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overy limb as lie listened, but when the
fatal words which concluded the sentence,
the dreadful repetition of “Dead ! dead !”
fell upon his ear, lie uttered a wild, unearth
ly shriek, and fell senseless to the floor. At
this moment* a bustle was heard at the en
trance of the court, and a woman rushing
forward flung herself upon the prostrate
body, exclaiming in a voice of inexpressible
agony—“ My son !my son !”
The court instantly became a scene of
confusion. Some of the officers raised the
prisoner, while others busied themselves in
restoring the unhappy mot’ or. Her veil
had fallen off, and the” attention of all pre
sent was rivet ted upon her still beautiful
though wasted features, when a sudden ex
clamation from the witness awakened anew
interest in the beholders. Close beside the
fainting woman stood Antonio Salviada, his
face pale as ashes, his eyes dilated, his mouth
distorted as by some terrible agony, his An
ger pointed at the female, and his whole
fio-ure as rigid as marble.
“In the name of heaven,” he at length
cried. “ who is that woman V’
At the sound of his voice she started, and
uttering a cry which struck horror into eve-
Ty heart —a cry more like the how! of a
wild beast than a sound from human tips,
she sprang forward, and, seizing Salviada’s
arm, pointed to the still insensible prisoner.
“ Who is he 1” yelled the agonized An
t >nio.
“ Your sonl!” was the awful reply, and
the wretched mother fell in strong convul
sions at the feet of her pirate-husband.
All was now confusion ; the decorum of
the court was entirely forgotten in the ex
citement of feeling. The prisoner, still
senseless, was carried to his cell, and the
officers were preparing to dear the room.
Salviada in a voice of unnatural calmness,
requested permission to approach once more
the apparently dying woman, in order to
assure himself of her identity. She was
noW lying quiet but in evident exhaustion,
and the officers compassionately retreated
to give her air as Salviada approached.—
Every eye gazed on him in breathless ex
pectancy, as be bent over her prostrate form.
Suddenly his countenance changed, his eyes
gleamed like a tiger’s, and, thrusting his lin
gers into the thick masses of bis matted
hair, he drew forth a stiletto scarcely larger
than a bodkin. Before his arm could be
stayed, he had plunged it in her neck im
mediately below the ear, and, quick as light
ning, drawing the little weapon from the
wound, buried it in his own throat. All
this passed in the twinkling of an eye—
scarcely a pulse had beat or a breath been
drawn from the time he knelt down beside
his wretched wife, and now, with a loud
cry, everybody rushed forward.
Too late—too late !” he cried with a
fiendish laugh, “ the dagger was poisoned
—that woman was my wife—she robbed
me of my child and desetted me—these
eighteen years have I sought for that sole
object of my love, and now 1 find him here!
Uly boy ] my Lo-y l OU \ l
my otvn worthless life by the blood of my
son !”
His eyes rolled feat fully—a violent con
vulsion shook his robust frame, and ere they
could lift him from the ground, the pirate,
the murderer was dead !
The unhappy woman lingered a few hours,
but never gave the slightest evidence of re
turning consciousness.
The prisoner was left in ignorance of the
horrible events that had taken place during
his fainting fit. He never know that the
abhorred Salviada was his father, and when,
three weeks after, lie stood upon tlie scaf
fold, and breathed to Heaven his final pray
er for pardon, his mother’s name was the
last upon his lips.
Poor Jack Pitch. —Judge Hall, in his
notes on the Western States of America,
thus speaks of litis projector :
“In 1785, John Fitch a watch-maker in
Piladelphia, conceived the design of pro
pelling a boat by steam. He was both poor
and illiterate, and difficulties occurred to
frustrate every attempt which he made to
try the practicability of his invention. He
applied to congress for assistance, hut was
refused, and then offered his invention to
the Spanish Government, to he used in the
navigation of the Mississippi, but without
any better success. At length a company
was formed and funds subscribed, for tlit?
building of a steamboat, and in the year of
1788, his vessel was launched on the Dela
ware. Many crowded to see and ridicule
the novel, and as they supposed the chimeri
cal experiment. It seemed that the idea of
wheels had occurred to Mr. Fitch; but in
stead of them, oars were used, worked in
frames. He was confident of success, and
when the boat was ready for trial, she star
ted off in good stile for Burlington. Those
who had sneered began to stare, and they
who had smiled in derision looked grave.
