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BT WASHIXOTON THYlN'tl.
I endeavored to lea:a tho story of the ill luted
l.Uen and the interesting mourner whom I nad
Relieved hovering over her ashes; and I found
that they were indeed the pangs of a mother’s
heart, which had caused the grief 1 had witness
ed. She had attended her husband abroad,
through many a scene ot trial and hardships she
had dressed bis wounds upon the day ot battle,
and she had watched over her soldier’s lowly
pallet, with firm and unremitting tenderness;
U't his wounds were healed, and he rose from
ills sick bed, astonished at her magnanimity,
and grateful for her affection. They returned
together to their native country, that they might
seek a toward for their past sutler itigs in the bo
som of the country that gave them birth, and
j u the happv retirement w hich they best loved.
Several children blessed their union ; but some
were nipped in the boil ot infancy, and the re>t
prematurely destroyed ere yet they were lull}
unfolded into blossoms. One beloved daugh
ter —their beautiful Ellen—alone remained, to
them. AH the tender shoots were withered,
save this one ; and her they cherished as their
sole remaining pride, their only sun n ing prop,
/'.'ml child grew up all that her doting parents
wished ? and lovely in min ! as in person, she
constituted their sum of happiness on earth.
Hot alas ! the sweetest and most delicate lloweis
ore often nipped the soonest by the chili wind,
or by the blighting mildew. —Iler fragile form
but too easily sunk under the pressure of dis
ease ; and like a tender reed, bent beneath its
own unsupported weight. Her eyes, indeed,
sparkled with unusual lustre, but it was no more
like the brilliance of health than the false glare
of a wandering meteor resembles the clear and
steady effulgence of the meridian sun: and
though a bright bloom coloured her check, it
was not the rosy tint of vigour, but the harbin
ger of approaching ruin. The terrified parents
beheld with horror, the dreadful symptoms. In
an agonv of mind, which none besides tan ful
ly appreciate, they tried all that nature dictated,
or art devised, to stop the progress of the fatal
malady.
But it was too late. It made rapid and gi
gantic strides; and hope itself was soon obliged
to droop in anguish. The lovely victim saw
her fate before her, but her wings w-re illumed
for Heaven, and she wished not to hover longer
upon the earth.
While her body drooped and languished, her
mind became strengthened and fortified ; and
the undecaying spirit seemed to shine forth
more visibly, and more beautifully, when the
mortal shroud which enveloped it was gradually
tailing. At length life gradually waned—and
waned, until its lamp shot up one bright,but quiv
ering gleam, and was then darkened for ever !
She was dead—hut the rose still lived on her
cheek, and a smile still played upon the half
dosed lips, whose last accents had breathed tho
fond name of mother ! And those who looked
upon her could scarcely believe but that she
sweetly slept.
O.i the Cultivation of Taste —A female of
cultivated taste has an influence upon society
wherever she moves. She carries with her that;
secret attractive charm which operates like ma- j
gic upon the beholder, fixes the attention and j
soflens the feelings of the heart like those be
nign influences over which we have no control.
It is impossible to be long in her nr sence with
out feeling the superiority of that intellectual ac
quirement which so dignifies her mind and per
son. Her words and actions are dictated by its
power, and give ease and grace to her emotions.
The cultivation of a correct taste is so joined in
infinity with the social affections, that it is al
most impossible to improve the one without af
fecting the other. For it is seldom that wo see
this resplendent qualification attached t > mind
under the influence of moral > e iples, neglect
ful of those social feeling w heement society
together, and preserve it from jaring innova
tions. It is needful in every department of life;
and more of our happiness is derived from this
.source than wo are often aware of.
Look at domestic scenes with a discerning
eye, and see the movements of a woman of taste.
