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GRIFFIN, GEORGIA.
m MRS. IIUSON,
'TAKES this method of informing her
friends and the public generally, that she will
. 1 sontinue to keep a Hotel in this place, a few
u" ,r * below the .Monroe Rail Road and Banking
'’use, just across the street front where she for-
I ® r !y kept. Her charges will correspond with the
‘•irunesi of the times. The house will be fitted
,1 "J a superior style. Siie will take the house on
if - ft th day of December, when every thing will
complete order.
f . AMELIA IIUSON.
Griffin, Dec. 9, 1844. 10 2m
S. M. STRONG, Editor.
VOLUME 1.
MISCELLANY.
j WOMAN’S WIT.
The following passage in the life ofGus-
I tavus \ asa, when that distinguished mon
arch took refuge from the Danish usurper
in Dalecarlia, to mature his noble plan
for deliverance of his country, is truly
dramatic —“ On a little hill stood a very
ancient habitation, of so simple an archi
tecture that you would have taken it fora
hind’s cottage, instead of a place that, in
t:mes oi old, had been the abode of no
bility. It consised of a long larm-like
; structure, formed of hr, covered in a
j strange fashion with seals, and odd orna
mental twistings in the carved wood ; but
I the spot was hallowed by the virtues of its
• heroic mistress, who saved, by her pre
sence of mind, the life of the" future de
liverer of her country. Gustavus, hav
jng> By an evil accident, been discovered
in the mines, bent his course towards this
house, then inhabited by a gentleman of
the name of Pearson, whom he had known
in the armies of the late administrator.
Here, he hoped, from the obligations he
had formerly laid on the ollicer, that he
should at least find a safe retreat. Pear
son received him with every mark of friend
ship—nay, treated him with that respect
and submission which noble minds are
proud to pay to the truly great, when rob
j bed of their external honours. He ex
claimed with such vehemence agaiifst the
Danes that, instead of awaiting a propo
sition mke up arms, he offered, unasked,
to try the spirit of the mountaineers, and
declared that himself and his vassals
would be the first to set an example, at and
turn out under ihe command of bis belov
ed general. Gustavus relied on his word,
and, promising not to name himself to any
while he was absent, some days after
wards saw Pearson leave the house to
put his design in execution. It was in
deed a desigr}, and a black one. Under
the specious cloak of a zealous affection
for Gustavus, the traitor was contriving
bis ruin. The hope of making his court
to the Danish tyrant, and the expectation
ol a large reward, induced lnm to sacri
fice his honour to his ambition, and for the
sake ot a few ducats, violate the most sa
cred laws of hospitality by betraying his
guest. In pursuance of that base resolu
tion, he proceeded to one of Christiern’s
officers commanding in the province, and
informed him that Gustavus was his pri
soner. Having committed this treachery,
he had not the courage to face his victim,
but, telling the Dane how to surprise the
prince, who, he said, believed himself
under the protection of a friend, he pro-
! posed taking a wider circuit home, while
they apparently unknown to him, rifled it
rtf its treasure. “It will be an easy mat
! ter,” said he, “ lor not even my wife knows
that it is Gustavus.” The officer, at the
head of a party of well armed soldiers,
marched directly to the lake. The men
invested the house; while the leader, ab
ruptly entering, found Pearson’s wife, ac
cording to the fashion of those days, em
ployed in culinary preparations. At some
distance from her sat a young man in a
rustic garb, lopping offthe knots from the
broken branch of a tree. The officer told
her he came in King Christiern’s name,
to demand the rebel Gustavus, who, he
knew, was concealed under her roof. The
dauntless woman never changed colour ;
she immediately guessed the man whom
her husband had introduced as a miner’s
son to be the Swedish hero. The door
was blocked up by soldiers. In an in
stant she replied, without once glancing at
Gustavus, who sat montionless with sur
prise. ‘if you mean the melancholy gen
tleman my husband has had here these
two days, he has just walked out into the
wood, on the other side of the hill. Some
of the soldiers may readily seize him, as
he has no arms with him.’ At this mo
ment, suddenly turning her eyes on Gus
tavus, she flew up to him, and, catching
the stick out of his hand, exclaimed, in an
angry voice, ‘Unmanly wretch ! What!
sit before your betters! Don’t you see
the king’s officers in the room ? Get out
of my sight, or some of them shah give
you a drubbing!’ As she spoke; she
struck him a blow on the back with all her
strength; and, opening a side door, ‘Then*,
get into the scullery,’ cried she, ‘it is the
fittest place for such company!’ and giv
ing him another knock, she flung the stick
after him, and shut the door. ‘Sure,’ ad
ded she, in a great heat, ‘never woman
was plagued with such a lout of a slave!’