Away went the boat, and the happy inven
tor triumphed over the spccticisin of an un
believing public. The boat performed her
trip to Burlington, a distance of twenty
miles, but unfortunately burst her boiler in
rounding to the wharf, of that place, and
the next tide floated her back to the city.
Fitch persorved, and with great difficulty
procured another. After some time the
boat performed another trip to Burlington
and Trenton, and returned the same day.
She is said to have moved at the rate of
eight miles an hour; hut something break
ing, and the unhappy projector only con
quered one difficulty to encounter another.
Perhaps this was not owing to any defect in
his plans, hut to the low state of the arts at
that lime, ar.d the difficulty of getting such
complex machinery made with proper ex
actness. Fitch became embarrassed with
debt, and was obliged to abandon the inven
tion, after having satisfied himself of its prac
ticability. This ingenious man, who was
probably the first inventor of the steamboat,
wrote three volumes, which he deposited
in the manuscipt, sealed up, in the Philadel
phia library, to he opened thirty years after
liis death. When or why he came to the
I West we have not learned, hut it is record
ed ofhimtliat he died and was buried near
Bie Ohio. His three volumes were opened
about five yeats ago, and were found to con
tain his speculations on mechanics. He de
tails his embarrassments and disappoint
ments a with feeling which shows how ar
dently hedesired success, and which wins for
him the sympathy of those who have heart
enough to mourn over the blighted prospects
of genius. He confidently predicts tliefutuie
success of his plan, which, in his hands,
failed only for the want of pecuniary means.
He prophesies that in less thana century we
shall see our Western rivers swarming with
steamboats ; and expresses a wish to he
buried on the shores oft he Ohio, where the
song of the boatmen may enliven the still
ness of his resting place, and the music of
the steam engine soothe his spirit. What an
idea ! Yet how natural to the mind of an
ardent projector, whose whole life had been
devoted to one dating object, which it was
not his destiny to accomplish. And how
touching is the sentiment found in one of his
journals ; “ The day will come when some
more powerful man will get fame and riches
front my invention ; hut nobody will believe
that poor John Fitch, can do any thing wor
thy of attention.” In less than thirty years
after bis death his predictions w ere verified.
He must have died about the year 1799.
A sensible Girl. —Sometime in June last,
a tespec'.ahle and thriving farmer, having an
unexpected call to New York city, did not
stop to ‘clean up’—in other wools to change
his field dress for his Sunday fixins—hut
hurried off just as he was, not appiehending
that he was likely to disturb the more re
fined olfactories of anybody By llie neglect,
much less subject himself to the ridicule of
any of the city bipeds. It so happened that
his daughter, a beautiful creature of more
good sense than pride,but wltodid not expect
to see her father that day, nor did he in
tend calling on her. The farmer, after hav
ing performed the most important business
that called him to the city, went into a store,
where he was immediately selected by one
of the clerks as the subject of sundry small
potatoe quizzings, but of which the victim
appeared marvellously unconscious.
As good or ill luck would have it at the
time the interesting spott was being enjoy
ed by this vender of fancy at tides, the
daughter of the quizzed was in the store
with a large group of her sex, and soon be
came conscious, not only of the presence of
her father; but also of the very laughable
experiment being essayed upon him. In a
moment her face was in a glow, while her
eyes flashed with unwonted brilliancy ; but
these were immediately succeeded by a mar
ble-like paleness, her mouth became mote
rigidly compressed, a glance half pitiful, half
scornful, was directed towards the clerk, and
Lucinda Thompson was herself again. The
farmer passed out without having discover
ed his daughter, nor did she seem desirous
of making him conscious of her presence—
why, was best known to herself.