If she is the head of a family, order appears to
bethd first law which governs and controls her
actions. All her affairs are planned with wis
dom; confusion and discoid never disturb her
mind. Her house is the seat of social happi
ness, where the stranger and friend can repose
with delight, for neatness and order are the In
mates of her habitation. The proud pedant
may boast of her superiority in ‘he literary
world; yet, if she is destitute <>’ lhat delicacy
which softens and dignities the ;ale charac
ter, she must certainly yield up r ascendency
over the moral world, to that i an (who, per
haps. in science is greatly her ii : rior,) who has
by a constant attention to this cr: > non of the fe
male character, acquired that kv; lodge of the
propriety of conduct which regtt: ■ Icr actions,
and causes her to shine by her ! ■ tre. When
this faculty is cultivated, the be. 1 - •: use is made of
every thing which surround u The moral,
intellectual and physical world, ; vsents a vo
lume ever open for instruction : and subjects
adapted to the capacity for imp cement, and
always selected by her correct ta t ■ for inedita- 1
lion and reflection. The beutili and sublime,!
arc contemplated with increasing pleasure, and j
every object which .strikes the <■ ■ affords mat
ter for improvement, and is monopolized to the !
best advantage.
A woman of taste can render her cottage f a ,
more desirable than a palace without her ; lb
if Providence lias been less bountiful to her of
its right gifts, yet, by the influence of this supe- j
rior faculty, the eye is made to rest with the
same delight upon that arrangement of its goods,
;ts if abundance had been poured into her lap.
The direction of the female mind is not made to
depend upon that variety of scientific pursuits as
many night conclude, but more upon certain
incidents or associations which trike in carlv
life. Multiplicity Gs objects confuse the mind
and leave it embarrassed: when if a plain and j’
simple subject was unfolded with perspicuity j 1
and ease, the mind would readily embrace toe
truth; and a channel of correct thinking would
be open which it could pursue, with steadiness,
and perseverance. The taste thus early culti
vated, will unite with the more vigorous facul
ties of the understanding, and blend together un
til the character is formed. The grand object
in view relative to the lemale character is mor
al beauty ; and in my opinion, the early cultiva
tion of taste, with a proper attention to the un
derstanding, heart, social affections,would make
the nearest approaches to this acme of human
knowledge, for which the female character was
designed. It is to be lamented that persons ot
pictv should consider this a subject of little im
portance compared with others, when ethers are
so much affected by it. True piety and virtue
would shine with double lustre where the laculty
of taste is properly regarded.
Singular cldvenlurc.- \ little boy aged about
three years, son of Col. Ilogan, was missing on
Saturday for about 7 hours, and search was
made for him in every direction, but in vain.—
A little child about his own age, who could not
speak plain, was continually saying to his mo
ther, * boy in hoi.-,’ and pointed to a hole in
the n I of the arch over Eagle street, at its
junction with Beaver street. His importunities
at length attracted the attention, and it being
known that Air. H’s child was missing, a man
descended by a rope fastened under his arms, to
the bottom of the creek, a distance of twenty
feet with a lantern, lie there found a boy’s
cap, but he searched no farther, and was drawn
up. The cap was identified as that of Mr. IPs
boy. Sheriff Gallup went to the place and offer
ed a reward to any person who would descend
and search for the child. None could be found,
but the Sheriff himself pulled oil’ his coat and
was making preparations to go down, when a
colored man was induced to descend, with a ian
’ tern. After proceeding about 200 feet in the
j creek as it goes down Beaver street, and which
!is covered by an arch about four feet high, he
’ found tlie little fellow setting in the mud, and
; r, sting against the wall of the arch almost ex
hausted. He brought him to the hole, and ho
was hoisted out and presented to his, till then,
afflicted, but notv overjoyed parents. After
falling in the hole, he hail wandered thus far and
had become so fatigued that ho could not make
his way back he was in this place from 10 in the
morning till sin the afternoon.— . Albany Daily
Advertiser,
The Flower forget me not. —Mills in his work
upon chivalry, mentions that the beautiful little
flower called Forget me not was known in Eng
land as early as the time of Edward IV and in
a note, he gives the following pretty incident, in
explanation of the name :
“ fwo lovers were loitering along the margin
of a lake, on a fine summer evening, when the
maiden discovered some flowers of the Miosctis
growing on the water close to the bank of an
island, at some distance from the shore. She
expressed a desire to possess them, when her
knight in the true spirit of chivalry, plunged into
the water and swimming to the spot, cropped
the wished for plant, but his strength was una
ble to fulfil the object of his achievement : and
j feeling that he could not regain the shore, al
i though very near it, he threw the flower upon
■ the bank, and, casting a last affectionate look
■ upon his lady love, he said, “ forget me not” and
j was buried in the water.”
