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■ nature: what could to huve steeled
your heart? The answer is—Spirit
uous liquor. It has had the efleet
to estrange you from the most endear-
inS relation,, from the ties of blood,
from ynur, obligati.ns to your fellow
beings and. to your Creator. If any
further evidence was wanting to man
ifest the desolating effects of ardent
spirits, which have moved like a de
stroying angel ovei 1 tire land, we have
it in the astounding fact, that within
(he last two mouths, three men have
been arraigned before me on charges
cf murdering their wives: eacu of
these offences were committed by in
temperate men. As destructive as
,|his practice is to society at large, as
distressing as it is to all classes of
Jibe community, yet it is indubitably
true that none are made to suffer
more severely from it than married
women. Complaints of abuses from
drunken husbands, have increased to
such an extent as to render it neces
sary that the the law should he broT
io bear with severity upon them. It
% full tune that the partners of these
abandoned men should be made to re-
ia-lize that they have in the laws and
'ministers of justice friends who are
'both able and willing to protect them
from the brutal violence of their hus
bands.
The observations which I have
fiiilS") have not been addressed to you
from any desire to wound your feel
ings. lleuven forbid. But for the
purpose of arousing you to a realising
sense o! the enormity of your offence,
of vindicating the justice of the coun
try, and of awakening the community
to tiie knowledge of the cause and ex
tent of «*.vi!i among them which cry
aloud fur redress.
Miserable man! To what- a condi
tion have you reduced yourself.—
With earth and all its enjoyments your
connection must cease forever, and
you must go away with all your im
perfections upon your head into the
presence of your Maker. It can hard
ly he tiecessary for me to admonish
you of the importance of preparing
yourself to answer to Him for your
conduct. Circumstanced as you are,
with your days emphatically few and
numbered, with this world and ai! its
allurements receding from your view,
and 111 i prospects of another opening
before you, it is not in human nature
to be insensible to the importance' of!
preparing to meet your Creator. -To )
JJiiu, therefore, lot your most devout j
•supplications be raised;-—for he will >
soon be your all:---you will have none j
left but him.
I will now proceed to the discharge j
o( the last and most painful duty of j
the Court. Listen to your sentence, j
The judgment of the law is, and this
Court doth direct, that you, James
Hansom, be taken to the Bridwell of
the city and county of New York,
from whence you came, and from
thence to the place of execution, on
6'nlurday. the seventh day of January
next ensuing, and that von he there
HANGED BY THE NECK UN
TIL YOU BE DEAD. And may
Hod have mercy oivyour soul.
From the Ontario Phoenix..
THE BLIND PREACHER,
i By Wm. Wirt.
It was on Sunday, ns I passed
through (lie county of Orange, that
•piy eyes were caught by a cluster of
horses tied a ruinous wooden oh
house, in the forest, not far from tlu
yoad side. Having frequently seen
ipjch objects before, through the
stales, I had no difficulty in under
standing that this was a place of reli
gions worship.
Devotion would alone have stopped
uie, to join in the duties qttlic con
gregation; but ! must hotness, that
curiosity to hear what the preachei
cf such a wilderness could say, was
pot tho least of my motives.
On entering, I'was struck with his
preternatural appearance. He was
a tall and spare old man; his head,
which was covered with n white linen
Cap, shrivelled hands, and his voice
were all shaking under the inUaonee
of lire palsy, and in a few moments I
ascertained that lie was blind.
The first emotions which touched
the breast were, those of mingled pi-
fv and vencraliou. But oh! sacred
Gnd! how sooon were iny fellings
vhatig* J. the lips of Plato were never
mure worthy of a prognostic swarm
sf bees, ihau w ere the lips of this ho
ly man! It wits the day of wcmlUcnt;
& hisjstibjecl of discourse, the was pas
sion of our Saviour. 1 had hoard the
subject hand led a thousand times;
l had thought it exhausted long a-
go.
Little did I suppose that in the
wild womb of America, I was to
meet with a man whose eloquence
would give this topic a new and more
sublime pathos, than 1 bad ever before
witnessed.
As he descended from the pup.it,
to distribute the mystic symbols,
there was a peculiar, a uioie than
human solcincily in his air and man
ner, which made my blood run cold,
and my whole frame shiver.
He drew a picture of (ho suffer
ings of our Saviour; his trial before
Pilate, his ascent up to calvary, his
crucifixion and death. I knew the
whole history, but never" until then
had I heard the circumstances so se
eded, so arranged, so colored! It was
all new, & I seemed to have heard it
for tiic first time in my life. His
voice trembled on every syllable, and
every heart in the assembly trembled
in unison. His peculiar phrase had
that force of description, that the
original scene appeared to be at that
moment acting before our eyes. W«
saw the faces of the Jews; the star
ing frightful disioft'ons of the malice
and rage. Wo saw llie Ln/Vei; my
soul kindled in « flame of iiidigation,
and my hands involuntarily clench
ed.