The evening following the incidents al
ready narrated, there was a gay and select
party assembled at the dwelling of one of
uur oitiaons, wmouj* \tovo \con
seen the beautiful Lucinda TANARUS., and the mag
nanimous experimenter on the supposed
credulity of her father. It would not have
taken even a casual observer long to have
discovered that Lucinda’s beauty of feature
and no less beautiful figure, had made a most
dangerous assault on the heart of the afore
said clerk. Indeed, before the conclusion
of the party, he seemed and decidedly was
a gone case and the chances were ninety
nine to one, that but for permission some
days subsequently granted to call on her at
her father’s in the country, we should have
been called on to chronicle another Sam
Patch catastrophe.
W e will just skip over the occurrences of
two long weeks, and quietly seat ourselves
where we please, provided the place select
ed gives us a fair view of our clerk and his
charmer. Well, there they are, seated each
at a window of the fine dwelling of farmer
Thompson. Our hero of the scissors and
yard-stick is looking the unutterable at Lu
cinda, while a sarcastic smile playing around
her lips make him dream himself “ monarch
of ah he surveys.” It was a moment of deep
interest—hut suddenly the silence is broken
by Lucinda, who, pointing with her taper
finger towards the road, exclaims, “See,
Mr. Lawrence, what a queer looking man
there is, making towards the house !”
“Delightful!” rejoined the lover, “the
identical old follow who afforded me no lit
tle amusement in the city the other day.—
Never saw such a laughable old codger in
my life! As lam a Christian, lie is corning
right into the parlor!” Sure enough, lie did
come tight in—and no sooner had he enter
ed the room than Lucinda rose, and turning
to her lover, with overstrained politeness,
said, “ Permit me Mr. Lawrence to make
you acquainted with tny father, who was so
fortunate as to conduce so greatly to your
amusement in the city, a few weeks ago.”
Had the waters of the Ontario come boom
ing up the Falls, thus appallingly reversing
the order of nature, the lover could not have
been more completely stupified than by this
announcement.
His nether jaw fell down below his cra
vat—his eyes become fixed and distended,
and so wild at,d haggard was his look, that
even he would not have known himself had
amirrorbeeti held up to nature. This could
not last. The triumph of the beauty had
come, and the lover was but too painfully
sensible of it; therefore, mustering all his
courage, he lose and without a nod, darted
from the house, leaped into his buggy and
in a moment raised such a dust as to shut
him from view. Scarcely did lie breathe
for the first mile of his flight; hut, about
midway of the second, he so far mastered
his feelings as to mutter, in a woe begone
tone, “Bit, by thunder!”
Usefulness of Sunday Schools. —At the re
cent anniversary celebration of the Sunday
School attached to the Methodist Church in
John Street, New York, Mr. Disosway sta
tedthatoutof 150,000 children who received
instruction at Hibernian Society School, not
one had ever, been convicted of crime, and
that of all the convicts at Botany Bay, one
only had ever been a Sunday School Scholar.
He also mentioned that Dr. Dwight, in his
History of Prisons, states the remarkable
fact, that, in no instance which had come to
his knowledge, had a person, who had been
trained in a Sunday School, been convicted
of crime.
s<dnrifin mHi h mas®mil il a h , ar*
Cinderella in a London Lodging House.
—Breakfast was brought in by the Cinde
rella of the establishment—a little dirty trol
lop, such as can he found no where iUjthe \
world, saving a regular London lodging
house. Poor girl! the kind manner in
which Emma spoke to her was so unlike the
general treatment she received, that she
scarcely knew what she was about; and
when she left the room, she staid on the
landing to wipe away the tear from her be
grimed cheek.
Oh! how different was her reception in
the parlor, where sat the big, vulgar, gin
drinking mistress of the house. “ What a
while you’ve been up stairs,” exclaims the
landlady; “ 1 could have waited on twenty
people in the time. Remember there are
more folks than one to he attended to. Put
some water in the tea pot, and answer the
hell up stairs. Mr. Potts lias rung for his
shaving water this half hour ; but first bring
a little more coal up, and fetch some sugar
in—l have not enough for breakfast; and
tell Mr. Dean it must be better than the last
or I shall seek another shop. Don’t you
hear Mr. Malvern’s belli Why do you
stand there like a stupid 1
Poor Cinderella ! no marvel that among so
many various orders, she knew not which to
toexecute fiist. But it was of little conse
quence, for she was sure to do wrong; she
was always doing from morning until night;
she worked, and the landlady growled—
and sothey passed the day.