The logic of 'Machinery . —The following
is an account of Mr. Babbage's extraordinary
calculating machine, as described by Sir David
Brewster, in bis Natural Magic ; —“ Os all the
machines which have been coustru ted in mod
ern times, the calculating machine is, doubt
less the most extraordinary. Pieces of me
chanism tor performing particular arithmetical
operations have been long ago constructed, but
these bear no comparison, cithetin ingenuity or
in magnitude, to the grand ilesign conceived,
J ai\d n any executed, by Mr. Babbage. Great
! as the power of mechanism is known t > be, y t
w \ nture to say, that many oi the most intel —
I ligent of our readers will scarcely admit it to be
t possible that astronomical and navigation tables
j can be accurately computed b. machinery; that
| the machine can itself correct the errors which
| it may co ummit; and that the results of its cai
: culations, when absolutely free from error, can
be printed without the aid of human hands
or the operation of human intelligence. All
this, however, Mr. 1 homage's machine can do;
and, as I have had the advantage of seeing it
actually calculate, and of studying its construc
tion with Mr. Babbage himself, I am able to
make the above statement on persona! obser
vation. Ihe calculating machine, now con
structing under the superintendence of the in
ventor, has been executed at the expense of the
British Government, and is, of course, their
property. It consists essentially of two parts,
calculating part and a printing part, both of
which are necessary to the fulfilment of Mr. 1
Babbage s views; for the whole advantage
would be lost if the computations made by the
machine were copied by human hands and !
transferred to types by the common process.
The gr-ater part ol the calculating ma hinery
is already constructed, and exhibits workman
ship ot such an extraordinary skiil and beauty
that nothing approaching to it has been witness
ed, In order to execute it, particularly those !
parts of the apparatus which are dissimilar to
any used in ordinary mechanical con-'.ruction,
to rid machinery of great expen- , and com
plexity have been invented and constructed;
and in many instances, contrivances of singu- 1
Inr ingenuity, have been resorted to, which can
not fail to prove extensively useful in various
blanches of the riechenical arts. The draw
ings of this machinery, which form a large part
of the work, on whi h all contrivance has been
bcstojvod, and all the alterations made, cover
upwards of 400 square feet of surface, and are
executed with extraordinuary euro and precis
ion. In so complex a piece of mechanism, in
which interrupted motions are probagated, sim
ultaneously, along a great variety of trains of
mechanism, it might have been supposed that
obstructions would arise, or even incoinpatibil- ;
itie? occur, from the impractibilify of foreseeing \
all the possible combinations ot the pails; but
this doubt has been entirely removed by the
constant employment ot a system of mechan
ical notation, invented by Mr. Babbage, which
places distinctly in view, at every instant, the ;
progress of motion through all the parts of this |
or any other.machine, and, by writing down in
tables the times required for all the .movements,
this method renders it easy to avoid all risk ot
two opposite actions arriving, at the same in
stant, at any part of the engine. In the print
ing part of the machine less progress has been
made in the actual execution than in the calcu
lating part, the eause of this is, the greater diffi
culty of its contrivance, not for transferring the
computations from the calculating part to the
copper or other plate destined in receive it, but
for giving to the plate itself that number and va
i riety of movements which the forms adopted in
printed t ildes tnay call for in practice. The
practical object of the calculating engine is, to
compute and print a groat variety and extent ot
astronomical and navigation tables, which
could not be done wifhoiit enormous intellectu
al and manual labour, and which, even it exe
cuted by such labour, could not be calculated
with the requisite accuiacy. Mathematicians,
j astronomers, and navigators, do not require to
be informed of the real value of such tables;
but it may be proper to state, for the informa
tion of others, that seventeen large folic, vol
umes of logarithmic tables alone were calcula
ted, at an enormous expense, by the French
Government; and that the British Government
regarded these tables to he of such national
value that they proposed to the French Board
of Longitude to print an abridgment of them to
the joint expense ofthe two actions, and offered
to advance .£SOOO for that purpose. Besides
logarithmic tables, Mr. Babbage’s machine will
calculate tables, of the powers and products of
numbers, and all astronomical tables for deter
mining the positions ot the sun, moon,and plan
ets; and the same mechanical principles have
enabled him to integrate innumerable equations
of finite differences, that is when the equation
of difference is given, he can by setting an en
gine, produce, at the end of a given time, any
distant term which may be required or any suc
cession of terms commencing at a distant point.
