, and in
quired with a loud voice, Father, shall I
ride this horse to buy or sell?’ —Newhaeen
Register.
A company is about to start from Inde
pendence, Missouri, in search of a silver
mine said to exist somewhere on the Red
River, and which was first discovered by
some ofthe dragoons engaged in Colonel
Dodge’s expeditien. Only one of them is
reported to know the precise spot where
the treasure lies, and he will accompany
the present expedition.
A Father’s Love.—Mr. Chandler, of
Springfield, HI, while from home, heard of
th** sickness of his son. He immediately
started for home and undertook to swim a
creek, was diowned.
Caution. —A mad dog was killed yesterday
afternoon in Muzyckboro’, Charleston Neck,
after having bitted one white, and one negro
man.— Patriot.