The officer begged she would not disturb
herself on his account; but she, aflecting
great reverence for the king, and respect
for his representative, prayed him to en
ter her parlour, while she brought him
some refreshments. The Dane civilly
complied, perhaps glad enough to get from
the side of a shrew; and she immediate
ly flew to Gustavus, whom she had bolt
ed in, and, by means of a back passage,
conducted him in a moment to the bank
of the lake, where the fishers’ boats lay,
and, giving him a direction to an honest
curate across the lake, committed him to
Providence.”
A cantab, one day observing a ragmuf
fin looking boy scratching his head at the
door of one of the city fathers, where he
was begging, and thinking to pass a joke
upon him, said—
-1 “So, Jack, you are picking them out,
; are you?”
“Ao, sir,” reloited the urchin, “I takes
i ’em as they come!”
PRO PATRIA ET LEGIBVS.
MACON, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1815.
THE SHIP SYRACUSAN.
Three hundred carpenters were em
ployed in building this vessel, which was
completed in one year. The timber for
the planks and ribs was obtained partly
from Mount Etna and partly from Italy,
other materials from Spain, and hemp lor
cordage from the vicinity of the Rhone.
She was everywhere secured with large
copper nails (bolts), each of which weigh
ed ten pounds and upwards. At equal
distances, all round the exterior, were
statues of Atlas, nine feel in height, sup
porting the upper decks and triclyphs;
besides which the whole outside was
adorned with paintings, and environed
with ramparts or guards of iron, to pre
vent an enemy from boarding her. She
had three masts; for two of these trees
sufficiently large were obtained without
much difficulty, but a suitable one for the
mainmast was not procured for some time.
A swineherd accidentally discovered one
growing on the mountains of Brultia.
She was launched by a few hands, by
means of a helix, or screw machine, in
vented by Archimedes for the purpose ;
and it appears that she was sheathed with
sheet lead. Twelve anchors were on
board, four of which were of wood, and
eight of iron. Grappling irons were dis
posed all round, which, by means of sui
table engines, could be thrown into ene
mies’s ships. Upon each side of this ves
sel were six hundred young men fully
armed, and an equal number on the masts,
and attending the engines for throwing
stones. Soldiers (modem marines) were
also emplo3’ed on board, and they were
supplied with ammunition—i. e. stones
and arrows—by little boys that were be
low (the powder monkies of a modern
man-of-war,) who sent them up in baskets .
by means of pulleys. She had twenty
ranges of oars. Upon a rampart was at. l
engine invented by Archimedes, which;
could throw arrows and stones of BOO !
pounds to the distance of a stadium (fur
long), besides others lor defence, anti sus
pended in chains of brass. She seems to j
have been what is now called a “three- !
decker,” for there were three “galleries!
or corridors,” from the lowest of which j
the sailors went down by ladders to the j
hold. In the middle one were llirily rooms,
in each of which were four beds; the floors
were paved with small stones of different
colours (mosaics,) representing scenes
from Homer’s Iliad. Thedoors, windows,
and ceilings were finished with “wonder
ful art,” and embellished with every kind
of ornament. The kitchen is mentioned
as on this deck, and next to the stern, also,
three large rooms for eating. In the third
gallery were lodgings for the soldiers, anti
a gymnasium or place.of exercise. There
were also gardens in this vessel, in whieh
various plants were arranged with taste,
and among them walks proportioned to
the magnitude of the ship, and shaded by
arbours of ivy and vines, whose n ots
were in large vessels filled with earth.
Adjacent to these was a room named “ the
apartment of Venus,” the floor cf which
was paved with agate and other precious
stones; the walls, roof, and windows were
of cypress wood, and adorned with vases,
statues, paintings, and inlaid with ivory.
Another room, the sides and windows ot
which were of boxwood, contained a li
brary; the ceiling represented the heavens,
and on the top or outside was a sun-dial.