Besides the cheapness and celerity with which
this machine will perform its work, the absolute
accuracy ofthe printed results deserves especial
notice. Bv peculiar contrivances, any small er
ror produc ed by accidental dust, or by any slight
inaccuracy in one ofthe wheels is corrected as
soon as it is transmitted to the next; and this is
done in such a manner as effectually to prevent
any accumulation of small errors from produ
cing an erroneous figure in the result.”
Ccpg-De Feeds. —Another vessel (the brig
Franklin, (.'apt. Lyle) is about to sail from Phil
adelphia, with provisions for the .relief of the
Gape de Verd sufferers. A communication j
to the Philadelphia Committee from Manuel;
Antonio Martins, “Knight Commendatory of
the Order of Christ, Colonel of the Militia
for the Island of Roa Vista,” &c. closes as
follows :
A great number of dwellings arc found con
■verted into **. pule hr es, enclosing the dry or pu- !
trid remains of their once happy inmates.—
Whole streets and squares are seen strewed with
the dying and dead left unburied, for want of
help to perform the last rites; it being difficult to
dispose of them even by tire. Along the roads
and all over the country are met scattered heads,
without bodies, and limbs and fragments of the
human frame, either dry or putrid, or in such a
manner disfigured, as not to be identified by
friends or relatives. Such was the devastation
ram Feb. 1832, until November of the same
year, that the Island of St, Antonio,inhabited by
22,000 people, has already lost, according to the
best calculation, ab ut 10,000; Fogo; 12,000;
Bravo, upwards of 3,000. But Vista and Mayo
have suffered less, owing to the great efforts of
some f their merchants, who, at every cost or
n k, have made some small importations of the
most necessary * rticles and distributed them
among the most needy; part for money and
part for charity. And though a tew anions’ us
were able either inrough personal effects or
good fortune to procure personal relief, they
could by no means escape the general evil; hu
manity compelled thorn to divide with the hun
gry their scanty portion, that they might spare
themselves the double pain of seeing so heart
rending a scene and not mitigating the intensi
ty of the evil as far as lay in their power.
In this calamitous state of things, when we
no longer had any grounds to hope for hu
man aid, behold, succor suddenly arises from
the good people of America. They sent us
in succession the following vessels, loaded
with provisions, viz: the Eastern Star, of Port
land, Captain Noyes; the Orient, of New York,
Captain Ellis; and the Emma, of Philadelphia,
Captain Hayes. The last mentioned gentle
man, whil -on his way to this Island, meet
ing with that of St. Antonia, and being
anxious to ascertain which of the islands was in
the greatest distress, sent his boat on shore,
and being informed that great numbers were
starving to death every day, brought, his vessel
to anchor, notwithstanding the evident risk
which he unavoidably ran in approaching that
dangerous coast, and landed a considerable part
of his cargo. Unable yet to asccttain which of |
the islands suffered most, and anxious for the !
object of his mission, he proceeded on his :
course towards thi : i land and here landed the
remainder of his cargo; part to be sent back to
Antonio, and part to be forwarded to St. Ni— 1
colan.