It would have frightened any servant hut
a real London Cinderella, to have gone down
into the kitchen in the morning, and have
seen the work those little hands had to do.
The row** of boots and shoes she had to clean
—the candlesticks to rub bl ight—the dishes
to wash up —the pots and pans to scour—
the rugs to shake—the washing she had a
bout of her own all the week, and which
never was done, although she was always a
doing. Then the number of times she went
in and out in a day—she seemed to flit to
and fro like a swallow while building its
nest; she was here and there in a moment
—in and out like a dog in a fair. Now off
for tea —the butter—lit xt time, a chop—then
a bottle of soda water for the gentleman who
had drank too much overnight. Again, for
the newspaper —a letter to the post office—
a pair of shoes to mend—a bundle to be
carried to the laundress—a quartern of gin
for the landlady. And she was ever taking
down her little bonnet, which she never tied,
and throwing on the half-shawl she never
pinned—then, with the latch key in her
hand, pointing her head twenty different
ways—going—returning—then diving into
the kitchen for a few moments to do her
work—then up again to answer the bell;
and never executing a single command of
the lodgers without being called into the
parlor, to tell the landlady what it was;
and sometimes such dialogues as the follow
ing took place between the she Corsair and
Cinderella: “ What’s that V’ “ A chop for
the gentleman.” “ What did you pay for
it 1” “Foui-penco halfpenny ; I’ve got sev
en pence out of the shilling he gave me."—
“ Then put the three halfpence on the man
tle piece, and say it cost sixpence. And
reach me a knife to take a slice off that half
pound of butter, before it goes up. And
tell the gentleman he wants some bread get
ting. We ate the last of his loaf last night;
hut don’t tell him that! And say his tea is
nearly out. Then bring me up his ham ; I
think I could eat a mouthful for my launch.
And never take anything up stairs again
without letting me first see it. If people
will put us to so much trouble, we must he
paid either by ‘ hook or crook.’ And tell
Mi. Potts we kept his fire burning late last
night, until just before lie came home; and
that the old clothes dealer would only allow
five shillings for the things he left out to be
sold ; and here, take it up stairs, and never
call that man in again—they were well
woitli a pound, though he would give no
more than fifteen shillings; but the Jews
have no consciences ! If he gives you any
thing out of the five shillings, give it me to
wards anew gown which 1 mean to buy you
one day or another, if you are a good girl.”
Rubbing noses in Russia. —A London pe
riodical in a review of an interesting work
on Russia describes some curious scenes as
being witnessed in very cold weather in the
stteets of St. Petersburg:
“ When the nose freezes, the sufferer is
wholly unconscious of the fact, which to all
who see him is made apparent by the chalky
whiteness of that important appendage to
the human face divine. Nature for such oc
casions has always provided, in profuse abun
dance, the most efficacious remedy. All
that is necessary is to rub the patient’s nose
well with snow, and the circulation usually
returns in a few moments.
If this is not done in time the nose is lost.
It has therefore, come to be considered an
act of common civility, in the streets of St.
Petersburg, for every body to look to the
noses of his neighbors, trusting that his
neighbor will keep an eye upon his in re
turn. If you meet a man and see that his
nose is turning white, courtesy requires that
you should take up a handful of snow and
rub his face as briskly as you can till the
rose blush returns. Sometimes you may
see two Russians on meeting stop simulta
neously, and fall to rubbing each other’s face
for dear life.
A newly imported Englishman has been
known to resist rather roughly so uncere
monious an act of kindness, of the import
ance of which he has not become aware, hut
the usage is one with which the stranger
seldom remains long unacquainted. The
eyes also are liable to become inconvenienc
ed by the severe cold. Icicles form about
the eye lashes, and gtadually become large
enough to prevent the sufferer from seeing
with any comfort to himself. In such cases,
it is considered allowable to enter the first
house at hand, and demand permission to
thaw oneself, leaving a tear of gratitude on
the hospitable floor, in acknowledgement of
the favor received.”