Another apartment was fitted up for bath
ing: the water was heated in three large
copper cauldrons, and the bathing vessel
was made of a single stone ol variegated
colours; it contained sixty gallons. There
were also ten stables placed on both sides
of the vessel, together with straw and corn
for the horses, and conveniences for the
horsemen and their servants. At certain
distances, piecesof timber projected, upon
which were piles of wood, ovens, mills,
and other contrivances for the services of
life. At the ship’s head was a large re
servoir of fresh water, formed of plank,
and pitched. Near it was a conservatory
for fish, lined with sheet lead, and contain
ing salt water. Although the well or hold
was extremely deep, one man, Atheneas
says could pump out all the water that
leaked into her by a screw pump, which
Archimedes adapted to that purpose.
There were probably other hydraulic
machines on board for the plants, balhind
apparatus, and kitchen, &c. Ihe upper
decks were supplied with water by pipes
of earthenware and of lead, the latter
most likely extending from pumps or other
engines that raised the liquid ; for there
is reason to believe that machines analogous
to forcing pumps were at that time known.
Embank's Hydraulic Machinery.
Prayer and Penance by Proxy. — Praying
by prox3 r is not at all uncommon in Ire
land. Thus, if a person has any urgent
business or recreation on hand, preventive
of going to mass and performing the pro
per number of aves and genuflexions, he
or she hires a substitute, generally a men
dicant, who for a trifling recompense, goes
through, with most conscientious punctu
ality, the vicarious duties ol the holy ser
vice committed to their charge. The
prayer by proxy is considered to be nearly
as efficacious as that delivered up in pro
pria persona. But the penance by proxy
goesu step farther, and shifts the burthen
of aclual suffering or punishment from
the shoulders of the rich to those of the
poor! The following anecdote, abridged
from the Rev. Mr. Otway’s Ascent to
Croagh Patrick, will illustrate the penance
by proxy system 44 A little puffy, barrel
bodied attorney, hired a guide to conduct
| him up the mountain. The little man
grunted, groaned, panted and perspired,
! ‘ larding the lean mountain,’ as they as
cended. The guide did his best to alle
viate his difficulties, and at length they
came to the well, where St. Patrick made
his first stop, when proceeding to dtsen
; chant the mountain. Here the little fat
tourist was in a pretty plight, like a tallow
: candle in a hot tavern ! 4 Well,’ says the
guide to himself, ‘this dacent man is ccr
j tainly doing penance for some great sin,
j and the poor simple sowl doesn’t know
j that 1 could put him out of pain for a few
j shillings; it is a wonder all out that some
! one, even if the priest hadn’t the good na
j thur, would not tell him that there’s many
a one about here that would do the dhur
rus for him. So it’s that’ll have
the innocent fellow out of his trouble in a
jiffy.’ So with that the guide came up to
him where he sat wiping with his silk
handkerchief his reeking, steaming head
and neck. 4 Why, then, your honor, t
wonder you’d be after thinking of going
up yon mountain, through all its stations,
when you know that I’ll go up foryou and
do dhurrus with all the veins in my heart.’
4 What do you mean?’ says the attorney,
‘You go up for me!’ ‘Yes, pluse your
honor, and that I will, and 3 r ou may sit
there quietly until I come back, not one
I’ll miss—look at my knees when I return,
and see if they’re not haltered and bleed
ing enough to p/asc yees.’ ‘ Why, what,
honest man, do you mean ? can you see
lor me—can you mlmirc for me—can your
going up enable me to say, when I go
home, that l have been at the top ol’Croag
Patrick?’ ‘Ah, then, says the guide, is
that all that brings you to the Reek—my
self thought ye were a religious man, and
that yees were undher vows or orthersto
perforin stations here, ami sure all the
world knows that I could do all that for
vees, and chape enough—ay r , diaper and
just as well as ever Rob of the Reck did,
‘rest be to his sowl, and the heavens his
bed.’
Now, considering the state of Ireland—
the destitution of the poor, and the want
of employment—this proxy-prayer, and
proxy-penance, seem to he useful items in
the popular pract*ce of religion, as giving
an occasional job, however painful, to the
idle and starving pauper.— [Dr. Johnson's
Tour in Ireland.