Led however by his humane feelings, he
would have the provisions thither at any risk,!
had he not been satisfied of our ability and anx
iety in causing that transportion to be made!
without delay.
The wise choice made by the gentlemen of
the committee, of the person of the good Cap
tain 1 lays, has been the means of rescuing
hundreds from the fate to which many had al
ready yielded. For the manner in which he
has conducted his honorable commission, he
has well deserved the thanks of every individu
al of this province.
Magnanimous citizens of the. United States—
souls of the most refined philantrophy—may
Heaven with a liberal hand pour upon you its
choicest blessings. Far from us did you hear
the doleful accents of our groans—the pitflul
erics of our deep lamentations, uttered with bit
tor tears, from the abyss of our misery, penotA- j
I ted to the bottom of your hearts. O. bcnerac
tors of the people of Cape \ erds—what a sweet j
change have you wrought in our condition — j
what affectionate expressions shall wo use tn
show you the full extent ot our gratitude! \\ ith
! our souls on our lips, and our hearts in our |
! eyes, we do proclaim, and will ever pro-,
! claim you our deliverers, under Dive Provi
dence. . I
Our gratitude will be oflonger duration than (
our jives—it will go beyond our graves—yea,,
we will always pray the Almighty Buler of the
destinies of nations, to watch over yours and
you.
Posterity shall receive this charge from us as ail
unalienable part of their inheritance, and shall
hail you for ages to come as the deliverers of
their forefathers, and pray for your welfare.
Island of Boa Vista, Dec, 26, 1832.
(Signed) MANUEL ANTONIO MARI INS.
Gold Mining’ in North Carolina. —Since the |
novelty of the gold mining process has some- .
what abated, but little has been seen in the
Newspapers concerning this business. Lest,
it should hence be inferred,that the golden pros
pect in our State had become dimmer, we take
occasion to remark, that at no time, since the
commencement of gold mining, have the results
been more favorable or flattering, than at the
present; more especially, in what are called the
superficial mines of Burke and Rutherford. The
number of hands employed, is greater than at
any former period, and a majority if them, are
doing a good business. The ease and con
venience of getting gold by digging a few feet
below the surface have prevented the Miners
from attempting the more permanent business
of searching for veins ; hut as the former busi
ness is exhausted, no doubt but the Mountains
about Biindleton, Brackettown and Whiteside,
will be made to disgorge their bright contents.
Several experiments have already been made
on the mountain veins, one of w.iieh, by K. P.
Willis, Esq., came under our personal observa
tion, and having some little knowledge of mi
ning in veins, we are bold to assert, that no re
gion of the State, promises more ample rewards
to the adventurer. The activity, enterprise, and
intelligence of the gentlemen now engaged in
gold-digging, ‘t e have no doubt “ will compel
success in this branch of mining; and when we
consider the fine effect which such operations
have on the country where they are situated,
we can but be anxious for their introduction. —
We may be excused we hope, for saying a word
of our quandum associates in the business. To
one who casually looks on and observes the
singelness of the miners devotion to hjs occu
pation it might seem, that gold had shut out all
the finer feelings ofthe soul, but meet that same
miner at his own house or a neighbor’s, and you
will find as much of kindness, friendship and
honor, as warms the bosom of any man living.
And certainly there is as much intelligence as
I can be found in the same number of men pro
miscuously brought together in any part of the
world.
We intend hereafter to take more notice of
this important branch of the industry of our
State. Particularly of the vein mining opera
tions. It is sufficient for the present, to remark,
that in the spite of the unfavorable impression
that mismanagement and extravagance has pro
duced, as regards the Mecklenburg mines, they
u 7 ho are most deeply interested in these estab
lishments, are more cheered with the present
results, and more confident ot continued pro
fits than they have ever been before. We have
not derived this fact from any boasting of those
engaged, but the conclusion is from circumstan
ces that cannot deceive. The mine of Mr. R.