A young chap stept into a “ groggery ” a
few weeks since, and took a large horn of
“ new,” was accosted by a hy-stander, thus,
“ I say, friend, do you belong to the Wash
ingtonian Society I” “ Me! no! ! sir, I
don’t—l belong to the Poor House !”
Death Bed cf Napoleon. —The last act in
the drama of the lives of great men is pos
sessed of more than ordinary interest. 1 hat
of Napoleon, we have never seen alluded to,
except so far as to describe his last moments,
without any reference to his views of the fu
ture. We find in Campbell's Foreign
Morthly Magazine, a slioit article from the
(Br.) Ei-angelical Magazine, which contains
many interesting observations of the maker
of Empires on religions subjects. The ar
ticle concludes as follows : — Sav. Rep.
“ It tray even be said, that he ‘ confessed
Christ before nten.’ In a familiar but sol
emn conversation, he exclaimed, with the
expressive accent and emphatic brevity,
which had an electric effect, ‘ I know men ;
and I tell you that Jesus was not a man. His
religion is a self-existent mystery; and it pro
ceeded from a mind not human. There is
in it a deep peculiarity of character which
lias produced a succession of doctrines and
maxims till then unknown. Jesus borrow
ed nothing from human knowledge. Only
in himself are found completely the exam
ple or the imitation of his iife. Neither was
lie a philosopher; for his proofs were mira
cles, and his disciples from the very first a
dored him. In fact, science and philosophy
are powerless to salvation ; and the sole ob
ject of Jesus, in coming into the world, was
to unveil the mysteries of heaven and the
laws of mind. Alexander, Ctesar, Charle
magne, and I, have founded empires; hut
on what have tie rested the creation of our
genius? Upon force. Only Jesus has
founded an empire upon love; and, at this
moment, millions of men would die for him.
It was not a day nor a battle that won the
victory over the world for the Christian re
ligion. No ; it was a long war, a fight of
three centuries, begun by the apostles, and
continued by their successors and the flow
of the Christian generations that followed.
In that war, all the kings and powers of the
earth were on one side ; on the other side,
I see no army, but a mysterious force, and
a few men scattered here and there through
all parts of the world, and who had no ral
lying point hut their faith in the mysteries
of the cross. I die before my time, and my
body will be pet into the ground to become
the food of worms. Such is the fate of the
great Napoleon ! What an abyss between
my deep wretchedness, and Christ’s eternal
kingdom, proclaimed, loved, adored, and
spreading through the world! Was that
dying ? Was it not rather to live ? The
death of Christ is the death of God.’
“ With these words Napoleon ceased ;
but General Bertrand making no reply, he
added, * If you do not understand that Jesus
Christ is God, I have been wrong iti calling
you, general.’ ” — Evangelical Magazine.
Perfectly Insane. —Yesterday morning
Henry Clay, in company with Isaac T.
Preston, Esq., visited the Supreme Court.
As he was about leaving, a crazy man fired
a pistol, which luckily produced no other
consequence than frightening the members
of the bar, and even stunning for a moment
Mr. Clay himself. The hall lodged in the
ceilling of the Court room ; and the man
who fired the pistol was immediately sent
before Becorder Bert us. His name is Dan
iel Drayfeues and from his conversation
and appearance was perfectly Insane.—
When interrogated as to the reason of his
having acted in such a curious manner, he
answered that he merely wished to call Mr.
Clay’s attention to his case, and that he
thought that he would he most likely to
catch his eye by firing a pistol. Drayfeues
is an old Frenchman, and yesterday lie sta
ted that he was in mourning for Napoleon.