'llit Albatross. —This noble bird, which
may be said to constitute the head of the
gull family, is in body about the size of a
common goose; but, to enable it to under
take the extraordinary flights which often
carry it hundreds of leagues from any
resting-place, except the billows foaming
under its rapid course, it is provided with
wings of immense length and power.—
With these, which often measure ns much
as twelve feet from tip to tip, it glides in
search of prey over boundless tracts, often
it is said, sleeping even while soaring over
the waters. Insatiable anil voracious in
appetite, it is always craving, and never
satisfied. Not content with feeding on
the inhabitants of the deep, it preys in
discriminately on every thing which it
c omes across. The smaller aquatic birds
are not free from its great voracity, which
is not unfrequently the means of its cap
ture find destruction. A piece of pork or
suet, fixed on a small hook and allowed
to drag by a long line in the wake of the
vessel, often proves a temptation too
strong to he resisted: the greedy bird
stoops on bis prey, swallows the bait, and
then, with distended wings, is towed on
board, and soon stands tottering on deck
amidst his exulting captors; who f requent
ly’ employ, with similar success, the same
device to ensnare the smaller pintado, or
Cape pigeon. The immense power of
wing of the albatross enables it to cleave
the air with the greatest facility and a
motion peculiar to itself. Its widely en
tendecl pinions, without any perceptible
volition, carry it rapidly past from the ex
treme verge of the horizon; whilst its
gliding and graceful movements appear
to be extended with perfect ease, and to
be under the most complete control, whe
ther quietly floating in the calmest atmos
phere, or riding liie furious blast of the
hurricane. Another peculiarity of the al
batross, is the shape of the bill, which
has many of the characteristics belonging
to a bird of prey. It is six inches in
length, extending at first in a straight line,
and then, suddenly sweeping into a curve,
terminates in a most formidable booked
point. With this peculiarity of the eagle
and falcon, it has the webbed feet, dives
ted of claws, so clearly an attribute of the
aquatic tribe, and which, with its enor
mous breadth of wing, appear to mark it
as the exclusive occupant of the cloud
and the wave, of the raging blast or hea
ving billow; for no sooner does it set foot
on the vessel’s deck, than it loses all ma
jesty of appearance and grace of motion,
staggers awkwardly, like a lubberly lands
man, into the lee-scuppers, and, similar
to the latter under identical circumstan
ces, seeks relief by the same means that
follow the application of an emetic. — [Col.
Napier's Wild, Sports.
Os all the situations on Earth, what
j would be more disagreeable than the fol
lowing which wc copy from a cotempora
i * What an uncomfortable situattion ! A
1 seat on a sofa between two beautiful girls,
] one with blackeyes.jctringlets, and snowy
! nec k—tfie other with soft blue eyes, sun
-1 tty |ringlels, red cheeks and lips, both
‘ laughing and talking to you at the same
time.
H. C. CROSBY, Proprietor.
NUMBER 18.
THE FROZEN CREW.
There are fearful wonders upon the
ocean; wonders in the tempest and in the
tropical heat, and in the cold ot the frozen
seas. Thousands and tens of thousands
go down in the deep, anti arc no more
seen forever. A more sears ul fate has be
fallen a thousand sons of the ocean.
Long before the idea of the existence of
anew world was contemplated by the
Europeans, the northern seas had been
traversed in every direction by the daring
freebooters of the North, who often bore
the titleoi the Kings of the. Sea. They had dis
covered Iceland,|and the settlement there
formed became an asylum tor the hosts
of northern men, who were driven from
Scandinavia, by the gtadual approach of
Southern civilization. In time, Iceland
also sent forth her colonies, and early in
the tenth century effected a settlement up
on the coast of Greenland. It long lan
guished for want of sufficient population;
at length, in 9SS, Erick Raude, an Icelan
dic chieftain, fitted out an expedition of
twenty-five gallics, at Snefell, and having
manned them with sufficient crews of col
onists, set forth from Iceland, bound to
what appeared to .them a more congenial
climate. They sailed upon the ocean fif
teen days, and they saw no land. The
next day brought with it a storm; and many
a gallant vessel sunk in the deep. Moun
tains of ice covered the waters as far as
the e3 T c could reach, and but a few gallies
of the fleet escaped destruction.
The morning of the seventeenth day
was clear and cloudless. The sea was
calm, and far away to the north could be
seen the glare of the ice fields reflecting
on the sk3.