King, near Lexington in Davidson County, we
I learn is a perfect El-Dorado, the size, richness,
and uniformity of the vein, has seldom, if ever,
been equalled in this country.
! We shall take occasion hereafter, to notice
an idea that has prevailed to some extent in the
country, to wit, that Gold-mining is prejudicial
;to the other great interests of Society’. Never
j was an opinion moteunfounded as we shall show
by facts hereafter.
From the New Orleans Bee, April IC.
Bulletin of Crimes. —Daring Robbery has
succeeded faring robbery of late, with most
’ frightful rapidity; the organized band of thieves,
j who ransom the whole city, know of no bounds
|to their lawless acts. The duty of self protec
tion must henceforth devolve upon the citizens
‘of the community; for it must be conies icd that
| the score of the guards is too scant to allow the
| mastery of a horde of villians, who seem to be
| sufficiently numerous to be able sim ltaneously
| and successively to carry on their depredations,
in seven or eight different points of the city ?
Several acts of this nature occurred night be
fore last; the robbers, clambering over the bal
cony, enterei- Dr. Lasroix’s house, and carried
off all the wearing apparel lain by his bed at the
time of his retiring, togetheer with his pocket
hook, a valuable gold watch, ano set of surgi
cal instruments. Almost at the a nr moment,
j and in the same street, within proximity of the
most resorted coffee-houses, other acolytes, no
doubt, of the egregious rascals, were attempting
an entrance into Mrs. Duverges’ dwelling, oth
ers actually penetrating Mr. A. Pitot’s house,
others forcing open Mr. Jan Bart’s .;oors, and
others again timely prevented front mvadiug/he
residence of Mr. 0. Roseliiu-, esquire. Many
other outrages were committed in the same
night, eoncctning which, wc could ga'hev no
positive information. Citizens should be on
their guard; good “percussion locks, caps and
mahogany stocks,” are the only protection.
A young gentleman was arrested, Sunday
night, while returning from the theatre and
“stand and deliver” by way of addressing him,
was the charge of the footpad. Being unarm
ed he thought it most prudent to make a speedy
retreat, but not sufficiently so to escape a thrust
of a dagger, which slightly, seamed the skin of
his left forearm. Take notice.
Captain Penne, daring one of his rounds. a i
three o’clock night before last, observed tlirce
individuals of a suspicious appearance, about
the neighborhood of Bienville street, two on jj
one side and another on the opposite side ofthe I
street. On his asking them what was their bu
siness at that hour, one of them snapped a pi s . v
tol at him, while the other took to his heels.-.
As one of the guards grappled with him, L e
struck him with the discharged pistol, drawing
his knife, a spring-back one, at the same time;
the guard reeling under the blow, dragged tln>
individual in his lull, and as he tell, his civn”
knife entered his right side, in the regions of the
kidneys, severing the great artery. An inquest
was held, yesterday morning, on the body, by J.
11. H. Holland, Esq. the corpse examined by
Doctors Josiah Keir and Augustus Cenas.who j
g ve it as their opinion, that he had come to his ■
death, by the self-inflicted, though surely, not
voluntary wound. This individual, it seems j
from the disclosures of his companion, Lewis
Jones, was named L. Bennet, had already been
sent or sentenced, to the penitentiaty in Cincin
-1 nati and made good his way to this city.
An individual suspected to be the compeer
j of those worthies, was arrested yesterday on
! the very spot where the corpse was under
going examination. Has such daring, wo
would ask, a paralled in any city of the Union!
It is imperatively necessary that our municipal
authorities should achieve the formation of the
new guard, created by an ordinance ofthe coun
cil,until that takes place, would it not be advisa
ble that the proper authorities should order out
patroles, in all the wards of the city and fau
bourgs! If the villians do knife and pistol-work
aginst tho guards, what : s there to prevent them
from doing the same against citizens,who might
be inclined to resist any aggression ? Are we
tamely to submit to the invasion of our pro
perty ! or arc we to peril limb and life in its
defence !