When brought before the Recorder he
looked like a dilapidated specimen of one
of the “ Granite Walls” of the Emperor's
army ; and with his bald, sunburnt forehead,
iron-grey whiskers, shaggy moustach, and
fierce light blue eyes, there was something
really romantic about his appearance. He
wore a rusty suit of brown cloth, and a tri
colored star and piece of red ribon fastened
to the collar of his coat. When asked his
name he answered the Recorder after the
following fashion :
“ Monsieur !e Recorder. My name is Dan
iel Drayfeues, Cbevailer of the Legion d’
Honneur, ar.d Minister from la belle
France. My father led the armies of the
Grand Monarch, and all the Dutchmen in
this city are my servants ! Ah! mun pauver
Nayolcon! 1 knew him, Monsieur. I saw
him open his grey coat after his escape from
Elba, and his pale features gleamed with an
unearthly light. There was a clanking of
swords—and a murmur like a far-off voice
of the ocean ran along the line—the eye of
each soldier flashed fire, and you could see
their swift-winged thoughts form the burn
ing words, Vice l’ Empercur! At that mo
ment Judge Prevnl gave me an iron cross,
and 1 was appointed to settle the differences
between France and United States. My
name will go from here to Washington—
from thence to Louis Phillipe—lie will open
a Cabinet, and we shall see whether I can
obtain my plantation in Bayou Lafourche !”
He went on in this style for some time,
and at last the Recorder gave him into the
hands of the proper officers, to he kindly
treated until the Attorney General was con
suited as to his ultimate disposal.— New
Orleans Tropic.
An Aral Ship if the Line. —A letter from
London says : “ There is an Arab ship of
war now laying in the Woolwich dock yard,
called the Sultana, she came to this country
from Muscat with a present from the Em
peror to Queen Victoria of some beautiful
small horses. The vessel has on hoard a
“ pilot captain”—at least he so calls himself
—being the only Christian on hoard, and
he states himself to be an American, having
a wife and family in New York.
Astonishing Increase. —At the present rate
of increase, the human race will amount to
32 billions of people in about 153 years :
which will he one person for every acre of
land on the surface of the Globe. The chil
dren of persons now living may see that
stale of things 1 The effect of this will be
to exterminate the whole races of the inferi
or and less useful animals. Farms will he
converted into gardens, and produce increas
ed in propot tion.— Phil. U. S. Gaz.
Old Times. —ln 1G27, there were but
thii tyseven ploughs in all Massachusetts, and
the use of these agricultural implements was
not familiar to all the planters. From the
annals of Salem, it appears in that year it
was agreed by the town to grant Richard
son Hutchinson twenty acres ol land in ad
dition to his share, on condition “ he get up
ploughing.”
1643. The court order, that at the election
ofassistant, four Indian beans should he used
instead of paper, the white to be the affirm
ative, and the black negative.
1647. The court order that if any young
man attempt to address a young woman
without the consent of her parents, or in the
case of their absence of the County Court,
lie shall be fined oCS for the first offence, <£lo
for the second, and be imprisoned for the
third.
1649. Matthew Stanley was tried fordravv
ing in the affections of John Taihox’s daugh
ter without the eonsent ofher parents ; con
victed, and fined <£5 —fees, 2s. Gd. Three
married women were fined ss. each for scold
ing.
1653. Jonas Fairbanks was tried for
wearing great loots, hut was acquitted.
Good Advice. —ls your coat is comforta
ble, wear it two or three months longer ; no
matter if the gloss is oft'. If you have no
wife, get one ; if you have, God bless her
—stay at home with her, instead of spend
ing your evenings in expensive fooleries.
Be honest, frugal, plain—seek content and
happiness at home—he industrious and per
severing ; and our word for it, if you are in
debt you will become easy, no matter who
may be President, or what may bd the price
of stocks.
Firmness. —Man should be firm—women
should be firm—all our decisions and doings
shotdd show firmness and reason. What
can we effect from a trifling and vascilating
course ? Docs any one know of a man who
ever got rich or happy oti account of there
being no dependuiice to he placed in him ?
We presume not. Firmness of character
carries a man through the world easily,
makes him respected by all, gains for him a
good name, and sheds around him blessings
innumerable. Without it, he is despised by
his friends, led into a thousand snares by his
enemies, enticed from virtue by those he
leasts suspects, and finally commits crimes
for want of firmness to resist the allurements
of vice.
Dr. Chantiing says : “ A man brought up
to an obscure trade, and hemmed in by the
wants of a growing family, may, in his nar
row sphere, perceive more clearly, discrim
inate more keenly, weigh evidence more
wisely, seize on the right means more de
cisively, and have mote presence of mind in
difficulty, than another who has accumulated
vast stores of knowledge by laborious study;
and he has more, of intellectual greatness.