The remains of the shattered fleet gnth
ed together to pursue their voyage. But
the galley of Erick was not with them.—
The crew of a galley which was driven
farther down than the rest, reported that
as the morning broke, the huge fields of
ice that had covered the ocean were driv
en by the current past them, and that they
beheld the galley of Erick Raude, borne
by a resistless force, and with the speed
of the wind, before a tremendous flake of
ice. Her crew had lost all control over
Iter —they were tossing their arms in wild
ngori3’. Scarcely a moment elapsed ere
it was walled in by a hundred ice hills,
and the whole mass moved forward and
was soon beyond the horizon. That the
galley of the narrators escaped was won
derful. It remained, however, umontra
dicted, and the vessel of Erick Raude was
never more seen.
Half a century after this, a Danish Col
ony was established upon the western
coast ofGreemand. The crew of the ves
sel that carried (lie colonists thither, in
their excursions into the interior, crossed
a range of hills that stretched to the north
ward; they had approached perhaps near
er to the pule than any succeeding adven
turers. Upon looking down from the
summit of the hills, they beheld a vast, and
almost interminable field of ice, undulat
ing in various places, and formed into a
thousand grotesque shapes. They saw
not far from the shore, a figure in an ice
vessel, with a glittering icicle in place of
a mast rising from it. Curiosity prompt
ed them to approach, when they beheld a
dismal sight. Figures of men, in every
attitude of wo, were upon the deck, but
they were icy things. One figure alone
stood creel, and with folded arms, leaning
against the mast. A hatchet was procur
ed and the ice split away, and the fea
uresofa chieftain disclosed—pallid and
deathly, but free from decay. This was
doubtless the vessel, and that figure the
form of Erick Raude. Benumbed with
cold, and in the agony of despair, his crew
had fallen around him. He alone had
stood erect while the chill ofdealh passed
over him. The spray of the ocean and
the fallen sleet had frozen as it lighted up
on them, and covered each figure with an
icy robe which the short lived glance of a
Greenland sun had not time to remove.—
The Danes gazed' upon the spectacle with
trembling. They knew not but the same
might be their fate. They kneeled down
upon the deck and muttered a prayer, in
their native tongue, for the souls of the
frozen crew, then hastily left the place, for
the night was fast approaching.
From the St. Louts Reveille.
A ll ßad Fix" in a Bear Eight. We
have a friend residing in the State of Lou
isiana, who is famously fond of bear hunt
ing. This penchant lias led him into many
imminent perils, in some of which, had it
not been for his brave heart, strong arm,
and eagle eye, he must long since have
fallen a victim.
One of his adventures, in an extensive
canebrake , it is our purpose here to relate;
not so much because it was one of danger
and hardihood, as because it exhibited the
spirit, coolness, and prompt action, so es
sential to the hunter of these ‘ varmints.’
These canebrakes are matted together by
an undergrowth of vine and briar, and
are intersected by running swamp streams
so as to render them almost impenetrable.
Our friend G— on a liuqt, once near the
close of day, had penetrated some dis
tance into a canebrake bordering on the
Washita, when his dogs—two very valu
able ones — ‘•bayed' a magnificent bear!
Magnificent we presume, because he was
monstrous strong and full of fight.
G —, guided by the baying of the dogs,
hastened towardr the scene of conflict, so
far as it was practicable to hasten, whore
you are obliged freqeutly to crawl oil your
hands and knees, and, sometimes, to cut
your way with your hunting-knife. After
considerable difficulty, however, he. ob
tained a sight of th« ferocious animal; the
f two noble dogs, true to their training, were
keeping him in check, though they had
been handled very roughly. G— fired as
soon as he had obtained his distance and
aim, and although the ball took effect, it
was not in a vital part. The enraged an
imal now sprang upon one of the dogs,
and gave the brave creature a mortal
wound. G—, exasperated at the sight,
for he prized his faithful followers almost
as dearly as himself, threw down his gun,
drew his knife, and crept into the terrible
tight, for, reader, you can’t rush into a fight
in a canebrake ! Cautiously he approach
ed the foe, until he was near enough,
when, upon his knees, and with his arm
stretched across the animal he suddenly
gave him three deep wounds upon the off
or farther side; he knew well that this
was his only chance, for the instinct of
the animal prompts it always to turn and
snap at the quarter from whence it is hurt.