Destructive Hurricane. —On Thursday after
noon last a violent hurricane passed about a mile
and a hail’ north of this place, very similar in its
extent and power to the one, which in 1012, pas-1
sed through the northern part of this county, I
but, in consequence ofthe density of the settle
ment through which it went, far more dcstruc- *
five in its effects. Vie have not learned how
far west ofthe Miami it commenced, but under
stand tiiat considerable damage was done on |
that side of the river. It crossed the Miami
about two miles above this place, and then kept
up, with the course of the river, nearly r. mile,
when it turned northeastwardly over towards
Mad river, until it struck the road leading by
Kaiscly’s and liuffer’s mills; about four miles.
from town. It then followed along the road,
principally upon the north side, to the Greene
county line, where it turned rather to the north
word, leaving Kaisely’s and Hufl'er’s on the
right, and crossed Mad river at the Fairfield
bridge, just below the same place where the one
in 1812 crossed—Leaving Fairfield to tho right,
it continued towards Springfield and passed a
mile and a half to the south, and finally ceased
about two miles east of that place.
Several lives have been loot, and the dtstruc- ‘
tion at property has been immense. Near Fair
field, the house of a family named Courtney
was thrown down ant! the inmates were buried
in the ruins. The neighbors repaired to the
spot, and having removed the rubbish, found a,
young man, about 17 or IS years of age, and an ;
infant, killed, and tho other live members of the
family all considerably injured—We heard of
several other persons injured, some of them se
riously.—A number of horses and cattle have
been killed by the falling limber, and being driv
en by the force ofthe wind against stumps and
other objects.
A great number of houses have been unroof
ed, and some partially and some entirely over
thrown—rendering it a matter of astonishment
that the destruction oflife has not been much
greater than it has. The wind struck a brick
house of 2 stories high upon a basement of stone
near the line between this county and Greene,
j and demolished the upper story and part of the
next, while the firmily, being in the basement
storv, were entirely uninjured. The bridge
across Mad river, near Fairfield, was stripped
of its plank and string pieces, and hardly any
thing, except the trussels, was left standing.
The greatest injury which has been done to pro
perty, however, has been the destruction of the
timber. In this whole width, which was gener
ally nearly a quarter of a mile, scarcely a tree is
left uninjured. Some are uprooted; some bro
ken off, ten, twenty, thirty or forty feet from the
ground.
The following from the Springfield Pioneer
describes the effects ofthe Tornado in the vicin
ity of that place.
On Thursday afternoon between five and six
o’clock, our citizens were alarmed by the ap
pearance in the south of a violent hurricane.
Whsn first seen, it appeared to be sweeping on
ward in a direct line for Springfield, but as it
entered the town, it was apparent that it bore
too far south to visit us.
It is since been ascertained that it rose some
where in the south west, and swept across the
country in a due north easterly course. We
have accounts of its effects as far south west ss
Lands’ Mill on Mill creek, live miles from this
place. It struck the dwelling house of Mr. Pet
erson, entirely unrooted one department, tore
the smoke house from its mooring, with the ex
ceptio.i of the foundation which was retained in
its place by an oak tree two feet in diamater
cast upon it by the storm. Leaving Mr. Pe
tersoa’s farm, it struck the dwelling house of
Mr. Thes Throckmorton —entirely demolished
it —and we regret to say, killed one of his chil
dren, a boy five or six years old—and consid
erably bruised himself and wife, The next ac
count we have of it is where it crossed the Yel
low Spring road, which was so completely stop
ped up by huge oak trees, rails &c. as to render
it impassible. The southern Mail stage was
compelled to return to Springfield, where it was
detained until next morning. Passing on, the
storm struck the house of Mr. Cullum, directly
south of this place, and threw off’the upper or
garret story. It appears soon after to have bro
ken. but airain eollcctinn', it continued to travel