But when he come to touch on the
patience, the forgiving meekness of
oar Saviour, which lie drew to the
life, his blessed eyes were streamipg
to heaven; his voice breathing to God,
and the soft and geu'.lc prayer of par
don on Ids enemies ‘‘Father forgive
them, for they know not what they
do,’—the voice of the preacher, which
had all along faltered, grew fainter
and fainter, until Ins utterance being
entirely obstructed by the force of
feelings, lie raised bis handkerchief to
his eyes, and burst into a loud and ir
repressible flood of tears. The ef
fect is unconceivable.
The whole house, resounded with
the mingled groans and sobs, and
shrieks of the congregation.
It was .1 I o.ig time before tho tu-
muit bad subsided so as to permit him
to proceed. Indeed, judging by the
usual but fallacious .standard of my
own weakuess, I began to be very un
easy for .tiw situation of th preacher;
for I coi|PJ not coneeave how lie would
lie able to let bis audience down
from tho height to which he hud
wound them, without impairing the
solemnity and dignity of the subject;!
or perhaps shocking them with the |
abruptness of the fall. But no; the;
decent was as beautiful and sublime
as the elevation had been rapid and
enthusiastic.
The first sentence which broke Ike
awful silence was a quotation from
Sosseau--“Socrates died like a phil
osopher, but Jesus Christ like a
God!”
I despair of giving you any idea of
the effect produced in this short sen
tence, unless you could perfectly con
ceive the whole manner of the man,
as well as the peculiar crisis of the
discourse. Never before did I un
derstand what Demosthenes meant
by laying such stress on delives
ry.
You are to bring before you the
venerable figure of the preacher, his
Uli.iJness constantly recalling to your
recollection old Homer, Osaian, and
Hilton, associating with his perform
ance the melancholy grandeur of their
genius; you ore to imagine that you
bear his slow, solemn, well accented
enunciation, and his voice of affecting
melody; you ore to remember the
pitch o! the passion and enthusiasm to
w hich the congregation were raised,
and then the few minutes of prolen-
tious, death like silence which reign
ed through the house; the preacher
removed his aged face, (even wet
from the recent torrent of tears,) and
slowly stretdhing forth his palsied
hand which holds it, begins the sen
tence,—“Socrates died like n phil
osopher”—then pausing, raising the
other'hand pressing them both clasp
ed together, with warmth and energy
to his breast, lifting his “sightless
balls” to heaven and pouring his
whole soul in bis tumultuous'voico—
“hut Jesus Christ—like a God!” If
he had indeed and in truth been an
angel of light, tlieeffect.could scarce
ly have been more divine.
Whatever I had been able, to oon-
ceive of the sublimity of Massibn, or
the force of Bourdaloue, it had fa! J t:u
These dogs which attended these
flocks are of a large size, not unlike
the Newfoundland dog, though stand
ing higher on llieir legs. They are
branded hi 1 the face with a particular
the violence ami agony, of my feelings,
had held my whqle system in sus
pense, now ran back into, my heart,
with a kind of sensation which I can
not describe; a kind of sllndderiug re
ligious horror! ...
The paroxysm of the blended pity
and indignation, to which I had been
transported, subsided into the deepest
self-abasement, humility and adora
tion, I had just been lacerated and
dissolved by sympathy, for our Savior
as a fellow creature: but now, with
fear and trembling, I adore him as--
•‘a God!”
From the Monthly .Magazine.
SPANISH SHEEP.
The Spanish Sheep arc of two dis
tinct classes—one they call Cameras,
and is exclusively kept for its milk
and the butoher. The wool of this
class is spun at home and manufac
tured into coarse cloth ami serge, for
the use of friars and peasant!y. The
other is called Merinos, and is kept
for the wool alone. It is supposed
there arc four millions of the latter j
class iu Spain, At the approach cf] j
Winter tLey are driven iiom the
present a formidable barrier to their i
ferocious assailants; it is not always,;
however, that these faithful and cour- j
qgeous animals are of a sufficient
protection to the flock from the bor
ders of these ravenous animals which
always hang on their track, The
dogs have a daily allowance of bread,
and that, with the flesh of tiie dead
sheep and goats, keeps them always
iu good condition. Tlie shepherd told
me, that one nignt a wolf’ hod eluded,
the vigilance of the guardians, and
succeeded iu capturing a lamb; the
theft; however, was Kiuncdialcly dis
covered, and tile offender was pursued
aed overtaken by a single dog. The
first intimation the shepherd had of
tho transaction was by the faithful
animal returning tolna teut with the
lamb iu his mouth: the. blood on his
dog showed that ha had not recovered
his loss without a severe conflict,
which was not confirmed until the next
for soma days, for I am in trouble
and wish your friendly advice.”-—>
“What can it be?” replied the other.