‘The critter’s got more lives than nat’-
rally belongs to a bar, any bow,’ ejacula
ted G—, as he saw the monster still strong
and vigorous, and rending with his tusks,
again and again, the body of the tlog,
which he held firmly in his embrace. G—
gave his unyielding enemy another fear
ful wound from the further side, as be
fore, when his knife, by a sudden move
ment of the hear, slipped frofn his grasp
and the brute was upon him! G— ex
tended his left arm for the clutch, but in a
moment the bear’s tusks were crunching
his hand, and, at the same instant, he felt
himself in a close hug! This was rather
a ‘bad fix.’ G— turned and looked upon
his remaining dog, which had previously
been of great assistance in attracting the
beast’s attention : be said but a word to
him—the affectionate creature gave one
bound, and had the bear again fast . by the
throat. This new attack gave G — his
freedom; in an instant he had recovered
his weapon, arid i:i another its keen point
was buried deep in the brute’s heart!
‘ Prehaps,’ say’s G—, ‘you n,ever did
see a bar roll over like that one !’
Our sporting friend has never recovered
the free use of his left hand, but he is still
a right-handed man in a hunt. As he mo
destly expressed himself, 4 1 an’t what I
used to was in a bar fight, but when I’m
pushed, I’m some 3’et, I reckon.’
We copy from the New York Sun the
following letter from Gen. Lamar, on the
adoption by the House of Representatives
of Congress, of a resolution for the an
nexation of Texas. As regards the peo
ple of Texas we have no doubt that Gen.
Lamar represents truly their feelings on
that great and important measure.
Washington City, )
January 26, 1845. $
Moses Y. Beach, Esq.
Dear Sir, —l congratulate you on the
realization of your favorite hope. You
were among the first to enter the list for
the annexation of Texas, and may fairly
rejoice on the almost certain success of
that great and American movement.—-
The Bill has passed the House of Rep
resentatives, in a firm which I have no
doubt will be readily accepted by the
people of Texas. Although it contains
a restriction which Ido not f ully approve
of myself, yet its general provisions are
just to that country, and honorable to the
United States. I cannot believe for a
moment, that the Senate will attempt to
defeat a measure, which the nation at
large has so emphatically pronounced up
on, and which is so indispensable to its
permanent peace and prosperity.
The meeting at Tammany Hall last
Friday, judging from newspaper reports,
was significant. Ido not recognise it as
a.’party movement. It was a voice from
the heart of American republicanism,
welcoming with generous afleclion, the
return of her expatriated kindred, to the
maternal embrace of the Union. Texas
will respond to the call with filial warmth;
for never since she erected her own house
hold altar to freedom, has she failed to re
member with grateful love, the shrine at
which she lit the sacred flame. The ex
pressed determination of the American
people that no ignominious conditions, no
thing which they would refuse, shall be
ottered to Texas, is a strong and abiding
evidence that the law of equal rights—
the soul of" free institutions—rules the
popular thought. You will find that it is
also supreme in Texas. Though the
youngest, she is the real and legitimate
sister of the Old Thirteen, and like them,
will endure much evil before she will
submit to dishonor. Site will not dim the
lustre of her Lone Star by either unjust
demands or base concessions, any more
than the Union would shame her constel
lation by taking undue advantage of its
power and influence.
1 am glad to see our honorable and* tal
ented friend. Ex-Mayor Morris, leading
the advance of the republican doctrine of
fair equality. It belongs to no party, and
proves that he can look be3’ond present
expediency, and keep step with the age.
He is a man of the people, and does not
believe that a blessing loses its value by
becoming universal. Those conservatives
who expect to regulate the men of to
day, by conventions and observances as
a herd of unenlightened serfs, and who
would arrest the progress of liberal prin
ciples and enlarged views, by chaining
ihe nation to a narrow and stationary pol
icy, will be left in the distance. Republi
canism is progressive and all-embracing;
and be who cannot comprehend and share
its march, ot who would attempt to teach
it to make selfish and unequal exclusions,
is an alien to its spirit, and must not hope
to govern its councils or direct its opera
tions. MIRABEAU B. LAMAR.
A Voter. —The Providence Gazette asks
— 4 If u man gets too lazy to draw his lasi
breath,’can he die ?