Many a man, who lias gone hut a few miles
from home, understands human natuie bet
ter, detects motives and weighs character
more sagaciously, than another, who has
travelled over the known world and made a
name by his reports of different countiies.”
Loafer Logic. —There is one thing as I
can’t see through, Mowed if I can; Piesi
dent of the United States and the man wot
keeps the Custom House is the People’s
servants, isn’t they? Well, they is, coon.
Werry well, now ’spose I goes to Tyler,
and says I, “ old wets 1 wants an order on
the Treasury for liquor,” he’d ought to
stun’ it, cos he’s the people’s servant, and
cuss him, I'm the people theresclves.
Kicking Cows. —“ Hang that cow—how
she kicks!” says the milk maid. Yes, that’s
the tight way to treat her. Hang her.—
You’ve hit on the remedy; though you were
not aware of it when you pronounced this
awful sentence, “Hang that Cow.” A wri
ter in the Farmer’s Cabinet has told the se
cret publicly. He says, merely place the
patient (he should have said impatient) in a
staDie with a beam over her head, and fixing
a running noose over her hoi ns, throw the
end over the beam, and pull away so as to
raise her legs from the ground. In this po
sition she will not only he disabled from
kicking, but will give down her milk with
out the least hesitation—not from spite or
ill-will but because she can’t help it.
The Insurrection in Spain. —Spain is still
involved in civil broils. Gen. Van Halen
awaited an attack ere he'molested Barcelona:
meanwhile the General’s two daughters had
been seized by the people and tiansferred
to the Junta, who threatened reprisals in
case of any further attacks. Orders had been
given to shoot all persons detected in robbe
ry, and also such provision dealers as should
raise their prices in consequence of the dis
turbance. Some five hundred lives had
been lost during the insurrection.
Russian Barbarity in Poland. —The Uni
vers, a French paper, on the authority of a
letter from Poland, gives an instance of bar
barity too atrocious to the believed, even
when told of the Russian masters of that un
fortunate country. “In a town ofVolhy
nin,” says the correspondent “some Russian
officers repaired in considerable numbers to
a house, in which were met some young
people of the first families of the coun
try. The officers wished to dance; the Ta
llies refused ; they would not dance with the
Russian officers; only one consented. These
wretches left in fury, ordered out a detach
ment, dragged these young women to the
public Place, and there had them flogged,
one after the other, by their soldiers!”
Look at boys, how, whenever any rope
dancers have been visiting the town, they go
scrambling up and down, and balancing on
all the planks and beams within their reach,
till some other charm call them off to other
sports, for which perhaps they are as little
suited. Hast thou ever marked it in the
circle of our friends ? No sooner does a
dilletante introduce himself to notice, than
numbers of them set themselves to learn
playing on his instrument. How many wan
der backward and forward in this bootless
way ! Happy they, who soon detect the
chasm that lies between their wishes and
their powers.— Goethe.
From die Georgia Constitutionalist.
THE SOMERS MUTINY.
The New York papers of the 20th insf.
state that the Court of Inquiry have closed
their investigation of the case before them
and had come to a decision on the preced
ing evening. The result con be known on
ly through the Secietary of the Navy. The
Journal of Commerce observes, that “ from
the short time which elapsed from the clos
ing of the testimony until the agreement of
the Court, it is supposed to he favorable to
Commander Mackenzie.” Before the en
quiry was closed, Commander Mackenzie
laid before the Court a fuller explanatioa
of the motives which guided him in the ex
ecution of Spencer, Small, and Cromwell.
The statement was received by the Court,
and read by the Judge Advocate, as follows:
May it please the Court:
Although it lias been determined by the
Court that a written defence of my conduct,
founded on an examination of the evidence
that has been adduced,is inadmissible,! trust
that the Court will not refuse to receive
from me a brief statement of the reasons
that produced the conviction in my mind, on
which 1 acted, that the execution of the
ringleaders of the intended mutiny on board
the Somers was necessary for tin* preserva
tion of the vessel. It is true that these rea
sons may he collected from my report to
the Secretary of the Navy, which has been
read before the Court; hut they are no
where stated in connection, nor with that
distinctness and brevity that are necessary
to impress their force on the minds of oth
ers. My report to the Secretary was in
tended to he a full history of all the pro
ceedings on board the Somers, for his infor
mation alone, anil was far, very far, from be
ing framed with any direct view to my own
vindication.