“■Why, i have a lawsuit, and Webster
is opposed- to me; what shall I do?”
His friend replied, “my advice is,
r only chance of escape is to send
na and import a Young Ear It.-
.—Nantucket Inquirer.
A tanner near Stvaffliim, in Nor
folk, invited the snor to uiaa
with him, ; :,d a urn pa . nine tl.e bot
tle about briskly, the supervisor took
his leave; but, iu pas ring throng i
the lan yard, lie unfortunately fell in
to u vat, and called lustily for the
tanner’s assistance to gel out, but to
no purpose. “For,” said the tanner,
“il I draw any hides without giving
twelve hours’ notice, I shall be ex-
chequered and-mined; but I’ll go and
inlurm the exciseman.”
A gentleman by Hie name of Mann,
met a maniac, who. striking his cane
on the ground, sternly demanded.
“N ho are you? * Thinking io amuse
him, the gentleman answered, “1 am
a double inao: Mann by name and a
man by nature,” “Well, f am »
mourning, by finding (lie wolf man-1 hes'de myseti. so we two will
glod and dead near the spot. I was ;, r>)’ ou two; on which he knocked
so much pleased with this anecdote j l,m down and walked off.
of the dbg, which was pointed out to j
me, that I offered the s’icj *..rd a j From a Quaker la It Is Friend.
considerable »utn for him; lilt) mail, j “Friend John, 1 desire thee to ho
however, honest Jy told me, that even j so kind as to go to one of these sir.-
, it he were tempted to take the moil-j ful men in the flesh, called on Attor-
mountnies in the north, to pasture in . V y, i| u , ( |og u . 0 „|j never ackuowle Igc I ncy, and let him take out an instru-
a milder climate of Estramauura and ,„ c f 0| . a m as ; t .r, but ’.void.I seek the • meut, with a set
lluf borders of Andalusia, whence
they return in the spring to he shorn,
and to enjoy the mountain pasturage.
I have heard the shepherds say, the
merinos' know the time of llieir <U‘-
parture from the north instinctively,
and that they could travel into Es-
tramaduln without a conductor. Bv
the regulation of the mtsla, there are
lands appropriated for the rest, and
pasturage of the flocks during their
annual emigration, which in sorio in
stances exceeds the distance of -100
miles.
H cat>ana‘ or flocks cf merinos, bn
a route has a singular appea.ancc to
a strang.ir, The lust I saw w as in
May, 1825, as I was returning to
of returnin:
■ fold.
to his
first opportunity
companions of lh
The camp equipage of the wander- ]
iiig shepherds is carried by asses ami I
mules, and moves in tho rear of the !
lino of march. It consists of guns, j
pots, gridirons,' the skins of deer and j
sheep, stags’ hoi ns (for they have fre
quent opportunities of regulating
themselves with venison and game,) j
and'poles for the erection cf their j
teals or huts. A number of goats ;
generally neeotftp my a cavanu, which j .
are the properly of the shepherds, and *' 1,n
with (he milk mid kids, the men iive
al fixed thereunto, by
means whereof we may seize the
out tabernacle of George Green, and
bring before die lambskin men a:
Westminster, and tcadi him to do a >
lie would Ire done by, and so I rcs‘
thy friend in (lie light—-A. B.”
large flocks near Signenza, returning
f.iom their winter quarters near Goi-
dova, to be shorn in Soris. Tliev
generally travail four leagues, or six
teen miles a day. It js ctirjous to
see the admirable regularity which
is preserved among the immense
flocks duiing llieir peregrin,aljon ; and
tho attention they pay to the call of
the shepherds and their dogs, 1 qiifcg-
L'le of a gentleman.--Ua gels up leis
only, breakfasts comfortably, reads
the paper regularly, dresses fashiona
bly, Io thges fastidiously, eats a lari
gravely, talks insipidly, dines consid
erably, dvinls superfluously, kills
indifferently, snrs elegantly,
England, when I pvertookk^eyjprai 3tTOk hut tlm shepherds themselves;
cues to bed stupidly, and lives use-
pretty well. I should not tljink met- j ^y.-French l\:per.
(on was scarce with them, for no one |
cun loll the number of sheep iu a 1
they are iu no danger of detection,,
should limy occasionally wish to vary
their repast. There are flocks be
longing to the, duke of Infaiilondo, ;u n !
utnoy noblemen, amounting to SJ or
40,000 sheep.