1 proceed, then, under the permission of
the Court, to submit the following facts and
considerations as the reasons that chiefly
determined my conduct. How far their
reality or sufficiency is established by the
evidence, are questions that, without a sin
gle remaik, I shall leave to the judgement
of the Court.
First, I was influenced by my deep con
viction of the reality of the plot disclosed
by Mr. Spencer to Mr. Wales. Although
I received the first communication with in
credulity, yet when I reflected upon the
earnest and solemn manner in which the
disclosure was made, and the strong im
pression of the reality ar.d imminence of
the dancer made upon the mind of Mr.
Wales himself, my doubts vanished and my
mind was filled with the most earnest soli
citude to discover and adopt the proper
means for arresting the horrors with which
we were threatened. lat once determined
to adopt no measure but after mature deli
beration, to shrink from none that the pre
servation of the lives of those entrusted to
my care, the honor of my country and my
sense of duty should demand. Whether
the influence of this determination is not
apparent in all my subsequent acts, I sub
mit to the judgment of the Court. 1 be
lieved then in the existence of a plot in
which, by the declaration of Mr. Spencer,
at least twenty of the crew were concern
ed. The nature of this plot, involving the
murder of the officers and a large portion
of the crew, and the commission of almost
every crime, convinced me that those who
had agreed to it were capable of carrying
it into execution and committing any atroci
ty. Tins opinion was further confirmed by
my previous knowledge of the depraved
character of the crew, and by the fact that
many of them, although men in strength
and size, were still hoys in age, and conse
quently would be* - little likely to resist temp
tation and more easily allured by the plea
sures held out to them us accompanying the
life of a pirate. Having stated the reasons
which produced the conviction in my mind
of the existence of the (dot, it only remains
for me to state those which induced me to
change my original determination to bring the
prisoners to the L T . States for trial, and to
deem their immediate execution necessary.
I was influenced—First, by the insubor
dination of the crew manifested after we
had left the coast of Africa and very much
increased after the arrest of the prisoners:
their gloomy and angry looks, their secret
conferences, broken oft’ when an officer ap
peared ; their increased reluctance in the
performance of their duty; the actual dis
obedience of some ; the attempt of several
to communicate with the prisoners. All
these circumstances convinced me that there
was danger of a rescue, and that this scheme
was in constant agitation.
Secondly, by the uncertainty under which
we labored as to the extent of the mutiny,
and the inutility and danger of attempting
to ascertain, by an examination of the crew,
how n.any were to he relied on. Let us
suppose that the whole crew bad been ex
amined, and all had protested their inno
cence and ignorance. Could we have be
lieved and trusted them ? Would the un
certainty have been removed or diminished?
On the contrary, must not the universal de
nial have increased and justified our suspi
cions of universal guilt? IVe must still have
believed that many were guilty, and could
not have known that any were innocent.—
If the examination had resulted in the dis
covery of the certain guilt of many of the
suspected, our difficulties would have been
still greater. To confine and guard then*
was impossible. To leave them at large,
with a knowledge that their guilt was known,
and that, if they arrived in safety, death
might he their doom, was to render them
desperate and an outbreak inevitable.
Thirdly, by the exhaustion of the officers,
and by the impossibility that they could
much longer sustain the fatigue to which
they were subjected ; and by the fact that,
from loss of rest and continual exertion, we
were daily loosing strength, while that of
the mutineers, from increasing numbers,
was daily becoming greater.
Fourthly, by the conviction that, even if
it were possible for the officers to defend
themselves and their vessel in fair weather,
if a storm should arise, calling the attention
of the officers and petty officers from the
prisoners and the necessary duties of taking
care of the vessel, it would have been easy
for a few resolute men to have released the
prisoners and taken possession of the ves
sel.