A gentleman once svd he should
likrjto see a boat full <f ladiesadi ifl m
the ocean, lr, see w hat couise ii y
would steer. A lady in the room re
plied, “that’s easily told—they would
steer to the Isle of Man, to be sure.”
BTQ&mf
Specimen rf Stump Oratory. --Iu the
district now rt -.resell.ed by Mr. Dan
iel, iu Kentucky, previous to th
tiqned one of the shepherds respect- lection, Mr-Davis,' the Clay camli
*”■» his flock, and expressed a wish to, dale, at one of Hie log rollings in the
district, made a speech agi.ins
examine their wool. lie l/lew a.
shrill peal from a whistle, w hich lie
carried fur the purpose, when instant
ly, as with one consent, the carana
hailed. Eight qc ten of the rams
then scum acred from the head of the
flock, and rupning-to the shepherd,
raised up themselves aiainst him,
and placed their fore feet on his
breast, seemed ready to devour him.
lie gave to each a small piece of salt,
with which they seemed highly grat
ified; and they suffered me to pluck
some of llieir wool, which was of su
perior quality.
The shepherds being constantly
exposed to the sun and air, necessa
rily become swarthy, and their limit
ed use of a razor, added to llieir un
common attire give them a singularly
strange and wild appearance. "Their
eminent9 are made of the skins of
black sheep; the wool i9 left about
a half an inch long, and from a cus
tom more comfortable than seemly.
They wear a J'ucha or sash tied a-
romid the waist, and in the fold is seen
a knife, the use which is pretty gen
erally understand by the lower order
of'-Spaniards. The legs and feet of
these men are encased in dried sheep
skins, laced with a thong, and a huge
sr>in6rcb, or slouched hat, as a cover
ing to the head, complete their cos
tume. They lodged at night under
n . nde sojt of a tent r ,c,oyejed with
turf and skins, round with the dogs
forming an out post, to protect fliepi
from tho wolves. I enquired of (lie
mayoral whether lie lost many of the
flock by the wolves; he told ine tjiat
they hod suffered considerably among
the mountains' o r Caudalaxnra, the
wolves being ntffie ferocicu^ than
those in Eslratnadura,
competitor, >» which he exposed his
iiiconsss.en«:y in rcgajd to riw Miws-
viiie turuepike ;—
“Here, fellow-citizens,’’ said he
“we have a man who professes grea:
friendship fur |his turnpike previous
to his clection--en<i afterwards when
a bill was before Congress to make
an appropriation for it, i:e marie speech
es in its favor—voted for it—ami il
was passed and sent to the I'icsideiil
for his siguaiuie, but returned with
his veto—It then came befor tin House
again, when loltliis ardent supporter
of the bill turn .il and voted against
it!!
“Now, gentlemen, w hat would you
think of a dog that would go a coon
limiting-with you—follow the track
well—harkjwell—hold well—and just
as you had got up with him, and were
in the very act of seizing hold of the
eoon, let him go, and turn and bark ai
you? Isay, gentlemen, what would
you do with such a dog?”
Killhiml-by thunder!--Shoal him!
—by jingo!” was the universal shout
of the auditors.—American Mercury.
Fat and lean.—An Irishnyan who
had a pig in his possession was ob
served to adopt the constant pyaelico
of filling it to repletion one day, and
starving it tho next. ’ Qn being ask
ed his reason for doing so, he replied,
“Oeh! sure, and isn’i it that I like to
have bacon with a strake o’fat and a
stroke o’lhnp, equally cue after t’olh*
or.
Friendly Advice.—A gentleman
meeting his friend, accosted him by
saying, ‘ I have wished to see you
|!ROj\I the SiibsCiibw on lh“ night of
the twenty firet of .at mornli a roan
j niarc, at,out nine or ten years (>!•!—tong
| bushy tail—branded on t!ie shoulders with
I these Icttcis--C M. Ai><> a <ivo year old
j (ini—=orrcl having a narroiv and strait
j mark on Imr back, about three inches long,
j b ; c.nttr.m n/ing from her mair.e don n—slm
' a natural trotter—having a short laii. I
ivil-give ten dollars to nay pe;sc:i who
will deliver to me at mr bou-.e the above
marcs—or five dollars for each.
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O N mondr.y (lie fl:h <!ay of January
no t will be sold to the highest hiib'.V
•tithe late resulanee ofThos. Monrce de
ceased, all cf the perishable property be
longing to the Estate of the said Deeeas-
ed cuncisting of Horses cows and calves
Bed.*’, chairs and other property.
SIMEON WHITE,
.. Administrator.
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